title: Diplo

text: As Mad Decent continues to grow and release tracks by big-name artists, Diplo's solo career continues to grow at the same rate. He's produced for artists such as Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne, Britney Spears, Wale, Chris Brown, Ariana Grande, 2 Chainz, Travis Porter, Usher, Azealia Banks, Iggy Azalea, and AlunaGeorge. On October 16, 2015, Diplo released "Be Right There" along with fellow producer Sleepy Tom. The single charted in multiple countries and has over 100 million streams on Spotify. On April 23, 2016, Beyoncé released her critically acclaimed album, "Lemonade". Diplo produced two tracks on the album, "All Night", and one of the three singles, "Hold Up". The album debuted at number one on the US "Billboard" 200 and was certified platinum on June 8, 2016. Along with producing tracks on Beyoncé's "Lemonade", Diplo collaborated with Canadian DJ duo Zeds Dead on the release "Blame", which featured Swedish singer Elliphant. The track was officially released on July 14, 2016, via Zeds Dead's SoundCloud.


title: Diplo

text: Diplo's first collaborative full-length record was with Switch, this time under the guise of Major Lazer. Diplo incorporates such disparate influences as Miami Bass and Baile Funk into the high-tech eclecticism of his productions.


title: Diplo

text: After landing a deal with Downtown Records before even recording a note of music, Diplo and Switch set out for Jamaica to record a project that, like most of Diplo's projects before it, would highlight the little-known subgenres, this time of Jamaica's dancehall scene. The two received support by many already established Jamaican artists such as Vybz Kartel, Elephant Man and Ms. Thing, and the resulting record "Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do" also featured vocals from Santigold, Amanda Blank, Nina Sky, Ricky Blaze and more. When discussing the Major Lazer project, Diplo described the dancehall sound as being "


title: Diplo

text: the end of the world, all the little influences—house, soca, oldies, R&B, jazz—it all ends up in Jamaica." The track "Pon De Floor" from "Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do" was sampled for Beyoncé's single "Run the World (Girls)".


title: Diplo

text: Major Lazer's first album was followed up with an EP, "Lazers Never Die", which was released in 2010. Switch left Major Lazer in 2011, and was replaced by DJs Jillionaire and Walshy Fire. A second album, "Free the Universe", was scheduled to be released in November 2012 but was delayed to February 2013, and then to April 15. It features artists such as Ezra Koenig, Bruno Mars, Ward 21, Wyclef, The Partysquad, Shaggy, Tyga, Flux Pavilion and Wynter Gordon. On February 8, 2015, during the Grammy Award ceremony, Diplo revealed details of the third Major Lazer album. He confirmed that the album would incorporate artists such as Ariana Grande, Ellie Goulding and Pusha T. It is called "Peace Is the Mission". The first single, "Lean On", is a collaboration with French producer DJ Snake and features vocals from Danish recording artist MØ. The second single, "Powerful", featuring Ellie Goulding and Tarrus Riley, was released simultaneously with the album on June 1, 2015. On November 11, 2015, "Lean On" became Spotify's Most Streamed Song of All Time with over 800 million streams to date. Along with the streaming title, the official video for "Lean On" became one of the most viewed videos on YouTube. It currently has more than 2 billion views. Along with the streaming and viewing milestones, "Lean On" would also go on to achieve double platinum status.


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text: On July 22, 2016, the group released the single "Cold Water", a collaboration with Canadian artist Justin Bieber and Danish singer MØ. The track has already reached over 200 million streams on Spotify, and achieved international commercial success, reaching number one in multiple countries. On November 29, 2016, Major Lazer and Bad Royale released "My Number", a track that samples "54-46 That's My Number" which Pitchfork describes as, "a genre-defining classic from legendary ska/reggae group Toots and the Maytals." This release contained newly recorded vocals from frontman Toots Hibbert specifically designed for Major Lazer, which changed the original lyrics to incorporate the group into the song while keeping the original melody. Their fifth studio album, "Music Is the Weapon", features collaborations with Alessia Cara, French Montana, Anitta, Khalid, Skip Marley, Marcus Mumford, J Balvin, El Alfa, Mr Eazi and Nicki Minaj.


title: Diplo

text: Jack Ü is an American duo made up of Skrillex and Diplo. Jack Ü's debut performance took place at the Mad Decent Block Party in San Diego on September 15, 2013, which is a nationwide tour that record label Mad Decent puts together in order to showcase different artists signed to the label. Diplo announced the project by releasing the Mad Decent Block Party lineup with Jack Ü playing at multiple stops on the tour. After some guessing by many of who Jack Ü was, Diplo finally came out to reveal that "Jack Ü ... means Skrillex and Diplo together". After their New York debut at Electric Zoo was canceled in late August, the duo would soon return to the city for something bigger. On December 31, 2014, Jack Ü sold out Madison Square Garden for one of their biggest performances to date. The duo had support from Rudimental, Yellow Claw and A$AP Ferg.


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text: On February 27, 2015, they released "Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü", a co-release between their respective labels Owsla and Mad Decent. It featured tracks with 2 Chainz, Kiesza, Justin Bieber, AlunaGeorge and Missy Elliott. The first single "Take Ü There" featuring Kiesza was the lead single on the duo's debut album. The single was released as the lead on October 4, 2014. It reached number sixteen on the UK Dance Chart. The official second single, "Where Are Ü Now", was released simultaneously with the album. The song which took both artists in a different direction, featured a collaboration with Canadian pop star Justin Bieber. Peaking at number 8 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and number 3 on the UK Singles Chart, "Where Are Ü Now" became the duo's largest hit on both charts thus far. The song would also go on to peak at number three in Australia, which was the highest charting for the single worldwide. The song had huge success in Europe as well, reaching the top-ten in Sweden and Finland, and the top-twenty in Norway, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Slovakia. The final place it had charting success was Bieber's home country, Canada, where it would end up peaking at number 6. On March 29, 2015, Jack Ü closed the main stage at Ultra Music Festival in Miami.


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text: In 2016, the duo won two Grammy Awards for "Grammy Award for Best Dance Album" for "Skrillex and Diplo present Jack Ü" and "Grammy Award for Best Dance" for "Where Are Ü Now?" with Justin Bieber. The latter was also Bieber's first Grammy. They played two sold-out shows including Coachella Valley Music Festival in Indio, California and Lollapalooza in São Paulo, Brazil.


title: Diplo

text: LSD is a pop supergroup composed of Diplo, Australian singer Sia, and British musician Labrinth. The trio have released five singles thus far, with their song "Thunderclouds" being featured in a commercial for the Samsung Galaxy Note9. Their singles "Genius" and "Audio" have seen official remixes from producers Banx & Ranx and Cid, respectively. LSD's debut album "Labrinth, Sia & Diplo Present... LSD" was released on April 12, 2019.


title: Diplo

text: On January 2, 2018, Diplo announced a new project with British DJ and singer Mark Ronson, entitled Silk City. The duo released their debut single "Only Can Get Better" featuring Daniel Merriweather on May 23, 2018. Their second single, "Feel About You" featuring Mapei, was released on July 20, 2018. The duo's third single, "Loud", saw Diplo reunite with previous collaborators GoldLink & Desiigner. Their 4th and most recent single features British singer/songwriter Dua Lipa, called "Electricity", which was released on September 5, 2018. The music video was released on the same day. In 2018, "Electricity" won a Grammy at the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards for Best Dance Recording.


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text: Beyond Major Lazer and Mad Decent, Diplo has continued to show support for 'all the little influences', the lesser-known music scenes around the globe. Most recently his focus shifted to the Bounce scene in New Orleans, Louisiana for a television piece commissioned by Current.tv. Diplo was nominated for Non-Classical Producer of the Year at the 55th Grammy Awards and 58th Grammy Awards. Diplo had a late night show on BBC Radio 1 / 1Xtra on Saturdays 11:00 p.m.–1:00 a.m. (GMT) called 'Diplo and Friends' where he curates mixes from some of biggest names in dance music. He has now resigned from BBC Radio 1, per 2021. Diplo also has several syndicated Diplo and Friends shows in the United States in Boston, Bakersfield, Cleveland, Columbus, Las Vegas, Spokane, Albuquerque, Lafayette, Denver, and most notably on Los Angeles' 98.7 every Sunday at 9 p.m.


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text: Beginning on October 2, 2015, Diplo, Jillionaire, Walshy Fire and Eric Hamilton debuted "Lazer Sound" on Apple Music's Beats 1. The newest radio show, curated by Diplo, and the Major Lazer crew, consists of interviews, moments on tour and brand new music. The show is on the air every other Saturday of the month. Throughout 2015 and 2016, Diplo performed with Major Lazer and Jack Ü on numerous live TV and award shows. He performed on "The Tonight Show", "Good Morning America", the iHeart Radio Music Festival, The NRJ Music Awards, the 2015 Latin Grammy Awards and the 2016 Grammy Awards.


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text: In February 2016, Diplo was one of the first and very few mainstream Western artists to perform in Islamabad, Pakistan alongside Adil Omar, Talal Qureshi, SNKM and Elliphant. In 2018 Diplo returned to with Major Lazer for Islamabad's first Mad Decent Block Party alongside Adil Omar, SNKM, Talal Qureshi, Valentino Khan, Chrome Sparks, Lyari Underground and a host of other acts.


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text: In January 2017, Diplo and Autoerotique (a house group from Toronto) released a music video titled "Waist Time" which was filmed in a warehouse in London. He was nominated for two Grammy's in 2016 (The 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards) for Album of the Year (for producer of Beyoncé's album "Lemonade" and producer for Justin Bieber's album "Purpose"). He also sang a song "Phurrr" in Bollywood in Imtiaz Ali's film Jab Harry Met Sejal starring Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma. In 2019, Diplo released the song "So Long" under the moniker Thomas Wesley, featuring American country singer Cam. In a press release, he stated that there are "several forthcoming collaborations with country artists" planned following "So Long", which came in the form of "" released in 2020. The album included the song "Heartless" featuring Morgan Wallen.


