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 from San Francisco for the Philippine Islands. He plainly expressed the object of this trip when he wrote Taraknath Das : "I am going to establish a base at Manila (P.I.)forwarding Depôt, supervise the work near China, Hongkong, Shanghai. Professor Barakatullah is all right in Japan." (Ker, p237). According to Ker's report, "he was engaged in supervising the work of the Ghadr Party in the Far East. Amongst the correspondence of Harnam Singh of Sahri were several letters from G.D<mask> showing that he was working hard on behalf of the cause. He was in constant touch with Bhagwan Singh and Barakatullah and was collecting money for the Ghadr campaign and was sending to Har Dayal. He afterwards went to Japan, where he busied himself meeting Ghadr parties passing through Yokohama on the way to India."(p425). Last Trace
In the Special List of Record Group 118 (Records of the U.S. Attorney) preserved in San Francisco, and in San Francisco Chronicle of 19 January 1918, we find report of Taraknath Das's trial as defendant. <mask>, too, was mentioned during the 1917-18 San Francisco Trial consisting of 'The German Hindu Conspiracy' and 'Violations of U.S. Neutrality 1913-20.' He was accused of having "formed party in Shanghai in 1914. Associate of German agent Mueller and of Scrinivas (sic!) R. Wagel. Sent arms and ammunition to revolutionary agents in India."No further information is available on this rebel's later life. References

Indian revolutionaries Abroad, by A.C. Bose, 1971
Political Trouble in India, James Campbell Ker, 1917, repr. 1973
Sadhak biplabi jatindranath, by Prithwindra Mukherjee, West Bengal State Book Board, Calcutta, 1991
 The Voyage of the Komagata Maru by Hugh J.M. Johnston, UBC Press,Vancouver, Toronto, 2014

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<mask> (12 October 1769 – 17 January 1820) was a French noblewoman who was known as a great beauty and was imprisoned during the French Revolution. André Chénier's elegy la Jeune Captive, published in 1795, was inspired by her ordeal. Early years

Aimée <mask> was the daughter of <mask>, comte de Coigny. He was born in 1740, joined the army, became colonel of dragoons in 1763, maréchal-de-camp in 1780, and on 1 January 1811 gained the rank of lieutenant general. Her father married <mask> on 18 March 1767. <mask> was born on 12 October 1769 and baptised in the church of Saint-Roch. Her mother died on 23 October 1775, and her father confided her upbringing to his mistress, <mask>, Princess of Guéménée.Aimée became a famous beauty. <mask> Genlis, an intimate friend, wrote of her in her memoirs:
I saw again with great pleasure; at Isle-Adam, the young Comtesse <mask>, formerly <mask>moiselle <mask>, with whom I had been close at the Couvent du Précieux-Sang. She had originality, wit and good feelings; we renewed our acquaintance; she told me that she had a passion for anatomy, a very extraordinary taste in a young woman of eighteen. Since I had been somewhat occupied with surgery and medicine, and knew how to bleed, <mask> <mask> was very fond of chatting with me. I promised to do an anatomy class, but not like her, on corpses ..."

Aimée married André-Hercule-Marie-<mask> Rosset <mask>el (1770–1810), marquis and later duc <mask>leury in 1784. Her husband was the grand-nephew of Cardinal André-Hercule <mask>. She married

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de Coigny
Auguste Gabriel de Franquetot
Anne Josphe Michel de Roissy
Anne Françoise Aimée de Coigny
Victoire de Rohan
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 very young, as was common at the time; she was 15, he was 14.He became a duke in 1788. He was subject to nervous tics that were very disagreeable, and the marriage was not happy. Aimee became the mistress of Armand Louis <mask>, duc de Lauzun (1747–1793), a well-known libertine, if past his prime. During a visit to Rome, she became attached to Lord Malmesbury. French revolution

Aimée's husband Fleury emigrated during the French Revolution (1789–99), leaving France in 1791. He joined Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé's army at Koblenz. Aimée went to London, where she rejoined Malmesbury.She gave birth to Malmesbury's child in London. In January 1793 she left London for Paris with Lord Malmesbury. He was soon arrested, but was released almost immediately and returned to London, leaving his mistress. She retired to her personal estate at Mareuil-en-Brie, near Paris. On 7 May 1793 she obtained a divorce. She then resumed the name of <mask>. On 4 March 1794, despite the care she had taken to dissociate herself from any emigrants, she was arrested and taken to the Prison Saint-Lazare.Aimée was one of the last of the nobility to be arrested and incarcerated. André Chénier was inspired by her to compose a well-known elegy, la Jeune Captive, published in 1895. He described her graceful figure and her easy and careless character. <mask> Mouret, comte de Montrond, was also imprisoned in 1794 in the Prison Saint-Lazare, where he met her. He obtained her freedom and his own for a payment of 100 louis. She was released on the day she

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 was due to follow Chénier to the scaffold. They married after the Thermidorian Reaction of 27 July 1794 and left for England.Their married life in London was not successful. First Empire

The marriage went from bad to worse from 1800 onward. The divorce due to incompatibility was pronounced on 6 Germinal year X (28 March 1802). Aimée again became known as <mask> <mask>. At the age of 31, <mask> <mask>, once more free, fell in love with the 37-year-old Jacques Joseph Garat (known as Maillia-Garat). He was a member of the Tribunát and was known as an orator, but was not known as a republican. They lived together for six years.In a sympathetic sketch, Victor du Bled says Aimée's second divorce gave her a freedom that she used or misused considerably. She had an ardent and eccentric imagination that exposed her to a thousand dangers to which she hastened to succumb. When someone remarked that divorce makes adultery useless, she said, "We cannot marry them all, though." Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun said that Aimée had an enchanting face, a burning gaze, and the figure of a Venus. One evening at the house of M. de Guéménée, she removed the long tail of her dress in front of fifty people. The princess, laughing, invited her to remove the dress too, and she rose to the challenge and remained for four hours dressed in a short petticoat. Napoleon disliked her loose morals and at reception at the Tuileries Palace asked her in public, "Well, Madame, are you still so fond of men?"Her riposte was, "Yes, Sire, when they are polite."

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 Around 1812 the 43-year-old <mask> <mask> formed a liaison with the 45-year-old marquis Bruno-Gabriel <mask>, and under his influence became an ardent royalist. She believed that the monarchy must be restored, but it should be a progressive monarchy that would reconcile freedom and order. In the summer of 1812, she often visited Talleyrand's house, where she would find him in his library surrounded by writers or lovers of literature. She became a regular visitor to the houses of people who were dissatisfied with Napoleon's rule. During the last days of the Empire in 1814, Aimee wrote to her uncle, the duc <mask>, in London and told her of the conditions for Talleyrand to give his support to the king. The king instructed the duc to accept the offer.Not long after, the Russian army entered Paris. Death

<mask> <mask> died on 17 January 1820 at the age of 50. Madame <mask> observed that the comtesse <mask>y died very young, and it was said that her passion for anatomy contributed to her death by making her breathe bad air, since she never travelled without having a cadaver in the back of her carriage. She had confided her memoirs to Talleyrand, Montrond's friend, and it was long thought that they had been lost. They were later found and published as Mémoires de Aimée de Coigny (1902) with a lengthy introduction by Étienne Lamy. Publications
Publications by <mask> <mask> included:

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French countesses
French duchesses
19th-century French women writers
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(born May 21, 1982) is a Japanese professional wrestler from Neyagawa, Japan; he's a current member of the Michinoku Pro Wrestling roster as Rasse. He mainly uses a high-flying style. Career

Toryumon (2002-2004)
A former highschool amateur wrestler, Okimoto trained in the Último Dragón Gym and graduated in the 9th Toryumon school class term, debuting in Toryumon Mexico in 2002. He performed under the name of Small Dandy Fujii, a mini version of Toryumon Japan wrestler Sumo Dandy Fujii, and was a part of the Mini Crazy MAX stable along with SUWAcito and Mini CIMA. After a short individual participation in the Young Dragons Cup 2002, where he was eliminated by Condotti Shuji at the first round, Small Dandy and SUWAcito competed at the Yamaha Cup tag tournament, taking out Henry III Sugawara and Naoki Tanizaki at the first round before falling to Sailor Boys (Kei Sato and Shu Sato) at the second. Mini Crazy MAX developed a feud with Sailor Boys, led by Taiji Ishimori, and they kept it when the class term was moved to the Toryumon X promotion in Japan. Fujii was a comedic figure, and in October 2004, he got his head partially shaven by stipulation after being pinned by Manabu Murakami.That would be the last Toryumon X show, and its wrestlers were transferred to Michinoku Pro Wrestling. He also wrestled in  as HUSTLE Kamen Blue, a member of HUSTLE Kamen along HUSTLE Kamen Red and HUSTLE Kamen Yellow. Michinoku Pro Wrestling (2004-present)
Okimoto's first apparition in M-Pro was at the Futaritabi Tag Team League, wrestling under the mask of Michinoku Ranger Silver with


