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In 2006 <mask> was again very competitive despite suffering a level three shoulder separation in mid-season which hampered his ability to compete to his highest ability. Going into the final event of the season, <mask> and Carmichael were tied for the points lead, making the 2006 season the closest AMA Supercross championship in history.<mask> took third place that night to Carmichael's second, narrowly losing the 2006 AMA Supercross title to Carmichael by only two points. <mask> won 2 races that season. <mask> was in 2nd in the AMA Nationals until he had to withdraw from the Nationals after the Millville round, citing the recurrent shoulder injury. 2007
For 2007 <mask> announced his plans to leave the factory Yamaha team to form his own private team, similar to Jeremy McGrath in the past. Obtaining support from Yamaha, The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, Thor and Nike, even brought in McGrath's former team manager Larry Brooks to spearhead the new effort, dubbed L&M Racing. <mask> took 1 win for the season and finished 2nd in the title chase to James Stewart, Jr.

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In 2008 <mask> won 9 out of 14 races in the AMA Supercross season to edge out Kevin Windham and win the AMA Supercross title for the second time. This was a season full of great battles with <mask> duking it out against Davi Millsaps, Kevin Windham, and Josh Hill for race wins, with <mask>, in the end, winning the championship by 13 points over Kevin Windham.2009
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 championship, with the pair coming to blows on more than one occasion. He narrowly lost the title to Stewart by 4 points. <mask> won 3 races this season. <mask> elected to race the 2009 motocross season after a 2-year hiatus. He won the AMA Motocross Championship at round ten, out of the 12 round series. He also won the Monster Energy Triple Crown Championship during the motocross season.He won 5 out of the 12 races in this season. 2010
For the 2010 season, <mask> joined new teammate Ryan Villopoto riding the KX-450F for the Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team. <mask> failed to finish during the round one final due to a collision with another racer's footpeg, breaking spokes in his front wheel. During round two he collided with James Stewart, Jr. in the final, breaking his hand resulting in another DNF. <mask> returned to race round 13 of the supercross series, and despite having a bad start, <mask> finished fourth. <mask> withdrew from the competition stating he has Epstein-Barr virus. In an open letter published on his website, <mask> admits that becoming a new dad and also the death of his close personal friend Andrew McFarlane may be reasons people look to for his poor performance.2011
After racing & winning the first round of Super X in Newcastle, Australia in October, <mask> returned to the US to test various bikes and teams searching for a suitable 2011 team structure. <mask> embraced social media using Twitter to publish hints as to the likely brand of bike and apparel that he would be using in the 2011 AMA Supercross series. Failing negotiations with established teams, <mask> decided to create his own team, TwoTwo Motorsports, aboard a Honda

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 CRF450R, with support from Honda, Bel-Ray, Shift and many other sponsors. The 2011 season had been a 5-way battle between <mask>, Ryan Villopoto, James Stewart, Jr., Ryan Dungey and Trey Canard. It came down to the final race in Las Vegas between Ryan Villopoto, <mask>, and Ryan Dungey. <mask> won the Las Vegas race but lost the championship by 4 points to Ryan Villopoto. <mask> was presented with the "2011 Rock Hard - Ride Hard Bret Michaels Supercross Award."at Vegas for his great work starting a new team and still finishing 2nd in the championship. 2012
While competing at the seventh round of the 2012 AMA Supercross series in Dallas Texas and going in an Epic Battle with Ryan Villopoto, <mask> crashed and sustained numerous injuries including his left knee. The most serious of the injuries required surgery for a torn ACL. Consequently, <mask> was forced to drop out of the 2012 title chase while sitting second in overall championship points. 2013
After the long hiatus, <mask> returned to racing with his new bike and a new sponsor, Discount Tire, but he kept his TwoTwo Motorsports Honda. While battling with Ryan Villopoto, Davi Millsaps, Ryan Dungey, Trey Canard and Justin Barcia, <mask> struggled to ride hard and pass for the lead. On 23 March 2013, after the race in Toronto, Canada <mask> announced that he underwent knee surgery on Tuesday, and missed one round of competition in Houston, Texas.He came back in Minneapolis to race, however, in the Main Event in Seattle. <mask> crashed in the first corner, where he tweaked his right arm. He came back to Salt Lake City, but had problems with his engine, putting him in the LCQ. In the Main Event in Salt

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After a disappointing 2013 season, finishing twice on the podium, one in Anaheim 2, and the other in St. Louis, <mask> returned to racing. He switched brands from Honda to Kawasaki, but he continued to ride for his own team TwoTwo Motorsports and for Discount Tire. Throughout the season, <mask> continued to struggle and ride a new bike.He finished 3rd in the Season Opener in Anaheim. He got back up passed Ken Roczen for 2nd place and then James Stewart, Jr. for the lead, and won the 3rd round in Anaheim 2, and got back up leading all 20 laps and won the 5th Round in Anaheim 3. While competing at Round 6 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, <mask> crashed hard in the whoops on the Final Lap after clipping Ken Roczen's rear wheel as he tried to take over 3rd place and then suffered a shoulder injury. He tried to race in Arlington, Texas during qualifying practice and his shoulder is getting worse due to a broken collarbone. Consequently, <mask> was forced to drop out the remainder of the 10 rounds of the 2014 AMA Supercross Series while sitting second in overall championship points. In the Lucas Oil MX Series, he finished around 10th overall in the points and won 2 holeshots. 2015
In 2015 <mask> would see one of his most disappointing professional seasons earning one win in the Supercross Championship along with 2 podium finishes.He would withdraw from the AMA Motocross championship midway through the season due to motocross competing sponsorship reasons. He would later announce the folding of his TwoTwo Motorsports Team that

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 was founded in 2011. <mask> would later announce that he would be riding a Yamaha for the continuation of the 15' Season and for the 2015 Monster Energy Cup. 2016
In 2016, <mask> competed in the 2016 AMA Monster Energy Supercross Championship with Factory Yamaha. His sponsors include Yamaha Motor Corporation, Monster Energy, Yamalube, Chaparral Motorsports, Yamaha Financial Services, Oakley Motorsports, and Pro Circuit. 2018
<mask> obtained the world record for the most career Monster Energy Supercross main event starts ever. 2019
On 2 February, He finished Top Five (5th place) at the AMA Monster Energy Supercross in San Diego, CA.On 23 February, <mask> finished on the podium in 3rd in the AMA Monster Energy Supercross in Detroit, MI, Increasing his record of most all-time AMA Supercross podiums to 132. On 23 March, He crashed at the start of the main event during the Seattle, WA supercross event. He sustained multiple injuries including a broken scapula, 8 rib fractures, and a collapsed lung ending his 2019 supercross season. 2020
In the previous year, <mask> had announced that 2020 would be his last season. Midway through the year after the break caused by COVID 19, <mask> switched from Honda to KTM. His best finish in 2020 was a 10th at the finale. Sponsorships

<mask> has ridden for a variety of sponsors over his career, including: Yamaha Motor Company, Husqvarna, Monster Energy, Red Bull, Oakley Motorsports, Fox Racing, Shift, Discount Tire, Boost Mobile, Pro Circuit, 360 Fly Camera and Penrite Oil Company.Recognition
 1997 Australian Junior Motocross Champion
 1999 Australian Supercross Champion
 2000 Australian Supercross Champion
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 Motocross of Nations (Belgium) - Race 2 (125/250), 1st Place
 2002 AMA Eastern Regional Supercross Champion
 2003 U.S Open Champion
 2003 FIM World Supercross GP Champion
 2004 U.S Open Champion
 2004 AMA Supercross Champion
 2005 X-Games Supermoto - Bronze Medal
 2007 King of Bercy Supercross Champion
 2007 Motocross of Nations (USA) - Race 1 (MX1/MX2), 2nd Place
 2008 AMA/FIM World Supercross Champion
 2008 Australian Supercross Champion
 2009 Monster Energy Triple Crown Motocross Champion
 2009 AMA National Pro Motocross Champion
 2009 Motocross of Nations (Italy) - Race 1 (MX1/MX2), 2nd Place
 2009 AMA Athlete of the Year
 2009 Australian Supercross Champion
 2011 Motocross of Nations (France) - Race 1 (MX1/MX2), 1st Place
 2016 AUS-X Open Champion
 2018 The Ironman of Supercross (Most AMA Supercross Starts Record)
 2018 SX-Open Champion
 2018 FIM Oceania Supercross Champion

Honours
On 13 June 2011, <mask> was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to motorsports as a professional supercross motorcycle rider at national and international levels, and to the community. References

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<mask> was an internationally acclaimed mining engineer and coal mine owner. A native of Tyneside, he was a well-known figure in Newcastle in the mid-nineteenth century. Born in Greenside on 25 October 1802, his father, <mask>, was a mining engineer, manager of the Folly Pitt, and agent to several leading coal mine owners including the Dunns, G. Silvertop, Capt. Blackett, W. P. Wrightson, P. E. Townley, and John Buddle. Education and apprenticeship

