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<mask>. (March 5, 1915 – May 4, 2010) was one of the first African American realtors in Cincinnati, the first African American broker to join the Cincinnati Board of Realtors, the first African American broker to serve as President of the Cincinnati Board of Realtors, and also the first African American trustee at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He was appointed trustee of Ohio University by former Ohio Governor John J. Gilligan. He was the first African American to chair the Ohio University board of trustees in 1979 and served on the Ohio University board from 1974 to 1983. He was also the charter member of the Beta Eta chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, a predominantly African American fraternity, at the University of Cincinnati. He chartered the chapter in 1939. Personal life
The grandson of a slave, he grew up in Cincinnati with his mother, Josephine; his father, Charles; his brother, Joseph; and his sister, Valerie. <mask> graduated from Walnut Hills High School in 1932.He was also a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, with the Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, Bachelor of Education, and Master of Education degrees. While at the University of Cincinnati, <mask> founded Quadres, a strong campus organization that promoted equal opportunities for African American students. He married <mask> in 1940 in <mask>’s hometown of Gallipolis, Ohio. They have two sons, <mask>. and Edward Alexander. They have two grandsons, Matthew and Oliver, and one granddaughter, Benita. Career
Before becoming a realtor and lifelong civil rights activist, <mask> was a school teacher in the Cincinnati Public Schools. He taught for the Cincinnati Public Schools for eighteen years.He taught at Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School in the West End, Cincinnati neighborhood. He taught at Frederick Douglass Elementary School in the Walnut Hills, Cincinnati neighborhood. He also taught at Bloom Junior High School. He was the first African American broker to join the Cincinnati Board of Realtors in 1986, and was later elected president of the organization. He also served as a member of the organization’s statewide legislative committee in

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texts: Ohio. When he joined the Cincinnati Board of Realtors, he accepted his post only after clearly stating his non-allegiance to any covert housing restrictions the board might endorse. He was active with PAC, the national policy-making commission of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers.He was the founder of his real estate firm, Donald A. Spencer and Associates. The firm grew to twenty-three associates with offices in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati and Avondale, Cincinnati. He was a successful businessman and real estate developer. He was a lifetime member of the NAACP. <mask> was also an accomplished jazz musician who wrote two musical plays, Who’da Thought It and Watcha' Doin' Now, and his works were performed at the University of Cincinnati and he sponsored a performance of his musical plays at the Cincinnati Art Museum. A lifelong supporter of Cincinnati Public Schools, <mask> chaired the 2001 campaign, successfully passing the November tax levy. In 2003, he served with CASE, Cincinnatians Active in the Support of Education, which led to the passing of the $435-million levy to build 35 new schools and renovate the remaining 31 buildings.In 2005, he was named a "Great Living Cincinnatian" by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. He was the first recipient of this award to be married to a previous recipient, his wife <mask>. In 2006, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Cincinnati. In 2010, the Cincinnati Public Schools renamed an elementary school in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati the Donald A. and Marian Spencer Education Center. <mask> with his wife, in 1992, established the <mask> and Marian Spencer Endowment for the African American Library Collection at Ohio University. <mask> and <mask> received honorary degrees from Ohio University in 1994. <mask> was involved with the Avondale Community Council, Cincinnati Board of Housing Appeals, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and YMCA of Greater Cincinnati.The <mask> A. <mask> Achievement Award was established in his honor to recognize the accomplishments of minority students at Ohio University and the Blackburn-Spencer

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 Scholarship and Achievement Awards were named in part for him. He served on the boards of Ohio University (two years as president), Ohio Valley Goodwill, the Fenwick Club, and Family Housing Developers. He was a founding board member of the Friends of Cincinnati Parks and an executive board member of the Walnut Hills High School Foundation, which developed a $12-million addition to the public high school with private funds, a first in the United States. He also was active in the Boys Club, the Cincinnatus Association, the City of Cincinnati Board of Housing Appeals, the Task Force on Racial Isolation in Cincinnati Public Schools, and Cincinnati’s Historic Conservation Board. He was a trustee for thirty years at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, now the New Vision United Methodist Church. In 1997, he received the Charles P. Taft Civic Gumption Award from the Cincinnati Charter Committee of the Charter Party.In 2001 the Cincinnati Park Board created the Donald A. Spencer Overlook in Eden Park to recognize his years of service to the park system. <mask> received the Founders’ Citation from the Ohio University Board of Trustees, and was one of only fourteen people to receive the honor in the university’s 200-year history. "My philosophy in life has been when you leave this world it should be better because you have lived," <mask> said. Legal challenges
<mask> helped his wife, Marian, integrate Coney Island, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1952 through a lawsuit in which she was the plaintiff. In 2004, <mask> and his wife, <mask>, initiated litigation seeking to restrain Defendants J. Kenneth Blackwell, in his official capacity as the Secretary of State of Ohio, Intervenor Defendant State of Ohio, the Hamilton County Board of Elections and its Chair Timothy Burke and members Michael Barrett, Todd Ward, Daniel Radford and Director John Williams in their official capacities from discriminating against black voters in Hamilton County, Ohio on the basis of race. The <mask>s sought to restrain the Defendants from allowing challengers at the polls in Hamilton County. <mask> and <mask> resided in Avondale, Cincinnati, a

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 predominantly African American neighborhood.The <mask>s were legally registered African American voters who voted in ward 13; precinct H. <mask> estimated that one hundred percent of the voters in her precinct were African American. The <mask>s alleged that the Hamilton County Board of Elections and the Hamilton County Republican Party combined to implement a voter challenge system at the polls on Election Day that discriminated against African American voters. The United States District Court For The Southern District Of Ohio Western Division granted the <mask>s' motion for a temporary restraining order. US District Court Judge Susan J. Dlott, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1995, ruled against the Republican plan, noting that there is no need to have voter challengers since Ohio already requires the presence of election judges at precincts in order to avoid voter fraud. Dlott warned in her decision that the Republican plan, if permitted, could cause "chaos, delay, intimidation and pandemonium inside the polls and in the lines outside the door." She noted "that 14 percent of new voters in a majority white location will face a challenger… but 97 percent of new voters in a majority African American voting location will see such a challenger." Dlott also said that the law permitting challengers did not sufficiently protect citizens’ fundamental right to vote.The <mask>s were represented by Cincinnati attorney Alphonse Gerhardstein. Legacy
<mask> was a respected friend of prominent Black Cincinnatians Cincinnati Mayor Theodore M. Berry and Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, who was among those who eulogized him at his funeral. References

External links
Finding Aid for <mask> papers, Archives and Rare Books Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

African-American businesspeople
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1915 births
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American real estate brokers
American civil rights activists
University of Cincinnati alumni
Kappa Alpha Psi
2010 deaths
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<mask> (born 9 May 1972, in Liverpool) is an English actress best known for her early role as Debbie McGrath in Channel 4's Liverpool-based soap opera Brookside and the spin-off mini-series Damon and Debbie, and for playing Jessica Harrison in the long-running BBC television medical drama series Casualty, as well as Emma Barton in the ITV Yorkshire-based soap opera Emmerdale. The role of Emma gained her recognition because of character's involvement in Emmerdale’s most high-profile storylines during her three-year stint. Early life
One of four children born to Gerard and Barbara (née Allerston) <mask>, <mask> has three brothers, including Tom, a professional footballer. Her father is a retired civil engineer, and her mother a school care worker. Growing up in Aigburth, she attended St. John Almond RC High School, Garston, where she gained nine GCSEs and four A-levels. She later trained at the Rose Bruford College. Career
Her interest in acting began at secondary school.After repeatedly being overlooked for the lead roles in school productions, she decided to join the Liverpool Playhouse Youth Theatre, where she featured in plays including All Flesh is Grass (as Ema), Katie Crackernuts and Yer Dancin'? It was there, in 1986, that she was spotted by members of the Mersey Television production team; this resulted in her being asked to audition for a role in Channel 4's soap opera Brookside. Kearney landed the role of Debbie McGrath, the girlfriend of Damon Grant, played by Simon O'Brien. When O'Brien decided to leave Brookside, he requested that his character be killed off so he wouldn't be tempted to return to the show. Because Damon was so popular, particularly with younger viewers, it

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texts: was decided to create a "soap bubble" in which the character would meet his demise: the result, Damon and Debbie, became Britain's first mini-series spin-off from a soap opera. A year after filming her final scenes, <mask> was asked to return for a few episodes. Christmas 1988 saw Debbie McGrath make an unexpected return to visit Sheila Grant, Damon's mother; she arrived with her baby, Simon – Damon's son.<mask> played the young Shirley in the award-winning 1989 film Shirley Valentine. She also had the lead female part as Ellie Brookes in Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll, a six-part television mini-series written and created by Debbie Horsfield and directed by John Woods. It was produced by Wall to Wall for BBC One originally airing in 1999 before being adapted into a successful stage musical. In 2002, <mask> landed the role of June Forsyte in the ITV1 adaptation of John Galsworthy's classic novel The Forsyte Saga. She later reprised the role for the second series. Following the success of The Forsyte Saga, <mask>'s next role brought her back onto the ITV screen in its newest medical drama, Sweet Medicine. <mask> was cast as Dr Deborah "Deb" Sweet, and starred alongside Jason Merrells, who played her husband, and Patricia Hodge as her formidable mother-in-law.The show was intended to take up the mantle of the popular rural drama Peak Practice, which had recently ended, but low viewing figures saw Sweet Medicine axed after just one series. In 2005, <mask> landed a role in Channel 4's hit series Shameless, playing the role of Marty Fisher's (Jack Deam) girlfriend, Sue Garland. She left the show along with her on-screen partner in 2007. She had a number of television roles following her departure

