title: Bentley Kassal

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<mask> (February 28, 1917 – December 16, 2019) was an attorney and litigation counsel with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City. He was a New York State Assemblyman, a judge of the New York State Courts at every level, and a World War II veteran. An early rugby football player, he was a member of the 1940 Harvard Rugby Football team, which was the undefeated champion of the Eastern Rugby League. Kassal was married to <mask>, a retired business executive from Bonwit Teller in New York City. Early years
<mask> was born in the Harlem area of Manhattan, New York City, on February 28, 1917, to <mask> and <mask>, born in Poland and Austria, respectively. Kassal graduated from Public School 86 in the Bronx (1930), Townsend Harris High School in Manhattan (1933), University of Pennsylvania, B.A. (1937) and Harvard Law School, J.D.(1940), where he received a merit scholarship for his third year. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in September 1940 and was an associate in two mid-sized law firms until the American entry into World War II. Athletics

Kassal was a member of the Townsend Harris High School soccer, track, and baseball teams. At the University of Pennsylvania, he was on the 150 lb. football team as a quarterback/linebacker until he fractured his left elbow. In 1940, his third year at Harvard Law School, he played rugby football as the left-wing on Harvard's undefeated Eastern League championship team and scored three tries. In 1941 he played the same position on the New York Rugby Club.After World War II he resumed playing tennis, golf, and skiing until 1998, when he had a double knee replacement. His original 1940 Harvard Rugby Jersey is on permanent exhibit at the Harvard Club of New York City together with his French Legion of Honor Medal Certificate and his photograph with his wife Barbara at Normandy with President and Michelle Obama. World War II and military awards
<mask> volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army Air Forces in January 1942. He spent six months at Mitchel Field, Long Island and was assigned to the Officer Candidate School in Miami Beach, Florida followed by the Air Combat Intelligence School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, graduating with honors from both. On March 15, 1943 Life magazine published a letter to the editor, written by <mask>, in which he wondered "what formula" enlisted war hero Herman J. F. Bottcher used to "secure his rapid promotion" from the rank of Sergeant to Captain in the span of one week. The editors of Life replied: "Heroism". Bottcher was later killed in action in Leyte.Letters appearing in the following two issues were critical of <mask>'s question, and accused him of being a jealous "90-day wonder"—a disparaging term used for newly minted officers from upper-class families who went through accelerated officer programs as Kassal did. As a second lieutenant, <mask> was assigned to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. After three months in an officer replacement center in Algeria, he was assigned by the Seventh Army to assist in the planning and to participate in the D-Day landings at Gela, Sicily. He arrived on the U.S.S. Orizaba as part of the Second Armored Division's initial landing force. Two months later, he was chosen to assist in planning and land on D-Day with the Fifth Army at Salerno, Italy, on a Landing Ship, Tank. He briefed General Mark W. Clark on the Salerno beach.After the capture of Naples, he again planned air intelligence missions. With President Franklin D. Roosevelt's approval, he helped plan the air bombardment of the Montecassino Abbey, which was occupied by German artillery units and blocked the passage to Rome. Cardinal Secretary of State Luigi Maglione told senior U.S. diplomat to the Vatican Harold Tittmann that the bombing was "a colossal blunder ... a piece of a gross stupidity." (Hapgood & Richardson, p. 225). The only people killed in the monastery were Italian civilians seeking refuge in the abbey. When the occupation of Italy was almost complete, <mask> returned to Naples for the Seventh Army invasion at St. Tropez, France, on August 15, 1944. He briefed General Patch.Shortly thereafter, he accepted the surrender of seventeen German soldiers at Salon-en-Provence. The troops in Southern France moved north through Alsace-Lorraine, where they were caught in the midst of the Battle of the Bulge and General Patton's counter-attack. Thereafter, <mask>'s unit moved through Bavaria and was at Augsburg when D-Day was declared. Because of his knowledge of the Luftwaffe, <mask> was assigned to London to prepare for the invasion of Japan, since it was anticipated that German pilots would be part of the Japanese air defense. Kassal was awarded the Bronze Star with three Bronze Arrowheads for three invasion landings and was awarded seven Campaign ribbons in the European Theatre. His clearance was "Top Secret", the highest intelligence classification, and received intelligence data from the "Ultra Secret" classification. He served in the Army Air Forces for four years and served overseas for 30 months in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany before his discharge on December 31, 1945, with the final rank of captain.He was a major in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. On June 5, 2009, he received the French Legion of Honor from French Defense Minister Herve Morin at Les Invalides in Paris, with a ceremony at Colleville-sur-Mer (Omaha Beach) Normandy. He and his wife were photographed at the same location with President and Michele Obama on June 6, 2009. On July 16, 2009, he was awarded membership in the American Society of French Legion of Honor. He has given talks about his World War II overseas experience at the Harvard Club, the New York City Bar Association (2009), the Harding Club at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (2009), at Skadden Arps' New York offices (2008 and 2009) and Skadden, Arps' London office in May 2010. Kassel donated several war mementos to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City for its permanent exhibit "Ours to Fight For." This exhibit has been shown in several U.S. cities.Donated items include several Nazi daggers and swords, his two-volume hand-written personal diaries, and his video oral testimony. He has also donated World War II mementos, including photos of invasions, prisoner of war camps, targets and German equipment, to the U.S. Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Political and legislative career (1946–1962)
Immediately after the war <mask> became active in liberal causes such as the Americans for Democratic Action, the American Veterans Committee, the Draft Eisenhower Movement (for the Democratic nomination), and Volunteers for Stevenson. He joined the local anti-Tammany Democratic Club and lost a contested primary for the State Assembly (1950). He was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 5th D.) from 1957 to 1962, sitting in the 171st, 172nd and 173rd New York State Legislatures. As an assemblyman, Kassal was regarded as one of the most liberal legislators. As his assembly district included the Lincoln Center of the Arts, he introduced and had enacted into law the first Arts Council in the United States.He was the only legislator to vote against the annual re-enactment of the Security Risk Law, which mandated that all state employees execute loyalty oaths during the Cold War. As a result, the bill was never re-introduced. In 1962, he unsuccessfully challenged the incumbent Congressman Leonard Farbstein in the Democratic primary of the 19th District, but was nominated on the Liberal ticket. In November 1962, he was defeated by Farbstein, and resumed his law practice as a single practitioner. In 1969, <mask> won the Democratic primary for a seat on the New York City Civil Court. Legal career (1940–1969)
As a single practitioner, his specialties were civil litigation, real estate, estates, and matrimonials. His sole criminal matter was representing comedian Lenny Bruce on his arraignment on obscenity charges at Cafe Au Gogo in Greenwich Village.During almost this entire period, he was a regular guest commentator on radio night talk shows, first with Barry Gray on WMCA and then with Long John Nebel on WOR. Judicial career (1970–1993)
Serving in the Civil Court of the City of New York for six years (1970–1976), he was the judge assigned to establish the Housing Court. He also introduced the Small Claims Court into the State of Israel. He served in the New York Supreme Court for six years and was appointed by Governor Hugh Carey to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Department, in 1987, where he served for 12 years. During this period, he was appointed by Chief Judge Sol Wachtler to serve for the April/May 1985 term at the New York Court of Appeals, the State's highest court. He acted as a Special Judge to try judges for ethical violations and recommended significant sanctions, including removal, for several judges. He has a total of 259 reported decisions.In the appeal on the America's Cup Race trial decision, he wrote a dissent in favor of the New Zealand team based primarily on sportsmanship, fair play, and equity in that, although not violative of any specific rules, holding that the use by the United States of a catamaran was contrary to the spirit of the race since no catamaran had ever been raced previously and, critically, no catamaran had ever lost to a single-hulled sailboat. In Morgan v. Morgan, on the basis of equity, fairness and justice, he ruled in favor of providing maintenance to the wife who had supported her husband while he completed his legal education and became an attorney. She had sought similar support while a pre-medical and medical student. Although reversed on appeal, shortly thereafter the Equitable Distribution Law was enacted providing for this form of relief. The woman later became a doctor and a photo article with Kassal was published in The New York Times. In People v. Shelton, his decision, the first to interpret the statutory language "Extreme Emotional Disturbance" in a jury charge as mitigation on a murder charge, was affirmed by the Court of Appeals. In Gordon v. American Museum of Natural History, his opinion at the Appellate Division, requiring actual or constructive notice of a physical condition as a condition for negligence liability, was affirmed by the Court of Appeals.In 1976, as a Civil Court Judge, he decided, in Parkwood v. Marcano, that a landlord has a duty to mitigate damages upon a tenant's default, similar to all contract damages. This was reversed on appeal. On April 22, 2003, he acted as amicus for Brennan Center for Justice (NYU) in filing a brief at the New York Court of Appeals supporting stringent ethical rules for Judges. Later career

