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<mask> (] born 26 May 1957) is an Austrian politician who served as State Secretary for Cultural Affairs in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in 2020. She is a member of the Austrian Green party The Greens – The Green Alternative, part of the European Green Party. From 2009 until 2017, Lunacek was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). During that time, she served as Vice President of the European Parliament, Member of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament and head of delegation of the Austrian Greens in the European Parliament. She was Kosovo rapporteur and co-president of the Intergroup on LGBTI Rights and Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Substitute in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In 2017, <mask> was the Greens' top candidate for the Austrian general election, in which the party suffered a historic defeat and failed to win a single seat in parliament for the first time since 1983. <mask> subsequently stepped down from all Austrian and EU political functions.Life
From 1967 to 1975 Lunacek attended high school in the second district of Vienna. Furthermore, she spent one academic year (1973–74) as an AFS-student at a high school in Boone, Iowa. In 1975 she started studying interpreting (English and Spanish) at the University of Innsbruck and graduated in 1983. During this time she was involved in the establishment of the women's refuge Innsbruck and did social work. From 1984 to 1986 she was an adviser for the organization "Frauensolidarität" (Solidarity among Women) in Vienna. Afterwards Lunacek was editor of the magazine "Südwind" and press officer of the Austrian Information Service for Development Politics (ÖIE). In addition she worked as a freelance translator and journalist.In 1994 Lunacek was NGO delegate at the UN International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and a year later she coordinated the press work of all NGOs at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Political career
<mask>'s political career began in 1995 with the presentation of the "Appeal to reason", organized by the Austrian Lesbian and Gay Forum in Palais Auersperg, and the first-time candidacy for the Austrian Green Party, whose federal business manager she was from 1996 to 1998. Member of the Austrian Parliament, 1999–2009
From 1999 to 2009, Lunacek was a member of parliament and the Green group's spokeswoman on foreign and development policy as well as equality for lesbians, gays and transgender persons. Also starting in 1999, she was deputy chairwoman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. As the first openly lesbian politician in the Austrian Parliament, she is also a member of the Greens "andersrum". On 5 May 2006 <mask> was elected co-chair of the European Green Party in Helsinki, a position she held for 3 years. On 28 October 2008 she became vice-chair of the Green Parliamentary Club in Austria and was nominated frontrunner for the 2009 European Parliament election.Member of the European Parliament, 2009–2017
On 14 July 2009 Lunacek moved into the European Parliament as head of delegation of the Austrian Greens. During her tenure, she was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) and the delegation to the parliamentary Cooperation Committees EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia (DSCA). In addition she was a substitute member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), the delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (DSEE) and the delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (DEPA). Moreover, she was the Parliament's Rapporteur for Kosovo and the foreign affairs spokesperson of the Greens/EFA group. As co-president of the European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBTI Rights Lunacek also fought for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender persons. In addition, she was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Western Sahara and the European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights. In 2011, European Voice reported that Lunacek, encouraged by aides to Catherine Ashton, had applied to become head of the EEAS’s office in Kosovo, but was then told that, as a non-diplomat, she was not eligible.Lunacek led EU-Election Observer Missions on numerous occasions, including for the 2013 Honduran general elections. In February 2013 Lunacek was elected vice-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, under the leadership of Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Following the 2014 European elections, the group voted for her as candidate for the presidency of the European Parliament. She served as one of the fourteen Vice Presidents of the European Parliament who sit in for the president in presiding over the plenary. In this capacity, she was in charge of the parliament’s Sakharov Prize and representing the parliament in matters concerning the Western Balkans. She was also a member of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG), which oversees the Parliament’s election observation missions. Career in national politics
Lunacek briefly served as State Secretary for Cultural Affairs in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in early 2020.In May 2020, she quit under pressure from theatre directors and performers over a lack of urgency in reopening cultural venues even as a lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria had been eased. Political positions
In 2013, Lunacek advocated for a non-binding resolution on "Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights". that called for "age-appropriate and gender-sensitive sexuality and relationship education ... for all children and adolescents" and referenced a document co-authored by the WHO in which some sexuality information is deemed appropriate from age 4. After some controversy, the European Parliament instead passed a modified version which declared sexual education a competence of the member states. Lunacek called the opponents of the report “right-wing bigots” stating the groups were against “women’s right to a safe and healthy reproductive and sexual life”. On 27 April 2017, Lunacek welcomed the release of Ramush Haradinaj, former leader of Albanian Liberation Army KLA. Haradinaj was accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Serbian War crimes prosecutor and Serbia demanded his extradition.Lunacek urged EU officials to pressure Serbia to withdraw its arrest warrants. Other activities
 Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP), Member of the Board
 EastWest Institute, Member of the Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention
 European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Member
 European Forum Alpbach, Member of the Council
 Österreichisch-Saharauische Gesellschaft (ÖSG), Member

Awards
 Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria (2009)
 Rosa Courage Award (2013)

Personal life
Lunacek had her coming-out in 1980. Since 1994 she has been living with a native Peruvian. References

External links

 Homepage of Ulrike <mask>
 Fanpage on Facebook
 Austrian Greens in the EP
 Greens "andersrum"
 Homepage Intergroup on LGBTI Rights
 Biography of Ulrike <mask> in Parliament of Austria

1957 births
Living people
Members of the National Council (Austria)
LGBT rights activists from Austria
LGBT politicians from Austria
Lesbian politicians
The Greens – The Green Alternative MEPs
MEPs for Austria 2009–2014
MEPs for Austria 2014–2019
LGBT MEPs for Austria
20th-century Austrian women politicians
21st-century women MEPs for Austria
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<mask> (20 March 186827 June 1942), whose name was recorded after his birth as <mask>, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that <mask>'s book What Might Have Been influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. <mask> created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Early career
<mask> (on his birth certificate the spelling of his middle name is given phonetically, as 'Brammah') was born in Manchester, England in 1868, the son of Charles Clement and Susannah (Brammah) Smith. Aged 16, he dropped out of Manchester Grammar School, having been close to the bottom in each subject.He went into farming, first as a farm pupil and then in his own right. He was supported by his father, who had risen in a short time from a factory hand to a wealthy man. The farming enterprise cost his father £100,000 in today's money, but it was while farming that <mask> began to contribute local vignettes to the Birmingham News. Later he wrote a tongue-in-cheek book about his adventures in farming. It found few buyers, and was remaindered and pulped, though his father agreed to support him while he made his way in Grub Street as a writer. He eventually obtained a position as secretary to Jerome K. Jerome and rose to become editor of one of Jerome's magazines. After leaving Jerome he edited other journals for a publishing firm that later went bankrupt.Writing career

<mask> attained commercial and critical success with his creation of Kai Lung, an itinerant storyteller. He first appears in The Wallet of Kai Lung which was rejected by eight publishers before Grant Richards published it in 1900. It was still in print a hundred years later. The Kai Lung stories are humorous tales set in China, often with fantasy elements such as dragons and gods. With Kai Lung, <mask> invented a form of Mandarin English illustrated by the following passages:
"Kai Lung rose guardedly to his feet, with many gestures of polite assurance and having bowed several times to indicate his pacific nature, he stood in an attitude of deferential admiration. At this display the elder and less attractive of the maidens fled, uttering loud and continuous cries of apprehension to conceal the direction of her flight". "In particular, there is among this august crowd of Mandarins one Wang Yu, who has departed on three previous occasions without bestowing the reward of a single cash.If the feeble and covetous Wang Yu will place in his very ordinary bowl the price of one of his exceedingly ill-made pipes, this unworthy person will proceed." "After secretly observing the unstudied grace of her movements, the most celebrated picture-maker of the province burned the implements of his craft, and began life anew as a trainer of performing elephants." The Kai Lung stories are studded with proverbs and aphorisms, such as the following:
 "He who lacks a single tael sees many bargains"
 "It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one’s time in looking for the sacred Emperor in low-class teashops"
 "It has been said there are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice on a dark night"

<mask> also wrote political science fiction. What Might Have Been, published in 1907 and republished as The Secret of the League in 1909, is an anti-socialist dystopia reflecting <mask>'s conservative political views. It was acknowledged by George Orwell as a source for Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell credited it with giving a considerably accurate prediction of the rise of Fascism. At a time when the English Channel had yet to be crossed by an aeroplane, <mask> foresaw aerial express trains traveling at 10,000 feet, a nationwide wireless-telegraphy network, a prototype fax machine and a cypher typewriter similar to the German Enigma machine.In 1914, <mask> created Max Carrados, a blind detective. Given the outlandish idea that a blind man could be a detective, in the introduction to the second Carrados book The Eyes of Max Carrados, <mask> compared his hero's achievements to those of real-life blind people such as Nicholas Saunderson, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, Blind Jack of Knaresborough the road builder, John Fielding the Bow Street Magistrate (of whom it was said he could identify 3,000 thieves by their voices), and Helen Keller. In 1929, <mask> wrote the book "English Regal Copper Coins" which was published by Methuen. The book concentrates on British copper coinage from 1671 during the reign of Charles II until the end of pure copper coin production during Victoria's reign in 1860. The book is still used widely by numismatic auction houses throughout the world with Bramah reference numbers. The section on coin rarity as a percentage of production for each year is still considered useful to date. "Interesting times" and other quotations
<mask> has been credited with the invention of the saying, widely quoted as an ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times", along with "May you come to the attention of those in authority" and "May you find what you are looking for".However, these do not appear in the Kai Lung stories. Archives at Harry Ransom Center

<mask>'s manuscripts,correspondence and additional materials including his work for Jerome K. Jerome and as staff member at Today, The Idler (1892–1911) and the Grosvenor Press  are held at the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center. A letter of 27 April 1923 from <mask> to Grant Richards explains he had never been to China. Personal life and death
<mask> was a very private man who did not make public any details of his personal life. He was married to Lucy Maisie Smith. He died at the age of 74 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, leaving an estate valued at £15,172 (). After his death, his widow presented a collection of all his published books to the Hammersmith borough libraries, for reference use only.<mask> had lived in Hammersmith for some 30 years, not far from Ravenscourt Park. Select bibliography

