John R. Crews (March 8, 1923 – September 25, 1999) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions at the Battle of Buchhof and Stein am Kocher in World War II.

Biography
Crews joined the Army from Bowlegs, Oklahoma in 1942, and by April 8, 1945, was serving as a staff sergeant in Company F, 253rd Infantry Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division. On that day, near Stein-am-Kocher, Germany, Crews single-handedly destroyed two German emplacements.

Crews died at age 76 and was buried in Resthaven Gardens Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

He is the great-uncle to author Kambri Crews.

Medal of Honor citation
Staff Sergeant Crews' official Medal of Honor citation reads:
He displayed conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty on 8 April 1945 near Lobenbacherhof, Germany. As his company was advancing toward the village under heavy fire, an enemy machinegun and automatic rifle with rifle support opened upon it from a hill on the right flank. Seeing that his platoon leader had been wounded by their fire, S/Sgt. Crews, acting on his own initiative, rushed the strongpoint with 2 men of his platoon. Despite the fact that 1 of these men was killed and the other was badly wounded, he continued his advance up the hill in the face of terrific enemy fire. Storming the well-dug-in position single-handedly, he killed 2 of the crew of the machinegun at pointblank range with his M 1 rifle and wrested the gun from the hands of the German whom he had already wounded. He then with his rifle charged the strongly emplaced automatic rifle. Although badly wounded in the thigh by crossfire from the remaining enemy, he kept on and silenced the entire position with his accurate and deadly rifle fire. His actions so unnerved the remaining enemy soldiers that 7 of them surrendered and the others fled. His heroism caused the enemy to concentrate on him and permitted the company to move forward into the village.

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Francis Michael Skaff (September 30, 1910 – April 12, 1988) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) infielder, coach, manager and scout. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1935 and for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1943, and served as acting manager of the Detroit Tigers for the latter half of the  season after his two immediate predecessors in the post were stricken with terminal illnesses.

Playing career

Amateur
Born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Skaff's family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts in 1920, where Frank attended Lowell High School. He was captain of the school's football, basketball, and baseball teams, and graduated in 1929. He went on to attend Villanova University on a football scholarship, but an injury prevented his football-playing, and put him on a baseball scholarship instead. Skaff played third base for the Villanova nine, and graduated in 1935 with a degree in economics. While at Villanova in 1933, Skaff played summer baseball for Harwich of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL), helping to lead the team to its first league title. A CCBL all-league selection as an outfielder, it was reported that Skaff "covers acres of territory, catches everything in sight," and was "the dread of all opposing pitchers".

Professional
Upon graduation, Skaff was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers, and spent most of 1935 with the minor league Peoria Tractors. He was called up by Brooklyn late in the 1935 season, and appeared in six games for the Dodgers that year. Skaff's major league debut came on September 11 in the Dodgers' 7–4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field, when he entered the game in the ninth inning to pinch-hit against Paul Derringer, and grounded out. Skaff went 2-for-3 with an RBI three days later as the Dodgers' third baseman in an 18–14 loss to the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. In his six games with the Dodgers, Skaff was an impressive 6-for-11 at the plate with three RBI, and made one error in seven chances at third base.

Skaff spent the 1936–1941 seasons in the minors, and retired after the 1941 season. Working in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and playing semi-pro baseball, he was signed in 1943 by the Philadelphia Athletics. Skaff appeared in 32 games for the Athletics during their 1943 season, batting .281 in 71 plate appearances. His lone major league home run came on September 27 in the second game of a doubleheader against the St. Louis Browns, a grand slam off Al Hollingsworth that reportedly hit the roof at Shibe Park.

Skaff played for the Baltimore Orioles of the International League from 1944 to 1946, and was player-manager for the Montgomery Rebels through 1948, but never made another big-league appearance. Over his two major league seasons, Skaff hit .320 in 82 plate appearances.

Coaching and scouting career

1946–1965
Skaff managed in the Athletics' farm system through 1953, and was a coach for the 1954 Orioles during their first American League season as the reborn St. Louis Browns, before joining the Tiger organization as a minor league skipper and scout. In , he was named to the Tigers' MLB coaching staff.

Interim manager of 1966 Tigers
Skaff's turn as acting manager of the 1966 Tigers came as a result of the serious, ultimately fatal, illnesses of his two 1966 predecessors.  On May 16, after 26 games, veteran manager Chuck Dressen suffered his second heart attack in as many seasons. As in , third base coach Bob Swift took over the Tigers on an interim basis as Dressen recovered. After 57 games as the Tigers' manager, Swift was hospitalized during the July 11–13 All-Star break for what appeared to be a stomach ailment; however, his malady proved to be lung cancer and he was forced to immediately give up the reins.

Skaff, who had begun 1966 as Detroit's bench coach, then moved to third base under Swift, became the team's second acting manager of the season on July 14 and finished the campaign. The Tigers won only 40 of the 79 games Skaff managed, and finished third in the American League, nine games in arrears of the eventual world champion Orioles. Both Dressen and Swift would die during the year. Dressen, 71, appeared to be making a recovery in early August when he was stricken by a kidney infection; he died August 10. Swift, 51, succumbed to cancer on October 17, 1966.

1967–1988
On October 3, the Tigers hired Mayo Smith as manager for 1967, and Skaff moved into a scouting role. He never managed again in the majors (his 40–39 career record produced a winning percentage of .506), but returned to Detroit as a coach under Billy Martin in 1971.

Skaff was inducted into the Villanova University Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1976, and the Lowell High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987. He retired from full-time scouting in 1983, but continued part-time until his death in 1988, which came while on a scouting trip for the Tigers in Towson, Maryland at age 77.

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Norman H. Baker was a professor of astrophysics at Columbia University. He was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota on October 23, 1931, and died on October 11, 2005, in Watertown, New York.
His research primarily involved computational investigations of stellar structure and evolution; in particular, he focused on pulsating variable stars and he is considered as one of the founders of modern pulsation theory. From 1975 until 1983, he was the editor of the Astronomical Journal and served as president of IAU Commission 27 during the term of 1982 - 1985.

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Helge Hagerup (21 April 1933 – 12 August 2008) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and novelist. He was born in Trondheim, a son of Inger Hagerup, and brother of Klaus Hagerup. He made his literary debut in 1949 with the short story collection Vi fem i annen etasje. He was best known as playwright. Among his plays staged at Nationaltheatret are Løfter om kjærlighet from 1960, Superboy from 1968, and Camp from 1976. He was awarded the Prix Italia in 1973 for his audio play Den dagen du aldri skal glemme. He also wrote crime fiction, and the collection Hvorfor skrek morderen? was published in 1982.

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Franz Gruber was a German operatic tenor who had an active career in his native country and in Austria during the first half of the 20th century.

Professional career
Born in Munich, Gruber initially trained as an actor before making his opera debut in his native city in 1900. From 1901 to 1902, he worked at the Thalia-Theater in Saarbrücken. By that time, he had already begun studies as a singer, partly with his father. In 1902, he made his debut in the Stadttheater Regensburg and already in 1903, he was offered a position at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where he achieved success primarily as an operetta singer.

Gruber continued his singing studies, and in 1915 he was engaged at the National Theatre Munich, where he made his debut as Manrico in Verdi's Il Trovatore. On 28 March 1916, he sang in the double-bill world premiere performances of Korngold's Violanta (in the role of Alfonso) and Der Ring des Polykrates (in the role of Florian). Further roles in this theater included Hoffmann in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, Don José in |Bizet's Carmen and Pedro in Albert's Tiefland. In 1918, he sang in the world premiere performance of Paul Graener's opera Theofano.

In 1921, Gruber moved to the Landestheater Dessau, where he started singing Heldentenor roles like Lohengrin, Siegmund, Siegfried, and also the Emperor in Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten. From 1924 to 1926, he worked at the Staatsoper Hannover, and he finished his professional career at the Stadttheater in Nuremberg, where he was active from 1926 till 1932. During this period, he also made guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera and at several major German opera houses.

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Decrepitation is the noise produced when certain chemical compounds are heated, or it refers to the cracking, or breaking-up of lumps of limestone during heating. Such compounds include lead nitrate and calcine.

Mineralogy
Decrepitation is one of the most accurate ways to calculate a mineral-deposit scale so that the analysis of the hydrothermal system is advanced and improved. Fluid inclusions are important in regards to decrepitation because they are the microscopic areas of gas and liquid within crystals that are decrepitated, or broken, with the application of heat.

When decrepitating the crystal or salt, the liquid pressure is released which can result in a crack. However, in some cases the fluid inclusions are not fully decrepitated, in which case other methods must be used. Despite this shortcoming, decrepitation is the preferred procedure for identifying minerals because it allows for the quickest and greatest number of inclusions to be measured.

The pressure necessary to spur decrepitation is reliant upon the size of the fluid inclusions; bigger inclusions decrepitate more easily at pressures between 700-900 atmospheres, while smaller fluid inclusions may require upwards of 1200 atmospheres, contrastingly, when fluid inclusions become even smaller, the amount of pressure applied will have no effect and decrepitation will not occur.

