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texts: first national televised performance as a solo artist. He covered Bob Dylan’s “Heart Of Mine,” which he had recently played at an Amnesty International benefit.Later that year, he went on to co-produce Jesca Hoop's album The House that Jack Built, produced Sara Watkins' album Sun Midnight Sun, wrote and produced "Sad Dream" on Sky Ferreira's latest EP Ghost and an additional two tracks on her upcoming LP I'm Not Alright. <mask> was featured on electric slide guitar on the track '"Go Home" from the 2013 debut album from the group Lucius. For the compilation album Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac, he co-produced and played with Billy Gibbons and Matt Sweeney on the track "Oh Well". <mask> also served as the opening act and guitarist for Fiona Apple during her 2012 tour through North America. <mask> co-produced the track "Artifact 1" on Conor Oberst's album, Upside Down Mountain, which was released in May 2014. He also produced the forthcoming untitled release from Jesca Hoop and Mt. Egypt's III.<mask> released his second full length album, Heigh Ho, on September 16, 2014. This self-produced album combines a range of genres. Along with friends and inspirations including Fiona Apple, Jim Keltner, Don Was, Benmont Tench, Jon Brion, and Mike Elizondo, <mask> recorded Heigh Ho at the legendary Ocean Way Recording studios in a room built for Frank Sinatra. He also produced the sophomore release from Alabama Shakes. Recording took place at Sound Emporium in Nashville, a studio originally built for Sun Records house producer Cowboy Jack Clement. In 2015 <mask> was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Producer of the Year, Non-Classical for his work on Alabama

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texts: Shakes breakthrough album Sound & Color. <mask>' 2016 producer credits include albums from former bandmates Dawes, along with upcoming albums from John Legend, Laura Marling, Jim James and Perfume Genius.In the same year, he also performed guitar and various other instruments on Andrew Bird's album Are You Serious. In 2017, <mask> took part in Randy Newman's Dark Matter as a guitarist. In November of 2018, <mask> quietly released an almost-entirely-instrumental EP entitled "Look" on his own label imprint New Deal Music. The album was created almost entirely using Roland guitar synthesizers from the 1970s with collaboration from saxophonist Sam Gendel, singer Natalie Mering of Weyes Blood, and violin and string-arrangement virtuoso, Rob Moose, who has appeared on nearly every release <mask> has produced. "Look" was the second release on New Deal Music. The first New Deal release, in September of 2018, was a soundtrack by Colin Stetson, Canadian-American saxophonist, multireedist, and composer based in Montreal, for the short-lived dramatic television series The First (TV series). On December 5th, 2019 <mask> teased a clip of a new song via an NPR piece by Grayson Haver Currin titled "Songs In An Emergency"  that centers around the urgency of climate change.The new song, from his upcoming and yet-to-be-titled third full-length album, is titled "Summer All Over." It is a piano-based ballad musing on the Malibu fires of 2018 and co-written with Cass McCombs. When describing the spacious sound-landscape that the song embodies and the title, <mask> commented that "writing about the season of summer inherently evokes a Beach Boys vibe, maybe because I'm in Los Angeles, but the implication of


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 the warmest season happening all over the world at the same time is an 'endless summer." The third full-length is expected to be released in 2020 on New Deal Music with management support by Record Collection and distribution by Verve Label Group, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. In 2020, <mask> played guitar and harmonium on Bob Dylan's album Rough and Rowdy Ways. Mollusk sessions
From time to time <mask> hosts invite only musical performances at Mollusk Surf Shop, in Venice, California. Previous shows have seen <mask> accompanied by musicians such as Jackson Browne, Billy Gibbons, Matt Sweeney, Cass McCombs, Jenny Lewis, Charlie Sexton, Benmont Tench, Dave Rawlings, Val McCallum, Tal Wilkenfeld, Mike Einziger, Danielle Haim, Smokey Hormel, Michael Elizondo, Anthony Wilson, and Xavier Mas.Discography

Solo
Break Mirrors (2010) Record Collection
Heigh Ho (2014) Verve Records / Record Collection
Look (2018) New Deal Records
Mutable Set (2020) New Deal Records / Verve Records

Collaborative album
Notes With Attachments (with Pino Palladino) (2021) New Deal / Impulse! Simon Dawes
What No One Hears EP (2005) Record Collection
Carnivore (2006) Record Collection

Compilation
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International (2012) - Track 4 Disc 2 -"Heart of Mine" - Amnesty International distributed by Fontana

Production credits
 Co-Producer – Jesca Hoop – The House That Jack Built (2012) Bella Union
 Producer – Sara Watkins – Sun Midnight Sun (2012) Nonesuch Records
 Producer – Sky Ferreira – Ghost EP (2012) Capitol Records
 Co-producer – Billy Gibbons – "Oh Well" – Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac (2012) Hear Music

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<mask> (born July 19, 1954) is an American former professional basketball player. <mask> spent his entire career with the Phoenix Suns and retired in 1988 as the second all-time Suns scorer with 13,910 career points. College career
During 26 games of the 1973–74 season <mask> tied an Oklahoma school record with 21 double-doubles for a season by a Sooner (Garfield Heard, 1969–70 also had 21 in 27 games). That record stood until it was broken by Blake Griffin on February 14, 2009. <mask> is one of only three players in the history of the University of Oklahoma men's basketball program to score at least 40 points and get 20 rebounds in a game along with Wayman Tisdale (61 points, 22 rebounds against Texas–San Antonio in 1983) and Blake Griffin (40 points, 23 rebounds against Texas Tech on February 14, 2009). He is one of only four Sooners to have his college jersey (#33) retired by the OU program (Wayman Tisdale (#23), Mookie Blaylock (#10) and Stacey King (#33) are the other three). Professional career
After playing college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, <mask> was selected by the

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texts: Phoenix Suns with the 4th pick of the 1975 NBA draft.<mask> was a rookie on a Suns team whose season included an improbable playoff run that took them all the way to the 1976 NBA Finals. In the same year, he was selected to play in the All-Star Game and won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award as well as being named to the All-NBA Rookie Team. On February 22, 1977, <mask> recorded a triple-double with 47 points, 18 rebounds and 12 assists against the Buffalo Braves. He is one of five players in NBA history (along with Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Russell Westbrook and Vince Carter) to have as many as 46 points and 16 rebounds in a triple-double performance. <mask>'s jersey number (33) was retired by the Suns, but on the signing of free agent Grant Hill, <mask> granted him permission to wear his familiar No. 33 with the Suns. <mask> is the franchise leader in games played, minutes played, rebounds, and steals; second in field goals made and attempted; third in assists; and fourth in blocks.He is currently the Suns Vice President for Facility Management for the Footprint Center in Phoenix,

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<mask> (; born 6 July 1986) is an Italian politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 5 September 2019. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Social Policies from 2018 to 2019, and as Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies in the XVII Italian legislature. From September 2017 to January 2020, he was the leader of the Five Star Movement, an anti-establishment party founded by Beppe Grillo. He resigned from this position to quell discontent and stem the flow of party dissertions and expulsions after he led the party into coalition with the centre-left Democratic Party. Early life
<mask> was born in Avellino, in 1986; he was the eldest of three brothers. His father Antonio was a small real estate entrepreneur and local councilor for the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), while his mother was a teacher of Italian and Latin. <mask>o attended the Liceo classico  and then he enrolled at the University of Naples Federico II to study engineering, but subsequently changed to jurisprudence.He was among the founders of student societies at both faculties. <mask> never graduated from university. In 2007, he was registered as an apprentice journalist, later briefly working as a webmaster and as a drinks seller at the Stadio San Paolo in Naples. Political career
In 2007, <mask> was among the founders of the political group "Friends of Beppe Grillo", the predecessors of the Five Star Movement (M5S), founded by the popular comedian in October 2009. In 2010 he ran for the Council elections in Pomigliano, obtaining 59 votes and failing to be elected. In the 2013 election, he was nominated as candidate for the M5S with 189 online votes and elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament. On 21 March 2013, he became the youngest Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies.On 12 July 2017, <mask> was formally investigated for defamation following a complaint filed by Marika Cassimatis, former M5S mayoral candidate in Genoa, while, on 28 July 2017, the journalist Elena

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 Polidori filed a complaint against him also for defamation. <mask>o invoked his parliamentary immunity; he had previously criticized that privilege and pledged never to avail himself of it. In 2017, Beppe Grillo announced that he would campaign in the 2018 election, but he would not be the candidate for the position of Prime Minister. <mask> was considered as the front runner and the most likely candidate for the premiership of Italy. <mask> had been often labeled as the most pragmatic and "institutional", but also the least populist Five Star politician; he is considered the leader of the moderate and "governmental" faction of the movement. No other leading members of the M5S, such as <mask> Battista, a politician and personal friend of <mask>, or Roberto Fico, leader of the M5S left-wing faction and rival of <mask> and <mask>, would run for the office. <mask>'s opponents were the Senator Elena Fattori (Vice President of the 9th Permanent Senate Committee) and six other city councilors.Many of them were almost unknown and this led to a lot of criticism from the Democratic Party, Lega Nord and Forza Italia, which considered this ballot a false primary election, with the only aim of appointing <mask>o as M5S candidate without any real challenger. 2018 general election

