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<mask>,  (born 26 October 1971) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2013. As an amateur he represented Great Britain at the 2000 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division and becoming the first ever British boxer to win Olympic gold in that division. <mask> turned professional the following year after signing a contract with BBC Sport, and went on to have seventeen fights on the network before their cancellation of all boxing broadcasts. In his professional career he challenged for the WBA, British, and Commonwealth heavyweight titles. He has also competed for the WBC Heavyweight title, one of the four major world championships in the sport. In 2009, <mask> won the Prizefighter tournament, his first of two. He became the European heavyweight champion in 2010, after defeating Michael Sprott in a rematch of their 2007 bout.In 2013, <mask> won his second Prizefighter tournament, becoming the first boxer to do so. Amateur career
Boxing out of Repton Amateur Boxing Club in Bethnal Green, London, <mask> became British super heavyweight champion in 1997, defeating Nick Kendall in the final. He retained the title in 1998, defeating Dean Redmond, and won gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games beating Michael Macquae of Mauritius in the final. In 2000 he won gold at the Sydney Olympics by defeating Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov of Kazakhstan on points. After his medal win, <mask> was awarded an MBE. Highlights
1998 at the European Super Heavyweight Championships in Minsk, Belarus, lost to Serguei Lyakhovich (Belarus)
1998 Commonwealth Games Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist. Results were:
Defeated Fai Falamoe (New Zealand) points
Defeated Jim Whitehead (Australia) KO 3
Defeated Michael Macquae (Mauritius) KO 1
1999 competed at the World Championships in Houston, United States.Results were:
Defeated Lazizbek Zokirov (Uzbekistan) points
Lost to Sinan Samil Sam (Turkey) points
Won the Super Heavyweight Gold Medal representing Great Britain at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Results were:
Defeated Alexei Lezin (Russia) TKO 4
Defeated Alexey Mazikin (Ukraine) points
Defeated Paolo Vidoz (Italy) points
Defeated Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov (Kazakhstan) points

Professional career
In 2001, <mask> released his autobiography Realising the Dream and set up his own company, A Force Promotions, to manage his career and concluded several high-profile sponsorships deals and became the first boxer in Britain to sign a direct broadcast deal. He signed a £1 million deal with the BBC to show his first ten professional fights. His debut was against US club fighter Michael Middleton, whom <mask> knocked out in the first round in Wembley Arena with 6 million viewers watching at home. He was then out of action for several months with an injury, but by the end of the year outpointed Briton Derek McCafferty over six rounds. <mask> continued to win and made his United States debut in November 2002, knocking out Shawn Robinson in the 1st round. In February 2003 he beat US fighter Rob Calloway in four rounds, and outpointed Ratko Draskovic over eight rounds.<mask> then knocked out Matt Ellis in two rounds. <mask> then tried to arrange a fight with 41-year-old ex-World champion Frank Bruno, who had been retired for seven years. A dispute at York Hall, Bethnal Green with the Herbie Hide after the Ellis fight resulted in a riot. The proposed Frank Bruno fight collapsed shortly afterwards, when Bruno was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. <mask> and Hide were both penalised by the British Boxing Board of Control for the riot. America bound
Following the Ellis riot, <mask> relocated to the USA where he was unbeaten in 11 fights, with 8 knockouts. In the 2003 November issue of the Ring Magazine, <mask> was tipped to emulate Lennox Lewis and become a dominant world champion.He had three more fights in 2003, against Lisandro Diaz (KO4), Quinn Navarre (KO3), and Brian Nix (KO3), in America. <mask> was sparring regularly with experienced world class Heavyweights like Vaughn Bean. <mask> returned to the UK in 2004, but instead of fighting new British champion Michael Sprott for the British title, he fought unbeaten Dutch fighter Richel Hersisia for the World Boxing Foundation (WBFo) World belt. He knocked out Hersisia in 4 rounds. He defended the title twice: a 12-round points win over late-sub Julius Francis, and a 9th-round TKO of unbeaten Tomasz Bonin. After suffering a serious ligament tear in his left hand requiring hand surgery in New York, <mask> did not fight for almost a year. BBC deal ends
<mask>'s contract was not renewed in 2004 and the BBC stopped broadcasting professional boxing.<mask> returned to the ring in June 2005, knocking out Robert Davis (KO7) and Robert Wiggins (KO4). On The Best Damn Sports Show Period he said he was now ready to step up and face world class opponents and get a title shot. Loss of form
<mask> returned to the UK in December to face long-time bitter rival Danny Williams in London for the Commonwealth title. <mask> stepped in after Matt Skelton had pulled out and took the bout on five weeks notice. <mask> lost a close, split decision. In April 2006, <mask> fought in the US against Dominick Guinn and again lost on points. <mask> put the defeat down to loss of confidence from his defeat to Williams and insisted he would bounce back.In June, he scored a three-round knockout of Andrew Greeley in an off-TV fight in America, and was poised for a fight with Matt Skelton to try to resurrect his career. Skelton had beaten Danny Williams in July, winning the title Williams had earlier taken from <mask>. When Skelton dropped out only one week before the fight due to injury, Danny Williams replaced him. Williams had trained 8 weeks for a fight with British champion Scott Gammer. This time <mask> fought far more aggressively, decking Williams twice and winning on a third-round knockout. Williams suffered a broken nose and severe lacerations, and <mask> was once again lauded as a contender for a world title. Following the victory over Williams, <mask> signed a promotional deal with Frank Warren, whose aim was to get <mask> a world title fight in 2007.On 17 February 2007, <mask> was knocked out by Michael Sprott for the European Union title. This third professional loss left <mask>'s future uncertain. <mask> claimed that he could make a comeback, but Warren suggested that any return to the ring would be for a reduced purse, since the public would have no great interest. <mask> returned to fight Paul King for a bout scheduled for 29 September 2007 in Sheffield. However, he and his coach Kelvyn Travis were involved in a car accident on 21 September 2007 in the United States, and <mask> suffered injuries that caused the fight to be cancelled. <mask> had also suggested that a deal would be announced involving promoter Dennis Hobson, but the cancellation of the fight meant that a formal announcement was on hold. <mask> underwent surgery for his injuries, and returned on 19 April 2008, beating the American Jason Barnett in the fifth round on the undercard of the Bernard Hopkins vs. Joe Calzaghe fight at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.This bout was the first of a new multi-bout agreement between <mask> and Warren, which aimed to get <mask> a world title shot in 2009. After proposed matches with Samuel Peter and Martin Rogan fell through, on 6 September 2008 <mask> gained what the BBC described as "an unconvincing victory" over George Arias at the MEN Arena in Manchester. The fight was overshadowed by Amir Khan's first defeat later on the same card. On 6 December 2008, <mask>'s career seemed all but over as he was defeated by the winner of the first Prizefighter tournament and Belfast taxi driver, Martin Rogan. The referee scored the contest 96–95 in favour of the Irishman. Comeback
<mask> signed for the Prizefighter tournament, an eight-man, one-night knockout tournament that took place at ExCeL London on 2 October 2009. On 1 October 2009, he weighed in for Prizefighter at 18 stones and half a pound.He went on to win the tournament, by way of second round knock-out against Coleman Barrett. Before that, he had knocked out Scott Belshaw and won a unanimous decision over Danny Hughes. Following his success in the Prizefighter tournament, it was announced on 15 January 2010 that <mask> would face Albert Sosnowski for the European Boxing Union heavyweight title, with the fight set for 9 April 2010. However Sosnowski called the bout off for a shot at Vitali Klitschko's WBC title. On 9 April 2010, <mask> won the vacant EBU belt against old foe Michael Sprott at Alexandra Palace. He knocked out Sprott in the final round despite being behind on all three judges scorecards. <mask> claimed he sustained a shoulder injury early in the fight and had to carry on single-handed.BBC Sport said of the fight: "Having come within seconds of a defeat that would have made a mockery of pre-fight assertions that he could face one of the Klitschko brothers for a world title, <mask> said: 'I had to win it somehow. On 24 April 2010, <mask> underwent surgery in Cheadle, Greater Manchester to repair the torn Pectoralis major muscle. The surgeon said he expected <mask> to make a "full recovery in about 12 to 16 weeks". World title challenge vs. David Haye
On 8 June 2010, <mask> vacated his European title, announcing his intention of getting a world title shot. He began negotiations with Hayemaker Promotions soon after, which culminated in a world-title fight in the M.E.N. Arena against WBA champion David Haye on 13 November 2010. <mask> was defeated by Haye, with the fight being stopped in the third round after <mask> was unable to respond to a barrage of punches from Haye.Statistics from the fight showed that <mask> only landed a single punch in the entire duration of the contest. <mask> was heavily criticised for his performance after the bout. British and Commonwealth champion Derek Chisora stated, "I'd never show my face again if I fought like that. It was pathetic. He disgraced himself and he disgraced British heavyweights, he shouldn't get paid the reported million pounds he is earning after that shambles." European light-heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly also voiced his discontent with the fight, adding <mask> should now retire. Due to the nature of <mask>'s defeat, the BBBofC withheld some of the fighter's purse while a full investigation of the bout was carried out.After the investigation into the fight was concluded, <mask> was granted his full purse on 11 January 2011. After defeat by David Haye through to retirement
On 3 December 2010, it was confirmed <mask> would continue his career as a professional boxer despite calls for him to retire. Former British and Commonwealth champion Derek Chisora was critical of the decision, stating, "He's going to box on, but who's going to buy the tickets to go and watch him? Even if he gives them to you for free are you going to go and watch? ... Good luck to <mask> anyway." On 15 November 2011, during an interview on BBC Breakfast following his departure from Strictly Come Dancing, <mask> announced that he would return to boxing for one last time saying "It could be over, but I just need to go and check." He stated his intention was to fight British Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury in 2012.<mask> returned to the ring on 26 May 2012 and boxed Ali Adams at the Brentwood Centre, Essex for the International Masters Championships. <mask> sent his opponent to the canvas with a right hand and although Adams managed to get to his feet, a flurry of follow-up shots from <mask> prompted the referee to step in and end the contest. <mask> faced David Price on 13 October 2012, and lost the fight by knockout after 82 seconds of the first round. <mask> announced that he would not retire from boxing and will box on. On 23 February 2013 <mask> won the Prizefighter 29: The International Heavyweights III tournament, defeating Derric Rossy in the final. On 27 April 2013, <mask> stepped into the ring to fight the unbeaten American prospect Deontay Wilder, who had a record of 27 wins, all knockouts [27–0–0]. Wilder had not been beyond 4 rounds in his professional career.The bout only lasted a mere 70 seconds of the first round. Wilder landed a right hand which wobbled <mask>, Wilder then rushed in with a flurry of wild punches. <mask> was knocked down but managed to beat the count. However, the referee then stopped the bout, deeming <mask> unable to continue. Wilder won via TKO, his 28th consecutive knockout. On 1 May 2013, <mask> announced his retirement from boxing. However just 20 days later, he came out of retirement with intentions to box on.On 26 March 2014, <mask> announced he was no longer a professional boxer, and would not return to the ring. Professional boxing record

