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 May 2014 after the AstraZeneca board rejected Pfizer's final offer. In May 2014, <mask> criticised fellow Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham's report into possible methods of restricting the sale and advertising of alcohol, unhealthy foods, and tobacco. He was quoted as having said that such courses of action as outlined in the report would be seen to be "anti-business and interventionist". <mask> has argued for a British federal state on multiple occasions, and has said that progressives should not dismiss George Osborne's notion of a "Northern Powerhouse", arguing that greater devolution, federalisation of the UK Labour Party into individual Labour Parties representing each component nation of the UK, greater political autonomy for England in particular, more regional powers and "wholescale federalisation" are necessary to advance the Labour Party.Leadership election and withdrawal

<mask> increased his majority to 13,934 at the 2015 general election, with 53% of the vote in his constituency. Following Labour's defeat in the election and resignation of Ed Miliband as leader, <mask> was identified as one of the potential candidates to take over as leader of the party. He called for Labour to target Conservatives and "aspirational, middle-class voters", saying that the party needs to be "on the side of those who are doing well." On 12 May, he announced his candidature for the Labour Party leadership election. Three days later, he withdrew from the contest, stating that he had been "uncomfortable" with "the added level of scrutiny that came with being a leadership candidate". On 26 May, he announced his endorsement of Liz Kendall, who was unsuccessful in her bid for the Labour leadership. Return to the backbenches
In September 2015,

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texts: following the election of Jeremy Corbyn as the Leader of the Labour Party, <mask> announced his resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and returned to the backbenches, citing differences over the Brexit referendum and issues of collective ministerial responsibility.<mask> supported "Remain" in the Brexit referendum. His constituency voted with the highest proportion of votes to remain, with 79.5%. Following the victory for the Leave campaign, <mask> proposed an amendment to the bill to trigger Article 50 calling upon the government to investigate spending £350 million a week on the NHS, which was defeated by the government. He subsequently voted for the unmodified bill to leave the EU, writing with Wes Streeting that "as democrats we must abide by the national result". In the 2017 general election campaign <mask> opposed a second referendum on Brexit. Following his re-election in the 2017 general election, <mask> proposed a rebel amendment to the Queen's Speech calling upon the government to "rule out withdrawal from the EU without a deal" and "set out proposals to remain within the Customs Union and Single Market”. Three Labour frontbenchers were sacked for supporting the defeated amendment, which the Labour leadership argued conflicted with their manifesto commitment to end freedom of movement.On 15 April 2018, <mask> attended the launch event of the People's Vote, a campaign group calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal between the UK and the European Union. Umunna favours a second referendum on Brexit. <mask> wrote that the campaign to leave the EU lied during the campaign and also broke the law spending more money than was allowed. Umunna has stated that the British people now know the truth and should have a second say over

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 whether the UK leaves the European Union. In July 2018, <mask> wrote, "If the proposals which the PM is pursuing feel unacceptable to the majority of the electorate, that says something. People voted to leave and to remain for very different reasons, but it’s nonsense to say that every single person who voted for Brexit in the EU referendum did so because they unanimously agreed on leaving the single market and the customs union, putting the Good Friday Agreement at risk, garnering no extra money for the NHS (contrary to what they were told) and potentially continuing years of austerity." In August 2018, The Guardian reported that "<mask> and fellow Labour MP Chris Leslie are widely believed to be laying the groundwork for the creation of a new [political] party although both have denied this."In October 2018, it was announced that <mask> would serve as the chairman of a new centrist think tank called Progressive Centre UK. It was revealed that he would be earning £65,000 a year for his work on the advisory board. Change UK
On 18 February 2019, <mask> and six other MPs (Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker, and Ann Coffey) quit Labour in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership to form The Independent Group (later Change UK). The Independent Group named <mask> as its Spokesman on 28 February 2019. On 24 May 2019, <mask> wrote in the i newspaper that Change UK would be open to a pro-EU pact with the Liberal Democrats in order to unite the Remain vote. On 4 June, after Change UK's poor results in the EU election, <mask> left the party with five of its other MPs who did not wish for Change UK to stand candidates at future elections. Subsequently, Change UK's new leader, Anna Soubry, said that Umunna had made a


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 "serious mistake" in leaving the party.Liberal Democrats

On 13 June 2019, <mask> announced to The Times he would be joining the Liberal Democrats. He told the BBC he had been "wrong" to think "millions of politically homeless people wanted a new party", while referring to moving from Change UK. He also said he "massively underestimated just how difficult it is to set up a fully fledged new party without an existing infrastructure", after Change UK received a mere 3.4% of the vote in the EU elections, far behind the Liberal Democrats' 20%. He added, under Britain's voting system, there would not be "room for more than one centre ground" party in a general election. Though <mask> had previously been publicly critical of the Liberal Democrats for "enabling Tory austerity" during the 2010 to 2015 coalition government, he told the BBC that "things have changed." He also speculated that "a good handful" of other MPs may defect to the Liberal Democrats. In September 2019, in his first major speech to the Liberal Democrat Federal Conference, <mask> argued Britain was unable to exert its moral authority against authoritarian leaders in the world at a time when Prime Minister Boris Johnson was threatening to break the law over Brexit.At the 2019 United Kingdom general election, <mask> stood in Cities of London and Westminster, and lost to the Conservative Party candidate, Nickie Aiken. Helen Thompson replaced him as the Lib Dem candidate in Streatham, and also lost. Business career
Since April 2020, <mask> has been a non-executive director of Advanced and an adviser to Digital Identity Net UK. In July 2020 <mask> was appointed executive director and head of the Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) consultancy within the specialist capital

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 markets and financial services team at public relations and marketing consultancy firm Edelman UK. <mask> said about the appointment "If we're to fundamentally change the model of capitalism we've got to ensure that the overwhelming majority of businesses are integrating ESG factors into corporate decision making like never before." On 12 April 2021 he joined the investment bank JPMorgan Chase to oversee its ESG advisory efforts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Personal life
Umunna is married to Alice Sullivan, an employment lawyer.The couple have a daughter, born in 2017. He is a Crystal Palace F.C. fan. He has said that his politics and moral values come from Christianity, but that he is "not majorly religious". Several years before he left politics, <mask> was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2015. Notes

References

External links

 Article archive at The Guardian
 Chuka Umunna – Operation Black Vote profile
 Streatham Labour
 The Multicultural Politic (TMP) Online
 The rise of <mask> <mask> MP charted by Ethos Journal
 Chuka Umunna archive at The Guardian

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<mask> (or Malloch) ( 1705–1765) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and went to London in 1723 to work as a private tutor. There he became friendly with Alexander Pope, James Thomson, and other literary figures including Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke. His best-known work was written in the same year: William and Margaret, adapted from a traditional ballad. In 1740, he collaborated with Thomson on a masque, Alfred, which was the vehicle for "Rule, Britannia!". His other plays and poetry (e.g. Amyntor and Theodora), popular at the time, are largely forgotten, but Bolingbroke's writings were edited and published by <mask> in 1754.Life
Mallet was probably the second son of James Malloch of Dunruchan, a well-to-do tenant farmer on Lord Drummond's Perthshire estate, a Roman Catholic, and a member of the outlawed Clan MacGregor. The household suffered during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Mallet gave his age as 28 in 1733, and was therefore born about 1705. He seems to have been educated at the parish school of Crieff under John Ker. In 1717 <mask> was acting as janitor in Edinburgh High School. In 1720 he became resident tutor to the sons of Mr. Home of Dreghorn; he held the post till 1723, studied at the same time at the University of Edinburgh (1721–2, 1722–3), and formed a friendship with a fellow student, James Thomson the poet, a future collaborator. In July 1723 he accepted the post of tutor to the sons of the Duke of Montrose.Leaving the university without a degree, he went in August to London, and then to the duke's seat at Shawford, near Winchester. He lived with the family until 1731, mainly in London and Shawford. In 1726 he received the honorary degree of M.A. from the University of Aberdeen, ostensibly for an English poem in imitation of Ker's Donaides. Early in 1727 he made a continental tour with his

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 pupils. Towards the end of 1731 he left the Montrose family, and went to Gosfield in Essex, to act as tutor to the stepson of John Knight, to whose wife, formerly Mrs. Newsham, he had been recommended by Alexander Pope. On 2 November 1733 <mask>, with his pupil, matriculated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he resided fairly regularly till 27 September 1734.On 5 March 1735 he received, at his request, the degree of M.A. from the University of Edinburgh, and on the 15th of that month he graduated B.A., and on 6 April M.A. of the University of Oxford. He was again abroad in 1735. <mask> came into favour with the opposition, and was appointed, 27 May 1742, under-secretary to the Prince of Wales. In 1745 he made a tour in Holland. <mask> was rewarded in 1763 by Lord Bute, to whom he had given fulsome praise, with the post of inspector of exchequer-book in the outports of London, a sinecure which he held till his death.In the autumn of the following year he joined his wife Lucy in Paris, but ill health compelled him to return to London. He died on Sunday, 21 April 1765 and was buried on 27 April in St. George's cemetery, South Audley Street. Works
Mallet published a Pastoral in the Edinburgh Miscellany in 1720; and during his college days produced a number of short pieces, including an imitation of John Milton entitled The Transfiguration, first published in the Edinburgh Magazine in 1793. Shortly before his engagement with the Montrose family he composed the ballad of William and Margaret which was published first anonymously in black letter, and then in 1724, in Allan Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany, and Aaron Hill's Plain Dealer No. 36. Further poems followed, mostly written for John Ker; and in February 1725 he wrote verses on Mira, the Clio of his friend Thomson. For Thomson's poem on Winter, published in March 1726, he wrote a dedication to Sir Spencer Compton, and