In September 2017 <mask>o was elected Prime Ministerial candidate and Political Head of the M5S, with more than 82% of the vote. In the 2018 general election, the M5S became the party with the largest number of votes and of parliamentary seats, while the centre-right alliance, in which Matteo Salvini's League emerged as the main political force, won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate and the centre-left coalition, led by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, came third. However, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament. On 7 April, <mask>o made an appeal to the PD to "bury the hatchet" and consider a governing coalition with his party. On 7 May, President Mattarella held a third round of government formation talks,

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texts: after which he formally confirmed the lack of any possible majority (M5S rejecting an alliance with the whole centre-right coalition, PD rejecting an alliance with both M5S and the centre-right coalition, and the League's Matteo Salvini refusing to start a government with M5S but without Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, whose presence in the government was explicitly vetoed by M5S's leader <mask> Maio); on the same circumstance, he announced his intention to soon appoint a "neutral government" (irrespective of M5S and League's refusal to support such an option) to take over from the Gentiloni Cabinet which was considered unable to lead Italy into a second consecutive election as it was representing a majority from a past legislature, and offering an early election in July (on what it would be the very first time for a summer general election in Italy) as a realistic option to take into consideration due to the deadlock situation. The Lega and M5S agreed to hold new elections on 8 July, an option that was however rejected by all other parties.On 9 May, after a day of rumours surfaced, both <mask> and Salvini officially requested President Mattarella to give them 24 more hours to strike a government agreement between the two parties. Later the same day, in the evening, Silvio Berlusconi publicly announced Forza Italia would not support a M5S-League government on a vote of confidence, but he would still maintain the centre-right alliance nonetheless, thus opening the doors to a possible majority government between the two parties. On 13 May, 5 Star Movement and League reached an agreement in principle on a government program, likely clearing the way for the formation of a governing coalition between the two parties, but could not find an agreement regarding the members of a government cabinet, most importantly the prime minister. M5S and League leaders met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella on 14 May to guide the formation of a new government. On their meeting with President Mattarella, both parties asked for an additional week of

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texts: negotiations to agree on a detailed government program and a prime minister to lead the joint government. Both M5S and the League announced their intention to ask their respective members to vote on the government agreement by the weekend. On 21 May 2018, <mask> and Salvini proposed the private law professor Giuseppe Conte for the role of Prime Minister in the 2018 Italian government, despite reports in the Italian press suggesting that President Mattarella still had significant reservations about the direction of the new government.On 23 May 2018, Conte was invited to the Quirinal Palace to receive the presidential mandate to form a new cabinet. In the traditional statement after the appointment, Conte said that he would be the “defense lawyer of Italian people”. However, Conte renounced to his office on 27 May due to contrasts between Salvini and President Mattarella. In fact, Salvini proposed the university professor Paolo Savona as Minister of Economy and Finances, but Mattarella strongly opposed him, considering Savona too Eurosceptic and anti-German. In his speech after Conte's resignation, Mattarella declared that the two parties wanted to bring Italy out of the Eurozone, and as the guarantor of Italian Constitution and country's interest and stability he could not allow this. On the following day, Mattarella gave Carlo Cottarelli, a former director of the International Monetary Fund, the task of forming a new government. On 28 May 2018, the Democratic Party (PD) announced that it would abstain from voting the confidence to Cottarelli, while the Five Star Movement and the center-right parties Forza Italia (FI), Brothers of Italy (FdI) and the League announced their vote against.Cottarelli was expected to submit his list of ministers for approval to President Mattarella on 29 May. However, on 29 May and 30 May he held only informal consultations with the President, waiting for the formation of a “political government”. Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini and <mask> <mask> announced their willingness to restart the negotiations to form a political

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 government, Giorgia Meloni, leader of FdI, gave her support to the initiative. On 31 May, M5S and the League reached an agreement to form a new government, without Paolo Savona as finance minister (he  became minister of European affairs instead), and with Conte at its head. Deputy Prime Minister

<mask> was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Social Policies in the first Conte government on 1 June 2018. As minister, he implemented the so-called "citizens' income" (), a system of social welfare provision that provides a basic income and assistance in finding a job to poor people and families, which was one of the main proposal of the M5S 2018 campaign. The income was set to a maximum of €780 per month, and in its first year the program had almost 2.7 million applications.In May 2019, <mask>'s party suffered a huge defeat, changing from 32,68% (March 2018) till 17,06%, the biggest change in history in 14 months. In August 2019, <mask>'s co-serving Deputy Prime Minister, Salvini, announced a motion of no confidence against Conte, after growing tensions within the majority and after Salvini was trying to lead the government after massively winning the elections of May 2019. Salvini's move came right after a vote in the Senate regarding the progress of the Turin–Lyon high-speed railway, in which the Lega voted against an attempt of the M5S to block the construction works. Many political analysts believe the no confidence motion was an attempt to force early elections to improve Lega's standing in Parliament, ensuring Salvini could become the next Prime Minister. On 20 August, following the parliamentary debate in which Conte harshly accused Salvini of being a political opportunist who "had triggered the political crisis only to serve his personal interest", the Prime Minister resigned his post to President Sergio Mattarella. Minister of Foreign Affairs

After Conte's resignation, the national board of the PD officially opened to the possibility of forming a new cabinet in a coalition with the M5S, based on

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texts: pro-Europeanism, green economy, sustainable development, fight against economic inequality and a new immigration policy. <mask>o was initially contrary and rumors grew about the possibility of forming a second cabinet between M5S and Lega, with <mask> himself as PM.However, the PD later accepted the M5S offer to keep Conte as head of the new government, and on 29 August President Mattarella formally invested Conte to do so. On 1 September, Five Star's founder Beppe Grillo strongly endorsed an alliance with the PD, describing it as a "unique occasion" to reform the country. After two days, on 3 September, the members of the Five Star Movement voted in favor of an agreement with the Democrats, under the premiership of Giuseppe Conte, with more than 79% of favorable votes out of nearly 80,000 voters. On 5 September, <mask> was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the new government. On 22 January 2020, four days before crucial elections in a few regions, <mask> resigned as leader of the M5S, due to the increasing criticism for his choices as leader. In early 2020, <mask>o supported the government-imposed nationwide lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2018, Silvia Romano, a 23-year-old Italian aid worker, was kidnapped in Kenya by a group of terrorists linked to Al-Shabaab.On 9 May 2020, Conte announced her liberation in a tweet. Immediately after the announcement, speculations rose about the ransom paid to the kidnappers, which according to some sources stood at around €4 million. Moreover, Romano became the target of a hate campaign by the right-wing opposition due to her conversion to Islam, occurred during the captivity. During a discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, Alessandro Pagano, a member of the League, called her a "neo-terrorist". On 1 September 2020, two Italian fishing boats were detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, along with their crews of eighteen members total, while allegedly fishing in Libya's territorial waters in the Southern Mediterranean. Prime Minister Conte and Minister <mask> asked for the

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 immediately release, but the Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar denied it, demanding a prisoner exchange. On 17 December 2020, Conte announced that the eighteen fishermen were freed.In December 2020, <mask> played a key role in the transfer to Italy of Enrico "Chico" Forti, an Italian citizen who was controversially sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an American citizen twenty years before. On 23 December, <mask> stated: "This is an extremely important result, which rewards a long and patient political and diplomatic work. We have never forgotten Chico Forti, who will finally be able to return to his home country, close to his loved ones." In February 2021, Giuseppe Conte resigned as Prime Minister, following Italia Viva's withdrawal from the government. The former President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, was invited by Italian President Sergio Mattarella to form a government of national unity. On 13 February, <mask> was confirmed as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Amid the Russo-Ukrainian crisis, <mask> fled to Kyiv on 15 February 2022 to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, while on 17 February, <mask>o had a bilateral meeting with the Russian foreign affairs minister Sergey Lavrov.In Moscow, <mask> stated that "Italy has always been committed to the front row for a diplomatic solution. [...] Russia and Ukraine can count on Italy to reach a diplomatic solution". On 24 February, Vladimir Putin announced a full-scale invasion of Ukraine; <mask>o harshly condemned Russia's attack, asking for the implementation of heavy international sanctions on Russia. Electoral history

First-past-the-post elections

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Conte I Cabinet
Conte II Cabinet
Draghi Cabinet
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Foreign ministers of Italy
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<mask> "Sandy" <mask> (born July 3, 1952) is an American diplomat and former Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. From October, 2005 to October, 2008, he was the United States Ambassador to South Korea. Before that post he had been the ambassador to the Russian Federation from 2001 to 2005 and the ambassador to NATO from 1997 to 2001. For his work with NATO he was awarded the State Department's Distinguished Service Award. In March, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated <mask> as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, a position that holds responsibility for U.S. policy toward NATO, coordination of U.S. security and defense policies relating to the nations and international organizations of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He was  in April, 2009. After almost three years with the U.S. Department of Defense, in February 2012, <mask> moved back to Brussels where he took the position of Deputy Secretary General of NATO, becoming the first American to hold the position.Early life and education
<mask> was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to  <mask> and <mask> (née Zimmerman), both of German descent. <mask> attended the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School before moving on to Yale College, from which he graduated in 1974 in Russian and East European Studies. He earned an MA at Columbia University in 1976 in International Relations and Certificate of the Russian Institute. He learned to play the drums at a young age and kept up his passion abroad including occasionally playing in bands with other Ambassadors while on foreign assignments. Career

National Security Council
<mask> was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council (1994–97). He was the first recipient of the Department of Defense's Joseph J. Kruzel Award for his contributions

