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<mask> (born December 4, 1954), also known as <mask>, is a Jamaican record producer of European ancestry. He has worked with such artists as No Doubt, Gregory Isaacs and Toots & the Maytals. He hosts the weekly radio show "Alter Native" every Sunday afternoon on Indie 103.1. He previously hosted a similar radio show, "Reggae Revolution", at Indie's main competitor KROQ-FM. <mask> is also known as a musician. He recorded an album in 1977 produced by Lee 'Scratch' Perry at the Black Ark. Born on Dec 4, 1954 in Jamaica,  <mask> also known as "<mask>", is a Jamaican record producer and produces films, is a radio personality, host a syndicated radio show and a music historian.He grew up in the hills of St. Ann, just nine miles from ‘Nine Mile’ the birthplace of Bob Marley, <mask> started off with close ties to both reggae and the Marley family. Diki <mask>, a cousin started Island Records along with Chris Blackwell and managed Bob Marley and the Wailers, while another cousin, <mask> was Marley's attorney. After graduating high school in Jamaica, <mask> studied law at Kings College in London and received a Master of Laws in Entertainment Law. As both writer and producer of the documentary film “STEPPING RAZOR-RED X”, which follows the life story of Reggae legend, Peter Tosh, <mask> was awarded with a nomination for a Canadian Academy Award, a ‘Genie’, and won for “Best Documentary” at the Jamaican Film Festival in Jamaica. In addition, he produced two “Behind the Music” episodes for Viacom's VH1. “Behind the Music” is considered the most successful music television show in recent history. <mask> produced both an episode on Peter Tosh and also on the life of Bob Marley which made history by being the first show to air for 90 minutes versus the standard one hour.No stranger to successful films and television shows produced in Jamaica, <mask> assisted with the production of the Alec Baldwin/Meg Ryan Film “PRELUDE TO A KISS’ and helped put together the music for the most successful Jamaican film of all time, Disney's “COOL RUNNINGS” which was made for $14 million and grossed over $200 million, with its soundtrack going gold. He was also a part of putting together the ABC TV series “GOING TO EXTREMES” with “NORTHERN EXPOSURE” producers Falsey and Brand. <mask> helped Adam Sandler put together the reggae soundtrack for his ’50 First Dates’ movie which went gold and was #1 on Billboard soundtrack charts. As a Producer on NO DOUBT's multiplatinum album ‘ROCK STEADY’, <mask>/s singles ‘HEY BABY’ and ‘UNDERNEATH IT ALL’ both went to #1 in America and won him two Grammys, with the album reaching 25 million sold worldwide. He has also produced two compilations for Polygram which spent 6 months at #1 on Billboard's reggae chart and sold over a half of a million copies. A renowned artist himself, “<mask>” was spotted by Clive Davis’ Arista Records and was the first Reggae artist to be signed to the label. With his band, “NATIVE”, he recorded albums for Arista, RCA, Buddah, A&M and MCA Records.“NATIVE” opened shows for both reggae greats, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. NATIVE performed at its biggest show ever at the US Festival in California with David Bowie where the audience was over 300,000 people. He produced the critically acclaimed compilation “REGGAE BLITZ ALL STARS” which featured such artists as Maxi Priest, Toots and the Maytals, Third World, Black Uhuru, Big Mountain, Shabba Ranks and the Gregory Isaacs. <mask> has recorded with and produced a wide range of artists including: Keith Richards of “THE ROLLING STONES”, Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytals, Willie Nelson (playing guitar and putting together the ‘Countryman’ reggae album), Gregory Isaacs, 311, Thievery Corporation, Paris Hilton, Herb Alpert and Garth Brooks. As a songwriter he has had his songs covered by such artists as Willie Nelson, Leon Robinson, Richie Stevens and Junior Reid. <mask> co-wrote with Jimmy Buffett, one of the songs on the Jimmy Buffett album “FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD” which entered the Billboard album charts at #5. Diving into the world of radio, <mask> was both producer and DJ at the #1 modern rock station in the world, KROQ 106.7 FM in Los Angeles, on which he had the #1 reggae show in America, “REGGAE REVOLUTION” running for a seven-year period.A longtime grammy member, <mask> has also worked as consultant to the Grammy Foundation, hosted P&E Wing events, and continues to be involved in Reggae Grammy nominations and submissions. <mask> also produced a live album and DVD for Jamaican guitar legend Ernie Ranglin featuring Robbie Krieger (from the Doors), Elliot Easton (from the Cars) and No Doubt. This resulted in a film on the history of reggae music and Ernie Ranglin called ‘Roots of Reggae’ which was voted as one of the top films at the Flashpoint Film Festival in 2007   – Photo: Arthur Gorson
“Native” <mask> was Program Director at XM Satellite Radio in Washington DC, the first nationwide, 24 hour, 7 day a week station in America. As program director and DJ for “The Joint”, <mask> helped to bring reggae to a national audience. When they launched the largest ($2 billon) radio operation on the planet in 2001, <mask> arranged for Bob Marley's ‘One Love’ to be the first song ever to be broadcast. <mask> worked as consultant and DJ with Jimmy Buffett on his Radio Margaritaville, which can be heard on Sirius Satellite Radio. <mask> also worked as a consultant to Napster to develop their Reggae and World Music Department.<mask> is presently a producer and DJ at modern rock powerhouse Indie 103.1 Radio in Los Angeles which Rolling Stone describes as ‘the best station in America’

As producer and remixer, <mask>'s recent project include Gavin Rossdale (Bush), Salvador Santana (Carlos's son), OAR (Atlantic Records), Long Beach Dub Allstars (Sublime), Brand New Heavies, The Doors, Jason Mraz, Maroon 5, No Doubt, Garbage, Shaggy and Magic. <mask> is developing a feature film on the life of reggae legend Peter Tosh with Academy Award-winning director Kevin Mcdonald. <mask> is currently working with Academy Award-winning director Daniel Junge on the Alpha documentary about the famous music school in Jamaica. The recordings were released in a CD format in 2007. He won two grammies w No Doubt as executive producer for the songs "Hey Baby" and "Underneath it All" from the Rock Steady Album. On the same album <mask> also was executive producer for "Underneath it All" which was a nominee for a Grammy. <mask> also has made the following documentaries.1992 Stepping Razor: Red X (Documentary) (co-executive producer)
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<mask> (April 8, 1947 – February 24, 2008) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Christian rock music, and released more than 100 albums. Early life
<mask> was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the oldest son of Joe Hendrex "Joe Billy" <mask> (December 9, 1923 – April 28, 1999), and his wife, Margaret Evelyn "Marge" Stout (born in 1925 in Nebraska). <mask> had served as a sergeant in the US Army Air Corps during World War II and worked at the Southern Pacific Railroad while studying to become a teacher. After <mask>'s birth, the family joined the Southern Baptist church. In 1950 the family moved to San Francisco, where they attended an African American Pentecostal church and then a Baptist church, where <mask> became a Christian at the age of five. In 1959, <mask> performed on the syndicated television show The Original Amateur Hour.In 1960, <mask>'s father began teaching in San Jose, California; the family lived in nearby Campbell. <mask> graduated from Campbell High School in 1965 and won an academic scholarship to major in English at San José State University. After one semester, <mask> "flunked out of college and lost [his] scholarship". Although <mask> was able to play a variety of musical instruments, he never learned to read or write musical notation. Career

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While still in high school, <mask> formed a group called The Back Country Seven, which included his sister Nancy Jo and friend Gene Mason. After graduating, <mask> continued performing locally. In 1966 <mask> opened a concert for People!at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. He later became the band's principal songwriter, sharing lead vocals with his Back Country Seven bandmate Gene Mason. People! performed about 200 concerts a year, appearing with Van Morrison and Them, the Animals, the Dave Clark Five, Paul Revere & the Raiders, the Doors, the Who, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Moby Grape, and San Jose bands Syndicate of Sound and Count Five. The band's cover of the Zombies' "I Love You" became a hit single, selling over one million copies and charting strongly in several markets. <mask> left People! just as Capitol released the band's first album in mid 1968, but reunited with Mason for concerts in 1974 and 2006.According to rock historian Walter Rasmussen, Pete Townshend once said that The Who's 1969 album Tommy was inspired by the rock opera "Epic" by People! ; however, Townshend has since denied the connection. Hollywood street ministry
Soon after <mask> left People!, he had "a powerful spiritual encounter that threw him into a frenzy of indecision about his life [and] for the first time in his life, he received what he understood to be the Holy Spirit". In July 1968, following a job offer to write musicals for Capitol Records, <mask> moved to Los Angeles, where he "spent time sharing the gospel on the streets". As he described in 2006: "I walked up and down Hollywood Boulevard several times a day ... witnessing to businessmen and hippies, and to whomever the Spirit led me. I spent all of my Capitol Records' royalties starting a halfway house and buying clothes and food for new converts." He was initially associated with the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, and its Salt Company coffee house outreach ministry, where he explored and pioneered the rock-gospel genre.Musical theater
In 1968 <mask> wrote several songs for the rock musicals Alison and Birthday for Shakespeare, both of which were performed in Los Angeles. The next year, <mask> and his friend Teddy Neeley auditioned for the Los Angeles production of the rock musical Hair and were offered the roles of George Berger and Claude Bukowski, respectively; Neeley accepted, but <mask> rejected the role of George, despite his own financial struggles, because "of its glorification of drugs and free sex as the answers to today's problems". Also in 1969, <mask> wrote a musical called Love on Haight Street and a rock opera called Lion's Breath, which led Capitol to re-sign <mask> to record an album, with the promise of complete creative control. Recording career

