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 named Marion Caporusso testified on July 8 that no semen was found upon or within the victim's body. Upon cross-examination, Caporusso conceded some bloodstains found upon fingernails retrieved from an ashtray in <mask>'s apartment did not belong to either <mask> or the decedent, and that no other individual known to have been present in <mask>'s apartment between August 19 and 21 had had samples of his blood taken for comparison with these bloodstains. Closing arguments
Both prosecution and defense attorneys delivered their closing arguments before the jury on July 9. Deputy Prosecutor Rick Stock delivered the state's closing argument on behalf of the prosecution, outlining the injuries Bridges had received before his death, referencing the premeditated nature of the murder and <mask>'s efforts to conceal all evidence of the crime.Following Stock's closing argument, David Schippers began his own presentation before the jury, promising to "talk sense" regarding the case and the felony charges against his client, before stating: "Where is the evidence Danny Bridges was kidnapped by anyone?" Referencing the welt marks upon the decedent's wrists and ankles, Schippers speculated that as <mask> held a penchant for bondage, Bridges may have willingly submitted to this act. Speculating <mask> may not have been the actual murderer, Schippers hearkened to Dobrovolskis's testimony regarding Robert Little being at <mask>'s apartment as late as 2:45 a.m. on August 20 and the convenience in his choosing to pay a tax bill not due for two months later that day in a possible effort to build himself an alibi. Schippers then referenced the state's acceptance of Little's version of events and a lack of any investigation into his potential

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The jury deliberated for three hours before returning their verdict. <mask> was found guilty of the aggravated kidnapping, unlawful restraint and murder of Daniel Bridges, in addition to the concealment of the teenager's body. His face displayed little emotion as the verdict was announced, although his hands clenched the legs of the attorneys sitting either side of him. Penalty phase
On September 30, both prosecution and defense attorneys outlined their arguments in relation to the sentence to be imposed upon <mask> before Judge Urso; these arguments concluded the following day. Prosecutor Richard Stock introduced four individuals who each testified to instances in which they had been assaulted and, in one case, left for dead by <mask> between 1978 and 1981. Outlining the similarities in <mask>'s restraining or immobilizing these individuals to the restraint and torture Bridges had endured before he was "finally put out of his misery", Stock added: "There is nothing, Your Honor, that can mitigate the tears and the agony that <mask> has caused in his entire life, thirty-three years, and he has caused more tears than anyone [...] a sentence other than death will be giving him his freedom." On October 1, David Schippers introduced four character witnesses (<mask>'s

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Upon hearing the counsels' closing arguments, Judge Urso announced he would return his decision at 10:00 a.m. on October 3. On this date, Judge Urso formally sentenced <mask> to death by lethal injection. Emphasizing his decision had been difficult for him to reach due to his religious beliefs, Urso explained: "The senseless and barbaric murder of a 16-year-old boy, a killing which was so brutal it defies description, shows me your complete disregard for human life.If there ever was a person or a situation for which the death penalty is appropriate, it is you. You are an evil person. You truly deserve to die for your acts. I thereby sentence you to death for the murder of Danny Bridges,


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In May 1988, <mask> filed a formal appeal against his conviction, contending that although he had dismembered Bridges' body and disposed of the remains, the actual murder itself had been committed by Robert Little in his absence, and this contention had not been rebutted by the prosecution at his trial. This appeal further contended Bridges had been driven to <mask>'s apartment by Robert Little (whose vehicle had not been subjected to a forensic examination), and that his alibi had never been corroborated. This appeal was heard on May 10, 1989, and later dismissed on October 25. An initial execution date was set for March 14, 1990. On November 5, 1990, an attorney named Kathleen Zellner was appointed by the Illinois Appellate Defender's office to represent <mask>ion County prosecutor named <mask> obtained the physical evidence retrieved against <mask> in relation to the murder of Ralph Calise (previously ordered suppressed by Judge William Block) with the intention of presenting the evidence before an Indiana grand jury to determine whether sufficient evidence existed to

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Robert Little was brought to trial on April 11, 1991. He was tried in Vermillion County before Judge Don Darnell, and entered a formal plea of not guilty on this date. <mask> testified against his alleged accomplice at this trial; claiming he and Little had both committed the murder of Agan on December 19, 1982.According to <mask>, the two had regularly socialized within Indianapolis's gay community, occasionally bringing young men to Little's home to engage in sex, with Little frequently photographing the sexual acts. Testimony from <mask> asserted that on the date of the murder, Little had suggested the two "do a scene", which he had understood to mean commit a murder for sexual pleasure as Little photographed the event with a Polaroid camera. He and Little had lured Agan—whom <mask> had vaguely known through frequenting the car wash where Agan had worked—into Little's vehicle in Terre Haute, initially with the promise of Agan simply drinking with the two. Although Agan was heterosexual, he agreed to participate in a bondage and photography session for money. The two men had initially driven Agan to a location close to the Terre Haute Regional Airport, where a guardsman ordered the three off airport grounds. <mask> then drove toward an abandoned shed close to Indiana State Road 63. At this location, Agan's hands were tied above a beam before he was gagged and bound.According to <mask>,

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Upon cross-examination, one of Little's defense attorneys, Dennis Zahn, asserted that because Little had appeared as a witness for the prosecution at <mask>'s earlier trial for the murder of Daniel Bridges, he was simply implicating Little in a further murder he had committed as a form of revenge. In support of this contention, Zahn questioned <mask> in regard to fifteen other alleged victims of his; on each occasion, <mask> exercised his Fifth Amendment rights and suggested Little's attorneys could ask their client about those homicides. When questioned as to whether he had dismembered the body of Daniel Bridges, <mask> admitted that he had committed this act, although he denied responsibility for the teenager's actual murder. Further questioned as to why no photographs had been found depicting Agan's restraint and murder in police searches of Little's home in either 1983 or 1990, <mask> stated Little had disposed of the photographs following the 1983 search of his home, adding the pictures had been inside a closet in Little's bedroom, which had not been searched.On April 12, Dr. John Pless recounted the autopsy he had performed upon Agan's body on December 28, 1982. Dr. Pless testified as to having viewed several eviscerated bodies in his career,

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After deliberating for over seven hours, the jury found Little not guilty of all charges on April 17. Little grinned as the verdict was read before hugging his attorney as Steven Agan's brother and parents ran out of the courtroom. Following his acquittal, Little held a press conference in which he informed reporters: "I'm just so happy the ordeal is over", before stating his intentions to return to his teaching position at the Indiana State University. Death
<mask> died in the infirmary of the Pontiac Correctional Center on March 6, 1994. His death was due to AIDS-related complications; he had been seriously ill for approximately ten days prior to his death. At the time of <mask>'s death, his attorney, Kathleen Zellner, had prepared a further appeal disputing her client's conviction in the Bridges murder. This appeal was

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Two days after <mask>'s death, Kathleen Zellner called a press conference in which she revealed the names and/or descriptions of seventeen individuals whom her client confessed to having personally murdered, and naming four other individuals—Steven Crockett, Steven Agan, an unidentified Caucasian murdered in late-May 1983, and


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 immediately prior to stabbing several of his victims, he had pressed the blade of his knife against their abdomen before informing his victim to "make peace with God". Furthermore, <mask> claimed he had never engaged in sex with any of his victims, and he had frequently given his victims' T-shirts to Robert Little to use in masturbatory fantasies. Zellner stated <mask> had begun compiling a list of his victims shortly after she had been appointed as his legal representative in November 1990 in an effort to obtain a plea bargain whereby his sentence would be commuted to one of life imprisonment. With his health in gradual decline, <mask> had authorized his attorney to publicly release his confessions after his death, with his explanation being that the families of his victims would know he had confessed to the murders of their relatives. Victims
<mask>'s posthumous confession revealed he had murdered twenty-one teenage boys and young men between 1982 and 1984, being assisted by his alleged accomplice Robert Little in four of these murders. He denied any culpability in the physical murder of Daniel Bridges, although he admitted to the dismemberment and disposal of the teenager's body. Investigators strongly believe <mask> is also responsible for two further homicides committed in Wisconsin and Kentucky in 1983.In his formal confession, <mask> claimed to have committed his murders in part as a means of relieving internal frustrations frequently triggered by fights with his lover, and to his achieving a sense of relief after the act. His victims were hitchhikers, male prostitutes, or individuals he had generally encountered by happenstance. Each victim would be plied with alcohol and sedatives and driven to a remote area where


