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<mask> (born May 6, 1986) is an American former professional basketball player. Standing at , He plays at both the point guard and shooting guard positions, with point guard being his main position. He has played professionally in Europe and China, since finishing his collegiate career with Duquesne, earning plaudits for his play and achievements, most notably while with the Spanish club Bilbao Basket and the Russian club CSKA Moscow. High school
<mask> attended and played high school basketball at Northwest Catholic High School, in West Hartford, Connecticut, and at Worcester Academy, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He won two Connecticut state championships while at Northwest Catholic High School, and spent a year at Worcester Academy prep school, for his post-grad year. While playing under head coach Mo Cassara at the second, he was recruited by NCAA Division I program Duquesne, of the Atlantic 10 Conference, in April 2005. College career
At the time when <mask> started his college basketball career at Duquesne, the school's basketball program was in the midst of one of its worst stretches ever, reaching 10 wins just twice in 11 years, in repeating losing seasons.The 2005–06 season wouldn't reverse the trend, on the contrary as the 3–24 season was the worst in the school's 92 year history. Despite this, <mask> started 21 of 27 games, and had comparatively good stats for a freshman (second on the team in assists and steals, and third in assist-to-turnover ratio in the conference). The team's head coach, Danny Nee, was fired and replaced by Ron Everhart, and he would make sweeping changes to the roster, bringing in 10 new players, whilst only keeping two from the previous team, including <mask>, after a face to face meeting between the two. In a team shook by a campus shooting (see Duquesne shooting), <mask> was a leader for the team as a sophomore. Playing in all games – starting most – he was in the conference top-10 in assists (3.8 per game) and steals (1.4 per game), whilst adding 11 points and 5 rebounds on average, as part of a team with an improved collective 10–19 record. <mask>'s junior season followed that trend, though he earned less minutes of playing time, as per Everhart's rotation policy. He led his team in minutes and assists, while also scoring in double figures and, posting 5+ rebounds 13 games during the season.With averages of 9 points per game and 4 rebounds per game, for the season. The Dukes had their first winning season since 1994. Fittingly, he reached the pinnacle of his collegiate career in his last college season. Being the only senior in a team with seven freshmen, he started in every single game, as he led the team in scoring and assists (with a school record of 194), and was second on the team in rebounding and steals. His stats also ranked in the top 5 for the whole conference, in seven different statistical categories (of which included scoring, assists, steals, and minutes), which led to him being selected to the All-A 10 first team, and the NABC All-District 4 first team, also being awarded A-10 Most Improved Player. On a team level, it was also successful season, as the Dukes had a 21–13 record in the regular season, their best since 1971, which allowed them to enter the NIT tournament. <mask> played in his last Dukes game in the first round of the NIT, against Virginia Tech, which was a befitting farewell, as he scored 46 points in the game (tied for the fourth highest single-game point total for the school), in a double overtime loss.At the end of his Duquesne college career, <mask>'s name was inscribed into the university's record books, as his 194 assists in 2009, broke Norm Nixon's previous school record. Besides that, he was also tied for 1st place in games played (having played in all of his team's games, in every season), was in 3rd place in career assists (with 505), was in 6th place in steals (169), and in 7th place in field goal percentage. Professional career
With his collegiate career over, <mask> turned his sights to the professional game and the 2009 NBA Draft, first by playing in the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament then by attending workouts with a half-dozen NBA teams, despite this he was not predicted to be drafted though he did attract attention from the Indiana Pacers. He would go undrafted in the end but did rejoin the Pacers for the NBA Summer League where, in a de facto competition with A. J. Price for the third point guard spot on the roster, Price was signed over him. Not financially interested in D-League contract offers, <mask> planned a move abroad. Antalya Büyükşehir Belediyesi (2009–2010)
<mask> moved to Antalya Büyükşehir Belediyesi of the Turkish Basketball Super League in July 2009, penning his first professional contract.For his first experience abroad he suffered from culture shock but developed his game in what he described as a physical league with hard fought games and had a good season statistically with 15,2 points, 4,9 rebounds and 4 assists per game. Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna (2010)
Antalya finished in mid-table, missing the playoffs, but <mask>'s season wasn't over as he then signed for Italian LBA side Virtus Bologna in April 2010 as a replacement for the injured Petteri Koponen to play in the playoffs. He was an instant fit for the team, starting in all games of their first round playoff run, his good performances and statistics prompting the team to offer him an extension. Bilbao Basket (2010–2012)

2010–2011 season
It was to be in vain for Virtus as <mask> signed a contract with Spanish Liga ACB team Bilbao Basket, signing a two-year deal (the second year an option) with an NBA clause in June 2010, after a summer league appearance with the Cleveland Cavaliers yielded no contract he joined the team for good. He was brought in by coach Fotios Katsikaris to replace the club's legend, Javi Salgado, with a more athletic and dynamic play-maker, a decision that earned critics from fans and observers. A frosty reception awaited <mask> in Spain, having to adapt to the competition level, considered the best national domestic league in Europe, and his dual role as facilitator and crunch time scorer, he had ups and downs before becoming the focal point of his team, leading them to 6th in the league before having a decisive role in their run to the playoff final, beating powerhouse Real Madrid in the process. Though they would lose in the final to Barcelona, <mask> played the most minutes of any player in the playoffs, also breaking the top 10 for scoring, rebounding, assists and steals and the option on his second year was taken by the Basques, with the guard motivated by the prospect of playing in the EuroLeague, the continents' premier competition.2011–2012 season
His second season in Spain was as successful, being named the fifth best point guard in the Liga ACB as he led his team to another playoff appearance though this time they lost in the first round, <mask> top scoring for Bilbao in both games. Above all he discovered the EuroLeague, among the European elite he had seesaw performances, none so evident in two back-to-back games against Real Madrid, the first a shocker with only 2 points in 20 minutes in a loss, the second a Top 16 Week 4 MVP performance, scoring 15 points with 10 assists and only 1 turnover in a 93–69 victory that allowed Bilbao to finish above Madrid in their group and reach the Quarterfinals. In the playoffs, he upped his game against future finalist CSKA Moscow, leading Bilbao in points, assists and steals to rank fifth for the playoff phase in Performance Index Rating, despite this Bilbao was overpowered by the Russians and lost the series 3–1. <mask> was out of contract at the end of the 2011–12 season and turned down a contract extension offer from Bilbao, ending his tenure there following "two marvelous years". CSKA Moscow (2012–2017)
On June 19, 2012, <mask> joined former opponents CSKA Moscow, penning a 3-year deal with perennial Russian champions, hours after they announced the return of former coach Ettore Messina who coached Real Madrid in 2010–11. He chose to sign with them instead of having another go at the NBA summer league. 2012–13 season
Transforming from a star player to a role player at the European giants, <mask> found it hard to adapt to the perfectionist Messina's coaching style and struggled with form and confidence, more so when the club brought Theo Papaloukas at his position.Little by little he improved, later playing a part in CSKA's championship victories in the Russian League and the more competitive VTB United League, earning his first silverware, though they lost to Olympiacos in the EuroLeague semifinals, as the preceding year in the final. 2013–14 season
Despite offers from other EuroLeague teams of a starting place on their roster he stayed put and was also confirmed by CSKA who had an option to terminate his contract. At the beginning of the season <mask> found himself behind Miloš Teodosić and newly arrived Jeremy Pargo in the rotation, playing most of his minutes as a shooting guard, for instance in the October exhibition game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. When Teodosić got injured in March 2014, <mask> was chosen to replace him, playing nearly 31 minutes per game in the EuroLeague quarter-finals against Panathinaikos, though he finished with only 5.4 in PIR. Teodosić reclaimed his place after healing and <mask> barely featured in the semi-final meltdown loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv, he even picked up a knee injury late in the game, which kept him out of the Red Army club's consolation come from behind title in the VTB United League. Having again seen the club fail in their EuroLeague title quest, the management decided to change the team roster, replacing Messina with Dimitrios Itoudis and Nando de Colo was signed to be the team's new shooting guard, with Teodosić's contract extended. This left one of <mask> or Pargo as surplus to requirements, amidst interest from Valencia and due to the cost of Pargo's contract, coach Itoudis voted for <mask> and it was Pargo that was released.2014–15 season
<mask> repaid that faith with a strong start to the 2014–15 season, including a stretch in December that saw him nominated for the VTB United League Monthly Award. He also had a decisive contribution in the EuroLeague victory against Anadolu Efes Istanbul in January, scoring 21 points without missing a single shot along with 4 rebounds and 4 assists to finish behind teammate De Colo in the Top 16 Round 3 MVP rankings. In a rotation system with De Colo, Teodosić and Sonny Weems occupying either the point guard, shooting guard or small forward positions, <mask> was often a substitute, however he had important contributions when called upon, for example in another EuroLeague semi-final loss to Olympiacos, where his 7 steals broke the Final Four single game record, with 9 points, 3 assists for 1 turnover and 4 fouls drawn he was the third best rated player in that game. <mask> was credited as "one of CSKA's best players down the stretch" in the VTB United League playoffs, posting 8.7 points, 6.1 assists and 1.8 steals per game whilst playing more minutes (24.5) and being seen as more effective than fellow guards De Colo and Teodosić. The Moscow club finished unbeaten in the playoffs to win the 2014–15 VTB United League as <mask> contributed 12 points and 8 assists in the final series Game 3 against Khimki. On June 19, 2015, he signed a two-year extension with CSKA Moscow. Beijing Ducks (2017–2018)
On July 6, 2017, <mask> signed a two-year contract with the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association.Houston Rockets (2018)
Near the end of the 2017–18 NBA season, <mask> would sign a contract with the Houston Rockets, replacing the position previously held by Tim Quarterman. <mask> would make his NBA debut on April 11, 2018, scoring eight points with three rebounds and an assist in an 83–96 loss to the Sacramento Kings. However, in this debut game, his last name was missing on his team jersey. Later <mask> had his debut in NBA playoffs on April 18, 2018, in a 102–82 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. On July 5, 2018, he was waived by the Rockets. Beijing Ducks (2018–2019)
Immediately after his departure from the Houston Rockets on July 5, 2018, <mask> returned to the Beijing Ducks. On November 2, 2018, <mask> recorded a triple-double after racking up 32 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a 113-118 loss to the Shanghai Sharks.On December 16th <mask> terminated his contract with Beijing. Maccabi Tel Aviv (2019–2020)
On December 16, 2019, <mask> signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier League for the rest of the season, joining as an injury cover for John DiBartolomeo and Nate Wolters. He averaged 4.3 points and 1.7 assists per game. On June 14, 2020, <mask> parted ways with the team. Player profile
A big combo guard, <mask> is a high energy player with solid athleticism and an unselfish style. On offense he's a creative slasher, who is at his best while pushing the ball at a fast pace in transition, and using his excellent body control in the lane. With his great quickness and ball handling, he can create his own shot, and is adept at getting to the basket to finish around the rim, with either hand, and often in acrobatic fashion, even through contact.He can also "quarterback" his team's offense when called upon, using his good passing and high basketball IQ to great effect. On defense he's a dynamic perimeter defender, who isn't afraid to play aggressively. At CSKA, he was used for lock-down individual defense, to try to force a turnover from the opponent. He is athletic, competitive, and not afraid of contact. It was noted in 2009, that he could improve his decision making skills, ball-handling, mid-range jump shot, and defensive fundamentals, whilst highlighting his effort and potential. His work ethic and motivation, along with expert coaching helped him correct some of those shortcomings, as evidenced by his defensive progress, which was formerly a weakness. It improved so much that he was named one of the top 10 defenders in the VTB United League, in 2015.Concurrently, observers noted a significant improvement in his offensive game, with him having a better reading of the game, complemented by better technical skills, that add more options to his offensive repertoire; be it through team plays, such as running the Triangle offense, or an improved three pointer, which was added to his still potent explosive first step. It is derived from the similarly named Greek hero that inspired <mask> in a history class. One of his tattoos, on his arm, depicts the warrior. Duquesne shooting
On September 17, 2006, <mask> and four other Duquesne teammates Sam Ashaolu, Stuart Baldonado, Shawn James and Kojo Mensah were the victims of an unprovoked shooting on the university's Pittsburgh campus. Ashaolu was shot in the head and neck, Mensah in the shoulder and arm, Baldonado through his back into his elbow, James in his left foot whilst <mask> was only grazed on the wrist by a bullet. He later carried the injured Baldonado to his car and drove him to hospital. The two shooters, William B. Holmes II and Derek Lee pleaded guilty and were sentenced to respectively up to 40 years and up to 14 years in prison, for having helped them enter a student dance whilst armed, former university student Brittany Jones was sentenced to two years of probation.An altercation started during the dance after a female acquaintance of the shooters flirted with one of the Duquesne players, the players walked away but later re-encountered the two men, who started shooting at them. <mask> was able to play the next season, the only one of the four to do so, he was a roommate and friend of Ashaolu and helped him through his rehabilitation, even having to carry him to his car and drive him to hospital after a seizure. Though Ashaolu was never able to play basketball again, he graduated in 2009 along with <mask> who earned a psychology degree. References