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 some verses for the second edition He had himself written, early in 1725, a poem on the same subject, which was praised by Thomson; and on his return from the continent he prepared for the press The Excursion, in two books, which he had written in 1726.On 22 February 1731 <mask> produced his tragedy of Eurydice at Drury Lane, with a prologue and epilogue by Aaron Hill. It was acted about thirteen times, and was revived in 1759. <mask> showed his appreciation for Pope with his poem on Verbal Criticism (1733), in which he ridiculed Lewis Theobald. <mask> made more of a reputation with the tragedy of Mustapha, produced at Drury Lane on 13 Feb. 1738–9. The prologue was by Thomson, and the play was dedicated to Frederick, Prince of Wales: like Thomson's Edward and Eleonora, but less openly, it was directed against the king and Sir Robert Walpole. With James Quin as Solyman, it ran for fourteen nights. In 1740 <mask> published a short Life of Bacon; shortly afterwards <mask> and Thomson were commanded by the Prince to write the masque of Alfred, to celebrate both the birthday of the Princess Augusta and the anniversary of George I's accession.It was played in the gardens of Cliefden, before the Prince and Princess of Wales, on Friday, 1 August 1740, with Quin, Christiana Horton, and Kitty Clive in the leading parts. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough left in 1744 the sum of £1,000 to <mask> and Richard Glover, to write a life of her husband; and <mask>, on Glover's refusal, undertook the work. He only did some research. He published, in May 1747, ‘Amyntor and Theodora, or the Hermit.’

<mask> and Thomson had, through George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, support from the Prince of Wales, but then lost it as Lyttelton fell from favour. <mask> then found the patronage of Bolingbroke, and prepared a new edition of the Patriot King, published in 1749; in it he attacked

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 the memory of Pope for having clandestinely edited and printed the work in 1738. There was a short pamphlet war with Pope's friends. He then edited Bolingbroke's works, 5 vols.in March 1754. Samuel Johnson remarked on this enterprise that Bolingbroke had "spent his life in charging a gun against Christianity", and "left half-a-crown to a hungry Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death". In 1751, three years after the death of Thomson, <mask> published a new version of the masque of 1740. The adaptation was major, with new scenes and songs added. It was acted at Drury Lane on 23 February 1751, with <mask> in the title rôle. The masque of Britannia, an appeal to patriotic sentiment on the eve of an outbreak of war with France, followed in 1755. It was produced at Drury Lane on 9 May, when Garrick spoke the prologue as a drunken sailor.On 19 January 1763 <mask>'s Elvira was acted at the same venue during the "half-price riots". Garrick took the part of Don Pedro, the last original character in which he was seen; but it provoked a pamphlet of Critical Strictures by James Boswell and two fellow Scots. In the intervening years <mask> had written lesser works, including the ballad of Edwin and Emma (1760), and a partisan indictment by a "Plain Man" against Admiral Byng in 1757. An extract from his The tragedy of Bowes appears in The Bishoprick Garland 1834 by Cuthbert Sharp. Notes

External links
<mask> at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
<mask>, Scots Poets
<mask>, Anglo-Scot: poetry, patronage, and politics in the age of union

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title: Jim Cunningham (politician)

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<mask> (born 4 February 1941) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry South from 1992 to 2019. He announced his retirement in September 2019. Early life
<mask> was born in Coatbridge, Scotland and educated locally at Columba High School before attending the Trade Union College in Tillicoultry, where he completed a number of Ruskin courses on industrial relations and trade union law. In 1964, he became an engineer for Rolls-Royce in Ansty, joining the Labour Party in 1966 he became a shop steward with the predecessors of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union in the Rolls-Royce plant from 1968 throughout his service as a councillor and later Deputy Leader of Coventry City Council. Local government
<mask> began his political career as a Coventry councillor in 1972 and became the Chair of the Council's Consumer Services Committee from 1975 until 1977. He was also the Vice-Chair of the Finance Committee for three terms, 1975 until 1977, 1979 until 1982 and from 1985 until 1988.He also served as the Vice-Chair of the Leisure Committee from 1975 until 1977, serving as the Chair from 1979 until 1982. He next served as the Vice-Chair of the Transport and Highways Committee from 1983 until 1985 when he became the Chief Whip of the Labour Group on the Council from 1985 until 1987 when he became the Deputy Leader of Coventry City Council. <mask> left Rolls-Royce as an engineer and shop steward in 1988 upon his appointment as Leader of the City Council which he served until his election to Parliament in 1992. Parliament
<mask> was selected to contest the Coventry South East constituency at the 1992 general election following the expulsion of the sitting Labour MP Dave Nellist, a member  of the

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texts: Trotskyist Militant group, who had thus become ineligible to be selected as the Labour candidate. <mask> emerged as the victor with a majority of 1,311 votes over the Conservative candidate Martine Hyams; Nellist finished third but only by a further 40 votes. <mask> made his maiden speech on 12 May 1992 in which he spoke of the social and economic problems of Coventry and criticised the then level of central government resources allocated to the city. Following reports from the previous year that the Queen was to agree to pay income tax, which Buckingham Palace and the Prime Minister denied, he called for the Queen and other members of the Royal Family to begin paying income tax in his letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1992.<mask> was heavily involved in the campaign for justice for former workers of Matrix Churchill In particular <mask> was critical of the remit and progress of the Scott Report into the Arms-to-Iraq for not consulting the former workers. Reflecting his previous career <mask> set up a Parliamentary group for Rolls Royce bringing together MPs and Trade Unions. Throughout his time in Parliament, <mask> consistently campaigned for Rolls Royce workers. In 1994 <mask> chaired the Committee on the hybrid Croydon Tramlink Bill, which recommended the project go ahead. <mask> was a founder member andserved as chair of the APPG on Strokes. In 2002 CUnningham secured an adjournment debate on the subject. He became a member of the Home Affairs Select committee from 1993 until 1997.He then served on the Trade and Industry Select Committee from 1997 as well as serving upon the House of Commons Panel of Chairs from 1998 leaving both upon the 2001 general election. <mask> then served on the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee from 2003

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texts: until 2005. In 2004, he led a parliamentary campaign to prevent Jaguar Cars closing its Browns Lane assembly plant. This campaign included organising a meeting between several workers of the plant and the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer as well as <mask> joining factory workers when they lobbied the Ford managers at the Paris Motor Show. <mask> briefly served on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Select Committee in 2005 until the general election. Following the 2005 election, he served on the House of Commons Procedures Select Committee until 2006 and served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Solicitor General Mike O'Brien until 2007. <mask> remained O'Brien's PPS as O'Brien became a Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2007 until 2008, then a Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change from 2008 until 2009 and as a Minister of State at the Department of Health from 2009 until 2010.<mask> served on the Standards and Privileges Select Committee in 2010. He served as the Treasurer of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Funerals and Bereavement from 2005 until 2010 and is the Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Chinese Development. From 2005 to 2019 <mask> was the Chair of the West Midlands Group of Labour MPs. In 2006 <mask> arranged a meeting between Trade Unions representing workers at Peugeot Ryton and the Chancellor Gordon Brown over threats to the future of the plant. During the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal, <mask> was praised by The Telegraph, which cited his consistently low expenses that made him the 27th lowest claiming MP out of 645 MPs. In 2011, <mask> arranged a meeting with the Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology Peter

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texts: Luff, as a response to the Rolls-Royce announcement that it would lay off one quarter of its staff at its Ansty plant by 2012 due to the UK defence cuts and the plant's reliance upon repairing and servicing RAF jet engines. As well as these planned redundancies, Rolls-Royce also plans temporary redundancies during periods of low activity and having staff work longer without being paid extra.<mask> questioned what the government's plans were to secure more work for the plant and met with union officials and management in order to find a solution to safeguard the plant and its work force. <mask> supported the campaign to renovate Coventry's medieval Charterhouse Priory, one of only nine Carthusian monasteries left in the UK. In 2012 he facilitated a visit by the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Ed Vaizey to the site to draw attention to the campaign. In 2013, <mask> campaigned with Unite the Union to keep London Taxis International producing the iconic Black Hackney Cab in Coventry. <mask> also actively campaigned to keep Jaguar Land Rover in the West Midlands following the purchase of the company by Tata. This included meeting with Tata to gain assurances that work would stay in the region. In the same year <mask> also campaigned to save the Remploy factory in his constituency.<mask> was also a longterm campaigner against the use and abuse of zero hours contracts. In a 2013 debate in Parliament he stated 'that zero-hours contracts are a throwback to the 1930s when miners and dockers had to turn up to work not knowing whether they would get a job. This is a modern veneer on an old, tried and tired system that was chucked out many years ago.'. He supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to

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 replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour leadership election. <mask> consistently called for the Government to intervene in the issues surrounding Coventry City Football Club. In 2016 he lobbied the then Sports Minister Tracey Crouch to appoint a concilliator to break the deadlock in negotiations. In 2019 <mask> helped to organise a meeting between the interested parties, local MPs and the then Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Wright.<mask> actively supported Coventry's bid to be UK City of Culture 2020. As part of the campaign, <mask> hosted a reception for the bid in Parliament and secured an adjournment debate. Cunnngham actively supported the WASPI campaign to compensate Women born in the 1950s who were effected by changes to pensions. In 2019 <mask> led a campaign to make sure specialist Pancreatic Cancer services remained at UHCW. He announced he would be standing down in the 2019 general election shortly after fellow Coventry MP Geoffrey Robinson also announced his intention to depart. Family
He has been married to Marion Douglas Podmore since 1985; each has children from previous marriages. References

