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 <mask> then enlarged his circle of acquaintances to Raymond Barre, <mask>, Philippe Séguin, Jean-Luc Lagardère, Antoine Riboud, Michel Serres, Coluche. He advised the President to get Jean-Louis Bianco, Alain Boublil and several young, promising graduates from the École nationale d’administration (like François Hollande and Ségolène Royal) to join his team. In 1982, he pleaded for "economic rigour". As "sherpa" of Mitterrand during 10 years, he organised the Versailles G7 summit in 1982 and the G7 Summit of the Arch in 1989. He took an active part in the organization of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the French Revolution on 14 July 1989.In 1997, upon the request of Claude Allègre, he proposed a reform of the tertiary education degree system which led to the implementation of the LMD model. In 2008 and 2010, he was asked by then President Nicolas Sarkozy to chair a bipartisan commission aiming at proposing reforms to foster French economic growth. In 2013, Attali advocated the concept of positive economy in a report delivered to President François Hollande at his request. His ideas inspired some of the provisions of the law proposed by Emmanuel Macron, Minister of Economy. In April 2011, in Washington, D.C., the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the United States' Smithsonian Institution presented the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service to Attali. Attali has supported Rattachism. International career
In 1979, Attali co-founded the international NGO Action Against Hunger (Action Contre La Faim).In 1984, he helped implement the European program EUREKA, dedicated to the "development of new technologies", the direction of which he entrusted to Yves Stourdzé. In January 1989, he initiated a vast international plan of action against the disastrous flooding in Bangladesh. In August 1989, during François Mitterrand's second mandate, <mask> gave up politics and left the Elysée Palace. He founded the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), in London, and

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 <mask> to write this book, and acknowledged that he had proofread it and had been given the possibility to make corrections. In 1998, Attali founded Positive Planet, a non-profit organization which is active in more than 80 countries, employing over 500 staff, and provides funding, technical assistance and advisory services to  microfinance players and stakeholders. Positive Planet is also active in France empoverished suburbs. In 2001 Attali was subject to investigations on the charges of "concealment of company assets which have been misused and influence peddling".He was discharged on 27 October 2009 by the magistrate's court of Paris, "on the benefit of the doubt". <mask> advocates the establishment of a global rule of law, which will condition the survival of democracy through the creation of a new global order. He thinks the regulation of the economy by a global financial supervisory institution may be a solution to the financial crisis which started 2008. The financial institution is a first step towards the establishment of a democratic world government, of which the European Union can be a laboratory, which was all laid to bare in his 1981 book Verbatim. Private financial career
In 1994, he founded Attali & Associates (A&A), an international advisory firm which specializes in strategy consulting, corporate finance and venture capital to help companies' long-term development. In 2012, <mask> became a member of the supervisory board of Kepler Capital Markets, a Swiss broker based in Geneva. The same year, Crédit Agricole sold Cheuvreux, which employs about 700 people worldwide, to Kepler Capital Markets.He presides over the supervisory board of Slate.fr. Music and arts
In September 2010, <mask> was appointed as a member of the directorate of the Musée d'Orsay. <mask> has a passion for music: he plays the piano (he once played for the association Les Restos du Cœur), and wrote lyrics for Barbara. He is the author of the book Bruits (1977) (English: Noise: The Political Economy of

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texts: mankind, taking into account the interest of future generations, and not letting prostheses invade it. <mask> has also, in books written during key events, tried to highlight particular moments of the present and the near future (La crise et après ?, Tous ruinés dans dix ans ?, Économie de l'apocalypse) and he proposed reforms to implement, either in books he authored (Candidats, répondez !, Urgences françaises) or in collective reports (Rapport sur l'évolution de l'enseignement supérieur, sur la libération de la croissance, sur l'économie positive, sur la francophonie). Attali also reflected on the future of the concepts of socialism and altruism (La voie humaine, Fraternités) and advocated methods of personal growth (Survivre aux crises, Devenir soi). Since his earliest books, Attali foresaw and announced signals of the future, albeit weak at the time, that later came true: In La parole et l'outil (1976), he announced and described the shift from an energy-based society to an information-based society.In Bruits, in 1977, he announced what would later be the internet, YouTube, and the importance of musical practice; in La nouvelle économie française, in 1978, he discussed the coming emergence of the personal computer, hyper-surveillance and self-surveillance. In Les trois mondes, in 1980, he announced the shift of the centre of power around the Pacific. In L'ordre Cannibale, in 1980, he announced the advent of a prosthetic society, now known as transhumanism. In Histoires du temps, he announced the rapid pace of history and the growing immediacy of relationships. In Amours, he announced the emergence of poly-romantic relationships. In Au propre et au figuré, he announced the break-up of property and its use, and subsequently he invented the concept of the "nomadic object." In Lignes d'horizons, in 1990, he predicted the relative decline of US power.In Brève histoire de l'avenir, he announced a corporate power grab by health data and insurance companies. In L'homme nomade, he described the


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 great movement of populations whose sedentary life was only a temporary stage. <mask> has reflected on the many dimensions, as well as the place, of Jewish thought and the Jewish people in history (1492, Histoire économique du peuple juif, Dictionnaire amoureux du judaïsme); he also took on this subject at the theatre in Du cristal à la fumée. He also reflected on inter-religious dialogue (La confrérie des Eveillés and Naissance de l'Occident). The focus of his biographical publishing is on retelling the lives of characters who disrupted world history by the strength of their ideas: Warburg, Pascal, Marx, Gandhi, Diderot, and all those for whom he wrote a short biography in Phares, such as Averroes, Aristotle, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, Giordano Bruno, Darwin. <mask>'s novels, mostly categorized in fantasy genre, or at least in the slight dystopia subgenre, address the same themes. In particular, his novels revolve around the risks confronted by humanity, with characters anxious to hide, to disappear (Nouvelles, Les portes du ciel, Le premier jour après moi, Il viendra, Notre vie disent- ils).More recently, he has chosen to combine crime novels with dystopia, imagining a reappearing police chief, whilst the action takes place in a near future period. In conclusion, <mask> has narrated some of the major events in which he was involved in several memoirs: first, in Verbatim 1, 2 and 3, he kept, at the request of François Mitterrand, the daily newspaper in the years during Mitterand's presidency. He also recounted his memories of the creation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Europe(s) and drew a portrait of François Mitterrand in C'était François Mitterrand, from the twenty years he spent at his side. Covid Conspiracy Theories
Quotes claiming to be from <mask>'s book Verbatim have been spread around the internet by covid conspiracy theorists. The quotes are a fabrication. Selected bibliography

Cannibalism and Civilization: Life and Death in the History of Medicine

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 (1984)
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985) Translated by Brian Massumi. Foreword by Fredric Jameson, afterword by Susan McClary.University of Minnesota Press . A man of influence: Le destin d'un homme d'influence S.G. Warburg (1987)
Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming Order (1992)
Europe(s) (1994)
Labyrinth in Culture and Society: Pathways to Wisdom (1999) Translated by Joseph Rowe. North Atlantic Books
Fraternités (1999)
Karl Marx or the thought of the world (2005) - original title: Karl Marx ou l'esprit du monde
Les Juifs, le Monde et l'Argent, Histoire économique du peuple juif (2002) Fayard (The Jews, the World and Money, an Economic History of the Jewish People)
C'était François Mitterrand (2005) Fayard
A Brief History of the Future (2006) Arcade Publishing  - original title: Une Brève histoire de l'avenir
La crise, et après ? (2008) Fayard
The economic history of the Jewish people (2010)

See also
Social innovation
Sound culture
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

References

External links

<mask>i's home page
Biography
<mask>i's Homepage (English)
<mask>'s Blog page
<mask>i's Blog page (English)
<mask>i on Linkedin.com (English)
<mask> - Huffington Post (English)
Books/Latest Publications
NotBored.org: <mask>'s Noise Takes a critical stance on Attali's class position. <mask>i interviewed by Angus Carlyle
Outline of <mask>i, Noise
<mask>i, a video interview by Denis Failly around his last book "Une brève histoire de l'avenir"

1943 births
Living people
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People from Algiers
French people of Algerian-Jewish descent
20th-century French Sephardi Jews
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Mines ParisTech alumni
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<mask> (born 10 February 1982) is a German television and film actor. Life and acting career
<mask> grew up in the formerly East German borough of Berlin Mitte. He was discovered at the age of 12 by stage director Thomas Heise, and cast in the stage play Im Schlagschatten des Mondes (Under the shadow of the moon) at the Berliner Ensemble theatre company, which he stayed with for the next four years to play in other productions as well. Acting jobs earned him enough money to move out of his parents' place when he was 18 and still in school. He left school with an Abitur certificate. <mask>'s screen acting debut was in 1996, when he appeared in the Sat.1 TV series Hallo, Onkel Doc! at the age of 14.He was later cast in the theatrical film  (1999) where he played alongside Franka Potente, Daniel Brühl and Heiner Lauterbach, but the breakthrough for him came with his performance in Crazy (2000, directed by Hans-Christian Schmid), for which he received the Talented Young Actor Award of the Bayerischer Filmpreis. In the critically well-received 2004 film Before the Fall (German title: Napola – Elite für den Führer, directed by Dennis Gansel) Schilling appeared alongside Max Riemelt as a young and fragile student at a Nazi elite school (Napola). In 2006, he received a scholarship for the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, where he studied for half a year. In the same year, he became a father to a son. Schilling was later given the role of the young Adolf Hitler in Urs Odermatt's 2009 film Mein Kampf (the UK DVD release is