External links

 <mask> at acb.com
 <mask> at cskabasket.com
 <mask> at eurobasket.com
 <mask> at euroleague.net
 <mask> at legabasket.it
 <mask> at realgm.com
 <mask> at tblstat.net

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Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. players
PBC CSKA Moscow players
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<mask> (May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006) was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett. <mask> mainly played tenor saxophone, though he occasionally also played alto, the Chinese suona (which he called a musette), and clarinet. His son is saxophonist <mask>. Biography
<mask> was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended I.M. Terrell High School, and played in the school band with Ornette Coleman, Prince Lasha, and Charles Moffett. After high school, he briefly enrolled in the electrical engineering program at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama but became disillusioned with the program and returned home to Texas.In 1953, he earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial Arts from Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical University. While at Prairie View, he switched from clarinet to alto saxophone, then to tenor. After graduating, he served for two years in the U. S. Army. After his discharge from the Army, <mask> began working on a master's degree in education at the University of North Texas. While working on his degree, he taught music to fifth graders in Bastrop, Texas and worked as a freelance saxophonist at night and weekends in Austin, Texas. In 1957, he graduated in Education with a minor in Industrial Arts. While at North Texas, he did not enroll in any music classes.In 1959, he moved to San Francisco, resulting in a collaboration with clarinetist Donald Garrett. <mask> was best known for his 1968-1972 collaboration with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, with whom he had performed in his Fort Worth high school marching band. He also played in pianist Keith Jarrett's American Quartet (1971–1976). Jarrett's The Survivors' Suite was voted Jazz Album of the Year by Melody Maker in 1978. In the 1970s <mask> formed the quartet Old and New Dreams with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. They recorded four albums in the period to 1987. Redman recorded as a sideman with Paul Motian and Pat Metheny.In 1981 he performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival for the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio. He was the subject of the award-winning documentary film Dewey Time directed by Daniel Berman (2001). On February 19 and 21, 2004, he played tenor saxophone as a special guest with Jazz at Lincoln Center in a concert entitled "The Music of Ornette Coleman". Reviewing the performance, Howard Mandell wrote, "<mask>, a veteran of Coleman's bands, played on 'Ramblin' and 'Peace', demonstrating more originality, maturity and conviction than anyone else on the bandstand." <mask> died of liver failure in Brooklyn, New York, on September 2, 2006. He is buried at the Calverton National Cemetery in Calverton, Suffolk County, New York. 1 (Blue Note, 2006)

With Ornette Coleman
 New York Is Now!(OmniTone, 1997)
Don Cherry, Relativity Suite (JCOA, 1973)
Anthony Cox, Dark Metals (Polygram, 1991)
Mark Helias, Split Image (Enja, 1984)
Billy Hart, Enchance (Horizon, 1977)
Leroy Jenkins, For Players Only (JCOA, 1975)
Pat Metheny, 80/81 (ECM, 1980)
Roswell Rudd & The Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Numatik Swing Band (JCOA, 1973)
Clifford Thornton & The Jazz Composers Orchestra, The Gardens of Harlem (JCOA, 1975)
Randy Weston, The Spirits of Our Ancestors (Antilles, 1991)
Matt Wilson, As Wave Follows Wave (Palmetto, 1996)
Dane Belany, Motivations (Sahara, 1975)
John Menegon, Search Light (Maki Records 2003)

References
General references

 In Black and White. A guide to magazine articles, newspaper articles, and books concerning Black individuals and groups. Third edition, Supplement. Edited by Mary Mace Spradling. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985
 The Negro Almanac. A reference work on the Afro American. Third edition.Edited by Harry A. Ploski and Warren Marr, II. New York: Bellwether Co., 1976. Later editions published as The African-American Almanac
 The African-American Almanac. Sixth edition. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. Formerly published as The Negro Almanac
 The African American Almanac. Eighth edition.Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. Formerly published as The Negro Almanac
 The African American Almanac. Ninth edition. Detroit: Gale Group, 2003. Formerly published as The Negro Almanac
 All Music Guide to Jazz. The experts' guide to the best jazz recordings. Second edition.Edited by Michael Erlewine. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 1996
 All Music Guide to Jazz. The definitive guide to jazz music. Fourth edition. Edited by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra and Stephen Thomas Erlewine. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2002
 Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.Volume 13: September 1982 – August 1984. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1984
 Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 18: September 1992 – August 1993 New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1993
 Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.Volume 26: September 2000 – August 2001 New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 2001
 Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 29: September 2003 – August 2004. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 2004
 Contemporary Musicians. Profiles of the people in music. Volume 32. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001
 The Encyclopedia of Popular Music.Third edition. Eight volumes. Edited by Colin Larkin. London: MUZE, 1998. Grove's Dictionaries, New York, 1998
 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz. By Brian Case and Stan Britt. New York: Harmony Books, 1978
 The Negro Almanac.A reference work on the Afro-American. Fourth edition. Compiled and edited by Harry A. Ploski and James Williams. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1983
 The Negro Almanac. A reference work on the African American. Fifth edition. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989
 The New Grove Dictionary of American Music.Four volumes. Edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan Press, 1986
 The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. First edition. Two volumes. Edited by Barry Kernfeld. London: Macmillan Press, 1988
 The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music.Edited by Donald Clarke. New York: Viking Press, 1989
 Who's Who in America. 42nd edition, 1982–1983. Wilmette, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1982
 Who's Who in America. 43rd edition, 1984–1985. Wilmette, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1984
 Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Ninth edition.Edited by Laura Kuhn. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001
 The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Edited by Barry Kernfeld. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994
 The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Second edition. Three volumes. Edited by Barry Kernfeld.London: Macmillan Publishers, 2002
 ASCAP Biographical Dictionary. Fourth edition. Compiled for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers by Jaques Cattell Press. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1980
 Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians. By Eileen Southern. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982
 Biographical Dictionary of Jazz.By Charles Eugene Claghorn. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1982
 The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies. By Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler. New York: Horizon Press, 1976
 Who's Who in America. 59th edition, 2005. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 2004

