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<mask> (died 1135), also known as <mask>ch Ua Briain, <mask>g, and <mask>in dynast and King of Dublin. He was one of two sons of Muirchertach Ua Briain, High King of Ireland. Domnall's father appears to have installed him as King of Dublin in the late eleventh- or early twelfth century, which suggests that he was his father's successor-designate. Although Domnall won a remarkable victory in the defence of the Kingdom of Dublin in the face of an invasion from the Kingdom of Leinster in 1115, he failed to achieve the successes of his father. After his final expulsion from Dublin at the hands of Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht, and the death of his father, Domnall disappears from record until his own death in 1135. He was perhaps survived by two sons. Background

Domnall was one of two recorded sons of Muirchertach Ua Briain, High King of Ireland; the other being Mathgamain.Domnall was a member of the Uí Briain, a branch of the Dál Cais, descended from the eponymous Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig, High King of Ireland. Domnall's mother was Derb Forgaill, daughter of Lethlobar Ua Laidcnén, King of Airgíalla. The fourteenth-century Annals of Tigernach accord Domnall the epithet gerrlámhach ("short-armed") which may indicate—if the term is taken literally—that he suffered some sort of deformity. Muirchertach Ua Briain was one of three sons of Toirdelbach Ua Briain, High King of Ireland, a man who secured control of the Kingdom of Munster in the 1060s before gaining the high-kingship of Ireland less than a decade later. In 1075, in an act of overlordship over the Kingdom of Dublin, Toirdelbach Ua Briain appointed

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 Muirchertach Ua Briain King of Dublin, following a precedent set by Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó, King of Leinster, a previous claimant to the Irish high-kingship who had done the same to his own eldest son, Murchad, in 1052. When Toirdelbach Ua Briain finally died in 1086, his sons bitterly contested the kingship of Munster before Muirchertach Ua Briain succeeded in securing it for himself. By 1091, the latter appears to have regained control of the Dublin, only to lose it to Gofraid Crobán, King of the Isles, who united it with the Kingdom of the Isles.Gofraid's reign in Ireland was short-lived, as Muirchertach Ua Briain forced him from Dublin in 1094. After the Gofraid's death the following year, Muirchertach Ua Briain appointed his own nephew, <mask> mac Taidc, as King of the Isles. Uí Briain influence in the Isles was similarly short-lived, however, as <mask> mac Taidc was apparently forced from the region, and Magnús Óláfsson, King of Norway seized control of not only the Isles, but perhaps even Dublin itself, before falling in battle in 1103. Later in 1111, <mask> mac Taidc temporarily seized the kingship of the Isles in an act that may have been opposed by his aforesaid uncle. The reasons for <mask> mac Taidc's exit from the Isles are uncertain. Although he may have been forcibly ejected by the Islesmen, he may well have returned to Ireland to take advantage of Muirchertach Ua Briain's rapidly failing health. Kingship of Dublin

In 1114, the power of a now gravely ill Muirchertach Ua Briain's began to waver.The kingship of Munster was temporarily seized by Muirchertach Ua Briain's half-brother, Diarmait Ua

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texts: was remarkable achievement. Unfortunately for Donnchad, however, he lost his life in the encounter; and according to the thirteenth-century ecclesiast Giraldus Cambrensis, the Dubliners added insult to injury by burying his corpse with that of a dog as a show of contempt to the Leinstermen. There is uncertainty as to when Domnall originally gained the kingship of Dublin. His father could have installed him as such upon assuming the Irish high-kingship, or perhaps following the aforesaid ousting of Gofraid Crobán in 1094—although it is not impossible that <mask> mac Taidc was installed as king at this point instead. Another possibility is that Domnall had been appointed king not long before his victory over the Leinstermen—perhaps upon his father's failing health in 1114—or else not long after his successful defense of Dublin. Whatever the case, the evidence of <mask>'s kingship indicates that Muirchertach Ua Briain was the third consecutive claimant to the high-kingship to appoint an intended successor to the kingship of Dublin.Although Muirchertach Ua Briain recovered enough to regain power in Munster within the year, Dublin was later lost to Donnchad's kinsman and Leinster successor, Diarmait mac Énna meic Murchada, King of Leinster, who died there in 1117. Meanwhile, as Muirchertach Ua Briain's power continued to evaporate, the authority of Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht ever increased. In 1118, several sources, such as the sixteenth-century Annals of Loch Cé, the seventeenth-century Annals of the Four Masters, the twelfth-century Chronicon Scotorum, and the Annals of Tigernach, indicate that

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 Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair gained control of Dublin. In fact, the later source specifies that he had driven Domnall from the kingship once and for all, revealing that <mask> had regained the kingship following Diarmait mac Énna's death in 1117. Although this source also relates that hostages from the "northern half of Ireland" were recovered from Dublin by Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, a statement perhaps indicative of the power that Domnall managed to preserve over northern realms once firmly under his father's suzerainty, at his height Domnall's father had been one of the most successful Uí Briain monarchs, and Domnall was unable to match his accomplishments. <mask>'s victory in Dublin marked the beginning of the end of Munster domination of Norse-Gaelic Dublin. Before the frail Muirchertach Ua Briain finally died in 1119, he was forced to resign the kingship of Munster in favour of his half-brother.When the latter died in 1118, Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair had the realm partitioned between Tadc Mac Carthaig in the Kingdom of Desmond, and the sons of Diarmait Ua Briain in the Kingdom of Thomond. <mask> himself was excluded from the kingship. Death

Thereafter Domnall disappears from record until his death, as an old man at Lismore, dated by the Annals of the Four Masters to 1135. The annal-entry itself describes him as a one-time lord of Leinster, which could be evidence that he had tried to seize Leinster at some point in his career. The Annals of Tigernach apparently also record <mask>'s death, although the annal-entry identifies him as a grandson of Muirchertach Ua Briain. Long afterwards in 1157, Muirchertach Mac


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 Lochlainn, King of Cenél nEógain, a contender to the Irish high-kingship, invaded the partitioned Munster and forced the submission of Diarmait Mac Carthaig, and further drove out Toirdelbach mac Diarmata Uí Briain—the son of Domnall's aforesaid uncle, Diarmait Ua Briain—and replaced him with another Uí Briain dynast, Conchobar mac Domnaill Uí Briain, King of Ormond. The latter was likely a brother of Lughaid mac Domnaill Uí Briain who was slain in the battle of Móin Mhór in 1151.Both men—Conchobar and Lughaid—could well have been sons of Domnall himself. Primary Source Data

This entry in the Annals of the Four Masters speaks the battle of 1115 between <mask> <mask> (aka Domhnall Ua Briain) and Donnchad mac Murchada (aka Donnchadh Ua Mael-na-mbo)

 M1115.5 "A battle was gained by Domhnall Ua Briain and the foreigners of Ath-cliath over the Leinstermen, wherein fell Donnchadh Ua Mael-na-mbo, lord of Ui-Ceinnsealaigh, and Conchobhair Ua Conchobhair, lord of Ui-Failghe, with his sons, and many others besides them." This entry in the Annals of Ulster speaks the battle in 1115 mentioned above between <mask> <mask> (aka <mask> ua Briain) and Donnchad mac Murchada (aka Donnchad grandson of Mael na mBó):

 U1115.4 "A defeat was inflicted by <mask> ua Briain and the foreigners of Áth Cliath on the Laigin, and in it fell Donnchad grandson of Mael na mBó king of Uí Cheinnselaigh, and Conchobor ua Conchobuir, king of Uí Fhailgi, with their sons and many others besides." Ancestry