With this background, Welford's assertion that <mask> started work as a pit-boy out of economic necessity seems unlikely. Young <mask> received his education at the Crawcrook school, also known as Craiggy's School after the father and son, John and John Alexander Craiggy, who acted successively as Master. Crawcrook was at the centre of the coal mining industry at that time and other eminent pupils included Sir George Elliot, Nicholas Wood, J.B. Simpson and others who were to become eminent Mining Engineers in Europe, and America. Bourn comments, "it is a question whether any other village school in England has turned out so many distinguished men who have been connected with the coal trade". <mask> entered the mines and was apprenticed to his father and John Buddle at Townley, Whitfield & Crawcrook collieries... Early career

At the age of 22, he became Under-Viewer at the North Hetton Colliery. After four years, he joined Jonathan Backhouse at the Black Boy and Coundon pits. This period, which coincided with the early years of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, introduced him to the importance of costing the transport of coal to the nearest ports. He reported on the potential for exploitation of the Coxhoe, Shadforth and Sherburn pits, which led to the development of Hartlepool as a coal port.By 1832, he was a Director and share holder in the Old Hartlepool Docks and Railway Company. Fordyce subsequently reported the opening of Hartlepool Docks on 9 July 1835, as follows:  “That

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 stupendous undertaking, the Hartlepool docks and harbour, was opened for the shipment of coal and merchandize. The day being extremely fine, great rejoicings took place. The first shipment of coals was made in the Britannia of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. Having taken her cargo on board, she proceeded to sea amid the ringing of bells, the firing of cannon, and the acclamation of those who had assembled to witness the ceremony." The first shipment of South Hetton coal, following the completion of the South Hetton railway branch, followed on 23 November 1835. In late 1832, <mask> became mining engineer at South Hetton in addition to his other duties.Over the next four years, he made his first major contribution to the mining industry by developing the tub, cage and guide-rod system for raising coal from the pit,    Established practice had been to bring coal to the surface in wicker baskets or “corves”. These had increased in size over the years from 3 cwt. to about 6 cwt., making them difficult to fill and handle underground and prone to snagging while being lifted in the shaft. Adding to the difficulties was the common practice amongst miners of hanging to the ropes or lifting chain to ascend and descend the 1500 ft or more of the pit shaft. <mask> replaced the corves with low tubs which ran on rails underground. Initially these were emptied at the shaft bottom, but he subsequently developed a frame or cage into which several tubs could be loaded for lifting. To prevent the cage fouling the sides of the shaft, he developed an idea proposed initially by a Mr. Curr of Sheffield and fitted guide rods to constrain it.A model of the system was exhibited at the  Polytechnic Exhibition Newcastle and Museum of Practical Geology, London. These developments had a profound effect on mining costs which <mask>  later quantified as a saving of 1s.3 d. per ton of coal or over £1m. p.a. for the NE Coalfield
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 partnership with Buddle and Potter to work the Ryton Glebe and Stella Collieries. This soon extended to the Townley Main and Whitefield pits and workings in the Crawcrook area. The group became known as the Stella Coal Company and traded successfully until the 1860s. <mask> became resident at Stella House and, as part of the developments, leased an area of land to the west of Blaydon Burn, Fig.1.As his principal interest was the development of the Stella staithes, land was sub-leased to a range of industrial users including an acid and white lead factory. These complex legal arrangements were to return to haunt him in later life. America

In the late 1830s, the Blackheath Colliery, Etna and Mid-Lothian pits in Cleveland County, Virginia, were devastated by fire and explosion, resulting in what the NEIMME reported as,
“sacrifice of life in negro workmen". The best American engineers failed to clear the resultant gas and Col. Heth, the Managing Partner, visited London to consult the eminent Engineer, Robert Stephenson. On Stephenson's recommendation, <mask> and Frank Forster, Engineer to the London Sewerage Company, visited Virginia. Within a month, it is claimed that <mask>, assisted by one NE pitman who had accompanied him, had restored the mines to working condition. This was clearly a highly lucrative development for <mask>.For restoring a mine valued at £50k, he was initially offered £10k for his involvement, subsequently amended to a £7k share option and a five-year term as Mining Superintendent on a salary linked to production (and frequently quoted as circa £2k p.a.). Following the intervention of Thos. Wood, it was agreed that <mask> should receive " normal Viewers' customary perquisites" and be allowed to pursue private work for three months in the year. This led to him crossing the Atlantic 16 times between 1839 and 1843, no mean achievement in the age before steamships were fully established. The Agreement for the

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 formation of the Chesterfield Coal & Iron Mining Company dated 30 April 1840, lists John Heth (Virginia), Charles Scarrisbrick (Lancaster) George Morten (Old Bond St.), Thos Wood (Castle Eden) and Samuel Amory (Throgmorton St.) amongst the directors. Arrangements for <mask> are detailed, even specifying that during his time in America he should have, "two horses for his use and the keep of a cow". Welford notes that having an English company holding assets in America caused constitutional issues, requiring negotiations with the American Government.During his time in America, <mask> took an interest in mining in Russia, including the publication of a letter in the New York Herald in 1840 arguing the case for a railway from St.Petersberg to Moscow. This led to Gen. Tcheffkine, the Czar's Director of Mining, and a Russian delegation visiting Tyneside to study railway and mining practice. The party spent several days at Stella with <mask> and the local Consul, <mask> Carr, presenting <mask> with a gold medal and letter of appreciation from the Czar,). Later career

On his permanent return to Tyneside in 1843, residing at 39, Collingwood St., <mask> was an established and secure figure. In addition to his lucrative mining and property holdings, he is listed as a shareholder in the Old Hartlepool Docks and Railway Company, Newcastle, Shields and Sunderland Union Banking Co., Scotswood Bridge Co., and J.S.Challoners, Scotswood Rd... Additionally, he had an interest in the Ovingham Bleachery, George Hartford & John Reed and the Middlesbrough Sail Cloth Co. Unfortunately, the late 1840s seem to have been a bad time for business. Correspondence from the period tells of a series of failures.In May 1847, the Middlesbrough Sail Cloth Company was heading for bankruptcy and <mask> was referring to the Banks, "going wrong". William Thompson Dixon, Sailcloth Manufacturer, has managed to pay only 5/3 in the £. By December, even <mask> himself is

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 being refused further credit by Balamore Mills on the supply of flax for his bleachery. Finally, in March 1848, the Union Bank is appealing to its members for additional funding to stave off its collapse. A further concern during this period was the developing problem with the Stella Haugh land. Townley, who had previously controlled the lease, sought to demonstrate that <mask> had neglected his duties as lessee and landlord, which would potentially have allowed him to benefit from the considerable investment which <mask> and his sub-lessees had made over more than a decade. The case was heard as Molyneux v. <mask> before Mr. Justice Williams at the Durham Summer Assizes on 30 July 1851.Mr. Justice Williams reduced the argument to five points of law, on all of which the jury found predominantly for the defendant, <mask>. Publications

In 1851, <mask>, a lifelong bachelor, was living with two servants at 11, Eldon Square. This coincided with the formation of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers and over the following years he contributed a number of leading papers to their Proceedings, drawing on his extensive knowledge of the coal industry internationally. His definitive work on the North East Coalfield appeared in 1854 including the detailed map, Fig.2. This was followed by the companion paper on the ports of the region in 1861. <mask> defended vigorously the position of the Tyne, possibly because of his vested interests, but also made a strong case for the development of Redcar as a 40 ft. deep water port to transport iron ore to Tyneside for smelting. He clearly took a keen interest in the development of North Yorkshire's iron deposits, as shown by the inclusion of the Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway Bill, 1854, in his bound papers,

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 issues backed by economic analysis, but Members were then treated to a review of his 1854 Summer Holiday with slides of the Adelsberg Grotto, Fig.3. His 1856 paper on the potential of the United States) was informed by his years in Virginia, where the short rail links to the James River were a particular attraction. He was also aware of Pennsylvania's large reserves, which have been exploited to the present day. Although he had spent some months in France  his Notes on the production and consumption of coal in France  draws heavily on the centralised returns of the French Legislature, which operated from 1832. This includes telling detail of the 20% drop in production that accompanied the Revolution around 1848. Although he had visited Shanghai, his paper on China relied heavily on the tour of Mr. Samuel Mossman    <mask> noted that coal had been mined there since 200 BC, but considered the industry very backward and ended his paper with an exhortation to capitalists and engineers to seek concessions there. Technical developments
In addition to his economic insights, <mask> was involved in several technical developments.Following the Stephenson / Davy controversy about the origins of the safety lamp, opinion was divided between gauze and glass lamps:  it was argued that the former could, in some circumstances, be unsafe whereas the latter sometimes gave only limited light. <mask> was party to an ingenious set of experiments initiated by Nicholas Wood at the Killingworth and Wallsend Collieries <mask>'s solution was a series of designs incorporating both gauzes and glass, which were published following the experiments, Fig.4. Other developments concerned boiler level indicators, coke ovens and screens for coals, Fig.5. He was also the first in the region to use pit gas for underground lighting

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 original essays are preserved in English and the French translation, and were subsequently published in the NEIMME Transactions, Fig.6. Decline and death