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 <mask> would typically wait for an opportune moment to handcuff his victim. He would then overpower, gag, blindfold, and bind his victim hand and foot before proceeding to bludgeon and lash his victim before murdering him. Of these twenty further victims to which <mask> posthumously confessed, ten had been committed in Indiana, and ten in Illinois. Furthermore, according to <mask>, the body of one of these victims—an Uptown male prostitute known as "Cowboy" killed in his Rogers Park apartment in April 1984—had never been found. In April 2021, one of the four victims discovered alongside an oak tree close to an abandoned farmhouse in Lake Village, Indiana on October 18, 1983 was positively identified using DNA and genetic genealogy as John Brandenburg Jr. of Chicago.One victim recovered from this location remains unidentified. A further victim, discovered in Jasper County, Indiana on October 15, 1983, was identified in December 2021 as William Lewis of Peru, Indiana. October 23, 1982: Steven Crockett (19). October 30, 1982: Edgar Underkofler (26). November 1982: John Johnson (25). November 20, 1982: William Lewis (19). December 19, 1982: Steven Agan (23).December 22, 1982: John Roach (21). December 30, 1982: David Block (22). January 24, 1983: Ervin Gibson (16). March 2, 1983: John Bartlett (19). March 8, 1983: Michael Bauer (22). March 20, 1983: Richard Wayne (17). March 22, 1983: Jay Reynolds (29).*
 April 8, 1983: Gustavo Herrera (28). May 4, 1983: Jimmie Roberts (18). May 7, 1983: Daniel McNeive (21). May 18, 1983: Richard Bruce (25). c. May 29, 1983: John Brandenburg Jr. (19). August 31, 1983: Ralph Calise (28). September 27, 1983: Eric Hansen (18).*
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Four of <mask>'s victims still remain unidentified, the body of one of whom has never been found. The bodies of two of these unidentified decedents were discovered in Indiana, with one further victim discovered in Illinois. Each unidentified decedent is listed below in order of body discovery, with the final entry being an entry within <mask>'s posthumous confession to one further murder he claimed to have committed with the assistance of Robert Little in 1984. July 2, 1983. Ford County, Illinois.Hispanic, aged 20–25. October 18, 1983. Newton County, Indiana. African-American, aged 15–18. December 7, 1983. Hendricks County, Indiana. African-American, aged 25–39.c. April 1984. Cook County, Illinois. Caucasian, aged 16–19. Aftermath
Following <mask>'s arrest and subsequent conviction for the murder of Daniel Bridges, Lake County Circuit Judge William Block suffered political repercussions as a result of his decision to suppress evidence pertaining to <mask>'s guilt in the murder of Ralph Calise and to reduce his bond sum to $10,000. Block later unsuccessfully bid to be appointed to the Illinois Appellate Court. He remained a circuit court judge in Waukegan. <mask>'s lover, John Dobrovolskis, relocated to California shortly after his arrest.He later returned to live with his wife, Sally, in Chicago. Dobrovolskis died of AIDS in January 1990 at the age of 29. Shortly after his 1991 acquittal of the murder of Steven Agan, Robert Little returned to the teaching position he had held at the Indiana State University since 1971, and continued to maintain his lack of knowledge of and innocence in any murders

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 <mask> had committed. On the day <mask>'s posthumous confession was revealed by his attorney, a spokesman for the Cook County State's Attorney stated to the media that despite <mask>'s claims to have been assisted by Little in four murders, and that Little had actually murdered Daniel Bridges, insufficient real evidence existed to substantiate <mask>'s admissions and that no further investigation into Little's alleged participation in <mask>'s murders would ensue. Kathleen Zellner continues to practice law in Downers Grove, Illinois. Her firm specializes in the overturning of wrongful convictions. Shortly after <mask> confessed his guilt in twenty-one homicides to her in 1990, Zellner resolved she would never again knowingly defend another guilty individual.Media

Literature

Television
 The crime documentary series The New Detectives has broadcast an episode focusing upon the murders committed by <mask>. This episode, titled Body Count, was first broadcast on December 22, 1998. The true crime series Mark of a Killer has broadcast an episode focusing upon the murders committed by <mask>. This 45-minute episode, titled The Interstate Killer, was first broadcast on October 17, 2021. See also
 Exclusionary rule
 Newton County John Does

General:
 List of serial killers in the United States
 Most prolific murderers by number of victims

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Cited works and further reading

External links
 August 24, 1984 Gainesville Sun news article detailing <mask>'s arrest for the murder of Daniel Bridges
 Plaintiff-Appellant v. <mask>. <mask>: Details of <mask>'s appeal pertaining to the legality of his September 30, 1983 arrest and subsequent seizure and inspection of personal property ultimately leading to charges being filed

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 pertaining to the murder of Ralph Calise. Filed April 26, 1985
 People v. <mask>: Details of <mask>'s appeal against his conviction for the aggravated kidnapping and murder of Daniel Bridges. Rejected October 25, 1989
 Contemporary news article detailing <mask>'s death
 Chicago Tribune news article detailing <mask>'s posthumous confession
 <mask>'s confession to the murders of the Newton County John Does
 Persuading a Serial Killer to Confess as broadcast upon BBC World Service
 Crimelibrary.com entry pertaining to the case of <mask>

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Early life
<mask>zome was born in Noda Chiba Prefecture. She grew up in a troubled household, her father was a police officer who beat his wife, and her parents divorced about 1974, when Aizome was 16 years old. Soon after graduation from high school, Aizome was scouted in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood by a photographer for nude magazines. She saw nude modeling as a stepping-stone into a career in entertainment. Daydream
Pioneer pink film director Tetsuji Takechi noticed Aizome in one of her nude photo magazine appearances.Pinku eiga, or "pink films", are the softcore genre of sex-film which dominated Japan's domestic cinema during the 1960s and 1970s. Tetsuji had made Daydream (1964), the first big-budget pink film. He chose <mask> to star in his hardcore remake of this film, also called Daydream (1981), giving the actress her leading-role debut. Japan's first theatrically released film featuring hardcore sex, Aizome added to the controversy surrounding the film by admitting to having performed actual sexual intercourse on camera. Though, as Japanese law required, sexual organs and pubic hair were fogged on screen, the Asahi Shimbun calls it Japan's first hardcore pornographic movie. By 1981, hardcore AVs (adult videos) were already starting to win over the adult entertainment audience in Japan, but the film became a hit with theatrical audiences. Uncensored copies of the film were also circulated illegally.After Daydream
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Takechi Tetsuji filmed Daydream for the third time in 1987, as Daydream 2 (Hakujitsumu Zoku), and again hired <mask> for the lead role. According to the Weissers, each filming of Daydream had become progressively more exploitive, with the last, imported to the United States under the title Captured For Sex having the lowest production values and focusing most on sex and a torture orgy. Later career
She retired from regular performances in pornography in 1994, but continued to act in erotic films occasionally in later years. She would also work behind the camera in the industry in various capacities including writing and directing. In 2001 Aizome was writing a sex- and health-advice column for women in Japan, titled "Auntie Agony". She teamed up with "AV Queen" Hitomi Kobayashi in the February 2001 theatrical release, <mask> Aizome vs. Hitomi Kobayashi: Sexual Excitement Competition (愛染恭子ＶＳ小林ひとみ　発情くらべ). Aizome both starred in and directed the film, which was released by Nikkatsu's post-Roman porn distributor of theatrical pornography, Excess films.An adult video starring the two actresses and also directed by Aizome followed in March. Entitled Lesbian Wives, the video had <mask> and Kobayashi playing the wives of two yakuza bosses who become engaged in a lesbian relationship. Two years later, she directed the AV Lesbian Politicians (2003), in which she also co-starred with the popular award-winning AV actress Ai Kurosawa. In late 2003, she directed and co-starred with another "mature"

