texts: mes copains" (All my friends). In 1963, Vartan was in a relationship with the ye-ye and rock-n-roll singer Johnny Hallyday and she would marry him in 1965. Debout, who was in love with Vartan, remained single in his personal life. At this reception, he saw <mask> who was sitting at the back of the living room, and he fell in love at first sight with her. He went to tell her that she would be famous by the age of 30, have two children, and singing at the Opera. <mask> didn't believe him and went to London to finish her studies.Upon her return in France, Debout was waiting for her at the station and sang to her a song he had written and composed when she was in England, called "Nos doigts se sont croisés" (Our fingers had been crossed), and <mask> fell in love with him. With this song, Debout participated in and won the Festival de la Rose d'Or d'Antibes (Music Festival of Antibes's golden rose). In 1964, <mask> first became a model for fashion photographers in the teenage girls' magazine "Mademoiselle Âge Tendre" (Little Miss Tender Age). That year, Debout decided to rename her <mask> <mask> because he thought that she looked like a little boy painted by the Spanish painter <mask>. Daniel Filipacchi was the owner of the magazine and also the record producer of the French division of RCA Records. He suggested that Debout write and compose songs in return for a record contract for her. The first 45 EP record of <mask> Goya released at the end of 1964 and it includes the song "C'est bien Bernard" (It's Bernard himself) which became her first hit success.In the fall of 1964, <mask> was invited to the TV show

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texts: Rendez-vous sur le Rhin, presented by Albert Raisner, to sing her first song "C'est bien Bernard," which the influential film director Jean-Luc Godard was watching. At that time, he was writing the storyline of his movie "Masculin, féminin" (Masculine, feminine) and directly saw that she fit well with the role of Madeleine Zimmer in his movie. He offered the role to her, and though she was surprised by this proposition, she accepted the role alongside Jean-Pierre Léaud in the role of Paul, and Marlène Jobert in the role of Elisabeth. Although the movie was deemed unsuitable for audiences under the age of 18 upon its release on 22 March 1966, it sold 427,430 tickets at the box office in France. She had another success in France with the song "Une écharpe, une rose" (A scarf, a rose) which was also a success in Japan. But, afterwards, the records that she recorded had less success in France. She also played in less movies.But her husband Jean-Jacques Debout still wrote and composed songs for the TV-Shows produced by Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier. Also, in 1973, <mask> <mask> sang the duet Les petites filles modèles with Sylvie Vartan, song written and composed by Jean-Jacques Debout in the TV-show Top à produced by Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier and devoted to Sylvie Vartan. In 1975, Jean-Jacques Debout hosted, composed lyrics and music and sang in a TV-show Numero Un produced by Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier. He invited the French actress Brigitte Bardot to perform, however she fell ill and was unavailable on the day of recording. The closing number ended up being a song he wrote and composed called Adieu les

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 jolis foulards, which was sung by <mask> <mask> and children. This song, in which she plays the role of a French teacher who teaches in a school in Martinique and must return to France, is her first song specifically for children. The performance resulted in many phone calls and letters to the TV station TF1 from people wishing to purchase the song.Maritie Carpentier convinced <mask> <mask> to make a record of Adieu les Jolis Foulards, certain it would be a big success. For months, <mask> <mask> and Jean-Jacques Debout pitched the song to record labels in Paris, with little success. Until they met François Dacla, the director of the French arm of RCA Records, at a José Féliciano performance. They performed the song in his office in Paris the next day. Moved by the song, François Dacla released and produced the single, and <mask> <mask> became a children's singer. Partial filmography
Charade (1963) (uncredited)
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Selected discography

Albums
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Singles
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Compilations (1998) (RPM Records 2013)

Songs
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 "Davy Crockett"
 "Let's sing along with Mickey Mouse"
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 "Sorrow"
 "Pandi-Panda, a lovely Chinese bear"
 "Snoopy"
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 "Bravo Popeye"
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References

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1942 births
Living people
French film actresses
French television actresses
French women pop singers
Vietnamese emigrants to France
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<mask> (6 June 1859 – 28 January 1935), also known as <mask>, was a bookmaker and philanthropist from Christchurch, New Zealand. In his retirement, he became well known in lawn bowls. He donated the statue of James Cook in Victoria Square to the city. His family dwelling, Wharetiki House, was a prominent landmark on Colombo Street in the Christchurch Central City until its demolition in July 2011, following a demolition order by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority. Early life
<mask> was born in Avoca, Victoria, Australia, in 1859. He came from a large family and had ten siblings. His parents were <mask>, a merchant, and <mask> (née Mitchell).The family moved to Dunedin, New Zealand when <mask> was six as his father was attracted by the goldfields. He left school aged 13 or 14 and had a very brief employment as a photographer's apprentice, but did not like that profession. Instead, he was apprenticed to newspapers, first the Otago Guardian and later the Otago Daily Times. He worked in that profession for about five years. For the next four years, he worked in farming in Otago and South Canterbury. When he came to Oamaru, he became the proprietor of the 'Star and Garter Billiard Rooms', where he had his first exposure to betting on horse races. He returned to Dunedin for some time.From there, <mask>'s family returned to Melbourne for another two years. He worked as a swagman in Australia and then had employment as a tram driver in Melbourne for several months. In Melbourne, he married Mary Bridget <mask> (née Whelan) on 18 July 1888. <mask> (née Whelan)
Mary's father James Whelan (1836–1908) immigrated to Castlemaine, Victoria from Ireland as a teenager. He married in 1858, but his wife died only ten months later. In 1862/63, James Whelan spent nine months on Otago goldfields during the Central Otago

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 Gold Rush. He returned to Castlemaine and married Margaret Roughan in June 1863.They knew each other from Kilkishen, County Clare, Ireland and met in Melbourne by chance. Soon after, James returned to Otago, with Margaret following him later that year. Their first child, Mary, was born in Gabriel's Gully in ca 1864. The family moved to nearby Wetherstons and when the goldfields were exhausted (when Mary was twelve years old), the family moved to Dunedin. Mary travelled to Melbourne to visit relatives of her parents. In that city, she married <mask> <mask>. Children

The <mask>s had six children; five girls and one boy:
 <mask> (19 Apr 1889 – 4 Apr 1945)
 <mask> <mask> (Olly) (23 Mar 1890 – 14 July 1977)
 Ivy Kathleen <mask> (15 Oct 1891 – 1965)
 Alice May <mask> (Topsy) (15 May 1893 – 1979)
 Kate Elizabeth <mask> (19 Jan 1900 – 26 September 1972)
 Tui <mask> (21 Dec 1903 – 12 Dec 1962)

Professional life
Some time after their wedding, the couple moved to Otago to farm.<mask>'s brother Thomas (Tom) had a business relationship with Peter Grant and they were placing racing bets together. <mask> joined them and for half a year, they worked together. After a substantial win, they dissolved their relationship and went on their own ways. Bookmaking
Betting and bookmaking in the 1890s need to be seen in the then climate of moral and social change in New Zealand. Women's suffrage, temperance and anti-betting were strong movements, and gaming houses were banned, which included betting shops. Bookmakers responded to the situation by giving themselves titles like 'commission agents' and 'turf accountants'. Parliament was strongly lobbied by the pro-betting faction and consequently left decisions to the local level.Beginning with the Canterbury Trotting Club in 1897, racecourses responded by banning bookmakers from

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texts: their properties. Those not adhering to the ban were being arrested and fined. Christchurch City Council passed a by-law in 1899 and banned bookmaking in public. Legislation was finally passed in 1908, banning gaming in public places and making it illegal for racing clubs to accept bets by telephone. An amendment to the Gaming Act in 1910 banned bookmaking altogether. It was in this climate that <mask> formed a partnership 'Barnett and Grant'. It came about because Peter Grant had been banned from a racecourse for refusing to leave.<mask>, who had earlier been banned from the same course for life, but who had managed to get that decision overturned, offered to Grant to bet on a joint account. A win of £100 resulted and although the two never formalised their partnership, their further wins in this first year ran into the thousands. Luck left them, and after the second year they had lost all their earnings again. Luck was with them again, and some time after Grant's wedding in February 1896, they had sufficient capital to add a branch in Christchurch to their existing betting shop in Dunedin. Initially, the Dunedin business had to financially support the Christchurch branch, but under <mask>'s business leadership in Christchurch, the situation changed and Christchurch supported the Dunedin branch. The Christchurch premises were in the central city at 174 Hereford Street, and from 1905 on the opposite side of the road at 163 Hereford Street. <mask> and Grant were banned from racecourses, e.g.in Palmerston in 1892 and in Dunedin in 1894. They had frequent encounters with law enforcement, and they were arrested numerous times. Their Dunedin branch was searched by Police and Barnett, Grant and two employees arrested in September 1897. Between 1901 and 1904, they were arrested three times, including in January