In 1969, Capitol Records released <mask>'s first solo album, Upon This Rock, produced by Hal Yoergler, is now considered to be "the first full-blown Christian rock album". <mask> was denounced by various television evangelists, and Capitol deemed the album a commercial flop and dropped <mask> from the label. However, his music gained a large following in the emerging countercultural movements. Sales of the album rose following its distribution in Christian bookstores.By the early 1970s, <mask> was performing frequently for large audiences, and appeared at several Christian music festivals, including Explo '72, a six-day Dallas, Texas, event which has been called the "Jesus Woodstock." <mask> established a half-way house where he "housed and fed various groups of people, supervised their Bible studies and drove them to church on Fridays and Sundays". He earned $80 per month from Capitol for polishing and refining songs for Capitol artists. In 1970, <mask> established a record label, One Way Records. He released two of his own albums Street Level and Bootleg on the label as well as Randy Stonehill's first album, Born Twice. In 1971, <mask> first visited England, where he lived and worked for several years. He recorded two studio albums, Only Visiting This Planet and So Long Ago the Garden, in London's AIR Studios.Released in 1972, Visiting "was meant to reach the flower children disillusioned by the government and the church" with its "abrasive, urban reality of the gospel", and has often been ranked as <mask>'s best album. The release of Garden in November 1973 was met with controversy in the Christian press, due to the album's cover art and some songs in which <mask> took the persona of a backslider. In 1974, <mask> founded Solid Rock Records to produce records for Christian artists "who didn't want to be consumed by the business of making vinyl pancakes but who wanted to make something 'non-commercial' to the world". <mask> produced music on the label for artists including Randy Stonehill, Mark Heard and Tom Howard. <mask> also worked with several artists who were signed to other labels, including Malcolm and Alwyn, Bobby Emmons and the Crosstones, Lyrix, James Sundquist and David Edwards. <mask> signed a deal with ABC Records to distribute Solid Rock's releases, but was later moved to ABC subsidiary Word Records. In the same year, <mask> founded the Christian artist booking agency Street Level Artists Agency.In Another Land, the third album in <mask>'s trilogy and the best-selling album of his career, was released in 1976 by Solid Rock and distributed through Word. Soon afterward, <mask> recorded the blues-rock concept album Something New under the Son, but it would not be released until 1981. Following clashes with Word over Something New and several other projects, <mask> started Phydeaux Records in 1980 to release his albums. In 1978, <mask> was injured during a plane landing at Los Angeles International Airport. <mask> claimed to have suffered mild brain damage due to being hit by parts of the cabin's roof, and that this damage left him unable to complete projects and focus artistically. William Ayers wrote in 1991: "As family, friends and fans watched, his life spiraled downward. He was unable to record a bonafide album from the time of his airplane accident in 1978 until ... he attempted to release the badly produced Home at Last [recorded in 1986].He never expected to be healed." In September 1979, <mask> performed his "The Great American Novel", "a Dylanesque protest song", for U.S. president Jimmy Carter and about 1,000 guests at the Old Fashioned Gospel Singin concert held on the south lawn of the White House. Following a prolonged dispute with Solid Rock artists Daniel Amos, which ended in estrangement, Solid Rock's business manager, Philip Mangano, and several Solid Rock musicians organized an intervention with <mask> in June 1980, which led him to begin closing the company. Religious history professor Randall Balmer attributed the company's demise to "idealism, marital difficulties, and financial naivete—as well as changing musical tastes." In late 1980, <mask> moved to England and, with his father, founded Phydeaux Records, a company designed to compete with the bootleg market by selling rarities from <mask>'s own archives. He signed a distribution deal with British label Chapel Lane and released several albums before returning to the United States in 1985. <mask> then began work on an anthology project celebrating his career in Christian music, beginning with the album White Blossoms from Black Roots: The History and the Chronology: Volume One; however, the project collapsed when the head of the distribution company was arrested for check forgery and the company's merchandise was seized by the FBI.<mask> signed to Benson Records in 1986 and recorded the album Home at Last, although the album was not released until 1989 due to legal problems. Despite extensive promotion, the album was negatively reviewed, and <mask> himself later dismissed the album as "just a collection of tapes I had", although he said separately that he was "extremely happy" with the level of support he'd received from Benson. In 1989, <mask> received the Christian Artists' Society Lifetime Achievement Award. While visiting another musician at the close of a February 1991 tour, <mask> received prayer for his long-term health problems from a pastor of London's Elim Way Fellowship. <mask> maintained that through this prayer God repaired the damage to his brain and he was able to function again. That year, he collaborated with his brother Charles on the album Stranded in Babylon, hailed by both critics and fans as one of his best. They would reunite for the 2001 album Tourniquet.<mask> continued to perform and release albums throughout his later years in order to raise funds for medical expenses stemming from heart problems. He gave his last official concert on August 4, 2007, in New York City. Relationship with the church and Christian music industry
Throughout his career, <mask> had a contentious relationship with the wider Christian church and with the Christian music industry. He wrote in September 2007, "I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World." <mask>'s music addressed a wide range of social issues, such as politics, free love, the occult, the passive commercialism of wartime journalists, and religious hypocrisy, that were outside the scope of his contemporaries. Defending the confrontational approach of his music, <mask> said, "My primary emphasis is not to entertain. But if your art is boring, people will reject your message as well as your art."In the 1980s, he complained that Christian music generally

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In 2008, Christian rock historian John J. Thompson wrote, "It is certainly no overstatement to say that <mask> is to Christian music what John Lennon is to rock & roll or Bob Dylan is to folk music." Thompson credited <mask> for his impact on the genre as a musician, a producer, and a businessman. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, <mask> also influenced a number of emerging punk and alternative rock artists. According to documentarian <mask> Sabatino, <mask> was "an early influence" on the post-punk band U2.When Bono met with a summit of Nashville Christian music artists in 2002 to garner support for an African aid campaign, he specifically asked to see <mask>. Upon <mask>'s death, Bono sent flowers to his funeral with the note "Eternal singer, still eternal, Bono." According to Charles Normal, <mask> attended his "first of many" punk rock shows while touring London in 1977, seeing Richard Hell and the Voidoids, the Damned, and Dead Boys. Regarding the punk movement, <mask> stated that while he initially disliked some of the lyrical content, he was generally supportive of it and its youthful energy, which he viewed as preferable to disco. <mask> subsequently introduced his younger brother, Charles, to the genre, including the music of the Sex Pistols. Within several years, Charles was the lead guitarist for the Bay Area hardcore punk band, Executioner. <mask> paid for the recording of Executioner's first EP in 1982, on the condition that they also record one of his songs.<mask> began to meet figures from the L.A. punk scene, and eventually recorded tracks with former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. <mask> also released a live recording of a punk version of "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" Pixies frontman Black Francis described <mask> as having been his "total idol" as a teenager, whom he attempted to imitate. The band's first demo, The Purple Tape, was to contain a cover of <mask>'s song "Watch What You're Doing", but it was never released. A lyric from the song ("Come on pilgrim, you know He loves you!") formed the basis for the title of Pixies' 1987 EP Come On Pilgrim. Black was eventually introduced to <mask> by members of U2 during the Zoo TV tour.Black's post-Pixies band, Frank Black and the Catholics, covered <mask>'s song "Six Sixty Six". <mask> and Black performed a duet of "Watch What You're Doing" at <mask>'s "farewell" concert, and the two were reportedly working on an album together at the time of his death, along with Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse. Steve Camp, Carolyn Arends, Bob Hartman, TobyMac, Mark Salomon, Martyn Joseph, and Steve Scott have credited <mask> as influences. Overall, over 300 artists have covered songs by <mask>. Awards and honors
 1973: One of three named as Best New Male Artist of the year by Cashbox. 1989: Awarded the Christian Artists' Society Lifetime Achievement Award in a surprise ceremony at Estes Park, Colorado. 1990: CCM magazine voted Only Visiting This Planet as "the second-greatest Christian album ever recorded".2001: Inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. 2001: Only Visiting This Planet was selected as the No. 2 album in CCM Magazine's The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music. 2004: Voted into the CCM Hall of Fame by readers of CCM Magazine. 2007: Inducted into the San Jose Rocks Hall of Fame, both as a member of People!, and as a solo artist. At that time <mask> reunited for a concert with People! 2008: Honored at the 39th GMA Dove Award ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee.2009: Honored in a tribute segment at the Grammy Awards. 2013: Only Visiting This Planet was one of 25 sound recordings inducted for 2013 into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, that preserves as "cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures, representing the richness and diversity of the American soundscape." A statement by the Library of Congress called the album "the key work in the early history of Christian rock," describing <mask> as one who "commented on the world as he saw it from his position as a passionate, idiosyncratic outsider to mainstream churches." Family
<mask> married actress and model Pamela Fay Ahlquist in December 1971. They separated in 1978 and divorced in September 1980. In April 1982, <mask> married Sarah Mae Finch. However, another source indicates this was in April 1984.Finch had previously been married to Randy Stonehill from 1975 to 1980. The two had first met at a religious retreat in 1969. Their only child, Michael David Fariah <mask>, was born in August 1985. The couple divorced in 1995. In 2008, the Christian magazine World reported that <mask> had allegedly fathered a son with an Australian woman during a 1988 tour. Coronary issues and death
In February 1992, <mask> suffered a nine-hour heart attack that resulted in permanent heart damage, leading to frequent hospitalizations in the years that followed. By early 1995, <mask> had been hospitalized thirteen times and had a defibrillator implant, which enabled him to perform occasional small concerts.After a lengthy illness, <mask> died on February 24, 2008, at the age of 60 at his home in Salem, Oregon. The previous day he had posted on his website:

I feel like a prize in a box of Cracker Jacks with God's hand reaching down to pick me up. I have been under medical care for months. My wounds are getting bigger. I have trouble breathing. I am ready to fly home. I won't be here much longer.I can't do anything about it. My heart is too weak. I want to say goodbye to everyone ... I want to say I love you. I'd like to push back the darkness with my bravest effort ... Goodbye, farewell, we will meet again. Following a public memorial on March 1 at the Church on the Hill in Turner, Oregon, <mask> was buried in Salem's City View Cemetery. His tombstone reads: "<mask> / Evangelist Without Portfolio / 1947–2008 / Bloodstained Israelite".Fallen Angel documentary
Fallen Angel: The Outlaw <mask>: A Bible Story is a controversial 2008 documentary on <mask>'s life by filmmaker David Di Sabatino. Fallen Angel includes interviews with several people who had worked with or been close to <mask> thirty years earlier, including his first wife and Randy Stonehill, who recorded the film's official soundtrack, Paradise Sky. <mask> and his second wife had refused to participate in or cooperate with the project. A cease and desist notice initiated by <mask>'s family temporarily prevented the film's public screening, and prompted Di Sabatino to file his own lawsuit against Solid Rock in March 2009. Four months later, the case was settled out of court, allowing the film to be shown. While interviewing Stonehill, Cross Rhythms Mike Rimmer said the film portrayed <mask> as "Machiavellian, particularly in his dealings with his artists." <mask>'s Solid Rock Records was said to have ended when, "Things finally fell apart in 1979, after it was discovered <mask> was cheating on his wife – and having an affair with Randy's wife", a claim <mask>'s brother denies.Gregory Alan Thornbury's biography of <mask> proposes an alternate date and reason for Solid Rock Records being wound up and the artists released from their contracts. Word Records signalled they planned to end their relationship with Solid Rock due to poor sales performances of a few of the albums and the infrequent nature of releases being delivered by the label and this news led to a breakdown in the working and personal relationship between <mask> and Philip Mangano in May 1980. Some discussions had already begun about certain artists being released from their contracts prior to the meeting on June 17, 1980, which was called to "clear up the relationship between Solid Rock and Street Level Artists Agency, and to deal with Daniel Amos' request to have all their contracts back from Solid Rock — management, recording, tapes, publishing, and so on" and which ended two hours later in stalemate and acrimony rather than resolution. Select discography

Since the 1960s, <mask>'s work has appeared on over 100 albums, compilations, and concert bootlegs. These recordings have been released under various labels and with various artists. Some of his principal albums are:

Upon This Rock (1969)
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In Another Land (1976)
Something New under the Son (1981)
Home at Last (1989)
Stranded in Babylon (1991)
Tourniquet (2001)

Autobiography
 The Long Road Home: Vaudeville, Dancing and How My Mother Met My Father. Salem, OR: Solid Rock Publications, 2007.References

Bibliography
Alfonso, Barry. The Billboard Guide to Contemporary Christian Music. New York: Billboard Books, 2002. Baker, Frank. Contemporary Christian Music: Where It Came From, What It Is, Where It's Going. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1985. Cusic, Don.Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music: Pop, Rock, and Worship. (ABC-CLIO, 2009). Frank, Josh Caryn Ganz. Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Named Pixies. St. Martin's Press, 2006. Howard, Jay R. and John M. Streck. "Contemporary Christian Music: Where Rock Meets Religion".The Journal of Popular Culture 26:1 (March 5, 2004). <mask>, <mask>. Blue Book. 1989. Released with Home At Last album. <mask>, <mask>. Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music Songbook.Los Angeles, CA: One Way, 1972. Powell, Mark Allan. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002. Ruppli, Michel and Ed Novitsky. The MGM Labels: A Discography, 1961–1982 Vol. 2.Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998. Stowe, David W. No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism. UNC Press Books, 2011. Thompson, John J. Raised by Wolves: The Story of Christian Rock & Roll ECW, 2000. Further reading
Taylor, Jeff, and Chad Israelson. The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin.Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. (chapters 5 and 6)
Thornbury, Gregory Alan. Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? <mask> and the Perils of Christian Rock. Convergent Books, March 20, 2018. External links

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Cluttered Soul: The Words of <mask>
Obituary in The Times, March 7, 2008
"Righteous Rocker Paved Way" from CNN

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<mask> (November 25, 1976 – November 5, 2009) was a New Zealand-Canadian professional wrestler, known by his ring name <mask>, who competed in North American independent promotions in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada during the late 1990s and early 2000s, most notably as a mainstay of Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling. Several of his most memorable matches include top Canadian independent wrestlers such as "Rocket" Randy Tyler, Dr. Luther, Chance Beckett, "Tornado" Tony Kozina, "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels, Bryan Danielson, Bryan Alvarez, Asian Cougar and Juggernaut. In addition to ECCW, he competed for Portland Wrestling, Can Am Wrestling Federation, Stampede Wrestling, Prairie Wrestling Alliance, Pacific Northwest Championship Wrestling, Canadian All Pro Wrestling, W.H.I.P. Wrestling, Bad Boys of Wrestling, and the Continental Association of Wrestling. Career

Early life and career
<mask> first became involved in wrestling as a writer for the magazine Northwest Wrestler, which covered wrestling in Oregon, Washington State, and British Columbia. He later went on to become editor of the publication. Some time later, <mask> and fellow Northwest Wrestler staff member James Olson were hired by West Coast Championship Wrestling to take over publishing their official event program.In addition, <mask> worked as timekeeper, ring announcer, ring crew, and videographer at different periods. He released two videotape during this time, WCCW Mat Mayhem, and Ring Wars. Trained for the ring primarily by WCCW (and later ECCW) wrestler/promoter "Gorgeous" Michelle Starr, he also trained for three months with former WWE Women's Champion Velvet McIntyre. When a wrestler failed to appear for an ECCW (Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling) tour of Vancouver Island in March 1996, <mask> was called into action under the masked guise of El Antorcha. He won his debut match (a steel cage match) against Skull Manson in Port Alberni, BC. Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling
With about a year of experience, El Antorcha won a Doomsday Battle Royal to claim the vacant ECCW Heavyweight Title. <mask> suffered several injuries in the bout (a battle royal with weapons), which was a major factor in his loss of the title in April 1997.<mask> assisted Michelle Starr with training several wrestlers in 1997 after the opening of the ECCW Pro Wrestling School. He teamed with one of the first graduates, Strife, to form Generation X. They challenged for the ECCW tag team titles on several occasions. During 1998, <mask> traded the ECCW Junior Heavyweight title back and forth several times with "Tornado" Tony Kozina. He also held the NWA Pacific Northwest Junior Heavyweight title several times after ECCW joined the National Wrestling Alliance. In 1999, he unified the two junior titles, winning a one-night tournament. In the finals, he defeated Disco Fury and Chance Beckett in a Triple Threat Ladder Match.After losing the title, he went on to capture the prestigious NWA Canadian Junior Heavyweight title twice, defeating The Black Dragon both times. In 2000, El Antorcha's feud with Chance Beckett came to a head, with heel ECCW Commissioner and NWA representative Dave Republic siding with Beckett. Republic would continuously allow outside interference on the behalf of Beckett until Torch lost the Pacific Northwest Junior Heavyweight Title to Beckett. When the behaviour continued during rematches, Republic forced the mask to be put up in order to grant another rematch. <mask> again lost due to outside interference and was forced to unmask. Later that same evening, Beckett returned to the ring to gloat over winning the match, keeping his title and taking the mask. <mask> stormed the ring and beat down Beckett until he agreed to one more rematch.A furious Dave Republic ordered the rematch would be a ladder match. <mask>, wrestling for the first time unmasked as <mask>, defeated Beckett in the ladder match to regain his championship. Republic forced <mask> to face his first challenger, Disco Fury, just moments after the ladder match ended. Disco capitalized on a weakened <mask> to handily win the belt. Alliance with Ladies Choice
Firestorm briefly competed as a heel during 2003. Turning on tag team partners Scotty Mac and Ja Jakobe, <mask> aligned himself with Aaron Idol, Sweet Daddy, and Chance Beckett. A full-time team with Beckett never materialized, so <mask> formed a team with the hated Ladies Choice, feuding with Scotty Mac and various partners.During the Summer of 2003, <mask> and Ladies Choice faced Scotty Mac and MTV Canada host Brian Adler in a nationally televised bout on the program MTV Select. <mask>'s run as a heel came to an end following a loss against Rocky Della Serra in New Westminster, BC in December 2003. <mask> announced he would be leaving ECCW and the Northwest, and thanked the fans. Partner Ladies Choice took issue with this and attacked <mask> before Della Serra returned to help <mask> fight him off. Elbow injury
While wrestling on a Stampede Wrestling event in Cochrane, Alberta in May 2005, <mask> suffered a serious elbow injury. The injury came during a dive outside the ring against "Livewire" Matt Richards. While originally diagnosed by emergency department doctors at Foothills Hospital in Calgary as a case of tendinitis, X-rays would show a crack in the elbow 85% through the bone.<mask> was told to rest the arm and it would heal within eight weeks. One year later, after swelling from the elbow caused tendon and ligaments in the arm to atrophy (causing a loss in range of motion), X-rays at the time revealed the crack was still present. Surgery options were few, with the best offering a 2% R.O.M. improvement, while carrying a risk of a loss of an additional 15%. <mask> chose not to have the procedure. 2007–2009
<mask>'s wrestling appearances (all non-physical) were few after his injury. In September 2007, El Antorcha made a surprise return, appearing in the corner of El Phantasmo at an All Star Wrestling event in Comox, BC.El Antorcha also appeared on a December 2007 wrestling event in Victoria, BC. He instead focused on video production (he attended film school at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Alberta), and assisting various promoters and wrestlers with promotional materials and websites. Firestorm lived in Victoria, BC with his wife and son, where he operated his own video production company, Firestorm Video Production. He also co-hosted the Ringside Live internet radio show with Ian Hamilton every Friday night. In September 2009 Dykes was severely injured when a van he was a passenger in collided with a 600 lb elk on Vancouver Island. As he later wrote in his blog, "[We] are all very lucky. And I can joke that I took an elk's butt to the face and lived to talk about [it]... even perhaps comment on any recent meals he had eaten.When you look at what was left of the van, you can see how very close I came to being killed." Dykes died on November 5, 2009, from an apparent suicide due to his suffering from depression. Championships and accomplishments
 NWA: Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling
 NWA Canadian Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
 NWA/ECCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 PWI ranked him #269 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2002

