In late July 2006, the City of Alameda announced a deal with the Navy that would turn the land over to the city for $ 108M.

However, in late 2006 and early 2007 the rate of attrition reached new proportions, and the term colony collapse disorder was coined to describe the sudden disappearances.

In late 2006, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan blended vulgar humour with cultural satire.

By late 2009 39 % of households had internet access Colombia had 581, 877 Internet hosts in 2006.

In late 2006, the USASF facilitated the creation of the International All-Star Federation ( IASF ).

By late 2006, HP had retook the # 1 sales position of PCs from Dell, which struggled with missed estimates and poor quality, and has held that rank ever since.

Due to Dell's struggles in late 2006, HP has led all PC vendors since 2007 onwards.

Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film, The Prestige ( 2006 ), which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters ( who replaced Goff in late 2005 ) flew into Fiji on 8 February 2006 for three days of talks with Fijian government officials.

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.

Additionally, the militias, it appeared in late 2006, had the capability to act outside the scope of government.

As a result these powerful militias, it seemed as of late 2006, were leading reprisal acts of violence against the Sunni minority.

In late September 2006, a team of ornithologists from Auburn University and the University of Windsor published reports of their own sightings of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers along the Choctawhatchee River in northwest Florida, beginning in 2005 ( Hill et al., 2006 ).

Originally marketed by the Lambert Pharmacal Company ( which later became Warner-Lambert ), it is currently manufactured and distributed by Johnson and Johnson since that company's acquisition of Pfizer's consumer healthcare division in late December 2006.

It was expected that the EU would announce in late 2006 the date for commencement of EU accession negotiations.

The roadmap was originally scheduled for completion by late 2006, but was released in January 2008.

A Friedman Prize was given to the late British economist Peter Bauer during 2002, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto during 2004, Mart Laar, former Estonian Prime Minister during 2006 and a young Venezuelan student Yon Goicoechea during 2008.

The 1928 Members ' stand, the 1956 Olympic stand and the 1968 Ponsford stand were demolished one by one between late 2003 to 2005, and replaced with a new structure in time for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Until late 2006, they were also used in many of SGI's computer products.

Manatees have been spotted as far north as Cape Cod, and as recently as the late summer of 2006, one was seen in New York City and Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, as cited in The Boston Globe.

If their estimates are correct, 6. 1 percent of North Korea's total population was in the military, numerically the world's fifth largest military force, in the late 1980s ( fourth largest as of 2006 ).

Telecom Namibia, which has offered ADSL access since late 2006, has a de facto monopoly on ADSL access.

Rolling Stone began a new, much more limited message board community at their site in late 2005, only to remove it again in 2006.

In 2006 he re-teamed with Gladiator director Ridley Scott for A Good Year, the first of two consecutive collaborations ( the second being American Gangster co-starring again with Denzel Washington, released in late 2007 ).

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

Since the late 1990s, Orange has also been working in conjunction with singer / songwriter Craig Deanto, and they have released an album titled Who Hears the Cries.

She had signed with Monument Records in late 1965, where she was initially pitched as a bubblegum pop singer, earning only one national-chart single, " Happy, Happy Birthday Baby ", which did not crack the Billboard Hot 100.

For example the late Alam Lohar is a good example of a classical South Asian folk singer of great repute.

Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

He also released a new single, " Good Ride Cowboy ", as a tribute to his late friend, rodeo star and country singer, Chris LeDoux.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Among the famous reporters of TVZ during the 1980s and 1990s were the late Alwiya Alawi 1961 – 1996 ( the elder sister of Inat Alawi, famous Taarab singer during the 1980s ), Neema Mussa, Sharifa Maulid, Fatma Mzee, Zaynab Ali, Ramadhan Ali, and Khamis

Michael Jackman, writer for Detroit's " Metro Times ," did an interview with Meatmen singer Tesco Vee, who said that the song's origins dated to the late 1970s and early 1980s in Detroit, when hardcore punk bands, unable to get booked in bars and in a city lacking all-ages clubs, would do " punk nights " at gay men's bars, creating what Vee called a " worlds collide " sort of thing.

The first evidence of polyphony with more than one singer per part comes in the Old Hall Manuscript ( 1420, though containing music from the late 14th century ), in which there are apparent divisi, one part dividing into two simultaneously sounding notes.

Doug Ingle from the late 1960s band Iron Butterfly was born in Omaha as was indie-folk singer / songwriter Elliott Smith, though both were raised elsewhere.

In July 2010 Hughes appeared as a guest vocalist ( together with Masterplan singer Jørn Lande ) fronting Heaven & Hell at the High Voltage Rock Festival in London as a tribute to the late Ronnie James Dio.

The State of Colorado appointed one of the most widely known Poets Laureate of the late 20th century, singer / songwriter John Denver.

Along with Isaac Hayes, White is considered by Allmusic. com as the first singer who played disco music before the actual period of the late 1970s.

English singer Julia Gilbert adopted the name of the film's main character when recording for the London-based él record label in the late 1980s.

Villeneuve was also engaged to Australian singer Dannii Minogue in the late 1990s and was once engaged to American ballerina Ellen Green.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

* Chan Marshall lead singer for Cat Power lived in Greensboro with her mother as a teenager in the late 1980s.

He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late 1990s, establishing himself as a star among pre-teen and teenage audiences during the early-first decade of the 21st century .< ref name =" showbuzz ">

The China O ' Brien films have a limited cult film status but have gained notoriety in the late 1990s because a then-unheard of singer / songwriter Tori Amos ( then going by her birth name Ellen Amos ) recorded a song, " Distant Storm ," which can only be heard by viewing the original film.

* Phil Lynott, lead singer of Thin Lizzie, lived in Cricklewood in the late 1970s.

Some famous residents of Sebastopol include: The horticulturist Luther Burbank who established an Gold Ridge Environmental Farm in the township in the late 19th century ; Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues pioneer ; Willard Libby, inventor of carbon dating went to Analy High School ; the cartoonist Charles Schulz ; rapper Smoov-E ; actress Karen Valentine of the television show Room 222 ; actress Schuyler Grant of the 1985 adaptation of Anne of Green Gables ; and the musicians Les Claypool of Primus, singer / songwriters Nick Gravenites, and both Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead ; novelist Francine Rivers ; actor Peter Krause.

The late entertainer Des O ' Connor was born in Stepney, as were actors Steven Berkoff, Terence Stamp and Craig Fairbrass, playwright Arnold Wesker, artist Frank Paton, drummer Kenney Jones, musician and writer Jah Wobble, and singer Charles Coborn.

* Julian Cope, lead singer of band Teardrop Explodes, lived at 149a Tulse Hill during the late 1980s where, the Guardian newspaper says, he had 40 ft Scalextrix track and a huge collection of Dinky cars.

As of 2009, notable residents living in or close to Wymondham include / have included George Szirtes, poet ; Oliver Winterbottom, car designer ; Simon Beaufoy, writer of the films ' The Full Monty ' and ' Slumdog Millionaire '; Bill Bryson, humorist, author and travel writer ; Justin Hawkins, singer with The Darkness ; and the late Edwin Gooch, MP and President of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.