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 1902, their Christchurch office was raided by Police, with the case going to court the following month. The case went to a jury trial, but all the witnesses refused to give evidence, as they would have incriminated themselves by doing so, as it was illegal to visit a gaming house. Without any witness statements, the jury delivered a not guilty verdict. For a 1906 raid of the Christchurch office, the Police had previously sent an undercover agent to the office to place a bet in order to have some evidence for a court case.In 1909, <mask> was convicted of having published horse betting details in his publication Daylight that violated the Gaming Act 1908. He appealed the conviction and it was overturned by Justice Sim as being erroneous in point of law. With the passing of the 1910 amendment to the Gaming Act, <mask> decided to officially retire as a bookmaker, but it is likely that he continued to work underground. <mask>'s weekly sport magazine Daylight was taken over by The Press. <mask>'s
<mask>'s younger brother had been apprenticed as a draper. In 1903, he established a drapery store Arthur Barnett in Dunedin. <mask> guaranteed a £900 loan to get the business going.It developed into the leading drapery store in Otago. <mask> retained a business interest and became chair of the board. At his death, his son Olly took that role, and he in turn passed the chairmanship to his son Gary. The Arthur Barnett department store developed into a national chain. At its peak in the 1980s, it had 19 stores and 1,200 employees. Wharetiki House

In 1901, <mask> bought a large section in the Christchurch central city, fronting onto Salisbury and Colombo Streets. A large family home, which he named Wharetiki, was built by 1904.The address was 854 Colombo Street, and his friend and business partner Peter Grant had a house

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 built nearby at 901 Colombo Street two years later. Wharetiki was a large and representative dwelling, displaying the wealth of its owner. It had several servants and <mask>'s unmarried younger sister Maria (known as Polly) was in charge of them. Mary's father suffered a brain injury in 1888 and spent the remaining 20 years of his life at Seacliff Mental Hospital. When he died in 1908, his wife Margaret and the children who were still at home moved to a different house in Dunedin, but later on she and her second youngest child, Bill, moved to Christchurch to live at Wharetiki. Margaret Whelan made many spontaneous trips back to Dunedin when she got nostalgic and would stay there for a few weeks at a time, but she would otherwise live at Wharetiki for the rest of her life. <mask> fell ill in 1930 and was confined to a wheel chair.The back stairs of Wharetiki House were replaced with a lift at that stage, so that she could move around the house. After <mask>'s death, the remaining family members put the house up for auction in May 1935. It existed until 2011, when it was demolished after suffering significant damage in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Wharetiki House was registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category II heritage building. Philanthropy

On journeys from Christchurch to Dunedin, <mask> would throw half-crowns to the swagmen working on the roads, as he would remember the hard times that he had when he worked on the roads in Victoria. Cook Statue
In 1928, <mask> funded an architectural competition for a statue commemorating the three journeys of James Cook to New Zealand. William Trethewey (1892–1956) won this competition and was chosen as the sculptor; this was his biggest commission in his career so far.A 12-ton block of Carrara marble was imported for this work.

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 <mask> also funded the sculpture itself, which was unveiled on 10 August 1932 in Victoria Square by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. This commission brought Trethewey much publicity, including coverage on Movietone News. The Cook Statue is registered as a Category II heritage item by Heritage New Zealand. <mask>
In his retirement, <mask> had started to play lawn bowls, and he became well known both as a player and administrator. In bowling circles, he was known as <mask>. The Canterbury Bowling Club was only 100 m down the road on Salisbury Street.Since the early 1900s, Canterbury and Wellington had an annual competition. In 1924, <mask> commissioned a tiki as a trophy for this tournament and he personally supervised the carving. The mahogany carving was presented at the Canterbury Bowling Club in February 1925. The first annual competition with the Barnett Tiki was held a few days later in Wellington and was won by Christchurch. Whilst it was decided that the winning team should hold the Tiki until the next competition, the trophy was left in Wellington after the first competition in 1925. Death
Margaret Whelan died on 24 February 1926 at Wharetiki, aged 89. She was buried at Bromley Cemetery in block number 27.<mask> died on 1 March 1931 at Wharetiki, aged 66. She was buried at Bromley Cemetery in block number 24 in plot 1 two days later. <mask> died on 28 January 1935, aged 75, also at Wharetiki. He was buried next to his wife the following day. There are white marble chippings scattered on their grave, which are remnants from the production of the Cook Statue. Through his will, <mask> left £35,000 to his brother Arthur as a guarantee for his business. References

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1935 deaths
Burials at Bromley Cemetery
Australian emigrants to New Zealand
New Zealand businesspeople
People

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<mask> ( , born 31 January 1960 in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist, writer and a former member of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political dissident", and a "wildly popular pro-democracy journalist" who has crossed press censorship "red lines" regularly. A supporter of the Islamic revolution as a youth, he became disenchanted in the mid-1990s and served time in Tehran's Evin Prison from 2001 to 2006, after publishing a series of stories on the murder of dissident authors known as the Chain Murders of Iran. While in prison, he issued a manifesto which established him as the first "prominent dissident, believing Muslim and former revolutionary" to call for a replacement of Iran's theocratic system with "a democracy". He has been described as "Iran's best-known political prisoner". Having been named honorary citizen of many European cities and awarded distinctions for his writing and civil, <mask> has won several international awards for his work, including the World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression's International Press Freedom Award, the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, the Cato Institute Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty and the John Humphrey Freedom Award. Early life
<mask> grew up in a devout and impoverished family in Tehran.Active in the Islamist anti-Shah forces at a "relatively early age", he served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during the Iran–Iraq War. He holds a master's degree in communications. In 1994–5, <mask> became disenchanted with the government. "I saw a fascism and political tyranny emerging in Iran. Anyone who asked questions was branded 'anti-revolutionary' and 'against Iran'." <mask> quit the Guard to become an investigative journalist. Shortly thereafter, he gained fame and ran afoul of the authorities by "exposing the role of high officials in sanctioning the murder of liberal dissidents".Investigation of the Chain Murders of Iran
<mask> has

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 written extensively as a journalist in a series of reformist newspapers, many of which were shut down by the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Possibly <mask>'s most famous work was a series of articles in Saeed Hajjarian's Sobh Emrouz daily about the 1998 murders of dissident authors known as the Chain Murders of Iran. <mask> referred to the perpetrators of the killings with code names such as "Excellency Red Garmented" and their "Excellencies Gray" and the "Master Key". In December 2000, after his arrest (see below), <mask> announced the "Master Key" to the chain murders was former Intelligence Minister Hojjatoleslam Ali Fallahian. He "also denounced by name some senior clerics, including Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi for having encouraged or issued fatwas, or religious orders for the assassinations". Conservatives have attacked <mask> and denied his claim. Collections of his articles appeared in books, notably, The Dungeon of Ghosts and The Red Eminence And The Grey Eminences (Alijenob Sorkhpoosh va Alijenob-e Khakestari (2000)) focusing on the involvement of the former President of Iran, <mask> Rafsanjani, and his Minister of Intelligence, Ali Fallahian, in the chain murders.The Red Eminence and the Grey Eminences has been described by the Washington Post newspaper in the US as "the Iranian equivalent of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago". The one volume of his writings to appear in English translation is The Road to Democracy in Iran (MIT Press, April 2008). Arrest and imprisonment
<mask> took part in a conference in Berlin held by the Heinrich Boell Foundation under the title "Iran after the elections" held in the wake of the Majlis elections of February 2000, which resulted in a huge victory by reformist candidates. The gathering was termed "anti-Islamic" and "anti-revolutionary" by Iranian state TV, IRIB, which broadcast part of the conference on 18 April 2000. Returning to Iran from the conference, he was arrested on 22 April 2000, accused of having "damaged national security."

