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<mask><mask> (born October 19, 1964) is an American environmental scientist and tropical ecologist. She has contributed to understanding humanity's dependence and impacts on nature, and to advancing a systematic approach for valuing nature in policy, finance, management, and practice around the world. <mask> is co-founder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project, a global partnership that aims to mainstream the values of nature into decision-making of people, governments, investors, corporations, NGOs, and other institutions. Together with more than 300 partners worldwide, the Project is pioneering science, technology, and scalable demonstrations of inclusive, sustainable development. Based at Stanford University, <mask> is the Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, the director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. <mask> is an elected fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences,  the American Academy of Arts and Sciences  and the American Philosophical Society. <mask> is a former board member of the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of The Nature Conservancy.Early life and education
Born in Washington, D.C., <mask> was raised mostly in California and West Germany, where she graduated from high school in 1982. She then returned to California and earned her B.S. (1986), M.S (1987), and Ph.D. (1992) in biological sciences from Stanford University. Career
In 1992, <mask> was awarded the Winslow/Heinz Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group. In 1995 <mask> became the Bing Interdisciplinary Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. During her time as a research scientist, <mask> served as the editor of Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems, a foundational book that lays out the framework used widely today for understanding the benefits of nature to people, with numerous examples and ways of considering their value. The Heinz Foundation noted that Nature's Services "has served as a model for ecosystems regulation in several regions of the world and was a catalyst for the U.N.'s Millennium Ecosystem Assessment."After 7 years as a research scientist, <mask> was appointed as an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and as a senior fellow at the Institute of International Studies (both at Stanford University) in 2002. In 2002, Daily published the book The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Katherine Ellison. She has since published a dozen further books, including The Power of Trees (2012) and One Tree (2018) with Charles J. Katz, Green Growth that Works: Natural Capital Policy and Finance Mechanisms from Around the World (2019) with Lisa Mandle, Zhiyun Ouyang, and James Salzman, and Rural Livelihood and Environmental Sustainability in China (2020) with Jie Li, Shuzhuo Li, and Marcus Feldman. In 2005, Daily was appointed as the Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and was made the director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. As of 2020, Daily serves in all three of these positions. In 2005, Daily (the project leader from Stanford), along with partners at The Nature Conservancy, and World Wildlife Fund, established the Natural Capital Project. The organization's stated goal is to "improve the well-being of people and our planet by motivating targeted investments in nature."In later years, the core partnership expanded to include the University of Minnesota, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Stockholm Resilience Center, together with over three hundred collaborating institutions. Its signature software, InVEST, is open source, co-developed with users, and now used in 185 countries to reveal the values of nature in specific decisions, and the risks and costs of its loss. As one of the directors of the Natural Capital Project, <mask> "serves as [the organization's] chief emissary to financial and government leaders." In 2006, <mask> became a member of the board of directors of The Nature Conservancy. <mask> served as the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Sustainability Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2013. Research
Daily's academic profile at the Center for Conservation Biology states that "Daily’s scientific research is on countryside biogeography and the future dynamics of biodiversity change." In an interview, Daily remarked that "'Countryside biogeography' is a new conceptual framework for elucidating the fates of populations, species, and ecosystems in ‘countryside’ – the growing fraction of Earth's unbuilt land surface whose ecosystem qualities are strongly influenced by humanity."Using findings from research done in countryside biogeography, <mask>, and researchers like her, is attempting to determine what "species are most important and most merit protection" and "what is the scientific basis for deciding" the relative importance of species within a given ecosystem. When asked "which species/systems most merit protection?" <mask> responded that she is "actively attempting to link projected changes in biodiversity and ecosystems to changes in 'services' to humanity." She went on to cite "production of goods," "life-support processes,"  "life-fulfilling conditions" and "options (genetic diversity for future use)" as the services that ecosystems/species provide for people. As one of the co-founders of the Natural Capital Project, <mask> employs her research practically by working "with private landowners, economists, lawyers, business people, and government agencies to incorporate environmental issues into business practice and public policy." Author

Nature's Services
Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems was published in 1997 by Island Press. Nature's Services starts off with an introduction from Daily titled "What are Ecosystem Services" and another introductory piece by Harold Mooney and Paul Ehrlich that seeks to detail the "fragmentary history" of ecosystem services.After the introductions, the book is split into four distinct sections that address different elements of ecosystem services. The first section of the book address the economic issues involved in assigning value to ecosystem services in the first place. The next two sections outline different kinds of services that can be provided by nature, "Overarching Services" and "Services Supplied by Major Biomes." The overarching services section includes papers like "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning" by David Tilman, "Ecosystem Services Supplied by Soil" by Daily, Pamela Matson and Peter Vitousek  and "Services Provided by Pollinators" by Gary Nabhan and Stephen Buchmann The "Services Provided by Major Biomes" section includes papers regarding topics like "Marine Ecosystems" by Charles Peterson and Jane Lubchenco and "The World's Forests and their Ecosystem Services" by Norman Myers

The last section of the book includes case studies which showcase different services that distinct ecosystems provide to people around the world. Examples include: "Water Quality Improvements by Wetlands" by Katherine Ewel and "Ecosystem Services in a Modern Economy: Gunnison County, Colorado" by Andrew Wilcox and John Harte. In the conclusion of the book, Daily remarks that the "core analyses presented in this book attempt to value ecosystems and their component species only insofar as they confer benefits, in the form of life-support goods and services, to human beings" but that this "focus does not in any way preclude making decisions on the basis of other values as well." In his review of the book, James Salzman concluded that Nature's Services, in contrast with efforts like the Endangered Species Act, "takes a different, potentially more effective tack, calling for explicit recognition of ecosystem services because of the direct, tangible benefits they provide.Such recognition could provide a more integrated and compelling basis for action than those suggested by a single-species or biodiversity protection for the simple reason that the impacts of those services on humans are more immediate and undeniably important." The New Economy of Nature
The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable was co-written by Daily and Katherine Ellison and was published in 2002 by Island Press. The book presents different cases studies where companies or governments were able to actually profit from their conservation efforts. One chapter describes how New York "decided to meet federal requirements to improve
water quality with a less expensive, though more controversial, option of protecting watershed integrity through land purchases and development limits, rather than adopt the technological solution of a multibillion dollar treatment facility." While another chapter offers "an assessment of plans to manage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by developing a worldwide system of carbon trading patterned on the U.S. experience with pollution." Kenneth Arrow remarked that Daily and Ellison "have delineated the new movement to make conservation of natural resources financially rewarding and illustrate in a lively and probing manner many cases of profitable activities that also preserve the biosphere." In his review of the book, Patrick Wilson stated that "The most notable contribution of The New Economy of Nature is its balanced message, optimistic and cautious."He goes on to say that the book "avoids the fallacy that the market is the solution to our environmental protection challenges and that, if allowed to operate free of government intervention, it can somehow make the policymaking choices less problematic and the tradeoffs less daunting" and that "it challenges elements of environmental orthodoxy that hold that the market, because of its short-term orientation and emphasis on profit over conservation, is an intrinsic threat to nature and the only solution is increased government oversight and financial commitment." Awards and honors
<mask> has received numerous prestigious awards and honors throughout her academic career, including the 21st Century Scientist Award (2000), The Sophie Prize (2008), The International Cosmos Prize (2009), The 16th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on global change, the Midori Prize (2010), the Volvo Environment Prize (2012), the Blue Planet Prize (2017), and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2020). She has received the 2018 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Ecology and Conservation Biology, jointly with Georgina Mace for developing vital tools facilitating science-based policies “to combat species loss.”

Selected works

<mask> has authored, coauthored and/or edited five books. <mask> has published more than 300 scientific and popular articles. She has published articles in many prestigious journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Nature and Science. Some of her most cited/influential publications:

See also
Ecosystem valuation

References

External links

<mask>'s Profile at the Center for Conservation Biology
<mask>'s CV
The Natural Capital Project's Home Page

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<mask>. (born December 30, 1934), nicknamed The Golden Boy, <mask>, The Elmhurst Express and Fearless <mask>, is a former NASCAR driver from Elmhurst, Illinois. Active from 1958 to 1972, he won 26 races including 1965 Daytona 500. Early life
<mask> was 15 years of age when he and his Elmhurst, Illinois friends competed in a contest to see who could flip a 1937 Plymouth over first by cranking it around in circles. Lorenzen claimed to be the victor of that confrontation. NASCAR

Early career
After graduating from high school, <mask> began racing modifieds and late models, and made his NASCAR debut in 1956 at Langhorne Speedway, finishing 26th after suffering a broken fuel pump, winning $25. He moved to a USAC stock car, and won the 1958 and 1959 championships driving his Talarico Bros. built Chevrolet. The Holman Moody Years

On Christmas Eve 1960, Lorenzen received a phone call from team owner Ralph Moody that would change his career.Moody asked <mask> about becoming his team's lead driver. A surprised Lorenzen accepted, albeit curious as to what he'd done to fulfill Moody's criteria to be part of his team. In 1961, <mask> began winning races in what would become a remarkable career. For five years from 1961 till 1966, <mask> dominated NASCAR like few other drivers ever would winning many major races and defeating the best drivers of his day. In his maiden season with Holman Moody, Lorenzen won: the Grand National 200 at Martinsville; the Rebel 300 at Darlington and the Festival 250 at Atlanta. There was no doubt that Lorenzen would challenge the all-time greats for the top prizes in NASCAR. <mask>'s winning streak (1962–1967)

