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<mask> (4 January 177220 March 1840), was a German jurist and musician. Early life

He was born at Hamelin, in Hanover, the son of an officer in the Hanoverian army, of French Huguenot descent. After school in Hameln and Hanover, Thibaut entered the University of Göttingen as a student of jurisprudence, went from there to Königsberg, where he studied under Immanuel Kant, and afterwards to the University of Kiel, where he was a fellow-student with Niebuhr. Here, after taking his degree of doctor of laws, he became a Privat-dozent. His younger brother was <mask>, a mathematician. Jurist

Early career

In 1798 he was appointed extraordinary professor of civil law, and in the same year appeared his Versuche über einzelne Theile der Theorie des Rechts (1798), a collection of essays on the theory of law, of which by far the most important was entitled Über den Einfluss der Philosophie auf die Auslegung der positiven Gesetze, wherein he sought to show that history without philosophy could not interpret and explain law. In 1799, he published his Theorie der logischen Auslegung des römischen Rechts, one of his major works.In 1802 he published a short criticism of Feuerbach's theory of criminal law, which recalls in many ways the speculations of Jeremy Bentham. The same year appeared Über Besitz und Verjahrung, a treatise on the law of possession and the limitation of actions. In 1802 Thibaut was called to Jena, where he spent three years and wrote, in <mask>'s summer-house, his chief work, System des Pandektenrechts (1803), which ran into many editions. The fame of this book results from its being the first modern complete compendium of the subject, distinguished alike by the accuracy of its sources and the freedom and unpedantic manner in which the subject is handled. It is, in effect, a codification of the Roman law as it then obtained in Germany, modified by canon law and the practice of the courts into a comprehensive system of Pandect law. At the invitation of the grand-duke of Baden, Thibaut went to Heidelberg to fill the chair of civil law and to assist in organizing the university; and he never left the town, though in later years, as his fame grew, he was offered places at Göttingen, Munich and Leipzig. His class was large, his influence great; and, except Gustav Hugo and Savigny, no civilian of his time was so well known.Civil law essay
In 1814 appeared his Civilistische Abhandlungen ("Treatises on Civil Law"), of which the principal was his famous essay, the parent of so much literature, Über die Nothwendigkeit eines allgemeinen bürgerlichen Rechts für Deutschland ("On the Necessity of a General Civil Law for Germany"). It was inspired by the enthusiasm of the so-called German Wars of Liberation against Napoleon (1813–1814) and written in fourteen days. <mask> himself explained in the Archiv für die civilistische Praxis, in 1838, the origin of this memorable essay. He had realized the change denoted by the march of German soldiers to Paris in 1814, and the happy future opened up for Germany. The system of small states he hoped and believed would continue; for the big state he considered crushing to the life of the individual and harmful as concentrating the "warm life" of the nation in one central point. In his judgment the only unity practicable and needful for Germany was that of law; and for this he urged all the German governments to labour. The essay was as much a condemnation of the entire state of jurisprudence as an argument for codification; it was a challenge to civilians to justify their very existence.Savigny took up the challenge thus thrown down when he wrote Über den Beruf unserer Zeit für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft (1814); and a long controversy as to points not very clearly defined took place. The glory of the controversy belonged to Savigny; the real victory rested with Thibaut. Later life
In 1819 he was appointed to the upper house of the newly constituted Baden parliament. He was also made member of the Scheidungsgericht (divorce court). In 1836 Thibaut published his Erorterungen des römischen Rechts. One of his last works was a contribution in 1838 to the Archiv für die civilistische Praxis, of which he was one of the editors (see below). Thibaut married, in 1800, a daughter of Professor Ahlers of Kiel.He died after a short illness, at Heidelberg. Legacy

Thibaut, a man of strong personality, was much more than a jurist: he has a place in the history of music. Palestrina and the early composers of church music were his delight; and in 1824 he published, anonymously, Über die Reinheit der Tonkunst (Purity of Music), in which he eulogized the old music, especially that of Palestrina. He was an ardent collector of old compositions, and often sent young men to Italy, at his own expense, to discover interesting musical manuscripts. Among the masters of German prose, too, Thibaut has a place. His style, though simple, is richly expressive. The framers of the new German civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) in 1879 owed the arrangement of their matter in no small degree to Thibaut's method and clear classification, but beyond this, the code, based on the civil law of the several German states, which was adroitly blended by the usus pandectarum into an harmonious whole, does not reflect his influence.He was one of the earliest to criticize the divisions found in the Institutes, and he carried on with Gustav Hugo a controversy as to these points. <mask>'s legal work was soon superseded by that of his successor, Karl Adolf von Vangerow (1805–1870), and his textbooks fell out of use. John Austin, who owed much to him, describes him as one "who for penetrating acuteness, rectitude of judgment and depth of learning and eloquence of exposition, may be placed by the side of <mask> von Savigny, at the head of all living civilians." References

1772 births
1840 deaths
People from Hamelin
Jurists from Lower Saxony
German male musicians
People from the Electorate of Hanover
18th-century jurists
19th-century jurists

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Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
Bernhard Friedrich Thiut
Friedrich Schiller
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<mask> (Mrs. <mask>, née Williams; 18 May 1883, near Liberty, Kansas – 19 August 1969, Los Angeles) was an American composer and well-known piano accompanist. During her prolific years as a composer, she lived in New York City. During her more active years as a piano accompanist, she lived in Los Angeles. In her published music, she was known as Mrs. M<mask> or Mrs. M<mask>. Two <mask>s & two <mask> of the same era
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 Music career
Before she became a teenager, <mask> began accepting engagements in concert work, and under the management of Mr. Pardee and Miss Weber toured the Middle West in recital as concert pianist. In 1901 her father's business called him to California, and the family moved to Los Angeles.For nearly three years after arriving in Los Angeles, <mask> did concert work and was soloist on many notable programs. Around 1904, <mask> began specializing exclusively in accompaniment. She accompanied artists that included George Hamlin, Jeannie Jornelli, Marcella Craft, Maggie Teyte, Heimo Haitto, and Pavlowa, Franz Wilcez and Hugo Herrman. For nine years she was the accompanist for the Woman's Lyric Club, and for five years of the Ellis Club. <mask> became a pupil in composition of Frederick Stephenson in Los Angeles. Her The Woman at Home, a chorus for women's voices, was performed with much success by the Lyric Club. Among her better-known compositions are Songs of You, The Mystic Hour, Youth, Fairies, Butterflies, The Dawn of Dawns, and a chorus for men's voices, A Song for Heroes.She performed under the management of Mr. Behymer in concert work. She also performed with Ebell Club, the Friday Morning Club, the Gamut Club, and many leading artists who toured Los Angeles. Family
 Father:  Oliver David Williams (1854 Kentucky – 1932, Venice, California)
 Mother:  Joanna Williams, née Dickerson (25 Oct 1855 Crawfordsville, Indiana – Oct 1949, Venice, California)
 Husband:  Martin Hennion <mask> (18 January 1878 Missouri – 2 May 1964 Los Angeles) and <mask> were married September 27, 1904, in Los Angeles, at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles. <mask> died August 19, 1969, in Los Angeles.<ref>"Vital Records: Deaths," Los Angeles Times, August 21, 1969</ref>  Her ashes are stored at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica, next to those of her daughter Dorothy B<mask> (1906 Los Angeles – 2004), also a pianist. Music club and sorority affiliations
Both <mask> and her daughter, <mask>, were members of The Dominant Club, a Los Angeles charitable club of women musicians founded in 1906 that promotes women in classical music and chamber music. <mask> was a charter member and past president of The Dominant Club. In 1928, <mask> was inducted as an honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota (ΣΑΙ), Sigma Xi Chapter of the University of California, Los Angeles.ΣΑΙ is an international fraternity for women in music. Early education
At age nine, <mask>'s family moved to Chicago; there, she began eight-years of study with William Charles Ernest Seeboeck (21 August 1859 Vienna, Austria – 1907 Chicago), a gifted pianist and composer who had been a student of Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894). Selected compositions

 "Love Was a Beggar," written for Mary McCormic, music by <mask>
 "Love's Trilogy," a song for four-part chorus of women's voices, words by E. Sterrett, music by <mask>, G. Schirmer (1925)
 "The Fairies," words & music by <mask>, G. Schirmer (1926)
 "The Woman at Home," a chorus for women's voices
 "Songs of You"
 "The Mystic Hour"
 "Youth," music by <mask>, words by Mrs. Louise Stedman Bostick
 "Butterflies"
 "The Dawn of Dawns," music by <mask>, words by Ina Donna Coolbrith
 "The Chudder Weaver," for high or medium voice, music by <mask>, words by Frances Hull Topping (b. 1879), G. Schirmer (©July 3, 1937)
 "Two pictures," for voice and piano, G. Schirmer (©1924) LCCN unk84197289
 "The Lover's Errand"

Ellis Club of Los Angeles Collection of Musical Arrangements and Papers
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UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Online Archive of California

 "Baffled," in C minor, music by <mask> (TTBB - voice parts only); words by Helen Combes (mimeograph, n.d.) (©May 31, 1932), Harms, Inc.
 "Marmela," music by <mask> (TTBB, voice parts only); words by Mabel W. Phillips (mimeograph, n.d.)
 "A Song for Heroes," music by Robinson (TTBB), words by Edwin Markham (mimeograph, n.d.)
 "King Robert of Sicily," music by Robinson (SATB with narration; chorus parts only); words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (mimeograph, n.d.)
 "Liebestraum," by Franz Liszt, arrangement (TTBB) and words by Robinson (mimeograph, n.d.)

