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<mask> ( ; born May 25, 1969) is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She came to recognition portraying Vicky Hudson and Marley Love in the soap opera Another World (1987–1991), which won her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards. She came to mainstream prominence in the late 1990s with roles in the crime drama film Donnie Brasco (1997), the disaster film Volcano (1997), the slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the action comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), and the drama-thriller film Return to Paradise (1998). Following her portrayal of Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant's horror remake film Psycho (1998), which earned her a Saturn Award nomination, <mask> went on to have roles in many well-received independent films, such as the drama film Birth (2004), the sex comedy film Spread (2009), Cedar Rapids (2011), the drama film Rampart (2011), and the black comedy film Catfight (2016). She received acclaim for her role in the television film Gracie's Choice, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and for her work on Broadway, particularly Twentieth Century, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Aside from her film roles, <mask> has starred in the comedy-drama television series Men in Trees (2006–08), Hung (2009–11), Save Me (2013), Aftermath (2016), and the military drama television series The Brave (2017). She lent her voice to the animated television series The Legend of Korra (2014), where she voiced Suyin Beifong, and appeared as a contestant in the 29th season of Dancing with the Stars (2020).She had a relationship with comedian Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to 2000, which received significant media coverage. She married actor James Tupper in 2007, and they divorced in 2018. Early life
<mask> was born on May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio, the youngest of five children of <mask> (née Prickett) and Donald Joseph <mask>. <mask>'s family moved a total of eleven times during her childhood; at one point, they lived in an Amish community. When asked in a 2001 interview on Larry King Live what her father's source of income was, <mask> replied, "Well, he was a choir director. But I don't think he made much on that a week. He said that he was involved in a business of gas and oil, and he said that until the day he died, but he never was involved in the business of gas and oil ever."The family settled in Ocean City, New Jersey, when <mask> was twelve years old. Due to the family's strained circumstances, <mask> went to work at a dinner theater in Swainton. "At the time we’d been kicked out of our house and my family was holed up living in a bedroom in the home of a generous family from our church," she said. "I got $100 a week, which was more than anyone else in my family. We all pooled our money in an envelope in a drawer and saved up enough to move out after a year." On March 3, 1983, when <mask> was 13, her 45-year-old father died of AIDS. He never came out as homosexual; "He was in complete denial until the day he died.We know he got it from his gay relationships. Absolutely. I don't think it was just one. He was a very promiscuous man, and we knew his lifestyle then," <mask> said on Larry King Live. Despite her father being gay, <mask> has claimed that he repeatedly raped her from the time she was an infant until she was 12, giving her genital herpes. When asked "But why would a gay man rape a girl?" in a 2001 interview with The Advocate, <mask> replied "I don't think he was just a gay man.I think he was sexually deviant. My belief was that my father was gay and he had to cover that up. I think he was sexually abusive. The more he couldn't be who he was, the more that came out of him in ways that it did." Three months after her father's death, <mask>'s 18-year-old brother Nathan was killed in a car crash. The official determination was that he fell asleep at the wheel and struck a tree, though <mask> claims it was suicide. The remainder of <mask>'s family subsequently moved to Chicago, where <mask> attended the progressive Francis W. Parker School.In 1985, when <mask> was 16, an agent spotted her in a school play and secured her an audition for the daytime soap opera As the World Turns. <mask> flew to New York City, auditioned, and was offered a job, but her mother insisted she finish high school first. Shortly before her high school graduation in 1987, <mask> was offered a dual role on the daytime soap opera Another World. "Again I was told I couldn't go. My mother was very religious and maybe she thought it was a sinner’s world," <mask> stated. "But I got on the phone and said, 'Send me the ticket. I’m getting on the plane.'I was like, 'Bye!' I did my time with my mom in a one-bedroom, skanky apartment and I was done." Career

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For her work on Another World, <mask> received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 1991. In November 1991 <mask> made her primetime television debut in an episode of Murphy Brown. She made her TV-movie debut the following year with a brief appearance in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of O Pioneers! (1992). In 1993 <mask> made her feature-film debut in Disney's The Adventures of Huck Finn with Elijah Wood.Over the next two years, she had small supporting roles in made-for-TV movies such as Girls in Prison (1994) and Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995). She also appeared in the straight-to-video erotic thriller Wild Side (1995) as Joan Chen's lesbian lover. In 1996 <mask> landed her first substantial role as a college student contemplating an abortion in a segment of the made-for-HBO anthology film If These Walls Could Talk, co-starring Cher and Demi Moore. Also in the year, she appeared opposite Catherine Keener portraying childhood best friends in the independent film Walking and Talking. The limited-release film garnered favorable reviews from critics and is number 47 on Entertainment Weeklys "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time" list. <mask> gained positive notice from film critic Alison Macor of Austin Chronicle, who wrote in her review that she "is destined for larger film roles". She played the wife of Johnny Depp's titular FBI undercover agent in the 1997 crime drama Donnie Brasco.The film made $124.9 million worldwide, and critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote: "[<mask>] does well with what could have been the thankless role." By the late 1990s <mask> continued to find recognition and commercial success as she took on supporting roles in three other 1997 high-profile film releases—Volcano, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Wag the Dog. The disaster film Volcano, about the formation of a volcano in Los Angeles, had her star with Tommy Lee Jones and Gaby Hoffmann, playing a seismologist. While critical response towards the film was mixed, it grossed US$122 million at the international box office. She portrayed the minor role of a backwoods loner in the slasher thriller sleeper hit I Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze, Jr. Despite her limited screen time in the film, <mask> was considered a "standout" by some critics, such as Variety. She obtained the part of a presidential advisor opposite Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman in the political satire Wag the Dog, a role that was originally written for a man.Budgeted at US$15 million, the film made US$64 million. <mask>'s first starring role came in the 1998 romantic adventure Six Days, Seven Nights, where she appeared opposite Harrison Ford, portraying a New York City journalist ending up with a pilot (Ford) in a deserted island following a crash landing. She had been cast in the film one day before her same-sex relationship with Ellen DeGeneres went public. Although <mask> was cast in a second starring role shortly thereafter as Vince Vaughn's love interest in the drama Return to Paradise (1998), she felt that her relationship with DeGeneres destroyed her prospects as a leading woman. According to <mask>, "People said, 'You're not getting a job because you're gay". She commented: "How could that destroy my career? I still can't wrap my head around it."Six Days, Seven Nights received mixed reviews, but grossed US$74.3 million in North America and US$164.8 million worldwide. On her appearance in the dramatic thriller Return to Paradise, a writer for The New York Times remarked, "as Ms. <mask>'s formidable Beth Eastern does her best to manipulate the other characters on [co-star Joaquin Phoenix's character] behalf, Return to Paradise takes on the abstract weightiness of an ethical debate rather than the visceral urgency of a thriller". <mask> starred in Gus Van Sant's Psycho (1998), a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the updated version, she took on the role originally played by Janet Leigh, Marion Crane, an embezzler who arrives at an old motel run by serial killer Norman Bates (played by Vince Vaughn in their second collaboration). Psycho earned negative reviews, and despite a US$60 million budget, it made a lukewarm US$37.1 million worldwide. In an otherwise negative review of the film, Janet Maslin of The New York Times felt that <mask> was "refreshingly cast in Marion's role", while noting that her portrayal was "as almost as demure as Ms. Leigh's, yet she's also more headstrong and flirty". Her 1998 films have remained the only theatrically released films in which she has had a leading role.2000s
Most of her roles in the early 2000s were in independent films and television; she played the role of Dr. Sterling in the film adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's autobiography about depression, Prozac Nation, with Christina Ricci and Jessica Lange. Premiered at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival, the film received a DVD release in 2005. She appeared as a hospital administrator in the thriller John Q, about a father and husband  (Denzel Washington) whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart. The production made US$102.2 million at the worldwide box office, despite negative reviews by critics. In 2001, she also obtained a recurring role in the fourth season of the television series Ally McBeal. In 2002 <mask> made her Broadway debut in a production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof,  acting as a young woman who has inherited her father's mathematical genius and mental illness. The New York Times found <mask> to be "consequential" in her portrayal, and comparing her to Mary-Louise Parker and Jennifer Jason Leigh, who had previously played her character in other productions of the play, stated: "[...] Ms. <mask>, whose stage experience is limited and who is making her New York stage debut at 33, plays the part with a more appeasing ear and more conventional timing, her take on the character is equally viable.Her Catherine is a case of arrested development, impatient, aggressively indignant, impulsive". In 2004, <mask> received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the Lifetime movie Gracie's Choice, as well as a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the CBS television film The Dead Will Tell. In the same year, she acted opposite Alec Baldwin in Broadway's Twentieth Century, about a successful and egomaniacal Broadway director (Baldwin), who has transformed a chorus girl (<mask>) into a leading lady. For her performance, she was nominated for the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Also in 2004, appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Cameron Bright in the well-received independent drama Birth. She took on the recurring role on the WB drama Everwood during its 2004–05 season, and then a recurring role on Nip/Tuck in 2005 as an ex-mob wife and Witness Protection Program subject who requires plastic surgery. <mask> continued her television work with her portrayal of a widow who does not celebrate Christmas in made-for-CBS Silver Bells (2005), and a con woman who schemes a man she meets on a dating website in the made-for-Lifetime Fatal Desire (2006).<mask> appeared in the small-scale dramedy Sexual Life (2005), chronicling the modern romantic life and co-starring Azura Skye and Elizabeth Banks. The film was screened in the film festival circuit and received a television premiere. In 2006 <mask> began work on her own series, Men in Trees. In the show, she starred as a New York author, who after finding out her fiancé is cheating on her, moves to a small town in Alaska, which happens to be abundant with single men and few women. Men in Trees was cancelled in May 2008, after a season shortened by the writer's strike. During the airing of the show, <mask> starred in the horror-comedy Suffering Man's Charity (2007), the romantic comedy What Love Is (2007), and