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 AV actress, Eri Kikuchi, in the softcore film Double G-Spot: Kyôko Aizome vs. Eri Kikuchi. In October 2005, she starred in the Madonna hardcore AV Widow's Obscene Desire (愛欲の未亡人) which won her a Madonna Best Actress Award at the 2005 Moodyz Awards. She also appeared in a further video for Madonna, Mother and Son Incest (近親相姦 母と息子) with Yume Imano in May 2006 when Aizome was 48 years old. Aizome's name was in the news again in 2007 when she was arrested for beating her niece.Aizome admitted to the allegations and was fined 500,000 yen. She explained, "I hit my niece to punish her for dating my boyfriend. But it went too far." Co-directing with Shinji Imaoka, Aizome filmed a fourth version of Tanizaki and Takechi's Daydream, which was released on September 5, 2009. In March 2010, she played the female lead as Kikue, a masochistic elderly woman in The Slave Ship, an adaptation of Oniroku Dan novella Dorei-bune (奴隷船). Six months later she starred in her retirement adult video Retirement, the Last Production for Moodyz at age 52. Selected filmography

Sources

 description of Hakujitsumu and Aizome – cult-films review site

References

External links
 <mask> Aizome's personal website (in Japanese)

Living people
1958 births
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Women pornographic film directors
Japanese female adult models
Japanese pornographic film actresses
Japanese women pop singers
Japanese people of Canadian descent
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title: Elizabeth Hurley

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<mask> (born 10 June 1965) is an English actress, comedian, businesswoman, and model. As an actress, her best-known film roles to date have been as Vanessa Kensington in Mike Myers' hit spy comedy, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and as the Devil in Bedazzled (2000). In 2015, <mask> began starring in the E! original series The Royals. Her first role in a big budget film was in Passenger 57 (1992). In 1994, <mask> accompanied Hugh Grant to the London premiere of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media attention. She has been associated with the cosmetics company Estée Lauder since the company gave <mask> her first modelling job at the age of 29.They have featured her as a representative and model for their products, especially perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures, since 1995. <mask> owns an eponymous beachwear line. Early life
<mask> was born on 10 June 1965 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, as the younger daughter of Angela Mary (née Titt) and Roy Leonard <mask> (8 June 192917 November 1996). She is half Irish. Her father was a major in the Royal Army Educational Corps; her mother was a teacher at Kempshott Junior School. She has an older sister, Kathleen ('Kate'), and a younger brother, <mask>. Hurley attended Harriet Costello School, a mixed secondary  in Basingstoke, and, while in her teens, she became involved with punk fashion, dyeing her hair pink and piercing her nose."When I was 16 – this was about 1981, 1982 – the thing to be in Basingstoke, the suburb I grew up in, was punk," she explained. She also reportedly associated with New Age travellers

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 in her youth. Aspiring to be a dancer as a young girl, she enrolled in ballet classes. <mask> continued in the sixth form and took A-levels in English, Sociology and Psychology in 1983 before spending three years studying dance and theatre at the London Studio Centre. She was expelled from the school in 1986 after going AWOL to a Greek island. Career

Film
<mask> made her first film appearance in Aria (1987). She subsequently appeared in the movies Passenger 57, EDtv, Bedazzled,  Serving Sara and Dangerous Ground.In 1997, she received her first and only acting award, the ShoWest Supporting Actress of the Year, for her performance in the spy spoof Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. When Hugh Grant founded and became the director of Simian Films in 1994, <mask> was credited as one of the producers for the company's two Grant vehicles, Extreme Measures (1996) and Mickey Blue Eyes (1999). In 2000, she was publicly criticised for breaking a five-month acting strike to film an Estée Lauder advertisement, for which she was fined $100,000 (£70,000 in 2000) by the Screen Actors Guild and labelled "<mask>" by protesters. Television

In 1988, <mask> appeared briefly in a speaking part as a schoolgirl in "Last Seen Wearing", an episode of the detective series Inspector Morse, which was partly filmed at a real school, Reading Blue Coat, Sonning, Berkshire. This is believed to have been her first television role. In the same year she also played Rosie Japhet in an episode of  Rumpole of the Bailey (Rumpole and the Barrow Boy). In the late 1980s, <mask> portrayed the title character in a five-part television drama, Christabel.After appearing in John Cleese's The Human Face (2001),

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 she hosted the inaugural series of the British reality show Project Catwalk on Sky 1 in 2006. <mask> was criticised as a presenter by Marcelle D'Argy Smith, a former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, who said: "<mask> has no fashion experience whatsoever. She wore a dress and has appeared at premieres." GQs Dylan Jones defended her as someone "immersed in the fashion world as a celebrity." She was dropped after one series because her bosses reportedly believed she was too wooden. In 2011, <mask> filmed a guest star role in the series pilot of NBC's Wonder Woman as the villain Veronica Cale. The network decided not to pick up the series.In July 2011, it was announced that <mask> would join the fifth season of Gossip Girl for a multi-episode arc. Her character, Diana Payne, was described by the series' executive producers as "a sexy, smart, self-made media mogul and all-around force to be reckoned with", whose "entrance on the Upper East Side will change the lives of all our characters—including, and especially, Gossip Girl herself." In September 2013, she was cast in one of E! 's first two scripted pilots, The Royals, which was picked up in March 2014 and aired in 2015. The drama series, revolving around a fictional British Royal Family and set in modern London, stars <mask> as the matriarch Queen Helena. <mask> played Marvel Comics villain Morgan le Fay in the final season of the Hulu show Runaways, released in 2019. In January 2021, <mask> appeared as a guest judge in the first episode of the second series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK.Fashion

In 1995, with no prior modelling experience, <mask> was introduced as an Estée Lauder spokesmodel. She later recounted, "I was far from an

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texts: ingénue, having had my first modelling job at 29." <mask> has since featured in ads for Lauder's 'Pleasures', 'Beautiful', 'Dazzling', 'Tuscany per Donna', and 'Sensuous' fragrances as well as participated in campaigns for the company's other cosmetics. She was replaced as the face of Estée Lauder by Carolyn Murphy in 2001. However, she continues to work with the company non-exclusively, signing a contract for the 16th year with Lauder in 2010. In 2005, she modelled for Saloni, Liverpool Department Stores of Mexico, and Lancel. She was part of the seasonal advertising campaigns for Jordache, Shiatzy Chen, Got Milk?, Patrick Cox, MQ Clothiers of Sweden, and Lancel in 2006 and Monsoon in 2007.In 2008, <mask> was unveiled as the seasonal campaign face for Blackglama mink. <mask> has appeared three times on the cover of British Vogue. She is signed to TESS Management in London. In April 2005, <mask> Beach, her beachwear line that she also models every summer, was launched at Harrods in the UK. It debuted later that year in select Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the United States and other European countries. She told Tatler magazine, "I was on Necker Island for a fashion shoot and even as Richard Branson was lying back in a hammock, he was on the phone, doing deals, managing his empire. But then I thought I am never going to have even a holiday home, let alone an island, unless I start a business that I can do without disrupting Damian's school days."In May 2008, <mask> designed and modelled a capsule collection of 12 swimsuits for the Spanish clothes brand MANGO. <mask> has been active in Estée Lauder's Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, as part of which the company created an

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 "Elizabeth Pink" lipstick whose sales benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. <mask>'s grandmother died of breast cancer. <mask> supported The Prince's Trust by co-presenting the 2003 Fashion Rocks event in its aid and helping launch the Get Into Cooking youth initiative in 2004. She has also helped raise funds for End Hunger Network, ARK children's charity, and the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre. She is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. She is also patron of the City Veterans Network, a charity based in the City of London that links former members of the Armed Forces to opportunities for rehabilitation and employment.Politics
In June 2016, <mask> expressed her support for the United Kingdom leaving the European Union and urged the public to vote in the 2016 European Union membership referendum. Personal life

<mask> was a relatively unknown actress when she met Hugh Grant in 1987 while working on a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento. In the 1990s, <mask> became known as the girlfriend of Hugh Grant. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of international media attention due to the success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, <mask> accompanied him to the film's London premiere in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media attention. While dating <mask>, Grant gained international notoriety for soliciting the services of a prostitute in 1995. <mask> stood by him and accompanied Grant to the premiere of his movie Nine Months. After 13 years together, <mask> and Grant announced an "amicable" split in May 2000.On 4 April 2002, <mask> gave birth to a son, Damian Charles

