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<mask> (23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on Georges Bizet's Carmen and on the works of Jacques Offenbach, as well as Jules Massenet's Manon. Biography
<mask> was born in the 1st arrondissement of Paris in 1830. As a young man, he began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and comédies en vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront. About 1860, <mask> met Ludovic Halévy, and their collaboration for the stage lasted twenty years. Their most famous collaboration is the libretto for Georges Bizet's Carmen. However, <mask>'s work is most closely tied to the music of Jacques Offenbach, for whom he wrote over a dozen librettos, most of them together with Halévy. The most successful collaborations with Offenbach are La belle Hélène (1864), Barbe-bleue (1866), La Vie parisienne (1866), La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867), and La Périchole (1868).Other librettos by Meilhac include Jules Massenet's Manon (with Philippe Gille) (1884), Hervé's Mam'zelle Nitouche (1883), and Rip, the French version of Robert Planquette's operetta Rip Van Winkle (also with Gille). Their vaudeville play Le réveillon was the basis of the operetta Die Fledermaus. In 1888, <mask> was elected to the Académie française. He died in Paris in 1897. Works

1856: La Sarabande du cardinal, one-act comedy with couplets,

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texts: created at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 29 May. 1856: Satania, comedy in 2 acts with couplets, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 10 October. Garde-toi, je me garde, comédie en vaudeville in 2 acts, Théâtre du Palais-Royal.1857: Le Copiste, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre du Gymnase, 3 August. 1858: Péché caché, ou A quelque chose malheur est bon, one-act comedy, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 11 January. 1858: L'Autographe, one-act comedy, Théâtre du Gymnase, 27 November. 1859: Un petit-fils de Mascarille, comedy in 5 acts and in prose, Théâtre du Gymnase, 8 October. 1859: Le Retour de l'Italie, à-propos (short theatre play) Théâtre du Gymnase, 14 August. 1860: Ce qui plaît aux hommes, comedy in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 6 October. 1860: Une heure avant l'ouverture, prologue in 1 act, with songs, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 31 December.1860: L'Étincelle, one-act comedy, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 31 December. 1861: Le Menuet de Danaë, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 20 April. 1861: La Vertu de Célimène, comedy in 5 acts, Théâtre du Gymnase, 1 May. 1861: L'Attaché d'ambassade, comedy in 3 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville in October (this play served as basis for the operetta The Merry Widow, libretto by Leo Stein and Victor Léon, music by Franz Lehar). Le Café du roi, opéra comique in 1 act, music by Louis Deffès. 1862: L'Échéance, comédy in 1 act (with Arthur Delavigne), Théâtre du


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 Gymnase, 15 March. 1862: Les Moulins à vent, comedy in 3 acts with couplets (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 22 February.1862: Les Brebis de Panurge, one-act comedy (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Vaudeville, 24 November. 1862: La Clé de Métella, one-act comedy (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Vaudeville, 24 November. 1861: Les Bourguignonnes, one-act opéra comique, music by Louis Deffès, Opéra-comique, 16 July. 1863: Le Brésilien, one-act comedy (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 9 May
1863: Le Train de minuit, two-act comedy (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Gymnase, 15 June. 1864: La Belle Hélène, opéra-bouffe in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre des Variétés, 17 December. 1864: Fiammetta, ballet-pantomime in 2 acts (with Ludovic Halévy and Arthur Saint-Léon), music by Léon Minkus, Moscou, Ballet de Bolshoi, 12 (24) novembre 1863; entitled Néméa, ou l'Amour vengé - Paris, Académie impériale de musique, 11 July. 1864: Les Curieuses, one-act comedy (with Arthur Delavigne), Théâtre du Gymnase, 17 October.1864: Le Photographe, one-act comédie en vaudeville (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 24 December. 1865: Fabienne, comedy in 3 acts, Théâtre du Gymnase, 1 September. 1865: Le Singe de Nicolet, one-act comedy with singing (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 29 January. 1865: Les Méprises de Lambinet, one-act comedy with


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 couplets (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 3 December. 1866: Barbe-bleue, opéra bouffe in 3 acts and 4 tableaux (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre des Variétés, 5 February
1866: José Maria, three-act opéra comique (with Eugène Cormon), music by Jules Cohen, Opéra-Comique, 16 July. 1866: La Vie parisienne, opéra bouffe in 5 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 31 October
1867: La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, opéra bouffe in 3 acts and 4 tableaux (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre des Variétés, 12 April
1867: Tout pour les dames, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 8 September
1868: L'Élixir du docteur Cornelius, operetta (with Arthur Delavigne), music by Émile Durand, Fantaisies-Parisiennes, 3 February
1868: La Pénitente, one-act opéra comique (with William Busnach), music by Mme de Grandval, Opéra-Comique, 13 March. 1868: Le Château à Toto, opéra bouffe in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 6 May.1868: Garde-toi, je me garde, comedy in 1 act with songs, revived at the théâtre des Variétés 28 June 1868 (Théâtre du Palais-Royal in 1856). 1868: Fanny Lear, comedy in 5 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Gymnase, 13 August. 1868: La Périchole, opéra bouffe in 2 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre des Variétés, 6


texts: October. 1868: Suzanne et les deux vieillards, comedy in 1 act, Théâtre du Gymnase, 10 Octobre. 1868: Le Bouquet, comedy in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 23 October. 1869: Vert-Vert, opéra comique in 3 acts (with Charles Nuitter), music by Jacques Offenbach, Opéra-Comique, 10 March. 1869: La Diva, opéra bouffe in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, 22 March.1869: Frou-Frou, comedy in 5 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Gymnase, 30 October, published in 1870 by Michel Lévy frères Read online. 1869: L'Homme à la clé, comedy in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 11 August. 1869: Les Brigands, opéra bouffe in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre des Variétés, 10 December. 1871: Tricoche et Cacolet, comédie en vaudeville in 5 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 6 December. 1872: Madame attend Monsieur, comedy in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 8 February. 1872: Le Réveillon, comedy in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 10 September (this play served as a basis for the operetta Die Fledermaus, libretto by Richard Genée and Karl Haffner, music by Johann Strauss II). 1872: Les Sonnettes, comedy in 1 act in prose (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 15 November.1873: Le Roi Candaule, one-act comedy in prose (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du


texts: Palais-Royal, 9 April. 1873: L’Été de la Saint-Martin, one-act comedy in prose (with Ludovic Halévy), Comédie-Française, 1 July. 1873: Toto chez Tata, one-act comedy (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés 25 August. 1874: La Petite Marquise, three-act comedy (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 13 February. 1874: La Mi-carême, folie-vaudeville in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 2 April. 1874: L'Ingénue, one-act comedy (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 24 September. 1874: La Veuve, comedy in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Gymnase, 5 November.1874: La Boule, comedy in 4 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 24 November. 1875: Carmen, opéra comique in four acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Georges Bizet, Opéra-Comique, 3 March. 1875: Le Passage de Vénus, "leçon d'astronomie" in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 4 May. 1875: La boulangère a des écus, opéra bouffe in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre des Variétés, 5 August. 1876: Loulou, folie-vaudeville in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 31 March. 1876: Le Prince, comedy in 4 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 25 November. (year unknown) Paturel, comedy in 1 act.1877: La Cigale, comedy in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 6 October. 1877: Le Fandango, ballet-pantomime in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy and Louis


texts: Mérante), Opéra de Paris, 26 November. 1878: Le Petit Duc, opéra-comique in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Charles Lecocq, Théâtre de la Renaissance, 25 January. 1878: La Cigarette, comedy in 1 act (with Charles Narrey), Gymnase-Dramatique, 20 April. 1879: Le Mari de la débutante, comedy in 4 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 5 February. 1879: Le Petit Hôtel, comedy in 1 act in prose (with Ludovic Halévy), Comédie-Française, 21 February. 1879: La Petite Mademoiselle, opéra comique in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Charles Lecocq, Théâtre de la Renaissance, 12 April.1879: Lolotte, comedy in 1 act (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Vaudeville, 4 October. 1880: La Petite Mère, comedy in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 6 March. 1880: Nina la tueuse, comedy in 1 act in verse (with Jacques Redelsperg), Théâtre du Gymnase, 2 October. 1881: Janot, opéra-comique in 3 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Charles Lecocq, Théâtre de la Renaissance, 22 January. 1881: La Roussotte, comédie en vaudeville, music by Hervé, Charles Lecocq, and Marius Boullard, libretto by Ludovic Halévy, <mask> and Albert Millaud, Théâtre des Variétés, 28 January. 1881: Le Mari à Babette, comedy in 3 acts (with Philippe Gille), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 31 December. 1882: Madame le diable, féerie-opérette in 4 acts and 12 tableaux including a prologue (with Arnold Mortier), music by Gaston Serpette, Théâtre de la