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Reality television
On 6 September 2011, it was announced that <mask> would take part in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing. <mask> and his dance partner Natalie Lowe made it to the seventh round of the contest before being voted out. <mask> came second in the 2014 Summer edition of Celebrity Big Brother, and in 2016 he took part in Celebrity MasterChef. Personal life
<mask> is married to Raychel. They have a daughter called Ariella Amore <mask>, and a son named Hudson, who was born in May 2013. In 2015 <mask> revealed he was suffering from traumatic brain injuries leading to sight problems and severe mood swings.References

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<mask> (born April 18, 1988) is an American professional soccer player who plays for Major League Soccer club Columbus Crew as a defender. Youth and college
Born in Akron, Ohio, <mask> was a three-sport athlete at Copley High School, lettering in soccer, basketball, and baseball. He was a co-captain and three-year varsity soccer player for the Indians, finishing his career tied for the school record with 124 career points. He tallied 44 goals and 21 assists across his junior and senior seasons, was named the Akron Touchdown Club's Soccer Player of the Year as a junior, and earned second team all-Ohio honors his senior season. During his prep career, <mask> was twice named all-Suburban League, all-Northeast Region, and NSCAA all-region. He was additionally named to the Akron Beacon Journal's all-star first team as a junior and senior. <mask> played point guard on the basketball team and was a shortstop on the baseball team.He was recruited as a baseball player by Kentucky and West Virginia, and received interest from Akron as a soccer player, but saw his only scholarship offer come from Cleveland State and head coach Ali Kazemaini. <mask> started every game of his collegiate career; his 74 starts for the Vikings is tied for third in program history, and his 74 appearances are tied for seventh. As a freshman, he appeared in 18 games and scored twice, helping the Vikings go from a winless season the year before he arrived to eight wins. <mask> scored his first collegiate goal on October 18, 2006 as part of a 2–0 victory over Detroit, and followed it up 10 days later with his first postseason goal, in a 3–2 loss in the Horizon League Tournament against Loyola. He was named to the Horizon League All-Newcomer Team at the end of the season. <mask> fell off slightly his sophomore season, only tallying one goal and three assists across 17 appearances. He found his lone goal on September 19 in a 4-1 defeat to Notre Dame College.<mask> added assists in back-to-back games in October and finished the season second on the team in assists and points. As a junior, <mask> helped the Vikings to a 9–8–3 season, their first year with more wins than losses since 1993. He notched three goals and three assists on the season; those three assists were good for a tie for second on the team. <mask> scored in back-to-back games in October, a 3–2 victory over Valparaiso and a 1–0 victory over Detroit that marked his first career game-winning goal. He also scored against Wright State in the quarterfinals of the league tournament, helping the Vikings pick up their first postseason victory since 2002. <mask> was named to the Horizon League All-Tournament Team, one of four Vikings players to earn the honor. His senior season at Cleveland State overlapped with the freshman season of Brad Stuver, who he would play alongside for two seasons in Columbus.<mask> set career highs with his 20 appearances and six goals; those six goals tied for the team lead with Slavisa Ubiparipović. <mask> scored the first goal of the season for the Vikings, as part of a 3–0 season-opening victory over St. Bonaventure, and also had a stretch of three straight games with a goal in mid-October. His three game-winning goals were the most on the team. <mask> capped off his collegiate career by being named to the All-Horizon League First Team, alongside Ubiparipović. He appeared 74 times for Cleveland State across his four years, scoring 12 goals. Cleveland Internationals
<mask> had been a youth player for the Cleveland Internationals, and he joined the senior team in the USL Premier Development League following his freshman season at Cleveland State. He played sparingly for the Internationals during the 2007 PDL season, making just two appearances as the club finished sixth in the Great Lakes Division, 12 points outside of the playoff positions.Following his sophomore season for the Vikings, <mask> returned to the Internationals to help the club to the best season in their history. He scored once in 13 appearances during the regular season, as the Internationals placed second in the Great Lakes Division and qualified for the playoffs for the only time in club history. <mask> saw action in both playoff games, picking up a yellow card in the Divisional Round victory over Toronto Lynx. He finished the season with one goal in 15 appearances for the Internationals. <mask> again joined the Internationals for the 2009 PDL season, but was unable to help the club repeat their achievements from 2008. He appeared 12 times for Cleveland, but the club finished 12 points outside the playoffs in the Great Lakes Division. After going undrafted in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft and without a professional contract, <mask> rejoined the Internationals for the 2010 PDL season.He appeared 11 times for the club, but could not prevent the Internationals from finishing at the bottom of the Great Lakes Division, with just eight points from 16 games. The senior club folded at the end of the season, although it continued to exist as a youth team. <mask> appeared 40 times in all for the Internationals, with one goal. Club career

Columbus Crew
Williams went on trial with MLS club Kansas City Wizards in the spring of 2010, and appeared for the reserve team of Columbus Crew in a match against Marshall. After spending the summer in the PDL with the Internationals, <mask> signed with Columbus on September 16, 2010. He said the signing was "a dream come true", as he was a lifelong Crew fan and had attended the first game in club history in 1996. <mask> made his club debut on September 29, in the group stage of the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League, away to Municipal.He started and went 67 minutes before being substituted for Steven Lenhart as Columbus fell 2–1. <mask> also appeared in the group stage finale for the Crew, playing 82 minutes of a 4–1 victory away to Joe Public, but did not see time in any other competition and finished the season with only the two CCL appearances for Columbus. In June 2011, <mask> was suspended for 10 games and fined 10% of his salary after testing positive for methandienone metabolites, a performance-enhancing drug. The positive test came after <mask> had used an over-the-counter supplement he purchased at a drugstore. His suspension took effect for a June 12 meeting with Chicago Fire and expired after an August 5 game against Colorado Rapids. <mask> had already missed time prior to the suspension with a torn labrum in his hip; he was unavailable for 19 games on the season because of the injury and suspension. <mask> did not make an appearance for Columbus in any competition, and was left unprotected for the 2011 MLS Expansion Draft, but was not selected and thus returned to the Crew for the 2012 season.After two seasons with the Crew, <mask> made his MLS debut on March 24, 2012, in a 2–0 victory over Montreal Impact. He came off the bench to replace Sebastián Miranda and played the final 15 minutes of the Columbus victory. <mask> appeared just twice through the first month of the season, but was handed his first league start on April 21. He went the full 90 minutes against Houston Dynamo, helping the Crew tally a 2–2 draw. <mask> won a place in the starting lineup, as he started the next 20 games in all competitions. The last of those games, against Philadelphia Union on August 29, saw <mask> score his first career goal. From a Federico Higuaín free kick, <mask> powered home a 41st minute header that helped Columbus to a 2–1 victory on the day.However, <mask> was not on the field to see it, as he picked up his first career red card in the 68th minute after an off-the-ball scuffle with Antoine Hoppenot. <mask> finished the season with 31 appearances for Columbus across all competitions, splitting time at left, center, and right back, and added one goal. On November 28, Columbus exercised the option on <mask>' contract, ensuring his return to the club for 2013. After playing all three defensive positions in 2012, <mask> was installed as the primary right back for Columbus to begin the 2013 season, and did not take long to make an impact. In the season opener against Chivas USA, <mask> started and scored just the second goal of his MLS career. His 89th minute tally helped the Crew to a 3–0 victory on the day. <mask> continued to pour in the goals through the first two months of the season, also finding the back of the net in victories over D.C. United on March 23 and April 27.He would be slowed down by injuries in the back half of the season, however, missing time with left calf inflammation and a concussion. <mask> finished the season with three goals in 27 appearances, all in league play, while appearing as a right and center back. His contract expired at the end of the season, but he re-signed for the Crew on November 26. <mask> kept his role as the starting right back to begin the 2014 season, starting the season opener against D.C. United and providing an assist to Jairo Arrieta as part of a 3–0 victory for the Crew. <mask> appeared in the first 14 matches of the season, but then saw his season derailed by medical issues. He suffered a groin injury in June, then underwent surgery in July to remove a blood clot in his right arm. He returned to practice, but was facing a high risk of reclotting, and therefore underwent another surgery on July 16 to remove a rib and alleviate the issue.<mask> was placed on the disabled list following the procedure, and missed the remainder of the regular season. He was able to return to action in the playoffs, coming off the bench to replace Eric Gehrig in the second leg of the conference semifinals against New England Revolution. <mask> made his first appearance in more than five months and first career playoff appearance, but could not prevent a 3–1 defeat on the day and the elimination of the Crew from the playoffs. He finished the season having made 16 appearances across all competitions. On November 18, <mask> was one of 16 players who had their contract options picked up by the club. New York City FC
On December 8, 2014, <mask> was traded to MLS expansion club New York City FC in exchange for allocation money. He became the eighth signing in club history, and the third defender to join the club ahead of its first season.<mask> was named to the starting 11 for the first match in NYCFC history, away to fellow expansion side Orlando City on March 8, 2015. He went the full 90 minutes as the match ended in a 1–1 draw. <mask> also started the club's first home match at Yankee Stadium, going 79 minutes of a 2–0 victory over New England Revolution before being replaced by Shay Facey. <mask> traveled with the team to face Colorado Rapids, but was sent to the emergency room on March 20 and eventually diagnosed with viral pericarditis. Two games after his return, he then suffered an adductor strain that caused him to miss all but one match until July. On July 25, <mask> was waived by NYCFC. He finished his spell with the club having made five appearances, all in MLS play.Toronto FC
On July 31, 2015, <mask> was picked up off waivers by Toronto FC, the club's second defensive signing of the summer transfer window. He made his club debut on August 15, playing the full 90 minutes in a 3–0 defeat against New York Red Bulls. <mask> started the final 12 matches of the regular season for the Reds after his arrival, helping Toronto qualify for the playoffs for the first time in club history. He started in the knockout round against Montreal Impact, pairing with Ahmed Kantari at center back as Toronto was eliminated by a 3–0 scoreline. <mask> made 13 appearances across all competitions for Toronto. On December 1, he was one of 13 players who had their contract options picked up by the club, ensuring his return to Toronto for the 2016 season. <mask> made his 2016 season debut on March 13, as Toronto played away to his former club, New York City FC.He was named on the bench, and replaced Will Johnson in second half stoppage time to help preserve a 2–2 draw. <mask> started just 11 matches on the season, his lowest total since 2011 with Columbus, but Toronto won in eight of those starts. He appeared for the final time on the season on August 24, starting a 2–1 victory away to Orlando City. <mask> did not appear in any of Toronto's last eight regular season matches as the club qualified for the playoffs for a second season in a row. He was named on the bench for all six of Toronto's playoff matches, including MLS Cup 2016 against Seattle Sounders FC, but did not make an appearance in any match. <mask> finished the season with 15 appearances, all in league play. At the end of the year, <mask>' contract expired, and was not renewed by the club.He departed Toronto having made 28 appearances across two seasons. Return to Columbus