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External links

"<mask>: The Sound of a Giant", at All About Jazz
"<mask>man: an Enduring Original, 1931–2006", obituary in Jazz Police magazine, by Andrea Carter
obituary at The Bad Plus blog
<mask>man obituary from All About Jazz

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American male saxophonists
American jazz alto saxophonists
American jazz clarinetists
African-American saxophonists
Free jazz saxophonists
Prairie View A&M University alumni
University of North Texas alumni
People from Fort Worth, Texas
ECM Records artists
Freedom Records artists
Impulse! Records artists
Enja Records artists
Palmetto Records artists
BYG Actuel artists
Galaxy Records artists
Avant-garde jazz saxophonists
United States Army soldiers
20th-century American musicians
20th-century saxophonists
Jazz musicians from Texas
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Old and New Dreams members
African-American military personnel
20th-century African-American musicians
21st-century African-American people

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<mask> (born 1963) is an American author, musician, programmer and teacher. Biography and work
<mask> writes speculative fiction, including the horror, science fiction, fantasy, steampunk and paranormal genres. He is best known for his short fiction. Stories of note include:
"My Muse is Dead", of which OG's Speculative Fiction said, "They say there is a very thin line between ordinary and creative. It’s just a matter of how you look at things. A great piece of writing." "Steaks", Every Day Fictions most-read story of January 2009, which led to an interview on their website His story is included in their anthology, Every Day Fiction Two."Sands", which won the Great E2 Fin de Siecle Fiction Challenge in Sept 2001. The judge noted, "What can I say? Great plot, great use of words, EVIL puns, appalling cheating. I laughed and I loved it." "Exploring", a dwarf-form poem, which was a finalist for the Science Fiction Poetry Association's 2012 annual contest

<mask> was awarded the Horror Writers Association's Silver Hammer Award for service to the organization in 2011. This was presented at the 2012 World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. His graphic novel Behind These Eyes, co-written with Peter J. Wacks, was a finalist for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards.<mask> co-wrote a cyberpunk novel based on the Interface Zero 2.0 game world with Peter J. Wacks and Josh Vogt called Solar Singularity, which was selected as a finalist for the juried International Association of Media Tie-in Writers annual Scribe award for 2018. <mask> had previously worked as one of the writers on the core rule book for Interface Zero 2.0: Full Metal Cyberpunk RPG game which was itself a finalist for the 2015 ENnie Award in the original interior art category. <mask> served in voluntary positions in the Horror Writers Association, including the Web Team, where he was in charge of setting up new users for the HWA's website, and spent two years as the HWA Chapters Chairman. <mask> attends multiple conventions every year, including the World Horror Convention, GalaxyFest, ArchonSTL, COSine, Starfest, Salt Lake Comic Con, and MileHiCon. He has participated on discussion panels with topics such as "Writing Strong Women in Speculative Fiction", "Zombies", "Are Zombies the New Black? ", "NaNoWriMo for Beginners", "The Horror of HP Lovecraft", "E-Books for Beginners", "Niche Writing", "What is SteamPunk? ", and "What Is Horror?".His current panel record for one convention (19) was set at AnomalyCon 2013 in Denver, Colorado. An avid drummer, he played in several New York bands including Prickley Heat and Raw Sewage, which received radio airtime on college radio stations in upstate New York. In 2020, <mask> was listed as an associate producer of the horror film Next Door on IMDb. <mask> is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers,  the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, Western Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction Poetry Association, the Missouri Writers Guild, the International Order of Horror Professionals, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Northern Colorado Writers, and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He currently resides in the midwestern United States with his wife, Tonya.

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<mask> (27 September 1849 – 14 June 1924) was a Belgian painter. Life

<mask> was born on 27 September 1849, in Sint-Eloois-Vijve, a village in West Flanders (Belgium), at the banks of the river Lys. Emile was the twelfth child in a family of thirteen. Father Alexander was a grocer-publican and for some time town councillor. Mother Celestine Verbauwhede came from a Brabant skipper’s family and had her hands full with her offspring. As a child, Emile already loved drawing and on Sunday went three kilometres on foot to the Academy of Waregem (the neighbouring town) to learn how to draw. He graduated from the Academy with a gold medal.Although father <mask> allowed him to take drawing classes, he did not fancy an artist's career for his son. Instead, he sent Emile as a baker’s apprentice to Lille (France). Emile learned French there but the job of a baker clearly did not appeal to him. He also worked for some time with the Belgian Railways and as a representative in the flax trade. Studies

The urge to paint did not let go of Emile and he wrote a letter for help to the famous composer and musician Peter Benoit, who lived in nearby Harelbeke and was an occasional visitor of the family. Only with some effort, Peter Benoit managed to convince father <mask> to allow his son to train at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. <mask> did have to pay for his studies himself though.After graduating, he stayed to live in Antwerp. In 1883 <mask> moved to cottage Zonneschijn ('Sunshine') in Astene, near Deinze (East Flanders, Belgium), where he stayed until his death. From his living room, he enjoyed a beautiful view across the river Lys. The space and light of the country house clearly inspired him. Artistically, <mask> soon prospered. As a celebrity, he became a friend of the family with amongst others the French sculptor Auguste Rodin and the naturalist Émile Zola, and with the Belgian novelists and poets Cyriel Buysse, <mask> Verhaeren, Pol de Mont and Maurice Maeterlinck. He travelled around the world to attend exhibitions of his work.An important person in the life of <mask> <mask> was the painter Jenny Montigny. She followed master classes at his workshop in Astene and for years travelled back and forth between Ghent and Astene. Although <mask> was 26 years older than she was, they began a relationship that would last until <mask>' death. Another of his private students was the Belgian artist Anna De Weert. She, and her husband , spent summers with him in the 1890s. The First World War interrupted <mask>' international success. He fled to London where he found a house and workshop at the banks of the river Thames.He returned in 1918. Career

From 1869 to 1874, <mask> trained at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts with, amongst others, the landscape painter Jacob Jacobs. During his training, <mask> attracted the attention of and found favour with the local upper middle class. In 1882 <mask> had completed Cock Fight in Flanders, The realistic painting portrays the dignitaries of Waregem, collected around a small arena with two fighting roosters. One of the dignitaries was the Waregem notary Eduard Dufaux. At the notary's home, Emile got to know Eduard’s niece Charlotte Dufaux. They got married in 1886.Artistically and financially, <mask> soon prospered. The Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts purchased one of his works, and The Picknick (1887), his well-known painting showing a farmer’s family watching the Sunday outing of the urban bourgeoisie on the opposite bank of a small river (the Lys), was bought by the Belgian Royal Family. Under the influence of Claude Monet, he developed a style that has been characterized as luminism. In 1904, he started the artist group Vie et Lumière ('Life and Light'). In 1918, at his return from London after World War I and with the dawn of expressionism, <mask> found his fame diminished. In 1921, he was given a last survey exhibition in Brussels, where especially his London works (about the city and the river Thames) made a positive impression on the public. Art

