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works as a color commentator for national baseball coverage on TBS, as well as for the Mets on both SNY and WPIX; he also co-hosts several MLB Network programs. Early life
<mask> was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a Hawaiian-Chinese mother and a French-Canadian father.After growing up in Millbury, Massachusetts, he attended St. John's High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. College
<mask> was recruited to play college football as a quarterback at Yale University for the Yale Bulldogs football team. <mask> transitioned to defensive back after finding that Yale had a glut of talent at the quarterback position. He quit the team after his freshman season and focused instead on baseball. He initially played shortstop for the Yale Bulldogs baseball team. Later in his collegiate career, he agreed to pitch only on the condition that he be allowed to play shortstop and outfield on his days off. In 1980, <mask> played collegiate summer baseball for the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL).He batted .336 with six home runs while posting a 4–3 mark on the mound. At the league's all-star game at Yankee Stadium, he singled, doubled and homered as the CCBL left fielder, then came on in the final inning to pitch in relief, preserving the CCBL's one-run victory over the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League. <mask> was named the league's MVP and outstanding pro prospect, and was inducted into the CCBL Hall of Fame in 2002. On May 21, 1981, <mask> faced future Mets teammate Frank Viola, then playing for St.
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John's University, in an NCAA post-season game, and he had a no-hitter through 11 innings. In the 12th inning, St. John's broke up the no-hitter and then scored on a double-steal to beat Yale 1–0. <mask>'s performance remains the longest no-hitter in NCAA history, and the game is considered by some to be the best in college baseball history and was the subject of a New Yorker story by Roger Angell, who attended the game. <mask> was set to graduate in December 1982, but he was drafted by the Texas Rangers in June 1981.<mask> went on to play more games in Major League Baseball than any Yale alumnus since 19th-century pitcher Bill Hutchinson. He was the last former Yale Bulldog to reach the Major Leagues until pitcher Craig Breslow made his debut in (and was not followed by another Yale player until catcher Ryan Lavarnway in 2011). Career
Minor leagues
<mask> was selected in the first round (ninth overall) of the MLB draft by the Texas Rangers. He put up mediocre numbers with the AA Tulsa Drillers. He was traded along with Walt Terrell from the Rangers to the Mets for Lee Mazzilli on April 1, . For the Mets, <mask> and Terrell would eventually combine for seven double-digit win seasons. Three seasons later, the Mets traded Terrell to the Detroit Tigers for Howard Johnson.For Texas, Mazzilli never regained his limited glory of the late 1970s. <mask> would have compiled decent numbers with the AAA Tidewater Tides in 1982 and except for very high base on balls counts during both seasons. Despite his control
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problems, <mask> was called up to the majors in late 1983. The Mets had the worst record in the National League and second-worst in the majors when <mask> debuted on September 6, 1983. He was impressive in that start but left the game down 1–0 and the Mets lost 2–0. The Mets were also last in offense in the N.L. Each of <mask>'s first three starts—in which he went 0–3—were all decent pitching performances (11 strikeouts, 9 walks, 2.08 ERA, and 6 runs over the course of the three starts).He finished his season with a complete game victory and was in the Majors for good. New York Mets
Building to a championship
In , <mask> won a spot in the starting rotation and maintained a spot there almost uninterrupted until . While his early walk percentages were poor—he even led the league in walks in —he never again showed the terrible walk percentages he had while playing AAA ball. With <mask> and Terrell each getting their first long-term chances in the Majors and with the debut of young star and eventual Rookie of the Year Dwight Gooden, the Mets went from second-worst in the majors in 1983 to fourth-best in the majors in 1984; the Mets finished second-best in their division and missed the postseason. <mask> had difficulty pitching on the road in 1984 compared to pitching at pitcher-friendly Shea Stadium; his road ERA was more than 50% higher than his home ERA. He had a streak of seven wins in seven starts in June (5–0) and July (1.88 ERA) including a pair of complete game four-hit shutouts, but the other two-thirds
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of the season were not nearly as successful. The Mets were in first place at the end of July but <mask>'s 2–6 record the rest of the way was little help, and the Chicago Cubs won the division by games.<mask> finished 12–9 overall with a 3.81 ERA. The 1985 season was an improvement for <mask>, despite a career-high and NL-leading 114 walks. His April included a one-hit seven-inning no-decision and a five-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts. On July 4, <mask> pitched on one day of rest, making the only relief appearance of his first seven seasons during a marathon 19-inning 16–13 win. <mask> finished the legendary game in which 13 runs were scored in the extra innings alone; during that game, the Mets blew four leads and nearly blew a fifth. After starting 9–2, he was selected to his only All-Star team but did not participate in the game. Overall, he posted his career-best winning percentage in 1985 with a 16–6 record.His record could have been even better but in eight of his starts, he received seven no-decisions and a loss despite allowing less than two earned runs in each game. On October 1, <mask> pitched nine shutout innings on only four hits, but the game was scoreless until the 11th. The Mets narrowly missed the postseason, but <mask> established himself as a clear number-two starter behind Gooden's untouchable 24–4 season. World Series
In , everything came together for the Mets, and <mask> was no exception. He finished with a 15–6 record and posted a career-best 2.81 ERA, which was third-best in the NL. He
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also received the only Cy Young Award votes of his career, finishing fifth behind Mike Scott of the Astros. The Mets led the way most of the season, and their top four starters all received Cy Young votes.On May 27, <mask> tied his career-high with 12 strikeouts in a five-hit complete game victory which, despite a poor April, raised his record to 6–0. He was good on the road but even better at home with a 10–2 record at Shea. His worst blemish was off the field when on July 19, he and teammates Bob Ojeda, Rick Aguilera, and Tim Teufel were arrested outside a bar in Houston for fighting with security guards (who were also off-duty police officers). All four were released in time for the following game. <mask> and Teufel pleaded guilty in 1987 to a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest, were sentenced to a year of probation, and were ordered to pay $200 fines. The probation period was cancelled by a judge one month later. The incident fed into the Mets' reputation as a rowdy crew that season, although Jeff Pearlman, in writing about the incident in his book "The Bad Guys Won" shows an irony that while for many members of the team, such an incident would have come as no surprise, the four players involved were among the few exceptions, and the scuffle was out of character for them, started when the normally placid Tim Teufel—being treated to drinks by the others to celebrate becoming a father—got more drunk than he ever had in his life and mouthed off to security guards who were looking for a fight.Despite the
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run-in, <mask> was featured on the cover of the August 25 issue of Sports Illustrated. The 1986 National League Championship Series was tied 1–1 when <mask> started Game 3, but he pitched poorly and left after giving up four runs in five innings. The Mets recovered to win both the game and eventually the series. <mask> opened the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. He pitched extremely well in Game 1, allowing only a single unearned run over seven innings, but lost a hard-luck 1–0 game to Bruce Hurst. With the Mets in danger of falling into a 3–1 series deficit, <mask> started Game 4 and extended his 0.00 ERA to 14 innings as the Mets won easily, 6–2. After Game 6, the Red Sox bounced back in Game 7, scoring three early runs against <mask>.Shaky into the fourth inning, <mask> was relieved, but the Mets recovered to win their second World Championship. Post-championship decline
<mask> went 12–8 in but had to battle most of the way, as did the rest of the team. <mask>'s April ERA was over 6.00, and he did not win a game in either May or June, going 0–4 with 8 no-decisions between victories. He rebounded to win six consecutive starts after the All-Star break, but a good second half only lowered his ERA to 4.29—the worst of his first seven seasons. On June 28, <mask> had a no-hitter through seven innings, but the Mets wound up losing the game. They were poised for a run at the division in mid-September when <mask> went out with one of the few injuries of his career. He missed the last couple weeks of the
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season and the Mets missed the postseason.In , <mask> bounced back with a career-high 17 wins. He started quickly with two shutouts in his first four games. A first-half 10–5 record with 3 shutouts and a 2.70 ERA were not enough to earn an All-Star spot. On the season, he compiled a career-high 4 shutouts but also suffered one of his worst games, getting knocked out in the first inning of an 11–2 loss on July 19. <mask>'s home-versus-road discrepancy was enormous as he went 14–1 at Shea and only 3–8 on the road with a road ERA more than twice as high as his home ERA. He finished the season strong, winning his last five decisions. The Mets coasted into the playoffs, but <mask> pitched poorly in the 1988 National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.With the series tied 1–1, he fell into an early 3–0 hole, but the Mets bounced back twice to win 8–4. In the deciding Game 7, <mask> was again matched against 1988's best pitcher, Orel Hershiser, and he was over-matched. <mask> gave up six runs and was knocked out in the second inning while Hershiser pitched a five-hit shutout, shocking the Mets and winning the series' Most Valuable Player award. The one-sided game was the last postseason appearance for the Mets until 1999. After their 100-win 1988 season ended, the Mets started a decline that lasted well into the 1990s. <mask>'s started as poorly as 1988 had ended when he lost his first 3 starts with an ERA of 11.57. He recovered with a good May but was inconsistent for the entire season,
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finishing 14–14 with a 3.52 ERA.<mask>'s five losses in his last seven starts contributed to the Mets missing the postseason. <mask> did become the first Mets pitcher to win the Gold Glove Award. He was also the last NL pitcher to win the award before Greg Maddux's remarkable streak of 13 consecutive Gold Gloves. On August 10, 1989, <mask> won his 83rd game with the Mets to move him past Jon Matlack into fourth on the Mets' all-time wins list where he remains today (behind Tom Seaver, Dwight Gooden, and Jerry Koosman). In , the Mets were in transition, and manager Davey Johnson's job was in jeopardy. <mask> was sent to the bullpen part-time for the first time in his career. His first relief performance in late April went well but was followed by three terrible starts.The rest of his season was a mix of starting and relief. With an ERA of 4.60 in late August, <mask> was in the bullpen for the next month. He made two starts to close out his season and won them both, but the Mets could not catch the Pittsburgh Pirates. In total, 1990 was <mask>'s first losing season (7–9) and it was his worst ERA to-date. Trade and American League
<mask> was back in the New York Mets' starting rotation in . Although his pitching was improved over 1990, he was still inconsistent, winning three games with scoreless pitching but getting hit hard in many other games. Unlike previous seasons, <mask> posted poor numbers at Shea Stadium while pitching well on the road.He pitched scoreless two-hit ball over eight innings against the
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Montreal Expos on the road in his second-last game with the Mets. On July 15, 1991, <mask> was traded with a minor leaguer to Montreal for former closer Tim Burke. <mask>'s three starts for Montreal were poor, with an ERA of 7.41, and on July 31, 1991, the Expos traded him to the Oakland Athletics for two minor leaguers. After the <mask> trades, the Expos were left with three minor leaguers, none of whom played more than two games in the majors. With Oakland, <mask> immediately logged two seven-inning scoreless starts and won his first three decisions. Then, his poor control returned and <mask> lost seven straight decisions including his last six starts. In three of those losses, he allowed two or fewer runs.Oakland, coming off its third consecutive league pennant, was barely above .500 before acquiring <mask>. His acquisition did little to affect Oakland's record. After the 1991 season, <mask> became a free agent and re-signed with Oakland. In , he had his last quality year, finishing with more than 200 innings pitched, a 3.66 ERA, and 15 wins. Inconsistent for most of the season, <mask> also showed flashes of brilliance, including three complete game two-hit shutouts—the only two-hitters of his career. He was the victim of poor run support including a no-decision seven-inning one-hitter that was nearly a loss, an eight-inning two-hitter that turned into a no-decision after an unearned run, and two other games where he allowed one earned run and took the loss. <mask> finished with the best record on the team
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percentage-wise.Oakland coasted into the postseason with little trouble, and <mask> was called to start Game 3 with the series tied. He pitched well but gave up two costly home runs and took the loss. The A's went on to lose Games 4 and 6 as well and <mask> never again pitched in the postseason. <mask> re-signed with Oakland again after 1992, this time a multi-year deal for over $2 million per season, but he was unable to repeat his 1992 performance. The season was awful for <mask>. Through July, his ERA hovered around 6.00, and he was relegated to long relief for over a week. He pitched better after July, lowering his ERA to 5.16, but lost five of his last six decisions.Outside of July, <mask>'s would have been as bad as 1993. In July, he won five starts with one no-decision with an ERA under three. It was <mask>'s last hurrah. He stumbled through two starts in August before the 1994 Major League Baseball strike ended the season. With his torrid July, <mask> reached double digits in wins once again but finished under .500 with a 4.50 ERA. <mask> led the American League with 25 games started despite pitching that was average at best. When the strike lasted into , <mask> started terribly, logging an ERA over 9.00 in his four starts without making it through the fifth inning in any of them.His only complete game of the season ended with a 1–0 loss on May 30. <mask> won only four games with an ERA of 6.23. After a bad loss, Oakland released him on August 19, 1995 (his 35th birthday), bringing his playing career
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to an end. Career statistics
In a thirteen-season major league career, <mask> posted a 136–116 won-loss record with 1,590 strikeouts and a 3.87 ERA in 1,620 innings pitched, including 13 shutouts and 37 complete games. He ranks fourth in Mets team history in wins (99) and is also in the top 10 in complete games, innings, strikeouts and shutouts. Post-retirement
Since 2000, <mask> has been active in television. He worked as a broadcaster for the Oakland Athletics, had a Fox show called Baseball Today, and appeared on The Best Damn Sports Show Period.He also provided baseball analysis for the YES Network, Fox Sports Net and, in 2004, CSTV. <mask> appeared on the Hall of Fame balloting for 2001, receiving only one vote and thus was removed from further consideration. On January 28, 2020, the Mets announced that <mask> would be inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame on May 17 in a ceremony at Citi Field. The ceremony was moved to July 31, 2021. In 2005, <mask> was involved in banking ventures in Southern California. He was then hired to be the television color commentator for the inaugural season of the Washington Nationals. <mask> worked alongside veteran play-by-play announcer Mel Proctor on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), which suffered from low viewership due to legal battles between Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos and Comcast cable television.<mask> and Proctor were not asked to return to MASN by the Nationals for 2006. In 2006, <mask> was hired by SportsNet New York as a color commentator
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and studio analyst for the New York Mets, joining radio veteran Gary Cohen and former Mets teammate Keith Hernandez. <mask> also appears on some of the SNY-produced WPIX broadcasts in the New York Metropolitan Area. He won an Emmy Award as Best Sports Analyst for his work on the Mets broadcasts. He appeared in a Sovereign Bank commercial in 2008, which is frequently shown on SNY and is often joked about among the three Mets broadcasters during games. He threw out the ceremonial first pitch during Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS at Shea Stadium. In 2007, <mask> was a color analyst for TBS's coverage of the 2007 MLB Playoffs.He was paired with play-by-play man Dick Stockton. As of 2008, he provides commentary for the network's regular-season coverage, paired with Chip Caray. During the playoffs, he joined Caray's other regular partner, Buck Martinez. In 2013, <mask> joined MLB Network as a studio analyst. In 2015, <mask> volunteered to provide play-by-play commentary for television broadcasts of Mets spring training games. In April 2019, <mask> took a leave of absence from the Mets booth for health reasons. <mask> is also a New York Times best-selling author and has written three books.In 2019, <mask> published his third book - a series of interconnected anecdotes of a variety of baseball players in "108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game". Following the books publication, former Met teammate Lenny Dykstra sued <mask> for defamation, writing that Dykstra used
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racial slurs toward Red Sox pitcher Oil Can Boyd during the 1986 World Series - a claim that Dykstra denied. The lawsuit was later dismissed by the judge, ruling that Dykstra's reputation was so poor that it was not legally possible to libel him. Personal life
<mask> was married to Irish Wilhelmina model Antoinette O'Reilly, with whom he had two children, <mask> and <mask>. She had small roles on television and in movies, sometimes using her married name, <mask>. During their marriage, they appeared in numerous magazine features together. In 2004, <mask> married Joanna Last, a makeup artist for Fox Sports.In February 2016 they had a son, <mask> <mask>. <mask> lives in Connecticut. His younger brother, Edwin, a first baseman, was drafted by the New York Yankees in 1981 and played 69 games in their farm system over two seasons. On May 6, 2019, <mask> announced that he had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. In pop culture
Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, broadcast by NBC, ran so long that the network chose not to air Saturday Night Live rather than show it after the game. When it was shown for the first time two weeks later, <mask> filmed a special introduction, apologizing on behalf of the Mets for preempting SNL. <mask> is mentioned in the Law & Order season 13 episode "Under God".In the episode, Lennie Briscoe tells Ed Green how he blurts out <mask>'s first name for no reason because the pitcher reminds Briscoe of his daughter Cathy, who was killed in 1998. Cathy had a crush on the pitcher during the 1986
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season when she was a teenager. <mask> had small roles in the films Shallow Hal and The Day After Tomorrow; he also played himself in Mr. 3000. Bibliography
The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound. (Alfred A. Knopf, March 2009)
Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life. (St. Martin's Press, April 2016)
108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game. (St. Martin's Press, April 2019)
See also
List of Washington Nationals broadcasters
References
Sources
External links
<mask> at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
<mask> at Baseball Gauge
<mask> at Ultimate Mets Database
<mask> MLB Network Bio
Darling chats about role as Mets analyst (chat transcript)
Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, and <mask>'s Charity website
1960 births
Living people
American baseball players of Chinese descent
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
American people of French-Canadian descent
American people of Native Hawaiian descent
Baseball players from Honolulu
Cotuit Kettleers players
Gold Glove Award winners
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Major League Baseball pitchers
Mid-Atlantic Sports Network
MLB Network personalities
Montreal Expos players
National League All-Stars
New York Mets announcers
New York Mets players
Oakland Athletics players
SportsNet New York
Sportspeople from Honolulu
Tidewater Tides players
Tulsa Drillers players
Washington Nationals announcers
Yale Bulldogs baseball players
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<mask> (; ; born 14 January 1992) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one WTA 125 singles title, and 13 singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Her best result at a Grand Slam tournament came at the 2019 US Open where she reached the quarterfinals. On 9 September 2019, <mask> reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 12, becoming the second-highest ranked Chinese tennis player in history after Li Na. Alongside Li Na, Zheng Jie, Peng Shuai, and Zhang Shuai, <mask> is one of only five Chinese tennis players to have reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament. Career