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 <mask>. The baby's father, American businessman Steve Bing, denied paternity by alleging that he and <mask> had a brief, non-exclusive relationship in 2001. A DNA test, however, established Bing as the child's father. Hugh Grant is Damian's godfather. <mask> is godmother to Patsy Kensit and Liam Gallagher's son Lennon and two of David and Victoria Beckham's sons (Brooklyn and Romeo). In late 2002, <mask> started dating Indian textile heir Arun Nayar, who has run a small software company since 1998. They married in 2007.<mask> lived on a  organic farm in Barnsley, Gloucestershire, with her son and husband. In December 2010, <mask> announced that she and her husband had separated several months earlier. <mask> filed for divorce on 2 April 2011, citing as the cause Nayar's "unreasonable behaviour", grounds for divorce under English law. The divorce was granted on 15 June 2011. In late 2011, three months after her divorce, <mask> and Shane Warne, a former Australian cricketer, were engaged. On 16 December 2013, Hello magazine reported that the couple had decided to split. In 2012, <mask> and Warne bought the Grade II listed mansion Donnington Hall, near Ledbury, Herefordshire as their main home.She has remained living there since their separation. In March 2018, her nephew <mask> was stabbed repeatedly in the back by a group of men in Wandsworth, south London. She described it as an "appalling" time for the family, stating: "The deepest wound just missed severing his spine. By some miracle no vital organs were damaged." Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

 The Cherry Orchard – A Jubilee (Russian & Soviet Arts Festival)
 The Man Most Likely To (Middle East

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title: Joe Kyrillos

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Joseph M<mask>. (born April 12, 1960) is an American Republican Party politician and businessman from New Jersey. Kyrillos served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1992 to 2018, where he represented the 13th Legislative District, and in the General Assembly from 1988 to 1992. Kyrillos started the consulting firm SK partners and is employed with Newport Capital Group, Red Bank, a financial services firm. He is affiliated with Woodmont Properties, a regional real estate development company and is senior managing director of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, a commercial real estate services firm. From 2001 to 2004, Kyrillos served as Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee and a member of the Republican National Committee. In that role, he facilitated the logistics and implementation of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City and read the delegate count for President George W. Bush’s nomination for re-election on the convention floor. <mask> was the New Jersey Chairman of Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2008, and in 2009, he served as the Chairman of Governor Christie's successful campaign and as a member of the transition team.He served as a close advisor to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in the 2016 Republican presidential campaign. Early life and education
Joseph M<mask>, Jr. was born April 12, 1960, in Kearny, New Jersey, the son of a pediatrician. <mask>'s father and his mother's parents immigrated to the United States. His grandfather worked as a tool and die maker at Thomas Edison's factory in West Orange. His father was a doctor and his mother raised four children and graduated from college at age 50. Kyrillos graduated from Rumson Country Day School and the Lawrenceville School. He received a B.A.degree from Hobart College in Political Science and was awarded an M.S. from Boston University in Communications. After graduating from college, Kyrillos worked for

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 Vice President George Bush during the 1984 Reagan-Bush campaign. Following the campaign, he served as Special Assistant to Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel from 1985 to 1987. Kyrillos has served on the Executive Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures and as a trustee of the American Council of Young Political Leaders. New Jersey Assembly (1988–1992)

Elections
<mask> was first elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1987, together with his incumbent running mate Joann H. Smith, with both candidates receiving more than $25,000 each in campaign funding from the $1.1 million spent by the New Jersey Republican State Committee to support candidates statewide. In 1989, he won re-election to a second term.After spending two terms in the Assembly, he retired to run for the seat in the New Jersey Senate in 1991. Tenure
<mask> strongly opposed Democratic Governor Jim Florio's tax increases, citing his opposition to "the Florio tax plan" repeatedly in his campaign advertising. He also opposed the Abbott districts. Committee assignments
Assembly Education Committee

New Jersey Senate (1992–2018)

Elections
In 1991, <mask> decided to run for the 13th District seat in the New Jersey Senate. He defeated incumbent appointed Senator James T. Phillips 68%-32%. In 1993, after redistricting, he won re-election to a second term with 64% of the vote. In 1997, he won re-election to a third term with 63% of the vote.After redistricting, the 13th district became more competitive. In 2001, he won re-election to a fourth term (two-year term) with 64% of the vote. He won re-election to a fifth term in 2003 against former State Assemblyman Bill Flynn 54%-41%. In 2007, he won re-election to a sixth term with 61% of the vote. In 2011, he won re-election to a seventh term, defeating Hazlet Mayor Chris Cullen, 60%-37%. Tenure
When Republicans held the legislative majority in the Statehouse,

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 Kyrillos served as Majority Conference Leader and chaired standing committees on economic development and coastal resources. Kyrillos was ranking member of the Economic Growth, Judiciary and Legislative Oversight committees.On October 25, 2016, <mask> told Observer.com that he would not seek a re-election for the 2017 State Senate elections. He was succeeded by Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon in 2018. Committee assignments
Senate Natural Resources and Tourism Committee (Chairman)
Senate Economic Growth Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate Oversight Committee

Other positions
Senate Majority Conference Leader
New Jersey Republican State Committee (Chairman)

District 13
Each of the forty districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. The Assembly representatives from the 13th District for the 2014–2015 Legislative Session were:
Assemblywoman Amy Handlin, and
Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon

Other political activities

1992 congressional election
In 1992, <mask> ran for the United States House of Representatives but was defeated by incumbent Democrat Frank Pallone in a competitive race, falling short by about 10 points. 2001–2004: Chairman, New Jersey Republican State Committee
From 2001 to 2004, <mask> served as Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee and a member of the Republican National Committee, where he worked to elect Republicans who shared his vision. In that role, he facilitated the logistics and implementation of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City and read the delegate count for President George W. Bush's nomination for re-election on the convention floor. 2008 Romney presidential campaign
Kyrillos was the New Jersey Chairman of Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign.2009 Christie gubernatorial campaign
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 Chris Christie's successful gubernatorial campaign and was a member of the Governor's Transition Committee, serving as the liaison to all transition sub-committees. 2012 U.S. Senate election

In June 2011, Kyrillos filed an exploratory committee for a potential race in either 2012 or 2014. On January 19, 2012, <mask> officially decided to run for the U.S. Senate, citing unemployment, housing prices and the national debt as issues he would tackle in the Senate. <mask> won the Republican nomination on June 5, 2012. He opposed Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez in the November 6th general election, in which he was defeated 58.4% to 40%. Memberships
Kyrillos has served on the boards of the American Council of Young Political Leaders, National Conference of State Legislatures Foundation, Bayshore Senior Day Center, Count Basie Theatre, Garden State Arts Center Foundation, Monmouth County Historical Association, New Jersey Historical Society, Prevention First, Rainbow Foundation, and the Two River Theatre Company. Personal life
Kyrillos is married to Susan Doctorian <mask> and has two children, Max and Georgia.Election history

References

External links
 Senator <mask>'s Official Site
<mask> for Senate

 Senator <mask>' legislative web page, New Jersey Legislature
 New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure forms
 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
 Senator Joseph M. '<mask><mask> Jr., Project Vote Smart

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Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
New Jersey Republicans
New Jersey state senators
People from Kearny, New Jersey
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Candidates in the 2012 United States

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title: Sivananda Radha Saraswati

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<mask> (March 20, 1911 – November 30, 1995), born Sylvia Demitz, was a German yogini who emigrated to Canada and founded Yasodhara Ashram in British Columbia. She established a Western-based lineage in the Sivananda tradition and published books on several branches of Yoga, including Kundalini Yoga for the West and Mantras; Words of Power. She was a member of the California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and developed transpersonal psychology workshops to help students prepare for intense spiritual practice. Teachers trained at Yasodhara Ashram can now be found across North America and in Europe, the Caribbean, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Biography

Early life

<mask> (born as Sylvia Demitz, and during her marriage known as Ursula Sylvia Hellman) was born in Germany on March 20, 1911. She became a creative writer, photographer and a solo concert dancer early in life. She lived through both wars in Berlin but learned from her experiences that life can be cruel and came to question the existence of God.Her first marriage ended when her husband, Wolfgang, was executed at Buchenwald for helping Jewish friends leave Germany. She married again in 1947. Albert Hellman was a composer and violinist, but he died after one year of marriage. She also lost both parents in the war. "Thoroughly sick at heart with the brutality and stupidity of the world", she survived and, in 1951, emigrated to Canada settling in Montreal, finding work in the advertising department of a chemical firm, and becoming a Canadian citizen. Spiritual life

A search for the meaning of life through yoga and meditation took her to India to <mask> <mask> of Rishikesh.