During his years in Antwerp, <mask> mainly painted portraits and realistic, anecdotal genre pieces.Stimulated by his friend, the author Camille Lemonnier, and influenced by the French impressionists, like Claude Monet whose works he got to know during his trips to Paris in the 1890s, <mask> gradually shifted from naturalistic realism to a very personal style of impressionism called 'luminism', because of the luminous palette he used. His paintings The Beet Harvest (1890) and The Ice Birds (1891) represent important turning points in this evolution. The Beet Harvest shows farmers harvesting sugar beets, hacking them out of the frozen field. The painting is gigantic in size and hangs at the Museum of Deinze and de Leiestreek in Deinze, Belgium. <mask> never sold it and after his death, his widow donated it to the city of Deinze on the condition they built a museum to exhibit it. The painting can now indeed be found at the Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek (museum of Deinze and the Lys area') in Deinze (Belgium). The Ice Birds (1891) shows an icy landscape with playing children.The painting was inspired by the novella of the same title by the Waregem novelist Léonce Ducatillon. The naturalistic story is set at the Keukelmeersen ('keukel meadows'), a swampy area with dips, drains, ditches and trenches near the centre of Waregem. Every winter, it got flooded and changed into a wide icy plain. At the end of the story, one of the poor hungry boys falls through the ice while trying to pull out a frozen fish, and drowns. The painting is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium). <mask> is considered to be the pioneer of Belgian luminism. In 1904, he founded the society Vie et Lumière ('life and light') and became known as the 'sun painter' and the 'painter of the Lys'.A magnificent example is his painting Cows crossing the Lys (1899), which shows a group of motley cows being herded across a small river, with sunlights reflecting off the moving water. The painting hangs in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels (Belgium). During the First World War, while in exile in London, he painted a series of views on the river Thames, known as "reflections on the Thames", in the style of Monet. They are his most traditional impressionist works. On 14 June 1924, <mask> died in Astene. His last words were: "Bloemen, bloemen, bloemen …” ('Flowers, flowers, flowers'). The day before his death, he had painted a pastel of a bouquet of flowers, sent to him by Queen Elisabeth of Belgium.<mask> is buried in his own garden in Astene and a street is named after him in Brussels. Honours
 1919 : Commander of the Order of Leopold. 1911: Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. Works
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In 2007, the paintings The Beet Harvest and The Ice Birds have been included in the cultural heritage list of the Flemish community. C. Lemonnier, <mask> <mask>, Brussels, 1908. A. Santon, <mask> <mask>, Un prince du luminisme ('A Prince of Luminism'), Brussels, 1946. F. Maret, <mask> <mask>, Antwerp, 1949.<mask> <mask>, exhibition catalogue, Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, 1974. P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 98-101. Lexicon van Westvlaamse beeldende kunstenaars ('Lexicon of West Flemish Visual Artists'), 3, Kortrijk, 1994. Le dictionnaire des peintres belges du XIVe siècle à nos jours ('Dictionary of Belgian Painters from the 14th Century to Present Day'), Brussels, 1994. J. De Smet, <mask> <mask>, exhibition catalogue, Ostend, P.M.M.K. ('Provincial Museum of Modern Art'), 1997.M. Tahon-Vanroose, De Vrienden van Scribe. De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas ('The Friends of Scribe. The European Taste of a Ghent Maecenas'), exhibition catalogue, Ghent-Antwerp, 1998. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon ('General Art Lexicon'), 19, Munich-Leipzig, 1998. J. De Smet, Sint-Martens-Latem en de Kunst aan de Leie (St Martin's Latem and the Art at the River Leie'), Tielt, 2000. J.De Smet, 'Emile <mask>', in: Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek ('National Biographical Dictionary'), p. 16, Brussels, 2002. External links

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<mask> (April 17, 1868 – December 17, 1948) was a Universalist minister who founded the Southern Industrial Institute and who was nominated by the Alabama Republican Party for Governor of Alabama in 1946. Biography

<mask> was born at Hounsfield, New York in Jefferson County. He was born on April 17, 1868, to <mask> and Freelove Stowell Bates. He was raised in Watertown, New York. He graduated from Watertown High School (New York) in 1888. He graduated with a B.S. from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York in Divinity studies in 1892.St. Lawrence University conferred him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1926. He was ordained as a Universalist Minister in 1893, was a circuit rider minister from 1893-1894, served as pastor of Sawyer Memorial Universalist Church, N.Y. City, 1895-1897, and was the founder and principal of the Southern Industrial Institute, Camp Hill, Alabama. He served as the president of its board of trustees. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and several scientific and philanthropic organizations, Mason, Knights of Pythias and a contributor on educational and economic problems of the south. In 1897, he was among the clergy with Rev. Charles H. Eaton, D.D. who dedicated the cornerstone for the Universalist Church of the Divine Paternity in Central Park, the only remaining Universalist church in Manhattan, New York.In 1898, <mask> <mask> married Mary Louise Smith. The Southern Industrial Institute

The <mask>s moved to rural Alabama to perform Universalist mission work at the First Universalist Church Of Camp Hill. The Southern Industrial Institute was opened in 1898 as a direct result of efforts by the members of The First Universalist Church. The church enticed <mask> from New York for the express purpose of founding a school for children in rural Alabama. <mask> <mask> served the school as headmaster and the Universalist church as pastor. The school was located in the village of Camp Hill, Alabama about 20 miles from Auburn, Alabama. The original purpose of the school was to provide secondary education in agricultural and vocational arts.The Southern Industrial Institute was founded at Camp Hill, Alabama on September 21, 1898. The school was a non-profit, non-denominational, co-educational institution for rural white youth. In February 1901, the Legislature of Alabama regularly incorporated the school as The Southern Industrial Institute, Inc. by special act. The bill was introduced by Thomas L. Bulger, of Dadeville, Alabama. In Russell E. Miller's history of the Universalist Church, The Larger Hope: The Second Century of the Universalist Church in America, 1870-1970, he writes extensively about <mask> and the educational endeavors of the Southern Industrial Institute. The board introduced a two-track curriculum for literary and manual/industrial, divided into elementary and secondary. In 1904-1905, there were twenty-six students in the elementary level of the literary curriculum (twelve boys and fourteen girls) and a total of forty-four at the secondary level.Thirty-two pupils were enrolled in the manual/industrial division. Expenditures that year were reported $3,600. <mask> continued to receive support from Universalist organizations and to solicit assistance. In 1905 he received a grant of $70 from the Women's National Missionary Association for a scholarship. He announced a drive in 1907 for $20,000 which the same group contributed $100. Prospects for the school brightened considerably when it became a state-approved school in 1911 and was hence eligible for several thousand dollars of public aid. In 1914, a four-year assistance grant of $3,000 annually gave much promise, but there were insufficient funds in the state treasury to pay it when due; the school, therefore, accumulated a deficit but was still able to maintain itself by rigorous economies and the continued receipt of donations from various sources.By 1920 the enrollment was nearly 140 and the school, together with the local church, continued to be a center of Universalist influence out of proportion to the size of either the town or the church; the latter remained the largest in the denomination in the entire South. <mask> supported the school with donations from philanthropists and businesses around the United States. He published The Industrial Student which catalogued the achievements of the student body and the institution from year to year. The children of several Universalist clergies, including <mask>'s daughter Mary, attended the school. A. G. Strain, a minister who spent his entire life in his native South, sent two of his children to the Institute. In 1930, the cornerstone was laid by Governor Bibb Graves for a new administration building financed by the state in recognition of the great service rendered by the school. The physical plant was simultaneously being expanded by the construction of a new gymnasium financed by alumni donations.By 1942, <mask> retired from administration of the Southern Industrial Institute. He was succeeded by an alumnus of the Southern Industrial Institute, Joseph Brackin Kirkland. Universalist Education in the South

Miller devoted a significant portion of his research to <mask>'s pragmatic relationship with evangelical minister and educator Quillen Hamilton Shinn in the formation of a Universalist Industrial Institute for the purpose of theological training in the South and the school's subsequent transformation into a non-denominational institution. The school was intended, as the first catalogue described it, "to fit young men and women for the work of life, whether in manual training or in literature and art," and there was to be no infringement on either the religious or political liberties of the students. It was further intended that "a theological department shall always be maintained for the training of young men for the work of the Universalist ministry." The school was established specifically for poor and needy whites; Shinn felt strongly that it should be a model of "rational charity" in the best and literal sense. The first official act which resulted in the establishment of the school was taken early in 1898 at the meeting of the Alabama Conference held in Friendship Church near the community of Waverly.The Conference voted at <mask>'s urging that an industrial school be at once located in the South. Until the question of a permanent location could be settled, it was decided that the town of Camp Hill, where <mask> was then preaching, would be the best temporary location. However, Miller writes that Mary Louise Smith is credited with urging <mask> to remain in Camp Hill and it was she who was at least partially responsible for the permanent location of the Southern Industrial Institute in Camp Hill. In order to attract more students from families suspicious of Universalists and to obtain greater support, several of the trustees, including <mask>, set out to make the school completely undenominational. Shinn adamantly opposed such a decision and was supported by a minority of trustees. The majority voted in 1901 to sever any official connection the school might have with the denomination. Although the school was supported by a variety of Universalist individuals and organizations, establishment was never officially authorized by the church.In fact, trustees of the General Convention refused to endorse it on the practical ground that other financial commitments and the limitation of funds made it impossible. The institution was very much the personal concern of <mask> and Shinn, and all appeals for denominational support came ultimately from them. Charles Howe's biography of Quillen Shinn does not acknowledge the controversial relationship between <mask> and Shinn although acknowledging reference to Miller's The Larger Hope. Segregation in Industrial Education