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<mask> is an American visual artist whose work focuses on the intersection between drawing, photography, and sculpture. Since 2001, she has been on the faculty of the Art Studio Program in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis. Professional career
Since completing her BFA at Kansas City Art Institute in 1977, <mask> has exhibited with Lang & O'Hara Gallery (1987, 1989, 1991), Lennon Weinberg(1995, 1997, 2004, 2011), Eli Marsh Gallery(1997), Fotofest (2000), State University of New York at Purchase Gallery (2001), Project Row Houses (2002), University of California, Davis Art Center (2003), Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, FR (2005), California State University, Stanislaus Gallery (2006), Dan Soker Gallery (2003 and 2007), Another Year in LA (2006, 2011, 2015) Lesley Heller Project Space(2007), Jay Jay Gallery (2008), Shasta College Gallery (2009), and Ramon's Tailor (2014). Additionally, she has participated in hundreds of group exhibitions such as “Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance” (2012) at SOMArts, San Francisco, CA; "Emergence and Structure" (2012), University of Florida Gallery, which traveled to Freedom Tower/Miami Dade College, and Lafayette College; “Tomorrow’s Legacy: Gifts Celebrating the Next 125 Years”(2011) at the Crocker Art Museum; “Synthesis and Distribution, Experiments in Collaboration” (2005), for which she collaborated with Stephen Kaltenbach at Pace University Art Gallery; and “Thinking in Line: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing” (2004), curated by Ron Janowich for University of Florida Gallery. In addition to having collaborated with Kaltenbach, Hill has collaborated with Ulla Warchol (exhibiting as Biolunar) and Mathematician Janko Gravner, who co-discovered the snowflake algorithm. Work

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 locating Hill's work "at the crossroads of the mundane and the mystical, where he physical object pulls us into invisible realms," Raphael Rubinstein has remarked upon the "sense of epic labor" accompanying many of her sculptures, as well as how "hers is a hybrid art in its seamless joining of the found and the handmade." Denise Carvalho describes Hill as "attached to the potentiality of materials; whether they are found, purchased, or inherited."In the 1980s, art writers discussed <mask>'s sculptures in the context sculptors such as Tom Butter, Saint Clair Cemin, John Duff, Fortuyn O'Brien, Robert Gober, Steve Keister, Mel Kendrick, and Joel Otterson. This generation of sculptors were known for conveying content from "gentle craft substances: fiberglass, beeswax, veneered wood, string, paper, pigment and fabric." That era's critics recognized <mask>'s life-size, weighty, abstract sculptures for signaling a revived interest in body art, as well as the figure, which remains the hallmark of 90s sculpture. In Michael Brenson's 1986 New York Times art review, he describes her work At Arm's Length as suggesting "hills, bones, and cliffs, but it can also bring to mind the characteristic body shift of Greek and Renaissance standing figures." In the 1990s, <mask> started exhibiting sculptures made from series of identical objects. Kristin Koster remarks, "Today, amid a vast cadre off artists who reuse; recycle; or re-purpose the cast away materials that populate their environments; <mask> stands apart as a disinterested collector; and as a kind of aristocratic flaneur of the everyday....She never makes use, cycles, or purpose: instead she makes visible, resurrects, and liberates." Drawing
In 1995, <mask> exhibited Blue Lines, five monumental drawings, "each one nine-feet tall, made on four-part

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 panels of specially-waxed paper.All are done only in blue on white; recalling Delft tiles; and all consist of four-part units generated from the same curved line; repeated and overlaid on itself in various ways." Lacking a beginning or end, <mask> considers her oil-stick drawings roadmaps, capable of leading viewers on a visual journey. Accompanying these drawings were three massive mandala-like forms, which she formed by lining up 4000 identical plaster cones that were cast using Dixie paper cups, then dipped in ballpoint-blue paint, and sprawled on the floor in patterns recalling cloverleaf interchanges. <mask>'s drawings are featured in Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women. After a 2013 summer residency at the Sanskritti Foundation in New Delhi, <mask> made 300 rubbings of the same 1960s Eastman Kodak slide carousel, which she mounted on the walls, partly overlapping one another. Recalling her decision to do so, <mask> adds, "My idea of drawing is that I could cultivate that sense of being really engaged and not worrying about the future, or what the work means in terms of the overarching ideas, and just be deeply involved in my work." Cyanotypes
Hill's 1995 exhibition featured a cyanotype, evoking an X-ray of the "axial skeleton of some organism, or the molecular structure of a particular substance."In 1997, she exhibited a "16' x 13' cyanotype drawing made of hundreds of six-inch 'photographs' of ephemeral matter (strands of scotch tape). This 'curtain' serve[d] as a type of atmospheric stage for the two works on the floor of the main gallery." In 2001, she exhibited Sweet Everyday, a 100-foot long cyanotype enwrapping Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.'s Soho gallery in a David Reed-like wavy brushstroke, created by placing ordinary shopping bags on photo-sensitive paper exposed to

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 light. Several white plastic bags hovered in the gallery, echoed by the banner's billowing shapes. <mask> elaborates, "The immediacy of this process serves as a counterpoint to the more deliberate and labor-intensive tasks of building sculptural forms, whose invisible dimensions are revealed in the after images of their companion cyanotypes." Sound Art
In 2006, <mask> collaborated with fellow UC-Davis faculty member Sam Nichols on Kardex, an interactive sound work featuring a steel cabinet, whose 29 drawers each frame one of <mask>'s photographs of a friends' ears. Opening up the drawers "triggered Nichols's MIDI-to-Mac hookup mechanism."Each drawer played a recorded everyday sound, such as footsteps, running water, numbers being dialed, sanding, etc. Public collections
<mask>’s work has been collected by Planet Fitness, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Legion of Honor; Rosewood Sand Hill, Menlo Park, CA; Brooklyn Union Gas, Chatham Imports, New York; Champion International Paper, Cleary Gottlieb, New York; Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. New York; Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Fogg Art Museum, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis; Rosenthal & Rosenthal, New York, NY; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy; Prudential Insurance Company, Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, MA; Lee & Silva Terry, Atlanta, GA; Long Island University, Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY; Hammer Museum; Crocker Art Museum, and Jones Day, Cleveland, OH; The Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek; and Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA. Teaching

In 2007, <mask> was appointed to Professor at University of California, Davis. Prior to being hired there as an Assistant Professor in 2001, <mask> held numerous teaching positions in the art departments of State University of New

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 York at Purchase (1998-2001), Parsons School of Design (1991-2001), Rhode Island School of Design(1997-1998) and Middlebury College(1991). Additionally; she has served as a Visiting Artist at Amherst College, Anderson Ranch, Bennington College, Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, California State University, Sacramento and California State University, Stanislaus, Claremont Graduate University, Empire State College, Haverford College, Kansas City Art Institute, Lafayette College, Maryland Institute College of Art, Middlebury College, Muhlenberg College, Parsons School of Design, Pont-Aven School of Art, Purdue University, Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Syracuse University, Union College, University of Iowa, University of California, Riverside, University of Oregon, Virginia Commonwealth University

Awards, fellowships, and residencies

In addition to having received a University of California, Davis New Initiative/Collaborative Research Award, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, Hill has been awarded numerous university grants to support her teaching, travel and research. In 2012, she was awarded a residency at the Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi, India.References

External links
 <mask>'s website
 1988 Points of View exhibition catalog
 1991 Lang & O'Hara exhibition catalog
 2001 UC Davis exhibition catalog
 2007 interview with Ron Janowich
 2011 CSU Stanislaus exhibition catalog
 2012 Emergence and Structure catalog
 2011 Case Discussions exhibition catalog
 2015 Zettel III magazine article

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Kansas City Art Institute alumni
1955 births
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title: Kyries Hebert

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<mask> [KY-ris EH-bare] (born October 9, 1980) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker and safety. He was originally signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football at Louisiana-Lafayette. In the NFL <mask> has been a member of the Houston Texans and Cincinnati Bengals. In the CFL he has also been a member Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and Montreal Alouettes. Early years
<mask> attended Eunice High School in Eunice, Louisiana and was a letterman in football, basketball, and track & field. In track & field, he set the school record in the high jump.College career
He attended college in Lafayette, Louisiana where he was a standout defensive back for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns. In each of his three seasons between 1999 and 2001 he led the team in tackles made. He also played in every game during this period. Professional career

Minnesota Vikings
In April 2002, <mask> signed with the Minnesota Vikings. He was released in September at the end of training camp. Houston Texans
<mask> was signed by the Houston Texans and was on the active roster for their final game of the 2002 season. He was released by the Texans in 2003.Ottawa Renegades
<mask> then moved up north to Canada where he played in the 2004 and 2005 seasons with the Ottawa Renegades of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He quickly became one of the most feared hitters and Special Teams players in the CFL. In December 2005, <mask> signed a controversial five-year contract with Ottawa that would have made him one of the highest paid defensive players in the