texts: Michinoku Ranger Gold as his partner, doing a super sentai gimmick not unlike they did in HUSTLE. The duo got important victories over Los Salseros Japoneses (Pineapple Hanai and Mango Fukuda) and Jinsei Shinzaki and Shinjitsu Nohashi, but they did not win the league, which was taken by The Great Sasuke and GARUDA. In December, the team was dissolved and Okimoto adopted the gimmick of Rasse, a masked character representing the Aomori Nebuta Matsuri. He first teamed up with the former Ranger Gold, now known as Shanao, and the two gained a title shot for the Tohoku Tag Titles against Great Sasuke and Dick Togo, but were beaten. Starting 2005, Rasse formed an alliance with GARUDA, first at the Michinoku Trios League (completing the trio with Maguro Ooma) and then in the Futaritabi Tag Team Tournament, but they were unsuccessful, getting eliminated at the latter by the eventual winning team of Shanao and Kagetora.Rasse spent the year as a low-ranked member of the Michinoku Seikigun against the heel stable Los Salseros Japoneses, though he had some victories, upsetting Kagetora and Gamma during the Iron Man Tournament. However, he ascended the scale in 2006, reaching the finals of a tournament for the Tohoku Junior Heavyweight title before LSJ leader Takeshi Minamino and actually winning the next Iron Man after pinning Hayato Fujita with the Mabataki. Doing this, he won a title short against the next junior heavyweight champion, Osaka Pro Wrestling's Super Delfín, but was defeated. Rasse then returned to the midcard, teaming up with Yoshitsune until end of 2006. The


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 next year, Rasse teamed up with the recently turned face Kagetora to win the Tohoku Tag Team Championship against Kei and Shu Sato, eventually unifying it with the Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship from Hideyoshi and Masamune at the Pro Wrestling Summit 2007 independent event. They retained it successfully for the rest of 2007, even winning the next tag league while having the titles, but they finally lost the two titles against Osaka Pro representatives Gaina and Zero and MPW homologues Great Sasuke and Yoshitsune. The same year, Rasse competed individually at the prestigious Fukumen World League, but was eliminated at the first round by another Osaka Pro wrestler, Tigers Mask.Now titleless, Rasse struggled through 2008, but despite a good performance at the Iron Man and another tag team with Kagetora, he was frustrated. After a failed title shot against Hayato Fujita, now leader of the Kowloon heel stable, Rasse shockingly turned heel and joined them, later pledging his alliance to who revealed as the true leader of the group, their master Último Dragón. El Dorado Wrestling (2006–2008)

In 2008, Okimoto joined the newborn El Dorado, wrestling as Jumping Kid Okimoto, a masked character dressed in black and white who came to the ring in jumping stilts. He initially was an integrant of the Taiji Ishimori's face army inherited from Dragondoor, but after Ishimori broke from El Dorado and left, Okimoto went solo and feuded with brother YASSHI. Okimoto got the revenge for a loss to him by showing an embarrassing photo of Yasshi in his high school days, as


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 Okimoto and he had been both in the same school, but the brother got it back defeating him again. They then reconciled and resolved to form an amateur wrestling-themed stable, which also featured Yuji Hino and was called Nanking Fucking Wrestling Club. During that time, Okimoto competed both under his real name in said stable, using a realistic, mat wrestling based style, and also as Jumping Kid Okimoto, featuring his common high-flying.After Nanking Fucking Wrestling Club folded up, Okimoto competed solo and unaligned again, and for a second time in <mask>'s career he lost a hair vs hair match, this time against Ken45º. In 2008, Jumping Kid Okimoto and KAGETORA fought Speed of Sounds (Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Senga) for the vacated UWA Tag Team Championship, but were defeated. Shortly after, El Dorado ended its run. Championships and accomplishments
 Michinoku Pro Wrestling
 Tohoku Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Kagetora (1) and Kenbai (1)
 Iron Man Tournament (2006)
 Fukumen World League Qualifying Tournament (2007)
 Kowloon Strongest Tournament (2011)
 Bar Mimosa Ki-Kohei Cup (2014)
 Futaritabi Tag Team League (2007) - with Kagetora
Osaka Pro Wrestling
Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Kagetora

References

External links
El Dorado Roster Page at DGUSA (English)
Rasse profile at Puroresu Central (English)
El Dorado official website (Japanese)
Michinoku Pro Wrestling official website (Japanese)
HUSTLE official website (Japanese)

1982 births
Living people
Japanese male professional wrestlers
People from Neyagawa, Osaka
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texts: <mask> (1875 – 1941) was the first Professor of Electrical Engineering at Bristol University. <mask> had wide interests and one of these was horology – he wanted to provide the foundation of what we could call “horological engineering”, that is, a firm science-based approach to the design of accurate mechanical clocks. He contributed a long series on the scientific foundations of precision clocks to the Horological Journal which was the main publication for the trade in the UK; he and his students undertook research on clocks and pendulums (some funded by the Society of Merchant Venturers); and he designed at least one notable clock, to keep University time and control the chiming of Great George in the Wills Memorial Building from its inauguration on 1925, for which he also designed the chiming mechanism. Today, we get accurate time from atomic clock ensembles in observatories round the world, compared and distributed by GPS satellites and over the internet, and displayed on almost any public or personal screen. Accurate time has become ubiquitous and its maintenance a branch of information and communications technology. A century ago none of this existed, and the world depended on the pendulum clock to keep its time, referenced to astronomical observations. There was a scientific literature on the behaviour of pendulums and clocks; and a widespread craft-based industry making timepieces; but it could not be said that horology was a branch of engineering.<mask> became Professor of Electrical Engineering in Merchant Venturer’s Technical College in 1902. MVTC merged with University College Bristol when the latter was granted a Royal Charter in 1909 and became the engineering faculty of the new University of Bristol – <mask> then became the first professor of the subject in the faculty. He served in this post until his death in 1941. Clock-wise, the Shortt Synchronome Free Pendulum clock entered service at the Royal Observatory in 1923 and kept Greenwich, and therefore the nation’s, time until supplanted by quartz clocks in the 1940s. Throughout <mask>’s career therefore,

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 pendulum time was paramount. Suppliers such as the Synchronome Company or Gents of Leicester could by 1925 have supplied perfectly satisfactory and well-proven systems to run the bell and slave clocks throughout the building. The fact that the University chose to commission a unique and original design is a tribute perhaps to its pride in the new building and to its distinguished Professor, who was able to put into practice the principles that he had developed.The Robertson Clock

Originally mounted in an interior foyer of the Wills Memorial Building, <mask>'s clock is housed in an oak case 1753 x 837 x 310 mm (h/w/d), originally carried on stout oak “dogs” let into the masonry of an internal wall. The case was also secured to the wall through its back, but does not support any of the mechanisms, which are separately mounted through the case back into the wall using studs. The opening front door is fully glazed. In its new home in Queen’s Building the original studs are re-mounted on to a large steel plate, firmly screwed to the reinforced concrete wall. At the top of the case a clock dial displays hours and minutes as kept by the pendulum. The dial is a standard Gents slave clock movement which is advanced by a pulse every 30s, counted down from seconds pulses generated by the pendulum. Additional circuits in the clock once generated other half-minute pulses that controlled 3 strings of similar slave clocks throughout the building.Right down the centre of the case is the pendulum, of the order of a metre long and with a period of 2 seconds. It is suspended from a bracket attached to a massive iron casting bolted through to the wall, which also carries the “escapement” mechanism to the right under the face. This drives the pendulum with a small impulse of force every second, generated by the drop of a small weight under the control of an electromagnet. Part of the mechanism includes a 60-tooth ratchet wheel advanced on every pendulum swing by a pawl driven by the electromagnet. Originally this operated a pair of contacts by two pins on its periphery to generate the half-minute


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 pulses, but at some stage these contacts were removed. To the left of the pendulum is the regulator. This is arranged to apply a small force to the pendulum which through an ingenious linkage effectively works against gravity, slowing the pendulum down.The force comes from a torque generated by a spiral hair-spring, one end being attached to the pivot of a lever that forms part of the escapement linkage, the other to a disk that can be rotated in small steps by a solenoid-operated “stepper motor”. This allows the period of the pendulum to be adjusted by changing the torque, under the control of a system that compares the pendulum phase to a time standard (originally a daily pulse sent out over the telegraph network at 10.00 GMT). Behind the pendulum and near its top is a standard aneroid barometer, and below that a mercury thermometer. These would have been used when checking the clocks’ rate, which depends on both atmospheric temperature and pressure. To the left of the pendulum is the Civil Time Unit (CTU). This is essentially a clock that receives a pulse every second from the pendulum and keeps track of local time, GMT or BST depending on the season, to control the pulses sent to Great George to make it chime on the hours, 0700 through 2100 except Sundays. The CTU was driven by its own electromagnet.On the right is the Greenwich Time Unit (GTU), which essentially kept GMT by counting seconds impulses but also controlled the sequencing of the synchronising system around 10.00 am GMT every day. Again, the GTU had its own electromagnet drive. Behind the wall to which the clock was mounted there was a Control Box that housed several terminal frames, some relays, and ancillary components, that were connected to contacts on the TUs by wires going through the wall. Most of this has now been lost. The clock and its circuits were power by a 24 volt lead-acid battery, possibly also housed in this room. This Control Box has also been recovered and will be installed beside the clock case to house support electronics. References

