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texts: expected to return to the Queensland Squad for the 2017 State of Origin series. Despite this, coach Kevin Walters opted to stick with Darius Boyd at Fullback, keep Justin O'Neill at right centre, Corey Oates at left wing, Dane Gagai at right wing and bring in Will Chambers to play left centre; which resulted him being controversially left out of the Game 1 Squad. Following Queensland's Origin Game 1 loss to New South Wales, <mask> continued-on with his outstanding consistent performances helping the Storm to victories over the Knights and Sharks. He was then recalled to the Queensland squad along with Johnathan Thurston for game 2, which resulted incumbent Australian Test Fullback Darius Boyd shifting to Centre and Justin O'Neill dropped from the team. In Game 2 of the Origin Series, <mask> produced an outstanding performance setting-up 2 tries (the first try of the game to debutant left winger Valentine Holmes, when he combined with Johnathan Thurston and Darius Boyd; and the game-winning try to right winger Dane Gagai, when he combined with Michael Morgan leading-up to Johnathan Thurston kicking that winning conversion goal) helping QLD to level the series margin to 1-all in the 18–16 win over NSW at ANZ Stadium.<mask> remained in the team for game 3 and he produced another outstanding performance in the decider, combining with Storm teammates Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk and Cameron Munster in QLD's NRL one-club spine combination; to guide QLD to a series win in the 22–6 victory over NSW at Suncorp Stadium. Playing his first NRL final series appearance since 2014 (despite missing the 2015 and 2016 play-offs due to shoulder

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texts: injuries) and during the first week of the NRL play-offs final series; <mask> played a key part in his side's 18–16 win over the Parramatta Eels at AAMI Park, scoring a try (his 180th NRL career try) in the 2nd half of the game which resulted him drawing level to former Manly Sea Eagles player Steve Menzies as the game's all-time second-equal highest top try-scorer. With the Storm fresh off their break (after Week 2 of the NRL Final Series) and after their 18–16 victory over the Parramatta Eels (in the first week of the Final Series), <mask> featured in the club's Grand Final qualifier match against the Brisbane Broncos scoring 2 tries (both in the second half – the 59th minute and in the 71st minute) in the 30–0 win, allowing the Storm progressing through to the Grand Final and resulted him to move past Steve Menzies as the game's stand-alone second highest top try-scorer (behind another former Manly Sea Eagles player Ken Irvine, who had scored 212 tries). On 27 September leading into the Grand Final; <mask> was awarded the Fullback of the Year Award at the NRL Dally M Awards Event. Playing in the Grand Final at ANZ Stadium on 1 October; <mask> produced an outstanding performance guiding the Melbourne Storm to win the 2017 NRL Premiership (their first Premiership since 2012), beating the North Queensland Cowboys 34–6. Following the game, he received the Clive Churchill Medal as the best player on the field. Two days following the Grand Final victory, <mask> was named in the Australian Test Squad for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup Tournament.He also signed a one-year extension, committing to the Melbourne Storm for the 2018 season.

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 Playing at Fullback in his first international test match for Australia since 2014, <mask> scored a try and produced an outstanding man-of-the-match performance in the 18–4 win over England at Melbourne's AAMI Park. The following week, he equaled the record of Bob Fulton and Jarryd Hayne in becoming the Tournament's Top Try-Scorer in Rugby League World Cup history by producing another outstanding performance and scoring his 13th World Cup try (his 24th Test-Career Try) in Australia's 52–6 win over France in Canberra. Coach Mal Meninga opted to rest <mask> for the Lebanon clash in Sydney, leading into the play-offs. <mask> then returned to the starting line-up at Fullback for the quarter-final game, scoring a try in Australia's 46–0 win against Samoa in Darwin. He then played in Australia's semi-final game against Fiji, scoring 2 tries (which resulted him breaking the all-time World Cup Try-Scoring Record; scoring his 16th World Cup try, as well as his 27th Test try) in the 52–6 win at Suncorp Stadium, guiding the Australians to the World Cup Grand Final. Playing Fullback in the World Cup Grand Final at Suncorp Stadium, <mask> featured in Australia's 6–0 win over England, playing an important role and producing another fine performance in the green-and-gold jersey.2018
<mask> started the season, sitting out of the Round 1 game (to the Bulldogs in Perth) due to injury. He returned to the field in Round 2, playing his 300th NRL Career game in the 8–10 loss the West Tigers at AAMI Park. <mask> earned criticism during a home Round 6 game against the Newcastle Knights where he was accused of diving which led second-rower Lachlan Fitzgibbon

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texts: to be sin-binned. While <mask> had the right to go for a quick-tap because he was outside the 10-metre, many disapproved when Fitzgibbon stuck out his hand out on shoulder lightly to make <mask> hit the deck. Both fans and social media users were questioning the physics of <mask> falling, thus drawing accusations of diving. <mask> also captained the Melbourne Storm for the first time in his NRL Career and during Cameron Smith's suspension absence, against the Manly Sea Eagles in the 4–24 loss during Round 11. <mask> announced his intentions to retire from representative football after the 2018 State of Origin series and was yet to make a decision on playing only at the club level in 2019.<mask> was set to play in the opening game of the Origin series at the MCG; however, he withdrew from the Game 1 squad due to a hamstring injury, in what would have been his last Origin match in Melbourne. He returned from injury in game 2 to play his 30th Origin game, producing an outstanding performance despite Queensland losing game 2 and the series in New South Wales' home game victory at ANZ Stadium. Following an injury to Queensland teammate and captain Greg Inglis, <mask> was named captain for game 3 in his final Origin game. Producing yet another outstanding performance, <mask> led Queensland to an 18–12 victory at Suncorp Stadium, thus avoiding a potential 3–0 series whitewash by New South Wales. For his efforts, <mask> received the Wally Lewis Medal for Player of the Series, despite having only participated in two of the three Origin games and Queensland's overall series loss. On 8 August, <mask> announced that he would be retiring from the

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On 10 October 2018, <mask> joined Australian Football League (AFL) club  in a leadership role. He also joined the Nine Network’s NRL commentary team in 2019 On 14 March 2019 Melbourne Storm Announced the renaming of the Northern Stand of AAMI Park to Slater Stand. On 30 August 2019, <mask> was chosen at Fullback in the Queensland Maroons team of the decade. They were married in Cairns in November 2009 and have two children, a daughter, Tyla Rose and a son, Jake. <mask> participated in the television show Australia's Greatest Athlete and was the winner for both Season 1 (broadcast on Channel 9) and Season 2 (on Channel 7) against a diverse range of athletes such as Olympic gold medalist Steve Hooker, ironman Ky Hurst and V8 Supercar champions Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes. A regular contributor to Canterbury Junior Football Club in Melbourne, <mask> also frequently gives up his time to help other Junior Sport Programs around Australia. See also

List of players with 100 NRL tries

References

External links

Melbourne Storm profile
Storm profile
2017 RLWC profile

1983 births
Living people
Australia national rugby league team players
Australian rugby league commentators
Australian rugby league players
Clive Churchill Medal winners
Melbourne Storm players
North Sydney Bears NSW Cup players
Norths Devils players
Queensland Rugby League State of Origin captains
Queensland Rugby League State of Origin coaches
Queensland Rugby League State of Origin players
Rugby league fullbacks
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<mask> (born October 24, 1979) is an American lawyer and former politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was a member of the Nevada State Assembly representing the 28th district in the eastern Las Vegas Valley from 2010 to 2014. She unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 2014, losing to Republican nominee Mark Hutchison. Early life and education
<mask> was one of 13 children. Only one brother graduated high school, and all of her sisters became pregnant in their teens. <mask>'s mother left her family when she was nine, and her father worked multiple jobs, so she had to care for her younger siblings. When her mother left, <mask>'s school performance suffered, and she became involved with local gangs.She spent months in juvenile detention after stealing a car. Leslie Camp, <mask>'s parole officer, became an important role model for her and helped her turn her life around. <mask>'s difficult early life informs her political views, and she advocates job retraining and educational opportunities to help others who came from difficult backgrounds. <mask> dropped out of Rancho High School, but passed the GED test. After working as a receptionist and office manager, she attended the College of Southern Nevada, then transferred to and graduated from the University of Southern California. She earned a J.D. degree from University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2010.While there, she pushed the school to create a course on investigating potential wrongful convictions. In 2013, while explaining why she supported a sex education bill, <mask> said that she had an abortion when she was 16. She later received death threats for the statement. Career

State Assembly
A progressive Democrat, <mask> was elected to the Nevada State Assembly in 2010, and became vice-chair of the Nevada Hispanic Legislative Caucus in 2012. She became one of the first Latina members of the Nevada Assembly, representing the neighborhood she grew up in. She served on the transportation,

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 ways and means, and legislative operations and elections committees. She was reelected in 2012 without opposition.In 2012, she became an assistant majority whip. <mask> introduced an education bill to use end-of-course final exams in high school rather than Nevada's proficiency exams. Other bills she introduced were one to allow domestic violence abuse victims to break leases to avoid the abuser, and one that would require professional sporting events to have medical personnel present. She also helped to organize a conference of teachers and legislators on how to improve education success among Latinos. She supports expanding early childhood education, and considers education her most important priority as a legislator. In 2013 she introduced a bill to require chain restaurants to post calorie counts. The measure passed both houses of the Nevada legislature, but was vetoed by Governor Brian Sandoval.<mask> established a PAC, Impacto Fund, to help elect Latinos in the Southwest United States. She believed Latinos were underrepresented in politics, and that there should be an effort to recruit and encourage them as candidates. In the 2012 presidential election, <mask> was a campaign surrogate for President Barack Obama's reelection campaign, where, among other work, she debated members of the Republican Party on Univision. While campaigning, <mask> was hospitalized for exhaustion. <mask> was honored with the Excellence in Legal Clinics Award by UNLV in 2010 and the Hubbard Award by the Mexican-American Alumni Association of USC in 2007. Latism named her the best politician at using social media to reach Latinos. In 2013, she was named a Rodel Fellow by the Aspen Institute.She has been affiliated with the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, the Nevada Council of the Blind, Seniors United, and the Stonewall Democratic Club of Southern Nevada. Lieutenant governor campaign

