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<mask> is an American writer, poet, and record producer. He has written nine books, including collaborations with the visual artists Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha. Beginning in the early 1980s, he produced albums by musicians including John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Vernon Reid. In more recent years, he has worked with Nels Cline, Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Dan Weiss, Ingrid Laubrock, and Craig Taborn, among others. <mask>'s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly and New American Writing, among other journals. Early life and education
<mask> was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. In college, as a student at Brown University, he wrote for The Village Voice.He graduated from Brown with a B.A. in 1980, magna cum laude, with a double major in history and semiotics. Career

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Journalism, Rolling Stone, We Are the World
<mask> moved to New York City following his graduation. He wrote for publications including Esquire, The Village Voice, GQ, Musician, Life, and Rolling Stone, where he was a contributing editor. Over the course of the decade, he conducted interviews with Bono, Willie Nelson, Steven Spielberg, and Wayne Shorter, among others, and wrote feature stories on people such as musician Miles Davis, comedian Martin Short, basketball player Michael Jordan and architect Helmut Jahn. In 1984, <mask> wrote "Kids in the Dark", a Rolling Stone article about the murder of Gary Lauwers by self-professed Satanist Ricky Kasso, told almost completely in the words of the teens

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 and young adults he interviewed in Northport, New York. Following its publication, he co-wrote a play with Rick Cleveland, based on the story, also titled Kids In the Dark.Described by the Chicago Tribune as a "frequently gripping and deeply moving drama", it premiered at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater in 1987. <mask>'s original article was included in the 1993 anthology The Best of Rolling Stone: 25 Years of Journalism on the Edge, and the play was nominated for a 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work. <mask> story is chronicled in the 2018 book "The Acid King" by Jesse P. Pollack. <mask> also wrote "Leave It to Beaver", an investigation into a group of high school vigilantes in Fort Worth, Texas, who called themselves the Legion of Doom. The Legion of Doom became the subject of a 1986 television movie called Brotherhood of Justice. His 1984 piece on teen suicide, "Dear Mom and Dad", was a National Magazine Awards finalist. In 1985, after he profiled record producer Quincy Jones for LIFE, <mask> was invited to be one of two journalists present for the recording of "We Are the World", a song which benefited the charity USA For Africa.He wrote a cover story on the subject for LIFE and later wrote the book We Are The World: The Photos, Music and Inside Story of One of the Most Historic Events in American Popular Music. A detailed narrative of the sessions, it appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. <mask> donated all royalties from the book's sales to USA for Africa. The Real Life Diary of a Boomtown Girl
In 1989, <mask>'s

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 novel, The Real Life Diary of a Boomtown Girl, was published by Viking Press. A "candid cultural chronicle of the modern American West" based on his unpublished short story Boomers, it was optioned by Jane Fonda's film company, IPC Films. Ronald Shannon Jackson, Bill Frisell, John Zorn
Active in New York's avant-garde music scene since the early 80s, <mask> produced Ronald Shannon Jackson's "milestone" albums Mandance and Barbeque Dog. He continued to produce avant-garde music throughout the decade, and became known for extensive pre-production discussion and planning and the presentation of materials such as packaging, liner notes, and videos which "engaged the visual and tactile sense to provide the best delivery of the album/concept".Among other albums, <mask> produced Pulse, on which Jackson played solo drums, Smash and Scatteration, which paired Bill Frisell with pre-Living Colour Vernon Reid; Strange Meeting (with Jackson, Frisell, and Melvin Gibbs) and "Two-Lane Highway" featuring Albert Collins on John Zorn's Spillane. San Francisco: 1990–present

Inner Views: Filmmakers in Conversation
<mask> moved to San Francisco in 1990. In 1992, longer versions of seven of his Rolling Stone interviews conducted with film directors Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, <mask>, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, <mask> and Tim Burton were published by Faber and Faber as Inner Views: Filmmakers in Conversation. An eighth Q&A with Clint Eastwood was included in a later, expanded edition of the book under the same title, published by Da Capo Press in 1997.

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 Poetry, DIRTY BABY, Campaign
A finalist for the National Poetry Series, <mask>'s first book of poetry, Fresh Kills, was published in 1997; his second, Escape Velocity, was released in 2004. It was followed in 2006 by SUPERMODEL, a one sentence epic poem told in two interwoven strands: one which follows the life of the unnamed supermodel of the title, the other which is composed of fragments of text found online. In 2010, Delmonico Books / Prestel published <mask>'s multi-media book DIRTY BABY.It featured sixty-six paintings by American artist Ed Ruscha, original music by Nels Cline, and "beautiful, lush" poems by <mask> that employ the ancient Arabic poetic form, the ghazal. The book consists of two parts or "sides": side A describes the rise of human civilization, and side B provides an account, in a variety of voices, of the second Iraq War. The book includes four CDs, two of Cline's music and two of spoken-word poetry. <mask>'s sixth book of poetry, Campaign, was published in print and as an audiobook in late 2017. About the book, he wrote: "On February 1, 2016, the date of the Iowa Caucus, the traditional onside kick which begins every presidential scrum, I decided to write a single poem "about" the election, with the vague idea I might write another. To allow for the possibility that something serial, tight, and deliberate might actually happen, I knew I needed a form—an existing form or one of my own. Having toiled (happily) upon the sweltering rack of the ghazal for my last project (DIRTY BABY), I thought it would be more fun to

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 just concoct something.I didn't want anything symmetrical or pleasant. I wanted something wrong-footed and corrugated, but self-contained. So: I created a deliberately awkward, rollickingly restrictive form—seven beats per line, eleven lines per poem, one stanza fits all. And given our country's preference for the convenience of sound-bite news and junk-food polls over more nutritious fare, I decided to call them '7-Elevens.' Slurpee Heaven, 7-Eleven. Seventy-seven beats per poem, no exceptions: it's got a beat and you can't dance to it." RICHTER 858
For his multi-media book RICHTER 858, published by SFMOMA/D.A.P in 2002, <mask> commissioned twelve American poets--including Robert Hass, Michael Palmer, Jorie Graham, Ann Lauterbach and Dean Young--to write poems inspired by the paintings of Gerhard Richter.Dave Hickey and Klaus Kertess contributed essays. He also commissioned Bill Frisell to compose new music for the project. Frisell formed the 858 Quartet with Jenny Scheinman on violin, Eyvind Kang on viola, and Hank Roberts on cello to perform the music for RICHTER 858. About the music Jazz Times wrote: "One might say that Richter sounds like Frisell; his broad lateral smears find their aural counterpart in Frisell's wobbly yet hard nosed minimalism." The 858 Quartet has toured and recorded extensively since then. Music production, 1990s to 2019
In the 1990s and into the following decade, <mask> produced albums for Miniature (Tim Berne, Joey Baron, Hank Roberts), Herb Robertson and Bobby Previte, in addition to three albums for Joey

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 Diatom Ribbons, featuring Grammy Award-winning artists Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington as well as turntablist Val Jeanty. The project, which grew out of <mask>'s suggestion that she do a funk record, was No. 1 in The New York Times Best Jazz of 2019, and the top album in the 2019 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. "Davis is a master quilter, able to turn a patchwork of colors, inspirations, textures, and voices into a single harmonious vision," wrote JazzTimes of Diatom Ribbons. Music production, 2020 to present
The decade began with the release of six new Breskin-produced projects. In June 2020, Pyroclastic Records released Accelerate Every Voice from Cory Smythe, an album that was honored by NPR Music's 8th Annual Jazz Critic's Poll as a top five in the vocals category. In September, <mask> Courvoisier Trio album, Free Hoops,.Also that month, he produced the album Natural Selection, the second album from Dan Weiss's jazz-metal hybrid Starebaby. Seven Storey Mountain VI, the next part of Nate Wooley's album series inspired by priest, monk and philosopher Thomas Merton's autobiography, was produced by <mask> and released October 2020. The same month saw the release of NPR's No. 4 of Top 50 New Albums, Artlessly Falling, from Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, produced by Breskin and featuring vocals by English musician Robert Wyatt. The Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote: "The producer of Code Girl's records, <mask>, is also a published poet. He challenged Halvorson to organize her lyrics into different poetic forms, including a sestina, a

