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<mask> (born Norman Fisher-Jones, 1 February 1962, in Bootle, Lancashire, England) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and producer, has formed and/or played with a number of bands primarily as a guitarist or bassist. In chronological order they were: Alvin the Aardvark and the Fuzzy Ants, The Umbrella, The Pete Shelley Group, The Cure, Luxuria, Apollo 440, Stealth Sonic Soul, Fast, Maximum Roach, James Maker and Noko 440 (also known as Frankenstein), Magazine, Raw Chimp, Levyathan, SCISM, Am I Dead Yet? and Buzzcocks (at the Pete Shelley Memorial concert at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2019). Biography
In 1980, he formed his first band called Alvin the Aardvark & the Fuzzy Ants, who played their first gig on 16 January 1981 on After All That…This, a Granada TV show presented by Nick Turnbull. Despite the DJ John Peel being a fan of their music, they never released any material, recording only an unreleased single at Open Eye Studios, in Liverpool and playing a few gigs in the North-West, most notably supporting Cabaret Voltaire at Nathan McGough's Plato's Ballroom in 1981, before disbanding the same year. In 1983, he became involved with three bands. He joined The Cure as bassist, playing for some European and UK live–TV dates, and formed two bands, Dynamo Futurista and The Umbrella.The latter group, consisting of <mask> (guitar and vocals), Simon Hoare (drums), Mark Sanderson (bass) and James Gardner, released a total of three songs before folding, which were released on an EP called Make Hell (For The Beautiful People). Founder

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 Trevor Gray and Howard Gray, and James Gardner and formed Apollo 440. The band released a number of singles and EPs on their own StealthSonic Recordings label: "Lolita" (1990), "Destiny" (1991), "Blackout" (1992) and "Lolita/Destiny '92" (1992). Apollo 440 made four albums: Millennium Fever (1995), ElectroGlide In Blue (1997), Gettin' High On Your Own Supply (1999), and Dude Descending A Staircase (2003) on Sony Records. The band have been playing live in one form or another since their inception in 1990 to the present day and chronologically the touring line-ups are as follows:
1990–1992: The band featured all founding members on keyboards, sequencers and drum machines and MCs Stevie Hyper-D and Tigga-Max guesting from time to time on vocals. 1993–1995: James Gardner left for New Zealand where he has since established himself as a prominent composer writing music for his ensemble 175 East. <mask> moved over to electric guitar and lead vocals, Trevor Gray on keyboards, Howard Gray on bass, and ex-Modern Eon drummer Cliff Hewitt was added to the line-up first on electronic, then onto acoustic drums.(Kenny Cougar briefly replaced Rej on bass during 1999). 1996–2000: <mask> – guitar, Trevor Gray – keyboards, Howard Gray – vibe controller/live-mix, Cliff Hewitt – drums, Paul Kodish – drums, Reinallt Ap Gwynnedd – bass, Mary Byker (ex-Gaye Bykers on Acid) – lead vocals, Harry-K – DJ/vocals. Simeon Bowring from A1 People replaced Rej on bass for a number of European festivals in 2000. 2007–2008: <mask> – guitar, Trevor Gray – keyboards, Howard Gray – vibe

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texts: had a writing contribution), playing additional guitar, bass and various keyboard/programming enhancements along the way.This led to the band he formed with Brad Lee, $HirtLiftA supporting PWEI on their UK tour that summer: Brad Lee on vocals, <mask> on guitar and Frank Horovich on guitar and electronics. In 2016, <mask> reunited with Matthew Glamorre to form SCISM, the 'house-band' at his SCISM audio-visual, multi-media art-happening nightclub on EU Referendum night in London. They recorded and released "Dalston Bump" to coincide with a series of events at Vogue Fabrics in Dalston. In Summer 2017 SCISM played a set at Churchtown festival in Cornwall and again in September at The Bargehouse in London as part of Open London weekend. In April 2017, Magazine released the vinyl-only "Old World Charm" (WIRED42) : 6 tracks recorded at the BBC Electric Proms at Roundhouse, London in 2009. The Graeme Oxby pic on the rear of the sleeve featured <mask>'s MXR 'flanger-on-a-stick'. <mask> composed and produced the music score for director Darren Cavanagh's feature-length documentary Ex-Dominatrix, for release in December 2017.The movie opened the 2019 London Fetish Film Festival, at which it won Best Feature. In 2017, <mask> and Mary Byker started work recording a body of songs that would become the debut Am I Dead Yet? album, which was released on the Wire-Sound label in April 2019 (WIRED#48). A 5-track remix EP, “Never Mind The Bolex…Am I Dead Yet? reimagined on 35mm”(WIRED#49), which featured cinematic dub remixes of some of the album highlights, was


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 released as a download only, free with advance-orders of the album during the crowd-fun run-up to the actual release. Live dates promoting the album saw the live line-up expanded with the addition of Cliff Hewitt from Apollo 440 on drums and Derek ‘Hoodlum Priest’ Thompson on bass guitar. Other appearances
The nature of the Apollo 440 remix and production process means <mask> has played on too many records by other artists to list usefully here.StealthSonicSoul was an alter-ego spin-off project by the three members of Apollo 440. One release "StealthSonicSoul" came out in 1992 on Scottish 23rd Precinct affiliated Limbo label. A further track "StealthSonic Sun In Her Hair" appeared on a Limbo compilation the following year. The EZ Drum & Bass Orchestra consisted of <mask> and Frederick Pasquan and made one commercially available EP "Beat Girl" b/w "EZ Beat Girl" and "Slow Beat Girl" on the Sliced label in 1996. The duo also remixed a number of other artists e.g. "Carrerra Rapida -EZ Drum&Bass Orchestra Remix" by Apollo 440 on Sony in 1997. <mask> played bass in 1991 on the Total Abandon EP and Jubilee Twist LP in 1992  by The Heart Throbs, a group from Reading who folded in 1993.<mask> played a number of gigs with the band in 1991 and was in the line up that was joined onstage on 25 October of that year by Only Ones frontman, Peter Perrett at Underworld, Camden Town,London, for a version of The Only Ones' "Lovers Of Today" along with a few other songs. In the same year, he played abstract guitar on the song "Ventriloquists and Dolls" from Momus's


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texts: album Hippopotamomus. In 1992, <mask> produced the one and only LP by Hyperhead, Metaphasia, which came out on the Devotion label. The band was formed by Mary Byker. After Gaye Bykers on Acid split, Mary joined and toured with industrial supergroup Pigface before forming Hyperhead, which included contributions from his Pigface colleagues Martin Atkins (also formerly of PiL and Killing Joke) and William Tucker (also previously of Revolting Cocks and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult), along with bassist Karl Leiker (who had previously played with <mask> in Luxuria) and guitarist Paul Dalloway. Also in 1992, <mask> collaborated with Stuart Crichton as Johnny Potatohead, releasing a single, "Johnny Potatohead" on Reverb Records. On 14 July 1998, Apollo 440 played "La Nuit Electronique" concert with Jean Michel Jarre, with whom they had collaborated twice that year : firstly on the single "Rendezvous '98"  (which became the ITV World Cup Theme in UK and reached #10 in the singles chart) and an @440 remix of "Oxygene 10".Apollo performed the two tracks live onstage with JMJ in front of the Eiffel Tower to an audience of over 600,000. It was Bastille Day and only two days before, France had won the World Cup. Immediately after they won on 12th, the Mayor of Paris asked Jarre to put together this impromptu free concert for the people of Paris to extend the euphoria. At the climax of the show, an enormous firework display went off on the Eiffel tower behind the stage. This was the largest concert <mask> has ever played. <mask> and both Gray brothers all


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 cellist Christine Hanson. After the passing of Pete Shelley in December 2018, <mask> was asked to perform with the current Buzzcocks, Steve Diggle, Danny Farrant and Chris Remington, at a special memorial concert at London's Royal Albert Hall on 21 June. The concert featured original Buzzcocks drummer John Maher and bassist Steve Garvey alongside a number of special guests, including Pauline Murray (Penetration), Captain Sensible (The Damned), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Peter Perrett (The Only Ones), Richard Jobson (Skids), Dave Vanian (The Damned) and Tim Burgess (The Charlatans). <mask> played Pete Shelley's guitar parts and solos for the duration of the show, which was MC'd by Paul Morley and included tributes by original Buzzcocks manager and New Hormones label founder Richard Boon, original Buzzcock  Howard Devoto, who provided a short film featuring a world premiere of a Buzzkunst track that he'd recorded with Pete, but was never released and, to end the show, a eulogy and special thanks from Pete's wife Greta. Appropriately, <mask> played two songs, "Boredom" and "Time's Up" on a red 1960s Starway guitar - the same model made famous by Pete during the early Spiral Scratch days of the band, with its missing top-section. Equipment
For Apollo 440 live, throughout the late 1990s Noko used the following guitars: a green Parker Fly Classic, a blue Parker Fly Deluxe and a pink Fender 1962 reissue Stratocaster through a pair of Digitech 2112 rack FX units, an 1980s Roland GP-8 and Fender Twins, but whilst the guitars remain the same, the preamps