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text: He dated rapper M.I.A. from 2003 to 2008. M.I.A. later said that their tumultuous relationship involved emotional abuse from him. Diplo dated singer Katy Perry for nearly a year in 2014 and 2015.


title: Diplo

text: Diplo is a soccer and cricket fan and supporter of the U.S. men's national team. He also supports Arsenal F.C. and has attended two Tigres UANL matches. He created a mix for the 2014 World Cup and produced the 2018 World Cup official song "Live It Up". Diplo purchased a minority share of Phoenix Rising FC of the USL Championship on January 27, 2016. He stated: "I've been really fortunate to travel all over the world and experience different cultures through music. Wherever I am, Jamaica, Spain, England, China, etc., soccer is a social constant. I see soccer the same way I see music, as a connective tissue linking the world's cultures."


title: Diplo

text: On February 24, 2016, Diplo endorsed Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential nominee. Sanders' ad "It's A Revolution" is soundtracked by Diplo's 2013 track "Revolution". On June 9, 2016, Diplo was featured on the cover of the American entertainment media magazine "Billboard".


title: Diplo

text: On May 1, 2019, Diplo live-streamed Joe Jonas' Las Vegas wedding to Sophie Turner on Instagram, "not knowing it was a serious wedding". Soon after the couple told the tabloids that Diplo ruined their wedding, the DJ responded on social media. Five months later, Diplo and the Jonas Brothers released a song titled "Lonely". The song's official music video chronicles Diplo's attempts to make amends with Joe Jonas and his brothers.


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text: On July 9, 2020, Diplo joined Senator Kamala Harris and other artists for the "Get Up, Stand Up!" virtual fundraiser in support of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.


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text: In November 2020, a Los Angeles woman named Shelly Auguste was granted a restraining order against Diplo. She alleged that he distributed revenge porn of her after she accused him of grooming her and other "very young girls", nonconsensual sexual behavior, hiring a private investigator in June 2020 to "scare [her] into remaining silent about [their] relationship" and to "scare other women out of coming forward", and threatening others who supported her, in a Twitter thread in October. According to court documents, the woman, who met Diplo in the summer of 2014, when she was 17 and he was 36, began trading sexually explicit images and had an intimate relationship. Sometime later, Diplo filed and was granted a restraining order of his own against Auguste.


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text: On September 29, 2022, Diplo was awarded $1.2 million dollars in breaches, costs, and attorneys fees by an arbitrator in a separate case than mentioned above, during a private arbitration. The former judge ruled in favor of Diplo, deciding that his accuser was in breach of the mutual restraining order for multiple instances of harassment via social media posts against both himself and his family.


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text: In 2021, an unnamed woman sued Diplo for allegedly filming her while taking advantage of her sexually while she was intoxicated and unable to consent after a 2019 Las Vegas concert. She claims Diplo "invited her to a room, kicked out her friends, and would not let her leave until she performed oral sex". 10 days later, the accuser dropped her case, expressing regret about filing it.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Visa requirements for Indian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of India. As of 21 July 2022, Indian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival or e-visa access to 60 countries and territories, ranking the Indian passport 87th out of 112, in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index. With visa free entry to 22 countries and visa on arrival facility to 41 countries India shares 60th rank in Global Passport Power Rank.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: e-Visa status was granted to parts of the Russian Far East: Primorye and the rest of Khabarovsk, Sakhalin, Chukotka and Kamchatka regions in 2018. Russia is set to issue e-Visas to Indian citizens for stays of up to 16 days beginning 1 January 2021.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Kyrgyzstan followed suit with online visitor visas in September 2017, Armenia in November 2017, and both Vietnam and Uzbekistan in 2018.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Indian citizens already in possession of a valid UK, United States, Canada or Schengen visa became eligible to apply for a visa on arrival to Oman in October 2017, Armenia in November 2017 and Chile (US visa only) in April 2019.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Similarly, Argentina allows Indian nationals with a valid US visa to apply for a ETA since March 2019.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: All Indian passport bearers became eligible for a visa on arrival to Gabon in October 2017, Rwanda in January 2018, Zimbabwe, Angola and Jordan (but only with a valid Schengen, UK, US or Canadian visa) in December 2019, the Bahamas (but only with a valid Schengen, UK, US or Canadian visa) on 24 April 2018 and Iran on 22 July 2018.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Eligible Indian citizens can now participate in the Global Entry program for expedited entry into the United States.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Bangladesh and India both agreed to abolish visa application fees for each other's citizens in 2018. Thus Indian passport holders, who apply for a Bangladeshi visa in India, do not have to pay any visa application fee.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Myanmar has announced visa-on-arrival for Indian tourists entering the country through the international airports of Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon and Mandalay beginning 12 December 2018.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Kazakhstan has introduced a procedure for obtaining a single entry visa in electronic format from 1 January 2019.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Albania announced visa free travel to indian citizens as on 23 April 2022 which is extended till the end of 2022.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Kazakhstan announced 14 day visa exemption to Indian nationals for tourism and business purposes on 8 July 2022.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Morocco announced e-visa to Indian nationals for tourism and business purposes on 1 August if you have Valid Schengen countries, the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, with multiple entries and that are valid for at least 90 days as of the date of submission of the eVisa application.


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text: Thailand extended the validity of eVisa/Visa on arrival from 15 to 30 days eff.October 2022 to March 2023


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Serbia will reintroduce visa restrictions on Indian nationals effective 1 January 2023 due to a wave of illegal migration, and demands by the European Commission.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Germany, the Czech Republic, and Spain now mandatorily require Indian citizens to hold Airside Transit visa (ATV). November 2022.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: The Indian Government has not drafted any laws to mandate reciprocity in visa agreements with other countries. While a very small number of bilateral agreements have concluded with reciprocity for visa arrangements, a large number of visa relationships continue to be highly skewed to one side or the other.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: In 2015, Iran revoked visa-on-arrival for Indian citizens after it was included as one of the eight countries in India's Prior Reference Category, which would be excluded from India's visa liberalisation plans for foreign tourists. The other countries on the list at the time were Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria and Sudan.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: India has, by default, achieved full reciprocity in visa free or e-Visa privileges with following countries or regions:


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: India has achieved partial reciprocity with following countries, where Indian Immigration rules afford the citizens of the following countries slightly lesser visa privileges than what the following countries provide for Indian Citizens:


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: In some instances, a Visa Exemption permits entry in lieu of obtaining a Visa/ Entry Visa if in possession of the following Visas or Permanent Relationships, this is not limited to entitlements or provisions laid down by the country's law.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: For example: Indian citizens holding valid US visa are permitted to enter Mexico on the basis of their US visa, without the need for a Mexican visa.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Indian Citizens in possession of a valid United States Multiple Entry Visa in their passport may enter the following country(ies) visa-free: Albania, Argentina (Indian passport holders with a valid US B2 visa can avail an electronic travel authorization for the purposes of tourism), Bolivia, Bahamas, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Montenegro, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Oman, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey (eVisa), UAE.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: European Union Family Member - Indian Citizens who are travelling with or joining their EU family members in the European Union in a Country other than where their family member is a citizen of does not require a Visa to enter and enjoy the same entry rights and stay, however this would be difficult to prove and as a result, entry could be refused. Visa should be applied for in advance which is usually with no or minimal requirements to meet if the applicant is a family member of an EU Citizen. For instance, a person who wants to travel with their spouse to France where their spouse is a Citizen of the Republic of Lithuania should apply for a Schengen Visa in advance or where a person wants to join their Lithuanian spouse who resides in France should also apply for a Schengen Visa in order to prove their right and avoid misconception. In most cases, airlines will not permit travel without a visa. There is no time limit a family member can stay (indefinite stay), they must just enter before the Visa expires if joining their family or travelling at the same time. There are no costs involved either. European Union citizens and their Indian family members will need to apply for settled or pre-settled status if they wish continue residing in the UK after 31 December 2020. Settled Status can be granted when the applicant has resided in the UK for 5 years and is valid indefinitely. In order to maintain settled status, people must visit the UK every 5 years. Pre-Settled status is granted when the applicant has resided in the UK for less than 5 years and is valid for 5 years. In order to maintain pre-settled status, people must visit the UK every two years. However, applicants would have to meet continuous residence until they reach 5 years if they want to qualify for settled status after 31 December 2020. It will not be possible to be granted another pre-settled Visa.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Schengen Visa (Long Stay) - Holder's of a Valid Long Stay Category D Visa who arrive in the Schengen European country of their Visa and apply for a Residence Card shortly after arriving will be able to use their EU residence permit/ card for travel within the Schengen States, if granted.


title: Visa requirements for Indian citizens

text: Visa free or Visa on Arrival to : Egypt, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Oman, Bahrain (GCC residents only, for Bahrain).


title: Fire Force

text: An anime television series adaptation by David Production aired from July to December 2019 on the MBS's Super Animeism block. A second season aired from July to December 2020. A third season has been announced. The anime television series has been licensed by Funimation.


title: Fire Force

text: The is an event that happened two hundred and fifty years ago, 50 years before the Solar year 0. During it, the world was set on fire, and many nations were wiped out with very few habitable areas left in the aftermath. The survivors took refuge in the Tokyo Empire, which remained mostly stable during the period despite losing some of its landmass. The Tokyo Emperor Raffles I establishes the faith of the Holy Sol Temple as it and Haijima Industries developed the perpetual thermal energy plant Amaterasu to power the country.


title: Fire Force

text: In Year 198 of Tokyo's Solar Era, special fire brigades called the Fire Force fight increasing incidents of spontaneous human combustion where human beings are turned into living infernos called While the Infernals are first generation cases of spontaneous human combustion, with more powerful horned variations known as Demons, later generations possess pyrokinesis while retaining human form. The Fire Force was formed by combining people with these powers from the Holy Sol Temple, The Tokyo Armed Forces, and the Fire Defense Agency, and is composed of eight independent companies.


title: Fire Force

text: Shinra Kusakabe is a third generation pyrokinetic youth who gained the nickname "Devil's Footprints" for his ability to ignite his feet at will, and was ostracized as a child for the fire that killed his mother and younger brother Sho twelve years ago. He joins Special Fire Force Company 8, which features other pyrokinetics who dedicated themselves to ending the Infernal attacks for good while investigating Companies 1 through 7 for potential corruption in their ranks. Shinra begins to learn that the fire that killed his mother was a cover for Sho to be taken by the White Clad, a doomsday cult behind the Infernal attacks with agents within the facets of the Tokyo Empire. Company 8 and their allies oppose the White Clad while learning of their goal to gather eight individuals like Shinra and Sho to repeat the Great Cataclysm for an ancient being who manipulated humanity for that very purpose.


