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 <mask> graduated in 2007 from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, and is presently pursuing a career as a sound consultant. Paul and his wife, Ali, reside in Spain. Gubernatorial candidacy
On March 2, 2009, <mask> announced that he was forming an exploratory committee to consider seeking the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas in 2010. In June, <mask> formally announced his candidacy. His campaign stressed the importance of improving education in a fast, globalizing world to enhance the future competitiveness of Texas.Despite raising over $1 million for his campaign, <mask> withdrew from the race on November 23, 2009, citing an inability to raise enough cash to fund an effective campaign. He urged Houston Mayor Bill White to enter the race instead. White announced his candidacy for governor on December 4, 2009. He would win the Democratic nomination but lose the general election to incumbent Rick Perry. Los Angeles Dodgers
On April 25, 2011, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, who had taken over operations of the struggling Los Angeles Dodgers franchise, announced that he was appointing <mask> to monitor the club's business and financial operations. <mask>'s oversight of the franchise ended when the Dodgers filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on June 27, 2011. See also
List of United States political appointments that crossed party lines

References

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<mask>, born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, PR China, obtained her M.A. degree in linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University, Ph.D. degree in linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University and University of Toronto, Canada. She taught linguistic courses in Guangxi Normal University, Shanghai International Studies University, University of Toronto, and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. In 1997-2003, she was a researcher in Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/). Now she is a professor of the Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University. Her professional specialty is formal syntax, especially the syntax of coordinate constructions. In 2009, she was awarded the Young Scholar Award from Academia Sinica, Taiwan.In her book (Coordination in Syntax 2010 Cambridge University Press), she argues for four radical claims: (1) conjuncts are syntactically asymmetrical; (2) there is no independent syntactic category for coordinators; (3) Ross's (1967) Coordinate Structure Constraint is not a construction-specific syntactic constraint; (4) Across-The-Board Movement does not exist. Main Publications

Books and Ph.D. dissertations

 <mask>, N. 2013. Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. <mask>, N. 2010. Coordination in Syntax. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series

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 123, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Schwabe, Kerstin and N<mask> (eds.). 2000. Ellipsis in Conjunction. Tuebingen: Niemeyer. <mask>, N. 1997. Syntactic Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation.University of Toronto. <mask>, N. 1990. Chinese Slips of the Tongue and Models of Language Production. Ph.D. dissertation. Shanghai International Studies University. Main Journal articles
 <mask>, N. 2019c. Appearance and Existence in Mandarin Chinese.Studies in Chinese Linguistics 40 (2):101–140. <mask>, N. 2019b. Sentence-final aspect particles as finite markers in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics 57 (5):967–1023. <mask>, N. 2019a. Complex indefinites and the projection of DP in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 1-32.<mask>, N. 2018. Non-canonical objects as event kind-classifying elements. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
 <mask>, N. 2017b. The syntax of event-internal and event-external verbal classifiers. Studia Linguistica
 Zhang, N. 2017a. Unifying two general licensors of completive adverbials in syntax. Linguistics 55 (2):371-411.<mask>, N. 2016c. Identifying Chinese dependent clauses in the forms of subjects. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 25 (3):275-311. <mask>, N. 2016b. A study note on the state-denoting GE construction. Lingua Sinica 2:3. <mask>, N. 2016a.Understanding S-Selection. Studies in Chinese

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texts: Constructions. The Linguistics Journal 3 (3): 8-57. <mask>, N. 2008.Repetitive and Correlative Coordinators as Focus Particles Parasitic on Coordinators. SKY Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 21: 295-342. <mask>, N. 2008. Relativized Parallelism in Mandarin Chinese Natural Coordination. Language Research 44 (1): 121-163.<mask>, N. 2007. Universal 20 and Taiwan Sign Language. Sign Language and Linguistics 10 (1): 55-81. <mask>, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Two Paired Dependency Constructions. Lingua 117 (12): 2134-2158. <mask>, N. 2007.On the Categorial Issue of Coordination. Lingua et Linguistica 1 (1): 7-45. <mask>, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Split Antecedent Relative Clause Constructions. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 5 (1): 19-47. <mask>, N. 2007. Root merger in Chinese compounds.Studia Linguistica 61 (2): 170-184. <mask>, N. 2007. A syntactic account of the Direct Object Restriction in Chinese. Language Research 43 (1): 53-75. <mask>, N. 2007. The Syntax of English Comitative Constructions. Folia Linguistica 41: 135-169.Lin, Jo-wang & <mask>, N. 2006. The Syntax of the Non-Referential TA 『it' in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Linguistics 7 (4): 991-1016. <mask>, N. 2006. On the Configuration Issue of Coordination. Language and Linguistics 7 (1): 175-223. <mask>, N. 2006.Representing Specificity by the Internal Order of Indefinites.

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 Linguistics 44 (1): 1-21. <mask>, N. 2004. Against Across-The-Board Movement. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 30: 123-156. <mask>, N. 2004. Move is Remerge.Language and Linguistics 5 (1): 189-209. <mask>, N. 2000. Object Shift in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 28 (2): 201-246. <mask>, N. 1999. Chinese de and the de-construction. Syntaxis 2: 27-49.<mask>, N. 1998. The Interactions Between Lexical Meanings and Construction Meanings. Linguistics 36 (5): 957-980. <mask>, N. 1998. Argument Interpretations of the Ditransitive Construction. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 21: 179-209. <mask>, N. 1997.The Avoidance of the Third Tone Sandhi in Mandarin Chinese, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 6: 293-338. Main book chapter articles

 <mask>, N. 2017b. Verbal classifiers. In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers (eds. ), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. Vol.1: 627-631. <mask>, N. 2017a. Adpositions. In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers (eds. ), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. Vol.1: 116-122. <mask>, N. 2012. Countability and numeral classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. In Diane Massam (ed. ), Count and Mass Across Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 220-237. <mask>, N. 2009.The Syntax of Relational-Nominal Second

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texts: Constructions in Chinese. Yuyanxue Luncong 39: 257-301. Peking University Press. <mask>, N. 2003. On the Pre-Predicate Lai [come] and Qu [go] in Chinese. In Jie Xu, Donghng Ji, and Kim Teng Lua (eds. ), Chinese Syntax and Semantics: Language Science and Technology Monograph Series, Vol.1. Singapore: Prentice Hall, pp. 177–201. <mask>, N. 2002. The asymmetry between depictives and resultatives in Chinese. In Anna Maria Di Sciullo (ed. ), Asymmetry in Grammar.Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 165–185. <mask>, N. 2002. Movement within a Spatial Phrase. In: Hubert Cuyckens and Guenter Radden (eds. ), Perspectives on Prepositions. Linguistische Arbeiten.Band 454. Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer, pp. 47–63. <mask>, N. 2001. [Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions. In: G. Alexandrova & O. Arnaudova (eds.) The Minimalist Parameter, Amsterdam: John Benjamins pp.261–278. <mask>, N. 2001. Predicate raising in the Chinese secondary predication. In: N. Dehe & A. Wittek (eds.) Structural aspects of semantically complex verbs. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 293–323.<mask>, N. 1997. A Binding Approach to Eventuality Quantification in Dou Constructions, in Liejiong Xu (ed.) Referential Properties of Chinese Noun Phrases. Paris: Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, pp. 167–207. Linguists from

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Addison Graves "<mask><mask>. (born July 31, 1947) is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for  since 2001. A member of the Republican Party, his district stretches from Columbia to the Georgia–South Carolina border. He served as the South Carolina state senator from the 23rd district from 1985 to 2001. <mask> is a member of the House Republican Policy Committee and an assistant Republican whip. In September 2009, <mask> interrupted a speech by U.S. President Barack Obama to a joint session of Congress, shouting, "You lie!" The incident resulted in a reprimand by the House of Representatives. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of Wray (née Graves) and <mask>.In 1969 he obtained a bachelor's degree in political science from Washington and Lee University, where he joined Sigma Nu. He obtained his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1972. Early career
From 1972 to 1975, <mask> served in the United States Army Reserve. Thereafter, he was a Staff Judge Advocate in the South Carolina Army National Guard assigned to the 218th Mechanized Infantry Brigade until retiring from military service as a colonel in 2003. A real estate attorney, <mask> co-accounted the law firm Kirkland, Wilson, Moore, Taylor & Thomas in West Columbia, where he practiced for over 25 years. He was also a municipal judge in Springdale, South Carolina.<mask> was active in South Carolina Republican politics when the party barely existed in the state. He took part in his first Republican campaign in 1962, when he was 15 years old. He served as an aide to Senator Strom Thurmond and to his district's congressman, Floyd Spence. In 1981