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texts: Found guilty, in January 2001 he was sentenced to ten years followed by five years internal exile, which meant he would be kept in a specific city other than Tehran and could not leave the country. On 15 May 2001, an appeal court reduced his 10-year sentence to six months and overturned his additional sentence of five years' internal exile.However, the Tehran prosecutor, challenged the appeal court decision and brought new charges against him in connection with newspaper articles he had written prior to April 2000, and his possession of photocopies of foreign newspapers. On 16 July 2001, he was sentenced to six years imprisonment on charges of "collecting confidential information harmful to national security and spreading propaganda against the Islamic system". Like other political prisoners before him, <mask> took to writing from his prison cell. His political manifestos and open letters were smuggled out of jail and published on the internet, – two letters "to the free people of the world":. In his last year in prison <mask> went on a hunger strike for more than 80 days, from 19 May 2005 until early August 2005, except for a 12-day period of leave he was granted on 30 May 2005 ahead of the ninth presidential elections on 17 June 2005. His hunger strike ended after 50 days when "doctors warned he would sustain irreparable brain damage, and he relented." Many Iranians had not heard of the hunger strike due to press censorship and heavy security and information quarantine in Milad Hospital in Tehran.His hunger strike mobilized the international human rights community, "including eight former Nobel Peace laureates. Thousands of intellectuals and human rights activists around the world spoke out on his behalf. It is generally believed that the global support generated for Ganji during this period spared his life." He was represented by a group of lawyers, including Dr. Yousef Molaei, Abdolfattah Soltani (who was arrested and put in solitary confinement in 2005 on unknown charges), and the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize

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 Laureate, Shirin Ebadi. In his recent leave in June 2005, Ganji participated in interviews with several news agencies, criticizing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, and asking for his office to be put to public vote. This led to a ruling by Saeed Mortazavi, the general prosecutor of Tehran, to arrest him again because of "illegal interviews". He returned to prison voluntarily on 11 June 2005 and started another hunger strike.Release
<mask> was released from prison in poor health on 18 March 2006, after serving the full term of his six-year sentence, according to his family and various count-downs set up on many Iranian weblogs. At the same time, the deputy prosecutor of Tehran, Mahmoud Salarkia, claimed that 10 days remained from his sentence due to unaccounted days of absence, and that he had been granted a leave for the Persian New Year. The claim has apparently been dropped since. In June 2006 <mask> left Iran. Since then he has been writing and giving talks in Europe and North America, speaking out for the movement for democracy in Iran, and against any U.S. military attack on his country. Views
<mask>'s writings in prison were smuggled out and widely distributed, especially on the web. Most notably he wrote a Republican Manifesto in six chapters in March 2002, laying out the basis of his proposal for a fully-fledged democratic republic for Iran.In particular, he argued that all elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran must be boycotted. He later wrote a second book of his Republican Manifesto in May 2005, ahead of the ninth Presidential elections in Iran, specifically arguing for a complete boycott of the presidential elections. In April 2008, <mask>'s first book in English appeared from Boston Review Books/MIT Press: The Road to Democracy in Iran, with an introduction by Joshua Cohen and Abbas Milani. Iraq War
Ganji opposed the United States 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation. In 2006, <mask> started a tour to visit world leading philosophers, theorists, human rights activists.

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 His goal has been said to be introducing Iranian intellectual movements and democratic circles to world leading thinkers. He met many famous figures as Richard Rorty, Noam Chomsky, Anthony Giddens, David Held and Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt.Despite repeated invitations he refused to meet with any member of the administration of US president George W. Bush, on the principle that the struggle for democracy in Iran must be waged from within the country, without foreign governmental support. He also refused to meet with White House officials, citing his belief that current US policies were not helping promote democracy in Iran. He was quoted as saying, "You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it". He also added that the war in Iraq was promoting Islamic fundamentalism and hurting movements towards democracy in the region. <mask> declared that his role was as a dissident and journalist, rather than the official voice for a specific opposition party or faction within Iran, which he explained was one reason for his refusal to meet with US political leaders and officeholders. During his visit he criticized the Iraq War, asserting that rather than undermining the current Iranian regime it had instead bolstered its capacity to repress and terrorize its population. We do not want the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran.However, this is our problem. Any intervention by any foreign power would bring charges of conspiracy against us... What has happened in Iraq did not support our movement in any significant way. 2009 election protests
<mask> has strongly supported the 2009 Iranian election protests. He staged a hunger strike outside of the United Nations headquarters in order to highlight the plight of Iranian political prisoners, and to bring international attention to the oppressive conditions felt within Iran. Awards and honors
 PEN America, Honorary member (2000)
 Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, International Press Freedom Award (2000)
 The Middle East Studies Association of North America, MESA Academic


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 Freedom Prize (2005)
 Press Freedom Award, Italy (2005)
 World Association of Newspapers, Golden Pen of Freedom (2006)
 Honorary citizen of the city of Florence, Italy (2006)
 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (2006)
 National Press Club, John Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Award (2006)
 John Humphrey Freedom Award, Rights & Democracy (2007)
 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty (2010)
 World Press Freedom Hero, International Press Institute (2010)

See also

 2nd of Khordad Movement
 Defenders of Human Rights Center
 History of political Islam in Iran
 Human rights in Islamic Republic of Iran
 Abbas Amir-Entezam
 Abdolkarim Soroush
 Mehrangiz Kar
 Saeed Hajjarian

References

External links

  Freedom is not free – <mask>'s website (under construction)
 CJFE Calls for <mask>'s Release
 Ganji and other dissidents silenced ahead of elections, IFEX
 Ganji in hunger strike, Human Rights Watch: Leading Dissident's Life in Danger. Iran: Radio Farda Interview With Dissident <mask>
 Second Letter written on the 30th day of hunger strike
 BBC profile
 Iran activist 'snubs White House' BBC article on Ganji declining a White House invitation
 Ganji's Next Strike Likely at U.N. The View from Tehran from May/June 2007 Boston Review
 Regime intelligence official admits to fabricating opposition figures 13 August 2007
 The US and the Plight of the Iranians – A letter to Ban Ki-moon published in the NY Review of Books (Volume 54, Number 18)
 Conversations with History, Islam and Democracy
 Changing Iran: May 2008 Interview with Akbar Ganji (interviewed by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Associate Editor of Boston Review Books)
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The case of <mask>s is a high-profile criminal case in Lithuania centering on allegations of sexual molestation of a then four-year-old Lithuanian girl and a double homicide. In November 2008, <mask>s accused Laimutė Stankūnaitė of allowing Jonas Furmanavičius and Andrius Ūsas to sexually molest their underage daughter. Frustrated by lack of progress in the investigation, Kedys took the case public. He published a video with his daughter's testimony, sent out DVDs to politicians, and appeared in the media. Still no case was brought before trial. In October 2009, Jonas Furmanavičius, a district judge and accused pedophile, and Violeta Naruševičienė, aunt of his daughter and accused procurer, were found dead and Kedys became the main murder suspect. While Kedys went into hiding, some of the Lithuanian public sided with him, portraying Kedys as a desperate father trying to protect his daughter against pedophiles.In April 2010 his body was found near Kaunas Reservoir. His death was ruled an accident – choking on vomit after heavy drinking. The main suspect in the pedophilia case, Andrius Ūsas, was found drowned in a lake after a motorcycle accident in June 2010. In a posthumous trial Ūsas was found innocent. A separate court ruling restored the girl's custody to Stankūnaitė. Some Lithuanians disagreed with the ruling and began a vigil at the house of Kedys' relatives in Garliava, where the girl lived at the time. Officials were able to take custody of the girl with the help of riot police in May 2012.The Way of Courage, a political party founded by Kedys' sister and supporters, participated in the 2012 Lithuanian parliamentary election and received almost 8% of the votes. Pedophile scandal
<mask> <mask> (born 4 September 1972 in Garliava) and his former girlfriend Laimutė Stankūnaitė (born 1986) had a daughter in February 2004. Stankūnaitė was underage when she gave birth to <mask>' daughter. The couple split in 2006

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 and the parents got embroiled in a bitter custody battle. His former girlfriend, with the help from Andrius Ūsas, a politician and advisor to the former Speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Muntianas, obtained custody in November 2006. Kedys had visitation rights every other weekend. But later Stankunaite gave up her custody rights, giving them to the father.On 29 November 2008 Kedys submitted a formal complaint to the police, claiming Ūsas paid Stankūnaitė to sexually molest his daughter. On this basis, in December 2008, Kedys obtained full custody of his daughter with no visitation rights for Stankūnaitė. The courts repeatedly confirmed that Stankūnaitė had no case to answer, thus dismissing Kedys' allegations against his former girlfriend as unsubstantiated. The pre-trial investigation against Ūsas continued. In February 2009, Kedys further pressed accusations against Violeta Naruševičienė, Stankūnaitė's sister, claiming the former had participated with allowing men to molest her 4-year-old daughter. In July 2009, Kedys accused Jonas Furmanavičius, a district judge, and an individual known as Aidas of partaking in the molestation. All of those people (except for Aidas) professed their innocence, and accused Kedys of slander, criminal libel, and death threats.Frustrated with the apparent lack of progress in official investigations and convinced that the case was being deliberately stonewalled, Kedys sent out 200 DVDs to Lithuanian politicians, media outlets, and law-enforcement agencies, featuring homemade video footage of his daughter's explicit testimony against three "uncles". He promised to send the subtitled version to Members of the European Parliament. Many sources criticized Kedys, who acted as the cameraman, for asking his daughter leading questions and heavily editing the film (it contained 50 segments filmed across nine occasions). Double homicide
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 dead in Kaunas. Kedys became the prime suspect. On the same day, a national search of Kedys was announced, soon followed by an announcement of an international search, as he was thought to have left the country shortly after the murders. Kedys' friends Raimundas Ivanauskas and Eglė Barauskaitė were charged with accessory to murder.As of December 2013, that court case is ongoing. The story caused an uproar in Lithuania, with much of the public siding with Kedys: in the public mind, the case was seen as largely a father's futile attempts in pursuing justice and trying to protect his daughter, and being driven to desperate measures by anger at the injustice. Others questioned whether the killings were in fact commissioned by Kedys himself. Death of Kedys