<mask> and his school's work were contemporaneous with that of the Tuskegee Institute at Tuskegee, Alabama. <mask> and Booker T. Washington shared correspondence regarding agricultural research and achievements of their respective institutions. Miller wrote that "<mask>, enthusiastic about the work on which he had embarked, attended the sessions of the annual Tuskegee Negro Conference in 1900 to learn how other industrial schools operated. He was warmly received, and was described by one of the trustees of Tuskegee as "a white Booker T.Washington." <mask> was a lifelong admirer of Washington and his work. <mask> also held in 1900 what was announced as the first of a series of annual educational conferences on the advantages of industrial education, urging public schools to add trade courses to their basically classical curricula. In 1914, during the administration of Governor Emmet O'Neal, <mask> became a member of the Southern Sociological Congress. Upon the death of Washington in 1915, <mask> penned an elegiac obituary in the Christian Register, "The Funeral of Booker T. Washington," in which he wrote that, "Booker Washington lives in the lives of thousands whom he has taught to eradicate hatred and narrowness and meanness. Booker Washington lives on in the hearts, not of only those who know the English tongue, but in the lives of those who do not know our language or its meaning. Booker Washington lives as Christ lives.Booker Washington is alive as Paul is yet alive." Nominee for Governor of Alabama

In 1946, <mask> was the Republican nominee for the Governor of Alabama. He was defeated by his Democratic opponent, James Elisha Folsom. Folsom obtained 174,962 (88.67%) votes and <mask> obtained 22,362 (11.33%) votes. Awards and Posthumous Honors

<mask> was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1926 by St. Lawrence University for his achievements in education. <mask> died on December 17, 1948 at Camp Hill. A tribute to <mask> was paid by Dr. John Murray Atwood, dean of the Theological School at St. Lawrence University.Following his death, the board of directors of the Southern Industrial Institute established a military department and the school then changed its name to Lyman Ward Military Academy in honor of its founder. At this time, the school also ended its elementary and co-educational programs. The school was the subject of Jerri Beck's book, "Their Country's Pride: The Centennial History of Lyman Ward Military Academy : 1898-1998." <mask> was survived by a daughter, Mary Celina <mask>. Further reading

The Larger Hope: The Second Century of the Universalist Church in America, 1870-1970 (Miller, Russell E., Unitarian Universalist Association, University of California 1985), , 9780933840003. <mask> <mask>, Unitarian Universalist Special Collection, Andover-Harvard Theological Library. Beck, Jerri.Their Country's Pride: The Centennial History of Lyman Ward Military Academy : 1898-1998 (The Academy, Montgomery, AL 1997). References

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<mask> (born 6 March 1988), known mononymously as <mask>, is a Swedish recording artist. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005, the second season of the Swedish Idol series. She was then signed to Sony Music, through which she released her self-titled debut album, <mask>, and follow-up, Stronger, both of which topped the Swedish Top 60 Albums Chart. In early 2008, it was announced that <mask> had parted ways with her record label, and was now signed to small independent label Roxy Recordings. Released on 28 October 2008, her third album, Dance Love Pop, reached number five in Sweden, 70 in Austria, 38 in France, 45 in Switzerland and 13 in the  United Kingdom. With 200,000 albums sold worldwide this is her most successful album, 50,000 albums were sold in France, 40,000 in Sweden. Its first two singles, "On and On" and "Release Me" became international hits, reaching the top-ten in charts worldwide."Release Me" topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs and peaked at three in the United Kingdom, selling over 900,000 copies worldwide. <mask> has cited Stevie Wonder as her inspiration and has often mentioned Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson as her inspiration in music. Early life
<mask> was born in Vänersborg, Sweden, on 6 March 1988, the youngest of four siblings. Her father was an environmental engineer and her mother a nurse and social worker. <mask> started taking violin lessons and joined a choir at a young age. She sang solo in front of a live audience for the first time whilst still at school. However, it was not until she was 16 that she first had one-on-one singing lessons.<mask> also sang in the Vänersborg choir named "Voice", citing legendary American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder as her inspiration. Career

2005–2007: "Idol" and commercial success

In the spring of 2005, a 17-year-old <mask> auditioned for the second season of popular Swedish singing competition Idol in Gothenburg, singing "Varje Gång Jag Ser Dig" by Lisa Nilsson. The four judges were all hugely impressed by the strong power of her voice and she successfully passed through to the theatre rounds of the contest. Her vocals continued to impress the judges, and she made it to the semi-finals. To the dismay of the judges however, <mask> did not get a place in the final eleven contestants through public voting, and when she again failed to grab a place through the special 'wildcard' round, they decided to pass her through to the finals as the judges' choice contestant. Despite the lack of public support earlier in the competition, <mask> went on to amaze both the judges and the public during every week of the finals, with a result of making it into the grand finale without ever falling into the bottom two or three contestants. With 57% of the one million public votes cast during the finale, she defeated Sebastian Karlsson and was crowned as the second Swedish Idol, and the first female to win the competition.Immediately after winning Idol, <mask> signed a recording contract with Sony BMG and her debut single, "Right Here Right Now (My Heart Belongs to You)" was released. A week later, the song debuted at number one on the Swedish singles chart, a position it held for six weeks. The song was quickly certified double platinum for the sale of over 40,000 copies in Sweden. Just one week later, on 19 December 2005, her highly anticipated debut album <mask> was released to positive critical reviews that praised the power of <mask>'s voice, who was still only eighteen years old. The album debuted at number one on the Swedish albums chart and was certified platinum in its first week of release, Eurovision selling almost 40,000 copies. In March 2006, whilst touring in support of her debut album, she released her second single, "Stranded". Although it received positive critical reviews, the single did not gain commercial success and stalled in the singles chart at number twenty-seven.Despite this however, her first album continued to enjoy high sales success, selling over 90,000 copies in Sweden by the time it left the Top 60 Albums chart. On 22 August 2006, only eight months after her Idol win, <mask>'s third single "Kick Back Relax" premiered on the TV-show "Sommarkrysset". The song, which would serve as the lead single from her second studio album, was released on 7 September and narrowly missed the top spot on the Swedish singles chart, peaking at number two. Her second album, Stronger was released on 11 October, less than a year after the release of her debut album. Like its predecessor, Stronger debuted at number one on the albums chart, and went on to sell over 50,000 copies in Sweden, with it later being certified platinum. One of the album's tracks, "Love Is All Around" has since been covered by numerous singers on three continents, the most notable being by Australian Idol alumni Ricki Lee Coulter, which peaked at number five in Australia and became one of that country's biggest hits in 2007. On 15 November 2006, <mask> released "Champion", the second single from Stronger, which peaked at number nineteen.In early 2007, she embarked on her second national. In December, she and her fellow Idol contestant Måns Zelmerlöw joined together for a huge Christmas campaign for clothing store MQ. In order to promote the company, they duetted on a cover of the Mariah Carey song "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which peaked at number three on the Swedish singles chart and was certified gold for the sale of 10,000 copies. 2008–2010: Dance Love Pop, departure from Sony BMG & international launch
In early 2008, it was announced that <mask> had parted ways with her record label Sony BMG, with <mask> citing "creative differences" behind the split. She then signed to independent label Roxy Recordings and on 11 August, "On and On", the first single from her upcoming third studio, was released. The song marked a change in <mask>' music style, going towards a more dance and club style, while moving away from her original pop and R&B. <mask> first performed the song live on 16 August 2008 during the Swedish TV-show "Sommarkrysset".The single spent four consecutive weeks at its peak of number 8 on the Swedish singles chart and hit the top spot on the club chart, gaining a gold certification. The same club style would be reflected on <mask>'s third studio album, Dance Love Pop, which she had written together with Swedish producer and songwriter Anders Hansson. The album was released on 28 October 2008 and debuted on the Swedish albums chart at number five with first week sales of 10,000 copies. On 24 November, "Release Me" was released as the second single from the album, peaking at number nine on the Swedish chart and being certified gold. Despite the song's success, it failed to match that of the album's first single. In October 2008 it was rumored that <mask> would compete in Melodifestivalen 2009, the competition that would decide Sweden's entrant to the Eurovision song contest. <mask> later confirmed this in an interview in the Swedish newspaper Göteborgsposten, and it was further confirmed on 2 December 2008 by SVT.The song "Love Love Love" was chosen as her official entry song. The song was written by Anders Hansson, who had previously worked with <mask> on her third studio album, co-writing almost all of the record's tracks, including the first two singles, On and On and "Release Me". Originally, it was said that <mask> was to perform "Love Love Love" as a duet with fellow Swedish singer and former A-teens member Marie Serneholt, but when it was later decided that Serneholt would be competing on her own, <mask> performed "Love Love Love" as a solo performance. On 28 February 2009, <mask> advanced to the final round of Melodifestivalen 2009 and eventually achieved 8th place with 40 points. On 28 February, she officially released "Love Love Love" as the third single from Dance Love Pop, peaking at number four on the Swedish charts. The song was included on the two-disc re-release of her third studio album, released on 1 April 2009. Following the re-release, Dance Love Pop returned to the Swedish albums chart, peaking at number 12.During <mask>' attempts to promote Melodifestivalen in the spring of 2009, "Release Me" began to receive attention from abroad, with Roxy Recordings later stating that the song would receive an international release. The move marked the first time that <mask>' music would be distributed outside Sweden. The single made its first international appearance in Denmark, where it peaked at number six selling over 25,000 copies, but most of all, "Release Me" gained massive remarks in the UK and <mask> was signed to the small independent record company 3Beat, where the song received its official UK release on 31 May 2009, proving to be a big hit, being picked up by most music channels, also with <mask> performing the song and a few others at G-A-Y, the UK's biggest gay nightclub venue and also a live performance on GMTV, one of the UK's biggest breakfast shows. Release Me hit the top of Radio 1's A-list playlist, and eventually debuted at number three in the UK Singles Chart, and continued to ride high in the top ten for many weeks. After eight weeks it managed to get a Silver certification with over 300,000 copies sold. In Ireland the song debuted at thirty-eight and later peaked at ten. "Release Me" continued to reign European charts during the summer and autumn, being released in most European countries, becoming a success in France, Belgium, Italy and Germany.<mask> made her first appearance outside of Europe in late July after being signed by Warner Music in Australia with "Release Me" as her first Australian entering the Australian chart at number eleven in its first week of release. <mask>' second international single was "On and On" which was first released in the Netherlands where it peaked at number fourteen. Later that year, "On and On" started to climb the charts in the francophone areas of Europe due to digital downloads from Dance Love Pop. It debuted at number twenty-seven in the Belgian-(Wallon) Singles Chart and after its release, peaked at seventeen. In the Belgian (Flemish) Singles Chart it peaked at eight, making it the second top-ten hit in Belgium. A new version had been recorded for the French release, called "On Se Donne", but even before it was released as a single, it peaked at number fourteen on the French Download Chart and thirty-seven in the Swiss Singles Chart. "On

