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<mask>  (born 3 September 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published seven books: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000); Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005); Outliers: The Story of Success (2008); What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009), a collection of his journalism; David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (2013); Talking To Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (2019) and The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (2021). His first five books were on The New York Times Best Seller list. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries. <mask>'s writings often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences, like sociology and psychology, and make frequent and extended use of academic work. <mask> was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2011.Early life
<mask> was born in Fareham, Hampshire, England. His mother is Joyce (née Nation) <mask>, a Jamaican psychotherapist. His father, <mask>, was a mathematics professor from Kent, England. Throughout his childhood, <mask> lived in rural Ontario Mennonite country, where he attended a Mennonite church. Research done by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed that one of <mask>'s maternal ancestors was a Jamaican free woman of colour (mixed black and white) who was a slaveowner. His great-great-great-grandmother was of Igbo ethnicity from Nigeria, West Africa. In the epilogue of his book Outliers he describes many lucky circumstances that came to his family over the course of several generations, contributing to his path towards success.<mask> has said that his mother is his role model as a writer. When he was six his family moved from Southampton to the Mennonite community of Elmira, Ontario, Canada. <mask>'s father noted

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 <mask> was an unusually single-minded and ambitious boy. When <mask> was 11, his father, who was a professor of mathematics and engineering at the University of Waterloo, allowed him to wander around the offices at his university, which stoked the boy's interest in reading and libraries. The University of Waterloo granted <mask> an honorary doctorate in 2007. In the spring of 1982, <mask> interned with the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in History from the Trinity College of University of Toronto, in 1984.Career
<mask>'s grades were not high enough for graduate school, so he decided to pursue advertising as a career. After being rejected by every advertising agency he applied to, he accepted a journalism position at conservative magazine The American Spectator and moved to Indiana. He subsequently wrote for Insight on the News, a conservative magazine owned by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. In 1987, <mask> began covering business and science for The Washington Post, where he worked until 1996. In a personal elucidation of the 10,000-hour rule he popularized in Outliers, <mask> notes, "I was a basket case at the beginning, and I felt like an expert at the end. It took 10 years—exactly that long." When <mask> started at The New Yorker in 1996 he wanted to "mine current academic research for insights, theories, direction, or inspiration".His first assignment was to write a piece about fashion. Instead of writing about high-class fashion, <mask> opted to write a piece about a man who manufactured T-shirts, saying: "[I]t was much more interesting to write a piece about someone who made a T-shirt for $8 than it was to write about a dress that costs $100,000. I mean, you or I could make a dress for $100,000, but to make a T-shirt for $8—that's much tougher." <mask> gained popularity with two New Yorker articles, both written in 1996: "The Tipping Point" and "The Coolhunt". These two pieces would become the basis for <mask>'s first book, The Tipping Point,

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 for which he received a $1 million advance. He continues to write for The New Yorker. <mask> also served as a contributing editor for Grantland, a sports journalism website founded by former ESPN columnist Bill Simmons.In a July 2002 article in The New Yorker, <mask> introduced the concept of the "talent myth" that companies and organizations, in his view, incorrectly follow. This work examines different managerial and administrative techniques that companies, both winners and losers, have used. He states that the misconception seems to be that management and executives are all too ready to classify employees without ample performance records and thus make hasty decisions. Many companies believe in disproportionately rewarding "stars" over other employees with bonuses and promotions. However, with the quick rise of inexperienced workers with little in-depth performance review, promotions are often incorrectly made, putting employees into positions they should not have and keeping other, more experienced employees from rising. He also points out that under this system, narcissistic personality types are more likely to climb the ladder, since they are more likely to take more credit for achievements and take less blame for failure. He states both that narcissists make the worst managers and that the system of rewarding "stars" eventually worsens a company's position.<mask> states that the most successful long-term companies are those who reward experience above all else and require greater time for promotions. Works
With the release of The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War in April 2021, <mask> has had seven books published. When asked for the process behind his writing, he said: "I have two parallel things I'm interested in. One is, I'm interested in collecting interesting stories, and the other is I'm interested in collecting interesting research. What I'm looking for is cases where they overlap". The Tipping Point

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 The Tipping Point, which was published in 2000, came from the sudden drop of crime in New York City. He wanted the book to have a broader appeal than just crime, however, and sought to explain similar phenomena through the lens of epidemiology.While <mask> was a reporter for The Washington Post, he covered the AIDS epidemic. He began to take note of "how strange epidemics were", saying epidemiologists have a "strikingly different way of looking at the world". The term "tipping point" comes from the moment in an epidemic when the virus reaches critical mass and begins to spread at a much higher rate. <mask>'s theories of crime were heavily influenced by the "broken windows theory" of policing, and <mask> is credited for packaging and popularizing the theory in a way that was implementable in New York City. <mask>'s theoretical implementation bears a striking resemblance to the "stop-and-frisk" policies of the NYPD. However, in the decade and a half since its publication, The Tipping Point and Gladwell have both come under fire for the tenuous link between "broken windows" and New York City's drop in violent crime. During a 2013 interview with BBC journalist Jon Ronson for The Culture Show, <mask> admitted that he was "too in love with the broken-windows notion".He went on to say that he was "so enamored by the metaphorical simplicity of that idea that I overstated its importance". Blink

After The Tipping Point, <mask> published Blink in 2005. The book explains how the human unconscious interprets events or cues as well as how past experiences can lead people to make informed decisions very rapidly. <mask> uses examples like the Getty kouros and psychologist John Gottman's research on the likelihood of divorce in married couples. <mask>'s hair was the inspiration for Blink. He stated that once he allowed his hair to get longer, he started to get speeding tickets all the time, an oddity considering that he had never gotten one before and that he started getting pulled out of airport security lines for special

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 attention. In a particular incident, he was apprehended by three police officers while walking in downtown Manhattan because his curly hair matched the profile of a rapist, despite the fact the suspect looked nothing like him otherwise.<mask>'s The Tipping Point (2000) and Blink (2005) were international bestsellers. The Tipping Point sold more than two million copies in the United States. Blink sold equally well. As of November 2008, the two books had sold a combined 4.5 million copies. Outliers

<mask>'s third book, Outliers, published in 2008, examines how a person's environment, in conjunction with personal drive and motivation, affects his or her possibility and opportunity for success. <mask>'s original question revolved around lawyers: "We take it for granted that there's this guy in New York who's the corporate lawyer, right? I just was curious: Why is it all the same guy?", referring to the fact that "a surprising number of the most powerful and successful corporate lawyers in New York City have almost the exact same biography". In another example given in the book, <mask> noticed that people ascribe Bill Gates's success to being "really smart" or "really ambitious". He noted that he knew a lot of people who are really smart and really ambitious, but not worth $60 billion. "It struck me that our understanding of success was really crude—and there was an opportunity to dig down and come up with a better set of explanations." What the Dog Saw

<mask>'s fourth book, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, was published in 2009. What the Dog Saw bundles together <mask>'s favourites of his articles from The New Yorker since he joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1996. The stories share a common theme, namely that <mask> tries to show us the world through the eyes of others, even if that other happens to be a dog.David and Goliath

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<mask>'s sixth book, Talking to Strangers, was released September 2019. The book examines interactions with strangers, covers examples that include the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia case at Penn State, and the death of Sandra Bland. <mask> explained what inspired him to write the book as being "struck by how many high profile cases in the news were about the same thing—strangers misunderstanding each other." It challenges the assumptions we are programmed to make when encountering strangers, and the potentially dangerous consequences of misreading people we do not know.The Bomber Mafia

Gladwell's seventh book, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, was released in April 2021. The book weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Reception
The Tipping Point was named as one of the best books of the decade by Amazon.com customers, The A.V. Club, The Guardian, and The Times. It was also Barnes & Noble's fifth-best-selling non-fiction book of the decade. Blink was named to Fast Company list of the best business books of 2005. It was also number 5 on Amazon customers' favourite books of 2005, named to The Christian Science Monitor best non-fiction books of 2005, and in the top 50 of Amazon customers' favourite books of the decade.Outliers was a number 1 New York Times bestseller for 11 straight weeks and was Time's number 10 non-fiction book of 2008 as well as named to the San Francisco Chronicle list of the 50 best non-fiction books of 2008. Fortune described The Tipping Point as "a fascinating book that makes you see the world in a

