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<mask> (March 29, 1882 – November 26, 1960) was a Democratic politician from Mississippi who served sixteen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1921 to 1953. He was co-author of the bill for the Tennessee Valley Authority and from 1933 to 1936 he supported the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which brought investment and jobs to the South. After 1937 he was active in the Conservative Coalition that largely controlled domestic policy. Rankin proposed a bill to prohibit interracial marriage and opposed a bill to prohibit state use of the poll tax, which southern states had used since the turn of the century to disenfranchise most blacks and many poor whites. He used his power to support segregation and deny federal benefits programs to African Americans. For instance, in 1944, following the Port Chicago disaster, the U.S. Navy asked Congress to authorize payments of $5,000 to each of the victims' families. But when Rankin learned most of the dead were black sailors, he insisted the amount be reduced to $2,000; Congress settled the amount at $3,000 per family.He was the main House sponsor of the G.I. Bill. <mask> insisted that its administration be decentralized, which led to continued discrimination against black veterans in the South and their virtual exclusion from one of the most important postwar programs to build social capital among United States residents. In the South, black veterans were excluded from loans, training and employment assistance. The historically black colleges were underfunded and could accept only about half the men who wanted to enroll. On the floor of the House, <mask> expressed racist views of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Jews, accusing <mask> of being a communist agitator. During World War II, <mask> supported a bill to incarcerate all Japanese Americans in the US and its territories in camps; almost all ethnic Japanese on the West Coast were incarcerated in inland camps.In the late 20th century, Congress authorized payment of reparations to survivors and their descendants. Early life
<mask> was born near Bolands in Itawamba County, Mississippi to a family that had planter ancestors with large holdings before the Civil War. His parents were Thomas Braxton <mask>, a schoolteacher and resident of Tupelo, and Venola Modeste (née Rutledge), born in Arkansas as the daughter of Robert Rutledge and <mask> (née Conoway) Rutledge. His paternal ancestors had come to Mississippi from South Carolina in 1840. After attending local schools and a normal school, <mask> attended college, graduating from the University of Mississippi law school in 1910. He established a practice in Clay County near where he grew up. He married Annie Laurie Burrous; the couple had a daughter, Annie Laurie <mask>.He became prosecuting attorney of Lee County in 1912, a position he held until 1915. Military service
Rankin served in the United States Army during World War I. Political career

Election to Congress
In 1920, <mask> was elected to the House as a Democrat. Since passage of a new constitution in 1890 that effectively disenfranchised African Americans, Mississippi had become a one-party state dominated by Democrats. <mask> served sixteen consecutive terms (March 4, 1921 – January 3, 1953) as Mississippi's First District Representative. Appointed to the Census Committee as a freshman congressman, <mask> played an important role in opposing a reapportionment bill that would have reduced the representation of Mississippi, as well as one to reduce the overall representation of the South. Both bills were based on the fact that Southern states had disenfranchised most of their black voters but kept apportionment based on total population in each state, resulting in outsize representation for their white populations.The powerful Democrats consistently defeated northern representatives' effort to reduce southern apportionment. <mask> coauthored the bill to create the Tennessee Valley Authority, bringing major investment into the rural South. He was a supporter of the Rural Electrification Administration under President Roosevelt's administration, which also benefited many Southerners. He strongly supported Roosevelt's New Deal and advocated economic intervention in poor rural communities, but expected that most benefits would flow to southern whites. He supported racial segregation and opposed civil rights legislation. After 1937, he became active in the Conservative Coalition that largely controlled domestic policy. <mask> opposed the creation of the UN, stating, "The United Nations is the greatest fraud in all History.Its purpose is to destroy the United States." Veteran's affairs
<mask> chaired the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation (Seventy-second through Seventy-ninth Congresses)) and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses). In  the first role he was the main House sponsor of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. <mask> says it was <mask> "who served as the primary force behind the version of the bill that actually got passed into law." He insisted on a provision that the federal program would be administered in a decentralized manner by the states. This ensured that southern states could continue to practice discrimination against black veterans.According to historian Gavin Wright, "In a comprehensive econometric analysis, Sarah Turner and <mask> find that although the GI Bill had substantial positive benefits for black and white veterans outside the South, those from the South made no significant gains in educational attainment." Rankin sought to prevent the desegregation of VA hospitals. He argued for treating black veterans in rural, isolated all-black hospitals. House Un-American Activities Committee
<mask> helped establish the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) as a standing committee in Congress in February 1945 by leading the conservative  coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. In the postwar years, he was active in probing the Communist Party, USA. He was criticized for failing to investigate violence and murder perpetrated by chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. After HUAC's chief counsel <mask> announced: "The committee has decided that it lacks sufficient data on which to base a probe," Rankin added: "After all, the KKK is an old American institution."Bigotry

African Americans
<mask> introduced a bill in 1920 to prohibit interracial marriage. During that decade, he opposed bills to make lynching a federal crime; although such a bill overwhelmingly passed the House, it was not approved by the Senate. In these positions, he was similar to other southern Democrats: he opposed other bills to support African American civil rights, such as any efforts toward desegregation and the elimination of poll taxes for federal elections. Poll taxes had been used by southern states to disfranchise most blacks and many poor whites since the turn of the century. <mask> argued that equal opportunity hiring practices (as required by the Roosevelt administration for defense contractors) "persecuted" whites, anti-lynching bills encouraged rape, and racial equality would destroy "the white man's civilization throughout the world." During World War II, <mask> alleged that the U.S. Army's loss of a certain battle was due to the cowardice of black soldiers. Fellow Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas replied that many black soldiers had been decorated for bravery despite serving in a segregated Army.<mask> was known to use the slur "nigger" on the floor of the House. When African American Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was elected to Congress from New York in 1944, <mask> vowed to avoid sitting next to him. In 1945, Powell, a fellow Democrat, called for <mask>'s impeachment. Although freshmen congressmen were expected not to speak during their first year in office, Powell rose after one of <mask>'s outbursts to say that "the time has arrived to impeach Rankin, or at least expel him from the party." During a debate about the 1949 Peekskill Riots in Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York, <mask> again used the word "nigger" while addressing the House. Violence had erupted after a racist mob of white anti-communists attacked people leaving a concert where the African American singer and political radical Paul Robeson had been performing. Rankin condemned Robeson for inciting the trouble because of his civil rights activism.The next person to speak was Representative Jacob Javits (R-New York) who instead condemned the white mob in Peekskill for violating constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and free assembly. Angered by these comments, <mask> bellowed, "It was not surprising to hear the gentleman from New York defend the Communist enclave." He then wanted it known that the American people are not in sympathy "with that nigger Communist and that bunch of Reds who went up there." On a point of order, Representative Vito Marcantonio (R-New York) protested to House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) that "the gentleman from Mississippi used the word 'nigger.' I ask that the word be taken down and stricken from the RECORD inasmuch as there are two members in this house of Negro race." Rayburn claimed that Rankin had not said "nigger" but "Negro"; but Rankin yelled over him, saying "I said Niggra! Just as I have said since I have been able to talk and shall continue to say."Speaker Rayburn defended Rankin, ruling that "the gentleman from Mississippi is not subject to a point of order... referred to the Negro race and they should not be afraid of that designation." American Jews
Rankin was antisemitic and frequently combined racism against African Americans with invective against American Jews. In a 1943 speech on the floor of the House quoted in both The Jewish News of Detroit and the antisemitic magazine The Defender of Wichita he said,

In a paper by William L. Strickland, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he observes that "Rankin was an equal opportunity bigot" as he once—on the floor of the House of Representatives—called the Jewish newspaper columnist Walter Winchell "the little kike." This incident, reported by Time magazine in its February 14, 1944 issue, inspired the novelist Laura Z. Hobson to write her story about antisemitism, Gentleman's Agreement (1947). Rankin claimed that the Immigration and Nationality Act was opposed solely by American Jews:
They whine about discrimination. Do you know who is being discriminated against? The white Christian people of America, the ones who created this nation ...I am talking about the white Christian people of the North as well as the South ... Communism is racial. A racial minority seized control in Russia and in all her satellite countries, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, and many other countries I could name. They have been run out of practically every country in Europe in the years gone by, and if they keep stirring race trouble in this country and trying to force their communistic program on the Christian people of America, there is no telling what will happen to them here. In late 1945, <mask> backed calls for the United States to break off diplomatic relations with Spain's leader Francisco Franco, because the Spanish dictator had been an ally of Adolf Hitler. Rankin condemned <mask> on the floor of Congress, calling him a "foreign-born agitator" who sought "to further the spread of Communism throughout the world." An article in an ADL Bulletin, entitled "The Plot Against Anna M. Rosenberg", attributed the attacks on Rosenberg's loyalty to "professional anti-Semites and lunatic nationalists," including the "Jew-baiting cabal of <mask>, Benjamin H. Freedman and Gerald Smith."During the 1951 espionage trial of Julius and <mask>, who were charged and convicted of passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, <mask> was condemned by Jewish groups for repeatedly calling the Rosenbergs a pair of "communist kikes". Japanese Americans
In his first term as representative, <mask> introduced an anti-miscegenation bill to prevent whites from marrying "Mongolians" and African Americans. A decade later, in 1930 he lobbied against Hawaii's bid for statehood on the grounds that it would add "two Jap senators" to Congress. <mask> was one of the few Southern congressmen to support West Coast politicians and lobbyists calling for the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans, proposing that every person of Japanese ancestry in the United States be deported at the end of the war. He reintroduced a defeated "concentration camp bill" to remove ethnic Japanese from the country and all U.S. territories. (Most ethnic Japanese Americans were removed from the West Coast.) As the war progressed, he continued to speak out against Japanese Americans, testifying in favor of labeling Japanese and African American blood donations to prevent them from "contaminating" white recipients and limiting the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team to labor battalions instead of active combat.Senatorial aspirations
In 1947 <mask> ran for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate that was vacated by the death of Theodore G. Bilbo in office. He finished last among five major candidates with 13% of the vote. Final years and death
In 1952, <mask> was defeated for re-election to the House by Congressman Thomas G. Abernethy, also a Democrat, after their districts were joined through redistricting. At that time, most blacks in Mississippi were still disenfranchised, a status that would persist until after Congressional passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. <mask> died at his home in Tupelo on November 26, 1960. He is interred in Greenwood Cemetery in West Point, Mississippi. See also
 List of members of the House Un-American Activities Committee