External links

 ePolitix – <mask> MP official site
 Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: <mask> MP

News items
 Discussing closure of Ryton Peugeot plant
 Declaring the closure of the Peugeot plant as a 'callous act'
 His 2006 Notice of Redundancy Bill
 Displeasure over Jaguar's former Coventry plant in 2004

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title: Antonio Piedra (producer)

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<mask> (born <mask>) is a Venezuelan-American film, television and music video triple threat (writer, director and producer). <mask> has worked with various artists such as Pitbull, Shaggy, Lumidee, Shaquile O,Neil, Ricardo Montaner, The Wayan Brothers, Missy Elliott, Christina Aguilera, and Busta Rhymes. <mask> is known for producing and directing commercials and films characterized by their stylistic visuals and humor. <mask> has over 20 years working in television and film, having contributed to over a dozen films and TV shows, 30 music videos, 100 commercials. Biography

Early life
Born <mask> in Caracas, Venezuela. [1][2][3] His family moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida when he was an infant where he spent most of his childhood. Over the years, <mask> visited Venezuela where he attended school for a year where and learned Spanish until returning to South Florida.[4][5] <mask> worked briefly at a movie theater in high school and performed in two high school theater productions where he acted alongside class mate, movie actor, Bobby Canavalle. After graduating from Coral Springs High School, <mask> went to Broward College and then, Florida Atlantic University where he studied, History and Business Administration but dropped out after discovering his passion for film, returning years later to finish his education. [2]

Career
<mask> began a stellar commercial career garnishing accolades for producing commercials and direct response commercials (DRC's/Informercials) for companies such as Blockbuster Video, Nike, Carter-Wallace, Make A Wish Foundation, Bank Atlantic and Procter & Gamble where he was nominated for

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texts: several industry awards. He garnered praise for his Make A Wish Foundation commercial entitled, "When You Believe" which was nominated for honors and his PSA for The Coalition Against Domestic Violence, "Daddy's Home", won the National Recognition Award for Best Public Service Announcement that year. In 1999, Piedra Line Producer for the award-winning independent film "Fugue". By 2002, <mask> was Line Producer for Sony Picture's "Shottas" where he produced his first music video for Wyclef Jean "Kompa MVP". A couple of years later, 2004, <mask> was the Miami producer of the Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliott "Carwash" music video from the Sharktale Motion Picture.Soon after, in 2004 was also the year that <mask> joined The Feature Film Group, an Independent Film Company working on producing Full-length Feature Films. In the Spring of 2007, he began his on his first of four music video collaborations with rapper Pitbull. In late 2008, <mask> produced Pitbull's hit "Go Girl" which was nominated by BET for Video of the Year, Best Pop Video, Best Male Video, and Best Collaboration. That year <mask> also produced "Lost Everything" a full-length feature film that received warm reviews when it premiered at the Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival. <mask> began his professional photography and Creative Director in 2008. This phase of his career led to some national campaigns with various companies from fashion to technology. In 2015, <mask> worked on his first Bollywood film.The following year, 2016, <mask> collaborated with Mirum Agency, producing and directing a training video for the FBI, "Active Shooter". <mask> has produced

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 and/or directed close to 35 high-profile videos including videos for Missy Elliott, Shaggy, Wyclef Jean, Lumidee, Shaquille O'Neal, Pitbull and Hawthorne Heights. Over the last decade, <mask> has created content for various advertising and media agencies including Chaos Films, 1 Media Group, Akita Films and Odyssey Media Group. In 2021, <mask> launched Survivor Worldwide LLC a media company whose mission is to create content including feature films based on true stories. Awards
2000 - Nomination for Best Infomercial for " Magnesystems"

2000 - National Recognition Award for Best PSA "Daddy's Home" for National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

2007 - BET Hip Hop Awards Nomination for Best Movie - "Shottas" - Sony Pictures

2008 - BET Best Music Video Nomination for Pitbull's "Go Girl"

Acting credits
Making cameo roles is something that <mask> enjoys. <mask> has made several cameo roles in music videos including Petey Pablo and Oowee's "Chain Swingin'". <mask> had fun playing  the chauffeur at the end of his film "Lost Everything".<mask> also enjoys background roles in some of his favorite movies. If you look real hard you can spot him in small uncredited parts in films such as Donnie Brasco and Bad Boys 2. Highlight Filmography
This is a partial filmography:
"Carwash" (2004) "Sharktale" Motion Picture - Dreamworks [Producer] (Miami)
"Go Girl" (2007) Music Video - Pitbull - TVT Records [Producer]
"Feel Like Making Love" - Shaggy & Lumidee (2007) Music Video [Producer]
"Shottas" (2002) Motion Picture - Sony Pictures [Line Producer/Production Manager] (uncredited)
"Sins of the City: Quarry (#1.7)" (1998) TV

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 Episode [production assistant] (uncredited)
"Gastineau Girls" (2005) TV series [production manager]
The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club (2005) [location scout] – aka "Boynton Beach Club" – USA (new title)
Daddy's Home (2006) [producer]
Hiding Victoria (2006) [first assistant director]
Pledge This! (2006) [location assistant] – aka "National Lampoon's Pledge This!" – USA (complete title)
Spin (2007/I) [unit production manager: Miami]
The Underground Bounty Hunter (2007) (VG) [first assistant director]
Lost Everything (2010) [line producer] [producer]
Law Enforcement training video (2016) [director]

References

External links
 http://antoniopiedra.com
 http://akitafilms.com
http://odysseydigitalmedia.com
 http://vimeo.com/22574344 Vimeo. Antonio Piedra Demo Video Reel A.
 http://www.meetup.com/Motion-Picture-Film-Investor-Group/events/12578973/ Producer & Show Runner <mask> Piedra
 http://www.modelmayhem.com/1141833 Antonio Piedra
 http://people.theiapolis.com/producer-4RSX/antonio-piedra/filmography/ Antonio Piedra Filmography

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title: James Sharp (bishop)

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<mask>, or <mask>, (4 May 1618 – 3 May 1679) was a minister in the Church of Scotland, or kirk, who served as Archbishop of St Andrews from 1661 to 1679. His support for Episcopalianism, or governance by bishops, brought him into conflict with elements of the kirk who advocated Presbyterianism. Twice the victim of assassination attempts, the second cost him his life. Biography
<mask> was born at Banff Castle on 4 May 1618, eldest son of <mask> (1592–1638) and Isabel Leslie (1595-ca 1640). His father was property manager, or factor, for the Earl of Findlater; his mother was the daughter of the Laird of Kininvie. His younger brother, Sir <mask> of Stonihill (1622–1685), was political agent to the Duke of Lauderdale, Scottish Secretary of State from 1661 to 1680. In April 1653, <mask> married Helen Moncrieff, daughter of the laird of Randerston.They had seven children, including William (1655–1712), John (ca 1658-1712), Margaret (1664–1734) and Isabella (1662–?). Background
Whilst Presbyterian or Episcopalian now implies differences in both governance and doctrine, this was not the case in the 17th century. 'Episcopalian' meant governance by bishops, usually appointed by the monarch; Presbyterian implied rule by Elders, nominated by their congregations. The Protestant Reformation created a Church of Scotland, or 'kirk', that was Presbyterian in structure and Calvinist in doctrine. When bishops were introduced to the Scottish system in 1584, they were doctrinal Calvinists, who opposed many practices of the Church of England; these differences explain the failure of attempts to unify the two churches. The 1638

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 National Covenant expelled bishops and established a Covenanter government, which ruled Scotland during the 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. In 1647, Royalist defeat in the First English Civil War split the Covenanters into moderate Engagers and Kirk Party fundamentalists; both sides believed the institution of monarchy was divinely ordered, but differed over who held ultimate authority in clerical affairs.Attempts by the Scots to restore first Charles I, then his son Charles II to the English throne, ended with incorporation into the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1652. The kirk split again, between a moderate majority known as Resolutioners, and 'Protestors', who blamed defeat on compromise with 'malignants.' Differences between the two were both religious and political, including church government, religious toleration and the role of law in a 'godly' society. Since each split ended with the winners evicting the losers from their offices and ministries, it led to increasing bitterness. Lord Broghill, head of the Council of State for Scotland, summarised the position by saying 'the Resolutioners love Charles Stuart and hate us, the Protesters love neither him nor us.' He fostered conflict between the two groups as deliberate policy. Career
<mask> was educated at the local grammar school and in 1637, graduated from King's College, Aberdeen.The university and Banff in general were centres of Episcopalian support and one of the few areas to oppose the 1638 National Covenant, which removed bishops from the kirk. <mask> went to Oxford, allegedly seeking a position in the Church of