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 CFL. However, the Ottawa organization folded, and it appeared that <mask> was going to become a free agent and eligible to pursue the NFL. <mask> played in 34 games for the Renegades, in 2 seasons with the club. <mask> had 122 tackles, 57 special teams tackles, 1 sack, 5 interceptions, 2 fumble recoveries and scored 3 defensive touchdowns. Winnipeg Blue Bombers
In April 2006, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers claimed <mask> off waivers from Ottawa just as <mask> was about to sign a new contract with the Cincinnati Bengals.After appealing the claim with the CFL Players Association, <mask> agreed to a settlement contract for two years with Winnipeg. In the 2007 season, <mask> led defense helped Winnipeg reach the Grey Cup. He played 33 games for the Blue Bombers over 2 seasons and made 86 tackles, 45 special teams tackles, with 7 sacks, 3 interceptions and 3 fumble recoveries. Cincinnati Bengals
On December 31, 2007, <mask> signed a two-year contract with the Cincinnati Bengals. He was released by the Bengals on September 4, 2010. Hamilton Tiger-Cats
On October 20, 2010, he signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL). He played in two games making 4 tackles.He was released during the following off-season on March 29, 2011. Montreal Alouettes
On May 7, 2012, <mask> signed with the Montreal Alouettes (CFL). <mask> had strong 2012 and 2013 CFL seasons with the Alouettes. He contributed 48 tackles, 27 special teams tackles, 3 sacks and 2 interceptions in  2012; good enough to make him a CFL All-Star at the safety position. His 2013 season was arguably even more impressive as he set a career-high in tackles and sacks with 68 and 9 respectively.

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 Despite this he was not recognized as an All-Star. On February 10, 2014, one day before the start of free-agency, <mask> signed a 3-year contract with the Alouettes.On June 28, 2014, Hebert struck reigning Most Outstanding Player Jon Cornish with a brutal, illegal high tackle, resulting in Cornish sustaining a severe concussion. <mask> received the maximum fine for the hit while Cornish never fully regained his health, forcing him to retire at the end of the 2015 season due to the injury. <mask> missed half of the 2015 season with an ankle injury. Kyries <mask> played a full season in 2016 and set a career-high in tackles with 78. <mask> broke his 2016 record the following season, cracking the 100 tackle mark, finishing third in the league with 110. In September 2016, <mask> was fined for a hit to the head of Brendan Gillanders. On August 15, 2017, <mask> again received the maximum fine for an illegal hit on Argos QB, Cody Fajardo.After the Alouettes made a series of additions on defensive at the start of 2018 free agency <mask>, age 37 at the time, requested his release; which was granted by the Als on February 16, 2018. Ottawa Redblacks
Only a couple hours after being released by the Alouettes <mask> signed with the Ottawa Redblacks (CFL). <mask> had played in Ottawa with the Renegades from 2004 to 2005. On June 29, 2018, <mask> received a one-game suspension for a dangerous hit to the head of Calgary Stampeders receiver DaVaris Daniels. <mask> was suspended again in early September 2018 after another dangerous hit, this time on Alouettes receiver B.J. Cunningham. He played 11 games for the Redblacks in 2018 and contributed with

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 51 tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble/recovery.Following the season in December 2018 the Redblacks informed <mask> that they would not be re-signing him, and that he would become a free agent in February 2019. Philanthropy
On July 15, 2010 <mask> <mask> founded Ky Cares Foundation Inc. The mission of the foundation is to facilitate the relentless pursuit of success in the face of adversity so that youth may know that a person's circumstances do not dictate his or her destiny. They hold a yearly event where proceeds benefit struggling schools in Acadiana areas through scholarships and monetary donations. Past celebrity participants include Terrell Owens and Roman Harper. <mask> was the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Tom Pate Memorial Award. This honor goes to the player who demonstrates "outstanding sportsmanship and someone who has made a significant contribution to his team, his community and Association."References

External links
Montreal Alouettes bio
Official Site of Ky Cares Foundation
Cincinnati Bengals bio
Hamilton Tiger-Cats bio

1980 births
Living people
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Houston Texans players
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Ottawa Renegades players
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Winnipeg Blue Bombers players
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title: Daniel Hirsh

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<mask> (born May 18, 1982 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American film and video editor, director, cinematographer, graphic designer, actor, writer, producer and voice over artist. He has acted in and directed several World Premiere theatrical productions, and his editing work on short- and feature-length films have won awards at several festivals. <mask> has trained as a videographer, actor, singer, and improvisational comedian, currently continuing work in Milwaukee, New York City, Atlanta and St. Louis. Working mainly with Atlanta filmmaker and entertainer Parthiban Shanmugam, other collaborators include Wade Ballance, Philip Barrett, Kevin L. Powers, and Thomas Smugala. Influenced by French videographer and university lecturer Pier Marton and screenwriter Richard Chapman, he has focused his career on narrative filmmaking, while also piecing together documentaries on energy healing, life after death and astral projection. He currently resides in New York City due to his interest in The New York Presbyterian Hospital which utilizes energy healing, and proximity to The Monroe Institute and University of Virginia, both of which partake in astral projection and consciousness research. Film and Television Acting
  Highly Experimental (2001) as Narrator
  Making Revolution (2003) as Activist
  Between Lust and Brookings Drive (2003) as The Man
  With Only a Belle (2004) as Himself
  Hooch & Daddy-O (2005) as Fan
  October Road (2007) as Townie & Bartender
  You're Rejected (2008) as Himself
  Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009) as Parent of Graduate
  3 Cats and a Man (2012) as Himself
  Pikuach Nefesh: Saving <mask> (2016) as Himself
  Messiah (2017) as Friend 1
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 (2022) as Meredith's Assistant
 Mob Times (2022) as Mikey Hand Soap

Theatrical Acting
Hirsh's acting style has been described as amusing, comic, and quirky.His complexion and physical appearance have been compared to John Belushi, Jon Lovitz, and Steve Zissis, with a comic voice comparable to Nathan Lane's. He prefers the Practical Aesthetics school of thought, pioneered by David Mamet, William H. Macy and Robert Bella; having taken a summer intensive course there in 2094, alongside Anna Chlumsky and Lucy DeVito. He has actively participated in various other acting styles and techniques. Hirsh starred as himself in an improvised Thesis project directed by Washington University senior Lora Ivanova in 2003. I See (You See) was a one-act play starring five actors, one of which would be audience-voted to strap a video camera to their head while playing out suggestions for improvisational scenes. The piece, mostly comic, was met with positive reception. <mask>'s most notable performance was his portrayal of Sir Vashya Shontine in Tennessee Williams' one-act play, Me, Vashya, written in 1937 during the playwright's short tenure at Washington University.The complete script was later published in the compilation The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays by publisher New Directions. Me, Vashya was performed as a World Premiere production with The Glass Menagerie as part of the Washington University in St Louis Tennessee Williams Symposium in February 2004. Hirsh's third World Premiere production, Six Seconds in Charlack, by Washington University alumni Brian Golden premiered on April 28 of 2005. Charlack was later performed on New York City's Off-Off-Broadway circuit at the


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 Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center in August 2009. Theatrical Performances

The Wizard and the Shepherdess (1998) as Narrator
All in the Timing (2001) as Don
Alice in Wonderland (2002) as Humpty Dumpty
Once in a Lifetime (2002) as Herman Glogauer
I See (You See) (World Premiere, 2003) as Himself
All's Well That Ends Well (2003) as Parolles
Guys & Dolls (2003) as Nathan Detroit
School for Wives (2003) as The Notary
Me, Vashya (World Premiere, 2004) as Sir Vashya Shontine
Cabaret (2004) as Herr Schultz
Downsize (2004) as Walter
The Fantasticks (2004) as El Gallo
Six Seconds in Charlack (World Premiere, 2005) as Scoop and TSA Officer
Tick, Tick... Boom! (2005) as Stephen Sondheim
Backyard (World Premiere, 2020)

Theatrical Directorial Experience
 Tick, Tick... Boom! (2005)
 A Shave (World Premiere, 2006)

Tick, Tick... Boom!was <mask>'s first major directorial debut after Washington University secured the rights from the estate of Jonathan Larson to be the third venue in the world to produce the little-known rock musical. A Shave was the first of a World Premiere site-specific trilogy of plays written by student Lauren Dusek and inspired by the on-campus success of Downsize by Chicago playwright Christopher Welzenbach. Downsize was staged at Washington University's Mallinkrodt Center Men's Bathroom, with a maximum of only 11 or 12 audience members viewing the show at a time. The trilogy, consisting of A Shave, A Haircut and A Song, was staged in the Washington University Small Group Housing parking lot, an on-campus apartment, and a racquetball court in the Athletic Complex, respectively. Biographical Film

