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Vaai "<mask><mask> (born 31 May 1993) is a professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a , er or  forward for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL. He has played for Tonga and New Zealand at international level. Taumalolo played for the NRL All Stars and he was a member of the Cowboys' 2015 NRL Grand Final and 2016 World Club Challenge winning sides, and won the Dally M Medal in 2016. <mask> was born in Auckland, New Zealand to parents Tominika and Vaai Akolo, and is of Tongan descent. Enrolled in primary school under his given name, Vaai, his teacher was unable to pronounce it correctly, instead deciding to call him "<mask>". He grew up in Mangere and started playing rugby league at the age of 4 for the Papakura Sea Eagles and attended De La Salle College along with older brother Warner. At age 13, he moved to Townsville after being scouted and signed to a scholarship by the North Queensland Cowboys while playing for a touring New Zealand under-16 team.In Townsville, Taumalolo played his junior rugby league for Townsville Brothers and attended Kirwan State High School, where he represented the Australian Schoolboys at the age of 16. Playing career

Early career
In 2009, Taumalolo played for the Townsville Stingers in the Cyril Connell Cup, scoring seven tries. Later that year, he was selected in the Queensland under-16 team. 2010
In 2010, Taumalolo joined the Cowboys' under-20 side, making his debut at age 16. In Round 24 of the 2010 NRL season, he made his NRL debut for the Cowboys against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, becoming the youngest ever player to debut for the club, aged 17 years, 2 months and 21 days, when he came off the bench in a 20–22 loss at Dairy Farmers Stadium. It was his only appearance for 2010. In October, Taumalolo played for the Junior Kiwis.2011
<mask> would make his second NRL appearance almost a year later in Round 24 against the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He starred for the Cowboys in Round 25 against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, coming off the interchange bench for the 3rd time to score 2 crucial tries and making 2 line breaks and 125 metres. At the end of the season, <mask> was awarded the Rugby League Player's Association's Toyota Cup Player of the Year award and was named in the Toyota Cup Team of the Year in the . <mask> played in the Cowboys in the NYC grand final against the New Zealand Warriors, scoring a try in the golden point 31–30 loss. He played in 3 matches and scored 2 tries for the Cowboys in 2011. In October, he again played for the Junior Kiwis. 2012
On 17 February, <mask> re-signed with the Cowboys until the end of the 2015 season.In March, he was reported to have declared his allegiance to Queensland and Australia, though on 7 April, New Zealand Rugby League's high performance manager Tony Kemp confirmed that Taumalolo had pledged allegiance to New Zealand, the country of his birth. <mask> was named as a reserve in the New Zealand squad for the 2012 ANZAC Test against Australia, but was not selected to play. Taumalolo finished the season with 5 tries in 17 matches. In October, he was again selected for the Junior Kiwis. He was described as the "next Sonny Bill Williams". 2013
On 20 April, <mask> made his international debut for Tonga in the Pacific Test against Samoa at Centerbet Stadium. Taumalolo was a standout in the Intrust Super Cup in the 2013 season, playing for Cowboys feeder club, the Mackay Cutters.The Cutters won the competition and dedicated their win to recently deceased teammate Alex Elisala. He would later go on to star for the Cowboys at the backend of the season including the club's semi-final loss to Cronulla. <mask> played 14 matches and scored 2 tries for the Cowboys in 2013. In October, he represented Tonga in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, playing in 2 matches and scoring a try in their match against the Cook Islands. 2014
In February, <mask> was selected in the Cowboys tournament winning inaugural Auckland Nines squad. 2014 was a stand out season for Taumalolo with him playing 25 matches and scoring 6 tries as the Cowboys finished 5th. He made 241 hitups and gained 2889 metres.On 7 October, <mask> was selected in the Kiwis final 24 man squad for the Four Nations series. He made his test debut for New Zealand against Australia at  in the Kiwis 30–12 win at Suncorp Stadium. <mask> played at lock in the Kiwis 22–18 Four Nations final win over Australia at Westpac Stadium. He capped off 2014 winning Tonga International Player of the Year Award. 2015
On 27 January, <mask> was named in the Cowboys 2015 NRL Auckland Nines squad. On 13 February, he was selected at lock for the NRL All Stars in the All Stars match at Cbus Super Stadium. Rejecting a $2 million contract offer from the New Zealand Warriors, <mask> extended his contract with the Cowboys to the end of the 2017 season.On 28 September, <mask> was named at lock in the Dally M Team of the Year. On 4 October, in the Cowboys Queensland derby 2015 NRL Grand Final against the Brisbane Broncos, <mask> started at lock in the Cowboys golden point 17–16 win. He finished the Cowboys premiership winning season with 2 tries from 26 matches. <mask> was selected in the 23-man New Zealand Test squad for the Baskerville Shield series but later withdrew due to injury. 2016
In the pre-season, <mask> again played in the Auckland Nines, and was a member of the Cowboys' World Club Challenge winning side, starting at lock in the 38–4 victory over the Leeds Rhinos at Headingley Stadium. On 6 May, <mask> played for the Kiwis against Australia, starting at lock in the 18–0 loss. In Round 14, he played his 100th NRL game.<mask> was named the Rugby League Players Association Player of the Year by his fellow players. He was also named as the joint winner of the Dally M Medal with the Melbourne Storm's Cooper Cronk, in addition to being named Lock of the Year for the second consecutive season. After the Four Nations final against Australia, <mask> and Valentine Holmes were flown to the United States to take part in drills as part of scouting for NFL teams. The outfits, including Kansas City, then offered Taumalolo the opportunity to inspect their set-ups in the strongest sign of an NFL future. 2017
On 22 March, <mask> re-signed with the Cowboys on a 10-year deal, which will see him stay with the club until the end of the 2027 season. He would go on to play 26 games for the Cowboys during the 2017 season, starting all of them at lock. On 1 October, he started at lock in the Cowboys' 2017 NRL Grand Final loss to the Melbourne Storm.He became the first forward in NRL history to run for over 5000 metres in a season, averaging 205.8 metres per game for the 2017 season. On 5 October, <mask> was named in the Tonga squad for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. He chose to represent the nation of his parent's birth, for whom he played for at the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, over the country of his birth New Zealand. This move, although negatively portrayed in mainstream media, was deemed a noble move by many of the public not only in New Zealand but around the world. On 6 October, he was awarded the Paul Bowman Medal for Cowboys' Player of the Year for the second straight season. He was also awarded the Royal Order; alongside his Mate Ma'a Tonga players by Princess Salote Lupepau'u Tuita at the residency or the current Tongan King, Tupou VI in their final visit to Tonga in 2017. On 29 October, in the World Cup against Scotland, <mask> was award a man of a match for show his way past several Scottish defenders to score Tonga's try in the lead of 50-4 win at Barlow Park.2018
In Round 11 of the 2018 NRL season, <mask> played his 150th NRL game for the Cowboys in their 19–20 loss to the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Following another strong season, in which he averaged 177m per game, <mask> was awarded the Paul Bowman Medal for Cowboys' Player of the Year for the third straight time. On 26 September, he was named Lock of the Year at the 2018 Dally M Awards and finished sixth in voting, the highest of any forward. On October 5, he was named in Tonga's squad for their Test match against Australia. 2019
In Round 1 of the 2019 NRL season, <mask> ran for a career-high 301 metres in the Cowboys' 24–12 win over the St George Illawarra Dragons. In Round 2, he suffered a medial injury in a loss to the Brisbane Broncos, ruling him out for six weeks. He returned from injury in the Cowboys' Round 8 win over the Gold Coast Titans, scoring a try.In Round 13, he set a new career-high with 311 running metres in a 20–22 loss to the Manly Sea Eagles. In June, he started at lock for Tonga in their 14–34 loss to New Zealand. In Round 21, <mask> suffered a partial tear to his plantar fascia, ruling him out for one week. He returned to play through the injury for the final three games of the season. Taumalolo played 18 games in 2019, his lowest tally since 2013. He finished the season with an average of 196.6 metres per game, the most for any forward in the competition. On 18 September, he won the Paul Bowman Medal for Cowboys' Player of the Year for the fourth straight season.On 26 October, <mask> led Tonga in beating Great Britain. A week later on 2 November, he led Tonga in their win against Australia, creating history as the first tier 2 nation to beat Australia since the system came into place. He stated that it was the greatest moment of his career. 2020
In February, <mask> was the captain of the Cowboys' 2020 NRL Nines winning squad and was named in the Team of the Tournament. He and teammate Kyle Feldt became the first players to win two NRL Nines championships. In Round 2, he set a new career-high with 345 running metres in a 24–16 win against the Canterbury Bulldogs. This was the most metres gained by a forward in one match and the third most of all time.In Round 6, <mask> captained the Cowboys for the first time, going onto captain the side six more times that season. In the Cowboys' Round 15 loss to the Newcastle Knights, tore his calf, ruling him out for three weeks. He returned off the bench in Round 19 in a loss to the Penrith Panthers. On 3 October, Taumalolo won the Paul Bowman Medal for the fifth consecutive season, beating Johnathan Thurston's record of four wins. On 16 December, <mask> was named as co-captain of the Cowboys for the 2021 season, alongside Michael Morgan. Achievements and accolades

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Dally M Medal: 2016
Rugby League Players Association Player of the Year: 2016
Rugby League Week Player of the Year: 2016
Dally M Lock of the Year: 2015, 2016, 2018
Paul Bowman Medal: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
North Queensland Cowboys Players' Player of the Year: 2016, 2017, 2018
North Queensland Cowboys Member's Player of the Year: 2016, 2019
North Queensland Cowboys Rookie of the Year: 2012
North Queensland Cowboys NYC Player of the Year: 2010, 2011
NYC Team of the Year: 2011
Rugby League Players Association NYC Player of the Year: 2011