<mask> decided against seeking reelection to her Assembly seat for

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 the 28th district, choosing instead to run for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada. Her seat was taken by <mask> (no relation). In the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Nevada elections, <mask> was defeated by Republican Mark Hutchison in a landslide, 60% to 34%, despite personal appearances by then-vice-president Joe Biden and an endorsement by then-Senate Leader Harry Reid. The election was seen as particularly important because Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, a Republican, was speculated to possibly vacate his office (after winning the reelection bid) to run for the United States Senate in 2016. (Contrary to speculation, he opted not to run.) Congressional campaign
In April 2015, <mask> announced her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives seat in  against incumbent Republican Cresent Hardy in the 2016 election.The primary was crowded, including State Senator (and eventual winner) Ruben Kihuen, as well as future Congresswoman Susie Lee, former Assemblyman Morse Arberry Jr., and a number of others. <mask> endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, saying "this is about real lives" and that "this is a system that isn’t working for the everyday person . . . It’s one of the reasons why I decided to endorse Bernie Sanders." On April 13, 2016, Sanders emailed his supporters asking them to split a contribution to his campaign and <mask>' congressional campaign. His reason for this request was that EMILY's List, a group that helps elect pro-choice female Democrats, including Sanders' opponent Hillary Clinton, endorsed <mask>' opponent Susie Lee instead of her, even though they had endorsed her three times previously. Sanders claimed that the group did not endorse <mask> because she had endorsed Sanders. In another email the same day, he asked recipients to split their contributions four ways, adding Zephyr Teachout and Pramila Jayapal.<mask> took second place in the primary, with 7,854 votes (25.66%) to Kihuen's 12,221

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 (39.94%). Prominent commentator Jon Ralston described Kihuen's victory as a result of his having been "anointed" by Harry Reid. Kihuen went on to win the general election and serve in Congress for one term, before retiring due to multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. Subsequent career
<mask> continues advocating for progressive causes by serving on the board of directors of Our Revolution, a political action organization affiliated with Bernie Sanders; and Let America Vote, a voting rights organization founded by former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander. As of March 2019, <mask> runs Luz Collective, a Los Angeles-based digital media company. Allegations against Joe Biden
In March 2019, <mask> wrote an op-ed for New York magazine's "The Cut" alleging that then Vice President Joe Biden "inappropriately kissed and touched her after he offered to help her with her 2014 campaign" while the two were at a Las Vegas campaign rally. She stated that he walked up behind her, put his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair, and planted a kiss on the back of her head.She wrote that, by acting in this manner, Biden had touched her in "an intimate way reserved for close friends, family, or romantic partners—and I felt powerless to do anything about it." Elizabeth Warren and Julián Castro said that they believed her story. References

External links
 <mask>' Twitter account
 <mask>' Facebook Fan Page

1979 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
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<mask> (January 1, 1953 – October 10, 2007) was a Kurdish writer and novelist born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Though the Kurdish language was outlawed in Turkey from 1920 to 1990, he started to write in it and achieved much toward shaping a modern Kurdish literary language and reviving the Kurdish tradition of storytelling. In 1977–2005 he lived in exile in Sweden as a political refugee, becoming a prolific writer, author of a dozen Kurdish-language novels and essays, which made him a founding member of Kurdish literature in Kurmanji dialect. In June 2005 he returned to Istanbul. He was a member of the PEN club and the Swedish writers association. On May 29, 2006, he was found to have stomach cancer. After treatment at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, he returned to Diyarbakir, Turkey, where he died, aged 54.Works
He published seven novels in Kurdish. <mask> published his first attempt at a modern Kurdish novel in 1985, Tu (You). After that he edited an anthology of Kurdish literature, the first of its kind. Critical success came with his novel "In the Shadow of a Lost Love" (Siya Evînê). The story fictionalizes a 1920s Kurdish intellectual's failed struggle to pursue both his love for a woman and his duty to fight the newly formed Turkish republic. His novels began to be translated into European languages in the 1990s. Two of his books have been published in Swedish: a collection of essays, Granatäppelblomning (The Pomegranate Flowers), and the novel I skuggan av en förlorad kärlek (In the Shadow of a Lost Love).In collaboration with Madeleine Grive, he has also published an international anthology, Världen i

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 Sverige (The World in Sweden), a pioneering anthology of texts by writers who were not born in Sweden, but who are living and writing there. He also published in the journal of the Kurdish Institute of Paris, Kurmancî. He won the Torgny Segerstedt Award for 2001 for his work in a narrative tradition. Conflict with the Turkish state
<mask> Uzun was charged several times in Turkey due to his activities in the field of Kurdish literature . He was arrested on March 21, 1976 as managing editor of a Kurdish-Turkish magazine, and was accused of "separatism" and jailed in Ankara's central prison. During his trial in the summer of 1976, he attempted to prove the existence of the Kurds and the Kurdish language. The prosecutor's argument was that the Kurds and their language had no form of existence.Anyone claiming the opposite was considered a separatist and deserved to be punished. He was sentenced to eight months in prison. After release, he was still under the threat of indictment on account of his responsibilities as editor of the aforementioned magazine, and consequently he chose exile and left for Sweden in 1977. The regulations prevailing in Turkey at the time made return to his native country impossible. Subsequently, in 1981, by decision of the military regime and like many other Turkish and Kurdish intellectuals, he was stripped of his nationality. He resumed his linguistic quest in Stockholm, aided by grants from the Swedish government. To collect vocabulary and folklore, he visited an Iraqi Kurdish leader in a rebel-held mountain valley of Iraq, spending evenings in a tent listening to Kurdish poets and storytellers by the light of an


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 Literature] (anthology, 2 vols., 1995). Ronî Mîna Evînê Tarî Mîna Mirinê (Light like Love, Dark like Death), Novel, Avesta Publishers, 350 p., 1998. Hawara Dîcleyê I, Novel, Nefel Publishers, Sweden, 230 pp., 2003, . Articles
<mask> Uzun, "Words Washed by the Waters of the Euphrates", International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Vol.14, No. 1&2, pp. 36–40, 2000.<mask> <mask>, , The Journal of the International Parliament of Writers, Vol. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 67–78. <mask> <mask>, The Nature of Fiction, Index on Censorship Journal, vol.4, 2001. <mask> <mask>, Diyarbakir: the slap in the face, International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Jan. 2003. Notes

References
<mask> <mask>, An Introduction
<mask> <mask>, Unionsverlag, in German
The Reykjavík International Literature Festival 2005, Find Uzun
The Pomegranate Flowers, International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Jan. 2003, English translation
Diyarbakir: the slap in the face, International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Jan. 2003, An article by Mehmet <mask> about his life and works
Works by Mehmet <mask>
<mask> <mask>’s defense offered in the Diyarbakir State Security Court No. 4.(19.04.2002)

NFFE(Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression) protest confiscation of <mask> Uzun´s books in 2000
Writer and publisher face charges for literary works, International Freedom of Expression eXchange, March 2001

External links
 mehmeduzun.com
Obituary in The Times, 25 October 2007
 mehmeduzun.uzerine.com

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2007 deaths
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Kurdish-language writers
Kurdish people
Turkish writers
Swedish people of Kurdish descent
Turkish emigrants to Sweden
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title: Carson Kelly

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<mask> (born July 14, 1994) is an American professional baseball catcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals from 2016 through 2018. Born in Chicago, <mask> was raised in Beaverton, Oregon. After a standout amateur career at Westview High School, he was selected by the Cardinals in the second round of the 2012 MLB draft. By his second professional season, he had switched from playing third base to catching. In the coming years, Baseball America rated him among the Cardinals' top prospects, twice naming him St. Louis's best defensive catcher. <mask> made his MLB debut in 2016 and saw limited playing time before being traded to the Diamondbacks after the 2018 season.He became Arizona's starting catcher in 2019, tying Miguel Montero's Diamondbacks record for the most home runs hit by a catcher in a season with 18. Early life and career
<mask> <mask> was born on July 14, 1994, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, Mike and Traci, are Chicago natives. Mike worked as a Global Brand Marketing Director for Nike. <mask> grew up a fan of the Chicago Cubs. His favorite player, however, was Derek Jeter, who "always seemed to find a way to win". For most of his childhood, <mask> lived in Beaverton, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, although he and his family also briefly lived in Toronto around when <mask> was 12.At the age of four, <mask> started playing baseball. He also played hockey while he lived in Toronto. <mask> attended Stoller Middle School and Westview High School in Beaverton, Oregon. He was a star player

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 for Westview's baseball team, where he played the infield and also pitched. In 2011, his junior year, he appeared in the Under Armour All-America Baseball Game, a national high school all-star game. He was named the Gatorade Oregon Player of the Year in 2011 and 2012. He also won gold medals in the 2011 World Youth Baseball Championship and an under-18 international tournament.Professional career