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Noko's 2017 @440 rig was the same 3 guitars into a Kemper Powerack (Fender Tube Reverb tank in FX loop) into a Marshall 1936 2 x 12" cab with a pedalboard incorporating Kemper Remote, a Boss DM-3 and a Boss FT-2  in conjunction with 2 EV-5 expression pedals.While he was touring with Magazine in 2009, <mask> used a pair of green Yamaha SG1500 guitars with an MXR dyna comp, MXR flanger, Boss DM-3 and Boss PS-5. The flanger was stand-mounted as per John McGeoch and Robin Simon's setup with the band in the late 1970s. For amplification, <mask> used two late 1970s Marshall JMP 2x12" combos with Marshall 4x12'cabinets and a Fender Twin. A Variax 700 Acoustic was used for the intro of "I Want To Burn Again" through another late 1970s MXR flanger. <mask> used a 1978 Black Ovation Magnum II bass guitar with Levyathan through a Boss CE-2 and boss OC-2 into a Sansamp Bass Driver and EBS Fafner Bass rig. A jetglow '74 Rickenbacker 4001 was used for one or two gigs during his time with the band. Whilst on tour with Tomoyasu Hotei, <mask>'s bass rig was as follows : Ibanez Black Eagle(Reissue), 1978 Antoria Snow Eagle, 1982 G&L L-1000(natural), 1978 Ovation Magnum II (black)
into : EBS Fafner MkI through EBS Neo 210 and EBS Neo 115 cabs, with the top-end (up an octave through electroharmonix POG2) split through Kemper Powerack into Marshall 1936 cab.<mask>'s


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<mask> is a Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, environmentalist, social worker and writer. She is the first Bangladeshi and first Bengali to complete the Seven Summits on 18 November 2015. National Geographic recognized <mask> as one of their Adventurers of the Year 2014/2015. She was selected in honor of her activism and commitment to empowering women through her work in the field of adventure. She was again selected as one of their Explorers in 2016. becoming the only woman to hold the simultaneous titles of National Geographic Explorer and Adventurer. She was named by Outside as one of 40 women in the last 40 years who have advanced and challenged the outdoor world through their leadership, innovation, and athletic feats, and by Men's Journal as one of the 25 most adventurous women of the past 25 years. Nazreen is also known for her campaigns to raise awareness of animal rights, human rights situations in Tibet, environmental impacts, Bangladeshi women's rights (including of sex workers and garments factory workers) and Indigenous groups.<mask> is credited in Bangladesh history as the nation's inspiration and one of the legendary women to have made pioneering contribution. She is an icon for millions of Bangladeshis:
<mask> symbolises patience, endurance, and determination for conquering the Seven Summits against all odds. But statistics alone is an incomplete assessment of her strength which, surprisingly, lies also in her humility. She remains remarkably unchanged by the adulation and attention her victories have brought her. By reveling in the unusual distinction of boasting the world's best at something, she becomes an outstanding role model for a youthful nation that won freedom not too long ago. In hailing <mask>, Bangladesh today hails a symbol of what, as a nation, we collectively aspire to be. Her perseverance, we are sure, will be an inspiration to the youths of the country to achieve the challenging objectives in fulfilling the dream of the nation.In December 2019, Nazreen was

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 featured in UN Women's "Generation Equality" campaign. In March 2021, Nazreen was one of the activists to launch UNESCO's worldwide Forum on Biodiversity. Early life and education

Early years
<mask> was born in Dhaka with the birth name <mask> <mask> Chowdhury. She is the youngest child and only daughter of Mahmuda Nahar (Ruby), a musician and teacher, and Nazmee Jahan Chowdhury, an executive at James Finlay Bangladesh. Nazreen lived in Khulna, where she studied at Sunflower Nursery school and then Coronation Girls’ High School. When she was still a child, the family moved to their previous home in Chittagong. There she studied in Bangladesh Mahila Samiti Girls' High School (BWA).In early 1996, when Nazreen was thirteen, her parents officially divorced following which she went to live with her aunt, Chobi Rouf, and uncle, NAT Rouf, in Dhaka where she was enrolled in the English medium Scholastica school. At this point, she was separated from both her parents as well as her only sibling and elder brother, Sarwar N. Chowdhury, who stayed in Chittagong with their father. Nazreen competed in volleyball and handball alongside studying theatre in high school. She was in the first batch of now popularly known Prachyanat School of Acting and Design. When <mask> went to the United States for college on her own, she took off her family last name from all official papers. She credits her childhood as the most impactful time of her life:
I may be the wealthiest and happiest person today, but I might wake up in the morning to find out that an earthquake took it all. Life is unpredictable and there will always be loss, and in fact, a myriad of joys and sorrows.If we can recognize difficulties as opportunities–as methods to improve ourselves, our perspectives–then I think we are able to bear it better. We then learn to identify loss as a blessing, and not as a curse. In one sense, it may be the most brutal and morbid experience—but it’s also the most basic teaching in life–that every thing, every being,

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 group CARE (relief agency). When the funding for one of CARE's projects dried up, Nazreen decided that while foreign support had its role in the developing nation, it was time for the Bangladeshi people to begin building aid organizations that were not headed by foreigners. She had begun mountaineering in 2006 while working in Tibet to stem human rights violations by the Chinese government. She decided to combine her two passions—activism and climbing.Since finishing climbing the seven summits, Nazreen has been hard at work on her Ösel Foundation, which she describes as an “educational institute set in the outdoors, which integrates the latest scientific findings about the development of the mind and combines it with mindfulness techniques and training in nature to empower adolescent girls.”

In 2016, <mask> became the brand ambassador for Grameenphone, becoming the highest paid female athlete of Bangladesh and one of the highest paid athletes of the nation. During her two year contract with Bangladesh's largest telecommunications network, she used the platform to challenge social responsibility and holistic development of the society through Grameenphone’s various social initiatives like online schools, easy internet education for the common people, women empowerment and other development initiatives. Nazreen represented Bangladesh in Nepal at the closing ceremony of the two Nation's first ever Business Forum in January 2016. Nazreen highlighted the power of youth and the importance of sustainability and respecting nature while developing infrastructure. The conference was closed with a recitation of her poem, written in Nepali, about the ancient connection of the rivers that criss-cross her motherland Bangladesh with the Himalayas. Free Tibet
Her work with Tibetan human rights took her to Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, the exiled-capital of the Tibetans, where she lived for several years in her early twenties. Since 2007, Nazreen has been banned by the Chinese Government from returning to


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 Shahidul, who was picked up by plainclothes men in Dhaka, and sent to jail in a case filed under the notorious ICT Act. Personal
Nazreen is vegan and an advocate of animal-rights. She currently lives in Venice beach, Los Angeles. Nazreen likes to stay private and has often been quoted to say she shies away from social-media and the spotlight. She is dubbed in Bangladeshi media as a fashion icon and role-model. A long-time supporter of Tibet, Nazreen is close friends with the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje and the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso.She credits them in interviews as the two most important teachers in life who has shown her the way when she was derailed in life. <mask> openly discusses accounts of dealing with depression and trauma as a child following her parents divorce that made her homeless as a result. She credits such struggle at early life for giving her "abilities to bounce back after adversities and greet change and difficulties as an opportunity to welcome greater self-reflection, learning, and growth." She studied meditation with Tibetan teachers Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. Life is meditation–it’s not a separate thing. The essence of meditation is recognizing awareness. If we’re not aware, we cease to exist.Yoga, meditation, mindfulness—these are like compasses when we’re lost at sea. Thanks to my mother, I was born into yoga. And then later in my adult life I have been extremely blessed not only to be directly guided by some of the most profound teachers of our times, but also to work in movements and environments led by HH the Dalai Lama and HH the Karmapa, and experientially learn how great beings like them who also went through so much atrocities in their personal lives—deal with it all, behind the limelight. Whenever I have (in the past) got derailed somehow, they’ve pulled me out, often in miraculous ways. So having this circle of family, and the particular purpose I have–I’m really blessed and I wouldn’t in my awakened mind for a


