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 and earned an MBA from the Stanford Business School in 1936. His thesis was called The Economic Significance of California's Wilderness Areas. Olympic athlete

<mask> had been the captain of the Stanford University baseball team.Former professional baseball player Les Mann was an advocate for baseball as an Olympic sport. As a result of Mann's efforts, baseball was selected as a demonstration sport in the 1936 Summer Olympics played in Berlin. Originally, the United States team was scheduled to play a Japanese team, but the Japanese withdrew. The American team was separated into two squads who competed against each other in a single game. <mask> was the catcher for the "World Champions" lineup which beat the "U. S. Olympics" lineup to win the demonstration game 6-5 before a crowd of 90,000 people on August 12, 1936. Pack station operator

In 1929, <mask> rode a motorcycle up and down the Sierra Nevada, searching for a summer job. On the advice of a park ranger in Sequoia National Park, he was hired at a pack station in Mineral King because of his experience with horses and mules.That first summer, he shod mules, helped the camp cook, and did various chores. The following summer, he began leading mule trains into the wilderness of the High Sierra. The Great Depression hit the pack station business hard, and work was negligible the next two summers. He worked a bit in the summer of 1933, and business picked up for the summer of 1934. In the fall of 1934, he interviewed the operators of dozens of pack stations throughout the Sierra Nevada, questioning them in depth about their business operations. He compiled a list of 71 pack stations operating in California's wilderness areas. This formed the basis for his MBA thesis at Stanford.Beginning in 1934, he advocated for a trade group for pack station operators. By 1936, the High Sierra Packers Association had 35 members, and he served as its executive secretary. In 1937, he bought an interest in the Mineral King Pack Station, and in 1946, bought two pack stations in the eastern Sierra that he merged to form the Mount Whitney Pack

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 Trains. He was the largest wilderness outfitter in the Sierra Nevada for a number of years in the 1940s. World War II service

<mask> was commissioned a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II, and participated in the amphibious landings on Sicily, Iwo Jima, Palau and Okinawa. Sierra Club

Livermore joined the Sierra Club in the 1930s. He was the outfitter for many of its High Trips and served on the board of directors of the Sierra Club from 1941 to 1949.He came up with the concept for the first  of the club's Biennial Wilderness Conferences, which was held on April 8–9, 1949. These conferences continued for more than 20 years. During a bitter faction fight in 1969, he consulted with opponents of club executive director David Brower, including Ansel Adams and Richard M. Leonard, to develop a plan to restructure the club after Brower's departure. Brower resigned under pressure during a board meeting held May 3–4, 1969. In 1979, Livermore received the Sierra Club's Walter A. Starr Award for service to the club by a former director. Lumberman

He served as treasurer for the Pacific Lumber Company from 1952 to 1967, when it was committed to sustainable yields, in the years long before the company was acquired by Maxxam, Inc. and went bankrupt. Governor Reagan's cabinet

Livermore, who did not know Ronald Reagan before he was elected Governor of California in 1966, was selected to serve as Reagan's Secretary of Resources.A shared love for horseback riding helped cement a relationship between the men. <mask> served from 1967 to 1975, and was the only Reagan cabinet official who served during the entire eight years of Reagan's administration. He developed a close friendship with Reagan during those years. Livermore convened a meeting between Governor Reagan and Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt that resulted in an agreement to preserve the Lake Tahoe basin. <mask> worked with Reagan to defeat the proposed Trans-Sierra Highway, which would have divided the longest stretch of wilderness area in the contiguous 48 states and would have bisected the John Muir Trail. Livermore


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 his efforts in the environment. He was not only a cabinet member but a personal friend (of Reagan). He had great, great respect for Ike." Environmentalist and author Martin Litton summarized <mask>'s role in the Reagan administration, "Ike was a Republican. He was a good person to have there because he was so pro-wilderness. If he had an obsession at all, it was to keep the Sierra Nevada wild for the whole stretch from Tioga Pass in Yosemite National Park south to Walker Pass. And that meant keeping the trans-Sierra roads out of there."After Reagan was elected President in 1980, <mask> headed his transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency. Board service

<mask> served on the boards of many organizations, including the National Audubon Society, the Save the Redwoods League, the Thacher School, the Sierra Club, The Peregrine Fund and the Stanford Business School Advisory Council. He served as treasurer of the Commonwealth Club. He chaired the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Commission. He was a longtime member of the California Fish and Game Commission, and served as its president from 1982 to 1983. While on that body, he worked on recovery of the California condor population. He served as Grand Marshal of the Bishop Mule Days.Hetch Hetchy activism

<mask> was a longtime advocate of restoring the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park by removing O'Shaughnessy Dam. He served on the advisory committee for the grassroots advocacy group "Restore Hetch Hetchy" until his death. <mask> died in Novato, California, on December 5, 2006. References

External links
 The Thacher School - Remembering Ike Livermore
 <mask> “Ike<mask> Jr Memorial - Find A Grave

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<mask> (August 17, 1924 – April 18, 1967) was an American philosopher of science. <mask> was a pioneer in advancing the argument that observation is theory-laden — that observation language and theory language are deeply interwoven — and that historical and contemporary comprehension are similarly deeply interwoven. His single most central intellectual concern was the comprehension and development of a logic of discovery. Work
<mask>'s best-known work is Patterns of Discovery (1958), in which he argues that what we see and perceive is not what our senses receive, but is instead filtered sensory information, where the filter is our existing preconceptions – a concept later called a 'thematic framework.' He cited optical illusions such as the famous old Parisienne woman (Patterns of Discovery, p. 11), which can be seen in different ways. <mask> drew a distinction between 'seeing as' and 'seeing that' which became a key idea in evolving theories of perception and meaning. He wanted to formulate a logic explaining how scientific discoveries take place.He used Charles Sanders Peirce's notion of abduction for this. <mask>'s other books include The Concept of the Positron (1963). <mask> was a staunch defender of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which regards questions such as "Where was the particle before I measured its position?" as meaningless. The philosophical issues involved were important elements in <mask>'s views of perception and epistemology. He was intrigued by paradoxes, and with the related concepts of uncertainty, undecidability/unprovability, and incompleteness; he

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 sought models of cognition that could embrace these elements, rather than simply explain them away. <mask>'s posthumous works include What I Do Not Believe and Other Essays (1971) and Constellations and Conjectures (1973).He is also known for the essays What I Do Not Believe and The Agnostic's Dilemma, among other writings on belief systems. From Michael Scriven's preface to <mask>'s posthumous Perception and Discovery:

In a general sense <mask> continues the application of the Wittgensteinian approach to the philosophy of science, as Waissman and Toulmin have also done. But he goes much further than they, exploring questions about perception and discovery in more detail, and ... tying in the history of science for exemplification and for its own benefit. <mask> was one of the rare thinkers in the tradition of Whewell – a man he much admired – who could really benefit from and yield benefits for both the history and philosophy of science. Influence

<mask>'s 1958 work Patterns of Discovery was followed up on by Thomas Kuhn in Kuhn's 1962 landmark, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, that challenged prevailing conceptions of science's development, conceptions that ranged from the strictures of logical empiricism to naive presumptions of objective scientific realism. <mask> led the move to carry history of science into philosophy of science—two rather divergent fields at the time—as <mask> insisted that proper study of one demanded deep understanding of the other. With Kuhn's contribution, <mask>'s interdisciplinary view became generally accepted.Similarly, Robert Nozick's 1974 work on

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 political philosophy, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, quotes <mask> to support Nozick's aim to understand the "whole political realm" by "understanding the political realm in terms of the nonpolitical". Life

<mask> was born in 1924 in West New York, New Jersey. He studied trumpet with the legendary William Vacchiano and played at Carnegie Hall, but his musical career was interrupted by World War II. He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard, later transferring to the United States Marine Corps, where he trained as a fighter pilot, developing a reputation as a 'hot pilot' (famously looping the Golden Gate Bridge). He served on the ill-fated USS Franklin in the VMF-452 "Skyraiders" Squadron, for which he designed the unit's logo. When the Franklin was bombed and nearly destroyed on 19 March 1945, his Corsair was described as 'the last plane off Big Ben.' After flying over 2,000 hours, he returned to civilian life, seeking an education via the G.I.Bill rather than continuing a life in music. He took degrees from the University of Chicago and Columbia University, then proceeded with his new wife Fay to the UK in 1949, under a Fulbright Scholarship. He completed multiple degrees at both Oxford and Cambridge, and stayed in Britain to continue teaching and writing. <mask> left the life of a Cambridge don to return to the U.S. in 1957, founding the Indiana University Department of History and Philosophy of Science, the first of its kind, and receiving a Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1963, <mask> moved to Yale University. He also continued to fly – an AT-6

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 Texan trainer, and later a Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat. His unusual style and personal history, including his aerobatics over the Yale Bowl and at airshows as 'The Flying Professor,' were noted by a generation of students – including John Kerry.His time at Yale was strained by campus politics, where he was caught in the midst of an infamous 1964-65 fight over Yale's tenure policies (the "Bernstein Affair"). <mask> died in 1967, when his Bearcat crashed in dense fog en route to Ithaca, New York. He was survived by wife Fay and children Trevor (b. 1955) and Leslie (b. 1958). His rich, complex life – ranging from Golden Gloves boxing to drawing illustrations for Homer's Iliad; from camping on a Harley-Davidson to testifying before the U.S. Senate; from tough city youth to distinguished scholarship – was cut short at the age of 42, with ten books in progress, including a history of aerodynamic theory. Works
Books
Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science.Cambridge University Press, 1958. . The Concept of the Positron. Cambridge University Press, 1963. . Perception and Discovery: An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry. Freeman, Cooper & Co., 1969 [Wadsworth, 1970]. . Observation and Explanation: A Guide to Philosophy of Science. (Harper Essays in Philosophy) Harper & Row, 1971. .
What I Do Not Believe and Other Essays, (Toulmin/Woolf, eds).Synthese Library, D. Reidel, 1971. .
Constellations and Conjectures, (Humphreys, ed). D. Reidel, 1973. .
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See also

