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 technologies. <mask> was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010, citing first his stature as "innovative master of special effects". He has been nominated for Academy Awards on three occasions and has received the American Society of Cinematographer's Lifetime Achievement Award. <mask> received the International Press Academy's Tesla award in December 2011, named in honor of Nikola Tesla, an inventor, scientist and engineer, who, <mask> noted dryly in a runway interview, "Died penniless, after lots of people took credit for his work." He went on to say that he hopes it doesn't turn out that way for him. <mask> also received the Gordon E. Sawyer Award in February 2012, an honorary Academy Award given to an "individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry", as well as the Georges Méliès award from the Visual Effects Society in the same month.Personal life and death
<mask> was married three times and had two children. He was in poor health for the last two years of his life, due to complications from a stroke and cancer. He died from mesothelioma at a hospital in Albany, New York, on February 7, 2022, at the age of 79. See also
 The Starlost – a 1973 TV series for which <mask> was executive producer
 FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Interactive Media (German Wikipedia) at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg

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<mask> is a jazz, pop, rock and R&B drummer, composer, producer, arranger and author. Biography
<mask> was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in North Plainfield, New Jersey. He made his debut as a drummer on Barry Miles' 's White Heat album, recorded in 1971 when <mask> was fourteen years old. That early jazz/fusion album  featured Barry Miles's compositions along with performances by guitarists Pat Martino, John Abercrombie, and saxophonist/flutist Lew Tabackin. <mask> drummed on several more Barry Miles recordings throughout the 1970s performing alongside Al Di Meola, Vic Juris, Eric Kloss and Richard Davis. After attending Princeton University, <mask> moved to Manhattan and embarked upon a studio session career, playing drums on recordings for artists including Billy Ocean, George Benson, Laura Nyro, Stephanie Mills, Freddie Jackson, Anne Murray, Natalie Merchant, Jonathan Butler, Stephen Stills, Mel Tormé, Phil Woods, Tom Jones, Change, Odyssey, jingles, and film scores including You've Got Mail, One Fine Day, My Blue Heaven, Titus, What Planet Are You From? and Frida.<mask> has authored three drum books; The Featured Drummer, The Stick Bag of Jazz, Funk, Fusion and Gig Bag Series for Drummers: Rhythm & Percussion. All are published by Music Sales Corporation. He has been an educator appearing at clinics including PASIC (Percussive Arts Society), Sam Ash Music and Brooklyn College. He taught drums at the Drummers Collective (DCI) in Manhattan from 1981-1985. <mask> toured worldwide as a member of Roberta Flack's band from 1986–1988, and has toured Japan yearly as a member of David Matthews's Manhattan Jazz Orchestra (MJO) since 1996, having recorded several

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 albums with that group. Simultaneous to his drumming career, <mask> has written songs, composed, produced, and arranged music for network TV shows including One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless,  The Sopranos, All My Children,  Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Smallville, Ghost Whisperer, Strong Medicine, The District, Las Vegas, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, 7th Heaven, The Shield,  Burn Notice, South Beach, jingle products Reebok, Nicorette, Pantene, Crisco, the films Invincible with Mark Wahlberg, Head over Heels with Monica Potter/Freddie Prinze, Jr., Marci X with Lisa Kudrow, Sunshine Cleaning with Alan Arkin/Emily Blunt/Amy Adams, Mad About Mambo with Keri Russell, and songs recorded by Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, Carl Anderson, Phillip Ingram (Switch V), Louise Redknapp and Judy Torres. <mask> has seven solo artist recordings featuring his drumming and original compositions.Four are in the jazz genre: <mask>, Wild! !, Diamond in the Riff, and Live!, showcasing performances by Barry Miles, Will Lee, Paul Shaffer, Edgar Winter, Hiram Bullock, Chuck Loeb,  Lew Soloff, and Bill Evans, among others. Three of the albums are in the pop genre featuring <mask>'s work as a songwriter, producer and arranger: Songwriter Producer: Volumes I & II, Collaborations: Volumes I & II, and Music To Picture. Discography

As leader
 <mask> (1997)
 Wild!! (2004)
 Diamond in the Riff (2008)
 Live! (Paul Laurence)
 My Love Is Here (Carolyn Leonhart)
 Lernertres (Alejandro Lerner)
 Louisiana Moon (Rich Look)
 Energia (Valeria Lynch)
 Guitars on Fire (David Matthews)
 Super Latin/Jazz Watermelon Man (David Matthews)
 Super Latin/Jazz Mambo

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title: Viktor Tikhomirov

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Victor (or <mask><mask> (Dec. 10 (23), 1912 – Jan. 8, 1985) was an outstanding Soviet engineer and scientist in the fields of radio electronics and automation. He was a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, three times a laureate of the Stalin Prize, and was awarded two Orders of Lenin and other orders and medals. He led development of the first full radar system in the USSR. Early Background

<mask> was born in Kineshma, a medium-sized city now in Ivanovo Oblast. Upon completing secondary school, he first worked as an electrician in the Donetz Basin (Donbass) region of Eastern Ukraine, and then at the Donbass mines of Metrostroi (the operator of Moscow's subway system). In 1934, he was admitted to study radio technology at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI – also called Moscow Energy Institute) where he finished with distinction in 1940. The Higher Attestation Commission awarded him the Doctor of Engineering degree in February 1966.While pursuing his pre-graduation studies, Tikhomirov became a senior technician at the Nauchno-issledovatelsky institute-20 (Scientific Research Institute-20, NII-20) in Moscow, a close affiliate of the Aviapribor Plant, a manufacturer of aircraft instruments and radios. There he assisted in developing radiolokatory (radio-location, later called radar) equipment. Jointly with NII-9 in Leningrad, NII-20 developed an experimental set called Redut (Redoubt). Upon graduating from MEI, Tikhomirov was assigned as an engineer at NII-20, working in a team to improve Redut. This soon

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texts: radio-location system; several hundred sets in different versions were produced at Factory 339. Tikhomirov received his first Stalin Award (1943) for the RUS-2C development. Throughout the war, NII-20 and Factory 339 dominated radar equipment development and fabrication in the USSR. In late 1940, the Soviet Air Forces developed a requirement for an on-board enemy aircraft radio-location system. The NII-9 was directed to design such a set for the new Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber.With size and weight restrictions, a microwave design using a recently developed reflex klystron (as it was later called) was selected. The experimental set was called Gneiss and operated at 16 cm (1.8 GHz). When the war started and the NII-9 radio-location capabilities went to Moscow, NII-20 took over the development of  Gneiss. <mask> was assigned Chief Designer, and retained this role through all future upgrades. The NII-20 was evacuated to Barnaul in July 1941. Under Tikhomirov's leadership, the Gneiss-2 radar was created ‘from scratch’ with limited staff and in an extremely challenging environment. At this time, the so-called ‘Tikhomirov style’ originated: frantic work schedules, extraordinary working capacity, incredible self-discipline, and insistence on high performance by the staff.In only a few months, the first pilot sets were tested with positive results. During the battle of Stalingrad in late 1942, <mask> and his design team went to the fighting scene where they installed airborne radars on Pe-2 frontline bombers and performed all set-up procedures on

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 the spot. Official testing of the Pe-2 with Gneiss-2 onboard took place at Leningrad in 1943, and it was then that the radar was commissioned. <mask> received his second Stalin Award for the Gneiss-2 design (1946). In mid-1943, NII-20 moved back to Moscow, and in the same year Tikhomirov completed the Gneiss-2M airborne radar design. Gneiss-2 radars were also mounted on Pe-3 and Douglas A-20 aircraft. In the wartime, about 230 sets with various Gneiss designations were built.Gneiss-5 and Gneiss-5C were also put into serial production, but were not fielded until after the war. In 1944, the aircraft radar activity was separated from NII-20 and became the Central Design Bureau-17 (TsKB-17). It was responsible for design of all airborne radars, as well as weapon control systems (WCS). <mask> was assigned as Deputy Director for Research in TsKB-17, and remained in the role of Chief Designer in several design trends. The TsKB-17 is today the Vega Radio Engineering Corporation. As the war was drawing to a close, TsKB-17 designed and prepared production plans for several new airborne radars, including the Argon for tail-protection of Tu-16 aircraft. The Soviet Union had begun experimenting with jet aircraft, and in support of this, <mask> and the TsKB-17 initiated a number of designs for new aircraft microwave radars; these used magnetrons that had been developed in the Soviet Union.Post-War Defense Activities

In 1946, the TsKB-17 and the NII-20 were combined to form the Moscow NII-17. Tikhomirov was appointed Deputy Director for Research and