On April 17, 2010, 6:49 AM, after six months of the police search, <mask> Kedys' body was found near Kaunas Reservoir by an angler. An autopsy concluded he had died between an evening of April 15 and morning of 16th. According to the official report, the cause of death was "choking on the vomit" whilst being heavily intoxicated. However, his relatives were convinced that Kedys was murdered, pointing out wounds on his body.Kedys' relatives demanded a second opinion from independent experts. In April 2011, a report was received from the Swedish National Forensic Service (Rättsmedicinalverket) confirming Kedys had died from alcohol and drug poisoning, and that he choked on the contents of his own stomach. The Swedish report differed from the Lithuanian experts in determining "the injuries on the body appeared before his death" and that the "possibility of drowning is not excluded". On 24 April, Kedys was buried in Jonučiai cemetery. According to media reports, 6-10,000 people from across the country attended the ceremony. Death of Ūsas
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On 17 May 2012, following a court order, Kedys' daughter, who was previously living with Kedys' relatives in Garliava, was forcibly reunited with her mother Stankūnaitė. Owing to the continuous presence of protesters disagreeing with the 5-month old court decision, the operation was carried out with the assistance of riot police, and 39 protesters were detained. Aftermath
The sister of <mask> <mask> Neringa Venckienė was elected to the Lithuanian Parliament, but fled the country for the United States after the Parliament removed her legal immunity in 2013. In November 2019, she was extradited back to Lithuania and is brought to the Court under four criminal charges.In popular culture
A children magazine Flintas created a comic named Gynėjas <mask> (<mask> the Defendor), inspired by the story of the deceased <mask> Kedys. The protest events in Garliava was depicted in a 2013 opinion journalism documentary movie "Lost. A political animal of the European Union". In 2013, the pedophilia case was recreated in a popular Korean mystery tv show "Surprise Mystery". Lithuanian director Jonas Vaitkus is currently building a play based on Kedys case, titled “Clan”. The case was portrayed in the Lithuanian television show "The Price of Courage". It was aired by TV3 and had 86 episodes.References

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My family is being persecuted... video of Karolis Venckienė describing how government officials are killing his family
 Video of the testimony of Deimantė Kedytė with English subtitles (removed)
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<mask> (born 1980) is a bestselling American writer and memoirist. Her debut, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, was released in 2005 by Viking Penguin and became a New York Times bestseller. <mask> attended Nashoba Regional High School in Bolton, Massachusetts, Syracuse University and Bennington College. She is a 2014 recipient of the Alex Awards. Personal life
<mask> grew up in a middle-class family in the northeast. As a coping mechanism, she learned to "hide behind an open book." As she grew older, she got into the habit of sneaking out of elementary school classes to go and read in the bathroom or the school library.She began writing poetry at age ten, and continued throughout college. In a senior-year poetry writing workshop at Syracuse University she met mentor Mary Karr, who would later influence her memoirs. At the time, <mask> struggled for money on account of her father's unemployment, and Karr hired her to babysit her son. On September 1, 2008 <mask> was formerly married Eamon Hamilton, singer and songwriter of the band Brakes, whom she met on the social networking site Myspace, in Romainville, France. The pair had three children together before divorcing in 2016. <mask> is partnered with Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Gabe Johnson. Memoir Vs. Fiction
As a writer, <mask> says her writing is informed by memoirists Mary Karr, Nick Flynn, Tobias Wolff, as well as novelists T.C.Boyle, Jeffrey Eugenides, A.M. Homes, Richard Ford, Haruki Murakami, Amy Hempel, George Saunders and Lorrie Moore. She has also admitted she is heavily influenced by

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 anywhere. And that overwhelms me. That strikes fear in my timid, little heart. I like being restricted to the cage of fact, the coop of reality. Without it, I feel a certain agoraphobia." Regardless, she switched to fiction writing in later life when she was troubled by the way some people take memoir as liturgy and the publishing industry often turns memoirists as self-help gurus.She is quoted as saying she has no desire to tell people how to live their "best lives." She also feels she can be more truthful in fiction and the medium allows her to provide more privacy for her children. She authored the novels "Mother, Mother," which won an Alex Award, and "The Drama Teacher," which was optioned by Amy Sherman-Palladino. Smashed
Smashed chronicles <mask>' decade-long struggle with alcohol abuse, beginning at fourteen, in an effort to explain the binge drinking phenomenon that plagues America's youth. Around the time she quit drinking, <mask> became preoccupied with an old memory, which involved a night that she had her stomach pumped when she was 16. According to <mask>, she had not thought about that night in a number of years, but she suddenly could not get it out of her head. Eventually, she sat down and wrote about it.The piece later became a chapter in her book. Around the same time, <mask> was hearing a lot in the news about "girls of her generation" and how they were drinking younger and more than all the generations of women who'd gone before them. The Harvard School of Public Health reported, between 1993 and 2001, there was a threefold increase in the number of women who reported

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 being drunk on ten or more occasions in the previous month. Time magazine ran a cover story about female binge drinkers. <mask> did not agree with what the psychologists and the sociologists, the clinicians and the statisticians had to say, which was: "girls today are drinking more because they’re just so damn liberated, because they’re bursting with confidence and girl power, because they believe they can match boys everywhere, including the bar." In her own experience, the author says, she and her female friends drank largely because it was an expression of their unhappiness and lack of confidence. It occurred to <mask>, then 23, that she could offer a younger perspective.Smashed was <mask>' first attempt at writing prose. Before that, she had been a poet exclusively. Her poetic style was noted by New York Times critic Dwight Garner who called it "so elegiac that [Zailckas] comes off as the Norah Jones of her plastered generation." Alcoholism
<mask> has been challenged by some readers who want to dispute her assertion that she is "not an alcoholic." In interviews, <mask> maintains: "I’ve talked to a lot of addiction counselors who say alcoholism is made up of two things: abuse and addiction. God knows I had that abuse down pat. But I don’t know that I necessarily felt (or feel) that addiction.And so no, I don’t identify myself as an alcoholic. That identity didn’t feel true to me, so I didn’t write it. I also think the brand 'alcoholic' prevents a lot of people, especially young people, from seeking help or even reevaluating their relationship with alcohol. In my mind, the whole point of

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 Smashed is to say, you don’t have to be a quote-unquote alcoholic in order to examine the underlying reasons why you're drinking." PTSD
Since writing Smashed, <mask> has said she did not realize that she had spent decades living with complex PTSD, brought about by her abusive childhood. She now identifies PTSD as one of the driving forces behind her college drinking. "I was drinking to dissociate: unwittingly or unconsciously putting myself in situations exactly like the one with my alcoholic father."Fury
In February 2010, <mask> announced a sequel to Smashed on her Facebook page. Her follow-up, Fury: a Memoir was published on September 7, 2010. It was published by Viking Penguin, who described it as relating her exploration with her feelings of anger, the effects of that anger and the psychological aspects of repression and the turmoil of her own life which caused it. The book combines psychological research with her personal story. Mother, Mother
In 2014, <mask> published her first debut novel "Mother, Mother." The book was heavily inspired by her experience growing up with a Borderline mother. The book won an American Library Association ALEX Award.The Drama Teacher
In 2018, <mask> published "The Drama Teacher," which tells the story of a female grifter and identity thief. Literary critics think it is also Zailckas' way of exposing her father as the truly abusive person in her damaging childhood. The book was optioned by 20th Century Fox and later by Amy Sherman-Palladino, who plans to turn it into a limited series. Trivia