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 ghazal, a pantoum, a tanka and a haibun (which combines haiku with prose)." In November 2020, the Breskin-produced Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt by Ingrid Laubrock was released by Intakt Records.Inspired by the dreams Laubrock documented for the past decade in her dream journal, disc one of the double album contained five compositions recorded by a large ensemble consisting of the EOS Chamber Orchestra and a group of five soloists. Disc two was a near mirror repeat of the five compositions, this time reimagined by Laubrock's small ensemble with Cory Smythe on piano, Sam Pluta on electronics, and three other guest musicians. Discography
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<mask> (born 29 November 1959) is a Mexican politician affiliated to Movimiento Ciudadano. He is a federal deputy to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from the fifth electoral region. <mask> also was a federal deputy in the LVIII Legislature and from 2005 to 2007 served as the national president of the PAN. Life

Education and career in Chihuahua
In 1979, <mask> received his degree as an electrical technician from the Regional Technological Institute of Durango; a year before, he had joined the PAN. He was a frequent representative of the party in electoral matters, as well as a Scout and an instructor teaching business training courses in Ciudad Juárez and Durango; additionally, between 1978 and 1985, he was a middle and high school teacher at various educational institutions in Durango and Ciudad Juárez, as well as an administrator of an accounting and administration company. Between 1983 and 1985, <mask> acted as an intervening administrator at Zapatería Bernini, a Ciudad Juárez company. From 1983 and 1988, <mask> worked in the General Directorate of Public Security of Ciudad Juárez, first heading the department of Unit Control and later moving to Archives and Statistics; his final year in the agency was spent as a systems director.1984 also saw <mask> get involved in the founding of the Center of Hispanic-American Studies in El Paso, Texas, while the next year, he began a three-year term as president of the Mexican Scouts Association. In 1987, after five years of study, <mask> graduated from the Universidad del Noroeste with a degree in business administration; the next year, he began a short stint as a production supervisor at Honeywell Optoelectronics in Ciudad Juárez. <mask>'s political career continued to center around the PAN in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua. Between 1987 and 1989, he was the secretary of the Civil Resistance

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 organization in the party; he served as a municipal-level general secretary from 1989–91 (which ended when he was tapped to be the interim president of the PAN in Ciudad Juárez), a state councilor between 1990 and 1993, ran for federal deputy in 1991, and served again in the Chihuahua PAN from 1991–92. Also during this time, he was a founding member and vice president of the Foundation for the Cultural Diffusion of America's Half Millennium, between 1989 and 1992. In 1994, he served as a coordinator of the PAN's federal electoral campaign in Ciudad Juárez, and at the same time, he ran as a proportional representation deputy from the second electoral region. He was the PAN's Security Coordinator and served as a secretary on the National Defense Commission; simultaneously, he served on the national PAN's Secretariat of National Relations, in the department that managed relations with the armed forces.Shift to Sonora
In 1996, <mask> became the head of the PAN in Sonora and served on its state executive council from 1999 to 2002. Additionally, he served as the municipal comptroller of Hermosillo between 1998 and 2000. In 2000, he returned to the Chamber of Deputies in its LVIII Legislature. He presided over the Special Commission on Public Security and also served on the Energy Commission. During this time, he simultaneously served as the travel coordinator for President Vicente Fox, as a national councilor for the PAN, and from 2002 to 2005, as the secretary general of the national PAN organization and a consultant to Grupo Industrial Fuentes. Presidency of the PAN and expulsion
In 2005, <mask> succeeded Luis Felipe Bravo and became the 18th president of the National Action Party, a position he held for two years. On November 11, 2006, he was elected president of the Christian Democrat Organization of America, a post he held until July 30, 2010, and between

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 2006 and 2009, he also was the vice president of Centrist Democrat International.However, during this time, a rift began to grow between <mask> and the PAN president, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa; he also disagreed with the federal government's security strategy, calling it "one of the bloodiest". The end of <mask>'s presidency in 2007 and his replacement with Germán Martínez Cázares, identified as close to Calderón, came months after <mask> and those associated with the highly conservative group Desarrollo Humano Integral, A.C., lost national party positions to supporters of Calderón. In 2010, he founded the  (National Start Over Movement). That year, the national PAN voted to begin the process of expelling <mask> from the party, with only one member voting against the measure; this would culminate in his expulsion from the party after 33 years in May 2011; <mask> promised to bring the case before the TEPJF. When he met with Enrique Peña Nieto, who at the time was seeking election from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, he promised Peña Nieto that he would promote the "useful vote" for Peña Nieto among the 941,000 members of Volver a Empezar, which in turn prompted then-PAN leader Gustavo Madero Muñoz to note that one of the reasons for <mask>'s expulsion from the party was his previous support for PRI candidates. His business activities continued throughout this period; in 2010, he opened a restaurant in Durango, known as El Esquilón. He also owned a parking facility and administered the company Negocios Maryam.Movimiento Ciudadano and return to San Lázaro
In 2013, <mask> started a political group known as Concertación Mexicana. The group included other former members of the PAN and PRD, such as René Arce (who returned to the PRD in 2015) and Jorge Carlos Díaz Cuervo. While it promised to be a "party that was not ideological", it was derided as being a

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<mask> has written various books, including Señal de Alerta (2008), which warned that Manlio Fabio Beltrones might run for president in 2012; Volver a Empezar (Start Over, 2010); La guerra injusta de Ciudad Juárez (The Unjust War of Ciudad Juárez, 2010), in which he called the drug war started by Calderón "the bloodiest conflict on Mexican soil since the Revolution"; El Poder del Águila (The Power of the Eagle, 2012); and Mexicanos al Grito de Paz (2015). References

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<mask><mask> (1849-1911) was an American businessman. He was among the wealthiest African Americans in Pennsylvania and possibly the United States at the time of his death. Early life and career
Trower was born on October 3, 1849, in Eastville, Northampton County, Virginia. His parents, Luke and Anna M<mask>, were free black farmers and of mixed white, Native American and African American descent. From age 16 to 21, Trower worked on the farm with his family, saving all that he could. All through his early life young Trower was hobbled with the necessity of servicing his family's debt. By the time he was 21 he had saved enough to lift this burden from his family and he felt free to go in search of a fortune.He presented his mother with the deed of the farm and bade her goodbye. At that time, the tide of immigration had already set in from the Virginia plantations toward the cities and young Trower drifted with it in the direction of Baltimore. There was $52 surplus after the farm was paid for and with this sum Trower, wholly inexperienced in the difficulties and dangers of city life, landed in Baltimore. Trower was fortunate there in meeting the Mack family, with whom he made his home during the larger part of the time that he was in Baltimore. They gave him advice which proved of great value to him in his later life. While he was in Baltimore he obtained work in a restaurant as an oyster-opener and soon began, in spite of the small salary he received there, to accumulate a small capital. Partly because he believed he could better his condition in a Northern city and partly led by mere desire to see more of the world, he determined in 1870 to leave Baltimore and go to