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 second want to imagine it any other way. <mask> was diagnosed with COVID-19 in March 2020 and during her worst battle, she used the platform to send positive messages and advocated for mental health, by going on podcasts and live shows with notable personalities such as cricketers, actors and astronauts. She was one of the first Bangladeshis to have gotten diagnosed while being abroad.In 2020, in the Bruce Lee Podcast, she stressed about the importance of mental-health and ancestral trauma healing, and how individual mental-health is directly linked with the health of our planet. Relationship with nature
Nazreen is often quoted in TV and other media requesting against labeling her mountaineering expeditions as a "conquering" feat due to its colonial and patriarchal nature:
I have been extremely blessed this lifetime to be introduced to nature and wildlife from very early on in my life–whether that was through upbringing near the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world or living in Chittagong in close proximity with the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Growing up in Bangladesh, I witnessed natural disasters as long as I can remember–hurricanes, floods, typhoons, cyclones–you name it. As a child, one of my earliest memories is, having to wade out of our living room in boats when the floods came every year. All the pets and animals that lived on our land, would be struggling to swim across with us–the dogs would eventually be rescued out of water, and so on. Abbu, my father was in shipping so we also got to witness the wrath of raging Bay of Bengal a lot as kids. Even though all these experiences combined instilled the exposures required to realize firsthand who was the real boss–I think people in general in my region and culture, from time immemorial treated nature differently.For example the mountains are referred as gods and goddesses. So I always found it strange, when people so gallantly proclaim to have “conquered” an entire mountain, which is also a very patriarchal perspective if


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 you think about it. Before summit bids on big mountains, the usual scene is that everyone’s praying and promising of things they’d do only if allowed for that one short window to open up just so we can stand on top in all her glory for a brief moment. Therefore, it’s really a process of surrendering to nature and then if it’s your time, she will most likely bless you. <mask> in books and documentary
 <mask> and her quests are subjects of HSC exam quiz and various other school textbook contents in Bangladesh. <mask>'s philosophy of life is featured among five of the most adventurous souls in National Geographic's Special Publication “Adventures of a Lifetime.”
 <mask> is the subject of the 2016 documentary <mask> made by Apple Inc. and produced by Academy Awards nominated RYOT Films. The documentary was shot on the iPhone 6s and premiered at the Telluride Mountainfilm festival same year.The documentary was on tour around the world and was shown as part of the National Geographic Shortfilm Showcase. It received critical acclaim internationally, including a nomination for the prestigious Tribeca-X award at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and The New York Times calling it a bait for the Academy Awards. <mask> is one of the subjects in Astronaut Ronald J. Garan Jr.'s book The Orbital Perspective.“What really struck me in <mask>’s description of her experience was that overriding feeling of gratitude, which in some way connected her to every single being. This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the gift of the planet we’ve been given. In some way I can’t explain, being physically detached from Earth made me feel deeply interconnected with everyone on it. I distinctly remember this feeling of profound thankfulness, but <mask>’s words helped me to process that awareness of interconnectedness with the inhabitants of the planet.”
 Nazreen is one of the twelve Women Explorers to grace National Geographic's 2020 Explorer

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<mask>-Zadeh (; ; born 23 April 1942) is an Iranian-German analytic philosopher of medicine. He was the first ever professor of philosophy of medicine at a German university and has made significant contributions to the philosophy, methodology, and logic of medicine since 1970. Life and career
Sadegh-Zadeh was born on 23 April 1942 in Tabriz, Iran. The fourth of eight children, he grew up in Tabriz and attended school from 1947 to 1959. His father was a craftsman and manufacturer and ran a minor terrycloth weaving mill. In the wake of severe political and economic crisis in the country caused by the U.S. and British coup d'état against the democratically elected government of Iran's Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, he went bankrupt and never recovered. At eleven years of age when entering the high school shortly after his father's bankruptcy, Sadegh-Zadeh told his parents he would become a professor of medicine in the future and provoked laughter from them.Upon finishing school education at the prestigious Ferdowsi High School in Tabriz, Sadegh-Zadeh came to Germany in March 1960 to pursue his goal as a working student and studied medicine and philosophy at the universities of Münster, Berlin, and Göttingen from 1960 to 1971 with Internship and residency 1967–1971. He earned a doctorate of medicine, Dr. med., from the University of Göttingen in November 1971. But immediately he left practical medicine to conduct theoretical research on clinical reasoning, for during his training in the hospital he had got the impression that in the foundations of clinical decision-making something was going wrong to


title: Hans-Joachim Frey

texts: Hans-<mask> (born 10 June 1965, in Gehrden, Lower Saxony) is a German cultural manager. From 1997 to 2007, he was Artistic Director of Operations and Director of Opera (from 2003) at the Semperoper in Dresden from 2007 to 2010 and general director at the Theater Bremen. In January 2013 he was responsible in the European Capital of Culture in Linz as a board director and artistic director of Liva, where he was also on the Bruckner House, the International Bruckner Festival and the clouds of sound. Since 2006, he is also a founder and the first Chairman and Artistic Director of the Semper Opernball in Dresden. Moreover, he is often culturally engaged, such as in vocal and instrumental competitions as well as in cultural studies organizations as well as artistic director of the Dresden Opera Ball. <mask> is the nephew of Armin Mueller-Stahl. He attended school in the capital of Lower Saxony, Hanover.From the seventh to the twentieth year he received piano lessons and at the age of eight he joined the Hanover Boys' Choir at, where he served for ten years. In addition, he took six years of teaching in the church organ, which he finished with the completion of the C-organist examination. In 1984, he graduated from high school in his hometown. Subsequently, he did his military service from where he was employed as a driver, secretary and organist of the military vicar. After this he started at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg trained as an opera singer, alternating between the voice types of tenor and baritone. At the urging of his father, for whom the profession of opera singer was too uncertain, he took courses of study as a musical theater directorhttps://www.t-artsoby.com/collections/wall-art. By the end of 1989 he started a collaboration with the Hamburg State Opera as a study project, the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, for which he won numerous sponsors.He subsequently

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title: Hans-Joachim Frey

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 enrolled in the new university course for management culture. During his studies he worked as an opera singer at various theaters and concerts. He was also assistant director, including Hamburg and Stockholm, and brought five more of its own productions at studio theaters in Rostock and Detmold on the stage. In 1990 he received from Götz Friedrich he graduated as a director (musical theater), and three years later the diploma as a cultural manager at Rough Hermann and Peter Ruzicka. Early theater work

After graduating <mask> worked since 1993 as Artistic Director of Operations at the Thuringian State Theatre in Eisenach in 1995 and then held the same position at the Theater Bremen. Time in Dresden

In May 1997, <mask> was operating as Artistic Director of the Saxon State Opera Dresden at the Semperoper. There he ran an internationalization policy and the singer gave performances by well-known directors such as Willi Decker, Sebastian Baumgarten, Nemirova, Claus Guth, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Günter Krämer and Peter Konwitschny.He also stepped up its cooperation with the Dresden Staatskapelle and thus also with conductors such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Semyon Bychkov, Sir Colin Davis, Fabio Luisi, Sebastian Weigle, Marc Albrecht, Daniel Harding, Christian Thielemann, Manfred Honneck and Daniele Gatti. When in August 2002 as a result of the exceptionally strong flood of the Elbe the Semperoper had to be closed, he initiated during this period together with Harry Kupfer staging Carmen - a version by Georges Bizet in the premises of the Transparent Factory on the edge of the Great Park. The piece was presented there for a month before the headquarters of the State Opera 9 November 2002 with the ballet Illusions - like Swan Lake, the new season 2002/2003 could be included. In summer 2003, he was named for opera director. Under his leadership, perpetual interruption was the occasion of the 800th anniversary

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title: Hans-Joachim Frey

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 of the city in early 2006 after 67 years Semper Opera Ball reintroduced. January 2013 2600 guests took part in the first event, while 4000 spectators on the video screens pursued transmitted event at the Opera House forecourt. In April 2007, he resigned from his post at the Semperoper in order to take over the general directorship of the theater Bremen.However, he is still the artistic director of the Opera Ball and first chairman of the Dresden Semper Opera Ball V. The ball was played in 2013 under his leadership the 8th Time. Director in Bremen

At Theater Bremen <mask> followed Klaus Pierwoß ab. In his term of office continuing process should be the reorganization of the theater as a holistic brand culture across the stage also. In the course of this concept initially was a modernization of the logo; also a greater involvement with the business and other cultural institutions should be allowed. During the directorship Frey Theater Bremen was a collaboration with the Culture Church St. Stephani, which includes, among other so-called theater sermons on certain pieces. Rank in the foyer of the theater was the place at the Goethe Theatre Galerie Bremen established in the far including works by GABO, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Anna Thalbach, Christian Ludwig Attersee and Ai Wei Wei were presented. For these innovations, the theater received several prizes and awards.He developed the concept of the 2,500 seater floating stage on the former site of Bremen AG Weser River and in the summer for a week to attend the opera was seen. At the beginning of his term <mask> had the production of the musical Marie Antoinette by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay announced. This was however listed from January and May 2009 in the musical theater funded by the Bremen Theatre Bremen. The cost of production amounted to 5.8 million euros. But instead of the expected 120,000 spectators visited only 90,000 then the ideas,


title: Hans-Joachim Frey

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 there was a loss of 2.5 million euros. Due to political disputes about the musical project Marie Antoinette he asked in August 2009 to the early termination of his contract at Bremen Theatre 31 July 2010. In Russia