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<mask> (, born 30 August 1988, nicknamed "Lord", "The Gull" or "Ernie") is a Latvian professional tennis player. In 2008, <mask> won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, teaming with Rainer Schüttler, and in 2010, he won his first ATP Tour singles title in the Delray Beach, defeating Ivo Karlović in the final. In total, <mask> has six ATP titles to his name. His best performance at a Grand Slam is reaching the semifinals of the 2014 French Open. He had previously reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open. <mask>' career-high singles ranking is world No. 10, making him the only Latvian tennis player ever to be ranked inside the top 10 in ATP Singles Ranking.He achieved this in June 2014. Beginning after Wimbledon 2011, <mask> was coached by Austrian Günter Bresnik, until his departure the day before the 2016 French Open. Previously, he was coached by Guillermo Cañas, and before that by Hernán Gumy (who before that was Marat Safin's coach), but their partnership ended due to Gumy's schedule; during that time, Darren Cahill served as <mask>' consultant for several tournaments. Before Gumy, Gulbis was coached by Karl Heinz Wetter, and subsequently by Nikola Pilić, the former professional Croatian tennis player and Croatian and German Davis Cup captain. Personal life
Gulbis grew up in an upper-class household. His book-collecting parents named him after Ernest Hemingway. His father Ainārs is an investment businessman, and his mother Milēna Gulbe-Kavace is a theater actress.His maternal grandfather Uldis Pūcītis was a popular actor and film director. The second of five children, <mask> has three sisters and one

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Early years
<mask> began playing tennis at the age of 5 with his grandmother. At the age of 12, he attended the Nikola Pilić tennis academy in Munich and trained there until age 18. One of the players he trained with at the Niki Pilić academy was future world No.1 Novak Djokovic who sometimes practiced with <mask> when they were at the academy. He refused to play much junior tennis as he only played in three tournaments winning one in May 2004. He mainly played in men's ITF futures events to start his career and  officially turned pro in June 2004 at the age of 15. Professional career

2004–2006: ITF and challenger success and St. Petersburg semifinal
<mask>' first event at any level was a challenger tournament in Germany in June 2004 after receiving a wildcard into the main draw. He lost in the first round to Teymuraz Gabashvili in straight sets. For most of 2004–2006, he solely played ITF futures events while also occasionally playing in challenger events. At first, he struggled to win matches.But his results started to improve as time went on and he won his first futures title in September 2005. After this win, he made four more futures finals in 2006 winning two. In July 2006, <mask> made his first challenger final where he lost to Michal Tabara in straight sets. Two weeks later, he made his second challenger final where he lost to top seed Florian Mayer in three sets. <mask> received direct entry into the 2006 US Open Qualifying, his first Grand Slam qualifying draw. There, he upset 5th

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 seed Dick Norman in the first round in straight sets before losing in the second round to Michaël Llodra in straight sets. <mask> made his ATP debut at the 2006 St. Petersburg Open after receiving a wildcard into the main draw.There, he reached the semifinals where he lost to 3rd seed and eventual champion Mario Ančić in straight sets. Because of his result, his ranking jumped 48 spots from 204 to 156. <mask> ended 2006 with his first challenger title without losing a set defeating Philipp Petzschner in the final. He also won two doubles challenger titles within the year both partnering Mischa Zverev and another doubles final partnering compatriot Deniss Pavlovs. He ended the year with a year-end ranking of 141. A remarkable jump from his ranking of 418 at the beginning of the year. His results during the year earned him the award for Rising Star of the Year at the 2006 Latvian Sports Awards.2007: Breaking into top 100, Grand Slam debut and US Open fourth round

<mask> started his season as a qualifier in the Sydney Medibank International, losing in the first round to Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus. He was subsequently defeated in the first qualifying round of the Australian Open. <mask> was relatively successful on the Challenger circuit in 2007. He reached the quarterfinals in Bergamo (l. to Fabrice Santoro) and the semifinals in Heilbronn (l. to Michaël Llodra). <mask> won his second Challenger title by triumphing over the local favorite, Edouard Roger-Vasselin, at the Besançon Challenger in France, enabling him to break into the ATP Top 100 for the first time in his career. In his next tournament, the Sarajevo Challenger, <mask> emerged victorious in both


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 the singles and doubles events. In the first week of October, he won the Mons Challenger in Belgium (d. Kristof Vliegen) as the top seed, breaking into the ATP Top 50 for the first time in his career and surpassing Juan Martín del Potro as the highest-ranked player born in 1988.This win also meant a fourth consecutive title. <mask> announced his arrival on the Grand Slam stage in the 2007 French Open by defeating the British veteran, Tim Henman in straight sets to advance to the second round. It was heralded by the British Davis Cup captain, John Lloyd, as "... a brilliant performance from <mask>, that is just pure and utter talent." <mask>' run was halted in the second round by Spaniard Álbert Montañés in a four-set, rain-interrupted match. At Wimbledon, his second Grand Slam participation, <mask> again was drawn to face Marcos Baghdatis in the first round. He won the first set before succumbing in four sets. <mask> debuted in Grand Slam doubles by teaming up with Ivan Ljubičić, with whom he had reached the semifinals of the 2007 Ordina Open.At the 2007 US Open, <mask> upset 30th seed, Potito Starace, in the first round and eighth seed, Tommy Robredo, in the third round, the latter for the loss of only 6 games. In that match, <mask> broke Robredo six times and had 39 winners to Robredo's seven. <mask>' run was finally halted by former World No. 1, Carlos Moyà, to whom he lost in four sets. 2008: French Open quarterfinal

In the first round of the 2008 Australian Open, <mask> lost to Marat Safin in straight sets. He reached the second round of the 2008 Pacific Life Open, where he lost a tight match to former Grand Slam finalist David Nalbandian in a final

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 set tiebreak. In the first round of the 2008 Miami Masters, he defeated Dominik Hrbatý, but in the second round met eventual champion Nikolay Davydenko.After winning the first set 6–3, he lost the following two sets in tiebreaks. His biggest result up to that point occurred when he reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open. Throughout the tournament he beat Simon Greul, seventh seed James Blake, Nicolás Lapentti, and home-favourite Michaël Llodra. In the quarterfinals, he lost to third seed Novak Djokovic in three tight sets. In his next tournament, he reached the third round of the 2008 Queen's Club Championships, beating Kristof Vliegen and 12th seed Andreas Seppi. He lost to sixth seed Andy Murray, after winning the first set 7–5. In the first round at Wimbledon, <mask> defeated fellow rising star John Isner, but lost in the second round to second seed and eventual champion Rafael Nadal in a four set, rain-interrupted match.Other than Roger Federer, he was the only player to take a set off the eventual champion. At the 2008 Cincinnati Masters, <mask> defeated Jarkko Nieminen, Arnaud Clément, and James Blake, but succumbed in the quarterfinals to third seed Novak Djokovic. The young Latvian then traveled to Beijing to take part in the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he lost his first-round match to Nikolay Davydenko. At the US Open, <mask> defeated Thomas Johansson in the first round, before losing to Andy Roddick in the second, again after winning the first set. Coincidentally, it was both his and Andy's birthday on the day they played. 2009: Decline in form and rankings
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 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, <mask> advanced to the quarterfinals, upsetting sixth seed Radek Štěpánek in the first round as a qualifier, then defeating top-20 player Juan Mónaco in the second in straight sets. He lost to eventual champion and second seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga after taking the first set. The year saw a general decline in his ranking, with <mask> failing to go deep in any of the Grand Slams. He momentarily dropped out of the top 100 in August and finished the year ranked 90 and with a win-loss record of 20–26. 2010: First ATP title
To begin the year, <mask> claimed wins in the first two rounds of the Australian Open precursor tournament, the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, defeating sixth-seeded Spaniard Albert Montañés and Italian Andreas Seppi. <mask> progressed to the third round, where he was defeated in a tight three set match against World No.1 Roger Federer. At the 2010 Australian Open itself, <mask> was ousted in the first round by 30th seed Argentine Juan Mónaco in straight sets. In February, <mask> reached his second career semifinal at an ATP 500 event, the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis, Tennessee. In the second round, he defeated third seed Radek Štěpánek, facing two consecutive Czech players as he ousted fifth seed Tomáš Berdych in the third round in a tight, three set match. He lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Sam Querrey. At the end of February, he then competed in the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, an outdoor hard-court tournament, where he won his maiden ATP tour title. In the final, he faced 6' 11" Croatian and second seed Ivo Karlović, winning convincingly.With this victory, his


