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<mask> is a Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor who was an early champion of the fashion-tech space. She was the co-founder and founding investor in Net-a-Porter and among the first professional investors to see the value in luxury e-commerce. Since 1992, Busquets has invested £50 million in fashion-tech companies in the United Kingdom and the United States, with her backings generating an estimated 10,000 jobs. Busquets opened a boutique named Cabus in Caracas, Venezuela in 1990. Busquets would visit fashion shows in Europe and use DHL to send her customers sketches, Polaroids and detailed descriptions of garments and the boutique thrived. With returns from technology stocks that she sold prior to the 2000 "dot-com" crash, she became a co-founder and founding investor in Net-a-Porter after meeting founder Natalie Massenet. She recalls becoming an investor because she was one of the few to believe in tech companies enough to invest in them during their early stages.Busquets also had a belief Net-a-Porter would be successful having previously sold luxury fashion to clients via photographs through her boutique, Cabus in the pre-internet age. Net-a-Porter's sale to Compagnie Financière Richemont in 2010 netted Busquets over 16 times her initial investment. In 2012, Busquets founded Cabus Venture, a dedicated investment vehicle to finance entrepreneurs within luxury and fashion, based upon the potential of their content, community and commerce offerings. Busquets is an avid follower of wellbeing having meditated from an early age and she was an early investor in New Age pioneer Deepak Chopra in the 1980s and credits her success in business to her mindful approach. Busquets is known as a vocal proponent of sustainability, focussing on impact investment and sustainable businesses. Busquets' current portfolio includes Moda Operandi, Farfetch, Lyst, The Business of Fashion, Cult Beauty, FLOWERBX and Tagwalk. Early life and education
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Early career
In 1990, Busquets opened a high fashion boutique in Caracas, Venezuela called Cabus. Following a 10-year ban on foreign imports, it became the first store in Venezuela to stock Europe's top designers and rapidly developed an international client base. The ambience echoed Chanel's store in Paris; the clothes came from more than 50 designers. The clientèle quickly became international, and Busquets provided a service to match.Busquets would visit shows in Europe and use DHL to send her customers sketches, Polaroids and detailed descriptions of garments she thought they would like. "That's why I knew Net-a-Porter would succeed. I had already been providing an analogue version of what Natalie wanted to do." In 1997, at the beginning of the dot-com bubble, Busquets started to build her small private stock-portfolio of Internet investments. She also co-founded two private online start-ups during the Internet bubble, an experience that taught her the importance of being a responsible investor and only partnering with other responsible investors. Net-a-Porter
Busquets was a co-founder investor and an original board director of Net-a-Porter, investing an initial £250,000 in 2000 against the opinion of her advisers. While backing Net-a-Porter, Busquets personally vouched for its creditworthiness to designers with whom she had long-standing relationships.In 2003, realising the importance of


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In 2006, Busquets founded CoutureLab, an e-commerce gift website.Busquets's aim is to offer a selection of products, to support top creative talents and to educate consumers about the stories behind the products. In April 2012, CoutureLab launched its gifting service GiftLab, increasing CoutureLab's range of products and establishing several key distribution partnerships online. As of September 2016, CoutureLab evolved into an investment vehicle – now subsumed into carmenbusquets.com – for disruptive startups in fashion and luxury. In September 2018, the CoutureLab Coalition, a new platform to support Latin American artisans and independent designers, was launched at Urban Zen in New York, at a cocktail reception hosted by Donna Karan. The initiative, made up of both people and businesses including Busquets, Livia Firth, Donna Karan, Petra Němcová and Lucy Siegle, aims to foster sustainable practices and improve the lives of artisans and creatives in Latin America. Funds
In 2019, Busquets joined the advisory board of venture capital fund Fernbrook Capital Management LLC which focuses on direct to consumer and tech brands, the majority of which are female founded and have a social good stance in their ethos. Busquets also sits on the


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Busquets is known as a vocal proponent of sustainability and for her charitable work, notably with Bhutan for Life, Glasswing International and the Oslo Freedom Forum, through which she has supported victims of repression in Venezuela. Busquets is a goodwill ambassador to the United Nations and Fashion 4 Development, and a World Wildlife Fund council member. Busquets also works closely with non-profit organisation NEST that focuses on improving homeworking and preserving traditional craftmanship, as well as non-profit organisation PACUNAM. Awards and events
In May 2011, Busquets won the Individual Outstanding Achievement at the Luxury Briefing Awards. The award recognized her vision to invest in selling fashion online in the early days of the Internet, her substantial value addition to Net-a-Porter culminating in its successful sale, and the creation of CoutureLab, with its focus on craftsmanship. In 2012, Busquets was a member of the jury at the 16th annual Luxury Briefing Awards. On 11 November 2011, Busquets spoke at the International Herald Tribune Luxury Business Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Busquets discussed how her Latin American background has equipped her with the skills required to achieve commercial success and her views on the union of sustainability, community and luxury. On 19 March 2012 in Paris, Busquets and other notable figures from the luxury trade industry discussed the tension between global brands and luxury labels. On 25 September 2018, <mask> was honoured for her humanitarian work and contributions to sustainability, and received the F4D award during Fashion 4 Development's 8th Annual Official First Ladies Luncheon for "recalibrating the fashion industry to the benefit of people and planet". Busquets has been a member of the Panel of Experts for the LVMH Prize since 2017. Media
In July 2008, The New York Times quoted Busquets who was


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 discussing Net-a-porter at Paris Fashion Week:  "I never invested in Net-a-Porter with the thought that I would be one of the major investors. I was quite open to being one of the minor investors. But since nobody believed in Internet companies after 2000, it turned out that I had to be the major investor, because I was the only one to believe in it."In August 2012, Wallpaper magazine published an article by Imran Amed, founder and editor of The Business of Fashion, reviewing London's growing technology and fashion scenes. Amed identifies Busquets as being among a handful of investors who: "cashed in during the UK's Internet 1.0 wave and are now actively investing in the next generation of start-ups." In September 2012, The New York Times published "Fashion's New Order", a select list of 37 individuals including designers, retailers, editors and stylists who have "changed the way we see fashion in the 21st century". In May 2013, Vogue profiled Busquets in an article written by Elisabetta Tudor regarding her investment in pre-owned fashion marketplace BuyMyWardrobe. In September 2013, The Business of Fashion featured Busquets in the BoF 500: a list of the 500 most influential names in the global fashion industry. This new list was described as "an innovative, multi-channel initiative, exploring the people shaping the global fashion industry, curated by the editors of BoF and powered by social media." In September 2016, The New York Times International profiled Busquets and identified that Busquets is often referred to "as the fairy godmother of fashion e-commerce".In February 2020, ¡Hola! profiled Busquets who is quoted as saying she would like to eradicate the problem of fashion waste and make fashion brands produce only what is necessary. Busquets describes that with problems like climate change and waste of objects and food, "we [humankind] need to move forward as soon as possible towards a more circular economy, where we value everything we have." References

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<mask> (; 6 January 1927 in Aktobe, Kazakh ASSR, Soviet Union – 24 September 1986) was a Soviet electronics engineer who provided key documents to the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) between 1979 and 1985. Working at the Soviet radar design bureau Phazotron as one of the chief designers, Tolkachev gave the CIA complete detailed information about such projects as the R-23, R-24, R-33, R-27, and R-60, S-300 missile systems; fighter-interceptor aircraft radars used on the MiG-29, MiG-31, and Su-27; and other avionics. He was executed as a spy in 1986. Career
Tolkachev claimed his distrust of the Soviet government arose from the persecution of his wife's parents who had suffered under Joseph Stalin. He told the CIA he was inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. From January 1977 to February 1978, Tolkachev attempted to approach cars with U.S. diplomatic license plates in Moscow five times, coincidentally approaching the CIA Moscow bureau chief Gardner Hathaway at a gas station, but the CIA was wary of counterintelligence operations by the KGB. On his fifth attempt the CIA assigned a Russian-speaking officer named John I. Guilsher to make contact with him.Eventually <mask> established his bona fides with intelligence data that proved to be of "incalculable" value to US experts. The U.S. Air Force completely reversed direction on a $70 million electronics package for the F-15 Eagle as a result of Tolkachev's intelligence, although historian Benjamin B. Fischer says that this was "the projected overall cost, not a cost savings". Tolkachev resisted the use of traditional CIA methods including dead drops and radios. He preferred personal meetings, as he enjoyed meeting with agents. He was also given medicine and medical checkups during visits. A KGB linked newspaper later wrote that the CIA showed a great deal of care for Tolkachev and that the way they treated him was "touching". Tolkachev found that many of the procedures provided by the CIA were