After working in Bremen <mask> staged for the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of 2010, the opera gala.At the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre took place in September 2011, the international singing competition Competizione dell 'Opera under <mask>'s line instead. Thus, this song competition was first held outside of Germany. This competition was then in 2012 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Minsk / Belarus instead. At the Boris Pokrovsky Moscow Chamber Opera he has 2011 opera Zar und Zimmermann first fully staged in Russia, sung in German with spoken dialogue language and in Russian. In 2011 there was a big gala for the 50th anniversary of the twinning between Dresden and St. Petersburg under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski and directed by <mask> and organization at the Mikhaylovsky Theatre (en place). In 2012 he staged in October in the cities of Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk go the opera The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner on Lake Baikal. Was first brought to the stage an opera in the original language of a foreign director beyond the Urals.In December 2013 at the International Opera Forum at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus in Minsk also the opera The Flying Dutchman was brought on stage. Other activities

<mask> leads different teaching assignments for Cultural Management at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg, the University of the Arts Bremen and the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar through. In 1996, he exclaimed as founder and director of the international singing competition Competizione dell 'Opera of the Italian opera to life, which is intended to promote young talent. The competition is now established worldwide and

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title: Hans-Joachim Frey

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 has been performed 12 times. In 2003 he founded together with a small group of other cultural officials, the International Forum for Culture and Economics (also Tiberius Forum). Under the auspices of the Forum Freys busy 2003 Piano Competition "Anton G. Rubinstein" again. In 2009  the piano competition for the fourth time with the final concert at the Semperoper took place.He was director of the 2004 competition held by Tiberius Forum International Composition Competition for the Transparent Factory. He was also a member of the advisory board of the Hanover boys choir. He is a member of the boards of trustees of the Kreuzchor, the Richard Strauss Festival and the Daetz Foundation (see Daetz Centre), with Werder Bremen and Rotary International. Additionally he was a member of the jury at numerous art competitions since 2005 and is also patron of the Musikverein Dippoldiswalde. From 2011 to the end of 2012 he was Managing Director of LaValse GmbH Berlin. In 2011 he became a visiting professor at Seoul Arts College in Korea called. From 2013 to 2017 he was the new Artistic Director and Executive Director of Liva in Linz.He was responsible for the Bruckner House, the International Bruckner Festival, the clouds of sound, Posthof and was on the board of Ars Electronica. Controversy
According to the verdict of Federal Court of Justice, Naomi Campbell did not have to be paid 55,930 euros for her appearance at the SemperOpernball in connection with the awarding of the St. Georgs Order 2015. According to Hans-Joachim <mask>, he had canceled the engagement on the previous day. References

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title: Daric Barton

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<mask> (born August 16, 1985) is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics. Minor league career
<mask> was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft in the 1st round as the 28th overall player selected. He was selected right out of Marina High School in Huntington Beach, California. <mask> had signed on to attend Cal State Fullerton and play baseball there, but accepted a $1 million signing bonus from the Cardinals instead. <mask> began his professional career with the Johnson City Cardinals (Cardinals' Rookie League affiliate) in 2003, mainly playing as a catcher. In 54 games, he batted .291 with 4 home runs.In 2004, he advanced to the Peoria Chiefs, the then Cardinals Single-A team. He played in just 90 games for the Chiefs, batting .313 with 13 home runs. He was named to the Midwest League Postseason All-Star team. He led the Midwest League in on-base percentage (.445), was third in the league in batting average (.313), and was fourth in the league in slugging percentage (.511). On December 19, 2004, he was traded along with pitchers Dan Haren and Kiko Calero to the Oakland Athletics for starting pitcher Mark Mulder. <mask> was #32 out of 100 on Baseball America's Top 100 Prospects list in 2005. After having an emergency appendectomy part way through spring training, <mask> started the 2005 season slowly, but ended the year with a .317 batting average.He spent most of 2005 with the Single-A Stockton Ports of the California League, but also appeared in 56 games for the Double-A Midland RockHounds of the Texas League. He was also selected to play in the All-Star Futures Game at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. With the

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title: Daric Barton

texts: Cardinals, <mask> played catcher, but the Athletics moved <mask> to first base due to concerns with <mask>'s ability behind the plate, the negative impact catching can have on the development of a young hitter, and because the Athletics had a number of more advanced catching prospects (Kurt Suzuki, Jeremy Brown, and Landon Powell). In 2006, <mask> once again appeared on Baseball America's Top 100 Prospects list, this time ranking at #28. He was also ranked as the Athletics' #1 prospect. He played for the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats in 2006, but due to injuries, played in only 43 games. He batted just .259 with 2 home runs in those 43 games.In 2007, <mask> appeared on Baseball America's Top 100 Prospects list, this time ranked at just #67. He was ranked as the Athletics' #2 prospect behind outfielder Travis Buck, who ranked at #50 on the Top 100 Prospects list. <mask> began the 2007 season slowly with the Sacramento River Cats, hitting just .221 in April and .273 in May. He finally got started in June when he hit .454 in 27 games. He was named to the Pacific Coast League Mid-Season All-Star team on July 11. He finished the 2007 minor league season with a .293 batting average and 9 home runs in 137 games. Following the 2007 minor league season, the River Cats advanced to the first round of the playoffs.They played the Salt Lake Bees, the Angels Triple-A affiliate. In the first round, <mask> batted .550 (11–20) with 10 RBIs. He had a power surge with 4 home runs and one of the home runs was a decisive one in Game 5 as it led the River Cats into the second round of the playoffs. He did not join the team for the second round as he had his contract purchased by the Athletics major league club on September 10. Major league

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title: Daric Barton

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Oakland Athletics
<mask> made his major league debut on September 10, 2007, against the Seattle Mariners. In his third plate appearance, he had his first major league hit off Ryan Feierabend, a double. He had two hits in his major league debut for Oakland, a feat that was not matched until Nate Freiman did it in 2013.On September 14, <mask> hit his first major league home run. <mask> played in 18 games in 2007. He reached base safely in all 18 games via a hit or a walk. He hit .347 (25–72) with 4 home runs and 8 RBIs. In 2008, <mask> was the Athletics' starting first baseman. He batted just .226 with 9 home runs and 47 RBIs in 140 games. During the All-Star break, <mask> dove into a shallow pool and hit his head on the bottom.He suffered a jammed neck and had to get staples to close a cut on his head. On April 5, 2009, the day before the A's season opener, <mask> was demoted to Triple-A Sacramento. <mask> began the 2010 season as the A's starting first baseman. On April 25, he fractured his finger while tumbling into the Cleveland Indians dugout. He won a Fielding Bible Award for his statistically based defensive excellence during the year  and led his team in runs (79), hits (152), and doubles (33). He also led the AL in walks with 110, and was second in MLB only to Prince Fielder. <mask> was once again selected as the starting first baseman for the Athletics at the beginning of the 2011 season.On June 22, the A's sent <mask> back to Triple-A Sacramento to make room for Mark Ellis. <mask> was hitting .212 with zero home runs at the time. For the season, he batted .212 in 236 at bats. On June 2, 2012, a struggling <mask> was sent back to Triple-A. For the season, he batted .204. On March 29, 2013, the A's designated

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 <mask> for assignment. In May of the 2013 season, <mask> was added back on the 40 man roster when right fielder Josh Reddick was placed on the disabled list after injuring his wrist.Everyday first basemen Brandon Moss was moved over to right field. <mask> took Reddick's spot on the active roster and covered everyday first base duties. <mask> was than designated for assignment again when Reddick returned. He was than outrighted to Triple-A Sacramento. On August 26, <mask> was added to the 40-man roster again for the same reason. On December 20, 2013, <mask> signed a one-year deal with Oakland, avoiding arbitration. The Athletics designated <mask> for assignment on May 15, 2014, when they acquired Kyle Blanks.In October 2014, <mask> elected to become a free agent. Toronto Blue Jays
On December 16, 2014, <mask> signed a minor-league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays that included an invitation to spring training. He was assigned to the minor league spring training camp on March 30, 2015. On July 2, <mask> was released. He batted .219 in 31 minor league games with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons and Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Pericos de Puebla
On April 1, 2016, <mask> signed with the Pericos de Puebla of the Mexican Baseball League. On September 14, 2016, <mask> <mask> and the Pericos de Puebla Won the Serie del Rey of the LMB (Mexican Baseball League).<mask> was key to the Pericos winning their first championship
in over 30 years as he led the team with 21 HRs and despite missing 20 games with a broken finger was voted as the starting first baseman on the All-Star team, won the league Gold Glove for
his defense, and added 5 more home runs in the playoffs including the go ahead shot in the 6th inning of the Championship