Decrepitation in metamorphic rock

If the decrepitation begins at a temperature less than the temperature required to form the mineral, it is likely that the rate of decrepitation will speed up once the temperature exceeds that of the initial heating .

For metamorphic rocks, there are certain principles for measuring the decrepitations. What is known as D1 decrepitation, is classified as a temperature range of about 200-300°C, and is caused by the liquid phase which occupies intricate inclusions, as in hydrothermal minerals. D2 decrepitation is characterized by a starting heat range of about 300-700°C, the temperature can also increase rapidly for a few hundred degrees, such as in solid inclusions. D3 decrepitation is continuously heated until the rate reaches its maximum out at about 350-450°C, D3 decrepitation can be observed in carbonates and is defined by the effect of an inversion of the mineral. Once decrepitation of a D4 mineral is reached it should reach completion within a few degrees, which is seen in the decrepitation of quartz. Decrepitation as a result of decomposition is known as D5 decrepitation, it is characterized by a sharp upwards rate, a definite peak, and a sharp downwards rate, this can be detected by comparing the peaks of various minerals within a rock.

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Angela Schijf is a Dutch actress. On 3 July 2002 she married the Belgian actor Tom Van Landuyt; together, they have 3 daughters. She is best known for playing Eva van Dongen in the Dutch TV-series Flikken Maastricht. She also performs the show Kreutzersonate als het verlangen maar stopt in theatres around the Netherlands and Belgium with her husband and 2 musicians.

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Clarence Forrest Burton (May 10, 1882  – December 2, 1933) was an American silent film actor.

Biography
Burton was born in Fort Lyon, in Benton County, Missouri and started in show business at the age of 5, playing stock and musical comedy in road productions. He was signed into films in late 1912 and starred in 132 films between 1913 and 1932.

By late 1920, Burton had become heavy enough to be considered unsuited for his typical villainous roles in films. A trainer supervised a program of exercise and diet until Burton had lost enough weight to be cast in the Paramount film The Jacklins.

He died of a heart attack in 1933 at the age of 51 in Hollywood, California. His interment was located at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, but was removed on September 6, 1950.

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Jumble is a British game show that aired on ITV from 12 March 1991 to 4 September 1992 and is hosted by Jeff Stevenson.

Gameplay
The game was played with two contestants each with a celebrity partner.

To start, a cartoon puzzle was revealed, along with its caption. Each puzzle had four words associated with it. The team in control decided amongst themselves, who will be the "yeller" and who will be the "speller". The yeller must unscramble a word within 15 seconds. The speller's job is to rearrange magnetic letters but cannot spell a word until the yeller correctly says it. A correct guess awards some money. If the team in control can't solve it, the opposing team is allowed to try. If both teams fail, the host places letters one at a time until one team gets it.

The letters appearing in the red spaces, like the circled letters in the newspaper version, are then brought over to the cartoon puzzle. They have a few seconds to guess the punny phrase. If they don't solve it, another word was played. But if they do solve it, the contestant wins bonus money.

Four puzzles were played, the first two were worth £25 and £10/word and the last two were worth £50 and £20/word. The team with the most money at the end of the game, goes to the bonus round for another £200.

In the bonus game, one final cartoon was revealed. This last puzzle had six jumbled words that relate directly to the cartoon. The winning team had 60 seconds to unscrambled & guess as many of those six words as they can. For each word correctly guessed, its key letters moved over to the cartoon. When the time was up or if all six words were guessed correctly, the team was given another 10 seconds to think of a solution and then, solve the puzzle. Solving the puzzle awarded another £200.

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René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (; 25 February 1714 – 29 July 1792) was a French lawyer, politician, and chancellor of France, whose attempts at reform signalled the failure of enlightened despotism in France.  He is best known for his effort to destroy the system of parlements, which were powerful regional courts, in 1770–74. When King Louis XV died in 1774, the parlements were restored and Maupeou lost power.

Early life
He was born in Montpellier to a family ennobled in the sixteenth century as noblesse de robe, the eldest son of René Charles de Maupeou (1688–1775), who was president of the parlement of Paris from 1743 to 1757.

In 1744 he married a rich heiress, Anne de Roncherolles (1725–1752), a cousin of Madame d'Épinay, the friend of Rousseau who moved in the circles of the Philosophes. Entering public life, he was his father's right hand in the conflicts between the parlement and Christophe de Beaumont, archbishop of Paris, who was supported by the court. Between 1763 and 1768, dates which cover the revision of the Calas case that Voltaire had championed and the trial of the comte de Lally, Maupeou was himself president of the parlement. In 1768, he became chancellor in succession to his father, who had held the office for twenty-four hours only, largely in order to permit him to retire with the prestigious title. With the disgrace of Choiseul, 24 December 1770, Maupeou was the chief minister.

He determined to support the royal authority against the parlement, the perennial block to reforms of the tax farming system or the privileges of the propertied classes, which in league with the provincial magistratures was seeking to arrogate to itself the functions of the states-general. He allied himself with the duc d'Aiguillon and the king's mistress Madame du Barry, and secured for a creature of his own, the Abbé Terray, the office of comptroller-general. The struggle erupted over the trial of the case of the duc d'Aiguillon, ex-governor of Brittany, and of La Chalotais, procureur-général of the province, who had been imprisoned by the governor for accusations against his administration.

When the parlement showed signs of hostility against Aiguillon, Maupeou read letters patent from Louis XV annulling the proceedings. Louis replied to remonstrances from the parlement by a lit de justice, in which he demanded the surrender of the procedural minutes. On 27 November 1770 appeared the Édit de règlement et de discipline, which was promulgated by the chancellor, forbidding the union of the various branches of the parlement and correspondence with the provincial magistratures. It also made a strike on the part of the parlement punishable by confiscation of goods, and forbade further obstruction to the registration of royal decrees after the royal reply had been given to a first remonstrance. This edict the magistrates refused to register, and it was registered in a lit de justice held at Versailles on 7 December, whereupon the parlement was suspended in its functions.

Coup
After five summonses to return to their duties, the magistrates were surprised individually on the night of 19 January 1771 by musketeers, who required them to sign yes or no to a further request to return. Thirty-eight magistrates gave an affirmative answer, but on the exile of their former colleagues by lettres de cachet, they retracted and were also exiled. Maupeou installed the council of state to administer justice pending the establishment of six superior courts in the provinces and of a new parlement in Paris, in which the magistrature would no longer be a hereditary prerogative but become salaried officials appointed by the Crown. The cour des aides was next suppressed. Maupeou proposed to make the judicial system more uniform throughout the country, which was a patchwork of local judicatures.

Voltaire praised this revolution, applauding the suppression of the old hereditary magistrature, but by the aristocrats and the noblesse de robe, Maupeou's policy was regarded as the triumph of tyranny. The remonstrances of the princes, of the nobles, and of the minor courts, were met by exile and suppression, but by the end of 1771, the new system of the parlements de Maupeou was established, and the Bar, which had offered a passive resistance, recommenced to plead. A renewed attempt was made to tax the privileged and exempted groups. But it was not merely the death of Louis XV in May 1774 that ruined the chancellor: Durand Echeverria characterized the dismissal of Maupeou as "the inevitable liquidation of an exhausted expedient".

Fall
The immediate restoration of the parlements by Louis XVI was followed by a renewal of the quarrels between the new king and the magistrature. Maupeou and Terray were replaced on 24 August 1774 by Miromesnil and then by Malesherbes, recalled from his exile in 1775 to be Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi, and by the economist Turgot. Maupeou is said to have remarked, "I had won for the king a case that has lasted three hundred years. He wishes to lose it again; he is the master of it."

Maupeou lived in retreat, still holding the office of Chancellor (abolished 1 July 1790) until his death at Thuit (Eure) in 1792, having lived to see the overthrow of the ancien régime. His work, in so far as it was directed towards the separation of the judicial and political functions and to the reform of the abuses attaching to a hereditary magistrature, was subsequently endorsed by the Revolution. He had aimed at securing absolute power for Louis XV, but his intrigues and the violence of his judicial actions were in reality a serious blow to the monarchy. "By pressing the issue of sovereignty to an ultimate confrontation in this way," remarks Keith Michael Baker of Maupeou's staffing his remodelled courts with men willing to exercise judicial functions within limits imposed by the royal will, "he undermined in practice exactly that belief in a constitutional middle ground between liberty and despotism that Guillaume-Joseph Saige had been concerned to deny in theory".

Issue
He had two sons:
René Ange Augustin de Maupeou (1746–1794), who became maître de camp of the .
Charles Victor René de Maupeou (1749–1789), who became maître des requêtes.

See also
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Further reading
 Bell, David A. "Lawyers into Demagogues: Chancellor Maupeou and the Transformation of Legal Practice in France 1771-1789." Past and Present (1991): 107–141. in JSTOR
 Doyle, William. "The Parlements of France and the Breakdown of the Old Regime 1771-1788." French Historical Studies (1970): 415-458 in JSTOR.
 Echeverria, Durand. The Maupeou Revolution: A Study in the History of Libertarianism, France, 1770-1774 (Louisiana State University Press, 1985)
 Jones, Colin. The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2003) pp 280–98
 Swann, Julian. Politics and the Parlement of Paris under Louis XV, 1754-1774 (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

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John George Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl,  (15 December 1871 – 16 March 1942), styled Marquess of Tullibardine until 1917, was a British soldier and Unionist politician.