Discography

Participation in a judges panel to select a California state song
In 1921, Lynden Ellsworth Behymer (1862–1947), impresario, and Bessie Bartlett Frankel (Mrs. Cecil Frankel), donated a sum of money to the California Federation of Music Clubs to hold a contest for lyrics to a state song "of real value." The judges were Benjamin Franklin Field (1868–1960), chairman of the federation and chairman of the committee of judges, Grace Atherton Dennen (1874–1927), editor and publisher of The Lyric West, and Blanche Robinson. The judges selected Mary Lennox of San Francisco on January 17, 1922, as the winner for her composition, California, Sweet Homeland of Mine.References

1883 births
1969 deaths
Women classical composers
American classical pianists
American women classical pianists
Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica
20th-century American women pianists
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century American pianists

masks:
Blanche Robinson
Martin Hennion Robinson
. Hennion Robinson
. Hennion Robinson
Blanche Robinson
Blanche Williams
Blanche Robinson
Blanche Robinson
Blanche Robinson Williams
Blanche Colton Williams
Robinson
Robinson
Robinson
Robinson
Robinson
Blanche Williams
Robinson
. Robinson
Blanche Robinson
Dorothy Robinson
Blanche Robinson
Blanche Robinson
Robinson
Robinson
Robinson
Robinson
Robinson
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<mask> the Stammerer ( – 6 April 912), also known as <mask>us (From ), or simply <mask>, was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall, now in Switzerland, where he was a leading literary scholar of the Early Middle Ages. He was active as a poet, scholar and possibly composer, as he is usually credited with an important collection of early sequences in Liber hymnorum. <mask> wrote Vita Sancti Galli and is commonly accepted to be the "Monk of Saint Gall" (Monachus Sangallensis) who wrote Gesta Karoli (the "deeds of Charlemagne"). He was contemporary with the fellow monks Tuotilo and Ratpert. Biography
<mask> was born around 840, to a distinguished family. He would seem to have been born at Jonschwil on the River Thur, south of Wil, in what would become much later (in 1803) the canton of Saint Gall in Switzerland; some sources claim Elgg to be his place of birth. He studied with Tuotilo at Saint Gall's monastic school, and was taught by , and the Irishman, Moengall.He became a monk there and is mentioned as librarian in 890 and as master of guests in 892–4. He was chiefly active as a teacher, and displayed refinement of taste as poet and author. Ekkehard IV, the biographer of the monks of Saint Gall, lauds him as "delicate of body but not of mind, stuttering of tongue but not of intellect, pushing boldly forward in things Divine, a vessel of the Holy Spirit without equal in his time". He died in 912. He was beatified in 1512. Works
He completed Erchanbert's chronicle, arranged a martyrology, composed a metrical biography of Saint Gall, and authored other works. In his martyrology, he appeared to corroborate one of St Columba's miracles.St Columba, being an important father of Irish monasticism, was also important to St Gall and thus to <mask>'s own monastery. Adomnan of Iona had written that at one point Columba had through clairvoyance seen a city in Italy near Rome being destroyed by fiery sulphur as a divine punishment and that three thousand people had perished. And shortly after Columba saw this, sailors from Gaul arrived to tell the news of it. <mask> claimed in his martyrology that this event happened and that an earthquake had destroyed a city which was called 'new'. It is unclear what this city was that Notker was claiming, although some thought it may have been Naples (previously called 'Neapolis' – new city). However Naples was destroyed by a volcano in 512 before Columba was born, and not during Columba's lifetime. His Liber Hymnorum, created between 881 and 887, is an early collection of Sequences, which he called "hymns", mnemonic poems for remembering the series of pitches sung during a melisma in plainchant, especially in the Alleluia.It is unknown how many or which of the works contained in the collection are his. The hymn Media Vita was erroneously attributed to him late in the Middle Ages. Ekkehard IV wrote of fifty sequences composed by <mask>. He was formerly considered to have been the inventor of the sequence, a new species of religious lyric, but this is now considered doubtful, though he did introduce the genre into Germany. It had been the custom to prolong the Alleluia in the Mass before the Gospel, modulating through a skillfully harmonized series of tones. <mask> learned how to fit the separate syllables of a Latin text to the tones of this jubilation; this poem was called the sequence (q.v. ), formerly called the "jubilation".(The reason for this name is uncertain.) From 881–7 Notker dedicated a collection of such verses to Bishop Liutward of Vercelli, but it is not known which or how many are his. The Monk of Saint Gall

The "Monk of Saint Gall" (Latin: Monachus Sangallensis; the name is not contemporary, being given by modern scholars), the ninth-century writer of a volume of didactic eulogistic anecdotes regarding the Emperor Charlemagne, is now commonly believed to be <mask> the Stammerer. This monk is known from his work to have been a native German-speaker, deriving from the Thurgau, only a few miles from the Abbey of Saint Gall; the region is also close to where Notker is believed to have derived from. The monk himself relates that he was raised by Adalbert, a former soldier who had fought against the Saxons, the Avars ("Huns" in his text) and the Slavs under the command of Kerold, brother of Hildegard, Charlemagne's second wife; he was also a friend of Adalbert's son, Werinbert, another monk at Saint Gall, who died as the book was in progress. His teacher was Grimald von Weißenburg, the Abbot of Saint Gall from 841 to 872, who was, the monk claims, himself a pupil of Alcuin. The monk's untitled work, referred to by modern scholars as De Carolo Magno ("Concerning Charles the Great") or Gesta Caroli Magni ("The Deeds of Charles the Great"), is not a biography but consists instead of two books of anecdotes relating chiefly to the Emperor Charlemagne and his family, whose virtues are insistently invoked.It was written for Charles the Fat, great-grandson of Charlemagne, who visited Saint Gall in 883. It has been scorned by traditional historians, who refer to the Monk as one who "took pleasure in amusing anecdotes and witty tales, but who was ill-informed about the true march of historical events", and describe the work itself as a "mass of legend, saga, invention and reckless blundering": historical figures are claimed as living when in fact dead; claims are attributed to false sources (in one instance, the Monk claims that "to this King Pepin [the Short] the learned Bede has devoted almost an entire book of his Ecclesiastical History"; no such account exists in Bede's history – unsurprisingly, given that Bede died in 735 during the reign of Charlemagne's grandfather Charles Martel); and Saint Gall is frequently referenced as a location in anecdotes, regardless of historical verisimilitude (Pepin the Hunchback, for example, is supposed to have been sent to Saint Gall as punishment for his rebellion, and – in a trope owed to Livy's tale of Tarquin and the poppies – earns a promotion to rich Prüm Abbey after advising Charlemagne through an implicit parable of hoeing thistles to execute another group of rebels). The Monk also mocks and criticizes bishops and the prideful, high-born incompetent, showy in dress and fastidious and lazy in habits, whilst lauding the wise and skillful government of the Emperor with nods to the deserving poor. Several of the Monk's tales, such as that of the nine rings of the Avar stronghold, have been used in modern biographies of Charlemagne. The Monk of Saint Gall is commonly believed to be Notker the Stammerer: Louis Halphen has delineated the points of similarity between the two: the Monk claims to be old, toothless and stammerering; and both share similar interests in church music, write with similar idioms, and are fond of quoting Virgil. The text is dated to the 880s from mentions in it of Carloman (died 880), half-brother of Charles the Fat, the "circumscribed lands" of Carloman's son Arnulf, who succeeded as King of the Germans in 887, and the destruction of Prüm Abbey, which occurred in 882. Notes

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External links

 Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina with analytical indexes
 Notker's commentary on The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius from e-codices.com
Catholic Encyclopedia, accessed on 25 April 2006
Saint of the Day, April 6: Notker Balbulus at SaintPatrickDC.org