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 the science-fiction thriller Toxic Skies (2008), all of which went little-seen by audiences. <mask> appeared as the girlfriend of a narcissistic gigolo in the sex comedy Spread (2009), co-starring Ashton Kutcher.The film received a limited release in North American theaters while it made US$12 million at the worldwide box office. Matthew Turney of View London felt that "[t]here's also terrific support" from <mask> in what he described as an "enjoyable, sharply written and beautifully shot LA drama". Also in 2009, she was cast in the HBO dramedy series Hung, as the ex-wife of a financially struggling high school basketball/baseball coach (portrayed by Thomas Jane). The series received favorable reviews and aired until 2011. 2010s
A cameo appearance as the CEO of an important company in the well-received comedy The Other Guys (2010), starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, was followed by a much larger role in the independent comedy Cedar Rapids (2011), where she portrayed a seductive insurance agent with whom a naive and idealistic man (played by Ed Helms) becomes smitten. The Sundance-premiered production garnered critical praise and was an arthouse success. David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter remarked in its review for the film, "while <mask> shines brightest in more brittle mode, as in HBO's Hung, she strikes a sweet balance between Joan's mischievous and maternal sides".In the drama Rampart (2011), she starred with Woody Harrelson and Cynthia Nixon, as one of the two former wives of a corrupt police officer (Harrelson), who also happen to be sisters. The film had a selected theatrical run following its premiere at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival, and garnered an overall positive response; The San Francisco Chronicle, pointing out <mask> and her other female co-stars, remarked that they "allow Harrelson to shine —he has always had a way of preening for women— and he brings out the best in them". <mask> had the leading role in the comedy That's What She Said (2012), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and also played the girlfriend of a former pro golfer (Colin Firth) in the critically acclaimed dramedy Arthur Newman (also 2012). <mask> starred with James Tupper, Jennifer Stone, and Rebekah Brandes in the supernatural horror film Nothing Left to Fear (2013), about a family's life in a new town being interrupted by an unstable man of the cloth. The film received a release for VOD and selected theaters, and it currently holds a rating of only 12 on review-aggregator website Metacritic, indicating it was "overwhelming dislike" by critics. Los Angeles Times remarked that both <mask> and Tupper "should write apology notes to their fans". Also in 2013, <mask> headlined the short-lived NBC sitcom Save Me, in which she starred as a Midwestern housewife who believes that she is channelling God.She played the waitress friend of a recovering gambling addict (Jason Statham) in the action thriller Wild Card (2014). Distributed for a VOD and limited release in certain parts of North America only, the film only grossed US$6.7 million internationally on a $30 million budget. She had a recurring guest-role on The Michael J. Fox Show before its cancellation. In 2013, she signed a first look deal with Universal Television. USA Network's action adventure drama series, Dig, had <mask> portray the head of the FBI office in Jerusalem whose agents uncover a 2,000-year-old conspiracy while investigating an archaeologist's murder. The six-episode series premiered late 2014.In 2015, <mask> guest-starred in the ABC thriller series Quantico playing the role of criminal profiler, Dr. Susan Langdon. On September 27, 2016, the post-apocalyptic action drama Aftermath –starring <mask>– debuted on Canada's Space Network and on United States' Syfy. <mask> played Karen Copeland, an Air Force pilot from Washington, who must navigate Armageddon, along with her university-professor husband Josh (played by James Tupper, also a co-producer on the series) and their three nearly adult children. Neither Dig nor Aftermath was renewed for a second season. <mask> filmed the supporting part of the lead singer for a Broadway musical in Opening Night (2016), with Topher Grace. The musical comedy was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival. In another independent film, the comedy Catfight (2016), <mask> starred opposite Sandra Oh, portraying two bitter rivals who pursue a grudge match that spans a lifetime.Like <mask>'s previous film projects, the film premiered in the film-festival circuit and received a VOD and limited release, to largely favorable reviews from critics. Los Angeles Times wrote: "Oh and <mask> are great here, giving performances entirely lacking in vanity and self-consciousness. They aren’t afraid to get ugly, both in their treatment of everyone around them as well as in their post-brawl bruises, which makes them that much funnier". In 2017, <mask> played a supporting role in My Friend Dahmer as the teenaged Jeffrey Dahmer’s (Ross Lynch) mentally ill mother, Joyce. She received positive reviews for her performance, with The Hollywood Reporter calling her "nerve-jangling perfection" and Empire calling her "entertainingly off-kilter". On September 25, 2017, <mask> debuted as (fictional) Deputy Director Patricia Campbell of the (real-life) Defense Intelligence Agency, or the "DIA," in the new military/espionage thriller The Brave. <mask> is the series lead for this 2017–18 season NBC series.Campbell oversees an elite team of cross-military-service specialists who must undertake especially dangerous missions, led by male lead Mike Vogel. In 2018, she joined the television series Chicago P.D. in a supporting role. 2020s
On September 2, 2020, <mask> was announced as one of the celebrities competing on the 29th season of Dancing with the Stars. Media
Throughout her career, she has appeared in several magazine covers, including Entertainment Weekly, Mirabella, and Observer Magazine. <mask> was chosen by People as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1998. She became a significant subject of widespread media interest while dating comedian Ellen DeGeneres.In 2017, <mask> hosted a weekly radio show on SiriusXM with Jason Ellis entitled Love and Heche. Personal life

<mask>'s relationship with Ellen DeGeneres and the events following their breakup became subjects of widespread media interest. The couple started dating in 1997, and at one point, said they would get a civil union if such became legal in Vermont. They broke up in August 2000. <mask> has stated that all of her other romantic relationships have been with men. After reportedly leaving DeGeneres for Coleman "Coley" Laffoon in 2000, on September 1, 2001, <mask> married Laffoon, a cameraman whom she met the previous year on DeGeneres' stand-up comedy tour. They have a son, Homer.Laffoon filed for divorce on February 2, 2007, after five and a half years of marriage. The divorce was finalized on March 4, 2009. <mask> reportedly left her husband for Men in Trees co-star James Tupper. On December 5, 2008, <mask>'s representative confirmed that the actress was pregnant with their first child, son, <mask> Tupper. This is the second child for <mask> and the first for Tupper. Tupper and <mask> separated in 2018. Family

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<mask> has four siblings, three of whom are deceased.Susan died of brain cancer. <mask> was estranged from her. Cynthia died in infancy of a heart defect. Nathan died in a car crash shortly before his high school graduation. <mask> has claimed his death was a suicide. Abigail

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<mask> and her mother, Nancy, have been estranged since <mask> confronted her about sexual abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her father. In her 2001 memoir, Call Me Crazy, <mask> wrote that when she contracted genital herpes as an infant, her mother insisted that it was a diaper rash and refused to take her to the doctor.Nancy was outraged by her daughter's allegations, responding, "I am trying to find a place for myself in this writing, a place where I as <mask>'s mother do not feel violated or scandalized." She added, "I find no place among the lies and blasphemies in the pages of this book." <mask>'s sister, Abigail, a jewelry designer, added, "It is my opinion that my sister <mask> truly believes, at this moment, what she has asserted about our father's past behavior; however, at the same time, I would like to point out that <mask>, in the past, has expressed doubts herself about the accuracy of such memories." She said, "Based on my experience and her own expressed doubts, I believe that her memories regarding our father are untrue. And I can state emphatically, regardless of <mask>'s beliefs, that the assertion that our mother knew about such behavior is absolutely false." Nancy has denied <mask>'s allegation that her brother Nathan died by suicide: "I have talked to his youth pastor, and he said that Nathan was committed to the Lord, he loved Jesus, and I do not believe that that was suicide, but the death of his father from homosexuality three months earlier could certainly have stirred up a lot of confusion for him." Since her husband's death from AIDS, Nancy has been a Christian therapist and motivational speaker, who lectures on behalf of James Dobson's Focus on the Family about "overcoming homosexuality".In 2009, <mask> told The New York Times:

