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Early in the 1958–59 season, Punch Imlach, the assistant general manager of the Leafs, fired Reay, installed himself as head coach, and appointed <mask> as the playing assistant coach. This meant that while Imlach coached the team during games, <mask> was in charge of the practices; however, <mask> only lasted three months as assistant coach, resigning to devote more time to improving his play. The same season, the Leafs went on a long winning streak in order to qualify for the playoffs, but they lost to the Canadiens in the finals. After losing in the Finals the next season, and falling short of the Finals the next season, <mask> won his fifth and final Stanley Cup in 1962, missing two months of the season with a broken shoulder, and being limited to only four out of the 12 playoff games. Retirement
Following his fifth Stanley Cup win, with Toronto, the New York Rangers claimed <mask> in the Intra-League Draft on June 4, 1962. This came as a surprise to <mask>, who refused to report to the team.The Canadiens offered to acquire him from the Rangers, within a month; <mask> demanded an immediate trade. Since no deal came, he retired at the age of 35. During his 14-year NHL career, <mask> scored 181 goals and 421 assists, for 602 points; in the playoffs, he collected 59 points, in 115 games. In his 14 seasons, <mask> appeared in the Stanley Cup final 11 times. He won five times, four of them with the Montreal Canadiens, and once with the Toronto Maple

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Known as "Dirty Bertie" because of his physical playing style, <mask> was a power forward, making hard hits and winning battles in the corners. He was not a very good skater, and thus he had to compensate by bodychecking. <mask> was not regularly involved in fights, but in the ones he participated, the majority were started with his hits. <mask> was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. <mask>, with his wife Nora, visited the town of Okotoks, Alberta on August 13, 2005, with the Stanley Cup.He had previously declined to spend a day with it, believing that it was being given to much older winners only because of the lockout. <mask> also noted, at the end of the day, that he was happy to have the Stanley Cup again. <mask> died at his home in High River, Alberta on November 16, 2015, due to complications from a stroke. Career statistics

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 Ivan the Terrible killing his own son in a rage caused a scandal, resulting in the painting being removed from exhibition. But this was followed by a series of major successes and new commissions.In 1898, with his second wife, he purchased a country house, The Penates, in Kuokkala, Finland (now Repino, Saint Petersburg), close to St. Petersburg, where they entertained Russian society. In 1905, following the violent repression of street demonstrations by the Tsarist government, he quit his teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts. He welcomed the February Revolution in 1917, but was appalled by the violence and warfare that followed in the October Revolution. Finland broke away from Russia in 1917, and <mask> was unable to travel to St. Petersburg, even for an exhibition of his own works in 1925. The government of Joseph Stalin insisted that <mask> give up his Finnish residence and citizenship, and return to the city, but he refused. <mask> died on 29, September, 1930, at the age of 86, and was buried at the Penates. His home is now a museum and a UNESCO World Heritage site.Biography

Early life and work

<mask> was born on 24 July 1844 in the town of Chuguyev, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire, in the heart of the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. His father, Yefim Vasilyevich <mask> (1804—1894) served in the Uhlan Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army. He fought in the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), the Russo-Turkish War (1828–29) and the Hungarian campaign (1849). When his father retired from the army, after twenty-seven years of service, he became an itinerant merchant selling horses. His father was of Cossack

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texts: origin, In later life <mask> would draw on his origins for the subject matter in works such as The Zaporozhe Cossacks Writing a Reply to the Turkish Sultan. <mask>'s mother, Tatiana Stepanovna <mask> (née Bocharova) (1811—1880), was also the daughter of a soldier in a local Cossack Regiment. She had family ties to noblemen and officers; the Repins had six children and were moderately well-off.As a boy <mask> was educated at the local school where his mother taught. His mother introduced him to Russian literature through readings of Pushkin and Lermontov. In 1855, at the age of eleven, he was enrolled in a local military school to study surveying and military topography. He preferred art to topography, and when he was thirteen, his father enrolled him in the workshop of Ivan Bunakov, an icon painter. He restored old icons and painted portraits of local notables. At the age of sixteen, as his talent became evident, he became a member of an artel, or cooperative of artists, the Society for the Encouragement of Artists, which traveled around Voronezh province to paint icons and wall paintings. Repin had much higher ambitions.In October 1863 he competed for admission to the Imperial Academy of Arts in the capital, Saint Petersburg. He failed in his first attempt, but persevered, rented a small room in the city, and took courses in academic drawing. In January 1864 he succeeded and was allowed, without fee, to attend classes. At the academy he met the painter Ivan Kramskoi, who became his professor and mentor. When Kramskoi founded the first independent union of Russian artists, <mask> became a member. In 1869 he was awarded a gold medal

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 second-class for his painting Job and His Brothers. He met the influential critic Vladimir Stasov and painted a portrait of Vera Shevtsova, his own future wife.First success

In 1870, with two other artists, <mask> traveled to the Volga River to sketch landscapes and studies of barge haulers (The Repin House in Tolyatti and the Repin Museum on the Volga commemorate this visit). When he returned to Saint Petersburg, the quality of his Volga boatmen drawings won him a commission from Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich for a large scale painting on the subject. The painting, Barge Haulers on the Volga was completed in 1873. The following year he was awarded a gold medal first-class for his painting The Resurrection of the Daughter of Jairus

In May 1872 he married Vera Alexeievna Shevtsova. (1855-1917). She joined him on his travels, including a trip Samara, where their first child, Vera, was born. They had three other children; Nadia, Yuri, and Tatyana.The marriage was difficult, as <mask> had numerous affairs, while Vera cared for the children. They were married for fifteen years. In an 1872 letter to Stasov, <mask> wrote: "Now it is the peasant who is the judge and so it is necessary to represent his interests. (That is just the thing for me, since I am myself, as you know, a peasant, the son of a retired soldier who served twenty-seven hard years in Nicholas I's army.)" In 1873 <mask> traveled to Italy and France with his family. His second daughter, Nadezhda, was born in 1874. Paris and Normandy

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<mask> returned to Russia in 1876.His son Yury was born the following year. He moved to Moscow that year, and produced a wide variety of works including portraits of the painters Arkhip Kuindzhi and Ivan Shishkin. He became involved with the "Wanderers", an artistic movement founded in St. Petersburg in 1863. The style of the Wanderers was resolutely realistic, patriotic, and politically engaged, determined to break with classical models and to create a specifically Russian art. It involved not only painters, but sculptors, writers and composers. <mask> created a series of major historical works, including the Religious Procession in Kursk Governorate (1883), which was presented at the 12th annual exposition of the Wanderers. It was notable both for its extraordinary crowd of realistic figures, including surly policemen, weary monks, children and beggars, each expressing a vivid personality.He also experimented with outdoor sunlight effects, apparently influenced by the impressionists and his outdoor studies in France. His next major work of this period was Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan. This painting, depicting the tsar, his face full of horror, just after he has killed his son with his sceptre in a demented rage. It caused a scandal. Some critics saw it as a veiled criticism of Tsar

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 Alexander III, who had brutally suppressed the opposition after a failed assassination attempt. It was also attacked by the more aesthetic faction of the Wanderers, who considered it overly sensationalist. It was vandalised twice and was finally, at the tsar's request, removed from view.The tsar reconsidered his decision, and the painting was finally put back on view. The portrait of the Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna is one of his most tragic historical works. It depicts The daughter of Tsar Alexis who became regent of Russia after the death of her father, but then was deposed from power in 1689 and locked away in a convent by her half-brother, Peter the Great. The painting captures her fury as she realises her future life. "They did not expect him". (1884-1888),(Tretyakov Gallery) is a notable and subtle historical work of the period, depicting a young man, a former "narodniki" or revolutionary, emaciated and frail from prison and exile, returning unexpectedly to his family. The story is told by the different expressions on the faces of his family.and small details, such as the portraits of Tsar Alexander III and of favourite Russian poets on the wall. <mask> and Tolstoy

In 1880 Lev Tolstoy came to <mask>'s small studio on Bolshoi Trubny street in Moscow to introduce himself. This developed into a friendship between the 36-year-old painter and the 52-year-writer that lasted thirty years until Tolstoy's death in 1910. <mask> regularly visited Tolstoy at his Moscow residence, and his country estate at Yasnaya Polyana. He painted a series of portraits of Tolstoy in peasant dress, working and reading under a tree at Yasnaya Polyana Tolstoy

