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<mask> () (born May 21, 1984) better known as <mask>, is a Swedish-Persian actor, music therapist, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and philanthropist living in Los Angeles, California. He won the Jury Prize award at the 2017 Cannes International Film Festival Entr'2 Marches for his leading role in motion picture Love is Blind, portraying the visually-impaired Italian American Giovanni. Love is Blind also won an award for disability awareness and was screened at Palais des Festival et des Congrès which is the most famous movie exhibition in the world. <mask> was also named as a Judge in the panel of the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Cannes Film Festival International Entr'2 Marches He was the lead actor in Children's Hospital Los Angeles production Healthcare in the Cloud, which premiered at the 2018 Society of Camera Operators Lifetime Achievement Awards, raising over $8 million for children's vision health. He portrayed as the manic depressed French-American painter named Vincent, in 2017 European Cinematography Award-winning drama motion picture Camelia. He also received another international claim via his outstanding and comedic role as Cadiz in the  Just Cause 4 commercials for Square Enix, PlayStation and Xbox, as well as his lead role in the international hit music video "Hurt People" performed by international artists Aloe Blacc and Gryffin which reached over 1 million views on VEVO and YouTube. <mask> has also been a guest-star on the Steve Harvey show on NBCUniversal, as well as The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS.His commercial acting credits include giant brands such as Google, PlayStation, BMW, Puma, MGM Grand, Mercedes-Benz, Prada, Facebook, Hewlett Packard,  KIA, Ford, Samsung, Disney, NBA and Guitar Center to name a few. He was also nominated for Best lead male actor in comedy film Villa, a 2017 Official Selection at Premio Tortoreto alla Cultura in Italy, AM Film Festival in Egypt and International Festival of Short Films on Culture & Tourism, India. <mask> <mask>'s National TV breakthrough started when he was 17 years old, participating on Sikta Mot Stjärnorna (Aiming at the Stars), a national talent show program televised on TV4 (Sweden). organized by FremantleMedia (American Idol). After two auditions where 4000 participated, he became one of the 45 to enter the show acting and singing "Hero" (by Enrique Iglesias) live on national television, winning the second place award. He won the Jury Prize for Best Short Screenplay for his screenplay Bachata at the 2021 New York Movie Awards, 2021. He won the Best Drama Short Screenplay award at 2021 Austin After Dark Film Festival  and at the 2021 CFIFF Changing Face International Film Festival in Australia.His music credits include music written, sang and released on Fox TV shows Bones and The Goodwin Games  as well Cannes Film Festival Entr'2 Marches winning film Love is Blind  and Crown Prince of Heaven. According to MTV.com, he is also listed as one of the few multilingual actors, musicians and music therapists outside of Shiraz. He is also known to be the first Persian to introduce Music Therapy to the Persian population, where music is used to help increase quality of life for individuals with psychological and physical deficits. He is also being a philanthropist contributing to the special needs and disability communities through arts, film and music therapy. Acting, TV and Commercials

<mask> <mask>'s National TV breakthrough started when he was 17 years old, participating on Sikta Mot Stjärnorna (Aiming at the Stars), a national talent show program televised on TV4 (Sweden). organized by FremantleMedia (American Idol). After two auditions where 4000 participated, he became one of the 45 to enter the show acting and singing "Hero" (by Enrique Iglesias) live on national television, winning the second place award.His acting career blossomed through a silver lining leading to international awards at Film Festivals in Cannes, Los Angeles and Belgium. He took on the acting career after a car accident where he suffered from depression and pain. He attended acting workshops part of his rehabilitation. His passion for acting grew as he auditioned for the role of a blind man in motion picture Love is Blind, a population which he had been working for since he was 16 years old within healthcare and music therapy. <mask> <mask> won the Jury Prize award at the 2017 Cannes International Film Festival Entr'2 Marches for his leading role in motion picture Love is Blind, portraying visually-impaired Italian-American Giovanni. Love is Blind also won an award for disability awareness and was screened at Palais des Festival et des Congrès. The film also received an official selection and nominated as the best short film at Hollywood Screening Film Festival and WE Care Film Festival in India, becoming a worldwide success for promoting disability awareness.<mask> <mask> did also compose the Official film soundtrack for Love is Blind <mask> <mask> was also named as a Judge at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival International Entr'2 Marches. <mask> <mask> then continued giving back to the disability community through film as he also starred as the lead actor in Children's Hospital Los Angeles production Healthcare in the Cloud, which raised over $8 million for children's vision health and pr. Healthcare in the Cloud premiered at 2018 Society of Camera Operators Lifetime Achievement Awards. With <mask> <mask>'s experience of working with population with mental health disorders, he took on the leading role of manic depressed French-American painter, Vincent, in motion picture Camelia, that won the 2017 European Cinematography Award. He also received another international claim via his outstanding and comedic role as Cadiz in Just Cause 4 commercials for Square Enix PlayStation and Xbox, as well as his lead role in the international hit music video "Hurt People" performed by international artists Aloe Blacc and Gryffin which reached over 1 million views on VEVO and YouTube. He portrayed as Randy Rigatoni, a Guinness World Record Judge in Oliver Tree's attempt to ride the biggest scooter in the world, with the video becoming top 6 trending videos on YouTube with over 1.2 million views within a day. <mask> <mask> has also been a guest-star on the Steve Harvey show on NBCUniversal, as well as The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS.He was also the lead actor in comedy film Villa, a 2017 Official Selection at Premio Tortoreto alla Cultura, Italy and International Festival of Short Films on Culture & Tourism, India. <mask> <mask> also composed the soundtrack for Love is Blind as well as being the poster and art director. His other outstanding and comedic international role was as Cadiz in Just Cause 4 commercials for Square Enix, PlayStation and Xbox. He also acted as the lead actor in comedy film Villa, an Official Selection in 2017 IFFC International Film Festival in India. Commercials include: Disney, Kia, BMW, TESLA, MGM GRAND, Cadillac, HP, Samsung, NBA, Vivo Phone China, Guitar Center, Independence Day Resurgence, Westin Hotels, Clorox, El Vato, Los Defensores etc. Awards and nominations

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<mask> <mask>'s music has been featured on several TV Shows, films and video games. His song "She Wants to Fly" (feat.Levi Whalen) was featured on Fox TV show Bones on May 12, 2014. The song was originally written for Freedom in Iran during the 2009 Presidential Elections and has previously been featured on the soundtrack of Cannes Film Festival movie Crown Prince of Heaven in 2010. It has also been broadcast on major TV networks around the world such as Peace Day Television show which has featured world figures Dalai Lama, Bono, U2, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie etc. His dance-pop song "Never Be Lonely" (feat. Levi Whalen) was on June 3, 2013, featured on Fox TV show The Goodwin Games. "Never Be Lonely" is also featured as the dance track for the web video game Good Game Disco made by Goodgame Studios. He also composed the Official Film Soundtrack for Love Is Blind, which won the Jury Prize at 2017 Cannes International Film Festival Entr'2 Marches, as well as being the Official Selection for the 2017 WE Care Film Festival, India and nominated as Best Short in 2017 Hollywood Screening Festival.His song "Paradise" (feat. Levi Whalen) was on May 1, 2015, voted as #1 song at top 100 Indie Dance/Disco chart on Spinnin' Records Talent Pool. The song was also voted as number 1 song at March top 10 House dance chart on House Charts.com

His pop music with his cultural musical blend of Eurodance, World Rhythms and Electronica. <mask> <mask> is also known for writing and performing his works for Freedom, Human Rights and Health foundations with all music & lyrics written by him. His music is multilingual, which includes songs released in English, Spanish, Italian and Swedish. <mask> <mask> joins Andrea Bocelli, The Beatles and Elvis Presley for releasing Consuelo Velázquez famous song "Bésame Mucho", via Shiraz Records, which makes it the first Duo/Latin house version in history, produced by Levi Whalen and co-sung with singer Jacqueline Padilla. On April 21, 2013, <mask> <mask> became the first artist to release his Pop Electronic and Progressive House rendition of world-famous Italian song "Caro Mio Ben" featuring UK based producer Kryphon."Caro Mio Ben" was written by Italian composer Giuseppe Giordani, and made famous by Luciano Pavarotti. He is the executive producer of Caro Mio Ben music video which had world premiere on MTV.com on August 9, 2013. He has also co-directed, produced, and edited two of his music videos "100 Miles" and "Heaven Knows", which have been broadcast through mainstream medium giants such as MTV UK and featured at the Laemmie Theaters Santa Monica SMC Film Festival. On January 14, 2012, <mask> <mask> was signed by music publishing company Winogradsky/Sobel to have his music pitched for television, film and video games etc. becoming the first artist in the company representing Pop/Euro-Dance and World Music genre