title: Fire Force

text: "Fire Force", written and illustrated by Atsushi Ohkubo, was serialized in Kodansha's "shōnen" manga magazine "Weekly Shōnen Magazine" from September 23, 2015, to February 22, 2022. In the final chapter, it is hinted that "Fire Force" is connected to Ohkubo's other manga series "Soul Eater". Kodansha collected its chapters in thirty-four "tankōbon" volumes, released from February 17, 2016, to May 17, 2022.


title: Fire Force

text: The series is licensed for English release in North America by Kodansha USA, which published the first volume on November 8, 2016.


title: Fire Force

text: An anime television series adaptation by studio David Production was announced on November 14, 2018. The series was directed by Yuki Yase, with Gakuto Haijima handling the series' scripts, Hideyuki Morioka designing the characters and Kenichiro Suehiro composing the music. The series aired from July 6 to December 28, 2019 on MBS and TBS as part of the Super Animeism block. It ran for 24 episodes. Due to the Kyoto Animation arson attack on July 18, 2019, Episode 3, which was originally scheduled to air on July 19, 2019, was postponed to July 26, 2019. The first opening theme is by Mrs. Green Apple and the first ending theme is "veil" by Keina Suda. The second opening theme is "MAYDAY" by Coldrain feat. Ryo from Crystal Lake from their album The Side Effects and the second ending is "Nо̄nai" by Lenny code fiction.


title: Fire Force

text: A second season was announced in December 2019, and it aired from July 4 to December 12, 2020. In May 2020, a promotional video for the second season was released. The second season was directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa (replacing Yuki Yase from the previous season). The second season ran for 24 episodes. The first opening theme is "SPARK-AGAIN", performed by Aimer, while the first ending theme is "ID", performed by Cider Girl. The second opening theme is "Torch of Liberty", performed by Kana-Boon, while the second ending theme is "Desire", performed by Pelican Fanclub.


title: Fire Force

text: Funimation has licensed the series for streaming on FunimationNow. The series was simulcast in Southeast Asia on Aniplus Asia. On July 19, 2019, it was announced that Funimation's English dub of the series would premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block on July 28, 2019. The second season premiered on Toonami on November 8, 2020, two weeks later than its original scheduled date.


title: Fire Force

text: In 2020, a stage-play adaptation of the series ran from July 31 to August 2 at the Umeda Arts Theater in Osaka and from August 7 to August 9 at KT Zepp Yokohama in Kanagawa. The play was directed by Sho Kubota, script written by Yusei Naruse, and music composed by Masaki Miyoshi; the protagonist Shinra Kusakabe was played by Hikaru Makishima. In 2022, a second stage-play ran from January 18–23 at KT Zepp Yokohama and from January 27–30 at the Sankei Hall Breeze in Osaka; it featured the same staff and Makishima reprised his role as Shinra. Also in 2022, a third stage-play ran from September 17–25 at the Sunshine Theatre in Tokyo and from September 29 to October 2 at the in Kyoto; Shinra was played by Ryoga Ishikawa.


title: Fire Force

text: In May 2022, an original video game titled "Fire Force: Enbu no Shō" was announced. Mrs. Green Apple will perform the game's theme song "En En".


title: Fire Force

text: As of January 2018, the manga had 1.8 million copies in circulation; 7.3 million copies in circulation as of June 2020; 10 million copies in circulation as of July 2020; 12 million copies in circulation as of October 2020; 15 million copies in circulation as of April 2021; 16 million copies in circulation as of June 2021; 17.5 million copies in circulation as of February 2022; and over 20 million copies in circulation as of May 2022.


title: Fire Force

text: The series ranked #13 on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2017" poll by Honya Club online bookstore. "Gadget Tsūshin" listed the prayer for Infernals, "Látom", on their 2019 most popular anime-related buzzwords list. On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, "Fire Force" ranked #84. The manga was nominated for the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the "shōnen" category in 2021.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: Michael Lee McDaniel (born March 6, 1983) is an American football coach and the head coach of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). A former long-time assistant to Mike and Kyle Shanahan, McDaniel began his NFL coaching career as an intern for the Denver Broncos in 2005. As an offensive-minded coach for much of his 17-year coaching career, McDaniel has served as an assistant coach for the Houston Texans, Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons, and San Francisco 49ers from 2017 to 2021, holding his first offensive coordinator position in 2021. McDaniel has appeared in two Super Bowls, first with the Falcons in 2017 then with the 49ers in 2020.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: McDaniel spent five seasons with the 49ers, mostly as the run game coordinator. His tenure concluded with their second NFC Championship Game appearance in three seasons; McDaniel served as the offensive coordinator that season before he left to become the Dolphins' head coach.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: McDaniel was born in Aurora, Colorado, in 1983. He graduated from Smoky Hill High School in 2001. He played college football as a wide receiver at Yale, where he graduated with a degree in history.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: McDaniel was hired in 2005, at the age of 22 by his hometown Denver Broncos as a coaching intern under head coach Mike Shanahan. The Broncos in 2005 finished with what was at the time their best record since John Elway's retirement six years earlier, at 13-3. In the postseason, they defeated the defending back-to-back Super Bowl champion New England Patriots 27-13 in the Divisional Round before falling to the eventual Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers 34-17 in the AFC Championship Game.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: In 2006, McDaniel was hired by the Houston Texans as an offensive assistant under head coach Gary Kubiak, whom McDaniel worked alongside at the Denver Broncos a season earlier. During his tenure in Houston, McDaniel assisted 3 different offensive coordinators and future head coaches; Troy Calhoun, Mike Sherman, and Kyle Shanahan.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: In 2009, McDaniel was hired by the California Redwoods, a team from the now-defunct UFL football league as a running backs coach under former Minnesota Vikings/Arizona Cardinals head coach Dennis Green. In McDaniel's 2nd year, the team relocated to Sacramento and was subsequently renamed the Sacramento Mountain Lions.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: In 2011, McDaniel was hired by the Washington Redskins as an offensive assistant, reuniting with Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan, who was McDaniel's mentor 6 seasons earlier on the Denver Broncos. It was there where McDaniel worked alongside 3 other future head coaches; Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay, and Matt LaFleur. In 2013, McDaniel was promoted to wide receivers coach following the departure of Ike Hilliard, who left to join the Buffalo Bills in the same position. McDaniel would not be retained under new head coach Jay Gruden.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: McDaniel was hired in 2014 by the Cleveland Browns as their wide receivers coach under new head coach Mike Pettine.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: McDaniel was hired by the Atlanta Falcons as an offensive assistant coach under new head coach Dan Quinn in 2015.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: In 2017, McDaniel was hired by the San Francisco 49ers as their run game coordinator under his long-time associate and new head coach Kyle Shanahan, whom he worked alongside for a total of 9 seasons on the Texans, Redskins, Browns, and Falcons. During the 2019 season, McDaniel and the Niners appeared in Super Bowl LIV, where they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs 20-31. On January 18, 2021, McDaniel was promoted to offensive coordinator, following the departure of passing game coordinator Mike LaFleur, who left to become the offensive coordinator for the New York Jets.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: The Miami Dolphins hired McDaniel as their fourteenth head coach on February 6, 2022. On September 11, 2022, McDaniel made his regular season head coaching debut against the New England Patriots and led the Dolphins to a 20-7 victory, marking McDaniel's first victory as a head coach. McDaniel became the first Dolphins head coach since Nick Saban in 2005 to win their first game as Miami's head coach, and the first in franchise history to win a season opener as a rookie head coach.


title: Mike McDaniel

text: McDaniel is multiracial. His mother is white and his father is black. "My grandmother on my dad’s side is Black. My dad’s Black," he explained in 2021. In a February 2022 interview, he stated that he does not know some family members from his mother's side, as they cut ties with her over his father's race.


title: Roxy Music

text: Roxy Music are an English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry—who became the band's lead vocalist and principal songwriter—and bassist Graham Simpson. The other longtime members are Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe), and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion). Other members included Brian Eno (synthesizer and "treatments") and Eddie Jobson (synthesizer and violin). Although the band took a break from group activities in 1976 and again in 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and have toured together intermittently since. Ferry frequently enlisted band members as session musicians for his solo releases.


title: Roxy Music

text: Roxy Music became a successful act in Europe and Australia during the 1970s. This success began with their self-titled debut studio album in 1972. The band pioneered more musically sophisticated elements of glam rock while significantly influencing early English punk music, and provided a model for many new wave acts while innovating elements of electronic composition. The group also conveyed their distinctive brand of visual and musical sophistication with their focus on glamorous fashions. Ferry and co-founding member Eno have had influential solo careers. Eno became one of the most significant British record producers of the late 20th century. "Rolling Stone" originally ranked Roxy Music No. 98 on their greatest artists list ("The Immortals – The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time"), but dropped the group from the list when they updated it in 2011.


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text: Roxy Music's final studio album was "Avalon" (1982), which was certified Platinum in the United States. In 2005, the band began recording what would have become their ninth studio album—and their first album with Eno since 1973 (he wrote two songs for it and also played keyboards). However, Ferry eventually announced that the material from these sessions would instead be released as a Ferry solo studio album, with Eno playing on "a couple of tracks", and that he believed the group would never again produce a record as Roxy Music. The album was released in 2010 as the Ferry solo studio album "Olympia". It featured contributions from Eno, Manzanera, and Mackay (amongst many other session players).


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text: In 2011, Roxy Music played a series of 40th-anniversary shows, but went inactive as a performing entity following the concerts. In 2019, Roxy Music were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


title: Roxy Music

text: In November 1970, Bryan Ferry, who had just lost his job teaching ceramics at a girls' school for holding impromptu record-listening sessions, advertised for a keyboardist to collaborate with him and Graham Simpson, a bassist he knew from his Newcastle art-college band, the Gas Board, and with whom he collaborated on his first songs. In early 1970 Ferry had auditioned as lead vocalist for King Crimson, who were seeking a replacement for Greg Lake. While Robert Fripp and Peter Sinfield decided Ferry's voice was unsuitable for King Crimson's material, they were impressed with his talent and helped the fledgling Roxy Music to obtain a recording contract with E.G. Records.