See also
 List of premature professional wrestling deaths

References

External links

 Ringside Live
 SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Torch
 Torch Interview
 CageMatch.de – <mask>
 Bio @ WrestlingData.com

1976 births
2009 suicides
Canadian male professional wrestlers
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<mask> (; August 6, 1880 – September 10, 1961), known professionally as <mask>, was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. He was best known for playing Pancho in the popular television series The Cisco Kid (1950–1956) and in several films. Biography

Family roots

<mask> was a member of the <mask> family of California, a prominent Californio family, and traced his ancestry through California, Mexico, and Spain to the year 1260. His great-great grandfather <mask> (1749–1809), was  a soldier in the Spanish Portolá expedition colonization of Las Californias, arriving in San Diego on July 1, 1769. Franciscan Friar Junípero Serra performed the marriage ceremony for Don Jose Raimundo and  Tomasa Ignacia Lugo in 1781. His great-grandfather <mask>  (1783–1852) was governor of Alta California (1837–38). His great-uncle, <mask>, was a three-time mayor of Los Angeles and twice married to sisters of Governor Pío Pico.His paternal grandfather, <mask>, who was educated in Boston, was a writer. Early history
The family moved from San Diego to Los Angeles then to Santa Monica, where <mask>'s father Juan José <mask> (1842–1916), served as the city's police chief and later the first mayor. His cousin was Broadway star William Gaxton (real name Arturo Antonio Gaxiola). Proud of his heritage, <mask> wrote the book The California I Love, published shortly before his death in 1961. Career

A university graduate, <mask> worked as a newspaper cartoonist for the San Francisco Examiner, then turned to acting on Broadway. In Hollywood, he appeared in more than 90 films, often as a dialect specialist -- although in real life, he had a baritone speaking voice without a trace of an accent. He usually used the dialect for comic effect, liberally salting his speech with malaprops: "My ears, they are para-loused!"or "Why you wanna put your dirty face in my horse's water? I got a healthy horse and you put Germans in the water!" When his screen character left any scene, <mask> always exclaimed, "Let's went!" <mask> could play sympathetic and villainous roles with equal skill. In 1951 he took the starring role in the feature film Pancho Villa Returns, which was filmed in both English-dialogue and Spanish-dialogue versions. However, he is best remembered as Pancho, good-natured sidekick of The Cisco Kid, opposite Duncan Renaldo as Cisco. Renaldo and <mask> were teamed for a series of feature films in 1949, and then for a syndicated television series that ran from 1950 until 1956.The Cisco Kid was notable as the first TV series filmed in color. After The Cisco Kid ended production, <mask> appeared in the episode "Rescue at Sea" of the syndicated military drama Men of Annapolis. Civic contributions
<mask> was a preservationist and conservationist of long standing. When a film crew did location filming in Hilo, Hawaii in 1933, the city named one of its stately banyan trees in <mask>'s honor; the "<mask> tree" still stands there today. <mask> served on the California Beach and Parks commission for 18 years and played a key role in the state's acquisition of Hearst Castle at San Simeon, Los Angeles Arboretum, and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. He eventually was made a goodwill ambassador by the California governor at the time. As a result of his service to California, west of Malibu, California on CA-1 Pacific Coast Highway, a 1.5-mile beach is named <mask> State Park in his honor.The City of Westminster, California named an elementary school for him. <mask> Carrillo Ranch Historic Park, originally Rancho de los Kiotes, in Carlsbad, California, is a registered California Historical Site. Rancho Carrillo Trail, also in Carlsbad, is named for <mask>. Political views
In the early days of World War II, <mask> advocated for the removal of all Japanese Americans from the west coast. In a telegram to Congressman Leland Ford that received extensive coverage, <mask> wrote:
I travel every week through a hundred miles of Japanese shacks on the way to my ranch, and it seems that every farmhouse is located on some strategic elevated point. Let's get them off the coast and into the interior. You know and I know the Japanese situation in California.The eastern people are not conscious of this menace. May I urge you in behalf of the safety of the people of California to start action at once. <mask> was a Republican. In 1944, for instance, he performed a "Wild West" act at the massive rally organized by David O. Selznick in the Los Angeles Coliseum in support of the Dewey-Bricker ticket as well as Governor Earl Warren of California, who became Dewey's running mate in 1948 and later the Chief Justice of the United States. The gathering drew 93,000, with Cecil B. DeMille as the master of ceremonies and with short speeches by Hedda Hopper and Walt Disney. Among the others in attendance were Ann Sothern, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Adolphe Menjou, Gary Cooper, Edward Arnold, William Bendix, and Walter Pidgeon. Personal life
In 1913, <mask> married Edith Shakespeare Haeselbarth of Nyack, New York, whom he met backstage at the New York City theater where she had seen him perform.They remained together until her death in 1953. They lived in Los Alisos on Channel Road, in Santa Monica Canyon. The <mask>s had one child, a daughter, Marie Antoinette. They spent part of their time at their  ranch in Carlsbad, California. <mask> frequently permitted Boy Scout groups to camp on the grounds. Death

<mask> died of cancer in 1961 at the age of 81 and is interred at Santa Monica's Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery. Legacy
For his contributions to the film industry, <mask> has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1635 Vine Street, and a second star at 1517 Vine Street for his work in television.Filmography

See also

 Rancho De Los Kiotes (<mask> Carrillo Ranch Historic Park)
 Leo Carrillo State Park

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Footnotes

Mark Anthony <mask> Sr Born July 13, 1982 the relative of <mask>

Citations

References

José Raimundo <mask> (1749-1809) <mask> biography
PIO PICO GENEALOGY DATABASE
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Billboard, 24 Sep 1949. Page 47. Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park
Rancho Carrillo Trail
David M. Jordan, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011), p. 231
[http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/leo-carrillo/ Hollywood Star Walk <mask>illo cuzin to
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20th-century American male actors
Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica
California Republicans
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<mask>  (24 October 1843 – 10 March 1933), one of New Zealand's last land wars heroes, was awarded the rare New Zealand Cross for his acts of bravery at Ngatapa Pā, Gisborne in January 1869. Only 23 of these medals were ever awarded. <mask> was among the first to receive the award and was the last recipient to die. Origins
<mask> as he was commonly known, was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 24 October 1843, the son of an English regular soldier, <mask>, and his wife Anne Leach. The Biddles were originally from Alveston, Gloucestershire, England before migrating on the settlers ship, the Katherine Stewart Forbes on 1 February 1841 which arrived in New Zealand in June of the same year. Ben grew up on the shores of the Waitemata Harbour and worked on the Captain Jones cutters as a youngster, sailing between Auckland and the Bay of Plenty. Following his time at sea, he worked on a cattle farm where he broke in horses.(Evans 1998. p. 13). New Zealand land wars
As a 21-year-old, <mask> enlisted in the New Zealand Colonial Forces as a constable in the 1st Division of the Armed Constabulary (Military Police). He soon saw action and was involved in a number of notable conflicts. According to Cowan (1935) 'He made a name in the Hauhau wars for his enterprise and disregard of danger. He was sometimes in trouble with military officers who had incurred his contempt by their ignorance of bush warfare or their excessive caution, but when men were needed for the fighting line the call was always for <mask> and men of his kind.' (p. 223). Ngatapa

Following their defeat at Makaretu on 3 December 1868, Te Kooti and his followers withdrew to an ancient Māori pā, named Ngatapa, northwest of Gisborne, where they made a stand against the colonial forces and the kupapa, (colonial-aligned Māori).Ngatapa was a single cone-shaped mountain and was around 2,000 feet high with two sharp cliffs to the sides and a narrow precipice to the rear of the mountain. On 5 December an attempt to storm the pā was commanded by Major Wahawaha and Lieutenant Preece, but they were not successful owing to a lack of ammunition and the defection of a number of men. On 24 December Colonel Whitmore set out from Patutahi with a stronger and better prepared force of men, including the Armed Constabulary. By 31 December Whitmore's men had gained a position on the same ridge as the pā and two days later, began their assault upon Ngatapa. The colonial forces and the kupapa attempted to take the pā but Te Kooti's men succeeded in slowing them down and Whitmore ordered an artillery bombardment on the pā. The colonial and kupapa forces had only enough men to surround three of the four sides of the pā, but believed that this was adequate as the fourth side was a 200-foot cliff and that it was not possible for Te Kooti's forces to escape in that direction. In the late hours of 4 January  and early hours of 5  January, Te Kooti and a large number of his party escaped by tying blankets and flax ropes together and letting themselves down the unguarded section of cliff.After the pā was taken and a short pursuit was mounted, a number of Hauhau were stripped, shot and thrown from the cliffs atop Ngatapa. Te Kooti had escaped and would go on to cause more havoc for the colonial forces. <mask>'s citation reads:

"For his gallant conduct at the siege of Ngatapa, in January, 1869. The rear of the enemy's position was assigned to the attack under Major Fraser, consisting of Nos 1 and 3 Armed Constabulary and Hotene's Ngatiporous. The extreme right, on a scarped stony ridge, was commanded from the enemy's rifle-pits and works, and lodgement was only effected by cutting out standing room with a pick axe. The enemy made several determined sorties against this point, and it became extremely difficult to maintain the position - which was essential to the success of the operations. A party of twelve Volunteers were at length placed there, and they succeeded, with some loss, in holding the position till the end of the siege, and in repelling several resolute attacks.One of the most conspicuous for his bravery was <mask>." (Bowen 1870:3). Marriage and post war

While serving in the land wars, <mask> married a Māori woman called Mauri Poiakino (Pakohai) who was of Tuhoe and Ngati Pahauwera origins. Mauri accompanied her husband on a number of his military missions, acting as both a guide and cook. Following the land wars, <mask> and Mauri had a large family and lived in Wainui in the Bay of Plenty, an odd location as Ben's nemesis, Te Kooti, resided and built his marae there. One of <mask>'s sons, Robert 'Rapata' <mask>,  become a minister and  secretary within the Ringatu Church, set up by Te Kooti. <mask> also designed the Ringatu crest or logo in 1926.(Binney, 1995:421). Although <mask> found himself at odds with some of his superior officers and faced a court martial on one occasion, he got his own back by naming his most troublesome bullock "Lambert" after his equally troublesome former officer, Colonel Lambert. (Cowan 1935:224). <mask> died in Whakatane on 10 March 1933. References

 Evans et al. 1998. The Biddles: A Bicultural Family of Aotearoa/New Zealand.Auckland: Evagean Publishing. Cowan, J. 1935. Hero Stories of New Zealand. Wellington: Harry Tombs Publishing. http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-CowHero-t1-body-d31.html
 Cowan, J. 1956.The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, 1864–72. Wellington: R.E. Owen Publishing. http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Cow02NewZ-c37.html
 Kerehona, B. 2007. (Draft). Born for War: New Zealand's Military History - A Family Perspective (expected to be published in early 2011).The website can be viewed at http://tumatauenga.webs.com
 NGATAPA, SIEGE OF', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/1966/N/NgatapaSiegeOf/en
 Bowen, G.F. 1870. Roll of the New Zealand Cross. Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library. Binney, J. 1995. Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki.Auckland: University Press. Gudgeon, T. W. 1887. The Defenders of New Zealand: Being a short biography of colonists who distinguished themselves in upholding her Majesty's supremacy in these islands. Auckland: H. Brett Printer/Publisher. People of the New Zealand Wars
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<mask>  (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 <mask> and Derek Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths. With improved equipment, <mask> observed the most distant known galaxies in the universe at that time. He was the first Professor of Radio Astronomy in the University of Cambridge and founding director of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. He was the twelfth Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982. <mask> and Antony Hewish shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974, the first Nobel prize awarded in recognition of astronomical research.In the 1970s, <mask> turned the greater part of his attention from astronomy to social and political issues which he considered to be more urgent. Education and early life

<mask> was born in Brighton, the son of Professor John Alfred <mask> and Miriam (née Scully) <mask>. He was the nephew of Oxford University Professor of Philosophy <mask>. After studying at Bradfield College, <mask> studied physics at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1939, <mask> worked with the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) on the design of antennas for airborne radar equipment during World War II. After the war, he received a fellowship at the Cavendish Laboratory. Career and research
The focus of <mask>'s early work in Cambridge was on radio waves from the Sun.His interest quickly shifted to other areas, however, and he decided early on that the Cambridge group should develop new observing techniques. As a result, <mask> was the driving force in the creation and improvement of astronomical interferometry and aperture synthesis, which paved the way for massive upgrades in the quality of radio astronomical data. In 1946 <mask> built the first multi-element astronomical radio interferometer. <mask> guided the Cambridge radio astronomy group in the production of several important radio source catalogues. One such catalogue, the Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (3C) in 1959 helped lead to the discovery of the first quasi-stellar object (quasar). While serving as university lecturer in physics at Cambridge from 1948 to 1959, <mask> became director of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in 1957 and professor of radio astronomy in 1959. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1952, was knighted in 1966 (p 519 of) and succeeded Sir Richard Woolley as Astronomer Royal from 1972–1982.<mask> and Antony Hewish shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974, the first Nobel prize awarded in recognition of astronomical research. In 1968 <mask> served as professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. Personality
According to numerous reports <mask> was quick-thinking, impatient with those slower than himself and charismatic (pp 502, 508, 510 of). He was also idealistic (p 519 of), a characteristic he shared with his father (p 499 of,). In an interview (p271 of) in 1982 he said "At times one feels that one should almost have a car sticker saying 'Stop Science Now' because we're getting cleverer and cleverer, but we do not increase the wisdom to go with it." He was also intense and volatile (p 327 of), the latter characteristic being associated with his mother (p 499 of, Folder A.20 of). The historian Owen Chadwick described him as "a rare personality, of exceptional sensitivity of mind, fears and anxieties, care and compassion, humour and anger."(Folder A.28 of)

<mask> was sometimes considered difficult to work with – he often worked in an office at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory to avoid disturbances from other members of the Cavendish Laboratory and to avoid getting into heated arguments, as <mask> had a hot temper. <mask> worried that Cambridge would lose its standing in the radio astronomy community as other radio astronomy groups had much better funding, so he encouraged a certain amount of secrecy about his aperture synthesis methods in order to keep an advantage for the Cambridge group. <mask> had heated arguments with Fred Hoyle of the Institute of Astronomy about Hoyle's steady state universe, which restricted collaboration between the Cavendish Radio Astronomy Group and the Institute of Astronomy during the 1960s. War, peace and energy

<mask> was a new physics graduate and an experienced radio ham in 1939, when the Second World War started. He played an important part in the Allied war effort, working mainly in radar countermeasures. After the war, "He returned to Cambridge with a determination to devote himself to pure science, unalloyed by the taint of war." In the 1970s, <mask> turned the greater part of his attention from astronomy to social and political issues which he considered to be more urgent.With publications from 1976 and continuing, despite illness until he died in 1984, he pursued a passionate and intensive program on the socially responsible use of science and technology. His main themes were:
 Warning the world of the horrific dangers of nuclear armaments, notably in his pamphlet Towards the Nuclear Holocaust. Criticism of nuclear power, as in Is there a case for nuclear power? Research and promotion of alternative energy and energy efficiency, as in Short-term Storage and Wind Power Availability. Calling for the responsible use of science and technology. "...we should strive to see how the vast resources now diverted towards the destruction of life are turned instead to the solution of the problems which both rich - but especially the poor - countries of the world now face." In 1983 <mask> responded to a request from the President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for suggestions of topics to be discussed at a meeting on Science and Peace.<mask>'s reply was published posthumously in <mask>'s Letter. An abridged version appears in New Scientist with the title <mask>'s Last Testament. The letter ends with "Our cleverness has grown prodigiously – but not our wisdom." Honours and awards
<mask> was awarded numerous prizes and honours including:

 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1952
Hughes Medal (1954)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1964)
Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize (1965)
Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1965)
Albert A. Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1971)
Royal Medal (1973)
Bruce Medal (1974)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1974)
Ryle Telescope at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
 In 1965 <mask> co-delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on Exploration of the Universe. Personal life

In their early years <mask> and his elder brother received lessons at home in carpentry (p 498 of ) and manual skills became important for him throughout his life. This was for relaxation – he built boats to his own designs (p 498 of ) – and professionally. In his wartime radar work (), his post-war radio-telescope building (p 510 of ) and his late researches into wind energy (p 517 of ) he was a hands-on practical engineer as well as a scientist.<mask> also had a lifelong interest in sailing (p 498 of) and this matched his choice when in the 1970s he turned his research subject from astronomy to wind energy (pp 420–422 of)

Another practical skill acquired by <mask> in youth that later served him well in his professional career was as a radio 'ham'. While still at School (Bradfield College) he built his own transmitter and obtained a Post Office licence to operate it (pp 498–499 of), with the GB-Callsign G3CY. In 1936 the family moved to a house in Cambridge which became <mask>'s home after the war. In 1947 he and Rowena Palmer married and they lived in this house for rest of <mask>'s life. They had three children, born in 1949, 1951 and 1952. <mask> died on 14 October 1984, in Cambridge. He was celebrated on a first class stamp issued in 2009 as part of an Eminent Britons set.Lady <mask> died in 2013. <mask> was an amateur radio operator, and held the GB-Callsign G3CY. Sources

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<mask> (born 17 October 1982) is a British writer, journalist, video editor, YouTuber, and a regular contributor to Radio Times and Doctor Who Magazine. He has also been published in The Daily Telegraph, TV Times, Filmstar, Cult Times, TV Zone and The Stage, and is the author of Doctor Who: The New Audio Adventures – The Inside Story. In 2008, BBC Books published Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, based on a year-long email correspondence between <mask> and Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies. A revised and updated paperback edition, The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter (featuring 350 pages of new material, extending the correspondence by another year), was published in January 2010. He is also known for writing and directing the short film The Imp of the Perverse, starring Dan Stokes, Jake Shiels and Myles Wheeler, as well as the documentary series Becoming YouTube. Early life
<mask> was born in Isleworth, London, England. He went to Orleans Park School in Twickenham from 1994 to 1999.At the age of 13, in 1996, he won a competition run by BBC children's news programme Newsround. In a 2008 interview, he explained:

The first thing I ever wrote was for Newsround'''s Press Packers... to enter a competition, and I won that, so I got to go to the BBC for the day – and work at Radio Times for a day, which now of course, a decade later, I'm doing regularly, and getting paid for it! – so that sort of sparked my interest.

