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<mask>we (also known as <mask> and sometimes incorrectly referred to as "Dorothea") was the first woman hanged under the Union of South Africa. In 1921 she was convicted of the murder of Louis Tumpowski. He had been murdered on her farm, Treurfontein ("Sorrow fountain"), in Lichtenburg, Transvaal in 1918. Treurfontein farm
The present-day town of Coligny is situated on Treurfontein farm. It has been the site of tragic events both before and after the murder of Louis Tumpowski. In 1914 General Louis Botha announced his intention to invade South West Africa, then referred to locally as German West Africa, as part of the assistance of Great Britain during the First World War. Koos de la Rey was amongst those opposed to it and travelled to a meeting in Potchefstroom, via a gathering at the farm, where he was to meet senior military officials.He was shot and killed at a police road-block near the farm. Official accounts of the incident vary, with some stating that de la Rey did not stop at the road-block, while others state that his vehicle was mistaken for one belonging to the Foster gang. The day after the funeral a meeting was held at the farm and tensions ran high as it was suspected that de la Rey had been killed deliberately. The farm belonged to <mask> <mask> Merwe who was then using the name <mask> Kraft. Records of her early life are not readily available but it is believed that she had either been divorced or widowed and was trying to eke out an existence on the farm with the help of her daughter, Polly and the black labourers. Several seasons of severe drought coupled with poor soil quality had resulted in her efforts being reduced to subsistence farming, which was further exacerbated by the common practice amongst the farm workers of being recalcitrant and not accepting instructions from women. Victim
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America who arrived in South Africa in 1887 at the age of twenty-five.He made his way to Johannesburg, which was a small but rapidly expanding mining town at that time, with the intention of selling general provisions to the gold mine workers and prospectors. Even as his business prospered he would still personally visit farms and smallholdings in the area to obtain fresh supplies and this was how the 54 year old Tumpowski met <mask> Kraft. Contract
Although Kraft had little to sell to Tumpowski, she engaged him in conversation and she asked him to find a manager to run the farm for her. He returned with the proposal that he would rent the farm for £25 a year while Kraft and her daughter could remain on the farm. She was very pleased with this idea and on 21 May 1914 she signed the lease-agreement that Tumpowski's lawyers had written, without reading the fine-print. As an added bonus for him, Tumpowski not only managed the farm but also "kept Dorethea's bed warm at night." The situation at the farm did not improve and Kraft decided that it would be better for her, and for her daughter, to sell the farm as the land prices had increased dramatically.She would be able to make a large enough profit for them to live on. Furthermore, Tumpowski did not seem inclined to marry her. However, on learning of Kraft's plan, Tumpowski showed her the contract she had signed that would allow him to buy the land at less than half of its value at that time. Kraft was angry that she had been cheated and more so at herself for not reading the fine-print. She decided to use "her feminine wiles" to convince Tumpowski to marry her and would then nullify the contract in their pre-nuptial agreement. Tumpowski saw no reason to marry her and refused. Witchdoctor
Kraft decided that she needed the assistance of a local witchdoctor, a coloured man named Jim Bird (sometimes referred to as 'Jim Burds' or
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lasted six weeks and the manual labour was performed by a small band of convicts.They found nothing and in desperation the police offered a reward of £100 for any information. The police investigation led to John Bird and on 20 August 1920 they interviewed him. It appears that his fear of the police was greater than his faith in his witchcraft as he quickly capitulated under police questioning and admitted his part in the murder. He identified the other parties involved but could not tell the police what had happened to the body as he had fled the scene earlier. Bird was forced to join the convicts in the search for the body. A torrential rainstorm caused the ground to subside at the burial site and on 22 September 1920 the body was located, by Bird, near the rubbish dump. Although badly decomposed, a signet ring was used to identify the body as that of Tumpowski.His boots were also identified by a local cobbler. <mask> Kraft (who had in the interim married a man named <mask> Merwe), Swartz and the three labourers were arrested for murder. Trial
The trial was held at Potchefstroom on 13 June 1921. As this was the first trial of a white women for murder the public galleries at the trial were very well attended. During the trial it was revealed that the cause of death was the fractured skull Tumpowski had suffered at the hands of Bird. Bird became a Crown witness in exchange for leniency. He claimed that Kraft had rewarded him with money and sexual favours for his participation in the murder.She did not deny this. Kraft and Swartz were both sentenced to death, while the three labourers were acquitted. They were both hanged at Pretoria Central Prison in 1921. See also
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Daisy de Melker - South Africa's first female serial killer
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<mask> (; born 20 April 1983) is a Swedish DJ and record producer. He is also a member of the Swedish House Mafia, together with friends Axwell and Steve Angello. Career
1999–2007: Career Beginnings
<mask> entered the music industry in 1999 releasing his first remix through Mega Records. Since then, he continued to release many remixes and singles. In 2003 <mask> founded his own record label – Refune Music. In later years <mask> found himself collaborating mostly with fellow Swedish DJs Axwell, Steve Angello, and Eric Prydz – these four to be dubbed the Swedish House Mafia. 2008–2013: Swedish House Mafia and solo breakthrough
2008–2010: Until One, Collaborations, and DJ Mag entry
In late 2008, <mask>, Steve Angello, and Axwell formed the Swedish House Mafia with Eric Prydz not joining, saying he is a control freak and cannot abide with collaborations even with close friends.Around this time Swedish House Mafia released two songs, "Get Dumb" and "Leave the World Behind", however these weren't credited under the group name. <mask> himself collaborated with David Guetta on the songs "Everytime We Touch" and "How Soon is Now" for Guetta's albums Pop Life and One Love respectively. In 2009 <mask> made his debut on the DJ Mag top 100 DJs, charting at number 25, the highest new entry that year. In 2010, he released his debut album with Swedish House Mafia named Until One. This followed the release of two success single "One (Your Name)" (featuring Pharrell Williams) and "Miami 2 Ibiza" (featuring Tinie Tempah). The album also contained solo work by <mask> such as the songs "Kidos" and "Meich", plus his remix of "Silvia" by Miike Snow. In addition,
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<mask> made his Tomorrowland debut with Swedish House Mafia and achieved his peaked positions on the DJ Mag poll at number 10 while Swedish House Mafia debuted at number 23.2011–2012: Until Now, and Breakthrough solo singles
In May 2011, <mask> began work on his second album with Swedish House Mafia with the release of the single Save the World featuring vocals from Swedish singer John Martin. In the summer Swedish House Mafia again performed at Tomorrowland and released two more songs in the winter named "Antidote" and "Greyhound". In early 2012 Ingrosso released one of his most notable solo tracks with Swedish DJ Alesso (who at the time had recently signed to Ingrosso's record label) and OneRepublic front man Ryan Tedder. The song named "Calling (Lose My Mind)" became a commercial success certifying 2× Platinum in Sweden. In July, Swedish House Mafia performed at Tomorrowland for the third consecutive year, this time heading the event and opening Night 2. In September following a successful summer of live performances, Swedish House Mafia released their most commercially successful track "Don't You Worry Child", again featuring the vocal of John Martin which reach number 1 in Sweden, Australia, and the UK and was a multiplatinum song in many countries. The same month <mask> released his collaboration with Tommy Trash entitled "Reload", this along with "Calling (Lose My Mind)" would feature on Swedish House Mafia's second studio/compilation album Until Now.2013: One Last Tour, and continued solo work
In November 2012, Swedish House Mafia kicked off their One Last Tour after its announcement in June of that year. The supergroup stated that the
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final leg of this tour would be their last and the group would split up after its conclusion at
Ultra Music Festival Miami 2013. At one of their last performances of the tour, at Madison Square Garden Ingrosso famously broke the sound barrier as he was drumming so quickly with his drumpad. Following the break up <mask> returned to his solo music and the song "Reload", adding in the vocals of favourite collaborator John Martin and renaming the song to "Reload (Take My Hand)". This allowed the song to become a commercial success certifying in Sweden and the UK and becoming a chart hit in many countries. In July, <mask> made his Tomorrowland debut as a solo artist, performing the main stage on Night 1. Despite the break up of the Swedish House Mafia, <mask> collaborated with Axwell on "Roar" for the Monsters University Soundtrack in early 2013.In October, Ingrosso made a new peak on the DJ Mag top 100 DJs achieving number 18. 2014–present: Axwell Λ Ingrosso
2014: X4 and Governors Ball
<mask>grosso joined forces with Axwell, debuting their new collective at the 2014 Governors Ball Music Festival in New York City – their new group named Axwell Λ Ingrosso, this followed the release of their debut EP X4. One of the songs from this EP, "We Come, We Rave, We Love", was the final version of a song started by Swedish House Mafia and was played frequently during their One Last Tour. A single, "Something New" was released from the EP in November of that year. 2015–2017: Single releases and solo work
In the early months of 2015 Ingrosso released his second and third single under the Axwell Λ Ingrosso collaboration entitled "On My Way" and "Can't Hold Us Down"
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respectively. In June, the duo released their fourth single named "Sun Is Shining". This song became number 1 in Sweden and was Ingrosso's (and Axwell's) first number 1 since "Don't You Worry Child".In July the duo headlined Tomorrowland closing Night Two. In November 2015 "This Time" was released under Axwell Λ Ingrosso and "Dream Bigger" on New Year's Eve. 2016 saw <mask>'s first releases as an individual since "Roar", releasing two songs, "FLAGS!" and "Dark River". The latter of the two would feature on Axwell Λ Ingrosso's debut album More Than You Know. Under Axwell Λ Ingrosso, new music saw vocals from Pharrell Williams added to "Dream Bigger" and the release of "Thinking About You". In February 2017 the duo released "I Love You" featuring Kid Ink.2017: More Than You Know
In early May 2017, <mask> released the first single from his second EP with Axwell under their collective entitled "Renegade" with the EP and its title song, "More Than You Know" being released in the latter parts of that month. The song was a commercial success, becoming a chart hit gaining certifications in many countries. In July, <mask> perform at Tomorrowland both as a solo artist (on the Refune stage) and under Axwell Λ Ingrosso (on the main stage) who was a headliner for the event. On 8 December 2017, the duo's debut album, More Than You Know, was released. The album contained all of their previously released music and their new single "Dreamer". 2018–present: Swedish House Mafia reunion and Axwell Λ Ingrosso hiatus
On the final weekend of March 2018, <mask> performed at Ultra Miami 2018 as Axwell Λ Ingrosso. The same festival also saw Ingrosso perform as Swedish
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House Mafia as the band reunited after a five-year hiatus on the festival's 20th anniversary.On 29 June, Axwell Λ Ingrosso released their first single since their debut studio album, More Than You Know, featuring British singer RØMANS called "Dancing Alone". A month later the duo performed at Tomorrowland 2018, in which they paid tribute to the late DJ Avicii as part of their set. In August 2018, Axwell Λ Ingrosso announced that they would be going on hiatus in order to focus on the Swedish House Mafia reunion and 2019 tour. For currently unknown reasons, Ingrosso cancelled a performance at Wynn Nightclub in Las Vegas. Personal life
Born in Nacka, Ingrosso is of Italian, Tunisian, and Swedish descent and grew up in Stockholm, where he spent his teenage years in his choreographer father Vito <mask>'s studio learning how to make music. He is a cousin of musician <mask> and social influencer <mask>. In addition, he is a childhood friend of fellow Swedish House Mafia member Steve Angello, meeting at age six.In 2011, Ingrosso married the singer and songwriter Kinnda. They have two daughters, Melina Ingrosso and <mask>. Discography
Awards and nominations
DJ Awards
DJ Magazine top 100 DJs
Grammy Awards
International Dance Music Awards
YouTube Creator Awards
<mask> (181 thousand subscribers – May 2020)
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Swedish popular music
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Club DJs
Living people
Swedish people of Italian descent
Swedish people of Tunisian descent
Swedish house musicians
Swedish record producers
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<mask> (born 13 August 1986) is a British female mixed martial artist currently signed to Bellator MMA, where she has challenged for the promotion's flyweight championship. <mask> also appeared on The Ultimate Fighter 23, losing to eventual TUF 23 winner Tatiana Suarez. Background
Having done karate since 2001 and judo from 2002 since the age of 15, <mask> kept going with whatever martial arts she could find at university, be it traditional jiujitsu, kickboxing and occasional BJJ classes. She found an MMA gym, Koncept in Newquay Cornwall in 2008 and that’s when her interest and future career in MMA started. Mixed martial arts career
Early career
<mask> made her MMA debut on 10 May 2009, earning a TKO victory over <mask>. She would win four of her first five professional fights, before suffering her second career loss against future UFC women's strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk. The Ultimate Fighter 23
Competing at strawweight, <mask> appeared on the 23rd season of The Ultimate Fighter in 2016, where she was a member of Team Gadelha, coached by Claudia Gadelha.In an interesting coincidence, the coach of the opposing team was Joanna Jedrzejczyk, against whom <mask> had previously competed. <mask> defeated Irene Cabello by TKO to gain entry into the TUF house. She defeated Ashley Yoder via unanimous decision to advance to the semifinal round. There, <mask> was defeated by Tatiana Suarez by submission. Bellator MMA
Following her stint on The Ultimate Fighter 23, <mask> returned to the regional scene in her native England for a single fight before being signed by Bellator MMA in 2017 to compete in their women's flyweight division. She won her promotional debut at Bellator 182, defeating Colleen Schneider. In her second
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fight for the promotion, <mask> faced Valerie Letourneau at Bellator 191 in December 2017.She lost the fight by unanimous decision. In her third fight for the promotion, <mask> faced undefeated Russian prospect Anastasia Yankova at Bellator 200 on 25 May 2018. She won the fight via unanimous decision. <mask> next fought Lena Ovchynnikova at Bellator 223 on 22 June 2019. She won the fight by TKO in the first round. On the strength of her two fight win streak, <mask> was selected as the next title challenger for the Bellator Women's Flyweight World Championship against champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane. The fight was the main event of Bellator 236 in Honolulu, Hawaii on 21 December 2019.<mask> lost the fight via unanimous decision. <mask> faced Denise Kielholtz at Bellator 247 on 1 October 2020. She lost the bout via knockout just 43 seconds into the first round. <mask> is scheduled to face Elina Kallionidou on May 13, 2022 at Bellator London. Team Cláudia
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List of current Bellator fighters
List of female mixed martial artists
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Flyweight mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing kickboxing
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<mask> (born March 20, 1953) is an American politician serving in the California State Senate. A Democrat, she represents the 24th State Senate district, which encompasses Central Los Angeles and East Los Angeles. Prior to being elected to the State Senate, she was an American trade union official. She served as the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor from May 2006 until December 2014. She currently serves as the Executive Vice President of the governing Executive Council of the national AFL-CIO and as a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. Biography
Early career
Like many others who have come to play a role of the labor movement in California, Durazo got her start amongst farmworkers. As the daughter of Mexican immigrants, she spent summers in the Central Valley fields picking peaches, strawberries, and grapes.Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farmworkers of America, inspired her to get involved in the fight for equal rights. Durazo attended St. Mary's College in Moraga, California and graduated in 1975. In 1985, she earned a law degree from the Peoples College of Law in Los Angeles, before beginning her involvement in the labor movement as an organizer for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. In 1983, she joined the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) Local 11. In 1987, Durazo led a reform slate against the entrenched local leadership of Andrew (Scotty) Allen whose administration had resisted efforts of immigrant workers to participate in local governance. Durazo appeared to have the upper hand, but the election was set aside by the international union, and the local was placed in a trusteeship led by Miguel Contreras. In 1988, she married fellow union
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activist Miguel Contreras whom she met while at HERE Local 11.Soon thereafter, in May 1989, <mask> ran for and was elected President of Local 11. She served in that capacity from 1989 to 2006. Years later, <mask> won the local presidency with 85% of the vote becoming one of the first Latinas to lead a major union. From May 1989 until March 2006, Durazo served as the president of Local 11. In 1993, during the union's campaign against the New Otani Hotel, (the first hotel to be built non-union in downtown Los Angeles) Durazo led workers on civil disobedience protests. Her participation in the sit-in protest led to her being arrested along with several other New Otani workers, many of whom were dragged away by police officers. She was later elected onto the executive board of HERE International Union in 1996, and in 2004 was elected Executive Vice President of UNITE-HERE International.From 2000 to 2004, she served on the National AFL-CIO's Immigration Committee and is now the current Chair of the committee. In 2003, Durazo became the National Director of the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride. Executive Secretary-Treasurer
In 2005 she became the widow of Miguel Contreras, who preceded Ludlow as the executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor represents 600,000 workers, and it reached the climax of its influence under Durazo, its first women leader. Durazo helped land allies on the Los Angeles City Council and county Board of Supervisors and recently pushed through a minimum wage law requiring large Los Angeles hotels to pay workers at least $15.37 an hour one of the nations highest base wages. <mask> was appointed as the interim Executive Secretary-Treasurer following