Early life
Styled Marquess of Tullibardine from birth, he was born at Blair Castle, Perthshire, the second but eldest surviving son of John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl, by Louisa, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 7th Baronet. and was educated at Eton College. He learned to speak Gaelic before English. In "Working Partnership" his wife, The Duchess of Atholl, says that Tullibardine and all his siblings were brought up to speak Gaelic and were "extremely proficient" in it. He was President of An Comunn Gàidhealach, the national Gaelic Society, from 1898 until 1904.

Military career

Service in the Royal Horse Guards
He was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards with the rank of second lieutenant on 28 December 1892, and was promoted to lieutenant on 30 December 1893. He served in Kitchener's expedition to the Sudan, fighting at the Siege of Khartoum and the Battle of Atbara. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on 15 November 1898, and rose to the rank of captain a year later, on 20 November 1899.

Second Boer War
In 1900 he served as an aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General J. F. Burn-Murdoch, in command of a brigade of the Cavalry division stationed in Natal. In November 1900 he was given the rank of brevet major in the Royal Horse Guards, and asked by Lord Kitchener, whom he had served under on the Omdurman Campaign, to raise a regiment of Scotsmen in South Africa, called The Scottish Horse. The regiment was raised quickly and soon saw active service in the Western Transvaal. A second regiment of Scottish Horse was raised from troops recruited by The 7th Duke of Atholl and a permanent headquarters was set up to supply both of these regiments, with Atholl in command but with subordinate commanding officers in the field in charge of each of the Regiments. This success continued until the Scottish Horse was a whole brigade by the end of the Second Boer War. In August 1901 Lord Tullibardine received the local rank of lieutenant colonel in South Africa while commanding the Scottish Horse. He was mentioned in despatches by Lord Kitchener dated 23 June 1902. Following the end of the war in June 1902, Lord Tullibardine and most of the men of the Scottish Horse left Cape Town on the SS Goth in early August, and arrived at Southampton later the same month.

After his return to the United Kingdom, he was on 28 September 1902 received at Balmoral Castle by King Edward VII, who presented him with the Insignia of a Member (4th class) of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) for his services in South Africa. The following year he was promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army.

First World War
In the Great War Atholl commanded a Brigade of a Yeomanry Regiment and took them to fight dismounted (without horses) in the Dardanelles campaign against the Turks. He gained the rank of temporary brigadier general in 1918.

Further service
During the Second World War, despite being seventy years old, Atholl joined the Home Guard and reportedly took turns as sentry officer on duty in Whitehall. He remained closely involved with the Scottish Horse, remaining in the post of Colonel Commandant until 1919 and Honorary Colonel from 1920 until his death in 1942. He was key in establishing a Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle after the First World War and his papers relating to this are retained by the National Library of Scotland.

Political career
As Marquess of Tullibardine, Atholl was elected as Unionist Member of Parliament for West Perthshire at the January 1910 general election and served in the Commons until 1917, when he succeeded his father and took his seat in the House of Lords as the 8th Duke of Atholl. In 1918 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Thistle, and then served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland until 1920. In November 1921 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Lord Chamberlain of the Household by David Lloyd George, a post he held until the coalition government fell in October of the following year.

Apart from his military and political careers Atholl served as Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons between 1908 and 1913 and as an Aide-de-camp to King George V between 1920 and 1931. He was granted the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh. According to his wife's autobiography Working Partnership (1958), Atholl was considered a possible contender for the crown of Albania after a chance meeting with a delegation in Florence who were impressed with his personality.

Lottery
In 1932 Atholl came to national attention when he launched a lottery in an attempt to stop money going overseas to the Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes. The money this scheme raised was given to British charities, mainly hospitals, but in 1933 he was prosecuted by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Edward Hale Tindal Atkinson, for promoting an unlawful lottery. Despite this, Atholl's lottery activities were admired and seen by many British people as being patriotic.

Family life
While still Marquess of Tullibardine, Atholl married Katharine Ramsay, daughter of Sir James Ramsay, 10th Baronet, at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, on 20 July 1899. His wife went on to have a long political career in her own right in local government, in the House of Commons, and as a government minister. They had no children. Atholl died on 16 March 1942, aged 70, and was succeeded by his youngest brother, James Stewart-Murray. His widow, Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, died in October 1960, aged 85.

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The acetabular labrum (glenoidal labrum of the hip joint or cotyloid ligament in older texts) is a fibrocartilaginous ring which surrounds the circumference of the acetabulum of the hip, deepening the acetabulum. The labrum is attached onto the bony rim and transverse acetabular ligament. It is triangular in cross-section (with the apex represented by the free margin).

The labrum contributes to the articular surface of the joint (increasing it by almost 10%). It embraces the femoral head, holding it firmly in the joint socket to stabilise the joint. It thus also seals the joint cavity, facilitating even distribution of synovial fluid so that friction is reduced and dissolved nutrients are better distributed.

The anterior portion of the labrum is most susceptible to tears.

Acetabular labrum tear

Mechanisms of Injury

It is estimated that 75% of acetabular labrum tears have an unknown cause. Tears of the labrum have been credited to a variety of causes such as excessive force, hip dislocation, capsular hip hypermobility, hip dysplasia, and hip degeneration. A tight iliopsoas tendon has also been attributed to labrum tears by causing compression or traction injuries that eventually lead to a labrum tear. Most labrum tears are thought to be from gradual tear due to repetitive microtrauma. Incidents of labrum tears increase with age, suggesting that they may also be caused by deterioration through the aging process. Labrum tears in athletes can occur from a single event or recurring trauma. Running can cause labrum tears due to the labrum being used more for weight bearing and taking excessive forces while at the end-range motion of the leg: hyperabduction, hyperextension, hyperflexion, excessive external rotation. Sporting activities are likely causes, specifically those that require frequent lateral rotation or pivoting on a loaded femur as in hockey or ballet. Constant hip rotation places increased stress on the capsular tissue and damage to the iliofemoral ligament. This in turn causes hip rotational instability putting increased pressure on the labrum.

Traumatic injuries are most commonly seen in athletes who participate in contact or high impact sports like football, soccer, or golf.  The prevalence rate for traumatic hip injuries that causes a tear of the labrum is very low. Less than 25% of all patients can relate a specific incident to their torn labrum; however, they are often a result of a dislocation or fracture. Falling on one's side causes a blunt trauma to the greater trochanter of the femur. Since there is very little soft tissue to diminish the force between the impact and the greater trochanter, the entire blow is transferred to the surface of the hip joint. And since bone density does not reach its peak until the age of 30, hip traumas could result in a fracture. Tears of the hip labrum can be classified in a variety of ways, including morphology, etiology, location, or severity.

Anatomical modifications of the femur and or hip socket cause a slow buildup of damage to the cartilage. Femur or acetabular dysplasia can lead to femoral acetabular impingement (FAI). Impingement occurs when the femoral head rubs abnormally or lacks a full range of motion in the acetabular socket. There are three different forms of FAI. The first form is caused by a cam-deformity where extra bone is present on the femoral head, which leads to the head being non-spherical. The second deformity is referred to as a pincer deformity and it is due to an excess growth of the acetabular socket. The third type of FAI is a combination of the first two deformities. When either abnormality is present, it changes the position that the femoral head occupies in the hip socket. The increased stresses that the femur and or acetabulum experience may lead to a fracture of the acetabular rim or a detachment of the overstressed labrum.

Diagnosis
A acetabular labrum tear is assessed by physical examination followed by medical imaging. An MR arthrogram is more reliable than magnetic resonance imaging. A full confirmation can be done by arthroscopy.

Epidemiology
In the United States acetabular labrum tears usually occur in the anterior or anterior-superior area, possibly due to a sudden change from labrum to acetabular cartilage. The most common labrum tears in Japan are in the posterior region, likely due to the customary practice of sitting on the floor. Posterior labrum tears in the Western world usually occur when a force drives the femoral head posteriorly which transfers shear and compressive forces to the posterior labrum.

Rehabilitation
With physical therapy, there is only a small amount of evidence on rehabilitation techniques for the acetabular labrum. It is even thought that physical therapy could be controversial due to there not being any evidence of a specific effective therapy routine.
There are, however, some studies that report physical therapy could benefit the patient by bringing them back to "sports-ready" capabilities. It is advised that physical therapists keep up on the new findings and stay in close contact with the orthopaedic surgeon so they have the best idea of how to approach their patient's case. Following surgery, crutches will be used for up to six weeks and there should be no expectation to return to activities such as running for at least a period of six months.