In 1962, <mask> won the Atlanta 500 and a race at Augusta Speedway.The 1962 Ford was troubled at the start of the season by inferior aerodynamics, a serious problem that was rectified with a more streamlined roof halfway into the season. In 1963, <mask> soared to the top and became the top money-winner and the first to break the $100,000 barrier in one season. In that amazing year, <mask> won:  the Atlanta 500, the World 600; the Volunteer 500, the Western North Carolina 500; the Mountaineer 300 and the Old Dominion 500 bringing his total winnings to $122,000. In 1964, Lorenzen won:  the Southeastern 500 at Bristol; the Atlanta 500; the Gwyn Staley 400 at North Wilkesboro; the Virginia 500 at Martinsville; the Rebel 300 at Darlington; the Volunteer 500; the Old Dominion 500 and the National 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway;  six of those races are current "classics" on the Sprint Cup Circuit as of 2013. In 1965 Lorenzen won:  the Daytona 500; the Virginia 500; the World 600 and the National 400. In 1966 Lorenzen won:  the Old Dominion 500 and the American 500 at Rockingham, North Carolina. In 1967 Lorenzen won:  the Daytona 500 Qualifier (until 1971, the races currently called the Budweiser Duels were points races).<mask> compiled an amazing record of wins that clearly made him the dominant driver of NASCAR during a very significant portion of its Golden Era. The Yellow Banana
In one race in 1966 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, he drove a Junior Johnson-owned No. 26 Ford due to the Ford boycott of NASCAR for much of the 1966 season, and it is still one of the most talked about vehicles in NASCAR Grand National Competition to this day. The front end of the car was sloped downward, the roofline was lowered, the side windows were narrowed and the windshield was lowered in an aerodynamic position, and the tail was kicked up. Several rival drivers referred to it as "The Yellow Banana," "Junior's Joke," and "The Magnafluxed Monster." Even though it was against the rules NASCAR allowed the car to compete and <mask> crashed while leading the Dixie 500 on the 139th lap. One pit crew member said after the incident "No wonder" he said, "I ain't never seen anybody who could drive a banana at 150 mile an hour."NASCAR let this very illegal car run in only one race, in an attempt to bring up attendance, which had suffered due to the Ford boycott. Comeback
He came back in 1970, driving a Dodge Daytona prepared by Ray Fox in the World 600 (now the Coca-Cola 600), but dropped out while leading on lap 252 of 400 due to engine issues, running in a few more events that year, including substituting for LeeRoy Yarbrough in the Junior Johnson No. 98 Ford Torino Talladega in that year's Southern 500, as Yarbrough had a prior Indy car commitment. In 1971, he moved over to the Ray Nichels/Paul Goldsmith owned No. 99 Plymouth, sponsored by STP. He left that team part way through the season, and was badly injured in a practice crash while trying to drive for the Wood Brothers prior to the Southern 500. In 1972, he hooked up with Hoss Ellington driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, to little success.His last start came at the 1972 Old Dominion 500 at Martinsville Speedway. Later life

<mask> now lives in assisted living in a suburb of Chicago surrounded by his family. In his heyday from 1962–65, <mask> was the top driver in NASCAR. On the super speedways, <mask> defeated all of his competition to compile an unprecedented streak of wins in major races. Racing for money instead of points, <mask> never competed for the annual Sprint Cup, but he won the big races that made him the uncrowned King of NASCAR during its golden years. <mask>'s countless fans waited for a long time for <mask>'s brilliant career to be recognized with his induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Awards
He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2001.He was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998. He was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in January 2015. Quotes
"When NASCAR lost Fireball Roberts it was like Santa Claus doesn't exist at Christmas and it just took everything out of the race"—Thoughts on Fireball Roberts' death. Motorsports career results

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<mask> (February 23, 1885October 27, 1944) was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of major general and was prominent for serving in several United States Army Air Forces command positions during World War II. Early life and start of career
<mask><mask> was born in Charleston, South Carolina on February 23, 1885, while his father, Erasmus M<mask>., was assigned to The Citadel as a Professor of Military Science. The younger <mask> attended the Virginia Military Institute in preparation for a military career. He left after his third year in order to accept an appointment to the United States Military Academy. He graduated in 1908, received his commission as a second lieutenant in the Infantry, and was assigned to the 11th Infantry Regiment at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. <mask>'s subsequent assignments included: The 28th Infantry Regiment at Fort Snelling, Minnesota; Aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Eli D. Hoyle in the Philippines; and the 15th Infantry Regiment in Tientsin, China.Upon returning to the United States in 1915, <mask> carried out assignments at Columbus Barracks, Ohio and Fort Thomas, Kentucky. World War I
At the beginning of World War I <mask> transferred to the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, and was initially assigned as Commandant of Flying Cadets at Wilbur Wright Field, Ohio, receiving promotion to major. <mask> was subsequently assigned as the first commander of the Aviation Mechanical School in St. Paul, Minnesota. While en route, he learned that 500 students were already traveling to the site, but that the school was being formed so quickly that there were no plans for housing, feeding or instructional facilities. Within two days, he had secured the use of a Willys-Overland factory building via a verbal agreement with the company president, cleared the site of over 3,000 stored automobiles using volunteer labor, and supervised the installation of bunks, classrooms and mess halls. On the third day after his arrival, the school was operational and the arriving students were able to begin their instruction as scheduled. He continued in command until the end of the war, and supervised the education of thousands of soldiers who served as airplane mechanics in the United States and Europe.Post-World War I
After the war <mask> was assigned as Chief of the Supply Group in the Office of the Director of the Army Air Service. In 1920 and 1921 he completed flight training at Kelly Field, Texas, and March Field, California, and received his qualification as a pilot. In 1922 <mask> was assigned to command of Mitchel Field, New York. This site had become rundown as the result of budget cutbacks and force reductions following the war. <mask> supervised an overhaul, and within a year, buildings had been repaired, hangars had floors installed,  and aircraft parking ramps and aprons had been paved. <mask>'s assignments following Mitchel Field included command of Hanscom Field, Massachusetts, Middletown Air Depot, Pennsylvania, and Maxwell Field, Alabama. He graduated from the Army Industrial College in 1932, and then served as Chief of the Plans Division and Chief of the Information Division in the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps.In 1934 he was assigned to New York City as the Procurement Planning Representative of the Air Corps. In 1935 the Air Corps created a separate headquarters at Langley Field, Virginia, and <mask> was assigned as Inspector General. From 1937 to 1939 he was the commander of Langley Field. <mask> was assigned to command of the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field in 1939. In this position he was responsible for developing doctrine and tactical training for pilots and air crews in advance of World War II. World War II
In 1940 the Army Air Forces began to expand in preparation for war and <mask> was assigned to command the Southeast Air Corps Training Center at Maxwell Field, receiving promotion to brigadier general. In this assignment he oversaw the training of thousands of pilots and flight crew members who served in all theaters of the war.In July, 1941 <mask> was promoted to major general. <mask> was the acting Chief of the Air Corps from December 1941 until March 1942. As acting Chief he supervised completion of a reorganization and expansion plan for the Air Corps, including its re-designation as the Army Air Forces. This reorganization included the creation of the First Technical Training District (later Eastern Technical Training Command) in South Carolina, which <mask> was assigned to command. As part of his effort to create basic training centers and officer candidate schools for new recruits, <mask> arranged for the use of resort hotels in Atlantic City, Miami Beach, St. Petersburg, and Chicago, arguing successfully that these facilities, then being underused because people were unable to take vacations during the war, were the only ones that were vacant and large enough for the needs of the military. In July 1943 <mask>'s health began to fail as the result of overexertion required by his wartime command, and he was retired for physical disability. He then continued to aid the war effort as a consultant with the Aviation Corporation, a manufacturer of airplanes and airplane parts.Death and burial
<mask>'s health continued to fail, and he died at Walter Reed Hospital on October 27, 1944. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section South, Site 1908. Family
In 1911 <mask> married Elizabeth K. Johnson (1891-1978), the daughter of a railroad executive. They had no children. Awards and decorations
<mask> was a recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Medal for his World War II service. Legacy
The Major General <mask> <mask>, an Air Forces Floating Maintenance Unit ship, was named for him. It was deployed to the Pacific Theater during World War II.References