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the resignation of Martin Ludlow in February 2006, and was voted as the permanent replacement on May 15, 2006. On August 4, 2010, she was reelected as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO.In October 2014, <mask> left the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor to take a national union job promoting civil rights and campaigning for immigration reform. With her lead, the Los Angeles labor movement has indeed been a powerful voice and effective force for working families, she was active in elections and policy debates as well as at the workplace. On January 15, 2008 <mask> endorsed Barack Obama for president, and took a three-week leave of absence from her job as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor in order to campaign for Obama. She then became a national co-chair of the Obama for President campaign committee, and was a pledged delegate for Obama at the National Convention in Denver. She served as Vice Chair on the 2008 Democratic National Convention Committee. On August 11, 2008, <mask> was elected to serve as the new chair of the UCLA Labor Center advisory committee. The vote was by acclamation.In 2010, <mask> was elected onto the national AFL-CIO Executive Council as an Executive Vice President. She was elected as a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2013. California State Senate
On April 6, 2017, <mask> announced that she intended to run for the 24th district of the California State Senate in 2018, when the incumbent, Kevin de León was termed out. In her announcement, she stated that Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential elections was her main motivation for running for public office. Honors
Capitol Weekly named <mask> the third most influential non-elected California
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official in its 2010 Top 100 List. <mask> was named Most Valuable Local Labor Leader by The Nation magazine in their 2014 Progressive Honor Roll. Durazo was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the California State University Board of Trustees."We are very proud to award <mask> Durazo the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters for 2014. Her significant impacts on the quality of life in this region demonstrate what can be achieved through dedication, hard work, and a commitment to community," said President William A. Covino. The New York Times acknowledged that "as the executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, she presides over what is widely perceived as the most successful group of unions in the country." The Los Angeles Times' featured stories reporter Joe Mozingo wrote that "<mask> Durazo is probably the single most influential individual in Los Angeles politics." CNN's top news anchor in the Spanish language, Ismael Cala, stated on-air that "We are proud that a woman who has had on her life story the opportunity to see from the field the issue of immigrants' rights has become a voice for so many who cannot raise their own voices." Footnotes
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<mask> <mask> at the Center for Labor Research and Education at UCLA
Join California <mask> Durazo
California state senators
Leaders of American trade unions
Living people
California Democrats
Saint Mary's College of California alumni
People's College of Law alumni
Activists from California
1953 births
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<mask> (; born June 6, 1967) is an American actor and producer. He first garnered attention for his breakout role in Private Parts (1997) as Kenny "Pig Vomit" Rushton, which led to him playing more supporting roles such as Sergeant William Hill in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Bob Zmuda in Man on the Moon (1999), John Maxwell in Big Momma's House (2000), and Marty Wolf in Big Fat Liar (2002). He won acclaim for his leading roles as Harvey Pekar in American Splendor (2003), Miles Raymond in Sideways (2004), Mike Flaherty in Win Win (2011), and Richard in Private Life (2018), while continuing to play supporting roles such as Joe Gould in Cinderella Man (2005), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Chief Inspector Uhl in The Illusionist (2006), Karl Hertz in Shoot 'Em Up (2007), Nicholas "Nick" Claus in Fred Claus (2007), Tom Duffy in (2011), Theophilus Freeman in 12 Years a Slave (2013), Ralph in Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Eugene Landy in Love & Mercy (2014), Dr. Lawrence Hayes in San Andreas (2015) and Jerry Heller in Straight Outta Compton (2015). He played the titular character in the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008), which earned him a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. He stars as U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades Jr. in the Showtime television series Billions (2016–present). Early life
<mask> was born June 6, 1967, in New Haven, Connecticut, the youngest of three children. His father, Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, was a Yale University professor who later became president of the university and commissioner of Major League Baseball.His mother, Toni Marilyn <mask> (née Smith), was a homemaker and English teacher who
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taught at Hopkins School and had also previously acted. His paternal grandfather's family were Italian emigrants from Telese Terme; the family surname was originally spelled "Giammattei" () before immigrating to the United States. Giamatti's other ancestries are German, Dutch, English, French, Irish, and Scottish. His paternal grandmother had deep roots in New England, dating back to the colonial era. <mask>'s brother, Marcus, is also an actor, and his sister, Elena, is a jewelry designer. Giamatti was first educated at The Foote School and later graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1985. He attended Yale, where he was active in the undergraduate theater scene and working with fellow actors and Yale students Ron Livingston and Edward Norton.He graduated in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in English, and went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama, where he studied with Earle R. Gister. He performed in numerous theatrical productions, including Broadway and a stint from 1989 to 1992 with Seattle's Annex Theater, before appearing in some small television and film roles in the early 1990s. Career
In 1997, Giamatti landed his first high-profile role as Kenny "Pig Vomit" Rushton in the film adaptation of Howard Stern's Private Parts. Stern praised Giamatti's performance often on his radio program, calling for him to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1998, Giamatti appeared in a number of supporting roles in the big-budget films, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan and The Negotiator. In 1999, he played Bob Zmuda and Tony Clifton in Miloš Forman's Andy Kaufman biopic, Man on the Moon. Giamatti continued working steadily during
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<mask> (born 25 June 1973) is a Portuguese singer. Biography
Early life
<mask> was born in Porto, and is an only child. He enrolled at the French school of Porto when he was 5. His family moved to Belgium when he was 12. As a sport fanatic, he took a training in sports. In 1985, he was admitted into the European School of Brussels. He took part in tournaments, especially the Espérance tennis tournament.Between 1993 and 1996, he attended the Physical Education School where he took a teacher training course for regents. He then decided to attempt a musical career. He formed many hard-rock bands. He takes part in Pour la Gloire, a talent contest on the RTBF in 1997. In 1998, Alec Mansion formed a band, La Teuf, in which <mask> sang in. In 2000, the band was part of the Belgian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Soldat de l’amour. He got through to the finals, but he was eliminated and the band split the same year.Alec Mansion noticed the beauty of his voice and hired him for different projects and chorus sessions in Belgium. In 1999, the singer played the part of Gontrand in the musical La Belle et la Bête, with Luc de Walter (The Voice, Belgium). The same year, <mask> got into the band Apy and recorded a rerun of Lio’s Banana Split. From musicals to Eurovision (2000–08)
In 2000, under the pseudonym of <mask>, he sings Allez, allez, allez, the official song of the Belgian football team nicknamed Les Diables rouges. From 2000 to the end of 2002, <mask> Resende is an understudy in Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour, by Gérard Presgurvic. The cast wins the NRJ Music Award of the Francophone song in 2001. In 2003, he takes part in the musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.Composed by Alec Mansion and Frédéric
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Zeitoun, Le grand soir (The Big Night) is the song he defends at the Eurovision Contest in 2005, for Belgium. He does not get through to the finals, with only 29 points, and ends 22nd out of 25 contestants at the semi-finals. In 2007, he plays the leading part in the musical Aladin, with Florence Coste, at the Palais des congrès de Paris and then in the French Zéniths. <mask> is nominated to the Marius for his performance. From September 2008 to January 2009 he plays the parts of Roger and Dany in the musical Grease in Paris. The production is nominated to the Globes de Cristal Award in 2009. Mozart l’opéra rock and Adam et Eve, la seconde chance (2009–2012)
At the beginning of 2009, he gets back with the cast of Roméo et Juliette, les enfants de Vérone; for a tour in South Korea where he is the understudy of both Roméo and Benvolio.Then he tours with the musical Aladin in the French Zeniths until May 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he enters into the troupe of Mozart, l'opéra rock as the understudy of Mikelangelo Loconte. He interprets also the parts of Gottlieb Stéphanie and Joseph Lange. He was given the opportunity to play Mozart for the first time on 29 April 2010 for the show premiere in Brussels (Belgium), and once again on 13 May in Lyon (France). The show wins two NRJ Music Awards : the Francophone song of the year and the French band-duet-cast of 2010. In 2012, he plays the part of Snake, in the musical Adam et Ève : La Seconde Chance by Pascal Obispo at the Palais des sports de Paris along with Thierry Amiel and Cylia, the major actors in the show. The tour which should have started in September 2012 is cancelled, for lack of money.In October 2012, he joins the troupe of the musical Erzsebeth which inspired from Elizabeth Bathory’s
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life, the famous Hungarian countess. <mask> plays the part of Thurzo, Elizabeth's lover. The musical took place in Belgium. From The Voice to Latin lovers (2013–14)
<mask> is in the second season of The Voice (France). He gets into Florent Pagny’s team and gets through to the finals. He finishes third, behind Olympe and the winner Yoann Fréget. He is one of the eight contestants qualified for The Voice Tour which plays in the French Zeniths and in Lebanon.During the summer, he is invited in various festivals and among others, Festival d'Avignon, where he sings some French and international standards. He released a DVD from his concerts called Interlude Musical. From October to January 2014, he played the part of Maître Grigri, a.k.a. Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio in Paris with, among others Vanessa Cailhol, Pablo Villafranca and Sophie Delmas. Couper les Liens, one of the songs he sings is nominated for the French Prix de la Création musicale in 2014. In 2014, he joins the band Latin Lovers with Julio Iglesias Jr. and Damien Sargue. In October, he plays the role of the Idole in Salut les copains.Charity involvement
<mask> Resende takes regularly part in charity concerts. In 2012, he sings at the Foot Concert, created by Michaël Jones and Joël Bats, in aid of the Huntington Avenir Association. In 2013, he is also on stage with Yannick Noah and they sing for the association Les Enfants de la Terre. He takes part to the concert Freddie for a Day organized by the Mercury Phoenix Trust which collects funds for the associations against AIDS. He joins the band of artists of Les grandes voix des Comédies Musicales chantent pour les enfants hospitalisés with, among others, Renaud Hantson, Mikelangelo Loconte and Lââm for the single Un faux
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<mask> (born December 28, 1979) is an American former professional tennis player. He was known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. During his career, <mask> amassed 24 singles finals appearances (winning 10 of them), while his career-high singles ranking was world No. 4. His career highlights included reaching the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, the semifinals of the 2008 Beijing Olympics (upsetting world No. 1 Roger Federer en route), the quarterfinals of the 2008 Australian Open and 2005 and 2006 US Open, as well as two titles at the Hopman Cup (2003, 2004) and being the American men's singles No. 1.<mask> was a key performer for the victorious United States 2007 Davis Cup team, going 2–0 in the championship tie vs. Russia at second singles. In 2005, <mask> was presented with the Comeback Player of the Year award for his remarkable return to the tour. Later, in 2008, <mask> was awarded another honor by the ATP, where he was named the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year. <mask>'s autobiography, Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life, co-written with Andrew Friedman, discussed his comeback after his 2004 season. It was released on July 3. 2007, and debuted at No. 22 on the New York Times Best Seller list.<mask> announced that he would retire from professional tennis after the 2013 US Open, where he suffered a first round singles loss in five sets against Ivo Karlovic and a 6–2, 2–6, 2–6 doubles loss. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Yonkers, New York, to an African American father, Thomas Reynolds <mask>, and a British mother, Betty. He has a brother Thomas, who has also been a professional tennis
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player, and three older half-brothers: Jason, Christopher, and Howard, and a half-sister Michelle. <mask> started playing tennis at the age of five alongside his older brother Thomas. When he was 13, he was diagnosed with severe scoliosis, and for five years as a teenager he was forced to wear a full-length back brace for 18 hours a day, though not while playing tennis. The <mask> family moved to Fairfield, Connecticut when <mask>'s father's job selling surgical supplies took him from New York to Hartford, Connecticut. <mask> attended Fairfield High School, where a schoolmate and childhood friend was future musician John Mayer.<mask> was inspired to pursue tennis after hearing his role model Arthur Ashe speak to the Harlem Junior Tennis Program. Brian Barker was his first (and longtime) coach. <mask> left Harvard University, where he was a member of the A.D. Club, after his sophomore year to pursue a career in professional tennis. Career
2001–2004: Making name and breaking neck
2001
At the age of 21, <mask> saw his first Davis Cup action in 2001 against India and became the third person of African-American heritage to play for the Davis Cup for the United States (after Arthur Ashe and MaliVai Washington). Ranked no. 120 in the world, <mask> accepted a wild card into Cincinnati Masters. He beat a qualifier and Arnaud Clément to reach the round of 16, where he met Patrick Rafter.<mask> came close to winning the first set (falling in a tiebreak), and after dropping the second set, Rafter, according to <mask>'s autobiography, complimented him at the net and boosted his confidence immeasurably by saying, "Now do you believe you can beat someone
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like me, or even me?" <mask>'s name became more recognizable worldwide after he pushed the eventual champion Lleyton Hewitt to five sets at the US Open. 2002
In January 2002, <mask> won the 2002 USTA Waikoloa Challenger in Hawaii. A month later in Memphis he posted his first win over a top-10 ranked opponent, Tommy Haas, who was then ranked no. 5, and reached the final, losing to Andy Roddick. He reached the quarterfinals at the ATP Masters Series (AMS) event in Rome in May and the final at Newport in July. In August, in Cincinnati, he won his first career ATP Tour title and his first ATP Masters Series title: it came in doubles with Todd Martin, making <mask> the first African-American male to win a title of any kind in Cincinnati's 101-year history.He was also the first African-American to reach a final in Cincinnati since 1969, when Arthur Ashe reached the doubles finals with Charlie Pasarell. The next week in Washington, he won his first ATP Tour singles title, beating Andre Agassi in the semifinals and Paradorn Srichaphan in the final. At the US Open, he reached the third round, where he again faced the top-ranked and world number one Lleyton Hewitt for the rematch of the previous year. In an entertaining match <mask> was again defeated in five sets. 2003
In 2003, his best results were a quarterfinals appearance at Indian Wells; a round of 16 finish at the Australian Open, Cincinnati, and Miami; a semifinal appearance at San Jose, and a finals appearance at Long Island, where he lost to Srichaphan. <mask> was eliminated from the US Open in the 3rd round by Roger Federer. 2004
2004 was a difficult year for <mask>.In May, while practicing
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with Robby Ginepri for the Masters event in Rome, he broke his neck when he slipped on the clay and collided with the net post. <mask> fractured his seventh vertebra, but did not sustain any nerve damage and was ultimately able to make a full recovery from the injury. In July, his father died of stomach cancer. At the same time, <mask> developed shingles, which temporarily paralyzed half his face and blurred his vision. 2005–2008: Rising to the elite and Top 10 years
2005
<mask>'s injuries and personal issues caused him to post relatively poor results for the first half of 2005. By April his ranking was 210. He decided to play the Challenger circuit, the "minor leagues" of tennis, in order to regain confidence and get more matches.In May he entered events in Tunica, Mississippi and Forest Hills, New York, and won both. He rejoined the ATP circuit and by August reached the final at the International Series event in Washington, D.C., where he fell to Roddick. He was given a wild card into AMS Cincinnati, drawing Federer in the first round. He then won the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament in New Haven, Connecticut, defeating Feliciano López in the final. After New Haven he was ranked 49. <mask> accepted a wildcard into the US Open where he had a memorable run. After defeating No.2 Rafael Nadal in the round of 32, <mask> beat Tommy Robredo in four sets to reach the quarterfinals where he faced Andre Agassi. The late-evening match is considered one of the greatest classics in the tournament's history. <mask> was up two sets and a break in the third when Agassi made a comeback to eventually win in a fifth-set tiebreak. After the match Agassi said, "I
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wasn't the winner, tennis was". Later in October at the Stockholm Open, <mask> won his third ATP tour title, defeating Srichaphan in the final. <mask> finished 2005 ranked 22 in the world. 2006
At the beginning of 2006, <mask> won the title at Sydney, taking his fourth ATP tour title defeating Russian Igor Andreev in the final.At the Australian Open he was seeded 20th, and despite losing in the third round to Spaniard Tommy Robredo he broke into the Top 20 for the first time in his career. In March he beat Hewitt in the final at Las Vegas for his fifth ATP tour title. At the first AMS event of the year Indian Wells, <mask> defeated Robredo in the third round and world No. 2 Nadal in the semifinals, reaching his first career ATP Masters Series singles final, losing in the final to Federer. By reaching the final, <mask> became the first African-American man since Arthur Ashe to reach the world's top 10. At the French Open he defeated Spaniard Nicolás Almagro in four sets in the second round, to become the last remaining American, and then was beaten by Frenchman Gaël Monfils in five sets. Beginning the grass court season at the Stella Artois Championships, he defeated Andy Roddick in the semifinals, losing to Lleyton Hewitt in the final.Ranked No. 5, <mask> took part in the International Series at Indianapolis. He won the singles title, defeating Roddick (for the second time in 2006). At the US Open he reached the quarterfinals, losing to top seed and defending champion Roger Federer. In that match <mask> won his first ever set against Federer, winning the third set in a tiebreaker 11–9. In his debut appearance at the Thailand Open in Bangkok,