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 to peace in the former Yugoslavia (1997). Ambassador to Russia
<mask> was US ambassador to Russia from 2001 to 2005.He is famous for ignoring the official ceremony of giving his letter of credence to Russian President Vladimir Putin, for which the reason of "a planned vacation" was given. During his tenure the Embassy publicly supported the candidacy of Elena Mizulina whose political party advocated for the legalization of prostitution. The US Office of Trafficking in Persons and American NGO MiraMed Institute, which was the first nonprofit to work against trafficking of women and girls from Russia, brought pressure to have Ambassador <mask> to withdraw his support since it was contrary to U.S. policy. In response, he requested an OIG investigation into the finances of MiraMed Institute which found no serious irregularities. Ambassador to South Korea
Early in his tenure as ambassador to South Korea he generated controversy by continuing the hard line on North Korea begun by his predecessor Christopher Hill. He pressed North Korea on the issues of human rights and superdollars, calling the government a "criminal regime", and called on them to return to the Six-Party Talks. The South Korean government has asked him to tone down his rhetoric, in accordance with their Sunshine Policy, and one lawmaker even tried to have him expelled from the country.In January 2006 his attempt to meet with the Korea Internet Journalists' Association, which describes itself as 'progressive', was blocked by protestors from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. Together with Christopher Hill, who was the Assistant Secretary of State, <mask> also pioneered a strategy of speaking directly to the Korean people through the internet and by actually appearing and speaking at street rallies. <mask> spoke out in favor of the expansion of the U.S. base at Pyeongtaek. Some local

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 residents demonstrated against the expansion; <mask> asserted that they were "out of step" with the sentiments of most residents of the area. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
<mask> was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (ISA). In a July, 2010, organization chart he was shown as five ASD's serving under Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy, with the other four being Wallace Gregson, Paul Stockton, Michael Nacht, and Michael G. Vickers. <mask> was leading sessions for the chief of staff of Egypt's armed forces, Lt. Gen. Sami Hafez Enan, and a delegation in Washington in January, 2011, when the visit was truncated due to concurrent Egyptian protests.NATO Deputy Secretary General
<mask> was the Deputy Secretary General of NATO from February 2012 to October 2016 after serving for three years in the Pentagon as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. While in Brussels, Vershbow argued that partnerships are "a necessity, not a luxury" stressing that NATO's partnerships have helped to consolidate peace and stability in Europe, and to extend stability beyond the Alliance's borders. In remarks to a small groups of reporters on May 2, 2014, reported by AP, <mask> said that after two decades of trying to build a partnership with Russia, NATO now feels compelled to start treating Moscow as an adversary. "Clearly the Russians have declared NATO as an adversary, so we have to begin to view Russia no longer as a partner but as more of an adversary than a partner," he said, adding that Russia's annexation of Crimea and its apparent manipulation of unrest in eastern Ukraine have fundamentally changed the NATO-Russia relationship. Near the end of his tenure <mask> was awarded the 'Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown' in recognition of his years of

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 distinguished service for the Alliance. Atlantic Council
Following his career in public service, <mask> joined the Atlantic Council as Distinguished Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security. He has become a frequent media commentator on national security affairs and predicted the Russian government would not respond militarily to the Trump administration's bombing of Syria in response to the Asad regime's use of chemical weapons in 2017.Rasmussen Global

Vershbow also acts as a senior advisor to Anders Fogh Rasmussen's political consultancy firm Rasmussen Global where he offers advice on transatlantic relations and foreign policy. Personal life
<mask>'s wife, <mask>, is a designer of contemporary jewelry. They have two sons together. Honours
 : Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2016)
: Order of the Golden Fleece (2016)
: Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Crown, 2016. References

External links

 <mask>Sandy" <mask> at Atlantic Council
Vershbow's profile at the U.S. Department of Defense
About ambassador (embassy biography page in Seoul, 2008)
USA Embassy in the Russian Federation
Audio/Video recordings of <mask> discussing "The Current Security and Economic Situation on the Korean Peninsula," from the University of Chicago's World Beyond the Headlines series

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<mask> (born 22 July 1987) is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport since 2021. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Heeley at the 2015 general election, as the youngest Labour member of that parliament. She served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2020 to 2021. Early life
<mask> grew up on Abbeydale Road, Sheffield, and now lives in Norfolk Park, Sheffield. She was educated at Sheffield High School, an independent school. She then studied Government and Economics at the London School of Economics but did not complete the course, and opted to study politics at the University of Nottingham. Her grandfather and uncle were trade union officials.After graduating, Haigh worked for the local council youth service between 2006 and 2008. She then began working in Parliament, where she was the co-ordinator of the All Party Parliamentary Group on International Corporate Responsibility. During this time, she was also a Unite shop steward and volunteered as a Special Constable in the Metropolitan Special Constabulary between 2009 and 2011. From 2012, Haigh worked for Aviva as Public Policy Manager, responsible for corporate governance and responsible investment policy. Political career

Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley (2015–present)
<mask> was selected to stand for the Labour Party in Sheffield Heeley in May 2014. She was first elected to Parliament at the May 2015 general election and re-elected in June 2017 and December 2019. Haigh was declared the "most hard-working" new MP in February 2016 after a study of the activity of MPs elected in 2015.<mask> was instrumental in revealing that hundreds of women had their tax credits stopped in error by US company Concentrix. The revelation led to an announcement that their HMRC contract would not be renewed. Panic alarms have been

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 installed in <mask>'s office and home by South Yorkshire Police after she received death threats for calling for a debate on the banning of Britain First, the far-right group. South Yorkshire Police have provided her with uniformed and undercover protection as she attends to her constituency activities. In November 2016 <mask> introduced a Private Members’ Bill calling for statutory leave from work for living organ donors, after a constituent complained of being given three days’ unpaid holiday after donating bone marrow. In April 2019 <mask> introduced a Private Members’ Bill that would remove the automatic parental rights of fathers of children conceived through rape. The Bill would also establish an inquiry into the family court's handling of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.This Bill was borne out of <mask>'s work with Sammy Woodhouse, a survivor of child sexual exploitation, to increase protections for victims of abuse. <mask> is a member of a number of All-Party Parliamentary Groups, including the APPGs on Corporate Governance, Refugees, Colombia and Looked After Children. In July 2017 she was elected Vice Chair of the APPG on State Pension Inequality and in February 2019 became a Joint Chair of the APPG on Social Care. Shadow Minister (2015–2020)

In September 2015, <mask> was appointed Shadow Minister for Civil Service and Digital Reform. The role, newly expanded under Jeremy Corbyn, covers the Government's digital strategy, the Freedom of Information Act, data security and privacy. In this role, Haigh criticised a 2016 reshuffle of Permanent Secretaries which saw two fewer women as departmental heads. She opposed the closure of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills office in Sheffield city centre, saying the decision demonstrated "contempt" for the city.On 10 October 2016, she was made Shadow Minister for the Digital Economy. <mask>

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 served in this role during the passage of the Digital Economy Act (2017) and introduced a number of amendments, including an obligation for television broadcasters to include subtitles and closed captioning in on-demand content online which was adopted by a subsequent Government amendment. She has repeatedly raised concerns about child protection online, including calling for social media companies to recognise "that alongside their new-found power, they have responsibilities" in dealing with harmful and illegal content. She also called for compulsory online education alongside sex and relationships education in schools, citing an 800% increase in children contacting the NSPCC about online abuse. On 3 July 2017, she was made Shadow Policing Minister. <mask> has called for greater protection for police officers involved in vehicle pursuits, saying the current rules are "hampering the ability of the police to apprehend very serious offenders". In this role she has raised the issue of stress and mental health of officers, citing a 77% rise in officer leave due to mental health between 2014 and 2018.She has called for a "public health approach" to reducing violent crime and blamed the rise in crime on government spending cuts to both police and other public services. Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (2020–2021)
On 6 April 2020, <mask> replaced Tony Lloyd as the interim Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, following Lloyd's hospitalisation as a result of the COVID-19 virus. On 28 April 2020, Lloyd resigned as Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary to focus on recovery, and <mask> replaced him permanently. She is the second woman after Mo Mowlam to serve as the Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. <mask> made her first visit to Northern Ireland as Shadow Secretary of State in August 2020. After Brexit she was in charge of Northern Ireland policy in

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 relation to the Northern Ireland Protocol. In November 2021, she appeared on GB News and advocated taking a neutral stand on any referendum on a United Ireland.She said “We’re a unionist party in the Labour Party, but if there is a border poll we should remain neutral. I think that’s an important principle." This was criticised for undermining the views of Keir Starmer who said he would side with unionists in any poll. Shadow Secretary of State for Transport (2021–present)
On 29 November 2021, during the shadow cabinet reshuffle, <mask> was appointed as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. She was replaced as Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary by Peter Kyle. Views and policies
<mask> is concerned that forcing police to find more to pay for police pensions out of their general budget leaves less money for the police to protect the public. <mask> stated, "Forcing the police at the last minute to bear the huge cost of pension changes demonstrates the utter failure of ministers to grasp the crisis in policing caused by their cuts.They have played fast and loose with public safety and the police are right to step up and take action." <mask> also feels it is wrong that the police are forced to deal with mental health crises that has been caused by underfunding of the NHS. <mask> said, “The government’s underfunding of mental health services is a national scandal and passing the buck to our overstretched police officers is exacerbating the crisis in policing. It is frankly shocking that the police are often the only people who someone experiencing a mental health crisis can turn to. Nearly a decade of brutal austerity has torn at the fabric of our society and the most vulnerable are being failed.”