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British electrical engineers
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<mask> (February 2, 1923 – January 1, 2007) was an American conductor and violinist. He spent his lifetime building orchestras, founding chamber music groups and instilling a passion for music in young and old alike. His belief in contemporary music, especially American music, as conductor, violinist and mentor, brought compelling listening experiences to his audiences. Hegyi was well known for his expert grasp of European repertoire, routinely giving commanding performances of Beethoven and Brahms, for example. Background
Hegyi was an active proponent of American music, with concerts devoted to world premieres of many composers. He performed works by contemporary European and Chinese composers, as well. Performed first concert on the violin, age 10
 Attended Stuyvesant High School, NYC, 1941
 Graduate, The Juilliard School, NYC, studying violin with Sascha Jacobsen and Edouard Dethier; graduating with high honors; recipient of the Frank Damrosch Memorial Scholarship.Winner, Columbia University's Alice M. Ditson Conductor's Award, 1983 for programming and sponsoring American Music
 Resident Conductor, Florida Philharmonic, 1991 to 1992
 Married from 1944 - 1948 to his first wife, Elaine Shapiro. They had one child, Lee Silver born 1945, died 2001. Married from 1949 - 1950 to his second wife, Martha Jane Bucy of Lubbock, Texas, and they were divorced in 1950. There were no children from this union. Married from 1953 - 1992 to his third wife, Charlotte Barrier of Lubbock, Texas, and lived in Chattanooga, TN and Williamstown, MA. They had one child, <mask> Raymond born in 1962. Married from 1994 - 2007 to his

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 fourth wife, Nancy King <mask>.Survived by widow, <mask>, of Fountain Hills, Arizona, sister Louise Larson, daughter Lisa Hegyi Raymond, and grandchildren. Quotes

Reviews
John Rockwell wrote in the New York Times "...it can be flatly said that the best performance (and the most unusually interesting piece, too) was Mr. <mask>'s account of Barber's one-movement symphony, which had its premiere in 1936, was revised in 1944 and championed by Artur Rodzinski and Bruno Walter. The score blends considerable passion with Barber's wonderfully characteristic arching lyricism. Mr. <mask>, who has a good deal of experience with 20th-century American music, given the Albany Symphony's venturesome commitment to that cause, played it with a sure technical command that never got in the way of expressivity." Discography
Carpenter/Hadley/Mason/Porter, New World Records, Albany Symphony Orchestra, conductor, <mask>, 1984
Albany Symphony Orchestra-Trimble/Laderman, Composers Recordings, Inc., Albany Symphony Orchestra, <mask>, conductor, 1985
Parker, Horatio/Chadwick, George W., New World Records, Albany Symphony Orchestra, <mask>, conductor, 1986

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2007 deaths
American classical violinists
Male classical violinists
American male violinists
Concertmasters
Neurological disease deaths in Arizona
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Musicians from New York City
Musicians from Phoenix, Arizona
Stuyvesant High School alumni
Juilliard School alumni
20th-century American musicians
20th-century classical violinists
Classical musicians from New York (state)
20th-century American male musicians
Classical musicians from

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<mask> was mayor of Hamilton from 1888 to 1892, a farmer, flax-miller, and a drainage and railway contractor. He was born on 7 April 1840, to Samuel  <mask>. a tenant farmer at Gayles, near Richmond, who died in 1863. His younger brother took on their farm, when <mask> chose to emigrate to New Zealand in 1867. His sister and brother-in-law, Thomas Dinsdale, after whom Dinsdale is named, came to work for <mask> in 1869, working on flax cutting at one stage. <mask> was a relatively common name. Thus a 1942 Waikato Times obituary for Jane Meadway asserted that she was a daughter of <mask>, "one of the best-known of the early settlers in the Waikato", though she was born at Akaroa in 1862, 5 years before the future mayor emigrated.Possibly she was related to <mask>, an artist, who was living in Nelson in the 1840s. Another <mask> was a US Army Surgeon in the 1860s. Emigration

<mask> arrived at Lyttelton, on the Quebec-built clipper ship, Lancashire Witch, which had been carrying emigrants from England since 1856. <mask>'s recollection of the voyage was that he arrived on 21 July 1867, paid £30 for a second class berth, was seasick, short of water and that the food was "almost uneatable". A report by the Immigration Commissioners confirmed problems with water and flour. There was also a fight on board. However, other second class passengers (there were 12, none of them named, and many government assisted migrants) wrote to thank the captain for their voyage and the captain reported that they left East India Docks on 2 April 1867 and anchored at Lyttelton on 29 July.Their first sighting of land was the Snares Islands / Tini Heke on 24

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Coates
Isaac
Isaac
Isaac Coates
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 July. The immigrants reached Christchurch on 30 July. <mask> had a letter of introduction from a brother of his local MP, Sir F. Milbank, to Joseph Tetley, of Marlborough. He walked north up the coast from Christchurch to Tetley's sheep station, taking several days and fording, or taking a ferry across, several rivers. He left the Tetleys, but continued working on stations, doing a variety of  jobs, including rick building and wool handling with Merino sheep. In 1868 he rode to Riccarton, took a coach to Christchurch, sailed to Wellington and took the steamer Taranaki  to Auckland. He took a short trip to Thames to look at the goldfield and spent about a year prospecting for gold at Kennedy Bay, where he worked with fellow Yorkshireman, Frederick Atkinson.They panned some gold, but gave up when their dam was washed away. He also met up with other Yorkshiremen. Businesses
<mask> got another letter of introduction, this time to Captain William Steele, whom he later described as 'Father of Hamilton'. <mask> took a coach to Mercer, a steamer from there to Ngāruawāhia and then walked to Hamilton, where he met Captain Steele and looked at several farms. He bought , at Ruakura, including  each from Dr Beale (£200) and Ensign John Crawford (under £300, including a house), the latter being first of the troops to land at Hamilton during the Invasion of the Waikato. <mask> later extended the farm to  and had drains dug to convert the wetland to farmland. <mask> was one of the first Waikato farmers to mechanise, getting a steam thresher in 1874 and also mowing, reaping, binding,  and chaff-cutting machines.After being refused a mortgage in

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texts: 1895, he sold the farm in about 1901, when flax prices were low. It was then sold to the Government to create what later became Ruakura Agriculture Research Centre. In 1875 <mask> had a contract to build a road into the Piako swamp. In 1878 and 1879 he and Angus Campbell were in partnership as timber merchants. From 1878 to 1880 he was also trading in Hamilton East as Small & Coates, grocers and agricultural merchants. In 1880 he sold his own crops and then started on his own account as an agricultural merchant. In 1878 and 1881 he had contracts for swamp drainage.He and civil engineer, Henry Hulbert Metcalfe, also had a flax mill, at least from 1886 to 1905, where the Memorial Park now is, and others at Morrinsville and Maketu. <mask> and Henry won the contract to built the Te Awamutu to Ōtorohanga section of the North Island Main Trunk Railway and in 1886 they won the contract to extend it to Te Kuiti. They also worked together building Palmerston North waterworks, in 1889, which they extended in 1891. However, their tenders were too high to get the 1887 Ohinemuri contract for the Hikutaia to Paeroa section of the Thames Branch, the 1890 Helensville to Makarau contract for the North Auckland Line, or the 1893 contract for the Rotorua Branch. <mask> had a Hamilton cottage burn down in 1903, the year he started a brickworks in Collingwood Street. He moved the brickworks to Huntly in 1905. It was still running in 1908, but seems to have been sold to a newly formed company that year.Coates Street in Hamilton East was built by <mask> in 1908, and some buildings had been erected by 1910. He was also a director of Hamilton Flour Mill,

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 was in the gum trade. Public life
He was elected to the Hamilton parish vestry committee, when it was formed, in 1876 and to the newly formed borough of Hamilton on 7 February 1878. His first involvement in public life seems to have been his nomination of Captain James McPherson as MP for Waikato in 1870. <mask>'s first election was as a lieutenant in the Waikato Rifle Volunteers in 1871. He was elected as a trustee of Hamilton East Highway District in 1874 and became its secretary. In 1877 he was elected to Kirikiriroa Road Board, was chairman of it in 1893 and resigned from it in 1897.He was elected to the Hamilton East School Committee in 1878. <mask> nominated his mayoral predecessors, William Australia Graham and Charles Barton. <mask> was mayor from 1888 to 1892. In 1891 he was elected unopposed, but didn't stand for mayor in 1892. He was also on Waikato County Council, from which he resigned in 1894, the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, the Waikato Licensing Committee from 1894 for 13 years,  was one of the original members and became president of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association in 1902 and chairman of South Auckland Racing Club for nearly 20 years. In 1893 he lost a Waikato Parliamentary election on a platform of opposing graduated tax and cooperative contracts, by 76 votes to Liberal MP, Alfred Cadman. In 1905 he was elected back to Hamilton Borough Council, until replaced in 1907.Family
On 18 April 1874 he married Alice Coleman, a daughter Peter Coleman. Their children were -