Team
2014 Auckland Nines: North Queensland Cowboys – Winners
2015 NRL Grand Final: North Queensland Cowboys – Winners
2016 World Club Challenge: North Queensland Cowboys – Winners
2020 NRL Nines: North Queensland Cowboys – Winners

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NRL
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International

References

External links
North Queensland Cowboys profile
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Living people
Junior Kiwis players
Mackay Cutters players
New Zealand people of Tongan descent
North Queensland Cowboys captains
NRL All Stars players
Papakura Sea Eagles players
People educated at De La Salle College, Māngere East
People educated at Kirwan State High School
Rugby league second-rows
Tonga national rugby league team captains
Rugby league players from Auckland
New Zealand national rugby league team players

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<mask> (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010) was a corporate and social strategist, educator and author. He was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He co-authored "Core Competence of the Corporation" with Gary Hamel; and "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" with Stuart L. Hart, about business opportunity in serving the Bottom of the Pyramid. On 16 April 2010, <mask> died at the age of 68 of a previously undiagnosed lung illness in San Diego, California. Education and teaching
<mask> was born in Madhwa brahmin family at Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) in 1941. His father was a Tamil scholar and judge in Madras (now Chennai). At 19, he had finished his BSc degree in physics from Loyola College, Chennai, part of the University of Madras, and joined Union Carbide, where he worked for four years.Four years later he did postgraduate work in management at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. At Harvard Business School, Prahalad wrote a doctoral thesis on multinational management in two and a half years, graduating with a DBA degree in 1975. After graduating from Harvard, <mask> returned to the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad to serve as professor before returning to US again in 1977. He returned to the United States in 1977, with an appointment to the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business Administration. He eventually became a tenured full professor, earning the university's highest distinction, Distinguished University Professor, in 2005. Career

In early 1990 Prahalad advised Philips' Jan Timmer on the restructuring of this electronic corporation, then on the brink of collapse. A process which was named Operation Centurion was set up, and was successful after two or three years.<mask> was the inspiration behind the vision of India@75. While commemorating the 60th year of India’s independence, on 23 September 2007, during the Incredible India@60 celebration at New York, he articulated the idea of holistic three dimensional development of India to acquire enough economic strength, technological vitality, and moral leadership by 2022 – the 75th year of India’s independence. The Confederation of Indian Industry adopted his vision on 8 May 2008. This initiative of CII has also found resonance with the Government, as in the ‘Strategy for New India@75’ document released by the NITI Aayog, Government of India in 2018. C. K<mask> is the co-author of a number of works in corporate strategy, including The Core Competence of the Corporation (with Gary Hamel, Harvard Business Review, May–June 1990) which  was one of the most frequently reprinted articles published by the journal. He authored or co-authored: Competing for the Future (with Gary Hamel, 1994), The Future of Competition (with Venkat Ramaswamy, 2004), and The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits (Wharton School Publishing, 2004). His last book, co-authored by M. S<mask>n and published in April 2008, is The New Age of Innovation.He co-authored: "Innovation's Holy Grail" with R.A Mashelkar which was chosen as a Harvard Business Review Top 10 articles on Innovation and focuses on how developing nations are leading the way in innovation that focuses more on affordability and sustainability as opposed to the common premium pricing model. <mask> was co-founder and became chief executive officer of Praja Inc. ("Praja" from a Sanskrit word "Praja" which means "citizen" or "common people"). The company had goals of providing unrestricted access to information for people at the "bottom of the pyramid" and providing a test bed for various management ideas. It eventually laid off a third of its workforce, and was sold to TIBCO. In 2004 Prahalad co-founded management consultancy The Next Practice, to support companies in implementing the strategies outlined in The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, which continued in operation . At the time of his death he was on the board of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs. Prahalad was a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission of the United Nations on Private Sector and Development.Honors and awards
He was the first recipient of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Award for contributions to Management and Public Administration presented by the President of India in 1999. In 1994, he was presented the Maurice Holland Award from the Industrial Research Institute for an article published in Research-Technology Management titled "The Role of Core Competencies in the Corporation." In 2009, he was awarded Pravasi Bharatiya Samman. In 2009, he was named Padma Bhushan 'third in the hierarchy of civilian awards' by the Government of India. In 2009, he was named the world's most influential business thinker on the Thinkers50.com list. In 2009, he was awarded the Herbert Simon Award by the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies (Corvinus University of Budapest). In 2010, he was posthumously awarded the Viipuri International Prize in Strategic (Technology) Management and Business Economics by Lappeenranta University of Technology.In 2011, the Southern Regional Headquarters of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) was named as Prof <mask> Prahalad Center
 In 2018, he was named the world's most influential business thinker on the Thinkers50.com list. See also
 Bottom of the pyramid
 Core competency
 Co-creation
 Dominant logic

References

External links

 Video interview on The Magazine Post
 Video interview on Thinkers 50
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
The New Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Indian business theorists
1941 births
Harvard Business School alumni
Ross School of Business faculty
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad alumni
Loyola College, Chennai alumni
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
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Indian Tamil academics
University of Madras alumni
American academics of Indian descent
20th-century Indian economists
People from Coimbatore
American people of Indian Tamil descent
Scientists from Tamil Nadu
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<mask> started his career as a clerk with a construction company(MES) in Rawalpindi. In the 1980s, <mask> moved to become a contractor, and in 1995 Riaz's construction company Hussain Global, signed an agreement with Pakistan Navy's charitable trust known as Bahria Foundation to develop a gated community for Pakistan Navy. The Navy's Bahria Foundation served a legal notice to <mask> to stop using the word "Bahria" for his company's construction projects, but <mask> went on to develop Bahria Town Rawalpindi offering gifts of bungalows, and mansions to politically connected people and army generals. He expanded his real-estate company and developed gated communities in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad during the 2000s, developing a combined area of 45,000 square acres. As of 2016, Bahria had 60,000 employees, making it one of the largest private sector employers in Pakistan. <mask> is a controversial figure and has been subject of several corruption investigations.Bahria Town Karachi is the biggest private project of Asia, which is also owned by <mask>. Early life
<mask> was born to a private contractor who was fairly wealthy. However, his father's business failed, forcing <mask> to drop out of high school after completing his matriculation. He went on to work as a clerk with the Military Engineering Service and often working part-time as a painter. He later moved to become a low-key contractor in the military. According to Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, <mask> learnt to "work the system". According to Siddiqa, <mask> used his contacts to secure a contract with the Pakistan Navy in the mid-1990s to develop two housing schemes in the outskirts of Rawalpindi.In 2000, the Pakistan Navy transferred its entire shareholding to Hussain and later fought a legal battle with <mask> over contract infringement in which the Supreme Court ruled in Hussain's favor. Business
<mask> has ambitiously expanded his business empire under the brand name of Bahria Town Group, but a Supreme Court-ordered trial concluded that Riaz cannot use the word Bahria for its gated communities. <mask> is considered as a liberal in his business practices. According to Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa "to think that he is defined by religiosity and traditionalism, however, would be a mistake. His employees' profiles show that he hires a lot of women, especially at the middle and senior management levels, because he finds them "hard-working, efficient and diligent". Bahria Town has projects in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Murree and Karachi. Bahria Town Karachi is the biggest private project of Asia, which is also owned by <mask>.<mask> had mentioned and ended terms with his former partner, Ahlat Ziar. Ahlat Ziar has no property in Bahria Town despite being his former partner. Ahlat Ziar quoted, "<mask> is a living fraud and a scam," with no other comments. His net worth is valued at around US$1.5 billion (). Controversies
<mask> Hussain was approached by an intermediary of Arsalan Iftikhar Chaudhry, son of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, that he had inside information and a case and it can be resolved in his favour. <mask> Hussain in an official deposition produced itemised list of how he bankrolled a playboy lifestyle for the son of the country's top judge. Arsalan Iftikhar Chaudhry had allegedly promised to influence his father's rulings.<mask> Hussain, the Chairman of Bahria Town Pvt. Ltd., has been at the center of some controversies and allegations. The allegations are mostly that he pays to get things done his way. An excerpt from pakistanherald.com states that "National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is currently looking into another application filed by a former military officer Lt-Col (retd) Tariq Kamal, which states that the land on which Bahria town is constructed, and is further expanding, was not acquired through legal means. It is alleged that Hussain has strong ties with Pakistan’s military which assisted him in building a huge empire. Some claims go as far as saying that a handful of the important serving army officers, bureaucrats and lawyers are practically on Hussian’s payroll." In October 2019, the parents of Amanda Halse, one of the 20 victims of the Schoharie limousine crash in the U.S. state of New York a year earlier, named <mask> as a defendant in a wrongful death suit they filed over the accident, since they allege that he had helped finance the businesses of two distant relatives who were principals in the company that owned and operated the limousine.UK NCA £190M court settlement
After being alerted by Pakistani authorities to sources of his income and cash expenditure, the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) began an investigation into <mask> Hussain. In December 2018, £20M was frozen by the UK High Court under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. By August 2019, a total of nine court orders were in place, enabling UK authorities to hold £140M. All of the court orders were made against the assets and cash, and not their actual or beneficial owner. In December 2019, <mask> came to a civil agreement with the NCA, handing over £140M in cash, and the Grade II listed house 1 Hyde Park Place, valued at £50million. The NCA commented that the multimillion-pound settlement did “not represent a finding of guilt”. Control of the £190M of assets and cash will be returned under a UK High Court order to the Pakistani Authorities, who have advised that they will ask the UK Courts to sell any assets and return the sum in cash.The amount was transferred to the account set up by Supreme Court for the recovery of 460 billion rupees fine imposed on Bahria Town in a separate case, going towards the reimbursement of the fine. Personal life
<mask> married Beena <mask> and has two sons <mask> and Hamza <mask> and three daughters. References

