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<mask> (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. Beginning his career in the early 1990s, he has made over 100 appearances in film and television. His film roles include True Romance (1993), Higher Learning (1995), Metro (1997), Cop Land (1997), Deep Blue Sea (1999), The 6th Day (2000), Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), Big Fan (2009), and The Heat (2013). On television, he headlined the Fox sitcom The War at Home (2005–2007) and was a series regular on the Fox drama Boston Public (2001–2004), the fourth season of the Fox serial drama Prison Break (2008–2009), and the Netflix comedy drama Atypical (2017–2021). Rapaport also held recurring roles on the NBC sitcoms Friends (1999) and My Name Is Earl (2007–2008) and the FX Western Justified (2014). Outside of his acting career, Rapaport directed the 2011 documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest about the eponymous hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Active on several podcasts, he is the host of the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast.Early life and education
<mask> was born in New York City, the son of June Brody, a New York radio personality, and <mask>, a radio executive who was the general manager of the All-Disco format at New York radio station WKTU Disco 92. He has a brother named <mask> and an older half-sister named Claudia Lonow (née <mask>) via his father's prior marriage. After his parents divorced, <mask>'s mother married comic Mark Lonow, who owned The Improv with Budd Friedman. <mask> grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, near 70th Street and York Avenue. He is Ashkenazi Jewish; his family is originally from Poland and Russia. Rapaport had a hard time in school. He attended Erasmus Hall High School in the 1980s but was expelled, although he went back and graduated from Martin Luther King High School in New York City.Career
In 1989, <mask> moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 19 years old to try to become a stand-up comic. <mask>'s stepfather, comic Mark Lonow, who owned The Improv with Budd Friedman, helped him get into the stand-up world. He did that for three years. His big break in acting was on the TV series China Beach. <mask> had a recurring role in My Name Is Earl as Frank, a convict Earl reunites with in prison. His character was the reason for many of the things in Earl's life, such as indirectly giving Earl his trailer and El Camino after a botched robbery with his partner, Paco. He played one of the main characters in the season four of Prison Break as Homeland Security Agent Don Self.In October 2008, <mask> announced that he was directing a documentary about hip hop act A Tribe Called Quest. The film, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, was released in 2011 and received mostly positive reviews. <mask> guest starred in the fifth season of the FX series Justified as villain Daryl Crowe Jr, kingpin of the Crowe family. On February 12, 2010, <mask> participated in the NBA All-Star Weekend's Celebrity Game and was named the MVP because of his defense on football player Terrell Owens, the MVP of the last two Celebrity Games, despite scoring just four points and having only a single rebound. On April 17, 2014, an ESPN 30 for 30 film he directed premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film was about the 1970s championship-winning New York Knicks led by Earl Monroe, Walt Frazier, and Willis Reed. <mask> is an occasional guest on the Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio, especially when he participates in the staff's fantasy football pool.Rapaport hosts the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast on the CBS Local radio network with childhood friend Gerald Moody. Other podcasts that Rapaport has appeared on include The Monday Morning Podcast with Bill Burr, Mailtime and Pardon My Take by Barstool Sports, The Adam Carolla Show, The Fighter and The Kid, Unqualified, The Bill Simmons Podcast and its predecessor, The BS Report; The Chive Podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, His & Hers Podcast, Cari Champion's Podcast, The Joey Boots Show, The Dirty Sports Podcast and more. On June 19, 2017, Rapaport announced on Twitter that he would be joining the popular sports satire website Barstool Sports where he will be a correspondent for the podcast Pardon My Take. On February 18, 2018, Rapaport was fired from Barstool Sports after making a rude comment toward their fan base. Rapaport is currently also a reporter for Fox Sports, covering the BIG3 basketball league formed by Ice Cube. He is also the narrator of the WWE 365 series on WWE Network. Personal life

In 2000, Rapaport married writer and producer Nichole Beattie.They have two sons. They divorced in 2007. In 2005, <mask> wrote an article for Jane magazine about having to evict the actress Natasha Lyonne from a property he was renting to her during a period of heavy drug use on her part. The two have since reconciled and remain friends. In 2016, <mask> married his long time girlfriend, actress Kebe Dunn. In June 2018, <mask>, while on an American Airlines flight from Houston to Los Angeles, stopped another passenger from opening an emergency door mid-flight. Harassment charges
<mask> was arrested on May 18, 1997, for harassing ex-girlfriend Lili Taylor and charged with two counts of aggravated harassment.He then pleaded guilty to the charges in court and New York Supreme Court Justice Arlene Goldberg issued a protection order to keep the actor from contacting Taylor, as well as mandating that he undergo counseling sessions. Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music videos
 1994: Frank Zappa: "Civilization, Phaze III" – Act Two, playing Moon Zappa's "boyfriend" in skits
 1998: Jay-Z: "The City is Mine"
 2002: Talib Kweli: Waiting for the DJ – cameo
 2003: High & Mighty: The Highlite Zone – "How to Rob an Actor"
 2003: Jaylib: "McNasty Filth"
 2004: Masta Ace: "A Long Hot Summer" – Ace's prison cellmate
 2006: Ludacris: "Runaway Love" – victimizer of "Lisa," the first child depicted in the song
 2008: H2O: "What Happened?" 2017: Snoop Dogg: "Lavender (Nightfall Remix)"
 2017: Sean Price: "Dead or Alive" (featuring Bernadette Price)

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References

Further reading

External links

 I Am Rapaport podcast

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20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Male actors from New York City
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
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Jewish American male actors
American male film actors
American documentary filmmakers
American stand-up comedians
American male television actors
American male video game actors
American men podcasters
American podcasters
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20th-century American comedians
21st-century American comedians
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<mask> (, born 18 March 1994) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Arminia Bielefeld and the Greece national team. Early life
<mask> was born in Piraeus to a family who came from Albania. He began playing football in the youth system of the amateur club Aetos based in Korydallos, Piraeus. Although he was firstly approached by Olympiacos scouts, and even trained with the team for two and a half months, Panathinaikos were the ones to secure his signature in June 2007 for a fee of . At Panathinaikos, he gradually established himself as a member of the starting lineup for the club's under-18 and under-21 teams. Club career

Panathinaikos
On 17 September 2011, during a Super League match against Atromitos, <mask> made his debut for Panathinaikos' men's team, coming on as a substitute after his teammate Orestis Karnezis was sent off. With that appearance, he became the youngest goalkeeper to ever play for Panathinaikos, at the age of 17 years, six months and nine days.He went on to play the following 11 matches, finishing his first season with 12 appearances. The 2012–13 season saw Panathinaikos use four different managers – Jesualdo Ferreira, the Argentine Juan Ramón Rocha, Spanish Fabri and finally Giannis Vonortas – while the club finished sixth in the league. <mask> was limited to one appearances, in a home 3–2 win against Veria. In summer 2013 he was linked with Arsenal, Inter Milan and Manchester United and it was reported a move to Napoli had broken down. The 2013–14 season proved to be <mask>'s best season at Panathinaikos. He started as regular to most of the Super League games and as a consequence was selected for the final squad of the 2014 World Cup. Mainz 05
In 2014, <mask> moved to German Bundesliga side Mainz 05 for a transfer fee of reportedly €2.2 million and signed a four-year contract until 2018.He had to compete with Loris Karius for a spot in the starting grid. He made his Bundesliga debut on 7 February 2015 at home versus Hertha BSC as a 34th minute replacement for Christian Clemens after the starting goalkeeper Loris Karius was given a red card for a foul on the last man. Olympiacos
After one year with Mainz, during which he could not establish himself, <mask> moved back to his native Greece to join Olympiacos, rivals of his former club Panathinaikos, on a three-year deal for a transfer of believed to be €2 million. He made his Greek Super League debut for Olympiacos on 21 March 2016 away to Asteras Tripolis. He was part of the starting XI of the squad in the 2015–16 Greek Football Cup season, except in the final where Olympiacos were defeated by rivals AEK Athens in an empty Olympic Stadium. On 27 July 2016, <mask> made his first European appearance with the club in the 3rd qualifying round of UEFA Champions League against the Israeli champions Hapoel Be'er Sheva He started the 2016–17 season as the indisputable first goalkeeper of the club. On 6 November 2016, he suffered a muscular injury during the second half of the 3–0 home win in the derby against Panathinaikos and was substituted by Nicola Leali.The injury would keep him on the sidelines for three to four weeks ruling him out of the Greece squad to face Belarus and Bosnia. On 19 March 2017, <mask> returned to action following his replacement Leali's mistakes in two Europa League matches against Besiktas
making saves that prevented a bigger defeat for Olympiacos in an away 1–0 derby loss against rivals Panathinaikos. He started the 2017–18 season as the undisputed first goalkeeper of the club, despite the acquisition of ex-Belgian international Silvio Proto. On 24 September 2017, <mask> was demoted to the club's U-20 squad ahead of an important UEFA Champions League game against Juventus following mistakes in the team's 3–2 Super League away loss against rivals AEK Athens after leading 0–2. This proved to be the last league game for <mask> who, after also appearing and underperforming in two Greek Cup fixtures, was put on the out-of-favour player list by Olympiacos on 4 December 2017. He was unable to find a club to continue his career after the end of the January 2018 transfer window, leading the Olympiacos board to the termination of his contract and his release on a free transfer. Nottingham Forest
On 7 February 2018, days before the end of the transfer window for unattached players, <mask> signed with EFL Championship side Nottingham Forest, under the presidency of chairman Evangelos Marinakis, on an 18-month deal.On 21 April 2018, he made his debut with the club as a starter, in a 2–1 away loss against Cardiff City. Werder Bremen
On 1 August 2018, <mask> joined Bundesliga side Werder Bremen for an undisclosed fee. According to media reports, he signed a contract until 2020 with an option of a further year while the transfer fee paid to Nottingham Forest was estimated at €300,000 which could rise up to €1 million depending on bonuses. A week later, he suffered an injury which could rule him out for three months. On 19 January 2019, he sat on the bench for the first time in a 1–0 home win against Hannover 96. On 13 April 2019, he made his debut with the club replacing the injured Jiří Pavlenka in the second half of a 2–1 Bundesliga home win game against SC Freiburg. In July 2019, Kapino agreed a contract extension with the club.On 7 March 2019, almost a year since his last appearance as a starter, <mask> was in the starting XI replacing Pavlenka, who had been injured midweek. <mask> joined 2. Bundesliga club SV Sandhausen on loan for the rest of the season in January 2021. Arminia Bielefeld
Kapino moved to Bundesliga club Arminia Bielefeld for an undisclosed fee in August 2021, having agreed a contract until 2023. On 18 December, after regular goalkeeper Stefan Ortega had to self-quarantine after testing positive to COVID-19, Kapino played in a 2-0 away victory against RB Leipzig, in his club effort to avoid relegation. International career
<mask> due to being born in Greece was eligible to represent Greece and his Albanian heritage made him eligible for Albania, and he has been a member of the Greece under-17 and under-19 teams. He is the youngest player to ever play for Greece U17, having debuted at the age of 15.On 15 November 2011, at the age of 17 years and 241 days, he made his debut for the men's national team in a friendly match against Romania, thus setting a new record for the youngest player ever to represent Greece at men's level. <mask> was member to the 23-man squad for 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil as third choice goalkeeper along with Orestis Karnezis and Panagiotis Glykos. On 4 June 2016, Kapino came on as a first half substitute for injured first choice goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis and despite conceding a late goal, produced a stunning display for his adopted country making many world class saves in Greece's 1–0 away International Friendly defeat to Australia at Stadium Australia in Sydney. On 25 March 2017, replacing injured Orestis Karnezis in a crucial 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification away match against Belgium did brilliantly throughout the game and especially at the extra time as he prevent Romelu Lukaku from scoring the winner from point-blank range  with a brilliant double save, helping Greece to save the defeat in its effort to qualify for 2018 World Cup. Career statistics