 Margaret Gillett, eldest daughter, born on 28 May 1878, married in 1905 to John Arkle Gillett, of Epsom
 Alberta Ethel

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 Kensington, 2nd daughter, married in 1904 to Norman Charles Kensington, of Dunedin She was living at Taumarunui in 1917
 Lilian Heddon, 3rd daughter, married in 1912 to Robert Heddon of Te Akatea and later living on a farm at Pukeatua
 Ethel Hughes, of Papakura
 <mask>, surveyor, who died of fever in North Borneo in 1921
 H. Arthur <mask>, who ran the Morrinsville flax mill, Hamilton brickworks and then moved to Thames and then Rotorua
 Alfred <mask>, who moved to Melbourne about 1908
 Harold F<mask>, an architect, who moved to Melbourne in 1914
 Violet, who died when she was pushed out of a window, when aged 6 in 1897. <mask> returned to England in 1872. The family also visited England and Scotland in 1904, 1912 and 1915. In 1873 he bought a riverside section for £10. Until selling the house in about 1912 to Henry Greenslade, who built Greenslade House, <mask>ates, lived at 'Wairere', 1 Wellington Street, Hamilton East. He had moved there when he married in 1874, and sold it when its kahikatea timbers were suffering from borer.In 1922 he moved to live with his son, Harold, in Canterbury, Melbourne, but returned in 1924 and was at 9 Wellington Street in 1927 and 1928. <mask> died on Sunday 1 May 1932. His wife, died a week before him. They were then living with their eldest daughter at Pukenui Rd, Epsom and were buried at Hillsborough Cemetery. References

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<mask>' flax mill in 1908

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Burials at Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland
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<mask> (born 1966 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an Armenian-Russian (by ethnicity) American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the author of ten novels, including Dreams of the Compass Rose, a "collage" novel structured as a series of related and interlinked stories similar in arabesque flavor to The One Thousand and One Nights, Lords of Rainbow, a standalone epic fantasy about a world without color, the Cobweb Bride trilogy, and The Atlantis Grail books. Crowdfunding controversy
In 2014 controversy erupted when she started an Indiegogo campaign to try to raise money for her authors; although the campaign was canceled after three days. As a result of "personal misfortunes", she had stopped paying royalties to the authors publishing books with Norilana Books, and hoped to raise enough money to pay what she owed them through the crowdfunding campaign. This generated discussion and criticism questioning to which extent small businesses should use Indiegogo or other similar crowdfunding sites to pay off business debt, and also resulted in criticism against her handling of the matter. A similar fundraiser was carried out successfully in 2008 for the same reasons, which resulted in donations of $19,000 to cover the debt she owed her authors, as well as to support herself. Selected works

Novels
 Dreams of the Compass Rose ("collage" novel), Wildside Press, May 2002.Nebula Award Preliminary Ballot 2002 nominee. Lords of Rainbow, or, The Book of


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 Fulfillment, Betancourt & Company, an imprint of Wildside Press, March 2003. Mansfield Park and Mummies: Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights , "Curiosities", an imprint of Norilana Books, November 2009. Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons , "Curiosities", an imprint of Norilana Books, December 2010. Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret , "Curiosities", an imprint of Norilana Books, June 2012. Cobweb Bride  (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book One), "Leda", an imprint of Norilana Books, July 15, 2013. Cobweb Empire  (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book Two), "Leda", an imprint of Norilana Books, September 25, 2013.Cobweb Forest  (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book Three), "Leda", an imprint of Norilana Books, December 31, 2013. Qualify  (The Atlantis Grail, Book One), Norilana Books, December 20, 2014. Compete  (The Atlantis Grail, Book Two), Norilana Books, August 15, 2015. Win (The Atlantis Grail, Book Three), Norilana Books, July 12, 2017. Dragon Awards 2018 Finalist. Survive (The Atlantis Grail, Book Four), Norilana Books, January 3, 2020. Novellas
 The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass, PS Publishing, UK, October 2005, with an introduction by Charles de Lint, on the Locus Recommended Reading List 2005.The Duke in His Castle, Norilana Books, June 2008. Nebula Award 2008 Finalist. Collections
 Salt of the Air, Prime Books, September 2006, with an introduction by Gene Wolfe. Debut collection of author's fantasy short fiction, spanning 20 years of her career, including works from 1985 to 2005. Expanded and reissued definitive edition, Norilana Books, April 2009. After the


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 Sundial, Norilana Books, August 2010. Miscellaneous in book form
 Hell Week at Grant-Williams High (two-novella omnibus), "YA Angst" an imprint of Norilana Books, January 19, 2011.The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration , "Spirit", an imprint of Norilana Books, October 2010. Vampires are from Venus, Werewolves are from Mars: A Comprehensive Guide to Attracting Supernatural Love, "Curiosities", an imprint of Norilana Books, December 2012. Short stories
 "Streets Running Like a River," Night's Nieces: The Legacy of Tanith Lee, edited by Storm Constantine, December 11, 2015. "Zandru's Gift," Stars of Darkover, edited by Deborah J. Ross and Elisabeth Waters, June 3, 2014. "Danila's Song," Music of Darkover, edited by Elisabeth Waters, June 3, 2013 (reprint). "Niola's Last Stand," Black Gate Magazine, edited by John O'Neill, May 12, 2013. "The Witch Who Made Adjustments," Past Future Present 2011 by Helen E Davis, December 10, 2011."The Slaying of Winter," a reprint in four parts, Polu Texni, October 2008, edited by Dawn Albright. "Three Names of the Hidden God," Heroes in Training, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Jim C. Hines, DAW Books, September 2007
 "The Ballad of Universal Jack," New Writings in the Fantastic, edited by John Grant, Pendragon Press, September 2007. "The Story of Love," Best New Romantic Fantasy #2, edited by Paula Guran, Juno Books, June 2007. Nebula Award 2007 Finalist. "Port Custodial Blues," Helix SF #2, October 2006, edited by William Sanders and Lawrence Watt-Evans. The short story was a WSFA Small Press Award 2007 Finalist. "I Want To Paint The Sky," Bli Panika, reprint translated into


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 Hebrew, December 2005."Halloween at Grant-Williams High," Fictionwise, original novelette, July 2003. "The Young Woman in a House of Old," Strange Pleasures #2, Prime Books, June 2003, edited by John Grant and Dave Hutchinson. "Lady of the Castle," Bookface.com, July 2000. "Mount Dragon," Talebones, Issue #14, January 1999. "A Dance for Darkover," Leroni of Darkover, DAW Books 1991 (co-written with Diana Perry). "The Balance," Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Issue 9, Summer 1990. "The Jackal," Four Moons of Darkover, cover story, DAW Books 1988."Kihar," Red Sun of Darkover, DAW Books 1987. Several entries in the Sword and Sorceress series, DAW Books 1985. "Danila's Song" in Music of Darkover, 2013

Non-fiction articles
 "Home Improvement in Magic Land," pop culture essay appearing in the BenBella Books SmartPop Series anthology Totally Charmed: Demons, Whitelighters and the Power of Three based on the TV show Charmed, edited by Jennifer Crusie, November 2005. "Publicity and Self-Promotion Nouveau: Doing It With Class," article on publicity and self-promotion for writers, appearing in Speculations Issue Forty-Six, edited by Susan Fry, April 2002. References

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 <mask>'s Webpage - official author website. 1966 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
American publishers (people)
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<mask> (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating, pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused, a generally quiet and slowly evolving music, and recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also explore extremes of duration. Biography
<mask> was born in Woodside, Queens, into a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants. His parents, <mask> (1893–1985) and <mask> (1897–1984), emigrated to New York from Pereiaslav (father, 1910) and Bobruysk (mother, 1901). His father was a manufacturer of children's coats.As a child he studied piano with Vera Maurina Press, who, according to the composer himself, instilled in him a "vibrant musicality rather than musicianship". Feldman's first composition teachers were Wallingford Riegger, one of the first American followers of Arnold Schoenberg, and Stefan Wolpe, a German-born Jewish composer who studied under Franz Schreker and Anton Webern. <mask> and Wolpe spent most of their time simply talking about music and art. In early 1950 Feldman heard the New York Philharmonic perform Anton Webern's Symphony, op. 21. After this work, the orchestra was going to perform a piece by Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Feldman left