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 marketed as Dawn of Evil: Rise of the Reich), co-starring Götz George. Schilling originally wanted to become a painter and study art after school. In a 2008 interview he said he was not much of an extrovert, and that to him having to deliver oneself up on a day-to-day basis was a major disadvantage of being in the acting profession.In the early summer of 2014 <mask>'s second child, a son, was born - the first child for him and his partner, the assistant director Annie Mosebach. In January 2017, Schilling's first daughter and third child was born - the second child for him and Mosebach. Filmography
 1996: Hallo, Onkel Doc! (TV series), episode: Manege frei
 1998: Der heiße Genuss (short film)
 1999: Tatort (TV series), episode: Kinder der Gewalt
 1999:
 2000: Crazy
 2000: Der Himmel kann warten
 2001: Tatort (TV series), episode: Tot bist Du! (theatrical film, comedy/drama)
 2012: Ludwig II. (theatrical film, period drama)
 2013: A Coffee in Berlin (theatrical film, drama)
 2013:  (TV mini-series)
 2013: Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee (theatrical film, comedy)
 2013: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (TV mini-series) Also broadcast on BBC 2(UK) in April/May 2014 as Generation War. 2014: Who Am I – No System is Safe
 2014: Posthumous
 2014: Suite Francaise
 2015: Woman in Gold
 2017: The Same Sky (TV Series), 6 episodes on Netflix
 2018: Never Look Away
 2019: Lara
 2019: The Goldfish (Die Goldfische)
 2019: Brecht
 2021: Fabian – Going to the Dogs

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Anne, Princess <mask> and Princess of Orange (12 January 1759) was the second child and eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and his consort Caroline of Ansbach. She was the wife of William IV, Prince of Orange, the first hereditary stadtholder of all seven provinces of the Northern Netherlands. She was Regent of the Netherlands from 1751 until her death in 1759, exercising extensive powers on behalf of her son William V. She was known as an Anglophile, due to her English upbringing and family connections, but was unable to convince the Dutch Republic to enter the Seven Years' War on the side of the British. Princess Anne was the second daughter of a British sovereign to hold the title Princess Royal. In the Netherlands she was styled Anna van Hannover. Early life
Anne was born at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, five years before her paternal grandfather, Elector George Louis, succeeded to the thrones of Great Britain and Ireland as George I. She was christened shortly after her birth at Herrenhausen Palace.She was named after her paternal grandfather's second cousin Anne, Queen of Great Britain. She learned German, French and English, and was taught music (including singing, harpsichord, and composition) by Georg Friedrich Händel. Händel did not like teaching, but said he would "make the only exception for Anne, flower of princesses". She remained a lifelong supporter, attending his operas and subscribing to his music. Anne contracted and survived smallpox in 1720, and two years later her mother helped to popularise the practice of variolation (an early type of immunisation against smallpox), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and <mask> in Constantinople. At the direction of Caroline, six prisoners condemned to death were offered the chance to undergo variolation instead of

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 execution: they all survived, as did six orphan children given the same treatment as a further test. Convinced of its medical value, the Queen had her two younger daughters, Amelia and Caroline, inoculated successfully.Anne's face was scarred by the disease, and she was not considered as pretty as her two younger sisters. On 30 August 1727, George II created his eldest daughter Princess <mask>, a title which had fallen from use since its creation by Charles I for his daughter Mary, Princess of Orange in 1642. Marriage
In 1725, a potential marriage contract between Anne and King Louis XV of France was considered. From a French viewpoint, such a marriage could give France valuable neutrality from The Netherlands and Prussia, as well as protection against Spain. However, the religious issues caused problems. While it was taken for granted that Anne would have to convert to Catholicism, there were concerns that this would still not be enough for the Pope, whose support was needed, particularly regarding the broken betrothal between Louis XV and a Spanish princess, and the prospect of Anne becoming Regent of France in case of a minor regency was feared because of her presumed religious inclinations toward the Huguenots in France. The plans was eventually discarded when the French insisted that Anne must convert to Roman Catholicism.On  in the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace, she married William IV, Prince of Orange. She then ceased to use her British title in favour of the new one she gained by marriage. The music played at her wedding, This is the day was set by <mask> to the princess's own words based on Psalms 45 and 118. <mask> also composed an operatic entertainment, Parnasso in Festa, in honour of her wedding which was performed for the first time at the King's Theatre, London, on 13 March 1734, with great

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<mask> is a Welsh musician. He has worked as a solo artist, and also in collaboration with others in his bands Jack and Jacques. Jack
In 1993, <mask> moved to London where he formed the group Jack, on lead vocals, signing a music publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music as well as a record deal with independent label Too Pure. Jack released three full-length albums, the first two of which – Pioneer Soundtracks (1996) and The Jazz Age (1998) – garnered excellent reviews and were placed highly in critics' end-of-year polls. Despite the overwhelmingly positive critical reaction and extensive UK and European touring, sales for both records although respectable were ultimately disappointing, and no Jack record would ever make the UK Top 40 single or albums charts. The third album, The End of the Way It's Always Been, was released on the Les Disques du Crépuscule label. The record featured collaborations with writer/musician Kirk Lake and the American poet and novelist/screenwriter Dan Fante (son of John Fante).An extensive European tour promoted the record. The critical reaction in the UK to the album was markedly less positive than for the first two Jack albums, but the album was markedly successful in France. Jack also recorded a five-track EP 'La belle et la Discothèque' with ex-Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde, son of arranger Ivor Raymonde. Jacques
During Jack's existence, <mask> (occasionally with Jack co-writer/lead guitarist Matthew Scott) also recorded two albums and a handful of singles and EPs in his side project Jacques. Both albums were released by Setanta Records. The first Jacques album, How To Make Love, Vol. 1 (1997) was produced by Momus, featuring a more sparse, experimental sound than <mask>' work with Jack.Compared to the critical garlands bestowed upon Pioneer Soundtracks, the hastily recorded album (completed in seven days) received mixed reviews. The second album, To Stars (2000), had more in common with the expansive, orchestral Jack sound and was generally more well-received

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 than its predecessor. Sales were modest for both Jacques albums, and a planned third album was cancelled midway through recording, when Jacques were dropped by Setanta in 2001. Other work
<mask> York (2004), credited to "anthony", and British Ballads (2007) and A Painter's Life (2019) released under his full name. A footnote to Neu York – (I was born) in prehistoric Spain – was released in 2005 on the Spanish Moonpalace label. <mask> has stated that he considers British Ballads to be his "proper" debut solo record. It featured cameos from English writer Colin Wilson, the singer-songwriter and pianist John Howard, ex-Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde, Dot Allison and English folk artist Vashti Bunyan.The album received some of the best reviews of <mask>' career, but yet again, with no real radio play and without funds to tour, the sales were disappointing. From the off, <mask> considered this his "final debut", stating on his Myspace blog that, since the majority of the musicians appearing on British Ballads were session musicians, it was financially impractical to consider recording a new album on the same scale. Despite this he did however release 'A Painter's life' in 2019, featuring Carl Bevan (60Ft Dolls), Richard Glover (Dub War) and Rob Dean (Japan). In 2011 a 2CD compilation 'Life's too Long' was released. In 2002, immediately after Jack's final concert (in Cardiff) <mask> attended a Simon Raymonde recording session where Vashti Bunyan was recording her version of a <mask> song ; 'Just so you know'. This would eventually surface six years later, on the Bees dream of flowers and your meadows summer breath EP. In 2009 <mask> also joined a Spanish band, La Muneca de Sal, on lead vocals, contributing some of his own songs.The band performed original material as well as songs from <mask>' previous projects. He has collaborated with many other artists, both as a co-composer and producer, including Momus, Colin Wilson, Dan Fante, Vashti Bunyan, Kirk lake, Martin Carr, Dot Allison, Kirk lake, Charlotte

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 Greig and the Italian groups Hollowblue and Marti and the Spanish group Migala. In 2000, he sang with the Moscow Philharmonic on an album by the French film composer Franck Roussel. In 2016 he composed soundtracks to two feature-length films: Open my Eyes and an adaptation of the Colin Wilson novel, Adrift in Soho. The latter was released via Amazon Prime in 2020. <mask> has also written five full-length biographies. The first, on the 1960s group The Walker Brothers, was released in the UK and US by Jawbone press in August 2009.The second, a commission by Plexus books, on the singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, was published again in both countries in July that year. In 2011, Leonard Cohen – a remarkable life, <mask>' biography on Leonard Cohen, was published by Omnibus press. It has since gone on to be published in twelve languages. In 2015 his biography of the band Japan: A foreign place was released via Burning shed followed by 'Cries and Whispers' in 2017 which details the solo careers of all Ex-Japan members. Both these books were translated into Japanese. In 2020 he also edited and contributed to Stephen Holden's 'Adolescent Alternatives' an account of early Japan. Since 1992, <mask> has also worked occasionally as a journalist, writing essays and critiques for various magazines in the UK and the US, most notably Stop Smiling magazine, Classic Pop, Shindig and The Sunday Express.In 2002, Les Disques du Crépuscule published a collection of his lyrics, poetry and prose entitled "These Roses taste like ashes". This was followed by another collection of poetry in 2007 : 'Calling all demons'. Both of these are included in the anthology 'Interior Cities' (selected lyrics - 1995-2020). He also occasionally acts in short films. Personal life
<mask> was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1971. Since then <mask> has lived in London, Paris, Shropshire, Spain and Cardiff. He currently lives in Wales.References

