Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of William G. Angel.

William G. Angel

<s>William G. Angel William Gardner Angel (July 17, 1790 – August 13, 1858) was an American politician and lawyer who served two terms as a U.S. Representative for New York's 13th congressional district from 1825 to 1827, and from 1829 to 1833.</s><s>Early life and education. Angel was born in New Shoreham, Rhode Island, the son of William and Susannah (Gardner) Angel. In 1792, he moved with his parents to a farm in that part of Richfield, New York, which was separated as the Town of Exeter in 1799, and attended the common schools while working on the family farm. In 1807, he began attending Dr. Buckingham's Grammar School. Angel also briefly studied medicine.</s><s>Career. In 1809, Angel was heard as a witness at a trial where William Dowse, a lawyer from the county seat Cooperstown, appeared for the defense. After the trial, Angel was hired by Dowse as a handyman and, while working for Dowse, he read law and became a clerk in Dowse's office. After Dowse's death, Angel continued to study law with Farrand Stranahan, and in 1816

William G. Angel

entered the office of William Welton in Sherburne, Chenango County, New York. The next year, he was taken into partnership by Luther Elderkin, a lawyer of Burlington, and was admitted to the bar. Elderkin absconded with his clients' money, and left Angel to refund them. In this way, Angel took over Elderkin's office, practicing at Burlington until 1833. Angel was Surrogate of Otsego County from 1821 to 1824. After the death of his first wife, Angel married Clarissa English and they had ten children, among them James R. Angel (1836–1899) and Texas Angel (1839–1903, a lawyer in Hailey, Idaho, and a Populist contender for U.S. Senator from Idaho in 1897).</s><s>Career.:Congress. Angel was elected as a Jacksonian to the 19th, 21st and 22nd United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827, and from March 4, 1829, to March 3, 1833. Afterwards he removed to Hammondsport and resumed the practice of law in partnership with Morris Brown. At this time, Martin Grover studied law with

William G. Angel

Angel, first in Burlington, then in Hammondsport. Grover was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Angelica, New York. In 1835, Angel followed Grover to Angelica, and practiced law in partnership with Grover until 1843. From 1843 to 1847, he practiced law in partnership with his son Wilkes Angel. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1846. Becoming First Judge and Surrogate of the Allegany County Court, he served from 1847 to 1851.</s><s>Personal life. In 1812, Angel married Emily P. English (1790–1822) and they had several children, among them William P. Angel (1813–1869) and Wilkes Angel (1817–1889). Angel died on August 13, 1858, in Angelica, Allegany County, New York; and was buried at the Until the Day Dawn Cemetery there.</s><s>Sources. [confuses Richfield with Litchfield (in Herkimer Co.)] [gives wrong death month "August"] - "The American Biographical Sketch Book" by William Hunt (pages 86f) - "The Bench and Bar of New-

William G. Angel

York" by Lucien Brock Proctor (1870; pages 728ff) [says he was a Jacksonian in the 19th Congress, page 743] - "The New York Civil List" compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 71f, 358 and 416; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) - "DEATH LIST OF A DAY";...Ex-Justice James R. Angel" in NYT on October 5, 1899 - "WILKES ANGEL" in "Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York"] by William D. Murphy (1863; pages 42f) [says his father died in October 1858] - "No Choice in Idaho" in NYT on January 17, 1897 - Angel genealogy at GenForum - "ANGELICA COLLECTANEA & OBITUARIES" compiled by L. L. Stillwell, at RootsWeb [gives October 13 as death date]</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Andy Middleton.

Andy Middleton

<s>Andy Middleton Andy Middleton (born May 22, 1962) is an American tenor and soprano jazz saxophonist. He has recorded with Ralph Towner, Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Renee Rosnes, Jamey Haddad, Joey Calderazzo, and Alan Jones.</s><s>Life and career.</s><s>Life and career.:Early life. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Middleton grew up in a musical family and began playing the alto sax at the age of 9. He attended the University of Rochester from 1980 to 1982, then the University of Miami from 1982 to 1987. He met Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Steve Coleman, John Abercrombie, Richie Beirach and David Liebman at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada in 1985 and 1986. Middleton moved to the New York City area in 1987, playing with the Bob Mintzer Big Band, the Lionel Hampton Big Band (who recorded a composition he wrote with his brother Rob Middleton entitled "Two Brothers" on "Cookin' in the Kitchen") and the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra. He founded his long-running quartet featuring at various times guitarist Ben Monder, drummers John Hollenbeck, Owen Howard, bassists Scott

Andy Middleton

Colley and Peter Herbert, and pianists Henry Hey, Andy Ezrin, and David Berkman. Middleton's first album, "Acid Rain", featuring Joey Calderazzo, was released in 1991 by the French label Owl Records. His second, "Terra Infirma" was released in 1995 by EMI France, produced by David Liebman, and featuring the quartet of Middleton, pianist Renee Rosnes, bassist Paul Imm, and drummer Alan Jones augmented by a horn section. The Fensters was a two saxophone, bass and drums formation featuring Middleton, Alan Jones, the saxophonist and composer François Theberge, and bassist Paul Imm. The Fensters recorded 2 CDs, "Jazz Music, Vol. 1" in 1992 for the Czech label Arta Records, and "Jazz Music, Vol. X" for the Dutch label Challenge Records sub-label A Records in 1996. In 1999 Middleton recorded his 3rd CD as a leader "Nomad's Notebook" with ECM Records guitarist Ralph Towner on acoustic guitars and piano, Dave Holland on bass, Alan Jones on drums, Noah Bless on trombone and Jamey Haddad on percussion. "Nom

Andy Middleton

ad's Notebook" was followed by his 2nd production for the German label Intuition Music and Media featuring trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and trombonist Nils Wogram entitled "Reinventing the World". In September, 2006 Middleton moved to Vienna, Austria to teach at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.</s><s>Awards and honors. - Outstanding Jazz Soloist, "DownBeat" magazine, 1987 - First Prize, Best Soloist, Best Arranger, 13th Europ' Jazz Contest, Belgium, 1991 - National Endowment for the Arts Performance Grant, 1996 - Brooklyn Arts Council performance grant, 2006 - Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals 2004, 2003, 1993, 1992 - New York Foundation for the Arts fiscal sponsorship, 2006 – 2009 - Chamber Music America's New Works: Creation and Presentation Grant Program/Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project, 2004 - Bundeskanzleramt Österreich: Film "Kompositionsförderung", 2014</s><s>Discography.</s><s>Discography.:As leader. - The Fensters - "Jazz Music Vol. 1" (Arta, 1992) - The Fensters - "Jazz Music

Andy Middleton

Vol. X" (A Records, 1996) - "Acid Rain" (Owl/Time Line, 1991) - "Terra Infirma" (Owl /EMI France, 1995) - "Nomad's Notebook" (Intuition, 1999) - "Reinventing the World" (Intuition, 2003) - "The Muir Woods Suite" (Chamber Music America, 2006) - "The European Quartet Live" (Qrious, 2007) - "Between Worlds" (Prova, 2010) - "Three Hearts, Three Minds" (Alessa, 2010)</s><s>Discography.:As sideman. - Stefan 'Pista' Bartus Collectivity, 2012 - Lionel Hampton, "Cookin' in the Kitchen" Gladhamp, 1990 - Owen Howard, "Drum Lore" BJU, 2010 - Klemens Marktl/Flip Philip, "Open Sea", ATS, 2010 - Maria Schneider, "Concert in the Garden" ArtistShare, 2004 - Sparkle + Andy Middleton, "Playing Tricks" ZeroZero Jazz, 2010 - Ron van Stratum, "Swingin' in the Swamp" Mons, 2010 - Piotr

Andy Middleton

Wojtasik, "Old Land" SO Jazz, 2013</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Benjamin Lawrence Reid.

Benjamin Lawrence Reid

<s>Benjamin Lawrence Reid Benjamin Lawrence Reid (May 3, 1918 — November 30, 1990) was an American professor in English from the 1940s to 1980s. During his career, Reid primarily taught at Sweet Briar College from 1951 to 1957 and Mount Holyoke College from 1957 to 1983. Outside of academics, Reid wrote multiple books, and won a Pulitzer Prize and other honors.</s><s>Early life and education. Reid was born on May 3, 1918, in Louisville, Kentucky, and briefly lived in Texas growing up. During his childhood, Reid played baseball during his childhood and switched to basketball during his teens. For his post-secondary education, Reid first received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Louisville in the 1940s. In the 1950s, Reid obtained a Master of Arts from Columbia University and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia.</s><s>Career. As a conscientious objector throughout World War II, Reid was a bridge constructor and a psychiatric hospital orderly. After the war, Reid started his academics tenure as an English lecturer at Iowa State College from 1946 to 1948. Upon continuing his English teaching career at Smith College from 1948 to 1951, Reid became an instructor at Sweet Briar College in 1951. At Sweet Briar, Reid remained as an

Benjamin Lawrence Reid

instructor until he spent his last years at the college as an assistant English professor from 1956 to 1957. For the last part of his career, Reid joined Mount Holyoke College as an assistant professor in 1957. While at Mount Holyoke, he was promoted to associate professor in 1959, professor in 1963, and English professor in 1970. Reid stayed at Mount Holyoke until ending his academic career in 1983. Outside of academics, Reid published his first books in the late 1950s to early 1960s using his university theses he wrote on Gertude Stein and William Butler Yeats. He moved on to biographies about New York lawyer John Quinn in 1968 and Irish politician Roger Casement in 1976. While he wrote essays between the two biographies, his last publications were his autobiographies between 1988 and 1990.</s><s>Awards and honors. Reid won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for "The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends". Years later, Reid was a finalist of the 1977 National Book Award for Biography and Autobiography for "The Lives of Roger Casement". In 1963, Reid received a research grant from the Fulbright Program to study at the University of London. For his book on Russell, Reid was given a

Benjamin Lawrence Reid

fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1971.</s><s>Death. On November 30, 1990, Reid died from a heart attack and multiple strokes in South Hadley, Massachusetts.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of David Galloway (writer).

David Galloway (writer)

<s>David Galloway (writer) David Darryl Galloway (born 5 May 1937 – 28 December 2019) was an American novelist, curator, journalist and academic. A graduate of Harvard University, he was the founding curator of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, a longtime contributor to the "International Herald Tribune", an emeritus professor at the Ruhr University Bochum and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. The last decades of his life he resided in both France (Forcalquier) and Germany.</s><s>Early life. David Galloway was born on 5 May 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1955 he enrolled in Harvard University, where he was mentored by Leonard Bernstein and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. There Galloway met Radcliffe student Sally Gantt, whom he married in 1959, relocating to the University at Buffalo where their son was born two years later.</s><s>Career. David Galloway first worked as a publications editor for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Leaving the United States, he taught at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Sussex, freelancing as a journalist for "The Daily Telegraph", "The Times" and "The Guardian". In 1967 Galloway returned to the U.S.

David Galloway (writer)

to assist in founding the New Gallery (later renamed the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland). He then moved to Germany in 1972 after being appointed as chairman of American studies at the newly established Ruhr University Bochum, meanwhile publishing his first novel, "Melody Jones", to wide critical acclaim. While teaching at the Ruhr University, Galloway lectured extensively throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, including regular visits to the Iran-America Society in Tehran. In 1977 he first met Farah Pahlavi, Empress consort of Iran, whose staff was preparing to open the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Empress' coronation. Galloway was hired as chief curator and with his staff assembled what is widely considered the most important collection of Western art outside of the Western world, including pieces by Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and Andy Warhol, exhibited alongside works by Iranian artists such as Parviz Tanavoli. Several months before the Iranian Revolution, Galloway left Tehran for Wuppertal, Germany, to resume his professorship in Bochum. While visiting Forcalquier, France, he purchased the town's former episcopal residence, known

David Galloway (writer)

as the Maison de Chapitre, which he transformed into an informal retreat for artists and students. In 1979, Galloway began writing for the "International Herald Tribune". Throughout his many years at the paper, he maintained a close professional relationship with artists including Pina Bausch, Keith Haring, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol, contacts much coveted by his editors. Alongside his journalism, Galloway published three more novels: "A Family Album", "Lamaar Ransom: Private Eye" and "Tamsen". After leaving the Ruhr University in 2002, Galloway served as a guest curator at venues including the Venice Biennale and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art while continuing to write for "Art in America", "ARTnews" and the "IHT". In 2011, he opened exhibitions at both Art Basel in Miami Beach and the Kunsthalle Wien of paintings by singer Marilyn Manson. In a career spanning some fifty-five years, David Galloway contributed to over a hundred books on the subjects of art, design, literature and architecture, while curating, reporting and teaching worldwide. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1988.</s><s>Selected bibliography. - "Pioneering

David Galloway (writer)

in Art Collecting" (1962) - "The Absurd Hero of American Fiction" (1966) - "Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady" (1967) - "Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe" (1967) - "Ten Modern American Short Stories" (1968) - "Melody Jones" (1976) - "David Hockney: Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink" (1977) - "A Family Album" (1978) - "Edward Lewis Wallant" (1979) - "Lamaar Ransom: Private Eye" (1979) - "Calamus" (1982) - "The Other Poe" (1983) - "Tamsen" (1983) - "The Individual Conscience as Subject of Literary Reflection" (1986) - "Andy Warhol: Events and Non-Events" (1988) - "Keith Haring" (1992) - "The Critical Response to Truman Capote" (1999) - "Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell" (2001) - "Keith Haring: L'art à la plage" (2005) - "The Keith Haring Show" (2005) - "George Pusenkoff: Mona Lisa Travels

David Galloway (writer)

" (2007) - "Marilyn Manson & David Lynch: Genealogies of Pain" (2011) - "Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life – Victoria and Albert Museum" (2013) - "Hermann-Josef Kuhna: The Handel Cycle" (2015) - "Henri Barande: The Work Beyond" (2017)</s><s>See also. - Contemporary art - Forcalquier - International Herald Tribune - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland - Farah Pahlavi - Ruhr University Bochum - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art - University of Sussex - Wuppertal</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Stan Marple.

Stan Marple

<s>Stan Marple Stanislaus Henry Marple is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach. Marple played twelve seasons in various British leagues, most notably for the Guildford Flames, for whom he later served as head coach. He is currently the general manager for the University of Alberta's men's hockey team, the Alberta Golden Bears.</s><s>Clubs. Note: Marple could not play regularly after 2005 because of the EPL 4 import rule, therefore he could only play when other imports were injured.</s><s>Playing career. Marple had his number 3 retired by Guildford. The Flames gained ten titles while Marple was head coach and general manager.</s><s>General manager / coaching record and titles. Marple's coaching record at Guildford is as follows: 396 wins, 174 losses, 42 ties and overtime losses. His record during his time as GM is as follows: 213 wins, 55 losses. Marple's titles for his clubs as head coach & or general manager are as follows:</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Caitlin Lowe.

Caitlin Lowe

<s>Caitlin Lowe Caitlin Faith Lowe-Nagy (born February 6, 1985) is the head coach of the Arizona Wildcats softball team. Lowe is a former collegiate four-time first team All-American and medal winning Olympian. She played college softball for Arizona and led her team in back-to-back Women's College World Series championships in 2006 and 2007. She won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Lowe played with National Pro Fastpitch's USSSA Pride for six seasons, winning three titles and being named 2012 Player of the Year, before officially retiring in 2015. She is one of select players in NCAA Division I history to have accumulated over 300 hits, 200 runs and 100 stolen bases while batting.400 in her career. Recently, she was only one of 3 named by both the fan vote and experts to the Greatest College Softball Team All-Time, in the outfield.</s><s>Early years. At Foothill High School in North Tustin, California, Caitlin was selected as an All-American four years in a row, and helped lead her team to state and national championships in 2000. In addition, she led the school to league championships in 2001, 2002 and 2003. In 2001, she received the

Caitlin Lowe

All-League and Foothill High School MVP Awards and in 2003, she received the Orange County "Player of the Year" Award.</s><s>Arizona Wildcats. For her freshman season at the University of Arizona, Lowe earned First Team All-American status and was named the Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year and was a top-10 finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. She jumped into top-10 rankings in Wildcat history for her run and stolen base totals and posted career highs in doubles and base on balls; Lowe also led the conference in stolen bases. The sophomore continued her success by earning all-season honors from both the NFCA and the Pac-10, including being named conference Player of the Year. Her career best season batting average still ranks second all-time and her hits total top-10 at Arizona (both topped the conference year), leading to a finalist spot for the Honda and USA Softball National Collegiate Player of The Year. She also set career highs in home runs, triples and slugging percentage. On February 26, she hit a career high four hits against the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters in a 7-0 win. The next month on March 27, Lowe would drive in four RBIs

Caitlin Lowe

for another career high over Louisiana–Lafayette. Lowe was named 2006 First Team All-American and Pac-10 for a third consecutive year. She posted another top-10 school record for her 33 stolen bases and was caught just twice that year while also achieving a high in RBIs and again leading the conference for stolen bases. From February 25 through March 18, Lowe achieved a 15 consecutive game hit streak. She batted.510 (26/51) and had 12 RBIs, a home run, four triples and two doubles to accompany a slugging percentage of over.750%, eventually ended by Cat Osterman on March 19. Starting in a doubleheader sweep of the Oregon Ducks on May 12, Lowe stole two bags in the games to begin a consecutive stolen bases streak that would reach into her senior season. The Wildcats made it into the Women's College World Series as the No. 2 seed and eventually trumped the Northwestern Wildcats in the finals, outscoring them a combined 13-0 over the two-game series; Lowe scored four of those runs. Lowe went 2/4 in the June 6 finale and was named to the All-Tournament Team scoring a then new series record 8 runs. For a final season Lowe was named All-American,

Caitlin Lowe

all-conference and newly bestowed with the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year award. She also stole a career high, school season second best and Pac-10 leading 49 bags, being caught just once. Her resumed streak of consecutive stolen bases concluded on May 19 when the one time she was thrown out was by Chelsea Bramlett of Mississippi State Bulldogs. To that point, Lowe had amassed 47 consecutive stolen bases and 54 overall for the NCAA ninth best streak all-time. Lowe and the Wildcats returned to defend their title at the 2007 WCWS. After riding the arm of tournament MVP Taryne Mowatt and escaping elimination through four games (three straight), Lowe won another National Championship defeating the Tennessee Lady Vols 5-0 on June 6. Lowe ended her career with a perfect day at the plate going 4/4 off USA Softball Collegiate Player of The Year Monica Abbott. She was named All-Tournament hitting.345 with two RBIs and three doubles. Lowe is the Wildcat’s career leader in stolen bases, second in batting average and top-10 in hits, triples and runs. She ranks top-10 for all the same marks in the since renamed Pac-12, minus the triples. At Arizona, she was known

Caitlin Lowe

for her welcoming and volunteering nature and helped other student athletes become acclimated to college through Arizona’s Peer Athletic Leaders (PAL). Her senior year, Caitlin was awarded the inaugural Lowe’s Senior CLASS Softball Award, which acknowledges personal qualities that define a complete student athlete, such as excellence in the classroom, character and community, as well as success in athletic competition. Lowe is one of only six Wildcat players to be named an NFCA All-American in each of her four years with the program and joined Leah Braatz (1994, 95, 97, 98) as the only player in Arizona history to be awarded first-team All-America all four years.</s><s>Team USA. Caitlin began her national career in 2004 as a member of the USA Schutt Elite Team at the Canada and Champions Cups, where she scored a team-high 16 runs. In 2005, Caitlin joined the United States National Team and helped the team earn silver medals in the Japan and World Cups. She was one of the youngest members of the 2006 World Championship team. Caitlin also helped the team win the World Cup in 2006 and 2007, where she posted a team high 6 hits with three runs scored. She earned a gold medal at the 2007 Pan

Caitlin Lowe

American games, and that season tied for the most hits, a team high with two triples and scored 21 runs, the second best on the team. That year, Caitlin’s impressive base running and speed also earned her a perfect 9 stolen bases in 9 attempts. Caitlin Lowe has been a member of the U.S. Women's National Softball Team since 2005. USA Softball Head Coach Mike Candrea says, "She's all out all the time and plays the game like a giant." Leading up the 2008 Olympics, Lowe hit.455 on the Bound 4 Beijing Tour and was tied leading the team in triples, second in stolen bases and had a perfect fielding percentage. At the Games, Lowe began her tournament with a 3/4 effort in a run-rule of Venezuela, including hitting the first-ever inside-the-park home run in Games history. On August 20, Lowe and Team USA went extra innings in the semifinals vs. Japan and she hit the RBI single to take the lead before scoring on Crystl Bustos' winning three-run homer. She had two hits in the gold medal game but made the last out in the 3-1 loss. Lowe was tied in at-bats for the tournament and hit.

Caitlin Lowe

357 overall.</s><s>National Pro Fastpitch. Lowe played her first two seasons in limited action but was later named All-NPF from 2012–2014, including nabbing the Player of The Year and Diamond Spikes Awards in 2012. In 2012, she also led the league in batting average with a career best and set a personal best with four hits on August 25 vs. the Akron Racers. She had a hit in the championship finale, though her team was bested by the Chicago Bandits. The Pride also made it to the Cowles Cup Championship every other year of her career, winning titles in 2010, 2013–2014, Lowe playing in all except 2009–2010. On August 8, 2013, Lowe set another career high with 3 RBIs in a victory over the NY NJ Comets. She played her last season setting a career high in doubles. She also had a career best 22 consecutive game hit streak from July 13-August 16:.408 (31/76) with 7 RBIs and 7 doubles, slugging.500%. Lowe announced her retirement as a player after the 2014 season. Subsequently, the Pride announced the Lowe would be inducted into the USSSA Hall of Fame, and that her jersey number 26 would be retired.

Caitlin Lowe

</s><s>Coaching career. On June 7, 2021, Lowe was named the head coach of the Arizona Wildcats softball program, following the retirement of former head coach Mike Candrea. Lowe spent the last nine seasons under Candrea following a professional career with the USSSA Pride. Lowe served as the program's director of operations in 2013 and then the volunteer assistant coach in 2014, before joining the coaching staff full time in 2015. She served as the team's associate head coach from 2018 to 2021.</s><s>Head coaching record. The following lists Lowe-Nagy's record as a head coach at the NCAA level.</s><s>Personal life. She graduated from the University of Arizona in the fall of 2007 with a degree in psychology and a minor in communications. Lowe comes from an athletic family. She is the daughter of Dave and Dawn Lowe and has a brother Tanner and three sisters Whitney, Paige, and McKenna Lowe. Paige and McKenna are part of the Oregon State University softball team. Four-time Wildcat All-American Caitlin Lowe returned and joined Arizona's coaching staff as the team’s volunteer assistant coach in 2013 after serving as the program’s director of operations in 2012. Lowe will be working with the slappers, the outfielders and base running

Caitlin Lowe

. Lowe retired officially from softball in 2015. In 2015, Lowe married Paul Nagy who is the assistant soccer coach at the University of Arizona.  Lowe and Nagy have two children together, Harper and Beckham.</s><s>See also. - NCAA Division I softball career.400 batting average list</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Maddy Crippen.

Maddy Crippen

<s>Maddy Crippen Madeleine Marie Crippen (born July 10, 1980), also known by her married name as Madeleine Plankey, is an American former competition swimmer. Crippen represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics.</s><s>Career. In 1997 Crippen earned a silver medal as a part of Team USA at the Pan Pacific Championship in Fukuoka, Japan. She followed that performance with a fifth-place finish in the 400-meter individual medley and a sixth-place finish in the 200-meter individual medley at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia. She represented the United States at the Pan Pacific Championships in 1999 where she placed fourth in the 400-meter individual medley. Crippen earned a spot on the 2000 Olympic Team by placing second in the 400-meter individual medley at the U.S. Olympic Trials. In the 2000 Summer Olympics, she placed sixth in the event. Following her Olympic showing, Crippen competed at the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships and 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Crippen is a three-time U.S. national champion, winning two national titles in the 400-meter individual medley and one in the 200-

Maddy Crippen

meter breaststroke. While attending Villanova University, she swam for the Villanova Wildcats swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Big East Conference competition. During her college swimming career, Crippen won an NCAA championship in the 400-yard individual medley and ten Big East championships, and was named Big East "Swimmer of the Year" in 1999 and 2001. She was named Villanova "Swimmer of the Year" in 1999, 2001 and 2002. In 2019, Maddy was inducted into the Villanova Athletic Hall of Fame.</s><s>Personal. Crippen is the daughter of Peter and Patrica Crippen. She, her late brother Fran, and sisters Teresa and Claire were all members of the Germantown Academy swim team and swam for coach Richard "Dick" Shoulberg; all four have qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in swimming. Her brother Fran won a bronze in the 10-kilometer open water race at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships. He swam for the University of Virginia where he was an 11-time All-American and two-time Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) swimmer of the year in 2006 and 2008. He died on October 23,

Maddy Crippen

2010 due to exhaustion after he did not pass the line during a race with inadequate safety measures. Her sister, Claire Crippen, is a national finalist, an NCAA All-American, and swam for the University of Virginia. Her sister Teresa is a Pan American Games Champion in the 200-meter backstroke and was a U.S. National Team member, competing at the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, CN; Teresa swam for the University of Florida. Crippen retired from swimming in 2004, and works as a marketing professional. She was a member of USA Swimming's Board of Directors and the Athletes Executive Committee. Crippen is married to Sean Plankey, a commander in the U.S. Coast Guard.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of John Counter.

John Counter

<s>John Counter John Counter (April 18, 1799 – October 29, 1862) was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He served as Mayor of the City of Kingston, Ontario for the terms 1841-43; 1846; 1850; 1852–53 and 1855.</s><s>Personal life. John Counter was born on April 18, 1799 came to Kingston from Devonshire, England with his parents in 1820. He had an older brother George and younger sister Susannah. His parents were John and Susannah. He began his career in the family business as a baker and confectioner, with a bakery located at the corner of Barrie and Clergy Streets. After securing major local contracts to supply bread, he moved on to real estate investments and a variety of transportation and industrial enterprises with the goal to make Kingston a transportation hub. He married Hannah Rhode, aged 17 and they had four children. Within 10 years he lost his brother, two grandchildren, his two sons, and his wife, and finally he died, on October 29, 1862, in virtual obscurity and penniless, at the home of his son-in-law.</s><s>Business affairs. John Counter was an avid businessman, and invested heavily in Kingston’s commercial district

John Counter

, was involved in the real estate and transportation industries, and owned both a foundry and a sawmill. He was involved in the Calvin Company which proposed a ferry to the railway in Cape Vincent, USA. This was before the construction of the Grand Trunk Railway, and Counter wanted to build and own an infrastructure that could be used to connect the two countries when the railway was finally built. He owned substantial waterfront rights and share in the Penny Bridge, later to become the La Salle Causeway. He also proposed building the Wolfe Island Canal (now abandoned) to provide quick water transportation to and from Cape Vincent. Counter promoted the incorporation of Kingston as a town judging that it would bring increased business and improve property values. This ambition was realized when he signed the petition which finally brought incorporation in 1838.</s><s>Political career. He sought a council seat in the town’s first election but was defeated. Later, in 1841, he was among the first to propose building a new town hall in 1841. Architect George Brown was selected to design the new town hall, and he travelled to England to borrow £20,000 for its construction. In the same year he organized accommodations for government officials when Kingston became the home of the Parliament of the Province of Canada

John Counter

, giving up his own home to the vice-chancellor, R.S. Jameson, and renting the new offices of the Marine Railway to the government. Upon incorporation in 1846, Counter was elected the city’s first Mayor, and served an additional four terms due to his popularity and influence. He was instrumental in establishing the Board of Trade in 1839. He was among the people who donated their homes for the new government workers in 1841, and the people who donated the first clock in the City Hall Clock Tower. He supported the Wesleyan Methodists, and donated generously to the building fund for the Victoria Street chapel in 1847. He donated the land for Sydenham Street Church and laid the cornerstone on April 17, 1851. However, he had borrowed heavily to support his numerous interests and also to open the first subdivision in Kingston. He resigned from the office of mayor in June 1855 because his shares in the local gas company were considered to constitute a conflict of interest; and only a few months later, in October 1855, he could not meet a large mortgage payment and his financial obligations forced him into bankruptcy. His house was at Plymouth Square, at the corner of Ontario and Johnson Streets. It was torn down in 1973.</s>

John Counter

<s>Official portrait. Counter’s portrait was painted by American itinerant artist Alvah Bradish while he was visiting Kingston in 1842. Bradish was well known as a portrait painter in Rochester and Detroit, and is known to have undertaken commissions in Toronto and Montreal. Bradish advertised in the "Kingston Chronicle" in July 1842 that he was at Daley’s Hotel and offering his "professional services for a few weeks". Town Council members asked Mayor Counter to sit for his portrait, which was delivered in September 1842 at a cost of £17.10 and was paid for by the councilors personally, not from civic funds. He is depicted wearing a relatively simple Chain of Office and holding a scroll in left hand. It has been loaned to the Art Gallery of Ontario, where they made the existing slides of the painting that have been copied for archival institutions nationwide, and was stored at the City of Kingston facility at 19 Queen Street until it received restoration work in the late 1970s. It currently hangs in the John Counter meeting room at Kingston City Hall.</s><s>See also. - List of mayors of Kingston, Ontario</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Jeffrey Satinover.

Jeffrey Satinover

<s>Jeffrey Satinover Jeffrey Burke Satinover (September 4, 1947) is an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and physicist. He is known for books on a number of controversial topics in physics and neuroscience, and on religion, but especially for his writing and public-policy efforts relating to homosexuality, same-sex marriage and the ex-gay movement.</s><s>Biography. Satinover was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 4, 1947, to Joseph and Sena Satinover. He lived in and around Chicago until moving to California at the beginning of his high school years. Satinover won a National Merit Scholarship. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. He obtained a Master of Education degree in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University, a medical degree at the University of Texas, and a Master of Science in physics at Yale University. He received a diploma in analytical psychology from the C. G. Jung Institute of Zürich, becoming their youngest graduate. He trained there and became an accredited Jungian analyst. He received a PhD in physics in the laboratory of Didier Sornette at the University of Nice in France, in 2009. He married for the second time in 1982

Jeffrey Satinover

, having previously divorced and is the father of three daughters. According to two journalists, in September 1991, during the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Satinover suggested during dinner conversation with President Bush's nephew that Anita Hill, if suffering from erotomania (a "delusional disorder"), might be entirely convinced that Thomas had sexually harassed her, even if he had not, just as a witness for Thomas, John Doggett, (now a conservative commentator) claimed had happened with him. She would even pass a lie detector test, as Hill had, convinced of the truth of what she was saying. Soon Satinover and another psychiatrist, Park Dietz were explaining this possibility to Thomas' Senate sponsor, John Danforth, and White House press secretary, Larry Thomas, though as psychiatrists neither would testify about a patient they had not examined. (Psychiatrists brought in by the Democrats similarly refused to testify.) Satinover was quoted as stating that once he saw the testimony of one of Hill's main critics, John Doggett, he concluded the idea was invalid. He has provided commentary for two documentary films, "What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?" (2004) and "What the B

Jeffrey Satinover

leep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole " (2006). In 2008, he completed a Ph.D. "summa cum laude" in physics at the University of Nice, France. Satinover was distinguished visiting professor of Math and Science at King's College, New York City, a private Christian college affiliated with Campus Crusade for Christ. He also teaches at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He is a visiting scientist at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He is managing director of Quintium Analytics, LLC, a proprietary investment advisory company he founded in 2007. Satinover is a member of the scientific advisory committee of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality. Satinover is Jewish, but says he has an eclectic worldview.</s><s>Writing and research. Satinover's book, "Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth" (1996), published by the evangelical Christian publisher Baker Books, debates the nature of homosexuality from psychological, religious and scientific perspectives, discussing homosexuality primarily in the context of being a condition that can or should be treated, contrary to the views of the mainstream psychiatric and psychological community. Satinover draws comparisons between homosexuality and various pathologies ("e.

Jeffrey Satinover

g.," alcoholism, pedophilia) and argues that homosexuality involves compulsive impulses. He states that homosexuality "is not a true illness, though it may be thought an illness in the spiritual sense of'soul sickness,' innate to fallen human nature." He also argues that "gay activism distorts the truth and harms not only society, but homosexuals themselves". Most of the book discusses whether homosexuality is biological and genetic and if it can be changed. About one fifth of the book discusses human sexuality from Jewish and Christian perspectives. In the book's introduction, Satinover states that "[i]n the end the debate over homosexual behavior and its implications for public policy can only be decided conclusively on moral grounds, and moral grounds will ultimately mean religious grounds." In 1997, Satinover was called by the State of Florida as an expert witness in Amer v. Johnson, which challenged Florida's law prohibiting adoption by gays and lesbians. "Surprisingly, Satinover said in his testimony that 'if two homosexuals wanted to adopt a child, I would have no objection to it if one of them was a man and one of them was a woman' [but] 'the 'needs' of a child includes having [both] a mother and a father'". He said that

Jeffrey Satinover

"The state of Florida wanted me to argue that the reason the ban should be upheld was because homosexuals made bad parents and I refused to do that." After several years of additional court cases relating to the Florida's anti-gay adoption ban, "" resulted in the ban being declared unconstitutional in 2010. Satinover has frequently testified regarding his views on same sex marriage. In a hearing before the Massachusetts Judicial Committee in April 2003, he testified that homosexuality is not immutable and that the environment plays an important role in sexual orientation. Organizations that oppose the expansion of LGBT rights and protections have frequently cited his research in their position papers.</s><s>Selected works. - "Feathers of the Skylark: Compulsion, Sin and Our Need for a Messiah" (Hamewith Books, 1996) - "The Empty Self: Gnostic & Jungian Foundations of Modern Identity" (Grove Books, 1995), 28 pp. - also as "The Empty Self: C.G. Jung and the Gnostic Transformation of Modern Identity" (Grove Books, 1996) - "Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth" (Baker Books, 1996) - "The Truth Behind the Bible Code" (Sidgwich Jackson, 1997) - "Cracking

Jeffrey Satinover

the Bible Code" (1997, New York: W. Morrow, ) - "The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man" (Wiley, 2002)</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of DeAnna Bennett.

DeAnna Bennett

<s>DeAnna Bennett DeAnna Danielle Bennett (born November 18, 1984) is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Flyweight division in Bellator. As of December 13, 2022, she is #4 in the Bellator Women's Flyweight Rankings.</s><s>Background. Bennett wrestled and played water polo for American High School before graduating in 2002. Bennett briefly attended an art college, but dropped out. She credits her "being a fat kid" for motivating her to join a kickboxing gym to stay in shape, and eventually competing in Muay Thai kickboxing.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:Early career. After a short amateur MMA career in 2011, Bennett made her professional MMA debut in February 2012 for Showdown Fights. She competed for the promotion four times over the next two years, winning all of her bouts. Notably beating stand outs Sharon Jacobson, Colleen Schneider and Julianna Peña respectively.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:Invicta FC. Bennett made her Invicta FC debut on September 6, 2014, at, where she defeated Michelle Ould by TKO in the second round. In her second fight for the promotion, Bennett faced Jennifer Maia on December

DeAnna Bennett

5, 2014, at. She won the fight by unanimous decision. Bennett next faced Norma Rueda Center on February 27, 2015, at. She again won the fight by unanimous decision.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:The Ultimate Fighter. In August 2017, it was announced that Bennett would be one of the fighters featured on "The Ultimate Fighter 26", where the process to crown the UFC's inaugural 125-pound women's champion will take place. Bennett was selected seventh by coach Eddie Alvarez. She faced Karine Gevorgyan in the opening round and won via TKO in the first round. In the quarter finals Bennett faced Sijara Eubanks losing via first round knockout.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:Ultimate Fighting Championship. Bennett faced Melinda Fábián on December 1, 2017 at. The fight ended as a majority draw and Bennett was subsequently released from the promotion.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:Return to Invicta. Bennett returned to Invicta to face Karina Rodríguez on March 24, 2018 at. She won the fight by split decision. Bennett then entered a flyweight tournament where she defeated Miranda Maverick by unanimous decision but lost in the final in a rematch against

DeAnna Bennett

Karina Rodriguez.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:Bellator. Bennett made her promotional debut against Liz Carmouche at Bellator 246 on September 12, 2020. She lost the bout via a rear-naked choke submission in the third round. Bennett was scheduled to face Alejandra Lara on July 31, 2021 at Bellator 263. The bout was rescheduled for unknown reasons to take place on August 20, 2021 at Bellator 265. On August 13, it was announced that the bout was moved once again, this time to Bellator 266. At the weigh-ins, Bennett missed weight for her bout. Bennett weighed in at 129.2 pounds, 3.2 pounds over the flyweight non-title fight limit. The bout proceeded at catchweight and Bennett was fined a percentage of her purse which went to Lara. Bennett won the bout in dominant fashion via unanimous decision. Bennett faced Justine Kish on February 19, 2022 at Bellator 274. She won the bout in dominant fashion via unanimous decision. Bennett rematched Justine Kish on August 12, 2022 at Bellator 284. At weigh ins, Kish came in at 128.4 lbs, 2.4 pounds over the weight limit, for the flyweight bout, resulting

DeAnna Bennett

in her being a fined a percentage of her purse which went to Bennett and the bout proceeded at catchweight. Bennett won the bout again via unanimous decision. Bennett is scheduled to face Liz Carmouche for the Bellator Women's Flyweight World Championship on April 21, 2023 at Bellator 294.</s><s>See also. - List of female mixed martial artists - List of current Bellator MMA fighters</s><s>References.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Emcee N.I.C.E..

Emcee N.I.C.E.

<s>Emcee N.I.C.E. Aulsondro "Novelist" Hamilton, better known by his stage name Emcee N.I.C.E., is an American Christian hip hop recording artist. Five No. 1 hit records on the "Billboard" charts in "I Got Angels" claiming two positions along with "Glory to God" (ft. Fred Hammond) & Nielsen BDS including a No. 1 gospel album in "Praise".</s><s>History. In 2015, under his real name Aulsondro Hamilton, he voiced the character "Novelist" in a 3D animated music series entitled Da Jammies.</s><s>Productions, Releases and Guest Appearances. Albums | Singles | EP's</s><s>As a writer and performer A Lighter Shade of Brown.</s><s>As a writer and performer A Lighter Shade of Brown.:Charts (1994–1999). Peak positions</s><s>As a member and lead vocalist/rapper of KansasCali.</s><s>As a member and lead vocalist/rapper of KansasCali.:2002 to 2006.</s><s>As Emcee N.I.C.E. (Novelist Is Constantly Evolving

Emcee N.I.C.E.

).</s><s>As Emcee N.I.C.E. (Novelist Is Constantly Evolving).:2015. Tonight feat. Suhana Machete peaked at No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot Single Sales Chart in 2014 (Billboard Albums)</s><s>Music Videos. A music video for "Thugz Mansion" was shot. The video was nominated at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rap Video. - other music videos includes: - "If U Wanna Groove" with Lighter Shade of Brown - "If I..." with KansasCali - "The Life" with KansasCali - "Life of The Party" with Stacey Dash & Blake Smith - "I Got Angels" - "This Is TBL" with Lamontt Blackshire & DaLomonze - "Precious Stones" with Bryann Trejo</s><s>Awards and achievements.</s><s>Awards and achievements.:The Gospel Hip Hop Awards. The complete list of winners can be found here https://www.thegospelhiphopawards.com/team-4</s><s>Awards and achievements.:Kingdom Image Awards. Awards/Nominations - 2019: Stellar Awards Nomination, Rap/Hip Hop

Emcee N.I.C.E.

CD of the Year – PRAISE - 2019: Stellar Awards Nomination, Internet Station of the Year – GH3 Radio (God's House of Hip Hop) – Curated by Emcee N.I.C.E. - 2019: Kingdom Image Awards Nomination, Producer of the Year – - 2019: The Spin Awards Nominees</s><s>Books. - "50 Shades of L.O.V.E. – (Learning Our Various Emotions)" (July 15, 2015) - "Music Release University - The Indies' Guide to Releasing Music!" (August 19, 2022) Note: (Music Release University - The Indies' Guide to Releasing Music! is an Amazon Books New Release Best Seller achieving No. 1 in the category of "Music Recording & Sound" and a Top 10 Best Seller in the category of "Music Business")</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Karyn Pugliese.

Karyn Pugliese

<s>Karyn Pugliese Karyn Pugliese (Pabàmàdiz) is a Canadian broadcast journalist and communications specialist, of Algonquin and Italian descent. She is member of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation in Ontario. She is a Nieman Fellow, Class of 2020, Harvard University and has been recognized by the Canadian Association of Journalists with a Charles Bury Award for her leadership supporting journalists and fighting for media rights. In 2018 the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presented Pugliese with the organization's annual Gordon Sinclair Award for distinguished achievement in journalism at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards. In 2019 Pugliese received the Hyman Solomon Award for Public Policy Journalism  and was the co-recipient with journalist Justin Brake for the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) 2019 Elias Boudinot Free Press Award. She was chosen for the twenty-fifth Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. She won a National Newspaper Award for a series of columns written for the National Observer in 2021, where she is now editor-in-chief. She is a frequent commentator on CBC's Rosie Barton Live and the podcast Canadaland. Pugliese recently replaced the former host

Karyn Pugliese

of the canadaLANDBACK series. The former host Ryan McMahon, left after some personal controversy and conflict with his producer. Pugliese is best known for her work as a journalist/Executive Director of news and current affairs at the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network,Karen Mccall, "Indigenous First: Why APTN won't stop covering the kinds of stories mainstream Canadian media once regularly messed up or ignored—and often still do Ryerson review of journalism https://medium.com/ryerson-review-of-journalism/indigenous-first-b5b2d3d7b344 and as the host of ichannel's #FAQMP. Pugliese was also the Managing Editor of CBC's Investigative unit, overseeing television programming for the Fifth Estate and Marketplace. She also worked at Vision TV and as a Communications Director for the Assembly of First Nations. Pugliese is president of the Canadian Association of Journalists (2018-2020) and previously sat on the CAJ Ethics Committee. Pugliese has acted as a co-chair for the Night for Rights Gala, an event which raises approximately $140,000 annually for rights-based journalism programming, and is organized by Journalist for Human Rights, JHR. Pugliese

Karyn Pugliese

is an ambassador for Journalist for Human Rights, and works with them to train young indigenous journalists. She frequently speaks in support of the organization. She is also a board member for Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE).</s><s>Early life. Pugliese was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, but frequently visited Pikwàkanagàn in her youth. Most of her close family lived off-reserve in Ottawa. Pugliese dropped out of high school three times, eventually enrolling in an alternative high school where she earned her diploma. Although she was a bright student, Pugliese had no intention of attending university, and wanted to be a bartender, until a high school teacher coaxed her into applying to Carleton University's journalism program. She enrolled and graduated with a combined honours in Journalism and History in 1998. Pugliese was in journalism school during the years of the resistance, Ipperwash Crisis and standoff at Gustefsen Lake. She was so distressed by the way media covered these events, out of context and stereotyping Indigenous people "as angry warriors threatening an otherwise peaceful Canada," that when she attended her graduation ceremony at Pikwakanagan she was embarrassed to admit she'd studied journalism and told her people she

Karyn Pugliese

was thinking about becoming historian instead. After graduating Pugliese worked short-term contracts at CBC Radio Ottawa's "Morning Show", "Sounds Like Canada" and CTV television, Ottawa. As a single mother of a young child, Pugliese found it difficult to balance motherhood with the instability of a journalism career. For a time she left journalism and worked as a technical writer in the federal government. Around this time she returned to Carleton University to complete an M.A. in history. Her thesis "'So, where are you from?' Glimpsing the history of Ottawa-Gatineau's urban Indian communities" is a history of the off-reserve community she grew up in. Pugliese returned to journalism in 2000, after a professor put her in touch with the APTN. Pugliese became the APTN's first Parliamentary Correspondent. She credits the APTN's daycare policy and flexible hours for her ability to re-enter journalism and build a career. She says APTN was a place where she could "write the truth about my people," turning her back toward a career in journalism. Her son Zackery Liberty is now an adult and a guitarist with the indie rock group Farewell Davidson.</s><s>Career.

Karyn Pugliese

</s><s>Career.:Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). In 2000 Pugliese heard from a professor that the APTN was about to launch a weekly news magazine show called "InVision". It was later rebranded into the nightly APTN National News. From 2000 to 2006 Pugliese was a member of the Press Gallery and APTN's Parliamentary Reporter. She also travelled to many Indigenous communities, mostly in Ontario, Quebec and Nunavut. During her time at APTN Pugliese won 3 Native American Journalism Awards and was nominated for a Canadian Association of Broadcasters Gold Ribbon Award. Pugliese left APTN in 2006.</s><s>Career.:360 Vision, Vision TV. In 2006, Pugliese joined Vision TV's investigative and current affairs show 360 Vision then led by Sadia Zaman and John Scully. That year the series was a nominee for Best News and Information Series at the 2006 Gemini Awards. Pugliese left after one season.</s><s>Career.:Assembly of First Nations. Pugliese joined the Assembly of First Nations as a communications officer in 2007. In this role she also worked with the World Health Organization,Global STOP-TB Indigenous Experts Meeting Summary of Proceedings Toronto, Ontario, Canada November 12–14

Karyn Pugliese

, 2008 p 57 http://www.kateniesresearch.com/papers/DRAFT%20Global%20Indigenous%20STOP%20TB%20Summary%20of%20Proceedings%20DEC.%201,%202008.pdf and the United Nations. A year later she was promoted to Communications Director. She left the AFN in 2010.</s><s>Career.:ichannel and #FAQMP. In 2010 Pugliese returned to journalism, hosting and producing @issue, ichannel's current affairs talk show. In 2011 Pugliese hosted and produced a new flagship program #FAQMP (Frequently Asked Questions for your Member of Parliament). The show was described as an experiment in democracy, and with its hyper-local focus it was favourably compared to a modern twist on Geoff Scott's 1968 Show "Your Man on the Hill."  #FAQMP invited viewers to vote on a website and choose which MP they wanted to appear on the show. Viewers were then invited to submit their own interview questions and topics via social media. Among the MPs who appeared on the show were: Justin Trudeau, Jason Kenney, Dean Del Mastro, Elizabeth May, Bob Rae, Carolyn Bennett, Joy Smith, Pat Martin

Karyn Pugliese

, and Senator Patrick Brazeau. Some controversial episodes included: PEI Liberal MP Sean Casey's admission that he did not support his own party's 2012 resolution on abortion that would penalize any province that restricted women's access to abortion (by cutting federal health transfer dollars). Green Party Leader Elizabeth May's assertion that political parties should be eliminated, and all MPs elected independently also caused a stir. The clip resurfaced and caused debate on reddit in 2014. The series garnered a nomination for Best Cross-Platform Project, Non-Fiction at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards. Pugliese left in 2012, returning to APTN. #FAQMP lasted for 1 more season under a new host, Kevin O'Keefe.</s><s>Career.:Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). In 2012, Pugliese returned to the APTN to lead the news department as the executive director of News and Current Affairs. Since her arrival, new programming has been added to the News Department including: "Nation to Nation", a half hour political show, and the talk shows "InFocus" and "The Laughing Drum". During the 2015 federal election, for the first time, APTN National News secured interviews with 3 out of 4 of the national party leaders.

Karyn Pugliese

In 2017, Pugliese was awarded the Canadian Association of Journalists Charles Bury Award, by then CAJ President Nick Taylor-Vaisey. In particular Taylor-Vaisey noted Pugliese's contributions to fighting for press freedom. "When it comes to supporting journalists and fighting for journalism, APTN punches above its weight," said Taylor-Vaisey. "They fight for press freedom in the courts..." In her acceptance speech Pugliese recounted some of the early struggles of setting up the "first aboriginal broadcaster in the world" adding: "Yes. We punched above our weight, how could we not with so much at stake?"</s><s>Career.:Managing Editor Investigative (CBC). As managing editor of investigative for the CBC from 2021, Pugliese oversaw "The Fifth Estate", an award-winning English-language Canadian news magazine television program airing on the national CBC Television network.</s><s>Career.:Executive Editor National Observer. Pugliese is currently the executive editor of Canada's National Observer, a daily online news service focused on climate change.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Michael L. MacDonald.

Michael L. MacDonald

<s>Michael L. MacDonald Michael L. MacDonald (born May 4, 1955) is a Canadian politician and a Conservative member of the Canadian Senate. He was appointed on the advice of Stephen Harper to the Senate on January 2, 2009.</s><s>Early life and education. MacDonald was born in Louisbourg, the youngest of 10 children. In 1977, he graduated from University of King's College in Halifax with an Honours degree in political science.</s><s>Political career. MacDonald worked as a researcher for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Research Office from 1978 to 1980. He then worked in the office of MLA Gerald Sheehy from 1980 to 1982 and then as Executive Assistant to Premier John Buchanan from 1982 to 1984. He was also Executive Assistant to Thomas McMillan from 1984 to 1985, and then to Stewart McInnes from 1985 to 1987. He has been the owner of the Fortress Inn in Louisbourg since 1988. In 1988, he ran for federal office in Cape Breton—East Richmond, placing second with 7,173 votes. In 1993, he ran provincially for the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia in the riding of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, placing second with 2,905 votes. He ran in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour again in 1998, placing third with

Michael L. MacDonald

2,084 votes. He ran federally in 2004 in the riding of Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, placing third with 8,739 votes.</s><s>Controversy. On February 16, 2022, during the convoy protest in Ottawa, MacDonald was recorded in a video making derisive remarks about the city's residents, saying, "I’m so sick of the entitlement in this country and this f------ city. Everybody around this city, with their six-figure salaries and twenty-hour weeks." He also expressed support for the protesters, saying, "...in Ottawa I don't want them to leave," and described his wife as "a Karen" for wanting the protest to end. MacDonald later read a statement in the Senate chamber to apologize for his remarks.</s><s>Personal life. MacDonald lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, with his wife Marilyn, and their two sons, Lauchlan and Liam.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Ingo Titze.

Ingo Titze

<s>Ingo Titze Ingo R. Titze is a voice scientist and executive director of the National Center for Voice and Speech and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He also teaches at the Summer Vocology Institute, also housed at the University of Utah. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa and has written several books relating to the human voice.</s><s>Education. Titze received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah, and then an M.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Physics from the University of Utah. He graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from Brigham Young University in 1972. In 1976 he went to Gallaudet University, where he received his first of many grants from the National Institutes of Health.</s><s>Career. Prior to his conjoint positions at the Universities of Utah and Iowa (for which he began in 2009 and 1990, respectively) he was the Chief Scientist and Executive Director for the National Center for Voice and Speech from 1994–2009, which was then housed at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Ingo Titze

. From 1983–1994 he served as the Director of Research for the Recording and Research Center, also housed at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and from 1989–1994 he was adjunct professor in the Westminster Choir College at Princeton, New Jersey. Titze was a consultant to the Department of Linguistics/Speech Analysis at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, a visiting Lecturer at the Department of Hearing/Speech Science at the University of Maryland, and an associate professor for the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology for the University of Iowa from 1979–1995. His early career positions included associate professor in the Department of Physics at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, assistant professor for the Sensory Communication Research Laboratory at Gallaudet College from 1976–1979, lecturer in physics and electrical engineering at California State Polytechnic University, physics instructor at Pomona College from 1973–1974, and Brigham Young University from 1972–1973. Before accepting a position to work as a research engineer at the Boeing Company of Seattle from 1968–1969, he worked at the National Reactor Test Station (1965–1966) and as a research engineer at North American Aviation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Titze began his career

Ingo Titze

as a summer research engineer for Argonne National Laboratory in Arco, Idaho in 1963.</s><s>Vocology. Between the years of 1979–1981, Titze developed a new course entitled "Principles of Voice Production", which was taught jointly in the School of Music. During the 1980s he developed various university courses that included acoustics, biomechanics of speech, experimental phonetics, digital signal processing, voice therapy and vocal pedagogy, all of which culminated in him coining the phrase 'vocology', which he then proposed as a discipline parallel to audiology.</s><s>Research. Titze has been awarded multiple grants during his career from the National Institutes of Health, to study voice health and voice disorders. His research on the voice is prolific, with over 160 research articles listed at the NIH, alone.</s><s>Media. - 2015 Appeared in BBC Radio 3, BBC Proms, "Singing Machines" - 2013 Appeared in Reuters, BBC, Pacific Standard, Iowa Now, and AIP regarding his “Voice Vote” article - 1992 Featured on Television Documentary, NDR, Hamburg, Germany - 1986 Part of a documentary on Quantum, The Science Series, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, produced and directed by Peter Hiscock

Ingo Titze

- 1985 Part of a nationally aired feature on Voice Research, Cable News Network (CNN), "Science and Technology Today" series, produced by Charles Crawford - 1985 Part of a documentary entitled "Figures of Speech" on the series Innovation, WNET (Public Television Network), produced by Duncan Scott</s><s>Awards. - 2012: Kay-Pentax Lecturer and Awards, American Speech Language Hearing Association - 2010: Honors of the Association, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - 2009: Science Writing Award for Professional in Acoustics, The Acoustical Society of America - 2007: Silver Medal, the Acoustical Society of America - 2004: Wullstein Lecture and Award, German Ear, Nose, Throat Association - 2003: Karl Storz Lecture Award, American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology - 2002: Willard R. Zemlin Lecture Award, American Speech–Language–Hearing Association - 1996: American Laryngological Association Award - 1996: Honored Alumnus, College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young Univ. - 1995: University of Iowa Regents Award - 1992: Fellow, American Speech Language Hearing Association - 1992: Editor's Award Speech Science, American Speech Language

Ingo Titze

Hearing Association - 1990: Quintana Award, The Voice Foundation - 1989: Claude Pepper Award, National Institutes of Health - 1986: Part of a documentary on Quantum, a science series of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 1984: William and Harriott Gould Award for laryngeal physiology - 1984: Jacob Javits Neurosciences Investigation Award - 1983: Fellow, Acoustical Society of America - 1969: NDEA Graduate Fellow - 1959: Josephine Bean Scholarship</s><s>Bibliography.</s><s>Bibliography.:Books. - "Fascinations with the Human Voice". National Center for Voice and Speech. Translated into German, Japanese, Finnish, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, French. Titze, I.R. (2010). - "Vocology: The Science and Practice of Voice Habilitation". National Center for Voice and Speech, Salt Lake City, UT. Titze, I.R., & Verdolini, K. (2012). - "The Myoelastic-Aerodynamic Theory of Phonation". Denver, CO 80204: National Center for Voice and Speech (2006). Titze, I.R. - "Principles of Voice Productio"n. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall (

Ingo Titze

1994). Reprinted by the National Center for Voice and Speech, Denver, CO 80204 (2000). Translated into Chinese, German, Japanese and Portuguese. Titze, I.R. - "Vocal Fold Physiology: Frontiers in Basic Science". San Diego: Singular Publishing Group (1992). Titze, I.R. (Ed.). - "Vocal Health and Science". Jacksonville, FL: The National Association of Teachers of Singing (1991). Sataloff, R.T. & Titze, I.R. (Eds.). - "Vocal Fold Physiology: Biomechanics, Acoustics, and Phonatory Contro"l. Denver CO: Denver Center for the Performing Arts (1985). Titze, I.R. & Scherer, R.C. (Eds.).</s><s>See also. - Phonation - Place of articulation - Vocal folds - Vocology</s><s>References.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Kathleen A. McGrath.

Kathleen A. McGrath

<s>Kathleen A. McGrath Kathleen Anne McGrath (June 4, 1952 – September 26, 2002) was the first woman to command a United States Navy warship.</s><s>Early life. On June 4, 1952, McGrath was born in Columbus, Ohio. McGrath's father is Colonel James H. McGrath. McGrath's mother is Martha McGrath.</s><s>Education. In 1975, McGrath earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from California State University, Sacramento. McGrath attended Officer Candidate School in Rhode Island. In 1987, McGrath earned a Master of Arts degree in Educational Management from Stanford University.</s><s>Career. McGrath worked in the United States Forestry Service until 1980 when she joined the US Navy. McGrath was deployed to the Western Pacific, the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas. McGrath commanded the rescue and salvage ship USS Recovery in 1993 and 1994. She was the first woman to command was US Navy ship. In December 1998, Captain McGrath became commander of the frigate USS Jarrett. She was one of the group of five women, including Michelle J. Howard, Maureen Farren, Ann O'Connor, and Grace Mehl, chosen to be the first female combatant commanders in

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the United States Navy. In the spring of 2000, it was just six years after Congress revoked rules prohibiting women from serving on combat aircraft and warships. On March 31, 2000, McGrath commanded USS Jarrett and set to sea from San Diego, California with a destination of the Persian Gulf region. Its goal was to hunt boats suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of United Nations sanctions. In May 2002, McGrath was promoted to the rank of captain. Following her tour as commander of the "Jarrett", McGrath served at the Joint Advanced Warfighting Unit in Alexandria, Virginia. Captain McGrath died in September 2002 at the age of 50.</s><s>Awards. - Legion of Merit - Meritorious Service Medal with three gold stars (4 awards) - Navy Commendation Medal with 2 gold stars - Navy Achievement Medal - Joint Meritorious Unit Award - Meritorious Unit Citation - Navy E Ribbon - National Defense Service Medal with star - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal - Southwest Asia Service Medal with star - Sea Service Deployment Ribbon - Navy Overseas Service Ribbon - Kuwait Liberation Medal</s><s>Personal life. McGrath's husband was Gregory H. Brandon. They have two children. On September 26, 2002, McGrath died from lung cancer at the National

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Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She was 50 years old. McGrath is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Sergei Bodrov.

Sergei Bodrov

<s>Sergei Bodrov Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov (; born June 28, 1948) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer. In 2003 he was the President of the Jury at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.</s><s>Life and career. Bodrov was born in Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia). In the post-Soviet period he emigrated to the United States. His son, actor Sergei Bodrov, Jr. was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of the North Caucasus on September 20, 2002, while shooting a film titled "The Messenger". Bodrov's paternal grandmother was an ethnic Buryat, which influenced his decision to make the movie "Mongol". Bodrov currently has an apartment in Los Angeles and a ranch in Arizona. He is married to American film consultant Carolyn Cavallaro.</s><s>Awards. - "Prisoner of the Mountains" - Nika Award for Best Picture and Best Director. - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination. - "Mongol" - Nika Award for Best Picture and Best Director. - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination. - "The Quickie" - 23rd Moscow International Film Festival

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Golden St. George (nominated)</s><s>Filmography. - "Freedom Is Paradise" (1989) - "Katala" (1989) - "White King, Red Queen" (1992) - "Prisoner of the Mountains" (1996) - "Running Free" (2000) - "The Quickie" (2001) - "Bear's Kiss" (2002) - "Shiza" (2004) - "Nomad" (2005) - "Mongol" ( 2007) - "A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries" (2010) - "Seventh Son" (2014) - "Breathe Easy" (2022)</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Diana Ivanova.

Diana Ivanova

<s>Diana Ivanova Diana Ivanova (Bulgarian Диана Иванова; born 19 March 1968 in Montana, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian journalist, author and documentary filmmaker. In her professional work she is interested in intercultural dialogue between people in Bulgaria and other countries, preferably Germany. As cultural manager and curator, she is committed to international understanding and cultural exchange and organizes every year in northwestern Bulgaria an international cultural festival. As a group analyst in Sofia and Bonn she deals with traumas that have been suffered due to the political situation in both countries in the time before the political change in Europe - in Germany primarily by citizens of the GDR.</s><s>Professional background. When Diana Ivanova went to school her birthplace still was wearing the name Mihajlovgrad. It was given up in 1993 in favor of the original name Montana. On the local German school, which maintained friendly relations with the Thuringian school in Schmalkalden as part of a twinning, she passed the Abitur. She lives and works in Bonn and Sofia. Ivanova studied Cultural anthropology and Mass communication at the University of Sofia, where she 1991 obtained a Master in Journalism. After that

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she worked as a journalist until 1995, including as reporter and moderator at Bulgarian National Television. She then until 2003 was Radio journalist at Radio Free Europe in Prague. That same year she completed her training as a cultural manager on "International Centre for Culture and Management" (ICCM) at Prof. Herwig Poeschl in Salzburg. In 2005, she was "Milena Jesenská scholarship holder" at the Institute of Human Sciences. 2014 she completed her training as a group analyst at the "International Association for Group Analysis (IAG)" in Altaussee. Her dissertation focuses on the relationship between elderly Italians and Bulgarian women who had to leave their villages in regions with hopeless labor market situation to make money with the care of the elderly in Italy, but by that lost contact with their homeland. Since 2003 she is a freelance journalist, among others, for "n-ost", "Dnevnik", "Capital (Bulgaria)", "Abitare" and "Foreign Policy". She is also manager of the "New Culture Foundation" and researched the film heritage of the Bulgarian secret services in Sofia, Berlin and Munich.</s><s>Work. Ivanova emphasizes “slow journalism”, as she calls it. Authenticity for

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her is essential. Journalism of this kind needs time and she is willing to take time. Against this background she is shaping her articles, her films and projects. Contentual focus of her work are the individual and collective traumas of the people in Bulgaria and Germany having been suffered by political circumstances. With her understanding of the trauma phrase she leans on the social psychologist Angela Kühner and the sociologist Kai Erikson, who understands a collective trauma as a “violation of the social tissue and the connections between people”. Cultural exchange and encounter groups are the chosen devices, by which she meets the traumas to prepare the ground for a better future. At the beginning of every project her look goes back to the past, which gives her information about the historical roots of the present and the actual experiences of the people. After her cycle "Hello Melancholy" was published in "Capital weekly", she was awarded on 16 August 2005 by the "Austria Press Agency" in Vienna with the prize "Writing for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)" – for her text "Mrs. Bulgarian, Ivan Milev and Gustav Klimt". In December 2013 Ivanova was for the second time invited on a scholarship for one month in the "Kü

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nstlerhaus Villa Waldberta" in Feldafing. Among other things, she there showed the "Films of the Bulgarian Ministry of State Security", which were presented in the "Brotfabrik" in Berlin too.</s><s>Projects (Choice).</s><s>Projects (Choice).:"GOATMILK". "Goat Milk" is the name of an international cultural festival, Ivanova, together with the team of the "New Culture Foundation" organizes every year since 2004 in May as "Festival of memories" in the village of Gorna Bela Rechka in northwestern Bulgaria. Involved are the almost one hundred more than seventy-years-old residents of the village and artists from different nations – people who otherwise would not meet. In this way, Bela Rechka becomes a place of encounter, where the participants in joint designing the festival share stories, experiences and memories. The project is based on the question whether the cultural differences do separate people fundamentally or whether commonality and understanding are possible. For the inhabitants of the village and the participating guests and artists of the "Goatmilk Festival" this question already found an answer. At the same time it comes through the festival to a revitalization of this

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by poverty and loneliness embossed region of the country. Every year the "Goat Milk Festival" is dedicated to a theme. 2008 was marked by the replacement of the bell. Although Bela Rechka never had a church, there was a bell in the village. And that was very important for the residents until it was stolen in the nineties of the last century. The "Goatmilk Festival" paved by help of many artists the way for its replacement. Supported by the Goethe-Institut in Sofia, Bela Rechka 2009 received a new bell. "The bell of Bela Rechka" was realized within the European program Culture 2000 by the "New Culture Foundation" in collaboration with the "Borderland Foundation" (Poland) and the "Laundry Association" (Birmingham, England). There were also donations and the participation of numerous volunteers.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:"I lived Socialism". From 2004 to 2006 Ivanova worked with the poet and writer Georgi Gospodinov and the psychiatrist Rumen Petrov. The focus of their joint project was the question of which traces socialism had left in the souls of men and what influence had these marks on their lifestyle and identity. 171

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stories of Bulgarians of different ages were collected. The website on which they were presented, no longer exists; yet they are preserved in a book bearing – in Bulgarian – the title of the project. An online article of The Sofia Echo provides some of the shortened stories.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:"My street". The project "My street" began with the waste crisis 2005 in Bulgaria. It was an opportunity to reflect on the importance of the road, in which people live and feel strange or at home. So Ivanova started initially in Bulgaria and later in Cuba bringing people together who wrote down their story with their street, took photos and then in personal encounter shared with each other. Although many at first did not know what to do with the offer, they developed step by step while participating in the project a new relationship with an environment in which they have always lived but previously had paid little attention.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:"My street".:"My street Bulgaria". Ivanova was invited along with Boris Deliradev by the "British Council" in Bulgaria, to develop a concept for workshops with young people on the topic "The EU and ME". From the desire to avoid general and superficial conversations on the subject, and under the influence of the

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then current waste crisis the idea for the project "My street" took shape. After "My street Bulgaria" having been successful, the project later in Cuba found its continuation.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:"My street".:"My street Cuban Stories". Since 1997 Ivanova traveled to Cuba. 2009 she gathered together with the Iranian-Canadian photographer Babak Salari stories and photos of people and their streets. As in all projects the identity of the people were in the focus and the question of how it is influenced by environment and experience. The result was 2010 a first book and 2012 a second one.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:"Traumas and Miracles". Together with Babak Salari Ivanova in 2008 began her research on the project "Traumas and Miracles - Portraits from the Northwest of Bulgaria" in one of the economically weakest and poorest regions of the country. Inspired by the conviction of the French sociologist and philosopher Maurice Halbwachs, “that all of us unconsciously are ‘an echo’ of events that happened before our time”, the aim of the project was a documentation of the oldest inhabitants of the region and their often traumatic stories. With the intention to create a space “for words

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, phrases, images, faces that convey a sense of the area”, a “collection of fragments” emerged with portraits and stories of 50 inhabitants in eight villages. 2010 the project was presented to the public with an exhibition at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna and in the National Art Gallery in Sofia. Other presentations followed, from 2016 also in Germany.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:Filmprojects. Ivanova participated in various film projects. For the 2009 released film "The Town of Badante Women" by Stephan Komandarev she wrote the script. Idea and interviews she contributed to the 2012 released film "Father" by Ivan Bogdanov, a Bulgarian-, Croat, German co-production. Moreover, she published several short documentaries. On 14 November 2014, after four years of preparation, her 76-minute documentary "Listen" premiered in Sofia. It reports about Radio Free Europe (RFE), which broadcast from Munich from 1949 to 1995 but was banned in Bulgaria before the change in Europe. From 1995 to 2003 Ivanova had worked there. In Germany the film found his audience, for example, on 11 June 2015, at the "America House (Munich

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)". Here, two former employees from "Radio Free Europe" (RFE) were invited: Luben Mutafoff, formerly journalist there, and Richard H. Cummings, former head of security – both after the film in an interview with the director. Also in June 2015, the movie was shown at Giessen University that thereafter provided an opportunity for discussion with Ivanova. Also in the "naTo" in Leipzig and in the "Brotfabrik" in Berlin the film was shown, as well as in the "Filmmuseum Potsdam", in "Werkstattkino Munich" and in "Film Club 813" in Cologne. Outside Germany, the film was presented in Kosovo and Luxembourg. The film historian Claus Löser wrote about the film: “Diana Ivanova succeeds in her debut documentary ‘Listen’ a small miracle. She manages retrospectively to soften the entrenched positions of the European postwar order, without playing down the historical and current conflicts.” In the year of its formation Ivanova was awarded with the "Best Director Award" for "LISTEN" as best first film. The film was developed with the support of the "Bulgarian National Film Center". After completing this film works

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, Ivanova turned researching the film archive of the Bulgarian State Security to what she received a grant from the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:Self-Awareness-Groups. Since 2012 Ivanova organizes and since 2013 she conducts self-awareness-groups in Bonn and Sofia. As method she applies the technique of group analysis. Her interest in this context is it, to give a place to the suffering of people inflicted due to political circumstances on which it could be heard and may be alleviated.</s><s>Publications. - {{cite book |last1=Ivanova - {{cite book |last1=Salari - {{cite book |last1=Dietrich - {{cite book |last1=Ivanova - {{cite book |last1=Salari</s><s>Filmography. - 2014: "LISTEN" (76 Min.) - 2012: "The Abandoned Northwest" (22 Min.) - 2010: "My Street Cuba" (28 Min.) - 2010: "Between Havana and Sofia" (16 Min.)</s><s>Awards. - 2014: HostwriterPrize "Collaboration

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in Journalism" (together with Dagmar Gester) - 2014: Prize for the best debut-film "Golden Rhyton Festival Award" - 2007: "Robert Schumann Journalist Award" - 2005: Journalistprize "Writing for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)" - 1993: National Award for the best short TV news presentation</s><s>References and Remarks. {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web }} {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite journal }} {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Arthur Ewert.

Arthur Ewert

<s>Arthur Ewert Arthur Ernest Ewert (30 November 1890 – 3 July 1959) was a German communist political activist and functionary of the Communist International (Comintern). Ewert is best remembered as an official Comintern representative to the United States, China, Argentina, and Brazil during the late 1920s and 1930s. After being subjected to torture and sentenced to 13 years in prison for his political activity in Brazil, Ewert lost his sanity. He was granted amnesty in May 1945 and ultimately returned to East Germany, where he lived out the rest of his life in a series of medical facilities.</s><s>Biography.</s><s>Biography.:Early years. Arthur Ernest Ewert was born November 13, 1890, in the town of Heinrichswalde, East Prussia (today's Slavsk, Russia). He was the son of a poor peasant family. Largely self-educated, Ewert completed only a primary school education in a one-room rural schoolhouse. Anxious to escape the drudgery of rural life, at the age of 14 Ewert accepted a position as an apprentice in an uncle's saddle-making factory in the urban center of Berlin. The growth of the automotive industry convinced the young Ewert

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that there was little future in saddle-making, however, so he left that trade to take a job as a worker in a Berlin steel works. Earning low wages to perform difficult and sometimes dangerous work in the steel plant proved to be a radicalizing experience for Ewert. Influenced by his older sister, Minna, who was an activist in the social democratic youth movement, Ewert himself joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SDP) in 1908 at the age of 18. In addition to socialist politics, Ewert's sister introduced him to a friend from work, the Polish-born Elise Saborovsky Ewert — known to her friends as "Szabo" — who was herself a committed Marxist. The pair began living together and would remain a couple for 25 years.</s><s>Biography.:Life in Canada. Early in 1914 Ewert and Szabowski moved to Canada, where they began to achieve fluency in the English language. At the time of Canada's entry into World War I in the summer of that year Ewert and Szabowski were required as citizens of an enemy power to report to the legal authorities for internment for the duration of the war. Instead the couple chose to disappear into the political

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underground, where they were aided by Canadian Marxist opponents of the war. The couple traveled extensively through Canada and the United States in this period, interacting with others of like political mind and joining the new Socialist Party of North America (SPNA), a small revolutionary socialist organization launched in Canada in 1915. During this period the couple used the party pseudonyms "Gustav" and "Elsie" and procured false identity documents under the names "Arthur Brown" and "Annie Bancourt" to better avoid law enforcement officers. Following the Russian Revolution of November 1917, Canadian authorities increased their scrutiny of domestic radicals and Ewert and Szabowski became persons of interest. An informer tipped off the authorities that the pair would be in Toronto for a party meeting on March 23, 1919, and plainclothes detectives picked up their trail from the gathering to a boarding house, where arrest and search warrants were served. According to the police communist propaganda and several handguns were found in the couple's room during the search. After an administrative hearing Ewert was deported to Germany a few months after his arrest, while Szabo was transported across Canada to an internment camp, pending her own deportation in February 1920 aboard a prisoner of war repatriation ship. The couple reunited in

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Berlin where they resumed their lives together anew.</s><s>Biography.:German revolutionary. Returning to Germany early in the summer of 1919, Ewert joined the fledgling Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became active in its work preparing the ground for a revolutionary overthrow of the German government. To support himself he went to work in Berlin as a laborer at the giant electrical corporation AEG "(Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft)," becoming one of the leading KPD activists among that company's workers. This period was marked by economic chaos, strikes, and streetfighting, in which the KPD frequently played the role of provocateur. Ewert was involved in this activity as a leading member of the loosely organized Greater Berlin Revolutionary Action Committee, established to organize urban workers into fighting groups to do battle with similar bands of ultra-nationalist demobilized soldiers. The leadership of Soviet Russia placed supreme importance on an early communist revolution in Germany to provide material support for the revolution in their own revolution backwards peasant nation. Substantial funds were funneled into Germany to support the organizing and propaganda efforts of the German communist movement. From 1920 onwards German-speaking veterans of the Soviet revolution and Russian Civil War were employed to establish paramilitary

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"military-political organizations" throughout Germany in preparation for armed insurrection. The leadership of the KPD was divided over the advisability of such preparations for armed struggle, with Hungarian Comintern plenipotentiaries Bela Kun and József Pogány dispatched to Germany early in 1921 in an effort to win support for the strategy from faltering party chiefs. These preparations for a planned insurrection were ultimately short-circuited by events in Soviet Russia, including the March 1 Kronstadt uprising in which Baltic sailors took up arms against the Soviet regime, prompting more than two weeks of violent and bloody conflict between these revolutionary forces. In need of a diversion, the Communist International (Comintern) pushed forward with its plans for German insurrection in events which were later to be known as the March Action. On March 22, 1921, Communist paramilitary units exploded bombs and attacked police stations and government buildings throughout Central Germany in an attempt to spark the overthrow of the Ebert government. The chaos and killing which resulted from this coordinated offensive resulted in a debacle for the Communists, alienating a broad section of the public against the KPD and provoking an immediate reaction by the authorities, which easily put down the uprising. The Communist Party of Germany was decimated in the aftermath of the failed

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March Action and party leader Paul Levi was expelled for afterwards publishing a pamphlet which sharply criticized the Comintern for its tactics and role. In April 1921 the KPD leadership dispatched Arthur Ewert to the city of Halle to attempt to rebuild the party organization there following its destruction in the March Action. After only a couple weeks Ewert was arrested for his organizing activity, however, and he was transferred to the prison facility at Frankfurt, where he was held for two months with other communist activists without formal charges being filed. The state was unable to produce evidence that Ewert was involved in fomenting armed insurrection, however, and he was subsequently released.</s><s>Biography.:Political rise. Ewert was elected to the governing National Committee (Zentrale) and its Politburo by the 8th Congress of the KPD in January 1923. Ewert was also elected as a KPD delegate to the 3rd Enlarged Plenum of Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI) in 1923. During this interval Ewert was one of the top party leaders in Western Germany involved in the planning of the Communist Party's failed November 1923 revolutionary uprising. This activity made Ewert a wanted man with the legal authorities of the We

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imar Republic and he was forced into hiding. Ewert was arrested in November 1926 but managed to escape and he returned to life in the underground until 1928. Ewert was voted off the Zentrale for factional reasons by the dominant party left wing at 9th Congress of the KPD, held in April 1924. Ewert and his co-thinkers Heinz Neumann and Gerhart Eisler were removed from the political scene for work in the Communist International in Moscow. Ewert was initially assigned to work in the Comintern's Balkan Commission, dealing with political affairs of the various Communist Parties of that region. Ewert was also put to work as a lecturer at the Comintern's International Lenin School, an institution established in 1925 for the intellectual and technical training of leading party cadres for life as "professional revolutionaries." The fortunes of his "center" political faction soon improved in Germany, however, and Ewert was returned to his formerly held leading positions by the 10th Congress of the KPD in 1925 and re-elected by the 11th Congress in 1927. In 1926, Ewert was again selected as a delegate of the KPD to the 6th Enlarged Plenum of ECCI, at

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which he made use of his English-language skills as chair of the British Commission under the pseudonym "Braun." Ewert was again elected to the 8th Enlarged Plenum of ECCI, held in Moscow in May 1927, where he chaired the American Commission, which attempted to resolve the ongoing factional war inside the Workers (Communist) Party of America. This was followed that same summer by his dispatch to the United States as the Comintern's Representative to the 5th Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party, during which time he used the pseudonym "Grey." By 1928 Ewert was regarded as one of the top leaders of the KPD, reckoned by historian Patrick Major to have been the number two figure in the Communist Party of Germany after party leader Ernst Thälmann. He entered the German parliament, the "Reichstag," in May 1928. Later in 1928 Ewert was tapped as the KPD's representative to the Executive Committee of the Communist International following Thälmann's apparent involvement in a corruption scandal.</s><s>Biography.:Condemnation as "Conciliator". Ewert returned from his Moscow posting to ECCI early in 1929 to resume work in the apparatus of the German

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Communist Party. He quickly found himself on the wrong side of a growing factional divide of the increasingly radical Third Period policies of the world communist movement as a leading member of the moderate "Conciliator" "(Versöhnler)" faction. At the 10th Enlarged Plenum of ECCI, held in Moscow in 1929, Ewert came under fire from his factional opponents as a supporter of discredited Soviet leader Nikolai Bukharin, with KPD representative to ECCI Walter Ulbricht leading the attack of what he characterized as a "Bukharin–Humbert-Droz–Ewert Group." This charge was echoed by Joseph Stalin's right-hand man, Vyacheslav Molotov, who singled out Ewert by name among those "conciliators" who lent de facto political support to the more moderate political line of Bukharin and his co-thinkers inside the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks). Ewert managed to salvage his political career by engaging in public self-criticism at the 12th Congress of the KPD, held in June 1929, followed by publication of an article entitled "The Bankruptcy of the Conciliators" in the

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official party newspaper. Despite this public reversal of previously held political positions, Ewert was removed from the top leadership of the German Communist Party and was thereafter no longer directly involved in German party affairs.</s><s>Biography.:Comintern functionary. Ewert's familiarity with the English language and with the affairs of the America Communist Party made him a useful agent to the US, to which he traveled a false passport on Comintern business in 1930. Of primary concern to the Comintern was obtaining an independent assessment of the solidity of the hold over the party apparatus by the faction headed by Earl Browder and William Z. Foster, which had recently assumed control from deposed party leader Jay Lovestone. The use of Ewert — a personal friend and former ideological ally of the expelled dissident Lovestone — for this task was doubtlessly a form of loyalty-testing and assessment of whether Ewert retained political usefulness to the Comintern. Ewert seems to have passed the test, avoiding contacts with the Lovestone political organization and gaining the confidence and respect of the new American party leadership. In the fall of 1930 Ewert was formally assigned to the Comintern's Latin American department and he traveled with his common-law wife Szabo to Buenos Aires,

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Argentina to take over affairs of the Comintern office there. The posting was not a desirable one, but was rather a form of banishment of the ideologically suspect Ewert from the decision-making centers of the Communist Party of Germany and the Comintern. Ewert worked closely with Comintern representative A. Guralsky to win popular expelled Brazilian political leader Luís Carlos Prestes to the Communist cause, regarded as a top priority task. The pair were successful in formally bringing Prestes over to the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) by May 1931, with Prestes capping his conversion with a trip to Moscow that fall. It is unclear whether Ewert accompanied Prestes to the Soviet Union, but he did turn up again in Moscow in the spring of 1931, his Argentine mission at an end. In 1932 Ewert and his wife were dispatched as Comintern Representatives to the Communist Party of China, where they would stay until recalled to Moscow in 1934. From Moscow Ewert and Szabo were first sent to the United States, with Ewert using the pseudonym "Harry Berger" during his brief stay. From there the pair proceeded to Brazil as Comintern Representative to the Communist Party of Brazil. Following an abortive insurrection against the regime of

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Getúlio Vargas in November 1935, Ewert was arrested in Rio de Janeiro and was subjected to severe torture by authorities seeking the whereabouts of opposition leader Prestes. His wife Szabo was also subjected to police torture, being stripped, forced to suffer electric shocks, beaten, and burned with cigarettes — all in the presence of Ewert. Despite the viciousness of the interrogation, neither Ewert nor Szabo betrayed their confidences under duress. Szabo was ultimately deported to Nazi Germany in September 1936, where she was incarcerated and would later die at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1939. Ewert underwent protracted interrogation, during which time he lost his sanity. He was finally brought to trial in May 1937, where he was convicted and sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison.</s><s>Biography.:Later years. In May 1945 Ewert was granted an amnesty from prison. He returned by ship to the Soviet zone of control in Eastern Germany in August 1947 but the mental problems which followed his torture and imprisonment proved insurmountable and he was forced to be hospitalized in a sanatorium for the rest of his life.</s><s>Biography.:Death and legacy. Ewert died on July 3, 1959, in Eber

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tswalde. In 1981 the government of the German Democratic Republic issued a postage stamp in Ewert's honor.</s><s>Further reading. - Robert J. Alexander, "Communism in Latin America." New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1957. - Ronald H. Chilcote, "The Brazilian Communist Party: Conflict and Integration, 1922-72." London: Oxford University Press, 1974. - Theodore Draper, "American Communism and Soviet Russia." New York: Viking Press, 1960. - David P. Hornstein, "Arthur Ewert: A Life for the Comintern." Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993.</s>