In the mid-1860s, <mask> prepared a report on the Coalbrook and Broadoak Collieries at Loughor, Glamorgan, The intended business model appears similar to the earlier American activity, with the key investors being Sir Wm.Milman, Messrs Manning and O'Donoghue. Relations between the partners appeared to sour between February and May 1866, by which point relations had broken down with the threat of legal action At the same time, relations with the Simpsons, who managed the Stella assets, became strained

At this time and clearly under considerable pressure, <mask> suffered a stroke which incapacitated him for at least 12 weeks.It appears that he spent his remaining years quietly. In 1865, he had been contemplating the purchase of the Villa Real in the Morpeth area, but the sale did not proceed. Bourn. states that he retired to Wylam Hill Farm. He died at his Newcastle residence, 11, Eldon Sq., on 3 February 1870 and his funeral was at Ryton Church. Scholarship bequest

<mask> maintained his commitment to learning and scholarship. As recorded in the Transactions of the NEIMME, ".. . a clause in the will of the late Mr. Thos.Y.Hall, which provided that the interest on £500 would be available for a scholarship connected with the college, which he (the President) hoped would soon be formed in connection with this Institute." This endowment provided the Thomas Young Hall Exhibition at the College of Physical Science, which is still awarded to a pre-eminent Undergraduate in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering at Newcastle University. References

Sources and further reading

Abbreviations:  NEIMME:  North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers 			 DCRO:  Durham County Records Office

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<mask> was born in The Bronx, New York, in a Jewish family, the son of Benjamin and <mask>. He has one sister, Marlene (<mask>) Kitrosser. He graduated from Columbia College and the New York University School of Law. Career

New York State Assembly
<mask> launched his political career as a 27-year-old insurgent challenging his local assemblyman and the Bronx Democratic machine in a Democratic primary in September 1965. <mask> was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1966 to 1969, sitting in the 176th, 177th and 178th New York State Legislatures.Bronx borough president
From 1970 to 1978, he was borough president of the Bronx and a member of the New York City Board of Estimate, having been elected in 1969 and overwhelmingly re-elected in 1973 and 1977. He was a delegate to the 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 Democratic National Conventions. At the 1972 Democratic National Convention, he was the co-chair of the New York delegation and was at the microphone to cast New York's 267 votes for George McGovern. In 1980, he was the chairman of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's primary campaign for president in New York and led a strong victory over incumbent President Jimmy Carter. In 1988, he was a presidential elector, voting for Michael DukakisLloyd Bentsen ticket. New York attorney general
<mask> was elected New York attorney general in 1978, the first time in forty years a Democrat was elected to that post and was subsequently re-elected three times, in 1982, 1986, and 1990. He defeated future Republican Rep. Peter King in his 1986 re-election campaign for Attorney General.<mask> built a reputation as an activist and consumer advocate, taking on

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 environmental polluters, charity frauds, discrimination in housing and various activities in the marketplace. He is also well known for the manner in which he sensitively and professionally handled an extremely difficult assignment, that of special prosecutor investigating the claims of Tawana Brawley. Governor Mario Cuomo directed him in 1988 to investigate the claims of Brawley, a black teen-ager, that she had been abducted and raped in upstate Dutchess County by a gang of whites. A lengthy grand jury inquiry supervised by <mask>' office later concluded that she had fabricated her story. During his tenure as attorney general, <mask> received numerous awards and honors and earned national prominence rarely achieved by a state-level official. He served as president of the National Association of Attorneys General and was selected by his colleagues to receive the coveted Wyman Award as Outstanding Attorney General in the Nation. 1992 U.S. Senate election

In 1992, he sought election to the United States Senate, to challenge Republican Senator Al D'Amato.He won the Democratic Primary, defeating former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, Rev. Al Sharpton, and New York City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman. <mask> was initially the front-runner but by the end of the summer he was running second to Ferraro in polls. The nomination battle then took a bitter turn, particularly Holtzman and <mask>' attack on Ferraro's questionable business dealings including links with organized crime members including Gambino crime family soldier <mask>, which Ferraro interpreted as anti-Italian slurs. After <mask> emerged as the nominee, the Democrats remained divided and he was unable to secure Ferraro's endorsement until the last days of the campaign. <mask> was also criticized for calling D'Amato a Fascist, and he narrowly lost the general election as a result of these controversies. After narrowly losing

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Upon leaving government, <mask> joined Stroock & Stroock & Lavan as a partner. He has remained active in civic affairs in New York. In 1996, the New York University School of Law established an annual lecture program, the Attorney General <mask> Public Service Lecture whereby each year a prominent public figure who has performed exemplary public service addresses the students, faculty and alumni of the law school to urge students to consider all or a portion of their career to be dedicated to public service. During the ensuing 25 years, United States senators, governors, attorneys general and judges have appeared as guests, including United States Senators Joe Lieberman from Connecticut, Heidi Heitkamp from North Dakota, Tom Udall from New Mexico, Vermont Chief Justice Jeffrey Amestoy, Governors Jim Doyle of Wisconsin, Mike Easley of North Carolina, Ted Kulongoski of Oregon, and attorneys general Karl Racine of Washington, D.C., Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, and Letitia James of New York. Mayor Bloomberg appointed <mask> in 2005 to serve on the New York City Charter Revision Commission. In 2006, New York Governor Elect Eliot Spitzer appointed <mask> to serve as Co-Chair of his Policy Advisory Committee on Governmental Reform for his Transition, and New York Attorney General Elect Andrew Cuomo appointed him Executive Chair of his Transition Committee.In 2008, New York Governor David Paterson appointed <mask> to serve on the Board of the United Nations Development Corporation. On May 9, 2009, New York Governor David Paterson renamed the Justice Building at the Empire State Plaza in Albany the <mask> Abrams Building for Law and Justice.

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 announced his endorsement of James in the race. James became the first woman and the first African American to be elected to the position of New York State Attorney General and appointed <mask> as co-chair of her transition team.In March 2021, <mask>' memoir, The Luckiest Guy in the World: My Journey in Politics, was published by Skyhorse Publishing. Personal life
On September 15, 1974, he married the daughter of Jacob and Hilda Schulder, Diane Schulder <mask>, an attorney who created and taught the first "Women and the Law" course in an American law school. <mask> and Diane have two daughters, Rachel and Becky, and eight grandchildren. <mask> and Diane's second child Becky was born to them when Diane was 49 years old. They attribute her birth to a blessing they received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe. References

 Political Graveyard
 Attorney General <mask> to Quit To Join a Law Firm in Manhattan. New York Times.September 9, 1993. Executive Order renaming Justice Building

External links
 <mask> - Partner: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
 NYU Law School Attorney General <mask> Public Service Lecture series [U.S.Senator Tom Udall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTcxGkXiK9U&t=29s]
 NYU Law School Attorney General <mask> Public Service Lecture series [U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp
 NYU Law School Attorney General <mask> Public Service Lecture series [Attorney General Karl Racine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MPqHLrpwSo&t=28s]
 NYU Law School Attorney General <mask> Public Service Lecture series [Attorney General Josh Shapiro

1938 births
Living people
Bronx borough presidents
Jewish American state legislators in New York (state)
New York State Attorneys General
Members of the New York State Assembly
New York (state) Democrats
Columbia College (New York) alumni
New York University School of Law alumni
1988 United States presidential electors
Politicians from the Bronx
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 victories. ZeRo suffered from a growth on his middle finger in early 2016 that required surgical removal, and prevented him from playing Smash for several months. 2018–present: Partnerships, sexual misconduct allegations and cut ties

In January 2018, hours after ZeRo was once again ranked 1st on the Panda Global Rankings v4, ZeRo announced his hiatus from the Smash competitive scene, citing a need for variation in his life and goals.However, during this time he continued to be active in the Super Smash Bros. community and continued streaming on his Twitch channel. In November 2018, ZeRo simultaneously announced his return to professional competition for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and his signing to the Tempo Storm esports team. ZeRo announced a year later that he had signed an exclusive streaming rights deal with Facebook. On July 3, 2020, <mask> announced that he would be retiring from professional competition following allegations of sending sexual messages to minors when he was 19, and that he would also be ending all of his sponsorships. This includes an incident in 2014, where ZeRo asked "Katie", a 14-year-old girl at the time, to masturbate with ice and to take pictures. He later confessed that the incident was true and that he knew her age, but claims the second victim he spoke to earlier in 2014, "Laura", lied about her age.ZeRo later made a statement on YouTube, saying he's sorry and is seeking therapy. The following day, Tempo Storm announced that they would be severing ties with ZeRo, with Facebook following suit on July 5, and Twitch on July 23. When Inven Global asked the team's CEO, Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk, if he saw "a world in which ZeRo is able to rehabilitate himself and potentially re-join Tempo Storm in some capacity", he


