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 youth ranks at Manchester United, giving him his first team debut in 1990. <mask> played in United's first 15 games of the new Premier League in 1992–93 during the absence of the injured Bryan Robson, and although he did not start a league game after November, he played enough games to qualify for a title winner's medal at the end of the season (which, at the time, was a minimum of 10 matches). However, his first-team chances were very limited in 1993–94 and he was transferred to Wolverhampton Wanderers for £250,000. His final season at Old Trafford brought just five first team appearances, and with the introduction of squad numbers in the Premier League that campaign he had been issued with the number 18 shirt which would next be worn by Simon Davies. He spent five years at Wolves, during which they qualified for the Division One play-offs twice and finished in the top 10 on four occasions, but never gained promotion to the Premier League. He left Wolves in 1999 to sign for Dutch side Sparta Rotterdam, but only made 14 appearances. Between 1999 and 2007 he played for Wrexham making 310 appearances, scoring 51 goals.<mask> captained them to win promotion to Division Two in 2002–03. He also led the club to its first national trophy (in English football), the Football League Trophy, scoring the second goal himself in a 2–0 win over Southend United in 2004–05. Managerial career
In 2001, 29-year-old <mask> was linked with the management post at Wrexham, following the departure of Brian Flynn. At the time, he assisted caretaker manager Joey Jones. After manager Denis Smith was sacked in January 2007, <mask> was again touted as a candidate, having by now played well over 300 games for the club, but coach Brian Carey was appointed instead. There

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Shortly after his father celebrated 20 years as manager of Manchester United, <mask> followed him into football management. In January 2007 he left Wrexham to become player-manager of fellow League Two side Peterborough United. Previous manager Keith Alexander had been sacked after a run of six straight defeats. He led the club to a 10th-placed finish in his first season of management. In his first full season of management, he took Posh to second place in League Two, gaining promotion.He was named League Two manager of the month for March 2008, after Peterborough won six games out of eight in the month. In his second full season, 2008–09, he led Posh go to second place and automatic promotion to the Championship. He also won the League One Manager of the Month award for March 2009, following six straight wins. <mask> left Peterborough in November 2009, by mutual consent, with Posh bottom of the table. Preston North End
In January 2010, <mask> signed as manager of Preston North End. His first game at home as a manager was an FA Cup match against Chelsea on 23 January 2010 which his side lost 2–0. On 14 September 2010, <mask> was charged with misconduct by the FA after his behaviour in the tunnel towards the referee after a 4–3 Championship defeat by Burnley.During a disappointing period as manager of

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 Preston, in a spell which lasted less than a year, <mask> had a comeback win in September 2010 when his Preston side beat Leeds United 6–4 after being 4–1 down at Elland Road. After the match <mask> said: "I have never been involved in such an amazing game." After 49 games in charge, winning 13, drawing 12 and losing 24 games, he was sacked as manager on 29 December 2010, with Preston North End bottom of the Championship. Following his sacking by Preston, his father Sir <mask> immediately recalled all three Manchester United players on loan at Preston; Joshua King, Ritchie De Laet, and Matty James. In addition, the Stoke City manager Tony Pulis recalled the two Stoke players on loan at Preston; Danny Pugh and Michael Tonge. This meant that in a single week, Preston had lost five key first-team players, effectively sealing the team's relegation. Return to Peterborough United
In January 2011, Gary Johnson left his job as manager at Peterborough United, with the club several points adrift of the playoff places.On 12 January 2011, <mask> was re-appointed as manager at Peterborough on a four-and-a-half-year contract. His first match ended up in a defeat away to league leaders Brighton & Hove Albion, but the following week, in his first game at London Road since his return, Peterborough beat Hartlepool United 4–0. Peterborough United's promotion hopes was given a boost with a 5–3 win over promotion rivals Sheffield Wednesday. A 0–5 away thumping of Oldham Athletic kept <mask>'s men within touching distance of the automatic promotion places. The club ultimately finished fourth in League One, and after beating Milton Keynes 4–3 on aggregate, reached the play-off Final at Old Trafford against Huddersfield Town. Peterborough went on to defeat

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<mask> was appointed manager of League One club Doncaster Rovers on 16 October 2015. They were relegated at the end of the 2015–16 season, but a third place finish in their only season in League Two saw the club win promotion back to League One in May 2017. <mask> resigned from his role as manager on 4 June 2018, after guiding Rovers to 15th placed finish in their first season back in Sky Bet League One.Second return to Peterborough United
<mask> was re-appointed as manager of League One club Peterborough United on 26 January 2019 for the third time with a deal agreed until the end of season after the dismissal of Steve Evans, with Gavin Strachan as his assistant. In May 2021, after missing out on the previous season's play-offs due to the season being curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic,


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In June 2003, <mask> married Nadine Metcalfe. On 23 October 2007, he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his estranged wife on the driveway of his father's home in Wilmslow, Cheshire. He was released on bail. He appeared at Macclesfield Magistrates' Court on 23 January 2008, and was charged with common assault, to which he pleaded not guilty.On 10 April 2008, he changed his plea to guilty and was fined £1,500 and ordered to pay £200 in court costs. Managerial statistics

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Manchester United
Premier League: 1992–93
FA Charity Shield: 1993

Wrexham
FAW Premier Cup: 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04
Football League Trophy: 2004–05
FAW Premier Cup runners-up: 2004–05, 2005–06

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Peterborough United
Football League One runners-up: 2008–09, 2020–21
Football League One play-offs: 2010–11
Football League Two runners-up: 2007–08
Football League Trophy: 2013–14

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Football League Two third place: 2016–17

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LMA Manager of the Year: 2009 League One
Football League One Manager of the Month: March 2009, February 2011, April 2014, August 2014, October 2019, October 2020, February 2021
Football League Two Manager of the Month: March 2008, January 2017

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<mask> () is a Serbian politician. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2001 to 2020 and is now the Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue in the cabinet of Ana Brnabić. A former and long-time member of the Democratic Party, she was excluded from the party from opposing its boycott of the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. Early life and career
<mask> was born in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She trained as a physicist and was an worked at the University of Novi Sad's Faculty of Technical Sciences from 1984 to 1999. From 1999 to 2004, she worked in marketing for JP SPC Vojvodina. Čomić was one of the first Serbian politicians to write a blog, starting in 2006.Politician
Čomić joined the Democratic Party's Novi Sad municipal board in 1992, became a spokesperson for the party at the city and provincial level, led its Novi Sad election headquarters in 1996, and served as president of the party's provincial board from 1998 to 2001. Čomić appeared on the Democratic Party's electoral lists in the 1992 and 1993 parliamentary elections, running in the Novi Sad electoral division. She was not included in her party's assembly delegation on either occasion. (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates on successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of sponsoring parties or coalitions. Čomić was not given a high enough list position on either occasion to receive an automatic mandate, nor was she granted an optional mandate afterwards.) She was elected to the Vojvodina assembly for Novi Sad's thirteenth electoral district in the 1996 provincial election and led the opposition group in the assembly from 1997 to 2000. Re-elected for Novi Sad's tenth district in 2000, she served as the assembly's deputy speaker from 2000 to 2001.At the municipal level, she was a