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texts: research on an advanced, multi-functional, airborne radar system incorporating a digital computer. Ardalion Rastov served as Tikhomirov's deputy in these efforts. In 1953, Tikhomirov was elected as a Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department of Technical Sciences (Radio Engineering, Electronics, Automation, and Remote Control). Since Tikhomirov did not hold an academic degree at that time, this was a very unusual action by the Academy. Because of the large scope of Tikomirov's research, a branch of NII-17 was formed in Zhukovsky, an aviation research center 40 km (25 mi) southeast of Moscow. In February 1956, this branch was transformed into an independent enterprise, designated as Specialist Design Bureau-15 (OKB-15), and commonly called the Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (NIIP). Tikhomirov was initially the Research Supervisor, and then became Director.The first NIIP projects supervised by <mask> included several models of Uragan (Hurricane) airborne radar systems for interceptor aircraft. The title of Designer General of aviation equipment was established by the USSR Council of Ministers in 1956, and Tikhomirov was among 12 leading designers initially receiving this title. Tikhomirov was the only Designer General from the radar-WCS field; all of the others were aircraft designers. In July 1958, the NIIP began the design of a new, highly advanced, mobile air-defense system. Eventually designated the 2k12 Kub (Cube), each battery consisted of a number of similar tracked vehicles, one of


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texts: which carried a radar with a range of 75 km (47 mi), as well as an optical sighting unit. Several other design bureaus were involved in creating the Kub, all coordinated by <mask>. The Kub  prototype was placed under test in August 1959.With the complex design and units from diverse sources, it was not unexpected that the initial tests were unsatisfactory. This led to changes in the design, followed by further testing, all greatly lengthening the development schedule. By the end of 1961, Tikhomirov and his team had solved the basic developmental problems, but the project was far behind schedule. Although Tikhomirov justified two years of additional development, the Defense Ministry did not agree; consequently, Tikhomirov was relieved of his duties in 1962. Ardalion Rastov, whom he had mentored since 1953, took over as Chief Designer. The first success came when the system downed a target aircraft in February 1964, within the two years that Tikhomirov had projected. The Kub air-defense missile system ultimately passed all testing and was commissioned into service in 1966.In NATO nations, it was called Gainful, as well as SA-6. Later it was sold internationally to 25 nations under the export name Kvadrat (Square). The NIIP continued in developing air-defense and related systems. In 1995, it was renamed the Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (Tikhomirov NIIP). Other portions of the original NII-17 became the Scientific Research Institute of Radar (NIIR) and, later Phazotron-NIIR. Both of these firms, as well as the


title: Pat McCrory

texts: <mask> (born October 17, 1956) is an American businessman, politician, and radio host who served as the 74th Governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017 as a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he was the 53rd Mayor of Charlotte from 1995 to 2009 and served on the United States Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2002 to 2006. <mask> was the Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina in the 2008 general election and was defeated by Lieutenant Governor Bev Perdue, the Democratic nominee. After the 2008 election loss, <mask> returned to the private sector. On January 31, 2012, he launched his second campaign for North Carolina Governor, winning the election later that year. <mask> became the first Mayor of Charlotte to win the state's highest office, as well as the first Republican North Carolina Governor since 1993. In 2016, <mask> came to national attention after signing the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act ("HB2"), sometimes called the transgender bathroom bill.Among other provisions, HB2 prevented local governing bodies from establishing their own anti-discrimination statutes. It declared that in government buildings, individuals may use only the restrooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificates, preventing transgender people who have not altered their birth certificates from using the restroom consistent with their gender identity. The United States Department of Justice, in addition to several private citizens, filed lawsuits against McCrory and the state regarding HB2. Over 100 corporations voiced their opposition to HB2, notably to the elements that limited protections for LGBT individuals. In 2017, economists estimated that HB2 had negatively impacted GDP in the state of North Carolina by an amount between $450

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 and $630 million, or 0.1% of the state's annual gross domestic product. HB2 was partially repealed on March 30, 2017, after <mask>'s reelection loss in 2016. In 2016, <mask> lost his reelection campaign to Democrat Roy Cooper, the North Carolina Attorney General.On election night, the race was too close to call. On December 5, 2016, <mask> conceded the race to Cooper. <mask> made unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in connection with the 2016 election. On April 14, 2021, <mask> announced his candidacy for the 2022 United States Senate election in North Carolina. Early life, education, and business career
<mask> was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Audrey Mona (née Herzberg) and Rollin <mask>. His family moved to North Carolina when he was a child. He was raised Presbyterian and his family attended First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro.He graduated in 1974 from Ragsdale High School in Jamestown, North Carolina. He attended Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, where he received degrees in political science and education in 1978. <mask> was active in the Student Government Association and was part of a conservative backlash to the growing "hippie" culture at Catawba in the mid-1970s. In 2001, <mask> gave the graduation keynote address at his alma mater, Catawba College. The college awarded him an honorary doctorate of legal letters. He has served as a member of Catawba College's Board of Trustees. In January 2008, after 28 years with Duke Energy, he retired from the company to run full-time for governor.In January 2009, <mask> was named a partner with Charlotte-based McCrory & Company, a sales consulting firm. In January 2010, he was named a Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives for Charlotte-based law firm Moore & Van Allen PLLC. He is a 2014

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 Young Leader Alumni member of the American Swiss Foundation. Since 2017, he has hosted the "<mask> Show with Bo Thompson" on WBT 1110AM in Charlotte, NC. Charlotte City Council, 1989–1995

<mask> began his political career in Charlotte in 1989 when he was elected an At-Large City Councilman. He was re-elected in 1991 and 1993, and served as Mayor Pro Tem from 1993–1995. Mayor of Charlotte, 1995–2009
In 1995, he was elected mayor of the city of Charlotte, succeeding Richard Vinroot, who ran unsuccessfully for the 1996 Republican gubernatorial nomination.At the age of 39, <mask> was the city's youngest mayor. <mask> gained a reputation as a very popular, affable mayor. In the 2007 mayoral election, he defeated seven-term Democratic state Rep. Beverly Earle, 61 to 39 percent. <mask> helped develop Charlotte's 25-year transportation and land-use plan. Working closely with U.S.Senator Jesse Helms, <mask> made efforts to secure $200 million in federal funds for the city's new Lynx Light Rail system. The plan helped expand bus service in Charlotte as well as bringing light rail to the city. The light-rail line has been cited as <mask>'s biggest achievement as mayor. Economy

During <mask>'s tenure (1995–2009), Charlotte's population grew by 20%, and the population of Uptown Charlotte increased to over 13,000 people. <mask> led the effort to recruit such companies as TIAA-CREF, General Dynamics Armament, The Westin Hotel, and Johnson & Wales University. The Charlotte Arena and the U.S. Whitewater Center were opened during his term. In 2005, Money magazine listed Charlotte in its Top 3 Best Places to Live and Reader's Digest named it one of the 20 Cleanest Cities in America.National involvement and Homeland Security

<mask> has also been involved in many national

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 organizations, having served as president of the Republican Mayors and Local Officials (RMLO) organization; chairman of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) Committee for Housing and Community Development; six-term Chair of the USCM Environmental Committee; and founder and inaugural chairman of the North Carolina Metropolitan Coalition. <mask> was also the only elected official to serve on the national board of the Afterschool Alliance and was a featured Mayor in Harvard University's Faith-based Executive Session. In 2003, President George W. Bush appointed <mask> to the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council alongside Mitt Romney, Sonny Perdue, and Lee H. Hamilton. NASCAR Hall of Fame
As mayor, <mask> spearheaded the effort with local business leaders, local officials, and NASCAR teams to bring the NASCAR Hall of Fame to Charlotte. On March 6, 2006, Charlotte beat out Atlanta, Daytona Beach, Kansas City, and Richmond, Virginia, to be home to the Hall of Fame. Awards and local involvement
McCrory established a Residential Tree Ordinance in 2004, which required developers to save 10% of the trees in every new residential development.He also established a Sidewalk Policy, which required sidewalks in every new subdivision and provided funding for sidewalks in neighborhoods without them, in order to encourage walking. He also worked to integrate bike lanes into the city's transportation policy, establishing 42 miles of bike lanes throughout the city. In 2003, <mask> received the national Homeownership Hero Award, recognizing his work in leading Charlotte to have one of the highest homeownership rates in the country. <mask> founded the Mayor's Mentoring Alliance in 1995 and has personally served as a mentor to two youths. In 2005, Charlotte was named as one of