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<mask>, OC (born Michael Tims in Vancouver in 1946) is an artist. He was a founding member of the artists' group General Idea, was president and director of Printed Matter, Inc., and started the NY Art Book Fair and the LA Art Book Fair. Early life
Tims' father was an Air Force officer, and as a result, the family moved often; Tims spent his childhood in various places across Canada. He was an avid reader as a child, and it was through his reading habits that he explored his interest in art, architecture, spirituality and the occult, which would remain significant touchstones throughout his life and career, especially in his post-General Idea solo career. He attended the University of Manitoba as an architecture student in the mid-1960s. He met Ron Gabe (aka Felix Partz) at the University of Manitoba. While at architecture school, he came to be interested in and involved with theories of radical education and communes.His interest in and experience with alternate methods of education began at the age of 12, where his primary school experimented with a form of self-directed learning. He, along with a group of fellow U of Manitoba students, dropped out to form a commune, whose activities included a free press (called "The Loving Couch Press") and a free school (called "The School"). It was via his activities with the Loving Couch Press that Bronson came into contact with other underground presses. This, in turn, exposed him to the Situationist International and Fluxus, which would have a significant impact on the ideas and methods pursued as part of General Idea. In the late 1960s, Bronson trained as a facilitator in group-process for communes and cooperative communities while apprenticing with a psychologist at the University of Regina. In his role as an apprentice, he travelled across Canada, including to Simon Fraser University. At Simon Fraser, he met Brian Carpenter, who deepened his exposure to radical communication theories.He also encountered the InterMedia artist collective, and


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 Slobodan Saia-Levy (aka Jorge Zontal). In 1969, <mask>'s involvement in communes and radical education theories and practices took him to Toronto, to investigate the Rochdale College experiment. It was through some of the members of Rochdale College that <mask> deepened his friendships with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal (each having arrived in Toronto for different reasons). They, along with several others, became involved in the countercultural performance and "happenings" scene that centered around Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille. Through Theatre Passe Muraille, <mask> apprenticed with Coach House Press (he also did graphic design for Passe Muraille). General Idea
The General Idea artists group, initially a loose collective of five to seven people, was founded in 1969 by <mask>, Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz, Partz's then-girlfriend Mimi Paige, and Granada Gazelle (a.k.a. Sharon Venne).Among the group's various activities, The trio founded FILE Megazine, a visual magazine, which they edited and published from 1972 until 1989. In 1974 they founded Art Metropole, an international publisher, distributor and archive of artists' books, video and multiples, which they conceived as an extension of the self-mythologization of General Idea. <mask> was the director of Art Metropole from 1974 through 1984, and again from 1996 through 1998. The three worked and lived together for 25 years, until their collaboration was terminated with the death of both Zontal and Partz in 1994. General Idea continues to exhibit internationally in private galleries and museums, as well as undertaking countless temporary public art projects around the world. <mask> has been working independently since that time. He is currently represented by Esther Schipper, Berlin and Maureen Paley, London.Solo career

AA Bronson's solo artwork has dealt with trauma, loss, death and healing. While caring for friends coping with their AIDS-related illnesses, Bronson began to participate in Body Electric (and related) therapeutic

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texts: massage and healing workshops and seminars in California (he partook in the first of such seminars in 1989). His initial motivation for this was to become a midwife to the dying. Over the course of the next eleven years, he would return to California to continue to take part in, and deepen his knowledge of, alternative healing and therapeutic bodywork practices. After the deaths of Partz and Zontal, an aspect of Bronson's grief manifested as a creative crisis. His first works are, in fact, elegies both to his General Idea partners and his own identity as part of the group: a deathbed portrait of Felix Partz (Felix, June 5, 1994, 1994–99), a triptych of Zontal shortly before his death (Jorge, February 3, 1994, 2000) and a full-body nude self-portrait in the shape of a coffin (<mask> Bronson, August 22, 2000, 2000). He began working professionally as a healer initially out of personal calling, and this professional identity as a healer was soon integrated into his artistic identity.<mask> has said that he approached his identity as a healer in the same way that General Idea approached their identities as artists: the word was so overused, it had lost any particular meaning and significance, and so he was free both to assume the 'drag' of a healer, and consequently, to invest the word with his own meaning. The first expression of his healing practice as an artistic performance emerged at a solo show at the Frederic Giroux gallery in Paris in 2003. His healing practice garnered significant attention in the press due to his inclusion of an anal massage technique, a practice he learned through a teacher Bronson met during his extensive therapeutic massage schooling in California. In 2004, <mask> began working at Printed Matter as its director. Through his involvement in Printed Matter, he founded the NY Art Book Fair in 2005 (which in turn birthed the LA Art Book Fair). The annual NY Art Book Fair, which hosts over 200 independent presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and

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 publishers from twenty countries. Via his work at Printed Matter and at the Book Fairs, Bronson began to be introduced to a network of a younger generation of artists, with whom he began and continues to collaborate regularly.A significant aspect of this collaboration took form in a series of site-specific "secret" performances entitled Invocation of the Queer Spirits, conceived in collaboration with artist Peter Hobbs. They, along with a series of select collaborators, would collectively ritually invoke the spirits of the dead in various locales. The ritual has been performed in Banff, New Orleans, Winnipeg, Governor's Island, the Fire Island Pines. These performances were always private. A book documenting this process (including its conception and photographic evidence of its remnants) was published by Creative Time in 2011. Since then, the Invocation of the Queer Spirits has been performed in Berlin and Paris, among other venues. In 2009, <mask> enrolled as a Masters of Divinity candidate at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.While at Union, he co-founded the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice with Kathryn Reklis. In 2013, <mask> was invited to Berlin to be a resident as part of the DAAD Berliner Kunstler program. After the course of the yearlong residency was over, he and his partner, Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur, decided to remain in Berlin, where they both currently reside. In 2021, he was one of the participants in John Greyson's experimental short documentary film International Dawn Chorus Day. Exhibitions
He had his first solo institutional exhibition outside of General Idea in 2000 at the Vienna Secession in Austria, followed closely by a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2001), a solo exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2002), and another at The Power Plant in Toronto (2003) and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2004). He was featured in the Montreal and Whitney Biennials

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 Switzerland. In the mid-nineties he curated a series of exhibitions for Art Metropole, including Intermedia, a look at Canada's first artist-run center. More recently, as Director of Printed Matter, Inc., New York, he has curated exhibitions related to artists' publishing, notably "I will not make any more boring art", an exhibition of books, prints and ephemera from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. His exhibition, again titled Learn to Read Art, a history of Printed Matter Inc. with more than 300 publications, editions, and posters, was presented at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon (Seville, Spain), Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe, Germany), and at MoMA PS1 in 2009.<mask> has been deeply involved with publishing, promoting publishing activity as a primary artistic form. In 1979 he co-edited Performance by Artists with Peggy Gale for Art Metropole, Toronto. In 1983 they co-edited another resource publication, Museums by Artists,  Art Metropole. In 1987 the Power Plant catalogue Sea to Shining Sea attempted to construct a history since the post-war period of artist-initiated activity in Canada, including the formation of the artist-run centers. He also published artists' books for Art Metropole by Jeff Wall, Colin Campbell, Lisa Steele, Hamish Fulton, Hans Haacke, and others, as well as conceiving the series Little Cockroach Press, of which he edited the first few issues. As director and president of Printed Matter, he has published many books, including titles by Scott Treleaven, Terence Koh, Tauba Auerbach, Martha Rosler and Temporary Services (Chicago). AA Bronson has written widely, including texts for FILE Megazine, and General Idea publications, as well as essays for art magazines and catalogues.He has published numerous artist books and projects under his own imprint, Media Guru. His own memoir, Negative Thoughts, was published by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2001. Collections and awards
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 collections of the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), The Whitney Museum (New York), the Jewish Museum (New York), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), and private collections. <mask> Bronson has been awarded the Skowhegan Award (2006), the Governor General's Visual Arts and Media Award (2002), the Bell Award in Video Art (2001), and a Chalmers Fellowship (2003). Other awards include The Gershon Iskowitz Prize (1988), The Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Toronto (1993), the Banff Centre for the Arts National Award (1993), and the Jean A. Chalmers Award for Visual Arts (1994). He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He has received honorary doctorates from NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada; Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; and McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada..In 2008, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2011, he was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister of Culture and Communications for France, at a ceremony held at the home of the Canadian ambassador to France in Paris. In 2014, The Temptation of AA Bronson won the AICA Netherlands award for best exhibition. References

External links
Composed: Identity, Politics, Sex An exhibition at The Jewish Museum, NY featuring <mask> Bronson. AA Bronson Official website
 AA Bronson artist talk on the history of Printed Matter. Concordia University Honorary Degree Citation, November 2009, Concordia University Records Management and Archives
 AA Bronson Studio Visit on Berlin Art Link

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1946 births
Canadian performance artists
LGBT artists from Canada
Officers of the Order of Canada
Gay artists
Canadian mixed media artists
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Artists from Vancouver
Artists from Ontario
Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Canadian conceptual artists
Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Canadian contemporary

