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<mask> (born 26 July 1949) is a South African born Irish composer and pianist. He studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel in Cologne in the 1970s and later became associated with the Neue Einfacheit (New Simplicity) movement in the city. In the late 1970s he became interested in the indigenous music of his homeland and began a series of pieces which attempted to combine aspects of African and contemporary European music. Although <mask> later moved away from any direct engagement with African music, certain residual elements such as interlocking rhythms, repetition and open forms are still detectable in his music since the early 1990s which takes a new direction more redolent of certain schools of abstract art. He settled in Ireland permanently in 1986 and was granted Irish citizenship in 1995. Biography
During his teenage years <mask> developed an interest in the music of the post-war avant garde as well as abstract painting. He pursued a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of the Witwatersrand graduating in 1972.After postgraduate study at the University of Aberdeen he moved in 1973 to Cologne, where he became one of only five students admitted to Stockhausen's composition class at the Musikhochschule. He became intimately acquainted with Stockhausen's extensions of serial technique and eventually became his teaching assistant in 1975–76, replacing Richard Toop. He also took lessons in music theatre from Mauricio Kagel as well as taking piano lessons from Aloys Kontarsky and studying electronic music with Hans-Ulrich Humpert. While in Cologne Volans became increasingly dissatisfied with the new-music movement in the city, which he perceived to be dogmatic and creatively restricting. Alongside other composers such as Walter Zimmermann, Gerald Barry, and Michael von Biel, Volans began to question the hegemony of the prevailing new-music style that was based on an extension of the serial techniques of the previous generation. This group of composers, loosely referred to as the Cologne School, marked the start of the Neue Einfachheit (New Simplicity) movement which began with a concert series organised by Zimmermann in January 1977. Composers linked with the New Simplicity generally sought a more transparent and direct style, an openness to aspects of tonality and a freedom to use pre-existing material quite in contrast to the intense abstraction of the post-war avant garde.Africa series
Despite having grown up in South Africa, <mask> had little contact with the indigenous music of his homeland due to apartheid strictures which largely prohibited the intermingling of black and white cultures. It wasn't until he was commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) to undertake a number of field trips between 1976 and 1979 to South Africa to record various kinds of indigenous African music that he began to actively take an interest in this music. These field trips alerted him to aspects of indigenous African culture, both musical and visual, which he had previously overlooked. He thus set about planning a series of works in which he attempted to reconcile African and European aesthetics. At the start of the series <mask> envisaged that the African source material would be quite recognizable but as the series progressed he would gradually exercise more and more intervention into it so that by the end of the series the African material would be fully assimilated into his own style:

As a political statement, <mask>, as a white South African, felt that the series might lend some sort of contribution to the struggle against apartheid and some performances were met with protests from the musical establishment in South Africa. The most well-known piece from the series is White Man Sleeps (1982) for two harpsichords, viola da gamba and percussion. In this piece <mask> attempted to "Africanize" Western European art music by transferring paraphrases and transcriptions of Venda, San, Nyungwe and Lesotho music, as well as his own material, onto re-tuned period instruments.The subsequent reworking of the piece for a recording by the Kronos Quartet became one of the biggest-selling string-quartet releases of all time. The works immediately following White Man Sleeps, such as the second and third quartets, continue to use some African references, but display an increasing preoccupation with non-directional narratives influenced by the uneven and often random patterns present in African textiles, as well as the open approach to time present in the late works of Morton Feldman. Towards abstraction
Despite the success of the African series, <mask> began to find himself increasingly categorized as an "African" composer—a label which he found creatively restricting. In the late 1980s he began to pursue a new direction, developing a style characterized by an overall tendency towards increasing abstraction occasionally punctuated by works where literal African elements once again re-emerge. This is clearly seen in works such as Chevron (1990) and One Hundred Frames (1991), as well as his opera The Man with Footsoles of Wind (1993) based on the last year of the life of the 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud. A parallel development to this was his increasing interest in writing for dance, an art-form particularly suited to <mask>'s open conception of formal structure and he has collaborated with the choreographers Jonathan Burrows, Siobhan Davies and Shobana Jeyasingh. The key work which confirmed this new direction is Cicada (1994) for two pianos, which was inspired by his experience inside one of James Turrell's Skyspaces.The piece involves very gradual adjustments of tone, harmonic colour and tempo being applied to a repeated sonority based on a B-flat major and A major triads. Described by the composer as his first minimalist piece, Cicada'''s reduction in content and largely flat surface is a departure from the generally high degree of activity which marked many of his earlier works. Although there is no recognizably African material present in the piece, the existence of interlocking patterns, inherent rhythms and open non-developmental forms demonstrate how African elements continue to inform his work in a background capacity. In a number of works since Cicada, <mask> limited the content and pursued a similar policy of incremental changes at the margins of the material. The reduction of material in these pieces is even more extreme than in Cicada and exemplifies a tendency which <mask> has described as follows:

Two works in particular demonstrate this tendency – String Quartet No. 6 and the Concerto for Double Orchestra. String Quartet No.6 is not in fact a string quartet at all but a piece for two spatially separated string quartets which can be performed live with both quartets or with one live and the other pre-recorded. The vast majority of the piece consists of just two chords which overlap between both quartets creating a blurring of the harmonies not unlike the blurring of colour fields in the paintings of Mark Rothko, which served as the piece's inspiration. In the Concerto for Double Orchestra (2001) static harmonies are spatially distributed back and forth between a split orchestra with a focus on the "edges" of the chords through accented pizzicatos and dynamics rather than "bleeding" them together. Both of these works demonstrate <mask>'s concerns with moving the site of musical discourse to the margins of the material, a strategy inspired by his lifelong interest in visual art. The music tends to focus on the interplay between dynamics, voicings, register, timbre and types of attack; parameters which are usually considered secondary to larger-scale transformations in the domain of pitch and rhythm. The reduced approach to content directs attention towards changes in the slightest details and encourages a form of engagement perhaps more prevalent in the world of visual art. This tendency towards reduction is not universal, however.Perhaps due to the inherent nature of the medium, <mask>'s concertante works such as the Trio Concerto (2005) and the Piano Concerto No. 2 (2006) are notable for their virtuosic writing and dynamism. <mask>'s most recent work constitutes yet another phase of development. Beginning with The Partenheimer Project (2007), much of the new work explores the interaction between individual parts playing independently of each other to some degree. The Partenheimer Project is spatially separated into three ensembles while both Violin: Piano (2008) and Cello: Piano (2008) contain instruments playing at different tempi propelled for the most part by irregular repetition. The transparent scoring and negation of any sense of goal-orientated progression lends the music a static floating quality. While <mask>'s music has often been viewed as a reaction to the perceived excesses of serialism, it is nevertheless significant that his approach to dynamics and articulation is always structurally rather than expressively directed.In this way, <mask> identifies with the tradition of modernism and his music studiously avoids any lapses into postmodern nostalgia. He has been described by the music critic Kyle Gann as:

In 1997 the BBC Music Magazine listed <mask> as one of the 50 most important living composers. In 1999 the Southbank Centre in London hosted a 50th birthday celebration of his work, for his 60th the Wigmore Hall in London organised a "Kevin Volans Day" of concerts, and in 2019 the Wigmore Hall again had a concert celebrating his 70th birthday. Students

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 Belfast (1986–89) and at Princeton University (1992). Since moving to Ireland in 1985 he has exerted a considerable influence on the direction of music in the country through his teaching. His notable students include, Andrew Hamilton, Jennifer Walshe, Simon O'Connor, Deirdre Gribbin, Elaine Agnew, Deirdre MacKay, Jonathan Nangle and Juergen Simpson.Discography
 She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket (Robin Schulkowsky, CD, Sony, 1985)
 String Quartet No. 1: 'White Man Sleeps' (Kronos Quartet, CD, Elektra Nonesuch, 1987)
 String Quartet No. 1: 'White Man Sleeps', (Dance no. 1) (Kronos Quartet, CD, Elektra Nonesuch, 1987)
 String Quartet No. 1: 'White Man Sleeps', Mbira, She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket, White Man Sleeps (Original version) (The Smith Quartet, <mask>, Robert Hill, Margriet Tindemans, Robin Schuikowsky, CD, Landor, 1990)
 'Norwegian Wood: Happiness is a Warm Gun' (Lennon, arr. Volans) (Aki Takahashi, CD, EMI, 1991)
 String Quartet No. 2: 'Hunting Gathering' (Kronos Quartet, CD, Elektra Nonesuch, 1991)
 String Quartet No.1: 'White Man Sleeps' (Kronos Quartet, CD, Elektra Nonesuch, 1992)
 String Quartet No. 3: 'The Songlines' (3 rd movement) (Balanescu Quartet, CD, Argos, 1994)
 String Quartet No. 2: 'Hunting Gathering', String Quartet No. 3: 'The Songlines' (Balanescu Quartet, CD, Decca/Argo, 1994)
 String Quartet No. 5: 'Dancers on a Plane', String Quartet No. 4: 'The Ramanujan Notebooks', Movement for String Quartet (The Duke Quartet, CD, Collins Classics, 1994)
 Mbira (Kevin Volans Ensemble, CD, WDR World Network Recording, 1995)
 White man Sleeps (Guitar version of Dance No. 4) (Tilman Hoppstock, CD, Signum, 1995) Into Darkness (Sequenza, CD, Neuma, 1998)
 This is How it is, Walking song, Leaping Dance, Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, Untitled (Netherlands Wind Ensemble, cond.Wim Steinmann and Daniel Harding, CD, Chandos, 1999)
 Cicada, Duets (Mathilda Hornsveld, Jill Richards, CD, Black Box, 2000)
 This is How it is (Netherlands Wind Ensemble, cond. Wim Steinmann, CD, CMC, 2001)
 String Quartet No. 2: 'Hunting; Gathering', String Quartet No. 6, String Quartet No. 1: 'White Man Sleeps' (The Duke Quartet, CD, Black Box, 2002)
 White Man Sleeps (Guitar Quartet Version) (Dublin Guitar Quartet, CD, Grelslate Records, 2005)
 Piano Trio (Fidelio Trio, CD, NMC, 2008)
 Walking Song (David Adams, CD, All Write Music, 2008)
 Akrodha, Asange, She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket (Jonny Axelsson, CD, 2008)
 The Partenheimer Project (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, CD, Ikon Gallery/Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2008)
 Four Guitars (Dublin Guitar Quartet, CD, CMC, 2009)