St. Louis Cardinals

Minor leagues
The St. Louis Cardinals selected <mask> as a third baseman in the second round, 86th overall, of the 2012 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft. Though <mask> had committed to the University of Oregon to play college baseball for the Oregon Ducks, he signed with the Cardinals instead, receiving a $1.6 million signing bonus. He began his professional career that year with the Johnson City Cardinals of the Rookie-level Appalachian League, batting .225 with nine home runs and 25 runs batted in (RBIs) in 56 games. In 2013, he was promoted to the Peoria Chiefs of the Class A Midwest League. He struggled with Peoria, and was demoted to the State College Spikes of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League. In 113 games between the two clubs he batted .257 with 6 home runs and 45 RBIs. In 2013, <mask> and Gary LaRocque, the Cardinals' director of player development, discussed his switching positions to catcher.<mask> believed the switch would make him more valuable in the Cardinals' system and began to transition during the 2013–14 offseason. Entering the 2014 season, Baseball America ranked him the 11th-best prospect for the Cardinals, and

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 Baseball Prospectus ranked him St. Louis's sixth best. He played for Peoria in 2014, and batted .248 with six home runs  and 49 RBIs in 98 games. He spent the 2015 season with the Palm Beach Cardinals of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League and compiled a .219 batting average with eight home runs and 51 RBIs in 108 games. He won the 2015 minor leagues Rawlings Gold Glove Award for catchers. <mask> was ranked the fourth-best prospect in the Cardinals system in 2016 by Baseball America. He began the 2016 season with the Springfield Cardinals of the Class AA Texas League.He was selected to the 2016 Texas League All-Star Game and to the 2016 All-Star Futures Game. After batting .287 with 6 home runs and 18 RBI in 64 games for Springfield, <mask> was promoted to the Memphis Redbirds of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League on July 11, 2016. Major leagues
The Cardinals purchased <mask>'s contract on September 4, 2016, promoting him to the major leagues as part of September callups. In 96 games between Springfield and Memphis prior to his call up he compiled a .289 batting average/.343 on-base percentage/.395 slugging percentage with six home runs and 32 RBIs. He made his major league debut on September 5 against the Pittsburgh Pirates. In his first at bat, he hit a line drive double in the eighth inning. He then scored his first run as the Cardinals won 12–6.<mask> appeared in 10 games with St. Louis in 2016, batting .154 with one RBI. After the season, the Cardinals assigned <mask> to the Glendale Desert Dogs of the Arizona Fall League (AFL). In 21 games for Glendale, he

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texts: batted .286 with 3 home runs and 18 RBIs. The Cardinals also named <mask> their 2016 Minor League Player of the Year. Prior to 2017, Baseball America ranked <mask> the Cardinals' third-best prospect and best defensive catcher. He returned to Memphis to begin 2017. On April 11, he hit multiple home runs against the Colorado Springs Sky Sox.He was named the Cardinals Minor League Player of the Month for May after batting .381 with a .447 on-base percentage. He had a game-ending RBI single against the Round Rock Express on July 14, his 23rd birthday. In 68 games for Memphis, he posted a .283 batting average with ten home runs and 41 RBIs. He was recalled to St. Louis on July 21, replacing Eric Fryer, who was designated for assignment, as the backup to Yadier Molina. In the game that day, he had a two-RBI double as St. Louis beat the Chicago Cubs 11–4. He spent the remainder of the season with the Cardinals. In 34 games for St. Louis he batted .174/.240/.217.MLB.com ranked <mask> as St. Louis's third-best prospect going into the 2018 season, while Baseball America ranked him as St. Louis's best defensive catcher. He began the season with Memphis and received his first 2018 promotion to the major leagues on May 6 when Molina was placed on the disabled list. However, <mask> was placed on the disabled list on May 17 with a right hamstring sprain. He was not injured long, returning to the active roster on May 26. On June 4, he was optioned to Memphis, as the Cardinals elected to keep Francisco Peña as Molina's backup. In 83 games for Memphis, he batted .269 with 7 home runs


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 and 41 RBIs. He was again recalled by St. Louis when rosters expanded on September 1.In 19 games for St. Louis, he batted .114 with 0 home runs and 3 RBI. Arizona Diamondbacks

On December 5, 2018, the Cardinals traded <mask>, Luke Weaver, Andy Young, and a draft pick to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for first baseman Paul Goldschmidt. Prior to the 2019 season, Baseball America ranked <mask> the Diamondbacks' fourth-best prospect and best defensive catcher. The Diamondbacks started the season with three catchers. Manager Torey Lovullo hoped that <mask>, Alex Avila, and John Ryan Murphy would be a "three-headed monster" at the position. His first game with the Diamondbacks started on March 29 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, a game that lasted for six hours and five minutes, setting a record for the longest ever played at Dodger Stadium. <mask> had a pinch-hit RBI in the top of the 13th, helping Arizona win 5–4.Against the Boston Red Sox on April 6, he had three RBI, including a go-ahead RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Arizona a 5–4 victory. On May 4, he hit his first career home run, the second of back-to-back homers against Kyle Freeland as Arizona beat the Colorado Rockies 9–2. The Diamondbacks designated Murphy for assignment on May 25, leaving <mask> and Avila as the team's main catchers. On July 3, <mask>'s home run against Kenley Jansen put the Diamondbacks ahead in the ninth, though they eventually lost 5–4 to the Dodgers in 10 innings. His three-run home run against John Means on July 24 helped the Diamondbacks beat the Baltimore

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 Orioles 5–2. He had his first multi-home run game on August 9, tying a game against the Dodgers with a two-run blast in the ninth inning and hitting a solo shot in the 11th to secure a 3–2 victory. In 2019, <mask> batted .245/.348/.478 with 18 home runs and 47 RBIs over 111 games.His 18 home runs tied Miguel Montero's Diamondbacks record for the most home runs hit by a catcher in a season. The 2020 season did not start until July 24 due to the impact of COVID-19. On August 9, after starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner struggled and lasted only two innings, <mask> pitched a scoreless inning during a blowout loss to the San Diego Padres. <mask> appeared in a majority of games at the catching position in 2020, splitting time with Stephen Vogt but getting most of the September starts. In 39 games, <mask> batted .221 with five home runs and 19 RBIs. <mask> began the 2021 season hitting .338 with 6 home runs before being placed on the injured list (IL) on May 17 with a toe fracture. He was activated on May 25.However, he only batted .171 over his next 22 games. On June 19, <mask> suffered another fracture, this time to his wrist, and was once again placed on the IL. He returned on July 30. Personal life
<mask> and his wife, Eloise, married in 2020. A golfer, <mask> participated in the 2020 Waste Management Pro Am. His younger brother, Parker, played college baseball for the University of Oregon and was drafted by the Cardinals in the 20th round of the 2018 MLB draft. Parker played for two seasons in the minor leagues for the Cardinals before moving on to independent league

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<mask> (died 119 BC) was a Chinese military general of the Western Han dynasty. Nicknamed "Flying General" by the Xiongnu, he fought primarily in the campaigns against the nomadic Xiongnu tribes to the north of China. He was known to the Xiongnu as a tough opponent when it came to fortress defense, and his presence was sometimes enough for the Xiongnu to abort a siege. <mask> committed suicide shortly after the Battle of Mobei in 119 BC. He was blamed for failing to arrive at the battlefield in time (after getting lost in the desert), creating a gap in the encirclement and allowing Ichise Chanyu to escape after a confrontation between Wei Qing and the Chanyu's main force, which the Han army narrowly managed to defeat. Refusing to accept the humiliation of a court martial, <mask> took his own life. <mask> belonged to the Longxi branch of the Li clan (隴西李氏).<mask> was a descendant of Laozi and the Qin general <mask>, as well as an ancestor of the Western Liang and Tang dynasty monarchs. <mask> was the grandfather of general <mask> who defected to the Xiongnu. Life

According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, <mask> was a man of great build, with long arms and good archery skills, able to shoot an arrow deeply into a stone (which resembles the shape of a crouching tiger) on one occasion. At the same time, like his contemporaries Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, he was a caring and well-respected general who earned the respect of his soldiers. He also earned the favour of Emperor Wen, who said of

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texts: him: "If he had been born in the time of Emperor Gaozu, he would have been given a fief of ten thousand households (Chinese:万户侯) without any difficulty". <mask> first distinguished himself during the Rebellion of the Seven States, where he served under the Grand General Zhou Yafu. However, Emperor Jing was unhappy that he had accepted a seal given by <mask>, Prince of Liang, Emperor Jing's brother; Emperor Jing had been wary of the Prince of Liang, as <mask> had ambitions to place himself as Emperor Jing's successor, over Emperor Jing's own sons.This stance was also supported by Empress Dowager Dou, their mother. Thus, <mask> did not get promoted to a marquisate despite his anti-rebellion achievement. As the border of Hebei always struct by constact attacks by the Xiongnu, <mask> valorous temper were deemed fit to be assigned in position to defend against them. However, <mask>'s late military career was constantly haunted by repeated incidents of what would be regarded as jinxed with "bad luck" by later scholars. He had a nasty tendency of losing direction during mobilisations; in field battles, he was often outnumbered and surrounded by superior enemies. While <mask>'s fame attracted much of his enemies' attention, <mask>'s troops relative lack of discipline and his lack of strategic planning often put him and his regiments in awkward situations. <mask> himself narrowly escaped capture after his army was annihilated during an offensive campaign at Yanmen in 129 BC, and was stripped of official