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texts: Sivananda challenged her to think deeply about the purpose of life.‘He used every moment to teach you something’. His commitment to selfless service made a deep impression on her and Karma Yoga became a key practice in her own life and subsequently in the running of her Ashram. She was initiated into sanyas and given the name <mask> <mask> <mask> on 2 February 1956. In her publications she described extraordinary events that followed her initiation: she writes that she met the legendary yogi Babaji, the deathless avatar described by Paramahansa Yogananda in Autobiography of a Yogi, the first time in a visionary experience in Montreal. Upon return to Canada, interpreting her initiation into sanyas as a commitment to abstain "from all actions which arise from ambition and selfish desire … giving up mental and emotional attachment to life in this world" she began a new life in Montreal with no money or employment, learning to live on the charity of others. However, she quickly attracted attention in her orange sari, with her unconventional life-style, and through her willingness to speak publicly about her experiences in India. Within a few months, she was offering yoga classes, had been interviewed on CBC radio, travelled to Ottawa to speak, and been sponsored by the Canadian-India Association to fly to Vancouver to lecture on Indian philosophy.Within a year, in 1957, in Burnaby, British Columbia, she founded Sivananda Ashram, in an old ten-roomed house, where she offered classes, meditation and satsangs. She also opened the Yoga Vedanta Bookstore on Robson Street in downtown Vancouver. In 1963, the Ashram moved to its present location and was

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texts: renamed Yasodhara Ashram. <mask> <mask> also gave sanyas initiations to the young men who accompanied her and worked with her to establish the Ashram, beginning a new, Western based lineage, honouring the traditions of the Saraswati Order. For many years she focussed on establishing the Ashram, making forest cabins habitable, constructing new buildings, corresponding with students, establishing yoga teaching programs and publishing a newsletter to raise funds and draw people to the Ashram. ‘In the early years of the Ashram … traveling … was necessary to give workshops and lectures to “put the ashram on the map” as she called it.’  She visited England, the Netherlands and Germany, and frequently toured throughout North America. She lectured in many North American universities and, in 1976, co-led a conference with Herbert Guenther at Yasodhara Ashram on the role of gurus in the West.At a time when understanding of the relationships between Yoga, science and psychology were in their infancy, <mask> took an active interest. In Minneapolis, she participated in biofeedback experiments with Dr. Jose Feola, exploring the nature of the effects of spiritual practices, and she contributed to Scientific Conferences, such as the Council Grove Conference in Kansas. Discovering the need for students to deal with their psychological and emotional obstacles before embarking on intense spiritual practice, she also embraced transpersonal psychology, becoming a faculty member and graduate teacher at California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and developing a course on ‘Psychology towards Higher Consciousness’ that she taught at Antioch College, Seattle.

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 In the 1980s and early 1990s her organizational legacy took shape. Sivananda <mask> opened yoga centres  in North America, Mexico and England where classes and satsangs were offered by teachers trained at Yasodhara Ashram. A Temple, dedicated to the Light in All Religions, was opened at her Ashram in 1992. She died peacefully at her teaching centre in Spokane, in Washington State, in the early morning, 30 November 1995.Her teaching

<mask> <mask>'s aim was to interpret the ancient yogic teachings of the East so that they could be understood and applied in the West. She presented yoga as a philosophical and spiritual system in a way that accessible to anyone willing to make a commitment to their own development. She welcomed students from all cultures and spiritual traditions and helped people discover the purpose of their lives. Her teachings integrate yoga practices with personal development. They include personal exploration workshops developed by <mask> <mask> – Life Seal, Straight Walk, Ideals, Two Selves and Identification. Self-inquiry and reflection are foundations, with questions such as: 'Who am I?' 'What is life all about?''What makes my life worthwhile?' 'How do I prepare for the rest of my life?' <ref>M. Robinson, ‘Seekers after Truth: Knowledge Goal of Kootenay Bay Retreat’, Vancouver Sun (Dec 31, 1965);  <mask>, Carried by a Promise’' (Spokane, WA, 2011), 31-2, 35-6, 42-3.</ref>  In 1988 in an interview with Hinduism Today Magazine, <mask> <mask> explained, ‘The main thing I try to do is have my students bring quality into their lives. To me, people are not spiritual if this quality is not there in their lives - even if they

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 meditate six hours a day. By quality I mean that which comes from deep inside and shows up in their actions, their treatment of others and the way they do their jobs.’

For over 40 years, in addition to many shorter workshops and other programs, the Ashram has been offering an intensive three-month program called the Yoga Development Course (YDC). This introduces students to the major branches of yoga and provides a foundation in personal and spiritual development for potential yoga teachers and anyone wishing to deepen their yoga practice or change their life.A program of study under the personal direction of one of the Ashram’s resident teachers is subsequently completed before students progress to teacher certification courses in Hidden Language Hatha Yoga, Kundalini and Dream Yoga. Teachers are required to renew their certification frequently and are encouraged to donate the proceeds from classes so that the Teachings can be offered as a form of Karma Yoga practice. <mask> <mask>’s teachers can now be found offering classes in communities, across North America, in Europe, the Caribbean, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Legacy

<mask> <mask> was among the prominent disciples of Sivananda who developed new organizations that are not affiliated to the original ashrams run by the Divine Life Society. <mask> established an independent and primarily female, Western lineage as part of the Saraswati Order. This is now led by <mask> <mask>, spiritual director of Yasodhara Ashram. She initiates aspirants and has oversight of the work of non-profit organizations supporting teachers in different countries.<mask> has described her spiritual training

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 at the feet of <mask> <mask> in her memoir, Carried by a Promise: a Life Transformed by Yoga. <mask> <mask> formed the Timeless Books  imprint in 1978 and wrote many books of yoga, including Kundalini Yoga for the West, Hatha Yoga: The Hidden Language, The Divine Light Invocation and Mantras: Words of Power. Her memoirs are published in Radha: Diary of a Woman's Search and her experiences with gurus and other spiritual teachers are reported in In the Company of the Wise. Her books have been translated into 5 languages. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Vol. 7:1 (1975)
 Krishnananda, S., Gurudev Sivananda: Pictorial Volume (Tehri-Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1987)
 May, A., "In Quest of a Slim Waist", Psychic (Jan/Feb 1977)
 May, A., "Profile: <mask> <mask>, the Feminine Mystic", Psychic (Jan/Feb 1977)
 McKay, J., Glimpses of a Mystical Affair: Spiritual Experience of Swami <mask> <mask> (Spokane, Washington, 1997)
 McKay, J., "Swami Sivananda Radha: On Spiritual Leadership". The Quest Magazine (Summer 1993)
 Paul, R., "Portrait of Swami Radha", Yoga Journal (October 1981)
 <mask>, S., Carried by a Promise: A Life Transformed by Yoga (Spokane, Washington, 2011)
 Rawlinson, A., The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions (Chicago and La Salle, Illinois, 1997)
 Robinson, M., "Seekers after Truth: Knowledge Goal of Kootenay Bay Retreat", Vancouver Sun (Dec 31, 1965)
 Sivananda, S., "Farewell to Swami Sivananda Radha", Yoga Centre of Victoria (December 1995-January 1996)
 White, J."An Interview with Swami <mask> <mask>: Portrait of a Yogini: A Woman's Experience of the Spiritual Life", Science of Mind (September

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 Yogananda, P. Autobiography of a Yogi'' (New York, 1946)

External links

 Ascent magazine
 The Divine Life Society, our Heritage, Swami <mask> <mask>
 Friends of Radha Foundation (Canada)
 Radha House Association (England and Wales)
 <mask>'s blog at Timeless Books
 Yasodhara Ashram
 Yoga Journal, Luminaries, 'Swami Radha', Jeanne Ricci