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texts: but quickly retired in the second round to Ukrainian Illya Marchenko, citing fatigue. His next tournament was the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Rogers Cup. He defeated World No. 26 Thomaz Bellucci in the first round easily, but fell to World No. 5 Robin Söderling in the second round in a tight match. He then played the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Western & Southern Open, defeating Donald Young in the first round and 13th seed Jürgen Melzer in the second, both in close matches. However, he fell in the third round to World No.4 Andy Murray in another tight encounter, decided by a final set tiebreak. <mask> who was the 24th seed, lost in the first round of the US Open to Jérémy Chardy of France in three sets, marking the fourth consecutive first-round lost at a Grand Slam tournament. <mask> then took three weeks off to play for the Latvian Davis Cup team against Poland, winning both of his singles rubbers against Jerzy Janowicz and Michał Przysiężny. His next tournament was the PTT Thailand Open. He received a bye through the first round, and defeated Rainer Schüttler in three sets, advancing to the quarterfinals, where he fell to Guillermo García-López, also in three sets. He then played the Japan Open Tennis Championships, but suffered an upset defeat at the hands of World No. 432 Dmitry Tursunov.<mask> suffered two more consecutive first-round losses at the hands of Richard Gasquet, at the Shanghai Rolex Masters, and Novak Djokovic, at the Swiss Indoors. However, in his final tournament of the season, he bounced back at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 even in Paris, where he dispatched World No. 40 Juan Ignacio Chela and World No. 10 Mikhail Youzhny, both in

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 straight sets. He then fell to Andy Roddick, also in straight sets. <mask> ended the year at a then-career-high of World No. 24.2011: Second ATP title
To begin the year, <mask> claimed wins in the first two rounds of the Australian Open precursor tournament, the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, defeating Victor Hănescu and Antonio Veić, both in straight sets. <mask> progressed to the quarterfinals, equaling his 2010 run, where he was defeated in a tight match against World No. 1 Rafael Nadal. <mask> next played in the 2011 Medibank International Sydney. He received a bye through the first round due to being seeded third for the tournament and defeated Russian Igor Andreev in the second round in three sets. He then defeated Sergiy Stakhovsky in the quarterfinals, before losing to eventual champion Gilles Simon of France in the semifinals, citing fatigue as a cause for his low intensity. His next tournament was the 2011 Australian Open, where he lost in the first round to unseeded German Benjamin Becker in straight sets, again citing fatigue and illness for his poor showing.It marked his fifth consecutive loss at a Grand Slam event. <mask> then withdrew from his next three tournaments, his ranking momentarily rising to his personal best of World No. 21 due to Marin Čilić failing to defend his points from the 2010 Australian Open. <mask> returned to the tour in late February. His next tournament was the Dubai Tennis Championships, an outdoor hard-court tournament, which was held simultaneously with the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, the tournament at which <mask> attained his first ATP title. In the first round, seeded 8th, <mask> won against wild card


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 Wimbledon (which marked his seventh, consecutive first-round exit at a Grand Slam, and after which he took nearly a month off from tennis to train with his new coach), and against former World No. 4 James Blake at the Atlanta Tennis Championships. However, <mask> won his second ATP title at the Farmers Classic in Los Angeles, where he snapped his five-match losing streak by defeating fifth seed Belgian Xavier Malisse in a final set tiebreak in the first-round. He then defeated American qualifier Daniel Kosakowski in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, he defeated Juan Martín del Potro with relative ease, before defeating Russian Alex Bogomolov, Jr. in the semifinals. He faced top seed and World No. 9 Mardy Fish in the finals; after double-faulting to hand Fish the first set, he rallied to win the championship match in a close three setter.<mask> received a wildcard entry into the 2011 Rogers Cup. He defeated former World No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero in three sets in the first round, and proceeded to defeat Michaël Llodra in the second round after Llodra retired, trailing in the second set. In the third round, he fell to eventual finalist Mardy Fish, whom he had recently defeated, in another tight three-setter. He then qualified for the 2011 Cincinnati Masters, where he lost to Croatian Ivan Dodig in two sets. <mask> reached the second round of the US Open, but lost to Gilles Müller in the third round. He was later fined for improper coaching by the USTA.<mask> played five more tournaments that year – all hard court – but had four first-round exits and one second-round exit. 2012: Lack of consistency and form

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<mask> skipped the Australian Open to have a longer off-season and played two Challenger tournaments, where he went out in the second and first rounds. In Rotterdam, he qualified for the maindraw.It was his first ATP tournament of the year, he defeated Robin Haase in the first round, but lost to Juan Martín del Potro in the second, after a first-set tiebreak. For the ATP tournament Marseille, he received a wildcard. After a win against Nieminen, he lost a tight match against Tomáš Berdych. He went to Florida to qualify for the Delray Beach ATP tournament. After winning seven matches to reach the final, including wins against Sam Querrey and Tommy Haas, <mask> won his third career ATP title by defeating Édouard Roger-Vasselin in straight sets to claim his first title since 2011. <mask> continued his excellent start to 2013 with a great run at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. After winning his two qualifying rounds, he beat Spaniard Feliciano López in straight sets, crushed ninth seed Janko Tipsarević for the loss of only two games, and then defeated 20th seed Andreas Seppi from a set down to set up a fourth round meeting with the returning Rafael Nadal.<mask> lost in a tight three setter after taking the first set 6–4, ending his win streak at 13 matches. At the French Open <mask> lost in the second round to Gaël Monfils despite taking the first set. At Wimbledon, he defeated Édouard Roger-Vasselin and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, but was beaten by Fernando Verdasco in the third round. <mask> defeated Feliciano López, Fabio Fognini, and Andy Murray to


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 make the quarterfinals of the Rogers Cup, losing to finalist Milos Raonic in three sets. He lost in the first round in Cincinnati and at the US Open to Mikhail Youzhny and Andreas Haider-Maurer, respectively. <mask> won his fourth career ATP tournament in the St. Petersburg Open, defeating Guillermo García-López in the final. He came back from being down a set and 1–4 to reel off 11 straight games to take the match.It was the first time <mask> had won more than one ATP title in a single season. As a result, <mask> rose to No. 27 in the ATP World Tour rankings, improving this season's positive overall match record to 34–15. <mask> was absent from the 2013 China Open and the 2013 Shanghai Rolex Masters due to illness. He made his next appearance at the 2013 If Stockholm Open where <mask> made it to the semi-final stage, losing to David Ferrer in three sets. During the tournament, <mask> defeated Jérémy Chardy, Igor Sijsling and Jerzy Janowicz. <mask> finished his season with two first round defeats by John Isner and Fernando Verdasco at the 2013 Valencia Open 500 and the 2013 BNP Paribas Masters respectively.2014 Best season: Fifth and Sixth ATP titles, top-10 ranking and first Grand Slam semifinal
<mask> started the new season in Doha, where he reached the quarterfinals, losing to eventual champion Rafael Nadal for the seventh time in his career, in straight sets. <mask> was seeded at the 2014 Australian Open, and defeated Juan Mónaco in the first round in four sets by coming back from losing the first set. <mask> ended the tournament in the second round by losing to Sam Querrey in straight sets. <mask> reached the semi-finals of the Rotterdam Open, defeating

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texts: Gabashvili. <mask> was eventually defeated by Kei Nishikori. <mask> performed well in the Madrid Masters 1000. In the first round, <mask> defeated Jerzy Janowicz in three sets.Then, in the second round, <mask> outmatched Alexandr Dolgopolov in two sets followed by a round of 16 win against Marin Čilić in straight sets. All these tennis players were ranked among the top 30 in the ATP rankings at that time. In the quarter-finals, <mask> lost in straight sets to David Ferrer. Following the tournament, <mask> reached a new career-high ranking of No. 17. <mask> reached the quarterfinal stage also in the Rome Masters 1000, defeating Alejandro Falla and Stéphane Robert in the process. However, <mask> then lost to David Ferrer again in straight sets.In May, <mask> won his sixth ATP title, beating Federico Delbonis in the final of the ATP Nice Open. It was <mask>' first ATP singles title on clay. At the French Open, <mask> reached the quarterfinals for the second time courtesy of a five-set victory over world No. 4 and 2009 champion Roger Federer. He followed this up with a straight-set win over Tomáš Berdych to reach his first Grand Slam semifinal, where he lost to Novak Djokovic. As a result of this run, <mask> entered the ATP's top 10 for the first time in his career. <mask>' form dropped in the second part of the season, evidenced by his 9–10 win-loss record, following Roland Garros.<mask> lost to Sergiy Stakhovsky in the round of 64 at Wimbledon and to Julien Benneteau and Steve Johnson in the round of 32 at the Rogers Cup and Cincinnati Masters respectively. <mask> also struggled with a shoulder injury in the later part of the season. At the US Open, <mask>