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 and 1982, during the first term of the Reagan administration, <mask> served as deputy general counsel for former governor Jim Edwards at the U.S. Department of Energy. <mask> is also a graduate of Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. South Carolina Senate
<mask> was elected to the South Carolina Senate in 1984 as a Republican from Lexington County and reelected four times, the last three times unopposed. By this time, Lexington County had become one of the most Republican counties in the state.He never missed a regular legislative session in 17 years. After the Republicans gained control of the chamber in 1996, <mask> became the first Republican to chair the Senate Transportation Committee. He was a member of Columbia College's board of visitors and Coker College's board of trustees. During his tenure in the South Carolina Senate, <mask> was the primary sponsor of bills including the following: establishing a National Guard license plate, providing paid leave for state employees to perform disaster relief services, and requiring men aged 18–26 to register for the Selective Service System when applying for a driver's license. In 2000, <mask> was one of seven senators to vote against removing the Confederate battle flag from being displayed over the state house. U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments

As of the 113th Congress, <mask> served on three standing committees and various subcommittees overseeing specific areas of legislation. He serves on the Committee on Armed Services and chairs the Subcommittee on Military Personnel; he also serves on the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.He serves on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for which he also is a member of the

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 Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. As a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, <mask> serves on the Subcommittee on Europe and Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia. <mask> is a member of the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus. Caucus memberships
 Composites Caucus (co-chair)
 Diabetes Caucus
 Global Health Caucus
 India Caucus
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 Israel Allies Caucus
 Russia Democracy Caucus
 Sportsmen's Caucus
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 Congressional Constitution Caucus
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 Afterschool Caucuses
 Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus
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Like his former boss, Spence, <mask> is an ardent social and fiscal conservative. In 2003, <mask> voted for the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, including its Section 1011 authorizing $250,000 annually of taxpayer money to reimburse hospitals for treatment of illegal immigrants. In 2009, he changed to his current position of opposing public funds for health care of illegal immigrants. Legislation
<mask> has sponsored and co-sponsored a number of bills concerning teacher recruitment and retention, college campus fire safety, National Guard troop levels, arming airline pilots, tax credits for adoptions, tax credits for living organ donors, and state defense forces.As of January 2006, eight bills he co-sponsored have passed the House, including H.R. 1973, the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005, making safe water and sanitation an objective of U.S. assistance to developing countries. <mask> is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of

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On September 9, 2009, during a nationally televised joint address to Congress by President Barack Obama, <mask> shouted "You lie!" after Obama, while outlining his proposal for reforming health care, said, "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false—the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel immediately approached senior Republican lawmakers and asked them to identify the heckler and urge him to apologize immediately. Members of Congress from both parties condemned the outburst. "Totally disrespectful", said Senator John McCain of <mask>'s utterance. "No place for it in that setting or any other and he should apologize immediately." <mask> said later in a statement:

This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President's remarks

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 for the credits, but noted that the bill did not bar non-citizens from buying their own health insurance coverage through the health insurance exchange. The Obama administration said that, in the final bill, undocumented immigrants would not be able to participate in the Exchange. Such language was included in the Senate Finance Committee's version of the bill, America's Healthy Future Act. After the incident, <mask> and Democrat Rob Miller, his 2010 general election opponent, experienced a significant upswing in campaign donations. In the week after <mask>'s outburst, Miller raised $1.6 million, about three times his 2008 donations, while <mask> raised $1.8 million. Apology for remarks about hatred of America
On a 2002 live broadcast of the C-SPAN talk show Washington Journal, <mask> and Representative Bob Filner were discussing Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. When Filner noted that the U.S. provided Iraq with "chemical and biological weapons" in the 1980s, <mask> stated that this idea was "made up" and told Filner, "This hatred of America by some people is just outrageous.And you need to get over that." <mask> apologized for his remarks in statements to the press. Apology for remarks about Strom Thurmond's daughter
In 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed she was the daughter of <mask>'s former employer, Senator Strom Thurmond, and Thurmond's black maid. <mask> was among those who publicly doubted her assertion that Thurmond had a child out of wedlock. <mask> said even if her story was true, she should not have revealed it because "it's a smear" on Thurmond's image and was a way to "diminish" Thurmond's legacy. After Thurmond's family acknowledged the truth of Washington-Williams's revelation, <mask>

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 apologized, but said that he still thought that she should not have revealed that Thurmond was her father. Texas v. Pennsylvania
In December 2020, <mask> was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which <mask> defeated incumbent Donald Trump.The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "election subversion." She also reprimanded <mask> and the other House members who supported the lawsuit: "The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions." New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell, citing section three of the 14th Amendment, called for Pelosi to not seat <mask> and the other Republicans who signed the brief supporting the suit, arguing that "the text of the 14th Amendment expressly forbids Members of Congress from engaging in rebellion against the United States. Trying to overturn a democratic election and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that." Other notable events
In November 2009, the New York Times reported that <mask> and Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer made identical written statements, reading, "One of the reasons I have long supported the U.S.

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 biotechnology industry is that it is a homegrown success story that has been an engine of job creation in this country.Unfortunately, many of the largest companies that would seek to enter the biosimilar market have made their money by outsourcing their research to foreign countries like India." The statement was originally drafted by lobbyists for Genentech, now a Swiss biotechnology firm, but founded and still headquartered in San Francisco, California. <mask> supported President Trump's 2017 executive order to impose a temporary ban on entry to the U.S. to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, saying that the order would "secure our borders and keep American families safe from terrorist attacks." On April 10, 2017, a <mask> town hall meeting at Aiken Technical College in Graniteville, South Carolina was interrupted by activists chanting "you lie" as <mask> asserted that the Affordable Care Act was causing people to be denied health services. In 2018, a segment with <mask> aired as part of Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime series, Who is America?. <mask> endorses "Kinderguardians", a nonexistent program to teach and arm schoolchildren as young as 3 to protect themselves in the classroom. Advocating toddler carry, he says on camera, "A 3-year-old cannot defend itself from an assault rifle by throwing a Hello Kitty pencil case at it".Political campaigns

<mask> was elected in 2001 in a special election caused by the death of Floyd Spence, his former boss. <mask> once said that a dying Spence called him from his hospital bed and asked him to run. In a crowded five-way Republican primary—the real contest in this heavily Republican district—<mask> tallied 75% of the vote. He won the December 18 special election with

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 73% of the vote. <mask> won election to a full term in 2002 with 84% of the vote, facing four minor-party candidates. <mask> was mentioned as a possible candidate for retiring Senator Fritz Hollings's seat in 2004, but decided to run for a second House term. He defeated Democratic nominee Michael Ellisor and Constitution Party nominee Steve Lefemine with 65% of the vote.<mask> got 181,862 votes to Ellisor's 93,249 and Lefemine's 4,447, with 312 write-ins. 2006
<mask> defeated Ellisor again, with 62.7% of the vote. 2008

<mask> was reelected, defeating the Democratic nominee, Iraq War veteran Rob Miller, 54% to 46%. It was the closest race in the district in 20 years, and the closest race <mask> had faced in 24 years as an elected official. He survived by winning his native Lexington County by 33,000 votes, more than the overall margin of 26,000 votes. 2010

Challenged by Miller, Libertarian nominee Eddie McCain, and Constitution Party nominee Marc Beaman, <mask> was reelected with 53% of the vote. 2012

Redistricting made the 2nd somewhat more compact.It lost Beaufort and Hilton Head Island. To make up for the loss in population, it absorbed all of Aiken County and a slice of Orangeburg County. In the general election, <mask> ran unopposed and was reelected with 96% of the vote. 2014

Challenged by Democratic nominee Phil Black and Labor Party nominee Harold Geddings III, <mask> was reelected with 62% of the vote. 2016
Challenged by Democratic nominee Arik Bjorn and American Party nominee Eddie McCain, <mask> was reelected with 62% of the vote. 2018
Challenged by Democratic nominee Sean Carrigan and Constitution Party candidate Sonny Narang, <mask> was reelected with 56.3% of the vote. 2020
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 Democratic nominee Adair Ford Boroughs and Constitution Party candidate Kathleen K Wright, <mask> was reelected with 55.66% of the vote.Personal life
An Associate Reformed Presbyterian, <mask> and his wife, Roxanne Dusenbury McCrory <mask>, have four sons and six grandchildren. In a 2005 guest article on Rediff.com, <mask> wrote that his father, Hugh, was a member of the Flying Tigers in World War II. The <mask> family attends First Presbyterian Church in Columbia. See also
 List of United States representatives expelled, censured, or reprimanded

References

External links

 Congressman <mask> official U.S. House website
 <mask> for U.S. Congress

 "Congressman with military ties backs Iraq war" Darran Simon, Medill News Service, February 18, 2004
 "Don’t Turn Back the Page on Border Security" Op-ed by <mask> Scoop, February 3, 2008

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<mask>  "T<mask> (born June 14, 1951) is President and CEO of the Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy. A native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, he was one of the first African-American students to desegregate previously all-white Orangeburg High School in 1965. He became the first African-American from South Carolina to receive an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado in 1969. Captain <mask> also enjoyed a twenty-five-year career with Delta Air Lines and served as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission. The longest serving Commissioner in its history, he has worked under both Democratic and Republican governors. <mask> was appointed by Gov. John Hickenlooper to the Colorado Aeronautical Board, effective 1 February 2013.He is also an attorney and member of the District of Columbia and Massachusetts Bars. Family, early life and education