He went to Richmond upon Thames College from 1999 to 2001, and then, from 2002 to 2006, attended Collingwood College at the University of Durham, where he studied English Literature. Radio Times
For Radio Times magazine, <mask> has written on E4 teen drama Skins ("The assertion that it's our job simply to reflect life is always a cop-out," co-creator Bryan Elsley told him. "But people who think it's our duty to educate young people on the correct way to live are just as bonkers"), ITV talent show The X Factor ("We weren't always fighting," Dannii Minogue confessed about ex-judge Sharon Osbourne, "but Sharon made it clear that she didn't like me, so she won't be missed. Not by me"), short-livedrama Demons ("I didn't entirely understand Demons," actor Richard Wilson told <mask> Djalili Show ("The first series was OK, but we all agreed it was there to be bettered," said Omid Djalili."It was a bit slapdash, to be honest"), Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture and Wild China, Comedy Central's Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, as well as BBC dramas Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Merlin, Little Dorrit and Spooks. In 2009, <mask> interviewed US boy band the Jonas Brothers for Radio Times, in which they spoke out about the controversy surrounding comedian Russell Brand's ridicule of their chastity rings at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards: "You know what? We were happy to see he recognised their value," reasoned Joe. "You have to learn to laugh," Kevin added. The next year, <mask> conducted the "first Twitter interview" with Stephen Fry, asking him how he accounted for (fellow 2010 National Television Award nominee) Piers Morgan's career: "It's pretty hard to imagine, isn't it?" replied Fry. "Biodiversity is the answer... Just as nature needs a few snakes and bugs, TV needs Piers Morgan and me!"Doctor Who Magazine
<mask> first wrote for Doctor Who Magazine (DWM) in March 1999. Since then, his catalogue of interviews for the publication ranges from David Tennant, Billie Piper, Kylie Minogue and Richard E Grant to Peter Kay, Charlotte Church and McFly, and the first ever major print interview with Matt Smith. <mask>'s regular back-page interview column, Who on Earth is..., has featured such diverse names as Bernard Cribbins, Timothy Dalton, Duncan James from Blue and Professor Richard Dawkins. <mask> has compiled six DWM Special Editions – published between 2005 and 2010, under the umbrella title In Their Own Words – providing a chronological commentary on the making of the TV series, from 1963 to 2009, by those involved in its production, collated from extracts of interviews previously published in DWM. In 2002, <mask> tracked down elusive Doctor Who scriptwriter Christopher Bailey and interviewed him for DWM. This inspired Robert Shearman to write Deadline, an acclaimed audio play starring Derek Jacobi as retired writer Martin Bannister (loosely based on Bailey) and Ian Brooker as journalist Sydney (loosely based on <mask>), reporter for the fictional Juliet Bravo Magazine. In a 2004 interview, Shearman explained:

I think Deadline is in some ways inspired by the idea that he [Martin Bannister] gets tracked down by, essentially, <mask>.Not called <mask> in the play, of course – but it was actually based on DWMs Christopher Bailey interview. Here was a writer who hadn't been interviewed for many years, and was obviously not bitter about it, but had [...] his own perspective of what he wanted to say and do. In February 2008, <mask> had a contentious interview with actor Clive Swift. "I'm quite aggrieved," Swift told him. "Why should I do this? I'm not getting paid, am I?" Swift refused to answer some of <mask>'s questions and replied brusquely to others.When <mask> asked Swift – best known for his portrayal of Richard Bucket in BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances – whether people shout "Richard" at him in the street, the actor replied: "Sometimes. I tell them to fuck off." The encounter ended with Swift insisting, "I know that you all think that this is a big world, this Who business. But it isn't. There are much bigger things than this." When <mask> replied, "Maybe, but it means a lot to a great many of us," Swift terminated the interview. In another controversial interview, in January 2010, outgoing Doctor Who star David Tennant told <mask>:

Clearly the Labour Party is not without some issues right now [...] but they're still a better bet than the Tories.I would still rather have Gordon Brown than David Cameron. I would rather have a Prime Minister who is the cleverest person in the room than a Prime Minister who looks good in a suit. I think David Cameron is a terrifying prospect. I think he's a regional newscaster who will jump on whatever bandwagon flies past. I get quite panicked at the notion that people are buying into his rhetoric, because it seems very manipulative to me... It's very weird that you can work in the arts – which tends to be about empathy, and understanding the human condition, and hopefully feeling some kind of sympathy for your fellow man – and vote for the Tories. I do find that inconceivable.Tennant's comments were widely reported, with Cameron offering a rebuttal on Richard Bacon's BBC Radio 5 Live show on 11 January:

Well, that's a pity, but there we are. You're never going to win over everybody. I definitely believe there's no point trying to win over everyone. Say what you think, say what you believe in, say what you believe needs to be done – and if people will come with you, they will come with you. I never give up, so maybe I'll have another go at convincing him. The Writer's Tale
In 2008, BBC Books published Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, based on an in-depth email correspondence between <mask> and Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies, spanning February 2007 to March 2008, during production of the show's fourth series. Extracts were published in The Times on 16 and 17 September 2008, and the book itself met with positive reviews.Esther Walker of The Independent predicted that "the fans will adore it. Davies has engaged with the book totally and there is full disclosure from him about everything." The Daily Telegraph's Robert Colvile called the book "Remarkably open", adding: "Despite the self-deprecating bonhomie, there's a ruthless confidence to Davies." In a five-star review for Heat magazine, Boyd Hilton called it "a funny, revealing insight into the workings of the genius who puts the show together." In another five-star review, SFX Magazine said, "You can douse all the other books about new Who in lighter fuel and spark up your Zippo – this is all you need. It's the only one that opens a door into the brain of the series' showrunner." Darren Scott of The Pink Paper – which also awarded the book five stars – agreed: "If you're an uber fan of the show... or an aspiring (or even established) writer, this book will very, very quickly fall into the 'can't put down' category."Scott Matthewman of The Stage said, "I can't recommend The Writer's Tale highly enough... It's a genuine insight into the entire television production process." "The Writer's Tale is an enormous book, but consumed compulsively it doesn't last very long at all," said Thom Hutchinson of Death Ray magazine. "We learn, brilliantly, the difference between bellowing media personage Big Russell and the apprehensive, chain-smoking obsessive who exists alone and silent in the early hours." The Scotsman's team of arts writers said: "The Writer's Tale offers a fascinating insight into the writing of one of TV's biggest hits." Veronica Horwell of The Guardian called it "the Doctor Who Annual for adults", suggesting that 500-odd pages "is not nearly enough, should have been 1001 pages, because Davies doesn't need to be writing fiction, shaping stuff retrieved from the flux of his Great Maybe, to be a storyteller. He's the Scheherazade of Cardiff Bay."Horwell described Davies as "a total romantic about writing. It's his love, his drug, his force for change: over the year even invisible, unopinionated <mask> emerges as a proper companion who challenges Davies over the last image in the series. And wins. Brilliant." In the blogosphere, Sci-Fi Onlines Daniel Salter claimed that The Writer's Tale "could be one of the most important Doctor Who books you're ever likely to read, even if it's not always about Doctor Who." "Page after page of banter that's just as exciting and suspenseful as the show itself," enthused Sebastian J. Brook of Doctor Who Online. "<mask>'s fearless and intelligent approach to asking questions pave [sic] the way for some fantastic responses as he manages to temper Davies' fun, energetic and sometimes insecure narrative with good, solid and sometimes cheeky responses."Off The Tellys Graham Kibble-White concluded: "Candid, lucid and an all-too painful evocation of the challenges inherit in writing and running perhaps the most important show on the BBC". In November 2008, it was announced that Richard and Judy, the couple credited with revolutionising the reading habits of Britons, had selected The Writer's Tale for their Christmas Presents book strand – in the Serious Non-Fiction category – as part of the prestigious Richard & Judy Book Club. The couple described the book as "an absolute snapshot into the mind of a creative writer... It's a free flow of thought – a stream of consciousness. It's a great book." On 2 December 2008, inspired by The Writer's Tale, Charlie Brooker devoted an extended edition of his BBC Four TV show Screenwipe entirely to interviews with prestigious writers, including Russell T Davies. In June 2009, The Writer's Tale was shortlisted in the "Best Non-Fiction" category at the 2009 British Fantasy Awards, but ultimately lost out to Stephen Jones' Basil Copper: A Life in Books.Published in January 2010, the paperback edition, The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter, updates Davies and <mask>'s correspondence to September 2009, to cover Davies' final year as Head Writer and Executive Producer of Doctor Who, taking in David Tennant's final few episodes as the Doctor. Critical reception was generally positive. SFX magazine's Ian Berriman described the book as "satisfyingly voyeuristic" and said, "It's well worth buying, even if you've already got the original edition." The Guardians Vera Rule called it "Far more than a ritual 'making of'" and the "Best masterclass in telly I've ever attended," adding: "Made me cry." Heat magazine included the book on its "Hot List" of "The Top Ten Things We At Heat Are Completely Obsessed With This Week." However, Private Eye criticised the tome for being "breathlessly self-congratulatory" – "a bring-your-own-extolment party in which readers are invited to bask in the outrageous genius of this bear-like TV demagogue." Asked, in a February 2010 interview, whether there were any plans to conduct a similar correspondence with Davies' successor as showunner, Steven Moffat, <mask> replied: Not at the moment.Well, not by me. Maybe Steven's e-mailing someone else! But look, e-mailing me isn't a prerequisite for taking the job of showrunner. I'm not handed down from head writer to head writer, like a soup recipe. Or a genetic disorder. The Writer's Tale sort of came about by accident, really, and it was quite an organic process, at a time when Russell already had three series under his belt...