References

Citations

Further reading

Katznelson, Ira.When Affirmative Action Was White, New York: W.W. Norton, 2005, pp. 113–40
Onkst, David H. "First a Negro...Incidentally a Veteran: Black World War II Veterans and the GI Bill in the Deep South, 1944-1948", Journal of Southern History 31 (1998), pp. 517–43
Turner, Sarah J. and <mask>. "Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the GI Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans", Journal of Economic History 63 (2003), pp. 145–77, via JSTOR
Vickers, Kenneth Wayne. "<mask>in: Democrat and Demagogue." M. A. Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1993.Whayne, Jeannie H. A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas, pp. 167, 175, 216 (about administration of federal programs), University of Virginia Press, 1996

External links

 Historical Highlights History.House.gov
 The University of Southern Mississippi Manuscript Collection

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<mask> (October 15, 1911 – April 18, 1981) was an American science fiction writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents. Life
<mask> was educated at a Realgymnasium in Hamburg, and grew up speaking both English and German. The family spent World War I in the United States, then returned to Germany. <mask> traveled to Chicago in 1930 to go to business school, then switched to a correspondence course in journalism. Unable to find a job because of the Great Depression, he returned to Germany to work with his father's company. <mask> lived in various German cities, where he worked for the International Harvester Company, until his family left shortly before World War II broke out in Europe. During World War II, Schmitz served as an aerial photographer in the Pacific for the United States Army Air Forces.After the war, he and his brother-in-law managed a business which manufactured trailers until they ended the business in 1949. After the war, he made his home in California, where he lived until his death. <mask> died of congestive lung failure in 1981 after a five-week stay in hospital in Los Angeles. He was survived by his wife, Betty Mae <mask>. Writing

<mask> wrote mostly short stories, which sold chiefly to Galaxy Science Fiction and Astounding Science-Fiction (which later became Analog Science Fiction and Fact). Gale Biography in Context called him "a craftsmanlike writer who was a steady contributor to science fiction magazines for over 20 years." <mask> is best known as a writer of "space opera", and for his strong female characters (such as Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee) who did not conform to the "damsel in distress" stereotype typical of science fiction of the time.His first published story was "Greenface", published in August 1943 in Unknown. Most of his works are part of the "Hub" series and feature characters with telepathy. However, the novel that "is usually thought of as <mask>'s best work" is The Witches of Karres, concerning juvenile "witches" with genuine psi-powers and their escape from slavery. The Witches of Karres was nominated for a Hugo Award. In recent years, his novels and short stories have been republished by Baen Books, edited and with notes by Eric Flint. In an introductory essay comparing <mask> with contemporary author A. E. van Vogt, Gardner Dozois wrote, "Although he lacked van Vogt's paranoid tension and ornately Byzantine plots, the late <mask><mask> was considerably better at people than van Vogt was, crafting even his villains as complicated, psychologically complex, and non-stereotypical characters, full of surprising quirks and behaviors that you didn't see in a lot of other Space Adventure stuff." Dozois added:

John Clute writes in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction,

Greg Fowlkes, editor-in-chief of Resurrected Press, said, "During the 50s and 60s "Space Opera" and <mask>. Schmitz were almost synonymous.He was famous for his tales of interstellar secret agents and galactic criminals, and particularly for heroines such as Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee. Many of these characters had enhanced "psionic" powers that let them use their minds as well as their weapons to foil their enemies. All of them were resourceful in the best heroic tradition." In an essay in the anthology The Good Old Stuff (1998), Dozois laments that the book Agent of Vega is "long out-of-print, alas, but one which – if you can find it – delivers as pure a jolt of Widescreen Space Opera Sense of wonder as can be found anywhere." However, the website Free Speculative Fiction Online freely offers Agent of Vega, along with several of Schmitz's other stories, including "Greenface", "Balanced Ecology", "Lion Loose", "Goblin Night", and many more. <mask> wrote the introduction to the concordance The Universes of E. E. Smith. Legacy

Gardner Dozois has said, in prefacing the Schmitz tale "The Second Night of Summer", in which humans on the planet Noorhut face an attack from aliens and are, unbeknownst to themselves, saved by the actions of a single woman with psi powers, Granny Wannattel, with the sole help of a friendly alien she calls her pony:

With his popular equality-between-the-sexes fiction, Schmitz eased the way for later writers such as Joanna Russ, <mask>, Jr., Kit Reed, Connie Willis, Sheri S. Tepper, and other science fiction authors who used female protagonists and feminine point-of-view more than half the time.Of "The Second Night of Summer", Dozois went on to write, "the hero of the piece is not only a woman, but an old woman ... a choice that most adventure writers wouldn't even make now, in 1998, let alone in 1950, which is when Schmitz made it!" Mercedes Lackey places her first meeting with science fiction at age 10 or 11, when she happened to pick up her father's copy of <mask><mask>'s Agent of Vega. Short works
Listed chronologically, with month and year of publication, as well as the magazine, listed in parentheses. <div style="float:left; width:48%;">
Agent of Vega
Includes: Agent of Vega; The Illusionists; The Truth About Cushgar; The Second Night of Summer
Hardcover, 1960, Gnome Press, listed on cover as "<mask>. Schmitz"
Paperback, June 1962, Permabook
Paperback, June 1964, Mayflower
Paperback, 1973, Tempo Books/Grosset & Dunlap
Paperback, 1982, Ace BooksAgent of Vega & Other StoriesIncludes: Agent of Vega; The Illusionists; The Second Night of Summer; The Truth About Cushgar; The Custodians; Gone Fishing; The Beacon to Elsewhere; The End of the Line; Watch the Sky; Greenface; Rogue Psi. Paperback, November 2001, Baen BooksThe Best of <mask>. SchmitzIncludes: Grandpa; Lion Loose...; Just Curious; The Second Night of Summer; Novice; Balanced Ecology; The Custodians; Sour Note on Palayata; Goblin Night. Hardcover, 1991, NESFA PressEternal FrontierIncludes: The Big Terrarium; Summer Guests; Captives of the Thieve-Star; Caretaker; One Step Ahead; Left Hand, Right Hand; The Ties of Earth; Spacemaster; The Altruist; Oneness; We Don't Want Any Trouble; Just Curious; Would You? ; These Are the Arts; Clean Slate; Crime Buff; Ham Sandwich; Where the Time Went; An Incident on Route 12; Swift Completion; Faddist; The Eternal Frontiers.Paperback, September 2002, Baen BooksThe Hub: Dangerous TerritoryIncludes: The Searcher; Grandpa; Balanced Ecology; A Nice Day for Screaming; The Winds of Time; The Machmen; The Other Likeness; Attitudes; Trouble Tide; The Demon Breed. Paperback, 2001, Baen BooksThe Lion GameIncludes: Goblin Night; Sleep No More; The Lion Game. Paperback, 1973, DAW Books
Hardcover, 1976, Sidgwick & Jackson
Paperback, 1979, <mask>lyn
Paperback, 1982, Ace Books
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A Nice Day for Screaming and Other Tales of the Hub
Includes: Balanced Ecology; A Nice Day for Screaming; The Tangled Web; The Machmen; The Other Likeness; The Winds of Time. Hardcover, 1965, Chilton
A Pride of Monsters
Includes: Lion Loose; The Searcher; The Winds of Time; The Pork Chop Tree; Greenface. Hardcover, 1970, MacMillan
Paperback, 1973, Collier
Telzey Amberdon
Includes: Novice; Undercurrents; Poltergeist; Goblin Night; Sleep No More; The Lion Game; Blood of Nalakia; The Star Hyacinths. Paperback, April 2000, Baen Books
The Telzey Toy
Includes: The Telzey Toy; Resident Witch; Compulsion; Company Planet. Paperback, 1973, DAW Books
Hardcover, 1976, Sidgwick & Jackson
Hardcover, 1978, Sidgwick & Jackson, in a 3-in-1 collection titled Special 24
Paperback, 1982, Ace Books
Paperback, 1983, <mask>lyn
The Universe Against Her
Includes: Novice; Undercurrents.Paperback, 1964, Ace Books
Paperback, 1979, Ace Books
Hardcover, 1981, Gregg Press
T'nT: Telzey & Trigger
Includes: Company Planet; Resident Witch; Compulsion (includes The Pork Chop Tree as prolog); Glory Day; Child of the Gods; Ti's Toys; Symbiotes. Paperback, July 2000, Baen Books
Trigger & Friends
Includes: Lion Loose; Harvest Time; Forget It; Aura of Immortality; Legacy; A Sour Note on Palayata. Paperback, January 2001, Baen Books
The Winds of Time
Includes: An Incident on Route 12; Watch the Sky; The Winds of Time; Lion Loose. Paperback, February 2008, Wildside Press