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 Official website
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Pakistani real estate businesspeople
Pakistani philanthropists
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Pakistani company founders
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<mask> (18 December 1895 – 4 February 1965) was a Ghanaian politician, scholar, lawyer, and one of the founding fathers of Ghana. He played a significant role in pre- and post-colonial Ghana, which was formerly the Gold Coast, and is credited with giving Ghana its name. During his political career, Danquah was one of the primary opposition leaders to Ghanaian president and independence leader Kwame Nkrumah. Danquah was described as the "doyen of Gold Coast politics" by the Watson Commission of Inquiry into the 1948 Accra riots. Being a scholar and a historian, he researched the history of the Akan peoples, and chose a name for their country that would suit the new country which was to gain independence. The name was intended to remind the generations to come of their origin and history as a nation. Early life and education
Danquah was born on 18 December 1895 in the town of Bepong in Kwahu in the Eastern Region of Ghana (then the Gold Coast).He was descended from the royal family of Ofori Panin Fie, once the rulers of the Akyem states, and one of the most influential families in Ghanaian politics. His elder brother is Nana Sir Ofori Atta I and his son is actor <mask>. At the age of six, Danquah began schooling at the Basel Mission School at Kyebi. He attended the Basel Mission Senior School at Begoro. On successful completion of his standard seven examinations in 1912, he was employed by Vidal J<mask>, a barrister-at-law in Accra, as a clerk, a job that aroused his interest in law. After passing the Civil Service Examinations in 1914, Danquah became a clerk at the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast, which gave him the experience to be appointed by his brother, Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, who had become chief two years earlier, as secretary of the Omanhene's Tribunal in Kyebi. Following the influence of his brother, Danquah was appointed as the assistant secretary of the Conference of Paramount Chiefs of the Eastern Province, which was later given statutory recognition to become the Eastern Provincial Council of Chiefs.His brilliance influenced his brother to send him to Britain in 1921 to read law. After two unsuccessful attempts at the University of London matriculation, Danquah passed in 1922, enabling him to enter the University College of London as a philosophy student. He earned his B.A. degree in 1925, winning the John Stuart Mill Scholarship in the Philosophy of Mind and Logic. He then embarked on a Doctor of Philosophy degree, which he earned in two years with a thesis entitled "The Moral End as Moral Excellence". He became the first West African to obtain the Doctor of Philosophy degree from a British university. While he worked on his thesis, he entered the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar in 1926.During his student days, he had two sons and two daughters by two different women, neither of whom he married. In London, Danquah took time off his studies to participate in student politics, serving as editor of the West African Students' Union (WASU) magazine and becoming the Union's president. Career
Danquah went into private legal practice upon his return to Ghana in 1927. In 1929 he helped J. E. Casely Hayford found the Gold Coast Youth Conference (GCYC) and was Secretary General from 1937 to 1947. In 1931, Danquah established The Times of West Africa, originally called the West Africa Times, which was the first daily newspaper in Ghana published between 1931 and 1935. A column called "Women's Corner" was pseudonymously written by Mabel Dove, daughter of prominent barrister Francis Dove. She became Danquah's first wife in 1933, bearing him a son.Danquah later married Elizabeth Vardon. In 1935, he became an executive member of the International African Friends of Ethiopia, a Pan-Africanist organization based in London. Politics
Danquah became a member of the Legislative Council in 1946 and actively pursued independence legislation for his country. In 1947 he helped to found the pro-independence United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) as a combination of chiefs, academics and lawyers, including George Alfred Grant, <mask> <mask>, R. A. Awoonor-Williams, Edward Akufo-Addo, and Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey. Kwame Nkrumah was invited to be the new party's general secretary. In 1948, following a boycott of European imports and subsequent rioting in Accra, Danquah was one of "the big six" (the others being Nkrumah, Akufo-Addo, Obetsebi-Lamptey, Ebenezer Ako-Adjei and William Ofori Atta) who were detained for a month by the colonial authorities. Danquah's historical research led him to agree with Nkrumah's proposition that on independence the Gold Coast be renamed Ghana after the early African empire of that name.However, <mask> and Nkrumah subsequently disagreed over the direction of the independence movement and parted ways after two years. Nkrumah went on to form the Convention People's Party (CPP) and eventually became the first president of independent Ghana. <mask>'s role in the founding of the University of Ghana
<mask> played an important role in the establishment of the University of Ghana, the premier and the largest university in Ghana. He successfully advocated for its establishment in 1948 after a British report on higher education in West Africa recommended that only one university college, to be located in Nigeria, in association with the University of London, would be feasible for the whole of West Africa. Arrest, detention and death
<mask> stood as a presidential candidate against Nkrumah in April 1960 but lost the election. On 3 October 1961, <mask> was arrested under the Preventive Detention Act, on the grounds of involvement with alleged plans to subvert the CPP government. He was released on 22 June 1962.He was later elected president of the Ghana Bar Association. Danquah was again arrested on 8 January 1964, for allegedly being implicated in a plot against the President. He suffered a heart attack and died while in detention at Nsawam Medium Prison on 4 February 1965. After the overthrow of the CPP government in February 1966 by the National Liberation Council (NLC), Danquah was given a national funeral. Publications

Among his writings are Gold Coast: Akan Laws and Customs and the Akim Abuakwa Constitution (1928), a play entitled The Third Woman (1943), and The Akan Doctrine of God (1944). The latter book demonstrated the compatibility of African religion with Christianity, and is considered a "milestone" for African Protestants looking for ways to reclaim their African heritage. Family
Kwaku <mask>eng and J.B. Danquah were related by marriage. Legacy

The J. B. Danquah Memorial Lecture Series was inaugurated in 1968 in memory of <mask>, who was also a founding member of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS). The Danquah Institute was set up in commemoration of his work and to promote his ideas posthumously. Danquah Circle, a roundabout at Osu in Accra, was also named after him. References

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1965 deaths
Akan people
Ghanaian MPs 1951–1954
Alumni of the University of London
Ghanaian Christians
Ghanaian Freemasons
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Ghanaian historians
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Ghanaian pan-Africanists
Ghanaian lawyers
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Ofori-Atta family
20th-century historians
20th-century lawyers
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Fellows of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