She has spoken out about the crisis within the special education needs system. She has said, "School funding cuts that have resulted in the loss of teaching assistants, a narrower

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 curriculum, and bigger class sizes have all made certain mainstream schools more hostile environments for children with SEN."

<mask> has also been outspoken in her opposition to fracking. She has said, "I do not support fracking for a number of reasons: health and safety; the potential for earth tremors; the likely pollution of the water table; the impact on local communities in terms of disruption and subsidence; the fact that the chemicals used are deleterious to our health.Crucially, we also know that fracking contributes significantly to climate change and so, while all of the above means that fracking should absolutely not take place on an island as populated and as unconducive as ours, the evidence clearly shows that we should reject it outright." Haigh campaigned for the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. Labour leadership elections
<mask> was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015, although she later said she regrets this decision. She supported and campaigned for Andy Burnham, however. In the 2016 Labour leadership election, Haigh supported Owen Smith. In the 2020 leadership election <mask> chaired the leadership campaign of Lisa Nandy. She also nominated Angela Rayner for Deputy.References

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<mask>. (January 7, 1903 – July 28, 1981) was an American businessman and political leader. Early life
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Elbert L<mask> and the former Ellen Van Petten, he attended Occidental College, in northeast Los Angeles, during 1919 and 1920 before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, earning a Bachelor of Science in 1922 and a Master of Science the following year. Business career
<mask> made his fortune running oil companies from the mid-1920s onward. He founded the Petrol Corp. in 1923. <mask> was president of Fortuna Petroleum by 1933. In 1947 he bought Coconut Island in Hawaii, as a private retreat. Several of his deals involved Zapata Corporation, run by George H. W. Bush, including a joint-venture with Pemargo in 1960.In 1958 he founded Pauley Petroleum which, with Howard Hughes, expanded oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. Later <mask> also became a founding part-owner of television station KTVU in Oakland, a part-owner of the Los Angeles Rams football team and a director of Western Airlines. Politics
<mask> became involved with the Democratic Party as a fundraiser in 1930s, eventually becoming treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. In 1940, he served as a member of the Interstate Oil and Compact Commission. He was a friend and confidante of U.S. Senator Harry S. Truman, and through Truman's influence, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed <mask> as petroleum coordinator of Lend-Lease supplies for the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom in 1941. He was director of the 1944 Democratic National Convention.As president, Truman appointed him United States representative to the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945 to 1947. With the rank of ambassador, as well as industrial and commercial advisor to the Potsdam Conference, his chief task was to renegotiate the reparations agreements formulated at the Yalta Conference (many of which affected eventual C.I.A. director Allen Dulles's former clients). When Truman tried to appoint him

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 Under Secretary of the Navy in 1946, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes resigned in protest, claiming that while <mask> was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, he had suggested to Ickes that $300,000 ($ in  dollars) in campaign funds could be raised if the Interior Department would drop its fight against the State of California for ownership of oil-rich offshore lands. Ickes's resignation scuttled the appointment, and <mask> worked behind the scenes thereafter. By successive appointments from several California governors, <mask> served as a University of California Regent from 1940 to 1972. As a regent, he was staunchly opposed to the creation of the University of California, San Diego.By the 1960s, <mask> came to support Ronald Reagan, and was by far the Board of Regents' harshest critic of UC Berkeley student protesters. 1965–1972: CIA, FBI, and UC Berkeley anti-war protests
In 1965, <mask> was serving as a regent at the University of California, when anti-Vietnam war campus protests began to grow. At <mask>'s request, CIA Director John McCone met with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on January 28 and Hoover agreed to leak to Pauley information about UC System President Clark Kerr. (See memo regarding McCone's request to meet with Hoover. McCone graduated from UC Berkeley in 1922, the year before <mask>.) At that meeting, McCone told Hoover that Pauley was very upset about the "situation at Berkeley", and was "anxious to get a line on any persons who are communists or have communist associations, either on the faculty or in the student body." As soon as McCone left his office, Hoover phoned Los Angeles FBI chief <mask>, and ordered him to give Pauley anonymous memos on regents, faculty members, and students who were "causing trouble at Berkeley".Hoover admonished Grapp, "It must be impressed upon Mr. Pauley that this data is being furnished in strict confidence." Five days later (February 2) Grapp met with <mask> for two hours at his office in the Pauley Petroleum Building in Los Angeles. Grapp provided him information

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texts: from FBI files on other regents, faculty, and students who were considered "ultra-liberal". The CIA and FBI worked in conjunction with Ronald Reagan, who sought to mount a "psychological warfare campaign" against the budding Free Speech Movement and anti-war sit-ins, including using tax-evasion and "any other available" charges in which the FBI agreed to assist. "This has been done in the past, and has worked quite successfully", Hoover noted. (This information was not made public until 2002, after a fifteen-year legal battle with the FBI that went all the way to the US Supreme Court, as a result of a FOIA request for an in-depth San Francisco Chronicle investigation. The FBI had claimed it needed to maintain secrecy to "protect law enforcement operations".The National Security Act of 1947 bars the CIA from engaging in domestic intelligence activities.) <mask> began the February 2, 1965, meeting with Grapp by saying he was upset about the Free Speech Movement and recalled that "obnoxious question ... concerning the FBI being a secret police" (referring to a 1959 entry exam question.) He told Grapp he had "no use for [UC President] Kerr" and had accused Kerr of being a "communist or a communist follower". <mask> explained that the 24-member Board of Regents was divided and that his faction wanted "strong positive action taken immediately to clean up the mess." The problem, he said, was that so far he'd been unable to muster the votes to fire Kerr. He blamed the impasse on three "ultra-liberal" regents who staunchly backed Kerr. Governor Pat Brown (D)) had named to the board: <mask> (Brown's former special counsel); <mask>. Roth (member of the ACLU executive committee); and Elinor Raas Heller (member of the Democratic National Committee).<mask> told Grapp that in the 1950s the FBI secretly gave the university reports on professors it was considering hiring. He said he wanted to restore the procedure—which the FBI had code-named the Responsibilities Program—and offered to pay someone to check FBI files. After <mask> promised not to reveal

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 that the FBI was his source, Grapp gave him a report on UC Berkeley immunology professor <mask> that summarized news stories from 1945 to 1956, noting that <mask> had been a self-avowed Communist Party official who tried to get young people involved with the party. The report failed to note that since 1957 the FBI had found no evidence that <mask> had been involved with the party. On February 4, 1965, Grapp told Hoover that Pauley could be used as a source on internal University affairs, and could harass and remove suspected communists on the faculty and the Board of Regents. Hoover approved, and one week later <mask> was given confidential information on Coblentz, Roth and Heller. <mask>, Grapp reported to Hoover, was "most appreciative" of the information on his opponents.As <mask> saw it, according to Grapp's report, UC would remain in turmoil "as long as the current officials were in power at the university." That fall, thousands of students joined the escalating protests. To <mask> and the FBI, it was further proof that Kerr had lost control of the university. <mask> confided to Grapp that two alumni were taking things into their own hands. They had recruited athletes to "beat up the demonstrators" and hired a barber to "forcibly 'shear' the students who need it". Grapp continued to slip <mask> anonymous memos about students and faculty—at least two dozen more—that he could use in persuading the regents to fire Kerr. But in October, a frustrated <mask> told Grapp he was still "two votes short to fire Clark Kerr".Kerr would remain in charge of the university, it seemed, as long as Brown remained governor. When Ronald Reagan was elected California's governor in 1966, after campaigning against "campus malcontents and filthy speech advocates" at Berkeley, one of his first moves was to fire Kerr. Reagan's Legal Affairs Secretary, Herbert Ellingwood, met with FBI agent Cartha "Deke" DeLoach at FBI Headquarters, and noted that Reagan was "dedicated to the destruction of disruptive elements on college campuses." Philanthropy
After his

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 retirement from the University of California system, <mask> concentrated on his many philanthropic interests and business concerns. He was particularly interested in promoting the use of his Coconut Island in Kāne'ohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii by the University of Hawaii at Manoa and its Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. He kept about half of the island for the use of his family—his wife Bobbi, his son, Stephen M<mask> and daughter, <mask> and eventually their families. After <mask>'s death in 1981, his widow Bobbi <mask> established the Edwin W. Pauley Foundation to continue their philanthropic work.In 1995, the <mask> family presented the University of Hawai`i with a gift of the private portion of the   island to the University, and provided funds for the building of a new library and laboratory buildings for the institute. Built on a living coral reef, the institute is now one of the world's premier locations for the study of marine biology. Pauley Pavilion

The Pauley Pavilion at the University of California, Los Angeles, is named in the honor of his philanthropy and service as a regent. <mask> donated almost one-fifth of the five million dollars needed to construct the Pauley Pavilion, which since 1965 has served as home stadium for the basketball and volleyball teams of UCLA. Pauley Ballroom
A smaller dedication to <mask> exists at his alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley: the Pauley Ballroom, which can seat up to 1,000 people in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union. References

Saxon, <mask> (July 29, 1981). <mask> <mask> Sr., 78.The New York Times
Biographical sketches: <mask><mask> via Truman Library
Minor, Linda (2002). Follow The Yellow Brick Road: From Harvard to Enron. San Francisco Chronicle, "Reagan, Hoover, and the UC Red Scare", June 9, 2002. External links