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Britpop musicians
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<mask> (born 25 May 1968) is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay South constituency since winning a by-election on 9 July 2021. Bacik previously served as Leader of the Labour Party in the Seanad from 2011 to 2021, and a Senator for the Dublin University constituency from 2007 to 2021. She previously served as Deputy Leader of Seanad Éireann from 2011 to 2016. She has been Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Law School since 1996, and was a made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2005. She has an LL.B. from TCD and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics.She practises as a barrister and teaches courses in criminal law; criminology and penology; and feminist theory and law at Trinity. Her research interests include criminal law and criminology, constitutional law, feminist theories and law, human rights and equality issues in law. She is known in particular for her abortion rights campaigning since the 1980s, and her high media profile. Personal life
<mask>'s family name is of Czech origin. Her paternal grandfather, <mask>, a Czech factory owner, moved to Ireland in 1946 with his young family when the Communists began to take over private businesses. He eventually settled in Waterford and in 1947 was involved in the establishment of Waterford Crystal. Her mother's side of the family are Murphys from County Clare.She lives with husband Alan Saul and their two daughters in the Portobello, Dublin. Reading the Book The Women's Room by Marilyn French, at 17, greatly influenced her politics and around the same time, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell was also very influential, conveying a powerful anti-capitalist message. She was educated at Alexandra College in Milltown, Dublin. University politics
<mask> resigned as president of Trinity College Dublin

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 Students' Union in 1990, after breaking the mandate from the Union membership regarding voting for candidates at a Union of Students in Ireland conference. Despite 13 TCD representatives being mandated to vote for one candidate, Martin Whelan, a former TCD SU president, it transpired that he received only 12 votes, Bacik's vote instead being given to the feminist former UCD SU officer, Karen Quinlivan. A controversy erupted in the Students' Union and a subsequent internal investigation led to <mask>'s resignation. She was taken to court by the anti-abortion group, the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC), for providing information on abortion.SPUC were successful in the court case, albeit that success came in the 1990s, long after Bacik had graduated from Trinity College. Politics and campaigns
<mask>'s policies have been described as liberal and social democratic and she has been described as "Labour's queen of political correctness". She contested the Seanad Éireann elections in 1997 and 2002 as an Independent candidate in the Dublin University constituency. She ran as a Labour Party candidate at the 2004 election to the European Parliament in the Dublin constituency. She ran with sitting MEP Proinsias De Rossa, who was also the party president, on the same ticket. She polled 40,707 first preference votes (9.6%) but was not elected. In September 2006, <mask> was one of the 61 Irish academic signatories of a letter published in The Irish Times calling for an academic boycott of the state of Israel.In January 2009, she declared that she wants Ireland to break off diplomatic relations with Israel and in February 2009 called for a general boycott of Israeli goods. In 2007, she contested the Seanad Éireann elections for the third time in the University of Dublin constituency, and was elected to the third seat, behind sitting Independent senators Shane Ross and

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texts: David Norris. She initially sat as an Independent senator. In June 2009, <mask> was the Labour Party candidate for the Dublin Central by-election she came in third with 17% of the first preference votes. She joined the Labour Party group in the Seanad in September 2009, and became Labour Party Seanad spokesperson for both Justice and Arts, Sports and Tourism. In May 2010, she did not obtain Labour's nomination to run for the Dáil in Dublin South East. In December 2010, she was added to the ticket as the second candidate beside Labour Party leader, Eamon Gilmore, in the Dún Laoghaire constituency for the 2011 general election.Gilmore topped the poll, with Bacik receiving 10.1% of first preference votes but she was not elected. She was re-elected to Seanad Éireann at the subsequent election, after which she became Deputy Leader of the Seanad. She held her seat in the Seanad in 2016 and in 2020. In May 2019, following the results of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation which found that hundreds of children had died while in the care of homes run by the Catholic Church, Bacik called for the government to take financial action against the religious orders involved. In December 2020, Bacik called for foreign frontline medical workers fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland to be rewarded with fast-tracked citizenship applications, as has been done in France. On 27 April 2021, after the resignation of Eoghan Murphy from his Dáil seat in Dublin Bay South, Bacik announced her intention to stand in the upcoming by-election. Bacik campaigned with an emphasis on providing affordable housing, as well as improving healthcare and childcare, tackling climate change, and achieving "a true republic in which church and state are separated".During the campaign, Bacik has described herself as having "more bills passed into law than any other Senator, on issues such as


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 workers’ conditions, women's health rights, and LGBT equality". Bacik also campaigned on increasing the number of sports amenities for children in the area, calling for unused Defence Forces football fields at the Cathal Brugha Barracks to be freed up for local sports, with the suggestion rejected by Fine Gael Minister for Defence Simon Coveney. Bacik won this election, receiving 8,131 (30.2%) first preference votes. In August 2021, Bacik apologised for attending Katherine Zappone's controversial party in the Merrion Hotel, Dublin, in July of that year. She stated that she believed that it took place within existing Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. Legal work
In 2006, Bacik acted as junior counsel in Zappone v. Revenue Commissioners, the unsuccessful Irish High Court case brought by Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan over the non-recognition of their Canadian same-sex marriage by the Revenue Commissioners. Awards
In 2019, <mask> was chosen by the Irish Women Lawyers Association as Irish Woman Lawyer of the Year.References

External links

<mask> <mask>'s page on Labour Party website

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<mask> (c.1900 – after late 1940s) was a stamp dealer active in London in the early part of the twentieth century and who has since been revealed to be a major supplier of stamps with forged cancels. In conjunction with her collaborators, over four hundred fake cancellations were used dated up to 1949. A 1967 Aden canceller (MJ10) may not be a contemporary fake. Unfortunately, this is missing from the Royal Philatelic Society London archive. Forgery business
Known as <mask> because she went by the surname <mask> and was possibly French or Belgian (her first name is unknown), <mask>, her accomplices and successors used fake handstamps to turn common unused stamps into more valuable used ones. Some fake cachets, cork cancels, surcharges and overprints were also used. Over four hundred fake cancels were used, mainly for British Commonwealth stamps and it is believed that there are probably additional fake cancels that have yet to be discovered.The wooden cancels were thought to have been made in France while the zincograph and copper plated implements may have been created originally for use as book or catalogue illustrations. '<mask>' may have emanated from the WWII Madame <mask> of Rheims who ran an underground escape operation for British pilots downed in occupied France. '<mask>' was probably not the name of one person but the nom de guerre used by this group who operated in utmost secrecy with the aid of SOE. New evidence suggests that the wooden instruments were the work of master-forger Raoul de Thuin and were made in Belize and Mérida, Mexico 1939–1949. According

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 to Brian Cartwright there was also a '<mask>', however, even less is known about him than his wife and as <mask> was normally responsible for serving customers, the business and fakes have come to be attributed to her. The exact extent of <mask>'s involvement in the business has yet to be determined and may be more extensive than previously thought. The trade was very profitable with the changed stamps being sold to dealers for resale to their customers.It has been said that the fake cancels were also hired out to unscrupulous dealers for them to manufacture their own fine used stamps, however, that has been disputed by the postal historian Ted Proud. According to Proud, Madame <mask> had premises in Irving Street, just off Charing Cross Road. The exact dates when the business was carried on are unknown, however, the first use of the cancels appears to be between the first and second World Wars, and the most recent date on any fake cancel is 1949. Three sheets of paper containing 120 different impressions have been found in the Stanley Gibbons reference collection and they appear to have previously been folded so as to possibly make a booklet of samples. The latest date of any of these cancels is 28 August 1915 for Tarquah, Gold Coast, so the samples were certainly made up some time after then. Successors

Eventually, the business devolved to Gordon Rhodes, who traded from 17A Lime Street, London, and whose shop is recorded in Kelly's Directory from 1935 to 1960. His employee, Cecil Jones, took over the shop after Rhodes died.Jones reportedly used it as a cash-cow to

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 fund his gambling habit. In 1960 the shop changed name to the South London Stamp Company and it is believed that the production of forgeries ended in the 1960s. Similar businesses
In a letter to The London Philatelist, Ted Proud has referred to two other dealers, known only as Dealer A and Dealer B who carried out similar activities and used to co-operate. Proud has written that Dealer A had a stock of printers blocks of cancels used to illustrate magazine articles and books who would also cancel unused stamps. He has also written that Dealer B, with whom <mask> unsuccessfully tried to start a stamp "repairing" factory, also had a stock of bogus date-stamps that he said was larger than <mask>'s. He is also said to have had a perforating machine which was made by his brother who was a Swiss industrialist. Proud has commented that to say that <mask>'s operations were shrouded in secrecy would be an exaggeration and that her business was well known in the stamp trade at the time as one of selling "repaired" stamps with a cancellation service as an extra feature.Recently the name Eric David Bowie (b.1900) – City Stamp Shop, 1 St. Swithin's Lane, London EC4 was noted on a newsletter 1 May 1937 advertising Coronation stamps. Bowie was prosecuted for forgery of Silver Jubilee, on the insistence of Robson Lowe. Bowie had ties with The Broadway Stamp Company and Harris and Whitehurst of Birmingham. He served his time and set up shop in Bermuda c.1939. He served as a Lieutenant at the shore based HMS Goshawk, Piarco, Trinidad during WWII - he also sold stamps. Ted Proud notes