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<mask> (August 20, 1958 – May 19, 1984) was an American spree killer who is believed to have murdered nine people in Alaska during May 1984, primarily in the small village of Manley Hot Springs. The spree culminated in a shootout with Alaska State Troopers in the Alaskan wilderness in which Silka was shot and killed. The motives for Silka's actions remain unclear. Early life
<mask> grew up in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. From an early age, he had a love of firearms and the outdoors, and had a history of encounters with the law. In 1975, Silka and another juvenile were apprehended while trying to steal camping gear and weapons from a Des Plaines sporting goods store. That same year, <mask> and his brother Steve ran away from high school to the Canadian wilderness, returning when they had depleted their provisions.In February 1977, four months before graduating from Hoffman Estates High School, Silka was arrested for carrying an antique black-powder muzzle-loading rifle — reminiscent of the weapons used by early mountain men — through a park in the suburb. He was arrested again for the same offenses later that year. Silka was convicted and paid a $100 fine. Shortly thereafter, Silka enlisted in the United States Army, at least partly on the advice of a longtime neighbor, Forman Hurst, who later recalled him as "a good kid, a typical teenager. He loved the outdoors. That was his No. 1 ambition, to be outside exploring nature."In 1981, he was stationed at Fort Wainwright, located on the East side of Fairbanks, Alaska, until his discharge the same year. Army records show that <mask> was rated an expert marksman with the M16 rifle and grenade launcher while in basic training. However, his stay at Fort Wainwright was marked by several run-ins with military police, including an assault charge and an arrest for discharging a firearm in a barracks. After his discharge from the Army, <mask> returned to Hoffman Estates and worked at a number of jobs, mostly in construction work. In November 1982, he was stopped for a minor traffic violation and the officer noticed four weapons — a .44 caliber revolver, a .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol, and two knives — in his car. <mask> was charged for weapons possession and with resisting arrest after he refused to exit the squad car after arriving at the station. He was convicted and spent four days in Cook County Jail.On July 21, 1983, <mask> was arrested on another weapons violation after a South Barrington officer stopped him for speeding, and a .22-caliber rifle was found in the back seat. He made several court appearances, the last on October 26, but then he skipped bond and fled to Alaska. A warrant for his arrest was issued on December 20. According to his younger brother Frank, Silka had been working in Alaska for some time, although he did not know what job his brother held. Suspected murder of Roger Culp
A bearded, 25-year-old drifter, Silka was first seen in Alaska in the Chena Ridge section of Fairbanks. On April 29, 1984, police had questioned Silka about fresh blood and a snow-covered mound at his cabin. At the time, the Alaska State Troopers were under the impression that they were investigating whether Silka himself had been killed.Troopers dropped the matter when <mask> stuck his head out of his shack and explained that the blood was from a moose hide. However, Silka's neighbor, Roger Culp, had gone missing the day before. Witnesses reported that Silka and Culp went into Silka's cabin, and later heard as many as eight gunshots. Apparently, witnesses had not reported the incident immediately. When Troopers obtained the new information, they returned to the cabin on May 8 with a search warrant, but Silka was gone. Red spots on the ground, by this point free of snow, were found to be human blood. At this point, Silka was wanted for questioning in Culp's disappearance, but Troopers had no leads as to his whereabouts.Manley Hot Springs
<mask> was next seen on Monday, May 14, 1984, at the end of a  dirt road (Alaska Route 2) in Manley Hot Springs, a tiny mining town of 70 people located west of Fairbanks and deep in the interior of Alaska. He was driving a battered brown and white 1974 Dodge Monaco filled with camping equipment and an aluminum canoe mounted on the roof. Unseen by villagers among the equipment were guns and ammunition. According to one resident, Robert E. Lee, <mask> told the villagers that he planned to settle in the area. Silka described himself to Lee as a "mountain man". The villagers were impressed by Silka's common sense of the wilderness and survival, as well as his marksmanship. He was often seen "hanging around" a boat landing on the Tanana River, only  outside of town.<mask> had set up a tent at the boat landing and was frequently seen paddling his canoe in the Tanana. Lee said that on Thursday, May 17 between 2 and 4 p.m., six villagers went to the boat landing, all of whom disappeared. The disappearances were not noted by the locals until the following day, at which point they contacted Alaska State Troopers in Fairbanks on Friday night. The wife of one of the missing men gave Troopers <mask>'s license plate number, and the police then checked and learned he was wanted for investigation of the murder of Culp. Two helicopters, three planes and the Troopers' Special Emergency Reaction Team were sent to Manley at 2 a.m. Saturday, May 19. At the boat landing, Troopers found blood, believed to be human, and used cartridge casings. A wide helicopter search for Silka along the Tanana began at 2 a.m. At this time of year in Alaska, it was still daylight, so the search proceeded without hindrance.By the late hours of the same day, <mask> was found upstream about  southeast of Manley in an unnamed tributary of the Zitziana River (which is itself a tributary of the Tanana), near his own canoe and a motorized boat belonging to one of his victims, Fred Burk. Troopers offered Silka a chance to surrender. Instead, he stepped from behind a tree and fired a Ruger .30-06-caliber rifle at one of the airborne helicopters, penetrating the windshield and striking 34-year-old Trooper Troy L. Duncan of Fairbanks in the head, killing him instantly, and injuring Captain Donald Lawrence in the face. Trooper Jeff Hall returned fire with an M16 rifle, firing a burst on automatic from a moving helicopter. Five shots struck Silka and killed him. Troopers at the shootout said it was reminiscent of combat in the Vietnam War. A memorial service for the victims was held at the boat landing on Sunday, May 20.<mask> was cremated and his ashes were buried in the Sitka National Cemetery in Alaska at his father's request. By June 23, 1984, four of the bodies — those of Burk, Lyman Klein, Dale Madajski and Larry Joe McVey — had been recovered from the Tanana River. Burk's body was discovered by his wife, Liller, about  downstream from the scene of the killings. For months, families and friends of the victims searched the brush choked banks of the Tanana. Troopers believe that Silka had been in Alaska about a month. It is believed that he dumped the bodies of his victims into the Tanana in the hopes that they would not be found. The Tanana is as much as a mile wide and  deep, and as the water remains near freezing temperatures, the glacier-fed river is heavily silted, and bodies are likely to remain below the surface.The motives for Silka's actions remain unclear. Victims
Fred Burk (also spelled Burke), 30, an Athabaskan Alaska Native homesteader, fur trapper and fisherman, whose boat was stolen by <mask>
Albert Hagen, Jr., 27, Alaska Native construction worker who had just returned six weeks previous to visit his parents after a ten-year absence. Unmarried, he had been living in California previously. Joyce Klein, about 30, who was four months pregnant and had gone to the river for an outing with her husband and son
Lyman Klein, 36, husband of Joyce Klein
Marshall Klein, 2, son of Joyce and Lyman Klein
Dale Madajski, 24, a carpenter, cabin builder
Larry Joe McVey, 38, a trapper and disabled Vietnam veteran (he was severely injured by a booby-trapped gasoline can during the war)
Roger Culp, 34, a wood cutter, possible victim
Troy L. Duncan, 34, an Alaska State Trooper since August 1981 and a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps

See also
List of rampage killers in the United States

References

1958 births
1984 deaths
1984 murders in the United States
20th-century American criminals
American murderers of children
American people convicted of burglary
American spree killers
Burials at Sitka National Cemetery
Criminals from Illinois
Deaths by firearm in Alaska
Family murders
Fugitives
Hoffman Estates High School alumni
Mass murder in 1984
Mass shootings in Alaska
Mass shootings in the United States
Military personnel from Illinois
Murder in Alaska
People from Hoffman Estates, Illinois
People shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United States
United States Army soldiers

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Michael Alan Silka
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<mask> (born 1 December 1981) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL) for the Fremantle Football Club between 2002 and 2015, after two seasons with the Hawthorn Football Club. He was educated at Christ Church Grammar School in Perth where he graduated in 1999. Throughout his AFL career, McPharlin predominantly played as a key defender. AFL career
<mask> was recruited from East Fremantle in Western Australia to the Hawthorn Football Club after being taken at Pick 10 in the 1999 AFL Draft. He made his debut in 2000, kicking a goal with his first kick, but played just 12 total games in his first two seasons at Hawthorn. Feeling home sick in Melbourne, McPharlin jumped at the chance of returning to Perth, and was subsequently traded to Fremantle following the 2001 season. McPharlin battled injury early on in his career, managing just over 50 games in his first five seasons.In 2005, McPharlin garnered Mark of the Year honours for his spectacular chestmark against the West Coast Eagles in Round Three. McPharlin played his 200th AFL game in Round 13, 2012 against Essendon. That season, he was named in the All-Australian team as a defender. In 2013, McPharlin helped lead Fremantle to their first ever AFL Grand Final appearance, where they were defeated by Hawthorn by 15 points, ending the club's best season in their 19-year history just short of their first premiership success. McPharlin struggled to play regularly in 2013 and 2014 with calf and achilles-related issues, managing just 29 games over those two seasons. He also did not feature in Fremantle's finals campaigns in 2014 and 2015 due to calf problems. On 30 September 2015, <mask> announced his retirement from the AFL after 256 games and 16 seasons in the league.<mask> departed Fremantle sitting second on the club's games record list with 244, behind only Matthew Pavlich who retired on 353. Personal life
McPharlin was the lead guitarist and singer of a Baháʼí Youth Music outfit, "Calling, Waiting, Searching". His musical skills led him to win The Footy Show's musical contest Screamers in 2005. On 24 July 2011, it was announced that McPharlin would release his debut album later that year in collaboration with local Perth act Stella's Kitchen. McPharlin and his wife, Kalinz, have two daughters. After retiring from football McPharlin and his family moved to Broome where he works as a pharmacist. Statistics

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| 18 || 16 || 4 || 1 || 173 || 73 || 246 || 106 || 28 || 0.2 || 0.1 || 10.8 || 4.6 || 15.4 || 6.6 || 1.8
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References

External links

<mask>'s profile on the Official WAFL Website

1981 births
20th-century Bahá'ís
21st-century Bahá'ís
Living people
All-Australians (AFL)
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
Australian Bahá'ís
East Fremantle Football Club players
Fremantle Football Club players
Hawthorn Football Club players
People from Perth, Western Australia
People educated at Christ Church Grammar School
Australian pharmacists