Some things to note when rehabilitation occurs is that it is important to know the size and placement of the tear. There are usually four phases in the rehabilitation process noted as: "Phase I: initial exercises (weeks 1–4), Phase II: intermediate exercises (weeks 5–7), Phase III: advanced exercises (weeks 8–12), and Phase IV: return to sports (weeks 12+)".
All physical therapy regimens should be individualized from person to person based on all adequate criteria

In phase I of the rehabilitation process the first objective is to minimize the pain and inflammation. It is important to begin conducting small motion exercises that have up to 50% weight bearing capacity by the patient. A symmetrical gait pattern is imperative as not to create an imbalance in the muscles of the hip. Aquatic therapy is highly encouraged and looked upon due to its ability to help the patient move more freely without the pressure of gravity. To progress to phase II of the rehabilitation process patients should be able to complete straight leg raises while lying on their side to strengthen the sartorius and tensor fasciate latae muscles to build support in the leg.

In phase II the physical therapist should be trying to promote more flexibility in the soft tissue. There should be more emphasis on the beginning aspects of strength training while adding some resistance over time. In order to progress to phase III, the patient should be able to demonstrate a normal gait pattern and minimal pain with exercises like the single leg bridging to help strengthen the hamstring muscles to help with leg equality.

In phase III the focus is to begin building functional strength. Movements should include single leg exercises to build the muscle and challenge the strength of the hip.

In order to progress to phase IV the flexibility of the patient should be adequate. Phase IV is the final stage in which the physical therapist would assess and prescribe any further exercise up until the patient is ready to return to the sport. Usually the therapist would start using complex movements like squatting, kicking, and running. The therapist would look for symmetrical movements on both sides of the body without pain. If the patient demonstrates the symmetrical movements without pain, the physical therapist would use their discretion for the patient's clearance. Some things to avoid from while rehabilitating are sitting with "knees lower than the hips, legs crossed where hip is rotated, and sitting on the edge of the seat and contracting the hip flexor muscles."

Prevention
Hip labrum tear can occur in a variety of ways such as frequent twisting movement,
direct trauma, or degeneration. Despite the many different possibilities, a large percentage
of hip labral tears are not directly related to any specific action, making it difficult to
prevent such an injury. But it may be possible to lower the risk by strengthening the gluteus,
stretching before exercise, and discontinued use of repetitive twisting activities.

One way to prevent a hip labrum tear is to decrease the pressure on the anterior region.
The labrum is about 2 to 3 mm thick but is wider and thinner in the anterior portion. Studies have found that in the United States and European countries, hip labral tears are commonly found in the anterior region. Muscular imbalance of the pelvis can develop lower crossed
syndrome. It is caused by tight hip flexors and erector spinae with inhibited weak gluteals and
abdominals. Imbalance of the muscles can lead to an anterior pelvic tilt, increased hip
flexion, and lumbar hyperlordosis of the lumbar spine. This increases the pressure in the anterior
labrum. Weak gluteals during hip extension has also shown increased joint pressure in the
anterior labrum. To prevent a hip labrum tear, you will have to strengthen muscles or
stretch tight muscles that might cause any muscular imbalance. A great exercise to strengthen
the gluteus is the side lying hip abduction. You will be lying on your side with your legs on top of each other. You will raise the top leg up while keeping the knee and hip straight. This exercise
targets the gluteus medius and is effective especially in those with an anterior pelvic tilt. To stretch a tight hip flexor, you can do the kneeling hip flexor stretch that targets
the iliopsoas. These exercises are a great way to strengthen and stabilize the pelvis
and hip joint to prevent a hip labrum tear.

Stretching before exercise will affect the cartilage through "creep". It will place a
constant load on the labrum, allowing fluid the leak out and deform to the applied load. This is
significant for the viscoelasticity of the labrum. The hip labrum acts as a shock absorber, joint
lubricator, stabilizer and pressure distributor. With this essential warm up, it is possible for it
to be better prepared to prevent a hip labrum tear. Body weight squats are a great example of
stretching and warming up the body to induce creep before exercise.

See also
Glenoid labrum

References

Ligaments of the lower limb

Acetabular labrum


Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour is the third game in the Mario Golf series. It is the second home console instalment. The game was released for the Nintendo GameCube. This is the home console counterpart to Mario Golf: Advance Tour on the Game Boy Advance. It also earned the Player's Choice rating, being re-released in North America in 2004 and Australia in 2005.

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Jack Albert Youngerman (March 25, 1926 – February 19, 2020) was an American artist known for his constructions and paintings.

Biography
Jack Youngerman was born in 1926 in Webster Groves, Missouri, moving to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929 with his family. He studied art at the University of North Carolina from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program, and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1947. In the fall of 1947, Youngerman moved to Paris on a G.I. Scholarship; he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he studied with Jean Souverbie. He traveled to the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Greece, to visit art museums and historic sites. In 1948, he formed a lifelong friendship with Ellsworth Kelly and also met Eduardo Paolozzi and César, each fellow students at Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Career
In 1950, Youngerman had his first group exhibition, Les Mains eblouies at Galerie Maeght in Paris, which also included Pierre Alechinsky, Eduardo Chillida and Corneille. He visited the studios of Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp with Kelly, and found himself influenced by their sense of organic form. He met Alexander Calder through his father-in-law, Henri Seyrig, a renowned archaeologist and cultural attache to the Free French delegation to the United States. During this time he became interested in the resurgence of geometric abstraction in Paris, especially in exhibitions such as Salon des Réalités Nouvelles which included Max Bill, Auguste Herbin and Richard Lohse. Youngerman also visited the Salon de Mai to see the most current work of the School of Paris artists, among them such masters as Henri Matisse. Youngerman's exposure to the contemporary art in post-war France was critical to his development; he introduced aspects of geometric abstraction and Constructivism into his painting.

In 1951 he mounted his first one-person exhibition at Galerie Arnaud in Paris. During this time he met the French artist, Francois Morellet, with whom he developed a life-long friendship. A few years later he travelled to visit Henri Seyrig in Beirut, then Director of Institut Francais d'Archeologie. In 1954 Youngerman was commissioned by the architect Michel Ecochard to create a color design for the College Protestant Français in Beirut.

In 1956 he designed sets for the French actor and director, Jean-Louis Barrault's production of Georges Schehaed's Histoire de Vasco. The American art dealer Betty Parsons visited Youngerman's Paris studio that summer, where she encouraged him to move to New York City.

In December 1956, he returned to the U.S. with his wife, Delphine Seyrig, and son; they rented a space in lower Manhattan's Coenties Slip, an area of largely abandoned loft buildings that would become a legendary artists' colony. There his friends and neighbors included Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Youngerman's first one-person show at Betty Parsons Gallery marked his 1958 New York City debut. His development was unique among his peers, with elemental forms and fluid contours that marked his canvasses through the 1950s with imagery often emanating from a central core. Early in his growth the forms were organic; sometimes botanical in nature. He worked in thick black pigment as if it resided within the color spectrum.

His career continued its ascent with exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. In 1959, Youngerman was featured alongside Johns, Frank Stella, and Kelly in Sixteen Americans, a landmark exhibition curated by Dorothy Miller at the Museum of Modern Art. Between 1961 and 1968, Youngerman exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Galerie Lawrence in Paris, Galleria dell'Arte in Milan, Everett Ellin Gallery in Los Angeles, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. In 1968, he established a studio in Bridgehampton, New York, settling there full-time in 1995.

In 2019, Youngerman premiered a body of work titled "Cut-Ups" at Washburn Gallery in New York City. His final exhibition, Jack Youngerman, "Works on Paper," 1954 - 2019, took place at The Drawing Room in East Hampton, NY.

Recognition
Jack Youngerman was the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the National Council of Arts and Sciences, United States / Japan Exchange Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, National Academy of Design, the American Academy in Rome, Guild Hall Museum Lifetime Achievement Award, the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, and the Lee Krasner Award/Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Personal life
In 1950, Youngerman married the French actress Delphine Seyrig (1932–1990).

Youngerman died of complications from a fall in Stony Brook, New York on February 19, 2020, at the age of 93. He is survived by wife, Hilary Helfant, son Duncan (and partner Sunniva), and grandchildren Selina, Dylan, Marlon, and Errol.

Frank Stella said of his friend Youngerman, "I miss Jack and I miss the enthusiasm and touch that made his paintings so striking. It was as though beauty was imprinted into the canvas of our time." February 20, 2020

Public collections
Youngerman's art is represented in public and private collections across the globe, including:
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building, Portland, OR
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, NY
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Reynolds Metals Corporation, Richmond, VA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
 1981- Washburn Gallery, New York
 1986- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
 2019 - "Cut-Ups, "Washburn Gallery, New York
 2019 - "Works on Paper," 1954 - 2019, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, New York

References

External links

 Jack Youngerman fine art prices, auction results, auction images
Jack Youngerman in the permanent collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
Jack Youngerman in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Jack Youngerman in the permanent collection at the McNay Art Museum

1926 births
2020 deaths
20th-century American painters
20th-century American male artists
American male painters
21st-century American painters
21st-century American male artists
Artists from Louisville, Kentucky
Painters from Kentucky
People from Webster Groves, Missouri
Painters from Missouri
University of Missouri alumni
United States Navy personnel of World War II

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Ángel María Carracedo Álvarez (also known as Anxo Carracedo,; born in Santa Comba, Galicia on November 12, 1955) is a Professor of Forensic Medicine and an international expert in genetics .