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<mask> won his seventh singles title, defeating Jarkko Nieminen in the quarterfinals, Marat Safin in the semifinals, and Ivan Ljubičić (for the first time) in the final. Two weeks later <mask> won his fifth title of 2006, defending his 2005 title in Stockholm, defeating Jarkko Nieminen.For the first time, <mask> qualified for the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai. He went 2–1 in the Gold Group, defeating No. 2 Nadal and No. 3 Nikolay Davydenko, while losing to No. 6 Tommy Robredo. He qualified for the semifinals, beating defending champion David Nalbandian, losing the final to Federer. <mask> finished 2006 at a career-high World Number 4 and as the highest-ranked American tennis player.2007
In 2007 <mask> won at the Sydney International for the second consecutive year. However, he then suffered a disappointing loss in the Round of 16 at the Australian Open, losing to tenth seed and eventual finalist Fernando González. In February, <mask> made it to the final of the Delray Beach tournament, but lost it to the Belgian Xavier Malisse in three tight sets. At the 2007 Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas, as the defending champion, he was involved with a deep controversy. It was one of the several tournaments experimenting with the new round robin format, and <mask> had lost his first match to Evgeny Korolev. Korolev lost his other match to Juan Martín del Potro. In order to advance to the quarterfinals, <mask> had to defeat Del Potro in straight sets while losing five games or less.This would result in a three-way tie, with <mask> losing the fewest games. With <mask> leading 6–1, 3–1, Del Potro retired. This eliminated Del Potro from the three-way tie as
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he failed to complete one of his matches. Korolev then moved on to the next round, breaking the tie as he had defeated <mask> in their direct match. Soon after, the organizers overruled the tournament guidelines, giving <mask> a place in the quarterfinals. The following morning however, they changed the decision once again and as a result, Korolev re-advanced to the quarterfinals, while <mask> was sent away from the tournament. Shortly after this incident, the ATP decided to cancel the round robin format, reverting any tournaments planning a round robin draw to the standard single-elimination draw.During the summer hardcourt season, he advanced to his second career ATP Masters Series final. At AMS Cincinnati, he beat Alejandro Falla, Nicolas Kiefer, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Sam Querrey and Nikolay Davydenko en route to the final before falling to Roger Federer. He won the singles title at Penn Pilot in New Haven, Connecticut, and reached the final at Los Angeles, losing to Radek Štěpánek in three sets after having three set points in the first set. In the second round of the 2007 US Open, he won his first career five-set match against Fabrice Santoro. <mask> made it to the fourth round, where he lost to No. 10 Tommy Haas in five sets, despite having match points in the fifth set. In September <mask> and the rest of the US Davis Cup team defeated Sweden to reach the finals against Russia.<mask> lost in the third round of Paris to Richard Gasquet and thus finished outside the top eight players, losing his chance to defend the points he gained as finalist in the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup. In the 2007 Davis Cup finals <mask> won his match against Mikhail
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Youzhny after Andy Roddick had beaten Dmitry Tursunov in the first rubber. The next day Bob and Mike Bryan won the doubles rubber over Igor Andreev and Nikolay Davydenko, sealing the Davis Cup win for the United States. <mask> also defeated Tursunov in the last match of the finals to give Team USA 4–1 win. 2008
At the Australian Open, <mask> defeated his first round opponent, Chilean Nicolás Massú. He then defeated compatriot Michael Russell. In the third round, he fought back from two sets down to beat French veteran Sébastien Grosjean who had beaten him in each of their three previous meetings.In the fourth round, <mask> beat Marin Čilić in three sets to advance to the quarterfinals, his best showing yet down under. In the quarterfinal, <mask> faced world No. 1 Roger Federer, and fell in straight sets. Although out of the Australian Open, <mask>'s ranking jumped back into the Top 10 to No. 9 following his best performance in the tournament yet. In Delray Beach, <mask> made it to the final for the second consecutive year, but fell to No. 244 Kei Nishikori of Japan in three sets in the final.At the 2008 Pacific Life Open, <mask> reached the quarter-finals before losing to Rafael Nadal in three sets. They met again in the next tournament at the 2008 Miami Masters also in the quarter-finals, and again <mask> lost to Nadal in three sets. <mask> then started the clay court season at the River Oaks International tournament in Houston, Texas. In his second ATP final of the year and his first career clay-court final, <mask> fell to Spaniard Marcel Granollers Pujol. In August 2008, <mask> represented the United States as one of its three men's singles
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tennis players in the Beijing Olympics. In the quarterfinals, he gained one of the biggest wins of his career with his first ever win over Roger Federer 6–4, 7–6. At the time, Federer was ranked as the world's No.1 men's player. His semifinal match was against Fernando González, the Men's Singles bronze medalist at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. <mask> had a triple match point in the final set, but would go on to lose 11–9. He then lost the bronze medal match to Serbian Novak Djokovic. In the US Open, <mask> was stretched to a 5 set thriller against American teenager Donald Young in the first round. <mask> easily won his second round match after Steve Darcis retired and then lost to friend and fellow American Mardy Fish in the third round in straight sets. 2009–2013: Later years
2009
<mask> defeated Frank Dancevic in the first round of the Australian Open.His success continued in the second round after deposing of Frenchman Sébastien de Chaunac in a match laden with spectator noise and bad line calls. <mask> went on to face the 18th seed, Igor Andreev, in the third round and beat him. He lost in the fourth round in straight sets to the 2008 runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. At the 2009 Estoril Open <mask> advanced to his first clay-court final on European soil, after beating second seed and former Estoril Open champion Nikolay Davydenko in a rain-interrupted semi-final that was carried over due to bad light. <mask> was defeated by Spain's Albert Montañés later that day in the finals. The 28-year-old Montanes saved two match points at 4–5 in the second set and fought back to beat fourth-seeded <mask> in two hours and 14 minutes. At the Aegon
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Championships at Queen's Club, <mask> defeated Ivan Ljubičić, Sam Querrey, and Mikhail Youzhny to reach the semi-finals.He then reached the final after Andy Roddick retired with an ankle injury in the first set when the score was tied at 4 games all. He then went on to lose in the final to Andy Murray. After being eliminated in the first round of the singles, <mask> partnered with compatriot Mardy Fish at the Wimbledon Men's Doubles. The Americans advanced to the semi-finals where they lost to defending champions Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić despite winning the first two sets. Following a 3rd round loss at the 2009 US Open to Spain's Tommy Robredo, <mask> split with longtime coach Brian Barker. He was replaced by Kelly Jones. 2010
At the 2010 Australian Open, <mask> lost to fourth seed and US Open champion Juan Martín del Potro in the second round in five sets (8–10 final set).He then missed the clay court season due to a knee injury. <mask> returned to action at Wimbledon, where he lost in the first round to Robin Haase, during which <mask> accused ESPN commentator and former WTA player Pam Shriver of disrupting play due to her overly loud commentary from the box situated above the court behind him. This led to a verbal exchange between the two during the match. After the match, <mask> declared that if his knee problems did not subside he would consider retirement. <mask>, who refused to take any anti-inflammatories for his knee, called his performance "embarrassing" and said "I can't beat these guys at 80 percent." Despite these comments, <mask> played the US Summer hard court season, and reached the third round of the 2010 US Open, where
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he lost to eventual finalist Novak Djokovic. <mask> finished the year ranked outside the Top 100 for the first time since 2000.2011-2013
Between the beginning of 2011-2013, <mask> remained ranked outside the world's top 50, due to recurring injuries and loss of form. During the three seasons, he reached a single ATP-tour semifinal, at the 2011 Stockholm Open. At the US Open in August 2013, <mask> announced his retirement. Playing style
<mask> was primarily an offensive baseliner. <mask> was known for possessing one of the most powerful forehands in the game, with a solid transition game, and an effective serve and volley. <mask> also possessed extremely quick footwork, although many claimed that he needed to work on changing direction. <mask>'s reputation as a "shotmaker," combined with potentially high-error flat groundstrokes made his style of play notably flashy, characterized by both a high number of winners and unforced errors.In turn, this made <mask>'s game somewhat streaky, as evidenced by his playing history. Equipment and endorsements
<mask> worked with Prince to create a new racquet with Prince's O3 technology. However, he did not feel comfortable with this racquet. So, he switched back to the Dunlop Sport Aerogel 200, then the 4D 200, for the 2009 season. He changed to Wilson at the start of the 2010 season, using the new Six.One Tour strung with Luxilon Big Banger Alu Power 16L strings at high tension (60+ pounds). He did not feel comfortable with this racquet either. Therefore, he switched back to Dunlop again.After the US Open of 2010, he began to test out rackets for Head. As August 26, 2011, he announced he will use Donnay
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rackets as his choice and using a customized Donnay X-Dual Pro. His clothing sponsor is Fila, with whom he started working in 2009 after using Nike for most his career. He has his own clothing line named Thomas Reynolds Collection after his father. <mask> signed an endorsement deal with Evian in 2005 and his contract was extended in 2008. Personal life
<mask> married publicist Emily Snider in Del Mar, California, in 2012. The couple have two daughters.<mask> enjoys golf and basketball, and is a fan of the New York Mets. He was featured on Bravo's second edition of Celebrity Poker Showdown but placed 2nd after losing to Maura Tierney. <mask> was also a red pro on Full Tilt Poker, though he has not been active there since shortly before Black Friday. He appeared in People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue. He is good friends with singer/songwriter John Mayer, who also attended Fairfield High School. When <mask> was invited by Virginia's Anthem to do a cancer charity game honoring his late father, he invited Mayer, Andy Roddick, and Gavin DeGraw to perform. 2015 NYPD incident
On September 9, 2015, <mask> was thrown down to the sidewalk, handcuffed, and arrested by a plainclothes New York City Police Department officer in front of the Grand Hyatt New York after being mistaken for a suspect of interest.The officers were relying on a witness and photo of a suspect that looked similar to <mask>: they mistook him for a credit-card fraud suspect staying in the same hotel. Commissioner William Bratton apologized for the mistake and stated the "arrest raised serious questions about [the officer's] actions" but denied allegations of racism. <mask> sued,
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but withdrew his claim, saying he wasn't looking for financial compensation, "on the condition that the city establish a legal fellowship to investigate police misconduct and advocate for victims of brutality". The violence of the arrest has prompted <mask> to take a more active stand on police brutality against minorities. He has requested a meeting with Bratton and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. He has also written a book, Ways of Grace: Stories of Activism, Adversity, and How Sports Can Bring Us Together, published in June 2017 that details the incident and his shift to activism as a result. <mask> was subsequently sued for defamation by the officer that had mistakenly arrested <mask> as the book portrayed the officer "as a racist and a goon".The lawsuit was dismissed by a judge in September 2018. Philanthropy
In 2008 <mask> established The James Blake Foundation, which "invests vital seed money at the leading-edge of science: speed up the most promising work, and shortening the time it takes to turn lab discoveries into better treatments for patients." Since 2005, he has hosted Anthem Live!, a charity tennis exhibition and musical event in Virginia and New York City to raise money for cancer research. In July 2008, <mask> established the <mask>, Sr. Memorial Research Fund to support cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The fund was named in memory of his father, who died from gastric cancer in 2004. Nike and Fila, which sponsored <mask>, created T-shirts for <mask>'s charity, the J-Block program, and proceeds went to the Cancer Research Fund. As of 2019, the most recent year for which IRS data has been published,
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Charity Navigator, which evaluates charities, gives the Blake Foundation a failing Encompass Rating Score of 15 out of 100.Significant finals
Olympic Games
Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Year-end championships finals
Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Masters 1000 finals
Singles: 2 (2 runners-up)
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
ATP career finals
Singles: 24 (10 titles, 14 runners-up)
Doubles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runners-up)
Team tournaments: 3 (3–0)
Performance timelines
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References
Further reading
<mask>, <mask>; Friedman, Andrew L. (2007). Breaking back : How I lost everything and won back my life. New York: Harper Collins. External links
<mask> official website
1979 births
Living people
African-American male tennis players
American male tennis players
American people of English descent
Harvard Crimson men's tennis players
Olympic tennis players of the United States
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Sportspeople from Yonkers, New York
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Tennis players from Tampa, Florida
Tennis people from New York (state)
Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Hopman Cup competitors
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<mask> (15 February 1931 – 13 June 2008) was a South African ballet dancer who became well known in Britain as a ballerina of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet and as a soloist with the Royal Ballet. Early life and training
<mask> was born as Patricia Mills in Zululand, a district of Natal province (now KwaZulu-Natal) on the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa. When she was about 13 years old, in 1944, her family took her to Johannesburg, in the northern province of Transvaal (now Gauteng). There she studied with the best ballet teachers in the city, including Marjorie Sturman, a specialist in the Cecchetti method, and Reina Berman, who had been trained by Cecchetti principles before switching to the syllabus of the Royal Academy of Dancing (RAD). In 1946, soon after World War II had ended and peace had returned to Europe, Mills left South Africa and emigrated to the UK, having won an RAD scholarship to attend the Sadler's Wells Ballet School in London. After only a year's tuition there, she was taken into the corps of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. It was at this point that she adopted her professional name.The company then included a South African dancer named Patricia Miller, so a name change from Patricia Mills was essential: <mask> <mask>, distinctively spelled, was her choice. Professional career
The Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet was then a small, young troupe founded by Ninette de Valois to nurture dancers and choreographers after the
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parent company, the Sadler's Wells Ballet, became resident at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Owing to the need to replenish the depleted roster of leading dancers, <mask> rose rapidly through the ranks. By 1948, at age 17, she had been named a principal dancer and was appearing in prominent roles in works by de Valois and Frederick Ashton, the chief choreographer of the company. Petite, with dark hair, a pretty, oval face, and ideal proportions, she possessed a vivid personality, a firm technique, and an innate musicality. De Valois considered her the type of dancer that was most valuable of all: not a great star but a repertory dancer capable of demi-caractère and dramatic work as well as the purely classical. Throughout her career, <mask> was admired for her musicality, attack, and sheer domination of the stage.In repertory works, she displayed great charm in such lighthearted roles as Swanilda in Coppélia, Lise in Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée, and the title characters in John Cranko's Pineapple Poll and Léonide Massine's Mam'zelle Angot, but she was also effective as the vapid Ballerina in Michel Fokine's Petrushka, as the Betrayed Girl in de Valois's The Rake's Progress, and as the adulterous, runaway Bride in Alfred Rodrigues's Blood Wedding. She was praised for her execution of the notoriously demanding and often unrewarding fairy variations in the prologue to The Sleeping Beauty as well as for her performance as the Princess Aurora,
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the title role. Her greatest contribution at the time, however, was the part she played in the creation of new ballets, in particular those of the young Kenneth MacMillan. In 1955, MacMillan cast <mask> in a principal role in Danses Concertantes, set to the Stravinsky score and with designs by Nicholas Georgiadis, then also at the beginning of a great career. The success of the ballet was such that de Valois immediately transferred it, and <mask>, to the main company at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. <mask> would finish her performing career there as a solo dancer in 1968. Roles created
Among the roles that <mask> created in new works or productions are the following.1947. Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, choreography by Frederick Ashton, music by Maurice Ravel. Role: principal dancer. 1950. Trumpet Concerto, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Franz Joseph Haydn. Role: principal dancer, with Svetlana Beriosova, David Blair, Elaine Fifield, David Poole, Pirmin Trecu, and corps de ballet. 1951.Casse Noisette (The Nutcracker), choreography by Frederick Ashton, music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Role: Crystallized Flower, leader of the corps de ballet in "Waltz of the Flowers." 1953. Somnamabulism, choreography by Kenneth MacMillan, music by Stan Kenton, arranged by John Lanchbery. Role: pas de trois with David Poole and Kenneth MacMillan. 1954. Café des Sports, choreography by Alfred Rodrigues, music by Antony Hopkins.Role: Urchin.