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 that Commander E.D. Bowie was in Malaya at war's end.He returned to Bermuda in 1946 where he specialized in the stamps of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya – he wrote a short book on the same. He also expertized stamps most of which appear right. In February 1961 he visited stamp dealer Everard F. Aguilar in Jamaica. Circa 1963 he removed to the Jersey Rose Farm where he sold his stock to Harry Martin Jr. of the Empire Stamp Corporation, Toronto. Bowie was back in Bermuda by 1975 where he continued his ill-tempered spat with Robson Lowe. He was eventually admitted to St. Brendan's Hospital, Bermuda's mental health institution. Recent developments
In the early 1990s, the retired stamp dealer Derek Worboys purchased the Joseph instruments and paraphernalia from Clive Santo in order to prevent their further use.The items were in the estate of Clive's late father George who died in 1990. Today the Madame Joseph items reside in the museum of the Royal Philatelic Society London. See also
 List of stamp forgers

References

Further reading
Worboys, Derek, & Roger B. West. Madame Joseph Forged Postmarks, foreword by Robson Lowe, Royal Philatelic Society London, 1994. .
"Madame Joseph Forged Cancellations" by Brian M. Cartwright in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, September 2002. Cartwright, Brian M. Madame <mask> Revisited, Royal Philatelic Society London, 2005. . External links

RPSL Presentation by Brian Cartwright (from Internet Archive)
Madame Joseph Solomon Islands cancels

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<mask> (24 April 1837 – 8 May 1909) was a civil servant of the German Empire and served as the head of the political department of the German Foreign Office for more than thirty years. He played a major role in shaping foreign policy after Bismarck was dismissed in 1890. Biography

<mask> was born in Schwedt, Province of Brandenburg on 24 April 1837, the son of a Prussian military officer  <mask> (1800-1863) and <mask> (1791-1858). He studied jurisprudence at the Frederick William University of Berlin, from which he was graduated in 1856. <mask> joined the diplomatic service and in 1860 became an attaché at the Prussian embassy in Saint Petersburg under the authority of <mask> and later served as a member of the legations at Rio de Janeiro, London, Washington, Florence, and Copenhagen. During his time at Washington, 1866–1867, his relationship with Alice Mason Hooper, wife of Senator Charles Sumner, led to <mask>'s withdrawal and the divorce of the couple. With the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, <mask> became secretary of the ambassador in Paris, <mask>im.Von Arnim was a patroniser of the French royalists and a fierce opponent of Chancellor Bismarck, who finally enforced Arnim's discharge and conviction for breach of secrecy. <mask> returned to Berlin, where he assumed office as legation secretary in the Auswärtiges Amt in 1876, both an essential and a suspiciously eyed associate of Bismarck, who behind his back called him a "hyena". <mask>'s career as an éminence grise was promoted by Bismarck's dismissal in 1890. The new chancellor, <mask> Caprivi, was ignorant of foreign affairs; and <mask>, as a repository of the Bismarckian tradition, became indispensable. <mask> remained a bachelor all his life, regarded as a skillful though devious man. His reluctance to emerge into publicity has been ascribed to the part he had played under Bismarck in the Arnim scandal, which had made him powerful enemies; it was, however, possibly due

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texts: to a shrinking from the responsibility of office. Yet the weakness of his position lay just in the fact that he was not ultimately responsible.He protested against the despatch of the Kruger telegram, but protested in vain. On the other hand, where his ideas were acceptable, he was generally able to realize them. Thus it was as Political Secretary to the Foreign Office that he determined policy in the 1890s. It was almost entirely due to him that Germany acquired Tsingtao (now Qingdao) and asserted German interests in China; the acquisition of Samoa was also largely his work. If the skill and pertinacity with which <mask> carried through his plans in these matters was learned in the school of Bismarck, he had not acquired Bismarck's faculty for foreseeing their ultimate consequences. This is seen by blunders made on the abandonment of the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia in 1890, his Chinese policy, and also of his part in the Moroccan crisis which led to the Algeciras Conference in 1906. The Kaiser's journey to Tangier was undertaken on his advice, as a protest against the supposed attempt at Germany's isolation.<mask> did not approve the later developments of German policy in the Morocco, on the ground that the result would merely be to strengthen the Anglo-French entente. From 12 March 1906 onward he took no active part in the matter and resigned one month later. To the last he believed that Germany's position would remain unsafe until an understanding had been arrived at with Britain, and it was this belief that determined his attitude towards the expansion of the Imperial Navy:  beside this, he wrote in February 1909, all other questions were of lesser account. His views on this question were summarized in a memorandum of December 1907, of which Rath gives a résumé:  <mask> objected to the programme of Admiral <mask> Tirpitz and the Navy League on three main grounds:  the ill-feeling likely to be aroused in South Germany, the inevitable

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 dislocation of the finances through the huge additional charges involved, and the suspicion of Germany's motives in foreign countries, which would bind Britain still closer to France. As for the idea that Germany's power would be increased, he wrote in reply to a letter from Tirpitz's opponent Admiral Karl Galster, this was a simple question of arithmetic:  for how would the sea-power of Germany be relatively increased if for every new German ship Britain built two? <mask> died on 8 May 1909 in Berlin and his body was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery. His assets included extensive secret dossiers concerning German statesmen that were not published until 1956.Rumours that he may have been an informant of journalist Maximilian Harden in the Harden-Eulenburg Affair have never been conclusively established. In popular culture
<mask> <mask> was portrayed by actor Frederick Jaeger in the 1974 TV-series Fall of Eagles. Bibliography
Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War He is the subject of Chapter 6, "The Monster of the Labyrinth." Norman Rich. <mask> <mask>, Politics and Diplomacy in the era of Bismarck and Wilhelm II (2 vol. Cambridge: 1965). vol1 1 online; and vol 2 online
 T. G. Otte, "Great Britain, Germany, and the Far-Eastern Crisis of 1897-8," English Historical Review (1995) 110#439 pp.1157–1179 in JSTOR

Primary sources
 The Holstein Papers. Vol. I. Memoirs and Political Observations, edited by Norman Rich and M. H. Fisher (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1955); The Holstein Papers. Vol. 3 (1961)
 Volume 2: Diaries vol 2 Diaries online
 Review by J. C. G. Röhl, "Review: <mask> <mask>," Historical Journal, Sept 1966, Vol. 9 Issue 3, pp 379–388 online

See also
Fall of Eagles; he is portrayed in the 3rd episode under the name "<mask>."References

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<mask>'Siadhail ( ; born 12 January 1947) is an Irish poet. Among his awards are The Marten Toonder Prize and The Irish American Culture Institute Prize for Literature. Early life

<mask>'Siadhail was born into a middle-class Dublin family. His father, a chartered accountant, was born in County Monaghan and worked most of his life in Dublin, and his mother was a Dubliner with roots in County Tipperary. Both of them are portrayed in his work in several poems such as "Kinsmen" and "Promise". From the age of twelve, O'Siadhail was educated at the Jesuit boarding school Clongowes Wood College, an experience he was later to describe in a sequence of poems "Departure" (The Chosen Garden). At Clongowes he was influenced by his English teacher, the writer Tom McIntyre, who introduced him to contemporary poetry.At thirteen he first visited the Aran Islands. This pre-industrial society with its large-scale emigration had a profound impact on him. His earlier work reflects this tension between his love of his native Dublin and his emotional involvement with those outlying communities and which features in the sequence "Fists of Stone" (The Chosen Garden). Career

He studied at Trinity College Dublin (1964–68) where his teachers included David H. Greene and Máirtín Ó Cadhain. He was elected a Scholar of the College and took a First Class Honours Degree. His circle in Trinity included David McConnell (later professor of genetics), Mary Robinson and David F. Ford (later Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University). O'Siadhail subsequently embarked on a government exchange scholarship and studied folklore and Icelandic at the University of Oslo.He has retained lifelong contacts with Norwegian friends and sees Scandinavian literature as a major influence. In 1970 he married Bríd Ní Chearbhaill, who was born in Gweedore in County Donegal. She was

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 at Mount Sinai. They reside in New York. In 2018, <mask> was included in The Tablet magazine's ′Fifty Minds That Matter′ – fifty men and women who are ″adding some Catholic salt to the contemporary cultural soup″. Included on this list is Pope Francis, Martin Scorsese and Bruce Springsteen. During his years as an academic, O'Siadhail, writing under the Irish spelling of his name, published works on the linguistics of Irish and a textbook for learners of Irish. Content and context

David F. Ford points out in Musics of Belonging (Carysfort Press, Dublin 2007) how "beside the new architectonics since the move to full-time writing there has also been an alternation between more personal and more public themes". Ford lists the characteristic themes in O'Siadhail's work which emerge from early on as: "despair, women, love, friendship, trust, language, school, vocation, music city life, science, Irish and other cultures and histories".He adds that "there is a wrestling for meaning, with no easy solutions – both the form and the content are hard-won". Several critics have highlighted how O'Siadhail uses a vast variety of classic forms including sonnets, terza rima, villanelles, haikus etc. alongside an array of new intricate forms as befits his themes. His work has been compared by some commentators to Dante, John Milton and Patrick Kavanagh but most often to John Donne. Recent criticism has drawn attention to the depth and range of his intellectual engagements. Mary O'Donnell traced the influence of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas in A Fragile City and the academic and critic Eugene O'Brien, editor of The Irish Book Review, described his work as "that rare combination of the intellectual and the emotional". Development
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title: Micheal O'Siadhail