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In addition to his portraits of Tolstoy and Russian writers, <mask> painted portraits of the major Russian composers of his time, His images, like his paintings of Tolstoy and other writers, became an integral part of the image of these composers. His portrait of Modest Moussorgsky was particularly famous. The composer suffered from alcoholism and depression. <mask> painted him in four sittings, beginning four days before his death. When Moussorgsky died, <mask> used the proceeds of the sale of the painting to erect a monument to the composer.His portrait of Mikhail Glinka, composer of the opera "Ruslan and Ludmilla" (1887) was an unusual work for <mask>. it was painted after Glinka's death; <mask> never met him, and based on drawings and recollections of others. Other composers painted by <mask> included Alexander Glazunov who had just completed Borodin's opera "Prince Igor", and Anton Rubenstein the founder of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory of Music. His third daughter, Tatyana, was born in 1880. He frequented the

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 art circle of Savva Mamontov, which gathered at Abramtsevo, his estate near Moscow. Here <mask> met many of the leading painters of the day, including Vasily Polenov, Valentin Serov, and Mikhail Vrubel. In 1882 he and Vera divorced; they maintained a friendly relationship afterwards.<mask>'s contemporaries often commented on his special ability of capturing peasant life in his works. In an 1876 letter to Stasov, Kramskoi wrote: "<mask> is capable of depicting the Russian peasant exactly as he is. I know many artists who have painted peasants, some of them very well, but none of them ever came close to what Repin does." Leo Tolstoy later stated that Repin "depicts the life of the people much better than any other Russian artist." He was praised for his ability to reproduce human life with powerful and vivid force. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

In 1883 he traveled around Western Europe with Vladimir Stasov. <mask>'s painting Religious Procession in Kursk Province was shown at the eleventh Itinerants' Society Exhibition.In 1886, he traveled to the Crimea with Arkhip Kuinji, and produced drawings and sketches on Biblical subjects. In 1887 he visited Austria, Italy, and Germany, and retired from the board of the Wanderers, painted two portraits of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana and painted Alexander Pushkin on the Shore of the Black Sea (in collaboration with Ivan Aivazovsky). In 1888 he traveled to Southern Russia and the Caucasus, where he did sketches and studies of descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Many of <mask>'s finest portraits were produced in the 1880s. Through the presentation of real faces, these portraits express the


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 young artists. An exhibition of works by <mask> and Shishkin was held in the Academy of Arts, including Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. In 1892 he held a one-man exhibition at the History Museum in Moscow.In 1893 he visited academic art schools in Warsaw, Kraków, Munich, Vienna, and Paris to observe and study teaching methods. He spent the winter in Italy and published his essays Letters on Art. In 1894 he began teaching a class at the Higher Art School attached to the Academy of Arts, a position he held, off and on, until 1907. In 1895 he painted portraits of Emperor Nicholas II, and Princess Maria Tenisheva. In 1896 he attended the All-Russian Exhibition in Nizhni Novgorod. His paintings were exhibited in Saint Petersburg, at the Exhibition of Works of Creative Art. His paintings from this year included The Duel and Don Juan and Dona Anna.In 1897 he rejoined the Wanderers, and was appointed rector of the Higher Artistic School for a year. In 1898 he traveled to the Holy Land, and painted the icon Carrying the Cross for the Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Jerusalem. After returning to Russia, he attended Pavel Tretyakov's funeral. In 1899 he joined the editorial board of the magazine World of Art, but soon quit. Move to Finland (1890)

In 1890 <mask> met Natalia Nordman (1863-1914), who became his common-law wife. She was the daughter of an admiral, a writer and feminist, an activist for the improvement of working conditions. She advocated a simple life close to nature.In 1899 he acquired land near a village of Kuokkala, about forty kilometres north of St. Petersburg, and they built a country house, called the Penates,


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 in 1902–1903 called "What Freedom!"depicting two students dancing in the waves at the beach after completing their exaninations. 1900-1905 - Revolution and Disillusion

The small movements toward democracy in the early 20th century inspired <mask>, He joined the Constitutional Democratic Party, was offered the rank of Councillor of State, and was invited to take a seat in the Duma, the national assembly. He made a colourful painting of the celebration of the new Russian Constitution of 1905. Later, he painted the portrait of the newly-elected Russian President, Alexander Kerensky. However, the brutal repression of popular demonstrations in front of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in 1905 quickly disillusioned him, He called 1905 "the year of disaster and shame". He resigned from his teaching post at the Academy of Fine Arts, and concentrated on painting. <mask> concentrated on writing his memoirs, which he finished in 1915.He visited St. Peterburg to see expositions, including a 1909 show of works by the modernist Kandinsky. <mask> was not impressed; he described it as "the swamps of artistic corruption." In 1900 he took his common-law wife Natalia Nordman to the World Exhibition in Paris, where he served as a painting judge. He visited Munich, the Tyrol, and Prague, and painted Natalia Nordman in a Tyrolese Hat and In the Sunlight: Portrait of Nadezhda <mask>. In 1901 he was awarded the Legion of Honor. His painting Get Thee Behind Me, Satan! was shown at the 29th Itinerants' Society Exhibition.In 1902–1903 his works included the paintings Ceremonial Meeting of the State Council and What a Freedom!, over forty portrait studies, and

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 portraits of Sergei Witte and Vyacheslav von Plehve. Ceremonial Meeting of the State Council was the most demanding work commissioned by Repin, requiring numerous studies of the 100 councilors depicted, and the help of two of <mask>'s pupils. In 1904 he gave a speech at a memorial gathering for the artist Vasily Vereshchagin. He painted a portrait of the writer Leonid Andreyev and his work The Death of the Cossack Squadron Commander Zinovyev. He made sketches depicting government troops opening fire on a peaceful demonstration on 9 December 1905. During 1905 <mask> participated in many protests
against bloodshed and Tsarist repressions, and tried to convey his impressions of these emotionally and politically charged events in his paintings. He also did sketches for portraits of Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Stasov and two portraits of Natalia Nordman.In 1907 he resigned from the Academy of Arts, visited Chuguyev and the Crimea, and wrote reminiscences of Vladimir Stasov. In 1908 he publicly denounced capital punishment in Russia. He illustrated Leonid Andreyev's story The Seven Who Were Hanged, and his painting The Cossacks from the Black Sea Coast was exhibited at the Itinerants' Society Exhibition. In 1909 he painted Gogol Burning the Manuscript of the Second Part of Dead Souls, and in 1910, portraits of Pyotr Stolypin, and the children's writer and poet Korney Chukovsky. War, the Bolshevik Revolution and later years (1917-1930)

The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 brought a series of setbacks and tragedies to <mask>. His wife became ill with tuberculosis, and departed for treatment in Locarno, Switzerland. She refused assistance from


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 three sketches devoted to the Revolution of 1905 and the portrait of Alexander Kerensky to the Museum of the Revolution of 1905. In 1928–29, still in Finland, he continued working on the painting The Hopak Dance (The Zaporozhye Cossacks Dancing), begun in 1926, which was his final work.It portrays the traditional dance as presented in an opera by composer Modest Moussorgsky. <mask> painted it with oil on linoleum, because he could not get a canvas large enough. <mask> died in 1930, and was buried at the Penates. After World War II the territory of Kuokkala was annexed by the Soviet Union. In 1948 it was renamed Repino in his honor. The Penates became a museum in 1940., and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Portraits

Repin particularly excelled at portrait painting.He produced more than three hundred portraits in his career. He painted most of the notable political figures, writers and composers of his time. One exception was Dostoevsky, whose mysticism <mask> did not appreciate at all. He preceded each portrait with six or seven sketches. He had to persuade a reluctant Tolstoy to be portrayed working in a field with bare feet, as he usually did. Repin persistently searched for new techniques and content to give his work more fullness and depth. <mask> had a set of favorite subjects, and a limited circle of people whose portraits he painted.But he had a deep sense of purpose in his aesthetics, and had the great artistic gift to sense the spirit of the age and its reflection in the lives and characters of individuals. <mask>'s search for truth and for an ideal led him in various directions artistically, influenced by hidden aspects of


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 social and spiritual experiences as well as national culture. Like most Russian realists of his times, <mask> often based his works on dramatic conflicts, drawn from contemporary life or history. He also used mythological images with a strong sense of purpose; some of his religious paintings are among his greatest. Drawings and sketches