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Svetlana Beriosova, Donald MacLeary, and Graham Usher.Personal and later life
<mask> was married to her Royal Ballet colleague David Blair, with whom she had twin daughters in 1960. In 1961, Blair was promoted to be Margot Fonteyn's regular partner but was soon overshadowed by the arrival of Rudolf Nureyev in 1962. Both <mask> and Blair, along with other leading dancers of the company, sank into relative obscurity in the blaze of publicity about the partnership of Fonteyn and Nureyev. After leaving the Royal Ballet in 1968, <mask> occasionally made guest appearances with London Festival Ballet, Ballet Rambert, and her former home company. She found a new vocation, however, as an inspired and inspiring teacher at the London Ballet Centre. She then taught at the Royal Ballet and Ballet Rambert schools and with other companies, schools and seminars. In middle age, after her husband died in 1976, she went to live in Cyprus, a former British stronghold in the eastern Mediterranean.There she settled in the Greek Cypriot town of Kyrenia, a thriving cultural centre and popular tourist destination on the northern coast of the island, where she founded her own small school, the Maryon Lane Ballet Academy. After some years of teaching local students, she died in 2008, at age 77. References
1931 births
2008 deaths
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<mask>, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (c. 127523 June 1324) was a Anglo-French nobleman. Though primarily active in England, he also had strong connections with the French royal house. One of the wealthiest and most powerful men of his age, he was a central player in the conflicts between Edward II of England and his nobility, particularly Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster. <mask> was one of the Lords Ordainers appointed to restrict the power of Edward II and his favourite Piers Gaveston. His position changed with the great insult he suffered when Gaveston, as a prisoner in his custody whom he had sworn to protect, was removed and beheaded on the instigation of Lancaster. This led <mask> into close and lifelong cooperation with the King. Later in life, however, political circumstances combined with financial difficulties would cause him problems, driving him away from the centre of power.Though earlier historians saw <mask> as the head of a "middle party", between the extremes of Lancaster and the king, the modern consensus is that he remained essentially loyal to Edward throughout most of his career. <mask> was married twice, and left no legitimate issue, though he did have a bastard son. He is today remembered primarily through his wife <mask> St Pol's foundation of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and for his splendid tomb that can still be seen in Westminster Abbey. He was also an important figure in the wars surrounding the attempted English occupation of Scotland. Family and early years
Aymer was the son of <mask> Valence, son of Hugh X, Count of La Marche and Isabella of Angoulême. William was Henry III's half-brother through his mother's prior marriage to King John, and as such gained a central position in the Kingdom of England. He had come to the earldom of
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Pembroke through his marriage to <mask> Munchensi, granddaughter of William Marshal.Aymer was the third son of his family, so little is known of his birth and early years. He is believed to have been born some time between 1270 and 1275. As his father was on crusade with Lord Edward until January 1273, a date towards the end of this period is more likely. With the death in battle in Wales of his remaining brother William in 1282 (John, the elder brother, was dead in 1277), Aymer found himself heir to the Earldom of Pembroke. He married Béatrice <mask> sometime before October 1295. <mask> Valence died in 1296, and Aymer inherited his father's French lands, but had to wait until his mother died in 1307 to succeed to the Earldom. In 1320, his first wife Béatrice <mask> died.In 1321, Aymer married his second wife Marie de St Pol. Through inheritance and marriages his lands consisted ofapart from the county palatine in Pembrokeshireproperty spread out across England primarily in a strip from Gloucestershire to East Anglia, in south-east Ireland (Wexford), and French lands in the Poitou and Calais areas. In 1297 he accompanied Edward I on a campaign to Flanders, and seems to have been knighted by this time. With his French connections he was in the following years a valuable diplomat in France for the English King. He also served as a military commander in Scotland, fighting against Robert the Bruce. In 1306 at the Battle of Methven he won the day over Bruce in a sneak attack, only to be soundly defeated by Bruce at Loudoun Hill the next year. Ordinances and Piers Gaveston
Edward I died in 1307 and was succeeded by his son Edward II.The new King at first enjoyed the good will of his nobility, Valence among them. Conflict soon ensued, however, connected
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especially with the enormous unpopularity of Edward's favourite Piers Gaveston. Gaveston's arrogance towards the peers, and his control over Edward, united the Baronage in opposition to the King. In 1311 the initiative known as the Ordinances was introduced, severely limiting Royal powers in financial matters and in the appointment of officers. Equally important, Gaveston was expelled from the realm, as Edward I had already done once before. <mask>, who was not among the most radical of the Ordainers, and had earlier been sympathetic with the King, had now realised the necessity of exiling Gaveston. When Gaveston without permission returned from exile later the same year, a Baronial council entrusted <mask> and the Earl of Surrey, with the task of taking him into custody.This they did on 19 May 1312, but not long after Thomas of Lancaster, acting with the Earls of Warwick, Hereford and Arundel, seized Gaveston and executed him on 19 June. This act had the effect of garnering support for the King, and marginalising the rebellious earls. As far as <mask> was concerned, the seizing and execution of a prisoner in his custody was a breach of the most fundamental chivalric codes, and a serious affront to his honour. The event must therefore be seen as pivotal in turning his sympathies away from the rebels and towards the King. Later years
In the following years <mask> worked closely with the King. He was appointed the King's lieutenant in Scotland in 1314, and was present at the disastrous English defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn, where he helped lead Edward away from the field of battle. In 1317, however, while returning from a papal embassy to Avignon, he was captured by a <mask> Lamouilly, and held for ransom in Germany.The ransom of £10,400 was to cause
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<mask> significant financial difficulties for the remainder of his life. Although ostracised because of the murder of Gaveston, Thomas of Lancaster had regained virtual control of royal government in the period after England's defeat at Bannockburn. Proving himself as incapable to rule as Edward, however, he soon grew unpopular. <mask> was one of the magnates who in the years 1316–1318 tried to prevent civil war from breaking out between the supporters of Edward and those of Lancaster, and he helped negotiate the Treaty of Leake in Nottinghamshire in 1318, restoring Edward to power. Peace did not last long, however, as the King by now had taken on Hugh Despenser the Younger as another favourite, in much the same position as Gaveston. <mask>'s attempts at reconciliation eventually failed, and civil war broke out in 1321. In 1322 Lancaster was defeated at the Battle of Boroughbridge in what is now North Yorkshire, and executed.<mask> was among the Earls behind the conviction. Also in 1322, <mask> founded a leper hospital in Gravesend. After Boroughbridge <mask> found himself in a difficult situation. The opponents of Hugh Despenser and his father had lost all faith in him, but at the same time he found himself marginalised at court where the Despensers' power grew more and more complete. On top of this came his financial problems. On 23 June 1324, while on an embassy to France, he suddenly collapsed and died while lodging somewhere in Picardy. Legacy
T. F. Tout in 1914, one of the first historians to make a thorough academic study of the period, considered <mask> the one favourable exception in an age of small-minded and incompetent leaders.Tout wrote of a "middle party", led by <mask>, representing a moderate position between the extremes of Edward and
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Lancaster. This "middle party" supposedly took control of royal government through the Treaty of Leake in 1318. In his authoritative study of 1972, J. R. S. Phillips rejects this view. In spite of misgivings with the King's favourites, <mask> was consistently loyal to Edward. What was accomplished in 1318 was not the takeover by a "middle party", but simply a restoration of royal power. Aymer and his sister Agnes rented one of the old manor houses of Dagenham in Essex, which has been called Valence House ever since; it is now a museum. Aymer married twice; his first marriage, before 1295, was to Beatrice, daughter of <mask> Clermont, Lord of Nesle in Picardy and Constable of France.Beatrice died in 1320, and in 1321 he married <mask> St Pol, daughter of <mask> Châtillon, Count of St Pol and Butler of France. He never had any legitimate children, but he had an illegitimate son, <mask> Valence, whose mother is unknown. <mask>'s most lasting legacy is probably through his second wife, who in 1347 founded Pembroke College, Cambridge. The family arms are still represented on the dexter side of the college arms. <mask> <mask> was buried in Westminster Abbey, where his tomb effigy can still be seen as a splendid example of late gothic architecture, elaborating on the design of the nearby tomb of Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster. Media
<mask> was portrayed by Sam Spruell in the 2018 movie Outlaw King about Robert the Bruce. Notes
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<mask> (born 1977) is an American artist who produces conceptual post-black art. <mask> first received critical attention when examples of his work were included in the "Freestyle Exhibition" curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2001. He studied at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his work has been exhibited around the world. In addition to photography, <mask> makes audio installations, video, and sculpture. <mask> is known for both his unusual artistic productions and for his process of combining various aspects of science with black history. Early life
<mask> was born in Illinois to an academic and scholar mother, Dr. <mask>m, and a Vietnam-war veteran father, <mask>, who was an artist but worked in electronics. His parents divorced when he was 2 years old and his mother remarried a man of Nigerian descent.<mask> has stated that growing up his family was based in afrocentrism and that his family celebrated Kwanzaa. <mask> was raised in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois and Evanston, Illinois, a suburb. A photography major, he earned a 2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts from Columbia College Chicago and a 2005 Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, one of his mentors was Gregg Bordowitz. <mask> followed a generation of black artists who focused on the "black experience" and grew up in a generation that was influenced by hip hop and Black Entertainment Television. Because of his generation's high exposure to black culture within pop culture, his contemporary audiences have a greater
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understanding of the "black experience," which has enabled him to achieve a deeper race and identity interaction. His work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC; the Institute of Contemporary Photography, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.Career
Early career
As a college junior, he opened his first show at the Schneider Gallery. By 2000, he had earned a reputation for his unique photo-printing process and political content. The Freestyle exhibition at the Studio Museum in 2001 is credited with launching <mask>'s career. The curator of the show, Thelma Golden, is credited with coining the term "post-black art" in relation to that exhibit, although some suggest the term is attributable to the 1995 book The End of Blackness by Debra Dickerson, who is a favorite of <mask>'s. The term post-black now refers to art in which race and racism are prominent, but where the importance of the interaction of the two is diminished. <mask>'s most controversial exhibition was entitled Chickenbones and Watermelon Seeds: The African American Experience as Abstract Art. The subject matter was a series of stereotypical African-American food culture items such as watermelon seeds, black-eyed peas, chicken bones, and cotton seeds placed directly onto photographic paper and exposed to light using an iron-reactive process.In 2002, he exhibited at the Sunrise Museum in Charleston, West Virginia. The
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exhibit, entitled Manumission Papers, was named for the papers that freed slaves were required to keep to prove their freedom. The exhibition was described as being as much a cultural commentary as an imagery display, and it related to the previous "Chickenbones" exhibit. He geometrically arranged abstractions of feet, hands, and elbows in shapes such as cubes, church windows and ships. This was a considered as study in racial identity because the body parts were not identifiable. Also in 2002, presenting his photographic work using chicken bones, <mask> exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, as part of the UBS 12 x 12: New Artists, New Work series. In 2002 he exhibited his homeless men in the Diggs Gallery of Winston-Salem State University.The exhibit was entitled Seeing in the Dark and used partially illuminated subjects against deep black backgrounds. He also exhibited his homeless men work, including George (1999), in Atlanta, Georgia as part of the National Black Arts Festival at City Gallery East in July and August 2002. George was part of the Corcoran Gallery of Art November 2004 – January 2005 Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections From the Collection of Julia J. Norrell exhibition. George and the Common Ground exhibition appeared in several other places including the North Carolina Museum of Art in 2006. He took part in the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs artist Open Studio Program rotation in the Chicago Landmark/National Register of Historic Places Page Brothers Building during the summer of 2003 with a three-week exhibition. He explored the "historical and contemporary nature of
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photography". At that time, he was represented by George N'Namdi, who owned G.R.N'Namdi, the oldest African-American-owned, exhibiting commercial gallery in the country. In conjunction with the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, <mask> exhibited The Evolution of the Negro Political Costume in December 2004. He presented replicas of three outfits worn by African-American politicians. He included a late 1960s dashiki worn by Jesse Jackson, a 1980s running suit worn by Al Sharpton in the '80s and a business suit worn by then United States Senator-elect Barack Obama. The presentation, which invited inspection, was as likely to evoke humorous response to the Jackson dashiki as well as critical commentary about the presentation of political attire. <mask> explored the theme of escapism at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in a show entitled The Production of Escapism: A Solo Project by <mask>. He addressed distraction and relief from reality through art and fantasy.<mask> used photos, video and site-specific installation to study escapist tendencies through often with a sense of humor that bordered on the absurd. Post-graduate career
During the summer of 2005, he took part in a Chicago Cultural Center artist exchange program exhibition featuring five emerging Chicago contemporary artists and five from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Half of the ten were women (four from Taiwan). As part of the Crossings exhibition almost all artists had their first chance to exhibit in the country of the others. In this forum, Chicago Tribune art critic Alan G. Artner said <mask>'s audio selection imposed his artistry on all the other exhibits since he
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chose a rap song combined with a blunt video. Artner became a <mask> detractor in 2005 when <mask> had this and another simultaneous exhibit appearing in Chicago. He described <mask>'s exploration of the politics of race as "sloganeering or cute self-advertising" in his two-dimensional works, and his apolitical three-dimensional installations as "glib and superficial" representations.He classified <mask>'s work as more suitable for the audience seeking nothing more than American pop culture. Artner also derided <mask>'s short video contribution to the Art Institute of Chicago's Fool's Paradise exhibition as a "conflation of gospel singing with beat boxing ... that says nothing worth saying about race." Other Chicago critics describe <mask>'s subsequent work as relatively hip. The following year, after obtaining his master's degree, he moved to the Lower East Side in New York City, where he taught at the Pratt Institute. Although he is generally referred to as a photographer and sometimes referred to as a sculptor, in certain contexts, he has been referred to as an artist-magician. In an ensemble 2006 showing entitled Scarecrow, <mask> exhibited a life-sized photographic nude self-portrait that was supposed to be menacing and abrasive, but that was perceived as interesting and amusing. His Summer 2007 "Stay Black and Die" work in The Color Line exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery left one art critic from The New York Times wondering whether he was viewing a warning or exhortation.However, at the same time he participated in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's For Love of the Game: Race and Sport in America exhibition that seemed to
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clearly address manners in which questions about race have been asked and answered on American sports fields of play. As a post-black artist, his mixed-media work, such as his Spring 2008 exhibition The Dead Lecturer, plays on race while diminishing its significance by playing with contradictions, coded references and allusions (E.g., The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Emmett), right). The exhibit was described as "a fictional secret society of African-American intellectuals, a cross between Mensa and the Masons" that was a challenge to either condemn or endorse. Rise to prominence
In November 2011, he was named as one of six finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize. In April 2012, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, presented <mask>'s first major museum solo exhibition. MCA Pamela Alper Associate Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm curated the exhibition in close collaboration with the artist. The exhibition was a survey of the previous ten years of the artist's work.Additionally, a new MCA commission was to be shown for the first time. Throughout that latter 2010's, <mask> addressed the idea of mental health in multiple series of works, namely Anxious Men and Anxious Audiences and Broken Men. Techniques and processes
<mask> uses "alchemy, divination, astronomy, and other sciences that combine the natural and spiritual worlds" to augment black history. According to a Columbia College Chicago publication, <mask> works in a variety of media with physical and visual materials that have independent artistic significance and symbolism but that are augmented by their connections to black history. According to the culture publication
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Flavorpill, he challenges his viewers with photography and sculpture that present the creation and dissemination of norms and expectations. However, the Chicago Tribune describes the productions resulting from his processes as lacking complexity or depth. Seattle Post-Intelligencer writer Regina Hackett described <mask> as an artist who avoids the struggles of black people and explores their strengths, while inserting himself as subject in his "aesthetic aspirations" through a variety of forums.<mask> has garnered national attention for both his unusual subject matter and for his process. In addition to portrait photography, <mask> is known for his use of a 19th-century process that uses Van Dyke brown, a transparent organic pigment, and exposure to sunlight. He achieves a painterly feel with his prints with the application of pigment using broad brush strokes. He uses a Deardorff, which forces him to interact with his subjects. His use of shea butter and tiles in his, respective, sculptural and mosaic work have significant meaning to <mask>. The former being a "signifier of African identity," whereas the latter have a more personal connection for him. As a student, a Russian and Turkish Bathouse became a place of refuge, with him viewing the white tiles as a canvas.He would even take his college assigned-reading in there with him. Personal life
<mask> is married to artist Sheree Hovsepian. They live in New York City and have a son. Selected exhibitions
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2002: "12x12: New Artist/New Work," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2003: "The Rise and Fall of a Proper Negro," moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL
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<mask> (4 January 177220 March 1840), was a German jurist and musician. Early life
He was born at Hamelin, in Hanover, the son of an officer in the Hanoverian army, of French Huguenot descent. After school in Hameln and Hanover, Thibaut entered the University of Göttingen as a student of jurisprudence, went from there to Königsberg, where he studied under Immanuel Kant, and afterwards to the University of Kiel, where he was a fellow-student with Niebuhr. Here, after taking his degree of doctor of laws, he became a Privat-dozent. His younger brother was <mask>, a mathematician. Jurist
Early career
In 1798 he was appointed extraordinary professor of civil law, and in the same year appeared his Versuche über einzelne Theile der Theorie des Rechts (1798), a collection of essays on the theory of law, of which by far the most important was entitled Über den Einfluss der Philosophie auf die Auslegung der positiven Gesetze, wherein he sought to show that history without philosophy could not interpret and explain law. In 1799, he published his Theorie der logischen Auslegung des römischen Rechts, one of his major works.In 1802 he published a short criticism of Feuerbach's theory of criminal law, which recalls in many ways the speculations of Jeremy Bentham. The same year appeared Über Besitz und Verjahrung, a treatise on the law of possession and the limitation of actions. In 1802 Thibaut was called to Jena, where he spent three years and wrote, in <mask>'s summer-house, his chief work, System des Pandektenrechts (1803), which ran into many editions. The fame of this book results from its being the first modern complete compendium of the subject, distinguished alike by the accuracy of its sources and the freedom and unpedantic manner in which the subject is handled. It is, in effect, a codification of the Roman law as it then obtained in Germany, modified by canon law and the practice of the courts into a comprehensive system of Pandect law. At the invitation of the grand-duke of
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Baden, Thibaut went to Heidelberg to fill the chair of civil law and to assist in organizing the university; and he never left the town, though in later years, as his fame grew, he was offered places at Göttingen, Munich and Leipzig. His class was large, his influence great; and, except Gustav Hugo and Savigny, no civilian of his time was so well known.Civil law essay
In 1814 appeared his Civilistische Abhandlungen ("Treatises on Civil Law"), of which the principal was his famous essay, the parent of so much literature, Über die Nothwendigkeit eines allgemeinen bürgerlichen Rechts für Deutschland ("On the Necessity of a General Civil Law for Germany"). It was inspired by the enthusiasm of the so-called German Wars of Liberation against Napoleon (1813–1814) and written in fourteen days. <mask> himself explained in the Archiv für die civilistische Praxis, in 1838, the origin of this memorable essay. He had realized the change denoted by the march of German soldiers to Paris in 1814, and the happy future opened up for Germany. The system of small states he hoped and believed would continue; for the big state he considered crushing to the life of the individual and harmful as concentrating the "warm life" of the nation in one central point. In his judgment the only unity practicable and needful for Germany was that of law; and for this he urged all the German governments to labour. The essay was as much a condemnation of the entire state of jurisprudence as an argument for codification; it was a challenge to civilians to justify their very existence.Savigny took up the challenge thus thrown down when he wrote Über den Beruf unserer Zeit für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft (1814); and a long controversy as to points not very clearly defined took place. The glory of the controversy belonged to Savigny; the real victory rested with Thibaut. Later life
In 1819 he was appointed to the upper house of the newly constituted Baden parliament. He was also made member of the
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Scheidungsgericht (divorce court). In 1836 Thibaut published his Erorterungen des römischen Rechts. One of his last works was a contribution in 1838 to the Archiv für die civilistische Praxis, of which he was one of the editors (see below). Thibaut married, in 1800, a daughter of Professor Ahlers of Kiel.He died after a short illness, at Heidelberg. Legacy
Thibaut, a man of strong personality, was much more than a jurist: he has a place in the history of music. Palestrina and the early composers of church music were his delight; and in 1824 he published, anonymously, Über die Reinheit der Tonkunst (Purity of Music), in which he eulogized the old music, especially that of Palestrina. He was an ardent collector of old compositions, and often sent young men to Italy, at his own expense, to discover interesting musical manuscripts. Among the masters of German prose, too, Thibaut has a place. His style, though simple, is richly expressive. The framers of the new German civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) in 1879 owed the arrangement of their matter in no small degree to Thibaut's method and clear classification, but beyond this, the code, based on the civil law of the several German states, which was adroitly blended by the usus pandectarum into an harmonious whole, does not reflect his influence.He was one of the earliest to criticize the divisions found in the Institutes, and he carried on with Gustav Hugo a controversy as to these points. <mask>'s legal work was soon superseded by that of his successor, Karl Adolf von Vangerow (1805–1870), and his textbooks fell out of use. John Austin, who owed much to him, describes him as one "who for penetrating acuteness, rectitude of judgment and depth of learning and eloquence of exposition, may be placed by the side of <mask> von Savigny, at the head of all living civilians." References
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<mask> (Mrs. <mask>, née Williams; 18 May 1883, near Liberty, Kansas – 19 August 1969, Los Angeles) was an American composer and well-known piano accompanist. During her prolific years as a composer, she lived in New York City. During her more active years as a piano accompanist, she lived in Los Angeles. In her published music, she was known as Mrs. M<mask> or Mrs. M<mask>. Two <mask>s & two <mask> of the same era
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Music career
Before she became a teenager, <mask> began accepting engagements in concert work, and under the management of Mr. Pardee and Miss Weber toured the Middle West in recital as concert pianist. In 1901 her father's business called him to California, and the family moved to Los Angeles.For nearly three years after arriving in Los Angeles, <mask> did concert work and was soloist on many notable programs. Around 1904, <mask> began specializing exclusively in accompaniment. She accompanied artists that included George Hamlin, Jeannie Jornelli, Marcella Craft, Maggie Teyte, Heimo Haitto, and Pavlowa, Franz Wilcez and Hugo
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Herrman. For nine years she was the accompanist for the Woman's Lyric Club, and for five years of the Ellis Club. <mask> became a pupil in composition of Frederick Stephenson in Los Angeles. Her The Woman at Home, a chorus for women's voices, was performed with much success by the Lyric Club. Among her better-known compositions are Songs of You, The Mystic Hour, Youth, Fairies, Butterflies, The Dawn of Dawns, and a chorus for men's voices, A Song for Heroes.She performed under the management of Mr. Behymer in concert work. She also performed with Ebell Club, the Friday Morning Club, the Gamut Club, and many leading artists who toured Los Angeles. Family
Father: Oliver David Williams (1854 Kentucky – 1932, Venice, California)
Mother: Joanna Williams, née Dickerson (25 Oct 1855 Crawfordsville, Indiana – Oct 1949, Venice, California)
Husband: Martin Hennion <mask> (18 January 1878 Missouri – 2 May 1964 Los Angeles) and <mask> were married September 27, 1904, in Los Angeles, at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles. <mask> died August 19, 1969, in Los Angeles.<ref>"Vital Records: Deaths," Los Angeles Times, August 21, 1969</ref> Her ashes are stored at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica, next to those of her daughter Dorothy B<mask> (1906 Los Angeles – 2004), also a pianist. Music club and sorority affiliations
Both <mask> and her daughter, <mask>, were members of The Dominant Club, a Los Angeles charitable club of women musicians founded in 1906 that promotes women in
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classical music and chamber music. <mask> was a charter member and past president of The Dominant Club. In 1928, <mask> was inducted as an honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota (ΣΑΙ), Sigma Xi Chapter of the University of California, Los Angeles.ΣΑΙ is an international fraternity for women in music. Early education
At age nine, <mask>'s family moved to Chicago; there, she began eight-years of study with William Charles Ernest Seeboeck (21 August 1859 Vienna, Austria – 1907 Chicago), a gifted pianist and composer who had been a student of Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894). Selected compositions
"Love Was a Beggar," written for Mary McCormic, music by <mask>
"Love's Trilogy," a song for four-part chorus of women's voices, words by E. Sterrett, music by <mask>, G. Schirmer (1925)
"The Fairies," words & music by <mask>, G. Schirmer (1926)
"The Woman at Home," a chorus for women's voices
"Songs of You"
"The Mystic Hour"
"Youth," music by <mask>, words by Mrs. Louise Stedman Bostick
"Butterflies"
"The Dawn of Dawns," music by <mask>, words by Ina Donna Coolbrith
"The Chudder Weaver," for high or medium voice, music by <mask>, words by Frances Hull Topping (b. 1879), G. Schirmer (©July 3, 1937)
"Two pictures," for voice and piano, G. Schirmer (©1924) LCCN unk84197289
"The Lover's Errand"
Ellis Club of Los Angeles Collection of Musical Arrangements and Papers
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"Baffled," in C minor, music by <mask> (TTBB - voice parts only); words by Helen Combes (mimeograph, n.d.) (©May 31, 1932), Harms, Inc.