840s births
912 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Frankish Benedictines
Medieval writers
Medieval Latin poets
9th-century Latin writers
Beatified people
Frankish historians
9th-century Christian monks
10th-century Christian monks
Benedictine monks
Male musicians
9th-century musicians
10th-century musicians
Writers of the Carolingian Empire
Carolingian poets
9th-century composers
10th-century composers

masks:
Notker
Notker Babul
Notker
Notker
Notker
Notker
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<mask> (Grizzana Morandi, 24 November 1943) is an Italian multidisciplinary artist, known as a painter, photographer and sculptor. Early life and education
<mask> was born 24 November 1943 in Grizzana Morandi, Italy. <mask> studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. <mask> began his artistic career in the 1970s when he became known for his tableau vivants: photographed and videotaped performances in which he presented himself in different ways: from Pinocchio to Dante, Saint Sebastian to Bacchus. These displays of "actionism" (different from Viennese Actionism, to which Hermann Nitsch is associated) verge on kitsch and raise personal narcissism to a higher level. Career
Throughout his long career <mask> has expressed his creativity and poetics through the use of many different techniques: from his "oggetti pleonastici" (1965–1969), made in plaster, to the "stanza delle similitudini," made with objects cut in corrugated fiberboard. He has often anticipated the use of techniques subsequently adopted by other artists: his first Super 8 films were made between 1969 and 1972.With his work "Ange Infidele" (1968) Ontani begins to experiment with photography. From the beginning his photography has been characterized by some particular elements: the subject is always the artist himself, who uses his own body and face to personify historic, mythological, literary and popular themes; the chosen formats are usually miniature and gigantography, and each work is considered unique. From the late 1960s on are "Teofania" (1969), "San Sebastiano nel bosco di Calvenzano, d'apres Guido Reni" Tentazione," "Meditazione, d'apres de la Tour," "Bacchino" (1970), "Tell il Giovane," "Raffaello," "Dante," " Pinocchio" (1972), "Lapsus Lupus," the diptych "EvAdamo" (1973), "Leda e il Cigno" (1974), "I grilli e i tappeti volanti" that will be followed by other "d'apres," and the first Indian cycle "En route vers l'Inde, d'apres Pierre Lotti." His first artistic photography has a historic importance because it anticipates a phenomenon that will be widespread and popular from the 1980s. While working on his photographs Ontani began to make his first tableaux vivants. From 1969 to 1989 the artist made around 30 of these exhibitions, again foreshadowing the so-called interactive installations, which are based on the mixture of various technologies. With this same attitude he has created works in papier-mâché, glass, wood (he has made numerous masks, especially on Bali, with Pule wood) and, more rarely, in bronze, marble, and fabric.He has also made notorious works in ceramic, thanks to the cooperation with Bottega Gatti of Faenza, Venera Finocchiaro in Rome, and the Terraviva laboratory of Vietri: some of them are his "pineal" masks, the "Ermestetiche," and the last great works such as "GaneshaMusa" and "NapoleonCentaurOntano." <mask> has not used all these different techniques as ends in themselves but as occasions to experiment new possibilities and formulate new variations of the themes and subjects that interest him the most: his own "transhistoric" travel through myth, the mask, the symbol and iconographic representation. He has exhibited his works in some of the most important museums and galleries of the world, from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to the Pompidou Centre, the Museo Reina Sofía to the Frankfurter Kunstverein. He has also participated in several editions of the Venice, Sydney, and Lyon biennales. Recently he has had four important retrospectives  at the MoMA (2001), the SMAK in Ghent (2003–2004), the MAMbo in Bologna (2008), and the Accademia di San Luca, also called the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, in Rome (2017). The retrospective in Rome marks his receiving the Premio Presidente della Repubblica award in 2015. In 1982, <mask>'s work was featured in the exhibition, "Italian Art Now: An American Perspective" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, alongside other Italian artists, Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Gilberto Zorio, Giuseppe Penone, Nino Longobardi, and Vettor Pisani.<mask>'s work was credited on Bjork's album Volta as the inspiration for the costume that she can be seen wearing on the album's cover photo. Group exhibitions
Venice Biennale (1972,1978,1984,1995)
Pompidou Centre, Paris: "Identité italienne: Art en Italie depuis 1959" (1981)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City: "Italian Art Now: An American Perspective"  (1982)
Frankfurter Kunstverein: "1960-1985 Aspekte der Italienischen Kunst" (1986)
VI Sydney Biennale (1986)
Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid: "La otra escultura. A Palazzo Carpegna a Roma" (in Italian)

Italian contemporary artists
1943 births
Living people
People from Grizzana Morandi
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna alumni

masks:
Luigi Ontani
Luigi Ontani
Ontani
Ontani
Ontani
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Ontani
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Terrence "<mask>" <mask> (born August 14, 1965) is an American fashion and portrait photographer. He has shot advertising campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Aldo, Supreme, Sisley, Tom Ford, and Yves Saint Laurent among others, and also done work for magazines such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, and Vice. Since 2001, <mask> has been accused by multiple models of sexual misconduct. In 2017, brands and magazines that had worked with <mask> in the past began distancing themselves from him, and said they would no longer employ him. He has not actively worked as a photographer since 2018. Early life
<mask> was born in New York City, the son of Norma Kessler, an actress, and <mask>, a fashion photographer who struggled with schizophrenia and drug abuse. <mask>'s father was Irish Catholic and his mother is Jewish.Following the divorce of his parents, <mask> moved to Woodstock, New York, with his mother and stepfather, English guitarist Jackie Lomax. <mask> later moved to the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he attended Hollywood High School. He moved with his mother to Ojai, California, where he attended Nordhoff High School, when he was 16. <mask> originally wanted to be a punk rock musician rather than a photographer. He played bass guitar in the punk rock band The Invisible Government for four years. He played bass for a variety of other punk bands in Southern California including Signal Street Alcoholics, Doggy Style, Baby Fist and Middle Finger. Career
<mask>'s mother reportedly gave him his first snapshot camera in 1982, which he used to document his life and the punk rock scene in Ojai.In 1992, <mask> quit music and moved to the East Village neighborhood of New York City, where he began photographing young people partying and other nightlife. It was in New York City that he had his first "big break." His first published fashion photos appeared in Vibe in 1994. His Vibe spread was shown at Paris' International Festival de la Mode later that year. Following the showing, <mask> shot an advertising campaign for fashion designer Katharine Hamnett's spring 1995 collection. The campaign was noted for images of young women wearing short skirts with their pubic hair showing. <mask> then moved to London and worked for the magazines The Face, i-D and Arena.Throughout his career, <mask> has shot the campaigns of fashion brands and designers such as: Marc Jacobs, Aldo, Supreme, Sisley, Tom Ford, and Yves Saint Laurent. He has also worked for magazines such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar. <mask> has produced several campaigns for Diesel, including the 'Global Warming Ready' which won a Silver Lion for Print at Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in 2007. He has produced several private portraits for the company's founder, Renzo Rosso. In September 2011, they hosted a mutual book launch together with fashion editor Carine Roitfeld, at Colette in Paris. In 2012 <mask> embarked on his first solo exhibition at Los Angeles's OHWOW Gallery, titled <mask>wood. In May 2012, a video of model Kate Upton performing the Cat Daddy dance for <mask> in his studio went viral.In December 2012, Lady Gaga announced that <mask> was filming a documentary about her life. Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes defended <mask> in 2004, saying his work was criticized by "first-year feminist types." Gallery shows

<mask> held his first gallery showing in 1998. The show, entitled These Colors Don't Run and held at Alleged Gallery, coincided with the release of his first book entitled Hysteric Glamour. His work was later included in another show entitled Smile at Alleged Gallery. <mask> had his first Paris show at Galarie Emmanuel Perrotin in 1999. <mask>'s "Feared by Men Desired by Women" was shown at an exhibition at London's Shine Gallery the following year.Terryworld, an exhibition of <mask>'s work of the name, was shown in 2004 at Deitch Gallery in New York City. The Orange County Museum of Art showed <mask>'s work as part of a group show entitled Beautiful Losers in 2005. Mom + Dad, a show exhibiting work from <mask>'s book of the same name, was held at Half Gallery in New York City in 2011. The same year, photographs from <mask>'s book Hong Kong were shown at Art Hong Kong. <mask>'s work was later shown at Los Angeles's OHWOW Gallery. The exhibition was titled Terrywood and ran from February 24 to March 31, 2012. Music videos
<mask> has directed music videos since the late 1990s.He directed videos for Death in Vegas and Primal Scream as well as alternate music video of the song "Find a New Way" by  Young Love, and Whirlwind Heat's "Purple" featuring models Susan Eldridge and Charlotte Kemp Muhl. He directed the music video for "Red Lips" by Sky Ferreira. He also makes a cameo appearance in Thirty Seconds to Mars's video for "Hurricane". The music video for "Oldie" by Odd Future was recorded during a photoshoot with <mask> and was published on March 20, 2012. <mask> can be seen in the video snapping photos of the collective while they party and play in front of a large white backdrop. On August 29, 2013, he directed Beyoncé in a music video at Coney Island for her single "XO". He also directed "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus.In late 2013 <mask> did the treatment on the music video for "Do What U Want" by Lady Gaga and R. Kelly from her third studio album titled Artpop, but the film was never released. On August 21, 2017, <mask> directed the Anitta music video, "Vai Malandra", at Vidigal,   Rio de Janeiro. Style
There are several repeating themes in <mask>'s work, notably that of putting high-profile celebrities in mundane situations and photographing them using traditionally pedestrian methods, such as the use of an instant camera. His work also explores ideas of sexuality, with many of the pieces featured in his books Kibosh and Terryworld depicting full-frontal nudity and both simulated and actual sexual acts. Initially, many of <mask>'s subjects would be shot before a white background but he eventually expanded to other backdrops. He is also known for posing with his subjects, often giving them his trademark glasses so they may "pretend to be him" or, in the case of actress Chloë Sevigny, posing them in makeup and costume so that they look like him. <mask> counts Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus and Robert Frank as early influences on his artistic style.His work has been praised by Helmut Newton. <mask> described his style as, "Trying to capture those unpremeditated moments when people's sexualities come up to the surface." <mask> is also known for his nonsexual portraiture. He has taken portraits of a wide variety of celebrities and politicians. Personal life

