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<mask>. F<mask> is the former Director of the United States Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Currently a senior advisor for Amundi Pioneer, <mask> is also a consultant/advisor for multiple companies through Cardinal Advisors LLC, and serves on the Board of Directors of Ross Corporate Services, a UK-based pension services firm. Previously <mask> was Managing Director in charge of Pension Relations with Citigroup. He has also been an advisor for McKinsey, AQR Capital, and the Kiski Group. In his role at Citigroup, <mask> led international pension conferences and has been a leading speaker at numerous pension-related conferences. He has appeared on CNBC and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and elsewhere on a variety of pension topics. In March 2016, <mask> led the publication of the report "The Coming Pensions Crisis."The report was noteworthy for highlighting $78 trillion in unfunded retirement obligations in twenty countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The report on "The Coming Pensions Crisis" also advocated the development of more pooled defined contribution systems such as Collective Defined Contribution, Target Benefit, and Defined Ambition as methods to increase retirement security. During his time with Citigroup, he also taught at the Yale School of Management on pensions and public policy. <mask> was the first Director of the PBGC to be Presidentially appointed and confirmed by the United States Senate and ran the agency from 2007 to 2009. As Director, <mask> was the chief executive officer of the PBGC and carried the rank of Under Secretary. <mask> served as the President and chief executive officer of the New York City Economic Development Corporation from 1995 to 1999 and was responsible for much of the redevelopment of 42nd St and Times Square. He was previously a member of the New York City Council, representing the Upper East Side of Manhattan.Tenure at the PBGC

During his tenure at PBGC, the agency's deficit shrank from $18.9 billion to $11.2 billion in 2008. The PBGC is governed by a three-person Board; the Secretaries of Treasury, Commerce, and Labor. In February

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 2008, the Board adopted a new investment policy presented to it by Millard. The investment policy intended to put 45 percent of the Corporation's $55 billion in equities, 45 percent in fixed income assets, and 10 percent in alternative investments. No assets were transitioned into equities during fiscal year 2008 and the PBGC only began the transition of some assets from fixed-income to equities in late 2008. The New York Times noted in May 2009, that the PBGC had not fully implemented this transition. Peter R. Orszag (then director of the Congressional Budget Office) stated the following about Millard's plan:

"The change in investment strategy represents an effort on the part of PBGC to increase the expected returns on its assets and to diminish the likelihood that taxpayers will be called on to cover some of its liabilities.The new strategy is likely to produce higher returns, on average, over the long run. But the new strategy also increases the risk that PBGC will not have sufficient assets to cover retirees’ benefit payments when the economy and financial markets are weak. By investing a greater share of its assets in risky securities, PBGC is more likely to experience a decline in the value of its portfolio during an economic downturn—the point at which it is most likely to have to assume responsibility for a larger number of underfunded pension plans." Some proposed that the new policy was still relatively conservative when compared to private pension funds, according to "Pensions and Investments", a trade publication. Ron Gebhardtsbauer, former PBGC actuary and head of the Actuarial Science Program at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, stated on June 16th, 2010, "If the PBGC had followed Millard and invested in stocks in 2009, it could have $10 billion more in assets today." In May 2009, The New York Times reported that Millard was criticized by PBGC's Inspector General for certain ethical matters related to Millard's relationships with companies and executives involved with the award of a PBGC contract. <mask> relied on his Fifth Amendment right not to testify before a Senate investigative committee.March 2010, the Inspector General advised Senators


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 Grassley, Baucus, <mask>zi and Harkin that the investigation was completed and no charges would be filed. Earlier career

<mask> was previously a Managing Director with Lehman Brothers and was a cabinet official in the administration of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Public Sector

Under Mayor Giuliani, <mask> served as President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and Chairman of the New York City Industrial Development Agency. <mask> was twice elected to the New York City Council, and was the first Republican elected Councilman from Manhattan in twenty-five years. In that role he drafted the original legislation to eliminate pornography stores from many New York neighborhoods. <mask> also ran for Congress in 1994 against Representative Carolyn Maloney. He lost 64% to 35%.His 35% of the vote is ten points higher than that of any Republican candidate in that district since then. Private Sector
In the private sector, <mask> served as a Managing Director at both Lehman Brothers and Prudential Securities, and immediately prior to joining the PBGC, <mask> was a Managing Director at Broadway Partners, a national real estate investment and management firm in New York. <mask> also served as an attorney with Davis Polk & Wardwell where his activities included constitutional litigation in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. <mask> was also an op-ed columnist for the New York Post. In 1979–80, he worked as a VISTA volunteer in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and in 1982–83, he served as Legislative Assistant for Foreign Affairs for Congresswoman Millicent <mask>. Education

According to his 2007 profile at the PBGC website, "Mr. <mask> holds a B.A. Honors Degree, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the College of the Holy Cross and a J.D.from Columbia Law School, where each year he was ranked a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar." Personal

<mask> and his wife are parents of nine children. References

New York (state) Republicans
New York City Council members
College of the Holy Cross alumni
Columbia Law School alumni
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Year of birth missing (living people)
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<mask> (, ;  – 5 January 1951) was the pen name of <mask> (), a Soviet Russian writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form. His famous works include the novels  (1928) and The Foundation Pit  (1930). The short story collection The Fierce and Beautiful World was published in 1970 with an introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and became <mask>'s first book in English. During 1970s, Ardis published translations of his major works, such as The Foundation Pit and Chevengur. In 2000, the New York Review Books Classics series issued a collection of short stories, including his most famous story, "The Potudan River" (1937), with an introduction by Tatyana Tolstaya. In 2007, New York Review Books reissued a collection of <mask>'s work including the novella Soul (1934), the short story "The Return" (1946), and six other stories.This was followed by a reissue of The Foundation Pit in 2009, and in 2012 by Happy Moscow, an unfinished novel (not published in <mask>'s lifetime). Early life and education

<mask> was born in the settlement of Yamskaya Sloboda on the outskirts of Voronezh in the Chernozem Region of Central Russia. His father was a metal fitter (and amateur inventor) employed in the railroad workshops and his mother was the daughter of a watchmaker. He attended a

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texts: local Proletcult movement, joined the Union of Communist Journalists in March 1920, and worked as an editor at  ("Red countryside"), and the paper of the local railway workers' union. in August 1920, <mask> was elected to the interim board of the newly-formed Voronezh Union of Proletarian Writers and attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers in Moscow in October 1920, organized by the Smithy group.He regularly read his poetry and gave critical talks at various club meetings. In July 1920, <mask> was admitted to the Communist Party as a candidate member on the recommendation of his friend Litvin (Molotov). He attended Party meetings, but was expelled from the Party on 30 October 1921 as an "unstable element". Later, he said the reason was "juvenile". He may have quit the party in dismay of the New Economic Policy (NEP). like a number of other worker writers (many of whom he had met through Kuznitsa and at the 1920 writers' congress). Troubled by the famine of 1921, he openly and controversially criticized the behaviour (and privileges) of local communists.In spring, 1924 Platonov applied for re-admission to the Party, offering reassurance that he had remained a communist and a Marxist, but he was denied then or on the next two occasions. In 1921 Platonov married Maria Aleksandrovna Kashintseva (1903–1983); they had a son, Platon, in 1922, and a daughter, Maria, in 1944. In 1922, in the wake of the devastating drought and famine of 1921, Platonov abandoned writing to work on electrification and land reclamation for the Voronezh Provincial Land Administration and

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 later for the central government. "I could no longer be occupied with a contemplative activity like literature", he recalled later. For the next years, he worked as an engineer and administrator, organizing the digging of ponds and wells, draining of swampland, and building a hydroelectric plant. In 1925, he published a book about the Black Sea Revolt of 1905. This was the same year that Sergei Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin was made.<mask>'s book was published in Leningrad, as part of the official history of the Communist Party. Three critical works
When he returned to writing prose in 1926, a number of critics and readers noted the appearance of a major and original literary voice. Moving to Moscow in 1927, he became, for the first time, a professional writer, working with a number of leading magazines. Between 1926 and 1930, the period from NEP to the first five-year plan (1928–1932), Platonov produced his two major works, the novels Chevengur and The Foundation Pit. With their implicit criticism of the system, neither was then accepted for publication although one chapter of Chevengur appeared in a magazine. The two novels were only published in the USSR during the late 1980s. In the 1930s, <mask> worked with the Soviet philosopher Mikhail Lifshitz, who edited The Literary Critic (Literaturny Kritik), a Moscow magazine followed by Marxist philosophers around the world.Another of the magazine's contributors was the theoretician György Lukács and <mask> built upon connections with the two philosophers. A turning point in his life and career as a writer came