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title: Grace VanderWaal

texts: <mask> (born January 15, 2004) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She is known for her distinctive vocals and has often accompanied herself on the ukulele. <mask> began her musical career by posting videos of her original songs and covers on YouTube and performing at open mic nights near her hometown of Suffern, New York. In September 2016, at age 12, she won the eleventh season of the NBC TV competition show America's Got Talent (AGT), singing her original songs. In December 2016, she released her first EP, Perfectly Imperfect, on the Columbia Records label. In November 2017, she released a full-length album, Just the Beginning. She released a second EP, Letters Vol.1, in November 2019. She has performed at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Madison Square Garden, the opening and closing of the 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria, various benefit concerts, the Austin City Limits Music Festival and on various television talk shows. <mask> conducted her first concert tour in 2017 in support of Just the Beginning. She next toured in mid-2018 with Imagine Dragons in their Evolve World Tour, and in 2019, after opening in a tour for Florence and the Machine, she headlined her own "Ur So Beautiful" tour. She made her acting debut in 2020, starring as Susan "Stargirl" Caraway in the Disney+ musical drama film Stargirl. <mask> won the 2017 Radio Disney Music Award for Best New Artist and a Teen Choice Award, has been named to Billboard magazine's 21 Under 21 list of fast-rising young music stars five times (2016–2019 and 2021), received the 2017 Billboard Women in Music Rising Star

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 Award, and is the youngest person ever included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 music list. Early life

Family and education
<mask> was born near Kansas City, Kansas, to Tina and <mask>, who lived in Lenexa at the time.Her father is of Dutch descent. When he became a vice president of marketing at LG Electronics in 2007, the family moved to Suffern, New York. VanderWaal later moved to South Carolina. VanderWaal has an older brother and sister. After winning America's Got Talent in 2016, VanderWaal was home-schooled and enrolled in online courses for 7th grade but later attended public school part of the time. Early musical efforts
VanderWaal began singing and making up songs at the age of three. As a preteen, she found songwriting inspiration by watching movies and trying to imagine what a character was feeling, and "what it would be like if I were them, and wrote a song."She decided to learn the ukulele after watching a Brazilian au pair play and seeing a Twenty One Pilots video on YouTube. She asked for one for her 11th birthday but her mother refused, thinking she would never learn to play it. Then she bought one on her own using money she had received for her 11th birthday, and watched more videos to teach herself how to play. She also played the saxophone in her school's marching band. In 2015, VanderWaal began to record song covers and original songs, accompanying herself on ukulele, and to post them on her YouTube channel. A review of VanderWaal's album Just the Beginning in USA Today stated: "VanderWaal's big-throated performance on 'A Better Life' channels Florence Welch and Miley Cyrus. There's a certain chirp

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texts: in VanderWaal's voice that's reminiscent of Swift, but otherwise, her vocals align much more closely to Sia's in her full-voiced belting and nonchalant pronunciations.... <mask> sounds like a 13-year-old in her songs, in the best possible way. In a voice that sounds refreshingly green, she launches herself at huge choruses with a total lack of restraint." A reviewer for The Buffalo News wrote that the "vast diversity in her songwriting ... makes her stand out as a truly unique and exquisite artist." Selina Fragassi of the Chicago Sun-Times commented that, on the album, <mask>'s "raspy-sweet-peculiar vocals recall Elle King, Regina Spektor and Katy Perry ... [and] proves herself a modern-day Mozart". Critics writing in the Houston Chronicle similarly praised VanderWaal's "smart pop songs that beautifully showcase her persona and wonderfully peculiar rasp of a voice." A reviewer for the Dallas Observer opined that VanderWaal's lyrics tackle "complicated issues with aplomb as her raspy, warbling voice undulates around each syllable." A reviewer called VanderWaal's Seattle concert in February 2018 "a well balanced set of ballads and full energy songs.... [H]er stage and style are a boho chic age appropriate complement to her teenage themed, yet old-soul-mind works. ... Her set was full of sweet commentary and incredible vocals". Abby Jones of Billboard wrote that her performance of her single "Clearly" on The Late Show in 2018 was "moving ... stunningly bold ... mature, powerful". A reviewer for Mass Live said of her performance on tour in June 2018 that she "was a pleasant surprise ... holding her own in the arena

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texts: rock milieu. [She] won over the crowd". Later that month, a tour reviewer noted, in Argus Leader, "her whimsical flower crown, carefree attitude and incredible voice.... VanderWaal captivated the audience". Another wrote in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that "<mask> is one of the youngest performers at Summerfest [2018]. She's also one of the most talented, bringing a honeyed, slightly frayed rasp to assured pop songs". Vanity Fair called her 2019 single, "Stray", "contemplative, haunting ... ["Stray" and "Hideaway" are] mature and grounded – a progression from her previous work". A Rolling Stone critic found her 2019 single "Waste My Time" "a major departure for the teen. ... The more mature track is dream-pop bliss".MTV's critic called the 2019 music video for her song "I Don't Like You" "a sharp portrait [that] ... represents the chaos, confusion, and anger we often feel in relationships. ... In a style reminiscent of Sia's best videos ... with such deep-cutting lyrics ... and sharp visuals". Billboard magazine named VanderWaal to its 21 Under 21 list of "music's hottest young stars" in four consecutive years, 2016–2019. Variety listed her in its "Young Hollywood Impact Report 2017". She was a finalist in the Best Female Artist category at the International Acoustic Music Awards in 2017, the youngest finalist in the awards' history. <mask> won the 2017 Radio Disney Music Award for Best New Artist and a 2017 Teen Choice Award.Refinery29 included her on its 2017 list of 29 young actors, singers and activists "on the verge of superstardom." <mask> is credited with helping to boost the popularity of the ukulele, and in

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 2017, Fender named her as its youngest Signature Series artist ever and its first collaboration with a ukulele player; the instrument line was released in 2018. <mask> received Billboards 2017 Women in Music Rising Star Award and the 2018 MTV Europe Music Award for Best Push Artist. She is the youngest person ever included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 music list. In 2019 the New York State Senate awarded her its Women of Distinction honor for her efforts to expand musical education in the East Ramapo Central School District. By 2018, <mask> had accumulated eight million followers on social media. As of 2021, <mask>'s Instagram account has more than four million followers, her YouTube channel has more than three million subscribers, and her Facebook page more than one million followers.Billboard again named VanderWaal to its 21 Under 21 list in 2021. Awards and nominations

Discography

Albums

EPs

Charted singles

Tours

Headlining
 Just the Beginning Tour (2017–2018)
 Ur So Beautiful Tour (2019)

Opening act
 Imagine Dragons – Evolve World Tour (2018)
 Florence and the Machine – High as Hope Tour (2019)

Notes

References

External links

2018 Documentary about VanderWaal by UPROXX
<mask>'s "Tiny Desk Concert" at NPR

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<mask> (March 5, 1904 – August 19, 1984) was an American character film and Broadway actor. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Meeker made several films such as Crime, Inc. (1945) and A Thief in the Dark (1928), and he played an uncredited part in All Through the Night (1941). Meeker has a star at 6101 Hollywood Boulevard in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Meeker's Broadway credits include Conflict (1929), Back Here (1928), Judy (1927), A Lady's Virtue (1925), and Judy Drops In (1924). (1934) - Sheldon
 Dark Hazard (1934) - Pres Barrow
 Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) - Beauchamp
 Ever Since Eve (1934) - Philip Baxter
 Melody in Spring (1934) - Wesley Prebble
 Uncertain Lady (1934) - Dr. Alexander Garrison
 I Believed in You (1934) - Saracen Jones
 Little Man, What Now? (1934) - Schultz
 Paris Interlude (1934) - Rex
 The Dragon Murder Case (1934) - Monty Montague
 The Richest Girl in the World (1934) - Donald
 Against the Law (1934) - Bert Andrews
 Broadway Bill (1934) - Henry Early
 Bachelor of Arts (1934) - Prof. Donald Woolsey
 Murder on a Honeymoon (1935) - Tom Kelsey, Alias Roswell T. Forrest
 The Wedding Night (1935) - Gilly (uncredited)
 Oil for the Lamps of China (1935) - Bill Kendall
 Don't Bet on Blondes (1935) - Minor Role (scenes deleted)
 Dante's Inferno (1935) - Drunk at Ship's Cafe (uncredited)
 Welcome Home (1935) - Edward Adams
 Manhattan Butterfly (1935)
 Murder by Television (1935) - Richard Grayson
 The Rainmakers (1935) - Orville Parker
 Remember Last Night?(1935) - Vic Huling
 If You Could Only Cook (1935) - Parker (uncredited)
 Don't Get Personal (1936) - Freddie Miller
 Tango (1936) - Foster Carver, Tony's Brother
 The Country Doctor (1936) - Dr. Wilson
 In Paris, A.W.O.L. (1936) - David
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title: Charmaine Nelson

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<mask> (born 1971) is a Canadian art historian, educator, author, and independent curator. <mask> was a Full Professor of Art History at McGill University until June 2020 when she joined NSCAD university to develop the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery. She is the first tenured Black professor of art history in Canada. <mask>'s research interests include the visual culture of slavery, race and representation, Black Canadian studies and African Canadian history as well as critical theory, post-colonial studies, Black feminist scholarship, Transatlantic Slavery Studies, and Black Diaspora Studies. In addition to teaching and publishing in these research areas, <mask> has curated exhibitions, including at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Education
 BFA Art History 1994, Concordia University
 MFA Art History 1995, Concordia University
 PhD Art History 2001, the University of Manchester (UK)

