title: Carlos Bilardo

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<mask> (born 16 March 1938) is an Argentine former physician, football player, and manager. Bilardo achieved worldwide renown as a player with Estudiantes de La Plata in the 1960s, and as the manager of the Argentina side that won the 1986 FIFA World Cup and came close to retaining the title in 1990, where they reached the final. As manager of Argentina, he was renowned for successfully employing the 3–5–2 formation at the highest level; this formation has been in use for decades, but has never achieved mainstream status. He is known by fans and the media as el narigón ("the big nosed one"). Biography

Early life

<mask> was born in the Buenos Aires La Paternal neighbourhood to Sicilian immigrants from Mazzarino. He was drawn to football from his childhood, but did not neglect study or work. On school vacations, he would get up before dawn to haul produce to the Abasto market in Buenos Aires.<mask> was a promising prospect in the youth divisions of major Buenos Aires club San Lorenzo de Almagro, and he was drafted to the junior Argentina national football team that obtained the 1959 Pan-American title and took part in the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome. In 1961, <mask> was transferred to second-division side Deportivo Español, where he became the team's top scorer, but he slowly gravitated to the position of defensive midfielder. In parallel, he continued his studies in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires. Career with Estudiantes

In 1965, <mask> was transferred to Estudiantes de La Plata, where manager Osvaldo Zubeldía built a team based on the Killer youth divisions (la tercera que mata) and thought of using Bilardo as a more mature anchor for the midfield. <mask> became Estudiantes' inside-the-pitch tactician. Over a four-year span, the team won one Metropolitano title (1967), three Copa Libertadores titles (1968–1970, defeating Palmeiras, Nacional and Peñarol respectively at the finals) and one Intercontinental Cup in 1968 against Manchester United. After graduating as a physician (together with fellow player Raúl Madero), <mask> retired from play and accepted the job of Estudiantes coach in 1971.For the next years, he divided his time between managing, his family (he married in 1968 and fathered a daughter), and helping manage his father's furniture business. He even found time to research rectal cancer and practice as a gynecologist (<mask> finally retired from the practice of medicine in 1976, feeling that being a physician requires a full-time commitment that he was unable to provide). Coaching
After retiring as a player, <mask> became Estudiantes coach in 1971 and managed to get the squad into the 1971 Copa Libertadores final but lost to Nacional. In 1976, he became manager of Colombia's Deportivo Cali and after a 2-year stint he managed to get the squads into the Copa Libertadores Finals but once again failed to win the title. After failing in the 1978 Copa Libertadores Finals, <mask> had a short stint in San Lorenzo and then became Colombia national team's trainer. When the team failed to qualify for the 1982 World Cup, he was fired from his position, and Estudiantes arranged for his return to Argentina. The club was enjoying healthy finances due to the transfer of Patricio Hernández, and accommodated <mask>'s request for reinforcements.The team made the semi-finals of the 1982 Nacional and went on to win the same year's Metropolitano title. <mask>'s scheme was based on Zubeldía's tactics, and its attacking might (fueled by players like Sabella, Trobbiani, Gottardi and Ponce) earned the attention of the media—and of the top brass of the Argentine Football Association, who offered him to manage the Argentine national team. He held the post from 1983 until after the 1990 World Cup. Under his watch, Diego Maradona became the most dominant player of his age, and Argentina enjoyed their best international harvest, winning the 1986 edition and reaching the 1990 final. <mask> wrote a book called "Así Ganamos" ("How we won", Editorial Sudamericana Planeta) retelling the story of Argentina's 1986 FIFA World Cup win. After 1990
From 1990 and onwards, <mask> alternated teaching and journalism stints with managing. He would reunite with Maradona in Sevilla FC and later in Boca Juniors, and have a brief term as the national coach of Libya.<mask> returned to Estudiantes for the 2003–2004 season. In a publicised episode during that season, <mask> sat next to the pitch during a game against Club Atlético River Plate and drank from a bottle of champagne. When confronted by media, he maintained that the bottle actually contained Gatorade; the contents of the bottle were analysed by a forensic lab, confirming <mask>'s version. Within that season, results improved, and several young players were promoted to the first team, including José Ernesto Sosa, who would later help Estudiantes become a contender; three years later, the team won the League title under coach Diego Simeone, and in 2009, Estudiantes won the Copa Libertadores again, with <mask> attending the final in Belo Horizonte and receiving a gift from coach Sabella—his "lucky" beige coat. Bilardo covered the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany for Argentine TV station Canal 13 as a commentator. In the aftermath of the tournament, Argentine manager José Pekerman renounced the post, and <mask>'s name was floated as a possible substitute. The job eventually went to Alfio Basile, who had earlier succeeded <mask> as national coach after the 1990 World Cup.Following the 2007 gubernatorial election, <mask> was named Secretary of Sports of Buenos Aires province under governor Daniel Scioli. General Manager
A new generation of Bilardo-influenced coaches has taken over many key positions in Argentine and South American football: Brown, Pumpido, Burruchaga, Batista, Russo, and Maradona. When Maradona was named as national team coach on October 2008, <mask> was tapped for the post of Argentina General Manager. After the designation, <mask> agreed to quit his Secretary post.

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title: Jacob Svetoslav

type: original

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<mask> (, <mask>) (ca. 1210s/1220s–1275 or 1276/1277) was a prominent 13th-century Bulgarian noble (bolyarin) of princely Rus' origin. Bestowed the title of despot, <mask> was the ruler of a widely autonomous domain of the Second Bulgarian Empire most likely located around Sofia. Seeking further independence and claiming the title of Emperor of Bulgaria, he twice changed allegiance from Bulgaria to the Kingdom of Hungary and vice versa, and the Hungarians recognized his Bulgarian royal rank as their vassal and ruler of Vidin (medieval Bdin). Bulgarian despot
<mask>'s exact origin is not clear, though he is known to have been either an East Slavic noble himself or the son of one. <mask> or his father most likely arrived in Bulgaria with the wave of Rus' people fleeing the Mongol invasion of Rus' in the first half of the 13th century. Historian Plamen Pavlov theorizes that <mask> was a descendant of the princes (knyaze) of Kievan Rus', and estimates his birth date as being in the 1210s or 1220s.In the late 1250s, <mask> was already an influential noble. He married a daughter of Theodore II Laskaris from his marriage with Tsar Ivan Asen II's daughter Elena. By 1261, he had become a despot, a high-ranking noble in the Bulgarian hierarchy. The title was awarded to him probably by his own suzerain, the ruler of Bulgaria, rather than a Byzantine emperor, possibly Constantine Tih. <mask> was close to the Bulgarian court and pledged loyalty to Constantine. Thus, the tsar made him the ruler of a domain usually considered to have been south of the Vidin region in the west of the Bulgarian Empire. Byzantine sources indicate his possessions lay "near Haemus", thus close to Sofia, between the Hungarian possessions to the north and Macedonia to the south.In 1261, he commanded the Bulgarian forces in a war against Hungary near Severin (western Wallachia), and in 1262 he possibly fought against Byzantium, as a Byzantine army invaded his lands in the following year during an anti-Bulgarian campaign. <mask>'s continuing ties to his Russian homeland are evidenced by his request to the Bulgarian patriarch. <mask> requested the making of a copy of the Nomocanon which was then sent to Cyril III, the Metropolitan of Kiev. It was supplemented by a letter from <mask> in which the noble calls the metropolitan "the bishop of the entire Russian land... of my ancestors". The copy finishes with a passage in which <mask> is called a "Bulgarian despot". He also minted his own coins bearing the imperfect images of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki or <mask> himself, dressed as a warrior wearing a helmet and holding a sword. Hungarian and Bulgarian ruler of Vidin