"Marmela," music by <mask> (TTBB, voice parts only); words by Mabel W. Phillips (mimeograph, n.d.)
"A Song for Heroes," music by Robinson (TTBB), words by Edwin Markham (mimeograph, n.d.)
"King Robert of Sicily," music by Robinson (SATB with narration; chorus parts only); words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (mimeograph, n.d.)
"Liebestraum," by Franz Liszt, arrangement (TTBB) and words by Robinson (mimeograph, n.d.)
Discography
Participation in a judges panel to select a California state song
In 1921, Lynden Ellsworth Behymer (1862–1947), impresario, and Bessie Bartlett Frankel (Mrs. Cecil Frankel), donated a sum of money to the California Federation of Music Clubs to hold a contest for lyrics to a state song "of real value." The judges were Benjamin Franklin Field (1868–1960), chairman of the federation and chairman of the committee of judges, Grace Atherton Dennen (1874–1927), editor and publisher of The Lyric West, and Blanche Robinson. The judges selected Mary Lennox of San Francisco on January 17, 1922, as the winner for her composition, California, Sweet Homeland of Mine.References
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<mask> the Stammerer ( – 6 April 912), also known as <mask>us (From ), or simply <mask>, was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall, now in Switzerland, where he was a leading literary scholar of the Early Middle Ages. He was active as a poet, scholar and possibly composer, as he is usually credited with an important collection of early sequences in Liber hymnorum. <mask> wrote Vita Sancti Galli and is commonly accepted to be the "Monk of Saint Gall" (Monachus Sangallensis) who wrote Gesta Karoli (the "deeds of Charlemagne"). He was contemporary with the fellow monks Tuotilo and Ratpert. Biography
<mask> was born around 840, to a distinguished family. He would seem to have been born at Jonschwil on the River Thur, south of Wil, in what would become much later (in 1803) the canton of Saint Gall in Switzerland; some sources claim Elgg to be his place of birth. He studied with Tuotilo at Saint Gall's monastic school, and was taught by , and the Irishman, Moengall.He became a monk there and is mentioned as librarian in 890 and as master of guests in 892–4. He was chiefly active as a teacher, and displayed refinement of taste as poet and author. Ekkehard IV, the biographer of the monks of Saint Gall, lauds him as "delicate of body but not of mind, stuttering of tongue but not of intellect, pushing boldly forward in things Divine, a vessel of the Holy Spirit without equal in his time". He died in 912. He was beatified in 1512. Works
He completed Erchanbert's chronicle, arranged a martyrology, composed a metrical biography of Saint Gall,
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and authored other works. In his martyrology, he appeared to corroborate one of St Columba's miracles.St Columba, being an important father of Irish monasticism, was also important to St Gall and thus to <mask>'s own monastery. Adomnan of Iona had written that at one point Columba had through clairvoyance seen a city in Italy near Rome being destroyed by fiery sulphur as a divine punishment and that three thousand people had perished. And shortly after Columba saw this, sailors from Gaul arrived to tell the news of it. <mask> claimed in his martyrology that this event happened and that an earthquake had destroyed a city which was called 'new'. It is unclear what this city was that Notker was claiming, although some thought it may have been Naples (previously called 'Neapolis' – new city). However Naples was destroyed by a volcano in 512 before Columba was born, and not during Columba's lifetime. His Liber Hymnorum, created between 881 and 887, is an early collection of Sequences, which he called "hymns", mnemonic poems for remembering the series of pitches sung during a melisma in plainchant, especially in the Alleluia.It is unknown how many or which of the works contained in the collection are his. The hymn Media Vita was erroneously attributed to him late in the Middle Ages. Ekkehard IV wrote of fifty sequences composed by <mask>. He was formerly considered to have been the inventor of the sequence, a new species of religious lyric, but this is now considered doubtful, though he did introduce the genre into Germany. It had been the
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custom to prolong the Alleluia in the Mass before the Gospel, modulating through a skillfully harmonized series of tones. <mask> learned how to fit the separate syllables of a Latin text to the tones of this jubilation; this poem was called the sequence (q.v. ), formerly called the "jubilation".(The reason for this name is uncertain.) From 881–7 Notker dedicated a collection of such verses to Bishop Liutward of Vercelli, but it is not known which or how many are his. The Monk of Saint Gall
The "Monk of Saint Gall" (Latin: Monachus Sangallensis; the name is not contemporary, being given by modern scholars), the ninth-century writer of a volume of didactic eulogistic anecdotes regarding the Emperor Charlemagne, is now commonly believed to be <mask> the Stammerer. This monk is known from his work to have been a native German-speaker, deriving from the Thurgau, only a few miles from the Abbey of Saint Gall; the region is also close to where Notker is believed to have derived from. The monk himself relates that he was raised by Adalbert, a former soldier who had fought against the Saxons, the Avars ("Huns" in his text) and the Slavs under the command of Kerold, brother of Hildegard, Charlemagne's second wife; he was also a friend of Adalbert's son, Werinbert, another monk at Saint Gall, who died as the book was in progress. His teacher was Grimald von Weißenburg, the Abbot of Saint Gall from 841 to 872, who was, the monk claims, himself a pupil of Alcuin. The monk's untitled work, referred to by modern scholars as De Carolo Magno
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<mask> (Grizzana Morandi, 24 November 1943) is an Italian multidisciplinary artist, known as a painter, photographer and sculptor. Early life and education
<mask> was born 24 November 1943 in Grizzana Morandi, Italy. <mask> studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. <mask> began his artistic career in the 1970s when he became known for his tableau vivants: photographed and videotaped performances in which he presented himself in different ways: from Pinocchio to Dante, Saint Sebastian to Bacchus. These displays of "actionism" (different from Viennese Actionism, to which Hermann Nitsch is associated) verge on kitsch and raise personal narcissism to a higher level. Career
Throughout his long career <mask> has expressed his creativity and poetics through the use of many different techniques: from his "oggetti pleonastici" (1965–1969), made in plaster, to the "stanza delle similitudini," made with objects cut in corrugated fiberboard. He has often anticipated the use of techniques subsequently adopted by other artists: his first Super 8 films were made between 1969 and 1972.With his work "Ange Infidele" (1968) Ontani begins to experiment with photography. From the beginning his photography has been characterized by some particular elements: the subject is always the artist himself, who uses his own body and face to personify historic, mythological, literary and popular themes; the chosen formats are usually miniature and gigantography, and each work is considered unique. From the late 1960s on are "Teofania" (1969), "San Sebastiano nel bosco di
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Calvenzano, d'apres Guido Reni" Tentazione," "Meditazione, d'apres de la Tour," "Bacchino" (1970), "Tell il Giovane," "Raffaello," "Dante," " Pinocchio" (1972), "Lapsus Lupus," the diptych "EvAdamo" (1973), "Leda e il Cigno" (1974), "I grilli e i tappeti volanti" that will be followed by other "d'apres," and the first Indian cycle "En route vers l'Inde, d'apres Pierre Lotti." His first artistic photography has a historic importance because it anticipates a phenomenon that will be widespread and popular from the 1980s. While working on his photographs Ontani began to make his first tableaux vivants. From 1969 to 1989 the artist made around 30 of these exhibitions, again foreshadowing the so-called interactive installations, which are based on the mixture of various technologies. With this same attitude he has created works in papier-mâché, glass, wood (he has made numerous masks, especially on Bali, with Pule wood) and, more rarely, in bronze, marble, and fabric.He has also made notorious works in ceramic, thanks to the cooperation with Bottega Gatti of Faenza, Venera Finocchiaro in Rome, and the Terraviva laboratory of Vietri: some of them are his "pineal" masks, the "Ermestetiche," and the last great works such as "GaneshaMusa" and "NapoleonCentaurOntano." <mask> has not used all these different techniques as ends in themselves but as occasions to experiment new possibilities and formulate new variations of the themes and subjects that interest him the most: his own "transhistoric" travel through myth, the mask, the symbol and iconographic
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representation. He has exhibited his works in some of the most important museums and galleries of the world, from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to the Pompidou Centre, the Museo Reina Sofía to the Frankfurter Kunstverein. He has also participated in several editions of the Venice, Sydney, and Lyon biennales. Recently he has had four important retrospectives at the MoMA (2001), the SMAK in Ghent (2003–2004), the MAMbo in Bologna (2008), and the Accademia di San Luca, also called the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, in Rome (2017). The retrospective in Rome marks his receiving the Premio Presidente della Repubblica award in 2015. In 1982, <mask>'s work was featured in the exhibition, "Italian Art Now: An American Perspective" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, alongside other Italian artists, Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Gilberto Zorio, Giuseppe Penone, Nino Longobardi, and Vettor Pisani.<mask>'s work was credited on Bjork's album Volta as the inspiration for the costume that she can be seen wearing on the album's cover photo. Group exhibitions
Venice Biennale (1972,1978,1984,1995)
Pompidou Centre, Paris: "Identité italienne: Art en Italie depuis 1959" (1981)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City: "Italian Art Now: An American Perspective" (1982)
Frankfurter Kunstverein: "1960-1985 Aspekte der Italienischen Kunst" (1986)
VI Sydney Biennale (1986)
Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid: "La otra escultura. A Palazzo Carpegna a Roma" (in Italian)
Italian contemporary artists
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People from Grizzana Morandi
Accademia di Belle Arti di
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Terrence "<mask>" <mask> (born August 14, 1965) is an American fashion and portrait photographer. He has shot advertising campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Aldo, Supreme, Sisley, Tom Ford, and Yves Saint Laurent among others, and also done work for magazines such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, and Vice. Since 2001, <mask> has been accused by multiple models of sexual misconduct. In 2017, brands and magazines that had worked with <mask> in the past began distancing themselves from him, and said they would no longer employ him. He has not actively worked as a photographer since 2018. Early life
<mask> was born in New York City, the son of Norma Kessler, an actress, and <mask>, a fashion photographer who struggled with schizophrenia and drug abuse. <mask>'s father was Irish Catholic and his mother is Jewish.Following the divorce of his parents, <mask> moved to Woodstock, New York, with his mother and stepfather, English guitarist Jackie Lomax. <mask> later moved to the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he attended Hollywood High School. He moved with his mother to Ojai, California, where he attended Nordhoff High School, when he was 16. <mask> originally wanted to be a punk rock musician rather than a photographer. He played bass guitar in the punk rock band The Invisible Government for four years. He played bass for a variety of other punk bands in Southern California including Signal Street Alcoholics, Doggy Style, Baby Fist and Middle Finger. Career
<mask>'s mother reportedly gave him his first snapshot camera in 1982, which he used to document his life and the punk rock scene in Ojai.In 1992, <mask> quit music and moved to the East Village neighborhood of New York City, where he began photographing young people partying and other nightlife. It was in New York City that he had his first "big break." His first published fashion photos appeared in Vibe in 1994.