<mask> was born in Tianjin.At age nine, she started playing tennis. That year, she became the promotion player for the Tianjin National Tennis Center. For two years consecutively (2006, 2007), she won the Junior's Tennis Championship in China. She officially started touring the ITF Women's Circuit in Japan as of 2007. In February 2010, she was a main-draw player at the AOAO Sports charity themed 'Fiji Tennis Invitation Classis' [FTIC] created by Ademola Oduwole on Denarau Island in Fiji aimed at promoting girls sports. She defeated Christina Visico of the Philippines in the finals to win her $2,000 purse and a $4,000 Chris Aire watch donated by the Hollywood Luxury watch designer
<mask> achieved her first big WTA Tour win at the 2013 Malaysian Open where, after qualifying, she beat top seed and world No. 10, Caroline Wozniacki in the first round.She made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2014 US Open from the qualifying tournament, and defeated Paula Kania from Poland in the first round by 6–2, 6–0, before losing to Australian Casey Dellaqua in the second round. In 2016, <mask>'s best results came at the Grand Slam tournaments, reaching the second round of the Australian Open, French Open, and US Open. She also competed in singles at the 2016 Summer Olympics, but lost
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in the first round to two-time Grand Slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova. In 2017, <mask> reached her first quarterfinal at a Premier-level tournament, winning three straight set matches in Dubai (a Premier 5 tournament) before losing to Anastasija Sevastova. She finished the year ranked inside the top 50 for the first time, at No. 45 in the world. 2018: Asian Games gold medalist, two WTA titles, world No.20
<mask> got off to a very slow start in the 2018 season, winning just one main draw match in her first four tournaments. She then reached the fourth round in Indian Wells, defeating former top-10 players Timea Bacsinszky and Kristina Mladenovic en route, before falling to world No. 1, Simona Halep. <mask> struggled in her next five tournaments though, and her ranking dropped to No. 91 in the world. She then reached her first quarterfinal of the year in Strasbourg, losing to top seed Ashleigh Barty. At the French Open, <mask> upset the ninth seed and seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams in the first round, then defeated Petra Martić to advance to the third round of a Grand Slam event for the first time.However, she was then beaten by Yulia Putintseva. The only grass court tournament she played in was Wimbledon, where she lost in the opening round to compatriot Zheng Saisai. <mask> won the golden medal in singles at the Asian Games defeating Jeong Su-nam, Gozal Ainitdinova, Aldila Sutjiadi, Liang En-shuo, and finally compatriot Zhang Shuai in the final. <mask> also had a great run in the Asian Swing. She won her first WTA tour tile in July at Jiangxi, where she defeated Zheng Saisai in the final. After reaching the third round at the US Open before falling to Elina Svitolina, <mask> won her second title of the year (and career) in Guangzhou, where she didn't drop more than four games in each match throughout the tournament. As a result of her Guangzhou triumph, she reached a new career-high ranking of world No.34
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and replaced Zhang Shuai as the highest-ranked Chinese player. The next week, she competed at the Premier-5 tournament in Wuhan, where she defeated Maria Sakkari, eighth seed Karolína Plíšková, and Daria Gavrilova in the first three matches. In the quarterfinals, she defeated 2016 Olympic gold medalist Monica Puig in straight sets to reach the semifinals, but was forced to retire from the match against Anett Kontaveit due to injury. She became the first ever Chinese player to reach the semifinals at the tournament, and reached another new career-high ranking of No. 28. <mask> received a wildcard into the China Open in Beijing. As a Wuhan Open semifinalist, she received a first-round bye.She defeated the 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in the second round by 6–0, 6–0. In the third round, she beat Karolína Plíšková for the second time in consecutive weeks in straight sets. In the quarterfinal, she defeated Wuhan champion Aryna Sabalenka in two very tight sets. Her run ended in the semifinal, at the hands of former world No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki. However, her first ever Premier Mandatory semifinal earned her a new career-high ranking of No. 24.<mask> was seeded sixth in Hong Kong. She defeated Zhang Ling and Christina McHale to reach the quarterfinals, where she faced top seed Elina Svitolina. <mask> took a decisive lead quickly, taking the first set 6–2 and was leading 5–2 in the second when the match was suspended for the night due to a sudden downpour. She closed out the set 6–4 the next day, advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinal she defeated fourth seed Garbiñe Muguruza in three sets, coming back from a 1–4 deficit in the third to win 7–5. In her third final of the year, <mask> was defeated by 18-year-old Dayana Yastremska in straight sets. On 22 October, she reached a new career-high ranking of No.22. She was awarded a wildcard to enter the WTA Elite Trophy, but with withdrawals from both Serena
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Williams and Jelena Ostapenko, she qualified for the main draw with her ranking. In her first round-robin match, she lost to Daria Kasatkina in three sets. She then played Madison Keys, winning the match in three sets. Later, Keys, as the winner of the group, announced her withdrawal due to a knee injury, allowing the second-placed <mask> to play the semifinal match against Muguruza, where she won in straight sets. In the final, she was defeated by Ashleigh Barty. Her performance in Zhuhai saw her break the top 20 for the first time, and ensured she would end the year as world No.20. 2019: First Grand Slam quarterfinal, top 15 debut and career-high ranking
Seeded 21st at the Australian Open (her first ever seeding at a Grand Slam tournament), <mask> defeated Fiona Ferro and Aleksandra Krunić, and then lost to 13th seed Anastasija Sevastova. This was her best performance to date at the tournament. At Indian Wells, she defeated 16th seed Elise Mertens and reached the fourth round, losing to the Canadian wildcard (and eventual champion) Bianca Andreescu. In Miami, she reached the quarterfinals, where she lost to second seed Simona Halep. At the Prague Open, she was seeded third, reaching the quarterfinals and then lost to Bernarda Pera. <mask> failed to advance past the second round at any tournament during the clay-court season, losing in the first round at Madrid and Rome, and losing in the second round at Strasbourg and the French Open.At the Birmingham Classic, she defeated Lauren Davis and then lost to Venus Williams in the second round. She subsequently withdrew from the Eastbourne International. At Wimbledon, she was seeded 15th. She defeated Vera Lapko and Tamara Zidanšek, and then lost to Elise Mertens in the third round. This was her best result at the tournament to date. She achieved a series of new career-high rankings over the course of the year, achieving the world No. 15 ranking prior to Wimbledon.At the US
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Open, <mask> was seeded 18th. She defeated Caroline Dolehide, Alison Van Uytvanck, and Fiona Ferro to advance to the second week of a Grand Slam event for the first time. She then upset tournament favorite and world No. 2, Ash Barty in the fourth round, her first victory over a top-three player, to advance to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal. She became just the fifth Chinese player in history, after Li Na, Zheng Jie, Peng Shuai, and Zhang Shuai, to reach a Grand Slam singles quarterfinal, and the third to do so at the US Open, after Li and Peng. However, she heavily lost to eventual runner-up Serena Williams in straight sets, winning just one game. After the tournament, she rose six places to reach another new career high of world No.12, becoming the second-highest ranked Chinese singles player in history. <mask> struggled following the US Open though, managing just two match wins on the Asian hard courts, one in Wuhan and the other in Tianjin. After failing to qualify or receive a wildcard for the WTA Elite Trophy, she finished the year ranked No. 29, her second consecutive year inside the top 30. 2020: Australian Open win over Serena Williams
<mask> opened her new season with a quarterfinal appearance at the Shenzhen Open and a first-round loss to Angelique Kerber at the Adelaide International. Seeded 27th at the Australian Open, she defeated Pauline Parmentier and Fiona Ferro to reach the third round, where she pulled off a major upset by defeating eighth seed Serena Williams in three sets, avenging her lopsided loss to the American at the previous US Open. However, she was upset herself in the fourth round by the unseeded Tunisian Ons Jabeur.After the Australian Open, <mask> played three more events, losing in the quarterfinals of the Hua Hin Championships, and the first round of both the Dubai Open and Qatar Open. 2021: Rough start to the season, first clay final, return to top 40, Olympics, hiatus and out of top
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<mask> returned to action on the WTA Tour in the Abu Dhabi Open but lost to Daria Kasatkina in the first round. This was followed by another two opening-match losses in the Gippsland Trophy and the Australian Open. <mask> finally won her first match of the season against Maddison Inglis in the Phillip Island Trophy, but lost in the next round to Irina-Camelia Begu. <mask>'s next event was in Adelaide, where again she was able to get a round of 32 win, this time against Olivia Gadecki, before falling to Jil Teichmann in her fifth three set loss of the season. <mask> failed to get a win in the Middle East swing, losing to Jessica Pegula and Svetlana Kuznetsova, despite serving for the match against the latter. <mask> later played at Miami, where she managed to win a deciding set for the first time in the season, beating Aliona Bolsova, but fell in two tight sets to Markéta Vondroušová in the next round.Following this event, due to <mask> defending a large number of ranking points, <mask> fell to the world No. 50, as the China No. 2. <mask> opened her clay-court season with a win over Anastasia Gasanova in the Istanbul Cup, however she suffered three consecutive losses after this; against Ana Konjuh in that same tournament, then Karolína Muchová in Madrid and Amanda Anisimova in Rome. However, <mask> rebounded for the next event, the Emilia-Romagna Open, where she beat a top 100 player for the first time that season, defeating Misaki Doi, followed by victories over Martina Di Giuseppe, Petra Martić, and Sloane Stephens to reach her first ever clay final and first final outside of China in three years. However, she ended up losing in a lopsided final, winning only four games against Coco Gauff. This tournament brought <mask> back into the top 40 of the WTA rankings, and she regained the spot as the top ranked Chinese tennis player.<mask> left the French Open with a second round finish, again with a straight sets defeat
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to Coco Gauff. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she reached the second round defeating Veronica Cepede Royg. Her win over the Paraguayan bettered her Rio 2016 debut where she lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round. 2022: Australian Open third round
For the first time since the 2020 Australian Open, <mask> won consecutive matches in a Grand Slam championship, upsetting 18th seed Coco Gauff in the first round, and then defeating Alison Van Uytvanck. <mask> backed up this result with a semifinal appearance in Abierto Zapopan, where she fell in straight sets to Marie Bouzkova. Performance timelines
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win/loss records. Singles
Current after the 2022 Abierto Zapopan.Doubles
Current after the 2021 Italian Open. Significant finals
WTA Elite Trophy
Singles: 1 (runner–up)
WTA career finals
Singles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
WTA Challenger finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 18 (13 titles, 5 runner–ups)
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)
WTA Tour career earnings
As of 15 November 2021
Career Grand Slam statistics
Seedings
The tournaments won by <mask> are in boldface, and advanced into finals by <mask> are in italics. Head-to-head record
Record against top 10 players
<mask>'s record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. Active players are in boldface. Wins over top 10 players
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Living people
1992 births
Tennis players from Tianjin
Chinese female tennis players
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
Olympic tennis players of China
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
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<mask> (born 29 December 1959) is a Belgian fashion designer whose label, <mask>ulemeester, is mainly showcased at the annual Paris Fashion Week. She is known as one of the Antwerp Six in the fashion industry. Early life
<mask> was born in Kortrijk in 1959 to Albert and Monique Verhelst-Pappijn, and later lived in the city of Bruges. The reason why she made the decision to change her real name "Verhelst" to "Demeulemeester" remains unknown. Initially, Verhelst showed no interest in fashion. She attended art school for three years, where she discovered her fascination with people and portraiture, which led her to begin thinking about clothing design. From this, she went on to study fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1978 to 1981.In 1986, Verhelst, along with fellow graduates from the Antwerp Royal Academy, decided to showcase her collection in London. Though, as she was pregnant at the time and unable to make the trip to London, she only displayed a selection of sunglasses. This group of Belgian designers will soon be known as the 'Antwerp Six', a radical and distinctive Belgian group of designers of the 1980s to whom Verhelst has been associated, almost by mistake, but will forever be linked to. This group of avant-garde designers are known for their deconstructivist styles of creating untraditional clothing lines. Other notables from the group include Dries van Noten and Walter Van Beirendonck. Career
Late beginnings
Verhelst graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1981,. A year after her graduation, she won the Gouden Spoel, a Belgian awarded prize to the year's most promising fashion designer, though the impact of the award in the industry was very limited.Verhelst struggled to find a first job and began working as a freelance pattern maker, assisting fashion icon Martin Margiela
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undisclosed Italian coat brand for a few years. <mask>ulemeester
In 1985, Verhelst finally launched her own brand, <mask>meulemeester-Verhelst, in collaboration with her husband, Patrick Robyn, who put an end to a burgeoning career as a photographer to devote himself to his wife's fashion label, assuming the role of a shadow creative director for the brand, an unofficial position that he has still been occupying to this days. In 1996, she debuted her own menswear line. |url=https://www.gq.com/story/ann-demeulemeester-is-leaving-her-fashion-house |title=<mask>ulemeester Is Leaving Her Fashion House |first=Jian |last=DeLeon |date=November 20, 2013 |work=GQ |access-date=2019-12-29 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
She opened her first store in Antwerp in 1999. Verhelst worked with the artist Jim Dine, and draws inspiration from singer Patti Smith. She worked on a clothing line inspired by Jackson Pollock. In June 2013, her parent company 32 BVBA, which also housed designer Haider Ackermann, split into independent brands.In November 2013, Verhelst announced she was leaving the fashion house. The exit letter also explained that the brand will show its autumn/winter 2014 men's and women's collection together at February's Paris Fashion Week. Following her departure, <mask> choose herself the French designer Sébastien Meunier as her successor as artistic director of the brand. Sébastien Meunier had previously worked for 10 years with the Belgian fashion genius Martin Margiela before joining <mask>ulemeester in 2010, officially for designing the house's men's collections while in reality being trained by <mask> and Patrick Robyn themselves to his future position of artistic director. The Demeulemeester label "operates freestanding stores in Antwerp, Hong Kong and Tokyo, and wholesales to an array of international retailers including Saks Fifth Avenue
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and Barneys New York in America, L’Eclaireur and Le Bon Marché in Paris and Lane Crawford and Joyce in Hong Kong." Ann Demeulemeester Serax
After leaving fashion, Verhelst attended porcelain master classes in England and France. In 2019, she launched Ann Demeulemeester Serax in collaboration with Belgian diffusion label Serax, a collection of affordable porcelain dinner services hand-painted in China, but also silverware, glasses and larger houseware, following the path of other famous fashion designers of the like of Inès de la Fressange, José Levy or Christian Lacroix
Antonioli
After the Italian retailer Claudio Antonioli bought the company in 2020 and after the resignation of Sébastien Meunier, <mask> announced, in September 2021, her return to the Ann Demeulemeester label, therefore forever linking her name and legacy to Claudio Antonioli, whose name is mainly associated with the rise of luxury streetwear.That same month, the brand's Antwerp flagship store reopened after a year of renovation, drawing back to the minimalist aesthetic, originally conceived by the famed Belgian architects duo Robbrecht en Daem, the store itself now being mostly focused on the Ann Demeulemeester Serax homeware and furnitures collections rather than on the fashion collections, confirming the brand's smart transition from a "Fashion House" to a "Lifestyle Brand". In the meantime, Belgian national newspaper De Tijd revealed that 42 out of the 48 Antwerp-based employees of <mask>ulemeester had been dismissed, despite most of them have been working for the label for over 3 decades and were hired by <mask> herself. The article also revealed that the company itself was relocated to Milan, definitively cutting the fashion house from its historical Flemish roots. In an exclusive interview granted to journalist Jesse Brouns, <mask>, Patrick Robyn and Claudio
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Antonioli confirmed the relocation of the Belgian brand to Italy, the later stating that "Milan [compared to Antwerp] is a fashion city. That made recruiting a new team of 25 people easier." Claudio Antonioli enrolled designer Nina Maria Nitsche as “ghost” creative director of the brand, another Maison Margiela alumni, after her short and unfortunate stances at both Vetements and Kering’s own Brioni. At the same time, Antonioli also named Francesco Francavilla, a former Dolce & Gabbana and Rene Caovilla executive as Global Marketing and Communications Director, as well as naming Tobia Beretta, who previously worked as Commercial Manager of Neil Barrett for 3 years to the position of CEO of <mask>ulemeester DNA, Claudio Antonioli kept the 1944 born, Parisian PR legend, Michelle Montagne at the helm of the company's press relations. The brand's first fashion show under Antonioli era, which took place in October 2021 in Paris and relied mostly on denim and archives replicas, received mixed reviews from the international press. In February 2022, <mask>ster dressed Italian musician Mahmood for Sanremo Music Festival. Personal life
Verhelst married photographer Patrick Robyn in 1985. The couple used to live in the outskirts of Antwerp in the famous Maison Guiette, the only house in Belgium designed by Le Corbusier. <mask> has since moved to Kesselhof manor, a 19th-century Italian rococo revival villa situated in the village of Kessel, that she bought from Baroness Diane Caroline Van Zuylen Van Nyevelt, whose family made its wealth in the Belgian Congo. Awards
1982 Golden Spindle Award, Belgium
See also
Antwerp Six
List of fashion designers
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1959 births
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Belgian fashion designers
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<mask> (born 27 April 1962) is a Danish industrial designer. He was best known as CEO and Chief Designer of Jacob Jensen Design Studios (Scandinavia’s oldest design studio) from 1990 to 2018. <mask> was also the founder of the Scandinavian brand JACOB JENSEN. He has created numerous well-known designs for timepieces, jewellery, communication equipment, houseware, furniture and kitchens. He has also been prominent within the automotive design, branding and value clarification fields. Early life and career
<mask> was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was raised in Hejlskov (Central Jutland). He is the son of the Danish industrial designer <mask> and Patricia Ryan.Early career
In 1978, <mask> became an apprentice at his father’s (<mask>) studio. <mask> <mask> joined <mask>, David Lewis, and Bang & Olufsen’s team of chief designers at the age of 17. In 1982, he became chief designer of the Jacob Jensen Design studio. In 1985, he opened his own studio in Copenhagen called Voss Foerlev & Jensen. The studio closed in 1988, at which time <mask> started collaborating with various international designers including Ross Litell. In 1983, he designed his first car name "Logicar". Founding JACOB JENSEN
In 1985, he founded JACOB JENSEN.The company designs lifestyle products including watches, clocks, jewellery, smoke alarms, telephones, kitchen products, and other products. In 1985, <mask> designed wristwatches The Classic series models 510 and 520, which were included at the design study
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collection in the Museum of Modern Art (New York City). In 1996, the wristwatches were also awarded “Watch of the Year.”