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 Belonging/Cumann (An Clóchomhar, Dublin)
1985: Springnight (Bluett, Dublin)
1990: The Image Wheel (Bluett, Dublin)
1990: The Chosen Garden (Dedalus, Dublin)
1992: Hail! Marc Caball and David F. Ford, Carysfort Press, Dublin
2008: A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seóirse Bodley's Song Cycles on the Poems of <mask> O'Siadhail Edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Carysfort Press, Dublin
2009: An Unexpected Light: Theology and Witness in the Poetry and Though of Charles Williams, <mask> O'Siadhail and Geoffrey Hill, David C. Mahan, Pickwick Publications Eugene

Works set to music

1987: The Naked Flame, poem suite (music: Seóirse Bodley) RTÉ commissioned for performance and broadcasting
1993: Summerfest poem suite (Music: Colman Pearce) RTÉ commissioned for performance and broadcasting
2000: Earlsfort Suite song cycle (Music: Seóirse Bodley) commissioned for Irish Government Department of Arts, the Gaeltacht, Heritage and the Islands as part of the Millennium Frozen Music celebration
2000: A Fall set by Dan Tucker, commissioned by the Chicago Humanities Festival,
2002: Dublin Spring, poem suite (music: James Wilson) commissioned for performance.2006: Twee gedichten van Micheal O'Siadhail for Choir 2006 by Kees van Ersel
2007: Squall set by Seóirse Bodley

Discography

The Naked Flame, poem suite (music: Seóirse Bodley) recorded by Aylish E. Kerrigan accompanied on piano by the composer Seóirse Bodley and available from Ein Klang, Christophestaße, Stuttgart 70178
Cosmos from Hail! Madam Jazz recorded by Helen Shapiro on Jazz Poetry ABM

References

External links
 Personal homepage
 Page at Bloodaxe Books
 Page at Timebeing
 Page at Aosdána

Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Irish poets
1947 births
Living people
People educated at Clongowes Wood College
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Scholars of Trinity College

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<mask> (born 7 April 1953) is a Scottish Buddhist author and teacher, writing books and articles on Buddhist topics and leading meditation retreats throughout the world. He is a noted proponent of agnostic or secular Buddhism. Biography

<mask> was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1953. When he was three, his family relocated briefly to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where his parents separated. He returned with his mother Phyllis (b. 1913) to England, where he was raised in a humanist environment with his younger brother David in Watford, Hertfordshire. After completing his secondary education at Watford Grammar School, in February 1972, at the age of eighteen, he embarked on an overland journey which eventually led him to India.He settled in Dharamsala, the capital-in-exile of the Dalai Lama, and studied with Geshé Ngawang Dhargyey at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. He was ordained as a novice monk in the Gelug tradition in 1974. A few months after ordination, he sat a ten-day Vipassana meditation retreat with the Indian teacher S.N. Goenka, which proved a lasting influence on his practice, and aroused his curiosity about other traditions of Buddhism. He left India in 1975 in order to study Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and doctrine under the guidance of Geshe Rabten, first at the Tibet Institute Rikon then in Le Mont-Pèlerin (both in Switzerland), where he helped Geshé Rabten

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 turned his attention to the earliest teachings of Buddhism as recorded in the Pali canon. He also has increasingly turned his attention to Hellenistic philosophies, most particularly the skeptical philosophy of Pyrrhonism and Montaigne's approach to Pyrrhonism. Batchelor is a member of the core faculty of Bodhi College, which focuses on interpreting the early texts of Buddhism, such as the Pali Canon, in a manner that is applicable to the modern world. He is also a member of the Center for Pragmatic Buddhism's Advisory Board. Bibliography
 <mask>, <mask>. Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism.Foreword by John Blofeld. Grove Press, 1983 . <mask>, <mask>. Flight: An Existential Conception of Buddhism. Buddhist Publication Society, Wheel Publication No. 316/317. 1984.Kusan Sunim. The Way of Korean Zen. Translated by Martine Fages Batchelor. Edited with an introduction by <mask>. Weatherhill, 1985.  . (2nd Revised Edition: Weatherhill, 2009. .)
Batchelor, <mask> (editor). The Jewel in the Lotus: A Guide to the Buddhist Traditions of Tibet. Wisdom Publications,  1986. .
 <mask>, <mask>.The Tibet Guide. Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Wisdom Publications, 1987. . (Revised edition: The Tibet Guide: Central and Western Tibet. Wisdom Publications, 1998. .)
 <mask>, <mask>. The Faith to Doubt: Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty. Parallax Press, 1990. .
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 Buddhism Without Beliefs.Riverhead Books, 1997. .
Watson, Gay, <mask> and Guy Claxton (editors). The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Science, and Our Day-to-Day Lives. Weiser Books, 2000. .
<mask>, Martine. Meditation for Life. Photography by <mask>. Wisdom Publications, 2001. .
Mackenzie, Vicki. "Life as a Question, Not as a Fact: <mask> – author, teacher and skeptic."Why Buddhism? Westerners in Search of Wisdom. HarperCollins, 2003. . pp. 142–62. <mask>, <mask>. Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil.. Penguin Books/Riverhead Books, 2005. <mask>, <mask>.Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. Random House, 2010. .
 <mask>, <mask>. The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture. Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Echo Point Books & Media, 2011. .
 <mask>, <mask>. "A Secular Buddhism". Journal of Global Buddhism 13 (2012):87-107
 <mask>, <mask>.After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age. Yale University Press, 2015. <mask>, <mask>. Secular Buddhism: Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World. Yale University Press, 2017. <mask>, Martine and <mask>, <mask>. What is this?Ancient questions for modern minds. Tuwhiri, 2019. <mask>, <mask>. The Art of Solitude. Yale University Press, 2020. Translations by <mask>
 Shantideva. A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life.Translated by <mask>. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1979. .
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 Geshé. Echoes of Voidness. Translated and edited by <mask>. Wisdom Publications, 1983. Rabten, Geshé. Song of the Profound View.Translated and annotated by <mask>. Wisdom Publications, 1989. .
<mask>, <mask>. Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime. Riverhead Books, 2001. . This is a translation of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way) by Nagarjuna. Libretto
MĀRA: A CHAMBER OPERA on good and evil. Libretto by <mask>, Music by Sherry Woods.2017. See also
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Buddhism in Europe
Christopher Titmuss
Secular Buddhism

References

External links

 Official biography
The Māra Opera Project web site at https://MaraOpera.org/
 Downloadable talks at Dharmaseed and Audiodharma

Interviews and Documentaries
 Short documentary film about <mask>or made for Netherlands TV. April 2008. English with Dutch subtitles. TV interview on ABC News, 9 March 2010. "Starting from Scratch: A talk with <mask>or"Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. 2010.Retrieved 2010-03-16. Online video of a talk based on Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. Fora.tv, 19 March 2010. Audio Interview Series on Buddhist Geeks

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<mask> (May 11, 1902 – February 1, 1982) was a decorated United States Marine Corps officer and college athlete. He rose to the rank of lieutenant general and concluded his career as commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic. <mask> was also commanding general of Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island during the Ribbon Creek incident in April 1956. According to author Keith Fleming in The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis: Ribbon Creek and Recruit Training, <mask> "enjoyed an excellent professional reputation from the very beginning of his Marine Corps service". As a captain, <mask> was stationed in China, and his company won the Breckinridge Trophy for the best Marine unit deployed to that country. Early career

<mask> was born on May 11, 1902, in Washington, D.C. and later attended the local McKinley Technology High School. Upon graduation, he enrolled the University of Maryland, where he was on several sport teams.<mask> played for the football team as a tackle, and on the basketball and lacrosse teams. <mask> earned varsity letters in football in 1921, 1922, 1923, and 1924, in lacrosse in 1924 and 1925, and basketball in 1924–25. During his college years, <mask> also held a United States Army Reserve commission. Following his graduation with a Bachelor of Arts degree in June 1925, <mask> resigned his reserve commission in order to accept appointment as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps on July 15. Like any other newly commissioned officer, he was sent to the Basic School at Marine Barracks Quantico, Virginia, for further officer training. While there, <mask> played for the Quantico Marines football team in 1925 and 1926 and later won his letter from the Marine Corps Athletic Council. During the summer of 1927, <mask> left Quantico for expeditionary duty in Shanghai and Tientsin, China and after brief service in the Philippine Islands, he returned to the United States.<mask> served on the various stations and also with the Marine detachments aboard the battleships USS Utah and USS Arizona and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in March 1931. First Lieutenant

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 <mask> returned to Quantico in July 1931, when he was assigned back to Quantico Marines football team. He served as assistant coach under Captain George W. McHenry for the 1931 and 1932 seasons. <mask> then remained on Quantico until the end of March 1935, when he was attached to the 4th Marine Regiment under Colonel John C. Beaumont and sailed again to China. He served as company commander in the security force of the Shanghai International Settlement and later of the guard detachment at the American embassy in Beijing. While in China, he was promoted to captain in August 1936 and during the next year, his company under his command won the Breckinridge Trophy for the best Marine unit deployed to that country. He returned stateside in January 1938 and was assigned back to the Marine Barracks Quantico, where he remained until June 1940, when he was transferred to the Marine Corps Base San Diego, California.<mask> served as an instructor there and was promoted to major in August 1940. World War II

