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 her intention to run for the permanent leadership when the convention was to be scheduled. On July 30, 2010, <mask> was acclaimed Liberal leader after she was the only person to file nomination papers for the position. She was expected to be sworn in as leader at the party's convention in November of that year, however the convention was delayed when <mask> announced in August that she would be taking a leave of absence from her position to undergo treatment for breast cancer. She returned to work in early 2011, and was sworn in as Liberal leader at the party's Spring leadership convention. By-elections
On October 27, 2009, the district of The Straits – White Bay North held a by-election, to replace Minister of Transportation and Works, Trevor Taylor, who resigned on October 2, 2009.Liberal candidate Marshall Dean won the election taking nearly 48% of the vote and defeating the Progressive Conservative candidate by 126 votes. Public opinion
Under <mask>' leadership the Liberal Party remained in second place in public opinion polls. After receiving 22% in the 2007 general election, the party's support has not risen above those levels. For the majority of time since the election their support has been in the mid-teens according to polls conducted by Corporate Research Associates (CRA). <mask>' own popularity had consistently remained lower than her own party's; CRA's quarterly polls on Newfoundland and Labrador politics have found that no more than 11% of those surveyed have felt <mask> would make the best premier. A NTV Telelink poll conducted in February 2011, found that 13% of decided voters would support the Liberal Party and that 12% thought <mask> was the best choice to be premier. The results of the NTV Telelink poll led former Liberal provincial and federal cabinet

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 minister John Efford to criticize <mask>'s leadership.Efford said that <mask> would not become premier and while he did not call on her to resign as leader, he did say that "it's clear what she ought to do in the face of poor polling results". A CRA poll in March 2011, saw <mask>' personal popularity rise to 18%, her highest level since becoming Liberal leader in 2007. Her personal popularity was also tied with that of her party. On June 7, 2011, CRA released a poll showing that <mask>' popularity had dropped slightly to 16% but her party's support had risen to 22%. While the Progressive Conservatives still held a large lead in the poll, at 57%, the Liberals were statistically tied with the New Democrats, who had the support of 20% of those surveyed. Resignation
On August 9, 2011, two months before the provincial election, <mask> announced that she was resigning as leader due to a slower recovery from breast cancer than she expected. She sought re-election in her district during the 2011 provincial election, and won 71 per cent of the popular vote.Federal politics
In April 2013, <mask> resigned her seat in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly to run as the Liberal candidate in the federal by-election in Labrador created by the resignation of Peter Penashue. She defeated Penashue to win the seat on May 13, 2013. She was sworn in on June 4, 2013. Upon her election, <mask> was appointed the Liberal critic for Northern Development, the Northern Economic Development Agency, the Arctic Council, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, and Search and Rescue. In August 2013, <mask> was elected Chair of the Liberal Party of Canada Newfoundland and Labrador caucus. In February 2014, she became Vice-Chair of the Public Accounts committee. On December 2, 2015, <mask> was

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 appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs.In late August 2018, <mask> was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Intergovernmental and Northern affairs and Internal Trade. <mask> was re-elected in the 2019 federal election. On December 12, 2019, <mask> was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Northern Affairs. On April 19, 2021, Nunavut NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq claimed that <mask> was "not an Inuk," and southern Labrador is "not an Inuit region". <mask> dismissed Qaqqaq's comments as “immature and naïve”. Qaqqaq later issued an email statement apologizing “for how I handled the situation”. <mask> was re-elected in the 2021 federal election.Electoral record

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<mask> (25 June 1903 – 22 March 1944) was a French journalist, left-wing politician and major hero of the French Resistance in World War II. He ran an intelligence hub of Parisian resistance at the Rue de la Pompe, before serving as a liaison officer in London, where he also was a radio anchor for the BBC. Arrested in Brittany as he was trying to reach the UK on a mission back from France alongside Émile Bollaert, <mask> was taken into custody by the Sicherheitsdienst. He tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a window at their headquarters on 84 Avenue Foch in Paris as he feared he would reveal the lengths of French Resistance networks under torture. He died of his wounds at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital later that day. In 2015, his ashes were transferred to the Panthéon with national honours at the request of President François Hollande, alongside politician Jean Zay and fellow Resistance members Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz. Biography

Education and journalism
<mask> was born in the 16th arrondissement of Paris to a family deeply involved in the fights for laic schools in early 20th century France.His father was <mask>, General Inspector for Primary Education; he was the nephew of Francisque Vial, Director of Secondary Education, responsible for making secondary education free in France. Brossolette ranked first at the entrance examination to the prestigious École Normale Supérieure; throughout his education held the title of "cacique" which was internally attributed to the most brilliant student, ahead

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texts: specialised in Russian literature at the Rue de la Pompe near Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, where he had attended high school. The bookstore became an intelligence hub of Parisian resistance where documents, such as Renault factory plans used for its bombing, were exchanged unnoticed, thanks to the extensive library available underground. He was a popular voice on the radio before the war and his chronicles on Hitler's rise led to being blacklisted early in the 1930s by the Nazis. It did not take long before he was approached by his friend Agnès Humbert and introduced to Jean Cassou and the Groupe du musée de l'Homme, the very first resistance network.He just had time to produce the last issue of the newsletter Résistance before narrowly escaping its dismantlement. By then assuming a pivotal role in the ZO (Zone Occupée) Resistance, Brossolette coordinated contacts between groups such as Libération-Nord from Christian Pineau, the Organisation Civile et Militaire (OCM) and Comité d'Action Socialiste (CAS). He finally obtained a liaison with London and General Charles de Gaulle when he was hired by conservative Gilbert Renault also known as Colonel Rémy as press and propaganda manager of Confrérie Notre-Dame (CND), by then the most important network in Northern France. In April 1942, <mask> met De Gaulle in London as representative of the ZO Resistance and was hired to work on bringing political credibility to De Gaulle to back his recognition as the only Free French Forces leader by the Allies in his feud against Henri Giraud in


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texts: Algiers. At the same time, he was promoted to major (commandant) and awarded Compagnon de la Libération. Brossolette created the civilian arm of the BCRAM intelligence service, which became the Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action (BCRA), in liaison with the RF section of the British side, Special Operations Executive (SOE). Strong ties of camaraderie were forged between <mask> (codenamed Brumaire, also known as Commandant Bourgat), BCRA's chief André Dewavrin (codenamed Arquebuse, also known as Colonel Passy) and SOE's Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas (codenamed Shelley, also known as The White Rabbit).De Gaulle set up his Free French intelligence system to combine both military and political roles, including covert operations. The policy was reversed in 1943 by Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie (1900–1969), the Interior Minister, who insisted on civilian control of political intelligence. The three friends were sent on a mission to France and united, under the CCZN (Comité de Coordination de Zone Nord), the various ZO Resistance groups which had been thoroughly divided by political views, including the communist-led Front National (mission Arquebuse-Brumaire); they were thus instrumental in the merging with the ZL (Zone Libre) Resistance similarly united by Jean Moulin under the MUR. This led to the creation of the Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR) by Moulin through the addition of the political parties and unions and ultimately to De Gaulle's unequivocal recognition as Free France's political representative to


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 the Allies. During this time, <mask> resumed his radio chronicles on BBC with high-profile speeches to the "army of shadows", replacing Maurice Schumann as anchor (38 times). In a speech at the Albert Hall on 18 June 1943, he famously praised the  soutiers de la gloire (or "stokers of glory") in a reference to the fallen anonymous soldiers and resistants. <mask> also resumed his newspaper work through a series of articles on France's situation, including one in La Marseillaise considered by many to be the doctrinal founding of the Gaullisme de guerre movement.Politics
In addition to journalism, <mask> was also a politician. He was a protégé of Léon Blum and was considered an up-and-coming star of the SFIO party, running elections on his Troyes (Champagne) base. He assumed cabinet functions during the Popular Front government and as a political pundit on official Radio PTT he was considered the de facto foreign policy spokesman of the socialist government. Already calling for deep rejuvenation of the political class before the war, he attributed French defeat in 1940 to the corrupt political system of the Third Republic. As he politically structured the Parisian resistance, <mask> succeeded in convincing the network leaders to create a temporary Resistance Party under De Gaulle's leadership after the war, focused on promoting ambitious social transformations while avoiding the predictable enmity and chaos of post-Liberation times. This political and social plan, including nationalisations and price controls, inspired the March

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 the left. Hence the French Fourth Republic eventually reverted to the Third Republic's pre-war parliamentarist system.During his last missions, <mask> worked on creating a new party that could be the major force of the left. He was inspired by the British Labour Party, utilising a non-Marxist or, at least, reformist approach (thus effectively challenging the French Socialist Party). For that, he spent his last days writing an ambitious critique of Marx's political philosophy as a by-product of 18th-century rationalism that would provide the theoretical framework for this party. Unfortunately, at the time of his arrest the manuscripts were thrown overboard at sea over Brittany shores. Arrest
<mask> returned to Paris for a third mission to reorganise the Parisian resistance which was in disarray after successive Gestapo raids, especially by CND's dismantling. By then, his role and importance was already well known to the SS Intelligence Services after Moulin's death and despite De Gaulle's clear reluctance to appoint him as substitute CNR chief. He escaped arrest many times and was summoned to return to Britain by late 1943 to introduce the newly appointed CNR chief, Émile Bollaert, to De Gaulle.The bad winter weather cancelled many Lysander exfiltration attempts (conducted only under moonlight) or Lysanders would be shot down as in a December attempt near Laon, so in February 1944, they decided to return by boat from Brittany. However, the vessel, hit by a storm, shipwrecked at Pointe du Raz. They managed to reach the coast and