<mask> <mask>'s single "Miracle" (feat Si Ana) released February 2012 via Royalty Recordings was featured for ten weeks on world's largest dance music store Beatport as Top Staff Pick in the pop/rock category. <mask> Nami's music is also listed on FairShareMusic, with profits going to human rights and health support organizations such as Red Cross, War Child, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, Amnesty International, Cancer Care & Research etc. Music therapy
According to MTV.com, <mask> <mask> is also known for being the first Iranian to introduce music therapy to the Iranian population, where music is used to help increase quality of life for individuals with psychological and physical deficits.That includes his several TV appearances on giant Iranian media television stations such as IRAN TV, Radio 670am KIRN Los Angeles with journalist, author Homa Sarshar, Mardoom TV and TinTV and invitations to speak at UCLA. He has been awarded several scholarships and awards for his music therapy practice and accomplishments. His recent awards include:The 2014 James R Simpson Merit Scholarship awarded by President Dianne Harrison of California State University, Northridge, The Royal Swedish Music Academy Award in 2013 and the Bayramian Art Scholarship Award in 2012 and 2013, for his music therapy studies and accomplishments. <mask> <mask> does also spend his time making motivational and guest speaking appearances. Speeches include Music Therapy, the positive influence of music on children and his music and cultural journey from Iran to Sweden to Los Angeles. His speeches also include leading instrumental music improvisation and therapeutic music instrumentation with the audience. Invitations include Stand Up to Cancer at UCLA, Music Entrepreneurship classes at California State University, Northridge, Music For Your Heart Foundation in Miami, Children's Boosh Foundation in Los Angeles, International Children Foundation in Santa Barbara, Cottage Health System in Santa Barbara and California State University, Channel Islands.<mask> <mask> is also the author of "The Effects of Music Therapy on Movement and Vocalization in Adult Male with Intellectual Disability and Cerebral Palsy: A Case Study and Treatment Plan", a clinical case study on how music therapy interventions on individuals with disabilities is so effective that it can help increase their speech and improve physical skills, which in turn can assist individuals with disabilities to communicate within their community more clearly and making their inclusion easier. He emphasizes on how vocalization aids in the development of functional communication skills, helping individuals with Intellectual Disabilities communicate their specific needs, wants, and discomforts within the community, which will help increase their personal independence and quality of life. Guest appearances and performances

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<mask> <mask> graduated with honors on May 19, 2014, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Therapy from California State University, Northridge. He graduated with honors, Music A.A from Santa Monica College and a Music and Media Composing degree from ITM Sweden. Philanthropy
<mask> <mask> Co-Founded Non-Profit Organization Opportunitree to help the community, children, elderly and individuals with disabilities. He spends a lot of time doing humanitarian work, raising awareness for human rights and health support organizations. He has been involved and contributed to charities such as:Red Cross, War Child, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, Amnesty, WWF, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and ActionAid.He is also active bringing the importance of Music, Music Therapy to the community, children, elderly and individuals with disabilities. <mask> <mask>'s major contribution was by sharing disability awareness through of Drama film, Love Is Blind. <mask> <mask> portrayed the lead blind actor as well as composing the official film soundtrack. The film was awarded the 2017 Jury Prize award at Cannes International Film Festival Entr'2 Marches, as well as official selection at WE Care Film Festival, India. <mask> <mask>'s song She Wants To Fly was also written for Freedom and Human Rights in Iran, which has been featured at Peaceday TV and Cannes Film Festival motion picture Crown Prince of Heaven. He has also been a guest artist at Charities such as: Children's Boosh Foundation at Taglyan Place, Los Angeles, Music for your Heart Foundation in Miami, Stand Up 2 Cancer at UCLA, International Children Foundation in Santa Barbara to name a few. His music is also listed on FairShareMusic, with profits going to human rights and health support organizations.Books
<mask> <mask>, the author of "The Effects of Music Therapy on Movement and Vocalization in Adult Male with Intellectual Disability and Cerebral Palsy: A Case Study and Treatment Plan", where he shows a clinical case study on how music therapy interventions on individuals with disabilities is so effective that it can help increase their speech and improve physical skills, which in turn can assist individuals with disabilities to communicate within their community more clearly and making their inclusion easier. He emphasizes on how vocalization aids in the development of functional communication skills. It also helps individuals with Intellectual Disabilities communicate their specific needs, wants, and wants, and discomforts within the community. Improving gross motor skills would help individuals to increase their personal independence, not only at the day care center but also in the community. In general, both vocalization and gross motors skill development helps to improve the self-help skills of individuals with disabilities, which in-turn increases quality of life. - Clinical Case Studies [22]

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As a teenager, <mask> <mask> played as a Shooting guard (SG) in the team Brahe Basket in Sweden. He accomplished receiving 2 Most Valuable Player Awards as the best player in Jönköping during the 1995/1996 and 1996/1997 season and 1 Most Valuable Player Award as the best player of Southern Sweden during the Swedish Championship Basketball Competition in 1997/1998 season.References

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title: John Perkins (author)

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<mask> (born January 28, 1945) is an American author. His best known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), in which <mask> claims to have played a role in an alleged process of economic colonization of Third World countries on behalf of what he portrays as a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States government. The book's claims were met with skepticism and rebuttal by some, but spent more than 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has been published in at least 32 languages, and is used in many college and university programs. <mask> has also written about mystical aspects of indigenous cultures, including shamanism. Biography
<mask> graduated from the Tilton School in 1963. He subsequently attended Middlebury College for two years before dropping out. He later earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Boston University in 1968.He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador from 1968 to 1970. He spent the 1970s working for the Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main; he claims to have been screened for this job by the National Security Agency (NSA) and subsequently hired by Einar Greve, a member of the firm (alleged by <mask> to have been acting as an NSA liaison, a claim that Greve has denied). As Chief Economist at Chas. T. Main, <mask> and his staff advised the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He worked directly with heads of state and CEOs of major companies. <mask>'s time at Chas T. Main provides the basis for his subsequent published claims that, as an "economic hit man", he was charged with inducing developing countries to borrow large amounts of money, designated to pay for questionable infrastructure investments, but ultimately with a view to making the debt-laden countries more dependent, economically and politically, upon the West.He wrote:

In the 1980s <mask> left Main and founded and directed an independent energy company. In the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, <mask> claims that his company was successful due to 'coincidences' orchestrated by those appreciative of his silence about the work he says he did as an economic hit man. <mask> is a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to promoting environmentally sustainable and socially just societies. He has lectured at Harvard, Oxford, and more than 50 universities around the world, and is the author of eight books on global economics and indigenous cultures. He has been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, CNBC, NPR, A&E, the History Channel, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Der Spiegel, and many other publications, as well as in numerous documentaries. He was awarded the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace 2012, and Rainforest Action Network Challenging Business As Usual Award, 2006. <mask>'s story is the main theme in part II of the movie Zeitgeist: Addendum, released in October 2008.In that same year, he appeared in the film, The End of Poverty?. His life as an economic hit man is detailed in the full-length movie, Apology of an Economic Hit Man. He also appears in the films The Weight of Chains by Boris Malagurski, released in December 2010, Let's Make Money (in German) by the Austrian director Erwin Wagenhofer, released October 2008, and Four Horsemen by Ross Ashcroft, released in 2012. Controversy
Sebastian Mallaby, economics columnist of the Washington Post, reacted sharply to <mask>' book: describing him as "a conspiracy theorist, a vainglorious peddler of nonsense, and yet his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is a runaway bestseller." Mallaby, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, holds that <mask>' conception of international finance is "largely a dream" and that his "basic contentions are flat wrong." As an example, Mallaby states that Indonesia reduced its infant mortality and illiteracy rates by two-thirds after economists persuaded its leaders to borrow money in 1970. Articles in the New York Times and Boston magazine, as well as a press release issued by the United States Department of State, have referred to a lack of documentary or testimonial evidence to corroborate the claim that the NSA was involved in his hiring by Chas T. Main.After an extensive investigation, the New York Times concluded that "the arc of Mr. <mask>'s career seems to be described accurately," although they did not find evidence to support "some of his fancier claims," including those involving the NSA. In a 2006 statement, a State Department release claims that much of the book "appears to be a total fabrication... the National Security Agency is a cryptological (codemaking and codebreaking) organization, not an economic organization... Neither of [its] missions anything remotely resembling placing economists at private companies in order to increase the debt of foreign countries." <mask> responds that Wikileaks and Edward Snowden documents clearly demonstrated that the NSA is involved in a wide range of activities that have nothing to do with codemaking and codebreaking and that often serve to undermine other countries and their leaders. The State Department also claims that <mask> has alleged U.S. Government complicity in "the assassinations of President <mask>. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., former Beatle <mask>, and several unnamed U.S. senators who had died in plane crashes." Questioned in a recorded interview about the State Department claims on the assassinations, <mask> replied, "No, I've never alleged that. I probably opened a question as to whether it might have been that way."There is no mention in any of his books about U.S. Government complicity in these assassinations. <mask>, however, does allege that two of his clients, President Jaime Roldós Aguilera of Ecuador and Omar Torrijos of Panama, had been assassinated and the US government had been involved, adding "I know. I was there." Bibliography
 Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear into Action to Change Your Life and the World (2020), Berrett-Koehler Publishers; . The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman (2016), Berrett-Koehler Publishers; . (2008)
Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
Let's Make Money (2008)
Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama (2009)
The Weight of Chains (2010)
Four Horsemen (film) (2012)
American Empire (2012)
Money & Life (2012)
Project Censored the Movie (2013)
Gold Fever (2013)
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (2013)

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touchingthejaguarbook.com – Touching The Jaguar book website
 johnperkins.org <mask> Official Web Site

<mask>: The Shadow World of the Economic Hitman, March 2016 interview from peak prosperity.com
Confessions of Economic Hit Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oARBdBtGenM&t=2s)(A 2007 speech by <mask>, summarizing the basic points of his book, given at the Veterans for Peace National Convention). 1945 births
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title: Karen Fann