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texts: Something Wild, but after hearing the music for the opening scene, in which a character (played by Carroll Baker, incidentally also Garfein's wife) is raped, the director promptly withdrew his commission, opting to enlist Aaron Copland instead. The director's reaction was said to be, "My wife is being raped and you write celesta music?" Feldman's music "changed radically" in 1970, moving away from graphic and arhythmic notation systems and toward rhythmic precision. The first piece of this new period was a short, 55-measure work, "Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety", dedicated to his childhood piano teacher, Vera Maurina Press. In 1973, at the age of 47, Feldman became the Edgard Varèse Professor (a title of his own devising) at the University at Buffalo. Until then, Feldman had earned his living as a full-time employee at the family textile business in New York's garment district.In addition to teaching at SUNY Buffalo, Feldman held residencies during the mid-1980s at the University of California, San Diego. Later, he began to produce very long works, often in one continuous movement, rarely shorter than half an hour in length and often much longer. These include Violin and String Quartet (1985, around 2 hours), For Philip Guston (1984, around four hours) and, most extreme, the String Quartet II (1983, over six hours long without a break). These pieces typically maintain a very slow developmental pace and are mostly very quiet. Feldman said that quiet sounds had begun to be the only ones that interested him. In a 1982 lecture, he asked: "Do we have


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 anything in music for example that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?"Feldman married the Canadian composer Barbara Monk shortly before his death. He died of pancreatic cancer in 1987 at his home in Buffalo, New York. Works
See: List of compositions by <mask>man

Notable students

Footnotes

Sources

Further reading
 Cline, David. The Graph Music of <mask>. Cambridge University Press, 2016
 Eldred, Michael The Quivering of Propriation: A Parallel Way to Music, Section II.4.4 A musical subversion of harmonically logical time (Feldman) www.arte-fact.org 2010
 <mask>, <mask>. <mask> Says. Chris Villars, ed.London: Hyphen Press, 2006. <mask>, <mask>. <mask> in Middelburg. Lectures and Conversations. Raoul Mörchen, ed. Cologne: , 2008. <mask>, <mask>.Give my regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of <mask>. B. H. Friedman, ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Exact Change, 2000. Gareau, Philip. La musique de <mask> ou le temps en liberté. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006. Hirata, Catherin (Winter 1996)."The Sounds of the Sounds Themselves: Analyzing the Early Music of <mask>", Perspectives of New Music 34, no. 1, 6–27. Herzfeld, Gregor. "Historisches Bewusstsein in <mask>mans Unterrichtsskizzen", Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, vol. 66, no. 3, (Summer 2009), 218–233. Lunberry, Clark."Departing Landscapes: <mask>'s String Quartet II and Triadic Memories". SubStance 110: vol. 35, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 17–50. (Available at http://www.cnvill.net/mftexts.htm [#105 on the list])
 Noble, Alistair. Composing Ambiguity: The Early Music of <mask>. Farnham:

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<mask> (born January 15, 1982) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. <mask> made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Texas Rangers on September 15, 2007. He was traded to the Detroit Tigers at the end of the 2007 season where he spent three seasons and also played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Houston Astros. In 2010, <mask> was one out from a perfect game when first base umpire Jim Joyce mistakenly called the runner safe. Playing career

Texas Rangers
He originally signed as a free agent with the Montreal Expos on October 31, 1998. He was acquired by the Texas Rangers from the Washington Nationals as part of the deal that sent Alfonso Soriano to the Nationals in 2005. <mask> made his Major League debut on September 15, 2007 against the Oakland Athletics.He entered the game in the eighth inning, and pitched a scoreless inning. He allowed no hits and one base on balls. Detroit Tigers

2008

On February 5, 2008, <mask> was traded to the Detroit Tigers for Michael Hernandez, an outfielder that had spent the last season playing for the AA Erie SeaWolves. As a minor league call up for the injured Dontrelle Willis, <mask> earned his first career win April 16, 2008 in a 13–2 victory over the Cleveland Indians. On June 13, 2008, <mask> pitched seven shutout innings in a 5–0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. He finished the 2008 campaign with a 13–7 record, a 3.73 earned run average (ERA), and 126 strikeouts in 178 innings. When batters did hit the ball against him, they only managed a .237 batting average on balls in play, the lowest in the Major Leagues.<mask> threw sliders 38.9% of the time in 2008, more than any other starting pitcher in the majors. After a superb rookie season, <mask> finished fourth in the balloting for the 2008 American League Rookie of the

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On April 10, 2009, <mask> pitched the home opener at Comerica Park. Tigers manager Jim Leyland said <mask> deserved to pitch Opening Day after having an impressive 2008 season. The Tigers won the game 15–2, which included a grand slam by Miguel Cabrera. On April 29, prior to a game against the New York Yankees, <mask> received his 2008 Tigers Rookie of the Year award from the Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association. Statistically, <mask> did not approach the success he achieved in the 2008 season.His 2009 ERA was a below average 5.64, and opposing batters hit a high .284 against him. 2010

In seven innings of work in spring training of 2010, <mask> allowed nine runs, 14 hits and seven walks. That, coupled with his attitude ("They've seen my stuff; they know what I can do", <mask> said during his ineffective spring training stint), prompted the Tigers to option him to the Tigers Triple-A affiliate Toledo on March 18, 2010. <mask> was called up to the Tigers in May 2010 and was put into the starting rotation. He had an ERA of 4.50 as of June 1. <mask> was optioned to Toledo on July 6, 2010 but Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski has said he would return on July 20 and start against Texas. On July 19, the Tigers recalled <mask>."The 28-out perfect game"

On June 2, 2010, <mask> pitched 8 perfect innings, but the perfect game disappeared on the 27th batter after what was ruled an infield hit. Rookie Jason Donald hit a ground ball to first baseman Miguel Cabrera, who tossed to <mask>—who was covering first base—but first base umpire Jim Joyce incorrectly called Donald safe, ending the perfect game and no-hitter. <mask> retired the next batter, completing the one-hitter, though many in the Tiger press preferred to call it "the 28-out perfect game." <mask> threw 88 pitches, 67 of them for

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 strikes. If he had completed the perfect game (83 pitches), it would have been the lowest number of pitches thrown since Addie Joss's 74 in 1908, and the shortest game since Sandy Koufaxs perfect game in 1965. It would have been the second perfect game in the Major Leagues in just four days, Philadelphia's Roy Halladay having thrown his on May 29, and the third in 24 days (Dallas Braden of Oakland on May 9). Joyce later issued a direct apology to <mask>, saying that the call was incorrect.<mask> accepted the mistake gracefully, saying later, "Nobody's perfect." Observers pointed to the handling of the situation as an example of good sportsmanship on both sides. He was presented with a "Medal of Reasonableness" for his reasoned response to Joyce's call at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. Arizona Diamondbacks
During the 2010–11 offseason, <mask> was designated for assignment by the Tigers. On January 24, 2011 he was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for pitchers Kevin Eichhorn and Ryan Robowski. On May 17, 2011, <mask> was designated for assignment and spent the rest of the season with the AAA Reno Aces After the 2011 season, he became a free agent. Baltimore Orioles
<mask> signed as a minor league free agent with the Baltimore Orioles on January 18, 2012.The Orioles released him on April 6. Houston Astros
He signed a minor league contract as a free agent with the Houston Astros on May 21, 2012. He pitched in five games for the Astros between July 28 and August 19, losing four of them. <mask> was designated for assignment on August 22 and released on August 25, 2012. Cincinnati Reds
<mask> signed a minor league contract with the Cincinnati Reds in January 2013. Colorado Rockies
He was traded to the Colorado Rockies for Parker Frazier on July 15, 2013. He was assigned to AAA

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 affiliate Sky Sox.Texas Rangers
In January 2014, <mask> joined the Texas Rangers on a minor league deal. He was released on March 24. Chinatrust Brother Elephants
Galarraga signed a contract with the Chinatrust Brother Elephants of Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League in April 2014. He pitched 10 games and posted an ERA of 4.470. He was released by the club on July 5, 2014. Pericos de Puebla
In 2015, <mask> signed a contract with the Pericos de Puebla of the Mexican League. In between, <mask> played winter ball with the Leones del Caracas club of the Venezuelan League in parts of seven seasons spanning 1999–2014.<mask> retired from professional baseball in December 2015. See also
 List of Major League Baseball players from Venezuela

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Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
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Lexington Legends players
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Oklahoma City RedHawks players
Oklahoma RedHawks players
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Pericos de Puebla players
Potomac Nationals players
Reno Aces players
Savannah Sand Gnats players
Spokane Indians players
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Toledo Mud Hens players
Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in Mexico
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<mask> (3 August 1916 – 20 April 1970) was an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in Hindi / Urdu language films. Early life
<mask> was born in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh. His father, Mohammed Jamaal Ahmed Sokhta Qadiri, wanted him to have a good career, thus he arranged Arabic, Urdu, Persian, and Hindi tuition for Shakeel at home. His inclination towards poetry was not hereditary like other . One of his distant relatives, Zia-ul-<mask>, was a religious . <mask> was influenced by him and the contemporary environment of Badayun led him to poetry. When he joined Aligarh Muslim University in 1936, he started participating in inter-college, inter-university mushairas and won frequently.In 1940, he married Salma, who was his distant relative and had been living in a common house with him since childhood, however, the purdah system was vogue in their family and they were not close. After completing his BA, he moved to Delhi as a supply officer, but continued participating in mushairas, earning fame nationwide. Those were the days of  who wrote about the downtrodden sections of society, their upliftment, the betterment of society and all. But Shakeel had an altogether different taste – his poetry was romantic and close to the heart. Shakeel used to say:

Main Shakeel Dil Ka Hoon Tarjuman
Keh Mohabbaton Ka Hoon Raazdaan
Mujhe Fakhr Hai Meri Shayari
Meri Zindagi Se Juda Nahin

During his Aligarh days, Badauni also started learning Urdu poetry formally from Hakim Abdul Waheed 'Ashk' Bijnori. Career
<mask> moved to Bombay in 1944, to write songs for films. He met film producer, A.R.Kardar and

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 Kar-e-Azam. Association with Naushad

<mask> shared a close friendship with Naushad, Ravi and Naushad's former assistant, Ghulam Mohammed, with whom he enjoyed his life to the fullest. Naushad used <mask> as the lyricist for his tunes for most of his films for a period of 24 years. Baiju Bawra, which was a milestone in both of their careers, was supposed to go to Kavi Pradeep. Vijay Bhatt, the director of the movie was insistent on using Kavi Pradeep as lyricist, since the film was supposed to have many devotional songs. Naushad requested Vijay Bhatt to hear the lyrics written by <mask>. Vijay Bhatt agreed.When <mask> <mask> was diagnosed with tuberculosis, he was put up in a sanatorium in Panchgani for treatment. Naushad knowing that his financial condition was not well, took 3 films to him, getting the lyrics written in the sanatorium, and got him a payment of nearly 10 times more than his normal fees. Association with Ravi

<mask> also wrote a substantial chunk of his songs for music director Ravi Sharma. Prominent amongst those were Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960),  Gharana (1961), Ghunghat, Grahasti (1963), Nartaki (1963), as well as Phool Aur Patthar and Do Badan (both released in 1966). Association with Hemant Kumar

<mask> wrote for Hemant Kumar for movies like Bees Saal Baad (1962), Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Bin Badal Barsaat. Association with S.D. Burman

<mask> penned lyrics for the tunes of S.D.Burman for movies Kaise Kahoon & Benazir. Others

C.Ramachandra – Zindagi Aur Maut, Wahan Ke Log. Roshan – Bedaag, Noorjahan. Personal life
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 complications at the age of fifty-three, on 20 April 1970, at Bombay Hospital leaving behind his wife, two sons and two daughters. One daughter, Najma, died soon afterwards, while still a college student. His elder son Javed and grand son Zeeshan work in the travel and tourism industry. His other son's name is Tariq.<mask>'s friends Ahmed Zakaria and Rangoonwala formed a trust called Yaad-e-Shakeel after his death and this trust became the source of some income to his bereaved family. <mask> loved to play badminton, go on picnics and hunting trips and fly kites with his friends from the industry, Naushad and Mohammed Rafi. Sometimes Johnny Walker would join them in kite-flying competitions. Dilip Kumar, writers Wajahat Mirza, Khumar Barabankvi and Azm Bazidpuri were among <mask>'s other close friends within the industry. His 20 best songs
<mask> penned several memorable songs in his career. Some of his popular works include the musical Baiju Bawra (1952), historical epic Mughal-e-Azam (1960) and social Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962). Suhani Raat Dhal Chuki (Dulari)
Man Tarpat Hari Darshan Ko Aaj (Baiju Bawra)
O Duniya Ke Rakhwale (Baiju Bawra)
Madhuban Me Radhika Naache Re (Kohinoor)
Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya?See also
 Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya, a song by <mask> Badayuni
 Insaaf Ki Dagar Pe, song by Shakkel <mask>

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Urdu-language poets from India
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1916 births
1970 deaths
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Indian male poets
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<mask> (23 August 1784 – 5 December 1853) was a Swedish opera singer. She is referred to as the leading prima donna of the Royal Swedish Opera in the early 19th-century. She was a Hovsångare (1815) as well as an associé of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1817). She is also known as Mamsell Wässelia or only Wässelia. Life

<mask> was born in Stockholm. She was the daughter of a tapestry manufacturer, and the sister of Justina Casagli. The home was reportedly a poor one.She was enrolled as a student of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in 1793, where she became the student of Anne Marie Milan Desguillons. As such, she was active as a child actor in the student plays arranged by the school, as well as in minor children's roles of the Opera productions. Career

<mask> <mask> was contracted as a singer at the Royal Swedish Opera on 1 April 1800. In 1806, the Royal Swedish Opera was (temporarily) closed by order of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, and remained closed for three years. During this period, many artists of the Opera lost employment or retired. Wässelia, however, was engaged as an actress at the adjoining Royal Dramatic Theatre. This was not a problem for her, as she was reportedly as capable as an actress as she was as a singer.In the season of 1809-10, the Royal Swedish Opera was opened again, and Wässelia was praised for "appealing modesty and naive love" for her performance in Le calife de Bagdad by Boieldieu opposite Gustav Åbergsson and Inga Åberg on the reopened Opera. <mask> <mask> was often referred to as simply "Wässelia". She was highly

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 respected for her professionalism, and according to director Gustav Löwenhielm, she never allowed neither her physical health nor her personal feelings ever to effect her work. Wässelia was said to unite an excellent lyric voice with an equally capable dramatic talent. Her voice was described as colorful and versatile, her posture graceful and her acting as "mute" but "admirably expressive". She was considered perfect for the parts of heroine and queen, except for the fact that she was seen as somewhat too short. She is however known to have been caricatured in the press and given the sobriquet "Miss Cucumber" because of her flat figure, a fact which was further highlighted by the fashionable Empire silhouette.<mask> <mask> has been referred to as the successor of the prima donna Caroline Frederikke Müller and the leading lady of the Swedish opera stage in the early 19th-century. Initially noted in light operetta, she was given many of the women's main parts of the opera performances in the first two decades of the 19th-century and was considered to have few rivals there. Her position also signified her being assigned to perform at certain state occasions. One such occasion was when she performed a cantata with Christoffer Christian Karsten at a grand ball hosted at the Royal court in celebration of the Union of Sweden and Norway in 1814. Wässelia was appointed official singer of the royal court or Hovsångare in 1815, and inducted as an associé to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1817. Later life

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Her most noted parts were the interpretations of Armide by Gluck, Laura in Léon, ou Le château de Monténéro by Dalayrac, Sophie in Sargino, ossia L'allievo dell'amore by Paër, Antigone in Oedipe uti Athen (Oidipus in Athens) by Sacchini, Constance in Les deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau by Cherubini and Juliet in Roméo et Juliette composed by Daniel Steibelt (opposite Karl Gustaf Lindström), (1814–15 season) and Iphigénie in Iphigénie en Aulide by Gluck. She made a success in the main part of Iphigénie en Aulide by Gluck in the benefit performance of Elisabeth Forsselius, who played Clitemnestre (1810); she


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 played the protective angel of Sweden in Gustav Vasa by Gustav III and "did remarkably well" in Fästmännerna (The fiancees) opposite Inga Åberg. Among her other parts were Lisette in Musikvurmen (Music craze) by Grenier during the 1796–97 season, Melisse in Renaud by Haeffner, (1800–01), Lina in L'opéra comique by F. P. Della Maria (1803–04), Amelina in Léhéman by Dalayrac (1804–05), Madame de Villeroux in Monsieur Des Chalumeaux by Pierre Gaveaux (1807–08), Elise in Une heure de mariage by Dalayrac (1808–09), Clorinde in Nicolas Isouard's Cendrillon opposite Elisabeth Frösslind (1810–11), Emilie in Les maris garçons by Berton (1812–23), Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Mozart, and Mathilda in Joconde by Isouard (1819–20).References

 Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon  (Swedish biographical dictionary) 1906
 Österberg, Carin, Lewenhaupt, Inga & Wahlberg, Anna Greta, Svenska kvinnor: föregångare nyskapare, Signum, Lund, 1990 1990 (Swedish)
 Nordensvan, Georg, Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar. Förra delen, 1772-1842, Bonnier, Stockholm, 1917 ['Swedish theatre and Swedish actors from Gustav III to our days. First book 1772–1842'] (Swedish)
 "Kungliga teaterns repertoar 1773-1973" (The repertoire of the royal theatre) 1974
 Nils Bohman: "Svenska män och kvinnor. Book 2" (Swedish men and women. Dictionary)

 Minne af Kongl. Dramatiska Teatern med en Repertoire (To the memory of the royal dramatic theatre with a repertoire)