In 1263, the situation in Bulgaria was far from stable, as Constantine was facing both the threat of his predecessor Mitso Asen's throne ambitions and a large-scale Byzantine invasion.Because Constantine was unable to assist <mask> against the advancing Byzantines, <mask> sought aid from his northern neighbour, Hungarian king Stephen V. The Hungarians drove the Byzantines out of <mask>'s domain and themselves invaded Byzantine-controlled territories. Rescued from the Byzantine threat, <mask> submitted to Hungarian suzerainty. Stephen V placed him as the ruler of the Vidin province on the Danube River, previously governed for Hungary by the then-deceased Rostislav Mikhailovich, and allowed him to retain his lands to the south. Had it not been for the appointment of <mask> as a Hungarian vassal at Vidin, Bulgaria would have re-established control over the city in 1263. In 1264, however, Hungary was precipitated into another civil war between Stephen V and his father Béla IV. Fearing Bulgarian retribution and lack of Hungarian support should Béla IV come out victorious, in 1265 <mask> changed allegiance to Bulgaria and acknowledged the authority of Constantine Tih. The two crossed the Danube in 1265 and raided the Hungarian fortresses north of the river.By the spring of 1266, however, Stephen V had established himself as the sole ruler of Hungary, and on 23 June 1266, conquered Vidin back from <mask> after a brief siege. Two waves of Hungarian raids proceeded to devastate the Vidin province and enter the possessions of Constantine. In spite of Bulgarian resistance, the Hungarians subjugated a number of cities including Pleven. <mask>'s previous defection to Bulgarian suzerainty notwithstanding, the Hungarians restored him as the puppet ruler of the Vidin region. In 1266, he was even referred to as "Tsar of the Bulgarians" (imperator Bulgarorum) in Hungarian sources, possibly to encourage a rivalry between Constantine and <mask> for the Bulgarian throne or simply to satisfy <mask>'s ambitions. Final submission to Bulgaria and death
The death of Stephen V in 1272 meant that he was succeeded by his infant son Ladislaus IV, with the widowed consort and mother of the boy, Elizabeth, as his regent. At the time, <mask> still held Vidin as a Hungarian vassal.Possibly in 1273, Hungarian rule in Braničevo, west of <mask>'s domain, was put to an end by two Cuman–Bulgarian nobles, Darman and Kudelin. Cut off from his Hungarian suzerains and facing the menace of a Bulgarian attack from the east, <mask> once again submitted to Bulgarian rule. He arrived in the capital Tarnovo to negotiate his submission with Constantine's consort Maria Palaiologina Kantakouzene, who was the dominant figure in the empire at the time due to the Tsar's paralysis. There, <mask> was formally adopted by the much younger Maria as her second son, after the infant heir Michael Asen II. This adoption solidified <mask>'s ties to the court and meant that he could safely retain his autonomous domain as a Bulgarian vassal. He also harboured hopes to ascend to the throne by ousting Michael when Constantine died. Suspicious of these disloyal intentions of <mask>'s, Constantine's consort Maria is thought to have poisoned him, and he died in 1275 or 1276/1777, shortly before the Uprising of Ivaylo.While the fate of the city of Vidin itself is unclear, at least part of <mask>'s possessions were certainly restored to direct Bulgarian rule in the wake of his death. One such territory was the Svrljig region lying southwest of Vidin, which in 1278 was documented as belonging to Bulgaria. References

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title: Mel Lewis

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<mask> (May 10, 1929 – February 2, 1990), known professionally as <mask>, was an American jazz drummer, session musician, professor, and author. He received fourteen Grammy Award nominations. Biography

Early years
<mask> was born in Buffalo, New York, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents Samuel and Mildred Sokoloff. He started playing professionally as a teen, eventually joining Stan Kenton in 1954. His musical career brought him to Los Angeles in 1957 and New York City in 1963. Career
In 1966 in New York, he teamed up with Thad Jones to lead the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. The group started as informal jam sessions with the top studio and jazz musicians of the city, but eventually began performing regularly on Monday nights at the famed venue, the Village Vanguard.In 1979, the band won a Grammy for their album Live in Munich. Like all of the musicians in the band, it was only a sideline. In 1976, he released an album titled <mask> and Friends that featured him leading a smaller sextet that allowed freedom and improvisation. When Jones moved to Denmark in 1978, the band became known as <mask> and the Jazz Orchestra. <mask> continued to lead the band, recording and performing every Monday night at the Village Vanguard until shortly before his death from cancer at age 60. The band still performs on most Monday nights at the club. Today, it is known as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and has released several CDs.Playing style and approach
<mask>'s cymbal work was considered unique among many musicians. Of his style, drummer Buddy Rich had remarked: "<mask> doesn't sound like anybody else. He sounds like himself." <mask> insisted on playing genuine Turkish-made cymbals, switching from the Zildjian Company later in his career to the Istanbul brand. His setup included a 21-inch ride on his right, a 19-inch crash-ride on his left, and his signature sound, a 22-inch swish "knocker" with rivets on his far right. The rather lightweight cymbals exuded a dark, overtone-rich sound. <mask>' wood-shell drums were considered warm and rich in their sound.He almost exclusively played a Gretsch drums set, although in later years, played Slingerland drums equipped with natural calfskin top heads. Regular mylar heads were used on the bottom. <mask> described a playing philosophy of not "pushing or pulling" but "supporting." "If you watch me, it doesn't look like I'm doing much," he remarked in an interview. Declining health and death
In the late 1980s, <mask> was diagnosed with melanoma. It was identified in his arm, then surfaced in his lungs, and ultimately went to his brain. He died on February 2, 1990, just days before his band was to celebrate its 24th anniversary at the Village Vanguard.Discography
Mellifluous (Gatemouth, 1981)

<mask> and the Orchestra
 Naturally, (Telarc, 1979)
 Live in Montreux: <mask> Plays Herbie Hancock, (MPS/Pausa, 1980))
 Live at the Village Vanguard...Featuring the Music of Bob Brookmeyer, (1980)
 <mask> and the Jazz Orchestra, (Finesse, 1982)
 20 Years at the Village Vanguard, (Atlantic, 1985)
 The Definitive Thad Jones, Live from the Village Vangard, (Nimbus, 1988)
 Definitive Thad Jones, Vol. 1, (MusicMasters, 1988)
 Definitive Thad Jones, Vol. (Verve, 1963) – with Jimmy Smith
Ellington Is Forever (Fantasy, 1975)
With Benny Carter
Sax ala Carter! (United Artists, 1960)
BBB & Co. (Swingville, 1962) with Ben Webster and Barney Bigard
Central City Sketches (MusicMasters, 1987)
With Buck Clayton
A Swingin' Dream (Stash, 1989)
With Al Cohn
Son of Drum Suite (RCA Victor, 1960)
Jazz Mission to Moscow (Colpix, 1962)
Body and Soul (Muse, 1973) with Zoot Sims
With Bob Cooper
Coop! The Music of Bob Cooper (Contemporary, 1958)
With Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff
Soul Survivors (Milestone, 1986)
With Eddie Daniels
First Prize! (Prestige 1967)
With Eric Dolphy
Live in Germany (Magnetic, 1961 / 1992)
With Maynard Ferguson
The Blues Roar (Mainstream, 1965)
With Stan Getz
Stan Getz Plays Music from the Soundtrack of Mickey One (MGM, 1965)
With Dizzy Gillespie
The New Continent (Limelight, 1962)
With Jimmy Hamilton
It's About Time (Swingville, 1961)
With Johnny Hodges
Sandy's Gone (Verve, 1963)
With Stan Kenton
Contemporary Concepts (Capitol, 1955)
Kenton in Hi-Fi (Capitol, 1956)
Cuban Fire! (Pacific Jazz, 1961)
Moment of Truth (Pacific Jazz, 1962)
Portraits (Pacific Jazz, 1964)
With Jimmy Witherspoon
Blues for Easy Livers (Prestige, 1965)

Filmography

Concert performances
1999:  Jazz at the Smithsonian (Kultur Video)
2003:  Jazz Casual – Thad Jones & Mel Lewis and Woody Herman (Jazz Casual)
2005:  Jazz Masters Series – Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra (Shanachie)
2007:  Mel Lewis and His Big Band (VIEW)

Film
1958: Kings Go Forth - Jazz Musician: Drums (uncredited)

Sources

External links
 Allmusic.com – Biography by Scott Yanow
 Falzerano, Chet (1995).Gretsch Drums: The Legacy of That Great Gretsch Sound. Publisher: Centerstream Publications. <mask> at Drummerworld
<mask> at The Percussive Arts Society
The Mel Lewis Collection at the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri–Kansas City
History of Jazz Drumming interview recordings

1929 births
1990 deaths
American jazz drummers
American jazz bandleaders
Big band bandleaders
West Coast jazz drummers
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Grammy Award winners
Musicians from Buffalo, New York
Atlantic Records artists
Red Baron Records artists
Deaths from melanoma
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
Jazz musicians from New York (state)
20th-century American male musicians
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title: Christine Belford