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<mask>  is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the mayor of Meridian, Mississippi from 2013 to 2021. Under <mask>'s leadership, downtown Meridian was transformed into a vibrant space. From the Sela Ward project to the Highway 59/20 lighting project which was funded and supported by the State of Mississippi, his leadership paved the way for the city's future. Downtown businesses like Castle Pipeline established their new corporate headquarters in downtown Meridian, and because of the Go Cup Ordinance that allowed citizens to walk with an open container in a specific district of the downtown area more restaurants like the Three-foot Brewery were established. Early life and family
<mask> was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi on September 23, 1970. <mask> grew up in Jackson, Mississippi and attended St. Joseph High School, Bland later earned a B.S in chemistry at Xavier University of Louisiana of New Orleans, and played collegiate basketball. Bland also earned a Master's of Public Health (MPH) degree at the University of Southern Mississippi.<mask> met his wife Deidre in Atlanta and the couple was married on August 15, 1999. <mask>'s wife Deidre is now the community engagement specialist for the Meridian Public School System. <mask> went on to work for the Fulton County Health Department in Atlanta, Georgia where he served as an epidemiologist in the Tuberculosis Control Department. <mask> returned to Mississippi and began employment as the Human Resources Director and Marketing Director with the G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center. <mask> came to Meridian to own and operate a State Farm Insurance Agency. <mask> continues to run and manage a very successful insurance Agency.Community involvement
In 2007, <mask> served as co-chair to pass a bond issue for the first major renovations and improvements to Meridian's public schools in more than 20 years. The bond issue was for $19.5 million. The bond issue passed on March 27, 2007, with 71.3%. <mask> also helped establish the Magnolia Youth Sports Association and still runs his own Summer Basketball Camp. <mask> helped establish the First Tee Golf Program in Meridian, the first in the state, a golf program aimed at improving the quality of life of primarily inner-city children. Mayor of Meridian
On June 4, 2013, <mask> won the election for mayor of Meridian by 54% of the vote. Before he took office, <mask> formed a 29-member transition team from the community to study five issues - education, community development, public safety, infrastructure and city partnerships - and make recommendations about how to more improve those areas in Meridian.<mask> was sworn in as the first African-American mayor of the city of Meridian on July 1, 2013. During the first Meridian City Council meeting of the new administration, on July 2, 2014, <mask> proposed his livable wage policy. Bland proposed a $9 an hour minimum salary for all city employees that was to be funded by money saved through cuts to other areas of the municipal budget. Bland's livable wage proposal became city policy when the city council passed the municipal budget on September 17, 2013. Bland and several local businesses began recognizing an outstanding teacher or staff member from two MPSD schools a month during the 2013–14 school year. Improvements to public safety were made to the newly annexed part of Meridian through a new warning siren at the recently constructed fire station in that area. Meridian youth sports were brought together through one comprehensive program in the Meridian Parks and Recreation Department.The program brought in more mentors, more coaches, and more churches as partners for the City of Meridian to work with youth through athletics. In May 2014, the City of Meridian pledged $750,000 to help build a new community center. In May 2014, the City of Meridian launched a series of new programs to help fight crime in the city, including a new gang task force, a new team of Meridian police officers and citizens to help with tips on crime, and penalizing parents when their children do not comply with the Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law. In June 2014, Bland built a team to bring a new airline carrier to Meridian. American Airlines the largest airline carrier in the world brings their service to Meridian under the American Eagle brand. Express Jet will operate the service for American Airlines. In September 2014, Bland began a mayor's initiative to raise awareness of school attendance and the dangers of dropping out of high school.Through his Mayor's Youth Council, <mask> created a public service announcement that emphasized issues that high school students face, such as bullying, drugs, and depression. In October 2014, Bland launched his Kidz Zone Initiative, a program that partnered the City of Meridian with city and county schools, both local and private, to strengthen families. On the second Saturday of each month Disney movies are shown at the Meridian Temple Theatre for $2. The program encourages fathers to play an active role within their children's lives. All fathers are allowed free admission to the movie. Also in October 2014, Bland started a "Senior Prom" initiative to engage senior citizens and provide more community activities for that population. On October 6, 2014, Bland received a letter from Governor Phil Bryant that stated Meridian has been approved for a $600,000 Community Development Block Grant to help fund a new community center in the city's east end that would accommodate up to 400 children.On January 26, 2015, Bland and Choctaw Tribal Chief Phyliss J. Anderson signed an agreement to restore public transportation in Meridian. The Choctaw Regional Transportation Facility operates in more than a dozen counties in Mississippi. The bus that will be used in Meridian is handicap accessible, and can seat up to 29 people. People will have to call a special number to make arrangements to be picked up and dropped off at sites. On September 2, 2015, Bland, in cooperation with Commissioner Dick Hall, of Mississippi Department of Transportation, and Meridian Public Schools officials, opened a federally funded Safe Routes to Schools bridge at TJ Harris Lower Elementary School. On February 2, 2016, city officials unanimously approved a resolution that authorized and directed the issuance of general obligation bonds for $7.5 million. The bonds will provide funds for the construction, improvement, and paving of streets, sidewalks, driveways, parkways, walkways, bridges and culverts, public parking facilities, and other municipal projects.On May 18, 2016, Meridian city officials, along with community members and leaders, held a groundbreaking ceremony for Velma Young Community Center. The $2 million project is the first project that brought together the City of Meridian, Lauderdale County, Meridian Housing Authority, and East Mississippi Development for a predominately African-American project. "This has been an under-served area for a number of years, and this community center right here is going to be a huge shot in the arm for this community," said Mayor <mask>. On July 5, 2016, Mayor <mask> and the Meridian City Council passed a resolution and ordinance setting a date of August 16, 2016 for a referendum of a two percent (2%) food and beverage levy at restaurants within the city of Meridian. Revenue from the levy will fund the construction, equipment, furnishings, and operation of the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center. The referendum passed with 68.2 percent. On June 6, 2017, <mask> won a second term against two opponents, Independent Dustin Markham and Republican William Compton.Mayor <mask> received 64 percent of the vote, Markham received 34 percent, and Compton received 2 percent. Second term

<mask> continued building and improving infrastructure in Meridian during his second term as Mayor. He promoted businesses whose purpose was to improve the quality of life for all citizens especially youth. His administration paved more than 28 miles of streets in the inner city during the last four years in office. He started a LED lighting initiative in which LED lightings were installed in neighborhoods throughout the City of Meridian beginning in 2015 with a strong partnership with Mississippi Power. Through his Parks and Recreation Program, <mask> grew sports activities offered to all children from 30 to more than 55. He installed new playground equipment at Velma Young Center, James Chaney Park, Bonita Lakes and opened a Splash Pad at Highland Park.In November 2018, during the aftermath of an F-2 tornado in Ward 2, he championed the Partner's in Recovery Response Team response and helped recover faster. In October 2019, his administration renamed part of downtown 8th Street to David Ruffin Blvd and brought in JSU's Sonic Boom to highlight the occasion along with a dozen of Ruffin's family members. In November 2019, Bland created a family and kid-friendly environment that helped to bring new businesses to Meridian like Hype, Event Zone, and an updated family-oriented Movie Theater with a strong partnership with Developer Andy Weiner. In December 2019, under the Bland administration, the Go Cup or Open Container ordinance for restaurants downtown Meridian went into effect. In 2020, he pushed the $12.5 million paving bond to pave streets in the inner city. In March 2021, he worked with Mississippi Transportation Commissioner Willie Simmons to make improvements to Interstate 59/20 in Meridian. In April 2021, he helped purchase the Meridian Police Department Headquarters from a group of private investors that the city had a 41-year lease agreement with.This reduced the re-payment on the building by 11 years and saved taxpayers $11 million. During his administration, guidelines were issued to residents and business owners to follow safety precautions during the first year and six months of a national pandemic caused by the COVID-19. Thus, protected the lives of many citizens during an unprecedented national and local crisis. He helped engage the city council and community and helped to get buy-in on the MAX (Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience) and the Meridian Mississippi Children's Museum. He also worked with a developer, John Tampa, during his time in office to revitalize the Three-foot Building into a new state of the arts Marriott Hotel and Roof Top Bar and Restaurant that overlooks the city. New businesses opened in downtown Meridian such as Castle Headquarters (formerly Progressive Pipeline), Three-foot Brewery, and near Bonita Lakes Mall, a new Starbucks Coffee Shop during his tenure. <mask> lost to Democratic Candidate Jimmie Smith in the April 2021 primary.Throughout the primary, Smith refused to publicly debate <mask> on issues-running instead on a slogan "We Can Do Better" without ever having to disclose what better would be. Smith's campaign manager was a well-known Mississippi Republican and he was endorsed early on in the campaign by former Republican Meridian Mayor Jimmy Kemp. Democratic candidate Smith won the general election in June 2021 with the huge backing of Republican voters. References

1970 births
African-American mayors in Mississippi
Living people
Mayors of Meridian, Mississippi
Mississippi Democrats
People from Crystal Springs, Mississippi
Politicians from Jackson, Mississippi
University of Southern Mississippi alumni
Xavier University alumni
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people

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<mask> is an Australian trombonist and composer. He is most commonly associated with jazz but also performs and composes in many other styles. Career
<mask> was born in Australia but spent his childhood in Bangladesh as a child of Christian missionary parents. They lived there for fifteen years and were the only white people in the village. He returned to Australia to complete high school. His career and accomplishments are remarkable in their own right but take on extra significance when one considers the breadth of fields he has excelled in. He is a composer and musician with a formidable record and reputation.His extensive, diverse and very well regarded and reviewed body of work, place him in a position of status and reputation with the Australian art scene. He received a bachelor's degree in music from the Victorian College of the Arts which he built on completing a Masters In Composition in 2010. <mask> formed a contemporary improvisation quintet named En Rusk performing his open original compositions. The band toured Australia a number of times. They recorded their debut self-titled CD in 2001 and in 2004 finished their second recording, 1000 Wide. In 2005 he formed The Escalators, which released an album entitled Wrapped in Plastic, compositions and concepts inspired by the films of David Lynch. He also established a reputation in electronic/techno/sample-based music.Continuing his recording and touring career mainly with the iconic and iconoclastic dance/performance act, Des Peres (originally known as Old Des Peres) and second with Hard Hat, a group that brings together electronic and acoustic musicians. Both acts toured Australia and internationally regularly performing at the largest summer festivals around Australia and internationally. Des Peres completed their debut album in 2004. The album was released through Flict/Shock. Their second album Ace Doubt was released in 2006 through Flit/MGM. Des Peres combines a theatrical stage approach with a sample-heavy sound. While playing with the band, <mask> adopts the name Old Des and works very with Luva DJ (<mask>) and Mr. Ection (visual artist and brother Kiron <mask>) as well as guitarist Tom Bass and Kelsey James.Their third album was entitled The Adventures of Cowboy and Miniman. His musical output and vast creativity is reflected in his ability to genre hop with seeming ease. In 2010 he formed co-led the groundbreaking Australian Jazz band  Collider, a band he co-leads with Melbourne saxophonist Adam Simmons. Combining a traditional jazz ensemble with orchestral and improvising string players the uniqueness of the ensembles sound couple with their outstandingly high-performance ability created the space <mask> needed to write and perform his most courageous and what many in the Australian media consider his most personal works. "Solo in Red" was a large form composition composed by <mask>, performed by Collider  and commissioned by the Melbourne Writers Festival. Its thematic material was drawn from  the writings of American novelist Cormac McCarthy. In particular his epic novel Blood Meridian.Beyond music the completed work also involved a highly technical and moving video work, a lighting design and narration with excerpts from the book narrated on stage. Solo in Red was released as an Audi recording at the same time then and also rebased a second album titled Words. With the majority of the music inspired by authors <mask> and Simmons had personal affinity to it was appropriately titled "Words". Over a 30-year career <mask> has toured and recorded with many of Melbourne and Australia's leading, musical innovators including C.W. Stoneking, Brian Brown, and the Melbourne Ska Orchestra, The Adam Simmons Toy Band, BucketRider, and countless more. He has composed music for jazz ensembles, dance productions, musical theatre, contemporary classical ensembles, and electronic dance acts and has had his compositions performed in festivals around the world. In 2001 he was a collaborative composer for Double Venturi, a collaborative piece involving musicians and funded by Arts Victoria.In 2004 he received funding through the Australia Council to compose a concert-length work for prepared piano and small ensemble that was premiered at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz. He also has scored the music to six short films and has collaborated in numerous cross arts projects with visual artists including Kiron <mask>, Narinda Reevers, and Dave Macleod. <mask> has won three ARIA awards, considered Australis's top musical prize. Contribution to the Field of Education
Research - Complexity, Creativity, Identity