From 1998, he was a counsel in the litigation department at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He was an annual reporter from 2004 for the New York State Bar Association Journal on the subject of appellate statistics. In his third five-year term on the Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics (Office of Court Administration) Committee on Character and Fitness (Appellate Division, First Department) Mayor's Committee on City Marshals, Special Master, Pre-Argument Conferences (Appellate Division, First Department), Lecturer on Active Post-Judicial Legal Retirement (Supreme Court Justices and NY State Bar Association)  Annual Article, N.Y.S.B.A. Journal on Appellate Statistics, published every year since 2002.He was a Traphagen Distinguished Alumni Speaker at Harvard Law School on three occasions. He delivered a talk about his career and 70 years of changes in the practice of law at Oxford University Faculty of Law on May 13, 2010. He and his wife were special guests at the Dinner for Legal Academics on May 11, 2010, at the Inner Temple of the Inns of Court in London. On May 29, 2010, at Cambridge, the 1940 Harvard undefeated Eastern Rugby League championship team was honored by the Harvard Rugby Football Club. Kassel's 1940 football jersey is on permanent exhibition at the Harvard Club in New York. On May 20, 2010, he photographed the Jewish cemetery in Oxford and obtained historical data for the Jewish Heritage Research Center regarding the flooding destruction of three synagogues in Bath, England in 1938. On January 9, 2009, the New York City Bar Association presented as its bi-annual program, "Twentieth Century Traveler: The Life and Perilous Times of the Hon.<mask>." He testified as an expert witness on New York law pertaining to pre-nuptial agreements in London at the High Court of Justice in 2003. he acted as a neutral arbitrator, appointed by Movie Fone, in the A.A.A. arbitration Ticketmaster v. Movie Fone, in 1996. He was a member of the London Court of International Arbitrators (2005) and was a lecturer at NITA programs (2005). Pro bono photographer

Kassel has undertaken 81 photographic missions throughout the world, covering 158 countries. The New York State Bar Association Journal featured an article about an exhibition of <mask>'s photographs. On April 12, 2010, he took photographs at the Statesville, North Carolina Synagogue for the Jewish Heritage Research Center (Syracuse University).He has taken photographs for 17 charities, including Save the Children, World Monuments Fund, Human Rights Watch, the Asia Society, UNICEF, the International Survey of Jewish Monuments, the Coalition for Soviet Jewry, and United Jewish Appeal. His photos have appeared on numerous occasions in the media. His photo for Save the Children remained on its poster for more than ten years. He has also exhibited at the City Bar Association and several court houses. In June 2009, at the age of 92, he took photos of three synagogues at Nice, Carpentras and Cavallion in France and three synagogues in North and South Carolina. He has had a special photo exhibit at the Save the Children headquarters, "Beyond the Bench." In January 2000, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York presented an exhibition of Kassal's photography.His photograph of the original Buddha Statue is featured in the "Vanishing Histories" published by the World Monuments Fund. On September 11, 2001, from the 48th floor of Skadden's Times Square office, he photographed the second plane crash within minutes after the incident and, took more photos at the scene two days later. Pro bono photos published

 World Monument Fund – Spring-Summer 2001 issue: Buddha Statue in Afghanistan". The Buddha Statue was subsequently destroyed by the Taliban but it is being rebuilt by a Basel, Switzerland museum, based upon the previous photo by Kassal
 New York Observer – June 3, 2002
 Asia Society – February, 1982 "Tiger's Nest". Tiger's Nest in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, a monastery built on the side of a sheer cliff. Save the Children – Poster Child. This photo was taken outside of Beirut during the Christmas holidays.Kassal had an hour and a half provided to him by the local representative for photos. This became the official Save the Children poster and remained so for more than twenty years. The image appeared in N.Y. Times Magazine, Saturday Review World, Newsweek, Natural History, The New Yorker, Times of Israel, National Jewish Weekly and Unitarian Universalist. Human rights assignments and pro bono activities
 Joint Distribution Committee of the United Jewish Appeal (July, 1975)
 Coalition to Free Soviet Jews (1983 and 1985)
 International Rescue Committee (1983 and 1986)
 Human Rights Watch (1986, 1988 and 1989)
 Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (1990)

In 2002 Kassel participated in the construction of model house at Grand Central Station for Habitat for Humanity. Personal life
On June 13, 1986, Kassal married Barbara Joan Wax, a retired Bonwit Teller executive. They had no children and lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. He turned 100 in February 2017 and died in December 2019 at the age of 102.Bibliography
 Published letters to the editor of The New York Times
August 17, 2000 – "60 Years of Progress" (nomination of Joseph L. Lieberman for Vice-President)
October 18, 2001 – "The War Over There"
August 25, 2002 – "Another Dirty Trick" (Sports Section)
March 7, 2003 – "Judges and Politics"
October 16, 2003 – "The Pledge: Recite or Rewrite?" 292, Brooklyn, on Martin Luther King Day (January 17, 2011) (Skadden project)
At Mass Moca Museum, North Adams, MA on September 8, 2007 – research and photographs for pro bono litigation (Skadden project)
Post-Judicial Retirement Seminars at New York State Bar Association of Supreme Court Justices (2007, 2008 and 2009)
"Out the Door but Not Over the Hill" – N.Y. State Bar Association program (Albany and N.Y. City), May 6 and 14, 2008
Mentor at Harvard Law School Connect – for students and graduates (2011)
New York County Lawyers Association – Task Force on Transitioning and Unemployed Lawyers (2011)
Donated 69 pints of blood to New York Blood Center
On April 21, 2003, on behalf of the N.Y.U. Brennan Center for Justice, presented amicus brief to Court of Appeals upholding the N.Y. Canons of Judicial Ethics

Human rights assignments
World Monuments Fund – Afghanistan (1971)
Joint Distribution Committee of the United Jewish Appeal (July, 1975)
Coalition to Free Soviet Jews (1983 and 1985)
International Rescue Committee (1983 and 1986)
Human Rights Watch (1986, 1988 and 1989)
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (1990)

Professional committees and bar associations
Committee on Character and Fitness (1993 – present)
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics (1993 – present)
Mayor's Committee on City Marshals (1993 – present)
Special Master, Pre-argument Conferences – Appellate Division, Supreme Court, First Dep't. (1993 – present)
Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1953 – present)
New York State Bar Association (2000 – present)
Entertainment Committee – City Bar Association (1975 – present)

References

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Featured in a New York Times article, Sunday February 21, 2010 about lawyers still working in their 80s and 90s
Featured in the Harvard Law Bulletin, Winter 2010

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title: Hal B. Wallis

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<mask> (born <mask>; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best known for producing Casablanca (1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and True Grit (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as <mask>, John Wayne, <mask>, and Errol Flynn. As a producer, he received 19 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture

Later on, for a long period, he was connected with Paramount Pictures and oversaw films featuring  Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley, and John Wayne. Life and career
<mask> was born October 19, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Eva (née Ewa <mask>) and Jacob Wolowicz/Wolovitz (Jankiel Wołowicz). He was the youngest of three children and had two older sisters: Minna Wolovitz (1893-1986), a Hollywood talent agent, and Juel Wolovitz (1895-1953). His parents were Ashkenazi Jews from the Suwałki region of Congress Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire and is now Poland. The future producer and his sisters eventually changed their surname to <mask>.His family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros. in 1923. Within a few years, <mask> became involved in the production end of the business and would eventually become head of production at Warner. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, he was involved with the production of more than 400 feature-length movies. Among the more significant movies he produced were Casablanca, Dark Victory, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Maltese Falcon, Sergeant York, and Now, Voyager. In March 1944, <mask> won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 16th Academy Awards. During the  ceremony, when the award was announced for Casablanca, <mask> got up to accept, but studio head Jack L. Warner rushed up to the stage "with a broad, flashing smile and a look of great self-satisfaction," <mask> later recalled. "I couldn't believe it was happening.Casablanca had been my creation; Jack had absolutely nothing to do with it. As the audience gasped, I tried to get out of the row of seats and into the aisle, but the entire Warner family sat blocking me. I had no alternative but to sit down again, humiliated and furious ... Almost forty years later, I still haven't recovered from the shock." This incident would lead <mask> to leave Warner Bros. the next month. <mask> started to work as an independent producer, enjoying considerable success both commercially and critically. The first screenwriters he hired for his new enterprise were Ayn Rand and Lillian Hellman.Among his financial hits were the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies, and several of Elvis Presley's movies. He produced True Grit, for which John Wayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor of 1969, and its sequel. After moving to Universal Pictures, he produced Mary, Queen of Scots (starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson) and Anne of the Thousand Days (starring <mask> and Canadian actress Geneviève <mask>). He received 16 Academy Award producer nominations for Best Picture, winning for Casablanca in 1943. For his consistently high quality of motion picture production, he was twice honored with the Academy Awards' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was also nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, twice winning awards for Best Picture. In 1975, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.In 1980, he published his autobiography, Starmaker, co-written with Charles Higham. In the 1930s, <mask> invested in residential real estate development in Sherman Oaks, California. He named Halbrent Avenue after himself, using his nickname "<mask>" and his middle name "<mask>". Most of its original homes still stand, and it is very close to Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards and the Sherman Oaks Galleria used extensively in the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High. <mask> and his second wife, actress Martha Hyer, contributed funds towards the construction of The Hal and Martha Hyer Wallis Theatre, a black box theater, at Northwestern University. Marriages
<mask> was married to actress Louise Fazenda from 1927 until her death in 1962. They had one son, <mask>, who became a psychiatrist.<mask> was married to actress Martha Hyer from 1966 until his death in 1986. <mask> was a lifelong Republican, who supported Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 US Presidential Election. He was also a member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Death
<mask> died on October 5, 1986, of complications of diabetes in Rancho Mirage, California, two weeks away from his 88th birthday. News of his passing was not released until after his private memorial service was completed. U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan, who appeared in <mask>'s films Santa Fe Trail and This Is The Army, sent his condolences to the family. <mask> is interred at the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.Filmography
 Moby Dick (1930, co-producer and first work)
 Little Caesar (1931)
 Central Airport (1933)
 The Petrified Forest (1936)
 Kid Galahad (1937)
 West of Shanghai (1937)
 The Invisible Menace (1938)
 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
 Comet Over Broadway (1938)
 Dark Victory (1939)
 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
 All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
 Castle on the Hudson (1940)
 Santa Fe Trail (1940)
 Sergeant York (1941)
 The Maltese Falcon (1941)
 They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
 Casablanca (1942)
 Now, Voyager (1942)
 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
 This Is the Army (1943)
 Love Letters (1945)
 You Came Along (1945)
 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
 Desert Fury (1947)
 I Walk Alone (1947)
 So Evil My Love (1948)
 Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
 The Accused (1949)
 Rope of Sand (1949)
 Paid in Full (1950)
 September Affair (1950)
 Dark City (1950)
 The Furies (1950)
About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
 The Rainmaker (1956)
 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
 Loving You (1957)
 King Creole (1958)
 Career (1959)
 G.I. Blues (1960)
 Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
 Blue Hawaii (1961)
 Summer and Smoke (1961)
 Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
 Fun in Acapulco (1963)
 Wives and Lovers (1963)
 Becket (1964)
 Roustabout (1964)
 The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
 Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
 Barefoot in the Park (1967)
 Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)
 True Grit (1969)
 Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
 Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
 Rooster Cogburn (1975)