<mask>T" <mask> resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Formerly married to Kathie Taylor, the couple had two daughters, Taylor and Sydney. They were divorced in 2001. Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, he is the son of Pearl, an educator, and Willie J<mask>, an educator and state administrator. <mask> was one of the first African-American students to de-segregate previously all white, Orangeburg High School in 1965. While at Orangeburg High he played football, basketball and ran track, lettering numerous times.He was an academic standout and a perennial honor student. Active in the community, <mask> was also an Eagle Scout. He graduated in 1969 with a National Merit commendation, All-American honors in football and AAU recognition in track, and became the first African-American from South Carolina to receive an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. While at the Academy, he was a member of the 1971 Sugar Bowl Team, was on the Commandant’s list, attained the rank of Cadet Lt. Colonel and served as a member of the Cadet Wing Staff, the five man governing body of the school. Air Force service and higher education

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<mask> began his employment with Delta Air Lines in August 1980 as a Second Officer on the Boeing 727 aircraft. During his twenty-five-year tenure with Delta, he progressed through several positions and aircraft and retired as a Line Check Captain with an assignment to the Boeing 767-400 aircraft. As a Line Check Captain, <mask> was responsible for both training and evaluating other Delta Captains and co-pilots. In addition to his flying duties, Captain <mask> was an active participant in the Flight Operations Department, representing Delta at numerous conferences,

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 expos and civic engagements. Additionally, he was active with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) serving as Chairman of the Legislative Affairs Committee. As one of the aviation industry’s few African-American commercial airline pilots, Captain <mask> was very active in the minority community. He has been a speaker at numerous inner city schools, helped establish a national scholarship program for minority students interested in aviation and served as Committee Chairman for the Joint National Convention of the Organization of Black Airline Pilots (OBAP) and the Tuskegee Airmen.Captain <mask> has received numerous indices of recognition from Delta Air Lines, ALPA and OBAP for his contributions. The Summit Group companies

<mask> is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the Washington, DC Bar. He is certified to practice before the US Tax Court and is admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. He began the practice of law and also founded the Summit Group in 1982. Through growth, acquisitions and mergers, <mask> built the company into a small conglomerate which owned Subway, Dunkin Donuts and TCBY fast food franchises. The Summit Group also acquired a systems integration company, an engineering and testing company and a medical services firm. The company’s offices were located in Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; Austin, Texas and Colorado Springs, Colorado.<mask>'s accomplishments have been chronicled in numerous media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, PBS/Educational TV, NBC and CBS News and The Black Entertainment Network. <mask> was also nominated as Entrepreneur of the Year for Inc. Magazine and selected as an Outstanding Entrepreneur by the Bank of Boston. Government service

<mask> was appointed Commissioner, Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission by Governor Michael Dukakis in 1983, was re-appointed by Governor <mask> in 1990 and was re-appointed again by Governor Paul Celluci in 1999. In this position, he served

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 coterminous with the Governor and was responsible for general supervision and control over the State’s 45 public use airports and 200 private landing areas. He has the unique distinction of having served in both Democratic and Republican administrations. Commissioner <mask> was appointed to five consecutive 4-year terms and is the longest serving Commissioner in the Commission’s history. For his dedication, leadership and accomplishments, the Massachusetts Airport Managers Association and the Massachusetts Aviation Task Force have honored <mask> for Fostering the Spirit of Aviation in Massachusetts.Additionally, <mask> was on the short list for consideration by President Clinton as Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration during the President’s first term and as Secretary of the Air Force during the President’s second term. <mask> was appointed by Gov. John Hickenlooper to the Colorado Aeronautical Board, effective 1 February 2013, and was re-appointed to a second term in 2016. <mask> sold his business interests in 2000-2001 and took an early retirement from Delta Air Lines in 2005. He devoted his energies to speaking and writing, giving back to the community and spending time with his family. Also in 2005 he co-authored a self-help book entitled Conversations On Success with John Gray of Men are From Mars-Women are From Venus- fame and self-help gurus Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn. In 2008, he came out of retirement to become President and CEO of the Association of Graduates at his alma mater, the United States Air Force Academy.He retired from this position on June 30, 2017. Under his leadership the Association enjoyed tremendous growth. The number of local chapters increased from 30 to 86, revenue more than doubled and assets grew from $35 million to over $56 million. For the organization's many accomplishments, <mask> was recognized internationally in 2015 as one of Most Innovative Business Leaders. Awards and decorations

Badges
  Air Force Pilot
  Parachutist
Delta Air Lines Captain

References

1951 births
Living people
United States Air Force

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title: José Cardozo

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<mask> (; born 19 March 1971) is a Paraguayan football manager and former professional footballer. He is currently manager for Liga Nacional club Municipal. He played as a striker and spent 10 years of his career playing for Toluca and is the club's all-time top goalscorer. He also managed Toluca in 2013 up to 2016. Cardozo earned 82 caps for Paraguay between 1991 and 2006, putting him ninth in their most-capped players of all time, with his haul of 25 international goals the second most for the nation. He represented them at three Copa América tournaments, two FIFA World Cups, and the 2004 Olympic tournament, winning silver in the latter. Club career
Born in Nueva Italia in the Central Department, <mask> began his professional career in 1988, making his debut for River Plate of Paraguay.After four years in River, he moved to Swiss club FC St. Gallen, where he played from 1990 to 1992. He returned to South America in 1993, joining Universidad Católica de Chile helping the team reach the 1993 Copa Libertadores de América final. The following year he played for Club Olimpia of Paraguay, from which he moved to Club Toluca of Mexico. Cardozo made his debut for Toluca in the 1995 season, but only appeared in three games, scoring no goals. However, in the subsequent winter season, he scored 7 goals in 13 games. In his ten years with the team, he has scored a record 249 goals for the club, including 36 goals in 25 matches in the 2002 Apertura. Cardozo was top scorer of the league four times (Verano 1998, Verano 1999, Apertura 2002, and Clausura 2003).He moved to the 4th spot in the list of all-time top scorers in the Mexico Primera Division after Jared Borgetti scored his 250th goal with Monarcas Morelia. Due to his work at Toluca, <mask> was elected as the Paraguayan Footballer of the Year in the years 2000, 2002 and 2003; and the South American Footballer of the Year in 2002. Despite the fact that he was fiercely opposed to the move, Cardozo was transferred to Argentine team San Lorenzo de Almagro in June 2005, and finished the season with

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 only 4 goals due to injuries that kept him away from playing several games. However, many critics lambasted Cardozo for refusing to play through the pain. While playing for Toluca, Cardozo struggled through the 1997 campaign with hamstring problems and then played through much of the 2001 season despite suffering a broken wrist in the season opener. Cardozo is the all-time leading scorer for Toluca, with 249 goals in 332 appearances. In July 2006, Cardozo attempted to return to Club Olimpia to finish his career.He was unable to re-sign for the club because the Paraguayan league's transfer deadline had already passed. As a result of his inability to sign for Olimpia, he decided to retire from football. He scored 342 goals total in his career. In June 2008 a farewell match was organized in the city of Toluca to honor his career and contributions to football. Cardozo scored two goals in the match which had a sellout crowd. Paraguay national team
Cardozo was the all-time leading scorer for the Paraguayan national team, with 25 goals, until 2013, with the record being broken by Roque Santa Cruz. He played for his country at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups and was named in the original 2006 World Cup squad but he was injured during training sessions and replaced by Dante López.<mask> was also an over-age player at the 2004 Summer Olympics, when Paraguay finished second. On 4 August, before the Summer Olympics began, he played in a preparation game against the Portugal of Cristiano Ronaldo in the city of Algarve, resulting in a 5–0 defeat. He scored a hat-trick against Uruguay in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification, with the final result being 4–1. International goals

Paraguay U23
Score and Result list Paraguay's goal tally first. Paraguay

Coaching career

Club Olimpia
In November 2006, Club Olimpia's coach Oscar Paulin was fired due to poor performances by the team and <mask> was named as the interim coach of the Paraguayan club, this being his first experience as a coach. He coached for the remainder of the year and for the 2007 Apertura