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Trower decided to settle in Germantown, one of the more wealthy and prosperous quarters of the city, and with the little capital that he had gotten together, he opened a restaurant. He found a modest place in Chelton Avenue in the neighborhood of the Philadelphia and Reading depot. This business seems to have prospered from the beginning. Very soon, Trower was doing, in addition to his restaurant business, a very respectable trade as a caterer. He won the favor of the fashionable people of Germantown and his increasing trade forced him rapidly into a larger and more lucrative business. Within two blocks of his restaurant stood the old Germantown Savings Fund building. Fortunately for Trower, this building was left vacant at this time, the bank having just completed a new building into which it established itself.There was a demand for a first-class caterer's establishment in Germantown. Trower had succeeded in winning the goodwill of some of the wealthy citizens and, with their encouragement, he purchased and refitted the Savings Fund building and made out of it, at a cost of $25,000, a first-class caterer's establishment. He was now fairly on his feet in a business way and began to make money rapidly. It was at this time that he made the acquaintance and won the goodwill of some of the officers of William Cramp & Sons, a shipbuilding company. Soon after this, in 1889, Trower had his first opportunity to cater for the Cramps. The firm employed him steadily after that time. Many of the world's most renowned war vessels were served upon their trial trips by Trower, among them the Yorktown, the Philadelphia, the Vesuvius, the New York, the


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 Iowa, the Columbia, the Baltimore, the Minneapolis, the Newark, the Brooklyn, the Variag, the Retvizan, the Mecidiye, the Colorado and the Pennsylvania.Trower's place of business was one of the most complete of its kind in the country. On the first floor were his offices, dining-room, delivery department and ice cream plant, which was run by electricity. On the second floor was a reception-room and a dining hall, which seated 150 guests, and the baking department. On the third floor were the storeroom and laundry. In the basement were china closets and storage-rooms. In his office he employed five clerks, all of whom were young African American men and women. The culinary, ice cream, baking, and delivery service departments employed 20 people.A large element of Trower's success must be attributed to the fact that he constantly sought to improve and extend his business. His trade was not limited to Germantown and Philadelphia, but extended throughout the state. On several occasions he served large orders in the South and West. At the time when <mask>, of Philadelphia, was Postmaster General, Trower served him as caterer in a reception which was at that time one of the most elaborate that had ever been given in Washington, D.C. In addition to his caterer's trade he did a lucrative real estate business. He owned considerable property both in Germantown and Ocean City, New Jersey, where he had his summer residence. Personal life
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 National Baptist Superintendent of the World. He was the President of the Sunday School Convention of Pennsylvania, a position he held for many years. Trower contributed greatly to the building up of a number of Baptist churches of his city and state. His advice was frequently sought in matters of finance and church policy in the Baptist denomination. He was president of the Cherry Building and Loan Society, treasurer of the Reliable Mutual Aid and Improvement Company, and treasurer of the Reliable Business Men's Building. He was a member of the board of trustees for the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People, and member of the board of trustees for the Olive Cemetery.As president of the Pennsylvania Sunday School Convention, it was he who suggested the necessity of the establishment of an Industrial and Theological School in Pennsylvania. He purchased a farm in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, and held it in trust until the Baptists of the state were enabled to assume the responsibility of the purchase. Trower was also very active in charitable work. Trower's wife was Miss Matilda Daniels, of Haymarket, Virginia. Matilda Trower took an active part in the business as well as rearing a family of six children. Death
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<mask> (1606–1680) was a puritan and English Civil War soldier who was convicted of the regicide of Charles I. Born in Rochester, Kent, to a well-connected gentry family, he was the second of two sons of Sir <mask>, although his elder brother died in 1627. As a child, <mask> moved with his father from Rochester to Chadwell St Mary in Essex and then to Etchingham in Sussex, where he settled. <mask> gained military experience as a member of the Duke of Buckingham's expedition to the Isle of Ré in 1627. As a puritan, he joined the Parliamentary army at the outbreak of the Civil War and fought at the Battle of Edgehill. He rose to become a colonel and commanded Tilbury Fort, an important defensive position on the approach to London by river. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bramber in September 1645 to replace an ejected Royalist.He sided with the army in opposing any compromise with the King, and was appointed as a judge at the trial of King Charles I of England. <mask> attended most of the court sessions and was the 28th (of 59) to sign the King's death warrant. After the restoration of Charles II, he was convicted of regicide, but avoided execution and was imprisoned on Jersey, where he died. Early life

<mask> was born to Sir <mask> and Mary Sommer while his parents were living in the parish of St. Margaret's in Rochester, Kent in the house previously owned by his mother's first husband. His family was closely related to the <mask> family of Stowe House. The family belonged to the gentry, having a reasonable income, without being members of the aristocracy. His father had been knighted at the Tower of London by <mask> following the King's accession to the English throne - one of many members of the gentry who were knighted during the first years of the King's reign.<mask> had an older brother (John) and a sister (Susan). As a result of his mother's first marriage, he had two half-brothers (including Sir Thomas

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In June 1627, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham led an expedition to the island of Île de Ré to support the Huguenots besieged in La Rochelle by King Louis XIII of France. With no standing army, Buckingham's forces were largely volunteers and mercenaries. Since public opinion in England (particularly among extreme Protestants) supported the Huguenots, a number of well connected gentry came forward. The volunteers to join Buckingham included <mask>, his elder brother John and other members

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 of his family. The expedition to the Isle of Ré, was a disaster and altogether, Buckingham lost more than 5,000 men in the campaign out of a force of 7,000.Among those who died was <mask>'s brother. Life in Sussex
When his father died in 1629, <mask> was the main beneficiary of his father's estate. However, much of his father's property was held via his wife, mortgaged or being used to meet other commitments. <mask> had a relatively meagre inheritance - no grand country house, no great estate and certainly no large fortune. His financial affairs were not in good order and were discussed by other members of the family. Margaret Longville, <mask>'s cousin, wrote to her mother, "my cousin Cary Saunders is broke for forty thousand pounds and is not able to pay five shillings in the pound and <mask> is in too much". (Cary was the family name for Carew Saunders.)During Charles I's Personal Rule (1629–1640), he was part of a network of Puritan gentry in Sussex and in due course became a Sussex Justice of the Peace (JP). Civil War
 <mask>, like most members of his family, was a puritan and supported Parliament against the King. His uncle Lord Saye and Sele was one of the King's principal opponents. <mask>'s military experience became useful when the First English Civil War broke out in August, 1642. He was appointed captain of a troop of horse raised by Lord Saye and Sele and commanded by <mask>'s cousin, John Fiennes. <mask> was related to Oliver Cromwell via his kinsman Edward Whalley and was able to secure a commission for Whalley in his uncle's unit. He saw action close to the <mask> family home at Stowe where both Temple and Whalley fought at the Battle of Edgehill in October 1642.<mask> was also present at the Battle of Bramber Bridge in December 1643. In March 1643, he had returned to Sussex, and along with his stepbrother, John Busbridge, he was appointed by Parliament to the Sussex committee set for the sequestration (i.e.

