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<mask> (born 3 March 1973) is a Nigerian dramatist and theatre director. His plays include Moremi Ajaasoro, performed as the Western zone's entry for the Festival of Nigerian Plays (FESTINA 2003); Olofin Ajaye and The Mote in the Eye, NANTAP International Theatre Day, 2008 and 2009/20th Anniversary Play projects; The Rejected Stone, an African retelling of the popular fable Cinderella, Alaafin Kanran, Farewell and Dirty Circle for Royal Court Theatre, London, excerpt performed at the Sloane Square, Jerwood Theatre, London, in 2009 with sponsorship from the British Council, Nigeria & GENESIS Foundation, UK; The Ghost Catcher; Goodbye Yesterday; Our Tomorrow Today; Ijebu 1832; For Heroes and Scoundrels, among others. He wrote and directed a play about Zulu folklore (Izibongo) and history in 2008 with the title Shaka, the Zulu legend. Early life
<mask>un studied English and Social Studies, gaining a Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE) at the Federal College of Education, Osiele, Abeokuta. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and master's degree (with Distinction) in Theatre Arts from the Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria. Career
Shortly after graduation from the Federal College of Education, Osiele, Abeokuta, in 1996, <mask> joined the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Lagos, Akoka, as an Associate member as well as a member of Akuro Theatre, owned and managed by late Professor Bode Osanyin, playwright and theatre director, under whose tutelage he received professional training as an actor and playwright. With the Centre and Akuro, he was part of productions such as Orisa, Left in the

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Lekan has successfully directed the Theatre workshop class of the Department of English University of Lagos for three years, including the last; Look Back in Gratitude (adaptation of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger) written by Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan. His professional directorial works include Wole Soyinka's Camwood on


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 the Leaves for the inaugural Theatre @Terra, 2007; Olive Branch, produced in conjunction with Kowry Kreations Media (now Image and Heritage); Emmanuel Eni's Death of a Curator; his outfit's production of Love and Colours in Delphi, one of his experimental plays (in association with Theatre Centrik, owned and managed by his long-time friend and associate, Tony Biyi Boyede) and Oya, with support from the National Troupe of Nigeria; Olofin Ajaye, written and directed as NANTAP 2008 International Theatre Day production and The Mote in the Eye, performed as NANTAP 20th Anniversary play, featuring Ambassador Segun Olusola and veteran actors such as Dejumo Lewis, the Oloja of Oja of the Village Headmaster fame, Mufu Onifade, originator of ARAISM, Sola Awojobi-Onayiga, Tunde Alabi and directed by the talented Makinde Adeniran, Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, etc.Balogun has had a very long professional relationship with the actor and theatre director, William Ekpo, Tunji Sotimirin and few others. Experimental works
<mask> Balogun has begun a new style of writing he calls "The Theory of Contradiction", which was inspired by the Absurd Theatre, but drawing from African history, myth and legend. In performance, ritual music and silence are technical components of realization. Plays written to develop the theory include Love and Colours in Delphi, Soyinka in the Eye of Shakespeare read as the National Troupe of Nigeria, 26th in the Series of Play Reading, Harlem Remembered, performed at the Duro Oni @ 60 celebrations, featuring highly talented actor Art-Osagie Okedigun, Wale Lampejo and Qamar Adekunjo; A Walk with Gandhi and


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 Epitaph for Gaddafi. He also collaborated and wrote dialogue for an international production of The Power Play, by the German-based theatre company, FLINN THEATER, which opened to public viewing in September 2012 at Kulturhaus Dock 4, Germany. Other Related Works
<mask> <mask> is also an essayist, cultural ambassador and columnist for a number of journals. He has been invited as speaker, panel discussant and facilitator in several workshops on art, literature and theatre.He has essays on EDAOTO, among others, and been invited as speaker in several national and international seminars and workshops including Write Associates' The Africa Century International Writers Conference programme, 2012 at the University of the Free State, South Africa and the African Studies Institute International Conference on Africa and its Diaspora with the theme Africa and its Diaspora: Expressions of Indigenous and Local Knowledge, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, 2012. References

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Nigerian dramatists and playwrights
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<mask> (born 2 November 1973 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire), is a British former motorcycle racer. He raced in 250cc and 500cc Grand Prix, MotoGP, British Superbike and the World Superbike Championship. He retired in 2008. He now works in media, presenting shows and race commentating on ITV and British Eurosport for World Superbike Championship and British Superbike Championship coverage, and he covers some Moto GP races when the regular commentators are unavailable. He has worked for the BBC, Sky Sports, Motors TV, Al Jazeera and Radio 5 live and is seen as a rising talent within the media side of the sport. He is also the guest test rider for Britain's biggest motorcycle monthly –  Bike Magazine. Biography
<mask> got his passion for speed through his father David, a Doctor who loved fast cars and motorcycles.He bought <mask> his first motorcycle aged eight which he would ride in his parents garden. He quickly moved into Motorcross and worked his way up into the top 40 in Britain in Schoolboy Motorcross. But instead of pursuing a career in that sport he swapped to road racing at 16 in 1990. He finished 2nd in the British 125 Ministock Championship in his first year. Also starting in Ministocks that season was Neil Hodgson who immediately became (and still is) a great friend of <mask>'). <mask> then moved straight into The British 125cc Championship in 1991 (grabbing a pole position, some top 10 finishes and also winning the EMRA 125cc Championship). He was then spotted by Ron Haslem for a ride on Team Great Britain in 1992 after a disappointing finish in the 1991 Superteen championship.He raced a Yamaha TZ250 and won his first British Championship race at Silverstone

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texts: Championship came in 2000 for Ducati. Whilst leading the Championship a terrible mid season car accident (in which he was a passenger) damaged his neck and nerves badly. This caused him serious problems when racing and training and ruined his season. He twice finished 4th in the standings and was always one of the fastest riders, with multiple lap records and fastest laps throughout his BSB career. He won a total of 12 British Superbike Championship races and had over 30 podiums in the series.In 2002 he joined Carl Fogarty's Foggy Petronas in the WSBK, developing the new bike for the first year. It proved unreliable with multiple blow ups, a lack of parts supply and other problems dogging it throughout the year. <mask> had to leap from the motorcycle twice when it blew up and engulfed him in flames and fuel. One of the lowest points came when the gearbox locked up in Germany and caused a horrific accident (putting him out for the middle of the season). His high point was a best result of 7th in the world in Japan. In 2004 he nearly retired after the mentally and physically draining previous season and started it without a ride. But his pedigree could not be ignored and he was soon called up to stand in at Virgin Mobile Yamaha in the British Superbike series.He immediately turned the Teams season around taking the bikes and Teams only win of the year and also putting it on the podium. Despite missing many rounds he beat all the other riders in the team and finished top Yamaha in Britain. It was also the only season in his career that he never crashed, not even in practice. At the end of the season he also raced in the last few MotoGP's ( World Championship) for Kenny


texts: Roberts Proton team. His best result an impressive 12th place in Qatar. 2004 had been such a good season that he signed a prestigious two-year deal for Airwaves Ducati (one of the top teams in Britain). He should have spent 2005 and 2006 on an Airwaves Ducati but an unlucky pre-season testing injury at Albacete saw Gregorio Lavilla take over his ride and then keeping it after a promising start (and eventually winning the championship on it).With no ride he became 'Super Sub' once again, filling in for various teams throughout 2005. Eventually ending up at Team Suzuki (after John Reynolds was injured). He immediately beat his new teammate (Scott Smart) and when the injured John Reynolds returned, the Team kept Haydon not Smart and he rewarded them with some strong results including a podium. This was good enough for an offer to stay with the Team for 2006 alongside 2003 champion Shane Byrne. After a strong start at Oulton Park on identical bikes, <mask> was made to run a different development bike to Byrne with a changed weight balance. He disliked the new bike immediately and blamed his sudden poor form and crashes on the change of machine. But with his ally the experienced Paul Denning (ex- Suzuki Team Manager) off in MotoGP and a new Team manager who had never worked in motorsport before, <mask> struggled.After a heavy crash at Mallory he missed round 6 through injury then returned at Snetterton for Round 7. In race 2 a serious brake problem at the end of the Revvit straight caused him to run off the track at high speed. Unable to slow properly he shot across the track and collided with Dean Thomas. This caused an unfortunate crash which left Thomas and <mask>