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<mask> <mask> at West Point Association of Graduates
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<mask> (29 May 1816 – 1 August 1889) was a Croatian historian, politician and writer, most famous for the first speech delivered in Croatian before the Parliament. Considered a renowned patriot, Kukuljević was a proponent of Illyrian movement and avid collector of historical documents, primarily those for his work in Croatian historiography and bibliography. Early life
Kukuljević was born in Maruševec near Varaždin. His family originates from Rama in Bosnia. He was also a distant relative of Grgo Martić, a Bosnian Franciscan. <mask> completed his secondary education in gymnasiums in his hometown and in Zagreb. He went to the Military Academy of Krems.As a student, Kukuljević started writing in German. In 1833, he joined the army and became an officer in Vienna three years later. He met Ljudevit Gaj and joined the Illyrian movement in 1837. He was ordered to move to Milan in 1840. In 1842, he resigned from his military duties and returned to Croatia, joining the political fight against Magyarization and censorship. He became one of the leaders of the Illyrian movement. Politician
Kukuljević was a member of the People's Party, and was one of its leading members as early as 1843.The political activity of Kukuljević can be separated into two periods: until 1850 and from 1860 to 1867. The gap from 1851 to 1860 was caused by the absolutism instituted by Minister Bach, which repressed political life in Croatia. In the first period, he was a partisan of the liberation of Croatia from Austria and Hungary, an uncompromising ideologue promoting revolutionary actions to achieve the unity of the South Slavs. Believing that the South Slavs can be delivered and unified only by force of arms, he lobbied among the Croats and Serbs at the Military Frontier. Swayed by his personality, the frontiersmen asked for the freedom and unity of the South Slav peoples in their People's Requests of spring 1848, referring to him as their inspiration. <mask> <mask> was the first to make a speech in Croatian before the Croatian Parliament, on May 2, 1843. The speech daringly promoted the struggle for national liberation, asking for Croatian to become the official language in schools and offices, with its gradual introduction in the public life.He also pointed out the danger of replacing Croatian with other languages. Until then, the language of discourse in the parliament was Latin. The speech caused much agitation. It was not an exception, though. All his speeches in the parliament and at county assemblies staunchly advocated the freedom and independence of Croatia, so they could be published only in Branislav, an illegal Illyrian magazine printed in Belgrade. On Kukuljević's urging, the parliament passed the decision to make Croatian the official language in 1847. He became the chief judge of the Varaždin County in 1845.During the Revolutions of 1848, Kukuljević was among the radical democrats. Under his influence, the ban Josip Jelačić convened the Croatian Parliament on June 5, 1848, opposing the explicit imperial order. Kukuljević also initiated the Slavic Congress in Prague. But the revolutions were crushed; imperial oppression set in. Kukuljević was removed from politics and kept under police surveillance. In the 1850s, his outlook radically changed. The second period of his political activity was the complete opposite of his early anti-Austrian and freedom-loving sentiments.After he became the prefect of Zagreb County in 1861, he was loyal to Vienna, implementing policies targeted against Croatians and the South Slavs and hounding his former friends who remained faithful to their Illyrian ideals. After the Compromise of 1867, he was removed from political positions and retired. He was later again elected to the Sabor. He died in Tuhakovec Castle in Zagorje and was buried in Zagreb. Historian and cultural figure

Despite the sharp turn in his later political career, the early patriotic and historical poems of Kukuljević had a major influence on the patriotic sentiments among the Croats. He founded the Society for Yugoslavian History, edited the magazine called Arhiv za Povjesnicu jugoslavensku (Archive for Yugoslavian History), and published valuable historical monographs. Kukuljević's efforts earned him the title of the "father of modern Croatian historiography".Kukuljević collected and published many source texts related to the history of Croatia. He wrote a lexicon with 800 artists' biographies. He is considered a pioneer of Croatian scientific bibliography. In 1850, Kukuljević took part in the Vienna Literary Agreement. Due to financial problems, Kukuljević was forced to sell his enormous library, numbering 12,000 volumes, which was acquired by the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Zagreb. One of manuscripts from his library is a tragedy, Skanderbeg, written on the basis of Andrija Kačić Miošić's work. Works
 Glasoviti Hrvati prošlih vjekova (Famous Croats of Ages Past)
Slovnik umjetnikah jugoslavenskih od Ivana Kukuljevica Sakcinskoga
Juran i Sofia ili Turci kod Siska: junačka igra u trih činih (Juran and Sofia or the Turks under Sisak: Heroic Play in Three Acts)
Beatrica Frankopan i njezin rod (Beatrice Frankopan and Her Lineage)
Pjesnici hrvatski 16 vieka by <mask> Sakcinski, Kršćan.Sadašnjost (reprint), 1983
Borba Hrvatah: S Mongoli i Tatari: Povjestno-Kriticna Razprava by <mask> Sakcinski, Nakladom i brzotiskom A.Jakica, 1863
Slavjanke: sa historičkimi primetbami by <mask> <mask>, Tiskom Franje Župana, 1848
Monumenta historica Slavorum meriodionalium by <mask> Sakcinski, Društvo za Jugoslavensku povjest i starine, Brzotiskom narodne tiskarnice dra. Ljudevita Gaja
 Jure Glović, prozvan Julijo Klovio, hrvatski sitnoslikar (Jure Glović aka Giulio Clovio, Croatian miniaturist)
Cronaca del secolo XVI - mentioned in When ethnicity did not matter in the Balkans: a study of identity in pre-nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods by John Van Antwerp Fine

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 Vienna Literary Agreement

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Hrvatska nacionalna bibliografija i Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski by Petar Rogulja

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<mask> (born 1978) is an Italian visual artist best known for her installations, performances and video. Early life and education
She graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002, she attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010–2011. Back in 2000 she was selected for the Advanced Course in Visual Art at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como. The visiting professor was Ilya Kabakov. Career
<mask> focuses on social and political events which sometimes have happened in the distant past and become the starting point for the investigation of individual or collective identity and memory. Her methodology is based on a meticulous preliminary research into archival materials such as found documents, audio recordings or newspapers documenting stories and events which have been forgotten by history. She uses archive materials to underline the loss of information, the ambiguity of reconstructions and their possible uses as well.<mask> is interested in the potentiality of new narrations when they start circulating again through her artworks. With Le Teste in Oggetto (The Heads in Question, 2009) the artist analyzes the relations between art and power raising questions about the status of contemporary artists and their degree of intellectual and conceptual autonomy. The sculpture consists of the heads of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Benito Mussolini, which were found by the artist in the storerooms of the Palazzo degli Uffici in the EUR district in Rome. The sculptures were created for the Esposizione universale (1942) which never took place because of Italy's involvement in World War II. <mask> decided to appropriate them and exposed them to the public for the first time. Doing so, the artist radically reversed their original meaning: rather than celebratory monuments, they became the focus of reflection and discussion. In her work Il Processo (The Trial, 2010–12) she focuses on the April 7th trial (1983–84), against the members of Autonomia Operaia.The trial was held in the Aula Bunker in Rome, a high-security courthouse, which hosted the most important trials of the period known as Anni di Piombo (Years of Lead). She created an installation composed by concrete sculptures made from casts of the architectural features of the courtroom, taken before their demolition. The installation is accompanied by a six-hour audio edited recording of the April 7 trial. Defendants in the court case included the philosophers Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno, and other intellectuals accused of being ideologically and morally responsible for Italian terrorism developed in the late 1970s. Il Processo won the MAXXI prize in 2010, promoted by MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome. The human condition and circumstances in detention are the focus of I dreamt that you changed into a cat...gatto...ha ha ha (2013). <mask> <mask> developed her research in the women's prison on Giudecca island at the Venetian lagoon.This prison is not like a traditional one where inmates are locked and unproductive; on the contrary, the prisoners spend their time working outside the prison. As all prison cells are open, <mask> was given the opportunity to meet every prisoner by creating a dream workshop, called ‘oneiric laboratory’. Using the workshop as a platform to communicate with the prisoners, Biscotti analyzed the institution and the way the inmates figure in it. She processed her research in a sculpture made of compost, which was the result of work that has been done by inmates in the kitchen, cleaning, the growing of vegetables and consumption. The work was presented during the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Exhibitions
Her work has been exhibited widely throughout Italy and abroad, in major museums and galleries. Solo exhibitions
 2015 <mask> Biscotti, The future can only be for ghosts, Museion, Bolzano (IT).2014 <mask> <mask>, 10 x 10, Mies van der Rohe Stipend, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld (DE). 2014 <mask> <mask>: The Undercover Man, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York (US). 2014 <mask> <mask>: For the Mnemonist, S., Wiels, Brussels (BE). 2013 The Trial, e-flux, New York (US). 2013 The Side Room, Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT). 2012 Title One: The tasks of the Community, CAC, Vilnius (LT). 2012 L'Isola, De Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL).2011 Il Processo (The Trial), RijksakademieOpen, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL). 2010 168 sections of a human brain, Galleria Civica di Trento (IT). 2009 A short story about memory, pentothal and dreams, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE). 2009 After four rotations of A, B and C will make one revolution (with Kevin van Braak), Samsa, Berlin (DE). 2009 Le Teste in Oggetto, Nomas Foundation Rome (IT). 2008 The Undercover Man, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL). 2008 You Have to Be Focused, Prometeo Gallery, Lucca (IT).2008 New Crossroads (with Kevin van Braak), Galleria Studio la Citta’, Verona (IT). 2008 The Sun Shines in Kiev, Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York (US). 2005 L’Italia è una repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro, Galerie Paolo Boselli, Brussels (BE). 2002 <mask> <mask>, Galleria T293, Naples (IT). Awards

In 2013 she was recipient of the Mies van der Rohe Stipend. In 2010 she won the Premio Michelangelo at Post Monument, XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara (IT), and the Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2010. In 2009 she won the Premio Fondazione Ettore Fico, Artissima Art Fair, Turin (IT), the 2nd Prize Prix de Rome, Amsterdam (NL) and the Emerging Talents Award, Strozzina Foundation, Florence (IT).In 2008 she was recipient of 1st Prize Golden Cow at Gstaadfilm Festival, Gstaad (CH). In 2007 she was awarded with the 1st Prize The City of Geneva Grand Prize at the 12th Biennial of Moving Images, at the Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva (CH). In 2006 she won the Premio NY promoted by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Italian Academy and the Columbia University in New York (US). References

1978 births
Living people
Italian video artists
Italian contemporary artists
21st-century Italian women artists

masks:
Rossella Biscotti
Rossella Biscotti
Biscotti
Biscotti
Rossella
Biscotti
Biscotti
Rossella
Rossella
Biscotti
Rossella
Biscotti
Rossella
Biscotti
Rossella
Biscotti