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 ineffective and risked giving him away.<mask> developed many different ways to bypass Soviet security, despite routine changes which interfered with his activities. He repeatedly found holes in security, finding ways to check out documents without leaving a record, as well as finding ways to take documents home or to areas of the facility where he had access to better light and more privacy. When the CIA-provided cameras failed to work as expected, <mask> devised a way to use a civilian camera instead. He developed his own procedures that greatly increased the output and quality of his work. In one meeting alone he provided almost 200 rolls of film, and over 150 rolls in another meeting. He also included detailed notes and explanations of the information within the photos to assist understanding of the documents. Tolkachev initially refused any payments for his service, knowing they would draw suspicion.He requested art supplies, music, and other items for his son. Because he would not take payments himself, token payments were deposited in an overseas account as a sign of gratitude. <mask> refused to leave the Soviet Union because his wife believed she would become homesick. Although he did eventually request the interest from his accounts be paid to him in rubles, so that he could attempt to bribe any co workers who might discover his activity. In case he could not bribe his way out of a situation, Tolkachev requested poison pills in order to commit suicide in case he was captured, and to limit the information the KGB could acquire from interrogating him. The payments were made despite Tolkachev knowing that he would never be able to access the remaining funds. He went beyond anything required by his payment agreement and provided information any time it became available to him, not only when he was scheduled to receive compensation or care.Compromise and arrest
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A painting of Tolkachev by Kathy Krantz Fieramosca hangs in the CIA's Langley headquarters. Writer David E. Hoffman published The Billion Dollar Spy, about <mask>'s life, in 2015. Skepticism

Fischer, the former chief historian of the CIA, has presented a contrary view of the Tolkachev case. He argues that:
Since Tolkachev "made no less than six or seven attempts to contact the [CIA] Moscow Station," including senior CIA officials, it is implausible that the KGB did not detect him.This ignores that he only asked if agents were American, then dropped notes for them. <mask> claimed that he took documents home to photograph them during lunch, but traveling by means of public transit would have taken about an hour. This ignores both that it was standard procedure for employees to leave during lunch to carry out errands, and that Tolkachev was unable to continue using his home to collect intelligence, instead finding bathrooms and other locations in the facility where he could take pictures in privacy. Since Tolkachev claimed to be asking for documents

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 that were outside his area of work or security clearance, then he would not be able to obtain them without arousing suspicion in the secure, KGB-guarded facility. This ignores that Tolkachev raised these concerns and that Tolkachev replaced the card used for keeping records of his book withdrawals, and that no system existed for the KGB to filter document withdrawals by subject. Fischer also questions the value of the intelligence furnished by Tolkachev, asserting that since CIA HUMINT only constituted "one small ingredient" of the Pentagon's decision-making process, Tolkachev cannot be credited with saving taxpayers billions of dollars. He concludes that Tolkachev was a "dangle" agent run by the KGB to obtain CIA technical equipment such as spy cameras, project a false image of Soviet military and economic vitality, and absorb the CIA in a resource- and time-consuming operation.However, contradicting Fischer's assertions, the Soviet Politburo discussed <mask> on September 25, 1986, and top Soviet officials stated that he "was caught with two million rubles" and "handed over very important military-technical secrets to the enemy". The conversation transcript states that <mask> had been executed the previous day for his espionage on behalf of the U.S. Historian Nicholas Dujmovic criticized Fischer's article as "speculative," saying that he makes "few factual statements". Hoffman rebutted Fischer's theory, reasserting that Tolkachev furnished genuine technical information. Fischer responded that the CIA has not released the intelligence provided by <mask>; that the Politburo transcript is "suspicious" and possibly falsified; and that the KGB, which ran other "dangles" providing intelligence on Soviet weapons technologies, was also in control of Tolkachev. Citations

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<mask> (born 9 November 1989) is an Indian politician, serving as the leader of opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, notably the youngest leader of opposition in the country. He also leads the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the single largest political party in the state of Bihar, India. As a professional cricketer, he was in the Delhi Daredevils and the Jharkhand cricket team. In 2015, he was elected as the representative of the Raghopur constituency and served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar between 2015 and 2017. He is also noted to have been the youngest Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. Yadav was featured in the Indian Express ‘100 Most Powerful Indians’ in 2020 and 2021. Early life, education and youth sports
Yadav was born in Gopalganj, Bihar on 9 November 1989 to Rabri Devi and Lalu Prasad Yadav, both of whom were members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly and later became the Chief Ministers of Bihar.He is one of nine siblings among whom he is the youngest. He began his schooling in Patna and later moved to Delhi, accompanying his elder sister Misa Bharti who was enrolled for an MBBS. In Delhi, Yadav initially attended Delhi Public School in Vasant Vihar for primary classes till Class V. According to his school teachers, he was a scrawny and shy child. He was also the school cricket team's captain. From Class VI onwards, he began attending Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram. The principal of the school described him as an introvert and a cricket enthusiast. He played in the school's cricket team and was selected for the U-15 cricket team of Delhi as an all rounder at the age of 13.According to his teammates, he had helped them win a number of tournaments during his first season, his team also included Virat Kohli as its captain. The U-15 team won the national championship where Yadav had a match winning partnership with Ishant Sharma in the finals. He


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 dropped out of his school in Class X to pursue a sports career, and was eventually graduated to the U-17 and U-19 cricket team of Delhi. <mask> was also selected in the list of standby players for the world cup winning U-19 Indian national cricket team, later in the same year. In 2008, Yadav became the subject of new reports following an altercation where he and his brother Tej Pratap Yadav were allegedly assaulted at a traffic stop by a group in a neighbouring car and were hospitalised for bruises as a result; in the aftermath the Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel accompanying the two lodged a complaint to register the loss of weaponry. The group alleged that the two had harassed some girls while according to the RPF personnel, the group including both boys and girls had abused and assaulted the brothers and one of the RPF constables which led to the loss of his service revolver. Cricket career
Yadav was contracted by the Delhi Daredevils for the 2008 Indian Premier League franchise.He remained in the reserve bench of the team in the entire seasons between 2008 and 2012. He was also selected for the state level Jharkhand cricket team in 2009. His professional cricket debut began with 4 Twenty20 matches primarily in the capacity of a bowler in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Following which he was called for a test match against the Vidarbha cricket team at Dhanbad. He was fielded as the number 7 batsman and bowled in 5 overs. In 2010, he made his one-day debut in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and played two matches against Odisha cricket team and the Tripura cricket team respectively; his team lost the first match and won the second one, Yadav took a wicket against Tripura. By 2013, Yadav had retired from his cricket career.According to a 2013 article of the Business Standard, "the stupefying talent soon gave way to a spate of middling performances, ensuring that his


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Since 2010, while still pursuing his cricket career, Yadav had begun campaigning for the Rashtriya Janata Dal. Following his advent into politics, he was credited for successfully modernising campaigning strategies and initiating digital outreach for the party. According to Rashtriya Janata Dal insiders, Yadav had also convinced Lalu Prasad to form a coalition with Nitish Kumar and his Janata Dal (United) following the poor performance of both the parties in the 2014 Indian general election in Bihar. Eventually an alliance was formed between the Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Indian National Congress. In the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Yadav stood as the candidate of the Mahagathbandan (Grand Alliance) from both the Raghopur was elected as the representative of the constituency.The election also resulted in an overwhelming majority for the alliance in the assembly, which led to <mask> being appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and received the portfolios of public works, forestry and environment in the 5th Nitish Kumar cabinet. In 2017, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a case and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) launched a probe in relation to money laundering in a 2004 corruption case involving the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, against <mask> and other members of his family including his parents Rabri Devi and Lalu Prasad Yadav. This caused Nitish Kumar to pull the Janata Dal (United), out of

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 the alliance and form a new government along with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Subsequently, Yadav became the leader of opposition owing to the Rashtriya Janata Dal being the largest party in the state legislature. In response to the case lodged against him, Yadav accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of abusing government machinery to carry out political schemes. In 2018, he was granted relief in the case by the Delhi High Court after he maintaining that he could not have played a role as the allegation was leveled on him at a time when he was only 14 years old. By March 2018, Yadav had become the de facto leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal.Upon appointment, he issued an official apology addressing the people of Bihar for "lapses and mistakes" that may have been committed by the party during its tenure in the state government and that he himself was unaware of them being too young at the time. During his term as the leader of opposition, Yadav later became involved in organising food relief in the aftermath of the 2019 Bihar floods. Yadav led the Rashtriya Janata Dal in the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections, as the Chief Ministerial candidate of the Mahagathbandhan. The alliance won 110 seats in total out of 243, with RJD winning 75 seats, continuing to remain the single largest political party in Bihar. Since the majority required was 122, the alliance was unable to form the government, and <mask> was elected as the Leader of Opposition of Bihar. See also

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<mask> (born 22 April 1947, in London) is an English composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music under Buxton Orr, and later taught there. <mask> came to the fore as an improvising bassist as a member of a trio with pianist Howard Riley and drummer Tony Oxley (Witherden, 1969). He also became an occasional member of John Stevens' ensembles in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. In the early 1970s, he was a member of the influential free improvisation group Iskra 1903 with Derek Bailey and trombonist Paul Rutherford (a project revived in the late 1970s, with violinist Philipp Wachsmann replacing Bailey). He also formed a long-standing partnership with saxophonist Evan Parker, which led to a trio with drummer Paul Lytton which became one of the best-known and most widely travelled free-improvising groups of the 1980s and 1990s.He was briefly a member of the Michael Nyman Band in the 1980s, performing on the soundtrack of The Draughtsman's Contract. Career

London Jazz Composers Orchestra
<mask>'s interests in improvisation and formal composition received their grandest form in the London Jazz Composers Orchestra. Originally formed to perform <mask>'s composition Ode in 1972 (released as a 2-LP set on Incus and later, in expanded form, as a 2-CD set on Intakt), it became one of the great large-scale European improvising ensembles. Early documentation is spotty – the only other recording from its early years is Stringer (FMP, now