Trajectory
He holds a degree in Medicine from the University of Santiago de Compostela (1978) and a Doctorate in Medicine from the same USC (1982), both with an extraordinary award.

Professor of Forensic Medicine since 1989 and Director of the USC Institute of Forensic Medicine (from 1994 to 2012). Director of the Galician Public Foundation for Genomic Medicine (SERGAS-Xunta de Galicia) (since 1999), Director of the National Center for Genotyping-ISCIII (since 2002). Group leader of the CIBER of rare diseases (CIBERER) and of the Institute of Sanitary Investigation of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS). The Genomic Medicine group he coordinates consists of 10 research groups, several technology platforms and about 100 people working there.

He has published 12 books and more than 600 articles in international journals (SCI), including articles in Nature, Science, NatureGenetics, as well as major journals in medical genetics, cancer, and forensic medicine. According to Thomson Reuters (Web of Knowledge) the Genomic Medicine Group he leads is the first in the world in citations in the field of Forensic Medicine in the 2001-2011 decade, and he is the author with more articles, more citations and more H-index in the area. Her current lines of research include the genetics of childhood cancer and psychiatric illness, and pharmacogenomics.

President of the International Society for Forensic Genetics. Co-director of the Molecular Medicine Unit Inco Sergas, he is the author of several books and hundreds of publications. Vice President of the International Academy of Forensic Medicine, member of the European DNA Group and the DNA Commission of the United States Justice Commission, coordinator of the European DNA Standardization Network and the Ibero-American Molecular Genetics Network for Forensic Medicine .

He currently coordinates research with teaching work. He is Professor of Forensic Medicine, Medical Ethics and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Santiago de Compostela.  He was chosen as the sponsor of the 2000/2001 and 2011/2012 promotions of the Degree in Medicine due to his great proximity to students. In 2013, he joined the Galician Academy of Pharmacy as a full member.

Awards

 2006, Castelao Medal
 2009, King James I Prize for Medical Research
 2010, Galien Medal (known as the Nobel Prize in Medicine).
 2011, Medal of Galicia
 2011, Fernández Latorre Award
 2011, Adelaide Medal (the most relevant award in forensic medicine).
 2015, Spanish National Genetics Award
 2015, Lois Peña Novo Award
 2019, Trajectory Award
 Other awards: Prismas de Divulgación award, Galicia Research Award, the Novoa Santos Award, etc.

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, whose full name is , is a fictional character from the manga Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura. Askeladd, the leader of a band of a hundred Vikings, bargains with Jomsviking commander Floki to kill the deserting warrior Thors. After a fierce swordfight, Thors defeats Askeladd but surrenders to save his son, the protagonist Thorfinn, and his villagers. After seeing his father's death, Thorfinn swears revenge against Askeladd, who recruits him into his group despite knowing his intentions.

The character was created by Yukimura to serve as a mentor to the inexperienced Thorfinn, despite both of them being enemies. Yukimura wrote him carefully until his last scene, which he calculated by writing his personality. In the end, the author was confused by how the character was written, as he felt the character became another father figure to Thorfinn, especially in his last moments. In Japanese, the character is voiced by Naoya Uchida, while David Wald and Kirk Thornton voice him in two separate English dubs.

Critical response to Askeladd was generally positive for being a striking villain and his relationship with Thorfinn. He was also listed as one of the best anime characters of 2019. Although Askeladd does not appear in the second arc, critics noticed the effect he had on Thorfinn, who tries to move through a different path than Askeladd's.

Creation
Askeladd shares the name of Askeladden, a Norwegian folk character known for his cleverness. His backstory is based on the early life of Olaf the Peacock, an Icelandic chieftain and major character of the Laxdæla saga. Manga author Makoto Yukimura commented that while most Vinland Saga characters were made to assist the protagonist Thorfinn, Askeladd was an exception. Because Thorfinn was inexperienced during the series' beginning, Askeladd was written to be a mentor figure who would lead him in the first story arc. He said that his relationship with Thorfinn was that of a father and son, respectively, as well as of enemies. The more the manga author wrote about these two characters, the more ambiguous it became, as he could not tell whether Askeladd was a good person or a hateful one. Askeladd had several contradictions, but he felt he was interesting like this. Yukimura early considered Askeladd a rudderless, disobedient habit that does its job and has some interesting behavior. Since the series is based on Vikings, Yukimura went to Norway and Scandinavia in 2003 to conduct research on Vikings. He was able to see the Oseberg Ship, which he says is the most beautiful ship he has ever seen, which Askeladd's forces use.

Despite Askeladd's ruthless and violent character, Yukimura felt that he was still appealing. The author believes that Askeladd tends to escape from battles he cannot win and thus was out of character when acting desperate in front of Torgrim. His ideal of having more power is the greatest turning point for him. This led to the idea of Askeladd joining forces with Prince Canute to take over Sweyn's forces while manipulating the future King. Askeladd's last yell towards Thorfinn, when he kills Sweyn and pretends to be insane, was written at the last moment. Yukimura felt that Askeladd would show more humanity towards Thorfinn in his last moments when writing the chapter. Yukimura sees Askeladd as Thorfinn's second father, even though his personality is cold and inspires him to become violent. These father-and-son relationships are common in Vinland Saga, and they were all written from Yukimura's experience as a father.

For the anime adaptation, Studio Wit said there was a strong sense of camaraderie toward an individual, Askeladd, that brought the Vikings together. They portrayed Askeladd as being able to take charge because others viewed him as powerful. They were also careful not to depict the supporting characters as overly dependent on their leader, as that would diminish their charm. The anime also added new scenes about how Thorfinn turned into one of Askeladd's soldiers rather than just making a time-skip, which the manga artist appreciated. The director claimed that for these anime-original scenes, they also tried to keep Askeladd in character. He further said that the story about Askeladd's forces was entertaining to see.

Yukimura claimed that due to the Vikings being famous for committing violent deeds, he decided to write a story where Askeladd's group murders an innocent Christian family in order to generate a major shock within the readers. "In that world, Christians work hard with fear every day to get to heaven someday, but when they see Askeladd destroy their common sense in such a way, Anne feels guilty for feeling a certain admiration for it." Askeladd's deeds were also meant to shock the only surviving woman, who wonders whether the God she prays to is real. Askeladd's violence is also motivated by survival, and thus he kills people for the sake of it. This was also done because Yukimura wanted the character to be seen more as a villain.

Casting
Naoya Uchida received an offer from the studio to voice Askeladd. He was asked not to read the original manga during the recording of the series. Despite Thorfinn's role, Uchida said his character has always been at the center of the story, and he was able to focus on the role and felt it was comfortable to play. At first, it was difficult to grasp the image of the character, but as he acted, he was made to feel the human way of life that is moved by the past and changes occur again depending on the reality in front of him. In the recording of the series, Uchida met Hiroki Yasumoto, who played Bjorn, Askeladd's subordinate. He was impressed by Yuto Uemura and Matsuda's recording due to the focus they tend to give Askeladd. In his first appearance, the scene was Askeladd's voice from 10 years ago, so Uchida exchanged opinions with the director and adjusted it between three and four times. Following the series' first time-skip, Uchida had a change of mind in regard to his character due to the flashback that depicts his past.

David Wald played the character in the Sentai Filmworks dub, while Kirk Thornton voiced him in the Netflix dub. The ADR director of the Sentai dub, Kyle Colby Jones, said Askeladd was going to be Wald because he has "that perfect temperament to be an outright bastard but still likeable".

Appearances
Askeladd is the commander of a small but powerful Viking band, which owed its success to Askeladd's exceptional intelligence. He is half-Danish and half-Welsh, being the son of a Welsh princess captured by a Viking raider. In his introduction, Askeladd gives missions to the series' protagonist, Thorfinn, rewarding him with duels, in which Thorfinn consistently tries to kill him and avenge his father, Thors. The relationship between Askeladd and Thorfinn is seen in a flashback where Askleadd is ordered to kill the latter's father, Thors. Despite being defeated by Thors, Askeladd accomplishes his mission by taking his soldiers hostage. The young Thorfinn would keep chasing Askeladd for a decade, hoping he would accomplish revenge for his father's death. During the Viking invasion and war in England, he manipulates Thorfinn's desire for revenge against him as a way of keeping the gifted young fighter in his service and has him rescue Prince Canute from the Viking Thorkell.