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<mask> (born <mask>) is an American television and film actress. She has sometimes been credited as <mask>. Early life
<mask> was born in Amityville, Long Island, New York to Joseph J. Riley and <mask> (née Wilson; later Malone),  who later divorced. She has a brother, Terry, and a sister, Shawn. The family once lived at 112 Ocean Avenue, the location which later became famous as the setting of The Amityville Horror, for about five years from age 11 until age 16. As a young child and teenager on Long Island, she was active in equestrian trials and won many horsemanship awards. "She was enrolled at the best schools and joined the best swimming and yachting clubs on Long Island."After graduating from high school in 1966, she attended Hofstra University, initially interested in pursuing a career in psychiatry. However, the classwork she did with Joseph Leon, the head of the drama department, inspired her to become an actress. In 1970, after college she moved to New York City and did some modeling work but no acting. Additionally, she said, "In order to keep a roof over my head and to eat, I took any job I could get. I was a waitress, a bar maid, and I also drove an ice truck." For both personal and professional reasons, she moved to Los Angeles near the end of 1970. There, at the suggestion of a friend, actress Carrie Snodgress, she auditioned at Universal Pictures, performing a scene from the film The Country Girl for the head of talent, Monique James.<mask> then received a seven-year acting contract from Universal Pictures, "A very precious commodity issued only to a chosen few." Television career
Her first appearance on television was as an extra on the Vince Edwards series Matt Lincoln. Her first credited appearance on television was in the NBC television movie Vanished in 1971. She played insurance investigator Carlie Kirkland during the second season (1973–74) of Banacek. She appeared in the 1980 TV-movie The Gambler with Kenny Rogers and also played Ricky Stratton’s mother, Evelyn on Silver Spoons and Jackie on Empire. She appeared in guest roles on many popular television shows of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, including Ironside, Banacek, Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, The Six Million Dollar Man, CHiPs, Wonder Woman, Magnum, P.I., Hart to Hart, The Incredible Hulk, Family Ties, The Golden Girls, Blossom, Beverly Hills, 90210, Battlestar Galactica (specifically as one of the prison-barge inmates recruited to destroy "The Gun On Ice Planet Zero"), The Paper Chase: The Television Series, My Two Dads, Night Court (specifically the 1992 episode "Opportunity Knock Knocks," where she was credited as <mask>), Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis: Murder and  Quincy, Holding Pattern. She appeared in the episode "Devil Pack" from the 1977 series Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected (known in the United Kingdom as Twist in the Tale), as well as in various television films through the years.Her last appearance on television was in the horse-racing TV movie Ruffian, starring Sam Shepard and broadcast on the ABC network in 2007. She played on Dynasty as the nurse for Fallon's baby at the end of Season 2 and Season 3. In 1983, she co-hosted, in Los Angeles, with Steve Edwards, Cathy Kronkite, and Ruth Batchelor, an unsuccessful pilot for a daytime-magazine series, Personal & Confidential, over five days (August 1–5, 1983). Film
2007 Ruffian (TV Movie) ...Barbara Janney
1991 The Woman Who Sinned (TV Movie) ...Randy Emerson
1986 The Ladies Club ...Dr. Constance Lewis
1986 Mr. and Mrs. Ryan (TV Movie) ...Margo Slater
1984 100 Centre Street (TV Movie) ...Fran Felt
1983 Christine ...Regina Cunningham
1983 Sparkling Cyanide (TV Movie) ...Rosemary Barton
1982 The Neighborhood (TV Movie) ...Meg Penner
1980 Desperate Voyage (TV Movie)
1980 Kenny Rogers as The Gambler (TV Movie) ...Eliza
1979 High Midnight (TV Movie) ...Sgt. Liz Spencer
1978 To Kill a Cop (TV Movie) ...Agnes Cusack
1976 The Million Dollar Rip-Off (TV Movie) ...Lil
1972 The Groundstar Conspiracy ...Nicole Devon
1972 Pocket Money ...Adelita
1971 Vanished (TV Movie) ...Gretchen Greer

Television

1999 The Wild Thornberrys ...Whale
1994 Diagnosis Murder ...Emily Bissell
1993 Blossom ...Nancy
1993 Step by Step ...Eileen Donovan
1992 'Mann & Machine ...Rose
1992 Night Court ...Clare Monroe
1991-1998 Beverly Hills, 90210 ...Samantha Sanders
1991 Who's the Boss?'' ...Ida Davis
1990 Yes, Virginia ...
1990 Dragnet ...Jean Reynolds
1989 Freddy's Nightmares ...Dr. Weiss
1989 Living Dolls ...Kitty
1989 Empty Nest ...Fran
1989 L.A. Law ...Lily White
1988 Murphy's Law ...Claudia Slocum
1988 My Two Dads ...Myra Young
1987 ABC Afterschool Specials ...Dr. Louise Warner
1986-1987 Outlaws ...Maggie Randall
1986 The Golden Girls ...Kirsten Nylund Adams. 1986 Family Ties ...Victoria Hurstenberg
1984-1993 Murder, She Wrote ...Missy Stevens / Maude Paulson Winslow / Fiona Keeler
1984 Empire ...Jackie Willow
1984 Goodnight, Beantown ...Allison
1983-1984 Fantasy Island ...Melanie Swan / Marion Robertson
1983 It's Not Easy
1982-1987 Silver Spoons ...Evelyn Stratton / Evelyn Stratton Whiting
1982 Dynasty ...Susan Farragut
1982 Cagney & Lacey ...Theresa
1982 Today's F.B.I.1981-1983 The Greatest American Hero ...Dotty Parker / Sheila Redman, the Spirit
1981 Nero Wolfe ...Melanie Davidson
1981 Magnum, P.I. ...Adelaide Malone
1980 Beyond Westworld ...Dianna Lionstar
1980 CHiPs ...Denise
1979-1983 Hart to Hart ...Victoria Dickenson / Nikki Stephanos
1979-1981 The Incredible Hulk ...Leigh Gamble / Linda Calahan
1979 Dear Detective
1979 Married: The First Year ...Emily Gorey
1979 The Paper Chase ...Chris Carlyle
1978 The White Shadow ...Dr. Evelyn Crawford
1978 Battlestar Galactica ...Leda
1977 Quincy M.E. ...Sonya
1977 Tales of the Unexpected ...Ann Colby
1977 Most Wanted ...Jennifer Haron
1976 Wonder Woman ...Baroness Paula Von Gunther
1975 Harry O ...Karen Nesbitt
1975 Medical Story ...Hope
1975 Police Story ...Carrie
1975 Kate McShane ...Charlotte Randall Chase
1974-1982 Insight ...Karen / Kate / Kay /
1974 The Manhunter ...Cynthia Browning
1974 Doc Elliot ...Joy Neimeyer
1974 The Six Million Dollar Man ...Lt. Colby
1973 Jigsaw ...Gale Parker
1973 Cannon ...Anne Grainger
1973-1979 Barnaby Jones ...Virginia Kirkland / Louise Brenner / Eleanor Devers /
1972 Mannix ...Alison Bramante
1972 Alias Smith and Jones ...Ellie Alcott
1972 Cool Million ...Adrienne / Marcella Pascal
1972 The Sixth Sense ...Anna Harris
1972-1974 Banacek ...Carlie Kirkland
1971 Ironside ...Sue Broderick
1971 Matt Lincoln
1971-1972 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law ...Jeanine Michaels / Karen Slater
1970-1974 Marcus Welby, M.D. ...Sandy / Phyllis Dalton / Lolly
1983 The Love Boat Fall Preview Special  ...Herself
1984 Breakaway ...Herself

Voiceover career
From the 1990s to the present, Belford has done much voiceover work, including commercials, animations, promotional spots, and narrations. Personal life
Belford has been married to actor Nicholas Pryor since July 1993. References

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Living people
American television actresses
American film actresses
Actresses from New York (state)
Hofstra University alumni
People from Amityville, New York
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women

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title: John Tierney (journalist)

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<mask> (born March 25, 1953) is an American journalist and a contributing editor to City Journal, the Manhattan Institute's quarterly publication. Previously he had been a reporter and columnist at the New York Times for three decades since 1990. A self-described contrarian, Tierney is a critic of aspects of environmentalism, the "science establishment", big government, and calls for limiting emissions of carbon dioxide. Early and personal life
<mask> was born in 1953 outside Chicago, and grew up in "the Midwest, South America and Pittsburgh". He graduated from Yale University in 1976. He was previously married to <mask>, with whom he had one child. They later divorced, and Tierney remarried to anthropologist and love expert Helen Fisher in 2020.Career
After graduating from college, <mask> was a newspaper reporter for four years, first at the Bergen Record in New Jersey and then at the Washington Star. Starting in 1980, he spent ten years in magazine journalism writing for such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Esquire, Health, National Geographic Traveler, New York, Newsweek, Outside, Rolling Stone. <mask> began working at The New York Times in 1990 as a "general assignment" reporter in the Metro section. <mask> writes a science column, "Findings", for the Times. He previously wrote the TierneyLab blog for the Times. In 2005 <mask> began to write for the Times Op-Ed page and as of 2015 his writings appeared in both the Times Op-Ed and "Findings" science column. He also writes for the conservative City Journal.In 2009 Tierney wrote about mathematics popularizer Martin Gardner and in that same year started featuring recreational mathematics problems, often curated by Pradeep Mutalik in his New York Times TierneyLab blog. In 2010, <mask> retired from writing the blog, and Mutalik continued it under a new name (NumberPlay). In time, Gary Antonick took that over until he retired it in October 2016. Views
<mask> described his TierneyLab blog as being "guided by two founding principles":
 Just because an idea appeals to a lot of people doesn't mean it's wrong. But that's a good working theory. The About section of the TierneyLab blog started with, "<mask> always wanted to be a scientist but went into journalism because its peer-review process was a great deal easier to sneak through". His column about New York, "The Big City", ran in the New York Times Magazine and the Metro section from 1994 to 2002.His criticism of rent stabilization, the war on drugs, Amtrak and compulsory recycling, have been described as questioning "some of the complacent shibboleths of urban liberalism". His 1996 article "Recycling Is Garbage" broke the New York Times Magazine'''s hate mail record and was praised by libertarians for bringing "libertarian ideas to America's big-government bible". Critics complained that in the article he quoted "not a single representative of the recycling industry", but did cite the head of "an environmental consulting business for hire to solid waste companies". In a 2001 column, <mask> cited a study suggesting that global warming would boost the U.S. economy. <mask> identifies himself as a libertarian and has become increasingly identified with libertarianism. Joseph J. Romm has written that <mask> is one of the "influential but misinformed skeptics" who have helped prevent the United States from taking action on climate change. In his 2007 book Hell and High Water, Romm refutes what he calls <mask>'s "misinformation".Columbia Journalism Review complains Tierney "has a tendency to support his point of view using sources with a clear ideological or special interest agenda, without properly identifying them". In 2007 <mask> wrote a column claiming that Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's 1962 book on the detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, is a "hodgepodge of science and junk science" whose rhetoric still "drowns out real science", such as the work of agricultural bacteriologist Ira Baldwin. Among those who have accused him of errors of fact and misrepresentation are Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes, and Merrill Goozner. In 2016 <mask> accused President Barack Obama of "politicized science to advance his agenda" and appointees in the Obama administration of "junk science—or no science—to justify misbegotten crusades against dietary salt, trans fats, and electronic cigarettes. According to Tierney, they cited phony statistics to spread myths about a gender pay gap and a rape crisis on college campuses". Awards
 1998–99, New York News Publishers Association: Distinguished Column Writing Award. 1988, American Association for the Advancement of Science/Westinghouse Science Journalism Award, for a cover story in Newsweek, "The Search for Adam and Eve."1983, American Institute of Physics–United States Steel Foundation Science Writing Award. Books
 God Is My Broker, A comic novel written in parody of financial and spiritual self-help book was written in collaboration with novelist Christopher Buckley. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. Co-wrote in 2011, along with Florida State University psychologist Roy F. Baumeister. They state that self-control and willpower function analogously to muscles. Thus, they write that willpower can be exhausted from overuse but generally speaking is strengthened through exercise (exercise that modern people tend to disregard). Publishers Weekly praised the book as "a very fine work" that is "clear and succinct" as well as "based on solid research".The Best-Case Scenario Handbook: A Parody Sep 16, 2002. a parody of the popular Worst-Case Scenario Handbook series. The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It. Co-written with Baumeister and published in 2019. See also
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 Biography from the New York Times
 Sept. 14, 2005 interview with Reason magazine
 "Meet <mask>", New York Times'' biographical video interview