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In 2012, CBS's 60 Minutes attributed the trend of American parents "redshirting" their five-year-olds (postponing entrance into kindergarten to give them an advantage) to a section in Gladwell's Outliers. Sociology professor Shayne Lee referenced Outliers in a CNN editorial commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Lee discussed the strategic timing of King's ascent from a "Gladwellian perspective". <mask> gives credit to Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross for inventing

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<mask> is host of the podcast Revisionist History, initially produced through Panoply Media and now through Gladwell's own podcast company. It began in 2016, and has aired five 10-episode seasons. Each episode begins with an inquiry about a person, event, or idea, and proceeds to question the received wisdom about the subject. <mask> was recruited to create a podcast by Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of The Slate Group, which also includes the podcast network Panoply Media. In September 2018, <mask> announced he was co-founding a podcast company, later named Pushkin Industries, with Weisberg. About this decision, <mask> told the Los Angeles Times: "There is a certain kind of whimsy and emotionality that can only be captured on audio." He also has a music podcast with Bruce Headlam and Rick Rubin, titled Broken Record where they interview musicians.It has two seasons, 2018–2019 and 2020 with a total of 49 episodes. Personal life
<mask> is a Christian. His family attended Above Bar Church in Southampton, UK, and later Gale Presbyterian in Elmira when they moved to Canada. His parents and siblings are part of the Mennonite community in Southwestern Ontario. <mask> wandered away from his Christian roots when he moved to New York, only to rediscover his faith during the writing of David and Goliath and his encounter with Wilma Derksen regarding the death of her child. <mask> was a national class runner and an Ontario High School (Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations – OFSAA) champion. He was among Canada's fastest teenagers at 1500 metres, running 4:14 at the age of 13 and 4:05 when aged 14.In college, <mask> ran 1500 metres in 3:55.

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 In 2014, at the age of 51, he ran a 4:54 at the Fifth Avenue Mile. At 57 he ran a 5:15 mile. Awards and honours
 2005 – Time named <mask> one of its 100 most influential people
 2007 – American Sociological Association's first Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues
 2007 – honorary degree from University of Waterloo
 2011 – honorary degree from University of Toronto
2011 – Order of Canada, the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada

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 The Missionary (2013, TV movie)

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<mask> was a featured storyteller for the Moth podcast. He told a story about a well-intentioned wedding toast for a young man and his friends that went wrong. <mask> was featured in General Motors "EVerybody in." campaign.<mask> is the only guest to have been featured as a headliner at every OZY Fest festival—an annual music and ideas festival produced by OZY Media—other than OZY co-founder and CEO Carlos Watson. <mask> has also appeared on several television shows for OZY Media, including the Carlos Watson Show (YouTube) and Third Rail With OZY (PBS). <mask> has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss's book Tools of Titans. References

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<mask> (born 29 November 1982) is an English actress. Born and raised in London, <mask> attended the Newstead Wood School for Girls and studied law at Worcester College, Oxford before choosing to pursue a career in acting instead, enrolling at the Drama Centre London. <mask> was subsequently cast in various supporting roles on television, including Doctor Who, Sherlock, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Fresh Meat, Bedlam and True Love. She also appeared in independent films Exam (2009), Submarine (2010) and Belles Familles (2015). <mask> performed in the British premiere of Yellow Face at The Park Theatre and Our Ajax at the Southwark Playhouse. <mask> had minor roles in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). She starred as a servile anthropomorph in sci-fi series Humans (2015–2018) to critical praise.<mask> gained widespread recognition for portraying Astrid Leong-Teo in Jon M. Chu's romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018), which became a critical and commercial hit. <mask> along with the ensemble was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture. <mask> played Bess of Hardwick in the historical drama Mary Queen of Scots (2018) and voiced the antagonist Namaari in Disney's animated film Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). In Marvel Studios' Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), <mask> portrayed Minn-Erva in Captain Marvel (2019) before headlining Eternals (2021) as Sersi. Early life
<mask> was born at Guy's Hospital in London, England. Her father was an engineer who grew up in Hong Kong and her mother was a pharmacist and raised in Greenock, Scotland, after her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. Raised in Locksbottom in the London Borough of Bromley, <mask> attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Orpington, London and went on to study jurisprudence at Worcester College, Oxford.Following

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<mask> made her professional debut in Horror Channel's 2006 miniseries When Evil Calls. She was a competitor on the first series of the reality series Project Catwalk. <mask> made her stage debut in the British premiere of Bertolt Brecht's last play, Turandot, at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2008. <mask> appeared in the autumn 2009 special of the BBC's Doctor Who, titled "The Waters of Mars", playing geologist Mia Bennett. The episode later won a Hugo Award.In the same year, <mask> starred in Exam (2009) which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to mixed reviews. The following year, <mask> appeared in Channel 4's The IT Crowd and BBC's Sherlock. <mask>'s next releases, Pimp, (2010) and Shanghai (2010), were panned by critics, while Submarine premiered at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews. <mask> was cast as a series regular in the final series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, as the rival of Billie Piper's character. The series aired on ITV2 in 2011. Later that year, she appeared in Channel 4's Fresh Meat. A supporter of human rights, she made a film for Amnesty International to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.In 2012, <mask> was a regular in series two of Sky Living's supernatural drama Bedlam where she portrayed Kiera, an "impulsive" and "free spirited" woman. She also appeared in True Love, a five-part semi-improvised television series produced by Working Title for BBC One. <mask> met her co-stars on set, and had free rein to "flesh out" her character during the written scenarios.

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 In June 2013, <mask> performed in the British premiere of Yellow Face by American playwright David Henry Hwang at The Park Theatre, London, and returned for its 2014 revival at the Royal National Theatre. While promoting the play, <mask> spoke about her struggles to get cast in non Chinese-related productions and period dramas due to her race. In November 2013, <mask> performed in the world premiere of Our Ajax by Timberlake Wertenbaker at the Southwark Playhouse, London. Wertenbaker chose her to play the war goddess Athena after she saw her performance in Yellow Face.Michael Billington of The Guardian described her performance as "beautifully svelte omniscience". Later that year, she starred in BBC One crime drama Shetland, playing young archaeologist Hattie James. <mask> guest-starred in the BBC's Death in Paradise. She was a cast member of Channel 4 romantic drama Dates. On 6 August 2013, <mask> appeared as a guest on the "Cultural Exchange" feature of the BBC Radio 4 series Front Row, where she nominated the film The Princess Bride as a film she loves. <mask> appeared in The Double (2013), which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival to critical success. Breakthrough (2014–present)
<mask> appeared in the action-thriller  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), which met mixed reception and financial success.She portrayed the protagonist's girlfriend, Chen-Lin, in French comedy-drama Belles Familles (2015), which was released at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. <mask> also portrayed American witch Madame Ya Zhou in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), which was nominated for five BAFTAs. She lent her voice to BBC's animated miniseries Watership Down in 2018. <mask> starred as the anthropomorphic robot Anita/Mia in Humans, an AMC/Channel 4 science-fiction drama, from 2015 to 2018. The A.V. Club wrote that <mask> "anchors the series", with her performance


texts: "awakening in ways both subtle and overt ... to reflect every new emotion." <mask> voiced robot Quintessa in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), which was panned by critics.<mask> starred in action-thriller Stratton (2017) as the titular character's "smart-girl" colleague, Aggie. In 2018, <mask> joined Andrea Riseborough, Jane Horrocks, Jaime Winstone, and Laura Carmichael to star in a film produced by ActionAid, encouraging the British public to support girls at risk of sexual violence. <mask> co-starred as Astrid Leong-Teo in the film Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Originally asked to portray the lead, <mask> preferred the "more intriguing" role of Astrid. She first heard about the novel Crazy Rich Asians in a text message from her sister, read it on holiday, and "fell in love with Astrid". On her role, <mask> stated that "what you see with Astrid is not necessarily what you get. There are layers to her ... [she] seemingly has it all together.The film became the highest-grossing romantic comedy of the decade and received critical acclaim for its cast, visuals and on-screen representation. The Hollywood Reporter lauded <mask> as "a radiant presence who lights up her every scene". That same year, she also featured in the short film titled Leading Lady Parts in support of the Time's Up movement. <mask> appeared as  Petronella in London Fields (2018), which was a box-office bomb. <mask> portrayed Elizabeth Hardwick in Josie Rourke's directorial debut, historical drama Mary Queen of Scots (2018), which premiered at the AFI Fest. <mask>'s casting "provoked controversy among internet trolls", as her character had been a white woman. <mask> responded that "if John Wayne can play Genghis Khan, I can play Bess of Hardwick" and remarked that "art should reflect life now."<mask> appeared in Captain Marvel (2019) in a supporting role as Minn-Erva, a sniper who is part of the Kree Starforce. The role required an