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 the '100 Best Communities for Youth' by America's Promise. The Mayor's Mentoring Alliance has grown to include 40 youth-serving and mentoring organizations, among them Time Warner Cable's "Time To Read" program. An additional partnership with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department initiated "Gang of One," an after-school gang-prevention and intervention program that works to keep children from joining gangs or helps lead them away from gang life.<mask> has served as the honorary chair for the Charlotte chapter of the Alzheimer's Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation. Gubernatorial campaigns

2008 campaign

<mask> reportedly commissioned a poll to test the waters for a run for governor in November 2007, shortly after his seventh mayoral re-election victory, but well after other Republican gubernatorial candidates had begun campaigning. A 2007 Rasmussen Reports poll had <mask> leading both major Democratic candidates, Bev Perdue and Richard H. Moore, by three points each. The Raleigh News & Observer reported on January 9, 2008, that <mask> had filed the necessary paperwork with the State Board of Elections to run for governor. He announced his candidacy in his hometown of Jamestown on January 15, 2008. In the primary election on May 6, 2008, <mask> defeated four opponents, including State Senator Fred Smith, to win the Republican nomination for governor. During the primary, <mask> was criticized for lacking conservative credentials and for the high taxes and large debt accrued in Charlotte while he was mayor.<mask> countered with negative ads against his foremost opponent, Sen. Fred Smith, inaccurately accusing Smith of running up state debt while in the legislature. In the general election, Democratic lieutenant governor Bev Perdue raised $5.6 million

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 and ran attack ads against <mask>, criticizing him on various issues. <mask> later referred to the ads as "shameless, inaccurate, and negative". Perdue and <mask> remained close, with the two often polling in a statistical tie in what was the tightest race for governor in the nation. The <mask> campaign spent $3.4 million, and an independent expenditure funded by the Republican Governor's association assisted <mask> with a further $6.2 million in spending for attack ads on Perdue. Perdue ran slightly behind her opponent in polls released the week before the election. Pundits speculated that Perdue was hurt by belonging to the same party as the increasingly unpopular incumbent Governor Mike Easley, and by McCrory's efforts to tag her as part of corruption in Raleigh.Consultants also mentioned Perdue's "difficulty of being the candidate of continuity in a change election." In October 2008, <mask> received the endorsement of most major newspapers in the state, which typically endorse Democrats. <mask>'s candidacy for governor was endorsed by the Raleigh News and Observer, the Charlotte Observer, the Greensboro News & Record, the Winston-Salem Journal, and the UNC-Chapel Hill Daily Tar Heel. Even so, Perdue squeaked out a win with 2,146,083 votes (50.27%) to <mask>'s 2,001,114 (46.88%), in what turned out to be the closest gubernatorial election in the United States in 2008. <mask> failed to win even in Charlotte, where he had been mayor for 14 years. 2009–2012 interim
Following his defeat in the 2008 gubernatorial election, <mask> announced that he would not seek a record eighth term as Charlotte mayor in 2009. Having retired from Duke Energy after 29 years of service in early 2008 to run for governor, <mask> decided to return to the private sector.He went on to

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 work for his brother's consulting firm, and also joined the law firm of Moore Van Allen. <mask> also began to pave the way for a possible 2012 gubernatorial campaign by remaining active in the North Carolina Republican Party. He spoke at numerous GOP county and district conventions and dinners, as well as the 2009, 2010 & 2011 State GOP conventions. After being a centerpiece of the 2010 Republican takeover of the North Carolina Legislature, <mask> worked closely with Senate Leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis, both of whom hail from the Charlotte area and are close friends of <mask>'s. 2012 campaign

Governor Bev Perdue declined to seek re-election in 2012. <mask> then announced his candidacy for governor on January 31, 2012. On May 8, 2012, he won the Republican primary with 83.40% of the vote.<mask> went on to defeat Democratic Lieutenant Governor Walter Dalton in the general election, 55%–43%. It is the largest margin of victory for a Republican in an open-seat race for governor since Reconstruction. Issues
When asked in a debate what further abortion restrictions he would sign into law if elected, he answered, "None." <mask> publicized his positions on the economy and education in two white papers. One was called "The North Carolina Comeback" and focused on economic recovery. In it he stated that he would work to get the unemployment rate below South Carolina's and also to restructure the North Carolina's tax codes. The other paper, "A Passion for Education," advocated several areas for reform: more classroom technology, such as virtual courses and hand-held technology; teacher merit-pay systems; and expansion of charter schools.<mask> also suggested stopping social promotion of some students and creating a new method of grading schools.


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The Raleigh News & Observer reported that <mask> would declare adding $2.2 million in the second quarter, totaling $4.4 million available for campaign spending, with 98 percent of the donors from North Carolina. For 2012, the North Carolina Board of Elections required second-quarter campaign-finance reports to be filed by July 11. In the first-quarter campaign-finance reports, <mask> showed that his campaign added at least $1 million more to its bottom line than Dalton's campaign. In the first quarter <mask> reported outraising Dalton by more than $1 million. He also reported raising nearly $3 million more than Dalton for the election cycle to date. <mask> reported having $3.1 million cash on hand, and Dalton reported $670,356.14.2016 campaign

<mask> faced Cooper in the hotly contested 2016 general election. On election night, <mask> narrowly trailed Cooper, with fewer than 5,000 votes separating the candidates out of more than 4.6 million cast. On November 10, 2016, <mask>'s campaign set up a legal defense fund in anticipation of a legal battle and potential recount. The campaign cited "grave concerns over potential irregularities" regarding 90,000 votes from Durham County. <mask> conceded the race to Cooper on December 5. The <mask> campaign filed election protests alleging that voter fraud helped Cooper in 50 counties. On December 5, 2016, <mask> conceded the race to Cooper.<mask> is the first sitting Governor of North Carolina to lose a bid for reelection since Charles Manly in 1850. In November 2018, <mask> falsely claimed that there were many North Carolina students who committed voter fraud during the 2016 election. <mask> said that North Carolina students with out-of-state driving licenses were illegally voting and that voter ID laws

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 would have stopped them; however, it is entirely legal for college students to vote in the state where they are attending college. The News & Observer noted that it is illegal to spread misinformation about people's voting eligibility; <mask> said he was simply "raising questions." Governor of North Carolina

<mask> took office on January 5, 2013, the first Republican Governor of the state since James G. Martin left office on January 9, 1993. His swearing-in gave the Republicans complete control of state government for the first time since Reconstruction. Legislation
<mask>'s election marked the first time that Republicans controlled both houses of the General Assembly as well as the governorship since 1870.From taking office, <mask> had signed into law a number of bills promoting conservative governance. He signed legislation which made North Carolina the 8th state to cut unemployment benefits since the 2007 start of the Great Recession. In addition to cutting maximum weekly unemployment benefits by 35%, the state reduced the maximum number of weeks of assistance to between 12 and 20, down from 26. The cut prevented 170,000 North Carolinians from benefiting from federal emergency extended benefits, which require a minimum of 26 weeks of state support, but also allowed the state's unemployment fund, which had become bankrupt over the course of the recession, to become solvent three years sooner. The move was criticized by some for passing up federal support and weakening the government safety net when the state had the nation's 5th-highest unemployment. In March 2013, citing concerns about the sustainability of the program, <mask> signed a bill that opted the state out of the expanded Medicaid program of the Affordable Care Act of 2009, which would have


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texts: July 2013, <mask> signed tax reform legislation that created a modified flat-tax system for the state by specifying a single income-tax rate and a larger standard deduction but eliminating the personal exemption. It also repealed North Carolina's estate tax. In August 2013, <mask> signed into law the Regulatory Reform Act of 2013.The legislation, according to the bill, was "an act to improve and streamline the regulatory process in order to stimulate job creation, to eliminate unnecessary regulation, to make various other statutory changes, and to amend certain environmental and natural resource laws." The law requires all previous rules and regulations not mandated by federal law to be reviewed over ten years by the Rules Review Commission through a three-step process. In June 2014, <mask> signed the Energy Modernization Act of 2014 into law. The bill allows hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," in the state, and criminalizes the disclosure of fracking chemicals, lifting a 2012 moratorium that blocked fracking permits. "We remain intensely focused on creating good jobs, particularly in our rural areas," <mask> said. "We have watched and waited as other states moved forward with energy exploration, and it is finally our turn. This legislation will spur economic development at all levels of our economy, not just the energy sector."Once the state completes its regulations, the law will allow for permits to be issued without additional approval. The bill also criminalizes the disclosure of chemicals or substances used by oil and gas companies during the fracking process. The legislation also bans local governments from interfering with oil and gas exploration, development, and production activities. During a special session, after having conceded defeat in the