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 clinching game. Acereros de Monclova
On February 21, 2017, <mask>, along with Chad Gaudin, Manny Rodriguez, Nyjer Morgan, Rodolfo Amador, and Willy Taveras, were traded to the Acereros de Monclova in exchange for RHP Joaquín Lara. <mask> only appeared in 26 games for the Acereros before spending the rest of the season on the reserve list. Return to Puebla
On January 16, 2018, <mask> was traded back to the Pericos de Puebla. He once again excelled with the team, finishing as one of the league leaders in average at .373 during the Spring Tournament of the 2018 season. <mask> left the Pericos on August 6, 2018, halfway through the Fall Tournament, due to personal reasons and to prepare for the 2018-19 Mexican Pacific League season with the Charros de Jalisco. He retired as an active player following the LMP season.Scouting report
<mask> is a patient hitter. In 9 minor league seasons, he had 446 walks as opposed to 382 strikeouts. In 2010, <mask> was one of only two players in MLB to have more walks than strikeouts, the other being Albert Pujols. References

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title: V. Balan

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V<mask> (17 October 1942  – 22 January 2002), popularly known as Artist V<mask>, was a sculptor and painter from India. He was born the son of Chellamma and <mask>i in the small temple town of Perumbavoor, Kerala. In 1962 he earned a Diploma from the Cochin School of Art. Immediately after his studies, he started teaching at the same school. In 1970 he moved to Chennai as a freelance artist. At Chennai, he did his first ever Mosaic Art of the Risen Lord for a chapel of Salesian Provincialate. From 1972 onwards, he started designing the interiors of churches throughout India and acquired fame as an artist and architect of Christian places of worship.Ten years later he moved to Bangalore and established his studio, Arte Sacra, near the National Biblical, Catechetical and Liturgical Centre. Introduction to Christian art

For 15 years until 1982 <mask> lived in Madras. His talents were versatile, varying from canvas to mosaic, from metal to wood and from sculpture to architecture. He executed Christian works in different parts of the country from the North – Rishikesh in the Himalayas – to the south and even to Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, he renovated the interior of St. Mary's Church at Negombo. He was the chief designer of the interior and the façade of the Stella Maris Cathedral in Port Blair, Andaman Islands. He later did more than 300 works related to churches and religious institutions during his tenure in Madras.The artist on the move
In 1983 <mask> moved from Madras to Kothanur, a

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title: V. Balan

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 peaceful village in the suburbs of Bangalore, where he built his studio, Tapovan. Many disciples attended the training centre, which was set up along with the studio for young artists in simple Gurukula style – Kalakshetra. Multifaceted talent

<mask> was very passionate in painting right through his career. Though <mask> is often identified with his characteristic mosaic art, his sculptures reveal his profound artistic talent more than any other medium. "The queen of the apostles" is a unique presentation of the theme at the Shrine of St. Vincent Pallotti, Bangalore. The visualization of "The song of creation" of Francis of Assisi is a relief sculpture with copper finish. The gigantic relief sculpture measuring 125×42 in the Sanctuary of the St. Vincent Pallotti's Shrine, Banasawadi, Bangalore depicts salvation history from creation to the resurrection as a background to the 45' high resurrection figure and the Christian Community gathered in worship.The sculptor in Balan is clearly seen in the peculiar forms and shapes of altars and tabernacles he has given shape in wood, stone and metal in different churches. <mask> also works in the medium of metal. The peculiar metallic figures and images cast in his studio are a manifestation of his multifaceted talent. Traditional stained glass was another favorite medium of <mask>. The architectural talent in Balan was a natural extension of the artist in him. His clear and detailed drawings for churches are proof of that architectural mettle

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title: Shawn Nelson (criminal)

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<mask> (August 21, 1959 – May 17, 1995) was a U.S. Army veteran who stole an M60A3 Patton tank from a California Army National Guard armory in San Diego, California, and went on a rampage on May 17, 1995. He destroyed numerous cars, fire hydrants and an RV before being shot and killed by a San Diego police officer, Rick Piner. Background
<mask> was born in Birdseye, Utah, on August 21, 1959, the second of three sons. He grew up in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego, California, and graduated from Madison High School prior to his enlistment in the United States Army, where he served for two years until his honorable discharge in 1980. After his discharge, he returned to San Diego and worked as a plumber. <mask>'s mother died in 1988 and his father died in 1992. In between, his wife of six years filed for divorce in 1990.That same year, he was hospitalized at Sharp Memorial Hospital for neck and back injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. <mask> later sued the hospital for $1.6 million, citing negligence, assault, battery and false imprisonment. A superior court judge dismissed the case and the hospital counter-sued for $6,640 in medical fees and legal expenses. <mask> claimed he was forced to be treated without his consent. <mask>'s brother, Scott, said that he became addicted to methamphetamine in the few years prior to the tank incident. His neighbors complained to authorities of him yelling at his roommate at night. <mask> then began to exhibit unusual behavior.On one occasion, he dug a hole  deep in his backyard in an attempt to mine for gold. One of his friends, Carson Honings, referred to the mine shaft as <mask>'s "new hobby". In April, he filed two damage claims against the cityfor police

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 negligence and false arrest  totaling $2 million. <mask>'s neck and back problems, combined with the theft of plumbing equipment from his truck in June 1994, effectively halted his business. With no income, his utilities were cut off and his house went into foreclosure. In April 1995, <mask>'s live-in girlfriend moved out of their shared home. Tank rampage
According to San Diego police, in the week before his tank rampage, <mask> told a friend that he was thinking of committing suicide.The following weekend, he told a friend that "Oklahoma was good stuff", in apparent reference to the Oklahoma City bombing which happened about a month before. Whether <mask> condoned the attack or simply meant that he enjoyed the drama was not clear. Police did not believe <mask> had any connection with the bombing or with a terrorist group. Around 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17, 1995, <mask> drove his Chevrolet van to the California Army National Guard Armory on Mesa College Boulevard in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood of San Diego. Employees at the armory were working late  and the gate to the vehicle yard, which was completely deserted, was left open. The tanks at the armory started with a push button and did not require an ignition key. The first two tanks <mask> broke into would not start.As he lowered himself into the third tank, a 57-ton M60A3 Patton, he was finally noticed by a guardsman, who approached the tank. <mask> started the vehicle and with little chance of stopping him, the guardsman rushed to a phone to call police. Since ammunition was kept in another building, none of the vehicle's weapons could be loaded or used by <mask>. <mask> led police on a 23-minute, televised chase through the streets of Clairemont. The

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texts: various agencies involved in the chase included the San Diego police, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, the California Highway Patrol and due to the tank being stolen from the armory, possibly military police as well. The tank had a top speed of , making the chase slow compared to police chases involving automobiles. The 57-ton tank easily plowed through road signs, traffic lights, utility poles and fire hydrants, crushing about 40 parked vehicles, including an RV.The damage to utility poles knocked out power to around 5,100 San Diego Gas & Electric customers in the Linda Vista neighborhood. From the armory, <mask> traveled along neighborhood streets, eventually turning north on Convoy Street, west onto Balboa Avenue (then signed as State Route 274) and entered Interstate 805 heading south. While on I-805, he attempted to knock down a pedestrian bridge by running into the columns, possibly with the intent of blockading pursuing police cars but failed after a few hits and decided to continue down the freeway. <mask> then drove the tank onto the State Route 163 freeway heading southbound, resulting in the freeway being closed and thousands of motorists being stuck. At least one news article speculated that he may have been headed to Sharp Memorial Hospital, which he had unsuccessfully sued in 1990 and partially blamed for his mother's death. After <mask> attempted to cross into the northbound lanes of State Route 163, the tank became caught on the concrete median barrier and lost one track. After the tank was immobilized, four policemen climbed onto it.San Diego Police officer Paul Paxton, a gunnery sergeant at the time with the Marine Corps Reserve, opened a hatch using bolt cutters. They ordered

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 <mask> to surrender but he said nothing and began rocking the tank back and forth in an attempt to free it from the median. Paxton's partner, Officer Richard Piner, leaned in and shot <mask>. The bullet entered through <mask>'s neck. <mask> later died at Sharp Memorial Hospital. Despite widespread property destruction, he was the only fatality reported during the rampage. The state of California paid $149,201 ($267,272 in 2021 terms) to cover property damage along <mask>'s route.Police action
Police Captain Tom Hall justified the lethal force used against <mask> because if he had managed to free the tank, he "could have taken out no less than 35 vehicles that were passing at that moment". Police decided that if non-lethal action such as tear gas were used, this might have stopped <mask> but not the tank and officers would not be able to enter the tank if it were still mobile with tear gas present. According to live news coverage at the time, officials were seriously considering asking for help from the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton in the form of a Bell AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter, since the police force lacked the ability to disable a tank. <mask>'s brother, Scott, stated that police were justified in the shooting. Armory security
Officials at the armory where <mask> stole the tank were criticized for what appeared to be a huge lapse in security, especially after the attack in Oklahoma City the previous month. In addition to the open, unguarded gate to the vehicle lot, the fence surrounding the lot had damaged barbed wire in some places. Residents near the armory said that even if the gate had been locked, <mask> could have simply climbed the fence in sections where the barbed wire was damaged.Armory


title: Shawn Nelson (criminal)