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 army. As a result, <mask> and Zhao were summoned to a court martial to explain why they failed to accomplish orders and put the battle strategy at risk. <mask>, frustrated and humiliated as this was his last chance to obtain sufficient merits to receive a marquessate as a reward, committed honor suicide. His son <mask> blamed Wei Qing for his father's death, assaulted Wei and was later shot dead for the offence by his own superior Huo Qubing (who was Wei's nephew) during a hunting trip. In popular culture
<mask> is mentioned by his nickname in Wang Changling's seven-character quatrain "On the Frontier" (出塞). Wang comments on how war has been taking its toll on the troops stationed at the frontier, particularly given the lack of a brilliant and charismatic military commander like <mask>.In the Imperial Japanese gunka Teki wa Ikuman, the song's lyrics reference <mask>'s ability to pierce a stone with an arrow as an example of determination regardless of difficulty. References

Citations

Bibliography
Joseph P Yap. Wars With The Xiongnu - A translation From Zizhi Tongjian, Chapters 3-4. AuthorHouse (2009). .
Yang, Jing Huey (1993). The study of Wang Changling’s seven-character quatrain (Master of Arts dissertation, University of British Columbia). Available from the UBC library database. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0087346.119 BC deaths
Chinese military personnel who committed suicide
Han dynasty generals from Gansu
People from Tianshui
Year of

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title: Edward Habershon

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<mask> (18 July 1826 – 18 August 1900), known as <mask>, was an architect practising in London and south-east England. He specialised in neo-gothic buildings, especially churches and chapels. With his brother W.G<mask> he designed St John the Baptist's Church, Hove, now a Grade II building. With E.P.L. Brock he designed a number of churches including St Leonards-on-Sea Congregational Church, also listed at Grade II. He designed St Andrews church in Hastings, where Robert Tressell's large mural (now in Hastings Museum) was created.In 1862 he was involved in the relocation of London's burial grounds, moving more than one thousand hundredweight of human remains. Biography

Family
The father of <mask> <mask> – known as <mask> – was <mask> (born 1789, Rotherham; died 5 July 1852, Bethnal Green). <mask>'s mother was Sarah Gilbee (1796–1851). Matthew practised in London and apprenticed his sons. The elder son was William Gillbee <mask> (24 February 1819 – 24 August 1892). and the younger was <mask> (born Hampstead 18 July 1826; died Leatherhead 18 August 1900)

<mask> married the widow Frances Elizabeth Williams née Heathcote (1822–1901) in Kensington in 1857. They had two children: <mask> <mask> (1859–1933) and Alice Maud <mask> (born 1863).Around 1863 <mask> and his family moved to Speldhurst and Lee in Kent; by 1881 they had moved permanently to Charlwood Park, Surrey; being self-supporting he could call himself a gentleman. In the 1901 Census for Reigate Mrs Frances Elizabeth <mask>, in the last year of her life, is

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 living with two companions who are "in charge", and she is described as "eccentric". Career
On 9 February 1852, <mask> was made ARIBA and on 5 November 1860 he was made FRIBA. When their father <mask> died on 5 July 1852, the sons inherited a large office in London, and a partnership which trained many architects, including Henry Spalding (ca.1838–1910) and E.P.L. Brock (1833–1895) who were articled to the brothers in 1857. In 1862 <mask> was involved in the relocation of London's burial grounds, notably at Cure's College. In 1863 the London practice dissolved and a partnership was formed between <mask> and Henry Spalding.In 1865 they joined in partnership with E.P.L. Brock. In 1873 Spalding left the practice. <mask> retired in 1879 and Brock carried on the practice, being admitted to FRIBA on 20 March 1882, one of his proposers being <mask>. Works in partnership with W.G. <mask>

This practice operated at 38 Bloomsbury Square, London WC from 1852 to 1863. Designed

Llanarth Court, Monmouthshire

A large reconstruction of an ancient house, undertaken in 1849-1851.The result was described by the architectural historian John Newman as a "Neo-classical monster". Holy Trinity Church, Blendworth
This church was built in 1851–52 to serve the Hampshire villages of Blendworth and Horndean. It is Decorated Gothic Revival in style with a tall spire. St John the Baptist's Church, Hove

This church was built between 1852 and 1854. It has a three-stage tower (with ashlar spire that was added later) and is dressed with knapped

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 flint and stone. The interior has carved corbels In the 1850s Robert William Edis was apprenticed to the brothers. All Saints Church, Belvedere
The Habershons built this church as a proprietary chapel for Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet.Work took place between 1853 and 1861. It is now an Anglican parish church and has Grade II listed status. Belvedere railway station (demolished)
The original Belvedere railway station was built at the same time as All Saints Church. It was demolished and replaced in 1968 and again in 2000. Duncrub House and chapel

The foundation stone for this house in Dunning, Perthshire, was laid in 1861, and construction took place 1861–1863. It was designed as a gothic mansion and offices for the 10th Lord Rollo (1835–1916). In 1950 it was demolished, leaving part of a corridor link with the chapel, and the laundry building containing some masonry of 1773 and 1800.The 1858 chapel is a B-listed building. and is described thus: "Early pointed, bull-faced coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. East apse, south aisle, north-west tower with slated spike spire. Modern doorway in west gable." It has been a shed and sports hall, and as of 2013 was a holiday home. 76 to 90 Kensington Park Road (even numbers on east side)
These London properties were constructed by Philip Rainey in 1859. 78 to 94 Ladbroke Grove (even numbers on east side)
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 carried out under the names of two practices: Habershon & Spalding 1863–1865; and Habershon, Spalding & Brock 1865–1879. Designed

St Leonards-on-Sea Congregational Church

St Leonards-on-Sea Congregational Church was built between February and October 1864. It is built of coursed ore sandstone with Bath Stone ashlar dressings, and had a copper-clad spire which was demolished after the Great Storm of 1987. As a Grade II listed building it is mistakenly credited to <mask>'s brother William; but it was <mask> who was employed in the Habershon-Brock partnership. Holy Trinity, Ebernoe

Holy Trinity, the Anglican parish church at Ebernoe, West Sussex, was built at a cost of £1200 of polychrome local brick with an open belfry and steep boarded roof between 1865 and 1867. W.R. Peachey, lord of the manor, laid the foundations stone at the east end.There are no aisles. There are lancet windows in the nave and chancel, the lancets at the west end being trefoiled. The east and west windows have tracery, and there are foliage corbels on the chancel arch. It had a plain interior which was later whitened. Temperance Hotel, now Eskdale Hotel
Constructed for Major Malcolm of Burnfoot between 1865 and 1867, this is a B-listed building in High Street, Langholm. St Andrews, Hastings

The foundation stone of St Andrews Church, Queens Road, Hastings, was laid in November 1869. It was constructed by John Howell, whose fee was £3,235.It held a congregation of 2,000, and was consecrated on 30 November 1870 by Richard Durnford (1802–1895),

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 War II. See also
Henry Spalding (architect)

References

Bibliography

 "Obit of W G <mask>" in The Builder vol.61; p335

External links

Scottish architects: biography of William G<mask>

19th-century English architects
Architects from London
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title: Angie Le Mar

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<mask> (born 27 October 1965) is a British comedian, actor, writer, director, presenter and producer. <mask> is married with three children. The eldest, Travis Jay, is a budding comedian and radio DJ. Early life
Born in Lewisham, London, of Jamaican parentage, she grew up with four older brothers. She attended Lewisham Bridge School, Lewisham Girls School, Blackheath Bluecoat School and Vauxhall College. Her experience at school was difficult, and it was not until she completed her education that she was diagnosed as dyslexic. At the age of ten, <mask> appeared in a school play called In on the Island at the Albany Empire and then attended the Lewisham Drama Club, inspired by her primary school teacher Mr Woodgate.She then Joined Second Wave Women's Drama group, where she performed Net Full of Holes, also at the Albany Empire, and was inspired by workshop facilitator Cathy Kilcoyne.99

Career
<mask> attended the Barbara Speake Stage School, and Afro Sax drama club run by Larrington Walker, Ellen Thomas and Treva Etienne. With two fellow actresses <mask> set up her own theatre company, called the Bemarrow Sisters, which ran for seven years. Productions included A Slice of Life directed by Decima Francis, Gloria directed by Trevor Laird and This Way Up written by Peggy Bennette-Hume. She was the first Black British performer to appear at Harlem's Apollo Theatre and had the first ever sell-out show by a female black comedian in London's West End. Her TV appearances include the BBC's The Real McCoy and Channel 4's Get Up, Stand Up, and presented The Saturday Morning Show on Choice FM. She was also a commentator on Grumpy Old Women in 2005. Stand-up comedy
From 1985 <mask> cut her teeth on the comedy circuit, by initially doing open spots and warm-ups at events such as fashion shows and parties within the black community.She later rose to prominence on the emerging black comedy circuit in the 1990s, sharing the stage with established comedians such as Felix Dexter, Curtis Walker, Ishmael Thomas and <mask> all members of the BBC comedy series The Real McCoy. Her popularity earned her the title "The

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 Queen of Black Comedy". Her reputation took her to the mainstream circuit where she became a regular act at established comedy clubs including Up The Creek, Jongleurs and The Comedy Store, culminating in <mask> performing her sell-out one woman show Off The Hook at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, in 2000. She also gained international acclaim when she performed at the Apollo Theatre, New York, and the Comedy Act Theatre in Los Angeles. <mask> celebrated 25 years in her show An Audience with <mask> <mask>, "Celebrating 25 years", at the Barbican Theatre in September 2010. Theatre
Le Mar launched her professional theatre career in 1994 with her comedy sketch show Funny Black Women on the Edge that premiered at The Civic Centre in Southwark, London, which she wrote and also made her first directing debut, playing several characters. The show went on to play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at the Gilded Balloon in the same year.The show played at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in November 1995, directed by Paulette Randall

