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texts: his pocket to make the typing visible to him. It was an agonising moment." Brazilian author João Ubaldo Ribeiro, who as a young journalist spent several evenings in the Huxleys' company in the late 1950s, wrote that <mask> had said to him, with a wry smile: "I can hardly see at all.And I don't give a damn, really." On the other hand, <mask>'s second wife, Laura Archera, later emphasised in her biographical account, This Timeless Moment: "One of the great achievements of his life: that of having regained his sight." After revealing a letter she wrote to the Los Angeles Times disclaiming the label of <mask> as a "poor fellow who can hardly see" by Walter C. Alvarez, she tempered her statement: "Although I feel it was an injustice to treat <mask> as though he were blind, it is true there were many indications of his impaired vision. For instance, although Aldous did not wear glasses, he would quite often use a magnifying lens." <mask> proceeded to elaborate a few nuances of inconsistency peculiar to <mask>'s vision. Her account, in this respect, agrees with the following sample of <mask>'s own words from The Art of Seeing: "The most characteristic fact about the functioning of the total organism, or any part of the organism, is that it is not constant, but highly variable." Nevertheless, the topic of <mask>'s eyesight has continued to endure similar, significant controversy.American popular science author Steven Johnson, in his book Mind Wide Open, quotes <mask> about his difficulties with visual encoding: "I am and, for as long as I can remember, I have always been a poor visualizer. Words, even the

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 pregnant words of poets, do not evoke pictures in my mind. No hypnagogic visions greet me on the verge of sleep. When I recall something, the memory does not present itself to me as a vividly seen event or object. By an effort of the will, I can evoke a not very vivid image of what happened yesterday afternoon ..."

Personal life
<mask> married on 10 July 1919 Maria Nys (10 September 1899 – 12 February 1955), a Belgian epidemiologist from Bellem, a village near Aalter, he met at Garsington, Oxfordshire, in 1919. They had one child, <mask> (19 April 1920 – 10 February 2005), who had a career as an author, anthropologist, and prominent epidemiologist. In 1955, <mask> died of cancer.In 1956, <mask> married Laura Archera (1911–2007), also an author, as well as a violinist and psychotherapist. She wrote This Timeless Moment, a biography of <mask>. She told the story of their marriage through Mary Ann Braubach's 2010 documentary, Huxley on Huxley. <mask> was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in 1960; in the years that followed, with his health deteriorating, he wrote the Utopian novel Island, and gave lectures on "Human Potentialities" both at the UCSF Medical Center and at the Esalen Institute. These lectures were fundamental to the beginning of the Human Potential Movement. <mask> was a close friend of Jiddu Krishnamurti and Rosalind Rajagopal and was involved in the creation of the Happy Valley School, now Besant Hill School of Happy Valley, in Ojai, California. The most substantial collection of <mask>'s few remaining papers, following the destruction of most in the 1961 Bel Air Fire, is at the Library of

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 the University of California, Los Angeles.Some are also at the Stanford University Libraries. On 9 April 1962 <mask> was informed he was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature, the senior literary organisation in Britain, and he accepted the title via letter on 28 April 1962. The correspondence between <mask> and the society is kept at the Cambridge University Library. The society invited <mask> to appear at a banquet and give a lecture at Somerset House, London, in June 1963. <mask> wrote a draft of the speech he intended to give at the society; however, his deteriorating health meant he was not able to attend. Death
On his deathbed, unable to speak owing to advanced laryngeal cancer, <mask> made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 µg, intramuscular." According to her account of his death in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 a.m. and a second dose an hour later; <mask> died aged 69, at 5:20 p.m. (Los Angeles time), on 22 November 1963.Media coverage of <mask>'s death, along with that of fellow British author C. S. Lewis, was overshadowed by the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy on the same day, less than seven hours before <mask>'s death. In a 2009 article for New York magazine titled "The Eclipsed Celebrity Death Club", Christopher Bonanos wrote:

This coincidence served as the basis for Peter Kreeft's book Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & <mask> <mask>, which imagines a conversation among the three men taking place in Purgatory following their deaths.

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 <mask>'s memorial service took place in London in December 1963; it was led by his elder brother Julian. On 27 October 1971, his ashes were interred in the family grave at the Watts Cemetery, home of the Watts Mortuary Chapel in Compton, Guildford, Surrey, England. <mask> had been a long-time friend of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, who dedicated his last orchestral composition to <mask>. What became Variations: <mask> <mask> in memoriam was begun in July 1963, completed in October 1964, and premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on 17 April 1965. Awards
 1939: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
 1959: American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit .1962: Companion of Literature

Film adaptations of <mask>'s work
 1950: Prelude to Fame based upon Young Archimedes
 1968: Point Counter Point
 1971: The Devils
 1980: Brave New World
 1998: Brave New World
 2020: Brave New World

Bibliography

See also
List of peace activists

References

Sources

 . Reprinted in Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, revised edition, edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972. Further reading

 Anderson, Jack. 4 July 1982. "Ballet: Suzanne Farrell in Variations Premiere". The New York Times.Atkins, John. Aldous <mask>: A Literary Study, J. Calder, 1956
 Barnes, Clive. 1 April 1966. "Ballet: Still Another Balanchine-Stravinsky Pearl; City Troupe Performs in Premiere Here Variations for Huxley at State Theater". The New York Times, p. 28. Firchow, Peter. <mask> <mask>: Satirist and Novelist, U of Minnesota P, 1972
 Firchow, Peter.The End of Utopia: A Study of <mask>

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 <mask>'s Brave New World, Bucknell UP, 1984

 <mask>, <mask>. The Human Situation: <mask> <mask> Lectures at Santa Barbara 1959, Flamingo Modern Classic, 1994,
 <mask>, Laura Archera. This Timeless Moment, Celestial Arts, 2001,

 Meckier, Jerome. <mask> <mask>: Modern Satirical Novelist of Ideas, Firchow and Nugel editors, LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2006,
 Morgan, W. John, 'Pacifism or Bourgeois Pacifism? <mask>, Orwell, and Caudwell', Chapter 5 in Morgan, W. John and Guilherme, Alexandre (Eds. ),Peace and War-Historical, Philosophical, and Anthropological Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp, 71–96. .
 Murray, Nicholas. Aldous Huxley, Macmillan, 2003,
 Poller, Jake.Aldous <mask>, Reaktion Critical Lives, 2021. .
 Poller, Jake. Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality, Brill, 2019. .
 Rolo, Charles J. (ed.). The World of Aldous Huxley, Grosset Universal Library, 1947. Shaw, Jeffrey M. Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock. 2014. .
 Shadurski, Maxim.The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. (Chapter 5)
 Watt, Conrad (ed.). <mask> <mask>, Routledge, 1997,

External links

<mask> <mask> full interview 1958: The Problems of Survival and Freedom in America

 Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

 Raymond Fraser, George Wickes (Spring 1960). "Interview: <mask> <mask>: The Art of Fiction No. 24". The Paris Review.BBC discussion programme In our time: "Brave New World". <mask> and the novel. 9 April 2009. (Audio, 45 minutes)
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<mask> (Bundu c. 1744 – Canada c. 1837), also known as Black Dick, Captain Dick, <mask>, Pawpine, and Parepoint was a British soldier of Senegalese descent. Brought to America as a slave, he was granted freedom to fight on the side of the British in the American Revolution. After the war he settled in a Black community in Upper Canada, where he was given some land. He also participated in the War of 1812. Butler's Rangers

<mask> was born about 1744 in Bundu in what is now Senegal. When he was about sixteen he was captured and sold into slavery. Surviving the Middle Passage across the Atlantic, <mask> was sold to a British officer in colonial North America named Pierpoint, probably in one of the New England Colonies.<mask> would have acted as his personal servant. In 1776, with the outbreak of the American Revolution, many African American slaves were offered freedom in exchange for fighting on the side of the British. By at least 1780 <mask> was one of about a dozen Africans fighting with the Butler's Rangers regiment. Some members of the regiment were former black slaves, which enlisted blacks only as non-combatant laborers or sappers. The total number of black soldiers in Butler's Rangers is unknown. <mask>'s Settlement
Following the British defeat the Rangers settled in Niagara. Among the Loyalists who came to Upper Canada (where they were given the name United Empire Loyalists) were several hundred Blacks (the "Black Loyalists").Blacks represented about 10% of the total Loyalist emigration. Communities such as Buxton and the Queen's Bush Settlement were examples of how Blacks created communities and helped develop many of the communities in Southern Ontario. Blacks were entitled to the same proportion of land as their fellow Loyalists only if they fought for the British as a freeman. Others of African descent were not included as Loyalists. In 1788 Pierpoint was located on  of land in present-day St. Catharines. The City of St. Catharines