In 2011, <mask> told The Daily Telegraph that she doubts she will be able to ever repair her relationship with her mother. Mental illness
On August 19, 2000, <mask> drove from Los Angeles to Cantua Creek outside Fresno, California, and parked her Toyota SUV along a dusty roadside. Wearing only a bra and shorts, <mask> walked  through the desert and knocked on the door of a stranger's ranch house. When the home's occupant, Araceli Campiz, opened the door, she immediately recognized <mask> from the film Six Days, Seven Nights. Campiz recalled: "I was thinking, 'Oh my God, we're in the middle of nowhere', and she walks in." Campiz said that Heche gulped down glass upon glass of water, and then "took off her Nikes and said she needed to take a shower", at which point Campiz obliged, offering <mask> a towel. As far as Campiz could tell, <mask> was not drunk, drugged, or ill; however, <mask> later admitted that she had taken ecstasy.After <mask> had a shower, she got settled in the living room, requested a pair of slippers, and suggested that Campiz do the same. "She wanted to watch a movie, but the VCR was broken," according to Campiz. Bemused at first, Campiz grew uneasy when <mask> showed no sign of leaving—calling neither friends nor a garage—after half an hour had passed. Campiz has stated: "I didn't know what to do. So I called the  sheriff's department." According to a police report that was aired on KSEE-TV, when deputies arrived, <mask> told them that she was "God, and was going to take everyone back to heaven in a spaceship". The deputies summoned an ambulance, which ferried <mask> the  to Fresno's University Medical Center, where she was admitted to the psychiatric unit, from which she was released after a few hours.<mask> stated she was "insane" for the first 31 years of her life, and that this was triggered by being sexually abused by her father during her infancy and childhood. In a series of interviews with Barbara Walters, Matt Lauer, and Larry King to promote Call Me Crazy in 2001, <mask> stated on national television that she created a fantasy world called the "Fourth Dimension" to make herself feel safe, and had an alter ego who was the daughter of God and half-sister of Jesus Christ named "Celestia", who had contacts with extraterrestrial life forms. <mask> said she recovered from her mental health concerns following the incident in Cantua Creek and has put her alter ego behind her. Filmography

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<mask> (born 31 January 1990) is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Florida Panthers in the second round, 31st overall, of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. He has also played for the Vancouver Canucks. Playing career

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Markström signed a two-year contract with the Brynäs IF senior team on 12 May 2008. He had previously been playing for the Brynäs IF junior team. The following month, after solid performances in the Swedish Hockey League and internationally for Sweden in the Under 18 and World Junior tournaments, the butterfly style goaltender was selected 31st overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft as the first choice of the Florida Panthers. In 2009–10, <mask> led the Elitserien in the save percentage (SVS%) and goals against average (GAA) statistics, with 92.72% and 2.01 respectively.On 1 June 2010, it was announced that the Panthers and <mask> had agreed to terms on an entry-level contract. Florida Panthers
On 23 January 2011, <mask> made his NHL debut at the Prudential Center in Newark when he replaced starter Scott Clemmensen at the start of the second period in a loss against the New Jersey Devils. Upon his debut, he became the youngest goaltender to ever play for the Panthers. <mask> was then sent back to Florida's AHL affiliate team, the Rochester Americans. The team directives argued that <mask> needed to get used to hockey in North America since players had different shooting tendencies. The goaltender struggled during his first season in the AHL and also injured his knee. After surgery in South Florida, <mask> worked to get back in the game, hoping to have a real shot at the NHL level.With Tomáš Vokoun departing via free agency for the Washington Capitals, <mask> attended Florida's September 2011 training camp to compete for a starting or backup position with fellow goaltenders José Théodore and Scott Clemmensen, ultimately being awarded the backup role when Clemmensen was injured. On 22 October, <mask> earned his first NHL win when he played in the third period against the New York Islanders and made 18 saves on 18 shots. <mask> started the lockout shortened 2012–13 season in the AHL, but with the starter José Théodore suffering an injury on 2 March that forced him to miss the rest of the season, <mask> was given the de facto full-time role, starting most of their games during the remainder of the season. Vancouver Canucks

It was believed that <mask> would become the full-time starter for the Panthers at the beginning of the 2013–14 season, as Théodore was not retained and <mask> signed a two-year contract extension. However, the Panthers would sign Tim Thomas to a one-year contract, and <mask> was subsequently demoted to the AHL again. On 4 March 2014, he was traded by the Panthers, along with forward Shawn Matthias, to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Roberto Luongo and Steven Anthony, where he served as Vancouver's backup behind fellow Swede Eddie Läck. <mask> failed to make the Canucks out of training camp during the 2014–15 season.After clearing waivers, he was assigned to the Canucks' AHL affiliate, the Utica Comets. Following an injury to Ryan Miller, <mask> was recalled to the Canucks to serve as backup to Eddie Läck and got to play on 3 March 2015, against the San Jose Sharks, but was pulled after he allowed three goals on four shots. The Canucks went on to lose the game 6–2. <mask> came into a game on 19 March 2015 against the Columbus Blue Jackets and made two saves on two shots. However, the Canucks went on to lose that game 6–2 as well. <mask> got his first and only win of the 2014–15 season when he made 26 saves on 27 shots on 22 March 2015, when the Canucks beat the Arizona Coyotes 3–1. On 29 June 2015, <mask> was re-signed to a two-year one-way contract with the Vancouver Canucks.On 7 July 2016, <mask> signed a three-year contract extension with the Canucks. On 5 December 2017, <mask> recorded his first NHL shutout, in a 3–0 Canucks victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. On 12 December 2019, <mask> recorded his fourth NHL shutout, stopping 43 shots on goal in a 1–0 Canucks victory over the Carolina Hurricanes, giving him a second-place franchise record for most shots stopped in a regular season game (tied with former Canucks goaltender Cory Schneider). On 3 January 2020, <mask> was named to his first NHL All-Star Game, replacing the Vegas Golden Knights' goaltender Marc-André Fleury. Calgary Flames
On 9 October 2020, <mask> left the Vancouver Canucks as a free agent and signed a six-year, $36 million contract with the Calgary Flames. He finished with a record of 22–19–2 in 43 games in the pandemic-shortened season. International play

<mask> has represented Sweden three times in junior tournaments.He backstopped the Swedes to a fourth-place finish in the IIHF World U18 Championships in 2008. The next year, he was placed on the Swedish World Juniors team and led all goaltenders with a .946 save percentage and finished second with a 1.61 GAA. Those impressive stats let him to earn Best Player honours at the goaltender position in 2009; his team also took home the silver medal. He again represented Sweden at the WJCs in 2010 and could not quite match his previous year's performance as Sweden earned a bronze medal. <mask> did post a respectable .927 save percentage and a 2.21 GAA, both good enough for second place amongst goaltenders in the tournament. In his first major tournament at a senior level, the 2010 World Championships, <mask> played three games and recorded a shutout against Switzerland. Markstrom then won the 2013 ice hockey world championships with Sweden.He was the backup to Jhonas Enroth, and played 2 games in the tournament. He won both games, allowing Sweden to ultimately win this tournament. <mask> was named to Team Sweden for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto. Named the backup goaltender, <mask> played Sweden's opening game of the tournament after starter Henrik Lundqvist missed it due to an illness. In his lone game of the tournament, <mask> helped Team Sweden defeat Team Russia 2–1. Sweden would end up losing in the semi-finals to Team Europe. Career statistics