With some of his paintings, <mask> made one hundred or more preliminary sketches. He began his works with sketches in pencil or charcoal, using lines and cross-hatching. Often he would rub the drawing with his finger or an eraser to get the precise shading that he desired.He sometimes used drawings or paintings of his children to experiment with different points of view. For his large paintings, he made very detailed studies, experimenting with the composition and judging the overall impression. Genre Painting

No Russian painter of the 19th or 20th century was more skilled at genre painting, portraying scenes of daily life in a sympathetic and perceptive way, giving each character a distinct purpose and personality. His works ranged from domestic scenes to small dramas, such as policemen arresting a young militant for distributing revolutionary tracts. Repin and Ukraine

In the 1870s to 1880s he visited Chuguyev and gathered materials for his future works. There, he painted his Archdeacon. Paintings of Repin inspired by Ukrainian culture include:

The Repin Museum in his birthplace of Chugeev presents objects and works from his early life in Ukraine.Man with a bad eye (1876)
 Ukrainian girl by the fence (1876)
 Mohnachi village near Chuguyev (1877)
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 Vechornytsi (1881)
 Ukrainian village woman (1886)
 Taras Shevchenko's portrait (1888)
 Haydamaka (1902)
 Cossacks on the Black Sea (1908)
 Prometheus (1910, after T. Shevchenko's poem)
 Hopak (1930)

<mask> was a member of the committee, set up to create a monument to painter-poet Taras Shevchenko whom he called an "apostle of freedom". He illustrated novels such as Taras Bulba and Sorochinsky Fair by Nikolai Gogol (1872–82) and Zaporissya in the remains of ancient legends and people by Dmytro Yavornytsky (1887), and drew numerous sketches of architecture as well as different popular aspects of Ukrainian culture. <mask>'s sphere of knowledge included a number of prominent thinkers of the time, including Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Mykola Murashko, and Dmytro Yavornytsky. Repin helped the committee of the Visual Arts Union in Mykolaiv. He was also an honorary member of Literature and Art Union, as well as Union of the Antiquities and Art in Kiev. He supported numerous painters, Murashko's art schools in Kiev, M. Rajevska-Ivanova in Kharkiv, and the Art school in Odessa. In one of his last letters he wrote: "kind, dear compatriots [...] I ask you to believe in the sense of my devotion and endless regret that I can't move to live in a sweet, joyful Ukraine [...] Loving you from the childhood, Ilya Repin".The painter was buried by the "Chuguyev's hill", a place at the end of his property in Penates. Style and technique

Repin persistently searched for new techniques and content to give his work more fullness and depth. <mask> had a set of favorite subjects, and a limited


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References

Bibliography

Further reading

Jackson, David, The Russian Vision: The Art of <mask> <mask> (Schoten, Belgium, 2006)
Karageorgevich, Prince Bojidar, "Professor <mask>," in the Magazine of Art, xxiii. p. 783 (1899)
Prymak, Thomas M., "A Painter from Ukraine: <mask> <mask>," Canadian Slavonic Papers, LV, 1–2 (2013), 19–43. Prymak, Thomas M., "Message to Mehmed: <mask> Creates his Zaporozhian Cossacks," in his Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), pp.173–200. Шишанов, В.А. «Ниспровержение на пьедестал»: Илья Репин в советской печати 1920–1930-х годов / В.А. Шишанов // Архип Куинджи и его роль в развитии художественного процесса в ХХ веке. Илья Репин в контексте русского и европейского искусства. Василий Дмитриевич Поленов и русская художественная культура второй половины XIX – первых десятилетий XX века : материалы научных конференций. – М. : Гос.Третьяковская галерея, 2020. – С. 189–206. 1844 births
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<mask> is an American writer and television producer in Hollywood. As a screenwriter and executive producer for the long-running television program Cheers, he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations in 1992 and 1993. <mask> created the television show George and Leo, among others. In addition to his television work, <mask> is a contributing editor for National Review, as well as a contributor to TIME, Newsweek International, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He hosts the syndicated weekly radio commentary Martini Shot, and appears regularly on political commentary shows. In May 2010, he took part in launching a new center-right commentary site, Ricochet. <mask> received an award from the Writers Guild of America, and is on the board of directors of The American Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arts organization created to nurture and reward television and feature-film projects.His published works include Conversations with My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke. Education
<mask> graduated from Phillips Academy (1983) and Yale University in 1987. After graduation, he studied for two years at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where he later served as an Adjunct Professor of screenwriting

Television career
<mask> started his career as a screenwriter for the television show Cheers in 1990, and became an executive producer for the show in 1992. During his tenure, the show won two Emmys and two Golden Globes. <mask> received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations in 1992 and 1993. After Cheers ended in 1993, <mask> formed a television production company with his Cheers collaborator and fellow Emmy nominee Dan Staley. Together, they created the television show George and Leo, starring Bob Newhart and Judd Hirsch, for CBS.They also created Love & Money for CBS and Men, Women & Dogs for The WB. In addition to their show creation work, <mask> and his partner served as creative consultants on numerous shows. <mask> took over as show runner for Kevin James vehicle Kevin Can Wait after Bruce Helford left the CBS show. Political and social commentary
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 in 1993, <mask> wrote a fortnightly political satire column for National Review titled Letters from Al. Written anonymously, the majority of these columns purported to be personal letters from Vice President Al Gore to his friend "Rusty", an academic researcher living in a Brazilian rainforest. The letters revealed insider information about government figures, as well as humorous speculation on their roles in public controversies. Occasionally the letters were from other political figures, such as George Bush and Dick Morris, and on occasion the column purported to be the transcript of a police wiretap.National Review maintained the author's anonymity throughout the Clinton presidency, revealing <mask>'s identity only after George Bush was inaugurated in 2001. <mask> is now a contributing editor for National Review, where he writes the fortnightly column The Long View. He comments on political and social topics, especially mass media and Hollywood politics. He is also a contributor to TIME, Newsweek International, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. <mask> hosts the syndicated radio show Martini Shot, where he provides news and opinion on the film industry, as well as interviews with notable subjects. Broadcast weekly, the show originates at Los Angeles NPR station KCRW. The show's title is a Hollywood term for the final scene of the day on a film production set.In addition, <mask> regularly appears on political commentary shows. Ricochet
In 2008, <mask> started a political news and commentary website, RobinsonandLong.com, in collaboration with <mask>, author and former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan. In 2010, <mask> and <mask> launched a new, more interactive website, Ricochet, featuring a news feed in the model of Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr. The site features approximately 40 contributors from conservative publications, such as National Review and The Weekly Standard, who start conversation threads open to commentary and discussion. In order to encourage earnest and respectful discussion, only paying members of the site are allowed to comment, and a code of

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<mask> is the author of two books. His first, Conversations with My Agent, is a memoir of his early career.Published in 1998, it provides extensive advice for aspiring scriptwriters, and has become a "cult classic". His second book, Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke, is a further memoir of his entertainment industry experiences, and was published in 2005. <mask> is mentioned and quoted extensively in the book The Sound of No Hands Clapping by Toby Young. <mask> serves on the board of directors of The American Cinema Foundation, a "Los Angeles-based non-profit arts organization created to nurture and reward television and feature-film projects that promote democratic pluralism and inclusion." He is also president of the Board of Directors of the Southern Foodways Alliance. Associated television shows
 Cheers (1990–1993)
 Pig Sty (1995)
 Good Company (1996)
 George and Leo (1997–1998)
 Love & Money (1999)
 Men, Women & Dogs (2001–2002)
 Sullivan & Son (2012–2014)
 Kevin Can Wait (2016–2018)

Published works
 Conversations with My Agent (1998)
 Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke (2005)
Bigly: Donald Trump in Verse  (2017)

Awards and nominations
 Nomination, Primetime Emmy Award (1992)
 Nomination, Primetime Emmy Award (1993)
 Nomination, Golden Globe Award (1992)
 Nomination, Golden Globe Award (1993)
 Writers Guild of America Award

See also
 Cheers
 Sullivan & Son
 George & Leo
 KCRW

References

External links
 Martini Shot at KCRW Retrieved 2009-10-30
 Letters from America on Newsweek Retrieved 2009-10-30
 Q+A with <mask> at LAist Retrieved 2010-01-05