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texts: England, but returned to Scotland and by 1642, was a regent at the University of St Andrews. In 1648, he became minister for the parish of Crail, then a delegate to the kirk's General Assembly in 1650. He accompanied the Scottish army in its invasion of England and was captured at Worcester in September 1651, before being released in 1652. The Protesters sent a delegation to argue their case before Parliament in 1656; <mask> was selected to represent the Resolutioners and spent most of the next four years in London. By 1659, plans were being made by George Monck to restore Charles II to the thrones of England and Scotland. The Resolutioners wanted Charles to commit to a Presbyterian kirk; in May 1660, <mask> was sent to Breda to ensure he did so, but was unsuccessful in getting a response.In January 1661, <mask> was appointed Royal Chaplain, and returned to St Andrews as Professor of Divinity. The March 1661 Rescissory Act returned the legal position in Scotland to that prevailing in 1633, removing the Covenanter reforms of 1638-1639. The restoration of bishops was confirmed by the Privy Council of Scotland on 6 September 1661. <mask> was appointed Archbishop of St Andrews and Primate of Scotland and consecrated at Westminster Abbey in December 1661. The kirk was restored as the national church, independent sects banned and all office-holders were required to renounce the Covenant; about a third of the clergy refused, around 270 in total, and lost their positions as a result. Most occurred in the south-west of Scotland, an area particularly strong in its Covenanting sympathies; some took to preaching in the

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texts: open fields, or conventicles, which often attracted thousands of worshippers. After his appointment to the Privy Council of Scotland in June 1663, <mask> assumed responsibility for these evictions, making him a target for Presbyterian radicals.At the same time, his lobbying to be made Lord Chancellor brought him into conflict with Lauderdale and other political leaders. He took an active role in suppressing the Covenanter-backed Pentland Rising in November 1666; he is reported as having condemned to death eleven prisoners who surrendered on a promise of mercy, telling them "You were pardoned as soldiers, but you are not acquitted as subjects". On 9 July 1668, <mask>, a veteran of Rullion Green, tried to assassinate <mask> in Edinburgh. He was seated in his coach on the Royal Mile near his house at Blackfriars Wynd waiting for Bishop Andrew Honeyman to join him. Mitchell fired his pistol at <mask> but hit Honeyman instead. Mitchell was imprisoned on the Bass Rock for this crime but was not executed until 1676. Soon after, the government issued the first in a series of 'indulgences', allowing the readmission of evicted clergy, even without subscribing to episcopacy.The kirk split once again, this time between moderates, led by Robert Leighton, and 'hardline' Episcopalians under <mask>; over the next decade, policy alternated between persecution and reconciliation. In 1678, <mask>'s faction regained control and supported by the government, stepped up actions against non-conformists; 3,000 Lowland militia and 6,000 Highlanders, known as the "Highland Host", were billeted in the Covenanting shires, as a form of

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 punishment. <mask>, who had been arrested in 1673, was executed in 1678, making him a Presbyterian folk hero; <mask> gave evidence at his trial and was accused of perjury. On 3 May 1679, a group of nine Covenanters, led by David Hackston and his brother-in-law, John Balfour of Kinloch, were waiting at Magus Muir, hoping to ambush the Sheriff of Cupar. A <mask> appointee, the Sheriff was prominent in persecuting Covenanters but apparently heard about the proposed ambush and stayed home. Learning <mask>'s coach was on the road, they intercepted it instead; <mask> was stabbed several times, in front of his daughter Isabella, before being killed by a shot to the chest. One of the group, <mask>, claimed he told <mask> he "...declared before the Lord that it was no particular interest, nor yet for any wrong that he had done to him, but because he had betrayed the church as Judas, and had wrung his hands, these 18 or 19 years in the blood of the saints, but especially at Pentland..."

Two of the nine, Hackston and Andrew Guillan, were eventually captured and executed; a third, William Dingwall, died at the Battle of Drumclog a month later.The other six were never tried; Balfour escaped to Holland with George Fleming, but disappears from the records thereafter. Aftermath

<mask> was buried beneath an imposing black and white marble monument in the Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews. Designed by his son, Sir William, it has two main objectives; commemorating his father as a martyr, rather than a turncoat, and confirming his privileged status as archbishop. When the tomb was opened in 1849, it was empty; the body was

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 allegedly removed in 1725 and has never been found. On 25 December 1679, five Covenanters captured at Bothwell Bridge, Thomas Brown, <mask>, Andrew Sword, John Weddell and John Clyde, were hanged for refusing to identify the perpetrators. Although not involved themselves, they were executed at Magus Muir; their bodies hung in chains until the flight of <mask> in 1688. A gravestone was erected over their burial place in 1728 and enclosed by a surrounding wall in 1877; the same year that a memorial to <mask> was built.Both are situated about  south of the spot where the murder occurred. 19th century Scottish histories portrayed <mask> as a despised turncoat; "For well concocted, cold blooded, systematic dissimulation, he stands almost without a match in History." Even more recent writers suggest his death can be seen as deserved retribution for his actions. His most recent biographer, Julia Buckroyd, summarised his career as follows; "<mask>, who identified himself as a Scot and Presbytery, and who struggled to extricate Scotland from the Cromwellian union,...became identified as an agent of English, episcopal and political interests...an enemy of Scottish Presbyterianism and the rule of law." The 1688 Glorious Revolution in Scotland led to the Act of Settlement in 1690, which re-established the kirk on a Presbyterian basis. Episcopacy was abolished once and for all, leading to the formation of the separate Scottish Episcopal Church. References

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title: Francisco Díaz de León

texts: <mask> (September 24, 1897 – December 29, 1975) was a Mexican graphic artist, notable for pioneering much of modern Mexican graphic arts. He spent his childhood around books and when he studied art in Mexico City, he specialized in engraving and illustration. He spent his career illustrating books, magazines and more, reviving techniques such as dry point and introducing new techniques and styles such as the use of color and linoleum printing. He was also a noted arts education, directing several schools including the Escuela Mexicana de las Artes del Libro (now the Escuela Nacional de Artes Gráficas), which he founded. He was a founding member of the Academia de Artes and a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. In 1969 he received the Premio Nacional de Artes for engraving. <mask> was born in the Triana neighborhood in the city of Aguascalientes, the son of <mask> and Ignacia Medina.He spent his childhood around books as his father had a book binding shop. As a youth, he gained the nickname of "El Marqués <mask>as" due to his ability to portray various personalities. At an early age he showed artistic ability and was sent to the Academia de Dibujo run by José Inés Tovilla. After finishing primary school, he went to work with the Ferrocarril Central Mexicano . His artistic ability earned him a scholarship from the Aguascalientes state government to attend the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, and he arrived to Mexico City in 1917 along with friend and fellow student <mask> <mask> . Here he studied under Leandro Izaguirre, German Gedovius and especially under Saturnino Herran, who taught him oil painting along with charcoal and pastel drawing. In 1919, <mask> Leon joined the movement that opposed official teaching methods and favored a

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 reorganization of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes.Shortly after he became one of the first students of the Chimalistac Open Air School of Painting, headed by Alfredo Ramos Martinez. In 1922, he began learning engraving techniques, eventually mastering all of them. In addition to his career in the graphic arts and teaching, he was also a writer, collector and photographer. He wrote a book of short stories called Su primer vuelo in 1945 and influential essays such as Gahona y Posada, grabadores mexicanos in 1968. <mask> <mask> collected graphic works from various artists as well as original publications. The artist's collection includes about 1,000 originals by José Guadalupe Posada, who he admired. It also includes original periodicals by Venegas Arroyo illustrated by Posada, as well as prints by <mask>, Emilio Amero, Leopoldo <mask> and some by Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco and Picheta, a nickname for the engraver Gabriel Gahona (note 11) the first engraver in Yucatán, an artist from the 19th century.He was meticulous and organized, leaving behind many personal and professional notes. <mask> <mask> died at the age of 78 at his home in Coyoacán, leaving behind a widow, <mask> Carman Toussaint, a son, <mask>, and two daughters, Graziella and Susana. He was buried at Panteón Jardín. Career
Although <mask> <mask> had his first exhibition of his work with the Ferrocarril Central Mexicano while still in Aguascalientes, his career was focused on drawing and the graphic arts, rather than painting and exhibition. He illustrated and designed books, posters, catalogues and magazines. Much of his notable work is related to a magazine called Mexican Art and Life, which he edited with <mask> <mask> between 1937 and 1939.