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<mask> (April 11, 1911 – January 27, 1993), better known by his stage name <mask>, was an Italian-Canadian  magician, mentalist, illusionist, escapologist, ventriloquist and stunt performer known worldwide as Mandrake the Magician, albeit simultaneously and unrelatedly to the comic strip character Mandrake the Magician. Early life
Born April 11, 1911 in Washington state, Mandrake was very young when his mother brought him to New Westminster, British Columbia on the West Coast of Canada to live with his aunt Mildred. As a child, he watched magicians at the local Edison Theatre and attended circus shows at the Pacific National Exhibition. He studied the great vaudeville magicians when they came to town. One year he was given the props and costumes of a magician who had left the show. He soon learned to perform magic acts from some of the greats of that time, such as Howard Thurston, Alexander (The Man Who Knows), Chefalo, Doc Verge, Ralph Richards (The Wizard) and Bannister. In 1922,  at 11 years old, he began his magic career giving vaudeville performances in New Westminster, British Columbia.He took the stage as one of the vaudeville acts of the Edison Theater in New Westminster. In 1925, at 14 years old, he performed at the  Moyer's Carnival for the Pacific National Exhibition. By this time, he learned fire-eating, mind-reading and ventriloquism. In 1927, at 16 years old, he joined the Ralph Richards touring magic show for 6 months, traveling across North America until the tour ended in Winnipeg, Manitoba. By the 1930s, he traveled with his own magic show. Comic strip
Mandrake, the stage magician, known for his black top hat, black cape, and thin handlebar mustache, bears a strong resemblance to the central character in the Mandrake the Magician comic strip. In fact, <mask> had been performing well over ten years before creator Lee Falk introduced the comic strip character, and today, most people acknowledge the striking physical resemblance between them.Many sources assert that the comic strip character was drawn to resemble <mask>. Phil Davis, the strip's artist, did meet <mask> and they became good friends and corresponded for years. Falk was said to have invented the name Mandrake the Magician coincidentally; though there is no written contract, both parties verbally agreed to cross-promote each other, with the result that Mandrake the Magician became recognized throughout North America. Personal life
<mask> was married twice, both times to his chief on-stage assistants. In 1939, he married Narda ("Princess Narda"). Princess Narda also appeared in the Mandrake the Magician comics of the time. When his first marriage ended in 1946, <mask> also lost his main assistant.In December 1946, <mask>'s manager, Bernard Abrams, paired him with Louise Salerno, who was an actress, line-dancer and former assistant to well-known magician Blackstone. <mask> gave her the stage name Velvet and she became his new assistant. Having grown up on the road with her parents, Vaudeville musicians Betty and Frank Salerno, this was a  lifestyle familiar to <mask>'s new 20-year-old assistant. After two weeks on the road together, Velvet and <mask> were married. It was a small marital ceremony, and only two hours later, they were again on stage performing the first of two acts for the evening. They later honed a two-hour magic show for nightclubs during the 1940s and into the 1950s. Their four children, Lon, Ron, Kimball and Geelia were all born on the road.Lon in Illinois, Ron in Florida, Kimball in Ohio, and Geelia in Oregon. In 1958, after Geelia was born, they brought the children to Vancouver B.C., Canada to go to school. The children often stayed with a nanny as <mask> and Velvet continued to travel. Nightclubs
In the 1940s, movies became so popular that many theater performers turned to the nightclubs. The transition was a challenge for most stage magicians as they were accustomed to being in theaters with audiences seated directly in front of the stage and the appropriate stage lighting. In nightclubs, audiences were often sitting on three sides of the performers with less than ideal lighting situations. Also, there was the distraction of alcohol being served and occasional rowdy audience members.Mandrake the Magician was among the very few who were able to make the transition. With his original ideas and devotion to his craft, Mandrake invented new magic acts and innovative ways to perform illusions for nightclubs. Among these performances was his famous "Spook in a Bottle" (aka the Dancing Handkerchief) act. Publicity stunts
Mandrake kept his persona fresh with crowd-pleasing publicity stunts. He was known for driving a car while blindfolded, hypnotizing people to fall asleep in department store windows, making great escapes from boxes and doing mind reading on city streets. This kept him and the show on the road. Television
When television rose in popularity in the 1950s, it became increasingly difficult to keep the live performances going as most people were inclined to stay home and watch TV.Live shows were getting canceled more and more frequently. In 1951, Mandrake bought the rights to former magician Alexander's material and reinvented his image. He started a television show as mentalist "Alexander." He had a series of programs entitled "Alexander the Great" which performed out of Portland, Oregon for 36 weeks and Richland, Washington for 20 weeks in 1955–1956. In 1963, Mandrake made another attempt at TV. This time as himself, performing with Velvet before a live audience on CBC's  "Mandrake Special." In 1970, Mandrake was on CBC television series "The Manipulators" and in 1977, he played himself on an episode of "The Beachcombers."On the road
Mandrake the Magician often went back out on the road with wife and assistant Velvet. As the nightclub shows became less and less popular, they brought back old carnival acts such as fire-eating, palm reading, balloon tricks, and ventriloquism to street fairs in the summers, home shows, conventions. Lectures
Between road shows in the 1970s, he gave lectures on the occult, mysticism and Eastern philosophy at different universities in British Columbia, Canada. Awards
On March 11, 1978, <mask> was honored by his peers for his lifelong service to the profession. He was awarded the Performing Fellowship at the Academy of the Magical Arts (The World Famous Hollywood The Magic Castle). The award acknowledged the contribution to the dignity and stature of magic made by <mask> and Velvet Mandrake over their lifetime in magic. Last show & later life
Mandrake performed his last magic show in 1985 for the Chocolate Festival in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, ending a 62-year career in show business.He died of emphysema at Surrey Memorial Hospital on January 27, 1993. A wake was held at the old Edison Theater in New Westminster, now the Paramount Theater, the first place Mandrake worked as a child magician. On August 28, 2016, Mandrake's home until his death, located at the corner of Grosvenor Road and Kindersley Drive in Surrey, British Columbia, was engulfed in flame and destroyed, displacing several homeless persons. Surrey city council had considered giving heritage status to the old, abandoned home, and it was still being considered for heritage status as recently as May 2015. Mandrake's son Lon has stated that during his childhood the home contained secret rooms and passages. Biography and documentary
Mandrake the Incomparable (Hades Publications Inc.) is a biography written in 1998. Mandrake, A Magical Life is a 2001 documentary.References

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<mask> (5 April 1958 – 8 January 2009) was a Sri Lankan journalist, politician and human rights activist who was assassinated in January 2009. Wickrematunge was the founder of The Sunday Leader and Leader Publications alongside his brother and was known for taking "governments of all hues to task", was a "virulent critic of the Mahinda Rajapaksa government", and had been "locked in a legal battle with the president's brother, defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was spearheading the battle against the LTTE rebels. <mask>'s assassination caused a national frenzy being the country's most influential media personnel and one of the biggest political figures and raised questions about freedom of expression in the country. Wickrematunge's murder was widely condemned across the world. The Daily Mirror called it the "biggest blow" to media freedom in Sri Lanka, and the Editors Guild held the government responsible for the killing as it has failed to stop attacks against media personnel. The government also expressed shock at the killing, pledging to do everything in its power to catch his killers. Wickrematunge had been on Amnesty International's endangered list since 1998, when anti-tank shells were fired on his house.Early life
<mask> Wickrematunge was the youngest of six born in Kotahena Colombo to Chandra and Harris Wickrematunge, a prominent politician, who had served as a municipal councillor for 30 years and was former deputy mayor, Wickrematunge was the grandnephew of George E. de Silva and Agnes de Silva and cousin of Fredrick de Silva and Minnette de Silva. In his childhood Wickrematunge attended St Benedict's College where he excelled at cricket. Wickrematunge spent his adolescence in Britain, where he graduated high school and eventually returned to Sri Lanka, where he started law school. Career

Political career
Wickrematunge began his career as a lawyer, practicing as a defense attorney for eight years. Whilst practicing law, Wickrematunge made his way into the political scene before entering into journalism starting with the Island and Sun newspapers. Wickrematunge ran for election from a Colombo seat with the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and then became the private secretary to the world's first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Wickrematunge then crossed parties moving to the United National Party and was advisor to Ranil Wickremasinghe and was often dubbed as the De facto opposition leader

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In 1994 Wickrematunge started the Sunday Leader with his brother Lal Wickrematunge.He reported critically on both the government and the Tamil Tiger (LTTE) rebels, and the Leader soon "became well known as the island's best independent newspaper". He later stated that once the paper was started, he had intended to return to law, but found himself unwilling to give up journalism's excitement. He was also a reporter for Time magazine and was a political commentator and hosted several programs including Good Morning Sri Lanka. The paper quickly drew threats and attacks for its reporting on corruption by government ministers. In 1995, men pulled Wickrematunge and his first wife, Raine, out of their car and attacked them with clubs. Raine later stated that the death threats became part of the routine of their lives: "There were so many threatening calls. 'We are going to kill you.We are going to kill your children.'" In 2000, the government tried Wickrematunge for criminal libel of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, but Wickrematunge received no major penalties. In 2002, Raine left him due to the constant threats against their family, taking their three children to Australia. The Leader was particularly critical in its coverage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. In 2008, Mahinda Rajapaksa, furious over the paper's reporting, called Wickrematunge and shouted at him that he would be killed if the paper's coverage did not change; the president had also described him as a "terrorist journalist". Later, after the assassination of Wickrematunge the paper was allegedly bought over by a Rajapaksa associate and an unconditional apology was made to Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa for publishing a series of reports suggesting that he had made corrupt arms deals. In the weeks before Wickrematunge's death, a funeral wreath was delivered to him, as well as a copy of the newspaper reading "If you write you will be killed" in red paint.In an editorial Wickrematunge had written shortly before his death, and that was published posthumously, he stated, "When finally I am killed, it will be the government that kills me." Death
Wickrematunge was shot while he was on his way to work around 10:30 a.m. on 8 January 2009 few days before he was supposed to give evidence about Gotabhaya Rajapaksa's corruption in arms deals before a judge. Four armed assassins riding motorcycles blocked Wickrematunge's vehicle before breaking open his window and shooting him. He was taken to the Colombo South General Hospital (Kalubowila). It was initially planned with a helicopter on standby to transfer him to the Colombo National Hospital. A specialist team of 20 of medical personnel were called in for the surgery. Despite surgery lasting nearly three hours, Wickrematunge died from his head wounds.International reaction
Wickrematunge's assassination caused an international outcry. Reporters Without Borders
said that "Sri Lanka has lost its more talented, courageous and iconoclastic journalists," and said that "President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his associates and the government media are directly to blame because they incited hatred against him and allowed an outrageous level of impunity to develop as regards violence against the press". President Mahinda Rajapaksa described the assassination as an attempt to discredit the government and said he was both grieved and shocked and stated that he had instructed a thorough police inquiry and called the assassination an international conspiracy. The opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe observed that it was part of an anti-democratic conspiracy and accused the government of attempting to silence its critics. The United National Party, Sri Lanka's main opposition party, also staged a demonstration in the parliament on 9 January to protest his killing. The assassination was condemned by Norway, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, India and Japan, the United Nations strongly condemned the assassination while the World Bank expressed its concerns over the attack. President Mahinda Rajapaksa told Time (magazine) about Wickrematunge: "He was a good friend of mine.He had informed somebody to inform me that he was in danger. But unfortunately, I didn't get that message. I would have told him to go to the nearest police station. No one knows what happened. "The British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, said in a statement and condemned the killing of Wickrematunge and said that it was the duty of the authorities to take prompt action into these incidents. "We condemn such brazen attacks. Of particular concern was the murder, on 8 January, of the Chief Editor of The Sunday Leader newspaper, <mask> Wickrematunge.The Sri Lankan authorities have a duty to take prompt action to ensure that a thorough and independent investigation is carried out", he said. In a statement ahead of World Press Freedom Day Ban Ki Moon called on the government of Sri Lanka to ensure that those responsible for <mask> Wickrematunge's murder are found and prosecuted. Time (magazine) called his death "A personal loss to Time"
Wickrematunge's widow of 13 days, Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge, fled the country a month after Wickrematunge's death and now calls herself an editor in exile. Investigation
After denying all responsibility for the attack Rajapaksa government called for an investigation. Despite intense media pressure, no one was arrested, and Sri Lankan media speculated that the murder investigation may "end up as a cover-up", and that safeguards for an independent media appears bleak. After Mahinda Rajapaksa's defeat at the presidential election in 2015, the new government of President Maithripala Sirisena reopened the investigation over allegations that former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa ordered the assassination. Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former Prime Minister, accused Sarath Fonseka, the former army commander, of the murder of <mask> <mask> in 2008 and 2009.In 2011, the former MP Rajiva Wijesinha told BBC Sinhala Service that the British High Commission in Colombo had told him it possessed evidence that former military chief Gen Sarath Fonseka was involved in the assassination of the Sunday Leader editor <mask> Wickremetunge. According to Sarath Fonseka the order for the assassination was given by Gotabaya