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Honours
Panathinaikos
 Greek Cup: 2013–14

Olympiacos
 Super League: 2015–16, 2016–17

Greece U19
UEFA European Under-19 Championship runner-up:2012

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Living people
Sportspeople from Piraeus
Greek people of Albanian descent
Association football goalkeepers
Greek footballers
Greece youth international footballers
Greece under-21 international footballers
Greece international footballers
Greek expatriate footballers
2014 FIFA World Cup players
Super League Greece players
English Football League players
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Panathinaikos F.C. players
1.FSV Mainz 05 players
Olympiacos F.C. players
Nottingham Forest F.C. players
SV Werder Bremen players
SV Sandhausen players
Arminia Bielefeld players
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<mask> (14 March 1947 – 17 February 2017) was an English singer-songwriter and pianist who rose to fame in the 1970s. He had two top twenty hits on the UK Singles Chart - "You're a Lady" (1972), which typifies his signature use of brass bands and choral arrangements for a nostalgic and romantic feel, and "Hold On To Love" (1975). In the 1980s, <mask> formed the band Oasis with Julian Lloyd Webber and Mary Hopkin and established a musical comedy partnership with Richard Stilgoe in cabaret. Over his career, <mask> wrote and performed music for film, television and stage, notably writing and starring in Happy Endings, a 1981 BBC anthology series of comic musical plays. <mask>'s songs have been recorded by Andy Williams, Davy Jones, Brigitte Bardot, Ringo Starr and Jack Jones, amongst others. After developing an inoperable brain tumour, <mask> was ordained as a deacon and priest of the Church of England in October 2016. He died four months later.Career
<mask> was born in Bury, Lancashire, to Margaret (née Spencer) and <mask>. He attended Derby High School  and studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After graduating with honours in 1968, <mask> struggled to make headway in a career as a concert pianist and instead focused on pursuing popular music. Answering a Melody Maker advert, <mask> joined the band The March Hare as keyboardist. This gave the classically-trained musician experience in rock and pop. The March Hare became Harlan County in 1970, but failed to achieve any success and disbanded. <mask> continued to pursue a career in pop, represented by the band's manager Johnny Stirling.This led to a record deal with Decca for recording and Warner Music for publishing, signed on 5 May 1972. <mask>'s first song to become a hit was "You're a Lady", released on 11 August 1972. The record featured <mask> accompanied by members of the Congregation, who had previously recorded the top ten hit "Softly Whispering I Love You", and the Hanwell Band. "You're a Lady" reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and number 50 in the United States Billboard Hot 100. The accompanying album You're a Lady and subsequent singles failed to chart. Success for <mask> followed three years later with "Hold On to Love" which reached number 14 on the UK chart. He also sang the theme song to the London Weekend Television series Billy Liar (1973).For three years in the 1970s he worked on BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week. A non-charting song, "Too Much I'm in Love", received radio play. In 1978, <mask> had a minor hit with the 1930s Ray Noble song "Love Is the Sweetest Thing" (which featured backing by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band), winning the Music Trades Association award for best middle of the road song. This followed his departure from Island Records after his previous album, Hard Times, had failed to chart despite a guest appearance by George Harrison. In 1981 he wrote, composed and performed in a series of musical playlets for the BBC called Happy Endings. Two years later he hosted the Private Lives television chat show. He wrote the lyrics for the song "One More Kiss, Dear" from the film Blade Runner (1982).In 1984, <mask> performed the theme song for the London Weekend Television programme Me and My Girl. In the same year, he formed a group called Oasis with cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and Mary Hopkin. The group released a self-titled album in 1984 on the Warner Bros. Records label which earned a silver record. The group performed live on television, but a planned concert tour was cancelled when Mary Hopkin became ill. In 1987, <mask> wrote and performed the theme music and song for the Yorkshire Television series Flying Lady. <mask> provided the voice of Carter Brandon in the BBC Radio adaptations of <mask>'s Uncle Mort's North Country. The show was produced by Pete Atkin.<mask> collaborated with Richard Stilgoe in cabaret and in musical comedy with comic songs such as "Joyce the Librarian". They released three live albums; A Quiet Night Out, By the Wey and Who Plays Wins. Toward the end of his career <mask> wrote pieces of sacred choral music, including "Waiting for the Word" (which was written for the BBC's Songs of Praise programme of 19 August 2001), Six Simple Carols and The Nativity Cantata written for a Hemel Hempstead choir, the Aeolian Singers. The work was first performed by them in 2004 and was later recorded. Illness and death
In October 2016, it was revealed that <mask> had developed an inoperable brain tumour and that he had fulfilled a lifelong calling to be ordained in the Church of England. Under a special faculty from the Archbishop of Canterbury, he was ordained both as a deacon and priest on 16 October 2016 by the Bishop of Truro. <mask> died as a result of the brain tumour in February 2017 at the age of 69, at Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Cornwall.He was survived by his wife Diana, two children and five grandchildren. Legacy
In 1972, the same year that "You're a Lady" was released, the song was covered in France by folk singer Hugues Aufray under the title "Vous ma lady", followed later in the year by Brigitte Bardot with Laurent Vergez in a duet version released on 3 January 1973. Davy Jones from the Monkees also recorded a version. It has been extensively covered since, by artists such as Johnny Mathis on his 1973 album Me and Mrs. Jones and Telly Savalas on his 1974 album Telly. <mask>'s other songs have been also recorded by a number of other singers, such as Andy Williams who included "Make It Easy for Me" on his 1973 album Solitaire and "My Lonely Room" on his 1975 album Andy. Ringo Starr recorded <mask>'s "Hard Times" on his 1978 album Bad Boy. In her 1985 eponymous BBC television comedy series, Victoria Wood performed an affectionate parody of <mask>'s style in a song entitled "Northern Boy", accompanied by a brass band and choir.On 17 April 2017, Tim Rice introduced an hour-long tribute for <mask> on BBC Radio 2. Since 2019, fans have crowdfunded CD reissues of Skellern's back catalogue. Two sets have been released by Mint Audio - The Complete Decca Recordings (2019) and The Complete Island and Mercury Recordings (2021). These sets feature all <mask>'s albums and singles from 1972 to 1982 except for Happy Endings. Discography

Albums
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You're a Lady, 1972
Not Without a Friend, 1974
Holding My Own, 1974
Hold On To Love, 1975
Hard Times, 1975
Kissing in the Cactus, 1977
Skellern, 1978 – UK No.48
Astaire, 1979 – UK No. 23
Still Magic, 1980
Captain Beaky and His Band (contribution to Vol. II), 1980
Happy Endings, 1981
A String of Pearls, 1982 – UK No.67
Ain't Life Something, 1984
Oasis, 1984
Who Plays Wins with Richard Stilgoe, 1985
Lovelight, 1987
Cheek to Cheek, 1993
Stardust Memories (a tribute to Bill Kenny and The Ink Spots), 1995 – UK No. 50
Sentimentally Yours, 1996
The Very Best of <mask>, 1996
By The Wey with Richard Stilgoe, 1997
A Quiet Night Out with Richard Stilgoe, 2000
You're A Lady: The Best Of <mask>, Spectrum 2014
The Complete Decca Recordings, Mint Audio 2019
The Complete Island and Mercury Recordings, Mint Audio 2021