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 Other such work includes that done for books such as El gavilán by <mask> (1939), Viajes al siglo XIX by <mask> <mask> (1933), and Tasco.Guía de emociones by Manuel Toussaint (1967),  as well as a catalogue for the exhibit 20 Centuries of Mexican Art, presented in New York in 1940. He produced the posters and catalogues of the Sala de Arte of the Secretaría de Educación Pública and also created cartoons for the Diario de Yucatán . In 1928, with Carlos Alvarado Lang, he began a bookbinding workshop at the Escuela Central de Artes Plásticas, He was head of publications at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1934. In 1938, he founded, with cooperation of the Secretaría de Educación Pública, the Escuela de las Artes del Libro and served as director until 1956 when he retired. During his lifetime, he was a well-known and respected graphic artist, teacher and friend to many other graphic artists including Leopoldo <mask>, José Chávez Morado, Feliciano Pena, Ramón Alva <mask> Canal and <mask> <mask>. Although fourteen years his senior, José Clemente Orozco solicited the help of <mask> Leon for his first attempts at printmaking

Despite his importance in the first half of the 20th century, much of his work fell into obscurity, with almost all of his archive, about 4,000 pieces, stored in the family home in Mexico City. In 2008, this archive was donated to the Andrés Blaisten Collection of the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco by the artist's two daughters for promotion and academic study The collection includes works by the artist such as engravings, prints, drawings, oils and photographs, along with 2,000 bibliographic documents and the artist's personals collection of engravings from the colonial period and 19th century.<mask> <mask>'s teaching

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 career began in 1920, when he began teaching classes at his own school, specializing in engraving and printmaking. At the Escuela Central de Artes Plásticas, he taught engraving in wood and metal. Among his students were Isidoro Ocampo, Abelardo Avila, and Jose Chavez Morado. Eventually he became the director of the Escuela de Pintura al Aire Libre in Tlalpan (1925-1932), and the director of the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in 1933. In 1937, he founded the Escuela Mexicana de las Artes del Libro (now the Escuela Nacional de Artes Gráficas), which he directed until 1956, when he retired. He created the city seal of Aguascalientes in 1946 and created its motto along with Alejandro Topete <mask>. Recognitions for his work include membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, the Posada gold medal in 1966, and the Premio Nacional de Artes for engraving in 1969.He is a founding member of the Academia de Artes. The Instituto Cultural de Aguascalienes created the <mask> Díaz de León Gallery and the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes created a permanent exhibition of his works at the Máxima Casa de Estudios. In 2010, the Andrés Blaisten Collection in Mexico City held an exhibition of his work and the Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes published a biography

Artistry
<mask> <mask> was a sketch artist, painter and photographer, but he was best known as a graphic artist and editor. He worked in ink and pencil and masters all types of engraving and printmaking work. Guillermo Jiménez  wrote in 1934 that <mask> <mask> was one of Mexico's greatest book illustrators. <mask> <mask> is considered to have been ahead of his time, pioneering many of the techniques and aesthetics found in modern Mexican graphic work. He revived techniques such as

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 dry point, aqua tint, etching and woodcut.He made the first linoleum prints and introduced Japanese papers to be used in Oriental-style prints. He was a pioneer of editorial design, worked to add new techniques to prints, especially with the use of color. Although he was well-known and well respected during his career, much of his contributions have been forgotten One probably reason for this is that his work was apolitical, unlike the dominant Mexican muralism or the graphic work produced by organizations such as the Taller de Gráfica Popular . Much of his work was influenced by the forms and colors related to rural Mexico, especially those of the Aguascalientes of his youth. Common themes in his work include indigenous people, the countryside, images to reflect modern life of the time. <mask> <mask> was also an unpublished photographer, with an archive of about 2,500 images. This work has been compared to that of Tina Modotti and Manuel Álvarez Bravo.One notable image is called the "Fusilado" (Shot by firing squad) which the condemned is photographed from among the firing squad just be sentence is carried out. He also did a series of photographic self-portraits in the 1920s where he dressed up in different costumes. He also went out in different costumes, just to see the reactions of people, a kind of "happening" event. The first time his photographic work was exhibited was in 2010 at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. He did some oils which include La Casa de Xoco, Indias en día de Mercado and Camino a Ozumba; however, most of these have been lost. References

External links

 <mask> <mask> (Spanish) at luisarmando.com.mx

Mexican engravers
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1897 births
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title: Rhys Ifans

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<mask> (; born <mask>; 22 July 1967) is a Welsh actor, producer, and singer. He was the frontman of Welsh rock music bands The Peth and Super Furry Animals. As an actor, he is best known for his roles in Notting Hill (1999), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000) and Enduring Love (2004) as well as his portrayals of Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), the supervillain Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and Grigori Rasputin in The King's Man (2021). Other roles include Hector DeJean in the Epix thriller series Berlin Station and Mycroft Holmes in the CBS series Elementary. Early life
Ifans was born <mask> in Haverfordwest on 22 July 1967, the son of nursery school teacher Beti-Wyn (née Davies) and primary school teacher Eurwyn Evans. His younger brother, <mask>, is also an actor. He grew up in Ruthin, where he received his primary education at Ysgol Pentrecelyn and was raised speaking Welsh as his first language.He attended Ysgol Maes Garmon, a Welsh medium secondary school in Mold, where he took his O levels and A levels. He attended acting classes at Theatr Clwyd. After leaving school, he presented Welsh-language television programmes on S4C. He studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he graduated in 1997. Career

Stage
Ifans' early stage work included Hamlet at Theatr Clwyd, A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Regent's Park Theatre, and Under Milk Wood and Volpone at the National Theatre. He appeared at the Donmar Warehouse in 2003's Accidental Death of an Anarchist. In 2006 he returned to the London stage in Michael Grandage's production of Don Juan in Soho at the Donmar Warehouse.In 2016,

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 <mask> played Fool alongside Glenda Jackson in Deborah Warner's production of King Lear, at The Old Vic. He returned to The Old Vic to play Ebenezer Scrooge in Matthew Warchus' production of A Christmas Carol (adapted by Jack Thorne) in 2017 and in 2018 returned to the National Theatre to play King Berenger in Patrick Marber's new adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King. <mask> was given the role of Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin's To Kill A Mockingbird to begin at London's Gielgud Theatre on 21 May 2020. The play was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic but was rescheduled for May 2021. The role of Atticus Finch was later given to Rafe Spall due to scheduling conflicts. Television
Ifans appeared in many Welsh-language television programmes before embarking on his film career, including the comedy show , as well as performing at the National Theatre, London and the Royal Exchange, Manchester. In 1990, he presented Sdwnsh (Welsh for "Mash"), an anarchic children's quiz programme.A total of 31 fifteen-minute programmes were broadcast on Welsh-language TV channel S4C. He narrated the children's animated series Sali Mali for S4C in 2000. In 2005, <mask> made a guest appearance for the rock band Oasis in the video for their single "The Importance of Being Idle" (where he mimed to Noel Gallagher's vocals), for which he accepted their award for Video of the Year at the 2006 NME Awards. He has also appeared in the music videos for "God! Show Me Magic" and "Hometown Unicorn" by Super Furry Animals, "Mulder and Scully" by Catatonia, and "Mama Told Me Not to Come" by Tom Jones with Stereophonics. In 2008, he appeared in "Six Days One June", one of three episodes of the TV series The Last Word Monologues,

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 written by Hugo Blick and broadcast on BBC Two. He played a lonely Welsh farmer trying to free himself from a domineering mother.From 2016 to 2019, Ifans portrayed hard-nosed American CIA case officer Hector DeJean in the U.S. pay-cable Epix network espionage thriller drama series Berlin Station, which was filmed on location in Berlin. Ifans has been cast in the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, which is scheduled for release in 2022. Feature films
Following his role as Jeremy Lewis in the Swansea-based movie Twin Town (1997) alongside his brother Llŷr, Ifans gained international exposure in his role as the slovenly housemate Spike in the British film Notting Hill (1999). Reportedly, in preparation for the role, Ifans did not wash himself or brush his teeth. He played Adrian, the pompous eldest brother in Little Nicky (2000). Other film roles include: Eyeball Paul in Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), Nigel in The Replacements (2000), Iki in The 51st State (2001), William Dobbin in Vanity Fair (2004), and Vladis Grutas in Hannibal Rising (2007). He played Jed Parry in the 2004 film version of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love, and the lead role in Danny Deckchair (2003) as Danny Morgan.<mask> revealed in March 2009 that he was to appear in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). He played Xenophillius Lovegood, editor of the wizarding magazine The Quibbler and father of the eccentric Luna Lovegood. In the same interview, he announced that he would play the title role in the film Mr. Nice, based on the life of the drug smuggler Howard Marks. He played Nemo Nobody's father in Mr. Nobody. He played a villain in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. On 11 October 2010 Associated Press confirmed


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 that <mask> would portray the villain in the Spider-Man reboot film The Amazing Spider-Man. The villain was revealed as the Curt Connors / Lizard a few days later, and the film was released in July 2012.In 2015, <mask> starred in She's Funny That Way, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. On 16 November 2021 it was revealed, through the film's official trailer, that <mask> would reprise his role as Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home, to be released on 17 December. Later it was revealed that <mask> was not actually present on set and only lent his voice for the character created through digital means, with his human form at the end of the film being from archival footage from The Amazing Spider-Man. <mask> also appeared as Grigori Rasputin in the spy film The King's Man, which was released in December 2021. Music
Ifans was briefly lead vocalist of the rock band Super Furry Animals before they released any records. Since 2007, Ifans has sung with the psychedelic rock band The Peth ("peth" is Welsh for "thing"), featuring Super Furry Animals' Dafydd Ieuan, which played a number of concert dates in south Wales and in London in the autumn of 2008. In 2009 the band supported Oasis at a concert in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.Charity work
In September 2012, Ifans became a patron of the Welsh-language Wikipedia, together with then Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan. In 2017, Ifans partnered with Shelter Cymru in a campaign called "7 Ways You Can End Homelessness". He also in 2017 supported the community purchase of Tafarn Sinc, a pub in his native Pembrokeshire facing closure. Personal life
Ifans lives in London. He dated British actress Anna Friel