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Serbia's electoral system was revised for the 2000 parliamentary election, with the entire country becoming a single constituency. Čomić received the twenty-first position on the electoral list of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, a broad coalition that included the Democratic Party. The list won a landslide majority with 176 out of 250 mandates, and Čomić was selected as part of its parliamentary delegation when the assembly in January 2001. (From 2000 to 2011, all parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order. Čomić did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of her list position, but she was nonetheless chosen as a Democratic Party representative.) She became a vice-president of the Democratic Party later in the year and served as a deputy speaker of the assembly.In October 2003, Čomić controversially delayed a vote of no-confidence in the government of Zoran Živković. Čomić was a supporter of Živković, and some opposition members charged that the delay was simply a method to buy more time for the government to build a working majority. In the same period, Čomić oversaw a motion of non-confidence (which was ultimately unsuccessful) in assembly speaker Nataša Mićić. Mićić dissolved the assembly for new elections on 13 November 2003. The Democratic Party contested the resulting 2003 parliamentary election on its own, and Čomić received the sixth position on its electoral list. The list won thirty-seven mandates, and she was again chosen as part of the party's assembly delegation. The rival Democratic Party of Serbia emerged at the head of a coalition government following the election, and the Democratic Party served in opposition.In January 2004, Čomić supported Živković's candidacy against Boris Tadić for the vacant Democratic Party leadership. It was reported that Tadić responded by blocking Čomić from


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 becoming the new assembly speaker, a position she had expected to receive. Tadić was chosen as party leader in early 2004, and Čomić was defeated in her concurrent bid for re-election as a party vice-president. She chaired the assembly committees for international relations and European integration in the parliament that followed, and in 2006 she was appointed as part of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA). She supported Serbia's integration into the European Union and criticized what she regarded as efforts to increase Serbia's dependence on Russia. In 2006, she worked with parliamentarians from Montenegro on a regional charter of minority rights. Čomić was again selected as part of the Democratic Party's assembly delegation after the 2007 and 2008 elections.The party returned to participation in government in 2007 and became the dominant force in a coalition government with the Socialist Party in 2008. In that year, Čomić was once again chosen as a deputy speaker of the assembly. She indicated her support for the Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in January 2009, arguing that it was not a separatist document (as some had suggested) and that it would benefit both Vojvodina and Serbia as a whole. 2012–20
Serbia's electoral system was reformed once again in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Čomić was given the fifteenth position on the Democratic Party's Choice for a Better Life coalition list in the 2012 election and was re-elected when the list won sixty-seven mandates. This election was won by the Serbian Progressive Party and its allies, and the Democratic Party moved into opposition. Čomić continued to serve in Serbia's OSCE PA delegation and was selected by this organization as a rapporteur for human rights and migration.In November 2013, <mask> headed an OSCE PA delegation overseeing the 2013 Tajikistani presidential election. She was critical of the way the


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<mask> was appointed to prime minister Ana Brnabić's cabinet in October 2020 as minister of human and minority rights and social dialogue. In March 2021, Čomić brought forward a draft anti-discrimination law for same-sex unions in Serbia. The legislation extends civic rights to same-sex couples, although it does not address marriage or adoption; Čomić contends that these subjects are matters of family law, whereas her legislation is focused on human rights issues.The rights extended to same-sex unions under the legislation have prompted opposition from more conservative circles. Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić has said that he will not sign the law on the grounds that it violates Serbia's constitution. Čomić has downplayed the importance of Vučić's opposition, affirming the law's constitutionality and saying that its validity will ultimately be determined by Serbia's constitutional court. References

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<mask> (1874–1954) was an architect and city planner best known for his co-authorship of the 1909 Plan of Chicago. Biography
<mask> was born in Bristol, England in 1874, and later moved to San Francisco with his family. An employee of Robert White, he was encouraged by famous architect Bernard Maybeck to pursue his education at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and was a student there  from 1895 to 1902, thanks to the generosity of <mask>. The training and friendships he made at the École shaped his entire career. After graduating, he spent a short time in New York City with prominent architect George B. Post, who sent him to Chicago to assist architect Daniel H. Burnham in preparing a plan for the military academy at West Point. Burnham found <mask>'s work highly satisfactory and in 1903 invited him to move to Chicago to collaborate on the comprehensive plan for San Francisco, and afterwards, the Plan of Chicago.The completed San Francisco plan was not implemented in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake, but <mask> became well known for his design work and co-authorship of the 1909 Plan of Chicago. While Burnham raised money and visibility for the Chicago Plan, <mask> created the actual layouts and drawings which are so well known today. <mask> also trained with Chicago's then leading country house architect <mask> Doren Shaw. <mask> made Chicago his personal and professional headquarters for the rest of his career. He served on the Chicago Plan Commission in various capacities into the 1930s and developed a substantial private practice and a national reputation as a city planner. Burnham, who largely retired from active practice after 1905, other than for his work in Chicago, directed applicants to <mask>, who, with partners William E. Parsons (1872–1939) and <mask>.

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 1909 Plan of Chicago
 Buckingham Fountain - Chicago, IL
 Michigan Avenue Bridge - Chicago, IL
 Peristyle at Millennium Park (original) - Chicago, IL
 Civic Center Park - Denver, CO
 1915 Plan for Ottawa
 Luis Muñoz Rivera Park - San Juan, Puerto Rico

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References
Coventry, Kim; Meyer, Daniel; Miller, Arthur H. "Classical Country Estates of Lake Forest, Architecture and Landscape Design 1856-1940" (2003), New York: W. W. Norton & Company, pages 209, 211, 227, 288-89; cover photograph
 Cohen, Stuart; Benjamin, Susan. "North Shore Chicago, Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs 1890-1945" (2004), New York: Acanthus Press, pages 41, 43, 302, 307, 319

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 Portrait at the Encyclopedia of Chicago
 The other author of the 1908 Plan of Chicago: <mask> H. <mask> - urban designer, planner and architect
 <mask> H. <mask> Collection, 1850-1985: Lake Forest College Library
 Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest at Google Books Search
 Drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago

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<mask> (, born 22 January 1966) is a Ukrainian journalist, CEO and politician who is Ukraine's Minister of Culture and Information Policy since 4 June 2020. Prior to his Ministership <mask> was a Ukrainian media manager, journalist, producer and the long-term CEO of the 1+1 Media Group. <mask> won a parliamentary seat in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election with the party Servant of the People. Education
In 1990, <mask> graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2016, he received a diploma from Harvard Business School according to the program “Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports”. In 2018, he completed a study at INSEAD Business School in Singapore according to the program “Value Creation for Owners and Directors”. Management activities in the media
In 1994‒1999 — president of Nova Mova Television Company (production studio), which produced the TV programs “Epilogue” and “Faces of the World” for UT-1 and Inter TV channels.In December 1996, he, together with the whole team of “Epilogue”, moved to a new television and radio company “Studio 1+1”. The Television News Service (TSN), created by <mask>, was broadcast on January 1, 1997 with presenter Alla Mazur. At the same time, the “Epilogue” continued to appear on 1+1 TV Channel, and <mask> became deputy general producer of the channel. In December 1997, he left 1+1 TV Channel. In April 1999, he headed Novyi Kanal TV Channel, where he came by order of the then owner of the Russian Alfa Bank. Oleksandr reformatted and made competitive Reporter News Program, inviting some members of “Epilogue” team to it: Andriy Shevchenko, Ivanna Naida, Ihor Kulias. Under his leadership, in 2000, the channel entered the top three market leaders.From January 2000 to May 2001, he was an advisor to the Prime

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He was a producer of “Song of Songs”, “House with a Tower”, “Vysotsky. Thank You for Being Alive”, “At the River”. Moreover, he was the producer of many popular TV serials, including “Milkmaid from Hatsapetovka”, “Tomorrow Will Be Tomorrow”, “Hope as a Confirmation of Life”, “Polka Dot Heaven” and many other.Journalistic activities
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Since 2005, together with his ex-colleague Andrii Shevchenko, he became one of the activists of the creation of Public Television and Radio Broadcasting in Ukraine and one of the authors of the concept of creating Public Television (Public Broadcasting). Political career
<mask> took part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election with the party Servant of the People. He was elected  to parliament under number 9 in election list of this party. (The party won 254 seats in the election.) On 29 August 2019 <mask> became Head of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) on Humanitarian and Information Policy. He was also Head of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Kingdom of Norway. On 4 June 2020 parliament  appointed <mask> Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.On 11 November 2021 <mask> handed over a resignation letter due to his

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 disagreement of the decision of the Shmyhal Government to separate the Ukrainian State Film Agency from his Ministry of Culture and other (cultural) budget cuts. On 29 November 2021 Servant of the People faction leader Davyd Arakhamia claimed that the resignation of <mask> was avoided after a talk between <mask> and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal; <mask> denied this and claimed he expected his resignation would be brought to parliament. In response to the destruction of the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum during the Battle of Ivankiv on 27 February 2022, and the loss of its collection of works by Maria Prymachenko, <mask>, requested that Russia be deprived of its UNESCO membership. Private life
Family

Children: daughters Oleksanra (1989) and Eva (2012), son Danylo (2015). Wife – Tkachenko Anna, former Head of 1+1 Digital and Innovations, from January 2021 - head of the digital department of  "Kyiv.live" and "Odessa.live" TV channels. In 1989-2009 he was married to Tetyana Gnedash, Ukrainian screenwriter and Art Forms Production's producer. Awards and achievements
In 2010, 2011, 2012, Oleksandr is among the TOP-200 of the most influential Ukrainians according to Focus Magazine rating.In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, Oleksandr is among the TOP-100 of the most influential Ukrainians according to Focus Magazine rating. See also
 List of members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2019–24

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 Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian)

21st-century Ukrainian politicians
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1966 births
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21st-century journalists
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<mask> (born 13 January 1985) is a professional footballer who plays for  club Middlesbrough and the Ivorian national team as a centre-back. <mask> started his career in his native France with Paris Saint-Germain, but failed to establish himself in their first team. He moved to Scotland to join Dunfermline Athletic in 2006, helping the club reach the final of the Scottish Cup in his first season. Two years later, he was transferred to Hibernian, before joining English side Leicester City in January 2011. He was sold to Turkish club Trabzonspor in 2012 for £750,000 before joining Palermo. However, he was loaned to Leeds United after making only one appearance in six months. He eventually joined Leeds on a permanent deal and was appointed club captain, spending a further year with the club before being released and subsequently joining Cardiff City.In his first full season with Cardiff, he helped the side win promotion to the Premier League. Born in France to Ivorian parents, <mask> represented Ivory Coast in the 2008 Olympic Games and became a regular for the senior national side until his most recent cap in 2014. In 2012, he was part of the side that reached the final of the Africa Cup of Nations. Club career

Paris Saint-Germain

<mask> began his career with Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at the age of 11. He had been spotted by club scouts playing street football in Paris but had initially turned the club down as his mother hoped for him to become a doctor. He lived with his parents Sehrata and Bakary <mask> in Ivry-sur-Seine, a suburb in central Paris. Since his family could not afford the travel to the club's training facilities outside

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 the city, he moved away from his family home to instead live at the club's academy.Originally playing as a defensive midfielder, he converted to playing as a central defender at the age of 15 after impressing there as cover for a teammate who had missed a match due to being stuck in traffic. Despite impressing for PSG's youth and B teams, he only appeared in two first team games, in his final year at the club at the age of 21. Dissatisfied with his lack of appearances, <mask> asked to be sent out on loan to gain experience but was denied by manager, Vahid Halilhodžić, causing <mask> to reject PSG's offer of a new contract and subsequently leave the club. He later claimed that PSG had damaged potential transfers to other French sides after he left the club, stating "I was disappointed because my club said, 'He's a good player but he's a tough guy – he doesn't listen and he can get the team into trouble." Dunfermline Athletic
After an initial trial period, <mask> signed for Scottish Premier League side Dunfermline Athletic in July 2006 on a two-year contract. Jim Leishman later revealed that he had been intending to bring over another player from France on trial, but this deal fell through and <mask>'s agent sent him instead. Leishman was immediately impressed by <mask>'s physique and his performance as a trialist during a preseason friendly against West Bromwich Albion striker John Hartson.He made his competitive debut for the club in Dunfermline's opening league match of the season, a 2–1 defeat to Hearts. On 2 December 2006, <mask> was sent off for the first time in his professional career after pushing Steven Naismith in the chest during a 5–1

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 defeat to Kilmarnock. In his first season at the club, <mask> was part of the squad that reached the 2007 Scottish Cup Final and played in a 1–0 defeat to Celtic in the final. However, the club also suffered relegation from the Scottish Premier League after a seven-year spell in the division. <mask> signed a two-year contract extension at the start of the 2007–08 season. The extension brought an end to rumours of his desire to leave the club in order to play at a higher level and further his chances of breaking into the Ivory Coast national side, having not played in any of Dunfermline's preseason matches. <mask> was allowed to go on trial with Championship side Watford in July 2008, appearing in a friendly for them against Boreham Wood.Soon afterwards, manager Jim McIntyre said he expected a fee to be agreed between Dunfermline and Watford, which would allow <mask> to move to the Championship side. The deal was thought to be almost complete, with Watford sending a doctor to China, where <mask> had travelled with the Ivory Coast Olympic squad, to conduct his medical. However, Watford later pulled out for unknown reasons. A few weeks later, Dunfermline accepted offers of £50,000 for <mask> to move to either Hibernian and Motherwell, keeping him in the Scottish Premier League. Hibernian
Bamba chose to move to Hibernian, signing a three-year contract with the club. As part of the transfer deal, Dunfermline were due 10% of any future transfer fee. He was sent off on his debut for a second bookable offence against Dundee United, but <mask> subsequently established himself in the Hibs first team.Despite being a natural centre back, manager Mixu