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 2016 election, <mask> signed legislation into law that would reduce the power of the North Carolina governorship. On December 30, 2016, a state judge temporarily blocked the law from going into effect, and a panel of judges extended the block on January 5, 2017. Vetoes
<mask> issued his first veto as governor in August 2013, of a bill that would have required people applying for welfare benefits to pass a drug test. He later also vetoed a bill that extended from 90 days to nine months the amount of time that an employee could work without undergoing a background check in the E-Verify system.Both vetoes were overridden by the General Assembly in September 2013, meaning that both bills became law. In June 2014, <mask> vetoed a bill because of a provision altering the makeup of the Division of Employment Security Board of Review. On May 28, 2015, <mask> vetoed a bill that would have allowed magistrates with religious objections to refuse to perform same-sex marriages. The next day, <mask> vetoed a variation on an "ag-gag" bill. Both of these vetoes were overridden by the legislature. Education
<mask> signed the largest education budgets in North Carolina history in 2013 and 2015. A number of education changes were included in the state budget enacted in 2013 and 2016.<mask> supports merit-based pay in some cases. <mask> entered office in 2013 with teacher pay ranked 47th in the nation, and by 2016, the state's ranking moved up 41st in the nation. <mask> signed the largest teacher pay raise in the nation in 2016, which led to average teacher pay rising to $50,000 per year. The rankings for year 2017 will account for the 2016 pay raises. Those yet-to-be-released rankings are expected to move North Carolina up several slots. School districts are authorized to give

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 $500-per-year raises to up to 25% of teachers. Low-income students are now eligible to receive vouchers up to $4,200 toward the cost of attending private schools.Teacher tenure has been replaced with a contract system. State funding for Teach for America has been increased to $6 million. In a nationally broadcast radio interview with conservative talk-show host William Bennett, <mask> made a series of comments on the future of higher education in North Carolina that generated controversy. McCrory stated that "some of the educational elite have taken over our education where we are offering courses that have no chance of getting people jobs," and later responded to a comment Bennett made on gender studies courses by saying: "That's a subsidized course. If you want to take gender studies, that's fine, go to a private school and take it. But I don't want to subsidize that if that's not going to get someone a job." "Moral Mondays" protests

Several bills signed into law by <mask> and multiple pieces of proposed legislation were the target of ongoing "Moral Monday" civil disobedience protests during his tenure, organized in part by local religious leaders including William Barber II, head of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP at the time.Cited reasons for the protests included proposed changes to Medicaid, changes to voting regulations, school vouchers, and tax reform. <mask> criticized the protests as unlawful and a drain on state resources, and declined to meet with the protestors, later stating "outsiders are coming in and they're going to try to do to us what they did to Scott Walker in Wisconsin." Abortion access
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 health-care providers to decline to perform abortions, and prevented any public health-insurance policy from paying for abortions. Abortion-rights groups criticized <mask>, who had promised during his campaign that he would not sign new abortion restrictions. <mask> responded: "This law does not further limit access, and those who contend it does are more interested in politics than the health and safety of our citizens." WRAL stated that the legislation broke <mask>'s campaign pledge. Duke Energy
Following a February 2, 2014, coal ash spill that was the third-largest of its kind in US history, the US Attorney's Office opened a grand-jury investigation into Duke Energy.<mask> had been an employee of Duke Energy for 28 years, and critics said his administration had intervened on Duke's behalf to settle lawsuits over environmental violations. The U.S. Attorney's office subpoenaed 23 officials of the McCrory administration and sought records of "investments, cash or other items of value" passed from Duke to McCrory administration officials, but produced charges only aimed at Duke Energy in February 2015. Duke Energy was fined $99,111 for leaks from ponds at two power plants; the amount was part of a deal made by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources' secretary, John E. Skvarla III, a McCrory appointee. In August 2014, <mask> announced that he had previously owned more than $10,000 in Duke Energy stock and that he sold the stock after the coal-ash spill without disclosing the sale in state ethics filings. His lawyer stated that the mistake was based on the lawyer's misunderstanding of the timeframe covered by the earlier disclosures. On March 8, 2015, the McCrory administration fined Duke Energy $25 million for years of groundwater pollution, the


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texts: largest fine for environmental damage ever imposed by the state. The second-largest fine ever imposed by the state was in 1986 for $5.7 million.McCrory appointed Dr. Randall W. Williams, an OB/GYN, as the state's Health Director. Williams became embroiled in controversy over the safety of household well water near coal ash ponds. In testimony in May 2016, related to a lawsuit, state toxicologist Ken Rudo said state health and environmental officials including Williams and former Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Assistant Secretary Tom Reeder, attempted to “play down the risk” of coal ash contamination of those wells. The two officials had rescinded a "do-not-drink" notice sent to some well owners in March 2016. Rudo said in his deposition in the case that the state was informing residents that their household water was safe to drink when it knew it wasn't. Williams contended that he had rescinded those warning notices because he felt they were unnecessarily stirring up alarms. The state's Department of Health and Human Services disagreed with Rudo's contentions.Megan Davies, a state Division of Public Health epidemiologist who was section chief and Rudo's supervisor, resigned because of the manner in which the department and <mask>'s administration disputed Rudo's testimony. Davies and a co-worker testified regarding concerns they held about the state inappropriately rescinding the warning notices. On December 30, a day before <mask> was leaving office, he appointed Williams, one of his closest advisors, to the Oil & Gas Commission, a regulatory body that had been moribund since the governor won a legal battle with the legislature over appointments a year earlier. Six weeks later, Williams was appointed Health and Senior Services Director in Missouri

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 by controversial Governor Eric Greitens. I-77 toll lane
Under McCrory, the NCDOT signed a 50-year contract with Cintra, a Spanish company, to add variable toll lanes to I-77 (a major, heavily congested trucking route and north-south corridor through the state) so as to provide a reliable travel speed of  for those who pay the toll. The fee per mile will fluctuate in order to keep the toll lane from being over-crowded. Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act
On March 23, 2016, McCrory signed the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act (commonly known as House Bill 2 or HB2).The law eliminated anti-discrimination protections including for gay and transgender people and barred municipalities from re-establishing them. It initially legislated that in government buildings, people could only use restrooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificates, preventing transgender people who do not or cannot alter their birth certificates from using the restroom consistent with their gender identity. More broadly, the law eliminated municipal anti-discrimination policies concerning race, gender, and veteran status or military service, and prohibited municipalities from establishing local minimum wages, benefits, employee protections and leave policies. Senate Democratic Leader Dan Blue said "This bill essentially repeals 50 years of non-discrimination efforts and gives lawmakers in Raleigh unprecedented control over our city and local governments." "North Carolina Republicans want to pass what would potentially be the single most discriminatory act in the country. This is a direct affront to equality, civil rights, and local autonomy." <mask> stated that the law was passed in response to the Charlotte City Council on February 22, 2016, passing a


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 local nondiscrimination ordinances, a provision that ended in December 2020. Approval ratings
According to polling by the Civitas Institute, <mask>'s approval rating during his first year in office fell 15 percentage points to 49% between June and July 2013.A second poll conducted in July 2013 indicated that the governor's approval rating had fallen to 40%, down from 45% in June. The same poll indicated that only 35% of voters approved of the Republican-led state government. At the start of April 2015, the Public Policy Polling firm found <mask> to have an approval rating of 36% and a disapproval rating of 45%. Towards the end of his term in office, in September 2016, a poll commissioned by Bloomberg Politics reported 49% of North Carolinians approving of his job performance, and 44% disapproved. 2022 U.S. Senate election
<mask> is running for the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate election in North Carolina to succeed the retiring Republican Richard Burr. During the campaign, <mask> mentioned "I was a huge defender -- and continue to be a huge defender -- of Trump policies." <mask> objected to Trump's baseless efforts to overturn the election, acknowledging that Joe Biden had won the election.<mask> accused Trump of "destroying democracy." Trump has endorsed U.S. Representative Ted Budd in the Republican primary for Senate. Electoral history

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<mask> (August 25, 1948 – November 19, 2011) was a vegan ecofeminist activist scholar credited with founding Feminists for Animal Rights (FAR) in California in 1982. She authored several  books in deep ecology and ecofeminism, including Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective and several widely cited articles in college courses and related scholarship, such as "The Liberation of Nature: A Circular Affair", "From Heroic to Holistic Ethics: The Ecofeminist Challenge", and "From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine's War Against the Natural World". She was a long-time vegan in diet, lifestyle, and philosophical commitments, working out her understanding of its implications in every area of our human relationships with nature and its constituents, and she found a wide audience for those deep reflections. Reportedly, she had pursued a raw vegan diet later in her life. Her pioneering scholarship in ecofeminist ethics is foundational for continuing work in these fields. Early life