In 1990, he purchased the Jacob Jensen Design studio and became the company's CEO and chief designer. <mask> developed the Jacob Jensen Design studio internationally, collaborating with numerous major companies including ECCO (Danish shoe manufacturer), Gaggenau Hausgeräte, Bang & Olufsen, Haier, LG, Panasonic, Steinway Lyngdorf (Steinway and Sons), Toshiba, Vertu, Lufthansa, and Volvo. From 1991 to 1998, <mask> worked as chief designer for Gaggenau Hausgeräte’s design programme, where he designed ceramic hobs, built-in ovens, extractor hoods, dishwashers, washing machines and tumble dryers. A number of these products received awards including the EB900 Built-in oven and CK494 Glass ceramic hob. At 48 years of age, he became professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.<mask>'s works have been featured is various museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg (Paris), the Danish Museum of Art and Design (now known as Danish Museum of Art & Design), the Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt (Frankfurt), the Danish Watch Museum (Aarhus), Het Kleine Veenloo Museum (Veenendaal), Royal Library, Denmark (Copenhagen), Kalmar Konstmuseum (Kalmar), the Chicago Athenaeum (Chicago), Bauhaus Museum, Weimar (Berlin), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), Die Neue Sammlung (Munich), and others. In 2011, <mask>
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founded his first subsidiary, the Jacob Jensen Design / DeTao Shanghai studio. The studio was created in collaboration with the DeTao Group at SIVA Campus in Shanghai. In 2014, the Jacob Jensen Design studio established its second subsidiary studio named Jacob Jensen Design / KMUTT Bangkok. The studio was founded in collaboration with King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. <mask> sold all of his shares from Jacob Jensen Design Studio in May 2018 and stopped working for the company in October 2018. He left Jacob Jensen Design Studio to start his own project.Other Work
<mask> <mask> was appointed as Master of the DeTao Masters Academy in Beijing in 2011. He was later appointed as Honorary professor at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA), China. <mask> was subsequently awarded the title of High-level Expert by the China Industrial Design Association (CIDA). He currently also serves as a lecturer at universities, companies, and other institutions. <mask> <mask> was appointed by the iF International Forum Design to be jury member of iF design Award 2019 in the 'Discipline Product’ category. He founded Timothy Jacob Jenson Studios. As CEO at Jacob Jensen Design, he founded the Scandinavian lifestyle brand Jacob Jensen, which is currently represented in 30 countries.In 2017 <mask> was named Designer of the Year in China, and in 2019 he was selected as jury member for the iF Product Design Award. <mask> is considered the most awarded Danish designer, heading the
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most award-winning design family in the world. Jacob Jensen Design Studios
In 1990, <mask> became chief executive officer and chief designer of the Jacob Jensen Design studio, and expanded the company internationally. The studio focuses on design, and has branches in Denmark, China, and Thailand. In 2018, <mask> left his positions as chief designer, CEO and board member, and is currently working under his own name. In 2019 he founded Timothy Jacob Jensen Studios, and in 2021 he launched digital SaaS platform Designers Trust. Design Style
<mask> <mask> developed his father's design works, which involved the merging of the International style (architecture) and MAYA style.<mask> turned his father's two-dimensional graphic works into three-dimensional designs, applying this to multiple major brands including Gaggenau, Vertu, Steinway Lyngdorf (Steinway & Sons), and JACOB JENSEN. <mask>'s maxim is “Form follows feeling.”
Gaggenau Hausgeräte
From 1991 to 1998, <mask> was served as designer for Gaggenau Hausgeräte’s design programme. This comprised several ranges of products including ceramic hobs, built-in ovens, extractor hoods, dishwashers, washing machines, and tumble dryers. A number of these products received awards, primarily in Germany. These include the EB900 Built-in oven and CK494 Glass ceramic hob. In 1995, Gaggenau Hausgeräte was acquired by Bosch-Semiens Hausgeräte (BSH Hausgeräte). Works
<mask> <mask>’s best known works include the Bang & Olufsen Beocenter 9000
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(1986), Bang & Olufsen Beowatch (1993), Jabra JX10 Bluetooth headset (2005), Vertu Aerius Bluetooth headset (2006), Gaggenau EB900 Built-in oven (1993), Gaggenau CK494 Glass ceramic hob (1993), Rosti Mepal Victoria Bowl (2008), Steinway Lyngdorf Model D Music System (2007), Toshiba WL768 flat screen television (2010), Tommerup Kister Diamant 32 Coffin (2010), Lufthansa First Class Aminety Kit (2016), Danzka The Spirit (2016), Phicomm K3 Router (2017), Classic Watch (Model 510), JACOB JENSEN Strata Watch 270 and 280 (2014), JACOB JENSEN Smoke Alarm (2001), Telephone T3, JACOB JENSEN Air Quality Monitor (2016), JACOB JENSEN Weather station series (1999), and others.Awards
IF Award (1990–2018, Germany)
China Red Star Design Award (2013–2017, China)
German Design Award (2012–2017, Germany)
Red Dot Award (1993–2017, Germany)
Design Plus Award (1988–2016, Germany)
German Design Award (2012–2018, Germany)
IDA Awards, (2016, U.S.)
Plus X Award (2006–2016, Germany)
Good Design Award (1985–2012, Japan)
Designer of the Year (2017, China). Personal life
<mask> <mask> has two daughters, Toko and Freja. See also
Danish Modern
Jørn Utzon
Raymond Loewy
Jacob <mask>
International style (architecture)
References
External links
www.timothyjacobjensen.com
www.oobject.com/category/10-classic-jacob-jensen-gadgets
https://timothyjacobjensen.com/timothy-jacob-jensen/
issuu.com/worldofjacobjensen/docs/jacobjensendesign
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1962 births
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<mask> (born 29 December 1951) is an English composer and musician born in London, noted for his concert band and brass band music. His early major works include The Land of the Long White Cloud – "Aotearoa", written for the 1980 Centennial New Zealand Brass Band championship. He subsequently went on to win the EBU New Music for Band Competition three times, including in 1986 with a commission from the BBC called Orient Express. Since May 2000, his music has been published under his own label Anglo Music Press, and distributed by Hal Leonard. 1
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1990 Triptych for Brass-Band
1990 A Yorkshire Overture
1991 Celebration
1991 Concerto for Trumpet or Cornet for Brass-Band
1992 Euphonism (Euphonium Duet) for Brass-Band
1992 Jamaica Farewell
1992/1996 Jubilee-Prelude
1992 Serenade for Horns (E-flat Horn Trio) for Brass-Band
1992 Festival Overture
1992 Mountain Song
1992 Mambo Jumbo
1992 River City Serenade
1992 Sinfonietta Nr. World premier on 15 March 2008 in London, UK, at the AMIS 2008 International Band and Choir Festival. Harmony Music for Brass-Band
2007 Legend of Celobrium commissioned by the Harmonie de Soleuvre, Luxembourg, to celebrate their 100th Anniversary
2007 A Monmouth Overture commissioned for Monmouth School Symphonic Wind band
2007 Tales of the River Wye commissioned for Monmouth School Junior Symphonic Wind Band
2007 Music for Battle Creek for Brass-Band
2007 Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Saint-Saëns' 3rd Symphony 2008 Letter From Home commissioned by the James Madison University Brass Band, Harrisonburg, VA
2008 The Roaring Forties for wind ensemble
2009 Neapolitan Holiday for wind ensemble
Commissioned by the Green Hope High School Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble directed by Brian Myers.World premier on 21 May 2009 at the Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. 2009 A Winter's Tale'' for concert band
Commissioned by the Western Plains Wind Consortium, Daniel Baldwin, Founder and Director. World premiere on 1 December 2009 at the OPSU Centennial
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Theatre by the Oklahoma Panhandle State University Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Matthew C. Saunders in Goodwell, Oklahoma, United States. 2010 "Atlantic Odyssey" for concert band
Commissioned by the Oakton High School Bands of Vienna, Virginia, United States. World premiere by director Dr. Cheryl Newton at Oakton High School on 12 June 2010 by the Oakton High School Symphonic Band. 2010 "March Celebration" for concert band
Commissioned by the Harmonie royale des sapeurs-pompiers d'Athus Bands of Athus, Belgium. World premiere on 23 October 2010 for the 135th anniversary of the Harmonie royale des sapeurs-pompiers d'Athus under the direction of Dr.Jean-Luc Becker at Centre Clemarais by the town's bands.2011 "Evolution: Five States of Change" for Brass Band
2014 "A Colour Symphony" - Symphony No.3
Commissioned by the "sinfonischen blasorchester wehdel", Thomas Ratzek, conductor, with funds provided by Stiftung Niedersächsischer Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken and Volksbank eG Bremerhaven-Cuxland. They gave the premiere on 22 November 2014 in the Stadttheater Bremerhaven, in the presence of the composer. 2014 Wind Sketches
Commissioned by the Tacoma Concert Band from Washington State, USA. Trade Winds
Becalmed
Riding the Storm
2017 "Festival Prelude 'AD Excel'"
Commissioned by the AD Concert Band to celebrate their 40th anniversary, by musical director Dr Trevor Farren. National Championships of Great Britain test pieces
A number of <mask>'s compositions have been chosen as test pieces in the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. His pieces have been selected for various sections, both at the area contests and the national finals. References
External links
<mask>e's Homepage
1951 births
Living people
20th-century classical composers
20th-century English composers
20th-century British male musicians
21st-century classical composers
21st-century British male musicians
English classical composers
English male classical composers
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Seymour "<mask><mask> (4 April 1919 – 26 May 2006) was an American songwriter, whose hits were recorded by bandleaders, country singers, and other artists such as The Beatles, Tommy Cooper and Leonard Nimoy. Biography
Early life
<mask> was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, the youngest son of Harris ("Harry") Cohen and Nettie Brandt Cohen, and was originally named Seymour. His father was a wholesale meat supplier in New York City. <mask> learned to play the trumpet and studied at a local music academy. In 1942 he had his first charting song with "My Little Cousin", which Benny Goodman's orchestra and vocalist Peggy Lee took to No. 14. Coben spent the next several years in the Navy, serving in the South Pacific as a pharmacist's mate.On his return in 1946, he resumed his song writing career. He wrote "A Good Woman's Love" for his wife Shirley Nagel, whom he married in 1948. Post-war career
In 1947, Coben wrote a novelty song called "(When You See) Those Flying Saucers" which was released as a single by the Buchanan Brothers; his co-author was Charles Randolph Grean, who was working for RCA/Victor. Grean was to become a long-time collaborator of <mask>'s. In 1949, Coben first visited Nashville and soon became a part of the music business there. In Nashville, Coben wrote for a variety of artists, but was especially associated with Eddy Arnold; he wrote "There's Been a Change in Me" and "I Wanna Play House With You," two No. 1 country hits for Arnold in 1951, and
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went on to write many other songs for him, often with Charles Grean, who was Arnold's manager - "Eddy's Song", a No.1 country hit in 1953; "Free Home Demonstration" (No. 4 country) in 1954, and others. <mask> and Grean also wrote songs for other artists, such as their version of "Sweet Violets", which charted for Dinah Shore and Jane Turzy in 1951. <mask> wrote "Nobody's Child" with Mel Foree; Hank Snow recorded it in 1949. Lonnie Donegan later brought it to the United Kingdom, and the Beatles recorded it during their early days playing in Hamburg, Germany. <mask> wrote many novelty songs; one of his biggest novelty hits was "The Old Piano Roll Blues" (1950). He also wrote for Homer and Jethro - "The Billboard Song" became a much-recorded favorite, and "Don't Jump Off the Roof, Dad" was later a hit for British comedian Tommy Cooper.<mask> wrote "How to Catch a Man" for country comedian Minnie Pearl and it became one of her standards. In 1977 country-rock band The New Riders of the Purple Sage recorded <mask>'s "Red Hot Women and Ice Cold Beer," in which Coben drew on his World War II experience in the U.S. Navy to describe what sailors wanted. His old collaborator Charles Grean was Leonard Nimoy's record producer, and <mask> wrote several songs for him ("Alien", "The Difference Between Us"). Reception in Europe
Coben's humor and sentiment translated well to the European market. Bill Ramsey took <mask>'s "Souvenirs" to No. 1 in Germany in 1959, and Belgian star Will Tura
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recorded a number of Coben tunes ("Show Me the Man"/"Waar is de man"; "The Great El Tigre"/"El Bandido"). "Goethe War Gut" charted in Germany for Rudi Carrell in 1978.Later career
Comedian Sheb Wooley's 1968 song "Country Music Hall of Fame" (as Hee Haw regular "Ben Colder") envisioned <mask> as an Hall of Fame inductee. But <mask> was never elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame or the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, according to his friend "Cowboy" Jack Clement, because "the young folks just don't know about him." <mask> retired to Atherton, California. He died on May 26, 2006. An obituary was published by the San Francisco Chronicle on June 12, 2006, and included an image of <mask> in his later years. Charting hits by <mask>
"My Little Cousin" (Coben/Happy Lewis/Sam Braverman) - No. 14 hit for Benny Goodman/Peggy Lee in 1942
"There's No Wings On My Angel" (Coben/Arnold/Doug Melsher) - No.6 Country/Western hit for Eddy Arnold, 1949
"I Love the Guy" (Coben) - No. 10 pop hit for Sarah Vaughan and No. 22 for Fran Warren in 1950
"Old Piano Roll Blues" - in 1950, charted for Hoagy Carmichael and Cass Daley (No. 11); Lawrence Cook (No. 13); Cliff Steward and the San Francisco Boys (No. 18); Eddie Cantor, Lisa Kirk, and the Sammy Kaye Orchestra (No. 25); Jan Garber and His Orchestra (No.30); and The Jubalaires (No. 25). It also appeared on the soundtrack of the 1951 movie Rich, Young and Pretty
"There's Been a Change in Me" (Coben) - No. 1 Country/Western hit for Eddy
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Arnold, 1951
"I Wanna Play House with You" (Coben) - No. 1 Country/Western hit for Eddy Arnold, 1951
"Meanderin'" (Coben/George Botsford/Charles R. Grean) - No. 28 pop hit for Vaughn Monroe in 1951
"Something Old, Something New" (Coben/Grean) - B side of "I Wanna Play House with You", reached No. 4 for Arnold
"Sweet Violets" - arranged by Coben and Grean; No.3 pop hit for Dinah Shore, 1951; another 1951 version by Jane Turzy reached No. 11 on the Billboard jukebox chart, and Doris Drew took it to No. 22
"Lonely Little Robin" (Coben) - No. 14 jukebox hit for The Pinetoppers in 1951; also No. 25 radio hit for Mindy Carson
"Never Been Kissed" (Coben/Grean) - No. 19 pop hit for Freddy Martin in 1951
"Easy on the Eyes" (Coben/Arnold) - No. 1 Country/Western hit for Eddy Arnold, 1952
"Lady's Man" (<mask>) - No.2 Country/Western hit for Hank Snow in 1952
"Older and Bolder" (<mask>) - No. 3 Country/Western hit for Eddy Arnold in 1952
"Do I Like It" (Coben) - No. 6 C/W hit for Carl Smith in 1953
"Eddy's Song" (Charlie Grean, <mask>) - No. 1 Country/Western hit for Eddy Arnold in 1953
"Free Home Demonstration" (Grean, Coben) - No. 4 Country/Western hit for Eddy Arnold in 1953
"Beware of 'It'" - No. 9 C/W hit for Johnnie & Jack in 1954
"Hep Cat Baby" - No. 7 Country/Western hit for Eddy Arnold in 1954
"That Crazy Mambo Thing" - No.10 C/W hit for Hank Snow in 1954
"Would You Mind" - No. 3 C/W hit for Hank Snow, 1955
"I Saw Esau" - No. 51 pop hit for The Ames Brothers in 1956
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Treasure" (Coben/Bill Templeton) - No. 31 pop hit for The Hilltoppers in 1956
"Souvenirs" (Coben) - No. 1 hit in Germany for Bill Ramsey in 1959
"Don't Jump Off the Roof, Dad" - charted in the UK for Tommy Cooper in 1961
"That Greasy Kid Stuff" - reached No. 74 for Janie Grant in 1962
"I'm a Walkin' Advertisement (For the Blues)" - No. 32 Country hit for Norma Jean in 1964
"The Great El Tigre (The Tiger)" (Coben) - No.32 Country hit for Stu Phillips in 1966
"The Game of Triangles" (Coben) - No. 5 Country hit for Norma Jean, Liz Anderson, and Bobby Bare in 1966
"Burning a Hole in My Mind" (Coben) - No. 5 C/W hit for Connie Smith, 1967
"Chet's Tune" (Coben) - No. 38 country hit by "Some of Chet's Friends" (a tribute to Chet Atkins, who was a friend of Coben)
"Nobody's Child" (Coben/Mel Foree)- charted for Hank Williams Jr. (No. 46 Country, 1967), Karen Young (UK No. 6, 1969)
"The Name of the Game was Love" (Coben) - No. 16 Country for Hank Snow in 1969
"Johnny's Cash and Charley's Pride" (Coben) - No.38 C/W for Mac Wiseman in 1969
"A Good Woman's Love" (Coben) - charted for Jerry Reed (No. 12 Country, 1974)
"Goethe War Gut" (<mask>, Charles Grean, Thomas Woitkewitsch) - charted in Germany for Rudi Carrell in 1978
References
American country songwriters
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<mask> (born 25 October 1962) is an English retired footballer who played as a midfielder. He enjoyed a high-profile club and international career in the 1980s and 1990s. Prior to the 2013–14 season <mask> was appointed development squad coach at Notts County. On 27 October 2013 <mask> was appointed caretaker manager, reverting to his position as development squad coach on 6 November 2013 with the appointment of Shaun Derry as manager. Playing career
Nottingham Forest
A left-footed midfielder who was comfortable in a central or wide position, <mask> was born in Nottingham and joined his boyhood club Nottingham Forest as an apprentice in 1980; he made his debut against Ipswich Town on the final day of the 1981–82 season. A favourite of Forest's manager Brian Clough, <mask> became a first-team regular the following season as the club tried to build a new young team after the side which won two European Cups began to age and disintegrate. <mask> was a frequent goalscorer from midfield as Forest consolidated their League position but were unable to push for trophies other than a semi-final in the UEFA Cup in 1984, where they lost in controversial circumstances to Anderlecht.In the summer of 1985, Forest surprisingly accepted an offer of £450,000 from Aston Villa and <mask> – whose nickname was Harry – made his move from the East Midlands to the West Midlands. Aston Villa
The move to Birmingham did work initially but the team was in decline and once <mask> had received England recognition, it was perceived by the Villa fans that he was not fully committed to the team's cause, typified during a 4–1 home defeat by Norwich City where his intended back pass to Kevin Poole was slotted in by a Norwich player – the boos ringing round the ground signalled the beginning of the end for his Villa career. <mask> was sold to Tottenham in December 1986 for £650,000. Tottenham Hotspur
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Pleat put <mask> wide on the left of a vibrant, attacking five-man midfield which also included England teammates Hoddle and Chris Waddle, Argentinian veteran Osvaldo Ardiles and hardworking ballwinner Paul Allen. Each were expected to contribute goals and assists behind one main centre forward, Clive Allen, and it worked. <mask> scored on his debut on Boxing Day 1986 in a 4–0 thrashing of West Ham United and scored three times more while creating plenty for others as Spurs chased three trophies. Sadly for <mask>, his quest for domestic success eluded him again as Spurs were knocked out by fierce rivals Arsenal in the semi-finals of the League Cup, tailed off in their First Division title charge and came third, and lost a thrilling 1987 FA Cup Final at Wembley against Coventry City, following an outstanding 4–1 semi-final win over Watford in which <mask> scored twice.Return to Forest
Clough paid Spurs £550,000 to take <mask> back to Nottingham Forest. The club won the Full Members Cup in 1989 and then reached the League Cup final, with <mask> finally winning a major domestic medal: the 3–1 win over Luton Town at Wembley saw him play a crucial part as it was he, making a foraging run from deep, who was brought down for the penalty which Nigel Clough converted, setting Forest on the road to victory. A week later, however, <mask> was one of the Forest players who had to cope with the horrors of the Hillsborough disaster during the opening minutes of their FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool. He played in the rescheduled game at Old Trafford, which Liverpool won 3–1. The following season, <mask> played as Forest retained the League Cup with a 1–0 win over Oldham Athletic, but by the next year he was struggling to hold down a regular place in the team's midfield after the emergence of teenage Irish phenomenon Roy Keane to partner Garry Parker, who had become the first-choice central midfielder
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despite being the only one of the three never to play international football. He was only named as a substitute by Clough for the 1991 FA Cup Final against his old club Tottenham Hotspur; he came on as a second-half substitute but Spurs ran out 2–1 winners after extra time. Leeds United
In the summer of 1991, <mask> was sold to Leeds United for £900,000 – the highest transfer fee he had commanded.He struggled to win a regular place at Elland Road but did make a significant contribution to the league title winning side of 1991–92, winning a championship medal. In that season he made 23 appearances and scored seven goals; his goal tally included two braces in games against Sheffield United (won 4-3) and Southampton (drew 3-3) and the only goal in a 1-0 win over Liverpool. In 1994 <mask> went on loan to Derby County. Late career
He joined Queens Park Rangers for a nominal fee in 1994. Two seasons followed with <mask> playing just 15 times. Next he joined Watford. He played twice for them in the 1995–96 season.An unsuccessful trial at Walsall came in the autumn of 1996, followed by a brief spell playing in Hong Kong. He signed for Division Three side Leyton Orient in March 1998, playing just once before finally retiring from playing at the end of the season. International
Though he was only three caps into his international career by the time Bobby Robson announced his squad for the 1986 FIFA World Cup, <mask> was given a place on the plane to Mexico, coming on as a substitute in the first two group games against Portugal and Morocco, which England lost and drew respectively. Making urgent changes for the final group game against Poland, Robson put <mask> in the side and he responded with an outstanding personal display within a crushing team performance. <mask>'s superb left wing cross on the run gave Gary Lineker his second goal in a first half hat-trick which eased England's passage to the