On December 22, 2016, <mask> was selected by his former club, Columbus Crew SC, with the third pick of Stage 2 of the 2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft. He officially re-signed for the club on January 5, 2017; per club policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed. Prior to the season, <mask> was named as part of the leadership council for Crew SC, alongside Federico Higuaín, Ethan Finlay, Justin Meram, and Jonathan Mensah. The five collectively served as vice-captains behind captain Wil Trapp. Although <mask> was named as part of the council, he had to wait to make his season debut, starting on March 18 away to D.C. United and helping keep a clean sheet in a 2–0 victory. <mask> played sporadically through the front half of the season, but jumped into the starting lineup after the sale of Nicolai Næss to Heerenveen, going on to start 16 of the last 17 games on the season.Late in the year, <mask> found his scoring touch, pounding in headers in three of the club's last four games of the regular season. On September 23, <mask> scored the winning goal in a 3–2 victory over New York Red Bulls, his first goal since 2013. He then scored his second game-winning goal in as many games on September 30, as part of a 2–0 takedown of D.C. United, and closed the regular season with the match-tying goal in a 2–2 draw with his former club, New York City FC. In the MLS Cup Playoffs, <mask> started all five of Crew SC's matches, including facing both of his former clubs in the conference semifinals and finals. He finished the season having made 28 appearances across all competitions, and tied his career high with three goals. On December 1, <mask> had his contract option exercised by Crew SC, ensuring his return to the club in 2018. Career statistics

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 MLS Cup: 2020
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<mask> (born September 10, 1980) is an American musician and actor. He is best known as the bassist of the rock band My Chemical Romance. He is also the multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist of rock duo Electric Century. Mikey co-wrote Collapser with Shaun Simon, which was released July 2019 on DC Comics. Early life
<mask> was born September 10, 1980, in Newark, New Jersey to <mask> (née Rush) and <mask> and is of Scottish and Italian ancestry. He was raised in Belleville, New Jersey alongside his older brother Gerard. Growing up, he worked in a Barnes & Noble and later Eyeball Records.Both of these played a major part in the formation of My Chemical Romance. Eyeball signed the band and released their debut record. The first concert he ever went to was a Smashing Pumpkins concert with his brother. After seeing them perform he told him "we have to do this." He was asked to join My Chemical Romance, which involved him having to improve his bass skills in the space of a week. He has toured with From First To Last. Music

My Chemical Romance

Way joined American rock band My Chemical Romance in 2001 as their bassist and suggested the band's name after he read the book Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.When <mask> joined the band, he had to improve his bass skills in less than a week. My Chemical Romance released their second album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge on June 8, 2004. My Chemical Romance's third album, The Black Parade, was released on October 24, 2006. My Chemical Romance released their fourth and final studio album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, on November 22, 2010. While touring for the album, <mask> collaborated with Squier to release a signature Mikey <mask> Fender Mustang Bass. In an interview with MusicRadar, <mask> commented on his signature bass: "I had been sponsored by Fender through most of my time in MCR. I had contacted them about making a custom bass and they hit me back saying they wanted to give me a signature model".The band announced their breakup on March 22, 2013. On October 31, 2019, My Chemical Romance announced they would be reuniting with a date in Los Angeles on December 20 and a new merchandise line. They later announced a 2020 North American tour, as well as dates in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. The tour was later postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Electric Century

For over a year after the break up of My Chemical Romance, <mask> remained without a band until he formed Electric Century with Sleep Station vocalist David Debiak. The duo released their first song "I Lied" in February 2014. The same month, Electric Century was included in Alternative Press "100 Bands You Need To Know" list.The magazine mentioned that "I Lied" "forges an alloy of decades-proven electronic pop" comparing it to fun. and Twenty One Pilots. Alternative Press also said that the duo's album was finished and awaiting release later that year. The album was recorded and mixed by D. James Goodwin at The Isokon Studio in Woodstock, New York. In November, <mask> revealed that he had flown in February to the East Coast to complete the album but instead went to rehab. <mask> also said the news about Electric Century would be "in the coming months." On January 13, 2015, "Let You Get Away" was made available for streaming."Let You Get Away" was released as a single on April 3. The band announced their debut self-titled EP on March 10, and was released on Record Store Day on April 18. "Hail the Saints" and "Right There" were released as singles on May 6. Since releasing their debut EP, the band re-entered the studio, and spent much 2015 writing and recording new songs. In January 2016, the duo tweeted on their official Twitter page "2016 is THE year", hinting upcoming releases. They announced their debut album For the Night to Control on February 24, 2016, and was released on  March 9, exclusively with that week's edition of Kerrang! Magazine.The album was officially released on July 14, 2017. Their self-titled second studio album, produced by My Chemical Romance band mate Ray Toro, was released February 26, 2021. Other musical collaborations
In November 2015, <mask> was featured in Good Charlotte's music video for their first single since their hiatus, "Makeshift Love". He also contributed to Andy Black's debut solo album The Shadow Side, a pseudonym project from Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack. <mask> recorded bass for American pop punk band Waterparks on their Cluster EP, and later joined them on tour with Good Charlotte, including performances at Reading and Leeds festivals. <mask> was also a special guest DJ at Emo Nite LA's 1st-year anniversary. Acting
In 2013, <mask> made his acting debut on The Hub original series The Aquabats!Super Show! in the season two finale "The AntiBats! ", playing the lead singer of a fictional death metal band called Asthma. Additionally, <mask>'s brother Gerard co-directed and co-wrote the episode. In 2018, <mask> debuted as a voice actor by voicing the role of Snarl in the Transformers: Power of the Primes animated series. Personal life
In March 2007, <mask> married his first wife, Alicia Simmons. They divorced in 2013.In February 2016, <mask> married Kristin Blanford. Together, they have two children, daughters Rowan Louise (b. 2017) and Kennedy James (b. 2019). <mask> has spoken openly about his struggles with addiction and sobriety. He has been sober since 2014, after entering rehab following an intervention. In 2015, his brother revealed on Reddit that he was a cousin of popular podcaster Joe Rogan.In October 2019, Rogan confirmed it on his podcast. He also said that despite this, the two have never met. Discography
My Chemical Romance

 I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002)
 Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)
 The Black Parade (2006)
 Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010)

Electric Century
 Electric Century (2015), EP
 For the Night to Control (2016)
 Electric Century (2021)

Guest performances
 The Shadow Side (by Andy Black, 2016)
 Cluster (by Waterparks, 2016)

Bibliography

Story credits

Series
 Collapser (co-written with Shaun Simon, art by Ilias Kyriazis, DC Comics, 2019–present)

References

External links
My Chemical Romance Official Website

1980 births
21st-century American musicians
American male guitarists
American people of Italian descent
American people of Scottish descent
American rock bass guitarists
American male bass guitarists
Living people
My Chemical Romance members
Musicians from Newark, New Jersey
Songwriters from New Jersey
Belleville High School (New Jersey) alumni
Guitarists from New Jersey
21st-century American bass guitarists
Musicians from New Jersey

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<mask> (born 10 January 1992) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays for Saudi Professional League club Al-Raed and the Ghana national team. He primarily plays as a winger, although he has also been deployed as an attacking midfielder. He began his career with Porto, also spending a season on loan at Rio Ave. In 2013, he was signed by Chelsea for £3.5 million, who subsequently loaned him to Vitesse Arnhem, Everton, AFC Bournemouth and Málaga. After spending the 2016–17 season on loan at Newcastle United, he completed a permanent transfer to the club in May 2017. A full international with over 30 caps since his debut in 2012, <mask> has represented Ghana at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and two Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. He helped the team finish as runners-up at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, in which he also won Player of the Tournament and Goal of the Tournament.Early life
<mask> was born in Ada Foah, Greater Accra Region. He spent some of his education at the then Feyenoord Football Academy at Gomoa Fetteh, in the Central Region of Ghana which has now been changed to West African Football Academy in Sogakope in the Volta Region of Ghana. He later moved to join Cheetah FC a club based in Kasoa. Club career