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 to be hidden by local Resistance, but were betrayed by a local woman at a checkpoint. Bollaert and <mask> were not identified and were kept imprisoned in Rennes for weeks. F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, when informed of <mask>'s capture, decided to be immediately parachuted onto the continent and organise his escape. Nevertheless, they were recognised before the planned action and taken to the  Intelligence Services (Sicherheitsdienst) headquarters on Avenue Foch by senior SD officer Ernst Misselwitz in person on 19 March. It was recently confirmed that he was identified by a semi-coded report to London from CNR's Claude Bouchinet-Serreules and Jacques Bingen written by the services of Daniel Cordier intercepted at the Pyrenees, tragically self-fulfilling the severe criticism of <mask> and Yeo-Thomas about the lack of prudence inside the Parisian Délégation générale.Yeo-Thomas himself would be captured as he prepared a bold escape from Rennes Prison wearing German uniforms with the help of Brigitte Friang. Both Yeo-Thomas and Friang were captured before planned action as many Parisian networks were dismantled following the so-called "Rue de la Pompe affair" (after the location of the Delegation générale) and <mask>'s avows. Torture and death

<mask> was tortured at 84 Avenue Foch in Paris, enduring severe beatings and waterboardings over a two-and-a-half-day period. On 22 March, whilst he was left alone and recovered some consciousness, he threw himself through the window of the garret room of the building's sixth floor. Since he had not

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 swallowed his cyanide capsule when captured in Rennes, he was afraid of implicating others and probably chose to silence himself. There was a widespread belief among resistants that it was difficult, if not impossible, not to speak under torture. He died later in the evening at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.On 24 March, he was cremated at Père Lachaise Cemetery. His ashes were kept at Père Lachaise Cemetery's columbarium, urn 3913 according to official cemetery records. <mask>'s reportedly last words were enigmatic: "all will be fine Tuesday". Posterity

From after the war until the late 1950s, <mask> was considered the main leader of the French Resistance, though many were claimed heroes by their political family (such as Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves by royalists and Gabriel Péri by communists). <mask>'s fame was helped by his media notoriety before the war on Radio-PTT and on wartime BBC emissions, his networking role that made his name or codename known and remembered over almost every Resistance member in northern France and by flattering early accounts of BCRA's chief Passy in his memoirs although he had also created, through his independent position and sarcastic wit, many enemies among party leaders, Gaullists, communists and even socialists that survived him. De Gaulle himself thought otherwise and as he started writing his memoirs on 1954 and later assumed power, he attributed the main leading role to his by-then relatively unknown representative Jean Moulin rather than field leaders as De Gaulle emphasized the top-down

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texts: unification work that objectively allowed him to be recognized by the Allies. This was formalized in 1964 by the transfer of Moulin's ashes to the Panthéon, and backed by an emotional speech by André Malraux.With time, <mask> was relegated to a second place and became the hero of his party SFIO while Moulin came to symbolize the myth of the French Resistance unity while the country struggled with the Algerian war and as De Gaulle tried to avoid civil war calling for union while noticing the growing popular clout of the Resistance legend on the postwar imagination. Later, <mask>'s memory suffered another blow when the 1981-elected socialist president François Mitterrand chose to honour Moulin at a Panthéon investiture ceremony instead of rehabilitating <mask>'s role. This further enhanced his relegation - even inside the socialist political family, as evidenced by the modest celebrations of his birth centenary in 2003 and the SFIO/PS centenary. At the time, a senior party official Harlem Désir (currently secretary-general of the PS) anecdotally told that the most important figure of the party's century was Jean Moulin - who actually never was a party member and deemed instead close to the Radical Party. Since then, he has been fairly better remembered than heroes such as Bingen, Jean Cavaillès or Berty Albrecht or important leaders such as Henri Frenay, but overall eclipsed by Moulin's popularity. More recently in 2013, a support committee presided by historian Mona Ozouf was set up in order to bid for the transfer of <mask>'s

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 ashes to the Panthéon, backed by an internet petition at the committee's site. On 21 February 2014, France's President François Hollande announced the transfer of <mask>'s ashes to the Panthéon with 3 other resistants Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Germaine Tillion, as well as a former pre-war Minister Jean Zay.<mask>'s ashes were kept at the columbarium of Père Lachaise Cemetery (urns 3902 or 3913) until his  entrance to the Panthéon, which was celebrated on 27 May 2015. Homages
In France today, <mask>'s name is better known than the man himself or his life achievements, thanks to the great number of streets - nearly 500 out of which 127 in Greater Paris, schools and public facilities bearing it (see below). His widow Gilberte was prominent in relaying his political ideas. In the 1950s, she was the first woman to enter – and, as vice-president, occasionally preside over – the French Senate. In Paris, a small street in the Quartier Latin between Rue Érasme and Rue Calvin, near École Normale Supérieure, was christened Rue Pierre-Brossolette in 1944 as among the very few celebrating a 20th-century person, together with <mask> and Marie Curie. A notable exception is Lyon, probably illustrating the rivalries between the two Zones as conversely no street in Paris had been christened after Jean Moulin until 1965. Buildings in Paris such as the former bookstore and nearby Lycée Janson de Sailly's court at Rue de la Pompe, the residence at Rue de Grenelle, his birthplace at rue Michel-Ange, the Maison de Radio France and the

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 Yeo-Thomas)
 Trip to Algiers, 13 August – 3 September 1943
 Operation Bomb, 18 September 1943, Angoulême, Lysander (with F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas)
 Mission Marie-Claire, Sept–Feb 1944
 Operation Sten, 10 December 1944, near Laon, cancelled (Lysander shot down)

See also

 List of places named after <mask>ette

Notes

References

 René Ozouf, <mask>ette, héros de la résistance, librairie Gedalge, 1946. Colonel Passy, Souvenirs - Tome 1 : 2e bureau, Londres (1940-1941), Raoul Solar, 1947 - Tome 2 : 10, Duke Street, Londres (le B.C.R.A), Raoul Solar, 1951 - Tome 3 : Missions secrètes en France (novembre 1942-juin 1943), Plon, 1951; republished Mémoires du chef des services secrets de la France libre, Odile Jacob, 2000
 Bruce Marshall, The White Rabbit, Evans Bros., 1952 ; Greenwood Press, 1987; Cassel Military Paperbacks, 2000. Agnès Humbert, Notre guerre: souvenirs de résistance, éd. Émile Paul, 1946; republished éd. Tallandier, 2004; Memoirs of Occupied France (tr.Barbara Mellor), London, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008
 Charles de Gaulle, Mémoires de guerre, éd. Plon, Paris, 1954 ; republished éd.Pocket, 1999, 2007
 Gilberte <mask>, Il s'appelait <mask>, éd. Albin Michel, 1976
 Guy Perrier, <mask>, le visionnaire de la Résistance, éd. Hachette littératures, 1997
 Mark Seaman, Bravest of the Brave, Isis LP Books, 1997
 Guillaume Piketty, <mask>, un héros de la Résistance, éd. Odile Jacob, 1998
 <mask>, Résistance (1927-1943), éd. Odile Jacob, 1998 (assembled by Guillaume Piketty)
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 Finkielkraut, <mask> ou le destin d'un héros, éd. du Tricorne, 2000
 Julian Jackson - France - The dark years, 1940-1944, Oxford University Press, 2001
 Guillaume Piketty, <mask>, le rude parcours d'une mémoire, Les Chemins de la Mémoire, n° 128, mai 2003
 Laurent Douzou, La résistance française, une histoire périlleuse.éd. du Seuil, 2005
 Éric Roussel,  <mask>, éd. Fayard, 2011
 Sébastien Albertelli, Les Services secrets du général de Gaulle, le BCRA 1940-1944, Perrin, 2009

External links

<mask>'s biography on the Ordre de la Libération site
<mask>ette site with his speeches and articles

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1944 deaths
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Human Rights League (France) members
French Army personnel of World War II
École Normale Supérieure alumni
French Resistance members
French torture victims
Companions of the Liberation
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
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French Freemasons
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Burials at the Panthéon, Paris
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<mask> is an American songwriter, arranger, manager and record producer who has collaborated with recording artists and contributed music to the film and television industries. <mask> maintains residences in both Los Angeles, United States (US), and Nashville, US. <mask> has been credited with worldwide music sales of over seventy seven million units, as both a songwriter and producer. Career

Songwriting
<mask> co-wrote the number 1 hit "You'll Think of Me” by Keith Urban, which won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 2006. <mask> also co-wrote Urban's smash hit "Raining on Sunday". <mask>'s co-written the hit single for Josh Turner, "Why Don't We Just Dance", was Number #1 on the Billboard Country Charts for four weeks in a row. The longest running number 1 single of Josh Turner's career and Turner's first Number 1 single on the Canadian Country Charts."Why Don't We Just Dance" was the Most Played Country Single of The Year in 2010 according to Mediabase. John Mayer and Keith Urban recently performed one of <mask>'s songs "If Ever I Could Love” on a newly filmed Country Music Television (CMT) Crossroads Television Special for CMT and <mask>'s songs "Good Friend and a Glass of Wine” and "Nothin' Better to Do” were performed by Joss Stone and LeAnn Rimes on last Year's Crossroad's CMT Special. Production and arrangement
<mask> co-arranged and worked on  Neil Young latest release "Earth". As well as on  Neil Young and Crazy Horse 2012 release, Americana, and arranged and conducted a one hundred-voice choir on Neil Young's Living with War; <mask> also worked on Young's Chrome Dreams 2 album. <mask> co-produced vocals on David Gray and LeAnn Rimes duet "Snow In Vegas", that was featured on David Gray's "Mutineers" Deluxe version of his Album. <mask> co-produced and