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 and On" was released as the second single in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary in May 2010, and as the third single for the UK in June.In the UK the second single was "I Need You Now", which was rerecorded from the previous version on Dance Love Pop. "I Need You Now" was officially released in the UK on 16 November 2009 and peaked at forty in the UK Singles Chart. But fared better in the dance chart at 5. "I Need You Now" was then released in Sweden on 23 November 2009 as an iTunes exclusive single. Later the same week it was released to other digital markets and despite no promotion and little airplay, it entered the Swedish Singles Chart at number ten and later peaked at number eight, making it <mask>' seventh top-ten hit in Sweden. The song was also released in a few other countries such as Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Australia but failed to enter any charts. In February 2010 it was confirmed that <mask>'s third French single would be "Sometimes I Forget" and would serve as the follow-up to the massive success of "Release Me" and "On and On", which combined had sold over 160,000 copies in France.In July 2009, the major American record company Geffen Records announced that they had signed <mask> and would release "Release Me" in the U.S. on 18 August 2009. She also received a signing bonus of 1 million dollars ($1,000,000). This made <mask> the first and to date only Swedish Idol contestant to be launched in America. Before landing on Interscope/Geffen's table, three of America's biggest record companies fought over <mask> and her hit potential. In early 2010 a team consisting of 35 people that, in 2009, was assigned to make Lady Gaga the next star, started to plan <mask>' U.S. launch. <mask> made her first appearance in the U.S. on 27 August 2009 at a release party for her single "Release Me". Among the guests where the CEO of Interscope Records, Ron Fair, and he made a comment about their new signing "She has it all.She is an amazing singer, looks good, is fearless and humble." The launch of <mask> in the U.S and Canada continued during the spring 2010 and in the summer of 2010 "Release Me" was added to mainstream radio. On 19 June 2010 <mask> and Björn Skifs performed at the Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling. The song When You Tell the World You're Mine was the official wedding song, written especially for this occasion. The lyrics were written by Jörgen Elofsson, who has worked with <mask> before, and the music was written by Jörgen Elofsson & John Lundvik. As a tribute to Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland engaged Elofsson to compose a song that express what people feel when they fall in love. The song entered the Sweden Top 60 Singles at fourteen and peaked at one the week after.It did also peaked at 19 in Finland. 2011–2013: Veritas and Collection
Agnes's fourth album Veritas, was released in September 2012. The first official single was "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," which premiered on 5 August 2011 on the show Mr. Gay Sweden. The single failed to chart on the official Swedish singles chart, though through high digital sales, it peaked at three on the digital chart. This was due to low streams on Spotify, which of the official single chart consists of since 2010. On 28 May 2012 <mask> released the lead single, "One Last Time", from Veritas.The single was, unlike her previous singles, released in Sweden only. Earlier in May, the single had leaked onto the Swedish Spotify, and was later dispersed. During its first day of release, the single quickly reached the top ten iTunes chart. In an interview <mask> also said that her goal with her the album was to be involved with all the songs. Her American record company Interscope wanted her to move to the U.S. and record the album there, but <mask> didn't feel "at home" and couldn't find the people that she wanted to work with. Therefore, she decided to go back to Sweden and record her album there. In a press release from the record company <mask> commented on the album name; "I like how the word 'Veritas' sounds, how it looks and especially what it stands for.The word fits very well with the whole idea behind this album." On 31 August 2012, the song "All I Want Is You" was released as the second single in Sweden and promoted with a performance at Swedish television show Sommarkrysset. A few days before, on 29 August, American blogger Perez Hilton premiered the song together with a lyric video exclusively on his website, remarking that "<mask> Doesn't Want Much… All She Wants Is You! And all WE want it more Agnes! Seems like a fair trade to us!" <mask> has described "All I Want Is You" as feverish and ambiguous, perhaps a declaration of love, but equally a story of obsession. The song did not chart as well as her previous single "One Last Time" however, failing to reach the Swedish charts, although it did manage to peak at number nine on the official download chart.In June 2013, the third single from Veritas, "Got Me Good", remixed by Bassflow, was released. <mask> and singer Darin Zanyar both appeared as the interval act Swedish Pop Voices during the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö on May 16. In late 2013, <mask> appeared as one of the singers featured on the TV4 show Så mycket bättre. Her first greatest hits album was released on 27 December 2013, titled Collection. 2019–present: Return to music
Seven years after her last release, on 8 May 2019, <mask> revealed on her Instagram page that she would be featured on the posthumous Avicii single "Tough Love". Before his death, Avicii had sent a message to Vincent Pontare and Salem Al Fakir of Vargas & Lagola stating that he wanted the song to be a duet by a "real couple" or a couple that have worked together enough to be almost considered a "couple". "Tough Love" was described by DJ Mag as featuring Indian influences in a melodic passage that was inspired by Avicii studying the music of northwest India, which he had played for Pontare and Al Fakir before his death.Following her return to music, <mask> also founded her own record label, Senga. On 25 October 2019, <mask> released the EP Nothing Can Compare, which was preceded by the singles "Limelight" and "I Trance". The EP sampled the likes of Donna Summer and voices from the 1990 cult documentary film Paris is Burning, and was described in the media as taking a "rawer and darker" musical direction than her previous work. On 7 February 2020, <mask> released the single "Goodlife". On 21 August 2020, <mask> announced her upcoming fifth studio album, her first in eight years, and released lead single "Fingers Crossed", which she co-wrote with Vargas & Lagola. An accompanying music video was directed by SWIM CLUB, inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film The Holy Mountain and Swedish abstract artist Hilma af Klint. <mask> stated that "Fingers Crossed" was "inspired by the sense that nothing is impossible, because nothing is impossible!It's a song that can lift you up to new dimensions and like a peaceful tank it crushes everything in its way. The song does not excuse itself and I don't excuse myself. I welcome you now to my party, and it's my party so… I can do what I want to." On 21 May 2021, <mask> released the single "24 Hours". Musical style and influences
<mask> started out in Swedish Idol, and when it came to choosing the songs for the competition she had a particular taste of genres. The first song she ever sang on Swedish television was "Varje gång jag ser dig" (Each time I see you), a soul ballad with a strong love lyrics. Throughout the competition, she continued to impress with her vocals in songs like Flashdance... What a Feeling, I'm So Excited, Young Hearts Run Free, and Can't Take My Eyes Off You.Already in this early stage of her career, she cited soul-singer Stevie Wonder as her inspiration. Both her self-titled debut album and her second album consisted strongly of R&B, soul, and pop songs, continuing the path she began during her time in "Idol". But after leaving Sony Music and signing on to Roxy, she geared towards the dance and club genre, she was introduced to the songwriter and producer Anders Hansson. <mask> recalls when his name first came up for the album "They said maybe you should just meet first and see if you like each other, as opposed to just working together". They got on – so well that Hansson ended up producing an album that helped <mask> realise her vision, Dance Love and Pop together in one album "A lot of things changed for me when I started to work with this album. I really liked it, because I knew that I wanted to do something totally different to the two others. I wanted to do uptempo, disco-orientated songs and I really wanted to work with Anders because he felt the same way".When released the first single "On and On" from her third album, it immediately showed a clear change of artistic direction for her music. This was clearly observed by the critics who all homaged her new musical style. Other remarks are "The album fits the dance floor at any club. A mood trigger with bubbling enjoyment". and "<mask> once and for all gets rid of the "Idol"-dust". <mask> has often cited strong female soul singers like Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, and Janet Jackson as her inspiration in music. In an interview, she said that whenever she was home alone she would play Whitney Houston and Beyoncé's songs "at the highest volume" and sing along."Whitney's voice is so emotional, and if there's one thing I learnt from listening to her, it's that it's important to put emotion in". Personal life
<mask> is married to Vincent Pontare, whom she has been dating since 2009. On 8 February 2021, <mask> announced on her social media pages that she was tested positive for COVID-19. Discography