<mask> arrived at Porto at the age of 17, manager Patrick Greveraars scouted him and gave him his first change finishing his football formation with the club. On 14 May 2011, he was called up by first-team manager André Villas-Boas for a Primeira Liga match against Marítimo, but he did not leave the bench. As with teammate Kelvin, <mask> was sent on loan to fellow league side Rio Ave for the 2011–12 season. He made his debut in the competition on 28 August 2011, in a 0–1 home loss against Olhanense.On 16 December 2011, <mask> opened the score at Estádio da Luz against Benfica in the 24th minute, but the hosts eventually won it 5–1. He returned to Porto for the 2012–13 campaign, starting in nine of his league appearances as they won the national championship for the third consecutive time. Chelsea
On 1 September 2013, <mask> agreed to join Chelsea on a five-year contract, for a reported £3.5 million, being immediately loaned to Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem, for the rest of the 2013–14 season. Loan to Vitesse
On 6 October 2013, <mask> made his debut against Feyenoord as a substitute, replacing Kazaishvili in the 77th minute. He went on to providing an assist to Mike Havenaar, but it was not enough to prevent a 2–1 loss for Vitesse. On 19 October, <mask> made his first start against SC Heerenveen, which ended in a 3–2 win for Vitesse. On 9 November, he converted a penalty for his first goal with Vitesse, against FC Utrecht; the match ended in a 3–1 win for Vitesse.In total, <mask> played 30 games and scored 5 goals for the Dutch side as they finished 6th in the league and qualified to the play offs. Loan to Everton

On 13 August 2014, <mask> joined fellow Premier League club Everton on loan until the end of the 2014–15 season. He made his first appearance for the club 10 days later, coming on as an 85th-minute substitute for Kevin Mirallas in a 2–2 draw with Arsenal at Goodison Park. On 21 September 2014, <mask> made his first start in the league against Crystal Palace, which ended in a 2–3 home loss. After his absence due to the Africa Cup of Nations, <mask> returned to Everton's lineup on 19 February 2015 in a Europa League match against BSC Young Boys, playing out the last five minutes after replacing hat-trick scorer Romelu Lukaku. and came off the bench three days later to set up a late equaliser in a 2–2 draw at home to Leicester City. On 15 March 2015, in the match against Newcastle United, he came off the bench with five minutes remaining, and provided an assist to fellow substitute Ross Barkley for Everton's third goal of a 3–0 home victory.Following <mask>'s impact as a substitute in the above games, he was picked to start the second leg of a Europa League Round of 16 match away to Dynamo Kyiv on 19 March with regular right-winger Aaron Lennon cup-tied, with Everton leading 2–1 from the first leg. His team were eliminated after losing 5–2 on the night, he was withdrawn in the 65th minute, and that was his final first-team appearance for Everton. Loan to Bournemouth
On 29 May 2015, <mask> was loaned to newly promoted Premier League team Bournemouth for the upcoming season, with club Chief Executive Neill Blake calling the deal "a huge coup". He made his debut on 25 August in the second round of the League Cup, starting in a 4–0 win at Hartlepool United. <mask>'s only other appearance was in the next round's victory at Preston North End; he did not feature in any Bournemouth matchday squad in the league and he was recalled from his loan by Chelsea on 1 January 2016. Loan to Málaga
On 24 January 2016, <mask> gave an interview with the BBC World Service in which he spoke about leaving Chelsea and his imminent transfer to Levante. The next day, it was confirmed that he would be instead moving to Málaga on loan.On 5 February 2016, <mask> made his debut in the starting eleven and scored in a 3–0 victory over Getafe CF. Newcastle United
On 31 August 2016, <mask> joined Newcastle United on a one-year loan deal with an option to buy clause in the contract. On 13 September, his debut for the club came on as a substitute for Yoan Gouffran in the 61st minute in a 6–0 away victory against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road, where he provided the assist to Aleksandar Mitrović to earn their fifth goal. <mask> scored his first goal for the club in a 1–0 win against Rotherham United on 1 October, followed by further goals against Cardiff City and Wigan Athletic. In May 2017, <mask> signed a four-year deal to join Newcastle for £6.2 million from Chelsea. On 1 June 2021 <mask> announced across his social media platforms that he had left Newcastle. Al-Raed
On 17 July 2021, <mask> joined Al-Raed.International career

<mask> won his first senior cap for the Ghana national team on 1 June 2012 against Lesotho, scoring in the process. He was described by the BBC as an "excellent prospect", whilst ESPN added he was "quick and technically impressive", and a potential future star for his national team. The following year, he was in the Ghanaian squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa. He started the first match, a 2–2 draw against the DR Congo, and was a substitute in the following 1–0 win over Mali. He returned to the starting line-up in the last group match against Niger in Port Elizabeth, scoring the second goal of a 3–0 win which put his country into the quarter-finals as group winners. <mask> featured in the rest of Ghana's matches as they came fourth, scoring in their penalty shootout elimination by Burkina Faso. <mask> was selected for the 2014 FIFA World Cup squad, starting in all the matches as Ghana were eliminated in the group stage.At the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, <mask> scored twice in a 3–0 win over Guinea in the quarter-finals. He helped the team to the final, where they lost in a penalty shootout against the Ivory Coast. At the end of the tournament, he was awarded with both the Player of the Tournament award, as well as the Goal of the Tournament award for his strike against Guinea. Personal life
<mask> is a devout Christian who shares Bible verses on social media. He is married with two sons and a daughter. Career statistics

Club

International

Scores and results list Ghana's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Atsu goal. Honours
Porto
Primeira Liga: 2012–13
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 2012

Newcastle United
EFL Championship: 2016–17

Ghana
Africa Cup of Nations runner-up: 2015

Individual
 Vitesse Player of the Year: 2013–14
 Africa Cup of Nations Player of the Tournament: 2015
 Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament: 2015, 2017
 Africa Cup of Nations Goal of the Tournament: 2015

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References

External links

<mask> at Voetbal International

1992 births
Living people
People from Greater Accra Region
Ghanaian footballers
Association football wingers
Cheetah F.C.players
FC Porto players
Rio Ave F.C. players
Chelsea F.C. players
SBV Vitesse players
Everton F.C. players
AFC Bournemouth players
Málaga CF players
Newcastle United F.C. players
Al-Raed FC players
Primeira Liga players
Eredivisie players
Premier League players
La Liga players
English Football League players
Saudi Professional League players
Ghana international footballers
2013 Africa Cup of Nations players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
2015 Africa Cup of Nations players
2017 Africa Cup of Nations players
Ghanaian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
Expatriate footballers in England
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in England
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Ghanaian Christians
2019 Africa Cup of Nations players

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<mask>Bill<mask>  (born June 16, 1940, San Francisco) is an American engineer. He is best known for being the inventor of a packet-switched, "Ships in the Night," multiple-protocol router in 1981, during his 20-year tenure at Stanford's Knowledge Systems Laboratory as well as the Stanford University Computer Science department. The code routed Parc Universal Packet (PUP), XNS, IP and CHAOSNet. The router used Bill's Network Operating System (NOS). The NOS also supported the EtherTIPS that were used throughout the Stanford LAN for terminal access to both the LAN and the Internet. This code was licensed by Cisco Systems in 1987 and comprised the core of the first Cisco IOS. This provided the groundwork for a new, global communications approach.He is also known for his role in the creation of the IMAP mail protocol. In 1984 he conceived of a client/server protocol, designed its functionality, applied for and received the grant money for its implementation. In 1985 Mark Crispin was hired to work with Bill on what became the IMAP protocol. Along with Mark, who implemented the protocols details and wrote the first client, MMD, Bill wrote the first Unix IMAP server. Bill later implemented MacMM which was the first MacIntosh IMAP client. Frank Gilmurray assisted with the initial part of this implementation. At Stanford in 1979 Bill wrote the ttyftp serial line file transfer program, which was developed into the MacIntosh version of the Kermit protocol at Columbia University.He was initially hired in August 1975 as a member of Dr. Elliott Levanthal's Instrumentation Research Laboratory. Here, Bill was responsible for a small computer laboratory for biomedical applications of mass spectrometry. This laboratory in conjunction with several chemists, and the Department of inherited rare diseases in the medical school made significant inroads in identifying inherited rare diseases from the gas chromatograph, mass spectrometer data generated from blood and urine samples of sick children. His significant accomplishment was to complete a prototype program initiated by Dr. R. Geoff Dromey  called CLEANUP. This program "extracted representative spectra from GC/MS data," and was later used by the EPA to detect water pollutants. From 1970 to 1975 he worked at NASA Ames Research Center where he wrote, as a part of the Pioneer 10/11 mission control operating system, both the telemetry monitoring and real time display of the images of Jupiter. After his stint at Stanford he worked for 10 years at Sun Microsystems.At Sun as the CTO of Project JXTA he filed 40 US Patents, and along with Rita Yu Chen, designed and implemented the JXTA security solutions. In 2002 he along with Jeff Altman, then a contributor to the JXTA Open Source community, initiated the effort to establish the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Peer-to-Peer working group. The working group was created in 2003. Bill was the working group chair until 2005. As Chief Scientist at Peerouette, Inc., he filed 2 US and 2 European Union Patents. He has so far been granted 20 US Patents 4 of which are on the SIMS High Performance Email Servers which he invented and with a small team of engineers implemented, and 16 on P2P and distributed computing. In the Summer of 1999 under the guidance of Greg Papadopoulos, Sun's CTO, and reporting directly to Carl Cargill, Sun's director of corporate standards, led Sun's WAP Forum team with the major objective, "...  to work with the WAP Forum on the convergence of the WAP protocol suite with IETF, W3C and Java standards."During this same period of time he invented the iPlanet Wireless Services. The latter was a Java proxy between IMAP Mail servers and either WAP Servers, or Web Browers. It proxied the following markup languages:  The Handheld Device Markup Language, HDML, the Wireless Markup Language, WML, as well as HTML. This was a one person project supported by SFR/Cegetel in France. The primary goal was to enable email service to WAP phones. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964; his master's degree in mathematics from San Jose State University in San Jose, California, in 1966; and completed his doctoral course work at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington in 1970. Then decided to abandon mathematics for a career in software engineering and research to the skepticism of his thesis advisor because Bill thought the future was in computing."A start-up's true tale", Mercury News, 2001-01-12
Interview at Networkworld.com