 American philosophy
 List of American philosophers

References
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Bibliography

 Lund, Matthew D., N.R. <mask>: Observation, Discovery, and Scientific Change. Humanity Books, 2010. .
 Kranish, Michael et al., John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best. PublicAffairs, 2004. . Remarks about connection between <mask> and John Kerry
 Thomas J. Hickey, History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science. [http://philsci.com/book7.htm Brief biography of <mask> – The semantics of discovery
 Weiland, Charles Patrick, Above & Beyond.I Books, 2004. [prior: Pacifica Press, 1997. ]. Recent memoir, by <mask>'s WWII commanding officer, of his squadron's fate on USS Franklin. Many anecdotes about <mask> – e.g. a reprimand for 'flathatting' a military airfield scant feet over the runway...while flying inverted – but also factual errors on <mask>'s military and subsequent career. 1924 births
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<mask> (born August 28, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player. Amateur career
<mask> played high school basketball at Romulus High School, and signed to play for Dick Vitale at the University of Detroit. <mask> established himself quickly with a Detroit program that would produce an unprecedented run during his time with the Titans (1974-1978). Vitale added future NBA players such as Terry Duerod, Terry Tyler and Dennis Boyd and built a dominating independent program at the Jesuit university. <mask> played shooting guard for the team, averaging 23.3 ppg on a .525 shooting percentage as a senior. UD advanced to the 1977 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament in his junior year, defeating Middle Tennessee in the first round before losing to Michigan in the Sweet 16 86-81 to end a stellar season, finishing #12 in the polls. The team was left out of the NCAA in <mask>s's senior year, 1977-78, playing in the 1978 NIT, despite a 25-4 record and a #18 ranking.In four seasons at Detroit, <mask> scored 2,167 points, the first Titan to score more than 2000 points, and was inducted into the Detroit Mercy Titans Hall of Fame in 1993. Professional career
After starring at the University of Detroit, the shooting guard was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the second round of the 1978 NBA draft. The move was largely influenced by Pistons Head Coach Dick

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 Vitale, who coached <mask> at UD before going to the Pistons in 1978. He played eight seasons for the Pistons, and averaged a career-high 21.9 points per game in 1981–82. <mask> was the original backcourt partner to point guard Isiah Thomas before Joe Dumars was drafted. During his time with the Pistons, <mask> would play alongside University of Detroit teammates Duerod, Boyd and Tyler. <mask> left Detroit to play for the Indiana Pacers in 1986, where he paired with Reggie Miller, and then returned to the Pistons in the 1988-89 Detroit Pistons season, helping the team win the NBA championship.He spent the next season with the Atlanta Hawks and then returned to Detroit in 1990-91, played in France, the Continental Basketball Association, and even played with a touring team for <mask>. Not done, <mask> signed with the Toronto Raptors in 1996, played with the Raptors for one season, and then retired in 1997 with 12,131 career points. At the time, the 41-year-old <mask> was the second oldest player in the NBA behind Robert Parish, who was 43. Personal life
Two of <mask>'s nephews, Terry Mills and <mask>, also played in the NBA. The nephews were teammates in Detroit during the 1996–1997 season. All three men played two seasons or more for the Detroit Pistons. <mask> has worked as a radio analyst for the Pistons.<mask> was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame

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<mask> (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. <mask> was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. Early life
<mask> was born June 24, 1938 in Buffalo, New York, where he was raised. He attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, but left before graduating. <mask>'s earliest work, published pseudonymously in the 1950s, was mostly in the soft-porn mass market paperback industry, an apprenticeship he shared with fellow mystery author Donald E. Westlake. <mask> describes the early sex novels as a valuable experience, noting that despite the titillating content of the books (rather mild by later standards of adult fiction) he was expected to write fully developed novels with plausible plots, characters and conflicts.He further credits the softcore novels as a factor in his prolific output; writing 15 to 20 sex novels per year to support himself financially, <mask> was forced to learn to write in a manner that required little revision and editing of his first drafts. His first novel was a lesbian fiction titled Strange Are The Ways of Love, written under the name Lesley Evans. In 2016, <mask> reissued this novel with a new title Shadows, under another of his pseudonyms, Jill Emerson. The first of his work to appear under his own name was the 1957 story "You Can't Lose," for the crime/adventure magazine Manhunt. The first novel to be published under <mask>'s name was Grifter's Game (1961). It started as an erotic novel but, as <mask> would later write, "I decided it might be a cut above what I'd been writing, so I wrote it as a crime novel with the hope it might work for Gold Medal." He has since published more than fifty novels and more than a hundred

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 short stories, as well as a series of books for writers.<mask> has lived in New York City for decades, setting most of his fiction there, and has come to be very closely associated with the city. He is married to Lynne <mask>. He has three daughters, Amy Reichel, <mask> and Alison Pouliot, from an earlier marriage. With Lynne, he spends much of his time traveling (the two have been to 135 countries), but continues to consider New York his home. He was a regular guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005-2015), appearing in eight of Ferguson's ten seasons as host of the program. Considerable autobiographical information on the earlier phase of his life and career may be found scattered through Telling Lies for Fun and Profit (1981), a collection of his fiction columns from Writer's Digest. In 2005 he was honored with the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award.<mask> is an alumnus of the Ragdale Foundation. Recurring characters

Matthew Scudder

<mask>'s most famous creation, the ever-evolving Matthew Scudder, was introduced in 1976's The Sins of the Fathers as an alcoholic ex-cop working as an unlicensed private investigator in Hell's Kitchen. Originally published as paperbacks, the early novels are in many ways interchangeable; the second and third entries—In the Midst of Death (1976) and Time to Murder and Create (1977)—were written in the opposite order from their publication dates. 1982's 8 Million Ways to Die (filmed in 1986 by Hal Ashby, with unpopular results) breaks from that trend, concluding with Scudder introducing himself at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The series was set to end on that note, but an idle promise <mask> had made to supply an editor friend with an original Scudder short resulted in "By the Dawn's Early Light", a story set during the character's drinking days, but told from the perspective of a

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 recovering alcoholic. <mask> expanded on that with 1986's When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (named for a line in a song by folk singer Dave Van Ronk, a close friend), which proved not only one of the more literary entries, but also a favorite of the author and his fans. From then on, Scudder's circumstances rarely remain the same from one book to the next; 1990's A Ticket to the Boneyard, for example, reunites him with Elaine Mardell, a hooker from his days on the force, whom he marries several books later.Other fan favorites are 1991's taut, gruesome A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (winner of the Edgar Award for Best [mystery] Novel), and 1993's A Long Line of Dead Men, a tightly plotted puzzler featuring a rapidly dwindling fraternity known as the "Club of 31". A Walk Among the Tombstones, published in 1992, was made into a film, released in 2014, written and directed by Scott Frank, with Liam Neeson playing the lead role. The seventeenth entry, A Drop of the Hard Stuff was published in May 2011. It has been suggested that Scudder's struggle with alcoholism is in part autobiographical; while <mask> has repeatedly refused to discuss the subject, citing AA's own tradition of anonymity, in a column he wrote for Writer's Digest, <mask> wrote that when he created Scudder, "I let him hang out in the same saloon where I spent a great deal of my own time. I was drinking pretty heavily around that time, and I made him a pretty heavy drinker, too. I drank whiskey, sometimes mixing it with coffee. So did Scudder."Bernie Rhodenbarr

<mask>'s other major series, humorous and much lighter in tone, relates the misadventures of gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. The series is rich in sophisticated, witty dialogue. Unlike Scudder, Rhodenbarr is ageless, remaining essentially the same from 1977's Burglars Can't Be Choosers, to the eleventh and most

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 recent entry, 2013's The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons. The only significant advancements come in the third volume, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979, winner of the first annual Nero Award) which sees Bernie having used the spoils from his previous caper to buy a bookstore, and introduces Carolyn Kaiser, his lesbian "soulmate" and partner in crime. The plots run very much to form: Bernie breaks into a residence (usually on Manhattan's Upper East Side) and, through a series of implausible events, becomes involved in a murder investigation—often as the prime suspect. Not even an eleven-year hiatus (between 1983's The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian and 1994's The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams) would see that basic formula change. There is, however, a meta quality to the more recent entries: Bernie, the reluctant detective, is himself a bookseller and genre fan, and is apt to make references to Agatha Christie, E.W.Hornung (his cat is named "Raffles"), Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton and John Sandford, among others. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995) exploits this to full effect: set during a Humphrey Bogart film festival, the story is itself inspired by many of the actor's most famous roles. The Burglar in the Library (1997) similarly imagines a meeting between Hammett and Chandler at a New England inn in the 1940s, casting a volume inscribed by Chandler to Hammett as its own Maltese Falcon. In The Burglar in the Rye, Bernie helps track down a writer clearly based on J.D. Salinger. The second novel, The Burglar in The Closet, was filmed in 1987 as Burglar, with Whoopi Goldberg as Bernie (or Bernice). Evan Michael Tanner

