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<mask> (born November 2, 1927) is a retired career Foreign Service Officer, ambassador and author. Early life
<mask>ra was born in Troy, New York, November 2, 1927 to John F<mask>, Sr. and Ellin F. Fennelly. Always fascinated by things nautical, he found a summer job in 1944 as a deckhand working on the last coal-burning tugboat on the Hudson River and Erie Canal (New York State Barge Canal). Later the same year, an underaged McNamara convinced a Navy recruiter to sign him up, and he spent the latter part of World War II in the submarine service, being discharged in 1946. After the war, he entered Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. His education was again interrupted when he volunteered to return to active duty with the Navy during the Korean War, from 1950 to 1951. Returning to college after Korea, Mr. McNamara graduated from Russell Sage College in January 1953 with a B.A.During this period, his summer breaks were spent at sea working as a merchant seaman. During the 1953-1954 academic year, he was engaged in graduate studies at McGill University in Canada. He continued these studies at Syracuse University from 1954 to 1956, while working for the State Bank of Albany, Albany, New York, and later as a management intern with the United States Army Ordnance Corps at the Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York. Foreign Service career
McNamara was commissioned in the United States Foreign Service in 1956. He would become an Africanist, eventually serving at seven African posts beginning in 1957 with his assignment to the U.S. Consulate General at Salisbury, Rhodesia. He was then assigned as an analyst in the African Division of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. This assignment was followed, from 1961 to 1963, with a posting to the Congo's embattled breakaway province of Katanga.Returning to Africa in 1964, he served in Tanzania, and later as

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 the Marines' Mission Command Training Program (MCTP) working as a subject matter expert and mentor helping to train Army and Marine commanders and their staffs for service in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Africa, South Korea and Japan. He also worked with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology as an advisor on asymmetric warfare. In 2003, McNamara went with a joint task force to Liberia as Political Advisor to the commanding general. JTF Liberia deployed in support of a West African force in its successful effort to end civil war in chronically troubled Liberia. Awards
In recognition of his service, the State Department awarded the Ambassador four Superior Honor Awards and three Meritorious Honor Awards for acts or qualities ranging from bravery to "unusual political acuity". For his World War II and Korean War service in the US Navy, he was awarded various campaign medals. Russell Sage College, his alma mater, granted him an honorary doctorate in 1988.Publications
McNamara's assignment to Cần Thơ, Vietnam was the basis of Escape with Honor: My Last Hours In Vietnam, written with former British diplomat Adrian Hill (Washington, D.C., Brassey's Memories of War Series, 1997). It is a vivid account of the final days of the U.S. Consulate at Can Tho, and the harrowing evacuation with his U.S. and Vietnamese employees and dependents by boat down the Bassac River on April 29–30, 1975 during the American evacuation of South Vietnam. His publications also include France in Black Africa (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1989), a standard work in English on France's unusually close relations with its former African colonies. Family
McNamara is married to the former Cong Tang Ton Nu Nhu De, and has seven children. He lives in Arlington, Virginia. References

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 National Defense University Press, 1989. Online by the Defense Technical Information Center. Charles Stuart Kennedy and <mask> McNamara. Interview with Ambassador <mask> McNamara. Arlington, VA: Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, 1993. Online by the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Arlington, VA, www.adst.org. Office of the Historian of the US State Department web page on <mask> McNamara
The Journey Downriver, clip from Last Days in Vietnam, the American Experience collection: Vietnam War.PBS. Ronald Reagan: "Nomination of <mask> McNamara To Be United States Ambassador to Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe," October 30, 1981. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. George Bush: "Nomination of <mask> McNamara To Be United States Ambassador to Cape Verde," October 5, 1989. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. |-

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<mask> (born 4 September 1971) is an international cricket coach and former cricketer of South Africa. He was known for his aggressive batting and his fast-medium swing bowling. He is nicknamed "Zulu" because of his fluency in the Zulu language. Since his retirement he has occasionally commentated on cricket in both Zulu and Xhosa. In September 2019, <mask> was appointed as the head coach of the Afghanistan national cricket team. Career

Domestic career
<mask> played for KwaZulu-Natal (Nashua Dolphins) in the domestic level in South Africa between 1991 and 2004. In 2004, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club signed him on a contract running until late 2008.At Wantage Road he impressed with his fired-up seam bowling and his hard-hitting in the low middle-order. Due to family bereavements back home, it was announced that his contract with the county would not be renewed at the end of the 2008 season. In late 2007, he started playing in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 tournament in India for the Kolkata Tigers team. International career
<mask> made his Test debut for South Africa against India in Calcutta during the second Test in 1996/97. At the time playing primarily as a bowler, <mask> took some fearful hammering in the first innings at the hands of Mohammad Azharuddin, who at one point hit him for five consecutive fours, but <mask> returned what would remain career best figures of eight for 64 in the second. <mask> is remembered for his contributions in One Day Internationals, in which he became feared as a hard hitting batsman and was voted as Man of the Tournament during the 1999 World Cup. He showed glimpses of his big-hitting in the years leading to the 1999 World Cup.His baseball-style backlift and thunderous hitting lit up the tournament and his heroics nearly took South Africa to the final. He was also voted as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2000. His international career tapered off after this, mainly due to persistent

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 ankle injuries, as well as a public dispute with the then South African captain Graeme Smith, who at a breakfast meeting shortly after his appointment to the captaincy described <mask> as a "disruptive force" to the younger players within the South African national cricket team, with the quote ending up in the South African press. Later <mask> and Smith patched up their differences. He had scored 1,906 runs in 49 matches with a highest score of 174 and 80 wickets with best of 8/64 in Test Matches. In ODI's he scored 3,576 runs in 171 matches at an average of 41.1 with a highest score of 103 and took 192 wickets with a best of 6/49. 1999 World Cup
In the 1999 Cricket World Cup, South Africa had progressed to the semi-finals, and <mask> till then had an excellent tournament, taking 17 wickets and scoring 250 runs (including two half centuries) in 8 matches and building a reputation as a hard-hitting batsman in tight situations.He won four Man of the Match awards out of the nine matches South Africa played in the tournament. The four awards were consecutive with respect to South Africa's wins (one match in between was won by Zimbabwe). The only other South African to win this award in this tournament was Jacques Kallis. The second semi-final was played between Australia and South Africa in Edgbaston, England. Australia, having been put in to bat, set a target of 214 for South Africa to chase in 50 overs. <mask> came in to bat when South Africa were 175/6 in 44.5 overs, and by virtue of his big-hitting (along with support from other batsmen), South Africa entered the final over at 205/9, needing nine runs to win with only one wicket remaining. The two batsmen at the crease were <mask> (on strike) and Allan Donald.<mask> scored consecutive fours in the first two balls of the over (bowled by Damien Fleming), levelling the scores and leaving South Africa with only 1 run to win in 4 balls with <mask> on strike. The third ball was a dot, and

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 Donald narrowly escaped getting run out when he backed out too far and tried to get back to his crease. The fourth saw <mask> mis-hit his shot to mid-wicket fielder Mark Waugh. <mask> went for the run, although chances of a run-out were high and two balls were still remaining. However, Donald at the other end, keeping his eyes on the ball and hoping to avoid another mix-up like in the last delivery, did not see <mask> sprinting down the pitch and did not hear the call to run, and <mask> was almost at the bowler's end by the time Donald (who had also dropped his bat) began running. By then, Waugh had thrown the ball to Fleming, who rolled it to Adam Gilchrist who took the bails off at the other end, meaning Donald was run-out by some distance, thus ending the match with the scores level. However, a tie meant that Australia progressed to the final since they had beaten South Africa in the group stages of the tournament.As commentator Bill Lawry put it during the final ball:

 "...this will be out surely – oh it's out, it's gonna be run out...oh, that is South Africa out – Donald did not run, I cannot believe it. Australia go into the World Cup Final – ridiculous running with two balls to go. Donald did not go, <mask> came – what a disappointing end for South Africa." Australia went on to win the tournament; although <mask>'s heroics weren't in vain, as he was voted the Player of the Series. In 2014, <mask> stated in an interview that Donald was not to blame for what happened. <mask> stated that he became impatient and, although he made it to the bowler's end, there was genuinely no run. After the match, he was cross at himself and regretted making that run.Coaching career
<mask> severed all of his ties with the Indian Cricket League in late 2009 and then completed a Level-three coaching course provided by Cricket South Africa in Spring 2010. <mask> confirmed he was in negotiations with the Bangladesh Cricket Board about becoming the

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 team bowling coach. However, in early September 2010 the Bangladesh Cricket Board confirmed that they were still awaiting a response from <mask>. <mask> had finally turned down the offer to take over as Bangladesh's bowling coach, replacing Sri Lanka's Champaka Ramanayake. <mask> was reportedly unable to convince his wife about a permanent move to Bangladesh. From 2012 until 2016, he was head coach of the Dolphins, whom he represented in domestic cricket during his playing career,

