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Music, film, and television[link]

• Bad Boys Blue, a multinational pop group formed in Germany
• Bakugan Battle Brawlers, an anime
• Balkan Beat Box, an Israeli Gypsy punk band
• Beethoven's Big Break, the sixth installment in the Beethoven film series
• Big Bad Beetleborgs, a 1990s children's TV show
• Big Bad Brad, the nickname of Brad Delson of the band Linkin Park
• Big Brother Brasil, the Brazilian version of the reality show Big Brother
• Big Buck Bunny, an open-movie produced by the Blender Institute, with open-source tools
• Black Blood Brothers, a Japanese anime
• The Blues Brothers Band
• Bonded by Blood, an album by the thrash metal band Exodus
• Brendan B. Brown, frontman of alternative rock band Wheatus
• "Bye Bye Bye", a #1 hit song by NSync
• Bear Behaving Badly, a British TV show starring Barney Harwood
• "BBB", a song by How to Destroy Angels from their EP How to Destroy Angels
• The Bollywood Brass Band

Organizations[link]

• Better Business Bureau, a North American organization of businesses supporting consumer rights
• Biotic Baking Brigade, a loosely connected group of activists known for throwing pies
• Bredbandsbolaget, a Swedish ISP
• Bad Blue Boys, supporters of the Zagreb football club NK Dinamo
• Beta Beta Beta, an honor society and academic fraternity for higher education students specializing in biology

Science[link]

• Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, a scientific journal
• Blood–brain barrier, a structure that protects the brain from chemicals in the blood
• Bombay Before the British, a Portuguese research project in History of Architecture (2004–2007)

Other[link]

• bbb, the ISO 639:b language code for Barai
• BBB, a type of birdshot used in shotgun shells
• The BBB, Bond credit rating
• Bam Bam Bigelow (1961–2007), the ringname of professional wrestler Scott Bigelow
• Baseball Boss, a web-based, free online baseball game
• Big Blue Book - a series of small staple-bound books
• Bikes Blues and BBQ, an annual motorcycle rally in Fayetteville, Arkansas

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Josip Kuže (Serbian Cyrillic: Јосип Куже) (born 13 November 1952) is a Croatian football coach and former player. He was a player and later coach of Dinamo Zagreb where he played from 1971-1981 making a total of 384 appearances and scoring 14 goals.

Playing career[link]

He was a professional football player with Dinamo Zagreb, winning 11 Yugoslavian U-21 caps. He played a minor role among the great players who still have their huge amount of respect today, mostly because in 1967 he was part of a team that won the UEFA cup and in 1982 a Yugoslavian championship. During his playing years with Dinamo as a defender from 1971 to 1981 he played in 384 games scoring 14 goals. Kuže scored only 1 goal in 1975/1976 season. During his career he played alongside Balkan footballing greats such as Zlatko Kranjčar, Snješko Cerin, Srećko Bogdan, Velimir Zajec, Ivica Senzen, Marko Mlinarić, Ismet Hadžić, Boro Cvetković and Stjepan Deverić.

Managerial career[link]

After his playing career finished he started as coach of Sydney Croatia (1982–84) then he coached clubs such as BSK Slavonski Brod (1985–86), Dinamo Zagreb youth (1986–88), Borac Banja Luka (1988–89) before he became Dinamo Zagreb's coach in (1989–91). In 1991, he started coaching in Germany with FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (1991–92) and later accepted the job from league-competition FSV Mainz 05, and stayed there until 1994. From 1995-98, he coached Japanese side Gamba Osaka. Kuže came back to Croatia to coach NK Zagreb (1998–99) and had a short stint with FC Chemnitz in 2000 and proceeded to coach Gamba Osaka again from 2000-2002. He then went to manage Inter Zaprešić from 2003–04 and in 2005 he took over coaching of Dinamo Zagreb again, winning the league title in his first year as coach.

Dinamo Zagreb coach[link]

He took over the team after they suffered a poor year, finishing down in seventh place. With some new players, he enjoyed early success in the next championship (2005/2006) with 18-2-2 61:11 record in first part of the league, and the final record, after playoffs, was 24-4-4 78:21. After the first ten games, Dinamo's goal-difference was 32:3, which gave them the highest goal-difference for any professional club in Europe. During this time Dinamo were accredited with playing attractive football.