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<mask> (born September 1, 1954) is a Republican member of the Arizona Senate, representing Arizona Legislative District 1. Fann became President of the Arizona Senate in 2019. After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and Donald Trump and other Republicans made false claims of electoral fraud, Fann ordered an audit of the election results in Maricopa County. The audit was widely seen as an illegitimate "effort to undermine valid election results". Fann announced on November 2021 that she would not run for re-election when her current term ends in January 2023. Career
Fann is the second female Senate President in the history of Arizona. She was first elected in November 2016 to represent Legislative District 1, which covers 8,000 square miles throughout Yavapai County and portions of Maricopa County.She previously served this district from 2011 to 2016 as a State Representative. Fann moved to Prescott at the age of four and has been a life-long Republican. She continues to serve as a precinct committeeman and is a member of the Rotary International and Elks. She currently serves as the Vice-Chair of both the Finance Committee and the Transportation and Technology Committee and as a member of the Natural Resources, Energy and Water Committee. Fann's previous experience includes:
2019–2020 Arizona Senate Chairman, Rules;
2002–2009 Town of Chino Valley Mayor and Councilman;
2007–2009 BQAZ Statewide Transportation Board;
2005–2009 Chairman and Board, Central Yavapai Metropolitan Planning Organization (CYMPO);
2006–2009 Chairman and Board, Upper Verde River Watershed Protection Coalition;
2005–2008 Governors Rural Water Legislative Study Committee;
2002–2007 and 1992–1994 Northern Council of Governments (NACOG);
1992–1995 Prescott City Mayor Pro Tem and Councilman. 2020 Presidential Election Audit

In April 2021, Fann ordered an audit of the election results in Maricopa County, hiring a firm that was founded by a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist who promoted false claims of fraud. Under Fann, the Republican-controlled Senate invoked claims of fraud and used its subpoena power to demand the county turn over all its 2.1 million ballots and related presidential election materials to the Senate.In response, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors provided a massive volume of documents to the Senate, but Republican senators persisted in making fraud claims despite those having been rejected by the Arizona Supreme Court and other courts. Multiple previous checks, including tests of ballot tabulating machines and software both before and after the election, as well as a hand count of a ballot sample, all confirmed the county properly administered the election. When it refused, Fann sought a resolution to hold the Maricopa County Board in contempt, which failed when Republican Paul Boyer resisted Fann's pressure to change his vote and joined all Democrats in opposition. Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo, the only Democrat on the five-member county board, expressed concern that the efforts of state senate Republicans to question the election outcome could cause violence. The Arizona Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs, criticized the audit for lax chain of custody procedures, calling it "a significant departure from standard best practices." After her criticism of its procedures resulted in her receiving death threats, the Arizona Department of Public Safety assigned a security detail to guard Hobbs and her staff. Fann made a false allegation, later amplified by Trump in a May 15 post on his blog, that Maricopa County election officials deleted the voter database after the election.Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican who oversees elections, tweeted that Trump's post was "unhinged", noting he was looking at the database on his computer at that moment. Richer added, "We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer." The auditors later acknowledged the database had not been deleted. A Colorado expert, working for Hobbs' office, cited haphazard procedures and the absence of effective security characterized the audit process. Despite the resistance and the temporary loss of the arena site it used, Fann said the audit will continue. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a letter to Fann that expressed concerns that the audit could violate federal laws regarding ballot custody and voter intimidation. In response to the DOJ letter and the public backlash, Fann scrapped plans to canvass voters at their home addresses to confirm their voter registration information.The Maricopa County Board, of which four of five members are Republicans, sharply rebutted Fann's claims in a 12-page letter. The board also urged Fann to close the audit, which she refused. On May 17, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors held a hearing to dispute her allegations of wrongdoing by county officials. Republican board chairman Jack Sellers stated that the allegations were actually due to the incompetence of the auditors and accused Fann of an "attempt at legitimatizing a grift disguised as an audit." After consulting with the United States Department of Homeland Security and the Election Assistance Commission about the machines used to tabulate the ballots that were turned over in response to the Senate subpoena, Hobbs concluded that the equipment had been compromised and became impossible for the county alone to recertify for future use. While they were in the care and custody of the Senate's contractors, the chain of custody procedures that are required to guarantee their post-audit integrity were not maintained, causing an inability to use them without lessor confirmation that their performance could be recertified. The county spent over $20,000 to lease voting machines in order to conduct two local elections while the contractor possessed those that had been subpoenaed, and the costs of recertifying the surrendered machines upon their return would be in the six-figure range.As a result of the audit, Maricopa County had to spend nearly $3 million to replace voting equipment because the equipment had been tainted by the company auditing the equipment. A preliminary report on the results of the audit, despite the expenditure of some six million dollars raised from Trump supporters determined to overturn the election, found no evidence of fraud. References

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title: Anton Graff

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<mask> (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz. Life and work

<mask> was born as the seventh child of the craftsman <mask> and <mask> née Koller at Untertorgasse 8 in Winterthur, Switzerland (the house does not exist anymore). In 1753 Graff started studying painting at the art school of Johann Ulrich Schellenberg in Winterthur. After three years he left Winterthur for Augsburg. There he worked with the etcher Johann Jakob Haid.However, only one year later he was forced to leave Augsburg. He was too successful. The members of the local painters guild feared his competition. With a letter of recommendation from Johann Jakob Haid, he moved to Ansbach where he found employment with the court painter Leonhard Schneider until 1759. Graff travelled frequently to Munich to study the paintings in the different collections. In 1759 he went back to Augsburg and later moved to Regensburg. In 1765 he went back to Winterthur and Zurich.It was there where he received an invitation from Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, the newly appointed Director of the recently established Dresden Art Academy, to apply for a post at the Dresden Art Academy. Graff hesitated to do so. He thought he was not good enough to work for the princely court of Saxony. To give Hagedorn an impression of his talent he sent a self-portrait to Dresden. The self-portrait arrived on 16 January 1766, in Dresden. It was so well received that only one day later Hagedorn worked out <mask>'s employment contract. On 7 April 1766, Graff arrived in Dresden where he was appointed court painter and teacher for portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy, a post he kept for life although he got better paid offers at other academies, among others in Berlin.In early 1788, the Prussian Minister <mask> von Heynitz made Graff the financially very attractive offer to work for the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. On 7 May 1789, Graff informed Count Camillo Marcolini, general director of the Dresden Art Academy, about this. Marcolini reacted straight away. On 20 June 1789, Graff was appointed Professor for portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy. Graff made portraits of nearly 1,000 of his contemporaries and was the leading portrait painter in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th century. Graff was also the main portrait painter of German poets between the Enlightenment and the early Romantic periods. Many of them were also his friends, like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe whom he met in Dresden in 1768.Graff was the favourite portrait painter of the German, Russian, Polish and Baltic nobility. Among others he portrayed Stanislaw Kostka Potocki. His most important clients included Catherine the Great of Russia and Frederick the Great of Prussia. His portrait of Frederick the Great is regarded as his masterpiece. The painting is exhibited at Schloss Charlottenburg. Frederick the Great never posed for Graff. However, Graff received authorization to watch Frederick at a military parade in 1781.This gave Graff the chance to study the physiognomy of the King, and was therefore the basis for his portrait. Graff was also very popular with the landed gentry, diplomats, musicians and scholars. He portrayed many of them. While painting a portrait, Graff always focused the light on the person's face. In Graff's portraits it was always the face that got the attention and the light, except when the sitter was a lady. In that case he also focused on the lady's décolleté. Graff was a master of light and shadow.His role model in this context was Ján Kupecký whose works he studied in the collections of Ansbach. In comparison with the calmness of the ladies the gentlemen in his portraits often appear serious and reserved. He also knew how to paint dresses and draperies of different materials and colours in a natural way. His role model in this field was the French court painter Hyacinthe Rigaud. In 1765/66 Graff portrayed Elisabeth Sulzer in a blue silk dress with silver laces and fur collar and borders. In his early years, Graff did hardly ever paint any background details in his portraits. He usually kept the background monochrome.However, in his later years he also paid more attention to the background. Usually he painted the sitter in outdoor surroundings, as was the fashion at that time in England. The price for a portrait by Graff was calculated by size and details of the sitter's clothes. That it was not always easy for Graff to portrait the famous of the time shows the remark he made while painting Friedrich Schiller: "He cannot sit still." Graff was much in demand. He could live a comfortable life with his income. In 1769 Graff met Philipp Erasmus Reich, a well known bookseller and publisher in Leipzig.Reich became a good friend of Graff. He engaged him to portrait his scholar friends. In September 1771, Graff travelled to Berlin and portrayed Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in Johann Georg Sulzer's apartment. Lessing's comment on his portrait was: "Do I really look that terribly nice?" In Berlin Graff also portrayed Moses Mendelssohn and Johann Georg Sulzer, his future father-in-law. In his later years Graff turned to painting landscapes and developed further a sparkling manner of painting that anticipated Impressionism. Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich were influenced by his work.Graff was a sociable person. He cultivated friendships with many of his sitters, business partners and colleagues such as the Polish engraver Daniel Chodowiecki, the Swiss painters Salomon Gessner and Adrian Zingg and the Saxon engraver Johann Friedrich Bause. Bause reproduced many of Graff's portraits as engravings. This made Graff's name and his artworks also well known within the general public. Graff travelled quite often to Berlin. His father-in-law, Johann Georg Sulzer, introduced him to members of the Prussian court. He became very popular with the Prussian nobility and they were good customers of him.He never forgot how well he was received within the Prussian society. In 1778 he closed the short autobiography with the sentence: "Berlin habe ich viel zu verdanken" (I owe Berlin much). On 16 October 1771, <mask> married Elisabetha Sophie Augusta Sulzer, called "Guste". Graff and his wife had 5 children. The first daughter, Johanna Catharina Henrietta, died the same year she was born in 1772. Another daughter was born in 1779 and died only a few months later. His second son, Georg, died in 1801.In 1803 <mask> underwent cataract surgery. His wife Elisabeth died in 1812. <mask> himself died of typhoid fever in the evening of 22 June 1813, at around 8pm in Dresden. He was 76 years old. He left his two surviving children, Caroline Susanne (she married the painter Karl Ludwig Kaaz, a pupil of Graff) and <mask> (he became a landscapist), a fortune of 40,000 Thaler. Graff was buried in Dresden. His tomb does not exist anymore.Graff was a prolific artist. He painted some 2,000 paintings and drawings. His paintings, especially the portraits, are much sought-after. Many of them are in museums and private collections in Switzerland (Museum Oskar Reinhart), Germany (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden), Russia (Hermitage Museum), Estonia (Kadriorg Palace, Tallinn) and Poland (National Museum, Warsaw). The portraits of gentlemen outnumber the portraits of ladies. In honour of their famous citizen the Berufsbildungsschule Winterthur (BBW) (School for Vocational Training) named their building after Graff. The "Anton-Graff-Haus".In Winterthur and Dresden there are streets named after <mask>f. 2013 jubilee exhibitions take place in the Museum Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, and in the Old National Gallery in Berlin. Gallery