Kai Lung

Books
The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900)
Kai Lung's Golden Hours (1922)
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat (1928)
The Moon of Much Gladness (1932; published in the United States as The return of Kai Lung)
The Kai Lung Omnibus (1936). Includes The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours and Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree (1940)
The Celestial Omnibus (1940; selected stories from the earlier books)
Kai Lung: Six (1974)
Kai Lung Raises His Voice (2010). Includes Kai Lung: Six, the story from The Specimen Case and four previously unpublished stories)

Max Carrados books, short stories and plays

Books
Max Carrados (1914)
The Eyes of Max Carrados (1923)
Max Carrados Mysteries (1927)
The Bravo of London (1934)
Best Max Carrados Detective Stories (1972). A selection of stories included in the collections published in <mask>'s lifetime
The Eyes of Max Carrados (2013) contains Max Carrados, The Eyes of Max Carrados, Max Carrados Mysteries and  the short story A Bunch of Violets included in The Specimen Case

Short stories
"The Master Coiner Unmasked". News of the World, 17 August 1913. Collected in Max Carrados as "The Coin of Dionysius"
"The Mystery of the Signals".News of the World, 24 and 31 August 1913. Collected in Max Carrados as "The Knights Cross Signal Problem"
"The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage". News of the World, 7 and 14 September 1913. Collected in Max Carrados
"The Clever Mrs Straithwaite". News of the World, 21 and 28 September 1913. Collected in Max Carrados
"The Great Safe Deposit Coup". News of the World, 5 and 12 October 1913.Collected in Max Carrados as "The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor"
"The Tilling Shaw Mystery". News of the World, 19 and 26 October 1913. Collected in Max Carrados
"The Secret of Dunstan's Tower". News of the World, 2 and 9 November 1913. Collected in The Eyes of Max Carrados
"The Comedy at Fountain Cottage". News of the World, 16 and 23 November 1913. Collected in Max Carrados
"The Kingsmouth German Spy Case".News of the World, 30 November and 7 December 1913. Collected in The Eyes of Max Carrados'
"The Missing Actress Sensation". News of the World, 14 December 1913. Collected in The Eyes of Max Carrados"The Virginiola Fraud". News of the World, 21 December 1913. Collected in The Eyes of Max Carrados"The Game Played in the Dark". News of the World, 28 December 1913.Collected in Max Carrados"The Bunch of Violets". Strand Magazine, July 1924. Collected in The Specimen Case"The Disappearance of Marie Severe". First published in The Eyes of Max Carrados"The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms". First published in The Eyes of Max Carrados (Also published as "Who Killed Charlie Winpole?") "The Ghost at Massingham Mansions". First published in The Eyes of Max Carrados"The Ingenious Mr Spinola".First published in The Eyes of Max Carrados"The Eastern Mystery". First published in The Eyes of Max Carrados"The Secret of Headlam Heights". The New Magazine, December 1925. Collected in Max Carrados Mysteries"The Mystery of the Vanished Petition Crown". The New Magazine, January 1926. Collected in Max Carrados Mysteries"The Crime at the House in Culver Street". The New Magazine, February 1926.Collected in Max Carrados Mysteries"The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes". The New Magazine, May 1926. Collected in Max Carrados Mysteries"The Strange Case of Cyril Bycourt". The New Magazine, June 1926. Collected in Max Carrados Mysteries"The Missing Witness Sensation". Pearson's Magazine, July 1926. Collected in Max Carrados Mysteries"The Holloway Flat Tragedy".The Story-Teller, March 1927. Collected in Max Carrados Mysteries"The Ingenious Mind of Mr Rigby Lacksome". First published in Max Carrados Mysteries"Meet Max Carrados". BBC, 3 May 1935. A profile and commentary by <mask>lind Man's Bluff. (1918).Collected in Bodies from the Library (Ed. Tony Medawar)

Stage Plays by othersIn the Dark (1917) - Gilbert Heron, adapted from The Game Played in the DarkOther fiction
BooksWhat Might Have Beeen (1900).The Mirror of Kong Ho (1905)The Secret of the League: The Story of Social War (1907). Revised version of What Might Have BeenThe Transmutation of Ling (1912)The Specimen Case  (1924), which includes a Kai Lung story and a Max Carrados story, The Bunch of VioletsShort Stories of To-day and Yesterday (1929). Includes eleven stories by <mask>A Little Flutter (1930)

Short storiesThe Story of Yung Chang. Chapman's Magazine, October 1896The Story of Kin-Yen, the Picture-Maker. Crampton's Magazine, December 1898The Duplicity of Tiao. The Woman at Home, December 1900The Impiety of Yuan Yan.Macmillan's Magazine, February 1904The Dragon of Swafton. The Graphic, Summer 1904While You Wait. The Bystander, December 1905 (a dialogue)The Heart of the Pagan. The Grand Magazine, April 1906The Goose and the Golden Egg. Grand Magazine, February 1907The War Hawks. Pall Mall Magazine, September 1909The Great Hockington Find. Pall Mall Magazine, February 1910TITLE UNKNOWN.Everybody's Magazine, July 1911The Red Splinter. Wickepin Argus, 3 April 1913The Chief Examiner. Methuen's Annual, 1914Wang-Ho and the Burial Robe. The London Mercury, September 1920Lao Ting and the Luminous Insect. The London Mercury, June 1922The Story of Kin Weng and the Miraculous Tusk. The London Mercury, June 1927The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yeng, the Picture-Maker. A two-part story: (Melbourne) Herald, 1 August 1938

Stage plays adapted by othersKai Lung's Golden Hours (1931) - Allan D MaindsThe Willow Pattern (1937) - Colonel NewtonThe Probation of Sen Heng (1937) - Adaptor unknown

Nonfiction
BooksEnglish Farming and Why I Turned It Up (1894)A Handbook for Writers and Artists: a practical guide for contributors to the press and to literary and artistic publications; by a London editor [i.e.E. B. Smith]. London: Charles William Deacon & Co., 1897A Guide to the Varieties and Rarity of English Regal Copper Coins, Charles II-Victoria, 1671–1860 (1929)

References

External links

 <mask> website (ErnestBramah.com) – unofficial
"<mask>: Crime and Chinoiserie" (Million'' magazine, 1991) at Ansible.uk

English crime fiction writers
English fantasy writers
English science fiction writers
English short story writers
People educated at Manchester Grammar School
People from Hulme
Victorian writers
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1942 deaths
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19th-century English non-fiction writers
20th-century English novelists

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Benjamin Joseph Levin (born March 8, 1988), known professionally as <mask> (stylized in all lowercase), is an American record producer, DJ, songwriter and record executive. He is the recipient of the 2013 Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a five-time BMI Songwriter of the Year award winner and 2017 iHeartRadio Producer of the Year award winner. <mask> was initially mentored by songwriter and producer Dr. Luke, who signed <mask> to his production company Kasz Money Productions. While under his tutelage, <mask> co-produced and co-wrote a multitude of hit singles in the late 2000s and thereafter. <mask> has contributed to the sale of over 500 million albums worldwide through his work with artists including Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Halsey, Katy Perry, Maroon 5, Kesha, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Sia, The Weeknd, Avicii, Selena Gomez, Adam Lambert, Charlie Puth, Keith Urban, Tory Lanez, Wiz Khalifa, Kanye West, J Balvin, and Juice Wrld. In July 2018, <mask> released his debut single as a lead artist, "Eastside" a collaboration with singer-songwriters Halsey and Khalid.The song peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, marking <mask>'s first top ten song credited as an artist and his 27th top ten song as a writer, a sum that includes seven number ones. "Eastside" was also a global success, topping the charts in New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, and peaking within the top ten of the charts in several other countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, and Norway. "Eastside" was followed by "I Found You" with Calvin Harris, "Better to Lie" with Jesse and Swae Lee, and two songs with Juice Wrld, "Roses" (also with Brendon Urie), and  "Graduation", then he released his debut album later in 2018. A deluxe version of his debut album was released in March 2021 and certified RIAA platinum on release day. Levin is also the founder of two labels in collaboration with Interscope Records, Mad Love Records and Friends Keep Secrets. Life and career