Singles
"You're a Lady", 1972 – UK No. 3, US No. 50, AUS No 2
"Our Jackie's Getting Married", 1972
"Hold On To Love", 1975 – UK No. 14, US No. 106
"Hard Times", 1975
"Love Is the Sweetest Thing", 1978 – UK No. 60

Recordings of choral music
"So Said The Angel" on the CD Noel!(Priory PRCD 768) sung by the Bach Choir of London, 2001
The Nativity Cantata and other Christmas Music, performed by the Aeolian Singers, 2005
"So Said The Angel" on the album A Cotswold Christmas performed by the Abbey School Choir, Tewkesbury, 2006

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1947 births
2017 deaths
Church of England priests
21st-century English Anglican priests
Deaths from brain tumor
English pianists
English male singer-songwriters
Island Records artists
People from Bury, Greater Manchester
Deaths from cancer in England
Decca Records artists
British male pianists
Oasis (1980s band) members

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<mask> (c. 1588 – 1667) was a Puritan clergyman in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the minister of the First Church of Boston from its beginnings in Charlestown in 1630 until his death in 1667. He is most noted for being a minister at odds with Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy from 1636 to 1638, and for being an attending minister during the execution of Mary Dyer in 1660. Born into a prominent English family from Sudbury in Suffolk, his father was the chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and thus held a high position in the Anglican Church. <mask> was sent to school at Eton for four years, and then attended the university at King's College, Cambridge, where he received his B.A. in 1610. From there he studied law briefly, and then studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he received an M.A. in 1613.Following his ordination, he was the chaplain for some prominent families for a few years, before being installed as pastor in his home town of Sudbury. Over the next ten years he was dismissed and then reinstated on several occasions, because of his strong Puritan sentiments which contradicted the practices of the established church. As with many other Puritan divines, <mask> came to New England, and sailed with his friend <mask> and the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. He was the first minister of the settlers, who established themselves in Charlestown, but soon crossed the Charles River into Boston. <mask> was an encouragement to the early settlers during the very trying initial years of colonization. He made two return trips to England during his early days in Boston, the first time to persuade his wife to come, after she initially refused to make the trip, and the second time to transact some business. Upon his second return to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Anne Hutchinson was first exposed to his preaching, and found an unhappy difference between his theology and that of her mentor, <mask>, who was the other Boston minister.The theologically astute, sharp-minded, and outspoken Hutchinson, who had been hosting large groups of followers in her home, began to criticize <mask>, and the divide erupted into the Antinomian Controversy. Hutchinson was eventually tried and banished from the colony, as was her brother-in-law, Reverend <mask>. Following the controversy, <mask> and Cotton were able to work together to heal the divisions within the Boston church, but after Cotton's death more controversy befell Boston as the Quakers began to infiltrate the orthodox colony with their evangelists. Greatly opposed to their theology, <mask> supported the actions taken against them, and supervised the execution of his former parishioner, Mary Dyer in 1660. He died in 1667, the longest-lived of the early ministers in the Boston area, and his passing was lamented by those who knew him and worked with him, but he is also remembered for the roles he played in the persecution of those who did not embrace the Puritan orthodoxy. Early life

<mask> was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England about 1588, the son of the Reverend <mask> (1542–1615). <mask>'s father, originally of Sudbury in Suffolk, was a chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edmund Grindal.His father was also a prebend of St Paul's in London, a minister in Rochester, Kent, and a rector of the parish of Cliffe, Kent. <mask>'s mother was Isabel Woodhull, the daughter of <mask> and Elizabeth Grindal, and a niece of Archbishop Grindal. According to <mask>'s biographer, A. W. M'Clure, Archbishop Grindal favored the Puritans to the extent of his power, to the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth. <mask> was first formally educated at Eton College, where he spent four years, and at one time was chosen to speak a Latin oration during the visit of the duc de Biron, ambassador from the court of Henry IV of France. The duke then gave him a special gift of a gold coin called "three angels", worth about ten shillings. On 23 August 1605, at the age of 14, <mask> was admitted to King's College, Cambridge. While there he was initially prejudiced against the Puritans, but changed his stance after reading Richard Rogers' Seven Treatises (1604), and he subsequently traveled to Dedham to hear Rogers preach.He and other like-minded students frequently met to discuss theology, and he also regularly visited prisons to minister to the inmates. He received his B.A. from King's College in 1609/10, then studied law for a year at the Inns of Court in London. He next attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, noted for its Puritan advocacy, where he received his M.A. in 1613. While at Emmanuel, he likely formed a friendship with future New England divines, <mask> and Thomas Hooker. He was probably soon ordained as a minister in the Anglican Church, but records of this event are not extant.In 1615 <mask> visited his dying father, who had these parting words for his son: "while thou wast at the university, because thou wouldst not conform, I fain would have brought thee to some higher preferment; but I see thy conscience is very scrupulous about somethings imposed in the church. Nevertheless, I have rejoiced to see the grace and fear of God in thy heart; and seeing thou hast hitherto maintained a good conscience, and walked according to thy light, do so still. Go by the rule of God's holy word, and the Lord bless thee." <mask> preached for three years as the chaplain to several respectful families in Suffolk, one of them being the family of the Countess of Leicester. It was to her that he later dedicated his only book, Some Helps to Faith..., published in 1630. In time he was offered, and accepted, the position of minister at Sudbury, from where his family had originated. While there he met <mask>, and likely supported Winthrop's unsuccessful 1626 bid to become a member of Parliament.<mask> was suspended and then restored several times as minister, the issue being nonconformity (Puritan leanings) with the established practices of the Anglican Church. Like many Puritans, he began turning his thoughts toward New England. Massachusetts

<mask> was an early member of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and accompanied <mask>throp and the Winthrop Fleet to New England in 1630. As soon as they arrived, he, with Governor Winthrop, Thomas Dudley, and <mask>, entered into a formal and solemn covenant with each other to walk together in the fellowship of the gospel. Life was harsh in the new wilderness, and Plymouth historian Nathaniel Morton said that <mask> "bare a great share of the difficulties of these new beginnings with great cheerfulness and alacrity of spirit." <mask> was chosen the pastor of their first church in Charlestown, being installed as teacher there on 27 August 1630, and in the same month the General Court ordered that a dwelling-house should be built for him at the public expense, and the governor and Sir Richard Saltonstall were appointed to put this into effect. By the same authority it was also ordered, that <mask>'s salary, until the arrival of his wife, should be 20 pounds a year.After the Charlestown church was established, most of its members moved across the Charles River to Boston, after which services were held alternately on each side of the river, and then later only in Boston. Well before leaving England, <mask> was married to Elizabeth Mansfield, the daughter of Sir <mask>, and had at least two children born in England, but his wife had initially refused to come to New England with him. Her refusal was the subject of several letters sent from <mask>'s wife, Margaret, to her son <mask> Jr., in May 1631. <mask> then made a trip back to England from 1631 to 1632. Though his biographer, in 1870, stated that she still did not come back to New England with <mask> until 1635, Anderson in 1995 pointed out that the couple had a child baptized in Boston in 1633; therefore she had to have come with <mask> during this earlier trip. On 2 July 1632 <mask> was admitted as a freeman of the colony, and later the same month the first meeting house was built in Boston. For this and <mask>'s parsonage, the congregation made a voluntary contribution of 120 pounds.On 25 October 1632 <mask>, with Governor Winthrop and a few other men, set out on a friendly visit to Plymouth where they were hospitably received. They held a worship service on the Sabbath, and that same afternoon they met again, and engaged in a discussion centered around a question posed by the Plymouth teacher, Roger Williams. William Bradford, the Plymouth governor, and William Brewster, the ruling elder, spoke, after which Governor Winthrop and <mask> were invited to speak. The Boston men returned the following Wednesday, with Winthrop riding Governor Bradford's horse. On 23 November, <mask>, who had previously been ordained teacher, was installed as minister of the First Church of Boston. In 1633 the church at Boston received another minister, when <mask> arrived and was installed as teacher. In November 1633 <mask> made one of his many visits outside Boston, and went to Agawam (later Ipswich), since the settlers there did not yet have a minister.He also visited the natives, tending to their sick, and instructing others who were capable of understanding him. In this regard he became the first Protestant missionary to the North American native people, a work later to be carried on with much success by Reverend <mask>. Closer to home, <mask> sometimes led groups of Christians, including magistrates and other ministers, to the church lectures in nearby towns, sharing his "heavenly discourse" during the trip. In late 1634, <mask> made his final trip to England, leaving the ministry of the Boston Church in the hands of his co-pastor, <mask>, and traveling with <mask> Jr. While returning to England he had a harrowing experience off the coast of Ireland during some violent winter weather, and though other ships perished, his landed. During his journey across Ireland and England, <mask> was able to minister to many people, and tell them about New England. In his journal, <mask> noted that while in Ireland, <mask> "gave much satisfaction to the Christians there about New England."Leaving England for the final time on 10 August 1635, <mask> arrived back in New England on the third of October. Soon after his return, M'Clure writes, "the Antinomian Controversy broke out and raged for two...years and with a fury that threatened the destruction of his church." Antinomian Controversy