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 seizure and administration) of the assets of prominent Royalists. In December 1643, <mask> was prominent in the defence of the crossing of the River Adur at Bramber Castle against a Royalist attack during Lord Hopton's attempt to obtain control of Sussex for the King. His actions were described by Dr Cheynell: "Upon the 12th of December I visited a brave soldier of my acquaintance, Captn Jas <mask>, who did that day defend the fort of Bramber against a bold and daring enemy to the wonder of all the country ; and I did not marvel at it, for he is a man that hath his head full of stratagems, his heart full of piety and valour, and his hand as full of success as it is of dexterity." As the war progressed, <mask> was promoted to colonel and became governor of Tilbury Fort in Essex, a post that had previously been held by his father. The fort was close to <mask>'s childhood home at Longhouse Place and was of strategic importance because it controlled the approach to London by river.During the Second Civil War, there were Royalist uprisings in Kent and Essex. <mask>'s control of Tilbury Fort for Parliament enabled Lord Fairfax's troops to cross from Gravesend to Tilbury en route to Colchester for the siege of royalists in that town. Trial of Charles I and Commonwealth
 In September 1645, <mask> was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Bramber to replace Sir Thomas Bowyer, the royalist member who had been ejected. He belonged to the political and religious group known as Independents who were opposed to any compromise in Parliament's negotiations with the King. As a result, he was one of the MPs allowed to remain after Pride's Purge - a military coup that excluded from Parliament roughly three quarters of the MPs, particularly those who were believed to be unsympathetic to the Army. In January 1649, the army and the Independents decided to bring Charles I to trial. <mask> was one of the judges named to the High Court of Justice

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 recovering some money. In the late 1650s, <mask> and Whalley went to the Court of Chancery to determine what was due to <mask> and his children. However, with the death of Oliver Cromwell and the subsequent restoration of Charles II, both regicides were faced with the possibility of execution and the case appears to have been unresolved. Restoration

<mask> returned to Parliament with the recall of the Rump and Long Parliaments by General Monck, but following the Restoration in 1660, he was excluded from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act, because of his role in the trial and execution of Charles I.He was captured in Warwickshire while trying to travel to Ireland, under his first wife's maiden name of Busbridge. He was held in the Tower of London before being tried as a regicide. He tried to avoid the death penalty by saying that he had only acted as a judge in Charles I's trial in order to give information to the Royalists. He went on to claim that he had tried to prevent the King's execution, begging Oliver Cromwell to spare him. He did avoid execution and was sentenced to life imprisonment. As a result of security concerns, a number of regicides, including <mask> were sent to Jersey in the Channel Islands. Initially he was imprisoned in Mont Orgueil, and subsequently in Elizabeth Castle, where he is reported to have died on 17 February 1680.William Winstanley described him as "not so much famous for his valour as his villainy, being remarkable for nothing but this horrible business of the king's murther, for which he came into the pack to have a share in the spoyle." References

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<mask> (May 26, 1891 – March 6, 1989) was an American pathologist. The son of a freed slave, <mask> became the first African-American associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1922 and spent the next 20 years studying racial differences in relation to medicine. In the meantime, he conducted research on immunology, for which he earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1926. <mask>'s research on race culminated in the 1942 publication of The Biology of the Negro, a lengthy text summarizing the scientific literature on the demographic, anatomical, physiological and biochemical characteristics of the black population. While <mask> was deeply interested in biological differences between the races, he argued against the viewpoint that black people were biologically inferior. The book, though well reviewed, sold poorly, and <mask> published no further works after 1943. Early life and education
<mask> was born on May 26, 1891, in Shawneetown, Illinois, to <mask>, a freed slave, and Cordelia O<mask>.Both of <mask>'s parents were schoolteachers. <mask> attended the University of Illinois for his undergraduate education, graduating in 1911 with a degree in biology and physiology. He received a master's degree from the University of Illinois in 1912 and then attended the University of Chicago, where he completed his PhD in 1915. <mask> won the Ricketts Prize for his PhD dissertation on lipids and immunity. He graduated from Rush Medical College with an MD in 1917, earning the Benjamin Rush Medal for academic achievement. <mask> married Eva Overton in 1918; the couple had three children. Career

Early career
After his graduation from Rush, <mask> was appointed to the University of Chicago's department of pathology.In 1920 he was hired as a pathologist at the African-American

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In 1942, <mask> published the culmination of the work he had begun 20 years ago: a 400-page volume titled The Biology of the Negro, drawing on medical and anthropological studies from more than 1,300 different researchers. The book—"nothing more than an arranged assembly of the observed and reported facts concerning the biology, including the pathology, of the Negro", as <mask> described it—provided an extensive overview of the literature on racial differences, spending, for example, 35 pages on a discussion of black skin. It was divided into

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H. Gideon Wells died in 1943. <mask>'s academic work suffered: after that year he never published a research paper again, and he was put on leave from the university in 1944. The next year, he asked the Sprague Institute to fund the establishment of a laboratory dedicated to the study of racial differences at the Provident Hospital. The Institute agreed to finance the project, but the plans never materialized; the death of <mask>'s wife that year may have played a role. During the later years of his career, <mask> took up various positions at local hospitals, eventually leaving Provident in 1952.He served as the director of pathology at Our Lady of Mercy Hospital in Dyer, Indiana until just before his death. <mask> died on March 6, 1989. Selected publications

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<mask> (born 19 November 1961) is a Polish politician and handball coach and former Polish and German handball player. He has been a member of the Poland men's national handball team in 1981–1994 and Germany men's national handball team in 1997–2000, a participant of the Olympic Games Sydney 2000, five-time Polish Champion (1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988), and former head coach of Poland. He has been one of the best handball player in the history of Polish handball. Between 2014-2018 he was a Member of the European Parliament for the Polish Civic Platform. In 2018, he was elected as Mayor of Kielce, having run from his own committee with the endorsement of the Civic Platform. Personal life

Since 1984 he has been married to Iwona. They have one son Tomasz (born 13 March 1996).In 2014 <mask> <mask> was elected to European Parliament. Career as player

Clubs
<mask>'s entire career in Poland was connected with one club - Wybrzeże Gdańsk, where he started playing in first team in 1978, when he was 17. He was five-times Polish Champion (1984–1988) and achieved European Cup final twice, losing to RK Metaloplastika Šabac in 1986 and SKA Mińsk in 1987. In 1989 he moved to Spain and played for Bidasoa Irún (1989–1992) and FC Barcelona Handbol (1992–1995). He was first Polish player in FC Barcelona. At last, he emigrated to Germany, and played for TuS Nettelstedt (1995–1998) and SG Flensburg-Handewitt (1998–2000). National teams

Poland 1981–1993
<mask> made his debut in Polish national team in 1981, when he was barely 20.He was appointed by Zygfryd Kuchta. It was match with Switzerland. He represented Poland in 185 official games (including friendly matches 198) and scored 763 goals, which is the third result in history of Polish handball. He took part in IHF World Handball Championship twice - in 1986 (14th place) and 1990 (11th place). He did not participate in Olympic Games as Polish player. In 1993 he was blamed for Poland's

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 elimination during qualifications to 1994 European Men's Handball Championship. Since then he was never called up again to Polish national team.Germany 1997–2000
In 1996 <mask> accepted German citizenship, which caused a lot of controversy in his homeland, Poland. However he has never played against Poland. He represented the German side in 46 official games (and 4 friendly matches) and scored 144 goals. He was a member of German national team in IHF World Handball Championship twice - 1997 and 1999. In 1998 he achieved bronze medal of European Championship and took part in European Championship 2000. He made his Olympic debut at Olympics Sydney 2000 (5th place). He regained Polish citizenship in 2008.Career as coach, 2000–2012
<mask> <mask> retired in 2000 and became coach assistant in SG Flensburg-Handewitt. In 2005 he had to enter the court and play because of many players had injuries. He was 44 and this number was on his shirt. From summer 2006 to autumn 2007 he was head coach of German handball club, SC Magdeburg. On 28 October 2004 <mask> Targi Kielce
 2010  Polish Championship, with Vive Targi Kielce
 2011  Polish Cup, with Vive Targi Kielce
 2011  Polish Championship, with Vive Targi Kielce
 2012  Polish Cup, with Vive Targi Kielce
 2012  Polish Championship, with Vive Targi Kielce
 2013  Polish Cup, with Vive Targi Kielce
 2013  Polish Championship, with Vive Targi Kielce
 2013  EHF Champions League, with Vive Targi Kielce

Involvement in politics, 2014–present
Wenta was a Member of the European Parliament elected in  the 2014 European elections.In European Parliament, he served on the Committee on Culture and Education and on the Committee on Development. In addition to his committee assignments, he was a member of the Parliament's delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. In 2018, he quit his membership in the European Parliament after being elected as Mayor of Kielce in 2018 Polish local