When Askeladd's soldiers betray him for their safety against Thorkell's soldiers, Thorfinn comes to Askeladd's aid. With Askeladd's aid, Thorfinn manages to defeat Thorkell in one-on-one combat. Thorkell makes peace with Askeladd, who decides to take down King of Denmark Sweyn Forkbeard with the aid of his son, Canute. Askeladd's soldiers leave him, with his second-in-command, Bjorn, dying in a last duel. In his next duel with Thorfinn, Askeladd reveals he is the son of the Viking Olaf and a slave woman whom he treated badly. His mother gave him the name Lucius Artorius Castus, the legitimate king of Britain, but he received the nickname Askeladd (covered in ash) as a boy while working for a blacksmith. Askleadd believes in the legend of Avalon, which inspired him to support Prince Canute's bid for the kingship of the Danes and ultimately sacrifice himself by assassinating King Sweyn in order to install Canute as the Danish King and to ensure the safety of Wales from Denmark. After this, Askeladd defeats Thorfinn and moves on with his plans. Askeladd kills King Sweyn while feigning madness and let Canute be the one to reign the country instead. Thorfinn chases after him which distracts the Viking who is stabbed by Canute in the process. In his last moments, an angered Thorfinn shouts at Askeladd to recover and fight again like promised, but Askeladd dies, telling Thorfinn to become a true warrior.

Despite Askeladd's death, the character continuously appears in Thorfinn's nightmares, which haunt the path he chose after Thors' death. However, upon deciding to bring peace to his friends and family, Thorfinn has a hallucination of Askeladd and Thors when talking with one of his mentors, Leif Erikson. Thorfinn smiles and refers to the three as his fathers.

Reception
Critical response to Askeladd was generally positive. Anime News Network listed Askeladd as one of the best characters of 2019 for his striking personality despite his violent actions. In the Anime UK News Readers Choice Awards, he was a runner-up in "Best Character", losing to Senku Ishigami from Dr. Stone. Rebecca Silverman for Anime News Network praised the design of Askeladd for how appealing he is: "He practically oozes underhanded nastiness without being drawn as an exaggerated farce of a man". He was also a nominee for best villain in the 4th Crunchyroll Anime Awards. Having called Thorfinn's initial characterization in the series flat, the same site also went to call Askeladd and Canute more notable protagonists in the first arc of the Vinland Saga than Thorfinn himself. Despite calling him a villain that "steals every scene" he is featured in, Anime News Network noticed that Askeladd granted Bjorn's last wish of having a warrior's death, something commonly known in Norse culture. Askeladd's humanity is further explored through his relationship with his underling Bjorn, whom he kills in combat after he suffers a major wound but gives him a dignified death fitting of what Vikings want to experience. In The European Middle Ages through the prism of Contemporary Japanese Literature, Maximen Denise from the University of Tours noted that the main motivation featured in the manga also explores his desire to have power similar to "those who desperately struggle to find their homelands in the 21st century 'medieval' Japan". Den of Geek said that while Askeladd committed several crimes in the story to the point of being portrayed as a psychopath, there are several actions he takes, like protecting Canute or his usage of Thorfinn across a decade, as a surprising difference that makes the character feel less antagonistic and instead heroic. Comic Book Resources listed him as a character who needs a spin-off based on the backstory briefly shown in the series. According to Ashley D. Lake from UC Riverside, Thorkell, Thorfinn, and Askeladd are described as war veterans who seek Thors' answer to what makes them true warriors. However, due to Thors' death and Thorfinn never being properly raised by his father, the three characters never understood his ideal.

There was also a comparison between Askeladd's relationships. Polygon compared Thorfinn to The Northman's protagonists due to their similar quests for revenge and how both are based on historical figures. Polygon further praised the relationship between Thorfinn and Askeladd, as the former sees him as both his biggest enemy and a father figure at the same time due to the time they spend together. Otaku USA enjoyed the concept of Askeladd and Thorfinn due to how they become enemies due to the latter's thirst for revenge and how they become allies at the same moment. UK Anime Network found him enjoyable due to how he takes Thorfinn and, more importantly, Canute, which makes a major change in the narrative. The Escapist Magazine said Askeladd appeared to share several parallels with Thorfinn and Canute in the anime's first season as the three of them seek revenge against their parents, and the narrative instead shows that none of them gain anything from such an act. While Askeladd already had a vendetta against King Olaf, he lost his sanity after being tested by King Sweyne, leading to his ultimate death in revenge. Askeladd's death was praised for the impact he makes on Thorfinn, as the dying warrior sees his subordinate in a sympathetic form during his last moments. Anime News Network highlighted how carefully planned Askeladd was. He accepted his death when provoked by the King and decided to kill him regardless of the cost. As a result, the reviewer said that, "To put it bluntly, Askeladd's death scene is probably the single best moment of the series" due to the impact it has on Canute and Thorfinn.

Golden Kamuy artist Satoru Noda said Askeladd is his favorite character from Vinland Saga, as he exudes Yukimura's personality the most. He also stated that he liked skilled professionals like the Ear, but even when he thought that he was good, he laughed when seeing his cruel, merciless eyes. In response, Yukimura was glad by the answer and said the character became ambiguous even to himself. Hajime Isayama, the creator of Attack on Titan, was surprised by Askeladd's death, most specifically by how Wit Studio animated it in the season finale. Thorkell's Japanese voice actor, Akio Otsuka, also praised Naoya Uchiha's performance as Askeladd.

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Pati Kremer (1867–1943) was a Russian revolutionary socialist and pioneer of the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Bund). She was the wife of Arkadi Kremer.

Biography

Pati Kremer was born Matla Srednicki on 2 January 1867 in Vilna. She was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. In the 1880s she moved to St. Petersburg to study dentistry and there became involved with revolutionary political circles. She was also active in educational and literacy projects for workers. In 1889 she was arrested for the first time. Upon her release, she returned to Vilna, where she became a leading member and organizer of the Jewish Social-Democratic circle known as the 'Vilna Group', together with John Mill (1870–1952) and Arkadi Kremer (1865–1935). Pati and Arkadi were subsequently married.

The Vilna Group was one of the precursors of the Bund and of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (RSDRP). Pati Kremer was arrested again in September 1897 and banished to Mogilev. There she resumed her activities on behalf of the Bund, working with other political exiles and local workers. In 1898 she secretly attended the second congress of the Bund in Kovno. In 1902, she and Arkadi (who had been arrested in 1898) escaped abroad, making their way to Britain, the US, Switzerland and France. They mostly remained in France until 1921, becoming French citizens and working with the French Socialist Party as well as the Bund.

In 1921, the Kremers returned to Vilna, where Arkadi became chairman of the local branch of the Bund. Pati Kremer worked as editor and translator in the publishing house of Boris Kletskin (1875–1937), a Bundist. In 1935, her husband died, and she began work on a commemorative volume eventually published in New York in 1942. During the German occupation of Vilna in the Second World War she became a leading figure in the city's Jewish ghetto, organizing and maintaining secret Yiddish libraries and clandestine meetings of the Bund. When the ghetto was razed by the Germans in September 1943, Pati Kremer was among the many victims who were rounded up, transported to the Sobibor extermination camp and murdered.

Sources
 Pickhan, G., 'Pati Kremer.' In: Hyman, P.E. (ed.), Jewish Women. A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jerusalem, 2006.  Online at: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kremer-pati.
 Jacobs, J., 'Bund.' In: Hypan, P.E. op. cit.  Online at: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bund.
 Frankel, J., Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862–1917. Cambridge, 1981.

1867 births
1943 deaths
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Mensheviks
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members
Revolutionaries from the Russian Empire
Russian Jews
Russian socialists
Jewish socialists
Politicians from Vilnius
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France
Soviet people who died in Sobibor extermination camp
Soviet civilians killed in World War II
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Paynes Creek Historic State Park is a Florida State Park located on Lake Branch Road one-half mile southeast of Bowling Green, Florida. On November 21, 1978, it was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places, under the title of  Payne's Creek Massacre-Fort Chokonikla Site (also known as "site of Chokonikla blockhouse and bridge" or "Military cemetery").

History

After the Second Seminole War
When the Second Seminole War ended in 1842, the federal Armed Occupation Act was passed. It let Seminole War veterans apply for a  homestead in Florida.

At the same time, a reservation was created for the Seminoles in southwest Florida. Their ability to trade was limited by the government, so as to prevent them from obtaining weapons to cause further conflict. To compensate, white-run trading stores were permitted on the reservation's outskirts to the north and west, letting the Indians obtain supplies and luxuries unavailable within the reservation.

Many of the trading posts were built by Kennedy and Darling, two army sutlers from Fort Brooke who had started their own trading company. One such was constructed in the late 1840s along the Charlo-popka-hatchee-chee (Little Trout-Eating Creek in Seminole), west of Peas Creek (later known as the Peace River), near present-day Bowling Green. The proprietors were Capt. George Payne and Dempsey Whidden.

The massacre
Ignoring the terms of the treaty with the Seminoles, settlers moved southward, encroaching on the reservation. Though Billy Bowlegs, one of their leaders, was reconciled to the state of affairs, others of his people were not so compliant.

On July 17, 1849, Payne and Whidden were killed by five renegade Seminoles, following which the store and everything in it was burned.

Fort Chokonikla

The attack on the trading post caused many of the settlers to flee to the nearest fort, then ask for military forces to be sent so they could return to their homes in safety. This led to the establishment of Fort Chokonikla near the site of the former trading post only three months later, on October 26. The fort's name is believed to derive from the Seminole "Chocka-nickler" meaning "burnt store". It was also variously spelled at the time as "Chokkonickla" or "Chokhonikla".