In 2016 a retired intelligence officer committed suicide and left a note claiming he is the killer and the intelligence officers that were arrested in investigating are innocent. U.S Lawsuit

In April 2019 Wickrematunge's daughter Ahimsa Wickrematunge filed a civil lawsuit against Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the state of California. Wickrematunge's daughter's lawsuit alleged that Rajapaksa was behind his death. Awards
In 2009, Wickrematunge posthumously won the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. He was also awarded the Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation the James Cameron Memorial Trust Award, and the American National Press Club's John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. In 2010, Wickrematunge was declared a World Press Freedom Hero of the International Press Institute.In 2016 the East West Center, Hawaii conferred the 2016 Courageous Journalism Award on Lasantha. Posthumous editorial
Following his death, the Sunday Leader carried a posthumous editorial by Wickrematunge, in which he blamed the government directly for assassinating journalists as its "primary tool" for controlling the media. He wrote:
"No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism. Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed, sealed and coerced. Countless journalists have been harassed, threatened and killed. It has been my honour to belong to all those categories and now especially the last." The editorial meditated on why Wickrematunge continued his reporting despite threats to his life: "After all, I too am a husband, and the father of three wonderful children.Diplomats, recognising the risk journalists face in Sri Lanka, have offered me safe passage and the right of residence in their countries. Whatever else I may have been stuck for, I have not been stuck for choice. But there is a calling that is yet above high office, fame, lucre and security. It is the call of conscience. Our commitment is to see Sri Lanka as a transparent, secular, liberal democracy". The editorial's publication caused a "furor" in the nation, with thousands of mourners turning out for Wickrematunge's funeral. Bibliography

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And Then They Came For me Raine Wickrematunge
The Cage (Weiss book)
The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me Pico Iyer'

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Notable assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War
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<mask>. (7 February 1873 – 15 April 1912) was a British businessman and shipbuilder. He was managing director and head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland. He was the naval architect in charge of the plans for the ocean liner Titanic and perished along with more than 1,500 others when the ship sank during her maiden voyage. Early life

<mask> was born on 7 February 1873 at Ardara House, Comber, County Down, in Ireland, to The Rt. Hon. <mask>, a member of the Privy Council of Ireland, and Eliza Pirrie. <mask> was a Presbyterian of Scottish descent, and like his brother considered himself British.His siblings included J. M<mask>, the future Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and Sir <mask>, the future Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. <mask> lived with his family in Ardara, Comber. In 1884, he began attending the Royal Belfast Academical Institution until 1889 when, at the age of sixteen, he began a premium apprenticeship at Harland and Wolff where his uncle, the Viscount Pirrie, was part owner. Harland and Wolff
At Harland and Wolff, <mask> began with three months in the joiners' shop, followed by a month in the cabinetmakers' and then a further two months working on the ships. The last eighteen months of his five-year apprenticeship were spent in the drawing office. He worked during the day and continued his studies in the evening hours. In 1901, boarding at 11 Wellington Place, after working in the many departments of the company, he became the manager of the construction works.That same year, he also became a member of the Institution of Naval Architects. In 1907, he was appointed the managing director and head of the drafting department at Harland and Wolff. By that point, <mask> had earned a reputation as a genius in the field of ship design. During his long years of apprenticeship, study, and work, he had become well-loved in the company and amongst the shipyard's employees. His kindness and generosity was well-documented. He was always willing to acknowledge the hard work of other people, and his wife recalled that he had of himself "the humblest opinion of anyone I ever knew." On 24 June 1908, he married Helen Reilly Barbour, daughter of textile industrialist John Doherty Barbour and sister to Sir John Milne Barbour- known as "Milne".Their daughter, Elizabeth Law-Barbour <mask> (known by her initials, "ELBA"), was born on 27 November 1910. The couple lived at Dunallan, 12 Windsor Avenue, Belfast, now numbered 20, and worshipped at First Presbyterian Church on Rosemary Street. It is known that <mask> took Helen to view the RMS Titanic one night, shortly before Elizabeth was born. RMS Titanic

In 1907, <mask> began to oversee the plans for three new ocean liners for the White Star Line: the RMS Olympic, the RMS Titanic and the RMS (later HMHS) Britannic. All three ships were designed by William Pirrie and general manager Alexander Carlisle along with <mask> to be the largest, safest and most luxurious ships at sea. As he had done for the other ships he had overseen, <mask> familiarised himself with every detail of Olympic, Titanic and Britannic, in order to ensure that they were in optimal working order. <mask>'s suggestions that the ship have 48 lifeboats (instead of the 20 it ended up with) as well as a double hull and watertight bulkheads that went up to B deck, were overruled.<mask> headed a group of Harland and Wolff workers called the guarantee group, who went on the maiden voyages of their ships in order to observe ship operations and spot any necessary improvements. Titanic was no exception, so <mask> and the rest of his Harland and Wolff group travelled from Belfast to Southampton on Titanic for the beginning of her maiden voyage on 10 April 1912. During the voyage, <mask> took notes on various improvements he felt were needed, primarily cosmetic changes to various facilities. However, on 14 April, <mask> remarked to a friend that Titanic was "as nearly perfect as human brains can make her." On 14 April at 11:40 PM, Titanic struck an iceberg on the ship's starboard side. <mask> was in his cabin, planning changes he wanted to make to the ship, and barely noticed the collision. Captain Edward J. Smith had <mask> summoned to help examine the damage.<mask> and Captain Smith discussed the damage to the ship shortly after the collision and toured the damaged section of the ship, receiving several reports of the vessel's damage. <mask> determined that the first five of the ship's 16 watertight compartments were rapidly flooding, which is more than the four that the vessel was supposed to withstand. He relayed this information to Captain Smith, stating that it was a 'mathematical certainty' that the ship will sink and adding that in his opinion, the vessel had only about an hour before foundering. He also informed Smith of the severe shortage of lifeboats on board the ship. As the evacuation began, <mask> tirelessly searched staterooms telling the passengers to put on lifebelts and go up on deck. Many survivors testified to have met or spotted <mask> several times. Fully aware of the short time the ship had left and of the lack of lifeboat space for all passengers and crew, he continued to urge reluctant people into the lifeboats in the hope of filling them with as many people as possible.Titanic sank at 2:20 a.m, and <mask> perished along with more than 1500 others. His body was never recovered. Death
<mask> was reportedly last seen by John Stewart, a steward on the ship, after approximately 2:05 a.m. <mask> was standing alone in the 1st-class smoking room with his arms folded, his lifebelt lying on a nearby table. Stewart asked him: "Aren't you going to have a try for it, Mr. <mask>?" <mask> didn't answer or move, apparently in a state of shock. Walter Lord suggested that he was staring at a Norman Wilkinson painting over the fire place that depicted the entrance to Plymouth Sound, which Titanic had been expected to visit on her return voyage.This led to popular belief that <mask> may have made no attempt to escape and waited in the smoking room for the end. Although this has become one of the most famous stories of the Titanic disaster – published in a 1912 book (<mask>: Shipbuilder by Shan Bullock) and thereby perpetuated – there is circumstantial evidence to show that Stewart, in fact, left the ship in lifeboat No. 15 at approximately 1:40 a.m., half an hour before his reputed sighting of <mask>. In <mask>: Shipbuilder, Bullock wrote that <mask> likely stayed in the smoking room for some time to gather his thoughts, then continued assisting with the evacuation. Bullock even discussed several other very later sightings of <mask> after that moment. Another sighting of <mask> was around 2:00 a.m., where he was seen on the back of the boat deck. The crowd had begun to stir, but some women remained reluctant to leave the ship.To be heard and to draw attention to himself, <mask> waved his arms and called to them in a loud voice. This didn't do anything, so he began frantically throwing deck chairs into the ocean for people to use as floatation devices. Bullock also said that <mask> was seen, carrying a lifebelt, possibly the same lifebelt that was lying on the table in the smoking room, heading to the bridge, perhaps in search of Captain Smith. In addition, mess steward Cecil Fitzpatrick claimed to have seen <mask> and Captain Smith together on the bridge just a few minutes before the ship began its final plunge, and that both men jumped overboard just before the bridge was submerged. Legacy

