texts: gay matters; <mask> sometimes wrote under his own name but sometimes used the name "Parisex". <mask> continued to write for the next 30 years. In the mid-1940s, <mask> moved to Washington, D.C., where he explored the city's gay scene, including the popular cruising area in Lafayette Park. In 1953, the editors of ONE magazine—the first nationally syndicated homophile periodical available in the U.S.—published a letter from <mask> in which he briefly recounted the story of the Society for Human Rights. Almost a decade later, in 1962, ONE published a full-length article, written by <mask>, providing a detailed history of SHR.During the emergence of the homophile movement in the U.S., <mask> maintained a voluminous correspondence with other gay men, discussing gay organizing and strategies for answering societal prejudice. <mask> was an early member of the Washington chapter of the Mattachine Society, though he resigned after clashing with chapter president B. Dwight Huggins. <mask> spent the last decades of his life as a resident of the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. There he worked on his memoirs (the manuscripts are thought to be lost) and translations of German novels. Gerber was 80 years old when he died at the home on December 31, 1972. He was buried in the adjoining United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery . <mask> was posthumously inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 1992.The <mask>ber House, located at 1710 N. Crilly Court, Chicago, contains the apartment in which <mask> lived when he founded SHR. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 1, 2001. In June 2015 it was named a National Historic Landmark. The Gerber/Hart Library at 6500 North Clark Street is named in honor of Gerber and early civil rights defender Pearl M. Hart. Gerber serves as a direct link between the LGBT-related activism of the Weimar Republic and the American homophile movement of the 1950s. In 1929, a young man named Harry Hay was living in Los Angeles. He soon discovered the

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Bibliography
 Blasius, Marc and Shane Phelan, eds. (1997). We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics. New York, Routledge. .
 Hogan, Steve and Lee Hudson (1998).Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia. New York, Henry Holt and Company. .
 Kepner, Jim and Stephen O. Murray. "<mask> (1895–1972): Grandfather of the American Gay Rights Movement". Collected in Bullough, Vern L. (2002). Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context. New York, Harrington Park Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press. .
 Loughery, John (1998). The Other Side of Silence – Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History.New York, Henry Holt and Company. .
 Murdoch, Joyce, and Deb Price (2001). Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court. New York, Basic Books. .
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<mask> (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by The New York Times as "[America]'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist. He has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. <mask> is best known for his collaboration with Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs on Einstein on the Beach, and his frequent collaborations with Tom Waits. In 1991, <mask> established The Watermill Center, "a laboratory for performance" on the East End of Long Island, New York, regularly working with opera and theatre companies, as well as cultural festivals. <mask> "has developed as an avant-garde artist specifically in Europe amongst its modern quests, in its most significant cultural centers, galleries, museums, opera houses and theaters, and festivals". Early life and education
<mask> was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Loree Velma (née Hamilton) and D.M<mask>, a lawyer.He had a difficult youth as the gay son of a conservative family. "When I was growing up, it was a sin to go to the theater. It was a sin if a woman wore pants. There was a prayer box in school, and if you saw someone sinning you could put their name in the prayer box, and on Fridays everyone would pray for those people whose names were in the prayer box." He was stuttering and taken to a local dance instructor called Bird "Baby" Hoffman, who helped him overcome his stutter. After attending local schools, he studied business administration at the

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In 1968, he founded an experimental performance company, the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds (named for a teacher who helped him manage a stutter while a teenager).With this company, he directed his first major works, beginning with 1969's The King of Spain and The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud. He began to work in opera in the early 1970s, creating Einstein on the Beach with composer Philip Glass and choreographer Lucinda Childs. This work brought the artists worldwide renown. Following Einstein, <mask> worked increasingly with major European theaters and opera houses. For the New York debut of his first opera, the Metropolitan Opera allowed <mask> to rent the house on a Sunday, when they did not have a

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 Erwartung in Berlin; Madama Butterfly at the Bolshoi Opera in Moscow; and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. <mask> also directs all Monteverdi operas for the opera houses of La Scala in Milan and the Palais Garnier in Paris. In 2021 <mask> directed a revival of Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Sofia, Bulgaria.Visual art and design
In addition to his work for the stage, <mask> has created sculpture, drawings, and furniture designs. Exhibited in December 1976 at the Paula Cooper Gallery, <mask>'s storyboards were described by one critic as "serial art, equivalent to the slow-motion tempo of [<mask>'s] theatrical style. In drawing after drawing after drawing, a detail is proposed, analyzed, refined, redefined, moved through various positions." He won the Golden Lion at the 1993 Venice Biennale for a sculptural installation. In 2004, Ali Hossaini offered <mask> a residency at the television channel LAB HD. Since then <mask>, with producer Esther Gordon and later with Matthew Shattuck, has produced dozens of high-definition videos known as the Voom Portraits. Collaborators on this well-received project included the composer Michael Galasso, the late artist and designer Eugene Tsai, fashion designer Kevin Santos, and lighting designer Urs Schönebaum.In addition to celebrity subjects, sitters have included royalty, animals, Nobel Prize winners and hobos. In 2011, <mask> designed an art park dedicated to the Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985), situated in the Arabianranta

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texts: district of Helsinki. His plans for the rectangular park feature a central square divided into nine equally sized fields separated by bushes. Each field will be installed with objects related to the home. For example, one unit will consist of a small fireplace surrounded by stones that serve as seating. The park will be lit by large, lightbox-style lamps build into the ground and by smaller ones modelled on ordinary floor lamps. In 2013 American pop singer Lady Gaga announced that she would collaborate with <mask> as part of her ARTPOP project.He subsequently designed the set for her 2013 MTV Video Music Awards performance. <mask> also suggested that Gaga pose for his Voom Portraits. Knowing he had an upcoming residency as guest curator at the Louvre, <mask> chose themes from the museum's collection, all dealing with death. They shot the videos in a London studio over three days, Gaga standing for 14 or 15 hours at a time. Called "Living Rooms," the resulting exhibition included two video works: one inspired by Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat, hung in the painting galleries, and another in which Lady Gaga brings to life a painting by Ingres. In the Louvre's auditorium, <mask> hosted and took part in a series of performances, conversations, film screenings, and discussions. The centerpiece of the residency is a room filled with objects from the artist's personal collection in New York, including African masks, a Shaker chair, ancient Chinese ceramics, shoes worn by Marlene Dietrich and a photo of <mask> and Glass taken in the early


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<mask> lives in New York. As of 2000, he estimated that he "spends 10 days a year at his apartment in New York". For many years he was romantically involved with Andy de Groat, a dancer and choreographer with whom he collaborated in the 1970s. <mask> is known for pushing the boundaries of theatre. His works are noted for their austere style, very slow movement, and often extreme scale in space or in time. The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin was a 12-hour performance, while KA MOUNTain and GUARDenia Terrace was staged on a mountaintop in Iran and lasted seven days. Language
Language is one of the most important elements of theatre and <mask> feels at home with commanding it in many different ways.<mask>'s impact on this part of theatre alone is immense. Arthur Holmberg, professor of theatre at Brandeis University, says that "In theatre, no one has dramatized the crisis of language with as much ferocious genius as <mask>." <mask> makes it evident in his work that whats and whys of language are terribly important and cannot be overlooked. Tom Waits, acclaimed songwriter and collaborator with <mask>, said this about <mask>'s unique relationship with words:

Words for Bob are like tacks on the kitchen floor in the dark of night and you're barefoot. So Bob clears a path he can walk through words without getting hurt. Bob changes the values and shapes of words. In some sense they take on more meaning; in some cases, less.<mask> shows the importance of language through all of his works and in many varying fashions. He