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 arranged the Blush single, "Undivided" (featuring Snoop Dogg), a release that reached the "#2" position on the "Billboard Dance" music chart. Their follow up  single "Dance On" reached the # 1 position on "Billboard Dance" music chart.<mask> Foster's, "See What You Want To See" on Arista Austin Records. The Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley, Darius Rucker and a host of other artists and songwriters hail this recording as one of Foster's best and has influenced the cutting edge of Nashville over the last decade and a half. Songs Raining On Sunday, Godspeed, I'm In among others originally appeared on this recording. In partnership with Fletcher Foster, <mask> is co-executive producer for the series of 2012 remixes that adapted Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" single. The first remix was released on June 5, 2012, opening a year-long celebration of the Tammy Wynette "Legacy". <mask> also produced and co-wrote the #1 pop single for Jim Brickman and Rebecca Lyn Howard, "Simple Things." <mask> spearheaded the Epic Records passion project "Soul Mission," co-writing and producing for the super group, which included Steve Cropper, Mavis Staples and Booker T. Jones.<mask>'s other productions include  Radney Foster "This World We Live in" and " Revival", Ty Herndon "Right About Now", First Call "Sacred Journey", Michelle Shocked "Good News",  Deborah Lippmann " Vinyl" and "Christmas EP" among others. LeAnn Rimes

<mask> Rimes album, Remnants'
Remnants continues to garner critical acclaim alongside her prior "Spitfire" Project. With highlights being the title track "Remnants", for the emotional rawness of "Mother",  for the soulfulness of "Do It Wrong With Me" and "Love is Love is Love" and for her first USA Hot AC single release off of Remnants is  Long Live Love. Her dance remix of "Long

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 Live Love" reached #1 on the Billboard Dance Club Charts with remixers Dave Aude, Ivan Gomez, DrewG and Dj Deville bringing their talents from the turntables to the dance floor. Mark Batson came aboard as co-producer and co-writer for most of the album, with Steve Jordan co -producing one track as well. <mask> Rimes album, Spitfire, the recording artist's last contractual record with Curb Records. Spitfire was another critically acclaimed please for Rimes.With almost every major publication stating she so far has created the best album of her career. With Alison Krauss, Jeff Beck, Rob Thomas among others joining her on tracks "What Have I Done", "Gasoline and Matches" and "Borrowed". Previously, <mask> has co-written with LeAnn Rimes nine songs for her critically acclaimed release Family - which includes her multi-format hit single "Nothin' Better to Do",  a career charting single, the first in history making its way onto the Country Singles chart, the A/C chart and the Club play Dance Chart at the same time. "What I Cannot Change" hit number # 1 on The Billboard Dance Charts". <mask> also co-produced (with Vince Gill) the LeAnn Rimes album, Lady & Gentlemen, and the singles, "Crazy Women" and "Give". <mask> also co-produced Rimes on the track "Smokin' In The Boys Room" for the Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute to Mötley Crüe  a 2014 studio album released via Big Machine Records. It is a tribute album to the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, featuring covers of their songs performed by various country music artists.<mask> executive produced Rimes Greatest Hits Dance Remix Collection titled "Dance Like You Don't Give A ...." on Curb Records. The Collection of mostly newly remixed greatest hits went Number 1 on the iTunes Dance Charts on its first days of release. Film and television

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 contributed songs and music to films such as Steven Soderbergh's next film "Logan Lucky", for Coen Brothers  "Gambit", "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, "Cruel Intentions" among others over the years. <mask> co-wrote and co-produced with Nathan Chapman and Rita Wilson the end title song "Even More Mine" for the movie, "Big Fat Greek Wedding 2". <mask> co-wrote with LeAnn Rimes and co-produced with Dave Aude three new Holiday songs for 2018 Hallmark Channel's Christmas Movie "It's Christmas,Eve" All songs are included on the soundtrack for the movie available on EverLE Records / Thirty Tigers. <mask> co-wrote and produced songs with Robby Armstrong for the Michael Hoffman-directed film, Gambit. starring Cameron Diaz, Colin Firth, and Alan Rickman, with a script by the Coen brothers.<mask> has also written and produced music that has appeared in both film and television; the former includes productions such as Gambit, Like Dandelion Dust, and Cruel Intentions, while television series Cold Case, Rookie Blue, One Tree Hill, Angela's Eyes, Las Vegas, and Man of the People have utilized <mask>'s musical work. Since 2014 <mask> plays himself in LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian's TV Reality show "LeAnn & Eddie" on VH1. Video games
<mask> is responsible for the creation and production of specific rock, pop and country music that has been written and designed for the internationally renowned hit EA video game franchise The Sims, The Sims 3 and for underscore music for other video games for EA and EA sports that include Nintendo Wii Boogie and Playground. <mask> completed production on EA Sims 3 Video game expansion pack producing Simlish vocals on Martina McBride, Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum, Thompson Square and The Lunabelles. Special projects
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 Cannot Change" for Harper Studio Book Publishers, based on the letters received from people around the world who were moved and inspired by the song. NARAS ( Grammy )
<mask> currently serves on the Board of Trustees for NARAS. <mask> served as musical director and co-creative producer for the Grammy Preservation and Legacy concerts that occurred every year during Grammy week leading up to the Grammy Awards.<mask> has worked as MD for many Grammy Events around the country working with Solomon Burke, Ed Sheeran, Natasha Bedingfield, Dionne Warrick, Jason Mraz, Emmy Lou Harris and Rodney Crowell, Ledisi, Yolanda Adams, Christette Michele, Lupe Fiasco, The Fray, Lianne Van Havas, Guy Sebastion, Musiq Soulchild, Jeff Beck, Melanie Fiona, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Fogerty, BeBe Winans, Joe Nichols, Colby Callait, Sarah Barrellis, The Fray, Trombone Shorty, Mavis Staples, Dave Koz, Shelby Lynn, Robert Cray, Martina Mcbride, Garth Brooks, Kid Rock, Gretchen Wilson, Loretta Lynn, Jonny Lang, Bret Michaels, Lee Ann Womack, Jimmy Webb, JD Souther, Dan Wilson, Joy Williams, Johnny Rzeznik, Jeff Barry, Allen Shamblin, Mike Reid, Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson, Steve Cropper, Valerie Simpson, Skylar Grey, Gavin Degraw, Aloe Blacc, Melissa Etheridge,
Plain White T's, Walk The Moon, Deborah Cox, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Erica McDonald among many others. Robby Armstrong
"Smoking and Drinking"
"As Long As Your Happy"
"Cool Cool Country"
"The First"
"Rodeo"
"Birthday Happy"
"Married Man"
"One Life To Love"

Terri Nunn
"Once Upon a Time" (Moment of Truth album, 1991)
"Too Far to Fall" (Moment of Truth album, 1991)

References

External links
ASCAP songwriting list
  Darrel <mask> at the Video Hits One

American male songwriters
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth

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title: Michael Laudrup

texts: <mask> (, born 15 June 1964) is a Danish professional football coach and former player. He is the older brother of fellow retired footballer <mask>. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. During his playing career, Laudrup won league titles with Ajax, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus, playing mainly as an attacking midfielder, although he was also capable of playing in other offensive positions. A world class playmaker, he was a member of Johan Cruyff's "Dream Team" at Barcelona, where he won nine trophies, including four successive La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994 and the European Cup in 1992. <mask> moved to arch-rivals Real Madrid in 1994, with whom he won his fifth La Liga title in a row. <mask> made his debut for the Denmark national team on his 18th birthday in 1982, and scored 37 goals in 104 appearances.He starred in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, and from November 1994, he captained Denmark for a total of 28 matches, including the victorious 1995 Confederations Cup tournament. He played alongside his brother Brian in the Denmark team that reached the quarter-finals of the 1998 World Cup, and retired as an active player after the tournament. In 1999, <mask> was voted the Best Foreign Player in Spanish Football over the preceding 25-year period and in April 2000 he was knighted, receiving the Order of the Dannebrog. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Denmark by the Danish Football Union, their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. He was officially named the best Danish footballer of all time by the Danish Football Union (DBU) in November 2006. He was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the

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 world's greatest living players at a FIFA awards ceremony in 2004. In April 2013, he was named by Marca readers in the "Best foreign eleven in Real Madrid's history".On 16 October 2021, at a show celebrating the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark's 125th anniversary, 125 candidates for the title of the greatest ever Danish sports star had been reduced to eight, and <mask> was named the winner. After retiring as a player, <mask> took up coaching, and became assistant manager of the Denmark national team. He got his first manager job at former club Brøndby in 2002, whom he guided to the 2005 Danish Superliga championship. He chose not to extend his contract with Brøndby in May 2006. He took over as coach of Getafe and had notable success there. He brought the club comparative success in the Copa del Rey and UEFA Cup, and the team's attacking style received plaudits. On 15 June 2012, <mask> was appointed the manager of Premier League club Swansea City on a two-year contract.In his first season in south Wales, he won the League Cup, the first major English trophy in Swansea's 100-year history. On 4 February 2014, he was sacked by Swansea after a "significant" slump in the Premier League, leaving them two points above the relegation zone. Laudrup then managed Qatari clubs Lekhwiya and Al Rayyan between 2014 and 2018. Club career
Born in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, <mask>up began playing football in father <mask>'s childhood club Vanløse. When <mask> became player/coach of Brøndby IF in 1973, the family moved to Brøndby and both <mask> and his brother Brian Laudrup started playing for the club as well. <mask> followed his father to the top-flight Danish 1st