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text: Andy Mackay replied to Ferry's advertisement, not as a keyboardist but a saxophonist and oboist, though he did have a EMS VCS 3 synthesizer. Mackay had already met Brian Eno during university days, as both were interested in avant-garde and electronic music. Although Eno was a non-musician, he could operate a synthesizer and owned a Revox reel-to-reel tape machine, so Mackay convinced him to join the band as a technical adviser. Before long Eno was an official member of the group. Rounding out the original sextet were guitarist Roger Bunn (who had issued the well-regarded solo studio album "Piece of Mind" earlier in 1970) and drummer Dexter Lloyd, a classically trained timpanist. The group's name was derived from Ferry and Mackay making a list of old cinemas, and Ferry picking Roxy because it had a "resonance", some "faded glamour", and "didn't really mean anything". After learning of an American band with the name Roxy, Ferry changed the name to Roxy Music.


title: Roxy Music

text: Roxy played live through 1971, and recorded a demo tape of some early compositions. In the spring of '71, Lloyd left the band, and an advertisement was placed in "Melody Maker" saying "wonder drummer wanted for an avant rock group". Paul Thompson responded to the advertisement and joined the band in June 1971.


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text: Bunn left the group at the end of the summer of 1971, and in October, Roxy advertised in "Melody Maker" seeking the "Perfect Guitarist". The successful applicant was David O'List, former guitarist with the Nice. Phil Manzanera—soon to become a group member—was one of about twenty other players who also auditioned. Although he did not initially make the band as a guitarist, the group were impressed enough with Manzanera that he was invited to become Roxy Music's roadie, an offer which he accepted.


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text: The band's fortunes were greatly increased by the support of broadcaster John Peel and "Melody Maker" journalist Richard Williams. Williams became an enthusiastic fan after meeting Ferry and being given a demonstration tape during mid-1971, and wrote the first major article on the band, featured on "Melody Maker"'s "Horizons" page in the edition of 7 August 1971. This line-up of Roxy Music (Ferry/Mackay/Eno/Simpson/Thompson/O'List) recorded a BBC session shortly thereafter.


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text: In early February 1972, guitarist O'List quit the group abruptly after an altercation with Paul Thompson, which took place at their audition for David Enthoven of E.G. Management. When O'List didn't show up for the next rehearsal, Manzanera was asked to come along, on the pretext of becoming the band's sound mixer. When he arrived he was invited to play guitar and quickly realised that it was an informal audition. Unbeknownst to the rest of the group, Manzanera had learned their entire repertoire and as a result, he was immediately hired as O'List's permanent replacement, joining on 14 February 1972. Manzanera, the son of an English father and a Colombian mother, had spent a considerable amount of time in South America and Cuba as a child, and although he did not have the same art school background as Ferry, Mackay and Eno, he was perhaps the most proficient member of the band, with an interest in a wide variety of music. Manzanera also knew other well-known musicians, such as Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, who was a friend of his older brother, and Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt.


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text: During the first half of 1972, bassist Graham Simpson became increasingly withdrawn and uncommunicative, which led to his leaving the band almost immediately after the recording of the debut studio album. He was replaced by Rik Kenton.


title: Roxy Music

text: To bring more attention to their studio album, Roxy Music decided to record and release a single. Their debut single was "Virginia Plain", which scored No. 4 in the British charts. The band's eclectic visual image, captured in their debut performance on the BBC's "Top of the Pops", became a cornerstone for the glam trend in the UK. The success of the single caused a renewed interest in the album.


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text: Rik Kenton left the band in January 1973, with John Porter, a bandmate of Ferry's from his pre-Roxy band the Gas Board, agreeing to play bass on the next album and tour. Roxy Music's second studio album, "For Your Pleasure", was released in March 1973. It marked the beginning of the band's long, successful collaboration with producer Chris Thomas, who worked on all of the group's classic albums and singles in the 1970s. The album was promoted with the non-album single "Pyjamarama"; no album track was released as a single. At the time Ferry was dating French model Amanda Lear; she was photographed with a black jaguar for the front cover of the album, while Ferry appears on the back cover as a dapper chauffeur standing in front of a limousine.


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text: Soon after the tour to promote "For Your Pleasure" ended, Brian Eno left Roxy Music amidst increasing differences with Ferry. He was replaced by 18-year-old multi-instrumentalist Eddie Jobson, formerly of progressive rockers Curved Air, who played keyboards and electric violin. Although some fans lamented the loss of the experimental attitude and camp aesthetic that Eno had brought to the band, the classically trained Jobson was an accomplished musician. John Porter also left the band at the same time as Eno. From this point on, the bassist position in Roxy Music became very loose. For the next few years John Gustafson (formerly of the Merseybeats and Quatermass) became the band's main studio bassist, and played some live dates with them during 1975, but was unable to join the band full-time due to his commitments as a session musician. Other Roxy bassists of these years were Sal Maida (1973–1974), former King Crimson and future U.K. and Asia member John Wetton (1974–1975) and future Foreigner member Rick Wills (1975–1976).


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text: "Rolling Stone" referred to the studio albums "Stranded" (1973) and "Country Life" (1974) as marking "the zenith of contemporary British art rock". The songs on these albums also cemented Ferry's persona as the epitome of the suave, jaded Euro-sophisticate. Although this persona undoubtedly began as a deliberately ironic device, during the mid-1970s it seemed to merge with Ferry's real life, as the working-class miner's son from the north of England became an international rock star and an icon of male style.


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text: On the first two Roxy studio albums, all songs were written solely by Bryan Ferry. Beginning with "Stranded", Mackay and Manzanera began to co-write some material. Gradually, their songwriting and musicianship became more integrated into the band's sound, although Ferry remained the dominant songwriter; throughout their career, all but one of Roxy's singles were written either wholly or jointly by Ferry (Manzanera, Mackay and Thompson did individually write a few of the band's B-sides). "Stranded" was released in November 1973, and produced the top-10 single "Street Life".


title: Roxy Music

text: The fourth studio album, "Country Life", was released in 1974, and was the first Roxy Music album to enter the US Top 40, albeit at No. 37. "Country Life" was met with widespread critical acclaim, with "Rolling Stone" referring to it "as if Ferry ran a cabaret for psychotics, featuring chanteurs in a state of shock". Their fifth studio album, "Siren", contained their only US top 40 hit, "Love Is the Drug". (Ferry said the song came to him while kicking the leaves during a walk through Hyde Park.)


title: Roxy Music

text: After the concert tours in support of "Siren" in 1976, Roxy Music disbanded. Their live album "Viva!" was released in August 1976. During this time Ferry released two solo studio albums on which Manzanera and Thompson performed, and Manzanera reunited with Eno on the critically acclaimed one-off "801 Live" album.


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text: Roxy Music reunited during 1978 to record a new studio album, "Manifesto", but with a reshuffled line-up. Jobson was reportedly not contacted for the reunion; at the time, Jobson was touring and recording with his own band, U.K. The remaining four members, Ferry, Mackay, Manzanera and Thompson, were joined in the studio by Paul Carrack (ex-Ace and future member of Squeeze, keyboards), Alan Spenner (ex-the Grease Band, bass), and Gary Tibbs (ex-Vibrators, bass). On the subsequent tour, the core band of Ferry, Mackay, Manzanera and Thompson were augmented by Tibbs and Dave Skinner (keyboards).


title: Roxy Music

text: Three singles were issued from "Manifesto", including the major UK hits "Angel Eyes" (UK No. 4), and "Dance Away" (UK No. 2). Both these tracks are significantly different from the album versions, as "Dance Away" was remixed for single release, and "Angel Eyes" was entirely re-recorded.


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text: After the tour and before the recording of the next studio album, "Flesh + Blood" (1980), Thompson broke his thumb in a motorcycle mishap and took a leave from the band. After Ferry, Mackay and Manzerara completed the album with session drummers, Thompson rejoined them, briefly, in the spring of 1980 and made some television appearances as part of the album's early promotion. By the time the Flesh + Blood tour properly began, Thompson had left again due to musical differences with Ferry.


title: Roxy Music

text: At this point, Roxy Music officially became a trio of Ferry, Mackay and Manzanera, supplemented by a variety of musicians over the next few years including Tibbs, Spenner, Carrack, Skinner, drummer Andy Newmark and guitarist Neil Hubbard. The trio's studio album "Flesh + Blood" (1980) became a huge commercial success in their homeland, as the album went to No. 1 on the UK charts, and spun off three UK hits: "Oh Yeah" (UK No. 5), "Over You" (UK No. 5), and "Same Old Scene" (UK No. 12).


title: Roxy Music

text: However, the changed cast reflected a distinct change in Roxy's musical style. Gone were the unpredictable elements of the group's sound, giving way to smoother musical arrangements. "Rolling Stone" panned "Manifesto" ("Roxy Music has not gone disco. Roxy Music has not particularly gone anywhere else either.") as well as "Flesh + Blood" ("such a shockingly bad Roxy Music record that it provokes a certain fascination"), while other sources praised the reunion. "Melody Maker" said, of "Manifesto," "...reservations aside, this may be the first such return bout ever attempted with any degree of genuine success: a technical knockout against the odds."


title: Roxy Music

text: In 1981, Roxy Music recorded the non-album single "Jealous Guy". A cover version of a song written and originally recorded by John Lennon, Roxy Music recorded "Jealous Guy" as a tribute to Lennon after his 1980 murder. The song topped the UK charts for two weeks in March 1981, becoming the band's only No. 1 single.


title: Roxy Music

text: Later, with more sombre and carefully sculpted soundscapes, the band's eighth—and final—studio album, "Avalon" (1982), recorded at Chris Blackwell's Compass Point Studios, was a major commercial success and restored the group's critical reputation and contained the successful single "More Than This". The album also included several Roxy Music classics, such as "Avalon", "The Main Thing", "The Space Between", "True to Life", and "To Turn You On". Ferry, Mackay and Manzanera (augmented by several additional players) toured extensively, with the Avalon tour being documented on the live album "Heart Still Beating", eventually released in 1990. After the tour ended in May 1983 the band dissolved. For the next eighteen years Ferry, Mackay and Manzanera all devoted themselves full-time to solo careers.