In the new season, 2006–07, some high-class players arrived, and Dinamo, beat French side Auxerre 2–1 during a pre-season friendly. Gameplay went worse in the new season, for the key defense midfielders could not give their best due to injuries, but still tremendous effort was made in second leg of Champions league qualifying round against Arsenal in London despite being 3-0 down from the first leg in Zagreb. Playing with a 5-3-2 formation, a much improved Dinamo side from the first leg, held a 1-0 lead until late into the game before Arsenal managed to turn it around with ten minutes remaining and eventually came away with a 2-1 victory. Despite the defeat Dinamo were praised, along with Kuze, for an impressive performance despite some injury concerns, Mathias Chago, Davor Vugrinec and Jens Nowotny all missed the match due to injury.

Despite his success in getting Dinamo in a position to challenge for the Croatian league after a several below-par years his teams performance against Arsenal was deemed not good enough and he left the club in November 2006 with both Kuze and the club stating the agreement was made with mutual consent.^[1]

Rwanda national team[link]

In November 2007 Kuze was appointed manager of the Rwanda replacing Michael Nees who was sacked after failing to qualify for the 2008 African Cup of Nations. His initial contract will run for three years.^[2]

JEF United Ichihara Chiba[link]

In January 2008, Japan's J. League side JEF United Ichihara Chiba announced that they appointed Kuze as their head coach.^[3] However, this reign lasted just four months.,^[4] and he was replaced by Alex Miller.

Albania national team coach[link]

Kuže entered in the history of Albania as the coach with the largest victory against Cyprus in 2009, 6-1 in a friendly. As of 27 March 2011 and after 18 months at the job, he has had four victories (including friendlies, with Cyprus and Northern Ireland), three losses, and five draws (of which an important one against Denmark in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers).

Tianjin Teda[link]

Kuže was appointed as the new manager of Chinese Super League side Tianjin Teda on 6 January 2012.^[5] On 20 May, Kuže waved money towards the referee after a Super League match which Tianjin Teda lost to Liaoning Whowin 2-1 by a controversial penalty in the stoppage time.^[6] On 22 May, he received a ban of 5 matches and was fined ¥38,000 by CFA for his act and his remarks on the press conference.^[7] He was released by Tianjin Teda on 28 May.^[8]

References[link]

Mellyana Goeslaw Hoed ([məliˈana ˈɡʊslau̯ ˈhʊt̚]; born 7 January 1974), better known by her stage name Melly Goeslaw, is an Indonesian singer and songwriter. She began singing while in the fifth grade, then began writing songs and took work as a backing vocalist for Elfa Secioria in high school. This led to her family and her moving to Jakarta to further her career. While providing backing vocals for a promotional tour by Katon Bagaskara, she met Anto Hoed and Andi Ayunir. After marrying Hoed, the three formed the band Potret in 1993. Their 1995 debut album was well received, bringing Goeslaw and her bandmates to fame. After releasing several albums with Potret, Goeslaw attempted to begin a solo career, releasing her self-titled debut album Melly in 1999. Although Melly sold well, she became more popular as a solo artist after providing the soundtrack for the 2002 hit film Ada Apa dengan Cinta? together with her husband. Her later releases include solo albums and soundtracks. In 2005, she released a collection of short stories to celebrate her tenth year anniversary as a popular musician; four years later, she directed a concert to celebrate the bicentenary of Bandung city. As of 2011^[update], she has written over 500 songs.

Goeslaw's onstage persona has been compared to Björk, with "eccentric" costumes, heavy make-up, and "wild" hair colours. Her early songs have been described by The Jakarta Post as being "deliberately antagonistic", with controversial themes including materialism, sadomasochism, and violence against women. Two of her songs with Potret, "Salah" and "Bunda", were selected by Rolling Stone Indonesia as some of the best Indonesian songs of all time, while her work with Ada Apa dengan Cinta? garnered her and her husband a Citra Award at the 2004 Indonesian Film Festival. However, Rolling Stone notes a decline in song quality after Ada Apa dengan Cinta?. According to The Jakarta Post, Goeslaw is one of the most sought after movie songwriters in Indonesia.