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<mask><mask> (Târgu Mureș, 15 January 1954) is a poet, writer, translator, editor, and publisher. Life and work
Born in Târgu Mureș, he was a student of the high school of Ditrău (Mathematics-Physics). He continued his studies at the Institute of Catholic Theology in Alba Iulia. He graduated in Library science and Literary translation in Bucharest. He worked as a librarian at the Harghita County Library in Miercurea Ciuc until 1989. In 1990, he moved to Slovakia. Between 1990 and 1992 he was an editor of Szabad Újsag (Bratislava), collaborated to Új Szó and was the manager of the Madách Publishing House in Bratislava.In 1994, he founded AB-ART Publishing (Bratislava), of which he is the director since then. He is a founding editor of Poesis International Satu Mare and editor-in-chief of Szőrös Kő. He is a member of the Hungarian Writers' Union, of the Writers' Union of Romania, of the Hungarian PEN Club, of the Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia and of the League of Hungarian Writers of Transylvania. He is the vice-president of Dellart cultural association (Cluj-Napoca). As the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry and the translator of more than twenty books of poetry and fiction, <mask> F<mask> has received numerous awards and prizes in acknowledgement of his various literary activities (Madách Prize, Lucian Blaga Prize, Arghezi Prize). His works have been translated in 15 languages. As an

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 invited poet, he is a regular participant of diverse literary festivals all around the world (Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Canada, Turkey, Ecuador).Bibliography

Poetry collections
1992 : Maszkok (poetry), Madách, Bratislava, Madách Prize. 1992 : A macska leve (short fiction), Microgramma, Bratislava. 2002 : Meztelen lovagok (poetry), AB-ART, Bratislava. 2003 : Arcképcsarnok (educational series on literature), AB-ART, Bratislava. 2005 : Szókeresztem (selected poetry), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda. 2006 : Casanova átváltozásai – Premeny Casanovu (bilingual collection of poetry, Hungarian-Slovakian, Plectrum. 2007 : Kortárs román költők (trans., ed.)2007 : Antologia sucasnej rumunskej poezie (trans.) 2008 : Menekülés a gettóból (translations), AB-ART, Bratislava. 2008 : Missa bestialis, Limes, Cluj-Napoca, 2008. 2009 : Egy zacskó cseresznye (Anthology of contemporary Romanian poetry), AB-ART, Bratislava. 2010 : Versek / Poezii. Bilingual edition (Hungarian-Romanian). Limes / Dellart.2010 : Minimál (new poems), AB-ART, Bratislava. 2011 : KÉK (new poems), AB-ART, Bratislava. 2011 : Metamorfozele lui Casanova, translated by I<mask>, Grinta, Cluj-Napoca. 2011 : Minimal, translated by Enikő Thiele-Csekei and Timo Berger, Gabrielle Schaefer Verlag, Herne. 2012 : Casanova átváltozásai, (short fiction) AB-ART, Bratislava. 2012 : The Scene, (poetry in 12 languages), Orient-Occident, Bucharest. 2012 : Prelomljeni hleb,


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 (poetry in Serbian, translated by Jolanka Kováč), Libertatea, Pančevo.2012 : Gordiev Jazol, (poetry in Macedonian, translated by D. Dimov), Matica, Skopje. 2013 : Legszebb versei, (selected poetry, afterword by Csaba András Sűtő), AB-ART, Bratislava. 2013 : Minimal (poetry in Portuguese, translated by José Eduardo), Editora Aty, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 2013 : Casanova's Metamorphoses (translated by Adrian George Sahlean), Ekstasis Editions, Vancouver, Canada. 2014 : Cravata lui Villon, (poetry in Romanian, translation by Serban <mask>, foreword by Gheorghe Grigurcu, Tipo, Moldavia. 2014 : Luna pe cale de a se ȋneca, short fiction, translated by <mask>ă Gábos Ildiko, essay by Nicolae Coande, ARC, Chișinău. 2014 : La metamorfosis de Casanova, Spanish translation by Rafael Soler, El Quirófano Ediciones, Colombia.2014 : Blue/Kék, English translation by Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay, Libros Libertad, Vancouver, Canada. 2015 : Метаморфозе Казанове, short fiction in Serbian, translation by Jolánka Kovács, Sremska Mitrovica. 2015 : Missa Bestialis, poetry in English, translation by Lucia Gorea, Libros Libertad, Vancouver, Canada. 2015 : Villon nyakkendője, poetry, Art Danubius. 2016 : Chair impassible, poetry in French, translation and foreword by Károly Sándor Pallai, Éditions du Cygne, Paris, France. Translations
2007 : Kortárs román költők, AB-ART, Bratislava. 2009 : Varujan Vosganian, Kék sámán (Şamanul albastru), AB-ART,

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 Bratislava.2009 : Gabriel Chifu, Táblajáték (Jocul de table). Translation by Balázs F<mask> and <mask>, AB-ART, Bratislava. 2009 : Mircea Petean, Anna versek (Poemele Anei), AB-ART, Bratislava. 2009 : Angela Baciu, Poezii / Versek, Limes /AB-ART. 2009 : Mircea Petean, Poezii / Versek, Limes, Cluj-Napoca. 2011 : Vasile Dan, Folyékony tükör poetry, AB-ART. 2011 : Lucian Blaga, Poezii / Versek, Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest.2012 : Ioan Es Pop, Nem mertem kiáltani soha, AB-ART. 2012 : Robert Serban, Illatos koporsó, poetry, L'Harmattan, Budapest. 2012 : Carolina Ilica, Valamivel több, poetry, AB-ART. 2012 : Rade Siljan, Évszázadok, poetry, AB-ART. 2013 : Rafael Soler, Visszaút / Maneras de volver, poetry (bilingual edition) AB-ART. 2013 : José Eduardo Degrazia, A szerelem geometriája, poetry, AB-ART. 2014 : Turczi István, Strainul, poetry, Europa, Craiova.2014 : Új Dánia, Anthology of Moldavian poetry, Parnasszus, Budapest. 2014 : Augusto Rodriguez,  Örültek csókja, poetry, AB-ART. 2015 : Nedeljko Terzic,  Robaj és csend, poetry, AB-ART. 2015 : Metin Cengiz, Fekete és fehér, poetry, AB-ART. 2015 : Müesser Yeniay, A rózsaszedés szertartása, poetry, AB-ART. Anthologies

1978 : Kimaradt Szó, Kriterion, Bucharest. 1980 : Ötödik Évszak, Târgu Mureș.1999 : Vámbéry Antológia, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda. 2006 : Vámbéry Antológia, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda. 2006 : Szlovákiai magyar szép versek, SZMIT, Dunajská Streda.

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<mask> (born January 23, 1948) is an American writer, best known as the author of the Angelina Ballerina series, illustrated by Helen Craig, and the Twinkle series, illustrated by Sharon Williams. Early life and education
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second of four daughters, <mask> grew up in an artistic home in Chicago, and her family spent many summers in Michigan. In 1969, she received a B.A. in literature from Bennington College in Vermont and then worked at Bennington College as a literary editor for a year after her graduation. Career
<mask> then found herself in Italy as a freelance journalist where she met her husband, Michael Haggiag. The two married in 1974 and moved to London, where she continued to write and worked at a nursery school. She has two daughters, Tara and Alexandra.Later, Holabird met Helen Craig, a London photographer and artist whose illustrations have been inspired by her childhood in rural England. Over the next few years, Craig illustrated several mini-books with mice, and <mask> provided some of the text. In 1983, her third child, Adam, was born. In 1983, <mask>'s first children's book, Angelina Ballerina, was published. Her son Adam was her inspiration for the character Henry, and Angelina's character was inspired by her daughters' love for dressing up and dancing. <mask> wrote the first draft of Angelina Ballerina at the kitchen table with her daughters dancing around her. In fact, the Angelina books were originally about a girl, but then Craig drew a mouse, and <mask> loved it."The impulsive character of Angelina came alive," says Holabird, "and seemed to pirouette off the page with enthusiasm and energy, while her plump and ebullient body expressed drama and attitude in every twitch of her tail." Angelina is a very emotional character; she is sensitive and often bursts into tears right before offering an apology. She struggles with her conscience but always ends up doing the right thing—which is very familiar to many young children. The universal childhood themes in Angelina

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 premiered on PBS Kids TV in the United States.Angelina Ballerina's Invitation to the Ballet received the prestigious Oppenheim Platinum Award in the U.S. in 2004. That same year, Angelina was named the official spokesperson of National Dance Week in the United States. In 2005, Angelina made her debut on PBS Kids Sprout, a 24-hour digital television channel for preschoolers in the U.S.