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<mask> will reprise her roles in the two Crazy Rich Asians sequel installments, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems. <mask> will appear in psychological thriller Don't Worry Darling, directed by Olivia Wilde, science fiction film True Love directed by Gareth Edwards, and horror film Cuckoo, alongside Hunter Schafer and John Malkovich. She will also star in the Apple TV+ anthology series Extrapolations. Advocacy

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<mask> travelled with Save the Children to Lebanon to meet Syrian child refugees in 2017. In 2018 she partnered with Moet to support Help Refugees UK. She volunteered for Cook-19, an organization that delivers meals to key workers, during the COVID-19 pandemic. <mask> has supported UNICEF UK since 2015 and travelled to Jamaica to raise awareness of domestic violence with the organisation in 2019.She participated in Soccer Aid to raise funds for the charity in 2019. She participated in World Children’s Day commemorations in 2020. She was appointed a celebrity ambassador for UNICEF UK in 2021. In response to attacks against elderly Asian immigrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic, <mask> advocated for the #StopAAPIhate movement and fundraising campaign. In May 2021 <mask> launched the #StopESEAHate campaign to assist East and Southeast Asian victims of hate crime. Personal life
In September 2013 <mask> appeared at the Old Bailey in central London as a witness to a fatal stabbing outside Putney Bridge tube station. <mask> dated English comedian Jack Whitehall from 2011 to 2017.She began a relationship with English actor Dominic Cooper in 2018. They reside together in London. <mask> and Cooper participated in the People's Vote March, expressing support for a second Brexit referendum, in October 2018. She has criticised both the Conservative and Labour party for their process in choosing leadership. Filmography

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 status as the greatest goalscorer of the 20th century. The award was based on how many times a player had been top scorer in his domestic league, a feat which Bican achieved 12 times. Early life
Bican was born in Vienna to František and Ludmila <mask>. He was the second of three children. František was from Sedlice in Southern Bohemia, and Ludmila was Viennese Czech. <mask>'s father František was a footballer who played for Hertha Vienna. He fought in World War I and returned uninjured.However, František died at the early age of 30 in the year 1921 after refusing an operation to treat a kidney injury sustained in a football match. His mother worked in a restaurant kitchen. The family's poverty meant that Bican initially had to play football without shoes, which helped him improve his ball control skills. Bican attended the Jan Amos Komenský school, a Czech school in Vienna. In 1925, four years after his father's death, twelve-year-old Bican started to play for the Hertha Vienna junior team, Hertha Vienna II. When he was 18, Bican was spotted by Rapid Vienna, who were a big club in the city at the time. Club career
In 1931, when Bican first joined Rapid, he received 150 schillings, but, by the age of 20, Rapid wanted to keep him so much that they paid him 600 schillings.In his debut game against Austria Vienna, club where Matthias Sindelar played, Bican scored four goals in a victory 5–3. Bican won the Austrian title with Rapid in 1934–35 and his first goalscoring title, but by the end of the season, he'd been suspended after refusing to sign a new contract and Bican decided to go on strike. Through one of his uncles, a deal was done with Admira Vienna, at the time the most successful side in Austrian history. Rapid however refused to release his registration, and Bican went nine months without playing a game. When he was allowed to leave, Bican won championships in both his seasons with the Vienna club, but his heart was set on his family's homeland. During 1937, Bican left Vienna to join Czech club Slavia Prague.

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texts: Bican was the top scorer in his first season, but Slavia finished as runner-up.The following season, in March 1939, Germany invaded Czechoslovakia and football split on similar lines, with Bohemian and Moravian clubs carrying their results from the Czechoslovak league into the new Bohemian-Moravian league. Bican was again the top scorer of the league but Sparta Prague, Slavia's greatest rival, won the championship again. The third year (1941) the first of Bican's four championships came with the third of the continuous 10 goalscoring titles. He played for Slavia throughout World War II, while many of his football rivals were at war. During eight league seasons he scored 328 goals, including 57 in 26 matches one particular season (1943–44). Three times in his career, Bican scored seven goals in a game. In a 1939–40 league match against Zlín, Bican found the net seven times as Slavia ran out 10–1 winners.During the 1940–41 season, Bican matched his feat of the previous season, again against Zlín, scoring seven times, as Slavia won by a 12–1 scoreline. It was 1947–48 before Bican managed his third seven-goal match, as Slavia defeated České Budějovice in a game which finished 15–1. He was in the leagues that he played, the top-scorer 12 times during his 25-year professional career and Europe's and the world's top scorer in five consecutive seasons, from 1939–40 to 1943–44, a record that still stands. After the war several of Europe's big clubs were interested in signing Bican. Italian side Juventus were very keen and offered Bican handsome terms. He was advised that there was a big chance the Communists could take over in Italy, but what actually happened was the opposite. When the Communists came to power in Czechoslovakia in 1948, Bican refused to join the Communist Party, just as before the war he had refused to join the Nazi Party in Austria.<mask>’s  image had established him as one of the biggest names in the country's society. But his happy days were soon to be over. The communist government wanted to use Bican as a


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 propaganda weapon. When he refused to be a puppet, the Czechoslovak authorities put it about that Bican was a bourgeois Viennese, ignoring his plea that his origins were humble. Bican tried to improve his standing with the Communists by joining steel works Železárny Vítkovice. During 1952, he joined FC Hradec Králové, where he managed to score 53 goals in 26 matches. On 1 May 1953, the Communist Party forced him to leave the city and, therefore, the club.After being forced to leave, he returned to Slavia Prague, or, as it was known then, Dynamo Prague. He continued to play for Dynamo until retiring from playing at the age of 42 in 1955. He was the oldest player in the league at that time. Career statistics

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On 29 November 1933, aged 20 years and 64 days, Bican made his debut for Austria in a 2–2 draw against Scotland. He later played for them at the 1934 World Cup, when the Austrian Wunderteam reached the semifinals. His solitary goal in the tournament came in extra time of Austria's 3–2 win over France. At the time Bican was playing for Slavia Prague, he applied for Czechoslovak citizenship.However, when he eventually became a Czechoslovak citizen, he discovered that a clerical error meant he couldn't play at the 1938 World Cup. In total, he scored 29 goals in 34 international matches for three national teams (Austria, Czechoslovakia and Bohemia & Moravia). His final national team appearance was for Czechoslovakia in a 3–1 defeat against Bulgaria on 4 September 1949. However, his success did have a disadvantage. Other members of the team became jealous of the tall, handsome Bican's success, and he was sometimes called abusive names, such as "Austrian bastard". In addition to representing Austria, Czechoslovakia and the region of Bohemia & Moravia, Bican also played a number of fixtures playing for teams consisting of the best


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 players from a league or town between 1939 and 1949. For the Bohemia-Moravia league team in 1939 he played six games scoring nine goals, for the Bohemia league team in 1940–1944 he played eight games scoring 11 goals, for Prague from 1938 to 1948 he played six games scoring one goal and Ostrava in 1949 he played one game scoring one goal, bringing Bican's total number of official goals outside of club football to 48 goals in 54 games.International goals

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Austria's goal tally

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Czechoslovakia's goal tally

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Bohemia and Moravia's goal tally

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During the spring of 1968, Bican was told that he would be allowed to have a coaching job abroad. He impressed the Belgian team Tongeren and they hired him as a coach, where he had some success taking them from Division 4 to Division 2. Around this time, Pelé was getting ready for his 1000th goal and many journalists were searching for another player who had scored a thousand goals. Former Austrian player Franz "Bimbo" Binder suggested Bican, who he claimed to have scored over 5000 goals in all competitions. When reporters asked Bican why he had not sought more attention for his goalscoring feats, he simply said, "who'd have believed me if I said I'd scored five times as many goals as Pelé?" However, to score over 5000 goals he should have kept an average of 185 goals/year along all his 27 years of career, but only counting goals in official matches, Bican scored at least 950 goals. Bican's goal-scoring feats are often forgotten because he did not make a big fuss about it in the media.His record is often overshadowed by Pelé's 1303 goal record, including goals in unofficial matches. But shortly before his death in 2001, IFFHS based on RSSSF statistics declared Bican with 643 league goals, the most prolific scorer of the 20th century. This was judged by the number of times a player had been top scorer in his domestic league. Bican managed this feat 12 times, more than any other player in