Novels
Listed by title, with chronological publishing list. The Demon Breed (retitle of The Tuvela)
Hardcover, 1968, Ace Books/SFBC
Paperback, 1968, Ace Books
Hardcover, 1969, MacDonald
Hardcover, 1971, UK SFBC/Newton Abbot
Paperback, 1974, Orbit Books
Paperback, 1979, Ace Books/SFBC
Paperback, 1981, Ace Books
The Eternal Frontiers
Hardcover, 1973, G. P. Putnam's Sons
Paperback, 1973, Berkley Books
Hardcover, 1974, Sidgwick & Jackson
Hardcover, 1976, Sidgwick & Jackson (in a 3-in-1 compilation titled Special 18)
Legacy (retitle of A Tale of Two Clocks, paperback, 1979, Ace Books) (available from gutenberg)
A Tale of Two Clocks
Hardcover, 1962, Torquil Books/SFBC
Paperback, 1965, Belmont
The Witches of Karres
Hardcover, 1966, Chilton
Paperback, 1966 (twice), Ace Books
Paperback, 1977, Ace Books
Paperback, 1981, Ace Books
Paperback, 1988, Gollancz
Hardcover, 1992, Baen Books/SFBC
Related books
The Wizard of Karres, by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer, 2004
This is a sequel of The Witches of Karres which follows the continuing adventures of Captain Pausert, Goth, and the Leewit. The Sorceress of Karres, by Eric Flint and Dave Freer, 2010
This is a sequel of The Wizard of Karres which follows the continuing adventures of Captain Pausert, Goth, and the Leewit. The Shaman of Karres, by Eric Flint and Dave Freer, 2020
This is a sequel of The Sorceress of Karres which follows the continuing adventures of Captain Pausert, Goth, and the Leewit.References

 External links

 <mask><mask> obituary
 The James H. Schmitz Encyclopedia
 SciFan database
 Major characters, with illustrations

 <mask><mask>'s online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online''

1911 births
1981 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
American science fiction writers
Writers from Hamburg
United States Army Air Forces soldiers
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
American expatriates in Germany
World War II photographers

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<mask> was the Mayor of Richardson, Texas from 2013 to 2015. She had previously become the first woman elected to the post of Mayor Pro Tem in the City's 57-year history as a home rule city. <mask> was initially elected to the Richardson City Council, Place 4 in May 2011, defeating Karl Voigtsberger by 74.97% to 25.03%. She is believed to be only the 6th woman elected to the city council in the last 40 years. In 2013, <mask> was elected mayor in the first direct election of the mayor since the city became a home rule city in 1956. Following her resignation in a corruption scandal, Maczka was convicted of bribery and wire fraud. Her conviction, along with her husband's, was vacated over misconduct allegations by a court bailiff.However, a second jury in 2021 acquitted former mayor of honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, charges of which she was convicted during the first trial, instead, convicting her only of bribery and tax fraud. She faces a 10-year prison sentence. <mask> was born <mask> in Liberal, Kansas. Her family moved to Denver, Colorado, during her elementary
school years, but by the time she entered 7th grade, her family had relocated to Richardson, Texas. <mask> is currently the Executive Director of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Greater Dallas, a non-profit whose mission is to provide programs that inspire young people from low-income communities to stay in school, to recognize business opportunities and to plan for successful
futures. Under her leadership, the organization has grown in four years from serving 700 middle and high school students per year to more than 2000. <mask> was previously the Development Officer for St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute (Houston Texas) and Director of Fund Development for the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast.According to LinkedIn, the Executive Director of NFTE since July 2014 is Karen Ezell. However, Ms Maczka's LinkedIn page still shows herself as having that role as of April 7, 2015. According to the Local Government Officer Conflicts Disclosure Statement  filed March 19, 2015 by her, Ms. <mask> is now employed by JP Realty Partners/Sooner Management in Leasing, Marketing and Communications. Political career
<mask> initially served as the Place 4 representative on the Richardson City Council, but switched to run for Place 7 in her campaign for the mayor's spot (Place 7). City Council Race in 2011
In 2011, Gary Slagel, a 24-year veteran of the Richardson City Council, decided not to run for re-election,
leaving his seat (Place 4) open. In the ensuing election, <mask> <mask> and Karl Voigtsberger both ran for the open
seat. <mask> was endorsed by the Richardson Coalition, a political action group that had supported Slagel, and
Voigtsberger was supported by the Richardson Citizens Alliance (RCA), a political action group that wanted to
oust all incumbents.Despite mudslinging and numerous false charges launched by the RCA against the Coalition's slate of candidates, Maczka's and Voigtsberger's race was free of such controversy. She won the election to Place 4 with 5,772 (74.97%) votes to Voigtsberger's 1,927 (25.03%). In 2013, Voigtsberger endorsed <mask> in her campaign for
mayor. City Council Race in 2013
On November 27, 2012, <mask> announced her intention to run for mayor. Because of the recent Richardson Charter change that set the mayor's place to be Place 7, <mask> left her current Place 4 open in the 2013 election. Her open place was eventually filled by fellow Councilmember Kendal Hartley (formerly Place 5) in an uncontested race. On May 11, 2013, <mask> was elected by an overwhelming majority to become the first directly elected mayor in Richardson.Thanks to a Charter change in 2012, the mayor was no longer elected from the Council, but was elected directly by the people. The Charter change set the mayor's place to be Place 7. <mask> won Place 7 by defeating fellow member of the Council Amir Omar by 10,167 to 4,172 (70.90% to 29.10%). The vote was canvassed (officially accepted) at the May 20, 2013 Council meeting, which marked the beginning of <mask>'s term as mayor. City Council Race in 2015
Mayor <mask> drew no opponents in the 2015 election and would have served two years as mayor. However, on April 2, 2015 she announced she would not serve that term as she posted on Facebook: 'There have been questions about my role as mayor for the City of Richardson for the next term. After much prayer and conversations with my family, I have made the decision that I will not serve as mayor for the 2015–2017 term and intend to submit a declination of such office at the city council meeting at which the election canvass will be conducted.My focus will be on my family, my health and professional career.' Scandal in 2015
While in office, <mask> was alleged to have had an affair with the real-estate developer of a highly controversial project in Richardson. The details of the scandal were unclear prior to filing for reelection, which lead to <mask> running unopposed for reelection. However, as the scandal unfolded, many citizens demanded that she resign from office, which she did not do. However, <mask> was forced to not serve the additional term for which she had just been reelected. Moreover, it became public knowledge that she had taken a job with the development company that was in charge of the controversial project which she helped get approved through the city council. Ethics Investigation 2015
A special called City Council meeting was scheduled for April 28, 2015.The purpose of the meeting was to hear the report of the independent investigator into allegations that  the mayor and/or members of the council violated either state law or the Richardson Code of Ethics or the city charter in terms of the Palisades rezoning development. In addition, four specific complaints from Richardson citizens were submitted to the Independent Investigator who was chosen by the Richardson City Attorney (as allowed by the City Charter). Investigation Results
At the April 28, 2015 specially called council meeting, the independent investigator, George A. Staples, presented his report and conclusions on the initial investigation. His summary paragraphs states:

In conclusion, we have found no evidence of any ethical violation under state law, the
City Charter, or the Code of Ethics by Mayor <mask> or any member of the City Council with
respect to the referenced City Council votes or the Mayor's announced intention to decline
another term of office. Mr. Staples' report goes on to say:

However, the overriding interest of the Code of Ethics as stated in
Section 2-I is to ensure, "that such officers of the City shall at all times strive to avoid even the appearance of impropriety."While the facts in this case do not reveal a cognizable violation of the Code of Ethics, it is certainly understandable that the sum of the Mayor's actions would be viewed by the public as offending the overriding interest of the Code of Ethics. Nevertheless, a failure to avoid the appearance of impropriety does not constitute a violation of the Code of Ethics, City Charter, or state law. Mr. Staples did note that there was the possibility that the mayor withheld some emails that perhaps had public information that was required to be turned over per the Texas Public Information Act, but that these allegations, if genuine, needed to be followed up by the Public Integrity Unit of the Dallas District Attorney's Office. Given his report, Mr. Staples said that no action should be taken by the council, and none was. Then Mr.Staples reported on his investigations of the four complaints lodged against the mayor and the council. He told the council:

After an initial review of the complaints, it was my opinion that they failed to allege a
violation of the Code of Ethics and did not contain any evidence which would constitute a
violation, were vague and lacked detail. Mr. Staples asked the complainants for follow-up and evidence of wrongdoing, but none was provided. He therefore stated:

It is my opinion that the complaints are insufficient in detail and fail to allege a prima
facie violation of the Code of Ethics. Again, he recommended that no action be taken by the council, and none was. After the initial report, Ms. Maczka gave her side of the story.In essence, she  divorced in December 2014, but that she and her ex-husband had worked out an agreement by which she and the children would be able to stay in the house, by having her parents cosign the loan. This support would also have allowed Ms. Maczka to continue to serve as mayor, so, urged by her family, she decided to file to run for re-election. Ms. Maczka said that it was quite by surprise when several months after the loan process began, the loan company - Wells Fargo - told Ms. Maczka that despite the cosigners, that she herself would have to qualify for the loan based on her income, which at this point was virtually zero. This revelation came after it was too late to drop out of the race. To complicate matters, Ms. Maczka, who had undergone treatment for melanoma eight years before. It also drove home the point that she had to have health insurance now. These two factors convinced her that she needed to give up the mayor's spot (hence, not take the oath of office, because it was  too late to get off the ballot), and get a job with health benefits immediately.A position  at JP Realty (the company doing the Palisades project for which vote she was criticized) came open, and she took it. Result of May 2015 Canvass of Votes
On May 18, 2015, the Richardson City Council met to canvass the votes from the May 9th election. "Canvassing" the vote in Texas means that the elected body meets and formally accepts the election report from the local election department. As previously indicated, Ms. Maczka submitted a letter to the City Secretary declining the office of mayor to which she had been elected. After the other council members had been sworn in, the council elected a new mayor pro tem, who was automatically, per charter changes made in 2012, made mayor. Paul Voelker is now the new mayor of Richardson. Subsequently, Mark Solomon was elected the new mayor pro tem.Indictment May 2018

On May 10, 2018 <mask> and developer Mark Jordan, Maczka's current husband, were indicted for various federal charges including bribery and honest services wire fraud. The indictment says that in exchange for Jordan's (Maczka) support of the developer's project, he offered her and she accepted: monetary payments, payments to renovate her house, luxury hotel stays, flight upgrades, meals, a lucrative job, and intimate sexual contact. Conviction March 2019

On March 7, 2019 Maczka and developer Mark Jordan, Maczka's current husband, were found guilty in federal court of four counts of bribery and honest services wire fraud. Maczka remains free on bond pending sentencing while Jordan was taken into custody due to fears he may flee. Appeal and second trial
In 2020, a court of appeal threw out Maczka's conviction after it emerged that a bailiff had had a conversation with the judge that may have affected the outcome. Prosecutors subsequently filed a new indictment against <mask> and Jordan on federal bribery and tax charges. The trial began on July 6, 2021.After a three-week trial, both defendants were found guilty of bribery, tax fraud and conspiracy. <mask> faces a prison sentence of up to ten years. Council  Assignments
 In 2011 to 2013, Maczka was the Council liaison to the Environmental Advisory Commission. Maczka also served on both the City Council Education committee and the Chair of the Audit Committee. State and Local Appointments
 (appointed by Texas Governor Perry) Commission on State Emergency Communications, State of Texas
 Regional Transportation Council
 City of Richardson Parks & Recreation Commission, Vice Chair (appointed 2010) Commissioner (appointed 2007)
 Texas Municipal League Legislative Committee

Other Civic Activities
 Richardson Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals Advisory Committee
 Leadership Richardson, Class XXII (2006 – 2007), Advisor (ROC), (2007-2010) Curriculum Chair, Alumnus/Volunteer of the Year  (2010)
 Leadership Richardson Advisory Board
 Leadership Richardson Alumni Association Board
 Altrusa International
 Friends of Library Board
 Junior League of Houston, Junior League of Richardson, Junior League of Dallas
 RISD Council of PTA's Board and Local PTA Boards (Prairie Creek Elementary, North Junior High, and JJ Pearce
 High School) – numerous positions including President multiple times, VP Hospitality,  auction chair, VP Ways
 and Means, Legislative Chair, etc. Received PTA Lifetime Membership Award
 RISD Excellence in Education Foundation Board – various positions held
 Inside RISD – Charter Class
 Chair, Discovery Point – raised $160,000 in private funds for outdoor classroom in public park
 Texas Recreation and Parks Society (TRAPS) Board, Citizen Branch Chair for the State of Texas
 Co-Chair, Vote YES! Bond Campaign (010) –  successful $66 million campaign

Education
<mask> received a B.S.from Texas A&M University in 1987. References

External links
City of Richardson official website
<mask> Gibbs Maczka 2013 campaign website

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People from Richardson, Texas
People from Liberal, Kansas
Texas A&M University alumni
Texas city council members
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<mask> (April 22, 1792 – March 26, 1862) was a naval officer, real estate investor, and philanthropist. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and the first Jewish Commodore of the United States Navy. He was instrumental in helping to end the Navy's practice of flogging, and during his half-century-long service prevailed against the antisemitism he faced among some of his fellow naval officers. An admirer of Thomas Jefferson, <mask> purchased and began the restoration of Monticello in the 1830s; he also commissioned and donated a statue of Jefferson that is now located in the Capitol Rotunda; it is the only privately commissioned artwork in the Capitol. Early years

<mask> was born on April 22, 1792, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Michael and <mask>. He had two older siblings. <mask> was close to his maternal grandfather, <mask>, who had emigrated to the United States in 1756 from Germany, and fought with the Philadelphia militia in the American Revolution.His maternal great-great grandfather, Dr. Samuel Ribeiro Nunes, a Portuguese physician, was among a group of 42 Sephardic Jews who escaped the Spanish Inquisition of the early 16th century and migrated to England, where they settled. Descendants of that group sailed from London in 1733 and helped found the city of Savannah, Georgia, where they lived for generations. <mask>'s younger brother was <mask> <mask>, who became a merchant and sea captain. He was the father of five, including the Congressman Jefferson Monroe <mask>. <mask> ran away from home at the age of ten and ended up serving on various vessels as a cabin boy, and according to family stories, returned home to Philadelphia at age 13 for his bar mitzvah. Naval career
In 1806, he apprenticed as a sailor and was a cabin boy. Later he became a sailing master in the U.S. Navy, and fought in the Barbary Wars.At the age of 21, he volunteered for the War of 1812 and was commissioned as a sailing master on October 21, 1812. He was a supernumerary sailing master on the , which interdicted British ships in the English Channel. The Argus seized more than 20 vessels before being captured on August 14, 1813; her captain was killed, and the crew, including <mask>, were taken prisoner. They were imprisoned by Great Britain for sixteen months until the end of the war. During his captivity, <mask> had difficulty obtaining a subsidy and parole because his status as a supernumerary was not understood by the British Transport Board. Upon returning to the United States, <mask> served aboard the  as second master. <mask> was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1817.This commission was a rare feat, given that he started as a cabin boy and worked his way to being a sailing master. He became a master commandant in 1837, and captain in 1844. During his service in the U.S. Navy, <mask> faced considerable antisemitism. He reacted to slights and was court-martialed six times, and once demoted from the rank of Captain. Twice, he was dismissed from the Navy, but reinstated. He defended his conduct in his handling of naval affairs before a Court of Inquiry and in 1855 was restored to his former position. Later, <mask> commanded the Mediterranean Squadron.As a squadron commander he was given the title of commodore, then the highest position in the U.S. Navy. <mask> was instrumental in abolishing flogging in the U.S. Navy, although his position was considered controversial at the time. He also helped gain the support of the U.S Congress in passing an anti-flogging bill in 1850. <mask> spent only 16 years of his 49-year naval career in active service. The rest of time, he was listed as "waiting orders", meaning that he could be called to serve at any time. Although <mask> served during the first year of the American Civil War, he was not given an active assignment at that time. <mask> became wealthy by investing in New York City's real estate market.Philanthropic activities
<mask> undertook various philanthropic endeavors, many of which were in support of Jewish-American life. In 1854 he sponsored the new Jewish seminary of the B'nai Jeshurun Educational Institute in New York. In 1833, New York City gave <mask> the Key to the City after he presented the city with a patinated plaster statue of Thomas Jefferson, the one used to cast the bronze version he gave to the U.S. Congress. Before the statue was set up in New York City Hall, <mask> installed it in a building on Broadway and charged admission to view it. The proceeds were used to buy bread for the city's poor. Monticello

<mask> was a great admirer of Thomas Jefferson:

I consider Thomas Jefferson to be one of the greatest men in history, the author of the Declaration and an absolute democrat. He serves as an inspiration to millions of Americans.He did much to mould our Republic in a form in which a man's religion does not make him ineligible for political or governmental life. Monticello was sold by Jefferson’s heirs (his daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph and her son, Thomas Jefferson Randolph) to James Turner Barclay, a Charlottesville pharmacist,in 1831. In 1834, <mask> bought it from Barclay for $2,700  Monticello—which is equivalent to $ in today's dollars. <mask> undertook to have the long-neglected home repaired, restored, and preserved. He also bought hundreds of additional acres that had been part of the plantation, to add to what was left. <mask> used Monticello as a vacation home. From 1837 to 1839, his widowed mother <mask> lived there until her death; she is buried along Mulberry Row, the main plantation street adjacent to the mansion.Upon his death in 1862, <mask> left Monticello to the American people to be used as an agricultural school for the orphans of Navy warrant officers. Because of the American Civil War, Congress refused to accept the donation. The Confederate government seized and sold the property; lawyers for <mask>'s estate recovered the property after the war. Following two lawsuits by family members over <mask>'s will, with 47 parties to the suit, in 1879 his nephew Jefferson Monroe <mask> bought out the other heirs for $10,050, and took control of Monticello. He had it repaired and restored. He sold it in 1923 to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, which has renovated and restored the property as a house museum. The <mask> family's role in preserving Monticello was downplayed by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation through much of the 20th century, which Urofsky suggests was due to anti-Semitic views among some of its board and members.In 1985, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation restored the gravesite of <mask> and honored descendants of the family in a ceremony at Monticello. The Foundation also celebrates the roles of <mask> P<mask> and Jefferson Monroe <mask> in helping preserve and restore Monticello, including on-site information about their roles. Jefferson statue
In another tribute to Jefferson, <mask> commissioned a bronze statue of the President from the noted sculptor <mask>-Jean David d’Angers in Paris. The statue depicts Jefferson holding a quill pen in his right hand and an etched copy of the Declaration of Independence in his left. <mask> presented a black-painted plaster model of the Jefferson statue to the City of New York on February 6, 1833. The city gave him a gold snuff box in appreciation. That statue was placed on the second floor of the Rotunda at City Hall in Manhattan, and moved into the ornate City Council Chamber in the 1950s.It was moved from the Chamber on November 22, 2021, and loaned to The New-York Historical Society . <mask> had donated the bronze statue to Congress in 1834. The statue, which once stood on the White House North Lawn from 1834 to 1873 and currently stands in the Capitol Rotunda, is the only privately commissioned piece of artwork in the Capitol. Personal life
<mask>'s brother, <mask> <mask>, served as the fifth president of the Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, DC from 1857 to 1858. At the age of 61, <mask> married his 18-year-old niece Virginia Lopez, whose father had recently died. According to biographer Marc Leepson (Saving Monticello, 2001), <mask> "was following an ancient, if obscure, Jewish tradition that obligates the closest unmarried male relative of a recently orphaned or widowed woman in financial difficulties to marry her." (See also letter, levirate marriage)

<mask> died on March 26, 1862, and was buried in Beth Olam Cemetery, Ridgewood (Queens), associated with the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.He was one of the ranking officers of the Navy at the time of his death. Dates of Rank
Sailing Master – 21 October 1812
Lieutenant – 5 March 1817
Master Commandant – 9 February 1837
Captain – 29 March 1844

Legacy and honors

1942, the Cannon class destroyer escort, the  was named in his honor. At the conclusion of World War II, the <mask> hosted the U.S. representative for the surrender of Wake Island. 1959, <mask> Chapel, the Jewish Chapel at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia is renamed in his honor. 1988, listed in the Jewish-American Hall of Fame
2001, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation published The <mask> Family and Monticello 1834–1923, a history of the <mask> family's nearly century-long contributions in saving Monticello. 2005, the Commodore Uriah P. <mask> Center and Jewish Chapel opened at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, which is named in his honor. 2011 A statue of Uriah P<mask> by the Russian sculptor <mask> was dedicated on December 16, 2011, outside Mikveh Israel Synagogue on Independence Mall in Philadelphia.The statue pedestal was designed by John Giungo. Published works

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See also

Monticello
United States Naval Academy

Footnotes

References

Bibliography

American Jewish Year Book, 1902–3, pp. 42–45. Marc Leepson Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built, Free Press, 2001; University of Virginia Press (paperback), 2003. Further reading

Leepson, Marc. Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built. New York: Free Press, 2001.External links
Saving Monticello web site
Uriah P. <mask> Collection at the American Jewish Historical Society, New York, New York. 1792 births
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Jewish American military personnel
American human rights activists
American people of Portuguese-Jewish descent
American Sephardic Jews
Burials at Beth Olom Cemetery
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Military personnel from Philadelphia
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United States Navy admirals
United States Navy commodores
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<mask> (; born 7 December 1988) is a British poet, vocalist, composer, musician and actor. <mask>'s debut album At Least for Now won the 2015 Mercury Prize. In February 2019 he was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, in recognition of his contribution to the arts. Born and raised in London, England, <mask> later moved to Paris, France, becoming homeless as a teenager. There, his performances helped him to become a cult figure in the music and art scene. Moving back to London, he made his TV debut on the BBC programme Later With Jools Holland in 2013. A number of critics described him as becoming one of the great singer-songwriters of his generation and the future sound of London, whilst struggling to place his music in any one genre.Considered by The New York Times as one of the 28 geniuses who defined culture in 2016, Clementine's compositions are musically incisive and attuned to the issues of life but also poetic, mixing revolt with love and melancholy, sophisticated lyricism with slang and shouts, and rhyming verse with prose monologues. He moved to popular art music, breaking free from traditional song structure, inventing his own dramatic and innovative musical territory. He is noticeably seen topless and barefoot onstage, dressed entirely in black or dark grey, with a long, wool trench coat. Early life
The youngest of five children, <mask> grew up in a middle-class family in Edmonton, London, with his strict Roman Catholic grandmother. After she died, he moved in with his parents. His older brother Joseph was fond of music philosophy, science, and English literature, and would point out different types of books and dictionaries for him to read. Joseph bought a piano when Clementine was 11, and when he had finished his daily practice <mask> would play it.Eventually his brother's acquired taste for the piano diminished and he moved on to another instrument giving Clementine more time to continue playing. He had discovered such a strong propensity to music that his father, who always intended for him to study law, had reason to be alarmed. He strictly forbade him to meddle with any musical instrument but Clementine found means to get a little keyboard privately conveyed to a room at the top of the house where he played when his parents went to work. Clementine could not read music, but in a few months he started imitating the work of fin-de-siècle composer Erik Satie and Claude Debussy, learned from listening to Classic FM after "becoming bored" with pop music, and continued to play discreetly for the next five years until his parents' divorce. Relocation to Paris
Clementine left school at 16 after failing most of his GCSEs, passing only English literature, following which he had a dispute with his family and ended up in Camden Town, London, homeless and in psychological and financial difficulties. Although it was not a premeditated plan, he relocated to Paris at age 19, where he spent a number of years busking and playing in bars and hotels in Place de Clichy while sleeping on the streets. Occasionally, he applied for jobs cleaning kitchens but was never successful.He eventually moved to a hostel in Montmartre, where he paid €20 to live in a ten-man bunk-bed room. He preferred to sleep in the lower beds to enable him to hide his belongings underneath. Clementine eventually bought a half-broken guitar and a cheap keyboard. For the next three years he wrote and composed songs. Clementine managed to stay out of trouble as he spent his nights performing and his days composing and writing, becoming a cult figure in the Parisian music scene. After four years of living as a vagabond, he was discovered by an agent whilst walking back home from an evening performance and they arranged a meeting for the next day. The agent introduced him to a friend, Matthieu Gazier, later on becoming Clementine's manager for a period of time.In 2012, whilst playing a gig at the Festival de Cannes they met Lionel Bensemoun, a business mogul in France. Through him, they decided to set up the record label 'Behind' so that Clementine could record his music. He eventually came to the attention of the French press, who described him as "" ("the English revelation of the "Francofolies" festival"). He was then invited to the Rencontres Trans Musicales of Rennes in France in December 2012 where he performed for the first time on a large stage and played four nights consecutively. Clementine eventually signed a joint music license contract between Capitol, Virgin EMI and Barclay. Difficulties
Before Clementine signed a major deal he closely met and worked with a French tour agent with his independent label in Paris and embarked on a brief European tour playing in high-profile festivals as the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival in Canada; and Eurosonic Festival, of which Rob Van Der Zwaan writing for podium.info described him as one of the highlights. As a result, the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2013 booked Clementine to play.He failed to attend. According to Clementine, he was kicked off the train en route to Rotterdam for being unable to show a valid ticket. He didn't have enough money due to not getting paid by his then-tour agent. Clementine later stated that he had attempted to travel by foot to Rotterdam, after assuming the city was close by. However, the journey was in fact 45 km, which was considerably longer than he had estimated. He had tried to stop passers by while walking along the motorway, but nobody would stop and help. It took him about 10 hours to complete the journey and he arrived at his destination with bleeding toes.When he set off walking he was wearing slippers, but at some point decided to carry on walking barefoot. Despite this, two years later he was offered another spot at the same festival. In 2014, during the shooting of his music video for "At Least for Now", Clementine fell on a pile of stones in Ireland, badly injuring his elbow, then later cut a toe whilst walking on stones. In March 2015, whilst performing in the middle of a concert in Paris, he cut a finger open and started to bleed, but kept on playing until an audience member threw tissues on the stage. He later cynically remarked: that's what happens when you fall in love; you get hurt. Early recordings

Cornerstone EP, Glorious You EP
Clementine's first EP, Cornerstone, was released in June 2013 with three studio tracks. It was re-issued in October 2013 with three additional acoustic tracks recorded for Deezer, a web-based music streaming service.In the same month, on an episode of the BBC television show Later With Jools Holland that also included performances by Paul McCartney, Earth, Wind and Fire, Gary Clark Jr. and the Arctic Monkeys, he performed the EP's title track. The appearance drew strong critical praise, with Paul McCartney encouraging Clementine to continue his musical career. The London Evening Standards David Smyth, reviewing a gig at the South Bank Centre, said that <mask>'s performance reminded him of Nina Simone, particularly as he had covered her hit "Ain't Got No, I Got Life" in a radically different style. Clementine announced further tours, both solo and supporting Cat Power at the Brighton Dome, including an appearance at the O2 Academy in Brixton and at the Rencontres Trans Musicales festival in Rennes, France, where he worked on a special show and performed four nights. Andy Gill on the Independent album review wrote:

Studio albums

At Least for Now

<mask> initially wanted to record his debut album, At Least for Now, straight after his first EP, Cornerstone, but due to contractual dealings with the music industry and his label it was strategically held back for almost two years. During that time he decided to write his own dictionary, as well as a collection of poetry and classical music pieces. At Least for Now was mainly released across Europe on 12 January 2015.On 13 February 2015 it reached the iTunes Top 10 in Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg Poland and Greece. In England, it won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize. At Least for Now largely received critical acclaim. The album holds a 75 out of 100 rating based on 19 critical reviews indicating "generally positive reviews" from Metacritic. David Simpson from The Guardian gave the album 3 stars out of 5, describing the debut as "fascinating but flawed", explaining that it  "benefits from the bravery and adventurousness Clementine honed while tackling audiences aboard Parisian trains." Regarding <mask>'s vocals, Simpson said: "Channelling influences such as Erik Satie and Antony Hegarty, <mask> is reminiscent of Kevin Rowland in that he sounds as if he is singing from the gut, and because he has to. If only he had Rowlands' economy: mannered vocal flourishes complicate the melodies when what's needed is simplicity.The addition of syrupy strings and pedestrian drumming further dilutes the impact of his raw talent. However, when he performs unadorned, melodies dripping from his fingertips, and letting fly from the heart, his voice is difficult to forget." Phil Mongredien, also reviewing for The Guardian, gave the album 4 stars out of 5, writing that "for the most part these piano-led songs sound unique, the lonely despair of Cornerstone and the arresting lyricism of Condolence signalling an exciting new talent." I Tell a Fly

Accompanied by a video shot by photographer Craig McDean and filmmaker Masha Vasyukova published earlier than its official release on 30 June 2017, <mask> composed Phantom of Aleppoville after being affected by the writing of pioneering British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. He wrote extensively about children who have experienced bullying in the home and at school, discovering that while the trauma was naturally not comparable in scale to that suffered by children displaced by war, its effects followed similar patterns. Seeing in Winicott's writing a mirror of his own childhood experiences, Clementine chose the title – the "little city of Aleppo" – to symbolise a place where children encounter such bullying. Says Clementine, "Aleppoville is a place where many are bullied if not all, but no one understands nor see why; Phantom".I Tell a Fly finds <mask> exploring new musical territory on the heels of his Mercury Prize-winning debut, At Least for Now (2015). At Least for Now stretched itself across a series of piano ballads with unorthodox structures; I Tell a Fly brings a sense of theatricality and power by using whirling, interwoven instruments throughout the uncompromising release. While at Least for Now looked inward and backward, <mask>'s follow-up looks outward and forward-to a changing world, ancient struggles and the individual response. In conversation with David Renshaw, <mask> explains that the origin of I Tell a Fly lies in a disarmingly strange line Clementine found in his American visa: "an alien of extraordinary abilities." He explains, "I was baffled for about ten minutes when I first saw that visa. But then I thought to myself, I am an alien. I'm a wanderer.In most places I've been, I've always been different. And so I began to think about the story of a couple of birds, who are in love: one is afraid to go further, and the other is taking a risk, to see what happens." On I Tell a Fly, Clementine uses his personal history as a prism through which to view the world around him (and attempt to make sense of both), musically exploring unknown territories while maintaining a lifeblood that could not be mistaken for the work of anyone other than him. Artistry

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Clementine is a spinto tenor. His voice has been described as warm and graceful, with a bright, full timbre, that ranges from approximately E2-C#6. Writing for The Quietus, Calum Bradbury-Sparvell described Clementine's voice as having the "expressive but exact enunciation of a stage actor, which allows his lyrics to spill and scatter out of sync with his hands in a way which warrants the endless Nina Simone comparisons." He went on to write: "Yet as an atypical singer-songwriter with a strong sense of grandeur, an impressively broad tenor range and more than a dash of dark humour, he also resembles Rufus Wainwright".Interviewing <mask> for The New York Times, David

<mask> is a multi instrumentalist and cites a broad range of musical influences: Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Leonard Cohen, Leo Ferré, Nina Simone, Jake Thackray, Jimi Hendrix, Serge Gainsbourg, Aretha Franklin, Lucio Dalla, Giacomo Puccini, Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Georges Brassens and Frédéric Chopin. In a 2015 interview he listed Simone, Nick Cave and Tom Waits as his heroes. Clementine had little exposure to music whilst growing up and is self-taught. In his teens he had caught avant-garde French composers like Erik Satie and Claude Debussy. These influences inspired him to create his own material. He accompanies on hypnotic piano vamps with mostly minimal instruments ranging from little voice breaths, a brushing of coat for percussion as in his song "Edmonton", to a vicious string stride confrontation in his song "Adios". Poetry
Clementine states he has mainly been influenced by confessional poets like Sylvia Plath as well as writers such as William Blake, Carol Ann Duffy, James Baldwin, the philosopher John Locke and C. S. Lewis.In an interview with the broadsheet newspaper The Times with Ed Potton, Clementine expressed his feelings of hating the works of William Shakespeare as a child as it was all his teachers always taught him so he preferably went to his local library to read the other William, William Blake. Whilst in Paris, he discovered French poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud including poet-singers such as Leo Ferré, Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour with whom he sang and recorded the song 'You've got to learn'. It is Paris where <mask> discovered Nina Simone. He delivers his introspective lyrics about integrity and vulnerability and explores both in everyday experience. One of his frustrations after returning to the UK was how little ambition he thinks there is in British song lyrics compared to his experience of French music. Talking to The Guardian journalist Tim Lewis, he said, "it's very important down there (France) because most of the time they [the audience] pay more attention to what the singer says and what they are trying to express." In his song "Winston Churchill's boy", he rewrites and repurposes the words of Winston Churchill, lamenting "never in the field of human affection had so much been given for so few attention".Writing for The Quietus, Calum Bradbury-Sparvell described the song in the context of <mask>'s debut album as "a melodramatic beginning which harks back to the alienation he felt from family and friends on the eve of his emigration to the City of Light," going on to write: "For a Gallic darling, Clementine certainly gazes wistfully across La Manche a lot and one senses that, despite the obvious French influences, there is more of the spurned Londoner in him than the flâneur. Image
Mostly playing on stage entirely in black or dark long trench-like woollen coats with no shirt underneath, in barefoot, Clementine's distinctive androgynous appearance, square-cut, angular padded clothing, manner, and height of 193 cm (6'4) is uniquely known at least as much as he is for his art. In March 2015 Clementine was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed by the Financial Times. Clementine collaborated multiple times with Christopher Bailey. On 17 June 2014 Clementine performed three songs live throughout the Burberry Prorsum Menswear Catwalk show - the first musician to perform live throughout a Burberry show. He performed again on the Burberry menswear show in January 2016. In April 2016, his song "I Won't Complain" was chosen for the Mr. Burberry ad, directed by Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen.Performance and appearances
On 17 July 2014, <mask> performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival. An album was scheduled to be released in 2014, but Clementine instead released his second EP, Glorious You, on 25 August 2014. On 12 October 2014, Clementine performed and spoke at the Observer Ideas at the Barbican Centre, a festival to share ideas to the public, in a line up that included Edward Snowden, David Simon, creator of the HBO series The Wire, and musician Tinie Tempah. <mask> was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Prize and subsequently won. He dedicated his award to the memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris during the previous week. On 12 February 2016, <mask> announced a tour of Europe and the United States. <mask> portrayed the Herald of the Change, a minor character, in the 2021 film Dune.Personal life
Although heterosexual, <mask> has recalled experiencing homophobic bullying at school from pupils who considered him effeminate. <mask> is married to British singer-songwriter Flo Morrissey, and the couple had their first child Julian Jupiter Richard Sainte-Clémentine on Christmas Day 2017. A daughter, <mask>, was born on 29 October 2019, in Ojai, California. Discography