In 2016, he started as batting coach for the Zimbabwe national team. He also coached the Lyca Kovai Kings in India.In July 2019, <mask> was appointed as the head coach of the Glasgow Giants for the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. In September 2019, <mask> was appointed as the head coach of the Afghanistan national cricket team. He stepped down from the post after the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Overall, under <mask>'s tenure, Afghanistan won one out of three Test matches, three out of six ODIs and nine out of fourteen T20 internationals. In January 2022, <mask> was appointed as the head coach of the Khulna Tigers for the Bangladesh Premier League

Personal life
<mask> enjoys fishing. He is also an avid hunter. <mask> married Isabelle Potgieter on May 13, 2000, at age 28 in Durban.They have two sons. See also
 List of South Africa cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls on Test debut

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<mask> (October 15, 1947November 24, 2017) was an American artist best known for his use of the medium of lightpainting. A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, he gained an international reputation for large-scale works of art held in museums, public, corporate, and private collections, which are executed in media as diverse as light, kiln-formed glass, metal, stone, mosaic, and ceramic. Knapp wrote and lectured on architectural art glass, the collaborative process, and the integration of art and architecture. His work has appeared in many publications including Art and Antiques, Architectural Record, ARTnews, Ceramics Monthly, The Chicago Sun Times, Honoho Geijutsu, Identity, Interior Design, Interiors, The New York Times, Nikkei Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Sculpture (magazine), and 90+10. Life and work
<mask> graduated from Worcester Academy in 1965 and received his B.A. from Hamilton College in 1969. For nearly a decade after graduating from college, he worked as a fine art photographer, selling his work to corporate and private collectors in the United States and abroad.During this early stage in his career, <mask> worked closely with Polaroid Corporation on their 20x24 camera, creating large scale instant photographs. Soon enough, though, photography seemed insufficient. <mask> began to look more closely at permanent materials. Various types of ceramic, mosaic, metal, stone, and glass filled his studio as he developed the innovations for which he is known today—combining mediums and processing techniques and working craftsmen, fabricators, and manufacturers from around the world on an increasingly grand scale. Research took <mask> to Japan in 1985, where he created some of the world's largest glass-glaze ceramic murals. He had come upon a factory in Japan that made huge photo-ceramic murals, a technique used by Robert Rauschenberg in the early 1980s. Though the photo decal technique seemed tailor-made for him, he became fascinated with a thick glass glaze—a crackle

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texts: glaze—that had been developed for architecture.Changing surfaces to reflect the light was to become a major influence on later work. The following year he used photo-transfer techniques to define the images to be etched and anodized in aluminum, creating one of the world's largest etched-metal murals—a 14-foot × 72-foot piece for the Hamilton County Justice Complex in Cincinnati. A pattern was now forming—<mask> used the research for one project to enhance the next. When it came time to create two large etched stainless-steel murals for McDonnell Douglas’s Douglas Center in California, he developed a new technique of mixing paints to change the look of the surface depending on the angle of light. The kinetic force of these murals lent a palpable energy to the work. A closer look at the murals reveals his interest in creating illusions of space, which he would later explore in his lightpaintings. During the 1990s, his increasing fascination with light led Knapp to kiln-formed glass—the heating of glass to take on the shape of a form below, resulting over the decade in large installations across the United States.An acknowledged expert in his field, he frequently wrote and lectured on architectural art glass, the collaborative process, and the integration of art and architecture. In 1998 he authored The Art of Glass for Rockport Publishers. Also during the 1990s he started spending more time on personal work, creating sculpture as well as furniture from kiln formed glass and steel and hanging pieces of dichroic glass and stainless steel. In 2002, after nearly a decade of development, Knapp introduced his lightpaintings. No longer hanging glass and steel structures, in these new works the glass was attached to walls with a single light fixture illuminating the entire piece. The light that passed through the various pieces of glass was no longer an effect in space, as it was in the sculptural lightpaintings, but was now simultaneously collected and dispersed on the wall. In a series


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 of solo shows in 2004 and 2005 Knapp experimented with new coatings and laminating techniques that took him beyond dichroics and increased the range of his palette and gave him greater control in painting with light.In 2005, he received his first museum commission from the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan. Temporal Meditations, a 9-foot × 30-foot installation, became the first lightpainting in a museum collection. In 2006, <mask>'s first major exterior lightpainting, Luminous Affirmations, a permanent 60-foot × 100-foot exterior installation, was installed on the north face of Tampa, Florida’s City Hall as part of their "Lights on Tampa” program. Large-scale commissions followed throughout 2006, including his Seven Muses, a 35-foot × 95-foot commission for The Charles W. Eisemann Center, in Richardson, Texas, and First Symphony, for the Sursa Performance Hall at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. In early 2007, "Stephen Knapp: Lightpaintings" opened at the Alden B. Dow Museum in Midland, Michigan, before traveling to the Butler Institute of American Art, in Youngstown, Ohio, followed in 2008 by the Dennos Museum Center, in Traverse City, Michigan, and the South Dakota Museum of Art, and in 2009, by the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota. The exhibit firmly placed lightpaintings at the intersection between painting and sculpture. 2009 saw a commissioned installations and a solo lightpainting exhibit at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia,

Throughout Knapp's career there have been constants: a continuous research into materials; a commitment to the techniques and processes involved in enlarging his design; an exploration of the historical, cultural and technical precedents that formed the bases for both his personal and commissioned pieces; and, above all, light.References

External links
 <mask> website
 Lightpaintings website
 Exhibits Development Group website

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<mask> (May 10, 1940 – August 29, 2015) was an American self-help and spiritual author and a motivational speaker. His first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), is one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies sold to date. Early life
<mask> was born in Detroit, Michigan, to <mask> and Hazel Irene Vollick. He spent much of his first ten years in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit, after his father walked out on the family, leaving his mother to raise three small boys. After graduating from Denby High School, <mask> served in the United States Navy from 1958 to 1962. He received his Ed.D. degree in counseling from Wayne State University.His dissertation was titled Group Counseling Leadership Training in Counselor Education. Career
<mask>, a Detroit native, worked as a high school guidance counselor there and as a professor of counseling psychology at St. John's University in New York City. He pursued an academic career, published in journals, and established a private therapy practice. His lectures at St. John's University, which focused on positive thinking and motivational speaking techniques, attracted many students. Literary agent Arthur Pine persuaded <mask> to document his theories in his first book, called Your Erroneous Zones (1976). <mask> quit his teaching job and began a publicity tour of the United States, doggedly pursuing bookstore appearances and media interviews ("out of the back of his station wagon", according to Michael Korda, making the best-seller lists "before book publishers even noticed what was happening"). After Your Erroneous Zones dozens more books followed, many of them also best-sellers.Among them were Wishes Fulfilled, Excuses Begone and The Sky’s the

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 Limit. The success of these books eventually led to national television talk show appearances including The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show, and The Phil Donahue Show. <mask> proceeded to build on his success with lecture tours, a series of audiotapes, PBS programs, and regular publication of new books. <mask>'s message resonated with many in the New Thought Movement and beyond. He often recounted anecdotes from his family life and repeatedly used his own life experience as an example. His self-made man success story was a part of his appeal. <mask> told readers to pursue self actualization, calling reliance on the self a guide to "religious" experience, and suggested that readers emulate Jesus Christ, whom he termed both an example of a self-actualized person and a "preacher of self-reliance".<mask> criticized societal focus on guilt, which he saw as an unhealthy immobilization in the present due to actions taken in the past. He encouraged readers to see how parents, institutions, and even they, themselves, had imposed guilt trips upon themselves. Although <mask> initially resisted the spiritual tag, by the 1990s he had altered his message to include more components of spirituality when he wrote the book Real Magic and discussed higher consciousness in the book Your Sacred Self. Influences
<mask> claimed Nisargadatta Maharaj as his teacher and cited the quotation, "Love says: 'I am everything'. Wisdom says: 'I am nothing'," from a compilation of talks on Shiva Advaita (Nondualism) philosophy I Am That. He was influenced by Abraham Maslow's concept of self-actualization and by the teachings of Swami Muktananda, whom he considered to be his Master. In his book, Wishes Fulfilled; Mastering the Art of Manifesting, Dr.