texts: Renaissance, 4 April.1883: Mam'zelle Nitouche, comédie en vaudeville in 3 acts (with Albert Millaud, Théâtre des Variétés, 26 January. 1883 Le Nouveau régime, one-act comedy (with Jules Prével), Théâtre du Gymnase, 11 May. 1883 Ma camarade, five-act play (with Philippe Gille), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 9 October. 1884: Manon, opéra comique in 5 acts and 6 tableaux (with Philippe Gille), music by Jules Massenet, Opéra-comique, 19 January. 1884: Le Cosaque, opéra bouffe (with Albert Millaud and Ernest Blum), music by Hervé, Théâtre des Variétés, 26 January. 1884: La Duchesse Martin, one-act comedy, Comédie-Française, 16 May. 1884: Rip, opéra comique in 3 acts (with Philippe Gille after Henry Brougham Farnie's English-language Rip Van Winkle), music by Robert Planquette, Folies-Dramatiques, 11 November.1886: Les Demoiselles Clochart. 1886: Gotte, comedy in 4 acts, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 2 December. La lettre de Toto, monologue in verse. 1888: Décoré, comedy in 3 acts, Théâtre des Variétés, 27 January. 1888: Pepa, comedy in 3 acts (with Louis Ganderax), Comédie-Française, 31 October. Le Train de minuit. 1890: Margot, comedy in 3 acts, Comédie-Française, 18 January.1890: Ma cousine, comedy in 3 acts, Théâtre des Variétés, 27 October. M. l'Abbé. Brevet supérieur. 1893: Kassya, opera in 5 acts (with Philippe Gille, after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch), music by Léo Delibes, Opéra-Comique, 13 March. 1894: Villégiature, comedy in 1 act,


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<mask> (born Glasgow, Scotland), best known by his current alias <mask>, is a Grammy Nominated Scottish singer, songwriter, and producer whose style combines "hints of R&B, soul, funk and disco." <mask> was signed as a singer-songwriter to Virgin Records at age 14, and his first four singles, released under the name <mask>, all reached Top 40 positions in the UK Singles Chart in the late 1990s. His debut album Finally was released in 2000 on Innocent Records, and that year he was awarded The Young Scottish Achievers Award from Queen Elizabeth II. His first album as <mask>, his Life Is the Music EP, was released in 2008, and he has since appeared as a guest vocalist on tracks by artists such as deep house DJ Miguel Migs. As a producer <mask> has remixed or produced tracks for artists such as Faith Evans, Pleasure P, Kimbra, Gabrielle, Loveable Rogues, The Wanted, and Elyar Fox and has co-written music with songwriters and producers such as No I.D., Mike Elizondo, <mask>, Warren Campbell, Keefus Ciancia, Dee Kay, Karen Poole, Andy Taylor, and <mask>. In 2012 <mask> co-wrote the song "Come into My Head" with New Zealand pop artist Kimbra and Keith Ciancia. The song won two awards at The International Songwriting Competition in 2013.In 2012 he co-wrote a song on the Faith Evans' album R&B Divas, which in 2014 was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 2014, he co-wrote a song on Kimbra's album The Golden Echo, also playing drums on the track. The album went on to peak at No. 43 on The Billboard 200 chart. Released on 24 July 2015, the debut single "Get Stupid" by British entertainer Aston Merrygold featured primary production and co-writing by <mask>. The track peaked at No. 10 on the ARIA Charts and achieving platinum status in Australia.Early life
<mask> was born in Glasgow, Scotland, where he was also raised. He is of Glaswegian and Nigerian

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 heritage. He attended Saint Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, and began writing music as a teenager under his full name <mask>, or simply "<mask>." Music career

1998–2001: As <mask> was signed to a recording contract with Virgin Records UK in 1998 at age 14, after appearing on the BBC Television programme, The Fame Game. Virgin recorded several songs he had written, and Osuji began releasing singles on both Streamline Records and Virgin UK under the name <mask>. His first four singles all reached Top 40 positions in the UK Singles Chart. The first release was "This Boy" (UK #34) in August 1998.His second single, "Over You" (his biggest hit to date, reaching UK #11), was released in 1999, and taken from his debut album, Finally, released in 2000 on Innocent Records. His third single was "It's All About You" (UK #34), whilst his fourth "Let It Be Me" (UK #15), was a cover version of the song first made famous by The Everly Brothers. At the time he was still in secondary school, and revising for his forthcoming GCSEs. In 2000 he was awarded 'The Young Scottish Achievers Award', from Queen Elizabeth II, at Edinburgh's, Holyrood Palace. 2002–08: Early production
By the fall of 2004 he was working as a singer-songwriter and producer under the name <mask>. His style combines "hints of R&B, soul, funk and disco." Working in genres such as grime, hip hop, and R&B, he has utilized the sounds of house as well.<mask> has remixed or produced tracks for UK artists such as Craig David, Sugababes, Richie Dan, Artful Dodger, and So Solid, and has co-written music with producers and songwriters such as Pam Sheyne (Christina Aguilera), <mask> (Seal) and Rick Mitra (Lu Lu, Christina Aguilera). 2008-9: Salted Music releases
As of 2007 Osuji was based in both London and Los Angeles. He released the solo EP Life Is the Music on 19 August 2008 on Salted Music, a

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 dance music label based in San Francisco and operated by Miguel Migs. Released on both CD and 12" vinyl, Life Is the Music was his first solo release under the name <mask><mask>. That year the EP's single "Life Is the Music" was included on the compilation Stereo Sushi, Vol. 14, released on Hed Kandi. About "Life Is the Music,"  the song "is a midtempo soul stomper with classic hip hop and R&B flavor."Around 2008 he was collaborating with Andy Taylor of Duran Duran, who described him as "the best part of <mask>, the funkiest part of Prince and the elaborate part of Sly Stone," comparing the sound of their collaborations to Power Station. He moved to Los Angeles in 2009, and was signed as an artist to Warner Bros by notable record producer Lenny Waronker. After signing to Salted Music he began appearing as a guest vocalist as <mask><mask>, first on "HOT!" by Audioslam in 2009. This was followed in 2010 by "Burnin' Up", released by Miguel Migs on Salted Music. Migs later released a remix of <mask>'s "Life Is the Music," and in 2011 <mask> contributed vocals to Migs' song "Changin'," which Migs' included on his studio album Outside the Skyline. 2012–14: Recent years

He moved back to the UK in 2011.In 2012 <mask> co-wrote the song "Come into My Head" with New Zealand pop artist Kimbra and Keith Ciancia. The song was released on Vows, a full-length studio album by Kimbra. "Come into My Head" won first place for both performance and music video at The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) in 2013. The song has received positive reviews from critics. Cole Waterman of PopMatters stated that the song has "funk swagger," and Erin Brady of Interview magazine wrote: "Blending elements of pop and '70s funk with expansive vocals, 'Come Into My Head' ricochets from relative calm to full-blown groove as effortlessly as it does from interior to

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 exterior, imagination to actuality." "Come into My Head" was also featured during the end credits and on the soundtrack for the 2013 film The Heat. In 2013 <mask> released two official remixes: "Change Your Life (Sonny J Mason Radio Mix)" by Little Mix, and "What a Night (ft. <mask>)" by the band Loveable Rogues.Loveable Rogues announced the release of their debut album This and That for 11 August 2014. The album was recorded with <mask>. He has also collaborated with artists such as Swedish house DJ and producer Alex P, and has had recent collaborations with musician and songwriter Mike Elizondo and No I.D. In 2014, he co-wrote a song on Kimbra's album The Golden Echo, also playing drums on the track. The album went on to peak at No. 5 on both the New Zealand Albums chart and the Australia Albums chart. It also reached No.43 on Billboards The Billboard 200 chart. Released on 24 July 2015, the debut single "Get Stupid" by British entertainer Aston Merrygold featured primary production and co-writing by <mask>. The track peaked at No. 10 on the ARIA Charts in Australia and went on to reach platinum certification

Personal life
As of 2012 <mask> was based in London. <mask> is married to Tanya they have been together since 2003. Awards and nominations

Discography

Albums

Singles

Remixes
2013: "What a Night (ft. <mask>) <mask> J <mask> Remix" by Loveable Rogues
2013: "Change Your Life (Sonny J <mask> Radio Mix)" by Little Mix

Compilations
2008: Stereo Sushi, Vol. 14 (Hed Kandi/Stereo Sushi) – track "Life Is the Music"

Guest appearances

Production and writing credits

Further reading
<mask> J <mask> Discography at Allmusic
Sonny J <mask> Discography at Discogs
<mask>ji Discography at Discogs

See also
Salted Music

References

External links

Living people
21st-century Scottish male singers
Musicians from Glasgow
Year of birth missing

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<mask> (born May 18, 1963) is a Canadian former professional hockey player, who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1983 until 2000. A versatile player, he was able to play both the forward and defense positions. A former head coach of the Springfield Falcons of the American Hockey League (2002–04), aside from his hockey career, <mask> has  worked as an actor, appearing in several film and television roles. <mask> was a valued teammate of Wayne Gretzky during their years playing together for the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings, where he served as an enforcer. In 2000, his on-ice assault of Donald Brashear with his stick, in which Brashear suffered a severe concussion, led to <mask>'s suspension and eventual retirement from the NHL. Biography

