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<mask> (born <mask>; September 11, 1935 – July 10, 1991) was an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known as one of the stars and co-writers of the 1967 musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. On June 18, 2009, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Early life
Born <mask> in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was one of ten children in a low-income Italian-American family. He attended suburban Scott Township High School, where he appeared in various school productions. He attended Georgetown University and The Catholic University of America. At Catholic, he discovered an interest in theater, and began studying acting with Philip Burton. <mask> made his acting debut in Washington, D.C. in 1954, playing Father Corr in Shadow and Substance.He continued to act whenever he could find work. In 1963, he appeared in the New York production of War at the Village South Theatre, for which he won the Barter Theatre Award for Outstanding Actor. Career
In 1954, <mask> made his professional stage debut in a Washington D.C. production, Shadow and Substance. In 1964, <mask> was an understudy for the role of Horatio at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in the Broadway production of Hamlet starring Richard Burton. He then appeared as the Messenger (uncredited) in Richard Burton's Hamlet, the film version of the production, released by Warner Bros. in 1964. That same year, he made his first Off-Broadway appearance in the anti-capital punishment musical Hang Down Your Head and Die. Though it played only one night in New York, Hang Down Your Head and Die was a success in London.It was first produced in the UK by the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club in 1964; two cast members and writers were students Terry Jones and Michael Palin. It moved from Oxford to the Comedy Theatre in the West End, was well-received and ran six weeks. at the Mayfair Theatre with James Rado, a fellow actor and friend

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 who was studying with Lee Strasberg. The musical had one performance. In a 2008 interview with The Advocate, Rado said that he and <mask> had been lovers, and described himself as omnisexual. In 1965, he performed in the role of Tom in The Knack, the play that opened at the New Theatre, and later appeared in the touring company along with Rado. During the show's Chicago run at the Harper Theater, Rado and <mask> tried to revive Hang Down Your Head and Die with what they could remember from the script.They also planned to introduce new material in collaboration with Corky Siegel and Jim Schwall, of the Siegel-Schwall Band, whom they met playing in a beatnik coffee house off the Harper Street strip. They spent time writing ideas for the production, which was to be performed by Rado, <mask>, Schwall, and Siegel in a house on the South Side of Chicago and an apartment on Stony Island Avenue. Rado and <mask> rented the Harper Theatre to put on the production. After two weeks of working on the production, The Knack company went back to New York and <mask> and Rado had to abandon their plans to revive Hang Down Your Head and Die with Siegel and Schwall. Hair

<mask> had been involved with The Open Theater since it was begun as part of the Living Theatre in 1962. In 1966, Open Theatre began rehearsals for the Megan Terry play Viet Rock. <mask> took a leading role in the show, which opened at the Martinique Theatre in New York and had a successful run.Viet Rock and experimental theatre inspired <mask> to work with Rado on a musical about hippie culture. As research, they associated with a group of youths in the East Village who were dropping out and dodging the draft. They talked to people in the streets and people they knew, and read articles about hippie culture and youths being kicked out of school for growing their hair long. They wrote lyrics to thirteen songs ("Ain't Got No", "I Got Life", "Reading

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texts: and Writing", "Don't Put It Down", "Sodomy", "Colored Spade", "Manchester, England", "Frank Mills", "We Look at One Another", "Hair", "Aquarius", "Easy to Be Hard", "Good Morning Starshine" and "Where Do I Go? "), and completed the first version of their musical, called Hair. Two of the thirteen songs were removed, many songs were revised, titles were changed, and more songs were written as they continued to work on the show. Once they had a complete draft of the musical that they liked, <mask> and Rado brought the show to producer Nat Shapiro for consideration.He responded to the songs by asking, "Where's the music?" Shapiro introduced <mask> and Rado to composer Galt MacDermot, who took the script and returned three weeks later with music for the songs <mask> and Rado had written. Their agent, Janet Roberts, tried to sell the show to Broadway producers, but it was rejected. Joseph Papp, of the New York Shakespeare Festival, called to say he wanted to produce it at his new theatre on Lafayette Street. Gerald Freedman was artistic director for the theater and signed on to direct the first production of Hair. On October 29, 1967, Hair opened at The Public Theater with <mask> as Berger, MacDermot as a cop who busts the show at the end of the first act, and Rado as Claude. Michael Butler attended the opening night and subsequent performances, and was dissatisfied when Rado did not regularly play Claude, as he felt Rado had a natural affinity for the part.Butler became interested in moving the show to Broadway. He bought the rights from Papp for $50,000 and began planning a grander production directed by Tom O'Horgan, who <mask> knew from off-Broadway. In the meantime, the show moved to a nightclub in Midtown, called Cheetah, where it had a month-long run. When O'Horgan signed on, the show hired choreographer Julie Arenal, assistant to Anna Sokolow, who had choreographed the Public Theater run. On

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 of Rado and <mask>.They did not appear in the 1979 film version of Hair, which was directed by Miloš Forman and starring Treat Williams as Berger. Neither Rado and <mask> approved of the film, although it was well-received by the public. Dude

<mask> had been working on a musical called Dude (The Highway Life) ever since Hair had opened. He had bulging notebooks filled with scribbles of dialogue and lyrics written in between meals at Max's Kansas City. Combined with it was a 2,000-page script. He wrote the music to 50 of the songs in the show. Producing the musical would entail having "the interior of the [theater] scooped out and turned into a free-wheeling environmental theater in the round representing heaven and hell.""At the first run through, the stage, filled with two tons of top soil, filthied the actors and dumped dirt on everybody sitting in the first ten rows. People sneezed from the dust fumes; clouds of dirt rose into the air, making it difficult to see." The 2,000 pages were cut down to 200, a second act was written, more songs were added, and although in a constant state of change and plagued with backstage problems the show opened at The Broadway Theatre in October 1972. It was produced by Peter and Adela Holzer and starred Nell Carter, Rae Allen, Salome Bey, Ralph Carter, William Redfield, Nat Morris, and Allan Nicholls, and closed after 16 performances. Before the opening, MacDermot's label Kilmarnock Records released an album of songs from the show sung by Salome Bey. Post-Dude
In 1977 <mask> and Rado collaborated with Steve Margoshes on a new show called Jack Sound and His Dog Star Blowing His Final Trumpet on the Day of Doom, produced off-Broadway by the Ensemble Studio Theatre. It played a short run alongside an ill-fated Broadway revival of Hair that ran for forty-three performances and starred <mask> and Rado as the bogus cops who bust the show.In the 1970s <mask>, Rado,

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 MacDermot, and Margoshes collaborated on a new musical called Sun, also called YMCA, which ultimately was not produced. It was a "60-song, three-hour musical about 'evolution, with an Odyssey plot'"; "an environmental musical about politics, pollution and the rain forests being cut down among other topics". Sun had been in development since the mid-1970s and an early version was staged for backers in 1976, directed by John Vaccaro of Theatre of the Ridiculous fame, with appearances by Ruby Lynn Reyner, Annie-Joe Edwards and Ellen Foley. "Rado told New York Magazine that 'YMCA will do to the seventies what HAIR did to the sixties,' but the 1976 version never made it past rehearsals". A three-disc cast recording was made after a performance at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall by independent company Rado Records. Revision of Rado's musical Rainbow Rainbeam Radio Roadshow: The Ghost of Vietnam (also known as Billy Earth: The New Rainbow and The White Haunted House: American Soldier) was also undertaken. Death

<mask> died of cancer in New York, age 56.At the time of his death he and Rado were working on a sequel to Hair. He is interred in the Holy Souls Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. Personal life

On May 18, 1963, he married his longtime girlfriend Stephanie Williams. They have a son named Erick. References

External links
Collection of articles on Gerome Ragni

Gerome Ragni papers, 1952-1984, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dude Articles Index. Male actors from Pittsburgh
Songwriters from Pennsylvania
Bisexual men
Bisexual writers
Grammy Award winners
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<mask> (14 July 1876 – 20 October 1960) (Pseudonyms <mask>, and Israel Fryman) was a leading publisher of antisemitic books and news articles reporting on a perceived Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory and "nefarious plots" by clandestine Jewish interests to dominate the world. Early life

<mask> was born in Thamsbrück, Bad Langensalza, Germany, the son of a Lutheran deacon. His career was at first grounded in the Imperial German Army where by 1918 <mask> rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and regimental commander of a field artillery unit in Colmar. After suffering serious wounds, <mask> retired from military service and received a government pension, although he continued to serve for some time as chairman of the National Federation of German Officers (Nationalverbandes Deutscher Offiziere). After the army, <mask> sought out something else to do full-time. The draw of the public policy arena attracted him. In the aftermath of the defeat of the German and Austria-Hungarian empires, a number of new political parties emerged, many arguing for pan-Germanism.Fleischhauer joined the German National People's Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei, or DNVP) and was a representative of the far right wing. Intellectually, <mask> was a disciple of Theodor Fritsch and through their common Völkisch movement circles he also developed friendships with a number of other revolutionary nationalists in secretive Aryan organizations such as the Thule Society. Fleischhauer was especially close to poet and political activist Dietrich Eckart, an early backer of Adolf Hitler. Entry into

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These connections led <mask> to create an anti-Jewish publishing firm called U. Bodung-Verlag in Erfurt, Germany that over time became increasingly powerful. Its rise in influence corresponded with the popular successes of National Socialism during the later Weimar period, leading up to the establishment of the Third Reich. On 1 December 1933, he founded Welt-Dienst or Weltdienst (World-Service, Service Mondial etc.) which served as an international antisemitic news agency and journalistic source for numerous other publications.For a nominal fee, subscribers to Welt-Diensts twice monthly series of mimeographed information sheets received summaries of news stories and other developments worldwide which tended to discredit anyone and anything linked to Judaism and Jewish Bolshevism. Controversial Berne Trial expands <mask>'s influence