 <mask>'s blog Retrieved 2009-10-30
 <mask> search at NPR Retrieved 2010-01-05
 The American Cinema Foundation Retrieved 2009-10-30
 Cheerful <mask> on National Review Online Retrieved 2009-10-30
 Book Review on The Guardian Retrieved 2009-10-30
 In-depth podcast interview

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Emily "<mask><mask> (née Drinkard; born September 30, 1933) is an American soul and gospel singer. After a successful career singing backup for such artists as Roy Hamilton, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley, and Aretha Franklin, <mask> embarked on a solo career, winning two Grammy Awards for her work. <mask> is the mother of superstar singer <mask>, the aunt of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, and a cousin of opera singer Leontyne Price. Early life
Born Emily Drinkard in Newark, New Jersey, to Nitcholas "Nitch" Drinkard (1895-1952) and Delia Mae Drinkard (née McCaskill) (1901-1941), she was the eighth and final child; older siblings were brothers William (1918–2003), Hansom (1924–deceased), Nicky (1929–1992), and Larry (1931–2012); and sisters Lee (1920–2005), Marie (1922–2007), and Anne (1927–2003). <mask>'s father Nitcholas Drinkard was born to Susan Bell (called Delia) Drinkard (née Fuller), of Dutch and African-American descent. His father John Drinkard, Jr., was of Native American descent. The Drinkards had owned a substantial amount of farmland in Blakely, Georgia, at a time when it was unusual for black people to have large landholdings.The asset was gradually depleted as they sold small portions of land over time, to resolve the continued legal troubles of a close relative. After <mask>'s three oldest siblings were born, the family relocated to New Jersey during the Great Migration. Her parents emphasized the children getting educated and being involved in the church, and her father encouraged <mask> and her siblings to sing. In

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The Drinkard Singers
<mask>'s singing career began in 1938 when she joined her sister Anne and brothers Larry and Nicky in the gospel singing group the Drinkard Four. Lee (who would later become the mother of singers Marie Dionne Warrick and Delia Juanita (Dee Dee) Warrick, later joined the group along with Anne Drinkard Moss and Marie Drinkard Epps, and the group was renamed The Drinkard Singers. It was while performing on Drinkard Singers that <mask> <mask> made her television debut on TV Gospel Time. <mask> and the Drinkard Singers regularly performed at New Hope Baptist Church and later recorded a live album for RCA called A Joyful Noise.Sweet Inspirations
In 1963, then about to give birth to daughter <mask>, she formed the Sweet Inspirations with Doris Troy and niece Dee Dee Warwick. Later, under contract to Atlantic Records, Sylvia Shemwell, Estelle Brown and Myrna Smith form the line-up. During the mid-1960s, the Sweet Inspirations provided backup vocals for a variety of artists,

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 including Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Lou Rawls, The Drifters, Dusty Springfield, and <mask>'s niece Dionne Warwick. They appeared on Van Morrison's single Brown Eyed Girl. <mask> Franklin hit "Ain't No Way". In 1967, The Sweet Inspirations sang background vocals for The Jimi Hendrix Experience on the track "Burning of the Midnight Lamp". In 1969, they were hired to sing backing vocals for American singer Elvis Presley in Las Vegas on his return to live performances during July and August 1969.Presley often introduced them at shows by saying, "They really live up to their name, ladies & gentlemen: The Sweet Inspirations!" Many of these performances can be heard on the All Shook Up and Live In Las Vegas live records. Performing with Elvis Presley was <mask>'s final gig with The Sweet Inspirations. As her children were growing bigger, she decided to stop touring and focus on her career as a recording artist. Solo career
As Cecily Blair she cut her first secular solo record "This Is My Vow" on M'n'M Records in 1963 following this up in 1966 with "Bring Him Back" b/w "World Of Broken Hearts" on Congress. Her final solo single before recording with The Sweet Inspirations was "Don't Come Running To Me" b/w "One Broken Heart For Sale" released on Kapp Records in 1967. On these early singles her name is spelled as Sissie <mask>.In 1969, <mask> signed a recording contract with Commonwealth United Records and recorded her solo debut LP Presenting Cissy <mask> which was released in 1970. It contained several well received singles, including covers of

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 "I'll Be There" and "Be My Baby", both of which made the R&B charts. Following the release of her debut album, <mask>'s contract was sold to Janus Records in 1970. She recorded another album and several more singles in the early 1970s, which included the original recording of Jim Weatherly's "Midnight Train to Georgia" in 1972, later a number one hit for Gladys Knight & The Pips. She continued to record with Janus Records until 1975. In 1977, <mask> was signed by Private Stock Records, working with arranger/producer Michael Zager on three albums. The second included her big disco hit "Think It Over", which climbed to No.32 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1979. She represented USA at the World Popular Song Festival in 1979 with a track called "You're the Fire", landing second place and winning the "Most Outstanding Performance Award". This also appeared on her 1980 disco-flavored album, Step Aside for a Lady, again produced by Zager, but released on Columbia Records (on EMI in the United Kingdom). Session musician

<mask>'s versatile cross-genre singing style has kept her highly in demand as a session musician with some of the world's most successful recording artists. <mask>, along with Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, sang the background vocals on the original recording of Time Is On My Side by Kai Winding, released by Verve Records in October 1963. She was one of the backup singers on the Paul Simon song "Mother and Child Reunion" (1972)

<mask> sang back-up on Bette Midler's 1972 debut album, The Divine Miss M. In 1974, <mask> sang back-up

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 on Linda Ronstadt's multi-Platinum Heart Like A Wheel, a seminal album that topped Billboard′s Pop and Country Album Charts in early 1975. In 1971, <mask> was featured on three tracks of Burt Bacharach's self-titled solo album: "Mexican Divorce", "All Kinds of People" and "One Less Bell to Answer".During 1975 and 1976, she worked with jazz flutist Herbie Mann on three Atlantic albums, Discothèque, Waterbed and Surprises, featuring on three tracks, "Violet Don't Be Blue", JJ Cale's "Cajun Moon" and "Easter Rising". In addition to her work as choirmaster at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ, Cissy performed frequently at clubs in NYC including Mikell's, Sweetwaters, Seventh Avenue South, and Fat Tuesday from the late 1970s through the 1980s. <mask>, her daughter and backup singer, increasingly sang solos with Cissy's band. They would collaborate on "Ain't No Way" (originally a Cissy <mask> and Aretha Franklin vehicle), on which Cissy sang herself and Whitney sang "Aretha". Gospel soloist and duets
In 1996, <mask> received the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album for Face to Face, an album that contained a Gospel version of "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)". The same year, she contributed one song to the gospel soundtrack album for the film The Preacher's Wife, which starred her daughter <mask>. In 1998, she won her second Grammy for her album He Leadeth Me.She has also continued to record infrequent secular material and in 1987, <mask> and her daughter Whitney recorded a duet titled "I Know Him So Well", a cover of the

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 original by Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige from the Broadway show, Chess. This song also became a single in early 1989 as the 6th and last single release (in selected European countries) from Whitney's album Whitney. In 1992 she teamed up with Chuck Jackson for an album of solo and duet recordings entitled I'll Take Care of You. In 2006, she recorded the song "Family First" with niece Dionne Warwick and daughter <mask> for the soundtrack to the movie Daddy's Little Girls. In 2010, <mask> attended the third annual BET Honors with her daughter Whitney, who received the entertainment award. In 2012, Cissy performed "Bridge over Troubled Water" at the tribute for her daughter at the BET Music Awards. On September 29, 2014, at 80 years old,  Cissy sang backup to a standing-ovation performance with Aretha Franklin of  Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" on The Late Show with David Letterman.New Hope Baptist Church Youth Inspirational Choir
For more than fifty years, <mask> has led the 200-member Youth Inspirational Choir at the New Hope Baptist Church (Newark). She is a driving force behind and performs annually at the McDonald's Gospelfest. Personal life
In 1955, <mask> married Freddie Garland and had a son, Gary Garland, an NBA basketball player and DePaul University Athletic Hall of Famer. In the spring of 1957, when she was 24, <mask> met John Russell <mask>. and embarked on a romance that led to the births of son Michael (born August 14, 1961), a songwriter and road manager, and daughter Whitney (August 9, 1963 -