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texts: injured. Both riders soon recovered although only <mask> returned to race that season. Afterwards the incident was reviewed by an RAC panel and <mask> was cleared of all responsibility when the data logging proved the problem had been completely outside his control. For 2007 he returned to Virgin Yamaha alongside Tommy Hill in a Team he had excelled with in the past.But he parted company with the team stating that he had "lost confidence in the development Pirelli tyres they were forced to run and that showed in (his) riding. Lacking extra funds the Team said that there was no possibility of a testing programme to help (him) rebuild that confidence so it seemed impossible to continue". N.B. Virgin Yamaha were the only team in Britain to run the then new Pirelli tyres that year against the established and mighty Michelin and Dunlop. Later that year he signed as 'Super Sub' for Hawk Kawasaki and in his first race with them he beat his teammate and finished top Kawasaki. He continued that form for most of the season. For 2008 Hawk Kawasaki offered Haydon a season contract.However two weeks before the start of the race season they were forced to pull out when one of their main sponsors withdrew. So he was once again without a ride. But he was quickly contacted by Eurosport and decided he would leave racing and go and work for them instead. He has never raced at the top level since. Says <mask> "After a long career my time had come to retire from racing bikes. It was a difficult choice for sure as there is never a 'right' time as such. You normally find riders only retire after really bad injuries and I've been very fortunate to avoid those.Amazing really and I'm thankful

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 for that. Especially as I have been racing bikes most weekends for 25 years now. From a small kid on a dirt field all the way to the best circuits in the world in front of millions of people. I've had an amazing time too! I've travelled the world and spanned some really cool era's in bikes. From 165 Bhp 500cc V4 2 Strokes to 240 Bhp 1000cc 4 strokes. I've raced them all.From the likes of Schwantz, Doohan, Criville, Cadalora up to Bayliss, Biaggi and Rossi. Wish I had beaten a few more of them mind you! But seriously, I feel blessed to have done something I really loved and been paid well for it. Thank you everyone! Now however, it's time for the next chapter of my life. I can't wait for the challenge!" <mask> now presents for British Eurosport, mainly on the British Superbike Championship.He is also a regular studio guest on the live World Superbike Championship rounds. For the first time in 3 years <mask> got back on a modern bike at the 2010 British Superbike Championship round at Brands Hatch, <mask> joined the select few and rode some fast demo laps on the 2010 Rizla Suzuki Moto GP bike. Personal life
<mask>' parents David and Beverley are both retired and live close by. His Dad still owns and rides many motorcycles. <mask> also has three sisters Annabelle, Susannah and Charlotte. <mask> is married to Jo and they have three children, Zac, Maya and Lexi, and the couple lived in Andorra for many years but now reside back in England close to their families. <mask> is the nephew of designer Zandra Rhodes.Former BSB and WSB Champion Neil Hodgson said of <mask> "For sure he was one of the fastest riders I've ever seen who never managed to win a British or World

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 Championship. But he has his head screwed on and a good view of life, so I am sure he will succeed in whatever he chooses to do now. Go get 'em <mask>". References and notes

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 JamesHaydon.co.uk

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<mask> (born September 19, 1981) is an American musician, pianist, and arranger. He is best known for his viral videos on YouTube, including his work under the moniker Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ) — an ever-evolving, revolving collective of performers playing popular music in period styles. Biography
<mask> grew up in the Pattenburg section of Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey where he fell in love with jazz at the age of 12 after hearing George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue for the first time. He attended North Hunterdon High School and later the University of Hartford. <mask> became a successful performer in the New York jazz scene, and served as music director for an interactive, off-Broadway theater experience called Sleep No More. In looking for creative inspiration, <mask> began reworking popular music as an exercise. In 2009, he released "Hello My Ragtime '80s," which incorporated ragtime-style piano into popular music from the 1980s.After playing and experimenting on stage at his regular gig at Robert Restaurant, he released the compilation Mashups by Candlelight. <mask> gained popularity in 2012 with A Motown Tribute to Nickelback, a collaboration with local musicians which arranged Nickelback's songs in the style of 1960s style R&B music. In 2013, <mask> began to work more seriously on forming Postmodern Jukebox, a rotating group of musicians producing covers of pop songs in alternate styles, including jazz, ragtime, and swing. The group burst onto the public radar with their doo-wop cover of Miley Cyrus's "We Can't Stop", featuring Robyn Adele Anderson and guest artists, The Tee-Tones. As the viral surge grew, <mask> was interviewed by news outlets such as NPR and also performed live on Good Morning America and Fuse. The group visited Cosmopolitan magazine's New York office for a year-end review of their work and popular songs from the year. Several artists have publicly noted their appreciation for the group's work.Among the group's prominent guest musicians are Dave Koz,

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 Institute. In 2016, Heineken announced their global partnership with Formula One racing management and in September released its first "If You Drive, Never Drink" campaign commercial featuring Sir Jackie Stewart (the "Flying Scot”) which featured <mask>'s cover of “Heroes” as the soundtrack. In 2016, Adweek featured <mask> as one of "20 Content Creators Who Are Setting the Bar for Creativity in 2016."On June 12, 2018, <mask> released his first book, a memoir entitled Outside The Jukebox: How I Turned My Vintage Music Obsession Into My Dream Gig (Hachette Books). The book garnered rave reviews from artists such as Kristin Chenoweth and Mick Fleetwood, as well as features from Publishers Weekly, The Weekly Standard'', and Billboard. <mask> performed a series of special intimate Book Release Parties during the book's release week in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New York, and his hometown of Flemington, NJ. Postmodern Jukebox

<mask>'s most notable work to date has been with the collective he created - Postmodern Jukebox. He posts weekly covers of recent pop songs with jazz or other genre variations. As of June 2020, the Postmodern Jukebox YouTube channel has over 4.8 million subscribers and has surpassed 1.45 billion views. In May 2021, it has 5.24 million subscribers.Each week, Postmodern Jukebox puts out a new video on YouTube, most of which are filmed casually in <mask>'s living room. The band has covered songs by artists ranging from Lady Gaga and The Strokes to Katy Perry and the White Stripes. Since their beginnings as a small group of friends making music in a basement in Queens, New York, Postmodern Jukebox has gone on to feature 70 different performers and tour six continents. Discography