<mask>'s influence grew in 1934–1935 following his participation in Switzerland as a key defense organizer at the Berne Trial of distributors of the book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This notorious title had re-entered the headlines in June 1933 when a Swiss organization known as the Nationale Front began distributing it during a right wing demonstration. In 1934, Dr. Alfred Zander, a Swiss Nazi, further inflamed public opinion by publishing a series of articles accepting The Protocols''' description of a Jewish plot to take over the world as fact. Outraged, a group of leading Swiss Jews filed a lawsuit in the Amtsgericht (district court) of Bern on 29 October 1934 to censor The Protocols as "indecent writings"

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texts: under a Bernese statute prohibiting the distribution of "immoral, obscene or brutalizing" texts. The plaintiffs were represented by Georges Brunschvig and Emil Raas. Vladimir Burtsev, a Russian émigré, anti-Bolshevik and anti-Fascist who exposed numerous Okhrana agent provocateurs in the early 1900s, served as a witness for the plaintiffs at the Berne Trial.Subsequently, while in Paris Burtsev published a Russian-language book in 1938 based on his testimony called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A proven forgery.Welt-Dienst entered the picture by spearheading efforts to secure other Russian émigré experts as part of the effort to defend the veracity of The Protocols. Defense testimony presented personally in court was limited, with Zander turning up as the only witness for the defendants. However, <mask> helped coordinate efforts by other defense experts and himself provided media with extensive commentary and written material in support of the defendants (Theodore Fischer and Silvio Schnell), with Bodung-Verlag issuing a comprehensive German-language version of his The real Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Expert's report. Despite these exertions, on 19 May 1935, the court declared The Protocols to be forgeries, plagiarisms, and obscene literature. The Judge Walter Meyer, a Christian who had not heard of The Protocols prior to the trial, said in conclusion: "I hope the time will come when nobody will be able to understand how in 1935 nearly a dozen sane and responsible men were able for two weeks to mock the intellect of the Bern court discussing the


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 authenticity of the so-called Protocols, the very Protocols that, harmful as they have been and will be, are nothing but laughable nonsense". However, on 1 November 1937, the defendants appealed the verdict to the Obergericht (Cantonal Supreme Court) of Berne.A panel of three judges acquitted them, holding that The Protocols, while false, did not violate the statute at issue because they were used as a means of political propaganda. The presiding judge's opinion stated, for the record, that in his opinion the forgery of The Protocols was not in question and expressed regret that the law did not provide adequate protection for Jews from this sort of literature. The court also imposed the fees for both trials on the defendants. This decision gave grounds for later allegations that the appeal court "confirmed the authenticity of The Protocols", which is opposite to the facts—even though technically the pro-Nazi side won the case. A definitive scholarly work on the trial is a 139-page monograph by Swiss artist Urs Lüthi. Other especially important scholarly work on the controversy continues to be published by researcher Michael Hagemeister. Worldwide propaganda

The excitement engendered by his appearance at the trial was a boon to Fleischhauer.By the mid-1930s, the Welt-Dienst emerged as the largest antisemitic operation in the world, publishing works in many foreign languages, and the nearest fascist equivalent to the rival communist Third International (Comintern). <mask> credited a conversation he had years earlier with Eckart with sparking the original idea. In


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 William Dudley Pelley frequently printed World-Service articles in his Silver Legion of America magazine, Liberation, advocating a "purge of Jews and Communists in Hollywood". Other American publications, including Father Charles Coughlin's Social Justice, Robert Edward Edmondson's  American Vigilante Bulletins, and those issued by the Rev. Gerald Burton Winrod, were equally willing to push the World-Service line on the Jewish question via word-for-word syndicated reproduction of news items appearing in their periodicals. When it suited his purposes, Fleischhauer published Jewish authors such as Marcus Eli Ravage, a Romanian emigrant to the United States. Host of international antisemitic congresses
During the 1930s, <mask> further expanded his propaganda efforts by organizing the Pan-Aryan Anti-Jewish Union and a series of international antisemitic congresses to actively push for the suppression of Freemasonry, combat the alleged "Jewish conspiracy for world domination," and encourage the geopolitical depopulation of Jews from within Europe through mandatory resettlement in southern Africa as was envisioned by the Nazi-promoted Madagascar Plan. Typical of this rhetoric were the views expressed by a Japanese representative to the Welt-Dienst congress hosted in 1938 by Fleischhauer.On behalf of Imperial Japan, he stated that "Judeo-Masonry is forcing the Chinese to turn China into a spearhead for an attack on Japan, and thereby forcing Japan to defend herself against this threat. Japan is at war not with China but with Freemasonry, represented by General Chiang


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 Kai-shek, the successor of his master, the Freemason Sun Yat-Sen". <mask> superseded at Welt-Dienst
For many years <mask> and his activities at Welt-Dienst took place with the approval of the Nazi regime. As was the case with a number of similar organizations and their leaders, he received secret direct financing from the German government. From 1933-37 this funding came from Joseph Goebbels' Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. After a shakeup in lines of authority, by 1938 the responsibility for international antisemitism was shifted to the Foreign Affairs Office of the Nazi Party (Aussenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP, shortened to APA). This was one of several agencies within the vast Amt Rosenberg (Rosenberg Bureau or Rosenberg Office), the  collective term for the various agencies controlled by Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg.However, <mask>'s personal role at Welt-Dienst declined as Germany neared the start of World War II. Researcher Carmen Callil reports that Fleischhauer's political radicalism was beginning to hurt the Third Reich's international image. By 1938, she writes, "Hitler was advised that Fleischhauer was placing Germany in embarrassing positions abroad, as he was the kind of ‘anti-Semite who pretends to see a threatening Jew behind every street corner of the world and who tries to deal with the matter in a psychosis of fear and secretiveness’." In late July 1939, August Schirmer, an Amt Rosenberg functionary who had headed the "American Section" of Welt-Dienst, took over publication of the periodical and its related operations. This


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 change was connected with a relocation of Welt-Diensts editorial offices to Frankfurt am Main as part of a more formal reorganization of all anti-Jewish research establishments under Rosenberg's control, culminating in 1941 with the establishment of the Institut der NSDAP zur Erforschung der Judenfrage (Institute of the National Socialist German Workers Party for Research Into the Jewish Question). <mask> was largely cut out of the publishing empire he founded. In fact, in 1941 he was living in the cellar of his home in Erfurt, running only a "tiny rump" version of the organizations he created as the focus of his life's work .The Welt-Dienst organization on the other hand continued for a time to prosper. By its high point in August 1943 Welt-Dienst was published in 18 languages. At that time, Schirmer stepped down and was replaced by an individual named Kurt Richter, who in addition to being the new publisher was also director of an "International Institute for the Enlightenment of the Jewish Question". As the war turned against Nazi Germany, Welt-Dienst continued with diminished distribution until finally ending all publication operations early in 1945. After the War
During the post-war occupation, <mask> underwent denazification in a series of American internment camps and hospitals where he was held from 1945–46. Upon his release in 1947, <mask> even issued a written statement in which he denied any Nazi or fanatical antisemitic views. After this <mask> retired from public life and lived quietly until his death on 20 October 1960 in Giengen.See also
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Chronology
 1 December 1933 - 15 June 1939, World-Service (Erfurt: Bondung-Verlag) edited and headed by its founder, <mask>uer. beginning 1 July 1939 - 1 September 1943, World-Service (Frankfurt am Main: Welt-Dienst-Verlag) edited and headed by August Schirmer. from 15 September 1943 - January 1945 [end of publication], World-Service (Frankfurt am Main: Welt-Dienst-Verlag) under the direction of Kurt Richter. References

Bibliography
 Louis W. Bondy. Racketeers of hatred. Julius Streicher and the Jew-baiters' international. London: Newman Wolsey, 1946.Vladimir Burtsev. «Протоколы Сионских мудрецов» - доказанный подлог. (The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A proven forgery). Paris: 1938. Republished by Слово, 1991. Carmen Callil. Bad faith: A forgotten history of family, fatherland and Vichy France.London: Jonathan Cape, 2006; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006; New York: Vintage Books, 2007. John Roy Carlson [pseud. of Aredis Derounian]. Under cover: My four years in the Nazi underworld of America — The amazing revelation of how Axis agents and our enemies within are now plotting to destroy the United States. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943. <mask>. Die echten Protokolle der Weisen von Zion; Sachverständigengutachten erstattet im Auftrage des Richteramtes V in Bern von <mask> (The real Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.Expert's report, reported by Order of the Judicial Office V in Bern by <mask>). Erfurt, Germany: U. Bodung-Verlag,