Filmography
 Dance Films by Adam Roberts (Duke Quartet, <mask>ans, DVD, The Jonathan Burrows Group, 1995)
 Zeno at 4am. (Sontonga Quartet, Pumeza Matshikiza, Lwazi Ncube, William Kentridge, DVD, Marian Goodman Gallery, 2002)
 Evidenti: A Film Conceived By Sylvie Guillem (Duke Quartet, DVD, NVC Arts, 1995)

Selected compositions
Stage
 Correspondences, Dance Opera (1990)
 The Man with Footsoles of Wind, Chamber opera (1993)

Orchestra
 One Hundred Frames (1991)
 Concerto for Double Orchestra (2001)
 Strip-Weave for Orchestra (2002–03)
 Symphony: Daar Kom die Alibama (2010)

Soloist with orchestra
 Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1995)
 Cello Concerto (1997)
 Trio Concerto (2005)
 Piano Concerto No. 2 'Atlantic Crossing' (2006)
 Piano Concerto no.3 (2010)
 Chakra for 3 percussionists and Orchestra (2011)
 Piano Concerto no. 4 (2014)
 Concerto for Uilleann Pipes and large Orchestra (2016/17)
 Concerto for solo Percussion and ensemble (2012)

Chamber music
 Matepe (1980)
 White Man Sleeps (1982)
 Walking Song (1984)
 Leaping Dance (1984)
 Kneeling Dance (1984 rev. 1987)
 String Quartet No. 1 'White Man Sleeps' (1986)
 String Quartet No. 2 'Hunting: Gathering'(1987)
 String Quartet No. 3 'The Songlines' (1988 rev. 1993)
 Chevron (1990)
 Cicada (1994)
 String Quartet No.5 'Dancers on a Plane' (1994)
 Untitled (1996)
 String Quartet No. 6 (2000)
 1000 bars (2002)
Chakra for 3 percussionists (2003)
 Piano Trio (2002, rev. 2005)
 Shiva Dances (2006)
 The Partenheimer Project (2007)
 Mr. Handel's Return (2008)
 Violin: Piano (2008)
 Viola: Piano (2008)
 Cello: Piano (2009)
 Trumpet, Vibe, Cello, Piano (2009)
 No Translation (2009)
 Piano Trio No. 2 (2009)
 String Quartet no. 11 (2013)
 Looping Point (2012)
 Turning Point (2013)
 Calefaccion (2013)
 Matepe for Calefax (2013)
 7 Flutes (2014)
 Abhaya (2014)
 7 Bass Winds (2015)
 4 Marimbas (2015)
 String Quartet no. 12 (2015)
 perc : piano 1 (2015)
 Akrodha 3 (2015)
 for Bob (2015)
 perc : piano 2 (2016)
 C.Roll.A.eS.H. (2016)
 cello:piano 2 (2016)
 Spoor (2017)
 Piano Trio no.3 (2017)
 Seven Clarinets and One Flute (2017)
 clarinet:violin:piano (with CPE) (2017)
 Blackbird:Blackbird 1–4 for 2 pianos (2018)

Solo instrumental
 clarinet:solo (2015)
 L'Africaine (2016)

Solo percussion
 She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket (1985)
 Asanga (1997)
 Akrodha (1998)

Solo piano
 Three Structural Etudes (2004)
 Three Rhythmic Etudes (2003)
 Piano Etudes Nos. 7 & 8 (2008)
 Piano Etude No. 9 (2008)
 3 Books of Piano pieces for 'Young' Players (2012)
 PMB Impromptu (2014)
 Piano Etude No. 10 (2015, withdrawn)
 Piano Etude No. 11 (2015, rev. 2018)
 Piano Etude No. 12 (2015, rev.2018)
 Marabi Nights (2016)
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Vocal
 Gloso a lo Divino (2006)
 Canciones del Alma (2009)
 3 Xhosa songs (2012)
 The Mountain that Left (2013)

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Further reading

 Anon. n.d. (a) "Volans, <mask>". CMC Composer Profile. .
 Ballantine, Christopher. 2001–2002. "Christopher Ballantine reviews Cicada". NewMusicSA: Bulletin of the International Society for Contemporary Music – South African Section, First Issue, 7–8. Blake, Michael.1992. "<mask>, <mask>". In Contemporary Composers, eds. Brian Norton and Pamela Collins, 951–952. Blake, Michael. 1993. "Almeida opera: <mask> and Julian Grant".Tempo 186, 52–53. Bräuninger, Jürgen. 1998. "Gumboots to the Rescue". South African Journal of Musicology: SAMUS 18, 1–16. Chatwin, Bruce. 1989."<mask>". In What Am I Doing Here? 63–69. London: Picador. Clarkson Fletcher, J., J. Dazeley, J. Taylor, and E. Wetherall. n.d. "Towards New Models for the Analysis of Post-serial and Post-tonal Music, with Particular Reference to <mask>' White Man Sleeps". In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Congress of the Musicological Society of Southern Africa, Grahamstown, August 1998, ed.W. Lüdemann, 7–18. [Stellenbosch: Musicological Society of Southern Africa.] Fox, James. 1988. "Staging Songlines: Interview". The Village Voice 18, no. 12:138–139, 199, 202.Gaisford, Sue. 1999. "How We Met: Elizabeth Chatwin & <mask>". The Independent (London), 4 July. Gann, Kyle. 1988. "Boston Composers and Kronos Quartets: Fear of Symmetry".The Village Voice (23 February): 76. Gann, Kyle. 1998b. "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice 43, no. 35 (1 September): 64.
 . 2006. "'Zur Freiheit führen viele Wege': Der Componist <mask> über Afrika und die Musikalische Avantgarde".Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 5, September/October, 16–17.}} Loppert, Max. 1993. "Volans: The Man Who Strides The Wind". Opera, 68, 1102–1104. Marcus, Bunita. 1989."Preface". New Observations 67:2. Olwage, Grant. 1999–2000. "Who Needs Rescuing? A Reply to 'Gumboots to the Rescue'". South African Journal of Musicology: SAMUS 19, 105–108.Potter, Keith. 1982. "Repetitive Music Again (and Again)". Classical Music 28 August 1982. Pooley, Thomas M. 2008. "Composition in Crisis: Case Studies in South African Art Music 1980–2006". Unpublished MA Dissertation: University of the Witwatersrand.Rörich, Mary. "Three Rhythmic Etudes. Dublin: Black Sheep Edition, 2002; Three Structural Etudes. Dublin: Black Sheep Edition, 2003" [score review]. South African Journal of Musicology: SAMUS 25, 151–154. Scherzinger, Martin. 2004."Art Music in a Cross-cultural Context: The Case of Africa". In The Cambridge History of Twentieth-century Music, eds. N. Cook and A. Pople, 584–613. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Scherzinger, Martin. 2004–2005. "Of Sleeping White Men: Analytic Silence in the Critical Reception of <mask>".NewMusicSA: Bulletin of the International Society for Contemporary Music – South African Section, Third and Fourth Issue, 22–26. Scherzinger, Martin. 2008. "Who's 'White Man Sleeps'? Aesthetics and Politics in the Early Work of <mask>". In Composing Apartheid: Music For and Against Apartheid, edited by Grant Olwage, 209–235. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.Taylor, Timothy D. 2001. "Volans, <mask>". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan. Taylor, Timothy D. n.d. "<mask>, <mask>". Grove Music Online, edited by Dean Roote. Walton, Christopher.2002–2003. "<mask> 'String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 6'". NewMusicSA: Bulletin of the International Society for Contemporary Music – South African Section, Second Issue'', 22–24. External links

Contemporary Music Centre, composer page
Biography of <mask> at musicsalesclassical.com
Dictionary of African Composers
Field recordings made by <mask> of music from Lesotho and South Africa

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Alumni of Maritzburg College
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Irish classical composers
Living people
Irish male classical composers
People from Pietermaritzburg
Pupils of Karlheinz Stockhausen
South African composers
South African male composers
South African emigrants to Ireland
South African people of British descent
White South African people
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title: Jorge Mendes