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Berckenhagen, Ekhart: <mask> – Leben und Werk. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin, 1967 (catalogue raisonné)
 Marc Fehlmann und Birgit Verwiebe (Ed. ): <mask>f: Gesichter einer Epoche. (Exhibition catalogue: Museum Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur; Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.) München: Hirmer, 2013.Further reading
Johann Caspar Füssli: Joh. Caspar Füesslins Geschichte der besten Künstler in der Schweitz. Nebst ihren Bildnissen. Orell, Gessner, Füessli. Zürich, 1769–1779 (5 Bde)
Otto Waser: <mask>f 1736–1813. Huber, Frauenfeld u. Leipzig, 1926
Ernest Giddey, Fribourg (Ed. ): Préromantisme en Suisse?Editions Universitaires, 1982 (Colloques de la Société Suisse  des Sciences Humaines)
Martin Bircher u. Gisold Lammel, Zürich (Hrsg. ): Helvetien in Deutschland. Schweizer Kunst aus Residenzen deutscher Klassik 1770–1830. Zürich, Städtische Galerie zum Strauhof, 1990–91; Schwäbisch Hall, Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum, 1991
Roland Kanz: Dichter und Denker im Porträt. Spurengänge zur deutschen Porträtkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München, 1993
Jane Turner (Editor): The Dictionary of Art (34 volumes).Macmillan (London); Grove (New York), 1996

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title: Willem Berkhoff

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<mask> (Varsseveld, the Netherlands 12 June 1863 – Amsterdam, the Netherlands 12 January 1953) was a pastry chef who became the first chairman of the board of directors of the first Dutch Vocational School for Pastry Chefs, established in 1924 in Amsterdam and since 1956 named "De Berkhoff". <mask> became well-known when he presented a traditional English wedding cake to Queen Wilhelmina (1880–1962) and Prince Henry (1876–1934) on the occasion of their marriage in 1901. Henceforth, the wedding cake became standard issue in Dutch wedding festivities. His "Pâtisserie and Refreshment Room" in the Leidsestraat was a household word in and outside Amsterdam, for over seventyfive years. Training
The son of <mask> (1821–1913) and Harmina Kreeftenberg (1834–1913), <mask> belonged to a family of bakers. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were not only bread bakers, but following the custom of their time, they specialized in other products as well, such as gingerbread, sponge cake and pastry making. <mask> decided on a career as a Pastry Chef.After 1879 he began developing and enhancing his skills by starting apprenticeships with various well-known konditoreis and pâtisseries in Dresden, Zurich and Paris. For the final stage of his education, organized by himself, as a Pastry Chef, he trained at Gerstner’s in Vienna. The konditorei was considered thé top among pâtissiers and was Royal Warrant Holder of the Imperial House of Habsburg. Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat 104 en Leidsestraat 46
After having worked for some years as a shop assistant in Amsterdam, <mask> opened his own pastry shop in the Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat 104 in 1893. As Confiseur-Cuisiner, <mask> aimed at the more sophisticated pastry work. He further started his own catering business, serving lunches, dinners and suppers to private people. In 1908 he served dinner for 450 persons in the Concert Hall, for the International Congress of Woman Suffrage.In 1906 Berkhoff opened a second pastry shop in the Leidsestraat 46. The adjoining "Refreshment Room" had international stature and was widely known among the better-off classes. In 1944 the business was sold to Kees Goetheer, under whose supervision it continued until 1985 as "Berkhoff's Pâtisserie and Tearoom". Queen Wilhelmina's wedding cake

On the occasion of the marriage of Queen Wilhelmina (1880–1962) and Prince Henry (1876–1934) in 1901, <mask> took the initiative of presenting a wedding cake to the royal couple. In England in the second half of the nineteenth century, the royal wedding cake was considered as the "flagship of British pastry enterprise", but in the Netherlands of the time the custom was unknown. <mask>´s presentation of a wedding cake to the royal couple gained him ánd the craft of Pâtissier fame. The wedding cake for the marriage of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1937, was made by J. Jongert, teacher at the NADPC Vocational School for Pastry Chefs "De Berkhoff".NADPC Vocational School for Pastry Chefs "De Berkhoff"
As a member of the National Association of Dutch Pastry Chefs (NADPC) established in 1885 in Amsterdam, <mask> committed himself to the organization of an apprentice system for future pastry chefs, which had been lacking up till then. After its initial success, the in 1907 established training system and its regulations had proven to be substandard. Meanwhile, the membership figure of the NADPC had nationwide increased sharply, so the board of directors was split into a central board of directors and a local division "Amsterdam", under the supervision of <mask>. In this quality <mask> became the driving force behind the start of a National Vocational School for Pastry Chefs in Amsterdam, the first of its kind in Europe. In 1924, the National Vocational School for Pastry Chefs, supported by grants, both from the National Government and the Amsterdam Local Council, opened its doors on Quellijnstraat 80. In this purpose-built building, students were not only taught vocationally based skills, but also Dutch and modern languages, bookkeeping, commercial arithmetic, penmanship and design. In its senior forms subjects taught, were: food science, legal knowledge, financial management and business management.The school-building also housed the historical collection of the NADPC, which consisted of literature, cookery books, menus and tools. From 1924 to 1933 <mask> would act as chairman of the school’s board of governors. After the school had moved to its present location on the Wibautstraat 220-222 in 1956, its name was changed into "De Berkhoff", in honour of its chairman. As chairman of the central board of directors of the NADPC (1927–1934), and editor of the trade journal The Pastry Shop (1935–1942), <mask> continued to play an important role in Pâtissiers circles for a long time. His efforts to achieve international cooperation among pâtissiers, were rewarded by his appointments as honorary member of the Belgian and French sister organisations. Royal Honours
 Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau (1933)

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Printed sources, Literature, Articles and Internet-publications. Algemeen Handelsblad (AH) (Amsterdam; national newspaper; 1828–1970), archived from: http://kranten.kb.nl
  Barneveld, D., The old Pastry Shop (De oude banketbakkerij) (Bussum 1968)
  Barneveld, D., `W. Berkhoff Chairman of the Central Board of Directors 1927-1934 (W. <mask>.Voorzitter Hoofdbestuur 1927-1934)´, in: The Pastry Shop: Trade Journal for Pâtissiers (De Banketbakkerij. Vakblad voor Banketbakkers) 00 (ca. 1953), pag. 0
  `<mask>, <mask>´, in: The Dutch Knighthoods. 1900-1936 (De Nederlandsche Ridderorden. 1900-1936) 9 (TDK) (Amsterdam 1937), pag. 565
  <mask>, W.(sam. ), `National Association of Dutch Pastry Chefs 50 Years (Nederlandsche Banketbakkersvereeniging 50 Jaar)´, in: The Pastry Shop: Trade Journal for Pâtissiers (De Banketbakkerij. Vakblad voor Banketbakkers) Jubilee Number (Jubileumuitgave) (1935)
  Het Nieuws van den Dag (HNVDD) (Amsterdam; local/regional newspaper 1870-1923), op website: http://kranten.kb.nl (consulted 1870-1914)
  Het Vaderland (HV) (The Hague; national newspaper; 1869–1945), archived from: http://kranten.kb.nl
  Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (NRC) (Rotterdam; national newspaper; 1844–1970), archived from: http://kranten.kb.nl
  Rijgers, G. (sam. ), `National Association of Dutch Pastry Chefs 25 Years (Nederlandsche Banketbakkersvereeniging 25 Jaar)´, in: The Pastry Shop: Trade Journal for Pâtissiers (De Banketbakkerij. Vakblad voor Banketbakkers) Jubilee Number (Jubileumuitgave) (1910)
  `Glorious meals of the past. Visiting an old school Pastry Chef (Van luisterrijke maaltijden die tot het verleden behoren.Bij een bezoek aan een banketbakker uit de oude school)´, in: Libelle 8 (1949), pag 8-9
  Wageningen, E. van, `Berkhoff´s Pastry. Sweet dreams of sugar, cream and chocolate (Banket van bakker Berkhoff. Zoete dromen van suiker, room en chocola)´, in: Our Amsterdam (Ons Amsterdam) (1993), pag. 94-97. Wageningen, E. van, `<mask>´s Pâtisserie and Tearoom 1893-1985 (Berkhoff Patisserie Tearoom 1893-1985)´, archived from: http://www.winkelstories.com/Berkhoff00.html
  Wijers, H., `Mister W. Berkhoff 80 years old (De heer W. Berkhoff 80 jaar)´, in: The Pastry Shop: Trade Journal for Pâtissiers (De Banketbakkerij. Vakblad voor Banketbakkers) 00 (1943), pag. 0
  Wijers, H., `Obituary W. <mask> (In memoriam W. Berkhoff)´, in: The Pastry Shop: Trade Journal for Pâtissiers (De Banketbakkerij.Vakblad voor Banketbakkers) 41 (1953), pag. 1
  Zeijden, A. van der, `History of the wedding cake (Geschiedenis van de bruidstaart)´, in: Tradition (Traditie) 3 (2006), archived from: http://www.albertvanderzeijden.nl/geschiedenis_van_de_bruidstaart_.htm