1940 births
Living people
21st-century American engineers
American inventors
Sun Microsystems people
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
San Jose State University alumni
University of Washington alumni
Stanford University faculty

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<mask> (born 9 February 1949 in Ipswich, Suffolk) is a contemporary classical composer and educator. His scores range from Western orchestral, choral, vocal, chamber, theatre and contemporary dance genres, to intercultural conceptions featuring Ghanean Drummer, Javanese Gamelan, or Korean traditional performers. Career
<mask>'s London debut for The King's Singers, Wymondham Chants, was an immediate hit in March 1971 and has since been toured to almost every country and widely distributed by recordings. Demonstrating the composer's early assuredness with the English Choral Tradition (enriched by his study of medieval music and the ethos of Benjamin Britten at the University of East Anglia), it led to requests for similar works. However <mask> had, by then, undertaken studies with Alexander Goehr and Jonathan Harvey whose modernist influences were handled with increasing assuredness in the instrumental works of the 1970s, notably the Clements Prize-winning piano trio Algol Of Perseus (1973). His first orchestral work, Visions for Orchestra (1974-5) - was considered by Paul Griffiths as "strikingly true to its age ... so individual a work that it held its own alongside Delius's Brigg Fair and even the Walton (Belshazzar's Feast)". In 1976, <mask> was appointed to the Music Faculty of The University of Manchester, which was to be his base for the remainder of the century.By 1978, with Harmonice Mundi, inspired by the birth of his first daughter, we encounter a break away from 'modern music' in its long lines and luminous, transparent sonority. This would become something of a hallmark in later works, for example the BBC-commissioned Chamber Concerto, the second string quartet, because it'Spring, Kakemono for harps, Firefinch for oboe and piano, and the I Ching piano pieces. However it seems that this spacious clarity was already presaged in teenage compositions such the Sextet for piano and strings. Of because it'Spring (1984, setting e.e.cummings poems for the 16-voice BBC Northern Singers) it has been said "Music of such imaginative poise and wit, so constantly surprising yet so constantly right, is rare indeed". The review also refers to <mask>'s "engagingly zig-zag path", a point developed in his New Grove Dictionary entry (2001): "To call <mask> eclectic is an understatement; he is a classic blend of academic, maverick, craftsman, idealist and dissident." Dissidence is certainly felt in the defiant mood of Ten (a response to the English summer of discontent in 1981), the Five Brecht Songs (1983) and a dystopian millennial black comedy of Lucifer (2000-1). His venture into composer-scripted music-theatre, Biggs V Stompp Does It Again (1982) combines characteristic political, emotional, and mystical concerns by personifying them.Stompp, the want-it-now tycoon, rants and has no music in him; Carey's full heart is conveyed by tonal lyricism, and the Greek waiter (actually Tyreseus the blind seer) resonates with spiritual authority. At the same time, <mask>'s irritation with political aggression, mechanised lifestyles, and the cramped ethos of the 'New Music Scene' in the early 1980s was a spur to not only absorb foreign elements (such as polyrhythmic drumming from West Africa, and inflected melody from Asian musics) but also to travel further afield to learn about them. A two-year residence at Kenyatta University in Nairobi 1985-87 was to prove seminal. Around 1990, at the age of 40, a process of simplification and regeneration was complete and the ensuing decade was soon to prove a productive and influential one starting powerfully with the African vitality and hypnotic shimmering of String Quartet No.2 (commissioned by The Lindsays) and the glorious sea voyage score for the RNCM wind band, Sailing With Archangels. By 1993 increasing recognition brought a prestigious and well-attended portrait concert at the ICA, London, 'MusICA' curated by Adrian Jack. This was built around <mask>'s new half-hour concerto Two-Way Talking, for Ghanean drummer Kwesi Asare and chamber orchestra (Gemini) conducted by the composer. A fresh commission for the event was Septembral, initially overshadowed but later recognised as a primary work in the <mask> canon.The early nineties also spawned the hour-long 'secular oratorio' Blackbird. Against the genre background of works like Elgar's Dream Of Gerontius and Britten's War Requiem he asserts the independence of "an obsessive, if undogmatic, experimenter ... [who] eschews notions of stylistic consistency in pursuit of solutions to specific ideas", for example in the careful design of a large canvas of seemingly unrelated stylistic references. <mask> rejects the inference of 'eclecticism' if this means aping ready-made formuli: he sees the disjunctions as crucial - a set of koans, inviting the listener to sense subtler causes beneath the illusion of surfaces. It is thus not only in the vivid presence of music in flow, but in the silences, the discontinuities, and the timing of unnerving half-memories that his art reveals itself, bound together by voice rather than style. Blackbird received a five-minute ovation. Having worked as a computer programmer while freelancing in Oxford in 1971-73, he was in a strong position to invent and write a computer programme which enables a 3-D representation of numerous musical notes (mapped in terms of x=time, y=pitch, z=intensity) to be viewed from a shifted vantage point as though walking around apples on a great tree, or flying over it. Developed in order to manage textural control of an image of the departed soul travelling past galaxies at the climax of Blackbird, Stellation has subtly joined African and Asian musical experiences among the compositional vocabularies available to <mask>'s later work.The highly acclaimed Crossing Ohashi Bridge (named after Hiroshige's print Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake)
and Qigong, both commissioned for Manchester's virtuoso Goldberg Ensemble (11 strings), are illustrative of this. In February 2004, the BBC salvaged a radically original concept first commissioned by the Halle Orchestra for the ISCM Festival in 1998, but cancelled at that time because of the orchestra's financial woes. Bringing together a full Javanese Gamelan and a 20-piece Western Orchestra, Swans Reflecting Elephants (reflecting Dali) is an extreme example of what had been said about the Drumming Concerto Two Way Talking: "<mask>'s way lies in finding common cause in the unfamiliar ... done with a skill and originality that reinforced the point. At times breathtaking in its synthesis and all done quite un-touristico." In the event, an entire BBC Music Diversity Week was built around the concept and entitled: Swans Reflecting Elephants. In recent years as audiences have become more pluralistic, critical views have shifted from <mask>'s zig-zag path to the consistency of personality and the characteristic precision of musical hearing and imagination. " From the start, <mask> has sought a sound-world authentic to living here and now - not an easy task in an era where stylistic solutions are often shallow and passing."Revived earlier works are acclaimed for their resilience and freshness, and his back catalogue has increasing availability on CD (25 works to date) and through major publishers (Edition Peters, Maecenas). Tempo magazine's tribute to <mask> at 60 identifies the 40-minute BBC Singers commissioned homage to Berio, The Colour Of My Song as the "single work that stands out as a faithful assemblage of <mask>'s entire compositional ethos". Composed in 2006 and in many ways building on Blackbird, this is in effect a 'vocality concerto' for 8 solo voices against an orchestra of 16 voices, harp and percussion. The Colour Of My Song deploys "a wide range of voices (from throaty and nasal aggressiveness to sporadic delicacies, and from 13th century Vietnamese song to Tudor part-song), diverse texts and musical eras are bound together through one image alone: wood. It burns, builds, binds, carries, decays, germinates and floats. Symbolically, wood is fire, life, growth, support, cross (the crucifixion), fence (protection and ownership)." This free-association web of elemental musical symbolism and the feel for history connects The Colour Of My Song to the mysterious Avebury portrait in the mixed sextet Carved In Stone.Both relate to a series of piano miniatures begun in 2001, designed to match each of the 64 gua of the I Ching (hexagrams of The Chinese Book Of Changes). These miniatures have been premiered in sets such as The Book Of Stillness (received in London as "music of a strange and coherent beauty". The first 32 gua are now gathered into a published volume (Chinese Whispers), the first half of a vast compendium for curious pianists to roam in. <mask>'s Janus-faced preface is revealing: "Whereas John Cage famously used the I Ching for its random coin-tossing techniques to produce a very iconoclastic music, very 1950s, I sense a contemporary need for the renewal of endangered cultural traditions (Taoist and pianistic), moving forward by taking nourishment from the past." In June 2007 <mask> lost his wife of thirty years, the composer Beth Wiseman, to breast cancer endured since 1993. His compositions from 2007 to 2010 were sporadic and taut: miniatures such as the Yeats settings After Long Silence, a beguiling duo for traditional Korean players Diary of a Cherry, and a controversial contribution to the NMC Songbook Heynonnynonny Smallprint. His command of dramatic form and arresting colour are fully recovered in the extended orchestral movement of 2011, Shumei, Shumei.However, retirement in 2009 from the position of Professor at Bristol University has opened the way for new activity, as producer of a CD of Wiseman's finely composed, intense yet reticent music (Birdsongs In Silence), and the revival of earlier skills as pianist. In 2012 he brought out a CD in which his string works are interspersed by his performances of piano pieces presented in tribute by twenty former composition students (Joyous Lake). Writing music to film, and commitment to concert activity (for example as duo partner to violinist Madeleine Mitchell and conductor of a Gloucestershire choir) may be among the factors bringing conciseness and simplicity to many of his more recent compositions. However this is also in keeping with a broader cultural tendency of the time. Principal works

Orchestral -
(1975) Visions
(1979) Chamber Concerto
(1982) The Net and Aphrodite
(1986) Woodscapes
(1993) Blackbird
(2011) Shumei Shumei. 5)

References

http://www.nmcrec.co.uk/composer/poole-geoffrey
http://www.divine-art.com/composers/geoffreypoole.htm
http://www.last.fm/music/<mask>
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/geoffrey-poole-mn0002196150

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1949 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Alumni of the University of Southampton
People from Ipswich
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Male classical composers
20th-century male musicians
21st-century male musicians