Relationships and family
<mask> was married to model Nikki Uberti from 1996 to 1999. <mask> dated political staffer and business woman Audrey Gelman from 2011 until 2013. He started dating his long-time photography assistant, Alexandra "Skinny" Bolotow in 2014.On March 19, 2016, Bolotow gave birth to twin boys. He has said it was "the most intense, inspiring, , and humbling experience of my life." The couple married in 2017 in Taos, New Mexico. He currently resides in Bearsville, New York. Philanthropy
In 2010, <mask> became involved with RxArt, a charity that donates art to children's hospitals. Allegations of sexual misconduct
Since 2001, <mask> has been accused multiple times of using his influence in the fashion industry to sexually exploit models during photo shoots, including coercing them to engage in sexual acts with him. Models with whom he has worked (including Rie Rasmussen and Jamie Peck) have accused <mask> of sexual misconduct, including exploitation.In a 2010 interview at French Institute Alliance Française, Marc Jacobs said that <mask> is "not ill-spirited". <mask> published a letter in 2014 in The Huffington Post defending himself against the accusations. <mask> said that the allegations are false and that he considers himself "considerate and respectful" of his photography subjects. Models including Noot Seear, Daisy Lowe, and Charlotte Free have defended him. In 2017, due to the allegations of <mask>'s sexual misconduct, many fashion brands and fashion magazines decided to no longer commission his work, including Valentino, Bulgari, and the Condé Nast magazines: Vogue, Glamour, Wired, Vanity Fair, and GQ. Following the professional repercussions, he has not actively worked since 2018. Publications
 (1998) Hysteric Glamour.Hysteric Glamour (Tokyo). .
 (1999) Son of Bob. Little More (Tokyo). .
 (2000) <mask> – Feared by Men, Desired by Women. Shine Gallery (London). .
 (2002) Too Much. Sisley (Italy). (2004) <mask> – The <mask> Purple Book. Purple Institute (Paris). .
 (2004) <mask>. Stern Gruner + Jahr (Hamburg). .
 (2004) Terryworld.By Dian Hanson. Taschen (Hong Kong; Los Angeles). .
 (2006) Kibosh. Damiani Editore (Bologna). .
 (2006) Manimal. Hysteric Glamour (Tokyo). (2007) Rio, Cidade Maravilhosa. Diesel/Vintage Denin (Brazil). (2011) Hong Kong.Diesel (Hong Kong). (2011) Mom & Dad. Mörel Books (London). (2011) Lady Gaga x <mask>. Grand Central Publishing (New York City). .
 (2016) Skinny. Idea Books (London). References

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<mask><mask> (born October 16, 1974) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for  since 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, his district includes the southern four-fifths of Indianapolis, including Downtown Indianapolis. He became the dean of Indiana's congressional delegation following the retirement of Representative Pete Visclosky in 2021. He is the grandson of his predecessor, U.S. Representative <mask> (1938–2007), whose death in office triggered a special election. <mask> was the second Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, following Keith Ellison of Minnesota in 2006. Personal life and early career
<mask> was born and raised in Indianapolis. He graduated from Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice and management from Concordia University Wisconsin (2003), and a Master of Science degree in business management from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana (2005).At a young age, <mask>'s interest in public service was shaped by his grandmother, the late Congresswoman <mask>. <mask> grew up in a rough neighborhood, and he credits that experience for shaping his policy views on issues like education, public safety and economic opportunity. From 1996 to 2005, <mask> worked as a compliance officer for the Indiana State Excise Police, the law enforcement arm of the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission. He was later employed in the anti-terrorism division of Indiana's Department of Homeland Security and then as a marketing specialist for Cripe Architects + Engineers in Indianapolis. He served as a member of the Indianapolis/Marion city-county council from 2007 to 2008. In December 2007, <mask>'s grandmother, <mask>, who had represented Indiana's 7th district in Congress since 1997, died of lung cancer. Three months later, <mask> won a special election for his grandmother's vacant seat in the House of Representatives.<mask> has retained that legislative seat ever since. Before being elected to public office, <mask> was a Democratic Party Committeeperson in Indianapolis. In 2007, <mask> won a special caucus of the Marion County Democratic Party to become the City-County Councilor for the 15th Council district of Indianapolis-Marion County. <mask> converted to Islam in the 1990s after his exposure to the poetry of the Sufi mystic Rumi and reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Before converting to Islam, <mask> attended a Baptist church and was educated in a Catholic school. U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation (Chair)
Subcommittee on Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Subcommittee on Aviation

Caucus memberships
Congressional Progressive Caucus
New Democrat Coalition
Congressional Arts Caucus
Afterschool Caucuses
Congressional Black Caucus
Congressional Automotive Caucus
Cancer Action Caucus
Children's Caucus
Climate Change Caucus
Human Rights Caucus
United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus
Labor and Working Families Caucus
Study Group on Public Health
Democratic Budget Group
LGBT Equality Caucus
Military Family Caucus
Renewable/Efficient Energy Caucus
Americans Abroad Caucus

He also serves as the Congressional Black Caucus liaison to the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (CBC Liaison). In the 2008 presidential election, <mask> endorsed Senator Barack Obama in April 2008, and later won Obama's endorsement for his own May 2008 Democratic primary battle.<mask> was the first member of Indiana's Congressional Delegation to announce his support for then-candidate Obama. Tenure
On March 20, 2010, <mask> told reporters that health care protesters outside the Capitol hurled racial slurs at fellow Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia. <mask> came off the House floor and told reporters his story about health care protesters hurling racial slurs during their walk from the Cannon House Office Building to the chambers. Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart offered a $100,000 reward for any proof of these accusations. Although audio and video recordings of the protest have been posted online, no proof of the racial slurs has yet been provided, and the reward remains unclaimed. On August 28, 2011, <mask> addressed a gathering of supporters and mentioned the Tea Party movement during his speech. "This is the effort that we're seeing of Jim Crow," <mask> said."Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now of this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me... hanging on a tree." <mask> declined calls to resign, reaffirming, "I stand on the truth of what I spoke", and clarified that his comments were directed at certain tea party leaders and not the tea party as a whole. Political positions

Afghanistan and Iraq
<mask> believes that "American efforts to capture and kill al Qaeda terrorists have greatly diminished" because of the Iraq War. During the War in Afghanistan, <mask> would often state his belief that al Qaeda and the Taliban posed the most imminent threat to the United States. Accordingly, he pushed for a reduction of troops in Iraq to cover the needs of the then-ongoing War in Afghanistan. Consumer protection
On June 26, 2009, <mask> introduced the Jeremy Warriner Consumer Protection Act (), which would require GM and Chrysler to carry liability insurance that would cover vehicles produced before they filed for bankruptcy in early 2009.The bill is named for Jeremy Warriner, an Indianapolis resident who lost his legs when his defective Chrysler vehicle caught fire during a car accident. Disease prevention

On July 24, 2008, <mask> voted to pass the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act () which provided aid to developing countries fighting high rates of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. He successfully included an amendment in this bill which created "a transatlantic, technological medium of exchange that allows African scientists and American medical professionals to collaborate on the best methods for treating and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS on the African continent." Economic recovery
On February 13, 2009, <mask> voted to pass the H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a $787 billion economic stimulus package aimed at helping the economy recover from a deepening worldwide recession. This act included increased federal spending for health care, infrastructure, education, various tax breaks and incentives, and direct assistance to individuals. The ARRA has led to billions of dollars in investment in <mask>'s district, including grants to hire more police officers and save teaching jobs, and landmark investments in green technology that will create hundreds of new jobs.Education
<mask> has stated his support for programs that improve teacher education and training, improve aging school infrastructure and increase access to affordable, secondary education. <mask> is the author of H.R. 3147, the Young Adults Financial Literacy Act, which was introduced on July 9, 2009. This legislation would establish a grant program to fund partnerships between educational institutions aimed at providing financial literacy education to young adults and families. On September 17, 2009, <mask> voted to pass H.R. 3221, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which will invest in the Pell Grant program and other student financial aid programs to make college more affordable. <mask> made a speech to an Islamic group that resulted in criticism from groups when he stated that American public schools should be modeled on Islamic madrassas.He granted an interview to reporter Mary Beth Schneider of The Indianapolis Star in which he maintained his speech remarks had been taken out of context. On the same date, he issued a press release clarifying his position that no "particular faith should be the foundation of our public schools." Energy and environment
<mask> has supported investment in the development of new technologies that will reduce American dependence on foreign oil, create thousands of new jobs and begin to correct the adverse environmental effects of fossil fuels. <mask> has opposed legislation to increase offshore drilling for oil or natural gas, instead promoting use of solar, wind, biofuel, biomass, and other renewable fuels. On June 26, 2009, <mask> voted to pass H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which seeks to comprehensively address the effects of climate change by funding development of alternative energy technologies and implementing a cap and trade system. Financial services
<mask> has been a Member of the House Committee on Financial Services since taking office in 2008.<mask> voted to pass legislation enacting the Troubled Asset Relief Program on October 3, 2008. He has also voted to pass legislation increasing oversight over the Troubled Asset Relief Program, limiting executive pay, reforming sub-prime mortgage markets and regulating the financial industry. <mask> was a cosponsor of , the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights, which sought to increase transparency and regulation in the credit card industry. This legislation was signed into law by President Obama on May 22, 2009. <mask> has voiced his support for legislation creating the Consumer Finance Protection Agency and monitoring systemic risk in the financial sector. Health care reform
<mask> is a strong supporter of health care reform legislation that increases access to medical care for millions of uninsured Americans and provides a more stable system for those at risk of losing their health insurance. On July 30, 2009, he signed a letter from the Congressional Progressive Caucus to House leadership, calling for a robust public option to be included in any health care reform bill.He has opposed taxes both on the medical device industry and employer provided health insurance plans as a means to pay for health care reform. Instead, he has called for finding savings in the current health system by reducing waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare system, as well as implementing a surcharge on the wealthiest Americans as a means to cover the costs of reform. He has also voiced his opposition for health care reform legislation that increases the deficit. On November 7, 2009, <mask> voted to pass H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the House version of legislation designed to reform the American health insurance industry. Housing
Citing a high foreclosure rate in Indianapolis, <mask> has named foreclosure prevention and increased affordable housing to be among his top priorities. On May 7, 2009, <mask> voted to pass the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2009 (), which regulates the mortgage lending industry by setting limits on types of loans offered to potential borrowers.<mask> authored an amendment to this legislation that funded the distribution of information about foreclosure rescue scams through targeted mailings. Impeachment of Donald Trump
On December 18, 2019, <mask> voted for both articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump and was one of only two House Representatives from Indiana to do so, along with Rep. Peter Visclosky. Israel
<mask> is opposed to the Israeli settlements in built in Palestinian territory, describing them as "illegitimate and a major barrier to peace". In July 2019, <mask> voted against a House resolution condemning the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel. The resolution passed 398–17. In September 2021, <mask> was one of 9 Congressmen to vote against funding Israel's Iron Dome missile defense program. National security