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 was first settled by Loyalists in the 1780s. Early histories credit Serjeant Jacob Dittrick and Private John Hainer formerly of Butler's Rangers, among the first to come to the area taking up their Crown Patents where Dick's Creek and 12 Mile Creek merge, now the city centre of St. Catharines.Although never documented, some St. Catharines' historians have concluded that Dick's Creek was named after <mask>, a Black Loyalist. Under normal circumstances, a private would have only received a grant of  so the reason for the additional  of the grant is open to speculation. His commanding officer John Butler may have considered him to have been an NCO (non-commissioned officer), such men being entitled to . Additionally, he might have been considered a United Empire Loyalist and thereby entitled to an additional . Alternatively, he may have had family with him, each family member being allotted an additional . There is some evidence that <mask> did not arrive alone as victualling records from 1786 indicate that a woman accompanied him. <mask> didn't appear on either an assessment or census and no documentary evidence exists to explain the situation.Conversely, his participation in the Petition of Free Negroes and subsequent sale or abandonment of his grant suggests he may have been single, at least by 1794. In 1794 Pierpont signed the Petition of Free Negroes to Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe requesting that freed Blacks who had served as soldiers be given land grants adjacent to each other so that the former comrades could help each other with land clearing as many lacked the large families necessary to clear the land on their own. The Petition was read by the Executive Council of Upper Canada Government on July 8, 1794, and dismissed. <mask> subsequently abandoned or sold his grant and supported himself as a labourer. The War of 1812
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 Niagara frontier. His offer was refused, but a small Black corps was raised locally by a white officer, Jordan tavern-owner Robert Runchey. <mask> volunteered immediately for Captain Runchey's Company of Coloured Men even though he was in his sixties.The corps served with distinction at the Battle of Queenston Heights, the siege of Fort George and the Battle of Lundy's Lane as well as other engagements. They were also instrumental in the construction of Fort Mississauga. For the remainder of the war the corps was used for labour and garrison duty. Petition
<mask>'s unit was honourably disbanded in 1815. As a veteran, <mask> was entitled to a 100-acre grant of old growth forest. In his late 70s, in 1821 <mask> petitioned Lieutenant Governor Maitland for passage back to his homeland in Senegal instead of the land grant. A certificate from the Adjutant General Nathaniel Coffin was attached.The Petition of <mask>, now of the Town of Niagara, a Man of Colour, a native of Africa, and an inhabitant of this Province since the year 1780. Most humbly showeth,

That Your Excellency's Petitioner is a native of Bondu in Africa; that at the age of Sixteen Years he was made a Prisoner and sold as a Slave; that he was conveyed [transported] to America about the year 1760, and sold to a British officer; that he served his Majesty [King George III] during the American Revolutionary War in the Corps called Butler's Rangers; and again during the late American War in a Corps of Colour raised on the Niagara Frontier. That Your Excellency's Petitioner is now old and without property; that he finds it difficult to obtain a livelihood by his labour; that he is above all things desirous to return to his native Country; that His Majesty's Government be graciously pleased to grant him any relief, he wishes it may be by affording him the means to proceed to England and from thence to a Settlement near the Gambia or Senegal Rivers, from whence he could return to Bondu

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His request was denied and instead <mask> and several other Coloured Corps veterans, were given land grants in Garafraxa, just outside present-day Fergus. Grant to <mask> of the Township of Grantham in the County of Lincoln in the Niagara District, farmer -- as a private in the Coloured Corps under Captain Runchey and Lieutenant Robertson -- the easterly half of Lot No. 6 in the 1st Concession of the Township of Garafraxa -- containing one hundred acres. A "land ticket" was issued to him on July 30, 1822. <mask> would only get full ownership of the plot once he had cleared at least  of trees, cleared a road to the plot and built a house:

Location Ticket grant on fulfilment of settling duties req'd by Order in Council of 20 Oct. 1818: to clear and fence  for every  granted; to erect a dwelling house of ; to clear one half of the Road in front of each lot.The whole to be performed within two years from the date of the ticket. Note The Settlement duty performed as attested & admitted. 15 Sept. 1826. Sig. T. Ridout. The farm was probably a settlement for a number of Black settlers, but the exact number is unknown. Very few records were left and even orally transmitted history is limited.<mask> died sometime before September 1838, leaving no family or heirs. It is not known where he was buried. His will left the Garafraxa property to Lemuel Brown. Brown, who lived in the Guelph area at the time of <mask>'s death, sold the land to the neighbouring farmer. References

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<mask> (31 October 1857 – 11 February 1949) was a Swedish-born medical doctor and psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele, an autobiographical account of his life and work. He spoke several languages (Swedish, English, French, Italian fluently, and German at least passably), grew up in Sweden, attended medical school there, then studied medicine in Paris and opened his first practice in France. He was married to a wealthy Englishwoman and spent most of his adult life in Italy. His philanthropic nature often led him to treat the poor without charge, and he risked his life on several occasions to offer medical help in times of war, disaster, or plague. As an advocate of animal rights, he purchased land to create a bird sanctuary near his home in Italy, argued for bans on painful traps, and himself kept pets as diverse as an owl and a baboon, as well as many types of dog. His writing is light-hearted, being primarily memoirs drawn from his real-life experiences, but it is often tinged with sadness or tragedy, and often uses dramatic licence. He primarily wrote about people and their idiosyncrasies, portraying the foibles of both the rich and the poor, but also about animals.Early life

<mask> was born in Oskarshamn, Sweden, his family's home. His family was originally of Flemish descent, and settled in Sweden during the 16th century. Munthe began college in 1874 at Uppsala University. While travelling in Italy in 1875, Munthe sailed in a small boat from Sorrento to the island of Capri. Climbing the Phoenician Steps to the village of Anacapri, he came upon a peasant's house and the adjacent ruin of a chapel dedicated to San Michele, and was immediately captivated by the idea of rebuilding the ruin and turning it into a home. Munthe studied medicine in Uppsala, Montpellier and Paris (where he was a student of Charcot), and graduated as M.D. in 1880 at the age of 23.Though his thesis was on the subjects of gynaecology and obstetrics, Munthe was deeply impressed by Professor Jean-Martin Charcot's pioneering

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 interests drew her to more mature men, such as H. H. Asquith, particularly if they had a reputation for iconoclasm. She and <mask>nthe were drawn to each other, and managed to spend much private time together on Capri. Marriages
<mask> married Ultima Hornberg, a Swede, on 24 November 1880, whom he met while she was studying art in Paris. They divorced in the late 1880s, and in 1892 she married a Swedish manufacturer named Gustaf Richter, and gave birth to a son in 1893, before dying in 1895. In 1907, Munthe married Hilda Pennington-Mellor (1876–1967), whose English family owned two notable properties: Hellens in Herefordshire, one of the oldest dwellings in the country, and Southside House, a 17th-century mansion on Wimbledon Common in London. They had two sons, Peter and Malcolm. There is an anecdote that when Munthe was discussing The Story of San Michele with his publisher, John Murray, in the garden at Southside, Murray told him that his ancestor and namesake John Murray (1778–1843) had sat in the same garden with Lord Byron to discuss publication of Byron's works.During 1910–1911, Munthe had a 14-room summer home built in Sweden as a gift to his wife. It was originally called Stengården (The Stone Court), but has been known as Hildasholm since her death. It is set amongst trees on the shore of Lake Siljan in Dalarna, and the architect was Torben Grut, who also designed the Stockholm Stadium used for the 1912 Summer Olympics. Hilda landscaped the home with an English garden as part of the dramatic rocky surroundings, and furnished it with 17th, 18th and 19th-century art and furniture from Italy, England and France. The family usually stayed in the house during the summer, but Munthe was more often at the San Michele. First World War
During the First World War, Munthe became a British citizen and served in the ambulance corps. His wartime experiences were the basis for his book, Red Cross, Iron Cross.Later life

In 1919–1920, Munthe was an unwilling landlord to the outrageous socialite and muse Luisa Casati, who took

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 possession of Villa San Michele. This period was described by Scottish author Compton Mackenzie in his diaries. Munthe developed an eye condition which eventually made him virtually blind and unable to tolerate the bright Italian sunlight. At that point he returned to Sweden for a number of years and wrote The Story of San Michele (published in 1929), which was well received, having been translated into at least 45 languages and said to be one of the best-selling books of the 20th century. An operation restored his sight, and he spent several more years at San Michele before returning to Sweden in 1942. He spent the final years of his life as an official guest of the King of Sweden. During the Second World War, Munthe's son Malcolm Pennington Mellor Munthe served with the Special Operations Executive, working behind Nazi lines in occupied Scandinavia, and later participating in the Allied invasion at Anzio.<mask> was seriously wounded during the war, and later developed reclusive tendencies. Munthe died at Stockholm Palace aged 91. His body was cremated and the ashes were scattered into the North Sea. A memorial plaque about him and his family can be found at the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Medical outlook
Munthe tried to avoid prescription medication for his psychological cases whenever possible, often recommending hypnosis, music, and other alternative medical approaches. He was peripherally involved in Louis Pasteur's search for a rabies vaccine. He advocated euthanasia for hopeless medical situations such as rabies, where the patient is condemned to a prospect of intense pain and mental anguish.Publications
The Story of San Michele overshadows all Munthe's other publications, and includes material from some earlier works. His earlier work can be very difficult to find and often commands high prices. Aside from his doctoral thesis, his first publications consisted of accounts of his travels which appeared in the Stockholms Dagblad newspaper, and which described his experiences of relief work during the cholera epidemic in