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<mask> (born February 1965), is a Breton-Welsh singer-songwriter, based in Wales. Early life
Born in Brittany and raised first there and later in the Rhymney Valley, <mask> is the second child and only daughter of Breton poet and playwright <mask> and his then wife, Judith Pritchard (née Gurney), a Welsh political activist. Both parents were active in their nations' respective autonomy movements, Judith with Plaid Cymru, Paol with the UDB. The family moved to Wales where, exposed to Breton and Welsh folk music, <mask> began singing, mainly in choirs and eisteddfodau. Early influences included The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. She has cited the film, The Song Remains the Same as influential; she watched it in the same year she began busking in Cardiff, which led to travels around the United Kingdom and Ireland playing at ad hoc gigs and festivals. Around 1988-90, she appeared in a number of episodes of the Welsh language soap-opera "Pobol Y Cwm", produced by BBC Wales for the Welsh fourth television channel, S4C.Her character, a Breton, instigated the twinning of the fictional Welsh village of "Cwmderi" with a town in Brittany. After taking a law degree at the London School of Economics, she lived briefly in Cardiff and, at age 24, moved to Dublin. From the early 1990s onwards, Keineg travelled back and forth between Dublin and New York, where she made her first two albums for Elektra Records. She is now based in Wales. Ô Seasons Ô Castles
In the early 1990s she lived in New York for a time. A live appearance in Times Square was recorded by Irish TV in the summer of 1992, by which time she had become one of a number of regular performers at the, now defunct, Sin-é in lower Manhattan. Her first release was a seven-inch single called "Hestia" on SOL, an independent label co-owned by musicians Bob Mould and Nicholas Hill.She was signed by Elektra in 1993 and in 1994 her debut album, Ô Seasons Ô Castles was released. One of the songs, "The Gulf of Araby", was played regularly by Natalie Merchant at concerts for several years and is featured on her live album Live in Concert, New York City – June 13th 1999. Merchant also invited Keineg to sing on her debut album, Tigerlily, on the song "Carnival". In 1993, Keineg sang on "Mixin' The Colors" from Iggy Pop's American Caesar album. For the next two years she continued to gig regularly at festivals such as Roskilde, Crossing Border and Lilith Fair. Jet
Her second album, Jet, featured a biographical song about bisexual Argentine surrealist painter Leonor Fini. In the same year, her friend Jeff Buckley drowned in the Mississippi River at age thirty.<mask> sang at his memorial service. Following disappointing sales of Jet and a change of management at Elektra, Keineg endured a number of unhappy years at Elektra during which time she released no new music. Eventually she was able to secure a release from her contract with Elektra and to gain back rights to her first two albums. Having been out of print for a while, Ô Seasons Ô Castles and Jet were re-released on the Field Recording Co label in 2002. What's The Only Thing Worse Than The End of Time? and High July
Also in 2002, Katell released a four-track EP titled What's The Only Thing Worse Than The End of Time? which more than marked a return to form.It consisted of the title track, a live version of Nick Drake's "River Man" sung at a Nick Drake tribute at St. Ann's Church in Manhattan, "Waiting For the Weight of Space" and "Beautiful Day". It was followed in 2004 by her third album, High July, released via the independent label Megaphone Music and later re-released on Keineg's own STZ label. A re-recorded version of "On Yer Way" from that album was used over the credits of Deborah Kampmeier's indie film Virgin with Robin Wright released in 2003. Current work
A six-page, high-profile interview with Darcy Frey was published on 2 July 2006 in The New York Times Magazine and this sparked new interest in Keineg's music in the United States. During the rest of 2006 and into 2007, Keineg played several sold out concerts in New York in the wake of the article, including a month-long Friday night residency at The Living Room in February 2007. Also in 2006, she toured Wales with Ann Scott and Adrian Crowley and appeared on S4C's Wedi Saith evening programme. Mid-2007 was spent playing European classical music festivals with concert pianist Katia Labeque's experimental band, B For Bang, whose first album was released in January 2008 and included a version of The Beatles "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" sung by Keineg.She and Ann Scott played in Spain, Portugal and Norway during the course of that year and the next and started a joint recording project. She released a 4-song EP in January 2009 that includes the re-recorded "On Yer Way", a Welsh language cover of the Super Furry Animals song "Y Gwyneb Iau" and "Trouble", an outtake from "Jet" re-mixed by Scott. Later that year Keineg played at Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble in Woodstock. Keineg released At The Mermaid Parade, her fourth album, in spring 2010. It was released on STZ in North America and by Honest Jon's Records, Damon Albarn's label, in the rest of the world. The album was named "Album of the Week" in The Sunday Times. She toured in the UK and Ireland following the album's release, opening for singer-songwriter Krystle Warren and playing The Green Man festival.In May 2012, Keineg released a download single in Welsh called "Platform 0" recorded in New York for the internet radio show Radio Free Song Club with their all-star house band. Singles
"Hestia"
"Partisan"
"Franklin"
"One Hell of a Life"
"Smile"
"What's The Only Thing Worse Than The End of Time"
"Shaking The Disease"
 "Y Gwyneb Iau"
 "Platfform O"

Sources
 Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley, David Browne, 2002. Gimme Danger : The Story Of Iggy Pop, Joe Ambrose, 2008
 The Show I'll Never Forget, Sean Manning, Da Capo Press, 2007
 X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking, Jeff Gordinier, Penguin Books, 2009

References

External links
 Official website
 Myspace Katell Keineg | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos
 Community.livejournal.com
 Ectoguide.org
 Neohyper.com
 Npr.org

1965 births
People from Finistère
Living people
Singers from Cardiff
20th-century Welsh women singers
Welsh singer-songwriters
Breton musicians
Breton-language singers
21st-century Welsh women singers

masks:
Katell Keineg
Katell Keineg
Paol Keineg
Katell
Katell


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<mask>'Brien (born March 3, 1989) is an American-born, naturalized Armenian professional basketball player who last played for Alexandria Sporting Club of the Egyptian National League. He played college basketball for Bucknell and Saint Joseph's before playing professionally in Latvia, France, Japan, Poland, Qatar, Lebanon, Armenia, Egypt and Israel. High school
O'Brien attended Garden Spot High School in New Holland, Pennsylvania (2003–2007). A 4-year starter, he finished his high school basketball career with over 1,000 points, 700 rebounds, and 250 blocked shots. As a senior, he averaged over 15 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks per game for the Spartans. As a 3-star recruit O’Brien was ranked as the No. 12 Pennsylvania prospect of 2007 by PA Prep report.O’Brien was selected First Team Lancaster-Lebanon (L-L) Section Two his sophomore, junior and senior years and First Team All-L-L League as a senior. He was named a Top 20 All Star at Eastern Invitational Camp before his senior season, and also was selected to play in the Philadelphia-Washington D.C. All-Star Game and the Jameer Nelson All-Star Classic. O'Brien was the first basketball player in Garden Spot's history to earn an NCAA Division I basketball scholarship, accepting a full scholarship from Bucknell University. College career
As a freshman at Bucknell, O’Brien was named to the Patriot League All-Rookie team, finishing third in the league in blocks. At the end of the season, O'Brien transferred to Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. After redshirting the 2008–2009 season, O'Brien started at center for the Hawks and was the team's leading rebounder in the 2010–2011 season. He earned the George Senesky Award for academic excellence in his 2009–2010 season.After playing a decreased role for the Hawks in the 2010–2011 season, O'Brien opted to become a Graduate Transfer and play his final eligible season of college basketball at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Complications getting his transfer waiver approved ultimately left O'Brien as a member of the Blazers basketball team but unable to compete in NCAA games for the 2011–2012 season. The waiver dispute earned O’Brien public support from ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times. Professional career
In June 2012, O'Brien signed his first professional contract with BK Jekabpils of the Latvian Basketball League. In their inaugural season, O'Brien helped lead the team to a No. 5 finish and secure a spot in the playoffs. O’Brien finished top five in the league in points (15.6), rebounds (9.4), and player efficiency per game.He was named Latvian League Center of the Year, First Team All Latvia and to the Latvian League All Imports Team by Eurobasket.com