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<mask> (born 7 January 1966) is a Portuguese football agent. He is registered with the Portuguese Football Federation and heads the GestiFute company, founded in 1996. Mendes is among the most influential football agents in the world, with clients including David de Gea, José Mourinho, Diego Costa, James Rodríguez, João Félix and Cristiano Ronaldo. Outside of football, he represents clients such as Formula 1 star Charles Leclerc, triple jump champion Patricia Mamona, surfer Frederico Morais, tennis player João Sousa and the cyclist João Almeida. Mendes is often referred to as a "super-agent". Mendes has been named Best Agent of the Year at the Globe Soccer Awards ten times, from 2010 to 2020. Early career
Mendes Junior began as a footballer but was forced to abandon his hopes of a professional career after being rejected by a number of Portuguese clubs and opened a bar and nightclub.Career as an agent

First deals
<mask>' first deal as a football agent came in 1996 when he brokered Nuno Espírito Santo's move from Vitória de Guimarães to Deportivo de La Coruña. He had met the goalkeeper in a bar in Guimarães. After that deal, Mendes gradually attracted more Portuguese players, including <mask>. Hugo Viana's move from Sporting CP to Newcastle United in the Premier League for around €12 million in 2002 was his first major international transfer. Part of <mask>' success was ostensibly based on his frequent presence at football schools and youth teams throughout Portugal, spotting and signing young players, as he did with Cristiano Ronaldo and Ricardo Quaresma. It has been reported that <mask> came to physical blows at the Portela Airport in Lisbon with Luís Figo's agent, José Veiga, whose influence he was gradually supplanting at this time. <mask> has also been accused by other agents of moving in on their players shortly before agreeing major deals.Mourinho and Chelsea
In 2004, <mask> brokered José Mourinho's move from Porto to manage Chelsea, despite Mourinho already having an agent, José Baidek, whom Mourinho had known since his time at União de Leiria and who had reportedly lined up a move to Liverpool. Mourinho and <mask> negotiated with the agent Pini Zahavi, who acted as Chelsea's representative. The deal established <mask>' importance. He built up a roster of the leading Portuguese players and every Portuguese player that followed Mourinho to Chelsea was a client of <mask>, including Ricardo Carvalho, Paulo Ferreira, Tiago and Maniche. <mask> was paid by Chelsea to act for the player and for the club. GestiFute was also involved in part-owning the economic rights of a number of these players. In July 2003, Porto bought 20% of Brazilian-born Portuguese professional footballer Deco's rights from GestiFute in exchange for €2.25 million, plus 5% of the economic rights for Ricardo Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira.Shortly afterwards, GestiFute sold a further 15% of Deco's economic rights to the club, this time in return for €1.25 million and 10% of striker Benni McCarthy's rights. After Chelsea
After Mourinho's departure from Chelsea in September 2007, <mask> oversaw his move to Inter Milan in 2008 for a fee that made him the highest paid coach in the world, and then, in May 2010, that which saw him move from Inter to become Real Madrid's manager on a four-year contract worth £40 million. In 2008, <mask> also handled the deal that took the manager Luiz Felipe Scolari to Chelsea, negotiating a three-year contract worth between £5.5 million and £6.25 million. At that summer's UEFA Euro 2008 tournament, <mask> had been allowed privileged access to the Portugal national team's hotel by Scolari, who was then managing the national side. Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani, and <mask> oversaw the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo from Sporting CP to Manchester United for £12.24 million in 2003 and in 2007 those of Anderson and Nani to the same club for £46 million. The Nani transfer reportedly followed only once the player had dropped his existing agent, Ana Almeida. That summer, <mask> was also responsible for the transfers of Pepe to Real Madrid for £25 million and Simão to Atlético Madrid for £16.5 million.<mask>' association with Anderson reflected the connections he established in South America, in which he worked closely with Pini Zahavi. Part of the deal that took Anderson to Manchester United saw his previous club Porto pay <mask> a reported £4 million for his share of Anderson's registration. <mask> was said to have contributed 20% of the £3.75 million Porto paid Grêmio in Brazil to sign the midfielder in 2006. In 2009, <mask> was reported to have made £4 million from Cristiano Ronaldo's £80 million transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid. Bebé transfer
In August 2010, football agent Gonçalo Reis complained that he had been left on the sidelines when Bebé, a player he represented, was transferred to Manchester United from Vitória de Guimarães. "When <mask> arrived," Reis said, "I was out of the transaction." In July 2010, Reis arranged Bebé's move to Vitória as a free agent from Estrela da Amadora in the semi-professional Portuguese third division after the cancellation of the player's contract due to the club's inability to pay his wages.Manchester United signed Bebé for a reported fee of £7.4 million five weeks later, when he had played just six pre-season friendlies for Vitória. Reis received notification that he had been sacked by Bebé in a letter dated 5 August that arrived two days before the completion of the Manchester United transfer on 11 August. Reis officially took his complaints to FIFA in May 2012. At Vitória's subsequent general meeting, the club's directors revealed that <mask> had received €3.6 million of the €9 million fee from the Bebé transfer, with reports in Portugal suggesting that €2.7 million of that sum came from the 30% of the player's economic rights initially retained by Bebé when he moved to Vitória but bought from the player by Mendes for €100,000. Emilio Macedo, club president of Vitória de Guimarães club, called Mendes "the bulwark of this transfer" and defended the agent, saying, "With all due respect to other agents, this country owes him a lot because he handles large transfers and brings money into the country because this is like an export." The transfer was subsequently investigated by the Portuguese police. Manchester United's then manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, admitted that he had not seen Bebé play before signing the player.He had reportedly been recommended to the club by Carlos Queiroz, who had two spells as assistant manager at Manchester United and who at that time was coach of the Portugal national team. Queiroz's relationship with United had been important in the transfers of Anderson and Nani in 2007; he is also represented by <mask>. 2014 summer transfer window
<mask> brokered four of the seven biggest deals worldwide during the 2014 summer transfer window from which he earned an estimated £30 million. James Rodríguez moved to Real Madrid from Monaco for £63 million, Ángel Di María from Real Madrid to Manchester United for £60 million, Diego Costa from Atlético Madrid to Chelsea for £32 million and Eliaquim Mangala from Porto to Manchester City for £32 million.<ref>"<mask>: the football agent who just won transfer deadline day" by Diego Costa, The Guardian, 2 September 2014</ref>

Third-party ownership accusations
On 22 September 2014, an investigation by The Guardian'' implicated <mask> alongside ex-Manchester United and -Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon in breaching FIFA regulations regarding third-party ownership and conflict of interest in player representation, buying player rights through companies based in Jersey and Ireland. This followed another report published in January 2014 suggesting Kenyon's ex-club Chelsea have invested in third-party ownership via <mask> and Kenyon, a practice banned by the Premier League. Chelsea declined to comment on the accusations. On 23 September 2014, UEFA announced their intention to crack down on the practice of third-party ownership.Wolverhampton Wanderers
After the takeover of English Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers by Fosun International, <mask> was implemented as an agent for the club. Along with the help of team general manager Andrea Butti and sporting director Kevin Thelwell, 12 players were signed within six weeks during the 2016 summer transfer window. Tax avoidance
In December 2016,  leaked documents suggested that <mask> was involved in a massive tax avoidance scheme with both Mourinho and Ronaldo accused of not paying taxes by using offshore accounts. Swansea City
Mendes began working with Premier League club Swansea City during the January 2018 transfer window, assisting the club in identifying players for newly-appointed manager Carlos Carvalhal. Previously, he brought Portugal under-21 midfielder Renato Sanches to the club, on loan from Bayern Munich, in August 2017. Cycling
On January of 2021, <mask> got into the world of cycling with his sports marketing company Polaris Sports partnering with Corso Sports, which sees Portuguese riders Joao Almeida and Ruben Guerreiro promoted by the team. GestiFute and CAA
In 2008, GestiFute announced that it had entered into partnership with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in the United States to "create global opportunities for current and future clients", following CAA's expansion into the sports market.References

External links
Official GestiFute Website

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Living people
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<mask> (May 27, 1939 – September 11, 2001) was an American soldier, police officer, educator, and private security specialist of British origin. He served as a British Army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a commissioned officer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He rose to the rank of colonel in the Army before entering the private sector, where he worked in corporate security. As the director of security for the financial services firm Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center, Rescorla anticipated attacks on the towers and implemented evacuation procedures credited with saving thousands of lives. He died during the attacks of September 11, 2001, while leading evacuees down the stairwells of the South Tower. Early life
Rescorla was born in Hayle, Cornwall, on May 27, 1939. He grew up there with his grandparents and his mother, who worked as a housekeeper and companion to the elderly.In 1943, during World War II, Hayle served as headquarters for the 175th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. 29th Infantry Division, largely composed of U.S. soldiers from Maryland and Virginia preparing for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Young Rescorla idolized the U.S. soldiers and wanted to become a soldier because of them. Rescorla was a natural sportsman, setting a school record in the shot put, and was an avid boxer. When a professional boxing match was scheduled between a British boxer and a U.S. heavyweight contender named Tami Mauriello, his friends backed the Briton. Rescorla said "I'm for Tammy" [sic] and after Mauriello won the fight everyone in Hayle knew him as "Tammy". Military and police career