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Language does many things and does them well.But we tend to shut our eyes to what language does not do well. Despite the arrogance of words – they rule traditional theatre with an iron fist – not all experience can be translated into a linguistic code. Celebrated twentieth century playwright Eugène Ionesco said that <mask> "surpassed Beckett" because "[<mask>'s] silence is a silence that speaks". This silence onstage may be unnerving to audience members but serves a purpose of showing how important language is by its absence. It is <mask>'s means of answering his own question: "Why is it no one looks? Why is it no one knows how to look? Why does no one see anything on stage?"Another technique <mask> uses is that of what words can mean to a particular character. His piece, I was sitting on my patio this guy appeared I thought I was hallucinating, features only two characters, both of whom deliver the same stream-of-consciousness monologue. In the play's first production one character was "aloof, cold, [and] precise" while the other "brought screwball comedy … warmth and color … playful[ness]". The different emphases and deliveries brought to the monologue two different meanings; "audiences found it hard to believe they heard the same monologue twice." Rather than tell his audience what words are supposed to mean, he opens them up for interpretation, presenting the idea that "meanings are not tethered to words like horses to hitching posts." Movement
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I do movement before we work on the text. Later we'll put text and movement together. I do movement first to make sure it's strong enough to stand on its own two feet without words. The movement must have a rhythm and structure of its own. It must not follow the text. It can reinforce a text without illustrating it. What you hear and what you see are two different layers.When you put them together, you create another texture. With such an emphasis on movement, <mask> even tailors his auditions around the necessity of it. In his auditions, "<mask> often does an elaborate movement sequence" and "asks the actor to repeat it." Thomas Derrah, an actor in the CIVIL warS, found the audition process to be baffling: "When I went in, [<mask>] asked me to walk across the room on a count of 31, sit down on a count of 7, put my hand to my forehead on a count of 59. I was mystified by the whole process". To further cement the importance of movement in <mask>'s works, Seth Goldstein, another actor in the CIVIL warS, stated "every movement from the moment I walked onto the platform until I left was choreographed to the second. During the scene at table all I did was count movements.All I thought about was timing." When it comes time to add the text in with movement, there is still much work to be done. <mask> pays close attention to the text and still makes sure there is enough "space

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I know it's hell to separate text and movement and maintain two different rhythms. It takes time to train yourself to keep tongue and body working against each other. But things happen with the body that have nothing to do with what we say. It's more interesting if the mind and the body are in two different places, occupying different zones of reality. These rhythms keep the mind on its toes, consciously and subconsciously taking in the meanings behind the movement and how it is matching up with the language. Similar to <mask>'s use of the lack of language in his works, he also sees the importance that a lack of movement can have. In his production of Medea, <mask> arranged a scene in which the lead singer stood still during her entire song while many others moved around her.<mask> recalls that "she complained that if I didn't give her any movements, no one would notice her. I told her if she knew how to stand, everyone would watch her.


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<mask> believes that "the most important part of theatre" is light. He is concerned with how images are defined onstage, and this is related to the light of an object or tableau. He feels that the lighting design can really bring the production to life.The set designer for <mask>'s the CIVIL warS, Tom Kamm, describes his philosophy: "a set for <mask> is a canvas for the light to hit like paint." He explains, "If you know how to light, you can make shit look like gold. I paint, I build, I compose with light. Light is a magic wand." <mask> is "the only major director to get billing as a lighting designer" and is recognized by some as "the greatest light artist of our time". He designs with light to be flowing rather than an off-and-on pattern, thus making his lighting "like a musical score." <mask>'s lighting designs feature "dense, palpable textures" and allow "people and objects to leap out from the background.In his design for Quartett, <mask> used four hundred light cues in a span of only ninety minutes. He is a perfectionist, persisting to achieve every aspect of his vision. A fifteen-minute monologue in Quartett took two days for him to light while a single hand gesture took nearly three hours. This attention to detail


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<mask>'s interest in design extends to the props in his productions, which he designs and sometimes participates in constructing. Whether it is furniture, a light bulb, or a giant crocodile, <mask> treats each as a work of art in its own right. He demands that a full-scale model of each prop be constructed before the final one is made, in order "to check proportion, balance, and visual relationships" on stage.Once he has approved the model, the crew builds the prop, and <mask> is "renowned for sending them back again and again and again until they satisfy him". He is so strict in his attention to detail that when Jeff Muscovin, his technical director for Quartett, suggested they use an aluminum chair with a wood skin rather than a completely wooden chair, <mask> replied:

No, Jeff, I want wood chairs. If we make them out of aluminum, they won't sound right when they fall over and hit the floor. They'll sound like metal, not wood. It will sound false. Just make sure you get strong wood. And no knots.Such attention to detail and perfectionism usually resulted in an expensive collection of props. "Curators regard them as sculptures" and the props have been sold for prices ranging from "$4,500 to $80,000." Exhibitions
Extensive retrospectives have been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1991) and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1991). He has presented installations at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1993),

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In 1991 <mask> established The Watermill Center on the site of a former Western Union laboratory on the East End of Long Island, New York. Originally styled as "a laboratory for performance", The Watermill Center operates year-round artist residencies, public education programs, exhibitions, and performances. The center is situated within a  campus of gardens and designed landscape, and contains numerous works of art collected by <mask>. Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, 1999. Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique & Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, cond. ; Magdalena Kožená (Orphée); Madeline Bender (Eurydice); Patricia Petibon (Amour); Arthaus Musik #100062 (2000)/ Warner Classics # 16577 (2009)
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 Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, 2003. Netherlands Opera Chorus, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Edo de Waart, cond. ; Richard Stilwell (Sharpless), Catherine Keen (Suzuki), Martin Thompson (Pinkerton), Cheryl Barker (Butterfly), Peter Blanchet (Goro), Anneleen Bijnen (Kate Pinkerton). Kultur Video # 937 (2003)
 L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, La Scala, Milan 2009.Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini, cond. ; Georg Nigl (Orfeo); <mask> (La Musica/Euridice/Eco); Sara Mingardo (Sylvia/Speranza); Luigi de Donato (Caronte); Raffaella Milanesi (Proserpina); Giovanni Battista Parodi (Plutone); Furio. OPUS ARTE 1044
 Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy. Paris, 2012. Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris, Philippe Jordan, cond. ; Chœur de l'Opéra national de Paris, Patrick Marie Aubert. Stéphane Degout (Pelléas); Elena Tsallagova (Mélisande); Vincent Le Texier (Golaud); Anne Sofie von Otter (Geneviève); Franz Josef Selig (Arkel); Julie Mathevet (The little Yniold); Jérôme Varnier (Un berger, le médecin).Naive # 2159

References

Further reading
 Brecht, Stefan. 1978. The Theatre of Visions: <mask>. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp. Brockett, Oscar G. and Franklin J. Hildy. 2003. History of the Theatre.Ninth edition,

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 Gussow, Mel. 1998. Theatre on the Edge. New York: Applause. Macián, José Enrique, Sue Jane Stocker, and Jörn Weisbrodt, eds. 2011.The Watermill Center – A Laboratory for Performance: <mask>'s Legacy. Stuttgart: DACO-VERLAG. .
 Morey, Miguel and Carmen Pardo. 2002. <mask>. Barcelona: Edicion Poligrafa S.A.
 Otto-Bernstein, Katharina. 2006. Absolute <mask>: The Biography.New York: Prestel. Quadri, Franco, Franco Bertoni, and <mask>. 1998. <mask>. New York: Rizzoli. Schroeder, Jonathan, Stenport, Anna W., and Szalczer, Ezster (eds.) (2019), August Strindberg and Visual Culture: The Emergence of Optical Modernity in Image, Text and Theatre, London: Bloomsbury.Shyer, Laurence. 1989. <mask> And His Collaborators. New York: Theatre Communications Group. Weber, Carl, ed. & trans. 1989.Explosion of a Memory: Writings by Heiner Müller. By Heiner Müller. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications. .