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title: Anders Lange

texts: <mask>  (5 September 1904 – 18 October 1974) was a Norwegian political organiser, speaker and editor who led his eponymously named political party Anders Lange's Party into parliament in 1973. Educated as a forestry technician, <mask> got involved in politics following his stay in Argentina in the late 1920s. He joined the right-wing Fatherland League organisation upon his return to Norway in 1929, and he became a popular speaker at public rallies. His provocative style however often led to controversies. Although his agitation was chiefly directed against the political left, he also rejected the efforts of the far-right. He left the organisation in 1938 to join Landsforeningen Norges Sjøforsvar, where he agitated for strengthening the Norwegian armed forces and warned against the future world war. He was initially blocked from entering the organised Norwegian resistance during the Second World War, but nonetheless did work to assist resistance members, and he was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned twice.After the war, <mask> initially focused on his work as a kennel-owner, as well as to write and publish his own dog-owner's paper. Although he had pledged to not enter politics again, he became increasingly politically active. He started touring the country to speak at his public rallies, and the paper he published became increasingly political. He was a charismatic right-wing public speaker who first and foremost objected to high taxes, state-regulations and public bureaucracy. He gained a considerable following among youth in the 1960s, and their activities included to counter-demonstrate against left-wing demonstrations. Increasingly called upon by his supporters to establish a new

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 political party, it was not until 1973 that he finally agreed to do so. The new party, named <mask>'s Party (ALP) was founded by popular acclamation during a public meeting at Saga kino.He successfully entered the Norwegian Parliament after the election later the same year, but his new-found political career came to an abrupt end when he died the following year. <mask>'s political party was reformed and renamed to the Progress Party after his death. Early life

<mask> <mask> was born in Nordstrand, Aker (now a part of Oslo) to doctor Alf <mask> (1869–1929) and Anna Elisabeth Svensson (1873–1955). He had two older siblings, Alexander and Karen. Although he was born in Aker, the family moved to Foss in Bjelland when he was only six weeks old, owing to his father being appointed district physician for a region consisting of Bjelland, Grindheim and Åseral. The <mask> family was originally from Holstein and Denmark, and included several prominent public officials, priests, doctors and businessmen. <mask> lived in Foss for his first seven years.<mask>'s parents were divorced in 1911, and Anna Elisabeth moved to Bergen with her three children. They lived in humble conditions in a guest house in Fjøsanger for the first two to three years. The family thereafter moved to Kristiania (now named Oslo), settling in Skillebekk. <mask> started his secondary education at Vestheim School in 1921, but failed to graduate examen artium. He subsequently moved to Kristiansand in 1923, and finished his education at Kristiansand Cathedral School in 1924. He was not interested in politics in his youth, spending his free time in outdoor recreation and sports. In Kristiania (Oslo), <mask> had played football and ice

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 hockey for the club Mercantile SFK, and he continued to play football for FK Donn in Kristiansand.He broke his nose several times during play, giving him his characteristic crooked nose. <mask> held his first public speech (albeit a short one), the Kristiansand russ speech, on 17 May 1924 in honour of Henrik Wergeland. He thereafter served in the Royal Guards for his conscription service. During his time in the military, <mask> became interested in forestry after reading the 1923 book Skogen og folket by Christian Gierløff. He graduated as a forestry technician at the Oddernes forestry school in 1926. He had part of his practice in Andebu, and after graduating he continued working there for a local farmer. A cousin of his father later tipped him that he could get work at a forestry school in Argentina, and <mask> set out for the country in 1927.He went to port in Buenos Aires, got in connection with Kristiansand-based Norwegians, and travelled north to Tartagal near the border to Paraguay. He became engaged with the Saco company, and headed a work team of 15 men. <mask> had also brought with him football equipment to the country, and he became known by the locals as "Don André". <mask> lived in Argentina from November 1927 to June 1929, when he went home with his father's casket, his father having died of a heart attack when visiting <mask> at his office in Argentina. Political career

Interwar period
<mask> began his political career in the Norwegian right-wing Fatherland League organisation, which had been founded in 1925 by prominent figures such as Christian Michelsen and Fridtjof Nansen. <mask> received a letter from writer Olaf Benneche, supplemented with a letter from Nansen requesting

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texts: him to come back to Norway and join the anti-communist movement, and he was invited to Nansen's property Polhøiden. According to <mask> himself, it was communism that shaped his views.He had read about communism since his youth, and concluded that it was a "poison" that would destroy humans, take away their liberties and relinquish the independence of nations. <mask> had also noted the stark political conflicts in Argentina during his stay in the country. His experience as an emigrant had led him to debunk what he saw as the left's negative view of patriotism (fedrelandskjærlighet). The growth of the left-wing labour movement at the same time caused a polarisation of Norwegian politics, and the Fatherland League's stated aim was to unite the political right against left-wing revolutionaries. <mask> became secretary of the Fatherland League's Agder branch in 1929, and marked himself in the first year by writing op-eds in newspapers and speaking at public rallies. In early 1933, when Vidkun Quisling was Defence Minister, <mask> was scheduled to host him at a public rally that was endorsed by the Agrarian Party (of which Quisling was a member at the time). The event led <mask> to get a complete distaste of him.<mask> was set to drive Quisling to the rally, and already when they met <mask> noted that Quisling seemed "as distracted as a St. Bernard," and that his handshake was "as limp as a sponge." Quisling did reportedly not say a single word during the five-mile drive to the rally, and his speech was a disaster due to his failure to speak audibly (he would not use a microphone). At the Fatherland League's subsequent national convention in 1933, a faction sought to tie the organisation closer to

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texts: Quisling's then-newly founded party, but <mask> loudly opposed the proposal and attacked Quisling as "the worst Defence Minister this country has ever had." Quisling left the Fatherland League following the convention. Although accused by the left of fascism, <mask> distanced himself from the ideology, and instead considered it to "live on" through socialism and trade unions. <mask>'s later activities consisted mainly of holding public rallies, and his provocative style often got him into physical altercations with left-wing labour activists. His most controversial stunt was in 1935, when he sought to "demonstrate" the Labour Party's attitude towards the existing society.Inspired by an earlier stunt of the Labour Party's youth organisation (AUF), <mask> demonstratively stood above a volunteer soaked in pig's blood, lying over a truck, and "threatening" him with a hammer. The stunt led to clashes with AUF activists (<mask> eventually broke his jaw), and as <mask>'s stunt had not been approved by neither the Fatherland League's local branch nor its central leadership, <mask> was transferred to Oslo. He then held the position as national leader of the Fatherland League's youth organisation from 1935 to 1936. <mask> was considered a great speaker, and his rhetoric changed between being largely gentle or more vulgar. During a 1935 speech, <mask> warned against both socialism and Nazism, often alleging the "dictatorial tendencies" he saw in the Labour Party. He in turn criticised Norway for being "ripe for dictatorship," owing to Norwegians having "stopped thinking" and uncritically accepted "supervisory boards, editorials, propaganda and dozy parliamentarians." <mask> travelled through most of the

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 country to hold speeches, including Northern Norway.<mask> left the Fatherland League at the end of 1938, and joined Landsforeningen Norges Sjøforsvar ("Country Confederation for the Naval Defense of Norway") as its general secretary. The organisation's purpose was to inform about the importance for Norway of the sea, and thus of the Norwegian navy. <mask> continued to travel around the country in order to show films and hold speeches. He agitated for strengthening the Norwegian Armed Forces, and increasingly warned against a possible world war, and how Norway could be pulled into it. <mask>sen rifle, telling the audience to "get ready for war," and asking rhetorically when Norway would arm its forces. <mask> travelled to the Norwegian Parliament on 8 April 1940, and begged Labour Party MP Torvald Haavardstad to mobilise the Norwegian army.Haavardstad in turn responded that <mask> should quit "this hysterical defence talk." Second World War
On 9 April 1940, Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany. Part of the background for <mask>'s predictions about the future war was the letters he sent to several foreign heads of state, including Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. He asked in a letter what Hitler's plans were with his "Third Reich", and received response from German authorities that "Nazi Germany will triumph on all fronts." <mask> had several Jewish friends, and considered their situation to be under such threat in 1939/40 that he thought they should escape before a German invasion of Norway. He managed to reserve 100 seats on the Norwegian America Line for Jews to escape, but none of the seats were taken. <mask> and several of his friends from the Fatherland League were eager to join the

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texts: resistance forces of the Norwegian Campaign, and they set out to Nordmarka on skis on 10 April.<mask> had with him a machine gun and 1,000 bullets, but was forced to turn his weapon in when they met other resistance members. He was considered to be "not reliable" on account of his time in the Fatherland League, and he was left to ski back to Oslo. <mask> became dejected and bitter as a result of his treatment, and he was left to think that the Labour Party, which he had criticised for not arming the defence before the invasion, had now also taken over control of Nordmarka. <mask> was imprisoned at Møllergata 19 in September 1940 for getting into a fight at Theatercaféen with Eyvind Mehle, an associate of Vidkun Quisling. The incident happened the day after Mehle had attacked King Haakon VII in a speech. <mask> refused to greet Mehle when he came past his table, responding that "I don't greet Norway's greatest turd in another way than this," and then slapped Mehle in the face. <mask> thereafter grabbed Mehle and threw him through a door twice.<mask> refused to apologise to Mehle, and was captured by German police the following day. <mask> was imprisoned for four months, and was released in early 1941. His house was searched several times by the Gestapo when he was in prison. On other occasions, <mask> and his family also hid Norwegians who planned to escape to Sweden in their house. Following his release from prison, <mask> assisted resistance members with information work. He thus came under investigation by the police, as he was "known for being an opponent of NS." In 1942 he was captured and imprisoned once more at Møllergata 19 after his house was raided by German police.It was during his