The show was reprised again in 2007 The Best of Funny Black Women on The Edge through Le Mar's production company Straight To Audience Productions', at the Hackney Empire, directed by <mask> and Dawn Reid. Le Mar wrote her show The Brothers, which was originally aired as a radio production on Choice FM, produced by Ivor Etienne. Written in 2006 and directed by <mask>, the show made its theatre debut at the Hackney Empire and became the fastest-selling show there since Hamlet. The Brothers was also recorded for television and shown on MTV Base. In 2007 Le Mar wrote Do You Know Where Your Daughter Is?. While working as a radio presenter on Choice FM, <mask> Mar was moved by a call she received on her phone in show from a distressed young lady who had been abused by her boyfriend. The contents of the call inspired her to write the play, which was targeted predominantly to young audiences and parents.The play premiered at the Hackney Empires' Acorn Theatre and ran for eight weeks. It was toured throughout the London Region and the suburbs between 2008 and 2009, and

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 played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Gilded Balloon in August 2010. There are ongoing plans to tour the show nationally in 2011. The most recent play written by <mask> is Forty in which she played the character "Sandra" was premiered at the Hackney Empire in 2008 and again at The Broadway Theatre, Catford, in 2009, directed by Karena Johnson. Discussions are ongoing for a television series. <mask> Mar directed other productions, including Waiting to Inhale, written by comedian and broadcaster Geoff Schumann, which played at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1997, Will The Real Wayne Rollins Stand Up one-man show at the Hackney Empires' Bullion Room Theatre in 2002, and Big Sister featuring Donna Spence and Quincy, also at Hackney's Bullion Room Theatre in 2003. <mask> continues to work with young people through her production company Straight To Audience Productions, and has set up a strand within the organisation called 'Straight To Audience Youth' (STAY).Her workshops include writing and directing and stand-up comedy masterclasses. Television
Le Mar's television appearances includes the successful comedy sketch show The Real McCoy, BBC, Late Licence, Channel 4, presented by <mask> and Johnny Vaughan, Get Up Stand Up, Channel 4, a comedy sketch show. As well as appearing in different roles, <mask> contributed to the writing and character development for the programme. <mask> appeared as a panelist on the comedy review show Blouse & Skirt, BBC. A commentator in the BBC series Grumpy Old Women, and a cameo role in the BBC's Holby City. <mask> made her first appearance as a panelist on ITV's popular lunchtime programme Loose Women aired on 2 February 2011. Through her own production company, Straight To Audience Productions, Le Mar has commissioned three projects that are in development for internet streaming.The Living Room will be an intimate setting in which <mask> interviews personalities from the world of business, entertainment, politics, sport and lifestyle. <mask>'s Round The Table is a debate show presented by <mask>, with six invited guests debating on social issues and topics

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 that affect ordinary people, literally around a table set in a casual environment. The third project is called Women at the Top of Their Game, an interview programme with a small live audience, focusing on women who have reached the top of their chosen profession. <mask> worked on a new TV sitcom called The Ryan Sisters, that was scheduled for production in 2012. 2019-Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle BBC Series 1:5. (Samantha 1993) Written by <mask> <mask>)

Radio
As well as making many radio guest appearances, <mask> presented the <mask> <mask> Show on BBC GLR 94.9fm from 1998 to 2000. <mask> further established her radio credentials when she presented her Friday night show The Ladies Room and subsequently presented the Saturday morning Breakfast Show on Choice FM between 2000 and 2007.Her many guests included Stevie Wonder, Jermaine Jackson, Danny Glover, Idris Elba, Mica Paris, Maya Angelou and <mask>. Blige to name but a few. <mask> is a radio presenter on Colourful Radio, which she presents her show Time of The Month once every month. <mask> is a very regular guest/panelist on Eddie Nestor's Rumshop and Kath Melandri Saturday Late show on BBC London 94.9. Since late 2011, <mask> has been a regular deputy presenter to Kath Melandri on BBC London 94.9. New projects 2011
<mask> was working on her new one-woman show called In My Shoes, to premiere at the Soho Theatre, West End, on 16 October 2011. It is expected the show will also undertake a national tour of the UK, and the US in 2012–13. <mask> was also writing a TV sitcom called the Ryan Sisters, which was to go into production with a premier cast including singer/actress Michelle Gayle, actress/TV presenter Josie d'Arby, actress/singer (Eternal) Kelle Bryan, and comedian, radio broadcaster Eddie Nestor, and <mask>.The show was to premiere as a preview theatre production at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, in March 2012. References

External links
 Official website
 A Profile of <mask> <mask>

Black British women comedians
English stand-up comedians
Living people
1965 births
People from Lewisham
English people of Jamaican descent
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title: Will Grier

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<mask> (born April 3, 1995) is an American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida Gators and West Virginia Mountaineers, and was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the third round in the 2019 NFL Draft. Early years
<mask> attended SouthLake Christian Academy in Huntersville, North Carolina, then transferred to Davidson Day School in Davidson, North Carolina. As a junior, he threw for a national record 837 yards in a game, breaking the old record of 764. As a senior, he had 4,989 passing yards with a nation-leading and North Carolina record 77 touchdowns. He also rushed for 1,251 yards with 13 touchdowns. He was named the Parade All-American Player of the Year and Mr. Football USA.For his career, <mask> had 14,565 passing yards, a state record 195 touchdown passes, 2,955 rushing yards and 31 rushing touchdowns. <mask> was rated by Rivals.com as a four-star recruit and was ranked as the second best dual-threat quarterback in his class and 46th player overall. <mask> was offered scholarships to play football at Auburn, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Wake Forest. He committed to play quarterback at the University of Florida. College career

<mask> competed with Treon Harris to be Jeff Driskel's backup as a freshman in 2014, ultimately redshirting the season. As a redshirt freshman in 2015, he competed with Harris to be the starting quarterback. Although Harris started the first game of the season against New Mexico State, <mask> received playing time, attempting 18 passes and completing 16 for 166 yards with two touchdowns.He rushed for 43 yards with a touchdown. <mask>

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 started the second game, against East Carolina, throwing for 151 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. On October 3, against the Ole Miss Rebels, he had the best game of his young career, going 24-of-29 for 271 yards and four passing touchdowns. He threw his four touchdowns in the first half; he was the first Gator quarterback since Chris Leak in 2005 to accomplish the feat. The game ended up being a 38–10 win for the Gators. <mask> received a one-year suspension, effective October 12, 2015, after it was revealed that he had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. He said the positive test stems from the over-the-counter supplement Ligandrol, and that he was not aware it was banned, while also admitting he never followed protocol to clear the supplement with team trainers.His appeal was rejected by the NCAA, and he would not be eligible to return until the sixth game of the regular season in 2016. On December 19, 2015, Florida announced that <mask> planned to transfer to another school. West Virginia
On April 6, 2016, <mask> announced that he was transferring to West Virginia University. He sat out the 2016 season per NCAA transfer rules. <mask> was the presumed starter for West Virginia heading into the 2017 season, but there were questions surrounding his eligibility, since half of his year-long suspension was served in conjunction with his transfer waiting period. On June 20, 2017, West Virginia head coach Dana Holgerson announced that the NCAA had granted <mask> a waiver and he would be eligible to play in the season opener against Virginia Tech. In his first game with the Mountaineers, <mask> threw for 371 yards, three touchdowns and an interception in a

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 31–24 loss to Virginia Tech.<mask> threw for 352 yards and five touchdowns in a come-from-behind victory over then-No. 24 Texas Tech on October 14, and was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week. In the Mountaineer's 11th game of the season, against Texas, <mask> left the game in the second quarter with a broken finger on his throwing hand. <mask> had surgery on the broken finger and missed the remainder of the season, finishing with 3,490 passing yards and 36 total touchdowns on the year. At the conclusion of the season, <mask> was awarded as Big 12 Offensive Newcomer of the Year. On May 23, 2018, <mask> announced he would be returning for his senior season rather than entering the 2018 NFL Draft. He was listed on preseason watch lists for several national awards, including the Maxwell Award, Walter Camp Award, and Davey O'Brien Award.<mask> appeared in several preseason lists of potential Heisman Trophy candidates. At the 2018 Big 12 Media Days, he was announced as the conference's Preseason Offensive Player of the Year and a preseason first-team all-conference selection. <mask> finished the 2018 season with 3,864 passing yards, 37 touchdowns, and eight interceptions. He was named second-team All-Big 12 at the conclusion of the regular season. West Virginia finished with an 8–3 regular season record, and was invited to the Camping World Bowl; <mask> announced that he would not play in the bowl game, in order to prepare for the 2019 NFL Draft. <mask> would be named the winner of the 2018 Senior CLASS Award for FBS football as the outstanding senior student-athlete in that grouping of schools. College statistics

Professional career

Carolina Panthers
<mask> was drafted by

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 the Carolina Panthers in the third round (100th overall) in the 2019 NFL Draft.On December 16, 2019, it was announced that <mask> would be making his first career start in week 16 against the Indianapolis Colts. During the game, <mask> threw for 224 yards and three interceptions and rushed for 17 yards during the 38–6 loss. In Week 17 against the New Orleans Saints, <mask> threw for four yards and a pick-six before exiting the game due to a foot injury in the second quarter. The Panthers lost the game 42–10. On August 31, 2021, <mask> was released by the Panthers. Dallas Cowboys
<mask> was claimed off waivers by the Dallas Cowboys on September 1, 2021. NFL career statistics