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 football history. In the 1990s, Bican spoke to Czech TV about the difficulty of scoring during his era: "When I talk to young reporters, they always say, 'Mr Bican, scoring was easier back in your day.' But I ask them, 'How come? Look, are there opportunities today?'And they tell me, 'Of course there are, many of them'. And I say, 'There you go. If there weren't opportunities, it would be difficult. But if there are, scoring is the same as it was a hundred years ago, and will be the same in a hundred years' time, too. It will always be the same." "Bican was incredibly unlucky at the height of his career. There was no World Cup in 1942 or 1946 because of the war.If the 1942 edition had taken place, for example, he would surely have become more widely known. Perhaps he might even have been as famous as Pele", Radovan Jelinek, sports historian said about him. <mask>n spent the last few months of his life in hospital with heart problems. He had hoped to be home for Christmas, but died less than 2 weeks before that, at the age of 88. In September 2013, which would have been Bican's 100th birthday, Slavia Prague commemorated him by wearing shirts that featured a replica of his signature on them. See also
 List of men's footballers with 500 or more goals
 List of world association football records

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<mask> (born October 4, 1975) is an Eisner Award winning American comic book and science fiction and fantasy writer. His 2012 book Throne of the Crescent Moon was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. He has also been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. <mask>'s fiction has been published in anthologies and magazines including Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2 and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He is also the writer of Black Bolt, Exiles and Miles Morales: Spider-Man from Marvel Comics. Personal life
<mask> was born in 1975 in Detroit, Michigan to parents of Lebanese, Egyptian, Irish, and Polish descent. His father, <mask>, formerly in the merchant marine, worked both in a factory and as a community organizer.His mother was a political activist. After graduating from high school, <mask> attended Henry Ford Community College before transferring to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After receiving a B.A. in American Studies, <mask> earned an MFA at Brooklyn College and an MA in English from Rutgers University. <mask> is Muslim. Career
<mask> Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. In 2010, he was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.<mask>", originally published in Clockwork Phoenix 2, was a finalist for the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. His story "Where Virtue Lives", originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, was a finalist

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 for the 2009 Harper's Pen Award. His novel trilogy The Crescent Moon Kingdoms is currently being published by DAW Books. The novels are fantasies inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. The first book in the series, Throne of the Crescent Moon, was published by DAW Books in February 2012.<ref>[http://www.saladinahmed.com/wordpress/throne-of-the-crescent-moon-is-now-on-sale "THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON is now on sale! "], <mask> <mask>, February 7, 2012.</ref>

<mask>'s poetry has been published in various literary journals and books and has been awarded fellowships from the University of Michigan, Brooklyn College, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. In October 2017 gained media attention for a Twitter post addressed to the cereal company Kellogg's: "why is literally the only brown corn pop on the whole cereal box the janitor?this is teaching kids racism." Kellogg's indicated they would change the artwork on future Corn Pops shipments. Awards and honors Throne of the Crescent Moon was a finalist for both the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. <mask> won the Locus Award for Best First Novel for the novel. He was also a finalist for the 2010 and 2011 John W. Campbell Award and the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. <mask>'s comic Black Bolt, with Christian Ward as the artist, won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best New Series while the graphic novel collection of the comic, Black Bolt, Volume 1: Hard Time, was a finalist for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story. Works
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 Throne of the Crescent Moon (DAW Books, 2012)

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 Black Bolt (12 issue monthly

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 series from Marvel Comics, May 2017-April 2018)
 Abbott (5 issue mini series from BOOM!Studios, January 2018 to May 2018)
 Exiles (12 issue monthly series from Marvel Comics, April 2018 to January 2019)
 Quicksilver: No Surrender (5 issue limited series from Marvel Comics, May 2018 to September 2018)
 Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (one shot from Marvel Comics, September 2018)
 Miles Morales: Spider-Man (monthly series from Marvel Comics, December 2018 to present)
 The Magnificent Ms. Marvel (18 issue monthly series from Marvel Comics, March 2019 to February 2021)
 Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales (3 issue limited series from Marvel Comics, August 2019 to October 2019)
 Conan: Battle For The Serpent Crown (5 issue limited series from Marvel Comics, February 2020 to September 2020)

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 Engraved on the Eye (Ridan Publishing, 2012)

Short storiesStar Wars: Canto Bight - "Rules of the Game" (Del Rey, December 2017)
 "Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy" - Rags & Bones, ed. By Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, October 2013)
 "Amethyst, Shadow, and Light" - Fearsome Journeys, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris, May 2013)
 "The Faithful Soldier, Prompted" - Apex Magazine 18, November 2010
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 "Mister Hadj's Sunset Ride" - Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 2010
 "General Akmed's Revenge?" - Expanded Horizons 16, March 2010
 "Doctor Diablo Goes Through The Motions" - Strange Horizons, February 2010
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Ahmed's poetry has appeared in the following journals and anthologies:

 Callaloo Volume 32, Issue 4 (2009)
 Against Agamemnon: War Poetry (WaterWood Press 2009)
 Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press 2008)
 Margie: The American Journal of Poetry Volume 6 (2007)
 We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon (Interlink Books 2007)
 The Brooklyn Review #19 (2002)
 The Brooklyn Review  #18 (2001)
 Big City Lit (2001)
 Mizna Volume 3, Issue 1 (2001)
 Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry (Wayne State University Press 2001)
 Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing' (Kitab/Syracuse University Press 2000)
 Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream (Wayne State University Press 2000)

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<mask>. "Bill" <mask> (born May 2, 1946) is an American attorney and Republican Party politician whose career in New Jersey's state Legislature spanned four decades. Representing the state's 2nd Legislative District, which includes most of Atlantic County, Gormley emerged as an influential and dominating figure in New Jersey government and a leader in the continued economic revitalization of the greater Atlantic City region. <mask>, the son of former Atlantic County Sheriff <mask>, was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1977, serving until 1982. He served as a member of the state Senate from 1982 to 2007, a length of tenure unmatched in Atlantic County since state Sen. Frank S. Farley's 31-year-run ended in defeat in 1972. Gormley chose not to seek re-election to the Senate in 2007. Education and military service
<mask> graduated from St. Augustine Preparatory School in 1964. He received a B.A.from the University of Notre Dame in History and was awarded a J.D. from Villanova University. He served in the United States Marine Corps and was honorably discharged in 1975 with the rank of captain. Political career
<mask> was first elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1977. In 1981, <mask> was the most vocal member of a small group of Republican lawmakers who aligned with Democrats to pass legislation that eliminated the practice of awarding favorable ballot positions to candidates endorsed by county political organizations. Though the courts would restore the party line years later, the legislation paved the way for Tom Kean to win the Republican gubernatorial primary against the Republican establishment candidate, Paterson Mayor

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 Lawrence "Pat" Kramer. Kean would go on to serve two terms as one of the most popular governors in New Jersey history."Getting rid of the party line cracked Kramer and made Kean," recalled Republican campaign strategist Dave Murray. "What was so impressive about that is there were other guys supporting Kean, but <mask> was the one shouting it from the rooftops. Really, there's only one word to describe him – and that's ballsy." In 1990, Gormley cast the only Republican vote for then Gov. Jim Florio's ban on assault weapons and became a target of the National Rifle Association. As political payback, the NRA funded the campaigns of a string of Gormley opponents in both local races and runs for higher office. Growth of Atlantic City
Gormley was credited with writing legislation to secure state funding for crucial development projects in the Atlantic City region including the Atlantic City Corridor Project (now "Tanger Outlets The Walk"), Boardwalk Hall, the Atlantic City Rail Terminal, the Atlantic City–Brigantine Connector, The Borgata, the Quarter at Tropicana Casino, "The Pier Shops at Caesars" now "Playground Pier"), the Atlantic City Convention Center, and Atlantic City International Airport.In 1991, after suing the governor of New Jersey to protect the rights of coastal homeowners, Gormley wrote and secured passage for a constitutional amendment that defined and delineated the rights of property owners who held riparian lands. The amendment resolved a protracted and contentious legal dispute that had pitted the state's jurisdictional powers against private ownership rights. In 1992, Gormley wrote a constitutional amendment that shifted the