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 writing, inspiring her work and visa versa. Zailckas has a tattoo of a portion of a letter Saunders wrote to her son. She also named her Australian Shepherd "Saunders." Many believe Zailckas inspired Saunders' 2021 Story "The Mom of Bold Action."Zailckas partnership with Amy Sherman-Palladino was born after Sherman-Palladino became interested in writing and directing the 20th Century Fox adaptation. After the deal fell through, Zailckas wrote an email to Sherman-Palladino that began: "I plotted many Gracie Mueller-esque ways to get you to return to my Drama Teacher adaptation, but lucky for you and your social security number, divorcing my own con artist husband slowed me down. Funny how life imitates art." Zailckas' active community of upstate writers includes Owen King, Kelly Braffet and Rebecca Godfrey. Zailckas is a well-documented animal lover and owner of prolific rabbits. Owen King, Kelly Braffet and Mary Stuart Masterson have all adopted baby bunnies from her. Bibliography
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood.New York: Viking/Penguin Group (USA), 2005. Fury, 2010
Mother, Mother, 2014
The Drama Teacher, 2018

Appearances
As a journalist, she has contributed to The Guardian, U.S. News & World Report, Glamour, Jane, and Seventeen magazine. She has promoted her book on 20/20, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Anderson Cooper 360, The View, Topic A with Tina Brown and The Tyra Banks Show, among others. References

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Author's official website
Amazon.com entry for "Fury"
Amazon.com entry for "Smashed"
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<mask> (1776 – September 9, 1843) was a Scottish-born Presbyterian minister, author, educator, and education reformer. He was the founder and principal of Pictou Academy (pronounced pick-toe) and the first principal of Dalhousie College (now Dalhousie University). He is the author of The Stepsure Letters (1821-1823), considered to be the first major work of humour in Canada. Early life
<mask> was born in the village (and parish) of Neilston in Renfrewshire (now East Renfrewshire), Scotland, the second son of Elizabeth Neilson and <mask>. <mask>, a master block printer, died at age forty-six, leaving six children, five sons and one daughter, Andrew (d. April 8, 1854), John, <mask>, Mary Elizabeth (1765 – 1860), William (1776 – 1813), and George. Elizabeth Neilson emigrated along with her family in 1803 to Nova Scotia. John died while sailing from Halifax to Pictou, Nova Scotia, William taught in the school at Pictou, and George, the youngest son, a cabinet maker, also lived in Pictou.Elizabeth appears to have been a well-loved figure in the family, as <mask>'s wife, Isabella Walker, writes on Elizabeth's death, Well was it for me that I was blessed with the example and motherly affection of our good old grandmother, in many unthought of trials in the land of strangers, and I fondly hope that the many, many, precious petitions presented at her Father’s throne on our behalf will not remain without a special, a powerful return of saving mercy to our souls as a family, and as individuals. We were all near her heart, especially our eternal interests. <mask>' son, William, writes of his grandmother,  Our annual gatherings at her house were a great treat, and nothing remains of our early recollections to dim the brightness of her character. Little is know of <mask>'s life prior to attending university. Education and early ministry
<mask> was educated at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1792. He studied

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 1883), <mask> (1808 – 1865), William (1811-1895), James (1819-1835), and Robert (1817 – 1817) who died in infancy. He and Elizabeth Walker settled in Stewarton on June 13, 1799. As a preacher,He was quiet in the pulpit, using no gesture to emphasize his message.While such was the character of his ordinary ministrations it was especially at the Lord’s table that his power manifested itself, when he seemed to forget everything, but the presence of his Master. His impassioned appeals, his glowing yet chastened eloquence, made the hearer almost feel as though “a door was opened in heaven.”

Life in Pictou (1803)
<mask> stayed at Stewarton until 1803. At 28 years of age, due to "inadequate support" from the congregation and a call for ministers in the British colonies in North America, <mask> left the congregation and was given an appointment by the Presbyterian church at Prince Edward Island. In August 1803, he and his wife and three children sailed from Clyde, Scotland for the colony. They didn't arrive until November 3 after a "long and stormy" voyage. Ships sailing to the Maritimes from Scotland often first landed in Pictou, Nova Scotia, a location earlier Scottish settlers established a community. Because of the weather, having arrived in winter, McCulloch and Walker decided to wait until spring before cross over to PEI.Seeing both a need for a local minister as well as a need for teacher, and as a result of personal petitions from the town, McCulloch and his family remained in Pictou. Several townspeople, "on seeing a pair of terrestrial and celestial globes," courted him to stay in Pictou. <mask> was inducted as "the minister of the "Harbour" congregation of the Prince Street Church, Pictou" June 6, 1804. <mask> also served as town physician at this time as Pictou was without a practising doctor, as well as justice of the peace. Life in the town was primitive, as was the first dwelling for <mask> and

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 Walker,On landing in Pictou the family occupied what would in these days be called a shanty or hut, on the street leading down to Deacon Patterson’s wharf, but so miserable was the accommodation that it was almost a choice be¬ tween the house and the snow covered street. After considerable difficulty a change, if not improvement, was made by removing to what was known afterward as“McIntyre’s house.” It stood on Water St., two doors east of Robert Dawson’s stone store. Though more pretentious, it was like the first, a mere shell.The house was designed for two families, but the partitions were mere unplaned boards with cracks so wide that the doings of one family were the common property of the other. The town, so called, consisted of some fourteen houses, while the rest of the congregation were scattered through the surrounding country.Even though a Presbytery had been established in Pictou in since 1797, <mask>'s stipend was not paid. As a result, was little food and <mask> spent a great deal of time during this first winter gathering firewood. He also spent a great deal of time acting as a physician, travelling to outlying areas to provide medical assistance, often by foot and without payment. The family moved to a shared house, and then building a new house, completed in 1806. This house remains as a historic house. In 1807, <mask> visited Halifax and made a positive impression to the point he was asked to remain as a minister in local church.<mask> remained at Pictou for 35 years. Founding of Pictou Academy
According to <mask>'s son, William, the idea for a seminary in Nova Scotia first came in 1804, "suggested itself like an inspiration." This inspiration arose for from:

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 what <mask> perceived as "the gross injustice of the Government toward [Presbyterian] Dissenters." A first attempt to raise funds in 1807 resulted in only $1156.00, not enough to start or maintain a school. Through much controversy, In 1808, <mask> established a grammar school at Pictou in his home. The school quickly outgrew the home, as it became popular with families outside of Pictou, attracting students from neighbouring PEI and Cape Breton Island, as well as from British colonies in the Caribbean Islands. This led to its expansion, and a separate log building was constructed as the school building (McCulloch, et al., 1920, p. 42).The school was granted government funding only in 1811; prior to this, its operation relied on subscriptions from local residents. In 1814, with an student body of 30-40 students, the log building was destroyed by fire. <mask> then turned to the lieutenant governor in Halifax, who provided £100 to rebuild. In 1815, <mask> formally established the Pictou Academy, which "on 25 March 1816 the House passed an 'Act for founding, establishing and maintaining an Academy at Pictou'" in Nova Scotia, receiving royal assent. In 1831, Pictou Academy became the second degree-granting institution in the British colonies. Development of Education in Nova Scotia
<mask>, an important figure in English Canadian settler education, enters into the post-American rebellion British colonies as a champion of open, liberal, non-sectarian education. <mask> sought to develop education accessible to all white settlers of any Christian religion.On arriving in Pictou, <mask> stepped into a colony-wide religious, educational, and political quagmire. Education in the colony was broke along strict sectarian lines - Anglicans, which controlled the government, colonial finances, and the only degree-granting school in the colony excluded Presbyterians and Presbyterians Dissenters, as well as of

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texts: details” (McCulloch et al., 1920, p. 47). <mask> writes on the later founding of Dalhousie, “If Dalhousie College acquire usefulness and eminence, it will be not by an imitation of Oxford, but as an institution of science, and practical intelligence” (McCulloch, et al., 1920, p. 173, from Letter from McCulloch to Charles D. Archibald on the re-instituting of Dalhousie College, 1838).Unfortunately for <mask>, any unity between the Anglican oligarchy and the Dissenters and other Protestant groups was disrupted in his attempt to unite "all Protestant Nonconformists" in an alliance to further their rights in Nova Scotia. For <mask>, "[t]he cause of liberal education became a key instrument in this new political strategy." The post-US rebellion period in Nova Scotia was difficult, as many thousands of refugees from the 13 colonies, which included hundreds of slaves, arrived in Halifax with little possessions or funds, and a severe housing shortage ensued. Many were held in with suspicion,  and in this, <mask> saw the same signs in Nova Scotia's governance that lead to the rebellion in the 13 Colonies, as well as that of the French Roman Catholics that lead to the French Revolution. <mask> writes that is was the "irrational, authoritarian culture" of Roman Catholicism in France that lead to "its inevitable denouement in the French Revolution and subsequent Reign of Terror." To avoid a similar result for the province, <mask> asserted acceptance Nonconformist ideology in a series of newspaper articles as a counter to the rigidity of the Anglican precepts. Students in Nova Scotia could only receive a degree from King's College, the only degree-granting institution, if students accepted the 39 Articles of Faith of the Anglican Church and not attend any Roman Catholic or "dissenting church" services.For his work, <mask> was labelled as a Republican and someone who fostered rebellion. This conflict continued for many