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<mask> (28 March 1932 – 14 May 2019) was a Swedish author whose works include Exterminate All the Brutes and A History of Bombing. He published mainly documentary essays and books, along with some travel writing. The newspaper Svenska Dagbladet described him as one of the most important authors in modern Swedish literature, and he was the recipient of several of Sweden's most prestigious literary and journalistic awards. Biography

Early life
<mask> was born in Stockholm on 28 March 1932. He was awarded a PhD in the history of literature by Stockholm University—his thesis, in 1966, was on the Swedish poet Vilhelm Ekelund—and an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University. In 1960–61, he worked as cultural attaché at the Swedish embassy in Beijing, China. Career

Lindqvist wrote some 35 books of essays, aphorisms, autobiography, documentary prose, travel and reportage.His works have been translated into English, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish among other languages. He also occasionally published articles in the Swedish press, and wrote for the cultural supplement of the largest Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter, since 1950. <mask>'s books Exterminate all the Brutes and A Lover's Diary were included in Jan Gradvall's 2009 Tusen svenska klassiker ("A Thousand Swedish Classics"). <mask>'s work was mostly non-fiction, including (and often transcending) several genres: essay, documentary prose, travel writing and reportage. He was known for his works on developing nations in Africa and the Saharan countries, China, India, Latin America and Australia. In the 1960s, partly inspired by the works of Hermann Hesse, <mask> spent two years in China. He became fascinated by the legend of the Tang dynasty painter, Wu Tao Tzu, who, when standing looking at a mural of a temple he had just completed, "suddenly clapped his hands and the temple gate opened.He went into his work and the gates closed behind him." In the 1970s he established the Dig Where You Stand movement in Sweden, which was influential in Germany and elsewhere in promoting public history from the workers' perspective. His later works, from the late 1980s, tended to focus on the subjects of European imperialism, colonialism, racism, genocide, degradation of the natural environment, and war, analysing the place of these phenomena in Western thought, social history and ideology. The Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet described him as one of the most important authors in modern Swedish literature. When he was given the 2012 Lenin Award, he was praised for having "explored life and the world" for over 50 years "in a uniquely persistent and indomitably independent way ...  based on a solid foundation of seriousness and knowledge, and with constantly renewed curiosity. He has dug where he has been standing in Swedish class injustices and uncovered the horrendous evil of colonialism deeper, broader and with more originality than any other Swedish writer." Personal life

From 1956 he was married to the sinologist <mask> (née Norman), with whom he had two children.They divorced in 1986, and he then married the economist Agneta Stark. He lived in the Södermalm area of central Stockholm, where he died on 14 May 2019, at the age of 87. Major works

Terra Nullius

Among <mask>'s best-known works is his 2007 book Terra Nullius (Latin for "Empty Land"), about the impact of white settlers on the Australian landscape and its aboriginal population, combined with "often glorious" travel writing. Among the shocks to people and landscape are the above-ground nuclear weapon tests conducted in Australia from 1953 to 1963, leaving some 20 kilograms of plutonium dust spread over hundreds of miles of the land near Maralinga. <mask> remarks that the land will remain radioactive for at least 280,000 years, and notes that the weapons thus tested could "on a single order" turn the whole world into a Terra Nullius. Exterminate all the Brutes

<mask>'s favourite among his books was his 1996 Exterminate all the Brutes, first published in Swedish in 1992 as . Its title is taken from a phrase uttered by the murderous racist imperialist Mr Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness.As a boy, <mask> had seen a photograph of the emaciated corpses at Buchenwald concentration camp. He stated that the image of Nazi atrocity and the novella came together in his mind, and in Exterminate all the Brutes he argues that Hitler grew up in a time when the whole of the Western world was "soaked in the conviction" that imperialism was a biological necessity that inevitably destroyed "the lower races". <mask> argued controversially that this had already killed millions in genocides before Hitler's application of the principle to white people, and noted that his book had resulted in academic study of the "effect of colonial atrocities on Nazi crimes". A History of Bombing

The book most admired by critics in English was his 2001 A History of Bombing (first published in Swedish in 1999 under the title Nu dog du, meaning "[Bang bang] you're dead"). The book focused upon the history of strategic bombing, and was written in a "fractured structure" with 399 short chapters. <mask> described the book's structure as "a labyrinth with twenty-two entrances and no exit", which was intended to reflect upon the chaos caused by strategic bombing. Each section is numbered; many sections end with an arrow pointing to another number, sometimes far ahead in the book, sometimes back, forming a hypertext-like network.The book argued that the "evils Europeans perpetrated in their colonies prefigured the violence they would commit against each other at home", including citing instances of strategic bombing in European colonies acting as a predecessor for similar tactics during the Second World War. Awards and distinctions

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 1969 Stora Journalistpriset
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 2012 The Lenin Award (lifetime award by Jan Myrdal's Society)

Bibliography

In English

China in Crisis (Kina inifrån, with Cecilia Lindqvist, 1963)
The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu (1967; reprinted 2012)
The shadow: Latin America faces the seventies (Slagskuggan : Latinamerika inför 70-talet, 1969)
Land and Power in South America (Jord och makt i Sydamerika, 1973–1974, 2 vol.)

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<mask> (, , , , sometimes spelled <mask>; born 19 December 1958) is an Palestinian-Israeli politician. The leader of the Ta'al party, he has served as a member of the Knesset since 1999. <mask> was acknowledged as a figure in the Israeli-Palestinian arena after serving as a political advisor to the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat (1993–1999). <mask> is also a trained physician and graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a gynecologist. Early life and career
<mask> was born in Tayibe, a town about 16 kilometres east of the Mediterranean coast north of Tel Aviv, in 1958. His father, <mask>, was born in Jaffa. <mask> studied medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating with honors in 1983.He began a residency as a gynecologist at Hadassah Hospital in 1984, but in 1987, he was involved in a violent incident with a security guard that led to his dismissal. <mask> had walked past a security checkpoint when the guard, a recent American immigrant named David Rothstein who had just been hired, ordered <mask> to let him inspect his briefcase after he had walked past the guard booth, assuming the guard would recognize him. <mask> refused, which led to a physical struggle between him and Rothstein for the briefcase. Moments later, Rothstein's superior arrived and broke it up. He identified <mask> as a doctor, and ordered him released. <mask> then swung the briefcase at Rothstein's head, causing a wound that bled profusely and required four stitches to close, and walked away, leaving Rothstein bleeding on the floor. <mask> claimed that Rothstein had tried to slap him across the mouth as they disengaged, which Rothstein denied.The hospital director, Dr. Jacques Michel, subsequently questioned <mask>, Rothstein, and a few witnesses over the incident, then fired <mask> without conducting a formal inquiry. A hospital spokeswoman said that Michel felt that to strike a man and leave him injured on the floor was such a grave and violent act for a doctor to commit as to warrant dismissal. During his studies, <mask> had also become involved in politics. In the 1980s, he made connections with prominent Palestinian activists. He attended PLO meetings around the world, and in 1984, he met Yasser Arafat in Tunis, at a time when meeting PLO members was still a criminal offense in Israel. <mask> was questioned by police several times, subjected to a stay of exit order from Israel, and arrested once. <mask> served as a political advisor to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat from 1993 to 1999, representing the Palestinians at the 1998 Wye River negotiations.He resigned from this post in 1999 upon deciding to run for the Knesset. <mask> described his relationship with Arafat as "close" and "extremely interesting and important to [him]". He was first elected to the Knesset in the 1999 elections after establishing Ta'al and running jointly with Azmi Bishara's Balad party, but broke away during the same Knesset session. In 2002, MK Michael Kleiner initiated actions in the Knesset to restrict movements by <mask> inside the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Kleiner claimed that <mask> was assisting the Palestinians in their war against Israel. <mask> protested the Knesset's decision as unconstitutional and illegal under Israeli law, and appealed to the Supreme Court of Israel, which deferred a decision on the case. Ahead of Israel's 2003 elections, several politicians, including the heads of the National Union and National Religious Party, sought to have <mask> banned from standing again as candidate; the official motion to disqualify him was filed by Likud MK Michael Eitan, who argued that beside his history as adviser to Arafat, <mask> had supported Palestinian terror throughout the Intifadas and used his immunity as MK since his election to further Palestinian interests.Eitan's motion passed in the Israeli Central Elections Committee by one vote. However, the Supreme Court of Israel rejected the committee's arguments, unanimously overturning the ban, and <mask> was elected as part of a joint list of Ta'al and Hadash. Before the 2006 elections, <mask> took his Ta'al party out of the Hadash coalition and joined the United Arab List (UAL). After retaining his seat, he became a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. He was re-elected on the joint UAL–Ta'al list in the 2009 and 2013 elections. Inside and outside Israel, <mask> is acknowledged as an effective parliamentarian and advocate for Palestinians who live in Israel and the territories it controls. He was the first Arab member of the Knesset to succeed in passing legislation under his own name against opposition, including an August 2012 law regularizing compensation given by airlines to their customers for delayed or cancelled flights.In 2008, he initiated the establishment of the Parliamentary inquiry committee for the employment of Arabs in the public sector, serving as its chairman until 2012. He was favored several times in media surveys of the Arab-Palestinian population in Israel as the most popular Arab member of the Knesset and cited as best public speaker in the Knesset by parliamentary reporters. As of September 2014, <mask> remains Deputy Speaker and UAL-Ta'al Parliamentary Group Chairman. He is a member of the House Committee and the Finance Committee. Political positions
<mask> supports an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 green lines and a two-state solution, with a Palestinian state established alongside Israel. He also opposes Israel's character as a Jewish state, claiming that its self-definition as Jewish is racist, and favors Israel becoming a "state of all its citizens". Accordingly, he supports removing icons that represent the special status of the Jewish majority, including the Law of Return, the flag, and the national anthem.He opposes the recruitment of Arab citizens of Israel into the IDF. <mask> also supports the Palestinian right of return, calling it a prerequisite for reconciliation, but has stated that he believes only a small percentage of Palestinian refugees would actually choose to move to Israel. Speaking to a 3 March 2018, London conference titled "Is President Trump legalizing the occupation? ", the lawmaker denounced the recent Trump administration decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem in May. During the April 2019 Israeli elections, <mask> was frequently referenced by Benjamin Netanyahu, who used the slogan "It's either Bibi or Tibi" – a phrase which was criticized by <mask> and opponents of Netanyahu as playing on Jewish fears of Arab involvement in the Israeli political process to cast the election as a dichotomy between returning Netanyahu as prime minister or allowing Arab Israelis to join a government. Controversies
<mask> continues to be considered controversial in the Israeli politics mainly due to his wide relations with Palestinian and Arab parties, and his speeches in the Knesset. However, <mask> is also known for having pronounced a moving speech to commemorate Holocaust Day in 2010 at the Israeli Knesset.Yair Lapid reported on Israel's Channel 2: "Knesset elders claim that it might have been the best speech ever given in the Israeli Parliament." During an event honoring Palestinian martyrs in January 2012, <mask> described martyrs as "symbols of the homeland", while congratulating Palestinian martyrs in the Palestinian territories and inside Israel, as well as overseas, asserting that for Palestinians "there is nothing more praiseworthy than those who die for the homeland." While the word martyr in Arabic means to die for God's name, it has come to be associated with suicide bombers in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. See also
List of Arab members of the Knesset