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1981 births
American music arrangers
Living people
North Hunterdon High School alumni
People from Nesconset, New York
People from Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey
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 international markets by lifting currency controls (which he reinstated shortly before his term ended), restructuring sovereign debt, and pressing free-market solutions. Domestically, he pursued moderate socially liberal policies, and liberalized the energy sector. <mask> strongly opposed the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela for human rights abuses and called for a restoration of democracy in the country. He recognized Juan Guaidó, who was elected President of Venezuela by the National Assembly during the Venezuelan presidential crisis of 2019. <mask> improved the relations with the United States
and from Mercosur achieved a free trade agreement with the European Union and closer ties with the Pacific Alliance. During the first week in office, <mask> annulled the Memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran, which would have established a joint investigation into the 1994 bombing with AMIA, a terrorist attack on a Jewish organization for which Argentina blamed Hezbollah and Iran. His legislative pursuits varied in efficacy and received mixed reception from Argentines and globally.His presidency has been criticized for failing to materially reform the economy while receiving praise for leaving a legacy of anti-corruption and increasing Argentina's sovereign marketability. Overview
Born in Tandil, Buenos Aires Province, <mask> is the son of <mask>, a prominent Italian businessman in the industrial and construction sectors, and was raised in an upper class home. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and studied at Columbia University's business school in New York City, United States. <mask> became president of Boca Juniors, one of Argentina's two most popular

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 football clubs, in 1995. In 2005, he created the centre-right Republican Proposal party (Propuesta Republicana, also known as PRO). Although <mask> was a potential presidential candidate in the 2011 general elections, he ran instead for re-election as mayor. He received about 47 percent of the vote in the mayoral election, which led to a runoff election on 31 July 2011 against Daniel Filmus in which <mask> was re-elected for a second consecutive term.On 22 November 2015, after a tie in the first round of the presidential elections on 25 October, he received 51.34 percent of the vote to defeat Front for Victory candidate Daniel Scioli and was inaugurated on 10 December 2015 in the Argentine Congress. <mask> ended the sovereign default and removed currency controls, but inflation remained high and the 2018 Argentine monetary crisis led to a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its largest ever awarded. By April 2019, inflation had reached 55%. Prices for public utilities, fixed since 2002 despite the high inflation, were gradually restored to market figures. In the international arena, the country left the pink tide and was a vocal critic of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis. The party won the most districts during the 2017 midterm elections, and <mask> announced that he would run for a second term in 2019. He secured his party's nomination in the presidential election in August 2019 despite a poor performance in the primary.In 2016, <mask> was named one of the world's 100 most influential people and the most powerful president in Latin America by US news magazine Time. Boca Juniors

<mask> intended to run for chairman of sports club Boca Juniors in 1991, but his father convinced him to keep

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texts: working at Sevel. He tried to buy the Deportivo Español team, but could not get support from the team's board of directors. Macri supported Boca Juniors, paying coach César Luis Menotti's salary and buying players for the team (including forward Walter Perazzo). Franco, skeptical about his son's prospects for success, later allowed him to run Boca Juniors. He instructed aide Orlando Salvestrini to work with <mask> for two reasons: to help him and to monitor his activities. Mauricio met with former Boca Juniors chairmen Antonio Alegre and Carlos Heller, and tried to convince them to work with him; both rebuffed him.<mask> later sought the support of other groups in Boca Juniors, eventually winning the team's internal elections in 1995 with 7,058 votes. His first years were unsuccessful; the team's performance was poor, players frequently complained about salaries and bonuses, and <mask> changed coaches three times. The only initial improvement was a partial reconstruction of the stadium. He arranged for the Boca Juniors institution to operate on the stock exchange, selling shares of active football players owned by the club. <mask>'s first coach was Carlos Salvador Bilardo, who brought 14 new players to the team and finished the 1996 Apertura league in 10th place. His second coach, Héctor Veira, also performed poorly. New coach Carlos Bianchi helped Juan Román Riquelme improve his performance, and had Martín Palermo and Guillermo Barros Schelotto as effective forwards.They won the first two tournaments, beginning a record 40-match unbeaten run. During his tenure at the helm of Boca Juniors, the xeneize team obtained 17 titles, which established him as the president of the institution that has obtained the most football titles, displacing Alberto J.

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<mask> entered politics in 2003, founding the centre-right party Commitment to Change (). The party was intended to be a source of new politicians, since the major parties were discredited after the December 2001 riots. Later that year, <mask> ran for mayor of Buenos Aires, alongside Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. Although he won the first round of the election with 37 percent of the vote, he lost the runoff election with 46 percent of the vote going to sitting mayor Aníbal Ibarra, who was re-elected.In 2005, <mask> joined Ricardo López Murphy of Recrear in a political coalition, the Republican Proposal (PRO), and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies with 33.9 percent of the vote. His campaigns were managed by Jaime Durán Barba. According to a 2007 report, <mask> had participated in only 44 of 321 votings; he countered that he had become disappointed with Congress, since bills sent by the president were not open to debate or amendment. Ibarra was impeached and removed from office in 2006 as a result of the República Cromañón nightclub fire, and his term was completed by vice-chief of government Jorge Telerman. During 2006, <mask> worked both on his political activities as deputy and with his presidency of Boca Juniors. Before the 2007 general elections, he negotiated with the likely presidential candidate Jorge Sobisch, the governor of Neuquén Province, to create a national right-wing political coalition. This conflicted with <mask>'s alliance with Ricardo López Murphy, who also intended to run for president and had denounced Sobisch for

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 corruption.Later that year, Sobisch's image was severely tarnished when teacher Carlos Fuentealba was killed during a union demonstration in Neuquén. He immediately backed out of his pact with Sobisch and remained neutral during the national election, which was won by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Front for Victory (FPV). In February 2007, <mask> announced that he would run again for mayor of Buenos Aires, heading the PRO slate with Gabriela Michetti. In the 2 June 2007 first round, he received 45.6 percent of the vote and defeated government-backed Daniel Filmus (who received 23.8 percent of the vote); incumbent Jorge Telerman finished third. In the 24 June runoff election, <mask> defeated Filmus with 60.96 percent of the vote. For the 2009 midterm elections, he allied with Francisco de Narváez and Felipe Solá. The alliance was successful; De Narvaez defeated former president Néstor Kirchner in Buenos Aires Province and Gabriela Michetti won the city election.With this defeat, the Kirchners lost their majority in both chambers of the Congress. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, whose public image was good after the death and state funeral of Néstor Kirchner in late 2010, ran for re-election. <mask>, who was considered a likely candidate for the opposition, ran for re-election as mayor instead. He won the first round on 10 July 2011 with 47.08 percent of the vote against Filmus's 27.78 percent, and then the 31 July runoff against Filmus with 64.25 percent of the vote. Buenos Aires administration

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A gay couple, José María Di Bello and Alex Freyre, started a judicial case so that they could get married in Buenos Aires. They challenged articles 172 and 188 of the civil code, which


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2015 Argentine general election

<mask> ran for president of Argentina in 2015. With President Cristina Kirchner unable to run, early opinion polls indicated a close three-way race between <mask>, Kirchnerite governor Daniel Scioli and Tigre mayor Sergio Massa.Other minor parties, such as the Radical Civic Union (UCR), the Civic Coalition (CC) and some socialist parties, made a political coalition, the Broad Front UNEN. This coalition disbanded before the elections, and the UCR and CC made a coalition with the PRO, named Cambiemos (). <mask> supported Horacio Rodríguez Larreta against Gabriela Michetti in the PRO primary elections for mayor of Buenos Aires. Larreta won the primary and general