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 cost for the operation of the county court system to the state, creating a more coordinated and modern justice system. Racial Profiling Hearings
As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gormley led a 2001 investigation into the practice of racial profiling by New Jersey State Police. The nine days of hearings chaired by Gormley ultimately led to the enactment of reform legislation to eradicate the practice of racial profiling, including the creation of a system of oversight and monitoring to maintain integrity in law enforcement practices. Electoral history
Over the course of his career, <mask> ran for higher office three times and lost in the primary each time. He ran for governor in 1989, the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994 and the U.S. Senate in 2000, when he lost to Bob Franks by 3,700 votes.1989 Race for Governor (Republican primary)
Jim Courter (R), 29.02%
W. Cary Edwards (R), 22.04%
Chuck Hardwick (R), 21.29%
<mask> (R), 17.17%
Gerald Cardinale (R), 8.33%
Tom Blomquist (R), 0.98%
Lois Rand (R), 0.66%
James A. Kolyer, III (R), 0.51%

1994 Race for U.S.House (Republican primary)
Frank LoBiondo (R), 54.47%
<mask> (R), 35.26%
Robert D. Green (R), 10.27%

2000 Race for U.S. Senate (Republican primary)
Bob Franks (R), 35.68%
<mask> (R), 34.10%
James W. Treffinger (R), 17.66%
Murray Sabrin (R), 12.56%

Charitable projects
<mask> has also been active in a number of philanthropic efforts and charitable projects in the Atlantic City region, benefitting organizations such as the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Big Brothers and Big Sisters and the Sisters of Christian Charity. Gormley also helped lead fundraising efforts to

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 build a facility for the Milton and Betty Katz Jewish Community Center in Margate, spearheaded the recruitment of speakers for a lecture series at the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton College (now Stockton University) and, along with his wife Virginia, founded the Atlantic City Friends of Music to raise money to support music and arts programs in Atlantic City schools. On Oct. 21, 2021, Gormley received the Gregor Mendel Medal, the highest honor bestowed by his alma mater, St. Augustine Preparatory School, for his many innovative charitable contributions to his community. A video tribute to Gormley included appearances from former New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer, Jr., former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Chairman Kevin O’Toole, a former State Senate colleague. Post-political career
In 2007, New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner appointed Gormley chairman of the Public Officers Salary Review Commission. Gormley is currently a partner in the law firm of DLA Piper. He resides in Margate City, New Jersey with his wife, Virginia.References

External links
Senator <mask>'s Senate Website
New Jersey Voter Information Website 2003
New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure form for 2005 (PDF)
New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure form for 2004 (PDF)

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<mask> (born September 22, 1955) is an American artist specializing in art depicting American history. He creates hyper-realistic paintings of patriotic historical scenes, such as the American West, Civil War and D-Day, that are exhibited or used by institutions such as the US military, US Park Service and others. He has been compared as inheriting the mantle of 19th-century print makers such as Currier & Ives and Louis Prang. Biography and career

For the first 15 years of his career he painted numerous original oil paintings of the American West. From the age of 21, <mask>'s paintings of landscapes, wild life paintings, and depictions of Indian life were represented by Trailside Galleries. <mask> began painting scenes from the American Civil War in 1991. These Civil War historical paintings are larger and have more detail than his western paintings.According to <mask>, each painting is meticulously researched and painted with such detail (<mask> often wears a jeweler's magnifying glass and uses a two to three haired brush to paint most of the composition's intricacies), that one painting may require more than three months to create. <mask> participates in Civil War reenactments. "I have been reenacting for many years. Currently, I am Captain of the 7th Texas Calvary. My unit has about 20 mounted cavalry men, and we participate in Civil War reenactments throughout the southwest. Working with men, horses, and equipment gives me insight into what life was like back in the 1860s. I know from experience how horse equipment should look when in use, or how a seasoned horseman carries himself in the saddle.I feel it really helps my art." -<mask> <mask>. Other historical paintings by <mask> <mask> include

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 Spirit of Discovery, a rendition of the Lewis and Clark expedition, as well as three World War II representations:  Bastogne, Omaha Beach, and Utah Beach. More recently, Mr. <mask> has composed three individual "Paintings of Paradise":  Celarian Light House, Punta Sur Park Natural Reserve;  Evening on the Plaza, Downtown San Miguel; and The Monument to Divers,  Coast Road San Miguel. Inspired by his favorite vacation destination, <mask> represents historical landmarks in the Caribbean island of Cozumel, Mexico. Awards, honors, holdings and exhibitions

Author <mask>. Dwyer said that <mask> "is roundly regarded as one of the greatest painters, living or deceased, of American historical art." Reproductions of <mask>'s paintings have won the PICA Awards (Printing Industry of the Carolinas).At the PIAG 2008 Awards in Georgia, <mask> was awarded the 'Top Gold Award' for his painting New Year's Wish, and the 'Best of Category Giclée' for Fire In the Sky. <mask> was awarded the Henry Timrod Southern Culture Award (2010) by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars for his contributions toward the understanding, appreciation and explanations of Southern Arts and Letters, as a member of the Order. <mask> has completed commissioned works for the United States Army, which are on permanent display at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Fort McNair in Washington D.C., and the battlefield visitor's center at Normandy, France. <mask>'s painting, D-Day, a 50th Anniversary portrayal of the first Infantry Division's landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France on June 6, 1994, was commissioned by the Class Gift Committee of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in April 1994. The painting is now on display

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 in the Eisenhower Hall of the CGSC, and was reproduced in an edition of 1290 prints for the 1994 graduates. In April 2009, <mask> was commissioned by the University of Alabama to paint a historical work for the Confederate Corp of Cadets assembling to fight the Union invaders in April 1865. The finished work was unveiled at the annual Gen. <mask> C. Calhoun Sanders Lecture Series on the University campus.On November 22, 1998, <mask> appeared in an interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal Feature, where he discussed his inspiration and techniques as a historical artist. On episode 18, season 5 of Extreme Home Makeover, <mask> worked and painted on the set and donated a large original painting, 'Chatham House'. "Along with renowned artist <mask> <mask>, Ty looks at a photo of the original Chatham house to make sure they've gotten the details right. 'I want it to look kind of mysterious,' Ty says. Ty and <mask>, who completed his work in less than a week, secure the framed canvas—the molding was painted silver—with French cleats." <mask>'s paintings have helped to raise funds for many historical restoration projects and battlefield preservation organizations. The National Park Service uses <mask>'s paintings in their publications and at battlefield sites.Books

Books by <mask>

 <mask>, <mask>. Witness to the Civil War: The Art of <mask> <mask>. Courage Books, 2002. Print. <mask>, <mask>. The Historical Art of <mask> <mask>. John Paul Strain Historical Art, 2010.Print. Books featuring art of <mask>

 Beck, Brandon H.  The Three Battles of Winchester: A History and Guided Tour. The Civil War Society Special Edition. Country Publishers, 1988. Print. (Cover)
 Bishop, Randy. Mississippi’s Civil War

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 Battlefields: A Guide to their History and Preservation.Pelican Publishing, 2010. Print. (Cover)
 Bishop, Randy. Tennessee's Civil War Battlefields. Pelican Pub., 2010. Print. (Cover)
 Carter, Alden R.  Bright Starry Banner:  a Novel of the Civil War.Soho Press, 2005. Print. (Cover)
 Cozzens, Peter. The Battle of Stones River, Civil War series. Eastern National Park and Monument Assoc., 1995. Print. (Cover)
 Gorin, Betty J.  Morgan is Coming!: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky. 3rd ed. Harmondy House Publishers, 2006. Print. (Cover)
 Matthews, Gary R.  Basil Wilson Duke, CSA:  The Right Man in the Right Place. 1st ed. The University Press of Kentucky, 2005.Print. (Cover)
 Mollring, Christine. The Artists of Trailside Galleries. Trailside Two Inc., 1980. Print. Phillips, David. Daring Raiders.1st ed. Friedman/Fairfax Publishing, 1998. Print. Phillips, David. Maps of the Civil War. Barnes & Noble Publishing Inc., 2005. Print.(Cover)
 Ramage, James A. Rebel Raider: The Life of General <mask> Morgan. The University Press of Kentucky, 1995. Print. (Cover)
 Robertson, William G.  The Battle of Chickamauga, Civil War Series. Easter National, Ft. Washington, PA, 1995. Print.(p. 38)
 Samuels, Peggy, and Harold Samuels. Contemporary Western Artists. Bonanza Books, 1987. Print
 Sauers, Richard A. The Devastating Hand of War; Romney, West Virginia, During the Civil War. Gauley Mount Press, 2000. Print.(Cover)
 Seabrook, Lochlainn. Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American Patriot. 2nd ed. Sea Raven Press, 2009. Print. (Cover)