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second round. There they faced Paraguay, and it was a sliding, stretching <mask> who kept in an over-hit cross from Glenn Hoddle, by pushing the ball into the path of Lineker to tap home. Again England were 3–0 victors, with Argentina awaiting ominously in the last eight.Here <mask> would earn his own somewhat dubious place in football history – inadvertently setting up Maradona's 'Hand of God' goal – and ending the game with a highly prized memento, Maradona's No. 10 shirt. The shirt currently resides in The National Football Museum in Manchester. <mask> retained his place in the team as England began their qualification campaign for the 1988 European Championships with victories over Northern Ireland and Yugoslavia, but was not selected for the finals squad. Robson recalled <mask> for the first game after the European Championships – a 1–0 win over Denmark at Wembley – as he had been briefly back on form at club level with Nottingham Forest. He was again cast aside internationally afterwards, but his club form improved dramatically and he found himself regularly called up by Robson as a result, though actual appearances were scarce. He managed to force his way back into the England reckoning with a strong appearance as a substitute against Italy at Wembley, by which time England's place at the 1990 FIFA World Cup was secured.<mask> subsequently played in the final four warm-up matches before the tournament itself. To his delight, <mask> made the final squad but he then suffered an injury and as a consequence was the only outfield England player not to kick a ball during the tournament, even though England reached the semi-finals. He didn't even regain his fitness in time to get on the pitch for the third-place play-off game. Robson quit after the World Cup and <mask> was not selected initially by successor Graham Taylor. Taylor brought <mask> back for a 2–0 win over Cameroon early in 1991
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and he was then given his 24th and final cap in a 1–0 win against Turkey in İzmir in a qualifier for the 1992 European Championships. Coaching career
Having gained an A coaching licence <mask> worked with Roy McFarland at Chesterfield. He had brief roles at Notts County as development squad manager, and as caretaker manager of the first team.Bibliography
In 2010 <mask> released an autobiography entitled, "The Man With Maradona's Shirt". Following Maradona’s death in November 2020, <mask> was subjected to numerous requests from people wishing to buy the shirt he had swapped with Maradona at the end of the World Cup quarter-final in 1986. <mask> said, "It’s not for sale. I am not trying to sell it." Honours
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Tottenham Hotspur
FA Cup runner-up: 1987
Nottingham Forest
Full Members' Cup winner: 1989
Football League Cup winner: 1989, 1990
FA Cup runner-up: 1991
Leeds United
Football League First Division champion: 1991–92
FA Charity Shield winner: 1992
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England U21
UEFA European Under-21 Championship champion: 1984
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FIFA World Cup fourth-place: 1990
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Nottingham Forest F.C. Player of the Year: 1982–83
Football League First Division PFA Team of the Year: 1989–90
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<mask> (born 5 April 1993) is an Australian cricketer who plays for the New South Wales cricket team in the Sheffield Shield, and the Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League. <mask> scored a century on his first-class cricket debut for New South Wales in November 2011, becoming the youngest batsman to score a century in Sheffield Shield cricket. In January 2019, he made his Test debut for Australia against Sri Lanka, becoming the 457th person to play test cricket for Australia. He made a century in just his second test match in Canberra, also against Sri Lanka. He was not selected for the 2019 Ashes series and returned to play domestically in the 2019/2020 season. Early life
<mask> was born in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville and grew up in Roselands and then Lugarno. He was born into a family with a strong sporting pedigree.His mum Dana played volleyball for Australia and his father Brad played cricket for Northern Districts in Sydney's first grade competition. <mask> went to high school at Christian Brothers in Lewisham. He played much of his junior cricket with St George Cricket Club. Aged 13, he played for St George in the AW Green Shield, which is Sydney's premier cricket competition for under 16's. Playing Green Shield again the following year, he scored a total of 442 runs at an average of 88.40. By the time he was 17, <mask> was playing first grade for St George. At the start of the 2011/2012 season, he scored two centuries in the first 4 rounds, which saw him be selected to make his debut for New South Wales.Domestic career
<mask> made his Sheffield Shield debut for New South Wales against Western Australia in November 2011. He made an immediate statement by scoring 157 in the first innings and remaining 6 not out in the second innings as New South Wales won the match by 6 wickets. This performance earned him the player of the match
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honours. His century in the first innings saw him become the youngest player to score a century in the Sheffield Shield. At the age of 18 years and 206 days he broke the record that was previously held by Barry Shepherd, who scored a century aged 18 years and 241 days in 1955. Despite this initial success, he was not selected to play for New South Wales for the rest of the season. <mask> returned to the New South Wales side during the 2013/2014 season, playing 7 out of 11 games.Throughout the season he scored a total of 403 runs at an average of 31.00. He scored 4 half-centuries during the season, including 52 in the final against Western Australia, which was won by New South Wales. <mask> produced similar statistics during the 2014/2015 season, scoring 372 runs at an average of 28.61. <mask>'s break out year came during the 2015/2016 season. Play all but one game, he scored a total of 737 runs at an average of 52.64, which included two centuries and four half-centuries. This made him the highest run-scorer for New South Wales that season and the 6th highest run-scorer in the whole competition. He was then selected for Australia A to play in a 2016 winter series against South Africa A and India A.In two unofficial test matches against South Africa A, <mask> made scores of 74, 6, 92, and 50 not out. This made him the highest scorer in the series among both sides. During this offseason, he also played 6 one day matches for Australia A in a quadrangular series against India A, South Africa A, and Australia's National Performance Squad. His stand-out performance in the series was a score of 115 against India A in a match that Australia A won by 1 run. Still aged just 23 and with a first-class batting average of 42.91, <mask> was now in contention for national selection. Before the start of the 2016/2017 season, former New South Wales and Australian
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wicketkeeper Brad Haddin said that <mask> could be in contention to play for Australia that summer. He furthered his case by scoring a century against Queensland in the first round of the 2016/2017 Sheffield Shield season.After this innings, New South Wales coach Trent Johnston said he believed <mask> was ready for test cricket and deserved a chance at international level. However, <mask> was not selected for Australia and played out the rest of the season in the Sheffield Shield. Although he did not score a century for the rest of the season, he still finished the season with 668 runs at an average of 44.53. This was followed by another strong domestic season in 2017/2018 where he scored 672 runs. This marked the second time in three years that <mask> was the highest run-scorer for New South Wales. Despite his consistent run scoring ability, questions began to be asked in the media about his ability to convert his half-centuries into bigger scores. However, in round 5 of the 2018/2019, he made a score of 107 not out against Western Australia, his first Sheffield Shield century since 2016.Between that time, he had scored a total of 14 half-centuries without scoring a century. Domestic One-Day Career
Since 2013, <mask> has played for New South Wales in Australia's domestic one-day competition. In his first year playing in the competition, he played 7 out of 8 matches and made 152 runs at an average of 25.33 as New South Wales finished runners up in the competition. He following year he had a slightly improved season, scoring 230 runs at an average of 32.85. He had his most successful season in the 2016 competition when he averaged 49.40. In the final, <mask> scored 77 not out as New South Wales won the title. Just before the start of the 2018 competition, New South Wales captain Peter Nevill broke his thumb, and <mask> was named as the new
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captain.He had a difficult start as captain as New South Wales lost the first 3 games of the season. He also struggled individually, averaging 23.80 for the season. After being in contention for a Test call-up in the 2017–18 Ashes series, <mask> played every match for New South Wales in the 2017–18 JLT One-Day Cup, scoring two fifties and averaging 41.33 runs per innings to be one of the team's top run-scorers for the tournament. During the 2019 season, <mask> was hampered by a quad injury, playing only two matches in the competition. Big Bash career
For the inaugural season of the Big Bash League, Australia's franchise Twenty20 competition, <mask> was offered a roster spot by the Sydney Thunder. However, he turned it down to focus on making the New South Wales Sheffield Shield side. In the second season of the Big Bash, <mask> was signed by the Sydney Sixers franchise for the 2012/2013 season.In his first season, he only played one game for the Sixers. The following season, he was signed by cross-town rivals the Sydney Thunder. <mask> was not regularly selected for the Thunder, playing only 9 games in each of the next three seasons. In later seasons of the Big Bash he began to play for games for the Thunder but failed to make a significant impact. In his time at the Thunder, he played a total of 25 matches in 8 seasons with a total of 438 runs and a high score of 48. Just before the start of the 2019/2020 Big Bash season, <mask> signed a 3-year deal with the Perth Scorchers. He missed the opening rounds of the season due to a hamstring injury.He finally made his debut for the Scorchers in January 2020, however, after scoring 38 runs in 3 matches, he was dropped for the remainder of the season due to lack of runs. International career
During the 2018/19 season, <mask> was selected to play for a Cricket Australia XI side against the touring Sri
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Lankans as a warm-up for the test series. <mask> scored unbeaten centuries in both innings, with 157 not out in the first innings and 102 not out in the second innings. He was named the player of the match. Despite this performance against the Sri Lankans, the Australian squad for the test series had already been named the previous week and <mask> had not been included. However the selectors backtracked and he was added to Australia's Test squad for the series against Sri Lanka. He made his Test debut for Australia against Sri Lanka on 24 January 2019.He had his baggy green cap presented to him by Michael Hussey. Batting at number 6, he made 30 off 82 balls in his first test innings before being dismissed LBW. He was not required to bat in the second innings as Australia won by an innings and 40 runs. He also took three catches in the match, including a diving, one-handed catch in the gully to dismiss Dilruwan Perera. He was retained in the side for the second Test match in Canberra. In the second test, he scored a century, the first of his Test career as Australia romped to a huge total, with Joe Burns and Travis Head also scoring centuries. <mask> finished with a score of 114 not out.With Travis Head also scoring his first test century in the same innings, it was the first time since 1989 that two Australian batsmen had made their first test centuries in the same innings. Both his parents and many of his friends were in the crowd when he reached his century. He did not bat in the second innings as Australia beat Sri Lanka by 366 runs, winning the series 2–0. 2019 Australia A tour of England
Following the conclusion of the test series, <mask> returned to play for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield. He finished the competition with a total of 724 runs, making him the 5th highest run-scorer for the season. This meant that <mask> was suddenly
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in contention for selection in the Australian side due to tour England for the 2019 Ashes series. <mask> was selected for the Australia A team that toured England in the lead up to the Ashes.These matches were considered to be crucial in deciding who would be selected for the Ashes. Before this tour, <mask> had only played 8 weeks of club cricket in England and he struggled to make runs. He scored 4, 32, and 28 for Australia A before scoring 2 and 0 in an intra-squad trial match. Ultimately, <mask> was not selected for the series, with Chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns saying <mask> was desperately unlucky to not be selected. Hohns also said the return of Steve Smith, David Warner, and Cameron Bancroft from their ball-tampering suspensions pushed players like <mask> out of the side. Injury and 2020 season
At the start of the 2019/2020 season, <mask> suffered a quadriceps injury playing grade cricket for St George. While he started the Sheffield Shield season for New South Wales, he reinjured his leg while fielding against Tasmania and missed several months of cricket.This injury also meant that <mask> did not have a chance to impress national selectors before the Australia test squad for the summer was named. On his return from injury, <mask> only played 3 matches for New South Wales before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the last round of the season. <mask> stated towards the end of the season that he did not think the injury was affecting his batting. He was also selected for Australia A against England Lions in February 2020. He top-scored with 94 not out in the second innings of the match. References
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<mask> (born January 22, 1982) is an American football offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arkansas and signed with the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2004, originally as a tight end. He was later traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 2009 and spent the next twelve seasons playing for them before joining the Bears in 2021. College career
After starring in both football and basketball at Queen City High School (TX), <mask> attended the University of Arkansas and played for the Arkansas Razorbacks football team. Originally recruited as a defensive tackle, he spent his freshman campaign as a reserve defensive lineman. He was then moved to the tight end spot, where he caught four passes for 37 yards as a sophomore. In his junior season, <mask> registered 21 catches for 218 yards and four touchdowns, which earned him a second-team All-SEC selection.Professional career
2004 NFL Draft
A fairly athletic tight end at more than 320 pounds, <mask> was seen as "a clone of former Denver Broncos giant Orson Mobley." Since he registered far more knockdown blocks (61) than catches (21) in his last year in college, <mask> spent much time prior to the 2004 NFL Draft working O-line drills, preparing himself to be an offensive tackle for the NFL. He was projected as an early fourth round pick by Sports Illustrated, but eventually went undrafted. Buffalo Bills
<mask> was picked up by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted rookie free agent in April 2004. He was cut then re-signed to the Bills' practice squad. He was signed to the active roster on November 12, 2004. <mask> made his mark on special teams as a wedge buster on kickoffs and as a blocking tight end, while beginning to learn to play offensive tackle under the tutelage of offensive line coach Jim McNally.In 2006, <mask> beat out former Texas star Mike Williams for starting right tackle on the Bills. <mask> was rewarded for his play, signing a 5-year, $15
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million contract extension with the Bills in the offseason. In 2007, <mask> began the season entrenched as the starting right tackle. After Week 7, the Bills reshuffled their offensive line to better protect quarterback J. P. Losman. <mask> was moved to left tackle, replacing Mike Gandy who moved inside to left guard. After the 2006 season, Sports Illustrated's Paul Zimmerman debated selecting <mask> to his All-Pro team. "I was rooting for the Bills' <mask>, whom I would have loved to pick, but he isn't there yet.Very athletic, but not enough of a roughneck." <mask> allowed only two sacks in that season and was not called for a holding penalty. In 2007, <mask> saw his best years as a pro, and was selected to start at left tackle on the AFC Pro-Bowl team. As offensive line coach Jim McNally put it, "His ability is limitless." He injured his groin in a game against the New York Giants, and was unable to attend the Pro Bowl game. He was the first Bills offensive lineman to make the Pro Bowl since Ruben Brown in 2003. Joe Thomas was selected to replace him in the Pro Bowl.At the beginning of the 2008 offseason <mask> was unhappy with his contract and did not report to any of the Bills offseason workouts including the teams' mandatory minicamps. Head Coach Dick Jauron said that he would be fined and would even be taken out of the lineup if he did not show. <mask> reportedly wanted a contract between $8 million and $11.5 million per season in a contract extension. On July 25, 2008, the NFL Network's Adam Schefter reported <mask> would not report to the Bills' training camp at Saint John Fisher College in Pittsford, N.Y. Schefter also said <mask> was willing to sit out the entire season to get a new and improved contract. On August 20, 2008, training camp for the Bills came to an end with <mask> being absent for the whole camp and all of the preseason games. On September 5, 2008, <mask> ended his holdout and returned to the Buffalo Bills. <mask> was fined over $560,000 for
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missing all of training camp, but if he had missed a regular season game, he would have been fined $191,000 for each game he missed.<mask> was selected as the starting left tackle in the Pro Bowl and was a Second-team All-Pro although his 2008 season was subpar and some thought the Pro Bowl selection was dubious. In 2006, he allowed only two sacks and allowed six sacks in 2007. Philadelphia Eagles
<mask> had been unhappy with his contract and had not been attending the Bills’ offseason activities after staging a holdout in 2008 during training camp. On April 17, 2009, the Buffalo Bills traded <mask> to the Philadelphia Eagles and received their first round pick (28th overall, used to select center Eric Wood) and fourth round pick (121st overall, used to select tight end Shawn Nelson) in the 2009 NFL Draft and a conditional sixth round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft (used to select linebacker Danny Batten). On April 17, 2009, the Philadelphia Eagles announced they had signed <mask> to a six-year, $60 million contract for him to remain in Philadelphia through 2014. The Eagles opted to void <mask>' previous contract he signed with the Bills that had two years remaining. Head coach Andy Reid added, "<mask> is the best left tackle in football.He is a powerful and athletic tackle and I have admired his play over the last few years on film." <mask> was selected to the 2010 Pro Bowl and 2011 Pro Bowl as a starter and was a 2010 second team All-Pro selection. On March 28, 2012, <mask> ruptured his Achilles tendon during an offseason workout. He ruptured it a second time in May 2012 after the equipment he was using to move around his house malfunctioned. He was placed on the active/non-football injury list on July 22, 2012, before the start of training camp. On February 26, 2014, <mask> signed a new five-year deal worth $51.3 million with the Eagles. During a game against the Washington Redskins on September 21, 2014, Redskins player Chris Baker tried to take out Eagles Quarterback
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Nick Foles with a cheap shot.Following the hit, a brawl broke out on the sidelines between both teams. Baker was confronted by <mask>, who then took a swing at Baker which resulted in both players getting ejected in the scuffle. On September 27, 2014, <mask> was fined $10,000. On June 14, 2017, <mask> signed a one-year contract extension with the Eagles through the 2019 season. On October 23, 2017, during Monday Night Football against the Redskins, <mask> left the game with an apparent right knee injury. The next night, it was revealed that his right knee had tears to the ACL and MCL, which ended his 2017 season. The Eagles went on to win Super Bowl LII against the New England Patriots 41–33, giving <mask> his first Super Bowl ring.On March 11, 2019, the Eagles signed <mask> on a one-year contract for the 2019 season. On July 17, 2020, <mask> signed another one-year contract with the Eagles. He was set to start at right guard following a season-ending injury to Brandon Brooks, but was moved back to left tackle following a season-ending injury to Andre Dillard. He was given a restructured contract after his move to left tackle on September 10, 2020. He was placed on injured reserve on October 3, 2020 with a foot injury. He was activated on October 31, 2020. He was placed back on injured reserve on December 12, 2020, ending his season.Chicago Bears
On August 16, 2021, <mask> signed with the Chicago Bears. References
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Jean-<mask> (born 30 March 1959) is a French engineer, management consultant and author, known for his contributions in the fields of computer-integrated manufacturing, enterprise architecture, nanoelectronics, nanocomputers and swarm intelligence. Biography
Waldner received his engineering degree in mechanical engineering from the Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard in 1983, his Dr Engineer in Electronics in 1986 from the École Supérieure d'Électricité, and his doctoral engineering degree in nuclear science and engineering in 1986 from the Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires. In 1986 <mask> started as consultant for the French Information Technology and Services company Bull, where he specialized in Computer Integrated Manufacturing. From 1990 to 1993 he was senior manager at Deloitte, senior partner at Computer Sciences Corporation from 1993 to 1996, Program Director for IT and Shared Services Centers at Carrefour from 1999 to 2001, and co-founded his own management consulting firm Waldner Consulting in 2004. Work
Waldner's research interests ranges from Manufacturing Resource, Planning Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Enterprise Architecture, to Nanoelectronics and Nanocomputers. Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP/MRP2)
The Manufacturing Resource Planning concept has evolved over the past 30 years from a simple means of calculating materials requirements and components (which does not even take into account the production capacity of the company) - to integrated ERP MRP concepts and software to automated management of the entire company..