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texts: February 11, 2012), who went on to be a world-renowned singer, actress and entertainer. During the early years of the relationship, John was still married to his first wife, Elsie Hamilton. After <mask>'s first marriage ended in divorce in April 1964, <mask> and John married the following month. <mask> Jr. was a former Army veteran who served his country during World War II and was working as a taxi and truck driver when he met Cissy.He first entered the entertainment business managing his nieces-in-law's vocal group, the Gospelaires, in 1959. After his wife formed The Sweet Inspirations, he served as their manager until <mask> left the group in 1969 to start her solo career. After John survived a near-fatal heart attack in 1976, John and <mask>'s marriage turned volatile and by 1977, they agreed to legally separate, though they remained married until 1991. <mask> has six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. In the late 1990s, <mask>'s superstar daughter, singer <mask>, began to struggle with drug addiction. <mask> staged several interventions to get Whitney into rehabilitation and recovery programs. On one occasion she obtained a court order and the assistance of two sheriffs to intervene, persuading Whitney to undertake treatment at Hope For Women Residential & Therapeutic Services in Atlanta, Georgia.In her 2013 book, Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped, <mask> described a scene she encountered during a visit to Whitney and then-husband Bobby Brown's home in 2005 where she saw the walls and

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<mask> (born Baldwin Chiu, May 17, 1974 in San Francisco, California) is an American rapper, actor, producer and stunt performer. As a hip hop artist, he writes/performs rap, beatboxing, and singing. He is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild involved in acting and choreographing stunt work. <mask> started rapping professionally in 1991 after being influenced by hip hop pioneers Run DMC, Will Smith, dcTalk, and T-Bone. Because he started rapping in both English and Cantonese, some consider him to be the first Chinese American bilingual rapper. "This Chinese American rapper has a refreshing and unique sound with a message born out of experience, having been in the game since '91." At one point, he was labeled the "Christian" version of "Jin the MC".Career
Among these things, <mask> is also a professionally licensed mechanical engineer with a PE License deeming him the "Lyrical Engineer". The title track of his LP (The Lyrical Engineer), provides an exposition of the life and livelihood of a professional engineer. It demonstrates <mask>'s technological acumen as well as his lyrical wit and dexterity. <mask> is also a favored guest speaker at conventions, schools, and youth events challenging and encouraging the next generation to pursue their dreams and passions while maintaining an education and focus on God. Signed in 2009 under Los Angeles record label, LOG Records. <mask> has appeared as both a host and musical guest on JCTV and has been featured on collaboration albums. <mask>'s release, "The Lyrical Engineer" is produced by Grammy nominated group Dynamic Twins, Billboard winner Maximillian and Larissa Lam.The music video was directed and edited by Emmy Award-winning director, Marlon Jones. <mask> and Larissa Lam launched a viral music video title "Cantonese Boy" which was a parody of the Grammy winning song American Boy by Kanye West and Estelle. After being seen performing "Cantonese Boy" in Chinatown, <mask> was asked to perform at the 2010 Green Globe Film Awards as they honored Asians in film and entertainment. As an actor and member of SAG, he appears in many feature films

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 such as The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, xXx2: State of the Union, Twisted, and Pursuit of Happyness. He has also provided music for the soundtrack of Dead Man Down and the animated film, "The Monkey Prince". He is also an advanced level martial artists having trained under the lineage of Kanbun Uechi and <mask>-Fai. He is a 3 time UC Berkeley Wushu Champion in tai chi, weapons, and push hands  and teaches Tai Chi in Hollywood.He has used some of his skills in choreographing fight scenes in movies and doing stunt work for Ang Lee in the movie Hulk. On April 29, 2010, California State University, Sacramento, honored high-achieving alumni at an annual award ceremony called the "Distinguished Service Awards". This is the highest recognized award for CSU Sacramento. Baldwin was recognized for his contributions in engineering, his performances as <mask> Won: The Lyrical Engineer and other entertainment industry endeavors as well as his work with youth. He received this award alongside KXTV ABC News anchor Cristina Mendonsa. On Pi day 2012, Intel asked <mask> to be part of President Barack Obama's national White House campaign titled, Stay With It, designed to boost retention of students in undergraduate engineering programs. Only Won releases

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Tai Chiu Music was set up in 2008.After moving its location from Sacramento, California, TCM joined forces with LOG Records and producer Larissa Lam in Los Angeles. In 2011, Only Won released a "Geeked out" remix video of the hit song "Billionaire", titled "I Wanna Be An Engineer", which was a parody that reached viral status and caught the attention of CNN, Discovery Channel, The Pentagon, and FIRST Robotics Competition. The song became the anthem to those in the engineering, technology, and science community. It also reached No. 2 on Reddit.com on the viral hits list, gaining over 400,000 views in less than two weeks. The song "Crush 'em Like Godzilla" was inspired by Ed Wang, the first NFL player of full Chinese descent. In summer 2012, Only Won released two songs on the video game Sleeping Dogs.In Spring 2013, the song "JUN

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Jyrki Juhani Järvilehto (; born 31 January 1966), better known as "<mask>", is a Finnish racing driver. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice, in 1995 and 2005. He is also a former Formula One driver. He was a protégé of Finnish 1982 Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg, who first suggested that Jyrki Järvilehto should abbreviate his name to the more manageable <mask>. Early career
Like many racing drivers <mask> began in karts at age 8, winning numerous events, before graduating to Formula Ford at the early age of 15. A switch to single seaters saw him dominate the Scandinavian Formula Ford. He then won the British and European Formula 2000 championship in 1987 and went on to win the coveted British Formula 3 title in 1988, driving for Pacific Racing.In 1989 Lehto drove in Formula 3000, again for Pacific Racing. The season was not successful and he failed to score any podium finishes. He did not participate in the last race which was held in Dijon-Prenois. Formula One career
In 1989 Lehto tested for Ferrari before making his Formula One debut for the Onyx team as a late-season replacement for Bertrand Gachot. Though he failed to prequalify for his first race at Estoril he impressed with his speed in the tough sessions and made his first start in the following meeting. In the wet season finale at Adelaide he ran as high as 5th before retiring with waterlogged electrics. Over the summer Onyx were sold to Swiss racer turned businessman Peter Monteverdi.Lehto, marked by many as a star of the future, was paired with Gregor Foitek but financial difficulties hampered his season, leading to the team's withdrawal after the Hungarian Grand Prix (one of five events the Finn failed to qualify for – though he had been hindered by the team's poor preparation, including a driveshaft being fitted the wrong way around for several meetings, and

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 3rd in Spain before an engine failure and scoring a point in Canada (after the disqualification of Christian Fittipaldi) it was clear his injuries had not healed fully and he was replaced once again by Verstappen for the French Grand Prix. He returned to the cockpit for the Italian and Portuguese rounds in place of the suspended Schumacher but did not impress and was released entirely soon afterwards when the team signed Johnny Herbert. This freed him up to drive in the last two rounds for Sauber – Wendlinger's injuries from an accident in practice before the 1994 Monaco GP had failed to heal and his previous replacement Andrea de Cesaris was unreachable. Post-Formula One career

After his Formula One career stalled, and advised by his manager Keke Rosberg, Lehto joined the German Touring Car Championship, DTM, in 1995 and 1996. Even though rated highly, victories eluded him, but this loss was probably made up by his successes in GT and sports car racing. He was a late addition to the 1995 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a McLaren F1 GTR, but he won the race outright, at his third attempt, sharing the car with Yannick Dalmas and Masanori Sekiya. <mask> was an integral part of the win, gaining the lead for the team by driving a few stints during the rainy night.While others were driving cautiously, <mask> was seen to be sliding the car, lapping at times 30sec faster than everyone else. He had three more guest appearances in the same car the next year, winning another race, before he got picked up by BMW to join the factory squad in the inaugural FIA GT season, partnering Steve Soper. Even though success came initially easily, including a win in front of his home crowd at the Thunder In Helsinki event, the might of Mercedes-Benz caught up with the McLarens and left <mask> conceding the title to former DTM rival Bernd