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Pulling Your Own Strings (Copyright 1978) was <mask>s' second work as sole author. It developed the idea of habitual "belief systems" hampering our personal effectiveness. Chapter 7, "Never Place Loyalty to Institutions and Things Above Loyalty to Yourself," included "Strategies for eliminating institutional victimisation." The Sky is the Limit (copyright 1980) was the third work by <mask> as sole author. In it, <mask> introduced the concept of the "critical inch", that portion of life in which the ultimate meaning of our lives is considered. He was critical of the "hurry up" Western world. In Chapter 8, "Cultivating a sense of Purpose," he recommended such strategies as "Do something you have never done before," "Make a point to talk to a stranger today," and "Stop defending things as they have always been."Criticism
Psychologist Albert Ellis wrote that <mask>'s book Your Erroneous Zones was probably "the worst example" of plagiarism of Ellis's Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). In a 1985 letter to <mask>, Ellis claimed that <mask> had participated in an Ellis workshop on RET before he published Your Erroneous Zones, in which <mask> appeared to understand RET very well. Ellis added that "300 or more people have voluntarily told me... that [the book] was clearly derived from RET." <mask> never apologized nor expressed any sense of wrongdoing. Ellis admonished <mask> for unethically and unprofessionally failing to credit Ellis's work as the book's primary source, but he never took legal action and that is because in the final analysis, he actually felt overall gratitude for <mask>'s work, writing:

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 "Your Erroneous Zones is a good book, ... it has helped a great number of people, and ... it outlines the main principles of RET quite well,... with great simplicity and clarity." In Your Erroneous Zones, <mask> makes reference to Albert Ellis in chapter seven. However, <mask> affirmatively stated that the entire premise of Your Erroneous Zones was principally derived from three years of audio tapes of the lectures that he gave while acting as a professor at St. John's University in New York on pages 150–155 of his memoir I Can See Clearly Now, which was published by Hay House Publishing in 2014, one year before <mask>'s death.Thus, Ellis's criticism of <mask> was disputed and has not been proven. In 2010, writer Stephen Mitchell filed a lawsuit against <mask> and his publisher, Hay House, for copyright infringement for taking 200 lines, without permission, from his version of the Tao Te Ching for <mask>'s books Living the Wisdom of the Tao and Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life. The suit was dismissed in 2011 after <mask> and Mitchell agreed to a settlement. Personal life

<mask> was married three times. With his first wife, Judy, he had a daughter. With his second wife, Susan Casselman, he had no children. With his third wife, Marcelene, he had five children, and two stepchildren from Marcelene's prior marriage.<mask> and Marcelene legally separated in 2001, after 20 years of marriage. After their separation period they reunited and remained married until his passing.<ref>{{cite web| url= |title=DVD no. 1 of 4-DVD set: Experiencing the Miraculous|author=<mask>, <mask>. |date= 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130055432/http://www.hayhouse.com/details.php?id=6035|archive-date=January 27,

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Credos
Regarding his personal philosophical outlook, <mask> stated that:

<mask> died from a heart attack, according to his publicist Lindsay McGinty, in Maui, Hawaii, on August 30, 2015, at age 75. He had been diagnosed with leukemia in 2009. Bibliography

Fiction book
 Gifts from Eykis (1983)

Nonfiction books
 Your Erroneous Zones (1976)
 Pulling Your Own Strings (1978)
 The Sky's the Limit (1980)
 Universe Within You: Your Secret Source of Strength (1981)
 What Do You Really Want For Your Children (1985)
 Happy Holidays (1986)
 You'll See It When You Believe It (1989)
 No More Holiday Blues (1990)
 Real Magic (1992)
 Your Sacred Self (1994)
 Awakening (1995)
 A Promise is a Promise (1996 – with Marcelene <mask>)
 Manifest Your Destiny (1997)
 101 Ways to Transform Your Life  (1998)
 Wisdom of the Ages (1998)
 There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem (2001)
 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace (2002)
 Getting in the Gap (2002)
 The Power of Intention (2004)
 Staying on the Path (2004)
 Inspiration (2006 – Renamed Living an Inspired Life, March 2016)
 Everyday Wisdom (2006)
 Being in Balance (2006)
 Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life (2007)
 The Invisible Force (2007)
 Living the Wisdom of the Tao (2008)
 Excuses Begone! (2009)
 The Shift (2010)
 A New Way of Thinking, a New Way of Being (2010)
 My Greatest Teacher (2012 – with Lynn Lauber)
 Wishes Fulfilled (2012)
 Co-creating at Its Best (2013 – with Esther Hicks)
 The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection (2013)
 Don't Die with Your Music Still in You (2014 – with Serena J. Dyer)
 I Can See Clearly Now (2014)
 Memories of Heaven (2015 – with Dee Garnes)
 Happiness Is the Way (2019)

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 Unstoppable Me!(2006 – with Kristina Tracy)
 It's Not What You've Got! (2007 – with Kristina Tracy)
 No Excuses! (2009 – with Kristina Tracy)
 I Am (2012 – with Kristina Tracy)
 Good-bye, Bumps! (2014 – with Saje <mask>)

 TV Programs & Films
 10 Secrets for Inner Peace & Success Ambition to Meaning: Finding Your Life's Purposes, rereleased as The Shift: Taking Your Life from Ambition to Meaning Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life : Living the Wisdom of the Tao Excuses Begone! How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits Experiencing the Miraculous: A Spiritual Journey to Assisi, Lourdes, and Medjugorje I Can See Clearly Now Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling Modern Wisdom from the Ancient World The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way The Shift: Taking Your Life from Ambition to Meaning There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting Day & Night (2010), an animated short film created by Pixar, featuring an excerpt from one of <mask>'s lectures and voiced by <mask>, which was shown with Toy Story 3'' (2010) during the latter movie's opening in the U.S.

See also
 List of New Thought writers
 New Thought
 Spirituality

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New Thought writers
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<mask> (born 21 July 1986) is a British soul singer and songwriter. After coming second in the seventh series of The X Factor, she released her debut album Heaven in December 2011. The album peaked at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart. <mask> has released three further top-ten albums, Freedom (2013), Lady Sings the Blues (2015) and Superwoman (2016). She cites Aretha Franklin, Kings of Leon, Christina Aguilera and Amy Winehouse among her influences. Early life
<mask> was born on 21 July 1986, at Mill Road Hospital, Liverpool, to a father of Jamaican descent and white British mother. She spent the first two years of her life in Huyton.She has a younger brother, Sam. The family then moved to a house on an estate in Woolton Village when her parents separated. <mask> received her primary education at Woolton Primary School and her secondary and sixth form college education at Gateacre Community Comprehensive School. As a teenager she later moved to Anfield. That was when she became pregnant with her first child Lillie May. Two years later she had her son, Karl. <mask> has said her family supported her ambition to become a professional singer and helped her through two previous X Factor auditions.She also revealed that she was "bullied as a kid because my family was poor and I never had the right clothes or toys." Despite having a difficult start in life, the hopeful insisted she wanted people to focus solely on her talent. <mask> also revealed that as a child she always wanted to be a pop star. She revealed on Loose Women that she was sexually abused in a care home when she was 8 years old. <mask> is a qualified legal secretary, having studied at Hugh Baird College, Bootle. She later commented, "There is only so long you can chase the dream when you are a mum. I wanted the kids to see me do well and be a better role model.They were always seeing their mummy fail. That was why I started college." Career

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 previously unsuccessfully auditioned for The X Factor and for P. Diddy's Starmaker in New York. She later commented "I went to other auditions, I was invited to New York to audition for P Diddy's Starmaker and I was told ‘no’. It was really upsetting because I spent money to get there. I also tried out for The X Factor but it did not turn out too well." <mask> sang "A Change Is Gonna Come" for her audition in front of judges, Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and guest judge, Nicole Scherzinger.At her bootcamp audition, she sang "Like a Star" to which Cowell said "That is a recording voice!" and Scherzinger said, "I told you first time I saw her, she is our generation's songbird." She sang "Fireflies" at judges' houses and was sent through to the live shows by mentor Cheryl and assistant will.i.am. For the first live show she sang "Teardrops" and in the second live show she sang "Feeling Good". In the third live show she sang "Why Don't You Do Right?" and in the fourth live show she sang "Wicked Game". In the fifth live show, <mask> received a standing ovation from Cowell and Cheryl following her performance of "Make You Feel My Love".In the following episode, <mask> received another standing ovation from Dannii Minogue and Cheryl after singing "Candle in the Wind". In the final, she performed a duet with Christina Aguilera, performing Aguilera's hit single "Beautiful". <mask>'s winner's song was a cover of Duffy's "Distant Dreamer", but she finished as the runner-up to Matt Cardle, making her the first female runner-up on The X Factor. After the final, it was announced that <mask> had been signed by Syco Music. In January 2011, it was reported that <mask> had signed a joint record deal between Syco Records and Epic Records. <mask> and nine other contestants from the series participated in the X Factor Live Tour from February to April 2011. The tour saw <mask> performing for 500,000 people throughout the UK.2011–12: Heaven

<mask> released her debut

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texts: single "Nothing's Real but Love" on 20 November 2011, which was written by <mask> and Eg White. The single peaked at number ten on the UK Singles Chart. Her debut album Heaven followed and was released 5 December 2011 in the UK. The album features <mask> collaborating with Eg White, Steve Booker, Fraser T Smith, Xenomania, Paul Barry, Mark Taylor and Brian Higgins. <mask> later revealed that she would be co-writing the whole of her album for her to "connect" with the songs. The album would feature genres like Soul, pop and Blues. The album came to critical acclaim with critics lauding <mask> for being the first credible artist to come from reality television format.Cowell also praised the album tweeting on 21 November how proud he was of <mask>, "I am absolutely blown away by <mask>, her album and by her performance. Congratulations!". The album was certified platinum for shipments of 300,000 units by the British Phonographic Industry in its first two weeks of release. On 18 November 2011, <mask> announced her first headlining UK and Ireland Tour, spanning 14 dates from 20 February to 13 March 2012. Due to high demand, <mask> had to add more dates to her tour, all of which have sold out. <mask> confirmed on her official website that the second single to be released from the album will be "Too Good to Lose". The single was originally meant to be released on 26 February but later pushed back to 4 March.The official video premiered on <mask>'s website on 2 February. The single release has been edited and shortened to make the track more radio friendly. <mask> dueted with Lionel Richie on an ITV1 special entitled This Is Lionel Richie, in which she performed "Endless Love". Starting in February 2012, an excerpt from <mask>'s "Nothing's Real but Love" was used in a television advertisement campaign for Nescafé Gold Blend coffee. "Glitter & Gold" was confirmed via <mask>'s official website to be the third single taken from the album which was