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<mask> (17 July 19611 February 2019) was an English comedian. Born and raised in Hampshire, <mask> studied at the University of Southampton and began his stand-up career in the 1980s, going on to win the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1988. He is best known for his appearances on radio panel shows such as the News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Early life
<mask> was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, the fifth and youngest child of rocket scientist Donald D<mask> (1925–2016) and Sheila Stagg (1924–2012). He attended Farnham College and studied modern history and politics at the University of Southampton. He subsequently failed to obtain a place on a journalism course, and considered becoming an actor or poet. Career
<mask> started scriptwriting before turning to stand-up comedy in London in the early 1980s, funded in part by the Enterprise Allowance Scheme.He won the Perrier Comedy Award in 1988 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He made his television debut in the late 1980s, featuring regularly as <mask> the boom operator in the Rory Bremner-led comedy show Now – Something Else on BBC Two, along with guest appearances on programmes including the BBC One talk show Wogan. He went on to feature in various comedy shows including Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), and presented a television documentary about the political background to the English Civil War as well as an edition of Top of the Pops in 1996. He was one of the two team captains on the BBC Two game show If I Ruled the World that ran for two series in 1998–1999. Kit Hollerbach featured alongside him in the BBC radio sitcoms Unnatural Acts and At Home with the Hardys. <mask> worked extensively on

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<mask> was a committed socialist, and a supporter of the Labour Party. He performed at Labour Party rallies and Labour leader <mask> considered him a "dear, lifelong friend". His comedy embodied his radical politics, including outspoken opposition to former Labour leader Tony Blair – he was conflicted during the Blair and Gordon Brown leadership period,

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 quoted as saying "To me, voting Labour is like wiping your bottom: I can't say I like doing it but you've got to – because you're in a worse mess if you don't." <mask> was banned from voting in Labour internal elections in 2015 because he had also raised funds for the Green Party. He strongly supported Corbyn in the leadership election of 2015.He was also an outspoken opponent of the Trident programme. <mask> supported Irish nationalist Róisín McAliskey, the then-pregnant daughter of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, when the former was accused of involvement in an IRA mortar attack in Germany, and put up part of the bail money to free her. He also supported the campaign to free Danny McNamee, who remained unconvicted (but later found liable for) his involvement in the Provisional Irish Republican Army's (IRA) Hyde Park bombing on 20 July 1982. In an edition of <mask> Speaks to the Nation on BBC Radio 4 "How to be Afraid", broadcast in September 2004, <mask> said during one of his comedy routines that "if you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all." This sparked complaints and caused Burnley Borough Council to cancel a show in the town over fears that it could be "disruptive" in an area with a recent history of racial tension. In September 2016 <mask> performed at the Keep Corbyn rally in Brighton in support of <mask>'s campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. On <mask>'s death, Corbyn said "He always gave his all for everyone else and the campaigns for social justice."Personal life
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Television

Helping Henry (1988) – the voice of Henry
Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) ("Corporal Punishment") – Corporal Perkins
Jack and <mask>'s Real Lives (1996) (with Jack Dee)
If I Ruled the World (1998)
QI (2003)
Grumpy Old Men (2004)
Mock the Week (2005)
Countdown (2007) (Dictionary Corner)
The Voice (2008)

Radio

The News Quiz
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
Just a Minute
<mask> Speaks to the Nation
Unnatural Acts
At Home with the Hardys
You'll Have Had Your Tea: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal
Chain Reaction
Comic to Comic
The Unbelievable Truth
 <mask> Feels It (2018)

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Hotel (2001)
<mask> vs. the Israeli Army (2003)
How to Be (2008)

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2019 deaths
Comedians from Hampshire
English male comedians
English socialists
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<mask><mask> (born July 5, 1968) is an American Republican politician and the 79th speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, serving in that role since 2013. He has been a member of the Assembly since 2005, representing most of the southern half of Racine County. <mask> is also president of National Conference of State Legislatures. <mask> came to prominence for his role in shepherding legislation to weaken bargaining rights and labor unions in Wisconsin while Scott Walker was governor, which culminated in the 2012 Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election. During the governorship of Tony Evers, a Democrat, <mask> has sought to curb the governor's powers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, <mask> blocked Evers's efforts to increase the safety and accessibility of elections, sought to hinder public health measures to mitigate the pandemic, such as mask mandates, and opposed vaccine requirements by private businesses. Early life and education
<mask> was born in 1968, in Burlington, Wisconsin, in Racine County.He graduated from Burlington High School in 1986. <mask> attended the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, where he studied political science and public relations. While at Whitewater, he roomed with Reince Priebus, who later became chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and White House chief of staff. In 1989, Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson appointed <mask> as a student representative on the University of Wisconsin board of regents. <mask> graduated in 1991.

Business career and early political career
After graduation, <mask> worked as a legislative assistant to state representatives Jim Ladwig and Bonnie Ladwig. In 1994, <mask> was elected to the Racine county board of supervisors. He remained on the board for the next 10 years.Also in 1994, <mask> worked as district director for U.S. representative Mark Neumann of Wisconsin. In 1996 <mask> purchased the RoJos Popcorn Company in Burlington. In 2020, his popcorn business, Robin J. Vos Enterprises, received more than $150,000 in coronavirus relief

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In 2004, <mask> ran for the Wisconsin state assembly to succeed Ladwig in the 63rd district. He was unopposed in the 2004 primary and general elections.After Republicans won full control of state government in Wisconsin in 2010, <mask> rose to prominence pushing the controversial budget restructuring act alongside governor Scott Walker. The law curtailed collective bargaining rights and public education funding in Wisconsin, and led to massive protests around the state, culminating in the 2012 Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election. In 2013, <mask> was elected speaker of the Wisconsin assembly. Between 2014 and 2018 he received about $57,000 in travel and perks from lobbyists and organizations. He said he was certain he had followed ethics rules with his travel. <mask> supports deregulating the payday loan industry. He opposes Medicaid expansion and spearheaded Republican efforts to block Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin.<mask> argued against Medicaid, saying "Trapping people in the life of poverty is not something that there's ever the right amount of money to do." In 2016 <mask> endorsed Marco Rubio for the Republican nomination for president. After Rubio dropped out of the race, Vos endorsed Ted Cruz. In August 2016, <mask> wrote in a column on a conservative website that he was "embarrassed" that Donald Trump was "leading our ticket" as the presumptive Republican nominee; the next month, <mask> said that he was "proud" to support Trump's candidacy due to his belief that Trump would energize Republican voters. In February 2019 Vos defended Brian Hagedorn, a judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals running for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, amid reports that Hagedorn had founded a school in 2016 that

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 allowed for the expulsion of students and faculty if they were gay. <mask> said he believed Hagedorn could rule fairly on LGBT issues. In July 2019 <mask> was widely criticized for refusing to prohibit overnight floor sessions or allow Democratic lawmaker Jimmy Anderson, who is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair, to phone into committee meetings.He later accused Anderson of political grandstanding and attempting to sabotage him as <mask> took on his new national role as head of the National Conference of State Legislatures. In November 2020, <mask> was reelected by 16 percentage points. In November 2020, days after the unofficial count of the 2020 presidential election showed Joe Biden winning Wisconsin by 20,000 votes, <mask> directed an investigatory committee to review how the election was administered. This came as Trump made false claims of election fraud. <mask> also made misleading claims about the election process. In May 2021, <mask> appropriated $680,000 in taxpayer money to fund an investigation into fraud in the 2020 election; there was no evidence of substantial fraud in the election and all lawsuits that claimed fraud were dismissed by courts. When asked whether it was a conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen, <mask> said it was not.In February 2021, <mask> sent a letter to the governor asking him to order that flags on state buildings be lowered in honor of right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh, who had recently died. Lauded by conservatives, Limbaugh was a divisive figure criticized for his derogatory comments about women, racial minorities and LGBT people, as well as on-air promotion of conspiracy theories and falsehoods. <mask> praised Limbaugh as "a pioneer in talk radio, a best-selling author and a commentator who inspired generations to become active in politics." In October 2021, <mask> defended a heavily pro-Republican gerrymandered redistricting map for Wisconsin. Curbing the powers of the Evers administration
<mask> has been described as having a significant role in countering Governor Tony Evers. After Evers, the

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 Democratic nominee, won the 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, defeating incumbent governor Scott Walker, <mask> was the first public official to propose curbing the incoming governor's powers. He claimed it was to restore a balance of power between the governor and the legislature, despite having previously voted to expand gubernatorial power.<mask> also said the changes were intended to lock in laws passed by Republicans and to prevent the incoming Democratic administration from fulfilling its campaign pledges, particularly a pledge to withdraw Wisconsin from a lawsuit seeking to overturn the federal Affordable Care Act. The Republican-led legislature was called into a December lame duck session and passed laws decreasing the powers of the incoming governor, limiting early voting, and giving the legislature more control. Walker then signed the bills. Christopher Beem of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy at Pennsylvania State University described Wisconsin Republicans' power grab as a "deeply undemocratic act" that, while possibly legal, eroded democratic norms by frustrating the expressed will of a majority of the electorate, immediately after an election, to make it "more difficult for the incoming administration to undertake actions that the majority has just shown that it wants." In June 2019, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a challenge brought by the League of Women Voters and other groups to the laws enacted in the December 2018 lame-duck session, ruling in a 4–3 decision that extraordinary sessions are constitutional. In 2021, Politico wrote that <mask> was effectively a shadow governor of Wisconsin as he and the Republican majority in the state senate had used their powers "to block, thwart or resist almost every significant move made by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers."COVID-19 pandemic