Early life and hockey career
<mask> was born in Hamilton, Ontario, but grew up near Cayuga, Haldimand County, Ontario. He made his NHL debut in October 1983 with the Pittsburgh Penguins, but rose to fame after a trade in September 1985 brought him to the Edmonton Oilers.His arrival and physical presence soon made Edmonton's incumbent enforcer Dave Semenko expendable, and <mask> inherited the title of "Wayne Gretzky's bodyguard". This title would follow him to Los Angeles in 1988, when both he and Gretzky, along with Mike Krushelnyski, were obtained by the Los Angeles Kings. With the Kings, <mask>'s bruising style made him a fan favorite; but he strove to improve his game beyond being primarily known as an enforcer, earning great respect around the league for his hard work ethic, his fine team play, and his articulate intelligence off the ice. In the 1992–93 NHL regular season, <mask> led all defensemen in shorthanded goals with three. The Kings reached the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals against the Montreal Canadiens, but in Game 2 with the Kings

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 up 2–1, <mask> was caught with an illegal stick, contributing to the Canadiens game-tying goal. Montreal ending up winning that game in overtime and ultimately took the series in five games. <mask> otherwise had ten points in the playoffs, and was the only King to score during the final game.Some suggested that he was the second most dominant King after Gretzky in the playoffs. <mask> was then traded the following off-season in an August 1993 trade sent him to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for offensive forward Shawn McEachern; however, his stay in Pittsburgh would be brief (only 47 games). The Kings re-acquired him on February 16, 1994. Back with the Kings, he assisted on Gretzky's goal which broke Gordie Howe's all-time goal-scoring record. On March 14, 1996, <mask> left the Kings' organization for good, traded to the New York Rangers as part of a multi-player deal. After completing the 1995–96 season with the Rangers, <mask> returned to the West Coast after being acquired by the San Jose Sharks in August 1996. He spent two injury-plagued seasons with the Sharks before returning to Edmonton as a free agent in October 1998.Confined to a part-time role in his second stint in Edmonton, he left after one season and signed with the Boston Bruins in December 1999. As a Bruin, his NHL career would come to a sudden and infamous end in a game against the Vancouver Canucks on February 21, 2000. Assault conviction
In a game between the Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks in Vancouver on February 21, 2000, McSorley swung his stick and hit Donald Brashear in the head with 4.6 seconds left in the game. Brashear fell backwards and hit his head hard on the ice, losing consciousness and suffering a Grade III concussion. <mask> was charged with assault and suspended by the NHL for the remainder of the

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 1999–2000 season (including the playoffs), missing 23 games. On October 6, 2000, Judge William Kitchen of the Provincial Court of British Columbia found him guilty of assault with a weapon for his attack on Brashear. He was sentenced to 18 months probation.The trial was the first for an on-ice attack by an NHL player since Dino Ciccarelli's 1988 trial. After his assault conviction, his NHL suspension was extended to one full year through February 21, 2001. It was the longest suspension for an on-ice incident in modern NHL history. <mask>'s contract expired during the suspension, and he would never play in another NHL game. He appeared in 14 games for the Grand Rapids Griffins of the IHL in 2000-01, and retired at the end of the season. United Kingdom
During his suspension, he attempted to continue playing hockey in the United Kingdom with the London Knights, where his elder brother Chris was coaching, but this move was blocked by the International Ice Hockey Federation, in deference to the NHL suspension. A similar intention to play in Germany for the Munich Barons also failed, but he then played for the Grand Rapids Griffins in their final IHL season, dressing for 14 games.In the autumn of 2001, following the completion of his suspension, McSorley again looked towards the other side of the Atlantic. He considered purchasing the then struggling Cardiff Devils team with his brother, in order to pursue a new player-coach role and to develop interest in the sport in the UK. McSorley appeared as a guest player for both Great Britain and the Cardiff Devils during a series of games in November 2001, but the business deal failed to materialise. Coaching career
McSorley coached the American Hockey League team the Springfield Falcons between 2002 and 2004. Film and TV career
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 also appeared in four movies in small roles: Bad Boys (1995), Forget Paris (1995), Con Air (1997) and Do Me A Favor (1997). During the 2005–06 NHL season, <mask> worked for Fox Sports West in Los Angeles, providing in-studio analysis of games involving the Los Angeles Kings or the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He provided color commentary for the San Jose Sharks games on FSN Bay Area during 2006–07 NHL season.<mask>'s time in that role ended mysteriously midway through the Sharks playoff series with Detroit, when the Sharks announced McSorley would not return for a Game 3 broadcast for personal reasons. No further explanation was given. He appeared in one episode of CSI: Miami in 2005 as rink manager Andrew Greven. On July 30, 2007, <mask> guest starred on ABC Family's Greek as himself playing a hockey goaltender. In February 2008, <mask> was featured as one of the pros on Pros vs Joes on Spike TV. Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards referred to <mask> in her song "I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory", with the lyric, "You're the Great One, I'm <mask>..., I make the dough, but you get the glory." <mask> appears in the song's music video.<mask> is currently a TV analyst for Sportsnet and occasionally Hockey Night in Canada. He is a regular at Staples Center during Kings hockey games. Personal life
<mask> currently resides in Hermosa Beach, California. He married beach volleyball player Leanne Schuster in August 2002. They have three children. Awards and achievements
1986–87 – NHL – Stanley Cup (Edmonton)
1987–88 – NHL – Stanley Cup (Edmonton)
1990–91 – NHL Plus-Minus Award

Career statistics
Bold indicates led league

Transactions
July 30, 1982 – Signed as a free agent with the Pittsburgh Penguins. September 11, 1985 – Traded by the Pittsburgh Penguins, along with Tim Hrynewich and Craig Muni

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 to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for Gilles Meloche.August 9, 1988 – Traded by the Edmonton Oilers, along with Wayne Gretzky and Mike Krushelnyski, to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, Los Angeles' 1989 1st round draft choice, Los Angeles' 1991 1st round draft choice, Los Angeles' 1993 1st round draft choice and $15 million. August 27, 1993 – Traded by the Los Angeles Kings to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Shawn McEachern. February 16, 1994 – Traded by the Pittsburgh Penguins, along with Jim Paek, to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Shawn McEachern and Tomas Sandstrom. March 14, 1996 – Traded by the Los Angeles Kings, along with Jari Kurri and Shane Churla, to the New York Rangers in exchange for Ray Ferraro, Ian Laperrière, Mattias Norström, Nathan LaFayette and New York's 1997 4th round choice. August 20, 1996 – Traded by the New York Rangers to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Jayson More, Brian Swanson and San Jose's 1997 4th round choice. October 1, 1998 – Signed as a free agent with the Edmonton Oilers. December 9, 1999 – Signed as a free agent with the Boston Bruins.See also
List of NHL players with 2000 career penalty minutes

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<mask> (born 1935, in Surabaya, Indonesia) is a Catholic scripture scholar and a laicized priest. Since 1977 he has been prominent in his public opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church on the impossibility of ordaining women to the priesthood. In 1998 he resigned from his priestly ministry in protest against <mask>’s decrees Ordinatio sacerdotalis and Ad Tuendam Fidem which prohibited further discussion of the women priests’ issue in the Catholic Church. Early years
Wijngaards was born on 30 September 1935 from Dietze van Hoesel and Dr <mask>, both Dutch citizens, in the Indonesian city of Surabaya. During World War II, his father was made to work on the infamous Burma Railway in Thailand, while <mask> with his mother and three brothers were prisoners of war in Malang, Surakarta and Ambarawa. The family was repatriated to the Netherlands after the war. Studies
<mask> joined the Mill Hill Missionaries and was ordained a priest in 1959.In Rome he obtained the Licentiate of Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Doctorate of Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University (1963). His studies focused on  The Formulas of the Deuteronomic Creed (dissertation, Brill, Leiden 1963). Further research resulted in The Dramatisation of Salvific History in the Deuteronomic Schools (Brill, Leiden 1969) and a 360-page commentary on the book of Deuteronomy in the well-known Dutch series of commentaries published by Romen & Zonen (Roermond 1971). Services in India
Wijngaards taught Sacred Scripture at St John's Major Seminary in Hyderabad, India (1963–1976). During that time he was instrumental in founding Amruthavani communication centre, Jeevan Jyoti theological institute for religious women and Jyotirmai, the statewide planning body for the Catholic dioceses of Andhra Pradesh. He served as part-time lecturer at the National Biblical Catechetical and Liturgical Centre in Bangalore and was, for a number of years,