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 1935. Michael Hagemeister. "Russian émigrés in the Bern Trial of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' (1933–1935)," Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian Notebooks, Vol. 5 (2009), pages 375–391. Michael Hagemeister. "The 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' in court: The Bern trials 1933-1937," in Webman, Esther (ed.), The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion - A century-old myth, London and New York: Routledge, 2011, pages 241-253. Ion Motza. Corrispondenza col "Welt-Dienst" (1934–1936) (Correspondence with the "World-Service" (1934–1936). Parma, Italy: All'insegna del Veltro, 1996. Papers of the Weltdienst and the Bern Trial re the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 1930-1972. MF Doc 54/ Reel 20. London: The Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History.Eckart Schörle. "Internationale der Antisemiten. <mask> und der Welt-Dienst". WerkstattGeschichte, Vol. 51 (2009), pages 57–72. Robert C. Williams. "Tödtli - A Berne defender of the "Protocols".Wiener Library Bulletin'', Vol. XXIII, Nos. 2 & 3, New Series Nos. 15 & 16 (1969), pages 67–70. External links
Collection of many links related to the Berne Process (German)
 Gerichts-Gutachten zum Berner Prozess. Die echten "Protokolle der Weisen von Zion" by <mask> at Archive.org German. Expert´s report authored by <mask> for the Berne Process, defending the authenticity of the Protocols

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texts: <mask> (12 March 1875 – 4 September 1961) was a Liberian politician who served as the 17th president of Liberia from 1920 to 1930. He was of Americo-Liberian and Krio descent. He was a member of the True Whig Party, which ruled the country from 1878 until 1980. <mask> was Attorney General from 1904 until 1912, and Secretary of State of Liberia from 1912 until he was elected president in 1919. In this capacity, he attended the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and the accompanying First Pan-African Congress. Though a moderate supporter of reform, he continued to support the patronage machine and corrupt dominance of the True Whig Party. President <mask>’s administration was marked with scandal.<mask>. B<mask>, was the first president of Liberia and one of the few presidents in the world to freely give out power of an elected office, to which the United States expressed concern. His economic agenda and development plan constantly fell short of expectations, although literacy rates increased steadily in regards to wider access to public education. He failed to prevent Liberia from political unrest, and often fought sporadically with his neighbors. This hindered any real growth for the newly established nation. In 1927, he won the presidential election with over 15 times more votes than there were electors, causing concern for a rigged and corrupt election, but a forced labor and slavery scandal forced his resignation in 1930. <mask> resigned in disgrace and retired from seeking higher office thereafter until his death.His presidency was marked by extreme corruption, nepotism for the hiring of officials rather than by skill, and a lack of transparency regarding the decisions his administration was making regarding the welfare of the people and utilization of slave labor. Presidency

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<mask> became Liberia's President in 1920 and served for 10 years. Though a moderate supporter of reform, he continued to support the patronage machine and dominance of the True Whig Party. As president, he helped establish the Booker Washington Agricultural and Industrial Institute in Kakata in 1929. Negotiation of a loan from the United States

By the early 1920s, Liberia's financial crisis had worsened to the point where President <mask> headed up a commission which traveled to the United States to seek reorganization of its staggering debt burden. They arrived in March 1921, shortly after President Harding had taken office. The United States Congress had suspended all foreign credit and extension of foreign loans, even though the State Department was sympathetic to the request from the Liberian delegation.Negotiations dragged on until October before the State Department finally granted Liberia a loan for $5 million. The United States government under President Harding proposed anew (after an attempt made during World War I from Liberian President Howard to get a loan from the previous Woodrow Wilson Administration) to Congress a $5 million loan to Liberia. The House gave its approval but the Senate refused, creating great disappointment and a sense of desperation among Liberian officials, who worried that British and French designs on their country might now prove unstoppable. Liberia had become a charter member of the League of Nations in 1919, and Monrovia was determined to safeguard its sovereignty. Firestone Rubber Company
Firestone Rubber Company began exporting rubber from Liberia in 1934, having obtained a concession to lease land in 1926. The Liberian economy soon came to depend on it. Through subsidiary Finance Corporation of America, Firestone also boosted

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 the Liberian economy with a $5 million loan that permitted the government to consolidate and bond debts and fund public improvements.Presidential election of 1927

King was stiffly challenged in the presidential election of 1927 by Thomas Faulkner. According to an official statement, King received 234,000 votes; however, Liberia only had 15,000 registered voters at the time. Thus, <mask> earned the dubious achievement of being listed in the Guinness Book of Records for the most fraudulent election reported in history. Forced labor and slavery scandal
After losing the 1927 presidential election to King, Thomas Faulkner accused many members of the True Whig Party government of recruiting and selling contract labor as slaves. Despite Liberia's firm denials and a refusal to cooperate, the League of Nations established a commission under the leadership of British zoologist Cuthbert Christy to determine the extent of forced labor and slavery still practiced by Liberia. U.S. President Herbert Hoover briefly suspended relations to press Monrovia into compliance. In 1930 the League of Nations published the committee's report, dubbed the ‘Christy Report’ after the Committee's chairman.The report supported many of Faulkner's allegations and implicated many government officials, including vice president Allen Yancy. It was found that forced labor was used for the construction of certain public works such as roads in the interior. And certain tribes did practice domestic servitude that could be considered as slavery. The report found:
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 policy of gross intimidation and suppression has for years been systematically fostered and encouraged, and is the key word of the Government native policy;" and
 that, "...Vice President Yancy [of Liberia] and other high officials of the Liberian Government, as well as county superintendents and district commissioners, have given their sanction for compulsory recruitment of labor for road construction, for shipment abroad and other work, by the aid and assistance of the Liberian Frontier Force; and have condoned the utilization of this force for purposes of physical compulsion on road construction for the intimidation of villagers, for the humiliation and degradation of chiefs, of captured natives to the coast, there guarding them till the time of shipment [to Fernando Po and Sao Tome.]" Subsequently, King and Vice-President Yancy, along with other implicated leaders, resigned. See also
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1927 Liberian general election

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<mask> (January 30, 1923 – November 8, 1988) was an American stock car racer. He competed in the United States Auto Club (USAC) Stock Cars in the 1950s through 1970s. He won the season championship in 1960, 1965, and 1966 as a driver. <mask> also won five owner's championships. He competed in five NASCAR Grand National Series events and won one. He had 35 USAC victories including 11 at the Milwaukee Mile near his hometown Racine, Wisconsin. He was nicknamed "The Great Dane" because he was 6 feet 4 inches tall.Racing career

Early career
<mask> prepared for racing when, as a 14-year-old, he borrowed his sister's 1934 Chevrolet and he raced it on the back streets of Racine. He competed for the first time on a rainy 1939 afternoon race in a swampy field near Pleasant Prairie. His first race ended when his jalopy got stuck on the straightaway. He continued in the car until the 1940-41 winter indoor series, when he got a ride in a midget car at the Chicago Amphitheater. He ended up driving the midget into the wall in the first corner. Racing in the United States ended for World War II and he served the United States Army. After the war ended, he returned to successfully race midget cars.He stopped racing midgets in favor of late model stock cars so he could race more frequently. Nelso had been introduced to stock car racing in 1948 when Milwaukee promoter Tom Marchese brought stock cars to the region. <mask> said "Once I got into stock car racing, I knew that it was for me. I couldn't get into just any midget. We always had to make special ones for me." He raced in his first stock car

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 race on the dirt of the Milwaukee Mile in 1948 and finished third in the  event. USAC
In 1950, <mask> was racing the American Automobile Association (AAA) Stock Car division in its first season and was leading the national points going into the final race at the Springfield Mile.Second-place driver Jay Frank was the only driver who could catch him in the points and he had to win while <mask> had to not finish the race. "That's exactly what happened", <mask> said. "The engine on my Oldsmobile blew and he won the race." Earlier that season he lost all of his points earned for winning a race at Milwaukee after USAC determined he had used an illegal gear. He was using a special mountain gear in his Oldsmobile; he pointed out (to no avail) that the part can be found in a parts catalog. He continued to race in AAA Stock Car races in 1952, 1953, and 1954 - collecting top-five finishes at Toledo Raceway Park, Dayton Speedway, Illiana Speedway, and Milwaukee. <mask> joined up with Carl Kiekhaefer's Chrysler team in 1955.He won a 1955 stock car race at the Milwaukee Mile and blew his right front tire right after winning the race causing the car to skid into the walls. <mask>'s crew had done their pit stop in 1 minute and second-place finisher Marshall Teague had a 1-minute and 40 seconds stop. He raced at Wilmot Speedway in Kenosha in 1959 and won the track's modified stock class. He returned to driving on the national tour and finished third in 1958 and 1959. For the first time in his career, <mask> drove in someone else's car when Bill Trainor hired him to race. He won a race at the DuQuoin

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 State Fairgrounds Racetrack and had several second-place finishes during his 1960 championship season. He added a win in the Midwest Association for Race Cars (MARC), the forerunner to ARCA in a race under dual sanction with USAC.Beginning in 1963, <mask> hired Jerry Kulwicki (Alan Kulwicki's father) to build engines for his race cars. <mask> began his 25th season of racing in 1965 by winning the season-opening USAC Stock Car race at Milwaukee over Paul Goldsmith. <mask> took the lead away from Parnelli Jones when his engine blew up late in the race. Three NASCAR drivers competed in the event - Richard Petty, David Pearson, and Bobby Isaac. <mask> won the Yankee 300 race at Indianapolis Raceway Park in 1965 which contributed toward him winning his second driver's championship that season. <mask> won the 150-mile event at Langhorne Speedway in 1966 and he won his third season championship. He also won his second straight Yankee 300 at IRP.When <mask> retired from driving in 1976 because of detached retina, he was tied with A. J. Foyt for second on the all-time USAC victories list with 35 wins. NASCAR
<mask> made five starts in his Grand National career. He made his first start at the 1955 LeHi 300 in LeHi, Arkansas and won his only NASCAR race later that season after starting on the pole position at the only NASCAR race held at the 1-mile dirt Las Vegas Park Speedway. While driving for Carl Kiekhaefer's championship team, he led the final 106 laps of a 111 lap race which was shortened from its original 200 lap distance because of darkness. He competed in three more NASCAR races, once