Career beginnings
<mask>, who is Jewish and a native of Northern Virginia, began producing hip-hop instrumentals in his bedroom and recording his own vocals on top of them. His first serious exposure to music came in 1994, when he was 6 years old with Nas' "The World Is Yours" and All-4-One's "I Swear" on cassette tapes, which influenced his early productions.After early experiments with beat making and recording himself on his boombox, <mask>'s rapping earned the attention of The Source and executives at Columbia Records. He attended Camp Airy for many years of his childhood in Thurmont, Maryland. <mask> eventually secured an apprenticeship with producer Disco D after multiple trips to New York City from his home in Virginia to meet with labels and producers. 2007–present
<mask> was mentored for several years by songwriter and producer Dr. Luke, who signed <mask> to his production company Kasz Money Productions. While under Dr. Luke's tutelage, <mask> co-produced and co-wrote many songs, including hits such as Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream", Kesha's "TiK ToK", and Taio Cruz's "Dynamite". In 2008, he took part in writing and producing Britney Spears' "Circus" (with Dr. Luke, and Claude Kelly). The song reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on American pop radio and is her second best-selling digital song in the United States, having sold over 3.2 million downloads as of July 2016.On a global scale, "Circus" was one of the top 10 best selling songs of 2009 with 5.5 million digital copies sold that year across the world, according to the IFPI. In 2011, <mask> wrote and produced his first charting hits without Dr. Luke, among them Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger", Gym Class Heroes' "Stereo Hearts" and 3OH!3's "Don't Trust Me". The same year, <mask> went on to work on Maroon 5's Platinum-selling album Overexposed and its lead single "Payphone" featuring Wiz Khalifa. On June 13, 2013, <mask> was presented with the Hal David Starlight Award at the 44th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony, an honor awarded to young artists who have already made an impression on the music industry. In his acceptance speech, he joked, "They picked the wrong person, I'm in a room with people I should probably be serving food to." In the years since, <mask> has amassed 29 total number-one songs and is recognized for his achievements with artists including Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, Lana Del Rey, Miguel, Halsey, and Camila Cabello. <mask> was named Producer of the Year at the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards.Artist projects
In 2007, <mask> teamed up with Baltimore rapper Spank Rock to release Spank Rock and <mask> Are...Bangers & Cash, a collaborative EP for both artists based on 2 Live Crew samples that caught the attention of many in the industry and sparked connections to future collaborators Amanda Blank and Santigold. The EP received acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and more. In July 2018, <mask> released his debut song as a standalone solo artist, "Eastside" featuring Halsey and Khalid, on his own label Friends Keep Secrets with Interscope Records. The song peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, and was also a global success, topping the charts in New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, and peaking within the top ten of the charts in several other countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, and Norway. Later in 2018, he released his second, third, and fourth singles: "I Found You" with Calvin Harris, "Better to Lie" with Jesse and Swae Lee, and "Roses" with Juice Wrld featuring Brendon Urie, respectively. His debut album Friends Keep Secrets was released on December 7, 2018. In January 2019, <mask> released "I Found You / Nilda's Story" with Calvin Harris and Miguel in conjunction with the launch of The While They Wait Fund to benefit asylum seekers in the United States, an initiative by Brooklyn Defender Services, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services and American Civil Liberties Union.The song debuted with a video directed by Jake Schreier highlighting the story of one Honduran woman, Nilda, and her two-year-old son Keyden. In February 2019, <mask> released "I Can't Get Enough" with Tainy, Selena Gomez, and J Balvin. On August 30, 2019, <mask> released a song with Juice Wrld called "Graduation", their second collaboration after "Roses". In October 2020, <mask> released his first artist collaboration with Justin Bieber titled "Lonely". The second and third singles ("Real Shit" with Juice WRLD and "Unlearn" with Gracie Abrams) followed in December 2020 and March 2021, respectively. A deluxe version of his album FRIENDS KEEP SECRETS 2 was released on March 26, 2021, and was certified RIAA platinum on the day of release. Media
On March 9, 2020, <mask> and acclaimed chef Matty Matheson debuted a new collaborative cooking show, Matty and <mask> Eat Out America, on <mask>'s YouTube channel.The first episode featured a behind-the-scenes visit to fellow YouTuber Kenny Beats's show "The Cave" where <mask> teaches Matty to rap. Additional episodes included Lil Dicky, Mason Ramsey, Diplo, Laird Hamilton and more. On April 16, 2020, <mask> made his TV debut playing a fictionalized version of himself on the first and second seasons of the FXX series Dave with Lil Dicky. On March 31, 2021, <mask> and chef Matty Matheson debuted a new cooking show on <mask>'s YouTube channel, called "Stupid F*cking Cooking Show". Record labels
In 2014, <mask> founded two imprint labels under Interscope, Mad Love Records and Friends Keep Secrets. Mad Love's releases to date include the following artists, with many of them having been initially signed to <mask>'s development imprint Friends Keep Secrets:

 Tory Lanez (former)
 Cashmere Cat
 Trill Sammy
 6dogs (former; deceased)
Ryn Weaver
 Jessie Ware

Discography

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Songwriting and production discography

<mask> has written and produced songs for artists including Ed Sheeran ("Don't" and "Castle on the Hill"), Justin Bieber ("Love Yourself"), Major Lazer ("Cold Water"), Maroon 5 ("Moves Like Jagger", "Don't Wanna Know", "Payphone", "Maps", "Animals"), Katy Perry ("Teenage Dream", "California Gurls"), Rihanna ("Diamonds"), Kesha ("TiK ToK"), Taio Cruz ("Dynamite"), Wiz Khalifa ("Work Hard, Play Hard"), Gym Class Heroes ("Stereo Hearts"), Lil Dicky ("Freaky Friday"), Tory Lanez ("Luv"). Awards and nominations

BMI Awards

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<mask> (born 10 July 1961 in Manchester) is an English radio DJ, alternative rock critic, musician, and former music businessman. He currently presents on BBC Radio 6 Music. Formerly a member of the Fall, he co-owned a record label, In-Tape, and also worked as a record plugger for bands such as Massive Attack, Pixies, Cocteau Twins and Happy Mondays. <mask> has worked in radio since about 1991; for 14 years of that he worked with Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 5 and BBC Radio 1, during which time he was known as Lard. He joined 6 Music in April 2004. Musical career
Born and raised in Manchester, <mask> was in a band at school called the Sirens with Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley (both of whom were later members of the Fall). <mask> was an early fan of the Fall, and worked for the group as a roadie.He was added to the line-up, playing bass, in May 1978. <mask>'s recording debut was the Fall's second single, "It's the New Thing", and their debut album Live at the Witch Trials. <mask> switched to guitar and keyboards in 1979 and held this position with the Fall, until he fell out with Mark E. Smith in 1982, during the group's first tour of Australia and New Zealand. <mask> was sacked by Smith – according to Smith this occurred on <mask>'s wedding day. <mask> was actually married on Christmas Eve 1982 and remained in the Fall until January 1983, when Smith met <mask> in the Old Garratt pub, Princess Street, and told him that the group was undertaking a European tour without him and should it not work out he would be asked back. <mask> is quoted as saying "Joining The Fall was the second best thing that ever happened to me in my working life. The best thing was getting kicked out".Later in 1983, <mask> began to record under the name <mask> with The Creepers (later The Creepers). Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley and Craig Scanlon, while remaining members of the Fall, played on <mask>'s first solo single, "Favourite Sister". <mask> released several albums during the following years. Animosity between Smith and <mask> continued to influence both bands' material. This included the Fall's "Hey Marc Riley" (a rewritten version of Bo Diddley's "Hey Bo Diddley"), which has only been available on live bootlegs. <mask> responded in kind with his 1983 single "Jumper Clown" – a reference to Smith's then affection for 1970s jumpers – as well as "Snipe" on the 1985 EP Shadow Figure and his own rewrite of a Bo Diddley song: "<mask> is a Gunslinger". <mask> co-owned the In-Tape label with Jim Khambatta, until it went bust in 1991, managing the label between 1983 and 1986.Between 1986 and 1989, <mask> drew and wrote the comic strips Harry the Head and Doctor Mooney for the comic Oink!, as well as recording a flexidisc single for the comic as a giveaway. The Creepers disbanded in 1987. <mask> then formed a band that included ex-members of Pere Ubu, The Magic Band and The Mekons called the Lost Soul Crusaders (named after a fictional group in an episode of the detective series 'Columbo' whose lead singer was played by one of <mask>'s heroes, Johnny Cash). However, the record company funding the band went bankrupt before any material could be recorded. In 1988, <mask> co-produced (with Jon Langford) a Johnny Cash tribute album, Til Things are Brighter, to raise funds for the Terrence Higgins Trust. Radio career
<mask> is perhaps best known as one half of the duo Mark and Lard with fellow DJ Mark Radcliffe, who together presented "Hit the North" on BBC Radio 5 (at the time a children's, comedy, and drama network). During this period <mask> also presented a programme on Radio 5 called Cult Radio, and wrote and produced a BBC Radio 1 series presented by Noddy Holder called Glitter and Twisted.Mark and Lard moved to Radio 1's 10 pm slot in 1993, followed by an unsuccessful move to the breakfast show in February 1997, and finally to the 1 pm to 3 pm slot in October that year. Their final show on the station was in March 2004. After leaving Radio 1, the duo cordially went their separate ways; <mask> moving to BBC Radio 6 Music and Radcliffe to BBC Radio 2. In 2009 Mark and Lard reformed to front radio adverts for Manchester City in North West England (<mask> is a long-time fan of the club). He currently presents the Sony Radio Academy Award-nominated 7-9pm show, Monday to Thursday on Radio 6 Music. The show features almost daily sessions from artists chosen by <mask> himself. Among the bands championed by <mask> are Metronomy, Field Music, Everything Everything, Wild Beasts, Sweet Baboo and King Creosote and more recently Ty Segall, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Thee Oh Sees.He previously presented Mint with Rob Hughes on Sunday evenings. Hughes joins <mask>'s current show on Tuesdays (The A to Z series) and Thursdays (The Parallel Universe). February 2015 saw the first episode of All Shook Up, a made-for-iPlayer 'TV' programme featuring live music presented and curated by <mask>. Series 1 is made up of four episodes, all filmed in the University of Salford studio. Episode 1 featured performances from The Wave Pictures, Slug and Lonelady. Episode 2 features Wire, Monotony and Jane Weaver, Episode 3 Teleman, Sara Lowes and Sauna Youth and Episode 4 Jesca Hoop, The Wytches and Richard Dawson. <mask>, together with Rob Hughes, wrote and presented an 'A to Z of Punk and New Wave' on 6 Music, which was then turned into a successful podcast.That was followed by the long-term project 'The A to Z of David Bowie', a commercially available podcast, which was launched on 30 January 2018 and ran for 72 episodes. <mask> and Radcliffe formed the parody group Shirehorses, once appearing at the Glastonbury Festival in 1997 in what they called the headline slot, going on as they did at 10.00am. They also did shows in various parts of the country including three dates supporting Blur. They released two comedy/parody albums under the guise of the Shirehorses: The Worst...Album in the World...Ever...EVER! (which reached number 22 in the UK Albums Chart) and Our Kid Eh, the latter an affectionate parody of Radiohead's album Kid A (which reached number 20). References