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 Naples. These articles were published in 1887 as a book translated into English by Maude Valerie White. The second edition of 1899 was translated by Munthe himself. Vagaries was first published in London in 1898. It was retitled Memories and Vagaries in a second edition printed in 1908.In 1930 there was a third edition, containing an added preface and a slightly different selection of stories in a different order. Munthe's reminiscences of his time in the ambulance corps, Red Cross, Iron Cross was published anonymously – "by a doctor in France" – in London in 1916, with all proceeds being donated to the French Red Cross. A second edition, credited to Munthe, was published around 1930. Publications in languages other than English
Små Skizzer, Stockholm, 1888
Bref och Skizzer, Stockholm, 1909
Letters From A Mourning City was published in Swedish in 1885, and in Italian in 1910. Memories and Vagaries seems to have very different titles in other languages, often roughly translating as An Old Book of Man and Beasts; see that article for more information. Legacy

Munthe died in 1949 aged 91, in Stockholm. Several of his properties are now museums and cultural centres.He willed Villa San Michele to the Swedish nation, and it is maintained by a Swedish foundation. The complex functions as a cultural centre, hosting concerts, visiting Swedish scholars, and the local Swedish consulate. The foundation also maintains the Mount Barbarossa bird sanctuary, which covers over 55,000 square metres. In 1980, a foundation (Stiftelsen Hildasholm) was established to care for Hildasholm, the Munthes' Swedish home. <mask> donated the home and the art and antiques it contains to the foundation, which operates it as a museum. It was designated a historic building in 1988, and underwent extensive restoration between 1995 and 1999. In addition to tours, the museum hosts art classes and concerts.<mask> spent much of his life after the second world war remodelling the family's two mansions in England. His children formed the Pennington-Mellor-Munthe

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 Charity Trust which maintains both Southside and Hellens Manor and operates them as museums, also hosting cultural events such as concerts, lectures and literary events. Members of the family still sometimes reside at them. There have been at least two international symposia on Munthe, the second being held at Hildasholm in Leksand, Sweden, on 13 September 2003. Speakers included Dr. Ian McDonald, Levente Erdeos (architect, and former curator of San Michele), the Swedish author Bengt Jangfeldt, Dr. Peter Cottino (from Capri), Mårten Lindståhl, Dr. Katriona <mask>-Lindgren, and Professor Alden Smith from the Department of Classics at Baylor University. He was the subject of a 1962 biopic <mask>nthe, The Doctor of San Michele, based on his memoirs. Awards and decorations
   Honorary Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

References

Further reading

In English
The Story of <mask>nthe by G. Munthe and G. Uezkull (1953)
The Story of <mask>nthe, Capri and San Michele by A. Andrén (with others, 1959)

Non-English
Boken om <mask>nthes San Michele, Levente A S Erdeos, 1999.En osalig ande: Berättelsen om <mask>, Bengt Jangfeldt, 2003. In Swedish. English translation by Harry Watson (<mask> Munthe: The Road to San Michele), 2008. . Films
<mask>nthe, der Arzt von San Michele, directed by Rudolf Jugert, starring O. W. Fischer (as <mask>), 1962. External links

Hildasholm, Munthe's home in Sweden
Villa San Michele, Munthe's home on Capri
Capri Review Magazine article on Queen Victoria and Munthe
Southside House
New York Public Library catalog page for Letters From A Mourning City
For editions of "From a Mourning City"

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<mask>pine playwright. He is the second child of <mask> and Socorro Munoz of Cauayan, Isabela and Cabatuan, Isabela, respectively. He finished his secondary education at St. Anthony School, Singalong, Malate (Salutatorian, 1968), and his tertiary education at the University of the Philippines (A.B. Economics, cum laude and Valedictorian of the class, 1971 and M.A. Economics, 1973). He continued his postgraduate studies at Harvard University (Master in Public Administration, 1979; “A” student) and at Columbia University]] (Executive Program in Business Administration, 1983). At the University of the Philippines, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he took up courses such as Modern Drama, Shakespeare, Comedy and Film Theory.He worked for the Philippine government for more than twenty years (most of them were at the  National Economic and Development Authority as Director, Policy Coordination Staff and Philippine National Bank, as Executive Vice President, Corporate Services). He taught part-time at  U.P. Diliman and U.P. Manila, Ateneo, La Salle, Assumption, and U.E. Noriega worked for Experimental Cinema of the Philippines]], Tanghalang Pilipino]] and was co-founder of Dramatis personæ. And even before he succumbed to cancer in 1994, <mask> was Executive Vice President at a large bank in Makati, Philippines. Summary of notable accomplishments
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Bienvenido M. Noriega Jr. received posthumously two national honors.One was the Tanglaw ng Lahi award for Theater from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1995. The second was the prestigious Centennial Honors for the Arts in

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 Theater from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Philippine Centennial Commission in 1999. Prior to succumbing to cancer in 1994 at the young age of 42, <mask> was recipient of more than 22 major awards for writing – six from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, thirteen from the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, one each from Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA), Experimental Cinema of the Philippines (ECP) and Palihang Aurelio Tolentino. He also received four National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle. His award-winning works have been frequently staged by both professional and student theater companies in the country and in the US, Canada, UK. Athens, Geneva, Paris and as far as Qatar. He directed a lot of his plays and even delved in musicales writing the libretto for "Kenkoy loves Rosing" and "Bituing Marikit" and wrote the song lyrics of "Tuldukan na'ng hapis" for Basil Valdez.Resume

Born in Cauayan, Isabela, <mask>'s native dialects were Ilocano and Ibanag, but he picked up on Tagalog and English through rental of Tagalog and Marvel komiks. He finished elementary school at St. Ferdinand College in Ilagan, Isabela, and high school at St. Anthony School in Singalong, Manila. He completed A.B. Economics at the University of the Philippines within 3 years at the age of 18. After graduating cum laude and valedictorian of class of 1971, he went on to earn his M.A. Economics at the same university, again graduating as class valedictorian in 1973. He was College Councilor and the Philippinensian Yearbook editor.He wrote his first play “Down the Basement” in

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 1970 after attending a playwriting course at the University of the Philippines, which was eventually published in the Philippine Collegian Folio. He was sent to the Kennedy School of Harvard University in 1979 for a master's degree in Public Administration (MPA). He graduated at the top of his Edward S. Mason Fellows class with straight A's. He then went for further studies in Columbia University for his Executive Program in Business Administration, finishing in 1983. And while he was in those universities, he took up courses such as Modern Drama, Shakespeare, Comedy and Film Theory. He worked for the Philippine government for more than twenty years. He was the youngest NEDA Director at 23 when he managed the Policy and Coordination Staff of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) from 1971 to 1981.He was likewise the youngest to be appointed as Executive Vice President, Corporate Services at the Philippine National Bank, from 1981 to 1993. There he also served as president of PNB Investments Ltd and a director of PNB Securities Inc. He taught part-time in U.P. Diliman and U.P. Manila, Ateneo, La Salle, Assumption, and U.E. [Ateneo is now considering to also nominate <mask> for the National Artist award.] He also worked for Experimental Cinema of the Philippines and for Tanghalang Pilipino and was co-founder of Dramatis Personae.Some Awards and Citations

In conferring the Tanglaw ng Lahi award to Noriega in 1995, Ateneo De Manila stated that:
“The significance of Noriega’s achievement in Theater and Film will be impoverished unless it is put in place with his career in banking and


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 at the same time, refusing an easy way out for their dilemma, <mask> ennobles the plight and struggle of the Filipino. He takes an insider’s point of view to depict outsiders’ lives, and thus is able to confront, even satirize, every facet of Filipino life without despair nor disdain.The Filipino family takes center stage in Ang Mga Propesyonal and Kasalan sa Likod ng Simbahan, romance in Kenkoy Loves Rosing and W.I.S. (Walang Ibig Sabihin) and politics in Bongbong at Kris.”
“ It would be a mistake to think that <mask>'s sole achievement lies in having given voice to what every Filipino feels. His writing broke new artistic ground because the voices of his characters were neither the hysterical sobs of traditional Filipino melodrama nor the rhetorical protest of propaganda pieces. He wrote plays of differing structures and styles. Some are one-acters, others full-length. In a few, the influence of Chekhov appears; in others, that of the expressionists. “The role that music played changed from play to play.This creative freedom, far from simple experimentation, was based on his insight into the dynamics of insider and outsider; it enabled him to use styles and techniques wherever he found them without being afraid of being derivative. He always knew where he was writing from.”
In her book review in 1988, Doreen Fernandez wrote:
“Noriega’s skill is especially evident in the dialogue, which reproduces many different levels of colloquial Filipino (the college girl type, the movie/television gay variants, the almostformal etc. ), the editions of code-switching, and the variations proper to each character. The