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 with the publication in March 1931 of For Future Use (″Vprok″ in Russian), a novella that chronicled the forced  collectivisation of agriculture during the First Five Year Plan. According to archival evidence (OGPU informer's report, 11 July 1931), Stalin read For Future Use carefully after its publication, adding marginal comments about the author ("fool, idiot, scoundrel") and his literary style ("this isn't Russian but some incomprehensible nonsense") to his copy of the magazine. In a note to the publishers, the Krasnaya nov monthly, Stalin described Platonov as "an agent of our enemies" and suggested in a postscript that the author and other "numbskulls" (i.e. the editors) should be punished in such a way that the punishment served them "for future use". In 1933, an OGPU official Shivarov wrote a special report on <mask>. Attached were versions of The Sea of Youth, the play "14 Red Cabins" and the unknown "Technical Novel".The report described For Future Use as "a satire on the organizing of collective farms," and commented that <mask>'s subsequent work revealed the "deepening anti-Soviet attitudes" of the writer. Official support and censure

<mask> published eight more books, fiction and essays, between 1937 and his death in 1951. In 1934, Maksim Gorky arranged for <mask> to be included in a “writer’s brigade” sent to Central Asia with the intention of publishing a collective work in celebration of ten years of Soviet Turkmenistan. (In early 1934, a collective work by over 30 Soviet writers was published about the construction of the White Sea Canal.) <mask>’s

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 contribution to the Turkmen volume was a short story titled “Takyr” (or “Salt-flats”) about the liberation of a Persian slave girl. <mask> returned to Turkmenistan in 1935 and this was the basis for his novella Soul (or Dzhan). Dzhan is about a “non-Russian” economist from Central Asia, who leaves Moscow to help his lost, nomadic nation called Dzhan, of rejects and outcasts possessing nothing but their souls.The book was censored because of its graphic content and failure to fit the socialist realist framework; the uncensored text was published in 1999. In the mid-1930s <mask> was again invited to contribute to a collective volume, about rail workers. He wrote was two stories "Immortality" and "Among Animals and Plants". Neither was officially approved or supported by fellow writers. In August 1936, The Literary Critic published "Immortality" with a note explaining the difficulties the author had faced when proposing the story to other periodicals. The following year, this publication came under criticism in Krasnaya Nov, damaging <mask>'s reputation. In 1939, the story was republished in the intended collective volume, Fictional representations of Railway Transport (1939) dedicated to the heroes of the Soviet railroad system.Stalin's ambivalence and <mask>'s son

Stalin was ambivalent about <mask>'s worth as a writer. The same informer's report in July 1931 claimed that he also referred to the writer as "brilliant, a prophet". For his part, <mask> made hostile remarks about Trotsky, Rykov, and Bukharin but not about Stalin, to whom he wrote letters on several

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 occasions. "Is <mask> here?" asked Stalin at the meeting with Soviet writers held in Moscow at Gorky's villa in October 1932 when the Soviet leader first called writers "engineers of the human soul". In January 1937, <mask> contributed to an issue of Literaturnaya gazeta in which the accused at the second Moscow Show Trial (Radek, Pyatakov and others) were denounced and condemned by 30 well-known writers, including Boris Pasternak. His short text "To overcome evil" is included in his collected works.It has been suggested that it contains coded criticism of the regime. In May 1938, during the Great Terror, <mask>'s son was arrested as a "terrorist" and "spy". Aged 15 years old, Platon was sentenced in September 1938 to ten years imprisonment and was sent to a corrective labour camp, where he contracted tuberculosis. Thanks to efforts by <mask> and his acquaintances (including Mikhail Sholokhov), Platon was released and returned home in October 1940, but he was terminally ill and died in January 1943. <mask> himself contracted the disease while nursing his son. During the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), <mask> served as a war correspondent, but his disease worsened. In 1946, his last published short story, "The Return", met with official disapproval.His last publications were two collections of folklore. After his death in 1951, Vasily Grossman spoke at his funeral. Legacy

Although <mask> was relatively unknown at the time of his death, his influence on later Russian writers is considerable. Some of his work was published or reprinted during the 1960s' Khrushchev Thaw.

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texts: Because of his political writings, perceived anti-totalitarian stance, Joseph Brodsky called him the world's strangest writer. In journalism, stories, and poetry written during the first post-revolutionary years (1918–1922), <mask> interwove ideas about human mastery over nature with scepticism about triumphant human consciousness and will, and sentimental and even erotic love of physical things with fear and attendant abhorrence of matter. Platonov viewed the world as embodying at the same time the opposing principles of spirit and matter, reason and emotion, nature and machine.He wrote of factories, machines, and technology as both enticing and dreadful. His aim was to turn industry over to machines, in order to "transfer man from the realm of material production to a higher sphere of life." Thus, in <mask>'s vision of the coming "golden age" machines are both enemy and savior. Modern technologies, <mask> asserted paradoxically (though echoing a paradox characteristic of Marxism), would enable humanity to be "freed from the oppression of matter." <mask>'s writing, it has also been argued, has strong ties to the works of earlier Russian authors like Fyodor Dostoevsky. He also uses much Christian symbolism, including a prominent and discernible influence from a wide range of contemporary and ancient philosophers, including the Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorov. His Foundation Pit uses a combination of peasant language with ideological and political terms to create a sense of meaninglessness, aided by the abrupt and sometimes fantastic events of the plot.Joseph Brodsky

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 considers the work deeply suspicious of the meaning of language, especially political language. This exploration of meaninglessness is a hallmark of existentialism and absurdism. Brodsky commented, "Woe to the people into whose language <mask> can be translated." Elif Batuman ranked Soul as one of her four favorite 20th century Russian works. (Batuman is author of The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them and was Pulitzer Prize finalist for her novel The Idiot.) Novelist Tatyana Tolstaya wrote, "<mask> is an extraordinary writer, perhaps the most brilliant Russian writer of the twentieth century". Each year in Voronezh the literature exhibition is held in honour of <mask>, during which people read from the stage some of his works.The style and subject matter
One of the most striking distinguishing features of <mask>'s work is the original language, which has no analogues in world literature. It is often called "primitive", "ungainly", "homemade". Platonov actively uses the technique of ostraneny, his prose is replete with lexical and grammatical "errors" characteristic of children's speech. Yuri Levin highlights <mask>'s characteristic techniques:

 syntactically incorrect constructions, such as verb+place circumstance. «Think on head», «answered... from his dry mouth», «recognized the desire to live into this fenced-off distance». redundancy, pleonasm. «Voschev... opened the door to space», «his body was thin inside the clothes».extremely generalized vocabulary. "Nature", "place", "space" instead of specific landscape descriptions.

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 «Prushevsky looked around the empty area of the nearest nature», «an old tree grew... in bright weather». active use of subordinate clauses about the cause (“Nastya ... hovered around the rushing men, because she wanted to”), as well as subordinate clauses about purpose (“It's time to eat for the day's work”). Moreover, they are often superfluous or logically unmotivated. active use of typical Soviet bureaucracies, often in an ironic way (“confiscate her affection”), but rarely. According to the researcher Levin, with the help of these turns, Platonov forms a "panteleological" space of the text, where "everything is connected with everything", and all events unfold among a single "nature".In the works of Andrey <mask>, form and content form a single, indissoluble whole, that is, the very language of <mask>'s works is their content. Among the key motives of <mask>'s work is the theme of death and its overcoming. Anatoly Ryasov writes about Platonov's " metaphysics of death». <mask> in his youth came under the influence of Nikolai Fedorov and repeatedly refers to the idea of raising the dead. In the minds of his characters, it is associated with the coming arrival of communism. Tribute
A planet discovered in 1981 by Soviet astronomer  L.G. Karachkina was named after Platonov.Joseph Barnes)
 The Foundation Pit, a bi-langued edition with preface by Joseph Brodsky, Ardis Publishing, 1973 (tr. Mirra Ginsburg)
 Chevengur, Ardis Publishing, 1978 (tr. Anthony Olcott)
 Collected Works, Ardis Publishing, 1978 (tr. Thomas P. Whitney, Carl R. Proffer, Alexey A. Kiselev, Marion


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 Jordan and Friederike Snyder)
 Fierce, Fine World, Raduga Publishers, 1983 (tr. Laura Beraha and Kathleen Cook)
 The River Potudan, Bristol Classical Press, 1998 (tr. Marilyn Minto)
 The Foundation Pit, Harvill Press, 1996 (tr. Robert Chandler and Geoffrey Smith)
 The Return and Other Stories, Harvill Press, 1999 (tr.Robert Chandler and Angela Livingstone)
 The Portable Platonov, New Russian Writing, 1999 (tr. Robert Chandler)
 Happy Moscow, introduction by Eric Naiman, Harvill Press, 2001 (tr. Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler)
 Soul, Harvill Press, 2003 (tr. Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler)
 Soul and Other Stories, New York Review Books, 2007 (tr. Robert Chandler with Katia Grigoruk, Angela Livingstone, Olga Meerson, and Eric Naiman). The Foundation Pit, New York Review Books 2009 (tr. Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson).Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays, Columbia University Press, 2016 (The Russian Library) (ed. by Robert Chandler; tr. by Robert Chandler, Jesse Irwin, and Susan Larsen; with notes by Robert Chandler and Natalya Duzhina)