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With <mask>'s contract with Hibs due to expire at the end of the 2010–11 season, the club agreed on a deal with Football League Championship club Leicester City for his transfer.The deal was confirmed on 2 January 2011, with <mask> joining for an undisclosed fee midway through the season, although sources placed the figure around £250,000 with Hibs also due to receive a percentage of any future transfer fee. He was reunited at Leicester with his former Ivory Coast manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson. He made his debut for the club in a 2–2 draw against Manchester City on 9 January in the third round of the FA Cup, scoring with his first touch of the ball. He scored his first two league goals in a 4–2 win over Millwall on 22 January. After speculation linking him with several Premier League sides, including Blackburn Rovers, and French side Marseille during the 2011 summer transfer window, <mask> signed a new contract with Leicester in September 2011. During negotiations, Eriksson compared <mask>'s style of play to that of former German international player Franz Beckenbauer. Blackburn manager Steve Kean had claimed that the two clubs had made a bid for <mask> and described the move as being "quite close"


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 to being completed.After Eriksson was replaced by Nigel Pearson as Leicester manager, <mask> played less regularly, particularly after January when the club signed Wes Morgan and <mask> missed a month to play in the African Cup of Nations with Ivory Coast. In his 17 months at the club, in total he played 55 games for the club in all competitions, scoring four goals. He later expressed his regret at leaving the club, stating his belief in Pearson's ability to help them win promotion to the Premier League. Trabzonspor

Bamba signed for Turkish club Trabzonspor in June 2012 for a fee of £750,000 after being recommended to the club by his international teammate Didier Zokora. He made his debut for the club on 26 August 2012 playing the full 90 minutes, in a 2–0 victory at home to Elazigspor. He only made 18 appearances during his first season at the club, missing a proportion of fixtures in December and January in part because he was away with Ivory Coast as they qualified for the 2013 African Cup of Nations. During the 2013–14 season, <mask> made 15 appearances for Trabzonspor in the first half of the season, including being a regular starter in their Europa League campaign.However, on 22 January 2014, he picked up an ankle injury which ruled him out for the majority of the latter part of the season. <mask> was not selected to play for Tranzonspor again after suffering the injury, however he recovered in time to play for Ivory Coast at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Palermo
On 26 August 2014, after having been released by Trabzonspor, <mask> agreed a three-year deal with newly promoted Serie A club Palermo. He made his Palermo debut on 24 September 2014,

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 when he started the match for Palermo in a 3–3 draw against Napoli. However, he made no further appearances for the club. After leaving the club, he expressed his confusion over not playing more for Palermo, commenting "The manager would say ‘you’re not far off, keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll be playing.’ Well, after one month then two, three and four you start to get worried." Leeds United
On 23 January 2015, less than six months into his Palermo contract, <mask> was loaned to Championship side Leeds United for the remainder of the season, with the possibility of making the transfer permanent at a later date.He made his debut for Leeds in a 2–1 West Yorkshire derby win over Huddersfield Town a week later. Less than a month after joining the side, <mask> was named captain for three games in place of Liam Cooper. In particular, he served as captain when Leeds beat the then league leaders Middlesbrough 1–0, with <mask> receiving praise for his performance. <mask> scored his first goal for Leeds against Fulham in a 3–0 away victory in March. After impressing during his time at Leeds, <mask> revealed his desire to join the club on a permanent basis. However, he was also outspoken towards the club's owner Massimo Cellino advising "the person in charge has to do better for the sake of the club and the supporters". In June, Leeds arranged with <mask>'s club Palermo to sign him on a permanent basis for an undisclosed fee.The deal was for two years with the option for a third year. New Leeds United head coach Uwe Rösler described <mask> as "a match-winner in both boxes", and said that "he brings fantastic qualities with him" and "he can be a leader


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Following his release, <mask> trained with Derby County who were managed by his former Leicester boss Nigel Pearson but was not offered a deal. He instead joined Neil Warnock at Cardiff City in October 2016,

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Bamba was re-united with former manager Neil Warnock after joining Middlesbrough on a one-year contract on 10 August 2021. He made his first start for the club 1 day later in a 3-0 defeat away to Blackpool in the Carabao Cup. His first league start came in a 2-0 defeat away to Coventry City on 11 September 2021. <mask> won the Sky Bet Man of the Match award for his performance in a 2-0 victory against his former club Cardiff City on 23 October 2021. On 4 February 2022, <mask> was subbed on in the 28th minute of extra time in Middlesbrough's FA Cup tie against Manchester United.Upon the game going to penalties, he took and converted Middlesbrough's 5th spot kick and ultimately allowed the Boro to progress to the fifth round of the tournament for the first time since 2015.

International career
Although born in France, <mask> represents his parents' nation of Ivory Coast. He featured in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship, the 2005 African Youth Championship and the 2008 Toulon Tournament. <mask> was part of the Ivory Coast squad that reached the quarter-finals of the 2008 Olympic Games. <mask> won his first cap at full international level for Ivory Coast in a 2008 friendly match against


texts: Israel, and his second cap as a late substitute in a friendly against Turkey. <mask> made his competitive debut in a 5–0 win against Malawi in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match, again as a late substitute. This match was played in the aftermath of the Houphouët-Boigny Arena stampede, which killed dozens of Ivorian spectators. <mask> became a regular in the national team as they qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.<mask> scored his first goal for the team in a friendly against Rwanda, as part of the squad's preparation for the 2010 African Cup. He played in all of Ivory Coast's matches at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, but the team suffered a quarter-final defeat to Algeria after extra time. The "uneasy" central defensive partnership between Kolo Touré and <mask> was cited as one of the reasons for their defeat. The tournament had been played in the shadow of the shooting of the Togo team bus, however, with death threats also being made against the Ivory Coast team. Manager Vahid Halilhodžić, who had worked with <mask> at PSG and given him his first appearances at club and international level, was sacked after the tournament. The new Ivorian coach, Sven-Göran Eriksson, selected <mask> in his provisional 30-man squad for the 2010 World Cup on 11 May. <mask> scored in Eriksson's first match in charge, a 2–2 draw with Paraguay.<mask> was selected in the Ivory Coast's 23-man World Cup squad, but was dropped from the starting lineup, with midfielder Didier Zokora chosen to partner with Kolo Touré in central defence. <mask> resumed his partnership with Touré in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. Ivory Coast did not