Beyond music he is considered one of Australia's leading voices in the field of systemic educational change. His doctoral thesis, titled Enabling Collective Creativity in Schools using Minecraft: Serious Play   framed learning and education within complexity thinking and is considered an important addition to contemporary Western Education. The unique approach <mask> took to every aspect of the research including the findings have been used as guideposts for how education might consider its move forward. Dr. Dennis Sumara  a leading researcher and writer in the fields of complexity thinking and education  wrote of <mask>'s work "<mask> <mask> has written an exceptional dissertation, one that challenges not only genre and form of the dissertation but also the very methods used by educational researchers.By combining expository, narrative and explicitly fictional text <mask> as author performs the very theories he is exploring. In so doing, both the written forms and the theoretical positions both undermine and exceed one another. It is a wholly unique presentation of both the process and products...I consider this work by <mask> to be an important contribution to the field of education. The work is unique, creative and, in important ways disruptive." Situated in complexity theory the thesis covered the broad area of creativity re-conceptualise creativity within Australian mainstream education, as being something that continually emerges from collective process. In doing so, many of the key characteristics of the Australian education system, were analysed for the role they played in enabling or hindering creativity within a school. Minecraft  was a key pedagogical tool used to filter this aspects through to reimagine them.The research was situated within a larger Australian Research Council funded linkage project, LP110200309, Serious play: Using digital games in school to promote literacy and learning in the twenty-first century (Beavis et al. 2011-2014). The data for <mask>'s research were generated from the narratives of 136 students, five teachers and a primary school situated in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. Their story revolves around a 10-week unit of work which saw the 136 students experientially leave this earth and inhabit another planet, Aurora 56Z. Aurora 56Z was located within the game Minecraft. Creativity was central to the work. <mask> re-conceptualised creativity within Australian mainstream education, shifting its definition away from an individual-centred perspective to a complexity-framed definition; something that is socially constructed and evident as emergent phenomenon rising from adaptive complex systems.In doing so, many of the key characteristics of the Australian education system, such as its complexity, its hierarchical systemic structure and also the minutiae that make up a school environment including curriculum, architecture, reflection practice and tools, and teaching and pedagogy, were analysed for the role they played in enabling or hindering creativity within a school. Complexity theory was fundamental to all aspects of this research project. It framed and shaped the design of both the thesis and the 10 week unit of work being studied. It was the binding lens through which data was extracted and analysed. Non-conventional methods of data collection included the Minecraft server and the student-produced Wiki. Both of these digital platforms became data repositories, holding and mapping the majority of the learning and teaching that happened before, during and after the 10 weeks allocated to this unit of work. In <mask>'s words - "I immersed myself in the world of the students, teachers and school as I wrote this thesis, leading to the development of my exploratory and practice led approach to the data analysis.In the process of analysing the server data I wrote a novel, set on Aurora 56Z, casting the young people as the characters and the ‘ruins’ of the server as the setting. This immersion in the world, and reinterpretation of the stagnant server into a lively text based upon what I found on the server and the students’ Wiki pages, helped me to understand more deeply the creative learning process of the curriculum unit." While the type and scale were unique, this method of data generation and analysis does build upon the limited literature on post-qualitative method. In doing so, it offers a different way to think about methodology. The findings of this study included:

1. Situating pedagogies framed in complexity have limited scope in the current discourse around mainstream Australian education. 2.There is a role for pedagogies that arise out of new and conflicting discourses (e.g., complexity theory). Its place and role are one of continual ‘deterritorialization and reterritorialization’ (Deleuze & Guattari 1987; Roy 2003). Despite existing only on the edge of the discourse, their mere existence is evidence of the potential for change. 3. Digital games based on complexity, such as the MMO game Minecraft, have a place in education and are enablers of systemic creativity. 4. The students in the study were developing new and previously unnamed multithreaded identities through their complex game design and play.<mask> labelled this new form of identity Vellooming. The conclusions revealed throughout have enriched future theorisation about the use of new pedagogies framed in complexity, the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of education, and the use of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games such as Minecraft. The research also added to the small but growing knowledge base of research methodologies framed in complexity, providing a viable and visible account of how to work with key concepts of postmodern emergence. A Velloming Identity
"<mask> described a Vellooming Identity as one that that is in a state of constant shifting, never still, and constantly emerging. Vellooming is a fictional word used to describe the experience many children have when they join the online world. It is a form of transportation, movement, and exploration. It can be free of the bounds of time, space, and gravity, and instead is multidimensional.This research argues for a new form of identity made possible by the digital world. I have named it a Vellooming identity." "A rudimentary understanding and simplistic description of Vellooming would be to describe it as the ability to...or the act of...travelling across, to, and from multiple Structures—to change Looms." The frame to understand a Vellooming identity is poststructuralism. A vellooming identity might be seen as conceptually similar to Deleuze's ideas of identities of 'nomadic thought' and his use of the rhizome. There are also commonalities in Foucault's Theory of Discourse  in that when describing a Vellooming identity <mask> rejects the idea of the self as an absolute, rather viewing it as a controlling agent of power created by Reductionism. Where <mask>'s Vellooming Identity moves forward from Deleuze's and Foucault's positions is where he finds  links to the connected web.A Vellooming identity is not linked to time but rather other, and in the idea of continually becoming other. His doctoral thesis and publications since have also demanded for a new understanding of what learning is and offered a redefining of creativity. <mask> redefines creativity as a continual, collective experience. In this he shifts significantly from the standard reductionist and modernist definitions. In their framing identity is intrinsically tied to the idea of the individual and it is measurable e.g. he or she is creative, he.. less so. In these framings it is also often presented as a trait that one might process.The reductionist definition embraces the identity of the creative genius as the to measure of creativity. Comparatively, in <mask>'s understanding phrases such as emergence and continual becoming as metaphors for this new definition. By doing so he links it to the Vellooming identity. The Vellooming Identity and Collective Creativity as emergence have strong parallels to similar emerging identities he speaks of often in his work, identities of Continually Becoming Other. His redefining of creativity linked to the naming of a new form of identity has opened up new possibilities in the space of learning, knowledge and formal education. Business
In 2020 <mask> founded the Global Consultancy firm EnRusk. It was with this organisation that <mask>  began to enact the theoretical ideas alongside the processes and tools he had developed over a lifetime of study and creation.The firm's focus was always complete, systemic, global educational reform. <mask> believed the change went beyond education to what he referred to as a global mindset. He is committed to help shift the global mindset away from the dominant reductionist mindset to a connected one nested in Complexity. Robinson company was formed to enact this change and in that the resultant ways of being and doing. Increased connectivity, collective learning and collective creativity are at the heart of both the theoretical frame and the work that results. At its heart his work rejects Reductionism and replaces it with a world view that embraces ambiguity continual change and continual creativity. Again, the idea of the self is non existent in this theoretical space replaced with an identity of continual becoming other.His achievements and creations across every field he works is be that music, education, commerce and technology have always displayed this mindset and have been tools of communication for <mask>. In 2010 he was recognised and awarded with the ICTEV Educational Leader of the Year Award. He is considered a leader in the field of Complexity Thinking as it relates to Education and the Arts. Discography

As leader
 En Rusk (Newmarket Music) 2001
 En Rusk – 1000 Wide (Newmarket Music) 2003
 Old Des Peres – Preserved (Flict/Shock) 2004
 Des Peres – Ace Doubt (Flict/MGM)2006
 Des Peres – The Adventures of Cowboy and Miniman (House of Pow/Amphead)2008
 The Escalators – Wrapped in Plastic (Jazz Head)
 Collider – Words (House of Pow)
 Collider – Solo In Red (House of Pow)

As sideman
 Adam Simmons Toy Band – Happy Jacket
 Melbourne Acid Techno (Dark Matter Records)
 Sample Synthesis 4 and 5 (Clan Analogue Records)
 Paul Colman Trio – Turn (Control Records)
 Matt Fagan
 Malone – This is it (Cavalier Music)
 The Mavis's – Throwing Little Stones (FMR)
 City City City (Remote Control Records)
 Skazz of Melbourne
 5+2 Ensemble – Invisible Cities and other Works (Rufus)
 C.W. Stoneking – Jungle Blues
 Melbourne Ska Orchestra

Remixes
 Machine Translations (Spunk)

Film scores
 The Only Person in the World – Ben Chessell
 3 Weeks in Koh Samui - Alistair Reid
 From The Top – Alistair Reid
 Is God a DJ – Ben Chessell

