Most notably Oscar winner writer / producer James Schamus and actor / director Liv Ullmann in 2006, director Peter Greenaway and writer / director John Sayles in 2008 and Oscar winner writer / director Alexander Payne in 2011.

In 2006 ACM began recognizing two additional membership grades.

The BBC News at Ten began simulcasting on the channel on 30 January 2006 as part of the Ten O ' Clock Newshour, followed by extended sport and business news updates.

Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3, 000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula.

In 2006 Young established the Lulu Blooker Prize, a book prize for books that began as blogs.

In 2006, the Berkeley Oak Grove Protest began protesting construction of a new sports center annex to Memorial Stadium at the expense of a grove of oak trees on the UC campus.

It reached a partial trade agreement with India in 2005 and began negotiations for a full-fledged FTA with India in 2006.

Sirius Canada in fact initially chose not to air Stern based on the possibility of a future issue with the CRTC, although the company reversed its decision and began offering Howard Stern in 2006.

In March 2006, Djibouti held its first regional elections and began implementing a decentralization plan.

In 2006 and 2007 he began having new difficulties which made drawing a very slow and tedious process for him, even more so than normally.

What began as a programme of marginal acts has become the largest arts festival in the world, with 1867 different shows being staged in 2006, in 261 venues.

A 2006 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum displayed graffiti as an art form that began in New York's outer boroughs and reached great heights in the early ' 80s with the work of Crash, Lee, Daze, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

In 2006, the United States Mint began production of the American Buffalo gold bullion coin with a purity of 99. 99 %.

Trams began carrying the passengers on the 1 July 2006 but during the first weeks there were many technical difficulties.

Starting with the 2006 season, the Texans wear all-white for their home opener and the team began to wear an all-blue combination for home games vs. the Indianapolis Colts.

Hezbollah alongside with some other groups began the 2006 – 2008 Lebanese political protests in opposition to the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

On December 1, 2006, these groups began the 2006 – 2008 Lebanese political protests, a series of protests and sit-ins in opposition to the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

The conflict began on July 12, 2006 when Hezbollah militants fired rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence, killing three, injuring two, and seizing two Israeli soldiers.

By 2006, the Hummer began to be exported and sold through importers and distributors in 33 countries.

On October 10, 2006, GM began producing the Hummer H3 at its Port Elizabeth plant in South Africa for international markets.

In June 2006, prompted by a letter from Gary J. Aguirre, the Senate Judiciary Committee began an investigation into the links between hedge funds and independent analysts.

In late 2006, the FDA began forcing the recall of many of these formulations due to reports of deaths in infants and children under the age of six.

Many commentators on the Iraq War began, by the end of 2006, to refer to this violent escalation as a civil war.

* 2006 – Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.

The Kenya Ranger Strike Force initiative began in 2006 with a request from KMOD ; creation of KRSF highlighted extensively in KMOD White Paper on Military Cooperation for 2011-2016.

In December 2005, Bernard Bled, CEO & Chairman of EPAD ( La Defense Management & Development Office ) announced an ambitious 9-year development plan called " La Defense 2006 – 2015 ". This important modernisation plan has to give a new dimension to the district and focuses on four main axes: regenerate outdated skyscrapers, allow new buildings, improve the balance between offices and residential housing and make the transport of local employees from their homes to La Défense easier.

The ambitious plan was to develop the first phase, comprising 1, 430 hectares by year 2006, with the remaining 1, 460 hectares to be developed after year 2011.

* 2006: Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley of the New York Times, " for their ambitious stories on ragged justice in China as the booming nation's legal system evolves.

It was followed in May 2006 by the ambitious Ships, which featured contributions from a total of 20 musicians, including Deerhoof, Sufjan Stevens, Why ?, Serena Maneesh, and Half-handed Cloud.

The government has undertaken a 210 million euro program to bolster broadband internet connectivity in provincial Greece, which was approved by the European Commission in 2006 with the commendation that it constituted " the most ambitious broadband development program that any EU member has ever undertaken ".

The centre was successful in attracting tourist, school groups and conferences for a number of years, however initial visitor number predictions proved to be too ambitious and Powys Council were unwilling to prolong its subsidy and with little scope for alternative investment Celtica closed in March 2006, and the house stood empty while Powys County Council sought to relinquish responsibility for it in line with their policy of selling many of their publicly owned buildings.

A number of impressive signings were made to establish an ambitious team, and a good beginning in the 2006 – 07 campaign appeared initially to confirm this.

* 2006: David Finkel, Washington Post, " for his ambitious, clear-eyed case study of the United States government ’ s attempt to bring democracy to Yemen.

After years of delay, this ambitious project is set to be completed in the next few years pending the new international tender for its completion set to be announced by the government at the beginning of March 2006.

On 11 October 2006, the government announced a timescale described as " highly ambitious " by computer experts.

The club, now chaired by ambitious businessman Joop Munsterman, survived such problems and made it to another KNVB Cup final in 2004, and then finishing in fourth place in 2006 – 07.

The 2006 rally was the most ambitious of any Gumball 3000 race, starting in London and finishing in Los Angeles just 8 days later.

By the summer of 2006, Blackstone had a more ambitious goal and secretly began laying the groundwork for an IPO of the firm itself, and managed to keep the project quiet for eight or nine months.

In 2006, extremely ambitious plans were announced for a £ 23 million development programme, which would see a health club with fitness centre and swimming pool, fully tarmacked park and ride area, and expanded capacity, estimated to be 13, 000.

Introduced in December 2006, it is a fully residential, one-year intensive program designed to develop experienced and ambitious executives for leadership positions in global organizations.

Stet ( 2006 ), Chapman's most ambitious book to date, takes the form of a bitter " Russian novel " about an ecstatic and weirdly oblivious Soviet filmmaker and painter, who ends up in prison camp as punishment for his private and antisocial tendencies.

In 2006, " The Black Page " was featured on Zappa Plays Zappa-Tour de Frank, an ambitious effort by Dweezil Zappa to bring Zappa music to the stage again, played by himself and a new band.

Jim Benson announced on September 28, 2006 that he had launched an ambitious new venture focused on commercial space tourism, Benson Space Company.

They also, however, endured losses with their sit-down productions of the large-scale musicals Tommy ( 1995 ), Jane Eyre ( 1996 – 1997 ), The Producers ( 2003 – 2004 ), Hairspray ( 2004 ) and most recently, the ambitious The Lord of the Rings ( 2006 ).

With a liberal democratic and social justice platform, openness to foreign investment an ambitious housing plan, which as a whole, would multiply employment with an emphasis on the quality of health and education, Álvaro Noboa won the first electoral round on November 2006 and turned his party, the PRIAN, into the leading electoral presence in the country.