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His Vibe spread was shown at Paris' International Festival de la Mode later that year. Following the showing, <mask> shot an advertising campaign for fashion designer Katharine Hamnett's spring 1995 collection. The campaign was noted for images of young women wearing short skirts with their pubic hair showing. <mask> then moved to London and worked for the magazines The Face, i-D and Arena.Throughout his career, <mask> has shot the campaigns of fashion brands and designers such as: Marc Jacobs, Aldo, Supreme, Sisley, Tom Ford, and Yves Saint Laurent. He has also worked for magazines such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar. <mask> has produced several campaigns for Diesel, including the 'Global Warming Ready' which won a Silver Lion for Print at Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in 2007. He has produced several private portraits for the company's founder, Renzo Rosso. In September 2011, they hosted a mutual book launch together with fashion editor Carine Roitfeld, at Colette in Paris. In 2012 <mask> embarked on his first solo exhibition at Los Angeles's OHWOW Gallery, titled <mask>wood. In May 2012, a video of model Kate Upton performing the Cat Daddy dance for <mask> in his studio went viral.In December 2012, Lady Gaga announced that <mask> was filming a documentary about her life. Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes defended <mask> in 2004, saying his work was criticized by "first-year feminist types." Gallery shows
<mask> held his first gallery showing in 1998. The show, entitled These Colors Don't Run and held at Alleged Gallery, coincided with the release of his first book entitled Hysteric Glamour. His work was later included in another show entitled Smile at Alleged Gallery. <mask> had his first Paris show at Galarie Emmanuel Perrotin in 1999. <mask>'s "Feared by Men Desired by Women" was shown at an exhibition at London's Shine Gallery the following
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year.Terryworld, an exhibition of <mask>'s work of the name, was shown in 2004 at Deitch Gallery in New York City. The Orange County Museum of Art showed <mask>'s work as part of a group show entitled Beautiful Losers in 2005. Mom + Dad, a show exhibiting work from <mask>'s book of the same name, was held at Half Gallery in New York City in 2011. The same year, photographs from <mask>'s book Hong Kong were shown at Art Hong Kong. <mask>'s work was later shown at Los Angeles's OHWOW Gallery. The exhibition was titled Terrywood and ran from February 24 to March 31, 2012. Music videos
<mask> has directed music videos since the late 1990s.He directed videos for Death in Vegas and Primal Scream as well as alternate music video of the song "Find a New Way" by Young Love, and Whirlwind Heat's "Purple" featuring models Susan Eldridge and Charlotte Kemp Muhl. He directed the music video for "Red Lips" by Sky Ferreira. He also makes a cameo appearance in Thirty Seconds to Mars's video for "Hurricane". The music video for "Oldie" by Odd Future was recorded during a photoshoot with <mask> and was published on March 20, 2012. <mask> can be seen in the video snapping photos of the collective while they party and play in front of a large white backdrop. On August 29, 2013, he directed Beyoncé in a music video at Coney Island for her single "XO". He also directed "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus.In late 2013 <mask> did the treatment on the music video for "Do What U Want" by Lady Gaga and R. Kelly from her third studio album titled Artpop, but the film was never released. On August 21, 2017, <mask> directed the Anitta music video, "Vai Malandra", at Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro. Style
There are several repeating themes in <mask>'s work, notably that of putting high-profile celebrities in mundane situations and photographing them using traditionally pedestrian methods, such as the use of an instant camera. His work
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also explores ideas of sexuality, with many of the pieces featured in his books Kibosh and Terryworld depicting full-frontal nudity and both simulated and actual sexual acts. Initially, many of <mask>'s subjects would be shot before a white background but he eventually expanded to other backdrops. He is also known for posing with his subjects, often giving them his trademark glasses so they may "pretend to be him" or, in the case of actress Chloë Sevigny, posing them in makeup and costume so that they look like him. <mask> counts Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus and Robert Frank as early influences on his artistic style.His work has been praised by Helmut Newton. <mask> described his style as, "Trying to capture those unpremeditated moments when people's sexualities come up to the surface." <mask> is also known for his nonsexual portraiture. He has taken portraits of a wide variety of celebrities and politicians. Personal life
Relationships and family
<mask> was married to model Nikki Uberti from 1996 to 1999. <mask> dated political staffer and business woman Audrey Gelman from 2011 until 2013. He started dating his long-time photography assistant, Alexandra "Skinny" Bolotow in 2014.On March 19, 2016, Bolotow gave birth to twin boys. He has said it was "the most intense, inspiring, , and humbling experience of my life." The couple married in 2017 in Taos, New Mexico. He currently resides in Bearsville, New York. Philanthropy
In 2010, <mask> became involved with RxArt, a charity that donates art to children's hospitals. Allegations of sexual misconduct
Since 2001, <mask> has been accused multiple times of using his influence in the fashion industry to sexually exploit models during photo shoots, including coercing them to engage in sexual acts with him. Models with whom he has worked (including Rie Rasmussen and Jamie Peck) have accused <mask> of sexual misconduct, including
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exploitation.In a 2010 interview at French Institute Alliance Française, Marc Jacobs said that <mask> is "not ill-spirited". <mask> published a letter in 2014 in The Huffington Post defending himself against the accusations. <mask> said that the allegations are false and that he considers himself "considerate and respectful" of his photography subjects. Models including Noot Seear, Daisy Lowe, and Charlotte Free have defended him. In 2017, due to the allegations of <mask>'s sexual misconduct, many fashion brands and fashion magazines decided to no longer commission his work, including Valentino, Bulgari, and the Condé Nast magazines: Vogue, Glamour, Wired, Vanity Fair, and GQ. Following the professional repercussions, he has not actively worked since 2018. Publications
(1998) Hysteric Glamour.Hysteric Glamour (Tokyo). .
(1999) Son of Bob. Little More (Tokyo). .
(2000) <mask> – Feared by Men, Desired by Women. Shine Gallery (London). .
(2002) Too Much. Sisley (Italy). (2004) <mask> – The <mask> Purple Book. Purple Institute (Paris). .
(2004) <mask>. Stern Gruner + Jahr (Hamburg). .
(2004) Terryworld.By Dian Hanson. Taschen (Hong Kong; Los Angeles). .
(2006) Kibosh. Damiani Editore (Bologna). .
(2006) Manimal. Hysteric Glamour (Tokyo). (2007) Rio, Cidade Maravilhosa. Diesel/Vintage Denin (Brazil). (2011) Hong Kong.Diesel (Hong Kong). (2011) Mom & Dad. Mörel Books (London). (2011) Lady Gaga x <mask>. Grand Central Publishing (New York City). .
(2016) Skinny. Idea Books (London). References
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1965 births
American erotic photographers
21st-century American photographers
Commercial photographers
Fashion photographers
Jewish American artists
Living people
People from Hollywood, Los Angeles
Artists from New York City
People from Ojai, California
Hollywood High School alumni
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<mask><mask> (born October 16, 1974) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, his district includes the southern four-fifths of Indianapolis, including Downtown Indianapolis. He became the dean of Indiana's congressional delegation following the retirement of Representative Pete Visclosky in 2021. He is the grandson of his predecessor, U.S. Representative <mask> (1938–2007), whose death in office triggered a special election. <mask> was the second Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, following Keith Ellison of Minnesota in 2006. Personal life and early career
<mask> was born and raised in Indianapolis. He graduated from Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice and management from Concordia University Wisconsin (2003), and a Master of Science degree in business management from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana (2005).At a young age, <mask>'s interest in public service was shaped by his grandmother, the late Congresswoman <mask>. <mask> grew up in a rough neighborhood, and he credits that experience for shaping his policy views on issues like education, public safety and economic opportunity. From 1996 to 2005, <mask> worked as a compliance officer for the Indiana State Excise Police, the law enforcement arm of the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission. He was later employed in the anti-terrorism division of Indiana's Department of Homeland Security and then as a marketing specialist for Cripe Architects + Engineers in Indianapolis. He served as a member of the Indianapolis/Marion city-county council from 2007 to 2008. In December 2007, <mask>'s grandmother, <mask>, who had represented Indiana's 7th district in Congress since 1997, died of lung cancer. Three months later, <mask> won a special election for his grandmother's vacant seat in the House of Representatives.<mask> has retained that legislative seat ever since. Before being elected to public office, <mask> was a Democratic Party Committeeperson in Indianapolis. In 2007, <mask> won a special caucus of the Marion County Democratic Party to become the City-County Councilor for the 15th Council district of Indianapolis-Marion County. <mask> converted to
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Islam in the 1990s after his exposure to the poetry of the Sufi mystic Rumi and reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Before converting to Islam, <mask> attended a Baptist church and was educated in a Catholic school. U.S. House of Representatives
Committee assignments
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation (Chair)
Subcommittee on Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Subcommittee on Aviation
Caucus memberships
Congressional Progressive Caucus
New Democrat Coalition
Congressional Arts Caucus
Afterschool Caucuses
Congressional Black Caucus
Congressional Automotive Caucus
Cancer Action Caucus
Children's Caucus
Climate Change Caucus
Human Rights Caucus
United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus
Labor and Working Families Caucus
Study Group on Public Health
Democratic Budget Group
LGBT Equality Caucus
Military Family Caucus
Renewable/Efficient Energy Caucus
Americans Abroad Caucus
He also serves as the Congressional Black Caucus liaison to the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (CBC Liaison). In the 2008 presidential election, <mask> endorsed Senator Barack Obama in April 2008, and later won Obama's endorsement for his own May 2008 Democratic primary battle.<mask> was the first member of Indiana's Congressional Delegation to announce his support for then-candidate Obama. Tenure
On March 20, 2010, <mask> told reporters that health care protesters outside the Capitol hurled racial slurs at fellow Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia. <mask> came off the House floor and told reporters his story about health care protesters hurling racial slurs during their walk from the Cannon House Office Building to the chambers. Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart offered a $100,000 reward for any proof of these accusations. Although audio and video recordings of the protest have been posted online, no proof of the racial slurs has yet been provided, and the reward remains unclaimed. On August 28, 2011, <mask> addressed a gathering of supporters and mentioned the Tea Party movement during his
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speech. "This is the effort that we're seeing of Jim Crow," <mask> said."Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now of this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me... hanging on a tree." <mask> declined calls to resign, reaffirming, "I stand on the truth of what I spoke", and clarified that his comments were directed at certain tea party leaders and not the tea party as a whole. Political positions
Afghanistan and Iraq
<mask> believes that "American efforts to capture and kill al Qaeda terrorists have greatly diminished" because of the Iraq War. During the War in Afghanistan, <mask> would often state his belief that al Qaeda and the Taliban posed the most imminent threat to the United States. Accordingly, he pushed for a reduction of troops in Iraq to cover the needs of the then-ongoing War in Afghanistan. Consumer protection
On June 26, 2009, <mask> introduced the Jeremy Warriner Consumer Protection Act (), which would require GM and Chrysler to carry liability insurance that would cover vehicles produced before they filed for bankruptcy in early 2009.The bill is named for Jeremy Warriner, an Indianapolis resident who lost his legs when his defective Chrysler vehicle caught fire during a car accident. Disease prevention
On July 24, 2008, <mask> voted to pass the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act () which provided aid to developing countries fighting high rates of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. He successfully included an amendment in this bill which created "a transatlantic, technological medium of exchange that allows African scientists and American medical professionals to collaborate on the best methods for treating and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS on the African continent." Economic recovery
On February 13, 2009, <mask> voted to pass the H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a $787 billion economic stimulus package aimed at helping the economy recover from a deepening worldwide recession. This act included increased federal spending for health care, infrastructure, education, various tax breaks and incentives, and direct assistance to individuals. The
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ARRA has led to billions of dollars in investment in <mask>'s district, including grants to hire more police officers and save teaching jobs, and landmark investments in green technology that will create hundreds of new jobs.Education
<mask> has stated his support for programs that improve teacher education and training, improve aging school infrastructure and increase access to affordable, secondary education. <mask> is the author of H.R. 3147, the Young Adults Financial Literacy Act, which was introduced on July 9, 2009. This legislation would establish a grant program to fund partnerships between educational institutions aimed at providing financial literacy education to young adults and families. On September 17, 2009, <mask> voted to pass H.R. 3221, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which will invest in the Pell Grant program and other student financial aid programs to make college more affordable. <mask> made a speech to an Islamic group that resulted in criticism from groups when he stated that American public schools should be modeled on Islamic madrassas.He granted an interview to reporter Mary Beth Schneider of The Indianapolis Star in which he maintained his speech remarks had been taken out of context. On the same date, he issued a press release clarifying his position that no "particular faith should be the foundation of our public schools." Energy and environment
<mask> has supported investment in the development of new technologies that will reduce American dependence on foreign oil, create thousands of new jobs and begin to correct the adverse environmental effects of fossil fuels. <mask> has opposed legislation to increase offshore drilling for oil or natural gas, instead promoting use of solar, wind, biofuel, biomass, and other renewable fuels. On June 26, 2009, <mask> voted to pass H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which seeks to comprehensively address the effects of climate change by funding development of alternative energy technologies and implementing a cap and trade system. Financial services
<mask> has been a Member of the House Committee on Financial Services since taking office in 2008.<mask> voted to pass legislation enacting the Troubled Asset Relief Program on October 3, 2008. He has also voted to pass
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legislation increasing oversight over the Troubled Asset Relief Program, limiting executive pay, reforming sub-prime mortgage markets and regulating the financial industry. <mask> was a cosponsor of , the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights, which sought to increase transparency and regulation in the credit card industry. This legislation was signed into law by President Obama on May 22, 2009. <mask> has voiced his support for legislation creating the Consumer Finance Protection Agency and monitoring systemic risk in the financial sector. Health care reform
<mask> is a strong supporter of health care reform legislation that increases access to medical care for millions of uninsured Americans and provides a more stable system for those at risk of losing their health insurance. On July 30, 2009, he signed a letter from the Congressional Progressive Caucus to House leadership, calling for a robust public option to be included in any health care reform bill.He has opposed taxes both on the medical device industry and employer provided health insurance plans as a means to pay for health care reform. Instead, he has called for finding savings in the current health system by reducing waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare system, as well as implementing a surcharge on the wealthiest Americans as a means to cover the costs of reform. He has also voiced his opposition for health care reform legislation that increases the deficit. On November 7, 2009, <mask> voted to pass H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the House version of legislation designed to reform the American health insurance industry. Housing
Citing a high foreclosure rate in Indianapolis, <mask> has named foreclosure prevention and increased affordable housing to be among his top priorities. On May 7, 2009, <mask> voted to pass the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2009 (), which regulates the mortgage lending industry by setting limits on types of loans offered to potential borrowers.<mask> authored an amendment to this legislation that funded the distribution of information about foreclosure rescue scams through targeted mailings. Impeachment of Donald Trump
On December 18, 2019, <mask> voted for both articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump and was one of only
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two House Representatives from Indiana to do so, along with Rep. Peter Visclosky. Israel
<mask> is opposed to the Israeli settlements in built in Palestinian territory, describing them as "illegitimate and a major barrier to peace". In July 2019, <mask> voted against a House resolution condemning the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel. The resolution passed 398–17. In September 2021, <mask> was one of 9 Congressmen to vote against funding Israel's Iron Dome missile defense program. National security
<mask> is the only Member of Congress to have served in a Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center.He has voted to increase appropriations funding for the Department of Homeland Security. In 2017, <mask> attended a protest, at Indianapolis International Airport against President Donald Trump's executive order to temporarily place limits on immigration until better screening methods are devised. <mask> decried the executive order as being part of a "bigotry campaign" and stated "For those who want to make America great again, we have to remind them that the first article of the constitution says congress shall make no law respecting [the] establishment of religion. Make no mistake about it: This is a Muslim ban." Public safety
In 2009, <mask> introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at reducing incidents of recidivism. The Recidivism Reduction Act () aims to attack the cycle of recidivism by ensuring prompt access to federal supplemental security income and Medicaid benefits for ex-offenders re-entering society and addressing the gap in mental health services. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act would repeal federal laws that prevent drug felons from receiving TANF benefits.In 2008, <mask> helped the City of Indianapolis secure a federal COPS grant to hire more police officers. The grant was awarded as part of the ARRA. Political campaigns
2008
Special election
In 2008, <mask> won the nominating caucus of the Marion County Democratic Party, giving him the Democratic nomination for the special election to succeed his late grandmother, Congresswoman <mask>. During this election, he was endorsed by U.S. Senator Evan Bayh, then-Senator Barack Obama, former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, Marion County
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Sheriff Frank J. Anderson, then-Representative from Indiana's 8th district Brad Ellsworth, and retired U.S. Congressman Andy Jacobs, Jr. U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) contributed $4,000 each from their own campaign funds and $10,000 each from their political action committees to the <mask> campaign.<mask> defeated Republican State Representative Jon Elrod and Libertarian Sean Shepard in the special election on March 11, 2008, securing 53% of the vote. <mask> won the primary election with 46%, while Woody Myers received 24%, David Orentlicher received 21%, and Carolene Mays received 8%. <mask> and was set to face off in the General Election against Elrod, but Elrod dropped out. Gabrielle Campo was selected by a party caucus to face the incumbent, <mask>. <mask> was re-elected in November 2008 to his first full term in Congress with 65% of the vote. Since that time, <mask>'s hometown newspaper, The Indianapolis Star, has praised him for "going strong" in his first year in office, writing that <mask> has "[proven] himself to be relentlessly positive and seriously hardworking." 2010
In 2010, <mask> again faced perennial Republican candidate Marvin Scott, who took issue with <mask>'s Muslim faith during the general election.However, <mask> handily defeated Scott to retain his seat. 2012
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See also
List of African-American United States representatives
List of Muslim members of the United States Congress
References
External links
Congressman <mask> official U.S. House website
<mask> for Congress
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American former Christians
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Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives
Indiana Democrats
Indiana Wesleyan University alumni
Indianapolis City-County Council members
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Members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana
Muslim members of the United States House of Representatives
Arsenal Technical High School alumni
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<mask> (born March 17, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenseman. Ference started in the NHL during the 1999–2000 season and played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames, Boston Bruins and the Edmonton Oilers. In 2011, Ference helped the Bruins to their sixth Stanley Cup championship. Ference was born in Edmonton, Alberta, but grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Playing career
WHL and Pittsburgh Penguins
Ference began his hockey career in the Western Hockey League (WHL) with the Portland Winterhawks. After two full seasons with the team, he was selected 208th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Ference was not ranked by Central Scouting for the draft.In response, Ference sent a letter to every NHL general manager indicating his belief he would play in the NHL and also enclosed testing results conducted by the University of Alberta. Ference played two more seasons with Portland and had a brief stint in the International Hockey League (IHL) with the Kansas City Blades before joining Pittsburgh in 1999. After making his NHL debut on October 1, 1999, in a game against the Dallas Stars, Ference scored his first NHL goal a month later against the Nashville Predators on November 13, 1999. He split his rookie season between Pittsburgh and their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, finishing with 6 points (2 goals, 4 assists) in 30 NHL games and 28 points (8 goals, 20 assists) in 44 AHL games. The next season, Ference continued to share time between both Penguins teams. <mask> played in his first NHL playoffs with Pittsburgh in 2001, playing 18 games and scoring 3 goals and 10 points before the Penguins were eliminated by the New Jersey Devils. In his third NHL season, Ference established himself as a full-time NHLer, scoring 11 points in 75
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games.Calgary Flames and NHL Lockout
On February 9, 2003, in the middle of the 2002–03 season, <mask> was traded to the Calgary Flames for future considerations. He posted 4 assists in 16 games during the remainder of the season with Calgary. The next season, he registered 16 points with 4 goals and 12 assists in 72 games for Calgary and also played 26 playoff games posting 3 assists. Calgary reached the Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning. With the 2004–05 NHL season suspended due to a lock-out, <mask> played in the Czech Republic for HC České Budějovice. <mask> returned to the Flames when the NHL restarted the next season. He played all 82 games of the season for the first time in his career, scoring 4 goals, and 27 assists for a career high 31 points.Boston Bruins
The following season, on February 10, 2007, he was traded, along with teammate Chuck Kobasew, to the Boston Bruins for defenceman Brad Stuart and centre Wayne Primeau. Ference scored 1 goal, along with 15 assists, during the 2008–09 NHL season. On March 23, 2010, he agreed on a three-year contract extension with the Bruins worth an annual average salary of $2.25 million. On April 22, 2011, Ference was fined $2,500 for an obscene gesture to the crowd at the Bell Centre in Game 4 of the playoffs first round series against the Montreal Canadiens. Ference's initial comments after the incident indicated it was an "equipment malfunction," though he later confessed it had been an intentional gesture following an emotional playoff goal. Some teammates credited this incident as a turning point in their eventual Stanley Cup Victory. In the Bruins 4–3 game 7 victory over the Montreal of the same series, Ference drew much ire for a questionable collision to the head of Canadiens' Jeff Halpern, but upon a disciplinary hearing it was ruled that the hit did
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includes over 500 players who purchase carbon offset credits to counteract the negative environmental impact of professional sports. In February 2012, National Geographic began a ten-episode Web series called "Beyond the Puck" highlighting <mask>'s life as a NHL Player and "eco-warrior."Stanley Cup Parade
On September 5, 2011, following the Bruins Stanley Cup championship, Ference organized and led a parade and flash mob in Boston's North End, which is the area where he resided during the NHL season. After bringing the Stanley Cup to and from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital on a bike trailer, Ference brought the Cup to an area of the North End outside the TD Garden. There, the Cup was hoisted up on a platform carried by friends and family, and paraded through the North End, with many stops at local shops along the way. Ference and the other Cup-carriers were accompanied by a marching band, members of The Boston Bruins Ice Girls, and the Boston Bruins mascot Blades. Hundreds of fans also joined them for the parade, which was concluded with a dancing flash mob. Other
Ference is a fan of English Premier League football club Arsenal F.C. Ference is also a member of the popular November Project workout tribe in Boston and Edmonton.Career statistics
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Boston Bruins players
Calgary Flames players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Edmonton Oilers players
Ice hockey people from Alberta
Kansas City Blades players
Memorial Cup winners
Motor České Budějovice players
Pittsburgh Penguins draft picks
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Portland Winterhawks players
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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins players
King Clancy Memorial Trophy winners
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<mask>, III (born January 26, 1990) is a former American football safety. He previously played safety and quarterback for the Purdue Boilermakers. <mask> attended Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala, Florida, where he played both football and baseball, and competed in track & field. <mask> led Trinity Catholic to two conference championships and a runner-up in the 2B State Championship game. He ended his high school football career with over 4,300 total yards and 39 touchdowns. After his senior season, he moved on to Purdue University where he redshirted in 2009. In his first collegiate appearance, <mask> ran for 16-yards against Notre Dame.He would later assume the starting quarterback position after an injury to <mask>. His first career start was against Northwestern, which saw him lead the Boilermakers to a 20-17 win on the road lead by his career high, 132 yards rushing. <mask> went on to start 5 games for the season, with a 3-game set back, which he injured a finger on his throwing hand. Against Minnesota he had a career-high running for 3 touchdowns. In the final game of the season against Indiana he had a career-high 252 yard passing and 3 touchdown passes. He became the first Purdue quarterback to lead the Boilermakers in both passing and rushing yardage in the same season, with 996 passing yards and 547 yards rushing. After a starting quarterback battle in the off season, <mask> was named the Boilermakers' starting quarterback for the 2011 season and was voted co-captain, but he tore the ACL in his right knee.With backup Marve still recovering from his owen ACL injury, Caleb TerBush took over as the starting quarterback in their place.