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Indios
In October 2009 he was hired to be an assistant coach for the team of Indios de Juarez for the Apertura 2009. Club Olimpia (Return)
<mask> returned to Olimpia Asunción in November 2009 following coach Carlos Kiese's resignation.Querétaro FC
In 2011, he was hired as coach Querétaro FC where he led the team into their first liguilla and the team's all team highest place (8th) and points (26) in Primera División regular season. He managed to eliminate Guadalajara in the Quarter Finals and advance to a surprising semi-final where they lost to champions Tigres UANL 1–0. The following season however, Querétaro began the season with poor results, which once again emerged relegation problems against rivals Atlas and Estudiantes Tecos (relegated) which led to Cardozo's resignation. Club Olimpia (Return)
After spending the 2011 and 2012 seasons at Querétaro, he was appointed to manage Olimpia once again on 25 September 2012 after the departure of Gregorio Perez. Toluca
On 7 May 2013, <mask> was announced as the new manager for Club Deportivo Toluca of Mexico where he played for 10 years (1995-2005). On 1 May 2016, during the 2016 Clausura, Cardozo confirmed that he would no longer coach Toluca beyond the end of the season despite still having a year left on his contract. He stated that since he did not meet his objective of reaching the Liga MX playoffs with the club, he had nothing more to do with the club, citing that Toluca was a big club with directors and fans that expected a lot more of the team than he could continue to offer.He stated that when a team can no longer accomplish what is asked of it, that the first change that must come is the manager, no questions about it. Chiapas
<mask> had a turbulent season at Chiapas during the Apertura 2016, being sacked in September and then brought back due to the petition of the chiapas players. He was ultimately sacked one week later after two more defeats. Puebla
Cardozo took over Puebla FC early in the Clausura 2017 season. Guadalajara
On 12 June 2018, Cardozo was

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title: Andy Tielman

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<mask> (30 May 1936 – 10 November 2011) was an influential Indo (Eurasian) artist, recognised as the "godfather" of Indorock, the style of rock and roll played by Indo artists in the 1950s and 1960s. He is considered one of the most important figures in Dutch popular music, and "defied the notion that early rock and roll was a phenomenon of white and black musicians from America". He was known for his wide vocal range (5 octaves) and virtuoso guitar playing as well as his showmanship. Many Dutch musicians, including Jan Akkerman, Barry Hay, and Herman Brood have cited him as major influences. Tielman is credited with releasing the first Dutch rock and roll single, in 1958, and led the first Dutch rock band with international appeal, the Tielman Brothers, in a career that spanned seven decades, from the mid 1950s to his death in 2011. During Tielman's heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, the Tielman Brothers were hailed as the best live act in Europe and received the highest fees. In 2005 he was awarded a Royal decoration in the Order of Orange Nassau.In 2011 Tielman died of gastric cancer. Dutch East Indies
<mask> was born in Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies on 30 May 1936. Both his father, a KNIL captain named <mask>, and his mother, Flora Laurentine Hess, were Indo-European. Aside from <mask>, the couple had 5 children: Reggy, Phonton, Loulou (Lawrence), and Jane (Janette Loraine). When the Japanese invaded the Indies, the elder Tielman was imprisoned; <mask> and his siblings were taken care of by his mother. He later recalled "When war came the world was broken. My whole world just fell apart."After the Japanese surrendered in 1945, the family was reunited. By that time, <mask> and his siblings were performing jazz standards at private functions using the musical training their father had given them. Within half a year they were performing throughout nascent Indonesia, which had proclaimed its independence after the Japanese surrender. The siblings' repertoire included both American and traditional Indonesian music. By the time the Netherlands

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 formally recognised Indonesia's independence in 1949, the Tielman siblings had become a household name; they even performed for President Sukarno at his palace in Jakarta. In 1951 they were introduced to the song "Guitar Boogie" by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. In an interview Tielman recalled: "This was the first song which my brothers and I converted into rock 'n roll by adding drums to it."The band began playing rock and roll music by Les Paul, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Bill Haley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and Gene Vincent. Aside from the family band, <mask> also played with Dolf de Vries' band The Starlights in Jakarta, as well as Freddy Wehner's Hawaiian band in Sumatra. In the late 1950s anti-Dutch rules and regulations increased, leading up to an escalation of the Dutch New Guinea conflict; it was feared that the Bersiap violence would be repeated. Dutch businesses and other properties were seized, Dutch social services were stopped, Dutch schools were banned and the last Dutch nationals were expelled. Anti-Dutch sentiments also affected Indo celebrities, including the Tielman siblings, and when they were pressured into forgoing their Dutch nationality the family repatriated to the Netherlands. Europe
In 1957 the Tielman family moved to the Netherlands, first to a boarding house in Breda and later to The Hague. Their initial years in the Netherlands were difficult.Tielman later recalled that their first boarding house was "really sad" and said that music was the only thing that kept them going. The siblings, who required new instruments, went into a music shop to replace <mask>'s broken guitar. The owner forbid him to touch anything, until the siblings played some Elvis tunes for the owner and his family. Afterwards, Tielman received a guitar at a discount and only a small down payment. <mask> and his brothers began playing at a hotel for only 2,50 guilders a week. They were able to slowly acquire a fan base among rebellious youth and fellow musicians; however, they were not appreciated by the Dutch establishment or mainstream press. On

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 national radio and television influential opinion makers such as Mies Bouwman and Willem Duys criticised and dismissed the brothers' music.After a successful show at the World Exhibition in Brussels, Belgium, in 1958, the Tielman Brothers were signed by a Belgian company to record the first Dutch rock 'n' roll single, "Rock Little Baby of Mine". The band's flamboyant showmanship, acrobatic stage antics and rowdy sound were unheard of in the Netherlands. The band soon began performing internationally. Tielman later recalled that though they were referred to as "music rapists", the Dutch kids knew exactly what was going on. The Tielman brothers were also the first to play Gibson Les Paul guitars in Europe. In Germany the band found popularity and recorded some German-language songs. They played many live venues in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, a city with many American GIs and a lively music scene.<mask> made an impression on both the German and British musicians playing there. In a later interview with Rolling Stone, George Harrison reflected on his Hamburg period, enthusiastically referring to "<mask>, the Indo man". Tielman and his band enjoyed a successful musical career throughout Europe until the emergence of British beat music headed by The Beatles. Asia Pacific
Although he enjoyed success in Europe, Tielman became upset over hysterical actions by fans, which included cases where women slit their wrists in front of the stage to get his attention. In the 1990 TV interview with Sonja Barend Tielman said: "That’s nothing to be proud of. [...] It’s just very, very sad. [...] I just could not stand it anymore.[...] Maybe the Beatles could deal with that kind of thing. Not me." In the late 1970s <mask> abruptly ended his music career and left his family and property to live as a hermit in the jungles of Kalimantan among the Dayak people. In the TV interview with Sonja Barend he recalls: "The Dayak hunted monkeys for food. I just hunted wild chicken." For over 2 years he lived a low profile and meditated until a female fan tracked him down in the

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 Bali backwoods. For over a year the young German woman, who later became his wife, Carmen Tielman, stayed with him there until he decided to return to the "civilised" world and resume his career.<mask> then moved to Australia and lived there for 5 years. In the 1980s he toured Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. Occasionally he would return to the Netherlands, where he gradually restarted his recording career. After the influential book Rockin Ramona was published in 1989, the Netherlands was re-discovering and rehabilitating its musical pioneers and <mask> was getting more and more recognition as a founding father of Dutch pop music. Netherlands
Tielman eventually returned to the Netherlands full-time. In 1990 he played in a reunion concert with the Tielman Brothers. The same year he releases a solo album, entitled Now And Forever, followed in 1994 and 1995 by tours to the Caribbean and North America.In 1997 he released the album Loraine Jane, named after his only daughter. That year he also headlined a festival commemorating Elvis Presley at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre. In 1998 the album Loraine Jane was presented at the Pasar Malam Besar in the Hague. On 31 October 1998 Tielman celebrated his 50th anniversary as an artist with a show at The Hague Houtrusthallen. Leading up to this anniversary <mask> received much publicity in the Dutch media; Established Dutch artists like Herman Brood and Wally Tax expressed their admiration for his musical legacy. In 1999 <mask> toured the United States. In 2003 <mask>man recorded a new album in Amsterdam.In 2004 he recorded a live DVD at the Kurhaus in Scheveningen called It's My Life. In 2005 the DVD was officially presented at the Pasar Malam Besar in The Hague. In 2005 <mask> was named to the Order of Orange-Nassau. Following the tsunami off Aceh in 2004, he made an appearance at the Dutch national benefit for the victims with two other Indo artists, Dinand Woesthoff (of Kane) and René van Barneveld (formerly of Urban Dance Squad), performing the traditional Indonesian songs "Rayuan Pulau

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 Kelapa" and "Ole sio sayang e". In 2007 <mask> played with Chris Latul (formerly of Massada) in Utrecht, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Pelita Foundation, the longest running social service organisation for Dutch Indos. For the 50th anniversary of the single "Rock Little Baby of Mine" in 2008, the 50 Years of Nederpop Foundation in Groningen held a weekend long festival. On 3 October he performed at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam during the 50 Years of Nederpop Live festival.He headlined the national 5 May Liberation Day celebrations in The Hague in 2008. With Indorock band Tjendol Sunrise, he recorded the album 21st Century Rock, which includes new versions of hits from the Tielman Brothers, several new songs, as well as a new version of "Rock Little Baby of Mine". At the Tong Tong Fair, he teamed with guitarist Jan Akkerman for a one-off concert. By the fall of 2009, Tielman had fallen ill and canceled a scheduled tour when he was diagnosed with cancer. In November he was operated on. By 19 December he had recovered enough to give a short performance in Drachten, and in March 2010 played a show at the Benidorm Palace in Spain, supported by other acts, such as Riem de Wolff of the Blue Diamonds. During the 2011 edition of Indo festival the Tong Tong Fair, Tielman celebrated his 75th birthday and held a sold-out farewell concert at the Bintang Theatre.On 10 November 2011, <mask> died of cancer. Notes