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 each in 1966, 1967, and 1968. Owner

Even before <mask>'s career began to wind down, he began having other racers drive in his USAC car. He hired Roger McCluskey to drive for him in 1968, starting a two-car operation as <mask> began to wind down his career.In 1975, McCluskey had to miss a race because he had a burned foot; <mask> drove the car for him. Other drivers include A. J. Foyt. <mask>'s cars started in 13 NASCAR; nine of these races ended in a Top 10 finish. Jim Hurtubise drove <mask>'s only win as a car owner at Atlanta International Raceway. Personality
<mask> was known for saving his equipment until the latter stages of a race. Alan Kulwicki said, "I can remember guys like A. J. Foyt and Parnelli Jones drove against him, and Norm wasn't as much a charger as those guys, but he was always there at the end of a race. Because he owned his own cars, he didn't run them as hard as those other guys did."Kulwicki added, "He was a good, smooth driver and very intelligent." Personal life
<mask> and his wife Caroline had eight children. He also had 15+ grandchildren. During the racing off-season, he owned a snowmobile sales and repair shop in Racine called "Nelson Enterprises". Caroline and several of their children worked at the shop. Death
<mask> died on November 8, 1988 while at the Zablocki Veterans Administration Center at age 65 and he was buried at the Graceland Cemetery in Racine. References

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<mask>, also spelled Patroklos, was a leading official and admiral of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. He is best known for his activity during the Chremonidean War (267–261 BC), when he commanded the navy sent to Greece by Ptolemy II. His early career is obscure, but it must have been distinguished enough for him to rise to the chief priesthood of Alexander and the Theoi Adelphoi in 271/270 BC. After the outbreak of the Chremonidean War, he led a diplomatic and military expedition to the Aegean Sea that expanded Ptolemaic control by establishing bases at Crete, Ceos, Thera, Attica and the Argolid. From these bases he tried, without much success, to aid the Athenians against Antigonus II Gonatas, King of Macedon. He may have been the defeated Ptolemaic commander at the Battle of Cos, which marked the end of Ptolemaic thalassocracy. Early life and career

<mask>' early life is obscure; nothing is known of his family apart from the name of his father, Patron.He certainly held various offices in the service of Ptolemy II, in which he must have distinguished himself for his ability and loyalty, particularly to Ptolemy's sister and second wife, Arsinoe II, before being appointed to the prestigious post of eponymous priest of the deified Alexander the Great and the Sibling Gods (Theoi Adelphoi, the deified Ptolemy II and Arsinoe) in 271/270 BC. His appointment to that office has been seen by some scholars as either a reward, or an incentive, for his execution of the poet Sotades, who in his compositions denounced the incestuous marriage between Ptolemy II and Arsinoe. Sotades was imprisoned in Alexandria, but managed to escape to the "island of Kaunos", until

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 Patroclus captured him and ordered him to be placed in a leaden box and dropped him into the sea. Chremonidean War

The Chremonidean War, which broke out in late 268 BC, provides the stage for the better known part of <mask>' career. <mask> has frequently been called nauarchos (admiral) by modern studies, beginning with the British classicist William Woodthorpe Tarn, who in the early 20th century conceived the Ptolemaic nauarchos as having been an office of almost viceregal authority, held by men like Philocles, the king of Sidon, for terms of ten years each. As the French historian Marcel Launey has shown, the title is applied to <mask> only once in ancient sources, by the 2nd-century BC geographer Pausanias; all contemporary or later literary and epigraphical sources refer to him as strategos (general), which must have been his actual title. Indeed, according to the German classicist Hans Hauben, his Macedonian origin seems to argue for a previous career in the army rather than in the navy.The actual extent of <mask>' authority is a matter of dispute in current scholarship, but it is clear that he enjoyed broad powers over the other Ptolemaic commanders and their allies in the Aegean Sea. In early 267 BC, he headed a large Ptolemaic embassy to Crete, with the aim of securing his master's influence there, as well as bases for operations in the Aegean Sea. <mask> is attested by name in two cities, Itanus and Olus. He was honoured with the proxenia and the title of benefactor by both cities, as well as with the citizenship of Itanus—a rare honour. In Olus, his fellow envoys are also attested: Callicrates of Samos, his predecessor as eponymous

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texts: priest, and seven others. According to Launey's interpretation, it was at that point that <mask> went to "the island of Kaudos", as he emends Kaunos, where he executed Sotades. Launey's emendation has long been accepted by most scholars, but the problems of chronology and geography render "a definitive solution impossible", according to Hauben.Epigraphical evidence suggests that <mask> then visited Ceos. He made Ioulis, one of the four cities of the island, his headquarters, and apparently refounded the city of Koressos, naming it after Queen Arsinoe. A garrison was installed on the island, under the epistates Hieron of Syracuse. While there, Patroclus received a request from the citizens of Thera who were troubled by internal strife. He selected a board of five judges from Ioulis, to put the affairs of Thera in order. Patroclus also appointed an epistates, Apollodorus, probably also from Ioulis, but his exact role, i.e., whether his role was temporary, linked with the mission of the judges, or as commander of a permanent garrison on the island, is unclear. At about the same time, <mask> expanded his ring of naval bases around the Greek mainland, occupying Methana in the Argolid, which he also renamed Arsinoe.As the Athenian port of Piraeus was probably still in the hands of an Antigonid Macedonian garrison, he also fortified an uninhabited island off the coast of Attica, named after him "Isle of Patroclus". At about this time, <mask> dedicated a phiale to the panhellenic sanctuary at Delos. These moves served to tighten Ptolemaic control over the Aegean, but his active intervention in the war was unsuccessful. In 266 BC, <mask> with his


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texts: troops tried to aid the Athenians. The literary references to the subsequent events are limited to brief statements by Pausanias, which indicate that the Ptolemaic troops proved ineffective. <mask> requested the assistance of the Spartan king Areus I, excusing his inability to take the offensive alone with the comment that his men were native Egyptians and sailors. As Hans Hauben comments, this comment may reveal more about "a certain Greek (and Macedonian) milieu" and its "visceral contempt for native Egyptians", rather than have any basis in facts.Nevertheless, archaeological evidence on the island of Patroklos and other fortified sites in Attica suggest that <mask>' involvement was more extensive than implied by Pausanias: coins, pottery shards, and remnants of fortifications point to a Ptolemaic presence not only on the southeastern shores of Attica, such as the peninsula of Koroni or a coastal fort in the deme of Atene, but further inland as well, in Ilioupoli and Mount Hymettus, and on the southwestern shores, at Vouliagmeni. This presence implies an attempt to neutralize the fortress of Sounion on the extreme south of Attica, which was probably also under Antigonid control, as well as an effort to supply Athens overland, bypassing the Antigonid-controlled Piraeus. In the event, although the Spartan army may have come as close as Kamatero, they could not advance further, and withdrew. <mask>' envisaged two-pronged attack on the Antigonid army did not materialize. Epigraphical evidence from the coastal Athenian outpost of Rhamnous, which was being harassed by the Antigonid army and pirates collaborating with them, or simply taking

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 advantage of the general chaos, also attests to the fact that Athenian and Ptolemaic attempts to safeguard Attica were not wholly effective. In 265/4 BC, Areus once again tried to cross the Isthmus of Corinth and aid the beleaguered Athenians, but the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas concentrated his forces against him and defeated the Spartans, with Areus himself among the dead. Despite the presence of Patroclus and his fleet, it appears that Ptolemy II hesitated to fully commit himself to the conflict.The reasons for this reluctance are unclear, but it appears that, especially in the last years of the war, Ptolemaic involvement was limited to financial support for the Greek city-states and naval assistance. The end of Ptolemaic involvement may be related to the Battle of Cos, whose chronology is much disputed by modern scholars. Almost nothing is known about the events of the battle, except that Antigonus II Gonatas, although outnumbered, led his fleet to defeat Ptolemy's unnamed commanders. A surviving anecdote where <mask> taunted the Macedonian king for his lack of mastery over the sea has been interpreted by some scholars, such as Hans Hauben, as indicating that Cos belongs to the Chremonidean War and was fought around 262/1 BC, with <mask> in command of the Ptolemaic fleet. Others, however, place the battle around 255 BC, at the time of the Second Syrian War. Whatever the actual events, it is clear that Cos marked the end of absolute Ptolemaic thalassocracy in the Aegean. References

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title: Lon Simmons

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<mask><mask>" <mask> (July 19, 1923 – April 5, 2015) was an American sports announcer, best known for his play-by-play broadcasts of San Francisco Giants baseball and San Francisco 49ers football. He was born in Vancouver, Washington. <mask> was a star pitcher at Burbank High School and Glendale College before enlisting in the U.S. Coast Guard. After World War II, he signed with the Philadelphia Phillies and pitched briefly in their minor league system. Career
His radio career began in Elko, Nevada, calling Elko High School football and basketball games on KELK. He first announced baseball for a semipro league in Marysville, California. After spending three years broadcasting Fresno State sports on KMJ, <mask> came to San Francisco in 1957 as the sports director at KSFO.That year, he was the color commentator for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, teaming with play-by-play announcer Bob Fouts, the father of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts. In 1958, <mask> took over as play-by-play announcer on 49ers radio broadcasts, paired with former 49er Gordy Soltau. Years later, he worked with KSFO disc-jockey Gene Nelson and then with former NFL player and KPIX-TV sports director Wayne Walker. Also in 1958, he became the second announcer for the newly relocated San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball, teaming with lead announcer Russ Hodges, who moved with the team from New York. To complement Hodges' "Bye Bye Baby!" home run call, <mask> created his own, "Tell It Goodbye!" When Hodges retired after the 1970 season (he died in April 1971), <mask> was promoted to lead announcer and teamed with Bill Thompson.This pairing lasted through the 1973 season. Al Michaels and Art Eckman became the Giants radio announcers on KSFO in 1974. Famed "wrong-way" football call
<mask>' most famous call during his first stint with the 49ers came on October 25, 1964, when Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jim