<mask> first became acquainted with Anne Hutchinson when in 1634, as the minister of the Boston Church, he was notified of some heterodox views that she revealed while en route to New England on the ship Griffin. A minister aboard the ship was questioned by her in such a way as to cause him some alarm, and word was sent to <mask>. In conference with his co-minister in Boston, the Reverend <mask>, Hutchinson was examined, and deemed suitable for church membership, though admitted a week later than her husband because of initial uncertainty. When <mask> returned from his England trip in 1635, he was accompanied aboard the ship Abigail by two other people who would play a role in the religious controversy to come. One of these was the Reverend Hugh Peter, who became the minister in Salem, and the other was a young aristocrat, Henry Vane, who soon became the governor of the colony.In the pulpit, <mask> was said to have a voice that was harsh and indistinct and his demeanor was directed at strict discipline, but he had a penchant for rhymes, and would frequently engage in word play. He was unpopular during his early days of preaching in Boston, partly attributable to his strictness in teaching, and partly from his violent and arbitrary manner. His gruff style was further highlighted by the mild qualities of <mask>, with whom he shared the church's ministry. When <mask> returned to Boston in 1635, Hutchinson was exposed to his teaching for the first time, and immediately saw a big difference between her own doctrines and his. She found his emphasis on morality, and his doctrine of "evidencing justification by sanctification" (a covenant of works) to be repugnant, and she told her followers that <mask> lacked "the seal of the Spirit." <mask>'s doctrines were shared with all of the other ministers in the colony, except for Cotton, and the Boston congregation had grown accustomed to Cotton's lack of emphasis on preparation "in favor of stressing the inevitability of God's will." The positions of Cotton and <mask> were matters of emphasis, and neither minister believed that works could help to save a person.It is likely that most members of the Boston church could not see much difference between the doctrines of the two men, but the astute Hutchinson could, prompting her to criticize <mask> at her home gatherings. Probably in early 1636 he became aware of divisions within his own Boston congregation, and soon came to realize that Hutchinson's views were widely divergent from those of the orthodox clergy in the colony. <mask> said nothing of his discovery, but instead preached his covenant of works even more vehemently. As soon as Winthrop became aware of what was happening, he made an entry in his journal about Hutchinson, who did "meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger." He also noted the 1636 arrival in the colony of Hutchinson's in-law who became an ally in religious opinion: "There joined with her in these opinions a brother of hers, one Mr. Wheelwright, a silenced minister sometimes in England." Meetings of the ministers

In October 1636 the ministers, realizing that a theological tempest was forming in the colony, decided to get to the heart of the issue, and held a series of meetings, which also included Hutchinson and some of the magistrates. In order to deal with the theological errors of the Hutchinson group, the ministers first had to come to a consensus about their own positions, and this they were unable to do.Hutchinson's followers used this impasse to attempt to have Wheelwright appointed as another minister to the Boston church, an expression of their dissatisfaction with <mask>. Winthrop came to <mask>'s rescue, as an elder in the church, by invoking a ruling requiring unanimity in a church vote, and was thus able to forestall Wheelwright's appointment there. Instead, Wheelwright was sent about ten miles south to Mount Wollaston to preach. As the meetings continued into December 1636, the theological debate escalated. <mask> delivered "a very sad speech of the condition of our churches," insinuating that Cotton, his fellow Boston minister, was partly responsible for the dissension. <mask>'s speech was moved to represent the sense of the meeting, and was approved by all of the ministers and magistrates present with the notable exceptions of Governor Vane, Reverend Cotton, Reverend Wheelwright, and two strong supporters of Hutchinson, William Coddington and Richard Dummer. Cotton, normally of a very placid disposition, was indignant over the proceedings and lead a delegation to admonish <mask> for his uncharitable insinuations.On Saturday, 31 December 1636, the Boston congregants met to prefer charges against <mask>. Governor Vane launched the attack, and was joined by other members of the congregation. <mask> met the onslaught with a quiet dignity, and responded

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 soberly to each of the accusations brought against him. The crowd refused to accept his excuses, and demanded a vote of censure. At this point Cotton intervened, and with more restraint than his parishioners, offered that without unanimity a vote of censure was out of order. While the ultimate indignity of censure was averted, Cotton nevertheless gave a grave exhortation to his colleague to allay the temper of the congregants. The next day <mask> preached such a conciliatory sermon that even Governor Vane rose and voiced his approval."Dung cast on their faces"

The Boston congregants, followers of Hutchinson, were now emboldened to seize the offensive and discredit the orthodox doctrines at services throughout the colony. The saddened Winthrop lamented, "Now the faithfull Ministers of Christ must have dung cast on their faces, and be not better than legall Preachers." As Hutchinson's followers attacked ministers with questions calculated to diminish confidence in their teachings, Winthrop continued his lament, "so many objections made by the opinionists...against our doctrine delivered, if it suited not their new fancies." When <mask> rose to preach or pray, the Hutchinsonians boldly rose and walked out of the meeting house. While <mask> was the favorite butt of this abuse, it was not restricted just to the Boston church, and similar gestures were being made toward the other ministers who preached a covenant of works. In hopes of bringing the mounting crisis under control, the General Court called for a day of fasting and repentance to be held on Thursday, 19 January 1637. During the Boston church service held that day, Cotton invited Wheelwright to come forward and deliver a sermon.Instead of the hoped-for peace, the opposite transpired. In the sermon Wheelwright stated that those who taught a covenant of works were Antichrists, and all the ministers besides Cotton saw this as being directed at them, though Wheelwright later denied this. During a meeting of the General Court in March Wheelwright was questioned at length, and ultimately charged with sedition, though not sentenced. Election of May 1637

The religious division had by now become a political issue, resulting in great excitement during the elections of May 1637. The orthodox party of the majority of magistrates and ministers maneuvered to have the elections moved from Boston to Newtown (later Cambridge) where the Hutchinsonians would have less support. The Boston supporters of Hutchinson wanted a petition to be read before the election, but the orthodox party insisted on holding the election first. Tempers flared, and bitter words gave way to blows as zealots on both sides clamored to have their opinions heard.During the excitement, <mask> was lifted up into a tree, and he bellowed to the crowd below, imploring them to look at their charter, to which a cry went out for the election to take place. The crowd then divided, with a majority going to one end of the common to hold the election, leaving the Boston faction in the minority by themselves. Seeing the futility of resisting further, the Boston group joined in the election. The election was a sweeping victory for the orthodox party, with Henry Vane replaced by Winthrop as governor, and Hutchinson supporters William Coddington and Richard Dummer losing their positions as magistrates. Soon after the election, <mask> volunteered to be the minister of a military unit that went to Connecticut to settle the conflict with the Pequot Indians. When he returned to Boston on 5 August, two days after Vane boarded a ship for England, never to return, <mask> was summoned to take part in a synod of all the colony's ministers. Many theological issues needed to be put to rest, and new issues that arose during the course of the controversy had to be dealt with.Trials of Hutchinson

By late 1637, the conclusion of the controversy was beginning to take shape. During the court held in early November, Wheelwright was finally sentenced to banishment, the delay caused by the hopes that he would, at some point, recant. On 7 November the trial of Anne Hutchinson began, and <mask> was there with most of the other ministers in the colony, though his role was somewhat restrained. During the second day of the trial, when things seemed to be going in her favor, Hutchinson insisted on making a statement, admitting that her knowledge of things had come from a divine inspiration, prophesying her deliverance from the proceedings, and announcing that a curse would befall the colony. This was all that her judges needed to hear, and she was accused of heresy and sentenced to banishment, though she would be held in detention for four months, awaiting a trial by the clergy. While no statements made by <mask> were recorded in either existing transcript of this trial, <mask> did make a speech against Hutchinson at the end of the proceedings, to which Hutchinson responded with anger four months later during her church trial. Her church trial took place at the Boston meeting house on two consecutive Thursdays in March 1638.Hutchinson was accused of numerous theological errors of which only four were covered during the first day, so the trial was scheduled to continue the following week, when <mask> took an active part in the proceedings. During this second day of interrogation a week later, Hutchinson read a carefully written recantation of her theological errors. Had the trial ended there, she would have likely remained in communion with the church, with the possibility of even returning there some day. <mask>, however, did not accept this recantation, and he re-opened a line of questioning from the previous week. With this, a new onslaught began, and when later given the opportunity, <mask> said, "[The root of]... your errors...is the slightinge of Gods faythfull Ministers and contenminge and cryinge down them as Nobodies." Hugh Peter chimed in, followed by Thomas Shepard, and then <mask> spoke again, "I cannot but reverence and adore the wise hand of God...in leavinge our sister to pride and Lyinge." Then <mask> made his statement, and <mask> resumed, "Consider how we cane...longer suffer her to goe on still in seducinge to seduce, and in deacevinge to deaceve, and in lyinge to lye!"As the battering continued, even Cotton chided her, and while concerns from the congregation brought pause to the ministers, the momentum still remained with them. When the final points of order were addressed, it was left to <mask> to deliver the final blow: "The Church consentinge to it we will proced to excommunication." He then continued, "Forasmuch as you, Mrs. Hutchinson, have highly transgressed and offended...and troubled the Church with your Errors and have drawen away many a poor soule, and have upheld your Revelations; and forasmuch as you have made a Lye...Therefor in the name of our Lord Je[sus] Ch[rist]...I doe cast you out and...deliver you up to Sathan...and account you from this time forth to be a Hethen and a Publican...I command you in the name of Ch[rist] Je[sus] and of this Church as a Leper to withdraw your selfe out of the Congregation." Later years