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 Katharina Otto-Bernstein, Absolute WilsonWill Bond Bob. ''one-man play, 1998
Carl von Karstedt <mask>, Die Schönheit des Geheimnisvollen (The Beauty of the Mysterious), ARTE TV, documentary, 52 minutes, 2021

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 RobertWilson.com Official site
 Absolute Wilson documentary film site
 Interview with <mask> by Bruce Duffie, September 6, 1990
 <mask>: Video Portraits of Lady Gaga Louvre, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Watermill Center NY, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Bernier/Eliades gallery, 2013–2015 by art critic Kostas Prapoglou. Finding aid to <mask> papers at

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<mask> (; born 1977) is an Israeli investigative journalist writing for Haaretz newspaper and other publications. He is specialized in military affairs, corruption and "follow the money" investigations. <mask> was convicted of possession of classified IDF documents and sentenced to community service for his role in the Kamm-Blau affair. Career
<mask> began his journalistic career in Kol Ha'ir, a Jerusalem weekly newspaper. He specialized in exposing cases of misconduct by IDF soldiers. Unlike other military correspondents, he did not join the Military Reporters Section and tended to rely on low-ranking enlisted personnel, rather than high-ranking officers. In 2005 <mask> joined the daily Haaretz and published a articles exposing alleged corruption by Ehud Olmert, then leader of Kadima Party, candidate for Prime Minister and later Prime Minister.This exposé has led to a criminal investigation and to Olmert's indictment. Another investigation that led to a major police investigation was about Avigdor Liberman, head of Israel Beitenu party. <mask> revealed that a company owned by Liberman's daughter, who was in her early twenties, received unexplained payment in the millions of dollars  Other investigations focused on former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Former IDF Chief Moshe Yaalon, the Kabbalah Laam organization and more, such as an article about exploring his roots in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Israeli connections to a mine in Kosovo. IN 2014 <mask> completed a fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He has published articles and investigations in various publications, including AP, ProPublica, Washington Post, Quartz, The Nation, Mashable, Times of Israel and more. <mask> is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ. He is a member of the

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In November 2008, Blau published a story in Haaretz saying that the targeted killing of one of two Islamic Jihad militants killed in Jenin in June 2007 had violated a prior ruling of the Supreme Court of Israel. The ruling had "heavily restricted the circumstances in which they were permissible, effectively saying that killing should not take place if arrest was possible." The report reproduced two IDF memos classified as top secret, indicating that the IDF had ignored the Supreme Court ruling. Publications dealing with military affairs have to be submitted to the Israeli Military Censor; the censor approved the publication of this report. This fact would later be used as argument that no damage was done by the publication. Speculation began immediately about who Blau's inside source was.It took a year before attention focused on Anat Kamm, a former clerk in the office of a senior IDF commander. She had worked as a journalist before and after her military service. A week before Operation Cast Lead began (December 2008), <mask> submitted to the censor an exposé revealing he had possession of IDF military plans for the Operation. At first, the report was approved for publication. Then, just before it was distributed the censor changed its mind and Haaretz agreed to withdraw the story. Arrest of Anat Kamm
In the year, leading up to Kamm's arrest, <mask> also published another article regarding Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Gaby

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 classified information, Freedom House dropped Israel to ‘Partially Free’ status in its 2013 “Freedom of the Press Index”. Indictment of <mask>
In March 2011 the Israeli Ministry of Justice announced its intention to put <mask> on trial, subject to the hearing, charged with maintaining classified items without authorization. In May 2012 it was announced that he will be indicted for "possession of classified IDF documents." In July 2012, <mask> accepted a plea bargain that would see him sentenced to four months' community service but avoid serving any time in prison. He completed four months community service in January 2013, publishing an article about the experience in Haaretz newspaper in August 2013. Civil Lawsuit
In April 2013 Kamm sued Haaretz, its publisher and Blau for allegedly operating in a negligent way that eventually led to her exposure as Blau's source.In 2018 Tel Aviv District Court accepted Kamm's lawsuit. Haaretz and Blau appealed to Israel's Supreme Court against that verdict. Their appeal was accepted. In January 2020 Supreme Court dismissed the District Court verdict in its entirety. As a gesture of good will Haaretz has agreed to participate in paying part of Kamm's legal fees, at the amount of $100,000. See also
Anat Kamm – <mask> <mask> affair
<mask> <mask>'s Personal Website

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<mask> (born 30 September 1977) is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He is best known for his spells at Wigan Athletic, Manchester United (where he won a Premier League winners medal and the 2004 FA Cup) and Olympiacos (where he won the Greek Superleague and the Greek Cup twice). He has also represented Northern Ireland 45 times at full international level, gaining his first cap in 1997, aged 19. <mask> has also had a one-game managerial career, leading Barnet to a 2–1 victory in the 2011 Herts Senior Cup final against Stevenage. Therefore, <mask> holds the unusual honour of having won a trophy in his only game as a manager. Early career and personal life
<mask> was brought up in Tamlaght, County Fermanagh, and began his career with local sides Fivemiletown United and Ballinamallard United. In November 2001, <mask> received a Red Cross Humanitarian Award for his kindness to a child with leukemia.In November 2006, he entered rehabilitation for alcohol-related addiction. 'Stress' was cited by the <mask> family. Club career

Hull City
<mask> joined Hull City in September 1995 as a trainee and went on to make 50 appearances for the club in all competitions but he was sold two seasons later to pay off Hull's mounting debts. Wigan Athletic
<mask> signed for Wigan Athletic in April 1997 for a then club-record £350,000. Despite this, he would have to wait seven months to make his first appearance in November 1997 when he replaced Lee Butler in a 2–1 defeat of Watford. He made 170 appearances in all competitions in four years. He played a key role in Wigan's unbeaten run of 26 league games in 1999–2000 and was voted the best goalkeeper in the second division by his fellow professionals, a feat made all the more remarkable by the fact

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 he missed the last seven games of the season having had to undergo an emergency appendix operation.Despite speculation of a move to a Premier League club, <mask> remained at Wigan for the 2000–01 season, during which he went on to keep 13 clean sheets in 34 first-team games to help his team reach the play-offs for a second consecutive season. In the play-off semi final second leg against Reading the aggregate score was 1-1 as the game entered the final minute. Reading were awarded a penalty which <mask> saved from Jamie Cureton, but Nicky Forster scored from the rebound to send Reading through. Manchester United
He was signed by defending Premier League champions Manchester United in July 2001 for an undisclosed fee believed to be £2.5 million. He made his debut in a 1–1 draw with Aston Villa on 26 August 2001. <mask> faced stiff competition against Fabien Barthez at United but won a Premier League winners' medal in the 2002–03 season. <mask> received yet more competition for the 2003–04 season, when Manchester United signed American goalkeeper Tim Howard after Barthez left to join Marseille.He won an FA Cup winners' medal in May 2004 when he came on as substitute for Howard in the 84th minute. On 19 February 2005, in an FA Cup match against Everton, <mask> was struck on the back of the head by any of various projectiles including coins and mobile phones, in a match high on security for teammate and Everton returnee Wayne Rooney which Manchester United won 2–0. <mask> gained his greatest infamy for the "goal that never was" against Tottenham Hotspur in January 2005; a speculative shot from the half-way line by Pedro Mendes that <mask> dropped well behind his goal-line then scooped back into play. The referee and his linesmen were unable to verify that the

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 ball had gone over the line and the goal was not given. Though <mask> got away with that particular gaffe, his error led to him being dropped for a few matches. He made a second blunder in a 1–0 defeat by Milan, where he spilled a shot into the path of Hernán Crespo, who then scored. He was released by Manchester United on 27 May 2005 after his contract expired; he refused to sign a new deal after the club failed to assure him that he would be first choice for the next season.West Ham United
Three weeks after leaving Old Trafford, <mask> signed for West Ham. <mask> enjoyed a successful start to his West Ham career, making 19 appearances. However, a back injury sustained in a game against Fulham on 23 January 2006 left him needing surgery, and he was sidelined for the remainder of the 2005–06 season, including the FA Cup Final against Liverpool. Shaka Hislop was his replacement. He made just 17 appearances in the 2006–07 season, due to personal problems relating to alcohol and gambling and the arrival of Robert Green. His final game for the Hammers took place on 3 February 2007 against Aston Villa. On 25 May 2007, West Ham stated that he had been released after asking for a transfer to achieve regular first team football.Rangers
<mask> signed for Rangers on a one-year contract on 7 July 2007, initially as cover for Allan McGregor but also to challenge for a starting place. He made his only appearance for Rangers against East Fife in a League Cup match on 26 September 2007. Derby County

On 9 January 2008, it was revealed that <mask> was in line for a move to Premier League side Derby County. <mask> was allowed permission to talk with Derby and personal terms were agreed, but the deal hinged on Rangers signing a replacement goalkeeper. After over a week with