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Christine "<mask><mask> (born 6 August 1982) is an Australian performer who has worked extensively in musical theatre as an actress, dancer and singer. She has also appeared on television shows and in films. In March 2012, she married fellow performer, <mask>. Early years

<mask> was born as <mask> on 6 August 1982 in Melbourne. She grew up in the suburb of Eltham, and attended St Helena Secondary College. Whelan performed in school musicals every year from Year 7. The musicals included, "The King and I and doing everything from Fiddler on the Roof to Little Shop of Horrors, as well as Grease."She later reflected on her Year 12 school production, "I was choreographing and playing a part. It was the first time I realised this was something that came naturally to me. It is the only thing that was born in me." The Whelan family were fervent basketballers. Whelan's first amateur theatre role was in Les Mis, followed by works with the Catchment Players and then as Roxie in Chicago. She recalled being inspired by seeing Mamma Mia!, "At the end the audience stood up and everyone was singing – I just thought this would be the best thing ever but I didn't think 'that'll be me one day'." A talent manager caught her performance in Chicago and recommend she turn professional.<mask> <mask> acknowledged her teachers, "Susan Anne Walker and Rosie Harris for singing, I danced at Bev Palmer's for a couple of years when I was younger and more recently have been doing some TV and film courses around Melbourne and Sydney." In the early 2000s, she contracted glandular fever, which resulted in chronic fatigue syndrome, "I think with hindsight I hadn't found my place in the world and I didn't know what life was going to look like and actually, just as I was recovering, I was cast in Grease." Career

<mask> <mask>'s professional career began in 2005 in Grease: The Arena Spectacular, playing the role of Patti Simcox. She reprised the role in the United Kingdom. In both productions she understudied Sandy's role. On returning to Sydney, she portrayed April in Gale Edwards's production of Company from June to August 2007 at Theatre Royal. Due to illness, Whelan missed the 18 July performance, and with no understudy available, Peter Cousens of Kookaburra Musical Theatre decided the production would continue with "key songs, scenes and dialogue" removed.Despite criticism of Company, and Cousens, in 2008 Whelan received the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Newcomer for her role in Company. The actress provided a one-woman performance in Tegrity: Britney Spears Live in Cabaret in the titular role, which began at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival (June 2009) and continued, as Britney Spears: the Cabaret, in Sydney (October 2009) and Melbourne (October 2010). The show was co-written by Mathew Frank and Dean Bryant. According to Andrew Stephens of The Sydney Morning Herald, it is "her first big hit. That's little wonder, given it is a searing and unexpectedly compassionate work." In subsequent years, Britney Spears: the Cabaret was toured around Australia annually until 2019. She played the role of Lucy in Bryant and Frank's Australian musical Once We Lived Here, in September 2009 for which she was nominated for the Green Room Award for Female Actor in a Featured Role (Music Theatre).Other credits include Maisy in The Boy Friend (2009), as well as chorus member in 42nd Street (2007) and various characters in Starting Here, Starting Now (June-July 2010). Her debut film role was a brief appearance as "Woman Runner" in the romantic comedy, I Love You Too (May 2010). Whelan appeared in The Drowsy Chaperone (January-February 2010) for Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) as Janet van de Graaf, for which she was a nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Musical. The lead role of Man in the Chair was portrayed by Geoffrey Rush, while Whelan's then-boyfriend Rohan <mask> took the role of George. She played the title role in The Production Company's Sugar (September-October 2010), for which she was a Green Room Award nominee for Best Actress. Sugar is based on the 1959 film, Some Like It Hot, with Marily Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk. Whelan took the lead role of Clio/Kira in the musical, Xanadu (March 2011), which had her roller skating in a big top tent.She obtained the sought-after role over fellow actress/singer contenders, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Ricki-Lee Coulter, Erika Heynatz, Margot Robbie and Holly Valance. She followed with the role of Erma in Anything Goes (July 2011). <mask> <mask> was a guest panellist on an episode of Spicks and Specks in June 2011 on ABC Television and on TV talk show, The Circle. She undertook the role of Kylie McDonald in the episode "Covert Aggression in Netball" of TV series Winners & Losers (March 2011). She appeared in Offspring Season 2, Episode 11 "Complications" (July 2011) as Jenny. Other TV credits include Leila Esperance in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (March 2012) and Katarina in Conspiracy 365 (December 2012). She played Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest (November 2011–January 2012) for MTC.Cameron Woodhead of The Sydney Morning Herald felt despite the presence of Rush in the production, <mask>'s "piping Gwendolyn steals the show, from the subtle subversions of her flirting behind her mother's back, to the ritualised cattiness of her scene with Cecily" (portrayed by Emily Barclay). She played Philia in the Melbourne season of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (October 2012) opposite Rush for which she was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Supporting Actress. <mask> <mask> starred in Eddie Perfect's updated version of Shane Warne: The Musical as Elizabeth Hurley for five shows at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and two shows at Melbourne's Hamer Hall in June 2013. The actress portrayed Lina Lamont opposite <mask> as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain in August for The Production Company at The State Theatre, Melbourne. Also in that year, she hosted the Helpmann Awards alongside Perfect, held at the Sydney Opera House. On TV she had an arc of four episodes in Network Ten's drama series Wonderland as Kristen. In 2014, <mask> <mask> took the role of Janet Weiss in the 40th anniversary tour of The Rocky Horror Show.Lead actor Craig McLachlan portrayed Frank-N-Furter, reprising his role from 1992 Australian production. In 2015, she played the role of Olivia Newton John in the TV miniseries, Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door on the Seven Network. The actress provided a cameo in House Husbands as an inappropriate dance teacher. She starred in another one-woman show Pure Blonde, written by Bryant and Frank, which played at the 2015 Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Her portrayal of Eileen Evergreen in The Production Company's Nice Work If You Can Get It (August 2015) was described by Katie Purvis of AussieTheatre.com as displaying, "considerable comic chops." <mask> <mask> appeared in the first season of The Wrong Girl (September–November 2016) as Nikkii Steadman for Network 10. She portrayed Sacha in another romantic comedy film, Spin Out (September 2016); alongside Lincoln Lewis.Greg King's review of Spin Out determined, "[<mask> <mask> and Lewis] are wasted in thankless roles as a couple of city slickers who rock up to the ute muster looking for a bit of excitement, and find themselves bemused by some of the bizarre rituals at play here. But their characters mainly exist to draw some humour out of the old city versus country rivalry." She portrayed one of the Pigeon sisters in MTC's production of The Odd Couple. from November 2016, and as Billie Dawn in its 2017 production of Born Yesterday. In 2018, she played Olivia in Simon Phillips' production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the MTC. In both 2020 and 2021 she played Rosalind in As You Like It at the MTC with Phillips directing. In 2018, <mask> <mask> appeared as herself in the comedy film That's Not My Dog!.<mask> <mask> joined the cast of Neighbours as Scarlett Brady in June 2019, which was broadcast in September. She reprised the role the following year. The actress joined the ensemble cast of the comedy news television program Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell in 2019, and continued with the show in 2020 and 2021. She also appeared in the 2020 web series Loving Captivity. Personal life

<mask> and her then-boyfriend Rohan <mask> first appeared on stage together in The Drowsy Chaperone from January 2010. In March 2012 <mask> and <mask> married and she changed her surname to <mask> <mask>. In July of that year they performed together at The Production Company's The Producers, in which she played Ulla opposite <mask>'s Carmen Ghia.The couple have a child. In January 2018, <mask> <mask>, Heynatz and Angela Scundi made allegations of indecent assault by McLachlan, during the 2014 production of The Rocky Horror Show. At the end of the subsequent criminal trial, in December 2020, McLachlan was found not guilty of all charges. McLachlan had filed defamation suits against <mask> <mask> and the reporting media (ABC and Fairfax) in February 2018. However, the trial for these suits was postponed pending the related criminal trial, in October 2021 the presiding judge announced the defamation trial was expected in April 2022 or later. Filmography