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On 16 August 2012, <mask> released a trailer on his YouTube account ninebrassmonkeys for his project, Becoming YouTube, a 12-part "weekly" video series about the British YouTube community. Presented in a documentary style and incorporating sketch comedy and fantasy sequences featuring popular YouTube stars.The first episode was launched on 9 December 2012. After uploading the last episode of Becoming YouTube of the first series on 23 February 2014, he announced Project:Library, which is written by <mask>, Tim Hautekiet and Jack Howard. On 7 April 2013, <mask> was featured in The Guardian in an article about Britain's 20 most popular video bloggers and about his success with Becoming YouTube. <mask> is also involved with the development of Tofu, an 8-part sex-culture web series commissioned by Channel 4 to accompany the television productions Cucumber and Banana. On 8 January 2015, <mask> has uploaded a trailer for the 2nd season of his project, Becoming YouTube, claimed to be the last in the series. He also conducted interviews with a number of YouTube personalities including Charlie McDonnell, Emma Blackery, Jack Howard, Daniel Howell, Phil Lester, amongst others. Tofu

Tofu is a British online documentary series presented by <mask> released in 2015 on 4oD, Channel 4's video-on-demand service.The series complements two series by Russell T Davies, Cucumber and Banana. <mask> interviews the cast members and the public about modern sex, sexuality, and issues referenced or arisen in the 2 shows. Like Cucumber and Banana, the name of the series refers to the same urological scale of hardness of the male erection which starts at tofu, goes through peeled banana and banana, and ends at cucumber. <mask>, <mask> (2003). Doctor Who: The New Audio Adventures – The Inside Story. Berkshire: Big Finish. .
 Hickman, Clayton, ed. (2005), "<mask>, <mask>", Doctor Who Annual 2006, pp.47–52. Kent: Panini Books. .
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 Davies, Russell T; and <mask>, <mask> (2010). Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter. London: BBC Books. .
 Hickman, Clayton, ed. (2010), "<mask>, <mask>", The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011, pp.104–107. London: BBC Books. .
 Hickman, Clayton, ed. (2011), "<mask>, <mask>", The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012'', pp. 10–14, 36–39, 64–67, 94–97, 154–159. London: BBC Books. .

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<mask> (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. "Little B's Poem", from the 1966 Blue Note album Components, is one of his best-known compositions. <mask> influenced younger vibraphonists including Steve Nelson, Joe Locke, and Stefon Harris. Biography

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<mask> was born in Los Angeles, California, to Eli, a master mason, and Esther, a hairdresser. <mask> was exposed to jazz by his brother Teddy, who listened to Art Blakey records in the family home with his friend Dexter Gordon. His older sister Peggy was a singer in Gerald Wilson's orchestra. <mask> went on to record on a number of Gerald Wilson's Pacific Jazz recordings as well as play in his orchestra.<mask>'s sister personally introduced <mask> to Eric Dolphy (her boyfriend at the time) and Billy Mitchell. <mask> was inspired to take up the vibraphone when at about the age of 12 he heard Milt Jackson with Thelonious Monk, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke and Miles Davis playing "Bemsha Swing" on the Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 2 album (1954). Still in his teens, <mask> began his professional career in the late 1950s working with tenor saxophonist Curtis Amy and trumpeter Carmell Jones, as well as with Dolphy and tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd at Pandora's Box on the Sunset Strip. He made his recording debut on August 3, 1960, cutting two songs for a 7-inch single with the Les McCann trio for Pacific Jazz (released in 1961), followed by the LP Groovin' Blue with the Curtis Amy-Frank Butler sextet on December 10 (also released by Pacific Jazz in 1961). In January 1962, <mask> joined the Billy Mitchell–Al Grey group for dates at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco and Birdland in New York City (opposite Art Blakey). After touring with the Mitchell–Grey group for a year, <mask> settled in New York City (on 165th street in The Bronx) where he worked part-time as a taxi driver, before fully entering the jazz scene via his childhood friend, bassist Herbie Lewis. Blue Note Records
Lewis was working with The Jazztet and hosted jam sessions at his apartment.After hearing <mask> play at one of Lewis' events, Jazztet and Jackie McLean band member Grachan Moncur III felt that <mask> would be a good fit for McLean's group, which led to <mask>'s first recording for Blue Note Records on April 30, 1963, McLean's One Step Beyond. This was quickly followed by sessions for Blue Note with Moncur, Dolphy, Gordon, Andrew Hill, Tony Williams and Grant Green in 1963 and 1964, later followed by sessions with Joe Henderson, John Patton, Duke Pearson and Lee Morgan. In spite of the numerous post-bop, avant-garde, and free jazz recordings made during this period, <mask>'s first session for Blue Note as leader, The Kicker (recorded in 1963 but not released until 1999), demonstrated his background in hard bop and the blues, as did Idle Moments with Grant Green. <mask> won the "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" award in the 1964 Down Beat readers' poll, and Blue Note released <mask>'s Dialogue in 1965. The 1966 record Stick-Up!, featuring Joe Henderson, Herbie Lewis, and Billy Higgins, was the first of many recorded sessions <mask> made with McCoy Tyner throughout their careers. Stick-Up! was also the only album out of ten <mask> recorded as leader for Blue Note between 1965 and 1969 which did not feature drummer Joe Chambers or any of Chambers' compositions.Spanning the years 1963 to 1977, <mask> had one of the longest recording careers with Blue Note, second only to Horace Silver's. Return to the West Coast
<mask> lost his cabaret card and taxi driver's license in 1967 after he and Joe Chambers were arrested for marijuana possession in Central Park, so he moved back to California, but continued to record for Blue Note. This return to the West Coast resulted in an important partnership with Harold Land, with whom <mask> recorded seven albums for Blue Note, featuring a rotating lineup of pianists such as Chick Corea, Stanley Cowell, and Joe Sample, and usually Chambers on drums. The <mask>-Land group broke up in 1971, and that same year <mask> won the title of "World's Best Vibist" in the International Jazz Critics Poll. After the release of Knucklebean in 1977, <mask> recorded three albums for Columbia Records in the late 1970s. Land and <mask> reunited in the early 1980s for several recordings as the "Timeless All Stars," a sextet featuring Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, Buster Williams, and Billy Higgins which recorded four albums for the Dutch label Timeless Records. After switching between several labels in the early 1980s for his solo material, <mask> recorded eight albums for Landmark Records from the 1980s into the early 1990s, and continued to work steadily as a sideman during this time.His recorded output slowed somewhat during the past few decades, although he did release albums for Atlantic and Verve in the 1990s, three for the Swiss-based label Kind of Blue in the 21st century, and continued to tour. Later years
In 2004, <mask> became an inaugural member of the SFJAZZ Collective, featuring Joshua Redman, Miguel Zenón, Nicholas Payton, Renee Rosnes, and Eric Harland, among others. He toured with them for four years, and made an appearance at the SFJAZZ Center's grand opening in 2013. His 2007 quartet included Renee Rosnes on piano, Dwayne Burno on bass and Al Foster on drums. His 2008 quartet included Joe Gilman on piano, Glenn Richman on bass and Eddie Marshall on drums. In 2010 he received the lifetime Jazz Master Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and performed at Birdland in a quintet featuring Gilman, Burno, Marshall, and Peter Bernstein. 2014 saw <mask> return to Blue Note Records with Enjoy the View, recorded at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood with Joey DeFrancesco, David Sanborn, and Billy Hart.The quartet performed four sold-out shows at the SFJAZZ Center in February, prior to the album's release. Acting career
<mask>'s intermittent acting career included an appearance as the bandleader in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), and as Ace in Round Midnight (1986). Personal life
<mask> has a son, Barry, from his first marriage to Beth Buford. <mask> wrote the waltz "Little B's Poem" for Barry in 1962. Due to the success of "Ummh" from the album San Francisco, one of <mask>'s few entries in the jazz fusion style, he was able to buy an acre of land on which he built a house in Montara, California, in 1972. That same year, he married Rosemary Zuniga, a ticket taker at the Both/And club in San Francisco.The couple had a son, Teddy, who is a production manager for SFJAZZ. <mask> attended an African Methodist Episcopal Church as a youth and converted to Catholicism later in life. A heavy smoker all his life, <mask> had suffered from emphysema since 2007. He died from the condition in Montara, California, on August 15, 2016. Style and critical reception