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 another year. Lazio started the 1984–85 season poorly, eventually finishing in last place to become relegated to Serie B. Laudrup scored just one goal that season. <mask> returned to Juventus in summer 1985 to replace Zbigniew Boniek, playing alongside Michel Platini. In his first year at the club, he won the 1985–86 Serie A as well as the Intercontinental Cup trophy, scoring the equalising goal in the final of the latter tournament, although he later missed a penalty in the resulting shoot-out; he was once again named Danish Player of the Year in 1985.However, the following season was not a success for <mask>, who suffered multiple injuries. When Platini retired in 1987, Laudrup was expected to lead the team in his place, playing alongside newly bought Welsh forward Ian Rush. But Laudrup failed to live up to Platini's standards and did not score any goals, despite playing all 30 matches of the 1987–88 season. Barcelona
After an unsuccessful season with Juventus, Laudrup decided it was time to leave, looking for a new experience after six years in Italy. In 1989, he joined Spanish club Barcelona on the premise that Netherlands coach Johan Cruyff, his childhood role model, had been assembling a team that was striving for success. Immediately, Laudrup enjoyed major success under Cruyff's leadership, citing the Dutchman's philosophy and perception of the game as one of the main assets that helped foster his talent. He was one of the restricted three foreign players allowed in the team, alongside Dutch defender Ronald Koeman and Bulgarian striker Hristo Stoichkov, who were the pillars of the Barça "Dream Team", along with rising stars Pep Guardiola, José Mari Bakero, and Txiki

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 ending 5–0. Daniel Storey wrote of Laudrup, "no other player is loved on both sides of the clásico divide quite like Laudrup" as he remains held in high regard by both Barça and Madrid fans. Following the match, Laudrup's former Barcelona manager Cruyff commented: "When <mask> plays like a dream, a magic illusion, determined to show his new team his extreme abilities, no one in the world comes anywhere near his level." Later career and retirement
In 1996, Laudrup left Real Madrid to play for Vissel Kobe in Japan. On 18 August 1996, he played his first match for Vissel Kobe and scored two goals in a 4–2 win against Brummell Sendai. He helped Vissel to promotion from the second-tier Japan Football League to the J1 League. He was registered as a player in Bosnian Premier League club Čelik Zenica in a controversial signing in which he did not play any games for Čelik, but was signed as a player.After the details were resolved, he ended his playing career in a championship winning season at Dutch side Ajax in 1998. Following his retirement, <mask> sometimes turned out to play for Lyngby's Old Boys team in his spare time. International career
<mask> was called up for the Denmark national team during Brøndby's debut season in the top-flight. On his 18th birthday on 15 June 1982, he became the then-second-youngest Danish national team player ever, following Harald Nielsen. Despite playing for relegation battlers Lazio, Laudrup starred for the Denmark national team at UEFA Euro 1984, playing all four of Denmark's matches. Laudrup participated in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, a performance which is best remembered for his exceptional solo dribble and goal in the 6–1 defeat of Uruguay. He

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texts: was also a part of the disappointing Denmark squad at Euro 1988, though Laudrup experienced personal success, scoring one of Denmark's two goals.Following three matches in the qualification campaign for Euro 1992, <mask> opted to quit the national team in November 1990 (alongside his brother <mask> and Jan Mølby) following differences with coach Richard Møller Nielsen. The Danes originally failed to qualify but were later given Yugoslavia's place as Yugoslavia were disqualified due to war in their country. Notwithstanding their qualification, Laudrup rated Denmark's chances of success so low he stayed on holiday. However, Denmark caused one of the biggest upsets in football history by going on to win the tournament, beating holders the Netherlands in the semi-final and, in the final beating reigning world champions and favourites Germany, with a 2–0 win thanks to goals from John Jensen and Kim Vilfort. <mask> returned to Nielsen's Danish squad in August 1993, but saw Spain and the Republic of Ireland qualify for the 1994 World Cup ahead of Denmark. He scored a goal in the 2–0 victory against Argentina, as Denmark won the 1995 Intercontinental Cup. He also scored four goals in ten matches as Denmark qualified for Euro 1996.<mask>'s last matches for Denmark came at the 1998 World Cup, when he captained the nation to the quarter-final. <mask> made his 100th appearance for Denmark in the team's opening game of the tournament, a 1–0 defeat of Saudi Arabia in Lens. Denmark was defeated 2–3 by Brazil in the quarter-finals, and both <mask> and <mask> announced their international retirement following the elimination. Both brothers ended their international careers on a high note as both <mask>

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texts: the fourth-best player in the history of the game (behind Pelé, Diego Maradona and himsel). Luís Figo instead labelled Laudrup as arguably the best opponent he had ever faced.Ronald Koeman rated Laudrup as "possibly the most skillful and elegant player [he] ever played with," adding: "Few could dribble like he could. He could sense when a game was ready to be seized and transformed by a moment of individual brilliance." Roberto Galia stated in 2008: "I have played against Maradona, Platini and Baggio. But the player I saw do the most indescribable things was <mask>drup." Former teammate Guillermo Amor said: "I have never seen a better player in one-on-ones. He was our special player." Thierry Henry named Laudrup as the best player he had never played with, saying he did not know any better passer than him and "the world of football did not give him the credit that guy [Laudrup] deserved."John Toshack ranked Laudrup as "the best player of his generation," likening him to Cruyff both as a player and a manager, a view shared by Franz Beckenbauer, who dubbed Laudrup the best player of the 90s. Javier Clemente once stated: "To me, <mask>up is the most genius player the world has ever seen. He will always be my numero uno. Always." José Mari Bakero instead remarked: "No one has given the club [Barcelona] as much inspiration as <mask>. We all look up to him. It is a privilege to have your day enriched by a genius."In 2012, Ian Rush described him as "an incredible player," who "probably had the most individual skill" he had ever seen. Daniel Storey of Planet Football stated in 2020 that he believed that Laudrup was one of the most underrated players of the previous 30 years, a view shared by

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texts: Albert Ferrer, who stated in 2009: "Few people made me enjoy the game as much as <mask>. Maybe he didn't get the media recognition he deserved, but he was so classy and a real thinker. A master of the blind pass and impossible through-balls and I will never forget his 'spoon' pass in a game against Osasuna. He lifted the ball right over the defence and Romario touched it in first time." At Barcelona, Laudrup played alongside Hristo Stoichkov, who scored many goals from Laudrup's passes. Regarding Laudrup's ability to create chances for his teammates, he commented in his 2008 autobiography: "From more than hundred goals that I scored I'm sure that over 50 were assisted by <mask>.To play with him was extremely easy. We found each other by intuition on the field and found common football language. Look at Ivan Zamorano. Laudrup went there (Real) and Zamorano is a goalscorer. Sometimes I envy Ivan for the passes he receives. Passes on foot after you accelerated. Few people understand football like the Danish player.He can only be compared with Maradona, Schuster or Roberto Baggio. They make things easy and find the right solutions. For them [it] is simple, for the opponent – unthinkable. Phenomenal! His only problem is his character. He is emotional and terribly reserved. This affects him a lot, because he takes everything personally – no matter if someone tells him something or decision that he does not agree.His relations with Cruyff were delicate because he couldn't take the critics. I listen to him but I don't care that much. For <mask> this was fatal. He couldn't take it anymore so he left without a word." That same year, in an interview with FourFourTwo magazine, Stoichkov included

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texts: Laudrup in his "Perfect XI," and labelled him as: "One of the best European players I've ever seen," and as a player who was "up there with the greats." He went on to describe him as: "An elegant, old-fashioned playmaker," who "did things few other footballers could do." In 2010, he instead said that "Laudrup was the greatest."Another striker who benefitted from Laudrup's playmaking abilities was Real Madrid teammate Iván Zamorano, who called Laudrup "El Genio" ("The Genius," in Spanish) during Laudrup's time in the Spanish capital. Zamorano was going through a hard spell in Madrid, but when Laudrup arrived to assist his goals, Zamorano immediately became the top goalscorer of La Liga, winning the pichichi trophy; Zamorano himself credited Laudrup for his role in his increased goalscoring output, describing him as a "genius," while also commenting: "...The reason why I make so many goals is Laudrup." He also stated: "<mask> was a magician and one of the greatest players ever. He was amazing in one-on-ones too. I always say that Laudrup had three eyes, not two like everyone else. As a forward, I had to be aware all the time, because he could make you a chance out of nothing and you had to be prepared for that moment." Andrés Iniesta, who became known for using Laudrup's signature dribbling move – the croqueta – rated Laudrup as the greatest player of all time.Throughout his career, his number of assists were almost always the highest of his team. However, despite his talent and reputation as one of the most technically gifted and creative players of his generation, certain players, pundits and managers have questioned Laudrup's work rate, mentality, determination, and consistency