Career
After completing her BFA and MFA degrees at Concordia University, <mask> worked at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. She then began her PhD at Queen's University which she completed at the University of Manchester (UK) in 2001.Before obtaining her position at McGill University, <mask> was an assistant professor at University of Western Ontario. Throughout her career, <mask>lowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University. From 2015 to 2017, <mask> was a Faculty Fellow at McGill's Institute for Public Life of the Arts and Ideas. In 2016, she was named as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars,

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 Artists, and Scientists. From 2017 to 2018, <mask> was the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University. In June 2020, <mask> was named as NSCAD University's Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, a funded, seven-year (renewable) position where she will continue her research on Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement.In addition, <mask> will use the seven-year position to work with NSCAD to develop the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery. Public Speaking
<mask> regularly offers public presentations of her research. Some of these include:
 McCready Lecture on Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, "From African to Creole: Examining Creolization through the Art and Fugitive Slave Advertisements of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Canada and Jamaica" (2016). Walker Cultural Leader Series and Canada 150 at Brock University, "Colonial Print Culture and the Limits of Enslaved Resistance: Examining the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Fugitive Slave Archive in Canada and Jamaica"  (2017). Slavery and human rights: struggles of representation Lectures presented by Réseau art actuel, "Mining a Colonial Archive: Fugitive Slave Advertisements – An Untapped Resource in the Study of Slavery in Canada" (2017). Lecture at University of Toronto Scarborough, "Slavery, Race & Representation: <mask> A. <mask> and Andrew Hunter in Conversation" wherein <mask> discussed her "research on fugitive slaves in Canada and its role in understanding the experiences of Black communities in 18th and 19th centuries in the regions that became Canada" (April 2018). Lecture at the National Gallery of Canada,

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 "Fugitive Slave Advertisements and/as Portraiture in late Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Century Canada" (February 2019).ECI Mandela Lecture at Ryerson University, "True North: Unmasking Slavery in Canada Ft. Dr. <mask> <mask>" (October 2019). J. Fred Weintz & Rosemary Weintz Art Lecture Series at Stanford University's Department of Art & Art History, "Weintz Art Lecture Series presents <mask> <mask>" (November 2019). Select Publications
<mask> has published articles in academic journals and popular sources, including the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, The Walrus Magazine, Frieze, RACAR: revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, American Art, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and HuffPost. She is author and editor of several books and has contributed chapters to numerous scholarly publications. As author

 Through an-other's eyes: white Canadian artists, Black female subjects (Oshawa, Ontario: Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1998). The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007). Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art (New York: Routledge, 2010).Slavery, Geography, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (London, UK: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2016). As editor

 Racism Eh? : A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada (Concord, Ontario: Captus Press, 2004). Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010). Legacies Denied: Unearthing the Visual Culture of Canadian Slavery (Montreal: Printed for author by

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 Limits of Female Sexuality," [chapter] Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies, eds. Maureen Fitzgerald and Scott Rayler (Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars Press, 2012). Wanted (Toronto, ON: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2017)."Servant, Savage or Sarah: Enslaved Black Female Subjects in Canadian Art and Fugitive Slave Advertisements," [chapter] Women in the "Promised Land" essays in African Canadian history, eds. Wanda Bernard, Boulou Ebanda and Nina Reid-Maroney (Toronto; Vancouver: Women's Press, 2018). "Remembering Canadian Slavery. Black Subjects in Historical Quebec Art.," [chapter] Engaging with diversity: multidisciplinary reflections on plurality from Québec, eds. Stephan Gervais, Mary Anne Poutanen and Raffaele Iacovino (Bruxelles; New York: Peter Lang, 2018). "Ran away from her master... a negroe girl named Thursday": examining evidence of punishment, isolation, and trauma in Nova Scotia and Quebec fugitive slave advertisements," [chapter] Legal violence and the limits of the law, eds. Joshua Nichols and Amy Swiffen (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018).Recognition
<mask> <mask> has received a Woman of Distinction Award from the Montreal's Women's YWCA in 2012 (Arts and Culture Category) as well as a Teaching Award from The Arts Undergraduate Society of McGill University (2016), and McGill's Faculty Award for Equity and Community Building (2016). References

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Living people
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<mask> (born March 28, 1984) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, and New York Jets. He played college football at Hofstra University. Early years
<mask> first played pee-wee football for the Baldwin Bombers at the age of 7. From 8 to 10 he played for the Roosevelt Rough Riders then onto North Babylon, NY with his father as his coach for many of his years there. He attended Half Hollow Hills High School West, where he lettered in both football and basketball. In football, he was a two-way player at running back and linebacker. As a senior, he collected 235 rushing yards, four rushing touchdowns, 330 receiving yards, five receiving touchdowns and 97 tackles.In 2018, he was inducted into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame, in the American football category with the Class of 2018. College career
<mask> accepted a football scholarship from Hofstra University, where he was converted into a defensive end and became a three-year starter. As a freshman, he played in 5 games, making 3 tackles. As a sophomore, he appeared in 12 games, recording 49 tackles (9.5 for loss), 3 sacks and one fumble recovery. He had 8 tackles against the University of Rhode Island. As a junior, he started at right defensive end, registering 68 tackles (fourth on the team), 7.5 tackles for loss and 3 sacks. He had 9 tackles against the University of New Hampshire.As a senior, he tallied 48 tackles (11 for loss), 5.5 sacks (second on the team), one interception and 2 passes defensed. He finished his career with 168 tackles, 11.5 sacks and one interception, which was returned for a 31-yard touchdown. Professional career

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 Cowboys

2006–2010
<mask> was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Dallas Cowboys after the 2006 NFL Draft on May 1. He was released on September 2 and signed to the team's practice squad two days later. On November 8, he was promoted to the active roster. He appeared in the season-ending loss to the Detroit Lions and made his first career sack against Jon Kitna. In 2007, <mask> served as a back-up to starting right defensive end Chris Canty, recording 9 quarterback pressures (tied for fourth on the team) and 23 tackles (5th among defensive linemen).In 2008, he played in 14 games (he was inactive twice), posting 28 tackles, 9 quarterback pressures. In 2009, he appeared in all 16 games (2 starts) as the backup to Igor Olshansky and registered a then career-high 31 tackles, 3 sacks and 33 quarterback pressures (tied for third on the team). In 2010, he appeared in all 16 games, starting 9 contests in place of an injured Marcus Spears, while finishing with 25 tackles (10 solo), 12 quarterback pressures (third on the team), 1.5 sacks and one pass defensed. Washington Redskins

2011 season
On July 28, the Washington Redskins signed <mask> to a five-year, $27.5 million contract. In his first season with the team, he was named the starting right defensive end in a 3–4 defense. On November 28, he was diagnosed with a third degree PCL tear, suffered against the Seattle Seahawks. He didn’t need surgery and managed to start in all 16 games for the first time in his career

He set new career-highs with 41 tackles and six sacks.He received the team's Ed Block Courage Award not just for overcoming injury, but also for the passing of his son and his mother-in-law. 2012 season
<mask> had

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 arthroscopic surgery on his left knee in mid-April, to fix complications from his previous year knee injury. On November 14, he was made a co-defensive captain after a team vote during the Redskins' bye week. In the Week 14 win against the Cleveland Browns, he tore his upper left biceps and would still play for the rest of the regular season. He would make an essential defensive move in the next week against the Philadelphia Eagles. During the Eagles last attempt to tie the game and with seconds remaining, <mask> put enough pressure on Nick Foles to make him throw the ball into the turf. Despite one second remaining on the clock, Foles would receive an intentional grounding penalty, ending the game and giving the Redskins the victory.He registered 51 tackles (31 solo), 32 quarterback pressures, 3 passes defensed and one sack. 2013 season
In the Week 7 win against the Chicago Bears, <mask> suffered a tear in his right PCL. He continued to play through the injury until he further injured his right knee in a Week 11 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. On November 26, the Redskins moved him to injured reserve due to needing a microfracture surgery to repair his torn PCL. He finished the season with 19 tackles (11 solo) and one pass defensed. 2014 season
Having spent all of training camp on the PUP list, it was confirmed that he would remain there at the start of the 2014 season. He was placed on the active roster on October 18.He appeared in just 8 games (3 starts), while registering 11 tackles and no sacks. He was released on February 27, 2015,

New York Jets

2015 season
On March 24, <mask> was signed as a free agent by the New York Jets, reuniting with Todd Bowles, who was a Dallas

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 Cowboys assistant coach. He was a reserve player and appeared in 15 games with one start. He announced his retirement on June 1, 2016, signing a one-day contract with the Washington Redskins. He finished his professional career with 128 games (57 starts), 175 tackles (103 solo), 12.5 sacks and 9 passes defensed. NFL statistics

Key
 GP: games played
 COMB: combined tackles
 TOTAL: total tackles
 AST: assisted tackles
 SACK: sacks
 FF: forced fumbles
 FR: fumble recoveries
 FR YDS: fumble return yards
 INT: interceptions
 IR YDS: interception return yards
 AVG IR: average interception return
 LNG: longest interception return
 TD: interceptions returned for touchdown
 PD: passes defensed

Personal life

<mask> married his college girlfriend Tiffany Johnson, in March 2008. The couple have 3 children-one daughter, Trinity, and twin boys, <mask> and Skyler.<mask>'s twin sons were born four months prematurely on June 28, 2011, the same day he signed with the Redskins. Unfortunately, Skyler died 10 days later. On December 8, 2011, <mask> won the Redskins’ Ed Block Courage Award in recognition of the inspiring way he dealt with Skyler's death. He is best friends with former NFL defensive end Jason Hatcher. Both of them started their NFL careers with the Dallas Cowboys in 2006. References