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texts: elections, and Michetti was selected as <mask>'s vice-presidential candidate. María Eugenia Vidal, <mask>'s deputy mayor, ran on the Cambiemos ticket for governor of Buenos Aires Province, a populous province which was strategic to the elections. <mask> and Massa negotiated a coalition against Kirchnerism, which would have seen Massa withdraw from the presidential race to run for governor of Buenos Aires on the Cambiemos ticket. <mask> declined this proposal, kept Vidal as the party's candidate for governor, and Massa ran for president with his own party.<mask>, Carrió and Ernesto Sanz ran in the primary elections, which <mask> won. Pre-election polls indicated that Scioli would win by a wide margin, possibly avoiding a ballotage. The final results showed Scioli finishing first with 37.08 percent, just ahead of <mask>'s 34.15 percent, leading to a ballotage round on 22 November. Massa finished third with 21 percent of the vote, and the other two candidates contended for his voters. Scioli and <mask> were polarized about the presidency of Cristina Kirchner; Scioli wanted to keep most Kirchnerite policies, and <mask> wanted to change them. In the legislative elections, the Front for Victory (FPV) lost its majority in the Chamber of Deputies but kept it in the Senate. Scioli did not participate in the first presidential debate, which was held with the other five candidates.When the ballotage was confirmed, <mask> agreed to a debate with Scioli. Two debates were planned: one by the Argentina Debate NGO and another by TV news channel Todo Noticias. <mask> preferred a single debate, and opted for the one organized by Argentina Debate. He criticized Scioli for negative campaigning by the FPV. Several politicians and FPV institutions had issued warnings

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 about what might happen if <mask> were elected president. According to Scioli, the campaign was intended to encourage public awareness. It was rumored that the campaign might have been suggested by Brazilian political consultant João Santana, who had organized a similar campaign in Brazil during the ballotage of Dilma Rousseff and Aécio Neves in the 2014 Brazilian general election.The ballotage was held on 22 November. Scioli conceded with 70 percent of the votes counted and provisional results of 53 and 47 percent. The gap between the candidates slowly narrowed over the next few hours, giving <mask> a smaller margin of victory than most exit polls suggested. His election ended a dozen years of Kirchnerism in Argentina. For The Economist, this was the "end of populism." <mask>'s victory could transform his country and the region. <mask> owed his victory to Córdoba, the second-largest province, swinging dramatically to support him; he carried the province by over 930,000 votes in the second round, far exceeding his nationwide margin of 680,600 votes.Buenos Aires also swung hard to <mask>, giving its mayor over 64 percent of the vote in the second round. 2019 Argentine general election

On 11 August 2019, <mask> scored the primary election which gave him renomination as his party's candidate in the 2019 general election. He was renominated, but scored only 32%, compared to 47% to populist Peronist Alberto Fernández and his running mate, two-term former president Cristina Kirchner, in their primary for Frente de Todos. In the 27 October general election, Fernández won the presidency by attaining 48.1% of the vote to <mask>'s 40.4%, exceeding the threshold required to win without the need for a ballotage. Alberto Fernández emerged from an electrifying


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Inauguration

<mask> announced his cabinet on 25 November 2015, about two weeks before he was due to take office. The presidential transition was difficult.<mask> and Kirchner met briefly; she provided no help to the new administration, and spoke only about the inauguration ceremony. They disagreed about its location; Kirchner wanted it to take place at the Palace of the Argentine National Congress, and <mask> favoured the White Hall of the Casa Rosada. Plans for violence against Macri supporters near the Plaza during the inauguration were rumoured, and it was unclear who would control the police during the ceremony. Judge María Servini de Cubría ruled that Kirchner's term of office ended at midnight on the morning of 10 December, and provisional Senate president Federico Pinedo was in charge of the executive branch for the 12 hours between the end of Kirchner's term and <mask>'s swearing-in. Kirchner left Buenos Aires that day to attend the inauguration of sister-in-law Alicia Kirchner as governor of Santa Cruz Province. <mask> took office on 10 December. He took the oath of office at the National Congress of Argentina after Vice President Gabriela Michetti.<mask> delivered a 27-minute speech pledging "support for an independent judiciary, to fight corruption and drug trafficking, the internal union of Argentina, universal social protection, a 21st-century style of education and for everyone to have a roof, water and sewer" and greeted his electoral rivals. He later went to the Casa Rosada and received the presidential sash in the White Hall from Senate President Federico Pinedo, accompanied by

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<mask> began his presidency with economic difficulties carried over from previous governments.The Central Bank of Argentina's reserves were depleted; inflation was over 30 percent, although the widely discredited National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC) provided a lower figure. The country had the highest tax rates in its history, but the government budget balance had an eight-percent deficit. There had been a sovereign default since 2001, and a conflict existed with hedge funds; tight currency controls had been in place since 2011. Since Argentina is a developing country, a global drop in commodity prices reduced trade revenue. One of Macri's first economic policies was the removal of currency controls, allowing Argentines to freely buy and sell foreign currencies. Argentina has had a floating exchange rate since then, with intervention from the Central Bank, and the

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texts: Argentine peso was devalued by 30 percent. Another early policy was the removal of export quotas and tariffs on corn and wheat.Tariffs on soybeans, the most lucrative Argentine export, were reduced from 35 to 30 percent. <mask> wanted to negotiate with holdouts and end the default to return to the international capital markets and strengthen the national economy. Argentina offered to pay $6.5 billion to settle lawsuits on 5 February 2016, requesting that the prior ruling on its payments be lifted. Although Cambiemos did not have a majority in either house of Congress, the bill was approved in March and Argentina faced a court hearing in New York on 13 April. The court upheld judge Thomas P. Griesa's ruling, allowing Argentina to pay the 2005 and 2010 bondholders to whom it was still in default. The payment, made with a bond sale, was reportedly the end of the Argentine default, which had begun in 2001. On 19 January 2016, <mask> attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with opposition figure Sergio Massa and part of his cabinet, in a search for investors.He was one of the best-known figures at the meeting, along with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and US vice president Joe Biden. It was the first time since 2003 that Argentina had participated in the forum. During Macri's first year, economic recovery was slow. Unemployment and inflation remained high and growth did not come as expected. Kirchner's Careful Pricing price-control program, which benefited small and medium-sized enterprises, was kept with a revision of its included products. The government began several public-works projects to stimulate the economy and help the construction sector. Political intervention in the INDEC figures ended, and the International Monetary


texts: Fund (IMF) declared in November 2016 that Argentine statistics were again in accordance with international standards.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimated that Argentina would emerge from recession in 2017 or 2018, and lowered its country risk classification from seven points to six. Inflation continued to be a problem, with a rate of 25% in 2017, second only to Venezuela in South America and the highest rate in the G20. On 28 December, the Central Bank of Argentina together with the Treasury announced a change of the inflation target. This was seen by the market as a relaxation of the monetary policy. They attempted to reduce it to 15%, but these efforts failed. Between 2017 and 2018 the government cut import tariffs on capital goods and eliminated tariffs on the importation of technology products to encourage investment. The deregulation area allowed the incorporation of low cost airlines, such as JetSmart, Norwegian and Flybondi.The economy worsened in 2018: inflation remained high, due in part to a trade deficit. The production of soy, the country's main export, had been reduced by a drought which was among the worst natural disasters in the world that year. The US Federal Reserve increased its interest rates, which raised the price of the US dollar against other currencies. The Central Bank of Argentina increased the interest rate to 60 percent, but could not hold off inflation. Macri announced on 8 May that Argentina would seek a loan from the IMF. The initial loan was US$50bn. Federico Sturzenegger, president of the Central Bank, resigned a week later.<mask> replaced him with Luis Caputo, and merged the ministries of treasury and finances into a single ministry led by Nicolás Dujovne. The US–Turkey