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 available on Intakt paired with the later "Study II") – but, beginning in the late 1980s, the Swiss label Intakt set out to document the band more thoroughly. The result was a series of ambitious, album-length compositions designed to give all the players in the band maximum opportunity for expression, while still preserving a rigorous sense of form: Zurich Concerts, Harmos, Double Trouble (originally written for an encounter with Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra, though the eventual CD was just for the LJCO), Theoria (a concerto for guest pianist Irène Schweizer), Three Pieces, and Double Trouble Two. The group's activities subsided in the mid-1990s, but it was never formally disbanded, and reconvened in 2008 for a one-off concert in Switzerland. In the mid-1990s <mask> also created a second, smaller ensemble, the Barry Guy New Orchestra.Other activities
<mask> has also written for other large improvising ensembles, such as the NOW Orchestra and ROVA (the piece Witch Gong Game inspired by images by the visual artist Alan Davie). His current improvising activities include piano trios with Marilyn Crispell and Agusti Fernandez. He has also recorded several albums for ECM, which often focus on the interface between improvisers and electronics, including his work in Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and his own Ceremony. <mask>'s session work in the pop field includes playing double bass on the song "Nightporter", from the Japan album Gentlemen Take Polaroids. He is married to the early music violinist Maya Homburger. After spending some years in Ireland, they now live in Switzerland. They run the small label Maya, which releases a

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 variety of records in the genres of free improvisation, baroque music and contemporary composition.In 2016, <mask> was appointed Honorary Professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he periodically conducts workshops and master classes. Style
<mask>'s jazz work is characterised by free improvisation, using a range of unusual playing methods: bowed and pizzicato sounds beneath the bass's bridge; plucking the strings above the left hand; beating the strings with percussion instrument mallets; and "preparing" the instrument with sticks and other implements inserted between the strings and fingerboard. His improvisations are often percussive and unpredictable, inhabiting no discernible harmonic territory and pushing into unknown regions. However, they can also be melodious and tender with due regard for harmonic integration with other players, and at times he will even play with a straight jazz swing feel. Similarly, in his concert works, <mask> manages to alternate harmonic and rhythmic complexity worthy of 1960s experimentalists such as Penderecki and Stockhausen with joyous, often ecstatic, melody. Works such as "Flagwalk" for string orchestra and "Fallingwater – Concerto for Orchestra" display <mask>'s compositional skill in handling extended forms and writing for large instrumental groups. Some of his compositions, such as "Witch Gong Game" for ensemble, use graphic notation in conjunction with cue cards to lead performers into playing and improvising material from numbered sections of the score.He is also an architect. Concert works

Orchestra
 Incontri (1970)
 Anna (1974)
 Flagwalk (1974)
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 Voyages of the Moon (1983)
 The Eye of Silence (1988)
 UM 1788 (1989)
 After the Rain (1992)
 Concerto for Orchestra: "Fallingwater" (1996)

Large ensemble (seven or more players)
 Bitz! (1979)
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 Look Up! (1991)
 Play (1976)

Soloists and large ensemble (seven or more players)
 Statements II – Ex (1979)
 Works for 2–6 Players:
 Bubblets (1998)
 Buzz (1994)
 Eos X (1976)
 The Eye of Silence (1989
 Four Miniatures (1969)
 Games (for All Ages) (1973)
 Mobile Herbarium (1992)
 Pfiff (1979)
 Redshift (1998)
 rondOH! (1985)
 String Quartet No.2 (1970)
 Un Coup de Dés (1994)
 Whistle and Flute (1985)

Solo works (excluding keyboard)
 Celebration (1994)
 Statements II (1972)

Solo voices and up to six players
 Remembered Earth (1992)
 The Road to Ruin (1986)
 String Quartet No.3 (1973)
 Waiata (1980)
 Eos (1978)
 Kingdom (1992)
 No Man's Land (1974)
 Video Life (1986)

Music for film or television
 Breaking the Surface (1986)

Electroacoustic works
 Hold Hands and Sing (1978)

These works are published by Chester Novello, UK, and further information may be found on their <mask> page. ), DotDotDot Music 003 – One (very) short solo track on this compilation
November Music 2003 (2003), November Music NM 007 – One track on compilation CD
Gubbröra (2004), psi 04.10 – Sandell/Stackenas/Parker/Guy/Lytton
Oort-Entropy (2004), Intakt CD 101 – <mask> Guy New Orchestra
Brainforest (2004), Intakt CD 107 – Jacques Demierre/<mask> Guy/Lucas Niggli
Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (2004), ECM 1872/171 6989 – Roscoe Mitchell and the Transatlantic Art Ensemble
Aurora (2004–06), Maya Recordings MCD0601 – Fernandez/Guy/Lopez
Folio (2005), ECM New series 1931
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Portrait (1972-2006), Intakt CD 123 – Compilation/Celebration of 25 years of Barry Guy's music
Occasional Poems (2015), Not Two MW931-2 – Barry Guy / Ken Vandermark
Grande Casino (2016), Euphorium 064 – EUPHORIUM_freakestra
One For My Baby And One More For The Bass (2018), Euphorium 077 – Oliver Schwerdt/Barry Guy/Günter Sommer

Bibliography
Barry Witherden: "Conversation Pieces", in: Jazz Monthly, April 1969, pp.8–10 (an article describing <mask>'s playing style as a member of the Howard Riley Trio of the late 1960s). Benjamin Dwyer: "An Interview with <mask>", in: B. Dwyer: Different Voices. Irish Music and Music in Ireland (Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 2014), p. 133–142. References

External links
London Jazz Composers Orchestra The website of Maya Recordings, Maya Homburger and <mask>. Featuring articles, biographies, discographies, news & diary, reviews and photogallery. short film portrait on <mask> and Maya Homburger, shot in their home studio in 2019
<mask>'s FMP releases
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<mask> (born 29 October 1987) is an English radio presenter, singer-songwriter and rapper. She competed on the second series of televised singing competition The X Factor in 2005 as a member of the girl group Addictiv Ladies. In 2012, she then launched a solo career with the record label Strictly Rhythm and released songs with dance musicians including DJ Fresh and Drumsound & Bassline Smith. <mask> returned to The X Factor as a solo artist in 2014 for its eleventh series, where she came second. She became the show's first contestant to reach number one on the UK iTunes Store chart during the competition with her performance of "Uptown Funk" (originally by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars). In 2015, she signed to Syco Music and released a full-length album, Love, Sax and Flashbacks. Early life
<mask> was born to an English father and a Ghanaian mother.She was raised in Walthamstow, London. She has family living in Yorkshire and she has a younger sister named Keshia, a make-up professional. She attended Holy Family Technology College in Walthamstow and Queen Mary University of London, where she studied journalism and contemporary history. In an interview with the Daily Mirror, <mask> said she was the victim of racism in childhood, with one child asking her, "Are you black or white?" Career

2005–2013: The X Factor, Addictiv Ladies and independent releases

<mask> was in the girl group Addictiv Ladies, who were on series 2 of The X Factor in 2005, mentored by Simon Cowell, but were eliminated in week 1 after ending up in the bottom two with Chico Slimani. She was introduced to drum-and-bass producer DJ Fresh through her manager in 2011, and Fresh subsequently hired her as a vocalist for a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge session of his.

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 In 2012, she featured on Fresh's song "Turn It Up" from his album Nextlevelism and toured extensively with him in 2012, including performances at T4 on the Beach, V Festival and the iTunes Festival.<mask> signed to the record label Strictly Rhythm in January 2012 and released two singles as the lead artist (credited as Fleur): "Broken Mirror" with Cutline and "Turn the Lights On" (produced by Culture Shock). She also featured on "The One" by Horx and P3000. In 2013, she featured on Drumsound & Bassline Smith's "One in a Million", which entered the UK Singles Chart at number 53, and headlined the Miss Face of Africa EU ceremony in London. In December 2013, she self-released her debut EP She for free download. One of the EP tracks, "Super Rich Royals", is a mashup cover of "Super Rich Kids" by Frank Ocean and "Royals" by Lorde. <mask> worked as a waitress at the London nightclub Aura Mayfair to help support her music career, and was also a fitness model with the agency W Athletic, but struggled with her finances. She later said that by early 2014, she was "definitely depressed" and considered ending her music career, until her friends and relatives encouraged her to re-audition for The X Factor.2014: Return to The X Factor

In June 2014, <mask> auditioned for the eleventh series of The X Factor. She sang John Legend's "Ordinary People" in her room audition, where she received three "yes" votes and progressed through to the arena auditions. She sang Chris Brown's "Fine China" at the arena and progressed to the boot camp stage with four "yes" votes. <mask> made it past the six chair challenge and through to the judges' houses stage in the "Over 26s" category, mentored by Cowell once again, to whom she performed "Bang Bang" by

