is a Japanese manga artist. His manga series, Naruto, which was in serialization from 1999 to 2014, has sold over 250 million copies worldwide in 46 countries as of May 2019. The series has been adapted into two anime and multiple films, video games, and related media. Besides the Naruto manga, Kishimoto also personally supervised the two canonical anime films, The Last: Naruto the Movie and Boruto: Naruto the Movie, and has written several one-shot stories. In 2019, Kishimoto wrote Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru which ended in March 2020. From May 2016 through October 2020 he supervised the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga written by Ukyō Kodachi and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto. In November 2020 it was announced that he had taken over as writer on the series, replacing Kodachi.

A reader of manga from a young age, Kishimoto showed a desire to write his own manga, citing authors Akira Toriyama and Katsuhiro Otomo as his main influences. As a result, Kishimoto spent several years working to write his own shōnen manga for Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine which he was a fan of.

Early life
Masashi Kishimoto was born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan on November 8, 1974, as the older identical twin of Seishi Kishimoto. His home was close to Hiroshima where his grandfather originated. Kishimoto's grandfather often told him about stories of war and how it was related to grudges. During his childhood, Kishimoto showed interest in drawing characters from the anime shows he watched, such as Dr. Slumps Arale and Doraemons titular protagonist.

In elementary school, Kishimoto started watching the Kinnikuman and Dragon Ball anime alongside his brother. During the following years, Kishimoto started idolizing Dragon Balls original creator Akira Toriyama, enjoying not only his series Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump, but also Dragon Quest, a series of role-playing video games for which Toriyama is the art designer. While he could not afford to buy Weekly Shōnen Jump where the Dragon Ball manga was published, he followed the series thanks to a friend from school who had subscribed to the magazine. By high school, Kishimoto started losing interest in manga as he started playing baseball and basketball, sports he practiced at his school. However, upon seeing a poster for the animated film Akira, Kishimoto became fascinated with the way the illustration was made and wished to imitate the series' creator Katsuhiro Otomo's style. Other series he enjoyed reading are Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade; Ninku; and Ghost in the Shell.

During his last years before graduating from Kyushu Sangyo University, Kishimoto spent time drawing manga and went to an art college with the hopes of becoming a manga artist. Upon entering college, Kishimoto decided he should try creating a Chanbara manga since Weekly Shōnen Jump had not published a title from that genre. However, during the same year, Kishimoto started reading Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal and Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin (the latter of which was published in Weekly Shonen Jump), which used the said genre. Kishimoto recalls having never been surprised by manga ever since reading Akira and found that he still was not able to compete against them.

In his second year of college, Kishimoto started drawing manga for magazine contests. However, he noted that his works were similar to seinen manga, aimed towards an adult demographic, rather than the shōnen manga read by children and teenagers. Wishing to write a manga for Shōnen Jump (which targets a young demographic), Kishimoto found his style unsuitable for the magazine. When watching the anime series Hashire Melos!, Kishimoto was surprised by the character designs employed by the animators and he started researching works from animators. He later met Tetsuya Nishio, designer from the anime adaptation of the manga Ninku, who he deemed a big influence. Now emulating the way of drawing from multiple character designers from anime series, Kishimoto noted that his style started resembling shōnen series.

Career

Early works
Kishimoto's first successful manga pilot was , which he submitted to Shueisha in 1995. This earned him an honorable mention in Shueisha's monthly "Hop Step Award" in 1996, granted to promising rookie manga artists. At this point he was assigned an editor, Kosuke Yahagi, and worked on a number of rejected drafts including a slice-of-life manga, , and an action manga, . In 1997, he wrote a one-shot version of  which was published in Akamaru Jump Summer.

In December 1997, while redeveloping Karakuri for serialization, Kishimoto was offered a one-shot in Weekly Shōnen Jump. The new version of Karakuri debuted two weeks later in Weekly Shōnen Jump 1998 No. 4-5, but was hampered by the sudden deadline and performed poorly in reader surveys, being canceled immediately.

Following the failure of Karakuri, Kishimoto reduced his output and began moving in a seinen direction with drafts for a baseball manga, , and a mafia manga, , hoping to find better luck with a seinen magazine. Yahagi persuaded him to give the shōnen genre one last shot and Kishimoto began working on storyboards for a fantasy one-shot, , but stopped when Yahagi called and asked him to instead develop storyboards for serialization. The two decided to submit a version of Naruto with a reworked story and world and produced storyboards for the first three chapters, winning a spot in the magazine. With a six-month lead time, Kishimoto repeatedly revised and redrew the first several chapters of the series.

Naruto
In September 1999, the serialized version of Naruto premiered in Weekly Shōnen Jump 1999 No. 43 and quickly became a hit. It ended on November 10, 2014, after more than 15 years of serialization, with a total of 700 chapters collected in 72 volumes. Sales have exceeded 113 million copies in Japan and over 95 million copies in the US, followed by over 93 million copies worldwide (outside Japan and United States) as of volume 36. This makes total sales for the series approximately 301 million copies.

Kishimoto was also the winner of "Rookie of the Year" for the series in the Agency for Cultural Affairs. It was adapted into two successful anime series,
Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. Kishimoto requested that Tetsuya Nishio oversee the character designs of Naruto when the manga was adapted into an anime series. The Naruto manga series became one of Viz Media's top properties, accounting for nearly 10% of all manga sales in the US in 2006. The seventh volume of Viz's release became the first manga to ever win a Quill Award when it claimed the award for "Best Graphic Novel" in 2006.

War is a theme Kishimoto wanted to tell in the manga based on the Hiroshima crisis he was told from his grandfather. Despite understanding that war has no good side, Kishimoto wrote the concept of war in Naruto with a hopeful theme. Responding to Naruto's success, Kishimoto said in Naruto Collector Winter 2007/2008 that he was "very glad that the American audience has accepted an understood ninja. It shows that the American audience has good taste... because it means they can accept something previously unfamiliar to them." While writing the manga, Kishimoto met Eiichiro Oda, author of One Piece who he considered his rival. When Naruto ended, Oda left a message in the series' final volume acknowledging him as a rival. According to Kishimoto "That felt so gratifying."

Additionally, before the anime adaptation's premiere of My Hero Academia, he praised Kōhei Horikoshi's work, believing it would be a success overseas. Additionally, Kishimoto referred to Yoshihiro Togashi as one of his favorite artists.

For the video game Tekken 6, Kishimoto redesigned its new character, Lars Alexandersson. CyberConnect2 CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama said he was attracted by this design and thus asked the Tekken staff if he could include Lars in the video game Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2. For Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution, Kishimoto was responsible for Mecha Naruto upon being suggested by the staff to include a new character. Kishimoto decided on adding a character that would create a big impact worldwide, which resulted in Mecha Naruto. CyberConnect2 CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama was surprised when seeing the new character.

For the ninth Naruto film, Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie, Kishimoto was responsible for both the story planning and the characters' designs. The designs used for the film were the designs Kishimoto made for a planned Part 3 of Naruto, however that idea was scrapped for Boruto so they were repurposed for The Last. To promote the film, Kishimoto worked in Motion Comic Naruto, a DVD that showed scenes from the manga in 3D that was given to the first 1.5 million people who went to the cinema. Regarding Narutos publication, Kishimoto told Tetsuya Nishio in July 2012 that the series would take over a year and a half to end. However, Kishimoto admitted that it now appears that the manga will continue beyond that timeframe.

Throughout 2014, Kishimoto supervised the film The Last: Naruto the Movie, which would act as a bridge connecting the series' conclusion and epilogue, providing the story concept and character designs. The Naruto series finally concluded on November 10, 2014, with The Last: Naruto the Movie premiering a month later on December 6, 2014.

Kishimoto also worked on several other projects during Narutos serialization. In 2010, Kishimoto produced a one-shot baseball manga, , as part of Jump's "Top of the Super Legend" project, a series of six one-shot manga by famed Weekly Shōnen Jump artists. In April 2012, it was announced that Kishimoto would publish a one-shot version of his long-postponed mafia manga, Mario, in Jump Square, based on the rough, 160-page manuscript he began working on before Naruto became serialized. Throughout 2013, several of Kishimoto's one-shots saw their English-language debut in issues of the  Weekly Shonen Jump digital magazine, including Mario, Bench, and the original Naruto pilot. In 2015, Kishimoto also illustrated the cover of violinist Chisako Takashima's album Strings on Fire.

After Naruto
Following Naruto's conclusion, Kishimoto became involved in the Start of a New Era Project commemorating both the manga's conclusion and 15th anniversary. On the last page of the final chapter, Weekly Shōnen Jump announced that a spin-off miniseries, also authored by Kishimoto, would be released in 2015. The miniseries, Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring, ran from April to July 2015, leading up to the premiere of Boruto: Naruto the Movie on August 7, 2015, which he supervised and co-wrote with Ukyō Kodachi. He also illustrated several light novels set during the same time period as The Last. When asked by Boruto Uzumaki's voice actress Yūko Sanpei to continue making Naruto films, Kishimoto stated that he was taking a break and could not physically do so.

In August 2015, Kishimoto announced that he already has finalized what he wants to do for his next manga series. A sci-fi manga, the series will feature a unique protagonist, with Kishimoto having already completed the character designs. He plans for the work to surpass Naruto in quality, and plans to release the series monthly via the digital magazine Shonen Jump Plus due to the taxing effort required for a weekly series. Kishimoto had not yet finalized when he plans to officially announce the series, as he wants to spend time with his family.

On December 19, 2015, it was announced that Kishimoto would supervise the monthly  manga series beginning in Spring 2016. The new spinoff will be illustrated by Kishimoto's chief assistant on Naruto, Mikio Ikemoto, and written by his writing partner for Boruto: Naruto the Movie, Ukyo Kodachi. It was preceded by a Naruto: The Path Lit by the Full Moon one-shot written and illustrated by Kishimoto. In the June 10, 2019 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump it was announced that Boruto: Naruto Next Generations would transition to the magazine's sister publication, V Jump, beginning with its June 20, 2019 issue.

In December 2017 at Jump Festa 2018 it was confirmed that Kishimoto was developing a new science fiction adventure series tentatively scheduled to debut in 2018. A year later at Jump Festa 2019 the series was formally announced as . Kishimoto will be handling the script and rough storyboards, while Akira Ōkubo, a former assistant on Naruto and brother of Atsushi Ōkubo, is responsible for illustrating the final manuscript. The series debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump on May 13, 2019, as the magazine's first new series of Japan's Reiwa period, following a 4-page preview chapter on April 27, 2019, marking the end of the Heisei period. The series however failed to find an audience and concluded a year later in the 17th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump on March 23, 2020.

In November 2020 it was announced that after 51 chapters and 13 volumes Kodachi would step down as writer of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga, with Kishimoto assuming full writing duties and Ikemoto continuing as illustrator beginning with chapter 52 in the upcoming December issue of V Jump magazine, published on November 21, 2020.

Works

Manga
 Karakuri (one-shot) (1995; Hop Step Award winner, published in Hop Step Award Selection 18 ('95~'96) (1996) and Akamaru Jump Winter (1997))
 Karakuri (December 21, 1997; debuted and canceled in Weekly Shōnen Jump #4–5, 1998)
 Bench (one-shot) (October 11, 2010, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump #45, 2010)
 Mario (one-shot) (May 2, 2013, published in the June 2013 issue of Jump Square)
 Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru — creator, writer, storyboard artist (May 13, 2019–March 23, 2020; serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump; debuted in issue #24, 2019)

Naruto

Manga
 Naruto (one-shot) (1997; published in Akamaru Jump Summer (1997)
 Naruto (September 21, 1999–November 10, 2014; serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump; debuted in issue #43, 1999)
 Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring (April 27, 2015–July 6, 2015; serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump, debuted in issue #22–23, 2015)
 Boruto: Road to B (one-shot) (August 17, 2015, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump #36, 2015) — collaboration between Kishimoto and Kenji Taira (author of Rock Lee SD)
 Naruto: The Path Lit by the Full Moon (one-shot) (April 25, 2016, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump #21–22, 2016)
 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations — editorial supervisor (volumes 1–13; May 9, 2016–November 2020), writer (volume 14–20; December 2020–May 2023) (serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump (2016–19) and V Jump (2019–present); debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump #23, 2016)
 Naruto: The Whorl Within the Spiral (one-shot) (July 18, 2023, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump #33, 2023)
 Boruto: Two Blue Vortex — writer and editorial supervisor (August 2023–present; serialized in V Jump; debuted in issue #10, 2023)

Motion comic
Motion Comic: Naruto — 2012, designer

Animated films
Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie — 2012, story planning and original character designer
The Last: Naruto the Movie — 2014, original story, original character designer and chief story supervisor
Boruto: Naruto the Movie — 2015, original story, screenwriter, original character designer and chief production supervisor

Video games
Tekken 6 — 2009, guest character designer
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution — 2014, character designer and editorial supervisor

Artbooks
 — 2004
 — 2008
 — 2010
 — 2015

Guides
 Naruto Secret Manual, Book of Meetings: Official Character Data Book (2002)
 Naruto Secret Manual, Book of Soldiers: The Official Fanbook (2002)
 Naruto Secret Manual, Book of Conflict: Official Character Data Book (2005)
 Naruto Secret Manual, Book of People: Official Character Data Book (2008)
 Naruto Secret Manual, Book of Everyone: The Official Fanbook (2009)
 Naruto Secret Manual, Book of War: Official Character Data Book (2014)
 Naruto Secret Manual, Book of Formation: Official Movie Guidebook (2014)
 Naruto Secret Manual, Book of Nations: Official Movie Book (2015)
 Naruto Kizuna: The Words That Bind — Heaven Scroll (2013)
 Naruto Kizuna: The Words That Bind — Earth Scroll (2013)

Novels
Naruto: Hozuki Castle
 — 2012, illustrator
The Last: Naruto the Movie
Boruto: Naruto the Movie

Jiraiya Ninja Scrolls series
 — 2010, illustrator, co-author
 — 2015, illustrator

Secret Stories series
 — 2015, illustrator
 — 2015, illustrator
 — 2015, illustrator
 — 2015, illustrator
 — 2015, illustrator
 — 2015, illustrator

True Stories series
 — 2015, illustrator
 — 2015, illustrator
 — 2015, illustrator

New Stories series
 — 2016, illustrator
 — 2016, illustrator
 — 2016, illustrator
 — 2016, illustrator

Intense Stories series
 Naruto: Kakashi's Story — The Sixth Hokage and the Failed Prince — 2019, illustrator
 Naruto: Sasuke's Story — The Uchiha and the Heavenly Stardust — 2019, illustrator
 Naruto: Naruto's Story — Uzumaki Naruto and the Spiral Destiny — 2019, illustrator

Other
Strings on Fire by Chisako Takashima — 2015, special album cover artist
Learning Japanese History Through Manga, Volume 1 — 2016, cover artist
Learning Japanese History Through Manga, Volume 5 — 2016, cover artist

Personal life
Kishimoto is the twin brother of Seishi Kishimoto, the author of 666 Satan and Blazer Drive. In 2003, Kishimoto married, but did not take a honeymoon with his wife until 2015 due to being busy with Naruto. In the making of The Last: Naruto the Movie, Kishimoto based the idea of Hinata Hyuga wanting to make a scarf for Naruto Uzumaki on how his wife had once done the same for him. The couple has one son.

Influences and style

While as a child Kishimoto enjoyed reading manga, he was inspired to write one after seeing a promotional image for the film Akira. This made him analyze the artwork of Akiras original author, Katsuhiro Otomo, as well as Akira Toriyama, another artist he admired. Realizing both had their own style regarding the designs, Kishimoto decided to draw manga while crafting his own images. While attending art school, Kishimoto was also an avid reader of Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal, and extensively studied Samura's page layouts, action sequences, and anatomical techniques.

When Kishimoto was originally creating the Naruto series, he looked to other shōnen manga for influences while attempting to make his characters as unique as possible. Kishimoto cites Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball series as one of his influences, noting that Goku, the protagonist, was a key factor when creating Naruto Uzumaki due to his energetic and mischievous personality. Kishimoto cited The Matrix as an inspiration for the redesigned character outfits. He has also cited Yoshihiro Togashi as one of his favorite manga authors, while the manga Sasuke by Sanpei Shirato inspired Kishimoto in the developing Sasuke Uchiha.

Kishimoto has also cited other influences such as Takeshi Kitano and Quentin Tarantino. He also mentioned Michael Bay's technique "of shooting a scene against the background light" but found it difficult to make. Another technique inspired by Jackie Chan's films he used in the Naruto manga is the "double-action"; in this action, a punch is shown in three different angles in order to give a big impact on the punch's strength. This was first shown in Naruto Uzumaki's battle against Haku. Kishimoto sometimes draws panels as intentionally confusing during fight scenes to add a sense of speed. On the other hand, Kishimoto commented that for the fights between Naruto and Sasuke, he added action from the top of the page to the bottom in order for them to be easier to follow.

During the series' publication, Kishimoto got married and had children. The changes to his personal life affected the story as he made Naruto Uzumaki meet his parents, something the author wanted the character to feel based on his own experiences as a father.

When drawing the characters, Kishimoto consistently follows a five-step process: concept and rough sketch; drafting; inking; shading; and coloring. These steps are followed when he is drawing the manga and making the color illustrations that commonly adorn the cover of tankōbon; the cover of Weekly Shōnen Jump; or other media. The toolkit he uses occasionally changes. For instance, he used an airbrush for one illustration for a Weekly Shōnen Jump cover but decided not to use it for future drawings largely due to the cleanup required.

Masashi and his twin brother Seishi have been drawing manga together since early childhood; thus their styles are similar. As a result, each has been frequently accused of copying the other- not just artwork, but story elements as well. Seishi notes that the similarities are not intentional but are likely because they were influenced by many of the same things.

Kishimoto has admitted he made no plans in regards to the development of Narutos story developments. For example, when introducing Sasuke, the character says he wants to kill a person named "Itachi" who he had to redesign a number of times. By this time, Kishimoto only thought that Sasuke's brother, Itachi, had done a wrong deed in the past but was not certain of what was exactly. By volume 16 of the series which featured Itachi's actual introduction, Kishimoto decided Itachi was an agent working for Konohagakure to kill all members from the Uchiha clan except Sasuke. This is later revealed in volume 43 of the manga. Another one was the revelation that the late Minato Namikaze would be Naruto's father. When Kishimoto had the idea that Minato would be Naruto's father, he started adding hints of that to the reader such as giving the Hokage mountain from Konohagakure spiky hair similar to Naruto's.

In the making of the film Boruto: Naruto the Movie Kishimoto paid tribute to several movies, the most notable being the 1996 film The Rock and the 2002 film Spider-Man. The tribute to The Rock was mostly done by using Kishōtenketsu, which is a common way of structuring stories in Japan. He also claimed he was a fan of Avi Arad, most notably his films based on the Spider-Man comic book character.

References

External links

 Masashi Goodreads

Japanese illustrators
Japanese twins
Manga artists from Okayama Prefecture
People from Okayama Prefecture
1974 births
Living people

Masashi Kishimoto


Francis K. Butagira (born 22 November 1942) is a Ugandan lawyer, judge, politician and retired diplomat, who serves as the chairman of the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB), an agency of the Ugandan government responsible for maintaining registration data. He was appointed to that position in October 2015. He concurrently serves as the Managing Partner of Butagira and Company Advocates, a Kampala-based legal practice.

Before that, he served as a Member of Parliament and as Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament(1980-1985). He has also served as Ambassador to Ethiopia, Kenya, Germany, Austria and the Vatican. He also served as the Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations.

Background and education
Butagira was born on 22 November 1942, in Bugamba, Mbarara District, in the Western Region of Uganda. He attended Ntare School in Mbarara, where he obtained the equivalent of the High School Diploma. Later, he studied at the University of Dar es Salaam and  at Harvard Law School. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Master of Laws degree. He is a member of the Uganda Bar and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Uganda and all subordinate  Courts.

Career

As a civil servant
He was a member of the National Consultative Council from 1979 to 1980 and a High Court judge between 1974 and 1979.  In 1974, he was Chief Magistrate of Mbarara, and in 1973, of the Buganda Road Law Courts.  He headed the Law Department at the Law Development Centre in 1969 and 1970, lectured in law at the Nsamizi Law School in 1968 and served as State Attorney for the Ugandan Ministry of Justice in 1967.

As a politician
Prior to his diplomatic assignments, he was Chairman of the Legal and Security Affairs Committee in the National Assembly of Uganda from 1989 to 1996.  Butagira was speaker of the Parliament of Uganda between December 1980 and 1985. He served as President of the Joint Assembly of the European Economic Community and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (EEC/ACP).

Diplomatic activities
Butagira became the Permanent Representative to the United Nations in July 2003 after serving from 2000 as the mediator in Sudanese peace talks sponsored by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).  In 1999, he led a team of Ugandan negotiators in talks leading to the establishment of the East African Community.  He served in Nairobi as Uganda's High Commissioner and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT).  In 1998, he was Uganda's Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa.

See also
Government of Uganda

References

External links

1942 births
Living people
People from Mbarara District
Harvard Law School alumni
Speakers of the Parliament of Uganda
Permanent Representatives of Uganda to the United Nations
20th-century Ugandan judges
Ugandan diplomats
University of Dar es Salaam alumni
Ankole people
Ambassadors of Uganda to Austria
People educated at Ntare School
Ambassadors of Uganda to Germany
Law Development Centre alumni
Ambassadors of Uganda to Ethiopia
Ambassadors of Uganda to the Holy See
High Commissioners of Uganda to Kenya

Francis K. Butagira


Austin City Limits is an American television music program from the Public Broadcasting Service. It first aired in 1976. It has become American television's longest-running concert music program. From 1976 to 1987, Austin City Limits was produced by The Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council. Beginning in 1988, the show was produced by The Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council, KLRU-TV. From 1977 to 2004 (seasons 2-29), Gary P. Nunn's London Homesick Blues was the show's theme song. For Seasons 7-23 (1982-1998), the opening theme music was composed by John Mills.

Sets
The first Austin City Limits set used for the first two seasons had colored mats and a small stage with audience seats.
The second Austin City Limits set used for season 3 in 1978 had a brand new stage and a new look.
The third Austin City Limits set used for season 4 in 1979 had colored lights added to the stage.
The fourth Austin City Limits set used for seasons 5-6 in 1980 and 1981 had fences added to the stage.
The fifth Austin City Limits set used for seasons 7-36 had the Austin skyline backdrop and a new look by adding chairs and tables, rather than mats in seasons 1-6.
The sixth Austin City Limits set used from season 37-present has a brand new Austin skyline and a new look. The set was changed when Terry Lickona and his program moved to the Moody Theater.

American television series
English-language television programs

Austin City Limits


Rebecca D. Jackson is a medical researcher, medical practitioner and professor of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. Her research has been significant in the understanding and treatment of osteoporosis. She also researches the opioid crisis in Ohio.

Jackson is director of the Center for Women's Health, the founding director of the Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science, associate dean for clinical and translational research, and professor of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the Ohio State University. In 2008, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and received the OSU Distinguished Scholar Award, one of Ohio State University's highest research honors, in 2015.

Education
Jackson received her medical degree from Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1978.

Career
Jackson was involved in one of the first studies to show that weight lifting, rather than walking, is more beneficial for maintaining bone density: that the ideal exercise to stimulate bone formation is force rather than repetition. She and her colleagues have also been involved in one of the landmark studies examining bisphosphonates, a new class of medications for treating postmenopausal osteoporosis. She has co-authored hundreds of articles that have appeared in publications including American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Arthritis & Rheumatology, Nature, and Nature Communications.

Jackson's research is concentrated in the area of women's health, with a specific focus on defining clinical factors, biomarkers, and genetic associations for diseases that disproportionately affect women (particularly osteoporosis). Her laboratory has had continuous NIH funding for almost 30 years and she has authored or co-authored more than 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including the landmark Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Calcium Plus Vitamin D Trial. She was the vice-chair of the WHI, and is now the principal investigator for the WHI Midwest Regional Field Center. Her work focuses on the epidemiology of chronic disease in women, including cancer, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and osteoarthritis.

In 2019, Jackson became the lead investigator on a $65 million research study to help reduce deaths from opioid use.

Jackson spends about thirty percent of her time as a clinician and seventy percent as a researcher. She currently practices at the Center for Women's Health in Columbus, Ohio.

Injury
Jackson had a spinal cord injury in the late 1970s and has used a wheelchair since then.

Notable achievements
Jackson's work in the field of medicine has resulted in a number of awards and honors:

 1978, American Medical Women's Association Award for Academic Excellence
 1988, Disabled Professional Woman of the Year Award, Pilot Club
 1998, elected to Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
 2003, profiled in "200 Women, 200 Years: Ohio Women of the Year"
 2008, elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
 2015, OSU Distinguished Scholar Award, one of Ohio State University's highest research honors
2017, Best Doctor in America
YWCA Woman of Achievement

References

American endocrinologists
Women endocrinologists
American diabetologists
Ohio State University faculty
Ohio State University College of Medicine alumni
Scientists from Ohio
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
1955 births
Living people
American scientists with disabilities
Physicians with disabilities
Opioid epidemic in the United States
American women scientists
American women academics
21st-century American women

Rebecca D. Jackson


6-Z44 (012569), known as the Schoenberg hexachord, is Arnold Schoenberg's signature hexachord, as one transposition contains the pitches [A], Es, C, H, B, E, G (A. Schoenberg), E, B, and B being Es, H, and B in German.

Its Z-related hexachord and complement is 6-Z19 (3478te or, in prime form, 013478). They have the interval vector of <3,1,3,4,3,1> in common. 6-Z44 lacks prime and inversional combinatoriality. 6-Z44 contains set 3-3 twice and set 3-4 twice.  Set 7-22 contains 6-Z44 twice and 6-Z19 twice.

Schoenberg used the hexachord in the song "Seraphita" (op. 22 no. 1) and the monodrama Die glückliche Hand. 6-Z44 is associated with the character Hauptmann in Alban Berg's Wozzeck. Each movement of Berg's 1913 Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (op. 5) begins with a statement of 6-Z44 or 6-Z19. John Weinzweig uses two minor triads a semitone apart, 6-Z19, and their complement, 6-Z44, in an aggregate chord at the end of "City of Brass" from Wine of Peace as well as in the tone row for his Piano Concerto. 6-Z44 is one of the "fundamental harmonies in the last movement," of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, "Sacrificial Dance".

See also
 Musical cryptogram
 Sacher hexachord

References

Hexachords
Post-tonal music theory
Musical set theory

Schoenberg hexachord


, was a central banker in the Empire of Japan, serving as the 15th Governor of the Bank of Japan and twice as a cabinet minister.

Biography
Yūki was born in the onsen resort of Akayu in what is now part of Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture, where his father was a sake brewer. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University with a degree in political science, he obtained a position at the Bank of Japan from January 1904. Yūki was promoted rapidly, serving as auditor in the bank's New York City branch, branch manager in Kyoto, Corporate Secretary, and branch manager in Osaka. In 1918, at the recommendation of Junnosuke Inoue, Yūki was appointed to the Board of Directors, while still maintaining his post as Osaka branch manager.
However, following the assassination of Yasuda Zenjirō, Yūki left the Bank of Japan to join the Board of Directors for the Yasuda zaibatsu in November 1921, and was appointed Managing Director of Yasuda Bank the same year.

As head of Yasuda Bank, Yūki was a member of a committee which drafted "Definite Policies for the Improvement of the Ordinary Banking System in Our Country in 1926. The report identified a range of significant issues:
Ordinary banks in our country have frequently conducted their business badly.  There has been excessive competition among too many small banks with slender means; bankers have been ignorant of the need for reserves to back deposit withdrawals and generally ill-informed about the working of deposit banking; there has been over enthusiastic lending of bank resources in either particular or long-term outlets against securities of real estates in favour of related businesses; there has been serious negligence in establishing a thorough audit system both inside and outside the banks.

The need to address the problems identified in this proposal generally acknowledged.  The report was the genesis of a process which led to the Bank Act of 1927.

In March 1929, Yūki left for a tour of Europe. On his return, he established a committee to find was for the Yasuda zaibatsu to weather the Great Depression.
From September 1930, Yūki was head of the Industrial Bank of Japan.
Yūki was subsequently elected head of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in January 1937. In February 1937, he was appointed Minister of Finance in the Hayashi administration, serving to June 1937.  The concurrently also held the portfolio of Minister of Colonial Affairs for the same period. From May 1937, Yūki was also appointed to a seat in the Upper House of the Diet of Japan.

During the 1st Konoe administration, July 27, 1937 on Yūki returned to the Bank of Japan as governor, replacing Shigeaki Ikeda. He held the post until March 18, 1944.
During Yūki's tenure, the bank was reorganized in 1942. However, Yūki was removed from his office by the Finance Minister with the support of the Tōjō cabinet in 1944.  Yuki had opposed giving the Munitions Minister the authority to approve loans to munitions companies without consultation with the bank, and Tōjō was both Prime Minister and Munitions Minister at the time
Following World War II, Yūki retired from public life, and moved to Mie Prefecture, where he became the chief kannushi of the Yuki Jinja Shinto shrine. He died in 1951, and his grave is at the Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo.

In 1995, the town of Akayu opened a memorial museum in his honor.

 References
 Fuji Ginkō. (1967). Banking in modern Japan. Tokyo: Fuji Bank, Research Division. OCLC 1050668
 Henning, C. Randall. (1994). Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany, and Japan.  Washington, DC : Institute for International Economics. ;  OCLC 28890661
 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005).  Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ;  OCLC 58053128
 Tamaki, Norio. (1995). Japanese banking: a History, 1859–1959.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ;  OCLC 231677071

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The Higher School of Advertising and Marketing (, ESPM) is a private higher education institution in Brazil. Its undergraduate course in Advertising is consistently ranked the best in Brazil.

History
The school was founded by Rodolfo Lima Martensen, a Brazilian radio host and advertising executive, at the request of media mogul Assis Chateaubriand, owner of Diários Associados, at the time the largest media conglomerate in Brazil, and Pietro Maria Bardi, then director of the São Paulo Museum of Art. A room in the museum served as the school's first location, where it was named "Escola de Propaganda do Museu de Arte de São Paulo" (Advertising School of the São Paulo Museum of Art). Under Martensen's management, with the motto "Taught by who does it", the school congregated professionals in the advertising business to teach its lone course in Advertising, and to this day stands by the philosophy of associating practice with theory in most of its many undergraduate programs. In 1955, now called "Escola de Propaganda de São Paulo" (Advertising School of São Paulo), it moved to its own premises within the same building, and was denominated "Superior", meaning "of higher education". In 1971, school director Otto Hugo Scherb proposed a name change to "Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing", which was approved and has been kept to this day. With the support of Antônio Delfim Netto, then Minister of Finance and representative of the University of São Paulo, the course in Advertising was made into a 4-year undergraduate course and was recognized by the Ministry of Education. In 1974, with the backing of the Globo Organization, a new campus was founded in Rio de Janeiro, and in 1978, ESPM started offering its first graduate courses, the choice of which was greatly expanded in 1981 by school president Francisco Gracioso, who also created ESPM's second ever undergraduate course, Business Administration with emphasis in Marketing. A third campus was created in Porto Alegre in 1985. Following the turn of the century, the school created doctorate and academic research programs, and introduced many other undergraduate courses, including Design, International Relations, Journalism, Information Systems, Social and Consumer Science, and Cinema/Audiovisual. Currently, there are two campuses in São Paulo (one for undergraduate education, another for graduate education and post-secondary learning), one in Rio de Janeiro and another in Porto Alegre.

References

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Akhilesh Das Gupta (31 March 1961 – 12 April 2017) was an educationist, professor, Indian politician and philanthropist. He was the son of Freedom Fighter Babu Banarasi Das, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
He was the president of Badminton Association of India, vice president of Badminton Asia Confederation, member – Executive Council of Badminton World Federation, and vice president of Indian Olympic Association.

Early life and education

Akhilesh Das Gupta (born on 31 March 1961) had done schooling at Colvin Taluqdars College, Lucknow, Diploma in Public Administration, LL.B., MBA & PhD (Management). He had been a National Level Badminton Player and had represented the state of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) from 1977 to 1983. He had also represented the country in various International Badminton Tournaments.

Professional life
Akhilesh Das Gupta was a noted Educationist and a Social Welfare Activist. He had served as Founder Chancellor of Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow in the year 1998. He was the Chairman of Babu Banarasi Das Educational Institutions that provide education to over 30,000 students every year in the fields of Management, Engineering, Dental Sciences, Pharmacy, Law, Architecture and Social Sciences in Lucknow & Delhi. He was Mayor of Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) from May 1993– Nov 1996 and contributed extensively in the development of the city. He had held country's most prestigious office as 'Member of Parliament'(Rajya Sabha) for 18 years serving three consecutive terms of 6 years each from November 1996 to November 2014. He had held the office of the Minister for Steel from January 2006 till May 2008 under Dr. Manmohan Singh Government during UPA-I. He actively served as secretary of Congress Parliamentary Party between 2003 and 2006 when Sonia Gandhi was heading Congressas well as chairman of the Organizational Election Authority for Congress in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, and successfully conducted the grass-roots level organizational elections of the Party in the year 2004–05.

In Uttar Pradesh, he had served as Jt. secretary, general secretary and vice president of the UP Congress Committee, and also chairman, Uttar Pradesh Traders' Cell of the UP Congress, as well as chairman of the Standing Committee of Parliament on Industries. and was the national general secretary of the Bahujan Samaj Party from the year 2008 to 2014.

Fraud Allegations

Akhilesh Das Gupta, along with other higher officials of the Badminton Association of India were accused of fraud and nepotism, by favoring their own children for a goodwill trip to Japan, and were investigated by the CBI. The Japanese Government had sponsored a Badminton tournament in Tokyo as a means of promoting Japanese culture and values amongst Asian youth. The criteria for selection was that players be between 17 and 23 years and that they should have played at the regional or state level in that country.

According to the CBI, Akhilesh Das Gupta, along with other top officials such as Jitender Kochar DCBA general secretary, Harish Ahuja DCBA vice-president, Apinder Sabharwal former secretary of DCBA, Kamal Kumar Thapar former treasurer of DCBA and Harish Mittal former member, connived and had their own kin and wards posing as badminton players to be short-listed for the trip. No advertisement was published or any trial conducted for genuine badminton players. The CBI had completed the investigation and sent its report to the Sports Ministry, Government of India, but no action had been taken thus far.

Death

Akhilesh Das Gupta died from a heart attack on 12 April 2017 in the early morning at his residence.

Extra-curricular activities

Akhilesh Das Gupta presently had held many crucial portfolios on sports on the National and International fronts :
President, Badminton Association of India (BAI)
Chairman, Premier Badminton League (PBL)
President, Uttar Pradesh Olympic Association (UPOA)
Vice President, Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
Vice President, Badminton Asia Confederation (BAC)
Executive Council, Badminton World Federation (BWF)

References

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2017 deaths
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Mayors of Lucknow
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Michael Jecks (born 1960, Surrey) is an English writer of historical mystery novels.

Early life
The son of an actuary, and the fourth of four brothers, Jecks worked in the computer industry before becoming a novelist full-time in 1994 after he was fired from his last position. He, his wife, daughter and son live in northern Dartmoor.

Career
Jecks has written a series of novels featuring Sir Baldwin Furnshill, a former Knight Templar, and his friend Simon Puttock, Bailiff of Lydford Castle. He founded The Medieval Murderers, a speaking and entertainment group of historical writers including Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory, Phillip Gooden and CJ Sansom. The group has developed to collaborate on their books written as linked novellas, each book with a consistent theme, under the brand of The Medieval Murderers. More recently he helped create the Historical Writers' Association.

A member of the Society of Authors and Royal Literary Society, Jecks was the Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association in 2004–05. In 2005 he became a member of the Detection Club. From 1998 he organised the CWA Debut Dagger competition for two years, helping unpublished authors to win their first contracts. He was shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Best Novel of the Year prize in 2007. He also judged the CWA/Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for three years.

Jecks speaks at literary festivals and historical meetings, at which he talks with Ian Mortimer, the historian, as well as Medieval Murderers. He helped create the Conway Stewart Detection Collection with a pen named for him. In 2014 he was the Grand Master of the Krewe of Little Rascals parade, the first parade  of the New Orleans Mardi Gras. In the same year he was invited to be the International Guest of Honour at the Toronto Bloody Words Festival.

Jecks has embarked on a trilogy of Hundred Years' War stories with Simon and Schuster UK. The first, Fields of Glory, was published in 2014. The second, Blood on the Sand, was published in June 2015. He also has a modern spy thriller published with Kindle, Act of Vengeance, and two short story collections: No One Can Hear You Scream and For The Love of Old Bones.

Bibliography

Knights Templar Mysteries
 The Last Templar (March 1995)
 The Merchant's Partner (November 1995)
 A Moorland Hanging (May 1996)
 The Crediton Killings (June 1997)
 The Abbot's Gibbet (April 1998)
 The Leper's Return (November 1998)
 Squire Throwleigh's Heir (June 1999)
 Belladonna at Belstone (December 1999)
 The Traitor of St. Giles (May 2000)
 The Boy Bishop's Glovemaker (December 2000)
 The Tournament of Blood (June 2001)
 The Sticklepath Strangler (November 2001)
 The Devil's Acolyte (June 2002)
 The Mad Monk of Gidleigh (December 2002)
 The Templar's Penance (June 2003)
 The Outlaws of Ennor (January 2004)
 The Tolls of Death (May 2004)
 The Chapel of Bones (December 2004)
 The Butcher of St Peter's (May 2005)
 A Friar's Bloodfeud (June 2006)
 The Death Ship of Dartmouth (November 2006)
 The Malice of Unnatural Death (December 2006)
 Dispensation of Death (June 2007)
 The Templar, The Queen and Her Lover (December 2007)
 The Prophecy of Death (June 2008)
 King of Thieves (November 2008)
 No Law in the Land (June 2009)
 The Bishop Must Die (November 2009)
 The Oath (2010)
 King's Gold (2011)
 City of Fiends (7 June 2012)
 Templar's Acre (September 2013)

Hundred Years War
 Fields of Glory (June 2014)
 Blood on the Sand (June 2015)
 Blood of the Innocents (June 2016)

Bloody Mary / Jack Blackjack Series
 Rebellion's Message (May 2016)
 A Murder Too Soon (May 2017)

The Medieval Murderers
 The Tainted Relic (May 2005)
 Sword of Shame (June 2006)
 House of Shadows (June 2007)
 The Lost Prophecies (June 2008)
 King Arthur's Bones (2009)
 Sacred Stone (2010)
 Hill of Bones (2011)
 The First Murder (2012)
 The False Virgin (2013)
 The Deadliest Sin (2014)

Short story collections
 No One Can Hear You Scream (2012)
 For The Love of Old Bones (2012)

ebook only
 Act of Vengeance (2012)

References

External links
 Author's Web Site

1960 births
20th-century British novelists
21st-century British novelists
English historical novelists
Writers of historical mysteries
Living people
Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages
British male novelists
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21st-century English male writers
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Writers from Devon

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Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (), abbreviated SEB, is a Swedish bank headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. In Sweden and the Baltic countries, SEB has a full financial service offering. In Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, and the United Kingdom, the bank's operations are focused on corporate and investment banking services to corporate and institutional clients. The bank was founded in 1972 by the Swedish Wallenberg family, which is still SEB's largest shareholder through major investment company Investor AB. SEB is the largest Swedish bank by both market capitalisationand total assets.

The SEB Group traces its origins to the Stockholms Enskilda Bank and Skandinaviska Banken, established in 1856 and 1864 respectively. Both banks played an important role in Scandinavia's industrialisation throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in Sweden. After a period of strong growth throughout the twentieth century, Stockholms Enskilda Bank and Skandinaviska Banken merged in 1972 to form the SEB Group.

History
In 1972, Stockholms Enskilda Bank (established in 1856 by André Oscar Wallenberg) and Skandinaviska Banken (established in 1864) merged to form SEB. Reasons for the merger included creating a bank better positioned to serve corporate clients and to fend off competition from major international banks. Through its predecessor, Stockholms Enskilda Bank, it claims to be the first bank in the world to employ women.

Stockholms Enskilda Bank was founded and run by the banking-involved Wallenberg family, and served as the lynchpin of their investment throughout most of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Even today, its successor is amongst the most valuable of the Wallenbergs' various companies, alongside corporations like SKF, Atlas Copco and Ericsson, which it used to have major shareholdings in until Swedish legislation changes in the early twentieth century;these holdings were taken over by Investor AB, still primarily owned by the Wallenberg family today.

Skandinaviska Banken was founded as the Skandinaviska Kreditaktiebolaget, one of the projects of the Scandinavian movement. Thanks to the efforts of André Oscar Wallenberg, Skandinaviska Banken was initially founded and headquartered in Gothenburg rather than Copenhagen, contrary to the wishes of Danish financier Carl Frederik Tietgen; its headquarters was later moved to Stockholm. After its founding, the bank expanded throughout Scandinavia and eventually the rest of the Nordic region until its merger in 1972.

In 1998, the company changed its logo and brand name from SE-Banken to SEB. At the end of that same year, SEB bought its first shares of the three Baltic banks Eesti Ühispank in estonia, Latvijas Unibank in Latvia and Vilniaus Bankas in Lithuania. This was the beginning of the bank's expansion into the Baltic states, a market in which it still has a large share.

In the early twenty-first century, SEB was initially refused a merger with Swedbank, a decision made by the European Union. In 2007 and 2008, SEB worked with the World Bank to develop the concept of green bonds, a form of bonds designed to accelerate the green transition. Later on, SEB Group would sell its banking operations in Germany and Ukraine as a result of weak profitability, the former to Spain's Banco Santander.

Markets
The SEB Group's primary market is its home country, Sweden, where it is also the largest bank in the country, by both market capitalisation and total assets. It is also one of the largest Swedish banks by both employees and customers, with around 16,000 of the former and four and a half million of the latter.

Other major markets of SEB are the Baltic states, where Swedish banks are prominent. SEB is one of the largest banks in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, where Swedbank, another of Sweden's big four banks, is amongst its primary rivals. The SEB Group also has operations in most other Nordic countries, as well as larger foreign markets like Germany and the United Kingdom.

Business
In Sweden and the Baltic countries, SEB is a universal bank, offering financial advice and a wide range of financial services to all customer segments. In Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom the bank's operations have a strong focus on a full-service offering to corporate and institutional clients. SEB also has a presence in another 26 locations worldwide including New York, São Paulo, London, Luxembourg, Geneva, Warsaw, Kyiv, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Delhi.

SEB serves 2,000 large corporations and 1,100 financial institutions, 400,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and some 4 million private individuals.

Since January 2022, the company is operating through six business divisions; Large Corporates & Financial Institutions, Corporate & Private Customers, Private Wealth Management & Family Office, Baltic, Life and Investment Management.

The SEB Group is still owned and headed by its founding family, the Wallenbergs, with Marcus Wallenberg serving as chairman of the company's board of directors. The Wallenbergs' investments in SEB primarily come through the family-owned investment company, Investor AB.

Sustainability

SEB signed the UN Global Compact 2004 and has since then committed to several global initiatives and international codes of conduct. Among them are the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the UNEP FI Principles for Responsible Banking, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, the Principles for Responsible Investments and Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.

SEB has developed ten sector policies for agriculture, arms & defence, forestry, fossil fuel, gambling, mining & metals, renewable energy, shipping, tobacco and transportation. In addition, the company has thematic policies on environment (including climate change, freshwater and biodiversity) and social and human rights.In addition to having developed the green bond concept together with the World Bank in 2007 and 2008, SEB was in 2014 also part of the creation of Green Bond Principles.This is partially in line with modern Swedish ideas of focus on reducing climate change.

In 2009 SEB published its first sustainability report in line with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines.  Since 2017 the sustainability report is integrated in the Annual Report and is aligned with reporting frameworks such as Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, TCFD and the Principles for Responsible Banking.Unlike many banks, SEB is rarely in controversy in relation to its climate policy, in contrast to larger financial institutions like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse.

Subsidiaries
 Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken A/S (Denmark)
 SEB Pank  (Estonia)
 DSK Hyp (formerly SEB AG)  (Germany)
 SEB banka (Latvia)
 SEB bankas  (Lithuania)
 SEB Corporate Bank (Ukraine)
 SEB Bank (Russia)
 SEB SA (Luxembourg)

References

External links

Data
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Arthur Roland Frackenpohl (23 April 1924 – 8 June 2019) was an American composer and Professor Emeritus at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam.

Frackenpohl was born in New Jersey. He held degrees from the Eastman School of Music (BA, MA) and McGill University (DM). In 1942, he was initiated into the Alpha Zeta Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity at the University of Rochester. He studied composition at Tanglewood in 1948 with Darius Milhaud and with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau in 1950, where he was awarded the First Prize in Composition.
In 1949, Frackenpohl joined the faculty of the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. From 1961 until his retirement, he served there as Professor of Music and Coordinator of Keyboard Courses, receiving the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1982.

Frackenpohl has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships for composition over the years, including one from the Ford Foundation in 1959-60 to serve as composer-in-residence for the Hempstead (NY) Public Schools. He has published over 250 instrumental and choral compositions and arrangements, various recordings and one textbook, Harmonization at the Piano, which is used in several college-level keyboard classes in the United States.

References

External links
 Allmusic on Arthur Frackenpohl.

20th-century classical composers
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1924 births
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Wendell Wood (November 15, 1949 – August 11, 2015) was an American environmental activist and educator who co-founded Oregon Wild, a conservation organization headquartered in Portland.

Wood campaigned for the protection of fish and other wildlife in the Klamath Basin, a region of Oregon and California drained by the Klamath River, during disputes over water use and the proposed construction of a ski resort in the area. He spearheaded efforts to gain protection for two native Klamath Basin fish species, the Lost River sucker and the shortnose sucker, under the Endangered Species Act. He also campaigned for the protection of the western snowy plover.

Wood declined an offer to work at his family's furniture factory in Los Angeles, California. Instead, Wood moved to Oregon in 1976 to teach biology at a high school in Myrtle Creek. In 1981, Wood relocated to Eugene to take a position with the Oregon Natural Resources Council, which changed its name to Oregon Wild in 2005. He worked pro bono for the organization for three years before receiving his first paycheck.

Wood published his book, A Walking Guide to Oregon's Ancient Forest, in 1991. The book began a political fight over the use of forests in the Pacific Northwest, which ultimately led to the adoption of the Northwest Forest Plan by the Clinton administration in 1994. The plan provided protection for the northern spotted owl, a species threatened by logging.

Wood suffered a heart attack while hiking in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in Humboldt County, California, on August 11, 2015. He died en route to the hospital at the age of 65. He was a resident of Crescent City, California, where he had moved for retirement. He was survived by his wife, Kathy.

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2015 deaths
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Leo De Gar Kulka (February 17, 1921 – March 17, 1998) was a Czech-born American record producer, recording engineer and educator. Starting in Los Angeles at Autumn Records in the 1960s, he later founded the San Francisco studio Golden State Recorders, trade school College for Recording Arts and audiophile record label Sonic Arts. Kulka is considered a pioneer in the modern recording industry.

History
Leo de Gar Kulka was born in 1921 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. After studying engineering, Kulka moved to Los Angeles in 1938. During World War II and Korean War, he served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps (CIC), retiring with the rank of major. Kulka's wartime experiences with wire recorders and radio transmission sparked a lifelong passion for recording and music. In the early 1950s he became a staff engineer at Radio Recorders at 6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood. Kulka was known by recording industry friends as "The Baron".

In 1957 he founded International Sound, one of the first multitrack facilities in Hollywood. The studio, located on Sunset at Western, later became Sunwest. His Neumann mastering room was the first in the city to feature a stereo cutting head. At International Sound, Kulka recorded artists including Herb Alpert, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, Sonny Bono and Little Richard.

In 1964 Kulka moved to San Francisco and founded Golden State Recorders, one of the largest recording studios in northern California. With a Stephens 16-track recorder and a custom multitrack console, he contributed to the "San Francisco Sound", by recording artists Sly & The Family Stone, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin and Michael Bloomfield.

During that period, Kulka was working for Autumn Records recording bands. Partnering with Sylvester Stewart, the leader of Sly & The Family Stone, Kulka arranged an early recording for the group, resulting in a single on the Lodestone label, "I Ain't Got Nobody" / "I Can't Turn You Loose". He and Stewart also collaborated on recordings by The Great Society for which both were the original session producers.

For over 10 years Kulka lectured in Audio at San Francisco State University. In 1974 he founded the College for Recording Arts, dedicated to training aspiring music industry employees in all aspects of the industry. CRA is thought to be the first American school to provide unified business and technical education for the recording industry. Having attracted students from the North America, Asia and Latin America., some graduates of the school became successful engineers, producers and studio owners. In 1994 he closed the College for Recording Arts, instead devoting his time to analog and digital mastering, and the restoration of vintage sound recordings.

Kulka was the founder of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and served as chairman for three terms. He headed the NARAS Institute, the educational arm of the society for an additional two years. As a member of the Audio Engineering Society since 1959, he first served in Los Angeles, and then as chairman of the San Francisco Section for multiple terms.

Kulka was elected to the AES board of Governors from 1989/1990 and 1992/1993 to 1993/1994. He was chairman of the 93rd Convention that was held over October from the 1st to 4th San Francisco in 1992. In 1993 Kulka was elected treasurer and chairman of the Finance Committee.

The Neumann disk mastering room at Golden State was Kulka's pride and joy. In the 1970s and 1980, he continued to innovate, using the room to master multiple "direct to disk" audiophile recordings, as well as binaural stereo recordings for the Sonic Arts label.

Awards
For his AES chairmanship he received a Board of Governors Award. In 1995 he was awarded with an AES Fellowship Award for his contributions to education and sound recording practices.

Death
Leo De Gar Kulka died on March 17, 1998, aged 77. He was survived by his wife, Pat, and daughters Lilly and Clara.

Recordings

Compilations
Afterglow, Afterglow, 1968
Armageddon, The Maze, 1969
Birth Of The Dead, Grateful Dead, 2003
Born To Be Burned, The Great Society, 1995
Brazilian Tapestry, George Muribus, 1976
Casting Pearls, Mill Valley Bunch, 1972
Compilations of music recorded at Golden State Recording 1966-1973
Crystallize Your Mind, Various Artists, 1994
Feel...The Vejtables, The Vejtables, 1995
Gold, Gold, 1996
Golden State Funk: Impossibly Rare Funk From The Bay Area, Various Artists, 2000
Golden State Soul: San Franciscan Dancers & Smoochers, Various Artists, 2000
Good Things Are Happening, Various Artists, 1994
Happy Trails, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1969
Introducing, The Beau Brummels, 1965
Introducing, The E-Types, 1995
Listen To The Voices: Sly Stone In The Studio 1965–70, Various Artists, 2000
Little Girl, Syndicate Of Sound, 1966
Long Years In Space, The Neighb'rhood Childr'n, 1997
Loosen Up Naturally, The Sons of Champlin, 1969
Mad River, Mad River, 1968
No Matter What You Say: The Best of, Butch Engle & the Styx, 2000
One Stormy Night, The Mystic Moods Orchestra, 1966
Paradise Bar & Grill, Mad River, 1969
San Fran Sessions, The Beau Brummels, 1996
Steelyard Blues, Gravenites/Bloomfield and others, 1972
The Amazing Charlatans, The Charlatans, 1996
The Love Exchange, The Love Exchange, 1968
The Mourning Reign, The Mourning Reign, 1998
The Neighb'rhood Childr'n, The Neighb'rhood Childr'n, 1968
Weeds, Brewer & Shipley, 1970
What A Way to Come Down, Various Artists, 1997
You Got Yours! East Bay Garage 1965–1967, Various Artists, 2007

Singles
 Leo And Flora De Gar Kulka  – "A Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year" - Golden State Records – M-1967 (single-sided 33 ⅓ RPM single)
 Millie Foster - Millie Foster Feels the Spirit -  MGM SE 4897 - 1970The album featured Michael Bloomfield on guitar.

CDs
 Sly & The Family Stone - Slyfest Freshest Funkiest Rarest Cuts - Magical Mystery Compact Disc MMCD-00002 - 1995Album consists of 4 tracks that Sly & The Family Stone cut in 1966 for Kulka's Golden State Recorders Studio.The tracks consisted of "Can't Turn You Loose," "I Ain't Got Nobody," "Take My Advice," and "Life of Fortune and Fame." There were also 20 outtakes. Michael Briggs was the co-producer.
 Andre Previn & Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - PROKOFIEV: Alexander Nevsky, Lieutenant Kijé - Telarc CD-80143
 Stephen Kates, Carolyn Pope Kobler - PROKOFIEV: Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G-minor, Op. 19 for Cello and Piano - Bainbridge BCD-6272
 Jeremy Menuhin - Mozart: Piano Concerto No 13, Lucio Silla Overture (Conducted by George Cleve) - Bainbridge BCD-6273
 Tibor Szasz - Beethoven: Sonata No.32, Op.111; Sonata No.21, Op.53 -  Bainbridge BCD-6275

References

American audio engineers
Record producers from Los Angeles
Businesspeople from San Francisco
1921 births
1998 deaths
United States Army personnel of World War II
20th-century American businesspeople
Engineers from California
20th-century American engineers
Early Recording Engineers (1930-1959)
United States Army personnel of the Korean War
United States Army officers
Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States

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Poetry Bus Tour was a literary event sponsored by independent poetry publisher Wave Books in 2006.  It featured a tour of contemporary poets, traveling by a forty-foot Biodiesel bus, who stopped to perform in fifty North American cities over the course of fifty days. Starting in Seattle, Washington, where Wave Books is based, on September 4, the bus visited major cities in every region of the United States, as well as three stops in Canada, before returning on October 27, 2006. The bus made stops at venues in each city, where participating poets gave readings and lectures. Organized by poets Joshua Beckman, Matthew Zapruder, Lori Shine, Monica Fambrough, and Travis Nichols the tour featured many poets published by the press, as well as performance artists and local readers. One reviewer characterised the project as being "like some strange collective of disenfranchised rock musicians, shorn of their instruments and forced to travel together for warmth", while another posed the question, "What would happen if poets started acting like one big heavy metal band?"

Overview
The Poetry Bus started its tour from Seattle, Washington, in September 2006. It traveled from the Pacific Northwest, across the upper Midwest, and as far as New England and parts of Canada. The Bus traveled south along the Eastern Seaboard, as far as Georgia, then headed west through areas of the Deep South and Southwest. After reaching the West Coast again in Los Angeles, the tour aimed north through California and Oregon before returning to Seattle for a finale event at the foot of the Space Needle in late October.  Some stops involved multiple readings in the same city, and the types of venues varied from stop to stop (including art installations, festivals, a Naval Academy, historic sites, and prisons). The bus itself was a forty-foot-long Biodiesel Motorcoach with the words "Poetry Bus" painted on the sides. Passengers varied along the way, but as many as 38 writers, organizers, and journalists slept in the bus at once. The tour was documented on a blog.

Poets
Performers varied from venue to venue, but a handful remained consistent throughout the majority of the readings. Participants included, alphabetically: Kim Addonizio, Hector Ahumada, Will Alexander, Beth Anderson, Craig Arnold, Ken Babstock, Mutant Ballyhoo, Mary Jo Bang, Jennifer Barone, Polina Barskova, Nathan Bartel, Grace Bauer, Eric Baus, Jill Beauchesne, Joshua Beckman, Erin Belieu, Erica Bernheim, Anselm Berrigan, Jen Bervin, Anne Boyer, Michael Brodeur, Lee Ann Brown, Paul Closson Buck, Suzanne Buffam, Nicole Burgund, Mairead Byrne, Alex Caldiero, Tina Brown Celona, JoAnn Chang, Vic Chesnutt, Joshua Clover, Gentian Cocoli, John Colburn, Carrie St. George Comer, Daniel Comiskey, Kevin Connolly, Gillian Conoley, CAConrad, Matt Cook, Martin Corless-Smith, Joel Craig, Michael Earl Craig, Crystal Curry, Kyle Dargan, Tom I. Davis, Christine Deavel, Tom Devaney, Chris Dombrowski, Timothy Donnelly, Michael Dumanis, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Brian Engel, Zhang Er, Kelly Everding, Larry Fagin, Monica Fambrough, Chris Fishbach, Lisa Fishman, Susan Firer, Sherrie Flick, Nick Flynn, Tonya Foster, Graham Foust, Sarah Fox, Peter Gizzi, Lara Glenum, John Godfrey, Noah Eli Gordon, Dean Gorman, Arielle Greenberg, Kate Hall, Matt Hart, Matthea Harvey, James Haug, Christian Hawkey, Anthony Hawley, Cole Heinowitz, Thomas Heise, Dennis Held, Scott Helmes, Nicole Henares, Bob Hicok, Jen Hofer, Janet Holmes, Marie Howe, Elizabeth Hughey, Maggie Jackson, Major Jackson, Philip Jenks, Laura Jensen, Tyehimba Jess, Amaud Johnson, Julia Johnson, Andrew Joron, Bhanu Kapil, Ingrid Keir, Sally Keith, Michael Kelleher, Ariana Kelley, Mimi Khalvati, Ish Klein, Joanna Klink, Caroline Knox, Noelle Kocot, Melissa Kwasny, Deborah Landau, Dorothea Lasky, Katy Lederer, Dana Levin, Sueyen Juliette Lee, David Lehman, Sarah Mangold, Sabrina Orah Mark, JW Marshall, Cate Marvin, Tod Marshall, Anthony McCann, Molly McDonald, Mark McMorris, Richard Meier, Catherine Meng, Ken Mikolowski, Chelsey Minnis, Albert Mobilio, K Silem Mohammad, Tracie Morris, Valzhyna Mort, Anna Moschovakis, Erín Moure, George Murray, Eileen Myles, Amanda Nadelberg, Maggie Nelson, Sierra Nelson, Aimee Nezhukumatathill, Hoa Nguyen, Travis Nichols, No Cry Sleep Solution, Melanie Noel, John Olson, Ethan Paquin, GE Patterson, Becky Peterson, Scott Poole, DA Powell, Stephen Powers, Kristen Prevallet, CE Putnam, Srikanth Reddy, Dwaine Rieves, David Rivard, David Roderick, Mary Ruefle, Damian Rogers, Matthew Rohrer, Martha Ronk, Catie Rosemurgy, Molly Russakoff, Standard Schaeffer, Robyn Schiff, Rob Schlegel, Zachary Schomburg, Vijay Seshadri, Prageeta Sharma, Brenda Shaughnessy, Frank Sherlock, Lori Shine, Evie Shockley, Eleni Sikelianos, Richard Siken, Bruce Smith, Dale Smith, ML Smoker, Dennis Somera, Juliana Spahr, Chuck Stebelton, Chris Stroffolino, Gwydion Suilebhan, Mathias Svalina, Chad Sweeney, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Cole Swensen, Arthur Sze, James Tate, William Taylor Jr., Edwin Torres, Trdmrc, David Trinidad, Nick Twemlow, Typing Explosion, Nance Vanwinckel, Sarah Vap, Nico Vassilakis, Vis a Vis Society, Miles Waggener, Catherine Wagner, Lewis Warsh, Kary Wayson, Joe Wenderoth, Betsy Wheeler, Sam White, Dara Wier, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Dustin Williamson, Elizabeth Willis, Catherine Wing, Rebecca Wolff, Jon Woodward, Mark Yakich, Matvei Yankelevich, John Yau, Jake Adam York, Monica Youn, Dean Young, Stephanie Young, Karena Youtz, Maged Zaher, Matthew Zapruder, Rachel Zucker, 826 Laureates.

Tour Dates
Readings were hosted in fifty cites across the United States and Canada (including Seattle twice, at the beginning and end of the tour) over the course of fifty days.  The cities and venues included:

9/04/06: Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot Music Festival, Seattle Center (12 p.m., 5 p.m.)
9/05/06: Spokane, WA - Auntie's Bookshop (7:30 p.m.); Raw Sushi & Island Grill (9 p.m.)
9/06/06: Missoula, MT - Butler Creek Ranch
9/07/06: Boise, ID - Neurolux
9/08/06: Salt Lake City, UT - Ken Sanders Rare Books
9/09/06: Laramie, WY - Fine Arts Concert Hall, University of Wyoming Laramie
9/10/06: Denver, CO - Tivoli Turnhalle
9/11/06: Lincoln, NE - Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
9/12/06: Omaha, NE - Omaha Public Library (11 a.m.)
9/12/06: Ames, IA - Octagon Center for the Arts (7 p.m.)
9/13/06: Ames, IA - Ames Public Schools (10 a.m.)
9/13/06: Iowa City, IA - Prairie Lights Books (7p.m.); Sanctuary Pub (9 p.m.)
9/14/06: Minneapolis, MN - Walker Arts Center
9/16/06: Orfordville, WI - Poetry Farm
9/17/06: Chicago, IL - The Green Mill
9/18/06: Milwaukee, WI - Schwartz Bookshop (7 p.m.); Linneman's Bar (9 p.m.)
9/19/06: Ann Arbor, MI - RC Auditorium
9/20/06: Pittsburgh, PA - Gist Street Reading Series
9/21/06: Lewisburg, PA - The Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell Hall, Bucknell University
9/22/06: Buffalo, NY - Albright-Knox Gallery
9/23/06: Toronto, Canada - Stone's Place
9/24/06: Ottawa, Canada - Blink Gallery, Header House
9/25/06: Montreal, Canada - The Green Room / Le Salon Vert
9/26/06: Northampton, MA - The Basement
9/27/06: Amherst, MA - Five College Mini-Tour (12-5 p.m.); Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts (7 p.m.)
9/28/06: Boston, MA - The Burren Irish Pub
9/29/06: Providence, RI - First Unitarian Church
9/30/06: New York, NY - Dia Center for the Arts
10/01/06: Beacon, NY - Dia: Beacon
10/02/06: Philadelphia, PA - F.U.E.L. Collection
10/03/06: Annapolis, MD - The Naval Academy
10/04/06: Washington, DC - The Big Hunt
10/05/06: Richmond, VA - Chop Suey Books
10/06/06: Durham, NC - Baldwin Lofts
10/07/06: Asheville, NC - Malaprop's Books
10/08/06: Athens, GA - Athens Institute for Contemporary Arts
10/09/06: Tuscaloosa, AL - Bama Theater
10/10/06: New Orleans, LA - Contemporary Arts Center
10/11/06: Houston, TX - Aurora Picture Show
10/12/06: Houston, TX - Menil Collection (12 p.m.)
10/12/06: Austin, TX - Big Red Sun (6 p.m.)
10/13/06: Marfa, TX - Remote Broadcast
10/15/06: Santa Fe, NM - College of Santa Fe FORUM
10/16/06: Phoenix, AZ - The Trunk Space
10/17/06: Roden Crater, AZ - The Crater
10/18/06: Las Vegas, NV - New York New York Hotel and Casino, Brooklyn Room
10/19/06: Los Angeles, CA - Cal Arts, Butler Building
10/20/06: Los Angeles, CA - Museum of Natural History (3 p.m.); Machine Project (8 p.m.)
10/21/06: Santa Cruz, CA - First Congregational Church Fellowship Hall
10/22/06: San Francisco, CA - The Make Out Room (12 p.m.); Club Deluxe (7 p.m.)
10/23/06: Ashland, OR - The Meese Room, Hannon Library, Southern Oregon University
10/24/06: Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
10/27/06: Seattle, WA - The Space Needle

References

External links
Wave Poetry Bus Tour 2006

Poetry festivals in the United States
Poetry festivals in Canada
2006 in poetry

Poetry Bus Tour


Mikro is a Greek band based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was formed in 1998 and was named after the Greek word micro used in metric measuring systems. Their main focus is electronic music. In their releases they initially used an all-caps Greek spelling of their name (ΜΙΚΡΟ), however in their latest releases ("Restart", "Download", "Upload") they have switched to a non all-caps spelling, transliterated to the Latin Alphabet (Mikro).

The members are:
Nikos Bitzenis (Nikonn) (programming, loops, synths, vocals)
Chloe Ann (vocals, synths)
Yiannis Lefkaditis (John-John; guitar)
5irc (drums, loops, Vpads)

History
Nikos Bitzenis and Yiannis Leucaditis began experimenting with electropop music in the late 1990s having influences of the 1980s era such as Depeche Mode, Erasure, New Order and Duran Duran.
Later, Panos Tolios (of the Greek band Xylina Spathia ), George Costopoulos and Ria Mazine enter the group and their EP Stagones (Σταγόνες, Drops) goes out in 1998. After the production of the single Aspri Sokolata (Άσπρη Σοκολάτα, White Chocolate), Panos Tolios and George Costopoulos leave the group and Stelios Emmanuelidis gets in, forming Mikro as of today.

Discography
To Telos tou Kosmou (Το Τέλος Του Κόσμου, The End of the World) 1999
E-mail (Original soundtrack for the Greek movie of the same name) 2001
Tronik*plasma (Tronik*πλάσμα) 2003
Only the Best (Best of) 2004
180 Mires (180 Μοίρες, 180 Degrees/Destinies) 2004
Restart 2007
Download 2009
Upload 2009
New  2014

They also released singles by the above albums, some of which being: Stagones (Σταγόνες, Drops), Aspri Sokolata (Άσπρη Σοκολάτα, White Chocolate), Domatio (Δωμάτιο, Room) and Netrino.

Solo works
Nikos Bitzenis' solo album was released in 2006 by the name Poladroid. It has a chill out tone in contrast to the band's groovy and uptempo style. Sunday, a single of Poladroid was used in the 9th edition of Buddha Bar's compilation albums.

Internet
Mikro has spread over the internet in various ways; They have a myspace profile and made available to the public their videoclips via their YouTube user account.

External links
 Official website
 Mikro's Youtube profile
 Undo Records website
 Mikro's Facebook site

Greek pop music groups
Greek electronic music groups
Musical groups from Thessaloniki

Mikro (Greek band)


Elisa ("Elly") Maria van Hulst (born 9 June 1959) is a former middle distance runner from the Netherlands. She competed in the 800 m and 1500 m events at the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1500 m and 3000 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics; her best achievement was ninth place in the 3000 m in 1988. During her career she set one world record, on 4 March 1989 at the 1989 European Indoor Championships in Athletics in the 3000 m event (8:33.82), as well as three national records: in the mile (1986, 4:22.40), 1500 m (1987, 4:03.63) and 3000 m (1988, 8:33.97). In 1989 she was named Dutch Sportswoman of the Year.

She started training in ballet, but had a limited success because of her height. At age 11 she started training in athletics, together with her elder brother. When she was in high school, she moved from Maastricht to Leeuwarden. There she started a long-term training program with her coach Theo Kersten. Although her trainer was 13 years older, they got involved into a romantic relationship and later got married.

Elly van Hulst's career would last for almost twenty years and bring her 65 national, three European and two world titles. On the 3000 m indoor, she held the world record for twelve years. She participated in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. At the end of the 1980s Van Hulst showed that she was among the best athletes in the world. In 1988 she defeated Mary Decker, favorite for the 3000 m victory in Zurich.

In 1990, Van Hulst began having strange physical complaints and was tired frequently. Doctors were unable to find anything that caused her symptoms, and so she kept on running. Eventually Van Hulst could not participate in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, because she was in the hospital for medical tests. It was discovered that she had a serious viral infection, and had had it for two years.

As a result of the viral infection, she got exercise-induced asthma. However, because her asthma was easily controlled, her career was apparently unaffected. Just before the European Championships in 1994 in Paris, she heard that one of the ingredients of her medication was on the list of banned substances. A permitted alternative was not effective. As a result, she ended up in ninth place in Paris. Two years later, the ingredient in question was found to be harmless and was removed from the list of banned substances, but this change came too late for Van Hulst: she was not able to participate in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

During her successful years, Van Hulst trained in the Algarve in Portugal. She loved this place and later, when her career had ended, moved there. Nowadays she runs a real estate business, Elly van Hulst Real Estate Lda, together with her husband.

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1959 births
Living people
Dutch female middle-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for the Netherlands
People from Culemborg
World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
Sportspeople from Gelderland

Elly van Hulst