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 before landing the role of Jessica Harrison in Casualty, in January 2008. <mask> left Casualty in February 2010, but returned briefly to tie up the loose ends of her character's storyline in May 2010. As of 2 January 2015, <mask> began appearing in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, in the role of Emma Barton, the estranged wife of James Barton (Bill Ward) and mother of their three sons Pete (Anthony Quinlan), Ross (Michael Parr) and Finn (Joe Gill). <mask> has received critical acclaim for her performance, particularly when it came to the "No Return" week which saw the character hold James hostage and cause a huge crash that endangered the lives of seven Emmerdale residents; after Emma accidentally pushed James off the bridge, he later died.<mask> was nominated for Best Serial Drama Performance at the 2016 National Television Awards. In 2019, <mask> directed the 5Star woman's prison drama Clink. Personal life
<mask> lived in Crouch End, North London, from July 2000, and then rented a property in Clifton, Bristol, during her time appearing in Casualty. She returned to live in Liverpool after the birth of her son; she also rented a home in Yorkshire where she filmed Emmerdale, and a holiday home on the Atlantic coast of County Clare, Ireland. In April 2009 <mask> mentioned, during a This Morning television interview, that she was seeing a final-year medical student called Eddie, whom she had met whilst in Bristol. Early in 2010, <mask> announced her engagement to Eddie Foo and their intention to marry later that year in Ireland, but the plans were soon put on hold when she discovered that she was expecting their first child. Kearney gave birth to an 8 lb 3 oz (3.7 kg) baby boy on 26 August

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Bobby "<mask>" Ervin (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as <mask> or <mask>, is an American Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum producer, songwriter, DJ, artist and music executive. He has worked with musicians such as Clive Davis, Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, Lyor Cohen, Steve Rifkind, Madonna, Guy Oseary, Jermaine Dupri, and has written and produced songs for artists such as LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Mack 10, Tupac, Mc Ren, Sir Mix A Lot, K9 Posse, Breeze, Nas, King T, Kam, Candyman, and Yo-Yo. Musical career

Uncle Jamm's Army
Since the early 1980s <mask> has been involved in hip hop, beginning in Los Angeles with West Coast icons and pioneers Uncle Jamm's Army, DJing and promoting large dances and concerts for Run–D.M.C., Whodini, Ice-T, and Kurtis Blow, establishing the beginning of the hip hop scene on the West Coast. At the time, <mask> was only 15 years old and wasn't even tall enough to reach the turntables so they would have him stand on top of a milk crate to DJ. Back then <mask> didn't own any professional equipment, so when he began working with Big Daddy Productions and Uncle Jamm's Army, Ice T's DJ Chris "The Glove" Taylor had to show him how to use the huge Cerwin Vega Mixer. Roger Clayton, founder of Uncle Jamm's Army, would fly to the East Coast and pick up the hottest new underground records from various record stores in the city and bring them back to LA. <mask> and The Egyptian Lover would take those records, play them first and break them at the big Uncle Jamm's Dances that drew over 15,000 people in the early 1980s.California Catt Crew
As a member of the highly publicized Uncle Jamm's Army, <mask> was in popular demand. He was booked months in advance and did two to six parties every weekend. After being overbooked week after week, he decided to form a crew

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 of DJs similar to Uncle Jamm's Army, but with his signature sound and scratching techniques. He formed the California Catt Crew, which included <mask>, Battlecat, Dr. Scratch Kat, Wild Cat, Cosmic Cat, Alley Cat, Courageous Cat and Kitty Kat. <mask> helped book the DJs all around Southern California and gave them tips about the business. At this time <mask> recorded 12-inch single with Tracy Kendrick and Courtney Branch of Total Track Productions that included the Bobcat Song & California Catt Crew. 1580 KDAY/Mix Masters
<mask>, along with Uncle Jamm's Army, Greg Mack and Jack Patterson, helped pioneer the world's first 24-hour hip hop radio station, 1580 KDAY, changing the entire format of radio, introducing and pioneering the Saturday Night Mix Show and Traffic Jam.At the time, radio was traditional R&B and was playing very little rap. <mask> thought of the idea, concept and name "Mix Masters" for Greg Mack at 1580 KDAY. The new format caused a national and international domino effect, changing various stations' view of hip hop and subsequently their format. Uncle Jamm's Army and the Wrecking Crew are the forefathers of West Coast hip hop. The Mix Masters were the next generation. Def Jam/Bigger & Deffer
After dominating the West Coast hip hop scene, <mask> with his crew L.A. Posse flew to New York City and began working with rap mogul Russell Simmons, Lyor Cohen and Def Jam Records, writing and producing tracks for LL Cool J including "I Need Love", "I'm Bad", "Jack the Ripper", "Kanday", "Get Down", "Go Cut Creator Go" and "The Do Wop". The album Bigger and Deffer sold over 3 million copies, and is considered some of LL Cool J's best work."I Need Love"

<mask> wrote the melody to "I Need Love" when he was 16 years old. It was originally a song titled "Friends By Day, Lovers By Night",

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 <mask>'s version of "Secret Lovers" by Atlantic Starr. "I Need Love" has been sampled and remade more than any other rap song in history. It has been sampled or replayed by Jermaine Dupri, Usher, Master P, Kris Kross and countless others. Blender Magazine voted it the greatest rap song ever made. Def Jam tour
LL Cool J asked <mask> to go on the now world-famous Def Jam Tour. <mask> signed on as DJ/music supervisor, and also designed and choreographed LL's stage shows.He toured all over the world, DJing and overseeing the sound and lighting. The Def Jam Tour was one of the highest-grossing hip hop tours in history, grossing over $20 million in ticket sales worldwide. The tour toured all over the US and Europe, doing huge sold-out shows around the country including at the LA Sports Arena, the Omni in Atlanta and Madison Square Garden in New York. The Def Jam Tour featured Eric B & Rakim, Public Enemy, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Whodini, KRS-One, N.W.A, Salt N Pepa, Kool Moe Dee, Run–D.M.C., Stetsasonic, and LL Cool J, the headline act. Cat Got Ya Tongue
<mask> became an Arista recording artist and toured around the country performing his album, Cat Got Ya Tongue, on the same stage with New Edition and Jodi Watley. That same year <mask> was presented with a proclamation by the Atlanta City Council for making a positive album and being a positive influence and role model for the community. Business ventures

The Foundation
<mask> and his wife Chanel Ervin started a global entertainment agency and strategic marketing firm titled The Foundation.This global network primarily focuses on DJs and producers, and also markets and promotes new and established recording artists. The Digital Record Pool
The Digital Record Pool is an online music marketing service and online community for recording

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 artists that has thousands of DJs, MDs, PDs, tastemakers, music lovers, music producers, journalists and bloggers from around the world. <mask> is the founder/CEO, and says this site and service were created to help new artists and indie labels around the world get maximum exposure. Digital DJ team
Bobcat and the Foundation Entertainment Agency launched an international DJ team for the purpose of promoting new music, media, brands, goods and technologies Globally. <mask> is founder and general manager, His wife, Chanel Ervin, is the President of Marketing. Discography

 Bigger and Deffer (1987)
 K-9 Posse (1988)
 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
 Act a Fool (1988)
 Cat Got Ya Tongue (1989)
 Mama Said Knock You Out (1990)
 The Hard Way (1991)
 Death Certificate (1991)
 Black Pearl (1992)
 Kizz My Black Azz (1992)
 5150: Home 4 tha Sick (1992)
 The Predator (1992)
 Sickinnahead (1993)
 Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. (1993)
 14 Shots to the Dome (1993)
 Mitsou (1993)
 State Of Emergency: Society In Crisis Vol.1 (1994)
 Tha Life of a Hoodlum (1995)
 Mista Grimm (1995)
 Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton (1996)
 All Eyez On Me (1996)
 Based on a True Story (1997)
 Ruthless for Life (1998)
 Mean Green (1998)
 J.E. Heartbreak (2000)
 Beware of Dog (2000)
 The Exodus (2002)
 Hip Hop Is Dead (2006)

References

External links
Bobcat – official U.S. website
The Digital Record Pool – official U.S. website
The Digital Record Pool Corporate Site – official U.S. website
The Foundation Entertainment Agency – official U.S. website

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Living people
African-American businesspeople
African-American record producers
American hip hop record producers
American music industry executives
Grammy Award winners
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First Lieutenant <mask>. (October 21, 1926 – presumed dead November 23, 1953) was a United States Air Force (USAF) pilot who disappeared while performing an air defense intercept over Lake Superior in 1953. <mask>'s disappearance is sometimes known as the Kinross Incident, after Kinross Air Force Base, where Moncla was on temporary assignment when he disappeared. The USAF reported that Moncla had crashed and that the object of the intercept was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) aircraft. According to the report, the pilot of the Canadian aircraft was later contacted and stated that he did not see the intercepting plane and did not know that he was the subject of an interception. However, on several occasions, the RCAF denied that any of their aircraft was involved in any incident on that day, in correspondence with members of the public asking for further details of the intercept. Biography
<mask> was born in Mansura, Louisiana, on October 21, 1926, to <mask>. (1894–1957), a high school science teacher, principal, and veteran of World War I, and <mask> (1900–1961), a seamstress. He also had two older sisters, Leonie and Muriel Ann.Not long after his father had been hospitalized, Moncla's family moved to Moreauville, Louisiana, to live with his uncle and great aunt. Moncla attended high school in Moreauville and, upon graduating from high school, accepted an athletic scholarship to Southwest Louisiana Institute, where he played football and received his Bachelor of Science degree. After graduation, he enlisted in the United States Army and served during World War II as part of the occupation force of Japan. After his service, Moncla attended the University of New Orleans, but reenlisted in the military at the start of the Korean War in 1950, this time joining the United States Air Force (USAF) as an officer pilot trainee. After spending a few months at a desk job in Dallas, Texas, Moncla was sent to Connally Air Force Base in Waco for basic pilot training, where he met and married Bobbie Jean