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Chiefly a centre-back, <mask> played as a defensive midfielder during his emergence at Paris SG, before becoming a centre-back at age 15. He has sporadically played in the midfield since then, most successfully for Mixu Paatelainen at Hibs. Jim Leishman, who signed <mask> at Dunfermline Athletic, said of his former charge in 2010: "He's certainly got the physique and he's got the potential to do it. But potential sometimes passes you by, it's all about going out and doing it. He's a great runner, he's as strong as an ox, and he's a strong tackler." Sky Sports Soriebah Kajue in September 2011 said Bamba "established himself as a rock at the heart of the Foxes defence and has produced a level of consistency this year that has simply been outstanding", paying tribute to "Bamba's burgeoning reputation as a ball-playing defender".Sven-Göran Eriksson, who managed Bamba at club level for Leicester City and


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Bamba met his English wife Chloe while playing for Leicester. They have three children together.He also has a son called Jaxxson Shields from a previous relationship with a Scottish woman. <mask> is multilingual, being able to speak English, French, Italian, Turkish and "the Ivorian dialect that his father used at home". In 2021, he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and began undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Four months later in May 2021, he announced that he was cancer-free. Career statistics

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Scottish Cup runner-up: 2006–07Cardiff CityEFL Championship runner-up: 2017–18Ivory CoastAfrica Cup of Nations runner-up: 2012Individual'
PFA Team of the Year: 2017–18 Championship
Leeds United Player of the Month: August 2015

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<mask> is an author, patient safety advocate, and president/co-founder of the Josie King Foundation. Her 18-month old daughter, Josie, died at Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital of dehydration due to medical error after being hospitalized for second-degree burns. Following a financial settlement from Johns Hopkins, <mask> started the Josie King Foundation and wrote a novel about her experience entitled Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe. Biography
<mask> had four children: Jack, Eva, Relly, and Josie. She attended the University of Colorado where she met her husband and father of her children, Tony. The family originally lived in Richmond, Virginia before moving to Baltimore County for her husband's job as a stock-trader at Wachovia Securities. <mask> originally worked as a designer.She successfully started a women's clothing line that was sold at Barney's and Saks Fifth Avenue, among others. After her daughter's death, she became an author and internationally-recognized patient safety advocate. She was founder and President of the Josie King Foundation. In 2008, she was awarded the PPAG Advocacy Award from the Pediatric Pharmacy Association for her advocacy work. Backstory
On January 23, 2001, <mask> (18 months old) suffered an accident in a hot bath she accidentally drew for herself, which resulted in second-degree burns on 60% of her body. <mask> <mask> called an ambulance that took her to Johns Hopkins Hospital Bayview Center. Her daughter was treated with skin grafts, intravenous fluids, and pain medications.Her daughter improved rapidly and was moved to the Intermediate Care Unit. Although her vital signs were normal and her burns continued healing, she developed a high fever, vomiting, and diarrhea. The blood, stool, and urine tests the doctors conducted came back with no indication of another underlying illness. The doctors decided her central line, through which her fluids were being administered, could have an infection and subsequently removed it. Her daughter's condition worsened. Josie began to suck on the washcloth when given her bath

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 and at night, her eyes began rolling back into her head. <mask> attempted to give her daughter fluids but the nurse warned against it and explained that her vital signs were normal.<mask> asked for a physician to come see her daughter and her request was denied. <mask> returned to the hospital at 5:30 A.M. and found her daughter in worse condition. The doctors gave Josie a shot of Narcan and ordered that no more narcotics be administered. Josie immediately began recovering. The narcotics team worried that Josie would experience withdrawal and suggested that a smaller dose of narcotic should be administered. The surgeons on duty were consulted and it was agreed that a dose would be administered, despite <mask>’s concerns. The nurse explained to <mask> that the order had been changed, and the nurse administered a shot of methadone.<mask>'s daughter's condition worsened until she was rushed to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit where she suffered a cardiac arrest as well as extensive brain damage after her heart stopped. Despite revival efforts, <mask> passed away that evening of February 22, 2001. An investigation from the hospital concluded that <mask>'s cardiac arrest was caused by severe dehydration and that the warning signs -- diarrhea, extreme thirst, weight loss, etc. -- had not been taken into account in Josie's case. Impact

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Johns Hopkins Hospital accepted full responsibility for the death of <mask> and offered the family a financial settlement. Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, a Johns Hopkins physician whose father had died due to medical errors, allied with <mask> <mask> and helped her establish her foundation as well as implement the Josie King Patient Safety program at Johns Hopkins. <mask> <mask> funded the program with $50,000 of her initial financial settlement, and then raised $200,00 more through her foundation.The program at Johns Hopkins hoped to revitalize the hospital's medical training with improved patient safety standards and a commitment to reducing and reporting medical errors. The Josie King Foundation's main goal was to prevent harm to

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Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe is an autobiographical novel written by <mask> <mask> published by Grove Atlantic in 2009. Her novel was named one of the Best Health Books of 2009 by the Wall Street Journal, and nominated for a "Books for a Better life" Award from the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Josie King Act
In 2004, Representative Patrick J. Kennedy introduced the Josie King Act (also referred to as the Quality, Efficiency, Standards and Technology for Health Care Transformation Act of 2004, or the QUEST Act), which was intended to improve sharing and distribution of secure medical information between healthcare providers and patients on a national level. The bill died without receiving a vote in the 108th Congress. Media appearances
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<mask>  (born 15 February 1959) is a New Zealand writer. She has authored several novels for both adults and teenagers, autobiographical novellas, and a collection of essays. One of her best-known works is The Vintner's Luck (1998), which won several awards, has been published in ten languages, and was made into a film of the same name by Niki Caro in 2009. <mask> is also known for her young adult literary fantasy series, Dreamhunter Duet. Her most recent novels are Mortal Fire and Wake, both published in 2013, and The Absolute Book, published in 2019. Early life
<mask> was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She and her two sisters were raised by atheist parents in a household where religion was often debated.They spent their childhood living in various small suburbs of Wellington, including Pomare, Wadestown, Waikanae and Paremata. She went to high school at Tawa College, and later published a trilogy of novellas that were influenced by her childhood experiences of living in and around Wellington. <mask> enjoyed inventing stories as a child, and was an avid reader, but had difficulties with writing because she was slightly dyslexic. When she was eleven she created an oral narrative history with her younger sister Sara and its characters and plot evolved based on their input along with the input of their older sister, Mary, and their friend, Carol. It became an elaborate imaginary world with many characters, intricate plot lines, and involvements. When she was sixteen, <mask>'s father overheard a discussion between her, her sisters, and Carol regarding the consequences of a secret treaty set in their imaginary world and remarked that he hoped they were writing this down. Following this, they all tried "writing stories about, letters between, and poems by their characters" and <mask> enjoyed it so much that she decided she would like to be a writer.Career

Early career: 1983–1997
In 1983, when <mask> was 24, she started a degree in English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington. A year later, she started work on After Z-Hour in Bill Manhire's Original Composition