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 Marshall picked up a fumble by the 49ers' Billy Kilmer and ran it the wrong way, scoring a safety for the 49ers instead of a touchdown for the Vikings (who won, 27-22). The transcript of his call, including his mid-sentence transition as the moment occurred, reads as:

Later career
<mask> returned to the Giants in 1976 as second announcer behind Michaels, then was the lead announcer again in 1977 and 1978, teaming with San Francisco native Joe Angel. When KSFO lost the Giants radio rights to rival KNBR in 1979, <mask> and Angel were replaced by Lindsey Nelson and Hank Greenwald. Three years later in 1981, KSFO acquired the Oakland Athletics' radio rights. <mask> then became an A's announcer, along with longtime Oakland Raiders and San Francisco/Golden State Warriors voice Bill King and youngster Wayne Hagin.<mask> remained part of the A's radio team through the 1995 season. From 1996 to 2002, he called Giants games part-time on KNBR. With the 49ers, he remained as play-by-play announcer through the 1980 season. In 1981, KSFO lost the 49ers radio rights to KCBS, who replaced him with its own sports director, longtime Stanford University play-by-play announcer Don Klein. <mask> also served as the Warriors TV announcer on KTVU during the 1973–74 NBA season. During the final two games of the 1989 World Series, Athletics lead announcer Bill King came down with laryngitis. <mask> was thus able to announce to his radio audience that the A's had won the World Series over <mask>' former team, the Giants.During <mask>' first tenure as 49ers play-by-play announcer, the team never won an NFL championship. One year after his departure, San Francisco began a run of Super Bowl victories. When KGO acquired the 49ers radio rights in 1987, <mask> returned as the play-by-play announcer and was reunited with long-time colleague, Wayne Walker. During the 1988 regular season, <mask>' call of Steve Young's breathtaking game-winning 49-yard

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 scramble against the Minnesota Vikings became as memorable as the play itself. The following January, San Francisco won Super Bowl XXIII over the Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16. <mask>' call of the 49ers' Super Bowl game-winning drive (punctuated by a Joe Montana-to-John Taylor TD pass) can be heard on the NFL Films highlights package of the game. <mask> again departed from the 49ers — this time for good — during the 1989 preseason following a dispute with the KGO management.He was replaced in the play-by-play spot by Joe Starkey, the long-time announcer for the University of California Golden Bears and sideline reporter on 49ers games in 1987 and 1988; Starkey had taken over play-by-play on several October games during the 1988 season. Starkey retired from the position following the 2008 NFL season. Coast Guard service
<mask> served in the U.S. Coast Guard for  years during World War II. He initially served on a cutter in Hawaii mostly conducting submarine patrols. During the Battle of Saipan, he served on a landing ship, tank (LST-205) that landed troops and supplies as part of the invasion. Afterwards, he served in the Aleutian Islands until the end of the war. <mask> died on April 5, 2015 at his home in Daly City, California.Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays said at the time, "<mask> was like my big brother. Anybody who knew him knew he was very genuine. He'd always tell you the truth. When I went into a slump, he was one of the guys I'd listen to. Just a nice man. He was always there for me in all kinds of situations. I'm really going to miss him."Honors
<mask> received the 2004 Ford C. Frick Award, given annually by the Baseball Hall of Fame to a broadcaster. He was elected to the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2006 as a member of the first class to be inducted. Also in 2006, he was inducted into the Glendale Community College Athletic Hall of Fame, along with his teammate, friend and broadcast partner, Bill Thompson.

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 <mask>' trademark call for home runs, "Tell it goodbye!," is quoted by John Fogerty in his song, Centerfield. In May 2006, <mask> rejoined the San Francisco Giants as a fill-in broadcaster. He was hired back to be in the booth during four in-season trips to San Francisco from his home in Maui for the 2006 baseball season. The Giants radio booth at Oracle Park is named after him and Hodges.Both are honored at the ball park with displays depicting a microphone and their names,  alongside those of the Giants National Baseball Hall of Fame player inductees. After Simmon's death in April 2015 the San Francisco Giants wore a "LON" patch for the 2015 Season on their jerseys to honor their longtime broadcaster. Other media
<mask> provided voice samples for Sega's Sports Talk video game series, including Sports Talk Baseball, Joe Montana II: Sports Talk Football, NFL Sports Talk Football '93, and NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana. Joe Montana II: Sports Talk Football was the first video game ever to feature a full play-by-play running commentary. References

External links

Lon <mask> Ford C. Frick Award biography at the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Tell It Goodbye! - The Bay Area Radio Museum Presents a Tribute to Hall of Fame Broadcaster <mask> <mask>

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title: Talat Ahmad

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<mask> is an Indian Earth scientist and professor at department of geology, University of Delhi. He commenced his second stint as vice chancellor of University of Kashmir on 6 August 2018 after serving as vice chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia after he resigned from the post a few months short of his full term. He was shortlisted by a committee constituted by the governor to shortlist a panel for the post. He had earlier taken over as vice-chancellor of University of Kashmir from Professor Riyaz Punjabi on 1 June 2011. Prior to this, he was teaching geology at the University of Delhi. <mask> was selected to serve a second term as vice chancellor University of Kashmir after he was selected by Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra in his capacity as chancellor of the State University. He was handed over charge by Professor Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi who had been serving as officiating vice-chancellor since October 2017 after his tenure was over.During his first tenure, <mask> was recommended for the position of vice-chancellor, University of Kashmir by a search committee headed by former member of Planning Commission, Prof. Abid Hussain, former Indian ambassador to the US, and comprising Professor G. K. Chadha, CEO, South Asian University and former vice-chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain, an eminent scientist and former vice-chancellor of University of Hyderabad. <mask> is the first vice chancellor to serve a second term and the second vice chancellor to be appointed from outside the state of Jammu and Kashmir in the past two decades. Jalees <mask> Tareen was the first vice-chancellor from outside the state who ran office from 2001 to 2004. Early life

<mask> was born and brought up in a small town of Giridih, Jharkhand. His father was Moinuddin <mask>. Education

<mask> did his schooling from Giridih Higher Secondary School. In 1977, he joined Aligarh Muslim University to pursue MSc in geology.He completed M Phil in Ore Petrology from Jawaharlal Nehru

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 University in 1980 and in 1985, he completed his PhD in Igneous Petrology from JNU. He did a postdoctoral fellowship with University of Leicester during 1988–89 under a Government of India Fellowship and another from University of Cambridge under Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) during 1997–98. In 1999–2000, he did another postdoctoral fellowship under Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) with Nagoya University, Japan. Career

In 1979, <mask> got selected in the UPSC and started working as a junior geologist with the Geological Survey of India (GSI) and formally joined GSI in February 1980. He worked there for a year, but left it soon after as for him, it was more of a survey and less of research. Later, he worked as a Scientist-B with Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun from 16 July 1984 to 3 September 1989. <mask> worked at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun, as a scientist under DST for nineteen years (1984–2003).He joined department of geology, University of Delhi as professor on 31 October 2003. There he started a project in central India and Rajasthan, in addition to research work in Himalayas. He got another project, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) after coming to the valley of Kashmir. He took over as vice-chancellor of University of Kashmir on 1 June 2011. On 29 April 2014, <mask> was appointed as the vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Pursuant to the permission of the chancellor of the university, <mask> was relieved from the post by A M Shah, dean of academic affairs of the university. <mask> joined Jamia Millia Islamia on 15 May 2014, taking over from officiating vice-chancellor Prof S M Sajid and thus succeeded Najeeb Jung after he was sworn in as the 20th lieutenant governor of Delhi in April 2013.In 2018, <mask> was appointed as vice-chancellor of Kashmir University for the second time. Research

<mask> has over 65 research publications to his credit. He has supervised several M.Phil. and PhD research

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 studies at the University of Delhi and the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He has been working on various sponsored projects, including Geochemical, Isotopic and Geochronological characterisation of Granotoids from the Central Indian Tectonic Zones (CITZ) and Central Indian Shear Zones (CISZ)-Constraints on Pre-cambrian Crystal Evolution, funded by Indo-Russian, ILTP Project, and Proterozoic mafic magmatism in the Central Indian Tectonic Zone (CITZ): elemental and isotopic constraints on crystal evolution and geodynamics. Fellowships and awards

<mask> had the memberships of many was a recipient of the following fellowships and awards:

Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi
Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad
National Mineral Award, from the Government of India in 1994. J C Bose National Fellowship 2011
S.M.Naqvi Gold Medal 2013

Memberships and honours

<mask> bore memberships of prestigious societies and was a recipient of many prestigious honours. ISSN Number: 1441-8126 (Printed Journal); 1441-8142 (Online Journal) and 1441–8134 (CD-ROM Journal)
Member, editorial board of the Journal of the Mineralogical Society of India
Member, editorial board of the Gondwana Geological Magazine
Member, editorial board of the Journal of the Geological Society of India
Member, editorial board Of the Journal of Earth System Science
Member, Expert Group for FIST North East, DST, New Delhi
Member, Board of Research Studies for the Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Kashmir