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 crucially lost to Dominic Thiem in five sets, losing the final three, what seemed to have a negative impact on his confidence and physical condition for the rest of the season. Despite reaching the semifinals of the Malaysian Open, <mask> retired in the round of 16 of the China Open, lost in the round of 64 of the Shanghai Masters, and was defeated in the round of 32 by Borna Ćorić at the Swiss Indoors in Basel. <mask> finished the season early due to concerns over his shoulder and illness. Nevertheless, <mask> finished his best career season as No. 13, which became his highest year-end ATP ranking.2015: Struggle with form and fall in rankings

<mask> started his season in Auckland as second seed. He lost his first match of the year to the Czech qualifier Jiří Veselý 2–6, 6–3, 1–6. At the Australian Open, <mask> was seeded eleventh, but was defeated by the Australian wildcard Thanasi Kokkinakis in the first round. At the Open 13 in Marseille, <mask> failed to defend his title from 2014, falling to Jérémy Chardy in two sets in the round of 16. <mask> took his first win of the season against Daniel Gimeno-Traver at the BNP Paribas Open in Indiana Wells. It was the latest first win of the season in ATP level tournaments for <mask> since 2007. Afterwards, he fell to Adrian Mannarino in two sets in the round of 32.<mask> also failed to defend his title from 2014 at the ATP Nice Open, losing to Dominic Thiem in two sets in the quarter-finals. At the French Open, <mask> lost in the second round to Nicolas Mahut, having won in the first round against Igor Sijsling. As a result, <mask> dropped outside the top 75 in the ATP Rankings, having failed to defend the


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 ranking points for his semifinal appearance in 2014. <mask> then lost in the first round of Wimbledon to Lukáš Rosol in three sets. Having recorded a dismal 1–3 win-loss record at the first three Grand Slams of the season, it was the worst performance for <mask> at these tournaments since 2012. <mask> showed signs of revival at the Rogers Cup, reaching the quarter-finals. Despite having 2 match points against world No.1 Novak Djokovic in the second set, he went on to lose the match.<mask> had reached the quarter-final stage of at least one Masters 1000 tournament for a third season in a row. At the US Open, <mask> retired in the first round match against Aljaž Bedene due to injury. 2016: Continued struggle with form
Having lost in the qualifying rounds of the first two ATP tournaments of the season in Australia in Brisbane and Sydney, <mask> went on to lose in the round of 128 at the Australian Open against Jérémy Chardy. <mask> won his first match of the season against world No. 171 Quentin Halys at the 2016 Open Sud de France, but lost in the round of 16 to Richard Gasquet in straight sets, who went on to retain his title from the previous year. <mask> went through qualifying at the Rotterdam Open, but then lost in the round of 32 to Gaël Monfils. <mask> lost to Richard Gasquet for a second consecutive time in 2016 at the Open 13 in Marseille in the round of 16.Following this came a string of losses in the first rounds of four consecutive ATP tournaments: at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, at the 2016 Miami Open, at the 2016 Barcelona Open, and the 2016 BMW Open in Munich. After that, <mask> failed to qualify for the 2016 Mutua Madrid Open, losing to

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<mask> reached the fourth round of 2018 Wimbledon as a qualifier by defeating 4th seed Alexander Zverev in a five set match in the third round, before losing to Kei Nishikori in four sets. This was his best showing at this Grand Slam in his career. <mask> made his first ATP Tour final in four years at the 2018 Stockholm Open, losing to Stefanos Tsitsipas. This was his first loss at a final, having previously won six singles titles and two doubles titles. In 2018 <mask> made his way back to Top 100 men's singles rankings, for the first time since the summer of 2016. 2019: Dip in form and rankings
<mask> started off his 2019 year with a quarterfinal appearance at the Maharashtra Open and an Australian Open match against Stan Wawrinka where he won the 1st set 6–3 but retired in the 2nd set due to back issues.Throughout 2019, he would post a 6–17 record and his ranking would drop to 226 by the end of the year. 2020–2021: Australian Open third round, severe loss of form after COVID-19 break
<mask> started off his 2020 season with a 3rd round appearance at the 2021 Australian Open losing to Gaël Monfils in straight sets and his first challenger title since 2012 at the Pau Open. After the COVID-19 pandemic had suspended tennis from March to August, it would seem that <mask> had lost his form from early 2020. From September 2020 to February 2021, <mask> failed to win an ATP qualifying match or even a challenger match. <mask> reached the qualifying competition at 2021 Wimbledon Qualifying after he defeated Dmitry Popko in the first round and then 3rd seed Andrej Martin where he lost only


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 three games. He lost to Brandon Nakashima in straight sets. He repeated this feat at the 2021 US Open qualifying where he defeated 26th seed Marc Polmans and Filip Horanský before losing to Quentin Halys in straight sets.Davis Cup
<mask> played in three Davis Cup ties for Latvia (four singles; three doubles with Deniss Pavlovs). His participation in the tie against Monaco in September helped Latvia to qualify for the Europe/Africa Zone Group I tier of Davis Cup for the first time in its history. In 2010, <mask> continued to participate on the Latvian Davis Cup team, playing against Poland, where he won both of his singles rubbers. In 2011, 2012, and 2013, he continued to play in Davis Cup competition for Latvia. Playing style and equipment

<mask> primarily employs an offensive baseline playing style. <mask>' most consistent shot is his backhand, which is taken with rapid pace, relatively flat execution, and is difficult to read. <mask> is also known for his finesse shots, including the offensive topspin lob and drop shot, both of which he can strike from any position, including from deep in the court.<mask> employs the drop shot consistently and often, sometimes to the point of derision. <mask> plays an extremely aggressive, winner-driven game, which often leads to a high unforced error count, making his consistency an issue in tough matches, often causing him to be likened to Marat Safin. Despite playing a style more attuned to fast surfaces, his strong showing at the 2008 French Open, 2010 Rome Masters and 2014 French Open are attributed to his powerful and flat strokes which can play through the surface. His aggressive baseline game is coupled with an


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 extremely powerful serve, often reaching the upper 130's and low 140's in mph; however, <mask> has struggled with his second serve, and often has high double fault statistics across the ATP leaderboard. Other weaknesses are his consistency and his nerves; despite a strong serve and return, <mask> has poor break point conversion, break point save and tie-break statistics. On numerous occasions he has had strings of uncharacteristic unforced errors when serving or returning for sets or matches, as well as hitting numerous "easy" smashes well out in tough situations, something he has become known for and often jokes about in interviews. However, to his credit, he has a good record in ATP finals, winning 6 of the 7 finals he has been in for ATP events.As of February 2013, <mask> uses a Wilson Steam 99 paintjob racquet after switching from Head. His strings are Luxilon ALU Power 16L strung at 59/57 lbs. Gulbis uses Tourna grip on a white Hydrocontrol grip. He endorses adidas for his attire. Performance timelines

Singles
Current through the 2022 Australian Open. ATP career finals

Singles: 7 (6 titles, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 13 (8–5)

Doubles: 4 (3–1)

Record against top 10 players
<mask>' match record against players who were ranked world No. 10 or higher at the time is as follows, with those who have been No.Wins over top 10 players
<mask> has a  record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10. Notes