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 officials said that the vehicles were kept far away from fences to make them difficult to reach, that only someone with the proper knowledge could operate and start a tank, and that there was no way to foresee such an event taking place. After <mask>'s theft of the tank, security was improved at the Kearny Mesa armory. In popular culture
The E! Channel documentary, 'Going Postal: The 15 Most Shocking Acts Of Violence' features <mask>'s rampage as the 7th most shocking act of violence. Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story, a documentary film, is based on the incident. The tank rampage also appears in TV shows such as the World's Most Amazing Videos and Destroyed in Seconds. The rampage is parodied by The Simpsons in the season 11 episode "Brother's Little Helper".The rampage is featured in the music video for the song "The Right to Go Insane" by the American heavy metal band Megadeth. Mojo Nixon wrote a song called "Tankman Blues" about the incident that was released on his 1999 The Real Sock Ray Blue! album. See also

Marvin Heemeyer, a business owner who went on a very similar rampage with an armored bulldozer in 2004
2008 Jerusalem bulldozer attack
2010 Manila bus hostage crisis
The 1995 movie GoldenEye features a famous tank chase through St. Petersburg; the filming of the scene had coincidentally also taken place in 1995, several months before the <mask> rampage. Tank, 1984 action comedy film

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title: Ralph P. Cousins

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<mask> (1 December 1891 – 15 March 1964) was a senior officer in the United States Army. Born in Mexia, Texas, he graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1915. He served in the Cavalry before transferring to the United States Army Air Corps. He served in a variety of command positions in the newly created air service of the United States Army and was instrumental in designing the model for what would become the commercial aviation system. His highest grade was a major general. Schools under his command trained many of the aircrews who served in all theaters of World War II. After retiring from the army, he became a businessman.<mask> died in 1964 and he was memorialized as an air pioneer who helped bring American air power from it beginnings to its power in World War II. Early life and education
<mask> was born on 1 December 1891, in Mexia, Texas, to Robert Bartow and Dora M. (Kelly) <mask>. On 14 June 1911, he began his studies at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He graduated on 12 June 1915, as a member of the class the stars fell on; his rank in the class was 129 of 164 and his Cullum number is 5441. Career

Pre-war
<mask> was commissioned as a second lieutenant of Cavalry on 12 June 1915. He was assigned to the 12th Cavalry in Brownsville, Texas, in September 1915 and performed border patrol activities, including actions against Mexican bandits, until February 1916, when he was transferred to the 6th Cavalry. <mask> participated in the Punitive Expedition into Mexico.He was promoted to the first lieutenant of Cavalry on 1 July 1916 and was transferred to the Big Bend District, Texas later that month. In August 1916, <mask> was assigned to the Signal Corps Aviation School in San Diego, California. He graduated in

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 May 1917 and was assigned to the 1st Aero Squadron as a pilot. From 16 May to 12 September 1917, he organized the School of Military Aeronautics in Austin, Texas, and became its commandant. While assigned to the school, he was promoted to captain on 25 July 1917. From 12 September to 8 December 1917, he was assigned to the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Washington, D.C. <mask> was then assigned as the aviation representative at the Army War College until 1 February 1918. World War I
<mask> was assigned to the American Expeditionary Force in France as a liaison officer to French and British aviation units, including the British Bristol Fighting Squadron.He performed duties at the front. He returned to the United States on approximately 21 May 1918 and was assigned as a member of the Air Service Control Board in the Office of the Director of Military Aeronautics in Washington, D.C. until 25 September 1918. On 30 June 1918, he received a temporary promotion to major of Cavalry. He was assigned as commander of Roosevelt Field, Group B, 1st Provisional Wing until 4 January 1919. Inter-war years
<mask> was assigned as the commanding officer of Payne Field, West Point, Mississippi from 4 January 1919 to 1 June 1919 and as the commanding officer of the 1st Bombardment Group at Kelly Field, Texas from 15 June 1919 until September 1920. During this period, he was returned to the rank of captain of Cavalry on 27 February 1920, transferred to the Air Service on 1 July 1920 and received a temporary promotion to major of the Air Service on 18 July 1920. <mask> was a member of the advisory board, Chief Air Service in Washington, D.C., from September 1920 to August 1921.From August 1921 to June 1922, <mask> was assigned as a student officer at Yale University, where

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texts: he was graduated with a Master of Science degree. Following his graduation, he was assigned as a student officer at General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York from June 1922 through January 1923. While at Schenectady he was returned to the rank of captain of the Air Service on 4 November 1922. During 1923, he supervised Air Corps communications and the installation of radios for the Air Corps Model Airway, which operated between four United States cities; this model was the core of what became the commercial aviation system. He served as a commanding officer at Chanute Field, Illinois from November 1923 to September 1924. He returned to Washington, D.C. for duty in the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps from January 1925 through May 1928. During this time he was promoted again to major of the Air Service on 21 June 1925.<mask> was assigned to foreign service as a commanding officer at Clark Field, Philippine Islands, from June 1928 through June 1930. After returning from overseas, <mask> was assigned as a student officer at the Air Corps Tactical School at Langley Field, Virginia, until 1931; he was rated as an Airplane Observer in September 1939. He attended the Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, graduating on 22 May 1933; while a student he wrote "Tannenberg: a failure to command," a paper analyzing the failure of the command of the Russian Second Army before and during the battle of Tannenberg. After graduating from the Command and General Staff School, <mask> returned to Washington, D.C. for duty in charge of National Guard aviation units with the National Guard Bureau until late in 1936; during this assignment, he received a temporary promotion to lieutenant colonel in the Air Corps on 16 June 1936 and a

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 permanent promotion to that rank on 22 December. In 1937, he attended and graduated from the Army War College. He moved to an assignment with the Assistant Chief of Staff, G1 at General Headquarters Air Force, Langley Field, Virginia, where he performed a variety of staff duties until 18 January 1942; on 1 April 1939, <mask> was rated as both a command pilot and combat observer. <mask> was promoted to colonel in the Army of the United States on 26 June 1941 and to brigadier general on 10 July 1941.World War II
On 7 December 1941 (Pearl Harbor Day), Army Air Force Western Flying Training Command was operating six army flying schools and nine civilian contract flying schools. <mask> assumed command on 1 February 1942. At the end of the first full year of the war, <mask>' command included twenty-two army schools and twenty-one civilian contract schools in a multi-state operation from his headquarters in Santa Ana, California. <mask> was promoted to major general in the Army of the United States on 16 February 1942. He was permanently promoted to colonel in the Air Corps on 21 April 1944. During 1944, <mask> visited Mather Field for an inspection. He observed that African-American officers were dining in the same mess as white Americans.He ordered that the mess facilities be segregated. African American officers stopped using the mess entirely. <mask> commanded the unit until 15 August 1945. <mask> retired from the army with a disability on 31 March 1946. Later life and death
<mask> married Diana Wilson Fitzmaurice in 1945. He helped organize the Founders' Insurance Company in Los Angeles; he served as its vice president and its secretary, and as a member of the board of directors until the company was sold in 1950. <mask> was appointed to the Los Angeles

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 Board of Airport Commissioners in 1950.In 1955, he predicted that large gains in passenger traffic and freight shipments at Los Angeles International Airport would lead to "utter chaos" by 1960 unless improvements were made. In October 1956, <mask>, who had become president of the board of commissioners, announced that the design of the new airport had been approved by the board following a $159 million bond issue. In January 1950, <mask> was serving as chairman of the Southern California United Service Organizations. On 15 March 1964, <mask> was stricken while on his ranch near Indio, California. He was transported to Casitas Hospital in Indio where he died later that day. Funeral services for <mask> were conducted at All Saints Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills, California and he was buried with full military honors, including a flyover, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles. He was memorialized by the West Point Association of Graduates as an air pioneer who helped bring American air power from it beginnings to its power in World War II

Awards

Each of the nine grades of the Order of the Cloud and Banner features a unique ribbon

References

1891 births
United States Military Academy alumni
United States Army personnel of World War I
Yale University alumni
United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni
United States Army War College alumni
United States Army personnel of World War II
United States Army generals
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American business executives
Los Angeles International Airport
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People from Mexia, Texas
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title: Jocelyn Barrow

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Dame <mask>  (15 April 1929 – 9 April 2020) was a British educator, community activist and politician, who was the Director for UK Development at Focus Consultancy Ltd. She was the first black woman to be a governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and was founder and Deputy Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Council. Early life and career
<mask>, daughter of Barbadian father <mask> and Olive Irene (nee Pierre), was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (her mother's native land), where she was active politically as a member of the People's National Movement. She undertook training to become a teacher, and in 1959 travelled to Britain for postgraduate studies, attending the University of London, where she read English. <mask> was a founding member, general secretary and later vice-chair of Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD) – the organisation that between 1964 and 1967 lobbied for race relations legislation and was responsible for the Race Relations Act of 1968. <mask> said in a 2019 interview: "Card was a very effective organisation though it wasn’t as grassroots as I would have liked it to have been. It was led by people like me, Lord [David] Pitt and Anthony Lester, a QC. The people at the bottom were too busy trying to survive though some did join."<mask> was also a leading member of the North London West Indian Association (NLWIA), set up in 1965 as a major component of the West Indian Standing Conference, which had been founded in 1958 after the Notting Hill riots to speak out on behalf of West Indians; among other activities, the NWLIA responded to prejudice against black children in the state education system, which was exposed in a leaked report. In 1968 she was appointed vice-chair of the International Human Rights Year Committee, and from 1968 to 1972 was a member of the Community Relations Commission. <mask> also held the post of vice-president of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds. As a senior teacher, and later as a