Hutchinson left the colony within a week of her excommunication, and following this conclusion of the Antinomian Controversy, <mask> worked with Cotton to reunite the Boston church. Following Cotton's death in 1652, his position was filled, following four years of campaigning, by <mask> from Ipswich. Norton held this position until his death in 1663. <mask> was an early advocate of the conversion of Indians to Christianity, and acted on this belief by taking the orphaned son of Wonohaquaham, a local sagamore into his home to educate.In 1647 he visited the "praying Indians" of Nonantum, and noticed that they had built a house of worship that <mask> described as appearing "like the workmanship of an English housewright." During the 1650s and 1660s, in order to boost declining membership in the Boston church, <mask> supported a ruling known as the Half-Way Covenant, allowing parishioners to be brought into the church without having had a conversion experience. In 1656, <mask> and <mask> were the two ministers of the Boston church when the widow Ann Hibbins was convicted of witchcraft by the General Court and executed in Boston. Hibbins' husband died in 1654, and the unhappy widow was first tried the next year following complaints of her neighbors about her behavior. Details of the event are lacking, because the great Boston journalist, <mask> was dead, and the next generations of note takers, Increase Mather and Cotton Mather had not yet emerged. A 1684 letter, however, survives, written by a Reverend Beach in Jamaica to Increase Mather in New England. In the letter Beach stated that he, <mask> and others were guests at Norton's table when Norton made the statement that the only reason Hibbins was executed was because she had more wit than her neighbors, thus implying her innocence.The sentiments of <mask> are not specifically expressed in the letter, though several writers have inferred that his sentiments were the same as Norton's. Execution of Mary Dyer

In the 1650s Quaker missionaries began filtering into the Massachusetts Bay Colony, mostly from Rhode Island, creating alarm among the colony's magistrates and ministers, including <mask>. In 1870, M'Clure wrote that <mask> "blended an intense love of truth with as intense a hatred of error", referring to the Quakers' marked diversion from Puritan orthodoxy. On 27 October 1659 three Quakers—Marmaduke Stevenson, William Robinson and Mary Dyer—were led to the Boston gallows from the prison where they had been recently held for their Quaker evangelism, against which Massachusetts had enacted very strict laws. <mask>, now nearly 70, as pastor of the Boston church was on hand as the supervising minister. As the two Quaker men first approached the gallows, wearing hats, <mask> said to Robinson, "Shall such jacks as you come in before authority with your hats on?" Ignoring the barb, Robinson then let forth a barrage of words, to which <mask> angrily responded, "Hold thy tongue, be silent; thou art going to die with a lie in your mouth."The two Quaker men were then hanged, after which it was Dyer's turn to ascend the ladder. As the noose was fastened about her neck, and her face covered, a young man came running and shouting, wielding a document which he waved before the authorities. Governor Endecott had stayed her execution. After the two executions had taken place, <mask> was said to have written a ballad about the event, which was sung by young men around Boston. Not willing to let public sentiment over the executions subside, Dyer knew that she had to go through with her martyrdom. After the winter she returned to the Bay Colony in May 1660, and was immediately arrested. On the 31st of the month she was brought before Endecott, who questioned her briefly, and then pronounced her execution for the following day.On 1 June, Dyer was once again led to the gallows, and while standing at the hanging tree for the final time, <mask>, who had received her into the Boston church 24 years earlier and had baptized her son Samuel, called to her. His words were, "Mary Dyer, O repent, O repent, and be not so deluded and carried away by deceit of the devil." Her reply was, "Nay, man, I am not now to repent." With these final words, the ladder was kicked away, and she died when her neck snapped. Death and legacy

<mask>'s final years were marked by a prolonged illness. In his will, dated 31 May 1667, <mask> remembered a large number of people, among them being several of the local ministers, including Richard Mather of Dorchester and Thomas Shepard Jr. of Charlestown. He died on 7 August 1667, and his son-in-law Samuel Danforth wrote, "About two of the clock in the morning, my honored Father, Mr. <mask>, Pastor to the church of Boston, aged about 78 years and an half, a man eminent in faith, love, humility, self-denial, prayer, sound[n]ess of mind, zeal for God, liberality to all men, esp[ecial]ly to the s[ain]ts & ministers of Christ, rested from his labors & sorrows, beloved & lamented of all, and very honorably interred the day following."His funeral sermon was preached by local divine, Increase Mather, and he was buried in the King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston. <mask> was notable for making anagrams based on the names of his friends and acquaintances. M'Clure described them as numerous and nimble, and if not exact, they were always instructive, and he would rather force a poor match than lose the moral. An anecdote given by <mask> biographer M'Clure, whether true or not, points to the character of <mask>:  a person met <mask> returning from a journey and remarked, "Sir, I have sad news for you:  while you have been abroad, your house is burnt." To this <mask> is reputed to have replied, "Blessed be God! He has burnt this house, because he intends to give me a better." In 1809 historian <mask> called <mask> affable in speech, but condescending in his deportment.An early mentor of his, Dr. William Ames, wrote, "that if he might have his option of the best condition this side of heaven, it would be [to be] the teacher of a congregational church of which Mr. <mask> was pastor." Plymouth historian Nathaniel Morton called him "eminent for love and zeal" and M'Clure wrote that his unfeigning modesty was excessive. In this vein, M'Clure wrote that <mask> refused to ever sit for a portrait and his response to those who suggested he do so was "What! Such a poor vile creature as I am! Shall my picture be drawn? I say No; it never shall." M'Clure then suggested that the line drawing of <mask> in the Massachusetts Historical Society was made after his death.Cotton Mather, the noted Puritan who was a grandson of both Richard Mather and <mask> wrote of <mask>, "If the picture of this good, and therein great man, were to be exactly given, great zeal, with great love, would be the two principal strokes that, joined with orthodoxy, should make up his portraiture." Family

<mask>'s wife, Elizabeth, was a sister of Anne Mansfield, the wife of the wealthy Captain Robert Keayne of Boston, who made a bequest to Elizabeth in his 1656 will. With his wife, <mask> had four known children, the oldest of whom, Edmund, returned to England, married, and had children. Their next child, <mask>., attended Harvard College in 1642 and married Sarah Hooker, the daughter of the Reverend Thomas Hooker. The <mask>s then had two daughters, the older of whom, Elizabeth, married Reverend Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley, and then died while pregnant with their first child. The younger daughter, Mary, who was born in Boston on 12 September 1633, married first Reverend Samuel Danforth, and following his death she married Joseph Rock. See also

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<mask> (born March 16, 1952) is an engineer, entrepreneur and founder of four technology companies: Borland, Starfish Software, LightSurf Technologies, and Fullpower Technologies. <mask> is credited with creating the first camera phone, being a pioneer for wearable technology intellectual property, and is the author of dozens of technology patents covering Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) modeling, wearable, eyewear, smartphone, mobile, imaging, wireless, synchronization and medical technologies. Early life and education
<mask> is the son of Charles-<mask> (1915-1999) and Claire Monis (1922-1967). <mask> was born and raised in Paris, France. He was born to Jewish immigrants of modest means. His mother was a French singer, actress and violinist, raised in Paris by parents who had fled the Russian pogroms. Arrested in 1942 for being Lieutenant in the French Resistance, she was 21 years old when she was sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp.She survived as a member of the Auschwitz Women's Orchestra conducted by Alma Rosé. After his parents separated in 1957, <mask> was raised solely by his mother. He was only 15 years old when his mother died after a car accident in Paris. <mask> was educated in mathematics at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute), on a full scholarship and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France. He received a master's in mathematics. He also received a master's in musicology composition and classical flute performance at the Zurich Music Conservatory in Switzerland. As a student, <mask> developed software for the MICRAL, which is credited by the Computer History Museum as the first ever microprocessor-based personal computer.Career

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Kahn has founded four software companies: Borland, founded in 1982 (acquired by Micro Focus in 2009), Starfish Software, founded in 1994 (acquired by Motorola in 1998, and subsequently Google in 2011), LightSurf Technologies, founded in 1998 (acquired by Verisign in 2005), and Fullpower Technologies, founded in 2005. Borland (1982–1995): compilers and tools

<mask> founded Borland in 1982, and was its CEO until 1995. At the time it was a competitor of Microsoft's, and produced programming language compilers and software development tools. Its first product, Turbo Pascal, sold for $49.95 at a time when programming tools cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. <mask> was President, CEO, and Chairman of Borland and, without venture capital, took Borland from no revenues to a US$500 million run-rate. <mask> and the Borland board came to a disagreement on how to focus the company. In January 1995, <mask> was forced by the board to resign from his position as CEO, and he founded Starfish Software.Starfish Software (1995–1998): wireless synchronization

Starfish Software was founded in 1995 by <mask> as a spin-off from the Simplify business unit from Borland and Kahn's severance from Borland. TrueSync was the first Over-The-Air (OTA) synchronization system. Starfish was successfully acquired by Motorola for US$325 million in 1998. LightSurf Technologies (1998–2005): multimedia messaging

<mask> and his wife Sonia co-founded multimedia messaging company LightSurf Technologies in 1998. LightSurf commercialized Picture-Mail and the camera phone. In 2005, LightSurf was acquired by Verisign for US$300 million. Syniverse Technologies acquired Lightsurf from Verisign in 2009.Fullpower Technologies (2005–present): sensing, sleep, and wearable technology