Academy Awards

1938 and 1943 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Awards

References

External links

 Literature on Hal B. Wallis
 Hal Wallis papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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title: Frederik Andersen

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<mask>Freddie<mask> (born 2 October 1989) is a Danish professional ice hockey goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the Anaheim Ducks and Toronto Maple Leafs. <mask> was a member of Denmark's national team that competed at the 2010 IIHF World Championship. He was selected by the Hurricanes in the seventh round, 187th overall, of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. Unable to come to terms with the Hurricanes, however, <mask> was later re-entered into the draft and selected in the third round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, 87th overall, by the Ducks, with whom he spent the first few years of his NHL career. Playing career

Europe
On 13 March 2010, while playing for Frederikshavn White Hawks in the Superisligaen, <mask> scored an empty net goal in the fourth quarter-final match against Rødovre Mighty Bulls. He nearly scored two nights before in the third match, but missed.<mask> set a new Elitserien regular season club record for Frölunda HC with eight shutouts in 2011–12, surpassing Henrik Lundqvist's seven shutouts from the 2003–04 season. In addition to his shutouts, <mask> also led the Elitserien in goals against average (GAA) and save percentage, as well as receiving a nomination for the Elitserien Rookie of the Year award. NHL

Anaheim Ducks
On 20 October 2013, shortly into the 2013–14 season, <mask> made his NHL debut for the Anaheim Ducks, replacing starting goaltender Jonas Hiller to start the second period. Taking over a 3–1 Ducks deficit, he logged two shutout periods, earning him his first NHL win, a 6–3 victory over the Dallas Stars. With the trade of then-backup goaltender Viktor Fasth to the Edmonton Oilers on 4 March 2014, <mask> became the team's new full-time backup goaltender to Hiller after spending the majority of the season playing for Anaheim's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Norfolk Admirals. On 16 April 2014, <mask> won his Stanley Cup playoff debut as Anaheim defeated the Dallas Stars 4–3 in Game 1 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals. <mask> made 32 saves, giving up three goals.He split time with both Jonas Hiller and John Gibson during the Ducks' run in the 2014 playoffs, which ultimately ended in Round 2, the Western Conference Semifinals, against the Los Angeles Kings, the eventual Stanley Cup champions. The following year, in 2014–15, with Hiller departed via free agency to the Calgary Flames, <mask> and Gibson became the Ducks' goaltending duo. As the season progressed, however, <mask> assumed the starter's role by virtue of both his impressive goaltending play and injuries to Gibson that kept the latter out of the lineup. After recording his 30th win of the season on 3 March 2015, <mask> tied an NHL record as the fastest goaltender in history to reach 50 career wins. He reached the milestone in just 68 career games, tying the record set by the Montreal Canadiens' Bill Durnan on 16 December 1944. In the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs, <mask> led the Ducks to the Western Conference Finals with his strong play - the Ducks only lost one game in the first two rounds. After taking a three games to two series lead on the early strong play of <mask>, the Ducks lost the final two games of the series, including Game 7 on home ice.This marked the third straight season the Ducks had lost a series in Game 7 at home after leading the series three games to two. <mask> allowed four or more goals in each of the final four games of the series - the Ducks lost three of those four games and allowed 19 goals over that span. Toronto Maple Leafs

On 20 June 2016, <mask> was traded by the Ducks to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for the 30th overall pick in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft (used to select Sam Steel) and a second round pick in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft (middle of Toronto, San Jose or Ottawa picks - used to select Maxime Comtois). On the same day, the Leafs and <mask> <mask> agreed to terms on a 5-year extension. He was set to become a restricted free agent on 1 July. After a slow start with the Leafs, <mask> settled in and found his game; he went 33–16–14 on the season with a 2.67 GAA, a .918 save% and 4 shutouts, leading the way for the Leafs to earn a playoff berth for the first time since the 2012–13 NHL season. In the playoffs, <mask> went 2–4 in the first-round series against the Washington Capitals with a 2.68 GAA and .915 save%.During the 2017–18 season, <mask> bested his career-high in wins on 28 March 2018, with his 36th win of the season in a game against the Florida Panthers. On the same day, he helped the Leafs set a new franchise record of 27 wins on home ice after beating the Panthers 4–3. In the following game on 30 March 2018, against the New York Islanders, <mask> recorded his 37th win of the season, tying the record for most wins by a Leafs goalie. On 7 April 2018, the last game of the Leafs regular season, <mask> passed the Leafs all-time wins record with a 4–2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens. <mask> helped the Leafs qualify for the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, where they would fall to the Boston Bruins in seven games. He recorded a 36–16–7 record during the 2018–19 NHL season, helping the Maple Leafs advance to their third consecutive playoff berth, but they were once again defeated in the first round by the Boston Bruins in seven games. On 14 December 2019, <mask> earned his 200th win in his 344th game against the Edmonton Oilers.Carolina Hurricanes
At the conclusion of his five-year tenure with the Maple Leafs, <mask> left the club as a free agent. On 28 July 2021, he was signed to a two-year, $9 million contract with his original draft club, the Carolina Hurricanes. Personal life

<mask> comes from a family of ice hockey players. His father, Ernst, played seventeen season as a goaltender in the Metal Ligaen and is the current goaltending coach for Denmark men's national ice hockey team and Herning Blue Fox. His mother and uncles also played ice hockey in Denmark. His sister, Amalie, is a defenceman for the Danish women's national ice hockey team and is playing collegiately for Maine. His brother, Sebastian, is also a defenceman and represented Denmark in the men's national under-18 and junior ice hockey team.His brother, Valdemar, and cousin, Emma-Sofie Nordström, are also professional goaltenders. Career statistics

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<mask> (May 8, 1791 – October 3, 1853) was an American businessman and Whig Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for one term from 1849 to 1851. Early life and education
<mask> was born in New York City on May 8, 1791 at the residence of his maternal grandfather. He was the third son of Mary (née Alsop) <mask> and <mask>. Among his siblings were brothers <mask>, who served as Governor of New York, and <mask>, the president of Columbia University, and <mask>, an Ohio politician. His father served as the first U.S. Senator from New York and was the 3rd and 8th U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom under Presidents <mask>, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams. His paternal grandparents were Isabella (née Bragdon<mask> and <mask>, a prosperous farmer-merchant.Among his extended family were uncles <mask>, who served as the first Governor of Maine, and <mask>, who was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. His mother was the only child of his maternal grandparents, Mary (née Frogat) Alsop and John Alsop, a prominent merchant and Continental Congressman. He pursued classical studies in England and France, returned to United States and graduated from Harvard University in 1810. He studied law under Peter van Schaack of Kinderhook, followed by study at the Litchfield Law School in Connecticut. Career
During the War of 1812, he served as assistant adjutant general of the New York Militia, under Major General Ebenezer Stevens. After the war, he opened a commission house in New York City with his father-in-law, <mask>, under the name James G. King and Company. Three years later in 1818, he moved to Liverpool, England and established King & Gracie with his brother-in-law, <mask> Jr., where he established "a high reputation for business ability, and, despite the severe financial crisis of 1822, 1823, and 1824, was able to meet all his obligations and to finally close up the affairs of his house on a satisfactory basis."While in Liverpool, he met and eventually became a close friend of John Jacob Astor (later serving as an executor of his will), who offered him the presidency of the American Fur Company, which <mask> declined. In 1824, he returned to New York City and engaged in banking as a partner in the firm of Prime & Ward (thereafter Prime, Ward & King), with residence in Weehawken, New Jersey. In 1835, he succeeded Eleazar Lord to become president of the Erie Railroad, although he did not collect a salary. He served until 1837, when by his visit to London he secured the loan to American bankers of $1,000,000 from the governors of the Bank of England. Tenure in United States Congress
In 1834, he was a candidate for Congress in New York City, but was defeated. <mask> was elected as a Whig to Congress, succeeding fellow Whig Dudley S<mask>, the former mayor of Jersey City. He served alongside his older brother John in office from March 4, 1849 to March 3, 1851, but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850 and was succeeded by Democrat Rodman M. Price (who later served as the 17th Governor of New Jersey after leaving Congress in 1853).While in Congress, he was a member of the Committee of Commerce, and he opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Upon the ascendancy of Millard Fillmore to the presidency after Zachary Taylor's death in 1850, <mask> was reportedly considered for United States Secretary of the Treasury, but informed Fillmore that he did not wish to serve as he had planned on retiring from public service and was, in fact, leaving Congress at the end of the term. Later career
After leaving Congress, he resumed the banking business. By this time the firm he had worked for had undergone dissolution, and so was succeeded by the House of James G. King & Son. Personal life