References
 Ballemaker, Harry, <mask>, A. <mask>, that's my life (Publisher: Artemis, 2006)
 Thomassen, Jean Muziek van de Duivel (Publisher: Aspect, 2009)
 Mutsaers, Lutgard Rockin' Ramona (Publisher: SDU, The Hague 1989)

External links
 Official <mask> Website. Music Encyclopedia – Netherlands Center of Music (NCM) Retrieved 28 November 2010
 Music from NL – Online biography. Retrieved 28 November 2010
  Article in Rolling Stone Indonesia. Retrieved 11 July 2011. 1936 births
2011 deaths
People of the Dutch East Indies
Dutch people of Indonesian descent
Dutch rock guitarists
Dutch male guitarists
Dutch rock singers
Indo people
People

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title: Ron Silliman

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<mask> (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet. He has now begun writing a new poem, Universe, the first section of which appears to be called Revelator. Life and work
In the 1960s, Silliman attended Merritt College, San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley, but left without attaining a degree. He lived in the San Francisco Bay area for more than 40 years.As a published poet, he has taught in the Graduate Writing Program at San Francisco State University, at the University of California at San Diego, at New College of California and, in shorter stints, at Naropa University and Brown University. Silliman has worked as a political organizer, a lobbyist, an ethnographer, a newspaper editor, a director of development, and as the executive editor of the Socialist Review (US). While in San Francisco, he served on numerous community boards, including the 1980 Census Oversight Committee, the Arson Task Force of the San Francisco Fire Department, and the State Department of Health's Task Force on Health Conditions in Locale Detention Facilities. Silliman worked as a market analyst in the computer industry before retiring at the end of 2011. Silliman classifies his poetry as part of a lifework, which he calls Ketjak (the name refers to a form of Balinese dance drama based on an ancient text.) "Ketjak" is also the name of the first poem of The Age of Huts. If and when completed, the


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 2010, he received the annual Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation. Silliman was a 2003 Literary fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, as well as a PEW Fellow in the Arts in 1998. He is memorialized in the Addison Anthology, a sidewalk portion in Berkeley, California containing plaques honoring poets and authors. Against Conceptual Poetry (Counterpath, 2014; criticism)

Critical studies and reviews of Silliman's work
Leningrad

References

External links

EPC page
PennSound page
Poem by Silliman at Milk Magazine
<mask>man papers at UCSD
<mask>man on Poets.org Profile and poems.Silliman profile at Modern American Poetry
<mask>'s Blog A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Silliman at UbuWEB, online books
Interview with The Argotist Online
"Torque" & The New Sentence Silliman discusses background & conception of his influential "manifesto" The New Sentence
“The New Sentence”: The original talk – given September 16, 1979 at the San Francisco Art Institute in Bob Perelman’s Talk Series
<mask>man, making poetry, unmaking rules review of The Age of Huts () by Andrew Ervin, at philly.com, June 24, 2007
The Grand Piano website devoted to the 10 volumes of "Collective Autobiography" by 10 of the so-called "West Coast" group of Language poets, including Silliman, which began serial publication in November 2006. 1946 births
American male poets
American bloggers
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Writers from San Francisco
Pew Fellows in the Arts
Writers from Pasco, Washington
San Francisco State University alumni
San Francisco State University faculty
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title: Jim Spence (loyalist)

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<mask> (born c. 1960) is a Northern Irish former loyalist activist. <mask> became notorious for his time in the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), serving two spells in charge of the West Belfast Brigade. <mask> is a native of the Woodvale area of Belfast's Shankill Road. B Company and collusion

<mask> was commander of 'B' Company of the UDA's West Belfast Brigade, which covered the Woodvale area at the top of the Shankill Road, during the 1980s and 1990s. In this role <mask> was closely involved with British agent Brian Nelson. On 22 September 1988, Gerard Slane was shot dead at his Falls Road home after members of the UDA broke down his front door and shot him four times in the head. An article that appeared in the UDA's Ulster magazine claimed that Slane was a member of the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO) and had driven the getaway car when UDA member Billy Quee was killed by that group, although the IPLO did not claim Slane as a member following his killing.In 1992, Nelson issued a statement in which he placed the blame on <mask> for the killing. According to Nelson, he had obtained a photograph of Slane and had shown it to eyewitnesses who identified Slane as the driver at Quee's killing. Nelson claimed that he then gave the picture to <mask>, who told Nelson "I'll soon deal with him" and dispatched a murder squad, after first sending a reconnaissance team to find Slane's house. Johnny Adair would later frequently recount the details of how he had been one of the two gunmen to kill Slane, although in truth this had not been the case. The actual killers have not been identified but they were picked by <mask> from within the ranks of B Company whilst

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 Adair had always been a member of the Lower Shankill's C Company. The Attorney General for Northern Ireland ordered that the murder case be reopened in June 2011 to investigate the collusion allegations. Brigadier
In 1990, <mask> was one of a number of leading figures within the West Belfast UDA imprisoned as part of the Stevens Inquiries.Tommy Lyttle, the West Belfast brigadier was the first to be jailed and he was soon followed by Matt Kincaid, <mask> and William "Winkie" Dodds, the commanders respectively of A, B and C companies, the brigade's three sub-units. Soon after his arrest Lyttle was removed as Brigadier and declared persona non grata, for most of his allies in the UDA had already retired or died. Tommy Irvine, who replaced Lyttle as West Belfast Brigadier, favoured a less centralised structure to the Brigade and gave more of a free hand to the more violent-minded younger men such as <mask>, Adair and Mo Courtney. Irvine made <mask> military commander of the West Belfast Brigade, although only a few weeks into this role <mask>'s Stevens Inquiries arrest came. Irvine was himself arrested in August 1990, and following his incarceration was very briefly replaced by Ken Barrett. However, a power struggle broke out, and Billy Kennedy, Tommy Lyttle's brother-in-law, briefly assumed the role of West Belfast Brigadier. <mask>, however, was released from prison in October and he immediately assumed the role of Brigadier for himself, appointing Johnny Adair to the role of military commander.By late 1991 <mask> had begun to resent the power and influence enjoyed by Adair and he feared that C Company, which remained Adair's main power base, had become financially

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 independent of the West Belfast Brigade. <mask> was pleased when Adair's Langley Street Social Club, a major source of income, was raided by police and put out of business but his anxiety was raised further when Adair began to talk of targeting members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), something that was generally an anathema to loyalists. Ultimately, however, <mask> and Adair remained close friends and as a result the brigadier was able to persuade his second in command to abandon plans to kill police. Indeed, their friendship was so close that during the summer of 1993 the pair went on holiday together with their families to Tenerife. While Adair had taken care of the killing side in West Belfast <mask> had concentrated on the moneymaking elements of the UDA and had built up a large network of extortion and racketeering. <mask> was arrested on charges of extortion in March 1993, and as was the established procedure, he was forced to relinquish his position as Brigadier. As a consequence Johnny Adair immediately succeeded <mask> as West Belfast Brigadier.<mask> and Adair
From prison <mask> became increasingly angry at the violence of Adair, particularly the killing of Noel Cardwell by C Company in December 1993. Cardwell was a glass collector at the Diamond Jubilee Bar with a mental age of 12 who liked to be around the C Company top men. They in turn viewed Cardwell as a harmless figure of fun. In December 1993 Cardwell was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast after suffering a bad reaction when his drink was spiked with an ecstasy tablet by a member of C Company. Whilst in the hospital he was visited by members of the RUC who asked him who he had


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texts: been drinking with. Cardwell named the UDA members he was with, having failed to grasp the code of secrecy governing the UDA. To send a message to informers Adair had Cardwell abducted following his release from hospital and subjected to a long and brutal interrogation process.He was shot and left to bleed to death with C Company member Gary McMaster later sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the murder. <mask> reacted to the killing with disgust, considering Cardwell to be harmless, and along with Matt Kincaid even concocted a plot to have a gun placed in Adair's house in order that he would be imprisoned with them to give them a chance to reason with him. Ultimately the plan was not enacted as Adair remained a hugely popular figure on the Shankill despite the killing. However, <mask>, or "<mask>" as he was known locally, remained an ally of Adair and following his release in the mid-1990s returned to influence under new brigadier Winkie Dodds, whom Adair had appointed in his stead following his own arrest. <mask> attended the wedding of Adair and Gina Crossan, held in prison, on 21 February 1997. Like Adair, <mask> also advocated a closer relationship with the emerging Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) and <mask> personally enjoyed a close relationship with Jackie Mahood, a former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) who was allied to the LVF leader Billy Wright and who tried to convince the Portadown-based leader to take control of the UVF as a whole. Following Adair's release and return to the role of Brigadier he attempted to involve <mask>, back in command of B Company, in his 2000 feud with the UVF.On 21 August the UVF had shot and killed two of