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 requisite is a professor who can give his pupils specimens of just translation and instil into them ideas of accuracy and interpretation. Afterwards if they choose to devote themselves to the study of languages, their collegiate instruction will contribute to their success, but should they direct attention to the real business of life they will not have just cause to complain that they have spent their youth upon studies foreign to their success. If Dalhousie College acquire usefulness and eminence it will be not by an imitation of Oxford, but as an institution of science and practical intelligence.He was firm in establishing a chair of natural history at Dalhousie to teach "geology, mineralogy, botany, and zoology."Writing
<mask> is the author of the Letters of Mephibosheth Stepsure, later known as The Stepsure Letters. The letters were first published in the Acadian Recorder from 1821 to 1823 and are considered to be the first major work of Canadian humour. Death and legacy
<mask>och House Museum. Publications
Popery Condemned by Scripture and the fathers... (1808)

The Prosperity of the Church in Troublous Times, A Sermon Preached at Pictou, Friday, Feb'y 25th, 1814 (1814)

Words of Peace: Being an Address Delivered to the Congregation of Halifax in Connection with the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, in Consequence of Some Congregational Disputes which Required the Interference of Presbytery ... (1817)

The Nature and Uses of a Liberal Education Illustrated: Being a Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Building, Erected for the Accommodation of the Classes of the Pictou Academical Instititution (1819)

Letters of Mephibosheth Stepsure (Stepsure Letters), 1821-1823 (1821-1823)

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<mask> (born 24 February 1964 in London, England) is a former full-time Australian V8 Supercar driver. He won his V8 Supercars title in 2005, and finished second in 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2004. <mask> has also won the Bathurst 1000, in 1995 and 1997. His particular driving style earned him the nickname "Enforcer". In 2016, he drove for Nissan Motorsport as a co-driver alongside Rick Kelly in the Pirtek Enduro Cup series. Early years
Ingall began his motor racing career at age 12 competing at the Whyalla go-kart track in South Australia. After winning an Australian Junior and several Senior karting Championships he moved overseas to race karts in Europe before making the transition into Formula Ford.During his karting career he lost his right-index finger at the first joint in an accident, however this didn't affect his racing. Competing in only his second Formula Ford event, <mask> finished third in a support race at the 1988 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide. Over the next few years <mask> proved to be a force in the Motorcraft Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series finishing runner-up before claiming the crown in the 1990. In 1990, he co-drove a Bob Forbes Racing Holden Commodore VL at the Bathurst 1000 with Kevin Bartlett

<mask> headed to Europe in 1991. After almost claiming the British Formula Ford Championship in 1991, and making a promising debut in the GM-Lotus formula, <mask> moved to Germany to drive for Opel Team Schuebel in the German Formula Three Championship. Ingall also had the opportunity to compete in Peter Wearing Smith's team at the Macau Grand Prix, where he started 23rd and overtook David Coulthard to finish in fifth position. Over the northern winter <mask> competed in the New Zealand Dunlop Formula Ford series, winning easily with 10 victories from 12 races.<mask> made history in 1993 returning to the United Kingdom

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 to drive for the factory Van Diemen team to win 13 out of the 16 races in the British Formula Ford Championship and in the process recording the highest number of wins in a single season in the history of Formula Ford. The season was finished off by winning one of the most prestigious single-seater events – the Formula Ford Festival and World Cup at Brands Hatch in Britain. <mask> was never able to live up to his full potential in Europe due to a lack of funding and later returned to Australia. This is common for Australian race drivers in Europe. V8 Supercar

Part-time drives

After spending the first half of 1994 in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship <mask> made his return to Touring Cars, having previously driven for the Bob Forbes Racing team in 1990, driving for Wayne Gardner Racing at the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000. <mask> and Win Percy led at Bathurst for some time before finishing fifth. Perkins Engineering

Ingall went on to win the 1995 British Formula Renault Championship before joining Perkins Engineering for its campaign for the endurance races back in Australia.<mask> figured prominently in the team's epic last to first victory at Bathurst. He would then become a permanent face of the V8 Supercar Championship throughout 1996 season. During his first year, <mask> claimed his maiden victory at Calder Park and then went on to win the Bathurst 1000 for the second time in 1997. He also finished second in 1998 and 2002. In his seven years with Perkins Engineering, <mask> finish runner-up in the championship three times (1998, 1999 and 2001) and was third in 1997. Stone Brothers Racing

Following seven years with the Perkins team <mask> moved to Stone Brothers Racing at the start of 2003 in winning style taking out the support races at the Australian Grand Prix. He also went on to win rounds at the Queensland 300 and the

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 Gillette V8 Supercar Challenge at the Lexmark Indy 300 on the Gold Coast, Queensland before eventually finishing seventh outright in the championship.In 2004 <mask> was again consistent with the highlight of the season coming with a round win at Symmons Plains in round 12. In the final round at Eastern Creek Raceway, he finished third overall to jump from fourth to second in the championship in his Caltex Ford Falcon BA and give Stone Brothers Racing an historic 1–2 finish as his teammate Marcos Ambrose won the championship. In 2005 <mask> went one better, collecting his first V8 Supercar championship after having been runner-up four times. <mask> went into the season with a plan and he followed it to the final race of the season, which was held at the Phillip Island circuit. He raced "smarter" than he ever had before and worked out his strategy around the V8 Supercars points system to collect the title ahead of Craig Lowndes and Marcos Ambrose. In 2006 <mask> saw the championship slip from his grasp due to poor performance from his car which saw him finish the championship in eighth place. In the lead-up to the 2007 season finale, <mask> announced he was Holden bound, thus leaving Stone Brothers Racing and Ford after five years.He finished the championship for the first time outside the top 10, placing a disappointing eleventh. For 2008 <mask> moved to Paul Morris Motorsport. Supercheap Auto Racing

<mask> returned to the Holden fray in 2008 with Paul Morris Motorsport, now sponsored by automotive parts retailer Supercheap Auto. <mask>'s debut race meeting for his new team proved less than ideal. Finishing in 14th place in the first leg of the Clipsal 500, contact with the wall at Turn 8 during the morning warmup saw steering and suspension damage to the No. 39 car. Repairs were made in time for the start of Race 2, but the car was not

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 the same, and he retired after just two laps, with failure in the ignition system.“If I didn't stick it in (during) the warm up, the distributor drive would have probably gone in the warm-up so we would have found the problem before the race, so one thing led to another," said <mask>. "At the end of the day it was all related to the shunt.”

In 2010, <mask> was joined by New Zealander Greg Murphy. <mask> remained with Paul Morris Motorsport until the end of 2011. In 2012, <mask> moved to Walkinshaw Racing, with the Supercheap Auto sponsorship. In 2013, <mask> continued the use of the No. 66 car, however, 2013 saw the change to the new Holden VF Commodore. Ingall's form for the year thus far has been inconsistent.At Townsville, <mask> celebrated his 226th race start (a new record beating John Bowe's 225) by using No. 226 on his car. In the Endurance events, <mask> teamed up with IndyCar racer Ryan Briscoe. Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport

After toying with the idea of retiring from full-time motorsports in 2014, <mask> announced returned to V8 Supercars in the 2014 season with Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport. At the end of 2014, <mask> retired from full-time driving. He will still compete as a co-driver in the three endurance races. Return to V8 Supercars

In 2015, <mask> signed with the Holden Racing Team to race in the endurance series after James Courtney was injured in a freak accident.<mask> competed in the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000 with HRT. With Courtney returning to race in the Gold Coast 600, Prodrive Racing Australia signed <mask> as a replacement for Chaz Mostert, who was unable to drive due to injuries from his Bathurst crash. Nissan Motorsport

Ingall signed with Nissan Motorsport to race in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in 2016 and joined Rick Kelly in the No. 15 Nissan Altima. Triple Eight Race Engineering
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 Triple Eight Race Engineering announced that <mask> will make a return to the championship as a wildcard for the Bathurst 1000 alongside current Triple Eight Super2 Driver Broc Feeney. <mask> will be driving a Supercheap Auto backed #39 Holden ZB Commodore. Other racing

In October 2018, <mask> made his Stadium Super Trucks debut at Sydney Motorsport Park.He finished seventh and fifth in the weekend's two races. The following year, he returned to the series for the Gold Coast 600 round. In April 2021, <mask> took over for the injured Nash Morris for the series' final two races at Symmons Plains. Media career