For his second season, O'Brien signed with Hermine Nantes in Nantes, France. Playing in the LNB Pro B division, O'Brien was sidelined from October to December with a foot injury. He was able to return and finish the rest of the season, averaging 10.5 points per game and 5.8 rebounds per game. In July 2014, O'Brien signed with the Oita Heat Devils of the Japanese BJ League. Playing in 50 games that season, O’Brien finished as the team leader in points (13.0), rebounds (9.4), field goal percentage (50%), blocks (1.2), and player efficiency (14.7). He helped guide the Heat Devils to a playoff appearance as the No. 7 seed in the Western Conference.In July 2015, O'Brien signed with Polish club MKS Dąbrowa Górnicza. O'Brien left the club in October and moved to Al Arabi of the Qatar Basketball League. While playing for Al Arabi, O'Brien led the team in points (22.3), rebounds (17.9), field goal percentage (47.8), free throw percentage (78.4), blocks (1.4), and player efficiency (31.4). He ranked first in the league in rebounds and player efficiency, third in blocked shots and ninth in scoring. O’Brien was named Qatar Center of the Year, First Team All-Qatar and to the Qatar All-Imports team. Upon the conclusion of the Qatar Basketball league regular season, O'Brien signed with Lebanese club CS Sagesse Beirut of the Lebanese Basketball League in March 2016. In 13 games, O'Brien emerged as the league's leading rebounder at 13.2 per game and finished in the top five in player efficiency.Entering playoffs as a No. 7 seed, O'Brien hit the game-winning shot at the end of regulation to complete the series upset over No. 2 seed Tadamon Zouk to send Sagesse into the league's final four round. O'Brien joined Al Hala of the Bahrain Premier League for the preseason Bahrain Supercup. Upon completion in mid-September, O'Brien signed with Urartu BC of Armenia in their inaugural season. O'Brien was given an Armenian passport for contributions to the country's national athletics, making him eligible to play for the National Team in future competitions. He participated in the Russian Superleague, where he led the league in rebounding (10.4 rpg) and ranked No.4 in player efficiency (18.8). Due to sponsorship issues, the club ceased operations in early December. In December 2016, O'Brien returned to CS Sagesse Beirut on a short-term contract, playing in six Lebanese league games and participating in the Dubai International Tournament in February 2017. In March 2017, O'Brien signed a deal returning to Latvia with league power BK Ventspils. On November 21, 2018, O'Brien signed with Al Ahly of the Egyptian Basketball Super League. He also participated in the Africa Basketball League, where he led the tournament in rebounds with 12 per game, to go with 13.8 points, 2.8 assists, 1.0 steals and 1.0 block shots per game. On September 16, 2019, O'Brien signed a one-year deal with Alexandria Sporting Club of Egypt of the Egytpian National League.Overseas Elite
O'Brien plays as a member of the Overseas Elite basketball team that competes in The Basketball Tournament (TBT), a summer tournament broadcast on ESPN. In 2015, O'Brien was a member of the inaugural Overseas Elite basketball team that competed in TBT 2015. The team, composed of other overseas professionals, went on to defeat Team 23 in the championship game, taking home a $1 million prize. In summer 2016, O'Brien and Overseas Elite repeated as champions, defeating Team Colorado in the TBT 2016 finals, winning an increased $2 million prize. O'Brien and Overseas Elite won their third championship at TBT 2017, defeating Team Challenge ALS in the finals, for another $2 million prize. At TBT 2018, O'Brien and Overseas Elite won their fourth championship, defeating Eberlein Drive in the finals, to secure another $2 million prize. Personal life
O'Brien was born March 3, 1989 in Media, Pennsylvania.His family moved to Lancaster, PA when he was young. His father, Roy, played football at the University of Penn and was an assistant football coach at Widener University. His mother, Pam, played both lacrosse and basketball at Hood College. His older sister, Kim, was a triple jumper at Muhlenberg College. His younger sister, Julia, plays professional volleyball. She was a two-time All-PSAC First Team selection at West Chester University and the 2014 PSAC Player of the Year. His uncle, Bruce Frank, played basketball at the University of Penn and went on to play professionally in Germany.His cousin, Matt Frank, was the starting right guard and team captain of James Madison University's 2016 National Championship football team. References

External links
 UAB Blazers bio
 RealGM profile

1989 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Japan
American expatriate basketball people in Latvia
American expatriate basketball people in Lebanon
American expatriate basketball people in Poland
American expatriate basketball people in Russia
American expatriate basketball people in Qatar
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Pennsylvania
BK Ventspils players
Bucknell Bison men's basketball players
Ehime Orange Vikings players
Hapoel Galil Elyon players
People from New Holland, Pennsylvania
Saint Joseph's Hawks men's basketball players
Centers (basketball)
Sagesse SC basketball players


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<mask> (水夏希 Mizu <mask>, born 1972) is the former top star (otokoyaku) for Snow Troupe of Takarazuka Revue from 12/24/06 to 09/12/10. She joined the company in 1993 and became the top star in December 2006 upon the resignation of Hikaru Asami. She is from Chiba-shi, Chiba-ken and her birthday is August 16. Her nickname is <mask> and Chika. Troupe history
 Moon Troupe: 1993–1997
 Flower Troupe: 1997–2001
 Cosmo Troupe: 2000–2005
  Snow Troupe: 2005–2010

General information
Starting her career in the Moon Troupe, she is one of a few current younger and non-Senka members (and also in the roster) that have participated in the performances with all 5 troupes (even it is just a special appearance for Star production of Rose of Versailles). She is one of several promising young stars that were promoted in 1999 (along with Sumire Haruno, the former top star for Flower Troupe and Hikaru Asami, the former top star for Snow Troupe). Before she was promoted to top star, she was considered as one of top-stars-in-waiting along with Kei Takashiro, the former top star for Cosmo Troupe, Kei Aran, the current top star for Star Troupe, Jun Sena, the current top star for Moon Troupe, and Yūga Yamato, the current top star of Cosmo Troupe.While she was in Moon Troupe, she had already caught the attention, took the title role of Me and My Girl of the first half of the New Actor Production in 1995. In 1996, she was in title role of CAN-CAN. Then she transferred to the Flower Troupe. Her time in the Flower Troupe is when she most notably developed her skills. Together with Sumire Haruno (class of 1991) and Jun Sena (class of 1992), they formed a tight trio among the younger performers in the Flower Troupe. During those years, she got praises for her performance on the leading role of Yoake no Jokyoku: her first leading role for New Actor production in Flower Troupe. Also she had her first leading show, Romeo and Juliet '99 at the Bow Hall (with Kanami Ayano, retired Top musumeyaku star) in 1999.After participating the oversea performance at Berlin, Germany in 2000, she was transferred to Cosmo Troupe. With the establishment of the New Senka (In June 2000, the directors of the company had made a radical change on the troupe structure by sending the second and third tier actresses of each troupe to the Senka, which served as the waiting list for top star of the troupes. ), she became the second man for Yoka Wao from 2002 to 2005. In her Cosmo years, she had memorable performance as both Oscar and Andre in Rose of Versailles, Robert in Pierre the Mercenary and villainous Count Edmond de Lambrouse in Lightning in the Daytime. Marking the 90th anniverisery for the company, she had a special appearance for Snow production of Susano-o, where she was the antagonist Aosetona in 2004. Another noteworthy performance was her villainous role as Count Edmond. She also has a special appearance as Benito in Flower's La Esperanza with Hiromu Kiriya from Moon Troupe in the same year.After performing Hotel Stella Maris for Cosmo Troupe in both Takarazuka Grand Theater and Tokyo Takarazuka Theater, she was suddenly transferred to Snow Troupe. With Kei Takashiro's promotion to top star for Cosmo Troupe, she became the second man for Hikaru Asami. In December 2006, she was finally promoted to be top star. In 2004, she did the role of Tzeitel in the Japanese production of Fiddler on the Roof. Her Grand Theater debut is Elisabeth in May 2007. This makes her the second top star to perform this favourite musical of Takarazuka as her debut as a top star. She was the leading member of the now defunct AQUA5, along with fellow troupe mates Mao Ayabuki, Kei Otozuki, Oto Ayana and Kaname Ouki.They had performed at the opening ceremony of 2007 World Championships in Athletics. She has a twin sister, Yoko Masuda, who is an acupuncturist for Cirque Du Soleil. Notable performance and role

Moon New Actor era

Me and My Girl - Bill (leading role shared with Kouki Naruse)
CAN-CAN - Aristide Forestier (leading role)

Flower era

Yoake no Jokyoku - Kawakami Otojirou (leading role in New Actor performance, her role in the formal performance is George)
Asaki Yume Mishi - Genji Monogatari - Akashi No Onkata (female role)
 Romeo and Juliet '99 - Romeo (First leading performance at Takarazuka Bow Hall)

Cosmo era

Rose of Versailles: Fersen and Marie Antoinette - Oscar François de Jarjayes
Figaro! - Albert Whistler
Passionate Barcelona / Rio de Bravo!! - (National Tour) Marquis Francisco Laforet
Daybreak at Solferino / Carnavale, A Sleeping Dream - Henri Dunant
Roget / Rock On! - Roget Jardin

A Note for Oscar

Rose of Versailles plays an important part for her Takarazuka career: because she is the very few that has been in both role of Oscar and Andre. The following list is her partners when she was in either role:

As Oscar

Nao Ayaki as Andre in the 2001 Cosmo production
Yoka Wao as Hans Axel Von Fersen in the same production as Ayaki
Wataru Kozuki as Hans Axel Von Fersen in the 2006 Star production
Kei Aran as Andre in the same production as Kozuki
Kazuho Sou as Andre in the Snow National Tour

As Andre

Nao Ayaki as Oscar in the 2001 Cosmo production
Hikaru Asami as Oscar in 2006 Snow Production

References

1972 births
Living people
Japanese stage actresses
Takarazuka Revue
People from Chiba (city)