Following the fort's completion, the nearby creek became known as Paynes Creek, which it is still called to this day.

However, due to its location near a swamp, a breeding site for mosquitos, many of those stationed at the fort contracted and died of malaria. This became such a problem that the fort's doctor recommended the fort's closure. The army quickly agreed, and the fort was vacated on July 18, 1850, after less than nine months of occupancy, and a year and a day after Payne and Whidden's deaths.

Recreational activities
Activities include canoeing, kayaking, fishing, geocaching, and bird and butterfly watching. Amenities include a number of historic sites, three picnic pavilions, and a museum at the visitor's center that recreates pioneer life.

Hours
Florida state parks are open between 8 am and sundown every day of the year (including holidays).

References

External links

 Paynes Creek Historic State Park at Florida State Parks
 Paynes Creek State Historic Site at Absolutely Florida
 Hardee County listings at National Register of Historic Places
 Hardee County listings at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
 Fort Chokonikla at Ghost Towns and History of the American West
 Fort Chokonikla at Cracker Barrel – Genealogy & History By Spessard Stone
 Allen C. Altvater webpage
 The Massacre at Payne's Creek
 Chokonikla

State parks of Florida
Chokonikla
Parks in Hardee County, Florida
Seminole Wars
Ghost towns in Florida
Museums in Hardee County, Florida
History museums in Florida
Pre-statehood history of Florida
Protected areas established in 1978
Florida Native American Heritage Trail
Former populated places in Hardee County, Florida
National Register of Historic Places in Hardee County, Florida
Conflict sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
1978 establishments in Florida

Paynes Creek Historic State Park


James Victor Gbeho (born 12 January 1935, in Keta, Ghana) is a  Ghanaian lawyer and diplomat who was President of the ECOWAS Commission from 2010 to 2012, to which position he was unanimously elected at the 37th Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the 15 Member States.

He was Ghana's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2001, under President Jerry Rawlings, and he was the Member of Parliament for the Anlo constituency from January 2001 to January 2005.

He was subsequently a foreign policy advisor to the government of President John Atta Mills.

Before his retirement as a career diplomat and politician, Gbeho worked in the Ghana Foreign and Commonwealth Service and served in various capacities at Ghana's diplomatic missions abroad. His postings included the Ghana missions in China, India, Nigeria, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland.

Gbeho was Deputy High Commissioner to the Court of St. James's (UK) from 1972 until 1976, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the European offices of the United Nations in Geneva (1978–80), with concurrent accreditation to UNIDO in Vienna, Austria, and was Ghana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City from 1980 to 1990, concurrently accredited to Cuba, Jamaica, and to Trinidad and Tobago.

In July 1994, the UN Secretary-General appointed him as special representative to Somalia. In September 1995 Jerry Rawlings, as chairman of ECOWAS, appointed Gbeho as ECOWAS special representative for Liberia.

Education
Educated at Achimota School, he is the son of Philip Gbeho, arranger of the national anthem of Ghana, and the uncle of journalist Komla Dumor.

Politics
Victor Gbeho was the member of parliament of the Anlo constituency in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana as an independent candidate.

Elections
He was elected as the member of parliament for the Anlo constituency in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections, for which he was an independent candidate. His constituency was the second independent candidate to win the said election in the Volta Region.

Gbeho was elected with 19,083 votes out of 28,156 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 68.2% of the total valid votes cast.

He was elected over Clend M. Kwasi Sowu of the National Democratic Congress, Esther llan A. Nyamalor an independent candidate, Godwin Kwaku Defeamekpor of the New Patriotic Party, Clemence Kwami Abotsi of the Convention People's Party, Cornelius Kofi Binewoatsor of the National Reformed Party, Prince Richard Abotsi of the United Ghana Movement, and independent candidate Goyimwole Enukomeko Kpodo. These obtained 4,223, 3,800, 327, 249, 162, 118 and 0 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast. These were equivalent to 15.1%, 13.6%, 1.2%, 0.9%, 0.6% and 0.4% respectively of total valid votes cast.

References

External links
African Green Revolution Forum

1935 births
Living people
Alumni of Achimota School
Ewe people
Foreign ministers of Ghana
Gbeho family
Ghanaian Roman Catholics
Ghanaian civil servants
Ghanaian diplomats
Ghanaian MPs 2001–2005
High Commissioners of Ghana to the United Kingdom
National Democratic Congress (Ghana) politicians
People from Volta Region
Permanent Representatives of Ghana to the United Nations

James Victor Gbeho


América González is a Venezuelan fashion model.

Career
As a medical student at the Central University of Venezuela, González was convinced by her sister to participate in a local casting. Although shy in front of the cameras, there she met the stylist Tata Hellmund. An agent from Spain who was visiting Venezuela decided to take her to Europe because of her potential. She debuted in Milan walking for Angel Chen and walked for Dries van Noten in her first season. She was scheduled to go to a casting for Dior but missed it due to a train delay, although she was ultimately able to walk for the brand appearing in its A/W 2022 show. She walked 30 shows that season including for Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors, The Row, and Fendi.

Vogue chose her as one of the 10 breakout models of the S/S 2022 runway season. In addition to editorials for Vogue, and its international editions she has appeared in i-D, and on the cover of Vogue Mexico.

References

Living people
1995 births
Venezuelan female models
Models from Caracas
Central University of Venezuela alumni

América González


is a yaoi manga series by Toko Kawai published by Biblos and licensed by Digital Manga Publishing.

Plot
Surfer dude Houryu and shy intellectual Shouin are very much in love. Their days together are filled with happiness, but when Shouin's French tutor - a handsome and openly gay man named Nanami - makes his affection for Shouin known, doubts begin to surface between the couple. Houryu begins to believe Nanami's theory that Houryu is at heart a straight man and will turn to a woman when his experimentation period with Shouin is over.

References

Further reading

External links
 YaoiSuki: Our Everlasting Review

2000 manga
Yaoi anime and manga
Digital Manga Publishing titles

Our Everlasting


Benson Idonije (born 13 June 1936) is a Nigerian broadcaster and music critic popularly known for being the first band manager of Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti. Regarded as one of Nigeria's most revered music critics, he was part of the pioneering group of broadcasters who started Radio Nigeria 2 (now Metro FM) in 1977.

Early life and education
Idonije was born in Otuo, with his family house at ighera, one of the twelve quarters of Otuo, a town in Owan East local government area of Edo State, Nigeria, where he began his early education. He completed his secondary school education at Holy Trinity Grammar School, Sabongida Ora, where he obtained a Cambridge School Certificate before proceeding to Yaba College of Technology where he studied Communications Engineering.

Career
Idonije started writing about jazz-related articles and columns for several newspapers including the Morning Post Newspaper in 1953. In 1957, he began his career as an Engineering Assistant at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (now Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria) before he moved into mainstream broadcasting in 1960, presenting and anchoring popular on-air programmes such as The Big Beat and Stereo Jazz Club. Prior to his retirement from broadcasting in 1992, he was once appointed as the Principal Lecturer and Training Officer of the FRCN Training School for eight years. Upon his retirement, he began to write and contribute critiques, opinions and articles to several art-related media houses in Nigeria before he got a job as a writer for The Guardian in 1996 where he wrote columns including "Evergreen", "Sound and Screen" and "All That Jazz".

Recognitions
In 2012, The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism awarded him the Life Time Award for Journalism Excellence. He is a fellow of Adam Fiberesima School of Music and Conservatory, University of Port Harcourt.

Published books
Dis Fela Sef
The Great Highlife Party
All That Jazz

Personal life
Idonije is the grandfather of Nigerian singer Burna Boy and the father of Bose Ogulu. To celebrate his 80th birthday, a week-long event featuring paper presentations and musical performances was organized by the Committee of Relevant Arts and Culture Advocates Caucus in several parts of Lagos including the Ojo campus of the Lagos State University, Freedom Park, Broad Street and the MUSON Centre.

References

1936 births
Living people
Nigerian male writers
People from Edo State

Benson Idonije


The Free State (Afrikaans: Vrystaat, Sotho: Foreistata; before 1995, the Orange Free State) is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital, because the Supreme Court is there. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans were dissolved and were merged into the provinces of South Africa. It is also the only one of the older provinces of South Africa not to undergo border changes, not counting the incorporation of the Bantustans. It borders on six other provinces, and on Lesotho.

1994 establishments in South Africa

Free State (province)


Melissa Sagemiller is an American television and film actress. She is known for her performances in films Get Over It (2001), Soul Survivors (2001), Sorority Boys (2002), The Clearing (2004), The Guardian (2006) and Mr. Woodcock (2007). Sagemiller also starred in television dramas Sleeper Cell (2005–06), and Raising the Bar (2008–09), and from 2010 to 2011 had the recurring role as A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Early life
Sagemiller was born June 1, 1974, in Washington, D.C., to Donna Sagemiller, a political activist mother who worked as a comptroller during Jimmy Carter's presidency. She attended Georgetown Day School. Her entry into the performing arts was at age 3 when she began studying tap dance, ballet, jazz dance and modern dance. She made her stage debut in To Kill a Mockingbird when she was 9 years old, and soon after she became a regular on her local stage. At 14, however, acting took a backseat to modeling after Sagemiller was scouted by Eileen Ford in a jewelry shop. She eventually left modeling to take an undergraduate degree in Art History at the University of Virginia.