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1995 deaths
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German emigrants to Canada
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<mask>. (born May 13, 1961) is an American professional stock car racing driver. Now retired from NASCAR racing, Bickle, who never completed a full season in the NASCAR Cup Series, had a long history in short track racing. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described him in 2012 as a "stud on the short tracks in the late 1980s and early '90s and a journeyman who rarely caught a break in NASCAR." He won three NASCAR truck races, had a career-best fourth-place finish in the Cup Series in 218 career NASCAR starts. Early career
<mask> was brought into the sport as a child, when he watched his father, <mask>., race throughout Wisconsin. The younger Bickle began racing motocross at the age of five. While winning the 250cc championship on Sunday nights when he was 16, he raced stock cars at Jefferson Speedway on Saturday nights in 1977.He went behind his father's barn to pick out one of his father's old racecars and selected a beat-up 1968 Pontiac GTO. "It was so beat up you could hardly tell what it was." <mask> started racing a 1974 Pontiac as a sportsman at Jefferson for the second half of the 1977 season and the whole 1978 season. Bickle stopped racing motorcycles after he graduated in 1979. He built a 1972 Ford Torino with a 302 cubic inch motor that year, which he began using at mid-season. He used the car to win a heat and the semi-feature at Columbus 151 Speedway in the car's first night out, and it ran well at Lake Geneva Raceway and Rockford Speedway. That off-season he changed the rear clip on the car to improve it for Rockford before deciding to give away the car and build a new one.In 1980 he raced weekly at Rockford, Lake Geneva, and Capital Speedway (now Madison International Speedway), winning 23 semi-features which was the most in the United States. He was named the Sportsman Rookie of the Year at Lake Geneva and Rockford. Bickle turned

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texts: his Rockford car into a late model in 1981 and raced the car to a Top 5 points finish at Lake Geneva and ninth place at Capital. He raced the car at Slinger Super Speedway and selected ARTGO races. He won his first late model feature that season at Lake Geneva. In 1982, he decided to try to run as many races as he could within 300 miles of his home, and he had raced in between 90 and 100 events by the end of the season. He had won a couple of features and had set fast time at Wisconsin Dells Speedway (now Dells Raceway Park).At the off-season banquet for Slinger Super Speedway, he told track owner Wayne Erickson that he would win the 1983 track championship. Bickle focused on winning Slinger's track championship that year and he finished in the Top 5 in 17 of 18 features that season to win the track championship. In 1984 he raced primarily at Slinger, Wisconsin International Raceway (WIR), and Capital. Bickle won his first half-mile feature at WIR even though he had raced at Capital for several seasons. Bickle updated his car, hauler, engine, and equipment for 1985 with a new sponsor. He won the season opener at Capital and several other features later in the season en route to winning the track championship. He had a good season at WIR and raced well at the ARTGO races that he ran.In 1986 he won the points championship at Capital Speedway. He had 17 feature wins that season and he ran well at Slinger, WIR, and Wisconsin Dells. In 1987, he raced at numerous Wisconsin tracks. He won a $15,000-to-win event at Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1987. Butch Miller, who had led most of the race, went in for a pit stop with 60 laps left, and <mask> and Ted Musgrave gained the lead. The race was halted for rain and hail with 46 laps left, and it was declared over with <mask> receiving the win. He had won 230 races at various short tracks, including Lake

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 Geneva Raceway, Wisconsin International Raceway, and late model track championships at Slinger Super Speedway in 1983 and 1989.<mask> won the Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway a record five times: 1990, 1991, 1996, 1998 and 1999. ASA
In 1990, he made his debut in the American Speed Association, a Midwest-based racing organization based primarily in short tracks. He finished runner up to Johnny Benson in Rookie of the Year standings. (Ironically, Benson would take over Bickle's old Cup ride in 2000.) NASCAR Winston Cup

<mask> made his NASCAR Winston Cup debut in 1989 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, in his self-owned, unsponsored #02 Buick. He finished 39th out of 42 cars after his engine expired 37 laps into the race. He made his first start in the Daytona 500 the next year when, once again driving his own underfunded Oldsmobile, and finished 28th, just five laps down.Bickle competed in 11 events over the next three years (leading one lap at Charlotte in 1993). 1994 marked a then-career-high in terms of starts, driving ten races, most of them for Harry Melling. After years of limited starts, Bickle made the full-time jump to Cup in 1998, driving the #98 Thorn Apple Valley Ford Taurus for Cale Yarborough, replacing Greg Sacks who had been critically injured in an accident at Texas. Bickle had two top-five qualifying efforts and finished a career-best 4th at Martinsville and delivered an emotional post-race interview. When the sponsorship went away, Bickle signed with Tyler Jet Motorsports to drive the #45 10-10-345 Lucky Dog Pontiac. It was an up-and-down year for Bickle and the team; Bickle posted top-10s at the Pontiac Excitement 400 and the Pocono 500. However he had trouble qualifying for races, and after the Pepsi Southern 500 at Darlington, he was released from the team.Bickle drove some for Melling Racing that year. In 2000, <mask> did

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 substitute duty for Joe Bessey's team, and drove one race for Morgan-McClure Motorsports the following year, in addition to driving once for Midwest Transit Racing. NASCAR Busch Series
<mask> has found considerably more success in the lower levels of NASCAR than he has in Winston Cup. He made his Busch Series debut in 1993 at Atlanta, finishing 27th with engine failure. <mask>'s best season in the Busch Series was 1994, where he won one pole and had four top-10 finishes in a limited schedule. In 2001, he made his first full-time run in the Busch Series, driving the #59 Kingsford Chevy, and competed in 27 events before he was released. He has run only one Busch Series race since then.NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

<mask> began racing in the Craftsman Truck Series in 1996 for Petty Enterprises, winning two poles, having 9 top-10 finishes, and wound up a solid 11th in points. For 1997, he switched to the #17 DieHard Chevrolet owned by Darrell Waltrip Motorsports, and the combination was an instant success. Bickle started four races on the pole position, winning three. He nearly won a fourth race at Sonoma until both a chaotic next-to-last restart occurred as well as rookie Boris Said retaliating against Bickle for contact during that restart; foiling the race for Bickle. When the checkered flag fell on the season, he was second in championship points. Since then he has run a limited schedule in the trucks, the most starts he's had in a season since then is twelve in 2003. Career after NASCAR

Bickle occasionally races at special events at his home tracks in Wisconsin., Bickle planned to open an auto fabrication business in Edgerton with his father, tentatively named Rock County Flatheads and Fabrication. Bickle had owned an auto customization at his racing shop in Mooresville. He began concentrating more being a businessman and by 2012 he


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texts: operated three businesses. He owned a hot rod shop in Janesville, Wisconsin, a bar in Madison, Wisconsin, and a drive-shaft business in Madison. <mask> is co-owner of a controversial strip club in Bristol, WI. Bickle built a new chassis that he raced from 2005 until 2010. He was dissatisfied with the car's performance and acquired one of his early 2000s cars back for the 2011 National Short Track Championship at Rockford Speedway.Bickle was second fastest in practice and raced in the top five during the feature. In 2012 he qualified third for the Slinger Nationals behind Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth. After being sent to the back of the field for early-race contact, he battled his way up to the lead just after half way, and he finished sixth. At the end of the 2012 season, Bickle won the National Short Track Championship race at Rockford Speedway for the second time. Bickle announced that 2013 would be his final season of racing stock cars; competing for the full season in the ARCA Midwest Tour, he also returned to Slinger Super Speedway where he won his fourth Slinger Nationals after the apparent winner, Steve Apel, was disqualified. Bickle battled for the lead in the middle of the 2013 National Short Track Championship race and ended up finishing fourth. He ended his career on the following weekend finishing 22nd at the Oktoberfest 100 ARCA Midwest Tour race at the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway on October 6, 2013.He came out of retirement in 2015 - racing at the Slinger Nationals, Madison, and several races at Wisconsin International Raceway. In 2015, he was inducted in the Southeastern Wisconsin Short Track Hall of Fame citing his two Slinger track championships and four Slinger Nationals wins. Bickle is the subject of a 2019 book Barnyard to Brickyard - The <mask> Story and he announced a book signing tour of Wisconsin race tracks in July

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 2019. After the signing tour, Bickle continued to race super lates, and in 2020 said that the 2021 Snowball Derby will be his last contest. Bickle started the 2021 year racing a snowmobile in January at Eagle River, Wisconsin. He won the Outlaw 600 class feature at the Vintage World Championship Snowmobile Derby. After several years away from a major racing series, Bickle would return to run the 2021 ARCA Menards season opener at Daytona for Empire Racing.On May 2, 2021, <mask> won the annual Joe Shear Classic ARCA Midwest Tour race at Madison International Speedway. He won the Jim Sauter Classic ARCA Midwest race at Dells Raceway Park in early September. He was chasing the weekly Super Late Model season track championship at Slinger; on the following Sunday night he won the final race and finished second to Luke Fenhaus for the championship. At the time, he stated in an interview that he had raced at 226 race tracks. <mask> made his final career start at the 2021 Snowball Derby in early December. Personal