Personal life
<mask> is from Charlotte, North Carolina and is the oldest child of <mask> and <mask>-Floyd.His father is a football coach and was a former quarterback for the East Carolina Pirates. He has two brothers, Nash and Hayes, a half-sister, Skylynn Elizabeth Floyd and a half-brother, John Henry "Hank" <mask>. Nash, Hayes and Skylynn were popular users of Vine, the defunct video sharing service<mask> is married to Jeanne Marie O'<mask> and their first daughter, Eloise <mask>, was born on November 10, 2016. She gave birth to their second daughter, Adeline <mask>, on January 28, 2020. References

External links
Florida Gators bio
West Virginia Mountaineers bio

1995 births
Living people
American football quarterbacks
American sportspeople in doping cases
Doping cases in American football
Florida Gators football players
People from Davidson, North Carolina
Players of American football from Charlotte, North Carolina
West Virginia Mountaineers football players
Carolina Panthers players
Dallas Cowboys

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title: Edwin E. Willis

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<mask> (October 2, 1904 – October 24, 1972) was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Louisiana who was affiliated with the Long political faction. A Democrat, he served in the Louisiana State Senate during 1948 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1969. <mask> served on the U.S. House of Representative's Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Early life

<mask> was born in Arnaudville in St. Landry Parish, the eleventh of twelve children of <mask> and the former Julia Hardy. He graduated from St. Martinville High School in St. Martin Parish. In 1926, <mask> obtained credentials from the law school of Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans. He began his law practice in New Orleans and also owned and operated a plantation in St. Martin Parish near Lafayette.Political career

He was elected to the Louisiana state Senate in 1948 but served only a few months because he later in the same year won election to Congress to succeed James R. Domengeaux, who left the House to run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. Russell B. Long won the Senate seat that Domengeaux contested. In November 1948, <mask> faced Republican opposition from a wealthy New Iberia businessman. Jean (pronounced JOHN) Paulin Duhe (1885–1961), was the president of the New Iberia National Bank, head of the Duhe-Bourgeois Sugar Company, president of the Edmundson-Duhe rice mill, third vice-president of the American Sugar Cane League, and the president of the St. Martin-Iberia-St. Mary Flood Control Association. <mask> defeated Duhe, 26,587 votes (66.6 percent) to Duhe's 13,337 ballots (33.4 percent). Duhe's margin was similar to that of a previous Republican candidate in the Third District, David W. Pipes, Jr., who contested the

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texts: position in 1940, when he was defeated by Domengeaux.<mask> held the congressional seat for ten terms. He was the chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities during the 88th, 89th, and 90th congresses (1963–1969). He supported anti-communist Cold War laws, such as the McCarran-Walter Internal Security Act of 1950. <mask> was in effect the last chairman of the HUAC, which was reconstituted as the Committee on Internal Security in 1969. During the 1960s, <mask> viewed both the civil rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War as reflections of communist influences. Having been a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He also spoke out against the radicalism of the Ku Klux Klan.In Congress, <mask> sought to secure subsidies for sugar planters. He successfully sponsored legislation to obtain federal funds for the protective levee in the Morganza Spillway in Pointe Coupee Parish. With his colleagues, he fought for federal royalty payments to the State of Louisiana from tideland oil revenues. In 1964, <mask> defeated Republican Robert Angers (1919–1988), a newspaperman who published the award-winning Franklin Banner-Tribune of St. Mary Parish and in 1968 established Acadiana Profile magazine. A former Democrat, Angers switched parties in 1960 and supported the gubernatorial and presidential candidacies of Charlton Lyons and Barry Goldwater in 1964 election. <mask> easily gained another term with 52,532 votes (62.3 percent) to Angers's 31,806 ballots (37.7 percent). Though he carried no parishes in his campaign, Angers nearly won in the largest

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texts: parish in the district—Lafayette—where he procured 49.6 percent of the vote and outpolled Goldwater by 3.5 percentage points.In 1966, though he had suffered a series of strokes, <mask> still defeated Lafayette oilman Hall Lyons, the son of then Republican state chairman and former gubernatorial candidate Charlton Lyons of Shreveport. <mask> received 46,533 votes (59.7 percent) to Lyons' 31,444 (40.3 percent). Lyons, who ran on a staunchly conservative platform, carried Iberia Parish with 51.4 percent of the vote and received 46 percent in Lafayette Parish. Hall Lyons later left the Republican Party and was the American Independent nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1972. In retrospect, 1966 was a warning to <mask> about his electoral future. <mask> supported United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and Vice President Hubert Humphrey in the 1964 and 1968 campaigns. He compiled a generally liberal voting record in Congress according to Louisiana standards, similar to those of Hale Boggs of New Orleans and James H. Morrison of Hammond.<mask>' record was in sharp contrast to the conservative records of longtime colleagues Otto E. Passman of Monroe and Joe D. Waggonner of Plain Dealing, and those later compiled by Speedy O. Long of Jena and John R. Rarick of St. Francisville. But <mask> was not nearly as liberal as  Gillis Long of Alexandria, who represented the eighth district from 1963 to 1965 and again from 1973 until his death in January 1985. In 1968, he was denied renomination by a Moderate Democrat, Patrick T. Caffery of New Iberia. <mask>' health problems may have contributed to his defeat. Caffery won the general election and held the seat until January 1973, when, having decided to retire from political office, he was succeeded by

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 Republican leader and future Governor David C. Treen, then of suburban Jefferson Parish. Caffery did not seek a third term in 1972 and returned to his New Iberia law practice.Personal life
<mask> married the former <mask> Bulliard on December 9, 1929. They had a son, <mask>. <mask> died October 24, 1972 in St. Martinville and is interred there in St. Michael's Cemetery, which is owned by the St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church. <mask> died eight days after a plane carrying Hale Boggs disappeared over the Alaska wilderness. Boggs' seat was declared vacant at the beginning of the 93rd Congress. The deaths of Boggs and <mask> came three months after that of longtime Senator Allen J<mask>, who at the time was President Pro Tempore and chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee. <mask> <mask> died the same year that a Louisiana legend became governor: <mask> <mask>, who was <mask>' Congressional colleague from <mask>' election to the 7th District seat in October 1965 through the conclusion of the 90th Congress.They were unrelated, despite the similarity of names, but each had supported the other politically over the years. References

"<mask><mask>", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. 2 (1988), p. 853.
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<mask> (; born 3 August 1981) is a Serbian professional football coach who is currently manager of Serbia national under-20 football team. <mask> worked for Serbia national football team and Ghana national football team as assistant coach. During his career, he collaborated with Radomir Antic, Dick Advocaat, Vladimir Vermezovic, Goran Stevanovic, Danilo Doncic. Playing career
<mask> started his playing career in FK Sloboda Užice youth squad. In 1996. he becomes a part of OFK Beograd youth football school. He played in senior teams of FK Milicionar from 1999 to 2000, FK Kozara in Bosnia and Hercegovina and FK Radnički Beograd in 2002. Managerial career

Beginning
<mask> was one of the best students of Faculty of Sport and Physical Education in University of Belgrade.During his studies he started his coaching career working as the youngest coach of junior categories in FK Milicionar Beograd and FK Rad from 2003 to 2007. Senior career
<mask> began his senior coaching career in Malta, FC Floriana in season 2007/08. In August 2008, he became assistant coach of Serbia national football team, managed by Radomir Antic. He is officially the youngest coach of A team of Serbian and Yugoslavian football history and the youngest coach who participated in World Cup in South Africa in 2010. Serbia's World Cup qualification campaign began in 2008. Their qualification group featured former World Cup winners and 2006 FIFA World Cup runners-up France, traditionally powerful Romania, as well as Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Serbia played consistently during the qualifiers and this led to the team automatically qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.They confirmed qualification with a commanding 5–0 win at home against Romania. Like in 2006, Serbia went into the 2010 FIFA World Cup as the

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texts: dark horses of the tournament. Key points justifying their potential surprise-team status included a star-studded defense that was composed by Nemanja Vidić, Neven Subotić, <mask> Kolarov and Branislav Ivanović. The captain of Serbia's 2010 World Cup campaign was stalwart Dejan Stanković, who became the only player to feature in a World Cup having played under three different national names (although he never changed nationality; this was a result of geopolitical events involving the identity of Yugoslavia). In their first tournament as an independent nation, they were to face Ghana, Germany and Australia. Their opening group game was against Ghana and chances came to both sides but a red card to <mask> Luković and a handball by substitute Zdravko Kuzmanović in the second half gave Ghana a penalty to take all three points at the death. Asamoah Gyan converted eight minutes from full-time and Serbia were defeated 1–0.In Serbia's second group match, they sensationally defeated Germany by a score of 1–0 with an acrobatic goal by Milan Jovanović late in the first half. FIFA's official YouTube channel called the win "the most famous day in Serbian football." Serbia only needed a single point to reach the knockout stages but were defeated by Australia 2–1 in an entertaining match where Serbia's dominance in the first half and in periods of the second half would have made it look like a Serbia victory. Australia scored 2 goals in the second half through Tim Cahill and Brett Holman. A late Marko Pantelić goal served only as a consolation. In 2011, he became assistant coach of Ghana national football team, working side by side with Goran Stevanovic. He also participated in 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea where Ghana national football team won fourth place.During 2012 he was