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 teacher-trainer, at Furzedown Teachers College and at the Institute of Education in the 1960s, she pioneered the introduction of multi-cultural education, stressing the needs of the various ethnic groups in the UK. She was a member of the Taylor Committee of School Governors. In 1984 she co-founded Arawidi Publications, a children's publishing house, with Yvonne Collymore. Named after a Caribbean sun-deity, Arawidi published children's books in a variety of language forms including West Indian dialects and Glaswegian.Between 1981 and 1988 <mask> served as a governor of the BBC, the first black woman to have been appointed to the board of the corporation, which in 2001 was controversially described by its then director-general Greg Dyke as still "hideously white". <mask> was also founder and deputy chair (1989–95) of the Broadcasting Standards Council, forerunner of Ofcom. She was chair of the 2005 Mayor's Commission on African and Asian Heritage (MCAAH), set up by then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, that produced the report Delivering Shared Heritage, about which she said: "Our findings and resulting recommendations, far from being of interest only to African and Asian communities, set out a code of values for delivering inclusive and healthy heritage management practice for everyone." She was instrumental in the establishment of the North Atlantic Slavery Gallery and the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool. She was a Trustee of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside and a Governor of the British Film Institute, as well as the first patron of the Black Cultural Archives. Acknowledging the key influence she had in the founding of BCA, their tribute to her stated: "Also known as the African People's Historical Monument Foundation, Dame <mask> recognised the need for a national monument like BCA to educate future generations." Personal life
<mask> was married in 1970 to barrister Henderson (Hendy) Downer of Lincoln's Inn and the Jamaican Bar, and they lived in

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 Long Yard, Lamb's Conduit Street.She died aged 90 on 9 April 2020, having been admitted to University College Hospital. Honours
In 1972, she was awarded the OBE for work in the field of education and community relations. In 1992, her work in broadcasting and her contribution to the work of the European Union as the UK member of the Economic and Social Committee was recognised by her being appointed DBE, the first black woman thus to be honoured as a "Dame". She was voted one of the "100 Great Black Britons" in the campaign launched by Every Generation Media in 2003, and in the 2020 relaunched list and accompanying book. She received honorary doctorates from the University of Greenwich in 1993 and from the University of York in 2007. Other affiliations
 Governor of the Commonwealth Institute (for eight years)
 Council Member of Goldsmiths, University of London
 Vice-president of the United Nations Association in the UK
 National vice-president of the Townswomen's Guild
 Patron of the Black Cultural Archives

References

External links
 <mask>'s biodata
 Notice of <mask>'s damehood in London Gazette
 Interview in 2018 with Patrick Vernon
 "Dame <mask> <mask>" by Sal Idriss, National Portrait Gallery, London
 "<mask> Barrow", Drawn Out Thinking, 24 October 2017. Debbie Jacob, "Tributes pour in for champion of equality", Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 13 April 2020."BTWSC 2015 Dame <mask> Appreciation Presentation". Kwaku, "Dame <mask>: More Needs To Be Done On Her Lifetime Work On Racial And Multi-Cultural Awareness", Black History 365, 17 April 2020. 1929 births
Black British women politicians
Schoolteachers from London
British ethnologists
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Place of birth missing
Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to the United Kingdom
2020 deaths
British educators
British community activists
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British people of Barbadian descent
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title: K. Narayanan

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K<mask> is an Indian film director, editor, and art director who has worked predominantly in Malayalam cinema. Since his debut in 1953, he has edited more than 200 films across Malayalam and Tamil. Early life
He was born in Thikkat house at Nandipuram near Trichur in 1933. <mask> and <mask>ma are his parents. As his father was in Indian Railways his childhood was in Madras. He stopped his studies at the 8th standard. Sarojini is his wife.Film career
<mask> started his film career by assisting Sankar in 1947. His first independent project was Sadarame, a Kannada film. His first film in Malaylam was Ashadeepam (1953). He is a four time recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Editor.

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title: Norma Miller

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<mask> (December 2, 1919 – May 5, 2019) was an American Lindy hop dancer, choreographer, actress, author, and comedian known as the "Queen of Swing". Early life
<mask> was born in 1919 in Harlem, New York City to mother Alma, a charwoman, and father <mask>, a shipyard worker, both from Bridgetown, Barbados. <mask> was named after her father, who died from pneumonia a month before her birth. She had an older sister, Dot. Even though her mother struggled to pay the rent, <mask> was enrolled in dance classes from a very young age. At the age of five, she was performing at amateur nights in theaters. <mask> knew she wanted to be a dancer very early on:"Black girls didn't have many outlets.You had laundry. You had hairdresser. Or teacher. Now, I didn't qualify for none of those. I could dance, I just could just do it naturally." When the Great Depression began in 1929, <mask> and her family moved to a cramped and noisy tenement apartment on 140th street that overlooked the Savoy Ballroom. The windows were open due to the lack of air conditioning and she could hear the house band, which was led by Chick Webb and included singer Ella Fitzgerald.From her fire escape, she would watch the dancers perform the Black Bottom, the Shimmy, the Charleston and the Shim Sham. She would practice dancing in her living room and her school gymnasium. On Easter Sunday in 1932, when <mask> was dressed up from church services, she was dancing outside the Savoy Ballroom, too young to enter. Twist Mouth George Ganaway, "the greatest dancer at the Savoy," was impressed with her dancing. Ganaway gave <mask> a Coca-Cola and asked her to dance in the ballroom for the first time, before <mask> was escorted back outside. <mask>

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 said of the experience:
He just threw me up; my feet never touched the ground. People were screaming and he put me on top of his shoulders, walked me around the ballroom .. . and put me back outside. Greatest moment in my life and I’m excited, excited, and I’m gonna go home and tell my mother and my sister — and then I said no, I better not say nothin’! Career
<mask> attended Manhattan School of the Arts on the Upper West Side. <mask> would dance at the Renaissance Ballroom & Casino, where young people were allowed to dance on Sunday afternoons. In 1934, along with her high school dance partner, Sonny Ashby, <mask> won the Savoy Lindy Hop Contest, held at the Apollo Theater. The next day, Herbert "Whitey" White, the dance master at the Savoy, hired <mask> as the youngest member of his dance troupe, Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. In 1935, <mask> competed in a dance contest called the Harvest Moon Ball at Madison Square Garden.<mask> claimed that she lost the contest because her blouse opened. She then went on a seven-month European tour. In 1936, Whitey's Lindy Hoppers began a tour of the U.S. with headliner Ethel Waters. In 1937, while on tour in California, she met the Marx Brothers, Allan Jones and Maureen O'Sullivan, and made her film debut in A Day at the Races, a movie by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She danced and sang in the number "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" which featured singer Ivie Anderson and Duke Ellington's orchestra. Dave Gould, the choreographer, was nominated for an Academy Award for the dance sequence. After the tour, <mask> was hospitalized for fatigue until her 18th birthday in December 1937.<mask> rejoined Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in 1938. For a second time, the group competed in the

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texts: Harvest Moon Ball, hosted that year by Ed Sullivan. <mask> and her partner placed in the top 3, and Sullivan invited them to perform on Toast of the Town (later called The Ed Sullivan Show). Whitey's Lindy Hoppers performed in the 1941 movie Hellzapoppin', where <mask> had a memorable role as a dancing cook, executing breathtaking flips, slides, kicks, splits, and lifts. When they returned from filming, the group went to Rio de Janeiro to perform. Because of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, they were unable to find transportation home and ended up staying for 10 months, nearly exhausting all of their energy and money. In 1942, <mask> joined Whitey's Lindy Hoppers on a three-week tour with Cootie Williams and Pearl Bailey that included performances at the Apollo Theater, the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C., and the Royal Theatre in Baltimore.<mask> left the group due to “accounting differences” with Whitey, who was known to pay the performers poorly. The group disbanded shortly thereafter since the males were called into service during World War II. In 1943, she took dance classes on the style of Martha Graham taught by Sophie Maslow, the style of Hanya Holm taught by Mary Anthony, and classes by Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. To fund the classes, she began working as a producer for Smalls Paradise, a nightclub in Harlem. She toured Canada and the United States and lived in Los Angeles before returning to New York in 1946. From 1952 to 1968, <mask> directed and toured with the <mask> Miller Dancers and <mask> and Her Jazzmen, both of which included Frankie Manning's son Chazz Young as well as her long-time partner Billy Ricker. In 1954, her group toured nationally with Count Basie.Between 1956

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 and 1956, she lived in Miami and performed comedy shows with Cab Calloway and George Kirby, produced by Mervyn Nelson. In Miami, <mask> suffered from racism in renting housing, and was forced to ride in the back of buses and dine in black eateries. In 1959, <mask> moved to Las Vegas, where she lived for much of the 1960s and 1970s. There, she performed with Redd Foxx and Sammy Davis Jr.