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title: John Fiedler

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<mask> (February 3, 1925 – June 25, 2005) was an American actor. His career lasted more than 55 years in stage, film, television and radio. Among his best-known roles are the meek, nervous, and unpretentious Juror 2 in 12 Angry Men (1957); the benign-seeming gentleman who tries to prevent the Younger family from moving into a whites-only neighbourhood in A Raisin in the Sun (1961); the voice of Piglet in Disney's Winnie the Pooh productions; Vinnie, one of Oscar's poker cronies in the film The Odd Couple (1968); and Emil Peterson, the hen-pecked milquetoast husband on The Bob Newhart Show. Early life
<mask> was born in Platteville, Wisconsin, a son of beer salesman <mask> and his wife Margaret (née Phelan). He was of German and Irish descent. His family moved to Shorewood, Wisconsin in 1930, where he graduated from Shorewood High School in 1943. He enlisted in the United States Navy and served until the end of World War II.Career

After his discharge from the Navy, <mask> began acting in Manhattan, New York City, appearing on the radio comedy The Aldrich Family as Homer Brown. He appeared on early television and played Cadet Alfie Higgins on the 1950s show Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, and he made his film debut in 12 Angry Men (1957), as Juror 2. Most of his roles were playing gentle or nervous individuals, though he appeared as the lawyer J. Noble Daggett in True Grit (1969) and in the original Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold" (1967) as Mr. Hengist, a Chief Administrator possessed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper. <mask> was in the original cast of A Raisin in the Sun as housing committee representative Lindner, a role he also played in both the 1961 film version and the 1988 TV version. He appeared in the film The Odd Couple (1968) as poker player Vinnie; he also appeared on the TV series adaptation The Odd Couple, at the invitation of his friend Jack Klugman, as the manager of a hyper-security building into which Felix and Oscar temporarily moved and as the cruel owner of a "Hollywood" dog. He also appeared in the films Harper Valley PTA (1978) and The Cannonball Run (1981). He appeared three times in a recurring role on Kolchak: The Night Stalker as morgue attendant Gordy "The Ghoul" Spangler.He also played Mr. Peterson, one of Bob's regular patients, on The Bob Newhart Show, and Mr. Dundee in an episode of the Twilight Zone, "The Night of the Meek" (1960). His many other guest appearances on TV included Columbo, Peter Gunn, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Perry Mason, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, My Favorite Martian, Bewitched, Get Smart, Star Trek, A Touch of Grace, The Rockford Files, Three’s Company, Quincy, M.E., The Golden Girls, Banacek and Cheers. He also appeared in The Munsters. <mask> worked frequently for Walt Disney Productions. His voice was heard in the Disney features Robin Hood (1973), The Rescuers (1976), The Fox and the Hound (1981), and The Emperor's New Groove (2000), and in Disneyland Records' Winnie the Pooh for President. He voiced the character Piglet for the studio's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977), The Tigger Movie (2000), Piglet's Big Movie (2003), Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005). He  appeared in Disney's live-action films Rascal (1969) and The Shaggy D.A.(1976). His last film was a voice appearance in Kronk's New Groove (2005) and in the Square Enix/Disney video game Kingdom Hearts. Fiedler was also the narrator of several McDonaldland commercials during the 1980s, including when Birdie the Early Bird learns to fly and how the Hamburglar got his stripes. <mask> died of cancer on June 25, 2005, at the age of 80, in Englewood, New Jersey, at the Lillian Booth Actors Home, a residence for retired entertainers sponsored by the Actors' Fund of America. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered on Long Island, New York. Filmography

Lust for Gold (1949) as Barber (uncredited)
12 Angry Men (1957) as Juror 2
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) as Counterman at Hot Dog Stand (uncredited)
Stage Struck (1958) as Adrian
That Kind of Woman (1959) as Eager Soldier (uncredited)
A Raisin in the Sun  (1961) as Karl Lindner
That Touch of Mink (1962) as Mr. Smith
The World of Henry Orient (1964) as Sidney
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) as Rev. Carruthers
Guns of Diablo (1965) as Ives
Girl Happy (1965) as Mr. Penchill
A Fine Madness (1966) as Daniel K. Papp
The Ballad of Josie (1967) as Simpson
Fitzwilly (1967) as Mr. Morton Dunne
The Odd Couple (1968) as Vinnie
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) as Piglet (voice)
Rascal (1969) as Cy Jenkins
True Grit (1969) as Lawyer Daggett
The Great Bank Robbery (1969) as Brother Dismas Ostracorn - Explosives
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970) as Maj. Purvis
Making It (1971) as Ames
The Out of Towners (1971) as conductor on train
Honky (1971)
Skyjacked (1972) as Robert Grandig
Deathmaster (1972) as Pop
Robin Hood (1973) as Father Sexton (voice, uncredited)
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974) as Piglet (voice)
The Fortune (1975) as Photographer
The Shaggy D.A.as Gunnar
Get Smart as KAOS agent Mr. Hercules (1967, episode "Classification: Dead") and as KAOS agent Felix (1969, episode "Age Before Duty")
Star Trek (1967, episode "Wolf in the Fold") as Administrator Hengist
Bewitched as Fergus F. Finglehoff (1967, episode "Nobody But a Frog Knows How to Live"), Mr. Beams (1969, episode "Marriage Witch's Style"), Silas Bliss Jr. (1969, episodes "Darrin the Warlock" and "Daddy Comes to Visit"), Augustus Sunshine (1970, episode "Turn on That Old Charm"), and Spengler (1971, episode "Three Men and a Witch on a Horse")
Death Valley Days (1968, episode "The Great Diamond Mines") as prospector <mask>lack
The Felony Squad (1968, episode "Man on Fire") as B.G. as Taylor
Mobile One (1975, episode "The Crusader") as Walter James
Phyllis (1975, episode "So Lonely I Could Cry") as Willis Enwright
The Lost Saucer (1975, episode "Land of the Talking Plants") as Chloro Phil
Jigsaw <mask> (1976, episode "The Executioner") as Father Damis
Ark II (1976, episode "The Cryogenic Man") as Norman Funk
Alice as Orville (1976, episode "Vera's Mortician," and 1977, episode "Mel's Happy Burger")
Three's Company (1977, episode "Jack Looks for a Job") as Morris Morris
Switch (1977, episode "Dancer") as Harry Winkler
Tabitha (1977, episode "Arrival of Nancy") as Max
The Rockford Files (1978, episode "The Competitive Edge") as James Bond
Fantasy Island as Mortimer Fox (1978, episode "Trouble, My Lovely/The Common Man") and "Ace" Smith (1978, episode "Carnival/The Vaudevillians")
Quincy, M.E. as Howard Clausen (1978, episode "Matters of Life and Death") and Mr. Weiss (1979, episode "For the Benefit of My Patients")
Vega$ (1979, episode "Demand and Supply") as S.J.

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title: Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