Holabird was honored in 2006 with an invitation to Queen Elizabeth's 80th birthday party at Buckingham Palace. That same year, the entire series of Angelina books was reissued by Grosset and Dunlap in the United States. Also in 2006, The Angelina Ballerina Dance Academy debuted with special Angelina ballet classes across England. Angelina's Star Performance, an original ballet based on Angelina at the Palace, debuted in 2007 in London with the English National Ballet. Holabird is hoping to release a new theatrical pop-up Angelina book in 2008.Together, <mask> and Craig have now published a total of ten Angelina books and two Alexander books. Overall, the Angelina books have been translated into more than 20 languages. <mask> speaks English, French, Italian, and a bit of Spanish. Her favorite books are Charlotte's Web, Black Beauty, and the Harry Potter series. She writes in a blue room with a scenic view upstairs in her London home, and it usually takes her six to eight weeks to write an Angelina book. After that, each book goes to Helen Craig for at least three months to be illustrated; then it goes to the publisher and is usually published nine months later. Her most recent work, Twinkle, is about a child fairy that goes to the Fairy School for Music and Magic.The series was written by <mask> and illustrated by Welsh artist Sharon Williams. References

External links
KatharineHolabird.com – official website

Author Information: <mask> <mask>, Internet Book List. 1948 births
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American children's writers
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<mask> (born 13 February 1990) is a New Zealand mixed martial artist. He was the King in the Ring Middleweight Kickboxing Champion and WKBF X-Rules Welterweight Champion, and currently competes in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As of November 2, 2021, he is #8 in the UFC lightweight rankings. Mixed martial arts career

Early career
<mask> made his professional mixed martial arts debut in March 2009. He fought primarily in his native New Zealand and amassed a record of 10–4 before joining the Ultimate Fighting Championship. <mask> is also a professional kickboxer with a 9–1–3 record, winning the King In The Ring Middleweight Kickboxing Championship and WKBF X-Rules Welterweight Championship. <mask> also has a 3–2 submission grappling record.On 18 October 2009 he took part in the ICNZ Contender Series 1 No-Gi Submission Wrestling Tournament. He beat Thomas Kwok and Bass Khou by guillotine choke and lost to Pumau Campbell on points. He also competed in the New Zealand 2011 No-Gi Nationals, in the Advanced under 77 kg / 170 lbs division, he beat Paul Faavaoga in the first round and lost to LJ Stevenson in the second round. He has also competed in a heavyweight fight, for which he weighed in at 86 kg / 189 lbs, against Mark Creedy, winning by knockout in the second round. He also competed in a heavyweight tag team kickboxing match against Antz Nansen. <mask> has been coaching MMA since 2008, spending time as head coach at City Kickboxing gym in Auckland. In mid 2018 <mask> opened his own gym Combat Academy in Ellerslie, Auckland, a state-of-the-art gym that

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 included a full-sized boxing ring and an octagon.Ultimate Fighting Championship

2014
<mask> made his promotional debut against fellow newcomer Ian Entwistle on 28 June 2014 at UFC Fight Night 43. <mask> won the back-and-forth fight via TKO in the first round. <mask> faced Maximo Blanco on 20 September 2014 at UFC Fight Night 52. <mask> lost the fight via unanimous decision. 2015
<mask> faced Hatsu Hioki on 10 May 2015 at UFC Fight Night 65. He won the fight via knockout due to a combination of head kick and punches in the second round. With this win, he became the first man to knock out Hioki in a MMA fight.The win also earned <mask> his first Performance of the Night bonus award. <mask> next faced Yair Rodríguez on 3 October 2015 at UFC 192. He lost the fight by unanimous decision. 2016
<mask> next faced Mark Eddiva on 20 March 2016 at UFC Fight Night 85. He won the fighting from a high-elbow mounted guillotine choke in the first round. <mask> faced Jason Knight on 27 November 2016 at UFC Fight Night 101. He lost the fight via unanimous decision.2017
Moving up from featherweight to lightweight, <mask> fought Ross Pearson on 11 June 2017 at UFC Fight Night 110. He trained locally in City Kickboxing in Newton, Auckland. He won the fight via knockout in the second round. The win also earned <mask> his second Performance of the Night bonus award. <mask> faced Marc Diakiese on 30 December 2017 at UFC 219 He won the fight via guillotine choke submission in the third round. 2018
<mask> faced Jim Miller on 21 April 2018 at UFC Fight Night 128. He won the fight via knockout in round

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 one.<mask> faced Gilbert Burns on 7 July 2018 at UFC 226. He won the fight via knockout in round one. <mask> faced Edson Barboza on 15 December 2018 at UFC on Fox 31. <mask> lost the fight via TKO. 2019
<mask> faced James Vick on 20 July 2019 at UFC on ESPN 4. He won the fight via knockout in the first round. This win earned him the Performance of the Night bonus.<mask> faced former UFC title challenger Al Iaquinta on 6 October 2019 at UFC 243. He won the fight via unanimous decision. 2020
<mask> faced Paul Felder on 23 February 2020 at UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. <mask>. <mask> won the fight by a controversial split decision. Out of 17 media members, 12 scored it for Felder, and only 4 for <mask>. This fight earned him a Fight of the Night award. <mask> faced returning UFC title challenger Dustin Poirier on 27 June 2020 at UFC on ESPN: Poirier vs. <mask>.He lost the fight via unanimous decision. This contest earned him the Fight of the Night award. This bout was widely considered one of the greatest fights of the year, due its back-and-forth bloody exchanges. 2021
<mask> faced former three-time Bellator MMA lightweight champion and UFC newcomer Michael Chandler at UFC 257 on 24 January 2021. He lost the fight via technical knockout in the first round. After the bout, <mask> placed his gloves in the middle of the octagon as a sign of retirement. However, he then clarified that after reconsideration, he would not retire from the sport.<mask> faced Nasrat Haqparast on 25 September 2021 at UFC 266. He won the fight via unanimous decision. <mask> faced Islam Makhachev as a short notice

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 replacement for Rafael Dos Anjos at UFC 267. He lost the bout via submission due to a kimura in round one. 2022
<mask> is expected to face Arnold Allen in a featherweight bout on 19 March 2022 at UFC Fight Night 204. Personal life
<mask> runs and teaches mixed martial arts at his own gym The Combat Academy in Auckland, New Zealand. In September 2021, <mask> announced that he was relocating to the United States due to problems he experienced with lockdown measures in New Zealand as well as obtaining a work visa to travel to the US from NZ.style=background:white colspan=9 |

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See also
 List of current UFC fighters
 List of male mixed martial artists

References

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Living people
1990 births
New Zealand male mixed martial artists
Featherweight mixed martial artists
Lightweight mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing kickboxing
Mixed martial artists utilizing Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Sportspeople from Auckland
Ultimate Fighting Championship male fighters
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texts: <mask> (born <mask>r 19 December 1919 – 21 February 1998) was an Indian character actor. He was born in Jammu, as <mask>r. He used to play the role of Kamla in the stage play by the famous Dewan Mandir Natak Samaj Jammu. Since his career began in 1942, he was a popular supporting actor from the 1950s until the 1980s. He also produced Jahanaara starring Bharat Bhushan, Shashikala, Prithviraj Kapoor and Mala Sinha in the title role of Jahanaara. <mask> played the leading man in films like Dus Lakh, Annadata, Charandas and Sadhu aur Shaitan. His pivotal roles in the films Dil Daulat Duniya, Gopi,'Apna Desh, Chupke Chupke, Julie, Joroo Ka Ghulam, Aa Gale Lag Jaa, Pyar Kiye Jaa, Padosan and Buddha Mil Gaya are considered to be among his best along with Daddu in Namak Halaal and De Silva in Zanjeer.His roles in Sharaabi, Bharosa, Tere Ghar Ke Samne, Mere Hamdam Mere Dost, Loafer and Dil Tera Diwana were also appreciated. He is known for his roles in comedy films. One of his best performances in his later years were Naukar Biwi Ka, Sharaabi (1984) and Chameli Ki Shaadi, where he played a role that was pivotal for the movie. His role in Gopi with Dilip Kumar is considered best in terms of acting. Critics still think he gave better performance in tragic scenes in front of Dilip Kumar. Once Dilip Kumar revealed the fact, "I was only afraid once in my acting career and it was during Gopi when <mask> <mask>'s performance overshadowed mine". Early life

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He was fascinated by theatre, music and films.He started taking lessons in classical music when he was just twelve and was recognised as a master in no time. Career

He joined All India Radio in 1937 on a monthly salary of Rs 25. He was known as "Fateh Din", a radio personality and his programmes made him popular all over Punjab. He was regaling people at a wedding one day when the well-known filmmaker Dalsukh Pancholi spotted him and asked to see him in his Lahore office. Pancholi gave <mask> his first break as an actor in the film Daasi. He was paid only Rs 80, but the film earned him the kind of recognition that would give him a means of livelihood for a lifetime. It was his first major role; he had played a bit role in Sharif Badmash, a silent film.He followed his good work in Daasi and with Pancholi's Dhamki and Aayee Bahar. Soon after the Partition he came to Delhi and then to Bombay (now Mumbai). Baldev Raj Chopra noticed his talent when he was a film journalist and critic; he urged <mask> to carry on with his acting career. He was sure <mask> <mask>ti. It won him acclaim and got him roles in films like Lahore, Char Din and Raat Ki Rani.It was during this phase in his career that he did Azaad with Dilip Kumar, Sargam with Raj Kapoor and Miss Mary, Bahar, Pehli Jhalak, Asha and Man-Mauji with Kishore Kumar followed by Howrah Bridge with Ashok Kumar and then Tere Ghar Ke Samne with Dev Anand. He was noted for his

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 Preet Parai, Pati Patni, Neend Hamari Khwab Tumhare, Mere Hamdam Mere Dost, Annadata, Ek Shriman Ek Shrimati, Doli, Chirag, Amar Prem, Aankh Micholi, Ek Hasina Do Diwane, Anuraag, Zanjeer, Sagina, Aa Gale Lag Jaa, Loafer, Roti, Julie, Khushboo, Lawaaris, Bandish, Sharaabi and Chameli Ki Shaadi. <mask> <mask> had a special rapport with Amitabh Bachchan and both worked in many successful films from Zanjeer to Sharaabi. <mask> produced many films including Sanjog (1961), Jahan Ara (1964) and Gateway of India (1957).Death