During the 1980s the increasing changes of sales forecasts, which resulted in continuous and manual adjustments of the production plan, has in led to the MRP (Material Requirement Planning) model, which was strictly limited to the supply of materials. Eventually this evolved in means for wider production resources management, MRP2 (Manufacturing Resources Planning).<mask> (1992) showed, that MRP and MRP2 are essential principles of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). In the
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planning process of the enterprise they are the essential link between General Planning and execution and control. Thereby MRP2 covers three phases (see image):
Production programme
Material requirements,
Calculation of workload
According to Oliveira (2003) the work of <mask> (1992) and others became "an important effort towards the goal of increasing the competitiveness of manufacturing companies through the introduction of automation and wider use of computers." Computer Integrated Manufacturing
According to Waldner (1992) Computer Integrated Manufacturing is used to describe the complete automation of a manufacturing plant, with all processes running under computer control and digital information tying them together. There are three major challenges to development of a smoothly operating computer-integrated manufacturing system:
Integration of components from different suppliers: When different machines, such as CNC, conveyors and robots, are using different communications protocols (In the case of AGVs, even differing lengths of time for charging the batteries) may cause problems. Data integrity: The higher the degree of automation, the more critical is the integrity of the data used to control the machines. While the computer integrated manufacturing system saves on labor of operating the machines, it requires extra human labor in ensuring that there are proper safeguards for the data signals that are used to control the machines.Process control: Computers may be used to assist the human operators of the manufacturing facility, but there must always be a competent engineer on hand to handle circumstances which could not be foreseen by the designers of the control software. Machado et al. (2000) explained that "control, monitoring and supervision of industrial processes are increasingly demanding a great investment in technological solutions each time more embedded and with real-time capabilities, especially devoted to the interconnect, in an intelligent way, of shop-floor equipment with operational information systems." This gave rise to a new type
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of so-called Control-based Information System, in which information in factory plants flow between the shopfloor and the upper Computer Integrated Manufacturing systems as <mask> (1992) stated. Nanocomputers and swarm intelligence
The author forecasts a fundamental technological disruption in the computer world in the years 2020-25 by considering the physical limit of the miniaturization of the components to the silicon and the fatality of the Moore's law. This phenomenon, combined with the demand for mobility, will transform the landscape of conventional computing bringing about the breakthrough that will enable a vast and heterogeneous network of objects that impose a new vision of the software (i.e. distributed intelligence with lighter/simpler software code at the unit level but introducing much more numerous agents).Computing system will evolve from a centralized or distributed model to swarm intelligence, self-organized systems in which nodes will count in billions. The author notes that a human being interacts with 1000 to 5000 objects in a typical day At maturity, connected devices and Internet of things market could range from a few tens of billions to several trillion units. In 2007, as an early pioneer, Waldner strongly believed that the Internet of Things was poised to deeply transform the supply chain and the logistics industry. Waldner has a predominant interest in human–computer interaction (HCI) and considers that the evolution of computing machines and of the solutions they bring will rely fundamentally on the progress of these interfaces. Publications
Waldner has authored several books and articles. Books:
CIM, les nouvelles perspectives de la production, Dunod-Bordas, 1990
CIM: Principles of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, John Wiley & Sons, 1992 . Nano-informatique – Inventer l’ordinateur du XXIème Siècle, Hermès Science, London, 2007
Nanocomputers & Swarm Intelligence, ISTE, London, 2007
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Jean-Baptiste Waldner at waldner-consulting.com
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<mask> (born 14 December 1966 in Sassuolo) is an Italian racing driver. During his career he has won ten touring car titles, including European and British crowns making him the most successful touring car driver worldwide. He has spent the majority of his career racing for Alfa Romeo and Vauxhall. Career
Formula Three
After winning both the Italian and World Formula C karting titles for 125cc karts in 1986, <mask> stepped up to the Italian Formula Three Championship in 1987, driving a Reynard 873 powered by Alfa Romeo for PreMa Racing, where he scored a podium en route to thirteenth position in the championship. He stayed in the series in 1988, where he secured two wins at Vallelunga and Enna-Pergusa and finished third overall in the championship, a point behind runner-up Mauro Martini and two points behind season champion Emanuele Naspetti. He returned to the series in 1990, competing in a single round. Formula 3000
In 1989, Giovanardi switched to International Formula 3000 to compete with First Racing and won the race at Vallelunga.Those were his only points however, as he ended up tenth in the final championship standings; failing to qualify for races at Silverstone, Brands Hatch and Le Mans. He continued in the series in 1990 with First Racing, and again ended up tenth in the championship with a best result of second place at Pau. 1991 was his final season, and finished in a three-way tie for eleventh place. Super Touring Cars
Giovanardi dabbled into the Superturismo in the 1991 season, competing in a Peugeot 405. He took five Class S2 victories which set him up for a full campaign in the 1992 season. In his first full season, he was champion in the S2 class
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taking eight race wins and being crowned champion, his first touring car title. He moved into the main class of the championship with Peugeot in 1993, finishing in the top three overall twice (second in 1993 and third in 1994), and winning five races before moving to Nordauto Engineering Alfa Romeo in 1995.In his début season with Alfa, <mask> again finished in third place, beating his team-mate Antonio Tamburini in a tie. He also contested one round of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft at the Norisring, driving an Alfa Romeo 155 for the factory Alfa Corse team. In 1996 he continued to race in Superturismo and he also participated to some rounds of CET always with Nordauto Engineering. He finished fifth in Italy, and one place lower in Spain, taking five wins over the two series. In 1997 he continued in both championship Superturismo and CET driving for the last time Alfa Romeo 155 Ts. He won all four races of CET before that serie was cancelled due to lack of cars and he finished second in Superturismo with five victories behind Naspetti. He got the better of Naspetti in 1998, dominating the Italian championship in the new Alfa Romeo 156 with nine victories and eighteen podium on twenty races.Giovanardi and team-mate Nicola Larini made a guest appearance in the STW at the Norisring, where they both finished outside the top ten placings in both races. He became again Italian champion in 1999, again beating his BMW rival Naspetti in a thrilling last race in Vallelunga; <mask>'s advantage at the end of the season was only fourteen points after ten rounds. <mask> and Larini made a return to the STW at the series' Italian round at Misano, and the Alfa drivers
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finished 1–2 in the sprint race before both retired in the feature race. The Superturismo was promoted to become the Euro STC in 2000, and again <mask> won the title with Nordauto. Consistency was the key to become again champion in the new European Championship Euro STC in 2001, winning just three races and ten podium. <mask> also got his first Formula One test as a test driver for Ferrari on February 1 in 2001, replacing the injured Luca Badoer, who crashed heavily several weeks before. He was the official test driver of the team until September of that year, when Badoer healed and returned to his testing duties.European/World Touring Car Championship
In 2002, the European Touring Car Championship returned as a complete entity using the Super 2000 regulations. The regulation change did not hinder Giovanardi as he won a touring car title for the fifth successive season, again at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo. However, he switched to a Ravaglia Motorsport-run BMW for the 2003 season, but struggled with the rear-wheel-drive car taking only three podiums en route to ninth in the championship. Unsurprisingly, Giovanardi returned to the wheel of an Alfa in 2004 as part of a four-car team by Autodelta, the new name for Nordauto. Giovanardi took a single victory at Valencia as he finished sixth in the championship, finishing behind team-mate Gabriele Tarquini, the first such occasion of Giovanardi being beaten by a team-mate. With the European series becoming the World Touring Car Championship in 2005 – the first such championship season since 1987 – Giovanardi was part of the Alfa factory outfit, alongside Tarquini, James Thompson and Augusto Farfus, with André Couto
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joining the quartet at his home round in Macau. Giovanardi took a season-high four victories, as he finished as the highest-placed Alfa Romeo driver in the championship, finishing behind the BMWs of champion Andy Priaulx and Dirk Müller.His final appearance in the series to date came in 2006, when he replaced Pierre-Yves Corthals in Curitiba, Brazil and joined Corthals in Macau for JAS Motorsport; taking a best result of fourth in the opening Macau race. In 2011, Giovanardi won the European Touring Car Cup at the Salzburgring in Austria. He clinched Hartmann Racing's third consecutive European Touring Car Cup, in a Honda Accord. British Touring Car Championship
VX Racing/Triple Eight (2006–2010)
With Alfa Romeo pulling out of the WTCC, Giovanardi began searching for a replacement ride for the 2006 season. In late 2005 Giovanardi tested a Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch for the Triple Eight BTCC team at Pembrey in Wales. The team duly signed him, and Tom Chilton up to drive for the team in 2006. Gavin Smith would later join the team, making it a three-car Vauxhall effort.It was a testing year for the team and Giovanardi, as he came close to a first win at Donington Park before a final-corner collision with West Surrey Racing's Colin Turkington. <mask> led into the chicane before an outbraking move by Turkington put him alongside at the apex. Both cut the chicane after the collision, and Turkington got to the line first, taking his second win of the season. Ultimately, his first win – and Vauxhall's 100th in the British Touring Car Championship – came at Knockhill. Fittingly, he was congratulated on live TV by John Cleland, the man who took Vauxhall's first win. He then
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secured a second win in the series at Brands Hatch; finishing his first BTCC campaign in fifth position, passing James Thompson by a single point at the final meeting of the season at Silverstone. <mask> and Chilton both remained with the team into the 2007 season, driving the team's new Vauxhall Vectra in the championship.The Vectra seemed to suit the driving style of <mask> better than his young team-mate, with <mask> taking ten wins to Chilton's tally of none. Indeed, <mask> was involved in a season-long championship battle with SEAT Sport's Jason Plato, with Plato leading 265-256 into the final round, having not finished outside the top eight positions in the first 27 rounds of the championship. In the first two races at Thruxton, <mask> led Plato home and thus Plato held a one-point lead going into the final race. With the top seven places reversed on the grid, Plato started sixth and <mask> seventh; but it was the Italian who made the quicker progress through the pack, and with his second place compared to Plato's fourth, <mask> claimed his first BTCC title by three points. In 2008, Chilton left for Team Dynamics, and thus <mask> was joined by new team-mates Matt Neal (joining from Dynamics) and Tom Onslow-Cole (joining from West Surrey Racing) in a three-car team. <mask> was the driver to beat, and sealed the title convincingly at Brands Hatch, with two races to spare; clinching the title with a non-scoring fourteenth position, due to the result of rival Plato (fifth), he could no longer be caught in the title race. Until the first race at Brands, <mask> had been on a run of 39 consecutive points finishes which had begun at round 19 of the 2007 season, at
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Snetterton in late July.He failed to score a top ten finish in the entire round, after failing to start in the second race and finishing eleventh in the final race. His only point came from the fastest lap of the final race. Plato finished third in the championship, as Mat Jackson overhauled his points tally after a good final weekend of the season. <mask> and Neal were joined at VX Racing by Andrew Jordan for the 2009 season, which would be the final season of manufacturer effort by Vauxhall. Vauxhall cited the economic downturn as the main reason for pulling out at the end of the season. <mask> was once again in the running for the title, alongside Turkington and Plato. Indeed, Giovanardi trailed Turkington by thirteen points heading to the final round of the season, held on the Grand Prix circuit at Brands Hatch.By the final race of the afternoon, a three-way title battle was still the situation, as Turkington had 262 points, <mask> 258 and Plato 254 – having won the first two races – with a maximum of seventeen points available. A titanic battle for the lead ensued and was not settled until the final lap of the race. Plato won the race becoming the only second driver to win all three races at a BTCC meeting, with Turkington finishing second to win his first title. <mask> finished in fourth position, and thus finished third in the championship standings. <mask> struggled to find a top-line drive for the 2010 season, but returned to the BTCC at the 2010 season-opening round at Thruxton. He drove the #888 Vauxhall Vectra for Triple Eight, partnering 2009 Clio Cup UK champion Phil Glew, who made his BTCC début at the meeting. He won the first two races of the season
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before taking a fifth-place finish in race three to secure a seven-point lead from Jason Plato in the championship.The team had hoped to run <mask> for the remainder of the season, but he was replaced by James Nash ahead of the second round at Rockingham due to sponsor Uniq pulling out. Instead, Giovanardi found a temporary home in the Italian-based Superstars Series, driving N.Technology's brand new Porsche Panamera S, and won a race on the car's début at Mugello. Giovanardi claimed three wins in succession at Paul Ricard and Vallelunga enabling him to finish sixth in the series' Italian championship, while he lies fifth in the international points, with one round left. Airwaves Racing (2014)
In February 2014, <mask> was confirmed as Airwaves Racing's first driver for the 2014 British Touring Car Championship season in a Ford Focus ST Mk.III. Giovanardi struggled to find the sweet spot in the new NGTC machinery and finished 13th overall with a solitary podium at Thruxton. V8 Supercars
Giovanardi drove with Marc Hynes in the two main endurance races of the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series, the L&H 500 at Phillip Island and the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama. The two drivers were recruited by Triple Eight Race Engineering to pilot the #88 car while regular drivers Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes teamed up in Lowndes' usual #888 car.At Phillip Island, <mask> and Hynes finished 17th, a lap down on winners Garth Tander and Mark Skaife and at Bathurst, the pair finished 15th – two laps down on team-mates (and race winners) Lowndes and Whincup. In 2010, <mask> will be driving for Britek Motorsport in the Armor All Gold Coast 600, sharing the team's
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Holden Commodore with Karl Reindler. In 2011, it was announced that <mask> would, once again, be driving for Britek Motorsport in the Armor All Gold Coast 600 with Karl Reindler. Italian Touring Car Championship 2017 (Racing Return). <mask> returned to Touring Car Racing for the first time in 3 Years for a guest appearance in the Italian Touring Car Championship round at Vallelunga. He qualified 6th but after a poor start dropped back to 10th. Despite not racing in almost three years Giovanardi fought his way back up to 4th in the race.World Touring Car Cup (WTCR)
<mask>lietta in the FIA World Touring Car Cup. Racing record
Career summary
Complete International Formula 3000 results
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Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft results
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Complete Italian Touring Car Championship results
Complete European Touring Car Championship results
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† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Complete World Touring Car Championship results
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† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Complete British Touring Car Championship results
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<mask> (; born 18 April 1969) is a Bulgarian industrialist, entrepreneur and owner of PFC Ludogorets Razgrad. On 27 January 2012 he was named an honorary citizen of Razgrad, and in 2019 became an honorary citizen of the state of Nebraska, USA. Biography
<mask> was born on 18 April 1969 in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria. He is married and has three children. <mask> completed his secondary education at the 9th French Secondary Language School Alphonse de Lamartine, in Spanish class. Having completing his higher education, he was awarded a master's degree in Industrial Management and Marketing from the Technical University, Sofia. After the changes in 1990 <mask>, together with his brother <mask>, established several companies, manufacturing and trading products such as clothing and footwear.In 1996 he established the privatization fund Napredak Holding AD, through which he acquired shares in a number of companies in Bulgaria, operating in various industrial sectors One of these companies is the bicycles and Forklift truck manufacturer Balkan AD, where the <mask> brothers’ mother – Margarita <mask> was appointed as Director in the period 1997 – 2009. In 1999 <mask> <mask> launched his own pharmaceutical business, establishing Huvepharma EOOD, which in 2000 privatized the then public company Biovet AD – owner of a veterinary products factory in the town of Peshtera, Bulgaria. Over the years Huvepharma EOOD constantly progressed to become a global pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing and marketing of human and veterinary medicine products. The company now owns production sites located in Bulgaria, the United States, France and Italy. Huvepharma markets its products through its own subsidiaries, Representative offices and Distributors and ranks among the top 10 global companies in the area of veterinary medicine. In 2003 <mask> and Georgi <mask> established Advance Properties OOD, each having 50% equity share in the company. Advance Properties is a holding company, through which the <mask> brothers make most of their Investments.The leading companies within Advance Properties OOD are doing business mainly in the fields of pharmaceutics,
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maritime transport, port operations, construction, realties, media, etc. In 2008, as a result of Privatization procedure, Advance Properties OOD, through its subsidiary KG Maritime Shipping AD acquired 70% of the equity of Navigation Maritime Bulgare AD, a ship-owner company with a history of more than 125 years. Advance Properties OOD is the sole owner of BMF Port Burgas EAD – a port operator and concession holder of Terminal Burgas East 2 and Terminal Burgas West The port of Burgas is of strategic importance for Bulgaria and one of the largest ports in the Black Sea region. In 2010 <mask> <mask> launched his own football project and began investing in the development of PFC Ludogorets 1945 EAD, in the town of Razgrad, Bulgaria. The team earned promotion to the "A" Professional Football Group of the Bulgarian Football Championship and became Bulgarian football champion for the next nine consecutive seasons: 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20. In the seasons 2014/15 and 2016/17 the team of PFC Ludogorets 1945 EAD played in the group phase of the UEFA Champions League, and in the seasons 2013/14, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20 the team also played in Europa League. In 2011, together with his wife, Kremena <mask>, they established the Kremena and Kiril Domuschiev Foundation performing charity services.The Foundation focuses on supporting children's hospitals and specialist institutions for children deprived of parental care and many other diverse activities. During that year <mask> <mask> was awarded a Prize for Contribution to the Development of Industry in the competition "Mr. Economics" of the Economics Magazine. In 2012 he was named "Honorary Citizen of Razgrad". In 2016 the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria Maya Manolova awarded <mask> <mask> with the "Good Heart" award for his personal contribution to the "Easter for Everyone" campaign. <mask> <mask> is the President of Huvepharma EOOD, Chairman of the Supervisory board of Biovet AD and Chairman of the Supervisory board of Navigation Maritime Bulgare AD, chairman of the board of directors of Huvepharma NV, Belgium, member of the board of
