Rizabawa (24 September 1966 – 13 September 2021) was an Indian actor who works predomiantly in Malayalam films and television. His breakthrough role was as a villain in the 1990 film In Harihar Nagar. Since then, he acted as villain in several films in 1990s.

Biography
Rizabawa started his career in theatre. Even though Rizabawa played the hero in his debut film Dr. Pasupathy directed by Shaji Kailas, his first noticed role in Malayalam films was from the director Duo Siddique-Lal in the movie In Harihar Nagar. His role John Honai became a breakthrough role for him, a villain. He later moved into the small-screen industry, acting in a number of Malayalam serials. He continued to be a villain in many other films, including Irikku MD Akathundu, Vakkeel Vasudev, Thiruthalvaadi, and Malappuram Haji Mahanaya Joji. Later in his career, Rizabawa acted in the Malayalam film industry in supporting roles. He has also acted in many serials from 2002 until his death.

Personal life
He has a daughter. He died from a kidney-related illness on 13 September 2021 as well as Covid-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

Awards
Kerala State Film Awards
 2010 – Best Dubbing Artist:  – Karmayogi

Filmography

Films

 Professor Dinkan (2025) Not Released
 Mahaveeryar (2022)
 Lal Jose (2022)
 One (2021)
 Aarodum Parayathe (2019)
 Velakkaariyaayirunthalum Neeyen Mohavalli (2018)
 Pranayatheertham (2018)
 Stethoscope (2017)
 Tharakangale Sakshi (2015)
 Kohinoor (2015)
 John Honai (2015)
 Nirnnayakam (2015)
 Asha Black (2014)
 Zachariayude Garbhinikal (2013)
 Ente (2013)
 Mizhi (2013)
 Paisa Paisa (2013)
 Proprietors: Kammath & Kammath (2013)
 Avanthipuram 2013 ( Telugu )
 Police Maman (2013)
 Village Guys (2013)
 Aakashanagaram (2013)
 Veendum Kannur (2012)
 The Hitlist (2012)
 Track (2012)
 Simhasanam (2012)
 Vaidooryam (2012) .... Shekharan
 Ee Adutha Kaalathu (2012)
 Sthalam (2012)
 Karmayogi
 Ponnu Kondoru Aalroopam (2011)
 Swargam 9 km (2011)
 Sahasram (2010)
 Chaverpada (2010)
 Pokkiri Raja (2010) as Home Minister Kumaran
 Avan (2010) as Avan
 2 Harihar Nagar (2009) Cameo
 Thirunakkara Perumal (2009)
 Duplicate (2009) as Mahendran Thampi
 Ali Imran (2009)
 Twenty 20 (2008) Photo Archieve
 Sound of Boot (2008) as Abdul Sathar
 College Kumaran (2008) as Vikraman
 Mulla (2008) as Venu
 Paradesi (2007)
 Nasrani (2007) as Eappachan
 Nagaram (2007) as Enashu Vakkeel
 Kichamani MBA (2007)
 Bharathan Effect (2007)
 Hallo (2007) as Dinu Bhai
 Romeoo (2007) as Ramanathan
 Vadakkum Nathan (2006) as Shankarankutty
Kisan (Ilakal Pacha Pookkal Manja) (2006) as Balarama Varma
 Balaram Vs Tharadas (2006)
 Kaasu (2006; Tamil)
 Mahasamudram (2006) as Chandran
 Badadosth (2006) as Ravindranath Khurana
 Highway Police (2006) as Bhoominathan
 Nerariyan CBI (2005) as Dr. Babu
 Hridayathil Sookshikkan (2005)
 Manikyan (2005) as Sekhara Menon
 Thekkekkara Superfast (2004) .... Antappan
 Vismayathumbathu (2004) .... V. B. Prathapan
 Jalolsavam (2004)
 Mayilaattam (2004)
 Ivar (2003) .... Prem Kumar
 Meerayude Dukhavum Muthuvinte Swapnavum (2003) .... Advocate
 Kuberan (2002)
 Oomappenninu Uriyadappayyan (2002) .... Mukunda Varma
 Pakalpooram (2002)
 Sundariprav (2002)
 Ente Hridyathinte Udama (2002)
 Punyam (2001)
 Sravu (2001) as Sudeeran Pilla
 Maalavika (2001)
 Onnam Raagam (2001)
 Cover Story (2000) (as Risa Bava)
 Varnnakazhchakal (2000) as Thomachan
 Life Is Beautiful (2000) as Sindhu's Manager
 Summer Palace (2000)
 Rapid Action Force (2000)
 Crime File (1999) as Thomas
 Niram (1999) as Jinan
 Ezhupunna Tharakan (1999) as Gauri Nandana Varma
 The Godman (1999) as Joseph Chacko
 The Gang (1998)
 Soorya Vanam (1998)
 Ormacheppu (1998)
 Thattakam (1998)
 Bhoothakkannadi (1997) as Guard at prison
 Manasam (1997) .... Doctor
 Vamsam (1997)
 Shibiram (1997)
 Kannur (1997)
 Kadhanaayakan (1997)
 Asuravamsam (1997) .... Muhammad Hussain Haji
 Bhoothakannaadi  1997... Guard at prison
 Nagarapuranam (1997) .... Jayamohan
 Udyanapalakan (1996)
 Man of the Match (1996) .... Swamy Paramananda
 Sugavasam(1996)....Naresh Mehta
 Naalamkettile Nalla Thambimar (1996)
 Kalamasseriyil Kalyanayogam (1995) .... Anantharaman
 Sasinas (1995)
 Hijack (1995) .... Prasad
 Sreeragam (1995) .... Narasimhan
 Street (1995) .... Police Officer
 Thaksha Sheela (1995)
 Peterscott (1995)
 Sargavasantham (1995)
 Mangalam Veettil Manaseswari Gupta (1995) .... Sethumadhavan
 Aniyan Bava Chetan Bava (1995) .... Kannappan
 Vadhu Doctoranu (1994) .... Purushothaman
 Malappuram Haji Mahanaya Joji (1994)
 Manathe Kottaram (1994)
 Avan Ananda Padmanabhan (1994)
 Tharavaadu (Chathurvarnyam) (1994)
 Tharavadu (1994)
 Chukkan (1994) .... Vishwan
Thendral Varum Theru (1994; Tamil)
 Kabuliwala (1994) .... Venu
 Thalamura (1993)
 Gandhari (1993)
 Bhoomi Geetham (1993)  .... Chandradas
 Aayirappara (1993) .... Bhanu Vikrama Kaimal
 Bandhukkal Sathrukkal (1993)  .... Asokan Chattambi (Actors Mukesh, Jayaram, Rohini}
 Vakkeel Vasudev (1993) (Actors Jayaram, Sunitha, Jagadeesh)
 Uppukandam Brothers (1993)
 Sarovaram (1993)
 Aparna (1993)
 Champakkulam Thachan (1992)
 Congratulations Miss Anitha Menon (1992)
 Daivathinte Vikrithikal (1992)
 First Bell (1992) .... Krishnakumar
 Maanthrika Cheppu (1992) .... Jackson (Actors Jagadish, Sunitha, Siddique, Suchithra
 Ente Ponnu Thampuran (1992) .... Sreekumar
 Ezhara Ponnana (1992) .... Ramu
 Thiruthalvaadi (1992)
 Neelakurukkan (1992)
 Champakkulam Thachan (1992) .... Thommikunju (Actors Murali, Vineeth, Ramba, Monisha
 Priyappetta Kukku (1992)
 Soorya Manasam (1992)
 Sundarikakka
 Irrikku M.D. Akathudu (1991)(Actors Mukesh, Sunitha, Siddique)
 Aanaval Mothiram (1991) .... Commissioner (Actors Suresh Gopi, Sreenivasan)
 Athirathan (1991)
 Bhoomika (1991)... Rameshan (Actors Suresh Gopi, Jayaram, Urvasi,
 Georgekutty C/O Georgekutty (1991)(Actors Jayaram, Sunitha, Thilakan)
 Sundari kakka ( 1991) ....Fr. Samuel
 Agninilavu (1991) ... Dinesh
 Daivasahayam Lucky Centre (1991)
 Kalari (1991)
 Aamina Tailors (1991) .... Nassar
 Sunday 7PM (1990)
 In Harihar Nagar(1990)John Honai (Actors Jagadish, Siddique, Mukesh)
 Dr. Pasupathy (1990) .... Pappen (Actors Innocent, Parvathi) as Pappan, Hero Debut
 Vishupakshi (1987) Not Released

As dubbing artist

Television

References

External links

 Rizabawa at MSI

1966 births
2021 deaths
20th-century Indian male actors
Male actors from Kochi
Male actors in Malayalam cinema
Indian male film actors
Kerala State Film Award winners
21st-century Indian male actors
Indian male television actors
Indian male voice actors
Male actors in Malayalam television
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India


Mary Letitia Martin (1815–1850) was an Irish writer who was known as the "Princess of Connemara". Educated at home in the upper-class style, she was fluent in numerous languages. She published two books in her lifetime, and a third was published posthumously.

After losing her fortune during the Great Famine, Martin and her husband went to Belgium for a time, where she contributed to periodicals. They sailed to America in 1850, but Martin died 10 days after arrival due to complications of premature childbirth.

Biography
Martin was born into the chief landowning family of Connemara, the Martins of Ballynahinch Castle, a branch of the Martyn Tribe of Galway. Her parents were Thomas Barnwall Martin and Julia Kirwin; her paternal grandfather was Richard Martin MP (1754–1834).

Educated at home and by herself, Martin became fluent in Irish, English, French and a number of other languages. According to Maria Edgeworth, who had met her during her tour of Connemara in 1833, she was courted in 1834 by Count Adolphe de Werdinsky, whom she had met in London earlier that year. She refused to marry and de Werdinsky feigned a suicide attempt at Ballynahinch.

Martin published her first novel, St. Etienne, a Tale of the Vendean War, in 1845.

In 1847, she married a cousin, Colonel Arthur Gonne Bell. He took the name of Martin on marriage, by Royal Licence. In the same year, her father died of famine fever contracted while visiting his tenants in the Clifden workhouse.

Famine
On the death of her father, Martin inherited a heavily encumbered estate of . In the following two years, her remaining fortune was destroyed in the famine as she attempted to alleviate its effects on her tenants. Penniless, she emigrated with her husband to Belgium. There she contributed to a number of periodicals, notably Encyclopaedie Des Gens Du Monde.

USA and death
In 1850, her autobiographical novel, Julia Howard, was published. That same year, the Martins sailed for America. She died ten days after arriving in New York City, following giving birth prematurely on board ship. The baby died, too. Her husband returned to England. He arranged for the posthumous publication of her novel, Deed, not Words (1857). In 1883, he was killed in a railway accident.

Select bibliography
 St. Etienne, a romance, 1845.
 Julia Howard. A Romance, London, Richard Bentley, 1850.
 Deeds, not Words; or, the Flemings of Dunaik. A Domestic Tale, London, G. Routledge, 1857.

See also

 The Tribes of Galway

Notes

References

 Humanity Dick, Shevawn Lynam, 1975.
 Galway Authors, Helen Maher, Roscommon, 1975.
 Connemara after the Famine: Journal of a Survey of the Martin Estate by Thomas Colville Scott, 1853. Edited by Tim Robinson, Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1995.
 The Tribes of Galway, by Adrian James Martyn, Galway, 2001.
 The Eccentric Member for Galway, Peter Phillips, 2003.
 Maria Edgeworth, Tour in Connemara and the Martins of Ballinahinch, edited by Harold Edgeworth Butler. London 1950. Chapter II: A Sequel (pp. 80–101).
 The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, vol. 35 (1851) p. 100
 Peter Phillips, Humanity Dick: the eccentric member for Galway, Parapress Limited, 2003 , 978-1-898594-76-5

External links
 http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/MaryLaetitiaBellMartin.php

1815 births
1850 deaths
Writers from County Galway
19th-century Irish novelists
19th-century Irish women writers
19th-century Irish writers
Irish expatriates in Belgium
Irish women novelists
Burials at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
Deaths in childbirth


Sauternes can refer to:
Sauternes, Gironde, a town in the Bordeaux region of France
Sauternes (wine), an appellation for sweet Bordeaux wine produced around the town Sauternes
The SS Sauternes, a World War II steamship built in 1922


Gary Andrew Carignan (born July 23, 1986) is a former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics.

Amateur career
Born in New London, Connecticut, Carignan attended high school at Norwich Free Academy where he played with Eric Campbell and was named Connecticut's top baseball player in 2003 after leading the team to a state championship. He played college baseball for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. In 2005 and 2006, he played collegiate summer baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Bourne Braves, and was named an all-star in 2006. He was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 5th round of the 2007 MLB Draft.

Professional career

Oakland Athletics
Carignan made his major league debut in 2011, and appeared in six games for Oakland that year.

He collected his first MLB win on April 12, 2012, against the Kansas City Royals. In that game, Carignan took over from fellow reliever Jordan Norberto. He took the win when Seth Smith reached on a fielding error. Jemile Weeks and Eric Sogard were then walked, loading the bases. Coco Crisp then grounded out, scoring Smith. Yoenis Céspedes was then hit by a pitch, reloading the bases. The game then ended in the bottom of the twelfth inning when Adam Dolliver was hit, forcing in the winning run. On June 19, 2012, Carignan underwent Tommy John surgery, ending his 2012 season, and causing him to miss all of 2013 as well.

Later career
Carignan signed a minor league deal with the San Francisco Giants in December 2013. He played the whole season in the minors, totaling 16 appearances. He became a free agent after the 2014 season. In 2015, Carignan pitched in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He announced his retirement on January 29, 2016.

Personal life
Carignan's great-grandfather Gus Dugas played in MLB in the early 1930s as an outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, and Washington Senators.

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
Baseball players from Connecticut
Bourne Braves players
Fresno Grizzlies players
Kane County Cougars players
Leones del Caracas players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Major League Baseball pitchers
Midland RockHounds players
North Carolina Tar Heels baseball players
Oakland Athletics players
Phoenix Desert Dogs players
Richmond Flying Squirrels players
Sacramento River Cats players
Somerset Patriots players
Sportspeople from New London, Connecticut
Stockton Ports players


Harald Hauge (born 12 May 1984) is a Norwegian football defender.

Hauge hails from Frogner, and played youth football for Lillestrøm SK. He got three Norwegian Premier League games in 2003, without scoring. He was given a senior contract with Lillestrøm ahead of the 2004 season. However, before the season actually started, he was loaned out to Hønefoss BK in the Norwegian First Division. A second season on loan was considered, but in January 2005 he was recalled to Lillestrøm. However, he soon became injured.

Ahead of the 2006 season he joined Ull/Kisa . Here he joined his brother Frank Arne Hauge. Ahead of the 2009 season he went on to Flisbyen BK. Frank Arne Hauge became assistant coach.

References

1984 births
Living people
Norwegian men's footballers
Lillestrøm SK players
Hønefoss BK players
Ullensaker/Kisa IL players
People from Akershus
Eliteserien players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Viken (county)


William Alvan Faul (April 21, 1940 – February 21, 2002) was an American Major League Baseball player, a right-handed pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants (1962–66; 1970). He stood  tall and weighed .

Born in Cincinnati, Faul attended Goshen High School. Playing alongside his brother Jerry, Faul helped Goshen win the 1958 Ohio state baseball championship, then he played baseball at the University of Cincinnati, where he set the school's strikeout record and once fanned 24 batters in a game.

Baseball career
Faul signed with the Tigers in 1962. Assigned to the Knoxville Smokies of the Sally League, he won six of eight decisions and posted a 2.10 earned run average. After a one-game major-league trial late in 1962, Faul spent the entire  season with the Tigers. Working as a swing man, he appeared in 28 games pitched, ten as a starter, won five of 11 decisions, had two complete games and one save.

But Faul also gained a reputation as one of his buttoned-up era's more free-spirited players and struggled under old-school manager Chuck Dressen after Dressen took command of the Tigers in mid-season. Faul spent all but one game of the  campaign in Triple-A, where he compiled an outstanding win–loss record (11–1) but a high earned run average (4.05) for the Syracuse Chiefs. The Tigers then sold his contract to Cubs during spring training in .

The deal set up Faul's most successful big-league campaign. It began inauspiciously when he was roughed up during an April relief appearance against his hometown team, the Cincinnati Reds. The outing earned Faul another trip to Triple-A, where he spent two months in the Pacific Coast League. Recalled in July and eventually plugged into the second-division Cubs' starting rotation, Faul worked in 17 games (including 16 starts), threw five complete games and three shutouts, including a two-hitter and a three-hitter. The 1965 Cubs tied a major league record by turning three triple plays, and Faul was the pitcher on each occasion. At one point that season, Faul credited the success he was having to his having the ability to hypnotize himself and batters. For the year, Faul posted a 6–6 record and set a personal best with a 3.54 earned run average.

He began  working out of the bullpen for the Cubs' new manager, Leo Durocher, but got a chance to start on May 1 against the Philadelphia Phillies at Wrigley Field. He defeated the Phils 6–1, registering what would be his final major league victory. He got in five more starts during the seasons first half, but was sent to Triple-A Tacoma in July. After spending 3 years in the minors, he surfaced in the majors again as a member of the Giants'  bullpen, appearing in seven May games and registering one save. Then he was sent back to Triple-A, where he toiled through 1971. After sitting out the 1972 campaign, he made a final comeback in the Cubs' organization in 1973 before retiring.

All told, Faul appeared in 71 big-league games, including 33 starting assignments, over all or parts of six seasons. He won 12 games, lost 16, with eight complete games, three shutouts, and two saves. In 261 innings pitched he allowed 247 hits and 97 bases on balls, with 164 strikeouts. His career ERA was 4.72.

Personal life and death
Faul was a resident of Pleasant Plain, Ohio. He died at age 61 and is survived by his brother Jerry who still resides in Ohio.

References

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1940 births
2002 deaths
All-American college baseball players
Baseball players from Cincinnati
Chicago Cubs players
Cincinnati Bearcats baseball players
Detroit Tigers players
Indianapolis Indians players
Knoxville Smokies players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Midland Cubs players
Omaha Royals players
Phoenix Giants players
Sportspeople from Warren County, Ohio
Portland Beavers players
Salt Lake City Bees players
San Francisco Giants players
Syracuse Chiefs players
Tacoma Cubs players
Waterbury Indians players


Marcelino Solis (July 19, 1930 – June 15, 2001) was a Mexican professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher who appeared in 15 Major League games in  for the Chicago Cubs.  The native of Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosí, stood  tall and weighed .

Solis' professional career extended from 1952 through 1963, but the 1958 campaign was his most noteworthy. Starting the year with the Fort Worth Cats, Solis fashioned a 15–2 won–lost record and a 2.44 earned run average in the Double-A Texas League then was called up to the Cubs in July. In his MLB debut on July 16 at Wrigley Field, Solis gave up nine hits and five runs, all earned, in 6⅓ innings against the Cincinnati Redlegs, but gained a no-decision as the Cubs came back to win the game, 7–5. Solis would make three other starting pitcher assignments, but his finest outings came in relief. On July 26, he relieved starter Dick Drott in the third inning and then worked 6⅓ scoreless frames to earn his first MLB victory over the Milwaukee Braves, the defending world champions.  Then, on August 10, Solis turned in another lengthy relief effort, replacing John Briggs in the first inning in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals and lasting the final 8⅔ innings while giving up only two earned runs to gain another victory. He was aided by four double plays in that contest.

In 52 Major League innings pitched, Solis surrendered 74 hits and 20 bases on balls; he struck out 15.  He resumed his minor league career in 1959.

References

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1930 births
2001 deaths
Baseball players from San Luis Potosí
Chicago Cubs players
El Paso Texans players
Fort Worth Cats players
Houston Buffs players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Major League Baseball players from Mexico
Mexican expatriate baseball players in the United States
Mexican League baseball pitchers
Phoenix Giants players
Rojos del Águila de Veracruz players
San Antonio Missions players
Sultanes de Monterrey players


Monte Penna is a mountain (1,735 m) on the border between Liguria and Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Apennines. It is included in the Natural Regional Park of the Aveto, and overlooks the Val di Taro; the sources of both the Taro and Ceno Rivers are located in Monte Penna's slope.

The name derives from the ancient Celtic deity Penn, who was believed to reside here by the Ligures.

References

External links
 Val d'Aveto

Mountains of Emilia-Romagna
Mountains of Liguria
Mountains of the Apennines
One-thousanders of Italy


Sophie Hunger (born Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti on 31 March 1983) is a Swiss singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, blues harp, piano) and bandleader, currently living in Berlin.

Early life
Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti was born on 31 March 1983 in Bern, Switzerland. She was a diplomat's daughter and grew up, with two older siblings, in Bern, London, Bonn and Zurich. She graduated high-school in 2002, then subsequently studied German and English.

While a child, Hunger took piano lessons for a time. She was familiar with jazz from an early age, since her father used to listen to it. Independently, she had a varying taste in music; as a teenager, she first was into hip-hop and R&B. Later she listened to rock – then, as a young adult, she discovered country, bluegrass and folk.

Career

From 2002 to 2006, Hunger was a guest singer for the project Superterz and appears on the 2006 album Standards released by that group. Starting in 2004, Hunger was the lead singer of the indie rock group Fisher. The band split in 2007.

Hunger plays guitar, blues harp, piano and composes most of her songs in , French, , German and . In 2006, in a few days, she home-recorded her solo début album, Sketches on Sea.

On 6 July 2008, Hunger and her band gave a concert in the Miles Davis Hall at the Montreux Jazz Festival, as well as Yael Naim and Camille. In July 2009, Hunger and her band closed out day 2 of TEDGlobal.

1983, her third album after Sketches At Sea and Monday's Ghost, released in early 2010. This album was described as being a further development of her own mix of genres exhibited on the previous two albums. In June 2010, Sophie Hunger and her band played the John Peel stage at Glastonbury Festival. Sophie Hunger was the first Swiss artist that has ever played there. In July 2010 she played at the 100 Club, London, in October 2010 at The Roundhouse, London. Later that year, it was announced that Sophie Hunger would release a début record for the North American market as Sophie Hunger: s/t on Manimal Vinyl in April 2011. The CD contained tracks from 1983 and Monday's Ghost.

In 2011, her version of Noir Désir's "Le vent nous portera", which first appeared on 1983, was featured in the film Café de Flore, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.

In 2012, Hunger released her fourth Album, The Danger Of Light, which has been described to be influenced by jazz, or as changing between the genres folk, rock, pop and chansons.

She participated in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2013 as a featured artist on the song "Fremde" with rapper Max Herre. Representing the German state of Baden-Württemberg, they finished in eighth place with a total of 51 points. The song was included in a deluxe version of the 2012 German number-one album Hallo Welt!, in which Sophie also contributed vocals and lyrics to the song "Berlin - Tel Aviv".

Supermoon, her fifth album, has been released in 2015. This album was described as alluding to the jazz roots from Hunger's first few albums, while mixing musical genres on every track.

In 2017 she made an appearance on the single "Song of I", a track from Steven Wilson's To the Bone.

On August 31, 2018, Molecules, Hunger's sixth album, was released. This album, being produced by Dan Carey, makes heavy use of synthesizers and other electronic instruments, and was described as a "fresh new start".

Continuing the cooperation with Carey, Hunger released her latest album, Halluzinationen (Hallucinations), in 2020. Having been recorded in two days at Abbey Road Studios, it was described as being "more versatile" than preceding works.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sophie Hunger and fellow Swiss artists Faber and Dino Brandão formed Brandão Faber Hunger, a supergroup to release a single album, Ich liebe Dich (I love You) in December 2020. It is an album of love songs exclusively sung in Swiss German.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

With the band Fisher, under the name Emilie Welti
 2006: Fisher – Fisher (Kuenschtli.ch)
 2006: Superterz: Standards

Singles
as Lead artist

as Featured artist

Soundtrack
as Emilie Welti
 2008: Der Freund (with Marcel Vaid):
 2010: Zimmer 202
as Sophie Hunger
 2016: My Life as a Courgette

Filmography
as Emilie Welti
 2008: Der Freund
 2012: Der Kumpel
as Sophie Hunger
 2012: The Rules of Fire
 2016: My Life as a Courgette

Awards and nominations

References

External links

 Sophie Hunger on YouTube

1983 births
Living people
English-language singers from Switzerland
Swiss film score composers
French-language singers of Switzerland
German-language singers of Switzerland
Musicians from Bern
Musicians from Zürich
21st-century Swiss women singers
Swiss singer-songwriters
Swiss women singer-songwriters
Swiss jazz musicians
Swiss guitarists
Multi-instrumentalists
Swiss harpists
Swiss pianists
Swiss women pianists
Participants in the Bundesvision Song Contest
21st-century Swiss musicians
21st-century pianists
21st-century guitarists
21st-century women guitarists
21st-century women pianists


Dolan Levon Nichols (February 28, 1930 – November 28, 1989), nicknamed "Nick", was an American professional baseball player, a relief pitcher who worked in 24 games in the Major Leagues for the  Chicago Cubs. A right-hander, the native of Tishomingo, Mississippi, stood  tall and weighed .

Nichols' stint with the Cubs was largely spent during the early weeks of the 1958 campaign. He registered his four Major League decisions — all losses — between May 4 and June 7. Earlier, on April 23, he earned his only MLB save against the Los Angeles Dodgers, preserving a 7–6 win for Don Elston at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. In 41⅓ MLB innings pitched, Nichols surrendered 46 hits and 16 bases on balls, with nine strikeouts.

Nichols' minor league career lasted nine seasons (1952–1960). He won 80 games, losing 67, for teams in the Cleveland Indians' and Cubs' organizations.

References

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1930 births
1989 deaths
Baseball players from Mississippi
Cedar Rapids Indians players
Chicago Cubs players
Fort Worth Cats players
Indianapolis Indians players
Little Rock Travelers players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Memphis Chickasaws players
Portland Beavers players
Reading Indians players
San Diego Padres (minor league) players
Spartanburg Peaches players
Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players
People from Tishomingo County, Mississippi


Paul Dean (born 1966) is an Australian clarinetist, composer and conductor

Career
Dean was born in Brisbane, Australia. A graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium where he received the Medal of Excellence, Dean won the Australian Clarinet Competition, the Mattara National Concerto Competition, the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in Los Angeles (as a member of the Movellan Wind Quintet).

He often performs together with his brother, the Australian composer, violist and conductor, Brett Dean.

Paul Dean is one of the members of the Southern Cross Soloists, based in Brisbane. As soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, Paul Dean has performed in Norway, England, Japan, the USA and Canada.

From 1987 until 2000 he was principal clarinet with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

In 2003 Dean was a soloist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and The Queensland Orchestra. He toured nationally with the Australian String Quartet, playing the Brahms Quintet, Op. 115, and toured New Zealand and the US with the Southern Cross Soloists in the same year.

In 2004 he was a guest artist at the Sydney Festival and the Australian String Quartet’s Bridgewater Mill Series, toured nationally with the Macquarie Trio and performed over 50 concerts throughout Australia with the Southern Cross Soloists.

Described by London’s The Sunday Times as "the excellent Paul Dean", he has toured extensively throughout USA, Asia, Europe and New Zealand. His performance of the Frankel Clarinet Quintet, Op. 28, at the 1997 International Clarinetfest in Lubbock, Texas, won him a standing ovation.

Dean served as the artistic director of Southern Cross Soloists, the SunWater & Stanwell Winter Music School and the Bangalow Music Festival, as well as making regular appearances at festivals throughout Australia. In 2007 he was artistic director of the Bonyi International Youth Music Festival in Brisbane. In 2011 he was appointed the artistic director for Tutti Youth Music Festival Beijing, an international youth music festival dedicated to music education, a position he still holds in 2022.

In 2010, Dean was appointed as artistic director of the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne, succeeding his brother Brett Dean in that post. Dean was appointed composer-in-residence by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for the 2019 season.

Dean and his wife, cellist Trish (née O'Brien), founded the Brisbane-based chamber group Ensemble Q in 2017.

As a composer, his works include Turmoil, Peace and Celebration for cello and piano (2014). His opera Dry River Run to a libretto by Rodney Hall was premiered in September 2018. In November 2022, he won the Paul Lowin Prize for orchestral composition with his Symphony nr. 1, Black Summer.

As a conductor, Dean has worked with the Queensland Youth Orchestras, and in 2021 he was appointed chief conductor of the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra. He is the head of winds and senior lecturer in clarinet at the Queensland Conservatorium.

Recordings
1990: From Fire by Fire, Queensland Wind Soloists
1996: Frankel: Chamber Works, Queensland Symphony Chamber players
1999: Ariel's Music, with Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Richard Mills
2006: Night Window, with Brett Dean and Stephen Emmerson (nominated for Best Classical Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 1999)

2012: The Romantic Clarinet, with Stephen Emmerson (Melba MR 301138)
2013: Music for Clarinet and Orchestra, with Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Richard Mills (ABC 476 4465)

References

External links

1966 births
Living people
People educated at Brisbane State High School
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University alumni
Academic staff of Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
Musicians from Brisbane
Australian clarinetists
Australian composers
Australian conductors (music)
21st-century clarinetists


The Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee (), also known by its Finnish abbreviation SAFKA, is a radical political organisation operating in Finland, founded in November 2008, but never registered. According to the Chairperson Johan Bäckman the committee has twenty activists and about a hundred supporters.

In their first manifest from December 2008, they condemned the following phenomena as fascist: school shootings, political activism against the Paris Peace Treaty, as well as the death of the political left. Some members of the group consider the 1917 Bolshevik revolution as "social progress" and views the Soviet Union as a "utopia that was realized in the Swedish welfare state".
The group has been heavily criticized in the Estonian media as being "neo-Stalinist". The number of activists in the group is not announced, however at least Johan Bäckman, , Petri Krohn and Tommi Lievemaa are members.

Activities

On 23 March 2009, Safka staged a protest in central Helsinki together with Nochnoy Dozor and Nashi against a seminar arranged by the Estonia's embassy in Helsinki discussing the Soviet deportations from Baltic states. Safka claimed in its blog that the event "worshipped Nazi ideology" and was "anti-Russian" in nature. The protest was joined by the prospective Finnish Islamic Party represented by Abdullah Tammi
The protest, although attended by only a few dozen protesters received huge media interest in Finland. In comparison, the seminar drew about 300 people.

Manifests and declarations

Most of SAFKA's public declarations concern the Republic of Estonia, the history of Estonia, and Estonia's right to exist as a sovereign country.

During their demonstrations in Helsinki, SAFKA delivered a manifesto entitled "Manifest of antifascists in Helsinki", signed by seven organisations calling themselves "anti-fascist committees" throughout Europe, condemning what they claim as "apartheid policies of Estonia and Latvia". The manifest claimed that the "attempt of the Baltic regimes at equating Communism with Fascism is a form of Holocaust denial as it denies the unique nature of Nazi crimes".

Following the publication of the final report of the Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity, SAFKA claimed that its chairman, the Finnish diplomat and one-time UN Secretary-General candidate Max Jakobson, is the "ideological father of the criminal apartheid regime of Estonia" and gave him the "misanthropist of the year" award.

Political ambitions

The committee supported Johan Bäckman in his bid for European Parliament elections.

Estonian media reception
According to Delfi, the committee specialises in justifying Stalinism, particularly reinterpreting the Soviet deportations from Estonia as benign and making accusations regarding supposed human rights violations in Estonia. Journalist Heiki Suurkask, writing for Eesti Päevaleht, has characterised the organization as neo-Stalinist.

Alleged connections to former KGB affiliates

SAFKA's alleged ties with former KGB affiliates have been discussed in the press. In particular, Abdullah Tammi (born Risto Tammi), a self-identified former KGB informant, participated in one of their demonstrations. Johan Bäckman's book The Bronze Soldier, which brought the committee to limelight, was published by Estonian publishing house Tarbeinfo; Tarbeinfo's primary owner is Vladimir Illyashevich, a former First Department KGB operative.

Members in politics
Three members of Safka unsuccessfully run in the 2009 European Parliament election. Johan Bäckman got 554 votes (146th of 233) and Leena Hietanen got 247 votes (156th of 233) on the Workers Party of Finland list. Tommi Lievemaa got 204 votes (181st of 233) on the Communist Party of Finland list.

In March 2011, Safka announced it has four candidates for the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election on the Workers Party of Finland list. Candidates were theater and film director Jussi Parviainen, Johan Bäckman, priest Juha Molari and Anton Salonen's mother Rimma Salonen. Parviainen got 457 votes, but other members got only few dozens votes.

Sister organisations

SAFKA has sister organisations in the Baltic states, including the Estonian Anti-Fascist Committee, the Latvian Anti-Fascist Committee and Nochnoy Dozor.

References

Sources
 Postimees/BNS 14 February 2009 18:43: Öine Vahtkond kavandab ühistegevusi Soome Kremli-meelsetega
 Delfi 17 March 2009 14:14: Bäckman: Eesti kavandab Helsingis provokatsiooni
 Eesti Ekspress 18 March 2009 16:45: Üheskoos Eesti vastu: antifašist Bäckman ja natsimeelne Teinonen, edited by Askur Alas
 Helsingin Sanomat: Russian nationalists plan Helsinki protest
 Delfi 19 March 2009: 16:09 Uurija: marginaalne Naši üritab tähelepanu saada
 Delfi 22 March 2009: 14:58 Soome politsei: Naši üritus pole midagi erilist
 Postimees 23 March 2009 08:50: Helsingi politsei valmistub Putini-noorte meeleavaldusteks, edited by Mari Kamps
 Eesti Ekspress 23 March 2009 12:43: Räige Eesti-vastane kampaania käib kolmes riigis korraga, edited by Askur Alas
 Helsingin Sanomat 23 March 2009 13:04–15:24: Viro-kirjan julkaisu keräsi Sanomataloon 300 hengen yleisön
 Hufvudstadsbladet 23 March 2009 13:31–16:48: Tyst protest av Putinunga by Staffan Bruun and Marcus Lillkvist

External links

 Official website , with some information in English

Finnish political activists
Political advocacy groups in Finland
Anti-fascism


Safka may refer to:

 Jim Safka (born 1968), American chief executive
 Melanie Safka (born 1947), American singer-songwriter
 Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee (SAFKA), an organisation


John O'Heyne (ca. 1648 – 11 December 1713) was an Irish Dominican and historian.

Biography

O'Heyne was born near Athenry about 1648. His paternal grand-uncle was Dominic Burke, O.P., who opposed the Papal Nuncio, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini. His maternal grand-uncle was John de Burgo, Archbishop of Tuam, and Hugh Burke, Bishop of Kilmacduagh (1647 – ca. 1656).

O'Heyne received the habit at Athenry on 4 August 1664 and left for Spain in 1667. He studied at Burgos and Salamanca, graduating in 1675.

Upon his return to Ireland he became preacher and master of novices at Drogheda, where he became acquainted with Oliver Plunkett. He returned to Athenry, teaching at the hidden Dominican school at Kilescall until a new persecution arose in 1679, forcing the Dominicans to flee. O'Heyne went to Italy and Louvain. He was a candidate for bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh in 1684 but was not selected.

Returning to Ireland in 1689 he was appointed Prior of Urlaur Abbey, Co. Mayo. By 1695 he was back at Athenry and spent April to June 1698 at Galway. However, he was again forced into exile and died at Louvain in 1713.

James Hardiman called him "a learned and ingenious historian" on account of his works on Irish Dominican history.

Bibliography
Epilogus chronologicus exponens ... Conventus et Fundationes Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum in Regus Hybernie, Louvanaii, 1706.
The Irish Dominicans of the XVII century, first published in 1706 in Louvain and reprinted, Dublin, 1902.

See also
Garry Hynes – co-founder of Druid Theatre Company and Tony Award winner
Eidhean mac Cléireach – ancestor of the Hynes family
Mael Ruanaidh na Paidre Ua hEidhin – first Hynes king of Aidhne
Eoghan Ó hEidhin – last Hynes king of Aidhne
Uí Fiachrach Aidhne – home kingdom of the Hynes family

References
History of Galway, James Hardiman, 1820
Old Galway, Maureen Donovan O'Sullivan, 1942
Galway Authors, Helen Maher, Roscommon, 1975
Irish Dominicans at Lisbon before 1700: a Biographical Register, Hugh Fenning, in Collectanea Hibernica, p. 27–65 volume 42, 2000

1640s births
1713 deaths
17th-century Irish historians
18th-century Irish historians
17th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests
People from County Galway
Irish Dominicans
Irish expatriates in Spain
Irish expatriates in Italy
Irish expatriates in Belgium
People from Athenry


Erkki Johan Bäckman (born 18 May 1971) is a Finnish political activist, author, legal sociologist, propagandist, eurosceptic and convicted stalker working for the Russian government. Bäckman has been a prominent Finnish propagandist in Russia who has actively participated in long-standing operations to propagate anti-Finnish and anti-Western propaganda in Russia.

Bäckman has contentious views about Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine, and has been declared persona non grata and denied entry into Estonia, and has been expelled from Moldova. His books have been the subject of debate about Finnish-Soviet relations during the Cold War, the war history of Finland and the Soviet Union, organized crime in Estonia and the Russian Mafia, terrorism, and the history of Estonia. As a proclaimed spokesman for the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee, he is against the integration policies of Estonia and Latvia, claiming they are "apartheid polities". On the whole, he does not recognize Estonia and Latvia as states.

Bäckman has supported Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine he has given statements to Russian media about the anti-Russian sentiment of the European Union and Britain. Bäckman has also claimed that Ukraine as a nation does not exist. Bäckman is also a member of the pro-Russian Power Belongs To The People party.

Bäckman has been a commentator in Russian media about Russian citizens' child custody rights abroad. He has a title of a docent in sociology of law from the University of Helsinki. He also has a title of a docent in criminology at the University of Turku and the University of Eastern Finland.

Russia

Bäckman has been a prominent Finnish propagandist in Russia who has actively taken part in long-standing operations to propagate anti-Finnish and anti-Western propaganda in Russia. His activity was tracked and reported by Helsingin Sanomat as part of an international investigative journalism collaboration project. The project was coordinated by OCCRP, a network of journalists specializing in crime and corruption, and The Intercept organization.

As revealed by the project, Bäckman has for years provided the Russian state radio and television company VGTRK with news material and bulletins defaming Finland and other Western countries. VGTRK is the Kremlin's most important propaganda and disinformation disseminator which controls all of Russia's largest radio and television channels. Former Finnish Ambassador to Russia Hannu Himanen believes that Bäckman works as part of a global propaganda and disinformation network built by Russia.

Bäckman has frequently travelled to Russia since 1993, and is fluent in Russian. In 2000, he established a publishing institution named the Johan Beckman Institute in Saint Petersburg.

Bäckman serves Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) as representative in Northern Europe. RISS is a Russian state funded research group led by a former Soviet intelligence officer.

Opinion of Vladimir Putin

In his 2007 book Finland Washed with Anna Politkovskaya's Blood (, Literally: Satan Arrives in Helsinki, which alludes to Saatana saapuu Moskovaan, the Finnish language title for The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov) he supported the conspiracy theory that Anna Politkovskaya assassination was organized as an attempt to smear the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Bäckman has hinted that Politkovskaya was depressed and ordered her own murder. According to Bäckman, Politkovskaya, a Russian writer and human rights activist, was an American agent. He also criticizes Finns' reaction to the murder. Bäckman accused Finnish Green League politician Heidi Hautala and the Finnish media of inciting hatred towards Russia and Vladimir Putin. Hautala, depicted on the book cover, saw this as a smear campaign, but refused to take legal action, preferring to allow the book to speak for itself.

Bäckman admires Vladimir Putin, crediting all recent successes of Russia to Putin's personality and health. He has compared Putin to Cold War-era Finnish president Urho Kekkonen, and claimed he wishes Putin would likewise rule Russia for 26 years. He stated that Finland also needs organizations such as the pro-Kremlin Nashi and Walking Together. According to Bäckman, the freedom of the press in Russia is considerably higher than in Finland, and Estonia is not free at all.

In Russian media

In a 2013 interview, the Finnish Academy chairman Arto Mustajoki said that Bäckman is five times more visible in the Russian media than then-Finnish Premier Jyrki Katainen or then-President Tarja Halonen. According to Mustajoki, Russians treat Bäckman as a "hero" because he defends Russian minorities in the Baltic States.

Estonia

Bäckman's work has been published in Finland and Estonia. Many of his published opinions are provocative and some have been regarded as pro-Putin and anti-Estonian by commentators in the Estonian press. Bäckman has stated that Estonia "does not exist" as a sovereign state.

According to Bäckman, the Estonians and Finns are actually one nation and the Republic of Estonia should be united with Finland where it could still have an autonomy.

The Bronze Soldier book

In his highly controversial book about the Estonian Bronze Soldier Pronssisoturi: Viron patsaskiistan tausta ja sisältö, published in Finnish in 2008, Bäckman disagrees with the integration policies of Estonia. In his opinion, Estonian integration policies that have seen some 147,000 Russian speakers receiving Estonian citizenship in the past decade are "apartheid" and represent a "criminal discrimination of Russians". In the Bronze Soldier he dismissed the Soviet occupation of Estonia as a "Nazi myth". Bäckman has gained publicity in Estonia for denying the Soviet occupation during 1940-1941 and 1944-1991: "In my opinion speaking or writing of Soviet 'occupation' should be criminalised as a form of racist propaganda."

In connection to the publication of the book in September 2008, Bäckman gave several interviews, including one in which he claimed Estonia will join Russia within a decade. Bäckman also claimed that the "destruction" of the Bronze Soldier grave site and monument in April 2007 by the Estonian government was "the end of history of Estonia". He speculated that most of the Russian youth all over Russia, including children,  hate Estonia and deny her the right to exist. Bäckman went on to predict that in ten years at most, the Nashi would come to power in Russia, leading to an end of the Estonian statehood shortly afterwards.

After the publication of the book, Finnish and Estonian cultural figures, scholars, journalists and politicians, including Henrik Lax, Lasse Lehtinen and Sofi Oksanen, addressed the University of Helsinki in an open letter of protest, partly in relation to Bäckman teaching a course on "specialities of Estonian legal policy" in the Spring 2009 semester. Bäckman immediately threatened to sue the letter's authors for libel and later filed a criminal complaint, but the Helsinki Police refused to open investigation. The former minister of foreign affairs of Finland Dr. Erkki Tuomioja called Bäckman's book as "deliberate provocation", but condemned the open letter for violating the principles of freedom of speech. The University of Helsinki distanced itself in a statement holding that Bäckman's political views are his own and do not represent the University's.

Estonian Internal Security Service and Bäckman

The Estonian Internal Security Service (Kaitsepolitseiamet) official Andres Kahar said in the Estonian press that Bäckman is "a Russian propagandist" spreading disinformation similar to claims made in Moscow.

In March 2009, the newspaper Eesti Ekspress reported a link between Bäckman and the Finnish neo-nazi Risto Teinonen, alleging both of them are connected to the reputed former KGB agent Vladimir Ilyashevich residing in Estonia, all of whom are linked to the Russian historian Alexander Dyukov. In the assessment by Kaitsepolitseiamet, Bäckman, Teinonen and Ilyashevich are working as a team with support from Moscow, attempting to undermine the names of many good people, the relations between Finland and Estonia, and the Republic of Estonia itself.

Finnish counter-intelligence has not commented on Bäckman publicly. Regarding Nashi demonstrations organised by Bäckman in Helsinki in March 2009, the Finnish security police spokesman replied they heard "rumours" about the demonstrations but would not comment on issues regarding free democratic activism.

Persona non-grata status in Estonia

On 26 April 2009, Bäckman was detained after his disembarkation from a ferry in the Tallinn Passenger Port and expelled from the country under an entry prohibition. The Estonian Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that Johan Bäckman has been declared persona non-grata in Estonia. Among reasons for expulsion, the Estonian Minister of Internal Affairs listed the first of all twelve statements by Bäckman in the Estonian press and in his blog, claiming Estonia is an "apartheid" regime that "falsifies" history. Helsingin Sanomat pointed out such prohibition against entry into Estonia by Finnish citizens is extremely rare. Previously such entry bans have been issued to some Finns suspected of connections with racist movements. In December 2010, Tallinn regional court declared entry prohibitions against Bäckman illegal and ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to compensate his legal fees in sum of 16,600 Estonian kroons.

On 29 July 2011, Bäckman was again denied entry into Estonia and sent back to Finland.

Finland

Bäckman has been a commentator of Finnish-Russian child custody and "grandmother cases". He has claimed that Finnish authorities persecute Russian mothers and take custody of their children without a reason. The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle, quoting Timo Vihavainen, a professor of Russian history, speculated that this has happened due to fact that Bäckman's opinions match the interests of the Kremlin.

Bäckman was a commentator for the Russian press during the Anton incident in 2009. Later, Bäckman apologized for his behaviour, and promised not to further intervene in the incident. However, he later deleted his apology, continuing to comment on the case. He was also an active commentator for Russian press during the Rantala incident in 2010. Bäckman also received media time with grandmother and similar child custody cases in 2010.

Bäckman claims that children that are being taken care of by Finnish child protection authorities are living in "concentration camps", and explains that "this is a certain system of political terror". To explain why the rest of the world has not noticed this, he claims that "Children who get into these camps have special prohibitions for communications, they cannot tell us what is happening there." He states: "I think that the juvenile justice system, the system of a mass removal of children, is genocide of children". He has not provided numbers for how many children are supposed to have been killed in this alleged "genocide", and has not revealed any sources for his information.

In September 2014, he alleged that the Finnish authorities had unjustifiably taken custody of a daughter of a Russian mother, and that the mother would seek help from the Russian Children's Ombudsman Pavel Astahov, who has a background in KGB.

Journalist Jussi Konttinen of the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat characterised Johan Bäckman as a promising researcher in Russian studies in the early 2000s, who has since "marginalized" himself in Finland.

Bäckman's first public appearance was in the late 1980s when he played bassoon in the EBU Young Soloists Competition on national television. He also played bassoon in the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Opinion of the history of Finland

Bäckman is highly critical of the modern Finnish historiography of World War II and challenges the traditional Western account that Finland waged a separate Continuation War against the aggression of the USSR. According to Bäckman, the Finns participated in the Siege of Leningrad actively and asked Hitler to destroy the city. He speculates that Finland also planned an ethnic cleansing in Karelia in order to create a Finno-Ugric superpower (Greater Finland), possibly stretching as far as the Urals, or even to the river Yenisei, which he claimed is proven by vast amounts of documents and in several Finnish history books by Helge Seppälä, Osmo Hyytiä and Nikolai Baryshnikov.

Bäckman accuses Finland of being the aggressor in World War II: that it allied with Hitler in attacking the USSR in 1941 (Continuation War)—omitting the original source conflict (Winter War); plotted territorial expansion and planned to conduct ethnic cleansing; and that, along with the Estonians and Germans, believed in its Aryan origins (a Nordic master race). He contends Finns are both anti-Semitic and Russophobic, Russophobia being a "racist political ideology"—both per "several academic works by Finnish authors."

In March 2002, during a military historical festival in Suojärvi in the Republic of Karelia which was dedicated to the 62nd anniversary of the end of the Winter War, Bäckman made a sensational claim that the modern authorities of Finland propagated the idea that the Russian people are genetically inferior and expected Russia to collapse in about twenty years. The other participants at the festival considered that he unreasonably overestimated the extent of anti-Russian sentiment in Finland. According to Bäckman's article "Finland without a mask" (the title alludes to a 1943 proclamation by Otto Wille Kuusinen), published in Russian in May 2002, the Finns in general consider themselves a superior nation, all Russian women prostitutes, and all Russian men thieves and bandits. During 2002, Bäckman gained an odious reputation both in Russia and among his Finnish colleagues.

In 2002, Bäckman publicly accused the Foreign Ministry of Finland of Russophobia and racism. He claimed that the ministry was preparing a campaign to smear Russia and return the territories lost in the Paris Peace Treaty.

In 2003, Johan Beckman Institute published the book Finland and the Siege of Leningrad 1941-1944 by the Russian historian Nikolai Baryshnikov. The Saint Petersburg legislature awarded Bäckman their Marshal Govorov Literature Prize (2003) for the book. Historian Timo Vihavainen, a historian at the University of Helsinki described it as "a book built on Stalinist propaganda stereotypes". Vihavainen also said that Baryshnikov had misunderstood some of the language in Finnish archive documents. Bäckman and Baryshnikov threatened to sue Vihavainen.

Nashi protests in Helsinki

In March 2009, as a member of the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee, Bäckman arranged a series of protests in Helsinki attended by activists of the Russian Nashi, and Night Watch organizations, against what they called the "opening [of] a new anti-Russian front of information warfare on the territory of Finland by [the] Estonian embassy." In addition, Abdullah Tammi and his followers from the prospective Finnish Islamic Party participated. The protests were aimed against seminars, against a book about the Soviet occupation of Estonia, and against films presented by the Estonian embassy in Finland, especially the film Soviet Story by Edvins Snore. In media commentaries for Swedish, Finnish and Russian press, television and radio, Bäckman claimed that the Soviet Union did not occupy Estonia, and belittled the significance of the Soviet deportations from Estonia.

Criminal conviction

Bäckman has criticized Yle journalist Jessikka Aro, who investigated pro-Russian Internet trolls, accusing her of "Russo-phobic" tendencies and claiming that she was "well-known assistant of American and Baltic special services." Presented statements led prosecutors to formally charge Bäckman for harassment and aggravated defamation of Aro. In October 2018, Bäckman received a 12-month suspended jail sentence for aggravated defamation and stalking. Bäckman said he would appeal the verdict. In February 2022, the Supreme Court of Finland upheld the verdict that Bäckman was guilty of stalking of Jessikka Aro, while the defamation charge was dropped. Bäckman was given a 60-day suspended prison sentence, and he was ordered to pay Aro a compensation of 9,000 euros and an additional 9,200 euros for her loss of earnings.

Ukraine

Bäckman has voiced support for Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War. In March 2014, Bäckman was invited to participate as an observer by the Eurasian Observatory for Democracy & Elections (EODE), a far-right Russia-based self-proclaimed election monitoring organization, in the disputed Crimean status referendum, which resulted in the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Bäckman stated that he saw no violations and considered the referendum to be within the framework of international law.

He alleges to represent the separatist Donetsk People's Republic in Finland, and in May he announced that they will open a representative office in Helsinki. Bäckman claimed the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shootdown was a United States provocation to justify a NATO intervention in Donbass conflict, and describes the Ukrainian government as "the Kiev junta".

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine he has given statements to Russian media outlets about the anti-Russian sentiment of the European Union and Britain, and claimed that Ukraine as a nation does not exist.

Bäckman has been involved in recruiting Finns for the war in eastern Ukraine on the Russian side.

Moldova

In May 2014, Bäckman was expelled from Moldova and received a five-year entry ban, as his activities were regarded as undermining Moldova's statehood.

Politics

Bäckman regards the Taistoists movement of the 1970s, the hardline pro-Soviet faction in the Communist Party of Finland, as "the best thing that happened in the history of Finland". He has said: "We can thank the Taistoists for high-quality science, art and culture we enjoy today". Bäckman was an independent candidate for European Parliament election in 2009 on the Workers Party of Finland list. He gained 554 votes, insufficient to gain a seat.

In March 2011, Bäckman announced he was a candidate for the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election on the Workers Party of Finland list. He gained 36 votes. In October 2012, he was a candidate in municipal elections in Espoo, gaining 43 votes.

In 2023, Bäckman is again running for the Finnish parliament, this time as a candidate for the pro-Russian Power Belongs to the People-party.

Academic career

He received his training in sociology at the University of Helsinki, where he defended his PhD in 2006, and has a title of a docent (not an indication of a teaching position or employment) of the sociology of law. He also has a title of a docent in criminology at the University of Turku and the University of Eastern Finland.

Personal life

Johan Bäckman is the son of Erkki Bäckman who was the Managing Director of Hartwall beverage company. Johan Bäckman has litigated over child custody against his Soviet-born ex-wife for years in which both parties have received sentences for libel. Bäckman's current family consists of a girl and two boys. His wife is a Russian language and literature teacher. According to Helsingin Sanomat, Bäckman has been treated with caution in the Finnish public media because he is sensitive to what he considers to be journalistic libel. According to the newspaper he has won in court twice and he has also been convicted of libel twice in July 2009.
Bäckman wrote a letter to the editor saying he had won seven libel cases during past couple of years, not two, as the paper claimed. Bäckman wrote he won the cases against five persons, all of whom are female Finnish citizens.

Bäckman has a child from a previous relationship with Jaana Niemi. Niemi was born in the Soviet Union with Finnish origins, but was brought up in Russian culture. The family also spoke Finnish. In 1990, Niemi, then aged 15, moved from the Soviet Union to Finland. Bäckman and Niemi's relationship lasted six months and ended in a confrontational way. A daughter was born in 2004. Soon after, Bäckman sued Jaana Niemi, her parents and friends dozens of times. Most of the cases ended in pretrial investigations, but Bäckman has represented himself in court in a few cases. The Finnish court Hovioikeus convicted Niemi once, and Bäckman was convicted twice. Niemi lives now in Milan, Italy.

Awards

 The highest legal award of Russia "Femida" (2013)
 Russian Writers' Union literature prize "Polar Star" (2012)
 Marshal Govorov literature prize (2004)

Works

See also

 Jon Hellevig
 Janus Putkonen

References

Sources
 eesti.ca 4 December 2008: Jarmo Virmavirta: väljakutse iseseisvusele PM

External links

 Johan Bäckman in Estonian Research Portal
 Johan Bäckman at the University of Turku
 Авторы Центр координации «Новая Русь»

1971 births
Living people
Finnish male bloggers
Finnish political activists
Finnish sociologists
Historical negationism
Finnish conspiracy theorists
People from Porvoo
Russophilia
Anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Europe
Finland–Russia relations
Finland–Ukraine relations
Finnish eurosceptics
Propaganda in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Propagandists


Li Benjian (; born March 5, 1986, in Qingdao, Shandong) is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Chinese club Yuxi Yukun.

Club career
Li Benjian would start his career playing for the second tier football club Guangdong Mingfeng and would go on to be loaned out to Chinese football club playing in the Singapore's S.League Sinchi FC. On his return from his loan, Li would find out his club were facing financial difficulties and the club moved to Shenzhen in hopes of getting better crowds while the club changed their name to Shenzhen Kejian to represent this. The move turned out to be disappointment on and off the field as the club finished the league tenth as well as becoming bankrupt in the process. Top tier club Tianjin TEDA were, however interested in Li's services and he transferred to them for $300,000 at the start of the 2006 league season. At Tianjin he would make his debut on March 10, 2006, in a 3–2 victory against Shenzhen Kingway. After the game he would immediately become a vital member for the club's midfield until September 10, 2006, when in a league game against Dalian Shide Li's season would end early when he tore his ankle ligaments and had to have surgery.

After he recovered Tianjin had already brought in Jozef Jarabinský as their new coach at the beginning of the 2007 league season and Li was unable to establish himself within the squad. He was loaned out to Jiangsu Sainty at the beginning of the 2008 season where he helped them in their successful bid for promotion to the Chinese Super League. Li Benjian was again loaned out, this time to top tier club Guangzhou Pharmaceutical where he made his competitive debut on the 21st of March 2009 against Henan Construction which Guangzhou lost 2-1. On his return to Tianjin the club had brought in a new manager in Arie Haan who decided that Li should be the club's first choice left winger and Li would repay him by being a vital player in helping the club finish the 2010 league season in second. With the club eligible for the 2011 AFC Champions League Li would play in all seven of the club's games as they were knocked out of within the last sixteen, however the team fared better within the 2011 Chinese FA Cup when they beat Shandong Luneng 2-1 in the final.

On 27 February 2018, Li signed for Chinese Super League club Henan Jianye.

Career statistics
Statistics accurate as of match played 31 December 2020.

Honours
Jiangsu Sainty
 China League One: 2008

Tianjin TEDA
 Chinese FA Cup: 2011

References

External links
Player profile at sohu.com
Player profile at 7m.cn

1986 births
Living people
Chinese men's footballers
Footballers from Qingdao
Chinese expatriate men's footballers
Guangzhou F.C. players
Jiangsu F.C. players
Tianjin Jinmen Tiger F.C. players
Henan F.C. players
Chinese Super League players
China League One players
Men's association football midfielders


Trudy McFall is co-founder and Chairman of Homes for America (HFA), an Annapolis, Maryland based business founded in September 1994. HFA is the tenth largest non-profit developer of affordable housing in the country.

Career
Ms. McFall is widely known for her national expertise in affordable housing, with 35 years of executive management experience in the public and private sectors. In 2009, she was a candidate for Mayor of Annapolis, but was defeated in the primaries.

Prior to Homes for America, McFall was the Director of Maryland's housing finance agency, the Community Development Administration (CDA), for 13 years until July 1994. During her tenure, CDA was widely recognized as among the most active and innovative of the country's housing finance agencies. At CDA, she managed over $500 million in funds annually. In 1993, she was named Outstanding Maryland Administrator.

Prior to working at CDA, McFall spent four years managing HUD's national urban planning, regional housing programs, and state and local assistance programs as Director of HUD's Office of Planning. She also administered a regional housing planning program and directed a regional housing authority for the Metropolitan Council in the Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota region.

Publications
McFall is widely published in housing and planning publications and is a frequent speaker at national housing conferences. She has served on the boards and as an officer with many national housing and planning organizations, including the boards of the National Housing Conference, the National Leased Housing Association, the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association, the National Council of State Housing Agencies, the Housing & Development Reporter, and the Tax Credit Advisor. She has served as a consultant to HUD, Fannie Mae, Congress and national housing organizations.

As a civic activist in Annapolis, McFall has been active in a wide variety of local volunteer efforts.  In 2007, she founded Citizens for a Better Annapolis (CBA), an organization that brought facts to public policy debates. Through CBA, she has issued reports on crime, education, and housing. She is presently head of the West Annapolis Development Committee and has presented testimony opposing increased density potential that is being suggested by the current, proposed Comprehensive Plan.  She was named Volunteer of the Year in 2005 by the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County.

Education
McFall holds a BA from Indiana University and a MA from Bryn Mawr College.

Awards and honours
In 2018 McFall received the Helping Hand award from the Annapolis, Maryland "Seeds 4 Success" organization.

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David Frederick Gerard (August 6, 1936 – October 10, 2001), was an American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher whose career extended for ten seasons (1955–1964). A native of New York City, he grew up in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Gerard stood  tall and weighed .  He appeared in the Major Leagues in 39 games as a relief pitcher in 1962 for the Chicago Cubs.

Gerhard was signed by the Cubs as an amateur free agent. In 58 innings pitched for the ninth-place Cubs, Gerard allowed 67 hits and 28 bases on balls. He struck out 30 and recorded three saves.

Shortly before the 1963 season opened, Gerhard was traded to the Houston Colt .45s along with Danny Murphy for Hal Haydel, Dick LeMay and Merritt Ranew. He spent the entire season with the Oklahoma City 89ers, the Colt .45s' AAA minor league affiliate. After beginning the 1964 season in Oklahoma City, he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and finished his playing career with the AAA Columbus Jets.

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Darcy Rae Fast (born March 10, 1947) is an American former professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher in the Major Leagues in 1968 for the Chicago Cubs.

Fast's only MLB decision was on July 4, 1968, pitching in relief in the second game of a doubleheader when the Cubs hosted the Philadelphia Phillies. Surrendering 4 runs in 3 innings of work, he was the losing pitcher in the 7–4 loss.

Fast appeared in eight MLB games for the Cubs, and struck out ten batters in ten innings pitched. He also walked eight and gave up six earned runs and eight hits. His professional career lasted four seasons, from 1967–70.

Fast worked as a pastor for 30 years following his baseball career.

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The 1965 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1965.

The NCAA recognizes six selectors as "official" for the 1965 season.  They are (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), (2) the Associated Press (AP), (3) the Central Press Association (CP), (4) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), (5) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and (6) the United Press International (UPI). Four of the six teams (AP, UPI, NEA, and FWAA) were selected by polling of sports writers and/or broadcasters. The CP team was selected with input from the captains of the major college teams.  The AFCA team was based on a poll of more than 500 coaches.  Other notable selectors, though not recognized by the NCAA as official, included The Football News (FN), a weekly national football newspaper, Time magazine, The Sporting News (TSN), and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC).

Three players were unanimously selected as first-team players by all six official selectors as well as the four unofficial selectors. They are: (1) USC running back Mike Garrett who led the NCAA with 1,440 rushing yards and won the 1965 Heisman Trophy; (2) Tulsa end Howard Twilley who in 1965 set an NCAA record with 1,779 receiving yards, a single-season record that stood for 30 years; and (3) Illinois fullback Jim Grabowski who was second in the NCAA with 1,258 rushing yards and won the 1965 Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy after breaking the Big Ten Conference career rushing record.  Garrett, Twilley, and Grabowski also finished first, second, and third in the 1965 Heisman Trophy voting with 926, 528, and 481 points, respectively. All three were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

The 1965 Michigan State Spartans football team were ranked No. 1 in the final UPI Coaches Poll and led the country with eight players receiving at least one first-team All-American designation.  The Spartans' first-team honorees were: defensive back George Webster (AFCA, AP, NEA, UPI, FN, WC); defensive end Bubba Smith (AFCA, UPI, WC); end Gene Washington (CP, FN); quarterback Steve Juday (AP); running backs Clinton Jones (FWAA) and Bob Apisa (FN); middle guard Harold Lucas (NEA); and linebacker Ron Goovert (FWAA).

Purdue, ranked No. 13 in the final UPI Coaches' Poll, finished second with four first-team honorees: quarterback Bob Griese (AFCA, CP, NEA, UPI, FN, WC); defensive tackle Jerry Shay (AFCA, FN); offensive tackle Karl Singer (AP); and offensive end Bob Hadrick (FN). Notre Dame, Arkansas, and Nebraska tied for third place, each with three first-team selections.

Consensus All-Americans
The NCAA recognizes 22 players as "consensus" All-Americans for the 1965 season. The following chart identifies the consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received. The UPI's All-America team vote count (out of a possible 242) and Heisman Trophy point total, where applicable, is also included in the chart for each of the consensus All-Americans.

Offensive selections

Ends

 Howard Twilley, Tulsa (College Football Hall of Fame)  (AFCA, AP-1, CP-1, FWAA-1, UPI-1, NEA-1, FN, Time, TSN, WC)
 Freeman White, Nebraska (AP-2, CP-3, FWAA-1, UPI-1,  NEA-1, FN, WC)
 Charles Casey, Florida (AFCA, AP-1, NEA-2, CP-3)
 Milt Morin, Massachusetts  (Time, TSN)
 Gene Washington, Michigan State (CP-1, UPI-2, FN [end])
 Bobby Crockett, Arkansas  (UPI-2, FWAA-1)
 Dave Williams, Washington (AP-2)
 Bob Hadrick, Purdue (CP-2, FN)
 Doug Moreau, LSU (FN)

Tackles

 Sam Ball, Kentucky  (AFCA, AP-2, UPI-1, NEA-1, FWAA-1, Time, TSN, WC)
 Glen Ray Hines, Arkansas  (AFCA, AP-1, UPI-1, NEA-1, FWAA-1, FN, WC)
 Francis Peay, Missouri (AP-2, CP-3, UPI-2, NEA-2, Time, TSN)
 Karl Singer, Purdue (AP-1)
 Tom Mack, Michigan (UPI-2, NEA-2)

Guards

 Dick Arrington, Notre Dame  (AFCA, AP-1, CP-1, FWAA-1, UPI-1, NEA-1, FN, WC)
 Stas Maliszewski, Princeton (AP-2 [linebacker], CP-1, UPI-2, NEA-1, FN, WC)
 Doug Van Horn, Ohio State (AFCA, CP-2 [tackle], UPI-1)
 John Niland, Iowa (AP-2, Time, TSN)
 Stan Hindman, Mississippi (AP-2, CP-2, UPI-2, NEA-2, FN, Time, TSN)
 Wayne Foster, Washington State (FWAA-1, FN [tackle])
 Larry Gagner, Florida (FN, NBC)
 Tom Regner, Notre Dame (NEA-2)
 Paul Savidge, Princeton (CP-2)
 Joe Fratangelo, North Carolina (CP-3)

Centers

 Paul Crane, Alabama (AFCA, AP-1, UPI-1, NEA-1, FWAA-1, WC)
 Pat Killorin, Syracuse (UPI-2, NEA-2 [guard], Time, TSN)

Quarterbacks

 Bob Griese, Purdue (College and Pro Football Halls of Fame) (AFCA, CP-1, UPI-1, NEA-1, FN, WC)
 Steve Spurrier, Florida (AP-2, FWAA-1)
 Rick Norton, Kentucky (CP-2, Time, TSN)
 Steve Juday, Michigan State (AP-1, UPI-2)
 Gary Beban, UCLA (CP-3, NEA-2, FN)
 Steve Sloan, Alabama (FN)
 Billy Anderson, Tulsa (UPI-2)

Running backs

 Mike Garrett, USC (College Football Hall of Fame) (AFCA, AP-1, CP-1, FWAA-1, UPI-1 [halfback], NEA-1 [halfback], FN [halfback], Time, TSN, WC)
 Jim Grabowski, Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (AFCA, AP-1, CP-1, FWAA-1, UPI-1 [fullback], NEA-1 [fullback], FN [fullback], Time, TSN, WC)
 Donny Anderson, Texas Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (AFCA, AP-1, CP-2, FWAA-1, UPI-1 [halfback], NEA-1 [FL], FN [halfback], Time, TSN, WC)
 Floyd Little, Syracuse (AP-2, UPI-2, NEA-2, CP-1, FWAA-1, FN [halfback])
 Clinton Jones, Michigan State (AP-2, CP-2, UPI-2, FWAA-1)
 Ray McDonald, Idaho (AP-2, NEA-2 [fullback])
 Harry Jones, Arkansas (NEA-2 [FL])
 Steve Bowman, Alabama (CP-2)
 Bill Wolski, Notre Dame (CP-3, FN [halfback])
 Ron Landeck, Princeton (CP-3)
 Tom Barrington, Ohio State (CP-3)
 Bob Apisa, Michigan State (FN [fullback])

Defensive selections

Defensive ends

 Aaron Brown, Minnesota (AP-1, CP-2, FWAA-1, UPI-1, NEA-1, FN [end], Time, TSN, WC)
 Bubba Smith, Michigan State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AFCA, UPI-1, WC)
 Lynn Matthews, Florida (NEA-1)
 Ed Weisacosky, Miami (Fla.) (AP-1, NEA-2 [linebacker])
 Tony Jeter, Nebraska (AFCA, UPI-2, NEA-2 [offensive end])
 Ed Long, Dartmouth (AP-2)
 George Pearce, William and Mary (AP-2)
 Cas Banaszek, Northwestern (NEA-2)

Defensive tackles

 Walt Barnes, Nebraska (AFCA, AP-1, UPI-2, NEA-1, FWAA-1, FN [tackle], Time, TSN, WC)
 Loyd Phillips, Arkansas (College Football Hall of Fame) (AFCA, AP-1, CP-1, UPI-1, NEA-2, FN [tackle]ɫ̩, WC)
 Bill Yearby, Michigan (AFCA, AP-2, CP-1, UPI-1, Time, TSN, WC)
 George Patton, Georgia (AP-1 [middle guard], UPI-2 [defensive end], NEA-2 [defensive end], FWAA-1, FN [tackle])
 George Rice, LSU (CP-2, Time, TSN)
 Jack Thornton, Auburn (NEA-1)
 Jerry Shay, Purdue (AFCA, CP-3, UPI-2, FN [tackle])
 John Richardson, UCLA (AP-2)
 Dick Van Horn, Ohio State (NEA-2)

Middle guards

 Harold Lucas, Michigan State (CP-3 [guard], NEA-1 [middle guard])
 John Battle, Georgia Tech (AP-2 [middle guard])
 Jack Shinholser, Florida State (NEA-2 [middle guard])

Linebackers

 Carl McAdams, Oklahoma (AFCA [linebacker], AP-1 [linebacker], CP-1 [center], UPI-1 [linebacker], NEA-1 [linebacker], FN [center], Time, TSN, WC)
 Tommy Nobis, Texas (College Football Hall of Fame) (AFCA, AP-1 [offensive end], CP-2 [center], FWAA-1, UPI-1, NEA-1, FN [guard], Time, TSN, WC)
 Frank Emanuel, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, CP-3 [center], FWAA-1 [center], UPI-2, NEA-1, FN [guard], Time, TSN, WC)
 Ike Kelley, Ohio State (AP-1, UPI-1, FN [center])
 Ron Goovert, Michigan State (UPI-2, NEA-2, FWAA-1)
 Doug Buffone, Louisville (AP-2)
 Bill Cody, Auburn (AP-2, UPI-2, FN [center])
 Jim Lynch, Notre Dame (NEA-2)

Defensive backs

 Nick Rassas, Notre Dame (AFCA, AP-1, UPI-1, NEA-1 [safety], FWAA-1, FN [halfback], Time, TSN, WC)
 Johnny Roland, Missouri (College Football Hall of Fame) (AFCA, AP-1, UPI-1, NEA-1, FWAA-1, FN [halfback], TSN, WC)
 George Webster, Michigan State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AFCA, AP-1, UPI-1, NEA-1, FN [roving back], WC)
 Bruce Bennett, Florida (UPI-1, NEA-2 [safety])
 Bill Clay, Mississippi (TSN)
 Charlie Brown, Syracuse (TSN)
 Ben Hawkins, Arizona State (AP-2, NEA-2, Time)
 Eric Crabtree, Pittsburgh (Time)
 Rodger Bird, Kentucky (Time)
 Frank Horak, Texas Christian (AP-2, UPI-2)
 Mike Weger, Bowling Green (AP-2)
 Willie Gaskins, Washington State (UPI-2, NEA-2)
 Larry Wachholtz, Nebraska (UPI-2)
 Jerry Mosher, California (UPI-2)

Special teams

Kicking specialist

 Charlie Gogolak, Princeton (AP-1, FN)

Key
 Bold – Consensus All-American>
 -1 – First-team selection
 -2 – Second-team selection
 -3 – Third-team selection

Official selectors
 AFCA = American Football Coaches Association, based on votes cast by over 500 members based on personal observations and "game films provided by the Eastman Kodak Company", with 1965 being the first year the AFCA voted on separate offensive and defensive units
 AP = Associated Press, based on recommendations from sports writers and broadcasters on eight regional boards appointed by the AP separate offensive and defensive units
 CP = Central Press Association, selected for the 35th year "with the aid of the captains of the major schools themselves", selections made without designation of separate offensive and defensive units
 FWAA = Football Writers Association of America, announced in Look magazine; selected without reference to offensive and defensive units
 NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association, selections of separate offensive and defensive units
 UPI = United Press International, selected "by 242 sports writers and broadcasters in a nation-wide ballot"; separate offensive and defensive units

Other selectors
 FN = The Football News, consisting of 34 players selected by the paper's correspondents and staff members based upon personal observations and consultation with pro and college scouts, sportswriters and broadcasters
 Time = Time magazine
 TSN = The Sporting News
 WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation

See also
 1965 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team
 1965 All-Big Ten Conference football team
 1965 All-Pacific Athletic Conference football team
 1965 All-SEC football team
 1965 All-Southwest Conference football team

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Sterling Feore Slaughter Jr. (born November 18, 1941) is an American former professional baseball player who pitched for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball in 1964. Slaughter stood  tall, weighed  and graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in education in 1963.

In 1963, he had led the Double-A Texas League in earned run average (3.00). In 1964 he appeared in 20 Major League games pitched, six as a starting pitcher, and won two of six decisions, giving up 64 hits and 32 bases on balls in 51 innings pitched. He also recorded 32 strikeouts.

Both of his wins came against the Milwaukee Braves, including a complete game, 5–2 victory at Milwaukee County Stadium on June 5. Slaughter gave up only one earned run on six hits and three walks, striking out eight.

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Bert Elmer Singleton (June 26, 1918 – January 5, 1996) was an American professional baseball player. The right-handed pitcher played all or part of seven seasons in Major League Baseball spread over 15 years (between 1945 and 1959) for the Boston Braves,  Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Senators and Chicago Cubs. His professional career spanned 24 seasons, from 1940 until 1963, missing only 1944 due to voluntary retirement during World War II. A native of Ogden, Utah, he was listed as  tall and .

Singleton worked in 145 games pitched in the big leagues, including 19 as a starter, putting up a record of 11–17 and earned run average of 4.83. He allowed 322 hits and 146 bases on balls, with 160 strikeouts, in 327 innings pitched. He registered two complete games.

He also was part of a notable trade on September 30, 1946, when he was shipped by the Braves to the Pirates in a six-player deal that brought third baseman Bob Elliott to Boston.  Elliott would be chosen winner of the National League's 1947 Most Valuable Player Award and lead the Braves to the 1948 NL pennant.

His lengthy minor-league career included 14 seasons in the top-level Pacific Coast League. Singleton appeared in 526 minor-league games overall, and registered 184 career wins (against 186 losses).

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Arthur Edward Ceccarelli (April 2, 1930 – July 11, 2012) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Kansas City Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, and Chicago Cubs in parts of five seasons spanning –. Listed at 6' 0", 190 lb., he batted right-handed and threw left-handed.

Ceccarelli was a pitching star for West Haven High School in the 1940s before signing a bonus contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948.

In 1949,  he set a Georgia–Florida League season record with 294 strikeouts, an average of 12.6 per each nine innings. His baseball career was briefly interrupted while serving in the Korean War from 1950 through 1952. After discharging, he pitched three seasons of minor league ball before joining the majors in 1955 with the Athletics.

In five big league seasons, Ceccarelli posted a 9–18 record and a 5.05 earned run average in 79 pitching appearances (42 starts). His most productive became in 1959, when he went 5–5 with four complete games and a pair of shutouts for the Cubs. That included a string of four straight wins, a streak capped by a complete-game victory over a San Francisco Giants' lineup that included Willie Mays and Orlando Cepeda. One of the most notable games of his career came in a 3–0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ceccarelli pitched 10 innings and became the only left-handed pitcher to defeat Sandy Koufax in the Coliseum. His baseball idol was Ted Williams stating in an interview he had walked a batter just to have the chance to pitch against him.

During the off seasons, Ceccarelli attended classes at Southern Connecticut State University, where he also served as a pitching coach for the SCSU baseball team. Besides this, he taught History and English at both Milford and Foran High School.

He and wife Katherine had three children Sherri, Gregg and Richard as well as four grandchildren.

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Julia Kendell (born 25 April 1968) is an English interior designer, television presenter and writer.

Biography
Born in Middlesex, Kendell went to Newnham Junior School in Eastcote, and Haydon Secondary School in Northwood.

Career
Aged 14 she began working in a local soft furnishings shop, and developed a career in interior design after being offered the manager's job aged 18. She now specialises in kitchen design, bespoke cabinetry and lighting design and writes for many interiors magazines including Real Homes and House Beautiful.   Her signature style is 'rustic contemporary' and her ethos centres on creating practical, beautiful and emotionally connected homes for all. She regularly speaks at Home Shows  across the UK and abroad and mentors the Homebase Decorating Academy. In 2012 she designed the interior of the venue for Nick Knowles and his wife Jessica's wedding in the UK. In  2015 Kendell has collaborated with Danetti UK designing and launching a new range of dining furniture.

Television career
Kendell's first television appearances were for ITV's 60 Minute Makeover for which she made eight series between 2004-2014, most recently co-presenting with Peter Andre. She has also appeared in a two-part special for Tonight with Trevor McDonald highlighting the demolition and refurbishment debate of Victorian housing stock in the UK. In January 2008 Julia took over the role of designer for DIY SOS on BBC One. Three years later Kendell was instrumental in taking SOS to an hour-long 'Big Build' format where the team complete entire house builds over a 9-day period involving an army of trades volunteers. In April 2011, she was the DIY and makeover expert for Daybreak's "Guide to Transforming Your Home", in 2012 she appeared on several episodes of The Alan Titchmarsh Show, and in 2015 'Rebuild Our Home' with Nicky Campbell for ITV.

Personal life
Having moved to Henley on Thames with her first husband, she now lives in the area with her partner, James. She has renovated and built homes in the area including an award-winning self-build eco home constructed in 2008. Julia has two grown-up daughters and a granddaughter. Her passions outside of design include organic vegetable growing, keeping hens and self-sufficiency. She is a prolific cook and enjoys scuba diving and skiing.

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Séverin Lachapelle (September 18, 1850 – June 18, 1913) was a physician, educator and political figure in Quebec. He represented Hochelaga in the House of Commons of Canada from 1892 to 1896 as a Conservative member.

He was born Pierre-Alphonse-Séverin in Saint-Rémi, Canada East, the son of Léon Lachapelle and Rébecca Lanctôt, and was educated at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. Lachapelle served as a papal zouave from 1868 to 1870. He then studied at the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery and set up practice in Saint-Constant, later moving to Saint-Henri. Lachapelle married Elise Demers in 1874. He was mayor for Saint-Henri from 1886 to 1887.

He contributed to the monthly L’Union médicale du Canada, also serving on its editorial board, and wrote a science column for the Revue canadienne; he also was the first editor for the Journal d’hygiène populaire and the magazine La Mère et l’enfant. He became one of the first professors at the Montreal campus of the Université Laval and served on the medical board for the Notre-Dame Hospital. In 1888, he published Manuel d’hygiène à l’usage des écoles et des familles ..., an instructive guide on hygiene which was also translated into English in 1891. In 1889, he was named superintendent for the Crèche de la Miséricorde, a child care facility.  He contributed to Le médecin de la famille, encyclopédie de médecine et d’hygiène publique et privée contenant la description de toutes les maladies connues ..., published in 1893. In 1907, he helped found the Hôpital Sainte-Justine. He helped establish the Gouttes de Lait program at Montreal with the aim of reducing infant mortality.

Lachapelle was first elected to the House of Commons in an 1892 by-election held after Alphonse Desjardins was named to the Canadian senate. He was defeated by Joseph Alexandre Camille Madore when he ran for reelection in 1896 and 1900. He died in Montreal at the age of 62 and was buried in Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.

In 1880, Lachapelle said "There is one particularly unsettling belief that is particularly widespread and deeply rooted in our families because it is shared by medical practitioners, and that is that there is no point in treating children's diseases." He was part of a movement which addressed that misperception.

Electoral record

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Vukolaj Radonjić (, 1765 – 29 May 1832) was the last Montenegrin guvernadur.

Biography
His training was completed in the noble Academy in Shklow (Belarus) in 1778, where he gained the title of kavalijer (Knight), and received the Order of Saint Anna. He married Stana Vukova Petrovic (Njeguši), about 1775. Still at the time of his father's, Jovan Radonjić term Vukolaj Radonjić served as acting guvernadur between 1798 and 1799, and as guvernadur was a member of the Montenegrin National Assembly, just like his paternal parallel cousin, clergyman, Stanko Radonjić. He was a nahija (district) judge from  1799 and was formally elected guvernadur on 15 May 1804, by the People Assembly, two years after the death of his father. On 29 October 1813 Vukolaj Radonjić along with Petar I Petrović-Njegoš and leaders of other districts signed the Agreement on the Declaration of union between Montenegro and Boka in Dobrota in the name of the whole of Montenegro and the Highlands (Brda). Vukolaj commanded a group of 3,000 soldiers in the Battle at the Fortress of Trinity (Kotor), which expelled Napoleon's soldiers.

He and his brother, Marko Radonjic, were charged with a variety of offenses, and Bishop Peter II Njegoš had returned  General Montenegrin seal (which belonged to his grandfather the first Montenegrin guvernadur Stanislav Radonjic, and then his father guvernadur Jovan Radonjic). On 16 January 1832, they were brought to court and convicted to chains and imprisonment in the cave of the monastery in Cetinje. The cave was later called Guvernadurica, because Vukolaj  was the first political prisoner in this prison. Later on, until the end of World War II  the cave was used as a cell for mostly political prisoners. 32 members of Radonjić family were exiled from their family houses to the Austrian territory Kotor. 6 of them were immediately killed in their homes, because they did not want to leave. Their property was seized and divided, houses burned and levelled to the ground. Bishop Peter II Njegoš also demanded that the authorities of Kotor force that Radonjići sell their property in Boka, but the Kotor authorities refused to comply.

In the prison Vukolaj fell ill and on 20 April 1832 under the escort of gvardija (guard) was taken to Kotor. He died in Kotor hospital in the night from 29 to 30 May 1832 suffering from the effects of bondage during his imprisonment in Guvernadurica.

The Last Montenegrin Guvernadur
A portrait of "The Last Montenegrin Gubernadur Vukolaj Radonjic" - oil on canvas 25 cm x 30 cm, painter Adam Stefanovic - from the private collection of J. Vujic, the National Museum in Belgrade (illustrated above).

Interests
L. K. Viala De Somier, a French colonel, commander of Herceg Novi, Kotor Governor and Head of General Staff other divisions Illyrian army in Dubrovnik, visited Montenegro 1810.godine and gubernadur Vukolaj Radonjic to Njegusi and as he says: "vernacular residence and center of temporal power in Montenegro," For the first twenty steps from the house to meet me came gubernadur accompanied two  priests and the elders of the people under sixty weapons .After  first common compliments, gubernadur is my left hand laid on his right shoulder, and his right hand on my left shoulder and said: "I will be very happy you are my friend, because you did not come with bad intentions. now we're sweet with that which you are encouraged to come in our country. All the stars of heaven will be put out before you forget. " Shot from guns, ringing tones, clicking people, caused enthusiasm ... With all the sense: God! Napoleon Soldat!...
French described guvernadur, with which he met in his home on Njeguši, as a man who "comes from a very old family, which is the honor" because of the extraordinary courage deserves the love of the fatherland. "In guvernadur, imposing  man of pleasant appearance, generosity is coupled with the subtlety and the impression of deep sincerity. Expressing his casually, judiciously, but not flamboyantly. Its refinement contradict the harsh simplicity of nature and other people, and the tendency of "kind words" to show "fairness and sophistication of his observations, probably a consequence of the fact that" he traveled far Northern and Eastern Europe. (P.36). Guvernadur was awarded the Russian Order of  St. George. And St. Anne of the second row, whose cross "indescribable  perfection, decorated with precious, very brilliant stones." (P.34). The "precious gift of a great monarch," notes Somier, "fits nicely"  to guvernadur. However, he continues, "is very strange to see dressed in costumes Spain ruler of a people who wear very different clothes."

Guvernadur Vuko Radonjic Otherwise, the lives of personal income, which consist in the possession of land, large flock, and, in part, income from fishing. (P.36-37). In addition, Somier said: "We should not think that this ruler more luxurious  lives in the palace, to have a watch and a great house. None of that is that it need  people Posted: he manage their fairness and holding that every price. No difference between this simple "Governance and the rule of large emperors. Guvernadur  is, according to the French, educated man, who lives modestly and thinner, managed wisely and reputation gains - virtue ("fairness and holding that any price"). Such is its wider family: "Guvernadur's brothers do not have any characteristic that make them stand out from the rest of the world. There are six, are all heroes in the most important event the left to the people fear and respect".

Annotations
His given name is also spelled Vukale (Вукале Радоњић).

References

1765 births
1832 deaths
Monarchs of Montenegro
Vukolaj
19th century in Montenegro


William Taylor Phillips (born June 18, 1933), nicknamed "T-Bone", is an American former professional baseball left-handed pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Braves, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago White Sox, from 1956–60 and 1963. During his playing days, Phillips stood  tall, weighing .

Playing career

Early years
Taylor attended Douglas County High School (Douglasville, Georgia) and earned letters in baseball for three years, graduating in 1950. He attended the University of Georgia on a baseball scholarship for one semester.

Milwaukee Braves
Phillips entered pro baseball in 1951 and joined the Braves' organization in 1953. After spending 1954–55 in military service, he was recalled from Triple-A Wichita in June 1956,  pitched effectively in relief, and then was added to the Milwaukee starting rotation in August. In five starts for the contending Braves, Phillips won three, lost two, and threw three complete games. He then moved back into the bullpen for the stretch drive, which saw the Braves finish just short of the National League (NL) pennant, one game behind the Brooklyn Dodgers. Phillips' rookie season would be his best: he posted his only over-.500 win–loss record (5–3) and his lowest earned run average (ERA) (2.26).

The  Braves would bring home Milwaukee's first NL pennant and World Series triumph, but Phillips slumped badly during the year. In 27 games and 73 innings pitched, he allowed 82 hits, 40 bases on balls, and 45 earned runs; his ERA jumped to 5.55. Phillips did not pitch in the World Series, won by the Braves in seven games over the New York Yankees.

Cubs, Phillies, and White Sox
Then, in December 1957, Phillips was part of a five-player trade with the Chicago Cubs that netted the Braves starting pitcher Bob Rush. The deal set the stage for Phillips' two busiest seasons in the major leagues. In , he worked in 39 games for the Cubs, with a career-high 27 starts. Phillips threw five complete games, and in his only MLB shutout, Phillips blanked his old Milwaukee teammates, 1–0, on six hits May 25 at County Stadium. But he lost ten of 17 decisions and posted a mediocre 4.76 earned run average. When Phillips got off to a poor start in , with a 7.56 ERA and 0–2 record through seven games, he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies on May 12, even-up, for another left-hander, Seth Morehead. Pitching largely in relief, Phillips continued to scuffle with the Phils, losing four of five decisions and putting up a 5.00 ERA in 72 innings pitched. As in 1958, he worked in 39 games, but made only five starts, with one complete game, for the two clubs. It would be Phillips‘ last full year in the major leagues.

Sent to the minors at the beginning of , Phillips was recalled from Triple-A to make a June 2 start against the Braves at Connie Mack Stadium, but he lasted only two innings, allowing six hits, four bases on balls, and four earned runs. Phillips was tagged with the 9–8 defeat, in what was his final MLB decision. In ten games and 14 innings through July 8, Phillips struggled to an 8.36 ERA.

Phillips then returned to the minor leagues and would pitch at Triple-A for three years before his final big-league audition, which came in July 1963 for the Chicago White Sox. In his American League (AL) debut on July 23, Phillips surrendered an eighth-inning grand slam home run to Norm Cash of the Detroit Tigers. It was the game-winning blow, although the loss was charged to Phillips’ predecessor on the mound, Eddie Fisher, who had put the winning run on base before Phillips entered the game. In later appearances against the New York Yankees (August 18) and Boston Red Sox (August 22), Phillips was treated roughly, and he finished his White Sox tenure with a 10.29 earned run average in ten games. He spent 1964 at Triple-A before retiring as an active player.

In 147 big league games, 102 in relief, Phillips posted a 16–22 record and 4.82 earned run average, allowing 460 hits and 211 bases on balls in 438 innings pitched. He struck out 233, earned six career saves, and threw nine complete games.

References

External links

Taylor Phillips at SABR (Baseball BioProject)

1933 births
Living people
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