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 Coleman. He took his advanced pilot training at Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, and further training on the F-89 Scorpion at Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida. In Panama City, Bobbie Jean gave birth to their first son.In July 1952, <mask> and his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, and had a daughter born five months before Moncla's disappearance. Disappearance

On the evening of November 23, 1953, Air Defense Command Ground Intercept radar operators at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, identified an unusual target over Lake Superior, near the Soo Locks. An F-89C Scorpion jet from Kinross Air Force Base was scrambled to investigate the radar return; the Scorpion was piloted by First Lieutenant Moncla, with Second Lieutenant Robert L. Wilson acting as the Scorpion's radar operator. Wilson had a difficult time tracking the object on the Scorpion's radar, so ground radar operators gave Moncla directions towards the object as he flew. Moncla eventually closed in on the object at about 8,000 feet in altitude. Ground Control tracked the Scorpion and the unidentified object as two "blips" on the radar screen.The two blips on the radar screen grew closer and closer until they seemed to merge. Assuming that Moncla had flown either under or over the target, Ground Control anticipated that moments later, the Scorpion and the object would again appear as two separate blips. Donald Keyhoe reported that there was a fear that the two objects had struck one another, but the single blip continued on its previous course. Attempts were made to contact Moncla via radio, but without success. A search and rescue operation by both the USAF and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was quickly mounted, but failed to find any trace of the plane or its pilots. Weather conditions were a factor in hampering the search. USAF Accident Investigation Report

The official USAF Accident Investigation Report states the F-89 was sent to investigate an RCAF C-47 Skytrain which was travelling off course.The F-89 was flying at an


texts: elevation of 8,000 feet when it merged with the other aircraft, as was expected in an interception. Its IFF signal also disappeared after the two returns merged on the radar scope. Although efforts to contact the crew on radio were unsuccessful, the pilot of another F-89 sent on the search stated in testimony to the accident board that he believed that he had heard a brief radio transmission from the pilot about forty minutes after the plane disappeared. USAF investigators reported that Moncla may have experienced vertigo and crashed into Lake Superior. The USAF said that Moncla had been known to experience vertigo from time to time: "Additional leads uncovered during this later course of the investigation indicated that there might be a possibility that Lt. Moncla was subject to attacks of vertigo a little more than the normal degree. Upon pursuing these leads, it was discovered that statements had been made by former members of Lt. Moncla's organization but were not first hand evidence and were regarded as hearsay." Pilot vertigo is not listed as a cause or possible cause in any of the USAF Accident Investigation Board's findings and conclusions.The official accident report states that when the unknown return was first picked up on radar, it was believed to be RCAF aircraft "VC-912" but it was classified as "UNKNOWN" because it was off its flight plan course by about thirty miles. This assertion was emphatically denied by the pilot of this RCAF flight, Gerald Fosberg, when he was interviewed for the David Cherniack documentary "The Moncla Memories" produced for VisionTV's Enigma series. The USAF also provided an alternative explanation to UFO investigator Donald Keyhoe. In his 1955 book, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, Keyhoe describes his investigation into the F-89's disappearance which began the night of the incident; when he received a telephone call telling him of "a rumor out at Selfridge Field that an F-89 from Kinross (sic) was hit by a flying saucer". A follow-up call to Public


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 Information Officer Lt. Robert C. White revealed that "the unknown in that case was a Canadian DC-3. It was over the locks by mistake". The "locks" refers to the restricted air space over the Soo Locks at Sault Ste.Marie, on the U.S.–Canada border at the southeast end of Lake Superior. Reports of parts found in 1968

It is possible that aircraft parts found near the eastern shore of Lake Superior in late October 1968 were from the missing F-89. A USAF officer confirmed the parts were from a military jet aircraft and news reports speculated these might be from Moncla's F-89. The identity of the parts was never published and the Canadian government states they have no record of the find. 2006 "Great Lakes Dive Company" hoax
In late August 2006, an email from a "Preston Miller" was sent to UFO researcher Francis Ridge which contained a quoted excerpt from an Associated Press (AP) story. The quoted "news story" claimed that a group of Michigan divers had discovered Moncla's F-89 at the bottom Lake Superior, in the approximate location where the jet had disappeared from radar. The email also contained a link to a website that had recently been created for the group of divers; they called themselves the "Great Lakes Dive Company".Ridge forwarded the email to the Internet website "UFO Updates", a popular forum and message board for UFO researchers and writers. As a result, news of the purported discovery quickly spread through the UFO community and news media sources. Several reporters attempted to contact the "Great Lakes Dive Company" to obtain more information about the discovery. The reporters were placed in contact with a person who claimed to be the spokesman for the Great Lakes Company. Calling himself "Adam Jimenez", the man discussed the "discovery" with several investigators and journalists. "Adam Jimenez" was even interviewed by UFO researcher Linda Moulton Howe on the syndicated late-night radio talk show Coast to Coast AM. The Great Lakes Dive Company's website initially presented two images


texts: of the purported discovery, both images stated as being output from side-scan sonar.The fuzzy, high noise images depicted an almost completely intact aircraft resting on the lakebed, its nose in the silt, with one exposed wing, tip tank and the upswept tail characteristic of the F-89 clearly displayed. The discovery initially caused excitement, as many felt that the discovery of the crashed jet would at last provide an answer as to what had happened to Moncla and Wilson. However, as journalists and ufologists delved deeper into the case, their suspicions were raised as the story became more and more elaborate. It was soon stated that an unexplained metallic object had been found near the F-89 and "sonar images" of this discovery were soon published on the website. It was speculated that the "teardrop-shaped" object was possibly the UFO that the F-89 had merged with on radar. Several factors about the alleged discovery led journalists to claim that the discovery was in fact a hoax. Several investigators began efforts to track down more information about the "Great Lakes Dive Company" and "Adam Jimenez".All efforts to find evidence of the existence of the company led to the conclusion that it did not exist. Efforts to obtain any biographical data on "Adam Jimenez" also turned up nothing. The only contact information anyone obtained for Jimenez were an email address and cellphone. Only three weeks after the discovery, the company's website suddenly disappeared without explanation and "Adam Jimenez" stopped answering emails and cellphone calls. An investigation by James Carrion, at that time the International Director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), revealed that there was no evidence the AP had written the original "news story" that was quoted in the initial notice of the discovery, nor any record of the existence of the "Great Lakes Dive Company" beyond its fleeting presence on a website; "Adam Jimenez" refused to provide any further information on the principals of the company, the type of


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 vessel they used, or any other information which might help to establish the existence of the organization. Carrion's investigation showed that many of Jimenez's statements about the discovery were untrue, including his suggestion that the Canadian government had withheld permission for site survey work to be resumed. It turned out no such permission had been requested.Brendon Baillod, who is active in Great Lakes shipwreck hunting and maritime history circles, and is a director of the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History, stated that he had never heard of Jimenez or his group and that nobody he knew in his field had heard of them either. Baillod said that the sidescan images taken seemed to be authentic, but dismissed Jimenez's claim that they had been made with a fishfinder, particularly in  depth of water. He further said that the images could not have been made with a hull mounted transducer as was claimed by Jimenez, but would have required a towfish (a towed scanner). , the general consensus among journalists and UFO researchers who have investigated the purported discovery is that it is a hoax, and that <mask>la's F-89 jet remains undiscovered. See also

Disappearance of Frederick Valentich, a similar case
List of missing aircraft
List of people who disappeared
List of UFO sightings

Further reading
 McCloskey, Keith Unsolved Aviation Mysteries: Five Strange Tales of Air and Sea (History Press March 2, 2020, )

References

External links
What Happened to <mask>la? from UfoCasebook
The Kinross Incident investigative report by Gord Heath of UFO*BC
Gene Moncla Photo Album about Moncla's family and background

1926 births
1950s missing person cases
1953 deaths
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football players
Military personnel from Madison, Wisconsin
Missing aviators
Missing person cases in Canada
Missing person cases in the United States
People from Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
UFO sightings in the United States
United States Air Force officers
United States Army personnel of World War

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<mask>'Collun , also known as  <mask> or <mask>, (died 1594) was an Irish soldier and fencing master who was  executed at Tyburn in 1594 for treason, in that he had conspired to murder Queen Elizabeth I. Background

Little is  known of his early life, other than the fact  that he was Irish and  a Roman Catholic. He  first  appeared  in  London in the late 1580s, as a fencing teacher in the entourage of Sir Florence MacCarthy, chief of the MacCarthy clan, (the  MacCarthy Mór),
whose own loyalty to the Crown was deeply suspect, and who was later accused by his enemies of being a party to O'Collun's plot. Conspiracy