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texts: assistant coach to Vladimir Vermezovic in FK Partizan, when the club qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League group stage. On 25 December 2012, it was announced that Radomir Antic signed a two-year contract with Chinese Super League side Shandong Luneng Taishan with <mask> as his assistant. Although leading Shandong Luneng, which finished the 12th in the 2012 season, to reach the second place of the league, they were released by Shandong on 21 December 2013. In September 2014, <mask> rejoins Serbia national football team managed by Dick Advocaat assisting him in planning activities, practices and games and opponents analysis. He returns to China in January 2015 as assistant coach for Radomir Antic in Hebei Zhongji. In May 2017 <mask> is hired by the Educational Center of Football Association of Serbia as a lecturer in UEFA A licence program for the field of "Standard situations" as part of the overall tactical preparation of football players. As of July 29, 2017, <mask> is hired as head coach of FCI Tallinn, 2016 Meistriliiga champion.In his first month as a head coach he won “Manager of the Month” award by Meistriliiga, achieving 6 victories in 7 games, especially winning derbies against FC Levadia Tallinn (2:1) and FC Flora (4:2). After the fusion of FCI Tallinn and FC Levadia Tallinn in November 2017, <mask> became the head coach of FC Levadia Tallinn, 9-time champion of Estonia. First managerial trophy for Rogic came on February the 23rd, 2018 when FC Levadia Tallinn won Estonian Supercup against FC Flora. In exciting finals game FC Levadia Tallinn came back from 2 goals down, with late goals from Nikita Andrejev (84') and Kiril Nesterov (87'), only to beat FC Flora 4:3 on penalties. The same opponent was beaten in the finals of Estonian Cup on May the 19th, this time by 1:0, securing the

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 second trophy for FC Levadia Tallinn under <mask>. Ina April 2018, <mask> was again awarded “Manager of the Month” award by Meistriliiga. On October 11 2019 <mask> signed for Arka Gdynia member of the top Polish professional league Ekstraklasa and two time winners of Polish Cup and Polish SuperCup

On January 18 2021 <mask> is appointed as a manager of Serbia national under-19 football team by Football Association of Serbia.He debuted with two games versus Bosnia and Herzegovina 1:0, 2:1, played on February 23rd and 25th. Under his supervision Serbia national under-19 football team have played versus Romania in Arad on March 10th (0:0). After the cancelation of qualifying tournament for European championship due to Covid-19 pandemic executive comitee of Football Association of Serbia on April 4th 2021 appointed <mask> as manager of Serbia national under-20 football team. References

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<mask> (), birth name Liu Xingjun (), is a practitioner of Chinese Wushu and other martial arts who competes in the Super Welterweight, Welterweight and Super Middleweight divisions. Born in Dezhou, Shandong, <mask> is self-trained in Shaolin Kung Fu. He was the 2007 Guangdong Foshan International Wing Chun champion. In the summer of 2009, he began to fight in Wu Lin Feng. <mask> previously had called himself the "number 1 Shaolin Kung Fu Monk" despite the Shaolin temple claiming the fighter is unaffiliated with them in 2010. style=background:white colspan=9 |
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title: Zoran Janković (politician)

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<mask> (, ; born 1 January 1953) is a Serbian-Slovenian businessman and politician. He came to prominence in 1997 as the president of the Slovenian retail company Mercator. From October 2006 to December 2011, he was mayor of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. In October 2011, he established the Positive Slovenia party, which won the plurality of votes at the early Slovenian 2011 parliamentary election. His function as a mayor ceased on 21 December 2011, when he became a deputy in the National Assembly. After he failed to be elected as the prime minister in the National Assembly, he was re-elected as the mayor of Ljubljana and retook the position on 11 April 2012. He is the first mayor of Ljubljana to have served two terms since the end of World War II.Early life
<mask> was born in the village of Saraorci near the town of Smederevo in Serbia, then part of the Yugoslavia, to a Serb father and a Slovene mother. His parents moved to Slovenia for a better life, and left their son in poverty with his grandmother in Saraorci. In this time, his sister Jagoda was born. After finishing fourth grade of the primary school in 1964, he moved to Ljubljana so that he could learn English instead of Russian. He did not know Slovenian at the time. In Ljubljana, he attended the Valentin Vodnik Primary School in Šiška and the Kette and Murn Primary School in Kodeljevo in the last grade. Then, he attended the Poljane High School, where he learned French.There, he met his wife Mija, the cousin of Gregor Virant, who later became an influential politician. In 1971, he entered the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana, from which he graduated in 1980 with the thesis "Agricultural Goods Wheelers-Dealers in Our Country" (). During study, he built a house with the money he earned working for the AMD Moste (Auto-Moto Society Moste), with bookkeeping and with cargo transportation. In 1974, he married Mija and later had two children with her, Damijan and Jure. Career as manager
<mask> started his career in

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texts: 1978 in the investment sector of Post of Slovenia (which is deficient information, as at the time the postal, telephone and telegraph services were still united within PTT Slovenija with several regional PTT branches and it is not clear in which of these organizations <mask> was employed). Since 1979 till 1984, he was a representative of the company Grič Zagreb, and was appointed the acting director of the tourism and trade company Mercator Investa in 1984. As the company sponsors the basketball club Smelt Olimpija, he became also the vice-president of the club.Later, he became the general director of the company. After the merge of Mercator Investa and Mercator Inženiring in 1988, he was not appointed the director of the joint company, so he left. Since 1988 till 1990, he was the vice-director of SOZD Emona and the acting director of Emona-VPS. In December 1988, he survived a severe car crash without major injuries. In 1990, as he was not appointed the director of Emona, he founded the civil engineering and interior design company Electa and remained its director till 1997. He moved to Golovec where he jogged a lot. Electa sponsored several junior sports teams.<mask> became the main sponsor in 1992 and the president of the handball club Krim, later renamed to HC Krim Electa. The club made extraordinary progress and then won the national handball cup for several years. In 1995, <mask> stepped down from the position of the president of the club due to his dissatisfaction with the Ljubljana city distribution of money to clubs. In 1996, he became the president of the Handball Federation of Slovenia. He retained the position till 2004. In 1995, <mask> entered the Supervisory Board of Mercator as the representative of the Slovenian Compensation Company (, SOD), which was led at the time by Tone Rop, the then Slovenian Minister of Labour and the president of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS). According to the magazine Mladina, the main lobbyist for the entry of <mask> into

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texts: Mercator was Peter Rigl, who was also member of LDS.In 1997, after the Supervisory Board of the Slovenian retail company Mercator deposed Kazimir Živko Pregelj as the chairman, due partly to the 2.5 billion tolars debt of the company, the board appointed <mask> scolded at <mask> that he himself had enabled <mask> to enter Mercator. Both of them claimed later that the recording had been torn out of context, and that it had been about the entry into the supervisory board and not becoming the president of the company. According to Miran Goslar and <mask> himself, the appointment was not politically motivated but made exclusively by influential managers in Mercator. Goslar stated that not even one of the then politicians supported the appointment of <mask>. The entry of <mask> transformed the company Mercator to the biggest retail company in Slovenia and one of the biggest in the region. The company took over numerous companies, starting with Klas in 1998, and numerous others, among them the most controversial being the take-over of Emona Merkur.In August 1999, the first Mercator hypermarket was opened in Šiška. Despite being a director, <mask> actively helped his employees, for example with tidying shopping carts. In December 2000, Mercator opened its shops abroad for the first time, in Pula, Croatia, and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in 2002, the largest one in Belgrade, Serbia. In 1999, <mask> became a member of the management board in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (, ), where he was appreciated as constructive and decisive. In February 2001, <mask> received a prize for extraordinary economic and business achievements by GZS. In September 2001, an article is published in Delo describing Electa as being severely indebted, not paying its subcontractors, and making profit from business with Mercator. Several lawsuits were filed in but later withdrawn.Despite the accusations, <mask> remained the director of Mercator and Electa fulfilled its

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 obligations. In 2002, he was proclaimed the manager of the year by the management magazine Manager. In 2003, <mask> started his second term in Mercator. During this term, he actively opposed the act restricting the use of alcohol that prohibited the sale of alcohol to the youth and to drunk people and the sale of alcohol after 9 pm. He also opposed the closure of shops on Sundays, which was in September 2003 supported on a referendum. The magazine Kapital bestowed him with the title "The best director 2003" (). At the end of 2003, Mercator took over Živila.In January 2004, Slovenia hosted the 2004 European Men's Handball Championship and <mask> announced his candidacy for the president of the European Handball Federation. He was a favourite at first but fell out already after the first round. In 2005, SOD and KAD () sold a little less than 30% of Mercator to two suppliers of Mercator, Istrabenz and Pivovarna Laško. On 15 November 2005, the new owners removed <mask> from his position for non-culpable reasons and appointed Žiga Debeljak, the financial director of Gorenje. <mask> later accused Prime Minister Janez Janša of having conspired to achieve his removal as part of a political deal with the new owners of Mercator. Mayor of Ljubljana

In September 2006, <mask> announced his intent to run for the office of mayor of Ljubljana as an independent candidate. He was elected with a landslide in the first round on 22 October 2006, with almost 63% of the popular vote.His list won 23 out of 45 seats in the city council, virtually guaranteeing the stability of his administration. He took the office on 17 November 2006. There were numerous campaign promises made before the elections –  including the most prominent one, the building of the Stožice Stadium, a new central football stadium and indoor sports arena, which was built in 2010, solving the decades-old issue of Ljubljana not having such facilities. On 10 October 2010, <mask> was re-elected for another 4-year term, receiving