On 19 April 1912, his father received a telegram from his mother's cousin, who had spoken with survivors in New York: "INTERVIEW WITH TITANIC'S OFFICERS. ALL UNANIMOUS THAT ANDREWS DIED A HEROIC DEATH, THINKING ONLY OF OTHER'S SAFETY. EXTEND HEARTFELT SYMPATHY TO ALL."Newspaper accounts of the disaster labelled <mask> a hero. Mary Sloan, a stewardess on the ship, whom <mask> persuaded to enter a lifeboat, later wrote in a letter: "Mr. <mask> met his fate like a true hero, realising the great danger, and gave up his life to save the women and children of the Titanic. They will find it hard to replace him." A short biography was produced within the year by Shan Bullock at the request of Sir Horace Plunkett, a member of Parliament, who felt that <mask>' life was worthy of being memorialised. In his home town, Comber, one of the earliest and most substantial memorials for a single victim of the Titanic disaster was built. The <mask> Jr. Memorial Hall was opened in January 1914. The architects were Young and McKenzie with sculpted work by the artist Sophia Rosamond Praeger.The hall is now maintained by the South Eastern Education Board and used by The Andrews Memorial Primary School. An Ulster History Circle blue plaque is located on his house in Windsor Avenue, Belfast. Today, the SS Nomadic is the sole surviving ship designed by <mask>, and Asteroid 245158 Thomasandrews was named in his honour in 2004. Family
After <mask>'s death, Helen remarried; she died 22 August 1966 in Northern Ireland and is buried in the Barbour family mausoleum at Lambeg. Portrayals

Patrick Macnee (1956; Kraft Television Theatre; A Night to Remember)
Michael Goodliffe (1958; A Night to Remember)
Geoffrey Whitehead (1979; S.O.S. Titanic; TV Movie)
Victor Garber (1997; Titanic)
Michael Cerveris (1997; Titanic; Broadway Musical)
Vern Urich (1998; Titanic: Secrets Revealed; TV Documentary)
Don Lynch (2003; Ghosts of the Abyss; Documentary)
Damian O'Hare (2005; Titanic: Birth of a Legend; TV Documentary)
Paul Mundell (2011; Curiosity Episode: "What Sank Titanic?") Stephen Campbell Moore (2012; Titanic; TV series/3 episodes)
Billy Carter (2012; Titanic: Blood and Steel; TV series/12 episodes)
Nick Danan (2012; The Titanic Boys; Stage Production- Grand Opera House, Belfast)
Stephen Hogan (2012; Saving The Titanic; PBS TV Movie)
Robert Bagdon (2013; Belfast Air; Short Film)
Greg Castiglioni (2013; Titanic (musical) (London premier) & 2015; (Toronto); directed by Thom Southerland)
Kazuki Kato (2015; Titanic; Japanese Musical; directed by Thom Sutherland)

Bibliography
<mask>, shipbuilder (Dublin ; and London : Maunsel and company, ltd, 1912.)References

External links

<mask> on Titanic-Titanic.com
Encyclopedia Titanica Biography of <mask>
LibraryIreland.com, "<mask> Shipbuilder", a 1912 biography of <mask>

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<mask> (born November 12, 1983), also known by his Reddit username spez (), is an American web developer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a social news and discussion website, which ranks in the top 20 websites in the world. He also co-founded the airfare search-engine website Hipmunk. Early life and education
<mask> grew up in Warrenton, Virginia. At age 8, he began programming computers. He graduated in 2001 from Wakefield School in The Plains, Virginia. At the University of Virginia (UVA), he studied computer science, graduating in 2005.Career
During spring break of his senior year at UVA, Huffman and college roommate Alexis Ohanian drove to Boston, Massachusetts, to attend a lecture delivered by programmer-entrepreneur Paul Graham. Huffman and Ohanian talked with Graham after the lecture and he invited them to apply to his startup incubator Y Combinator. Huffman came up with their original idea, My Mobile Menu, which was intended to allow users to order food by SMS. The idea was rejected, but Graham asked Huffman and Ohanian to meet him in Boston to pitch another idea for a start-up; it was at this brainstorming session that the idea for what Graham called the "front page of the Internet" was created. Huffman and Ohanian were accepted in Y Combinator's first class. Huffman coded the entire site in Lisp. He and Ohanian launched Reddit in June 2005, funded by Y Combinator.The site's audience grew rapidly in its first few months, and by August 2005, Huffman noticed their habitual user-base had grown so large that he no longer needed to fill the front page with content himself. At 23, Huffman and Ohanian sold Reddit to Condé Nast on October 31, 2006, for a reported $10 million to $20 million. Huffman remained with Reddit until 2009, when he left his role as acting CEO. Huffman spent several months backpacking in Costa Rica before co-creating the travel website Hipmunk with Adam Goldstein, an author and software developer, in 2010. Funded by Y Combinator, Hipmunk launched in August 2010 with Huffman serving as CTO. In 2011, Inc. named Huffman to its 30 under 30 list. In 2014, Huffman said that his decision to sell Reddit had been a mistake, and that the site's growth had exceeded his expectations.On July 10, 2015, Reddit hired Huffman as CEO following the resignation of Ellen Pao and during a particularly difficult time for the company. Upon rejoining the company, Huffman's top goals included launching Reddit's iOS and Android apps, fixing Reddit's mobile website, and creating A/B testing infrastructure. Since returning to Reddit, Huffman instituted a number of technological improvements including a better mobile experience and stronger infrastructure, as well as new content guidelines. These included a ban on content that incites violence, quarantining some material users might find offensive, and removing communities "that exist solely to ... make Reddit worse for everyone else". Shortly after returning, Huffman wrote that "neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen." In a 2012 interview, Ohanian had used the same phrase to describe Reddit, as noted by The New Yorker and The Verge. Huffman also worked to make the site more advertiser-friendly and led efforts to host video and images on site.In late 2016, Huffman was the focus of controversy for altering posts on a subreddit popular with supporters of Donald Trump, /r/The_Donald. Following criticism from Reddit users, he undid the change and issued an apology. Beginning in 2017, Huffman led the redesign of Reddit's website with its first major visual update in a decade. Huffman said the site had looked like a "dystopian Craigslist" whose outdated look deterred new users. Development of the new site took more than a year, and the redesign launched in April 2018. In 2020, Fortune magazine included him in their '40 Under 40' listing in the technology category. Controversies and criticism

Comment modification controversy

On November 23, 2016, a member of a subreddit dedicated to Donald Trump, /r/The_Donald, posted evidence indicating that Reddit administrators had modified multiple user comments inside the subreddit.Following this post Huffman took responsibility for the comment modifications, writing that “Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won’t do this again.” His administrative modifications involved changing one specific insulting phrase, in several comments, to make them appear as if the insults were directed toward the moderators of the subreddit instead of him. In a Reddit post Huffman wrote that he "messed with" some of the comments but that he "restored the original comments after less than an hour." On November 30, 2016, Huffman announced that sticky posts from /r/The_Donald would no longer show up on r/all, stating that the community's moderators were abusing the feature in order to "slingshot posts into r/all, often in a manner that is antagonistic to the rest of the community." Black Lives Matter

On June 1, 2020, Huffman published an open letter as Reddit's CEO, titled "Remember to be Human - Black lives matter", which addressed the topic of racism on the platform. Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao called out Huffman's letter with a tweet on her official Twitter profile, saying that Reddit had long condoned racism and that the platform "monetizes white supremacy". The popular NBA and NFL subreddits agreed with Pao, obscuring their sections for 24 hours. Alexis Ohanian resigned on June 5, 2020, asking to be replaced by a Black director and urging the company to finally ban Hate Speech and Hate Communities on Reddit in an open letter.Net neutrality activism
Huffman is an advocate for net neutrality rules. In 2017, Huffman told The New York Times that without net neutrality protections, "you give internet service providers the ability to choose winners and losers". On Reddit, Huffman urged redditors to express support for net neutrality and contact their elected representatives in Washington, D.C. Huffman said that the repeal of net neutrality rules stifles competition. He said he and Reddit would continue to advocate for net neutrality. Personal life
Huffman lives in San Francisco, California. He mentors aspiring programmers at coding bootcamps including Hackbright Academy. Huffman was an instructor for e-learning courses on web development by Udacity.He is on the board of advisors for the Anti-Defamation League's Center for Technology and Society. Huffman is a ballroom dancer. At UVA, Huffman competed in intercollegiate competitions. Huffman married in 2009 but is now divorced. References

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<mask> (August 14, 1930 – October 26, 2001) was an American businessman and politician most notable for his long service as a member of the United States House of Representatives in New York. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Reserve, and a successful insurance and investment broker, <mask> entered politics as a Democrat when he was elected town supervisor of Queensbury in 1968. He became a Republican in his first term, and won election to the New York State Assembly as a Republican in 1972. After three terms in the Assembly, <mask> won election to the U.S. House. He became a high-profile advocate on defense and veterans' issues, and was best known for passage of his Solomon Amendment, which prohibited federal funding to colleges and universities that banned military recruiters from their campuses. After Republicans won control of the House in the 1994 elections, <mask> challenged Newt Gingrich for Speaker, but withdrew when it became clear that Gingrich had the support of majority of the Republican caucus. <mask> became chairman of the House Rules Committee, a post he held from 1995 until retiring from the House in 1999.He was succeeded by fellow Republican John E. Sweeney. After leaving Congress, <mask> operated a lobbying and strategic consulting firm. He died in Queensbury on October 26, 2001. He was buried at the national veterans cemetery in Schuylerville, New York; he had spearheaded efforts to create the facility, which was named in his honor after his death. Early life
<mask> was born in Okeechobee, Florida, the son of Eugenia and Daniel Hunt. He was raised by his mother and stepfather, <mask>, and his family moved to New York when he was 15. He attended school in Florida and Delmar, New York, and graduated from Delmar's Bethlehem Central High School in 1948.He attended Siena College from 1949 to 1950 and St. Lawrence University from 1953 to 1954. Start of career