Dr. <mask> was one of six children (five daughters: <mask> of Manhattan; Constance E<mask> of Buskirk, N.Y.; Dr. <mask>, then of El Cerrito, California; <mask> of Bethesda, Maryland; and <mask> of Baltimore, Maryland; a son, Robert J<mask>, of Manhattan) born to Labor Mediator Theodore W<mask> (who passed in November 2010), and  journalist and civic leader <mask>, who passed  in

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 interview for SupremeMaster TV on ecofemininism and reclaiming our capacity for empathy. This video interview outlines how Dr. Kheel's life helped her configure her worldview of compassion and sensitivity towards others.[14:30]
 April 7, 2010 — 8:00PM  –  Feminist Perspectives on Veganism," a free public lecture at Georgetown University, White Gravenor Hall, Room 206, Washington DC. Sponsored by the Department of Culture & Politics. April 16, 2010  –  "Religious and Spiritual Reflections on Seeing and Being Seen by Other Animals," panel presentation at "Troubling Recognition: Seeing Animals, Seeing Ourselves," the 2nd Annual "Do Unto Others" Animals and Religion Conference. Chapman University, Orange, CA. More details. April 17, 2010  –  "Feminism and Animal Liberation: Making the Links," presentation at the 2nd annual Animal Liberation Forum. Sponsored by Cease Animal Torture (CAT), California State University, and Long Beach University.https://vimeo.com/15088578 More details]. February 18, 2010 — 5:00PM–7:00PM  –  "Author-Meets-Critic: <mask> <mask>'s Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective," panel presentation at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL. Sponsored by the International Society for Environmental Ethics, held in conjunction with the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. November 3, 2009 – 6:30 pm – "Ecofeminism and

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 and Children First Bookstore.Chicago, IL. Download flyer. [PDF]
 October 8–11 – Presentation on "Ethics and Ecofeminism: A Perspective on the Animal Rights Debate. 1 World Congress on Bioethics and Animal Rights ( I Congresso Mundial de Bioética e Direito Animal) Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Sponsored by the Instituto Abolicionista Animal. October 4–5, 2008 – "Toppling Patriarchy with a Fork: The Radical Potential of Veganism," a presentation at World Veg Festival Weekend. San Francisco, CA.List of <mask> <mask>'s earlier presentations

Death
<mask> <mask> died of acute myeloid leukemia at 63 years of age on November 19, 2011, in Greenwich, CT.  She was widely memorialized on the Internet, including numerous professional, topical, scholarly, and general e-mail discussion lists. 'A Collective Tribute' by Carol J. Adams
 Our Hen House Obituary
 Legacy.com
 Kim Stallwood's tribute
 Food Empowerment Project obituary on Facebook
 The Riverdale Press

See also
 List of animal rights advocates

References

External links
 MartiKheel.com
 Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective (Studies in Social, Political, & Legal Philosophy)
Papers of <mask> Kheel, 1948–2012 (inclusive), 1966–2011 (bulk): A Finding Aid. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. 1948 births
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<mask>  (born 14 July 1980) is a retired Australian rugby union player. He was a flanker for Bristol Bears, though he is more known for his 12 years (2000–10,13) at the ACT Brumbies in Super Rugby, earning 142 caps. He made his test debut in 2000 against France in Paris and earning 111 caps for Australia, 110 before retiring from international rugby on 5 February 2010 and one final cap against the British & Irish Lions on 6 July 2013. He is the second most capped Wallaby forward behind Nathan Sharpe, and is the second most capped flanker in rugby union behind Richie McCaw. Early life and junior career
<mask> was born in Manly, Sydney. He began playing rugby with the Manly Roos/Warringah Roos, before moving on to play the majority of his junior career with the Manly Vikings, and Tupou College in Tonga, playing a year above his age group in the Sydney junior rugby competition. Once that team had reached its age limit (18 years old) and moved on to the colts competition, <mask> remained in the Sydney junior rugby competition, this time lining up in his correct age group for the Seaforth-Balgowlah Raiders.He then progressed to playing in the Manly 1st grade Colts side who also won a premiership in 1999. It was during that season that <mask> made his first grade debut at Nepean Rugby Park against The Penrith Emus. During his junior career he was selected for many representative teams, including Manly, Sydney, Northern Zone, NSW, and Australian Under 16s. <mask> also had a successful school career, first at Balgowlah Boys High School, then at Cromer High School, where, along with Tongan international John Payne, he won the Australian Schools Championship. He played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1998. Senior career

Brumbies and Australia: 2000–2010
He was signed to the ACT Brumbies by Eddie Jones in 1999. He made his Super 12 debut in just his first year of professional rugby in 2000, playing against the Sharks, and he scored a try in the Brumbies Super 12 final loss to the Canterbury Crusaders.In a remarkable year, <mask> was

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 achievement of his 9th Brumbies Players' Player of the Year, with eight of those awards being consecutive. Toulon, Stade Français and Suntory: 2011–2013
In June 2010, <mask> signed a one-year contract with French Top 14 club Toulon. His RC Toulonnais teammates included former Highlander and All Black prop Carl Hayman, and former Brumbies' scrum-half Matt Henjak. Later in 2010 he was selected in the French Barbarians to play at blindside flanker (number 6) against Tonga. <mask> played for the Australia XV team alongside fellow Tongan, Lisiate Tafa, in the Southern Hemisphere Charity Fundraiser in March 2011 against the Pacific Barbarians.In the following month <mask> become the highest paid Australian rugby player by signing with Japanese club, Suntory Sungoliath, on a $3.3 million three-year deal. He joined Stade Français in 2012 on a short-term contract for the end of their Top 14 and European Challenge Cup seasons. Brumbies and Lions Series: 2013
In early 2013 the Brumbies announced that <mask> would return to Australia on a short term contract for the 2013 Super Rugby season. This followed Ita Vaea's season-ending injury. <mask> gained the approval of his Japanese club Sungoliath for his 12-week stint back in Australia. <mask> was recalled to the Australian squad in June that year for the series against the British & Irish Lions, after recovering from a knee injury. After being overlooked for the second test, <mask> was named as the starting open side flanker for the third and deciding test in Sydney.It was his first test since retiring from international rugby in February 2010 and broke Colin Meads' record of 4382 days between his first test against the Lions, and his last. Lyon and Wasps: 2014–2016
After leaving French club Lyon on their relegation to the Pro D2, <mask> made a move to England to sign for Wasps in the Aviva Premiership from the 2015–16 season. During his season with Wasps, <mask> won a number of awards; including Wasps' Players' Player of the Year, Wasps' Player of the Year, Aviva Premiership Players' Player

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 of the Year and Green Flag Forward of the Season. During his spell in England, <mask> was also involved in the England coaching setup during the 2016 Six Nations Championship

Queensland Reds and Suntory: 2016–2018
In mid 2016 it was confirmed that <mask> would leave Wasps in England to return to Japanese club Suntory Sungoliath, and that he would also play for the Queensland Reds in the 2017 and 2018 Super Rugby seasons. On 13 July 2018, <mask> played his final home game for Queensland Reds, having initially been ruled out with a knee injury. This was his final professional game in Australia. Bristol: 2018–2019
<mask> joined the Bristol Bears in England for their 2018–19 Premiership Rugby season.He retired from professional rugby at the end of that season. Personal life
<mask>, who is of Tongan background, is the older brother of fellow Brumbies player and Tongan rugby league international <mask>. He was easily recognised on the field by his dreadlocked hair style until late 2006 – when he decided to sell his dreadlocks for charity. They were given to a charity for younger people with cancer. <mask> was the face of the Australian version of Electronic Arts' video game Rugby 2005. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2012. See also

List of 2012–13 Super Rugby transfers
Wallaby Team of the Decade
Super Rugby

References

External links
 Stats on It's rugby
 Wallabies Profile

 ESPNscrum Profile

Bibliography

1980 births
Australian rugby union players
Australian people of Tongan descent
Australia international rugby union players
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Australian expatriate rugby union players
Expatriate rugby union players in France
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Australian expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Australian expatriate sportspeople in France
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<mask> (born August 30, 1960) is an American technology manager who has held positions in both public service and commercial firms. He is the Chief Information Officer of the United States Department of Transportation and was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the New York City Department of Transportation from 2008 to 2021. <mask> began his career at the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation in the 1980s, rising to the position of Assistant Chief of Technical Services for that agency. He then worked in several private sector posts managing network and media technology. In 2006, he rejoined the city government as Associate Commissioner and Chief Project Officer for the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications and was promoted to CTO at the city's Department of Transportation in 2008. He moved to the U.S. Department of Transportation in August 2021. Early life and career
<mask> was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York, the oldest of three children of Maurice and <mask>; the family moved to Middletown, New York, in 1967.<mask>'s father was a principal of Lafayette Avenue Securities, a bond brokerage firm, and his mother was a school library clerk. Schachter graduated from Middletown High School in 1978. He received a BA degree in Economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1983), where he served in student government, becoming president of the Student Association in 1982–83, and an MS in Management from the New York University Wagner School of Public Service (1995). He is certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute. Schachter began his career at the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation in the late 1980s, rising to the position of Assistant Chief of Technical Services for that agency, where he oversaw technical support services to all New York City parks. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he worked in several private sector posts, managing network and media technology