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Prices for public utilities, such as electricity, gas and water, were fixed in 2002 by president Eduardo Duhalde during the 1998–2002 Argentine great depression.The Kirchners kept them fixed, and the state subsidized them to compensate for inflation, which rose by nearly 700 percent during their government. Investment in the utility sectors decreased, and generation and distribution networks deteriorated. Argentina lost its self-sufficiency, and went from an energy exporter to an importer. The cost of energy imports increased the trade deficit and the inflation rate, and power outages became frequent. The Kirchners left the grid on the brink of collapse, while their lavish subsidies were a large factor in the fiscal deficit that harmed the overall economy. In 2016, Minister Juan José Aranguren arranged the removal of state subsidies for electricity, gas and water, which caused a huge increase in prices for those utilities. The increases were met with protests in several cities.Because mandatory public hearings had not been held on the price increases, these were annulled by the courts. The Supreme Court upheld a temporary halt of the price increase for residential customers in September 2016. Seeking to increase energy


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Human rights organizations had aligned themselves with the governments of both Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, even in topics unrelated to human rights, and often worked as their spokesmen.They continued this role after 2015, when <mask> defeated the Kirchnerite candidate in the presidential elections, which undermined the legitimacy of the organizations in Argentine society. <mask> maintained a distant relation with those organizations, and did not seek their support, but did not openly confront them. They kept their funding and the institutions under their control, and the trials of military personnel for crimes in the Dirty War (1974–1983) continued. Nevertheless, the organizations continued their opposition to <mask>. His cabinet was divided on an approach to take: whether to directly confront the organizations and remove their state financing, or to take an active role in their activities and replace their leaders with less politically motivated figures. The general policy, however, was to ignore the disputes and focus the activities of the government towards more pressing matters, such as the economy. The government modified the public holiday for the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, which makes reference to the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, to allow it to be celebrated on a movable date.This ruling was met with

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The #NiUnaMenos movement, which advanced a feminist agenda in Argentina since 2015, stayed strong during the <mask> presidency. <mask> said during the 2018 opening of the National Congress that, although he was anti-abortion, he wanted the Congress to have an abortion debate and discuss a bill for a new abortion law. As of 2018, abortion was only legally allowed for rapes and cases that may threaten the mother's health. The feminist movement organized several demonstrations in the following months, in support of the voluntary termination of pregnancy abortion bill that was proposed in Congress. The proposal, however, became highly polarizing.The country has a strong conservative catholic population, particularly in the less-populated provinces, who rejected the bill. This polarization was unrelated to the political polarization of the country, and the legislators of both Cambiemos and the Justicialist Party (PJ) were divided on the vote. The bill was approved by the chamber of deputies in June, but opposition became more organized after its approval and the Senate rejected the bill, by 38 to 31 votes. In December 2017, police officer Luis Chocobar killed a fleeing man who had stabbed an American tourist in La Boca, Buenos Aires. <mask> hosted him in early 2018 and hailed him as a hero. His administration would later enact the "Chocobar doctrine", broadening the rights of police officer to exercise lethal force when responding to criminal cases. Foreign relations

During <mask>'s presidency, Argentina's foreign relations shifted substantially from those under Kirchner.He immediately proposed action against Nicolás Maduro in


texts: Venezuela for human-rights abuses and to remove that country from Mercosur. This shift was part of a change in the Latin American pink tide. The other countries in the bloc also opposed Maduro's socialist government, and prevented Venezuela from taking the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur. The bloc sought a trade and cooperation agreement with the European Union and closer ties with the Pacific Alliance. <mask> agreed with Brazilian president Michel Temer to guarantee free trade between their countries. <mask> and Temer increased their interest in better trade relations with Mexico, the second-largest economy in Latin America, after mexican-american relations started to turn sour under the Trump administration. Argentina and Venezuela had troubled relations at the time.The 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election was considered illegal by Argentina, which does not acknowledge the legislative body established by it. <mask> also removed the Order of the Liberator General San Martín award from Maduro. Argentina signed the Declaration of Lima, which established the Lima Group, a supranational body of countries that consider Venezuela to be under a dictatorship and want to restore its democracy. Maduro was re-elected in the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election and took office for a new term on 10 January 2019. This started the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, as many countries believed that Maduro had committed electoral fraud. Argentina and Brazil, under the newly elected Jair Bolsonaro, refused to acknowledge Maduro as a legitimate ruler. They instead acknowledged Juan Guaidó, who was appointed president of Venezuela by the National Assembly.Furthermore, during the Venezuelan uprising attempt of April 2019, <mask> supported anti-Maduro


texts: military forces and reitarated his position of recognizing Guaidó as legitimate President of Venezuela. <mask> also shifted Argentina's relations with the United States. During a visit in 2016, president Barack Obama praised him: "I'm impressed because he has moved rapidly on so many of the reforms that he promised, to create more sustainable and inclusive economic growth, to reconnect Argentina with the global economy and the world community". Obama announced that the US would declassify its military and intelligence records of the 1970s Dirty War. Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra supported Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election, which was won by Republican Donald Trump. <mask> tried to remain in good terms with the US after the Trump was elected president. In 2019, Trump declassified more than 5,600 US documents about the Dirty War.<mask> maintained the Argentine claim in the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute. However, he took a less-confrontational stance towards the United Kingdom and allowed more flights between Argentina and the islands. Relations between Argentina and the UK improved greatly, but both Argentine and the United Kingdom maintain their respective claim on the islands. <mask> changed Argentina's position on conflicts in the Middle East. During <mask>'s first week in office, he voided the memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran, which would have established a joint investigation of the 1994 AMIA bombing, a terrorist attack on a Jewish organization for which Argentina had blamed Hezbollah and Iran. The memorandum had been ruled unconstitutional by the judiciary, a ruling which was appealed during Kirchner's presidency. <mask> withdrew the appeal, upholding the original ruling.He distanced


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The 2017 Argentine legislative election renewed a third of the seats in the Senate and half in the chamber of deputies. The election was considered a referendum on the presidency of <mask> up to that point.Kirchner, leader of the opposition, ran for senator for the populous Buenos Aires province. She left the PJ to avoid the primary elections and created a new party, Citizen's Unity. Esteban Bullrich, minister of education, was the candidate of Cambiemos in the district. Kirchner and Bullrich had a close tie in the primary election, and Kirchner prevailed by just 0.21 percent of the vote. The electoral campaign, however, was largely ignored, as the media was focused on the ongoing controversy over the disappearance of Santiago Maldonado (see below). Kirchner used the case in her political campaign, stating that Maldonado was the victim of a forced disappearance, similar to those of the Dirty War. Maldonado was


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<mask> was born in Tandil in the province of Buenos Aires, the son of Italian-born tycoon Francesco "Franco<mask> (owner of the Philco affiliate in Argentina) and Alicia Blanco-Villegas Cinque. The family moved to Buenos Aires a short time later, and kept their houses in Tandil as vacation properties. His father, and his uncle Jorge Blanco Villegas, influenced <mask> to become a businessman, and Franco expected his son to succeed him as leader of his firms. <mask> preferred his uncle's company to constant scrutiny by his father. He was educated at Colegio Cardenal Newman, and received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.At this time <mask> became interested in neoliberalism and joined the now-defunct Union of the Democratic Centre and a think tank led by former minister Álvaro Alsogaray. In 1985, he briefly attended Columbia Business School, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Universidad del CEMA in Buenos Aires. <mask>'s professional experience began at SIDECO Americana, a construction company which was part of his father's Socma Group (Sociedad Macri) holding company, where he worked for three years as a junior analyst and became a senior analyst. In 1984, he worked in the credit department of Citibank Argentina in Buenos Aires. <mask> joined Socma Group the same year, and became its general manager in 1985. In 1992, he became vice