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 was finally able to reap full rewards in 2004 and score his first championship success since his 1988 title in the British Formula Three, picking up six victories on the way. A disappointing second half of the 2005 season prevented him from scoring double championship success, but nonetheless he managed to end his last year in full-time racing on an impressive note when winning both the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Le Mans again.In 2006 it was announced the Solaroli team would purchase two Porsche RS Spyders to be entered in the ALMS series. One car would be driven by Lehto, partnered by Johnny Herbert. However, even though getting confirmation about the deal going through in early 2007, nothing ever materialised. Lehto did show up at the 2007 edition of the 24 Hours of Daytona to team up with Colin Braun and Max Papis in the Krohn Racing Pontiac-Riley. His first participation in the event was not a success though as the car suffered from a misfire, and after having spent a long time in the pits, finished 17th. In 2008 he made an unexpected return to the race tracks when he showed up at the Malaysian Grand Prix to drive in the Speedcar support race, taking over the No. 90 car previously vacated by Narain Karthikeyan.In 2001 <mask> joined Finnish television as an expert race commentator and remained a mainstay at MTV3's Finnish Formula One race broadcasts (and also for the pay-channel MTV3 MAX) until 2010, alongside Oskari Saari. Boating accident

On 17 June 2010, <mask> was involved in a boating accident in Ekenäs. The accident happened when the boat carrying <mask> and his friend, whose identity was not released, hit the base of a bridge in a canal. Lehto was injured and the other man was killed in the accident. <mask> had been drinking throughout the day and was heavily intoxicated at the time of the accident. In

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 January 2011, Ilta-Sanomat reported that the police investigations had concluded that no one besides Lehto could have been driving the boat at the time of the accident. <mask> faced charges of negligent homicide, reckless driving and driving under the influence.Regardless of the pending trial, Lehto made a return to sportscasting on the Finnish sports-channel UrhoTV, commentating on a DTM event. On 14 December 2011,  the District Court found <mask> guilty of drunk sailing and negligent homicide, and sentenced him to two years and four months in prison. Lehto however appealed the decision, and on 30 November 2012, the Court of Appeal cleared him of all charges relating to the accident,  finding the evidence regarding who had been driving the boat inconclusive. Racing record

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1966 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Espoo
Finnish racing drivers
British Formula Three Championship drivers
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<mask> (18 December 1921 – 22 January 1994) was a Belgian entomologist. Born at Braine l'Alleud, south Brussels, <mask> received his medical studies in France where he obtained several degrees from the University of Paris and Institut Pasteur in 1947 and 1948. In 1949 he was in the United States where he studied fungal diseases at the Harvard Medical School. Then he lived in Zaïre where he developed laboratories and was professor of histology general until 1975. He published several books and many works on Coleoptera. He had a very large collection of beetles, all accurately named. Books
 1.The Beetles of the World, volume 6. Goliathini 2 (Cetoniidae), 1985, Sciences Nat, Venette
 2. The Beetles of the World, volume 7. Goliathini 3 (Cetoniidae), 1986, Sciences Nat, Venette
 3. The Beetles of the World, volume 11. Goliathini 4 (Cetoniidae), 1991, Sciences Nat, Venette
 4. The Beetles of the World, volume 12.Cetoniini 2 (Cetoniidae), 1992 (with Jacques Rigout), Sciences Nat, Venette
 5. The Beetles of the World, volume 17. Sternotomini (Cerambycidae), 1993, Sciences Nat, Venette
 6. The Beetles of the World, volume 23. Schizorhinini 1 (Cetoniidae), 1995, Sciences Nat, Venette
 7. The Beetles of the World, volume 24. Schizorhinini 2 (Cetoniidae), 1995, Sciences Nat, Venette
 8.The Beetles of the World, volume 25. Schizorhinini 3 (Cetoniidae), 1997 (with Jacques Rigout), Hillside

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 Daedycorrhina Bates (Cetoniidae), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 68, p. 23. 1992 - Nouvelles cétoines africaines (Cetoniidae), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 74, p. 11. 1993 - Diagnoses de cétoines africaines (Cetoniidae), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 78, pp. 4–5. Antoine in 2002, Coléoptères, 8(4)
 Neptunides polychrous dedzaenensis Allard, 1991 is designed as bona species as Taurhina (Neptunides) dedzaenensis, decision by (Ph.)Antoine and (R.) Minetti in 2005, Coléoptères, 11(10)
 Neptunides polychrous fuscipennis <mask>, 1985 is designed as a subspecies of manowensis as Taurhina (Neptunides) manowensis fuscipennis, decision by (Ph.) Antoine and (R.) Minetti in 2005, Coléoptères, 11(10)
 Rhabdotis arabica <mask>, 1992 is a synonym of Rhabdotis picta (Fabricius, 1775), decision by Antoine (Ph. ), Beinhundner (G.) & Legrand (J.-Ph.) in 2003, Coléoptères, 9(22)
 Tmesorrhina latea pilosipes <mask>, 1992 is designed as bona species: Tmesorrhina pilosipes, decision by (Ph.) Antoine in 2002, Coléoptères, 8(4)
 Tmesorrhina chaminadei <mask>, 1992 is designed as a subspecies:  Tmesorrhina pilosipes chaminadei, decision by (Ph.) Antoine in 2002, Coléoptères'', 8(4)

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1994 deaths
20th-century Belgian zoologists
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<mask>, , (, Stephanie Graham Dahl; born 11 October 1943) is a Canadian investigative journalist and author. Early life and work
Stephanie (nickname, "<mask>") Graham Dahl was born in Belleville, Ontario as daughter of Harold Edward Dahl, a mercenary American pilot who fought in the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War. She has an honours B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia. She attended graduate school at University College London, England, for three years. Career
She worked for the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa in the 1960s, and taught English literature at Trent University. After a year at Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris in 1975, she began working as a food writer and in 1977, became the food editor of the Toronto Star.A year later, she moved to the Ottawa Journal as Lifestyles editor. She later became the Ottawa Citizen's Lifestyles and Travel editor. Four years later, she joined a new investigative journalism unit at the Citizen and also became a national political columnist. Personal life
<mask> lives in Toronto with her husband, <mask>, a professor at the University of Toronto. They have two daughters, who are both screenwriters. Major works
In 1986, <mask> moved to Toronto as a national columnist and reporter for The Globe and Mail, and published her first book, in 1989, called Ottawa Inside Out. In 1990 she became a host of the CBC Television public affairs program The Fifth Estate but returned to the Globe in 1991 as a freelance columnist and feature writer.Her second book, On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years, was published in 1994. The book raised questions about the ethics of former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his alleged involvement in secret commissions paid by Karlheinz Schreiber to members of the Government of Canada, and to Conservative-linked lobbyists, in exchange for then-crown corporation Air Canada's purchase of 34 Airbus jets. It was one of the first full-length works to dig into the Airbus Affair in Canada. The book also documented several other corruption scandals during the period. In 1995, <mask>

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texts: joined Maclean's magazine as a contributor for investigative stories. In 1998, she published her third book, Blue Trust,. The book profiled the bizarre life and death of Bruce Verchere, a Montreal tax lawyer and partner in the national law firm Bennett Jones LLP, who had served as private financial advisor to Mulroney, before committing suicide in late summer 1993.Verchere had left his wife, a very successful entrepreneur, for an affair with the much younger Diane Hailey, daughter of novelist Arthur Hailey, a Verchere client. Just before his suicide, Verchere had been appointed as chairman of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. The following year, she founded Elm Street, a national general-interest magazine, but continued to write investigative features for Maclean's. Three years later, she resigned from Elm Street, continuing as a columnist, in order to research and write The Last Amigo, with co-author Harvey Cashore; this 2001 book is a biography of Schreiber, along with a more detailed examination of the Airbus Affair. It won a Crime Writers of Canada award as the Best True Crime Book of the Year. She began researching the Robert Pickton murder case in British Columbia in 2002, and published her first book on the case, The Pickton File, in 2007. <mask> has completed her second book about the Pickton case, On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women, which was published by Knopf in the summer of 2010 when a publication ban on the case was lifted after an appeal to Supreme Court of Canada upheld the trial jury's guilty verdict.As well as documenting the botched police investigation that finally led to Pickton's arrest, the book contains important insights into why Pickton offered help to some of the woman he picked up as prostitutes, while brutally murdering others, and how he decided who he would kill. On the Farm was nominated for the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize and won the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for best non-fiction crime book. <mask> has also been a contributing editor to Maclean's magazine, a monthly columnist and a contributor to the Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen, the Southam News Service,