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 throughout his career at times, in particular in his early career. His former Juventus teammate and admirer Michel Platini, for example, once said, "[Laudrup]'s the greatest player in the world, in training," also describing him as "one of the biggest talents ever," while also lamenting that he "never used his talent to its fullest during matches." His former Barcelona manager Johan Cruyff described him as "One of the most difficult players [he had] worked with," adding: "When he gives 80–90% he is still by far the best, but I want 100%, and he rarely does that." In 1998, he stated: "Had <mask> been born in a poor ghetto in Brazil or Argentina with the ball being his only way out of poverty he would today be recognised as the biggest genius of the game ever. He had all the abilities to reach it but lacked this ghetto-instinct, which could have driven him there." At Swansea in 2012, Alan Tate commented: "He is still the best player in training at [age] 48 years."This was echoed by Swansea player Danny Graham: "Laudrup was the best player in training by a mile. It was unreal." In addition to his playing ability, Laudrup was known for his good conduct on the pitch and he never received a red card in his career. Managerial career

Early years
After his playing career ended with Ajax, Laudrup became a coach at age 36 when he started serving as an assistant coach for the Denmark national team head coach Morten Olsen in 2000. The national team would play a 4–2–3–1 formation, depending on two fast wingers and with the aim to dominate games with a short-passing possession game. Together, they led Denmark to the knock-out stage of the 2002 World Cup. Brøndby
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 four seasons, subsequently left Brøndby in June 2006. Laudrup was associated with several new jobs, including becoming manager of former club Real Madrid and that he would replace Lars Lagerbäck as head coach of the Sweden national team.In 2007, Brøndby decided to name a new lounge at the stadium "The <mask> Lounge", with <mask>'s approval. His success led him to being voted and awarded the Danish Manager of the Year. Getafe
On 21 June 2007, Laudrup was linked to a move to Madrid-based La Liga club Getafe by sports newspaper Marca. This was confirmed on 9 July 2007. During his stay in Getafe, the club reached the final of the Copa del Rey, losing to Valencia, and the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, losing in extra time to Bayern Munich. During his tenure as successor to Bernd Schuster, he brought in a new brand of exciting and free-flowing attacking football to the club, bringing back memories of Laudrup as a player. His team, which was not one of the established powers in Spanish football, enjoyed comparative success.However, he performed only one season as manager, resigning in May 2008. After <mask> announced his departure from Getafe, he was linked with jobs at Barcelona, Valencia, Benfica, Chelsea, Blackburn Rovers, Panathinaikos, CSKA Moscow and West Ham United. He almost got the job at Panathinaikos, but according to Danish media, he wanted an option to allow him to leave if he received an offer from a Spanish club. This request was not accepted by the Greeks, who chose to hire Henk ten Cate instead. Spartak Moscow
On 12 September 2008, it was officially announced that <mask> had signed a one-and-a-half-year contract to manage Spartak Moscow, replacing Stanislav Cherchesov

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 following his dismissal after a string of poor results. However, Laudrup started on a poor note, winning just one of his first four league matches. He was subsequently sacked on 15 April 2009, just seven months on the job, in the wake of Spartak's quarter-final 3–0 loss to Dynamo Moscow in the Russian Cup.The official statement from Spartak read, "From this point onwards, head coach <mask> has been relieved of his responsibilities because of unsatisfactory results." On 22 October 2009, Spanish media announced Laudrup would be appointed as new manager of Spanish side Atlético Madrid, replacing the short and unsuccessful run of Abel Resino, following Atlético's 4–0 UEFA Champions League group stage defeat to Chelsea. However, Laudrup and Atlético were not able to agree on terms and the deal fell apart. The day after, on 23 October, Resino was sacked and Quique Sánchez Flores was appointed as coach as the side's second-choice. Mallorca
In July 2010, Laudrup was appointed manager of Mallorca on a contract lasting until the end of June 2012. In his first season, he kept the struggling Mallorca side from relegation, which was suffering from losing many first team players and who was ejected from the UEFA Europa League due to its poor financial situation. At the beginning of the 2011–12 season, on 27 September 2011, Laudrup resigned as manager following the firing of his assistant, Erik Larsen.Laudrup cited great frustration with Lorenzo Serra Ferrer, the club's director of football, leading to a bad work climate as the main reason for his resignation. Swansea City
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 season. The club also qualified for the quarter-finals of the 2015 AFC Champions League during his reign. On 17 June 2015, Laudrup announced that he would not extend his contract, departing the club. Al Rayyan
On 3 October 2016, <mask> was unveiled as the new manager of Al Rayyan on a two-year contract, replacing Jorge Fossati. His first match in charge was on 15 October 2016, when Al Rayyan faced Al Sailiya in an away match in the league, with the match ending in a 1–1 draw. Style of management and tactics

As assistant manager to Morten Olsen, the Denmark national team employed a 4–2–3–1 system with pacey wingers playing the pivotal role in attack. <mask> learnt from Olsen and used the same tactical style with Brøndby, with the team becoming more attacking and focused on a short passing style.He continued to employ a similar tactical style when he joined Getafe, ushering a new brand of exciting and free-flowing attacking football to help the club to the Copa del Rey final. However, at Spartak Moscow, he could not adapt his formation and tactics to the Russian game, with the club unable to score enough goals per match. As Mallorca manager, Laudrup inspired a team that lost a number of key players from relegation by playing an offensive game. In 2012, he joined Swansea City as manager, replacing Brendan Rodgers. Under Rodgers, Swansea were known to play a 4–3–3 approach with a lot of focus on passing, where the full-backs pushed up when in possession and the outfield players played a high tempo pressing game. Under Laudrup, the team began employing a 4–2–3–1 formation, becoming more attacking while retaining the passing and pressing game. He also signed a number of new players,


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 primarily from La Liga, trying to bring the attacking style from Spain to Wales, which saw more goals scored.He said, "You can get a lot of quality for a reasonable amount in Spain right now." Laudrup earned plaudits for maintaining their flowing, attacking brand of football and attractive, passing style of play throughout the season, which saw his side win the League Cup, after beating Bradford City a record 5–0 in the final. "You can't ask players to do things that Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are doing, but you can ask the easy things," he said. "Sometimes the easiest things in football, a simple pass five or eight yards, can be the most effective. That, everybody can learn." Outside of football

Personal life
<mask> is part of a family with three generations of footballers. His uncle was former Brøndby and Aberdeen manager Ebbe Skovdahl.He is the son of former Danish national team player <mask>. From his marriage with his first wife, Tina Thunø, Laudrup has a son, Mads. Mads has been the team captain of various Danish youth national teams since January 2005. Today, he is married with Siw Retz <mask>, with whom he has two children, Andreas and Rebecca. Andreas was selected a part of the under-16 national team in March 2006. <mask> has a younger brother, <mask>, who was also a footballer. <mask> is the record holder of Danish player of the year awards with four, and was rated by FIFA as the fifth-best player in the world in 1992.<mask> was in the Euro 92 Team of the Tournament and World Cup 98 Team of the Tournament. Brian was also known for his part in the Rangers squad which won nine consecutive titles in the 1990s. Brian was a part of the trophy-winning Danish national team

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 at UEFA Euro 1992, but <mask> did not play in that championship due to differences with the national team coach Richard Møller Nielsen and because he thought that the barring of Yugoslavia for political, rather than football, reasons was not just. In 2004, both the <mask> brothers were named in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers chosen by Pelé as part of the celebration of FIFA's 100th anniversary. Politics and business
Alongside his professional football career, Laudrup began importing Spanish wine to Denmark starting in 1993. Initially, the wine import was sort of a hobby, but business grew rapidly and today his company Laudrup Vin og Gastronomi has over ten employees, runs a Wine Academy and imports wines from all over the world. In 2004, <mask> was one of the founders of CEPOS, a Danish classical liberal/free-market conservative think-tank.Career statistics

Club

International

Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Laudrup goal. players
S.S. Lazio players
FC Barcelona players
Real Madrid CF players
Vissel Kobe players
AFC Ajax players
Danish 1st Division players
Serie A players
La Liga players
J1 League players
Japan Football League (1992–1998) players
Eredivisie players
UEFA Champions League winning players
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Denmark international footballers
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1986 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 1988 players
1995 King Fahd Cup players
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1998 FIFA World Cup players
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title: Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière

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<mask>-<mask>, 1st Marquis de <mask> (1723–1798), Seigneur of Vaudreuil, Lotbinière and Rigaud, Quebec etc. In 1757, on his advice at the Siege of Fort William Henry, the <mask> successfully attacked Fort William Henry. In 1758, Lotbinière again advised Montcalm to await rather than attack the British Army, at Fort Carillon, the fort that Lotbinière had built, which led to the French victory at the Battle of Carillon. In 1784, Louis XVI of France created <mask> a Marquis, the only Canadian by family and birth to have attained that rank, and the last such creation made by Louis XVI. He was the last private owner of Château Vaudreuil in Montreal. Early life
<mask>-<mask> was born in 1723 at Quebec, the youngest son of <mask>. His mother, Marie-Francoise (1695–1723), was the daughter of Captain François-Marie Renaud d'Avène <mask> and Françoise-Thérèse (1670-1698), daughter of <mask> (1632–1716).His career was greatly aided by two of his close relations, both of whom were Governors General of New France - Roland-<mask> <mask> Galissonière and <mask> Rigaud, <mask> Vaudreuil-Cavagnial. He was the brother of François-<mask> <mask> and their first cousins included Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'Esgly, La Belle Angelique-Genevieve d'Avene <mask> (mistress of François Bigot) and Nicolas Renaud d'Avene <mask>, Marquis de Fresnoy. He was the uncle of The Hon. Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay. Military engineer