Fullpower, founded in 2005, provides a patented ecosystem for wearable and Internet of Things sensor-fusion solutions supporting networks of sensors. The company's expertise is sleep monitoring technology using sensors and artificial intelligence. The inspiration behind some of Fullpower's technology stems from <mask>'s passion for sailing. During a demanding race requiring sailors to sleep less than an hour every 24-hour period, <mask> began experimenting with biosensors and three-axis linear accelerometers that could detect micromovements and provide meaningful recommendations. <mask> created prototype sleep trackers using biosensors that optimized 26-minute power naps to maximize sleep benefits and sail time. First camera phone
In 1997, <mask> created the first camera phone solution sharing pictures instantly on public networks. The impetus for this invention was the birth of <mask>'s daughter.<mask> had been working for almost a year on a web server-based infrastructure for pictures, that he called Picture Mail. At the hospital, while his wife was in labor, <mask> jury-rigged a connection between a mobile phone and a digital camera and sent off photos in real time to the picture messaging infrastructure he had running in his home. <mask> later said "I had always wanted to have this all working in time to share my daughter’s birth photo, but I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. It’s always the case that if it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would ever get done." In 2016 Time Magazine included <mask>'s first camera phone photo in their list of the 100 most influential photos of all time. In 2017, Subconscious Films created a short film recreating the day that <mask> instantly shared the first camera-phone photo of the birth of his daughter Sophie. Patents
<mask> has filed for or has been granted over 230 patents internationally, in fields including artificial intelligence-modeling tools, Internet of Things, motion detection, wearable technology, Global Positioning Systems, telecommunications, telemedicine, and sleep monitoring.Gay rights advocacy
Under <mask>'s direction, Borland became the first software company to offer domestic partners full benefits and a pioneer for gay rights in Silicon Valley. <mask> was a key speaker at the pivotal gay rights conference on the Apple campus on October 19, 1993. Personal life
<mask> has four children, three of which are from his first marriage. He later married Sonia Lee, with whom he has a daughter, Sophie. Sonia co-founded three of <mask>'s companies with him: Fullpower Technologies, LightSurf and Starfish Software. Sailing and sports
<mask>'s focus on the environment and the outdoors led him to the sport of sailing. <mask>'s sailing team, Pegasus Racing, competes in many world championships each year around the world.An offshore sailor with over 10 trans-Pacific crossings, <mask> holds the Transpac double handed (two-crewmember) record from San Francisco to Oahu, Hawaii. His sailing achievements also include winning the double handed division of the 2009 Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Hawaii and setting the Transpac record at 7 days, 19 hours, beating the previous time of 10 days, 4 hours. <mask>'s son Samuel ("Shark") also took up sailing as a boy. In his teenage years he had several outstanding race wins, including the 2003 Melges 24 Worlds race right after he turned 15. He has competed against his father. Lee-Kahn Foundation
<mask> and his wife Sonia run the Lee-Kahn Foundation. According to the Foundation's website, it sponsors local and national non-profit organizations focused on environmental causes and works to improve access to health care, education, and the arts.References

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<mask> (27 December 1979 – 25 August 2012) was a United States Army soldier, conscientious objector, playwright, and divinity student. He volunteered for the army in 2002 and conducted interrogations in Abu Ghraib prison. In 2005 he received an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector. He was active in the anti-war movement before dying of lung cancer in 2012. Early life
He was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in a Christian evangelical family. When he was seven years old <mask> attended Iowa caucus events and by high school he was president of a local chapter of the Young Republicans. <mask> was active in the local community theatre, Theatre Cedar Rapids, where he had lead roles in Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, and The Who's Tommy

Army career
When he was seventeen years old <mask> enlisted as an Army reservist in the delayed entry program to improve his chances of being admitted to the US Military Academy at West Point.<mask> did win an appointment to West Point and began his studies there in June 1998 but dropped out in his first term. He enlisted in the active duty Army in May 2002, the same month he graduated from the University of Iowa, and began his training as an interrogator at Fort Huachuca in September of that year. Following completion of the basic interrogator course he studied Arabic at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. His unit arrived in Iraq in 2004, six weeks after revelation of abuses by US personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison. <mask> served with the Army's 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion as an interrogator at the prison and claimed to have conducted over 130 prisoner interrogations there. He was promoted to sergeant in August 2004. In October 2004, <mask> interrogated "a self-professed jihadist" from Saudi Arabia.<mask> later described his encounter "with the prisoner as almost mystical, an apotheosis." When <mask> asked the Saudi prisoner "why he'd come to Iraq to kill" the jihadist turned the tables and asked <mask>, “Why did you come to Iraq to kill?” He further claimed that <mask> failed to "follow Christ to pray for those who persecute you, or pray for your enemies" and "to turn the other cheek, to love those who hate you.” The experience provoked a spiritual crisis in <mask> leading him to apply for conscientious objector status. After <mask> applied for conscientious objector status, he was assigned to guarding a burn pit. He left Iraq and returned to Iowa in January 2005. Six months after applying, the Army approved his application as a conscientious objector and granted him an honorable discharge in May 2005. Post-army career
<mask> graduated from the University of Iowa in 2008 with a dual master of fine arts degree in playwriting and non-fiction writing. He was enrolled at the University of Chicago's Divinity School in 2010.As a public speaker on religious and political matters, <mask> addressed audiences in the US, Ireland, Sweden, Italy and the UK. He was an active member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. <mask> was featured in the documentary films Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers and Soldiers of Conscience. In 2019, a Smithsonian article entitled "The Priest of Abu Ghraib", profiled <mask> and discussed his theological struggles while interrogating Muslim prisoners in Iraq. The author, Jennifer Percy, met <mask> in 2009 when they were classmates in the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Stage performances & writings

On June 19, 2006, <mask> shared the bill with Vaclav Havel, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, and Jeremy Irons at the Royal Court Theatre for his solo performance of his play, The Interrogation Room. In May 2007, the play was again performed in New York City on the Atlantic Theater's Stage Two as part of the National MFA Playwright's Festival.<mask>'s Returns: A Play in One Act was performed at the University of Iowa, Columbia College Chicago, De Balie (Amsterdam), and at Princeton University. The Alaska Quarterly Review published Returns in 2008." Also in 2008, excerpts of <mask>'s emails from Iraq were published in Harper's Magazine and in book form as Letters from Abu Ghraib by Essay Press with a foreword by Christopher Merrill. In the fall of 2008, the Virginia Quarterly Review published "Combat Multipliers", a reflection by <mask> on a mural adorning the Army chapel at Abu Ghraib and an attack by insurgents on the compound while he was assigned there. A second edition of Letters from Abu Ghraib was published in 2017 by Cascade Books with a new foreword by Stanley Hauerwas. Death
He died of lung cancer in New York City in New York-Presbyterian Hospital on August 25, 2012. An oncologist told <mask>'s mother that "<mask> died of lung cancer without having any of the conventional risk factors such as smoking, asbestos exposure or radiation ...I am quite sure we did not have anyone younger with lung cancer those five years I worked at the VA." <mask>'s family believes his cancer was the result of exposure to toxins released by a burn pit he slept near for six months in Iraq. He was a University of Chicago Divinity School graduate student at the time of his death. References

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 "Army C.O. Application by <mask>" on the Catholic Peace Fellowship web site. Accessed 23 August 2019. "<mask>: 'To Love One's Enemies' ", a video clip from Soldiers of Conscience. Accessed 21 June 2013."Call of Duty", an essay by <mask> on military-themed first-person shooter video games. Accessed 14 August 2013.
 joshuacasteel.com (archived), a site about <mask> maintained by his family. Accessed 23 August 2019. "Authors – <mask> (archived)," a short biography on the Essay Press web site. Accessed 18 December 2014. 1979 births
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<mask><mask> (April 24, 1914 – September 5, 2001) was a Southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun-inspired cuisine, humor and storytelling. Cajun humorist
<mask> was born in Roseland near Amite, the seat of Tangipahoa Parish, one of the "Florida Parishes" of southeastern Louisiana. He was the second youngest of seven children of Harry D<mask>, the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry from 1916 to 1948 and a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. <mask> was of Welsh descent. His mother, the former Olivette Mintern Toadvin (1880–1976), of French descent and known as <mask>, was an expert in the improvisation of meals and taught <mask> how to cook. Olivet <mask> was also a pianist and a composer of instrumental music well into her nineties. <mask> began his career as a safety engineer while he traveled throughout Acadiana.The safety lectures that he made to refinery workers prompted him to become a Cajun storyteller. He remembered it this way on the back cover of The Justin Wilson Cook Book:

Way back when I first started as a safety engineer, I took myself pretty seriously, and I found I was putting my audiences to sleep. So having lived all my life among the Cajuns of Louisiana, and having a good memory for the patois and the type of humor Cajuns go for, I started interspersing my talks on safety with Cajun humor. <mask> later recorded several comedy albums, beginning with The Humorous World of <mask> on Ember Records. He also recorded several albums for Jewel Records on the Paula label and a few for  Capitol Records. He later appeared as a guest on the popular CBS series The Ed Sullivan Show. He was known for the catchphrase, "I gar-on-tee!"(I guarantee). As a comedian, <mask> was enormously popular in Louisiana, and to a lesser degree in neighboring states, but his humor may have been a little too specifically regional to enjoy the wider popularity of Southern comics such as Jerry Clower or Archie Campbell. He composed ten songs, as well as composing the background music for his cooking show and recorded one album of Christmas songs with a jazz band. <mask> wrote seven Cajun cookbooks and two books of Cajun stories. He hosted several cooking shows on Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) and at least one in 1975, for Mississippi Educational Television (ETV) that combined Cajun cooking and humor. Most were aired from the studios of WYES-TV in New Orleans. In 1997, he published the cookbook "Looking Back", which combined his first two cookbooks in a hardcover format, with additional photos, and notes on how his cooking techniques had changed (e. g., using olive oil instead of oleo) since those early cookbooks were published.A companion series was produced, also titled "Looking Back" and broadcast nationwide on PBS, which was a repackaging of <mask>'s very first Television Cooking show from 1971, with new intros by <mask> himself. This was the first time the 1971 programs were ever seen nationwide, as they were originally produced by Mississippi Educational Television and, at that time, were only broadcast regionally. Southern author Harnett T. Kane said of <mask>: "I know of no one [else] who portrays the Louisiana Cajun as well, so skillfully  and entertainingly". Politics
As the son of the former agriculture commissioner who died in office in 1948, <mask> was politically active in his early years. In 1951–1952, <mask> was the manager of the unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial campaign of Lieutenant Governor William J. "Bill" Dodd. He and Dodd were close though they often disagreed on political philosophy.<mask>'s brother-in-law, Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Jr., was the Democratic attorney general of Louisiana from 1948 to 1952, while Dodd was lieutenant governor. Kemp served between the two terms of Attorney General Fred S. LeBlanc of Baton Rouge. Known for his emphasis on patriotic themes, <mask> over the years became involved in numerous Louisiana political campaigns. Former State Senator Don W. Williamson of Caddo Parish recalls <mask> having cut a commercial for Williamson's Democratic challenge in 1979 to incumbent Insurance Commissioner Sherman A. Bernard. Williamson recalls that <mask> just volunteered to help him. Williamson only narrowly lost to Bernard, who later was imprisoned for fraud in the handling of his state job duties. Personal life
<mask> was married four times.His third wife died and his three other marriages ended in divorce. He had one son and three daughters: Harry D<mask> II, Sara Sue, Pam, and Menette. <mask>'s last residence was in Summit in Pike County, Mississippi. He died on September 5, 2001, of heart failure in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is interred beside his third wife at Port Vincent Community Cemetery (also known as Saint William Catholic Cemetery) in Port Vincent in Livingston Parish. Bibliography