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 Korean War, cannot sleep.All but the last of these were published in the 1960s and early 1970s (beginning with 1966's The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep), while the most recent, 1998's Tanner on Ice, revived the character after nearly a thirty-year hiatus. Chip Harrison
Chip Harrison, running on the twin engines of lust and curiosity, originally appeared in two funny, non-mystery novels which revolved around seventeen-year-old Chip's obsessive quest to lose his virginity: No Score and Chip Harrison Scores Again. Realizing the series didn't have much of a future once Chip reached his goal, <mask> puts Chip to work as an assistant to Leo Haig, an admirer of sleuth Nero Wolfe who models himself after his hero (e.g., Wolfe raises tropical flowers, Haig raises tropical fish). They appeared in two subsequent, decidedly tongue-in-cheek mystery novels: Make Out With Murder and The Topless Tulip Caper, and a handful of short stories. Keller

Four episodic novels (Hit Man (1998), Hit List (2000), Hit Parade (2006) and Hit Me (2013)) as well as one full-length novel (Hit and Run (2008)) chronicle the life of Keller, a lonely, wistful hitman who originally appeared as a semi-regular feature in Playboy magazine in the 1990s. Most of the novels are fix-ups of related short stories; Hit and Run is the only Keller novel conceived of and written as a single story. In 2016, a new novella was published, Keller's Fedora, in which Keller is persuaded to come out of retirement for one last job.Keller's full name is John Paul Keller (a fact mentioned in Hit Man), although he is rarely called anything but Keller in the series. The stories are rarely action-oriented or focused on the details of his crimes, instead being character studies of Keller's personality and the people he meets (e.g., Keller's being hired to kill a major league baseball designated hitter


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 but postponing the act and following the team to away games so the hitter can reach the career milestone of 400 home runs). Originally based in New York City, after a disastrous hit gone wrong he later relocates to New Orleans where he lives under the name "Nicholas Edwards" and marries, has a child and works in construction. Keller receives assignments via a contact named Dot, who is originally based in White Plains. His assignments usually take him to different cities, where he often envisions himself retiring from the business, daydreaming about settling there, before finishing off the assignment and returning, his fantasies forgotten as a passing dream. Keller's pastime is stamp collecting, to which he is nearly obsessively devoted. He collects non-U.S. issues, prior to 1940, with a particular interest in stamps from former colonies of the French Empire.Hit and Run was nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards. Other works
Small Town (2003), <mask>'s first non-series book in fifteen years, details a group of New Yorkers' varying responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. <mask> has also written dozens of short stories over the years, and he is the only four-time winner of the Edgar Award for Best Short Story. The 2002 collection Enough Rope compiles stories, 84 in all, from earlier collections, such as Like a Lamb to Slaughter and Sometimes They Bite, along with new and previously uncollected stories. <mask> describes series character Martin H. Ehrengraf as a dapper little criminal defense lawyer whose clients all turn out to be innocent. Ehrengraf charges a mere $1 retainer fee and afterwards works on contingency; he gets paid a massive fee if and only if his clients are cleared of wrongdoing. When his clients are cleared, it's because Ehrengraf has committed misdeeds up to and including

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 murder to exonerate his client and often frame another for the crimes.The first short story featuring Ehrengraf, "The Ehrengraf Defense," was published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1978. By 2003, twelve stories had been published and in 2012 <mask> completed an eleventh story, "The Ehrengraf Settlement." All eleven were collected and published in an eVolume, Ehrengraf For The Defense (2012). In addition to writing the scripts for a handful of television episodes over the years—including, in 2005, two episodes of the ESPN series Tilt—<mask> co-wrote the screenplay for My Blueberry Nights, a 2007 film directed by Wong Kar-wai and starring Norah Jones. These stories are collected in the 2002 anthology Enough Rope, and in the final Rhodenbarr book, The Burglar in Short Order. Evan Tanner novels
The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966)
The Canceled Czech (1966)
Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
The Scoreless Thai (also known as Two for Tanner; 1968)
Tanner's Tiger (1968)
Here Comes a Hero (also known as Tanner's Virgin; 1968)
Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
Tanner on Ice (1998)

Chip Harrison novels/stories (as Chip Harrison)
No Score (1970)
Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971)
Make Out With Murder (a.k.a. The Five Little Rich Girls) (1974)
The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)
"As Dark As Christmas Gets" (1997), a Chip Harrison short story written specifically for customers of the Otto Penzler–owned Mysterious Bookshop; printed in booklet format for the 1997 holiday season, and collected in Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop (Vanguard Press 2010, )
A collection of eighty-four short stories, Enough Rope (2002), contains two Chip Harrison stories.Keller novels
Hit Man (1998)
Hit List (2000)
Hit Parade (2006)
Hit and Run (2008)
Hit Me (2013)
Keller's Fedora (2016) (Novella)
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<mask> (, ; 1890–1942) was an early watercolor painter from Yangon and the first Burmese to travel abroad for studies in Western painting. Early history and training
<mask> lost his mother in early childhood and so his father sent him to Yangon High School as a boarding student. There he exhibited an interest in drawing, but he was temperamental and one day quarreled with a teacher and quit school. He then decided to travel to England to study art. The events which followed, attributed to the year 1906, have become a part of Burmese folklore. He allegedly went to Rangoon harbor to find a ship which would carry him to England and asked the captain of one ship there for a job as a seaman. While talking to the captain he drew his portrait, and the captain was so taken with the youth’s portrait of him and his adventuresome spirit that he agreed to take him on board as a seaman.<mask> <mask> <mask> was about 16 years old at that time. <mask> <mask> <mask> reached England and studied there for two or three years. It is not known what school he attended, but his main studies seemed to have been agriculture, as well as art and chemistry. There is some possibility that during his time in England he may also have had to work as a dishwasher to make ends meet. It seems not to have been an institution of higher learning for when he returned to Burma, about 1908 or shortly thereafter, he continued with his secondary education at St. Paul’s English High School in Rangoon for two years. Following his studies at St. Paul’s, he became an agricultural officer for the colonial government, which offered him the chance to tour the country, painting its scenes in his free time. Personality and further imbroglios
As a youth who had traveled to England in such a daring way, <mask> <mask> <mask> became famous in Burma, as a

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 model to young Burmese youth who were so provincial and timid that they often feared leaving their villages.He became notorious in other respects. Although he developed a passion for Western-style painting, he had a great resentment of his colonial masters, especially British officers. In 1938, when a Burmese-Indian massacre or riot broke out in Mandalay, <mask> <mask> <mask> found himself a catalyst in the conflagration. The city of Mandalay was curfewed and two provocateurs, a Shwe Pe and Shwe Sin, were put on trial behind closed doors. Photographs of the accused were forbidden; however, <mask> Maung managed to view the court proceedings accompanying a Burmese reporter and memorized the faces of the accused and then sent their portraits to the newspapers where they were printed. According to Nyan Shein, “the massacre spread through the whole of Burma… Therefore the British had to curfew the whole country.”  These events are difficult to corroborate, but Cady in his A History of Modern Burma mentions anti-Indian riots occurring throughout Burma in 1938. Another notorious incident involving <mask> <mask> <mask> is a quarrel that he had with one of his superior British officers in the agricultural department, alleging punching the man and subsequently quitting his job as an agricultural officer for good.This event may have occurred prior to the incidents of the Indian-Burmese riots above, attributed to the year 1938, for in the following year, 1939, when the State School of Art and Music opened up, he became an instructor there. This was a prestigious position. The principal of the school was San Win, and to other painters of note, Ba Kyi and <mask> <mask> Mya, were teachers at the school. Works
<mask> <mask> <mask> is known to have owned a large collection of paintings, but whether these paintings were

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 strictly his own works or included works which he had collected by other painters in Burma is not known. In any event, during World War II, his house burned down and his entire collection was lost. Not many works by <mask> <mask> <mask> have survived. Four of his watercolors are currently in the collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.A fifth painting appears on page 13 of Old Myanmar Paintings in the Collection of U Win (2006) by Hla Tin Htun, and it is said that the National Museum of Myanmar owns a painting or paintings by <mask> <mask> <mask> but if so, the work has not been on display in recent years. Influences and legacy
Although <mask> <mask> <mask> is said to have studied art in England, his greater influences in painting may actually have come through exposure to British painters whom he personally encountered in Burma or whose works he saw there. In particular, one British painter who may have influenced him is B.H. Wiles, who published reproductions of his paintings of Burma in India  and England. B.H. Wiles work has appeared in Christie’s auctions in recent years but with little biographical information about him beyond the fact that he was a 19th and 20th century painter. One account of <mask> <mask> <mask>’s life records that he was a companion painter of B.H.Wiles when Wiles painted in Burma. This account also maintains that <mask> <mask> <mask>’s paintings were marketed in Germany. <mask> <mask> <mask>’s work also shows irrefutable influence of Robert Talbot Kelly, the British painter who traveled throughout Burma in the early 1900s, producing a large tome of his collected scenes of Burma in his book Burma, Painted and Described (1905). One of the four paintings in the Pitt Rivers Museum collection done by <mask> Maiung <mask> is an exact replica of a painting entitled Express