Biography[link]

Goeslaw was born in Bandung on 7 January 1974.^[1] She is the daughter of Melky Goeslaw, a singer and songwriter, and his wife Ersi Sukaesih.^[2][1] After her parents' divorce, Goeslaw was raised by her mother;^[3] her sister Yuli, who now serves as her manager, was born from a second marriage.^[4] While in elementary school, she enjoyed writing poetry, later recalling that she "was happiest when doodling on paper, writing [her] poetry".^[3] While she was in the fifth grade, she began singing after being convinced by her mother, who was convinced that Goeslaw could sing like her father;^[4] originally she did not want to be a singer.^[3]

She later switched to songwriting while in high school, writing lyrics on napkins and schoolbooks and recording her humming on a Walkman because she could not play any instruments. During high school, she worked as a backing vocalist for Elfa Secioria.^[3] Her family eventually moved to Jakarta to further her singing career, and she was requested to be a backing vocalist for three different pop singers. At one point, she was recording at three different studios every day. The money that she earned convinced her to continue singing.^[4]

After replacing a backing vocalist for Katon Bagaskara's promotional tour for the album Dinda, Goeslaw met Anto Hoed and his friend Andi Ayunir. After marrying Anto later that year, they went on to form the band Potret.^[4] The band's first album was released in 1995,^[4] with the song "Terbujuk" ("Seduced"), dealing with "the ultimate material girl", becoming instantly popular.^[3] The band was very popular between 1995 and 1998.^[2] While with Potret, Goeslaw wrote numerous songs. Some were written conservatively as they were ordered by singers such as Krisdayanti and Ruth Sahanaya; other songs, generally the more "biting" ones, were used for Potret's albums.^[3]

One of the her songs on Potret's third album, "Diam" ("Silent"), which dealt with the abuse of women, caused some controversy due to the perceived amount of violence in the music video. Despite this controversy, "Diam" won Video Musik Indonesia's award for best interpretation of a song.^[3]

In 1999, Goeslaw started her solo career with her self-titled debut album, which sold well. Her second album, the soundtrack for the 2002 teen movie Ada Apa dengan Cinta? (What's Up with Love), in which most songs were sung by her and written by her and her husband, led to her being more popular as a solo artist than with Potret; she was also given the nickname the Queen of Movie Music.^[2] Ada Apa Dengan Cinta's soundtrack later won Best Soundtrack at the Indonesian Film Festival.^[5]

Goeslaw later provided the soundtracks for 2003's Eiffel I'm in Love, 2005's Apa Artinya Cinta (What does Love Mean), 2007's The Butterfly, and 2009's Ketika Cinta Bertasbih (When Love Prays).^[2] She considered the writing of songs for Ketika Cinta Bertasbih to be more difficult than her previous work in teen romances, as it was a religious film. As such, she felt that she had to be extra careful.^[6]

In 2005 Goeslaw released a collection of short stories that she had written to celebrate her tenth year as a singer. One of the stories, "Tentang Dia" ("About Him/Her"), was later filmed by Rudy Soedjarwo, the director of Ada Apa dengan Cinta?.^[4] In 2008 Goeslaw wrote and sang "Dibius Cinta" ("Drugged by Love") for the soundtrack of Cicakman 2 – Planet Hitam (Cicakman 2 – Black Planet) with Malaysian singer and director of the film Yusri, from the band KRU. Melly requested permission to help with the scoring after watching the original Cicak Man.^[7]

After initially refusing to perform solo concerts because of creative differences with the event managers, in 2009 Goeslaw held her first concert, "Glow, Melly Live in Concert", at Senayan Stadium in Jakarta. The concert, directed by John Fair Kaune and presented by Krisdayanti's KD Productions, featured a "virtual duet" with Goeslaw's deceased father and was divided into two portions, one featuring songs from her time with Potret, and one with songs from her solo career. It also featured new songs written by Hoed especially for the concert.^[2] The following year she was head of Kampung GASS, an organising committee for a concert celebrating the 200th year since the founding of Bandung.^[8]