By <mask>
 The <mask> Cook Book (1965)
 <mask>'s Cajun Humor (1974)
 The Justin Wilson #2 Cookbook: Cookin' Cajun (1979)
 <mask>'s Cajun Fables (1982)
 The Justin Wilson Gourmet and Gourmand Cookbook (1984)
 More Cajun Humor (1984)
 <mask>'s Outdoor Cooking with Inside Help (1986)
 <mask>'s Homegrown Louisiana Cookin' (1990)
 <mask> Looking Back: A Cajun Cookbook (1997)
 <mask>'s Easy Cookin': 150 Rib-Tickling Recipes for Good Eating (1998)

Other authors
William J. "Bill" Dodd, Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics.Baton Rouge: Claitor's Publishing, 1991. Kevin S. Fontenot, "How Y'all Are:  <mask> and Cajun Comedy" in  Accordions, Fiddles, Two Step and Swing:  A Cajun Music Reader. Ryan A. Brasseaux and Kevin S. Fontenot, eds. Lafayette:  The Center for Louisiana Studies, 2006. Discography (partial)

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<mask> is a cosmologist in Taiwan. He is currently on secondment serving as the Director of UK Office for Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. Previously he was the Deputy Vice President for International Affairs, National Taiwan University. He is a tenured professor at Physics Department and Institute of Astrophysics, National Taiwan University, a Joint Researcher, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, and an adjunct professor, Institute of Physics, National Chengchi University. He also promotes telescope-DIY and 3D film making. Life and career
<mask> was born in 1970. His mother, Shu-Meei Chang, is a retired professor in art and an oil painter.He grew up in Taichung, Taiwan, and received his BSc in Physics from National Taiwan University in 1993. He then spent two years in Navy for the mandatory military service. After that, he moved to United Kingdom for advanced studies
and received an MSc in Astronomy with distinction from Sussex University in 1996, under the supervision of Andrew Liddle. He then obtained a PhD in cosmology under the supervision of Paul Shellard at Prof. Stephen Hawking's Relativity and Gravitation Group at DAMTP, University of Cambridge in 1999. During the PhD years, he won the J.T.Knight Prize, and the thesis title is 'Cosmological Perturbations from Cosmic Strings'. He then started working at U.C.Berkeley as a KDI Fellow, jointly appointed by NASA as a Long-Term Space Astronomer. He participated and led a few papers in the projects MAXIMA and MAXIPOL.He joined the faculty of Physics Department at National Taiwan University in 2001, and is currently a professor in both
the Physics Department and Institute of Astrophysics. He is also the Project Scientist of AMiBA, a cosmological telescope based in Hawaii and funded by Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Technology. In addition, he is a Joint Researcher at Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA), and an adjunct professor at National Chengchi University. He was a visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley, LBNL, UMN, and Fermilab. Between 2010 and 2011, he was the Chief Editor of Physics Bimonthly, a major journal of the Physics Society Taiwan. Between 2012 and 2014, he was a Review Panelist (as Chair in Astrophysics) at Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).Since 2015, he has been the Advisory Panelist, Ministry of Science and Technology. Since 2014, he has been the Deputy Vice President for International Affairs, National Taiwan University. He is also the President of Cambridge Society Taiwan. Since 2003, he has been serving in the national committee for the student selection and training for the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), and has been participating in the IPhO leading the Taiwan team almost every year since. He has been serving the same role for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fairs (Intel ISEF). He is also a two-time Taiwan representative giving invited talks in the Intel ISEF Educator Academy (held every other year) to share the Taiwanese experience in education. He has been a high-school textbook writer in natural sciences (for age 12-18) since 2003 and has been serving on the exam board for national entry exams for universities.Research
His general research interest is in cosmology, in particular the cosmic strings, loop quantum gravity, cosmic microwave background, cosmic topology, dark energy, and applications using machine learning. He has expertise in telescope making, and designed the largest and the second largest home-designed observatories in Taiwan. He also owns a few patents related to optics, including applications in light-field camera and 3D visualization. These are widely applied in digital cameras and cell phones. He also designed the largest 3D planetarium in Taiwan, providing self-made 3D films related to astrophysics and cosmology. Jiun-Huei <mask> <mask> is also an expert in I-Ching, the ancient Chinese philosophy dated back to around five thousand years ago. Between 1989 and 1992, he first official took the courses given by Prof. Cheng-He Yang (楊政河) at Institute of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, and then learned further applied skills under Prof. Yang's supervision.In 1996, he read the palm and evaluated the birth date of Prof. Stephen Hawking, in a spirit of checking the value of such ancient theory. Popular science
Jiun-Huei <mask> <mask> made his first two telescopes at the age of 12. He used them to image Halley's Comet in 1986. He started promoting the self-making of telescopes in 2003, and in the past years more than three thousands of telescopes have been made through the national camps that he conducted. He also led the projects of building the largest and the second largest observatories in Taiwan. With these contributions, he won the Excellence Award for Social Service, National Taiwan University, in 2012, and the Silver Medal of the first World Chinese Award for Popular Science in 2013. He is also the first TED speaker from National Taiwan University, delivering an 18-minute talk in the 2011 annual meeting organized by TEDxTaipei then the co-curator of the 2012 annual meeting, and the co-host for the TED Global-Taiwan 2013.He is a council member of TEDxTaipei. Since 2011, he has been a columnist of BBC Knowledge (International Chinese Edition), a monthly journal for popular science. In 2017 he co-hosted the NASA Hackathon (Space Apps Challenge) in Taiwan. The champion team of Taiwan, SpaceBar, then won the Global Winner for Best Use of Data. He led the team for an invited trip to watch the rocket launch at NASA in August 2017. In 2018 and 2019 he continued to serve as a Taipei lead judge and the coach of the Taipei representative teams. References