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 Steamer Passing Sagaing on page 146 of Talbot Kelly’s book. This is not to suggest by any means that <mask> <mask> <mask> had a habit of copying works from other painters; rather, as many painters of both the Traditional and Western Schools did in Burma in the early days, he copied the works of painters he admired in order to learn. <mask> <mask> <mask> is said to have influenced and been influenced by the early artist of the Traditional School, Saya Aye. After returning from England, <mask> <mask> <mask> is said to have given Saya Aye instruction in Western painting in exchange for instruction in Traditional art.However, evidence of Traditional techniques hardly exists in <mask> <mask> <mask>’s work, and while <mask> <mask> <mask> may have left an influence on Saya Aye in his Western-style works, it is clear from a painting dated 1909 by Saya Aye, entitled Burmese Gentleman and Wife, now in the collection of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, that Saya Aye must have already made large steps on his own to learn Western techniques before meeting <mask> <mask> <mask>. <mask> <mask> <mask>’s influence in Burma was largely as a watercolor painter who traveled about Burma capturing its scenes in the plein air style. The plein air mode of painting later became very common among Upper Burma painters such as Saya Saung and Ba Thet in his early works. Death
In his last years, <mask> <mask> <mask> acquired heart disease. He died in a small village in Upper Burma. His son, Kin <mask> (Yangon)—not to be confused with Kin <mask> (Bank)—also became a well-known painter in Burma. Museum Collections
 Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

See also
 Saya Aye (painter)
 Robert Talbot Kelly

Notes

1890 births
1942 deaths
Burmese artists
People from Yangon
20th-century Burmese painters
Burmese people of World War II
Deaths from heart

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<mask> (born 9 December 1933, London, UK) is an author and cartoonist. He is best known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States in 1975. Biography
<mask> attended Hendon School (then Hendon County School), London, in the 1940s–50s. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a PhD in history in 1964 and taught on a "Floating University", an educational cruise ship that traveled around the world in the mid-60s. He later taught at a community college in Bend, Oregon. During the "Summer of Love" in San Francisco in 1967, <mask> gave daily lectures near the Haight Street entrance of Golden Gate Park. He released a live album recorded in Golden Gate Park in 1967 on a small Hollywood, California record label, Dorash Enterprises (Dorash LP-1001).The album, <mask> Brilliant in the Haight-Ashbury, is quite rare today. The material uses familiar public domain tunes and melodies and incorporates clever poetic lyrics about marijuana, the Diggers, San Francisco neighborhoods, and his personal experiences, all the while displaying a banter which ebbs and flows with his audience, who respond warmly to the performance and also participate in the songs. He states in the recording that he had been performing in this setting for approximately two hours each day the prior four weeks. He laughs throughout his performance, while the audience joins him in singing along and banging on percussive items. The album ends with a "Haight-Ashbury Farewell". The Wall Street Journal

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 described him in a 1992 profile as "history's only full time, professional published epigrammatist." At one time, there was some confusion and controversy as to the ownership and recognition of his distinctive art form.In a copyright infringement suit filed by <mask>, a United States federal judge ruled that while short phrases are not eligible for copyright, Brilliant's works were epigrams and therefore copyrightable (Brilliant v. W.B. Productions Inc., 1979). While Brilliant employs a self-imposed limit of 17 words per epigram, he has actually written and published 41 with 18 words and one with 19 words. Once discovered, all these errors were corrected and then re-published. In 1999 he authored the "Y1K Crisis" article which parodies the "Y2K Crisis" of 1999. Part of the counter-culture scene in San Francisco in the late 1960s, Brilliant wrote and sang a series of parody songs about the hippie movement in Golden Gate Park as the hippie movement happened. Called The Haight-Ashbury Songbook, the songs now appear on a CD collection available on his website.Brilliant celebrated his 80th birthday in December 2013 in Franceschi Park in his current home town of Santa Barbara, California. There he was presented with a document signed by the mayor proclaiming him to be the "Wise Old Man of the Mountain". Criticism
In an essay entitled "Against intellectual property", Brian Martin cites Brilliant as a "professional epigrammatist" who has been known to threaten legal action in order to display his market precedence over legally owned fragments of human


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 Other Brilliant Thoughts (1979), ,
 I Have Abandoned My Search for Truth, and Am Now Looking for a Good Fantasy: More Brilliant Thoughts (1980), ,  (paperback)
 Appreciate Me Now, and Avoid the Rush: Yet More Brilliant Thoughts (1981), ,  (paperback)
 I Feel Much Better, Now That I've Given Up Hope: And Even More Brilliant Thoughts (1984), ,  (paperback)
 All I Want Is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts (1985), ,  (paperback)
 The Great Car Craze: How Southern California Collided with the Automobile in the 1920s (1989), . Be a Good Neighbor, and Leave Me Alone: And Other Wry and Riotous Writings (1992), ,  (paperback)
 I Try to Take One Day at a Time, but Sometimes Several Days Attack Me at Once: More Brilliant Thoughts Than Ever (1987), ,  (paperback)
 We've Been Through So Much Together, and Most of It Was Your Fault: More and More Brilliant Thoughts (1990), ,
 I Want to Reach Your Mind... Where Is It Currently Located? : More Incredibly Brilliant Thoughts (1994), ,  (paperback)
 I'm Just Moving Clouds Today, Tomorrow I'll Try Mountains: And Other More or Less Blissfully Brilliant Thoughts (1998),

References

Sources
Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924–1995: The Complete Index.Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. . External links

Haight Ashbury Song Book <mask> <mask>, 1967, photograph
<mask> <mask> in Santa Barbara (interview), David Peacock (Dux Lux Productions), 2014

American cartoonists
British cartoonists
Epigrammatists
Artists from London
Writers from California
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<mask> (887–959), courtesy name Zisong, formally Duke Chouliao of Chu (), was the chief strategist of Emperor Liezu of Southern Tang (Xu Zhigao/Li Bian), the founding emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Southern Tang. His strategies were viewed as instrumental in allowing Xu Zhigao to consolidate his power during the latter part of the regency of Xu Wen, Xu Zhigao's adoptive father and regent of Wu, eventually allowing Xu Zhigao to take over the Wu state and take the throne as the emperor of Southern Tang. After the establishment of Southern Tang, <mask> had a fall out with Emperor Liezu and largely lost his power, but became powerful again during the reign of Emperor Liezu's son Emperor Yuanzong, until he eventually lost the trust of the emperor and committed suicide in 959. Background
<mask> was born in 887, during the late Tang Dynasty. His family had been from Luling (廬陵, in modern Ji'an, Jiangxi) for generations. In his youth, he was studious and ambitious, and was particularly well-learned in strategies. <mask>u's father <mask> (), at some point, served as the deputy military governor to the late Tang warlord Zhong Chuan the military governor of Zhennan Circuit (鎮南, headquartered in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi).After <mask>'s death, <mask>u thus remained at Zhennan and became dependent on Zhong and Zhong's family (apparently including Zhong's son and successor Zhong Kuangshi). At some point, he apparently became a candidate for imperial examinations, but it was unclear whether he actually stood for those examinations. During Hongnong/Wu
In 906, Zhennan was conquered by Yang Wo, the ruler of rival Huainan Circuit (淮南, headquartered in modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu). With the Zhongs thus no longer in control, <mask>u became impoverished, and

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texts: was forced to follow a group of people to head to Huainan proper to try to make a living. He eventually was forced to work for a house of prostitution run by a Lady Wei, apparently at Sheng Prefecture (昇州, in modern Nanjing, Jiangsu). Lady Wei supplied him with money, and he eventually took her as his wife. In 912, by which point Huainan (and other affiliated circuits, including Zhennan) essentially constituted an independent state of Wu ruled titularly by Yang Wo's brother and successor Yang Longyan but was actually being ruled by Yang Longyan's regent Xu Wen, Xu Wen's adoptive son Xu Zhigao was made the prefect of Sheng Prefecture.He was building a staff and welcomed talented people as staff members. <mask> offered his poems to Xu Zhigao through the officer Yao Kezhan () to show his talent. Xu Zhigao was impressed with his talent and invited him to serve on staff. <mask> thereafter became a chief strategist for Xu Zhigao. By 917, Xu Zhigao was said to have built Sheng Prefecture into such a prosperous city that, when his adoptive father Xu Wen visited, he came to like the city, and therefore set his headquarters there. He promoted Xu Zhigao to be the military prefect (團練使, Tuanlianshi) of Run Prefecture (潤州, in modern Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), where his headquarters had previously been, despite Xu Zhigao's wishes to be given Xuan Prefecture (宣州, in modern Xuancheng, Anhui). Initially, Xu Zhigao was not happy, but <mask> privately advised him to accept the Run command, pointing out that Run Prefecture was just across the Yangtze River from the Wu capital Guangling — easy for him to take advantage of any disturbances that might rise as a result of misdeeds by Xu Zhigao's adoptive brother Xu Zhixun, whom, as Xu Wen's oldest biological son, Xu Wen had left in charge at Guangling