References

Further reading
Philip Ross Bullock (2004), "<mask>nov", The Literary Encyclopedia.
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Mirra Ginsburg (1975), translator's introduction to The Foundation Pit. Thomas Seifrid (2009), A Companion To <mask>'s "The Foundation Pit", Academic Studies Press . External links

 Chevengur. Full text in English at Monoskop.org
 Fourteen Little Red Huts. Full text in English.From SovLit.net
 From the Notebooks of <mask>. From SovLit.net

 Андрей Платонович Платонов Works in Russian at ImWerden

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<mask> (born November 6, 1976) is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur <mask> represented Puerto Rico. He debuted as a professional in 1997. On February 24, 2006, he participated in his first professional championship fight, defeating Raul Bejerano for the World Boxing Organization's Latino welterweight championship. His first defense took place on June 24, 2006 when he defeated Joel Julio by unanimous decision in a welterweight title eliminator. In this fight he also won the World Boxing Council's Latino welterweight championship. His first world title fight took place on December 2, 2006, when he fought against Miguel Cotto for the World Boxing Association welterweight title.Cotto won the fight by technical knockout. On February 9, 2008, <mask> challenged Paul Williams for the WBO welterweight championship, winning the fight by unanimous decision. He entered the Light Middleweight division to face Deandre Latimore, knocking Latimore out to win the NABO Light Middleweight championship. Personal life
<mask> was born on November 6, 1976 to <mask> and Adelina Velázquez. He has 7 siblings, six sisters named Aida, Nydia, Awilda, Magdalena, Omayra and Mabel and one brother named Arturo. <mask> is married to Moraima <mask> and lives with her and the couple's four children, three daughters and a son. He uses his property in Moca as a farm, which he maintains when he is not working.Over the course of his life, <mask> has worked administrating a gasoline station and as the owner of a gymnasium. <mask>'s training is managed by José Bonilla, who trained him and was a member of his corner staff during fights. Early and amateur career
<mask> was born and raised in Moca, Puerto Rico. He became interested in boxing when he was ten years old and debuted as an amateur five years later. When interviewed <mask> noted that he was winning his fight and enjoy the experience until he received a hit on the troath. After this fight <mask> continued his career, winning multiple

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 national championships in Puerto Rico. In 1996 <mask> was part of the team selected to represent Puerto Rico in the 1996 Summer Olympics.<mask> finished his amateur career with a record of sixty-two wins in seventy fights, with forty-eight of these wins being by knockout. Professional career
Known as "El Indio", <mask> turned pro in 1997 and won his first 23 professional fights, including 18 by way of KO. On December 5, 2003 <mask> competed against Candy Robertson in a ten-round fight. <mask> controlled the fight's tempo throughout the contest, which featured several holds. In the seventh round Robertson was docked a point, after losing his mouthpiece on several occasions. The fight ended in the eight round, when <mask> connected several combinations to Robertson's head after trapping him in one of the ring's corners, one of these punches connected on his opponent's face and he collapsed unable to recover before the count of ten. On March 5, 2004 <mask> fought against Edwin Cassiani in the undercard of a fight organized in  Pala, California.<mask> scored the fight's first knockdown in the first round, when he connected a combination to his adversary's body. Following this round both fighter traded combinations. In the third round <mask> connected six consecutive punches to Cassiani's face, which made him collapse to the ring's canvas, the referee immediately stopped the fight. <mask>'s next fight was against Kemal Kolonivic in a fight that took place on August 24, 2004. Kolonivic was used as a late replacement and was scheduled to fight in the undercard of a card  that included Jose Nieves vs. Alberto Ontiveros. <mask> won the fight by unanimous decision. The judges awarded him scores of 80-72, 80-72 and 79-73.<mask>'s next fight was against Nurhan Suleyman, on February 25, 2005. The card was organized in Miami, Oklahoma, and was scheduled for ten rounds. Early in the first round <mask> connected a solid punch on Suleyman's chin, and subsequently began boxing while his

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 Quitana dominated the fight's tempo throughout the contest relying on his boxing skills while Julio tried to utilize his strength. The judges awarded <mask> a unanimous decision with scores of 118-110, 117-111 and 115-112. In this match <mask> defended the WBO's Latino welterweight title and won the World Boxing Council's Latino welterweight title.This was regarded as one of <mask>'s most important fights, prompting future championship opportunities. On December 2, 2006, <mask> fought fellow undefeated Puerto Rican Cotto, who moved up in weight from Jr. Welterweight. <mask> started the fight boxing and connecting right jabs, the round concluded with both users exchanging combinations. This pattern continued in the second round, with Cotto connecting two solid body punches to <mask>. <mask> began the third round connecting a solid jab to Cotto's face, but the round concluded with Cotto connecting several combinations to the body. In the fifth round Cotto had control of the fight's tempo, and connected several combinations to the body, scoring a knockdown while switching between the orthodox and southpaw stances. Between rounds <mask> indicated that he was unable to continue, the corner wanted to continue but <mask> was unresponsive when the referee asked if he wanted to proceed.The fight was stopped and Cotto was declared the winner, when interviewed <mask> noted that he: "underestimated his velocity. He has very quick hands, you have to give all the respect to Miguel, he's very fast and he hit me pretty good." Winning and defending the welterweight title
Williams, the reigning World Boxing Organization welterweight champion, had been scheduled for a unification bout against IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron on February 2, 2008. However, Cintron injured his right hand in November 2007, and was forced to pull out of the fight. After Judah reportedly turned down an offer to take Cintron's place, an offer was instead extended to <mask>. The fight took place on February 9,


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 2008 and <mask> scored an impressive win over Williams, outboxing him in the bout. On June 7, 2008, <mask> was defeated by Paul Williams in the first round at 2:15 to lose the welterweight title.Light middleweight division
<mask> returned to action on October 25, 2008, this time competing in the light middleweight division. His first fight in this category was against Joshua Onyango, serving as the main event of a card titled "Final Decision" which was held in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. He was able to establish control of the fight's tempo from an early stage, eventually scoring a knockdown in the third. In the fourth round, the referee decided to stop the contest when Onyango was unable to respond to a combination, awarding <mask> a technical knockout victory. Following the outcome of this fight, he announced his decision to move up in weight in a definitive manner. Return to welterweight division

<mask> would return to the welterweight division on April 11, 2010 to take on WBC welterweight champion, Andre Berto for the latter's WBC belt. In a rough and rugged slug-fest, <mask> was eventually overwhelmed by the speed and power of the younger Berto and would go on to lose the fight by an 8th-round TKO.On May 5, 2012 <mask> defeated Deandre Latimore by KO in the 6th round to win the NABO light middleweight title. In November 2012, <mask> (29-4, 23KOs) finally decided to call it a day. The Puerto Rican boxer announced his retirement after suffering a fourth-round TKO defeat to Keith Thurman (19-0, 18KOs) at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California on the 24th of that month. Throughout his career he won 29 of 33 professional contests, only coming up short against fellow world champion fighters Miguel Cotto, Paul Williams, Andre Berto and Keith Thurman. Professional boxing record

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 the Industrial Revolution and its mechanical and architectural legacy. He died from bladder cancer in November 2004, aged 66. Early life

Childhood
<mask> was the son of Frank and <mask> (née Travis), who were initially both employed at a bleach works.His mother later worked as a charwoman at a gas works. Named after his uncle <mask>, he was born on 29 April 1938 and brought up in the historic Lancashire town of Bolton, then a predominantly industrial town with a history in the spinning and weaving of cotton. As a child, <mask> was fascinated by the sights and sounds of industry and the dozens of chimney stacks visible around Burnden Park, and paid particular attention to the steeplejacks he saw on his way to school. A popular pastime for local children was playing around the many mill lodges (industrial ponds) which once littered the area. An inventive child, <mask> and some friends designed a makeshift diving suit from a crisp tin, a car inner tube and some piping. After being told to remove it from the local swimming baths, they tested it in one of the lodges, but were unsuccessful. The Bolton arm of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal was one of <mask>'s regular haunts.The canal was by then largely disused (the Bolton arm had been mostly closed in 1924) and <mask> sometimes dredged it with an iron hook on a rope, for what he called 'plunder'. Much of this was stored in the back yard of his mother's house. <mask> and his friend Alan Heap built a canoe from old bicycle wheels (cut in half to make the ribs), slate laths and a canvas sheet from the back of a lorry. Much to the consternation of his mother, <mask> sailed the

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 boat along the nearby River Croal. He once astonished his teachers when, following the theft of the school keys, he cut new keys for each classroom door. As a young man