1984 births
Living people
People from Onslow County, North Carolina
Players of American football from North Carolina
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texts: <mask> (born 1958) is a visual artist and political activist. Her artworks, spanning painting, mixed media works, sculpture and installations, have been widely exhibited internationally, and have been featured in the press and print publications worldwide. <mask>, who was born in Beirut and received her academic training in history, sociology, film, and the fine arts, is a pioneer of large-scale ephemeral public art installations in Lebanon and the Middle East. Active since the early nineteen-nineties, she has been a part of shaping the postwar Lebanese artistic scene through artworks that seek to provoke a discussion around issues surrounding the memory of wars, in particular the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War. She has denounced the personal and collective amnesia surrounding this conflict, as well as Lebanon's physical and political fragmentation that followed it. Her works not only underscore the imperative of reflecting on the multiple memories of that war but also on the processes and necessity of national reconciliation. She questions the writing of History and the construction of identity, in the Arab world and beyond, and continuously asks for reflection and rebellion against the status quo.<mask>'s paintings, sculptures, and installations are characteristically time- and labor-intensive, drawing a parallel between her artistic process and the time necessary to process memory. She is known for her recurrent use of repetition as a stylistic and meaning-breeding effect, intersecting the work's experiential time, creative time, and archival time, especially in her large-scale

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 installations, staged in urban spaces and in institutions, and which make use of everyday life objects. She is also preoccupied with the aesthetics and emotional charge of conceptual art. Her body of work includes installations such as Fractions of Memory (2003), Waynoun? Where are They? (2006), Haven’t 15 Years of Hiding in the Toilets Been Enough? (2008), and Light at the End of the Tunnel (2012), and series of paintings incorporating layers of paint, objects, words and images, as seen for instance in Peindre L'Orient-Le Jour (2000), How Many How Many More (2014–present), orTulips for a Wounded Country (1992–present).<mask>'s works have been exhibited internationally in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East and North Africa, including in New York, Boston, Washington D.C., London, Paris, Marseille, Liège, Houston, Munich, Beirut, Dubai, and Doha. An activist in the fields of human rights and political reform, <mask> is a member of Beirut Madinati, an urban public policy organization under whose umbrella she ran for a seat on Beirut's municipal council in 2016. She is also a founding member of the Civil Center for National Initiative, whose works include a legal campaign to remove reference to sect from state records, and an initiative to legally administer civil marriages in Lebanon. Early life and studies
Born and raised in Beirut, <mask> was a teenager when the 1975 Lebanese Civil War broke out. She witnessed up close the physical and mental division of the Lebanese capital city into East and West Beirut, and the eminent danger of crossing the demarcation line separating her

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 house in East Beirut from her school in West Beirut. She subsequently travelled abroad to pursue higher education, studying at Paris Nanterre University and the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, from which she graduated in 1981 with, respectively, a master's degree in Sociology and a Diploma in Theoretical Film Studies. In 1983, she moved to the United States where she pursued studies in film production at Boston University.In 1985, she returned to Beirut where her son Abdallah Salam was born a year later. When in Lebanon, she completed the thesis for her DEA-Diplôme d'Études Approfondies in History at Paris-Sorbonne University (1987). In 1989 she returned to the United States with her family and enrolled at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts, from which she graduated in 1995 with a diploma and a fifth year. That same year, she moved back to Beirut, where she has since based her artistic practice. Artistic career

Early works: paintings and mixed media series (1993–2000)
Shaped by her experience of wartime Beirut, <mask> was interested early on in exploring issues of separation and fragmentation, delving not only into the Lebanese capital's history but also tackling those of other cities wounded by war. She notably actively engaged with the visual and textual archives of different wars around the globe and started incorporating them in her paintings and mixed media artworks. This close engagement with text characterizes not only <mask>'s early career, but also her later works.One of her first painting series, War Games (c. 1995), pointed to issues surrounding physical

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texts: and mental division, and the difficulty of crossing from one side of town to another in times of war. The paintings, in which she sometimes inserted archival images, press clippings, or text, referenced the divided urban landscapes of Beirut and Jerusalem. Likewise, the series of paintings Sarajevo (1995), which used similar techniques, bore witness to the everyday life of this city's inhabitants during the Yugoslavian Wars while drawing parallels with the life circumstances of wartime Beirut. From the mid-nineties on, <mask> further developed her focus on the memory of the Civil War, and in particular the collective amnesia of the conflict condoned by Lebanon's Amnesty Law of 1991. Thus, Lebanese War Statistics (1995) took as a starting point accounts of the number of dead, wounded, and disappeared persons during the Lebanese Civil War, as published in Western media such as The New York Times and France's Le Monde. The series of mixed media works, using paint, text, and bandages, memorialized the conflict's victims, in the aim of healing the country. When Reading T.S.Eliot (1999) featured rows of painted fragments of Eliot's poems set on large canvases. The series of works pointed to time's cyclicality and human vanity, drawing on the poet's meditation on existential concerns, and, further, making a parallel between post-World War I disillusionment and post-Civil-War Lebanon. With Peindre L'Orient-Le Jour  (in English: Painting the L'Orient-Le Jour) (1999), <mask> painted over, cut up, reconfigured and rewrote the front page of Lebanon's leading Francophone newspaper, every day for an


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 entire year. She reorganized the news, masking certain articles while bringing others forward to the front page, to comment on information and disinformation, journalistic truth and the use of archives. Then, <mask>'s series of mixed media works, Martyrs' Square Revisited (2000) used photographs of downtown Beirut right before the beginning of postwar reconstruction period to spur reflection around the history and memory of the Lebanese war and of the city of Beirut, and pondered its future development after destruction. Throughout the nineteen-nineties, <mask> also tackled specific sociopolitical topics related to Lebanon. Legal Violence (1998), for instance, dealt with women's rights to the guardianship of their children under Lebanese family laws, which are administered by religious courts belonging to Lebanon's different sects.Installations (2001–2012)
A pioneer of ephemeral art installations in Lebanon, <mask> has also exhibited such works in Tunis (Tunisia), Marseilles (France), London (United Kingdom), Liège (Belgium) and Doha (Qatar). Since 2001, she has been creating large-scale, site-specific, installations in institutions and urban spaces. These works generally repurpose dozens of mundane everyday objects, and their underlying message conveys the urgency of national reconciliation and social change. They constitute spaces for personal meditation, social reflection, and collective healing, often using the trope of repetition to breed meaning. <mask> has used objects as varied as rolling pins, brooms, and toilet seats to convey the importance of acknowledging the legacy and

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texts: memory of war and to promote national healing. Her first installation, Promenade in Your Dreams (2001), asked more than 1,600 students of the International College, a Beirut private school, to describe the school of their dreams, writing or drawing it on the school formatted paper that were later glued on wooden tablets. <mask> then exhibited the responses in the school's open-air amphitheater.Her following installations dealt with the collective memory of the Lebanese Civil War. In 2003, Fractions of Memory started with an open call to the public to share a memory of daily life before the war, writing it on a sheet of paper, resulting in 360 structures constructed with 20 tons of paper displaying their responses, which were exhibited in Martyrs' Square, in the heart of downtown Beirut. Likewise, Plastic Memory Containers (2004) probed the relationship of the inhabitants of the Lebanese city of Byblos with their 6,000-year-old heritage, which they generally claimed to take pride in, and simultaneously asked them about their recollections of the recent past, which proved more difficult to them. <mask> then filled one hundred white plastic buckets with 3,000 pieces of crumbled papers on which was written a text questioning the meaning of a 6000-year-old history while having no memory of the recent past. Extending her installation practice internationally to address global issues, the same year, <mask> staged Sand, a reaction to desertification and the shortage of drinking water in Tunisia, during the 3rd Mediterranean Art Biennale in Tunis. In 2006, the Lebanese Committee of the Families of


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texts: the kidnapped and the disappeared commissioned <mask> to create the installation Waynoun?/Where Are They? At the time, more than 3,000 individuals were thought to still be missing in the aftermath of the Civil War, and the 1991 Amnesty law prevented inquiries into their whereabouts or deaths.<mask> called attention to this situation with an installation exhibiting 3,000 names and 400 photographs glued on white and black balloons, which was exhibited in the ruins of an unfinished cinema nicknamed the Dome (or the Egg) in downtown Beirut. Two years later, <mask> exhibited Haven’t 15 Years of Hiding in the Toilets Been Enough?,  an installation consisting of six hundred toilet seats lined up in a grid near Martyrs' Square, in the center of downtown Beirut. The work was based on <mask>'s memories of the Civil War, a time when many Lebanese citizens used to hide in bathrooms to take refuge from bombs and sniper fire. In 2008, <mask> also presented the installation Migratory Symphony, which tackled issues of immigration, in Marseilles. For this work, <mask> interrogated one hundred school children about their family stories of migration, an urgent topic on both sides of the Mediterranean. Migratory Symphony was followed by Rubble, staged in Doha, Qatar, in 2009. This work had its roots in the aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon war, when <mask> had taken more than four hundred photographs of the aftermath of Israeli bombings of Beirut.The display, beyond the specific origin of the photographs, proposed a reflection on humankind's universal capacity to turn fellow human beings' lives into rubble. In