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Sergio Burstein was the leader of a group of people whose relatives died in the AMIA bombing. <mask> was charged in a 2010 wiretapping case, suspected of spying on Burstein and his brother-in-law Néstor Daniel Leonardo. <mask> denied the charges. Judge Norberto Oyarbide indicted him, and Federal Chamber members Eduardo Farah, Eduardo Freiler and Jorge Ballestero confirmed the indictment.It was suspected at the time that <mask> had organized a clandestine spy network with the aid of Jorge Alberto Palacios

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In 2016, the Panama Papers were leaked, comprising 11.5 million documents detailing offshore entities owned by people from many countries.<mask> was listed as a director of Fleg Trading from 1998 to 2009. He did not declare his involvement in 2007, when he became mayor, or in 2015, when he became president. Prosecutor Federico Delgado asked the judiciary to determine if <mask> "maliciously failed to complete his tax declaration". <mask> argued that he did not report his involvement because he was not a stakeholder and did not receive money from it. The company was established by his father to run a failed Brazilian business. <mask> owns other foreign accounts with properly-disclosed transactions, and said that he would file a judicial "declaration of certainty" to affirm his statements. A similar company, Kagemusha, was discovered several months later.It was established in 1981 by <mask>, with his then-22-year-old son as its vice president. On 20 September 2017, civil judge Andrés Fraga determined that, in Fleg Trading Ltd, <mask> <mask> accepted the position of director for the sole and only effect of designating a replacement and

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Gerardo Morales of the UCR was elected governor of Jujuy Province in the 2015 elections. Although the UCR was part of Cambiemos in federal politics, it was allied with Sergio Massa in the province. Morales was the first non-Peronist governor in the province since 1983. He opposed activist Milagro Sala, accusing her of leading a government parallel to that of Eduardo Fellner.According to Morales, Sala led a violent and coercive group and children were forced to join her party to attend school. When he was elected governor, Morales ordered all organizations to operate though banks instead of on a cash basis to retain their legal standing. Sala began a protest in front of the government plaza, but most of her supporters accepted Morales's edict. Prosecutor Viviana Montiel asked local judge Raúl Gutiérrez to order Sala's arrest for causing a disturbance and encouraging crime. Gutiérrez agreed, and Sala was arrested on 16 January 2016. After Sala's arrest, she was charged with embezzlement in connection with housing construction. Although her initial charges were dropped, she remained in jail on the later ones.The case generated international criticism, and the United Nations and the Organization of American States requested her release. <mask> said that the case was under provincial, not federal, jurisdiction. Amnesty International considers "that

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The Benetton Group has territories at the Chubut Province, and the Mapuche indigenous people claim that those territories belonged to them. Facundo Jones Huala, from the Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche group, was jailed because of violent protests, and a group of eight people organized a picketing protest at the National Route 40, advocating for his liberation. The road was completely blocked by stones, trees and fire.Judge Guido Otranto instructed the Argentine National Gendarmerie (GNA) to clear the blockade and disperse the protesters. The protesters reacted violently, then escaped from the GNA. Some of them swam across the nearby Chubut River and others hid in the adjacent forest. One of those protesters was Santiago Maldonado, and his whereabouts were unknown after the incident. Kirchnerist and human-rights organizations considered that Maldonado was a victim of a forced disappearance, and posited that he could be the first victim of a wider plan of political repression. Other theories were proposed during the investigation: that he escaped to Chile, that he was hiding, or that he had been murdered some days before in an unrelated crime and was never in the protest at all (the protesters wore hoods). It was also proposed that he could have drowned, but the Mapuches held control of the area and impeded


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On 15 November 2017, the submarine ARA San Juan (S-42) went missing. There were several irregularities both in the search process and in the communication with the families of those affected by the accident. The families started a judiciary process to establish the chain of responsibilities in the process. In a recent hearing, one of the accused stated that the government knew the location of the submarine and found it in 5 December 2017, but kept the finding secret until a year after, when on 16 November 2018, was communicated that the submarine was found.2019 Bolivian political crisis
During the last days of his tenure as President, allegations of electoral fraud and subsequent protests occurred in Bolivia, leading to the 2019 Bolivian political crisis. This caused President Evo Morales to resign and the military and police of Bolivia clashed with pro-Morales protesters, resulting in dozens of deaths from the engagement. The government of <mask> immediately recognized the legitimacy of the interim presidency of Jeanine Áñez and denied Morales asylum and also blocked Argentine air space for Morales's airplane to fly over Argentina in the bid to escape Bolivia to seek asylum in Mexico. In July 2021, Bolivian Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta accused the <mask>'s government of providing weaponry to the Bolivian security forces


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<mask> (born 9 December 1995) is an Italian professional basketball player for Baskonia of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He plays at the small forward position. Youth career
Fontecchio participated in an array of youth tournaments:
2011 Jordan Brand Classic International Tour game in London (not to be confused with the International Game of the same tournament)
2012 Albert Schweitzer Tournament
2012 Basketball Without Borders Europe
2012-13 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament Rome tournament. Besides playing for Italy (see International career), he notably won the Italian Under 17 championship in 2011-12 and the Under 19 championship the same season and in 2012-13, all for Virtus Bologna. Professional career
<mask> was promoted from the Virtus U19 to the senior side in 2012-13, alternating between the two during the season. He played a symbolic minute in LBA on 4 November 2011 before posting his first genuine first division stat sheet, missing his five shots for three rebounds and a steal, on 30 December. After an active youth career (see Youth career) and a professional debut at only 17, there was talk of him going to the United States to play high school and later on College basketball, however he stayed loyal to Virtus and signed a 5-year professional contract with the team in June 2013, his parents had to be present as he was still a minor at the time.After twice being selected to take part in the league All Star Game (2014 and 2015), he was voted Best Player Under 22 in May 2015. That season would also see his first participation in the playoffs, scoring 10.3 points and grabbing 3.3 rebounds per game as Virtus were swept by title holders Olimpia Milano. Fontecchio declared for

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Fontecchio has played for the under age teams of Italy since turning up for the U16's in the 2011 European Championship (10th place). Since then, he was involved with the U18's in the 2012 European Championship (7th place) and 2013 European Championship (10th place, best scorer for Italy) and the U20's in the 2014 European Championship (10th place). Fontecchio participated to the 2020 Summer Olympics basketball tournament with Italy, reaching the quarterfinals. He was the leading scorer in Italy's 82–92 win over Germany, scoring 20 points, also grabbing 4 rebounds, dishing out 2 assists and stealing 3 balls. He was also Italy's top performer in this game, with a 21 efficiency rate. He was again the leading scorer in Italy's 83–86 loss to eventual bronze medalist Australia, with 22 points.In the third and last game of their group stage, Italy defeated Nigeria 80–71, and


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 Fontecchio tied with Pajola for assists leader. Italy lost 75–84 to eventual silver medalist France in quarterfinals. In this game, Fontecchio was the leading scorer with 23 points. By the end of the tournament he was ranked among the players who "should be on NBA radars". Player profile
Fontecchio is a good sized small forward that has in the past played as a Shooting guard, he has a solid though developing all-round game and is active off the ball. More of a threat from outside the paint, where he can unleash his technically sound if inconsistent jump shot, he struggles more on post play due to a lack of upper body strength. Despite this, he is quite athletic, particularly in leg strength and can run the lanes well in offense or use his length to get past his defender, however he doesn't use these assets enough in rebounding.On the defensive end he always puts in the effort, not afraid the mark the opposition's star, he can stay in front of smaller, quicker players with his length but needs to be more aggressive. All in all he is a promising player at only 19 and has the work ethic and physical attributes to succeed despite being far from a finished product as of 2015. Personal life
He comes from a sporting family, his mother Malì Pomilio played for Italy and won two European titles for AS Vicenza in basketball, he cites her as an influence in his career choice. His father Daniele  was a professional hurdler whilst  his grandfather was also a basketball player, as is his older brother Luca who has played in the lower divisions after also coming through the youth ranks of Virtus. Fontecchio moved to Bologna from his native Pescara at the age of 14, living in shared accommodation with other Virtus youth