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 Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj. Cowell chose <mask> for the live shows, alongside Jay James and eventual winner Ben Haenow. In the semi-final of the live shows, <mask> performed "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, a rendition The Guardians Stuart Heritage described as "truly astonishing [...] Fleur barged in and left the competition in ruins. It was two minutes and 53 seconds of all-out attack; possibly the biggest moment that any [Simon] Cowell show has produced since we first met Susan Boyle, only this was even more surprising because we already knew Fleur, and this far she'd merely been adequate."Popjustice declared it "the most exciting moment of the entire series [...] Whichever act wins The X Factor this coming weekend, Fleur's now established herself as the one who deserves and will undoubtedly get The Full Ella (FKA The Full Leona) when it comes to career rollout." <mask>'s version went to number one on the UK iTunes Store, which led the original song to be released five weeks earlier than planned; it subsequently reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. In the final, the show's final, <mask> was announced as the runner-up in the competition, losing to fellow category act, Ben Haenow with 34.3% of the votes to Haenow's 57.2%. 2015–2017: Love, Sax and Flashbacks
In January 2015, <mask> announced that she had signed to Cowell's record label Syco Music. She recorded her debut album with musicians including Wayne Hector, The Invisible Men, Jack Splash, and TMS. She announced in July 2015 that she had been working on her first fashion collection with women's fashion brand Lipsy London. "Sax", the lead single from her debut album, was released in November 2015 and reached number three in the

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 UK.Her debut album, titled Love, Sax and Flashbacks, was released on 4 December. On 22 January, <mask> released the single "More and More". She performed the single at the National Television Awards. In 2016, <mask> signed with Columbia Records to launch her international music career. In October 2017, it was revealed that <mask> and Syco had parted ways after three years via mutual agreement. 2018–present: I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Hits Radio Breakfast, return to music and Fearless
On 12 November 2018, <mask> was announced as participating in that year's series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.<mask> finished in fourth place on 8 December 2018. Later that month, <mask> announced via Instagram that she would be releasing her first single in four years, "Favourite Thing". The single was released on 4 January 2019 in addition to the music video release on YouTube. <mask> also performed the song live for the first time on television on This Morning. In June 2019 Bauer Media announced that <mask> would take over hosting the breakfast show on national radio station, Hits Radio alongside co-hosts James Barr and Greg Burns. The first show aired on 12 July 2019, <mask> arrived late for the first show after arriving in style to the Castlefield studios, choosing to take a speedboat. <mask> now hosts Hits Radio Breakfast alongside James Barr and Matt Haslam.On 7 September 2019 She started hosting the Saturday Morning show 9am-12noon across the Hits Radio Network. On 18 November 2019, <mask> released her new single, "Size". The single was featured in the Debenhams Christmas ad campaign. <mask> released her new single "Lucky" on 31 January 2020 along with its official music video. The video was shot over a period of

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 six months and includes footage from <mask>'s travels around the world. <mask>'s second album Fearless was released on 20 March 2020. The album is scheduled to be supported by <mask>'s first headline tour 'The Fearless Experience'.<mask> appeared on the sixteenth and seventeenth series of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway where she would go to an area of the UK and give tickets for people for a place on the plane to Walt Disney World. She released the official NHS charity single "Not Alone" on 9 April 2020 with 100% of the profits going towards the  COVID-19 NHS appeal. The single premiered on The One Show alongside its official music video. Musical style
<mask> describes her music as "urban-inspired with a few twists" and lists Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Sade, Emeli Sandé, Jessie Ware, and Florence Welch  among her inspirations. <mask>'s early solo work was heavily influenced by drum and bass artists including Netsky and Matrix & Futurebound. Discography

 Love, Sax and Flashbacks (2015)
 Fearless (2020)

Tours
 The Fearless Experience (2020) Postponed due to COVID-19

References

External links

 Hits Radio Breakfast with Fleur <mask> on Hits Radio
 Saturday Mornings with Fleur <mask> on Hits Radio

1987 births
Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
21st-century Black British women singers
Black British women rappers
English dance musicians
English drum and bass musicians
English people of Ghanaian descent
British contemporary R&B singers
English soul singers
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People from Walthamstow
Rappers from London
Singers from London
Sony BMG artists
The X Factor (British TV series) contestants
English women pop singers
Feminist musicians
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British TV series)

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<mask> (born 23 November 1980) is a New Zealand former professional basketball player and current Player Development Manager on the coaching staff with University of Virginia. During an outstanding college career with the University of Wisconsin, <mask> helped the Badgers to an NCAA Final Four his first year and a Sweet Sixteen in his senior year along with two Big 10 conference titles, and was twice named first team all-conference and an all-American. He is in the University of Wisconsin Hall of Fame. He represented New Zealand at the Sydney and Athens Olympics and averaged 16.9 points at the World Championships at Indianapolis in 2002 and 24.7 points at the World Championships at Turkey in 2010. He became the second Kiwi in the NBA when he appeared briefly for the Miami Heat in 2003 and the Los Angeles Clippers in 2005, and went on to play professionally in Spain, the NBA Development League, Israel, Lithuania, Germany and Turkey. In 2007, he joined the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). In 2009, he was named the NBL MVP, and in 2011, he won his first championship with the Breakers.Early life
Born in the Auckland suburb of Milford, <mask> attended Westlake Boys High School and played junior basketball for the North Harbour Basketball Association, joining their New Zealand NBL team, the North Harbour Kings, in 1998 as a 17-year-old. He earned NZNBL Rookie of the Year honours that year and helped the Kings reach the grand final. He played a further season for the Kings in 1999 before leaving for the United States to begin his college career with the University of Wisconsin. College career
As a freshman playing for the Wisconsin Badgers during the 1999–2000 season, Penney had a minimal role under coach Dick Bennett, but still helped his team reach the NCAA Final Four while averaging 3.7 points and 1.4 rebounds in 34 games. He returned to

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 New Zealand following his freshman season and re-joined the North Harbour Kings. He played just six games for the Kings before returning to Wisconsin to prepare for his sophomore season. As a sophomore in 2000–01, he averaged 11.2 points per game and was the second-leading scorer on the team.As a junior in 2001–02 playing for coach Bo Ryan, <mask> was the team's leading scorer. He averaged 15.1 points and 4.9 rebounds per game while shooting 45.4 percent from the field and teamed with point guard Devin Harris to guide the Badgers to a share of the Big Ten title. <mask> subsequently earned first-team All-Big Ten honours in 2001–02. As a senior in 2002–03, <mask> was again the team's leading scorer. He averaged 16.2 points and was second on the team with 6.0 rebounds per game, as Wisconsin won the Big Ten regular-season title outright. For his senior-year efforts, <mask> earned first-team All-Big Ten honours again and was named an honorable mention All-American. His 217 career three-point field goals made ranks third in program history.Professional career

NBA and Europe (2003–2007)
<mask> was not drafted in the star-studded 2003 NBA draft but joined the Minnesota Timberwolves in July that year for the Orlando Pro Summer League where he led the league in three-point shooting. On 1 September 2003, he signed with the Timberwolves, but did not make the team's final roster as he was waived on 23 October prior to the start of the 2003–04 NBA season. On 3 November, he signed with the Miami Heat and made his NBA debut that same day, scoring three points in 14 minutes of action against the Dallas Mavericks. <mask> became the second New Zealander (after Sean Marks) to play in the NBA. The following day, he made his second appearance for the Heat, but record no stats in just four minutes of action against the San Antonio Spurs. On 7 November, he was waived by the Heat after the team

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 signed Tyrone Hill instead. Following his release from the Heat, <mask> moved to Spain and signed with Gran Canaria for the rest of the 2003–04 season.In 24 Liga ACB games for Canaria, he averaged 10.6 points and 2.1 rebounds per game. In July 2004, <mask> joined the Minnesota Timberwolves for the Minnesota Summer League in Minneapolis, and the Chicago Bulls for the Rocky Mountain Revenue in Salt Lake City. On 4 November 2004, he was selected with the sixth overall pick in the 2004 NBA Development League Draft by the Asheville Altitude. He had an impressive start to the 2004–05 season and earned himself an NBA call-up. On 26 December 2004, he signed with the Los Angeles Clippers. He appeared in four games for the Clippers and scored just two points. He was waived by the Clippers on 3 January 2005 and returned to the Asheville Altitude to play out the season and help the team win the 2005 NBA D-League championship.On 5 August 2005, <mask> signed a two-year deal with Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He was used sparingly as a shooter off the bench and helped Maccabi qualify for the Euroleague Final Four, eventually losing to CSKA Moscow in the final. Maccabi did, however, win the 2006 Premier League championship. In 19 Euroleague games for Maccabi in 2005–06, <mask> averaged 3.3 points per game. In October 2006, <mask> signed with Žalgiris Kaunas as an injury replacement for Marcelinho Machado. After Žalgiris won the Lithuanian Basketball League Cup, <mask>s. On 16 February 2007, he signed with ALBA Berlin of Germany for the rest of the 2006–07 season.New Zealand Breakers (2007–2010)
In June 2007, <mask> signed with the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian National Basketball League. <mask>'s addition to the previously unsuccessful Breakers proved to be the tonic for the Breakers success, with the team qualifying for their first ever finals series,