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English male singer-songwriters
English pianists
English people of Ghanaian descent
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<mask> (17 June 1873 – 9 December 1916) was a wealthy American socialite who married a prince from Belgium. The story of <mask>, who commonly used one or another version of the title "Princesse de Caraman-Chimay", is poorly known today, but for some years in the early 1890s she was the toast of the United States. During the late 1890s and the Edwardian years, she spent much time in both the society and gossip columns of two continents. She was widely known, envied and admired, desired, loathed and reviled. Early life
<mask> was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Captain Eber Brock Ward (1811–1875) and his second wife, Catherine Lyon, a niece of Senator <mask>. A wealthy man, often stated to be Michigan's first millionaire, E.B. Ward had holdings in Great Lakes steamships; lumbering at Ludington, Michigan; iron and steel manufacturing at Wyandotte, Michigan, Leland, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois; and silver mining in Colorado.He manufactured the first Bessemer steel to be made in the United States at his plant in Wyandotte. Ward was president of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad from 1860 until his death on 2 January 1875 in Detroit. Captain Ward died when <mask> was less than two years old. The mill and timber holdings at Ludington passed into the hands of <mask>'s mother and were managed by her brother, Thomas R. Lyon, as the firm of Thomas R. Lyon, Agent. As a child, <mask> and her mother periodically visited Ludington to see their kin and inspect the mills. First marriage
She came to the public's attention in 1889 or early 1890, when it was announced that a distinguished Belgian visitor to the United States, the Prince of Caraman-Chimay, a member of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, had proposed marriage to the very young, very attractive daughter of a very wealthy family. The Château de Chimay is in the county of , Belgium, near the French border.The holder of the title "Prince of Caraman-Chimay" did so rightfully and possessed a long and proper noble pedigree. This princely title was of the "foreign prince" type of the old French monarchy, in which "Prince" is a noble rank rather than a method showing the degree of relationship to the crown. The wife of that sort of prince becomes a "Princess", and so <mask> became, entirely legitimately, a European princess. That her husband-to-be was more than twice her age, quite poor, and even, perhaps, not very handsome, seems to have been of minor consequence. They were married on 20 May 1890, in Paris. <mask> was married at age 16 and her husband was 31. Ward was now properly styled "Princesse de Caraman-Chimay", but usually went by "<mask>, Princess of Chimay".Americans were ecstatic about their new princess. (The first American princess had been Catherine Willis Gray, great-grandniece of George Washington, who married a nephew of Emperor Napoleon, Prince Achille Murat of Naples, in 1826; Baltimore heiress Betsy Patterson had previously married Napoleon's brother Jérôme (later King of Westphalia) in 1803, but Napoleon annulled the marriage within a few years.) In 1891 she was the subject of a portrait by G.P.A. Healy, today in the collection of the Illinois State Museum in Springfield. Two children shortly followed the marriage:
 Marie Elisabeth Catharine Anatole <mask>, Comtesse de Caraman-Chimay (1891–1939)
 Marie Joseph Anatole Pierre Alphonse <mask>, Prince de Caraman-Chimay (1894–1920)

There is evidence that she and the Prince favored the more prestigious Parisian restaurants with their patronage. Specifically, the great chef Escoffier named both Oeufs à la Chimay and Poularde Chimay after Princess <mask>. Second marriage

Some time after the birth of their second child, in early November 1896, the Prince and Princess Chimay were dining in Paris, at what may be expected to have been a suitably elegant establishment.Present at the restaurant was a Hungarian, Rigó Jancsi, who eked out a living providing Gypsy music. (Being Hungarian, "Rigó" was the gentleman's family name meaning "blackbird", and "Jancsi" his given name − it is the Hungarian version of "Johnny".) Rigó was a Gypsy violinist (he is sometimes listed as a chef but it is not true.) After a series of secret meetings, Ward and Rigó eloped in December 1896. To her family's consternation, the Ludington Record of 24 December 1896 carried a news service dispatch about the elopement with a woodcut illustration of Ward and the headline "Gone With a Gypsy". It was stated that Prince Joseph would at once institute divorce proceedings against his wife. Subsequent editions of the newspaper carried brief notices as to where Ward and Rigó had been reported seen during their trek across Europe to Hungary.In Budapest a well-known cube-shaped chocolate sponge cake and chocolate cream pastry was named Rigó Jancsi after the scandalous affair Ward and Rigó were having. The Prince and Princesse de Caraman-Chimay were divorced on 19 January 1897. The new couple married, probably in Hungary. Some accounts indicate that they soon moved to Egypt, where <mask> taught her husband the intricacies of reading and writing. Not too surprisingly, <mask>, still usually called the Princess Chimay, soon found her resources dwindling. The never-very-full Chimay coffers were certainly closed to her, and although Ward was resourceful, her American family had to intervene from time to time to straighten out her tangled finances. Her main talents were being beautiful by the standards of the time, and being famous.She combined the two by posing on various stages, including at least the Folies Bergère and probably also the Moulin Rouge, while wearing skin-tight costumes. She called her art-form her poses plastiques. <mask> Toulouse-Lautrec made a scarce lithograph of her and Rigó in 1897, "Idylle Princière". She was often photographed, and featured on many postcards during the Edwardian period, sometimes in a pose plastique and sometimes in more or less conventional dress. Kaiser Wilhelm II is said to have forbidden the publication or display of her photograph in the German Empire because he thought her beauty "disturbing". Later life
Perhaps the income from this odd occupation was sufficient for the couple to live reasonably well. The idyll was not to last, Rigó being unfaithful to her.They were divorced fairly soon after their marriage, either shortly before or after Ward met her next love, one Peppino Ricciardo, sometimes stated to have been Spanish, but who was most likely Italian. He is believed to have been a waiter whom she met on a train. They married in 1904, but Peppino Ricciardo probably did not last long. The timing is vague, but Ward's next love, and her last husband, is thought to have been a station manager of the little Italian railroad that helped visitors tour Mount Vesuvius, a Signor Cassalota. Ward is believed to have still been married to her fourth husband when she died in Padua, Italy, on 9 December 1916, aged 43. It was not until some three years after Ward's death that her first husband, Prince Joseph <mask> of Chimay and Caraman, finally remarried — to a young lady who had only been a few months old when he and <mask> originally married. Legacy
Marcel Proust was fond of <mask>.Marthe Bibesco wrote in her memoir, Au Bal avec Marcel Proust, that her cousin, Antoine, who exchanged letters with Proust, received one in which he mentioned that he still felt fondly for Ward and continued to write to her. In fact, Proust based a character in À la recherche du temps perdu (English: "In Search of Lost Time") on <mask>: that of a cousin of the Baron Charlus. The major character of the Duchesse <mask>tes was chiefly based on <mask>'s first sister-in-law, Elisabeth, who became the Comtesse <mask>reffulhe after her marriage. The character of Simone Pistache in the film version of Cole Porter's musical Can-Can was based in part on <mask>. In the film, set in Paris in 1896, Shirley MacLaine as Pistache dances in a skin-tight, flesh-colored costume like that favored by Ward. See also
 Rigo Jancsi Celebration Cake

References

General references
Cleveland Amory, Who Killed Society?, p. 234. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960."Gone With a Gypsy", news dispatch in the Ludington Record, December 24, 1896. Luman W<mask>, Lumber, Lath and Shingles, pp. 54–55. Detroit: Privately printed, 1954. Written by a childhood acquaintance of Ward's who died in 1947. George W. Hotchkiss, History of the Lumber and Forest Industry of the Northwest, pp. 715–716.Chicago: George W. Hotchkiss & Company, 1898. History of Manistee, Mason and Oceana Counties, Michigan, pp. 50–51. Chicago: H.R. Page & Co., 1882. The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. XIII, p. 125.New York: James T. White & Company, 1906. Cornelia Otis Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals, p. 220. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Charles Richard Tuttle, General History of the State of Michigan, pp. 157–159. Detroit: R.D.S. Tyler & Co., 1873.External links

 The Chateau of Chimay and Hainaut, Belgium
 Toulouse-Lautrec's "Idylle Princière"