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 little progress, Derby County called off the move, but when <mask> offered to pay the loan fee so Rangers could sign Sunderland keeper Darren Ward, the deal was revived. <mask> hoped to join Derby on loan for the rest of the 2007–08 season but the move was again held up by Rangers as they refused to release his registration until they found another keeper. After Rangers signed Neil Alexander from Ipswich Town, <mask> was free to sign for Derby, and a deal was completed on deadline day.He signed a three-year contract with the club on 21 January 2008, and made his debut in a Premier League match against Birmingham City on 2 February 2008. <mask> could not help the club avoid relegation to the Championship after just one season. <mask> started the 2008–09 season as the club's first choice goalkeeper, but after getting sent off in a 2–1 victory at Norwich City he lost his place and was restricted to making appearances in cup competitions. He was part of the Derby side that reached the 2008–09 Football League Cup semi-final, where they lost 4–3 on aggregate to his former side Manchester United. After Paul Jewell resigned in December 2008, he was replaced by Nigel Clough. Clough made it clear <mask> was not in his plans and, a week into the 2009–10 season, it was announced that <mask>'s contract with The Rams would be cancelled to allow him to move to Danish side Odense BK. Odense Boldklub
Carroll signed a three-year contract with Danish Superliga side Odense BK on 17 August 2009.His debut was granted on the very same day and only hours after he had signed the deal, when he managed to keep a clean sheet in the 1–0 win against FC Midtjylland. Having played just 14 Superliga games, he was named 2009 Superliga Goalkeeper of the Year in December 2009, in a vote


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 amongst the league goalkeepers. In November 2010, <mask> announced his decision to leave Odense BK in order to return to Britain to be closer to his family. The club soon signed Stefan Wessels as his replacement. <mask>'s contract was mutually terminated on 31 January 2011 and he left Odense BK as a free agent, in search of a new club. 2011 trial spells
<mask> was on trial at Sheffield United in March 2011. However, he conceded two goals within ten minutes and was sent off, which led to a penalty during a reserve match against Barnsley.As a result of his poor performance whilst on trial, he was not offered a contract with the Blades. Later that same month, <mask> joined League Two strugglers Barnet on a trial with a view to a role as player-coach. After the departure of Martin Allen as manager in April 2011, and with caretaker manager Giuliano Grazioli on a scouting mission, <mask> was appointed as manager for the Herts Senior Cup final against Stevenage, which Barnet won 2–1. Thus, <mask> won a trophy in his only game as a football manager. He reportedly left the club in protest in April 2011, as his former Northern Ireland manager Lawrie Sanchez was set to take a managerial role in the club. In July 2011, <mask> joined Preston North End on trial and played in a 7–1 friendly victory at Kendal Town. However, despite a deal for Preston to sign <mask> being close, the club opted to sign Iain Turner instead.OFI Crete
In August 2011 <mask> signed a two-year contract with Greek Superleague side OFI Crete. Despite struggling for fitness and form in pre-season, <mask> appeared 16 times for the club, putting in some impressive performances, which made him highly regarded in Greece. He was ranked third in shots saved statistics amid speculation that bigger clubs in

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 Greece were interested in <mask>. Olympiacos
In January 2012 <mask> signed a contract with Greek Superleague champions Olympiacos for a reported transfer fee of . His first appearance was against Rubin Kazan in Moscow in the first match for the round of 32, in the Europa League, coming on as a late substitute after Balázs Megyeri conceded a penalty and was given a red card. <mask> saved the penalty with the first touch of his Olympiacos career and his team went on to win 0–1. In the return leg, <mask> put in a performance considered legendary by the fans, after producing a string of saves in whilst carrying a visible hamstring injury.<mask> became the first choice goalkeeper at the club in 2012–13 and featured in his first Champions League game since February 2005, when he played in a 2–1 win at Montpellier on 24 October 2012, after displacing Megyeri who started the opening two European games. In Olympiacos' first ten league games, <mask> played a part in a team which conceded only five goals and kept six clean sheets as they won the opening nine games, drawing the other. In an interview with British press, <mask> said that he was happy with his life in Greece and hopeful on extending his contract at Olympiacos. In his first twenty games for Olympiacos in all competitions, he was part of the winning side in eighteen games, drawing the other two, conceded ten goals and kept twelve clean sheets, losing in his twenty-first appearance against Schalke 04 0–1 on 21 November 2012. <mask>i in January, being relegated to cup appearances as Olympiacos won the double for a second consecutive season. Notts County
Following his departure from Greek Superleague champions, Olympiacos, <mask> signed a one-year contract with Football League One side Notts County on 4

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 August 2014. <mask> resigned for the 2015–16 season, he was released at the end of the season.On 15 November 2014, less than 24 hours after playing an international for Northern Ireland in Bucharest, Romania, <mask> kept a clean sheet as Notts County won 1–0 away at Coventry City. Linfield
<mask> joined Linfield in 2016. After suffering a serious knee injury in January 2019, he left the club in May 2019 but planned to continue his playing career. Dungannon Swifts
After a brief period playing for Mid-Ulster Football League junior side FC Mindwell, <mask> returned to the Irish League to sign for Dungannon Swifts in January 2021.

International career
<mask> gained his first full international cap on 21 May 1997 in a game against Thailand. For many years, <mask> fought a losing battle to be Northern Ireland's first-choice keeper to the experienced Maik Taylor. Despite this, <mask> had still amassed 19 caps up to September 2006. The last of these 19 caps came in a Euro 2008 qualifying match against Spain at Windsor Park.Northern Ireland pulled off a memorable 3–2 win, but <mask> had to be substituted after only 12 minutes due to a groin injury. After a six-year absence from the international team, <mask> was named in the friendly squad to face the Netherlands on 2 June 2012. He came on as a substitute for the second half, conceding two goals as Northern Ireland lost 6–0. He made his competitive return to the Northern Ireland team on 7 September 2012, when he started in Northern Ireland's 2–0 defeat away to Russia in their opening qualifier for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. In May 2013, <mask>
Herts Senior Cup: 2010–11

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External links

<mask> at Olympiacos.org

<mask> at bbc.co.uk

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Wigan Athletic F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
West Ham United F.C. players
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Derby County F.C. players
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texts: <mask> (7 July 1954 – 17 February 2016) was an Indian short-story writer and novelist from Kerala state. <mask> was born on 7 July 1954 at Kakkattil in Kozhikode District as the only son out of the two children of his parents, Sri. P. Abdulla and Smt. Kunjhamina. He completed his school education from Parayil L P School, Kakkattil, and Sanskrit Secondary School Vattoli. He spent the first half of the first year pre-degree at Farook College, Calicut and studied up to degree course in English Language and Literature at Government College, Madappally. The first year of P G course in Malayalam Language & Literature he studied at Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur and again moved to Government Brennen College, Thalassery to complete the course.He took his Bachelor of Education degree from Government Brennen College Of Teacher Education, Thalassery. While studying he was elected chairman of College Union both at Government College, Madappally & Government Brennen College Of Teacher Education, Thalassery. He was also executive member of University Union of Calicut University. He has served as a Malayalam teacher for about 30 years in various schools, including National Higher Secondary School, Vattoli, where he worked for a long period. <mask>l has worked as a member of the governing body of South Zone Cultural Centre of Central Government of India and Kerala State Institute of Children's literature. He has also served as member of the curriculum steering committee, Kerala Lalitha Kala Akademi, State Television Jury, State Cinema jury, Ezhuthachan Puraskara Samiti and Programme Advisory Board of Akashavani, Kozhikkode. Besides

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 he has worked as an honorary editor of Malayalam Publications and Olive Publications, Kozhikode.He had been a permanent jury member of the first educational reality show in Kerala, Haritha Vidyalaya. He was also a member of Malayalam Advisory Board of Kendra Sahitya Akademi and Convener of Publication Committee, Kerala Sahitya Akademi. He was the vice president of the Kerala Sahitya Academi and a member of Malayalam Advisory Panel of National Book Trust, Govt. of India and Malayalam Advisory Board, Govt of Kerala. He was also a member of State Literacy Mission's Magazine Aksharakairali Editorial Board and Curriculum Committee of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), Govt. of India. <mask> has also served as a part of the committee for the revision of Malayalam text books from the primary to the higher secondary level.Right from his college days he has been associated with the Film Society movements. He died on 17 February 2016. Literary life
<mask> turned to creative writing at the age of fourteen by publishing short stories in a regular column for children in the leading Malayalam weekly Mathrubhumi. He got published his first story Pothichoru in 1969 through the weekly. He maintained his connection with G. Sankara Kurup, Thakazhi and Basheer. He has a collection of works to his credit that comprises 54 books. They include four novels, seven collections of novelettes, twenty-seven anthologies of short stories, six collections of essays, memoirs, a play and a volume of critical essays and interviews with the leading writers of Malayalam.He has received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award twice. The first ever award