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 before eventually finishing in sixth position overall in 2007–08. Individually, <mask> was the league's third leading scorer, averaging 24.2 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.3 steals over 31 games, was a starter for the World All-Stars team, and was named to the All-NBL first team. In the 2008–09 season, <mask> led the league in scoring and was the first Kiwi player ever to be named in the All-NBL first team for consecutive seasons. He took home the Andrew Gaze MVP trophy for leading the Breakers to their best season ever, averaging 24.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists over 28 games, making <mask> the first Kiwi to be honoured with the award. On 21 January 2010, <mask> scored a career-high 49 points in a 103–89 win over the Adelaide 36ers in Auckland. During the 2009–10 season, he was once again named to the All-NBL first team.Skyforce and Spurs (2010)
Following the conclusion of the 2009–10 NBL season, <mask> returned to the United States, and on 24 March 2010, he was acquired by the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA Development League. In just his second game for the Skyforce, he scored a game-high 31 points on 12-of-17 shooting from the field, adding four rebounds, three assists and a steal in 43 minutes of game time in a 113–104 win over the Springfield Armor. In the Skyforce's final game of the regular season, he scored 40 points in a win over the Bakersfield Jam. The Skyforce made it to the first round of the playoffs where they lost to the Tulsa 66ers 2–1 in the best-of-three series. In seven total games for the Skyforce, he averaged 22.7 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.4 steals per game. On 28 September 2010, <mask> signed with the San Antonio Spurs. However, he was later waived by the Spurs on 11 October after appearing in one preseason game and scoring 9 points.First NBL Championship (2010–11)
On 26 October 2010, <mask> returned to the New Zealand

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 Breakers for the 2010–11 NBL season. For the first three games of the season, Leon Henry filled in for <mask>, but upon his return, Henry was swiftly moved out of the 10-man roster. In 2010–11, <mask> led the Breakers to their first NBL championship as they defeated the Cairns Taipans in the grand final series, 2–1. He was again named to the All-NBL first team after averaging 20.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game. Return to Europe (2011–2015)
On 29 July 2011, <mask> signed with Baloncesto Fuenlabrada of Spain for the 2011–12 season. During the 2011–12 ACB season, <mask> was the fifth leading points scorer with 14.4 points per game. In July 2012, <mask> signed with TED Ankara Kolejliler of Turkey for the 2012–13 season.During the 2012–13 TBL season, <mask> was the league's third leading points scorer with 18.3 points per game, hitting over 46% of his three-point shots. In August 2013, <mask> signed with Trabzonspor for the 2013–14 season. In mid-2014, <mask> returned to the University of Wisconsin to finish off his degree. On 26 January 2015, he signed with Baloncesto Sevilla of the Spanish Liga ACB. In 16 games for Sevilla, he averaged 11.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game. Illawarra Hawks (2015–2016)
On 27 July 2015, <mask> signed with the Illawarra Hawks for the 2015–16 NBL season. In just the third game of the season on 14 October, he scored a season-high 36 points in a 96–75 win over his former team, the New Zealand Breakers.He didn't miss a game for the Hawks over the team's first 22 contests before a hamstring injury suffered on 17 January 2016 against the Breakers forced him to miss four straight games. He returned to action on 6 February, scoring 28 points in a 104–97 overtime win over the Townsville Crocodiles. He helped the Hawks finish the regular season in third place with a 17–11 win/loss record, booking themselves a semi-final clash

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 with the second-seeded Perth Wildcats. After losing Game 1 in Perth, the Hawks took Game 2 at home to save the series, but went on to lose the deciding Game 3 in Perth, bowing out of the playoffs with a 2–1 defeat. In 27 games for the Hawks in 2015–16, <mask> averaged 20.4 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game. Return to the Breakers (2016–2018)
On 12 April 2016, <mask> signed a three-year deal with the New Zealand Breakers. On 7 October 2016, he played in his first game for the Breakers since 2011, scoring nine points in a 76–71 season-opening win over Melbourne United.On 29 October 2016, he scored 27 points in a 119–93 win over the Adelaide 36ers. On 6 November 2016, he scored 30 points in an 86–70 win over the Brisbane Bullets. He appeared in all 28 games for the Breakers in 2016–17, averaging 17.3 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game. The Breakers started the 2017–18 season with a 9–1 record, before dropping to 9–3 with two Round 8 defeats. In the second defeat of Round 8, <mask> was held scoreless for the first time in his 174-game NBL career. On 15 December 2017, against the Adelaide 36ers in Auckland, <mask> played his 150th game for the Breakers. The Breakers finished the regular season in fourth place with a 15–13 record.On 22 February 2018, with finals only a week away, <mask> announced his decision to retire at the end of the 2017–18 season. His final game came in the Breakers season-ending loss to Melbourne United in Game 2 of their semi-finals series; in the 88–86 overtime loss, <mask> had 17 points off the bench. In 22 games in 2017–18, he averaged 10.1 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game. Post-playing career
In August 2019, <mask> was appointed director of player development and coaching staff consultant at the University of Virginia in the United States. <mask> was part of the Tall Blacks' memorable 2002 World Championships campaign

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 as they surprisingly finished fourth. <mask> averaged 16.9 points per game and hit 45.5% of his three-point shots. <mask> led New Zealand to victory in the 2009 FIBA Oceania Championship, beating Australia 177–162 on aggregate, after the two-match tie was drawn 1–1.<mask> was influential in both games, with 23 points and 4 assists in Game 1, and a 24 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists in Game 2, thus winning the Al Ramsay Shield. In the 2010 World Championships in Turkey, <mask> was the second leading scorer with 24.7 points per game. New Zealand also went through to the elimination rounds with a 3–2 record. <mask> participated for New Zealand at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain and averaged 10.8 points and 4.5 rebounds in six games. In May 2016, <mask> retired from international basketball after a career spanning 15 years (1999–2014). Personal life
<mask> is the brother of Rodd <mask>, who is also a professional sportsman, and has played Rugby Union in New Zealand, England and Italy. <mask> and his wife, Audra, have a daughter named Olivia.players
Miami Heat players
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New Zealand expatriate basketball people in Germany
New Zealand expatriate basketball people in Israel
New Zealand expatriate basketball people in Lithuania
New Zealand expatriate basketball people in Spain
New Zealand expatriate basketball people in Turkey
New Zealand expatriate basketball people in the United States
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<mask> (born Princeton, New Jersey, October 7, 1929) is an American archaeologist who has co-authored comprehensive catalogues with the archaeologist Etruscologist Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr. about the Greek Vase Painting collections of Bryn Mawr College (1971) and the Rhode Island School of Design (1976). She has also written the main published catalogue for the Antiquities Collection of Haverford College (1999). and many articles on Greek Vases. Education and early career
During World War II Ashmead moved with her family from the East Coast to the West to La Jolla, California, while her father Gaylord P<mask>, a Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, was directing the U. S. Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory at the Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego and developing FM Sonar for submarines. During the war, she attended The Bishop's School (La Jolla) and afterwards, upon returning East, she graduated from Lower Merion High School. She received her archaeology education at Bryn Mawr College, BA (1952, Honors, Magna Cum Laude)  MA (1954); PhD (1959) in Classical Archaeology with Rhys Carpenter. Her thesis was on the Onesimos (vase painter).At Bryn Mawr College professional colleagues included Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Machteld Mellink and Kyle Phillips. Awarded an Ella Riegel Fellowship, Ashmead worked with Lucy Talcott in 1956-1957 at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on the excavations at the Ancient Agora of Athens publishing on fragments by the Kleophrades Painter under the

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 Directorship of Homer Thompson with his wife also an archaeologist Dorothy Burr Thompson. Ashmead then taught at Bryn Mawr College and was the Curator for Ella Riegel Museum. She became a Research Associate with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology having written and compiled its Corpus vasorum antiquorum with the late Kyle Phillips. Circle of archaeologists and classicists
Other colleagues and circle of archaeologists and classicists include Richmond Lattimore, Richard Green, Phyllis Pray Bober, Ingrid Edlund Berry, Theresa Howard Carter, Jess Jeanny Canby, Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr., Adrienne Mayor, Jocelyn Penny Small and Dyfri Williams. Expertise
<mask> is a classical Greek vase painting expert, the leading authority on depictions of cats, particularly the Cheetah, on 5th Century Red-Figured Greek Vases. Ashmead has also introduced technical sections in her catalogues, through the use of x-rays, including references to kiln stacking marks, under-painting and preliminary sketches, fingerprints, and fuller inscriptions, and details garnered through technological examination, before it became a more commonly accepted practice in writing about Greek Vases.Family

She is the great-great-granddaughter of <mask> one of the American inventors of the sewing machine and a descendant of Jonathan Edwards (theologian) President of Princeton and cousin to Marion Edwards Park President of Bryn Mawr College who also received all three degrees at the College and worked in the Agora.