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directors of Huvepharma Inc., United States. In 2014, for his contribution to the development of the Bulgarian industry, <mask> was elected a Chairman of the Management Board of the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (CEIBG) – the largest nationally represented employers’ organization in Bulgaria. In March 2017 he was re-elected for a second consecutive term.<mask> <mask> started construction of two new production sites of Biovet for veterinary products in Razgrad and Peshtera. The project was funded with Euro 100 million under the Juncker Plan, which is the largest investment under the program to date. The loan was granted by the European Investment Bank. The contract was signed in January 2018 in Sofia by <mask> <mask>, EU Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Commissioner Jyrki Katainen and the Minister of Agriculture Rumen Porozhanov, in the presence of President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. In October 2018, at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Technical University-Sofia, <mask> <mask> was elected a member of the Board of Trustees. The Board includes the best graduates of the university, distinguished experts in their field and well-known public figures with an active position and authority in society. The Board is an active partner of the university in the implementation of effective and transparent governance and the provision of quality education.In October 2018, Domuschiev's company Huvepharma received the Business of the Year Award for its contribution to the economic development of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, US. The award was presented at a ceremony by the Mayor of St. Louis in the presence of over 1,250 business guests from St. Louis and the state. In April 2019 Advance Properties acquired Nova Broadcasting Group – the largest media group in Bulgaria. Its portfolio includes 7 television channels, including the leading Bulgarian polythematic channel Nova Television, Nova News radio, print media and the film distribution company LENTA. Nova Broadcasting Group's portfolio also includes numerous digital media and platforms, including
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the largest Bulgarian online mail service Abv.bg, the leading news portals Nova.bg, Vesti.bg, Dariknews.bg, as well as the sports portal Gong.bg. Nova Broadcasting Group is the largest online market player in the country, reaching about 75% of Internet users in Bulgaria. In January 2021 Advance Media Group successfully sold Nova Broadcasting Group to United Group.Under Advance Media Group, in the period from April 2019 to January 2021 Nova Broadcasting Group proved its leading position as the largest media group and increased its portfolio to 10 television channels, the biggest Bulgarian online platform Netinfo reaching up to 80 % of Bulgarian Internet users monthly, as well as 4 radio stations. On 19 June 2019, <mask> <mask> was presented an honorary citizenship of the US state of Nebraska. The recognition is bestowed by the state's government for the investments made and the jobs created by <mask> <mask>. The certificate and the gold seal of the state were presented to <mask> <mask> by the Secretary of State of Nebraska – Robert Evnen – during his visit to Sofia. <mask> <mask> is the largest Bulgarian investor in the state of Nebraska and in the US. He has manufacturing plants in 5 American states, with investments in Missouri, North Carolina, Arkansas and Colorado, in addition to Nebraska. On January 20, 2020, <mask> <mask> was awarded with the "Winner’s Wreath" by the Sports Minister Krasen Kralev during a ceremony at the "Champion's Night"."Winner's Wreath" is the highest state honors in sports and is given to individuals with great contribution to Bulgarian sport. In mid March 2020, <mask> announced he had tested positive for COVID-19; he recovered towards the end of the month. In November 2021, the leading American magazine Forbes published an article estimating the wealth of <mask> and Georgi <mask> at $ 4.2 billion. According to Forbes, the family’s fortune is due to their business in Bulgaria, the United States, Belgium, and other companies they own around the globe. The Domuschievs are the Bulgarians with the largest investments in the United States. References
1969 births
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<mask>, 1st Baronet ( – 1679), born in Scotland, inherited land in Ireland and fought in the Irish Army for the royalists under his brother-in-law James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond during the Confederate Wars and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. He was father of Antoine Hamilton, author of the Mémoires du comte de Grammont, of Richard Hamilton, Jacobite general, and of Elizabeth, Countess de Gramont, "la belle Hamilton". Birth and origins
<mask> was born about 1608, probably in Paisley, Scotland. He was the fourth son of James Hamilton and his wife Marion Boyd. His father had been created 1st Earl of Abercorn by James VI and I in 1606. His paternal grandfather was Claud Hamilton, the 1st Lord of Paisley. <mask>'s mother was a daughter of Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock in Scotland.His father had been a Protestant, but his mother, Marion Boyd, was a recusant, who brought him, like all his siblings, up in the Catholic faith. His uncle <mask> of Greenlaw and Roscrea pushed in the same direction. He was one of nine siblings, five brothers and four sisters:
Early life
<mask> was about 11 years old on 23 March 1618 when his father, the 1st Earl of Abercorn, died. His father had been an undertakers in James VI and I's 1611 Plantation of Ulster and had as such acquired large estates in Ireland, mainly around Strabane in County Tyrone. <mask>'s eldest brother, James, succeeded to his father's title of Earl of Abercorn, but the Irish lands were shared among the younger sons according to his
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father's will. The lion's share, including Strabane, went to <mask>'s elder brother Claud. <mask> inherited Donalong, which would later appear in the territorial designation of his baronetcy in 1660.His father had predeceased his paternal grandfather, the 1st Lord Paisley, who died three years later in 1621. <mask>'s eldest brother James, the 2nd Earl of Abercorn, inherited at that time the title of Lord Paisley and the Scottish lands of the family. <mask> also became the owner of land around Roscrea and Nenagh in northern Munster, probably when his uncle <mask> of Greenlaw and Roscrea died. He also became owner, together with Sir Basil Brooke and Sir <mask> of the Knockaunderrig Silver Mine at Knockanroe in the Silvermine Mountains at the village of Silvermines, south of Nenagh. In 1627 Hamilton succeeded Sir Roger Hope to the command of a company of foot in the Irish Army. Marriage and children
In 1629 <mask> married Mary Butler, youngest daughter of Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles. Her eldest brother, James, thereby became his brother-in-law, who would become his boss when appointed commander-in-chief of the Irish army.<mask> and Mary had nine children, six sons:
James (died 1673), became ranger of Hyde Park and lost a leg in a sea-fight;
<mask> (died 1676), killed in French service at the Col de Saverne. Anthony (1646–1720), fought for the Jacobites and wrote the Mémoires du comte de Grammont;
Thomas (died 1687), served in the Royal Navy and died in Boston, Massachusetts;
Richard (died
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1717), fought for the Jacobites and was taken prisoner at the Boyne. John (died 1691), Colonel in the Irish army, comte de Hamilton, was killed in the Battle of Aughrim;
—and three daughters:
Elizabeth (1641–1708), a famous beauty, married Philibert de Gramont;
Lucia (died 1676), married Sir Donough O'Brien in 1674. Margaret, married in July 1674 Mathew Forde of Seaforde County Down and Coolgreany County Wexford. Midlife
In 1632 his mother died in Edinburgh. Some time before 1634 he was created a baronet and thus became Sir <mask>, but the territorial designation and the baronetage (country) are unknown. In 1641, at the beginning of the Irish Rebellion, Sir <mask> was, during a visit to England, suspected to support the rebellion as he was Catholic.He was arrested and shortly held at the Tower of London but was soon released on bail. In that same year Phelim O'Neill burned Strabane Castle and sent him Jean Gordon, his brother Claude's widow and her children who had been living in Strabane Castle. On 2 February 1642 the Knockaunderrig Silver Mine, which Sir <mask> operated together with Sir Basil Brooks and Sir William Russell, was attacked by local rebels under the leadership of Hugh O'Kennedy and 32 Protestant English miners seem to have been killed. On 5 June 1646 Owen Roe O'Neil with the Confederate Ulster army defeated the Covenanters under Robert Monro. O'Neill then marched south to Kilkenny as directed by Rinuccini, the papal nuncio. Leinster and Munster was treated as enemy territory and
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on 17 September 1646, O'Neil attacked and captured Roscrea where Sir <mask>'s wife and children lived. The Ulstermen spared his family but put everybody else to the sword.O'Neill then menaced Dublin in November 1646. It seems that Sir <mask> had been with the King in England. In January 1647 he returned to Dublin with a message instructing Ormond to hand Dublin over to the English rather than the Irish. In January 1649 Sir <mask> was appointed receiver-general of the revenues for Ireland succeeding to Lord Roscommon. He was also made a colonel of foot in the Irish army and upheld the Royalist cause against Cromwell. In 1649 he was appointed governor of Nenagh for his brother in law, James Butler, at that time the Marquess of Ormond, leader of the royalists. At the end of 1650 he defended Nenagh Castle against the Parliamentarian army under Henry Ireton, which attacked it on the way from the siege of Limerick back to their winter quarters at Kilkenny.He surrendered the castle on 10 November 1650 after Ireton had menaced to breach its walls with artillery. French exile
His Irish lands were confiscated, and in spring 1651 he and his family followed Ormond into French exile. They first went to Caen where Ormond's wife Elizabeth Preston lived since 1648. Ormond introduced him to Charles II's exile court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. His wife went to Paris where she lived in the convent of the Feuillantines. In 1656 or 1657 Charles sent him, together with Donough MacCarty, 2nd Viscount
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Muskerry to Madrid on a diplomatic mission. Restoration and death
In 1660, after the Restoration, he returned to London and stayed at the court of Charles II at Whitehall.In that same year the king created him Baronet of Donalong and Nenagh for his services to the royal cause. The two places mentioned in the territorial designation of the baronetcy are both in Ireland but quite far from each other. Donalong (also spelled Dunnalong) refers to his lands in County Tyrone, Ulster, whereas Nenagh refers to the town in County Tipperary, Munster of which he had been governor. Although many sources mention the creation of the baronetcy, it seems to have never been carried out entirely. He died in 1679 at the age of 71 or 72 years. He was succeeded by his grandson James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn, who never assumed the title of Baronet but would later succeed to the earldom of Abercorn. Notes, citations, and sources
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– 1643 to 1660
– 1649 to 1664 (for <mask>)
– Ab-Adam to Basing – Abercorn
– England
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– Viscounts (for Butler, Viscount Mountgarret)
– Viscounts (for Viscount Strabane)
– Abercorn to Balmerino
– Panmure to Sinclair
– 1643 to 1660 and index
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– Snippet view
The lost Settlement of Dunnalong
lost Settlement of Dunnalong
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<mask> (Hangul: 유영; born May 27, 2004) is a South Korean figure skater. She is the 2020 Four Continents silver medalist, a three-time Grand Prix bronze medalist, a three-time Challenger series medalist, and a five-time South Korean national champion (2016, 2018–2020, 2022). On the junior level, she is the 2020 Youth Olympic champion, the 2018 JGP Slovakia bronze medalist, and the 2019 Winter Children of Asia International Sports Games champion. <mask> is the youngest ever national champion of South Korea at age 11, surpassing the previous record set by Yuna Kim who won at age 12 in 2003. She is also the first Korean woman to successfully land a triple Axel in international competition, and the first Korean woman to win the gold medal at the Winter Youth Olympics. She currently holds the fourth highest technical element score in the short program (45.54 at the 2019 Skate Canada) and the ninth highest technical element score in the free skate (79.94 at the 2020 Four Continents). She remains the first and only female skater to have had landed the triple Axel at the Youth Olympics.Competing in the 2022 Beijing Olympics, <mask> placed 6th overall. As of 17th February 2022, <mask> is the 4th highest ranked women's singles skater in world by the International Skating Union. Personal life
<mask> is the third child and only daughter of her father, <mask>-jin, who runs a business in Indonesia, and mother, Lee Sook-hee. She moved to Indonesia at the age of two because of her father's business, and spent her youth in Singapore. She enrolled into Bukit Timah primary school and attended school for a year before she returned to South Korea. Career
Early career
<mask> began skating after watching Yuna Kim's victory at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Though maintaining South Korean nationality, she was raised in Singapore and trained under various coaches and competed in the Singapore National Figure Skating Championships from 2011 to 2013.One of her coaches was Singapore-based Zhang Wei, a former Chinese national ice dancer who won gold with partner Wang Rui at the 1999 Asian
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Winter Games, who she trained with for a six-month period in 2012. Zhang said her talent was evident even then and told TODAY: "She's not the most talented athlete I've coached. But her jumps, explosive energy, flexibility and coordination were very good then, and it is very rare that you get all these qualities in one athlete, particularly at that age." He is confident that <mask> has what it takes to become a future world and Olympic champion. On his advice, <mask> returned to South Korea with her mother in March 2013 to further her development as the training environment is better. 2015–2016 season: National title
In January 2016, <mask> won the gold medal at the 2016 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, becoming the youngest ever national champion of South Korea at age 11, surpassing the previous record set by Yuna Kim who won at age 12 in 2003. In March, <mask> won the gold medal at novice level of the Cup of Tyrol.2016–2017 season
In November 2016, <mask> won the silver medal at novice level of the Tallinn Trophy behind Alena Kanysheva of Russia. In January 2017, she finished fifth at the 2017 South Korean Figure Skating Championships mainly because of a fall in the short program. 2017–2018 season: Junior international debut
<mask> debuted on the Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in September 2018, placing fourth at JGP Croatia in Zagreb. In October, she placed fifth at JGP Italy in Egna. In January 2018, she won the gold medal at the 2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, earning her second national title. In March, <mask> finished ninth at the 2018 World Junior Championships. 2018–2019 season: Third national title
In August 2018, <mask> began competing on the JGP series, winning the bronze medal at JGP Slovakia in Bratislava, behind Russians Anna Shcherbakova and Anna Tarusina.It is currently her first and only JGP medal. She then placed fourth at JGP Canada in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. After earning her third national title, <mask> was assigned to the 2019 World Junior Championships. In February 2019, she won gold at the 2019
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Bavarian Open and the 2019 Winter Children of Asia ISG. After a poor short program at Junior Worlds that left her in eleventh place, <mask> rose to sixth place overall with a stronger free skate. 2019–2020 season: Senior international debut
<mask> opened her season at the 2019 Philadelphia Summer International, where she won the gold medal. <mask> debuted on the Challenger series, winning the bronze medal at the 2019 CS Lombardia Trophy behind Russians Anna Shcherbakova and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva after she placed second in the short program and third in the free program.At this competition, she scored over 70 points in the short program, 130 points in the free skate, and 200 points overall for the first time in an ISU-sanctioned competition. One week later, <mask> won the silver medal at another Challenger, the 2019 CS U.S. Classic, winning the free skate by scoring over 140 points for the first time. During this period, it was reported that <mask> made a coaching change, with Mie Hamada becoming her primary coach along with Tammy Gambill. Making her senior Grand Prix debut at the 2019 Skate Canada International, <mask> successfully landed a ratified triple Axel in the short program to place second behind new training mate Rika Kihira of Japan with a new personal best score (78.22). She noted that this was a moment she had been working toward for three years. In the free skate, she fell on another triple Axel attempt and placed fourth in the segment. Overall, her total score of 217.49 was enough for the bronze medal, after Alexandra Trusova and Kihira.<mask>'s success at Skate Canada led to her being given a second Grand Prix assignment, the 2019 Cup of China, where she placed fourth after mistakes in both programs. <mask> entered the 2020 South Korean Championships as the defending champion and, given her success on the international circuit, was favored to repeat her title. After placing first in both segments, she won the gold medal ahead of Lee Hae-in and Kim Ye-lim. She was assigned to the Korean teams for the 2020 World Championships along with Kim, and
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subsequently added to the 2020 NHK Trophy roster once it was clear she could travel to Japan. She was the lone non-Japanese entrant at the NHK Trophy and the only South Korean skater to compete on the Grand Prix that season. Generally considered one of the frontrunners at the event, she had a poor showing in the short program, falling twice and underrotating three of her four triple jumps, as a result of which she placed twelfth of twelve skaters in the segment. She called it "a really weird performance" and attributed it to a failure of nerves.<mask> placed fifth in the free skate, landing the triple Axel this time, and rose to seventh place overall. In February, <mask> competed at the 2021 South Korean Championships. She placed narrowly first in the short program despite underrotation calls, but fell twice in the free skate, including on her triple Axel attempt, and dropped to fourth place overall. As a result, she was not named to Korea's team for the 2021 World Championships. 2021–2022 season: Beijing Olympics
You began the season at the Skating Club of Boston's Cranberry Cup event, where she won the silver medal, 30 points behind champion Alysa Liu. She next went on the Challenger series to compete at the 2021 CS Autumn Classic International, where she was considered by many to be the gold medal favourite, but ultimately took silver behind surprise winner Marilena Kitromilis of Cyprus. She did not land a clean triple Axel at either event.Beginning the Grand Prix at the 2021 Skate America, <mask> placed fifth in the short program after falling on her triple Axel attempt. She landed her opening triple Axel in the free skate, albeit deemed a quarter short on rotation, and placed second in that segment despite a few other minor jump issues. She finished with the bronze medal overall, 0.34 behind silver medalist Daria Usacheva. At her second event, the 2021 NHK Trophy, <mask> failed to land her triple Axel in either segment, but still placed third in the short program and second in the free skate to take her second bronze medal of the Grand Prix season.