At school <mask> was placed in an art class (his reading and writing skills were judged to be poor), following which he spent three years at art college, where his work was based mainly on industrial themes such as machinery, pithead gear and spinning mills. On leaving college at 16 he was offered a job at a funeral parlour, but left quickly to begin work at a local joinery.<mask> had watched the activities of steeplejacks throughout his childhood, and first witnessed a chimney felling from his father's allotment near Bolton's greyhound track at Raikes Park. The steeplejacks removed the top of the chimney and then created a hole in its base, propped with blocks of wood. They then lit a fire, destroying the supports and causing the chimney to collapse. Unfortunately, on this occasion the chimney fell in the wrong direction, onto the greyhound track's dog kennels, a local café and a series of power cables. His first job that involved ladders was given to him while he still worked as a joiner. He was asked to point a garden wall and then the gable end of the customer's house. He used several short ladders, lashed together with rope and hardboard.This gave <mask> valuable experience and his employer expanded the business to include property repairs. Aged about 17–18 he climbed the  chimney at Barrow Bridge, for a 10 shilling bet. During the night he took two Union flags to the top and secured each to the lightning conductors there. The Bolton Evening News

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 reported the incident, with a photograph of <mask>'s feat, but attributed it to the activities of students from Manchester University. At about the same time, <mask> decided to replace the chimney stack at his mother's house on Alfred Street with one of his own design, as his mother used only one fireplace—leaving four of the five chimney pots redundant. As the single opening at the top of the new stack was only about  wide, the flue needed regular maintenance. On one occasion, he was cleaning the flue using a sack of bricks tied to a rope when the sack ripped open, breaking several pipes and flooding his mother's kitchen.After the death of his mother, the house was sold and the council placed a preservation order on the chimney, which remains to this day. National service
Aged 22 <mask> was conscripted into the army to complete his National Service and was given a position in the cook house. He spent six weeks training at Aldershot, before being sent to Catterick to learn the basics of army catering. He was then posted with the 14th/20th King's Hussars and sent to West Germany. There he persuaded his commanding officer to let him repair the regiment's farmhouse (used for stabling horses and hounds) and he was soon given a more permanent position as a builder and handyman. He dug a  deep shaft into which the horse manure and dog faeces would be emptied and he also fed the animals. He impressed his commanding officers by making a weathercock from army kitchen trays, but was also chastised when he was found with a 1914 Luger P08 pistol he had bought from a fellow soldier.He often received parcels of alcohol and tobacco from


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 his mother, which allowed him to maintain the habits he had formed when he began his working life. Although <mask> initially resented being called into service, he would later be more positive about the experience:

Steeplejack

On his return from National Service in 1962 <mask> retrieved his tools from storage, bought a 1927 350 cc AJS motorcycle for 21 guineas and looked for more work. Bolton, however, was in the midst of post-industrial decline; between 1957 and 1965 about 70 mills were closed in the town, leaving only 37 mills operational and about 50 disused. Initially he was unable to find much work and existed on smaller, domestic jobs, until he earned enough to buy his own set of ladders and secured his first commission while working at a local mill. He was paid £140 to point a mill tower, which he did at weekends. He struggled, however, to get any more meaningful work, until he met Lonsdale Bonner, one of his teachers from art college. The two agreed a deal whereby Bonner would be paid a commission for each job he got for <mask>.His first job was dismantling a chimney alongside the Manchester and Bolton Railway, a difficult proposition, as a mistake could force the temporary closure of the railway. The two managed to gain commissions for several jobs, but their relationship was terminated when <mask> was called upon to undertake another six months of National Service. He was then commissioned to repair a chimney at a local brewery. While working on this, he met a local welder who also knew the vicar of Bolton (Richard Greville Norburn), who wanted some repairs made to Bolton parish church's weathervanes. The

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 vicar drove a 1929 Humber limousine and was impressed by <mask>'s AJS motorcycle; the two quickly became friends. The church was the tallest building in Bolton and once <mask> had repaired the weathervane the vicar asked him to gild it. <mask> appeared in the local newspaper and the publicity and his friendship with the vicar enabled him to gain more work from the local clergy.His next major job was for local firm Hick Hargreaves, the proceeds of which enabled him to expand his collection of ladders to 30. He was commissioned to remove the top half of a  chimney and employed an assistant, Percy Porter. The top of the chimney contained a length of railway line, which had been used for lifting materials during construction. <mask> hacksawed the line into pieces, letting each piece fall to the ground, while his assistant below kept the area clear. He then spent the next six months removing each brick by hand while the chimney was still in use, as the factory could not afford to halt production. First marriage

In 1967, following disagreements over who should be invited to their wedding, <mask> and 19-year-old hairdresser Alison Mary Foster eloped to Gretna Green, to get married. <mask> had first spotted Alison from the top of a chimney and, when one day she walked into the pub where he was drinking, he asked her out; six weeks later, the two became engaged.They left notes for their parents, caught a train to Carlisle and from there on a series of buses to Dumfries. They had initially planned to stay at the house of a friend but as he had returned to Bolton for his holidays, they stayed instead at a local farmhouse. The two

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 had to be resident for at least 21 days to be married and so <mask> agreed to point the gable ends of a local hotel in exchange for bed and board. On 19 May, the two married at the church at Gretna Green and returned to live at <mask>'s mother's house. They later moved into a Victorian gatehouse on the Earl of Bradford's estate, just outside Bolton. <mask> spent years restoring the property, including building an extension. The house was a listed building and so he had to source appropriately aged bricks for the extension.A vicar offered him some of the old gravestones from the church graveyard, which <mask> then used to create the stone lintels and mullions, though he later expressed his fear that his property would now be haunted. The couple later purchased the house for £5,000, although it required major repairs to stabilize the rear wall. The couple had their first child, a girl named Jayne, in June 1968. Alison was initially worried about her husband's occupation but learned to deal with the risk and to trust <mask>. She organised his accounts and even collected debts. She also helped him demolish some of the chimneys that he worked on, by lighting the fire to burn away the temporary supports he had put in place. Chimney felling

Having mastered his trade repairing chimneys, <mask> became aware of the demand for a cost-effective method of demolishing them.He offered to remove them without using explosives, by cutting an ingress at the base of the chimney—supporting the brickwork with wooden props—and then burning away the props so that the chimney fell, hopefully in the intended direction. Although this was a tried

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texts: and tested method, it was not without its opponents. On one occasion he was contracted by the local council to fell two chimneys. The contract obliged him to dismantle each by hand, but he decided to fell them by cutting away the base. The first chimney collapsed as planned, but the council terminated his contract and refused to pay. <mask> contacted the borough engineer and offered to fell the second chimney for no charge, to prove the effectiveness of his technique. He even offered to let the engineer light the fire, but the wind blew so hard that the chimney did not draw the flames and once the props had been burnt through, it remained standing.<mask> resorted to using a hydraulic jack to apply extra pressure to the intact side of the base and the chimney eventually fell. He later told the engineer that "it was all about fine balancing and counteracting high wind forces." He almost lost his life in 1997, when a concrete chimney he had been asked to fell on Canvey Island began to collapse before the felling team had finished preparing the base. As the team ran from the chimney, <mask> tripped and fell and was greeted by the sight of 2,500 tonnes of concrete leaning toward him, but fortunately the chimney righted itself and then fell in the opposite direction. The last chimney he felled, which was his 90th, was in Royton, in May 2004. <mask>'s interest in steam power stemmed from his childhood observations of the steam locomotives on the nearby railway line, and his visits to his father's workplace—a bleach works in Bolton—where he was fascinated by the steam engines used to drive the line shafting. A small mill near his

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He later became a steam enthusiast, befriending many of the engine drivers and firemen who worked on the nearby railway.As a teenager he met a driver who invited him onto the footplate of his locomotive and who asked him to keep the boiler supplied with fuel. <mask> became so enamoured with steam engines that he eventually looked for one he could buy. He learned of a steamroller kept in a barn near Warrington and which the owners had bought from Flintshire County Council. He had the boiler pressure-tested and, despite its being in poor condition, bought it for £175. He towed it to a friend's house, spent a fortnight making various repairs, and drove it to his mother's house in Bolton. After he had married and bought his own property on Radcliffe New Road, he cut an access road to the garden of his new house and moved the steamroller there. Restoring the engine took many years, as <mask> had to create his own replacement parts, using Victorian engineering techniques and equipment he built in his garden.The boiler was in poor condition and needed serious work, but <mask> fell back on local knowledge and was eventually able to build a new boiler. Once it was restored, he used the 1910 Aveling and Porter steamroller together with a living van he bought and restored, to take his family around the local steam fairs. While driving the vehicle was relatively safe, <mask> had experienced several mishaps, including one instance when he lost control while descending a steep hill and was forced to drive the engine into a concrete barrier to bring it to a halt,