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Pope John Paul II
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 a member of the National Advisory Council of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India. At the same time he produced a number of books on Sacred Scripture including his well-known Background to the Gospels.Research on the ministries convinced him that the exclusion of women must be attributed to cultural obstacles, not to Scripture or Tradition. He urged the Indian hierarchy to start a process of exploring the full ordination of women. Worldwide responsibilities
After a spell as Vicar General of the Mill Hill Missionaries in London (1976–1982), he became Director of Housetop, an international centre of adult faith formation (1982–2009). During that time (1983–1998) he was also Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Missionary Institute London which was affiliated to Louvain Catholic University and Middlesex University. During this time he pioneered the ‘Walking on Water’ series of video courses for adult faith formation which were co-produced by 15 countries in all continents. He wrote the scripts for nine half-hour film stories. He also produced the acclaimed 2 ½ - hour film Journey to the Centre of Love of which he was both the scriptwriter and the executive producer (see awards below).Ministry for women
In 1977 Wijngaards wrote Did Christ Rule out Women Priests? (McCrimmon, Great Wakering) in response to Inter Insigniores (1976), the declaration by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith in which the Vatican's reasons for excluding women are clearly spelled out. In the decades that followed Rome reiterated its inability to confer ordination on women, culminating in Ordinatio sacerdotalis (1995) and subsequent documents by which the discussion by theologians was curtailed. In protest, Wijngaards resigned from his priestly ministry on 17 September 1998. His request for official reduction to the status of a lay person was acknowledged by Rome on 21 February 2000. On the 27th of May he married Jacqueline Clackson in a simple


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 Church ceremony. Wijngaards has continued publishing his reasons for advocating the ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood in a series of books, notably The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church  and No Women in Holy Orders?In 1999 he established a website that has grown out to be the largest internet library with documentation on the ordination of women. Wijngaards says that speaking out does not undermine accepting the teaching authority of the Pope. He firmly opposes the illegal ordination of women outside the established structure of the Church, as is done in the so-called Roman Catholic Women Priests movement. Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research
Since 2005 <mask> has focused also on other issues he feels need reform in the Catholic Church. He created a pastoral website to deal with the sexual code. He drafted the Catholic Scholars' Declaration on Authority in the Church which gained international support. His Centre was reshaped to become the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research.Its main purpose is to publish independent Catholic scholarly assessments as 'a progressive theological think tank'. The Institute submitted a 'Documented Appeal' to Pope Francis, urging him to restore the ancient ordained diaconate for women. In 2016 he initiated the Catholic Scholars' Statement on the Ethics of Using Contraceptives which was launched on a United Nations platform. Awards

Grand Prix,  as scriptwriter for Journey to the Centre of Love, Tenth International Catholic Film Festival, Warsaw 1995. The Marga Klompé Award, 2005. Bibliography

 The Formulas of the Deuteronomic Creed (Brill, Leiden 1963)
 The Dramatization of Salvific History in the Deuteronomic Schools (Brill, Leiden, 1969)
 Background to the Gospels  (St Paul's, Delhi 1970)
 God's Word to Israel (TPI, Ranchi 1971)
 Did Christ Rule Out Women Priests? (McCrimmons, Great Wakering 1977)
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 Reading God’s Word to Others (ATC, Bangalore 1981)
 Experiencing Jesus (Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame 1981)
 Inheriting the Master’s Cloak (Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame 1985)
 The Gospel of John and his Letters (Michael Glazier, Wilmington 1986)
 The Spirit in John (Michael Glazier, Wilmington 1987)
 God Within Us (Collins, London 1988)
 My Galilee My People (Housetop, London 1990)
 For The Sake of His People (McCrimmons, Great Wakering 1990)
 Together in My Name (Housetop, London 1991)
 I Have No Favourites (Housetop, London 1992)
 How to Make Sense of God (Sheed & Ward, Kansas City 1995)
 The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church.Unmasking a Cuckoo’s Egg Tradition  (Darton, Longman & Todd, London 2001)
 No Holy Orders for Women? The Ancient Women Deacons (Canterbury Press, London 2002; Herder & Herder, New York 2006)
 The Ordained Women Deacons of the Church's First Millennium (Canterbury Press, London 2011)
 AMRUTHA. What the Pope's man found out about the Law of Nature (Author House, Bloomington 2011)
 What they don't teach you in Catholic College. Women in the priesthood and the mind of Christ (Acadian House, Lafayette)
 Ten Commandments for Church Reform. Memoir of a Catholic Priest (Acadian House, Lafayette 2021)

References

Who’s Who in the World 1996 (Marquis Publications), p. 508. Who’s Who in Catholic Life 2009 (Gabriel Communications, Manchester), p. 391. External links
 <mask>s life story
 Publications by <mask>s online
  Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research
  Ten Commandments for Church Reform

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<mask> (; born 6 June 1978) is a British musician and actor, best known for being the co-frontman with Pete Doherty of the garage rock band The Libertines. He was the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things, and in 2010 debuted a solo album. In 2014 he announced the creation of his new band, The Jackals. Early life
<mask> was born in Basingstoke, north Hampshire, England, on 6 June 1978, and spent most of his childhood in nearby Whitchurch, Hampshire. In a September 2004 interview with Blender Magazine, Barât mentioned having a French, Russian and Polish ethnic background. As a youth, Barât divided his time between his divorced parents. His father, a former artist, worked in an armaments factory, and his mother, Chrissie, was part of the commune-dwelling counterculture and a member of peace groups such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.Barât spent part of his childhood living with his mother on a commune in Somerset. He has one sister, actress-turned-singer Lucie Barât, who played Helen's handmaiden in the 2004 film Troy, founded publishing house and artistic organization Little Episodes, and is currently the lead singer of The Au Revoirs. He also has three half-siblings, one step brother and one step sister. In 1996, Barât was studying for a drama degree at Brunel University at the campus in St. Margarets, Twickenham. Although he dropped out halfway through, during his time he became well-acquainted with Pete Doherty's sister, Amy-Jo and through her, Barât met Doherty. They soon developed an intense friendship based on a shared interest in music and songwriting. Barât and Doherty also developed a shared mythology in which

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 they were on a ship called 'The Albion' sailing to 'Arcadia'.After both dropped out of university, they formed The Libertines. The band in its final incarnation included bassist John Hassall and drummer Gary Powell. <mask> and Doherty were co-frontmen, sharing songwriting, vocal and guitar duties. Career

The Libertines

The Libertines' first album, Up the Bracket, was released in 2002 to critical acclaim. The band appeared on the cover of NME before the album was released and rapidly rose to fame in the UK. Referring to their relationship in a January 2010 interview, Barât said, '...it's a deep love. Deep love does funny things to people'.In 2003, Doherty's addiction to heroin and crack cocaine led Barât to ask him not to participate in the band's next tour. When Doherty discovered that The Libertines had left without him to perform in Japan he broke into Barât's Mayfair flat and stole various items, including an antique guitar and an NME Award. He was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison (this sentence was later shortened to two months). Barât warmly welcomed Doherty back to The Libertines on the day of his release, and they later performed an impromptu "Freedom Gig" at the Tap 'n' Tin club in Chatham, Kent on 8 October 2003. A photograph of the gig, taken by Roger Sargent, adorns The Libertines' self-titled second album, The Libertines, and the cover of Sargent's and Anthony Thornton's book, The Libertines Bound Together. Doherty's drug addiction continued while the band worked on their second album (the aforementioned The Libertines) in 2004, which strained his relationship with Barât. Bodyguards were needed in the recording


texts: sessions, allegedly to prevent Barât and Doherty from physically assaulting each other (though this is claimed to be an exaggeration of the press in Bound Together) and to keep Doherty's hangers-on away from him.Before the release of the album in 2004, relations between Barât and Doherty reached a breaking point and Doherty was once again prevented from performing with the band before addressing his addictions. Doherty did not take the ultimatum well, especially as The Libertines continued touring without him to fulfill contractual obligations. What was intended as a short leave of absence turned into something more permanent, as Doherty formed a new band, Babyshambles, and the Libertines officially disbanded after their final gig in December 2004. On 15 May 2009, Barât, Doherty and Powell of the Libertines played on stage together for the first time since the split in 2004. The Libertines (minus Denmark-residing bassist John Hassall) came together for a tribute gig for their late promoter, Johnny Sedassy. The six song set, which included "What a Waster", "Up the Bracket" and "Death on the Stairs", was played after Babyshambles appeared on stage. Barât explained that the show was a 'one off', although he admitted that the likelihood of more shows could not be ruled out.Barât also expressed his desire to get on stage with Doherty again, although perhaps not until 2010. Powell also confirmed that he'd be interested in a full reunion, although he wished to "readdress old ghosts first". The Libertines delighted their fans by announcing that year that they would be headline artists at the 2010 Reading and Leeds Festivals. Their set and the


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 characteristic chemistry between the pair, was for many people one of the highlights of the weekend. In April 2014 the Libertines announced they would again reform for a show at London's Hyde Park. In November 2014 the band signed a record deal with Virgin EMI Records, and released their third album, Anthems for Doomed Youth, on 11 September 2015, leading to Headline slots at Reading and Leeds, T in the Park as well as a surprise slot at Glastonbury. They toured across 2016 and 2017 finishing with a tour across the seaside.Dirty Pretty Things