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American frontier painters
20th-century American painters
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<mask> (born 1962) is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR, the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a best-selling author of several books. He is known for his contributions to the world of IT productivity research and work on the economics of information and the digital economy more generally. Biography

<mask> was born to <mask> and <mask>, a nuclear physicist. He earned his A.B., magna cum laude, in 1984 and his S.M. in Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences at Harvard University in 1984.He received a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics in 1991 from the MIT Sloan School of Management. <mask>  served on the faculty of MIT from 1986 to 2020, where he was a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business. Previously, he was at Harvard from 1985 to 1995 and Stanford from 1996 to 1998. In 2001 he was appointed the Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He lectures and consults worldwide, and serves on corporate boards. He taught the popular course 15.567, The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure, and Pricing, at MIT  and hosts a related blog, Economics of Information. He was also a contributing member to the Winter,

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 2004 Boston Ski and Sports Club (BSSC) Championship flag football team.In February 2020, Stanford announced that <mask> would join its faculty in July. His research has been recognized with nine "best paper" awards by fellow academics, including the John DC Little Award for the best paper in Marketing Science. <mask> is the founder of two companies and has been awarded five U.S. patents. Along with Andrew McAfee, he was awarded the top prize in the Digital Thinkers category at the Thinkers 50 Gala on November 9, 2015. <mask> is of Icelandic descent. Work
<mask>'s is one of the most widely cited scholars studying the economics of information systems. He was among the first researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital and other intangibles.<mask> has done research on digital commerce, the Long Tail , bundling and pricing models, intangible assets and the effects of IT on business strategy, productivity and performance. More recently, in his books The Second Machine Age and Race Against the Machine, <mask> and his co-author Andrew McAfee have argued that technology is racing ahead, and called for greater efforts to update our skills, organizations and institutions more rapidly. Information technology and productivity
<mask> wrote an influential review of the "IT Productivity Paradox"   and in separate research, documented a correlation between IT investment and productivity. His work provides evidence that the use of Information Technology is most likely to increase productivity when it is combined with complementary business processes and

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 human capital. Selected publications

AI, machine learning and the economy
 Brynjolfsson Erik and Mitchell, Tom (December, 2017) What can machine learning do? Workforce implications Science. <mask> <mask>, Syverson, Chad and Rock Daniel (2019) Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics National Bureau of Economic Research.<mask>, <mask>, Hui, Xiang and Liu, Meng (2019). Does machine translation affect international trade? Evidence from a large digital platform Management Science. <mask>, <mask> and Andrew McAfee. (2017) The Business of Artificial Intelligence: What It Can—and Cannot—Do for Your Organization. Harvard Business Review. <mask>, <mask> and Andrew McAfee.(2017) "What's Driving the Machine Learning Explosion?" Harvard Business Review. Measuring the digital economy
 <mask>, <mask>, Avinash Collis, and Felix Eggers. (March, 2019) Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-Being Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <mask>, <mask> and Avinash Collis. (2019) How Should We Measure the Digital Economy? Harvard Business Review,

Computers, productivity and organizational capital
 McAfee, Andrew and <mask>, <mask> (June, 2017) Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing the Digital Revolution, W.W. Norton & Company,
 <mask>, <mask> and McAfee, Andrew (January, 2014) The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, W.W. Norton & Company,
  <mask>, <mask> and McAfee, Andrew (October 2011) Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation,

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 Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy.Digital Frontier Press. <mask>, <mask> and Saunders, Adam (October 2009) Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy. The MIT Press. Wu, Lynn and <mask>, <mask> (August 2013) "The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales". NBER Conference Technological Progress & Productivity Measurement, 2009; WISE, 2009; ICIS, 2009. <mask>, <mask> and Hitt, Lorin (June 2003) "Computing Productivity: Firm-level Evidence,Review of Economics and Statistics. <mask>, <mask> and Hitt, Lorin (Fall 2000) "Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol.14, No. 4, pp. 23–48. Bresnahan, Timothy, <mask>, <mask> and Hitt, Lorin (February, 2002) "Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm Level Evidence" Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 117, pp. 339–376. <mask>, <mask>, Hitt, Lorin and Yang, Shinkyu (2002)"Intangible Assets:  Computers and Organizational Capital", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Macroeconomics, 137–199.Bundling and pricing of information goods
 Bakos, Yannis and <mask>, <mask> (December, 1999) "Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits and Efficiency", Management Science, Vol. 45, No. 12, pp. 1613–1630. Bakos, Yannis and <mask>, <mask> (January, 2000) "Bundling and Competition on the Internet", Marketing Science, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp.63–82. Internet commerce and the long tail
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 (November, 2003) "Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety at Online Booksellers,"  Management Science, Vol 49, No. 11. <mask>, <mask>, Hu, Yu and Rahman, Mohammad (November, 2009) "Battle of the Retail Channels: How Product Selection and Geography Drive Cross-channel Competition",  Management Science, Vol. 55, No. 11. <mask>, <mask>, Hu, Yu and Simester, Dunan (2006) "Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales"

References

External links
 <mask>'s Web Site with links to research papers.The Stanford Digital Economy Lab. Economics of Information Blog
 Profile in Business Week, September 29, 2003. ("If e-business had an oracle, <mask> would be the anointed.") Profile in Optimize, October, 2005. (Brynjolfsson ranked second in research study of "most influential academics of business technology")
 Profile in Supply Chain Management, January, 2006. CIO Insight Interview, "Expert Voice: <mask> on Organizational Capital" October, 2001. Profile in  Informationweek, April 17, 2000.("When it comes to explaining the relationship between IT and worker productivity—bandwagon jumpers like Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan notwithstanding—the generally acknowledged expert in the field is <mask> ...")

 TED Talk on the impact of technical change (TED2013)

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Harvard University alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
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Sardar <mask>, born in Gujranwala (now in Pakistan) on 15 September 1939 was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1990 by the Honorable President of India as recognition to his contribution to the farmers' struggle. He served from 1990–1996. His family moved from Lyallpur, now Faisalabad during partition to settle at Batala. His father S<mask> was a prominent landlord of the area and Chak 207 in Faisalabad is still named after him. Socio-political activities
He was one of founder members of  "Farmer Friends Association" in 1966, which grew to a state level organization Known as "Punjab Kheti Bari Union", which further grew to a National level Kisan organization, "Bharti Kisan Union" (BKU) and coordinated with other farmers organizations to form Kisan Coordination Committee (KCC). In 1967 he helped the candidate of Jan Sangh Party, Brig. <mask>.Took charge of his entire election as an Election Agent. Defeated Pt. Mohan Lal, the then Home Minister in Kairon Ministry. He had the zeal to fight corruption from the very beginning which was deeply inculcated in him by his mother Smt Harbans Kaur, who faced the brunt of dislocation during the partition of India in 1947. Sardar <mask> in 1968, resisted rampant corruption in the Food Corporation of India. Took a pledge over blood in the market yard Batala, not to fall prey to corrupt officials, uprooting bribery in purchase of paddy by FCI. In 1969 he became Director of Cooperative Sugar Mills, Batala.In 1972, he led the agitation for cleansing and redefining the sugar cane supply system

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texts: to the sugar mills which resulted in formation of Calendar System of sugar cane supply before the start of each crushing season. This was a landmark in the Sugar cane procurement system. In 1974 he led an agitation against Zonal Restrictions of movement of wheat. He launched a successful Agitation against Hike in Electric Power Tariff. He was arrested along with hundreds of Kisans, to be released only after Punjab Government withdrew the hiked tariff. In 1975, Emergency was imposed in India by the then Prime Minister Smt Indira Gandhi. He and his organisation opposed the imposition of Emergency and was jailed for several months along with many kisans.He continued his struggle to uplift the farmers and launched a "Lekhe Patte Da morcha" (a morcha launched for persuading the Government to give account of loans due from farmers vis-à-vis the economic squeeze of the farmers). In 1976 he spearheaded a successful agitation against supply of tractors with manufacturing defects (Tractor Morcha). He led the agitation for regulating diesel supply to farmers in 1977. He also led an agitation for providing support price of potatoes, which the State Government had to accept as demanded by the farmers. He was arrested in 1979 along with farmers from many states when they participated in Agitation in 1979 against taking over of Charagah at Vill Kanjhawala, in Delhi. In 1980, he was elected the Elected State President Bharti Kisan Union. He remained the President of the State BKU up to 1989.He spearheaded the famous sugar cane agitation