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texts: smashing the front fork in the process. Restoring the steamroller placed a heavy burden upon his marriage and Alison would often complain that her husband spent more time in the shed, repairing the engine, than he did in the house. He responded by naming the vehicle Alison, telling his wife "It's not every woman that has a steam engine named after her." Alison eventually developed an affection for the antique vehicle, saying, "We've done without for so many years to get it built up. I couldn't bear to part with it.There's too much of us in it." His next purchase, made in the autumn of 1980, was a 1912 Aveling & Porter traction engine. <mask> paid a friend £2,300 for the vehicle and moved it to the garden behind his home. He built a steam-driven workshop in his garden, salvaging parts from various mills, including line shaft gear and a stationary engine from a mill in Oldham. He gave a conservative estimate of four years to complete the work, but the restoration eventually took 27 years. The engine was sold at auction in July 2010 for £240,000. In 1988 he was asked by Caernarfon Council to make repairs to a chimney at Parc Glynllifon.Beneath the chimney, an engine room contained an 1854 single-cylinder steam engine in poor condition. <mask> repaired the chimney and several weeks later was asked to repair the engine, which he dismantled during the winter of 1988/89 and took back to Bolton. With his assistant Neil Carney, he spent six months repairing the engine. The two sourced a replacement boiler from a local pork pie factory and re-installed the engine in Wales. <mask> later won a prize for the quality of the restoration


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 work. He also spent about seven months restoring the boiler, engine and blunger at Wetheriggs Pottery near Penrith. Fame

<mask>, Steeplejack

In 1978 <mask> was commissioned to make repairs to Bolton Town Hall.Decades of exposure to soot and rain had caused serious damage to the clock tower and <mask> alerted the Clerk of Works to the condition of the 16 stone pillars at the top of the tower. He bought new stone, built a lathe in his workshop and created the replacement pillars. He was given the job of repairing the clock tower and he also gilded the golden sphere at the top of the building. While <mask> was working from his bosun's chair, a public relations officer at the Town Hall informed <mask> that BBC Look North West wanted to interview him. The following week, the film crew arrived and Alistair MacDonald conducted the interview from the top of the building, with <mask> perched outside on his scaffolding. His warm and friendly manner combined with his enthusiasm and broad Lancashire accent proved popular and he was later contacted by producer Don Haworth, with a view to making a documentary. After several meetings over the course of a few weeks, filming began early one morning just as <mask> had climbed to the top of a  chimney at Shaw and Crompton, a mill town near Oldham.Sporadic filming took place over an 18-month period and captured <mask> (with assistant Donald Paiton) working on a range of buildings, spending time with his family and enjoying his hobbies. Giulio Briccialdi's Carnival of Venice (performed by James Galway) was the music chosen to accompany <mask>'s work on Bolton Town Hall. One of the more

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texts: notable aspects was <mask>'s 1979 demolition of a chimney in Rochdale. Standing only yards away from the base of the chimney as it began to collapse, his retreat to safety and subsequent boyish outburst of "Did you like that?" endeared him to viewers. <mask>, Steeplejack won the 1979 BAFTA award for best documentary, and over the years Haworth returned to film more documentaries. With his newly found fame, however, came distractions from his work.Visitors would arrive at his house, to see his garden. He began to receive fan mail; one individual wrote to offer <mask> a steam-powered machine he no longer wanted. One company, who were apparently disturbed to see <mask>'s matches being extinguished by the wind while at the top of a chimney, sent him a sample of their windproof matches. Filming would also interfere with his work. Cameraman Martin Lightening would climb with <mask> to the top of a chimney—with a 16mm film camera—and film him at work, often hundreds of feet above the ground. Several years later, <mask> and his family went on holiday, to Blackpool. The trip was filmed for television and showed <mask>'s preference for working rather than holidaying.He did however manage to undertake the removal of a small chimney stack from a business in the town, under a distinctly grey sky and aided by his wife, Alison. His payment for the job was a new front plate for the boiler of his traction engine. <mask>, however, refused to take any more holidays and, after 18 years of marriage, Alison booked and paid for a holiday to Greece, taking their three children (Jayne, Lorna and Caroline) with her. <mask> remained at home and was

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 surprised when, upon her return, she asked for a divorce. One day in October 1985, <mask> attended a solid fuel exhibition in nearby Bury. Upon his return he discovered that Alison had left the house, taking with her their three children, the dog and some items of furniture. Short of money, he was forced to sell his antique AJS motorcycle.He found life without his family difficult but defended his wife: "There is no doubt whatsoever, she were a good help to me and I'm going to miss her. It was just that all the pressure got too much for her." Second marriage
<mask> met his second wife Susan Lorenz—a 28-year-old social worker—at a steam rally in Cheshire. In The <mask> Story (1996) she recalled their first meeting: "He looked sad and miserable, quite a pathetic sort of figure really, none of the bounce that people knew him for." He later invited her to a chimney felling in Oldham and then a talk he had been invited to give to a group of fans in Halifax, known as The Fred <mask> Appreciation Society. Sue moved into <mask>'s home in Bolton and the two married on 27 February 1987. She encouraged him to grow a moustache and also to give up smoking.Many of the chimneys around Bolton had now been either repaired, or demolished and so <mask> was forced to travel further afield for work. He travelled to the Yorkshire Dales to install a lightning conductor on the parish church in Kirkby Malham. While digging the hole for the conductor, they uncovered human bones, for which a reinterment ceremony was held. Their first son, Jack (named after his father's trade), was born in 1987. <mask> offered to make a weathercock, provided that

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 his son was christened in the same church. His second son, Roger, was born in 1991. Later life
In 1996 <mask> repaired the  chimney at Barrow Bridge—the same chimney he had scaled for a bet, in his youth.He was also asked to install a peregrine falcon nest at the top. He was later influential in ensuring the chimney was made a listed building. As a notable raconteur he also became an after-dinner speaker and would wear his trademark flat cap with his dinner jacket. He made an appearance in a 1996 television advertisement for Kelloggs. However, the strain of living with a man so dedicated to his hobbies began to take its toll on his wife:  Susan met another man and moved out, taking Roger with her and leaving Jack with <mask>. Third marriage
By 1997 <mask> was living alone, with little work or money. Competition from Manchester had reduced his income from steeplejacking and filming for the BBC had dried up completely.He had, however, met Sheila Grundy, a former magician's assistant. She had arrived one day with her parents and young son to see <mask>'s back yard, and signed the visitor's book. The two remained in contact and became friends; they shared an interest in steam and Grundy was fascinated by <mask>'s tales of steeplejacking. She and her son moved in with <mask> in 1998 and the couple married on 26 September that year. At their wedding reception in Bolton, <mask> was surprised and moved to tears when his youngest daughter, Caroline, came to see him. <mask> had had little contact with his daughters in the years since his divorce from Alison. Television presenting
In 1997 he met author David Hall.Hall had been

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texts: raised in the Bradford district of Manchester and the two swapped tales of growing up in the latter half of the 20th century. Hall suggested that <mask> would be unlikely to have any further television work commissioned on his life and that he should consider becoming a television presenter. The two worked on new ideas for a programme that would show <mask> touring the country, visiting important historical locations and speaking to the men involved in the maintenance and restoration of industrial machinery and architecture. The programme would also exploit <mask>'s working-class attitude and show him operating some of the machinery he visited. Filming of <mask>'s Industrial Age began in July 1998. The first location was near Bolton, at the Wet Earth Colliery and the crew then moved on to various locations around the country, continuing to film through the summer and autumn of 1998. The series achieved high viewing figures, with positive reviews, and the associated website became the second most-visited BBC website at the time.A complementary book was also published and was one of the top five best-selling history books of the year. <mask> admitted he found speaking to a camera more nerve-racking than climbing a chimney, but the success of <mask>'s Industrial Age was a portent; he later presented several other television series. Before filming began for <mask>'s Magnificent Monuments, he had installed his red ladders on the steeple at St Walburge's in Preston, ready for an inspection. With filming for television now taking up much of his time, however, he was unable to complete the job. He left the ladders at the church

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 for several years and donated them to the tradesman who eventually took the job. Last years

In 2001, to mark the centenary of the death of Queen Victoria, the BBC transmitted a season of programmes based on a Victorian theme and <mask> presented <mask>'s Victorian Heroes. He had long been fascinated by the Victorians, especially Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whom he regarded as his hero.During filming, he visited a number of locations, including the  high Clifton Suspension Bridge and the slipway for the SS Great Eastern. Illness
In early 2001, <mask> was due to begin filming <mask>'s Building of Britain, but suffered severe abdominal pains and was admitted to hospital for tests. He was discharged and began filming at locations around the country, including the Globe Theatre, Ely Cathedral and Glamis Castle. <mask> was the chairman of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal Society and an episode on the construction of Britain's canal network was therefore of particular interest to him. Toward the end of filming, <mask> went to Bolton Royal Hospital for a check-up, where a tumour was found on his right kidney. The kidney was removed and the tumour was found to be malignant. He went to Christie Hospital in Manchester, where further growths were discovered around his bladder.On the same day, Sheila's father fell from the roof of his house and died. <mask> underwent chemotherapy and once his treatment was finished tests showed that he was free of cancer. Filming for <mask>'s Age of Steam began early in 2003, at the Trencherfield Mill, near Wigan Pier. The film crew visited a number of locations, including a steam rally in Cornwall