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title: Edward J. Ruppelt

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<mask> (July 17, 1923 – September 15, 1960) was a United States Air Force officer probably best known for his involvement in Project Blue Book, a formal governmental study of unidentified flying objects. He is generally credited with coining the term "unidentified flying object", to replace the terms "flying saucer" and "flying disk" - which had become widely known - because the military thought them to be "misleading when applied to objects of every conceivable shape and performance. For this reason the military prefers the more general, if less colorful, name: unidentified flying objects. UFO (pronounced "Yoo-foe") for short." <mask> was the director of Project Grudge from late 1951 until it became Project Blue Book in March 1952; he remained with Blue Book until late 1953. UFO researcher <mask> writes, "Most observers of Blue Book agree that the Ruppelt years comprised the project's golden age, when investigations were most capably directed and conducted. Ruppelt was open-minded about UFOs, and his investigators were not known, as Grudge's were, for force-fitting explanations on cases."Biography

Early life and career
Ruppelt was born and raised in Iowa. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II in 1942, and served with distinction as a decorated bombardier: he was awarded "five battle stars, two theater combat ribbons, three Air Medals, and two Distinguished Flying Crosses". After the war, Ruppelt was released into the Army reserves. He attended Iowa State College where, in 1951, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering. Shortly after finishing his education, Ruppelt was called back to active military duties after the Korean War began. He was assigned to the Air Technical Intelligence Center headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. With Blue Book
When Project Grudge was ordered dissolved, Project Blue Book was developed to replace it.Lt. Col. N. R. Rosengarten asked Ruppelt to take over as the new project's leader, partly because Ruppelt "had a reputation as a good organizer", and had helped get other wayward projects back on track. Though he was initially scheduled to stay with Blue Book for only a few months, when Project Grudge was reorganized in late 1951 and renamed Project Blue Book, <mask> (then a captain) was kept on as director. Ruppelt wrote that the Air Force's initial approach to the UFO question "was tackled with organized confusion." In defending General Samford's press conference on 29 July 1952, immediately after the big UFO flap at Washington National Airport, Ruppelt wrote that "his [Samford's] people had fouled up in not fully investigating the sightings." Astronomer and Blue Book consultant J. Allen Hynek thought that Ruppelt did his best, only to see his efforts stymied. Hynek wrote "In my contacts with [Ruppelt] I found him to be honest and seriously puzzled about the whole phenomenon". After Blue Book
Ruppelt requested reassignment from Blue Book in late 1953 shortly after the Robertson Panel issued its conclusions (based partly on the panel's official report, Ruppelt's Blue Book staff was reduced from more than ten personnel to three, including Ruppelt).He retired from the Air Force not long afterwards, then worked in the aerospace industry. In 1956, he worked as a research engineer for Northrop Aircraft Company, according to publisher information in the online version of his 1956 book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. Hynek suggested that Ruppelt's "book should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in the history of this subject". In the book, Ruppelt detailed his time with Projects Grudge and Blue Book, and offered his assessments of some UFO cases. In 1956, Donald Keyhoe asked Ruppelt to join to serve as an adviser to the newly created National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) . Ruppelt had recently suffered a heart attack, and declined Keyhoe's offer. Ruppelt's book indicates that he held some dim views of Keyhoe and his early writings; Ruppelt stated that while Keyhoe generally had his facts straight, his interpretation of those facts was another question entirely.He thought Keyhoe often sensationalized the material and accused Keyhoe of "mind reading" what he and other officers were thinking. In what would turn out to be a matter of months before his death, Ruppelt came out with an expanded (20-chapter) edition of his  book - as published by Doubleday & Co. In new chapters notably conservative in tone, and frequently atrributed by reviewers to author disillusionment or disenchantment, Ruppelt declared UFOs a "space age myth". Content of this nature was of a noticeably different tone to famous quotes from the original "Report" that had, for example, referred critically to a 1949 change of attitude in the Project whereby: "everything was being evaluated on the premise UFO's couldn't exist. No matter what you see or hear, don't believe it". Ruppelt had also been prompted to write back in 1956: "This period of "mind changing" bothered me", and "this change in the operating policy of the UFO project was so pronounced that, I like so many other people, wondered if there was a hidden reason for the change. Was it actually an attempt to go underground - to make the project more secretive?"In what the Eldora Herald Ledger referred to as a sudden death, Ruppelt succumbed to a heart attack on September 15, 1960, at the age of 37. He was survived by mother Mrs Bessie <mask>, wife Elizabeth Anne, and daughters aged 9 and 4. References

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 Clark, <mask>. The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial. Detroit, Michigan: Visible Ink, 1998. .
 Hoyt, Diana Palmer. "UFOCRITIQUE: UFOs, Social Intelligence and the Condon Committee". Master's Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 2000.Hynek, J. Allen. The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. Chicago, Illinois: Henry Regenery Company, 1972. <mask>, David Michael. The UFO Controversy In America. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1975. .
 <mask>, <mask>. The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects.New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956, First Edition; London: Victor Gollancz, 1956. 2nd, expanded edition New York: Ballantine, 1960. Tulien, Thomas. Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop. Scotland, Connecticut: The Sign Historical Group, November 2001. External links

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title: Nancy Davidson (artist)