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<mask> ( ;  ;  BC) was an ancient Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey). He is known for having written the Histories – a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars. <mask> was the first writer to do systematic investigation of historical events. He is referred to as "The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero. The Histories primarily covers the lives of prominent kings and famous battles such as Marathon, Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale. His work deviates from the main topics to provide cultural, ethnographical, geographical, and historiographical background that forms an essential part of the narrative and provides readers with a wellspring of additional information. <mask> has been criticized for his inclusion of "legends and fanciful accounts" in his work.Fellow historian Thucydides accused him of making up stories for entertainment. However, <mask> explained that he reported what he "saw and [what was] told to him." A sizable portion of the Histories has since been confirmed by modern historians and archaeologists. Life
Modern scholars generally turn to <mask>'s own writing for reliable information about his life, supplemented with ancient yet much later sources, such as the Byzantine Suda, an 11th-century encyclopedia which possibly took its information from traditional accounts. Childhood
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 the revolt that eventually overthrew the tyrant. Due to recent discoveries of inscriptions at Halicarnassus dated to about Herodotus's time, we now know that the Ionic dialect was used in Halicarnassus in some official documents, so there is no need to assume (like the Suda) that he must have learned the dialect elsewhere.The Suda is the only source placing <mask> as the heroic liberator of his birthplace, casting doubt upon the veracity of the romantic account. Early travels

As Herodotus himself reveals, Halicarnassus, though a Dorian city, had ended its close relations with its Dorian neighbours after an unseemly quarrel (I, 144), and it had helped pioneer Greek trade with Egypt (II, 178). It was, therefore, an outward-looking, international-minded port within the Persian Empire, and the historian's family could well have had contacts in other countries under Persian rule, facilitating his travels and his researches. <mask>'s eyewitness accounts indicate that he traveled in Egypt in association with Athenians, probably sometime after 454 BC or possibly earlier, after an Athenian fleet had assisted the uprising against Persian rule in 460–454 BC. He probably traveled to Tyre next and then down the Euphrates to Babylon. For some reason, possibly associated with local politics, he subsequently found himself unpopular in Halicarnassus, and sometime around 447 BC, migrated to Periclean Athens – a city whose people and democratic institutions he openly admires (V, 78). Athens


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In 443 BC or shortly afterwards, he migrated to Thurium, in modern Calabria, as part of an Athenian-sponsored colony. Aristotle refers to a version of The Histories written by "Herodotus of Thurium," and some passages in the Histories have been interpreted as proof that he wrote about southern Italy from personal experience there (IV, 15,99; VI, 127). Intimate knowledge of some events in the first years of the Peloponnesian War (VI, 91; VII, 133, 233; IX, 73) indicate that he might have returned to Athens, in which case it is possible that he died there during an outbreak of the plague. Possibly he died in Macedonia instead, after obtaining the patronage of the court there; or else he died back in Thurium. There is nothing in the Histories that can be dated to later than 430 BC with any certainty, and it is generally assumed that he died not long afterwards, possibly before his sixtieth year.Author and orator
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in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father, and burst into tears during the recital. Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father, "Your son's soul yearns for knowledge." Eventually, Thucydides and Herodotus became close enough for both to be interred in Thucydides' tomb in Athens. Such at least was the opinion of Marcellinus in his Life of Thucydides. According to the Suda, he was buried in Macedonian Pella and in the agora in Thurium.Place in history
Herodotus announced the purpose and scope of his work at the beginning of his Histories:

Here are presented the results of the inquiry carried out by <mask> of Halicarnassus. The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time, and to preserve the fame of the important and remarkable achievements produced by both Greeks and non-Greeks; among the matters covered is, in particular, the cause of the hostilities between Greeks and non-Greeks. — Herodotus, The Histories (tr. R. Waterfield, 2008)

Predecessors
His record of the achievements of others was an achievement in itself, though the extent of it has been debated. Herodotus' place in history and his significance may be understood according to the traditions within which he worked. His work is the earliest Greek prose to have survived intact. However, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a literary critic of Augustan Rome, listed seven predecessors of Herodotus, describing their works as simple, unadorned


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It is on account of the many strange stories and the folk-tales he reported that his critics have branded him "The Father of Lies." Even his own contemporaries found reason to scoff at his achievement. In fact, one modern scholar has wondered if <mask> left his home in Greek Anatolia, migrating westwards to Athens and beyond, because his own countrymen had ridiculed his work, a circumstance possibly hinted at in an epitaph said to have been dedicated to <mask> at one of his three supposed resting places, Thuria:

Yet it was in Athens where his most formidable contemporary critics could be found. In 425 BC, which is about the time that <mask> is thought by many scholars to have died, the Athenian comic dramatist Aristophanes created The Acharnians, in which he blames the Peloponnesian War

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 on the abduction of some prostitutes – a mocking reference to <mask>, who reported the Persians' account of their wars with Greece, beginning with the rapes of the mythical heroines Io, Europa, Medea, and Helen. Similarly, the Athenian historian Thucydides dismissed <mask> as a "logos-writer" (story-teller).Thucydides, who had been trained in rhetoric, became the model for subsequent prose-writers as an author who seeks to appear firmly in control of his material, whereas with his frequent digressions <mask> appeared to minimize (or possibly disguise) his authorial control. Moreover, Thucydides developed a historical topic more in keeping with the Greek world-view: Focused on the context of the polis or city-state. The interplay of civilizations was more relevant to Greeks living in Anatolia, such as <mask> himself, for whom life within a foreign civilization was a recent memory. See also

Critical editions
 C. Hude (ed.) Herodoti Historiae. Tomvs prior: Libros I–IV continens. (Oxford 1908)
 C. Hude (ed.)Herodoti Historiae. Tomvs alter: Libri V–IX continens. (Oxford 1908)
 H. B. Rosén (ed.) Herodoti Historiae. Vol. I: Libros I–IV continens. (Leipzig 1987)
 H. B. Rosén (ed.)Herodoti Historiae. Vol. II: Libros V–IX continens indicibus criticis adiectis (Stuttgart 1997)
 N. G. Wilson (ed.) Herodoti Historiae. Tomvs prior: Libros I–IV continens. (Oxford 2015)
 N. G. Wilson (ed.) Herodoti Historiae.Tomvs alter: Libri V–IX continens. (Oxford 2015)

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 Henry Cary (judge), translation 1849: text Internet Archive
 George Rawlinson, translation 1858–1860. Public domain; many editions available, although Everyman Library and Wordsworth Classics editions are the most common ones still in print. George Campbell Macaulay, translation 1890, published in two volumes. London: Macmillan and Co.
 A. D. Godley 1920; revised 1926. Reprinted 1931, 1946, 1960, 1966, 1975, 1981, 1990, 1996, 1999, 2004.Available in four volumes from Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press. Printed with Greek on the left and English on the right:
 A. D. Godley Herodotus : The Persian Wars : Volume I : Books 1–2 (Cambridge, Massachusetts 1920)
 A. D. Godley Herodotus : The Persian Wars : Volume II : Books 3–4 (Cambridge, Massachusetts 1921)
 A. D. Godley Herodotus : The Persian Wars : Volume III : Books 5–7 (Cambridge, Massachusetts 1922)
 A. D. Godley Herodotus : The Persian Wars : Volume IV : Books 8–9 (Cambridge, Massachusetts 1925)
 Aubrey de Sélincourt, originally 1954; revised by John Marincola in 1996. Several editions from Penguin Books available. David Grene, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Robin Waterfield, with an Introduction and Notes by Carolyn Dewald, Oxford World Classics, 1997. Andrea L. Purvis, The Landmark Herodotus, edited by Robert B. Strassler. Pantheon, 2007.  with adequate