<mask> is the only Member of Congress to have served in a Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center.He has voted to increase appropriations funding for the Department of Homeland Security. In 2017, <mask> attended a protest, at Indianapolis International Airport against President Donald Trump's executive order to temporarily place limits on immigration until better screening methods are devised. <mask> decried the executive order as being part of a "bigotry campaign" and stated "For those who want to make America great again, we have to remind them that the first article of the constitution says congress shall make no law respecting [the] establishment of religion. Make no mistake about it: This is a Muslim ban." Public safety
In 2009, <mask> introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at reducing incidents of recidivism. The Recidivism Reduction Act () aims to attack the cycle of recidivism by ensuring prompt access to federal supplemental security income and Medicaid benefits for ex-offenders re-entering society and addressing the gap in mental health services. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act would repeal federal laws that prevent drug felons from receiving TANF benefits.In 2008, <mask> helped the City of Indianapolis secure a federal COPS grant to hire more police officers. The grant was awarded as part of the ARRA. Political campaigns

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Special election

In 2008, <mask> won the nominating caucus of the Marion County Democratic Party, giving him the Democratic nomination for the special election to succeed his late grandmother, Congresswoman <mask>. During this election, he was endorsed by U.S. Senator Evan Bayh, then-Senator Barack Obama, former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, Marion County Sheriff Frank J. Anderson, then-Representative from Indiana's 8th district Brad Ellsworth, and retired U.S. Congressman Andy Jacobs, Jr. U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) contributed $4,000 each from their own campaign funds and $10,000 each from their political action committees to the <mask> campaign.<mask> defeated Republican State Representative Jon Elrod and Libertarian Sean Shepard in the special election on March 11, 2008, securing 53% of the vote. <mask> won the primary election with 46%, while Woody Myers received 24%, David Orentlicher received 21%, and Carolene Mays received 8%. <mask> and was set to face off in the General Election against Elrod, but Elrod dropped out. Gabrielle Campo was selected by a party caucus to face the incumbent, <mask>. <mask> was re-elected in November 2008 to his first full term in Congress with 65% of the vote. Since that time, <mask>'s hometown newspaper, The Indianapolis Star, has praised him for "going strong" in his first year in office, writing that <mask> has "[proven] himself to be relentlessly positive and seriously hardworking." 2010

In 2010, <mask> again faced perennial Republican candidate Marvin Scott, who took issue with <mask>'s Muslim faith during the general election.However, <mask> handily defeated Scott to retain his seat. 2012

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See also
List of African-American United States representatives
 List of Muslim members of the United States Congress

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<mask> (born March 17, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenseman. Ference started in the NHL during the 1999–2000 season and played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames, Boston Bruins and the Edmonton Oilers. In 2011, Ference helped the Bruins to their sixth Stanley Cup championship. Ference was born in Edmonton, Alberta, but grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Playing career

WHL and Pittsburgh Penguins
Ference began his hockey career in the Western Hockey League (WHL) with the Portland Winterhawks. After two full seasons with the team, he was selected 208th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Ference was not ranked by Central Scouting for the draft.In response, Ference sent a letter to every NHL general manager indicating his belief he would play in the NHL and also enclosed testing results conducted by the University of Alberta. Ference played two more seasons with Portland and had a brief stint in the International Hockey League (IHL) with the Kansas City Blades before joining Pittsburgh in 1999. After making his NHL debut on October 1, 1999, in a game against the Dallas Stars, Ference scored his first NHL goal a month later against the Nashville Predators on November 13, 1999. He split his rookie season between Pittsburgh and their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, finishing with 6 points (2 goals, 4 assists) in 30 NHL games and 28 points (8 goals, 20 assists) in 44 AHL games. The next season, Ference continued to share time between both Penguins teams. <mask> played in his first NHL playoffs with Pittsburgh in 2001, playing 18 games and scoring 3 goals and 10 points before the Penguins were eliminated by the New Jersey Devils. In his third NHL season, Ference established himself as a full-time NHLer, scoring 11 points in 75 games.Calgary Flames and NHL Lockout
On February 9, 2003, in the middle of the 2002–03 season, <mask> was traded to the Calgary Flames for future considerations. He posted 4 assists in 16 games during the remainder of the season with Calgary. The next season, he registered 16 points with 4 goals and 12 assists in 72 games for Calgary and also played 26 playoff games posting 3 assists. Calgary reached the Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning. With the 2004–05 NHL season suspended due to a lock-out, <mask> played in the Czech Republic for HC České Budějovice. <mask> returned to the Flames when the NHL restarted the next season. He played all 82 games of the season for the first time in his career, scoring 4 goals, and 27 assists for a career high 31 points.Boston Bruins
The following season, on February 10, 2007, he was traded, along with teammate Chuck Kobasew, to the Boston Bruins for defenceman Brad Stuart and centre Wayne Primeau. Ference scored 1 goal, along with 15 assists, during the 2008–09 NHL season. On March 23, 2010, he agreed on a three-year contract extension with the Bruins worth an annual average salary of $2.25 million. On April 22, 2011, Ference was fined $2,500 for an obscene gesture to the crowd at the Bell Centre in Game 4 of the playoffs first round series against the Montreal Canadiens. Ference's initial comments after the incident indicated it was an "equipment malfunction," though he later confessed it had been an intentional gesture following an emotional playoff goal. Some teammates credited this incident as a turning point in their eventual Stanley Cup Victory. In the Bruins 4–3 game 7 victory over the Montreal of the same series, Ference drew much ire for a questionable collision to the head of Canadiens' Jeff Halpern, but upon a disciplinary hearing it was ruled that the hit did not warrant any sort of disciplinary action.On June 15, 2011, Ference and the Boston Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4–0 in Game 7 of the Final to win the Stanley Cup. The next season Ference scored 6 goals, a career high, and was named alternate captain during home games for the first half of the season, and during away games for the second half of the season. Edmonton Oilers
On July 5, 2013, he signed a four-year deal as a free agent with his hometown team, the Edmonton Oilers. On September 29, Ference was named the 14th captain in Oilers NHL franchise history, succeeding Shawn Horcoff, who had been traded to the Dallas Stars. On October 7, 2015, after serving as the Oilers captain for the past two seasons, it was announced that Ference had relinquished his role as captain and was named as an alternate captain, along with Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. After playing in just six games of the 2015–16 NHL season, Ference was placed on IR to undergo season-ending hip surgery. On September 16, 2016, Ference announced his retirement after 16 seasons.He however remained on the Oilers long-term injured list for the duration of the 2016–17 season, before formally ending his career at the conclusion of his contract on July 13, 2017. Post playing career

In 2018 Ference joined the NHL as its first director of social impact, growth and fan development. His focus will be on grass-roots growth, community development efforts, engaging minority fans and players, and better facilitating relations between players and the league. Personal life

Family
Ference and Krista Bradford, a former professional snowboarder, married in 2002. They have two daughters together. Environmentalism
Ference's association with environmentalist David Suzuki while in Calgary led him to create a carbon-neutral program for the NHL, which now includes over 500 players who purchase carbon offset credits to counteract the negative environmental impact of professional sports. In February 2012, National Geographic began a ten-episode Web series called "Beyond the Puck" highlighting <mask>'s life as a NHL Player and "eco-warrior."Stanley Cup Parade
On September 5, 2011, following the Bruins Stanley Cup championship, Ference organized and led a parade and flash mob in Boston's North End, which is the area where he resided during the NHL season. After bringing the Stanley Cup to and from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital on a bike trailer, Ference brought the Cup to an area of the North End outside the TD Garden. There, the Cup was hoisted up on a platform carried by friends and family, and paraded through the North End, with many stops at local shops along the way. Ference and the other Cup-carriers were accompanied by a marching band, members of The Boston Bruins Ice Girls, and the Boston Bruins mascot Blades. Hundreds of fans also joined them for the parade, which was concluded with a dancing flash mob. Other
Ference is a fan of English Premier League football club Arsenal F.C. Ference is also a member of the popular November Project workout tribe in Boston and Edmonton.Career statistics