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<mask> (born November 16, 1954) is an American independent film director whose films include Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Grace of My Heart. <mask> has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate Kurt Voss and has also worked as a television director. <mask>' films have been shown at the Cannes International Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant as well as a Peabody Award. Early life
<mask> was born in Ashland, Kentucky, to mother Alberta "Rachel" <mask> (née Steed) and father Robert "Bob" <mask>. She has four sisters, one of whom, <mask>, starred in her first film, Border Radio. Her paternal side has ancestry that traces back to the Southern Hatfield family and, more distantly, to George Washington's spy, Caleb Brewster, while her maternal side includes another Washington spy, Abraham Woodhull.When <mask> was 4 years old, her father abandoned the family. <mask>' mother and father were divorced when she was 5. At age 12, she was gang raped by three boys at a party in Cape Canaveral, Florida, an event that influenced several of her films. After her mother moved her and her sisters to Los Angeles, <mask> suffered a mental breakdown at the age of 15 and was hospitalized. When she came out of the psychiatric ward, she was placed into foster care but ran away. She hitchhiked across the country, at one point ending up in jail. After turning 17, <mask> dropped out of her Los Angeles high school and

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 moved back to Kentucky.She later moved to London with the man who fathered her first child. In her early 20s, <mask> moved back to Los Angeles with her daughter and attended junior college, Los Angeles Valley College, while working odd jobs. Due to constant relocation as a child, <mask> had not had a steady education. She said that growing up, most of her time was spent watching TV and going to movie theaters. Inspired by the films of Wim Wenders and other filmmakers, <mask> applied to UCLA Film School. During her time at UCLA, <mask> produced her first sound film. Wenders attended the screening.In 1986, <mask> got her B.A. in Motion Picture-Television from
University of California Los Angeles. Career

Film
In 1986, <mask> won a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for a script called Lost Highway that she wrote about her father. She said that after writing the script she shared it with her father, and was able to have a relationship with him again. <mask>' first film, the punk music-heavy Border Radio, was co-written and co-directed with Kurt Voss and Dean Lent and was made while they were at UCLA. It was nominated for Best Feature of 1988 by the Independent Feature Project for Best First Feature. The film told the story of three musicians who stole money owed to them from a job and then fled to Mexico.The story is set amid the Los Angeles punk-rock scene of the 1980s. With a $2,000 contribution from actor Vic Tayback and loans from Voss's parents to fund the film, the filmmakers made up for the

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texts: small budget by using local locations and casting performers they knew. For the starring role, they cast <mask>' sister, Luanna <mask>, and musician Chris D., as the leading man, as well as <mask>' daughter, <mask>, who played Luanna's daughter in the film. Violating UCLA policy, the filmmakers cut the film at night in the school's editing bays, while <mask>' two young daughters slept on the floor. In 2007, Border Radio was given a special release on DVD as part of the Criterion Collection and was lauded as groundbreaking independent cinema. <mask>' second feature, the 1992 film Gas Food Lodging, earned her a New York Film Critics Circle Award and National Society of Film Critics honors for Best New Director; and nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Director. Actress Fairuza Balk won a Spirit Award for her role in the film.The film also won the Deauville Film Festival Critics Award and was also nominated for the Golden Bear at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. Gas Food Lodging is a coming-of-age story about a truck stop waitress and her two daughters, three vibrant, restless women in an isolated Western town. The screenplay was loosely adapted by <mask> from the novel Don't Look and It Won't Hurt by Richard Peck. Her next film, Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life), was about girl gangs in the poor Hispanic Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, where <mask> lived. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993, and saw wide release in 1994. The

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 Kickstarter campaign. In 2013, <mask> released the Lifetime-produced TV movie Ring of Fire, a June Carter Cash biopic that featured the musician Jewel.The film was inspired by John Carter Cash's book, Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash. Television
<mask> began directing shows for broadcast and cable television in 1999, including several episodes in the second and third seasons of Sex and the City, as well as episodes of Grosse Pointe, Cold Case, The L Word, Men In Trees, The Mentalist, and What About Brian? In 2011, she directed an episode of the John Wells production, Southland, which involved a car chase scene. <mask> directed an episode of Turn: Washington's Spies, which was especially interesting to her because she has distant relatives on both sides of her family who were spies for George Washington. Other work
In 2013, <mask> interviewed 94-year-old actress and Hollywood legend Marge Champion, who appeared at a 2013 Hollywood film festival screening of 1968 cult film The Swimmer, which starred Burt Lancaster. The interview was featured among behind-the-scenes supplementary material on a 2014 Blu-ray/DVD release of the film by Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars Blu-ray/DVD restoration of the film. <mask> and her musician daughter, <mask>, started the Don't Knock the Rock Film and Music Festival in 2003 in Los Angeles.In 2006, she appeared in the road-trip documentary Wanderlust. <mask> has also contributed to the web series Trailers from Hell. In 2013, <mask>

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 Quanah Parker project at AMC Networks with writer Terry Graham

Long-term associations
<mask> counts filmmaker Wim Wenders as a mentor. She started as a fan, sending him letters and music, and Wenders eventually responded. <mask> said that she created a faux grant that she "won" so that she and at least one other friend could study under Wenders on location for his film Paris, Texas.They have been friends for over 30 years. Teaching
In 2003, <mask> became a Distinguished Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she teaches in the Film And Media Studies Department one quarter each year. She has taught courses on topics including autobiographic writing, rock and roll films, and music supervision. Awards
 1986: Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting – Lost Highway
 1986: Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards – Lost Highway
 1988: Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Feature – Border Radio
 1992: New York Film Critics Circle for Best New Director – Gas Food Lodging
 1992: National Society of Film Critics for Best New Director – Gas Food Lodging
 1992: Independent Spirit Awards for Best Screenplay nomination – Gas Food Lodging
 1992: Independent Spirit Awards for Best Director nomination – Gas Food Lodging
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 2002: Spirit of Silver Lake Award from the Silver Lake Film Festival
 2002: Peabody Award for distinguished achievement and meritorious service – Things Behind the Sun
 2013: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing of a Drama nomination – Ring of Fire

Personal life
<mask> has three children. Her two daughters are <mask>, a musician and music supervisor, and <mask>. Her son, Ruben Goodbear <mask>, was fostered (and eventually adopted) by the <mask> Rogers, who appeared in Mi Vida Loca. Tiffany was named after the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.Filmography

Film

Television
 1999: Sex and the City – Director, 4 episodes: "The Caste System," "La Donleur Exquise," "Drama Queen," "The Big Time"
 2000: Grosse Pointe – Director, 2 episodes: "Boys on the Side," "Star Wars"
 2004: Cold Case – Director, 1 episode: "Volunteers"
 2006: The L Word – Director, 1 episode: "Last Dance"
 2006: Men in Trees – Director, 1 episode: "Power Shift"
 2006: What About Brian – Director, 2 episodes: "What About First Steps," "What About the True Confessions?" 2011: SouthLAnd – Director, 2 episodes: "Sideways," "Fallout"
 2013: The Mentalist – Director, 1 episode: "The Red Barn"
 2014: Orange Is the New Black – Director, 1 episode: "You Also Have a Pizza"
 2014: Gang Related – Director, 1 episode: "Invierno Cayó"
 2014: The Divide – Director, 1 episode: "Facts Are the Enemy"
 2014-2015: Murder in the First – Director, 4 episodes: "Pants on Fire,"