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 Ashmead was the first woman in her immediate family of notable American educators including college/university Presidents to receive a PhD. For most of Ashmead's career, she was married to the Haverford College professor and writer <mask>. He married <mask> on October 15, 1949. They had five children: <mask>, Graham Gaylord <mask>, Gaylord <mask> <mask>, Louisa Harral <mask> and Theodora <mask>. They divorced in 1976. Selected works
 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.[United States of America]. The Ella Riegel Memorial Museum, Bryn Mawr College. (1971) by <mask> <mask> and Kyle Meredith Phillips. Classical Vases : Excluding Attic Black-Figure, Attic Red-Figure and Attic White Ground, Catalogue of the Classical Collection, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, (1976) by <mask> <mask> and Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr., dedicated to Richmond Lattimore and Richard Stillwell. Haverford College Collection of Classical Antiquities,(1999) by <mask> <mask>. “Fragments by the Kleophrades Painter from the Athenian Agora,” Hesperia 35 (1966), pp. 20–36, pls.7-12. “An Unpublished Cup by Makron in Philadelphia,” American Journal of Archaeology 70 (1966) pp. 66–68 in collaboration with Kyle Meredith Phillips. “A Chong Byong at Bryn Mawr College and its twin in Honolulu,” Archives of Asian Art XX (1966–67), pp 80–81. Contributor to The Frederick M. Watkins College, The Fogg Art Museum, January 31, 1973 to March 31, 1974, pp. 45–52 in collaboration with Kyle Meredith Phillips. “Greek Cats: Exotic Pets Kept by Rich Youths in Fifth

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 Century B.C.Athens as Portrayed on Greek Vases,” Expedition vol. 20, no. 3, Spring 1978, pp. 38–47. “Three Goddesses and a Falcon,” Studies in Classical Art and Archaeology:  A Tribute to Peter Heinrich von Blanckenhagen, Locust Valley, New York, 1979 (Edited by G. Kopcke and M. Moore) 45-52, with Kyle Meredith Phillips. “Undoing the Past:  Changing Attitudes Towards the Restoration of Greek Pots,” Expedition, vol. 30, no.2 (1989) pp.21–28, with Kyle Meredith Phillips. https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/volume/30/page/2/
 “A Lekythos by the Pan Painter at Haverford College:  Bread and Soup for Dinner?,” Eumousia: Ceramic and Iconographic Studies in Honor of Alexander Cambitoglou Mediterranean Archaeology Mediterranean Archaeology Suppl. I Edited by Jean-Paul Descoeudres (Sydney, 1990), pp. 95–103. “A  Monstrously Good Idea,” Review of Adrienne Mayor article, Paleocryptozoology, Vol. 9, (1991). “The Tame Etruscan Cat:  Classical Conformist or Etruscan Original,” Murlo and the Etruscans: Art and Society in Ancient Etruria Edited by Richard De Puma and Jocelyn Penny Small (Madison, Wisconsin, 1994).References

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<mask> (born February 10, 1971) is an American former professional road bicycle racer and track cyclist. He is a three-time world champion in track events and an Olympic gold and silver medalist. <mask> ran unsuccessfully as the Republican Party nominee for the 2018 United States House of Representatives election in Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district and Pennsylvania's 15th district special election. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, one of five children to <mask> and <mask>, owner of a local automotive business, Nothstein Motors. <mask>'s paternal great grandfather was an accomplished bicycle racer at the turn of the 20th century, and bare-knuckle prizefighter. <mask> is a 1989 graduate of Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania and attended The Pennsylvania State University. Cycling career
Nothstein began cycling in 1987 and made his international debut in 1989, at the UCI Track Cycling World Cycling Championships in Lyon, France.<mask> won his first world championship medal in 1993, when he took the silver in the keirin. He became a double world champion in 1994, winning both sprint and keirin events at the 1994 World Championships. He did so while nursing a broken heel bone. <mask> again rode with a fractured bone, this time a kneecap, as part of the U.S. team sprint squad that won the bronze medal at the 1995 World Championships. He won a silver medal in the sprint at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he became the first American cyclist in 16 years to win an Olympic gold medal, when he took the victory in the sprint. In March 2001, he turned professional (on the road) with the U.S. based Mercury

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 Viatel team, before moving to the Navigators Insurance Cycling Team in 2002.He remained with Navigators for four years to the end of his career. In 2004, in order to transfer to road riding, he lost 30 pounds compared to his weight at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Post-cycling career
<mask> retired from competitive cycling after the 2006 season, and used to drive in NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car for Follow A Dream. <mask> won two races in the 2007 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series season; one at Bradenton Motorsports Park in Bradenton, Florida in the series’ season opener, the other in mid-July at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois. He finished 11th in points in the 2007 NHRA Alcohol Funny Car season. As of 2017, <mask> was living in Lowhill Township, Pennsylvania, and working as executive director of the Valley Preferred Cycling Center. In 2018, <mask> was terminated from The Valley Preferred Cycling Center, following allegations of sexual misconduct during his tenure.In November 2020 U.S. District Judge Edward G. Smith dismissed <mask>’s lawsuit against USA Cycling over its disclosure of a sexual misconduct allegation against him. Smith also held that the decision to suspend <mask>’s license to compete as a cyclist and place him on a list of suspended riders was within its responsibilities under the federal law that created the United States Center for SafeSport. In April 2021 <mask> dropped his appeal of the judge's decision. In December 2021, he was arrested and charged with two counts of stalking and defiant trespass, and a single count of criminal trespass. 2018 U.S. House campaign
In October 2017 <mask> announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania's 7th

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 congressional district for the 2018 United States House of Representatives election prior to the announcement of the district's Republican incumbent, Charlie Dent, that he would not run for another term. He lost his bid for Congress in the 7th District to Democrat Susan Wild, receiving 43.5% of the vote. <mask> also ran in special election for Charlie Dent's former seat in Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district.<mask> was defeated by Wild in this election as well, receiving 129,593 votes to Wild's 130,353 votes. Criterium (USA)
1st Harrisburg Criterium (USA)
1st CTS Westfield Criterium (USA)
1st St. Valentine's Day Massacre (USA)
1st El Cajon Downtown G.P. (USA)
3rd D.A.R.E. Grand Prix (USA)

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<mask> is a computer science professor and the chair of the Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam University. While his early research interests revolved around natural user interfaces and interactive devices, his more recent research has been focussing on personal fabrication, such as 3D Printing and Laser cutting, as well as virtual reality and haptics. Prior to teaching and researching at Hasso Plattner Institute, <mask> was a research scientist at Microsoft Research and Xerox PARC. He has been a member of CHI Academy since 2013, and an ACM distinguished scientist since 2014. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Research interests
<mask>'s research interests are natural user interfaces and interactive devices, which include miniature mobile devices, touch input, interactive floors, interactive rooms, and most recently, interactive fabrication. Earlier publications on interaction techniques
<mask> has had many publications, including but not limited to theses, book chapters, demos, videos and papers.His five most cited publications on Google Scholar Citations are: Precise selection techniques for multi-touch screens, Halo: a technique for visualizing off-screen objects, Shift: a technique for operating pen-based interfaces using touch, drag-and-pop and drag-and-pick: Techniques for accessing remote screen content on touch-and pen-operated systems and Lucid touch: a see-through mobile device. Precise selection techniques for multi-touch screens
The paper Precise selection techniques for multi-touch screens was published on April 4, 2006, by Hrvoje Benko, Andrew D Wilson and <mask>, totally cited 530 times. The paper presents five techniques called Dual Finger Selections to leverage multi-touch sensitive displays to help users select very small targets on display. This is to resolve the issues, in the terms of touch screen interactions, introduced by

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 factors such as large finger size and the lack of sensing precision. To make use of the techniques, a user would adjust the control-display ratio using a secondary finger, while controlling the cursor movements using the primary finger. The paper also introduces SimPress, a clicking technique, which reduces motion errors during the process of clicking as well as enable hovering state on devices that are not able to support proximity. The user study in paper reported that in terms of error rate reduction, the 3 chosen techniques (Stretch, X-Menu, and Slider) outperformed the control technique and were favoured by the participants.Among the chosen techniques Stretch, X-menu and Slider, Stretch has the best performance and preference overall. Halo: a technique for visualizing off-screen objects

The paper Halo: a technique for visualizing off-screen objects was published on April 5, 2003, by <mask> and Ruth Rosenholtz, totally cited 453 times. The paper introduces Halo, a visualization technique that shows users the location of off-screen objects, to enable spatial cognition. Halo achieves this by showing parts of rings in border region of the display to indicate off screen objects. Users can then identify the exact location of the off-screen objects based on the location and portion of the rings that are visible. The paper reported that users completed tasks 16-33% faster, giving no significant differences on error rates within the scope of the study. Shift: a technique for operating pen-based interfaces using touch

The paper Shift: a technique for operating pen-based interfaces using touch was published on April 29, 2007 by Daniel Vogel and <mask>, totally cited 429 times.The paper proposes Shift, a pointing technique, so that users can touch target points on screens designed for styluses with high precision using their fingers rather than a stylus. Shift reduces targeting times and error rates by showing a copy of the targeted screen area at a separate location. Shift also

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 shows a pointer to the actual selection point of the finger. Note that Shift is only enabled when the users find it necessary so that users have the option to have the conventional touch screen experience. Report results show that participants' actions have much lower error rates than an ordinary touch screen, and shorter times overall for larger targets compared to Offset Cursor. Drag-and-pop and drag-and-pick: Techniques for accessing remote screen content on touch-and pen-operated systems
The paper Drag-and-pop and drag-and-pick: Techniques for accessing remote screen content on touch-and pen-operated systems was published in August 2003 by <mask>, Edward Cutrell, Dan Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Peter Tandler, Benjamin Bederson and Alex Zierlinger, totally cited 405 times. The paper presents interaction techniques Drag-and-pop and drag-and-pick, designed for display systems based on pen and touch interactions, and they grant users the access to see contents on screen that are otherwise not easy to reach.Drag-and-pop extends traditional drag-and-drop. More specifically, drag-and-pop responds to users by moving the potential target icons in users' cursor direction temporarily, so that users only need to move their hands on a smaller distance or scale. Drag-and-pick further extends drag-and-pop by activating icons such as to open folders or applications. Results of the study report that drag-and-pop interface enables participants to file icons as fast as 3.7 times than the traditional drag-and-drop interaction on a 15' wide display. Lucid touch: a see-through mobile device