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<mask>, III (born January 26, 1990) is a former American football safety. He previously played safety and quarterback for the Purdue Boilermakers. <mask> attended Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala, Florida, where he played both football and baseball, and competed in track & field. <mask> led Trinity Catholic to two conference championships and a runner-up in the 2B State Championship game. He ended his high school football career with over 4,300 total yards and 39 touchdowns. After his senior season, he moved on to Purdue University where he redshirted in 2009. In his first collegiate appearance, <mask> ran for 16-yards against Notre Dame.He would later assume the starting quarterback position after an injury to <mask>. His first career start was against Northwestern, which saw him lead the Boilermakers to a 20-17 win on the road lead by his career high, 132 yards rushing. <mask> went on to start 5 games for the season, with a 3-game set back, which he injured a finger on his throwing hand. Against Minnesota he had a career-high running for 3 touchdowns. In the final game of the season against Indiana he had a career-high 252 yard passing and 3 touchdown passes. He became the first Purdue quarterback to lead the Boilermakers in both passing and rushing yardage in the same season, with 996 passing yards and 547 yards rushing. After a starting quarterback battle in the off season, <mask> was named the Boilermakers' starting quarterback for the 2011 season and was voted co-captain, but he tore the ACL in his right knee.With backup Marve still recovering from his owen ACL injury, Caleb TerBush took over as the starting quarterback in their place. <mask> returned in 2012, and was named the third-string quarterback behind TerBush and Marve. To get on the field, the Boilermakers used <mask> as both a running back and wide receiver, in addition to quarterbacking. <mask> was named the starting quarterback for the Boilermakers during 2013 fall camp. <mask> beat out true freshman, Danny Etling, and redshirt freshman, Austin Appleby. <mask> started the first 5 games of the season for the Boilermakers, before being replaced just before halftime during their 5 game of the season by Etling. The week following <mask>'s removal from quarterback, he was moved to safety.High school career
<mask> went to Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala, Florida. There he was coached by John Brantley, and was a Mr. Football finalist and first team all-state  after passing for 2,600 yards and 24 touchdowns as senior, while rushing for 350 yards and six touchdowns. He led the Celtics to the 2B state championship game, but lost 21–17 to Pahokee High School. As a result, he was named to Reebok Florida Phenoms third team. It wasn't clear if he would start as a junior, but he won the battle, and went on to pass for 1,100 yards and 10 touchdowns while also rushing for 250 yards and five scores, while missing some time with a knee injury. He was a two-time all-county selection in football, and led his team to state finals his senior season. As a freshman and sophomore, he played free safety and wide receiver, while John Brantley was at quarterback.He was a first team all-division his freshman and sophomore seasons. He also participated in basketball and track and field. <mask> committed to Purdue University on July 23, 2008. He choose Purdue over football scholarships from Vanderbilt University and Northern Illinois University. College career

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The 2010 season began with <mask> slated second on the depth chart behind transfer, <mask>. However, Hope said that <mask> would see playing time even if the game was still undecided.Against Notre Dame, <mask> only got three carries for 16 yards. After a win against Minnesota, he was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week. He was named the team's Leonard Wilson Award winner (unselfishness and dedication). He was also the first Purdue quarterback in school history to lead the team in both rushing and passing yardage in a season. He completed 86 of 162 pass attempts (53.1 percent) for 996 yards with eight touchdowns and seven interceptions, while rushing for 547 yards and four touchdowns on 104 attempts (5.3 yards per carry). For the season, <mask> appeared in 11 games, making seven starts in 2010. 2011 season
After a starting quarterback battle in the off season, <mask> was named the Boilermakers' starting quarterback for the 2011 season, but he tore the ACL in his right knee.With backup Marve still recovering from his own ACL injury, Caleb TerBush took over as the starting quarterback in their place. 2012 season
<mask> entered his junior season looking at splitting playing time with TerBush and Marve. With TerBush working mostly with the first team, he was expected to start the first game of the year, until it was announced (one hour prior to gametime) that he had been suspended and Marve was the starting quarterback. <mask> was promoted to second string, seeing most of his action in the second half of play. <mask> finished the day 7 for 9 passing for 1 touchdown and 1 interception. After not playing in the Notre Dame game, <mask> was named the backup against Eastern Michigan, as Marve was sidelined with his third ACL tear. <mask> played a few plays in the second quarter, before seeing increased playing time in the 3rd quarter due to the Boilermakers large lead.Most of his plays came throwing the ball, as Coach Hope felt that was his largest area in need of improvement. 2013 season
With Marve and TerBush out of the mix due to graduation, and new Purdue head coach Darrell Hazell, <mask> entered fall camp with the Boilermakers competing with freshmen Danny Etling and Austin Appleby for Purdue's starting quarterback spot. Two weeks before the regular season opener at Cincinnati, Hazell named <mask>'s starting quarterback. Statistics
As of the end of the 2013 regular season, <mask>'s statistics are as follows:

<mask> had a 3–9 career record as the starting quarterback for Purdue. Professional career
Prior to the 2014 NFL Draft, <mask> was projected to be undrafted by NFLDraftScout.com. He was rated as the thirty-fourth-best quarterback in the draft. On May 10, 2014, <mask> signed as an undrafted free agent with the Oakland Raiders.Playing style
<mask> is a dual-threat quarterback, known more for his ability to run the ball, than for his throwing arm. References

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<mask> (born 19 December 1954) is a British novelist, translator, author and professor of literature. Career
He is the author of eighteen novels (notably Europa, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997). His first novel, Tongues of Flame, won both the Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1986. In the same year, <mask> was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Loving Roger. Other highly praised titles were Shear, Destiny, Judge Savage, Cleaver, and In Extremis. He has also had a number of stories published in The New Yorker. Since the 1990s <mask> has written frequently for both the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, as well as publishing various works of non-fiction, most notably A Season with Verona, shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and Teach Us to Sit Still, shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.Between 1993 and 2019 <mask> taught as a university professor at IULM University, Milan. He is also a translator and has translated works by Alberto Moravia, Antonio Tabucchi, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Niccolò Machiavelli and Giacomo Leopardi. His non-fiction book Translating Style has been described as "canonical in the field of translation studies". He twice won the John Florio Prize for translations from the Italian. In 2011 he co-curated the exhibition Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and a book of the same title was published in 2012 by Giunti. . The exhibition was loosely based on <mask>' book Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. Personal life
<mask> married Rita Baldassarre in 1979.The couple have three children. They divorced in 2017. Bibliography

Fiction

Home Thoughts, 1987. Family Planning, 1989. The trials and tribulations of a mother, father and their children as they cope with the unexpected and sometimes violent behaviour of Raymond, who is suffering from a mental illness but will not agree to professional help. Cara Massimina, 1990, a murder story first published under the pseudonym "John MacDowell", but later in the author's own name. Later released in the US under the title Juggling the Stars.Goodness, 1991. Shear, 1993. Mimi's Ghost, 1995, sequel of Cara Massimina. Europa, 1997. Destiny, 1999. Judge Savage, 2003. Rapids, 2005.Talking About It, 2005. A collection of short stories. Cleaver, 2006. Dreams of Rivers and Seas, 2008. The Server, 2012. Published in paperback as Sex is Forbidden. Painting Death, 2014.Book 3 in the Cara Massimina trilogy. Thomas and Mary: A Love Story, 2016. In Extremis, 2017. Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal, 2020. Non-fiction

Italian Neighbours, 1992. Relates how the author and his wife came to a small town near Verona and how they integrate and become accustomed to the unusual habits of their newfound neighbours. An Italian Education, 1996.Follow up to Italian Neighbours and recounts the milestones in the life of the author's children as they progress through the Italian school system. Translating Style, 1997. Adultery and Other Diversions, 1999. Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie, 2001. A Season With Verona, following the fortunes of Hellas Verona F.C. in season 2000–2001. Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, 2005.The Fighter: Essays, 2007. Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing, 2010, Harvill Secker, . In this book, <mask> describes his search for relief from chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS). His urologist thinks surgery will be the only solution, but after several examinations, no clear cause is found for the pain. <mask> wonders if the pain can be (partly) psychosomatic. In his search, he reads the book A Headache in the Pelvis: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Treating Chronic Pelvic Pain () by psychologist (and long time CPPS-sufferer) David Wise and neurourologist Rodney Anderson (Stanford University), in which the authors describe methods of 'paradoxical relaxation' to prevent chronic tensing of the pelvic musculature. <mask> starts doing the recommended relaxation-exercises daily, and later on, also practices Vipassana-meditation.He experiences his body and life in a new way, and the pain diminishes for the most part. Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, 2013. Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books, 2014. The Novel: A Survival Skill, 2015. A Literary Tour of Italy, 2015. Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them, 2016. Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness, 2018."Her Programme," in Writers and Their Mothers, Dale Salwak, ed., 2018. Pen in Hand: Reading, Rereading and Other Mysteries, 2019. The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna, 2021. Translations of Italian works