British military
In 1956, at age 16, Rescorla left Hayle to join the army. At the time, Britain practiced conscription (known as National Service), which required every young man to serve for two years in the Armed Forces.<mask>, however, chose instead to volunteer. This required him to serve three years as the conditions for volunteers were considered to be better than those of conscripted soldiers. He enlisted in the British Army in 1957, training as a paratrooper with The Parachute Regiment and then serving with an intelligence unit in Cyprus during the EOKA Cypriot insurgency from 1957 to 1960. <mask>'s British medals included the General Service Medal with clasp Cyprus. General Service Medal with clasp Cyprus

Northern Rhodesia and Metropolitan Police Services
At the end of his Short-Service Commission, <mask> joined the Northern Rhodesia Police (now the Zambia Police Service) as a police inspector on a three-year contract from 1960 to 1963, experiences that made him a fierce anti-Communist. It was during the latter post where he met and forged a "life-altering friendship" with American soldier Daniel J. Hill, who encouraged Rescorla to join the U.S. Army after he chose to accept discharge from the British rather than turn his guns on fellow white colonists resisting independence. On returning to London he joined the Metropolitan Police Service.He later moved to the United States after being unable to settle down in London, being interested in fighting instead. U.S. military
Upon arrival in the United States, Rescorla lived at a YMCA hostel in Brooklyn until he was able to enlist in the army. "<mask>", as he would thereafter be known, enlisted in the United States Army in 1963 and after basic training at Fort Dix, he attended Officer Candidate School and airborne training at Fort Benning. Upon graduation, Rescorla was assigned as a platoon leader in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Rescorla was sent to Vietnam, where he served under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore. The two participated in the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, which Moore would later describe in a 1992 book he co-authored We Were Soldiers Once… And Young, (from which the 2002 Mel Gibson film We Were Soldiers would be adapted); Rescorla is the soldier pictured on the book jacket cover. Co-author Lieutenant General Hal Moore described him as "the best platoon leader I ever saw".Rescorla's men nicknamed him "Hard Core" for his bravery in battle and revered him for his good humor and compassion toward his men; Rescorla jokingly called his platoon "Hard Corps". He is also mentioned in the book Baptism by Larry Gwin who also fought at Ia Drang. The fourteenth chapter of the book Rescorla's Game describes him as the "Cornish Hawk". Despite this tough image, according to his second wife and widow <mask> in her book, Touched by a Hero, music was "so central" to <mask>'s life that he sang to his troops in Vietnam to calm them – something he would later employ during 9/11 evacuations. In the 1965 Vietnam battle, Rescorla sang the Australian version of Wild Colonial Boy to give confidence to his troops. Rescorla's Vietnam War honors included the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, a Purple Heart and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. Silver Star
  Bronze Star with one Oak Leaf Cluster
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He left active duty in 1967 and reached the rank of Colonel in the United States Army Reserve before retiring from the military in 1990.In April 2001, Rescorla was chosen for induction into the Infantry Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame and was invited to participate in ceremonies at Fort Benning. Post-military career

Education and teaching
After service in Vietnam, Rescorla returned to the U.S. and used his military benefits to study creative writing at the University of Oklahoma, eventually earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, followed by a Master of Arts degree in English, and his law degree from the Oklahoma City University School of Law. He then moved to South Carolina, where he taught criminal justice at the University of South Carolina for three years and published a textbook on the subject. Corporate security
Rescorla left teaching for higher-paying jobs in corporate security. Moving to New Jersey in 1985, he joined Dean Witter Reynolds at their offices at the World Trade Center in Manhattan. After the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, Rescorla worried about a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Because his old American friend from Northern Rhodesia, Daniel Hill, was trained in counterterrorism, in 1990 Rescorla asked him to visit the World Trade Center to assess its security.When Rescorla asked Hill how he would attack the building were he a terrorist, Hill asked to see the basement, and after the two walked down to the basement parking garage without being stopped by any visible security, Hill pointed to an easily accessible load-bearing column, and said, "This is a soft touch. I’d drive a truck full of explosives in here, walk out, and light it off." That year, Rescorla and Hill wrote a report to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site, insisting on the need for more security in the parking garage. Their recommendations, which would have been expensive to implement, were ignored, according to James B. Stewart's biography of Rescorla, Heart of a Soldier. In the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, terrorists would detonate a truck bomb 30 feet from where Rescorla and Hill had predicted. Following the 1993 bombing, Rescorla invited Hill to New York, where he hired him as a security consultant in order to analyze the building's security. Although no arrests had yet been made in the case, Rescorla suspected that the bomb had been planted by Muslim terrorists, probably Palestinians, or that an Iraqi colonel of engineers might have orchestrated the attack.Hill let his beard grow and visited several mosques in New Jersey, showing up for morning prayers at dawn. Speaking fluent Arabic, he took on the character of an anti-American Muslim  in order to infiltrate and interview the other visitors to the mosques. He concluded that the attack was likely planned by a radical imam at a mosque in New York or New Jersey. Subsequently, followers of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a Brooklyn-based radical Muslim cleric, were convicted of the bombing. Rescorla gained credibility and authority after the bombing, which resulted in a change to the culture of Morgan Stanley. <mask> wanted the company out of the building because he continued to feel, as did Hill, that the World Trade Center was still a target for terrorists and that the next attack could involve a plane crashing into one of the towers. He recommended to his superiors at Morgan Stanley that the company leave Manhattan office space, mentioning that labor costs were lower in New Jersey and that the firm's employees and equipment would be safer in a proposed four-story building.However, this recommendation was not followed because the company's lease at the World Trade Center would not terminate until 2006. At Rescorla's insistence, all employees (including senior executives) then practiced emergency evacuations every three months. After Dean Witter merged with Morgan Stanley in 1997, the company eventually occupied 22 floors in the South Tower and several floors in a building nearby. Rescorla's office was on the South Tower’s 44th floor. Feeling that the authorities lost legitimacy after they failed to respond to his 1990 warnings, he concluded that employees of Morgan Stanley, which was the largest tenant in the World Trade Center, could not rely on first responders in an emergency and needed to empower themselves through surprise fire drills, in which he trained employees to meet in the hallway between stairwells and go down the stairs two by two to the 44th floor. Rescorla's strict approach to these drills put him into conflict with some high-powered executives, who resented the interruption to their daily activities, but he nonetheless insisted that these rehearsals were necessary to train the employees in the event of an emergency. He timed employees with a stopwatch when they moved too slowly and lectured them on fire emergency basics.In a 1998 interview conducted on the 44th floor of the World Trade Center that was later incorporated into the short film Voice of the Prophet, which premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, <mask> recounted his experiences in battle and warned that American military actions abroad could spur retaliation by enemies of the United States. He said, "Terrorist forces can tie up conventional forces and bring them to their knees. Just one man willing to give his life for what he believes in, chooses the time and place and there is no way that any soldiers can

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 be 100% alert." Rescorla and Hill were also critical of the police response during the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, commenting, "The police were sitting outside while kids were getting killed. They should have put themselves between the perpetrators and the victims. That was abject cowardice." Rescorla felt that if he and Hill were younger, they "could have flown to Colorado, gone in that building, and ended it before the law did."September 11, 2001

At 8:46 A.M. on the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC 1). Rescorla heard the explosion and saw the tower burning from his office window in the 44th floor of the South Tower (WTC 2). When a Port Authority announcement came over the P.A. system urging people to stay at their desks, and before United Airlines Flight 175 would strike the South Tower at 9:03 A.M., Rescorla ignored the announcement, grabbed his bullhorn, walkie-talkie, and cell phone, and began systematically ordering the roughly 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees in the South Tower to evacuate, in addition to the employees in WTC 5, numbering around 1,000. While watching the news coverage, in a phonecall to his best friend, Dan Hill, Rescorla said, "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate," and, "They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people the fuck out of here." He directed people down a stairwell from a bottleneck on the 44th floor, keeping people away from elevators while telling them to remain calm.Rescorla had boosted morale among his men in Vietnam by singing Cornish songs from his youth, and now he did the same in the stairwell, singing songs such as one based on the Welsh song "Men of Harlech":

Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming;

Can't you see their spearpoints gleaming? See their warriors' pennants streaming

To this battlefield. Men of Cornwall stand ye steady;

It cannot be ever said ye

for the battle were not ready;