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 and the Bluebell Railway in Sussex. <mask> was travelling around the country working on a subject that fascinated him, visiting old friends and making money from his hobby. The restoration of his traction engine was almost complete; later that year, however, <mask> had another checkup at Christie Hospital and was told that a large tumour had been found on his bladder. Dig with <mask>
<mask> had another course of chemotherapy, but this time the treatment was unsuccessful.Undeterred, he began to dig a replica coal mine in the back garden of his home. Although the sight of pithead gear may have been considered by his neighbours to be unusual, as a child raised in Bolton, he had been surrounded by pits such as Ladyshore Colliery and had long harboured an interest in mining. He had already assembled the wooden pithead gear and was planning to sink a  brick-lined shaft below this into the hillside. At the bottom of the shaft, a horizontal tunnel would have led out to the steep side of the valley above which his garden sits. The intention was to have a narrow gauge railway running along the tunnel, back up the hillside on a rope-hauled inclined plane, returning to the pithead. The ultimate aim was to be able to demonstrate the basic working of an early colliery. Seven years before his diagnosis, therefore, <mask> had sourced drawings of suitable pithead gear and built a frame from timber and iron bolts.He had applied for and was given planning permission to erect the structure, but made no mention of his wish to dig a shaft underneath it. The BBC decided to make a documentary on <mask>'s proposed mine, which would entail his


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 travelling once again around the country, visiting working collieries and heritage mines. Filming started late in 2003, by which time <mask> and his friend Alf Molyneux had already made a start on the shaft. Using traditional shaft-sinking techniques and the labour of mining friends Alf Molyneux and Jimmy Crooks, the shaft was sunk to a depth of  and lined with brick. The work had been undertaken without planning permission and, when the council eventually found out what was happening, they insisted he apply for planning permission. <mask>'s Made in Britain
Despite <mask>'s best efforts, planning permission was refused. Although he appealed against the decision, a new series diverted his attention.At the end of 2003 production began for <mask>'s Made in Britain. With his friend, Alf Molyneux, <mask> would tour the country on his completed traction engine, visiting the workshops that still could produce the parts needed for his antique vehicle. His engine, however, was not yet complete and <mask>'s medical diagnosis was not good: he knew he had only a short time to live. His traction engine developed a serious fault, but with the help of friends, it was quickly repaired and its restoration completed. In December 2003, his traction engine was now in working order and planning for the new series commenced. <mask>'s illness necessitated that he sleep in hotels, rather than the living van the engine would tow during the trip. For the long distances between locations, the engine would be transported on the back of a low loader.<mask>'s engine suffered early mechanical problems; it could barely tow the fully loaded living van

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texts: uphill, as the cylinder had been placed very slightly closer to the footplate than it should have been. As a result of this, every time the piston was fully forward it covered the steam inlet port. The engine was repaired, and with some minor repair work to one of the pistons, was brought up to full power. The team was joined by <mask>'s sons, Jack and Roger. The production crew made every effort to reduce <mask>'s workload. Changes were made to the filming schedule, to allow <mask> more time to rest at home between filming days. The crew visited the Forth Road Bridge and <mask> became the first man to drive a traction engine under its own steam across the bridge.Such pleasures provided a welcome distraction for <mask>, who was by then ill and in pain. By the end of June, he was so ill, he could not continue filming. He was sent home to rest and given medication to alleviate his condition, so that he could collect his MBE. Filming continued at various locations around the country, with sons Jack and Roger, who had become essential members of the tour, providing much-needed support for their father. By the end of July, the crew had filmed only 34 days with <mask>, out of a planned 60. It was becoming more difficult by the day for <mask> to fulfil his filming duties and the crew decided to cut short the schedule. Once home, <mask> decided to creosote the pithead gear in his garden, but fell and injured his back.He was adamant that he would continue filming, however, and made the trip to North Wales to complete filming. He later made a partial recovery and completed his last day's filming at an Ironworks in Atherton.

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 Honours
In mid-2000, <mask> was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Technology for his achievement in engineering, by Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, and on 19 July 2004, he was made an honorary Doctor of the university by the University of Birmingham. <mask> was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to heritage and broadcasting. He said "I'm looking forward to meeting the Queen but I shall probably have to get a new cap. And I'd like to meet Prince Charles because we share the same views about modern architecture." On 7 July 2004, <mask> went to Buckingham Palace to receive his award from the Queen.He initially planned to drive his traction engine into the palace grounds, but was refused as the Royal Parks Agency feared that its weight would damage the surface of The Mall. Eventually, he was allowed to drive the engine to Wellington Barracks, a short distance from the palace. He collected his medal wearing morning dress and a top hat. <mask> was the Castaway on Desert Island Discs on 1 December 1991. Death

<mask> died on 6 November 2004, after suffering from cancer for three years. He was 66 years old. Eleven days later, thousands of mourners watched as <mask>'s coffin (on top of which his trademark flat cap was placed) was towed through the centre of Bolton by his restored traction engine, driven by his son.A cortège of steam-powered vehicles followed, as the procession made its way to Bolton Parish Church. During the hour-long service, David Hall told the congregation "He wasn't a posh TV presenter. He was recognised as a working man who had learned


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 through experience." Following the service, led by the Vicar of Bolton, Canon Michael Williams (a friend of <mask>), he was buried at Tonge Cemetery, behind his home. Legacy

Through his television work <mask> became famous for felling chimneys (by the time of his death he had felled 90), although it was one of his least favourite jobs. As he made more films with Don Haworth, his outspoken views on changing society, work ethics and delinquency, made him the embodiment of the views of many of his fans and epitomised the view of a northern working man. <mask> was praised by many notable British people.After reporting on his death, television presenter Peter Sissons remarked: "They don't make them like that any more". Comedian Peter Kay said: "It's very sad news. He was one of a kind and now he has gone I think there will be no one else like him. He was enthusiastic about a way of life that has virtually disappeared now." Brian Tetlow, chairman of the Bolton and District Civic Trust, said: "He's unique, not just to Bolton but to Britain and the world. Our thoughts are with his wife and children." An  bronze statue of <mask> was unveiled by the Mayor of Bolton, in Bolton town centre, on 29 April 2008.The sculpture was created by Jane Robbins. His home was converted into a heritage centre in 2010 but its contents were sold at auction in March 2018. A play titled The Demolition Man, based on his final years, was staged in 2011 at Bolton's Octagon Theatre. The life and times of <mask> were celebrated by St Helens comedy folk band the Lancashire Hotpots, who released their song "Dibnah" with a music video in 2016. Band member


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<mask> (1952  21 September 1983), popularly known in the Mumbai underworld by his moniker <mask> (literally Elder Rajan), was an Indian mobster and underworld don from Mumbai. Originally from Kerala, he operated a gang active in Bombay's eastern suburbs of Ghatkopar, Tilak Nagar and Chembur. On 21 September 1983, he was shot dead by the Pathan gang because he had helped Dawood Ibrahim by instructing a gang member David Pardeshi to shoot dead Amirzada from the Pathan gang. Early years in crime
Rajan lived in a slum in Ghatkopar in the east Bombay. He hails from Kerala. He worked in a small factory in Thane. With mounting expenses and greed for excess money and to get the attention of his love interest, he got into the habit of stealing branded typewriters and selling them in Chor Bazaar.Once he was accidentally arrested by a police team in search of another criminal and served imprisonment. When he was released, he took to full-time crime in Ghatkopar, especially black marketing of cinema tickets, spurious liquor and extortion from shopkeepers. After a few years, a band of daring youngsters from neighbouring Tilak Nagar were released from jail. They were imprisoned on the charges of cinema ticket black marketing and beating up the police who tried to stop them. That group was led by Rajendra Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan. To increase his muscle power and clout in the area, Rajan welcomed Nikalje in his gang and they both were known as <mask> Rajan (Elder Rajan) and Chhota Rajan (Younger Rajan). They soon took over most of the crime in Bombay's eastern suburbs of Ghatkopar, Pant Nagar, Chembur and Tilak Nagar.Rise in the underworld
The early eighties saw a tectonic shift of power in the Mumbai underworld. Haji Mastan had virtually stopped his smuggling

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 activities and Karim Lala was focusing more on his hotel business. The vicious Pathan gang started by Karim Lala was weakened by a split between his nephew Samad Khan on one side and Dawood Ibrahim on the other. The third don, Varadarajan Mudaliar from Dharavi moved in to extend his hold over north-east Mumbai. <mask> Rajan often used his clout with Varadarajan to intimidate his victims and rivals like Abdul Kunju, Yeshwant Jadhav and Philip Pandhre. Just like his mentor, Varadarajan, <mask> <mask> started the Sahyadri Krida Mandal to celebrate the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in his area. In 1982, Samad Khan and his Pathan gangsters Amirzada and Alamzeb murdered Saabir Ibrahim, elder brother of Dawood Ibrahim.Dawood plotted revenge. He offered a big supari (contract for killing) to kill Amirzada but nobody came forward. <mask> <mask> saw his chance to rise in the underworld and accepted the supari. He had one of his junior gang member- an unemployed youth David Pardeshi shoot down Amirzada in the Mumbai sessions court on 6 September 1983. Murder
Malayali don Abdul Kunju had a bitter and long-standing enmity with <mask> Rajan. It all started when <mask> Rajan sent his men to assault some youth in Shell Colony, Chembur, for harassing a woman typist. This incident developed into a deadly rivalry with Kunju.Both Kunju and Rajan had sworn to kill each other. Aware of Rajan's enormous power in the areas between Ghatkopar and Matunga, Kunju realised that he could not fight the Rajan gang on his own. Therefore, he allied himself with <mask> <mask>'s rival, Philip Pandhare. Pandhare's gang was further strengthened when Vijay Sawant and Francis Xavier, also known as "Shorty", from Pestom Sagar enlisted with them. After Amirzada Nawab Khan was killed outside