About 1590  O'Collun went to the Spanish Netherlands, where he  entered the service of the renegade English Roman Catholic soldier Sir William Stanley:  Stanley and his associate,  the Jesuit  William Holt,  instigated numerous plots to assassinate Elizabeth. According to the indictment at O'Collun's trial,  the prime mover in the plot was Stanley's lieutenant  Jacques de Francesci (also called Jacques Fraunces or "Captain Jacques"),  a  rather  shadowy individual who  was regarded by the English Crown throughout the 1590s  as one of the Queen's most determined enemies. It was Francesci  who obtained money to bribe O'Collun  to kill Elizabeth and promised him  a pension  from the King of Spain as a reward  for the assassination. O'Collun  later claimed that he had qualms of conscience about the plot, which led him to ask Fr.Holt whether the assassination was morally justified; according to his account Holt told him that it was a meritorious act, and gave him absolution for the sin of murder. This claim  may well be true: Holt  sincerely believed that Elizabeth deserved to die,  as

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  did "Captain Jacques", who is known to have said that "no action could be more glorious" (although Jacques himself  had once worked as a spy for Elizabeth). Other would-be assassins,  like Edmund York, said that Holt had  given them absolution  for the same act. Holt's  plotting attracted so much notoriety that he was eventually ordered by his superiors  to show more discretion, though they did not   suggest that he should cease his activities. Arrest and confession
O'Collun, with his accomplices John Annias and William Polwhele (who were both soldiers in  Stanley's regiment),  returned to England in  November 1593, where his behaviour soon attracted suspicion- in particular he was found to possess a copy of the Jesuit pamphlet Philopater, which justified tyrannicide. He, Annias, and Polwhele  were arrested and interrogated. O'Collun and Annias  confessed "after a fashion", which presumably meant under torture: Polwhele turned informer.Apart from the probability   that it was obtained under  torture, there is some doubt about the reliability  of  O'Collun's confession, since the Crown's interrogators, as  was  usual in treason cases, put  pressure on the suspect to confess to what they wished to hear. It seems that at first O'Collun and Annias would confess only to  a  plot to kill "The Spaniard". This was undoubtedly  Antonio Pérez, former Secretary of State to the King of Spain. Pérez, imprisoned  in Spain for treason against his former master, had escaped and fled to England, where he became the target of assassination plots financed by the Spanish authorities: he was therefore a perfectly plausible victim  for O'Collun. The Crown put intense pressure on O'Collun to admit that his real


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 target was the Queen, and he eventually confessed to this, thus  allowing  the Crown to bring a charge of regicide, rather than attempted murder. Whether the Queen or Pérez was the real target of the plot is now impossible to determine. O'Collun's claim that he received absolution from Holt  for killing a heretical tyrant would seem to point to the Queen as the intended victim, since it is less likely that Holt would have absolved him for the  murder of  Pérez, who could not reasonably  be described as either a tyrant or a heretic.The Crown's motive in extracting a confession of regicide from O'Collun  is  not entirely clear: possibly they were hoping to bolster their  parallel case against Dr Rodrigo Lopez, Court physician to Elizabeth  and an accomplished double agent, who was tried and convicted on an almost identical charge the day before O'Collun's trial. Trial and execution

He was tried before a commission of oyer and terminer at Westminster on 1 March 1594; despite his alleged  confession he pleaded not guilty. The principal witness against him was his accomplice William Polwhele, who testified that Stanley and Jacques Fraunces had hired O'Collun, Annias and himself to kill the  Queen. O'Collun  was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged at Tyburn. He was  executed, with Annias, the following July, by which time he was so ill with gaol fever  that it was said to be hardly worth the trouble of  hanging him at all. By coincidence Pérez, who he admitted to having planned to kill, passed by just as O'Collun's head was being put on a spike. Richard Williams and Edmund York, arrested at the same time on suspicion of a separate plot to kill Elizabeth, were executed the following year.The


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 allegation made by other Irishmen, John Danyell and Hugh Cahill (also of the Stanley regiment), from 1592 of a plot to blow up the Tower of London was brought to light, as if the plot were freshly hatched, although neither man was held in custody. So in a brief period around 1594 there was an unusual concentration of investigations into continental conspiracies to this end - a "panic over Irishmen in London" - and the suggestion is that Lord Burghley and the Earl of Essex manipulated their information and intelligence to convince the Queen of an immediate and credible threat to her life, as they vied for her favour. Aftermath

Elizabeth was sufficiently concerned by the plot, however ineffective it had been, to write to the Spanish authorities in Brussels protesting at their willingness to let the Spanish Netherlands become a safe haven  for English conspirators, and demanding, without success, the extradition of Holt and other conspirators. Doctor Lopez

See main article:  Rodrigo Lopez

The Crown explicitly linked "the O'Collun plot" with "the Lopez plot": the arrests, interrogations, trials and executions closely coincided in time, and there was some common evidence at the trials. There is however no evidence of a link between the two men, although Lopez probably knew, at least in general terms, of a plot to kill Antonio Pérez: unlike O'Collun, he denied to the very end that he had planned to kill the Queen. While there is little doubt that O'Collun was  a paid assassin, some historians believe that Lopez's guilt or innocence is now impossible to determine. References

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<mask>,  (29 October 1927 – 21 February 2006) was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff West from 1983 to 1987. Terlezki was born in Antonivka, a village near the town of Tlumach in what is now western Ukraine but was then part of Poland. Terlezki experienced life in both Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, which made him a powerful voice against totalitarian governments. Early life
Terlezki was brought up in the nearby farming community of Antonivka, where his first teacher at the village school was the Ukrainian poet Mariyka Pidhiryanka. His father Oleksa Terletskyj was a peasant farmer who also worked at a brickworks, where he organised a sit-in protest for shorter working hours. This led to a period of imprisonment by the Polish authorities. Wartime experiences
Western Ukraine was occupied by Russian forces in 1939 and then annexed to the Soviet Union.One of Terlezki's uncles was classified as a kulak after paying some neighbours to help with the harvest. He was arrested and deported to Siberia, a fate also suffered by several of Terlezki's cousins, who were students suspected of Ukrainian nationalism. Oleksa Terletskyj had initially welcomed the Communists and become Antonivka's village chairman but he later resigned. After the German invasion in 1941, <mask> was put to forced labour repairing a railway bridge over the river Dniester, damaged during the Red Army retreat. He also witnessed the murder of Jews thrown from the neighbouring road bridge by German soldiers. His father also sent him on errands to aid Jewish villagers by obtaining false baptism certificates for them. Slave labour
In 1942 the Germans went to Terlezki's school and drew up a list of children to be sent to the Third Reich as slave labour, including 14 year old Terlezki.After several weeks in holding camps, he became part

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 of a shipment sent in railway cattle wagons to a slave distribution centre in Austria. Most of his consignment of slaves were destined for factory work in Graz but the younger ones were put on sale at a slave market in Voitsberg, Styria. Terlezki was bought by Hansel Böhmer, who had been conscripted into Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine and was looking for someone to replace him on his family's farm. Terlezki worked on farms near Voitsberg between 1942 and 1945, interrupted only by a spell digging trenches for the German defences at Radkersburg and three weeks imprisonment after his arrest by the Gestapo for insubordination. (He had complained about the treatment of British Prisoners of War). Soviet invasion
In May 1945, Voitsberg was occupied by the Russians, who promised to repatriate slave labourers. Terlezki was in a large group who boarded a train thinking they would be taken home but who ended up in a camp in the eastern Austrian province of Burgenland.They were informed that they were being conscripted into the Red Army and would be sent to fight the Japanese. Escape to Britain
<mask> escaped and fled back to Voitsberg, which in July 1945 became part of the British Zone of Occupation in Austria. He was sent to a Displaced Persons' camp in Villach, Carinthia, where he found work in the cookhouse at a British Army base. In 1948, he was allowed to emigrate to Britain, landing at Harwich, and was sent to work as a coalminer in Wales. His catering experience allowed him to find alternative work in the canteen of a miners' hostel. He eventually went into hotel management in the Welsh towns of Porthcawl and Swansea before running his own hotels in Aberystwyth and Cardiff. In 1954, he had an illegitimate son, which he neglected to mention in his autobiography, instead acknowledging only his two daughters, saying that he "always wanted a


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His political career began in 1968, when he became a Conservative member of Cardiff City Council for the South ward. He stood for Parliament in the two General Elections of 1974, unsuccessfully challenging James Callaghan in Cardiff South East. <mask> gained greater public prominence by serving as Chairman of his local football club, Cardiff City F.C., between 1975 and 1977. He attracted headlines by advocating the flogging of football hooligans, firmly establishing his reputation as a right-wing Conservative. He refused to travel to the Soviet Union when Cardiff City played Dinamo Tbilisi in the European Cup Winners' Cup, he said he could not risk being sent to Siberia as a Red Army deserter. His father and sister were already in Siberia, sent there during Joseph Stalin's post-war purge of western Ukraine, where nationalist guerrillas fought the reimposition of Russian rule. (<mask>'s mother, Olena, had died in 1943).Parliament
He became MP for Cardiff West in the Conservative landslide of 1983. As in other constituencies, his Labour Party opponent suffered a loss of votes to the breakaway Social Democratic Party. In Parliament, <mask> remained true to his right-wing reputation, introducing a bill to replace the May Day holiday with a day of celebration for Winston Churchill. However, he mostly concentrated on constituency work and secured an increase in his vote at the 1987 election (although a lower percentage). However, through the collapse in support for the Social Democrats, he lost his seat to Labour's Rhodri Morgan. At Westminster, <mask> also had the chance to do something about his father's plight. He persuaded the Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, to raise the case with his Soviet counterpart, Andrei Gromyko.As a result, in October 1984, his father was flown to London for a monthlong reunion and subsequently