<mask> is a diehard Green Bay Packers fan. He also likes riding his Harley-Davidson, restoring and building hot rods and adding to his antique beer can collection.}Motorsports career results

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(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) References

Autobiography

Barnyard To Brickyard - The <mask> Story, John Close.External links

Living people
1961 births
People from Edgerton, Wisconsin
Racing drivers from Wisconsin
NASCAR drivers
American Speed Association drivers
NASCAR team owners
ARCA Menards

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title: Ikioi Shōta

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is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Katano, Osaka. He began his career in March 2005. He won the jūryō championship in November 2011 in his very first tournament in the division and just two tournaments later made his makuuchi division debut. He was runner up to Jōkōryū in the jūryō division in September 2012. His highest rank was  sekiwake. He won four special prizes for Fighting Spirit and five gold stars for defeating yokozuna. He did not miss a single bout from his professional debut until the last day of the January 2021 tournament.He retired in June 2021 to become a coach and elder of the Japan Sumo Association  under the name Kasugayama. Early life and sumo background
From his preschool years Toguchi was enrolled at a local sumo dōjō, coincidentally the future Gōeidō was also enrolled there at this time. In 1996 as a primary school fourth grader, he came in runner up at a national children's sumo tournament. After junior high school, he attempted to enter Hōtoku Gakuen high school which had a strong sumo team, but when he failed he decided to take a break from sumo and worked at his parents' sushi restaurant for three years while continuing to stay in shape. Career

Acceding to his mother's wishes, at eighteen he joined Isenoumi stable and first entered the ring in March 2005. He took the shikona or ring name of Ikioi from his first pro tournament. In his second tournament in July 2005 in the jonidan division he achieved a perfect record, but lost his second bout in a three-way playoff for the championship to the future Daidō.In September 2006 while competing in the makushita division he was punched in the face in the dressing room after a bout with forty-year-old Kotokanyu, who apparently objected to being slapped around the face (a legitimate tactic known as harite) by someone over twenty years his junior. Kotokanyu was told to retire immediately afterwards. Over the next five years, <mask> managed to work his way slowly up the ranks until he was finally


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texts: awarded promotion to the salaried jūryō division after a 5–2 record at makushita 3 in September 2011. In contrast to his slow progress previously, <mask> found unprecedented success in the jūryō second division. He had only one loss in the first thirteen days of his jūryō debut, and even though he lost his last two bouts he still managed to win the tournament. His 10–5 record in the following January 2012 tournament earned him promotion to the makuuchi top division. <mask> was the first wrestler to have only one Chinese character in his ring name to enter the top division since Yokozuna Akebono in 1990.He posted only posted a 5–10 record in his makuuchi debut in March and was immediately relegated back to jūryō. He repeated the same pattern in the following two tournaments, posting a strong winning record in upper jūryō to again enter makuuchi only to get a 7–8 losing record to again be relegated to the lower division. His September 2012 division effort at jūryō 1 was where he managed to turn things around, achieving an 11–4 record and a chance at the championship which he lost to Jōkōryū in a playoff. This performance saw him promoted to maegashira 10. He achieved his first kachi-koshi or winning record in the top division at the third attempt in November 2012, and was promoted to maegashira 5 for the January 2013 tournament. In this basho he defeated his first ever san'yaku opponent, Tochiōzan, and came through with another winning record. Now a makuuchi regular, in the May 2014 tournament recorded an 11–4 at maegashira 5 and received his second special prize for Fighting Spirit.In September his bout against Ichinojo was stopped by the referee after he suffered a heavy nosebleed from striking Ichinojo's shoulder, a rare occurrence, but he still went on to win. He made his sanyaku debut at komusubi rank in the November 2014 tournament. However, he scored only six wins, and struggled badly when facing the top ranked wrestlers again, scoring only 1–14 at maegashira 2 in January and

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texts: 2–13 at maegashira 3 in July. When dropped to maegashira 12 in September he returned to form, and after eleven days he was in second place with a 10–1 record. He then lost his next three but recovered to beat Amuuru on the final day to end with an 11–4 record and a Fighting Spirit prize. In November he produced his best performance in the top division, winning twelve matches and finishing in a three-way tie for second place. He also earned his fourth Fighting Spirit prize.In January 2016 <mask> was ranked at komusubi again but recorded only five wins and was relegated to maegashira 4. He performed much better in March, posting a 10–5 record: only a loss to Kotoyuki on the final day prevented him from taking a fifth Fighting Spirit prize. With both komusubi and both sekiwake having losing records in that tournament, <mask> was promoted to sekiwake for the first time for the following May 2016 basho. He became the first sekiwake from Isenoumi stable since Tosanoumi was promoted in 1997. He lost the rank after scoring only 4–11, but he earned a first kinboshi or gold star for a yokozuna upset in the July tournament in Nagoya, defeating Hakuhō on the ninth day. In November 2016 he faced Kagayaki, a match which saw two wrestlers with single-kanji fighting names meet in the top division for the first time since the introduction of the yūshō system in 1909. He earned his second kinboshi in defeating Kakuryū in January 2017, and his third in beating Hakuhō again in the following tournament in March.The win over Hakuhō was in front of his hometown Osaka fans, and he later recalled it as one of the most memorable wins of his career. In March 2018 he finished with an 11–4 record, but a defeat on the final day meant he missed out on a share of the Fighting Spirit Prize. Having not missed a bout since his professional debut, <mask> fought his 500th consecutive makuuchi match in May 2018. In March 2019 he was suffering from cellulitis and a fever but did not pull out of the tournament, not wanting

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 to disappoint the fans in his native Osaka Prefecture, and won just two bouts. He was demoted to the jūryō division for the May 2019 tournament, bringing to an end his streak of 585 consecutive top division matches since November 2012. He returned to the top division in January 2020 following an 11–4 playoff defeat the previous November, but was once again demoted to jūryō after the July 2020 tournament. Fighting from the rank of jūryō 12 in January 2021 he recorded only a 6–9 score, forfeiting his final match against Tsurugishō due to a hand injury, the first absence of his career.This brought to an end his run of 1090 consecutive bouts from his career debut, the third highest among active wrestlers. He sat out both the following March and May tournaments, and had two surgeries, but they failed to fix the problem. Retirement from sumo
<mask> announced his retirement from sumo in June 2021, on the day of the release of the banzuke for the July 2021 tournament where he had fallen to sandanme 21. He became a elder of the Japan Sumo Association, having acquired the Kasugayama elder stock, and will work as a coach at Isenoumi stable. Fighting style
Ikioi favoured a migiyotsu (right hand inside, left hand outside grip on his opponent′s mawashi). His favourite winning kimarite was a straightforward yorikiri, or force out. He also regularly employed oshidashi, or push out, and sukuinage, or scoop throw.Personal life
In June 2018 his engagement to professional golfer Mamiko Higa was announced. The couple met at a sumo event in 2015. They had intended to marry on their mutual birthdays on October 11, 2018, but this did not go ahead. The engagement has reportedly been broken off. Career record

See also
List of sumo tournament top division runners-up
List of sumo tournament second division champions
Glossary of sumo terms
List of past sumo wrestlers
List of sekiwake

References

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1986 births
Living people
Japanese sumo wrestlers
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title: Donn Clendenon

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<mask> (July 15, 1935 – September 17, 2005) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman from  to . He is most notable for his performance during the 1969 World Series when he won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award by hitting three home runs to help lead the team known as the Miracle Mets to an upset victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Early life
Six months after <mask> was born in Neosho, Missouri, his father, Claude, died from leukemia. <mask> was a mathematics and psychology professor and chairman of the mathematics department at Langston University, an all-black school in Langston, Oklahoma. Clendenon's mother, Helen, demanded high academic achievement from her son. When he was six years old, Clendenon's mother married former Negro league baseball player Nish Williams.In addition to academic excellence, Clendenon's new stepfather decided he was going to make his stepson into a baseball player. Williams served as a coach on nearly every baseball team that Clendenon played on, including his college team at Atlanta's Morehouse College, and his semi-pro career with the Atlanta Black Crackers. Along with Williams, Clendenon received pointers from some of the players Williams knew from the Negro leagues, including Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe. Morehouse College
Clendenon graduated as a letterman in nine sports at Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia, and received a host of scholarship offers. He was prepared to attend UCLA on a

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 scholarship until some coaches from Morehouse College in Atlanta visited his mother, and convinced her that he should attend a school closer to home. Morehouse College was and is one of the premier academic institutions for young African-American men. Just before Clendenon arrived in , the freshman class were assigned "Big Brothers" to help the students acclimate themselves to Morehouse and college life.Although the policy had ended when he arrived, a Morehouse graduate volunteered to be Clendenon's big brother; his name was Martin Luther King Jr.