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 Saturday Night magazine, the Financial Post, Chatelaine, and Canadian Living. <mask> has lectured on journalism schools across the country, and in 2008, she spent the fall term as Irving Chair in Media at St. Thomas University's journalism school in Fredericton. In 2012, she was writing a history of Kingston Penitentiary. <mask> and the Airbus Affair
<mask> became the focus of a campaign by Brian Mulroney's defenders to discredit the allegations against him. In 2004, The Globe and Mail turned the tables on its former investigative reporter by running a series of three articles by lawyer William Kaplan, claiming that <mask> had worked as a confidential informant for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during its investigation of the Airbus Affair.<mask> vigorously denied the allegations, which, if true, would have compromised her credibility as a journalist. In his 2004 book A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney, <mask> and the Public Trust, Kaplan outlined evidence that illustrated the RCMP's perception of <mask> as a confidential RCMP informant. But in the spring of 2005 (in testimony in the Eurocopter trial, held in Toronto before Judge Edward Then), Chief Superintendent Al Matthews, the RCMP officer in charge of the Airbus investigation, recanted almost all of the allegations against <mask> contained in a search warrant that had been relied upon by Kaplan. Matthews admitted that <mask> had very few contacts with the RCMP, contradicting assertions he'd made in court that she had possessed several hundred. He also admitted that <mask> was telling the truth when she said any information she had shared with the RCMP was already in the public domain, and that the information she shared was of little help to their investigation. On 14 February 2007, <mask> appeared before the House of Commons of Canada Ethics Committee in their examination of the Mulroney Airbus Settlement. She confirmed that everything she knows on the subject had been documented in her books.<mask> also made a personal statement that she was not a police informant; any information she had given to the RCMP was already in the public domain at the time. <mask> was subpoenaed by the

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 Oliphant Commission as a potential witness for the public inquiry called by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in early 2008, under terms defined by David Lloyd Johnston. Ultimately, <mask> was not called as a witness when the inquiry, chaired by Justice Jeffrey Oliphant (former Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Manitoba) got going in Ottawa. Ultimately, it was conclusively demonstrated by the Oliphant Inquiry that Mulroney had received at least $225,000 from Schreiber, in three equal instalments, in cash, paid in thousand-dollar bills, shortly after leaving office in mid-1993. Two of these cash-transfer meetings took place in Montreal, while the third occurred at the luxury Pierre Hotel in New York City. Mulroney had earlier denied any business dealings whatsoever with Schreiber, and had denied receiving any money from him, as a response to questions during his lawsuit testimony given in 1996 in Montreal. Mulroney had delayed paying income tax on this money until several years after he received it.Humanitarian work
<mask> serves on the board of Second Harvest in Toronto as well as on the board of Portland Place, an assisted housing project for homeless and underhoused people. In 1991 she helped found an Out of the Cold program for the homeless at her church, St. Andrew's, in downtown Toronto, and has worked with many churches across Canada to set up similar programs. In 2004, she received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the Vancouver School of Theology, in part for her work with the homeless. In recognition of more than two-decades of humanitarian work and social activism, <mask> was awarded the Order of Canada in December 2012. Her citation reads: "For her achievements in investigative journalism and for her volunteer work on behalf of the disadvantaged." Bibliography

Non-fiction
 Ottawa Inside Out (1989)
 On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years (1994)
 Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, His Wife and Her Money (1998)
 The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal (2001) (with Harvey Cashore). The Pickton File (2007) Knopf Canada.On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic

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 Story of Vancouver's Missing Women (2010)

Awards
 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for On The Farm, Best Crime Non-Fiction Book of the Year
 2008 Irving Chair in Media, St. Thomas University, September–November 2008
 2004 Honorary Doctorate of Divinity and convocation speaker, Vancouver School of Theology at UBC, for journalism and work with the homeless, Vancouver (3 May 2004)
 2003 Honorary Diploma & Commencement speaker, Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology, Belleville, June 2003, for journalism and community work
 2003 City of Toronto Community Service Award for work with the homeless
 2002 Arthur Ellis Award (Crime Writers' of Canada) for The Last Amigo, Best Crime Non-Fiction Book of the Year (with Harvey Cashore)
 1998 Business Book of the Year Merit Award for Blue Trust
 1998 Windsor Press Club: Golden Quill Award for journalism
 1995 Periodical Marketers’ Awards: Book of the Year & Author of the Year, for On the Take
 1988 Centre for Investigative Journalism Award honorable mention for a 1987 story in The Globe and Mail about the amounts the PC Canada fund paid for decorating the prime minister's residence. References

External links
 Regret the Error: <mask> corrects The Globe Text of <mask>'s letter to the editor responding to the Globe'''s allegations that she was an RCMP informant. 2003 article in the '"Catholic New Times profiling <mask>'s work on the issue of homelessness. <mask> official Twitter page
 Author interview, online from CBC Words at Large
 <mask> online interview with THECOMMENTARY.CA, June 2007

1943 births
Living people
Canadian newspaper journalists
Canadian Presbyterians
University of British Columbia alumni
Canadian television journalists
Canadian magazine journalists
Journalists from Ontario
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Canadian women television journalists
Canadian investigative journalists
Canadian political journalists
20th-century Canadian journalists
21st-century Canadian journalists
20th-century Canadian women writers
Centre for Investigative Journalism Award winners
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<mask> (born April 19, 1972) is an American philosopher, writer, and human rights activist whose work concerns secularism, religion, freedom of expression, and freedom of conscience. He is the author of The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life, The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights, and a 2006 New York Times op-ed entitled "Believing in Doubt," which criticized the ethical views of Pope Benedict. He is a representative to the United Nations for the International Humanist and Ethical Union and the creator and director of The Impossible Music Sessions. Life and career

<mask> was raised in the rural Midwest by liberal Catholics. His father <mask> is a poet. As a young teenager, <mask> became an evangelical Protestant, playing in the Christian alternative rock band, The Swoon, which in 1990 released an EP produced by Charlie Peacock. While studying music and philosophy at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, <mask> lost his religion, explaining later that "God stopped returning my calls."He studied applied ethics and social philosophy at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and was awarded a doctorate in 2002. In 2005, he debated Christian philosopher William Lane Craig over the existence of God. Beginning in 1999, <mask> worked for the Center for Inquiry (CFI), a think tank that seeks "to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values." He opened the New York City branch office of CFI and later served as the organization's representative to the United Nations. In 2009, <mask> left CFI and published a critique of the secular movement. In 2010, he created The Impossible Music Sessions, a forum in New York City for censored and persecuted musicians. He has taught ethics at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.Secularism

<mask> has defended a form

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 of secularism emphasizing the values of "individual autonomy, equal rights and freedom of conscience." Religion News Service dubbed him a member of Atheism 3.0, a designation he contests. He claims that secularism is not atheistic, but instead that it comes "before God." Aspects of <mask>'s position have been embraced by religious thinkers such as Richard John Neuhaus, Andrew Sullivan, and Rabbi Marc Gellman as well as secular figures such as Sam Harris, Susan Jacoby, Ibn Warraq, and Peter Singer. Theory of conscience

In The Secular Conscience, <mask> argues that contemporary secular liberalism has "lost its soul" due to misconceptions he labels the Privacy Fallacy and the Liberty Fallacy. The Privacy Fallacy lies in thinking that "because matters of conscience are private in the sense of nongovernmental, they are private in the sense of personal preference." The Liberty Fallacy lies in thinking that "because conscience must be free from coercion, its moral conclusions must also be free from public criticism."This confused thinking, according to <mask>, leads to "the conclusion that controversial religious and moral claims are beyond evaluation by reason, truth and objective standards of right and wrong, and should therefore be precluded from public conversation." In place of the "privacy of conscience," <mask> defends a model of the "openness of conscience," comparing conscience to a free press. It is to be protected from coercion so that it can be free to play an important role in the public sphere and free to follow its own objective standards. Reasons of conscience are by their nature shareable, not subjective. <mask> uses the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac to illustrate the thesis that "any act of faith depends on a prior act of conscience." Politics of conscience

By precluding conscience from public debate, secular liberals had hoped to prevent believers from