On February 4, 1813, <mask> was married to Sarah Rogers <mask> (1791–1878), the daughter of <mask>, a Scottish-born shipping magnate and early American businessman and merchant in New York City and Virginia. Together, they were the parents of eleven children, many of whom married into prominent colonial families, including:

 <mask> (1813–1863), who married Denning Duer, a son of William Alexander Duer. <mask> <mask>, Jr. (1819–1867), who married his first cousin, <mask>, a daughter of John Alsop <mask>.<mask> <mask> (1821–1897), who married Elizabeth Denning Duer, a daughter of William Alexander Duer. <mask> (1826–1890), who married Edgar Henry Richards in 1856. Frederika <mask> (1829–1916), who married Bancroft Davis, an American lawyer, judge, diplomat, and president of Newburgh and New York Railway Company. <mask> (1833–1908), who married Isabella Ramsay Cochrane in 1858. After her death, he married Elizabeth Fisher. <mask> (1836–1905), who married <mask> McLane, brother of Robert Milligan McLane, in 1859. <mask> died of a "congestion of the lungs" on October 3, 1853 at his country place, "Highwood," near Weehawken, New Jersey, which he had purchased in 1832.He was interred in the churchyard of Grace Church, Jamaica, New York. Descendants
Through his son Archibald, he was the grandfather of May Denning <mask> (1848–1925), who married <mask> Van Rensselaer, a son of Henry Bell Van Rensselaer and grandson of Stephen Van Rensselaer III, the patroon of Rensselaerwyck. His great-great-granddaughter Ellin Travers Mackay married Irving Berlin. Another great-great-grandchild was Wolcott <mask>, who was also a direct descendant of Martin Van Buren (<mask> <mask>'s grandson married Martin Van Buren's granddaughter, and Wolcott <mask> was their grandson). Through his youngest daughter Fanny, he was the grandfather of Robert McLane, who served as the 32nd Mayor of Baltimore. References

External links

<mask> <mask> at The Political Graveyard

 Guide to the Erving-King Family Papers, 1709-1975 at the New-York Historical Society. 1791 births
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Businesspeople from New York City
New Jersey Whigs
Members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
19th-century American railroad executives
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Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives
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title: Mike McCarthy (rugby union)

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<mask> (born 27 November 1981) is an English-born retired Irish professional rugby union player who was educated at Sedbergh School. He plays his club rugby for the Irish provincial team Leinster Rugby in the Pro14, having joined from rival Irish team Connacht in 2013. He can play in the second row or as a flanker. Career

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Early career
<mask> started his professional career playing for Premiership club London Wasps in the 2001–02 season. He made a single substitute appearance for the team in that year's Premiership against Sale Sharks, and did not play in any European games. The following season he made an increased number of appearances, playing 3 times in the 2002–03 Premiership as Wasps won the title. He also made two appearances in the 2002–03 European Challenge Cup, playing both first round ties against Overmarch Parma, including making his first start away to the Italians on 12 October 2002, in a tournament Wasps also went on to win, for a domestic and European double.<mask> joined the Irish side Connacht in 2003. He made his debut from the bench in a Celtic League match away against Welsh side Cardiff Blues on 13 September. <mask> played 16 times in total in the 2003–04 Celtic League, scoring two tries. He also made 8 appearances in the 2003–04 European Challenge Cup as Connacht made it to the semi-finals, where they were narrowly beaten by eventual winners Harlequins over two legs. <mask> left Connacht after one season, returning to English rugby with the Newcastle Falcons. Newcastle Falcons
<mask> made his debut for the Newcastle Falcons on 5 September 2004 against Worcester Warriors, scoring a try as the Falcons won 30–9. He made a total of 21 appearances in the 2004–05 Premiership and scored two tries.That season he helped the team reach the quarter-finals of the Heineken Cup, starting all of the group games and scoring a try against the Newport Gwent Dragons. He also played in the quarter-final itself against Stade Français at Parc des Princes, as Newcastle were beaten 48–8 by the eventual runners-up. In the following season's Premiership, <mask> played 19 games, and scored three tries as Newcastle finished 7th in the league. After having been in the Heineken Cup the previous season, Newcastle dropped back into the European Challenge Cup. <mask> played in four of their six group games, scoring three tries in a match with Italian side L'Aquila. In the following round the Falcons faced <mask>'s old side Connacht, and he scored a try in a 23–3 victory at Kingston Park. Newcastle went through to the semi-finals, where <mask> played in a narrow defeat to London Irish, by a final score of 27–22.<mask> was named the supporters' player of the season in 2006. <mask> played only 9 games for Newcastle in the 2006–07 Premiership, but scored a try against the Sale Sharks. He also played 5 times in the Challenge Cup, scoring a try against Petrarca Padova, as Newcastle qualified to the quarter-finals. <mask> did not feature in the quarter-final loss to Clermont. <mask> left the Falcons in 2007, having played for the side 74 times. Return to Connacht
<mask> rejoined Connacht at the beginning of the 2007–08 season. He played in 14 games for the team in the 2007–08 Celtic League.<mask> also started in all 6 of Connacht's group games in the 2007–08 European Challenge Cup, which included two matches against his former side Newcastle. The 2008–09 saw him make fewer appearances in both competitions, playing in just 9 of Connacht's 2008–09 Celtic League matches and four of their Challenge Cup games. In the following season, <mask> made a total 23 appearances for the team, including starting all of Connacht's matches in the 2009–10 European Challenge Cup, as they made it to the semi-finals. The team faced a Toulon team featuring the English fly-half Jonny Wilkinson, a former Newcastle teammate of <mask>'s. Toulon won 19–12 in Galway, with Wilkinson kicking 14 of the French club's points. The following season saw <mask> start in every one of Connacht's 22 2010–11 Celtic League, and appear in all 6 of the team's Challenge Cup games, starting only one of these games on the bench, though Connacht failed to make it past the pool stages. He earned his 100th cap for Connacht that season, against Bayonne in the Challenge Cup on 15 January 2011.The 2011–12 season saw Connacht qualify for the Heineken Cup for the first time. <mask> started every one of Connacht's games, including the team's first ever win in the competition, in the home game against Harlequins. He also started 19 of Connacht's games in the Pro 12, the new name for the Celtic League. The following season saw <mask> play 13 games in the 2012–13 Pro 12, scoring a single try. Connacht also played in that season's Heineken Cup, this time winning three of their six games, with <mask> again an ever present. This was <mask>'s last season with the province however, as it had been announced in December 2012 that <mask> would join rival Irish province Leinster at the end of the season. He left Connacht having made 134 appearances in his second spell with the team, and 160 appearances overall.Leinster
<mask> joined Leinster ahead of the 2013–14 season. He made his debut against Scarlets on 6 September 2013 in the Pro 12. He made his European debut for the side in October that year against the Ospreys, and went on to start all six of Leinster's pool games in the 2013–14 Heineken Cup. RC Narbonne
On 6 March 2017, <mask> signed a two-year contract with French club RC Narbonne in the Pro D2 ahead of the 2017-18 season. On 17 May 2017,  <mask> confirmed that he will not be joining Narbonne and has been was forced to retire due to an elbow injury. International
In his early career <mask> was part of the English under-age set-up, but later switched his allegiance to Ireland. In January 2011, <mask> received his first call up for Ireland as part of the squad for the 2011 Six Nations Championship.He was the only uncapped player named in the squad, but did not earn any caps in the tournament. In August that year, however, <mask> made his Ireland debut in a Rugby World Cup warm-up game against Scotland at Murrayfield. <mask> was again part of the Ireland squad for the 2012 Six Nations tournament. He was a late replacement for Donncha O'Callaghan in the 32–14 win over Scotland on 10 March. <mask> again replaced O'Callaghan from the bench in the 30–9 defeat to England, seven days later. <mask> was called up for the 2012 November international matches. <mask> played in each game, starting both full tests that Ireland played.He partnered Donnacha Ryan in the second row in the match against South Africa on 10 November, as well as the game with Argentina on 24 November. Two months later he was called up to the 2013 Six Nations squad. This championship saw <mask> start 4 of Ireland's 5 games, missing the Scotland game through injury. References

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Connacht profile
IRFU profile
ESPNscrum profile

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title: Audrey Tang

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<mask> (; born 18 April 1981) is a Taiwanese free software programmer and Digital Minister of Taiwan, who has been described as one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities". In August 2016, <mask> was invited to join Taiwan's Executive Yuan as a minister without portfolio, making her the first transgender and the first non-binary official in the top executive cabinet. <mask> has identified as "post-gender" and accepts "whatever pronoun people want to describe me with online." <mask> is a community leader of Haskell and Perl and the core member of G0v. Early life
<mask> was born to father <mask> and mother Ya-ching Lee. Ya-ching Lee helped develop Taiwan's first consumer co-operative, and co-developed an experimental primary school employing indigenous teachers. <mask> was a child prodigy, reading works of classical literature before the age of five, advanced mathematics before six, and programming before eight, and she began to learn Perl at age 12.<mask> spent part of her childhood in Germany. Two years later, she dropped out of junior high school, unable to adapt to student life. By the year 2000, at the age of 19, <mask> had already held positions in software companies, and worked in California's Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur. In late 2005, <mask> began transitioning to female, including changing her English and Chinese names, citing a need to reconcile her outward appearance with her self-image. In 2017, <mask> said, "I've been shutting reality off, and lived almost exclusively on the net for many years, because my brain knows for sure that I am a woman, but the social expectations demand otherwise." In 2019, <mask> identified as "post-gender" or non-binary, responding to a request regarding pronoun preferences with "What’s important here is not which pronouns you use, but the experience...about those pronouns... I’m not just non-binary. I’m really whatever, so do whatever."The television news channel ETToday reported that <mask> has an IQ of 180. <mask> has been a vocal proponent for autodidacticism and individualist anarchism. Free software contributions
<mask> initiated and led the Pugs project, a joint effort from the Haskell and Perl communities to implement the Perl 6 language; <mask> also made contributions to internationalization and localization efforts for several Free Software programs, including SVK (a version-control software written in Perl for which <mask> also wrote a large portion of the code), Request Tracker, and Slash, created Ethercalc, building on Dan Bricklin's work on WikiCalc and their work together on SocialCalc, as well as heading Traditional Chinese translation efforts for various open source-related books. On CPAN, <mask> initiated over 100 Perl projects between June 2001 and July 2006, including the popular Perl Archive Toolkit (PAR), a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for Perl 5. <mask> is also responsible for setting up smoke test and digital signature systems for CPAN. In October 2005, <mask> was a speaker at O'Reilly Media's European Open Source Convention in Amsterdam. Political career

