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<mask> (born 20 November 1945) is an English former professional tennis player. He became Wimbledon Boys' Champion in 1962 and reached the second round of the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. He is the son of former professional footballer Sir <mask>. Football career
<mask>' first foray in sport was via football, and, like his father, he played on the wing. "But I stopped playing soccer, as we call it in America, when I was 12," he explained in 2007. "I was fairly good, but whoever I played, they kicked the shit out of me. I came with a name, and the mentality was, 'We're going to get <mask>' son.'"

Tennis career
In 1958, <mask>' father arranged for him to attend the Lawn Tennis Association in London. He lived with the family of Charlie Chester, a friend of his father, in North Finchley. In the morning he would work with a private tutor; in the afternoon he would practise at Queen's Club. <mask> was British Junior Champion between 1960 and 1962, the only three-times winner of the title and last British male winner of the tournament. In 1962, <mask> won the Wimbledon Boys' Championship. He can remember the final point by point. "It was against Alexander Metreveli, who went on to be the top Russian and lost in the final of a Wimbledon senior."The match went the distance, and <mask> won 7–5 in the final set. However, despite <mask>' success in the junior ranks, his coach, John Barrett, stated that "ultimately, he just wasn't good enough". <mask>' father said "There is no doubt my reputation did put some pressure on him. I know it worried him a bit, being in my shadow. I hoped he might overcome it." <mask> junior concurs:  "Even though it wasn't football, it was a lot of pressure to live up to the name of <mask>. There

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 would be pictures of my father and me in the papers, and they started to call me the next Fred Perry.Sure, being Dad's son opened some doors, but it also made things harder. Instead of being congratulated if I did well, I was expected to. And if I didn't do well, they'd say 'He's not as good as his father.' Unfortunately, that's how it is. It goes with the territory." In his short career, <mask> played 23 singles matches, winning six of them. Five of these were in Grand Slam tournaments, when he reached the second round of Wimbledon in 1963 and 1969; the second round of the 1967 and 1969 French Opens, beating Ilie Năstase in the first round of the latter; and the second round of the 1971 US Open.He qualified for the first round of Wimbledon for 11 consecutive years, from 1963 to 1973. He also partook in 17 doubles matches, winning four times. In 1967, <mask> won the Surrey Hard Court Championships, defeating Keith Wooldridge in the final. He beat his coach, John Barrett, in the semifinals. The following year, he defeated Wooldridge again in the final of the East of England Championships. In 1971, <mask> represented Britain in the Davis Cup, losing to Yugoslav Boro Jovanović in five sets. "Obviously, I would have liked to have done better, though I didn't have a bad career.But it was becoming more and more difficult to make a living out of tennis. Looking back, certain aspects were not as good as they should have been. I was a serve and volleyer with a weak serve. If I'd had a serve like Andy Roddick's, I would have done much better. I wasn't quite good enough to be one of the best." Matches
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 straight sets.In January 1963, he was knocked out in the first round of the Australian Open by Peter Harris. <mask> won the first set, but Harris came back to win three straight. In June 1963, he made it to the second round of Wimbledon. He defeated Sergio Tacchini in straight sets in the first round, but in round two, he was knocked out in four sets by Rafael Osuna. In January 1964, in his second and final appearance at the Australian Open, he was again knocked out in the first round. This time, it was at the hands of Barry Phillips-Moore in straight sets. In the summer he returned to Wimbledon, where Torben Ulrich ended his event at the first hurdle.The first set went to a tie-break, which Ulrich won 11–9. Into 1965, and <mask> made it to the fourth round of the Cannes Carlton tournament. He beat Gardet in round two. In the third round, he defeated Peter Pokorny, then lost to Jaime Pinto-Bravo in the fourth round. At Beaulieu the same year, he was knocked out in straight sets in the first round by Peter Pokorney. At Wimbledon, <mask> was knocked out in straight sets in the first round by Gene Scott. At 1966's Border Championships, Pat Cramer knocked <mask> out in the first round.At Wimbledon, his first-round match with Ismail El Shafei went to four sets, but the Egyptian won the final set 7–5. Post-retirement
In 1973 <mask> quit playing tennis and tried his hand in the business world, selling air bubbles to cover tennis courts; however, the growing popularity of squash meant that there were fewer and fewer outdoor courts. Aged 29, <mask> moved to the United States, and became a coach at Harry Hopman's Port Washington Tennis Academy and also in Norwalk, Connecticut. At the former, he worked with a promising 15-year-old