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 magazine's "Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers" of 2018. The feature noted that, among other projects, Schachter led the development of a new GIS-based sign management system for the city that lets staff obtain work orders throughout the city. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Schachter helped his department transition to telework and helped the city to create a streamlined application process for outdoor dining setups in front of restaurants. Unites States Department of Transportation
<mask> joined the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) as Chief Information Officer (CIO) on August 30, 2021. There he oversees a $3.5 billion IT budget and inherits 31 major projects left by his predecessor.In December 2021, <mask> testified before the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure about cybersecurity affecting US transportation and infrastructure. He stated that his office is running "a series of cyber sprints" that prioritize "system access control, website security, and improved governance, oversight and coordination", and will "meet the challenge of continuously improving the cybersecurity of DOT information technology systems while keeping those systems available for use." Personal
In the early 2000s, <mask> was President of Bronx Community School Board 10, where he helped foster the creation of two schools: the IN-Tech Academy and the Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy. An avid skier, in the 2010s Schachter volunteered as the treasurer of the Coalition to Save Belleayre. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Riverdale Temple. <mask> is married to Jackie Kuhls, Chief Budget Officer, Department of Subways, MTA New York City Transit, who was previously executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. The couple have two adult children.References

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<mask>  (1721—1784) was a colonial American newspaper publisher, printer, postmaster, and mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. He was involved with publishing the Connecticut Gazette, the New York Gazette, and the New-York Journal newspapers. He worked with Benjamin Franklin, the prominent publisher James Parker, and Founding Father Samuel Adams. He had a store that sold miscellaneous supplies, ink, paper, and books on a variety of subjects including religion, freemasonry, economics, history, archaeology, poetry, and biographies. The publications <mask> printed reflected his readers' struggle between the colonies and England. He openly challenged the Stamp Act of 1765, which was a direct British tax on the colonies in America for many types of papers used that included legal documents, magazines, playing cards, and newspapers. <mask> was the favorite printer of the  Sons of Liberty, a political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.Early life

<mask> was born in 1721 (exact date unknown), at colonial Williamsburg in the colony of Virginia. He received his formal schooling and training as a merchant in the colonial town. His brother-in-law, William Hunter, the "public printer", likely taught him the printing business there. <mask> first became a store shop merchant at Duke of Gloucester street in colonial Williamsburg on lots numbers 49 and 50 in a "new store" he built about 1745, now known as "Holt's storehouse" on the northeast side of the street. William Nelson obtained a loan from <mask> in 1745 and gave a mortgage to his town lots numbers 266, 267, 268 as collateral. After several loans, Nelson, eventually sold the lots to the printer publisher Joseph Royle in 1763 for the amount of 500 pounds of the then current money. Royle had a house on lots 267 and 268 at the corner of Nicholson and Botetourt Streets, known today as the "Ravenscroft Site".Mid life
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texts: colonial Williamsburg in November 1752 and served one term from 1752 to 1753. He was Justice of the Peace for York County, Virginia and also held other public positions from 1748 to 1754. In 1754 <mask> had a negative cash flow problem at his Williamsburg storehouse, where he stocked general merchandise (i.e. groceries, dry goods, sewing items, china), so he gave that business up. <mask> played a role in the early history of the Connecticut Gazette. In 1755 Thomas Clap, President of Yale College, invited Benjamin Franklin to set up a printing press in New Haven, Connecticut. Benjamin Mecom, Clap's nephew, was to operate the press to publish the paper.Circumstances changed and Mecom declined to run the publication. Franklin then sold the materials to James Parker, a well-known printer who began the Connecticut Gazette on April 12, 1755; it was the first newspaper printed in the colony of Connecticut. <mask> went to Parker in the summer of 1755 with a recommendation letter from others about his skills. Parker gave him a job in the printing business helping publish the Connecticut Gazette. The front page appeared with the co-partnership name of "James Parker and Company" on December 13, 1755. <mask> became the junior partner and resident editor conducting the printing business of the newspaper publication at New Haven. He also ran the New Haven post office at the same time.Parker spent most of his time at his printing-house in New York City, so was often away from his New Haven businesses, that <mask> totally managed. <mask> then became one of the two deputy postmasters-general for the British American colonies. He worked with the Parker as a junior deputy based in New Haven, Connecticut. <mask> moved to New York City in the early summer of 1760 to manage Parker's publishing of the newspaper the New-York Gazette and Weekly Post-Boy that then appeared with the imprint James Parker & Company, with <mask> again being a junior partner and the Company referred to. The two also controlled the postriders from New

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texts: York City to Hartford, who met the riders that carried the mail from the city of Boston. <mask> was quite concerned about the postal system and gave extensive improvement suggestions in a letter to Samuel Adams on January 29, 1776. The suggestions were based from the practical experience he gained as a deputy postmaster.Part of the letter suggested that the Continental Congress should adequately supply whatever was necessary to provide reliable postal service. Another suggestion <mask> recommended was good delivery of all letters to and from soldiers on duty and that they might go free of postage. <mask> in the  New York Journal or General Advertiser   newspaper was the first person in New York to recommend a newsdealers' system for the delivery of newspapers instead of using post riders, which was dangerous. The partnership broke up on May 6, 1762. <mask> then became the sole publisher and general manager of the newspaper and changed the name to New-York Journal or General Advertiser. He rented the publishing facilities from Parker on a four-year lease. He then moved to the lower end of Broad Street and Water Street, opposite the Exchange in May 1766.<mask> additionally then published books and other materials (i.e. pamphlets, handbills, broadsides) that were generally political. The publications <mask> printed reflected his readers' struggle between the colonies and England. He also printed laws and other court actions for the Provincial Congress of New York. He also had a store that sold miscellaneous books on a variety of subjects including religion, freemasonry, economics, history, archaeology, poetry, and biographies. It also sold ink, paper, and other stationery supplies. <mask> openly challenged the Stamp Act of 1765 while being the publisher of the New-York Gazette and Weekly Post-Boy.He was the favorite printer of the Sons of Liberty. <mask> almost stopped the publication of this newspaper because of the heavy tax he would have to pay the English for stamped paper. The Sons of Liberty, with a


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 threat of bodily harm, persuaded <mask> to continue the newspaper in defiance of the tax. <mask> then continued the newspaper on unstamped paper and even published for meetings of groups against the Stamp Act. He added to the heading of his newspaper the words,
The united voice of all his Majesty's free and loyal subjects in America – Liberty and property and no stamps. <mask> had a close relationship with the Sons of Liberty, which helped him get printing equipment. Once, they bailed him out of debtor's jail with a fee of over £400.The Sons of Liberty even subsidized him to publish the  New-York Gazette and Weekly Post-Boy as a Whig newspaper. He changed the name of the paper to New-York Gazette or General Advertiser in May 1766, where he printed his relationship with Parker. <mask> learned that Parker would not resume the New-York Gazette and Weekly Post-Boy, so he continued the newspaper using the title until October 9, 1766 (no. 1240). On October 16 of the same year <mask> changed the title to New-York Gazette or General Advertiser (no. 1241) and Parker then followed suit with the same number and printed his version of the New-York Gazette or General Advertiser. Parker resumed his original newspaper that he had owned before leasing it to <mask>.<mask>'s newspaper (issue number 1756) discontinued in New York City on August 29, 1776. This was when the British troops were about to occupy New York City. <mask> made a fast exit from the city to New Haven, Connecticut, just as the British occupied New York City, leaving behind all his printing equipment and materials, which the British destroyed. <mask> went into the printing business in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1770, in a shop supervised by his son <mask>. <mask> ran the printing business under his son's name "John H. Holt and Company." There he printed the Virginia Gazette (aka the Norfolk Intelligencer). <mask> printed some unfavorable remarks about certain ancestors of Lord Dunmore and started a quarrel with him, the royal governor of the colony of