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 ancillary information.Walter Blanco, Herodotus: The Histories: The Complete Translation, Backgrounds, Commentaries. Edited by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013. Tom Holland, The Histories, Herodotus. Introduction and notes by Paul Cartledge. New York, Penguin, 2013. Notes

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Further reading

 Pitcher, Luke (2009).Writing Ancient History: An Introduction to Classical Historiography. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. Waters, K.H. (1985). Herodotus the Historian: His Problems, Methods and Originality. Beckenham: Croom Helm Ltd.External links

 Herodotus on the Web

 Herodotus of Halicarnassus at Livius.org

  (translation by George Campbell Macaulay, 1852–1915)

 The History of Herodotus, at The Internet Classics Archive (translation by George Rawlinson). Parallel Greek and English text of the History of Herodotus at the Internet Sacred Text Archive

 Excerpts of Sélincourt's translation

 Herodotus Histories on the Perseus Project

  The Histories of Herodotus, A.D. Godley translation with footnotes ( )

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<mask> (born May 21, 1968) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at Purdue University. <mask> also served as the head football coach at Eastern Michigan University from 2009 to 2013, compiling a record of 11–46. Playing career and education
From 1987 to 1990, <mask> played college football at the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated in 1991 with a degree in communications. In 1995, he received his master's degree in education administration from Arizona State University. Coaching career

Assistant coach (1992–2008)
<mask> has served as an assistant coach at Mt.San Antonio College, Northern Arizona University, San Diego State University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, and University of Louisville. He coached the defensive secondary at Michigan from 2003 through 2005. In February 2006, he accepted a position on the coaching staff of the NFL's Chicago Bears. However, Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr persuaded <mask> to stay on as the defensive coordinator after Jim Herrmann, who coordinated Michigan's defense from 1997 to 2005, accepted a position with the NFL's New York Jets. In the 2006 season, <mask> coached only safeties, rather than the entire defensive secondary, to allow him to concentrate more fully on his responsibilities as defensive coordinator. <mask>'s defense showed great success against most run-heavy teams in the Big Ten Conference and allowed the fewest rushing yards per game in the nation. With Carr's retirement at the end of the 2007 season, <mask>, along with all of the assistant coaches at Michigan except for running backs coach Fred Jackson, was fired by incoming head coach Rich Rodriguez.English interviewed for the head coaching vacancies at the University of Arkansas and at Michigan before accepting the defensive coordinator duties for Steve Kragthorpe at the University of Louisville. Eastern Michigan (2009–2013)
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texts: hired as head coach at Eastern Michigan in December 2008. At the time of his hiring by Eastern Michigan, he was one of six African American head coaches at Football Bowl Subdivision teams; the others (and their teams at the time) were Turner Gill (Buffalo), Kevin Sumlin (Houston), Mike Locksley (New Mexico), Randy Shannon (University of Miami), and Mike Haywood (Miami University) . Eastern Michigan compiled a 0–12 record in 2009. An article on ESPN.com ranked the Eagles the second-worst team in NCAA FBS football. The Eagles posted a 2–10 record in 2010, <mask>'s second season as head coach, losing all four non-conference games and stretching their losing streak to 18 games before winning an overtime game at Ball State and another game at Buffalo in the latter part of the season. 2011 saw the Eagles achieve their best season in 17 years.They finished the season 6–6, 4–4 in MAC play to finish in a tie for fourth place in the West Division. Despite being 6–6, the Eagles were not bowl eligible because two of their wins came against FCS teams. The 6 wins were the most wins the school had since 1995 when they also had 6 wins. Following the season, <mask> was named the Mid American Conference Coach of the Year. Following the success of the 2011 season, media outlets speculated that <mask> could be a candidate for head coaching openings at BCS schools. Based on his west coast recruiting background and Big Ten coaching experience, the schools most often mentioned were Illinois, Arizona State, and Washington State. <mask> returned to the Eagles as head coach for the 2012 season.Eastern Michigan posted a 2–10 record in 2012, with their wins coming against Army (48–38) and Western Michigan (29–23). EMU faced a difficult schedule, with 7 losses to teams that participated in a post season bowl game. Additionally, the Eagles lost to (FCS) #14 ranked Illinois State by a score of 31–14 in the second week of the season. <mask> was abruptly fired on November 8, 2013 — less than 24

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 hours before the Eagles' game against Western Michigan. Later that day, The Detroit News revealed that English had been fired after school officials obtained a tape of a tirade <mask> delivered to his team during an October team meeting. The speech was laden with expletives ("shitbird" was especially plentiful), and included at least one homophobic slur. On November 9, athletic director Heather Lyke confirmed the existence of the tape and condemned it as "wholly inappropriate" and "absolutely unacceptable."<mask> subsequently apologized, admitting that he had "lost my poise," but hoped to be able to coach again. Career after Eastern Michigan (2014–present)
In 2014, English joined the Cleveland Browns' internship program under a Bill Walsh NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship. <mask> also spent more time with his family and in church. <mask> returned to coaching on February 9, 2016 as defensive coordinator at San Jose State under <mask>. On February 2, 2017, <mask> joined Dan Mullen's staff at Mississippi State as safeties coach. Head coaching record

References

External links
 Purdue profile
 Eastern Michigan profile

1968 births
Living people
American football safeties
Arizona State Sun Devils football coaches
California Golden Bears football players
Eastern Michigan Eagles football coaches
Florida Gators football coaches
Louisville Cardinals football coaches
Michigan Wolverines football coaches
Mississippi State Bulldogs football coaches
Mt. SAC Mounties football coaches
Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football coaches
Purdue Boilermakers football coaches
San Diego State Aztecs football coaches
San Jose State Spartans football coaches
High school football coaches in California
Sportspeople from Pomona, California
Coaches of American football from California
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<mask> (, ; born 25 March 1973) is a Serbian international association football (soccer) assistant referee. In 2011, he received the highest possible FIFA Assistant Referee license. As a part of the Milorad Mažić referee team, <mask> officiated at 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, numerous matches in the UEFA Champions League, including 2018 UEFA Champions League Final, UEFA Europa League, 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, 2016 UEFA Euro in France, 2016 UEFA Super Cup, 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey, as well as number of appearances in the biggest matches organized by Football Association of Serbia, Chinese Football Association, Qatar Football Association, Saudi Arabian Football Federation, and Egyptian Football Association as Assistant Referee and Assistant Video Assistant Referee (AVAR) . <mask> was selected as The Best Assistant Referee 5 years in a row by the Football Association of Serbia and he is a holder of numerous prestigious awards for a professional football refereeing, both home and abroad. He is married and has two sons. Refereeing career
He started his referee career in 1994 and after only three years received the National Referee badge. He spent 10 years (1999-2009) in the First Serbian Division.The little-known fact is that during that time he refereed 126 games with a whistle in his hands (i.e. as a center official) and even made his debut in the Serbian Super League in 2004. In 2009 he switched to being an Assistant referee and made it to the international FIFA Assistant Referee list a short time after. He later mentioned in one of his interviews that it was the most important decision in his life. He joined the Milorad Mažić team in 2012 and together with FIFA Assistant Referee Milovan Ristić, became an indispensable team member. He praised Mažić