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 times in prison that <mask> started thinking seriously about practical politics. He was according to himself not tortured or abused in prison, but to his satisfaction he was left alone to just read books and think. Postwar years
For the 1945 parliamentary election, <mask> was offered to run for election by the Conservative Party, the Agrarian Party and the Labour Party, but he turned the offers down. <mask> instead started working as the secretary of Norsk Kennel Klubb, a Norwegian dog-owner's club. He was also hired as a columnist in Morgenbladet, writing about the dog community every Monday. <mask> moved to Svartskog, Oppegård with his family in late 1946, where he started working to establish a kennel. He thereafter quit his engagement for Morgenbladet as he started his own paper instead, Hundeavisen (lit."dog paper"). At the time, there were no independent publications such as this for the dog community, and <mask> went to great lengths to spread news about his paper. He (helped by his family) sent about 75,000 letters to dog owners, institutions and dog associations throughout the country, informing them about the new paper. The first issue was published in June 1948. He maintained that politics were to be "banished" from the paper, except for issues directly related to the dog community; he thus criticised the tax on dog-keeping, and the ban on dogs in Oslo tenements. Although <mask> had promised to quit politics after the war, he sought to restart the Country Confederation for the Naval Defense of Norway by late 1947. He thought that the Labour Party government had returned to the pre-war negligence of the Norwegian defence, and that it was a "tactic" by the "communists" in order to

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texts: allow the Soviet Union to grow itself stronger.His attempt to start the organisation again did however not materialise. Instead of this, one of the main issues for <mask> until the early 1950s was to agitate for animal rights. This in turn led him back to his earlier issues of criticising bureaucracy, state capitalism and socialism. He arranged a public meeting at Youngstorget for the first time in 1950, and was thereafter sponsored by an anonymous group to hold one hundred political speeches throughout the country. One time he gathered a crowd of 19,000 people on Youngstorget, who started chanting "<mask>, Norway needs you, Norway needs you." <mask> himself was rather startled by the event, as he thought it recollected pre-war personality cults. He stopped touring in 1953 due to financial problems.He also stopped publishing the paper Hundeavisen in September 1953, as one of his associates had embezzled  from the paper's funding. Although <mask> got most of the money back, the paper was not published for seven years. <mask> had great oratory talents, and he liked to consider himself a "demagogue" in the ancient Greek sense of the word. <mask> planned a massive campaign with public speeches after the 1953 parliamentary election, but he was not able to raise the necessary funding. He largely stopped his political activities until 1959, when he again planned speeches at Youngstorget. <mask> was often encouraged to start a political party during the 1950s, but he did not endorse the idea then. Although <mask> kept contacts with all kinds of people, it was his contacts with businessmen and ship-owners that provided him with funds to keep up his political activities.During the 1960s, <mask> was an

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By the end of 1972 <mask> felt a growing support for his views, and he was again asked to start a new political party. He nonetheless questioned if he had become too old, and he initially

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texts: during his first year in parliament, speaking more than any other representative. He was elected into the Consumer and Administration Committee, which he dismissed as a redundant entity. During his time in parliament he came on good terms with politicians from all parties. <mask> said he only felt hostility from Kåre Willoch, leader of the Conservative Party, whose presence he considered to "fill the room with hate;" Willoch had expressed little respect for <mask> before the 1973 election, labeling him as a "mad-man" and agitator without visions.<mask> had originally intended to create a popular movement rather than a political party, and an internal conflict erupted over the nature of the party. <mask> favoured the superiority of the parliamentary group instead of the party organisation. The wing led by Carl I. Hagen and Kristoffer Almås wanted a more effective party structure, and even wished to throw <mask> as leader and change the party's name. After increasing pressure, during the party's first regular national convention in Hjelmeland in January 1974, <mask> and his deputy Erik Gjems-Onstad were forced to give concessions that gave ALP the outlines of a regular party. <mask> however continued voicing his opposition against the new development, while Hagen and Almås maintained their views on the leadership and naming issues. After initially indicating that he would grant Hagen his wish of being hired as party secretary, <mask> later stated in Dagbladet that Hagen only would be hired "over my dead body." The conflict led Hagen and Almås to leave ALP in July, and Almås went on to form the Reform Party with Hagen as a passive member.The conflict was not resolved until October 1974, when


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 <mask> died of heart failure following a heart attack. As Hagen had been elected as <mask>'s parliamentary deputy in 1973 he took over <mask>'s place as member of parliament. Hagen later became leader of the party and reformed it as the Progress Party. As the party had grown to become the second largest in Norway, an oil painting portraying <mask> was in 2005 put up and unveiled in the big conference room in the Norwegian parliament by Hagen and future leader Siv Jensen. Political views
<mask> supported the economic policies of Milton Friedman. When questioned during the 1973 parliamentary election about who his "political philosopher" was, <mask> responded succinctly "Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman". He also said that his motto was "stand on your own feet, and not on others'."<mask> voted in favour of the European Economic Community (mostly for military reasons), but he was satisfied that Norway did not join it following the 1972 referendum. This was as he expressed concern that the EEC would likely develop into a massive bureaucracy, and that France in his mind probably would misuse it due to the French "need to dominate." Guttorm Hansen, who was the President of the Parliament of Norway when <mask> was a Member of Parliament, once said that he believed <mask>'s apparent goal was to "make [Parliament] into a political circus with himself as the main clown." <mask> said many unexpected things in Parliament. He once bragged about his own potency, and another time spoke about how much moonshine he had consumed in his lifetime, and how terrible it was. He was also censored for the use of unparliamentary language. <mask> wrote in 1963: "Everyone who claims black majority rule in South Africa are

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 traitors of the white race.No vote rights for negroes; Stop mixed marriages, No humanitarian aid for blacks." African relations
Starting in 1962, <mask> began promoting South Africa and Rhodesia in his paper. One of his main motivations was fears that the countries would turn communist, and he was critical of what he considered to be a one-sided and biased presentation of the conditions in the countries. He also had several Norwegian friends in South Africa who traded and did business in the country, and who also considered information about the country in Norway to be naïve and one-sided. <mask> said that he received his information about the countries from numerous Norwegian, American and African magazines. <mask> was on several occasions visited by South Africans in Norway, both friends of Norwegian ancestry and people with central positions in the country, including General Charles Edward More. <mask> and his wife Karin visited the country in early 1972 for three weeks, the trip having been arranged by long-time family friend Major John M. Gray.Their flight was welcomed by government representatives at an airport 50 kilometers outside Pretoria, and he met with prominent figures such as head of the Department of Information Eschel Rhoodie. He also met the leader of the Progressive Party, a party <mask> praised for being the purest capitalist party in the world. He was also impressed with what he saw in the country, including the Bantu chiefs he met. <mask> also advocated that Norway should recognize Ian Smith's Rhodesia, an internationally unrecognized state. He wrote to Smith that <mask> Langes Avis was the only paper in Norway that consistently supported his regime and sent issues of his

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 paper to the Rhodesian Department of External Services. In response his paper received greetings and thanks from Smith and Rhodesian government officials. In March 1979 as part of the Muldergate Scandal, the British newspaper The Guardian wrote that <mask> and ALP had received 180,000 NOK from a secret South African fund.In December 1981, Gordon Winther claimed that ALP and <mask> had received about 400,000 NOK since 1972. People who had been close to <mask> however rejected that he had received money from the South African government. In a letter from 1967, <mask> however notes that he would be delighted if he would get funds from South Africa (which he in any event had not received by that time), while another anonymous person who had been close to <mask> claimed that he did indeed receive money, even to the point that it saved him from financial ruin. Personal life
<mask> married Anne-Marie Bach-Evensen (1906–1967) in 1930. They had exchanged letters when <mask> was in Argentina, and became a couple soon after his return to Kristiansand, where she lived. They had three children. Anne-Marie got diabetes right before the German invasion, and she became very ill.This left <mask> with more responsibilities of keeping in charge of their house and children. Although the family was poorly off itself during the war, they regularly invited homeless people into their house for oatmeal soup. <mask> and his family moved to a farm in Tomter, Østfold, where they rented a house from October 1941 to 1946. During the war, <mask> was hired as forest manager for the Løvenskiold family, and worked at their estate for two years. Frederik Macody Lund, who had died in 1943, had long considered <mask> to be his

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 "adoptive son" as he had no children himself. As his first wife Augusta died in 1946, <mask> inherited Svartskog in Oppegård, an 80 decare forest property. There, he established a kennel which he named Macody Lunds Minde-Vildmark, in honour of his late patron.In 1949 <mask> however started seeing his neighbours' 21-year-old nanny. He filed for divorce from his wife Anne-Marie at the end of 1950, and the divorce was finalised on 18 February 1952. <mask> thus moved from Svartskog, leaving it to Anne-Marie, and planned to marry his new girlfriend. They were engaged in 1951, but the relationship fast broke apart. <mask> thereafter met Karin Thurmann-Moe (1927–1978), and they married on 17 June 1952, just two months after they first met. They had one child. In late 1952 <mask> bought a 22 decare farm with a kennel, Trollstein in Heggedal, Asker.He received financial support to buy the property from a circle around the libertarian organisation Libertas. In addition to dogs, they had geese, hens, cows and pigs at Trollstein, and they grew potatoes and vegetables for their own use. In January 1972, <mask> unsuccessfully sought appointment as the broadcast manager of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. <mask> died of heart failure at Bærum Hospital on 18 October 1974, following a heart attack at Asker Station on 10 October. Writing
<mask> was the author and editor of some publications:
 Editor of Hundeavisen (1948–53 and 1960–61)
 Editor of Anders <mask>s Avis (1962–74)