title: Roxy Music

text: Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay, and Thompson re-formed in 2001 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band, and toured extensively. A festival performance in Portugal and a short tour of the United States followed in 2003. Absent was Brian Eno, who criticised the motives of the band's reunion, saying, "I just don't like the idea. It leaves a bad taste". Later Eno remarked that his comment had been taken out of context. Manzanera and Thompson recorded and toured with Ferry on his eleventh solo studio album "Frantic" (2002). Eno also contributed to "Frantic" on the track "I Thought".


title: Roxy Music

text: During 2002, Image Entertainment, Inc., released the concert DVD "Roxy Music Live at the Apollo" featuring performances of 20 songs plus interviews and rehearsal footage.


title: Roxy Music

text: In 2004, "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked the group No. 98 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.


title: Roxy Music

text: Roxy Music gave a live performance at the 2005 Isle of Wight Festival on 11 June 2005, their first UK concert since the 2001–2002 world tour. On 2 July 2005, the band played "Jealous Guy", "Do the Strand", and "Love is the Drug" at the Berlin contribution to Live 8; "Do the Strand" is available on the 4-disc DVD collection, and "Love Is the Drug" can be found on the Live 8 Berlin DVD.


title: Roxy Music

text: In March 2005, it was announced on Phil Manzanera's official site that the band, including Brian Eno, had decided to record an album of new material. The project would mark the first time Eno worked with Roxy Music since 1973's "For Your Pleasure". After a number of denials that he would be involved with any Roxy Music reunion, on 19 May 2006 Eno revealed that he had contributed two songs to the new album as well as playing keyboards on other tracks. He did, however, rule out touring with the band. Had the record been released as a Roxy Music album, it would have been the first album since "Manifesto" on which original drummer Paul Thompson performed.


title: Roxy Music

text: During early 2006 a classic Roxy track, "The Main Thing", was remixed by Malcolm Green and used as the soundtrack to a pan-European television commercial for the Opel Vectra featuring celebrated football referee Pierluigi Collina. In July that year, the band toured Europe. They concentrated mostly on places they had never visited before, such as Serbia and North Macedonia. Roxy Music's second drummer, Andy Newmark, performed during the tour, as Thompson withdrew due to health issues, and Oliver Thompson (guitar) made his first appearance with the band.


title: Roxy Music

text: In a March 2007 interview with the "Western Daily Press", Ferry confirmed that the next Roxy album was definitely being made, but would not be vended for another "year and a half", as he had just released and toured behind his twelfth solo studio album, "Dylanesque", consisting of Bob Dylan covers. In June 2007, the band hired a Liverpool-based design agency to develop a website supporting their new album. Early in the year, Manzanera revealed that the band were planning to sign a recording contract. In an October 2007 interview, Ferry said the album would include a collaboration with Scissor Sisters.


title: Roxy Music

text: Over the summer of 2010, Roxy Music headlined various festivals across the world, including Lovebox at London's Victoria Park, Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland, and Bestival on the Isle of Wight. Owing to illness, Thompson was replaced on three dates of the tour by Andy Newmark, but returned for the Bestival set.


title: Roxy Music

text: Roxy performed seven dates around the UK in January and February 2011, in a tour billed 'For Your Pleasure', to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary. They toured Australia and New Zealand between February and March for a further eight shows.


title: Roxy Music

text: In 2012, Virgin released a box set entitled "Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972–1982", celebrating 40 years since the release of the band's debut in 1972.


title: Roxy Music

text: Graham Simpson, Roxy's original bassist, died on 17 April 2012, at his home in Ladbroke Grove, London.


title: Roxy Music

text: In a "Rolling Stone Magazine" interview on 3 November 2014, Manzanera stated that Roxy had been inactive since 2011 and were unlikely to perform together again. Of a new studio album, he told "Classic Rock", "We all listened to it and thought, 'We can't do this. It's not going to be any good. Let's just bin it.' And so it's just sitting there on our personal computers. Maybe one day it'll get finished. But there's no point in putting it out if it's not great."


title: Roxy Music

text: On 29 March 2019, Roxy Music (Ferry, Mackay, Manzanera, Thompson, Eno, and Jobson) were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Thompson and Eno were unable to attend the induction, which saw Ferry, Mackay, Manzanera and Jobson perform a six-song set at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.


title: Roxy Music

text: Roxy Music reformed in 2022 for a 50th anniversary tour of the United Kingdom and the United States to be held that autumn. Most North American tour dates featured St. Vincent as a supporting act. Nilüfer Yanya was the UK starter act.


title: Roxy Music

text: The early style and presentation of Roxy Music was influenced by the art school backgrounds of its principal members. Ferry, Mackay and Eno all had studied at prominent UK art colleges during the mid-to-late 1960s, when these institutions were introducing courses that avoided traditional art teaching practice, with its emphasis on painting, and instead focused on more recent developments, most notably pop art, and explored new concepts such as cybernetics. As writer Michael Bracewell notes in his book "Roxy: The Band that Invented an Era", Roxy Music was created expressly by Ferry, Mackay and Eno as a means of combining their mutual interests in music, modern art and fashion.


title: Roxy Music

text: Ferry studied at Newcastle University in the 1960s under renowned pop artist and educator Richard Hamilton, and many of Ferry's university friends, classmates and tutors – e.g. Rita Donagh and Tim Head – became well-known artists in their own right. Eno studied at Winchester School of Art and although his iconoclastic style became apparent early and caused some conflict with the college establishment, it also resulted in him meeting important artists and musicians including Cornelius Cardew and Gavin Bryars. His interest in electronic music also resulted in his first meetings with Andy Mackay, who was studying at Reading University and who had likewise developed a strong interest in avant garde and electronic music.


title: Roxy Music

text: The three eventually joined forces in London during 1970–71 after meeting through mutual friends and decided to form a rock band.


title: Roxy Music

text: Roxy Music was initially influenced by other contemporary artists at the time including the Beatles, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Elton John, the Animals, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Jimi Hendrix, the Velvet Underground and the Who, as well as American rock and roll acts and genres such as Elvis Presley and Motown. Ferry stated that Roxy Music's unique sound came as a result of the diverse and eclectic musical backgrounds of the band's members; "I had lots of musical influences, Phil Manzanera had this Latin heritage, being born in South America. Saxophone and oboe player Andy Mackay was classically trained. Eno with his deep interest in experimental music. They were specialists in their field. Paul Thompson brought a lot, with his very powerful, earthy drumming."


title: Roxy Music

text: Roxy Music was one of the first rock music groups to create and maintain a carefully crafted look and style that included their stage presentation, music videos, album and single cover designs, and promotional materials such as posters, handbills, cards and badges.


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text: They were assisted in this by a group of friends and associates who helped to sculpt the classic Roxy Music 'look', notably fashion designer Antony Price, hair stylist Keith Mainwaring, photographer Karl Stoecker, the group's "PR consultant" Simon Puxley (a former university friend of Mackay's) and Ferry's art school classmate Nicholas De Ville. Well-known critic Lester Bangs went so far as to say that Roxy represented "the triumph of artifice". Ferry later attributed the band's look to his interest in American music and popular culture icons including Marilyn Monroe, Motown and Stax Records artists. He also stated he wanted to create an alternative image to publicity shots of pop and rock groups at the time which would feature artists "in a dreary street, looking rather sullen. Which was the norm."


title: Roxy Music

text: The band's self-titled debut studio album, produced by King Crimson's Pete Sinfield, was the first in a series of albums with increasingly sophisticated covers, with art direction by Ferry in collaboration with his friend Nick De Ville. The album artwork imitated the visual style of classic "girlie" and fashion magazines, featuring high-fashion shots of scantily clad models Amanda Lear, Marilyn Cole and Jerry Hall, each of whom had romances with Ferry during the time of their contributions, as well as model Kari-Ann Muller who appears on the cover of the first Roxy studio album but who was not otherwise involved with anyone in the band, and who later married Mick Jagger's brother Chris. The title of the fourth Roxy studio album, "Country Life", was intended as a parody of the well-known British rural magazine of the same name, and the visually punning front cover photo featured two models (two German fans, Constanze Karoli—sister of Can's Michael Karoli—and Eveline Grunwald) clad only in semi-transparent lingerie standing against an evergreen hedge. As a result, in many areas of the US the album was sold in an opaque plastic wrapper because retailers refused to display the cover. Later, an alternative cover, featuring just a picture of the forest, was used.


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text: In 2005, Tim de Lisle of "The Guardian" argued that Roxy Music are the second most influential British band after the Beatles. He wrote, "Somehow, in a landscape dominated by Led Zeppelin at one end and the Osmonds at the other, they managed to reach the Top 10 with a heady mixture of futurism, retro rock'n'roll, camp, funny noises, silly outfits, art techniques, film references and oboe solos. And although their popularity has ebbed and flowed, their influence has been strikingly consistent." In 2019, "The Economist" also described them as "the best British art-rock band since the Beatles", arguing that "among English rock acts of that time, their spirit of adventure and their impact" was "surpassed only" by David Bowie. Bowie himself cited Roxy Music as one of his favourite British groups and in a 1975 television interview described Bryan Ferry as "spearheading some of the best music to come out of England."


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text: Roxy Music's sound and visual style have been described as a significant influence on later genres and subcultures such as electronic music, punk rock, disco, new wave and new romantic. Madness are among the artists that have cited Roxy Music as an influence. They paid tribute to Bryan Ferry in the song "4BF" (the title is a reference to the song "2HB", itself a tribute to Humphrey Bogart from the first Roxy Music studio album). Other artists who have cited or been described as influenced by Roxy Music include Nile Rodgers, Kate Bush, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Concrete Blonde, Duran Duran, Adam and the Ants, U2, the Smiths, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Spandau Ballet, Radiohead, Scissor Sisters, Talking Heads, Simple Minds, Steven Wilson, Garbage, Placebo, Imogen Heap, Goldfrapp, Pulp, Sex Pistols, the Human League, Todd Terje and Franz Ferdinand.