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 which changed the complete picture of sugar cane farming 1981. The agitation culminated in getting sugarcane price hiked from Rs. 16 per quintal to Rs. 28 per quintal. He was instrumental in nationalising the farmers movement and in 1981, the BKU and Shetkari Sangathna (farmers' body from Maharashtra under the leadership of Sh. Sharad Joshi) joined hands in a Joint meeting. In 1984, he was elected National President Bharti Kisan Union 1984 and re-launched the agitation for defying for Zonal Restrictions of movement of wheat.In March 1984, a historical an unmatched agitation was launched under his leadership during an agitation when Punjab Raj Bhawan (residence of the Punjab Governor) was Gheraoed (seized) for seven days by lakhs of farmers from various states under the banner of BKU. This was immediately followed by a historical agitation of Boycott of Sale of Wheat from 1 to 7 May as a result of which not a single kilogram of wheat came to Punjab Markets. Various news clippings can be viewed at:-
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.204955936230747.50285.100001490260539&type=3

He was instrumental in the formation of the all India level Kisan Coordination Committee (KCC) which is a coordinating platform of various State level Farmers organizations, currently 17 in number. In 1985, he was elected Chairman Kisan Coordination Committee (1985–1988). In 1986, he launched an Anti-corruption drive and lakhs of rupees was got returned from the corrupt officials. He also got the waiver of arrears of Brick Lining of canal


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 Distributaries amounting to Rs. 3.50 billion.In 1989, he was nominated as Member of Consultative Committee of Punjab State Electricity Board, PSEB for the term of 1989–1990. Nominated to Rajya Sabha
In 1990, he was nominated to Rajya Sabha. During his tenure as a Member of Parliament, he raised 118 starred or un-starred questions in the Rajya Sabha. Few special achievements in Parliament:

 This was for the first time that the then Prime Minister, Mr. Narasimha Rao, while replying to his question, had to accept in Rajya Sabha, that Indian Farmers are victims of Negative Support amounting to 72% of value of agriculture produce. This was done after extensive research work on agriculture costing, subsidisation and other parameters governing the intricate economics of agriculture. Agriculture Minister Mr. Balram Jakhar, was made to admit on the floor of Rajya Sabha that Farmers cannot freely add value to their produce, not even shell rice from their paddy produce. Main focus in the Rajya Sabha remained to explore and raise the economic issues of farmers of the country.In 1995, continuing his struggle, and to highlight the Zonal restriction levied by the Government to suppress the costs of agriculture produces, he led an agitation to press government to allow free movement of wheat. He being a Sitting Member of Rajya Sabha was arrested along with hundreds of farmers while breaking un-announced restrictions on movement of wheat. He was a member of delegation of Indian Members of Parliament to UN in 1995. Later activities
In


texts: 1997, he led a march to Wagha Border, along with Sh. Sharad Joshi and thousands of farmers from Maharashtra, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab, as a symbolic gesture to impress for free trade route through Pakistan. In 1998, there was a spate of suicides by farmers in Punjab due to rising debt. Alarmed, he led thousands of farmers to pray and pledge before Shri Akal Takhat Sahib, Amritsar, not to commit suicides, but to fight against anti-farmer policies, on 15 August 1998.An agitation was launched in 2000 against procurement of Paddy at prices even lower than Minimum Support Price (MSP) fixed by the Government of India. During 2001, there was an ongoing debate on the benefits of WTO. Many people were raising doubts on the opening of the Indian economy. He organised a talk on WTO by Sh. Sharad Joshi and other renowned scholars at Chandigarh, to highlight the rights of farmers to be liberated from the unconstitutional and inhuman economic blockade. Thousands of farmers attended and got educated on the true picture. In 2002, under his leadership, the BKU in Punjab supported Congress to power in Punjab.In 2003 he led a successful Agitation against the Punjab Government (Congress which his party had supported to Power) to get the arrears of sugarcane, by organising a massive Dharna, at National Highway at Dina Nagar, Gurdaspur district, and afterwards Gheraoing DC Gurdaspur Office Complex for continuous 16 days. This resulted in release of all the arrears of 800 million rupees. He participated in Global Forum


texts: on Agricultural Research at Dakar, Senegal. May 2003. He was re-elected Chairman of the KCC for three years in 2003. He led a massive Kisan rally in front of Parliament of India in New Delhi highlighting lower than cost of production procurement prices of food grains, paddy, wheat and sugar cane and payment of arrears of sugar cane in 2003. The Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amarinder <mask> also sat in the agitation along with the farmers.In 2004, he organised a seminar on the significance and importance of the River Water issues. Capt Amarinder <mask>, CM Punjab was honoured for taking a bold step on protecting the rights of Punjab in this regard. In 2005, he was invited to attend the World Agriculture Forum meet at St. Louis, USA from 16–18 May 2005 on the issue "The key to Peace, Security and Growth- Local Regional and Global Agri Food System". He was nominated as a Member of Sub Committee of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission in 2009. BKU, under his leadership supported Congress in Punjab and Haryana for the Lok Sabha Elections. In 2010, he organised meeting of the Kisan Coordination Committee in September 2010 under his Chairmanship in which one of the main issues discussed was regarding land acquisition, which is a burning issue in India at the moment. While discussing the issue of land acquisition, it was stressed that the fact that in India, companies are allowed to purchase thousands of acres of land and earn profits to the tune of crores of rupees whereas on the other hand, land Ceiling Act is

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texts: implemented against the poor farmers who cannot even sustain themselves on whatever little land they have.This clearly shows the callous attitude of the governments towards the farmers. That the Companies, either themselves or through the government, which takes the land from the poor farmers and after acquiring it, gives it to multinational companies at throw away prices who can otherwise also purchase the said land at market price and when it comes to farmers, the land Ceiling Act comes into play. It was also stressed that such a policy should not be made by the Government without consulting the members of the Kisan Coordination Committee and in case the Government went ahead with the draconian laws and policies framed against the farmers, the Kisan Coordination Committee would start its nationwide protest against the Government from its next Convention proposed to be held at Kerala. In 2012, he and his BKU fully supported the Congress party under the command of Capt Amarinder <mask> because of his pro farmer approach, clean governance and administrative skills. In 2012, he led a delegation to Sh Rahul Gandhi to request him that Government should start giving payments to the farmers directly instead through the commission agents (direct payment to farmers). Gandhi was convinced and he deputed a team to visit Punjab to carry out a detailed study on this aspect. In 2012, UPA government had opened up FDI in retail.He led a team to thank Smt Sonia Gandhi ji for this farmer friendly step. He presented a badge of BKU to Smt


texts: Sonia Gandhi ji for this historic step. In 2013, he gave a detailed memorandum to Sh. Jai Ram Ramesh, the then Rural Development Minister  to request him to include small and marginal farmers in the MNREGA. This suggestion was greatly appreciated and this scheme was included in MNREGA as an amendment to the act. In 2014, Sh Rahul Gandhi invited him for suggestions on the Congress Manifesto (2014 polls). He gave very elaborate suggestions to him during a session organised at Ghanaur, Panipat.UPA government had passed a historic Act to protect farmers in land acquisition. But when Modi Government came to power, they wanted to dilute this Act. However, he on behalf of BKU and KCC submitted his strong opposition (2015) to any dilution to this Act before the committee headed by SS. Ahluwalia, MP. In 2014 and 2015 he led a delegation (three times) of BKU to submit memorandum to Punjab Governors (Sh. Shivraj Patel and Prof Kaptan Sinh Solanki) to highlight the plight of Punjab farmers because the then Punjab Government had fully failed in protecting the interests of farmers. In 2016 he led a delegation of BKU to meet the Chief Electoral officer Punjab requesting him to make the election manifesto legally binding document.In 2016/2017 he and his BKU fully supported Capt Amarinder <mask> led Congress party. He canvassed for Congress candidates in many constituencies and highlighted the leadership qualities of Capt Amarinder <mask> and his pro-farmer work done during his last tenure. In 2017 April he organised a National Level