References

External links
 Member page on Delhi University Official Website
 CV on Kashmir University Official Website

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Vice-Chancellors of the University of Kashmir
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<mask> (26 March 1953 – 18 August 2011), popularly known as <mask>, was an Indian film score composer and music director who has given music to some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema, including those for Koodevide, Namukku Paarkkan Munthiri Thoppukal, Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam, Vadakkunokkiyantram, Perumthachan, Njan Gandharvan, Ponthan Mada, and Bhoothakkannadi. Regarded as one of the finest composers in the industry, he was noted for his lyrical and expressive melodies together with simple but rich tonal compositions of thematic music. <mask> is a recipient of National Film Awards twice and Kerala State Film Awards Five times. He started his career as an assistant to G. Devarajan in the 1970s, and debuted as an independent composer in late seventies with Aaravam. He was a recurrent collaborator for directors Padmarajan, Bharathan, Sathyan Anthikkad, T. V. Chandran, Kamal, Lohithadas, Balachandra Menon and Mohan. In 2003, he did the background score for NFDC film, Parinamam (The Change), directed by P. Venu, that won the best screenplay award at the Ashdod International Film Festival in Israel. He has composed music for more than 300 Malayalam films, the most by any composer except for Devarajan.He was the first Music Director from Malayalam cinema to be honored with the National film Awards. He died of a heart attack in Chennai on 18 August 2011. Early life

<mask> was born in Nellikkunnu near Trichur (Thrissur) in the state of Travancore-Cochin (now part

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 of Kerala), on 26 March 1953. His father, the late Thattil Antony, was a bank employee. His secondary education was at St. Thomas School in Thope, Trichur. <mask> was a singer in the choir of Nellikkunnu St. Sebastian's Church. He obtained training in guitar and harmonium from his colleagues during this early periods itself.He used to sing in youth festivals and musical shows and joined the orchestra team of some local troupes and played harmonium in many concerts. He also used to sing in female voice in ganamelas (a stage show where film songs are sung by local or professional artists). In 1968, <mask> and his friends formed a club named Voice of Thrissur. <mask> was the main instrumentalist in the club where he played wide varieties of instruments – guitar, harmonium, flute, drums and violin. Within a few years, the club became one of the most sought after musical troupes in Kerala, and had more than fifty members. This club used to give accompaniment music to playback singers Jayachandran and Madhuri in their musical shows. It was Jayachandran who introduced <mask> to G. Devarajan, one of the most prolific composers of South Indian cinema then.Devarajan literally adopted <mask> and brought him to Chennai in 1974. <mask> bought an accordion, during this period, from R. K. Shekhar (A. R. Rahman's father), and began assisting Devarajan in filmscoring and composing. Film scoring and soundtracks

<mask> began his independent career by composing the film scores of Bharathan's Aaravam

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texts: (1978), Thakara (1980) and Chamaram (1980). He composed his first soundtracks for the film Inaye Thedi, debut film of director turned still photographer Antony Eastman and actress Silk Smitha. It was Devarajan himself, who suggested <mask> to the director. Then came Bharathan's Parvathi and Balachandra Menon's Premageethangal. Premageethangal was a notable success with four of its songs – "Swapnam Verumoru Swapnam", "Nee Nirayoo Jeevanil", "Muthum Mudipponnum" and  "Kalakalamozhi" attaining cult status.He came to prominence through his collaboration with Malayalam author and director Padmarajan. Koodevide was their first venture, which had one of the most famous songs of <mask> "Aadivaa Kaatte", a pathbreaking song in Malayalam music history. It was one of the first songs in Malayalam to so many western classical elements. The song was born out of Padmarajan's need for a western song for his innovative film. Song composition took place in Woodland's Hotel, Chennai. Another notable feature of this song was the lyrics by O. N. V. Kurup, who for the first time wrote lyrics for a pre-composed song. <mask> worked for 11 films with Padmarajan, including his last film Njan Gandharvan.This productive collaboration saw the detailed screenplay and cinematography of Padmarajan become a fertile ground for expressive musical narration and thematic scores for <mask>. This is seen in some of the greatest motion pictures of Malayalam cinema, like Nombarathipoovu (1987). Another notable collaboration of

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texts: <mask> was with director Sathyan Anthikkad, with whom he associated in almost 25 films. He was able to provide some of his most popular songs with Anthikkad and this combo is widely accepted to be one of the greatest director-composer collaborations in Malayalam cinema. Acclaimed Malayalam director Bharathan also collaborated with him in multiple films including Parvathy, Palangal, Ormakkayi, Kattathe Kilikkoodu, Ente Upasana, Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam, Ozhivukalam, Malootty, Chamayam and Churam. His major other collaborations with directors include Mohan (Oru Katha Oru Nunakkatha, Sakshyam, Pakshe and Angane Oru Avadhikkalathu), Sibi Malayil (Kireedam, Chenkol, Dasaratham and Nee Varuvolam), Sreenivasan (Vadakkunokkiyantram and Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala), Lohithadas (Bhoothakkannadi, Kamal (Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal, Shubhayathra, Ee Puzhayum Kadannu and Paavam Paavam Rajakumaran), and Balachandra Menon (Shesham Kazhchayil, Premageethangal, Kilukilukkam, Kelkatha Shabdam and Nayam Vyakthamakkunnu). He is also noted for his collaboration with the Malayalam lyricist Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri.Their association began in 1989 with Sathyan Anthikkad's social satire Varavelpu. Most of <mask>'s notable works were in the late eighties and early nineties. In 1991, he scored a record number of 31 films, including 29 with Kaithapram. <mask> won National awards for two consecutive years. He won his first National Award for best music direction for the motion picture Ponthan Mada

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 (1993). The next year he got his second National award for Sukrutham'for the background score. After an extremely successful career of more than a decade, <mask> took a sabbatical from film scoring by the end of the nineties.The quantity of his works began perishing during this time. By the beginning of the 2000s, he didn't sign any new projects that even his most noted collaborator Sathyan Anthikkad had to find a new composer. In 2003 he did the background score for the NFDC movie Parinamam (The Change) directed by P. Venu.In 2004, he sang the song "Theekuruvi" from Kangalal Kaidhu Sei, which was composed by A. R. Rahman. Perhaps it is the only song recorded by him for any composer other than himself. He returned strongly to the field with Photographer in 2006, which fetched him numerous awards. Non-cinematic outputs

<mask> has released four non-film albums. His first album Sneha Deepika was released in 1989 on Tharangini audios.It had nine Christian devotional songs – "Aathma Swaroopa", "Unni Yesu Pirannu", "Manninum Poovinum", "Thumbapoo Polulla", "Bhoomikku Pulakam", "Manassakumengil", "Kulir Choodum", "Arthungal Innoru" and "Vidarnna Punchiri". The featured artists were K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chithra and Sujatha. His second album Onathappan, a collaboration with M. G. Radhakrishnan and Berny-Ignatius, consisted of nine festival songs. The track "Mundon Paadam" was composed by <mask>, sung by M. G. Sreekumar and had lyrics penned by Bichu Thirumala. His third album Nannipoorvam


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 Johnson, consisted of twelve tracks – "Chandanakkavilinnu", "Panineeru Peyyum", "Vasundhare", "Virunnu Vanna", "Prapanjam Sundaram", "Enthe Nee Varathe", "Nilasandhyayil", "Veruthe Onnu", "Ponnazhikkuttu", "Pranayappirave", "Kalindhi", and an introductory speech by Sreenivasan. The lyricists were R. K. Damodaran, Gireesh Puthenchery, Kaithapram, Bichu Thirumala, M. D. Rajendran, K. Jayakumar, S. Ramesan Nair and Poovachal Khader and the songs were rendered by K. J. Yesudas, P. Jayachandran, K. S. Chithra, M. G. Sreekumar, Aparna Rajeev, Dr. Rashmi Madhu and <mask> himself. In 2009, he released his second Christian devotional album entitled Parishudhan.It had eleven tracks – "Vazhiyum Sathyavum Nee Thanne (Vijay Yesudas), "Mullukal Kuthi" (Chithra), "Ariyathe Polum" (G. Venugopal), "Neethimanayavane" (Sujatha), "Traditional song" (Louis), "Mazhayum Veyilum" (Rimi Tomy), "Oru Viral Sparshathal (Sudheep), "Loka Palaka" (Chithra), Neethanthamam (Vijay Yesudas), and "Kannukalil Theliyum" (Manjari). Music style and impact

His skilful integration of textual rhythm of the lyrics together with rich tonal arrangement, redefined songwriting in Malayalam cinema, since the late 1980s. In his film scores, <mask> combines native South Indian melodic patterns with the harmonic structure of classical music and this has attained an expressive form of narration through film score. He composed for about 300 films, making him the second most composed music director in Malayalam, after his guru G. Devarajan.