masks:
Natsuki Mizu
Natsuki
Mizu


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<mask> (1824–1894) was an Irish priest of the Roman Catholic Church who was famous in his day as a wit and conversationalist. Early life
<mask> was born in Francis Street, a rough area on the west side of Dublin, on 15 December 1824. His father, <mask>, was a provision merchant. His mother, Mary Meyler, was from Wexford. In 1834 <mask> enrolled at the Vincentian seminary in Usher's Quay, as a day-scholar. In 1839 he moved to St Vincent's College, Castleknock, which had opened in 1835. In 1843 he left the Vincentian order and entered the national seminary, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, from which he qualified as a priest.He left Maynooth in 1850. Clerical career
Father <mask>'s first appointment was as a reader at St Andrew's Church, Westland Row, Dublin; soon after that, in 1852, he took up the post of curate at the church of SS Michael and John. In 1858 he was appointed curate in the parish of Bray, County Wicklow. Nine years later, in 1867, he was put in charge of St Peter's chapel at Little Bray as administrator. Little Bray was then a hamlet of Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin; it is separated from Bray proper by the river Dargle. In 1868 Little Bray became a separate parish and <mask> was made its parish priest. He remained in that role until 1893, when he was transferred to the parish of Ballybrack and Killiney, County Dublin.<mask>'s ecclesiastical career was unremarkable, yet he became a figure of some repute in the cultured circles of his day. It was as a bon viveur and conversationalist that he gained his fame. His entertaining repartee made him a popular guest at dinner parties; he also held dinners at his own house which attracted visitors from all strata of society. As one of his regular guests observed, "His friends comprised all classes, rich and poor, old and young, Protestant and Catholic. He was a priest devoted to his Church and to his flock, but his heart was big enough to include kind and loving feelings for all." A particular friend of <mask>'s was the controversial judge William Keogh QC, who lived near him in Bray. Another of his admirers, a Mr Darcy, took <mask> on two extensive trips abroad, the first (in 1879) to Italy and Egypt, the second (in 1886) to the United States of America.Declining years
In the 1880s Father <mask> began to suffer from liver problems and other health issues. After a break of several months "taking the waters" at Harrogate and Karlsbad (Baden) (during which period he claimed to have "shrunk to the size of a curate") he was well enough to resume his duties as a parish priest. In 1893 he was transferred to the parish of Ballybrack with Killiney, but by then his health was in terminal decline. He died, of liver failure aggravated by pneumonia, on 28 October 1894. Anecdotes
A lady told <mask> she was one of the Dalys of Castle Daly, and asked what family he belonged to. "I belong to the Francis Street branch of the Halys of Castle Haly," he replied. The Duchess of Marlborough once asked <mask> if he could speak French."I ought to, your Grace, for I was born in Francis Street," was his reply. Sir Redvers Buller, a general who had fought in Africa, dined with <mask> on one occasion when the other guests were Archbishop Walsh and eleven priests. Sir Redvers flinched when he saw he was the only layman. "Don’t worry," said <mask>, "the soutane can’t be much worse than the Soudan!" <mask> was sceptical of physicians. When he was on his deathbed Dr Christopher Nixon came to attend on him. "My dear <mask>," he said, "you are exceedingly ill. We know what is best for you, and I must ask you to submit your will to us.""I shan’t," retorted the Reverend Father, "you might alter it!" Meeting with <mask> <mask> came to the attention of William Ewart Gladstone while the latter was visiting Dublin in 1877. On his way to Italy in 1879 <mask> stopped in London and was invited to breakfast at Gladstone's house. The tale he subsequently told about this occasion was recorded by a young writer:

My father took me one evening to dine (at the house of Mr Justice James Murphy) near Stillorgan. I soon became aware that the wine was excellent, and was being drunk with attention. But before long I found my mind chiefly engaged in marvelling who on earth was this little priest with the humorous face, who kept saying precisely the right thing in precisely the happiest way. For I had never then heard of <mask> of Bray.No reasonable person could fail to see that this man was an extraordinary artist in conversation. ... One story he told that night is so characteristic of the man that I give it as I wrote it from memory thirty years ago, after his death. Mr Gladstone’s name had come up, as in those days it could not fail to do; and <mask> was expressing admiration for his wonderful accomplishments. “He asked me to breakfast in his own house one day,” he said, “and there were a lot of big men there; ministers and men of science, and writers and what not: but he seemed the master of every one of them on his own subject. Well, after breakfast, Gladstone began declaiming about the doctrine of indulgence; and, seeing where I was, I tried to make myself as little as I could. It was no use; he turned round on me there, with his eyes flashing: ‘<mask>, I saw with my own eyes in a church at Verona a notice offering to remit forty thousand years in purgatory for the sum of two hundred lire. Now – what do you say to that?’ Well, I was in a fix with all those fellows looking at me; but I thought of a way; so I said, ‘It’s a fair offer, and I don’t know where you’d go to do better.’”

Testimonials
“His outward presence expressed perfectly the soul within.It would have been a common face but for the uncommon qualities which marked it, for it was broadened with smiles, lit up with a twinkling eye, refined by the thin nostril and mobile lips, which told of his delicate perception and his ready utterance – an utterance rich with the flavour of his origin. He was never at a loss for a kindly word; to meet him in the street was like passing suddenly into sunshine.” ––  Dr John Pentland Mahaffy, Fellow (later Provost) of Trinity College, Dublin

“<mask> was one of the most charming of men – racy of the soil, a true Irishman, a true friend, kind, witty, genial, sociable. We shall not soon look upon his like again. I knew him for over a quarter of a century; I have dined with him on several occasions in his house at Little Bray, and I can never forget those wonderful and hospitable entertainments. The numbers varied – sometimes eight, ten, twelve, even fourteen. The most varied guests met at his table. I have sat there at the same time with Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Lord Powerscourt, Monsignor Persico, Archbishop Walsh, Lord Morris, Chief Baron Palles, and others.His guests were always delighted to be there, and he was delighted to have them. One servant cooked the dinner and brought it to the table, and no one could tell how the attendance was arranged. Once, I remember, when some officer of the Guards was dining with the Padre, he looked round for a servant to take his coat and hat when he entered the house, and the host came forward smiling, saying: ‘You know those footmen of mine all gave me notice and left on the spot when they heard that you were coming.’ He was brilliant, quick like lightning in conversation, and never hesitated for a second to come out with a sparkling, genial mot.” –– Lord Ashbourne

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<mask> (June 18, 1909 – November 2005) was a Romanian artist, essayist and memoirist, known for her work in stage design and tapestry. A family friend of Communist Party politician Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, she was arrested by the Communist regime following the conflict between Pătrăşcanu and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. She was indicted in his trial and spent twelve years as a political prisoner. Constante was the wife of the musicologist Harry Brauner, and the sister-in-law of the painter Victor Brauner. Biography
Born in Bucharest, she was the daughter of an Aromanian journalist (who had immigrated from Macedonia) and his Romanian wife. The <mask> family left the city during the World War I German occupation, and <mask> spent much of her childhood in Iaşi, Kherson, Odessa, London and Paris. Returning at the end of the conflict, she studied Painting at the Romanian Art Academy in Bucharest, and established friendships with leading intellectuals of her time, including Brauner, Mircea Vulcănescu, Petru Comarnescu, Henri H. Stahl, Mihail Sebastian, and Paul Sterian.During the period, she became sympathetic to left-wing politics and joined the sociological project initiated by Dimitrie Gusti, aiding in the creation of comprehensive monographs on traditional Romanian society; her visits to various villages acquainted her with traditional folk art, especially religious icons, which she later used as inspiration in her work. Constante first exhibited her art in 1934, and had personal shows in 1935, and 1946; her last exhibit before being arrested occurred in Ankara, Turkey (1947). After 1945, she was employed as a stage designer by the newly founded Ţăndărică Theater, where she met Elena Pătrăşcanu, Lucreţiu's wife. In early 1946, when Pătrăşcanu, who was Romania's Minister of Justice, decided to go against the will of his party and intervened in the standoff between King Michael I and the Petru Groza executive (greva regală – "the royal strike"), she mediated between him and two well-known anti-communist figures Victor Rădulescu-Pogoneanu and Grigore Niculescu-Buzeşti, in an attempt to ensure their support for a political compromise. Together with her friend Brauner, as well as Remus Koffler, Belu Zilber, Petre Pandrea, Herant Torosian, Ionel Mocsony Stârcea, the engineer Emil Calmanovici, Alexandru Ştefănescu and others, she was implicated in Pătrăşcanu's 1954 trial, being sentenced to twelve years in prison. The person who took initiative in bringing her to trial was Securitate deputy chief Alexandru Nicolschi. During repeated interrogations by the Securitate, Constante tried to fend off false accusations of "Titoism" and "treason", but, the victim of constant beatings and torture (much of her hair was torn from the roots), and confronted with Zilber's testimony — which implicated her —, she eventually gave in and admitted to the charges.Throughout the rest of her life, she maintained a highly critical view of Zilber, and expressed her admiration for Pătrăşcanu, who had for long resisted pressures and had been executed in the end. As she stated in 2004,
"I did not know [Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu] too well. It was not [because of] him that I went to jail. Neither was it [because of] Mrs. Elena [Pătrăşcanu]. His friend, Belu Zilber, made us go to jail, me and my husband. Zilber was never pleased with all the things he kept inventing in his confessions and he would concoct some stuff that aimed to please the interrogators. To please [Gheorghiu-]Dej."For much of her time in prison, Constante was kept in virtually complete solitude, a special regime which she later attributed to her earlier refusal to confess. Repeatedly beaten and again tortured during her stay in special prisons for women, she much later confessed that she was never able to forgive the people responsible for her plight. She was freed in 1962; in 1963, she married Brauner, who had also been released. They both were rehabilitated during Nicolae Ceauşescu's campaign of reviewing Romania's history under Gheorghiu-Dej (1968). Constante exhibited her works on two other occasions (in 1970 and 1971, both centered on tapestry and collage art). In 1990, after the Romanian Revolution, she published her French-language autobiography L'évasion silencieuse ("The Silent Escape"), at the Éditions La Découverte in Paris. The volume, which Vladimir Tismăneanu has compared to the works of Margarete Buber-Neumann, is written as a diary, and makes use of her prolific memory, which allowed her to record an immense succession of days, years after events had passed.It won the Prize of French-Language Writers' Association, and was translated into English as The Silent Escape: Three Thousand Days in Romanian Prisons, with a preface by Gail Kligman; the Romanian version (Evadarea tăcută) received the Romanian Academy's Lucian Blaga Prize. In 1993, she also published Evadarea imposibilă. Penitenciarul politic de femei Miercurea Ciuc 1957–1961 ("The Impossible
Escape. The Political Prison for Women in Miercurea Ciuc 1957–1961"). In 1997, Constante starred as herself in Nebunia Capetelor, a film by Thomas Ciulei based on The Silent Escape; Ciulei had originally intended to cast Maia Morgenstern as Constante, but ultimately decided to pay a special tribute to the book's theme ("I wanted to force the spectator to build himself an imaginary space, as <mask>e had done when she was in her cell").