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 almost 65% of the popular vote. His list won 25 out of 45 seats in the city council. The downtown of Ljubljana has been significantly redesigned during his terms, and closed for traffic. However, the debt of the City Municipality of Ljubljana significantly increased, and many promises were not or were only partly realised.During his term as the mayor of Ljubljana, the daily newspaper Finance accused <mask> of having abused his powers as mayor of Ljubljana to create economic benefits for his sons. <mask> rejected these accusations as completely false and based on the journalists' imagination. At a celebration of his father's second victory at the Ljubljana local elections, his younger son Jure <mask> publicly threatened to murder the Finance journalist Jaka Elikan, who investigated and wrote about the alleged corruption of the <mask> family and who was present at the event; the threat was recorded by the journalists and made public. <mask> <mask> publicly reacted to the threat by rejecting any use of violence and apologizing for his son's words; at the same time, however, he accused the journalist of being excessively provocative. Following the media allegations of <mask>'s abuse of power to create economic benefit for his son Jure, an Investigation Commission was formed by the Slovenian National Assembly, headed by the opposition MP Alenka Jeraj. In its final report, the Commission stated that there is a reasonable suspicion that <mask> <mask> abused his power as Mayor of Ljubljana. In an interview to the Croatian daily newspaper Večernji list in October 2010, <mask> stated corruption is not an important problem in Slovenia; this statement caused some controversy in the Slovenian media, and triggered a negative public response by the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption.Entry into national politics

On 11 October 2011, <mask> announced his candidacy for prime minister with his own party, Positive Slovenia, to "make a better world for all Slovenians, beyond current

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texts: political doctrines and practices". When asked what made him decide to run for the Slovenian parliamentary election, <mask> replied that his final decision was made upon his wife's insistence that he should run in order to protect their children from unjust persecution. The statement was made in regard of the committee established by the Slovenian National Assembly in order to investigate <mask>'s alleged misuse of power as mayor of Ljubljana; his both sons were summoned to testify at the committee, both availing themselves with the right to silence. The influential investigative journalist Bojan Traven raised a theory, according to which <mask>'s entry into state politics was conditioned by the concern over the financial status of his family. On 4 December, Positive Slovenia won the election with 28.51% of votes, thus gaining 28 seats out of 90 in the Assembly. In his first responses, <mask> said that the victory of his party was a proof that Slovenians wanted an efficient state and that he would focus on economic growth. Shortly after the unofficial results became available, he stated he would invite all the parties to coalition talks.Analysts predicted the most likely coalition would consist of Positive Slovenia (PS), Social Democrats (SD), Gregor Virant's Civic List (LGV) and Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS). On 5 January 2012, President Danilo Türk proposed <mask> as the candidate to form a government to the National Assembly. Two days before the scheduled voting, the Slovenian Association of Journalists and Commentators, the second largest journalists' association in the country, issued a statement raising the concern that <mask> might abuse his power as prime minister by curtailing the freedom of media through intimidation. A coalition agreement between PS, SD, LGV and DeSUS was initialled on 7 January. However, in the evening of 9 January, LGV announced it would not support <mask> as the new prime minister and also not join his coalition, due to

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 large differences in the programs of the parties. On 11 January, <mask> was not elected as the new prime minister by the National Assembly. In a secret ballot, his candidacy only gained the support of 42 deputies, two less than expected prior to the voting, and four short of the absolute majority needed for his election.Following the election of Janez Janša as the prime minister in the second round of the voting, Positive Slovenia became an opposition party. When <mask> got elected to the National Assembly, his function as the Mayor of Ljubljana ceased because of incompatibility of the two functions. In February, <mask> announced he decided to run for the position of Mayor of Ljubljana again. He participated at the by-election for the mayor of Ljubljana on 25 March 2012 and was elected for the continuation of the second term with 61% of votes. He retook the leadership of the city council on 11 April 2012. His mandate of a deputy ceased on 16 April 2012. On 19 April, he was replaced by the former athlete Alenka Bikar.On 17 January 2013, Alenka Bratušek was replaced <mask> as president of the Positive Slovenia party after <mask> temporarily renounced all functions in the party following allegations raised by the official Commission for the Prevention of Corruption report. On 26 April 2014, <mask> <mask> was again voted as the president of the party with 422 votes for out of 763 voters; his only opponent, Alenka Bratušek, received 338 votes. On 29 April 2014 Bratušek resigned from Positive Slovenia, and also announced her resignation as Prime Minister, to take effect on 5 May 2014. She became the first Slovenian Prime Minister to resign from office; her resignation went into effect on 8 May, and then on 31 May 2014 she formed her own party Alliance of Alenka Bratušek (Zavezništvo Alenke Bratušek; ZaAB). Public perception
Throughout his presence in the public life, <mask> has been mired in scandals. This is alleged by his detractors and acknowledged by his sympathisers. The

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 latter say that while every politician is corrupt, at least <mask> is "a man of action" and has finally done something for residents of Ljubljana.This normally refers to him having built the Stožice stadium. His opponents point out, however, that he built it with taxpayers' money and that his family and companies owned by them have benefited to the tune of many millions from backhanders paid by building contractors engaged to construct it, while subcontractors were not paid for their work, supposedly for lack of funds. In 1998, the left liberal magazine Mladina accused <mask> of having used his influence as businessman in order to secure his younger son's participation in the spring matura state exams, although he should have first passed two retake exams. In October 2011, a whole episode of the talk political show Pogledi Slovenije, aired by the national broadcaster RTV Slovenija, was focused on <mask>'s alleged nepotism. He has been a target of satire, especially by the popular comedian Denis Avdić. In May 2012 it was revealed that the Slovene tax administration is investigating how 400 thousand out of the 15 million euros, paid by the City of Ljubljana to the Stožice Sports Park construction contractor (GREP), ended on the account of the KLM Naložbe company, which is majority-owned by <mask> <mask>. <mask> and his son Jure are under investigation by the tax authorities and the police in connection with the Cypriot company Blue Train of which Jure <mask> has been revealed to be a director.He is perennially cited as one of the most influential people in the country. References

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<mask> (born 22 February 1964 in Madrid, Spain) is a war journalist, writer and correspondent, currently working as chief correspondent of the news of Televisa in Spain. Career path
<mask> is the son of journalist and communicator <mask>, with a long professional career in media such as Cadena Ser, where he received among several other Ondas Awards as the best program-manager in 1967. From an early age, <mask>e read the literary and journalistic texts that his father invited him to discover. A universal vision that <mask> was able to convey to his five children. Thanks to that and his tireless travels and language skills, today <mask>' is a journalist with a wide and global lens. His father, who worked as a correspondent for Mexico at the 24-Hours News presented by Jacobo Zabludovsky, was able to convey his love of journalism and for Mexico to his son <mask> Hanks in the film "Big" with title in Spain. The beginnings of <mask> began on Radio Montecarlo in Paris in the summer of 1983, and soon after, he began collaborating with New York's Spanish-speaking 47 channel. In 1985 he entered work for the media group Televisa, becoming in a very short time, one of the most emblematic correspondents for all Latin America. In the last 33 years he has covered for the television channel, the most important events of a world character. He has witnessed 19 wars, going on to conduct exclusive interviews with such important and influential figures in history as Yasser Arafat or Muammar the Gaddafi, or the leader of Hamas sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Peláez has also interviewed Spanish, European, and Latin American politicians, such as former Spanish presidents Felipe González, José María Aznar, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Portuguese Head of State Aníbal Cavaco Silva, the former presidents of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo, Carlos Salinas, Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón, the former president of Peru Alejandro Toledo or former Argentine

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 President Carlos Menem among others.<mask> has written and edited 5 books. He began his literary career in [1992], with literature ranging from the journalistic genre to the essay or the novel. For 13 years he was a columnist for the [Millennium newspaper] and to this day writes for the newspaper El Universal (Mexico)' El Universal (Mexico), in addition to collaborating with Grupo Radio Centro and different stations, radio stations and Spanish media. He is the winner of the Golden Antenna and the International Press Club award, which was given to him from the hands of his S.M. King D. Juan Carlos I. Today, he continues to work as Chief Correspondent for Televisa, covering the most important national and international news for Mexico . He lectures on development and personal growth throughout Mexico, from the most important universities to multinational companies.A polyglot man, an athlete and current day, today <mask> has become a remarkable figure in the world of Spanish journalism. War correspondent
Coverage of warfare such as:
 Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq 1990
 Gulf War Persian War I 1990 – 1991
 Kurdish Exodus from Iraq to Turkey 1991
 Yugoslav Wars 1991 – 1994
 Slovenia
 Croatia
 Bosnia – Sarajevo, Mostar, Livno...
 Algerian Civil War Algerian War 1992
 Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 Coup d'état in Russia 1993
 Burundi Civil War War hutus tutsis Rwanda 1995
 Somali Civil War winter 1994 – summer 1995
 Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002
 Afghanistan War 2001 – 2002
 Iraq War Persian II 2002
 2011 Libyan War

Speaker
Its coverages in its 19 wars have enabled <mask> to become an important speaker. Leadership, overcoming, teamwork are some of the conferences that <mask> gives based on his knowledge of war cover. Among the different conferences <mask> has given on leadership and improvement, some of them have been for the following companies, agencies and universities. ACE Fianzas

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