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Taylor Michael Rotunda (born May 25, 1990) is an American former professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring name <mask>. Rotunda is a third generation professional wrestler; his grandfather Blackjack Mulligan, his father Mike Rotunda and uncles Barry  and Kendall Windham were all professional wrestlers. While in WWE's developmental territories Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) and NXT, he was a three-time FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion, a two-time FCW Florida Tag Team Champion with his brother, and a one-time NXT Champion. He was promoted to WWE's main roster in 2014, where he won the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship (with Curtis Axel as part of The B-Team) and the WWE 24/7 Championship once. Early life
Rotunda attended Hernando High School, and graduated in 2008. During his final two years of high school, he qualified for the state wrestling championships.He also played football as a defensive tackle. Originally, he was offered a football scholarship at Webber International University in Babson Park, Florida, but when the offer fell through, he decided to become a wrestler instead. Professional wrestling career

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Florida Championship Wrestling (2008–2012)
In 2008, Rotunda signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and was assigned to Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), where he debuted on November 15, 2008, by defeating Kaleb O'Neal. On December 16, Rotunda, wrestling under his real name, teamed with Kris Logan to defeat Ryback and Jon Cutler in a tag team match. Throughout early 2009, Rotunda continued wrestling in tag team matches, and changed his name to Tank Rotunda in February. In June, he began wrestling as <mask> and later <mask>, and the following month he began teaming with his brother, Duke Rotundo. At the FCW television tapings on June 23, The Rotundo Brothers defeated The Dude Busters (Caylen Croft and Trent Barretta) to become the number one contenders to the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship.That same night, they defeated Justin Angel and Kris Logan for the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship. They went on to successfully defend the championship against Dylan Klein and Vance Archer and the team of Curt Hawkins and Heath Slater. At the FCW television tapings on November 19, the Rotundos lost the championship to The Dude Busters (Hawkins and Croft). In early 2010, the Rotundos began feuding with The Usos (Jimmy and Jules), and their manager, Sarona Snuka. In April, they moved into a feud with Jackson Andrews and Curt Hawkins, which began when Rotunda faced Andrews in a singles match and won by disqualification when Hawkins interfered. Rotunda was then absent from FCW due to injury, making his return in June. He moved into singles competition, defeating wrestlers including Derrick Bateman, Hawkins, Tyler Reks, and Brodus Clay.In August, FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion Mason Ryan issued an open challenge, which Rotundo accepted. He lost the subsequent championship match by submission. On February 3, 2011, Rotundo defeated Ryan to win the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship for the first time, but lost the championship to Lucky Cannon immediately afterward. He regained the championship from Cannon three months later, on May 19. In July and August, Rotundo appeared in multiple untelevised matches before Raw and SmackDown. On September 1, Rotundo vacated the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship due to injury. Later that month, it was reported that Rotundo had suffered a lacerated kidney, and was expected to be absent for several months to recuperate.Rotundo returned at the tapings of the January 29, 2012, episode of FCW television, declaring his intentions to reclaim the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship. On February 2, Rotundo and his brother, renamed Husky Harris, defeated Brad Maddox and Eli Cottonwood to win the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship for the second time. The brothers held the championship until March 15, when they lost it to Corey Graves and Jake Carter. In May 2012, Rotundo made several appearances at WWE house shows, defeating Drew McIntyre. At an FCW live event on June 16 Rotundo defeated Rick Victor to win the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship for the third time, right after Victor had just defeated Seth Rollins for the title. He re lost the title to Victor at another FCW live event on July 13, 2012. NXT (2012–2014)
In 2012, WWE rebranded FCW as NXT, Rotunda made his NXT television debut in the June 20 episode of NXT, portraying a happy-go-lucky and resilient character under the ring name <mask>, where he defeated Rick Victor.In August, <mask> competed in a tournament for the newly established NXT Championship; he was eliminated by Jinder Mahal in the quarter-finals. On the November 7 episode of NXT, <mask> competed in a number one contenders fatal four-way elimination match against Mahal, Drew McIntyre, and Justin Gabriel; despite eliminating McIntyre and Gabriel, <mask> succumbed to Mahal. On January 26, 2013, at WWE's Royal Rumble Fanfest, <mask> participated in an eight-man NXT tournament for a place in the Royal Rumble match; he defeated Luke Harper, Conor O'Brian, and Leo Kruger to win the tournament. The next day, <mask> entered the Rumble match at number 16, where he lasted over 20 minutes and eliminated the WWE Intercontinental Champion, Wade Barrett, who returned to the ring and eliminated <mask>. This provoked a brief feud, with Barrett challenging <mask> to a non-title match the next night on Raw, in which <mask> earned an upset victory. On the February 11 episode of Raw, <mask> appeared, attacking Barrett before Barrett's match against Kofi Kingston. <mask> later challenged Barrett for the Intercontinental Championship in a losing effort.Simultaneously with his feud with Barrett, <mask> entered the NXT Tag Team Championship tournament alongside Michael McGillicutty. The pair defeated Primo & Epico to advance to the semi-finals, but lost to the Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) due to Bray Wyatt's interference. In an NXT Championship number one contender's three-way match against Conor O'Brian and Corey Graves, <mask> was prevented from winning by Wyatt, due to <mask>'s earlier refusal to join The Wyatt Family. This resulted in a match between <mask> and Wyatt, which <mask> won. Starting in late April 2013, the NXT audience began to turn against <mask> (despite <mask> not changing his character) and started booing him. NXT Tag Team Champion Adrian Neville chose <mask> to replace his injured partner, Oliver Grey, but on May 8, they lost the title to The Wyatt Family. Soon after, <mask>'s character began showing subtle villainous traits of being disingenuous.On the May 29 episode of NXT, <mask> won a battle royal to become the number one contender to the NXT Championship. On the June 12 NXT (taped on May 23), <mask> defeated Big E Langston to win the title. He successfully defended the championship against Antonio Cesaro and Leo Kruger during mid-2013. By then, the NXT audience's dislike of <mask> had grown to the point of the crowd literally turning their backs on him while cheering all his opponents, regardless of who he faced, thus turning him heel in the process. In September, <mask> held an open challenge to determine his next title contender but banned Sami Zayn from competing, so Zayn masqueraded as the masked El Local and defeated <mask> to earn his title shot. The match occurred on the October 16 episode of NXT, and <mask> retained his title by sending Zayn into an exposed turnbuckle. <mask> then faced Adrian Neville in December and lost by countout to retain his title.In a rematch at NXT Arrival in February 2014, <mask> lost the title to Neville, and failed to regain it in a rematch on NXT on March 27. The following month, <mask> attempted to "Occupy NXT", but the crowd turned their backs on him, and he was forced into a match against Justin Gabriel, which he won. Beginning to throw tantrums after failing to get his own way, he was put in a match against Big E on May 22. <mask> subsequently lost the match and was forced to leave NXT as a result. In June, he attempted to return to NXT by appearing as the masked character "Mr. NXT", but was exposed by Zayn and forced to leave. <mask>lieve (2014–2016)

On the April 7 episode of Raw, WWE started airing motivational-style introductory vignettes for <mask>. On the May 23 episode of SmackDown, <mask> made his official main roster debut by defeating Sin Cara.This was the start of a winning streak, which reached a third victory with the defeat of Xavier Woods on the May 30 episode of SmackDown. <mask> made his first pay-per-view appearance at Payback, where he was scheduled to face Kofi Kingston. The match never happened due to interference from Kane. <mask> would defeat Kingston the following night on Raw for his fourth victory. <mask> continued his streak with wins over Santino Marella, Xavier Woods, R-Truth, Fandango and Titus O'Neil. <mask> attacked El Torito after his eleventh victory over Diego on the July 4 episode of SmackDown. He would go on to defeat El Torito for his twelfth victory and then defeated both Diego and Torito in a handicap match as his thirteenth and fourteenth victories.WWE released a video of <mask> highlighting the "14-<mask>" streak he acknowledged. He continued his streak against The Great Khali, Damien Sandow, and Dolph Ziggler. At Battleground, <mask> participated in the 19-man battle royal for the vacant Intercontinental Championship; he managed to eliminate Sin Cara and Titus O'Neil before being the 16th person eliminated by Dolph Ziggler. <mask>'s undefeated streak was ended by R-Truth on the July 28 episode of Raw, prompting a small feud between the two. In late August, <mask> began tormenting Jack Swagger about his loss to Rusev at SummerSlam after Swagger's matches. <mask> began feuding with Mark Henry after defeating him on the September 29 episode of Raw, tormenting him like he did Swagger following Henry's losses to Rusev at Night of Champions. On the October 7 episode of Main Event, <mask> unsuccessfully challenged Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental Championship.<mask> then scored three wins over Henry in both singles and tag team matches, before being quickly defeated by Henry in a match on the Hell in a Cell pre-show, ending their feud. After a four-month absence due to a foot injury, <mask> made his televised return on the WrestleMania 31 pre-show in March 2015, competing in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, where he was eliminated by Hideo Itami. The next night on Raw, <mask> came out and interrupted Sting, telling him to <mask>-lieve before receiving a Scorpion Death drop. On the May 18 episode of Raw, <mask> reignited his rivalry with Neville, attacking him before and after his match with King Barrett. At Elimination Chamber, <mask> faced Neville in a losing effort. On the August 24 episode of Raw, <mask> interrupted Brock Lesnar and brought up Lesnar's loss to The Undertaker at SummerSlam, before Lesnar attacked him. On the Survivor Series pre-show, <mask> competed in a five-on-five traditional Survivor Series elimination tag team match where <mask>, The Cosmic Wasteland (Stardust, Konnor and Viktor) and The Miz lost to Goldust, The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley, Neville and Titus O'Neil.At Tribute to the Troops, <mask>, dressed as Uncle Sam, lost to Mark Henry. The Social Outcasts (2016–2017)