Stand and never yield! Between songs, Rescorla called his wife, telling her, "Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I've never been happier. You made my life," and Susan replied, "You made my life, too" before the phone went dead.After successfully evacuating almost all of Morgan Stanley's 2,700 employees, he went back into the building. When one of his colleagues told him he too had to evacuate the World Trade Center, Rescorla replied, "As soon as I make sure everyone else is out." He was last seen on the 10th floor of the South Tower, heading upward, shortly before its collapse at 9:59 A.M., 56 minutes after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175. A total of 13 Morgan Stanley employees died in the September 11 attacks, including Rescorla, his deputies Wesley Mercer and Jorge Valezquez, and security guard Godwin Forde, who had collectively stayed behind to help others. Rescorla was declared dead three weeks after the attacks. Although medical examiners continued to identify victims of the attacks from recovered remains as late as September 2021, as of that date, none have been identified as those of Rescorla. Personal life
Rescorla and his first wife, Betsy, met as students at the University of Oklahoma.They married in Dallas in 1972. Their first child was born in South Carolina in 1976. Their second child was born in 1978, while they were living in Chicago. The family then moved to New Jersey. <mask> and Betsy divorced after their children were grown. In 1994, <mask> was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgery to remove his prostate. Initially, the prognosis was positive, but by 1998 the cancer had spread to his bone marrow.He underwent treatment, which involved painful injections directly into his stomach every month and taking prescribed medications that dehydrated him and caused his body to swell. He also employed traditional Chinese medicine and meditation. In late July 1998, Rescorla met his second wife, Susan Greer, while jogging near her Morristown, New Jersey home. She was an assistant to a dean at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a twice-divorced mother of three daughters. Rescorla had been living in the area to be near his children after his divorce. Susan first spoke to him to ask him why he was jogging barefoot, a practice common in Northern Rhodesia, where few natives wore shoes and which he had adopted out of curiosity. Rescorla also mentioned to Greer that he was writing a play, Mkubwa Junction, which was set in Northern Rhodesia and based on his time there.The two moved into a Morristown townhouse together that October. They were married on February 20, 1999, in St. Augustine, Florida, where his longtime friend Daniel Hill had lived since 1975. Hill would serve as Rescorla's best man for the second time. Rescorla also chose St. Augustine because he wanted to be married somewhere near the sea, to remind him of his homeland of Cornwall. They later honeymooned in Hayle, Cornwall, in May 2000. During this time, Rescorla exhibited a positive outlook about his cancer. Rescorla was fond of the food and the culture of the Portuguese community in Newark, New Jersey and was learning to speak Portuguese, in addition to Arabic.He also was fascinated with the American West and was interested in experiencing the spiritual aspects of Amerindian culture. He and Susan participated in yoga, ballroom dancing, and studying Italian together. Rescorla was survived by his wife, Susan, his two children, and his three stepdaughters by Susan. Rescorla had requested that he be cremated, and his ashes be strewn in Hayle. Having revered the eagle as a symbol of both American freedom and Native American mysticism, he had also told Susan that when he died he wanted her to contribute money to an endowment for eagles. Memorials and tributes

Rescorla was uncomfortable about being portrayed as a war hero. Although he had given some interviews to his Vietnam commander, Harold Moore, for his 1992 book, We Were Soldiers Once… And Young, Rescorla chose not to read it when he saw that its cover featured a combat photograph of him.When he learned that the book was being made into a film starring Mel Gibson, he told his wife Susan that he had no intention of seeing it, as he felt uncomfortable with anything that portrayed him or other survivors as war heroes, commenting, "The real heroes are dead." Nevertheless, Rescorla's activities during the September 11 attacks were quickly brought to national attention by the news media, including a detailed account by Michael Grunwald in the October 28, 2001 edition of The Washington Post of Rescorla's life and "epic death, one of those inspirational hero-tales that have sprouted like wildflowers from the Twin Towers rubble." Other memorials and tributes to Rescorla include:

 At a small, brief memorial service attended by family and a few close friends on October 27, Susan recited "The White Rose", a Cornish folk song that Rescorla was fond of, and a hawk that had recently been restored to health was released into freedom. The Morristown police paid tribute to Rescorla at a fundraising dinner. <mask> donated <mask>'s dark green Lincoln Mark VIII, which had been left in the station parking lot, to be auctioned off for charity as a "hero’s car." The town of Hayle, Cornwall also held a memorial service that was attended by the head of Morgan Stanley in London. Several days after the Hayle service, a tribute for the attacks’ British victims was held at Westminster Abbey and attended by Queen Elizabeth.Rescorla was honored with the White Cross of Cornwall/An Grows Wyn a Gernow award from his native Cornwall in 2003 by the Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament. In 2009, a statue of Rescorla was unveiled on The Walk Of Honor at the National Infantry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia. On November 11, 2009, Rescorla was inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame. At the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Rescorla is memorialized at the South Pool, on Panel S-46. The <mask>a National Award for Resilience was created by the Department of Homeland Security to "recognize outstanding response to a catastrophic incident and leadership in fostering resilient and prepared communities." On April 13, 2019, at the Long Rock train depot in Rescorla's native Cornwall, a new class 802 train was named "<mask> Rescorla" in a ceremony that also named another train the "Solomon Browne", after the lifeboat and crew lost in the Penlee lifeboat disaster. On September 11, 2019, President Donald Trump announced that Rescorla would be honored with the Presidential Citizens Medal, which was presented to Susan at a White House ceremony on November 7.In 2021, legislation introduced by State Senator Anthony M. Bucco to designate May 27 as “Richard Rescorla Day” in New Jersey unanimously passed in the New Jersey Senate. Post-9/11 media coverage

 Rescorla was the subject of a 2002 biography, Heart of a Soldier by James B. Stewart. Rescorla was the subject of a 2005 documentary entitled The Man Who Predicted 9/11. The film was shown on Channel 4 in the UK and the History Channel in the United States. Amanda Ripley's 2008 book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, profiles Rescorla. Stewart's book became the basis of an opera of the same name by Christopher Theofanidis. It was premiered by the San Francisco Opera on September 10, 2011, in a production starring Thomas Hampson as Rescorla.See also

John P. O'Neill, former FBI agent and WTC head of security who died in the attacks on 9/11

References

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The Richard Rescorla Memorial Foundation

Voice of the Prophet - a 1998 Video interview with <mask>a
"The Real Heroes are Dead" – The New Yorker
"B.A. of the Week Tribute"
American Legion memorial pages:
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<mask> (born July 4, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker, convicted of first-degree murder in April 2011 for the murder of John Brian Altinger. His trial attracted particular media attention because Twitchell had allegedly been inspired by the fictional character Dexter Morgan. Early life and filmmaking ambitions
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Twitchell dreamed of making blockbuster films, and graduated from the Radio and Television Arts program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in 2000. In 2001, <mask> married an American woman and moved to Illinois, but divorced in 2004. In 2007, <mask> directed Star Wars: Secrets of the Rebellion, a full-length fan film prequel set a few days prior to the original film. Secrets of the Rebellion included a cameo by Jeremy Bulloch, a British actor best known for his role as the Star Wars bounty hunter Boba Fett. The film, still in post-production, never saw release.<mask> also scripted Day Players, a buddy comedy. In September 2008, he shot a short horror film entitled House of Cards at a garage he rented in the south end of Edmonton. Murder of Johnny Altinger
In October 2008, John Brian Altinger, 38-year-old former White Rock, B.C., oilfield equipment manufacturer known to his friends as Johnny, unknowingly interacted with <mask> on dating website Plenty of Fish. On October 10, 2008, Altinger informed his friends of his plans to meet a woman with whom he had been chatting. Altinger discovered too late that <mask> had posed as the woman online in order to lure him into a "kill room" set up in his garage-turned-film-studio. Twitchell bludgeoned and stabbed Altinger, before cutting him apart, partially burning him, and then dumping his remains in garbage bags into a storm sewer. Following his disappearance, Altinger's friends became concerned after they received emails in which "Altinger" claimed that his date had taken him on an extended vacation to Costa Rica.At work, a resignation letter arrived by email, but there was no response to a request for a forwarding address for sending a final paycheck. Altinger's friends broke into his condominium, where they found his passport, dirty dishes, and no indication of his having packed for a trip. A homicide investigation was soon launched by the Edmonton Police Service. <mask>, though initially not a suspect, related an improbable account to police of having met Altinger before his trip to Costa Rica. According to <mask>, Altinger sold his Mazda 6 to <mask> for 40 CAD, all the cash Twitchell had on hand. The police, not believing this story, impounded Twitchell's laptop and car, and found Altinger's blood in the car's trunk. Police arrested <mask> on October 31, 2008, and, on the same day, charged him with the first-degree murder of Altinger.Trial and sentencing
The key piece of evidence presented by the Crown at <mask>'s first-degree murder trial was a document, entitled "SKConfessions", which stood for "Serial Killer Confessions". The document had been recovered from <mask>'s laptop, despite having been deleted. The document begins with the passage: This story is based on true events. The names and events were altered slightly to protect the guilty. This is the story of my progression into becoming a serial killer. It presented an account of its narrator's planning, failed first attempt, and successful second attempt to lure a man to his garage and murder him, with fake online dating profiles used as bait. It went on to describe the process of dismembering the body and attempts to dispose of the remains.During his trial, <mask> admitted to killing Altinger and authoring the document, but claimed he had acted in self-defense. He described the document as fiction based on fact, as if he had planned Altinger's death deliberately, in order to craft a compelling story. During the trial, <mask>'s strong interest in the television series Dexter was noted repeatedly, and his personal identification with its lead character, Dexter Morgan, a vigilante serial killer, prompted several media outlets to refer to him as the "Dexter Killer." Another document found on <mask>'s laptop did not make its way into the evidence file for the jury to read during his trial. Entitled "A Profile of a Psychopath", and believed by investigators to have been written by <mask>, it is a detailed self-analysis of personality and behaviour. It was released after the trial ended, as it was deemed too inflammatory and would compromise the trial. On April 12, 2011, <mask> was convicted of first-degree murder for the death of Altinger, and sentenced to life in prison without possibility for parole for 25 years.Attempted murder charge
<mask> still faced an attempted murder charge for his alleged attack on Gilles Tetreault, a computer company contractor. Tetreault testified that he was lured using the website Plenty of Fish, expecting a date with a young woman named Sheena, only to be attacked by a man in a hockey mask with a stun baton when he arrived at the garage in Edmonton rented by <mask>. After a violent struggle, Tetreault escaped, but did not report the attack to police. Tetreault claims that he did not report the attack because he was embarrassed. Tetreault was nicknamed 'The One Who Got Away' by several media outlets. Crown prosecutors considered pursuing a charge of attempted murder after securing a conviction of first-degree murder. Detectives were adamant that they had gathered a mountain of evidence – much of it revealed during the murder trial – while even <mask> himself admitted on the witness stand to committing the attack.In preparing the case for trial, the Crown had argued in court for both the attempted murder and first-degree murder charges to be heard simultaneously as they were part of the same "transaction" of his attempt to become a serial killer. Under Canadian law, charges can only be heard together if they are linked in some way. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Terry Clackson was not convinced by the prosecution's argument that the attack on Gilles Tetreault and the murder of Johnny Altinger were part of the same transaction. He ordered the charges to be severed and heard separately. "The offences are related and connected, but remain discrete," Justice Clackson wrote in his reasons for the decision, "As a result, the attempted murder charge cannot stand on the same indictment as the charge of murder because they are different transactions." On June 17, 2011, an attempted murder charge against <mask> was stayed in the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, meaning that Crown prosecutors could resurrect the charge within a one-year period. Since his conviction of first-degree murder secured a maximum sentence — life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years — there was no need to proceed with more charges, and the attempted murder charge against Twitchell was eventually dropped.Media coverage during trial
Extensive media coverage of the case created debate both inside and outside of the courtroom. Observers argued for and against the media's reporting on the more sensational details of the crime. Prior to the criminal trial, Crown prosecutors and the defense sought vast publication bans and sealing orders over the police evidence, preventing the media from reporting on the details of the case until the jury would hear it during the future trial. The media fought the application, but the judge agreed to both a sealing order and publication ban, stating in his ruling that "there is a real risk that pretrial publicity will undermine the accused's constitutionally protected right to a fair trial." The jury pool was then polled through a "challenge for cause" procedure to determine if a potential juror had been influenced by the media coverage prior to the publication bans taking effect. When the bans were lifted, a large media presence attended and reported on the trial, including American television programs Dateline NBC and 48 Hours. Following his first-degree murder conviction, Twitchell used the extensive media coverage of his case as grounds for an appeal.He argued in his notice of appeal that "the media attention surrounding my case was so extensive, so blatant and so overtly sensationalized that it is unreasonable to expect any unsequestered jury to have remained uninfluenced by it, regardless of judges' instructions in the charge." He abandoned his appeal in 2012. Post-trial media coverage
In December 2012, Michael C. Hall, the actor who played Dexter Morgan on the Dexter television series, was interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi on the Canadian radio show Q. Hall stated that he did not think Dexter supported the lifestyle of serial killers. "I would hope that people's appreciation was more than some sort of fetishization with the kill scenes," he said. Ghomeshi brought up Twitchell and Hall said, "I wouldn't stop making Dexter because someone was fascinated by it only in that way. I try to tell myself that their fixated nature would have done it one way or the other, but it seems that Dexter had something to do with it.It's horrifying." In May 2013, it was reported that <mask> had purchased a television for his prison cell. <mask> stated that he had caught up on every Dexter episode that he missed since he was arrested and convicted of first-degree murder. <mask>'s case was featured in the American magazine Crime Watch Daily on May 1, 2017. Much of that day's program focused on <mask>'s methods and featured interviews with Gilles Tetrault, his first intended victim, and Steve Lillebuen, author of the book The Devil's Cinema, which focused on the case. Part of the report included a return trip by Tetreault to the garage in which the incident had taken place. Tetreault made several media appearances related to his experience, including Deadly House of Cards on Dateline NBC, Screenplay for Murder on CBS' 48 Hours Mystery, MURDER, he wrote on CBC's The Fifth Estate, I Survived... on Biography Channel, Web of Seduction in Dates from Hell on Investigations Discovery, and Script for Murder in The Security Brief on REELZ.Books about the case
 The Devil's Cinema (2012) by Steve Lillebuen, a true crime account of the case and trial, written with the cooperation of <mask>. The One Who Got Away (2015) by Gilles Tetreault, a personal account by the original intended target of Twitchell. 1st Edition. Triplicity Publishing. ; 2nd Edition. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. See also
 Internet homicide
 Murder of Jun Lin