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 <mask> M<mask>, Jr. as the best Filipino playwright today as evidenced by his output, books published, national awards, stagings in prestigious venues (including presentations abroad) and consistent recognition by peers and critics. “In Noriega, Filipino playwriting finally hurdled being tentative to become the fullblown and lively genre that it is now. He broke new ground between stereotyped tradition-bound Tagalog plays.The dominant playwright from the seventies to the present, Noriega who writes in everyday Filipino has a wide-ranging repertoire , from the personal to the social, from the comic to the tragic.”
His award in 1999 for Centennial Honors for the Arts (in Theater) read:
“Ang mga dula ni Bienvenido <mask> Jr.,mandudula ay kilala para sa kakaibang di-hayagang komentaryo sa masalimuot at nagtutunggaling pagpapahalaga’t identidad na Filipino. Bagama’t ang kanyang mga dula ay sumasaklaw sa tila malawakang isyu, nakikipag-usap ang mga ito sa mga kontemporanyong panlipunang problema. Ang laging nakataya sa kanyang mga dula ay ang isyu ng indibidwal at komunidad bilang analogo ng pambansang identidad….”
“Binigyang giya ni Noriega ang modernong Filipinong dulaan tungo sa natatangi at sensitibong apila sa mga isyu ng personal at pambansang identidad. “Para sa kanyang malawak at patuloy na pagtatangka sa paglalahad ng Filipinong identidad sa kanyang dula, madalas ay Kritikal sa mga institusyunal na kalakaran at nagsusumamo sa humastikong ideal na nagpapakilos tungo sa tinatanaw na egalitaryang kaayusanan, ang Parangal Sentenyal sa Sining at Kultura ay ginagawad ngayong ika-2 ng Pebrero 1999 kay

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title: William Rankine

texts: <mask>  (; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and <mask> (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on the first of the three thermodynamic laws. He developed the Rankine scale, an equivalent to the Kelvin scale of temperature, but in degrees Fahrenheit rather than Celsius. <mask> developed a complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines. His manuals of engineering science and practice were used for many decades after their publication in the 1850s and 1860s. He published several hundred papers and notes on science and engineering topics, from 1840 onwards, and his interests were extremely varied, including, in his youth, botany, music theory and number theory, and, in his mature years, most major branches of science, mathematics and engineering. He was an enthusiastic amateur singer, pianist and cellist who composed his own humorous songs.<mask> was born in Edinburgh to Lt David Rankin (sic), a civil engineer from a military background, who later worked on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway (locally known as the Innocent Railway). His mother was Barbara Grahame, of a prominent legal and banking family. His father moved around Scotland on various projects and the family moved with him. <mask> was initially educated at home but he later attended Ayr Academy (1828–29) and then the High School of Glasgow (1830). Around 1830 the family moved to Edinburgh when the father got a post as Manager of the Edinburgh to Dalkeith Railway. The family then lived at 2 Arniston Place. In 1834 he was sent to the Scottish Naval and Military Academy on Lothian Road in Edinburgh with the

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texts: mathematician George Lee.By that year <mask> was already highly proficient in mathematics and received, as a gift from his uncle, Isaac Newton's Principia (1687) in the original Latin. In 1836, <mask> began to study a spectrum of scientific topics at the University of Edinburgh, including natural history under Robert Jameson and natural philosophy under James David Forbes. Under Forbes he was awarded prizes for essays on methods of physical inquiry and on the undulatory (or wave) theory of light. During vacations, he assisted his father who, from 1830, was manager and, later, effective treasurer and engineer of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway which brought coal into the growing city. He left the University of Edinburgh in 1838 without a degree (which was not then unusual) and, perhaps because of straitened family finances, became an apprentice to Sir John Benjamin Macneill, who was at the time surveyor to the Irish Railway Commission. During his pupilage he developed a technique, later known as <mask>'s method, for laying out railway curves, fully exploiting the theodolite and making a substantial improvement in accuracy and productivity over existing methods. In fact, the technique was simultaneously in use by other engineers – and in the 1860s there was a minor dispute about Rankine's priority.The year 1842 also marked <mask>'s first attempt to reduce the phenomena of heat to a mathematical form but he was frustrated by his lack of experimental data. At the time of Queen Victoria's visit to Scotland, later that year, he organised a large bonfire situated on Arthur's Seat, constructed with radiating air passages under the fuel. The bonfire served as a beacon to initiate a chain of other bonfires across Scotland. In 1850 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of

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 Edinburgh his proposer being Prof James David Forbes. He won the Society's Keith Prize for the period 1851–53. He served as the Society's Vice President from 1871 to 1872. From 1855 he was Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University.He died at 8 Albion Crescent (now called Dowanside Road), Dowanhill, Glasgow at 11:45pm on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1872, aged only 52. He was unmarried and had no children. His death was registered by his uncle, Alex Grahame (his late mother's brother in law). Thermodynamics
Undaunted, <mask> returned to his youthful fascination with the mechanics of the heat engine. Though his theory of circulating streams of elastic vortices whose volumes spontaneously adapted to their environment sounds fanciful to scientists formed on a modern account, by 1849, he had succeeded in finding the relationship between saturated vapour pressure and temperature. The following year, he used his theory to establish relationships between the temperature, pressure and density of gases, and expressions for the latent heat of evaporation of a liquid. He accurately predicted the surprising fact that the apparent specific heat of saturated steam would be negative.Emboldened by his success, in 1851 he set out to calculate the efficiency of heat engines and used his theory as a basis to deduce the principle, that the maximum efficiency possible for any heat engine is a function only of the two temperatures between which it operates. Though a similar result had already been derived by Rudolf Clausius and <mask>, <mask> claimed that his result rested upon his hypothesis of molecular vortices alone, rather than upon Carnot's theory or some other additional assumption. The work marked the first step on <mask>'s journey to develop a more complete

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texts: theory of heat. In 1853, he coined the term potential energy. <mask> later recast the results of his molecular theories in terms of a macroscopic account of energy and its transformations. He defined and distinguished between actual energy which was lost in dynamic processes and potential energy by which it was replaced. He assumed the sum of the two energies to be constant, an idea already, although surely not for very long, familiar in the law of conservation of energy.From 1854, he made wide use of his thermodynamic function which he later realised was identical to the entropy of Clausius. By 1855, <mask> had formulated a science of energetics which gave an account of dynamics in terms of energy and its transformations rather than force and motion. The theory was very influential in the 1890s. In 1859 he proposed the Rankine scale of temperature, an absolute or thermodynamic scale whose degree is equal to a Fahrenheit degree. In 1862, <mask> expanded Lord Kelvin’s theory of universal heat death and, along with Kelvin himself, formulated the heat death paradox, which disproves the possibly of an infinitely old universe. Energetics offered <mask> an alternative, and rather more mainstream, approach, to his science and, from the mid-1850s, he made rather less use of his molecular vortices. Yet he still claimed that Maxwell's work on electromagnetics was effectively an extension of his model.And, in 1864, he contended that the microscopic theories of heat proposed by Clausius and James Clerk Maxwell, based on linear atomic motion, were inadequate. It was only in 1869 that <mask> admitted the success of these rival theories. By that time, his own model of the atom had become almost identical with that of Thomson. As was his constant aim, especially as a teacher of

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 engineering, he used his own theories to develop a number of practical results and to elucidate their physical principles including:

The Rankine–Hugoniot equation for propagation of shock waves, governs the behaviour of shock waves normal to the oncoming flow. It is named after physicists <mask> and the French engineer Pierre Henri Hugoniot;
The Rankine cycle, an analysis of an ideal heat-engine with a condensor. Like other thermodynamic cycles, the maximum efficiency of the Rankine cycle is given by calculating the maximum efficiency of the Carnot cycle;
Properties of steam, gases and vapours. The history of rotordynamics is replete with the interplay of theory and practice.<mask> first performed an analysis of a spinning shaft in 1869, but his model was not adequate and he predicted that supercritical speeds could not be attained. Fatigue studies