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<mask> is an American artist best known for large-scale inflatable sculptures regarded as hyper-feminized abstractions of the human female form. Bulbous and flesh-like, the sculptures resemble buttocks and breasts and employ erotic cultural signifiers in their shape and decoration. <mask>'s work spans art media but centers around sculpture. It is largely post-minimal in character and described by commentators as providing a feminist counterpoint to the male-dominated, minimalist sculpture of the 1960s, as well as to cultural tropes involving bodies that the works themselves invoke. Of particular note are <mask>'s use of humor and a sense of absurdity to seemingly both celebrate and subvert these tropes, inviting their investigation but without the seriousness and moralism that often accompany critical works. Sculpture Magazine critic Robert Raczka wrote that "The confectionary color and oversize scale" of <mask>'s sculpture creates a "playfully upbeat mood that allows feminist and gender issues to rise to the surface at irregular intervals, without didacticism." The New Art Examiner's Susan Canning described it as establishing "a context where all can revel in the transgressive and liberating power of the grotesque."<mask>’s work has also been covered in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America and Der Spiegel, among other publications, and recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner and Creative Capital grants, and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, among others. She lives and works in New York City. Life and career
Born and raised in Chicago, <mask> was involved in art from an early age, observing her father paint landscapes and later, attending classes at Chicago's Junior Art Institute. After receiving a bachelor's degree in education in 1965 and beginning a lifelong, concurrent career in teaching, she studied art at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning a BFA and MFA, respectively. In 1975, she launched her professional art career in Chicago, producing paintings and drawings for several group and solo exhibitions before moving to New York in 1979. These early pieces, chosen for exhibition at Chicago's Art Institute and Museum of Contemporary Art as well as at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, were positively reviewed in Artforum and Art in America. After relocating to New York, she began using textiles in her work and showed steadily throughout the 1980s—in group shows at the MCA and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and in solo exhibitions, mainly at Chicago's Marianne Deson Gallery.In the early 1990s, <mask>'s artwork shifted toward sculpture and she began creating the large balloon displays for which she is best known. Following this shift, her works were selected for group exhibits at the Whitney Museum, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art, and appeared in solo shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1999) and Contemporary Arts Center (2001) in Cincinnati, among other venues; she also appeared in the well-known feminist exhibition, "Bad Girls West" (1994). <mask> branched out into other media during this period, including video and photography. Over the next two decades, she had solo shows at Robert Miller Gallery (2001), Betty Cuningham Gallery (2012), the Boca Raton Museum of Art (2013) and the Krannert Art Museum (2020–1). Concurrent with her professional art career, <mask> taught at a number of institutions, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Williams College, and State University of New York at Purchase College, where she completed a 24-year tenure. Work
In her first two decades, <mask> worked primarily in painting, frottage drawing, and with textiles. In the early 1990s, she began experimenting with latex weather balloons, and by 1993 had begun showing the feminized, anthropomorphic sculptures for which she became known.Her exhibitions are traditional in the sense that they contain discreet works, but she often displays the works in tableaux or as part of an immersive environment, in the manner of installation art. <mask>'s sculpture is said to draw on work by sculptors Donald Judd and Eva Hesse and she has cited them as influences, together with literary figures Mikhail Bakhtin and Jeanette Winterson. Her work has also been called "Rabelaisian," after French writer François Rabelais, whose writings enacted social critique through their satirical use of bawdy humor and the grotesque. The subject matter and materials used—together with the size and minimal character of the pieces—have led commentators to describe <mask>'s work as a markedly feminist response to the masculine, minimalist sculpture of the 1960s. While <mask>'s sculptures echo these works in scale and level of abstraction, their soft pliability, light weight and ebullient femininity stand in sharp contrast with the rigid and heavy, sober works cast in steel and concrete by the artist's predecessors. <mask> has confirmed the intentionality of this contrast in interviews, stating that she designed one of her largest pieces, Double Exposure (2003), to be a feminine counterpoint to artist Ronald Bladen's giant "X" sculpture (The X, 1965), which, in 1967, occupied the same atrium space at the Corcoran Gallery of Art for which <mask>'s piece was commissioned. Critics also see a subversive feminist ethos in the way <mask>'s art employs cultural tropes involving bodies and desirability, noting that any subversion is achieved subtly.Art in America'''s Travis Diehl wrote that "[<mask>'s] work is light and playful, as well as genuinely erotic, which makes our involvement with it more experiential than intellectual. Her sly seduction shows us to be objectifiers as well as objectified, illuminating our roles as both accomplices and victims." Brightly colored, large, and bearing references to pop-culture icons like Elvis Presley and Mae West, the sculptures appear to celebrate the exaggerated forms of culturally idealized bodies while simultaneously undermining the forces behind them. Artforum's David Frankel wrote, "there is a certain hilarity and even joyfulness in their comically rounded bulges and furrows, in their colors and fussy corsetry," further noting that <mask>'s work "examines the roles imposed on women in the theater of male expectation while also allowing a space for women to act in that theater without being limited by it—in effect, by taking over the play." Humor, limitation and the transcendence of limitation are common themes in her art, and the artist has cited the latter—which she calls "unruliness"—as being a key inspiration to her work. Early balloon sculptures
<mask>'s work spans multiple art disciplines but she is best known for large, inflatable abstract sculptures that erotically reference the human female form.Smith, Roberta. "Judy Ledgerwood: 'April Showers,'" The New York Times, June 23, 2011.Retrieved February 2, 2021. Fashioned from latex weather balloons, the works have a bulbous, fleshy appearance and are seen as hyper-feminized abstractions of erogenous body parts—a visual interpretation reinforced by <mask>'s use of fishnet lace, rope, and other culturally eroticized textiles to adorn, constrict and shape the tautly inflated forms.Debord, M. "US Shorts," Artforum, September, 1999. Retrieved February 2, 2021. One early configuration involved constricting single balloons with a corset and featured bifurcated bulges on both top and bottom, mimicking the curves of buttocks and breasts. This design gave rise to several works and the artist—as well as critics—began referring to the corseted pieces collectively as "lulus," after a 1993 triad with that name. Other lulu-type pieces include Maebe (1994) and Blue Moon (1998), which reference Mae West and Elvis Presley, respectively.Clement, Douglas. "The Female Identity, Discussed in Art," The New York Times, April 1, 2016.Retrieved February 2, 2021. Blue Moon (1998) was included in the group show, "Sculpture-Figure-Woman" (Landesgalerie, 1998) which originated in Linz, Austria and travelled to Chemnitz, Germany; the piece was subsequently featured in Der Spiegel magazine. <mask>'s stable of undergarment-clad works also include the egg-like Netella (1998), as well as Buttress (1998) and Dulcinea (1999)—two pillar-like stack sculptures over fifteen feet high. As with Lulu, <mask> revisited Buttress, reprising it with the similar but distinct, bright green Stacked in 2016.McMahon, Katherine. "Scenes From NADA Miami Beach, Part 1," ARTnews, December 2, 2016. Retrieved February 2, 2021. Hang 'Em High (1999), was nearly twenty feet square and featured side-by-side red spheres veiled by netting and hung by a rope, which also bound the piece vertically at the center.The latex period also saw the introduction of a recurrent, literal "gaze" theme in <mask>'s sculpture, by way of spherical forms that overtly reference the human eye. In her 1998–9 piece, Carnivaleyes, twelve fabric-wrapped pairs of eyes form a wall, their gazes askance. In 2001, she created a twelve-by-fifteen-foot-square installation at the Contemporary Arts Center that featured a mound of cartoonish eye pairs presented with an immersive sound element. In her 2017 piece, Eyeenvy, a 14-ft-high eyeball looks down on viewers from atop a four-legged platform. Later sculpture
In the early 2000s, <mask> began using vinyl-coated nylon as a primary sculpture material. The Corcoran Gallery commissioned <mask> in 2002 to create a piece for its 47th Biennial, and she produced Double Exposure, a 34-foot by 20-foot-square nylon work that filled one side of the museum's atrium. Echoing her latex piece Hang 'Em High, the installation featured an anthropomorphic red double-sphere, viewable from both above and below and suspended from the center by a thick blue rope.In 2005, a Creative Capital Artist Grant funded research for a new body of work—an exploration of the cowgirl archetype. The results were exhibited in her solo shows, "Dustup" (2012) and "Let 'er Buck" (2013), and featured giant nylon inflatables together with other types of work. The piece Dustup (2012) is based, according to <mask>, on the classic-comic convention of portraying skirmishes as "dustballs" and takes the form of three bulbous, boot- and tassel-clad forms in pink, yellow and blue, suspended around a central point, "legs up." The piece Let 'er Buck (2013) poses the pink character from Dustup singly, in a standing posture. Between 2016 and 2018, <mask> did multiple solo exhibitions—including "Ridin' High" (2016) and "Per Sway" (2017–8), both of which featured new veins of work. One prominent theme involved the relationship of privilege to vantage point and had eyeballs and knots of various character mounted atop platforms of various heights. In 2020, <mask> collaborated with Lakshmi Ramgopal to create the exhibition "Hive" at the Krannert Art Museum, a year-long, immersive installation that includes sculpture, sound and light.Two eighteen-foot-high <mask> sculptures fill the glass-enclosed entrance to the Krannert's Kinkead Pavilion, while a soundscape created by Ramgopal projects abstract vocalizations of breath, including inhales, sighs and hums. <mask>'s Hive inflatables are soft, pink and rounded, and contrast with the hard, angular qualities of the postmodern-style pavilion. The dual sculptures are internally lit and flash in a programmed pattern. Hive appears to have derived from a smaller, similar <mask> piece—Bigarurre—which was included in the artist's 2017–8 solo show, "Per Sway." Photography and video
In addition to sculpture, <mask> has also produced photographic and video works, many of which use her sculptures and art materials as subjects. In her solo show, "nobutsaboutit" (1998, 1999), <mask> exhibited multiple series of images she created from photographs of two of her sculptures: Musette (1994) and Spin Too! (1995).The images frame details of the sculptures and mirror them along the center line for a symmetrical effect which—in line with <mask>'s three-dimensional works—references the cleaved curves of buttocks and breasts. Because of the close-up, cropped nature of the scenes, the inanimate origin of the images is somewhat disguised, leaving viewers to believe it could be human. The feminist undertones of the series have been noted by reviewers, including New York Times critic Ken Johnson, who wrote, "By constructing such images instead of photographing real women, Ms. <mask> means to reflect on the media's construction of women as objects of desire, and she does so in works that are, like the icons they evoke, from Mae West to Marilyn Monroe, seductive and slyly ironic." In 1999, <mask> exhibited her first video work, Breathless (1999), as part of the immersive media for a show of her works at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art. It captured a pink weather balloon in its deflation process bouncing around a room, interspliced with scenes of the balloon being inflated and overlaid with balloon sounds. In 2009, her rodeo research for the cowgirl project led to the creation of All Stories Are True, a five-minute, slow-motion video of men performing rodeo. The video was overlaid with enhancements, including a visual and audio camera-flash effect and slowed-tempo music.<mask>, <mask>."Video," Retrieved February 2, 2021. She also produced a 7-minute video of the Gotham Girls Roller Derby titled I Am Not Tame (2016), meant to be played on loop in a video installation.<mask>, <mask>. "I Am Not Tame." Retrieved February 2, 2021. Public recognition
<mask> has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), Anonymous Was a Woman Award (1997), and grants from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation (2001, 2015),Pollock-Krasner Foundation. "The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Announces 118 Grants Totaling $2,616,000 to Visual Artists Internationally in Fiscal Year 2014-2015," December 3, 2015.Retrieved February 2, 2021. Creative Capital (2005), Massachusetts Council of the Arts (1981, 1984) and National Endowment for the Arts (1979). She has received artist residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell and Djerassi.MacDowell. <mask>. Artists. Retrieved March 2, 2021. Commentators have also noted that <mask>'s 1990s work intersects with—and appears to have foreshadowed—cultural shifts in body image and desirability that became prevalent in the 2010s.At MTV's 2019 Video Music Awards, a performance by singer Lizzo featured a set prop—a large inflatable buttocks sculpture—that resembled <mask>'s work. Others have drawn comparisons between <mask>'s sculptures and the buxom body image popularized by media stars such as Kim Kardashian. References

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<mask> official website
"Unruly Forms: A Conversation with <mask>," Sculpture'', 2021
Archives of American Art
<mask> at the Ulrich Museum of Art
<mask>, Guggenheim Fellowship page
Davidson artist page at Creative Capital

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title: Jefferson Monroe Levy