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 and his vision for the team and knew that they would achieve great things together as a team, not without all the hard work that comes with it. 2013 FIFA U20 World Cup Turkey
The whole team moved to the UEFA Elite category and were invited to the 2013 FIFA U20 World Cup in Turkey, where they were in charge of  two games: Columbia –Australia 1-1 (Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium, Trabzon, 22 June 2013) and Nigeria-Uruguay 1–2 at Türk Telekom Arena, Istanbul on 2 July 2013.2014 FIFA World Cup
As a part of the Mažić referee team, he refereed the Germany vs. Portugal group stage match in Salvador da Bahia, in which Pepe headbutted Thomas Muller and was sent off and Germany won 4–0. The second game between Argentina vs. Iran (1-0) was their last at this championship. There was a lot of talk in the football and referee circles about Pablo Zabaleta’s tackle on Ashkan Dejagah in Argentina’s box after the 58’ minute. This World Cup was the team's first and their greatest educational moment. 2014–2016
Having been a part of the referee team in charge of the UEFA Champions League round-of-16 return leg in March 2015 between Borussia Dortmund and Juventus, and the quarter-final first leg between Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid, they later refereed the Europa League semi-final return leg FC Dnipro vs SSC Napoli. In July 2015 the team was asked by the Egyptian FA to referee the country's biggest league Cairo derby between cross-town rivals Al Ahly and Zamalek. They were appointed in February 2016 to referee the UEFA Europa League knockout match between Manchester United and Liverpool at the Old Trafford Stadium in front of 75 180 people.UEFA Euro 2016
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 referee the Republic of Ireland vs Sweden group stage match at the Stade de France in Paris on 13 June, which ended 1–1. They refereed the match on June, 17 in group D between Spain and Turkey at the Alianz Riviera in Nice which Spain won 3–0. In the next phase of the Cup, the Serbian team was appointed to run the Round of 16 match between Hungary and Belgium at the Stadium Municipal in Toulouse, which the Belgians won 4–0. 2016 UEFA Super Cup
Fresh from officiating at UEFA EURO 2016, as a result of a great form, UEFA Referees Committee appointed Mažić, Ristić, and <mask> to officiate the most prestigious assignment of their careers (as of that year). The 2016 UEFA Super Cup between Real Madrid CF and Sevilla FC at the Lerkendal Stadium in Trondheim, Norway, that Real won 3:2 after extra time.<mask> referred to that match as one of the most demanding in his career, where the whole team had to make some big and hard decisions, like the 90th-minute goal from a “dead angle” that

Real brought to extra time. All of them had to be made without the Video Assistant Referee (it wasn't until next year when VAR was used in by UEFA).2017 FIFA Confederations Cup Final
FIFA also gave credits to this referee team with the privilege and the responsibility to officiate the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup Final between Chile and Germany, played in Saint Petersburg on 2 July 2017. This was their first final with help of the VAR, which undoubtedly helped with a moment of controversy as Gonzalo Jara was judged to have elbowed Timo Werner in the face. 2018 Champions League finals
On 26 May 2018, Mažić, Ristić and <mask> refereed the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final between Liverpool and Real Madrid in Kyiv. As an Assistant referee, <mask> had an important call - a double offside in the 43rd minute. A retired UEFA elite

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 match official referee Eduardo Iturralde González in one of his interviews on the Spanish radio commented that the call was entirely because Benzema was slightly offside and so was Cristiano Ronaldo. This game symbolized the greatest success in the team's career, as <mask> reflected on in one of his interviews. It was the result of 25 years of hard work.The referee team's performance was praised by Pierluigi Collina, the legend in the football referee circles and the head of UEFA referee committee at the time. 2018 FIFA World Cup
As a crown of the team's career, The FIFA Referees Committee has selected Milorad Mažić, Milovan Ristić, and <mask> <mask> to be in the pool of 36 referees and 63 assistant referees for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. They were in charge of games between South Korea vs Mexico 1-2 (Rostov-on-Don, June 23), Senegal vs Colombia 0-1 (Samara, June 28), and quarterfinal between Brazil and Belgium 1-2 (Kazan, July 6). They were the first candidate for the final match, but since Croatia played in the finals, FIFA tried to avoid any controversy with the Serbian referee team doing this game. Many Croatian fans and sports journalists posted on social media and in various sports news outlets that they wouldn't mind seeing Mažić, Ristić, and Đurđević in the Final and would choose them over Pitana’s team. Despite the fact that the team didn’t get to referee the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final, they were unofficially proclaimed by football fans and professionals one of the best refereeing teams of the tournament. Last games as the team (2018-2019)
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 the group stage they were in charge of PSV Eindhoven vs Inter Milan (1:2), Manchester United FC vs. Juventus FC (0:1) and FC Barcelona vs Tottenham Hotspur FC (1:1) on December 11th 2018, what was their last CL game. On February 14th, 2019 Mažić, Ristić, and Đurđević were in charge of the Round of 32 game UEFA Europa League FC Zürich vs SSC Napoli (1:3), which was their final international appearance as a team. At the beginning of 2019 Mažić continued his professional career as the Chinese Football Association (CFA) referee, while Ristić and <mask> became a part of the Saudi Professional League. VAR - Video Assistant Referee
<mask>  did around 30 games for the Saudi Professional League, some as an Assistant Referee, and some as a Video Assistant Referee (IFAB certified VAR). Since 2021 <mask> has been on the list of the FIFA VMO (Video Match Officials). As a part of the Football Association of Serbia's new implementation of video technology, he did more than ten matches as a Video Assistant Referee.Serbian Eternal Derby
<mask>  participated in 25 “Eternal Derbies” (a match between Red Star Belgrade and FK Partizan) during his 12-year career as a Serbian SuperLiga referee. It's the match that holds a special place in any Serbian football fan's, player's, and official's heart, because of the long-standing rivalry between the two teams and the difficulty to officiate it that comes with it. Referee education and humanitarian work
<mask> is actively involved in various referee mentorship and talent development programs in Serbia. Recently he initiated and spearheaded a campaign backed by the Football Association of Serbia to raise funds and help Serbian health system in the current fight against COVID-19 pandemic. References

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NJC (born <mask>, 1978, Ipswich) is a British music producer. Music career
NJC had his debut in 2003 with Dispatches  on British drum and bass label L.Plates. It was the guidance of British drum and bass don Digital aka Steve Carr (Drum and Bass producer and DJ) that gave <mask> his first opportunity to release and develop his music. Over a three-year period <mask> showcased his ability to fuse different genres like bhangra, reggae, hip hop and live music into his drum and bass productions, garnering him the support from several DJ's including Steve Lamacq, Bobby Friction  & Nihal, Digital, Storm, Bailey, DJ Flight, Zinc and Breakage to name a few. Sativa Records was formed in 2003  by YT, NJC, Digital and Gordon Mulrain who later became the fourth member of Sativa Records collective. In 2004 Clarkson & Mulrain joined together as NJC & Innerheart, and went on to produce 7 of the 13 tracks on Straight Outta Britain  the debut album of UK reggae artist YT  (Mark Hull, nicknamed Whitey). <mask> was also introduced to 'Ola' from the then Stage One Music publishing company in London.<mask> put together a sampler of several productions from various genres and sent over to Stage One Music for consideration. In the winter of 2003 he signed a 3-year publishing deal with Stage One Music. Stage One Music split and Ola founded 'The DML' (The Dance Music Library) which is part of JAL (Just Another Label) for which <mask> still writes today. At the start of 2004 <mask> was commissioned to write a theme tune for PlayStation 2 game Dog's Life. The track was used on the cover-mount DVD in Europe for Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine. The game Dog's Life was later released around the world and Nat's track