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 Though he has obtained no formal training in classical music, he was able to incorporate the beauty of Carnatic ragas in his songs. Most of his songs were composed on Kalyani raga. <mask>'s favourite male singer was K. J. Yesudas, who has recorded many songs for him, while S. Janaki and K. S. Chithra were his favourite female singers.Chithra had some of her most noted songs with <mask>. <mask> is fondly called <mask> (<mask>shu) by Malayalee audiences. Even his contemporaries and competitors refer him with the tag 'Master' ('mash' in Malayalam). His background scoring style has a cult following. His scores from Thoovanathumbikal, Namukku Parkkan Munthirithoppukal, Manichitrathazhu,   Thaniyavarthanam, Chitram, Bharatham, Aparan, Kireedam, Sukrutham are considered to be amongst the best. Awards

<mask> won his first National Film Award for the Best Music Direction for the film Ponthan Mada (1994)  and the very next year he won his second National film award for the Best Background score for the film Sukrutham (1995) He was the first Malayalee music composer to receive a National award in music category and is also the only Malayalee music director who received two national awards in music category. This film has one song Adimarunge ayyayya (അടിമരുങ്ങേ അയ്യയ്യാ) lyrics by O. N. V. Kurup and sung by K. S. Chithra and chorus composed by <mask>.This is a folk song. National film award committee noted that he brilliantly integrated western folk tunes into this song. The award was given for

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 best music direction and background score of this film. He has received three Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director, for the films Ormakkayi (1982), Vadakkunokkiyantram and Mazhavil Kavadi (1989), and Angane Oru Avadhikkalathu (1999). He was awarded the Kerala State Film Award for Best Background Music for the films Sadayam (1992) and Sallapam (1996). He has thus received five Kerala State Film Awards in music category, an achievement he shares with Devarajan. He has received the Kerala Film Critics Awards four times, the most recent in 2008 for Gulmohar.In 2007, he won the Mathruboomi Award for Best Music Director for Photographer (2006). He won the Mullasserry Raju Music Award for the song "Enthe Kannanu Karuppu Niram", also from the same film. In addition, he has received numerous other awards and nominations including Devarajan Master Memorial Award and Raveendran Master Memorial Award. Death

<mask>, popularly known as '<mask>' died at his home in Chennai on 18 August 2011 at the age of 58, due to a massive heart attack. Though he was suffering from various diseases for a long time, his death came as a shock to many. The Government of Kerala gave all official honours for his funeral which was held in his hometown, Thrissur. He is survived by his wife, <mask>.On 25 February 2012, Renn <mask>, his son and an engineer by profession, worked at Connectivity Data Systems LLC died in a motor bike accident at Chennai. He was on the way to his office. His dead body was taken to

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 Thrissur and was buried beside his father. At the time of <mask>'s death, he was composing songs for 4 films, which were completed by his daughter Shan, who was a well-trained singer herself. <mask> died in her rented flat in Chennai on 5 Feb, 2016, after suffering a massive heart attack. Her body was also taken to Thrissur, and was buried beside her father and brother. 1 Snehatheeram Bangalore NorthNokketha Dhoorathu Kannum NattuNombarathi PoovuNyayavidhiOrma MathramOttayal PattaalamOru Cheru punchiriPuzhaPaadamudraParinayamPooramPost Box Number 27
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Non-film albums
Rajavu ezhunallunnu – Christian devotional album .Audio by manorama music  (2011)
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Notable songs
In an interview with Malayala Manorama, <mask> listed the following 13 songs as his favourite

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title: Doughbeezy

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Tai Carr (born 1986, Houston, Texas), better known by his stage name <mask>, is an American rapper from Houston, Texas. Active since 2010, he has released a number of mixtapes and collaborated with musicians such as Killa Kyleon, Bun B, Slim Thug, Devin The Dude, and Paul Wall. Doughbeezy won the “Best Rapper In Texas” competition three times, and in 2013 MTV Hive named him one of the "top 5 underground artists in Houston." A frequent live performer, he has toured with rappers such as Dom Kennedy, and is co-CEO of the music company Headwreckas Worldwide, along with company founder Al Hughes. Early life
Tai Carr was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1986, where he was raised primarily by his mother after his parents split up. He and his mother moved to Southeast Houston, Texas, when he was 13. He started rapping at age 15, gaining his nickname Doughbeezy and rapping casually in free-style battles with friends in his high school (Clear Brook).According to Doughbeezy, “It started to become a normal thing where people would actually skip their lunch and come to ours, just to watch the free-styles." Music career

2010–13: Early years and mixtapes
While living near Houston in Webster, Texas, Doughbeezy began to do rap features in his late teens, working for a time with local rap group The TMI Boys, who did a song with Manny Fresh. After choosing not to


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<mask> (born May 20, 1977) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer and producer. He was born in Chatham-Kent, Ontario and lives in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known as an alternative comedian and frequent guest on CBC Radio's The Debaters, and on TV as a regular and favourite juror on MuchMusic's highest-rated show, Video on Trial, also starring as The Judge in the Stars on Trial Christmas special and various other VOT spin-offs. Comedy

Theatre

<mask> enjoyed performing in plays and sketches as a student, and at CKSS began writing scripts to perform in drama class and at assemblies. He did a sketch with fellow student Corey St. Peter about a refugee applying for Canadian citizenship at a televised swearing-in ceremony which he claims was met with total silence, saying "we were sure it was because they didn't understand English, but I've come to accept that we probably just stunk." In high school and university he found success as a playwright. His farce Chuck Sent Me won the Grand Theatre Stage Presence Competition for young playwrights in 1997.His one act plays Richard Keats' Apartment of Doom and Home to Mother, a dramedy, both won the York University competition for playwrights in 2000 and 2001. Other works include A Thanksgiving That Would Even Make Great Aunt Gladys Proud (2nd place, 1999) and My Favourite Aunt (3rd place, 2001). Apartment of Doom and My Favourite Aunt would both be remounted as Toronto Fringe Festival shows. At York University, <mask> wrote humorous articles and reviews for the student newspaper The Vandoo and was promoted to an editor, but quit after complaints and new guidelines from college administration made the job too constraining to be fun. Improv and sketch

<mask> first began performing comedy regularly with York University's Vanier Improv Company as a student, where he became a standout and met his sketch

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 troupe mates The Minnesota Wrecking Crew. They would go on to be nominated four straight years (2003–2006) for the Best Sketch Troupe Canadian Comedy Award, winning in 2003 and 2004. In 2006 they won again for Best Taped Live Performance for the CBC special Sketch with Kevin McDonald.The MWC became the "house troupe" at Second City Toronto's Sketchy at Best showcase, where they would perform sets of mostly new sketches every week. After his first year with the VIC and Vanier College Productions, <mask> was asked to perform in the following year's annual frosh week orientation show for new students. He got a lot of laughs and his first ever requests for autographs from the audience, "unfortunately I was playing a date rapist and it wasn't supposed to be funny, so the director got an earful and they never produced that play again". <mask> was also a member of the sketch troupes Rocket 9, Gazebo Pals and the CCA-nominated Shoeless. Stand-up

After performing on the show with the Wrecking Crew a few times, he began working the door for Toronto's legendary ALTdot COMedy Lounge at the Rivoli in 2002. At show producer Zoe Rabnett's urging, he tried performing stand-up in 2003 at The ALTdot COMedy Lounge and then won that year's Tim Sims Award, given to Toronto's most promising new comedy act, in just his 20th set. He then also won the 2004 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Stand-up Newcomer, becoming the first person to win both.Frank Magazine described him as "the next stand-up wunderkind". After his Tim Sims Award winning Cream of Comedy showcase, he was invited to write and star in his own series of shorts for The Comedy Network, From the Desk of <mask>. Stand-up credits include Just for Laughs as well as the Halifax, Winnipeg, Laughing Gas and YYC Comedy Festivals. He was JFL's Toronto Homegrown Champion in 2007 and has performed in various JFL

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 and JFL-42 shows including Set List, The Alternative Show with Andy Kindler and The Debaters. He has opened for such comedians as Kyle Kinane, Moshe Kasher, Russell Peters, Kevin Pollak, Marc Maron, Janeane Garofalo, Norm Macdonald, Joan Rivers, Brian Posehn, Mike Wilmot, David Cross, Andy Kindler, Tom Green, Doug Stanhope and Todd Barry. His 2008 CTV Comedy Now! stand-up special won a WorldFest Award and two Canadian Comedy Awards.When the ALTdot added a second weekly show, the SketchDot COMedy Lounge, <mask> was invited to do a weekly Weekend Update style segment, The News Desk with <mask>. He is not related to fellow stand-up comedian <mask>. Film & TV

On television he starred in MuchMusic's highest rated show Video on Trial and its spin-off, Stars on Trial, also writing for those and other MuchMusic series. He co-wrote and starred as Chris Christie in the series You Got Trumped, for which he won multiple awards. He was also a regular panelist on the Super Channel series Too Much Information and has been a regular on various Ed the Sock series (including co-hosting the cult hit This Movie Sucks! ), and T1's The Toronto Show as <mask> the Hollywood Reporter and other characters. Other TV credits include NBC's The Firm, The Beaverton, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Meet the Family, Straight Man, Clumsy & Shy, Dark Rising: The Savage Tales of Summer Vale, The Jon Dore Television Show, Sox in a Box and The Invasion Report.He was invited to audition for Saturday Night Live. He also auditioned for The Daily Show but didn't get the job and claims to be their shortest audition ever. He has also appeared in such films as Medium Raw, Dark Rising, By George, Sweetener and Ham & Cheese. He is the subject of The Essential Actor's Guide: Spotlight on <mask>, part of a series of 32 books about actors. Other subjects include Javier Bardem, Daniel Day-Lewis,

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 Colin Firth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Tommy Lee Jones, Heath Ledger, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Kate Winslet. Uwe Boll

In 2006 <mask> offered to fight Uwe Boll, who had challenged his critics to a series of boxing matches leading up to the release of his movie Postal. After exchanging several emails Boll ultimately declined due to <mask>'s size advantage and because he would be fighting five challengers back-to-back.Radio