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1916 deaths
People from Detroit
American socialites
Belgian princesses
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American expatriates in Belgium
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<mask> (commonly known as Dr. <mask> or Dr. <mask>), is a triple board-certified and licensed clinical and forensic neuropsychologist, media personality, motivational speaker, clinical researcher, and published author, born in Taipei, Taiwan with dual U.S. citizenship. Dr. <mask> regularly appears on national television and radio broadcasts as a psychology expert, panelist, narrator and host. She co-hosted Season 12 of The Doctors, preceded by hosting the CBS syndicated talk show Face The Truth (2018) alongside Vivica Fox, being a recurring panelist (over 200 episodes) on The Dr. Drew Show (2013-2016). She currently hosts the Podcast SuperCharged Life with Dr. <mask>, Her podcast is aimed at doling out scientific, practical tips for people to improve their lives in all areas, including healthy living, kicking bad habits, mental and physical wellness, productivity, motivation, and relationships. Dr. <mask> maintains a private practice based in Los Angeles, CA, while working as a tenured associate professor of psychology at Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology (since 2010). Early life
Born in Taipei, Taiwan Dr. <mask> is fluent in Mandarin and moved with her family to the United States when she was nine-years-old. She is the older sister to <mask>, a noted professional poker player.Education and accreditation
Dr. <mask> attended the University of California, Berkeley where she received a BA in psychology and a BS in business administration. She completed her MS and PhD in clinical psychology through a joint doctoral program at UC San Diego School of Medicine and San Diego State University. Her three-year postdoctoral fellowship in child psychiatry was sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health at the University of California, Los Angeles Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is a two-time recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Services Research Award (2004, 2008) a.k.a. the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award. In 2016 she received the Provost's Research Award, and created an evidence-based psychoeducational support program to help new mothers in low-income communities learn effective skills to combat postpartum depression, in partnership with WIC (Women, Infants, and Children). Licensed by the California Board of Psychology in 2009, and having received her board-certification by the American Board of Professional Psychology in 2011, Dr. <mask> became double-board certified through the National Board of Forensic Evaluators in 2015, upon earning her diplomate as a Board Certified Forensic Mental Health Evaluator (CFMHE).In  2019 she received her third board certification (ABPdN) through the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology. Career
In addition to her private practice in Manhattan Beach, CA, Dr. <mask> simultaneously teaches psychopathology, treatment methods, and statistical analyses to doctoral and master psychology students at Pepperdine University as a tenured associate professor, hosts an active research lab, and serves on a number of committees. She is the founder and executive director of the STAGES Project, a not-for-profit prevention program for at-risk youth, which utilizes arts and music as a therapeutic intervention for at-risk students. In 2016, <mask> created and implemented PEP4SAFE, a scientifically-driven, no-cost psychoeducational program for parents and teachers in various school districts of Los Angeles, CA, for which she acts as the Principal Investigator. Areas of expertise
Dr. <mask> specializes in comprehensive psychological testing, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and behavior management. Areas of expertise include: depression and anxiety issues, childhood and adult ADHD, youth behavioral issues, personality disorders, co-occurring alcoholism & substance use disorders, and learning disorders & cognitive dysfunction. As a Certified Forensic mental health evaluator (CFMHE), she is retained as an psychological expert witness in civil and criminal cases, conducting forensic evaluations and testifying for both the prosecution/plaintiff and the defense.Consulting work
Dr. <mask> has served as a forensic and/or neuropsychological consultant for multiple national organizations and treatment centers, including the National Institute of Mental Health's Community Partners in Care Project (2008-2011), Centers for Disease Control's Legacy Project (2011-2015), the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (2011–present), Kaiser Permanente (2013–present), Promises Treatment Center (2013-2017), Bridges to Recovery (2011–2020), Clearview Treatment Centers (2012–2019), Pure Recovery California (2016–2018), Milestones Ranch Malibu (2017–present), and the Center for Professional Recovery (2017–2018). She serves on many board of directors, including Board Chair on the ABPP Examination Committee (2016–present), Treasurer and Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology, Board of Directors of Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles, and Chair of the Pepperdine University  Graduate and Professional Schools Institutional Review Board (IRB). Author
On August 20, 2019, <mask>'s first book Stop Self-Sabotage: Six Steps to Unlock Your True Motivation, Harness Your Willpower, and Get Out of Your Own Way was published by HarperCollins. Dr. <mask> has regularly written and contributed to various print and online publications, offering psychological analysis, professional advice and clinical research to trending news topics and breaking stories, some publications have included Psychology Today, Teen Vogue, Yahoo Lifestyle, Life & Style, Us Weekly, and Bustle Magazine. She also contributes clinical research manuscripts to national and international psychological journals, and has written chapter contributions for mental health textbooks. Television and radio
<mask> lends her forensic and psychological expertise, insight and commentary to a variety of television, radio and media programs. As of 2021, she was featured on Netflix's "Crime Scene: Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel", she frequents CNN,  Access Hollywood, Fox 11 News, and several crime and mystery programs on the Oxygen, HLN and Investigation Discovery channels.Significant televised host and co-host roles have included co-hosting FOX's The Daily Helpline (2014), co-hosting Crime Watch Daily alongside Matt Doran (2016), and being a recurring panelist for four seasons of Dr. Drew On Netflix she appears in several crime, mystery and investigation re-enactment docuseries, including Deep Undercover and Murderous Affairs. The Doctors
After multiple guest appearances on The Doctors Dr<mask> joined the show's cast in 2017, as the resident psychologist and mental health professional, guest co-hosting 82 episodes during Season 10. In 2019, she returned as a host of the show for the 12th season. Face The Truth
Season 1 of the CBS syndicated daytime talk show Face The Truth, produced by Jay McGraw and Stage 29 Productions, premiered nationwide on September 10, 2018, hosted by Dr. <mask>, Vivica A. Fox, Rosie Mercado, Areva Martin, and Judge "Scary Mary" (Mary Chrzanowski). The show aimed to provide conflict resolution for guests facing life and relationship challenges. SuperCharged Life with Dr. <mask>
Season 1 of the Supercharged Life with Dr. <mask> podcast, produced by Stage 29 Podcast Productions, premiered nationwide on March 24, 2021, hosted by Dr. <mask>.The program aims to provide scientific and practical tips to improve lives in areas of health, mental health, work, and relationships. Dr. <mask> interviews inspirational leaders on some of her episodes, and on other episodes provides a solo hosted program delving deeply into  variety of topics and answers listeners' questions. Crime and Investigation
As a clinical and forensic neuropsychologist, certified Forensic Mental Health Evaluator, and with her experience as an expert forensic witness, Dr. <mask> frequently provides forensic analysis and narration on crime/investigative re-enactment programs, including Netflix's Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021), multiple episodes of Oxygen's Snapped (2018-2020), multiple episodes of Murder Among Friends (2016-2017), Blood Relatives (2015-2016), Snapped: Killer Couples (2015-2016), Killer Kids (2015), and Wicked Attraction (2013). Reality TV
In 2021, Dr. <mask> appeared on Discovery Channel's Shark Week: Will Smith - Off the Deep End alongside Will Smith, to discuss Will's fears of sharks and why all humans deal with phobias from the perspective of a neuropsychologist and expert in human behavior, with Will overcoming his fear of sharks by the end of the episode. In 2015, Dr. <mask> appeared on season 4 of We TV's Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars, as an expert in human behavior and compatibility, to secretly evaluate the relationship interactions of celebrity couples, including The Bachelor's Sean Lowe & Catherine Giudici and Here Comes <mask>o Boo's "Mama June" & "Sugar Bear". She has also been seen as a celebrity therapist on Braxton Family Values (2012). Dr. <mask> is a supporter of the performing arts and has participated in musicals, singing and dance since adolescence.During graduate school she competed, and was a semifinalist, on the sole season of Fame - a NBC reality television talent-contest featuring 24 dancer/singers, hand-picked by producer Debbie Allen. In 2010, while personally attending a taping of The Price Is Right Christmas Eve episode, <mask> was randomly selected to be a contestant and made it to the final showcase portion of the show, where she won double showcases for a total of $101,244 - which tied for the third highest winner in the show's history. Other
Having a long-standing professional friendship with Dr. Drew Pinsky, Dr. <mask> regularly joins him on-air to co-host Dr. Drew Midday Live on KABC 790 radio, which broadcasts in Los Angeles and San Francisco. On the same station, she offers a psychological POV, advice and analysis as a guest expert on the McIntyre In The Morning. In 2018, <mask> filmed a cameo in the J. J. Abrams' feature film The Cloverfield Paradox, as a news pundit (the role was eventually cut out of the final edit).

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<mask> (born November 12, 1964), nicknamed Mr. Magic or The Turkish Prince, is a Turkish world champion professional carom billiards player specialized in three-cushion event. Family life
<mask> was born to a tailor father Faruk and a homemaker mother Süreyya in Adapazarı, Turkey on November 12, 1964. He is the fifth of six siblings. His parents were killed in a traffic accident in 1978 when he was 14 years old. <mask> then started playing billiards. He had a good performance in high school but left for depression over the loss of his mother and father. Saygıner opened up a billiards hall, and taught the cue sport.In 1995, he married Aygen Berk, a student of his, the women's billiards champion of Turkey and co-founder of the Turkish Billiards Federation. Their marriage ended a few years later. From 1996 to 1997, he served as the president of the Turkish Billiards Federation. Career
He began playing billiards at age 16, and focused on the cue sport. A year later, he participated at Istanbul Championship, and won his first Turkish title. Ranking many years on the second place at national level, he finally became Turkish champion in 1987. In 1991, he participated at German Open.The next year, he placed world eighth when he defeated world-champion Raymond Ceulemans by 3-0 in Berlin. In 1994, he transferred to the Netherlands Billiards Teams League, one of the most important leagues of billiards. <mask> won the Three-cushion World Cup held 1998 in Antalya after defeating Dutchman Gerwin Walentijn in the final. <mask> won the 1999 CEB European Three-cushion Championship by defeating Dion Nelin of Denmark. He nearly won it again the next year but lost to Daniel Sánchez. He was the first from his country to win that tournament. His countryman Murat Naci Çoklu won the title five years later.In 2003, <mask> won the UMB World Three-cushion Championship defeating of Filippos Kasidokostas of Greece. He is the only Turk ever to win the championship. That same year, he won the last World Three-cushion Championship organized by the Billiards World Cup Association (BWA) beating Dick Jaspers. He and his teammate Tayfun Taşdemir became world champion at the UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams held 2003 in Viersen, Germany. <mask> was named Best Billiards Player 2003 in Antwerp, Belgium on February 7, 2004. <mask> transferred to Portugal playing for FC Porto Billiards team. He captained the team for three years, and won the bronze medal at the 2004–05 European Three-cushion Cup with the team.He is the 25-time winner of Turkish Grand Prix in total. He won the Turkish champion title 14 times in three-cushion. Furthermore, he has ten champion titles in carom billiards in Turkey, as well as one each in cadre 47/2 and one-cushion. In 2006, he ranked at 8th place of the world bests of Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB). His highest average in a match is 3.571 (50 points in 14 innings). In 2009, <mask> signed a contract with the cue-stick producer Longoni. Under the contract, a series of cue sticks that bear <mask>'s name has been available from the company.<mask> announced his retirement from active sports in 2006, continuing to participate only in some international competitions. His last international participation was in 2007. However, he made his comeback in 2015 by winning the Turkish championship again. Following the championship, he was named to take part in the Turkey national team.

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