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<mask> returned in 2012, and was named the third-string quarterback behind TerBush and Marve. To get on the field, the Boilermakers used <mask> as both a running back and wide receiver, in addition to quarterbacking. <mask> was named the starting quarterback for the Boilermakers during 2013 fall camp. <mask> beat out true freshman, Danny Etling, and redshirt freshman, Austin Appleby. <mask> started the first 5 games of the season for the Boilermakers, before being replaced just before halftime during their 5 game of the season by Etling. The week following <mask>'s removal from quarterback, he was moved to safety.High school career
<mask> went to Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala, Florida. There he was coached by John Brantley, and was a Mr. Football finalist and first team all-state after passing for 2,600 yards and 24 touchdowns as senior, while rushing for 350 yards and six touchdowns. He led the Celtics to the 2B state championship game, but lost 21–17 to Pahokee High School. As a result, he was named to Reebok Florida Phenoms third team. It wasn't clear if he would start as a junior, but he won the battle, and went on to pass for 1,100 yards and 10 touchdowns while also rushing for 250 yards and five scores, while missing some time with a knee injury. He was a two-time all-county selection in football, and led his team to state finals his senior season. As a freshman and sophomore, he played free safety and wide receiver, while John Brantley was at quarterback.He was a first team all-division his freshman and sophomore seasons. He also participated in basketball and track and field. <mask> committed to Purdue University on July 23, 2008.
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He choose Purdue over football scholarships from Vanderbilt University and Northern Illinois University. College career
2009 season
In 2009, <mask> sat for the season using his redshirt to learn head coach Danny Hope's offense. 2010 season
The 2010 season began with <mask> slated second on the depth chart behind transfer, <mask>. However, Hope said that <mask> would see playing time even if the game was still undecided.Against Notre Dame, <mask> only got three carries for 16 yards. After a win against Minnesota, he was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week. He was named the team's Leonard Wilson Award winner (unselfishness and dedication). He was also the first Purdue quarterback in school history to lead the team in both rushing and passing yardage in a season. He completed 86 of 162 pass attempts (53.1 percent) for 996 yards with eight touchdowns and seven interceptions, while rushing for 547 yards and four touchdowns on 104 attempts (5.3 yards per carry). For the season, <mask> appeared in 11 games, making seven starts in 2010. 2011 season
After a starting quarterback battle in the off season, <mask> was named the Boilermakers' starting quarterback for the 2011 season, but he tore the ACL in his right knee.With backup Marve still recovering from his own ACL injury, Caleb TerBush took over as the starting quarterback in their place. 2012 season
<mask> entered his junior season looking at splitting playing time with TerBush and Marve. With TerBush working mostly with the first team, he was expected to start the first game of the year, until it was announced (one hour prior to gametime) that he had been suspended and Marve was the starting
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quarterback. <mask> was promoted to second string, seeing most of his action in the second half of play. <mask> finished the day 7 for 9 passing for 1 touchdown and 1 interception. After not playing in the Notre Dame game, <mask> was named the backup against Eastern Michigan, as Marve was sidelined with his third ACL tear. <mask> played a few plays in the second quarter, before seeing increased playing time in the 3rd quarter due to the Boilermakers large lead.Most of his plays came throwing the ball, as Coach Hope felt that was his largest area in need of improvement. 2013 season
With Marve and TerBush out of the mix due to graduation, and new Purdue head coach Darrell Hazell, <mask> entered fall camp with the Boilermakers competing with freshmen Danny Etling and Austin Appleby for Purdue's starting quarterback spot. Two weeks before the regular season opener at Cincinnati, Hazell named <mask>'s starting quarterback. Statistics
As of the end of the 2013 regular season, <mask>'s statistics are as follows:
<mask> had a 3–9 career record as the starting quarterback for Purdue. Professional career
Prior to the 2014 NFL Draft, <mask> was projected to be undrafted by NFLDraftScout.com. He was rated as the thirty-fourth-best quarterback in the draft. On May 10, 2014, <mask> signed as an undrafted free agent with the Oakland Raiders.Playing style
<mask> is a dual-threat quarterback, known more for his ability to run the ball, than for his throwing arm. References
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Purdue profile
1990 births
Living people
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Purdue Boilermakers football players
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<mask> (born 19 December 1954) is a British novelist, translator, author and professor of literature. Career
He is the author of eighteen novels (notably Europa, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997). His first novel, Tongues of Flame, won both the Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1986. In the same year, <mask> was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Loving Roger. Other highly praised titles were Shear, Destiny, Judge Savage, Cleaver, and In Extremis. He has also had a number of stories published in The New Yorker. Since the 1990s <mask> has written frequently for both the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, as well as publishing various works of non-fiction, most notably A Season with Verona, shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and Teach Us to Sit Still, shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.Between 1993 and 2019 <mask> taught as a university professor at IULM University, Milan. He is also a translator and has translated works by Alberto Moravia, Antonio Tabucchi, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Niccolò Machiavelli and Giacomo Leopardi. His non-fiction book Translating Style has been described as "canonical in the field of translation studies". He twice won the John Florio Prize for translations from the Italian. In 2011 he co-curated the exhibition Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and a book of the same title was published in 2012 by Giunti. . The exhibition was loosely based on <mask>' book Medici Money: Banking,
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Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. Personal life
<mask> married Rita Baldassarre in 1979.The couple have three children. They divorced in 2017. Bibliography
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Home Thoughts, 1987. Family Planning, 1989. The trials and tribulations of a mother, father and their children as they cope with the unexpected and sometimes violent behaviour of Raymond, who is suffering from a mental illness but will not agree to professional help. Cara Massimina, 1990, a murder story first published under the pseudonym "John MacDowell", but later in the author's own name. Later released in the US under the title Juggling the Stars.Goodness, 1991. Shear, 1993. Mimi's Ghost, 1995, sequel of Cara Massimina. Europa, 1997. Destiny, 1999. Judge Savage, 2003. Rapids, 2005.Talking About It, 2005. A collection of short stories. Cleaver, 2006. Dreams of Rivers and Seas, 2008. The Server, 2012. Published in paperback as Sex is Forbidden. Painting Death, 2014.Book 3 in the Cara Massimina trilogy. Thomas and Mary: A Love Story, 2016. In Extremis, 2017. Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal, 2020. Non-fiction
Italian Neighbours, 1992. Relates how the author and his wife came to a small town near Verona and how they integrate and become accustomed to the unusual habits of their newfound neighbours. An Italian Education, 1996.Follow up to Italian Neighbours and recounts the milestones in the life of the author's children as they progress through the Italian school system. Translating Style, 1997. Adultery and Other Diversions, 1999. Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and
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Writing from Dante to Rushdie, 2001. A Season With Verona, following the fortunes of Hellas Verona F.C. in season 2000–2001. Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, 2005.The Fighter: Essays, 2007. Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing, 2010, Harvill Secker, . In this book, <mask> describes his search for relief from chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS). His urologist thinks surgery will be the only solution, but after several examinations, no clear cause is found for the pain. <mask> wonders if the pain can be (partly) psychosomatic. In his search, he reads the book A Headache in the Pelvis: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Treating Chronic Pelvic Pain () by psychologist (and long time CPPS-sufferer) David Wise and neurourologist Rodney Anderson (Stanford University), in which the authors describe methods of 'paradoxical relaxation' to prevent chronic tensing of the pelvic musculature. <mask> starts doing the recommended relaxation-exercises daily, and later on, also practices Vipassana-meditation.He experiences his body and life in a new way, and the pain diminishes for the most part. Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, 2013. Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books, 2014. The Novel: A Survival Skill, 2015. A Literary Tour of Italy, 2015. Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them, 2016. Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness, 2018."Her Programme," in Writers and Their Mothers, Dale Salwak, ed., 2018. Pen in Hand: Reading,
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Original title Ka. Roberto Calasso, Literature and the Gods, New York: Knopf, 2000.Original title La letteratura e gli dei. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, Penguin Classics, 2009. Original title Principe. Giacomo Leopardi, Passions, Penguin Classics, 2014. Original title Le passioni. Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires, Penguin Classics, 2021. Original title La luna e i falò.Secondary literature
2003: Gillian Fenwick: Understanding <mask>. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, . 2001: Gillian Fenwick: "<mask> (19 December 1954 - )," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 231: British Novelists Since 1960, Fourth Series. United States Gale, . Notes
External links
Interview with <mask> in Bomb
Interview with <mask> in The Quarterly Conversation, 4 March 2013. Interview with 3:AM
Review of Destiny at Spike Magazine
Review of Europa at The Occasional Review
Parks author page and archive from The New York Review of Books
Parks author page and archive from The London Review of Books
Official website of <mask>
Without Illusions: Jonathan J. Clarke interviews <mask>, Los Angeles Review of Books, 6 July 2016.1954 births
Living people
20th-century English male writers
20th-century British novelists
21st-century English male writers
21st-century British novelists
Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge
British male novelists
British non-fiction writers
Harvard University alumni
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners
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New Statesman people
The New York Review of Books people
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<mask> (born 19 April 1988) is an Australian kayaker. She represented Australia at 2012 Summer Olympics in the K-4 500 m event. Personal
Nicknamed Goanna, Brigga, JBJ, <mask> and <mask>e, <mask> was born on 19 April 1988 in Mona Vale, New South Wales. She attended Newport Public School before going to Oxford Falls Grammar School and Freshwater Senior Campus for high school. From 2006 to 2010, she attended the University of Technology, Sydney where she earned a Bachelor of Nursing. She earned a Graduate Diploma of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) from Charles Sturt University. In 2010, she injured her shoulder which required ten months out of competitive sport.In 2013, she again injured her shoulder, requiring another long period out of sport. She is a nurse and a paramedic. , she lives in the Sydney suburb of Mona Vale. <mask> raced for Australia at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the K4 500m event. Her crew finished in 9th place. <mask> is a World Championship medalist, having won a Bronze medal in the K2 200m event at the 2011 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary. Brigden-<mask> is a member of the Manly Surf Life Saving Club.She started surf lifesaving when she was six years old through an Australian programme called Nippers. In her mid-teens, she left the sport for a while but took it up again when she was nineteen. At that time, she added surfski paddling to her surf lifesaving competition events. She has competed for Manly in surf lifesaving competitions. Brigden-<mask> is tall and weighs . Kayaking
Brigden-<mask> came into the kayaking in 2001 following a talent identification program. <mask> made her first Australian Team at the age of 15.She raced in Europe as part of the Australian Junior Kayak Team and won her first international medal at the prestigious Bochum Regatta in Germany. She won a silver medal in the U16 K1 1000m. Her primary training base is Narrabeen, Sydney with
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a secondary training base on the Gold Coast of Queensland. Her international training base is in Varese, Italy, the same location as the Australian Institute of Sport European Training Centre. She is a member of the Sydney Northern Beaches Kayak Club, and has a canoe scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport and the NSW Institute of Sport. In 2010, Brigden-<mask> was ranked second in the world in the solo kayak paddler event. She finished third in the K2 200m event and fifth in the K4 500m event at the 2011 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.She finished 7th in the K4 500m event at the 2011 World Cup 3 in Duisburg, Germany. She finished fifth in the K4 500m event at the 2011 World Cup 2 in Racice, Czech Republic. She finished first in the K4 500m event at the 2012 Oceania Championships in Penrith, Australia. She finished first in the K4 500m event at the 2012 National Championships in Penrith, Australia. At a 2012 World Cup event in Moscow in the two person kayak, she finished first. Brigden-<mask> was selected to represent Australia at 2012 Summer Olympics in the K-4 500 m event. The London Games will be her Olympic debut.Before the start of the Games, she and her canoe teammates trained in Italy at the AIS European Training Centre located in Varese. <mask> and her teammates finish 9th at the London 2012 Olympic Games. In 2016, <mask> controversially missed selection for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. In the domestic selection trails, Brigden-<mask> had 3 wins in K1 races and 3 second places in K1 and K2 races. She was then forced into a race off with teammate Naomi Flood at the World Cup in Duisburg. But both athletes were racing in different events but their results were compared. <mask> was only allowed to race the K1 200m event, and was not allowed to contest her preferred distance, the 500m.As a result of the World Cup race, <mask> was not selected for the 2016 Rio
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Olympic Team. Following the 2016 World Cup, <mask> commenced work as a paramedic with NSW Ambulance. <mask> had planned to hang up her paddle and retire from kayaking. <mask> was drawn back to paddling, as she loves the sport and has great friends who were still training and racing. <mask> decided to go along to training to keep fit and for the coffee catch ups after training. It was her competitive nature that kicked in and she decided to keep racing. Incredibly at the 2017 National Championships, <mask> won the K1 200m.Even <mask> was baffled, but delighted. <mask> hadn't been able to train as much as she used to given her full-time shift work hours. <mask> continued to pursue full-time work and training and went on to race internationally bringing home two silver medals at the World Cups and a place in the K1 500m A final at the World Championships. In 2018, The Australian women's K4 500 (Alyce Burnett (QLD), Alyssa Bull (NSW) and Jaime Roberts (WA), <mask>-<mask> (NSW)), canoe sprint team shocked even themselves with a stunning silver medal at the ICF World Cup in Szeged, Hungary. The Australian crew, which only came together two months ago, chased the highly rated New Zealand team to the line, and in the process set the fastest ever time for a women's K4 500 crew. The crew went on to place 7th at the 2018 World Championships in Portugal. In 2019, <mask> and her K4 teammates qualified Australia a K4 500m quota position for Australia to race at the Tokyo Olympic Games, when they finished 7th at the 2019 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.<mask> is currently in training to qualify herself onto the Australian Olympic Team for 2020. <mask> has been named on Australian Kayak Teams every year since 2004. This includes Australian Junior Team, Australian Youth Olympic Festival, Under 23 Team, Senior Team and Olympic Team. <mask> holds 38 Australian National Titles over various boat
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categories and distances. Career
After finishing high school in 2005, <mask> began studying a Bachelor of Nursing at the University of Technology, Sydney. <mask> was supported by UTS through the Elite Athlete Program during her years studying at UTS. She worked as a Registered Nurse on a casual basis from 2012 to 2015.In 2012, she started studying a Post Graduate course in Paramedics through Charles Sturt University. She managed her study alongside her training and her work as a RN. <mask> commenced work in her dream career as a Paramedic in 2016. <mask> had wanted to become a paramedic since she was 10 years old. <mask> currently works full-time as a Paramedic for NSW Ambulance. Awards, Honours and roles
Honours
Post nominal initials - OLY, Olympian
Manly Pathway of Olympians - plaque placed in 2013 for Olympian status
Australia Day Ambassador 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019
Awards
Australia Day Award 2018
NSW Institute of Sport - Personal Excellence Award
Charles Sturt University Distance Education Sports Person of the Year 2012 & 2014
Sport Achievement Award - Australian Institute of Sport 2011
Paddle NSW Female Paddler of the Year 2011
Pittwater Council - Sportsperson of the Year 2010
University of Technology, Sydney, Sportswoman of the Year 2008 & 2009
University of Technology, Sydney, Full Blue award 2008 & 2009
Layne Beachley 'Aim For the Stars Foundation' scholarship
Roles
NSW Institute of Sport, Athlete Advisory group member