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 allowed to return to Antonivka, where he died in 1986. <mask> requested a visa to attend the funeral but it was not issued in time. However, he and his Welsh wife, Mary, together with their two daughters, later visited his home village as guests of the Soviet authorities. End of Communism
In 1989, <mask> was appointed as the British Government's representative on the Council of Europe's Human Rights Committee. This was condemned by some Labour opposition MPs because of his previous advocacy of flogging, a view he later renounced. The Conservatives argued that his wartime experiences made him well suited to the role, which involved inspecting prison conditions in different countries, later including former Communist states. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, <mask> became a critical supporter of newly independent Ukraine.He condemned the preservation of close ties with Russia, especially the leasing of military bases in Crimea and argued that more should be done to promote the Ukrainian language and to discourage the use of Russian. In 2003, he visited the European Parliament to press the case for eventual Ukrainian membership of the European Union. In 2002, <mask> took part in a television documentary about his life story and returned to Voitsberg, where he was reunited with Hansel Böhmer's niece. He published his memoirs, From War to Westminster in 2005. He died on 21 February 2006, aged 78. References

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is the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor in the Department of Immunobiology and a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University. She is also a principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research interests include innate immunity, autophagy, inflammasomes, sexually transmitted infections, herpes simplex virus, human papillomavirus, respiratory virus infections, influenza infection, T cell immunity, and commensal bacteria. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018. Biography
<mask> was born and raised in Iga, Japan by her father Hiroshi, a physicist, and mother Fumiko, who fought for women's rights in the workplace. She has two sisters. After high school she moved to Toronto, Canada, where in 1994, she received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry and physics from the University of Toronto.She had hopes of becoming a mathematician or physicist like her father. However, her interests changed after taking an immunology class. She earned her doctoral degree in immunology from the University of Toronto in 1998. <mask> did her Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in the lab of mucosal immunologist Brian Lee Kelsall. In 2000, she started her own lab at Yale University. In 2022, <mask> was awarded a Sterling Professorship, the highest academic honor professors receive at Yale University. Major contributions

While working on her PhD project of how DNA vaccines elicit an immune response, <mask> was among the first to show that antigen-presenting cells were in the blood, not the muscle.At the time scientists thought muscle

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texts: cells were essential for alerting the immune system of foreign proteins, or antigens, coded for by the vaccines because the DNA vaccines work best when injected into the muscle. <mask>'s research continues to focus on understanding innate immunity and how that information is used to produce protective adaptive immunity. <mask> and her team study immune responses to influenza in the lungs and herpes simplex virus in the genital tract. Overall, the goal is to design effective vaccines or microbiocides for the prevention of transmission of viral and bacterial pathogens. <mask> has developed a two-stage vaccination strategy called "prime and pull" that involves a conventional vaccine as a first step and then application of chemokines to the target tissue as a second step. Based on this strategy, <mask> has developed a vaccine that is currently in a clinical trial to treat women with precancerous lesions in the cervix to prevent cervical cancer. Serving on Yale University's Science Strategy Committee, <mask> has advocated for harnessing the beneficial aspects of inflammation to "combat widespread diseases like stroke, heart disease, and diabetes".Building on her interests in immune responses to viral infection, <mask> has also led research into human rhinovirus and Zika virus. <mask>'s group was notably the first to create a mouse model of a vaginal Zika infection. Most recently, <mask> has delved into research looking at the immune response of COVID-19 patients and sex differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection. According to Google Scholar, one of her publications, "Toll-like receptor control of the adaptive immune response," has been

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 cited over 4,660 times as of July 2020 and was published in Nature Immunology in October 2004. In January 2015, one of <mask>'s studies was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, another prestigious journal. The study, "Temperature-dependent innate defense against the common cold virus limits viral replication at warm temperature in mouse airway cells", investigates the relationship between temperature and immune responses. Personal life
<mask> is well known as an advocate for women in science, including voicing support for affordable childcare.Additionally, she has spoken out in support of immigrants and their contributions to science. <mask> has gained a following on Twitter for her public health advice about COVID-19, advocating for social distancing early in the pandemic. She is married to Ruslan Medzhitov, a professor of immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine. They have two daughters, Emi and Naomi. Honors
 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical Sciences, Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2000)
Ethel Donaghue Women's Health Program Investigator Award, Ethel Donaghue Women's Health Program (2003)
 Wyeth Lederle Young Investigator Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America (2003)
 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in Pathogenesis in Infectious Diseases, Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2005)
BD Biosciences Investigator Award, American Associations of Immunologist (AAI) (2011)
Eli Lilly and Company Research Award, American Society of Microbiology (2012)
Inspiring Yale award (2017)
Yale's Charles W. Bohmfalk Teaching Award (2018)
Seymour & Vivian Milstein Award for Excellence in Interferon &

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Elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Appointed Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at Yale (2022)

Publications
Oh JE, Iijima N, Song E, Lu P, Klein J, Jiang R, Kleinstein SH, <mask> A. Migrant memory B cells secrete luminal antibody in the vagina. Nature. PMID 31189952 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1285-1
Sasai M, Sakaguchi N, Ma JS, Nakamura S, Kawabata T, Bando H, Lee Y, Saitoh T, Akira S, Iwasaki A, Standley DM, Yoshimori T, Yamamoto M. Essential role for GABARAP autophagy proteins in interferon-inducible GTPase-mediated host defense.Nature Immunology. PMID 28604719 DOI: 10.1038/ni.3767
Iijima N, <mask> A. Access of protective antiviral antibody to neuronal tissues requires CD4 T-cell help. Nature. 533: 552-6. PMID 27225131 DOI: 10.1038/nature17979

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Living people
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<mask> (born 3 February 1947), usually credited as M. NourbeSe <mask>, is a Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and short story writer. Life and works
Born in the Caribbean in Woodlands, Moriah, Trinidad and Tobago, <mask> was educated at the University of the West Indies. She subsequently pursued graduate degrees in political science and law at the University of Western Ontario, and practised law in Toronto, Ontario, for seven years. She left her law practice in 1983 to devote time to her writing. <mask> is known for experimentation with literary form and for her commitment to social justice. Though her writing suggests an in-depth understanding of the canon, <mask>'s career undoubtedly helped to free her from the constraints of tradition and to nurture her social analysis and criticism. <mask> has published five books of poetry, two novels, four books of collected essays and two plays.Her short stories, essays, reviews and articles have appeared in magazines and journals in North America and England and her poetry has been extensively anthologized. Her work – poetry, fiction and non-fiction – is taught widely at university level and is the subject of much academic writing and critique. Her first novel, Harriet's Daughter (1988), is widely used in high school curricula in Ontario, Great Britain and was, for a decade, studied by all children in the Caribbean receiving a high school CXC diploma. It has also been published as an audio cassette, a script for stage and in a German-language edition. Although categorized as young adult literature, Harriet's Daughter is a book that can appeal to older children and adults of all ages. Set in Toronto, this novel explores the themes of

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 friendship, self-image, ethics and migration, while telling a story that is riveting, funny and technically accomplished. It makes the fact of being Black a very positive and enhancing experience.<mask>'s most renowned poetry book, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize for Literature while still in manuscript form. As she explores themes of race, place, gender, colonialism and, always, language, <mask> plays with words, bending and restating them in a way that is reminiscent of jazz. The tension between father tongue (the white Euro-Christian male canon), and mother tongue (Black African female) is always present. Most quoted is the chant-like refrain at the core of Discourse on the Logic of Language:
... and English ismy mother tongueismy father tongueis a foreign lan lan langlanguagel/anguish anguish...