<mask> was one of the first engineers to recognise that fatigue failures of railway axles was caused by the initiation and growth of brittle cracks. In the early 1840s he examined many broken axles, especially after the Versailles train crash of 1842 when a locomotive axle suddenly fractured and led to the death of over 50 passengers. He showed that the axles had failed by progressive growth of a brittle crack from a shoulder or other stress concentration source on the shaft, such as a keyway. He was supported by similar direct analysis of failed axles by Joseph Glynn, where the axles failed by slow growth of a brittle crack in a process now known as metal fatigue. It was likely that the front axle of one of the locomotives involved in the Versailles train crash failed in a similar way. <mask> presented his conclusions in a paper delivered to the Institution of Civil Engineers.His work was ignored however, by many engineers

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 who persisted in believing that stress could cause "re-crystallisation" of the metal, a myth which has persisted even to recent times. The theory of recrystallisation was quite wrong, and inhibited worthwhile research until the work of <mask> a few years later, which showed the weakening effect of repeated flexure on large beams. Nevertheless, fatigue remained a serious and poorly understood phenomenon, and was the root cause of many accidents on the railways and elsewhere. It is still a serious problem, but at least is much better understood today, and so can be prevented by careful design. Other work

<mask> served as Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow from November 1855 until his death in December 1872, pursuing engineering research along a number of lines in civil and mechanical engineering. <mask> was instrumental in the formation of the forerunner of Glasgow University Officer Training Corps, the 2nd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Glasgow University in July 1859, becoming Major in 1860 after it was formed into the first company of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps; he served until 1864, when he resigned due to pressure of work – much of it associated with Naval Architecture. Civil engineering
The <mask> Lectures, organised by the British Geotechnical Association, are named in recognition of the significant contributions Rankine made to:
Forces in frame structures;
Soil mechanics; most notably in lateral earth pressure theory and the stabilization of retaining walls.The <mask> method of earth pressure analysis is named after him. Naval architecture
<mask> worked closely with Clyde shipbuilders, especially his friend and lifelong collaborator James Robert Napier, to make naval architecture into

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 an engineering science. He was a founding member, and first President of the Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland in 1857. He was an early member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (founded 1860) and attended many of its annual meetings. With <mask> and others, <mask> was a member of the board of enquiry into the controversial sinking of HMS Captain. Awards and honours
Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts
Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1843 (he was never a full Member)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1850
Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 1853
Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1854
Founding President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 1857
LL.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, 1857
Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1868
The <mask> absolute Fahrenheit scale is named in his honour.Rankine, a small impact crater near the eastern limb of the Moon, is also named in his honour. In 2013 he was one of four inductees to the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. Publications
Books
 Manual of Applied Mechanics (1858)
 Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers (1859)
 Manual of Civil Engineering (1861)
 Shipbuilding, theoretical and practical (1866)
 Manual of Machinery and Millwork (1869)

Papers
 On the Mechanical Action of Heat, especially in Gases and Vapours (1850), read at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 4 February 1850
 On the General Law of Transformation of Energy (1853), read at the Glasgow Philosophical Society
 On the Thermodynamic Theory of Waves of Finite Longitudinal Disturbance (1869)
 Outlines of the Science of Energetics (1855), read at the Glasgow Philosophical Society
This work influenced French physicist Pierre Duhem's Traité de

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 l'énergétique (1911) in which he considered thermodynamics, not classical mechanics, to be the more fundamental theory. About <mask>

See also
Momentum theory
State function
Track transition curve

References

External links

 J. Macquorn Rankine

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title: Jayson Nix

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<mask> (born August 26, 1982) is an American former professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies,  Pittsburgh Pirates, and Kansas City Royals. His older brother, <mask>, has also played in MLB. Early life
<mask> was born in Dallas, Texas, and still makes his offseason home there. He attended Midland High School in Midland, Texas. Professional career
The Colorado Rockies selected <mask> as a sandwich pick (44th overall) between the first and second rounds of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft as compensation for not signing their first round pick in the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft (Matt Harrington). He won the USA Baseball Richard W. "Dick" Case Player of the Year Award in 2007.Colorado Rockies
<mask> began the 2008 season as the Colorado Rockies starting second baseman but over the next month, he saw his playing time diminish. On April 26, 2008, <mask> was designated for assignment. He had played in 17 games and batted .111 with no home runs. On April 30 he cleared waivers and was sent outright to Triple-A. <mask> was batting .300 with 17 home runs and 49 RBI for the Sky Sox in 2008 when his minor league season ended as a result of his being selected for the 2008 USA Olympic Baseball Team. In the team's third game at the Olympics, against Cuba, <mask> hit a solo home run in the eighth inning. While leading off the eleventh inning with runners on first and second as per Olympic rules, <mask> fouled a ball off his left eye.He left the game for the hospital and missed the rest of the Beijing Games. Team USA lost, 5–4, to the defending champions in eleven innings. Chicago White Sox

On October 28, 2008, <mask> signed as a free agent with the Chicago White Sox. On May 7, 2009, <mask> hit his 1st career home run off of Armando Galarraga. He followed with his second career home run just five days later. On May 26, <mask> homered twice against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. On the

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 same day, his brother, Laynce homered against the Houston Astros.On May 30, 2010 <mask> hit his first career grand slam against the Tampa Bay Rays. On June 18, 2010, he was designated for assignment to make room for prospect infielder Dayán Viciedo. Cleveland Indians
On June 24, 2010, <mask> was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Indians, and the team designated Shane Lindsay for assignment to make room for him. Jensen Lewis and Luis Valbuena were sent down to Triple A Columbus. Toronto Blue Jays
On March 29, 2011, <mask> was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for future cash considerations. He made his debut on April 2 against the Minnesota Twins, hitting a home run. On April 22 <mask> was slid into by Rays second baseman Sean Rodriguez and left the game with a left leg injury.He was placed on the 15-day disabled list for a left leg contusion on April 23. He returned from the disabled list on May 18, playing against the Tampa Bay Rays. He was designated for assignment on July 2. He became a free agent at season's end. New York Yankees
<mask> signed a minor league contract with the New York Yankees on November 23, 2011. He also received an invitation to spring training. <mask> was called up on May 3, 2012 by the Yankees.<mask> filled in as a backup infielder for the Yankees and started several games at shortstop and third base filling in for Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. <mask> was the final out of the 2012 American League Championship Series popping up to first baseman Prince Fielder as the Yankees were swept and eliminated by the Detroit Tigers in 4 games. <mask> was placed on the 15-day disabled list on July 3, 2013, due to a hamstring strain. On August 21, <mask> was hit by an R. A. Dickey knuckleball and immediately removed from the game with what was later determined to be a broken left hand. On August 22, <mask> was placed on the 15-day disabled list. On September 1, 2013 he was transferred to the 60-day disabled list. After the season, <mask> was non-tendered by the Yankees, making him a free agent.Philadelphia Phillies
On

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 January 9, 2014, <mask> signed a minor league deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. He was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for cash considerations on March 28, 2014. He was outrighted to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs on May 12, but refused the assignment on May 13 and became a free agent. Tampa Bay Rays
On May 16, 2014, <mask> signed a minor league deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. He was to report to the Triple-A Durham Bulls, and would be able to opt out of the contract if not on the major league roster by July 15. <mask> was released on August 1, 2014. Pittsburgh Pirates
On August 3, 2014, <mask> was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates.<mask> was designated for assignment by the Pirates on August 25, 2014. Kansas City Royals
On August 28, <mask> was claimed off waivers by the Kansas City Royals. Baltimore Orioles
On February 17, 2015, <mask> signed a minor league contract with the Baltimore Orioles. Return to Philadelphia Phillies
On May 16, 2015, <mask> was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for cash considerations. He was released on June 23. References

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title: Brad Sherman

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<mask> (born October 24, 1954) is an American accountant and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 30th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he first entered Congress in 1997; <mask> represented California's 24th congressional district for three terms and California's 27th congressional district for five terms. His district is in the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles County, as well as the eastern part of the Simi Hills in Ventura County. He resides in Sherman Oaks. Early life, education, and early career
<mask> was born in Los Angeles, the son of Lane (from the Philadelphia area) and <mask> (from Indiana). His parents were both of Russian Jewish descent. He attended Mark Keppel High School and Corona del Mar High School.He received a B.A. in political science from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1974, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1979. He is also a tax law specialist and Certified Public Accountant. Before joining Congress, <mask> worked at one of the nations' big-four CPA firms, participated in audits of large businesses and governmental entities as a staff member, provided tax law counsel on multi-million-dollar transactions, advised entrepreneurs and small businesses on tax and investment issues, and helped represent the Philippine government under Corazon Aquino in a successful effort to seize assets of deposed president Ferdinand Marcos. <mask> was also an instructor at Harvard Law School's International Tax Program. Board of Equalization (1991–1996)
<mask> served on the California State Board of Equalization from 1991 to 1996.He chaired the board from 1991 to 1995. It