In 2015, <mask> was appointed a co-host on Fox Sports coverage of V8 Supercars with five-time champion and former rival Mark Skaife. <mask> hosts an online video series titled Enforcer and The Dude alongside Paul Morris. In October 2020, <mask> became the brand ambassador for Soudal Australia for their innovative range of sealants, expanding foams and adhesives. Soudal are best known for their sealant adhesive called T-Rex which fixes, bonds and seals everything to everything.Career results

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

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(key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.) Season in progress.TCR Australia results

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External links
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 Driver Database stats

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<mask> is an American percussionist, composer, and visual artist based in New York City. Known for his complex and intricate style of drumming, as well creating sound installations involving piano wire and other mechanisms to accompany his live performances, his shows have involved visual elements such as Keszler's drawings, diagrams, screen prints, and writings. In 2012, Pitchfork wrote that "Keszler deserves recent attention for his large-scale sound art installations, which not only force musical ideas to interact with an acoustic environment but, in turn, for flesh-and-bone musicians to interact with both of them." <mask> has also toured or collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jandek, Loren Connors, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Oneohtrix Point Never, and has released several solo albums since 2008. The most recent, Alps in 2014, was a collaboration with guitarist Oren Ambarchi. In 2012 Keszler debuted a sound installation project where he mounted wires up to 800 feet long off the Manhattan Bridge. He has had exhibitions of his visual work, installations and performances at museums and galleries such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Kitchen, South London Gallery, LUMA Foundation, Tectonics Festival in Reykjavik, Centraal Museum in Utrecht, and Boston Center for the Arts.He and David Grubbs recently debuted a piece at the MIT List Center. He composed the soundtrack for the 2021 horror-thriller The Scary of Sixty-First. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. By the age of eight he was learning drums, and he began composing his own music at age twelve. He began playing in various rock and hardcore bands in his teenage years, and later graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music

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2000s: Early installations and albums
Working as a drummer, guitarist, and composer in New York, <mask> soon became known for accompanying his music performances with live installations and visual elements, sometimes utilizing drawings, diagrams, screen prints, and writings. His sound installations and visual pieces "often use microprocessor-controlled motors to strike, scrape and vibrate various lengths of piano wire as well as other materials." He released his first album, Livingston, in 2008 on Rare Youth Records, which was followed by Oxtim in 2010 on ESP-Disk. 2011-14: Cold Pin and collaborations
<mask> released his album Cold Pin in 2011, on Pan Records. In the summer of 2011, Wire Magazine hosted streams of Keszler's live music on their website. Wire described one track as "a recording of a quintet performing with Keszler's 14 string, 40 x 15 foot mechanical sound installation, Cold Pin. The installation consists of 'three to five 25 foot long strings with motors, wire, a curved wall, micro-controllers, pick-ups and phono cables'."His ensemble included Ashley Paul on saxophone, Geoff Mullen on guitar, and others. In 2012 another of his sound installations was featured in Pitchfork, who wrote that "Keszler deserves recent attention for his large-scale sound art installations, which not only force musical ideas to interact with an acoustic environment but, in turn, for flesh-and-bone musicians to interact with both of them." He has released a number of solo albums since then, and has toured or collaborated with other such as Ashley Paul, C. Spencer Yeh, Loren Connors, and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He has performed

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 at number of national and international festivals, including Transmediale Festival in 2013, where he performed with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. In 2013 some of his drawings were replicated in the art book Neum, in tandem with a 2013 exhibit of his work at the South London Gallery. He recently debuted a project where he mounted wires up to 800 feet long off the Manhattan Bridge which was commissioned by National Public Radio. 2014: Alps, Stadium, and tour with Oneohtrix Point Never
In November 2014, Keszler released the collaborative album Alps, which he recorded with Oren Ambarchi, an experimental guitarist and composer.Alps was written as a two-part suite divided into two tracks. Music critic Fred Thomas of AllMusic gave Alps 4/5 stars, writing that "these duets merge Ambarchi's symphonic and sometimes storytelling feedback with nonstop blasts of scattershot drumming from Keszler for an attack of noisy improvisation. Keszler's fluid and anxiety-ridden percussion style is a perfect companion for Ambarchi's grizzly guitar stabs and horror movie drones." 2016 saw the release of Last Signs of Speed, <mask>'s eighth studio album, through the German label Empty Editions. In 2018, <mask> released his ninth studio album, Stadium, through Shelter Press to positive reviews. That same year, <mask> was a collaborator on American electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never's Age Of. He also toured with him among other artists for the album's accompanying performance installation, MYRIAD.In 2019 Keszler released the Empire EP, his final release with Shelter Press. 2021
In July 2021, <mask> released his tenth studio album, Icons, on  LuckyMe. Visual art and installation
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 installations at the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Kitchen, South London Gallery, LUMA Foundation, Harpa Hall at the Tectonics Festival in Reykjavik, Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Boston Center for the Arts, Barbican - St. Lukes amongst other places. He recently debuted a piece along with David Grubbs at the MIT List Center. An article on his work was featured in Modern Painters Magazine, focusing on his drawing, score writing and installation. Style and influences

Keszler is known for incorporating the sounds of diverse genres, including punk rock, free jazz, and free improvisation. About his tendencies as a composer, Keszler has stated "Oftentimes, musically I find myself attracted to things that are so slow they seem fast and so fast they seem slow—when you have so many hits that they eventually turn into a long tone."He explained to NPR's All Things Considered, "I like to work with raw material, simple sounds, primitive or very old sounds." His live performances often are fused with sound installation and visual art, and various guest artists have contributed. The New York Times  described Keszler's work as "using rigorously conceived scores to harness the inchoate energy of improvisation and its capacity for surprise." Discography

Albums

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Discographies
<mask> at AllMusic
<mask> at Discogs

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External links

EliKeszler.com
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<mask> on Twitter
Pan-Act.com

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<mask> on Bandcamp
<mask> on SoundCloud

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<mask> (born August 15, 1992) is an American football linebacker for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Grand Valley State, where he set the Division II record for sacks, and was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the 2016 NFL Draft. During his five seasons with the Ravens, <mask> received two consecutive Pro Bowl selections. He joined the Patriots in 2021, earning Pro Bowl honors for a third consecutive season. Professional career
<mask> received an invitation to the East–West Shrine Game, but was unable to play after an arthroscopy discovered what was characterized as a "tweaked meniscus". He was one of sixty-five defensive linemen to receive an invitation to the NFL combine and the first player from Grand Valley State to receive an invite in two years and opted to attend. Judon showed athleticism and strength, finishing top among defensive linemen in the 40-yard dash (fifth), bench press (fifth), and vertical jump (fourth).On March 15, 2016, he participated at Grand Valley State's pro day, along with four other teammates. Team representatives and scouts from 26 NFL teams attended his pro day as Judon ran positional drills and opted to stand on his combine numbers. He had an impressive workout and raised his draft stock, receiving much praise from scouts who attended. Throughout the pre-draft process, Judon had private workouts and meetings with the Carolina Panthers, New England Patriots, Arizona Cardinals, New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Philadelphia Eagles . At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, he was projected to be a fourth round pick by NFL draft experts and scouts. Although he showed a great combination of strength and athleticism, his fourth round grade was mainly due to teams being skeptical over his ability to transfer his skills to the professional game since he played Division II football in college and concerns

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 over his history of injuries. He was ranked as the 14th best defensive end prospect by NFLDraftScout.com.Baltimore Ravens
The Baltimore Ravens selected <mask> in the fifth round (146th overall) of the 2016 NFL Draft. He was the third edge rusher the Ravens drafted in 2016, behind Boise State's Kamalei Correa (second round, 42nd overall) and BYU's Bronson Kaufusi (third round, 70th overall). 2016
On May 5, 2016, the Baltimore Ravens signed <mask> to a four-year, $2.59 million contract with a signing bonus of $255,736. The Baltimore Ravens opted to make <mask> an outside linebacker since their 3-4 scheme would better suit him at that position over defensive end. He competed with Terrell Suggs, Elvis Dumervil, Albert McClellan,
Za'Darius Smith, Kamalei Correa, Chris Carter, and Victor Ochi throughout training camp for a job as a starting outside linebacker. Head coach John Harbaugh named him the backup weakside linebacker behind veterans Terrell Suggs and Za'Darius Smith to begin the regular season. He made his professional regular season debut in the Baltimore Ravens' season-opener against the Buffalo Bills and assisted on one tackle in their 13–7 victory.Judon was inactive for Weeks 4-5 despite playing well in the first three games as the Ravens decided to play Elvis Dumervil who had recovered from his foot injury. On October 23, 2016, Judon recorded three combined tackles and made two sacks on New York Jets' quarterbacks Ryan Fitzpatrick and Geno Smith in their 24–16 loss. His first career sack on Geno Smith in the second quarter caused Smith to tear his ACL and miss the remainder of the season. During a Week 14 matchup at the New England Patriots, <mask> recorded a season-high five combined tackles  in their 30–23 loss. He finished the  season with 27 combined tackles (12 solo), four sacks, and two pass deflections in 14 games and zero starts. Judon played minimally due to a lot of depth at the position and the Ravens