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<mask> (; 16 December 1922 – 20 April 2019) was an Iranian artist and a collector of traditional folk art. She is noted for having been one of the most prominent Iranian artists of the contemporary period, and she was the first artist to achieve an artistic practice that weds the geometric patterns and cut-glass mosaic techniques (Āina-kāri) of her Iranian heritage with the rhythms of modern Western geometric abstraction. In 2017, the Monir Museum in Tehran, Iran was opened in her honor. Early life and education
<mask> was born on December 18, 1922, to educated parents in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran. Farmanfarmaian acquired artistic skills early on in childhood, receiving drawing lessons from a tutor and studying postcard depictions of western art. After studying at the University of Tehran at the Faculty of Fine Art in 1944, she then moved to New York City via steamboat, when World War II derailed her plans to study art in Paris. In New York, she studied at Cornell University, at Parsons The New School for Design, where she majored in fashion illustration, and at the Art Students League of New York.Career
As a fashion illustrator, she held various freelance jobs, working with magazines such as Glamour before being hired by the Bonwit Teller department store, where she made the acquaintance of a young Andy Warhol. Additionally, she learned more about art through her trips to museums and through her exposure to the 8th Street Club and New York's avant-garde art scene, becoming friends with artists and contemporaries Louise Nevelson, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, and Joan Mitchell. First return to Iran
In early 1957, Farmanfarmaian moved back to Iran. Inspired by the resident culture, she discovered "a fascination with tribal and folk artistic tradition" of her country's history, which "led her to rethink the past and conceive a new path for her art." In the following years, she would further develop her Persian inspiration by crafting mirror mosaics and abstract monotypes. Meanwhile her work was featured at the Iran Pavilion in the 1958 Venice Biennale, and holding a number of exhibitions in places such as Tehran University (1963), the Iran-America Society (1973), and the Jacques Kaplan/Mario Ravagnan Gallery (1974). Exile and return to Iran
In 1979, <mask> and her second husband, Abol-Bashar, traveled to New York to visit family.Around the same time, the Islamic Revolution began, and so the Farmanfarmaians found themselves exiled from Iran, an exile that would last for over twenty years. Farmanfarmaian attempted to reconcile her mirror mosaics with the limited resources offered in America, but such lacking materials and comparatively inexperienced workers restricted her work. In the meantime, she placed larger emphasis on other aspects of her art, such as commissions, textile designs, and drawing. Third return to Iran and death
In 1992, Farmanfarmaian returned to Iran and later, in Tehran in 2004, she reaffirmed her place among Iran's art community, gathering both former and new employees to help create her mosaics. She continued to live and work in Tehran until her death. On 20 April 2019 Farmanfarmaian died at her home at the age of 96. Artwork
Aside from her mirror work (a technique known as Āina-kāri), Farmanfarmaian is additionally known for her paintings, drawings, textile designs, and monotypes.Mirror mosaics
Around the 1970s, <mask> visited the Shah Cheragh mosque in Shiraz, Iran. With the shrine's "high-domed hall ... covered in tiny square, triangular, and hexagonal mirrors," similar to many other ancient Iranian mosques, this event acted as a turning point in <mask>'s artistic journey, leading to her interest in mirror mosaic artwork. In her memoir, <mask> described the experience as transformative: "The very space seemed on fire, the lamps blazing in hundreds  of thousands of reflection ... It was a universe unto itself, architecture transformed into performance, all movement and fluid light, all solids fractured and dissolved in brilliance in space, in prayer. I was overwhelmed. "Aided by the Iranian craftsman, Hajji Ostad Mohammad Navid, she created a number of mosaics and exhibition pieces by cutting mirrors and glass paintings into a multitude of shapes, which she would later reform into constructions which evoked aspects of Sufism and Islamic culture. Āina-kāri is the traditional art of cutting mirrors into small pieces and slivers, placing them in decorative shapes over plaster.This form of Iranian reverse glass and mirror mosaics is a craft traditionally passed on from father to son. Farmanfarmaian, however, was the first contemporary artist to reinvent the traditional medium in a contemporary way. By striving to mix Iranian influences and the tradition of mirror artwork with artistic practices outside of strictly Iranian culture, "offering a new way of looking at ancient aesthetic elements of this land using tools that are not limited to a particular geography," Farmanfarmaian was able to express a cyclical conception of spirituality, space, and balance in her mosaics. Personal life
<mask> married Iranian artist Manoucher Yektai in 1950. They divorced in 1953, and in 1957, she returned to Tehran to marry lawyer Abolbashar <mask>. In 1991, Abolbashar died of leukemia. She has two daughters, Nima and Zahra.While living in Iran, <mask> was also an avid collector. She sought out paintings behind glass, traditional tribal jewelry and potteries, and amassed one of the greatest collections of "coffee-house paintings" in the country—commissioned paintings by folk artists as coffee-house, story-telling murals. The vast majority of her works and her collections of folk art were confiscated, sold or destroyed. Exhibitions
<mask>'s work has been publicly exhibited in museums, including: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2006 & 2009), Niyavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran (2007), Leighton House Museum (2008),Beirut Exhibition Centre (2011), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Haus der Kunst, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Zentrum Paul Klee, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum and more. Her work has been shown in private galleries including, Rose Issa Projects, London; The Third Line, Dubai; New York; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Galerie Denise Rene, Paris and New York; Lower Belvedere, Vienna; and Ota Fine Art, Tokyo. <mask> participated in the 29th Bienal de São Paulo (2010); the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (2009); and the Venice Biennale (1958, 1966 and 2009). In 1958 she received the Venice Biennale, Iranian Pavilion (gold medal).Suzanne Cotter curated <mask>'s work for her first large museum retrospective titled 'Infinite Possibility: Mirror Works and Drawings''' which was on display at the Serralves Museum (also known as Fundação de Serralves) in Porto, Portugal (2014-2015) and then the exhibition travelled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City (2015). This was her first large US museum exhibition. Commissioned installations
Major commissioned installations include work for the Queensland Art Gallery (2009), the Victoria and Albert Museum (2006), the Dag Hammerskjold building, New York (1981) and the Niyavaran Cultural Center (1977–78), as well as acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Collections
<mask>'s work is included in multiple public art collections worldwide, including: Victoria & Albert Museum;  The British Museum;  the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tate Modern, Queensland Art Gallery, and others. In December 2017, the Monir Museum opened in Negarestan Park Gardens in Tehran, Iran, and is dedicated to showcasing <mask>'s works. With a collection of 51 works donated by the artist, the Monir Museum collection is managed by the University of Tehran. In popular culture
<mask> was named as one of the BBC's "100 Women" of 2015.Bibliography
The first monograph on <mask> <mask> <mask>, Mirror Mosaics, was edited by Rose Issa, and published by Nazar, Tehran 2006; Heartaches, edited by Rose Issa, Nazar publishing, Tehran (2007). <mask>'s memoir is titled A Mirror Garden: A Memoir was co-authored by Zara Houshmand (Knopf, 2007). ;; Her work is documented in Iranian Contemporary Art, Barbican  Art Centre, Booth Clibborn, 2001;  Zendegi, 11 Iranian Contemporary Artists, Beirut Exhibition Centre, 2011 the book, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Cosmic Geometry (Damiani Editore & The Third Line, 2011), which features in-depth interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and critical essays by Nader Ardalan, Media Farzin and Eleanor Sims, tributes by Farmanfarmaian's friends Etel Adnan, Siah Armajani, caraballo-farman, Golnaz Fathi, Hadi Hazavei, Susan Hefuna, Aziz Isham, Rose Issa, Faryar Javaherian, Abbas Kiarostami, Shirin Neshat, Donna Stein and Frank Stella. She is referenced in an excerpt from The Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture by Nader Ardalan and Laleh Bakhtiar (1973), and an annotated timeline of <mask>'s life by Negar Azimi. Women in Abstraction, Centre Pompidou, (2021). Film
The film Monir'' (2014) directed by Bahman Kiarostami, is a documentary about <mask>'s life and work. References

External links
 ArtForum magazine interview with Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
 Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Interview from 2010 with ArtAsiaPacific at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

 Mohammed Afkhami, Sussan Babaie, Venetia Porter, Natasha Morris."Honar: The Afkhami Collection of Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art." Phaidon Press, 2017. .

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Themistoklis "<mask>" <mask> (; born 17 September 1973) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was the forty second president of AEK Athens, and is considered one of the finest footballers Greece has produced. In his early childhood and teenage years he lived in the city of Alexandroupoli, in the northeast part of Greece. In a sterling career with Ethnikos Alexandroupolis, Apollon Smyrnis, AEK Athens and Atlético Madrid, <mask> earned his reputation as a "born goalscorer", scoring prolifically for club and country. His power, pace and skill on the ball have been widely praised. Club career

AEK Athens
In his teenage years he played for Ethnikos Alexandroupolis, the local team of his hometown. The scouts of several teams had seen his progress from these years, earning him a move to Athens.He made his professional debut at the age of 20 at Apollon Smyrnis, and his performances sparked a bidding war between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, and the striker's childhood favorite AEK Athens. <mask> refused to join Olympiacos and forced his club president to sell him to AEK. At AEK, <mask> linked up with some of the great Greek players of his generation, including Vassilis Tsiartas, Theodoros Zagorakis, Michalis Kapsis, Grigoris Georgatos, Traianos Dellas, Vassilis Lakis. With his new side, <mask> excelled, scoring on his debut against Ionikos. During his time with AEK, <mask> managed to win three Greek cups and the 1996 Super Cup, he was the topscorer in the 1999 Greek league and second scorer in the 2001 UEFA Cup (1 goal behind topscorer Dimitar Berbatov). He is the top scorer for Greek teams in European competitions having scored 26 goals in 51 games. He has scored five goals in a match twice and is the only Greek player to have scored 4 goals in a European match.Having scored a total of 21 goals in the UEFA Cup he is one of the competition's all-time topscorers. At AEK he scored 190 goals in 266 games (including European, cup and domestic league games) making him the fourth highest goalscorer for the club. On 24 March 2002, the International Committee for Fair Play awarded him with the Fair Play Award, an honorary diploma for his conduct in the Greek Cup Final on 8 May 2000, between the teams of AEK Athens and Ionikos, when <mask> informed the referee he had used his hand to score a goal that had been allowed as valid. Atlético Madrid
After quarrelling with owner Makis Psomiadis, later indicted for forgery, and allegedly being assaulted by his bodyguards, <mask> decided the time had come to leave AEK after the 2002–03 season. He asked and left the team in a mutual consent free transfer, although he was already paid for the rest of his contract. Atlético Madrid beat several other clubs to land the striker's coveted signature. Seeing that his number 11 was taken, he wore the number 21 as a tribute to AEK and the Original 21 fan club.<mask>' first months at the Vicente Calderón Stadium were a tremendous success, he scored six goals and formed a fearsome attacking pair with teenage sensation Fernando Torres. However, a series of serious injuries kept him out of the first team for nearly the rest of the season and severely affecting his chances of getting picked for Euro 2004. Although Atletico wanted to keep him to the roster of the team, <mask> decided to retire from professional football. International career
<mask> made his debut for the Greek national football team on 26 April 1995 against Russia. <mask> became the Greek national team's main source of goals. In 1999, however, along with Michalis Kasapis and Ilias Atmatsidis, <mask> retired from the national team, protesting for injustice in the Greek League. Two years later, after the disappointing tenure of coach Vasilis Daniil was brought to an end after disappointing results, he returned to the international fold.In his first game back, <mask> scored in Greece's 2–2 away draw to England during the 2002 World Cup qualifiers. New coach Otto Rehhagel focused his offense around the quick striker and was rewarded with direct qualification to the Greek team to represent Greece at Euro 2004. Even though struggling with injury, Rehhagel nevertheless included him in his Euro 2004 squad. Greece's new strike force, Zisis Vryzas and Angelos Charisteas, played well enough but <mask> still figured consistently in the team, coming off the bench in all three group games before starting against France, and leading Greece to a tremendous shock victory. After that performance, however, <mask> was seriously injured and did not even dress for Greece's last two games. He amassed 54 caps, netting 17 times for the national team and is among the top 6 goalscorers ever for Greece. Chairman of AEK Athens
With AEK struggling in the wake of Psomiadis' corruption and the prospect of relegation to the fourth division looming, <mask> retired at the relatively young age of 31.His next move, supported by all AEK fans, was to establish a consortium of businessmen and purchase AEK on 27 May 2004, as he had always dreamed. Becoming the club's president, <mask> set a goal that he would remove all debts that AEK owed and make them a force in Europe in the space of five years. He and technical director Ilija Ivić, a former teammate, made several clever signings and fought ferociously for the league title, finishing third when many had expected a mid-table performance. In his second year as president, after signing two promising Greece Under-21 players, as well as adding former star Vasilis Lakis, Ukrainian international striker Oleh Venhlinskyi and one time Inter centre back Bruno Cirillo, AEK achieved UEFA Champions League qualification. Apart from the improvement of the economic standards and the athletic performance of AEK, <mask> called upon the league to do more to reduce violence and hooliganism. On 2 November 2008, <mask> decided that he would quit as chairman of AEK after continuously poor results, stating that he had not achieved his goal in the 5 years plan. <mask> said one of his reasons for quitting was that the team didn't sell 30,000 season tickets; he stated "If I had managed to convince the AEK supporters to come to the stadium then I would not be leaving.In my mind we need 30,000 to become a big team". During <mask>'s presidency, AEK had their first wins in Champions' League and the club made about 12,000,000 euros from selling players to other teams (like Kostas Katsouranis, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Dániel Tőzsér, Sotirios Kyrgiakos etc.). Personal life
<mask> was married to a Greek singer Despina Vandi who was also born in Germany and grew up in Greece. They have a daughter named Melina (2004), and a son named Giorgos (2007). A Discovery Channel documentary entitled Europe's Richest People estimated <mask> and Vandi's combined fortune to be in excess of €25 million in 2014.. The couple announced their divorce on 15 July 2021