<mask> <mask> suffered a massive heart attack in his home and was rushed to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai where he suffered another heart attack and went into a coma from which he never recovered. He died on 21 February 1998. Constable Pandu / Nandlal (uncredited)
 Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai (1960) as Girdhari
 College Girl (1960) as Hakeem Ramprasad
 Bindya (1960) as Shastriji
 Aanchal (1960) as Constable Dharamdas
 Sanjog (1961) as Diwan Girdharilal
 Do Bhai (1961) as Kashi Nath
 Bhabhi Ki Chudiyan (1961) as Prabha's dad
 Hong Kong (1962)
 Hariyali Aur Rasta (1962) as Joseph
 Isi Ka Naam Duniya Hai (1962)
 Shaadi (1962) as Seth Daulatram
 Naughty Boy (1962) as Vaidraj Churandas 'Jari-Bhuti' Chaturvedi
 Manmauji (1962) as Rai Saheb Bhola Ram
 Dil Tera Diwana (1962) as Captain Dayaram
 Half Ticket (1962)
 Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963) as Lala Jagannath, Rakesh's Father
 Bharosa (1963) as Laxmiprasad Daulatram
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<mask> (born October 4, 1982) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for  since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. Before her election to Congress, <mask> served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019, representing part of Minneapolis. Her congressional district includes all of Minneapolis and some of its first-ring suburbs. <mask> serves as whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has advocated for a $15 minimum wage, universal healthcare, student loan debt forgiveness, the protection of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A frequent critic of Israel, <mask> supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and has denounced its settlement policy and military campaigns in the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as what she describes as the influence of pro-Israel lobbies. <mask> is the first Somali American and the first naturalized citizen of African birth in the United States Congress, and the first woman of color to represent Minnesota.She is also one of the first two Muslim women (along with Rashida Tlaib) to serve in Congress. She has been the target of several death threats, harassment by political opponents, and false and misleading claims by Donald Trump. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4, 1982, and spent her early years in Baidoa, Somalia. She was the youngest of seven siblings, including sister Sahra Noor. Her father, Nur <mask>, an ethnic Somali from the Majeerteen clan of Northeastern Somalia, was a colonel in the Somali army under Siad Barre and also worked as a

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texts: teacher trainer. Her mother, Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, a Benadiri (a community of partial Yemeni descent), died when Ilhan was two. She was raised by her father and grandfather, who were moderate Sunni Muslims opposed to the rigid Wahhabi interpretation of Islam.Her grandfather Abukar was the director of Somalia's National Marine Transport, and some of <mask>'s uncles and aunts also worked as civil servants and educators. She and her family fled Somalia to escape the Somali Civil War and spent four years in a Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya, near the Somali border. <mask>'s family secured asylum in the U.S. and arrived in New York in 1995, then lived for a time in Arlington, Virginia, before moving to and settling in Minneapolis, where her father worked first as a taxi driver and later for the post office. Her father and grandfather emphasized the importance of democracy during her upbringing, and at age 14 she accompanied her grandfather to caucus meetings, serving as his interpreter. She has spoken about school bullying she endured during her time in Virginia, stimulated by her distinctive Somali appearance and wearing of the hijab. She recalls gum being pressed into her hijab, being pushed down stairs, and physical taunts while she was changing for gym class. <mask> remembers her father's reaction to these incidents: "They are doing something to you because they feel threatened in some way by your existence."<mask> became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old. <mask> attended Thomas Edison High School, from which she graduated in 2001, and volunteered as a student organizer. She graduated from North Dakota State University in 2011 with a bachelor's

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 degree, majoring in political science and international studies. <mask> was a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Early career

<mask> began her professional career as a community nutrition educator at the University of Minnesota, working in that capacity from 2006 to 2009 in the Greater Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. In 2012, she served as campaign manager for Kari Dziedzic's reelection campaign for the Minnesota State Senate. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education.In 2013, <mask> managed Andrew Johnson's campaign for Minneapolis City Council. After Johnson was elected, she served as his Senior Policy Aide from 2013 to 2015. During a contentious precinct caucus that turned violent in February 2014, she was attacked by five people and was injured. According to MinnPost, the day before the caucus, Minneapolis city council member Abdi Warsame had told Johnson to warn <mask> not to attend the meeting. As of September 2015, <mask> was the Director of Policy Initiatives of the Women Organizing Women Network, advocating for women from East Africa to take on civic and political leadership roles. In September 2018, Jeff Cirillo of Roll Call called her a "progressive rising star." Minnesota House of Representatives

Elections

In 2016, <mask> ran on the Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) ticket for the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 60B, which includes part of northeast Minneapolis.On August 9, <mask> defeated Mohamud Noor and incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary. Her chief opponent in the general election was Republican nominee Abdimalik Askar, another

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 activist in the Somali-American community. In late August, Askar announced his withdrawal from the campaign. In November, <mask> won the general election, becoming the first Somali-American legislator in the United States. Her term began on January 3, 2017. Tenure and activity
During her tenure as state Representative for District 60B, <mask> was an Assistant Minority Leader for the DFL caucus. She authored 38 bills during the 2017–2018 legislative session.Committee assignments
 Civil Law & Data Practices Policy
 Higher Education & Career Readiness Policy & Finance
 State Government Finance

Financial transparency issues
In 2018, Republican state representative Steve Drazkowski publicly accused <mask> of campaign finance violations, claiming that she used campaign funds to pay a divorce lawyer, and that her acceptance of speaking fees from public colleges violated Minnesota House rules. <mask> responded that the attorney's fees were not personal but campaign-related; she offered to return the speaking fees. Drazkowski later accused <mask> of improperly using campaign funds for personal travel to Estonia and locations in the U.S. <mask>'s campaign dismissed the accusations as politically motivated and accused Drazkowski of using public funds to harass a Muslim candidate. In response to an editorial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune arguing that <mask> should be more transparent about her use of campaign funds, she said: "these people are part of systems that have historically been disturbingly motivated to silence, discredit and dehumanize influencers who threaten the establishment." In June 2019, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled that <mask> had to pay back $3,500 that

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 she had spent on out-of-state travel and tax filing in violation of state law, plus a $500 fine. The Campaign Finance Board's investigation also found that in 2014 and 2015 <mask> had jointly filed taxes with a man she was not legally married to. Unlike some states, Minnesota does not recognize common law marriage, and so such a joint filing is not legally permitted.But experts have said that if the taxpayer files a correction within three years, as <mask>'s attorney and accountants did in 2016, then there are normally no further consequences, and the Internal Revenue Service is unlikely to pursue punitive measures unless there is a large discrepancy or fraudulent intent. In response to the AP's request for comment, her campaign sent a statement saying, "all of Rep. <mask>’s tax filings are fully compliant with all applicable tax law." U.S. House of Representatives

Elections
2018

On June 5, 2018, <mask> filed to run for the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 5th congressional district after six-term incumbent Keith Ellison announced he would not seek reelection. On June 17, she was endorsed by the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party after two rounds of voting. <mask> won the August 14 primary with 48.2% of the vote. The 5th district is the most Democratic district in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, (it has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+26) and the DFL has held it without interruption since 1963. She faced health care worker and conservative activist Jennifer Zielinski in the November 6 general election and won with 78.0% of the vote, becoming the first Somali American elected to the U.S. Congress, the first woman of color to serve as a U.S.


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 Representative from Minnesota, and (alongside former Michigan state representative Rashida Tlaib) one of the first Muslim women elected to the Congress.<mask> received the largest percentage of the vote of any female candidate for U.S. House in state history, as well as the largest percentage of the vote for a non-incumbent candidate for U.S. House (excluding those running against only minor-party candidates) in state history. She was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by her grandfather. 2020

<mask> won the Democratic nomination in the August 11 Democratic primary, in which she faced four opponents. The strongest was mediation lawyer Antone Melton-Meaux, who raised $3.2 million in April–June 2020, compared to about $500,000 by <mask>; much of Melton-Meaux's funding came from pro-Israel groups. Melton-Meaux was also endorsed by Minnesota's largest newspaper, The Star Tribune. This led some analysts to predict a close race, but <mask> received 57.4% of the vote to Melton-Meaux's 39.2%. She defeated Republican Lacy Johnson in the November 3 general election, with 64.3% of the vote to Johnson's 25.8%.Tenure

Following <mask>'s election, the ban on head coverings in the U.S. House was modified, and <mask> became the first woman to wear a hijab on the House floor. She is a member of the informal group known as "The Squad", whose members form a unified front to push for progressive changes such as the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. The other members of "The Squad" are Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Brian Stelter of CNN Business found that from January to July 2019 <mask> had around twice as many mentions on Fox News as on CNN and MSNBC, and about


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 six times the coverage of James Clyburn, a Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. A CBS News and YouGov poll of almost 2,100 American adults conducted from July 17 to 19 found that Republican respondents were more aware of <mask> than Democratic respondents. <mask> has very unfavorable ratings among Republican respondents and favorable ratings among Democratic respondents. The same is true of the other three members of the Squad.Legislation