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 in humour section in 1992 for his School Diary- an anthology of short essays and in the year 2004, 'Vadakkuninnoru Kudumba Vrithantham' was awarded as the best novel. He has also been honoured twice by the State Government – in the year 1998, his work 'Sthrynam' was awarded the Joseph Mundassery Award for the best Novel. The Television Award for the best story writer (School Diary – Doordarsan serial) for the year 2002 also went to him. The fellowship of Literature from Government of India was bestowed on him in the year 1992. The Abudhabi Sakti Award was received by him in the year 2002. Besides, he has been awarded the S K Pottakkad award, Ankanam Award, Malayala Manorama Prize, Rajiv Gandhi Peace Foundation Award, C H Muhammed Koya Award, T V Kochubaava Award, V Sambasivan Puraskar and Dubai Book Trust Award etc.His selected stories includes 'Addiction, Achanum Makalum, Samasya, Avasanam, Oru Thenginte Darsanam, Verum Avarthanam, Sourayoodham, Aanakkariyam and Anthya Dinam' are translated to English by P A Noushad and Arun Lal Mokeri. Both translators are natives and intimates of <mask>. “<mask> himself had expressed his satisfaction over the translation," said Noushad. His book on Adoor Gopalakrishnan titled Varoo Adoorileykku Pokam is translated to Tamil ("Adoor Gopalakrishnan – Idam Porul Kalai) and his novel Mrithyuyogam is translated to Kannada (Mrithyuyoga). Works
Short-story
1978 – Ee Vazhi Vannavar
1982 – Medhaswam
1986– Shameelafahmi
1989 – Adhyapaka Kathakal
1991– Kadarkutty Utharav
1992 – Aaram Kalam
1994 – Veedinu Thee Pidikkunnu
1995 –  Aakaasathinte Athirukal
1996 – Naadaapuram
1999 – Veentum Narangnga

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1999 – Therenjetuttha Kathakal
2000 – Oru Vayanakariyute Aavalathikal
2001 – Cheriya Kathakal
2003 – Mayakkannan
2005 – Sesham Screenil
2006 – Shreepriyayute Aadhikal
2007 – Jeansitta Penkuttiye Ottaykku Kittiyal Enthu Cheyyanam? References

External links
The Hindu Sunday, Feb 08, 2004-<mask>l wins best novelist award
 <mask>l – Who's Who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M By Kartik Chandra Dutt, Sahitya Akademi
 Sargasameeksha (Study, life sketch, interview) by Akbar Kakkatil, Second Edition, 2012 January, D C Books, Kottayam. page 502,503,504.Jeevacharithra Parambara – <mask>l – Ed. by Vijayan, Runnummakkara, Published by Faith Books Vatakara, Kozhikode, 2013
saahithya akkadami : 'അക്ബർ കക്കട്ടിൽ പുതിയ വൈസ് പ്രസിഡന്റ്’ Mathrubhumi Daily – Saturday, 29 December 2012
 D C Books, Mathrubhumi Books, Lipi Publications, Ascend Publications, Harithakam Books, Bulletins of Publications - 2015

2016 deaths
Malayalam novelists
1954 births
People from Kozhikode district
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Malayalam-language writers
20th-century Indian novelists
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<mask>'Connell (born 1951) is an Irish singer songwriter who performs solo, as well as with The Green Fields of America. He also appears with Dónal Clancy (cousin), Dan Milner, and fiddler Rose Clancy. O'Connell has also toured and recorded with The Clancy Brothers, being their nephew. For over 20 years, he has conducted small cultural tours to Ireland with Celtica Music & Tours and, for more than ten years, WGBH Learning Tours. Married with four grown children, he now spends his time between Bristol, Rhode Island and Waterford. Early life
<mask>'Connell was born in 1950 in St. John's Parish, Waterford, Ireland, to Seán and Cáit (née Clancy) O'Connell. His early years were spent on the Cork Road, Waterford.When he was 7, his family moved to his mother's home town of Carrick-on-Suir where they established a guesthouse, Mount Richard. When Cáit's brother Bobby returned from New York in the mid 1950s, he suggested that they should convert the cellar to a folk music venue where they could hold ballad and music sessions. Very soon, Mount Richard — and later, Tinvane Hotel — became a thriving venue that hosted the likes of Seamus Ennis, Dolly MacMahon, Leo Rowsome, Jean Ritchie and others. It was in this atmosphere that <mask> and his sister Alice began to play (guitar) and sing folk and traditional music. They formed a group called The Rotary Folk with Sean Rattigan and Noel Carroll, which went on to win the Kilkenny Beer Festival in the late 1960s. During his years at University College Dublin, he traveled to the United States during the summer to perform on the Irish music circuit. In 1972, he met singer

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 Roxanne Vigeant.They performed together as "<mask> & Roxanne" and then as "The Munster Cloak" with bassist Tony Riordan. They were married in 1974, settling in Acton, Massachusetts. They moved to Ireland in 1976 following the death of his mother in a car accident in Wexford. <mask> formed The Bread & Beer Band with friends Tommy Keane, Paul Grant and Martin Murray. Two of their four children were born during this time. The ballad sessions continued at Tinvane Hotel with frequent appearances by Dermot Morgan (Father Ted), Paddy Glackin, Colum and Tommy Sands, and piper Tommy Kearney. Joining the Clancy Brothers
A nephew of the Clancy Brothers, O'Connell began touring with Paddy, Tom, and Bobby Clancy in 1977, taking the place of Liam Clancy who was working with Tommy Makem as a part of Makem and Clancy.O'Connell sang, played guitar and, occasionally, mandolin. In 1979 he and his family moved to Franklin, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1977, the Clancy Brothers and <mask>'Connell toured three months each year in March, August, and November in the United States. O'Connell, who had been a songwriter since his early teens, composed several songs that the group sang regularly, such as "Bobby's Britches," "Ferrybank Piper," and "You're Not Irish." He also included songs written by others, such as "Dear Boss" and "Sister Josephine." Reviews cited O'Connell as a fresh addition to the group and with his original compositions, the future of the group. With the release in 1982 of his first solo album, Close to the Bone, O'Connell emerged as an artist of major stature.He began touring with Mick Moloney and Jimmy Keane,

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 and also with Eileen Ivers and Séamus Egan in the Green Fields of America. Moloney, O'Connell & Keane recorded two albums, both of which garnered critical acclaim. The first was There Were Roses released in 1985 with the title track, the song "There Were Roses", penned by Tommy Sands. Second was Kilkelly in 1987, containing the title track "Kilkelly". Both albums were released on the Green Linnet label. O'Connell continued to perform part-time with the Clancy brothers for nineteen years. In 1992 he performed at Carnegie Hall with them and also sang and played the guitar on the telecast of a live tribute to Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden.In 1996 Liam Clancy and O'Connell left the Clancy Brothers and formed their own duo, called simply Liam Clancy and <mask>'Connell. Before splitting, the Clancy Brothers and <mask>'Connell gave a farewell tour of both Ireland and America in February and March 1996. The Irish tour in February was filmed near the Clancys' hometown, televised and later released to video and DVD as The Clancy Brothers and <mask>'Connell: Farewell to Ireland. Career after the Clancy Brothers

Liam Clancy and <mask>'Connell toured for a while as a duo, but very soon added Liam's son Dónal Clancy to the group, forming the trio Clancy, O'Connell & Clancy. The trio released two albums, a self-titled debut album in 1997 and an album of sea songs in 1998, The Wild and Wasteful Ocean. O'Connell regards the self-titled Clancy, O'Connell and Clancy album as one of his favourite works. In 1999, with Liam in Ireland, O'Connell in Massachusetts and Dónal in New York, the trio decided to call it quits