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<mask> (November 4, 1933 – February 13, 2018) was a Major League Baseball player. As a child, he was nicknamed "<mask>" by his father. His son, Cleveland Indians manager <mask>, is also sometimes referred to as "<mask>." Baltimore Orioles
<mask> originally signed with the St. Louis Browns in 1952. He spent two seasons in the Browns/Baltimore Orioles' farm system (the franchise was relocated to Baltimore and renamed on September 29, 1953) before departing to serve in the U.S. Army for two years. Upon his return, he was invited to Spring training 1956 as a non-roster invitee, and made the club. He batted .258 with nine home runs and 57 runs batted in to finish tied with the Cleveland Indians' Rocky Colavito for second place in American League Rookie of the Year balloting behind Chicago White Sox shortstop Luis Aparicio.With Al Pilarcik's acquisition during the off season, <mask> lost his starting job in right field, and was demoted to the Pacific Coast League's Vancouver Mounties early in the 1957 season. He returned with a vengeance, hitting two home runs in a game for the first time in his career on May 19 against the Kansas City Athletics, raising his season average to an even .300 in the process. He slipped into more of a reserve role from there. Used as a fourth outfielder and left-handed bat off the bench, <mask> batted just .185 as a pinch hitter for the season. After which, he, Ray Moore and Billy Goodman were dealt to the Chicago White Sox for Larry Doby, Jack Harshman and Jim Marshall (Chicago later sent pitcher Russ Heman to Baltimore as part of this deal when it was discovered by the Orioles that Harshman was suffering from a slipped disc). Chicago White Sox/Detroit Tigers
After a hot Spring, <mask> won the White Sox starting right field job. His stay in Chicago was short, as he was dealt to the Detroit Tigers on the June 15 trade deadline.With Hall of Famer Al Kaline in right, <mask> logged just 84 plate appearances over the remainder of the season. Dissatisfied with his lack of playing time, <mask> demanded a trade. On March 21, 1959, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians for Larry Doby, the second trade involving the two. Cleveland Indians
Regardless of his desire for more playing time, <mask> began the 1959 season as a pinch hitter and utility man with his new franchise. After going five-for-nine with a home run in a June 7 doubleheader with the New York Yankees, <mask> replaced Jim Piersall as Cleveland's starting center fielder. Toward the end of the season, he was shifted to first base, with Indians regular first baseman Vic Power being shifted to second base. For the season, he batted .363 with a career high 20 home runs and 79 RBIs to help the Indians to an 89–65 record and second place in the American League.His .363 average would have led the league, however, he fell 34 at-bats short of the 3.1 per game necessary to qualify. The batting championship was awarded to the Detroit Tigers' Harvey Kuenn, with a .353 batting average. <mask> was shifted to left field when the Indians acquired Kuenn for home run leader Rocky Colavito just prior to the start of the 1960 season. With Colavito gone, <mask> was inserted in the clean-up spot in manager Joe Gordon's batting order. After hitting only six home runs through the month of July, <mask> was dropped to the number six spot in the batting order for August, and up to the number two spot in September. The moves helped, as he hit eleven home runs over the rest of the season to finish with seventeen. His 36 doubles led the American League.On March 26, 1961, <mask> hit a home run during a spring training exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox at Hi Corbett Field. When John C. Cota, a city parks employee, went to retrieve the ball, he discovered the body of Fred Victor Burden, who was wanted by Tucson, Arizona police in connection with the shooting death of former prize fighter James Cocio. <mask> was batting .293 with eleven home runs and 53 RBIs at the second All-Star break of the 1961 season to be named to the American League All-Star squad for the only time in his career. He did not, however, appear in the game. For the season, he batted .301 with sixteen home runs, 85 RBIs and lead American League Left Fielders in Fielding Percentage. Despite having emerged as one of the better fielding left fielders in the league, <mask> was shifted to first base during Spring training in 1962 and finished the season leading the American League in Double Plays turned as a first baseman. He drew the ire of Boston sports fans at Fenway Park on June 11.With the game still scoreless, the Indians loaded the bases with two outs in the third inning. From first base, <mask> yelled, "Hold it, Earl!" to Red Sox pitcher Earl Wilson. <mask>'s distraction caused Wilson to half stumble off the mound and balk. Despite this being against baseball rules, <mask> admitted after the game that he had indeed yelled to Wilson. <mask> slumped a little under new manager Mel McGaha in 1962. When Birdie Tebbetts grabbed the reins in 1963, <mask> was moved back into left, but his numbers dipped even further.His .228 batting average was a career low, and his ten home runs and 41 RBIs were his fewest over a full season. He was, however, part of baseball history on July 31, when he hit the third in a series of four consecutive home runs in a single inning against pitcher Paul Foytack of the Los Angeles Angels. This was the second time in baseball history that a team hit four consecutive home runs in a single inning. It has happened three times since, including once by the Red Sox while his son, <mask>, was managing. The Indians acquired All-Star Leon Wagner to play left field prior to the 1964 season, so <mask> split time between right and first base. After the season, he was dealt to the St. Louis Cardinals for a player to be named later and cash. Journeyman years
The World Series champions were already set in their corner outfield positions and at first base; Francona was acquired strictly to strengthen their bench.He batted .259 in 1965, including .265 as a pinch hitter. He remained a pinch hitter with the Cards through 1966. During Spring training 1967, his contract was sold to the Philadelphia Phillies. <mask> batted .205 with three RBIs filling in for an injured Bill White at first base for the Phillies. Upon his healthy return, <mask> was sold to the Atlanta Braves. He enjoyed something of a resurgence in Atlanta, batting .248 with six home runs and 25 RBIs over the remainder of the 1967 season. In 1968, he logged 398 plate appearances, his most since 1963, and batted .296 with 47 RBIs, his most since 1962.<mask> was batting .339 with fourteen RBIs in semi-regular action in 1969 before a dislocated thumb halted his season. He returned healthy toward the end of June, but batted just .219 with one home run and eight RBIs in his return before his contract was sold to the Oakland A's on August 22. He returned to his hitting ways, batting .341 with three home runs and twenty RBIs over the rest of the season. He split the 1970 season between the A's and Milwaukee Brewers before retiring. Career stats

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List of Major League Baseball annual doubles leaders

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<mask> was the director of parks and recreation in New Brighton, Pennsylvania until retiring in 1997. He remained in New Brighton until his death at his home on February 13, 2018.References

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<mask> at SABR (Baseball BioProject)

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<mask> is an American entertainment executive best known for being involved in the creation, production, and marketing of original programs for the U.S. and international marketplace. Active in the entertainment industry for over thirty years, <mask> has distributed and/or produced over 3,200 episodes of television programming to over 100 countries in most all genres, including some of the biggest children's hit series in the past three decades. In 1994, <mask> founded Lacey Entertainment, a New York-based worldwide television marketing, production, and distribution company. Career

4Kids Entertainment
Lacey's early involvement with 4Kids Entertainment began with a then-little-known children's program, Pokémon. Through <mask>'s marketing and global distribution strategies, Pokémon was licensed to every major international broadcast market, becoming the leading kids entertainment brand in the world. This global media platform established by Lacey Entertainment enabled Pokémon to become popular in children's entertainment licensed property over the several decades, generating total revenues in tens of billions of dollars. <mask>'s marketing and distribution relationship with 4Kids Entertainment continued with the Japanese animated action adventure series Yu-Gi-Oh!and the re-launch of the classic kids action series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). The TMNT global broadcast rollout was designed and executed by <mask>, and within six months from release of the pilot episode of the action series based upon the classic comic book characters, <mask> secured broadcast deals that included major broadcast and pay TV platforms around the world. Launched in 2001, Yu-gi-oh! soon emerged as the newest older kids entertainment brand around the world, supported by a global broadcast strategy executed by <mask>. Before broadcast in the US, <mask> engineered an arrangement with Nickelodeon worldwide (excluding the US) for the first-ever Japanese animated series to be broadcast on the popular children's network. The Yugioh! franchise (Yugioh!, Yugioh!GX, Yugioh! 5Ds and Yugioh! Zexal and Arc V programs) is now in its 12th consecutive season of broadcast, with over 700 episodes of content. From mid 2003 through mid 2012, <mask> served as Executive Vice President International for 4Kids Entertainment, managing worldwide TV and video placement of all program content, including Dinosaur King, Kirby, Cubix, One Piece and others, as well as assisting in structuring co-production arrangements, including the colorful Viva Pinata comedy series and the Chaotic action adventure series, executed with YTV and Teletoon Canada respectively, as Canadian co-venture productions. During the early 2000s, <mask> served as executive producer and global distributor of the Japanese anime cult classic, Shin-chan. This slightly off-beat and somewhat controversial kids comedy series enjoyed broadcast success in over 50 countries. <mask> also introduced several European series to American audiences between 1996 and '97, and served as co-executive producer for the classic young children's series The Mr. Men Show.Over his career <mask> has packaged a number of series for production, including Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (Marina Productions and France Television), and most recently the fast-paced comedy series Rocket Monkeys with Breakthrough Entertainment of Canada. America's Dumbest Criminals
In 1996, <mask> introduced worldwide the light entertainment series America's Dumbest Criminals. His distribution and production financing strategies helped launch the series in U.S. first-run syndication and worldwide (distributed by Worldvision and Paramount). <mask>'s global sales enabled the program to have four consecutive seasons in U.S. syndication and resulted in broadcast in over 60 countries. Lacey Entertainment acquired worldwide rights to the America’s Dumbest Criminals copyright and trademark, which includes the existing 104 half-hour library, as well as publishing rights to the popular book series, a New York Times bestseller. Zodiac Entertainment
Prior to Lacey Entertainment, he was co-founder (with Peter Keefe) and principal of Zodiac Entertainment, a television program and marketing co-venture formed with Central Independent Television of the UK.Between 1989 and 1994, Zodiac produced, distributed and marketed worldwide a variety of successful children's animated TV series. The first Zodiac original series, Widget, emerged as a multi award-winning contemporary children's classic, and was broadcast in over 115 countries. Additional Zodiac signature series included a comedy-adventure series entitled The Mr. Bogus Show, and the positive educational series, Twinkle the Dream Being. As principal of Zodiac, <mask> engineered all international television and home video marketing and sales activities and spearheaded the successful US syndication of the company's three properties. Zodiac's programs became an entertainment staple for children throughout the world, including major Pay TV services, network, cable and satellite broadcasters. <mask> also managed Zodiac's merchandise and licensing programs, generating over 250 licensed products, including books, videos, toys, apparel, games, promotions and events worldwide. Early entertainment career
His television career began in the mid-1980s when he served as vice president and general manager of World Events Productions.During his tenure with World Events, <mask> helped launch worldwide the action-adventure kids animated series Voltron: Defender of the Universe, which became one of the most successful merchandise licensed properties of the decade. Voltron remains a popular character in the children's entertainment industry. Working closely with Peter Keefe, the creative force behind the Voltron phenomenon, the next US syndicated hit to be launched was Denver the Last Dinosaur, an entirely original fresh comedy series. The series was seen in more than 90 countries around the world and is widely considered the first French-American co-production series to enjoy worldwide success, a co-production arrangement engineered by <mask>. Background

<mask> is a summa cum laude graduate of Saint Michael's College in Vermont, where he was recognized as a Rhodes Scholar finalist in the New England region. He earned his graduate degree in English from Clark University in Massachusetts as a Jonas Clark Scholar. Active in civic, cultural and philanthropic affairs, <mask> is founder of the Kilkea Foundation, a non-profit foundation that encourages and honors excellence in the humanities, arts and sciences through college scholarship programs in the name of his parents Elizabeth and <mask>, the Henry G. Fairbanks Visiting Humanities Scholar in Residence faculty position at St. Michael's College in Vermont, as well as international fellowships in the humanities and social justice.<mask> was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa by St. Michael's College. References

External links
 Lacey Entertainment

Living people
American businesspeople
Clark University alumni
Saint Michael's College alumni
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