On the January 4, 2016 episode of Raw, <mask>, along with Heath Slater, Curtis Axel and Adam Rose, debuted as a new stable and went on to assist Slater in defeating Dolph Ziggler, calling themselves "Social Outcasts". They would remain as a stable for seven months, including all of them competing in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 32, which was won by Baron Corbin. In May, The Social Outcasts began filming The Marine 5: Battleground, taking them out of action. On July 19 at the 2016 WWE draft, <mask> was drafted to Raw in the 10th round (50th overall). <mask> then returned on the September 5 episode of Raw, carrying a sign saying "Bo-lieve in Bo", speaking in rhymes and displaying a more vicious style as he defeated a local competitor. <mask> would continue defeating local competitors the following weeks.On the October 10 episode of Raw, <mask> teamed with Curtis Axel in a losing effort to Sami Zayn and Neville. The following week on Raw, <mask> defeated Neville with Axel in his corner, and after the match, attacked Axel. The following week, <mask> defeated Axel by pinning him while grabbing Axel's tights. On April 2, 2017, at WrestleMania 33, <mask> was part of the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, from which he was eliminated by the eventual winner Mojo Rawley. The Miztourage and The B-Team (2017–2019)

On the June 19 episode of Raw, Intercontinental Champion The Miz approached <mask> and Curtis Axel, offering to make them "the stars [they] deserve to be" if they become his entourage, and later that night, <mask> and Axel appeared in bear costumes during a in ring segment between Miz and his wife Maryse, attacking Dean Ambrose. <mask> and Axel, now dubbed The Miztourage, began helping Miz in his matches and occasionally teamed him with him, including winning efforts against Dean Ambrose, Heath Slater and Rhyno on June 26 episode of Raw and Jason Jordan and The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) at SummerSlam. At No Mercy, they also helped Miz to defeat Jason Jordan to retain his title.At WrestleMania 34 on April 8, 2018, <mask> participated in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, but he failed to win. As part of the Superstar Shake-Up, Miz was moved to the SmackDown brand, while <mask> and Axel remained on Raw. On the April 16 episode of Raw, during a tag team match, <mask> and Axel turned on Miz, ending their alliance. On the May 14 episode of Raw, the duo adopted the new team name "The B-Team" and defeated Breezango (Tyler Breeze and Fandango), their first win as a team since August 2017. On the June 4 episode of Raw, The B-Team won a tag team battle royal to determine the number one contenders for the Raw Tag Team Championships. At Extreme Rules, The B-Team defeated Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy to win the Raw Tag Team Championship. On the July 23 episode of Raw, they successfully retained their title against Wyatt and Hardy.In the following weeks, The B-Team transitioned into faces and adopted a new entrance theme and mannerisms, this would be <mask>' first time as a face since 2013. At SummerSlam on August 19, The B-Team successfully retained their title against The Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson). On the September 3 episode of Raw, The B-Team lost the championships to Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre, ending their reign at 50 days. The following week on Raw, they received a rematch for the titles, but they were unsuccessful. At Survivor Series, The B-Team made up part of Team Raw as they took on Team SmackDown in a  10-on-10 Survivor Series tag team elimination match, and Team Raw would go on to lose the match. At WrestleMania 35 on April 7, 2019, <mask> competed in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal but failed to win the match. As part of the Superstar Shake-up, both <mask> and Axel were moved to the SmackDown brand.On the April 30 episode of SmackDown Live, The B-Team formed a brief alliance with Shane McMahon, thus turning heel once again. On the September 3 episode of SmackDown, <mask> became the WWE 24/7 Champion by pinning Drake Maverick on the backstage area thanks to the help of Axel, only to lose it to Maverick again some minutes later. <mask>’ final match was in December 2019, when he defeated Drake Maverick. Neck injury and departure from WWE (2020-2021)

In January 2020, Rotunda asked WWE for time off, which was granted. He also suffered a neck injury which prevented him from working in the ring. On April 30, 2020, his tag team partner Curtis Axel was released by WWE. Rotunda was released almost one year later, on April 15, 2021, after over a year of absence, ending his 13-year tenure with the company.Other media
<mask> made his video game debut as a playable character in WWE 2K15, and has since appeared in WWE 2K16, WWE 2K17, WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19, WWE 2K20 and WWE 2K Battlegrounds. He also appears in the mobile game WWE SuperCard. Legal issues
On February 19, 2012, Rotunda was arrested for driving under the influence in Tampa, Florida, with blood-alcohol levels of 0.166 and 0.178 according to two breathalyser tests, above the legal limit of 0.08. He was released later that day on a $500 bond. In August 2016, Rotunda was arrested for public intoxication in Dallas, Texas after being ejected from a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Mexico City. Personal life
Rotunda's father is wrestler Mike Rotunda and his grandfather was wrestler Blackjack Mulligan, the latter being a member of the WWE Hall of Fame. His uncle is wrestler Barry Windham.Rotunda was married to Swedish arm wrestling champion Sarah Bäckman from 2014 until their divorce in 2019. In February 2021, it was revealed that he was in a relationship with fellow wrestler Liv Morgan, with the two living on a farm and starting a real estate business to prepare for life after professional wrestling. Filmography

Championships and accomplishments
 Florida Championship Wrestling
 FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
 FCW Florida Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Duke Rotundo/Husky Harris
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 Ranked No. 73 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2014
WWE
WWE Raw Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Curtis Axel
 WWE 24/7 Championship (1 time)
NXT Championship (1 time)
Royal Rumble Entry Tournament (2013)

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<mask> (; ; 10 May 1903 – 5 February 1993) was a German-born American Jewish philosopher, from 1955 to 1976 the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Biography

<mask> was born in Mönchengladbach, on 10 May 1903. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Freiburg, the University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg, and finally earned his Doctorate of Philosophy in 1928 from the University of Marburg with a thesis on Gnosticism entitled Der Begriff der Gnosis (The Concept of Gnosis) and directed by Martin Heidegger. During his study years his academic advisors included Edmund Husserl and Rudolf Bultmann. In Marburg he met Hannah Arendt, who was also pursuing her PhD there, and the two of them were to remain friends for the rest of their lives. When Heidegger joined the Nazi Party in 1933, it may have disturbed <mask>, as he was Jewish and an active Zionist. In 1964 <mask> repudiated his mentor Heidegger for his affiliation with the Nazis.He left Germany for England in 1933, and from England he moved to Palestine in 1934. There he met Lore Weiner, to whom he became betrothed. In 1940 he returned to Europe to join the British Army which had been arranging a special brigade for German Jews wanting to fight against Hitler (see The Jewish Brigade). He was sent to Italy, and in the last phase of the war moved into Germany. Thus, he kept his promise that he would return only as a soldier in the victorious army. In this time he wrote several letters to Lore about philosophy, in particular philosophy of biology, that would form the basis of his later publications on the subject. They finally married in 1943.Immediately after the war he returned to Mönchengladbach to search for his mother but found that she had been sent to the gas chambers in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Having heard this, he refused to live in Germany again. He returned to Palestine and took part in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. <mask> taught briefly at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before moving to North America. In 1950 he left for Canada, teaching at Carleton University. From there he moved in 1955 to New York City, where he was to live for the rest of his life. He was a fellow of the Hastings Center and Professor of Philosophy at New School for Social Research from 1955 to 1976 (where he was Alvin Johnson Professor).From 1982 to 1983 <mask> held the Eric Voegelin Visiting Professorship at the University of Munich. He died at his home in New Rochelle, New York, on 5 February 1993, aged 89. Philosophical work

<mask>'s writings were very influential in different spheres. For example, The Gnostic Religion, based on his early research on the Gnosis and first published in 1958, was for many years the standard work in English on the subject of Gnosticism. The Imperative of Responsibility (German 1979, English 1984) centers on social and ethical problems created by technology. <mask> insists that human survival depends on our efforts to care for our planet and its future. He formulated a new and distinctive supreme moral imperative: "Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life".While The Imperative of Responsibility has been credited with catalyzing the environmental movement in Germany, his work The Phenomenon of Life (1966) forms the philosophical undergirding of one major school of bioethics in America. Murray Bookchin and Leon Kass both referred to <mask>'s work as major, or primary, inspiration. Heavily influenced by Martin Heidegger, The Phenomenon of Life attempts to synthesize the philosophy of matter with the philosophy of mind, producing a rich existential understanding of biology, which ultimately argues for a simultaneously material and moral human nature. His writing on the history of Gnosticism revisits terrain covered by earlier standard works on the subject such as Ernesto Buonaiuti's Lo gnosticismo: storia di antiche lotte religiose (1907), interpreting the religion from an existentialist philosophical viewpoint. He was one of the first philosophers to concern himself with ethical questions in biological science. <mask>'s career is generally divided into three periods defined by his three primary works, but in reverse order: studies of gnosticism, studies of philosophical biology, and ethical studies. Works

English books
The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958)
The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology (New York, Harper & Row, 1966) OCLC 373876 (Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2001).The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of Ethics for the Technological Age (translation of Das Prinzip Verantwortung) trans. <mask> and David Herr (1979). (University of Chicago Press, 1984)
Philosophical Essays: From Ancient Creed to Technological Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974)
"Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics," Social Research 15 (Spring 1973). "Jewish and Christian Elements in Philosophy: their Share in the Emergence of the Modern Mind"
"Seventeenth Century and After: The Meaning of the Scientific and Technological Revolution"
"Socioeconomic Knowledge and Ignorance of Goals"
"Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects"
"Against the Stream: Comments on the Definition and Redefinition of Death"
"Biological Engineering—A Preview"
"Contemporary Problems in Ethics from a Jewish Perspective"
"Biological Foundations of Individuality"
"Spinoza and the Theory of Organism"
"Sight and Thought: A Review of 'Visual Thinking.'" "Change and Permanence: On the Possibility of Understanding History." "The Gnostic Syndrome: Typology of Its Thought, Imagination, and Mood." "The Hymn of the Pearl: Case Study of a Symbol, and the Claims for a Jewish Origin of Gnosticism.""Myth and Mysticism: A Study of Objectification and Interiorization in Religious Thought." "Origen's Metaphysics of Free Will, Fall, and Salvation: a 'Divine Comedy' of the Universe." "The Soul in Gnosticism and Plotinus." "The Abyss of the Will: Philosophical Meditations on the Seventh Chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans." Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz ed. Lawrence Vogel (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1996). With Stuart F Spicker: Organism, medicine, and metaphysics : essays in honor of <mask> on his 75th birthday, May 10, 1978
On faith, reason and responsibility (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1978.New edition: Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School, 1981.) Memoirs (Brandeis University Press, 2008)