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Speaking afterward she said that her goal for the season was "to just get to nationals with no injuries and take care of my body and if I will do well, make it to the Olympics." <mask> entered the 2022 South Korean Championships as the title favourite, and placed first in both segments to win the gold medal. Her margin over silver medalist Kim Ye-lim was 13.85 points.She and Kim were named to the South Korean Olympic team, and sent to compete at the 2022 Four Continents Championships alongside bronze medalist Lee Hae-in. <mask> struggled at the event in Tallinn, botching the triple Axel attempt in both segments and finishing sixth overall, behind both Lee and Kim. Competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, <mask> started the women's event sixth in the short program, having her triple Axel downgraded and receiving an edge call on her flip. In her view "things were not perfectly done, but I think overall it's good." You placed fourth in the free skate despite underrotating her triple Axel, but remained in sixth overall. Skating technique
You landed her first successful triple Axel jump in competition at the 2019 CS Lombardia Trophy in Italy during the ISU Challenger Series. She is known to land difficult jump combinations.As of the 2019–2020 season, she actively competes with the triple Axel jump, the triple Lutz-triple toeloop combination, the triple Lutz-Euler-triple Salchow sequence, and the double Axel-triple toeloop combination jumps. Programs
Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
Detailed results
Senior level
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Personal best highlighted in bold. Junior level
Personal best highlighted in bold. Awards and recognition
References
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2004 births
Living people
South Korean female single skaters
Figure skaters at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters of South Korea
Youth Olympic gold medalists for South Korea
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
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<mask> (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He was a founding member of Deep Purple in 1968, playing jam-style hard rock music that mixed guitar riffs and organ sounds. He is prolific in creating guitar riffs and classically influenced solos. During his solo career, <mask> established the heavy metal
band Rainbow, which fused baroque music influences and elements of hard rock. Rainbow steadily moved to catchy pop-style mainstream rock. He later formed the traditional folk rock project <mask>'s Night along with his now wife Candice Night, transitioning to vocalist-centred sounds. As a member of Deep Purple, <mask> was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2016.He is cited by publications such as Guitar World and Rolling Stone as one of the greatest and most influential guitar players of all time. Early life
<mask> was born at Allendale Nursing Home in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, as second son to Lewis J<mask> and Violet (née Short). His father was born in Cardiff and his paternal grandfather was born in Swansea, Wales. The family moved to Heston, Middlesex, when <mask> was two. He was 11 when he was given his first guitar by his father on certain conditions, including learning how to play properly, so he took classical guitar lessons for one year. In an interview with Sounds magazine in 1979, <mask> said that he started the guitar because he wanted to be like British musician Tommy Steele, who used to just jump around and play. Blackmore loathed school and hated his teachers.While at school, <mask> participated in sports including the
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javelin. He left school at age 15 and started work as an apprentice radio mechanic at nearby Heathrow Airport. He took electric guitar lessons from session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan. Career
1960s
In 1960 he began to work as a session player for Joe Meek's music productions, and performed in several bands. He was initially a member of the instrumental band the Outlaws, who played in both studio recordings and live concerts. Otherwise, in mainly studio recordings, he backed singer Glenda Collins, German-born pop singer Heinz (playing on his top ten hit "Just Like Eddie", "Beating Of My Heart"), and others. Thereafter, in mainly live concerts, he backed horror-themed singer Screaming Lord Sutch, beat singer Neil Christian, and others.<mask> joined a band-to-be called Roundabout in late 1967 after receiving an invitation from Chris Curtis. Curtis originated the concept of the band, but would be forced out before the band fully formed. After the line-up for Roundabout was complete in April 1968, <mask> is credited with suggesting the new name Deep Purple, as it was his grandmother's favorite song. Deep Purple's early sound leaned on psychedelic and progressive rock, but also included cover versions of 1960s pop songs. This "Mark One" line-up featuring singer Rod Evans and bass player Nick Simper lasted until mid-1969 and produced three studio albums. During this period, organist Jon Lord appeared to be the leader of the band, and wrote much of their original material. 1970s
The first studio album from Purple's second line-up, In Rock (1970), signalled a transition in the band's
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sound from progressive rock to hard rock, with <mask> and Lord having heard King Crimson's debut album.This "Mark Two" line-up featuring rock singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover lasted until mid-1973, producing four studio albums (two of which reached No. 1 in the UK), and two live albums. During this period, the band's songs primarily came out of their jam sessions, so songwriting credits were shared by the five members. <mask> later stated, "I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible." Famous guitarist Steve Vai was more complimentary about <mask>'s role in developing song ideas : "He was able to bring blues to rock playing unlike anybody else." The third Deep Purple line-up featured David Coverdale on vocals and Glenn Hughes on bass and vocals.Songwriting was now more fragmented, as opposed to the band compositions from the Mark Two era. This "Mark Three" line-up lasted until mid-1975 and produced two studio albums. <mask> quit the band to front a new group, Rainbow. In 1974, <mask> took cello lessons from Hugh McDowell (of ELO). <mask> later stated that when playing a different musical instrument, he found it refreshing because there is a sense of adventure not knowing exactly what chord he's playing or what key he is in. <mask> originally planned to make a solo album, but instead in 1975 formed his own band, <mask>'s Rainbow, later shortened to Rainbow. Featuring vocalist Ronnie James Dio and his blues rock backing band Elf as studio musicians, this first line-up never performed live.The
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band's debut album, <mask>'s Rainbow, was released in 1975. Rainbow was originally thought to be a one-off collaboration, but endured as an ongoing band project with a series of album releases and tours. Rainbow's music was partly inspired by elements of medieval and baroque music since <mask> started to play cello for musical composition. During this period, <mask> wrote a crucial part of Dio's basic melodies, particularly on their debut album. Shortly after the first album was recorded, <mask> recruited new backing musicians to record the second album Rising (1976), and the following live album, On Stage (1977). Rising was originally billed as "Blackmore's Rainbow" in the US. After the next studio album's release and supporting tour in 1978, Dio left Rainbow due to "creative differences" with <mask>, who desired to move in a more commercial sounding direction.<mask> continued with Rainbow, and in 1979 the band released a new album titled Down To Earth, which featured R&B singer Graham Bonnet. During song composition, Bonnet says that he wrote his vocal melodies based upon the lyrics of bassist Roger Glover. The album marked the commercialisation of the band's sound and contained their first smash hit with the single "Since You Been Gone" (penned by Russ Ballard). 1980s
The next Rainbow album, Difficult to Cure (1981), introduced melodic vocalist Joe Lynn Turner. The instrumental title track from this album was an arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with additional music. <mask> once said, "I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined. I was always
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stuck in a musical no man's land."The album marked the further commercialisation of the band's sound with <mask> describing at the time a liking for the AOR band, Foreigner. The music was consciously radio-targeted in a more AOR style, resulting in some degree of alienation with many of Rainbow's earlier fans. Rainbow's next studio album was Straight Between the Eyes (1982) and included the hit single "Stone Cold". It would be followed by the album Bent Out of Shape (1983), which featured the single "Street of Dreams". In 1983, Rainbow was also nominated for a Grammy Award for the Blackmore-penned instrumental ballad track "Anybody There". Rainbow disbanded in 1984. A then-final Rainbow album, Finyl Vinyl, was patched together from live tracks and the B-sides of various singles.In 1984, <mask> joined a reunion of the former Deep Purple "Mark Two" line-up and recorded new material. This reunion line-up lasted until 1989, producing two studio albums and one live album. Although the reunion's first album Perfect Strangers (1984) saw chart success, the second studio album The House of Blue Light (1987) displayed a sound that was closer to Rainbow's music and did not sell as well. The album's musical style differed from the traditional Purple sound due to <mask>'s Rainbow background, which distinguished him from the other members. 1990s
The next Deep Purple line-up recorded one album titled Slaves and Masters (1990), which featured former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner. During song composition, Turner wrote his vocal melodies. Subsequently, the "Mark Two" line-up reunited for a
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second time in late 1992 and produced one studio album, The Battle Rages On....Overall, the traditional Deep Purple sound returned. During the follow-up promotional tour, <mask> quit the band for good in November 1993. Prominent guitarist Joe Satriani was brought in to complete the remaining tour dates. <mask> reformed Rainbow with new members in 1994. This Rainbow line-up, featuring hard rock singer Doogie White, lasted until 1997 and produced one album titled Stranger in Us All in 1995. It was originally intended to be a solo album but due to the record company pressures the record was billed as <mask>'s Rainbow. Though Doogie White wasn't as distinctive as previous Rainbow singers, the album had a sound dissimilar to any Rainbow of old.This was Rainbow's eighth studio album, made after a gap of 12 years since Bent out of Shape, and is regarded as <mask>'s last hard rock album. A world tour including South America followed. Rainbow was disbanded once again after playing its final concert in 1997. <mask> later said, "I didn't want to tour very much." Over the years Rainbow went through many personnel changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up: <mask> was the sole constant band member. Rainbow achieved modest success; the band's worldwide sales are estimated at more than 28 million album copies, including 4 million copies sold in the US. In 1997 <mask>, with his girlfriend Candice Night as vocalist, formed the traditional folk rock duo <mask>'s Night.From about 1995, they were already working on their debut album Shadow of the Moon (1997). <mask> once portrayed
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their artistic characteristics as "Mike Oldfield plus Enya". <mask> mostly used acoustic guitar, to back Night's delicate vocal melodies, which he wrote. Night said, "When he sings, he sings only for me, in private". As a result, his musical approach shifted to vocalist-centered sounds. They recorded a mixture of original and cover materials. The band's musical style is inspired by medieval music and it blended with Night's lyrics about love's themes.The second release, entitled Under a Violet Moon (1999) continued in the same folk-rock style, with Night's vocals remaining a prominent feature of the band's style. The title track's lyrics were partly written by <mask>. "Violet" was his mother's first name and "Moon" was his grandmother's surname. 2000s–present
In subsequent albums, particularly Fires at Midnight (2001) which featured the Bob Dylan cover "The Times They Are a Changin'", there was occasionally an increased incorporation of electric guitar into the music, whilst maintaining a folk rock direction. A live album, Past Times with Good Company was released in 2002. After the next studio album's release, an official compilation album Beyond the Sunset: The Romantic Collection was released in 2004, featuring music from the four studio albums. A Christmas-themed holiday album, Winter Carols was released in 2006.Through numerous personnel changes, the backing musicians have totalled 26 persons. <mask> sometimes played drums in recording studio. They choose to avoid typical rock concert tours, instead limiting their appearances to small intimate venues. In 2011, Night said,
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"We have actually turned down a lot of (touring) opportunities." <mask> continued to write her vocal melodies. They have released eleven studio albums, with the latest one being Nature's Light in 2021. A re-formed Rainbow performed three European concerts in June 2016.The concert setlists included both Rainbow and Deep Purple material. The band featured metal singer Ronnie Romero, keyboardist Jens Johansson and bassist Bob Nouveau. Equipment
During the 1960s, <mask> played a Gibson ES-335 but from 1970 he mainly played a Fender Stratocaster until he formed Blackmore's Night in 1997. The middle pick-up on his Stratocaster is screwed down and not used. <mask> occasionally used a Fender Telecaster Thinline during recording sessions. He is also one of the first rock guitarists to use a "scalloped" fretboard which has a "U" shape between the frets. In his soloing, <mask> combines blues scales and phrasing with dominant minor scales and ideas from European classical music.While playing he would often put the pick in his mouth, playing with his fingers. He occasionally uses the diatonic scale, with rapidly changing tonality. In the 1970s, <mask> used a number of different Stratocasters; one of his main guitars was an Olympic white 1974 model with a rosewood fingerboard that was scalloped. <mask> added a strap lock to the headstock of this guitar as a conversation piece to annoy and confuse people. His amplifiers were originally 200-Watt Marshall Major stacks which were modified by Marshall with an additional output-stage (generated approximately 27 dB) to make them sound more like
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<mask>'s favourite Vox AC30 amp cranked to full volume. Since 1994, he has used ENGL tube-amps. Effects he used from 1970 to 1997, besides his usual tape echo, included a Hornby Skewes treble booster in the early days.Around late-1973, he experimented with an EMS Synthi Hi Fli guitar synthesizer. He sometimes used a wah-wah pedal and a variable control treble-booster for sustain, and Moog Taurus bass pedals were used in solo parts during concerts. He also had a modified Aiwa TP-1011 tape machine built to supply echo and delay effects; the tape deck was also used as a pre-amp. Other effects that <mask> used were a Uni-Vibe, a Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face and an Octave Divider. In the mid-1980s he experimented with Roland guitar synthesizers. A Roland GR-700 was seen on stage as late as 1995–96, later replaced with the GR-50. <mask> has experimented with many different pick-ups in his Strats.In the early Rainbow era, they were still stock Fenders, later Dawk installed over wound, dipped, Fender pick-ups. He has also used Schecter F-500-Ts, Velvet Hammer "Red Rhodes", DiMarzio "HS-2", OBL "Black Label", Bill Lawrence L-450, XL-250 (bridge), L-250 (neck). In his signature stratocaster Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound Flat SSL-4's are used to emulate the Schecter F500ts and since the early 90s, he has used Lace Sensor (Gold) "noiseless" pick-ups. Musical influences and tastes
<mask> credits fellow guitarist Eric Clapton's music with helping him develop his own style of vibrato around 1968 or 1969. In 1979, <mask> said: "I like popular music. I like ABBA very much. But there's so much stigma
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like, 'you can't do this because you're a heavy band', and I think that's rubbish.You should do what you want ... I think classical music is very good for the soul. A lot of people go 'ah well, classical music is for old fogies' but I was exactly the same. At 16 I didn't want to know about classical music: I'd had it rammed down my throat. But now I feel an obligation to tell the kids 'look, just give classical music a chance' ... the guitar frustrates me a lot because I'm not good enough to play it sometimes so I get mad and throw a moody. Sometimes I feel that what I'm doing is not right, in the sense that the whole rock and roll business has become a farce, like Billy Smart, Jr. Circus, and the only music that ever moves me is very disciplined classical music, which I can't play.But there's a reason I've made money. It's because I believe in what I'm doing, in that I do it my way—I play for myself first, then secondly the audience—I try to put as much as I can in it for them. Lastly I play for musicians and the band, and for critics not at all." Personal life
In May 1964, Blackmore married Margit Volkmar (b. 1945) from Germany. They lived in Hamburg during the late 1960s. Their son, Jürgen (b.1964), played guitar in the touring tribute band Over the Rainbow. Following their divorce, <mask> married Bärbel, a former dancer from Germany, in September 1969 until their divorce in early 1970s. As a result, he is a fluent German speaker. For tax-reasons, he moved to the US in 1974. Initially he lived in Oxnard, California, with opera singer Shoshana Feinstein for one year. She
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provided backing vocals on two songs in Rainbow's first album. During this period, he listened to early European classical music and light music a lot, for about three-quarters of his private time.<mask> once said, "It's hard to relate that to rock. I listen very carefully to the patterns that Bach plays. I like direct, dramatic music." After having an affair with another woman, Christine, <mask> met Amy Rothman in 1978, and moved to Connecticut. He married Rothman in 1981, but they divorced in 1983. Following the marriage's conclusion, he began a relationship with Tammi Williams. In early 1984 <mask> met Williams in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she was working as a hotel employee.In the same year, he purchased his first car, having learned to drive at 39 years of age. <mask> and then-fashion model Candice Night began living together in 1991. They moved to her native Long Island in 1993. Having been engaged for nearly fifteen years, the couple married in 2008. Night said, "he's making me younger and I'm aging him rapidly." Their daughter Autumn was born on 27 May 2010, and their son Rory on 7 February 2012. <mask> is a heavy drinker, and watches German-language television on his satellite dish when he is at home.He has several German friends and a collection of about 2,000 CDs of Renaissance music. Legacy
Readers of Guitar World voted two of <mask>'s guitar solos (both recorded with Deep Purple) among the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time. ("Highway Star" ranked 19th, and "Lazy" ranked 74th.) On 8 April 2016, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of