Goeslaw is also active scouting for new singers and assisting others, having supported the careers of pop singers Irwansyah and Acha Septriasa.^[4] In 2011 she invited aspiring singers to post videos of themselves singing her songs to YouTube or her Facebook profile, later noting that she had already discovered several new talents in that manner.^[9] As of 2011^[update], she has written over 500 songs.^[10]

Songwriting[link]

Goeslaw has noted that her most popular songs are generally those which are written quickly, citing the award-winning "Menghitung Hari" ("Counting the Days"), which was written in four days, as an example. She has noted that she abandons songs which leave her with a writer's block, as even when they are finished they are not well received.^[9] Her husband does the arrangement, sometimes meaning that songs are put on hold because he is busy.^[4]

The Jakarta Post has described her lyrics as being "deliberately antagonistic", to which Goeslaw has agreed. Her songs written while with Potret include themes of materialism, sexual deviation, "misbehaving women",^[3] flatulence, and sadomasochism;^[4] she has said that she tries to avoid writing about "issues of ethnicity, religion, race and intergroup relations, especially political matters". The Jakarta Post also calls her a "deft satirist".^[9] She does not consider herself a feminist, as her songs are written about real women and not about female empowerment; she has said that her lyrics are not of the "'hear me roar' type".^[4]

Fashion[link]

Goeslaw is known for wearing "eccentric" costumes when performing, leading to her being compared to Icelandic singer Björk,^[2] whom she admires.^[4] She also dyed her hair in "wild colors" and applied heavy stage make up in the late 1990s, when contemporary Indonesian singers were focusing on "conventional" beauty.^[2] In 2008, Goeslaw said that her make up and hairstyles used to hide her insecurity when she was first starting. She has continued to use them because it is "part of the package", although she now discusses ideas with her creative team.^[4]

Awards and recognition[link]

Goeslaw's songs have won awards. In the first Indonesian Film Festival (after the festival's twelve year hiatus between 1992 and 2004), Goeslaw and her husband won Best Soundtrack for their work in Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?; it was one of three awards won by the movie at the festival, which covered films from 2002 to 2004.^[5] The Jakarta Post calls her Indonesia's most sought after movie songwriter,^[6] and notes that her songs have been successfully covered by other singers.^[11] Her work as a songwriter has led to her becoming an active proponent of intellectual property rights.^[10]

In 2009, Rolling Stone Indonesia listed two songs that Goeslaw performed while with Potret in its list of the 150 Best Indonesian Songs of All Time, both of which were from the album Potret II. "Salah" ("Wrong") was ranked 74th, being noted as the best example of Goeslaw's "fresh, direct, and often provocative nuances"^[a] when writing songs and writing that her "sweet"^[b] vocals challenged the paradigm that a singer singing about an affair should be either a victim or full of revenge. The other song, "Bunda" ("Mother") was ranked at 110; it was noted being capable of making anyone, "even the most cruel man",^[c] pause for a moment to think of their mother. Rolling Stone Indonesia noted a decrease in the quality of Goeslaw's songs since Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?.^[12]

Personal life[link]

Goeslaw is married to guitarist Anto Hoed. Together they have two children, Anakku Lelaki Hoed and Lelaki Bernama Hoed (literally My Son Hoed and Boy Named Hoed). In her spare time she enjoys shopping, playing with her children, and browsing the internet; she has stated that she finds it increasingly difficult to enjoy shopping due to being constantly recognised.^[4] She has stated that she prefers being backstage over giving concerts, as she does not have to wear make-up or rehearse.^[11]

Discography[link]

• Pilihanku Deritaku (1988) – listed as Meliana Cessy
• Melly (1999)
• Ada Apa dengan Cinta? (OST; 2002)
• Eiffel I'm in Love (OST; 2003)
• Intuisi (2005)
• Apa Artinya Cinta? (OST; 2005)
• Mindsoul (2007)
• The Butterfly (OST; 2008)
• Ketika Cinta Bertasbih (2009)
• Glow (2009)
• Dancing In The Silence (2011)

Filmography[link]

• Kabayan Jadi Milyuner (2010)

Notes[link]

References[link]

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