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text: In 1997, bassist John Taylor of Duran Duran produced the tribute album "Dream Home Heartaches... Remaking/Remodeling Roxy Music". The compilation features Taylor as well as Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode) and Low Pop Suicide, among others.


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text: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones named his first band "the Strand" after the Roxy Music song "Do the Strand." Jones has also described Roxy Music's style as a strong influence on the later punk craze he would go on to become a part of and cited their debut studio album as one of his all-time favourites.


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text: The electronic band Ladytron took their name from the title of a song from Roxy Music's debut studio album.


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text: Roxy Music's work has been featured in a number of soundtracks for both film and television. Multiple Roxy Music songs were featured in the soundtrack to the 2006 BBC fantasy-police drama series "Life on Mars" set in 1970s Manchester. "Same Old Scene" plays over the closing credits of the 2008 pilot episode for "Life on Mars"' sequel series "Ashes to Ashes", during both the opening and end credits of the 1980 film "Times Square", and is featured in a party scene in the 2018 film "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" The track "Love Is the Drug" is featured in 1995 Martin Scorsese film "Casino". The track "If There Is Something" plays a symbolic role in the 2008 drama/coming of age movie "Flashbacks of a Fool" directed by Baillie Walsh and starring Daniel Craig. In the film, the younger version of Craig's character is also shown dressing up as Bryan Ferry during a flashback scene set in the 1970s. Sofia Coppola's 2003 film "Lost in Translation" features Bill Murray's character Bob Harris singing an off-key version of "More Than This" in a karaoke club. It was used on a Nissan TV advertisement in 1999. "More Than This" also is danced to by Toni Collette's character in the 2019 mystery film "Knives Out" and was featured in the Cold War set television show "The Americans". The title song "Avalon" of the 1982 studio album of the same name was featured in the 2005 Nick Love film "The Business". Guy Ritchie's 2020 black comedy crime film "The Gentlemen" features "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" during an action sequence.


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text: A remixed and instrumental of "The Main Thing" was used in a 2006 advertisement campaign for the Vauxhall Vectra featuring football referee Pierluigi Collina.


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text: An antagonist character in the Capcom video game "Final Fight" named Roxy (a female acrobatic fighter) is named after the band, as are other enemy characters in the game that pay homage to someone or something related to music, like her identical partner Poison.


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text: Roxy Music's iconic 24 August 1972 television appearance on the BBC's "Top of the Pops", performing their single "Virginia Plain", was affectionately parodied on two occasions on different British TV comedy programs. The first parody was performed by the cast of the sketch comedy series "Big Train" (Series 1, Episode 6) in 1998; in the show's closing sketch, a dying Mao Zedong (played by Kevin Eldon) appears to expire, but then rises from his deathbed to perform "Virginia Plain" in the style of Bryan Ferry, accompanied by the rest of the cast members (plus series co-writer Arthur Mathews) dressed as the members of Roxy Music. The second parody was performed by the cast of the comedy quiz show "Shooting Stars" in 2002 (Series 5, Episode 7), with Vic Reeves as Bryan Ferry, Bob Mortimer as Phil Manzanera, Johnny Vegas as Eno, and Matt Lucas as Paul Thompson.


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text: In the HBO series "Westworld"'s episode "The Riddle of the Sphinx", an experimental robotic copy of James Delos dances to the Roxy Music song "Do the Strand".


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text: "Bitter-Sweet" from "Country Life" was a re-occurring background theme through the 3rd series of "Babylon Berlin" with a cameo of Bryan Ferry singing it in a cabaret in episode 10.


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text: In early April 2021, an image of a purported 1971 letter addressed to "Mr B. Ferry" circulated widely on social media. The document appeared to be a rejection note, sent to Ferry by one "Hugh C. Smith", an Artists & Repertoire manager at Polydor Records, in which "Smith" patronisingly critiqued a demo tape that the group had submitted to the label. According to a 4 April 2021 item in the Treble e-zine, the letter was in fact an April Fools' Day prank which apparently originated from the Twitter account of former Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club drummer Chris Frantz. In May 2021, Tony Barrell, a British writer and Roxy Music fan, announced that he was the author of the letter.


title: Jack Lowden

text: Jack Andrew Lowden (born 2 June 1990) is a Scottish actor. Following a four-year stage career, his first major international onscreen success was in the 2016 BBC miniseries "War & Peace", which led to starring roles in feature films.


title: Jack Lowden

text: Lowden starred as Eric Liddell in the 2012 play "Chariots of Fire" in London. In 2014, he won an Olivier Award and the Ian Charleson Award for his role as Oswald in Richard Eyre's 2013 adaptation of Ibsen's "Ghosts". In 2013, he began to have substantial roles in British television series and feature films, including "The Tunnel" (2013) and "'71" (2014), and had leading roles in the BBC miniseries "The Passing Bells" (2014) and "War & Peace" (2016).


title: Jack Lowden

text: His screen projects since "War & Peace" have included the title role as golfing legend Tommy Morris in "Tommy's Honour" (2016), the starring role of Morrissey in the biopic "England Is Mine" (2017), a main-cast role as an RAF fighter-pilot in Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" (2017), a starring role in the Scottish Highlands thriller "Calibre" (2018, for which he won the British Academy Scotland Award for Best Film Actor), Lord Darnley in "Mary Queen of Scots" (2018), a starring role as a plantation owner in 19th-century Jamaica in the 2018 BBC miniseries "The Long Song", and Zak "Zodiac" Bevis in the 2019 comedy-drama WWE film "Fighting with My Family".


title: Jack Lowden

text: Lowden was born in Chelmsford, Essex, the son of Gordon and Jacquie Lowden. He grew up in the Scottish village of Oxton. In a 2019 interview, he explained: "I'm an IVF baby. And so is my brother. Down there [England] was one of the few places that was doing it." His younger brother, Calum, became a ballet dancer from a very early age at the Manor School of Ballet in Edinburgh, and later trained at the English National Ballet School and the Royal Ballet School in London; as of 2016, he is a first soloist at the Royal Swedish Ballet. As a child, Jack attended the dance classes at Manor School of Ballet as well, but found he was better at, and more suited to, acting. He has stated that his personal ambition since childhood was actually to be a footballer.


title: Jack Lowden

text: When he was 10, Lowden's parents enrolled him in the Scottish Youth Theatre in Edinburgh. At age 12, he played John in a "Peter Pan" pantomime at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. He attended Earlston High School, where he performed in productions such as starring as Buddy Holly in "Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story" and performed in various concerts. His conviction to become a professional actor came from seeing the play "Black Watch" on its first run in 2007. While in high school, he studied during summer school at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He also performed regularly at the Galashiels Amateur Operatic Society, where he played the lead in a 2008 production of "The Boy Friend". Lowden received a BA in acting from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow in 2011.


title: Jack Lowden

text: In 2009, at the age of 18, Lowden starred in a television advertisement for Irn-Bru, sending up "High School Musical". In 2010 he had a small part as the character Nick Fairclough on an episode of the Glasgow-set television series "Being Victor".


title: Jack Lowden

text: In 2010–11 Lowden was the lead character, Cammy, in the National Theatre of Scotland's revival production of the Olivier Award-winning play "Black Watch". The play is an incisive and topical look at the harsh reality of war, and depicts soldiers of the legendary historic Scottish Black Watch regiment serving in Iraq. He and the rest of the cast underwent grueling physical training during the rehearsals period to get into military shape.


title: Jack Lowden

text: The "Black Watch" production toured to London (Barbican), Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Belfast, and in the U.S. to New York City, Washington, Chicago, Austin, and Chapel Hill. UK reviewers deemed Lowden "a clearly hugely promising young actor" "who carries off this amazing start to his career with assurance and maturity". In the U.S., "The Washington Post" described him as "quietly charismatic" and a "stand-out"; this was echoed by the "Chicago Sun-Times", which called him "easily charismatic"; and the "Chicago Tribune" noted his "rich and finely detailed work".


title: Jack Lowden

text: From 9 May 2012 to 5 January 2013, Lowden starred as Scottish runner and missionary Eric Liddell in "Chariots of Fire", the stage adaptation of the film of the same name. The Olympic-themed play, created and produced specifically in honour of the 2012 London Summer Olympics, opened at London's Hampstead Theatre and transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End in June 2012. Lowden's performance was widely praised, including by Libby Purves in "The Times".


title: Jack Lowden

text: Onscreen, in 2012 he appeared in the ITV drama "Mrs Biggs" as Alan Wright, who has an affair with Charmian Biggs and gets her pregnant. In 2013, he played the pivotal role of the lead character's son, Adam, in the television series "The Tunnel". The series is a British/French crime-drama co-production, and aired in the UK and in France; in the summer of 2016 it aired on PBS in the U.S. He also had a sizable role as a young British soldier in the 2014 film "'71", which takes place in Belfast in 1971 during the Northern Ireland conflict.


title: Jack Lowden

text: In 2014, Lowden received both the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and also the Ian Charleson Award, for his role as Oswald in Richard Eyre's adaptation of Ibsen's "Ghosts". The production ran from September 2013 to March 2014, opening at the Almeida Theatre and then transferring in December to the West End at Trafalgar Studios. A filmed February 2014 performance of the production screened in more than 275 UK and Irish cinemas on 26 June 2014. The entire filmed performance is viewable online.


title: Jack Lowden

text: He performed Orestes in "Electra" at the Old Vic in the autumn of 2014. The production starred Kristin Scott Thomas as his sister Electra, and Diana Quick played their mother Clytemnestra. Previews began 22 September, the official opening was 1 October, and the run continued in a limited engagement through to 20 December 2014.


title: Jack Lowden

text: On television, he starred as one of the two leads in the 2014 World War I BBC drama series "The Passing Bells". It is the story of two youths, one from Germany and one from the UK, who enlist as soldiers at the beginning of the war.


title: Jack Lowden

text: Lowden portrayed Nikolai Rostov, one of the main characters, in the 2016 BBC miniseries "War & Peace". The 6-part miniseries, which was broadcast around the world and positively reviewed, garnered Lowden the most exposure he had had thus far in his career.