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 Adair's allies, Jackie Coulter and Bobby Mahood, whilst they sat in a car on the Crumlin Road. Soon afterwards Adair saw Progressive Unionist Party spokesman Billy Hutchinson on television and immediately rang <mask> and told him to "shoot the fucker ... right now". <mask> intimated that he would although he had no desire to become involved in the feud, whilst Adair did not realise that <mask>'s phone had been bugged by Special Branch who heard the entire conversation. <mask> was particularly wary of provoking open conflict with the UVF, as, unlike Adair's Lower Shankill stronghold, the Woodvale area was solid UVF turf, and for a spell the social club Spence and B Company ran on Heather Street had to be guarded by soldiers of the British Army due to anticipation of an attack. No attack on Hutchinson took place and Adair was returned to jail soon afterwards, the feud ending as a result. Fall of Adair
In June 2002 an episode of the BBC programme Panorama was broadcast in which Nelson's claims linking <mask> to the Pat Finucane killing were broadcast. It was not the first time that such allegations had been made as rumours that <mask> was an informer had surfaced regularly.The suggestion that <mask> was a high-ranking informer raised some anger, and for Mo Courtney the only solution was to kill <mask>. Adair refused to sanction the killing, as he remained on good terms with <mask> and felt that he was loyal, and the incident helped to drive a wedge between Adair and Courtney. Adair finally broke from <mask> in 2003 when South Belfast Brigadier Jackie McDonald purged the Shankill of C Company and Adair's supporters. Adair reacted by denouncing <mask> as a "liar and a

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 tout" in a carefully orchestrated media campaign over the following months. <mask>, who had tired of Adair's extremism, had helped to facilitate McDonald's assault on the Lower Shankill. Subsequent activity
<mask> was loyal to the new regime on the Shankill, and in late 2003 he once again took over as Brigadier in West Belfast when Adair's replacement, <mask>'s old rival Mo Courtney, was arrested. By early 2004 he had officially vacated this role, as the constant press attacks from Adair began to damage his credibility and a comeback by Adair began to look a distinct possibility.Ultimately, however, this did not materialise, and when Adair left prison the following year he immediately left for Bolton, where his followers had fled to in 2003. <mask>, meanwhile, had, in fact, remained as Brigadier and was still in the role by November 2004. In 2006 the Daily Ireland reported that the UDA intended to expel <mask>, as part of a move aimed at removing a number of "undesirables", including the Shoukri brothers, whose presence was seen as damaging the UDA's chances of securing government funding for its projects. The paper reported that there was a reluctance amongst the leadership to oust <mask>, however, as he controlled the finances in West Belfast and would be likely to abscond with much of their money. Rumours that <mask> was to be stood down had in fact first appeared in the paper as early as April 2005. However, <mask> was replaced as Brigadier in 2006 by fellow long-term activist Matt Kincaid. <mask> was recorded most recently in March 2011 as part of a publicly funded trip to Auschwitz, where he accompanied other veteran loyalists such as Courtney and Billy

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texts:
 McQuiston on a trip to learn about Polish culture.Allegations, however, appeared in the press that <mask> and his fellow loyalists actually spent most of their time at bars and strip clubs. North Belfast feud
Beginning in 2013 and continuing into the following year, a loyalist feud broke out within the UDA North Belfast Brigade between the supporters of its leader John Bunting and a dissident tendency based in Tigers Bay who sought to oust Bunting and install Robert Molyneaux as a replacement. From the start Bunting, as well as fellow brigadiers Jackie McDonald and <mask>, stated that elements within the West Belfast Brigade were closely involved with the dissidents and as a result the West Belfast Brigade split from the rest of the UDA. <mask> was widely reported as one of the leading figures in the conspiracy and in early 2014 UDA leaders approached Matt Kincaid, offering him the chance to re-integrate the West Belfast Brigade with the wider UDA if he expelled <mask> and Mo Courtney. Kincaid rejected the proposal however, opting instead to support Courtney and <mask>. In September 2014 it was reported in the Belfast Telegraph that Bunting, McDonald and Birch, as well as the head of the Derry and North Antrim Brigade had met to discuss the feud as well as the schism with the West Belfast Brigade. According to the report they agreed that West Belfast Brigade members loyal to the wider UDA should establish a new command structure for the brigade which would then take the lead in ousting the three men they identified as the biggest trouble-makers, namely Courtney, <mask> and Eric McKee from their existing leadership positions.It was also stated that the West Belfast

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 breakaway leaders had recruited <mask> Simpson, a former North Belfast brigadier driven out of Northern Ireland over a decade earlier, and were seeking to restore him to his former role. References
Notes

Bibliography
 Lister, David and Jordan, Hugh. Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C' Company, Mainstream Press, 2004
 McDonald, Henry and Cusack, <mask>DA – Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror, Penguin Ireland, 2004
 Moran, Joe. Policing the Peace in Northern Ireland: Politics, Crime and Security After the Belfast Agreement, Manchester University Press, 2009
 Wood, Ian S., Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006

Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth uncertain
Living people
Ulster Defence Association members
Loyalists imprisoned during the Northern Ireland conflict
Paramilitaries from

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<mask> (born September 14, 1971) is an American musician, best known for his role as lead guitarist in the progressive metal band Nevermore during its existence from 1991 to 2011. In 2014, he joined Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, and in 2021 he joined Graham Bonnet's Alcatrazz as well. As a solo artist he has released two albums and one EP. Biography

Early days
Loomis got his first instrument at nine or ten years old, but did not start practicing seriously until around the age of 15. As a teenager in Wisconsin he played in a handful of cover bands and three death metal bands before joining more established bands. Guitarists whose style influenced Loomis are Yngwie Malmsteen, Ritchie Blackmore, Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Tony Iommi and Brian May At the age of 16, Loomis won Wisconsin's Guitar Wars contest. He auditioned for Megadeth (during the So Far, So Good...So What!era) at the age of 16, after their lead guitarist <mask> was fired from the band. After they played a few songs together, Dave Mustaine, the band's frontman and other lead guitarist, thanked Loomis and told him that one day he would become a great guitar player, but because of his age he was not right for the position. Loomis saw Cacophony on tour, and told Marty Friedman, who became very interested, about the audition. Marty tried out for the position and joined the band in 1989. In 2005, Loomis would then share the stage with Megadeth, as the lead guitarist for Nevermore as part of Mustaine's Gigantour festival. Loomis began to work on his solo album Zero Order Phase. At this time Megadeth

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 Soilwork. It was announced in July 2013, that Loomis would be teaming up with Keith Merrow, Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse, and Alex Rüdinger of The Faceless to record an instrumental album titled Conquering Dystopia, the recording of which will be funded by donations. On November 17, 2014, Loomis was announced as the new guitarist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, replacing Nick Cordle. His first show with them was on November 26 in Lyon, France, when War Eternal European tour kicked off. In 2017, Arch Enemy vocalist Alissa White-Gluz announced she was collaborating with Loomis for her upcoming solo record.In January 2019, Loomis said he had been working on material for an upcoming third solo album. In June 2021, Graham Bonnet released a statement on Facebook that <mask> had joined Graham Bonnet’s Alcatrazz. Instructional and voice work

<mask> had a monthly column in Guitar World magazine titled "Merchant of Menace", where he explained how to play the riffs and solos of Nevermore. In more recent columns, his former co-guitarist in Nevermore, Steve Smyth has co-written the column, which is dubbed "The Merchants of Menace". He has also been featured in Young Guitar Magazine, showing guitarists how to play and explain his style and signature guitar in Nevermore. In 2006, he provided the voice of Thunderbolt Murderface in Williams Street Presents Metalocalypse on Adult Swim. In 2009, Guitar World released Loomis's first instructional video.Slated for a late 2010 release, Loomis has recorded a two-part instructional DVD series with RockHouseMethod. Recording took place

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 late fall of 2009. Equipment

Loomis plays various Schecter seven (and occasionally six) string guitars, including the <mask>omis C7 FR Signature Model with EMG 707 pickups and a Floyd Rose tremolo. He also plays a Schecter C-7 Hellraiser with EMG 707 active humbucker pickups, and the C-7 Blackjack with the Seymour Duncan Blackout pickups. Prior to Schecter he played a wide variety of guitars including Ibanez (Politics of Ecstasy period), Gibson, Jackson (Dreaming Neon Black period), ESP (Dead Heart... period), and Warmoth. In the video for "Believe in Nothing" he can be seen using an ESP LTD H-307. He also owns a custom ESP Horizon 7.He endorsed Peavey amplifiers and used their XXX head. After that he endorsed Krank amplifiers and could be seen live using the Krankenstein heads and cabs. As of 2008 Loomis endorsed Engl Amplification and used most of their heads at one time or another, most notably the SE 670, then the Fireball then their Savage heads and then the Engl Special Edition E570 Rack-mounted Preamp with Engl 100W Stereo Poweramp.and Engl cabs loaded with Vintage 30s. Early in 2007, Schecter guitars brought out the <mask>omis Signature Schecter 7-string, based on the C-7 Hellraiser model. It features the EMG 707 active pickups, ash body in 'vampyre red satin' and three piece maple neck with maple fretboard and Sperzel locking tuners. At NAMM 08 a new signature model was released. It is the same as his other one but it has a fixed bridge instead of a Floyd Rose.Loomis can also been seen on YouTube playing an electro acoustic LAG Tramontane T100 ASCEBLK. In January