On 15 September 2005, it was announced that Barât was forming a new band. His bandmates included former Libertines drummer Gary Powell; Anthony Rossomando, who filled in as guitarist following Doherty's departure from the group; and Didz Hammond, formerly of The Cooper Temple Clause, on bass. It was later announced that the band's name was "Dirty Pretty Things". The group played their first shows in Italy and Paris, France, in October 2005, before recording their debut album in November 2005 in Los Angeles, California. This was produced by Dave Sardy, who has also worked with Supergrass, The Dandy Warhols, Jet, Marilyn Manson, Rolling Stones, and Oasis. The album – entitled Waterloo to Anywhere – was released on 8 May 2006 in the UK and 8 August 2006 in the US. Their first studio recorded demo, "Bang Bang You're Dead", was released on their website in the form of a flash video.This song was released as their debut single on 24 April 2006 and reached number 5 in the UK single chart. This coincided with the latter part of their first tour of the United Kingdom, which spanned from 26 February to 24 May


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 2006. Their debut album, Waterloo to Anywhere, was released on 8 May 2006, and reached number 3 in the UK album chart. They have since released "Deadwood" and "Wondering". The band were forced to postpone their Real Fits fundraiser gig, which had been set to take place at the London Hackney Round Chapel on 20 June 2008 as Barât was rushed to hospital on 17 June with acute pancreatitis. He was released from hospital on 22 June. The band released their new single, "Tired of England", on 23 June 2008, and their album, Romance at Short Notice, a week later on 30 June.Their album failed to chart highly despite heavy touring schedules. Powell wrote in the band's message board that it had been a difficult year. On 1 October 2008, Dirty Pretty Things split up, though they finished their final tour which began in Glasgow on 4 October and ended in London on 20 December. Solo work and contributions
In 2005, Barât modelled for clothing brand J. Lindeberg, along with Juliette Lewis. In 2008, Tim Burgess stated that he and Barât had a supergroup The Chavs and planned to record their debut album in August that year. A release never happened. Barât toured as a solo artist with Glasvegas, performing with them at Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations on 31 December 2008, and at the Popscene in San Francisco on 8 January 2009.On 14 January 2009, Barât supported Glasvegas with a solo show during their gig at the Los Angeles Troubadour
. Barât played his first headline solo shows on 6 and 7 March 2009 at the Wakefield Escobar. He also played at the KU Bar in Stockton-on-Tees on 8 March. On 9 June 2009, Barât debuted two new songs, "So Long" and "Monday Morning" at a


texts: solo show at Dunfermline's Carnegie Hall. On 2 September, Barât confirmed his intentions to release a solo album. Barât also produced the debut EP "Scapegoat" of London-based singer-songwriter Kieran Leonard which was released in October 2009. He released his self-titled, first solo album on 4 October 2010.In an interview with C.B.Liddell of Metropolis magazine he described the album as "the first album I've done that is kind of introspective rather than escapist." In the same interview, he also talked about "stepping away from big loud guitars" as the album is stylistically more diverse and less rock-oriented than previous work. The release of Barât's first solo album also coincided with the release of Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine, an autobiography documenting his years in The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things. In January 2013 Barât announced that guitarist Johnny Marr (formerly of The Smiths) and drummer Andy Burrows (formerly of Razorlight and We Are Scientists) would feature on his second solo album, due for release in 2013. Barât revealed demo versions of tracks 'War of the Roses' and 'Victory Gin' from his second solo effort online. Also in 2013, Barât wrote the track "The dark, it comes" for French singer Vanessa Paradis' album Love Songs, on which they duet. He is part of the supergroup The Bottletop Band with Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys), Andy Nicholson (Arctic Monkeys), Drew McConnell (Babyshambles) and Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals).The band's single, "The Fall of Rome", was released in December 2010. In 2014, Barât contributed the song "Love Is Not on Trial", co-written with Davey Ray Moor, for Marc Almond's


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 album The Dancing Marquis. He also contributed vocals and guitar to the track. <mask> and the Jackals
In August 2013, Barât announced that his second solo album was complete and he had finished recording it with Joby Ford of The Bronx. He expressed that it was a return to guitar orientated rock stating "It would seem that my relationship with my guitar is all patched up." Later he said that he wouldn't release the new material until he'd formed a new band. In early 2014, Barât announced that he would search for a new band online via Facebook.From over 1000 applications for the positions of rhythm guitarist, drummer and bass guitar, Billy Tessio, Jay Bone and Adam Claxton were chosen, respectively. The band was named The Jackals, and their first live concert was on 15 May 2014 in London's XOYO. On 16 February 2015, Barât's previously recorded material was released through Cooking Vinyl with small changes, as the debut album of <mask> and The Jackals under the title Let It Reign. It has a score of 67 on review aggregator Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Acting and TV

In 2005, Barât and his friend, Adam Green of The Moldy Peaches appeared in a documentary following the pair on a night out in London. On 7 July 2006, Barât announced that he would become the fifth mentor in the Road to V competition, which involved a UK search for the best unsigned music talent in the UK, with the winner opening V Festival in either Chelmsford or Staffordshire. In 2008, he acted in the British film Telstar, in the role of Rock'n'Roll singer Gene Vincent.The film premiered at the London Film Festival on 25 October 2008 and was released on 19

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 June 2009. He also featured in an advertisement for BBC Two's The Culture Show, being asked about British culture. A longer version of his interview can be found on the Culture Show website. In May 2009 Barât featured as himself in a pilot episode for Svengali, alongside former manager Alan McGee and Welsh actor Jonathan Owen, and went on to appear as himself in the film version of Svengali (2013), directed by John Hardwick. On 25 August 2009, a short video entitled "Two British Dudes" featuring Barât and fellow musician Har Mar Superstar was released on crappyholidays.net. In January 2010, he appeared in the stage play Fool For Love alongside actress Sadie Frost. The play ran until March 2010 at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London.Barât also narrated a new artist documentary, Mark Donne's The Rime of the Modern Mariner. The film had its world premiere at St Anne's Church in Limehouse, East London, during the ninth East End Film Festival. Barât's former Dirty Pretty Things bandmate Anthony Rossomando composed the score for the film. Barât made his opera debut in 2012, as Nero in Pop'pea at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris; the show was a rock adaptation of Il Nerone. In the same year he played the role of Gavin Metcalf in Dan Turner's film The Man Inside, and had a cameo appearance on the BBC Three TV series Dead Boss. Personal life
In 2005, Barât underwent surgery to remove a tumour behind his ear and spent several weeks recovering from the operation. The tumour and resulting surgery left the singer partially deaf.Barât's girlfriend, Edie Langley, gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy named Eli on 9 December 2010. Their second


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Guitars
Gibson Melody Maker
Gibson Les Paul Junior (Pickguard Removed)
Gibson SG
Fender Mustang
Epiphone Dot
Epiphone Coronet

Amps
Vox AC30

Pedals
MXR Dyna Comp (sometimes replaced by a MXR Micro Amp)
BOSS TU-2 Chromatic Tuner

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Albums

Solo
<mask> (4 October 2010) UK No. 52

<mask> and The Jackals
Let It Reign (16 February 2015) UK No. 47

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English rock guitarists
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English male stage actors
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English people of Polish descent
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People from Muswell Hill
People from Whitchurch, Hampshire
English DJs
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<mask> (13 June 1816 – 4 November 1852) was a Danish landscape painter of the Copenhagen School of painters who was educated under the guidance of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Around 1840, he was part of the emerging National Romantic landscape painting scene in Denmark but as a result of his over-dramatic and excessively natural style, he did not fit the aesthetics and the ideology of the period. After being widely criticized, he turned his back on the artistic establishment and passed into near oblivion. In 1852, when only 36 years old, he died from typhus. Posthumously, half a century after his death, his reputation was restored, prompted by the art historian Karl Madsen, and today he is considered to be one of the leading Danish landscape painters of his day, the peer of his more famous contemporaries P. C. Skovgaard and Johan Lundbye. Early life and education
As the youngest of 15 children, <mask> was born on 13 June 1816 in Assens on the Danish island of Funen. His parents were <mask>, a successful merchant who had been the richest man in town until the national bankruptcy in 1813, and his third wife Caroline Dorthea (née Møller).Dankvart soon showed a gift for drawing. Another boy in Assens at that time, born the same year as Dankvart, was Jens Adolf Jerichau, who also was to become a prominent artist. He later commented on young <mask>'s remarkable gifts and dedication: "While I was fooling around with the other boys, he would be sitting at home with his mother and sister drawing, and you can hardly imagine anyone with a greater disposition for art than that boy." <mask>'s godfather therefore saw to it that in 1831, at the age of 15, the boy was sent to Copenhagen to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Under the supervision of his professors, J. L. Lund and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, he trained to become a history painter, the most prestigious artistic

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 discipline at that time, and also painted some portraits. He was talented and successful, winning several awards before he turned 21. Turn to landscaping
<mask> also had private lessons with Christen Købke, another professor at the Academy.He also met a group of fellow Academy students who were studying landscape painting, still a relatively unappreciated discipline at the Academy. Among them were P. C. Skovgaard and Johan Lundbye who became his close friends and inspired him to take still more interest in landscaping. Alone or together with them, he made frequent excursions to the countryside north of Copenhagen, particularly the area around Fredensborg and Jægersborg Dyrehave. There he made detailed sketches and studies of nature. Painting the other Denmark