<mask> is a prolific essayist. Her articles and essays ... demonstrate a persistent critique and an impassioned concern for issues of social justice and equity in the arts, prompting Selwyn R. Cudjoe's assertion that <mask> "serves as a lightning rod of black cultural defiance of the Canadian mainstream." More to the point is the epigram in Frontiers where <mask> dedicates the book to Canada, "in the effort of becoming a space of true belonging". It is as an essayist that M. NourbeSe <mask>'s role as anti-racist activist is most evident.She was one of the first to make culture her primary focus as she argued passionately and articulately for social justice and equity. Specific controversial events that have been the focus of her essays include the Into the Heart of Africa exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Toronto production of

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 Show Boat, and Caribana. Her essays also put the spotlight on racial representation on arts councils and committees in Canada and there have been definite advances in this area subsequently. It was at a small demonstration concerning the lack of Canadian writers of colour outside of the 1989 PEN Canada gala that she was confronted by June Callwood. <mask> has also taught at the University of Toronto, taught creative fiction at the third-year level at York University and has been writer in residence at McMaster University and University of Windsor. Her 2008 work Zong! is based on a legal decision at the end of the 18th century, related to the notorious murder of Africans on board the British slave ship of that name.A dramatized reading of this new poem cycle was workshopped and presented at Harbourfront in Toronto as part of rock.paper.sistahz in 2006. Poems from this collection have been published in Facture, boundary 2 and Fascicle; the later includes four poems, along with an extensive introduction. On 16 April 2012, at b current studio space in Toronto, <mask> held her first authorial full-length reading of Zong!—an innovative interaction-piece lasting seven hours, in which both author and audience performed a cacophonous collective reading of the work from beginning to end. In solidarity with this collective reading, another audience-performance was held in Blomfontein, South Africa. In talking about her own work <mask> has said, "fiction is about telling lies, but you must be scathingly honest in telling those lies. Poetry is about truth telling, but you need the lie – the artifice of the form to tell those truths." Bibliography

Poetry
 Thorns (1980)
 Salmon Courage (1983)
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 Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989)
 Discourse on the Logic of Language (1989)
 Zong!(2008)

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 Harriet's Daughter (1988)
 Harriet und schwarz wie ich. Transl. Nina Schindler. Toronto: Reference Press, 1997–98.Microsoft Encarta Africana, 2001. Black Heritage Month, poster, 2002. Dawn P. Williams, Who's Who in Black Canada, Toronto: D. P. Williams, 2003. Notes

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 PennSound audio
 "The journey of the word" - interview, UWI Today'', March 2010.20th-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian poets
21st-century Canadian poets
Canadian women poets
Canadian women novelists
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Trinidad and Tobago poets
Black Canadian writers
Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to Canada
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Writers from Toronto
1947 births
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University of Western Ontario alumni
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20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Canadian women short story writers
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<mask> (; born 30 January 2000) is a Malaysian badminton player. She won the girls' singles titles at the 2015, 2018 World Junior Championships and at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. She also won the women's singles title at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games. Early life
Goh <mask> was born in Bukit Mertajam, Penang into a Malaysian Chinese family, to Loh Bee Sim and <mask>. She first started playing badminton at the age of six as a hobby. Her father noticed her talent and let her train under the guidance of Teh Peng Huat, <mask>'s former coach. When she was 11, she won the Under-12 Grand Prix Finals and the Malaysian School Sports Council representing her primary school.She was drafted into the Malaysia national team in 2014. Career

Juniors

At the 2015 World Junior Championships, Goh won the girls singles' event by defeating compatriot Lee Ying Ying in the final. In 2017, she earned a bronze medal in the singles event after losing to Han Yue in the semifinals. <mask> participated at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires where she defeated top seed, Phittayaporn Chaiwan in the semifinals. In the final, Goh defeated Wang Zhiyi to win Malaysia's first gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games. In doing so, Goh became the first ever shuttler to win both World Junior Championships and the Youth Olympic Games title. At the 2018 World Junior Championships, <mask> reached the final where she defeated Line Christophersen to capture her second World Junior Championship title.2015–2018
In February 2015, <mask> became the youngest-ever national winner at the age of 15 after defeating Lim Yin Fun in the final of the Kuala Lumpur Open. At the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, <mask> won the bronze medal in women's singles event and a silver medal in women's team event. She won her first senior title, the Belgian International at the age of 15 by defeating Kirsty Gilmour in the final. She won her second senior title at the Vietnam International. In April 2016, she won the Orleans International. <mask> was named in the Malaysian squad for the 2016 Uber Cup. She made her Super Series debut

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 at the 2016 Australian Open where she defeated Michelle Li in the first round before losing to eventual champion, Saina Nehwal in the second round.In her first Grand Prix Gold tournament, Goh reached the final of the Indonesian Masters before losing to top seed, Busanan Ongbamrungphan. She then lost in the semifinals of the Thailand Open to the same opponent. In December 2016, she became national No. 1 shuttler for the first time in her career after surpassing Tee <mask> in BWF Ranking. In January 2017, <mask> competed at the Malaysian Masters where she lost to Lee Chia-hsin in the second round after playing with an injury. She made her return at the Malaysia Open in April and was defeated in the second round by Chen Yufei. In July 2017, she reached the final of the Chinese Taipei Open where she lost to Saena Kawakami.At the 2017 SEA Games in August, <mask> won all her matches in the women's team event. The team made it to the finals where they lost to Thailand, taking home the silver medal. In the women's singles event, <mask> defeated her compatriot and senior, Soniia Cheah Su Ya in the final, becoming the first Malaysian to win the women's singles gold medal since Wong Mew Choo in 2003. In September 2017, Goh reached the final of the Singapore International which she lost to Ruselli Hartawan. In March 2018, she competed in her first All England Open but lost to Aya Ohori in the second round. In June 2018, she reached the quarterfinals of the Malaysia Open before losing to eventual winner, Tai Tzu-ying. In her World Championships debut, she lost to the reigning world champion, Nozomi Okuhara in the third round.At the Korea Masters in November, <mask> lost in the semifinals to Li Xuerui. 2021–present: Retirement and return to badminton
In September 2021, <mask> announced her retirement from professional badminton in a YouTube video, citing health reasons after her colectomy surgery back in 2019. While reiterating that she would not be able to give her full commitment as a player with the national team due to her health issues, <mask> signed a three-year contract

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 with Kuala Lumpur Racquet Club as an independent player on 6 January 2022. She was due to appear in the 2022 Syed Modi International and 2022 Odisha Open after having registered for the tournaments, but was asked to withdraw by the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM). On 21 January 2022, BAM issued her a backdated two-year ban from participating in Badminton World Federation-sanctioned tournaments, starting from when she left the national team in September 2021. The ban was issued to her and Lee Zii Jia after the latter quit the national team on 19 January 2022. On 27 January 2022, the ban was rescinded after raising furore from international and domestic sportsmen over Lee's ban.Achievements

Southeast Asian Games
Women's singles

Youth Olympic Games
Girls' singles

World Junior Championships
Girls' singles

BWF Grand Prix (2 runners-up)
The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. Women's singles

  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 2 runners-up)
Women's singles

  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament

BWF Junior International (2 titles)
Girls' singles

Mixed doubles

  BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament
  BWF Junior International Challenge tournament
  BWF Junior International Series tournament
  BWF Junior Future Series tournament

Award
 2015
 SAM-100 Plus Best Young Athlete

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Sportspeople from Penang
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Badminton players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Youth Olympic gold medalists for Malaysia
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<mask> (born 23 May 1984) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a centre forward. After failing to establish himself at Porto, being loaned several times during his contract, he made a name for himself in Germany with Werder Bremen where he remained for four seasons, reaching one UEFA Cup final and scoring 63 competitive goals. He also spent several years in Turkey with Beşiktaş, netting 47 times in 109 total games. <mask>, whose international career with Portugal spanned a decade, succeeded in becoming a regular after the departures of Pauleta in 2006 and Liédson in 2010. He represented the nation at two World Cups and as many European Championships, earning 57 caps and scoring 19 goals. Club career

Portugal
Born in Figueira da Foz, Coimbra District, Almeida started playing football for hometown club Naval 1º de Maio, before being signed by Porto still as a junior. He made his Primeira Liga debut in a 2–0 home win over Benfica on 21 September 2003, playing three minutes.Unable to settle at first, however, he had loan spells with União de Leiria (with which he had already played in the previous season, also on loan) and Boavista. <mask>da served another loan stint in 2006–07, with a solid first year at the Bundesliga's Werder Bremen, where he rejoined former Porto teammate Diego. He totalled ten goals in 41 appearances (in all competitions), including one in a 2–1 home loss against Espanyol in the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup, his shot floating over the goalkeeper and into the net in an eventual 4–2 aggregate defeat; after seeing his chances at Porto definitely cut down with the arrival of strikers Edgar and Ernesto Farías in August 2007, he decided to accept Bremen's offer for a permanent switch, penning a four-year deal worth €4 million. With the departure of Miroslav Klose, who signed for Bayern Munich, <mask>'s chances of first-team action improved dramatically, and he started the 2007–08 season in scoring fashion, netting seven times in his first 12

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 league games, including two goals in a 4–1 victory over defending champions VfB Stuttgart. He would finish the season with 16 goals in all competitions – 11 in the league, as his club finished second behind Bayern – only surpassed in the team by Diego's 17.In 2008–09, another solid season, <mask> scored nine goals in the league, adding four in just five matches for the eventual DFB-Pokal winners – his first Bremen honour. His cup tally included a hat-trick against amateurs Eintracht Nordhorn, in a 9–3 away rout. In the Champions League he netted two more, being named the "Fans' Player of the match" in the 2–2 draw away to Anorthosis Famagusta. As the team were "demoted" to the UEFA Cup, he contributed one goal in eight games as the team went all the way to the final but, after receiving a yellow card in the 3–2 defeat of Hamburger SV in the semi-finals (3–3 aggregate win), he missed the decisive match against Shakhtar Donetsk. Alternating starts with appearances from the bench, <mask> once again scored in double digits in the 2009–10 campaign, netting seven goals in the domestic league for a total of 11, as Bremen finished third and qualified to the Champions League play-off round, with the player assisting Claudio Pizarro in the third goal of the clash against Sampdoria (3–1 home win in the first leg, eventual 3–2 aggregate win). <mask> started 2010–11 netting six times in the first ten league games. On 28 November 2010 he took his total to nine, after scoring three in a home win against FC St. Pauli (3–0) – in the dying minutes of the fixture, he was sent off after elbowing an opponent.Beşiktaş