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texts: Virginia.Dunmore sent fifteen of King George's soldiers to <mask>'s printing shop and took all of the types and parts of the printing press. In the presence of two to three hundred spectators the soldiers took these printing accessories and carried them back onto Dunmore's ship offshore. It was rumored that Dunmore wanted to print newspapers himself in vindication. However, he had no ink and only parts of a press, so was unable to print. The soldiers were looking for <mask>'s son to capture but could not find him as he was hiding and eventually escaped the territory. <mask> then moved from Connecticut with his family in 1777 and went to Kingston, New York. There he became "public printer" for the colony of New York.<mask> revived his newspaper in Kingston on July 7, 1777, starting with issue number 1757. He printed it until October 13, 1777, ending with issue number 1771. This was three days before the British burned down Kingston. He was only able to save of his personal property and about a sixth of his printing materials, which included his account books, paper stock and two excellent font type sets. <mask> again continued his newspaper on May 11, 1778, in Poughkeepsie, New York. In this town his newspaper was printed until November 6, 1780. It then restarted on July 30, 1781, and stopped on January 6, 1782.This time the reason it stopped was for the need of printing laws of the Colony of New York. It then resumed again on November 22, 1783, being titled The Independent New-York Gazette. <mask>'s newspaper was printed then for the rest of his life under this title and variations of that. He criticized British "tyrannical designs" and taught the colonists how to resist British control. Modern-day historian Edwin Emery labeled <mask> "the most important Radical printer outside Boston" during the American Revolution. Isaiah Thomas, founder of the American Antiquarian Society, described <mask> as a "man of ardent feelings, and a high churchman, but a firm Whig, a good writer, and a warm advocate of the


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 cause of his country." <mask> had a problem collecting newspaper fees for some fifty years.An example was his attempt to collect subscription fees and advertisement fees from Jonathan Trumbull. Trumbull not only ordered the newspaper subscription on a yearly basis for himself, but ordered it for eleven others, and didn't pay for any of them. Personal life and death

<mask> died in New York City after a lingering illness on January 30, 1784. He is buried in the churchyard of St. Paul's Chapel in New York. After <mask>'s death in 1784 his widow continued the Independent New-York Gazette newspaper until her death in 1788, when it passed to others and was published until March 8, 1800. <mask>'s widow also had a lawsuit against the State of New York for unpaid public printing done by <mask> during the Revolutionary War. <mask> was a member of Sons of Liberty of New York, and Burton Parish Church of colonial Williamsburg.Family
<mask> married Elizabeth Hunter, sister to the colonial Williamsburg publisher William Hunter, in 1744. According to biographer Layton Barnes Murphy they had two children:
 <mask> (b. April 19, 1746), married Eleazer Oswald (editor of Philadelphia Independent Gazette). <mask> <mask> (b. July 1748), became publisher of the Virginia Gazette or the Norfolk Intelligencer. Works
Major publications:
 Connecticut Gazette, James Parker & Company (1755-1760)
 New York Gazette and Weekly Post-Boy (1762–1766)
 New York Journal or General Advertiser (1766–1782)
 Independent New-York Gazette or the New York Journal Revived (1783–1784)

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See also
 Early American publishers and printers
 List of early American publishers and printers

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<mask> (born December 21, 1961) is a Chicago, Illinois-based director, screenwriter, and independent filmmaker. Hogtown, his "period-less" American film, has been called "the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date" and named one of the 10 Best Films of 2016 by Ben Kenigsberg, who reviewed the film for The New York Times. <mask> was named the inaugural Filmmaker in Residence for the City of Chicago (Chicago Film Office, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events) and Chicagoan of the Year for Film (2016–17) by the Chicago Tribune

His earlier breakthrough film, the micro-budget production Chicago Heights (2010) garnered rave reviews, especially among fans of the original source material, Sherwood Anderson's influential collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio, a book long thought impossible to be adapted as a film. Noted film critic Roger Ebert included Chicago Heights in his list of the Top Art Films of 2010. <mask>'s storytelling style tends to be more circular than linear. He views plot as a veneer that ties together the more important, character-centered aspects of any story. Nearing is known for building sequences of vignettes and using powerful imagery to focus on the isolation and humility of human life.He works primarily in black and white, with moments of what he refers to as "ecstatic color" and with heavily shadowed, "idiosyncratic" shot compositions. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune says that "<mask>'s chosen way of telling a story is poetic, elliptical and sometimes unhelpfully indirect, but if he chooses, this Canadian-born, Chicago-based filmmaker could very well become a significant and lasting talent." Ben Kenigsberg of The New York Times says <mask> "is not the most

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 accessible filmmaker, but with his new feature and his previous one, he has carved out an original and boldly unfashionable niche." <mask> is a Professor at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, where he is a three-time winner of faculty excellence awards and founded the MFA in Independent Film and Digital Imaging program. He is also involved in overseeing implementation of the Global MFA in Cinematic Arts with the David Lynch School of Cinematic Arts in Fairfield, Iowa. Life and career

<mask> studied for his MA in modern and contemporary literature at the University of Toronto, and went on to earn an MFA in film from Toronto's York University, and served as producer resident at the Canadian Film Centre. He has studied under Northrop Frye (Anatomy of Criticism) and Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient).He began his film career as a documentary filmmaker, making narrative-driven documentaries for both Canadian and U.S. outlets such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Discovery Networks, The Sports Network and Bravo. His subjects have included juvenile homicide, the longest bridge in the world over ice-forming waters, Russians playing in the National Hockey League, and the stagecraft of some of the world's finest writers. He shifted his focus to dramatic projects and founded 9:23 Films in 2008, feeling that documentary filmmaking "does not allow such direct access to deeper truths." After several attempts at a faithful adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, with collaborator Rudy Thauberger, the script and its production finally clicked when Nearing decided to set the rural period piece in a contemporary city. Chicago Heights was shot for just $1,000 in 2009. Chicago Heights premiered in

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 competition at the Busan International Film Festival and was named Best Film in a Fine Arts Discipline at the Berlin Black Film Festival. In 2011 <mask> adapted Rudy Thauberger's Goalie, a widely anthologized Canadian short story about hockey and obsession.The film had its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival in Fall 2011. <mask> followed those projects up with his original script Hogtown, a murder mystery set against the backdrop of the 1919 Chicago race riots. This film reveals the collective influence the works Sherwood Anderson, EL Doctorow and Michael Ondaatje have had on <mask>'s work. Hogtown was filmed on location in Illinois, Indiana, Ontario and Paris. The film stars Herman Wilkins, Diandra Lyle, McKenzie Chinn, Pete Giovagnoli, Dianne Bischoff, Alexander Sharon and Marco Garcia. The film made its US debut at Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center. Bill Stamets of The Chicago Sun-Times has called it "the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date."Nearing is presently (2021) finalizing Sister Carrie, a romantic drama set in Chicago, Montréal and Paris in 1919. The film hybridizes multiple literary sources: Theodore Dreiser's Chicago novel of the same name (1900), Alexandre Dumas' (Fils) "La Dame aux Camélias" (1848), Abbé Prévost's "Manon Lescaut" (1731), and Sherwood Anderson's "Brothers" (1921). The film features Eve Rydberg as Carrie and internationally known ballet performer Fabrice Calmels as Armand Duval. The Last Soul on a Summer Night) selected Best Art Films of 2010 by Roger Ebert
 Chicago Heights - Best Film in a Fine Arts Discipline - 25th Berlin International Cinema Berlin

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 "'Hogtown' is the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date.