English monographs
Immortality and the modern temper : the Ingersoll lecture, 1961 (Cambridge : Harvard Divinity School, 1962) OCLC 26072209 (included in The Phenomenon of Life)
Heidegger and theology (1964) OCLC 14975064 (included in The Phenomenon of Life)
Ethical aspects of experimentation with human subjects (Boston:American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1969) OCLC 19884675. German
Gnosis und spätantiker Geist (1–2, 1934–1954)
Technik, Medizin und Ethik — Zur Praxis des Prinzips Verantwortung — Frankfurt a.M. : Suhrkamp, 1985 —  (On Technology, Medicine and Ethics: On the Practice of the Imperative of Responsibility)
Das Prinzip Verantwortung: Versuch einer Ethik für die technologische Zivilisation (Frankfurt am Main : Insel-Verlag, 1979). Erinnerungen. Nach Gesprächen mit Rachel Salamander, ed. Ch. Wiese.Frankfurt am Mein-Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 2003. Macht oder Ohnmacht der Subjektivität? Das Leib-Seele-Problem im Vorfeld des Prinzips Verantwortung. Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1981, and then Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1987. Erkenntnis und Verantwortung, Gespräch mit Ingo Hermann in der Reihe "Zeugen des Jahrhunderts", Edited by I. Hermann. Göttingen: Lamuv, 1991. Philosophische Untersuchungen und metaphysische Vermutungen.Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1992, and then Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1994. Organismus und Freiheit. Ansätze zu einer philosophischen Biologie. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1973. Augustin und das paulinische Freiheitsproblem. Ein philosophischer Beitrag zur Genesis der christlich-abendländischen Freiheitsidee, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1930. Second edition entitled Augustin und das paulinische Freiheitsproblem.Eine philosophische Studie zum pelagianischen Streit, with an introduction by J. M. Robinson. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1965. French
Le concept de Dieu après Auschwitz
Evolution et liberté
Le Principe responsabilité
Le Droit de mourir
With Sabine Cornille and Philippe Ivernel: Pour une éthique du futur
Une éthique pour la nature
With Sylvie Courtine-Denamy: Entre le néant et l'éternité

Selected papers
 "The Right to Die." Hastings Center Report 8, number 4 (1978): 31–36. "Straddling the Boundaries of Theory and Practice: Recombinant DNA Research as a Case of Action in the Process of Inquiry." In Recombinant DNA: Science, Ethics and Politics, edited by J. Richards, 253–71. New York: Academic Press, 1978."Toward a Philosophy of Technology." Hastings Center Report 9 (1979): 34–43. "The Heuristics of Fear." In Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology, edited by Melvin Kranzberg, 213–21. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1980. "Parallelism and Complementarity: The Psycho-Physical Problem in Spinoza and in the Succession of Niels Bohr." In The Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, edited by Richard Kennington, 121–30.Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of the Americas Press, 1980. "Reflections on Technology, Progress and Utopia." Social Research 48 (1981): 411–55. "Technology as a Subject for Ethics." Social Research 49 (1982): 891–98. "Is Faith Still Possible? Memories of Rudolf Bultmann and Reflections on the Philosophical Aspects of His Work."Harvard Theological Review 75 (1982): 1–23. "Ontological Grounding of a Political Ethics: On the Metaphysics of Commitment to the Future of Man." Graduate Faculty Philosophical Journal 10, no. 1 (1984): 47–62. "Ethics and Biogenetic Art." Social Research 52 (1985): 491–504. "The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice."Journal of Religion 67, number 1 (1987): 1–13. "The Consumer's Responsibility." In Ecology and Ethics. A Report from the Melbu conference, 18–23 July 1990, edited by Audun 0fsti, 215–18. Trondheim: Nordland Akademi for Kunst og Vitenskap, 1992. "The Burden and Blessing of Mortality." Hastings Center Report 22, no.1 (1992): 34–40. "Philosophy at the End of the Century: A Survey of Its Past and Future." Social Research 61, number 4 (1994): 812–32. "Wissenschaft as Personal Experience [brief memoir]," The Hastings Center report 32:4 (Jul–Aug 2002): 27–35
 "Materialism and the Theory of Organism." University of Toronto Quarterly, 21, 1 (1951): 39–52. Other papers
 "Causality and Perception," The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 47, No.11 (May 25, 1950), pp. 319–324
 "The Nobility of Sight," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Jun., 1954), pp. 507–519. (also in The Phenomenon of Life)
 "Immortality and the Modern Temper: The Ingersoll Lecture, 1961" The Harvard Theological Review, volume 55, number 1 (January 1962), pp. 1–20.(also in The Phenomenon of Life)
 "The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics," The Journal of Religion, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct., 1962), pp. 262–273. "Myth and Mysticism: A Study of Objectification and Interiorization in Religious Thought," The Journal of Religion, Vol. 49, No. 4 (October 1969), pp.315–329
 "Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and the Public Interest," The Hastings Center Report, volume 6, number 4 (August 1976), pp. 15–17. See also
 Natural environment
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Further reading
 <mask>, "Wissenschaft as Personal Experience [brief memoir]," The Hastings Center report 32:4 (Jul–Aug 2002): 27–35
 Levy, David J. <mask>: The Integrity of Life. University of Missouri Press, 2002. Scodel, Harvey. "An interview with Professor <mask>," Social Research Summer 2003. Troster, Lawrence."<mask> and the Concept of God after the Holocaust," Conservative Judaism (volume 55:4, Summer 2003)
 Strachan Donnelley "<mask>, 1903–1993 [Obituary]," The Hastings Center Report 23:2 (March–April 1993), p. 12. Eric Pace: "<mask>, Influential Philosopher, Is Dead at 89," New York Times (February 6, 1993)
 David Kaufmann: "One of Most Relevant Thinkers You’ve Never Heard Of," Forward (17 October 2007)
 Stuart F. Spicker, ed. Organism, Medicine and Metaphysics. Essays in Honor of <mask>. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1978. Strachan Donnelley (editor), "The Legacy of <mask>," special issue of The Hastings Center Report 25:7 (November–December 1995). Leon R. Kass, "Appreciating The Phenomenon of Life," p. 3.Richard J. Bernstein, "Rethinking Responsibility," p. 13. Strachan Donnelley, "Bioethical Troubles: Animal Individuals and Human Organisms," p. 21. Lawrence Vogel, "Does Environmental Ethics Need a Metaphysical Grounding? ", p. 30. Christian Schütze, "The Political and Intellectual <mask>," p. 40. "Not Compassion Alone: On Euthanasia and Ethics" (interview with <mask>), p. 44. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Christian Wiese, eds., The Legacy of <mask>: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life (Brill, 2008)., Table of contents. Michael Schwartz and Osborne Wiggins, "Psychosomatic Medicine and the Philosophy of Life." Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2010, 5:2 (21 January 2010). http://www.peh-med.com/content/5/1/2
 Wiese, Christian. The Life and Thought of <mask>: Jewish Dimensions. Brandeis, 2010. External links

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<mask> (born Jon Dalton, March 11, 1974) is an American former art consultant, professional wrestler, and reality television personality. He has twice competed on the reality competition TV show Survivor, coming in third place on the seventh season, Survivor: Pearl Islands and coming in last at twentieth place on the sixteenth season, Survivor: Micronesia. Early life
Jon Dalton was born March 11, 1974, and is originally from Danville, Virginia. He attended George Washington High School, and subsequently attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute. After college, he moved to Washington, D.C. and Portland, Oregon before settling in Los Angeles. Reality television

Survivor: Pearl Islands
On Survivor: Pearl Islands, Dalton constructed what host Jeff Probst called "the greatest lie in Survivor history." Prior to leaving for Panama to compete on the show, Dalton concocted a plan with a close friend of his named Dan, whom Dalton had designated to participate in a challenge that would involve contestants' loved ones.To generate sympathy for Dalton and give him an advantage in the game, Dan would dishonestly inform Dalton that his grandmother had died. In the season's eleventh episode, Dan did so in front of the remaining competitors, who allowed a seemingly distraught Dalton to win the challenge in order to give him the opportunity to spend time with Dan and obtain more information about his grandmother's alleged death. Though the remaining contestants would not discover the truth until after the season had completed filming, it was quickly revealed to the television audience that Dalton's grandmother had not died but was, in fact, at home "watching Jerry Springer". Probst also publicly said:

Danny Bonaduce altercation
On October 2, 2007, at the Fox Reality Really Awards, Dalton was invited to present an award and was loudly booed by the audience while speaking on stage. Actor and political commentator Danny Bonaduce approached Dalton on stage and said, "They're booing because they hate you." As Bonaduce then began walking away, Dalton followed and leaped on top of him, causing Bonaduce to react by flipping Dalton over his head and dropping him to the floor hard on his face. Dalton immediately left the stage, visibly bleeding from his face and allegedly losing a number of teeth.In an interview with website TMZ soon after, Dalton stated that he had filed a police report over the incident and that authorities were waiting to review video of the incident before pressing battery charges against Bonaduce. On October 5, 2007, three days after the incident, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Boxer announced that Bonaduce would not be facing charges, stating that there was "insufficient evidence" that Bonaduce's actions were criminal. Boxer noted that Bonaduce's actions "fell within the realm of self-defense", as Dalton had initiated the physical conflict. At the 2008 Fox Reality Really Awards, Dalton and Bonaduce appeared together onstage and joked about the previous year's incident. In a scripted scene, Dalton kissed Bonaduce on the lips, and Bonaduce subsequently spit an object out of his mouth which he joked was another one of Dalton's teeth. Survivor: Micronesia
On January 3, 2008, it was announced that Fairplay was the only pre-All-Stars castaway who accepted an offer to join the tribe of returning contestants in Survivor: Micronesia — Fans vs. Favorites, the show's 16th season.However, <mask> asked his tribe to vote him off in the first episode so that he could return to his pregnant girlfriend. Subsequent Survivor appearances
<mask> did not participate in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains in 2010. When asked about the reason for this, Jeff Probst remarked, "The reason that <mask> isn't here is that this season is called Heroes vs. Villains, not Survivor Quitters." <mask> acknowledged in a 2010 interview that there is animosity between himself and Probst, stating, "It's no secret that Jeff Probst hates me, and I don't go out of my way to be his friend either." In 2013, <mask> was inducted into the Xfinity "Survivor Hall of Fame," alongside Kim Spradlin and John Cochran. <mask> was the only non-winner inducted into the Class of 2013. Other appearances
Dalton and his wife Michelle appeared on The Celebrity Newlywed Game, on which he beat the Monkees' Davy Jones and his wife; as well as on Dr. Phil in an episode titled 'Reality TV Stars' Real Life Drama' .He has also appeared on Celebrity Poker Showdown, Celebrity Fear Factor, Pawn Stars, and Camp Reality. Dalton is also under contract with Wizard World to appear at its comic book conventions. Professional wrestling
Dalton started in professional wrestling in 1998 in North Carolina and then moved to Oregon where, as <mask> <mask>, he started his own promotion, New Dimension Wrestling (not to be confused with a similarly named Carolinas' promotion with which he claimed to be affiliated). There he served as promoter and commentator. During this time, he also ran his own weekly online professional wrestling radio talk show, having various wrestlers on as guest commentators. He worked as a personal assistant for the professional wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper for a year and a half prior to Survivor. After his first Survivor appearance, Dalton was signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he appeared under the <mask> <mask> moniker.In mid January, promo began airing hyping his debut in the company. He made his debut on January 21, but was interrupted by A.J. Styles. The two feuded for several weeks, and on February 25, <mask> brought in Lex Luger to get revenge on Styles and cost him the NWA World Tag Team Championship. He made brief, non-wrestling appearances in 2005 at both Final Resolution and Destination X. On October 7, 2006, <mask> was defeated by Molly Holly after a low blow and quick pin fall at a WCWA event. One month later, <mask> and the Hardkore Kidd defeated Frankie Kazarian.Dalton also made an appearance in Ring of Honor, an American professional wrestling promotion, on March 31, 2007, in Detroit, Michigan. On April 1, 2011, <mask> made an appearance for Dragon Gate USA, endorsing Jimmy Rave as the promotion's next breakout star. After Rave was defeated in a match by Arik Cannon, <mask> entered the ring, confronted Cannon and got on the receiving end of his finishing maneuver, Total Anarchy. On May 3, 2011, <mask> <mask> appeared on the debut televised event of WFX Wrestling in a backstage scene in which he swindled U-Gene out of pocket money with a trick reminiscent of his famous Survivor lie. The following week <mask> convinced U-Gene to sign a contract making <mask> his 'manager slash best friend' promising to make him the biggest star in reality television. On the third episode of Overload, <mask> is overheard by U-Gene while bragging about having stole all of his money. After chasing <mask> to ringside, U-Gene was physically attacked by <mask> before he revealed he had used his money to help male bodybuilder and former Big Brother contestant Jessie Godderz join the roster of WFX.Starting in May 2014, <mask> has appeared in the West Coast Wrestling Connection as the on-screen manager of Ashton Vuitton. Personal life
As of March 2021, Dalton lives in his native Danville, Virginia. Dalton and his girlfriend, Michelle Deighton, a contestant from WWE's Tough Enough 2011 and the fourth season of America's Next Top Model, had a daughter born in 2008, and lived in Providence, North Carolina. Dalton announced that he was separating from Deighton on June 28, 2011, via Twitter. On December 18, 2020, Dalton and his mother Patsy Hall were arrested on larceny charges. According to the Danville, Virginia Police Department's report, they were accused of stealing jewelry and furniture valued at $5,000 from Dalton's grandmother, Jean Cook, following a criminal complaint filed by Dalton's disgruntled aunt. Charges against both people were dismissed due to insufficient evidence on March 25, 2021.Filmography
West Coast Wrestling Connection (2014–present)
Judge Alex (October 31, 2012)
WFX Overload (2011–present)
I Love the New Millennium (2008)
Survivor: Micronesia (2008)
Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge (2007)Judge Mathis (February 2, 2007)Fear Factor Episodes: Reality Stars: Parts 1 and 2 (2006)True Life Episode: I'm a Reality Star (2006)Celebrity Poker Showdown (2005)Inked, Season One, Episode 15 (Trouble In Paradise) (2005) as himselfThe Scorned (2005) as D.Q.Kill Reality (2005)The Daily Buzz (October 27, 2004)50 Most Outrageous TV Moments (2004)Survivor: Pearl Islands (2003)

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Michael "Doc" <mask> (born August 1, 1946) is an American former network television play-by-play sportscaster and commentator noted mostly for his work in ice hockey. He was the lead announcer for National Hockey League national telecasts on both NBC and NBCSN. Among the many awards <mask> has received is the NHL's Lester Patrick Award in 2004, making him the first of only five to have received the award for media work, and the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008. He has also won nine national Emmy Awards for excellence in sports broadcasting, the only hockey broadcaster to be honored with even one. On December 12, 2011, <mask> became the first member of the media to be inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2017, Sports Illustrated listed <mask> as the sportscaster of the year. Biography

Background
<mask> earned a B.Sc.in speech from Manchester University in 1968 and a M.A. in radio/television from Miami University in 1969. He then received a Ph.D. in communications (radio/television/film) from Bowling Green State University in 1976, hence his nickname, "Doc". <mask> taught speech and broadcasting at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1971 and got his first experience of the NHL covering the Pittsburgh Penguins as an unpaid correspondent for The Beaver County Times newspaper. Broadcasting career
<mask> began sportscasting professionally in 1973 when he was hired by Port Huron Flags' GM Morris Snider to do play-by-play on WHLS radio and public relations for the IHL team. In 1977, he took on the same two roles with the first year AHL Maine Mariners for three seasons (broadcasting that club's Calder Cup championships in both 1978 and 1979). <mask> then served as the New Jersey Devils' first voice after moving to the state, arriving for the 1982–83 NHL season, and stayed there until 1986.<mask> wore several hats in the 1980s working for the Philadelphia Flyers. He was a spot announcer for Flyers home broadcasts from 1983 to 1986, then was an in-studio analyst between 1986-88 when not covering national games. <mask> was promoted to the lead play-by-play slot for both local TV and cable for the team in 1988, remaining with the Flyers until the end of the 1992-93 season. For four of those years, <mask> was paired with former NHLer and national hockey broadcaster Bill Clement. In 1993, he returned to the Devils to replace Gary Thorne and continued to be the Devils' voice until July 2011. He announced the Devils' 1995 Stanley Cup victory alongside color commentator John Davidson for the national United States broadcast on Fox. National work
<mask> has also done play-by-play for CBS, NBC (and its cable network subsidiary NBC Sports Network, formerly OLN and Versus), ABC, TNT, ESPN, Fox, CSTV, SportsChannel America, SportsChannel Philadelphia, PRISM, Fox Sports Net, and others.He was the lead play-by-play announcer for The NHL on ESPN from 1986 to 1988 alongside lead color commentator Bill Clement. His first national over-the-air television work came in 1992 doing ice hockey at the XVI Winter Olympic Games at Albertville, France, for CBS. <mask> became the lead play-by-play announcer for the NHL on Fox, calling regular-season games and Stanley Cup Finals from 1995 to 1999. After Fox relinquished the NHL broadcast rights to ABC, he became a regional announcer for NHL on ABC from 2000 to 2004. He only called select playoff games at the time, but he did file reports for ABC Sports and ESPN's Stanley Cup Finals coverage. Before the 2005–06 NHL season, he was named the lead play-by-play announcer for the NHL on Versus (previously The NHL on OLN) and the NHL on NBC, and since 2008, has served as an overall host of the telecast. He called the top Conference Final and the entire Stanley Cup Finals for both networks.He has called games in 22 Stanley Cup Finals on TV (for NBC, ESPN, Fox, Versus and OLN), more than any other American broadcaster. He has also called 14 NHL All-Star Games for NBC, Fox, OLN, VERSUS and ESPN. <mask> called the 1996 World Cup of Hockey for the Prime Network and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey for ESPN. <mask> has worked five Olympic Games for NBC. He has also worked during the Olympics, twice for CBS and once for TNT. For NBC, he called water polo in the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics, and men's and women's ice hockey at the 2006, 2010 and the 2014 Winter Olympics alongside Eddie Olczyk and "Inside-the-Glass" reporter Pierre McGuire. With CBS, he called some National Football League and men's NCAA basketball tournament games.One notable assignment for <mask> was the first game for Brett Favre as a member of the Green Bay Packers, including the first pass Favre ever threw as a Packer, which ended up being to himself. <mask> also called the National Lacrosse League All-Star Game and Championship Game while at NBC. On July 21, 2011, <mask> announced that he was leaving the New Jersey Devils to work exclusively for NBC Sports. In the beginning of the 2011-12 season, Steve Cangialosi replaced him for play-by-play duties for the Devils. On May 5, 2014, EA Sports announced that <mask> would provide play-by-play commentary for NHL 15 along color commentator Eddie Olczyk and "Inside-the-Glass" reporter Ray Ferraro. The trio provided commentary for every EA Sports NHL game until NHL 20, when he was replaced by James Cybulski. Beginning in the 2018–19 NHL season, "Inside-the-Glass" reporter Brian Boucher joined <mask>, Olczyk, and McGuire for national games.Retirement
On October 19, 2020, following a season calling hockey games remotely from his home in Michigan due to restrictions imposed by the national outbreak of coronavirus disease, <mask> announced his retirement from broadcasting.Stephen Whyno, "Announcer <mask> Retires After Fifty Years," Newark Star-Ledger, October 20, 2020, p. B3. At the time of his retirement, <mask> released a video essay in which he declared:

Things change over 50 years, but much of what I love is unchanged from then to now and into the years ahead. I still get chills seeing the Stanley Cup. I especially love when the horn sounds, and one team has won and another team hasn’t, all hostility can dissolve into the timeless great display of
sportsmanship – the handshake line.... I leave you with sincere thanks. Kenny Albert succeeded <mask> for what would ultimately become NBC's final season broadcasting the NHL before the American national television rights moved over to ABC/ESPN and Turner Sports. NBC's final NHL telecast was Game 5 of the 2021 Stanley Cup Finals on July 7.Following the end of the subsequent postgame coverage on NBCSN, the network aired a 13-minute video montage, narrated by <mask> (who had taken the role as a contributor in the final NHL on NBC season), discussing various innovations that NBC had brought to their NHL coverage over the past 15 seasons as well as highlights and human interest stories that had occurred along the way as well. At the end of the video, <mask> signed off for NBC's coverage with the following:

National Football League
As previously mentioned, <mask> called a handful of NFL games for CBS in 1992 and 1993. <mask> was paired on commentary with Matt Millen in 1992 and Hank Stram in 1993 and Week 5 of the 1992 season. Notably, <mask> was the announcer for Brett Favre's first NFL start in 1992 (Packers/Buccaneers), wherein Favre's first completed pass was deflected to himself. Honors
 1997 National CableACE Award for best play-by-play announcer. 2004  Lester Patrick Trophy. 2008 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award
Nine-time Sports Emmy Award winner - Outstanding Sports Personality, Play-by-Play
Five-time  New York Regional Emmy Award winner for his play-by-play work of New Jersey Devils telecasts on the MSG Network.Four-time NSMA Sportscaster of the Year
NSMA Hall of Fame (class of 2019)
2014 Sports Illustrated Sports Media "Person of the Year"

Style
The Devils' broadcasting pair of <mask> and color commentator Glenn "Chico" Resch were noted for their ability to break the tension of a hockey game through various types of humor, many times improvised and unintentional. For example, in a game during the 2008–09 NHL season, Resch was discussing a rebound that came off Devils netminder Scott Clemmensen:

Other recurring comedic bits arise during games. After <mask> or Resch analyzes the play of a goaltender, if <mask> feels that Resch is sympathizing towards the goalie due to his former play at the same position, <mask> will add a sarcastic comment which talks about the glory of goaltending and how they are "by far" the most important players in the game. Another comedic bit that is shared between <mask> and Resch is when <mask> will ask Resch where a particular town or city in Canada is located when they talk about a player's home town. In the event of an odd play or bounce of the puck, <mask> has cited "the unseen hand," as the culprit, which always gets a laugh from Resch. However, <mask>'s most famous and unique saying is "my goodness" usually being said when there is a remarkable save by a goaltender or when there is a sequence of plays having high amounts of "energy" on the ice. <mask>'s knowledge of the game of hockey has been deemed "encyclopedic", and he is known for his eloquent vocabulary.He employs an unusual vocabulary to describe play-by-play action, referring to a goaltender's equipment as "paraphernalia", for instance. Often, during line changes or zone clearings, <mask> will discuss interesting facts about a player's personal life, hockey records, or contributions to sports. In addition, sportswriter Peter King has praised <mask> by saying "<mask> is one hell of a hockey announcer. If hockey were big in this country, he'd be what Jack Buck used to be." Miscellaneous
<mask> is a founding member, and still president, of the NHL Pronunciation Guide, which is used as a guide for all NHL broadcasters for some of hockey's most difficult names. He is Vice President of the NHL Broadcaster's Association, and he is also a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Selection Committee. <mask> also hosted a weekly podcast on iTunes called "<mask>'s Angle" which offers his current thoughts on the NHL.<mask> is an avid Pittsburgh Pirates fan. He grew up listening to Bob Prince on KDKA Radio. He attended a game in which Garrett Jones became the first Pirates player to hit a home run into the Allegheny River on the fly. On June 11, 2014, he was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered by Melissa Block discussing his career and style. In 2016, <mask> attended Pirates spring training in Bradenton, Florida and called a few innings of one game on television and radio with Pirates broadcasters Greg Brown and John Wehner. On July 8, 2016, <mask> called his first MLB regular-season game at PNC Park, when the Pirates hosted the Chicago Cubs for MLB Network. The Pirates won the game, 8–4, with <mask> calling some of the action with Bob Costas.When his NBC broadcast schedule permitted, <mask> travelled to Hershey, Pennsylvania, each year to announce the Hershey Bears' Hall of Fame inductees. He has also voiced the narration for the American Hockey League Hall of Fame's induction videos, and returned to Hershey in 2011 to serve as TV play-by-play voice for the AHL All-Star Game. Personal life

Doc lives in St. Clair, Michigan with his wife Joyce. They have no children, and spend time with their dogs and six horses. <mask> is a Christian. <mask> is a cancer survivor, having been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1991. References

External links

 "Hockey's Great Voices Echo Through Generations" at NHL.com.Retrieved 10–20–06. <mask> - Lead NHL on NBC Play-by-Play Announcer Profile. 1946 births
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<mask> (born 1957) is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at UCLA. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and obtained his Master of Science degree in Physical Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. In 1984, he obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology where he was also a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Seymour Benzer from 1984-1988. <mask> joined UCLA in 1988 as an Assistant Professor and attained the rank of Full Professor in 1994 in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology. He became Vice-Chair of that department in 1998, Chair in 2001 until 2017, and the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Life Science in 2009. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine and is also Co-Director of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center. <mask> teaches courses in genetics that encourage undergraduates to participate in research and he is the Director of the UCLA Interdepartmental Minor in Biomedical Research.He has also taught many genetics and developmental biology classes to undergraduate and graduate students. He is among 20 professors nationally to be awarded a $1 million grant by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to creatively improve undergraduate science teaching. Honors and awards
<mask> was elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018); Director, Genetics Society of America Board of Directors (2010); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008); President of the Drosophila Board, Genetics Society of America (2008). He also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2014. He was awarded the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, National Institutes of Health (2011); Professors Award, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2010, 2006, 2002); Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education, Genetics Society of America (2010); Professor Mager Memorial Lecturer, University of Jerusalem, Israel (2004); Deans’ Recognition Award, UCLA (2003); Gold Shield Faculty Prize, UCLA (2000); One of the Top 20 Professors of the Bruin Century, UCLA Today (2000); Kalfayan Memorial Lecture, University of North Carolina (1999); Margaret E. Early Medical Research Trust Award (1998); Harriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA (1997); Eby Award for the Art of Teaching, UCLA (1997); Investigator Award, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience (1996); Faculty Research Award, American Cancer Society (1993); Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Biology, UCLA (1992); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award (1990–1992); McKnight Foundation Scholars Award (1989); Life Sciences Research Foundation Award Burroughs Wellcome Fund Fellow (1986–1988); Del E. Webb Postdoctoral Fellowship (1983–1986); Certificate of Merit, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1977 1978); Sheshadri Memorial Award of the Delhi University (1977); National Paper Reading Prize (1976); National Science Talent Award (1974). Banerjee is the third highest salaried professor at a public university in the state of California. Research
Earlier work from Banerjee’s laboratory identified the Son of sevenless (Sos) gene that links RTKs to the oncogene Ras.His laboratory has also identified novel means by which different signal transduction cascades combine to distinguish between neural and non-neural cell types. They have also made critical discoveries in identifying transcription factors and signaling components that are responsible for hematopoiesis in Drosophila. Blood Stem Cell Maintenance
<mask>’s research focuses on the maintenance of blood stem cells, specifically hematopoietic stem cells that are maintained within a microenvironment where signals from a niche are important for the maintenance of quiescence within a precursor population. Lack of such a niche-derived signal will cause loss of "stemness," resulting in increased proliferation and eventual differentiation. His research examines this phenomenon in the Drosophila hematopoietic organ using genetic technologies available in this model organism. Results from <mask>’s lab have shown that the "stemness" of these cells is maintained through the combined action of a Niche Signal, that is generated by Hedgehog (Hh), a local signal generated by Wingless/Wnt and a reverse signal from the differentiated cells to the stem cells. His team has termed this combined action the Equilibrium Signal.Several important concepts underlying Drosophila blood development have allowed them to propose this system as an appropriate genetic model for vertebrate hematopoiesis, and these molecular mechanisms are being explored in the laboratory. Stress Response systems
<mask>’s studies have led to the investigation of multiple stress response systems. Myeloid blood cells are ideal for the study of response to many kinds of stresses. Hypoxia-related factors and free radicals known as reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a role both in hematopoietic development and in stress response. Similarly, his lab has found that the NF-κB derived inflammatory response plays a major role in the way blood cells respond to injury at distant sites. <mask>’s emerging view from these studies is that basic developmental mechanisms are co-opted again for stress, injury and inflammatory responses by the myeloid hematopoietic system. Genetic analysis will allow his team to understand the interrelationship between these important biological phenomena that have great relevance to diseases and disorders in humans.Metabolic control in Cancer pathways
<mask> and his researchers are also interested in the study of metabolic control in cancer pathways. In the past, his lab has identified components of signal transduction pathways that participate in oncogenesis. In addition, they have examined the role of the mitochondrion in controlling cell cycle, particularly that when cells become transformed they choose alternate means of metabolism (a phenomenon referred to as the Warburg effect). Also of interest to <mask> and his team is studying the effect of signal transduction pathways on the control of cellular metabolism and the proper balance between cellular growth and metabolism that goes awry in cancer. References

External links
Banerjee Lab website
UCLA ACCESS Faculty Profile

American people of Indian descent
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
1957 births
Living people
St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni
IIT Kanpur alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
Indian molecular biologists
Developmental biologists
Indian cell biologists
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Howard Hughes Medical Investigators
Scientists from Delhi
20th-century Indian biologists
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences

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