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title: Sam Sicilia

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<mask> (born February 1, 1986) is an American professional mixed martial artist who currently competes in the featherweight division for Bellator MMA. A professional competitor since 2007, <mask> formerly competed for the UFC, and was on FX's The Ultimate Fighter: Live. Background
Born and raised in Spokane, Washington, <mask> competed in wrestling at Mt. Spokane High School and now works as an assistant coach for the team. Mixed martial arts career

Early career
<mask> began training in MMA in 2007, taking his first amateur fights late in the year and amassed a 4-1 record before turning professional shortly after. Following his first professional win he took a nearly four-year break from fighting. He then returned in 2011, and went 9-1 fighting for several regional promotions in the Northwestern United States.The Ultimate Fighter
In February 2012, it was revealed that <mask> was selected to be a participant on The Ultimate Fighter: Live. <mask> defeated Dominick Cruz training partner, Erin Beach, via an eight-second KO to move into the Ultimate Fighter house, and become an official cast member. <mask> was selected as the second pick (third overall) by Dominick Cruz to take part on Team Cruz. In the first round of the tournament, <mask> was selected to fight former Bellator Fighting Championships fighter, Chris Saunders. Sicilia lost the fight via split decision after two rounds. The decision was heavily disputed by many, including UFC president Dana White who claimed, "I think Sicilia got robbed of the opportunity of going to a third round, though. But great fight."Ultimate Fighting Championship
<mask> made his UFC debut at The Ultimate Fighter 15 Finale on June 1, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada against TUF castmate,

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texts: Cristiano Marcello. He won the fight via KO in the second round. After the win <mask> expressed interest in returning to the featherweight division. <mask> dropped to the featherweight division and faced Rony Jason on October 13, 2012 at UFC 153. <mask> lost via second-round TKO due to punches. <mask> next face Maximo Blanco on April 13, 2013 at The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale. He lost the fight via unanimous decision.<mask> was expected to face Godofredo Pepey on September 4, 2013 at UFC Fight Night 28. However, Pepey pulled out of the bout citing an injury and was replaced by Felipe Arantes. Subsequently, <mask> also pulled out of the bout for undisclosed reasons and was replaced by Kevin Souza. The bout with Pepey eventually took place on November 9, 2013 at UFC Fight Night 32. <mask> won the fight via TKO in the first round. <mask> faced Cole Miller on January 15, 2014 at UFC Fight Night 35. He lost the fight via submission in the second round.<mask> was expected to face promotional newcomer Doo Ho Choi on May 24, 2014 at UFC 173. However, Choi pulled out of the bout citing an injury. <mask> instead faced promotional newcomer Aaron Phillips. He won the fight via unanimous decision. <mask> faced Katsunori Kikuno at UFC Fight Night 52 on September 20, 2014. He lost the fight via submission in the second round. <mask> next fought Akira Corassani on January 24, 2015 at UFC on Fox 14.<mask> won the fight via KO in the first round. A rescheduled bout with Doo Ho Choi was expected to take place on July 15, 2015 at UFC Fight Night 71. However, Choi pulled out of the fight in late June for undisclosed reasons and was replaced by Yaotzin Meza. <mask> won the fight by unanimous decision. A bout with Choi was scheduled a

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 third time and took place on November 21, 2015 at UFC Fight Night 79. <mask> lost the bout via TKO in the first round. <mask> next faced Gabriel Benítez on September 17, 2016 at UFC Fight Night 94.He lost the fight via submission in the second round. <mask> faced promotional newcomer Gavin Tucker on February 19, 2017 at UFC Fight Night 105. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. In May 2017, <mask> was released from the company. Bellator MMA
On August 17, 2017, it was announced that <mask> signed with Bellator MMA. <mask> faced former Bellator champion Marcos Galvão at Bellator 189 on December 1, 2017. He won the fight by unanimous decision.In his second fight for the promotion, <mask> faced Emmanuel Sanchez at Bellator 198 on April 28, 2018. He lost the fight via arm-triangle choke submission in the first round. In his third fight for the promotion, <mask> faced Derek Campos at Bellator 212 on December 14, 2018. He won the back-and-forth fight by split decision. In April 2019, news surfaced that <mask> had signed a new exclusive, multi-fight contract with Bellator. Bellator Featherweight grand prix
In the initial round of Bellator's Featherweight GP, <mask> lost to Pedro Carvalho at Bellator 226 due to a Face crank on September 7, 2019. Post-GP
<mask> faced Robert Whiteford at Bellator London 2 on November 23, 2019.Despite dropping Whiteford multiple times during the bout, Whiteford came back and knocked <mask> out with only six seconds left in the final round. Film and television
<mask> was featured in the award-winning mixed martial arts documentary Fight Life, the film is directed by James Z. Feng and released in 2013. <mask> and his wife Lyndsie have a daughter, Sienna Noel who was born on July 4,

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title: Tom Werner

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<mask> (born April 12, 1950) is an American television producer and businessman. Through his investment in Fenway Sports Group, he is currently chairman of both Liverpool Football Club and the Boston Red Sox. <mask> first became a part owner of the San Diego Padres in 1990, later was part of a group that purchased the Boston Red Sox, and has served as chairman of the Red Sox since February 27, 2002. Since then, the team has won four World Series—the 2004 title ending an 86-year championship drought—and qualified for the postseason 10 times. In 2018, the Red Sox won a franchise-record 108 games and went on to win a ninth World Series title. <mask> became chairman of Liverpool Football Club in 2010. In his time in office, Liverpool has won four trophies including the UEFA Champions League in 2019 and the  Premier League in 2020 under manager Jürgen Klopp.As a television producer, <mask> formed a partnering with producer Marcy Carsey to create Carsey-Werner. The company produced several shows including The Cosby Show, Roseanne, 3rd Rock from the Sun and That '70s Show. <mask> served as executive producer for the reboot of Roseanne and was the executive producer for The Conners. Early life

<mask> was born to a Jewish family, in New York City; one of three children born to Elizabeth (née Grumbach) and <mask>. He has one sister, Patsy <mask>, and one brother, <mask>. He was educated at St. Bernard's School in Manhattan, The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, and graduated from Harvard University in 1971. Television career
In 1973, <mask> entered television by working for ABC-TV.In 1975, he became the Director of East Coast Prime Time Development. <mask> was promoted to senior vice president of the prime-time development department in 1979. While at ABC, <mask> was involved in the development of Mork & Mindy, Bosom Buddies, Soap, and Taxi. <mask> left the network in 1980 and co-founded The Carsey-Werner Company with Marcy Carsey the same year. In this capacity he served as executive producer of such television programs as The Cosby

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 Show, A Different World, Roseanne, 3rd Rock from the Sun, That 70s Show, and Grounded for Life. In 1996, <mask> was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. In 2000, <mask>, Carsey, and longtime partner Caryn Mandabach joined Oprah Winfrey to start Oxygen, a 24-hour cable channel which catered to the lifestyle and entertainment interests of the "millennial woman".In 2007, NBC Universal purchased the network for $925 million, and in 2017 it was rebranded as a multiplatform site with a focus on true-crime programming for women. Sports

San Diego Padres
<mask>’s entry into sports team ownership came when he and 14 other Southern California-based investors purchased the San Diego Padres from McDonald’s heiress Joan Kroc for US $75 million on June 14, 1990. As holder of the largest financial stake in the ballclub, he served as the team’s general managing partner. It was a difficult period economically in Major League Baseball, which was riven by the financial disparity between small- and large-market franchises and ultimately cancelled the 1994 World Series because of a work stoppage that carried into the following season. <mask> was appointed to Major League Baseball’s Executive Council and was chairman of MLB’s television negotiating committee, where he was an early proponent of the wild-card format that was first implemented in 1995. Just under six weeks into his new ownership role, he attempted to cross-promote the team with one of his television series in between games of a twi-night doubleheader versus the Cincinnati Reds at Jack Murphy Stadium on July 25, 1990. He had invited Roseanne Barr, the eponymous star of one of his sitcoms, to perform The Star-Spangled Banner on an evening billed as Working Women's Night at the ballpark.She comically sang the national anthem with a loud, screechy voice. After finishing her rendition, she grabbed her crotch and spat at the ground in an attempt to parody baseball players. The publicity stunt was met with condemnation from baseball fans and sportswriters, some of whom called it either the