<mask> became involved in politics during Taiwan's 2014 Sunflower Student Movement demonstrations, in which <mask> volunteered to help the protesters occupying the Taiwanese parliament building broadcast their message.The prime minister invited <mask> to build media literacy curricula for Taiwan's schools, which was implemented in late 2017. Following this work, <mask> was appointed minister without portfolio for digital affairs in the Lin Chuan cabinet in August 2016, and took office as the digital minister on October 1, being placed in charge of helping government agencies communicate policy goals and managing information published by the government, both via digital means. At age 35, <mask> was the youngest minister without portfolio in Taiwanese history and was given this role to bridge the gap between the older and younger generations. As a conservative anarchist, <mask> ultimately desires the abolition of Taiwan and all states, and justifies working for the state by the opportunity it affords to promote worthwhile ends. <mask>'s conservatism stems from wanting to preserve free public spaces independent from the state, such as Internet properties, and wanting technological advances to be applied humanistically so that all, rather than a few, can reap its benefits, to the exclusion of others. <mask>'s department does not follow hierarchical or bureaucratic relationships. As of 2017, <mask>'s staff of 15 chose to work in the department.The group produces a weekly roadmap as collaborators, not orders. <mask> was quoted as saying, "My existence is not to become a minister for a certain group, nor to broadcast government propaganda. Instead, it is to become a 'channel' to allow greater combinations of intelligence and strength to come together." <mask>'s first initiative, the g0v project, involved swapping out the "o" for a zero in the government's "gov.tw" top-level domain to view more accessible and interactive versions of those governmental websites. The project was open source, in line with <mask>'s principles, and very popular, accessed millions of times each month. Another initiative, vTaiwan, uses social media paradigms for citizens to create digital petitions. Those with 5,000 signatures are brought to the premier and government ministries to be addressed.Changes implemented through this system include access to income tax software for non-Windows computers, and changes to cancer treatment regulations. The Taiwanese parliament complained that citizens had better access to influence regulation than they did as legislators. As of 2017, <mask> was working on sharing economy software that would facilitate the free exchange of resources in abundance instead of the ride-sharing and peer hotel applications for which the technology is known. As a general practice of "radical transparency", all of <mask>'s meetings are recorded, transcribed, and uploaded to a public website. <mask> also publicly responds to questions sent through another website. References

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Further reading

"The Frontiers Of Digital Democracy – Nathan Gardels interviews <mask> (in Mandarin)
 Podcast interview with <mask> on Perlcast
 Perl Archive Toolkit
 <mask>'s contributions on CPAN
 "SocialCalc"

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title: Robert Nixon (criminal)

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<mask> (ca. 1919June 16, 1939) was an American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana around 1919, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles "brick bat murders" of 1937. Depicted with racist imagery in the mainstream press after his arrest, he was given the nickname the "Brick Moron" as he killed his victims with bricks and was depicted as dimwitted. Convicted of murder, he was executed in Chicago in 1939. <mask> served, in part, as the basis of the character of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's 1940 social protest novel Native Son. Los Angeles murders

On April 4, 1937, Edna A. Worden (age 48) and her 12-year-old daughter, Marguerite Estelle, a junior high school student, were murdered in their apartment in the neighborhood of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles. Their bodies were discovered on Sunday, April 5, 1937, by the manager of their building, the Astoria Apartments, which was located next to the Angel's Flight stairs.Worden and her daughter were sexually assaulted and murdered with a brick that still had mortar attached to it. Los Angeles detectives linked the crime to the rape-murder of 20-year-old Rose Valdez, a young mother who was killed on March 2 as her baby slept in the same room in its crib. The police began searching for an African-American man who had been implicated in three similar assaults. On January 25, Mrs. H. W. Koll was attacked by an African-American man wielding a brick in Monte Sano Hospital. On February 3, a black perpetrator fractured the skull of Elizabeth Reis with a brick, in her hotel room. On March 28, Zoe Damrell was attacked and nearly murdered in her home by an African-American assailant wielding a brick; Damrell's assailant matched the description of a potential assailant seen lurking by Valdez's home before her murder. Chicago arrest
Using the alias Thomas Crosby, <mask> had survived in Los Angeles by petty theft, racking up arrests for shoplifting and purse-snatching.He was also suspected of auto-theft. He returned to Chicago, where another brick-killing was committed. On the night of May 27, 1938, Florence Johnson, the Caucasian wife of a Chicago fireman, had been slain by multiple blows on the head with a brick, as she fought off burglars. Her sister, who shared her apartment in Chicago's North Kenwood District on the South Side and slept in another room, saw two assailants leave the house. Within hours, <mask> was arrested (on the 28th), picked up because of blood on his clothes and scratched hands. Confession
<mask> blamed his accomplice, 19-year-old Earl Hicks, for Johnson's murder, which happened when the two were burglarizing her apartment. Hicks, who also was under arrest, put the blame for Johnson's murder solely on <mask>.Hicks told the police that <mask> had struck Johnson after she woke up and began screaming. <mask> confessed to another brick murder, that of 24-year-old Florence Thompson Castle, a Caucasian nightclub hostess, in her hotel room in 1936, which she shared with her seven-year-old son. At the time of the Castle killing, <mask> had written "Black Legion Game" on the dressing-table mirror with lipstick. (The Black Legion, a domestic terrorist group, was an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan that lynched Earl Little, the father of Malcolm X, and African American laborer Silas Coleman. Each member swore an oath "to give his all in any ‘war’ against Catholics, Jews, Negroes, aliens and Communists." After they murdered Works Progress Administration organizer Charles Poole, in 1936, the group was destroyed by a police crackdown. ) <mask> had inadvertently left behind his fingerprints, which implicated him in the murder.After the Castle slaying, he and Hicks had left Chicago and wound up in Los Angeles, where he took an assumed name. Faced with the evidence, <mask> told police he had been the person who had written on the mirror. According to the African American newspaper The Chicago Defender, which was skeptical about the arrest and subsequent "confession" to the Johnson murder (the newspaper always put the word confession in quotation marks), the Chicago police had alternately beaten <mask>, and offered him sweets and strawberry soda pop. The Defender characterized the white press' coverage of the <mask> case as "lurid and inflammatory." Fingerprint evidence
The Los Angeles police, learning of the brick murderer caught in Chicago, sent on fingerprints lifted from a milk bottle at the Wordens' apartment to the Chicago Police Department. The modus operandi of the crime and the fact that <mask> previously lived at 803 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles indicated a connection to the brick bat murders. <mask> initially denied having any connection with those killings, but the Los Angeles Police's fingerprint evidence was decisive.After Los Angeles Police Chief James Davis announced they had a positive identification with the brick bat murders from <mask>'s prints (which proved that Thomas Crosby was <mask>), he admitted to killing the Wordens, mother and child. Having confessed to the Castle killing, <mask> was taken by the Chicago police to the scene of the crime, Chicago's Devonshire Hotel. Despite a crowd of angry whites, some determined to lynch <mask>, who were held back by a cordon of 20 police officers, <mask> reenacted how he climbed into Castle's  fifth floor room from a fire escape. <mask> was held incommunicado in police custody for two weeks during which he confessed to raping and murdering nursing student Anna Kuchta in 1937, and assaulting three other Chicago women. He ultimately confessed to four murders in all, two in Chicago and two in Los Angeles. He continued to maintain that Hicks had killed Johnson with a brick at his trial. However, during his trial and in his appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court he denied these confessions and claimed he had been severely beaten and abused by police.No fingerprint evidence linked him to Florence Kennedy's death, nor did any blood samples. Witness testimony was also unreliable and contradictory. Depiction by press
The apparent senselessness of the crimes and the depiction of <mask> as a dim-witted African American led the press to nickname the murderer "The Brick Moron." Press coverage also called <mask> a "slow witted colored youth"  and "colored moron." The press reported that the Chicago Police had contacted the sheriff back in <mask>'s hometown of Tallulah, Louisiana, and the sheriff had reported back that <mask> had been a pickpocket and a thief, declaring: "nothing but death will cure him." The Chicago slayings were depicted as sex crimes, although sexual assault had not been a factor in the Windy City murders. In one notorious story, a Chicago Tribune story published on June 5, 1938, entitled "BRICK SLAYER IS LIKENED TO JUNGLE BEAST", used racist tropes in depicting <mask> when the police took him to the Devonshire Hotel to reenact Florence Thompson Castle's murder.The author of the piece, Charles Leavelle, likened <mask> to the "missing link" in human evolution. Describing <mask> climbing up the hotel to the fire escape, Leaville quoted a cop:  "'Look at him go,' says a policeman. 'Just like an ape.'" In the first paragraphs of his piece, Leaville declared: "civilization has left <mask> practically untouched. His hunched shoulders and long, sinewy arms that dangle almost to his knees; his out-thrust head and catlike tread all suggest the animal," evoking simian imagery common in the mainstream press at the time. Leaville summed up his description of <mask>:

He is very black-- almost pure Negro. His physical characteristics suggest an earlier link in the species.Along with the depiction of <mask> in the tropes of the dangerous Black Buck, the press ran stories on Florence Johnson, depicting her as a mother of two. Newspapers ran photos of her children, bearing such headlines as "Orphaned by Crime." The stories exacerbated racial tensions in Chicago, and the murder and resulting press frightened the white residents of Johnson's North Kenwood District and the adjacent Kenwood neighborhood, triggering white flight from the once-elite areas that now bordered black districts. Accomplice
<mask> sometimes had an accomplice to his acts, Earl Hicks  (a.k.a. Howard Jones Green). Hicks  was sent from Chicago to Los Angeles and taken to the Wordens' former room at the Astoria Apartments. He admitted to the L.A. police that he beat 12-year-old Marguerite on the head with the butt of a pistol, but denied taking part in a sexual assault or using a brick.Hicks said that he and <mask> stole eight dollars from the Wordens (equivalent to approximately $ in ). In addition, he confessed to attacking Zoe Damrell, for which he was sentenced to five-years-to-life. <mask>'s defense in the Florence Johnson murder was to claim that it was Hicks who wielded the brick that killed her. The defense was not effective as the  Illinois Supreme Court held that under the rules of felony murder, both burglars were responsible for the murder. The law holds both culpable: The perpetrator of a murder and any accomplice who does not actually commit or partake in the killing during the commission of another crime are equally as guilty of the murder. On January 27, 1939, Hicks was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the charge of murder in regards to Johnson's death. This occurred 5 months after <mask> was sentenced to death.Richard Wright
As Richard Wright wrote his novel Native Son in Chicago, the local papers were full of the Brick Moron story. In his essay, "How Bigger Was Born", Wright admitted to copying details from press stories of the <mask> case. Any Negro who has lived in the North or the South knows that times without number he has heard of some Negro boy being picked up on the streets and carted off to jail and charged with "rape." This thing happens so often that to my mind it had become a representative symbol of the Negro's uncertain position in America. Never for a second was I in doubt as to what kind of social reality or dramatic situation I'd put Bigger in, what kind of test-tube life I'd set up to evoke his deepest reactions. Life had made the plot over and over again, to the extent that I knew it by heart. So frequently do these acts recur that when I was halfway through the first draft of Native Son a case paralleling Bigger's flared forth in the newspapers of Chicago.(Many of the newspaper items and some of the incidents in Native Son are but fictionalized versions of the <mask> case and rewrites of news stories from the Chicago Tribune.) Execution
<mask> was convicted of the murder of Florence Castle and sentenced to death. He was executed in the electric chair at the Cook County Jail on June 16, 1939. See also
 List of serial killers in the United States

Sources
Life and Death Of and In the Astoria, On Bunker Hill: A Lost Neighborhood Found
Elizabeth Dale. <mask> and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1971. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. References

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title: Eugène Marais

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<mask> (; 9 January 1871 – 29 March 1936) was a South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer. He has been hailed as an intellectual genius and an Afrikaner hero. His early years, before and during the Boer War
<mask> was born in Pretoria, the thirteenth and last child of <mask> and Catharina Helena Cornelia van Niekerk. He attended school in Pretoria, Boshof and Paarl, and much of his early education was in English, as were his earliest poems. He matriculated at the age of sixteen. His family fluently spoke Afrikaans, Dutch, and English. In <mask>' early teens, he started writing English poetry and greedily devoured the verse of William Shakespeare, John Milton, Robert Burns, the Lake poets, and the English Romantics.After leaving school, he worked in Pretoria as a legal clerk and then as a journalist before becoming owner (at the age of twenty) of a newspaper called Land en Volk (Country and (the Afrikaner) People). He involved himself deeply in local politics. In his role as a journalist and newspaper editor, <mask> became a vocal critic of Paul Kruger, the widely revered President of the Republic of Transvaal, which made <mask> a very unpopular figure. He began taking opiates at an early age and graduated to morphine (then considered to be non-habit forming and safe) very soon thereafter. He became addicted, and his drug addiction ruled his affairs and actions to a greater or lesser extent throughout his life. When asked why he took drugs, he variously pleaded ill health, insomnia and, later, the death of his young wife as a result of the birth of his only child. Much later, he blamed accidental addiction while ill with malaria in Mozambique.Some claim his use of drugs was experimental and influenced by the philosophy of de Quincey. <mask> married Aletta Beyers, but she died from puerperal fever a year later, eight days after the birth of their son. <mask> Gerard was <mask>' only child. In 1897 — still in his mid-twenties – <mask> went to London to read medicine. However, under pressure from his friends, he entered the Inner Temple to study law. He qualified as an advocate. When the Boer War broke out in 1899, he was put on parole as an enemy alien in London.During the latter part of the war he joined a German expedition that sought to ship ammunition and medicines to the Boer Commandos via Portuguese East Africa. However, he was struck down there by malaria and, before the supplies could be delivered to the Boers, the war ended in 1902. After the war
<mask> switched from composing poetry in English to composing in Afrikaans during the despondent era that followed the British defeat and conquest of the two Boer Republics. As the leader of the Second Afrikaans Language Movement, Marais work was translated into various languages either late in his life or after his death. From 1905 <mask> studied nature in the Waterberg ('Water Mountain'), a wilderness area north of Pretoria, and wrote in his native Afrikaans about the animals he observed. His studies of termites led him to conclude that the colony ought to be considered as a single organism, a prescient insight that predated the elaboration of the idea by Richard Dawkins. In the Waterberg, Marais also studied the black mamba, spitting cobra and puff adder.Moreover, he observed a specific troop of baboons at length, and from these studies there sprang numerous magazine articles and the books My Friends the Baboons and The Soul of the Ape. He is acknowledged as the father of the scientific study of the behaviour of animals, known as Ethology. His book Die Siel van die Mier (The Soul of the Ant,  but usually given in English as the Soul of the White Ant) was plagiarised by Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck, who published La Vie des Termites (translated into English as The Life of Termites or The Life of  White Ants), an entomological book, in what has been called "a classic example of academic plagiarism" by University of London's professor of biology, David Bignell. <mask> accused Maeterlinck of having used his concept of the "organic unity" of the termitary in his book. <mask> had published his ideas on the termitary in the South African Afrikaans-language press, both in Die Burger in January 1923 and in Huisgenoot, which featured a series of articles on termites under the title "Die Siel van die Mier" (The Soul of the (White) Ant) from 1925 to 1926. Maeterlinck's book, with almost identical content, was published in 1926. It is alleged that Maeterlinck had come across <mask>' series of articles, and that it would have been easy for Maeterlinck to translate from Afrikaans to French, since Maeterlinck knew Dutch and had already made several translations from Dutch into French before.It was common at the time for worthy articles published in Afrikaans to be reproduced in Flemish and Dutch magazines and journals. <mask> sent a letter to Dr. Winifred de Kock in London about Maeterlinck, in which he wrote that The famous author had paid me the left-handed compliment of cribbing the most important part of my work... He clearly desired his readers to infer that he had arrived at certain of my theories (the result of ten years of hard labour in the veld) by his own unaided reason, although he admits that he never saw a termite in his life. You must understand that it was not merely plagiarism of the spirit of a thing, so to speak. He has copied page after page verbally. Supported by a coterie of Afrikaner Nationalist friends, <mask> sought justice through the South African press and attempted an international lawsuit. This was to prove financially impossible and the case was not pursued.However, <mask> gained a measure of renown as the aggrieved party and as an Afrikaner researcher who had opened himself up to plagiarism because he published in Afrikaans out of nationalistic loyalty. <mask> brooded at the time of the scandal: "I wonder whether Maeterlinck blushes when he reads such things [critical acclaim], and whether he gives a thought to the injustice he does to the unknown Boer worker?" Maeterlinck's own words in The Life of Termites indicate that the possible discovery or accusation of plagiarism worried him:

It would have been easy, in regard to every statement, to allow the text to bristle with footnotes and references. In some chapters there is not a sentence but would have clamoured for these; and the letterpress would have been swallowed up by vast masses of comment, like one of those dreadful books we hated so much at school. There is a short bibliography at the end of the volume which will no doubt serve the same purpose. Despite these misgivings, there is no reference to <mask> in the bibliography. Maeterlinck's other works on entomology include The Life of the Ant (1930).Professor VE d'Assonville wrote about Maeterlinck as "the Nobel Prize winner who had never seen a termite in his whole life and had never put a foot on the soil of Africa, least of all in the Waterberg.". There is evidence  that <mask>' time and research in the Waterberg brought him great peace and joy and provided him with artistic inspiration. In the poem Waar Tebes in die stil woestyn, he writes (as translated into English by J. W. Marchant) 'There would I know peace once more, where Tebes in the quiet desert lifts it mighty rockwork on high ...'. (Tebus is one of the principal peaks of the area). That said, Marais was a long-term morphine addict and suffered from melancholy, insomnia, depression and feelings of isolation. Also while living in the Waterberg District, <mask>' literary output was heavily influenced by, "the pure poetry," he learned from local San people, Nama people, Khoi people, and from Herero refugees from German Southwest Africa. Marais also collected a very large store of African folklore in the Waterberg District from an elderly San storyteller locally nicknamed Ou Hendrick.<mask> published his stories in Afrikaans under the title Dwaalstories ("Wandering Stories"). Several years before his death, the Rev. A.J. Louw, an Afrikaner Calvinist dominee known as "The Pope of the Highveld", confronted Marais during a haus bezoek, or visitation, for believing in Darwinian evolution. Marais replied, "Don't pick on me, Dominee. It's a matter between you and the Almighty. I really had nothing to do with the creation of the Universe."One of <mask>ier ("Deep River"), is an ode to the drug morphine and was written ten years before it's author's death by his own hand. Death
On March 29, 1936, having been forsaken by his friends and family and deprived of morphine for several days, <mask> borrowed a shotgun on the pretext of killing a snake and shot himself in the chest. The wound was not fatal, and <mask> therefore put the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger. <mask> took his own life on the farm Pelindaba, which belonged to his friend Gustav Preller. For those who are familiar with the dark moods of certain of <mask>' poems, there is a black irony there; in Zulu language, Pelindaba means 'the end of the business' – although the more common interpretation is 'Place of great gatherings'. Robert Ardrey, an admirer of <mask>'s, attributed <mask>' suicide to the theft of his intellectual property by Maeterlinck. Ardrey said in his introduction to The Soul of the Ape, published in 1969, that 'As a scientist he was unique, supreme in his time, yet a worker in a science unborn.'He also refers to <mask>' work at length in his book African Genesis. Eugéne <mask> and his wife Aletta lie buried in the Heroes' Acre, Pretoria. Legacy
<mask>' work as a naturalist, although by no means trivial (he was one of the first scientists to practise ethology and was repeatedly acknowledged as such by Robert Ardrey and others), gained less public attention and appreciation than his literary work. He discovered the Waterberg Cycad, which was named after him (Encephalartos eugene-maraisii). He was the first person to study the behaviour of wild primates, and his observations continue to be cited in contemporary evolutionary biology. He is among the greatest of the Afrikaner poets and remains one of the most popular, although his output was not large. Opperman described him as the first professional Afrikaner poet; <mask> believed that craft was as important as inspiration for poetry.Along with J.H.H. de Waal and G.S. Preller, he was a leading light in the Second Afrikaans Language Movement in the period immediately after the Second Boer War, which ended in 1902. Some of his finest poems deal with the wonders of life and nature, but he also wrote about inexorable death. <mask> was isolated in some of his beliefs. He was a self-confessed pantheist and claimed that the only time he entered a church was for weddings. An assessment of <mask>' status as an Afrikaner hero was published by historian Sandra Swart.Although an Afrikaner patriot, Marais was sympathetic to the cultural values of the black tribal peoples of the Transvaal; this is seen in poems such as Die Dans van die Reën (The Dance of the Rain). The following translation of <mask>' Winternag" is by J. W. Marchant:

"Winter's Night"

O the small wind is frigid and spare
and bright in the dim light and bare
as wide as God's merciful boon
the veld lies in starlight and gloom
and on the high lands
spread through burnt bands
the grass-seed, astir, is like beckoning hands. O East-wind gives mournful measure to song
Like the lilt of a lovelorn lass who's been wronged
In every grass fold
bright dewdrop takes hold
and promptly pales to frost in the cold! While the above translation is generally faithful, and is a fine poem in English, it does not quite capture the terse directness of the Afrikaans language, which makes Afrikaans poetry so bittersweet and evocative, striking straight to the heart and soul. Below follows a translation by Farrell Hope, which may closer reflect the original Afrikaans idiom. Note the above version by J. W. Marchant, as well as the third version below by At de Lange, both translate the Afrikaans word in the poem skade (damage) as if it was skadu (shade). This is a common error in translating the poem and misses the point <mask> was making: that the British forces had destroyed the Boer farms."Winternight"

O cold is the slight wind,
and keen. Bare and bright in dim light
is seen,
as vast as the graces of God,
the veld's starlit and fire-scarred sod. To the high edge of the lands,
spread through the scorched sands,
new seed-grass is stirring
like beckoning hands. O mournful the tune
of the East-wind refrain,
like the song of a girl
who loved but in vain. One drop of dew glistens
on each grass-blade's fold
and fast does it pale
to frost in the cold! An English translation by At de Lange preserves the musicality of the poem quite well:

"Winter's Night"

O cold is the windlet
and spare. And bright in the dim-light
and bare,
as vast as God's mercy has bade,
lie the plains in starlight and shade.And high in the ridges,
spreaded in burnt ditches,
are the grass plumes stirring
like beckoning hands. O tune with grief laden
on the east wind's drone,
like the song of a maiden
in her love made alone. In each grass blade's fold
a drop of dew gleams bold,
and it pales quickly
to frost in the cold! Die Wonderwerker
This 2012 movie directed by Katinka Heyns explores <mask>' convalescence from malaria on a farm in the Waterberg. Cultural References
 <mask> is fictionalised in Brian Catling's Vorrh trilogy in the last of the series, The Cloven. The Soul of the Ape is visible on the floor of the hotel room of the protagonist in the 1975 film The Passenger by Michelangelo Antonioni. The Soul of the Ape and The Soul of the Ant are both referenced in the book  The Soul of Viktor Tronko by David Quammen, published 1987

 The Marais name
The progenitors of the Marais name in the region were Charles and <mask>, from the Paris region of France.The Marais name has retained its original French spelling and pronunciation in South Africa. See also
 Afrikaans folklore
 <mask>is Prize

 Bibliography
 The Soul of the White Ant, 1937, first published as Die Siel van die Mier in 1925, in Afrikaans
 The Soul of the Ape, 1919, published posthumously in 1969. Notes
  Ces Francais Qui Ont Fait L'Afrique Du Sud. Translation: The French People Who Made South Africa. Bernard Lugan. January 1996. ' Opperman, D.J.Undated but probably 1962. Senior verseboek. Nasionale Boekhandel Bpk, Kaapstad. Negende druk, 185pp
  Schirmer, P. 1980. The concise illustrated South African encyclopaedia. Central News Agency, Johannesburg. First edition, about 212pp.Rousseau, Leon 1982, The Dark Stream—The Story of <mask>. Jonathan Ball Publishers, JeppesTown. Hogan, C.Michael, Mark L. Cooke and Helen Murray, The Waterberg Biosphere, Lumina Technologies Inc, 22 May 2006. <mask>, <mask>, Soul of the Ape, Human and Rousseau (1937)
  Ardrey, Robert The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations, 1966
  Van Niekerk, H. L. <mask>is: Nuwe Feite en Nuwe Inligting 2010 (<mask>: New Facts and New Insights'')

References

External links
 Eugène Marais Foundation
 <mask>is the Poet Some key poems by <mask> (in Afrikaans)
 Encounter South Africa Article
 The Soul of the White Ant online pdf
 sahistory.org.za Entry on <mask>
 Leon Rousseau, <mask>: The great longing, Sunday Times, 24 September 2000

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title: Derrick Mason

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<mask> (born January 17, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for fifteen seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Tennessee Oilers in the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft after playing college football for the Michigan State Spartans. Following eight seasons with the Oilers franchise (which was renamed the Titans in 1999), including two Pro Bowl selections (2000 and 2003), <mask> signed with the Baltimore Ravens in 2005. He became the Ravens' all-time leading receiver with 5,777 yards from 2005 to 2010. He spent 2011 with the New York Jets and Houston Texans. <mask> retired as a Baltimore Raven on June 11, 2012. He was the last active NFL player to have played for the Oilers.Early years
<mask> attended Mumford High School in Detroit, Michigan. He set a school record for both catches (70) and receiving yards (1,243). College career
<mask> played college football at Michigan State. During his four-year career, he set a team record for kick off return yards of 2,384. He also caught eight touchdowns. He played under Nick Saban in 1995 and 1996 where he would catch 106 passes for 1,652 yards and 6 TD. He also played alongside Muhsin Muhammad in 1995.Professional career