The paper Lucid touch: a see-through mobile device was published on October 7, 2007, by Daniel Wigdor, Clifton Forlines, <mask>, John Barnwell and Chia Shen, totally cited 303 times. The paper focus on the difficult aspects of touch screens: touching the small screen of a mobile device can be inconvenient because users' hands and fingers could block the contents they plan to interact with. This paper introduces


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 LucidTouch, a mobile device that users control from the back.LucidTouch displays an image of users' hands on screen, so that it gives the illusion that LucidTouch is transparent when in fact it is not. Users are able to interact with targets with greater precision because of the pseudo-transparency. Furthermore, like an ordinary mobile touch screen, LucidTouch reacts to multiple touch points at the same time so users can perform multi-touch actions

Initial study results illustrate that because of factors such as improved accuracy, and unblocked view of the screen, many users prefer interactions with LucidTouch than interactions with conventional devices. Recent Publications: Personal Fabrication
<mask> and Stefanie Mueller (2017), "Personal Fabrication", Foundations and Trends in Human–Computer Interaction: Vol. 10: No. 3–4, pp 165–293. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1100000055

Awards

ACM Awards

ACM CHI Academy
<mask> was inducted into the CHI Academy in 2013.ACM Distinguished Scientist
<mask> became an ACM distinguished scientist in 2014. Recent Publication Awards

CHI 2015 Best Paper Award
Winning Paper: Affordance++: allowing objects to communicate dynamic use

UIST 2013 Best Paper Award
Winning Paper: Fiberio: A Touchscreen That Senses Fingerprints

CHI 2013 Best Paper Award
Winning Paper: LaserOrigami: Laser-Cutting 3D Objects

CHI 2010 Best Paper Award
Winning Paper:  Lumino: Tangible Blocks for Tabletop Computers Based on Glass Fiber Bundles

CHI 2007 Best Paper Award
Winning Paper: Shift: A Technique for Operating Pen-Based Interfaces Using Touch

Students
<mask>'s PhD students include:

 Christian Holz, now faculty at ETH Zurich
 Stefanie Mueller, now faculty at MIT
 Alexandra Ion, now faculty at CMU
 Pedro Lopes, now faculty at the University of Chicago
 Lung-Pan Cheng, now faculty at National Taiwan University

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<mask> (born March 26, 1984 in Brossard, Quebec) is a Quebec singer, song writer, television and movie actress and humanitarian activist. She is best known as  the winner of the second season of Star Académie. Profile/background

Musical and actor development

Lapointe discovered and developed her interest in music as a young child. It was in 1992, at the age of 8, that she had her first piano lessons at her elementary school in Brossard (formerly Longueuil) a southern suburb of Montreal. In 1996, right after finishing primary school, she traveled to France for a school extracurricular and educational activity. It was there she made her debut in theatrical plays. Her trip to France marked the moment she discovered an interest in the world of acting.In 2001, at age 17, Lapointe became a member of a group which performed musical comedies. She then played in various other plays, including a French remake of (Beauty and the Beast), as well as other French plays such as Aida, and Once on This Island. While in France, she also followed several dance classes. At the same time, she continued to develop her skills in music and theatrical acting. The lessons later proved important for her future roles in Quebec television reality shows and movies starting in 2005. While refining her acting skills, Lapointe studied at Collège Édouard-Montpetit in humanities. She is not related to the Québécois singer Eric Lapointe.Star Academie experience

In 2003, TVA's newest reality show Star Académie, a remake of France's Star Academy, debuted. Lapointe, while in France, never auditioned for the French edition prior to returning to Quebec. She first auditioned for Star Académie in 2003 but had a greater success the following year, on the series second season, when she impressed the three judges. During the performances as a


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 top-ten finalist, she delivered several impressive performances, full of emotion and sensitivity. Despite her timid nature and calm demeanor, she was known by the public for her energetic performances including rock hits such as Green Day's "American Idiot". During the season, she faced elimination only once, in March 2004, but was saved by the public. While being in danger of being sent off, she considered abandoning everything.After being saved by the public, she gained more confidence throughout the remainder of the gala. At the finale, she won the 2004 crown, defeating Marc-André Niquet. She is currently the only female winner in the reality show's three-season history. Her hits "L'infidèle" (previously performed by Claude Dubois and "Si fragile" (previously performed by Luc de la Rochelière) from the Star Académie 2004 album, also aired on French radio stations across Quebec prior to her debut album. The Star Académie 2 album was certified double platinum within two days of its release date. Debut album: Sur le fil (2005)

Following her province-wide tour with the 2004 Star Académie finalists, in which she acquired more confidence and self-esteem, she immediately started recording her first album, Sur le fil, produced by Francis Collard. The album was launched and debuted on August 30, 2005, at the Vidéotron headquarters in Montreal.The event was held in front of several well-known personalities, including Star Académie and Le Banquier host Julie Snyder and one of the competition's judges and La Presse editor Stéphane Laporte. The album itself is composed of many ballads and love songs. Her first two hits, "Nous sommes" and "La mer", performed very well on the French charts, with the former hitting the top spot on the RockDétente Top 20 Countdown. A third hit, "Je sais déjà", played on French


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 radio stations and TV station MusiquePlus in December 2006. Singers Catherine Durand, Projet Orange frontman Jean-Christophe Boies and Sylvie Paquette, as well as writers Dave Richard and Martine Coupal, participated in the composition of Sur le fil. Lapointe wrote portions of the final two songs, "Love You" and "Interlude", along with Dave Richard. As of November 2006, 30,000 copies of the album were sold across Quebec and it was, at one point in September 2005, the francophone album with the most copies sold provincewide.In 2006, she also participated in the debut album of writer and journalist Tristan Malavoy as she provided background vocals in one of Malavoy's songs. The videoclip of "La Mer" was directed by video and scene director Dominique Laurence, who also directed clips for songs by Ariane Moffatt, Jean-François Breau, former Star Académie season 2 finalist Martin Giroux and season 1 winner Wilfred Le Bouthillier. Second album
She completed her contract with Musicor and, in March 2009, released her second album, entitled Donne-moi quelque chose qui ne finit pas (Give me something that doesn't end). <mask> (not related) wrote two songs for it, "Une fleur" (A flower) and the duet "À quoi" (What are you thinking). She also recorded a French version of Cher's "Bang Bang" song. Awards and nominations

Due to the success generated by the album, she was nominated for Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2006 at the ADISQ music gala and was a Juno nominee for Francophone Album of the Year. At the 2006 MuchMusic Video Awards, she won the award for Best Francophone Video for her song la "Mer"

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 at the Saint-Jean Chrysostome Hot Air Balloon Festival and another, entitled Show de filles, at the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival in September 2006, which also featured Marjo and fellow Star Académie contestants Émily Bégin and Annie Villeneuve from the first season. Heavy rain due to the remnants of Hurricane Ernesto affected the turnout at the show which was estimated at 15 000 spectators. She also made a province-wide tour in 2006 and 2007 called Sur le fil which debuted in Montreal's le Gésu. Most of the critics praised her softness and her charming voice. Acting career

While her musical debut was a success, despite modest record sales, she also appeared on television in the mini-series Le Négociateur (The Negotiator) which aired on the French television network TVA starting in 2005 with the second season airing during the fall of 2006. Lapointe played the role of Colette Cloutier, the sister of the show's main character, Mac Cloutier, a journalist and a negotiator, played by Frédérick de Grandpré. She  returned in the same role for the series' third chapter, which was filmed during the fall of 2006 and aired in 2008.In movie roles, she appeared in Aurore, which opened in French theaters across the province of Quebec in the summer of 2005. She played the role of Marie-Anne Caron, the young biological mother of Aurore Gagnon, a girl who was mistreated by her stepmother and her father after the death of her birth mother from tuberculosis. Film director Luc Dionne initially balked at her participation in the movie, but later accepted after Denise Robert, the co-founder of Quebec movie company Cinémaginaire Inc., urged Dionne to give Lapointe a real opportunity for the role of Marie-Anne Caron. Care Canada, humanitarian and community involvement
Lapointe is involved in various community causes


texts: and participated in the Opération Enfant Soleil telethon in 2005 while performing Sting's "Fields of Gold" song. She adores the outdoors, wildlife and nature and was the spokesperson for the project "Au sommet pour Care" launched by Care Canada. In order to raise funds for the organization, she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Central Africa, in 2005 along with 24 other Canadians. During an interview with reporter Nathalie Petrowski of the Montreal newspaper La Presse, Lapointe revealed that if she was to abandon music, she would like to be heavily involved in helping humanitarian groups, as she notably travelled across several countries in conjunction with her participation at the Care Canada mission.Lapointe also made, in 2007, a Quebec-wide tour for Unicef-Quebec as Ambassador, along with actress Catherine Brunet, to discuss and sensitize the public on the issue of worldwide child poverty, particularly in Africa, just prior to the Halloween. In May 2007, she made a humanitarian trip to Mali and the Sahel region, and met up with a non-governmental organization which planned to set up a new school in the region. In April 2008, Lapointe, along with Laurence and producer Eza Paventi, planned a tour of the Darfur region of Sudan in order to produce several small documentaries on African migrations, for Radio-Canada. In addition to her humanitarian work, Lapointe had also been pro-active in regards to global environment. During her appearance on Star Académie, she made a statement to the Quebec government of Jean Charest towards an improved provincial policy on recycling. Lapointe mentioned in the Quebec magazine Le Privé that the environment and other world issues will be significant topics for her upcoming album. In addition, she also encouraged schools to discuss more on such major