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<mask> (April 16, 1852 – March 6, 1924) was a three-term U.S. Congressman from New York, a leader of the New York Democratic Party, and a renowned real estate and stock speculator. In 1879 at the age of 27, he took control of Monticello, <mask>'s home. His late uncle Uriah P<mask> had purchased the property in 1834, several years after <mask>'s death. Like his uncle, <mask> spent a considerable part of his fortune having Monticello and its grounds restored and preserved. In 1923, the property was purchased by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (then known as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation), a privately established group formed to purchase and operate Monticello as a memorial. It has since operated the site and mansion as a house museum.The <mask> family privately protected the National Historic Landmark for nearly a century because of their regard for <mask> and on behalf of the American people. Early life and education
Born in New York City to <mask> and Frances (Phillips<mask>, an American Jewish couple, <mask> was one of five children. His father was a merchant and sea captain, and his mother was a descendant of Jonas Phillips and his wife Rebecca Machado. <mask> and his siblings attended public and private schools. His mother's parents had immigrated from Germany and London in the mid-18th century, respectively, and his father's Sephardic Jewish ancestors, also from London, were among the first settlers of Savannah, Georgia in 1733. <mask> graduated from the New York University Law School in 1873. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in New York City, making money in real estate investment and finance.Monticello
<mask>'s uncle Uriah P<mask>, the first Jewish commodore (highest rank at the time) of the US Navy, had bought Monticello and some related property in 1834. He had spent much money to restore and preserve the house and grounds, which he used as a summer retreat. During the American Civil War, the Confederacy took control of the property. After the war, the lawyers of <mask>'s estate regained it for his heirs. In 1879, after buying out the other heirs of his uncle Uriah P<mask> for $10,050, <mask> took control of Monticello (formerly the plantation of Thomas Jefferson). When <mask> took over, the grounds had been reduced to 218 acres. During his tenure, he bought 500 acres to add to the complex.The house and grounds were in severe disrepair due to the overseer Joel Wheeler's lack of care and lengthy lawsuits among the heirs after his uncle's death. <mask> spent hundreds of thousands of dollars repairing, restoring, and preserving Monticello, work led by Thomas Rhodes, his on-site superintendent. <mask> regularly spent four months a year at the estate and became active in Charlottesville. In 1880 he paid for the restoration of the Town Hall, originally built as a theater, and named it the Levy Opera House. He allowed visitors to see the house, Monticello, sometimes getting as many as 60 per day. Beginning about 1909, Maud Littleton, the wife of New York Congressman John Littleton, started a campaign to have the U.S. Congress buy the mansion and property, and turn it into a government-run monument to <mask>. Part of her campaign was heated.Dismayed by newspaper articles that belittled <mask>'s ownership (<mask> was also a Congressman from New York at the time), the Albemarle Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in November 1912 unanimously adopted the following resolution:

In 1915, after the Southerner Woodrow Wilson was elected to the presidency, the likelihood of Congressional approval seemed high, but authorization was not achieved. In the Post–World War I recession, <mask>'s fortune declined. In 1923 he agreed to a down payment and mortgage for Monticello's sale to the newly organized Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which raised funds for the purchase and operated it as a house museum. Marriage and family
<mask> never married; his mother and a sister acted as hostesses during his stays at Monticello. <mask> died in New York City in 1924. He was interred in Beth Olam Cemetery, associated with the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Brooklyn, near his uncle Uriah <mask>. Political career
<mask> was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress, serving from March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1901.He was not a candidate for renomination in 1900. After this, he resumed law practice in New York City and attended to his real estate and stock investments. He was later elected to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, serving from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1915. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914. He resumed the practice of law in New York City. Other activities
<mask> was involved with the American Boy Scouts. He resigned from the board along with William Randolph Hearst over poor fundraising actions in 1910.In 1894 <mask> became a member of the New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He was assigned national membership number 4539 and state-society number 439. Legacy and honors
George Burroughs Torrey painted <mask>'s portrait. He restored and preserved Monticello, now designated a National Historic Landmark; and restored Town Hall in Charlottesville. After 1985, when Dan Jordan became president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, he arranged to honor the <mask> family - uncle and nephew- at Monticello for their roles in preserving the mansion. Jordan had <mask>'s gravesite restored, and the Foundation commissioned a monograph that recognized the contributions of the family and was published in 2001. In 2001, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation published The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving <mask>'s House, a history of <mask> and Uriah <mask>'s contributions.That same year, Free Press/Simon & Schuster published Marc Leepson's Saving Monticello: The <mask> Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that <mask> Built. See also
List of Jewish members of the United States Congress

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Marc Leepson, Saving Monticello: The <mask> family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built, Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2001; University of Virginia Press, (paperback), 2003, access date, March 1, 2020
Urofsky, Melvin I. The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving <mask>'s House, Monticello: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2001

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title: Pavan Varma

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<mask><mask> (born 5 November 1953) is a former Indian diplomat and a politician who is presently a member of the All India Trinamool Congress. Writer-diplomat <mask><mask> is a graduate in History from St. Stephen's College (securing the first position in the College), after which he took a degree in Law from the University of Delhi. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976. He has been Press Secretary to the President of India, the Spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs, Joint Secretary for Africa, High Commissioner for India in Cyprus, Director of the Nehru Centre in London, Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi, and Ambassador of India to Bhutan. With effect from June 2014, he was a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) until July 2016. He was the National General Secretary and National Spokesman of the Janata Dal (United). Mr. <mask> was the National General Secretary of the JD(U) till 29th January 2020.He joined the All India Trinamool Congress on 23rd November 2021 and was appointed the National Vice-President of the party on 19th December 2021. He has written over a dozen best selling, books including the highly successful Krishna: The Playful Divine (Penguin) on India's most popular deity, the critically applauded biography of the Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, Ghalib: The Man, The Times (Penguin), and the Havelis of Old Delhi. His first book on a contemporary subject was the path-breaking The Great Indian Middle Class (Penguin) (published also in French), followed by the astoundingly successful  Being Indian: The Truth About Why the 21st Century Will Be India's (Viking/Penguin 2004). Being Indian was described by The Economist as "one of the most subtle recent attempts to analyze the continent-sized mosaic of India and simplify it for the general reader." It was published by Random House, in the United Kingdom, as Being Indian: Inside the Real India in March 2005. The Japanese, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian translations of this book were very well received. Another work is a witty adaptation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra, which was published early in 2007 by Roli Books and has been translated into French and German.Mr<mask> has also translated the poetry of Kaifi Azmi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Gulzar (four volumes), all published by Penguin. His book titled:  Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity (Penguin-Allen Lane) was launched in February 2010 and deals with the pivotal issues of culture and identity for postcolonial societies. A Hindi and a French edition has been published. Mr<mask>'s first work of fiction When Loss is Gain was launched in January 2012 by Aleph to much critical acclaim. It is now to be made into a Bollywood film. Gulzar's translation of Mr. <mask>padi (along with the published original in English) was released in October-November 2013 by Penguin. Yudhister and Draupadi have now been adapted into a Play –'Paansa'- written by Gulzar, with extensive performances both in India and abroad.Mr. <mask>'s book Chanakya's New Manifesto: To Resolve the Crisis within India was launched by Aleph in January 2013. His book, The New Indian Middle Class: The Challenge of 2014 and Beyond, was published by Harper-Collins in 2014. His book  Chanakya's View: Understanding India in Transition (Westland-Amazon) was published in 2019. His book  The Greatest Ode to LORD RAM: Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas (Westland-Amazon) was launched in 2020. Mr. <mask>'s book,  Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker (Westland-Amazon), was launched in April 2018, with the presentation of the first copy to the Hon'ble President of India. The book has also been published in Hindi, and Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, and Gujarati translations will be out shortly. The book has just won the Bengaluru Literature Festival prize for the Best Book of Non-Fiction for the year 2018.In 2018 he has also been conferred an Honorary Doctorate by the Sri Sharada Institute of Indian Management for his book Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker (Westland-Amazon). Mr<mask> has received the Kalinga International Literary Award 2019. Mr<mask>'s latest book is 'The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward' (Westland-Amazon). Mr<mask> was conferred  an Honorary Doctoral Degree for his contribution to the fields of diplomacy, literature, culture, and aesthetics by the University of Indianapolis in 2005. Mr. <mask> was also awarded by His Majesty the King of Bhutan, the Druk Thuksey Award, Bhutan's highest civilian award. He is the only serving Indian Ambassador in Bhutan to have received this award. Mr. <mask> has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award by his school, St Xavier's Delhi, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award by St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi.In February 2019, he was conferred the First 'Wordsmith Award' by the Words Count Festival in Pune. He has also been awarded the Kalinga International Literary Award for 2019. A widely admired public speaker and television commentator, <mask> K<mask>'s columns appear regularly in The Times of India, The Asian Age and several other leading publications. Mr<mask> was till 1st January 2013 the Indian Ambassador to Bhutan, after which he took premature retirement from service. In the same month, Mr <mask> joined as Adviser (Culture) to the Chief Minister of Bihar, with the rank of

Cabinet Minister. With effect from June 2014, he was a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) until July 2016. He was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, Committee on Government Assurances, and Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.He was also been nominated to the Samsad (Court) of the Visva Bharati University, West Bengal, and the Court of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Mr. <mask> lives in Delhi. Bibliography

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As a sequel to The Great Indian Middle Class in 1998, he, in association with journalist Renuka Khandekar, published Maximize Your Life: An Action Plan for the Indian Middle Class (Viking 2000). His 2004 Being Indian was published by William Heinemann, in the United Kingdom, as Being Indian: Inside the Real India in March 2005. Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker has translated and published in various Indian languages. Translations
 Selected Poems: Kaifi Azmi (Viking/Penguin 2001) is the English translation of the Urdu poems of Kaifi Azmi. 21 Poems (Viking/Penguin), a translation in English of the Hindi poems of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then Prime Minister of India, was published in December 2001.Selected Poems: Gulzar (Penguin) a translated collection of the poems of Gulzar into English, one of India's best-known poets, came out in April 2008. Neglected Poems, <mask> K<mask>'s second volume of the English translations of Gulzar's poems was launched at the Jaipur Literary Festival in January 2012. Green Poems: Gulzar, (Penguin, 2014) <mask> K<mask>'s third volume of the English translation of Gulzar's poems. Suspected Poems: Gulzar, (Penguin, 2017) <mask> K<mask>'s fourth volume of the English translation of Gulzar's poems. Awards
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<mask>, OD (born 5 August 1972) is a Jamaican former professional footballer. He is the former head coach of Jamaica national football team. Club career