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 was reported that the campaign for the Board of Equalization involved numerous attacks. Claude Parrish, <mask>'s opponent, said that an attorney general candidate declined to endorse <mask> due to a post on the state's elected tax appeals board. <mask> replied, calling it "one of the most outrageous hit pieces in contemporary California political history". U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

In 1994, incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative Anthony C. Beilenson of California's 24th congressional district barely survived the Republican Revolution, winning reelection by a two-point margin, by far the worst election performance of his career. In 1996, Beilenson decided to retire. <mask> ran for the seat and won the seven-candidate Democratic primary with 54% of the vote.In the general election, he defeated Republican nominee Rich Sybert (also the 1994 nominee), 49%–44%. He has not faced another contest nearly that close since. In 1998, he was reelected with 57% of the vote. Since then, he has been reelected every two years with at least 62%. 2012

Redistricting following the 2010 census drew the homes of <mask> and fellow Democrat Howard Berman, who had previously represented the 28th district, into the 30th district. The redrawn 30th was more <mask>'s district than Berman's; <mask> retained approximately 60% of his former territory, while Berman retained 20% of his former voters. On June 5, 2012, <mask> faced Berman in the primary for the 30th district.<mask> finished first, leading 42% to 32%. Due to California's new election system, which put the two candidates who received the most votes in the primary against each other, regardless of party, the two faced each

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 other again in the general election. Neither candidate was endorsed by the state Democratic Party. Berman was the more established candidate. He was endorsed by over 20 congressmen, including party leaders Steny Hoyer and Xavier Becerra, and by sitting Governor Jerry Brown, sitting Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and the state's two U.S. senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. He was also endorsed by ten Republican congressmen from California: David Dreier, Wally Herger, Dan Lungren, Elton Gallegly, Buck McKeon, Ed Royce, Jerry Lewis, Ken Calvert, Mary Bono Mack, and Darrell Issa. In addition, he was endorsed by two Republican U.S. senators, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and by Independent U.S. senator Joe Lieberman.<mask> was endorsed by then-Lieutenant Governor (and future Governor) Gavin Newsom, former President Bill Clinton, and former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. In the general election, <mask> defeated Berman, 60%–40%. Tenure
First elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1996, <mask> is serving his 12th term in Congress. He is a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and serves as the top Democrat on the Subcommittee on Asia. He is chairman emeritus of the Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Non-Proliferation, and Trade. He is also a senior member of the Financial Services Committee. <mask> has held over 160 Town Hall meetings since being elected to Congress.In the Washingtonian's 2012 anonymous survey of congressional staff, <mask> was named the second-meanest member of the House, after Sheila Jackson Lee. Environment

<mask> has earned a 100% rating from the Sierra Club and the League of

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 Conservation Voters. Serving on the House Budget Committee in 1997, <mask> authored the Sherman Amendment to the Budget Resolution, providing an additional $700 million for the acquisition of environmentally important lands in FY 1998. <mask>'s voting record has most often earned him a 100% rating from the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and the American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees (AFSCME). <mask> was an original co-sponsor of The Employee Free Choice Act when it was introduced at the start of 2007 and when it was reintroduced in 2009. In 2008 and 2010, <mask> introduced legislation to eliminate so-called state "Right to Work" laws nationwide, and he supports a single national standard that protects labor rights. <mask> has also opposed Free Trade deals with South Korea, Colombia, and other countries, because he believes they are bad for American workers.Transportation
<mask> has worked to reduce airport noise in the San Fernando Valley. He joined several colleagues in introducing legislation, the Valley-Wide Noise Relief Act, to allow the operator of Bob Hope Airport to implement a mandatory nighttime curfew. <mask> secured federal funds to initiate several improvements at the 101/405 interchange. Animal rights
<mask>'s voting record has earned him a 100% rating in 2004 from the Humane Society, which has awarded him the "Humane Champion" award for five consecutive years. In 2017 and 2018, the Animal Welfare Institute gave <mask> a rating of 68%, based on congressional voting records. Fiscal policy
<mask> "led the House revolt" against the original $700 billion bailout plan, known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program

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 (TARP). He introduced the "Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act", with regard to large financial entities.In 2010, <mask> received a 61% rating from the Chamber of Commerce and a 55% rating from the National Federation of Independent Business. In 2018, the Chamber of Commerce gave <mask> a 55% rating on issues relating to budget, spending, and taxes, and a 41% rating on issues relating to businesses and consumers. Financial crisis
During the debate over the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (commonly known as "the bailout of the U.S. financial system"), <mask> was an early and outspoken critic of the proposal, leading the House revolt against the bill, a move that made him "spectacularly unpopular with both the Republican and Democratic leaderships, not to mention K Street". He argued that Bush and his advisors had created a panic atmosphere in an effort to get lawmakers to rubber-stamp the bill. Social Security and health care
<mask> has said he is "opposed to creating a voucher system for Medicare". He wants to avoid "turn[ing] Social Security into a welfare program", instead keeping it "for people who contribute to it". For his voting record and efforts in Congress, <mask> has consistently earned a 100% rating from the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and the AARP.He supports the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. <mask> helped secure funds to develop a new women's and children's patient wing at El Proyecto del Barrio's Family Health Care Clinic in Winnetka. Housing
<mask> introduced the Preserving Equal Access to Mortgage Finance Programs Act (HR 1754), which raises the conforming loan limit for FHA loans in high-cost

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 areas such as <mask>'s district. <mask> frequently holds seminars for Valley residents in his district, to address issues of home purchasing, home refinancing, and foreclosure avoidance. Civil liberties
<mask>'s legislative record received a 100% rating from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 2011, a 100% from the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 2007–08, a 100% from the Human Rights Campaign in 2009–10, and a 98% rating from the NAACP in 2009–10. <mask> co-sponsored the Due Process Guarantee Act, which amends the Non-Detention Act of 1971 to provide that Congressional authorization of the use of military force does not authorize the indefinite detention without charge or trial of U.S. citizens. In 2011, <mask> voted against reauthorizing the Patriot Act because of concerns that it would infringe on certain civil liberties, including the "library provision" that allows the FBI to acquire records about what books a person has checked out from libraries.Foreign relations
In August 2010, <mask> introduced legislation aimed at rescinding China's Most Favored Nation status as long as there was not "a more level playing field between our two nations". He said, "the U.S.-China trade relationship is horrendously lopsided". <mask> has introduced or co-sponsored more than 20 bills in the 111th and 112th Congresses that he says "enact tougher sanctions to isolate Iran economically and diplomatically". His efforts have included legislation designed to close loopholes for U.S. companies with subsidiaries operating in Iran, and to curtail U.S. funding of international organizations providing loans to Iran. <mask> has been a strong supporter and advocate of the

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texts: U.S-Israel relationship, consistently supporting aid to Israel. In 2016, he called the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Washington's chief pro-Israel lobbying and advocacy organization, "the single most important organization in promoting the U.S.-Israel alliance". In 2004, <mask> first introduced the U.S.-Israel Energy Cooperation Act.It provides grants to joint ventures between American and Israeli academics and private companies that conduct research and develop energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies. On July 9, 2014, <mask> appeared as a guest commentator on the Al Jazeera America's network. During his appearance, he criticized the network's Qatar-based owners for funding Hamas. <mask> said: "Every one of those rockets [fired by Hamas into Israeli cities] is a war crime, almost every one. Of course it's a war crime committed by Hamas. And of course the owners of this TV network help fund Hamas." <mask> emphasized that Hamas often aims attacks at civilian targets.The Qatari government owns Al Jazeera. In December 2014, <mask> and Representative Pete Roskam requested new sanctions on Qatar in a letter to Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew. They also asked for a detailed accounting of public and private financing from within Qatar for Hamas, Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the al-Nusra Front. <mask> and other pro-Israel members of Congress have introduced legislation to allow Israel to be part of the visa waiver program. The legislation failed because the Israeli government was unwilling to grant reciprocal visa-free travel for all U.S. citizens. As a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, <mask> has focused on Congressional


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 recognition of the Armenian genocide, as well as increasing funding to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, which is officially part of Azerbaijan, but has been under control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since the end of a separatist war in 1994. He called for the imposition of sanctions against Azerbaijan.<mask> urged the Trump administration to take a tougher line on China by imposing sanctions on Chinese officials who are responsible for human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim minority in China's Xinjiang region. In March 2019, <mask> and other lawmakers wrote Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a letter that read in part, "This issue is bigger than just China. It is about demonstrating to strongmen globally that the world will hold them accountable for their actions." Religion
<mask> and his wife, who are Jewish, have been members of Valley Beth Shalom, a conservative synagogue in Encino, California, for many years. As a congressman, <mask> has appeared at events sponsored by virtually every religious denomination practiced in America – including Orthodox Jewish, Reform Jewish, Conservative Jewish, Reconstructionist Jewish, Traditional Persian Jewish, Sephardic Jewish, Scientologist, Muslim, Catholic, Roman Catholic, Coptic Christian, The Assyrian Church, Greek Orthodox, the Armenian Church, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Russian Orthodox, the Hungarian reformed Orthodox Church, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, the Church of Christ, nondenominational Christian, and evangelical Christian. <mask> expressed condolences to the Sikh community after the deadly shootings at a Sikh temple in August 2012. After the September 11 attacks, <mask> joined colleagues in