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 various charities associated with the Hillsborough disaster. The song achieved Christmas Number 1 in the United Kingdom.2012–15: Freedom and Lady Sings the Blues
In October 2012, <mask> stated she would embark on a US tour in January 2013 and that she had already begun writing new material for her second album. On 29 November 2012, <mask> confirmed her plans to tour in the US and said she would release her second album late next year, stating, "I'm going back to touring the US more early in the new year and then I am getting stuck into writing the new album which should be out later in 2013 or 2014." She began work on her second studio album on 18 February 2013 after a month hiatus and completed the album in mid-August. In July 2013, <mask> revealed she was in the stages of finishing up her second album, also saying that it "has been hard to make" and that she was writing about her babies. On 22 August 2013 she revealed on Facebook that her new album would be called Freedom and would be released on 2 December 2013 along with putting up pre-order links to the album. The lead single, "I Hope", was uploaded to <mask>'s YouTube channel on 12 October 2013 and was released on 1 December 2013, entering the UK singles chart at number 15; in mainland Europe "Light On" was released as the lead single from the album. Freedom was released the following day and entered the charts at number 6 and has since been certified Gold by the BPI.Freedom was met with generally positive reviews from critics. The album includes a duet with US soul star John Legend and production/songwriting from Jarrad Rogers, Toby Gad and Eg White. On 7 August 2014 <mask> tweeted that she was back in the studio confirming the work of a third studio album stating "amazing day at the studio working with the same musicians that Frank Sinatra used and so many other greats feeling very blessed". On 13 January 2015 <mask> revealed the album title, artwork and release date via her Vevo

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 channel. Lady Sings the Blues was released on 9 March 2015 via RCA Records. The album charted at number 7 on the UK Albums Chart. 2015–16: Superwoman
On 9 May 2015 <mask> performed at VE Day 70: A Party to Remember in Horse Guards Parade, London.On 4 October 2015 <mask> confirmed the creation of a new studio album by posting on Twitter that she is "busy recording" and "the next album sounds good already". The first single from the album was announced on 30 August and is called "Bones", a cover of a 2013 track by NZ artist Ginny Blackmore, and was released on 2 September 2016. The album "Superwoman" was released on 7 October. <mask> toured from 23 October to 15 November across the UK. In December 2016 she was on Fern Britton Meets. In the interview <mask>, the former teenage mum who became an X Factor singing sensation, revealed how her Christian faith got her through troubled times, both on the show that brought her overnight fame and in the years that followed. From being the victim of fraud to being left to bring up a child on her own, <mask> says she is speaking out to help others.On 21 April 2017, she announced that she was working on her fifth studio album. On 2 October of that year she announced through her Facebook page that she was no longer with her management company but was working on new projects and touring in 2018. She released the first single "Uncrazy" from the album on 1 December 2017, a dance song, which moves away from <mask>'s usual style of music. 2020–present: Fifth studio album and Semi retirement
On 8 May 2020, a new single entitled "Nothing Left But Family", and featuring Nile Rodgers, was released. In a series of live videos on social media <mask> confirmed that the next album would be released soon. On 25 November 2021 via her Twitter account, <mask> confirmed her fifth studio album to be released in 2023 would be her final one and that she would be retiring from the music industry following the release. On 11

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 February 2022 <mask> premiered a new track ‘I’m Going To Love You’ on “BBC Concert Orchestra”, rumoured to be the lead single from her final studio album.Personal life
<mask> met the father to her two oldest children, Karl Dures, on holiday in Tenerife, but had previously met and known each other for some years. <mask> and Dures dated for four years and had two children named Lillie May and Karl. She also has a daughter named Arabella, born in 2014, from a later relationship. On 1 January 2022 <mask> confirmed her engagement to her partner of 7 years. <mask> previously dated fellow The X Factor contestant and former One Direction member Zayn Malik. The relationship ended after four months together, In July 2011. <mask> addressed the media interest, saying: "When I was in a relationship with Zayn it was quite hard, but it comes with it.Me and Zayn just grew apart. I wish him all the best." Having grown up in Anfield, <mask> is a lifelong supporter of the Liverpool Football Club. Musical style and influences

<mask>'s first album is of the soul, pop, blues and R&B genres, with lyrics describing heartbreak and relationships. The album's music was compared to work by Aretha Franklin and Macy Gray. On describing her own sound she said, "quite soulful, I don't know what you compare it to. I’m just me."<mask> cites Aretha Franklin as one of the artists who had the biggest influence on her. She says she draws inspiration from Franklin, whom she calls the "Queen of Soul". In an interview with MTV UK, when asked about being compared to Franklin she stated, "Aretha Franklin to me is like the queen of soul, so on one hand, I like being compared to her, but on the other hand, I don't think I’ve achieved anything yet to be compared to someone who, to me, is an absolute legend. I’m literally just starting out and it's lovely and I feel really blessed that people are comparing me to her, but to me she's in a totally different league... she's Aretha, she's like


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 a soul diva. So hopefully God willing in the future when I’ve come to her age I will have earned that, but I don't feel I have yet." She also revealed how she wished to have collaborated with Franklin on her debut album. She cites band Kings of Leon as an inspiration.On the question of collaborating with Kings of Leon she said, "I’d like to see what happened. I just think it would be cool, I love them as musicians and they play really well so I’d love to just write with them maybe...I’m dreaming here but you never know, I could rock out with the Kings of Leon." <mask> also cites the late soul singer Amy Winehouse as one of her biggest influences, stating that she respected Winehouse as "she was real and wasn't in it for the fame, she was artistic and her music is lovely." She also cites Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and Nina Simone among her influences. Other ventures
<mask> became the new face of Walkers crisps Sunbites as of June 2011. She starred in an ad, created  by AMV BBDO, that appeared online, on social media and TV. It became <mask>'s first ad as part of the campaign.<mask> also opened a beauty salon in Liverpool – <mask>'s Beauty Boudoir – in 2013, but she was forced to close the business in 2015. Since 2017, <mask> has been making guest appearances on ITV's Loose Women. Her latest appearance was in April 2019. Discography

Albums
 Heaven (2011)
 Freedom (2013)
 Lady Sings the Blues (2015)
 Superwoman (2016)

Tours
 The X Factor Live Tour (2011)
 Heaven Tour (2012)
 US Tour (2013)
 Freedom Tour (2014)
 Lady Sings the Blues Tour (2015)
 Superwoman Tour (2016)
 Revolution Tour (2018)

Awards and nominations

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<mask> (July 14, 1828 – January 27, 1891) was an American painter of the Hudson River School. He is a somewhat lesser-known figure of the 19th-century American art world, but was the close friend and traveling companion of several of the important Hudson River School artists. Aside from his paintings, McEntee's journals are an enduring legacy, documenting the life of a New York painter during and after the Gilded Age. Biography
<mask> was born in Rondout, New York on July 14, 1828. Little is known of his childhood. From approximately 1844–1846, he attended the Clinton Liberal Institute in Clinton, New York. He exhibited his first painting as a self-taught artist at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1850.In the fall of that year he apprenticed with Frederic Edwin Church, who was then regarded as a rising star in the American art world. After leaving Church's studio in 1851, McEntee remained his lifelong friend, though McEntee never approached Church's fame and fortune. After studying with Church, McEntee attempted a career as a businessman in Rondout, but did not experience much success. After three years he gave up business and devoted himself wholly to his art, becoming one of the charter residents of Richard Morris Hunt's Tenth Street Studio Building in 1857. Since many of the building's other occupants were bachelors or commuters, McEntee and his wife (who was known as a lively, sympathetic hostess) became the center of a spontaneous salon frequented by some of the

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 of Hudson River School artists, their day-to-day life, gossip and personal reflections, and the overall arc of the American art world in the second half of the 19th century. He discusses his artistic successes and trials, particularly as money becomes more scarce with the decline in popularity of Hudson River School art. The journals contain first-hand information on the inner workings of the National Academy and the Century Club, on the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, efforts to revive the American Art-Union, and on the vigorous growth of art societies and exhibitions throughout the country. The diaries also reveal the economy of art during the period, including the prices, patterns of collecting and patronage, the artists' dependence on personal contacts through clubs, social gatherings, and influential friends.Long passages describe McEntee's overwhelming anxieties over money and family difficulties; he is frequently lonely and depressed, and always worried about his status as an artist. McEntee's journals are now kept by the Archives of American Art, a research center within the Smithsonian Institution. Five volumes of these diaries, from 1872 to 1890, have been digitally scanned, transcribed, and can be browsed in their entirety online. In addition, the Archives holds <mask>'s personal papers, which were digitized in 2007. Selected works