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He competed with Albert McClellan, Terrell Suggs, Za'Darius Smith, Tyus Bowser, Boseko Lokombo, and Tim Williams throughout training camp for the vacant starting outside linebacker job left by the departure of Elvis Dumervil in free agency.On August 26, 2017, he recorded four solo tackles and sacked Buffalo Bills' quarterback Tyrod Taylor in their 13–9 victory. <mask> was named the Baltimore Ravens' starting strongside linebacker, beating out rookie Tyus Bowser, to begin the  season. <mask> made his first career start in the Baltimore Ravens' season-opener at the Cincinnati Bengals and made one solo tackle and defended a pass in the Ravens' 20–0 victory. During a Week 2 against the Cleveland Browns, Judon recovered a fumble by quarterback DeShone Kizer, that help set up the Ravens' offense on an eventual touchdown scoring drive in the 24–10 victory. On October 15, 2017, <mask> recorded a career-high 14 combined tackles (12 solo) and sacked Chicago Bears' quarterback Mitchell Trubisky twice in their 27–24 loss. On November 19, 2017, he collected seven combined tackles, two sacks, and forced a fumble during the Ravens' 23–0 win against the Green Bay Packers, earning him AFC Defensive Player of the Week. He finished the season playing in all 16 games with 12 starts, recording 60 combined tackles (50 solo), eight sacks, three passes defensed and two forced fumbles.His eight sacks finished second on the team behind Terrell Suggs' 11 sacks. 2018
In 2018, Judon played in 16 games with eight starts, finishing tied for second on the team with seven sacks, along with 44 combined tackles, three passes defensed, and a forced fumble. 2019
In week 11 against the Houston Texans, Judon recorded a team high 7 tackles and 2 sacks on Deshaun Watson, one of which was a strip sack on that was recovered by teammate Jaylon Ferguson, in the 41–7 win. In week 14 against the Buffalo Bills, Judon sacked Josh Allen 1.5

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 times, including a strip sack which was recovered by Jihad Ward during the 24–17 win which clinched a playoff berth. In week 17 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Judon recorded a strip sack on Devlin Hodges which was recovered by teammate Michael Pierce during the 28–10 win. 2020
The Ravens placed the franchise tag on Judon on March 13, 2020. On May 28, 2020, Judon signed the one-year, $16.808 million franchise tender.In Week 4 against the Washington Football Team, <mask> recorded his first two sacks of the season on Dwayne Haskins during the 31–17 win. In Week 8 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Judon was ejected from the game after making contact with an official. He was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list by the team on November 3, 2020, and activated two days later. He was placed back on the COVID-19 list on November 30, and activated again on December 9. In Week 15 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Judon recorded a sack on Gardner Minshew II in the endzone for a safety during the 40–14 win. New England Patriots
On March 19, 2021, <mask> signed a four-year, $56 million contract with the New England Patriots. Judon surpassed his career high in sacks by Week 11, earning him Pro Bowl honors for a third consecutive season.Personal life
<mask> is one of ten children. At Grand Valley State, he wore the number 9 to honor his nine siblings. When the NFL changed uniform rules to allow defensive linemen to wear single-digit numbers in 2021, he chose it for his uniform number with the Patriots. NFL career statistics

References

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Grand Valley State Lakers bio
Baltimore Ravens bio

1992 births
Living people
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 Awards. In 2013, <mask> was handpicked by director Stephen Chow to play the guest role of Prince Important in the movie Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, which broke Chinese box office records. Chow cast <mask> again in a supporting role, Octopus, in his 2016 movie The Mermaid, likening his comedic talent onscreen to a formidable explosive. The movie once again broke existing Chinese box office records. In 2006, <mask> Lo created fashion brand STAGE which currently has branches in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. STAGE sponsors clothing for many Taiwanese entertainers, and the brand is often seen on Taiwanese variety shows.Early life
<mask> was born in Keelung City, Taiwan. His father is Taiwanese and his mother is a Taiwanese Aborigine of the Amis people. He is an only child, and his parents held multiple odd jobs to support the family when he was growing up. They primarily put up entertainment shows for grassroots events such as weddings, in which his father hosted and his mother sang. <mask> participated in these entertainment shows as a child, playing the drums onstage when he was just three. <mask> is nicknamed Xiao Zhu (Little Pig) because he was really chubby when he was young, weighing over . He was bullied by his classmates for his weight, which made him determined to slim down.During the summer break of his first year in middle school, <mask> swam and played basketball everyday, shedding weight and reaching  within two months. <mask> picked up street dance when he was in middle school and was a member of a street dance group, participating in many dancing competitions in Taiwan. He auditioned successfully for Taipei Hwa Kang Arts School, but was only enrolled there for one school term as his family was unable to afford the school fees. He returned to Keelung and enrolled in Pei De high school's media

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Debut (1996–2002)
In 1996, <mask> entered and won a singing and dancing competition, impersonating Aaron Kwok. He debuted as member of boy group Four Heavenly Kings with three other contestants who impersonated the other Hong Kong Four Heavenly Kings. The boy group disbanded in 1998 as two members left for compulsory military service, which <mask> was exempted from because he has Gluteal Fibrotic Contracture.He also suffers from Mitral insufficiency and hence cannot consume food containing caffeine. That same year, he formed a new boy group Romeo with Ou Di. They released two albums, but the group soon disbanded too. From 2000 to 2002, <mask>'s singing career was stalled by a lawsuit with his former management company. He was forced to transit from a teen idol to a variety show entertainer, performing gags on variety shows. His transition into hosting comedy game shows was successful, and he earned the "Triple Crown" title for hosting the three most popular variety shows at one point in time. The sudden cancellation of these variety shows left him jobless for three months, which he refers to as the bleakest moment in his career.During this time period, he also played the male leading role in the idol drama Hi Working Girl, co-starring with Jolin Tsai. The two formed a lasting friendship from this collaboration. Avex Taiwan (2003–2007)
In 2003, <mask> signed with Avex Taiwan and launched his solo career with the release of his first album Show Time, selling over 80,000 copies. His second album, Expert Show, was released in 2004. The leading dance track "機器娃娃" (Robot Doll), is a hip hop number about the prevalence of electronic pets and on-line relationships. He collaborated with his co-host Xiao S on the duet "Love Expert" (恋爱达人). <mask> released his third album Hypnosis Show in 2005.He collaborated

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 with Jolin Tsai for the first lead dance track "Destined Guy" (真命天子). The year after, he released his fourth album SPESHOW on November 17, 2006. The lead track, "Dance Gate" (精舞门) is a cover of "James Dean (I Wanna Know)" by Daniel Bedingfield. The Music Video features <mask>'s iconic 椅子舞 (chair dance) and him showing off his versatility, performing various dance styles. For the album, he sang a full length English song for the first time, "Twinkle", with Japanese singer Koda Kumi. <mask> released his fifth album Show Your Dance on November 16, 2007; he sang the duet "Defeat in Love" (败给你) with Elva Hsiao. Pony Canyon (2011–present)
In 2011, <mask> signed with Pony Canyon Japan.His first Japanese single "Dante" was released on February 15, 2012. This song made it to the 5th place in Japan's Oricon daily chart during its first day of release, and hit 10th place in the Oricon weekly chart. This record made <mask> the first Taiwanese male singer to be on the Oricon chart after Teresa Teng. On June 20, 2012, his second Japanese single "Magic" was released. His Japanese studio album "THE SHOW" was released on September 19, 2012. However, the planned trip to Japan to promote his album was not eventuated due to political uproar over the Senkaku Islands between Japan, Taiwan and China. Gold Typhoon (2008–2013)
In 2008 <mask> joined forces with Gold Typhoon (Taiwan) and released his sixth album Trendy Man.On September 19, 2009, <mask> represented Taiwan and performed at the 6th Asia Song Festival, held at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in South Korea. The seventh album, Rashomon, was released in 2010, which held the number one spot on G-music, and the album sold 150,000 copies. <mask> released his eighth studio album, Only for You, on February 18, 2011, which the album sold more than 150,000 copies. <mask>'s ninth album, 9ood Show was

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