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<mask> (born 3 July 1954, Benešov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech composer and instrumentalist (keyboard instruments). The author of the concept of the so-called "integrated" musical form – combining contemporary classical music with dark-ambient and industrial music, his compositional style is characterized by polymodal architecture and alchemical work with sound, using mainly digital techniques to expand the action potential of the means of expression. <mask> is or was the leader of the avant-garde projects Aghiatrias, Skrol, Zygote, Subpop Squeeze, and more. From 1986 to 1996, he was a member of the experimental post-punk band Der Marabu. <mask> graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague and has been practicing medicine with shorter or longer breaks. Biography and style
<mask> was born in Benešov, lived in Ledeč nad Sázavou until he was 18 and then moved to Prague, where he now lives and works. Composing since 1973, he started with small romantic and classical compositions for piano and organ, but very soon abandoned the experiments and devoted himself only to rock and jazz.A long-time member of the Prague-based post-punk group Der Marabu, after its disintegration, he founded the ensemble Skrol (1995) and several other parallel projects like Aghiatrias, Zygote, Subpop Squeeze, Luminar Ax, etc. Without ever abandoning his projects and ensembles, in 1987 the composer began working in parallel on solo production, and around 2002 it became his main program. Emphasizing the use of modern means of expression and the search for

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 specific compositional techniques, he bring together serial, atonal, microtonal, polymodal, and spectral music. Partly inspired by the traditions of 20th-century Slavic classical music, <mask> <mask> keeps building hybrid working models in tonal principles, composition, and instrumentation. Using digital techniques for classical orchestras together with a wide range of sound sources, he searches to achieve the alchemical transformation of sounds into a homogeneous, indivisible substance. This principle, called "integrated music" by itself, also represents the metaphysical idea of the creative concept, which consists in the collision and reconciliation of two seemingly opposite spiritual worlds within an individual. <mask> <mask> regularly gives concerts both at home and abroad, including tours in the USA, Germany, Great Britain and Italy.In 2010, an eight-disc set of key recordings was released by the Italian publishing house Ars Benevola Mater entitled "The Assent to Paradoxon". He has also collaborated with foreign artists on different projects like Dawn Carlyle aka Dove Hermosa, Nadya Feir, Cecilia Bjärgö, Igor Vaganov, Alessandro Aru, and Kenji Siratori. Creations
<mask> <mask>'s music lingers between experimental projects and compositions of a very strict compositional order, but is almost always of a conceptual nature: "It is the work of a non-conformist individualist, forging a completely original aesthetic form, where the unifying element is a rather dark, emotionally tense, often apocalyptic atmosphere of compositions, characterized by

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 their metaphysical, existential anxiety, and spirituality." (Stephen Ellis)His most notable works include "Symphony No. 4" with the subtitle "Snímání z kříže" (in English: "Shooting from the Cross") and its revised, live version "Graue Passion" (Šedé pašije); the conceptual dark ambient albums "Underlying Scapes", "Exorcisms", "Invocations" and "Scripta Soli"; the extensive ingressive composition "Contemplatio per nexus"; the post-industrial mass "Missa Armata"; the composition for piano, percussion and combined electroacoustic techniques "Endoanathymia"; the digital symphony "Axonal Transit"; the microtonal dark ambient album" Epidemic Mind"; the selection of compositions for organ and piano "Selected Organ and Piano Works", and Concerto for Organ No. 2 "Horae". While the composer's work seems to be permeated by a very elaborate and authentic expression of the internal conflict of values within the individual and one's confrontation with the anthropocentric model of contemporary society, the composer disagrees it was the initial idea in throughout the compositions.For the insiders of the industrial and post-industrial scene, <mask> <mask> produces very intense, full of suggestive and stormy atmosphere music. <mask> <mask> was included in Olivier Bernard's Anthology of Ambient Music, and in the encyclopedic publication of composers of contemporary world music. Selected compositions
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Lamiadae: Symmetric Variations, op. 88, compositions for 2 pianos and integrated technique 2011
Horae, op.90, composition for two organs, integrated ensemble, clock machines, field records and digital technology, 2012
Craving Urania, op. 95, composition for integrated techniques, 2014
Do Not Let Us Perish (St.Wenceslaus), op. 96, composition for integrated techniques (variations on the theme of the St. Wenceslas Chorale, 2015
Scripta Soli, op. 91, conceptual dark ambient album in the spirit of so-called "integrated concrete music", 2017

Discography
 Synthetics – Themes, MC, D.M.R. 1987, (reissue CDr, CatchArrow Recordings 1999)
 Organ Pieces, MC, D.M.R.Invocationes, CD, Ars Benevola Mater, 2012
 Epidemic Mind, Surrism-Phonoethics, digital, 2013
 Selected Organ & Piano Works, Integrated Music Records / Surrism-Phonoethics; CDr,digital, 2013
 Axonal Transit (Symphony No.5), Integrated Music Records; CD, 2014
 Horae (Organ Concerto No.2), Surrism-Phonoethics; digital 2015
 Introscan (Subpop Squeeze) , CatchArrow Recordings, digital, 2016
 Anacreontics (Subpop Squeeze), E-Klageto (division of PsychKG), CD, 2017
 Scripta Soli, Old Captain, CD, 2017
 Ecstatic Arc, live, Integrated Music Records, digital, 2018
 Eschaton (Skrol), Old Captain, CD, 2019

Other activities
<mask> <mask> also deals with computer graphics: among other things, he is the author of the design of all his solo albums and the vast majority of albums of his projects. In this regard, he often collaborates with the Czech art photographer Jan Vávra, a representative

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 of the so-called neopictorialism, whose works became a model for the unified design of <mask>'s set of albums "The Assent to Paradoxon". He is also the author of a number of articles and essays. not only on music and art. He has long been committed to the use of the geographical names Czechia (Česko). References

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<mask> (August 19, 1922 – July 17, 2015) was an American priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. <mask> was a professor of biology at the University of San Francisco (1947–1976), founder of United for Life of San Francisco (1968), co-founder of the St. Ignatius Institute (1976), co-founder of Priests for Life (1991), and founder of the Holy Family Oratory of St. Philip Neri. <mask>'s father, the elder <mask>, descended, on his father's side, from a tribe of shepherds in what is now the Calabria province of Southern Italy. <mask> theorizes that his father's family  were Jews who took refuge in Southern Italy after the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. <mask>'s grandmothers were Rafaella Fortino and <mask>, both of whose families descended from the mountain peoples of Celtic descent in Southern Italy. These tribes descend from the Boii, a Celtic people that specialized in cattle raising and filled up the Apennines in Roman times. The name "Filice" is theorized to be either a form of the word for "fern" in the Southern Italian dialect (in which case, the accent should be on the first 'i') or a corruption of the Latin word for "happy", which is "felix".Both <mask> and Joseph G. Fucilla, in his book Our Italian Surnames, support the latter theory. In later years, Fr. <mask> would tell his friends that his name meant, "pure Easter joy." The <mask> Family, into which Fr. <mask> would be born, went to the United States from Rogliano, a small town near Cosenza in Calabria. After spending some time in Washington State, they settled in Gilroy and Hollister, agriculturally-oriented cities south of San Francisco, near San Jose. In Gilroy and Hollister, they owned various types of orchards.Early life
<mask> was born in Hollister, California on August 19, 1922. He was the firstborn son of <mask> and Antonia (Antoinette) <mask>. The elder <mask> died before his son's birth. <mask> grew up on Judah Street in San Francisco's inner Sunset District, but he

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 also spent much of his childhood with his cousins in Gilroy and Hollister. When he was a young boy, his widowed mother married <mask>, a barber in San Francisco. They had one daughter, Gloria Garofalo <mask>i. Mrs. <mask>i inhabits the family home on Judah Street to this day and has three children of her own, as well as ten grandchildren.<mask> graduated from St. Anne of the Sunset Catholic School in 1935. He attended Polytechnic High School, and then the Christian Brothers' Sacred Heart High School, where he distinguished himself academically. Education
In 1939, <mask> enrolled at the University of San Francisco - San Francisco's Jesuit university - where he took the Bachelor of Science in 1943. In 1945, he earned the Master of Science degree at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1949, he earned the Ph.D, also at Berkeley. He published his doctoral dissertation Studies on the Cytology and Life History of a Giardia From the Laboratory Rat (Berkeley: University of California Press) in 1952. Academic career
In 1947, <mask> accepted a position as professor of biology at the University of San Francisco, where he would teach for almost 30 years.Among <mask>'s scholarly work in the field of parasitology was a study based upon his doctoral research to characterize the life cycle of the medically significant parasite causing Giardiasis. <mask> F.P. 1952. Studies on the cytology and life history of a Giardia from the laboratory rat. U.C. Publications in Zoology 57(2):53-146  University of California Press: Berkeley. In the early 1950s, <mask> and co-workers investigated levels of amino acids in the body tissues of various marine invertebrates including seastars, sea urchins and spoon worms.They were the first to demonstrate that various marine invertebrates maintain high concentrations of amino acids in their tissues in comparison to vertebrate animals. Giordano, M.F., H.A. Harper and F.P. <mask>. 1950. The amino acids of the blood of