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 2010, focusing on the question of meditation as a tool for healing, <mask> presented This too Shall Pass, an installation made out of several rows of concentric circles of rolling pins, shown at Sursock Museum in Beirut. The installation was conceived as a prayer for the future, particularly in Lebanon after the 2006 Lebanon War. In 2011, she exhibited To Sweep, an accumulation of dozens of brooms appearing to sweep words such as "obscurantism," "terrorism," "war" and "totalitarianism," referencing the acts of remembering and forgetting. The artwork, first shown in Beirut at the Beirut Exhibition Center and then in London at the Royal College of Art, embodied a general gesture of civil contestation as well as a metaphor for starting again, one particularly important to the Arab world at the time, in the context of the Arab Spring. To <mask>, sweeping represents not only an everyday mundane action but also a powerful collective project following a war or a revolution. <mask>'s latest urban installation, Light at the end of the Tunnel, was staged in 2012 in Beirut's waterfront Zaitunay Bay neighborhood.Consisting of 360 interlocking red wooden parallelepipeds, it invited passers-by to reflect on the politics embedded in a simple city walk, and acted as the manifestation of a collective will for a brighter future. Return to painting and sculpture (2016–present)
<mask>'s 2016 exhibition, Along These Lines, at Isabelle Van Den Eyde Gallery in Dubai, and her following solo show, How Many How Many More, at Galerie Tanit in Beirut in March 2019, marked her return to painting and sculpture after


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 a decade of focusing mainly on large-scale installations. According to <mask>, the shift stemmed from a deep need to paint, as she considers herself a painter who broadened her practice to the public space. The works, although smaller in scale than her public installations, are likewise labour-intensive, as <mask> insists on the importance of the meditative time of creation. Their themes are in the continuation of her overarching project to work on collective memory and build a hopeful future, and crystallize her concerns with reckoning with the memory of wars and fostering national reconciliation. Deepening her philosophical reflection, <mask> also proposes a meditation on time, repetition, resilience, and hope at the personal and societal level. Painting

In 2019, <mask> exhibited an ongoing series of paintings, Tulips for a Wounded Country, which began as prints in 1991.This series was first spurred by a walk in tulip fields in the Netherlands.These dozens of paintings of flowers, alone or arranged in vivid grids, constitute peace offerings to Lebanon, full of hopeful and celebratory symbolism, and envision the possibility of a non-violent world. In 2016 and 2019, she also exhibited a collection of large-scale paintings, How Many How Many More, marked by systematic repetitive series of colored stripes within which she inserted archival photographs, buttons, beads, open medication capsules, and strips of newspaper, creating works at once cheerful and elegiac. The series started as a reaction to the ongoing wars in the Arab world, notably in Syria, and led to a personal reflection on


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 the finiteness of human life, as well as a plea for peace. These works are simultaneously abstract paintings, collages, and landscapes that underscore the way memory is at once fragmentary, personal, and collective, as the repetition of stripes is meant to echo one counting the days of life. Sculptures and installations
In 2018 and 2019, <mask> also conceived several sculptures addressing the socio-political stagnation in Lebanon and the need for a national reconciliation. In Pieces represented a three-dimensional map of Lebanon cut into interlocking parts, resembling the separated pieces of a puzzle and constituting at once a metaphor for the continuous divisions plaguing the country and the ability of Lebanese to reunite their nation. Les Mauvaises Nouvelles du Monde (in English: the Bad News of the World), meanwhile, was a close to two-meter-high pile of issues of An-Nahar newspapers glued together and painted black, commenting on the omnipresence of bad news and disinformation, while seeking to exorcise them.In this work, information is no longer legible, and the 24-hour news cycle metaphorically interrupted. Another work, Broken, assembled punched-in ping pong balls in a vertical pole, making reference to the duality between vulnerability and resilience at the personal and the State level. In 2019, the installation Lungs displayed a line of several exhaust pipes, painted white, on an exhibition wall, to call attention, at once, to pollution, the collective desire to symbolically breathe, and to emit a wishful sigh of political and social relief. Selected exhibitions

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 Exhibitions

2019 How Many How Many More. Galerie Tanit, Beirut, Lebanon. 2016 Along These Lines. Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.2009 Rubble. The Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha. 2008 Haven't 15 Years of Hiding in the Toilets Been Enough? Starco center, Beirut, Lebanon. 2006 Waynoun? Where Are They? Downtown, Beirut, Lebanon.2003 Fractions of Memory. Martyrs' Square, Beirut, Lebanon. 2000 Peindre L'Orient-Le Jour. Galerie Épreuve d’Artiste, Beirut, Lebanon. Group Exhibitions

2018 Féminités Plurielles. Galerie Tanit, Beirut, Lebanon. 2017 Ourouba.Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon. 2011 Subtitled. Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom. 2011 Rebirth - Lebanon XXIst Century Contemporary Art. Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon. 2010 30th Salon d’Automne. Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon.2010 Convergence, New Art From Lebanon. American University Museum. Katzen Art Center, Washington, D.C., United States. 2008 L’Art au Féminin. Museum of Modern Art of Algiers, Algers, Algeria. 2007 Transmission Survie, Voix de Femme. Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liège, Belgium.2005 Levant Foundation Art from Lebanon. Gramillion Gallery, Houston, United States. 2004 Lebanon - The Artist's View II. The Gallery at Cork Street, London. 2004 IIIe Biennale Méditerranéenne des Arts de Tunis. Khaireddine Palace, Tunis, Tunisia. 2001 L’Exception libanaise.Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France. 1999 Rossler Gallery, Munich, Germany. Public collections

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 private collections, including the Commissariat Général aux Relations Internationales de la Communauté Wallonie Bruxelles (Brussels), the Collection of the Ministry of Culture of the United Arab Emirates, the Saradar Collection (Beirut), the Sursock Museum (Beirut), and the MACAM museum (Alita, Lebanon). Selected publications

Books
<mask> is the author of the book L'Occidentalisation de la vie quotidienne à Beyrouth 1860-1914 (2002), which analyzes the westernization of daily life in Beirut during the decades of the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, a time of rapid modernization and lifestyle changes in the future Lebanese capital. In addition, <mask> contributed with "Histoire d'une Toile" to the journal Bahithat (2005-2006), where she discussed her making of the portrait of the Lebanese Azoury family. <mask> has been featured in several publications about Lebanese and international contemporary art, including the Luciano Benetton collection's It's Always Been, Contemporary Artists from Lebanon (2018), including Amal Traboulsi's Galerie Épreuve d'Artiste, Chronique d'une galerie sur fonds de guerre (2017), Carla Calargé's Liban. Mémoires fragmentées d'une guerre obsédante: L'Anamnèse dans la production culturelle francophone (2000-2015), David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro's Wild Art (2013), and Resonances, 82 Lebanese Artists Reviewed by Helen Khal (2011).Exhibition catalogues
2018 Féminités Plurielles. Galerie Tanit, Beirut, Lebanon. 2016 Along These Lines. Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 2013 Syri-Arts, 101 Works of Art for Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon.


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 2011 Rebirth: Lebanon XXIst Century Contemporary Art. Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon.2010, 2004, 2003, 2000, 1997, 1995  Salon d’Automne, Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon. 2010 Convergence, New Art from Lebanon. American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington, D.C., United States. 2008 L'Art au féminin. Musée National d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Algiers, Algeria. 2007 Sign and Calligraphy, ArtParis-Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 2006 Pinceaux pour Plumes, 42 peintres libanais à l’appel du livre.Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon. 2004 Lebanon: The Artist's View II. The Gallery at Cork Street, London, United Kingdom. 2001 L’Exception libanaise. Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France. 2000 Peindre L'Orient le Jour. L'Orient-Le Jour, Beirut, Lebanon.2000 <mask> <mask> and T.S. Eliot. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City, United States. International press
<mask> has been featured in several international newspapers and magazines, among them Le Monde, the Los Angeles Times, El Mundo, The Washington Post, L’Express International, Courrier International, and Le Figaro. Civic and political activism
<mask> is actively engaged in Lebanese civic and political life. She advocates for the enactment of civil laws to both transcend the Lebanese sectarian system and advance individual freedoms, progressive policies to safeguard the environment and public health, and measures to empower women and give effect to human rights. <mask> is a founding member of the Civil Center for National Initiative, whose works include a legal campaign to remove reference to

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<mask> ( ; born January 29, 1986) is a Curaçaoan professional baseball pitcher for the Guerreros de Oaxaca of the Mexican League. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves (with whom he was an All Star in 2011), Baltimore Orioles, and Colorado Rockies, and in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions. He pitched for Team Netherlands in the 2017 World Baseball Classic. Childhood
Jurrjens was named after the Biblical judge Jair by his mother Esther. She and Jurrjens' father, Carl, have two other children, Carl, Jr. and Charlotte. In 2002, Jurrjens' Curaçao Senior League team won the Senior League World Series in Bangor, Maine. Jurrjens speaks English, Spanish, Dutch and Papiamentu.Professional career

Detroit Tigers
<mask> was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Detroit Tigers in 2003. In seven games during his 2003 campaign with the GCL Tigers, Jurrjens accumulated a 2–1 record with 20 strikeouts and just three walks. However, Jurrjens really broke out during his 2005 season with the West Michigan Whitecaps, the Tigers' single-A affiliate. In 26 games started, Jurrjens went 12–6 with 108 strikeouts and 36 walks. He was a mid-season Midwest League All Star with West Michigan. He continued to improve during the 2006 season, beginning with a 5–0, 2.08 ERA start with the Lakeland Tigers that resulted in him being named to the Florida State League mid-season All Star team. Jurrjens was promoted to the Erie

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