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texts: as junior regent.Given <mask>'s analysis, Xu Zhigao changed his attitude and accepted the Run command gladly. When, as <mask> anticipated, the senior general Zhu Jin started an uprising at Guangling in 918 and killed Xu Zhixun, Xu Zhigao was able to cross the river easily and put down the disturbance quickly. With Xu Wen's other biological sons all being young, Xu Wen thus left Xu Zhigao as the junior regent at Guangling, replacing Xu Zhixun. Xu Zhigao changed from the ways that Xu Zhixun misruled and gained the trust of the people and the officials. <mask> continued to serve as Xu Zhigao's chief strategist. In particular, it was said that it was <mask> who advocated a major reduction in the silk tax to encourage the people to produce silk, and that after Xu Zhigao adopted the suggestion, the region between the Yangtze and the Huai River became very wealthy. Xu Zhigao wanted to promote <mask> to higher position, but Xu Wen disliked <mask> and left him at a relatively low rank, as an army secretary.Nevertheless, it was said that Xu Zhigao and <mask> would nightly converse in private at a pavilion by the river, or in a hall with no barriers but with a great furnace, for them to use pokers to write in the ash, thus allowing them to quickly erase whatever they wrote to each other and keep their conversation secret. Still, only after Xu Wen's death in 927 was <mask> promoted, eventually to be the deputy minister of defense (兵部侍郎, Bingbu Shilang). In 931, Xu Zhigao was poised to make <mask> chancellor. <mask>, however, believed that he would not be able to get people to be obedient to him given his relative lack of seniority, decided not to accept. Instead, he requested to return to Zhennan's capital Hong Prefecture () to rebury his father. Instead, on the way, he entered Mount

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texts: Jiuhua and became a hermit at Yingtian Temple () on the mountain. Despite edicts from Yang Longan's brother and successor, Yang Pu (who by that point had claimed imperial title) and letters from Xu Zhigao, he refused to exit the mountain.Xu Zhigao had to send his son Xu Jingtong to Mount Jiuhua to personally persuade <mask>, for <mask> to return to the imperial government. Still, after doing so, <mask> retired with the title of You Pushe (). As a result of this episode, Yingtian Temple was renamed Zhengxian Temple (徵賢寺, "temple where the able was summoned"). However, later in the year, when Xu Zhigao himself took up position at Jinling (i.e., Run Prefecture) following Xu Wen's example and left Xu JIngtong in charge at Guangling, <mask> agreed to return to the imperial government to serve as chancellor with the designation Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (), along with Wang Lingmou, to assist Xu JIngtong. By 933, under <mask>'s advice, Xu Zhigao was considering moving the capital (and the emperor) from Guangling to Jinling. He was also considering seizing the Wu throne and become emperor himself, but as Yang Pu was known to be careful and without fault as an emperor, he was initially intending on waiting for the next Wu emperor to take the throne before seizing imperial title, an intent that <mask> agreed with. In spring 934, though, when the officer Zhou Zong observed Xu Zhigao complaining about his white facial hair, Zhou, realizing that Xu Zhigao did not want to wait any further, volunteered to go to Guangling himself to hint to Yang Pu that he should yield the throne.When <mask> realized what Zhou was doing, however, he became resentful that Zhou would take this initiative, and instead took the stand of opposing it, arguing that the time was not appropriate, yet. He

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texts: further requested that Zhou be executed as an apology to the emperor. As a result, Xu Zhigao demoted Zhou out of the headquarters to serve as the deputy military prefect of Chi Prefecture (池州, in modern Chizhou, Anhui). Later, though, when other officers Li Jianxun and Xu Jie also suggested that Xu Zhigao quickly take the throne, Xu Zhigao summoned Zhou back to headquarters, and thereafter began to distance himself from <mask>. Indeed, later in the year, Xu Zhigao summoned Song back to Jinling to serve as his deputy in his position as the supreme commander of all circuits, but gave him no real responsibilities. When <mask> thereafter asked to retire, Xu Zhigao gave him a garden as a gift. In 936, after Xu Zhigao assumed the greater title as generalissimo, he made Xu Jingtong deputy generalissimo, and made <mask> and Xu Jie deputies to Xu Jingtong.<mask>, however, continued to take the stand of opposing the coming imperial transition. When Xu Zhigao had the senior generals Li Decheng (Li Jianxun's father) and Zhou Ben submit petitions for such a transition, to further try to put on a display that this transition was the result of a consensus, <mask> commented to Li Jianxun, "Your honored father was a great contributor to Taizu [(i.e., all Wu rulers' father Yang Xingmi, whose conquests established the foundation for the Wu state)], and now his reputation is dumped on the ground." Still, around this time, Xu Zhigao did agree to a suggestion of <mask>'s — to establish friendly relations with Khitan, to plan a possible invasion of the Central Plains (then ruled by Later Jin). Xu Zhigao thus sent beautiful women and jewels to Khitan, and Khitan's Emperor Taizong thereafter sent emissaries to Wu as well. In late 937, Yang Pu did, under Xu Zhigao's pressure, issue an edict

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 yielding the throne to Xu Zhigao, ending Wu. It was said that the only well-known Wu official who did not then sign a petition urging Xu Zhigao to take the throne was <mask>. During Emperor Liezu's reign
Xu Zhigao took the throne, establishing Southern Tang (as its Emperor Liezu).When he subsequently held a banquet for high-level officials, Li Decheng, at the banquet, stated that all who were there were happy that he accepted the throne, except for <mask>u, and then gave Emperor Liezu the letter that <mask> wrote him, trying to stop him from urging Emperor Liezu to take the throne. Emperor Liezu refused to look at the letter, stating: "Zisong [(<mask>'s courtesy name)] is an old friend of 30 years. He will surely not turn against me." Hearing this, <mask> bowed to him and thanked him. Meanwhile, while <mask> carried the long-abandoned and now-reinstituted titles of Left Prime Minister (左丞相, Zuo Chengxiang) and Da Shitu (大師徒, a more magnified form of the title of Situ, one of the Three Excellencies) in the new Southern Tang administration, he was not given real responsibilities. He became so displeased that when an imperial edict was read out loud, honoring him referred to him as "Our friend from when we wore civilian clothing," he loudly replied, "When your subject was wearing civilian clothing, Your Imperial Majesty was a prefect; now that Your Imperial Majesty is the Son of Heaven, you no longer need this old subject." After making the comment, he went home and expected punishment.Emperor Liezu issued another edict thanking him but not giving him additional responsibilities. Unsure what to do to regain the emperor's trust, he submitted petitions requesting that Yang Pu (whom Emperor Liezu continued to honor as a retired emperor and allowed to live at the palace in

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 military governor of Zhennan, and he thereafter went to meet Emperor Liezu at a banquet. At the banquet, however, they got into an argument, with Emperor Liezu accusing <mask> of being ungrateful and of comparing the emperor to the vicious King Goujian of Yue, and <mask> admitting to making such a remark and commenting that the emperor could kill him if the emperor wanted. The next day, Emperor Liezu wrote a personal letter to <mask>, stating, "You, Zisong, have long known our temper. How can it be the case that when we were young we were so close to each other, but in old age we hate each other?"He subsequently made <mask> the military governor of Zhennan. After <mask> arrived at Zhennan, he built a large mansion for himself and lived luxuriously, purportedly at the people's detriment. He often ruled on matters while wearing a silk robe that Emperor Liezu gave him. During Emperor Yuanzong's reign
In 943, Emperor Liezu died, and Li Jing, as his oldest son, succeeded him as emperor (as Emperor Yuanzong). While Emperor Yuanzong had disliked <mask>u because <mask> had often praised Li Jing's younger brother Li Jingda the Prince of Xuancheng and hinted that Li Jingda would be a more appropriate heir, <mask> nevertheless regained a foothold in the Southern Tang imperial government because he was in an alliance with three officials who served on Emperor Yuanzong's staff while he was an imperial prince — Chen Jue, Feng Yanji, and Wei Cen () — whom he trusted. Further, Emperor Yuanzong had wanted to have senior officials who were well-respected by the people as his chancellors, so he recalled <mask> and Zhou Zong, who had also been made a military governor, to the imperial government to serve as chancellors, with <mask> given the titles of Taibao () and Zhongshu Ling (中書令, head

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texts: of the legislative bureau). However, by later 943, <mask> had displeased Emperor Yuanzong by having his associates make false accusations against Zhou, whom Emperor Yuanzong respected.Further, by this point, Chen was no longer in the imperial government (having left governmental service to observe a mourning period for his mother). Emperor Yuanzong thus made <mask> the military governor of Zhenhai Circuit (鎮海, headquartered at Run Prefecture). In anger, <mask> offered to retire to Mount Jiuhua, believing that Emperor Yuanzong would try to comfort him. Instead, Emperor Yuanzong approved of the retirement petition, gave him the honorary title of Lord of Jiuhua, and created him the Duke of Qingyang (青陽, in modern Chizhou, Anhui, i.e., the county in which Mount Jiuhua lay in). <mask> thereafter built a large mansion at Qingyang and lived luxuriously, but continued to be bitter. Meanwhile, Emperor Yuanzong publicly announced a succession plan (that he believed that Emperor Liezu wanted) of first passing the throne to Li Jingsui, then to Li Jingda. In 944, he further ordered that most matters should be ruled on by Li Jingsui, with Wei Cen and Cha Wenhui (), the deputy chiefs of staff, as the only officials who would be permitted to see the emperor on a regular basis.Once he issued this edict, however, there was much opposition, and <mask> submitted a petition from his retirement at Qingyang also urging against it, thus impressing Emperor Yuanzong. Therefore, in 945, when Li Jingda's staff member Xie Zhongxuan () pointed out that the people were disappointed that someone as respected for his talent as <mask> was not given any power, and Li Jingda relayed this suggestion to Emperor Yuanzong, Emperor Yuanzong sent Li Jingda to Qingyang to recall <mask>. Once <mask> arrived at