<mask> was brought up at the Jesuit College in Quebec before becoming a cadet with the colonial troupes de la marine, breaking family tradition by being the first not to preside over the Sovereign Council of New France. As second ensign he served in the Defence of the Acadians of 1746-47 gaining a reputation as "a capable and courageous officer". In 1747, Lotbinière married  <mask> Chaussegros <mask>, the daughter of Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros <mask> (1682-1756), chief engineer of New

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texts: France, and his wife Marie-Renée <mask> <mask>vais.In 1749, his relation, the Commandant General of New France, Roland-<mask> <mask> Galissonière, promoted him to ensign and entrusted him to lead a reconnaissance mission into the region between Montreal and Michilimackinac. Completing his mission successfully, in 1750 Galissonière (who was now back in France), sent for the young Lotbinière to join him so he could train as an engineer and artillery officer. Three years later he returned to New France as a Lieutenant and with the title of King's Engineer in the Colonial Regular Army, working under his father-in-law on the construction of the Ramparts of Quebec City. In 1755, his cousin, Pierre Francois <mask>, <mask> de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, put him in charge of building a fortress at the southern end of Lake Champlain. He spent several years there overseeing the construction of Fort Carillon (as it was called until the British captured it in the Battle of Ticonderoga in 1759 and renamed it Fort Ticonderoga). Although promoted to captain in 1757, he was refused the position of chief engineer (which he is often referred to as having been) of New France, a position which he had asked for after his father-in-law's death. The court instead appointed Nicolas Sarrebouce, an engineer in the French Army, who wasted no time in hindering <mask>'s career, sending reports to Paris accusing him of incompetence and malfeasance, ruining his credibility with the Ministry of Marine.As some form of compensation his cousin, Governor-General Vaudreuil, gave him the seigneury of Alainville. In the run up to the Battle of Quebec his cousin, Vaudreuil, employed him to build defences about the city, and during the battle he served as his aide-de-camp. In 1760 he was put in charge of fortifying Ile aux Noix to impede the British advance from the south, but was forced to fall back to Montreal, Quebec.

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 Another of his first cousins, Nicolas Renaud d'Avene <mask>-Fresnoy (1729-1803), <mask> Fresnoy, served as major-general in the French victory at the Battle of Sainte-Foy, for which he was rewarded the Grand Cross Order of Saint Louis. After the capitulation, Lotbiniere left his wife and newly born daughter in Canada and returned to France with his 12-year-old son, cadet <mask>-Gaspard-<mask> <mask>binière. Seigneuries
Having lost his land in America, that had amounted to 150,000 acres, he unsuccessfully tried to resume his military career in France. His thoughts turned again to his native land, and he decided to return as a large landowner.From his cousin, former Governor <mask> Vaudreuil who had retired to his ancestral estate near Rouen, he bought in 1763 the seigneuries of Vaudreuil, Rigaud and Saint-François-de-Nouvelle-Beauce, also adding Villechauve (known today as Beauharnois) and Hocquart to his existing seigneuries at Lotbinière (granted to his grandfather in 1672) and Alainville. Before returning to Canada he spent a year in London to try to make sure that Alainville and Hocquart (which since the Royal Proclamation of 1763 fell within the boundaries of the Province of New York) would be recognized as his by the British Board of Trade. This resulted in a vague promise, which Lotbinière took as a guarantee. On his return to Canada in 1760, Lotbinière immediately set about developing his seigneury at Vaudreuil. He built a manor house there for his family, a mill, and the Church of Saint-Michel de Vaudreuil, which still stands today, and where many members of his family are buried with memorials. Vaudreuil is closely associated with his many descendants, notably the <mask>e-Harwood family, who inherited the seigneury of Vaudreuil. In 1767, he purchased the Château Vaudreuil at Montreal, Quebec.Short of funds he was forced to sell the seigneury of Lotbinière to his son

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 in 1770. By 1771 his son had bought all his father's Canadian seigneuries except Villechauve, which was mortgaged. In addition to this, he was unable to recover his two properties in New York (Alainville and Hocquart), and so returned to London to again plead his cause. In 1773, he sold the Château. In 1776, the British Board of Trade rejected his claims to Alainville and offered him a grant of an equal size of land in Quebec in compensation for his loss of Hocquart. He refused the compromise and left Britain, deciding to be a British subject no longer. Agitating in Boston and France
Taking the advice of his former superior officer, <mask> Gaston, Chevalier <mask>s, he went to France and offered his services to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Charles Gravier, Comte <mask> who entrusted him with an unofficial mission as an observer.In 1776 he arrived in Massachusetts, but ignoring Vergenne's words immediately introduced himself to John Hancock as the unofficial envoy of the minister. He spent six months in Boston, and though a personal friend of Benjamin Franklin, he won few friends through his agitations. Lotbinière, for purely selfish reasons, was desperate for France to recover her lost colonies, and did all he could to force the issue. He returned to France with his report in 1777, but Vergennes didn't see it as wise to send him on any further missions. Up until 1782 he still hoped France would recover her lost territories in North America, but after the Treaty of Paris in 1783 any last hopes he had had of returning to Canada were finished. Lotbinière spent the next ten years in France. With <mask>' support he re-established his military engineering reputation and clearly held favour at the court of King Louis XVI.He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Louis, and became a Chevalier with a pension of 600 livres, which was doubled in 1781. In 1784 King Louis

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 created him the <mask> de Lotbinière in recognition of the sacrifices he had made by allying himself to the French cause in 1776, the only Canadian to receive this honour. His son, <mask>-Gaspard-<mask> <mask>, inherited the title but being politically astute did not use it in order to maintain favour with the new British regime in Canada. Later life
Indefatigable as ever, <mask> returned to America in 1787 to once again try to recover his seigneuries at Alainville and Hocquart, but two years of effort proved to be futile. On arriving at New York he had asked permission to return to his home country but Quebec Governor Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester) categorically refused him re-entry. However in 1790, in the company of his son (then serving as Lord Dorchester's confidential agent) he crossed the border unhindered, revisiting his family and his seigneury at Villechauve. His happiness was short lived.He was forced into exile again after selling Villechauve in 1795 for £9,000 to <mask>, father of Edward Ellice. To receive her share from the sale, his wife asked for, and obtained, a property separation in 1796. He was the father of two children: a son, <mask>-Gaspard-<mask> <mask>, and a daughter, Marie-Louise, who married Pierre-Amable <mask>. See also
 Canadian Hereditary Peers
<mask>, <mask> de Lotbiniere

Notes

References
 Gerard Parizeau (1984). La Seigneurie de Vaudreuil et ses notables au début du XIXe siècle : essai sur le milieu, Montreal: Fides, 240 p.

External links
Hector Besner, "Les seigneuries de Vaudreuil et de Soulanges: 300 ans en 2002," Histoire Québec 7, no. 2 (November 2001). English translation

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French Canadian people of the French and Indian War
French Canadians in the American Revolution
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Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Louis
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<mask> (born January 7, 1976) is a Dominican former professional baseball left fielder and second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals, and Chicago Cubs, and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. <mask> began his professional career with Hiroshima in 1996, but signed with the Yankees as a free agent in 1998 and was assigned to play in minor league baseball. The next year, he was the Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the All-Star Futures Game, and made his MLB debut for the Yankees, with whom he would win two American League championships. The Yankees traded <mask> to the Rangers after the 2003 season, and the Rangers traded <mask> to the Nationals after the 2005 season. He signed a contract as a free agent with the Cubs before the 2007 season. The Cubs traded Soriano to the Yankees in 2013, and the Yankees released him in 2014.<mask> was a seven-time MLB All-Star, and won the All-Star Game MVP Award in 2004. He won the Silver Slugger Award four times. He is one of only four players in the 40–40 club, achieving the feat in 2006. He played primarily as a second baseman for the Yankees and Rangers before being converted to an outfielder with the Nationals. <mask> is one of only 56 major league players to hit 400 or more career home runs, and was seventh among active players in home runs at the time of his retirement. Professional career

Hiroshima Toyo Carp (1996–1997)
<mask> began his professional baseball career in Japan

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 with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, training at their Carp Academy for Dominican players. <mask> spent 1996 playing in Japan in the minor Western League.In 1997, he was promoted to the varsity team, and, wearing uniform number 74, he appeared in nine games, batting .118 (2 for 17) with two walks. Soriano disliked the intense Japanese practice schedule, and the Carp denied him a salary increase from $45,000 to $180,000 per year. Like Hideo Nomo and Hideki Irabu, who had previously left Japan to play in the United States, Soriano hired Don Nomura to help his situation. After first attempting to void Soriano's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) contract by unsuccessfully arguing that the player was legally a minor when he signed it, Nomura advised him, like Nomo, to retire from NPB and pursue a career in MLB. This prompted Carp executives to file an injunction against Soriano, and to send letters to MLB teams demanding that they cease all negotiations with him. After the Nomo case, NPB officials had amended the Working Agreement without consulting any MLB officials in an attempt to prevent the situation from recurring. Since MLB had not agreed to any changes to the agreement, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig declared that MLB would recognize <mask> as a free agent on July 13, 1998 and the Carp backed down.New York Yankees (1998–2003)
<mask> signed as a free agent with the New York Yankees in 1998, starting his career as an infielder, first as a third baseman, and then moving over to second base. <mask> was named to the