AllMusic contributor Steve Huey stated that <mask>'s "free-ringing, open chords and harmonically advanced solos were an important part of Dolphy's 1964 masterwork Out to Lunch! ", and called Dialogue a "classic of modernist post-bop", declaring <mask> "one of jazz's greatest vibraphonists". Huey went on to say: "along with Gary Burton, the other seminal vibraphone talent of the '60s, <mask> helped modernize his instrument by redefining what could be done with it – sonically, technically, melodically, and emotionally.In the process, he became one of the defining (if underappreciated) voices in the so-called "new thing" portion of Blue Note's glorious '60s roster." In his liner notes to the 1980 release of Medina, record producer Richard Seidel (Verve, Sony Masterworks) wrote that "of all the vibists to appear on the scene contemporaneous with <mask>, none have been able to combine the rhythmic dexterity, emotive attack and versatile musical interests that <mask> possesses." Seidel concurred that <mask> was "part of the vanguard of the new jazz developments in the Sixties. He contributed mightily to several of the key sessions that document these developments." Interviewed by Jesse Hamlin for a piece on <mask> in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2012, collaborator Joshua Redman said that "We talk a lot about how music expresses universal values, experiences and feelings. But you don't often witness that so clearly and so profoundly as you do with <mask>. His music expresses the joy of living.He connects to the source of what music is about." In an April 2013 profile for Down Beat magazine, Dan Ouellette wrote that "<mask> took the vibes to a new level of jazz sophistication with his harmonic inventions and his blurring-fast, four-mallet runs... Today, he's the standard bearer of the instrument and has a plenitude of emulators to prove it." Ouellette quoted Joey DeFrancesco as saying "<mask> is the greatest vibes player of all time.... Milt Jackson was the guy, but <mask> took it to the next level. It's like Milt was Charlie Parker, and <mask> was John Coltrane." Discography

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is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB). He previously played with the Hanshin Tigers. <mask> was one of the most highly coveted position players in years as a senior for Waseda University in 2003. He holds the current NPB record for most consecutive games played without missing an inning as a shortstop, and appeared in every Tigers game for over 13 years from 2005 to May 27, 2018 (1,939 regular season games). Captain of the club since the start of the 2013 season. Early life and high school career
<mask> was born in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, the eldest of three brothers. He played for the Higashimurayama Junior Mets, Ozakudai Little League Club in his elementary school days in Higashimurayama and Hamura, and Mizuho Senior in his junior high school days in Hamura.He played both shortstop and pitcher at Seibō Gakuen Senior High School in Saitama. He played in the 81st National High School Baseball Championship in 1999, coming on in relief in Seibō Gakuen's first game against Hita-Rinkō High School (the Ōita champions) and clocking , but his team lost 5–3. College career
<mask> went on to enroll at Waseda University as a human sciences major. There, he was surrounded by an impressive collection of talent: his year included then-right fielder Norichika Aoki (Tokyo Yakult Swallows), third baseman Toshimitsu Higa (Hiroshima Carp) and center fielder Shintaro Yoshida (Orix Buffaloes), all three of whom would later go on to the pros. Left-hander Tsuyoshi Wada (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks) was in the year above him, and second baseman Hiroyasu Tanaka (BayStars) and first baseman Shinichi Takeuchi (Swallows) would join the team one and two years later, respectively. In the spring of 2001, then-sophomore <mask> led the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League in all three Triple Crown categories (batting average, home runs, runs batted in), tying current Saitama Seibu Lions third baseman Taketoshi Gotoh as the fastest player (by academic year) to win Triple Crown honors in the history of the league. <mask> drew 19 combined walks and hit-batters in the spring 2003 season as a senior, a Tokyo Big6 record (later broken by then-Rikkyo University outfielder Yuichi Tabata in 2004).He won his second batting title that fall. He won five Tokyo Big6 Best Nine awards during his eight seasons (spring and fall) at Waseda, playing in 96 games and hitting .333 with 11 home runs and 71 RBI for his college career and leading Waseda to a record four consecutive league titles along with the likes of Aoki, Higa and Yoshida. He was one of the most highly touted position players in recent years in the months preceding the  and was said to be a complete five-tool player. The Hanshin Tigers signed him as a pre-draft pick in early November. Professional career

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In 2004, amid much hype from both fans and members of the media, <mask> was named the Tigers' starting shortstop and No. 7 hitter in the Tigers' season opener as a rookie despite the presence of 26-year-old Atsushi Fujimoto, who had hit .301 at the same position the year before. He got the first base hit of his career off left-hander Yukinaga Maeda in the eighth inning of the opener against the Yomiuri Giants on April 2.However, struggling to make contact with the ball on a consistent basis, <mask> was replaced by Fujimoto in the sixth game of the season and saw most of his playing time at third base until Fujimoto left the team to play for Japan in the 2004 Athens Olympics, hitting his first career home run off then-Yokohama BayStars right-hander Kazumasa Azuma on May 27 and recording his first career stolen base against the BayStars on July 19. As luck would have it, Fujimoto struggled with his hitting upon rejoining the Tigers after the Olympic Games, and <mask> got most of the starts at shortstop for the remainder of the season. He hit just .251 with three home runs and 17 RBI in 235 at-bats, slugging a mere .345 in a disappointing rookie campaign. In 2005, Fujimoto was permanently moved to second base, and he and <mask> manned the Tigers' middle infield to begin the season. <mask> became the team's No. 2 hitter after Fujimoto and Kentaro Sekimoto, who had platooned in the 2-hole, struggled with their hitting. He played in all 146 games, hitting .278 with nine home runs and 52 RBI and even hitting two walk-off home runs in contributing to the Tigers' league championship.It was reported that he had married his high school sweetheart, who had been a year older than he was and the baseball team's team manager, on December 20 during the off-season. <mask> continued to make strides offensively, hitting .289 with 15 home runs and 58 RBI for the season in 2006. During one stretch from June 1 to 3, he hit a two-run home run to give his team the lead in the first game against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, a solo home run and an RBI double against Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks ace Kazumi Saito in the second, and a walk-off hit against Hawks right-hander Yoshiaki Fujioka in the third. He struggled on the defensive end, however, leading all of Japanese professional baseball with 21 errors. His wife gave birth to their first child (a boy) in September. <mask> replaced center fielder Norihiro Akahoshi as the team's leadoff hitter in 2007, but struggled with this new role, hitting .273 with 10 home runs and seeing declines in almost every offensive category. Despite this, he established a new NPB record for consecutive games played without missing an inning with 340 on July 24 in a game against the Chunichi Dragons.He extended this record to 398, but was taken out of the game early on September 29 to heal an injury he had suffered when hit by a pitch several days earlier. <mask> also made headlines when a Japanese tabloid reported that he had invited three women over to his hotel room while the team was staying in Tokyo during one away game stretch in September. The Tigers organization issued him a warning for his actions. In 2008, <mask> became the Tigers' No. 6 hitter, hitting over .300 for most of the year and even seeing time at the 3- and 5-hole (along with Sekimoto) while slugger Takahiro Arai was recovering from an injury. He returned to the No. 6 spot after Makoto Imaoka was promoted to the ichigun  (Japanese equivalent of "major league") level.<mask> was one of only three players in either of the Japanese leagues (along with teammate and left fielder Tomoaki Kanemoto and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters second baseman Kensuke Tanaka) to play all 144 games without missing an inning. He finished the year with a .281 batting average, 13 home runs and a career-high 80 RBI, winning his first Best Nine Award. His wife gave birth to their second child on September 13. For 2009, <mask> was named the Tigers' No. 3 hitter by newly appointed manager Akinobu Mayumi, hitting .333 with three home runs and 14 RBI and scoring a league-leading 20 runs in front of cleanup hitter Kanemoto (who himself hit .379 with eight homers and 30 RBI) in the month of April. In 2014, <mask> informed Tigers' management of his wish to exercise his free agent right to transfer to Major League Baseball(MLB), but eventually re-signed with the Tigers. On December 2, 2019, he become free agent.Chiba Lotte Marines
On March 10, 2020, <mask> signed with the Chiba Lotte Marines of the NPB. Playing style

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<mask> is a left-handed spray hitter listed at 5 ft 11 in and 170 lb. He stands upright in the batter's box, employing an exaggerated open stance with his hands held shoulder-high away from his body. <mask> has gap power and can hit fairly evenly to all fields; though the majority of his extra-base hits were to the opposite field earlier in his career, he has gradually shown an ability to pull the ball for extra bases as well. He is a fast runner (his six triples in 2008 were the third-most in the league) and rarely makes mistakes on the basepaths, but is generally passive and does not look to steal unless given the sign to do so. <mask> has good range on the defensive end (he set a single-season Central League record for assists as a shortstop with 490 in 2006) and one of the strongest throwing arms of any NPB player at his position, routinely making plays from deep in the 5-6 hole (the area between third and short). However, he is somewhat error-prone, particularly on the throwing end of plays.His 15 errors in the 2008 season tied for most among Central League shortstops (Yomiuri Giants shortstop Hayato Sakamoto also committed 15). Career statistics

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 NPB.com
Japanese stats and info of Takashi Toritani

1981 births
Living people
Baseball people from Tokyo
Hanshin Tigers players
Chiba Lotte Marines players
Japanese baseball players
Nippon Professional Baseball shortstops
People from Higashimurayama, Tokyo
Waseda University alumni
2013 World Baseball Classic players

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