Installations
 Double Venturi – Collaborative composition with Garth Paine 2001
 The Slow Burn – Collaborative composition with Erik Griswold 2004

Grants and awards
 Australia Council Promotion and Presentation (En Rusk Recording) 2004
 Australia Council New Works 2005
 Arts Victoria Music for the Future Recording (Des Peres) 2005
 Arts Victoria Music For The Future Touring (Des Peres) 2005
 D.C.I.T.A. Touring (Des Peres) 2005

References

7. O'Mara, J. and Robinson, K., 2017.Mining the Cli-Fi world: renegotiating the curriculum using Minecraft. Serious play: literacy, learning and digital games, pp. 114–131. 8. <mask>, K., 2014. Games, Problem Based Learning and Minecraft. The Journal of Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria, 1(1), pp.32–45. <mask>, K., 2014. Games, Problem Based Learning and Minecraft. The Journal of Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria, 1(1), pp. 32–45. External links
 Official website

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Australian jazz trombonists
21st-century trombonists
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<mask> (Chinese: 傅文俊; pinyin: Fù Wénjùn, born 1955) graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is a contemporary artist who works on photography, digital art, installation art, sculpture and oil painting. Currently he lives and works at Chongqing. He has developed his concept and practices of “Digital Pictorial Photography” art style. Main exhibitions

Main solo exhibitions
2010: Spirit Icon, Old Summer Palace, Beijing. 2010: Story of Two Parks, Chongqing Library, Chongqing. 2010: Show of Formality II, Move the Old Summer Palace 1400 km South, Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai.2010: Show of Formality, <mask>'s Photographic Exhibition of Historical Concept, Today Art Museum, Beijing. 2013: Thought Reading, Fu Wenjun Conceptual Photography Exhibition, Miami, FL. 2014: Conceptual photographic show of Illusory Metamorphoses grass cloth collection, Miami, FL. 2015: Photographic Narrative, <mask>'s Conceptual Photography Solo Exhibition. United Nations Headquarters, New York City, FL. 2015: 迷思之像Thoughtful images. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; 1–14 October 2015.2017: Harmony in Diversity <mask>'s Digital Painting Photography Exhibition. National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China. 2017: Introspection of Soul Artistic Expression in the Digital Pictorial Photography of Wenjun Fu. Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain
2018:"Is It Photography – Fu Wenjun Digital Pictorial Photography Solo Exhibition", Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, USA
2019:"Digital Brush: The Photographic Process of <mask> Wenjun", The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2019 "Again Enter the Scene --- Fu Wenjun Digital Pictorial Photography Exhibition", Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China. Main collective exhibitions
2009: 36th Rendez Vous a Paris, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées and Musée du Louvre, Paris. 2009: 35th Japan AJAC Yokohama International Overseas Artists Exhibition, Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama. 2010: Salon des Indépendants, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris.2010: Welding, International Tour Exhibition of the Chinese Contemporary Art in the first ten years of the 21st Century, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the Hague. 2012: Conceptual Renewal: A Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing
2013: International Heritage Show, Carrousels du Louvre, Paris. 2013: Voice of the Unseen Chinese Independent Art 1979/Today, collateral exhibition of Venice Art Biennale 2013, Venice. 2014: Tour Eiffel La Grande Exposition Universelle, Paris, France. 2014: 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2014: Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, USA. 2015: XVIII Bienal de Cerveira, Cerveira, Portugal.2015: Nord Art 2015, Büdelsdorf, Germany. 2015: Milan Image Art Fair (MIA), Milan, Italy. 2015: X Florence Biennale, Florence (Italy)
2015: 1st Asia Biennial/5th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou (China)
2016 11th Rome International Biennale of Art, Rome, Italy. By blending elements of other artistic media into the process, he creates a brand-new form of aesthetic pleasure. <mask> embraces a range of art forms, combining them into unique and monumental works that reach beyond the mere act of recording a photographic image. His work brings together the practical aspect of photography with the aesthetic nature of other forms of visual arts. By demonstrating the complementary relationship of photographs and other modes of artistic practice, <mask> transforms what may seem to be an inaccessible message into a highly approachable concept that can trigger critical thought about history and humanity.Thoughtful Images 2014-2015 - <mask> tells us, through idiomatic images, about questions which are as old as human species. Doubts and realities which grip mankind since ancient times, but which are at the same time really actual reality, a reality proved by using arcane signs, violently projected and sounded out, but still preserving integrity. We are talking about signs which are impressed in the general unconscious. That means that, beyond their historical value, they own an absolute and unconscious existence, innately associated to a concept, also in the unspoilt minds. Pick at Random 2012 – The symbols of various cultures are juxtaposed, in order to create new meanings by making use of different art languages from different times and places. Totem 2012 – Through the use of the newest multimedia montage, the visual effect of this work is extreme. The multimedia artistic language makes the work's display and its transmission different from the medium itself, so the perceived relationship between the subjective viewer and the objective photography is changed.---Luo Yiping, Curator of the Guangdong Museum of Art

Story of Expo Park 2013 – In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance (the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, France, the United States, Japan, Italy and Austria) invaded China, leading to the tragedy that happened at the Summer Palace. After more than one hundred years, they came again to China and built their national pavilions in Shanghai Expo Park. In this work, the ruins of the Summer Palace are juxtaposed with their national pavilions; the open notebook seems like a history book, recording and telling the great changes in its history. It shows that China has released the heavy cultural burden, has formed a new national and cultural attitude of self-confidence due to the contact with the new world. Thought Reading 2010–2011 – The radiography technology is used to imitate the human body's skull image, in order to present ideas in the human head. Buddhist sculptures take the place of the contents of the brain tissue, which makes the work present the superposition of the fictional with the authentic. Echo 2009 – In this work, the Chinese national emblem is added to photos of obsolete buildings and industrial installations, with speckled colors.This refers to the disappearance of the cultural subjectivity under the control of national authoritarianism in the industrial civilization. A Wind from Yesterday 2016-2017 - In the series A Wind from Yesterday, <mask> superposes the images of a page made from woodblock printing in Song Dynasty and the euphrates poplar, leading the nature and the civilization to set each other off beautifully. Both of the two objects have gone through the test of a long time, so as symbols of time can evoke people's nostalgia towards the ancient era. The works embody a taste that is very close to the “classic elegance” proposed by the modern Chinese scholar Wang Guowei. This scholar regarded the “classic elegance” as a very special interest in the Chinese aesthetics. A Wind from Yesterday represents one of the few photography works that can give expression to this Chinese aesthetic spirit. (By Peng Feng, Professor at Peking University School of Arts and curator of the Chinese Pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia)

Harmony in Diversity 2016-2017 - Harmony in Diversity can be seen as a variant of A Wind from Yesterday, in which <mask> replaced the Euphrates poplar with the superposition of Western classic sculptures and Chinese ancient paintings.Then the dialogue between nature and civilization has developed into the dialogue between Chinese and Western culture. It is evident that they represent two completely different aesthetic ideals: the Western sculptures pursue a perfect form, while the Chinese paintings adore a light and intangible spirit. But with the superposition processed by <mask>, they do not appear to be inharmonious. In his own special way, the artist interprets the harmony in diversity, which represents a wisdom contributing to the continuous development of Chinese civilization and can untie the hard knot of culture diversity and clash of civilizations. (By Peng Feng, Professor at Peking University School of Arts and curator of the Chinese Pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia)

Collection
His artworks are collected by Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, National Art Museum of China, Today Art Museum, University Museum and Art Gallery The University of Hong Kong， the Old Summer Palace Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Kennedy Family, World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, Dazu Grotto Museum, Chongqing Art Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, Société Nationale des Beaux Arts of France, Egypt Ahmed Shawki Museum and other significant organizations and collectors. References

External links
 <mask>’s Website
 of Acclaimed Chinese Artist <mask> with American Writer Stacy Conde
 Voice of the Unseen
 Nordart 2015
 China Daily: When photographs look like paintings
 China Daily: Artist explores abstract concepts to create 3D sculptures

1955 births
Living people
Painters from Chongqing
Sichuan Fine Arts Institute alumni
Chinese contemporary artists
Chinese photographers