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 introducing a resolution to condemn bigotry and violence against Sikh-Americans.He has advocated on behalf of religious minorities outside the U.S., including Hindus in Pakistan and Christians and Jews in the Arab world. <mask> introduced the Religious Minorities in the Arab World Resolution, which calls for the protection of the rights and freedoms of ethno-religious minorities, particularly in Egypt and Iraq. Internet policy
In 2011, <mask> co-sponsored SOPA, a controversial copyright bill. His 2012 opponent, Howard Berman, was an original co-sponsor of SOPA. Cryptocurrency

On March 14, 2018, <mask> made highly critical remarks about Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and initial coin offerings. He started his prepared remarks by saying, "Cryptocurrencies are a crock". He further said, on Congressional record, that all Bitcoin does is allow "a few dozen men in my district to sit in their pajamas on their couch all day and tell their wives they are going to be millionaires".He further suggested that Bitcoin provides no value to the real economy, asking: "When you buy a Bitcoin, are you helping build a new factory?" On July 18, 2018, <mask> called for a ban on dealing in or mining of cryptocurrencies by U.S. persons and said that use of cryptocurrencies as a medium of exchange is useful only to people facilitating narcotics trafficking, terrorism, and tax evasion. LGBT
<mask> strongly supports LGBT rights. He earned a 100% rating from the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT rights group, in the 114th, 113th, and 112th Congresses. <mask> is a member of the LGBT Equality Caucus and supports same-sex marriage. He voted for the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.


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 <mask> was an original co-sponsor of Representative Jared Polis's Student Non-Discrimination Act.<mask> is also a co-sponsor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. In 2009, he voted for the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which imposes additional federal penalties for crimes motivated by hatred on the basis of race, religion, or actual or perceived sexual orientation. Abortion
<mask> is pro-choice. He earned a 100% rating from NARAL and Planned Parenthood in 2009. Gun control
<mask> has worked to expand the definition of armor-piercing ammunition. He sponsored the Protect Law Enforcement Armor (PLEA) Act. <mask> has received a 100% rating from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.International trade
<mask> opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), arguing that they cost American jobs, fail to protect foreign workers, harm the environment, and cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. He has also opposed a Free Trade Agreement with South Korea, arguing that such an agreement could undermine U.S. security and economic interests by benefiting China and North Korea. Education
<mask> has earned a 100% rating from the California Teachers Association, the National Education Association, and the American Federation of Teachers. Office environment
In December 2017, eight former aides to <mask> said that his offices in Washington, D. C., and California had a toxic environment characterized by frequent "verbal abuse from the congressman and senior staff that made them feel bullied and demoralized". A focus of the criticism was Matt Dababneh, Sherman's district director


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 and a close advisor, who began working for <mask> in 2005, and became district director to <mask> in 2009. Dababneh was elected to the California State Assembly in 2013 and resigned from that body after allegations of sexual assault and other misconduct were made against him. Former employees in <mask>'s office told the Los Angeles Times that Dababneh frequently made inappropriate sexual remarks, including degrading and sexist comments, and bragged about his sexual exploits.No one suggested that <mask> knew of Dababneh's conduct, but several staffers said that the office environment did not encourage reporting and that <mask> would not have been receptive to complaints about a trusted advisor. <mask> has acknowledged being "a demanding boss" but "denied that his management style contributed to the silence about Dababneh's behavior". Surveys of Capitol Hill staff rated <mask> as one of the worst members of Congress to work for, with high staff turnover rates. In January 2018, <mask> held a town hall meeting in Reseda, where a questioner who supported a Democratic primary challenger to <mask> accused <mask> of having an inadequate sexual harassment policy. <mask> replied: "We have five different ways to report sexual harassment in my office. One among those is to talk to me personally. And I talk to each staff member several times a year about the office policy."The exchange was cut from a video of the event that <mask>'s office posted to YouTube; the office said that it excluded from the highlight reel "all questions asked by a questioner working with an opponent's campaign if the questioner failed to disclose that fact in their question". Impeachment
On July 12, 2017,

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 <mask> introduced an Article of Impeachment (H. Res. 438) against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors on the grounds that Trump attempted to obstruct justice by firing James Comey from the F.B.I. Sherman had only one co-sponsor, Al Green, who first called for Trump's impeachment in May 2017. Committee assignments
 Committee on Financial Services
United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets, Chairman
 United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance
 United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions
 Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Non-Proliferation
 United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Development, International Organizations, and Global Corporate Social Impact
 United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa, and Global Counter-Terrorism
 Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
 United States House Science Subcommittee Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics

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Congressional Progressive Caucus
Israel Allies Caucus (co-chair)
Congressional Sindh Caucus (chair)
 House Baltic Caucus
Congressional Arts Caucus
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus

Personal life
On December 3, 2006, <mask> married Lisa Nicola Kaplan, a foreign affairs officer for the U.S. State Department. The couple's first child, Molly Hannah <mask>, was born on January 14, 2009. Their second, Naomi Claire <mask>, was born on February 6, 2010.Their third, Lucy Rayna <mask>, was born on

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 List of Jewish members of the United States Congress

References

External links

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<mask><mask> (born 1953) is an American attorney, former government official, and legal scholar who is an adjunct professor of law and the former executive director of the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at the New York University School of Law. The State Impact Center is dedicated to helping state attorneys general fight against regulatory rollbacks and advocate for clean energy, climate change and environmental values and protections. It was launched in August 2017 with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and is non-partisan. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Rochester, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1975 and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1978. Career

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<mask> served as counselor to Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, and then as the Senate-confirmed Deputy Secretary of the Interior, during the Clinton administration (1997–2001). Before and between his service in the Clinton and Obama administrations, <mask> practiced environmental and energy law as Global Chairman of the Environment, Land and Resources department at the firm of Latham & Watkins (1990–1997; 2001–2008).He was a Senior Fellow at the Hewlett Foundation from 2013 to 2014, and he previously served as a Senior Fellow of the World Wildlife Fund, and as a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute (the think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council). Prior to his appointment as Deputy Secretary, <mask> headed up energy and the environment agency review for President-elect Obama's Transition Team, with responsibility over the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Energy and the EPA. He was a lead environmental and energy advisor to the Kerry campaign in 2004; acted as special emissary for Vice President Gore to advise the new president of Bolivia on sustainable development issues in 1993 and 1994; and served on the EPA Transition Team for President-elect Clinton in 1992. During <mask>' first tenure as Deputy Secretary of the Interior, he focused on environmental priorities, including the acquisition

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 now serves in the Biden administration as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy. Non-profit work
Active in the non-profit field, <mask> is the former chairman of the board of the non-partisan Environmental Law Institute. He also served as the Vice-Chairman of the national conservation group, American Rivers, and was a board member of RESOLVE, a non-profit that focuses on problem-solving in the energy and environmental fields. <mask> is a currently a member of the board of directors for the Coalition for Green Capital and the Advisory Council of Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West. Academics
During the 2007–2008 academic year, <mask> was a consulting professor at Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment, where he undertook a special project analyzing the regulatory challenges associated with carbon offsets. His report was published by the Center for American Progress.He is the author of dozens of journal articles on issues related to energy and the environment. Prior to leading the State Impact Center, he was a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Law at Stanford Law School and affiliated with Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy. As a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford, <mask> has developed and taught courses focused on renewable and conventional energy development and regulation, international wildlife trafficking, NEPA reform, and the Arctic. He has published several articles relating to this work. He served as chairman of the Board of Visitors for the Stanford Law School. Personal life
<mask> lives in Arlington, VA with his wife Elizabeth Haile <mask>. They have three children.References