The Doge's Palace (Venice), undated, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
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<mask> (28 June 1736 – 1 May 1809) was a French-German writer and translator from the Pfeffel family. His texts were put to music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert. He is sometimes also known as Amédée or Théophile Conrad Pfeffel, which is the French translation of Gottlieb ("Godlove"). Biography
<mask> was born in Colmar. His father, <mask>, was the mayor of Colmar and a legal consultant of the French king, but died when Gottlieb was only two years old. He was raised by his brother <mask>, who was ten years older. He went in 1751 to the University of Halle to study Law, with the intention of becoming a diplomat.There, he was a student of the philosopher Christian Wolff. In 1752, he translated Johann Joachim Spalding's Gedanken über den Werth der Gefühle in dem Christenthum in French. In 1754, he went to Dresden for treatment of an eye problem; there, he met the poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. His eye condition deteriorated, and in 1758, after an operation, he became completely blind and had to abandon his studies. In February 1759, he married Margaretha Cleophe Divoux, a merchant's daughter from Strasbourg. They had thirteen children together, of whom 7 died before adulthood. He started to establish himself as a writer and translator.In 1762, he translated Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer's Fabeln in French. He also worked

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 (Philemon and Baucis or Jupiter's Travels to the Earth). It was changed into a regular opera in 1776. Pfeffel was a friend or acquaintance of many well-known persons of his period, including Voltaire, Vittorio Alfieri and the Swiss poet Johann Kaspar Lavater, which whom he corresponded for many years.In 1839, his niece Ernestine <mask> (1810-94) married Fyodor Tyutchev, one of the most famous Russian poets. A statue of Pfeffel by André Friedrich was placed in the Unterlinden Museum in 1859, and a copy of that statue was placed on the Grand Rue in Colmar in 1927. Ein Beitrag zur geschichte des französischen Dramas in Deutschland, by Karl Worzel, E. Schmidt, 1911
<mask> <mask>ffel. Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte des Elsass, by Edgar Guhde, Keller, 1964
Gottlieb <mask>l : Satiriker und Philanthrop, 1736-1809: Catalogue of the exhibition at the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe in 1986
Pfeffel, l'Européen: esprit français et culture allemande en Alsace au XVIIIe siècle, by Gabriel Braeuner, Nuée Bleue, 1994
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<mask>, (February 12, 1945 – January 5, 1975) was a professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball with the Houston Astros. Biography

Career
<mask> attended Centennial High School and his professional career began after he graduated from Compton Community College in Compton, California and was recruited by the Astros in 1966. Early in his career he was prone to wildness, but <mask> was also known as one of the hardest throwers in the National League. <mask> debuted as a September call-up on the 29th against the Cincinnati Reds. He went six innings while striking out seven while allowing two runs in a 3-2 win. 1967 was his first full year with the Astros.He pitched in 31 games while starting 28 of them. He went 10-9 with a 2.79 ERA in 184 innings while dealing with 69 walks, 159 strikeouts, and ten wild pitches. On June 18, <mask> no-hit the Atlanta Braves 2–0 at the Astrodome. The no-hitter was the first ever pitched either in a domed stadium or on artificial turf. Along the way, he struck out 15 batters, including Hank Aaron for the final out. (Audio) The following season was not as particularly well in stats, reflecting a team that toiled through the 1960s in bumps of growth. He went 13-16 with a 3.28 ERA in 33 games (30 starts) and 208.2 innings, having 175 strikeouts and 70 walks.In the second game of a doubleheader against the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field on July 14, <mask> set the Astros club record for single-game strikeouts with 18 as the Astros won 6-1. He took an upswing with the 1969 season. He started the 1969 season as the Opening Day pitcher, the eighth different opening day pitcher for the Astros in their first eight seasons. Facing the expansion team San Diego Padres, <mask> pitched six innings and allowed two runs on three hits

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texts: (one home run) with four strikeouts and one walk in a 2-1 loss. He went 16-12 with a 4.00 ERA in 34 starts and 225 innings while walking 97 batters and striking out 235 (a career high). He led the league in wild pitches with 16 while being second in strikeouts per nine innings with 9.400. On May 1, the day after the Reds' Jim Maloney no-hit the Astros 10–0 at Crosley Field for his second career no-hitter, <mask> returned the favor and no-hit the Reds 4–0 for his second career no-hitter.(Audio) The back-to-back no-hit feat was only the second in MLB history, the first having been accomplished in September of just the year before by Gaylord Perry and Ray Washburn. This second no-hitter was vengeance for <mask>: in his previous start against the Reds nine days earlier, he had given up seven runs in five innings and was the losing pitcher in the Reds' 14–0 drubbing of the Astros at the Astrodome. That year, the Astros finished .500 (81-81) for the first time in club history, That season, the Astros set what was then a big-league record for strikeouts in a season by a pitching staff. Two other Houston starters, Larry Dierker (232) and Tom Griffin (200), also struck out at least 200 batters that season, with <mask> having the most of the group. This was only the second time in MLB history that a team had three pitchers with 200 strikeouts. The following year continued some of his upswing. He went 11-6 with a 3.91 ERA in 29 games (27 starts) in 184.1 innings, striking out 94 while walking 66.1971, however, was his best season. He would have a career-best ERA of 2.45 and a 16-10 record in 35 games (34 starts) as he had career-high 18 complete games and 268 innings pitched while striking out 180 batters and walking 79 (facing over a thousand batters for the first and only time in his career) while leading

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 the league in hits per nine innings with 6.5. He was selected to the All-Star Game for the first and only time in his career. as well as earn Astros MVP honors. <mask> pitched the seventh and eighth inning of the game, walking one and striking out two. He was the Opening Day starter for 1972, the second Astros pitcher to have had multiple starts in the first game after Dierker. He went 7.1 innings against the San Francisco Giants in a losing effort, giving up four runs on seven hits (two home runs) in a 5-0 loss.He went 15-10 that year, having a 2.68 ERA (the third and last sub 3.00 ERA of his career) while pitching in 33 games (all starts) and throwing 13 complete games in 228.1 innings, striking out 172 batters and walking 66 (tied for his lowest in a full season of work). He reached 1,000 career strikeouts on September 11, doing so with his first of three strikeouts against the Los Angeles Dodgers, doing so against Willie Crawford. He declined in the following year, going 11-16 with a 3.20 ERA in 37 games (32 starts) and 239.1 innings pitched while striking out 149 and walking 92. In what became his last season, he had a middling year. He went 11-13 with a 3.08 ERA in 33 games (27 starts) in 204.2 innings, striking out 112 batters and walking 100 (a career high). He won his 100th game as a pitcher on July 30, doing so against the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium. He pitched eight innings while allowing four runs on five hits (two home runs) while striking out nine and walking four as the Astros won 8-4.<mask>'s last game was a two-hit, 5–0 shutout against the Atlanta Braves on September 28, 1974. Death

On January 5, 1975, <mask> died at the house he shared with his wife, daughter, and son in Houston's Fondren Southwest community. <mask>'s wife, Bernice, found him in the passenger seat of

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 his Ford Thunderbird, parked inside the garage, with the engine running. The garage was attached to the house, and the carbon monoxide gas fatally asphyxiated his son, <mask> "Alex" Alexander (aged 5), who was sleeping in the master bedroom above the garage. <mask>'s daughter Denise (aged 9), was found unconscious in another bedroom and hospitalized. Bernice was treated for carbon monoxide gas inhalation and for a jaw injury that she could not remember incurring. On February 5, 1975, Dr. Joseph Jachimczyk, the Harris County medical examiner, ruled the deaths of <mask> and <mask> accidental.Dr. Jachimczyk's autopsy report showed that <mask> had a blood alcohol content of 0.167%. One theory is that <mask> drove into his garage, activated the automatic door closer, and then passed out. <mask>'s uniform number was retired by the Astros on April 13, 1975, and a black circular patch with his number 40 in white was worn on the left sleeve of the Astros "rainbow jerseys" the following season. See also

 Houston Astros award winners and league leaders
 List of Houston Astros no-hitters
 List of baseball players who died during their careers
 List of Major League Baseball single-game strikeout leaders
 List of Major League Baseball no-hitters
 List of people from Monroe, Louisiana

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<mask> (25 December 1894 - 23 January 1935) was a German engineer and radio engineer at the Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (SÜRAG) subsidiary of Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft. <mask> was a pioneer of the German amateur radio movement. During the period of Nazi rule in Germany, he transmitted anti-Nazi radio broadcasts from Czechoslovakia for the Black Front organisation, using a self-built shortwave radio. <mask> was murdered by the Sicherheitsdienst on the orders of Reinhard Heydrich. Life
<mask> came from a middle-class Stuttgart family. His grandfather, Christian Friedrich von Leins, was a well-known architect, who designed the Villa Berg in Stuttgart, among others. In World War I, <mask> belonged to the German Asia Corps and fought alongside Ottoman Empire troops in Arabia.After the war, <mask> demonstrated his advanced capabilities in the field of radiotelegraphy when he built a short-wave transmitter capable of communicating with the United States. In the spring of 1923, this enabled <mask> to gain employment at SÜRAG, where he built the first transmission systems for the company. He worked at the company for over 10 years and reached the position of technical director for South German Radio