<mask> attended St. James High School in Montego Bay, Jamaica. During his late teens, he worked as a Baked Goods delivery assistant with National Continental Foods, now National Baking Company, in Montego Bay before moving on to play football in the Jamaica National Premiere League. By default, he left his job at National Continental foods after the salesperson he worked for was terminated for stabbing a defenseless office employee in early 1992. As a very skillful and creative for a player despite his tall frame, he started his club career at Montego Bay Boys Club, and has since played for Violet Kickers and Seba United in his native Jamaica. He was signed on a free by English league side Hull City following a one-week trial with the club, where he played together with compatriot Ian Goodison, until an accident in Jamaica cut short his Hull career.<mask> made his debut in an F.A. Cup tie against Macclesfield. On his league debut, away at Rochdale, <mask> scored a league debut goal. During his 77 games for Hull, he became something of a fan favourite during a relatively unhappy time for the club; who were lurking in the basement of the English Football League, struggling with financial insecurities. Scottish team Livingston acquired his services in 2003, and in June 2004 he signed for Tranmere Rovers. He had his contract terminated in January 2006 by mutual consent. He returned to Jamaica to become player/coach for his former team Seba United.International career
<mask> made his debut for Jamaica in a November 1993 friendly match against the United States, coming on as a late substitute for Hector Wright. <mask> earned 105 official international caps and scored 24 goals for the Jamaica national team. He was a key member of the Reggae Boyz' squad during the second half of the 1990s, playing as a major catalyst for the Jamaicans as they advanced to their first and only World Cup in 1998. Although Jamaica was eliminated in the first round, <mask> scored two goals in Jamaica's only win of the competition, a 2–1 victory against Japan. In that same year he was named Caribbean Footballer of the Year. His last international match was also against the United States, a 1–1 away draw on 17 November 2004 during 2006 World Cup qualification in which he was substituted for Jason Euell in the 72nd minute. Managerial career

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When <mask> returned to Seba United in 2006, he returned as both a player and a coach.Jamaica
In November 2007, he was brought on as interim manager of the Jamaica national team after the firing of former manager Bora Milutinović. Jamaica won both games, friendlies against El Salvador and Guatemala, under his watch. He was then retained as an assistant under new coach Renê Simões. Simões lasted nine months as manager due to poor play in the third round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers, and upon his release on 11 September 2008, he was again appointed interim manager until newly appointed manager John Barnes would be available in November. As interim manager in October 2008, <mask> guided the Reggae Boyz to back-to-back 1–0 wins against Mexico and Honduras that gained him tremendous support as a manager and put the Jamaicans into range for advancement with one game remaining in semifinal round group play. He again took the reins of the national team when John Barnes left the position in June 2009, to take up a management job at <mask>'s former club Tranmere Rovers in the English League. <mask>'s team struggled during the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup and were eliminated in the first round.As a part of the national team rebuilding efforts which started in August 2009, he led the squad to three draws and one win to end 2009. In December 2010, he led Jamaica to the 2010 Digicel Cup title. After qualifying Jamaica for the CONCACAF Hexagonal final round in 2012, <mask> resigned as head coach in June 2013. From December 2014 through February 2015, he served as Jamaica national u20 coach. In September 2016, <mask> was named interim head coach of Jamaica In May 2018, <mask> signed a four-year contract with the JFF. On 9 December 2021, <mask> was dismissed as senior national team head coach. by the JFF.Personal life
<mask> was injured in a car accident that led to the death of Reggae Boyz' teammate Stephen Malcolm. After the accident he was charged with manslaughter, of which he was later acquitted. In November 2013, <mask>'s 14-year-old son, Jouvhaine, died after being struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle. <mask>'s second son Gianni is said to be his twin because they look exactly alike and he is as skilful and talented as his father in his prime. Career statistics

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 Caribbean Footballer of the Year: 1998

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title: Stuart Ashen

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<mask> (born 16 December 1976), commonly known by his online alias Ashens ( ), is a British comedian, critic, animator, actor, author, producer and online reviewer of various products; his reviews usually include toys, video games and food. , his main YouTube channel has garnered over 1.55 million subscribers. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Heartsease Estate, Norwich and attended Heartsease High School. He previously worked for PC World and Norwich Union. His mother, Pauline, died of cancer when he was eight years old. YouTube

Ashens has been reviewing food and various products in a distinctive style on YouTube since 2006. The items he humorously reviews are often of low quality (most notably from Poundland), or are poor knockoffs of well-received or well-known products, which he refers to as "".He frequently collaborates with his friend and fellow YouTube vlogger Barry Lewis, and in the mid-2010s had a podcast and YouTube channel with him, both called Barshens. , Ashen has produced 880 videos, has 1.55 million subscribers to his primary YouTube channel Ashens and over 518 million video views. His secondary channel, used mainly for DVD extra-style clips, along with an annual look with Daniel Hardcastle at a series of Advent calendars throughout December, has over 322,000 subscribers and over 54 million video views. In addition to his own channels he has also produced videos for other YouTube channels, which included "The Multiverse", a geek-themed channel controlled by ChannelFlip. In 2013, Ashen, along with Emma Blackery, Dan Howell (Daniel Howell) and Phil Lester (AmazingPhil), starred as a contestant in a remake of the 1980s TV show Knightmare during the YouTube Geek Week event. Television
Ashen made his first television appearance on a 2008 episode of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, where he played a cameo role as Mr. Noseybonk, a character from the 80s BBC children's show Jigsaw. Ashen guest starred on The Armstrong & Miller Show for their "The Node" segment in October 2009.In early 2009, Ashen also released a very limited edition DVD anthology dubbed Ashenthology, containing a selection of his early videos, as well as some unseen videos and animations, some of these videos were later released on his second YouTube Account; extraashens. In 2010, Ashen created the series Ashen's Tech Dump for BBC Online Comedy. In 2011, Ashen co-starred alongside Karen Hayley in another BBC Online Comedy series Back Space. The next year, he starred as himself in The Proxy, a sci-fi webseries produced by ChannelFlip in partnership with Dell Alienware. The series took eight days to film, consists of 10 episodes and won a Marketing Week "Engage Award" in the "Gaming and Entertainment" section. Film

Ashens and the Quest for the GameChild

Ashen wrote and starred in Ashens and the Quest for the GameChild, a feature film released in August 2013, for YouTube's "Geek Week". The film also stars Warwick Davis and Robert Llewellyn, and was produced by the multi-channel network ChannelFlip, in association with The Multiverse.The film was partially paid for through crowdfunding website Indiegogo with contributions totalling  at the end of the month, which comprised 41% of the  budget. it has been viewed over a million times on YouTube. A remastered and slightly extended edition of the movie was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 14 July 2014. On 2 July 2018, the full film was released on his YouTube channel. Ashens and the Polybius Heist
In 2016, Ashen confirmed a sequel to Ashens and the Quest for the GameChild at a fan screening. In July 2018 Ashen created another Indiegogo campaign for the sequel titled, Ashens and the Polybius Heist. By the time funding was closed, the project earned over  from over 4,000 backers.On 9 May 2019 Ashen announced the principal photography was wrapped. On 5 May 2020 it was announced on the official Twitter account for the film, that The Gaming Muso; a fellow Youtuber, and musician would be performing the opening theme tune for the film. On 9 October 2020 Ashen announced on Twitter that the film is available for preorder, and was released on 19 November 2020 on iTunes, YouTube Movies, Amazon and Vimeo. The reveal trailer/teaser was uploaded on his YouTube channel on 14 October 2020. Published works
In November 2015 Ashen released the book Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, a collection of textual reviews of poor retro games, released through the Unbound crowdfunding platform. The book reached its funding target in 12 hours. On 24 February 2017 Ashen announced a sequel to Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, titled Attack of the Flickering Skeletons: More Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, again through Unbound, was released on 2 November 2017.Ashen released the book Fifty-Thousand Shades of Grey on 23 September 2012; it parodies the popular erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. The title is literal, as the book simply consists of the phrase "Shades of Grey" repeated 50,000 times. A 25-part audiobook of the parody was recorded and released on YouTube. Personal life
, Ashen lives in his hometown of Norwich. He has a doctorate in psychology, but claims to have never professionally worked in the field. In addition to his YouTube channel, Ashen has maintained an active public Twitter presence for years, where he posts about various subjects ranging from his announcements for his YouTube channel to personal thoughts, while his personal website has been inactive since 2016. Bibliography

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Television

Film

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1976 births
21st-century British comedians
21st-century English male actors
Actors from Norwich
British Internet celebrities
British animated film directors
Comedy YouTubers
Comedy-related YouTube channels
English YouTubers
English animators
English critics
English male comedians
Entertainment-related YouTube channels
Living people
Male YouTubers
Media personalities from Norwich

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