References

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 48 Hours: "Screenplay for Murder" (2012)
 SKConfessions Manuscript
<mask>'s Profile of a Psychopath
 Email exchange between Altinger and Twitchell posing as a dating woman

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<mask> (born August 17, 1945) is an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on divinatory tarot. She is involved in the women's spirituality movement. Career

Tarot reading
<mask> has written Salvador Dali's Tarot, a book-length exposition of Salvador Dalí's Tarot deck, comprising a full-page color plate for each card, with her commentary on the facing page. Her work 78 Degrees of Wisdom on Tarot reading is commonly referenced by Tarot readers. She has created her own Tarot deck, Shining Woman Tarot (later Shining Tribe Tarot). She also aided in the creation of the Vertigo Tarot Deck with illustrator Dave McKean and author Neil Gaiman, and she wrote a book to accompany it. <mask>, known for her run of issues 64–87 (1993–1995) on the comic book Doom Patrol, on DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, a continuation of a 1960s comic which had recently become a cult favorite under Grant Morrison.She took over the series in 1993 after meeting editor Tom Peyer at a party, telling him it was the only monthly comic book she would want to write at the time, and sending him a sample script. Towards the end of Morrison's run <mask> began writing monthly "letters to the editor" in what she describes as a "gee-whiz fangirl" voice asking to take over the book when Morrison was finished. In the final letter, she claims that she had already told her mother that she had been given the job. Peyer then used that response to that letter to officially announce that <mask> was, in fact, taking over the book. As a result of these letters being printed in the letter column of Doom Patrol issues, some people seem to believe that the letters are the way she actually got the job. During her tenure, <mask> dealt with such rarely addressed comic-book topics as menstruation, sexual identity, and transsexuality. Her run ended two years later, with the book's cancellation.In addition to Doom Patrol, <mask> has written issues of the Vertigo Visions anthology featuring Brother Power the Geek (1993) and Tomahawk (1998), the first 11 issues of the fourth volume of New Gods (1995), and the five-issue limited series Time Breakers (1996) for the short lived Helix imprint. Author Neil Gaiman has sometimes consulted <mask> on the tarot for his stories. In 2019, it was announced that <mask> was reuniting with Doom Patrol artist Richard Case and letterer John Workman to create a short story—titled "Snake Song"—for the Kickstarter funded "music-themed horror anthology" Dead Beats. Fiction
Three of <mask>'s novels have won or been nominated for major awards in the science fiction and fantasy field: Unquenchable Fire won the 1989 Arthur C. Clarke Award; Godmother Night won the 1997 World Fantasy Award, was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature; Temporary Agency was nominated for the 1995 Nebula Award and the Mythopoeic Award, and shortlisted for the Tiptree. Her magical realism novels explore worlds imbued with elements pulled from a number of traditions, faiths, and religions. Several of her novels are set in an alternative reality that resembles modern America, but an America of Bright Beings, where magic and ritual, religion and thaumaturgy are the norms. Nonfiction
Her book The Body of the Goddess is an exploration of the history of the Goddess.<mask> uses the image of the Goddess in many of her works. Teaching
For 32 years, <mask> has been teaching seminars with Tarot author Mary K. Greer at the Omega Institute, in Rhinebeck, New York. She has also done seminars for several years in California in conjunction with Greer, and she co-presented a breakthrough seminar with Tarot author Johanna Gargiulo-Sherman on Tarot and psychic ability, using her own Shining Tribe Tarot and Gargulio-Sherman's Sacred Rose Tarot. <mask> is also a popular lecturer at Tarot seminars and symposiums such as LATS (Los Angeles Tarot Symposium), BATS (Bay Area Tarot Symposium), and the Readers Studio. She currently teaches creative writing at Goddard College. Her most recent work is included in the anthology called Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Theodora Goss. She has taught English at State University of New York.Influences
<mask> is Jewish, and has frequently written about the Kabbalah, most notably in The Kabbalah Tree. She is a transsexual woman and has written frequently on transgender issues. In Doom Patrol she introduced Coagula, a transsexual character. She has also written several essays on transsexualism, attacking the notion that it is a "sickness", instead saying that it is a passion. She has emphasized the revelatory aspects of transsexualism, saying that "the  woman sacrifices her social identity as a male, her personal history, and finally the very shape of her body to a knowledge, a desire, which overpowers all rational understanding and proof." A Secret Woman features a police detective who is transgender and Jewish. The detective utters the prayer, "Blessed art thou oh G-d who made me not a woman.Double blessed is Doctor Green who has." <mask> created the characters known as 'the bandage people' for her Doom Patrol run. The bandage people are 'sexually remaindered spirits' who died in sexual accidents. The initials srs came from the medical term 'sex reassignment surgery'. <mask> wrote the essay "The Transsexual Book of The Dead" for the anthology Phallus Palace. This article is concerning trans men. Fairy tales such as the Brothers Grimm have influenced many of <mask>'s writings.Her book Tarot of Perfection is a book of fairy tales based on the tarot. Degrees, awards, and memberships
 1997 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel winner for Godmother Night
 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel nominee for Temporary Agency
 1989 Arthur C. Clarke Award winner for Unquenchable Fire
 Certified Tarot Grand Master (CTGM) with the Tarot Certification Board of America
 Tarot Sage (TS) with the American Board For Tarot Certification
 member of the American Tarot Association (ATA)
 member of the International Tarot Society (ITS)
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<mask> (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, however, none of these occurred at the same time as any popular emerging style or acted against a particular art form. In the 1950s his style reflected the abstract expressionist tone and then transitioned to a geometric style in the 60s. During the 1980s there was a shift into painting that emphasized bright geometric space that's deepness reflected infinity. From 1963 to 1980 he was a professor of art at Yale University. Background and education
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928, he grew up in the East Bronx, the son of a poor Jewish family thrown onto welfare during the depression.<mask> showed no interest in art until leaving the Navy in 1947. Inspired by his friend Nicholas Krushenick, <mask> enrolled in the Art Students League of New York. He originally thought about studying in Mexico under the prominent muralist David Siqueiros, who created gigantic pieces that contained intense political material. However, the G.I. accreditation that he planned on using to help with his travels was not accepted at the school he planned on attending. In 1951, using the support of the G.I. Bill, he went to Paris for two years, to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.In Paris, he decided that realism was not for him and moved into abstraction. During the early 50s Avant-garde painters in the United States were receiving fresh inspiration from abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. Together these artists brought a new way of thinking that influenced <mask>. He returned to New York in 1953. Career
The Galerie Huit in Paris was where his first exhibition was set up in 1952. However, the art scene in New York was starting to gain new popularity and <mask> moved back there. During one of his solo Abstract expressionist exhibitions in 1959, <mask>'s large-scale paintings of colourful, simple abstract geometric forms gained increasing recognition in America and Europe.In 1962, he was appointed to the Yale University Faculty Of Art (where he would teach until 1980). In 1965, the critic Irving Sandler curated the critically acclaimed Concrete Expressionism show at New York University featuring the work of painters <mask> and Knox Martin and the sculptors Ronald Bladen, George Sugarman and David Weinrib. In 1964, <mask> was awarded the Logan Medal of the arts and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966. Feeling that he'd reached the end of his style's potential, he shifted in 1967 to black and white images that dealt with challenging perspectives and "spatial conundrums". Some critics dismissed this work as simply disorienting; others declared it <mask>'s finest achievement to date. By the late 1970s, he had re-introduced colour to his work. In 1988 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994.In his later years, <mask> earned commissions of up to one million dollars. In 2005, he completed a large, colourful mural in the New York City Subway system, at Lexington Avenue / 51st – 53rd Streets station. Three of <mask>'s murals were in the original WTC 7 building. At age 76, <mask> was found dead in his villa swimming pool near Camerata, Italy, on July 27, 2005. It is believed he died of natural causes. Work