While in San Diego, <mask> was transferred to the staff of Amphibious Corps, Pacific Fleet under Major General <mask>. Vogel. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, <mask> was appointed assistant chief of staff for personnel and later promoted to lieutenant colonel in August 1942. Amphibious Corps was renamed I Marine Amphibious Corps (IMAC) at the beginning of October 1942 and subsequently left for New Caledonia in the South Pacific. <mask> participated in the offensive at Guadalcanal and in its defense and later served with IMAC under Lieutenant General Alexander Vandegrift at Bougainville in New Guinea. <mask> distinguished himself and was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V". When General Vandergrift was appointed Commandant of the Marine Corps at the beginning of 1944, he requested <mask> for his administrative skills.Lieutenant Colonel <mask> left IMAC in January 1944 and sailed for Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C., where he was appointed Military Secretary to the Commandant of the Marine Corps. He was promoted to colonel in May 1944. <mask> remained in

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 this position for the rest of the war and received the Navy Commendation Medal for his distinguished skills. Later military service

Colonel <mask> finally left Washington, D.C., in July 1946 and subsequently was transferred to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where he assumed command of the Marine barracks within the local naval base. He was transferred stateside in June 1948 and assigned to Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, where he was appointed commanding officer of the 22nd Marine Regiment, which served as a training unit for new Marine Corps officers at the Basic School. In June 1949, <mask> was succeeded by Lieutenant Colonel Henry W. Buse Jr. and subsequently assumed command of the Basic School. When the Korean War broke out, Colonel <mask> was transferred to Pearl Harbor and appointed Chief of Staff of Fleet Marine Force, Pacific under General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr. in July 1950.He was co-responsible for all Marine units across the Pacific Ocean area, including those fighting in Korea. While in this post, <mask> was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in October 1951. One month later, he was transferred to Camp Pendleton in San Diego, California, where he was appointed deputy commander and chief of staff under Major General Oliver P. Smith. Upon the reactivation of the 3rd Marine Division at Camp Pendleton at the beginning of January 1952, <mask> was appointed assistant division commander in June under the command of Major General Robert H. Pepper. General <mask> was transferred to Korea at the end of March 1953 and subsequently succeeded Brigadier General Robert O. Bare as 1st Marine Division Assistant Division Commander under Major General Edwin A. Pollock. One of his first duties was participation in the prisoner exchange Operation Little Switch in April and May 1953, which led to the release of 684 U.N. prisoners. He later participated in the fighting on the western front and later in the defense of the Demilitarized Zone under the command of new 1st Marine Division commander, Major General Randolph M. Pate, and also took part in another prisoner exchange, Operation Big

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 Switch, in August 1953.For his service in Korea, <mask> received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal. <mask> left Korea at the end of January 1954 and was appointed director of information at Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C. He was subsequently appointed director of Marine Corps Reserve in June 1954 and promoted to major general in August of the same year. <mask> remained in Washington until January 1956, when he relieved his old superior, Edwin A. Pollock, as commanding general of Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island in Port Royal, South Carolina. He was the commander of that facility during the infamous Ribbon Creek incident the following month, in which a junior drill instructor conducted a forced march that resulted in the drowning deaths of six Marine recruits. After the incident, <mask> was transferred out of the command "without prejudice" and Commandant of the Marine Corps and <mask>'s superior from Korea, Randolph M. Pate, transferred him to Camp Lejeune, where he assumed command of the 2nd Marine Division. He attained the rank of lieutenant general on November 1, 1959, and ended his career as commanding general, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic.<mask> retired from the Marine Corps on November 1, 1961. He died on February 1, 1982, at the age of 79. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. <mask> was inducted in the inaugural class of the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982. Decorations
A complete list of the general's medals and decorations include:

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title: Navin Ramgoolam

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<mask>, GCSK, FRCP (born 14 July 1947) is a Mauritian politician who was former Prime Minister of Mauritius from 2005 to 2014 and leader of the Labour Party (Mauritius). He was Leader of the Opposition from 1991 to 1995. He served as Prime Minister for the first time from December 1995 until September 2000, and became Leader of the Opposition again from October 2000 to 4 July 2005. On 5 July 2005, he became prime minister for a second term after his Alliance Sociale won the general elections. He served again as Prime Minister from 2005 to 2014, when he was defeated afterwards. Early life and education
<mask> was born on 14 July 1947 to <mask> (SSR) and Sushil Ramjoorawon at their Desforges Street residence in Port Louis. SSR was the 6th Governor General of Mauritius, as well as the first Chief Minister and Prime Minister of Mauritius.In the 1800s his ancestors migrated to Mauritius from Harigaon in Bhojpur district, Bihar. <mask> is married to Veena <mask>. He attended the Royal College Curepipe from 1960 to 1966 and proceeded to study medicine in Ireland between 1968 and 1975, where he obtained the LRCP&SI licentiates from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. When his father SSR died in December 1985, Ramgoolam was on the point of immigrating to Canada when Sir Satcam Boolell (then leader of Labour Party) and Paul Berenger (the leader of the Mauritian Militant Movement) convinced him to return assume the leadership of the Labour party with the objective of an alliance which would defeat Anerood Jugnauth in the general elections. He subsequently served as a medical doctor at Dr A.G Jeetoo Hospital in Mauritius from 1985 to 1987. In 1987, he started his law studies at The London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. Upon

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 completion of his LLB degree in 1990, he returned to Mauritius to face the electorate as the new leader of the Labour party in the 1991 general election.1991 elections and first candidacy

The leadup to the general elections held in 1991 saw a realignment of the country's major political parties. The Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM), which had been the main opposition party, decided to contest the election as an ally of Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth's Militant Socialist Movement (MSM). <mask>'s Labour Party and Gaëtan Duval's Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate (PMSD), both of which had been allied with the MSM in the previous election, formed a separate alliance, along with the Rodrigues People's Organisation (OPR). A major campaign issue was the proposal of the MSM-MMM alliance to cut the country's ties with the British Monarchy and declare a republic with a President as head of state. <mask> opposed this, arguing that the Presidential office would be too ceremonial, leaving all executive powers effectively in the hands of the Prime Minister. The election turned out to be a landslide for Jugnauth. The MSM/MMM alliance won 57 of the 62 directly elected seats.Of the 5 seats won by <mask>'s alliance, 2 were held by the OPR and 3 by his own Labour Party (Arvin Boolell, Vasant Bunwaree and himself, being elected in constituency 5, Triolet & Pamplemoussess). Following his defeat, he took leave as Leader of the Opposition and returned to London to complete his law vocational course at Inns of Court School of Law. He was called to United Kingdom Bar, Inner Temple in 1993. In 1993, Prime Minister Jugnauth asked the Speaker of the National Assembly to declare <mask>'s seat vacant as he had not attended Parliament for three consecutive moments. The Speaker referred the case to the Court but the Judge found that

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 it was unconstitutional. Shortly afterwards, Jugnauth dismissed Bérenger from the Cabinet after learning that Ramgoolam had hosted him at a private dinner at his Riverwalk residence. Bérenger and 10 MMM members joined Ramgoolam on the opposition benches.Although the MMM caucus was larger than the Labour Party caucus, he agreed to let <mask> continue as Leader of the Opposition. 1995 elections

The Labour Party and the MMM went on to forge an alliance to contest the 1995 elections. The alliance won all 60 directly elected seats from the mainland (with Labour taking 35 seats and the MMM 25). <mask> became Prime Minister with Bérenger as his Deputy. The coalition soon fractured and Ramgoolam dismissed Bérenger in 1997. Bérenger then became Leader of the Opposition, while <mask> formed a one-party government. 2000 elections

Jugnauth and Bérenger formed a new alliance to contest the 2000 elections.Part of the agreement was to allow Jugnauth to serve for the first three years of the five-year term, then resign to assume the Presidency and allow Bérenger to complete his unexpired term. <mask>, for his part, formed an alliance with the Mauritian Party of Xavier-Luc Duval (PMXD), a breakaway from the PMSD led by Xavier-Luc Duval, the son of Sir Gaëtan Duval. The MSM/MMM alliance won 54 of the 60 directly elected mainland seats. <mask>, who had retained his own seat, became Leader of the Opposition. 2005 elections
His Alliance Social won the general elections against the MSM/MMM outgoing government. He was again appointed as prime minister with a majority of 38 out of 60 seats. His alliance also won the local/municipal elections in 2006 where the MSM/MMM was severely defeated.These consecutive defeats and internal instability caused the break-up of the MSM/MMM coalition. As the MSM had more seats than the MMM

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 and Pravind Jugnauth was not elected, Nando Bodha was appointed as Leader of the Opposition. 2010 elections

With the 2010 elections approaching, Ramgoolam decided in 2008 to support Jugnauth for re-election as President, to forestall a possible return by Jugnauth to parliamentary politics, where <mask> viewed him as a potential threat. Jugnauth's condition for accepting the offer was an alliance between the Labour Party and the MSM. At <mask>'s insistence, the Alliance de L'Avenir also included the PMSD, into which the PMXD, and its leader, Xavier-Luc Duval, had merged; seven of the sixty parliamentary candidates would come from the PMSD). The Alliance de L'Avenir won 41 of the 60 directly elected seats. <mask> remained Prime Minister and Pravind Jugnauth, son of Sir Anerood Jugnauth, became his Deputy.Following the involvement of some members of the MSM in the Medpoint Scandal, however, <mask> dismissed the MSM from the government. 2014 elections