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 base hits, doubles, home runs, stolen bases, and strikeouts. In 2003 he again led the major leagues in power-speed number (36.4). Texas Rangers (2004–2005)
In 2004, the Yankees traded <mask> to the Texas Rangers, along with minor leaguer Joaquin Árias for Alex Rodriguez and cash amounting to $67 million of the $179 million remaining on Rodríguez' contract.On May 8, 2004, <mask> had six hits in nine innings—the first Texas Ranger to do so—in a 16–15, 10-inning victory over the Detroit Tigers. The game featured an hour-long fifth inning, where Detroit scored eight runs in the top half of the inning to take a ten-run lead over the Rangers, only to see Texas score ten runs in the bottom half of the inning to tie the game, the largest deficit ever overcome by the Rangers and tying an MLB record for most runs in an inning by two teams. That same year, <mask> was elected to the All-Star Game as the starting second baseman. He hit a three-run home run off Roger Clemens in the first inning and was named the MVP of the game. In 2005, he finished sixth in the AL for stolen bases, and third for extra base hits (as well as eighth in strikeouts). He led the major leagues in power-speed number (32.7). Washington Nationals (2006)
On December 7, 2005, <mask> was traded to the Washington Nationals in exchange for Brad Wilkerson, Terrmel Sledge, and minor league pitcher Armando Galarraga.On February 10, 2006, <mask> set a record for the highest salary ever awarded in arbitration, receiving $10 million, even though he lost his

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texts: request of $12 million. The previous high had been set in 2001 by Andruw Jones of the Atlanta Braves when he earned $8.2 million. The Nationals offered Soriano a five-year, $50-million extension, but Soriano rejected the offer. <mask> and his agent Diego Bentz instead opted to open contract negotiations during the off-season, so that he would become a free agent. On March 20, 2006, Nationals manager Frank Robinson inserted <mask> in the lineup as the left fielder. <mask>, who since 2001 had played exclusively at second base, refused to take the field, and the Nationals organization threatened him with disqualification, which would have meant forfeiture of his salary, and he would not have received credit for service time in fulfillment of the obligations of his contract. With his contract's service terms officially still unfulfilled, he would then have been ineligible for free agency at season's end.Two days later, <mask> relented and played in left field for the Nationals in their exhibition game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Robinson indicated that he considered <mask>'s move to left field to be permanent and would not consider moving Soriano back to second base at any point during the season. In his comments following that game, Soriano indicated that he would accept his new position without further argument. As the season got underway, Soriano began to enjoy his new position, and by the All-Star break he led the league in outfield assists. <mask> made his fifth consecutive All-Star team and became only

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 the third man to start All-Star games for both leagues at two different positions. On August 25, a week after reaching 30–30, he became the fastest man in baseball history to reach 200 home runs and 200 stolen bases, reaching the mark in 929 games (breaking the previous record of 1,053 games held by Eric Davis). In September, he completed his 20th outfield assist, becoming the only player in baseball history with 40 home runs, 40 stolen bases, and 20 assists.On September 16, <mask> stole second base in the first inning to become the fourth player to join the 40–40 club, after Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, and Alex Rodriguez. Many considered <mask>'s 40–40 season to be the only one "clean", as Canseco, Bonds and Rodriguez were all involved in the steroid controversy. <mask> was also the only one of the four to reach the feat while playing at home. Six days later, he became the first player to reach 40 home runs, 40 stolen bases and 40 doubles in one season. <mask> set a new career high in walks with 67 (previously 38). He also reached a career high in home runs with 46 (previously 39). He also led the National League in extra-base hits (89) and the major leagues in power-speed number (43.36), the latter of which remains the second-highest single season career mark ever.Possible trade

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 season, they would receive a first- or second-round draft pick from the team that signed him and a "sandwich" pick between the first and second rounds as compensation. <mask> did not want to engage in contract negotiations during the season. However, <mask> expressed his strong desire to stay with the team. Both fans and players began to be more vocal in their support to keep <mask>. Manager Frank Robinson praised Soriano's leadership in the clubhouse, and further suggested that <mask> should be considered for MVP of the National League. There were plenty of suitors, including sending <mask> back to the Yankees, and the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers were also interested.However, Nationals general manager Jim Bowden felt that what he was offered was not worth trading him. The Nationals hoped to sign him to a long-term deal before the season ended but on October 12, 2006 he rejected a $70M deal. Chicago Cubs

2007
The Chicago Cubs signed <mask> to an eight-year contract worth nearly $136 million. The contract marked the most expensive deal in the Cubs' franchise history at the time and went through 2014. It contained a no-trade clause, meaning <mask> could not be traded without his consent. The Cubs' manager, Lou Piniella, assigned <mask> to play center field, but later moved him to left field after he sustained a hamstring injury. He struggled during the first month of the season, during which he posted a .270 batting average, with no home runs.He managed to hit his first home run during the Cubs' first

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texts: game in May, and gradually increased his batting average throughout the month. <mask> was extremely productive in June. In a game against the Atlanta Braves, <mask> hit three home runs off Lance Cormier. <mask> had accomplished the same feat in his past, coincidentally, also against the Atlanta Braves. <mask> also played an integral part in the Cubs' offense during the team's annual Cross-town Classic with the Chicago White Sox at US Cellular Field. He hit home runs in three consecutive games. His efforts merited the National League's Player of the Month title for June.He was later selected as a reserve outfielder in the 2007 MLB All-Star Game, where he hit a two-run home run for the National League in the bottom of the ninth inning. <mask> led the Cubs in home runs during their National League Central chase in June and July, during which they erased the Milwaukee Brewers' eight game lead over the division. After losing the tie for first in early August, Soriano tore his right quadriceps during a game against the New York Mets on August 5. The Cubs placed him on the fifteen-day disabled list, and expected him to miss several weeks while recovering from the injury. The Cubs used Matt Murton, who had been recalled from the Triple-A Iowa Cubs, in left field. He began to show signs of improvement around on August 21, when he was seen running and working out with trainers. <mask> stated he felt healthy enough to return in a few days, but made his actual return on August 28, 2007.Upon his return, <mask> proceeded to

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 have the most productive September in the franchise's history. He hit fourteen home runs, twenty-seven runs batted in, and recorded a .320 batting average within twenty-nine games. Soriano said upon his return from the quad injury that he had also been suffering from wrist injuries and the time off to heal his leg also helped his wrists. The Cubs went on to win the National League Central Division, but were swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League Division Series. <mask> finished the season with thirty-three home runs (including eleven lead-off home runs), seventy runs batted in, and a .299 batting average. He led the Cubs in home runs, triples, runs, strikeouts, and Slugging percentage, among all regular starters. 2008
During the first few weeks of the 2008 season with the Cubs, <mask> struggled.He was only hitting .190 at the time he was put on the DL with a strained calf. After being activated, <mask> got off to a quick start, raising his average to .280 and increasing his home run total. In a one-week stretch in May, he hit 7 home runs in just 6 games, hitting nearly .500 during that stretch. At the end of May he had 12 home runs and 33 RBIs. However, his defense was extremely poor, and after being placed on the DL early in the season, <mask> was encouraged to stop hopping as he caught fly balls. This seemed to affect his play in the field as he misjudged two balls in St. Louis on May 2, shortly after being activated. After being severely booed by Cub fans who had traveled to St. Louis in


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texts: that particular game, he homered in the ninth to send the game to extra innings.Later that month, he lost a ball in the sun and dropped what would have been the game's final out in the 9th inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates, allowing Jason Bay to reach safely and eventually costing the Cubs a win. On June 11, 2008, <mask> was hit by a pitch and broke a bone just under the ring finger in his left hand. On July 7, 2008, <mask> was voted a starter in the 2008 MLB All-Star Game. However, due to the injury, he was replaced in the starting lineup by Matt Holliday of the Colorado Rockies. As poor as <mask>'s defense was perceived to be, his arm had been just as much an asset to the Cubs, and he was one of the league's leaders in outfield assists. <mask> also led the team in home runs, despite having played in only 109 games. On August 22, <mask> accomplished one of baseball's rarest feats, as he stole home plate in a loss to his old team, the Washington Nationals.In early September, <mask> helped end the Cubs six-game losing streak by slugging out three home runs with five RBI against the Cincinnati Reds. It marked the third three-home run game of his career. However, as the Cubs went into the playoffs against the Los Angeles Dodgers, <mask>, like nearly everyone else on the team, hit poorly in the NLDS. Soriano had an embarrassing moment in a day-night double header on Wednesday, August 13, 2008, where he hit a long ball which he thought was a home run. He watched it, and slowly trotted down to 1st, yet the ball

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 never left the park. He wound up with only a single. Between games, he apologized to his team and promised that it would never happen again.2009

<mask> had gotten off to a quick start, hitting a solo home run in his first at bat of the 2009 season. <mask> also hit a game-tying solo home run off LaTroy Hawkins in the 8th inning in the second game of the young season. On April 11, <mask> hit a 2-run home run off of Carlos Villanueva in the top of the ninth giving the Cubs a 6 to 5 victory over rival Milwaukee. Comcast Sportsnet awarded Soriano with "Play of the Day". <mask> homered again, the very next day, on the first pitch he saw from Jeff Suppan, his 51st lead-off home run. On April 17 with one out in the bottom of the eighth, <mask> hit a two-run home run to give the Cubs an 8–7 lead over the St. Louis Cardinals. However, Soriano only hit .216 in the month of May.In voting for the 2009 All-Star Game, <mask> was fourth among NL outfielders (2,692,994 votes), trailing Ryan Braun (4,138,559), Raúl Ibañez (4,053,355), and Carlos Beltrán (2,812,295). Shortly before the All-Star break, manager Lou Piniella dropped Soriano in the batting order and made it clear that it was not a temporary change. For the first time in his career, Soriano seemed to accept not being a leadoff hitter and actually praised his manager for making the necessary decision, citing the fact that "I'm not doing my job." The batting order change helped Soriano. In the first series after the All-Star break, he hit two go-ahead home runs against