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Scores and results list Greece's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each <mask> goal. Honours
AEK Athens
 Greek Cup: 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2001–02
 Greek Super Cup: 1996

Greece
 UEFA European Championship: 2004

Individual
 Greek Young Footballer of the year: 1995
 Greek Footballer of the year: 1997, 1998, 2002
 Greek Super League top scorer: 1999
 Fair Play Diploma for Act of Fair Play: 2002

Records
 He is the second Greek goalscorer in European competitions scoring a total of 26 goals.He is one of the few player who have scored five goals in a single Greek Super League game. He did so in AEK Athens' 6–1 win against Kalamata during the 1996–97 season. He scored Greece's 500th goal on 6 October 2001 in a match against England. References

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title: Nicolò Melli

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<mask> (born 26 January 1991) is an Italian-American professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian LBA and Euroleague. He also represents the senior Italian national team. He mainly plays at the power forward position, but he has also played at center. <mask> earned an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2017. Youth career
The Reggio Emilia native started his career with home town side Pallacanestro Reggiana. After an accumulation of injuries <mask> was called up to train with the senior team in October 2004, at only 13. He sat on the bench during a 24 October league game (an age record) though he did not play and returned to the youth teams afterwards.In October 2006 he participated in the Italian leg of the Jordan Classic Camp international tour, regrouping a selection of the thirty most promising under-16 players, with the MVP earning a trip to the American edition of the camp. <mask> was selected as co-MVP, meeting Michael Jordan and going to the U.S. in April 2007. He talked of recruiting interest from American college UCLA during the same period. Professional career

Pallacanestro Reggiana
In August 2007, he signed a five-year professional contract with Pallacanestro Reggiana and started training with the first team. The same year, in October, the 16-year-old debuted in the Italian national second division LegaDue. In May 2008, during the promotion semi-finals against Aurora Basket Jesi, he replaced injured starter Benjamin Ortner and contributed 16 points and 15 rebounds in a losing effort. He finished the season playing an average of 10.6 minutes with 3.4 points and 2.9 rebounds.During the off-season, the 17-year-old participated in the Reebok Eurocamp in Treviso but did not make an impression on observers (albeit playing against older players, sometimes by five years). He also returned to the U.S., attending the Adidas Nations that pitted international teams of promising youngsters. Though he was praised by an observer for his work ethic, it was also noted that his game (and lack of athleticism) was unsuited to the American game. <mask> started the next season in great form, with 12 points and 18 rebounds followed by 24 points in two games, however, on 21 December 2008, Melli suffered a serious knee injury. Scans revealed an anterior cruciate ligament injury on his left knee, requiring surgery and at least five months of rehabilitation though he would be able to continue his career. He returned to action in 2009–10 as a starter; he averaged 10.7 points and 7.1 rebounds in 28 minutes, though he missed the promotion playoffs because of a shoulder injury. Olimpia Milano

2010–11 season
On the radar of strong sides for some time, <mask> joined Armani Jeans Milano, of the elite domestic Serie A and European EuroLeague in July 2010, signing a four-year deal.After struggling to earn minutes, Melli was loaned to fellow Serie A side Scavolini-Siviglia Pesaro in February 2011. A month later he returned to Milan, to take part in the Italian All Star Game where he contributed 12 points for Italy. Melli finished the 2010–11 season with 3.8 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 16 minutes per game for Pesaro (compared with 9 minutes for Milan previously). 2011–12 season
The next season saw Melli accrue slightly more playing time but despite some highlights, such as a team-high 17 points in a EuroLeague Group G defeat against UNICS Kazan, he finished the regular season with 3.4 points and 2.7 rebounds in 11 minutes per game (Serie A) and  3.8 points and 1.9 rebounds in 9 minutes per game (EuroLeague). He had more impact in the Serie A playoffs, including decisive performances in the semi-final game 3 against former side Pesaro (5 points in 19 minutes and a good defensive performance, with 7 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 block) and then in game 4 of the finals against future champions Montepaschi Siena where he was part of a second-half fightback to win the game, finishing with 11 points and 4 rebounds in 13 minutes. 2012–13 season
In 2012–13, Melli increased his averages to 5.8 points and 4.1 rebounds (Serie A), 4.6 points and 3 rebounds (EuroLeague), and his minutes to respectively 17 and 15 in a season nearly devoid of highlights both personally and for Milan (eliminated in the domestic quarterfinals and the EuroLeague regular season). An exception was his third successive participation in the December Italian league All-Star Game, in which he top-scored along with Milan teammate Alessandro Gentile (18 points), adding a game-best 10 rebounds.During the summer, he worked out with a number of NBA sides, with an observer commenting that he seemed too light physically for the league, he would go undrafted in the 2013 NBA draft. 2013–14 season
2013–14 proved to be <mask>'s breakthrough season, with his good performances becoming more regular as he cemented his place in Milan's starting five. The first of those decisive contributions came in Milan's second EuroLeague game of the season against Žalgiris, where Melli scored a career-high 20 points, adding 9 rebounds and 2 steals in 25 minutes to earn a PIR of 28. During the decisive 74–73 victory against Brose Bamberg in the penultimate group stage game, he defended Wright as he missed the Brose's last shot which allowed Milan to progress to the Top 16. Though he lad less impact further on as Milan reached the EuroLeague quarterfinals, Melli finished with respectable averages of  5.3 points, 4.3 rebounds, 0.8 assists and 0.9 steals in around 21 minutes in the competition. Domestically, he regularly posted scored in double figures, including a career-high 24 points against Roma, put against more average games he finished with 6.9 points and  4.9 rebounds in a career-high 21 minutes. Discarding the statistics, Melli had crucial contributions during the Serie A playoffs, starting with 18 points in 22 minutes in the first game against Pistoia.After starting the finals series against defending champions Montepaschi Siena with some off-games Melli exploded in the final two games. In the do-or-die game 6, with Milan trailing, he scored two successive three-pointers to regain the lead before adding a steal and a number of decisive rebounds as Milan won the game to earn a game 7 decider. In that game, he contributed 11 points and a career-high 13 rebounds as Milan won to become Italian champions for the first time in 18 years. 2014–15 season
In July 2014, his contract with Milan was extended for another year. The season proved more difficult for both parties, Melli had an unremarkable season (5.3 points and 3.5 rebounds in the EuroLeague, 5.6 and 4.3 in Serie A) as Milan were stopped in the Italian playoff semi-finals in their title defense and stalled in the EuroLeague Top 16. Brose Bamberg

2015–16 season
<mask> moved abroad in July 2015, signing with German side Brose Bamberg for two years. He cited Brose's strong pursuit of his services and their offering him a more important role in the side as motivation for the move abroad, adding that the presence of compatriots Andrea Trinchieri and Daniele Baiesi as head coach and GM respectively would facilitate his adaptation.<mask> was named the MVP of the Month of November of the 2015–16 Euroleague. 2016–17 season
<mask> was named the EuroLeague Round 11 MVP, after scoring 27 points and grabbing 14 rebounds, in a 70–85 away victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv, on 8 December 2016. He was named to the season's All-EuroLeague Second Team. Fenerbahçe İstanbul
On 8 July 2017, <mask> signed a three-year contract with Turkish club Fenerbahçe. In the 2017–18 EuroLeague season, Fenerbahçe made it to the 2018 EuroLeague Final Four, its fourth consecutive Final Four appearance. Eventually, they lost to Real Madrid, by a score of 80–85 in the finals game. In the finals game, <mask> was the finals top scorer, as he scored 28 points, which was the most points scored in a EuroLeague Finals game by a player since 1985.He had a season-best performance in the EuroLeague Finals, scoring 28 points and grabbing 6 rebounds. Over 36 EuroLeague games played in total, he averaged 8.9 points, 5 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. New Orleans Pelicans (2019–2021)
On 25 July 2019, <mask> signed with the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). On 22 October 2019, <mask> made his debut in NBA, coming off the bench in a 122–130 overtime loss to the Toronto Raptors with fourteen points, five rebounds and two assists. On 12 February 2020, <mask> replaced Deandre Ayton for the World Team in the Rising Stars Challenge. Dallas Mavericks (2021)
He was traded to the Dallas Mavericks on 26 March 2021, alongside JJ Redick in exchange for James Johnson and Wes Iwundu, in addition to a second-round draft-pick. He made his debut three days later, in a 127–106 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder where he recorded six points in twelve minutes.Olimpia Milano (2021–present)
On 9 July 2021, <mask> made his return to Europe by officially signing with his former club Olimpia Milano. National team career