References

External links

Tibi's Facebook page

 Transcript of remarks at The Palestine Center, Washington, D.C.
 by Leon Charney on The Leon Charney Report

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(2 August 1937 – 23 July 2015) was a Japanese video artist, sculptor and avant-garde performance artist, who mostly lived in New York City. She was one of the first artists to adopt the portable video camera Sony Portapak in 1970. Kubota is known for constructing sculptural installations with a strong DIY aesthetic, which include sculptures with embedded monitors playing her original videos. She was a key member and influence on Fluxus, the international group of avant-garde artists centered on George Maciunas, having been involved with the group since witnessing John Cage perform in Tokyo in 1962 and subsequently moving to New York in 1964. She was closely associated with George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, John Cage, Joe Jones, Nam June Paik, and Ay-O, other members of Fluxus. Kubota was deemed "Vice Chairman" of the Fluxus Organization by Maciunas. Kubota's video and sculptural works are mainly shown in galleries – though her use of the television is synonymous with other video artists of the 1960s who made experimental broadcast programs as a move against the hegemony of major networks.Kubota is known for her contribution to the expansion of the field of video into the field of sculpture and for her works addressing the place of video in art history. Her work explores the influence of the technology, and more specifically the television set, on personal memory and the emotions. Some works for example, eulogize, while also exploring the presence of the deceased in video footage and recorded images such as her Duchampiana series, the video My Father, and her later works Korean Grave and Winter in Miami which eulogize her husband Nam June Paik. Kubota's sculptures also play with ways in which video footage and sculptures which utilize videos can evoke nature, as in her Meta-Marcel, Bird, and Tree series' and in River, and Rock Video: Cherry Blossoms. Biography
Kubota was born to a family of monk lineage associated with a Buddhist temple in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, where she lived through World War II. As a young adult, she moved to Tokyo to study sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education. She was introduced to the experimental music collective in Tokyo called Group Ongaku by her aunt Chiya Kuni, an established modern dancer.Members of Group Ongaku included Takehisa Kosugi, Chieko Shiomi, Yasunao Tone, who were experimenting with tape recorders, noise music, and avant-garde performances in the early 1960s. She first met John Cage and Yoko Ono at Tokyo Bunka Hall in Ueno when he was on tour there in 1962. Yoko Ono was a dancer for Cage's concert tour through Japan in 1962. In December 1963, Kubota had her first solo show, "1st Love, 2nd Love..." at Naiqua Gallery in Tokyo, an alternative/ avant-garde space in Shinbashi, Tokyo. Later that year, she moved to New York after exchanging letters with George Maciunas about the New York Fluxus scene. Her first show in New York was on July 4, 1965, at Cinemateque as part of the perpetual Fluxfest, where she performed her famous "Vagina Painting." After this exhibition, Kubota exhibited her works regularly in New York.In 1977 she was married to Nam June Paik after divorcing her first husband, the composer David Behrman, in 1969. Kubota continued her studies at New York University and the New School for Social Research 1965–1967. She studied at the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum 1967–1968. Kubota taught at the School of Visual Arts, and was video artist-in residence at Brown University in 1981 and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1973, 1981, 1982, and 1984, and at the Kunst Akademie in Düsseldorf in 1979. She also helped to coordinate the first annual Women's Video Festival at The Kitchen in 1972. From 1974 to 1982 she was a curator at the Anthology Film Archives. She died in Manhattan, New York on 23 July 2015 at the age of 77 from cancer.Upon her death, Norman Ballard was named as executor of her estate in order to continue promoting her work and legacy. Ballard is an artist and long time close collaborator with her late husband, artist Nam June Paik, as well as a close friend of the Paik family. Feminism
Whether Kubota's work can be described as feminist has been a topic of interest in the scholarship and presentation of her work. Kelly O'Dell writes that Kubota's references to Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, and Yves Klein, are used by feminist critics to describe Kubota's work as problematizing the interest of the Western canon in masculine rendering, to reclaim art for women. However, Kubota does not characterize her works as feminist. In an interview with the Brooklyn Rail, she said, "People can put me in the Feminist category all they want, but I didn't think I can make any real contribution other than my work as an artist." But artists who are largely considered feminist may not personally identify as such for a variety of reasons.Judith Butler argues that the label of feminism works against the integration of a larger spectrum of ideas relating to gender and identity into the discourses about art by encapsulating feminist arguments as a separate strain of history or art history. Feminist art historians have also emphasized Kubota and other women artists' estrangement and marginalization from the Fluxus movement. Midori Yoshimoto writes that Kubota's Vagina Painting, which is her most explicit work about gender in art, was poorly received by her peers involved in Fluxus, similarly to ways in which Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneemann's performances were considered 'un-Fluxus' because of their strong emphasis on feminine subjects. There is also interest in the overshadowing of Kubota's career by her husband Nam June Paik's as an issue of the gender biased art world. Installations and Videos

1st Love, 2nd Love... While in Tokyo, Kubota became friends with Yoko Ono, who was at the time involved in Fluxus and the New York art scene. Kubota and other members of Grounp Ongaku and began working on poetic 'scores' and sending them to Yoko Ono's contact, George Maciunas, in New York.Midori writes, "the term Happenings was more popular than events in Japan, so Kubota called these poetic works 'Happenings'. Their form and poetic content, grew out of influences from Fluxus scores, such as instructions by Ono." Kubota's first exhibition in 1963 titled, 1st Love, 2nd Love... exhibited these Happenings as conceptual works. The exhibition was at Naiqua Gallery, an alternative exhibition space in Shinbashi, Tokyo. Kubota exhibited tons of crumpled paper, which she called 'love letters' mounted on the walls and ceiling and covered in white cloth, which she called a Beehive. Her scores of instructions, A Beehive 1, A Beehive 2, and A Blue Love I, and A Blue Love 2 were included in the exhibition. The happenings and other printed items were sent to George Maciunas who printed them in Fluxus publications.Vagina Painting
Vagina Painting was performed at the Perpetual Fluxus Festival in New York in July 1965. In the performance, Kubota assumed a crouching position over a sheet of paper on the floor with a brush affixed to the crotch of her underwear and painted abstract lines in blood red paint. The work is often cited as a female rejoinder to Jackson Pollock's action or drip paintings and to Yves Klein's use of the female body as a painting tool in his Anthropometrics of the Blue Period (1960) in which female models covered in blue paint imprinted their bodies in white paper on a floor. The red paint is reminiscent of menstrual blood, but also can be juxtaposed with Jackson Pollock's ejaculatory motion of his paintings. Kubota placed the paintbrush at the site of phallic lack, which breaks into a new type of female empowerment. The strokes of the paintbrush recall calligraphy, a reference to her cultural heritage. The work has been associated with feminist art, although Kubota never publicly expressed if she considered the work feminist or not.In Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York, Midori Yoshimoto notes the possible relationship with Kubota's work and hanadensha ("flower train"), a geisha trick that including using their vaginas to draw calligraphy by inserting paintbrushes into the body. Kubota's vertical stance over the surface on which she paints could reference the masculine tradition of calligraphy drawing in Japan as well as the whole-body method of Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock. Duchampiana Series
This series of works spans from the 1960s to 1981 and includes documentaries that Kubota filmed when she met Marcel Duchamp personally in the 1960s, and sculptural homages to Duchamp created after his death. Marcel Duchamp's Grave, 1972-1975: Footage of Kubota's visit to the Duchamp family's grave in Rouen, France is played on a freestanding plywood construction with more than twelve nine-inch monitors attached. A mirror is placed on the floor to reflect the footage. Kubota presented her blue book from film stills of her video Marcel Duchamp and John Cage to the grave. The installation was first exhibited at The Kitchen in New York in 1975.Duchampiana: Video Chess, 1975: A monitor in a plywood box plays Kubota's footage of Duchamp and Cage playing chess and a second version of Kubota playing chess with a naked Nam June Paik. The installation also includes a glass chessboard, a photograph of Duchamp and Nam June Paik playing chess, Kubota's book Marcel Duchamp and John Cage and handpainted wall texts. Duchampiana: Nude Descending a Staircase,1976: Television monitors are embedded in each of the four steps in a wooden staircase made by Al Robbins. Clips from Super 8 film of the filmmaker Sheila McClaughlin walking down stairs loops in the monitors. The installation takes its name from Duchamp's painting of the same title. Kubota's wall text reads, "Video is Vacant Apartment/ Video is a Vacation of Art./ Viva Video." Duchampiana: Door, 1976-1977: A small room with two doorways next to each other on a corner, and one door able to open one and close the other at the same time.In the room, two monitors play a video of a photograph of Marcel Duchamp mixed with images of Old Faithful, and including audio of Duchamp's voice. Construction of the doors and wood frames was done by Al Robbins. Duchampiana: Bicycle Wheel, 1983 and Duchampiana: Bicycle Wheel One, 1990; Duchampiana: Bicycle Wheel Two, 1990;