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original members of Deep Purple; however, he did not attend the ceremony. In 1993, Musicologist Robert Walser defined him as "the most important musician of the emerging metal/classical fusion". He is also credited as a precursor of the so-called "guitar shredders" that emerged in the mid-1980s. <mask> has been an influence on various guitarists such as Fredrik Åkesson, Brett Garsed, Janick Gers, Paul Gilbert, Craig Goldy, Scott Henderson, Dave Meniketti, Randy Rhoads, Michael Romeo, Wolf Hoffmann, Lita Ford, Brian May, and Yngwie Malmsteen.He was portrayed by Mathew Baynton in the 2009 film Telstar. Right"
1964 Houston Wells – "We'll Remember You"
1965 The Outlaws – "As Long As I Live" (recorded live)
1965 Glenda Collins – "Sing C' Est La Vie"; "Run To Me"; "Self Portrait"
Compilations
1989 <mask> – Rock Profile Vol. 1
1991 <mask> – Rock Profile Vol. 2
1991 The Derek Lawrence Sessions Take 1
1992 The Derek Lawrence Sessions Take 3
1994 Heinz – Dreams Do Come True – The 45's Collection
1994 <mask> – Take It! A Tribute To Hank Marvin & The Shadows (1996) <mask> plays on "Apache"
Sweet – All Right Now (1996) – recorded live in 1976, <mask> plays on "All Right Now"
Pat Boone – In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1997) <mask> plays on a cover of "Smoke On The Water" along with Dweezil Zappa
Geyers Schwarzer Haufen – Live '99 (1999) <mask> plays on "Göttliche Devise", a bonus track off the album
Geyers Schwarzer Haufen – Historock Lästerzungen (2004) – <mask> plays on "God's Gospel"
William Shatner – Seeking Major Tom (2011) <mask> and Candice Night guest on a cover of David
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Bowie's "Space Oddity"
William Shatner – The Blues (2020) - <mask> and Candice Night guest on a cover of B. B. King's "The Thrill Is Gone"
References
Further reading
External links
The Official Blackmore's Night website
1945 births
Living people
English rock guitarists
English heavy metal guitarists
New-age guitarists
English folk guitarists
English male guitarists
English songwriters
English people of Welsh descent
Rainbow (rock band) members
Blackmore's Night members
The Outlaws (band) members
Deep Purple members
People from Weston-super-Mare
English expatriates in the United States
English session musicians
Lead guitarists
Slide guitarists
English expatriates in Germany
British mandolinists
Hurdy-gurdy players
Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages members
20th-century British guitarists
21st-century British guitarists
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<mask> is an American lawyer and former recording company executive. He is currently an affiliate professor of music business and an advisor to the undergraduate commercial music program at Florida Atlantic University. Biography
<mask> became widely known to the general public through Frederic Dannen's 1990 book Hit Men: Power Brokers And Fast Money Inside The Music Business, which chronicled <mask>'s music industry career, particularly focussing on his tenure as Deputy President of Columbia Records between 1979 and 1983, his corporate and personal battles with controversial label president Walter Yetnikoff, and <mask>'s attempts in the early 1980s to expose and defeat the growing influence of a cabal of independent record promotion agents known as "The Network". A veteran of the United States Marine Corps, <mask> received degrees from Tufts University and Cornell Law School before beginning his working life as a corporate lawyer. His music industry career began in the mid-1960s when he was appointed as Vice President of Business Affairs for the CBS (now Sony Music) group of record labels, which included the Columbia and Epic Records labels. One of his first major duties at CBS was a 1966 meeting with Bob Dylan in Woodstock, New York, shortly after Dylan's legendary motorcycle accident, to negotiate the renewal of Dylan's Columbia recording contract. <mask> rapidly gained a reputation for his honesty, integrity, loyalty, thoroughness and able business administration.In 1970 he was appointed Vice President of Capitol Reocrds' east coast division, but the move was not a successful one for <mask> (Dannen described it as "a disaster") and in 1971 <mask> gratefully accepted Columbia president Clive Davis's offer to return to CBS. In 1972 he was sent to London to take over Columbia's loss-making UK division, which he soon returned to
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profit, and he was subsequently promoted to become the head of CBS' entire overseas recording operation. In 1979 the music industry experienced a major and rapid downturn in sales, and the CBS labels suffering a serious drop in profits. To deal with this crisis, then CBS Chief Operating Officer John Backe created the new position of Deputy President of Columbia Records and appointed <mask> to the role, where he implemented a stringent but effective (although very unpopular) round of cost-cutting, during which he was obliged to retrench hundreds of CBS staff. One area of expenditure that soon became a matter of particular concern to <mask> was the large and rising cost of payments to independent promotion agents, and <mask> calculated that this little-known facet of the company's operation was by then costing CBS alone around $10 million annually. For most of their history, music publishers and record labels had long used "song pluggers", freelance promotions agents who were hired on a casual basis to promote and sell new sheet music - and later, new record releases - to department and music stores, and radio station program directors. For many years this had been a relatively low-cost operation, but through the late 1960s and early 1970s, the combination of increasing competition between record labels, the enormous increase in the volume of new records, and the development of the restrictive Top 40 radio programming format meant that by the mid-1970s record labels were finding it increasingly difficult to get new releases placed into radio station playlists by their house marketing staff, and the American labels began to rely more and more heavily on a small group of powerful and influential independent promoters.As he investigated Columbia's expenditures during 1979, <mask> quickly realised that the cost of paying these "indies"
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(independent promotion agents) had skyrocketed - when he took over the CBS UK operation in 1972, an "indie" might only charge around $100 per week, but by 1980 it was estimated that the major labels were paying $100,000-$200,000 or more per record to hire these agents to promote their products to radio, and it was calculated that, industry-wide, the practice was by then costing at least $50 million annually. He also discovered that a group of the top independent American agents had organised themselves into a loose association known as "The Network", and that this group now had a virtual stranglehold over this crucial area of record company promotions. In late 1979 <mask> decided to test the power of The Network by deliberately not paying their agents to promote the new Pink Floyd single "Another Brick in the Wall" to radio stations in Los Angeles. The results dramatically validated his concerns - despite the fact that the group was the talk of the town at the time, performing sell-out concerts and garnering rave reviews, not one of the major L.A. radio stations would add the single to their playlist - but once the company resumed payments, the single quickly entered the Top 40, and in February 1980 its parent LP The Wall went to #1 on the Billboard album chart, where it remained for the next four months. For several reasons <mask> was determined to stop the practice of paying these "indies", but his crusade was strongly opposed by his boss, Columbia's volatile President, Walter Yetnikoff, who personally disliked <mask> and disagreed with many of his this business decisions. Yetnikoff strenuously defended the use of the "indies" as being essential to the company's business. <mask> however was now greatly concerned about the wider ramifications of this practice - he realised that "The Network" was, in effect, an industry-wide extortion
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racket whose real power lay in its ability to prevent records from getting to radio, and he also suspected that its leaders may have had links to organised crime.<mask> feared that this could precipitate another major scandal, on the scale of 1950s payola debacle, which destroyed the career of top DJ Alan Freed. <mask> knew that there were instances of apparent fraud, in which the Network agents were charging large sums for the placement of records that in fact were never even played on radio, and that the use of "indies" could be construed as bribery. He also feared that these practices could have disastrous consequences for his company, because if it was found that the CBS labels had been involved in any criminal activity, the Federal Communications Commission had the power to suspend or even revoke the all-important broadcast licences held by Columbia's parent, CBS Inc. which operated the CBS television and radio networks. In 1981, with concern across the industry growing, and after negotiations between the major labels, CBS and Warner Communications agreed to a joint boycott on payments to The Network, but it fizzled out after only a few weeks, and the labels soon returned to paying the Network. <mask> later found that one of his own labels, Epic, had been evading the boycott almost from the beginning, by hiding payments to The Network as "tour promotions" and other costs. By early 1983 <mask>'s financial efforts at CBS were reaping rewards, and the company posted its biggest quarterly profit since the late '70s, but in mid-April he was called to a meeting with Yetnikoff, who told him that CBS Music's new CEO Thomas Wyman "had problems" with him. Shocked and puzzled, <mask> began to question Yetnikoff about the claim, but at this point the obviously uncomfortable Yetnikoff abruptly got up, left the room and (as <mask> soon
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discovered) he immediately went home.Yetnikoff then deliberately avoided <mask> for days. <mask> eventually contacted Wyman and arranged a meeting, where Wyman told him that it was in fact Yetnikoff who "had problems" with <mask>. <mask> then searched the building trying to find Yetnikoff to discuss and hopefully resolve the issue, but he later found out that Yetnikoff had been deliberately hiding in another executive's office so that <mask> could not find him. The following Friday <mask> came to work to discover that his regularly scheduled weekly staff meeting had been cancelled, and that he had been ordered to come to Yetnikoff's office. There <mask> was confronted by Yetnikoff and Wyman, who presented and demanded that <mask> sign a one-line press statement announcing that he had left CBS. A stunned <mask> refused to sign, despite repeated demands by Yetnikoff and Wyman, and he then insisted on seeing his lawyer. <mask> realised he was being fired, but after consulting his lawyer, he realised that it would be pointless to fight the company and he acquiesced to his dismissal.<mask> then spent almost a year "in the wilderness", during which time he found it almost impossible to find work, and was shunned by former colleagues, but in 1984, in a surprise move, he was brought in to act as a senior consultant on the proposed merger between the Warner and Polygram music groups. Ultimately Federal Trade Commission refused to approve the merger, but <mask> had by then been appointed as a senior VIce-President at Warner Communications, and in October 1985 he was headhunted to become the new President and Chief Executive of Polygram Records Inc.
References
Dannen, Frederic, Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside The Music Business, Vintage Books, 1991 ()
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<mask> (born July 31, 1983) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher who is a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays, New York Mets, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Angels, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, and Washington Nationals. Professional career
Seattle Mariners
<mask> was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the second round (49th overall) of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft as a 17-year-old. He was chosen as a compensation pick from the Texas Rangers for the signing of Alex Rodriguez. <mask> played most of the 2004 season with the High-A California League Inland Empire 66ers but played with both the Triple-A and Major League clubs in September. He made his Major League debut September 22, , playing in two games for the Mariners that season as a late-inning replacement. <mask> began 2005 with the Double-A San Antonio Missions.He was promoted to the Mariners on May 15, but optioned back to San Antonio on May 20 without appearing in a game. He was again promoted to the Mariners on May 30 when starting catcher Miguel Olivo was sent down to Triple-A. On May 31, <mask> had his first Major League start and base hit, going 3 for 5 at the plate. <mask> shared catching duties with Pat Borders in June and was optioned back to San Antonio when Olivo returned. He played with the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers in August and returned to the Mariners in September. In 2005, he had 12 starts at catcher and 19 hits in 48 at-bats at the Major League level. <mask> was one of the final
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players cut from the roster in 2006 spring training and began the year at Triple-A.He was back with the Mariners by mid-April and served as a back-up to Kenji Johjima for the remainder of the season, batting .152 in 99 at-bats over 35 games. During the off-season, the Mariners weighed the benefits of allowing the young catcher to develop his hitting in the minor leagues against his providing limited offense in a back-up role in the Majors. In , <mask> played for the Mariners Double-A affiliate, the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx, batting .214 in 91 games. He was granted free agency in November. Los Angeles Dodgers
On November 22, 2007, <mask> signed a minor league contract that included an invitation to spring training with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers assigned him to Double-A Jacksonville to begin the season. While at Jacksonville, <mask> began playing some first base, along with catcher, and was promoted to Triple-A Las Vegas on June 3.He hit .250 across both levels and was granted free agency at the end of the season. New York Mets
<mask> signed with the New York Mets in November 2008. He spent the 2009 season with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, appearing in 63 games at catcher and 3 at third base. He hit .234 with 9 home runs. Camden Riversharks
<mask> began the 2010 season with the independent Camden Riversharks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. In 22 games with Camden, <mask> batted .280/.337/.610 with 7 home runs and 19 RBI. New York Yankees
The New York Yankees signed <mask> on May 20, 2010, to a minor league contract.He was initially assigned to the
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Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees and was later moved to the Double-A Trenton Thunder. Minnesota Twins
On December 17, 2010, <mask> signed a minor league contract with the Minnesota Twins. His contract was purchased by the Twins on May 5, 2011. He was brought up from Triple-A to provide back-up to Drew Butera, who was the Twins' primary catcher with Joe Mauer on the disabled list. He went back to Triple-A in early July, but rejoined the team on August 28 when Mauer was sitting out. He finished the year with the Twins, hitting .144 in 104 at-bats over 45 games on the season. <mask> was granted free agency at the end of the 2011 season, but re-signed with the Twins on a minor league deal and an invitation to spring training.<mask> stayed with the Triple-A Rochester Red Wings for the full 2012 season, batting .226 in 95 games. <mask> was displeased with the Twins when he was passed over and they called up catcher Chris Herrmann from Double-A to add depth in September. San Diego Padres
<mask> was signed to a minor league contract by the San Diego Padres on December 12, 2012. He was recalled from the Triple-A Tucson Padres on July 7, 2013, to replace Yasmani Grandal, who was placed on the disabled list. He was hitting .343 with Tucson at the time of his recall. He remained the backup to Nick Hundley for the rest of the season. In 23 games for San Diego, he hit .254/.268/.328 with 7 RBI and 4 runs.The Padres opened 2014 carrying three catchers, and <mask> was selected as the Opening Day catcher. <mask> became the personal catcher for Andrew Cashner during the season and
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picked up more starts once Nick Hundley was traded in late May. He finished the year with the majority of starts at catcher for the Padres with 85. On August 27, <mask> hit a game-winning single in the 10th inning after hitting a game-tying home run in the 9th inning, becoming the first Padres player since Adrián González in 2010 to have tying and winning RBIs in the same game. On the year, <mask> batted .252 with 11 home runs in 294 at-bats over a total of 103 games. Tampa Bay Rays
On December 19, 2014, the Padres traded <mask>, Jake Bauers, and Burch Smith to the Tampa Bay Rays in a three-team trade that saw the Rays trade Wil Myers, Jose Castillo and Ryan Hanigan to the Padres, the Padres trade Joe Ross and a player to be named later to the Washington Nationals, and Washington trade Steven Souza and Travis Ott to Tampa Bay. In 2015, he was mainly used as the personal catcher for Chris Archer.<mask> finished the 2015 season hitting .178 with 5 home runs and 26 RBIs. <mask> was released by the Rays on March 30, 2016. New York Mets (second stint)
On April 5, 2016, <mask> signed a minor league deal with the New York Mets. He was called up to the major league team on April 26, 2016, when Travis d'Arnaud was placed on the disabled list. He started for the Mets in their Wild Card game against the San Francisco Giants, going 1 for 3 and throwing out Denard Span. Throughout the season he was Noah Syndergaard and Seth Lugo's personal catcher. <mask> appeared in 65 games for New York, posting a .222/.291/.341 slash line with 6 home runs and 26 RBI.On December 3, 2016, <mask> and
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the Mets avoided salary arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $1.75 million contract. Chicago Cubs
On August 19, 2017, the Chicago Cubs claimed <mask> off waivers. He was added to the 25-man roster and was the starting catcher for the Cubs the following day against the Toronto Blue Jays. In 20 games with Chicago, <mask> slashed .341/.408/.591 with 2 home runs and 12 RBI. Los Angeles Angels
On January 9, 2018, <mask> signed with the Los Angeles Angels. In 30 games with the Angels, <mask> logged a .244/.287/.439 slash line with 4 home runs and 11 RBI. Atlanta Braves
<mask> was claimed off waivers by the Atlanta Braves on August 29, 2018.<mask> appeared in 3 games for Atlanta, and went 0-for-4 with 3 strikeouts. San Francisco Giants
On February 8, 2019, he signed a minor league deal with the San Francisco Giants. <mask> was released on March 23, 2019. New York Mets (third stint)
On March 25, 2019, <mask> signed a minor league deal with the New York Mets. He was assigned to the Triple-A Syracuse Mets. On August 24, the Mets selected <mask>'s contract. In 9 games with the Mets, <mask> went 4-for-17 with 1 home run and 3 RBI.On January 21, 2020, <mask> re-signed with the Mets on a minor league deal. On July 19, 2020, <mask> was selected to the Mets' 40-man roster. <mask> only appeared in 2 games for the Mets before undergoing season ending surgery to remove a bone spur from his left elbow. Cleveland Indians
On April 14, 2021, <mask> signed a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians organization. The Indians selected <mask>'s contract on May 5. <mask> slashed
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