In July 2019, <mask> introduced a resolution co-sponsored by Rashida Tlaib and Georgia Representative John Lewis stating that "all Americans have the right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution". The resolution "opposes unconstitutional legislative efforts to limit the use of boycotts to further civil rights at home and abroad", and "urges Congress, States, and civil rights leaders from all communities to endeavor to preserve the freedom of advocacy for all by opposing anti-boycott resolutions and legislation". In the same month, <mask> was one of 17 Congress members to vote against a House resolution condemning the BDS movement. On January 7, 2021, <mask> led a group of 13 House members introducing articles of impeachment against Trump on charges of high crimes and misdemeanors. The charges are related to Trump's alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia and incitement of the attack at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. by his supporters, which occurred during the certification of electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election that affirmed Joe Biden's victory. Committee assignments
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 Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations
Subcommittee on International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact

Former assignments
 Committee on the Budget (2019–2021)

Caucuses
 Congressional Progressive Caucus whip

2021 U.S. Capitol attack
Speaking after the 2021 United States Capitol attack, <mask> said the experience was very traumatizing and that the trauma would last a long time. She said she began to fear for her life when the evacuation began and as she was being escorted to a secure area she made a phone call to the father of her children to "make sure he would continue to tell my children that I loved them if I didn't make it out."She said, "The face of the Capitol will forever be changed. They didn't succeed in stopping the functions of democracy, but I do believe they succeeded in ending the openness of our democracy." Political positions

Education
<mask> supports broader access to student loan forgiveness programs, as well as free tuition for college students whose family income is below $125,000. <mask> supports Bernie Sanders's plan to eliminate all $1.6 trillion in outstanding student debt, funded by an 0.5% tax on stock transactions and a 0.1% tax on bond transactions; she introduced a companion bill in the House of Representatives. In June 2019, <mask> and Senator Tina Smith introduced the No Shame at School Act, which would end the marking of—and punishment for—students with school meal debt. Health care
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 Medicare for All as proposed in the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. Human rights
<mask> has criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.In October 2018, she tweeted: "The Saudi government might have been strategic at covering up the daily atrocities carried out against minorities, women, activists and even the #YemenGenocide, but the murder of #JamalKhashoggi should be the last evil act they are allowed to commit." She also called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia's regime, tweeting: "#BDSSaudi." The Saudi Arabian government responded by having dozens of anonymous Twitter troll accounts it controlled post tweets critical of <mask>. <mask> condemned China's treatment of its ethnic Uyghur people. In a Washington Post op-ed, <mask> wrote, "Our criticisms of oppression and regional instability caused by Iran are not legitimate if we do not hold Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to the same standards. And we cannot continue to turn a blind eye to repression in Saudi Arabiaa country that is consistently ranked among the worst of the worst human rights offenders." She also condemned the Assad regime in Syria.<mask> criticized Trump's decision to impose further sanctions on Iran, saying the sanctions devastated the "country's middle class and increased hostility toward the United States, with tensions between the two countries rising to dangerous levels." <mask> condemned the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, tweeting, "No person, of any faith, should be fearful in their house of worship." <mask> opposed the October 2019 Turkish offensive into northeastern Syria, writing that "What has happened after Turkey's invasion of


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 northeastern Syria is a disaster—tens of thousands of civilians have been forced to flee, hundreds of Islamic State fighters have escaped, and Turkish-backed rebels have been credibly accused of atrocities against the Kurds." In October 2019, <mask> voted "present" on H.Res. 296, to recognize the Armenian genocide, causing a backlash. She said in a statement that "accountability and recognition of genocide should not be used as cudgel in a political fight" and argued that such a step should include both the Atlantic slave trade and the Native American genocide. In November, after her controversial vote, <mask> publicly condemned the Armenian genocide at a rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.Immigration
In March 2019, Politico reported that <mask> criticized Barack Obama's "caging of kids" along the Mexican border. <mask> accused Politico of distorting her comments and said that she had been "saying how [President] Trump is different from Obama, and why we should focus on policy not politics," adding, "One is human, the other is really not." In June 2019, <mask> was one of four Democratic representatives to vote against the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, a $4.5 billion border funding bill that required Customs and Border Protection to enact health standards for individuals in custody such as standards for "medical emergencies; nutrition, hygiene, and facilities; and personnel training." "Throwing more money at the very organizations committing human rights abuses—and the very Administration directing these human rights abuses—is not a solution. This is a humanitarian crisis ... inflicted by our


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 own leadership," she said. Infrastructure spending
On November 5, 2021, <mask> was one of six House Democrats to break with their party and vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act because it was decoupled from the social safety net provisions in the Build Back Better Act. Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Support for boycott efforts and other criticisms

While she was in the Minnesota legislature, <mask> was critical of the Israeli government and opposed a law intended to restrict the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. During her House campaign, she said she did not support the BDS movement, describing it as counterproductive to peace. After the election her position changed, as her campaign office told Muslim Girl that she supports the BDS movement despite "reservations on the effectiveness of the movement in accomplishing a lasting solution." <mask> has voiced support for a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. She criticized Israel's settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. In 2018, <mask> came under criticism for statements she made about Israel before she was in the Minnesota legislature. In a 2012 tweet, she wrote, "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel."The comment, particularly the notion that Israel had "hypnotized the world," was criticized as drawing on anti-Semitic tropes. Then-The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss wrote that <mask>'s statement tied into a millennia-old "conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic


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 conspirator." When asked in an interview how she would respond to American Jews who found the remark offensive, <mask> replied, "I don't know how my comments would be offensive to Jewish Americans. My comments precisely are addressing what was happening during the Gaza War and I'm clearly speaking about the way the Israeli regime was conducting itself in that war." After reading Weiss's commentary, <mask> apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used." In September 2019, <mask> condemned Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to annex the eastern portion of the occupied West Bank known as the Jordan Valley. <mask> said Israelis should not vote for Netanyahu in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election.Remarks on AIPAC and American support for Israel

In February 2019, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who some months earlier had claimed three wealthy JewsGeorge Soros, Tom Steyer, and Michael Bloombergwere trying to buy the 2018 midterm elections, threatened to "take action" against <mask> and Rashida Tlaib for their support of the BDS movement. When journalist Glenn Greenwald responded that it was remarkable "how much time U.S. political leaders spend defending a foreign nation even if it means attacking free speech rights of Americans", and tagged <mask> for a comment, she replied with a quote from a hip hop song, "It's All About the Benjamins", alluding to the $100 bill of that name. Asked by Batya Ungar-Sargon of The Forward to clarify who she thought was paying American politicians to be pro-Israel, she tweeted "AIPAC", a view that Ben Ehrenreich noted, had been argued and thoroughly documented 13 years earlier by two American political

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texts: OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country." The statements were quickly criticized as allegedly drawing on anti-Semitic tropes of dual loyalty. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel said it was "deeply offensive to call into question the loyalty of fellow American citizens" and asked <mask> to retract her statement.House Appropriations Committee chairwoman Nita Lowey also called for an apology and criticized the statements in a March 3 tweet, which led to an online exchange between the two. In response, <mask> reaffirmed her remarks, insisting that she "should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on committee." <mask> said she was simply criticizing Israel, drawing a distinction between criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu and being anti-Semitic. <mask>'s spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, said <mask> was speaking out about "the undue influence of lobbying groups for foreign interests." Reaction among Democratic presidential candidates was mixed. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Bernie Sanders defended <mask>. Senators Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio regarded her statements as disturbing.According to The Guardian, election records archived by OpenSecrets "suggest a correlation between pro-Israel lobby campaign contributions and Democratic presidential candidates' position on the controversy." Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus believed <mask> was unfairly targeted because she is a black Muslim, noting that "the Democratic leadership did not draft a resolution condemning Donald Trump or other white male Republicans


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 over their antisemitic remarks." The second round of remarks prompted the Democratic leadership to introduce a resolution condemning antisemitism that did not specifically refer to <mask>. Following objections from a number of congressional progressive Democrats, the resolution was amended to include Islamophobia, racism, and homophobia. On March 7, the House passed the amended resolution. <mask> called the resolution "historic on many fronts," and said, "We are tremendously proud to be part of a body that has put forth a condemnation of all forms of bigotry including anti-Semitism, racism, and white supremacy." Some Minnesota Jewish and Muslim community leaders subsequently expressed continued concern over <mask>'s rhetoric and language and indicated that the issue remained divisive with <mask>'s district.Ban from entering Israel

In August 2019, <mask> and Representative Rashida Tlaib were banned from entering Israel, a reversal from the July 2019 statement by Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer that "any member of Congress" would be allowed in. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attributed the ban to Israeli law preventing the entry of people who call for a boycott of Israel (as <mask> and Tlaib had done with their support for BDS). Netanyahu also cited <mask> and Tlaib listing their destination as Palestine instead of Israel, claiming he thus viewed their visit as an attempt to "hurt Israel and increase its unrest". Netanyahu also said that <mask> and Tlaib did not plan on visiting or meeting with any Israeli officials from the government or the opposition, and additionally accused Miftah, the sponsor of <mask>'s trip, of having members who support

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