On Christmas Eve 2010, after scoring 11 goals in 21 official games for Bremen during the season, <mask> joined Beşiktaş in the Süper Lig, having agreed to a three-and-a-half-year contract for €2 million. On 11 May 2011, he converted his penalty in the shootout as the Istanbul team won the Turkish Cup against İstanbul Başakşehir (4–3, 2–2 after extra time). During his time in

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 Istanbul, <mask> was part of a Portuguese contingent including manager Carlos Carvalhal and five teammates including fellow internationals Manuel Fernandes, Simão Sabrosa and Ricardo Quaresma. Later years
On 7 October 2014, free agent <mask> Krasnodar. On 8 July 2015, <mask> moved to Anzhi Makhachkala who had just returned to the Russian Premier League.After just six months, both parties parted ways by mutual consent. On 16 January 2016, <mask> returned to Germany and signed for Hannover 96 until summer 2017, reuniting with former Werder Bremen boss Thomas Schaaf in the process. He scored in his first appearance seven days later, but in a 2–1 home loss against Darmstadt 98. In February, he received a retrospective three-match ban for an elbow on FC Augsburg's Dominik Kohr, as the season ended with relegation. <mask> joined AEK Athens from the Super League Greece on 18 July 2016, on a two-year contract. He scored twice in the first 15 minutes of his debut, a 4–1 home win over Xanthi on 11 September. On 26 April 2017, in the return leg of the semi-finals of the Greek Football Cup against Olympiacos, <mask> played as an emergency goalkeeper for the first time in his career, after Giannis Anestis was sent off in the closing minutes of the game.His team eventually advanced to the final on away goals, after a 2–2 aggregate draw. On 30 August 2017, <mask>'s contract was terminated by mutual consent. The following day he signed a one-year deal with Hajduk Split from the Croatian First Football League, with the option for a further season. <mask> returned to Portugal after an absence of 12 years in July 2018, at the age of 34. Citing family reasons, he agreed to a two-year contract at Académica de Coimbra. He made his LigaPro debut on 18 August, playing 36 minutes in a 1–0 home defeat against Paços de Ferreira and eventually acting as a goalkeeper after Peterson Peçanha was sent off. On 6 February 2020, <mask> announced his retirement.He went instantly into coaching Académica's

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<mask> played at every level in international competitions, from the under-15 to the main Portuguese national team. He made his full debut in a friendly against England on 18 February 2004, a 1–1 draw, and was also part of the squad that won the 2003 Toulon Tournament, also appearing at the 2004 and 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Championship finals. <mask> was called for Portugal's final three UEFA Euro 2008 qualifiers, starting against Azerbaijan and scoring his first international goal. He also netted in the follow-up, a 1–0 win over Armenia, and these goals eventually proved vital as the nation clinched a tournament spot. In Carlos Queiroz's second stint as national side coach, <mask> scored in a 4–0 victory in Malta on 6 September 2008, in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign. His importance diminished in late 2009, after the naturalisation of Sporting CP's Liédson.<mask> was picked for the finals in South Africa. After the first match, a 0–0 against Ivory Coast, he replaced Liédson in the starting XI for the following match, with both players finding the net in the 7–0 rout of North Korea on 21 June 2010, in Cape Town. <mask> was selected by new manager Paulo Bento for his Euro 2012 squad, initially as third choice after Hélder Postiga and Nélson Oliveira. After the former injured himself in the first half of the quarter-finals against Czech Republic, he replaced him, going on to start in the penalty shootout loss to Spain (0–0 after 120 minutes). After being included in the list for the 2014 World Cup, <mask> started in the first group stage match against Germany, but was injured after just 28 minutes of play in an eventual 4–0 defeat. He went on to miss the second game against the United States with Postiga, who was also stretchered off after only 17 minutes, replacing him in the starting XI. On 31 March 2015, <mask> captained Portugal for the first time in his final appearance, a 2–0 friendly loss to Cape Verde in

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Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Almeida goal. Honours
Porto
Primeira Liga: 2003–04, 2005–06
Taça de Portugal: 2002–03, 2005–06
UEFA Champions League: 2003–04

Werder Bremen
DFB-Pokal: 2008–09
UEFA Cup runner-up: 2008–09

Beşiktaş
Turkish Cup: 2010–11

AEK Athens
Greek Football Cup runner-up: 2016–17

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Turkish Cup top scorer: 2010–11

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<mask><mask> is a Philippine Army officer and a recipient the Philippines' highest military award for courage, the Medal of Valor. He is a member of the Igorot people, an ethnic group that inhabits the provinces of the Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines. Military education
<mask> is a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1998. Action against the Abu Sayyaf
In March 2000, Abu Sayyaf militants abducted approximately 28-29 civilians including schoolchildren, a Catholic priest and two teachers in Basilan. <mask> was part of a Scout Ranger unit under the command of Major Roberto Caldeo tasked with pursuing the kidnappers and rescuing the hostages. On 28 April 2000, <mask>'s unit assaulted the Abu Sayyaf camp where the hostages were being held. The Scout Rangers were able to surprise the Abu Sayyaf militants but due to advantage in terrain, the militants were able to pin down the government security forces and hold their ground.On the third day of the operation, Caldeo decided that two squads of Scout Rangers would have to volunteer and make an all-out assault up the steep terrain to clear out the bunkers keeping the rest of the government forces pinned down. <mask> led one of the "suicide squads". After four hours of intense fighting, they managed to clear the bunkers as the Abu Sayyaf retreated. Recovered were the beheaded bodies of the two hostaged teachers. <mask> was conferred the Medal of Valor for his actions during the battle. Roberto Caldeo, who had by then been promoted to Colonel, committed suicide

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 in April 2008; allegedly due to stress suffered as a result of the operation that killed six of his men. <mask> made the following statement, in Filipino, upon receiving the Medal of Valor: "We woke up at 2:00am, then we took off.We hadn't slept and it was raining. Our progress was slow due to the thick jungle growth. When we engaged the enemy, we had to use one hand to hold unto tree roots, while the other hand fired the weapon. For 24 hours we withstood the steep terrain, hunger, tension and fatigue. Then you would hear the groans of your wounded comrades saying, 'Sir, let's retreat', 'I'm suffering blood loss', 'My wounds hurt', 'Will I live sir? ', words to that effect. You will then discover that you do have an untapped reservoir of courage."Medal of Valor citation
SECOND LIEUTENANT HERBERT D DILAG O-12640 PHILIPPINE ARMY
Isabela, Basilan - 30 April 2000
"For acts of conspicuous courage, gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty while serving as the Squad Leader of a "Suicide Squad" of the First Scout Ranger Battalion, First Scout Ranger Regiment, Special Operations Command, Philippine Army, during the 3-day assault of Hill 898, Camp Abdurrajak, Punoh Mihaji, Isabela, Basilan on 28 to 30 April 2000. With the commencement of the 103rd Brigade's OPLAN "FINAL OPTION", the First Scout Ranger Battalion was directed to attack the highly fortified enemy positions being occupied by more or less 210 fully armed members of the Abu Sayyaf Group who were then holding in captivity 28 civilian hostages. The 11th Scout Ranger


texts: Company spearheaded the attack with the team under SECOND LIEUTENANT DILAG, taking the lead. After a grueling trek along the 7-kilometer highly restrictive terrain and after bypassing 48 enemy improvised landmines, the troops were able to close-in on the northeastern portion of the enemy camp. On 280930 April 2000, the 1st Scout Ranger Battalion began the assault and a heavy firefight ensued. Though initially surprised the enemy was able to take advantage of its commanding position and confronted the government forces with stiff resistance. At 1630H, the enemy counterattacked in full force, killing 4 Scout Rangers and wounding 27 others.In spite of the numerous casualties and heavy enemy volume of fires coming from cal. 50 Machineguns, 57RRs and the continuous explosion of grenades and dynamites near their positions, the leading elements under SECOND LIEUTENANT DILAG, fearlessly retaliated with accurate sniper fires which prevented the enemy from closing-in. Notwithstanding the heavy rains, hunger, tension and fatigue; and despite of numerous casualties, the Scout Rangers held on their ground and engaged the enemy with strong determination and ferocity for the next 24 hours. On 300530 April 2000, after sensing the seemingly insurmountable odds, MAJOR CALDEO, the Commanding Officer of the 1st scout Ranger Battalion, decided to execute the final assault with the organization of 2 "Suicide Squads". The squad, consisting of 14 volunteers, were tasked to perform an extremely risky mission of clearing the northeastern bunkers. Uncertain of


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 what will happen to them, the members of the squad, left their valuables to their supporting comrades to be further given to their loved ones, in anticipation of their deaths. Undaunted by threat posed by the situation and unmindful of their own safety, the squads, headed by SECOND LIEUTENANT DILAG and SECOND LIEUTENANT GONZALES rushed-up the 80-meter, 80-degree slope and eventually assaulted the heavily fortified enemy defensive positions then carried out an intense bunker to bunker battle.With cunning stealth, the "Suicide Squads" were able to secure the northeastern tip of Hill 898 which was being defended by Khadafy Janjalani's group. This heroic and gallant act paved the way for the subsequent clearing of the remaining 3 clusters of enemy fortified defensive positions. After 4 hours of close combat, the squads forced the enemy to withdraw towards the western direction. The 3 day intense firefight resulted to the killing of 7 members of the Abu Sayyaf Group, the recovery of 1 B40 RPG, 1 M653 and M16 rifles, the unearthing of 2 beheaded hostages and the destruction of a seemingly invincible enemy. By this display of exceptional courage and a high degree of leadership, SECOND LIEUTENANT DILAG distinguished himself in combat, in keeping the finest tradition of Filipino Soldiery." Personal life
<mask> is married to Daisy Lady <mask>; they have three children. See also
Lucio Curig