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<mask> (; born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer, known for his work in musical theatre, television and film. He is a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, having received three Tony Award nominations, winning for his leading role in Evita (1996), and seven Drama Desk Award nominations. For his work in television he has received seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations (winning one). He has also received a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Golden Globe Award nominations. Patinkin made his theatre debut in 1975 starring opposite Meryl Streep in the revival of the comic play Trelawny of the 'Wells' at The Public Theatre's Shakespeare Festival. He then originated the iconic role of Che in the original Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, in 1979, as well as that of Georges Seurat in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, in 1984. Patinkin is also known for his leading roles in various shows on television playing Dr. Jeffrey Geiger in Chicago Hope (1994–2000), SSA Jason Gideon on the crime-drama television series Criminal Minds (2005–2007), and Saul Berenson in the Showtime drama series Homeland (2011–2020).For his work in television he earned seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Drama Series for Chicago Hope in 1995. Patinkin has had recurring roles in Dead Like Me (2003–2004), and The Good Fight (2021). Over his career <mask> has become known for his performances in film including his iconic portrayal of Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's family adventure film The Princess Bride (1987). He also starred alongside Barbra Streisand in the musical epic Yentl (1983), where he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination. His other film credits include Miloš Forman's Ragtime (1981), Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy (1990), Wonder (2017), and Life Itself (2018). Early life
<mask> was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 30, 1952, to Doris Lee "Doralee" (née Sinton), a homemaker, and Lester Don <mask>, who operated two large Chicago-area metal factories, the People's Iron & Metal Company and the Scrap Corporation of America. His mother wrote Grandma Doralee <mask>'s Jewish Family Cookbook.Patinkin's cousins include <mask>, an author and nationally syndicated columnist for The Providence Journal; <mask> of Columbia College Chicago's Theater Department, a founder of The Second City; Bonnie Miller Rubin, a Chicago Tribune reporter; <mask>, a New York-based actress; and Louis Rosen, a New York-based composer. Patinkin grew up in an upper-middle-class family, descended from Jewish immigrants (from Russia and Poland), and was raised in Conservative Judaism, attending religious school daily "from the age of seven to 13 or 14" and singing in synagogue choirs, as well as attending the Camp Sura in Michigan. His father died of pancreatic cancer in 1972. He attended South Shore High School, Harvard St. George School, and Kenwood High School (later renamed Kenwood Academy, where his teachers included Lena McLin), and graduated in 1970. He attended the University of Kansas and the Juilliard School (Drama Division Group 5: 1972–1976). At Juilliard, he was a classmate of Kelsey Grammer. When the producers of the sitcom Cheers were holding auditions for the role of Dr. Frasier Crane, Patinkin put Grammer's name forward.Career

1970s
After some television-commercial and radio appearances (including on CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974), Patinkin started his career on the New York stage in 1975, starring in Trelawny of the 'Wells' as Arthur Gower. Patinkin starred alongside Meryl Streep, who played Imogen Parrott, and John Lithgow, who played Ferdinand Gadd. From 1975 through 1976, Patinkin played Fortinbras, Prince of Norway and Player King in a Broadway revival of Hamlet, with Sam Waterston in the leading role. Patinkin had his first success in musical theater when he played Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, which starred Patti LuPone, on Broadway in 1979. 1980s
Patinkin went on to win the 1980 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in Evita. He then moved to film, playing parts in movies such as Yentl and Ragtime. He returned to Broadway in 1984 to star in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, in which he played the pointillist artist Georges Seurat, earning him another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.In 1987, Patinkin played Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, playing the role of the best swordsman in the country, looking to avenge his father’s death. Over the next decade, he continued to appear in movies, including Dick Tracy and Alien Nation. 1990s
On Broadway, Patinkin appeared in the musical The Secret Garden in 1991 and was nominated for the 1991 Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He also released two solo albums, titled <mask> (1989) and Dress Casual (1990). In 1994, Patinkin took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS's Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award. However, despite the award and the ratings success of the show, Patinkin left the show during the second season because he was unhappy spending so much time away from his wife and children. He returned to the show in 1999 at the beginning of the sixth season, but it was canceled in 2000.Since Chicago Hope, Patinkin has appeared in a number of films. However, he has mostly performed as a singer, releasing three more albums. In 1995, he guest-starred in The Simpsons in the episode "Lisa's Wedding" as Hugh Parkfield, Lisa's future English groom. Mamaloshen, Patinkin's musical production of songs sung entirely in Yiddish, premiered in 1998. He has performed the show on Broadway and in venues around the United States. The recorded version won a Deutscher Schallplattenpreis award in Germany. In 1999, Patinkin co-starred in the second Sesame Street film, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, as Huxley, an abusive, childish, sadistic, and greedy man with abnormally large eyebrows, who steals whatever he can grab and then claims it as his own.2000s
Patinkin returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party, earning another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. From 2003 to 2004, he appeared in the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me as Rube Sofer. In 2004, he played a six-week engagement of his one-man concert at the Off-Broadway complex Dodger Stages. In September 2005, he debuted in the role of Jason Gideon, an experienced profiler just coming back to work after a series of nervous breakdowns, in the CBS crime-drama television series Criminal Minds. Patinkin was absent from a table read for Criminal Minds and did not return for a third season. The departure from the show was not due to contractual or salary matters, but over creative differences. He left apologetic letters for his fellow cast members explaining his reasons and wishing them luck.Many weeks before his departure, in a videotaped interview carried in the online magazine Monaco Revue, Patinkin told journalists at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo that he loathed violence on television and was uncomfortable with certain scenes in Criminal Minds. He later called his choice to do Criminal Minds his "biggest public mistake" and stated that he "thought it was something very different. I never thought they were going to kill and rape all these women every night, every day, week after week, year after year. It was very destructive to my soul and my personality. After that, I didn't think I would get to work in television again." Patinkin spoke of having planned to tour the world with a musical and wanting to inject more comedy into the entertainment business. In later episodes of Criminal Minds, during the 2007–08 season, Jason Gideon was written out of the series and replaced by Special Agent David Rossi (played by Joe Mantegna).Gideon was later officially killed off, ending all chances of a guest appearance by <mask> on the show. On October 14, 2009, it was announced that Patinkin would be a guest star on an episode of Three Rivers, which aired on November 15, 2009. He played a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease injured in a car accident who asks the doctors at Three Rivers Hospital to take him off life support so his organs can be donated. He filmed an appearance on The Whole Truth that had been scheduled to air December 15, 2010, but ABC pulled the series from its schedule two weeks prior. 2010s
He starred in the new musical Paradise Found, co-directed by Harold Prince and Susan Stroman, at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. The musical played a limited engagement from May 2010 through June 26, 2010. <mask> and Patti LuPone performed their concert An Evening with Patti LuPone and <mask>in on Broadway for a limited 63-performance run starting November 21, 2011, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, and ending on January 13, 2012.The concert marked the first time the pair had performed together on Broadway since appearing in Evita. He costarred with Claire Danes on the Showtime series Homeland, which initially began airing in 2011. He portrays counterterrorism operative Saul Berenson, protagonist Carrie Mathison's (Danes) mentor. For his performance, Patinkin has been nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Explaining what he learned from the character, he stated, "The line between good and evil runs through each one of us." Patinkin was announced as playing the role of Pierre in the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 starting August 15, 2017. He was to have a limited run through September 3, replacing former Hamilton star Okieriete Onaodowan, but Patinkin dropped out of the role before performing.In 2018, Patinkin returned to recorded music with the album Diary: January 27, 2018 which was produced by pianist Thomas Bartlett. Personal life
Patinkin married actress and writer Kathryn Grody on April 15, 1980. They have two sons, Isaac and Gideon. Gideon joined his father onstage in Dress Casual in 2011. Patinkin has described himself as "Jewish with a dash of Buddhist" belief. On the Canadian radio program Q, Patinkin called himself a "JewBu" because of this mix of beliefs and "spiritual but not religious." Patinkin suffered from keratoconus, a degenerative eye condition, in the mid-1990s.This led to two corneal transplants, his right cornea in 1997 and his left in 1998. He was also diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer in 2004. He celebrated his first year of recovery in 2005 by doing a  charity bike ride with his son, Isaac – the Arava Institute Hazon Israel Ride: Cycling for Peace, Partnership & Environmental Protection. Patinkin has been involved in a variety of Jewish causes and cultural activities. He sings in Yiddish, often in concert, and on his album Mamaloshen. He also wrote introductions for two books on Jewish culture, The Jewish American Family Album, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, and Grandma Doralee <mask>'s Holiday Cookbook: A Jewish Family's Celebrations, by his mother, Doralee <mask> Rubin. In May 2012, Patinkin delivered the opening speech at the Annual Convention of the Israeli Left, where he recounted his experiences during a visit to the West Bank with members of the Breaking the Silence organization.Patinkin contributed to the children's book Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again: A Musical Storybook, inspired by Christopher Reeve. The award-winning book, published in 2005, benefits the Christopher Reeve Foundation and includes an audio CD with Patinkin singing and reading the story as well as Dana Reeve and Bernadette Peters singing. On December 21, 2015, on Charlie Rose on PBS, Patinkin spoke about his recent trip to Greece to help refugees from war-torn Syria and his acting role on the television series Homeland. He stated that he wanted to help "create opportunity and better systems of living and existing, to give freedom, justice and dignity, quality of life to humanity all over the world." In 2020, Patinkin's and Grody's son, Gideon, began filming and photographing their daily lives, posting images and clips to multiple social media outlets. The couple soon developed a significant social media following. Later that year, Grody and Patinkin partnered with Swing Left, creating viral videos with their sons to encourage people to vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election.Patinkin also stumped for Biden in an ad for the Jewish Democratic Council of America encouraging Jews to vote for Biden. The ad featured Patinkin channeling his Princess Bride character to encourage people to vote. Patinkin is a model railroader. Filmography

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On February 12, 2018, Patinkin received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6243 Hollywood Blvd for his work on television. References