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 Deckajam, Blox, Cosha Don, The Decadent Futurists, Chris Grabiec, Voodoo Browne, Laura Bayston and Spencer Lee Horton developing music for commercial release and licensing. At the start of 2013 NJC officially launched his side project Blox, an outlet for his experimentations with the artists and musicians that pass through his studio. The debut Blox single "Crazytown" (feat. Spencer Lee Horton and Laura Bayston) was released on 11/11/13 through his own imprint Ambiel Music. After a turn of events in 2014, NJC took his career back under his own control and ramped up the output through his imprint, Ambiel Music.It was a chance meeting with Andy Lysandrou (Ice Cream Records, beat1) whilst working with Electronic band DeckaJam that he ended up becoming one of the remix artists for the newly formed beat1, a specialist radio and DJ plugging service. This is where NJC conceived his latest AKA, Carpe Diem, whilst remixing the new artists that come through the books. Along with remixing, NJC  also offered his web knowledge and app development skills to the team and soon became the main brains behind the content delivery application used by the registered DJ's. Discography

Studio albums
 Straight Outta Britain (2006, Hiptones/Sativa) Role: Producer, vocal producer, mix engineer, composer. Artist album of YT - Retail CD, Double 12" Vinyl and Digital downloads
 Real Musician (2007, Sativa Records) Role: Executive producer, producer, composer. Artist album of Bongo Chilli - Retail CD and Digital downloads
 Substance & Rhythms (2007, Unsigned) Role: Executive producer, producer, vocal producer, mix engineer. Unreleased album of British band The Marvelous
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 Music) Role: Co-producer, vocal producer, mix engineer.Debut album of Chris Grabiec
 Browne Saucery (2011, Ambiel Music) Role: Executive producer, producer, vocal producer, mix engineer, composer. Debut album of Voodoo Browne

Selected singles
 Dispatches/Feelz Good (2003, L.Plates) NJC Feat Shelley Dee. Genre: Drum and Bass. 12" Vinyl - Debut
 Shakedown/Never Too Late (2006, Unsigned) Role: Producer, vocal producer, mix engineer, engineer. Genre: Indie Rock. Limited run white label CD. Selected compilations
 Hogaya Hai Tujh Ko (Feel the Buzz) - Streets of Bollywood 2 - Feat YT (2008, Moviebox) Retail CD and Digital downloads.This single was also played by John Peel on one of his last radio shows on BBC Radio 1. Nu Steppa - DJ Digital and Nat Clarxon Remix on One Drop East (2003, EMI Australia), Double edition remix CD album. Selected remixes
 Loving You (Ole Ole Ole) (2002, Edel Records) - Brian Harvey and The Refugee Crew (NJC & Danny J) - White label
 Longtime - Salmonella Dub (2005, EMI Australia) - Sativa Records Remix Feat YT - CD
 Let's Play - Cherrybytes (2011, 100% Records/Cherrybyte) - NJC Remix - Download E.P. 24 Hours - Otis ft. Ayo Beats, Flirta D (Beat1UK) 2015
 Not Enough Carpe Diem Remix - Kit Rice (White Label - Beat1UK) 2015

Production music
 Industry (2011, Hype Music/MTV Networks) Charlie O'Neill. Role: Executive producer, producer, mix engineer, composer
 No Stoppin' Me NJC & Sun-Me | Teen Wolf Mid-Season 3 Part.2 Trailer Music (2014 Scene: Mid-Season 3 Part.2 Trailer)

References

External links
 Official website
 NJC on Discogs
  on Facebook
  on Twitter
 Ambiel Music Label
 NJC Music on YouTube

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Living people
British record producers
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texts: <mask>'<mask> (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. <mask>'s parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young <mask> learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, <mask> read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin.After university, <mask> moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, <mask> became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The

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 opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew <mask> to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, <mask> produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.At the height of his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, <mask> prosecuted the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of <mask>'s lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused <mask> to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison, he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On his release, he left immediately for France, and never returned to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.Early life

<mask> was born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin (now home of the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College), the second of three children born to an Anglo-Irish couple: Jane, née Elgee and Sir <mask>. <mask> was two years

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texts: younger than his brother, William (Willie) <mask>. <mask> was a niece (by marriage) of the novelist, playwright and clergyman Charles Maturin (1780 – 1824), who may have influenced her own literary career. She had distant Italian ancestry, and under the pseudonym "Speranza" (the Italian word for 'hope'), she wrote poetry for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848; she was a lifelong Irish nationalist. <mask> read the Young Irelanders' poetry to <mask> and Willie, inculcating a love of these poets in her sons. Her interest in the neo-classical revival showed in the paintings and busts of ancient Greece and Rome in her home. <mask> was Ireland's leading oto-ophthalmologic (ear and eye) surgeon and was knighted in 1864 for his services as medical adviser and assistant commissioner to the censuses of Ireland.He also wrote books about Irish archaeology and peasant folklore. A renowned philanthropist, his dispensary for the care of the city's poor at the rear of Trinity College Dublin, was the forerunner of the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital, now located at Adelaide Road. On his father's side <mask> was descended from a Dutchman, Colonel <mask>, who went to Ireland with King William of Orange's invading army in 1690, and numerous Anglo-Irish ancestors. On his mother's side, <mask>'s ancestors included a bricklayer from County Durham, who emigrated to Ireland sometime in the 1770s. <mask> was baptised as an infant in St. Mark's Church, Dublin, the local Church of Ireland (Anglican) church. When the church was closed, the records were moved to the nearby St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street. Davis Coakley mentions a second baptism by a

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 Catholic priest, Father Prideaux Fox, who befriended <mask>'s mother circa 1859.According to Fox's testimony in Donahoe's Magazine in 1905, <mask> would visit his chapel in Glencree, County Wicklow, for Mass and would take her sons with her. She asked Father Fox in this period to baptise her sons. Fox described it in this way:
I am not sure if she ever became a Catholic herself but it was not long before she asked me to instruct two of her children, one of them being the future erratic genius, <mask>. After a few weeks I baptized these two children, Lady <mask> herself being present on the occasion. In addition to his two full siblings, <mask> had three half siblings, who were born out of wedlock before the marriage of his father: Henry Wilson, born in 1838 to one woman, and Emily and <mask>, born in 1847 and 1849, respectively, to a second woman. Sir William acknowledged paternity of his illegitimate or "natural" children and provided for their education, arranging for them to be reared by his relatives rather than with his legitimate children in his family household with his wife. In 1855, the family moved to No.1 Merrion Square, where <mask>'s sister, Isola Francesca Emily <mask> was born 2 April 1857. She was named in tribute to Iseult of Ireland, wife of Mark of Cornwall and lover of the Cornish knight, Sir Tristan. She shared the name Francesca with her mother while Emily was the name of her maternal aunt. <mask> was very close to her and grief struck when she died at the age of nine of a febrile illness. Isola lit up their lives like "a golden ray of sunshine dancing about our home. The <mask>s' new home was larger.

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 With both his parents' success and delight in social life, the house soon became the site of a "unique medical and cultural milieu".Guests at their salon included Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and Samuel Ferguson. Until he was nine, <mask> was educated at home, where a French nursemaid and a German governess taught him their languages. He joined his brother Willie at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, which he attended from 1864 to 1871. At Portora, although he was not as popular as his older brother, <mask> impressed his peers with the humorous and inventive school stories he told. Later in life he claimed that his fellow students had regarded him as a "prodigy" for his ability to speed read, claiming that he could read two facing pages simultaneously and consume a three-volume book in half an hour, retaining enough information to give a basic account of the plot. He excelled academically, particularly in the subject of Classics, in which he ranked fourth in the school in 1869. His aptitude for giving oral translations of Greek and Latin texts won him multiple prizes, including the Carpenter Prize for Greek Testament.He was one of only three students at Portora to win a Royal School scholarship to Trinity in 1871. Until his early twenties, <mask> summered at the villa, Moytura House, which his father had built in Cong, County Mayo. There the young <mask> and his brother Willie played with George Moore. Isola died at age nine of meningitis. <mask>'s poem "Requiescat" is written to her memory:

"Tread lightly, she is nearUnder the snow
Speak gently, she

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