Career
Shortly after graduation, she decided to return to acting full-time, and studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory, New York University's Stonestreet Studio and at Michael Howard Studios. Sagemiller was mentioned in Movieline magazine in August 2001. In November 2001, Sagemiller appeared in Gear magazine. In early career, she starred on number of teen films, like Get Over It and Sorority Boys, and was lead actress in 2002 thriller Soul Survivors.

On television, Sagemiller portrayed the character Michelle Ernhardt in the TNT series Raising the Bar from 2008 to 2009. After that series was cancelled, Sagemiller joined Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in a recurring role as ADA Gillian Hardwicke. She replaced Paula Patton when Patton departed the series after just one episode. Sagemiller was featured in ten episodes of the 12th season of the series. She was replaced in the 13th season by Stephanie March and Diane Neal. In 2013, she was cast as a lead on Chicago Fire spinoff Chicago P.D., but left during pre-production.

Sagemiller is one of numerous actresses who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment.

Personal life
Sagemiller became engaged in July 2006 to her Sleeper Cell co-star Alex Nesic after he proposed to her in the South of France. The couple have two children.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Actresses from Washington, D.C.
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
University of Virginia alumni
21st-century American actresses
Georgetown Day School alumni

Melissa Sagemiller


Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong (, ; born ) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, writer and former physician. He rose to prominence for playing Leslie Chow in The Hangover film series (2009–2013) and Ben Chang in the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015). He created, wrote and produced the ABC sitcom Dr. Ken (2015–2017), in which he portrays the titular character, and he has appeared in the films Knocked Up (2007), Role Models (2008), Furry Vengeance (2010), The Duff (2015), Ride Along 2 (2016), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Scoob! (2020) and Tom & Jerry (2021).

Jeong is a licensed physician in California but has since stopped practicing in favor of his acting career. He appears as a panelist on the American version of the singing competition show The Masked Singer and appeared on the first series of the British version. He also serves as the host of I Can See Your Voice.

Early life and education
Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong was born on July 13, 1969, in Detroit, Michigan, to South Korean immigrant parents, D.K. and Young Jeong. He moved to North Carolina at the age of four, and was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Jeong attended Walter Hines Page High School, where he participated in the regional quiz bowl, was elected to the student council, and played violin in the school orchestra. He graduated in 1986 at the age of 16, and later went on to receive Greensboro's Youth of the Year award for his achievements.

Jeong began pursuing acting while a sophomore at Duke University. He briefly considered majoring in drama while still continuing his pre-med coursework. He graduated from Duke in 1990 and obtained his M.D. at the UNC School of Medicine in 1995. The summer before medical school, he took theater classes at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Career

1995–1998: Medical residency
Jeong's background in theater and improv started while he was still a medical student in North Carolina. He was a regular at open mic nights in the Raleigh-Durham circuit, performing at Charlie Goodnights in Raleigh and Tootie's Durham Comedy Club. He also emceed The Comedy Spot programming series on Duke University campus 1992 and 1993 (produced by his friend Kendrick Jahng) opening for Margaret Cho, Jeff Dunham, and others.

Jeong completed his residency at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.
Jeong won the Big Easy Laff-Off in 1995 while still in residency. NBC president Brandon Tartikoff and The Improv founder Budd Friedman were judges and they both urged Jeong to move to Los Angeles.

1998–2006: Physician/comedian
Jeong moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and practiced medicine for several years as a physician of internal medicine at a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Woodland Hills. He began performing regularly at The Improv and Laugh Factory comedy clubs. His stand-up work led to several television appearances, including NBC's The Office, FOX's MADtv, HBO's Entourage, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In 2002, Jeong landed a spot on Comedy Central's Comic Groove. Jeong was also on Kims of Comedy.

He made his film debut in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up as Dr. Kuni, which proved to be his breakout performance. From that point forward he was able to transition from medicine into a full-time career in the entertainment industry. Jeong gave up the practice in 2006 in favor of his acting career; however, he maintains his medical license and has assisted with medical emergencies during performances and on-set.

2006–present: Full-time entertainer

Early in Jeong's career, he studied with director Natalia Lazarus at the Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory where she coached him for his film debut in Knocked Up. Lazarus coached Jeong from 2006 – 2012 for all of his film and television roles through The Hangover Part II.

Subsequently, he has appeared in  Step Brothers; Pineapple Express; Role Models as King Argotron; All About Steve; The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard; Couples Retreat; and as Mr. Chow in The Hangover, The Hangover Part II, and The Hangover Part III. He co-starred in Zookeeper, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and Crazy Rich Asians.

Jeong played Señor Chang on the NBC sitcom Community and was nominated for the show's "Male Breakout Star" at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards. He was nominated for two 2010 MTV Movie Awards, winning the award for Best WTF Moment and for MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for The Hangover. In fall 2010, Adidas basketball began a wide-ranging marketing campaign in which he starred as "Slim Chin", alongside NBA stars Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose. On May 22, 2011, he hosted the 2011 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on ABC and was featured in a Hands Only CPR PSA campaign from the American Heart Association on June 15, 2011.

In 2012, it was reported that Jamie Foxx and Jeong have each agreed to star in movies written and produced by the other. Foxx has agreed to take a leading role in the Jeong's buddy comedy After Prom. Jeong, in turn, would star in Foxx's sports comedy All-Star Weekend. He also started as the voice of Dr. Yap in the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers.

Jeong won a Streamy Award for "Best Guest Appearance" for Burning Love.

In 2013, he appeared in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain (2013), as Johnny Wu, a motivational speaker. Later that year, he returned in a significantly expanded role as Mr. Chow in The Hangover Part III.
He voiced Kim Ly in the animated film Turbo (2013). In 2015, Jeong starred, wrote, and executive produced the pilot of his new ABC medical comedy, Dr. Ken, as a frustrated HMO doctor juggling his career, marriage, and parenting, but succeeding at none of them. On May 7, 2015, the series was ordered by ABC to debut in the 2015–16 TV season starring Jeong, Suzy Nakamura, Dave Foley, Tisha Campbell-Martin, and Jonathan Slavin. The series premiered on October 2, 2015.

In August 2018, Fox cast Jeong as a celebrity panelist on its upcoming music competition series The Masked Singer, based on the South Korean series King of Mask Singer. Additionally, Jeong appeared as a panelist on the first series of the British adaptation of the show. In January 2019, Jeong made a guest appearance on King of Mask Singer, performing "Creep" by Radiohead as the Golden Pig.

Jeong's first comedy special, You Complete Me, Ho, was released in 2019 on Netflix. The Epilepsy Foundation issued a statement regarding a joke in the performance that used an inaccurately referenced seizure first aid technique.

Jeong was awarded the Visionary Award by East West Players, the oldest Asian Pacific American theatre company in the United States, for helping to raise "the visibility of the Asian Pacific American (APA) community through [his] craft."

In February 2020, Fox named Jeong as host and co-executive producer of its upcoming music game show I Can See Your Voice, also based on a South Korean format.

In March 2020, Jeong started a podcast with fellow Community actor Joel McHale, The Darkest Timeline with Ken Jeong & Joel McHale, as a response to the social isolation brought on by COVID-19 pandemic. They became the new hosts of Fox's New Year's Eve special New Year's Eve Toast & Roast 2021. The second edition was canceled due to the quickly-rising cases of Omicron variant in the COVID-19 pandemic. He also voiced Dynomutt in the Scooby-Doo animated film Scoob!.

In July 2021, Jeong appeared with Joel McHale as a guest judge on Crime Scene Kitchen. Also in 2021, Jeong provided the voice of Sprout Cloverleaf in the Netflix animated film My Little Pony: A New Generation.

In April 2022, Jeong walked off the show The Masked Singer after Rudy Giuliani was revealed as the latest singer on the show. Jeong was seen saying "I'm done," before walking off the show.

Personal life

Jeong's wife Tran Ho is Vietnamese-American and a family physician. They have twin daughters named Zooey and Alexa (born 2007). Jeong and his family reside in Calabasas, California.

Jeong and his close friend and Community costar Joel McHale have hosted a podcast together titled The Darkest Timeline.

Filmography

See also
 Jason Leong

References

External links

Living people
20th-century American comedians
20th-century American male actors
20th-century American physicians
21st-century American comedians
21st-century American male actors
21st-century American physicians
American comedians of Korean descent
American film actors of Korean descent
American male actors of Korean descent
American male comedians
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
American people of South Korean descent
American physicians of Korean descent
American stand-up comedians
Celebrity doctors
Comedians from Detroit
Duke University alumni
Male actors from Detroit
Male actors from North Carolina
People from Greensboro, North Carolina
Physicians from Detroit
Physicians from North Carolina
University of North Carolina School of Medicine alumni
Judges in American reality television series
American game show hosts
Year of birth missing (living people)

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