title: Jack Lowden

text: In film, he played the title role in "Tommy's Honour" (2016), about legendary Scottish golfing champion Old Tom Morris, played by Peter Mullan, and his complex and bittersweet relationship with his son Tom "Tommy" Morris, Jr.; Lowden was nominated for Best Film Actor at the 2016 BAFTA Scotland Awards for his performance. He also portrayed British politician Tony Benn in a supporting role in "A United Kingdom", a 2016 film about Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams Khama. In another supporting role, he was one of star Rachel Weisz's character's attorneys in "Denial" (2016), a fact-based legal-drama film about Holocaust denial which also starred Andrew Scott.


title: Jack Lowden

text: In April 2016, he was a finalist in the entertainment category at the 11th Young Scot Awards. In November 2016 the UK arts and entertainment magazine "The List" featured Lowden as one of The Hot 100 2016.


title: Jack Lowden

text: He played a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, one of the leading roles, in Christopher Nolan's WorldWarII film "Dunkirk", released in July 2017. And he portrayed Morrissey in a biopic of the singer titled "England Is Mine", written and directed by Mark Gill; the film, which co-stars Jessica Brown Findlay, premiered at the closing gala of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 2 July 2017 and went into wide release in August 2017.


title: Jack Lowden

text: He co-starred with Martin McCann in a Scottish thriller, "Calibre" (2018), which began filming in November 2016, debuted at the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival, and was released globally on Netflix on 29 June 2018. Guy Lodge in "Variety" wrote of his performance, "[A] lead performance of through-the-wringer commitment by rising Scots star Jack Lowden. ... An Olivier Award-winning stage actor now settling into a quietly potent, empathetic screen presence, Lowden impressively holds it together through all these key changes, even when his character emphatically does not." Lowden won the 2018 British Academy Scotland Award for Best Film Actor for the performance.


title: Jack Lowden

text: On stage, from 28 September to 24 November 2018, Lowden starred opposite Hayley Atwell in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure", at the Donmar Warehouse in London, directed by Josie Rourke. It was a unique gender-reversal production of the work, and he and Atwell alternated the roles of Angelo and Isabella during the play. On television, in December 2018 he co-starred with Tamara Lawrance and Hayley Atwell, in a three-part BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel "The Long Song", about a slave on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica; the piece was filmed on location in the Dominican Republic.


title: Jack Lowden

text: He portrayed Lord Darnley in "Mary Queen of Scots" (2018), opposite Saoirse Ronan and directed by theatre director Josie Rourke, and Zak "Zodiac" Bevis in the 2019 comedy-drama WWE film "Fighting with My Family", opposite Florence Pugh and directed by Steve Merchant. He appeared as FBI agent Crawford in the Al Capone biopic "Capone" (2020), starring his "Dunkirk" co-star Tom Hardy.


title: Jack Lowden

text: In February 2019, Lowden teamed up with Beta Cinema to form his own production company, Reiver Pictures, based in Edinburgh. This led to the production of a psychological thriller, "Kindred", in which Lowden also starred alongside Tamara Lawrance and Fiona Shaw. His most recent project is that of portraying Siegfried Sassoon in the 2022 biopic "Benediction".


title: Jack Lowden

text: From 2019 to 2021, Lowden resided in Leith, Edinburgh, before moving back to his native Scottish Borders in May 2021. He is an outspoken supporter of Scottish independence.


title: Jack Lowden

text: Since 2018, he has been in a relationship with Irish actress Saoirse Ronan his co-star in "Mary Queen of Scots".


title: Jane Leeves

text: Jane Elizabeth Leeves (born 18 April 1961) is an English actress. Leeves played Daphne Moon on the NBC television sitcom "Frasier" from 1993 until 2004, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She also played Joy Scroggs on TV Land's sitcom "Hot in Cleveland".


title: Jane Leeves

text: Leeves made her screen debut with a small role in 1983 on the British comedy television show "The Benny Hill Show", and appeared as a dancer in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life". She moved to the United States, where she performed in small roles. From 1986 to 1988, she had her first leading role in the short-lived sitcom "Throb", then secured a recurring part in the television sitcom "Murphy Brown". She received further recognition for roles in films such as "Miracle on 34th Street" (1994), "James and the Giant Peach" (1996), "Music of the Heart" (1999), and "The Event" (2003). In 2018, she began starring in the Fox medical drama "The Resident".


title: Jane Leeves

text: The daughter of an engineer and a nurse, Jane Leeves was born in Ilford, Essex, England. She was raised in East Grinstead, Sussex, along with two sisters and a brother.


title: Jane Leeves

text: She was a regular on "The Benny Hill Show" (as one of "Hill's Angels"). She made use of her experience as a dancer in a scene in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life". In the US, she appeared as a tourist with a baby in the video for David Lee Roth's song "California Girls", but struggled for several years to establish an acting career. She became somewhat visible as the flighty record company employee Blue (née Prudence Anne Bartlett) on the syndicated sitcom "Throb".


title: Jane Leeves

text: She had a recurring role in the television series "Murphy Brown" as Audrey, the smart but awkward girlfriend of producer Miles Silverberg (played by Grant Shaud). She also appeared as the troublesome Marla the Virgin in four episodes of "Seinfeld": "The Virgin", "The Contest", "The Pilot", and "The Finale – Part 2". During this period, Leeves was cast as Holly for the pilot of the US version of the science-fiction comedy "Red Dwarf." She also had a role as a lesbian avant-garde dancer, the girlfriend of the girlfriend of Willem Dafoe's character, in the 1985 film "To Live and Die in L.A.".


title: Jane Leeves

text: In 1993, Leeves joined the cast of the television series "Frasier" as the eccentric, forthright and psychic Mancunian Daphne Moon. By the start of the eighth season, Leeves was pregnant, and the writers incorporated her pregnancy into shows as weight gain due to her character's stress from her relationship with Niles (portrayed by David Hyde Pierce). By the conclusion of "Frasier", Leeves had been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nomination (1998), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (1995).


title: Jane Leeves

text: Appearing less frequently in cinema, Leeves lent her speaking and singing voice to the animated film "James and the Giant Peach" (1996) as Mrs. Ladybug, and appeared in "Music of the Heart" (1999). In 2002, she appeared in the Broadway musical "Cabaret". In 2004, she hosted an episode of the television comedy quiz show "Have I Got News for You". Her 2006 show, The WB's sitcom "Misconceptions", went unaired.


title: Jane Leeves

text: Leeves provided guest vocals in "The Penguins of Madagascar" as Lulu, a female chimp, with whom Phil fell in love. With Peri Gilpin, Leeves also set up the production company Bristol Cities (cockney rhyming slang for 'titties'). Their last project was in 2007, a pilot for a US remake of the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley", with Kirstie Alley in the title role. In 2010, Leeves guest starred in two episodes in ABC's "Desperate Housewives" as Lynette and Tom's therapist, Dr. Graham.


title: Jane Leeves

text: From 2010 until 2015, Leeves played the 40-something ex 'eyebrow artist to the stars' Joy Scroggs in the TV Land comedy, "Hot in Cleveland", with Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick (also her co-star in the final season of "Frasier"), and Betty White. In 2011, she was nominated Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series along with the rest of the cast. The series ended in 2015 after six seasons and 128 episodes. She returned to television in 2018, with her first series regular role in a dramatic series, the Fox medical drama "The Resident" playing orthopaedic surgeon Kit Voss.


title: Jane Leeves

text: Leeves is married to Marshall Coben, a CBS Paramount Television executive. Leeves' "Frasier" co-star, next-door neighbor,<ref name="clevelandmagazine/leeves"></ref> and friend Peri Gilpin was in the delivery room when her first child was born.


title: Stephen Chow

text: Stephen Chow Sing-chi (, born 22 June 1962), known professionally as Stephen Chow, is a Hong Kong filmmaker, former actor and comedian, known for "Shaolin Soccer" and "Kung Fu Hustle".


title: Stephen Chow

text: Stephen Chow was born in Hong Kong on 22 June 1962 to Ling Po-yee (), an alumna of Guangzhou Normal University, and Chow Yik-sheung (), an immigrant from Ningbo, Zhejiang. Chow has an elder sister named Chow Man-kei () and a younger sister named Chow Sing-ha (). Chow's given name "Sing-chi" () derives from Tang dynasty (618–907) Chinese poet Wang Bo's essay "Preface to the Prince of Teng's Pavilion". After his parents divorced when he was seven, Chow was raised by his mother. Chow attended Heep Woh Primary School, a missionary school attached to the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China in Prince Edward Road, Kowloon Peninsula. When he was nine, he saw Bruce Lee's film "The Big Boss", which inspired him to become a martial arts star. Chow entered San Marino Secondary School, where he studied alongside Lee Kin-yan. After graduation, he was accepted to TVB's acting classes.


title: Stephen Chow

text: Chow began his career as an extra for Rediffusion Television. He later joined TVB in 1982. He was drawn to attention hosting the TVB Jade children's program "430 Space Shuttle".


title: Stephen Chow

text: Chow made his film debut in the 1988 film "Final Justice", which won him the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Horse Awards.


title: Stephen Chow

text: Chow shot to stardom in "The Final Combat" (1989). The following decade, he appeared in more than 40 films. "Fight Back to School" (1991) became Hong Kong's top-grossing film of all time. In 1994, he began directing films, starting with "From Beijing with Love". In the latter half of the 1990s, Chow becomes very famous in China, he became a legend and the "Stephen Chow Phenomenon" (周星驰现象).


title: Stephen Chow

text: In 2001, his film "Shaolin Soccer" grossed over US$50 million worldwide. Chow won Best Director and Best Actor at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, and the film went on to garner additional awards including a Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Picture and Best Director. It was the highest-grossing Chinese film in Hong Kong at the time, grossing $46 million in the Asia region.


title: Stephen Chow

text: In 2004, his film "Kung Fu Hustle" grossed over US$106 million worldwide. Chow also won Best Director at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and Best Picture of Imagine Film Festival as well as over twenty international awards. Comedian Bill Murray said that the film was "the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy" .