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 <mask>'s speech at Saga kino in 1973

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1974 deaths
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People from Vest-Agder
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<mask> (21 August 1947 – 10 July 2011, aged 63) was an American luthier and machinist from California. In 1974, he partnered with Marc McElwee and Gary Kramer to start Travis Bean Guitars, which made high-end electric guitars and basses featuring machined aluminum necks. This was an unusual design, departing from more traditional wood necked instruments. The aluminum center section ran through the instrument body, with the pickups directly mounted to the aluminum. The majority of these instruments featured solid koa wood bodies and humbucker pickups. Though praised for their sound, the aluminum necks made <mask> guitars heavier than other electric guitars. Models included the Artist, Standard, Wedge (rare), and TB500 (rare) with single coil pickups.Kramer and <mask> parted ways in 1975, with the former starting Kramer Guitars. The first series of Kramer guitars were redesigned aluminum-necked instruments but utilizing wooden inserts along the back of the neck to cut down on weight and provide a more traditional feel; these modifications also avoided patent infringement of <mask>'s original neck design. Around 3,600 guitars and basses were produced between 1974 and 1979. In the late 1990s, <mask> teamed with master machinist/designer B. Kelly Condon and produced a run of 24 high end, custom instruments. These guitars and basses were aluminum-neck instruments, each machined from a 125-pound billet of 7075 aluminum. The pans weighed just over 4 pounds when finished and all were serial numbered and identified inside the pan. Models
TB500 (Bass) - 1 produced
TB500 (Budget Model) - 351 produced
TB1000S (Standard) - 1422 produced
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TB2000 (Standard Bass) - 1020 produced
TB3000 (Wedge) - 45 produced
TB4000 (Wedge Bass) - 36 produced

Players

Guitarists
 Steve Albini of Shellac - plays TB500 and Wedge
 Steve Pedersen of Criteria - plays a TB1000S.Matthew Bolger of The Redneck Manifesto - plays TB1000S & TB1000A
 Duane Denison of The Jesus Lizard - played TB1000S (Sea Foam Green)
 Roger Fisher of Heart - played TB1000A
 Ace Frehley - Played a black TB1000S in the '75 KISS ALIVE era. Vincent Gallo plays a TB500, TB1000S, TB1000A and TB3000 Wedge model
 Jerry Garcia - played TB1000A and TB500
 John Haughm of Agalloch - plays TB1000S (natural koa) and TB1000A (black)
 Rubberduck Jones, a Finnish punk rock guitarist, who is most well known as the guitarist of several Pelle Miljoona related bands, like Pelle Miljoona & 1980 and the Suspenders. Stanley Jordan - plays TB1000S
 Alex Kane of AntiProduct, on the recommendation of bandmate Nino Del Pesco, was asked by <mask> to test an early guitar prototype during a gig at the Garage. It was the first, and possibly only, time a guitar from the new run was played during a live performance. Greg Lake
 Keith Levene of Public Image Ltd - played Wedge and TB1000S
 John MacLean of Six Finger Satellite
 Stephen Malkmus of Pavement owns a TB1000A
 Efrim Menuck
 Ceylon Mooney of Pezz
 Eddie Rivas of Leopold and Distorted Pony plays a koa TB1000A and a magnolia TB1000S
 Colin Newman of Wire played a TB1000A during the mid-1980s. Rick Nielsen - Played a red and black TB1000S. Both pictured in his book Guitars of The Stars.Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) plays TB1000S
 Buzz Osborne of Melvins
 Joe Perry -


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 played Wedge and TB1000S (black and silver)
 Yannis Philippakis of Foals uses a TB1000S (natural and black) and black TB500
 Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth - played TB1000A (several were stolen in July 1999) Also played TB1000S "bullseye" (which was destroyed) and TB1000S
 Keith Richards - played a TB1000 on the Rolling Stones 1975 tour and a custom made 5-string TB1000A during the 1979 New Barbarians tour. Used a black TB500 during the Rolling Stones 1978 Saturday Night Live performance. Brian Robertson played a TB1000A during his time with Thin Lizzy
 Billy Rowe Jetboy (band)
 Kelly Ryall played a TB1000 during early High Pass Filter shows. Ty Segall played a TB1000S and a TB1000A
 Kevin DeFranco of Super Unison Plays a TB1000A
 Garry Shider of Parliament Funkadelic
 Slash played a TB1000S live when he was still with Guns N' Roses. Only known use was on the song "Bad Obsession"
 Ronnie Wood - played a TB2000 on the Rolling Stones 1975 tour, a TB1000A and a white TB500 during the 1979 New Barbarians tour. Milić Vukašinović of Vatreni Poljubac during whole career. Rich Zoran of Bacchus Lotus played TB1000A in the early 1980s.David Lebón of Seru Giran (Argentine rock supergroup) played a TB1000S, natural finish
 Johan Folkesson of Swedish sludge/doom band Switchblade plays TB1000S'
 John Mayer played a TB1000A at various times during the 2019 Fall Fun Run tour with Dead & Company. Bassists
 Liam Andrews of My Disco plays a TB2000. Emidio Clementi of Massimo Volume
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 on one song during an AntiProduct gig at the Garage (now the Virgil). It was the first, and possibly only, time a bass from the new run was played during a live performance. Johnny Docherty of The Twilight Sad plays a <mask>
 Peggy Foster, The Runaways, Steve Vai, TB4000 Wedge Bass #25, TB2000 Fretless #248
 Chosei Funahara of Plasmatics - played two of black TB4000 Wedges #5 and #31
 Vincent Gallo plays a TB500 bass, TB2000 and a TB4000 Wedge bass. Matt Gentling of Archers of Loaf plays a TB2000.Bruce Hauser of Touch, Stepson & Honeymoon played a Flamed Koa TB2000 1977 - 1978. It was a gift from Marc McElwee and later stolen when Bruce's home was burgled. Mick Karn of Japan - played a fretless TB2000 serial number 002
 Alan Lancaster of Status Quo
 Bill Laswell 1976 TB2000 {Band} Sonor Eclipes
 Tim Midgett of Bottomless Pit and Silkworm - plays TB4000 Wedge. During Silkworm, Tim played a TB1000S modified to baritone and TB2000. Burke Shelley of Budgie plays a TB2000 occasionally. Bob Weston of Shellac and the Volcano Suns
 Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones - Wyman used a custom made short-scale TB2000 from 1977 until 1986. A total of 4 short-scale TB2000 bases were made for Wyman.Anders Steen, formerly a member of Swedish sludge/doom band Switchblade played TB2000's

See also
Frying pan (guitar) - The first aluminum neck guitar, 1930s
Veleno (guitar) - another maker of aluminum neck guitars

References

External links
 Travis Bean Guitars - an unofficial site for enthusiasts of the 1970s guitars. 1947 births
2011 deaths
Guitar makers
American luthiers
Machinists
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texts: Ketevan's burial place. These historical sources stated that Ketevan's palm and arm bone fragments were kept inside a stone urn beneath a specific window within the Chapter Chapel of the Augustinian convent. In May 2004, the Chapter Chapel and window mentioned in the sources were found during a collaboration work between Portuguese and Overseas Citizen of India architect Sidh Losa Mendiratta and the Archaeological Survey of India, Goa-circle (at the time when Nizammudin Taher was superintendent archaeologist). Although the stone urn itself was missing, its coping stone and a number of bone fragments were found close to the window mentioned in the Portuguese sources. Dr. Niraj Rai, Manvendra Singh and Dr. Gyaneshwer Chaubey of the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India and Estonian Biocentre Estonia carried out ancient DNA analysis on these human bone remains excavated from the St. Augustine convent by sequencing and genotyping of the mitochondrial DNA.The investigations of the remains revealed an unusual mtDNA haplogroup U1b, which is absent in India, but present in Georgia and surrounding regions. Since the genetic analysis corroborates archaeological and literary evidence, it is likely that the excavated bone belongs to Queen <mask> of Georgia. However, it is important to keep in mind that Ketevan's palm and arm bone fragments were kept in the same urn as the complete remains of two European missionaries, friar Jerónimo da Cruz and friar Guilherme de Santo Agostinho. Therefore, it would be crucial to determine the sex and the kind of


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<mask>, NNOM (9 November 1941 – 4 September 2016), was a Nigerian novelist and critic. He won the 1976 African Arts Prize for Literature, and the 1993 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book Africa. Also a classicist and scholar, he has been described as one of the most brilliant men of his generation and one of Nigeria's most iconic literary figures. His academic career took him to the US, where he lived with his wife and four children since 1991 until his death, in Binghamton, New York. According to Professor G. G. Darah of the Nigerian Oral Literature Association (NOLA), <mask> "will be best remembered for his original contribution to the discourse of oral literature and epics. The value of his scholarship in this area is comparable to that of Professor Cheikh Anta Diop of Senegal on Egyptian sciences and philosophy, Professor Samir Amin of Egypt on African political economy, Professor Ali Mazrui of Kenya on African history, and Professor John Henrik Clarke on African American history and arts." Early life and education
<mask> was born in Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria.His Urhobo father, <mask>, was from Abraka, in Delta State, a retired senior laboratory technician, and his Igbo mother was from Asaba. <mask> attended St Patrick's College in Asaba, going on to University College, Ibadan, from where he earned a first-class Honours degree in Classics. He obtained his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Denver (1976) and a D.Litt. in the humanities from the University of London (2000). Career
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