<mask> is a regular and favourite guest on CBC Radio's The Debaters (which he also writes for). He has also appeared on Brave New Waves, Definitely Not the Opera and Out Front. He had his own weekly segment The News Desk with <mask> on 102.1 The Edge, based on his live News Desk with <mask> shows. Filmography

Awards and nominations

Canadian Comedy Awards
At the 2007 Awards' "State of the Industry" event, <mask> was unofficially voted "North America's Sexiest Comedian" by acclaim after host Harry Doupe ran his name against Nicole Arbour. This was in response to Arbour having billed herself with that title despite never actually having won it anywhere. Neither comedian was in attendance. References

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title: Dana Leslie Fields

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<mask> is an American magazine publisher and an inaugural inductee into the Magazine Publishers Hall of Fame. She is best known for having been the publisher of Rolling Stone, President of FHM magazine, as well as other magazine titles with young adult audiences. In 2014, <mask> became the publisher of Nylon magazine. Early life
<mask> was born into the third generation of New York fashion industry families, growing up in fashion marketing. Her grandfather started out in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, making suits for the immigrant community and later moving to Moppets, one of the largest children’s fashion manufacturers. Her stepfather, Mike Kislak, was an importer of many French fashion lines, including Cacharel. During her school years, young <mask> worked in the family fashion businesses in Europe, learning other languages especially French.At 18 she enrolled at Duke University, and she was photo editor of the student newspaper, the Duke Chronicle, and also worked part-time as a stringer for UPI. After graduating magna cum laude, she found a job in advertising sales at an in flight magazine company called the East-West Network. Rolling Stone
In 1981, <mask> was looking to get into fashion ad sales and she had an impromptu lunch with then a Rolling Stones Executive, Dan Chaifair. <mask> was then hired as an account executive for fashion ad sales; in 1982, she was put in charge of the New England region and sales increased 288%. She was quickly promoted to Vice President. In 1985 Rolling Stone United States circulation reached over one million. By 1990, Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner and his company, Wenner Media, also acquired full ownership of US Magazine, and in 1991 launched Men's Journal; by then sporting a full portfolio of titles focused on the lucrative 18-34 young adult demographic.<mask> was promoted to Associate Publisher in 1990, and in 1991 was named Group Publisher of all these titles. This was a period of spectacular growth for Wenner Media and <mask>' star rose within the company and in New York media circles. In her first year as Group

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 Publisher, newsstand sales increased by 110,000 copies. And in 1993, US Magazine advertising pages increased 20%; she brought in Bloomingdales as a client, with a men's fashion show, and music video tie in. In 1994 she was named to Crains Forty under 40. Both Rolling Stone and Men's Journal became top performers in the male 18-34 advertising category. In 1995, <mask> organized a highly innovative collaboration with two of her biggest competitors, Men's Health and Esquire, for a joint promotional campaign for the Hagger Clothing Company, cited by the common client as "taking advertising to another level."In 1997 she brought in the AT&T business to Rolling Stone to sponsor a cover store on college campuses. She secured business from Tommy Hilfiger. MediaPost, when subsequently wring about <mask>, wrote that "her performance at Wenner was outstanding..."
In 1998 rumors surfaced of a falling out between Fields and Wenner Media General Manager Kent Brownridge. <mask> took an extended maternity leave and never returned to the company. Her 17-year tenure at Rolling Stone was over. FHM
In 1999, the British media giant EMAP was looking to bring its highly successful young men's title FHM to the United States, to challenge Maxim magazine. <mask> was hired to be president of FHM, reporting directly to Chairman Jim Dunning
In her first year at FHM, <mask> was able to pick off a substantial number of advertising clients away from other young men's magazines including GQ, ESPN, Spin and Maxim,  and FHM monthly circulation grew rapidly to 750,000.Advertisers such as Tommy Hillfinger, Jim Beam, Ninetendo, and Toyota became advertisers. <mask> star was rising in New York media, adorning the cover of MediaWeek in February 2000. By 2002, FHM was the fastest growing men's magazine in the United States, with circulation exceeding one million, and <mask> was she named Magazine Publisher of the Year. <mask> was featured on the cover of Media Magazine in the July 2004 issue, captioned "Men's Magazine's Are Smoking Hot", with <mask> holding FHM. In 2005, Media Daily News reported a

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 novel advertising campaigns she brought to FHM from the BMW owned Mini (marque), and she was nominated for Advertising Sales Person of the Year by Media Industry News. In 2006, Brooke Hogan, daughter of wrestling celebrity Hulk Hogan and an recording artist who was charting on the Billboard charts, was selected to be on the cover of FHM. However, before the issue went to print, it was discovered that Hogan had not yet reached her 21st birthday, and <mask> proactively pulled all advertising for distilled spirits from the issue, to prevent what otherwise would have been a scandal from using a minor to promote the sales of alcoholic beverages.Later that year, FHM chose Diana Chaifair as Miss FHM. It turned out that Chiafair was the daughter of Dan Chiafair, the former Rolling Stone executive who had given <mask> her start back in 1981. With the secular decline in printed media, and with FHM becoming less lucrative, <mask> left FHM, and started a media consultancy. Nylon

In 2014, <mask> and Joe Mohen partnered to merge Nylon Magazine with FashionIndie, to create a media company for young adult audiences, with an editorial focus on fashion, music, and lifestyle. <mask> became EVP and Publisher of the new Nylon. The Nylon takeover in 2014 is a case study of the transition of magazine title with primarily print revenues into one with primarily digital revenues. She remained Publisher of Nylon while it completed its transition to a nearly all-digital platform.Personal life
In 1996, <mask> married Dan Gearon, who attended United States Military Academy and Columbia University, and, who at the time, was CEO of a Boston-based advertising agency, whose client, the Boston Beer Company, concocted a Steinbier (stone beer) from a German recipe dating back centuries for their reception. <mask> serves on the Board of Overseers of the Duke Cancer Institute, and is active in religious philanthropy. <mask> and Gearon have a son, Matthew, born in 1998. References

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title: Joseph Magliocco

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<mask> (born <mask>; ; June 29, 1898 – December 28, 1963), also known as "Joe Malayak" and "Joe Evil Eye", was an Italian-born New York mobster and the boss of the Profaci crime family (later to become the Colombo crime family) from 1962 to 1963. In 1963, <mask> participated in an audacious attempt to kill other family bosses and take over the Mafia Commission. The attempt failed, and, while his life was spared, he was forced into retirement. Soon after, he died of a heart attack on December 28, 1963. <mask> was born in Portella di Mare, a frazione in the comune of Misilmeri, in the province of Palermo, in Sicily. <mask>'s nickname, "Joe Malayak," came from the word Maluk, which meant "ruler". Despite weighing over 300 pounds, <mask> was described as being very energetic and decisive in his work and physical gestures, someone who exuded danger and confidence.<mask> lived on a six-acre waterfront estate in East Islip, New York. He was the silent partner in a liquor company, Alpine Wine and Liquor, and a linen company, Arrow Linen Supply. In 1963, it was suspected that <mask> was using his clout to force bars and restaurants to buy from both companies. According to <mask>, <mask> was an excellent Italian chef and loved to eat. <mask>'s son, <mask>, was a capo. <mask>'s second cousin and brother-in-law was mob boss <mask>, founder of the Profaci crime family. <mask> was an in-law of consigliere and underboss Salvatore Mussachio, related by marriage to Buffalo crime family boss Stefano Magaddino, and uncle to the wife of Bonanno crime family founder <mask>.Early years
As a young man, <mask> became involved in illegal gambling and union racketeering. On December 5, 1928, <mask> and Profaci attended a meeting of New York mobsters at the Statler Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. The main topic was dividing the Brooklyn territory of the recently murdered boss

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 Salvatore D'Aquila without causing a gang war. By the end of the meeting, Profaci had received a share of the open territory, and named <mask> as his second-in-command—a post he would hold for the next 34 years. When the Cleveland Police raided the meeting, <mask> was briefly detained on an illegal weapons charge. In 1931, the Castellammarese War began in New York between two powerful Italian-American gangs. Both Profaci and <mask> attempted to stay neutral during this conflict.By the end of 1931, the war was over and the New York gangs were divided into five crime families supervised by a Mafia Commission. Profaci and <mask> were confirmed as boss and underboss, respectively, of what was now known as the Profaci crime family. Colombo War
In 1957, <mask> was arrested with 60 other mobsters who were attending the Apalachin Conference, a national mob meeting in Apalachin, New York. On January 13, 1960, <mask> and 21 others were convicted of conspiracy and he was sentenced to five years in prison. However, on November 28, 1960, a United States Court of Appeals overturned the verdicts. On February 27, 1961 the Gallos led by Joe Gallo, kidnapped four of Profaci's top men: underboss <mask>, Frank Profaci (Joe Profaci's brother), capo Salvatore Musacchia and soldier John Scimone. Profaci himself eluded capture and flew to sanctuary in Florida.While holding the hostages, Larry and Albert Gallo sent Joe Gallo to California. The Gallos demanded a more favorable financial scheme for the hostages' release. Gallo wanted to kill one hostage and demand $100,000 before negotiations, but his brother Larry overruled him. After a few weeks of negotiation, Profaci made a deal with the Gallos. Profaci's consigliere Charles "the Sidge" LoCicero negotiated with the Gallos and all the hostages were released peacefully. However, Profaci had no intention of honoring this peace

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