In 1925 <mask> introduced the German amateur radio designation DE (DE = German receiving station). <mask> himself had the mark DE 0100. His call sign as a broadcast amateur was K-Y4. In 1928, at Castle Solitude near Stuttgart, he built a remote receiving station for SÜRAG, which supplied the transmission of reports from overseas. From January 1932 <mask> was head of the SÜRAG technical department.After the Nazis came to power, <mask> became a member of the Sturmabteilung on 7 March 1933, and as an SA member took part in the occupation of the Stuttgart Radio House. He gave a speech in support of the National Socialists without previously being publicly known as a national socialist, and turned against the previous director Bofinger. <mask> later came into conflict with the Nazis, as his grandmother, the wife of Christian Friedrich von Leins, was Jewish. One account also cited that he

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 became disillusioned during the course of the Nazi revolution and that, as a dramatic protest, he cut the landline of the radio broadcasting one of Hitler's public addresses so that the transmission of his three-hour speech to millions of Germans listening at home went dead. For this action, he was arrested and beaten by the Gestapo. After his Jewish ancestry was revealed, he was also dispatched to a concentration camp. Black Front

Having been arrested in Germany, <mask> fled and tried to move to Turkey, but was intercepted in Bulgaria due to having incorrect documentation and sent to Prague.In Prague, <mask> joined the Black Front, an opposition group run by Otto Strasser that had split from the National Socialists. <mask> directed the distribution of Strasser's newspaper, Die Deutsche Revolution (The German Revolution) and built an underground broadcasting station in the former Hotel Záhoří near Slapy nad Vltavou in November 1934. The shortwave transmitter had been built by <mask> and was brought from his Stuttgart workshop to Czechoslovakia by himself or his friends. After test broadcasts starting in September, regular group broadcasts began on 2 December 1934. <mask>'s transmitter was the first German clandestine radio transmitter to be detected by the Nazis. He used similar operating frequencies to the Königs Wusterhausen radio transmitter and operated in a manner that made receivers believe the signal was transmitted from Berlin. During this period, <mask> acted as technician, speaker and author.He drew his information from press compilations of the Prague office of the Black Front and from self-scanned broadcasts. The program included appeals against the Nazi regime, replies to Nazi propaganda and calls for resistance and sabotage. In addition, management reports from Strasser were broadcast, in which he also tried to ridicule the Nazi Party. Strasser used his knowledge of leading Nazis from the time of his party membership before 1930, a circumstance that should have put Hitler in a special position. The broadcasting operation was particularly annoying for the

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texts: Nazi Party because radio broadcasts were at the time the most modern form of propaganda, and were thus considered very important. <mask> had tuned the antenna of the transmitter so that it was within a radius of about 20 kilometres, so a listener within the radius would be unable to hear it, thus making it difficult to locate the transmitter. Nevertheless, the Abhördienst (the German defence) could locate the operation with the power of just a 100-watt transmitter.In the event, the Prague exile group of the Black Front was infiltrated by Gestapo agents, and the crucial information about the location of the transmitter and the operator came from Strasser's employee, Franke. The German government called on the Czechoslovak government to take action against the station. In a letter signed by Secretary of State Bernhard Wilhelm von Bülow of 12 December 1934, the station was classified as Hetzzentrale, which should be banned by the authorities. Recordings of the broadcasts were played to Stuttgart radio staff, the Formis' "snarling dignitaries Swabian" recognized. In January 1935, SD boss Reinhard Heydrich gave SS squad leader Alfred Naujocks the order to destroy the underground transmitter. Naujocks, travelling under the name Hans Müller and camouflaged as a skier, drove to Czechoslovakia with Edith Kersbach, a gym teacher from Berlin, where they succeeded in gaining the Formis' confidence and making a waxprint of the key to the transmitter room. Naujocks briefly returned to Germany, had a duplicate made and drove again to Slapy nad Vltavou with Werner Göttsch.The plan was to gain access to the transmission room unnoticed, destroy the transmitter with acid, sedate Formis and kidnap him. On 23 January 1935, contrary to the plan, <mask> stayed in the broadcasting room and fired at Naujocks when he entered. <mask> was shot dead in the subsequent firefight, being killed by two pistol shots. Hitting a waiter prevented the SD agents from finding the transmitter, which was hidden in a mattress. The chaos created by the incident aggravated Heydrich, who feared incurring Himmler's

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 wrath for the complications of what he considered to be a bungled operation. The public killing exposed the SD's activities in Czechoslovakia, using Sudetenland as the base of operations, including the surveillance and pursuit of German emigres in the country as well as the support for the "Aufbruch" circle, a group critical of Konrad Henlein's Sudeten German Heimatfront. <mask> is buried in Slapy.His grave is still well tended to this day. Aftermath
After the bungled shooting, the Black Front was broadcasting again within hours. Agents Naujocks and Göttsch both managed to escape back to Germany after the murder. Diplomatic protests by the Czechoslovak government to the German government went unanswered. Naujocks was interned after the war, and later interrogated by a British-Czech commission, but escaped internment in 1946. In 1961, the German authorities investigated <mask>' death, but never charged Naujocks with <mask>'s death in April 1966. Göttsch was indicted in 1967 in Hamburg, but according to the indictment it was not possible to determine who fired the lethal shots.Numerous reports on the murder of <mask> appeared in exiled German newspapers. The German-language Parisian Tageblatt newspaper cited the Prague-based newspaper Venkov, stating it was "crimes of this kind which unmask the true soul of Hitler's Germany". Writer Fritz Erpenbeck attacked the Sicherheitsdienst for the murder in his 1939 novel Emigranten and portrayed <mask> under the name "Dormler". On 18 July 1941, the BBC broadcast a radio play about the murder. <mask> is considered a hero within the community of amateur Czech radio operators. The radio station used by <mask> was preserved for posterity. In 2012 and 2013 it was on loan to the National Technical Museum in Prague.Bibliography

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<mask> (May 30, 1904 – June 9, 1999) was an Associate Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) and later on was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), and had enormous impact on patent law. He was the first patent attorney appointed to any federal court since Benjamin Robbins Curtis was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1851. Early life

<mask> was born May 30, 1904, in Rochester, New York. <mask> was the son of <mask>, a patent lawyer, and Sarah Thompson (Sutherland) <mask>. His father worked for a variety of clients, including George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. After his first year of high school his family moved to New York City, where he graduated from the Horace Mann School for Boys in 1922. <mask> received a Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University in 1926 and a Bachelor of Laws from Columbia Law School in 1929. and was admitted to the New York bar.In the fall of 1929 he joined his father's law firm, Williams Rich & Morse, where he worked as a patent attorney until 1952. From 1952 to 1956, he was in private practice at Churchill, Rich, Weymouth and Engel in New York City. From 1942 to 1956, he was also a lecturer in patent law at Columbia University in its School of General Studies. In the 1940s, motivated by a prize competition, <mask> authored a series of law review articles on patent practices and the anti-monopoly laws, and particularly, on contributory infringement and misuse. The series is considered by many to be a classic in the field. He was very active in the work of the New York Patent Law Association, and eventually became its vice president in 1948 and 1949, and its president in 1950 and 1951. 1952 Patent Act

<mask> took an active role in the work of the New York Patent Law Association when it undertook to introduce and foster legislation to address the Supreme

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 Court's Mercoid cases, which virtually destroyed the doctrine of contributory infringement.In 1947 he became part of a two-person committee to draft a new U.S. patent statute, all while continuing to practice law full-time. His partner on the statute drafting committee was Pasquale Joseph Federico, the Examiner-in-Chief of the U.S. Patent Office. After four years of work, <mask> and Federico's draft statute was introduced in the Congress by Joseph Bryson (D-SC) in 1951. After passing both houses without substantial debate, as part of a "consent bill", it was signed into law by President Truman in 1952, to take effect in 1953. It was the first full revision of U.S. patent law since the Patent Act of 1870. Federal judicial service

<mask> was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 17, 1956, to an Associate Judge seat on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals vacated by Judge Noble J. Johnson. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 19, 1956, and received his commission the same day.<mask> was initially appointed as a Judge under Article I, but the court was raised to Article III status by operation of law on August 25, 1958, and <mask> thereafter served as an Article III Judge. <mask> was reassigned by operation of law to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on October 1, 1982, to a new seat authorized by 96 Stat. 25. At 95, he had become the oldest active federal judge; he never took senior status, a time when judges typically assume a reduced workload and semi-retire. His service terminated on June 9, 1999, due to his death. Other service

<mask> also served as an adjunct professor of patent law at Georgetown University from 1963 to 1969. In 1963, he was awarded the Charles F. Kettering Award from the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Research Institute at George Washington University.Notable judicial opinions

Judge <mask>'s judicial

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 opinions were often notable for their colorful and memorable language. For example, in one case in which a majority of the Federal Circuit judges were unwilling to accept as a binding precedent an earlier decision of that court with which he was apparently in sympathy, he said in dissent that they acted with "defiant disregard" of precedent and added:  "[I]t is mutiny. It is heresy. It is illegal." Chakrabarty, Diehr, State Street