Military service
<mask> attempted to join the 1st Engineer Company of the United States Marine Corps Reserve in Albany, New York during the Korean War in 1950, but was deemed ineligible because of a childhood illness. He tried to enlist again in 1951 and was accepted. From 1951 to 1952, <mask> was a radio operator assigned to the 2nd Marine Division and stationed aboard the helicopter carrier USS Siboney in the Atlantic ocean, and he attained the rank of private first class. He remained in the Marine Corps Reserve until 1959, and attained the rank of lance corporal. Businessman
In the 1950s and 1960s <mask> was involved with M. <mask>, the women's clothing business owned by his stepfather. In the mid-1960s, he became a partner in the Associates of Glens Falls insurance company, as well as a partner in the Anchor Realty real estate brokerage.In addition he was president of Solomon, Veysey, Dixon, Gohn Associates, an investment brokerage. He also served as president of Queensbury's merchants association, and a member of the board of directors of the Glens Falls chamber of commerce. He was active in the Jaycees and the Boy Scouts, and was also involved in several charitable and civic causes. In addition, his fraternal memberships included the Marine Corps League, Masons, Shriners, and American Legion. His business and civic accomplishments and the name recognition he acquired in the Glens Falls-Queensbury area provided him with an entrée into local politics and government. Early political career
Originally a Democrat, from 1968 to 1972 <mask> served as Queensbury's Town Supervisor, which also made him a member of the Warren County Board of Supervisors. In February 1968 he switched his party affiliation to Republican, arguing that he had been a Republican prior to the election of John F. Kennedy, that he joined the Democrats because he was inspired by Kennedy's goals and vision, but that he was returning to the Republicans because he perceived that Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency had moved too far from Kennedy's agenda.He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1973 to 1978, sitting in the 180th, 181st and 182nd New York State Legislatures. As a fiscal conservative and advocate for limited government, <mask> was often at odds with the Assembly's Democratic majority. U.S. House of Representatives
In November 1978, <mask> was elected to the House of Representatives. In 1980, he was an early and avid supporter of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign, and remained a Reagan stalwart, supporting his efforts to reduce taxes, revive the economy, halt Soviet expansionism and rebuild America's defenses. <mask> supported the line-item veto, a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning, a repeal of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and amendments that strengthened the Selective Service System. He was such an opponent of gun control that he once challenged fellow Representative Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island to "step outside" to settle a dispute over the issue. <mask> attempted to run for Speaker of the House in 1994 but withdrew in favor of Newt Gingrich.<mask> also supported creation of the Saratoga National Cemetery, which was named the Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in his honor following his death. In addition, he was a longtime advocate of elevating the Veterans Administration to cabinet status, which resulted in creation of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. <mask> was also a leader of former Marines in Congress who fought the construction of the United States Air Force Memorial through litigation and legislation at a site they considered to be too close to the USMC War Memorial. (The Air Force Memorial was ultimately constructed at a different location, on the grounds of Fort Myer near Arlington National Cemetery.) <mask>
<mask> was also the originator and sponsor of the Solomon Amendment, a controversial amendment to United States Code that precluded the receipt of federal government funds by colleges and universities unless they provided equal access to military recruiters as they did private employers. The policy was a response to rules at many American law schools which excluded employers who discriminated based on categories such as sexual orientation. The Amendment was subject to extensive litigation in 2003 by plaintiffs; the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) and the Society of American Law Teachers.This litigation included FAIR v. Rumsfeld, 390 F.3d 219 (3rd Cir. 2004). On March 6, 2006, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the military and upheld the Solomon Amendment. Rules Committee Chair
<mask> was named ranking Republican of the House Rules Committee in 1991. Even though Jimmy Quillen of Tennessee had far more seniority, the other Republicans on the committee thought <mask> was a more accomplished legislator. When he lost his bid for the Speakership in 1995, he became chairman of the Rules Committee, thus making him one of the three or four most powerful members of the House. He served as chairman from 1995 to 1999, when he retired.In his district, which ran from the Hudson Valley near Poughkeepsie into the Adirondacks, including Lake Placid, he was a popular and respected figure. In the later years of his tenure he consistently drew the highest total vote of any member of the New York delegation. He was well known for his strong constituent work, and for facilitating federal investment in his mostly rural district, including dozens of housing projects for low income elderly. After leaving Congress he formed the Solomon Group, a Washington consulting and lobbying business. Death and burial
On October 26, 2001, <mask> died of congestive heart failure at his home in Queensbury at the age of 71. His ability to maintain friendships across political lines resulted in several Democratic members of Congress attending his funeral, including Representative Charles Rangel, a fellow veteran. <mask> was buried at the national cemetery which is named for him.Family
In 1955 <mask> married Freda Parker of Monongahela, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of five children, Susan, Daniel, Robert, Linda and Jeffrey. In addition to his wife and children, <mask> was survived by six grandchildren and his brother Richard. References

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<mask> (née Wiesner; born 21 January 1925 – 20 October 2010) was a British novelist born in Austria to a Jewish family who fled the Nazis. She is known for her children's literature. Some of her novels for adults have been reissued for the young adult market. The historical novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, 2001) won her the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered an unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Prize, and made the Carnegie, Whitbread, and Blue Peter shortlists. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Prize at the time of her death. Her last book, The Abominables, was among four finalists for the same award in 2012. Personal life
Wiesner was born in Vienna in 1925 to non-practising Jewish parents.Her father, Bertold Paul Wiesner, was a physician who pioneered human infertility treatment. He is now believed to have used his own sperm to sire perhaps 600 of the children his clinic helped to be born. Her mother, Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner, was a successful novelist and playwright, who had worked with Bertolt Brecht and written film scripts for Georg Pabst. Wiesner's parents separated in 1928 when she was three years old. What followed for <mask> was, in her words, a "very cosmopolitan, sophisticated and quite interesting, but also very unhappy childhood, always on some train and wishing to have a home," as she later recalled. Her father took up a university lectureship in Edinburgh, while her mother left Vienna for Paris in 1933 after her work was banned by Adolf Hitler, putting a sudden end to her successful writing career. In 1934, her mother moved to England, settling in Belsize Park, north London, and sent for her daughter.Other family members also escaped from Vienna and joined Anna and <mask> in England, avoiding the worst of the Nazi regime, which had already affected the family. The experience of fleeing Vienna was a strong thread throughout <mask>'s life and work. Wiesner attended Dartington Hall School, which she later fictionalised as Delderton Hall in her novel The Dragonfly Pool (2008). Originally, she intended to become a physiologist like her father, and earned an undergraduate degree from Bedford College, London, in 1945. During her postgraduate studies at Cambridge University, she met her future husband, <mask>, an ecologist. Marriage and family
<mask> married <mask> in 1947. They moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where they raised a family of three sons and a daughter.Appalled by the thought of having to make a career out of conducting experiments on animals, she decided to discontinue her pursuit of scientific research. She returned to college, graduating with a diploma in education in 1965 from the University of Durham. She briefly became a teacher in the 1960s before embarking on her writing career. <mask>'s husband died in 1998. Being "too sad to write in her usual humorous style", she then wrote her ecological classic Journey to the River Sea. She died at her home in Newcastle on 20 October 2010, having just edited the proofs of her last children's book, One Dog and his Boy, and started work on another children's ghost story to add to her long and successful series. Through her father, Ibbotson was half-sister of the writer Paul Newham and the Canadian filmmaker Barry Stevens, but never met them.Career

<mask> began writing with the television drama Linda Came Today, which the British "Television Playhouse" series broadcast in December 1962. Her first English-language book was The Great Ghost Rescue, a juvenile fantasy novel published in 1975 by Macmillan in the UK and Walck in the US, with illustrations by Simon Stern and Giulio Maestro respectively. Children's books
Ibbotson wrote more than a dozen books for children, including Which Witch?, The Secret of Platform 13, Dial-a-Ghost, Monster Mission, Journey to the River Sea, The Star of Kazan, The Beasts of Clawstone Castle, and The Dragonfly Pool. She won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea, and has been a runner up for major awards in British children's literature several times. WorldCat libraries report holding Which Witch? and Journey to the River Sea in more than five and ten languages respectively. The books are imaginative and humorous, and most of them feature magical creatures and places.<mask> has said that she disliked thinking about the supernatural, and created the characters because she wanted to decrease her readers' fear of such things. Some of the books, particularly Journey to the River Sea, also reflect Ibbotson's love of nature. She wrote Journey in honour of her husband, a former naturalist who had just died; the book had been in her head for years. <mask> had said she disliked "financial greed and a lust for power", and often created antagonists in her books who have these characteristics. Her love of Austria is evident in works such as The Star of Kazan, A Song for Summer and Magic Flutes/The Reluctant Heiress. These books, set primarily in the Austrian countryside, display the author's love of nature. Adult books
Ibbotson was also noted for several works of fiction for adults.Several have been reissued successfully for the young-adult market, some under different titles. <mask> was surprised by the repackaging, as she believed they were books for adults, but they have been very popular with teenage audiences. Three are The Secret Countess (originally published as A Countess Below Stairs), A Company of Swans, and Magic Flutes (in some editions published as The Reluctant Heiress)