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 as a full-time group.They occasionally regrouped for concerts, but as Liam's health declined, these were infrequent. In 2000 the Milwaukee Irish Fest had its 20th anniversary, and in celebration the entire performing Clancy family sang together on one stage at the festival. This once-in-a-lifetime line-up included <mask>'Connell, Dónal, Liam, Bobby, Finbarr, and Aoife Clancy, along with friend Eddie Dillon, a collaborator of Bobby's. In 2006 O'Connell began an ongoing collaboration with his cousins Aoife and Dónal Clancy. The Clancy Legacy. Their first CD together was released in 2010. In addition to his solo career, O'Connell also performs with Mick Moloney, The Green Fields of America, The Clancy Legacy, and occasionally with Dan Milner, Ed Miller, and Rose Clancy.In 1995, O'Connell began hosting "Heart of Ireland" cultural tours wherein he would escort small groups of people to Ireland, concentrating on the musical and cultural traditions of particular areas. In 2003, WGBH radio host Brian O'Donovan asked O'Connell if he would use his expertise to put together and participate in a 'GBH Learning Tour. Both tours continue to run annually. References

Further reading
The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem & <mask>'Connell: The Men Behind the Sweaters, by Conor Murray

External links
 <mask>'Connell's Homepage
 Clean Cabbage in the Bucket
 Annual Clancy Brothers Festival

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Irish folk singers
Irish guitarists
Irish male singers
Irish songwriters
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<mask> (born December 14, 1969) is an American former professional first baseman and catcher. During his MLB career, spanning from 1995 through 2008, he played for the Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics, and Cincinnati Reds. Before his major league career, <mask> attended Washington State University, where he played college baseball for the Cougars. Early life
<mask> was born in Salem, Oregon. He played Little League in his native Salem, Oregon and Canby, Oregon, and Pony League and American Legion baseball in Yakima, Washington. <mask> graduated from Eisenhower High School in Yakima in 1988. He was MVP of the baseball team and also lettered in football.He was team captain his senior year and hit .570 with seven home runs. College career
He attended Washington State University from 1989 through 1991 for the Washington State Cougars baseball team in the Pacific-10 Conference. The Cougars won the Pac-10 North all three years. He was captain and MVP in 1991 and as a catcher he formed a battery with future major league pitcher Aaron Sele. <mask> played collegiate summer baseball in the Alaska Baseball League in 1989 and 1990. At Washington State, he was a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. International career
He was a member of the United States national baseball team at the 1990 Goodwill Games, and hit a home run in a game against the Mexican national baseball team.In the 1990 Baseball World Cup <mask> hit .292/.346/.417 for Team USA. Professional career

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 parts of seven seasons from 1995 through 2001, he hit 34 home runs and batted .267. On August 6, 2001, against the Texas Rangers, he became the only player in MLB history to hit into a triple play and hit a grand slam in his next at-bat. The bat he used for that game is now in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. In <mask>'s last season with the Red Sox, he ruptured a nerve in his elbow, impairing his throwing ability and endangering his career as a catcher.On December 19 he was traded to the Colorado Rockies in exchange for Pokey Reese. Two days later, Colorado declined to offer Hatteberg arbitration and he became a free agent. Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics signed <mask> to a one-year contract with a $950,000 base salary plus incentives, the day after the Rockies declined to offer salary arbitration. Due to his difficulty throwing resulting from the elbow injury, he was asked to play first base. <mask>'s conversion from catcher to first baseman by the Athletics is the subject of a chapter in the Michael Lewis book Moneyball. In that chapter, Oakland General Manager Billy Beane openly admitted how the team had pursued Hatteberg because of his high on-base percentage, which Athletics' management had determined was most often correlated with runs scored. According to Beane, it was one of the most affordable skills at that time for small-market clubs like the A's.Infield coach Ron Washington worked with <mask> to teach him the new position. A fictionalized version of <mask> (played by Chris Pratt) is a key character in the 2011 film Moneyball. A career highlight for <mask> was as a member of the Oakland A's on September 4, 2002. The A's had won 19 straight games to tie the American League record. With their next game, against the Kansas

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 City Royals, tied at 11 after the A's had blown an 11-0 lead, <mask> pinch-hit with one out and the bases empty in the bottom of the ninth inning. He drove a 1-0 pitch well over the right center field wall off Jason Grimsley for a walk-off home run to give the A's a 12-11 win and a then-American League record 20-game winning streak, which has since been broken by the 2017 Cleveland Indians, who won 22 straight games (the overall Major League record; the 1916 New York Giants had won 26 straight games with an interspersed tie for a record 27-game unbeaten streak). This moment is depicted in the Moneyball film.As an everyday player <mask> helped the Athletics reach the playoffs twice, in 2002 and 2003. He hit 49 home runs and batted .269 from 2002 through 2005. He drove in 263 runs and had an on-base percentage of .355. His best year was 2004 when he hit .287, scored 87 runs, hit 15 home runs, drove in 82 runs, and had an on-base percentage of .367. Cincinnati Reds

On February 12, 2006, the Cincinnati Reds signed <mask> to a one-year, $750,000 contract. He was originally expected to give them flexibility at first base, backing up Adam Dunn. When the Reds traded Wily Mo Peña to the Red Sox, Dunn moved back to the outfield and <mask> was to play at first base, improving the Reds' defense.On August 8, 2006, he recorded his 1,000th career hit against Jason Marquis of the St. Louis Cardinals at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. He went 3-for-5 in this game, increasing his batting average to .323. During the first weeks of the 2008 season, he was relegated to pinch-hitting while rookie Joey Votto replaced him at first base. Pinch-hitting was relatively new to <mask>, who admitted that it was a role he was not particularly comfortable in even

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 though he had hit his historic September 4, 2002 20-game winning-streak clinching walk-off homer for Oakland as a pinch-hitter. On May 27, 2008, he was designated for assignment by the Reds to make room on the roster for top prospect Jay Bruce and officially released by the club on June 4. Career statistics
In 1,314 games over 14 seasons, <mask> posted a .273 batting average (1153-for-4226) with 538 runs, 249 doubles, 7 triples, 106 home runs, 527 RBI, 562 bases on balls, .361 on-base percentage and .410 slugging percentage. He finished his career with a .992 fielding percentage playing at first base and catcher.In 17 postseason games, he hit .286 (12-for-42) with 9 runs, 2 doubles, 1 home run and 11 walks. After retirement
<mask> serves as a Special Assistant to Baseball Operations for the Oakland Athletics. In the 2012 and 2013 seasons, <mask> substituted for Ray Fosse as the Oakland A's color commentator on TV broadcasts for a number of games. Personal life
He and his wife Elizabeth, nicknamed "Bitsy," have three daughters, Lauren, Sophia, and Ella. They reside in Gig Harbor, Washington. He is a self-taught guitar player and avid fly fisherman. Sources

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<mask> (August 22, 1914 – December 3, 1989) was renowned as a "founding father" and "major force" in country music. He is credited for coining the country music genre, which had previously been called hillbilly music. <mask> was the founding president of the Country Music Association (CMA) and co-founder of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The CMA established the <mask><mask> Award to recognize outstanding service to the CMA by a member not serving on the board of directors. <mask> was an entrepreneur who leveraged his musical insight into a profitable empire that extended his legacy into the modern era. He was responsible for discovering some of the talent that now resides in the Hall of Fame, and was himself inducted in 1980, for significant contributions as a music executive.Early life

<mask> was born in Lizard Lick, North Carolina, on August 22, 1914. His parents, John William <mask> and Mary Etta Ferrell <mask>, owned a 17-acre tobacco farm where <mask> worked as he grew up. He was prepared to carry on the family operation after his parents retired, and most of his efforts were focused towards that end. He supplemented his income and farming knowledge through employment as a farm extension agent in Caswell County, North Carolina. However, instead of farming, <mask> became "a major force in country music"; known as a "media magician" and a "leading entrepreneur of the 1950s". <mask> graduated from North Carolina State University in 1935, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education. He then worked a variety of jobs including a soil surveyor, a proponent of the Rural Electrification program, even a stint as a carny, where he depended on making sales to succeed.In 1938, <mask> became an employee of the US government, working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in various areas. He became a news