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texts: Jinling, <mask> was given the titles of Taifu () and Zhongshu Ling, thus titularly restoring him to chancellorship, but was said to be not given actual decision-making authority. Emperor Yuanzong also created him the greater title of Duke of Wei. Around this time, Southern Tang was faced with the issue of what to do with the remnants of its southeastern neighbor Min, which Southern Tang forces had destroyed in 945 by capturing its capital Jian Prefecture (建州, in modern Nanping, Fujian), as Min's prior capital Fu Prefecture (福州, in modern Fuzhou, Fujian) remained under control of Li Hongyi, a former Min general who had nominally submitted to Southern Tang but who was controlling the Fu region as his own private domain. <mask> recommended Chen as an emissary to Li Hongyi, predicting that Chen would be able to persuade Li Hongyi to give up his private domain and relocate to Jinling. When Chen arrived at Fu, however, Li Hongyi made a public display of his power, and Chen never dared to bring up his proposal.Humiliated, Chen, on the way back to Jinling, decided to forge an imperial edict ordering Southern Tang forces to converge on Fu against Li Hongyi. Emperor Yuanzong, once he received the news, was incensed at Chen's falsely issuing an imperial edict, but felt compelled to back up Chen's actions with reinforcements. In spring 947, however, the Southern Tang forces were crushed by the joint forces of Li Hongyi and Southern Tang's eastern neighbor Wuyue, thus forever losing the chance of capturing Fu. In the aftermath of this military disaster, Chen and Feng, who also supported the campaign, were exiled. <mask> offered to be punished as well, because he had recommended Chen, but no punishment came. When the official Han Xizai repeatedly requested Chen's and Feng's death and


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texts: pointed out that the faction headed by <mask> would eventually bring even greater disaster, <mask> accused Han of being an alcoholic and wild in nature, and had him demoted. Later in 947, however, Emperor Yuanzong again sent <mask> out of the imperial government by making him the military governor of Zhennan.<mask> apparently remained at Zhennan until 951, when Emperor Yuanzong recalled him to Jinling to again serve as Taifu, and also created him the Duke of Chu and gave him the honorary title of military governor of Dongchuan Circuit (東川, headquartered in modern Mianyang, Sichuan, then ruled by Later Shu). In 955, in the face of an impending major invasion by Later Zhou's Emperor Shizong, Emperor Yuanzong reengaged <mask> as a key advisor to plan the defense against Later Zhou forces. <mask> advocated the strategy of spreading out the Southern Tang forces near the Huai, to try to confuse the Later Zhou forces so that they would not dare to advance deeply into Southern Tang territory, and then cutting off their food supply routes, forcing them to retreat and sue for peace. Emperor Yuanzong, who was fearful of Later Zhou forces, decided to follow <mask>'s strategy. However, Southern Tang suffered repeated defeats, and its main garrison on the Huai, Shou Prefecture (壽州, in modern Lu'an, Anhui), became desperately sieged by Later Zhou. Emperor Yuanzong sent the official Li Deming () to Emperor Shizong to sue for peace, which Emperor Shizong refused; upon observing how massive the Later Zhou forces were on this mission, however, Li Deming returned to Jinling and advocated ceding all of the Southern Tang lands north of the Yangtze to Later Zhou, which Emperor Shizong indicated that he would be satisfied with. <mask> spoke against the proposal heavily, however, and Chen (who had


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texts: since returned to the imperial government as Emperor Yuanzong's chief of staff) and Chen's deputy Li Zhenggu () subsequently accused Li Deming of treason.Emperor Yuanzong executed Li Deming, and that, for the time being, ended hopes of a negotiated peace between Southern Tang and Later Zhou. In summer 956, however, with his forces bogged down and running into food supply issues, and counterattacks by the Southern Tang general Zhu Yuan successful in capturing some of the prefectures that Later Zhou had previously captured, Emperor Shizong changed his strategy of capturing as much territory as possible, and withdrew most of the Later Zhou forces, concentrating instead on capturing the besieged Shou Prefecture. As Later Zhou forces were withdrawing, many Southern Tang officials were advocating attacking them as they were retreating. <mask>, however, argued that doing so would create enmity between the two states, and instead advocated letting them leave without trouble. This, however, made the Shou Prefecture garrison's position even more desperate. By 957, Zhu, who had disagreements with Chen before, was convinced that Chen was going to have him killed, and therefore surrendered to Later Zhou. In the aftermath, the relief forces commanded by Li Jingda and Chen sent to try to lift the siege on Shou were crushed by Later Zhou, and Shou subsequently fell.Later Zhou forces then used the momentum to capture nearly all of Southern Tang's territory north of the Yangtze. By spring 958, Emperor Shizong himself was approaching the Yangtze, forcing Emperor Yuanzong to sue for peace — including formally submitting as a Later Zhou vassal, referring to himself as the King of Tang rather than emperor in correspondences with Later Zhou (although he still referred to himself as emperor


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 internally), and ceding the four prefectures that Southern Tang forces still held north of the Yangtze to Later Zhou. Emperor Yuanzong was depressed over the military disasters. Li Zhenggu suggested that he go into seclusion and entrust the state to Song. Li Deming's friend Zhong Mo (), who wanted to avenge Li Deming, used this opportunity to accuse <mask>, Li Zhenggu, and Chen of collaborating to have <mask> usurp the throne. Further, at this time, Chen had also forged an order from Emperor Shizong (now formally Emperor Yuanzong's sovereign) that the Southern Tang chancellor Yan Xu be put to death. These events convinced Emperor Yuanzong that the Song faction was up to no good.In winter 958, Emperor Yuanzong thus acted, exiling Chen, executing Li Zhenggu, and ordering <mask> back into retirement at Mount Jiuhua, albeit with his titles still intact. After <mask> reached Mount Jiuhua in spring 959, Emperor Yuanzong had his mansion securely guarded, only allowing food to be passed through a hole in the wall. <mask> lamented and believed that this was divine retribution for his suggestion to have Yang Pu's family put under secure guard, and thereafter hanged himself. Emperor Yuanzong gave him the unflattering posthumous name of Chouliao (醜繆, "power-abusing and overvalued"). Notes and references

 Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms (), vol. 20. Zizhi Tongjian, vols.268, 269, 270, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 290, 292, 293, 294. 887 births
959 deaths
Yang Wu people born during Tang
Yang Wu chancellors
Southern Tang chancellors
Southern Tang jiedushi of Zhennan Circuit
Southern Tang jiedushi of Zhenhai Circuit
Southern Tang jiedushi of Dongchuan Circuit
Suicides by hanging in China
Southern Tang writers
Poets from Jiangxi
Politicians from

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title: Vic Perrin

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<mask> (April 26, 1916 – July 4, 1989) was an American radio, film, and television actor, perhaps best remembered for providing the "Control Voice" in the original version of the television series The Outer Limits (1963–1965). He was also a radio scriptwriter as well as a narrator in feature films and for special entertainment and educational projects, such as the original Spaceship Earth and Universe of Energy rides at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Early years
<mask> was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, the elder of two sons of Kathryn (née Mittlesteadt) and Milton A<mask>, who was a traveling salesman. In 1940, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the late 1930s, <mask> moved to California. Career

Radio
During the 1940s and 1950s, <mask> was a regular performer on many commercial radio programs. In 1941 he became a staff announcer for NBC, staying there for several years before moving to ABC and becoming chief announcer at the Blue Network. His first credited role came in 1943, when he served as the announcer for "The Last Will and Testament Of Tom Smith", a radio episode of Free World Theatre, which was produced and directed by Arch Oboler.He narrated too "A Star With Two Names", part of the segment "Behind The Scenes Hollywood Story" of The Hollywood Music Hall radio program. At the same time, he joined Charles Laughton's theatrical repertory group. <mask> was also a regular guest star on the radio version of Gunsmoke, and he wrote or co-wrote five scripts for that popular Western series between 1959 and 1961. <mask> was a series regular as well on the anthology radio drama Family Theatre, played Ross Farnsworth on One Man's Family, and was featured as cavalry trooper Sergeant Gorse in

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 Fort Laramie in 1956. He performed too as several characters in Escape, Pete Kelly's Blues, Dragnet, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and Have Gun – Will Travel. In an uncredited role, he also impersonated Clyde Beatty on The Clyde Beatty Show. Television
One of <mask>'s first television roles was in "The Golden Vulture", a 1953 episode of the Adventures of Superman.He would go on to appear in 16 installments of Dragnet, as well as the pilot for the 1967 revival of the series. He appeared in episodes of Gunsmoke, Maverick, The Big Valley, and Mission: Impossible. He played characters in a variety of other series, including Peter Gunn, Black Saddle, Have Gun – Will Travel, Mackenzie's Raiders, The Untouchables, Going My Way, Perry Mason, Adam-12, The F.B.I., and Mannix. <mask> served as the Control Voice, the narrator of The Outer Limits, and provided voices for characters in episodes of Star Trek, as well as appearing in one episode. He also appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone. He guest-stars too on "The Guardians", a 1981 episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Perrin did extensive voice work in animation.He voiced multiple characters on the Hanna-Barbera animated television series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Those characters include, The Ape Man, Carl the Stuntman, Pietro, The Puppet Master, Dr. Najib, The Snow Ghost, Mr. Leech, Yeti, Fu Lan Chi, among others. Perrin was the voices of The Phantom Racer, Junkyard Watchman, Ken Rogers, Anthos and John Thomas on The Scooby-Doo Show. Perrin was also the voices of Mr. McDabble, Mr. Kronos and The Minotaur on The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show. He also provided the voice of Dr. Zin, the main antagonist on Jonny Quest along with voicing Roberts, Search Plane Pilot, Junior, Frogman