Australian Institute of Sport and Lifeline Community Custodian
Australian Olympic Committee - Olympians Unleashed program
NSW Premier Sporting Challenge Ambassador
References
Living people
1988 births
Australian female canoeists
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Australian Institute of Sport canoeists
Olympic canoeists of Australia
New South Wales Institute of Sport alumni
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Karolina Myroslavivna Kuiek (born 27 September 1978), popularly known as <mask>, is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and former UN Goodwill Ambassador. Having received Ukraine's most prestigious and honorary title, the People's Artist of Ukraine, <mask> has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential women in her country, as well as ranked one of the most beautiful women from Eastern Europe. <mask> reported the highest income of all singers in Ukraine in 2014. <mask> became known outside of the former Soviet Union after she represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "Shady Lady", coming in second place behind Dima Bilan from Russia. Early life
<mask> had a notably tough childhood, which she later claimed shaped her personality. <mask> was born in the provincial city of Kitsman, Chernivtsi Oblast in Western Ukraine. She lived in the same house as Hero of Ukraine, singer and composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk spent his childhood as <mask>'s maternal grandfather had bought it from the Ivasyuks after they had decided to move away from Kitsman.Prior to her birth, her parents – a journalist and an announcer – had separated, however, her mother chose to still give Lorak her father's surname upon her birth. Lorak developed the desire to become a singer as early as the age of four. She often performed at various school vocal competitions. As a child, she listened a lot to Russian singers such as Alla Pugacheva and Larisa Dolina, which were popular at the time she was young. Speaking Ukrainian as her native language, Lorak was raised by a single mother. After having lived in Kitsman for several years, the
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family moved to Chernivtsi, where they lived in bitter poverty. From the age of six until seventh class, she and her brothers were placed in a foster home in Chernivtsi as her mother was unable to provide for her children full-time.When she was nine, her eldest brother Serhii died while in combat during the Soviet–Afghan War. Lorak's eldest brother had gone there to receive money to take Lorak and her two brothers out of the foster home. Serhii had also been the first one to recognise her musical potential. When the family was given an apartment in Chernivtsi after all, Lorak was subject to severe bullying in her new school due to her poor background. Career
1992-1998: Early career in Ukraine and first albums
In 1992, at the age of 13, she took part in the Chernivtsi singing competition Pervotsvit, which she won. There, she met Yuriy Falyosa, who became her first producer. As a result, at the age of 15, she signed her first professional contract for the duration of ten years.In that timeframe, as part of her contract duties, she was not allowed to marry or give birth. Kuiek became known as <mask> <mask> from March 1995 onwards after she took part in the popular children's music television programme Morning Star on Channel One Russia. Intending to perform there mononymously as Karolina, she was told that that was undesirable as there was another famous singer at the time in Russia who performed under that pseudonym. As a result, the stage name "<mask> <mask>" was invented, which was the name "Karolina" read backwards. After participating in "Morning Star", <mask>'s star started to rise in Ukraine. In the summer of 1995, <mask> was one of the laureates
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of the Chervona Ruta festival, that year held in Sevastopol and Simferopol, which led to her definite breakthrough in the Ukrainian show business. <mask> <mask> moved to Kyiv later that year to start recording her first album.She was named "Discovery of the Year" at the popular Ukrainian festival Tavria Games in 1996. The same year she released her first Russian-language album, "Khochu letat" (I Want to Fly). <mask> continued recording new songs in 1997. Her two videos, "Manekenschitsa" and "Bozhe moy," were filmed and the latter became a soundtrack to the movie "The Right to Choose". In the spring of 1998, her new video, "Ya vernus," was shot and in December <mask>'s second Russian-language album
"Ya vernus" was released. The mastering of this album took place in New York. Simultaneously, her two music videos "O moya lyubov" and "Dozhdlivy gorod" were filmed to accompany her new album.1999-2005: Honoured Artist of Ukraine, Ukrainian albums and first Eurovision attempt
At the outset of 1999, <mask> started her first extensive and international touring, performing in the United States, France, Germany, Hungary, and in every major city of Ukraine. In 1999, she earned the title of the Honoured Artist of Ukraine. That same year, she got acquainted with Igor Krutoy, who wrote the composition "Zerkala" for her, which brought her more initial fame in Russia. In 2000, she released her third album with Falyosa as the main producer, titled "www.anilorak.com," containing Russian, Ukrainian, and English compositions. She returned to singing completely in Ukrainian again a year later, releasing her fourth album, "Tam, de ty ye...". This was followed by a second
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album in Ukrainian, titled "Ani Lorak" in 2004, which mostly had the same songs as her 2000 album. In 2004-2005 <mask> <mask> was a UN GoodWill Ambassador in Ukraine for HIV/AIDS.In 2005, <mask> <mask> made her first attempt to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest and was virtually certain to sing the home country's entry in Kyiv, but ultimately failed to be selected. Her narrow defeat in the 2005 national pre-selection competition was particularly controversial, given that the winners – GreenJolly – were only added later and did not have to qualify for the final by winning one of the fifteen preliminary heats, unlike all other finalists. However, their song "Razom nas bahato", had a larger societal impact at the time, following the Orange Revolution. <mask> finished in second place in the Ukrainian national final with the song "A Little Shot Of Love". Afterwards, she released her first and only English-language album Smile. 2006-2012: Changes of producer, Eurovision 2008 and Solntse
In 2006, this was followed by "Rozkazhi," her ninth album, again fully in Ukrainian. Shortly after the album's release, <mask> ended her contract with Falyosa and started to work with producer Konstantin Meladze.That same year, <mask> released a duet with Meladze's brother Valery Meladze, which became <mask>'s first radio hit in Russia. In 2007, she celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of her artistry with the album 15, fully in Russian bar one song in English. However, the collaboration with Meladze quickly fell through, leaving Lorak without a producer. In 2007, <mask>'s friend and colleague Philipp Kirkorov successfully produced Belarus' Eurovision 2007 effort and
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opted to bring <mask> to Eurovision in Belgrade in 2008. In late 2007, it was announced that Ukrainian public broadcaster NTU had internally selected <mask> to represent the country at Eurovision in Belgrade, and that the public and a jury would choose the song. It was the third and last internal selection the country had before internally selecting Go_A in 2021. On 23 February 2008, Lorak performed five potential entries in a special show.The song "Shady Lady", written by Karen Kavaleryan and Philipp Kirkorov won the show with a landslide victory. Shortly after, she recorded a Russian version of her Eurovision song "Shady Lady" with the title "S neba v nebo." <mask>, similar to Dmitry Koldun a year prior, held an extensive promo campaign and visited other countries to present her song, including Malta, Russia, Bulgaria, Spain and Germany. At the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, she sang the song "Shady Lady" in the second semi-final on 23 May 2008, winning a place in the final. She took second place in the final after Dima Bilan, giving Ukraine its second runner-up position in a row and its third-best score of all-time. Italian designer Roberto Cavalli designed the ornate dress for <mask>'s performance at the contest, which was made with Swarovski Diamonds. Greek choreographer Fokas Evangelinos designed her stage show, involving four dancers.Prior to performing in the final, <mask> had won the Artistic Award, voted the most popular entry among the former winners of the contest. After her second-place finish at Eurovision, <mask> returned to Ukraine in newfound stardom. For her result, she and Philipp Kirkorov were given the title People's
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Artist of Ukraine. In Chernivtsi, where her career had taken off in 1992, she received a star on the Star Alley in the centre of the city. In 2009, she released her tenth album, Solntse, which was produced by Dimitris Kontopoulos, who had previously produced her Eurovision effort. The album became her most successful effort until that moment. In October 2009, <mask> was ranked 41st in a top 100 of "most influential women in Ukraine" compiled by experts for the Ukrainian magazine Focus.In 2010, Lorak released a compilation album titled "The Best". At the time, she continued releasing, almost exclusively in Russian and performed in countries in the Russian-speaking world. 2013-2017: Criticism for performing in Russia, Razve ty lyubil... and tour show Karolina
In 2013, <mask> returned to Greece to produce her fourteenth "Zazhigay serdtse" together with Kontopoulos. Diana Golde and Ruslan Kvinta also wrote several songs for the album. From March to June 2014, Lorak was a coach on the fourth season "Holos Krainy". During this season, she coached singer Mykyta Aliekieiev, whom she also helped to start his career. In the wake of the annexation of Crimea and the War in the Donbass, Lorak continued performing in Russia.This led to severe criticism from several politicians and parts of the Ukrainian society. During several of her concerts in Odesa and Kyiv in 2014, protesters gathered in front of the concert venues. In November 2014, activists gathered to protest against her concert in the Palace of Ukraine. A concert in Odesa was subsequently cancelled as a result. <mask>'s appearance in the New Year's programme on the television channel Inter was subject to
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severe criticism on social media. Her star on the Star Alley of Chernivtsi was first vandalised with the text "PTN GFY" and on the night of 29 to 30 January 2015, stolen. In May 2015, the Chernivtsi City Council decided to not reinstate a new star for <mask>.Meanwhile, <mask> scored large commercial success in Russia, performing several duets alongside singer Grigory Leps, which included "Ukhodi po-angliyski" and "Zerkala," which both fared well in the Russian radio charts. At the end of 2016, she released her next Russian-language album Razve ty lyubil?.... In 2017, she toured the region with the tour "Karolina." 2018-present: tour shows DIVA and The BEST
At the start of 2018, <mask> started her next tour, titled DIVA, which received positive reviews from music critics. A live album and recording of the tour were released in 2020. In Autumn 2018, <mask> became a coach at the seventh series of The Voice of Russia. In August 2019, she debuted her jubileum concert tour THE BEST.In late 2019, <mask> released her twelfth studio album Za mechtoy, for which she wrote the majority of the songs herself. In 2021, she starred in an episode of the Russia-1 television show Sud’ba cheloveka, in which she gave a rare account into her personal life and career history. Business ventures
In 2005, <mask> <mask> and her fiancé Murat opened the Angel Lounge, a restaurant that specializes in Mediterranean cuisine in the center of Kyiv. In 2009, they opened a Ukrainian travel agency called "Holiday Travel", which is a sub-division of "Turtess Travel", a company Murat works for. In 2010, <mask> became an Oriflame advert. She participated in several catalogues and developed
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a new fragrance called Chiffon by <mask> <mask>. In 2011, <mask> was announced the fifth richest singer in Ukraine, with her team's revenues amounting to $2.35 million that year.Her typical fee is $25,000-$40,000 per concert. Personal life
On 21 August 2009 <mask> married her longtime Turkish fiancé and manager Murat Nalçacıoğlu, whom she met in 2003 when vacationing in Turkey. Murat Nalçacıoğlu, is a Turkish hotel manager and travel agent. <mask> confirmed her pregnancy at the end of November 2010. Their daughter, Sophia, was born on 9 June 2011. She and her family lived in a house on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine but frequently travel to Turkey. The couple's marriage was officially annulled in January 2019.Charity
Lorak spends a lot of time on charitable activities. Since 2004-2005 <mask> has been a UN Goodwill Ambassador on HIV/AIDS in Ukraine. UNICEF and UN in Ukraine have awarded a commendation to Lorak for assistance and help to HIV-positive citizens of Ukraine. In 2005, Lorak was conferred with the St. Stanislav Order of the 4th degree and the Officer's Cross "for strengthening the international authority of Ukraine, for the high professionalism, great creative achievements, charity and adherence to the ideals of chivalry." Albums
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1992
Second prize of the Prevotsvit festival in Ukraine (Chernivtsi). 1994
First prize of the international festival Veselad (Kyiv). First prize of the international festival Dolia (Chernivtsi).1995
Winner of the "Morning Star" television contest (Moscow). Second prize of the
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all-Ukrainian festival "Chervona Ruta" (Sevastopol). 1996
Winner of the Super Final of the "Morning Star" television contest (Moscow). Winner in the "Finding of 1995" nomination of the "Tavriyski Igry" festival. Grand-Prix winner of the global competition of young performers "Big Apple Music-96" (New York). 1997
Prize-winner of the "Song-97" festival (Moscow, Kyiv). Winner of the Grand-Prix of the President of Ukraine following the results of the all-Ukrainian festival "Song Vernissage-97".1998
Award winner in the "Singer of the Year" and "Pop Music of the Year" nominations of the "Tavriyski Ihry-98" festival. 1999
Award winner in the "Singer of the Year" nomination of the "Tavriyski Ihry-99" festival. 2000
The song "Zerkala" [Mirrors] was recognized as the best club release of 2000. 2001
Award winner in the nomination "Singer of the Year" of the "Tavriyski Igry-2001" festival. "Ani Lorak Nazavzhdy" [Ani Lorak Forever] recognized as the best Ukrainian musical film of 2000. 2002
The CD 'Tam de ty ye...' becomes Gold. Ani enters the Top 100 list of the sexiest women of the world.<mask> <mask> recognized as "The Best Singer of the Year" on the "Tavriyski Igry-2002" festival. 2003
Winner in the "Singer of the Year" nomination of the "Tavriyski Igry-2003" festival (Ukraine). Recognized as the "Singer of the Year 2002" by the ELLE magazine. 2004
"Singer of the Year 2003", UBN Awards, UK. "Singer of the Year 2003" according to the ELLE magazine. Gold Disc for the "<mask> Lorak" album. 2005
<mask> <mask>'s composition "Мriy pro mene" [Dream about me] was recognized as the best song of 2004 at the "Zolotoy Gramofon" [Golden Gramophone]
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contest.The composition of <mask> <mask> "Try zvychnykh slova" [Three usual words] recognized as the best song of 2004 - at the "Zolota Zharptytsia" [Golden Firebird] competition. <mask> <mask> recognized as the best singer of 2004. Audience Choice Award "Zolota Zharptytsia". 2006
<mask> <mask> wins the international music award "Zolota Sharmanka" [Gold Sharmanka] for the song "Rozkazhy" [Tell me]. <mask> <mask> was recognized as the most beautiful woman of Ukraine by the readers of the VIVA magazine. The "Rozkazhy..." album becomes Gold according to sales results. 2008
In May 2008, <mask> <mask> became the silver prize winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.Received the "Artistic Award Eurovision Song Contest," which is awarded to the best artist of the contest. According to the magazine "Focus," <mask> <mask> is the No. 1 artist in the public interest. According to the magazine "Focus" <mask> <mask> entered the top 100 most influential women in Ukraine. 2009
According to Eurovision Song Contest Radio <mask> <mask> with the song "Shady lady" became "Best singer of 2008". In March 2009, <mask> <mask> was awarded the "Person of the Year" award in the nomination "Idol of Ukrainians." 2010
At the presentation of the annual WORLD FASHION AWARDS 2010 award, the International TV channel on World Fashion WORLD FASHION CHANNEL recognized <mask> <mask> as a Fashion singer.In December, <mask> <mask> received the Golden Gramophone for the song "For You" and was awarded the "Song of the Year" diploma as the author of music and the co-author of the words. 2011
In March, at the awarding of the "Personality of the Year" award, <mask> <mask> received
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the award in the "Star Solo" nomination. 2012
In December <mask> gets "Gold Gramophone" award for the song "Obnimi menya krepche" ("Hug Me Tight"), and the song "Obnimi Menya" ("Hug Me") awarded "Song of the Year." According to "Seven Days" magazine <mask> <mask> is the most beautiful woman in Russia. 2013
In March <mask> <mask> became "the most beautiful woman" according to the Viva! magazine. At the ceremony "Persons of the Year, 2012" <mask> <mask> got the Personality of Ukrainian Culture award.<mask> <mask> got "Choreography of the Year" from RU.TV channel at the Russian Music Awards ceremony, which took place on May, 25. This summer at the Muz-TV 2013 Award in Moscow <mask> <mask> was named as "The Best Performer of the Year" and got the long-awaited plate. 2014
In May, <mask> <mask> received awards from the music channel RU.TV in two categories: "Best duet" for a song with Grigory Leps "Mirrors" and "Karolina" show had won in the nomination "The best concert show of the year". In June, <mask> <mask> became the owner of a special award from the recording company «Panik Records» for the sale of her English-language single, «I'm Alive» in the iTunes Store in Greece. On September 20 <mask> <mask> took part in the annual ceremony EMA. Eurasian Music Award held at the Central Stadium in Almaty. The singer became the owner of the prestigious award in the category "Best Artist of Eurasia."In December, <mask> <mask> received the "Golden Gramophone" award for song with Grigory Leps "Mirrors." And the singer became the winner of the "Song of the Year - 2014" award for the song "Slow" on "Inter" TV channel. 2015
<mask> <mask> won the nomination
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