Funen and Brandsø

Unlike most of his contemporaries, <mask> never went abroad to further his studies, although he applied for travel scholarships on three occasions. Instead, he travelled widely in Denmark. His native island of Funen remained a focal point for his artistic attention throughout his career, particularly the area around Assens where he had grown up.A place of particular importance to him was the small manor house of Rugaard which he visited almost every summer from 1837 to 1847 to paint. Several times he also sought out the small island of Brandsø in the Little Belt, the narrow strait between Funen and Jutland, where he found a near perfect landscape to his liking with dolmens and distant coasts. Across Jutland

<mask>'s appetite for exploring the provinces also brought him to Jutland, a rare destination for painters at the time. He was the first to paint the gentle landscapes along the east coast or the moors of central Jutland. Martinus Rørbye, often described as the most adventurous of the Danish Golden Age painters, had visited Jutland on the way to Norway back in 1830 and made it all the way to remote

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 district of Thy in north-western Jutland. However, he had found the landscape unsuitable for painting due to the lack of trees. This did not bother <mask> who had been struck by the short stories of Steen Steensen Blicher, a distant relative of his.Blicher's descriptions of the stark beauty of the vast, brown-colored heaths of mid Jutland, of its people and almost exotic dialects, had a mesmerizing effect on the painter. <mask> first visited the east coast around Aarhus in 1838 and later that year he was present when Blicher arranged his first National Awakening Meeting at Himmelbjerget. He went on to paint the heath and, when he returned in 1843, he went all the way to the west coast. The emerging National Romantic landscape era

In the years around 1840, the influential art historian and critic Niels Laurits Høyen campaigned for nationalistic art, reflecting a tendency which was seen all over Europe. In Denmark, people enthusiastically read Bernhard Severin Ingemann's historic novels and Adam Oehlenschläger while N. F. S. Grundtvig's sermons were drawing large crowds. According to Høyen, painters, too, should contribute to this national awakening. Instead of turning to the Mediterranean area, its landscapes and its people, and to classical mythology, for inspiration, they should paint what defined their native Denmark: the Danish landscape and its people, Danish history, and Norse mythology.Lundbye, Sjovgaard and Dankvart had for years preferred Danish subjects and became the leading proponents of the emerging era of National Romantic painting. Adversity and withdrawal

However, as time progressed, <mask> increasingly turned his back on what was considered good taste by Copenhagen's artistic establishment. Symptomatically, Lundbye and Skovgaard often attended Grundtvig's sermons while <mask> preferred to read Blicher. It was not enough just to paint the Danish landscape in

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 order to satisfy the aesthetics and ideology of the time. Good painting, it was believed, should not merely document the scenery at a specific locale. It was supposed to be a carefully composed representation of an idealized picture of the nation and the national character. The physicist Hans Christian Ørsted had launched the theory that people reflected the landscape they lived in.The Danish national character, he maintained, was calm and proud because the Danish landscape was so undramatic and the climate so mild. <mask> could not, or would not, meet these demands. Painting the browning moorlands and not just the rolling, green hills of eastern Denmark, he was judged to be painting the wrong Denmark. He also presented a rougher, less sophisticated, image of the Danish countryside; one which was more dramatic and more natural. The critics reacted strongly against him. <mask>, whose reserved and introvert nature had been observed by Jerichau during his childhood, stopped exhibiting at the annual Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition and increasingly withdrew from Copenhagen's art scene. In 1848, he moved back to Funen, settling in the little village near Assens where he had grown up.He never stopped painting but he made no further efforts to exhibit. In 1852, when only 36, he died of typhus. Regained recognition
The art historian Karl Madsen reestablished <mask>'s reputation as one of the leading landscape artists of the day, on a par with Lundbye and Skovgaard, when commenting on two exhibitions in 1901 and 1912. See also
 Art of Denmark
 List of Danish painters

References

Sources
 Suzanne Ludvigsen, Maleren Dankvart <mask>. Forlaget Vandkunsten. (468 pages)

External links

1816 births
1852 deaths
Deaths from typhus
People from Assens Municipality
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni
19th-century Danish painters
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<mask> (24 January 1918 – 12 July 1996) was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ. Biography

<mask> was born in the Swiss capital Bern into an Austrian diplomat family. According to Einem's publisher, his father was <mask>, military attaché of the Austro-Hungarian embassy. According to another source, however, he was adopted by Einem, his natural father being the Hungarian aristocrat Count <mask>. His mother, Baroness Gerta Louise née Rieß von Scheurnschloss, an officer's daughter from Kassel, led a lavish lifestyle between Berlin and Paris.The family moved to Malente in the Prussian Schleswig-Holstein Province, when <mask> was four years old. After his school days in Plön and Ratzeburg, <mask> <mask> went to Berlin in 1937, to study at the State School of Music with Paul Hindemith who nevertheless resigned his post in October that year in protest against his modernist music being banned from public performances by Joseph Goebbels. By the agency of the tenor Max Lorenz, he started an employment as a répétiteur at the Berlin State Opera, where in 1939 <mask> Karajan became Staatskapellmeister. From 1938 onwards, <mask> also worked as an assistant of director Heinz Tietjen at the Bayreuth Festival. In 1941 he began to take counterpoint lessons with

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 literature of Ingrisch. The composer died in Oberdürnbach in 1996. Works
Gottfried <mask> composed mainly operas based on dramas. He was internationally recognized after the premiere of his opera Dantons Tod at the Salzburg Festival of 1947, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay. His last operas, starting with Jesu Hochzeit, are based on libretti by his wife. In 1973 he wrote as a commission of the UN to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its foundation the cantata An die Nachgeborenen for mezzo-soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra, based on diverse texts.The title is taken  of Bertolt Brecht, translated as To Those Who Follow in Our Wake. The premiere in 1975 in New York with Julia Hamari, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the Chorus of Temple University and the Wiener Symphoniker was conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. In England <mask> had two of his operas premiered within days of each other. In May 1973 The Trial (Der Prozeß) received its premiere at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, conducted by Leon Lovett, directed by Fuad Kavur. The following week, at Glyndebourne The Visit of the Old Lady (Der Besuch der alten Dame) received its British premiere, conducted by John Pritchard and directed by John Cox. In May 1996, the chamber chorus Cantori New York, directed by Mark Shapiro, gave the U.S. premiere of <mask>'s cantata Die träumenden Knaben, for chorus, clarinet and bassoon, on a work by the painter

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<mask>, also spelled Ferrell, (1789–October 12, 1854) was a former slave and carpenter from Virginia who became the second preacher of the First African Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, serving from 1823 to 1854. During his 31 years of service, Ferrill attracted and baptized many new members in the growing region; by 1850 the church had 1,820 members and was the largest of any congregation in the state, black or white. Of mixed race, <mask> had been apprenticed as a carpenter when young. His wife, a free person of color, purchased his freedom and they moved to Kentucky by 1812. In Lexington, Ferrill was successful in working with both black and white leaders of the city, and became highly respected. The funeral procession for him numbered 5,000 people, the largest in the city after that of the white statesman Henry Clay. Ferrill led the first black church west of the Allegheny Mountains; it was the third oldest black Baptist congregation in the United States, and had been founded in 1790 by enslaved preacher Peter Durrett, also from Virginia.Early life and education
London was born into slavery in 1789 in Hanover County, Virginia, where his enslaved mother was owned by <mask>, an English immigrant. The unmarried master died soon after. Ferrill's estate, including slaves, was inherited by his sister Ann (<mask>) Winston. She named the mixed-race slave boy as <mask> after her brother, who was likely his father. As noted by Edward Ball, author of Slaves in the Family (1999), a study of the interracial relationships among his ancestors, mixed-race slaves were frequently given names that distinguished them from the others. London Ferrill is an example of such naming. Ann Winston died when <mask> was

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As a young man, <mask> married a free black woman named Rodah Hood, who was also of mixed race. She bought her husband's freedom from Overton's estate after his death.(Townsend records her first name as Rhoda.) At that time, <mask> and Rodah migrated to Kentucky; they settled in Lexington about 1812. A few years after Rodah's death in 1833 during a major cholera epidemic in Lexington, <mask> adopted two orphaned children, siblings Eleazer and Elizabeth Jackson. He never remarried. Career
As a slave, <mask> was not permitted to be ordained, but he was asked by local people to preach, and about fifty people converted under his preaching before he moved to Kentucky. He moved to Lexington, where another preacher, Peter Durrett (known as Old Captain) was preaching at what is known as the First African Baptist Church of Lexington. Durrett was quite old, and the people desired Ferrill to begin preaching as well.In 1817, he joined the First Baptist church, a white congregation. The local leaders of the white Baptist community were uncertain whether or not people Durrett had baptised should be accepted into the church, as Durrett had not been regularly