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 course at Victoria. The novel is about the ghost of a World War I soldier, and it was inspired by a childhood memory; at age eleven <mask> fell from a walnut tree on Anzac Day, and while in the hospital she overheard a conversation between an older man and her father about Passchendaele and life on the Salient in 1917. Bill Manhire encouraged her to write her novel, and told her he would be more interested in seeing her complete it, than her degree. After Z-Hour was published in 1987 by Victoria University Press, and <mask> graduated from Victoria University of Wellington the same year. She was also awarded the ICI Young Writers Bursary award that year. In 1988 <mask>, Fergus Barrowman, Nigel Cox, and Damien Wilkins, with the help of Bill Manhire, Alan Preston and Andrew Mason, co-founded the literary journal Sport.<mask> was one of its editors and has been a frequent contributor to the magazine. Her second and third novels, Treasure (1992) and Glamour and the Sea (1996), were both set in Wellington; the former was about a religious community while the latter was a mystery novel set in the 1940s. Alongside these novels, <mask> also wrote a trilogy of novellas based on her own experiences growing up in Wellington: Paremata (1989), Pomare (1994), and Tawa (1998), later published in the compilation The High Jump: A New Zealand Childhood (2000). She was the recipient of the Victoria University of Wellington Writing Fellowship in 1997. The Vintner's Luck and other work: 1998–2010

<mask>'s fourth full-length novel, The Vintner's Luck, was published in 1998, and was her first book to be published outside New Zealand. It chronicles the life of a peasant winemaker, Sobran Jodeau, and his relationship with the fallen angel Xas. The novel is set in 19th-century Burgundy, France, and spans 55 years.It was inspired by a feverish dream experienced by <mask> when she had pneumonia. The Vintner's Luck won <mask> widespread critical acclaim and numerous awards, and it raised her profile within New Zealand and overseas. It sold over 60,000 copies in New Zealand alone and in 2018, readers

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 series, The Angel's Reserve, set in contemporary times, but as of 2020 it has not yet been published. Later career
In 2013, Mortal Fire was published, a young adult novel described by Paula Green as "a modern fairy story without fairies, full of breathtaking magic and visual detail", and Wake, a horror novel for adults. The Guardian said in its review: "<mask> keeps the monster off stage and examines the psychological consequences of its depredations on the survivors, subverting the norms of the horror genre and thus making the ambiguous finale all the more startling." The publication of both books in the same year caused some confusion, with New Zealand bookstore Whitcoulls inadvertently shelving Wake in the children's section and listing it as a "great gift for kids". Since 2016, <mask> has taught a world-building writing workshop at Victoria University.In 2019, The Absolute Book was published, a fantasy novel that won critical acclaim both in New Zealand and overseas. The book attracted particular attention after a January 2020 book review by Slate writer Dan Kois headlined "This New Zealand Fantasy Masterpiece Needs to Be Published in America, Like, Now". The book was subsequently acquired by overseas publishers. It was published in the US and Canada in February 2021, and in the UK in March 2021. Kirkus Reviews wrote: "This darkly luminous fantasy reads like a mystery, thoroughly and wonderfully transporting readers to another world." The Times described the novel as "bursting with imagination" and "a bewitching, frustrating, strange and perverse novel". Nina Allan, reviewing the novel for The Guardian, said it "has the feel of an instant classic" and "is everything fantasy should be: original, magical, well read".She praised the diverse characters and the book's "genuine feeling of jeopardy". It was listed as one of the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2021 by The New York Times. In June 2020, <mask> was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature, in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours. She said that on receiving the

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Fellowships and honours
 Writer in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington in 1997
 Recipient of Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, 1999, to enable an NZ author to work in Menton, France
 Recipient of Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award in 2000
 Appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, for services to literature
 Recipient of Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship in 2014
 Recipient of Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction, 2019
Awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature from Victoria University of Wellington in 2020. They have a son, Jack Barrowman. Barrowman and <mask> met when he was involved in publishing her first book, After Z-Hour (1987).Selected works
 After Z-Hour (1987)
 Paremata (1989)
 Treasure (1992)
 Pomare (1994)
 Glamour and the Sea (1996)
 Tawa (1998)
 The Vintner's Luck (1998)
 The High Jump (2000)
 Black Oxen (2001)
 Billie's Kiss (2002)
 Daylight (2003)
 Dreamhunter (Book 1 of the Dreamhunter Duet) (2005)
 Dreamquake (Book 2 of the Dreamhunter Duet) (2007)
 The Love School (essays) (2008)
 The Invisible Road (2008)
 The Angel's Cut (Sequel to The Vintner's Luck) (2009)
 Mortal Fire (2013)
 Wake (2013)
 The Absolute Book (2019)

References

External links
 Official website
 Biography on the Read NZ website
 Biography on Macmillan Books website
 Profile on The Arts Foundation website
 Biography on HarperCollins website
 Bibliography in the Auckland University Library's New Zealand Literature File website
 All works published at the NZETC website

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Living people
New Zealand women novelists
Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Victoria University of Wellington alumni
20th-century New Zealand novelists
21st-century New Zealand novelists
21st-century New Zealand women writers
20th-century New Zealand women writers
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<mask>, orig. Eustrach ( – 24 October 1974), was a Soviet classical violinist, violist and conductor. Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works, including both of Dmitri Shostakovich's violin concerti and the violin concerto by Aram Khachaturian. He is considered one of the preeminent violinists of the 20th century. Life and career

Early years
Oistrakh was born in the cosmopolitan city of Odessa, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), into a Jewish family. His father was Fischl Eustrach, son of a second guild merchant, and his mother was Beyle Oistrakh. At the age of five, young Oistrakh began his studies of violin and viola as a pupil of Pyotr Stolyarsky.In his studies with Stolyarsky he became very good friends with Iosif Brodsky, Nathan Milstein and other violinists with whom he collaborated numerous times after achieving fame since their beginnings as fellow students at the Stolyarsky School. In 1914, at the age of six, Oistrakh performed his debut concert. He entered the Odessa Conservatory in 1923, where he studied until his graduation in 1926. At the conservatory he also studied harmony with composer Mykola Vilinsky. His 1926 graduation concert consisted of Bach's Chaconne, Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, Rubinstein's Viola Sonata, and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major. In 1927, <mask> appeared as soloist playing the Glazunov Violin Concerto under the composer's own baton in Kyiv, Ukraine — a concert which earned him an invitation to play the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in Leningrad with the Philharmonic Orchestra under Nikolai Malko the