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 introducing sectarian beliefs into politics. Instead, the "gag order" has prevented secular liberals from subjecting religious claims to "due public scrutiny" and from advancing their own views in robustly moral terms, granting a "monopoly on the language of ethics and values"  to the religious on the Right and the Left.<mask> argues that claims of conscience—including religious claims—cannot be barred from public debate, but that they can and must be held to the same critical conversational standards as all serious contributions to public debate. While advocating the separation of religion and state, <mask> has suggested that political institutions should be designed to protect the exercise of conscience, not religion as such. In "Against Religious Freedom", a 2010 article in Dissent co-authored with Colin Koproske, he argues that religious freedom should be regarded as "one manifestation of more fundamental rights held by all people, religious and secular alike: private property, personal autonomy, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and perhaps most important, freedom of conscience." Secularism and Islam

Criticizing the failure of some on the Left in the West to support secular liberal forces in the Arab and Muslim world, <mask> has stressed the importance of religious rationales for secularism. He has analogized religious minorities in Muslim-majority countries to dissident Protestant sects such as the Anabaptists who constructed theological arguments for toleration and church-state separation in early modern Europe. <mask> was a lead organizer of the Secular Islam Summit in March 2007, described by the Wall Street Journal as "a landmark." The conference issued the St. Petersburg Declaration, a statement of principles endorsed by Mithal al-Alusi, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Shahriar Kabir among others.Reviewing The Secular Conscience for Asharq Al-Awsat, Amir Taheri wrote,

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 "[m]aking this book available in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and other languages of the Muslim nations would be an immense service." Human rights

As a representative of civil society organizations at the United Nations, <mask> has participated in lobbying at Human Rights Council in Geneva. to oppose efforts by some member states to diminish international standards of freedom of expression out of "respect for religions and beliefs." "The ultimate aim of this effort is not to protect the feelings of Muslims," <mask> has commented, "but to protect illiberal Islamic states from charges of human rights abuse, and to silence the voices of internal dissidents calling for more secular government and freedom." In defending a universal human right to blaspheme, <mask> has emphasized that it is a matter of freedom of conscience as much as just freedom of speech. In The Future of Blasphemy, <mask> contends that debates in the international community about religiously offensive expression should be understood as "contests over what counts as sacred" in which unbelievers and heterodox believers reserve a right of conscience to express their views. In September 2008, <mask> co-authored the CFI report, Islam and Human Rights: Defending Universality at the United Nations, which puts these efforts in the context of a campaign by the intergovernmental Organization of the Islamic Conference to promulgate culturally specific "Islamic human rights."<mask> also authored a CFI position paper accusing the UN Alliance of Civilizations of neglecting secular perspectives and perpetuating the "problematic division of the social world by religion" for which the "clash of civilizations" thesis is often faulted. There is a "clash of values" but it is taking place "within societies and cultures, not only between them." Freedom of music

In March 2010, <mask> launched The Impossible Music Sessions, a forum in Brooklyn

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 that features "artists who cannot appear and the music they are not free to make." Featured artists join via Internet streaming or phone as a counterpart with whom they have collaborated in advance performs a live interpretation of their music. Mark LeVine wrote in the Huffington Post that the first Impossible Music Session "will go down in the annals of rock history." The Sessions are produced in cooperation with Freemuse: The World Forum on Music and Censorship. In an interview, <mask> commented, "Ironically, in the Internet age, the live performance has become even more important.The thing that's frustrating for these groups is that while they can record on their Macbook in their basement and share the music with their friends, the government and other powerful forces in society—they control the public spaces. . . . there's something magical about standing in front of people and playing." Since 2010, the Sessions have facilitated collaborations between musicians in North America and musicians in Iran, Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, and Cuba. <mask> told the Wall Street Journal that the purpose is to "crosspollinate musically" and "banish isolation." Science and culture

From his early work with the Center for Inquiry, <mask> has been interested in the cultural implications of science. In 2004 he argued in Skeptical Inquirer that "science is making us more ignorant" by unsettling received cultural understandings of the self, meaning, and morality without replacing them with coherent alternatives. In a column for Skeptical Inquirer, <mask> explores the significance of the "culture of science" in Islamic, Chinese, and Indian cultural contexts. <mask> coined the term "accommodationism" to describe those "who either recognize no conflicts between religion and science, or who recognize such conflicts but are disinclined to discuss them publicly," a usage which has been adopted in blogosphere


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 debates about creationism and the New Atheism.A sympathetic critic of organized transhumanism, <mask> is an advocate of culturing meat as an ethical alternative to using animals for meat. Controversy

In a 2004 article for Free Inquiry magazine, "Atheism is Not a Civil Rights Issue," <mask> and co-author DJ Grothe criticized comparisons between the atheist cause in the United States and the causes of civil rights and LGBT rights, concluding that atheists "need a public awareness campaign, not a liberation movement." The article was attacked by humanists and the atheist blogger PZ Myers. The Secular Islam Summit was criticized by representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations as being organized by non-Muslims and "neo-cons" with no standing in Islam. The Guardian compared <mask> to the British conservative author Melanie Phillips and associated him with the idea that "our civilization depends on the freedom to publish racist cartoons." The New York Times questioned whether <mask> has fairly characterized secular liberalism, and commented that many people "will balk at his plea that liberalism place 'global resistance to theocratic Islam at the center of its agenda,' much the way a generation of cold-war liberals once mobilized around anti-Communism. References

External links
AustinDacey.com – Official website
The Impossible Music Sessions
The Ethical Ear
Religion Dispatches Author page
Cirumnavigations column at Skeptical Inquirer Author page
Grit TV with Laura Flanders Interview with <mask>
A Forum for Impossible Music WNYC Interview with <mask>
Moral Values After Darwin Podcast interview
The U.N. and Defamation of Religions Podcast interview
Music You’re Not Supposed to Hear National Public Radio All Things Considered

1972 births
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American human rights activists
American skeptics
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<mask> (June 1, 1828July 6, 1901) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. Educated as an artist, <mask> subsequently converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a war correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer. For a time, he also served as United States consul in Rome, and afterward in Crete during the Cretan insurrections. He helped to train the young Arthur Evans as a war correspondent in the Balkans, and remained a lifelong friend and confidant of Evans. Later in life, he seriously considered taking over the excavation at Knossos from Minos Kalokairinos, who had been stopped from further excavation by the Cretan Assembly; he was, however, prevented from pursuing that goal further by a failure to obtain a firman, or permission to excavate. Stillman wrote several books, one of which, his Autobiography of a Journalist, suggests that he viewed himself primarily as a writer. Biography
<mask> was born in Schenectady, New York in 1828.His parents were Seventh Day Baptists, and his early religious training influenced him throughout his life. He was sent to school in New York by his mother, who made great sacrifices so that he might get an education, and he graduated from Union College of Schenectady in 1848. Deciding at that time to pursue a career in art, he was one of the first students of the eminent Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church, then fresh from his own studies with Thomas Cole and setting out on a career that would see him become the most famous (and financially successful) artist in America. Stillman had a contentious relationship with Church but picked up skills in the art of oil on canvas that would serve him well in the small but accomplished

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Recent critics such as Andrew Szegedy-Maszak (in Antiquity and Photography, Getty Museum, 2005) have argued that <mask>'s photography, especially an album of views of the Athenian Acropolis, displayed an artistic sensibility and a genius of a higher order than the rest of his work. The first series was photographed in 1869 and privately published in 1870; Stillman rephotographed the Acropolis in 1882 and subsequently reordered the combined series in a second album. Stillman's photographs, in their daring perspectives, in their creative synthesis (inspired by Ruskinian ideas) of aesthetic feeling and a scientific/scholarly perspective on architectural form, and in their incorporation of the Greek landscape and the modern Greek context of ancient ruins, show a startlingly modern sensibility for their time, a way of seeing utterly different from the commercial photography of contemporary Greeks and foreigners, whose representations tended to cater to the set expectations of the foreign philhellenic and touristic market. References

Further reading
Dyson, Stephen L. The Last Amateur: The Life of <mask><mask> (SUNY Press, 2014)
Stillman, <mask>.Autobiography of a Journalist (2 vols, Boston, 1901). External links

 <mask>, <mask>: The Autobiography of a Journalist. v1. 19 Sep 07 – MobileRead Forums at www.mobileread.com FREE Sony Reader e-book version of Autobiography of a Journalist

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19th-century American painters
19th-century male artists
American male painters
Writers from Schenectady, New York
Union College (New York) alumni
Burials at Brookwood

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