In April 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic, <mask> opposed calls by Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, to delay the state's primary election from early April to late May, to make it a mail-in election, and to mail ballots to all

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 emergency declaration and strike down Evers's mandate, but Wisconsin Republicans opted to go to court instead, so as to prevent vulnerable Republican legislators from having to vote against face mask mandates just before an election.A state judge rejected the attempt to strike down Evers's order, finding that state law "gives the governor broad discretion to act whenever conditions in the state constitute a public health emergency" and considering the fact that "The legislature can end the state of emergency at any time, but so far, it has declined to do so." In March 2021, after Congress passed a $1.9 trillion COVID-relief stimulus package, <mask> suggested that Wisconsin should reject the federal government's assistance to provide the unemployed with unemployment benefits for their first week of unemployment. In November 2021, <mask> said that members of the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) should "probably" face felony charges for easing some of the regulations around voting in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. <mask> opposes vaccine requirements for private businesses' employees and customers. In December 2021, he criticized vaccine requirements for health care workers, blaming the requirements for bed shortages at hospitals. Memberships
<mask> is second vice-chair of the board of directors of the State Legislative Leaders Foundation. A member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), <mask> is the group's former Wisconsin state chair.Electoral history

Wisconsin Assembly (2004–present)

References

External links
Representative <mask> - Speaker at Wisconsin Legislature
 National Conference of State Legislatures website
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21st-century American politicians
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<mask> 'Spamford' <mask>  (born c. 1968) is an internet spammer. He initially started sending junk faxes before coming to notoriety in 1997, promoting himself as the original "Spam King". <mask>'s prolific spamming has resulted in encounters with the United States government, anti-spam activists, and large corporations such as Facebook and MySpace. Early career
In the late 1990s, his company, Cyber Promotions, aka Cyberpromo, was widely blacklisted as a source of unsolicited email. <mask>'s high-profile pro-spam stance and unrepentant persistence earned him the derisive nickname 'Spamford'. Prior to his email spam ventures, <mask> had gained notoriety in other questionable marketing circles, as a heavy utilizer of junk fax marketing, a practice outlawed in the United States since 1991. In 1995, <mask> formed Cyber Promotions, entering the spam market.Thanks to a self-marketing campaign, Cyberpromo rapidly became the most successful seller of email marketing—as well as the number one source of unsolicited email. In 1996 he was sued by Concentric Network, an ISP, and entered into a consent decree not to use their network again. After Cyberpromo failed to become a legitimate business, <mask> returned to junk faxing in late 1997. <mask>'s company brought a number of spam-blocking evasion tactics to the fore of the spam battle. False return addresses, relaying, and multihoming were among the questionable practices used by Cyberpromo to ensure the penetration of their advertising. Retirement and reemergence
In April 1998, <mask> publicly announced that he was quitting the spam business. Cyberpromo was converted to what he claimed was an "opt-in" email marketing company and renamed GTMI.The revised company was plagued by major financial problems, as well as the spectre of its former self, with large numbers of people unconvinced of <mask>'s change of heart. <mask> pulled out of the new venture

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texts: quickly. GTMI's problematic origin led to its rapid demise. After <mask>'s internet connection was disconnected for spamming in 1999, he filed a lawsuit against anti-spam activist Mark Welch, but abandoned the suit a month later. , <mask> was working as a DJ in New Hampshire, making weekly appearances at area nightclubs. <mask> performed under the name DJ MasterWeb. He was also the owner of a night club in New Hampshire called Plum Crazy, which filed for bankruptcy in 2004.It appears that <mask> did not leave the Internet marketing business entirely. In 2001 he was linked to a website, passthison.com, which utilized multiple-window launching to snag Web viewers, an advertising practice rarely seen outside of the online pornography industry. <mask> was also involved in another opt-in project, SmartBotPRO.NET, which is now apparently also defunct. On October 8, 2004, the Federal Trade Commission filed suit against <mask> and his company, SmartBOT, for infecting computers with spyware then offering a solution to remove the problem for $30. In January 2005, it was announced that <mask> had agreed to stop distributing the software until the charges with the FTC are settled. Subsequently, a default judgment was issued against <mask> forbidding him and associates from distributing spyware or any other software without consumer's consent. In March 2006, the FTC filed a suit again against <mask> and SmartBOT for practices similar to the 2004 suit.This time <mask> and his co-defendants were ordered to pay $5,089,550.48 in fines. In 2007, MySpace filed suit against <mask> for phishing and spamming. <mask> had used automated software not allowed by MySpace to create 11,000 fake profiles, in order to direct MySpace users to other websites. In July 2007, US District Judge Audrey B. Collins issued an order prohibiting <mask> from creating or maintaining MySpace profiles, and from using MySpace to post

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References

External links
 Mike Hammer and Brian Shapiro interview with <mask> September 7, 2016

News articles
 <mask> mini-bio and interviews from archive.org, originally at AnnOnline
 CNET: Return of the Spam King November 20, 1997
 CNET: Spam site killed under threats January 19, 1998
 Wired: <mask>: Back to the Fax? January 23, 1998
 FTC files case against spyware companies October 7, 2004
 U.S. files first suit against Internet 'spy ware' October 8, 2004
 Notorious Net marketer to halt spyware ads January 4, 2005
 FTC Orders Former Spam King To Pay $4 Million For Spyware Scam May 4, 2006
 MySpace files phishing and spam suit against <mask> March 27, 2007
 Spamford Wallace's MySpace riches come under attack January 26, 2008
 MySpace Wins Record $230m in Case Against 'Spam King' May 14, 2008

Court cases
 Concentric Network Corporation v Cyber Promotions
 Cyber Promotions v AOL
 Cyber Promotions v CompuServe
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 <mask> v. Welch (1999)
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<mask><mask> (May 3, 1865 - April 7, 1949)  was an American consulting engineer and geologist. He was Chief Engineer or Consulting Engineer on eighteen major dams to impound water for domestic use, power and irrigation in California and other Western States. Background
<mask><mask> was born in Viroqua, Wisconsin. He was the son of Thurston (born Torstein Finkelsen) and Sophie Amalie (born Michelet) <mask>. His father and grandparents emigrated to the U.S. in 1850 from Vestre Slidre in the Oppland, Norway. His mother's family also emigrated in 1850 from Lillehammer, Norway. His mother’s family had emigrated from Metz, France to Norway in the 17th century.<mask> <mask> (baptized as <mask> <mask>) was educated at the district grammar schools and high school of Westby, and Viroqua, Wisconsin. He  graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1887, where he majored in hydraulics and geology. He could speak, write and read eight languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. He also had a thorough knowledge of classical Latin and Greek. Career

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He began his career  in California as a hydraulic engineer and geologist in January, 1887. Between 1887 and 1914, He served as:
Chief Engineer of North Riverside Land & Water Co., 1887 to 1890, in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, Calif.
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Chief Engineer of water resources and sanitation for California State Public Institutions, 1894 to 1895
Chief Engineer of Redlands Electric Light & Power Co., 1895 to 1896
Chief Engineer of Southern California Power Co., and California Power Co., 1896 to 1901
Chief Hydraulic Engineer and Geologist for Southern California Edison Co., Ltd., 1901 to 1908
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 Southern California Edison Co., Ltd., 1908 to 1914, during which years he was also Consulting Engineer and Geologist for The Central Colorado Power Co., and Denver Union Water Co. of Denver, Colorado; Mount Hood Railway and Power Co. of Portland, Oregon; Arrowhead Lake Co. of San Bernardino, California. Private practice
Starting in 1914 he was in private practice as a consulting engineer and geologist, during which time he served as consulting engineer for many cities, among them, Denver Union Water Co., before the City of Denver acquired its properties; and consulting engineer for the cities of San Bernardino, San Diego, Glendale, Burbank, Beverly Hills, Ontario and others in the State of California.He had charge of flood protection works on the Colorado River, after the great flood and overflow in 1922. He was consulting engineer for the Imperial Valley Irrigation Project for three years. He was considered an expert in hydraulic engineering and historical and structural geology, and one of the highest authorities on the market value of water rights for power and irrigation in the Western States. He  held the world’s record for expert testimony on hydraulics and geology, having testified for 121 days in court during 1927-28 in the trial of the water rights case of Rancho Santa Margarita vs. Vail Co., et al., in San Diego County, California. He reported on the defects in design and construction of the St. Francis Dam for Los Angeles, and predicted its failure four years before it failed with property loss of $20,000,000 and loss of 631 lives. He also reported on the defects of Mulholland Dam in Hollywood, which was reconstructed to make it safe by strengthening the down slope, and lowering the spillway. During his long professional career, he reported against political