 <mask> (2005)
 Stronger (2006)
 Dance Love Pop (2008)
 Veritas (2012)
 Magic Still Exists (2021)

See also
List of awards and nominations received by <mask>
Swedish pop music

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Official U.S. Website
Official German Website

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Idol (Swedish TV series) winners
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English-language singers from Sweden
MTV Europe Music Award winners
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21st-century Swedish singers
Swedish women in electronic music
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<mask>  (7 October 1926 – 24 November 2014) was an Australian dancer, ballet master, artistic director, and teacher who performed in vaudeville, musicals, and ballet companies in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and Australia. He was assistant artistic director of the Scottish Ballet (1969–1974) and artistic director of the Queensland Ballet (1975–1978) and the Royal New Zealand Ballet (1981–1992). Early years
Haythorne was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the child of an English father and an Australian mother of Irish descent. Both his parents, who had met at a local dance hall, loved ballroom dancing, but they were barred from many venues in Adelaide because they dared to introduce what Haythorne jokingly referred to in an interview as "filthy foreign dances" such as the foxtrot and the quickstep. His father had brought these dance styles with him when he migrated from England to Australia. They were unknown at the time in Adelaide. Haythorne began his dance training with Jean Bedford, who taught "operatic dancing," and shortly afterward enrolled in tap dancing classes with Herbert Noye.His initial ambitions were to go into vaudeville. Even with the visits of the Ballets Russes companies to Australia in the 1930s, which was an exciting time for him, he still did not have ambitions to take up ballet seriously. When Haythorne was fourteen, he began his professional performing career with Harold Raymond's Varieties, a vaudeville troupe established initially as a concert party to entertain troops as World War II began. With Harold Raymond, he took part in comedy sketches, played his piano accordion, sang songs, and danced. His star act, which would feature again much later in his life, was his tap dancing routine on roller skates. During the last months of World War II, Haythorne joined the Royal Australian Air Force and remained in the defence forces for two years. After being discharged, he resumed his dancing career.In the late 1940s, he took ballet classes from the Adelaide teacher Joanna Priest and performed in her South Australian Ballet. However, it was seeing performances by Ballet Rambert during its Australasian tour (1947–1949) that inspired him to change direction and look to ballet as a career. Theatrical career
Haythorne left Australia in 1949, bound for the United Kingdom. In London he took ballet classes with Anna Northcote and Stanislas Idzikowski before auditioning successfully for the Metropolitan Ballet and later joining Mona Inglesby's International Ballet. But his career in England and continental Europe proved to be an eclectic one, not limited to the world of ballet. He worked on the Max Bygraves Show, danced on early British television shows, performed in musicals, including Cole Porter's Can Can, and toured to South Africa with a production of The Pajama Game. In an interview in 2000, Haythorne listed the three greatest influences on his career in England and Europe as Léonide Massine, for whom he acted as personal assistant and ballet master for Massine's company, Les Ballets Européens; Walter Gore, for whom he was ballet master of London Ballet; and Peter Darrell, who hired him as manager of Western Theatre Ballet and then as assistant artistic director of the Scottish Ballet in Glasgow.Always an Australian at heart, Haythorne began to miss his homeland and made various moves to return. He eventually went back, and, in 1975, took up the position of artistic director of the Queensland Ballet. With that company, he mounted works by a number of Australian choreographers, including Graeme Murphy, Garth Welch, Don Asker, Rex Reid, Leslie White, and Ray Cook, and he introduced the ballets of choreographers he had worked with in the United Kingdom, including Walter Gore, Jack Carter, and Peter Darrell. He also engaged the Danish dancer and teacher Hans Brenaa to stage La Sylphide and other works of August Bournonville. Despite these accomplishments in only three years on the job, Haythorne's directorship was a short one, as his contract was terminated in 1978. He was unhappy at the way this was done and thereafter always maintained that no rational explanation was ever given. After leaving the Queensland Ballet, Haythorne was founding coordinator of a tertiary dance course at Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education (now Queensland University of Technology).He remained in this role for another three years, but, after deciding that he wanted to direct a company rather than head a dance school, he accepted the position of artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 1981. His directorship of this company was a fruitful one, lasting more than a decade, until 1992. He regarded it as the happiest time of his life. During his tenure, the company staged works by major international artists. Haythorne oversaw the company's thirtieth anniversary in 1983; staged his own full-length Swan Lake; and toured the company in China, the United States, and Europe as well as in Australia. For the company's sixtieth anniversary in 2013, encapsulating his attitude to his appointment in 1981, and also his approach to directorship in general, he wrote: "I knew I had to learn much more about New Zealand and its history, familiarise myself not only with its dance world but also with its literature, music, and visual arts, while still keeping a finger on the international pulse." During his time in New Zealand, Haythorne worked closely with the New Zealand School of Dance and its teachers.He attended school auditions and became a member of the board of directors. He believed that the strength of any company was a school that would train dancers who were familiar with company style and repertoire and who had gained experience by having small parts in its productions while still students. In the 1993 New Zealand New Year Honours, Haythorne was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to ballet. Later years
On his return to Australia from New Zealand in 1993, Haythorne was always in demand. He taught dance history at the Victorian College of the Arts, in Southbank, and repertoire at the National Theatre Ballet School, in Melbourne, and was frequently invited to teach and stage ballets for schools around Australia. He returned to the stage himself on several occasions with productions by the Australian Ballet, taking cameo roles in Stanton Welch's Cinderella (1997), Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake (2002) and Nutcracker: The Story of Clara (1992, revived 2003), Ronald Hynd's Merry Widow (1975, later revived), and the joint Australian Ballet–Sydney Dance Company production of Murphy's Tivoli (2001). He is especially remembered for his role in Tivoli, in which he was cast as an old vaudeville trouper.At the age of seventy-five, Haythorne reprised his tap dancing–roller skating–skipping routine from the 1940s. For his performances in this role he received the 2001 Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer. Publications
In 1970, Haythorne published How to Be a Ballet Dancer, with illustrations by Peter Cazalet (England: Wolfe Publishing for the Dairy Industry). He was the author of articles published in Dance Australia, in Brolga: An Australian Journal about Dance, and in Choreography and Dance: An International Journal, and he was a contributor to the Royal New Zealand Ballet's sixtieth birthday publication, The Royal New Zealand Ballet at Sixty. He was also a frequent writer of letters to the editor of various dance magazines. Celebration
Haythorne died in a Melbourne hospice in November 2014 at the age of eighty-eight. A small, private funeral was held for his close friends.When his will was read, it was learned that he had requested a party celebrating his life rather than a somber memorial service with a eulogy. Accordingly, on 31 January 2015, simultaneous celebrations, linked by video, were held in the studios of the Australian Ballet in Melbourne and the Royal New Zealand Ballet in Wellington, Many members of the dance and theatre communities in both countries attended and shared affectionate anecdotes and stories. References

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<mask> (born 6 June 1976) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was an MP for Sør-Trøndelag from 2005 to 2013, and was re-elected in 2021. Since 2021, he has served as Minister of Higher Education. He also served as Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 2011 to 2013. Early and personal life
<mask> was born in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, on 6 June 1976 to farmer Peder O<mask> (born 1948) and nurse <mask> (born 1950). He is the grandson of former Prime Minister <mask>, and married to fellow MP <mask>. As of June 2009 they have two children.Political career
<mask> <mask> was a member of the Trondheim city council for three four-year terms from 1995 to 2007. He was elected MP of the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 2005, after serving as deputy MP from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 <mask> <mask> was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment, and from 2007 to 2009 the chairman of the Standing Committee on Business and Industry. <mask> <mask> was re-elected to the Storting in the 2021 election. <mask> <mask> was elected the Centre Party's first deputy leader on 19 March 2011. Minister
<mask> <mask> was appointed as Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 2011, and held the post until 2013, when Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was defeated in that year's election. Following the 2021 election, he was mentioned as a leading contender to become minister of defence.Former Chief of Defence Harald Sunde endorsed <mask> <mask> for defence minister, calling him "wise, not afraid and brave" and that he "recognised the core of cases". <mask> <mask> was instead appointed minister of higher education in Støre's Cabinet. Minister of Petroleum and Energy
<mask> <mask> became the minister of petroleum and energy on 4 March 2011, following Terje Riis-Johansen's resignation. In September 2011, he chaired an international conference with his international counterparts in Beijing, China, about carbon capture. Following concerns from a senior advisor at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate that the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy mixed their role as manager and owner of the Norwegian petroleum fortune, <mask> <mask> expressed that the ministry knew what it's role was. He stated that "here the NPD has an extremely important role. The Directorate does a good job of ensuring that resources are extracted in the best possible way.We place great emphasis on the recommendations from the directorate". The senior advisor in question had further notified the Storting and the Auditor General of Norway. <mask> <mask> said that the ministry had not been sent letters from the advisor at the time, but that they would answer any questions that could come from the Auditor General. In November 2012, <mask> <mask> presented a report about the Lofoten oil field in Svolvær. His report noted that the petroleum field could give up to 1,100 new jobs in both Vesterålen and Lofoten. <mask> <mask> met with four students and their teacher from the second year at Stangnes Upper Secondary School, at the annual conference for Norwegian Oil and Gass in late February 2013. The administrative director of Norwegian Oil and Gass, Gro Brækken, described their meeting as "cordially".After Statoil announced that they would move 1,000 jobs to low cost countries, <mask> <mask> expressed support for the move in July 2013, and said that the plans were in line with the government's wishes. However, the move caused internal harm for Labour Party and Socialist Left Party, the two other coalition partners. In September 2013, <mask> <mask> presented plans to separate the Petroleum Fund's property investments into a separate larger fund. He also expressed that the fund should be administrated from Trondheim. He told the Wall Street Journal that "We want less exposure in bonds and a heavier weighting of real estate", and also stressed that we was referring to the Centre Party, and not the red-green coalition. Minister of Higher Education
<mask> <mask> was appointed minister of higher education on 14 October 2021 in Støre's Cabinet. <mask> <mask> stated that students would not be receiving more student requirements for higher student support.He added that the government would be focusing on offering support to students with children, as they view this group as a group they want to help further. Opposition politician Henrik Asheim of the Conservative Party and Sivert Bjørnstad of the Progress Party accused the government, and specifically <mask> <mask>, for overriding the Nord University board’s decision to close down the Nesna higher education institution, which the Centre Party had campaigned on to re-establish. <mask> <mask> explained in an email: “We will now consider in more detail how we can best facilitate a higher education institution at Nesna, with primary and secondary school teacher education. We will also investigate whether we can add other study and education offers there. In addition, the goal is for Nesna to become a center for decentralized and district-oriented education and research.”