Tennessee Titans
<mask> started his career with the Oilers/Titans after being drafted in the fourth round (98th overall) in the 1997 NFL Draft. In his rookie season, he played in 16 games recording 14 catches for 186 yards. He made his NFL debut versus the Oakland Raiders on August 31. The following season, he again played in all 16 games and this time recording 25 catches for 333 yards and three touchdowns, the first of his career came versus the Chicago Bears on October 25. He also returned 31 punts for 228 yards. In the 1999 season, <mask> gained 1,030 yards returning punts and kickoffs, and added 8 kickoff returns for 322 yards and a touchdown in the team's three playoff games,  assisting the Titans to Super Bowl XXXIV where he returned 5 kickoffs for 122 yards and caught 2 passes for 18 yards in Tennessee's 23–16 loss. He also returned a kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown in the Titans 33-14 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC title game.In the 2000 season, he led the NFL in punt return yards (662) while also catching 63 passes for 895 yards and returning 41 kickoffs for 1,132 yards (an NFL leading 27 yards per return average), giving him 2,690 combined receiving and special teams yards, breaking the NFL record for all-purpose yards in a single season previously held by Lionel James (2,535). Darren Sproles broke <mask>'s record in 2011 with 2,696 yards. He is only the second player in Titans history to pass the 2,000 yard mark. He earned his first trip to the Pro Bowl. In 2001, he started 15 games and scored 9 touchdowns, a career-high. Just as he had done the previous season, he went past the 2,000 all purpose yards mark, the first Titan to do this in consecutive seasons. The following season, he started in 14 games and led the team in a number of categories including receptions, reception yards and touchdowns.In 2003, he started all 16 games and finished the season with 1,303 receiving yards and 95 receptions which was the 5th highest in the NFL. The following season, in 2004, he again started all 16 games and was ranked 2nd in the NFL with 96 receptions for 1,168 yards and seven touchdowns. Baltimore Ravens
<mask> signed with the Baltimore Ravens as a free agent on March 7, 2005. In his first year with the team, he started in all 16 games and recorded 86 receptions, a Ravens franchise season record. In 2006, he played in 16 games with 15 starts and finished the campaign with 68 receptions for 750 yards and two touchdowns. <mask> caught the pass that gave Steve McNair 30,000 passing yards for his career in the 19-7 win in the season finale against the Buffalo Bills. The following year, <mask> had 103 receptions for 1,087 yards and five touchdowns.<mask> became the first player in Ravens history to record 100 receptions in a season. He also had a 79-yard score. In 2008, <mask> was selected as a third alternate wide receiver for the Pro Bowl. In 2008, he had 80 receptions for 1037 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns. He was the primary target for rookie quarterback Joe Flacco. <mask> dislocated his shoulder when he fell after a catch in a game against the Houston Texans, eventually coming back to finish the contest. <mask> also played with a shoulder he separated against the New York Giants.<mask> re-aggravated of his injury against the Dallas Cowboys, but finished the game with six catches for 66 yards and one touchdown. He led the team with a postseason career-high 12 receptions for 190 yards, including a postseason career long 48-yard touchdown reception. The 2009 season saw <mask> continue his solid production with 73 catches for 1,028 yards. <mask> scored seven times, two more than the previous year. On November 21, 2010, <mask> caught his 900th reception, becoming the 13th receiver in NFL history to do so. In a 2010 game against the Carolina Panthers, <mask> and Flacco got into an argument on the sidelines. <mask> was reportedly upset that Flacco was late in getting a pass to him.The two apparently settled their differences. <mask> had 61 catches for 802 yards and seven scores that season. When the NFL announced the new collective bargaining agreement on July 25, 2011, the Ravens announced their intention to release <mask> upon the start of free agency to free salary cap space. He was formally released by the team on July 28. New York Jets
<mask> signed with the New York Jets on August 6, 2011. His statistical production was limited. Also, there were some problems in the team locker room.Some said that <mask> was a cancer to the team, and that he complained about offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer's playcalling. Said <mask>, "I never complained to Rex Ryan or Mike Tannenbaum, and I hope that one day it come out who actually did it, but I doubt it." <mask> said in a report published by Scout.com. "I never went to Rex or Mike to complain about Brian's play-calling." Houston Texans
The Jets traded <mask> to the Houston Texans on October 11, 2011, in exchange for a conditional seventh-round draft pick. <mask> caught only six passes for 55 yards with the team. He was later released on December 12.Retirement
<mask> announced his retirement from professional football by signing a 1-day contract with Baltimore Ravens on June 11, 2012. Marci is "The <mask> Foundation" organization's Vice President. In 2012, <mask> was hired as the wide receivers coach at Ensworth High School in Nashville, Tennessee alongside former teammate, linebackers coach, Lemanski Hall. <mask> was previously a morning radio host for 102.5 The Game, a sports station based in Nashville. <mask> has ownership stake in Nashville Company SWIFTWICK. References

External links
 Ravens Player Bio
 Derrick Mason Blog

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title: Marzia Tedeschi

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<mask>  is an Italian actress, who mainly stars in Italian and German films, TV shows and plays. She lives in Berlin. She was born on 16 March 1976 in Cittá della Pieve als Marzia Lucacchioni, Italy. She graduated with honors in Theater and Performing arts in La Sapienza University of Rome in 2003. She studied acting in England and attended many acting workshops along with her versatile work in theater and in the small and big screen. <mask> holds great experience and knowledge in the Stanislavsky-Strasberg method, in Theater and Performing arts and lately in the Sandy Meisner Technique. She studies often with the English acting coach Mike Bernardin at the Actor Space of Berlin.Lately she attended the European Masterclass "The power of the actor" with the American coach Ivana Chubbuck in Berlin in 2015. Acting career
<mask> began her career as a stage actress with the role of Antigone, directed by Kathy Marchand, at the Ateneo Theater while at college in Rome in 2001. She made many theatrical performances in leading roles as well as co-roles across Europe, and her first role on TV was in 2001 in the soap "Carabinieri", directed by Raffaele Mertes, Mediaset. Her debut on the big screen followed with the much-acclaimed short film "Life is an Illusion", released in 2004 and shot in Los Angeles. Although she played in some TV movies in following years, it was the feature film "Il Pane Nudo"(2006), directed by Rachid Benhadj, that became a turning point in her career. The movie is based on the autobiographical novel "El Khubz el Hafi" of the Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri. <mask> played the role of a cynical whore named Sallafa who was the protagonist's lover, played by Said Taghmaoui.<mask> shaved her head for the role. Despite of her limited screen space, she gave a powerful performance and her decision to shave the long silky tresses was warm welcomed and successful. She was awarded as "Best Actress"  for this movie in 2006 Tiburon Film Festival, happened in San Francisco. Then "Best Actress" Award also in Rotterdam Film Festival 2006 and "Best supporting actress" Award in BAFF Festival in Italy. She played in Italy the role of Irene in the TV Series "Il Bene e il Male" directed by Giorgio Serafini, Rai1, the role of the teacher Federica in "Lab-Story", directed by Daniele Auricchio, Rai Edu and a bosniac woman, named Jasmine, in the popular Italian TV Series "L´Isola" directed by Alberto Negrin, Rai1, 2012. Eventually she became a busy television actress above all in Germany, where she moved lately and where she made her debut in the German television industry in 2013 with the role of "Francesca di Matteo" in "Patchwork Family" TV Soap, that was live on Sat1 channel. After that she performed in the popular Bavarian TV series "Dahoam is Dahoam" in the role of "Gina"   Meanwhile, she never left her passion for theater.Her last performance was the much acclaimed "Clan Macbeth" in Dorothy Strelsin Theater in Manhattan, MITF Festival in New York, 2014. Clan Macbeth is an adaptation from William Shakespeare's popular drama in which she played the role of Lady Macbeth. She will be seen in the upcoming season of Tatort, the popular German drama series which will be aired in 2015, where she plays a character named Maria, the new Italian girlfriend of the inspector Kopper. She attended also as a member of the jury, Kufar Theatre Festival in Minsk, Belarus, 2014 and she was also a member of the international short-film jury in Damascus Film Festival 2010. Filmography
"Life is an Illusion" short (2004)
"Il pane nudo - Al Khubz al hafi" feature-film (2006)
"Il compito" short (2007)
"No Problem" feature-film (2008)
"La cura" short (2011)
"Mancanza-Studio" feature-film (2011)
"Ein Bad völler Tränen" short (2014)
"Das Kokainbiest" short (2015)

Television
"Carabinieri" Mediaset (2001–02)''
"Lab-story" Rai Edu (2007–08)
"Il Bene e il Male" Rai (2008–09)
"L´Isola" Rai (2012)
"Patchwork Family", Sat1 channel, Germany (2013)
"Dahoam is Dahoam" Costantin Produktion, Germany (2013)
"Tatort" - "Die Sonne stirbt wie ein Tier" (2015)
"Goster" (2015)
 "Urlaub mit Mama" (2018). Awards
Best Actress Award in Tiburon Film Festival 2006 for "Il Pane Nudo"
Best Actress Award in BAFF Festival 2006 for "Il Pane Nudo"
Best Actress Award in Arab Film Festival 2006, the Netherlands for "Il Pane Nudo"

Theatre
"Clan Macbeth" Béjaia int. theatre Festival and National theatre of Algier, Algeria (2015)."Clan Macbeth", Poti int.dirette Festival, Georgia (2015). "Clan Macbeth"by William Shakespeare,role Lady Macbeth, Theatre Dorothy Strelsin, Manhattan,MTTF, New York (2014)
"Rock Caligola" by Albert Camus, role Cesonia, dir. by Daniele Scattina,Theatre Tor Bella Monaca, Rom, Italien (2014)
"Clan Macbeth"by W. Shakespeare,role Lady Macbeth, dir. by Daniele Scattina, "Amman Theatre Festival",Jordan (2011)
"Clan Macbeth"by W.Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth," Theatre degli avvaloranti"PG,"Theatre Tor di Nona" Rome (2011)
"Attivamente coivolte" by Daniela Giordano, from Euripide, role Andromaca,Theatre Palladium,Rome (2008)
"Come lo fanno le ragazze"by Ilda Bartoloni, role Elisa, dir.by Daniela Giordano,Theatre Piccolo Eliseo,Rome(2008)
"Incursioni amorose"by Roberto Leoni, two roles/ two one act, Denny Cechini Teatro Sala Petrolini, Rome(2007)
"L´Isola e il vento"by Giulio Querini, role La maga, Giulio Querini Teatro Ateneo, Rome (2006)
"L´Impresario delle Smirne" by Carlo Goldoni, role Lucrezia Giuggioli, dir. by Massimo Belli, Taormina Theater Festival and National tour(2004/2005)
"L´Italiana in Algeri",role Paggia-servitrice, dir. by Maurizio Scaparro Teatro dell´Opera, Rome 2004
"La Boheme", role a prostitute, dir. by Franco Zeffirelli, Teatro dell´Opera, Rome 2004
"Drunken Song, or some men are born posthumously", dir.by Terry Enright, Theatre "The Studio" Exmouth, England 2002
"Red red shoes", dir. by Rith Way,Theatre "The Studio" Exmouth, England 2002
"Francesca la Santa della Little Italy", role Suora, dir.by Massimo Belli, Theatre "La Fontana", Milan 2001
"Antigone"by Bertold Brecht Antigone Kathy Marchand, Theatre Ateneo, Rome 2001

External links

http://www.actors-pool.de/actor/profil/marzia-tedeschi
http://stagebuddy.com/reviews/mitf-review-clan-macbeth

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