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 and Duchampiana: Bicycle Wheel Three, 1990: Bicycle wheels with small, five-inch color monitors attached to the spokes are motorized to spin. Video Poem
In Video Poem (1976), Kubota's self-portrait is displayed on a small monitor that viewers can see through a vulva shaped opening of a purple bag. A fan, placed inside the bag to keep the equipment cool, added pulsating movements. The bag had been given to her by her first boyfriend, Takehisa Kosugi, whom she used to support by working three jobs. Video Poem challenges male authority by her use of her ex- boyfriend's bag.Meta Marcel: Window Series
This series references Marcel Duchamp's wood-framed 'Fresh Widow'. This series includes four separate video works which are projected behind a plywood box with glass windows framing a twenty-four inch monitor. Meta Marcel: Window (Snow), 1976-1977:  Kubota met Duchamp during a snowstorm while both were on a flight en route to Buffalo, NY in the year of his death, 1968. The video screen is filled with 'snow'– the effect achieved by image distortion on a television set, and the window pane is substituted for black leather, and the video is appropriately called Snow. This piece was part of Kubota's Meta-Marcel series. Meta Marcel: Window (Flowers), 1983: Footage of flowers. Meta Marcel: Window (Stars), 1983: Footage of stars.Meta Marcel: Window (Snow With Computer Writing), 1991. River, 1979-1981
Consists of three monitors suspended screen-down over a crescent shaped metal structure filled with water. The videotapes playing on the monitors reflect in the water and the structure. It was first shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It was restored in 2017 by the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation, and installed in 2018 at MIT, and then SculptureCenter in New York, for the exhibition ‘Before Projection’. Other Installations and Sculptures
 Fluxus Suitcase, 1964: Aluminum suitcase sent from Japan to George Maciunas in New York as mail art. Kubota has shown it as a memorial to George Macinuas and Al Robbins in recent years.Fluxus Napkins, 1965: Original paper napkins with collage made for a Fluxus dinner organized by George Maciunas for Kubota, Chieko Shiomi, Takako Saito, and Nam June Paik. Fluxus Pills, 1966: Empty gelatin pill capsules in a plastic box made for George Maciunas. Video Poem, 1968-1976: Kubota's color-synthesized tape Self-Portrait is encased within a nylon bag with zippered openings, which rests on a wooden pedestal. The bag was made by the Japanese artist Takehisa Kosugi (1963). Three Mountains, 1976-1979: Three freestanding plywood structures: two mountains with monitors inside, one of a pyramid with a monitor inside. The tapes include footage of a Grand Canyon helicopter trip; a drive on Echo Cliff, Arizona; and a Teton sunset. Video Relief, 1979-1981: Two plywood panels with round lenses and one with painted calligraphy– each showing the video Shigeko in Berlin (1979).Rock Video: Cherry Blossom, 1981
 Berlin Diary: Thanks to My Ancestors, 1981: Wood rope helps fasten a sheet of pink crystal with Japanese calligraphy of Kubota's ancestor's names on a five-inch monitor. Video Haiku– Hanging Piece, 1981: A round television with a closed circuit camera hangs over a round, concave plastic mirror ( diameter) so that the image is visible in the mirror. Green Installation, 1983: A large plywood structure that resembles a two-sided, freestanding staircase has five monitors  playing a color videotape of the Arizona landscape on each side. Niagara Falls I, 1985;Niagara Falls II, 1987;Niagara Falls III, 1987. A freestanding wall with many monitors projecting images of the four seasons, and covered in mirror shards. A speaker plays a recording of the waterfall at Niagara Falls. A sprinkler system hangs over the piece and pumps water from pipes over the wall to a basin below the sculpture.Rock Video: Cherry Blossoms: 1986, 12:54 min, color, silent: A five-inch monitor is embedded in a boulder and shows a single-channel video of cherry blossoms. Shards of Mirrors are placed around the rock. Dry Mountain, Dry Water, 1987-88: Seven plywood sculptures are covered with Mylar mirrors and shaped like rocks and abstract 3-D geometrical shapes. Video projectors on the wall and floor show a two-channel video of cherry blossoms. Adam and Eve, 1989-1991:  Two life-sized robot figures with eight embedded monitors total are paced near each other. Behind the Video is Video Byobu II (Cherry Blossoms)
 Video Byobu I (Cherry Blossoms), 1988;  Video Byobu II (Cherry Blossoms), 1991; Video Byobu III (Cherry Blossoms), 1991. Bird I, 1991, and Bird II, 1992: Videos of birds in sculptural installation.Study for Wheel, 1990
 Jogging Lady, 1993: Footage of women running marathons playing on monitors stacked to resemble a human form. Tree I and Tree II, 1993: Sculptures of a tree whose branches have become resting places for television monitors. Pissing Boy, 1993: A sculpture of a robot urinating into a tin. Kubota has said the sculpture is of Nam June Paik. Sexual Healing, 1998
 Nam June Paik I and II, 2007: An installation of metal piping sculptures with video monitors attached that suggest Nam June Paik's body. Footage of Kubota and Paik on vacation in Miami in 1996 plays on these monitors, and the video serves as a homage to Paik. Videography
 Marcel Duchamp and John Cage: 1972, 28:27 min, b&w and color, sound: <mask> Kubota recorded the Reunion performance of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, a chess match in which music was produced by a series of photoelectric cells underneath the chessboard, triggered sporadically by normal game play.Kubota assembled this video using her own photographs and video. Reunion turned out to be the last public meeting of these artists. With her footage, <mask> Kubota developed this videotape, a video-sculpture, and a book called, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, which she reportedly later placed on Duchamp's grave in Rouen, Normandy. Broken Diary: Europe on 1/2 Inch a Day: 1972, 30:48 min, b&w and color, sound: Europe on 1/2 Inch a Day is the first of <mask> <mask>'s series of video diaries. Kubota used a Portapak to create the video travel diary of her travels through Amsterdam, Paris, and Brussels– which includes footage of underground performances, Kubota's meeting with Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf, graffiti, and a visit to Marcel Duchamp's grave in Rouen, Normandy, which inspired her later sculptural work, Video Chess'. Riverrun– Video Water Poem: 1972: When filming Broken Diary: Europe on 1/2 Inch a Day Kubota took footage of her boat trips on the Seine, the Rhine, the Amsterdam canal, and the Venice Canal. Riverrun includes this footage and footage from boat trips on the Hudson.The video includes audio excerpts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. My Father (<mask> Kubota), 1973-1975: In the film she explains that when she found out her father had died of cancer she decided to film herself mourning. In the footage, Kubota cries while watching videos she recorded of her father watching TV at his home in Japan. Video Girls and Video Songs for Navajo Sky: 1973, 31:56 min, b&w and color, sound: In 1973, <mask> Kubota began experimenting with image processing equipment at WNET's TV Lab and produced Video Girls and Video Songs for Navajo Skies. The video is a surreal diary of Kubota's stay with a Navajo family on a reservation in Chinle, Arizona with footage of the family and the surrounding landscape. " Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint: Nam June Paik and <mask> Kubota: 1982, 28:33 min, color, sound
 Trip to Korea: 1984, 9:05 min, color, sound: The story of Nam June Paik's first trip to Korea after thirty-four years of being in the USA. Video includes footage of Nam June Paik's family, and his visits to a Korean village, and a graveyard where his ancestors lay.SoHo Soap/Rain Damage: 1985, 8:25 min, color, sound:  Video of Kubota's co-op studio at 110 Mercer Street, New York, and rain damage during a storm. Bodies that matter: on the discursive limits of "sex". New York: Routledge. 1993. Butler, Judith. Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.1990. Butler, Judith. Undoing gender. New York: Routledge. 2004. Cross, Lowell. "Reunion": John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Electronic Music and Chess".Leonardo Music Journal. 9: 1999. 35–42. Gever, M. "Pressure Points: Video in the Public Sphere," Art Journal 45.3, 1985. Gewen, Barry. "State of the Art". New York Times.2005. Goldberg, RoseLee. Performance: live art since 1960. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers. 1998. Jacob, Mary Jane ed. <mask> Kubota: Video Sculpture.New York: American Museum of the Moving Image, 1991. Includes: Roth, Moria, "The Voice of Shigeko Kubota:' A Fusion of Art and Life, Asia and America,'" and Hanley, JoAnn, "Reflections in a Video Mirror." Mark, Lisa, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2007. O'Dell, Kelly, Fluxus Feminus, MIT Press (TDR) Vol.41. No. 1, 1997. 43–60. Ruhrberg, Karl; Honnef, Klaus; Fricke, Christiane; Manfred Schneckenburger, Ingo F. Walther, Art of the 20th century. Taschen. 2000.596. Sackler, Arthur M. American film. American Film Institute. 24–28. 1980. Schneider,Rebecca, The Explicit Body in Performance. New York: Routledge, 1997.Smith, Roberta, "Review/Art; Sleek Video Sculptures By <mask> Kubota". The New York Times. (24 May 1991), 26. Stiles, Kristine, "Between Water and Stone: Fluxus Performance, A Metaphysics of Acts," in Armstrong and Rothfuss, In the Spirit of Fluxus. Warr, Tracey, and Amelia Jones. The Artist's Body. London: Phaidon.2000. Yoshimoto, Midori. "Self-exploration in Multimedia : the Experiments of <mask> Kubota," in Into performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press. 2005. External links
 EAI: Biography of <mask> Kubota and a list of video works by the artist. <mask> Kubota in the Video Data Bank
 Kubota performing one of her Vagina Paintings
 Interview with Phong Bui in Brooklyn Rail from September 2007
 http://www.fungcollaboratives.org/ny-gallery/artists/sexual-healing/exhibition-description/

1937 births
2015 deaths
20th-century Japanese women artists
21st-century Japanese women artists
Japanese contemporary artists
The New School alumni
Japanese video artists
Japanese women sculptors
Japanese performance artists
Fluxus
Artists from Niigata

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