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 Writer-director <mask> evokes race and writers in a mesmerizing tone poem, a follow-up to his lyrically crafted 'Chicago Heights' ... an outstanding whodunit about a detective investigating the disappearance of a movie theater millionaire in 1919 Chicago. Audacious styling mixes chiaroscuro lighting and onscreen verse... Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Jack Dempsey ... [are] in supporting roles for an epic tragedy of race. "– Bill Stamets, The Chicago Sun-Times
 "Shot for the most part in shimmering black and white, 'Hogtown' ... unfolds in loosely connected vignettes, with a mix of narrators and narrative tenses; it can feel as if you're leafing through a collection of poems ...But the film also tries to excavate a time and place, evoking the lives of the city's immigrant and marginalized residents and its 1919 race riots as well as its snowfalls, speakeasies and slaughterhouses ... 'Hogtown' plays like a find from a forgotten archive." Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times
"Last year we created the category Best Chicago Story in hope that it would become a perennial, and that every year we could single out the locally produced short or feature that best captured the life of the city. This year we didn't even need that category, because the best Chicago story was also the best locally produced drama, period." - J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
 "Hogtown expands into a multilayered, multicultural tapestry of a city and a century ... Though made on a minuscule budget, the film is epic in its scope and ravishingly photographed (mostly in luminous black-and-white), designed, and scored." – Marty Rubin, The Gene Siskel Film Center
 "Chicago's mysterious, sometimes painful beauty is revealed ... "Hogtown" is what it is. It captures


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<mask> (born August 23, 1979) known professionally as <mask>, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is an independent artist, noted for his wide vocal range, work across multiple genres, and intense live performances. Starting out at a major label, Bilal debuted with his popular R&B single "Soul Sista" in 2000, but turned to playing jazz venues and recording more progressive soul music in subsequent years. He has commercially released four albums to critical success, while his unreleased but widely leaked second album Love for Sale also found wide acclaim among critics and listeners. He was a member of the Soulquarians, an experimental black music collective active from the late 1990s to early 2000s. He has been well received, both nationally and internationally, with an extensive list of collaborations including Kendrick Lamar, Common, Erykah Badu, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Guru, Kimbra, J Dilla, Robert Glasper, and The Roots. In August 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown, Bilal wrote and recorded his first EP, Voyage-19, over the course of three days and in collaboration with various musicians in remote experimental sessions, which were streamed live on YouTube.The resulting three-track EP was released digitally the following month, with revenues of its sale and accompanying donations given to the participating artists, many of whom had been struggling financially due to the pandemic. Early life

<mask> was born <mask> Sayeed Oliver in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a

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 was discovered by Aaron Comess from the Spin Doctors during an after-school jam session. It was with him that Bilal recorded his demo and eventually landed a record deal with Interscope Records.In 2001, <mask> released his debut album 1st Born Second, which featured contributions from the Soulquarians as well as high-profile producers such as Dr. Dre and J Dilla. The album peaked at number 31 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, and it has sold 319,000 copies. 1st Born Second received universal acclaim from music critics; and holds a score of 82 out of 100 at Metacritic. The album earned rave reviews from publications including The Village Voice, Chicago Sun-Times, and USA Today, and it also received comparisons to the music of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Sly & the Family Stone, Prince, and Curtis Mayfield. The album showcased a wide variety, from the emotionally charged fan-favorite "Soul Sista", which peaked at No.18 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, to the political viewpoints of "Fast Lane" and "Second Child". Bilal managed to gain a sizable following and high attendance at his live shows, as well as much acclaim and respect from his peers, many of whom noted his range and ability to sing in a freeform style, and his classically trained falsetto.The soulful feel of the album caused Bilal to be labeled as "neo-soul". Bilal stresses that this term does not fit, and throughout his career, his expansion in music and pushing of boundaries proved his point. 2001–2011: Love for Sale saga and Airtight's Revenge

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texts: the following years Bilal continued to appear on projects by other artists of both high profile and avant garde, while recording and developing his follow-up set to be released on Interscope Records and featuring contributions primarily from producers Dr. Dre and J Dilla. These plans proved to be changeable and the final result, Love for Sale, was an album that appeared to be built around Bilal's own musicianship. Bilal switched it up on Love For Sale, which includes live instrumentation and a vibe completely new and different from its predecessor. Bilal's anticipation for the album was shot down, however, after receiving disapproval from Interscope. Unwilling to start from scratch, Bilal continued to push his LP.However, near the album's completion, the album was leaked in its entirety on the Internet. Interscope shelved the album indefinitely, hinting that it saw little commercial potential in it. The event sent <mask> into a period of distress, and he was considering quitting music; however, Love for Sale received over half a million downloads on the Internet, and <mask> began touring, despite there not being a proper release of the album. His concerts were known for being intense and inspiring awe among audiences. In 2008, <mask> began recording for his next album. After nine years without a properly released album, <mask> made a comeback on September 14, 2010, with Airtight's Revenge, a sophomore LP released under independent record label Plug Research. <mask> describes it as a retrospective: an album that

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texts: commercial success, debuting at No.1 on iTunes' R&B Chart. On Billboard, the album debuted at No.17 on the Independent Albums Chart, No.19 on the R&B Albums Chart, and No.103 on the Billboard 200, ranking higher than its predecessor, Airtight's Revenge. The album also received numerous high reviews, including an 8/10 from SPIN magazine, 4.5/5 stars from Allmusic, and 4/4 stars from USA Today. In between albums, Bilal appeared on albums by a variety of recording artists, including Kimbra, Otis Brown III, Kat Dahlia, and Slum Village.His guest contributions to Kendrick Lamar's third album To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) helped create buzz for <mask>'s fifth album, In Another Life, released in 2015 to critical success. In an essay on the Soulquarians published that year, Michael A. Gonzales traces the collective's impact to Bilal's contemporary contributions: "Listening to Kendrick Lamar's newest album To Pimp a Butterfly, Bilal has transformed himself into an arty Nate Dogg for the post-Soulquarian generation that includes Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding and, now, Kendrick. Also writing that year, Exclaim! journalist Kevin Jones said, "Bilal's years spent in career limbo feel like a relatively minor blip in the wake of the many artistically ambitious personal releases and guest projects the uncompromising singer has managed to string together in recent years." In 2019, Bilal contributed to Philip Bailey's single "We're a Winner", a recording of the Impressions' 1967 song of the same name. Bailey said of Bilal, who


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<mask> (born <mask>; 14 April 1981) is a Croatian recording artist who represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "My Friend". <mask> began his professional solo career in 2000 and has since released many recordings and albums out which 13 have been certified silver (five times), gold, platinum and diamond (once). <mask> is one of the mentors in the Croatian version of the TV talent show The Voice. During show's first season, he mentored the winner Nina Kraljić. Aside from Croatian, he has sung and recorded in English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Slovene, Macedonian, and Māori language. Early life and education
<mask> was born as <mask> on 14 April 1981 in Velika Gorica. His last name is of Czech origin.After finishing elementary music school (piano department), Houdek enrolled in two high schools, music (solo singing department) and vocational hairdressing. He also attended singing lessons with professor Viktorija Badrov who wanted him to become an opera singer. After finishing high schools in 2001, he enrolled in prestigious Berklee College of Music, honing his singing in seminars in France, Greece and Italy. Houdek continued to build up his knowledge on Berklee seminars in Europe, where he had the opportunity to be mentored by Donna McElroy, a Grammy Award nominee. Career
Houdek held his first solo concert on 19 February 2000 in Zagreb club SAX! where he performed covers of various songs. His first single, the song "Čarolija" (Magic), was released in 2002 and performed by Houdek at Dora, Croatia's national competition for

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texts: entry to the Eurovision Song Contest.There he was noticed by maestro Zdravko Šljivac who offered him a collaboration and publicly praised him by saying that a singer such as Houdek is born once every 300 years. The next month, Houdek signed an exclusive contract with Croatia Records, the leading music publisher in the region, with whom he has produced 13 albums. In 2004, he provided the singing voice of Aladdin for the Croatian dub of the Aladdin franchise, with Dušan Bućan voicing the character for the dialogues. During campaign for 2007 parliamentary election, Houdek sang party anthem "HDZ zna" (HDZ Knows) for the conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) which was at the time ran by Ivo Sanader. He later also sang for the mayoral campaign of the populist Milan Bandić. Houdek said in an interview for Jutarnji list that he is apolitical and that those were just professional engagements as any other. In January 2011, Houdek placed fourth in the finals of the Open Mic UK singing contest held in London's O2 Arena.He also participated in the British TV show X Factor, where he was given the nickname "Croatian Sensation" and entered the top 100 candidates. He was unable to continue his participation in the contest because he did not receive a work permit in time. In February 2017, <mask> was selected to represent Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine. He qualified for the final, achieving eighth place in the second semi-final and eventually 13th place in the grand final with the song "My Friend". Over the years, he has performed in the Zagreb's


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In 2005, <mask> said in an interview for the Tena magazine that "gay and lesbian population cannot be equal with other citizens because it means a return to Sodom and Gomorrah", and has called same-sex unions "sick" for which he was named the "Homophobe of the Year" in 2006 in a selection organised by the main Croatian LGBT portal Gay.hr. In a report from 2005, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) listed him  as "a public figure who gave homophobic statements".In 2011, <mask> was nominated for the title "Homophobe of the Decade" by the LGBT Zagreb Pride organisation which called him "without doubt the biggest homophobe in Croatian showbiz". In response, Houdek published a public statement on Facebook titled "Love and Music are My Driving Forces" in which he expressed his regret for being included in the selection, adding that he was gay-friendly and had nothing against love of any kind. Private life
<mask> is married to Brigita Krkač since 2006 with whom he has two children, daughter Sofija (b. 2006) and son David (b. 2013). Discography

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Four-time winner of the Croatian music award Porin. Professional collaborations
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