The general elections originally scheduled for 2015 were brought forward to December 2014. The Labour Party made a new alliance with the MMM, proposing a constitutional amendment to upgrade the Presidency to a less ceremonial role. <mask> and Bérenger, the MMM leader, claimed that the election was a referendum on the proposal, which they called the Second Republic. If the alliance won more than 45 of the 60 directly elected mainland seats, the Constitution would be amended; <mask> would run for the Presidency and Bérenger would succeed him as Prime Minister. <mask> and Berenger were opposed by the MSM-led Alliance Lepep, which also included the PMSD, which had been Ramgoolam's coalition partner, and a new party called Muvman Liberater, formed by a significant portion of ex-members of the MMM who were opposed to the idea of giving Ramgoolam more powers . The

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 Alliance Lepep, which opposed the proposal for the Second Republic, won 47 seats out of 60.The Labour-MMM alliance won only 13 seats, 9 from the MMM and 4 from the Labour Party. <mask> lost his seat for the first time in his political career. On 12 December 2014, he resigned as Prime Minister of Mauritius.+

Controversies

1978 arrest by British police
<mask> <mask> was arrested in the UK on 24 May 1978 in Wardour Street, Soho, London according to records of the Foreign Colonial Office (FCO). He was a student at University College London (UCL). British Police noticed <mask> Ramgoolam driving dangerously as he committed a number of offences such as driving through a red traffic light, and performing an illegal u-turn where it was prohibited. Although he was not entitled to Diplomatic Immunity Navin <mask> attempted to claim such protection after refusing to provide a breath specimen. When <mask> <mask> was subjected to a blood test the result was positive.As a result he was summoned for driving with excess alcohol in his blood, and was fined at Malborough Street Magistrate Court where he eventually pleaded guilty. 2010 verbal abuse of Nita Deerpalsing
On the public holiday of the 1st of May 2010 during a public meeting of the Labour-MMM coalition Alliance de l’Avenir in Quatre-Bornes <mask> Ramgoolam became frustrated about a defective microphone. He soon lost his temper and abused the Director of Communication of the Labour Party (Mauritius) Kumaree Rajeshree Deerpalsing, also known as Nita Deerpalsing by yelling Li pas marsé ta putain (meaning "It does not work, you slut". The abuse was broadcast live by other radio stations which were covering the event and was reproduced several times on social media as an example of <mask> <mask>'s lack of respect for women. 2014 London suitcase and Rolls Royce

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After claiming to be visiting London for the tenth time to discuss a legal matter with British counsel Phillipe Sands, <mask> <mask> was spotted in his chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce bearing number plate RR10RAM as he carried a suitcase to a bank, where an attendant recognised and greeted him with "How are you Mr Banker?" 2015 arrest for conspiracy, money laundering & murder
In February 2015 <mask> <mask> was arrested for alleged conspiracy, money laundering and as part of a July 2011 robbery and murder case (Affaire Roches-Noires). Local police searched his home located at Riverwalk in Floréal and discovered safes and suitcases containing around $6.4 million in various foreign currencies, 9 exclusive American Express Black credit cards, as well as packets of Viagra sexual stimulant pills.He was later released and charges against him were dropped due to lack of sufficient evidence and the prosecution's delay in lodging the case. Awards and decorations

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 Grand Officer of the Order of Legion of Honour
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Recipient of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (2008)
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 Grand Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (2008)

Honours

Ramgoolam has received several accolades and honours. In 1998 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Dr Honoris Causa by the University of Mauritius, Dr Honoris Causa from Aligarh Muslim University, India and Dr Honoris Causa by the Jawaharlal Nehru University, India in October 2005. Other awards he attained are the Grand Officier de la Legion d'Honneur from France in March 2006, the Honorary Freeman of Rodrigues from Rodrigues Regional Assembly in March 2007, The Wilberforce Medal from Wilberforce Lecture Trust, Hull, United Kingdom in June 2007, The Rajiv Gandhi Award from Mumbai

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 Regional Congress Committee, India in August 2007, The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from Government of the Republic of India in January 2008 as well as Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (GCSK) from the Government of the Republic of Mauritius in March 2008. In Paris, <mask> received the Prix Louise Michel, awarded generally each year to a high personality in recognition of his or her outstanding contribution in the political field. He was made Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the Padmashree Dr D. Y. Patil University, Mumbai, India in February 2009, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) of the Royal College of Physicians, London in May 2009, Honorary Doctor by Staffordshire University, United Kingdom in July 2010, Order of the Rule of Law by the World Jurist Association, Bethesda, Maryland, USA in April 2011, Overseas Bencher by the Inner Temple, United Kingdom in April 2011 and Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) by the Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India in February 2012. See also

 Veena Ramgoolam
 Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
 Leader of the Opposition (Mauritius)
Bihari Mauritians

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title: Elia Viviani

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<mask> (born 7 February 1989) is an Italian professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . On 10 May 2015, <mask> won his first Grand Tour stage victory at the Giro d'Italia, winning stage 2 in a bunch sprint before Moreno Hofland and André Greipel. In August 2016 <mask> won gold in the omnium at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2021, he won bronze in the omnium at the 2020 Summer Olympics. <mask>'s nickname in the peloton is "Il Veggente" for his ability to foresee line moves of other sprinters during the sprint. Career

Team Sky (2015–17)

2015 season
Viviani signed for  on 24 October 2014 after considering offers from  and the . He chose Team Sky because they were willing to help tailor his road programme to help with his track ambitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.After winning Stage 2 of the Dubai Tour, <mask> headed to the Track World Championships in Yvelines winning two medals including bronze in his focused Olympic event, the omnium. Back on the road <mask> made a big leap forward, consistently winning at World Tour level winning stages at the Tour de Romandie, the Eneco Tour and winning his first Grand Tour stage at the Giro d'Italia on stage 2 into Genoa. He ended the season well, becoming the European Track Champion in the omnium, gaining Olympic qualification points in the process. He also won three stages at the Tour of Britain and finished where he started the season, winning in the Middle East, this time at the Abu Dhabi Tour. Quick-Step Floors (2018–19)

2018 season
<mask> signed for the  team before the 2018 season, replacing Marcel Kittel who joined . He got off to a good start winning Stage 3 of the Tour Down Under, the 50th victory since his professional début in 2010. He continued the momentum in the Middle East where he won his first major overall title and two stage wins at the Dubai Tour as well as a stage in the Abu Dhabi Tour.He returned to Europe for his first big objective of the season where he came

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 19th at Milan–San Remo. He added another success in Belgium at the Three Days of Bruges–De Panne but suffered an emotional defeat at Gent–Wevelgem, finishing in second place behind Peter Sagan. He also won the Italian National Road Race Championships. 2019 season
He again got off to a good start in Australia winning the opening stage of the Tour Down Under, and followed it up with the One-day classic Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, going one better than the previous year. <mask>'s next win came at the UAE Tour a month later as he had an easier build up to the two Grand Tours he was scheduled to compete in – the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. After winning Stage 3 of Tirreno–Adriatico, he encountered a dry spell mainly due to bad luck at the Giro d'Italia, where he was disqualified after winning a sprint on Stage 3 into Orbetello, after he was adjudged to have illegally blocked 's Matteo Moschetti. After last year's success, he failed to win a single stage in his home tour while wearing the national champion's jersey.In his build up to the Tour de France he won two sprints in a row at the Tour de Suisse, before going onto win his first stage at the Tour de France into Nancy. <mask> came out of the Tour on top form, winning the London–Surrey Classic. After losing his national champion's jersey in June, he earned the right to wear a non standard team kit again for the following year after he won the European Championships on 11 August in Alkmaar. He won from a three-man break following the attack from trade teammate Yves Lampaert, and beating him and Pascal Ackermann in the sprint. Cofidis (2020–21)
In August 2019, <mask> was announced to be joining  for the 2020 season along with his lead-out man Fabio Sabatini. Ineos Grenadiers (2022–)
In November 2021, <mask> signed a three-year contract with the  team, from the 2022 season. Personal life
<mask> is married to fellow cyclist Elena Cecchini.His brother Attilio <mask> is also a professional

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title: Craig Armstrong (composer)

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<mask>,  (born 29 April 1959) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981, and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. <mask>'s score for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. He would collaborate with Luhrmann again on his next two films, Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby. His score for the former earned him the 2001 American Film Institute's composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and a BAFTA. <mask> was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Original Score in 2004 for the biopic Ray.His other feature film scoring credits include Love Actually, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and The Incredible Hulk. Life and career
<mask> was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland

He studied musical composition, violin and piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1977 to 1981, where he was awarded the Charles Lucas prize and the Harvey Lohr scholarship for composition. He was also awarded the FTCL Fellowship in composition, and won the GLAA Young Jazz Musician of the Year in 1982. Upon completing his studies, <mask> served as music and dance specialist at the Strathclyde Regional Council in 1984. 1985 <mask> toured with Midge Ure on his Gift World Tour, and with Ultravox on their european U-Vox Tour winter 1986. Between 1994–2002 he was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to write music for The Broken Heart and The Tempest, both directed by Michael Boyd. He sees no difference in credibility between popular and classical forms and this respect for the pop genre was cemented in 1994