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<mask> died of a heart attack October 12, 1854. His funeral procession numbered nearly 5,000, the largest in the city after that two years before for the white planter and statesman Henry Clay. Because of his high reputation and long service in the city, <mask> was buried in the Old Episcopal Burying Ground, the only African American so honored.In 2010 Christ Church Cathedral held a special joint service with First African Baptist to commemorate <mask>, at which both choirs sang. Christ Church parishioner Robert Voll, who has worked on the monument and community garden projects (see below), said, "<mask>ll was a force for unity, a force for connecting the black and white communities of Lexington." Legacy and honors
1854, <mask> was the only person of color to be buried in the Old Episcopal Burying Ground. 2008, Christ Church Cathedral dedicated its community garden in <mask>'s honor. 2010, Christ Church Cathedral helped gain approval for a city monument installed in <mask>'s honor at the Old Episcopal Burying Ground. The state has also memorialized the site with a highway marker. Christ Church held a joint service with First African Baptist to commemorate Ferrill and the monument.References

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<mask> (born December 11, 1979) is an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter best known for his role as Shawn Hunter on the 1990s sitcom Boy Meets World and its 2010s sequel Girl Meets World. He is also known for his role in the 2002 horror film Cabin Fever and as the voice of Tom Lucitor in Star vs. the Forces of Evil and Brick Flagg in Kim Possible. Early life and education
<mask> was born in San Francisco, California, the second of two boys born to Lin (née Warner), a teacher and nutritionist, and <mask>, a firefighter, who are both originally from Pennsylvania. He has English and Irish ancestry. He graduated from Nonesuch School in Sebastopol, California in 1998. His elder brother is <mask>, an actor and photographer. <mask> attended morning classes at Occidental College while still filming for Boy Meets World, accumulating a year's worth of credit before the series ended.In 2004, <mask> graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University as an English major. He completed his Master of Fine Arts in fiction and literature in June 2009 at Bennington College. Career
<mask> began his acting career at the age of nine, when he starred as Gavroche in the San Francisco production of Les Misérables, alongside Larisa Oleynik as Young Cosette. After the stage production, he appeared in small screen roles on television. In 1992, he received his first regular television series role as Julie Andrews's son on Julie. When the series was canceled, <mask> made his debut on film as Amy Irving's son in Benefit of the Doubt. It was not until he was chosen for the role of Shawn Hunter in the ABC series Boy Meets World that he received widespread recognition.During the seven-year run, he was nominated

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 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson, in Los Angeles.Personal life
<mask> began dating actress Alexandra Barreto after they met while filming the 2006 television series Pepper Dennis. They became engaged in December 2012, and married on October 20, 2013 in Oregon. The couple have one son, Indigo "Indy" Barreto <mask>, born in December 2014. In April 2008, <mask>, along with his brother Shiloh and his then-girlfriend Alexandra Barreto, co-created a 30-second television ad in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama titled, "It Could Happen to You". The ad, submitted to MoveOn, became one of 15 finalists from a pool of over 1,100 submitted ads, and was chosen as the funniest ad in May 2008. In August, MoveOn raised $200,000 to air the ad on MTV and Comedy Central; it was the first political commercial to ever appear on Comedy Central. In early 2009, <mask> narrated the audiobook of The Obama Revolution by Alan Kennedy-Shaffer.In 2018 and 2019, he was seen attending the Women's March, March for Public Education in Los Angeles, and March for Our Lives. Filmography

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Senator <mask> (born 28 January 1966) is a Nigerian politician and a Lawyer. He is the Senator representing Bayelsa - West in the 9th National Assembly. He was the Governor of Bayelsa State in southern Nigeria from 14 February 2012 to 14 February 2020. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2007 until 2012. Early life and education
<mask> was born 28 January 1966 in Toru-Orua Town of Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. He is a descendant of the King Kpadia Royal House of Tarakiri Kingdom. <mask> attended Kolobiriowei Primary School, Toru-Orua, from 1972 to 1978, where he obtained his First School Leaving Certificate and proceeded to Government Secondary School, Toru-Ebeni, in 1978 to 1983 where he got his West African School Certificate (WASSCE/GCE).<mask> would enroll in the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, to study law in 1988; he would earn his LL.B in 1992. In 1993, he went on to earn his Bachelors in Law from the Nigerian Law School, and was also called to the Nigerian Bar shortly thereafter. Legal career
<mask> <mask> joined the Nigeria Police Force in 1986. Upon his graduation from the law school in 1993, he was appointed a cadet assistant superintendent of police in 1994, from where he proceeded to Nigeria Police Academy, Kano for Officer's Training. It was in the course of his training that he voluntarily resigned from the police force after nearly a decade of policing, to practice law. As a lawyer, he worked with Serena David Dokubo & CO as an associate solicitor from 1994 to 1995 and moved to Aluko & Oyebode, a prominent law firm in Lagos, also as an associate solicitor, between 1995 and 1996. He founded Seriake Dickson & CO in Port Harcourt and later Yenagoa and became its managing solicitor from 1996 to 2006.He

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 was elected pioneer publicity secretary, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Yenagoa from 1996 to 1998. Political career

Alliance for Democracy
<mask> began his political career as a member of Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria) and was elected as the Bayelsa State chapter chairman of the party from 1998 to 2000. The political party produced a senator representing Bayelsa West, a member of the House of Representatives representing Sagbama - Ekeremor Federal Constituency and three members of the State House of Assembly from Brass Local Government. After his tenure as chairman elapsed, was elected national legal adviser of the Alliance for Democracy and served in that position between 2000 and 2002. Attorney General of Bayelsa State (2006 - 2007)
In January 2006, <mask> was appointed the attorney-general and commissioner for justice of Bayelsa State (2006 to 2007) by the then Governor, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan GCFR. As attorney general, he was a member of the Body of Benchers, member, Council of Legal Education and vice chairman of the State Advisory Judicial Service Commission. House of Representatives
<mask> was elected to the National Assembly's House of Representatives in 2007 and was appointed chairman, House Committee on Justice and member of several committees including Defence, National Security, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs

In April 2011, he was elected for a second term; this election was the first time that someone in his constituency has done this.In his second term, he was appointed Chairman House Committee on Special Duties. At the National Assembly, he sponsored/co- sponsored several bills, which include:

 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act (Amendment) Bill, 2009. The Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences (Establishment) Act (Amendment)

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Gubernatorial career
The Independent National Electoral Commission reported that <mask> <mask> won over 90% of the votes. They went on to say that this helped in "further strengthening the PDP's stronghold on power there since Jonathan became president." Shortly after taking over gubernatorial duties, <mask> said that he was "painfully transiting to the executive arm of government."He indicated that he may return to the National Assembly someday. <mask> was re-elected Governor of Bayelsa State at the 2015 Bayelsa State gubernatorial election. On the 14th of February, 2020, <mask> officially handed over to Douye Diri as the Governor of Bayelsa State. Milestone Achievements in Office

Key Legislation
While in office, <mask> <mask> sent over 50 bills to the Bayelsa State  House of Assembly, BSHA, including the State Transparency Law, Thanksgiving Law and the Judicial Autonomy Law for which he has received commendations from the Attorney General of the Federation and the Honorable Chief Justice of Nigeria. Governor <mask> enacted the Right to Education Law in Bayelsa which obliges parents, guardians of Children as well as the Government of the state to ensure that children are in schools up to the age of 18. Education
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texts: compulsory in Bayelsa State for students in primary and secondary schools. <mask> also Introduced compulsory boarding education and built 13 model boarding schools as none existed before, including the flagship Ijaw National Academy which has over 1,500 students on full scholarship, over 200 beneficiaries are drawn from Ijaw communities in five states of Rivers, Edo, Akwa Ibom, Ondo and Delta.Similarly, the boarding school system also covers the over 25 constituency secondary schools built by the <mask> administration. <mask> has awarded scholarships to several hundreds and thousands of Masters and doctoral degree students in top class universities in the world, including the Lincoln University which produced Victor Perewari Pere, a student of Mathematics and Computer Science as the overall best graduating student and valedictorian of the school in the 2016/2017 session. <mask>'s massive investment in education paid off as the state which was once at the bottom in the ranking of secondary education in Nigeria, leaped to be among the top five leading states in the country. The <mask> led Restoration government also established the prestigious University of Africa, Toru-Orua and the Bayelsa Medical University, Bayelsa State Polytechnic Aleibiri and other non degree awarding tertiary institutions such as Bayelsa School of Agriculture, Bayelsa State Sports Academy Asoama, the first in Nigeria, The Bayelsa International Institute of Catering and Hospitality, Yenagoa, Bayelsa Driving School to take care of the teeming population of students in need of world class tertiary education. These institutions are affiliated to several world class universities. The Government of Governor <mask> also made huge investments to upgrade the facilities and programs in the Niger Delta University, the Bayelsa