Alberto Moravia, Erotic Tales, Secker & Warburg, 1985. Original title La cosa. Alberto Moravia, The Voyeur, Secker & Warburg, 1986. Original title L'uomo che guarda.Antonio Tabucchi, Indian Nocturne, Chatto & Windus, 1988. Original title Notturno indiano. Alberto Moravia, Journey to Rome, Secker & Warburg, 1989. Original title Viaggio a Roma. Antonio Tabucchi, Vanishing Point, Chatto & Windus, 1989. Original title Il filo dell'orizzonte. Antonio Tabucchi, The Woman of Porto Pim, Chatto & Windus, 1989.Original title La donna di Porto Pim. Antonio Tabucchi, The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico, Chatto & Windus, 1989. Original title I volatili del Beato Angelico. Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline, Heinemann, 1991. Original title I beati anni del castigo. The translation won the John Florio Prize. Giuliana Tedeschi, There is a Place on Earth: A Woman in Birkenau, Pantheon Books, 1992.Original title C'è un punto della terra. Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Knopf, 1993. Original title Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia. The translation won the Italo Calvino Prize. Italo Calvino, The Road to San Giovanni, Pantheon Books, 1993. Original title La strada di San Giovanni. The translation won the John Florio Prize.Italo Calvino, Numbers in the Dark, Pantheon Books, 1995. Original title Prima che tu dica pronto. Fleur Jaeggy, Last Vanities, New Directions, 1998. Original title La paura del cielo. Roberto Calasso, Ka, New York: Knopf, 1998. Original title Ka. Roberto Calasso, Literature and the Gods, New York: Knopf, 2000.Original title La letteratura e gli dei. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, Penguin Classics, 2009. Original title Principe. Giacomo Leopardi, Passions, Penguin Classics, 2014. Original title Le passioni. Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires, Penguin Classics, 2021. Original title La luna e i falò.Secondary literature
 2003: Gillian Fenwick: Understanding <mask>. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, . 2001: Gillian Fenwick: "<mask> (19 December 1954 - )," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 231: British Novelists Since 1960, Fourth Series. United States Gale, . Notes

External links

Interview with <mask> in Bomb
Interview with <mask> in The Quarterly Conversation, 4 March 2013. Interview with 3:AM
Review of Destiny at Spike Magazine
Review of Europa at The Occasional Review
Parks author page and archive from The New York Review of Books
Parks author page and archive from The London Review of Books
Official website of <mask>
Without Illusions: Jonathan J. Clarke interviews <mask>, Los Angeles Review of Books, 6 July 2016.1954 births
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20th-century English male writers
20th-century British novelists
21st-century English male writers
21st-century British novelists
Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge
British male novelists
British non-fiction writers
Harvard University alumni
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners
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<mask> (born 19 April 1988)  is an Australian kayaker. She represented Australia at 2012 Summer Olympics in the K-4 500 m event. Personal
Nicknamed Goanna, Brigga, JBJ, <mask> and <mask>e, <mask> was born on 19 April 1988 in Mona Vale, New South Wales. She attended Newport Public School before going to Oxford Falls Grammar School and Freshwater Senior Campus for high school. From 2006 to 2010, she attended the University of Technology, Sydney where she earned a Bachelor of Nursing. She earned a Graduate Diploma of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) from Charles Sturt University. In 2010, she injured her shoulder which required ten months out of competitive sport.In 2013, she again injured her shoulder, requiring another long period out of sport. She is a nurse and a paramedic. , she lives in the Sydney suburb of Mona Vale. <mask> raced for Australia at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the K4 500m event. Her crew finished in 9th place. <mask> is a World Championship medalist, having won a Bronze medal in the K2 200m event at the 2011 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary. Brigden-<mask> is a member of the Manly Surf Life Saving Club.She started surf lifesaving when she was six years old through an Australian programme called Nippers. In her mid-teens, she left the sport for a while but took it up again when she was nineteen. At that time, she added surfski paddling to her surf lifesaving competition events. She has competed for Manly in surf lifesaving competitions. Brigden-<mask> is  tall and weighs . Kayaking
Brigden-<mask> came into the kayaking in 2001 following a talent identification program. <mask> made her first Australian Team at the age of 15.She raced in Europe as part of the Australian Junior Kayak Team and won her first international medal at the prestigious Bochum Regatta in Germany. She won a silver medal in the U16 K1 1000m. Her primary training base is Narrabeen, Sydney with a secondary training base on the Gold Coast of Queensland. Her international training base is in Varese, Italy, the same location as the Australian Institute of Sport European Training Centre. She is a member of the Sydney Northern Beaches Kayak Club, and has a canoe scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport and the NSW Institute of Sport. In 2010, Brigden-<mask> was ranked second in the world in the solo kayak paddler event. She finished third in the K2 200m event and fifth in the K4 500m event at the 2011 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.She finished 7th in the K4 500m event at the 2011 World Cup 3 in Duisburg, Germany. She finished fifth in the K4 500m event at the 2011 World Cup 2 in Racice, Czech Republic. She finished first in the K4 500m event at the 2012 Oceania Championships in Penrith, Australia. She finished first in the K4 500m event at the 2012 National Championships in Penrith, Australia. At a 2012 World Cup event in Moscow in the two person kayak, she finished first. Brigden-<mask> was selected to represent Australia at 2012 Summer Olympics in the K-4 500 m event. The London Games will be her Olympic debut.Before the start of the Games, she and her canoe teammates trained in Italy at the AIS European Training Centre located in Varese. <mask> and her teammates finish 9th at the London 2012 Olympic Games. In 2016, <mask> controversially missed selection for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. In the domestic selection trails, Brigden-<mask> had 3 wins in K1 races and 3 second places in K1 and K2 races. She was then forced into a race off with teammate Naomi Flood at the World Cup in Duisburg. But both athletes were racing in different events but their results were compared. <mask> was only allowed to race the K1 200m event, and was not allowed to contest her preferred distance, the 500m.As a result of the World Cup race, <mask> was not selected for the 2016 Rio Olympic Team. Following the 2016 World Cup, <mask> commenced work as a paramedic with NSW Ambulance. <mask> had planned to hang up her paddle and retire from kayaking. <mask> was drawn back to paddling, as she loves the sport and has great friends who were still training and racing. <mask> decided to go along to training to keep fit and for the coffee catch ups after training. It was her competitive nature that kicked in and she decided to keep racing. Incredibly at the 2017 National Championships, <mask> won the K1 200m.Even <mask> was baffled, but delighted. <mask> hadn't been able to train as much as she used to given her full-time shift work hours. <mask> continued to pursue full-time work and training and went on to race internationally bringing home two silver medals at the World Cups and a place in the K1 500m A final at the World Championships. In 2018, The Australian women's K4 500 (Alyce Burnett (QLD), Alyssa Bull (NSW) and Jaime Roberts (WA), <mask>-<mask> (NSW)), canoe sprint team shocked even themselves with a stunning silver medal at the ICF World Cup in Szeged, Hungary. The Australian crew, which only came together two months ago, chased the highly rated New Zealand team to the line, and in the process set the fastest ever time for a women's K4 500 crew. The crew went on to place 7th at the 2018 World Championships in Portugal. In 2019, <mask> and her K4 teammates qualified Australia a K4 500m quota position for Australia to race at the Tokyo Olympic Games, when they finished 7th at the 2019 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.<mask> is currently in training to qualify herself onto the Australian Olympic Team for 2020. <mask> has been named on Australian Kayak Teams every year since 2004. This includes Australian Junior Team, Australian Youth Olympic Festival, Under 23 Team, Senior Team and Olympic Team. <mask> holds 38 Australian National Titles over various boat categories and distances. Career
After finishing high school in 2005, <mask> began studying a Bachelor of Nursing at the University of Technology, Sydney. <mask> was supported by UTS through the Elite Athlete Program during her years studying at UTS. She worked as a Registered Nurse on a casual basis from 2012 to 2015.In 2012, she started studying a Post Graduate course in Paramedics through Charles Sturt University. She managed her study alongside her training and her work as a RN. <mask> commenced work in her dream career as a Paramedic in 2016. <mask> had wanted to become a paramedic since she was 10 years old. <mask> currently works full-time as a Paramedic for NSW Ambulance. Awards, Honours and roles

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Post nominal initials - OLY, Olympian

Manly Pathway of Olympians - plaque placed in 2013 for Olympian status

Australia Day Ambassador 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019

Awards

Australia Day Award 2018

NSW Institute of Sport - Personal Excellence Award

Charles Sturt University Distance Education Sports Person of the Year 2012 & 2014