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 with a one-off collaboration with the Bristol band Massive Attack on their album Protection, after which the band formed their Melankolic vanity record label releasing his first two solo albums.In 2001, <mask> received BAFTA, Golden Globe, and American Film Institute Award, as well as World Soundtrack Award and a Golden Satellite Award for Moulin Rouge!. In 2002 he wrote the meditative piece Visconti, commissioned by Barbican Centre Elektronika festival for the London Sinfonietta. In 2004 <mask> collaborated with visual artists Dalziel + Scullion on One Minute to celebrate the opening of Perth's Horsecross Hall. In 2005 he received a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack album for the film Ray, directed by Taylor Hackford. In 2008 his first classical release, Memory Takes My Hand, featuring a violin concerto for Clio Gould, was released on EMI Classics. <mask> Delay. He has worked with a wide variety of more well-known musical artists, including U2, Tina Turner, Madonna, Texas, and Luciano Pavarotti.<mask> has written several classical commissions for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the Hebrides Ensemble and the Scottish Ensemble. In 2006, <mask> collaborated with the visual artists Dalziel + Scullion for the reopening of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow with a joint exhibition called Once. In 2007 <mask>'s first opera was premiered as part of the Scottish Opera, titled '5:15  – Opera's made in Scotland', a 15min opera with a libretto by Ian Rankin. Honours
 <mask> was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours for his contribution to music. Key works
 1994: Slow Movement (strings)
 1998: 20 Movements (orchestra)
 1999: If Time Must Pass (violin, strings)
 1999: Escape (orchestra,

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 vocal). 2000: When Morning Turns to Light (mezzo-soprano, orchestra)
 2002: Northern Sounds ... Islands (orchestra)
 2005: One Minute (orchestra)
 2007: Immer (violin concerto no. 1) (violin, orchestra)
 2012: The Lady from the Sea (opera)
 2015: Far from the Madding Crowd (2015 film)

Recordings
<mask> has released two solo records on Massive Attack's label Melankolic, followed by Piano Works on Sanctuary in 2004 and Film Works on Universal in 2005.In 2007 <mask> recorded his first classical record, "Memory Takes My Hand", for EMI Classics with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. It was released in 2008 and includes a violin concerto "Immer" for Clio Gould. Rosebud was released from a new co written and co produced project of <mask> and Scott Fraser – Winona. September 2009:  "Without You (Deal Soul Brothers Remix)" – Format: 12" Vinyl single

 1998: The Space Between Us
 2002: As If to Nothing
 2004: Piano Works
 2005: Film Works 1995–2005
 2005: The Dolls by the Dolls (<mask> with Antye Greie and Vladislav Delay)
 2008: Memory Takes My Hand
 2014: It's Nearly Tomorrow
 2018: Sun On You

Film scores
His score to William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (with Baz Luhrmann) earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. <mask>'s score for Baz Luhrmann's groundbreaking musical Moulin Rouge! earned him AFI's Composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score of the Year and a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music. His score for Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American garnered him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score.His other feature film scoring credits include the Oliver Stone drama World Trade Center, the Oscar-winning bio-pic Ray for which <mask> was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Original Score and the worldwide ensemble

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 comedy smash Love Actually. His scores can also be heard in The Magdalene Sisters, Kiss of the Dragon, The Bone Collector, The Clearing, Best Laid Plans, Orphans, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and The Incredible Hulk. Escape
One of the most popular tracks composed by <mask> is "Escape" from Plunkett & Macleane. The composition was used in the pilot of the 2000 science fiction series Dark Angel''', as well as having been used in various film trailers and sports broadcasts due to the emotional buildup caused by its rising crescendo and choir. It was used in the trailer for the BBC's Euro 2012 coverage (the BBC had already used 'Balcony Scene' from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack for their Euro 2004 trailer), and has often been used in the BBC's Top Gear series at the climax of the season finale "epic challenges". <mask> lists the songs which Top Gear has used on his web site. "Escape" has been used in a number of action film trailers, including Spider-Man 2 and Daredevil."Escape" has also been used as entrance music by various sports teams, including the professional wrestling stable Team Vision, Premier League football team Aston Villa when playing at their home ground Villa Park, as well as fellow Premier League team Wigan Athletic when at the DW Stadium. It has also been used as entrance music for the England rugby union team at Twickenham stadium, Premiership rugby union team Leeds Carnegie before home games, and Kent County Cricket Club in Twenty20 matches. Filmography

 1995: Close (Short) 1995: Fridge (Short) 1995: Good Day for the Bad Guys 1996: Romeo + Juliet – BAFTA and Ivor Novello awards. 1997: Orphans 1998: The Negotiator – Opening credit track ("Rise")
 1999: Plunkett & Macleane 1999: Best Laid Plans 1999: The Bone Collector 2000: Romeo Must Die 2001: Moulin

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title: Peter Hill (entrepreneur)

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<mask> (born 1964 in Melbourne, Australia) is a former champion Australian skateboarder and the co-founder of Globe International, a multinational, youth culture, branded footwear, apparel and skate/surf business with his brother <mask>. <mask> has also acted as an executive producer on over 30 media projects, including feature films and television specials and a producer on Eric Bana's Love the Beast. Career
<mask> started skateboarding at age 7 with his brother Stephen in Melbourne in the early 1970s. In their teenage years, they put together one of the early Australian-sponsored skate teams, Sparx, were in the Nike skateboard team in 1979 and competed successfully in Australian skate titles. Along with their younger brother, <mask>, they began to import skateboards and associated equipment, eventually forming Hardcore Distribution, a company that later grew into Globe International. In the 1980s, the brothers promoted skateboarding in Australia, running demonstrations and tours featuring local and American skateboarders including Allen Losi, Mark Gonzales, Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Jeff Phillips and Jason Lee. They also distributed Vision Streetwear and Airwalk shoes.<mask> and Stephen wrote two books on skateboarding, The Skateboard Book: Blast! (1986) and Skate Hard (1988). The design plans from those two books influenced the construction of Australian skateparks and ramps for the following decade. In 1987 the brothers were profiled on a segment on Australian skateboarding on 60 Minutes. In that same year, they co-founded an Australian skateboarding magazine, 540. <mask> and his brother were also early snowboarders in Australia and successfully lobbied for snowboarders' access to Australian snow fields. <mask> and Stephen's private company grew throughout the 1990s, and they also licensed major streetwear labels Mossimo, Stussy, Eckō Unltd., Split, Hardcore Jeans and Paul Frank Industries, along with creating their own propriety brands, including Globe, Mooks and

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 M-ONE-11.In 2001, <mask> oversaw the public float of the company, Globe International, on the Australian Stock Exchange with his brothers, maintaining a large shareholding and subsequently appointed to the board as an executive director. <mask> remained actively involved in product development and brand creation, as well as development and positioning for the company as it expanded into North America, Europe and Asia. Along with his brothers, <mask> also founded Whyte House Entertainment, a multimedia company based in Australia and Los Angeles in 1997, where he acted as an executive producer on all titles produced. <mask> was a producer on Love the Beast, a feature documentary featuring his friend Eric Bana and released theatrically in Australia and the UK in 2009. <mask> executive produced the award-winning surf short film Electric Blue Heaven (2012)
<mask> also is reported as driving the family group's telco and motorsport company interests. Both he and his brother Stephen hold an interest in Boost Mobile with Paul Keating. The <mask> brothers featured in the book, Unemployable: 30 Years of Hardcore, Skate and Street released for the 30th anniversary of the Globe and Hardcore companies in 2015.After overseeing six years of development, <mask> launched the dot board, an electric skateboard as part of a new division of Globe International, in late 2019. Personal life
Along with his brother, Stephen, <mask> has been listed in BRW Rich 200 list since 2001. <mask> maintains an extensive interest in skateboarding and design, as well as being an active participant in surfing, snowboarding, and motorsports. Filmography
1998 Canvas: The Skateboarding Documentary (television documentary) Executive Producer

2000/1 The Heist (feature film) Executive Producer

2001 Opinion (video documentary) Executive Producer

2001 Tic Tac 2 Heelflip (television documentary) Executive Producer

2001 Down and Out with the Dolls (feature film) Executive Producer

2002 Globe World Cup Skateboarding (TV movie)

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title: Gina Barreca

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<mask> (born 1957) is an American academic and humorist. She is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut and winner of UConn's highest award for excellence in teaching. She is the author of ten books and editor of 11 others. Her weekly articles from The Hartford Courant are syndicated internationally by the Tribune Co. and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent of London, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Cosmopolitan, and The Harvard Business Review. She is a member of the New York Friar's Club and an honoree of the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. Her latest book, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?" Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times, was published by St. Martin's Press in the spring of 2016 and was an ELLE Reader's Prize selection that June.Currently, she is working on a book about loneliness. Early life and education
<mask> grew up in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York, and is of Italian descent. She was the first woman to be named Alumni Scholar at Dartmouth College, where she earned her 1979 bachelor's degree. Her stories from this time can be found in her memoir, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League. She was a Reynolds Fellow and earned her 1981 M.A. at New Hall, Cambridge University, and earned her 1987 Ph.D. (English Literature) from the Graduate School, City University of New York, dissertation: “Hate and Humor in Women’s Literature: Twentieth-Century British Writers.”. Career

Professor
From 1981 to 1987, <mask> was a Graduate Assistant/Adjunct Lecturer at Queens College.In 1987 she became an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she became an Associate Professor of English in

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