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<mask> is a Greek-Australian entrepreneur, sporting director and sports sponsor who is the founder and CEO of Reventon and CHC Planning Solutions. Since 2010, he has been the major sponsor of cue sports, is the director of the Reventon Snooker Academy and also created the Reventon Triple Crown. Aside from this, <mask> is an author of best-selling book, Your Path To Wealth: Brick By Brick, and the host of RELENTLESS: Life on Your Terms podcast. Biography
<mask> was born in Melbourne, Australia to Greek-Cypriot parents and is the youngest of four children. He spent his early years in Cyprus. In 1988, he along with family, moved back to Cyprus, when he was 9 years old. At the age 10, he started selling lottery tickets on the streets of Cyprus and working 10-hour shifts at his father's supermarket on the weekends and school holidays.<mask> has pursued cue sports such as snooker and billiards; combat sports such as kickboxing, boxing, and MMA; and poker as hobbies. At the age of 12, he returned to Melbourne and started playing snooker at Brunswick Club and later represented nationally. He has played kickboxing and attained elite status, while playing at a national level. Career

At the age of 19, he began working for a property market development company and later bought his first property with the help of his parents. Later, he formed a business partnership in Queensland and was working on expanding it. By the age of 24, he owned twenty-four investment properties. Somehow, the  business collapsed and left <mask> in a massive debt of $780,000.After the debacle, he sold all of his properties and moved back to his parents home. At the same time, his eldest son became deaf after a long battle with meningitis and he split with his partner. In 2005, <mask> was under a debt of $348,000. At this stage, he started a new company, Reventon,

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 and opened its first office in the lounge room of his parents' home. Due to his efforts and hard work, Reventon later became a leading investment and financial services company and currently manages more than $1 billion in real estate transactions. In 2015, he co-founded CHC Planning Solutions along with <mask> and Harris Hadjiharalambous. In September 2019, he started a new podcast named RELENTLESS: Life On Your Terms.He also published his best-selling book, Your Path To Wealth: Brick By Brick in 2019. In the year, he was appointed as one of the top 100 young entrepreneurs in Australia and won the Melbourne Young Entrepreneur Awards 2019 in the category Finance. Contribution to cue sports
<mask> has been a major contributor to the sport of snooker and billiard as a player, administrator, and sponsor. He started playing snooker at the age of 14 when he lived in Cyprus. He returned to Australia when he was 16 and started playing for Brunswick where he was promoted to A grade. Later, he competed in the Australian U18 and U21 national tournaments, representing Victoria alongside his friends Neil Robertson and James Mifsud. He has won snooker events, including Vic Minors and has played in the quarter-finals of open snooker events.In 2010, at a time when the sport was declining, <mask> started sponsoring the Australian Billiards and Snooker Council (ABSC)  and also saw the creation of its own ranking system, named the Reventon Ranking  system. Due to <mask> continued support and financial contributions to the Yarraville Billiards and Snooker Club (YBSC) and Victoria Billiards and Snooker Association (VBSA), the YBSC club was renamed to the Reventon Snooker Academy. In 2016, the ABSC honoured <mask> with the creation of the Reventon Triple Crown, a series of tournaments which combine Reventon Masters, the Reventon Classic and the

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 Reventon International, and are the highest prized tournaments held in Melbourne, Australia. In 2020, the Reventon Triple Crown received international coverage with 278 entries and a disclosed $135,700 AUD in prize payouts. Part of the funds raised for the tournament were donated to the White Ribbon Foundation. In the same year, the ABSC President, Frank Dewens, awarded <mask> for his recognition of his outstanding contribution to the sport. Philanthropy
<mask> is passionate about philanthropy and giving back to the community.He has sponsored charitable initiatives such as White Ribbon Australia, Expression Australia, World Vision. He is a major contributor to Vinnies CEO Sleepout, a charity which raises awareness regarding homelessness. In June 2018, <mask> began his philanthropic work with Vinnies CEO Sleepout to make a difference and started by raising a total of $40,185 to which he personally contributed $10,000. After a successful 2018, in 2019 he continued his support for the charity and raised a total of $60,564 with <mask> donating 50 cents to every dollar raised, donating approximately $20,000. In the same year, <mask>' philanthropic work was recognised when Vinnies appointed him a Vinnies CEO Sleepout ambassador. In 2019, saw Vinnies break their own record by raising $7.8 million for the respective charity. <mask> again pledged to raise the bar the following two years to raise $80,000 and $100,000 respectively.In the same year, 'Brick by Brick' fund-raising project was created. He purchased a vacant block of land in Mt. Duneed in order to build a home, and later sold the property, in order to support people experiencing homelessness and poverty in Australia. In addition, every property sale through his company Reventon, $500 from the sale is also donated towards the 'Brick by Brick' fund-raising project. In 2020,

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 <mask> partnered up with Matthew Charles from We Gift Rap by creating a song targeting homelessness and raising awareness. With strict lockdown rules limiting sleepout, <mask> slept on the streets of Melbourne on two consecutive nights in June along with his wife. He raised a total of $82,177, with <mask> and his company Reventon donating 75 cents of every dollar raised, totalling $38,000.In 2021, he collaborated with Matthew Charles again to recreate an acoustic version, which featured special guest, Andrew Loadsman. To raise awareness, <mask> again took to the streets of Melbourne and slept outside. This year, he raised $113,173 in donations, in which he donated $1 to every $1 raised, totaling contributing $56,500. Personal life
<mask> is married to Billie and is father to four children. He along with his wife own twenty-two real estate properties with each property valued between $500,000 and $1.2 million. Awards and recognition
Amongst the many awards that <mask> has won, below are to mention a few:
 APLACE by Glenvill Award (2020)
 Choice Platinum Achiever Award (2018-2021)
 Business News Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Financial Services (2018)
 Business News Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Financial Services (2019)
 Australia's top 100 entrepreneurs (2018)
 Australia's top 100 entrepreneurs (2019)

<mask>, his wife Billie and Reventon have featured on many publications, including Herald Sun, Sky News Australia, Channel 9, Channel 10, Channel 7, ABC, NewsCorp, Australian Financial Review. Published works

Books
 <mask>ofi, <mask> (2019).Your Path To Wealth: Brick By Brick

Audiobooks
 Your Path To Wealth: Brick By Brick

See also
 Reventon Triple Crown

References

External links
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<mask> (March 21, 1897 – September 5, 1987) was a Mexican professional wrestling promoter of the mid-twentieth century. Lutteroth's promotion, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), has been the dominant Mexican promotion since its founding in 1933 until Lutteroth left the company in the 1950s. Under its current name of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), it is, to date, the longest-running active professional wrestling promotion in the world presenting three weekly shows. <mask> was known as the "father of lucha libre," and, in his position as promoter and booker of the dominant promotion, was the most powerful man in Mexican wrestling, and one of the most powerful wrestling executives in the world. He was, in large part, responsible for the widespread fame of the most famous Mexican professional wrestlers of the mid-twentieth century, such as Octavio Gaona, the first Mexican wrestler to win the middleweight championship of the world defeating Gus Kalio, Carlos Tarzan Lopez, El Santo, Gori Guerrero, Rene Guajardo, Karlof Lagarde, Enrique Yañez and the international league wrestler Medico Asesino, Rito Romero, Dorrel Dickson and Mil Mascaras, who wrestled in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Early life
<mask> was born on March 21, 1897, in Colotlan, Jalisco, though he soon moved to Mexico City, where he went to agriculture school. At age 17, <mask> joined the Mexican Revolution, and served as a lieutenant, and captain under the orders of General Álvaro Obregón while battling against the forces of Pancho Villa, among others.By 1923, he had been promoted to First Captain, but after getting married in 1924 to Armida Camou Olea from Hermosillo, Sonora, he left the military and soon took a job in the

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 Tax Department as a property inspector. He and his wife had four children, <mask>, Hector, Enrique, and Elsa. By 1929, Lutteroth was relocated to Ciudad Juarez, where he was first exposed to the sport of professional wrestling. While there he began regularly attending matches at Liberty Hall in El Paso, Texas, where he became enamored with the personalities of the various competitors, most notably the Greek star, Gus Pappas. Wrestling career
<mask> then decided to bring this entertaining sport back to his native Mexico; and in 1933, he chartered his new company, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), along with his financial partner Francisco Ahumada. After unsuccessful negotiations with the boxing promoters to let him use the premier National Arena, Lutteroth rented out the smaller Modelo Arena, which became the first true home of Lucha Libre. Fans soon began to catch on to the idea of professional wrestling in Mexico; and by the first anniversary of the EMLL, Lutteroth was promoting to gates upwards of 5,000 fans.In 1934, an American wrestler debuted in Mexico under a black, leather mask, and <mask> dubbed him "Maravilla Enmascarada" or "The Masked Marvel". Soon after, <mask> incorporated the use of other masked wrestlers into Lucha Libre, creating real-life superheroes and villains for the audience to identify with. The idea was a huge success and thus, the modern era of Mexican wrestling was born. It was also around this time that <mask> would discover his first legitimate superstar, the masked icon El Santo, who is generally regarded as the greatest Mexican wrestler of all-time. As his fan base continued to grow, <mask> and his partners eventually moved to larger and more profitable venues. Through

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