Pigment paintings
The most distinguishing part of <mask>'s pigment paintings were the thick brush strokes of paint in random directions that are reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism. These strokes were short, gestural and are commonly referred to as action painting.The colors included earth tones that are muted and spread around chaotically. Typical for many of these paintings was no foreground or background and sections were splashed with drips. As time went forward in the fifties, <mask> began to lengthen his gestures and combined strokes into triangles, circles, and rectangles. This was alluding to the geometric abstractions that started at the end of 1959. Hard edge paintings

During the late 50s gestural painting was something that <mask> had begun to lose interest in. He and a few other artists such as Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland felt a growing problem emerge. The style had brought a large number of mediocre artists and become overdone for them.By 1960 he had succeeded in finding an alternative method given the label hard edge. In other ways it has been described as post-painterly abstraction, new abstraction, and cool art. The famous exhibition organizer Irving Sandler has been known to characterize it as concrete expressionism. The development of this style also led <mask> to change his medium from oil to a water-based acrylic. These paintings had vivid colors geometric configurations around positioned throughout the canvas resembling a mural. All of the paintings were nonobjective meaning the artwork does not represent a person, place or thing. Untitled from 1964, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an example of the artist's hard-edge style.Alphabet paintings
With these works <mask> takes concrete abstraction to its extreme. Around 1961-1966 <mask> created large abstract letters of the English alphabet. These paintings were given the titles The Big ‘N''', The Big ‘X’, etc. There is a delicate alteration of the letters as <mask> plays with  viewers perception's by changing the figure to the frame. The letters themselves take over the canvas and colors within the works make them seem to lean forward and backward at the same time. It leaves the viewer to think about the ideas of space and form and how dimension plays a key role. Geometric abstraction
In 1967 <mask> felt that he was being limited by the flatness of previous hard edge abstractions.Berggruen, Tobias.(2021). "Abstraction and Artifice," in Shapes, New York: <mask>ruen, 9. He wanted a way to create more picture space in some way, however painting shapes onto shapes would constantly hide beneath one another. Therefore, <mask> believed that adding depth and making the shapes appear three-dimensional on the canvas was his best option. The works Giza Gate II and Flemish IV are good examples of this style. A representative black-and-white mural of volumetric forms in space, Rothko's Canvas, was commissioned for The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, NY. All of these works are composed in acrylic black and white.The quasi-geometric structures zigzag in all directions making complex shapes usually cubical. Despite the same consistency of content throughout the works each maintain a unique design of their own. Grid like elements started becoming more apparent suggesting structure similar to that of the framework in buildings. The paintings are in a way disorienting with their uncentered patterns and no place to gain perspective. As his art's complexity grew the idea of his art to be deemed minimalistic became less of a dominant label. Another remarkable characteristic of these works is the scale. For example, in Philadelphia during 1976 he painted his two largest murals, Order/Disorder and Ascension/Descension.Each mural was 13 x 90 feet and stretches throughout an office building.http://archive.fpaa.org/child/map_110_hel_ord.html

Watercolors
While <mask> was away from his studio in New York during the 1980s he created a number of watercolor paintings in Rome. The perspective of the shapes created a sense of deep space by expanding into the canvas what seems like forever. These works test imagination with intersecting planes and large to small forms jutting in the picture. <mask>'s visual concept of infinity creates a need for the viewer to look inward on him or herself. Works such as Pachinko make viewers ask questions to understand how huge the structures actually are in relation to one another in the painting and this leads to more questions. The understanding of the forms is dynamic as certain objects could be large and far away or small and near the foreground. The perception of space challenges the audience to see the problem of observing the area around them.Contemporary works
Many of <mask>'s modern artwork includes large symmetric non-objective structures with vivid colors. Using an acrylic medium, he created interlocking scaffolds that overlap with a deep consideration of architecture. The ancient buildings of Rome and the idea of the renaissance inspired <mask> as he returned to New York. Describing <mask>'s images as "room" or "walls" makes sense, however, the art is non-objective and those may not be the best words to use. On one hand the work has architectural qualities but at the same time the planes of color are nonrepresentational and in a way cannot be grasped. In 1983, his 15’ by 55’ mural Mantegna’s Edge'' was completed in Dallas, Texas. The work is less fragmented and a deeper sense of order compared to some of his other works.Bright colored, grid-like structure exists harmonically in an infinite blue space. Yet, existing within it also is a sense of paradox and complexity. Art market
Held's estate has been represented by White Cube since 2018. Personal life
<mask> married Giselle Wexler in 1953, with whom he had a daughter, Mara. After the break-up with his wife, he went to San Francisco where he met the soon-to-be postmodern dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer. They moved together to New York in 1956, got married in 1957 to split up in 1959. Then in 1969, he married the sculptor, Sylvia Stone..He later married art historian and museum director, Kathleen Monaghan. See also
 Abstract expressionism
 Art Students League of New York

References

External links
<mask> interviews, 1975 Nov. 19-1976 Jan. 8, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Biography by the Sheldon Gallery
Obituary in The Guardian, 2005
Al Held Foundation
Al Held in the National Gallery of Australia's Kenneth Tyler collection

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Abstract expressionist artists
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People from Brooklyn
Jewish painters
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Artists from New York City
20th-century American printmakers

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<mask> (born August 6, 1977) is an American stand-up comedian, author, musician, actor, producer, director, editor, television writer, and podcaster. Career