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 the Nationals. On July 27, he hit a walk-off grand slam against the Houston Astros during the 13th inning. In September 2009, Soriano underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee.In 2009, <mask> led all major league left fielders in errors, with 11, and had the lowest fielding percentage among them (.950). 2010
After a poor season in 2009, <mask> was placed permanently in the 6th spot in the Cubs lineup, where he rebounded nicely, by playing in the most games(147 games) that season for the Cubs. He also collected 40 doubles, and 79 RBIs. On June 11, 2010, <mask> hit his 300th home run off of Jake Peavy. In 2010, on defense he led major league left fielders in errors, with 7, and had the lowest fielding percentage, at .968. 2011
In 2011, <mask> had a less than stellar year on defense and led in errors by a left fielder, with 7, and had the lowest fielding percentage, at .965. He batted .244, drove in 88 runs, and hit 26 home runs.2012
2012 was <mask>'s best year in some time, hitting 32 home runs, his best batting average in years (.262) and his personal best for RBIs (108), which ranked third in the National League. In the field, he made only one error, which was also <mask>'s personal best on the field. 2013
<mask> started the 2013 season with the Cubs by playing 93 games with a .254 average, 17 home runs, and 51 RBI. <mask>'s batting average and home run production for the Cubs was especially strong in June and July, making him a hot commodity as the trading deadline approached. Second stint with the New


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Rest of 2013

On July 26, 2013, the Cubs traded <mask> to the New York Yankees, who paid him $5 million prorated for 2013 and $5 million of the $18 million owed to him in 2014. The Cubs received pitcher Corey Black from the Single-A Tampa Yankees. On August 11, 2013, <mask> recorded his 2,000th career hit, a home run off of Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander.On August 13, 2013, <mask> hit two home runs and had a career-high six RBIs. The next day, he broke his career high set the previous day by driving in seven runs. He became one of only three players in the live-ball era to drive in at least six runs in back-to-back games (the other two being Rusty Greer in 1997 and Geoff Jenkins in 2001). He also became just one of seven players to record 13 RBI in a two-game span, and fell just two RBI short of the all-time record set by former Yankee Tony Lazzeri. From August 13 to 16, <mask> batted in 18 runs over four games, tying the Major League record for most RBI in four consecutive games. <mask> also recorded 13 hits during this stretch, becoming the only player in MLB history with 18 RBI and at least 12 hits in a four-game stretch. The other players who have recorded 18 RBI in four games are Jim Bottomley (St. Louis Cardinals, July 6–9, 1929), Lou Gehrig (New York Yankees, July 29–31, 1930), Tony Lazzeri (New York Yankees, May 21–24, 1936), Joe DiMaggio (New York Yankees, August 28—September 1, 1939), and Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs, August 8–11, 2002).<mask> was named the AL Player of


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 the Week for August 12–18. On August 27, Soriano hit two home runs, the second of which was the 400th of his career. For the rest of the 2013 season with the Yankees, <mask> played 58 games batting .256 with 17 home runs and 50 RBI. Overall in 2013, combined with the two teams, Soriano played 151 total games batting .255 with 34 home runs and 101 RBI. 2014
With the signings of Carlos Beltrán and Jacoby Ellsbury, <mask> started the 2014 season as the designated hitter and sometimes played at right field. His playing time became limited as he struggled at the plate. <mask> was designated for assignment by the Yankees on July 6, 2014.He was released on July 14. In 67 games, <mask> batted .221 with 6 home runs and 23 RBI. Retirement
<mask> announced his retirement on November 4, 2014. He stated:  <mask>'s 412 career home runs put him in 53rd place on the all-time list at the time of his retirement. Career awards and highlights
 7× All-Star (2002–2008)
 4× Silver Slugger Award (2002, 2004–2006)
 MLB All-Star Game MVP (2004)
 AL stolen base leader (2002)
 4x 30-30 club (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
 40-40 club (2006)

Fielding
<mask> led all major league second basemen in errors every year from 2001 to 2005 (19 (tied), 23, 19, 23, and 21). In 2006, he was second in the major leagues of all left fielders in errors, with 11, but led all left fielders with 22 assists, 9 double plays, and a 2.29 range factor. Personal life
<mask>'s paternal family, the Guilleards, are of Haitian descent.His mother, Doña <mask>, is the sister

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 of Hilario <mask>, a former catcher for the Tigres del Licey baseball team. <mask> and his wife, Carmen Isis Eusebio, have three daughters (Alisis, Angeline, and Alisha) and three sons (Allen, Angel, and <mask>.). See also

30–30 club
40–40 club
List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders
List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders
List of Major League Baseball annual runs scored leaders
List of Major League Baseball annual stolen base leaders
List of Major League Baseball single-game hits leaders
List of Silver Slugger Award winners at second base
List of Silver Slugger Award winners at outfield

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<mask> (May 2, 1907 – February 11, 1972) was an American political scientist best known for his work on public administration and as a scholar of the Soviet Union. His books Smolensk under Soviet Rule, based on documents captured by the German Army during World War II, and How Russia is Ruled (also known as How the Soviet Union is Governed) helped form the basis of American study of the Soviet Union, and established him "as a leading political scientist of the Soviet Union." <mask> is also remembered for his work in the Office of Price Administration and as the director of the Harvard University Library. Biography
<mask> was born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania on May 2, 1907, and spent his childhood years there. In 1920, after the death of his father, Fainsod's family moved to St. Louis. Fainsod attended Washington University in St. Louis, graduating in 1928 with a B.A. in political science and an M.A.in 1930. He then began his Ph.D at Harvard University in government, completing it in only 2 years. In 1932, Fainsod traveled to the Soviet Union on a Sheldon Fellowship, gaining his first exposure to the country. In 1933, he returned to the United States and began teaching in the government department at Harvard. Upon his return to the United States he also married Elizabeth Stix, with whom he had two children. Throughout the 1930s, most of <mask>'s work focused on the United States, and he published the books The American People and their Government and Government and the American Economy. Because of his expertise on American government, he was chosen as a staff member for the Brownlow Committee in 1936.In 1940, he was chosen as a consultant for the Temporary National Economic Committee, and in 1941, when America entered World War II, he was selected as a price executive for the Office of Price Administration(OPA). In April 1942, he was chosen to direct the retail trade and services division of the OPA. After the war, <mask> was

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title: Ryan Sook

texts: <mask> is an American comic book artist, known for his work on books such as Seven Soldiers: Zatanna, X-Factor and The Spectre. His style has been compared to that of Mike Mignola, Adam Hughes, and Kevin Nowlan. <mask>'s first professional work was in Challengers of the Unknown #15, published in 1998. For the next two years, he worked primarily on books for Dark Horse, including several stories set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, as well as two creator-owned projects in Dark Horse Presents: Witch's Son & Ragnok, with writer John Arcudi. He has also inked over Matt Smith's pencils in Lobster Johnson: The Killer in My Skull, a back-up story in Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1. In 2001, he earned critical and fan praise for his work on The Spectre for DC Comics. He left the book in 2002 to draw the first spin-off mini-series from Mike Mignola's Hellboy, BPRD: Hollow Earth.From 2003 to 2010, Sook worked primarily for DC Comics focusing more on coverwork than interior sequential pages. His work in this time period includes: Arkham Asylum: Living Hell with Dan Slott, Hawkman with Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti and Seven Soldiers: Zatanna with Grant Morrison and X-Factor with Peter David for Marvel. He has also worked on several books for Wildstorm. In 2009, Sook garnered his highest critical

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title: Malcolm Fraser (architect)

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<mask> (born 21 July 1959) is an architect from Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the founder of Malcolm Fraser Architects, a firm of architects based in the Old Town of Edinburgh from 1993. The company entered liquidation on 21 August 2015 and <mask> worked with Halliday Fraser Munro Architects before setting up anew with Robin Livingstone as Fraser/Livingstone Architects in January 2019. Biography

<mask> was born on 21 July 1959 to Margaret (née Watters) and <mask> (Structural engineer, with Blyth and Blyth, for many of Edinburgh's best post-war buildings). He attended George Watson's College, going on to study architecture at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MA Hons, DipArch in 1985. Following University he worked as a community architect in Wester Hailes in Edinburgh; with architect and theorist Christopher Alexander in Berkeley, California; conservation practices in Edinburgh; and with poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay at his garden, Little Sparta, near Edinburgh. He founded his architectural practice, Malcolm Fraser Architects, in 1993.It first made its name developing bars and restaurants for clients such as Pizza Express, and with lottery-funded arts projects. The practice's work encompassed conservation and new build, often in historic contexts such as Edinburgh's World Heritage Site, based on respect for the historic built context and the need to build within it in a rooted, confident, contemporary way. Its Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, for the University of Edinburgh, became the first listed building to achieve BREEAM "Outstanding" award. The practice won eight RIBA awards and also completed masterplanning and construction work for volume housebuilders that won for them, for the

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