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<mask>v (; born 18 December 1944) is a Kazakh politician who was the State Secretary of Kazakhstan from 10 March 2004 to 15 May 2007. He served as the Head of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan from 14 October 1996 to 21 October 1997 until becoming the head of a state anti-corruption commission after the President appointed him on 29 November 1999 and as chair and of the Senate of Kazakhstan, the second highest position in the Government of Kazakhstan from 1 December 1999 to 10 January 2004. Abdykarimov was also a member of the Senate while serving as the chair and from 28 August 2007 to 26 August 2013 and member of the Supreme Soviet of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 1992. Dismissal from the Senate Chair
Abdykarimov was asked to resign from his Senate Chair on 10 March 2004. Nurtai Abykayev, the former head of the National Security Committee, was appointed to the Senate and then immediately elected Abdykarimov's successor. Altynbek Sarsenbayev, formerly Information Minister in the Nazarbayev administration, said, "According to the constitution, the president can recommend a speaker of the Senate, but in both cases where this has happened, with <mask>v and [now with] Nurtay Abikayev, the president's nominee was elected as speaker. This diminishes the authority and respect of the whole Senate in front of ordinary citizens.That is the image society sees of the Senate itself and the parliament as a whole." <mask>, when he served as Chairman of the Kazakh Senate, said "Kazakhstan and Russia are strategic partners and reliable allies" in the "Kazakh-Russian Interaction in the 21st Century and the Challenges of Globalization" conference in January 2004. Delimitation of borders
Adakhan Madumarov, Secretary of State for Kyrgyzstan, led a delegation to Almaty, Kazakhstan where he met with Abdykarimov and discussed cooperation between the countries in gas, banking, and labor migration. Abdykarimov said that the trilateral agreement signed by the governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan in July 2001 setting a frontier junction point between the three countries

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 had been ratified by the Kazakh Parliament, but not by the Kyrgyz Parliament. Election law
Abdykarimov announced on 14 September 2003 that the Kazakh Parliament considered it a priority to change election laws in Kazakhstan so that regional governors would run for office in elections rather than be appointed. He denied allegations that the bill had yet to pass because the administration wanted the September 2003 elections to occur before the law would take effect. Abdykarimov said he believed the law would be passed prior to the 2004 elections to the Majilis.Foreign relations
Abdykarimov awarded Eduard Khurshudian, the then retiring Armenian Ambassador to Kazakhstan, with a diploma on 20 July 2004 for his service as Ambassador from 1999 to 2004. Abdykarimov met with visiting Turkish Justice Minister Jemil Cicek on 15 October 2005. They decided to launch air traffic between Astana and Istanbul on 19 October. Abdykarimov received Abdul Yelakh Mukhammed Khadjar, Yemen's Ambassador to Kazakhstan, on 20 October 2005. Abdykarimov met Israeli Ambassador to Kazakhstan Michael Lotem on 8 August 2006 in the Ak-Orda Presidential Palace in Astana. Abdykarimov thanked Lotem for his nation's involvement in the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia and the First Congress of the Leaders of the World and Traditional Religions in Astana. Abdykarimov met with Gerard Perrolet, France's Ambassador to Kazakhstan, on 3 July 2006 as finished his service, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.Journalists interviewed Perrolet after their meeting and he discussed France-Kazakhstan relations. Abdykarimov met with Kalman Mizsei, the Assistant to the UN Secretary and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS, in Ak Orda. They discussed a possible increase in United Nations Development Program funding for the Kazakh State. Mizsei thanked Abdykarimov for his government's contributions to regional security. Human rights
Abdykarimov chaired an enlarged session of the Human Rights Commission under Nazarbayev in March 2004. Human rights experts, government officials, NGO


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 officials, and legal experts participated. Abdykarimov said the commission worked on "tracing the tendencies," "show[ing] the dynamics, our legislative initiatives and our laws on protection of human and civil rights."The commission delivered a report to him on 24 March, which he submitted to Nazarbayev. Kazakhstan achieved great progress in human rights, says Prof. Mullerson

Rein Mullerson, the former Regional Adviser to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for Central Asia and International Law Professor of the London King's College, met with Abdykarimov on 27 September 2005. They discussed politics and elections in Kazakhstan, ratification of the "Pact on Human Rights" and human rights protocols regarding appeals to the international community and abolition of capital punishment. Mullerson applauded Kazakhstan's process in improving its human rights record relative to the other members of the CIS. Israel
He met with Moshe Kamkhy, Israel's ambassador to Uzbekistan, on 9 August and thanked Ambassador Kamkhy for his service as they discussed bilateral relations. Kamkhy then held a press conference. During the conference social and economic ties between the countries and moving the Israeli Embassy to Astana were discussed.95 Kazakh farmers, managers and scientists have trained in Israel. Local government
Nazarbayev met with <mask>, head of the Presidential Administration Adilbek Dzhaksybekov, and Agriculture Minister Akhmetzhan Yesimov on 5 June 2006 to discuss local government. Nazarbayev emphasized his belief in the decentralization of power and strengthening of local government. Press
Abdykarimov presented awards and grants on behalf of President Nazarbayev to members of the Kazakh press on 29 June 2006 in Astana after Nazarbayev signed a resolution allowing the government to reward journalists. See also
 Government of Kazakhstan

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<mask> (born 7 July 1989) is an Argentine professional boxer. She is a former world champion in three weight classes, having held the WBO female bantamweight title twice between 2013 and 2020; the WBO female super flyweight title from 2014 to 2017; and the IBF female junior featherweight title twice between 2018 and 2020. As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world's best active female bantamweight by The Ring and second by BoxRec, as well as the eighth best active female, pound for pound, by The Ring and ESPN, and tenth by BoxRec. She is the older sister of IBF female light flyweight champion <mask>. Early life
<mask> was born on 7 July 1989 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. She comes from a fighting family where three of her five siblings are fellow boxers; Roxana, Gustavo and IBF light-flyweight champion, Evelyn. The family own a gym called Bermúdez Boxing Club in Villa Gobernador Gálvez, Santa Fe.Professional career
<mask> made her professional debut on 26 March 2010, scoring a four-round split decision (SD) victory over Roxana Virginia Baron at the Estadio Pedro Estremador in Bariloche, Argentina. She fought a further four times in 2010; a knockout (KO) win over Maria Terriaza in April; two consecutive majority draws (MD) against Betiana Patricia Vinas in July and October; and a four-round unanimous decision (UD) win over Graciela Ines De Luca in November. She began 2011 with a unanimous decision win over Cristina del Valle Pacheco in February, followed by a ten-round unanimous decision loss to Edith Soledad Matthysse in April and a six-round majority decision (MD) win in a

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 defence against Marisa Joana Portillo in June; and a ten-round non-title bout against Mariana Juárez in August which served as a final eliminator for the WBC bantamweight title. She next faced Paola Pamela Benavidez in a rematch in June 2017 – fighting to a split decision draw to retain her WBO super-flyweight title – before moving up in weight to face Soledad del Valle Frias for the vacant WBO bantamweight title on 20 October 2017. The fight was held at Estadio Olímpico in Palpalá, Argentina. <mask> won by a shutout unanimous decision, becoming a two-weight world champion on her second try.All three judges scored the bout 100–90. Six months later, <mask> moved up in weight yet again, challenging reigning IBF junior-featherweight champion Marcela Acuña on 13 April 2018 at the Microestadio Municipal in Buenos Aires. <mask> won by unanimous decision to become a three-weight world champion, with the judges' scorecards reading 98–92, 97–93 and 96–94. She fought once more in 2018, moving back down to bantamweight to successfully defend her WBO title with a fourth-round corner retirement (RTD) win over Yolis Marrugo Franco. <mask> defended the title twice more in 2019; a unanimous decision win over Irma Garcia in March and an eighth-round corner retirement win against Valeria Perez in July. Professional boxing record

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<mask> (born 1943) is an Australian cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for illustrating children's books, notably the long-running and award-winning Selby the Talking Dog series by author Duncan Ball. His work reached a wide audience through the popular children's school songbooks published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1970s and 1980s, and cartoons in the Australian Women's Weekly in the early 1980s. Career
Born in Melbourne, Stomann entered the Art School at Swinburne Technical College in 1959, where fellow students in his year included Keith McMenomy (later author of Ned Kelly: The Authentic Illustrated History). In July 1965, he was one of a number of artists (including Noel Counihan and Louis Kahan) to exhibit at the Stagecoach Gallery in Queens Road, Melbourne. Stomann later spent some time working in Great Britain, where he had a stint as an illustrator on thirty episodes of the children's TV series Jackanory, broadcast between May 1969 and November 1970. During this time, he also illustrated a book of children's poetry, Nothing at All Rhymes, published by Paul Hamlyn in London (1969) and later in Sydney (1971).In the mid-1970s, Stomann took over from Tony Oliver as illustrator of the children's songbooks published annually by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to accompany a radio series used as a teaching aid in primary schools. Stomann illustrated all of the editions of this songbook between 1976 and 1986 (except for two 1982 editions, both illustrated by Bob Graham) in the distinctive and colourful style that became