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texts: State College of Education as well as the Bayelsa State School of Nursing and Midwifery and Bayela State School of Health Technology of which they all have full accreditation from their respected regulatory bodies. Governor <mask> by law established the Bayelsa Education Development Trust Fund, the first in the country, continuing a passion for education that has currently made Bayelsa the educational hub and epicenter of human capital development in Nigeria especially with the establishment of several institutions of learning.Just like the Education Trust Fund, Governor <mask> introduced the Bayelsa State Student Loan board , backed by law to give loans to deserving Bayelsa students who require financial assistance to pursue their education with their certificates as collateral. <mask> says that this was done to ensure that every Bayelsa student has the opportunity to pursue their education without restrictions. The establishment of the Bayelsa State Teachers Training and Certification Board backed by Law, another innovation to ensure the continuous training and retraining of all teachers in Bayelsa. The law provides for certification of teachers to be eligible to be employed for teaching in Bayelsa and that program has since commenced. These key policies as well as the legal framework have received commendation by the National Council on Education and has been recommended as the benchmark for revitalizing the educational sector by all states in Nigeria. Governor <mask> built over 500 residential quarters for headmasters and teachers of primary schools in several rural communities to solve accommodation problems, Governor <mask> also built and renovated several primary schools. Audtors have revealed that Governor <mask>'s restoration project spent over N80 billion in educational


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 infrastructure in his 8 years as Governor of Bayelsa State.Healthcare
Governor <mask> made unprecedented provisions of healthcare facilities in the state in line with his restoration agenda. He built the Bayelsa Diagnostics Centre, The Bayelsa State Forensics Centre and the Bayelsa Drug Mart to tackle incidents of fake drugs in the state both commissioned by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He also built the fully equipped 100 bed Bayelsa Specialist Hospital which is renowned for its world class facilities and built 80 bed hospitals in Kaiama, Sagbama, Ekeremor and Southern Ijaw local governments. Governor <mask> also completely refurbished and equipped the general hospital in Brass. Governor <mask>'s plan as part of his restoration agenda was to build a health centre and health workers' quarters in all 105 political wards in the state. He, however, completed this in 83 wards under the implementation of the Bayelsa State Primary Healthcare Board inaugurated by his administration. Governor <mask> also announced a special allowance for pregnant women who registered and attended antenatal in the state upon verification.Governor <mask> received wide recognition and praise for his work in the Maternal and Child Healthcare by several healthcare professional groups in Nigeria. By the end of his administration, there was a significant drop in maternal and infant mortality in Bayelsa State, from being one of the highest in the country to being the least in the South South. Governor <mask>'s legacy in healthcare is cemented in the establishment of Bayelsa State Health Insurance Scheme backed up by law which has become a reference point among health administrators in the country. The board runs one of the most successful health insurance schemes in Nigeria which has become a template for several


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 health insurance programs of other states that visit Bayelsa to understudy the scheme. The scheme currently has over 100,000 beneficiaries, the scheme has also successfully funded 1,771 surgeries in Bayelsa since its establishment. Economy
Governor <mask> expanded the Bayelsa State Economy which laid the foundation for bringing prosperity to Bayelsa people. Governor <mask> created the Bayelsa State Micro finance Bank, the first in Bayelsa known as Izon Ibe Microfinance Bank duly licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria with branches in every Local Government headquarters in the state.The purpose of the bank was for people in rural communities and MSES to be able to access loans. Governor <mask> built the largest Cassava processing plant in Nigeria to enable out-growers to have loans to plant cassavas that will feed the plant with cassavas. Governor <mask> also built a massive poultry and turned Bayelsa to the center of aquaculture taking advantage of its natural topography and history but with the current issues of river pollution which has largely affected a predominantly fishing people, Governor <mask> set up an Aquaculture Village in Yenegwe which has 500 ponds of 50 by 20 meters equipped with processing units, feed mills, storage facilities, processing plants, hatchery and other facilities such as cafeteria, school on an over 127 hectares of land. Several young people were trained in Songhai farm and a number of them have already began work at the fish ponds. A second aquaculture village sited at Igeibiri in Southern Ijaw will host 1000 ponds. Land for this purpose was acquired and cleared with Local Government Areas designated and discussions reached an advanced stage with the Central Bank on its NIRSAL supervised Anchor Borrowers Program. In addition, two mechanized fish farms were

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 given to contractors to build, one in Ogbogero in Yenagoa LGA to an Israeli Firm, the second one in Angalabiri; which has been completed.Governor <mask> signed a law declaring all land in Bayelsa as urban and subject to the Governor's Certificate of Occupancy to free up the wealth that has been frozen in the state by rural land owners. <mask> revolutionized the land administration system by computerizing land administration in Bayelsa. The Bayelsa Geographic Information Service established by law which guarantees that Certificate of Occupancy will be processed and presented within 30 days. <mask>'s administration partnered with landlords to number all buildings and plots in the state capital to enable revenue collection and effective man management and administration. Governor <mask>'s biggest impact in the Bayelsa economy is perhaps driving the state's internal generated revenue from a meager ₦50 million per month in 2012 at the beginning of his administration to ₦1.2 billion per month as at the end of his administration through several economic reforms. In addition, he employed over 5000 young Bayelsa graduates into the civil service, and implemented policies to stop casualization of workers. Infrastructure
Governor <mask> led an infrastructural revolution in the construction of several roads and bridges, but his biggest legacy however, is the starting and finishing of the ₦55 Billion Bayelsa International Airport which was commissioned and opened with an inaugural flight on the 15th of February, 2019.Civil Service Reforms
-Governor <mask>'s administration dropped the civil service wage bill from a ridiculous ₦6.4 billion to about ₦3 billion, for the first time the Bayelsa civil service was purged of all wage bill and payroll fraud as well as fake employments. A regime of accountability


texts: and transparency was entrenched. This was a courageous move on his part, a feat dreaded by past administrations especially considering the fact that it did not promise any political credit. This move which threatened to make him unpopular was immediately justified as the Bayelsa State Civil Service was freed of Ghost workers which paved way for the employment of over 5000 young Bayelsa graduates. To further strengthen the Civil Service and encourage excellence in education, Governor <mask> announced automatic employment to every first class graduate of Bayelsa descent. This civil service reforms with the employments have now introduced fresh blood of young men and women will dedicate themselves to the service for the state for 35 years. The recruitment process was competitive, free from patronage and applicants were selected by merit alone.Governor <mask> initiated and signed into law a bill known as the Public Service Documentation and Records Agency, the first in Nigeria, with powers to handle proper documentation of personal and official records of all in the public service in the state from inception until date. A team of former Heads of Service and Permanent Secretaries were put together for over a year to go through methodically the personal and public records of everyone in public service and streamline all the fraudulent emoluments hitherto drawn by civil service fraud syndicates. Governor <mask> was one of the supporters of increase in minimum wage and one of the first Nigerian Governor to implement and pay the new minimum wage before leaving office because of his belief that the Nigerian Worker is underpaid and deserves a better deal. This was one of his last actions before leaving office. He stood firmly against fraud and unprofessional ism in the state civil service and was


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<mask> pursued an empowerment of women and youth in Bayelsa which was unprecedented at the time. A high number of women and youths were given sensitive government positions at local councils and state level.At one time in his administration, all Vice Chairmen in the local councils in Bayelsa were women. Before the end of his tenure, <mask> implemented a special affirmative action that led to 40% of elected Councillors being women in the last local government council elections in June, 2019 superintended by him. Bayelsa had the highest number of female appointees in Government during his administration including Commissioners, Special Advisers, Senior Special Assistants, Board Members and others. Governor <mask> recruited, sponsored and supported more women in elective offices in the State and National Assembly. A large percentage of youths were mentored, trained and given several sensitive positions at state and local government level creating sustainable manpower in the process and giving them a sense of direction and purpose. Governor <mask> set up the Henry Seriake Dickson Foundation which would further train and mentor young people in Bayelsa, Niger Delta and in Nigeria. Environment
Protection and preservation of the environment Bayelsa State and the Niger delta which has suffered decades of unmitigated environmental degradation by the major oil companies operating in the areas has been a lifelong commitment and passion of Governor <mask> who devoted a lot of time and energy to raise the bar on environmental awareness and advocacy.He conducted scientific surveys which findings are outstanding, <mask> embarked on and sponsored awareness campaigns such as he Rise for Bayelsa campaign but his major legacy in environment was the conception


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 and set up of the internationally acclaimed and first ever Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission chaired by the Archbishop of York Rt Honourable Dr John Sentamu with a high level panel of international experts and was inaugurated by Governor <mask>. The Commission of inquiry after painstaking hearings and visitations submitted an interim report to Governor <mask> in November 2019. The final report which is being compiled is expected to be submitted soon. The Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission is the first major step by any government of a state to highlight the well known issues of the environment, the impact on oil companies as well as the plight of indigenous people living in the communities. The Commission of Inquiry was made up of foreign experts, diplomats and forensic experts and chaired by Dr. John Sentamu (Chairman) Beyond the Governorship, <mask> continues to be a major voice in the environment and has made that one of the major concerns of the <mask>iake <mask> foundation. Security
Governor <mask> started his administration in 2012 by addressing the issues of security which had crippled the economic and social life in Bayelsa and led to an exodus of companies from the state. Governor <mask> set up operation Doo-Akpo  (peaceful life) which was approved by the President for a special contingent from the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in Abuja.The deployed Officers were trained and retrained at a special base set up for them and special allowances with daily feeding and medicare were also approved to motivate them. Governor <mask> also provided high tech vehicles and gunboats specially designed with communication devices. Governor <mask> also built the Bayesla State Command and Control centre named the General Owoye Azazi Building which is equipped with modern

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