title: Stephen Chow

text: His film "CJ7" began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo. In August 2007, the film was given the title "CJ7", a play on China's successful Shenzhou crewed space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. "CJ7" became the highest-grossing film of all time in Malaysia.


title: Stephen Chow

text: For his work in comedy, he has received praise from notable institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, who called him the King of Comedy.


title: Stephen Chow

text: In 2016, his film "The Mermaid" broke numerous box office records, and became the highest-grossing film of all time in China. "The Mermaid" was released in Vietnam on 10 February 2016. On 14 March, it became the third-highest-grossing film of all time in Vietnam. It has now grossed over US$553.81 million worldwide. Chow became the ninth-top-grossing Hollywood Director in 2016.


title: Stephen Chow

text: Chow dated Karen Mok, who has starred alongside him in several films. Chow had a ten-year relationship with Yu Wenfeng until 2010.


title: Computer security

text: Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, theft of, or damage to hardware, software, or data, as well as from the disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.


title: Computer security

text: The field has become of significance due to the expanded reliance on computer systems, the Internet, and wireless network standards such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and due to the growth of smart devices, including smartphones, televisions, and the various devices that constitute the Internet of things (IoT). Cybersecurity is one of the most significant challenges of the contemporary world, due to both the complexity of information systems and the societies they support. Security is of especially high importance for systems that govern large-scale systems with far-reaching physical effects, such as power distribution, elections, and finance.


title: Computer security

text: Since the Internet's arrival and with the digital transformation initiated in recent years, the notion of cybersecurity has become a familiar subject in both our professional and personal lives. Cybersecurity and cyber threats have been consistently present for the last 50 years of technological change. In the 1970s and 1980s, computer security was mainly limited to academia until the conception of the Internet, where, with increased connectivity, computer viruses and network intrusions began to take off. After the spread of viruses in the 1990s, the 2000s marked the institutionalization of cyber threats and cybersecurity.


title: Computer security

text: The April 1967 session organized by Willis Ware at the Spring Joint Computer Conference, and the later publication of the Ware Report, were foundational moments in the history of the field of computer security. Ware's work straddled the intersection of material, cultural, political, and social concerns.


title: Computer security

text: A 1977 NIST publication introduced the "CIA triad" of confidentiality, integrity, and availability as a clear and simple way to describe key security goals. While still relevant, many more elaborate frameworks have since been proposed.


title: Computer security

text: However, in the 1970s and 1980s, there were no grave computer threats because computers and the internet were still developing, and security threats were easily identifiable. Most often, threats came from malicious insiders who gained unauthorized access to sensitive documents and files. Although malware and network breaches existed during the early years, they did not use them for financial gain. By the second half of the 1970s, established computer firms like IBM started offering commercial access control systems and computer security software products.


title: Computer security

text: One of the earliest examples of an attack on a computer network was the computer worm Creeper written by Bob Thomas at BBN, which propagated through the ARPANET in 1971. The program was purely experimental in nature and carried no malicious payload. A later program, Reaper, was created by Ray Tomlinson in 1972 and used to destroy Creeper.


title: Computer security

text: Between September 1986 and June 1987, a group of German hackers performed the first documented case of cyber espionage. The group hacked into American defense contractors, universities, and military base networks and sold gathered information to the Soviet KGB. The group was led by Markus Hess, who was arrested on 29 June 1987. He was convicted of espionage (along with two co-conspirators) on 15 Feb 1990.


title: Computer security

text: In 1988, one of the first computer worms, called the Morris worm, was distributed via the Internet. It gained significant mainstream media attention.


title: Computer security

text: In 1993, Netscape started developing the protocol SSL, shortly after the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) launched Mosaic 1.0, the first web browser, in 1993. Netscape had SSL version 1.0 ready in 1994, but it was never released to the public due to many serious security vulnerabilities. These weaknesses included replay attacks and a vulnerability that allowed hackers to alter unencrypted communications sent by users. However, in February 1995, Netscape launched Version 2.0.


title: Computer security

text: The National Security Agency (NSA) is responsible for the protection of U.S. information systems and also for collecting foreign intelligence. These two duties are in conflict with each other. Protecting information systems includes evaluating software, identifying security flaws, and taking steps to correct the flaws, which is a defensive action. Collecting intelligence includes exploiting security flaws to extract information, which is an offensive action. Correcting security flaws makes the flaws unavailable for NSA exploitation.


title: Computer security

text: The agency analyzes commonly used software in order to find security flaws, which it reserves for offensive purposes against competitors of the United States. The agency seldom takes defensive action by reporting the flaws to software producers so that they can eliminate them.


title: Computer security

text: The offensive strategy worked for a while, but eventually, other nations, including Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China, acquired their own offensive capability and have tended to use it against the United States. NSA contractors created and sold "click-and-shoot" attack tools to U.S. agencies and close allies, but eventually, the tools made their way to foreign adversaries. In 2016, NSAs own hacking tools were hacked, and they have been used by Russia and North Korea. NSA's employees and contractors have been recruited at high salaries by adversaries, anxious to compete in cyberwarfare.


title: Computer security

text: For example, in 2007, the United States and Israel began exploiting security flaws in the Microsoft Windows operating system to attack and damage equipment used in Iran to refine nuclear materials. Iran responded by heavily investing in their own cyberwarfare capability, which they began using against the United States.


title: Computer security

text: A vulnerability is a weakness in design, implementation, operation, or internal control. Most of the vulnerabilities that have been discovered are documented in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database. An "exploitable" vulnerability is one for which at least one working attack or "exploit" exists. Vulnerabilities can be researched, reverse-engineered, hunted, or exploited using automated tools or customized scripts. To secure a computer system, it is important to understand the attacks that can be made against it, and these threats can typically be classified into one of these categories below:


title: Computer security

text: A backdoor in a computer system, a cryptosystem or an algorithm, is any secret method of bypassing normal authentication or security controls. They may exist for many reasons, including original design or poor configuration. They may have been added by an authorized party to allow some legitimate access, or by an attacker for malicious reasons; but regardless of the motives for their existence, they create a vulnerability. Backdoors can be very hard to detect, and backdoors are usually discovered by someone who has access to application source code or intimate knowledge of the operating system of the computer.


title: Computer security

text: Denial of service attacks (DoS) are designed to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Attackers can deny service to individual victims, such as by deliberately entering a wrong password enough consecutive times to cause the victim's account to be locked, or they may overload the capabilities of a machine or network and block all users at once. While a network attack from a single IP address can be blocked by adding a new firewall rule, many forms of Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are possible, where the attack comes from a large number of points – and defending is much more difficult. Such attacks can originate from the zombie computers of a botnet or from a range of other possible techniques, including reflection and amplification attacks, where innocent systems are fooled into sending traffic to the victim.


title: Computer security

text: An unauthorized user gaining physical access to a computer is most likely able to directly copy data from it. They may also compromise security by making operating system modifications, installing software worms, keyloggers, covert listening devices or using wireless microphones. Even when the system is protected by standard security measures, these may be bypassed by booting another operating system or tool from a CD-ROM or other bootable media. Disk encryption and Trusted Platform Module are designed to prevent these attacks.


title: Computer security

text: Eavesdropping is the act of surreptitiously listening to a private computer conversation (communication), typically between hosts on a network. For instance, programs such as Carnivore and NarusInSight have been used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and NSA to eavesdrop on the systems of internet service providers. Even machines that operate as a closed system (i.e., with no contact to the outside world) can be eavesdropped upon by monitoring the faint electromagnetic transmissions generated by the hardware. TEMPEST is a specification by the NSA referring to these attacks.


title: Computer security

text: Surfacing in 2017, a new class of multi-vector, polymorphic cyber threats combined several types of attacks and changed form to avoid cybersecurity controls as they spread.


title: Computer security

text: Phishing is the attempt of acquiring sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details directly from users by deceiving the users. Phishing is typically carried out by email spoofing or instant messaging, and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one. The fake website often asks for personal information, such as login details and passwords. This information can then be used to gain access to the individual's real account on the real website. Preying on a victim's trust, phishing can be classified as a form of social engineering. Attackers are using creative ways to gain access to real accounts. A common scam is for attackers to send fake electronic invoices to individuals showing that they recently purchased music, apps, or others, and instructing them to click on a link if the purchases were not authorized. A more strategic type of phishing is spear-phishing which leverages personal or organization-specific details to make the attacker appear like a trusted source. Spear-phishing attacks target specific individuals, rather than the broad net cast by phishing attempts.


title: Computer security

text: Privilege escalation describes a situation where an attacker with some level of restricted access is able to, without authorization, elevate their privileges or access level. For example, a standard computer user may be able to exploit a vulnerability in the system to gain access to restricted data; or even become "root" and have full unrestricted access to a system.


title: Computer security

text: Reverse engineering is the process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, code, and architecture, or to extract knowledge from the object; similar to scientific research, the only difference being that scientific research is about a natural phenomenon.


title: Computer security

text: Any computational system affects its environment in some form. This effect it has on its environment, includes a wide range of criteria, which can range from electromagnetic radiation, to residual effect on RAM cells which as a consequent make a Cold boot attack possible, to hardware implementation faults that allow for access and or guessing of other values that normally should be inaccessible. In Side-channel attack scenarios, the attacker would gather such information about a system or network to guess its internal state and as a result access the information which is assumed by the victim to be secure.


title: Computer security

text: Social engineering, in the context of computer security, aims to convince a user to disclose secrets such as passwords, card numbers, etc. or grant physical access by, for example, impersonating a senior executive, bank, a contractor, or a customer. This generally involves exploiting peoples trust, and relying on their cognitive biases. A common scam involves emails sent to accounting and finance department personnel, impersonating their CEO and urgently requesting some action. In early 2016, the FBI reported that such business email compromise (BEC) scams had cost US businesses more than $2 billion in about two years.


title: Computer security

text: In May 2016, the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team was the victim of this type of cyber scam with a perpetrator impersonating the team's president Peter Feigin, resulting in the handover of all the team's employees' 2015 W-2 tax forms.


title: Computer security

text: Spoofing is an act of masquerading as a valid entity through the falsification of data (such as an IP address or username), in order to gain access to information or resources that one is otherwise unauthorized to obtain. There are several types of spoofing, including: