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Emperor Jovinus (411–413)

Year 411 (CDXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Theodosius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1164 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 411 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events[link]

By place[link]

Roman Empire[link]

• Emperor Honorius sends two Roman generals to deal with the usurper Constantine III in Gaul. They kill Gerontius, Constantine's rebellious general (magister militum) in Spain, then besiege Arles and defeat Constantine. He is taken prisoner and put to death at Ravenna.
• Following the defeat of the Constantine III, the Burgundians and the Gallic nobility proclaim Jovinus, Gallo-Roman senator, emperor of the Western Roman Empire at Mogontiacum (modern Mainz).

Europe[link]

• King Ataulf leads the Goths into Gaul at the instigation of Honorius who promises to recognise a Visigothic Kingdom if he defeats the several usurpers who threaten the Roman Empire.
• The Alans establish their rule in the Roman province of Lusitania (Portugal south of the Duero River and Spain).
• The Teutonic tribes in Spain join the Roman Empire as foederati (allies with military commitments).

Asia[link]

• Ingyo succeeds his brother Hanzei, and becomes the 19th emperor of Japan.

By topic[link]

Religion[link]

• Rabbula becomes bishop of Edessa.
• The Conference of Carthage on donatism.

Births[link]

• Peter the Iberian, Georgian theologian and saint (approximate date)

Deaths[link]

• September 18 – Constantine III, Roman usurper
• Constans II, usurper and son of Constantine III
• Gerontius, Roman general
• Gundomar I, king of Burgundy
• Yax Nuun Ayiin I, king of Tikal (Guatemala) (approximate date)

References[link]

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Maxwell Dixon (born March 4, 1966^[1]) is an emcee best known as a member of the group Brand Nubian.^[2]

Biography[link]

He made his debut with the group Masters of Ceremony. Its album Dynamite (1988) was hailed by critics, but probably due to lack of sales, the group soon disbanded, and Puba emerged as the lead emcee of Brand Nubian. After their innovative and versatile debut album One for All (1990)—covering areas from reggae-influenced hip hop music to new jack swing—Puba left the group after disputes with its other members and embarked on a solo career. He became a member of the group again around 1997, recording a few tracks for various soundtracks leading up to the full-length album Foundation in '98. In 1999, Puba and group mate Sadat X performed on the track "Once Again" on Handsome Boy Modeling School's concept album So... How's Your Girl? Following the group's 2004 effort Fire in the Hole, a rejuvenated Puba appeared on tracks with Beanie Sigel ("Bread and Butter," also featuring groupmate Sadat X), Missy Elliott ("My Struggles," featuring his onetime collaborator Mary J. Blige), and Ugly Duckling ("Something's Going Down Tonight").

In 2009, Grand Puba released his fourth solo album, Retroactive, featuring production from hip-hop veterans like Q-Tip, Large Professor, Kid Capri as well as his fellow Brand Nubian's. Puba also appeared on the heavy posse-cut "Fresh" together with Cormega, KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane, DJ Red Alert and Parrish Smith of EPMD.

On the song "Old School" by Tupac Shakur Grand Puba was sampled and used in the hook. The sample originates from Grand Puba's verse on the song "Dedication" by Brand Nubian.

Discography[link]

• 1992: Reel to Reel
• 1995: 2000
• 2001: Understand This
• 2009: Retroactive (Babygrande Records)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Grand Puba on Myspace
• Information about Grand Puba

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Eric Koston

Personal information
Full name	Eric Koston
Nickname(s)	Frosty, Champ, Froston
Nationality	American, Thai
Born	(1975-04-29) April 29, 1975 (age 37) Bangkok, Thailand
Height	6 feet (1.8 m)
Weight	160 pounds (73 kg)
Sport
Country	United States
Event(s)	Street Street Best Trick Rail Bank to Bank Stair Set Park
Team	Girl Skateboards, Spitfire Wheels, Nike SB, Independent Trucks
Turned pro	1993
Achievements and titles
World finals	2000 Globe World Contest: 1st place 2000 X Games: 1st place 2000 Gravity Games: 1st place 2002 Gravity Games Street: 1st place 2003 X Games Street Competition: 1st place 2003 X Games Global Championship: 1st place 2003 Gravity Games: 1st place
Regional finals	2007 Tampa Pro: 1st place
National finals	2005 Canadian Open: 1st place

Eric Koston (born April 29, 1975) is a Thai American professional skateboarder who grew up in San Bernardino, California.^[1][2] He began skating in 1986 and remains active. He was first sponsored in 1991 and turned pro in 1993. He has been featured in the "Tony Hawk" video game series and "EA" Skate 2 and Skate 3. Koston co-owns Fourstar Clothing and also co-owns the skatepark "The Philo-Thai Centre" with professional skater Gavin Davies.

Career[link]

Skateboarding[link]

Eric Koston is currently sponsored by Girl Skateboards, Independent Trucks, Spitfire Wheels, Nike SB shoes, Four Star clothing, Oakley sunglasses, Skullcandy Headphones and Jessup Griptape. Koston has had many other high-level sponsors over the years such as éS and Lakai Footwear. He has designed many pro model shoes such as the Lakai Koston Select and the éS Koston. He is considered by many the Billy Ruff of street skateboarding. He is co-founder of The Berrics along with Steve Berra.^[3]

Films and television[link]

Koston has also been featured on television and in a number of films and video games.

Select filmography[link]

• "H-Street - Next"
• "Lick" (1991)
• "Falling down" (1992)
• "Goldfish" (1994)
• Mouse (1996) (V)
• The Chocolate Tour (1999) (V)
• Ultimate X: The Movie (2002)
• Menikmati (2002) (V)
• Jackass Backyard BBQ (2002) (TV)
• Gigantic Skate Park Tour: Summer 2002 (2002) (TV)
• Jackass: The Movie (2002)
• Harsh Euro Barge (2002) (V)
• Yeah Right! (2003) (V)
• Cribs (1 episode, 2003) (TV)
• Trippin (2 episodes, 2005) (TV)
• Super Champion Funzone (2005)
• Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi (2006)
• The Global Assault!!! (2006) (TV)
• Fully Flared (2007) (V)
• Maloof Money Cup (2008) (TV)
• Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory (3 episodes, 2009,2010) (TV)

Video games[link]

• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000)
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (2001)
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (2002)
• Tony Hawk's Underground (2003)
• Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (2004)
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005)
• Skate 2 (2009)
• Skate 3 (2010)

Skateboard competitions and rankings: 1996-2008[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Eric Koston at the Internet Movie Database
• Eric K's Page
• solecollector.com, Eric Koston interview
• Eric Koston at Review Centre
• Eric Koston's Skatepark

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Chris Haslam (born December 19, 1980)^[1] is a Canadian professional skateboarder who, as of May 2012, is a member of the Almost Skateboards team.^[2] Haslam, whose default stance is "goofy", is recognized as an innovative skateboarder whose mindset, in relation to skateboarding, is defined by creativity and progression.^[3]

As of April 2012, Haslam's sponsors are Almost Skateboards, Independent Trucks and Clothing, Bones Wheels, Vestal, Dakine, Swiss, Leftover Hardware, Gypsy Grip and Globe.^[4]

Early life[link]

Haslam was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada in 1980. He lived in St. Catharines and London, Ontario, attending Parkview Elementary school. When he was 11 he moved with his parents to Singapore. They returned to Canada for a year in 1996, living in Komoka, and Haslam attended St. Thomas Aquanas Catholic Secondary School in London, Ontario.

Career[link]

Almost[link]

Around 2003 he joined Almost Skateboards along with fellow pro skaters Daewon Song, Rodney Mullen and Cooper Wilt.^[5]

Haslam gained attention and popularity after the Almost: Round Three video, and won the Reader's Choice in the 7th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards in 2005.^[6] In August 2006 he was voted the winner of the Vs 411VM competition.^[7] This was a competition where the public voted on tricks performed by professional skateboarders.

In 2006 Haslam and Daewon Song featured in Almost Skateboards' video Cheese and Crackers, showcasing the pair skating a miniramp. It also features Haslam and his team-mate Cooper Wilt skating an offroad skateboard.

In April 2007, Haslam had a video part in Momentum Wheels' debut video, Un Momentum (por favor).^[8] He was also the star of Globe Shoes's United By Fate Part 2 mini video in August 2007, and is a playable character in EA's skateboarding video game series skate. for PS3 and XBOX360.^[9]

While in Tasmania, Australia on a tour with Almost, he was featured in an article in the Sunday Tasmanian newspaper, with the headline "World's Most Unlikely Hero".^[10]

Kobra Triangle[link]

In 2008, Chris joined the metal band Kobra Triangle,^[11] playing the bass guitar, which has since broken up.

Video appearances[link]

• Deca Second to None
• Almost Cheese and Crackers
• Almost: Round Three ^[12]
• United By Fate 2 + various appearances in all ^[13]
• Uno Momentum por pavor - Momentum wheels video
• Digital - Fahja
• Skate Canada 6
• Riding the Long White Cloud

Videogame appearances[link]

• EA Skate series

Notes[link]

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External links[link]

• Active News interviews Chris Haslam

Andy Serkis
Serkis at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International.
Born	(1964-04-20) 20 April 1964 (age 48) London, England, UK
Occupation	Actor, voice artist, director, author
Years active	1989–present
Spouse	Lorraine Ashbourne (22 July 2002 – present)
Website
http://www.serkis.com

Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis^[1][2] (born 20 April 1964) is an English film actor, director and author.

He is popularly known for playing through motion capture to animate and voice computer-generated characters: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and its upcoming prequel The Hobbit, King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes,^[3] and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin.

Andrew also earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of Ian Brady in the British television film Longford. Serkis's motion captured work have been critically acclaimed, especially as Gollum for which he earned several award nominations, becoming the first motion captured actor to win a Empire Award, a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Early life[link]

Serkis, one of five children, was born and brought up in Ruislip Manor in west London. His mother, Lylie (née Weech), was English and taught disabled children; his father, Clement Serkis, was an Iraqi gynaecologist of Armenian ethnicity.^[4][5][6] His ancestors' original surname had been "Sarkisian".^[7]

Serkis was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, and then started studying visual arts at Lancaster University, choosing theatre as a second subject so he could design posters.^[8] Serkis was a member of The County College, and part of the student radio station Bailrigg FM.

As part of the first year of his visual arts course at Lancaster University, Serkis had to choose a secondary subject as part of a broad-range based arts foundation. He chose to study theatre and joined the Nuffield Studio, getting involved designing and producing plays. Having agreed to act in a couple of productions, towards the end of his first year he played the lead role in Barrie Keeffe's play Gotcha, as a rebellious teenager holding a teacher hostage. As a result he changed his major subject in the subsequent two years to acting, constructing his modular Independent Studies Degree around acting, set design studying Stanislavski and Brecht, and minor modules in art and visual graphics.^[9]

Career[link]

In his third year at college, Serkis joined the backstage team at the local Dukes Playhouse to earn his Equity card. On graduation, although advised to take a one year post-graduate acting course, he joined Dukes as an actor, and under director Jonathan Petherbridge who used workshops based upon the methods of Augusto Boal, spent 18 months acting in a broad range of productions from Brecht through Shakespeare to modern British playwrights.^[10]

After 18 months, and having gained his Equity card, Serkis joined a series of touring companies, including productions of: Bouncers opposite Hull Truck; Florizel in The Winter's Tale; and the fool in King Lear with Max Stafford-Clark.^[10] In the early 1990s he settled in London, and took roles in Dogboy, the Royal Court Theatre's production of Mojo, Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist, and Wilson Milam's 1997 production of Hurlyburly at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, opposite Rupert Graves and David Tennant.^[11]

Like many British actors, Serkis made the move to television through the BBC, appearing in the joint BBC/HBO production of Einstein and Eddington. Serkis played Albert Einstein, following the development of his theory of relativity, while David Tennant played British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington. Serkis joined director Mike Leigh's ensemble for two film productions, and appeared in the 1999 romantic comedy Loop alongside Susannah York.

Serkis's most critically acclaimed roles have been Sméagol/Gollum, in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy (2001–03), the title character in the 2005 version of King Kong, in which he provided both the voice and movements for the CGI character as well as the ship's cook, and as 1970s new wave star Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010).

His work on The Lord of the Rings started a debate on the legitimacy of CGI-assisted acting. Some critics^[12] felt Serkis should have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, since his voice, body language, and facial expressions were used. There is the argument that his CGI actions were partially, or in some cases fully, animated without his movements, but the same is true for actors in a traditional movie with CGI (uncredited, Serkis also voices the Witch King of Angmar, as well as several orc characters).

Serkis worked with game developers Ninja Theory on the 2007 release Heavenly Sword, providing the motion capture and voice for King Bohan (the game's main villain), as well as acting as Dramatic Director for the game. He has played 30 roles in film and television productions. One of his earliest feature film appearances was alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in The Jolly Boys' Last Stand.

Serkis was cast as serial killer Ian Brady in the BAFTA-nominated Longford, co-starring Samantha Morton as Myra Hindley and Jim Broadbent as Lord Longford. The film was attacked by relatives of Brady's and Hindley's victims.^[13] The mother of Keith Bennett, whose body has never been found, publicly criticized Serkis for requesting a meeting with Brady in preparation for the role. Serkis only portrayed Brady in two scenes in the film – both while he was in prison and meeting with Longford, urging him not to support Hindley as she is a manipulative woman who will "destroy" him.

In 2006, Serkis appeared in the role of Mr Grin in the film rendition of Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider novel Stormbreaker. In 2006, he was in the film The Prestige as Mr. Alley, assistant to Nikola Tesla, and as the voice of Spike, one of the henchrats in the Aardman Animations film Flushed Away. In 2006 Serkis appeared in Jim Threapleton's improvised feature film, Extraordinary Rendition, which premiered in 2007.

Serkis appeared in Sugarhouse, a low-budget independently made film, playing local crime lord Hoodwink, who terrorises an east London housing estate. For the role, Serkis shaved his head and had sessions lasting 20 hours each to have temporary tattoos stencilled onto his body. The film premiered at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival and released in the UK on 24 August 2007.

In 2007, Serkis provided the voice over for Monkey Business, Five broadcast for three weeks from 13–31 August 2007. This series is about Monkey World, the popular ape and monkey sanctuary and zoo near Wool, Dorset. Serkis reunited with Peter Jackson, as a cast member in Jackson's and Steven Spielberg's Tintin trilogy, based on The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. Filming began in January 2009 and the film was released in 2011.^[14] Filming was due to begin in September 2008 but was delayed due to Universal pulling out of backing the project.^[15] In 2008, Serkis appeared as Rigaud in the BBC Television adaptation Little Dorrit.

In 2009, Serkis voiced the role of the demon Screwtape in Focus on the Family's Radio Theatre audio drama of The Screwtape Letters.^[16]

In 2010, Serkis was cast as William Burke for the John Landis film Burke and Hare^[17] opposite Simon Pegg.

In 2010, Serkis features in the TV series The Accused, in "Liam's Story", written by Danny Brocklehurst and Jimmy McGovern. He plays "Caesar" in the 20th Century Fox science-fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes.^[18]

In January 2011, it was confirmed that Serkis would reprise the role of Gollum in the two-part The Hobbit films which will be released in 2012 and 2013.^[19]

Personal life[link]

Serkis lives in Crouch End, North London with his wife, actress Lorraine Ashbourne, and their three children: Ruby (b. 1998), Sonny (b. 2000) and Louis (b. 2004).^[20]

Serkis was a vegetarian but started to eat fish during the filming of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He writes about it in his book Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic, published in 2004.^{[citation needed]}

Serkis was born to Catholic parents^[4][21] and though he has been a staunch atheist since his teenage years,^[22] he is drawn to the karmic possibilities of energy transference, specifically "the idea that your energy lives on after you".^[22]

Filmography[link]

Films[link]

Television[link]

Video games[link]

Other works[link]

• His book Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic (published 2004) explains how he created Gollum, which was originally a three-week voiceover job.
• He played an abusive boyfriend in the music video for Neneh Cherry's "Woman".

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Andy Serkis

• Official homepage
• Andy Serkis at the Internet Movie Database
• Andy Serkis on Inkheart and Tintin at AMCtv.com
• Andy Serkis Interview
• Official Sugarhouse Lane website
• The Jolly Boys Last Stand