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 Urechis caupo. Wasmann J. Biol.8(1):1-7. Giordano, M.F., H.A. Harper and F.P<mask>. 1950. The amino acids of a starfish and a sea urchin (Asteroidea and Echinoidea). Wasmann J. Biol.8(2):129-132. Later in that decade, <mask> embarked on a scientific expedition to Baja California, and he was a leader in the "Save The Bay" organization and movement in San Francisco, which sought to deter City planners from filling in the San Francisco Bay in order to increase development of the Bay Area. In this respect, he published three significant studies in the field of marine ecology:

<mask>, F.P., 1954. An ecological study of the Castro Creek area of San Pablo Bay. Wasmann J. Biol. 12(1):1-24. <mask>, F.P., 1958.Invertebrates from the estuarine portion of San Francisco Bay and some of the factors influencing their distribution. Wasmann J. Biol. 16:159-211. <mask>, F.P., 1959. The effects of wastes on the distribution of bottom invertebrates in San Francisco Bay estuary. Wasmann J. Biol. 17:1-17.Pro-life activism
Also central to his work as a professor of biology was the defense of unborn human life. Prior to the late 1960s, abortion was illegal in  every state of the United States, except in cases where the pregnancy posed a risk to the mother's life. This changed in 1967 when Colorado became the first state to legalize abortion in cases of rape, incest, or when there was a threat of permanent disability to the pregnant women. During this period, when the topic of overpopulation first became widely discussed, <mask> recalls that not a month would pass when he did not receive, as a biology professor at USF, a free copy of a textbook which called into question population growth. The first such book was The Population Bomb. Dr. <mask> found the arguments made in such books unconvincing and began to speak against them at various meetings. At this time, <mask> was invited to participate in a panel discussing concerns over population at a local high

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texts: school, by a former student of his who was teaching biology.In his observation, the speakers affiliated with Planned Parenthood and the representative of the Human Population Institute of Stanford only talked about how to get an abortion, without addressing the population question at all. This concerned <mask>, and, as a result, he called the chancery of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to ask what they were doing to respond. Finding out that they did not have a plan for action, <mask> asked if they minded if he tried something. The Chancellor of the Archdiocese told him to go ahead. <mask> had a student, John Martin, who had become a Lutheran, and, when <mask> expressed his concern about how things were developing, this student told him that his pastor had expressed the same concerns. As a result, he invited his pastor to have lunch with <mask> at USF. Pastor Kangas was pastor of the Finnish Lutheran Church of St. Francis on Church Street in San Francisco.Pastor Kangas was from Ohio. <mask> found him to be a very spiritual man. <mask> also invited to the lunch meeting Eileen Ziomeck (now Dr. Aicardi, a pediatrician in San Francisco), who, in <mask>'s words, was "smartest student I ever had". The four people who attended the luncheon decided to start an educational group aimed at countering the claims regarding population growth made in the media. Pastor Kangas knew an Episcopalian minister who was of the same mind. He was Rev. Charles Carroll, chaplain at UCSF and pastor of the church that is now the Catholic chapel of St. John of God.Rev. Carroll had been a Catholic, at one time, but now served under the Episcopalian Bishop of San Francisco. His presence on the committee added a socially upscale quality to the movement. So the four contacted Rev. Carroll and called a meeting. St. Mary’s Hospital let them use a meeting room. No doctors were at the meeting.Those in attendance at this first meeting were: <mask>, Eileen Ziomeck, John

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texts: Martin, John Galten, Clayton Barbeau (a Catholic author), Rev. Bernie Bush, S.J., Rev. Theodore Taheny, S.J., Rev. Carroll, <mask>, Bob Augros (a philosophy professor at USF), and others whom <mask> cannot remember. He does remember that there were fourteen people present. They decided that the political problem was impractical to address directly, and that what was needed was an educational group to counter the arguments of the pro-choice movement. <mask> remembers going around the room and asking each if they wanted to be chairman, but each of them declined.So, by default, <mask> became the chairman of this emergent pro-life group in San Francisco. Thus was born United for Life of San Francisco. United for Life met every two weeks for the next seven years. At their first official meeting, Dr. Raymond Dennehy came up from Santa Clara University, where he taught philosophy. Dr. Augros and he took the task of countering the arguments of their opposition, and they developed a pamphlet in question-and-answer form that became the source of arguments against abortion for all the pro-life groups in the United States. This pamphlet was later the basis of a book by Dr. Jack and Barbara Willke from Ohio. United for Life developed the first pro-life newsletter in the United States and contacted all the groups in California and the United States.In most densely populated areas, ad hoc groups formed. For example, across the bay in Oakland, "Voice of the Unborn" was formed by a number of housewives. In Los Angeles, a right-to-life organization was formed by a group of doctors’ wives. There was a network of such groups who brought information to their legislatures and to young people. In addition, United for Life developed speakers bureaus: lawyers, scientists, students, and women who went to every school in the Bay Area to present the pro-life message. They purchased films which explored prenatal development. They asked to address every event in the

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texts: Bay Area where their opposition would be.United for Life organized the opposition to the bills in the California State Assembly to strike down all the abortion laws, and they "defeated it handsomely." Mary Ann Schwab and Alice Austurias, members of United for Life, organized the Catholic Office for Life in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and staffed it for many years. Some of the members of United for Life organized the Political Action organization in California as a separate organization because of the tax laws. The Birthright organization was started in San Francisco by Dr. <mask>'s second-oldest daughter, Carol Brown. A similar organization with the same name had been started in Toronto, Ontario. Brown and her helpers contacted the Toronto office, and they joined with the international organization. This helped the spread of Birthright offices on the West Coast.Of Roe v. Wade, <mask> has stated: "A purely fabricated case went to the Supreme Court and Justice Blackmun, without shame, wrote a majority opinion that is a masterpiece of false logic. The Court struck down all the laws protecting the child. In doing so they threw our legal system into a shambles. To this day, the effects are felt in the grossly unjust decisions made by the courts to protect the capacity to kill the child in the womb". <mask> finds noteworthy that the pro-life effort was the first effort by Catholic lay people in the United States without the help of the clergy; it was an entirely lay movement, the first, in <mask>'s experience, in the United States where the people acted without the leadership of their pastors. This was important because the Catholic organizers wanted non-Catholics to join in. Their conviction was that abortion is a human problem and not just a religious one.The early pro-life activists felt that they, as citizens, had to educate the voters in the United States. As a result, many Catholic priests felt that it was not their fight. All that

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title: Francis P. Filice

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 has changed by now, Fr. <mask> points out: Priests for Life  grew out of United for Life. Personal life
In 1947, <mask> married Barbara Ann Fate, the daughter of Michael and Blanche Fate. Michael Fate was half Italian and half Irish, and Blanche Fate was half Irish and half Swedish. Ms.Fate had earned a baccalaureate degree at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco. <mask> had six children. The <mask> Family would settle on 24th Avenue in San Francisco's Richmond District, attending St. Monica's parish and school. <mask>'s daughters attended Presentation High School, while his sons attended St. Ignatius, San Francisco's Jesuit high school. In the early 1960s, <mask> participated in one of the first cursillo retreats given in San Francisco, and he became a Third Order Carmelite. In 1964, he took his family on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. From the early 1960s to the middle 1970s, <mask> was involved with the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the pro-life movement.Mrs. <mask> died from complications related to kidney failure on February 11, 1976. Soon after, Dr. <mask> retired from his professorship at the University of San Francisco and was accepted by Archbishop Joseph Thomas McGucken as a seminarian of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. From 1977 to 1979, he was engaged in formation for the priesthood at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, CA. He was ordained a priest of Jesus Christ on May 19, 1979 at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco. The ordaining prelate was Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco. <mask> served as a parochial vicar in various parishes of the Archdiocese of San Francisco until 1986, when, with the permission of Archbishop Quinn, he established the Holy Family Oratory of St. Philip Neri in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The impetus for the foundation of the Oratory was an awareness of the attacks on the family in the West, which had taken deep root in the culture.Fr.

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