Judge <mask>'s judicial opinions include some of those most groundbreaking, influential, and controversial to modern U.S. patent law. He wrote opinions in which the court struck down prior rules against the patenting of living things (In re Chakrabarty), software-implemented inventions (In re Diehr), and business methods (State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group), saying those rules did not have a proper basis in the patent statute (which he stated that he had co-written), and opening the way for inventors to receive patents in those areas of subject matter. Controversy over those cases

In re Diehr and especially State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group were highly controversial decisions.Many in the academic and legal community thought that the cases were wrongly decided and examples of judicial activism on the basis of a pro-patentee agenda, and the legal reasoning utilized in these decisions has been severely criticized. For example, in State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group, Judge <mask> justified his conclusion on the basis that the business method exception to patentability was abolished by the 1952 Patent Act. However, this line of reasoning is contradicted by Judge <mask> himself, among others. He had earlier stated, in a law review article written not long after the passage of the 1952 Patent Act, that Section 101 of the Act denied patent protection to business methods, observing that the diaper service, "one of the greatest inventions of our

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 times," was patent-ineligible because it was a business method. The State Street decision was substantially overruled in the Federal Circuit's 2008 decision in In re Bilski. The Supreme Court's decisions in the Bilski-Mayo-Alice trilogy even more definitively rejected the line of doctrine that culminated in the State Street decision. Outspoken critic

<mask> was an outspoken critic of the Supreme Court and Justice Department when they took positions on patent law in opposition to those which he advocated.For example, in his opinion on remand in the case In re Bergy, after the Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the CCPA that he had authored for that court, and remanded the case to the CCPA "for further consideration in light of" the Supreme Court's decision in Parker v. Flook, he wrote a second Bergy opinion for the CCPA. In it he reached the same result and said that Flook shed no light and that the Justice Department had misled the Supreme Court to reach its decision. Controversy over interpretation of 1952 Act

This episode was part of a long-running controversy about how the 1952 Patent Act should be interpreted − was it a mere re-codification of prior law without substantive change or did it break new ground? Judge <mask> took the position that it broke new ground and that special deference should be given his views because of his relation to the process as draftsman of the bill. A contrary view – that Congress intended no major substantive change – is reflected in the concurring opinion of Justice Hugo Black in Aro Mfg. Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co. Recognition and Legacy

In 1992 <mask> earned special recognition from President Bush for his contributions to the U.S. patent code.That same year, <mask> was also honored with an American Inn of Court established in his name to foster professionalism, ethics, civility, and legal skills in the area of intellectual property. Upon learning

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 of Judge <mask>'s death, the Acting Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Q. Todd Dickinson, remarked: Judge <mask> was the single most important figure in twentieth century intellectual property law...<mask> leaves a rich legacy in his voluminous body of judicial opinions and in the 1952 Patent Act which he helped to draft. We have lost the dean of the twentieth century patent system. A prominent annual intellectual property moot court competition, the Giles Rich I.P. Moot Court Competition, run by the American Intellectual Property Law Association, starting in 1974, was named after him. In 2006 Judge <mask> was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame. Personal

On January 10, 1931, <mask> married his first wife, Gertrude Verity Braun, the daughter of a Barnard College professor who was head of the German Department, and they had a daughter, Verity Sutherland, born in 1940.Gertrude died in 1953, and <mask> married his second wife, Helen Gill Field the same year. At the time of his death, he was survived by his second wife, Helen; his daughter, <mask> Hallinan; a granddaughter; a niece, Eleanor Van Staagen Mitchell; and a nephew. He was an accomplished photographer, and known among patent lawyers and judges for his curiosity and familiarity with the mechanics of everyday appliances. <mask> died of lymphoma on June 9, 1999, at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.

See also
List of United States federal judges by longevity of service

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20th-century American lawyers
Columbia Law School alumni
Harvard University alumni
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<mask> (/ˈchau̇/; Chinese: 曹惠文; pinyin: cáo huì wēn; born September 16, 1941) is a Canadian artist. He is primarily recognized for his paintings and drawings. <mask> is also a pianist, an author and a composer of musical works. <mask> creates colourful and detailed paintings of cats, still life, cities, windows, doors, beaches, gardens, and nudes. During the later periods of his work, <mask> began experimenting with abstracts. His work is influenced by his experience with his family and during his travels in England, Hollywood, and Pasadena California, Maui, Oahu Hawaii. <mask> also produces tiles, metal prints, giclee prints on canvas.Early life and education

<mask> was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Emily Bing and <mask>. He is the nephew of Vancouver architect Bing Ming Mah. <mask> attended General Wolfe Elementary School and King Edward High. <mask> later graduated from the University of British Columbia's Art Education program and studied piano at the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music. <mask> earned a teaching degree in art at UBC. After graduation, he taught at Vancouver Tech High School for a year, but then dedicated his time solely to his artistic work. Career
In the mid-1950s, while a teenager, <mask> began his art career drawing black ink drawings of Vancouver's wooden Victorian buildings.Later, <mask> used a Chinese brush and painted with acrylics, beginning with a group of paintings he called the "Green Series". Then he completed a series of paintings called the "Red Series". <mask> travelled throughout the world creating drawings of historical subject, including cityscapes, horses, gulls, and fortune cookies. He created drawings of artists drawing nude females and males for a book entitled 'POEMS & DRAWINGS'. After the birth of his children, <mask> began including them and other children as subjects in his paintings. In 1978 <mask>  designed

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texts: the Canadian Captain Cook Coins. In 1983 he designed the Vancouver Symphony Show House cover and painted the "Beautiful People of Vancouver" series.In 1985 <mask> participated in fundraising for Canadian Paraplegic Association and performed on the piano at Cecil Green Alumni Association for University of British Columbia. In 1987 he release an album of original musical pieces through Mushroom Studios. In 1990 he fundraised for the Richmond Hospital Foundation. In 1990 <mask> established his own art gallery in Richmond, B.C. ; in 1992 he opened Art Warehouse, also in Richmond, and in 1994 he established Gallery in Steveston, Richmond. At this time he began his "White Gown" series of paintings. In 1996 he started the "Karen" series of paintings.<mask> was inducted into the Knights of Saint Johns in 1995 in Vancouver. In 1992, a portrait of Barbara Eden by <mask> was planted with a kiss by the TV's "I Dream of Jeannie" actress and auctioned at a benefit to raise money for autistic children*. In 2003, <mask> also organized a charity event called "The Fastest Draw in The West" paint-off competition during Langley's Art's Alive Festival. Local artists competed with <mask> on a to paint an item or scene in fifteen minutes. The paintings were to be auctioned off, with partial proceeds from the auction going towards art supplies for children at Douglas Park Elementary school. In 1997 <mask> fundraised for Langley Fine Arts School and worked with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. In 1998 he fundraised for Shooting Stars Foundation and started Painters of Painter's Lodge in Campbell River.He then began work on his "Golfing" series. In 2000 <mask>  fundraised for Richmond Sunrise Rotary. In 2005 he started Art Gallery Warehouse in Richmond, B.C. In 2007 he produced the Vancouver Historic Chinatown Calendar. <mask> donated artwork for silent auctions in 2004 to help raise funds

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 for William Bridge Elementary  School. In 2007 <mask> helped to establish the Steveston Artist Society (SAS), to support emerging artists. <mask> worked with other artists and the community to fundraise for Canuck Place Children's Hospice, General Wolfe Elementary School (Vancouver) Langley's The Aspire Integrative Remedial Education Society, and the Richmond Hospital Foundation

In 2013 <mask>'s art was in the collections  thirteen galleries across Canada, Hawaii and the USA.<mask>'s work has been exhibited across Canada and in Seattle, San Francisco, and London, as well as at the Royal Palace of India in Rajasthan. In 2015 he travels in British Columbia and supports the Arts in Vancouver. Published work

<mask> has published two books of his drawings of Vancouver and Expo '86, titled "Vancouver As It Was" and "Expo As It Was," and has had one of his paintings included in the book "150 Years of Toronto". In addition, <mask> has contributed illustrations for a few other publications. Corporate collectors include MacMillan Bloedel, Scott Paper, Price Waterhouse, and Ronald MacDonald House. His paintings are found in the personal collections of Samantha Eggar, Paul Anka, Gordon Lightfoot, <mask>, and Roger Moore. Other collectors of <mask>'s paintings have included Prime Minister Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi,  David Lam, Carole Taylor, Doreen Braveram, Fran Belzberg, Deputy Premier Grace McCarthy, Noel Harrison and Susan Matheson.Personal
<mask> was married with the former Joyce Quan. and later divorced. <mask> has a son  and a daughter. <mask> has collected and rebuilt antique cars. He also collects old pianos and writes songs. References

External links

<mask>'s website
Raymond Chow Art International website

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https://web.archive.org/web/20131117045759/http://raymondchow.com/bio.html