Stand-up comedy, radio, television and film
<mask> got his start in comedy performing as part of a comedic musical duo called Deep at the New Road Brewhouse in his hometown of Collegeville, Pennsylvania. After a short time, Deep split up and <mask> began performing stand-up comedy regularly at the Laff House in Philadelphia. <mask> moved to New York City, where he became a regular performer in many of the city's comedy clubs. Beginning in 2006, <mask> began co-hosting the Uninformed radio show with Bill Burr on Sirius Satellite Radio. The monthly show aired on Saturday nights. After new episodes began airing more sporadically, the show was dropped.It ran as a podcast for several more episodes before ending altogether in 2009. On October 30, 2008, <mask> made his first appearance on The Opie & Anthony Show and became one of its regular guests until the show's end in 2014. In 2009, <mask> starred in his first half-hour Comedy Central Presents special. On June 21, 2010, Comedy Central Records released <mask>'s first album The Depression Auction. Beginning in 2010, he became a frequent guest panelist on Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld. <mask>'s second album, Return of the Son of Depression Auction, was released on September 6, 2011. On November 11, 2011, <mask> performed at Carnegie Hall as an opening act for Bill Burr.That same year, <mask>, Burr and Robert Kelly, co-wrote, co-produced and co-starred in a short film titled Cheat which <mask> also directed. In August 2012, a four-episode web short series titled Overrated debuted on the Official Comedy YouTube channel and featured <mask> and Kurt Metzger discussing overrated and underrated pop culture subjects. In October 2012, a six-part web short series titled What Are We Waiting For?, which <mask> wrote, directed and starred in, debuted on Warner Bros.' The Warner Sound website. The series featured <mask> as an unnamed, obnoxiously overzealous music fan. Guest stars for the series include Bill Burr, Bonnie McFarlane, Gregg "Opie" Hughes, Anthony Cumia, Jim Norton, Carmine Famiglietti and Mike Robinson. In December 2012, a third web short series titled We Should Break Up starring <mask> and fellow comedian and former girlfriend, Nikki Glaser, debuted on the Official Comedy channel on YouTube. The six-part series featured <mask> and Glaser as an on again, off again couple in situations based on actual events that happened during their time as a real-life couple.Besides co-writing and co-starring in the shorts, <mask> also directed the series. <mask>'s third album, You Will Die, was released on September 3, 2013. In October 2013, <mask> relocated from New York City to Los Angeles to take a job as a writer on The Pete Holmes Show which aired from October 28, 2013 through June 18, 2014. <mask> has also made appearances on comedy series such as Louie, Bored to Death, Inside Amy Schumer and Sullivan & Son. Also in 2013, <mask> voiced a character named Rufus Bellows in the video game, Grand Theft Auto V and starred in his second half-hour Comedy Central special. <mask>'s fourth album, Mistakes Were Made: The B Sides, was released on September 2, 2014. In October 2014, <mask> joined the writing team for the Netflix original series, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, a prequel to the film Wet Hot American Summer.2014 was also the release date for the Bonnie McFarlane film, Women Aren't Funny which <mask> served as a writer on. In 2015, <mask> first appeared as Dr. Caldera, a veterinarian with criminal ties, on the AMC television series, Better Call Saul. The character has been a recurring one throughout the show's first four seasons. On November 14, 2015, <mask> performed at Madison Square Garden as an opening act for Bill Burr. On October 13, 2016, <mask> taped his first one-hour special for Comedy Central at The Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. The special, titled You Let Me Down, debuted on February 3, 2017. A digital audio version, <mask>'s fifth album,  was released four days later through outlets such as iTunes and Amazon.<mask> was also the writer of one episode of Comedy Central's Jeff & Some Aliens during its first and only season. The episode, titled "Jeff & Some Confidence", aired on February 15, 2017. Beginning in 2017, <mask> served as a writer and consultant on Pete Holmes' HBO television series, Crashing during its three-season run. On February 26, 2018, <mask> appeared as Gary on the debut episode of Living Biblically, a CBS sitcom created by Patrick Walsh and produced by Johnny Galecki. Additionally, <mask> executive produced and also starred as The Nocturnal in the horror anthology series, By Night: Origins which became available to stream via Amazon Prime on April 13, 2018. <mask>'s sixth album, I Go To Atlanta All The Time was released on October 31, 2018 and aired exclusively on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's Raw Dog Comedy channel for approximately one year before being made available for purchase on November 15, 2019. In May 2019, Comedy Central released three weekly shorts titled You Let Me Down.The series, written by and starring <mask>, is based on his regular column published in Penthouse magazine throughout 2017 and 2018. In late 2019, <mask> moved back to New York City and resumed working at New York comedy clubs on a full-time basis. In November 2020, <mask> partnered with The Stand Comedy Club in New York City to create the pop-up sandwich shop, Joey Roses. Located within the club itself, the eatery offers "neighborhood-style sandwiches." Podcasting
From July 2011 through March 2012, <mask> served as the co-host of fellow comedian Robert Kelly's podcast, You Know What Dude? on the Riotcast Network. <mask> left the show when he briefly moved back to Pennsylvania to care for his ailing mother but returned as a guest that October and on occasional episodes since then.In February 2014, <mask> began hosting his own podcast, Down With <mask>. Each episode featured <mask> speaking on one topic, usually with a guest although several episodes feature <mask> solo. In January 2015, the Down With Joe DeRosa podcast became part of Al Madrigal and Bill Burr's All Things Comedy podcast network. Soon after, <mask> noted that he had grown tired of the podcast and its format. He ended the podcast in June 2015 but noted that a new podcast was already planned. On July 10, 2015, Fangoria officially announced that <mask> would co-host a new podcast with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and 2 Broke Girls writer, Patrick Walsh. The podcast, titled We'll See You In Hell, features the hosts providing commentary for horror films, although the show frequently strays off-topic.It was one of the first four podcasts to debut along with the launch of the Fangoria Podcast Network. We'll See You In Hell made its debut on August 3, 2015. On February 14, 2017, <mask> announced, via Twitter, that We'll See You In Hell was moving to the HeadGum podcast network due to changes occurring within Fangoria. The show made its return on HeadGum on March 6, 2017. In October 2017, the show began releasing an exclusive monthly bonus episode to paid subscribers of the show's Patreon channel. The show began an eleven-week hiatus in May 2018, making its return in September, as part of Starburns Audio, the podcast network division of Starburns Industries, the production company founded by Dan Harmon, Dino Stamatopoulos, <mask> II, James Fino and Duke Jonhson. The show took another extended hiatus in May 2019.The show resumed on September 2, although it was now no longer attached to any podcast network. It was instead exclusively available only to the show's Patreon subscribers with two episodes being released monthly. In August 2020, an additional tier was made available for subscribers to receive an additional two episodes each month, bringing the total amount of monthly shows to four. On February 17, 2017 <mask> debuted another podcast, Emotional Hangs, on Feral Audio. The show, co-hosted with fellow comedian, Kurt Braunohler, began as one of several rotating formats on Braunohler's Nerdist Industries podcast, The K Ohle with Kurt Braunohler before spinning off into its own show. The podcast took a humorous look at forming and maintaining adult male friendships. The podcast has been on hiatus since its December 13, 2017 episode.Initially, the hiatus was due to Braunohler's need to relocate to Montreal for several months but during that time, Feral Audio ceased operation, leaving Emotional Hangs without a network home and no episodes have been released since. On November 4, 2018, <mask> and Burr released the first two new episodes of the Uninformed podcast. Two episodes a month, released simultaneously, were made available exclusively to Burr's paid Patreon subscribers. In May 2019, after twelve episodes, it was announced that Burr would no longer be using the Patreon subscription model wand that all future episodes, as well as existing ones, would be available for free. No further episodes have been released since August 2019. Following <mask>'s return to living in New York City, he teamed with fellow New York comedian, Corinne Fisher, to perform a test show of their upcoming podcast, Without a Country. The test show took place on November 12, 2019 at The Stand Comedy Club and featured the co-hosts discussing current news stories and how the stories are treated by different news sources.The taping of the show became a weekly event at the club as of January 7, 2020 and is released as a weekly podcast. When The Stand Comedy Club was forced to temporarily close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Without a Country episodes were conducted over Zoom sessions and recorded. In April 2020, the show became part of the Gas Digital Network lineup with episodes continuing to be conducted via Zoom. In June 2020, episodes began streaming live from the network's studio in Greenwich Village. On January 10, 2021, <mask> announced his departure from Without a Country which would continue airing new episodes without him. On December 1, 2020 Derosa and Sal Vulcano of Impractical Jokers debuted their podcast network, No Presh Network. The network debuted with two podcasts, Taste Buds featuring <mask> and Vulcano and Hey Babe!featuring Vulcano and stand-up comedian, Chris Distefano. Both shows release one episode weekly. Musical projects
<mask> and childhood friend James Pinkstone formed a comedic sex rap group called Deep. After releasing their debut album, The Game Plan, in 2005 and performing several live shows, the duo felt that people were taking the act too seriously and not understanding that their extreme misogyny was a parody of existing sex rap acts. As a result, the friends disbanded Deep. In 2007, <mask> and his friend Paul Chell released an album titled Twointheoneinthe under the name Salsa Windfall. In 2009, <mask> and Pinkstone reunited as an electropop act, named Funeral In The Mirror, to release an album titled Old Wolf Thoughts.In 2012, <mask> teamed with fellow comedians Bob Place, Ben Evans, Michael Albanese and Jamey McDaniel for a comedy rap video reminiscent of Deep, titled "Grab Dat Dolla" which was released through Laughing Skull Studios' YouTube channel. In January 2016, <mask> released a five-song digital EP under the name DemonRiot through the Bandcamp website. A second EP, titled Deformed Disco, was made available on the site one month later. <mask> has also composed and recorded the theme songs for four of his podcasts, Down With Joe <mask>, We'll See You In Hell, Emotional Hangs, and Without A Country. Author and columnist
In 2012, <mask> co-authored the book Cheat: The Man's Guide to Infidelity with Bill Burr and Robert Kelly which is based on their short film Cheat. On July 8, 2016, Fangoria.com announced that the website would begin publishing "Some Severe Situations", a horror-based, short story anthology column written by <mask> on their website. The first story was published one week later and seven stories were published through February 2017.The stories ended when <mask>'s podcast left the Fangoria Podcast Network later that month. Beginning with the July/August 2017 issue of Penthouse, <mask> became a regular contributor to the magazine with a monthly column titled "You Let Me Down." The column was replaced with fictional short stories by <mask> for the first two issues published in 2019 before coming to an abrupt end. <mask> returned to contribute a column to the November/December 2019 issue. Filmography

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External links
 Official website

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Screenwriters from Pennsylvania
21st-century American screenwriters
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