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In 1927, Oistrakh relocated to Moscow, where he gave his first recital and met his future wife: pianist Tamara Rotareva (1906–1976). They were married a year later, and had one child, <mask>, who was born in 1931. <mask> would follow his father's path as a violinist, and eventually performed and recorded side-by-side with his father, including Bach's Double Concerto, which they first recorded in 1951, and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante. In at least one of the recordings of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, <mask> played violin, while Oistrakh played viola. From 1934 onwards, Oistrakh held a position teaching at the Moscow Conservatory, and was later made professor in 1939. Some of his colleagues while teaching at the conservatory included Yuri Yankelevich and Boris Goldstein. Oistrakh taught Oleg Kagan, Valery Klimov (who later succeeded <mask>'s position at the Moscow Conservatory), Emmy Verhey, Oleh Krysa, Gidon Kremer, Yulia Brodskaya (Julia Verba), Zoya Petrosyan, Jean Ter-Merguerian, Victor Danchenko, Victor Pikaizen, Cyrus Forough, Olga Parhomenko, and his son <mask>.In the 1950s, <mask> invited Yulia Brodskaya to be his assistant in teaching solo and chamber music and Rosa Fine as his assistant for solo students. From 1940 to 1963, <mask> performed extensively in a trio that also included the cellist Sviatoslav Knushevitsky and the pianist Lev Oborin. It was sometimes called the 'Oistrakh Trio.' <mask> collaborated extensively with Oborin, as well as Jacques Thibaud, a French violinist. During World War II
During World War II, he was active in the Soviet Union, premiering new concerti by Nikolai Miaskovsky and Aram Khachaturian

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 as well as two sonatas by his friend Sergei Prokofiev. He was also awarded the Stalin Prize in 1942. The final years of the war saw the blossoming of a friendship with Shostakovich, which would lead to the two violin concertos and the sonata, all of which were to be premiered by and become firmly associated with Oistrakh in the following years.<mask>'s career was set from this point, although the Soviet Union was "protective" of its people and refused to let him perform abroad. He continued to teach in the Moscow Conservatory, but when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, he went to the front lines, playing for soldiers and factory workers under intensely difficult conditions. Arguably one of the most heroic acts in his life was a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto to the end in the central music hall during the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942 while central Stalingrad was being massively bombed by the German forces. However, other sources indicate that <mask> performed in Leningrad that winter. Whether Oistrakh performed in Stalingrad is unconfirmed. International travel

<mask> was allowed to travel after the end of the war. He traveled to the countries in the Soviet bloc and even to the West.His first foreign engagement was to appear at the newly founded "Prague Spring" Festival where he was met with enormous success. In 1949 he gave his first concert in the West – in Helsinki. In 1951, he appeared at the "Maggio Musicale" Festival in Florence, in 1952 he was in East Germany for the Beethoven celebrations, France in 1953, Britain in 1954, and eventually, in 1955, he was allowed to tour the United States. By 1959, he was beginning

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 to establish a second career as a conductor, and in 1960 he was awarded the coveted Lenin Prize. His Moscow conducting debut followed in 1962, and by 1967 he had established a partnership with the celebrated Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter. Later years
The year 1968 saw wide celebrations for the violinist's sixtieth birthday, which included a celebratory performance in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory of the Tchaikovsky concerto, one of his favourite works, under the baton of Gennady Rozhdestvensky. <mask> was now seen as one of the great violinists of his time, alongside Romania's George Enescu and Lithuanian-born Jascha Heifetz.<mask> suffered a heart attack as early as 1964. He survived and continued to work at a furious pace. He had already become one of the principal cultural ambassadors for the Soviet Union to the West in live concerts and recordings. After conducting a cycle of Brahms with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, he died from another heart attack in Amsterdam in 1974. His remains were returned to Moscow, where he was interred in Novodevichy Cemetery. Distinctions
<mask> received many awards and distinctions. Within the Soviet Union, <mask> was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1942, the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1953, and the Lenin Prize in 1960.He also won the 1935 Soviet Union Competition. Several reputable works from the standard violin repertoire are dedicated to Oistrakh, including a concerto by Khachaturian, two concerti by Shostakovich, and several other pieces. <mask>'s fame and success were not limited to the Soviet Union: he placed second at the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Warsaw, after 16-year-old prodigy

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Oistrakh is known to have played at least seven Stradivarius violins owned by the Soviet Union. He initially selected the 1702 Conte di Fontana Stradivarius, which he played for 10 years before exchanging it for the 1705 Marsick Stradivarius in June 1966, which he played until his death. Oistrakh used  bows by Albert Nürnberger and André Richaume throughout his life.Up until 1957, he used a Nürnberger bow. "The André Richaume bow bought by his son Igor Oistrakh in 1957 had filled <mask> with such enthusiasm that Igor made a gift of it." Oistrakh had remarked that this (Richaume) bow  gave him great satisfaction, so much so that when in Paris, he had to meet Richaume in person. Chess
<mask> was an avid chess player in the 1930s, when Stalin's government was actively encouraging its best minds to pursue chess as a hobby. His 1937 match against composer Sergei Prokofiev was a widely observed event in the Soviet Union and is seen as an important factor in the game's enduring popularity in ex-Soviet nations today. <mask> handily defeated Prokofiev in the ten-game match; Prokofiev resigned after seven games. Only one game transcript survives, and it records a draw between the two players.Honours and awards
Soviet
 Two Orders of Lenin – 1946 and 1966
 Order of the Badge of Honour, twice – 1937 and ? People's Artist of the USSR, 1953
 Stalin Prize, 1st class – 1943
 Lenin Prize – 1960
 Honoured Artist of the RSFSR

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 Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II (Belgium, 1967)

Recordings
<mask> made recordings for the state classical music label, Melodiya. These recordings were marketing in the west under EMI Records and in the U.S. under Angel Records. He made a few guest recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Ormandy. These were issued by Columbia Records. In the 21st century, many of the Melodiya recordings have been reissued by Warner Classics, whose parent company acquired EMI's classical catalog. Legacy
There is a yearly music festival, "The David Oistrakh Festival", from late August to October in Estonia.Moscow International David Oistrakh Violin Competition is a biennial competition for young violinists held since 2006 in memory of <mask>h, organized by the non-profit David Oistrakh Charity Foundation. The competition, supported by Moscow government's Department of Culture, the Ministry for Culture of Russia and the Moscow Conservatory, is a member of the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth. The competition aims to popularize and develop the best traditions of Russian violin performance, and to discover young musicians. See also
Moscow International David Oistrakh Violin Competition

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References

Further reading

External links

A Portrait (in Russian)
Allmusic Discography

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Russian classical violinists
Male classical violinists
Soviet classical violinists
20th-century classical violinists
Jewish classical violinists
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<mask> (born April 16, 1983) is an American-Azerbaijani professional basketball player for Real Madrid. He also represents the senior Azerbaijani national team. While playing college basketball for the Utah State University Aggies, he was best known for his scoring prowess, shooting ability, shooting range, and endurance. He has the 2nd highest 3 point field goal percentage in NCAA Division I history. He is the Aggies' all-time scoring leader, and also holds 9 other school records. When he finished his college basketball career, he had the 14th most 3 pointers made, and 52nd most points scored in NCAA DI history. High school career
As a sophomore at Evanston High School, in Evanston, Wyoming, <mask> earned a spot on the varsity squad.During his junior year, he averaged 27.4 points, 3.3 steals and 2.8 assists per game. To gain these stats Jaycee shot 20,000 shots that summer with his father the coach of the freshman team. In his senior year, he set the state record for points per game at 39.4. Additionally, he averaged 9.1 rebounds and 3.6 steals per game. During a game against Green River, Jaycee scored 56 points, making 14 of 16 three-point attempts. Jaycee was named the Wyoming Gatorade Player of the Year, as both a junior and senior. <mask> chose to play college ball at Utah State University, in nearby Logan, Utah.College career
As a freshman, after taking a two-year break from basketball, to serve an LDS mission in Chile, <mask> broke numerous school and league records and earned multiple conference and national honors. <mask> was named a Freshman All-American by CollegeInsider.com and Rivals.com. He finished the year scoring 18 points against ninth-ranked Arizona, in the first round of the NCAA tournament. He averaged 14.7 points per game, making 47.6 percent of his three-point shots and 52.3 percent overall. He broke Utah State's freshman single-game scoring record (with 28 points) and season