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texts: Leader, Miguel, Kronick, Professor Ericson and others on the series. <mask>  voiced Cyclops on The Marvel Super Heroes. <mask> voiced Creture King and Lurker on Space Ghost.<mask> voiced Mekkor and the Captain of the Sky Pirates on The Herculoids. <mask> voiced Number One, The Ruthless Ringmaster and others on Birdman and the Galaxy Trio. <mask> voiced Red Ghost, Silver Surfer, Professor Gamma and The Demon on Fantastic Four (1967 TV series). Perrin is the voice of Hawkman on Filmations, The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure and Aquaman (TV series) yet another villain, Sinestro, who is the nemesis of the Green Lantern, along with voicing Dr. Starns, Turkish Engineer, Brain Creature, Professor Reed and Frankenstein's Monster on Challenge of the Superfriends. <mask> voiced Namor and Caesar Cicero on Spider-Man (1981 TV series). <mask> provided the voice of Thor, Zerona's Soldier and Black Knight on Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends as well as additional voices on The New Fantastic Four, Spider-Woman and The Incredible Hulk (1982 TV series). <mask> voiced Ming the Merciless on the 1982 television film Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All produced by Filmation.<mask> voiced Teetor on the 1984 animated musical film Gallavants produced by  Marvel Productions. In 1986 <mask> reprised his voice role as Dr. Zin on The New Adventures of Jonny Quest. Other Hanna-Barbera shows <mask> has provided additional voices on are the live-action and animated fantasy  television series The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Castway Charlie, Centaur, Doorgah, High Priest, Rabbit and Chief, Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! as Professor Neilsen Rockabuilt, Inch High, Private Eye, These Are the Days, Clue Club, Jabberjaw, Captain Caveman and the

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 Teen Angels as Mummy, Brackish and Professor Pryce, Jana of the Jungle, Super Friends (1980 TV series) as Sailor and The Smurfs. Other voice work
For many years Perrin narrated dozens of science and educational short films for educational filmmaking pioneer Sy Wexler and continued to do voice-overs and to play character roles until a short time before his death. Perrin was active in off-camera work in television commercials, prompting one newspaper article to include the comment "<mask> is one actor who makes more money when he's not seen on camera than when he is."He was also the original voice narrator for Disney's Epcot Center attraction: Spaceship Earth in Orlando, Florida. <mask> also narrated two movies in the original Epcot Center Universe of Energy pavilion:  "Kinetic Energy" and "Energy Creation Story". Personal life and death
He was first married to Evelyn Held on March 10, 1963. Evelyn died in 1972 and they had no children. He married for a second time to Rita Singer in 1977 and had a son, George. He also had a stepson, Steven, from Rita's previous marriage. <mask> and Rita divorced in January 1979, but remarried soon after in September 1979.<mask> died of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, July 4, 1989, aged 73. Filmography

Television (selected)

References and notes

External links

 <mask> profile, Aveleyman.com

1916 births
1989 deaths
Male actors from Wisconsin
American male radio actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
People from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
Deaths from cancer in California
Radio and television announcers
Male actors from Los Angeles
20th-century American male actors
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Western (genre) television

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<mask> (born 9 October 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Greek Super League club PAOK on loan from Middlesbrough. He has represented England at youth and U-21 international levels but is also eligible to represent Nigeria. Club career

Arsenal

Akpom joined Arsenal at the age of six. He made his debut for the Arsenal U18 side at the age of 15, and signed his first professional contract with Arsenal on 10 October 2012, a day after turning 17. In December 2012, Akpom received his first call into the Arsenal senior squad, when he was an unused substitute for a 2–1 Champions League defeat to Olympiakos. He made 20 U21 Premier League appearances during the 2012–13 season and scored 13 goals, including 10 goals in 10 games in the Elite Group stage. In the lead-up to the 2013–14 season, Akpom was selected for Arsenal's pre-season tour of Asia and scored once in a 7–0 win against an Indonesia Dream Team, two more in a 7–1 win against Vietnam and another in Arsenal's final game of the tour against Urawa Red Diamonds.<mask> made his competitive debut in a 3–1 Premier League win over Sunderland on 14 September 2013. He came on in the third minute of injury time as a substitute for the injured Olivier Giroud. <mask>'s second Arsenal appearance came in a League Cup third round tie away to West Bromwich Albion on 25 September. He replaced goalscorer Thomas Eisfeld after 82 minutes and with the scores at 1–1 at full-time, the game entered extra time. <mask> played the full scoreless extra time period and scored Arsenal's third penalty in the ensuing shootout, helping Arsenal to a win. He scored three goals in four UEFA Youth League appearances towards the end of 2013. <mask>

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 scored a hattrick in a 6–1 FA Youth Cup fourth round demolition of Peterborough United on 6 January 2014.Brentford (loan)
On 30 December 2013, it was reported that League One sides Brentford, Peterborough United, Leyton Orient and Milton Keynes Dons were in a four-way battle to sign Akpom on loan. Brentford emerged as the favourites to land Akpom, due to club's head of recruitment, Shaun O'Connor, having originally signed Akpom while working for Arsenal. The loan was thrown into doubt due to injuries suffered by Arsenal strikers Theo Walcott and Nicklas Bendtner in early January 2014, but was completed on 9 January, with <mask> signing for a month. Manager Mark Warburton said "Chuba is strong and quick, with a very good first touch. He's greedy and enjoys scoring goals. It's his first loan spell and League One is tough, so he might take some time to adapt. It's a big jump from Under 21 football".He missed the first match of his loan through illness and Warburton stressed that Akpom would have to "work hard and earn his place like everyone else". <mask> made his debut in a 1–1 league draw at Walsall on 19 January. He came on for Will Grigg after 68 minutes and provided a cross for Clayton Donaldson in the dying moments, which went unconverted. After making four substitute appearances, his loan spell ended and he returned to Arsenal. Following the return to Arsenal, Akpom appeared on Arsenal Magazine about his time at Brentford for the March issue. Coventry City (loan)
On 14 February 2014, <mask> joined League One side Coventry City on loan until the end of the 2013–14 season, with an agreement that he would rejoin the Arsenal squad for games in the FA Youth Cup and UEFA Youth League during the

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 course of the loan. He made six appearances.Return to Arsenal
<mask> began the 2014–15 season by scoring a hat trick for Arsenal in an Under-21 Premier League Division 2 game against West Bromwich Albion at the end of August. On 23 September 2014, he made his first senior appearance of the season, replacing Héctor Bellerín for the last four minutes as Arsenal lost 1–2 at home against Southampton in the League Cup. He made his first Premier League appearance of the season against Southampton on New Year's Day 2015. Akpom made a telling contribution to Arsenal's 5–0 home win against Aston Villa, coming on as a second-half substitute and winning a penalty, converted by Santi Cazorla, his first assist for the club. On 4 February 2015, Akpom spurned the interest of a number of other clubs from the Premier League and across Europe to sign a new -year contract with Arsenal. Nottingham Forest (loan)
On 26 March 2015, he joined Championship club Nottingham Forest on loan till 31 May 2015. He made seven appearances.Hull City (loan)

On 4 August 2015, <mask> joined Championship side Hull City on a season-long loan. <mask> made his debut for the Yorkshire based club on the opening weekend of the 2015–16 season scoring the second goal in a 2–0 home win to Huddersfield Town on 8 August. <mask> made his second appearance from the bench replacing Nikica Jelavic in the 60th minute in the League Cup first round against Accrington Stanley. He scored in the 92nd minute in the first half of extra time and netted a penalty in a 4–3 shootout win for the Tigers. On 30 January 2016 <mask> scored his first senior hat-trick in the FA Cup match away to Bury that Hull won 3–1. He was an unused substitute in the 2016

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 Championship play-off final at Wembley as Hull beat Sheffield Wednesday to gain promotion to the Premier League. Brighton (loan)

On 30 January 2017, Akpom joined Brighton & Hove Albion on loan until the end of the season.He made 10 appearances where he helped The Albion gain promotion to the Premier League. Sint-Truiden (loan)
On 31 January 2018, <mask> joined Belgian First Division A side Sint-Truiden on loan until the end of the season. <mask> scored his first goal for the club in a 1–0 victory against Anderlecht on 17 February 2018. PAOK
On 2 August 2018, <mask> joined Greek Super League club PAOK Salonika on a three-year deal. On 25 August, he made his debut with the club as a substitute in a 1–0 home win game against Asteras Tripoli. On 11 November, he scored his first goal in a 2–1 home league win game against Panetolikos. In March 2019 the BBC said that Akpom was a key player in PAOK's title push.He was an unused substitute on 21 April 2019 when PAOK beat already relegated Levadiakos to confirm their first Super League title in 34 years. He scored the only goal in PAOK's 2019 Greek Cup Final win against AEK Athens. On 6 August 2019, he scored against Ajax in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League third qualifying round tie that ended as a 2–2 draw. He scored his first goal of the 2019–20 Superleague Greece in a 2–1 home win against Panionios on 1 September. On 1 March 2020, receiving a great pass from Omar El Kaddouri inside the penalty area, Akpom cut to a shooting position, subsequently whipping an excellent effort beyond the opposing goalkeeper, to open the score in a frustrating 1–1 away draw against Xanthi F.C. It was his 7th goal for Super League in the most productive year in