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 the sessions court premises on 6 September 1983 by <mask> <mask>'s hitman, David Pardesi, Kunju switched sides and allied himself with Kalia Anthony and Mahesh Dholakia of the Karim Lala gang to murder <mask> Rajan. Kunju's neighbour, an autorickshaw driver named Chandrashekar Sapaliga, who was looking to make Rs. 5 million for his sister's wedding, was hired for the job.He was introduced to hotelier,
Mahesh Dholakia at Caesar Palace. Dholakia offered around Rs. 5 million as "supari" (murder contract fee) and promised to give the entire money on successful killing of Rajan. Sapaliga left with only Rs. 1,00,000. The next day, Kunju provided Sapaliga with a revolver, and converted an isolated spot near Vikhroli Park site into a firing range. He was trained for the next 15 days by Ramesh Pujari, Mangesh More and Francis a.k.a."Kaliya Anthony" (Blackie Anthony). In a daring operation, Sapaliga dressed as a naval cadet with his gun hidden in the cavity of a thick book, stalked <mask> Rajan outside the Esplanade court and shot him dead. The hit was carried out on 21 September 1983, exactly 15 days after Amirzada's murder. Sapaliga was caught on the spot, but managed to escape while he was being escorted to the Thane prison and was killed by the rivals later (though the police claimed to have him dead). Retribution for murder
The murder of <mask> Rajan dealt a devastating blow to his gang. His right-hand man and successor, Chhota Rajan was shattered at the loss of his mentor and swore retribution against the assassins. It was well known that Abdul Kunju was a cricket enthusiast and often managed a good-sized crowd to come and watch him play.This gave Chhota Rajan the opportunity to use Kunju's own passion against him. During one such match in 1985, as

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 Kunju hit a boundary, three young gangsters dressed in T-shirts and sneakers, including Sanjay Raggad, Sadhu and Chhota Rajan himself, entered the arena on the pretext of retrieving the ball. After doing so, they walked right up to Kunju, pulled out their guns and shot him dead at point-blank range. Another report suggests that Chota Rajan sent Sanjay Raggad and Vijay to shoot down Kunju when he was watching a volleyball match. On spotting the two assailants, Kunju fled the match venue with the duo in pursuit. Eventually, Raggad and Vijay sprayed an array of bullets into Kunju's body that left him dead. After Kunju's death, Dolakia went back on his word and refused to deliver the remaining Rs.4.90 million, leaving the now fugitive Sapaliga helpless and on his own. In desperation, he turned to the Thane-based goon Abdul Majid for help. Majid invited him over for a treat at a bar in Thane, which in actuality was owned by Sadhu. Sapaliga got very drunk and stayed at the bar overnight. In the meanwhile, Sadhu tipped off Chhotta Rajan to his whereabouts and Sapaliga was woken up at around 4 a.m. by <mask>'s henchmen. He was then driven in a Fiat car to Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother, Noora's hideout at Nagpada. There he was viciously interrogated, tortured and subsequently murdered the next day.In popular culture
 The 1991 Malayalam film Abhimanyu was inspired by the life of <mask> Rajan; and is loosely based on his biography. In the film, Mohanlal plays a Malayali immigrant who becomes a Mumbai underworld don and is eventually shot dead. References
 https://sunbeamforesight.com/a-timeline-and-glimpse-of-mumbai-underworld/ history of Mumbai underworld

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<mask> (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American
landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. A member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists, <mask>'s signature works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State, whose clear light and serene surfaces celebrate transcendental qualities of nature, and are associated with Luminism. <mask>'s early work owed much to the influence of Thomas Cole, but was from the outset distinguished by a preference for cooler colors and an interest in less dramatic topography, favoring restraint in both palette and composition. The work of <mask>'s maturity features tranquil scenery depicted with a spare geometry, culminating in series of paintings in which coastal promontories are balanced against glass-smooth water. He was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Biography
He was born on March 22, 1816. <mask> attended school at Cheshire Academy, and studied engraving with his immigrant father, <mask>, and later with his uncle, Alfred Daggett.He worked as engraver in the New Haven area until about 1838, then went to work as a bank note engraver in New York City. In 1840, along with Asher Durand and <mask> Casilear, <mask> traveled to Europe in order to study painting. There he met and traveled with Benjamin Champney. The two sketched and painted throughout Europe, refining their talents. During this period, <mask> developed an appreciation and affinity for 17th century Dutch landscape painting. <mask> and Champney returned to the United States in 1847. Established studio

After establishing his studio and settling in New York, <mask> traveled

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texts: extensively throughout the Northeast and the Colorado Rockies as well as making several trips back to Europe.<mask> is best known for his landscape of upstate New York and New England and seascapes of coastal New Jersey, Long Island and New England. He is most closely associated with the "second generation" of the Hudson River School. Along with Sanford Robinson Gifford, Fitz Henry Lane, Jasper Francis Cropsey, <mask> Heade and others, the works of the "Luminists", as they came to be known, were characterized by unselfconscious, nearly invisible brushstrokes used to convey the qualities and effects of atmospheric light. Such effects stemmed from Transcendentalist philosophies of sublime nature and contemplation bringing one closer to a spiritual truth. In 1848 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1849. In 1851 <mask> painted a monumental canvas of Mount Washington that has become an icon of White Mountain art. Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway was purchased by the American Art Union, made into an engraving by James Smillie, and distributed to 13,000 Art Union subscribers throughout the country.Other artists painted copies of this scene from the print. Currier and Ives published a similar print in about 1860. This single painting by <mask> helped to popularize the White Mountain region of New Hampshire. <mask>'s style evolved gradually, from the traditional Hudson River School manner in the 1850s into the more refined Luminist style in his later years. By the early 1870s <mask> was spending considerable time at his home on Contentment Island, on Long Island Sound near

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 Darien, Connecticut. It was during this time that <mask> painted some of his finest works. Many of these were spare and luminist seascapes, the prime example being Eaton's Neck, Long Island (1872) now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.The artist was widely acclaimed and financially successful during his lifetime. In turn, he was generous in support of the arts and artists. He was a full member of the National Academy of Design, the founder and president of the Artists' Fund Society, and a founder and trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Death
<mask> contracted pneumonia (perhaps during the attempted rescue of Mary Lydia (Hancock) Colyer, the wife of his friend and fellow artist Vincent Colyer in Long Island Sound) and died of heart failure at his New York studio in December 1872. <mask> is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. In 1874 <mask>'s brother Thomas gave thirty-eight of his paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which half remain in the collection. Legacy
The first complete biography and factual study of <mask>'s work was written by Ellen H<mask>, published in 1957.Paintings

See also
 Western painting
 History of painting
List of Hudson River School artists

Notes

References
Barringer, Tim and Wilton, Andrew. American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880, Princeton University Press, 2002. Driscoll, <mask> and <mask>. Howat. <mask> <mask>, An American Master, W. W. Norton & Company: New York, New York, 1985. <mask>, Ellen Hulda. "Kensett Revisited",  The Art Quarterly, Spring 1957, pp. 71 – 92.Further reading
Trafton, Melissa Geisler. " 'It is a Joint

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American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Kensett (see index)
Art and the empire city: New York, 1825-1861, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Kensett (see index)
Finding Aid to <mask> Kensett Papers, 1830-1872 at the New York State Library, accessed May 18, 2016. White Mountain paintings by <mask> Kensett
 www.JohnFrederickKensett.org 145 works by <mask> Kensett
 Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalogue's collection of Kensett works. 1816 births
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American engravers
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title: Thomas Haines Dudley

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<mask> (1819-1893) was consul of the United States of America in Liverpool during the American Civil War. He was instrumental in leading efforts by the Federal Government to prevent British involvement in the war, and in particular in preventing blockade runners from Liverpool, such as the CSS Alabama, from assisting the Confederate war effort. Early life

Family and childhood
<mask> was born in Burlington County New Jersey on October 9, 1819 to Evan and <mask>. <mask> died when <mask> was two years old. He was raised as a quaker by his mother. <mask> was the youngest of four children. Marriage and children
On March 4, 1846 <mask> married Emaline Matlack.They had four children together named Edward, Mary, Ellen and Henry. The youngest, named after <mask>'s idol, Henry Clay, died at the age of two. Early career
<mask> began his career as a school teacher and later began to study law under William N. Jeffers in Camden, New Jersey. He was admitted to the bar in 1845. As a lawyer he was active in anti-slavery affairs. His first case found him disguising himself as a slave trader to retrieve a free black mother and her children from southern slaveholders. <mask> was successful in his rescue attempt and was assisted by funds amassed by The Society of Friends, a Quaker organization located in Camden.By 1850, <mask> had held more prominent local positions like the city treasurer of Camden, the city solicitor, and chairman of the New Jersey executive committee for the Republican Party. Health
In March 1856, when he was 37 years old, <mask> was involved in an accident involving a fire aboard the Steamboat New Jersey. As a result of this fire, fifty people died. When <mask> was pulled from the steamboat, he was near death. While he did ultimately recover, he was plagued by health and nervous system issues for the duration of his life. These health issues ultimately contributed to his decision to be stationed in Liverpool for his tenure as consul.