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 commentator in 1941 for a recurring radio broadcast called the National Farm and Home Hour. The show was broadcast daily throughout World War II. <mask>, learning media operations during those years, decided to pursue it as a vocation. In 1946 he left his government employment and ventured into the private sector, ultimately becoming a success in the field of country music. Career
From 1946 to 1960, <mask><mask> was a disc jockey, concert promoter, artistic talent scout/manager, owner of radio and television stations, and music executive.Broadcasting
In 1946, <mask><mask> persuaded <mask>, the program manager of WARL, a radio station in Arlington, Virginia, to let him do a half-hour show at noon each day. <mask> offered to forgo a salary in exchange for a percentage of the advertising revenue, and an agreement was reached. His show, Town and Country Time, was promoted as offering "a little bit of town and an awful lot of country" and broadcast six days a week. <mask> had the business sense to register his program's name as a trademark, an important factor in measuring his financial success. The endeavor was very successful, growing to a three-hour program that was syndicated across the United States and to some international markets on the Armed Forces Network. Because <mask> owned the rights to his Town and Country moniker, all negotiations related to its use required his assent.<mask> realized lucrative gains from brokering the program's syndication. In 1954, <mask><mask> began broadcasting a televised version of Town and Country Time on WMAL-TV in Washington D.C. while continuing to syndicate the audio portion to the more than 1800 radio stations signed on to his network. He would discover Jimmy Dean and Patsy Cline soon after, and both became regular cast members of the TV program. By year's end, the TV program was being syndicated

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 to 40 different stations. By 1956, Town and Country Time was airing in 50 urban markets, including Spokane, Tulsa, Houston, Los Angeles, and Detroit. <mask> had formed a company under his moniker called Town and Country Enterprises to manage his assets which had grown to include radio stations he then owned, and artists he promoted and managed.By years end, <mask><mask> had amicably severed all ties with WARL, giving his full attention to his own enterprise and was a leading contender for Billboard's Tycoon of the Year award, with an estimated annual gross of $2 million. Talent management and promotions
<mask> was involved in promoting new talent through his broadcast medium, and booking acts to an array of live events. Several country artists that <mask> managed, like Patsy Cline, Jimmy Dean, and Roy Clark, became inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame. In March 1956, <mask> booked a young, relatively unknown singer, who was described as a "devastating combination of Frankie Laine, Johnnie Ray, and <mask>" in Dorothy Kilgallen's syndicated column. That night, when Elvis Presley performed for over three hours, has become "the stuff of local legend". Executive positions
In 1958, <mask> helped found the Country Music Association and served as its first president.<mask> called for a meeting in his hotel room with Wesley Rose, Hubert Long, and Dee Kilpatrick, to discuss the defunct Country Music Disc Jockey Association. The meeting culminated with plans to create a new association, that would cater to all aspects of country music, and the CMA was born. <mask> also helped organize the Country Music Foundation, which operates the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. In 1963, the CMA instituted the Connie B. <mask> Award as an honor of high prestige. <mask> funded the award with his personal assets and established a trust, in his will,

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 to ensure perpetual viability beyond his lifetime. Now called the Founding President's Award, recipients include Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, <mask>, and <mask>.Retirement
<mask> retired in 1972, selling his business assets and terminating his executive endeavors in country music. <mask>'s career total gross earnings are estimated to be $50 million. <mask> died from cancer on December 3, 1989, at the age of 75. His legacy endures, as he is considered "a true founding father of present-day country music". Honors
In March 1958, <mask> was named "C&W Man of the Year" in The Billboard, exceeding the top runner-up, Jim Denny. <mask> was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980. The induction states that he played "a seminal role in transforming what was still called "hillbilly" music into a modern entertainment industry in just one decade from his base in the Washington, D.C.–Virginia area".In 1986, <mask> was recognized by the Washington Area Music Association with a Special Achievement Award.<ref>WAMA "Special Achievement Award" Washington Area Music Association</ref> <mask> was inducted into the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame on September 16, 2006. Legacy
In 2002, The Washington Post published a story about <mask>, saying that he "may be the greatest country music visionary no one's ever heard of". The article outlined his innovations and credited him with several firsts. <mask> was the first person to call the genre "country music", distancing himself from the growing pejorative associations of the "hillbilly" moniker and the geographic limitations of a western identity, implied by "country and western". He was among the first to recognize country music's expanding audience, particularly in urban markets. He was the first to harness the commercial potential of country music, via radio and television broadcasting, in both

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 local and national markets. He was first to broadcast a recurring country format program in a major metropolitan area (WARL in 1946), first to book a country performance into a high-class concert venue (Constitution Hall in 1947), and first to get a television network to broadcast country music programing (NBC in 1948).<mask> also co-founded the first trade organization formed to promote a single genre of music—the Country Music Association—and was the first president of the CMA as well. <mask> was a founding member of the Country Music Foundation, instituted in Nashville, Tennessee, to operate the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The museum is home to a commemorative plaque honoring <mask>, which states that he "brought country music to the big city and made it a multi-billion dollar industry". Daring to dream (big)
Music historian Charles K. Wolfe praised <mask>'s insight for "seeing that country music was going to develop on a number of fronts beyond just radio – that it was going to be a concert thing, a TV thing, an image-making thing. He had a synergistic vision of how country music was going to work in the modern age and he was exactly right." In 1983, Billboard'' quoted <mask><mask>'s candid reflection of his shared success with country music when he stated: "I didn't have an idea that country music would reach the gigantic proportions it has reached both here and internationally, on the other hand, you can dream, can't you?"References

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<mask> (born 6 January 1949 ) was the president, a combined municipal-parish position, of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana from 2003 to 2010. A Democrat, Broussard is known nationally for appearances he made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Life and career
<mask> was born in Marksville, the seat of Avoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana. He moved to Kenner, a city in Jefferson Parish, in 1958. He received a law degree from Loyola University New Orleans in 1973. The following year he was elected to the Jefferson Parish School Board and reelected in 1976. In 1977, he was elected as a district chairman to the Jefferson Parish Council and re-elected in 1981.He successfully ran for mayor of Kenner in 1982, and he was reelected in 1986, 1990, and 1994. Broussard was elected Chairman of the Jefferson Parish Council in 1995, and reelected in 1999. In 2003, Broussard was elected Jefferson Parish president. He defeated Republican John M. McDonald by a huge margin, 72-28 percent, even though Jefferson Parish is considered a GOP stronghold in Louisiana. Broussard was president of Parishes Against Coastal Erosion (PACE) and in a June 14, 2005, press release predicted:

With the National Hurricane Center predicting another active hurricane season, PACE President <mask>d said he fears that it is going to take a major storm and significant loss of life before the nation acts responsibly. Hurricane Katrina lawsuit
Many Jefferson Parish residents joined in a class action lawsuit against Broussard after he followed a years-old "doomsday plan" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and evacuated more than 200 drainage pump operators north to Washington

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The most famous of Broussard's post Katrina interviews was one on the television program Meet the Press. In the course of that interview, he was critical of the disaster-response effort. He finished with a tearful account of the death by drowning of his emergency services manager's mother. Broussard's account of that incident was subsequently shown to be inaccurate, in that the long sequence of telephone calls to the mother that he described as having taken place in the aftermath of the hurricane could not have happened, since she apparently drowned before the dates in question.In an appearance on Meet the Press three weeks later, Broussard was questioned about his account. He said that the story had been relayed to him by his staff, and that he had chosen not to ask his emergency manager for the exact circumstances of her death. Broussard and his employees were directly involved in the initial disaster-recovery efforts that followed Hurricane Katrina. On September 4, 2005 he was interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press, still inside his parish. Broussard called the response to Katrina


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Three quick examples. We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water. FEMA turned them back.They said we didn’t need them. This was a week ago. FEMA, we had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked in my parish. When we got there with our trucks, FEMA says don’t give you the fuel. Yesterday — yesterday — FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line.He posts armed guards and said no one is getting near these lines...

after this, Broussard began to break out in tears. He said:

The guy who runs this building I'm in, Emergency Management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home, and every day she called him and said, 'Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' And he said, 'Yeah, Momma, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday.Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday' — and she drowned on Friday night. She drowned on Friday night. Nobody's coming to get us, nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised, everybody's promised. They've had press conferences — I'm sick of the press conferences. For God's sake, shut up and send us somebody!Other local politicians criticized the way the federal government handled the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. New