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 his career so far. Middlesbrough
On 19 September 2020, <mask> signed for English club Middlesbrough for a fee of £2.75m.The former Arsenal youngster joined from PAOK, where he had made a huge impression in the Greek Super League. Akpom signed a three-year contract, with the option of a further year. He scored on his Middlesbrough debut, a 1–1 draw with QPR on 26 September. Return to PAOK
On 26 August 2021, PAOK announced the return of Akpom on loan from Middlesbrough until the end of the 2021–22 season. International career
On 15 February 2011, Akpom made his debut for England U16s in a friendly match against Slovenia, which ended in a 0–0 draw. He second and final game for the U16s came in a 3–0 2010/11 Victory Shield win over Northern Ireland on 23 March 2011. On 2 August 2011, Akpom made his U17 debut, scoring once in 4–0 win over the Faroe Islands.He played in all six games and scored two goals during England's unsuccessful 2012 European U17 Championship qualifying campaign. He made 13 appearances in total for the U17s, and scored five goals. On 6 September 2012, <mask> made his England U19 debut in a 3–1 defeat to Germany. He scored his first goal for the U19s on 26 September 2012, in a 3–0 2013 European U19 Championship qualifying win over Estonia. Two days later, he scored two goals in a 6–0 win over the Faroe Islands. He played in five of England's six 2013 European U19 Championship qualifying and elite stage games and scored three goals, as England failed to qualify for the finals. On 11 October 2014, <mask> scored his first goals for England U20 coming on as an 87th-minute substitute to score a brace against Netherlands U20 in a 3–2 victory.On 13 October 2015, <mask> made his England U21

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 debut playing 90 minutes and scoring with the last kick of the match in a European qualifying win over Kazakhstan. He scored again for the England U21 team in a UEFA Euro Under-21 Qualifier against Switzerland. England U21 won the match 3–1, with <mask> scoring in the injury time of the second half. <mask>, who is of Nigerian descent, is still eligible to represent Nigeria. In May 2016, it was reported that he was one of three players formally approached by the Nigeria Football Federation. <mask> has recently been selected for the England under-21s for the UEFA European Championship qualifier against Norway on Tuesday 6 September 2016. On 28 March 2017, <mask> was reportedly close to switching to Nigeria alongside Ola Aina of Chelsea after discussions with Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick.In September 2019 he confirmed that he intended to represent Nigeria at International level. Career statistics

Honours
Arsenal
 FA Cup: 2013–14, 2014–15

Hull City
 Football League Championship play-offs: 2016

Brighton & Hove Albion
 EFL Championship runner-up: 2016–17

PAOK
 Super League Greece: 2018–19
 Greek Cup: 2018–19

Individual
 Greek Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 2018–19

References

External links

 <mask> Akpom profile at The Football Association website
 Chuba Akpom profile at Premier League website

1995 births
Living people
Footballers from Canning Town
Black British sportspeople
English people of Nigerian descent
English footballers
Association football forwards
Arsenal F.C. players
Brentford F.C. players
Coventry City F.C. players
Hull City A.F.C. players
Nottingham Forest F.C. players
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.players
Sint-Truidense V.V. players
PAOK FC

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title: Mike Sillinger

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<mask> (born June 29, 1971) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 17 seasons. Sillinger played for twelve different teams and was traded nine times during his NHL career, both of which stand as league records (he is tied with Brent Ashton for the latter record). Originally drafted 11th overall in 1989 out of the Western Hockey League (WHL) by the Detroit Red Wings, Sillinger began his NHL career in Detroit before continuing on to play for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Panthers, Ottawa Senators, Columbus Blue Jackets, Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues, Nashville Predators and New York Islanders. Of these 12 teams, Sillinger played full seasons with only Detroit, Vancouver, Columbus and New York. During his tenure with Detroit, he captured a Calder Cup championship in 1992 with the Adirondack Red Wings, while leading the playoffs in scoring as an American Hockey League (AHL) rookie. Internationally, Sillinger represented Team Canada on two occasions, winning a gold medal at the 1991 World Junior Championships and captaining his country at the 2000 World Championships. After retirement, Sillinger joined the Edmonton Oilers as Director of Player Development from 2009 to 2014.Beginning in 2014, Sillinger began working in a scouting and recruitment role for the Regina Pats, his former junior club. Playing career
Sillinger began playing major junior in the Western Hockey League (WHL) with the Pats in 1987–88. After a 43-point rookie campaign, he emerged as a top prospect in the juniors in his second WHL season. With 53 goals and 131 points in 1988–89, Sillinger led the Pats in scoring for the first of three consecutive seasons. The Detroit Red Wings then made


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texts: Sillinger their first-round pick, selecting him 11th overall in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft. Upon being drafted, Sillinger returned to the Pats for two more seasons, where he posted 129- and 116-point campaigns to receive WHL Second and First All-Star Team honours in 1990 and 1991, respectively. Following his 1990–91 season with the Pats, Sillinger was called up to the Red Wings roster, making his NHL debut in the final three games of the regular season, tallying an assist.He also appeared in three playoff games with Detroit that season, also accumulating one assist. The following season, in 1991–92, Sillinger spent his professional rookie season in the American Hockey League (AHL) with Detroit's minor league affiliate, the Adirondack Red Wings, where he scored at an above-point-per-game pace with 66 points in 64 games. Despite being called up for eight games for Detroit's playoff run, Sillinger still went on to lead the AHL playoffs in scoring with 28 points in 15 games, winning the Calder Cup championship with Adirondack. Sillinger continued to spend time in the AHL with Adirondack at the start of the 1992–93 season, but returned to and remained in the NHL later that season after scoring at a two-point-per-game pace in 15 games. After being called up to Detroit, he had his most prolific season with the club, scoring 29 points in 62 games. Due to the 1994–95 NHL lockout, Sillinger went abroad to play in the Austrian Hockey League for EC Wien, where he tallied 27 points in just 13 games. When NHL play resumed, he appeared in 13 games for the Red Wings before being traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim on April 4, 1995 with Jason York for Stu Grimson, Mark Ferner and Anaheim's 6th round choice in 1996 NHL Entry Draft (used to select Magnus Nilsson).<mask> remained in Anaheim the next season,


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texts: but was immediately traded the following campaign in 1995–96 to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Roman Oksiuta on March 15, 1996. He played one full season with the Canucks in 1996–97, managing 37 points, before being dealt away to the Philadelphia Flyers midway through the 1997–98 season for a fifth-round selection in 1998 on February 5, 1998. <mask>'s stint with the Flyers began promising, scoring 22 points in the 27 games to close the season following his trade, but after managing just three assists in the first 25 games in 1998–99, he was dealt away to the Tampa Bay Lightning midway through the campaign along with Chris Gratton, in exchange for Mikael Renberg and Daymond Langkow on December 12, 1998. Sillinger, however, continued to struggle and tallied just 10 points with his new team for the remainder of the campaign for a combined 13 points between the Flyers and Lightning, a career-low. He returned to form as he started the 1999–2000 season in Tampa Bay, scoring 44 points in 67 games with the Lightning. However, at the trade deadline, he was sent to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Ryan Johnson and Dwayne Hay on March 14, 2000. Sillinger returned to the Panthers to begin the following season, but was once again dealt at the trade deadline, this time to the Ottawa Senators, marking his sixth trade in seven years.In the 2001 off-season, Sillinger joined his eighth NHL team, the Columbus Blue Jackets, but for the first time was not relocating via trade, instead, joining the Blue Jackets through free agency. In two seasons with the Blue Jackets, Sillinger recorded back-to-back 43-point campaigns. Following his second season in Columbus, <mask> was traded twice on the same day on July 22, 2003. He was first sent to the Dallas Stars with a second round draft choice in 2004

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 underwent hip resurfacing surgery in February 2009, forcing him to miss the remainder of the season. Due to the lingering hip complications, <mask> announced his retirement from hockey on August 26, 2009. Personal life
<mask> was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has three sons, Owen, Lukas, and Cole, with his wife Karla, also a Regina native.During Sillinger's NHL career, the family spent the off-seasons in Regina, and have chosen to remain in Regina following Sillinger's retirement. Owen played for the Regina Pat Canadians midget hockey team and was named the most valuable player at the 2015 Telus Cup. Owen and Lukas now play at Bemidji State in the NCAA. Cole was the 11th overall pick in the 2018 WHL Bantam Draft to the Medicine Hat Tigers. Cole was selected twelfth overall in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft by the Columbus Blue Jackets, one of <mask>’s former teams. Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honours

See also
List of NHL players with 1000 games played

References

External links

Shooting Stars Foundation Official Charity Website

1971 births
Living people
Adirondack Red Wings players
Bridgeport Sound Tigers players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Canadian ice hockey centres
Canadian people of German descent
Columbus Blue Jackets players
Detroit Red Wings draft picks
Detroit Red Wings players
Edmonton Oilers executives
Florida Panthers players
Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim players
Nashville Predators players
National Hockey League first round draft picks
New York Islanders players
Ottawa Senators players
Philadelphia Flyers players
Phoenix Coyotes players
Regina Pats players
Sportspeople from Regina, Saskatchewan
St. Louis Blues players
Tampa Bay Lightning players
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