<mask> turned to comedy at the advice of Foxx, who told her:Look, you're not going to be able to dance any longer. Your knees are knocking. You better learn to talk. From February 1972 until 1974, <mask> traveled around Vietnam, performing her solo comedy routine for American troops in the Vietnam War.In 1977, she produced a show at the Village Gate in New York and then moved back to Las Vegas, where she starred in and produced shows. In 1982, she moved back to New York and in 1990, she moved back to Las Vegas. Beginning in the 1980s, <mask> played a major role in the swing revival. She was a teacher of swing dance, and taught master classes at Stanford University and the University of Hawaiʻi. For several years in the mid- to late 2010s, <mask> lived in both Fort Myers, Florida and Italy. From May 9–11, 2014, <mask> performed for the first time in Italy at the "L.O.T. (Lindy Old Timers) event" in Montesilvano (Pe), beginning a collaboration with the Italian Swing Dance Society that lead to five years of concerts, festivals, conventions, recordings and books.From 2015 to 2018, <mask> wrote new lyrics and songs that were arranged and recorded with the Italian Billy Bros. Swing Orchestra. In December 2016, the CD A Swingin' Love Fest with <mask> is issued with the Orchestra. From September to October 2017, at age

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 98, she was on a European tour with the Orchestra, consisting of seven concerts in Italy, Slovenja, and Denmark. From August to October 2018, she was on an Italian tour with the Billy Bros. Swing Orchestra, performing in Pescara, Perugia, Genova, Milano, and Palermo. On October 21, 2018, <mask> performed a last concert at the Teatro S. Cecilia in Palermo; she was almost 99.In May 2017, a new edition (sold out) of her book Swing, Baby Swing! was produced with English and Italian text, featuring previously unreleased photographs and other additions. In September 2018, a second printing of the new edition of the book was issued with new pictures, notes and a last chapter about <mask>'s last four years of living in Italy. In September 2017, <mask>'s song "Gimme da Beat" was remixed and issued on the CD Electro Swing New Generation 01 by French DJs Bart & Baker. <mask> presented and taught workshops at Herräng Dance Camp until 2018, when she was 98. A CD with six more songs of <mask> is to be produced in 2021 with the Billy Bros. Swing Orchestra.Personal life
<mask> never married. From 1941 to 1947, she was in a relationship with performer Roy Glenn, whom she met while filming Hellzapoppin'''. They put off marriage plans many times and decided to separate in 1947. Glenn died in 1971. Death
On May 5, 2019, <mask> died from congestive heart failure at the age of 99. She had just produced new music. Published works
Books
<mask> wrote or played a major role in several books, including:
 Me & John Biffar: A Love Story, which chronicles her friendship with filmmaker John Biffar.Swing, Baby Swing! follows the evolution of swing dance into the 21st century. Swingin' at the Savoy: The Memoir of a Jazz Dancer,


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 <mask>'s autobiography, describes her early life and meetings with Frankie Manning, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ethel Waters, and Chick Webb. Stompin' at the Savoy: The Story of <mask>  is a children's book by Alan Govenar, chronicling her life, published in 2006. The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor, was co-written by <mask> and Redd Foxx in 1977. Discography
 Healthy, Sexless & Single, <mask>; 1972. A Swingin' Love Fest with <mask>, Billy Bros.Swing Orchestra; 2016. Electro Swing New Generation 01, by Bart & Baker, feat. "Gimme da Beat"; 2017. Filmography
<mask>'s most well-known film appearance is in the lindy hop scene in [[Hellzapoppin' (film)|Hellzapoppin']], featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. Films

Television

Documentary appearances

Broadway productions
 Swingin' The Dream, 1939, dancer
 Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1939, 1939, dancer
 Run, Little Chillun, 1943, dancer

Awards
In 2003, <mask> was honored with a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for creating and continuing to preserve "the acrobatic style of swing dancing known as the Lindy Hop". References

External links

Swing Central party with <mask>
<mask> at Find a Grave

1919 births
2019 deaths
People from Harlem
20th-century American actresses
African-American female dancers
American women singer-songwriters
American people of Barbadian descent
American swing dancers
Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Lindy Hop
National Heritage Fellowship winners
Dancers from New York (state)
Actresses from New York (state)
20th-century African-American women singers
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
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title: Charles Russell (1786–1856)

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<mask> (22 July 1786 – 15 May 1856) was a British Conservative and Tory politician. <mask> was the second surviving son of Sir <mask>, 1st Baronet and  his second wife, Anna Barbara née Whitworth. He never married. Military career
Described by memoirist William Hickey as a "fine dashing youth", <mask> entered  as a cadet in the British Indian Army in 1800, becoming an ensign in the 17th Infantry (The Loyal Regiment) in 1801, and a lieutenant in the 21st Bengal Native Infantry 1803. In July 1810, he was appointed to the command of the escort at Hyderabad, and also took temporary responsibility for the residency's business until his brother, Sir <mask>, 2nd Baronet arrived from his post at Poona. Becoming a captain in 1818, <mask> then took furlough in 1817, returning to the United Kingdom via Saint Helena, where he witnessed Napoleon—who had then been exiled to the island—walking in front of his house in Longwood. <mask> declined to meet Napoleon after being told he must address the former revolutionary leader as 'General'.Upon return to England, <mask> lived mostly in London, and formally retired from the army in 1822, then becoming a proprietor of East India Company stock. Corruption scandal
Alongside his brother, Henry, <mask> was implicated in a corruption scandal where Lord Hastings, a Governor-General of India, was alleged to have acted partially on behalf of Palmer and Company, a Hyderabad banking house. The <mask>s were found to have to have been involved in and profited from the firm's dealings with the Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Akbar Ali Khan, directly from Hastings' 1816 decision

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 to exempt the house from a ban on lending money to native princes. <mask>'s successor, Sir <mask>fe, discovered a loan in 1820 that was both fictitious and fraudulent. An investigation was launched by the East India Company, which in 1824 ordered the relevant papers to be printed. <mask> launched a defence of himself and his brother, <mask>, titled Letter to the Court of Directors, arguing the allegations had arisen from "acrimonious party spirit" and complaining that no opportunity had been granted to defend themselves. The matter was debated in court in February 1825, where Henry defended the pair, and they were both absolved in a move designed to avoid a charge of peculation against Hastings.Political career

Colchester, 1826
Shortly after, <mask> was approached to contest the 1826 general election at Colchester but this was blocked by his father if it resulted in a contest. <mask> offered to stand for the seat in Henry's place, noting he would resign from the race if it resulted in a contest, if this would ensure the Hyderabad affair was not raised in parliament, but he was "not very solicitous about it" and did not mention this idea to their father. Brother Henry vetoed the idea, regardless, arguing there was too high a risk of being involved in a difficult contest, especially against the Radical sitting Member of Parliament (MP) Daniel Whittle Harvey, who had previously attacked their father in 1820 and had since become interested in the Hyderabad affair—and was likely to exploit it in order to "defame" <mask>. Despite this, Henry recommended <mask> to seek election at any other

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 "close seat at a fair price", not seeing the Indian scandal as a barrier to a political career. <mask>, however, believed there was little chance of a contest at Colchester, but decided not to stand, arguing it was in Harvey's "interest as much as ours to keep things quiet", and said:

At the same general election, <mask> and his wife actively supported the canvas of Tory candidate George Spence, who opposed Catholic emancipation, in a bid to remove the sitting Whig MP <mask> Palmer. The campaign was successful, although Spence was removed just nine months later via an election petition issued by Fyshe Palmer. Henry intervened in a bid to, at some point, also stand for the borough, but <mask> warned him to procee cautiously and avoid being "drawn into the town set".At a celebration dinner in July of that year, Henry professed support for Catholic emancipation, and accused Fyshe Palmer and John Monck—a radical Whig MP for the borough—of seeking to obstruct a liberalising government. <mask> complimented his brother on the speech, saying:

1827–1830
The following year, <mask> accompanied his brother on a tour of Flanders, Germany, Switzerland and France. The year after, he went to Dover to investigate the possibility of standing for the borough constituency, but decided against doing so. He was then approached by a stockbroker cousin of Southampton Tory MP Abel Rous Dottin to purchase a £63,000 property in an unnamed borough, which was said to guarantee the occupier command of 214 electors of both seats. A peerage was also on offer for a further £40,000, but <mask> reported to his brother

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