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title: Bob Crewe

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<mask> (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. He was known for producing, and co-writing with <mask>, a string of Top 10 singles for the Four Seasons. As a songwriter, his most successful songs include "Silhouettes" (co-written with Frank Slay); "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like a Man", "Rag Doll", "Silence Is Golden", "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" and "Bye, Bye, Baby" (all co-written with Gaudio); "Let's Hang On!" (written with Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell); and "My Eyes Adored You" and "Lady Marmalade" (both co-written with Kenny Nolan). He also had hit recordings with the Rays, Diane Renay, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Freddy Cannon, Lesley Gore, Oliver, Michael Jackson, <mask>, Roberta Flack, Peabo Bryson, Patti LaBelle, Barry Manilow, and his own <mask> Generation. Early life
Born in Newark in 1930 and raised in Belleville, New Jersey, <mask> demonstrated an early and apparent gift for both art and music. Although lacking in formal musical training, he gravitated to learning from many of the great 19th- and 20th-century classical romantic composers as well as giants of jazz and swing, including Stan Kenton, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Tommy Dorsey.He studied for almost a year at Parsons School of Design in New York City with the intention of eventually pursuing a career in architecture. Career

The 1950s
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texts: <mask> met and partnered professionally with Frank Slay Jr., a young pianist from Texas. Their collaboration created several hit songs (as well as a small record label, XYZ), for which <mask> performed as the demo singer. <mask> and Slay's 1957 recording session with the Rays for XYZ (picked up nationally by Cameo Records) produced two major hit songs. "Silhouettes", produced by <mask>, became a doo-wop anthem of the era. Climbing to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1957, "Silhouettes" displayed the flair for story-driven lyrics, innovative musical hooks, and final lyrical twists that were to become known as <mask> trademarks.In 1965, with a slightly faster tempo, "Silhouettes" again became a hit, this time for the British group Herman's Hermits, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. <mask> recorded "Silhouettes" during his legendary Basement Tapes sessions of the late 1960s, although his version was not released until 2014. "Daddy Cool" was the B-side of the Rays' "Silhouettes" single. Written and produced by <mask> and Slay at the same 1957 session, it achieved considerable note. Both "Daddy Cool" and "Silhouettes" were covered the same year by the Canadian group the Diamonds, whose version of "Daddy Cool" reached No. 10 on the Billboard charts.In 1961, Guy "Daddy Cool" Darrell released another single version on the Warwick label, and in 1977, the UK band Darts made the song their first-ever studio recording, scoring a No. 6 hit. <mask> and Slay built

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 on their success by signing a deal with new, Philadelphia-based Swan Records. Sessions with Billy and Lillie (singers Billy Ford and Lillie Bryant) produced the 1958 hit "Lah Dee Dah", which reached the No. 9 position on the Billboard Hot 100; the following year, Billy and Lillie's recording of "Lucky Ladybug" hit No. 14. <mask> and Slay also wrote two Top 10 hits - "Tallahassee Lassie" and "Okefenokee" - for Swan's rising star Freddy Cannon.<mask> also began to score his own hits, "Sweetie Pie" (US No. 111, 1959) and "The Whiffenpoof Song" (No. 96, 1960). The early 1960s
As a solo singer, <mask> recorded a pair of albums in 1961, one of which included a Ralph Burns-produced swing version of Yale University's signature "The Whiffenpoof Song". The record became a major hit in New York and led to <mask>'s receiving "teen heartthrob" coverage in such popular teen magazines as 16 Magazine, and to guest appearances with Mickey Rooney and Connie Francis on such TV variety shows as The Revlon Revue. In the early 1960s, <mask> began writing with <mask>, who had risen to fame at age 15 as a member of The Royal Teens, for whom he'd co-written the hit "Short Shorts". The first <mask>audio collaboration, "Sherry", was written by Gaudio and produced by <mask>.In 1962 it became a No. 1 single for the Four Seasons (fronted by Frankie Valli). The pair wrote many other songs for the group, including the No. 1 hits "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Rag Doll", and "Walk Like a Man", as

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texts: well as "Ronnie", "Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby, Goodbye)", and "Connie-O". <mask> collaborated with Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell on the Four Seasons hit "Let's Hang On!". The Four Seasons were also the first to record the Crewe-Gaudio composition "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)", later covered virtually note-for-note by the American singing group the Walker Brothers, who recorded their No. 1 selling version in England; their version made the American Top 10 as well.The Crewe-Gaudio collaborations capitalized on the extraordinary and distinctive voice of Frankie Valli, who could effortlessly soar to a piercing, emotionally expressive falsetto that became one of the emblematic and widely imitated sounds of the era. Record sales racked up by the Four Seasons are estimated as being between anywhere from 100 million to 199 million. As the "Four Seasons sound" became more and more defined, other signature touches emerged, including dense but pristine-sounding percussion, such as the military-sounding march cadences and drum-stomps of "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", and "Walk Like a Man". The sophisticated harmonic patterns of the Four Seasons punctuated by the distinctive falsetto of Frankie Valli were at once classic and innovative, as was <mask>'s use of melancholy harmonica on "Big Man in Town", the space-age organ of "Save It for Me", and the otherworldly glissandos of "Candy Girl". In addition to his work with the Four Seasons, <mask> produced recording

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 sessions by such artists as Dee Dee Sharp, The Orlons, Ben E. King, and The Highwaymen (On a New Road). With Bud Rehak and Eddie Rambeau he co-wrote "Navy Blue" for singer Diane Renay, and also produced it. Renay's recording made the Top 10 on the US pop chart in early 1964, and number one on the adult contemporary chart.The mid to late 1960s
In 1965, <mask> formed his own record label, DynoVoice Records. With the release of the 1965 hit "Concrete and Clay" by Eddie Rambeau, DynoVoice launched a run of twenty-one Top 100 hits. The label found early success with the R&B trio the Toys, best known for their single "A Lover's Concerto", a No. 2 hit single, and "Attack". The Toys were produced by Denny Randell and Sandy Linzer for executive producer <mask>. Writing about "A Lover's Concerto", based on a melody inspired by Bach's "Minuet in G major", critic Dave Thompson observed, "Few records are this perfect. Riding across one of the most deceptively hook-laden melodies ever conceived ... 'A Lover’s Concerto' marks the apogee of the Girl Group sound."The song was subsequently recorded by the Lennon Sisters, the Delfonics, Sarah Vaughan, the Supremes, Mrs. Miller, Audrey Hall, and Kelly Chen. Another DynoVoice powerhouse of the mid-1960s emerged when <mask> discovered a band called Billy Lee & The Rivieras. The group had limited success until he renamed them Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels. Under his direction, they scored eleven Top 100 hits, most notably


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texts: original soundtrack (composed by <mask> and Charles Fox) for the 1968 Paramount Pictures motion picture Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda and directed by Roger Vadim. The soundtrack for the cult favorite features vocals by <mask> and the group the Glitterhouse. In 1967, <mask> and Gaudio scored one of their greatest successes with "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", recorded by Frankie Valli with the Four Seasons.The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a gold record. "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" has since been recorded by a wide variety of vocalists and bands, in several different languages. A 1968 version by singer Andy Williams climbed to No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart. Also achieving chart status over the decades were English-language versions by the Lettermen, Maureen McGovern, Boys Town Gang and Lauryn Hill. The song has been heard in numerous motion pictures, including The Deer Hunter, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Conspiracy Theory, 10 Things I Hate About You, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Bridget Jones's Diary, and Jersey Boys.In 1969, <mask> collaborated with the singer Oliver, producing his pop hit "Jean", a song written by poet Rod McKuen which served as theme to the Oscar-winning film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Maggie Smith. <mask> also produced a hit single of Oliver performing the optimistic "Good Morning Starshine" from the rock musical Hair. The song reached No. 3 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening singles surveys. The

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 Crewe record label released a series of well-received recordings such as Ben Bagley's Cole Porter Revisited and Rodgers and Hart Revisited featuring vocal performances by such artists as Harold Arlen, Elaine Stritch, Dorothy Loudon, Anthony Perkins, Ann Hampton Callaway, <mask>, Jerry Orbach, Tammy Grimes, and Blossom Dearie. <mask> appeared on ABC-TV's American Bandstand and also Where the Action Is, both with Dick Clark. He was interviewed and some of his current 1960's songs were played for the dancers and crowds.The 1970s
The Generation's late 1969 LP Let Me Touch You, including covers of Henry Mancini's "Moon River" and "Two For The Road", arranged by Charles Fox, remains a favorite of lounge music collectors. It was also their only quadraphonic release. The Bob Crewe Generation briefly reappeared as a chart act in the mid-1970s, recording material for the disco era. The 1976 LP Street Talk on Elektra was in this vein. In 1975, <mask> wrote and produced disco material for the Eleventh Hour, who had dance club success with at least three releases on 20th Century Records: "Hollywood Hot" (45 rpm single, number: TC-2215), "Bumper to Bumper", and "Sock It To Me/It’s Your Thing". In the mid-1970s, <mask> and Sir Monti Rock III formed the disco club favorites Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes, best known for their 1975 successes "Get Dancin'" and "I Wanna Dance Wit' Choo (Doo Dat Dance)". The group is referenced by Elvis Costello in his song "Invasion Hit Parade"

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