Italian junior national team
Melli played with the Italian Under-16 side at the 2007 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, averaging 13.1 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2 blocks per game (all three team bests), as he was selected to the tournament's best five. With the U-18's at the 2008 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, he averaged 9.5 points and 6.4 rebounds per game (the latter a team best). In the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, Melli contributed 10.1 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1 block per game, in nearly 25 minutes played per game, including 23 points and 11 rebounds in the quarterfinal against Montenegro, to help Italy reach the final. He had an off-game against Spain in the semi-final, grabbing 7 rebounds and scoring 9 points, but shooting 2 for 8 from the floor, and committing four fouls, as Italy had to make do with a silver medal. Italian senior national team
<mask> made his full debut (discounting the All-Star Game) for the senior Italian team in August 2011, though he was rarely called up until 2013. After being called up to the Italy squad for EuroBasket 2013, the power forward had to play in an unfamiliar center position, due to the lack of big men in Italy's squad.Alternating at the position with Marco Cusin, he was pitted against bigger and stronger opponents, finishing the tournament with a respectable 4.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, in around 16 minutes played per game – with highs of 14 points and 10 rebounds against Turkey – as Italy reached the tournament's quarterfinals. <mask> also played at the EuroBasket 2015. <mask> scored a team high 15 points in a win against Nigeria in the preliminary round of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. They met when Vollertsen moved from the U.S. to Reggio Emilia to play professionally. Enrico, <mask>'s younger brother who was born in 1995, has also played basketball for Reggiana. <mask> is a dual citizen of Italy and the United States. However, the first time he visited the latter was at 16 and he doesn't feel very American.He describes his English as good but not fluent. References

External links

<mask> <mask> at eurobasket.com
<mask> <mask> at euroleague.net
<mask> <mask> at fiba.com
<mask> <mask> at legabasket.it
<mask> <mask> at tblstat.net

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title: Lawrence of Aquilegia

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<mask> of Aquilegia (Lorenzo di Aquileia) was a thirteenth-century Italian canon and teacher. He is best known for his treatises on the ars dictaminis—the medieval art of letter writing. <mask>’s major works found inspiration in Ciceronian rhetoric but introduced a new phatic element to writing and include the Summa dictaminis edita iuxta doctrinam Tullii and the Practica sive usus dictaminis edita ad utilitatem rudium. The Practica is his most popular work and characterizes his pragmatic, phatic approach to letter writing through the use of tables. Biographical information
In Cividale del Friuli in the northern Italian diocese of Aquilegia, <mask> was born sometime before 1250. After studying the arts at Bologna (the hub of dictatorial study), he returned home and became canon of Aquilegia. As canon, <mask> worked closely with the patriarchate, starting in 1269, where he assisted at the promulgation of the will of the recently deceased Patriarch of Aquilegia.<mask> worked with the patriarchate until 1304, making notable appearances in the train of patriarch-elect Philip of Carinthia in 1270 and at patriarch Raimondo della Torre’s generale colloquium in 1274 (Jensen 1973). Aside from his civic duties, <mask> was a respected traveling teacher. He began his teaching career in the early 1280s, where medieval scholars propose he traveled first to Bologna, then sojourned in Rome, Toulouse, and Orléans (Jensen 1973). In the late 1290s, <mask> gained popularity as a teacher in the faculty of arts at Paris. It was here that he wrote his first treatise, Summa dictaminis, and delivered it to the assembled university. The composition was well received, marking his position as a distinguished dictatores (or orator) and writer on the art of letter writing (Jensen 1973). His popularity rose with his continued writing, and copies of his eight manuscripts on the theory and application of the dictaminal style were widely circulated.Along with writing manuscripts, <mask> combined his civic and teaching career, composing letters on behalf of the university at Paris. His most significant letter was addressed to the pope, requesting a studium of Greek, Arabic, and Tartar be established (Jensen 1973). After a distinguished academic and civic career, scholars assume <mask> died of old age sometime after 1304. Works

Summa dictaminis edita iuxta doctrinam Tullii
<mask>’s first work, written at Paris and dated between 1298 and 1302, the treatise borrows from Cicero’s De inventione and the Rhetorica ad Herennium as well as from fellow dictatores Buoncompagno’s Rhetorica novissima (Jensen 1973). In the first of the treatise’s eight main parts, <mask> defines the basic concepts related to dictaminal writing: orator, rhetor, dictatores, and dictamen. He concludes by defining the letter and its parts. Parts two through six concern a detailed description of each of the five parts of a letter: salutation, exordium, narrative, petition, and conclusion.Of the five parts, the description of the salutation is the longest, which is not surprising given the medieval preoccupation with social levels (Jensen 1973). In parts seven and eight, <mask> concludes his work with the colours of rhetoric and strategies for embellishment, respectively. Summa dictaminis breviter et artificiose composita secundum stilum Romane curie et consuetudinem modernorum (undated)

Also written at Paris, this second work is simpler and shorter than his first. <mask> intended the work for “novices eager to learn dictamen” (Jensen 1973), and its simplicity contributed to its popularity. Like its predecessor, this work defines dictamen and the five parts of the letter—known as the “Approved Format” of the time (Murphy 1974). Again, the bulk of the work concerns the salutation, with thirty-seven chapters devoted to salutations for different social levels (i.e. writing to the Pope, writing to a king, writing to a farmer, writing to a scholar).<mask> covers the other parts of the letter only briefly. He ends his work with a discussion of stylistic vices. Practica sive usus dictaminis edita ad utilitatem rudium (undated)
<mask>’s most popular work arranges forms of address to people of various social levels in tabular form. Seven tables (one for each class of persons) offer examples of salutations, narratives, petitions, and conclusions (see images 1 and 2 below). The Practica’s formulaic, pragmatic approach to letter writing not only contributed to its popularity but also represents the “mechanistic dead end” (Perelman 1991) of the ars dictaminis. By following the tables, anyone “capable of copying individual letters of the alphabet” (Murphy 1974) could compose a letter to an addressee of a particular social class. The Practica “struck a responsive chord” (Murphy 1974), as no formal artistic training or rhetorical command of language was necessary to write a letter following <mask>’s tables.Tractatus super diversis modis componendi epistolam; Ars narrandi, petendi, et concludendi; Speculum dictaminis super diversis litterarum formis; Theorica dictaminis (all undated)

These four works represent shortened or excerpted versions of <mask>’s previous treatises. Some scholars ascribe these works to John of Bondi, believed to be <mask>’s pupil, but it was regular practice for dictatores to compose different versions of the same manuscript (Murphy 1974). Letters
To model the epistolary style to students and to complement his treatises, <mask> wrote many letters. The letters exist in two fourteenth-century collections in manuscript form. Influence
While <mask> is known for taking the ars dictaminis to its “mechanistic dead end” (Perelman 1991) and marking its decline, his pragmatic approach marks the corresponding rise of a new movement in Italy: the ars notaria. With the ars notaria, a new class of writers appeared, working as professional secretaries and scribes. These early notaries concerned themselves with documents’ forms and legal documents.With his formulaic approach to the ars dictaminis, <mask> introduced a pragmatic form in his Practica that “t[ook] the chartistic view to its ultimate point” (Murphy 1974). Furthermore, the Practica marks a shift from content- to form-based writing and emphasizes a “phatic rhetoric of personal and official relations” (Perelman 1991). Unlike the classical rhetorical style concerned with persuasion, <mask>’s works concern writing for social purposes, as is clear from his extensive treatment of the salutation in his treatises on letter writing (Jensen 1973). Medieval rhetoric scholar, James J. Murphy, stresses the phatic approach characterized by <mask>’s writing, noting “It is the addressee’s level which determines the nature of the letter, not the subject matter or the level of the writer, or the intentions of the writer” (1974). <mask>’s applied approach to letter writing also stands as an early ancestor to modern texts on business communication (Perelman 1991). Just as teachers today direct their students to examples of memos and reports in textbooks, <mask> directed his students to his model letters and tables in the Practica and related texts (Perelman 1991). Further reading
Camargo, Martin.Ars Dictaminis Ars Dictandi. Belgium: Brepols, 1991. ---. "The Waning of the Medieval Ars Dictaminis." Rhetorica XIX.2 (Spring 2001): 135-140. Capdevila, S. "'La Practica dictaminis' de Llorens de Aquileia, en un codex de Tarragona". Analecta sacra Tarraconensia 6 (1930): 207-29.An edition of the Practica. Murphy, James J. Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. References

Murphy, James J. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.Perelman, Les. "The Medieval Art of Letter Writing: Rhetoric as Institutional Expression." Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities. Eds. Charles Bazerman and James Paradis. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. <mask> of Aquilegia

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