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"<mask>in: How I became political -- and why you should too" via CNN

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<mask> (born 23 August 1937) is an Australian politician and activist. She was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1981, first for the Labor Party then as an Independent from 1997 until she left the Council in 1999. Long recognised as a colourful and influential figure in New South Wales politics, <mask> shot to national prominence in 1996 when, under Parliamentary privilege, she named retired judge David Yeldham and former New South Wales MP Frank Arkell as potential paedophiles. Life and career
<mask> was born in Genoa, Italy, the daughter of Francesco Dellepiane and Onorato Rosita. She received her education in Italy, at Syskon College in London, and after migrating to Australia in 1959, took several courses at WEA Sydney. In 1961, <mask> married <mask>. The couple had twin sons in 1966.Soon after arriving in Australia, <mask> worked as a journalist for the Italian language newspaper La Fiamma, until 1966. She also worked as a broadcaster in ethnic radio. In 1975 <mask> helped found ethnic radio 2EA Sydney, where she worked until 1979. <mask>'s strong interest in ethnic affairs inevitably led her to become involved in community organisations and politics. She sat on numerous committees from 1972 through the 1970s and '80s, all of them involved in some way in promoting or managing ethnic affairs, women's issues, or adult education. She joined the Labor Party in 1972, and in 1981 was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council, becoming the first woman not from an English-speaking background in the New South Wales Parliament. As a Member of the council, <mask> sat on several parliamentary committees, most prominently the Standing Committee on Social Issues.In 1996 <mask> attracted public condemnation after suggesting that the Wood Royal Commission should investigate Supreme Court judge David Yeldham and former MP Frank Arkell as alleged paedophiles. Her relationship with her party became increasingly strained as the fallout from her 1996 comments mounted, and she resigned in November 1997, continuing to serve on the Legislative Council as an Independent. In 1999 she failed a bid for re-election under the "Franca Arena Child Safety Alliance" banner, and retired from politics. The National Italian-Australian Women's Association was established by <mask> <mask> in 1985 (founding President). It aims to recognise and promote the contribution of Italian-Australian women to Australian society. <mask> <mask> has been a volunteer telephone counsellor for Lifeline and is a regular on-air contributor on the SBS Italian radio program. Awards
In 1976, <mask> was awarded a Churchill Fellowship, which sponsorship she used to study the relationship between ethnic groups and their host countries in countries other than Australia.She was offered the Order of the British Empire for services to migrants, but refused the honour; in 1980 she accepted the Order of Australia for services to ethnic groups. Australia was not the only government determined to recognise her work; in 1990 she was awarded Commendatore della Repubblica Italiana (in English, Knight Commander of the Italian Republic), and in 2004 the City of Genoa and the Region of Liguria bestowed the Illustrious Ligurian Award. Queer nation
In 1991, <mask> attracted sympathy and scorn after becoming the target of militant homosexual activists Queer Nation. At the time, <mask> was the head of a parliamentary enquiry into financial assistance for people who had acquired AIDS medically. <mask> attracted the attention of Queer Nation because, according to prominent member Tony Westmore, she had attempted to distinguish between people with medically acquired AIDS (whom she considered "innocent") and people who become infected through sexual contact. Election reform
In 1995, MLC <mask> <mask> moved the Parliament to an inquiry and report on the idea of providing seats dedicated to people of Aboriginal background, modeled on the Māori seats of New Zealand, so as to allow for hitherto unseen indigenous representation in the Parliament of New South Wales. The Standing Committee on Social Issues, of which she wasn't part, released a report on the merits of such seats in November 1998.The NSW Government members, however, did not believe the solution appropriate and leaned towards other measures to facilitate Aborigine representation. Wood Royal Commission
The Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service was a Royal Commission set up in 1994 to investigate corruption in the then New South Wales Police Service. As the commission continued, its scope expanded to include paedophilia and the failure of the NSW Police to adequately investigate accusations of sexual abuse. <mask>, along with fellow MP Deirdre Grusovin, urged the commission to look into abuse perpetrated by judges and lawyers. Frustrated with what she saw as the commission's unwillingness to investigate prominent people, <mask> promised to name at least two Sydney men in a speech to the Legislative Council. The next day, she followed through, demanding to know why the commission had not investigated retired Supreme Court judge David Yeldham or former MLA Frank Arkell. The remarks caused uproar in both Parliament and the press, and <mask> was regularly accused of abusing Parliamentary privilege to shield herself from potential defamation suits.Both Arkell and Yeldham strenuously denied being paedophiles. As a result of the publicity <mask>'s suggestion attracted, Yeldham was discovered to be living a double life as a homosexual, and committed suicide on 4 November 1996. When asked in late 1996 to comment on Yeldham's suicide, <mask> stood by her comments to the Legislative Council, explaining, "I asked questions which I felt it was important for me to ask after I was contacted by several people. As a member of Parliament, I have a duty to my constituents. Throughout this whole affair, I have acted according to my conscience.". The Privileges Committee of the Legislative Council investigated Arena's parliamentary conduct in November 1997. Frank Arkell, the other accused, was murdered on 26 June 1998.When the Commission published its findings, it cleared Yeldham and Arkell of any wrongdoing, and found that <mask>'s claims of a high-level cover-up of paedophilic activity were "false in all respects". Journalist Trudy Harris, writing in The Australian, described some of her claims, including one that an unnamed NSW judge was a Satanic murderer, as "bizarre". Not all of <mask>'s efforts were dismissed, however: NSW Commissioner of Police Peter Ryan set up a strike force to investigate accusations <mask> supplied to NSW Police, and argued that her assistance had been invaluable at times, such as in the arrest of a NSW District Court judge for child sex offences. Leaving the Labor Party
The decision to name Arkell and Yeldham as suspected paedophiles would cost <mask> dearly. With support within her own party already waning as a result of the incident and her refusal to back down, in 1997 <mask> pushed things further, crossing the floor to vote with the Liberal Opposition in favour of widening the Wood Commission's jurisdiction to include all paedophilia-related activity. Voting against one's own party is an expellable offence in the Labor Party; the only other NSW Labor MP to have opposed his own party in a party-line vote was George Petersen, who was expelled in 1987 as a result. As debate on whether to expel <mask> continued within the Labor Party and in the press, the Wood Royal Commission released its findings, clearing <mask>'s accused and ridiculing her allegations of a political cover-up.<mask> resigned from the Australian Labor Party on 7 November 1997, but continued to serve the Legislative Council as an Independent. As an Independent
<mask> wasted no time in using her new-found freedom as an Independent. In November 1997, the Labor Government attempted to pass the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Amendment Bill, which would have reduced the fine for small-scale marijuana use from $2200 to $500, and removed the possibility of gaol time. <mask> opposed the Bill, which was defeated in a 20–19 vote in the Legislative Council. Another Independent MLC, Richard Jones, attacked <mask> for her opposition of the Bill, asserting that she had told him she would be supporting it; <mask> argued that she had changed her mind because similar legislation had failed in South Australia. As <mask>'s eight-year term drew to a close, the Legislative Council voted to suspend her indefinitely unless she apologised for her comments about a criminal conspiracy of politicians to cover-up paedophilia. <mask> refused to apologise, arguing that she hadn't made any statements alleging criminal conspiracies.She read a "statement of regret" to the Council instead, a compromise that angered the Government but attracted enough support from Independents and individual Coalition MPs to avoid suspension. <mask> stood for re-election in 1999 under the name of a new party, the "Franca Arena Child Safety Alliance". She was soundly defeated, receiving a mere 0.4 percent of the popular vote, and immediately announced her retirement from political life. As an author
In 2002, <mask> published an autobiography entitled, Franca: my story. In it, she describes how finding out that both her sons are gay sparked a deep depression, during which she contemplated suicide. Footnotes

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State Library of New South Wales biography. Accessed 25 June 2007."Statement of Regret By the Honourable <mask> <mask>", Hansard transcript, 16 September 1998. Australian women biographical entry. Accessed 25 June 2007. Newspapers

"Gay Group Plans 'Outing' For NSW Politician", Sonya Voumard, The Age, 9 August 1991. "Vicious Gay Campaign Against Franca Arena", Alicia Larriera, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 August 1991. "Being pulled out of the closet: Militant gays' tactics of 'outing' people who don't want their sexual preference made public has divided the homosexual community", Miranda Friedlander, The Toronto Star, 3 September 1991. "What about lawyers, judges?", Michael Cameron, The Daily Telegraph, 24 October 1996. "<mask> to name molesters", The Daily Telegraph, 31 October 1996. "Ex-judge denies paedophile claim", David Nason, The Australian, 1 November 1996. "Uproar at MP name dropping", Rachel Morris, The Daily Telegraph, 1 November 1996. "Ex-judge suicides after child sex claim", The Australian, 5 November 1996. "<mask> votes with opposition", Mark Robinson and Ben English, The Daily Telegraph, 11 April 1997 (corrected 27 March 2002). "<mask> defiant in face of expulsion calls", Jonathan Este, The Australian, 6 November 1996."Arena Attacked For Vote Over Drug Law Reforms", Newcastle Herald, 22 November 1997. "ALP Marihuana Reform Refused", Scott Tucker, Newcastle Herald, 25 November 1997. "<mask> <mask> Faces Apology Deadline", Australian Associated Press, 15 September 1998. "Ms <mask> Regrets But Wins the Day", Mark Robinson, The Daily Telegraph, 17 September 1998. "<mask> <mask> says goodbye in a far cry from her days under the spotlight", Damien Murphy, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 April 1999 (republished online). "Paedophile chaser concedes defeat", Trudy Harris, The Australian'', 14 April 1999. 1937 births
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