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 2015: TURN: Washington's Spies – Director, 1 episode: "False Flag"
 2015: Proof – Director, 1 episode: "Memento Vivere"
 2017: Time After Time –  Director, 1 episode: "Suitcases of Memories"
 2017: Riverdale – Director, 2 episodes: "Chapter Seven: In a Lonely Place", "Chapter Fifteen: Nighthawks"
 2017: Graves – Director, 1 episode "The Opposite of People"
 2018: Sorry for Your Loss – Director, 1 episode: "Visitor"
 2019: Mayans MC – Director, 1 episode: “Kukuklan”

Works and publications
 Anders, Allison. "On Claudia Weill's film 'Girlfriends.'" Sight & Sound. Vol. 25 (10). London: British Film Institute, October 2015.References

Further reading

Printed material
 <mask>, <mask>, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino. "Strange Brew." Four Rooms: Four Friends Telling Four Stories Making One Film. London: Faber and Faber, 1996. Roman, Shari. "<mask>." Digital Babylon: Hollywood, Indiewood & Dogme 95.Hollywood: Lone Eagle, 2001. pp. 142–144. White-Stanley, Debra. 2003. ""God Give Me Strength": The Melodramatic Sound Tracks of Director <mask>". Velvet Light Trap. 51, no.1: pp. 54–66. Murphy, J. J. "Shifting Goals and Plotlines in Gas Food Lodging." Me and You and Memento and Fargo How Independent Screenplays Work. New York: Continuum, 2007. Campbell, Neil."The Idioms of Living: Donna Deitch and <mask>." Post-Westerns Cinema, Region, West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. pp. 272–304. Silverstein,

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 Melissa. "On 'Gas Food Lodging.'" Sight & Sound.Vol. 25 (10). London: British Film Institute, October 2015. Audio visual material
 Mori, Mark, and Alec Baldwin. "<mask>; David O Russell." Raw Footage. Pt.6. Santa Monica, CA: Direct Cinema Ltd, 2008. Video. Original air date: 1996. Calabrese, Peter, Tamara Gould, Jack Walsh, Xandra Castleton, Alexis Lezin, Danny L. McGuire, Gregory Nava, <mask>, and Michael Fox. Independent View. San Francisco, CA: KQED, 2001.Video. DiPersio, Vince, Adam Bardach, Alan Smithee, Tony Kahn, William Hooke, Michael H. Amundson, Steve Audette, and Michael Bloecher. "The Monster That Ate Hollywood." Frontline. PBS. Season 19, Episode 18. 2015.Video. Original air date: November 22, 2001. Maslin, Janet, John Waters, <mask>, Hal Hartley, David O. Russell. Four Independents That Turned the Tide. 2006. Video. Videotaped at the BAMcafe, Brooklyn, NY, as part of the Sundance Institute at BAM season, May 21, 2006.External links

  – Blitter Baroque: workbook y public diary de <mask>
  – Gretas Records by <mask>

1954 births
American women film directors
American women screenwriters
Screenwriters from California
American television directors
American women television directors
Living people
MacArthur Fellows
People from Boyd County, Kentucky
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<mask> (born 1 December 1946) is a French musicologist, emeritus professor at the University Paris Sorbonne 4. Biography
In addition to her musical studies (including piano and conducting at the  and the Schola Cantorum de Paris, <mask> graduated from the university with a degree in literature and Italian, and in 1973 she received a doctorate with a thesis on the piano in French literature. Since 1971, she has been teaching at the University of Paris-Sorbonne where she was appointed professor of history of music in 1981. A producer at TF1 and Radio France (France Culture and France Musiques, 1972–1981), she also established the series "Musique-Musicologie" at the Honoré Champion publishing house in 1975, the Revue internationale de musique française (-Champion, 1980–1997), the "Séminaire Interarts de Paris" (1998) and the  of the University Paris-Sorbonne (1989–2014), as well as the eponymous publishing house (1991–2015). She has been an adviser for artistic training and cultural projects to the Scientific and Technical Mission of the Ministry of Research and has represented Higher Education at the Interdepartmental Mission for the Development of Arts Education (1994–1998). In 2004, she was elected a correspondent at the Académie des beaux-arts. Publications

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1973: Le piano dans la littérature française des origines

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 jusqu'en 1900, Lille, Atelier de reproduction des thèses, 1975 (diffusion Honoré Champion) .Thèse d'État under the direction of Jacques Chailley (Paris 4). Histoire, lecture, réduction, commentaire, Honoré Champion, 1/1977, 2/1982 (with S. Gut)
 La musique de chambre en France de 1870 à 1918, Honoré Champion (1/1978, 2/1986) (with S. Gut)
 Le chant grégorien. Historique et pratique, Honoré Champion (1/1981, 5/1993) (with A. Madrignac)
1982: Musique et musicologie dans les universités françaises, Honoré Champion (with M. Delahaye)
2001: Johann Svendsen. Karneval in Paris, F. Noetzel (with H. Herrestahl)
2003: Mémoires de Maîtrise des universités françaises, OMF, (with N. Cousin)
2003: Berlioz, hier et aujourd’hui, L’Harmattan, (with C. Rudent)

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1976: Ravel au XXe siècle, CNRS
1983: L'éducation musicale en France, PUPS
1984: Sur les traces de Frédéric Chopin, Honoré Champion
1987: Le théâtre lyrique français contemporain, Honoré Champion
1990: L'interprétation de Chopin en France, Honoré Champion
1991: La musique à l'université. Bilans et perspectives, OMF
1994: Analyse musicale et perception, OMF (with J.-P. Mialaret)
1996: Musique et style. Méthodes et concepts, OMF
1996: Grieg et Paris: romantisme, symbolisme et modernisme musical franco-norvégien, Presse de l'Université de Caen (with H.


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1999: Musiques d’Orphée, PUF (with P. Brunel)
1999: Pianistes virtuoses à Paris autour de Frédéric Chopin, Warsow (with I. Poniatowska)
2000: Musiques et musiciens à Paris dans les années trente, Honoré Champion
2000: Musique et linguistique de spécialité, OMF
2001: Littérature et musique dans la France du XXe siècle, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg (with J.-L. Backès et Cl. Coste)
2002: La musique et l’imaginaire, OMF
2003: Les pratiques de concert, OMF (with J.-P. Mialaret)
2004: Analyse et contextualisation, OMF (with M. Battier)
2005: Polytonalité/Polymodalité, Histoire et actualité, OMF (with M. Fischer)
2006: L'universel et l'utopique.2014: Piano français des années 1870, OMF
2015: La musique à Paris en 1880, OMF
2015: Regards sur la presse musicale française, XIXe-XXIe s, OMF
2016: Le wagnérisme dans tous ses états, 1913-2013, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, (with C. Leblanc)

External links
 <mask> <mask> on IREMUS
 <mask> <mask> on Thèses
 OPÉRA ET SOCIÉTÉ: BILANS ET PERSPECTIVES by <mask> <mask>
 Université de Paris-Sorbonne CV des enseignants
 Académie des beaux-arts
 <mask> <mask> on Canal Académie
 Danièle <mask> (Paris-Sorbonne/OMF) - Introduction on YouTube

1946 births
20th-century French musicologists
21st-century French musicologists
French radio producers
Living people
Paris-Sorbonne

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