Clendenon became a twelve time letterman in football, basketball and baseball at Morehouse, and had received contract offers from both the Cleveland Browns and the Harlem Globetrotters. Clendenon, however, decided he wanted to teach, and began teaching fourth grade upon graduation. Williams convinced Clendenon to attend a Pittsburgh Pirates try-out camp in , and he signed with the team as an amateur free agent shortly afterwards. Major League Baseball career

Pittsburgh Pirates
After five seasons in the minor leagues, <mask> made his major league debut with Pittsburgh in  as a September call-up. In his rookie season, , Clendenon batted .302 with seven home runs and 28 runs batted in in eighty games to finish second in National League Rookie of the Year balloting to Chicago Cubs second baseman Ken Hubbs. Following the 1962 season, the Pirates traded first baseman Dick Stuart to the Boston Red Sox to open a position for Clendenon. He responded by batting .275 with 15 home runs and 57 RBI.Clendenon drove


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 in 96 and 98 in  and , respectively, and became a member of Pittsburgh's famed "Lumber Company" (although the term "Lumber Company was not actually used until the 1970s) along with Willie Stargell and Roberto Clemente. He also earned a reputation as a "free swinger" as he led the league in strikeouts in  and , and finished second in 1966 and third in 1965. 1968 expansion draft
With first base prospect Al Oliver waiting in the wings, the Pirates left Clendenon unprotected for the 1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft, and he was selected by the Montreal Expos. On January 22, , the Expos traded Clendenon and Jesús Alou to the Houston Astros for Rusty Staub; however, Clendenon refused to report to the Astros. In 1968 the Astros had hired Harry Walker to be their new manager. Clendenon had played under Walker in Pittsburgh—and Clendenon considered Walker to be a racist. He threatened to retire rather than play for the Astros.Commissioner Bowie Kuhn forced the trade through, ordering the Expos to send additional compensation. Clendenon joined the Expos on April 19, 1969. He was batting .240 with four home runs and 14 RBI when the Expos dealt him to the New York Mets on June 15, 1969, in exchange for Steve Renko, Kevin Collins and two minor leaguers. Amazin' Mets
The Mets were in second place, nine games back of Leo Durocher's Chicago Cubs in the newly aligned National League East, when they acquired Clendenon. Splitting time with Ed Kranepool at first base, <mask>'s numbers with the Mets did not improve immediately over those he put up with the


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 Expos. Slowly, however, <mask>'s batting average began to rise; on August 30, Clendenon hit a 10th-inning home run against the San Francisco Giants to give the Mets the 3–2 win. The Mets were  games back of Chicago when the Cubs came to Shea Stadium for a two-game set on September 8.The Mets swept the set to move within  game of first place, with Clendenon hitting a two-run home run in the Mets' 7–1 victory on the ninth. The Mets won their next six in a row (10 total) to move   games over the Cubs. On September 24, Clendenon swung the big bat against the St. Louis Cardinals with a three-run home run and a solo shot to clinch the NL East. Overall, they won 38 of their last 49 games, and finished with 100 wins against 62 losses, eight games over the second-place Cubs. 1969 World Series
Clendenon did not appear in the Mets' 1969 National League Championship Series three-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves. In the 1969 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles, Clendenon appeared in four of the five games, missing only Game 3. He went 2 for 4 in Game 1, scoring the Mets' only run in their 4–1 loss.He hit a fourth-inning home run in game two and a second-inning home run in game four to give the Mets early 1–0 leads in both games. The Orioles were ahead 3–0 in Game 5 when Cleon Jones led off the sixth inning. Dave McNally appeared to hit Jones in the foot with a pitch; however, home plate umpire Lou DiMuro ruled that the ball had missed Jones. Mets manager Gil Hodges emerged from the dugout to argue, and showed DiMuro a shoe-polish smudge on the ball.


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 DiMuro reversed his call, and awarded Jones first base. <mask> followed with a two-run home run to pull the Mets within a run. The Mets eventually won the game, 5–3, to complete their improbable World Series victory over the heavily-favored Orioles.For the series, <mask> batted .357 (5 for 14) with three home runs and four RBI, and was named World Series MVP. His three home runs remain tied for most home runs in a five-game Series, with Ryan Howard equaling it in the 2008 World Series. Retirement
On July 28, , Clendenon set a Mets record by driving in seven runs with a pair of three-run homers and a sacrifice fly. The Mets were in second place, one game back of the Pirates at the end of play that day. However, they sputtered from there, ending the season in third place, six games back of the division winning Pirates. <mask> batted .288 with 22 home runs for the season, and set the Mets' single season RBI record with 97. After having been demoted to the Tidewater Tides in 1970, Ed Kranepool enjoyed a career year with the Mets in .With first base prospects Mike Jorgensen and John Milner also both waiting in the wings, Clendenon became the odd man out, and was released by the Mets at the end of the 1971 season. Clendenon caught on with the St. Louis Cardinals for the  season, but saw very limited playing time behind Matty Alou. He was released on August 7 with a .191 batting average, four home runs and just nine RBIs. Three weeks after <mask>'s release, the Cardinals dealt Alou to the Oakland Athletics, and spent the rest of the season with a

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After retiring, <mask> returned to Pittsburgh and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Duquesne University in , then began practicing law in Dayton, Ohio. He recounted the 1969 New York Mets season in his book, Miracle In New York, in which he also talked about growing up in Atlanta, earning his law degree and battling drug addiction as he neared his 50th birthday. He eventually entered a drug rehabilitation facility in Ogden, Utah, and during a physical examination in connection with his treatment, learned he had leukemia.That prompted his move to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in , where he worked with Carlsen, Carter, Hoy & Eirenberg before becoming general counsel to the Interstate Audit Corporation. He also worked for many years as a chemical dependency counselor and was devoted to helping others in their recoveries. <mask> died in Sioux Falls in 2005 at age 70 after a long bout with leukemia. He was survived by his wife, Anne; his sons, <mask>, Jr. and Val, his daughter, <mask>on, and six grandsons. Shortly before his death, he was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of fame. References

External links
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1935 births
2005 deaths
African-American baseball players
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
American men's basketball players
Baseball players from Missouri
Deaths from cancer in South Dakota
Deaths from leukemia
Duquesne University alumni
Major League Baseball first basemen
Montreal Expos players
Morehouse Maroon Tigers baseball

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title: Fred Agnich

texts: <mask> (July 19, 1913 – October 28, 2004) was a Minnesota-born geophysicist who served from 1971 to 1987 as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. From 1972 to 1976, he was the Texas Republican National Committeeman. <mask> was born in Eveleth in St. Louis County in northeastern Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota at Saint Paul, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in geology in 1937. He immediately moved thereafter to Texas to work for Geophysical Services, Inc. The company sought to locate petroleum within the United States and abroad in such locations as Venezuela, Sumatra, and the not-yet-established Pakistan. Geophysical Services became Texas Instruments, headquartered in Dallas.In 1951, <mask> became the executive vice president of the company; president in 1956. He retired from the board at the age of forty-eight in 1961. In 1939, <mask> married Ruth Welton, also a native of Eveleth, Minnesota. The couple had three sons,  <mask> <mask> (born c. 1942) of Richardson, Texas, Richard John <mask> (born 1943) and wife, Tory, of Dallas, and James Randall <mask> (born 1950) and wife, Betsy, of Houston, Texas. <mask> died in November 1975. Two years later, <mask> married Brooksie Jeanne Penland Willie (born 1932), the mother of three daughters and two sons. From 1955–1959, <mask> was chairman of the board of Greenhill School in Addison,  the first co-educational, non-denominational pre-kindergarten through grade 12 private school in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.He was a trustee for the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, since the University of Texas at Dallas. Agnich served as a director for the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Opera, the Dallas Historical

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