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 season, by both the media and WAC coaches, one of the top 15 seniors by SportsIllustrated.com, and a first-team high-major All-American by Collegehoops.net. Among all active Division 1 college basketball players, <mask> started the season ranked first in career three-point shooting percentage (45.2), third in career scoring and third in career scoring average (17.5) (among returning seniors). <mask>'s 32 points versus Utah Valley State on December 20, 2007, propelled him past Wayne Estes, to reach second place on USU's all-time scoring list with 2,009 points. <mask> became Utah State's all-time leading scorer on January 19, 2008, in a game against Idaho, in Logan. He passed Greg Grant on his first basket – a three-pointer – which gave him 2,129 career points. After leading his team to a regular-season conference championship, he was named WAC Player of the Year. <mask> completed his career at Utah State with a loss to Illinois State in the first round of the NIT.He scored a total 2,507 career points, falling 35 short of breaking the record, at the time held by Keith Van Horn, for all-time leading college basketball scorer in the state of Utah. That Utah state record is now 2,720 career points, currently held by Tyler Haws of BYU. <mask> was selected as one of the best three-point shooters in the nation, and along with 7 others, competed in the 3-Point Shootout at the 2008 NCAA Final Four in San Antonio, Texas. The final event of his collegiate career was the NABC All-Star Game, at the Final Four. Professional career
<mask> was one of 64 players that were competing at his first pre NBA draft camp event – the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament – which was held on April 9–12, 2008. After going undrafted, he played for the New Jersey Nets' summer league squad in the 2008 Orlando Pro Summer League camp, earning second-team honors. He also signed contracts to play for the Nets summer team in the 2008 Rocky

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In July 2011, <mask> signed a three-year contract with Real Madrid. On July 22, 2013, he signed a contract extension with Real Madrid, that would keep him in the club until 2017. In the 2014–15 season, Real Madrid won the EuroLeague championship, after defeating Olympiacos, by a score of 78–59, in the EuroLeague Finals.Real Madrid eventually finished the season by also winning the Spanish League 2014–15 season championship, after a 3–0 series sweep in the Spanish ACB League Finals series against Barcelona. With that title, Real Madrid won the triple crown. In May 2018, Real Madrid won the 2017–18 EuroLeague championship, after defeating Fenerbahçe Doğuş in the final game with 85–80. Over 36 EuroLeague games, <mask> averaged 9.4 points per game. National team career
<mask> tried to be naturalized by Azerbaijan in the winter of 2011, but problems with bureaucracy were close to keep it from happening. When rumors started to appear about him gaining a naturalization with Montenegro instead, he finally got his Azerbaijani passport in April 2012. <mask> played with the senior Azerbaijani national basketball team in two games of the FIBA EuroBasket 2013 qualification, where he scored 27 points in the team's 79–96 loss to Sweden, and 26 points in the team's wide margin victory versus Luxembourg


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<mask> bu <mask> (; born 14 December 1965) is a Kuwaiti regarded as one of al-Qaeda's spokesmen. He is married to one of Osama bin Laden's daughters. Activities during the 1991 Gulf War
<mask> who grew up with the Muslim Brotherhood, first gained attention during the 1990–1991 Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait. His sermons denouncing the occupation and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein gained him some degree of popularity amongst the Kuwaiti people. In 1992, he went to Bosnia and Herzegovina for nearly a month to do some "relief services" there. He later joined Muslim guerillas in the Bosnian War in summer 1994. The Kuwaiti government subsequently removed him from the mosque and banned him from giving sermons, as he used to stridently criticize the Kuwaiti government and other Arab governments, then he became a high school teacher of religion.Arrival in Afghanistan in June 2000
In June 2000, he left Kuwait for Afghanistan, where he met Osama bin Laden and joined his al-Qaeda organization. His affinity for public speaking and comparative youth put him at the head of al-Qaeda's attempt to widen its appeal from ultra-conservative and mostly elderly clerics to the general population and especially the youth of majority-Muslim countries; in this capacity, he quickly became the organization's spokesman. Al Wafa
According to documents in the unclassified dossier from Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil's Combatant Status Review Tribunal
<mask> <mask> was also a founder of Al Wafa al Igatha al Islamia, a charity that the USA asserts provided a plausible front for al Qaeda's fund-raising efforts. One of the allegations against Al Zamil, who was also accused of being a founder of al Wafa, was that he helped <mask>'s family leave Afghanistan around the time of the attacks of 9–11. Al Qaeda video after 9-11
He rose to worldwide attention following the 11 September 2001, attacks. On October 10, 2001, he appeared on two widely circulated videos (first broadcast on al Jazeera television) to defend the attacks

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 and threaten reprisals for the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, saying, "Americans should know, the storm of the planes will not stop... There are thousands of the Islamic nation's youths who are eager to die just as the Americans are eager to live."These statements caused the Kuwaiti government to strip him of his citizenship. In 2002, while living in Iran, he posted a statement asserting that al Qaeda has "the right to kill four million Americans, including one million children, displace double that figure, and injure and cripple hundreds and thousands." Alleged connection to the Faylaka Island attackers
According to The Long War Journal American officials assert that <mask> <mask> attended al Qaeda's airport training camp with Anas al Kandari and Faiz al Kandari. Anas al Kandari was a young Kuwaiti who fired upon a squad of marines, killing one, in the Faylaka Island attack in 2002. Faiz al Kandari is another Kuwaiti, who was held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo from 2002 to 2008. In 2008, charges were prepared against him to be referred to a Guantanamo military commission. According to The Long War Journal in his book The Martyr's Oath, Stewart Bell asserted Sulaiman <mask> recruited Anas al Kandari and the other shooter to launch the Faylaka Island attacks.Presence in Iran 2002–2013
His whereabouts, as he moved around to escape capture by the United States in the following months, are unclear. According to the Long War Journal, by 2002, <mask> was living in Iran. In July 2003, a Kuwaiti minister announced that the Iranian government was holding <mask> and that Kuwait had refused an offer from Iran to extradite him to Kuwait. In September 2010, the Long War Journal falsely reported that <mask> had been freed by Iran and had left the country for Afghanistan. In March 2013, it was reported that <mask> had spent most of the last ten years in Iran, under house arrest. Presence in Turkey 2013
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