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Subsequent news reports identified the son in the story as Tom Rodrigue, Jefferson Parish's emergency services director. Rodrigue's 92-year-old mother, Eva, lived in the St. Rita's nursing home. It appears from a CNN interview with Rodrigue that he made phone calls to the nursing home on Saturday, August 27, 2005, and on Sunday, August 28, 2005, and urged that the home be evacuated. That evacuation did not take place, and at least 30 residents of the nursing home drowned on Monday, August 29, 2005. A September 19, 2005, MSNBC story quotes Rodrigue as saying, in response to being told about Broussard's statements on Meet the Press, "No, no, that's not true."A Broussard spokesperson described Broussard's statements about Rodrigue's mother on Meet the Press as "a misunderstanding." September 25, 2005, Meet the Press appearance

On September 25, 2005, Broussard reappeared on Meet the Press, and host Tim Russert challenged Broussard's account of the tragedy on the basis that his anecdote about the woman in the nursing home contained factual discrepancies noted in the MSNBC story. Broussard did not directly account for those discrepancies, repeating the statement that "this gentleman's mother died on that Friday before I came on the show." In his subsequent remarks, though, he said that:

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 mother's death, and he (Broussard) wasn't inclined to interrogate him as to the specifics because of that. Mistakes were made at all levels of the disaster response, including the evacuation of Jefferson Parish pump operators. He hadn't had a full night's sleep in the past 30 days, and would be happy to debate someone as to the specifics of his story after having one.Broussard has never acknowledged making an error in his original appearance though he did give this response:

Sir, with everything I said on Meet the Press, the last punctuation of my statements were the story that I was going to tell in about maybe two sentences. It just got emotional for me, sir. To date, Broussard's comments with regard to the federal government have not been formally addressed. Broussard was also excluded from the formal investigation conducted into the response to Hurricane Katrina and thus was not called to explain his role in the $3 billion of flood damage to the East Bank of Jefferson Parish. Recall petition

On December 6, 2005 the Jefferson Parish Action Committee filed a petition with the Louisiana Secretary of State to recall Broussard and remove him as President of Jefferson Parish. The group cited numerous lapses in judgment by Broussard both pre and post Katrina, including the following:

 Federal investigators issued grand jury subpoenas to Broussard and 24th District Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand for records of political donations to Hand's campaigns from Bail Bonds Unlimited. Broussard ordered the evacuation of pump operators prior to Hurricane Katrina  to Washington Parish.As a consequence the pump operators were not on duty at the pumping


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 stations until 3:30 am August 30, 2005. The resulting flooding of Jefferson Parish has been estimated by insurance industry sources at $3 to $5 billion. Under emergency powers granted to the Parish President, Broussard appropriated the Meadowcrest hospital to use as a hotel for parish employees. When Meadowcrest notified the parish that it was planning on re-opening the hospital, Broussard moved to block this reopening despite a dire need for both hospital and emergency medical services. He cited his need for hotel accommodations for parish employees. He declined to return control of the hospital, forcing Meadowcrest Hospital to lay off employees and inform over 800 employees that they may face layoffs. In four full-page ads in the [Times-Picayune] costing $38,000, Broussard defended his actions taken during Hurricane Katrina, including his decision to evacuate the pump operators.Broussard's spokesman, Greg Buisson, said that the cost of the ads could be reimbursed by FEMA. FEMA spokesman Mike McCormick said that he knew of no category under which the cost of the ads would be reimbursed. Broussard also appropriated private property to use for various post hurricane clean up purposes. Several of these property owners sued Jefferson Parish for compensation to repair significant damage to their property caused by parish operations. Broussard acknowledged the damage but told the property owners to collect the debt from FEMA. The recall campaign obtained over 49,000 signatures, but this was fewer than the 93,000 signatures (1/3 of the registered voters in Jefferson parish) required under Louisiana law. Re-election campaign
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At the Alliance for Good Government forum Broussard refused to say he would stop taking money from Parish contractors. The alliance instead endorsed Leone but it was not enough to carry him to victory. [15]

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<mask> resigned his position on January 8, 2010 in the face of a grand jury investigation of his staff. Guilty plea

On September 24, 2012 Broussard pleaded guilty in federal court to two felony counts based on payroll fraud involving his ex-wife. On February 15, 2013, he was sentenced to 46 months in prison. He began serving his sentence in May 2013.Citing misconduct within the local U.S. Attorney's Office, Broussard filed a motion asking U.S. District Court Judge Hayden Head to vacate the conviction or—alternately—his sentence. See also
 Political effects of Hurricane Katrina

References

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 Biography on JeffParish.net
 Broussard's role in evacuating pump operators before Katrina made landfall - New Orleans Times Picayune article
 Speech excerpt from ThinkProgress
 Transcript and video of Broussard interview
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Nursing home owners booked in 34 deaths - The Times-Picayune
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 Boom Town: Gambit Weekly cover story, November 2006 on Jefferson Parish and Broussard post Katrina
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<mask> (born 10 April 1995) is a Danish professional ice hockey forward and alternate captain for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). Bjorkstrand was selected by the Blue Jackets in the third round, 89th overall, of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. Bjorkstrand is the son of American hockey coach Todd and the brother of Patrick. Born and raised in Herning, Bjorkstrand made his AL-Bank Ligaen debut playing with the Herning Blue Fox during the 2011–12 season. He recorded 13 goals and 13 assists for 26 points in 36 games during his rookie season to lead all 16-year-olds in the league in scoring. As a result, he was selected 26th overall by the Portland Winterhawks in the Western Hockey League (WHL) 2012 Import Draft. He spent three seasons with the Winterhawks before beginning his professional career with the Lake Erie Monsters of the American Hockey League.Early life
Bjorkstrand was born on	10 April 1995, in Herning, Denmark, to parents Todd and Janne. His father, an American citizen, is a former professional hockey player and coach. His older brother Patrick also plays ice hockey. Bjorkstrand was born and raised in Denmark, where he played under the tutelage of his father until he was 17 years old. Playing career

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Bjorkstrand made his AL-Bank Ligaen debut playing with the Herning Blue Fox during the 2011–12 season. He recorded 13 goals and 13 assists for 26 points in 36 games during his rookie season to lead all 16-year-olds in the league in scoring. As a result, he was selected 26th overall by the Portland Winterhawks in the Western Hockey League (WHL) 2012 Import Draft.He subsequently joined the team for their 2012–13 season. By December, Bjorkstrand ranked fourth among all WHL rookies with 27 points and was invited to participate in the 2012 CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game. Following the game, Bjorkstrand earned a top 30 mid-term ranking from the NHL Central Scouting Bureau leading up to the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. He later recorded his first major junior hat-trick during a 7–0


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 win over the Tri-City Americans. He ended his rookie regular-season campaign leading all WHL rookies with 31 goals and 63 points in 65 games. Bjorkstrand then shared the team's Rookie of the Year award with Seth Jones before leading all rookie skaters with 19 points in 21 playoff games. Following his rookie season, Bjorkstrand was drafted 89th overall by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.On 26 December 2013, during his second season with the Winterhawks, Bjorkstrand signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Blue Jackets. At the time of the signing, he had tallied 25 goals and 31 assists for 56 points in 32 games. By March 2014, Bjorkstrand became the second Winterhawk player in three seasons to reach the 50-goal plateau after recording his fourth hat-trick in one season. As a result, he finished the regular season third in scoring with 109 points and was selected for the WHL Western Conference All-Star First Team. Bjorkstrand then helped the Winterhawks win their fourth straight WHL Western Conference Championship by recording 15 goals and 13 assists for 28 points through 14 games. Bjorkstrand finished his third and final season with the Winterhawks increasing his scoring and offensive ability. During the 2014–15 season, Bjorkstrand led all WHL players in goals and points to earn the Bob Clarke Trophy as the league's leading scorer.He recorded 50 goals in 50 games to become the first WHL player to accomplish the feat since the 2011–12 WHL season. Bjorkstrand also became the first Winterhawk to complete back-to-back 50-goal season since Dennis Holland from 1987-89. He was subsequently unanimously selected to the WHL's Western Conference First All-Star Team, while his teammates voted him the Winterhawks' Most Valuable Player. Professional

Following his career-high third season campaign with the Winterhawks, Bjorkstrand joined the Blue Jackets' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Lake Erie Monsters, to begin the 2015–16 season. In his first professional season,