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 "Barr-Mangled Banner" or the "Barr-Strangled Banner." The Padres missed capturing the National League (NL) West title by three games in 1989, a year prior to the start of <mask>'s tenure. Its 89–73 record was then the second best in franchise history. After a pair of winning seasons with third-place finishes in 1991 and 1992, the team fell precipitously into the NL West cellar at 61–101 in 1993, six games behind the expansion Colorado Rockies. It was on its way to a second consecutive last-place finish at 47–70, but a players strike prematurely ended the 1994 campaign.Critics at the time attributed this sudden free fall in the standings to cost-cutting measures ordered by <mask> and his fellow investors. The so-called Fire Sale of 1993 began on August 31, 1992, when Craig Lefferts was traded to the Baltimore Orioles. In the offseason, Randy Myers and Benito Santiago were allowed to become free agents, Tony Fernández and Mike Maddux were dealt to the New York Mets and Jerald Clark was selected by the Rockies in the expansion draft. Gary Sheffield was sent to the Marlins on June 24, 1993, Fred McGriff was shipped to the Atlanta Braves. Bruce Hurst and Greg Harris were moved to the Rockies on July 26. The trade of Darrin Jackson to the Toronto Blue Jays on March 30, 1993, resulted in a class action filed against the Padres. During the previous December, the team sent a letter to season-ticket holders assuring them that the maximum effort would be made to retain Jackson.Economic circumstances changed, however, after Jackson won a $2.1-million arbitration award in February. Refunds were offered to ticket holders involved in the lawsuit. <mask>'s term as majority owner ended when John Moores acquired an 80% interest for $80 million on December 22, 1994. <mask> retained a 10% share in the franchise until he sold it to Moores before the start of the 2007 season. The Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group

<mask> returned to baseball in 2001, part of a group that included former Orioles and Padres CEO Larry Lucchino and Florida Marlins owner John

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texts: W. Henry which made a successful bid to purchase the Boston Red Sox. Their bid, which totaled $700 million (including $40 million in assumed debt) was accepted by MLB on December 20, 2001, with formal approval coming on Feb. 27, 2002. Henry served as principal owner, <mask> was named chairman and Lucchino became club president and CEO, a collaboration that generated a historic level of success.The new ownership group had been the only prospective purchasers committed to saving Fenway Park, the team's historic home, and after three years of making substantial improvements to the ballpark, the owners made a long-term commitment to remain in Fenway, leading to more than $400 million in improvements during the first 17 years of their tenure. After the ballclub spent the 2002 season under interim GM Mike Port, who replaced Dan Duquette, the new ownership group promoted 28-year-old Theo Epstein, making him the youngest GM in baseball history. The Red Sox lost the 2003 ALCS in seven games to the New York Yankees in Epstein's first season, but under new manager Terry Francona overcame a three games to none deficit to the New York Yankees to win the 2004 ALCS, then defeated the St. Louis Cardinals for their first World Series title since 1918. World Series titles followed in 2007, 2013 and 2018. After leaving the Red Sox in 2011, Francona criticized <mask> for his focus on TV ratings, quoting <mask> in on 2010 meeting as saying: "We need to start winning in a more exciting fashion." Francona also criticized <mask> for exaggerating his role in Red Sox management:<mask> was constantly trying to assert his importance. When the Henry group first purchased the Red Sox, <mask> hired a public relations firm to get his name in the local newspapers.When stories were written about Henry or the Red Sox, he was known to call writers and ask, "Why didn't you mention me in your story?" Liverpool F.C. In 2010, the ownership group of Henry, Lucchino, and <mask> bought Premier League team Liverpool F.C. from lawyers acting on behalf of the Royal Bank of Scotland,

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texts: the lenders to former owners George N. Gillett, Jr. and <mask>. On November 25, 2010, Liverpool F.C. announced that <mask> would be installed as chairman, replacing Martin Broughton, beginning December 1, 2010. In May 2012, <mask> made a controversial decision by sacking manager and club icon Kenny Dalglish citing the club's poor league results.This was regarded as a poor decision by football experts such as BBC's Alan Hansen given Dalglish's success in lifting the club from 4 points above the relegation zone to a League Cup win and an FA Cup Finals appearance in just over a season. Swansea City's former manager, Brendan Rodgers, filled Dalglish's boots helping Liverpool finish 2nd in the 2013–14 Premier League that also earned a spot in the UEFA Champions league after a 5-year absence. Rodgers was sacked just over a year later after failing to qualify for the Champions League a second time, due partially to the sale of Luiz Suarez to F.C. Barcelona, and a disappointing start to the subsequent season. German manager Jürgen Klopp was named his replacement. According to El País, co-owner John Henry did not trust public opinion, so he looked for a mathematical method very similar to Moneyball, which turned out to be Cambridge physicist Ian Graham's mathematical model to select the coach and players essential for Liverpool to win the UEFA Champions League. In his first year in charge Klopp led the team to the Football League Cup Final and UEFA Europa League during the 2015–16 season.In 2017–18, despite the sale of Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona mid-season, Liverpool reached the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final which was their first time in 11 years. In the 2018–19 season, Liverpool finished second to Manchester City in the Premier League race by one point, and went on to win the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final to claim their sixth title in the competition which was also the first trophy under Klopp's management. After the European Cup win, Klopp signed a contract extension to 2024. In June 2020, following a prolonged season due to the

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 COVID-19 pandemic, Liverpool won the Premier League, their first ever Premier League title and their first top division league title since 1990. Community and philanthropy
<mask> is the founding Chairman of the Red Sox Foundation, the charitable arm of the Boston Red Sox. Since its creation in 2002, the Red Sox Foundation has donated to more than 1,780 organizations, helped 288 Boston public school students with college scholarships through the Red Sox Scholars program, and supported hundreds of youth baseball programs in New England. In 2008, <mask> was involved in the creation of the Home Base Program, a partnership between the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospita to help veterans and their families cope with PTSD and traumatic brain injuries.In November, 2011, the Red Sox Foundation received Major League Baseball's first-ever "Commissioner's Award for Philanthropic Excellence" for the foundation's "Red Sox Scholars" program. In January 2013, <mask> received the Dave Winfield Humanitarian Award from the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation at the organization's annual "In the Spirit of the Game" Sports and Entertainment Spectacular. On October 30, 2014, <mask> received the "Outstanding Civilian Service Award" from the United States Army for his creation of the Home Base Program. From 2016 to 2020, <mask> donated $113,250 to Democratic candidates and causes. Personal life
<mask> lives in Los Angeles. He is divorced from his first wife Jill Troy <mask>; they have three children: Edward "Ted" (born 1976), Carolyn (born 1979), and Amanda (born 1988). References

External links
Biography at Yahoo!Movies
Profile: <mask>

1950 births
Living people
American soccer chairmen and investors
American people of Jewish descent
Boston Red Sox owners
Businesspeople from New Jersey
Jewish American sportspeople
Businesspeople from New York City
The Harvard Lampoon alumni
Liverpool F.C. chairmen and investors
San Diego Padres owners
Television producers from New York City
Hotchkiss School alumni
St. Bernard's School

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title: David Jewett Waller Jr.

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<mask>. (July 17, 1846 – June 28, 1941) was a Pennsylvanian minister and educator. He attended Lafayette College and Ursinus College. <mask> was principal of the Bloomsburg State Normal School from 1877 to 1890 and 1906 to 1920, superintendent of public instruction from 1890 to 1893, and principal of a school in Indiana from 1893 to 1903. <mask> was ordained in 1874. Early life and education
<mask> was born on July 17, 1846. His parents were <mask>. and <mask>. He was their fifth child.When young he was educated at Bloomsburg. After that he went to a classical school in a local Primitive Methodist Episcopal Church. When <mask> was fourteen he was sent to a school run by Revered Gayley in the community of Media. In 1861, at the age of 15, he went to Williams College's preparatory department. However, due to sickness his education ceased for three years. In 1867, he was among the first people to graduate from the Bloomsburg Literary Institute. <mask> went to Lafayette College in the autumn of 1867.He did well there and graduated from there with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1870 and a Master of Arts degree in 1873. From 1870 to 1871 he trained to be and served as a tutor in Latin and Greek. While at Lafayette College he also won the Fowler Prize, a prize of $30 granted for excellence in English philology. <mask> attended the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1871 to 1872, then switched to the Union Theological Seminary and graduated from that in 1874. He received an honorary Ph.D from Lafayette College in 1880 and received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Ursinus College in 1892. Juniata College granted <mask> an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1934. Service to churches
The Presbytery of Northumberland gave <mask> permission to preach in 1873.He was ordained on November 30, 1874 by the Central presbytery of Philadelphia. From 1874 to 1876 <mask> served as a pastor in Philadelphia and from 1876 to 1877 he moved to Bloomsburg and served in this role in Orangeville, Rohrsburg, and Raven Creek, an area with approximately a twelve-mile radius. <mask> served with the Presbytery of Northumberland from

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