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In 1852 <mask> was appointed as a member of the Whig State Executive Committee and contributed to Winfield Scott’s campaign.By 1860 he had become chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee of New Jersey. <mask> was eventually chosen as delegate-at-large for New Jersey at the Republican Convention in 1860. <mask> campaigned for Abraham Lincoln and worked to persuade the delegates from New Jersey to vote for Lincoln. <mask>, a Republican who fought for the protective tariff plank and was against slavery, was pivotal in the election of Abraham Lincoln and according to David Davis, another member of the Republican State Executive Committee stated, “Few men … deserve more at the hands of the administration.”  Another New Jersey delegate, Charles P. Smith, also stated that, “as a fact beyond contradiction, that had it not been for [<mask>’s] services, Mr. Lincoln would not have been nominated.”

American Civil War

Appointment as Consul
After Abraham Lincoln’s election as president he offered <mask> the choice between an official appointment as Minister of Japan or Consul at Liverpool. Lincoln hoped that <mask> would take the post as Minister of Japan because he planned to appoint Gustave Koerner to the Consulship at Liverpool. Ultimately, <mask> chose the Consul at Liverpool because of the availability of superior medical advice that he needed for the duration of his life as a result of the steamboat accident in 1856. <mask> and his family traveled to Liverpool on the steamer Africa and arrived on November 19, 1861.He assumed his duties on November 20, 1861. He appointed Henry Wilding as his Vice Consul. Spy efforts during the War
During the American Civil War (1861–65), consul <mask> made strenuous efforts to prevent ships from Liverpool from breaking the United States Navy blockade of Confederate ports. Upon his arrival to Liverpool, the steamship Oreto was the first ship he noticed that had Confederate ties.

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texts: He sent proof that the Oreto was owned by the Confederates to William H. Seward and Charles Francis Adams. Great Britain remained officially neutral throughout the war but there were many Confederate sympathizers in Liverpool. The commerce raider CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead in Merseyside in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company.She was eventually sunk by the  in 1864. As Consul <mask> was responsible for reporting over 120 suspicious steamers to the United States in addition to a large number of sailing vessels. The British required proof of <mask>’s allegations that there were ships being built to aid the Confederates. One of <mask>'s tasks, as Consul, was to provide this proof and prepare the legal case. He used affidavits as his primary source of evidence. These affidavits specified the features of the questionable ships to determine if they were made for war, and confirmed that James D. Bulloch had a connection with the Confederate government and played a role in the materials that were used on the boats in the shipyards. <mask> also hired a private investigator, Matthew Maguire.In his role, Maguire would locate citizens like Clarence Randolph Yonge, the paymaster on the USS Alabama, to testify as witnesses in the legal cases. Through <mask>’s legal work, he was responsible for the detainment of many prominent Confederate ships housed in the Liverpool shipyards like the U.S.S. Alabama and the gunboat Alexandria. <mask> wished to retire after the war and return to his law practice in New Jersey, but such was his knowledge of Confederate assets in Liverpool that he stayed on as consul, seizing Confederate ships and returning the proceeds of sale to the victorious United States Government. Relations between Britain and the United States were tense after the war, in part because of the role of Liverpool blockade runners and the widespread perception in America that Britain had been

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 sympathetic to the defeated Confederacy. The claims arising out of these disputes, especially the Alabama Claims, would not be settled until the 1871 Treaty of Washington. Post Civil War
<mask> <mask> submitted his resignation to the state department in the fall of 1872.Upon his return to the United States he opened a law practice with his son Edward and also served as president of multiple  companies including the Pittsburgh, Titusville, and Buffalo Railroads as well as the New Jersey Mining Company and the Bar Association of Camden. <mask> served on the boards of the Camden, Atlantic, and West Jersey Railroad as well as the Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Company and was the first vice president of the American Protective Tariff League. In 1880, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. Death
<mask> <mask> died at the age of 73 on April 15, 1893 of a massive heart attack in Broad Street Station in Philadelphia. Upon his death his eulogy, published by the Camden Post stated:Deeply religious in the Quaker sense, which makes each man alone responsible to his Maker and not to conventional ceremony, he was more spiritual minded than a practical prosaic lawyer and man of affairs would be taken to be, but never wore his heart upon his sleeve save to familiars. Hated by many through the prejudice and misconception engendered in political strife (as strong characters often are), misunderstood by many more because he would not stoop to conquer, he pursued the even tenor of his way in the respect and love of his confidants. Rarely heading public subscriptions, he was instant in good ways and works, and most of his generous benefactions were only known to the needy recipients.References

External links
 Genealogy and siblings at Geni.com
 Gravesite at Findagrave. Image of the restored consular eagle at Les Auld Photography, Retrieved July 12, 2010

19th-century American diplomats
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<mask> (, ; born 18 August 1984) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is a three-time Premier League winner and has made the most Premier League appearances (322) by a German player. Huth was signed for Chelsea from the youth system of German club 1. FC Union Berlin in 2001 by Claudio Ranieri. He struggled to establish himself in the Chelsea first team and with the likes of John Terry, William Gallas and Ricardo Carvalho ahead of him in the pecking order at Stamford Bridge, he joined Middlesbrough in August 2006 for a fee of £6 million. He spent three years at the Riverside and after the club was relegated in 2009, Huth signed for Stoke City for a then-club record fee of £5 million. After a successful 2010–11 season for Huth which saw him play in the FA Cup Final, he was named as Stoke's Player of the Year.Under the management of Tony Pulis, Huth remained a vital member of the Stoke squad in 2011–12 and 2012–13. He also played regularly under Mark Hughes in 2013–14 before he suffered a knee injury which ruled him out nearly a year. He was unable to force his way back into the team and he joined Leicester on loan in February 2015, helping them avoid relegation from the top flight. Huth then joined Leicester permanently, helping them to win the Premier League title in 2016. Huth was also a German international, earning 19 caps and scoring two goals between 2004 and 2009. He was part of the German squads which came third at the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2006 FIFA World Cup, both on home soil. Club career

<mask> was born in Biesdorf, East Berlin, and played for local side VfB Fortuna Biesdorf and then the youth teams at 1.FC Union Berlin before joining English side Chelsea in 2001. Huth made his debut for Chelsea at the age of 17 in the last game of the 2001–02 season, coming on as a substitute at half-time for Jesper Grønkjær in a 1–3 home defeat against Aston Villa. In August 2003, Reading tried to sign Huth on loan for the 2003–04 season, but their bid was rejected by

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 in the summer of 2007 in order to fix his problem; he consulted a specialist after failing to recover. Huth returned to training in November 2007 and made his comeback against Reading on 1 December.After the departure of Jonathan Woodgate to Tottenham, Huth was paired in central defence with David Wheater. On 3 February, Huth scored against Newcastle United to earn a point against Kevin Keegan's team. He again struggled with injuries and missed the last two months of the 2007–08 season. Huth recovered well and made a strong start to the 2008–09 season. However, he again suffered an ankle injury. He returned to the side in December time and by February the team had been enduring a tough season and were in deep relegation trouble. Boro failed to improve and they suffered relegation to the Championship, losing 2–1 to West Ham United on the final day of the season.He played five league matches for Boro at the start of the 2009–10 season before he returned to the Premier League with Stoke City. Stoke City
On 27 August 2009, Huth signed a four-year contract with Stoke City for £5 million. He made his Stoke debut in a 1–0 win over Sunderland on 29 August 2009, replacing goalscorer Dave Kitson. He celebrated his 100th Premier League appearance by scoring his first Stoke goal on 4 October 2009, against Everton. On 17 October, Huth punched Matthew Upson in the face during a match against West Ham, though he received no card from the referee. Huth was later charged by the FA for the incident. He admitted his guilt the following day, and apologised for the incident.<mask> was subsequently suspended for three matches by the FA. <mask> scored a 90th-minute equaliser against Liverpool on 16 January 2010. He then scored his third Stoke goal in a 2–1 win over Portsmouth. He was given the captain's armband for Stoke's 2009–10 FA Cup quarter-final tie at former club Chelsea, which he described as a proud moment for himself. <mask> opened his account for the 2010–11 season with a 93rd-minute winner against Aston Villa to help Stoke

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