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 meeting of KCC at Chandigarh. From here he launched a uniqu andolan “Jo vada kia vo nibhana padega” to force Modi Government to fulfil his poll promise of implementing Swaminathan Report. This andolan was spread throughout the nation by the KCC. This andolan has spread like a wild fire across nation and has pushed the Modi Government to the corner. Currently, he is National President of BKU and Chairman of the All India Kisan Coordination Committee.References

External links

 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/farmers-split-merits-dunkel-proposals

 https://web.archive.org/web/20120513045257/http://www.chiefkhalsadiwan.com/gurdas.htm

 http://www.docstoc.com/docs/68498100/Commodity-Market-Project-Report

 http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACO440.pdf
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080835/http://www.columbia.edu/~sr793/doc/VVakulabharanam.pdf

 https://web.archive.org/web/20060511204358/http://www.egfar.org/documents/02_-_Meetings/Conferences/GFAR_2003/GFAR2003-00-02.en.pdf

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Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha
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<mask> (born 10 June 1974 in Mazamet, France) is a French former professional road racing cyclist. <mask>' career ended when he spoke out about doping in the Tour de France. Origins
<mask> was born in Mazamet, in the Tarn department. He studied and qualified in civil engineering. He began cycle-racing in 1991 in mountain biking. He started racing on the road in 1992 and won the Tour du Tarn et Garonne in 1995. That same year he won the world military time-trial championship and became national time-trial champion.He turned professional in 1996 for Force Sud and then, when the team failed, for Festina, a watch and clock maker. 1998 and Festina
<mask> became known during the 1998 Festina doping scandal, when the discovery of a carload of drugs being driven to the team's riders in the Tour de France led to evidence that doping was widespread in the team. In September 1998, the newspaper France Soir published statements made to the police. Two convicted riders, Armin Meier and <mask>au, said that <mask> was the only rider on the team not taking drugs. Jean-Luc Gatellier said in L'Équipe:

It's true he's not one of them and he hasn't come out of the same mould. It's true that he refused to 'load the cannon' (the pretty expression used by those who take EPO) these past years, it's true that <mask> doesn't belong to the family of cheats and the corrupted. Moreau's and Meier's court statement brought attention to a rider who had never acquired it through his racing.He wrote in Vélo, a French monthly, that riders who spoke out against quarterly medical checks imposed by the sports ministry after the Festina trial were hypocrites. He said: "That makes me laugh when I hear they're asking for changes to the tests. The truth, however, is that they are obliged

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 to change their behaviour. They talk about 'two-speed cycling' But me, for three years, I've been the second speed. They have ruined three years of my life as a racer and I never said anything." In 1998 he turned down a 270,000 franc-per-month raise (more than 10 times what he was earning at the time) offered to him if he would use Erythropoietin (EPO). His stance against doping led other riders, most notably Lance Armstrong, to harass him for breaking the longstanding code of silence about doping in the sport.1999 Tour

The interest that the Festina trial brought to him led to an invitation to write a column during the 1999 Tour de France for Le Parisien, a newspaper in the same corporate group as the Tour de France itself. Bassons wanted to write about the "suspicious" speeds he was seeing; the average speed at the 1999 Tour was ; no Tour had ever been run faster than . As he later told Bicycling, "The 1999 Tour was supposed to be the "Tour of Renewal," but I was certain that doping had not disappeared." He was not the only rider concerned about how fast the 1999 Tour was going; fellow Frenchman Jean-Cyril Robin who rode for US Postal in 1997-98, told Bassons at one point, "This has got to stop! We can't go on racing like this!" Ian Austen wrote in Procycling:

On the whole his columns were largely innocuous if entertaining looks at life in the peloton. If anything, he sometimes went out of his way to dispel doping rumours.After the stage into Blois, which passed at record average speed, Bassons warned readers: 'Don't get any ideas about the record speed. With a wind like we had, it's normal to ride this fast.' But two columns stuck out. After Lance Armstrong showed that not only had he recovered from cancer, he'd risen to the top of the pack,


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 <mask> wrote that his performances had 'shocked' the peloton. Stage 10 took place on 14 July and was from Sestrieres to Alpe d'Huez. Nobody had been talking to him. The entire peloton planned to ride slow for the first 100 km without telling him.<mask> only heard about this because a mechanic from his team told him. Bassons decided he was "fed up" and decided to ride ahead of the others ("attacked from the start"). As they came to a flat spot,  "all of the teams rode together to close me down". As the teams rode by him, they stared at him.

" . . . and then Lance Armstrong reached me. He grabbed my by the shoulder, because he knew that everyone would be watching, and he knew that at that moment, he could show everyone that he was the boss.He stopped me, and he said what I was saying wasn't true, what I was saying was bad for cycling, that I musn't say it, that I had no right to be a professional cyclist, that I should quit cycling, that I should quit the tour, and finished by saying [*beep*] you. . . . I was depressed for 6 months. I was crying all of the time. I was in a really bad way." - <mask>, from BBC Radio 5, 2012 10 15

<mask> said Armstrong also asked him why he was speaking out; "I told him that I'm thinking of the next generation of riders. Then he said 'Why don't you leave, then?'" Armstrong confirmed the story.On the main evening news on TF1, a French national television station, Armstrong said: "His accusations aren't good for cycling, for his team, for me, for anybody. If he thinks cycling works like that, he's wrong and he would be better off going home." <mask> was shunned by other riders. Giving a television interview at St-Étienne (after Stage 11), he said, a passing rider in his own team said: "Watch what you say!" <mask>

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 said: "I started feeling isolated. In the middle of 170 riders, that's a tough way to live." Race director Jean-Marie Leblanc chastised Bassons for speaking as if "he is the only rider who is beyond reproach."Officials with his own team joined in on the condemnation, calling him a coward who only spoke to burnish his own image. Riders shunned him or at best nodded. He cracked, saying he had not wanted to leave the race but his nerves could not stand it anymore. He said:

The [team doctor] comforted me. We often talk together about the problem of doping and we share the same ideas. I confided in him and I whined [j'ai chialé]. I got to sleep but a bit after midnight I could no longer sleep because of my worries.I went into the corridor, I phoned my coach, Antoine Vayer, and Pascale, my wife. At 5.30am I had my breakfast and I packed my case. I crossed with Marc and he said I was letting down the team. He said a rider could leave the race if he cracked physically but he couldn't accept that one can crack mentally. I said goodbye to everyone but one rider didn't look at me and refused to shake my hand. That hurt. The reporter Jean-Michel Rouet wrote:

Sometimes he was congratulated on his courage, as Daniel Baal, the president of the FFC at the start at Sestrieres.But more often, others pointed at him [on le montrait du doigt], looked elsewhere, if they didn't just insult him. He has a few friends and a heap of enemies. His solitude was the living proof that nothing fundamental has changed in the morals of the milieu. <mask> died at the stake [est mort au bucher], burned by his passion. On official communiqués, he left two words: non partant. The peloton had already forgotten rider number 152. The sports minister, Marie-George Buffet, said: "What a


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 strange role reversal.Rather than fighting against doping, they're fighting its opponent." She wrote to him to sympathise, saying that it was time someone spoke out. <mask>' colleagues in the  team refused to share their prizes with him. Normally teams pool their winnings and share them out by the number of days a rider has survived the race. One rider, Xavier Jan, said: "<mask> rode only for himself and didn't at any time work for the overall good of the team." It had nothing to do with his comments about doping, he said. Thierry Bourguignon, part of another team but earlier a member with Bassons of Force Sud, confirmed: "I was the only one to talk to Bassons...He doesn't listen to anyone. <mask> is an individualist. Even in a race he doesn't easily lend a hand. He rides for himself." Cycling after 1999

<mask> raced again, riding in Germany and Belgium. He said: "I felt a lot of tension. Some didn't talk to me.Others pretended nothing had happened, which is worse. Some say it's just youthful folly, but I feel more adult than them. I'm not the only clean rider but there aren't many who can say 'I don't take drugs'. For most riders, their health is the last of their concerns." He moved to a smaller team, Jean Delatour, but the mistreatment continued. In 2001 at Four Days of Dunkirk, he later told Bicycling, "several guys tried to ride me into the ditch . . . it got dangerous, and I realized that it wasn't worth continuing".He ended his professional road racing career. In her book about the Armstrong doping scandal, Cycle of Lies, Juliet Macur wrote that <mask>' mistreatment was a sign of the power Armstrong had over international cycling at the time. On 20 October 2012 he was suspended for one year by the French Cycling Federation (FFC) for

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