In November, <mask> <mask> announced a directive, where he ordered the Research Council of Norway to solve the issue of researches being unable to start up their projects. This included that the council won’t be given more money, and that they have to work within the budget that already is. On 18 December, <mask> <mask> and health minister Ingvild Kjerkol announced the government’s plan to open 500 new study places for nurses, which would happen by autumn 2022.<mask> <mask> said: “This is a start. We will see in the future that there will be a heavier emphasis within the disciplines we know that we as a society have great needs for”. The move was notably praised by both the Conservative and Progress parties. <mask> <mask> announced the government’s intention to hand out 170 million NOK for schools and other educational institutions to be able to follow up on their students. He stated: “The pandemic is resilient, and this winter there was more digital teaching and fewer opportunities to meet socially. The effect of the pandemic will also not be over as soon as we reopen. Therefore, the Storting has decided to allocate 170 million NOK to follow up the students academically and socially this year.The goal is that educational institutions and organizations can quickly initiate or extend additional measures to help students”. <mask> <mask> criticised the NTNU for bringing in PR consultants to work on their goal of sustainability. He expressed agreement with their goals for sustainability, but argued that communications work is not how it’s done, but rather through practical work. The NTNU principal, Curt Rice, expressed surprise for the criticism, and advised <mask> <mask> to not address such an issue to the media. He also notified the ministry of education that he was willing to give a full explanation of the NTNU’s deal with communications in their work on sustainability. Political views
Since the turning towards the left of the Centre Party in the 2000s, <mask> <mask> is regarded as being among the "centrist" wing of the party, and has been claimed to have the ambition of moving the party back towards the right. He holds many traditional Centre Party issues strongly, such as opposition to the European Union, holding that "I think that we, within the frame of the Norwegian nation state has the opportunity of building a best possible society".He also believes that too much power, funds and competence have been centralised in the area surrounding the capital, Oslo. In October 2009, he traveled to Denmark to study the asylum policies of the country. He then said that the number of asylum seekers coming to Norway was far too high, and that Norway should learn from the policies of Denmark, and generally tighten the Norwegian asylum policy. In 2010 he said it was extremely important that Norwegians discuss which values Norwegian society should be based on in the future. He stated as the basic foundations: democracy, human rights, respect for individuals and equality between sexes, and considered it dangerous to think about these values as platitudes. He also compared radical Islam to Nazism, and regarding the granting of asylum to terrorists, he questioned if one would have given asylum to extreme-right Germans after World War II when they also risked death penalties in Germany. References

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Norwegian Christians
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<mask> (13 July 1866 – 19 January 1944) was an Irish doctor who was the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She was also the first female Fellow of any of the Royal Colleges of Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. Early life
<mask>, born in Dungannon, County Tyrone, was the fifth child of the Ulster Liberal Member of Parliament <mask>. Her mother Elizabeth (née McGeagh) was ill for most of her childhood and doctors were common in the house. <mask> nursed her mother for a year after her school days. She then, with family support, decided she wanted to be a doctor. She had been educated at the Mrs Byers' Ladies Collegiate School in Belfast and went from there to London's Harold House School.Her brother James was an Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament for the borough of Dungannon from 1880 to 1885. Until the election of Mhairi Black he had been the youngest member of parliament. <mask> was the second youngest of seven children, three boys, James, John McGeagh, Thomas, and four girls, Sarah Louise, Mary, <mask>, and Edith. Education
<mask> was not allowed to attend Trinity College, Dublin, as women were not permitted. In 1887 she was accepted to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland which was just starting to accept women as students. She was the only woman medical student in her year. She managed to complete her training as she was permitted to take part in all the necessary activities in Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, the Rotunda Lying-in Hospital and the National Eye and Ear Infirmary as well as the Donnybrook Dispensary and Richmond Lunatic Asylum.<mask> achieved her licence in 1891 and her Bachelor of Medicine in 1893, the latter with first class honours. In the same year, she was elected Fellow of the college, the first in Ireland or Great Britain. It was the same year that Doctor Elizabeth Bell qualified in Queen's University in Belfast. Early career
Following her graduation <mask> was awarded a travelling scholarship by the Royal University of Ireland. She spent six months working in Vienna and Berlin. However, in Berlin she faced significant resistance about her gender with one professor claiming she had cheated to get her position on his course and that Winifred was a man's name. <mask> gained her hospital experience at a variety of institutions between 1889 and 1892 she trained at St. Patrick Dun's  Hospital.In 1894 <mask> opened her practice in her father's Dublin residence while he was MP for a constituency there, until he left the city. She then took up a position as gynaecologist for the Richmond, Whitworth and Hardwick Hospital along with her own practice which she had moved to a new location. She was also selected as the assistant master to the Coombe Lying-in Hospital from 1895 to 1898. In 1896 she completed her Doctorate in Medicine along with a Masters in Obstetrics – again achieving both with honours. She was then chosen as the examiner in midwifery in the Royal College of Surgeons. Although she was described by some colleagues as the best gynaecologist in Dublin, many of the students disliked the idea of a woman examining them on midwifery and a petition, 14 pages of signatures long, was unsuccessfully presented to the Council of Royal College of surgeons. <mask> was not purely interested in her own career and development.While in Vienna, <mask> wrote to the British Medical Journal on the importance of women doctors in the workhouses. She supported the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance. In 1895 she presented a paper on the urgency of having women as Poor Law Guardians in Ireland. Her correspondence with the British Medical Association was to ensure women had access to membership and as soon as they did, in 1892, she became a member. <mask> became a member of staff at St. Ultan's Hospital from its foundation in 1919. Family and later career
<mask> practised medicine until her marriage to the younger Scot, Robert MacGregor Martin in 1899. They had four sons and a daughter, Russell, Kenneth, Alan and Colin, and Elizabeth.Martin served in the First World War in Burma and when he did return from the war it was with severe shell shock. While he was in the Army, <mask> finally returned to medical practice, initially as the assistant medical officer at Rainhill Mental Hospital in Lancashire and then a locum in Ellesmere, Shropshire. These roles allowed her to be near the boarding school which her children attended and provide a home during their holidays. Although on her marriage she became <mask>, when working <mask> used her birth name as it was the name on her certification. Eventually she bought out the Ellesmere practice but caught the Spanish Flu in 1919 and her health was affected. She left there and purchased a practice in Wimbledon. <mask> and her husband separated and ongoing medical health issues prevented her from remaining in one location.She moved several times over the next few years each time poor health forcing her to stop work for a time. <mask>'s daughter Elizabeth was educated in Oxford where she met and married fellow student Kenneth Clark, a historian and writer best known for the BBC Television series Civilisation. Her grandsons were the military historian and Conservative MP Alan Clark and the film maker Colin Clark. Despite her health <mask> voyaged to New Zealand by sea to visit one of her sons and his two children. She returned in anticipation of the war breaking out. In 1940 she went back to Rainhill Mental Hospital in Lancashire. In a letter in 1942, <mask> observed that women's emancipation was the only global movement in which she took an interest.She was working in Rainhill and living with her son Colin in Lancashire, when she died of cancer aged 77. Her obituary appeared in the major medical journals including The Lancet and the British Medical Journal. A digital archive of papers and collections related to <mask> <mask> is available on the RCSI Digital Heritage Collections. References

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1866 births
1944 deaths
Irish women's rights activists
Irish women academics
Medical doctors from Dublin (city)
People from County Tyrone
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Irish gynaecologists
Irish general practitioners

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