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<mask> (born September 21, 1959) is an American businesswoman, political commentator, and non-profit sector executive. She is the CEO of Independent Women's Voice and chairman of its sister organization, Independent Women's Forum. <mask> has been associated with a number of different political and policy organizations. These range from non-profit, non-partisan organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations to those with more pronounced conservative political affinities, such as the Hoover Institute, National Empowerment Television network, and Irving Kristol's The Public Interest. Personal background
Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Manhattan, New York City, <mask> began her undergraduate studies in 1977 at Wellesley College. She graduated cum laude from Wellesley in 1981, earning a B.A. She then moved back to New York City and enrolled in the M.B.A. finance program at New York University's graduate school of business.After leaving NYU for several years to work as a research analyst, marketer, and portfolio manager at a small firm, she resumed her studies there in 1986 and was awarded her graduate degree in 1987. She currently lives in Manhattan with her husband James and their three children. Journalist and commentator
In the 1980s, <mask> began writing editorial columns for the Wall Street Journal. During this time, she also became an assistant editor at Irving Kristol's now-defunct quarterly, The Public Interest. <mask>' editorial writing and policy work have led to appearances on a variety of news/commentary programs, including Hardball with Chris Matthews, Politically Incorrect, Real Time with Bill Maher, Crossfire, Equal Time and Good Morning America. With Newt Gingrich, she co-hosted The Progress Report on the now-defunct National Empowerment Television. When asked about <mask>' television appearances, Bill Maher said, "Oh God, she could talk about anything."<mask> was co-editor of The Quotable Paul Johnson (1994), a book of collected quotations from the popular historian. Investment career
Before <mask>' 1991 entry into the non-profit sector, she worked as a Wall Street portfolio manager for seven years, eventually attaining the position of vice president of U.S. Trust before it became a subsidiary of the Charles Schwab Corporation. On February 3, 2006, she was elected to be a Director and Trustee of sixteen of UBS's registered investment companies, which consisted of thirty-six mutual funds as of January 2007. Non-profit roles and policy work
<mask> has been heavily involved with non-profit organizations. She is chairman and CEO of Independent Women's Voice, a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, chairman of the Independent Women's Forum, co-founder of the Alliance For Charitable Reform, and has been president and director of New York's Randolph Foundation since 1991. She was also the executive director of the Council on Culture & Community. In addition to helming the above organizations, <mask>' non-profit experience includes her position on the executive committee of the board of overseers for the Hoover Institution and her membership in the Council on Foreign Relations.She is also a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, vice-chairman of the Washington, D.C.-based Philanthropy Roundtable and a former member of the W.H. Brady Foundation's board of directors. In November 2013, Campaigns & Elections named <mask> to their list of top fifty political influencers to watch in 2014. Responses to 2010 special elections
After Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to select Ted Kennedy's successor, Independent Women's Voice commissioned a survey which <mask> cited as demonstrating that voters were motivated by the potential impact that the election was perceived as playing in healthcare reform and other national policy debates. <mask> also reported that the survey showed that, "while women overall voted 53%–45% for Coakley, Independent women voted 67%–33% for Brown. Given an option between reducing taxes and regulations on small business or increasing government spending, 51% preferred tax cuts while 30% chose infrastructure." In the May 2010 special House election in Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, Independent Women's Voice ran advertisements critical of former Democratic Congressman Ed Case.The advertisements asserted that Case "had voted to raise taxes 72 times and had received failing grades from anti-pork barrel spending groups such as the National Taxpayers Union." According to Politico, the group spent "more than $200,000" on the anti-Case advertising campaign. Federal Election Commission filings indicate that the organization spent $237,500 on the effort as of early May 2010. ACR advocacy for private foundations
In a letter published in The Hill, <mask> and fellow Alliance for Charitable Reform co-founder Dan Peters responded to discussion of legislative regulatory proposals, saying that, "ACR believes that every dollar of tax increases on foundations is to the federal government rather than a dollar to charities, and the ACR is troubled by that notion.... We cannot adopt a one-size-fits-all solution that disadvantages smaller organizations. We must do everything possible to encourage philanthropy and not create barriers to charitable giving." Political views
Columnist Suzanne Fields, in an article discussing <mask> and IWF co-founder Lisa Schiffren, states that they "are mothers and relate to women who are not ideologically doctrinaire, but who are instinctively conservative on war and taxes." In an interview with the Acton Institute, <mask> expressed her fundamental opposition to government social programs insofar as they compete with or replace private charities, stating,

In her review of Thomas DiLorenzo and James T. Bennett's book Unhealthy Charities: Hazardous to Your Health and Wealth, which examines the operation of health charities, <mask> argues that,

George magazine published an article in its 1995 first issue, entitled "The Heather Report," in which <mask>' views were summarized as "essentially libertarian," and in agreement with the idea that "Centralized government will matter less and less.... We are in the midst of a 'great shift' from 'elitist to populist,' from a machine 'which is controlled and planned' to an organic system that, 'following this new paradigm, has faith in people, faith in their capacities, faith in their choices.'"<mask> was characterized as a link between the "wide-eyed" academic community and "flinty" political practitioners. In a 1995 Wall Street Journal column, Paul Gigot described <mask> as an "idea broker," explaining that she prefers not to be associated with political parties. Gigot included a quotation from her, in which she stated, "I am not really interested in a party.... If the Democrats had really been New Democrats, that would have been great. If these Republicans become Old Republicans, they'll lose me too." William Galston, a senior domestic policy adviser in the Clinton administration, said, "I see <mask> as an intellectual and policy entrepreneur with some real moral commitments.... I don't see her as a sharply partisan figure, certainly not in the way she deals with people."See also
 Independent Women's Forum
 Philanthropy Roundtable
 Randolph Foundation

References

External links
 "Death by Bureaucracy," Wall Street Journal by <mask><mask>, April 4, 2005
 Profile of <mask><mask>, Independent Women's Forum

1959 births
American financial businesspeople
American women's rights activists
American libertarians
Living people
New York University alumni
Wellesley College alumni
Businesspeople from New York City
Businesspeople from Atlanta
People from Manhattan

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<mask> (born 20 January 1984) is a Swedish artist, musician, and designer specialising in retro-futuristic digital images focused on nostalgic Swedish countryside alternate history environments. The settings of his artwork have formed the basis for the 2020 Amazon television drama series Tales from the Loop. Artwork
Stålenhag grew up in a rural environment near Stockholm, and began illustrating local landscapes at a young age. He was inspired by different artists, including Lars Jonsson. Stålenhag experimented with science fiction artwork after discovering concept artists such as Ralph McQuarrie and Syd Mead; initially, this body of work was done as a side project, without any planning behind it. Thematically, his work often combines his childhood with themes from sci-fi movies, resulting in a stereotypical Swedish landscape with a neofuturistic bent. According to Stålenhag, this focus originates from his perceived lack of connection with adulthood, with the science fiction elements being added in part to draw audience attention and partly to influence the work's mood.These ideas result in a body of work that can feature giant robots and megastructures alongside regular Swedish items like Volvo and Saab cars. As his work has evolved, Stålenhag has created a backstory for it, focused around a governmental underground facility. In parallel with the real-life decline of the Swedish welfare state, large machines slowly fail, and the eventual result of this remains a mystery. In a 2013 interview with The Verge, Stålenhag said, "The only difference in the world of my art and our world is that ... ever since the early 20th century, attitudes and budgets were much more in favour of science and technology." Outside of his usual canon, Stålenhag also drew 28 pictures of dinosaurs for the Swedish Museum of Natural History's prehistoric exhibits after he rediscovered his childhood interest in the creatures, and contacted the museum to see if he could do anything. In 2016, he followed this with pictures of hypothetical results of a rising ocean under climate change for Stockholm University's Resilience Centre. He also did some promotional artwork for the sci-fi video game No Man's Sky.Stålenhag uses a Wacom tablet and computer for his work, which is designed to resemble oil painting. Initially, he attempted to use various physical media to mimic a more traditional style, including gouache. Even after switching to digital methods, he has stated that he puts "a lot of effort into making the digital brushes behave naturally and preserve a certain amount of 'handwriting' in the brush strokes." The majority of his work is based on pre-existing photographs that he takes; these are then used as a starting point for a number of rough sketches before the final work is completed. Books
Most of Stålenhag's artwork was initially available online, before later being released for sale as prints. Since then, it has been turned into two narrative art books: Tales from the Loop (Swedish Ur Varselklotet) in 2014 and Things from the Flood (Swedish Flodskörden) in 2016. Both focus on the construction of a supermassive particle accelerator called the Loop.More recently, Stålenhag has covered the western United States in a third artbook, The Electric State, which was also crowdfunded via Kickstarter. It is centered around a girl and her robotic companion traversing the fictional state of Pacifica. Simon & Schuster published the UK edition in September 2018, and Skybound Books published a North American edition the following month. The Electric State (the Simon & Schuster edition) was one out of six finalists for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2019. Also in 2019, the Skybound edition was shortlisted for the Art Book category of the Locus Award. Stålenhag's fourth art book, The Labyrinth, was announced in late 2020. As with his previous books, a crowdfunding campaign was run on Kickstarter to fund its printing and distribution.Adaptations
In 2016, a Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund a tabletop role-playing game called Tales from the Loop, based on the book of the same name; Set in the 1980s and either the United States or Sweden, players roleplay as a group of teenagers dealing with the impact of the Loop; this focus on nostalgia and young protagonists meant multiple media outlets compared it to the TV series Stranger Things. Different classes of characters are equivalent to stereotypical childhood roles, for example, "Jock", "Bookworm", or "Computer Geek". An English-language television series, Tales from the Loop, produced by Amazon Studios in conjunction with Fox 21 Television Studios, Indio Film, and 6th & Idaho Moving for Amazon Prime, was released in its entirety on 3 April 2020, and adapts elements from Stålenhag's narrative art books. The initial season comprises eight episodes of 50–57 minutes each. All screenplays were written by Nathaniel Halpern, while each episode had a unique director from a diverse pool, including Mark Romanek, Andrew Stanton, and Jodie Foster. The movie rights for The Electric State were sold to the Russo brothers in 2017, and the plans were most recently confirmed in 2019. Slated to direct and produce are It: Chapter One and Chapter Two creators Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, respectively.Other work
As part of the crowdfunding campaign for The Electric State, Stålenhag produced and released an electronic music album with the same title as a backer goal. In 2018, he released his second album, Music for DOS, containing ambient music authored using old keyboards and the Impulse Tracker software package. Additionally, Stålenhag has been involved in a variety of advertisements, films, and video games. This includes his work on the platform game Ripple Dot Zero in collaboration with Tommy Salomonsson. References

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Living people
Artists from Stockholm
21st-century Swedish musicians
Swedish designers
21st-century Swedish painters
21st-century male artists
Swedish landscape painters
Swedish illustrators
Mechanical designers (mecha)
Digital artists
Science fiction artists
Swedish speculative fiction artists
Swedish alternate history
American alternate history
Retrofuturism
Dinosaurs in popular culture
1984 births