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<mask> (born 13 May 1962) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, director, singer, artist and television personality. As a comedian, he is best known both for Good News Week and for his role as a member of the musical comedy group the Doug Anthony All Stars, which disbanded in 1994 but reformed in 2014; he has also performed individually and as a part of GUD. He has frequently appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and taken part in its two major televised productions, the Comedy Festival Gala and the Great Debate. He has also hosted two other ABC programs and briefly featured on Triple J as a morning radio presenter between 1996 and 1997. He hosted Good News Week until 2012, and has since pursued his painting career, and given a series of concerts featuring self-penned songs of a more serious nature. McDermott is a published author, having released several books both in collaboration with the Doug Anthony All Stars and individually. He has written as a columnist for a number of Australian newspapers and a selection of his columns have been compiled into a book, The Forgetting of Wisdom.He has also written and illustrated two storybooks, both of which have been adapted into short films with <mask> scripting, directing, performing and painting all of the animations. Personal life
<mask> was born in Adelaide, South Australia, a fraternal twin and one of six children in a Catholic family. His father, John, was a senior public servant and his mother, Betty, a home manager. The family moved to Canberra when McDermott was three. He attended Marist College Canberra, where he describes himself as having been painfully shy and a "bit of a loner"; Dickson College; and the Canberra School of Art at the Australian National University, where he studied art for four years. He describes painting as his first love, and still considers his final year piece at art school to be his finest work. Indeed, he only started performing at the age of 25 because he needed money to buy canvases."It was

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 either that or waiting on tables and I thought I'd soon get pissed off with people doing that," he says. Privately, McDermott maintains his interest in art through painting, drawing and hand-crafting books. He works under the alias of artist 'Young Master <mask>'. He has criticised the war on drugs and society's tendency to ignore the large drug subculture that involves people of all ages. "It's out there and it happens, but there's still a fear of talking about it," he says. "In cities like Manchester, with unemployment problems, there are no-alcohol venues where five thousand people under the age of sixteen are eccy'd off their heads every Saturday night." He has one son, Xavier, with his partner Melissa Lyne.He is also the first cousin of retired Adelaide Crows AFL footballer and current Adelaide media personality <mask>. Career

Doug Anthony All Stars

McDermott began busking in 1985, which he says equipped him with useful experience and the ability to cope with most situations when he later started performing in clubs. He joined a group called Gigantic Fly which performed at a new Canberra club called Cafe Boom Boom. It was here that he got to know Tim Ferguson and Richard Fidler of the musical comedy group the Doug Anthony All Stars (DAAS). <mask> was asked to join the group when the third member, Robert Piper, left due to other commitments. His primary reason for joining, he says, was monetary: "I'd been stealing canvas from the bins around the art school." Initially busking and performing live in clubs, with <mask> writing the majority of their material and songs, DAAS achieved success at the 1986 Adelaide Fringe Festival and subsequently travelled to Britain for the Edinburgh Fringe festival, where they were nominated for the Perrier Award.They toured both nationally and internationally, appearing on British television and playing at the opening of the Barcelona Olympics. After initially struggling to gain success in Australia, in 1989 DAAS was picked up to perform on the ABC show The

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 Big Gig, on which they became a popular feature. They appeared frequently on the show until 1991, when the group premiered their own series on the ABC, DAAS Kapital, which ran for two seasons. McDermott says that he liked performing with DAAS because it allowed him to bring together a range of his interests—he got to write, perform, sing, create costumes and paint backdrops. The group split up in 1995 after a final farewell tour of Australia. Rumours of a falling out among the trio persisted for many years, but all three maintained that they had parted on good terms and that it had simply been time to move on, as they had wanted to pursue careers in different directions. Ferguson has since revealed that the break-up was in large part due to his being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1995.In the two years following the break-up of DAAS, McDermott wrote two film scripts and the stage show MOSH!. He says that he was not particularly interested in returning to comedy, which he came to regard as an "aberration, something that had been good to do for eight years but now it was over," until in 1996 he was recruited as host of the satirical news-based quiz show Good News Week. In 2014, <mask> and Tim Ferguson reunited to tour Australia as the Doug Anthony All Stars, with frequent collaborator <mask> (also known as "Flacco") replacing Richard Fidler as guitarist due to Fidler's radio commitments. Television career
In 1996, <mask> was recruited by director Ted Robinson, with whom he had previously worked on The Big Gig, to host Good News Week, which aired on the ABC from 1996 to 1998, and on Network Ten from 1999 to 2000 and then returned in 2008 for a new series. He hosted the AFI awards in 2002, and in 2004 and 2005 presented the ABC show Strictly Dancing. <mask> reunited with Robinson in 2007 when he was named host of a new ABC variety program, The Sideshow, a show described as a successor to The Big Gig. It premiered on 21 April 2007, and quickly built a strong cult audience.However, due in part

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 to poor programming, the show did not rate well and was cancelled after its initial run of 26 episodes. <mask> says he was saddened by The Sideshow'''s cancellation as he believed it was an excellent venue for performers of alternative work which would have achieved ratings success if it had been allowed to continue. <mask> returned to regular television hosting in July 2015 as the host of Room 101, an Australian version of the long running British TV Show of the same name, airing on SBS One. In 2018, <mask> returned to the ABC as presenter of quiz show Think Tank. Good News Week

<mask> hosted Good News Week from 1996 until its cancellation in 2000, as well as its two spinoffs, Good News Weekend (1998) and GNW Night Lite (1999), and reprised this role when the series returned in 2008. A comedic quiz show with a similar format to that of the British program Have I Got News for You, it features two teams, with two permanent captains and four guests, competing to answer questions based on recent news events. <mask> opens each show with a humorous monologue based on the news on the week and is responsible for posing questions and awarding points to teams."I'm sort of judge, jury and executioner," he says of his role. The show premiered on the ABC, but moved to Network Ten in 1999. The ABC was initially apprehensive about Robinson's choice of <mask> as host. He had dreadlocks at the time, and was best known for the crude, aggressive "bad boy" character he had played in the Doug Anthony All Stars, which many tended to confuse with his actual personality. In addition, it was doubted that he was capable of ad libbing and speaking well, as in past interviews he had usually allowed his fellow band members to do most of the talking. <mask> cut off his dreadlocks for the show and succeeded in broadening his appeal by showing a gentler, more charming side as host. He has said that although he feels there are still elements of his more aggressive character in Good News Week, they are "toned down...I've got

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 to be the generous host now, spin-the-wheel sort of thing. I'm basing myself on Mike Brady now. I'm the disciplinarian." He would regularly sing on the program, particularly on Good News Weekend and GNW Night Lite, including some of his own original songs. In one episode, <mask> performed the self-penned "Shut Up and Kiss Me" as a duet with Fiona Horne. It was met with such a warm reception from viewers that it was eventually released as a single. Some of his other musical performances from the series are featured on the CD Good News Week Tapes Volume 2, and a collection of his monologues from the start of the show appear on Good News Week Tapes Volume 1.<mask> expressed his relief when the show was cancelled in 2000, saying that he could not have maintained the relentless production schedule for much longer. "I'm just so tired, I don't feel I have been human for five years," he said. Network Ten had initially intended only to bring back Good News Week as a one-off special, but decided to expand it after the short supply of US shows resulting from the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike caused the network to take an interest in developing more local programs. The revived series premiered on 11 February 2008 with <mask> reprising his role as host. In 2010, <mask> was nominated for a Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. Live comedy
<mask> describes his performance style as "in your face and unapologetic, grotesque, offensive, loud. But it's all essentially me with the amp turned up—I don't own that many great acting skills."He has stated that he does not consider any subject out of bounds in terms of comedy, which is "one of [his] problems". "I honestly believe you can make a joke about anything if you have something to say," he says. "It really depends on the motivation... The moral objective, I suppose." He is interested in topical humour and targets issues about which he feels passionately, including the detainment of David Hicks, the AWB scandal,

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 torture and the War on Terror. In 1995 he wrote, directed and performed in a stage show entitled MOSH!, which he says is based on "my drug-addled observations when I've been abusing substances". MOSH!received a range of responses; it won the award for best fringe show at the Adelaide festival and was described by one reviewer as "often hilarious", but was savaged by other critics as being "gratuitously offensive". Columbia Artists expressed interest in the show, but after nearly a decade of international travel with the Doug Anthony All Stars, <mask> did not wish to go to New York to do an off-Broadway show. He reappeared in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from 2002 with Cameron Bruce and Mick Moriarty in a music-based comedy trio called GUD. The group uses topical humour in its music; their act includes songs about Osama bin Laden, the transportation of live animal stock and what they describe as contemporary Australian "folk heroes" such as Chopper Read, Rene Rivkin and convicted serial killer Ivan Milat. McDermott says that GUD is in a similar vein to the Doug Anthony All Stars in that it revolves around music, comedy and the inter-relationships between the band members onstage. According to McDermott, the group is named GUD in mockery of the way American people pronounce the word "God", "because that's who Americans thank at awards ceremonies, and I thought someone should be taking the credit." Their 2003 show, "Gud Ugh", won The Age Critic's Choice Award for best Australian show of the festival.In 2002, he also performed a solo stand-up show entitled Comedyoscopy, a deconstruction of comedy, comedic techniques and what makes people laugh. He has frequently participated in the televised Comedy Festival Gala, appearing in 2008 as its host, and has often captained one of the two competing teams in the festival's Great Debate since his first debate appearance in 1994. Other projects
McDermott has written as a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, The Weekend