Sport Achievement Award - Australian Institute of Sport 2011

Paddle NSW Female Paddler of the Year 2011

Pittwater Council - Sportsperson of the Year 2010

University of Technology, Sydney, Sportswoman of the Year 2008 & 2009

University of Technology, Sydney, Full Blue award 2008 & 2009

Layne Beachley 'Aim For the Stars Foundation' scholarship

Roles

NSW Institute of Sport, Athlete Advisory group member

Australian Institute of Sport and Lifeline Community Custodian

Australian Olympic Committee - Olympians Unleashed program

NSW Premier Sporting Challenge Ambassador

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Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Australian Institute of Sport canoeists
Olympic canoeists of Australia
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Karolina Myroslavivna Kuiek (born 27 September 1978), popularly known as <mask>, is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and former UN Goodwill Ambassador. Having received Ukraine's most prestigious and honorary title, the People's Artist of Ukraine, <mask> has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential women in her country, as well as ranked one of the most beautiful women from Eastern Europe. <mask> reported the highest income of all singers in Ukraine in 2014. <mask> became known outside of the former Soviet Union after she represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "Shady Lady", coming in second place behind Dima Bilan from Russia. Early life
<mask> had a notably tough childhood, which she later claimed shaped her personality. <mask> was born in the provincial city of Kitsman, Chernivtsi Oblast in Western Ukraine. She lived in the same house as Hero of Ukraine, singer and composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk spent his childhood as <mask>'s maternal grandfather had bought it from the Ivasyuks after they had decided to move away from Kitsman.Prior to her birth, her parents – a journalist and an announcer – had separated, however, her mother chose to still give Lorak her father's surname upon her birth. Lorak developed the desire to become a singer as early as the age of four. She often performed at various school vocal competitions. As a child, she listened a lot to Russian singers such as Alla Pugacheva and Larisa Dolina, which were popular at the time she was young. Speaking Ukrainian as her native language, Lorak was raised by a single mother. After having lived in Kitsman for several years, the family moved to Chernivtsi, where they lived in bitter poverty. From the age of six until seventh class, she and her brothers were placed in a foster home in Chernivtsi as her mother was unable to provide for her children full-time.When she was nine, her eldest brother Serhii died while in combat during the Soviet–Afghan War. Lorak's eldest brother had gone there to receive money to take Lorak and her two brothers out of the foster home. Serhii had also been the first one to recognise her musical potential. When the family was given an apartment in Chernivtsi after all, Lorak was subject to severe bullying in her new school due to her poor background. Career

1992-1998: Early career in Ukraine and first albums
In 1992, at the age of 13, she took part in the Chernivtsi singing competition Pervotsvit, which she won. There, she met Yuriy Falyosa, who became her first producer. As a result, at the age of 15, she signed her first professional contract for the duration of ten years.In that timeframe, as part of her contract duties, she was not allowed to marry or give birth. Kuiek became known as <mask> <mask> from March 1995 onwards after she took part in the popular children's music television programme Morning Star on Channel One Russia. Intending to perform there mononymously as Karolina, she was told that that was undesirable as there was another famous singer at the time in Russia who performed under that pseudonym. As a result, the stage name "<mask> <mask>" was invented, which was the name "Karolina" read backwards. After participating in "Morning Star", <mask>'s star started to rise in Ukraine. In the summer of 1995, <mask> was one of the laureates of the Chervona Ruta festival, that year held in Sevastopol and Simferopol, which led to her definite breakthrough in the Ukrainian show business. <mask> <mask> moved to Kyiv later that year to start recording her first album.She was named "Discovery of the Year" at the popular Ukrainian festival Tavria Games in 1996. The same year she released her first Russian-language album, "Khochu letat" (I Want to Fly). <mask> continued recording new songs in 1997. Her two videos, "Manekenschitsa" and "Bozhe moy," were filmed and the latter became a soundtrack to the movie "The Right to Choose". In the spring of 1998, her new video, "Ya vernus," was shot and in December <mask>'s second Russian-language album
"Ya vernus" was released. The mastering of this album took place in New York. Simultaneously, her two music videos "O moya lyubov" and "Dozhdlivy gorod" were filmed to accompany her new album.1999-2005: Honoured Artist of Ukraine, Ukrainian albums and first Eurovision attempt
At the outset of 1999, <mask> started her first extensive and international touring, performing in the United States, France, Germany, Hungary, and in every major city of Ukraine. In 1999, she earned the title of the Honoured Artist of Ukraine. That same year, she got acquainted with Igor Krutoy, who wrote the composition "Zerkala" for her, which brought her more initial fame in Russia. In 2000, she released her third album with Falyosa as the main producer, titled "www.anilorak.com," containing Russian, Ukrainian, and English compositions. She returned to singing completely in Ukrainian again a year later, releasing her fourth album, "Tam, de ty ye...". This was followed by a second album in Ukrainian, titled "Ani Lorak" in 2004, which mostly had the same songs as her 2000 album. In 2004-2005 <mask> <mask> was a UN GoodWill Ambassador in Ukraine for HIV/AIDS.In 2005, <mask> <mask> made her first attempt to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest and was virtually certain to sing the home country's entry in Kyiv, but ultimately failed to be selected. Her narrow defeat in the 2005 national pre-selection competition was particularly controversial, given that the winners – GreenJolly – were only added later and did not have to qualify for the final by winning one of the fifteen preliminary heats, unlike all other finalists. However, their song "Razom nas bahato", had a larger societal impact at the time, following the Orange Revolution. <mask> finished in second place in the Ukrainian national final with the song "A Little Shot Of Love". Afterwards, she released her first and only English-language album Smile. 2006-2012: Changes of producer, Eurovision 2008 and Solntse

In 2006, this was followed by "Rozkazhi," her ninth album, again fully in Ukrainian. Shortly after the album's release, <mask> ended her contract with Falyosa and started to work with producer Konstantin Meladze.That same year, <mask> released a duet with Meladze's brother Valery Meladze, which became <mask>'s first radio hit in Russia. In 2007, she celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of her artistry with the album 15, fully in Russian bar one song in English. However, the collaboration with Meladze quickly fell through, leaving Lorak without a producer. In 2007, <mask>'s friend and colleague Philipp Kirkorov successfully produced Belarus' Eurovision 2007 effort and opted to bring <mask> to Eurovision in Belgrade in 2008. In late 2007, it was announced that Ukrainian public broadcaster  NTU had internally selected <mask> to represent the country at Eurovision in Belgrade, and that the public and a jury would choose the song. It was the third and last internal selection the country had before internally selecting Go_A in 2021. On 23 February 2008, Lorak performed five potential entries in a special show.The song "Shady Lady", written by Karen Kavaleryan and Philipp Kirkorov won the show with a landslide victory. Shortly after, she recorded a Russian version of her Eurovision song "Shady Lady" with the title "S neba v nebo." <mask>, similar to Dmitry Koldun a year prior, held an extensive promo campaign and visited other countries to present her song, including Malta, Russia, Bulgaria, Spain and Germany. At the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, she sang the song "Shady Lady" in the second semi-final on 23 May 2008, winning a place in the final. She took second place in the final after Dima Bilan, giving Ukraine its second runner-up position in a row and its third-best score of all-time. Italian designer Roberto Cavalli designed the ornate dress for <mask>'s performance at the contest, which was made with Swarovski Diamonds. Greek choreographer Fokas Evangelinos designed her stage show, involving four dancers.Prior to performing in the final, <mask> had won the Artistic Award, voted the most popular entry among the former winners of the contest. After her second-place finish at Eurovision, <mask> returned to Ukraine in newfound stardom. For her result, she and Philipp Kirkorov were given the title People's Artist of Ukraine. In Chernivtsi, where her career had taken off in 1992, she received a star on the Star Alley in the centre of the city. In 2009, she released her tenth album, Solntse, which was produced by Dimitris Kontopoulos, who had previously produced her Eurovision effort. The album became her most successful effort until that moment. In October 2009, <mask> was ranked 41st in a top 100 of "most influential women in Ukraine" compiled by experts for the Ukrainian magazine Focus.In 2010, Lorak released a compilation album titled "The Best". At the time, she continued releasing, almost exclusively in Russian and performed in countries in the Russian-speaking world. 2013-2017: Criticism for performing in Russia, Razve ty lyubil... and tour show Karolina

In 2013, <mask> returned to Greece to produce her fourteenth "Zazhigay serdtse" together with Kontopoulos. Diana Golde and Ruslan Kvinta also wrote several songs for the album. From March to June 2014, Lorak was a coach on the fourth season "Holos Krainy". During this season, she coached singer Mykyta Aliekieiev, whom she also helped to start his career. In the wake of the annexation of Crimea and the War in the Donbass, Lorak continued performing in Russia.This led to severe criticism from several politicians and parts of the Ukrainian society. During several of her concerts in Odesa and Kyiv in 2014, protesters gathered in front of the concert venues. In November 2014, activists gathered to protest against her concert in the Palace of Ukraine. A concert in Odesa was subsequently cancelled as a result. <mask>'s appearance in the New Year's programme on the television channel Inter was subject to severe criticism on social media. Her star on the Star Alley of Chernivtsi was first vandalised with the text "PTN GFY" and on the night of 29 to 30 January 2015, stolen. In May 2015, the Chernivtsi City Council decided to not reinstate a new star for <mask>.Meanwhile, <mask> scored large commercial success in Russia, performing several duets alongside singer Grigory Leps, which included "Ukhodi po-angliyski" and "Zerkala,"

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