<mask>'s writing for adults and teens took a new direction in 1992, when she began to move toward romantic novels that dealt with the harsh realities of war and prejudice. Two of her acclaimed books are set in Europe at the time of World War II and reflect her experience of the time. The first of this setting, The Morning Gift (1993), became a best-seller. Her last novel for adults was A Song for Summer (1997), also set during World War II. The Secret of Platform 13 and Harry Potter

Critics have found similarities between <mask>'s "Platform 13" in The Secret of Platform 13 (1994) and J.K. Rowling's "Platform 9 3/4" in the Harry Potter books (from 1997), both set in King's Cross station in London.The journalist Amanda Craig has discussed the similarities: "<mask> would seem to have at least as good a case for claiming plagiarism as the American author currently suing J. K. Rowling but unlike her, Ibbotson says she would 'like to shake her (Rowling) by the hand. I think we all borrow from each other as writers.'" Published works

German language
These translations were published as small books in Switzerland (Zurich: Verlag die Arche). Der Weihnachtskarpfen (1967) (The Christmas Carp; orig. The great carp Ferdinand)
Am Weihnachtsabend (1968) (On Christmas Eve; orig. A child this day is born)
In den Sternen stand es geschrieben (1971) (In the stars it was written; orig. The stars that tried)

Children's fiction
The Great Ghost Rescue (1975)
Which Witch?(1979)
The Worm & the Toffee Nosed Princess (1983)
The Haunting of Hiram C. Hopgood (1987); later, The Haunting of Hiram (1988) and The Haunting of Granite Falls (2004)
Not Just a Witch (1989)
The Secret of Platform 13 (1994)
Dial-a-Ghost (1996)
Monster Mission (1999); later, and in the US, Island of the Aunts
Journey to the River Sea (2001)
The Star of Kazan (2004)
The Beasts of Clawstone Castle (2005)
The Haunting of Hiram (2008)
The Dragonfly Pool (2008)
The Ogre of Oglefort (2010)
One Dog and his Boy (2010)
The Abominables (London: Marion Lloyd Books, 2012, ), published posthumously

Adult and young adult fiction
A Countess Below Stairs (1981); later, The Secret Countess (2007)
Magic Flutes (1982); later, The Reluctant Heiress (2009)
A Glove Shop in Vienna: And Other Stories (1984), a collection
A Company of Swans (1985)
Madensky Square (1988)
The Morning Gift (1993)
A Song for Summer (1997)

Awards
Best Romantic Novel of the Year Published in England, Romantic Novelists Association, 1983, Magic Flutes
Carnegie Medal
shortlist 1978, Which Witch? shortlist 2001, Journey to the River Sea;
shortlist 2005, The Star of Kazan
Best Books designation, School Library Journal, 1998, The Secret of Platform 13
Nestle Smarties Book Prize
shortlist 1998, The Secret of Platform 13
winner 2001, ages 9–11 years, Journey to the River Sea
silver medal 2004, 9–11 years, The Star of Kazan
Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, 2001 shortlist, Journey to the River Sea
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
highly commended runner up 2001, Journey to the River Sea
shortlist 2010, The Ogre of Oglefort 28 May 17 Sep
shortlist 2012, The Abominables

Film and television

Ibbotson wrote Linda Came Today (1962) for television
In 1978, she wrote Der Große Karpfen Ferdinand und andere Weihnachtsgeschichten for German television. In 2004 Enda Walsh was adapting Island of the Aunts for a feature film. A film adaptation of The Great Ghost Rescue was completed in 2011, directed by the French Yann Samuell. The Haunting of Hiram C. Hopgood was adapted by Gail Gilchriest. The best-selling drama The Morning Gift is being developed as a film. See also

References

External links

"Author of the month: Eva Ibbotson" (August 2004), The Guardian
Penguin Reading Guide: Eva Ibbotson.<mask>on at jrank
Ibbotson: "Ich brauche ein glückliches Ende" (2006), a German-language radio interview

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<mask> a design futurist, educator and author, her dedication to furthering human betterment through and by design is reflected in her 25-year design career. Biography
<mask> was educated at the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, BFA(Hons), and later at Pratt Institute, New York City, two master’s degrees, the first in Industrial Design and the second in Architecture. Professional practice
<mask> is the founding partner of THE COLLECTIVE US/THE SC COLLECTIVE UK which provides architecture, interior, workplace, and product design solutions focusing on supporting people both pragmatically and qualitatively. In 2013, <mask> also founded GloW-DESIGN (Globally We Design), a platform whose purpose is to generate and disseminate new design thinking, practice and processes to tackle the ever more pressing and contemporary problems facing humanity at large. GloW-DESIGN is composed by five different programs:

Next-GenNarrative (NGN) creative leadership Think-Tank;
ReDesignEd Educators Forum;
World Youth Designer Program: include the World Youth Designer and World Youth Designer Forum (WYD + WYDF);
CoDesign from concept to reality – Design projects co-designed collaboratively in live time across the world;
GloW-Design expo – addressing design and market. In 2018, The GloW-DESIGN Educators Forum 2018 formulated the Universal Design Educators Charter as part of the ReDesignEd program. The Charter was created to provide a framework and filter through which design education and curricula are assessed, valued, and contextualized globally and collectively.The Charter is a collection of seven articles, six of them affirming a common global aspiration of achievement for all designers, and the last one a disclaimer. The essays address the areas of:

Culture change,
Knowledge and skills (education),
Sustainability,
Technology,
Acknowledgement (certification) and
Responsibility. The Universal Educational Charter recognizes that design impacts all aspects of life, therefore, it has to serve the endeavor for the betterment of human experience, quality of life, well-being, and happiness. The Universal Educational Charter recognizes that design impacts all aspects of life; therefore, it has to serve the endeavor for the betterment of human experience, quality of life, well-being, and happiness. Since the 1980s, <mask> <mask> has held numerous teaching engagements at such institutions as Parson the New School for Design, in New York. From 2002-2007, Professor <mask> was the Chair of the Interiors Program at Parsons  and she served as the Faculty Trustee on the Board of Trustees for the New York School of Interior Design. <mask> is the current CEO of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI), for which she was President from 2009 to 2014.During her presidency, in 2011, she conceived and helped to inaugurate the IFI Interiors Declaration . This Declaration, initiated with input from 88 world counties. The Interiors Declaration has been adopted at city government level by some 124 world cities and two nations: the Philippines and Nigeria. She is the author of the book Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Beings in the Built Environment, (Laurence King publisher, 2011) which has also been translated into Chinese. Formerly she was Senior Designer and Associate with Gensler  and then Design Director and Associate Partner with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill . Education

Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland BFA(Hons);
Pratt Institute (MSArch), 1992;
Pratt Institute (MID – Master of Industrial Design);
Ph.D.(h.c.) from the New York School of Interior Design, 2010;

Career as Designer

Senior Designer at Gensler;
Design Director and Associate Partner at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill;
Founder and Principal, THE COLLECTIVE (2002–present);
Chair of Interior Design at Parsons School of Design (2002-2007);
President of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) (2009-2014);
CEO of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) (2017 to present);
Founder of GloW-DESIGN (2013–present);

Recognition

2013 JDP Design Ambassador to Japan;
2012 Golden Seat Architectural Master Award of China;
2006 International Facility Member Association (IFMA) Educator of the Year;
2004 U.S. Designer of the Year Contract Magazine, (Contract Magazine, January 2004);

Fellowships

Fellow of IFI, 2014;
Fellow the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 2014
Honorary Fellow American Society of Interior Designers, 2015;
Honorary Fellow British Institute of Interior Design, 2014;
Honorary Fellow Design Institute of Australia, 2013;
Fellow Consejo Iberoamericano de Diseñadores de Interiores, 2013;

Independent Research and Exhibitions
Spatial Color
Live Lab Experiment and Installation: Bridging the Art and Science of Color, Architectural Digest Home Show, New York, NY.Televised on the Today Show, March 2006
Curator, "Fifty Shades of Green" 2000
Sustainable Materials & Product Exhibit, Archeworks, Chicago, IL
Curator, "Virtual Color" 1997
3D Color Exhibit, New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY. Televised on Channel 4 News, 1997
Co-Curator, "Glamorous Green" 1997
Environmental Product and Materials, AIA Interiors Committee & Material ConneXions, New York, NY
Co-Curator, "Surfaces" 1996
Innovation in Architectural Materials, AIA Interiors Committee, NY, NY
Research Grant (Graduate Architecture Research) 1991
Pittsburgh Corning Glass Corporation: Light/Color in Architecture

Juries and lectures

<mask> <mask> has delivered dozens of keynotes and public lectures, along with serving on many of international design juries. Most recent juries include:

The Rigg Design Prize Jury, Melbourne, Australia (2018)
INDE Awards Asia Jury, Singapore (2018)
DFA Awards, Hong Kong Jury 2018. Author / Publications

Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Being in the Built Environment, Laurence King Publishing 2011
Over the last decade she has written some thirty articles, essays and critiques, published both in the US and internationally. References

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