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 John McEnroe. "I was still fresh off the tour at the time, so could give him a decent game." In 1976 he became manager at the Four Seasons Racquet Club in Wilton, Connecticut, and has been there ever since. Nine years later, he bought out the original owner."You can always say, 'Gee whizz, I could have done better' but in terms of how my life turned out, I'm very happy. I'm [at the time of interview] still the last British male to win a singles tournament at Wimbledon, and I'm proud of that. For the past 30 years I have considered myself an entrepreneur, and I've managed that in the States with no name recognition." In 1981, <mask> briefly picked up his racquet again after eight years to take part in the United States Tennis Association's National Men's 35 Clay Court Championships at the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club in Palm Beach, Florida. Personal life
<mask> was born to Betty and <mask> on 20 November 1945. He was the couple's second child after Jean, who was born six years earlier. He is married to Joy, with two stepchildren, Greg and Kristy Moran.Grand Slam singles performance timeline

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References

External links

 Pathé footage of the final of the 1962 junior lawn tennis championship of Great Britain between <mask> Jnr. & G.R. Stillwell
 "<mask> Back For The Fun Of It In Men's 35 Clay Court Nationals" – The Palm Beach Post, 23 September 1981

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Sportspeople from Staffordshire
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was a Japanese courtier and waka poet of the early Heian period. He was named one of both the Six Poetic Geniuses and the Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses, and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu collection. He is also known as Zai Go-Chūjō, Zai Go, Zai Chūjō or Mukashi-Otoko. There are 87 poems attributed to Narihira in court anthologies, though some attributions are dubious. Narihira's poems are exceptionally ambiguous; the compilers of the 10th-century Kokin Wakashū thus treated them to relatively long headnotes. Narihira's many renowned love affairs have exerted a profound influence on later Japanese culture. Legends have held that he had affairs with the high priestess of the Ise Grand Shrine and the poet <mask> no Komachi, and that he fathered Emperor Yōzei.His love affairs inspired The Tales of Ise, and he has ever since been a model of the handsome, amorous nobleman. Biography

Birth and ancestry
<mask> no Narihira was born in 825. He was a grandson of two emperors: Emperor Heizei through his father, Prince Abo; and Emperor Kanmu through his mother, Princess Ito. He was the fifth child of Prince Abo, but was supposedly the only child of Princess Ito, who lived in the former capital at Nagaoka. Some of Narihira's poems are about his mother. Abo was banished from the old capital Heijō-kyō (modern Nara) to Tsukushi Province (within modern Fukuoka) in 824 due to his involvement in a failed coup d'état known as the Kusuko

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 and the poet <mask> no Komachi may have been lovers, but there is little evidence for this. Scholars of the 20th century such as  have held up this speculation, which can be traced back at least as far as the 14th-century historian Kitabatake Chikafusa. Chikafusa likely used Kamakura period Kokinshū commentaries such as the extant , which speculates that one of Komachi's poems was left for Narihira after a tryst. The Bishamondō-bon Kokinshū-chū in turn likely worked from a then-common belief that fictional Tales of Ise was a genuine historical work detailing the actual events in Narihira's life (see above).Kamakura period commentaries on The Tales of Ise therefore tried to insert the names of real women where the original text simply said "a woman", and thus inserted <mask> <mask>chi into several passages of the text. The literary scholar Yōichi Katagiri concluded, on the lack of surviving evidence, that, while it is possible that Narihira and <mask> no Komachi knew each other and were lovers, there was no usable evidence to say conclusively either way. Journey to the east
The Kokinshū, Tales of Ise and Tales of Yamato all describe Narihira leaving Kyoto to travel east through the Tōkaidō region and crossing the Sumida River, composing poems at famous places (see utamakura) along the way. The Tales of Ise implies this journey was the result of the scandalous affair between Narihira and Fujiwara no Takaiko. There are doubts as to whether this

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 poets  () and  (), and at least one daughter. Through Muneyama, he was also the grandfather of the poet <mask> no Motokata. One of his granddaughters, whose name is not known, was married to Fujiwara no Kunitsune and engaged in a clandestine affair with Taira no Sadafun.Names
Narihira is also known by the nicknames ,  and . Zai is the Sino-Japanese reading of the first character of his surname Ariwara, and Go, meaning "five", refers to him and his four brothers Yukihira, Nakahira, Morihira, and Ōe no Otondo. Chūjō ("Middle Captain") is a reference to the post he held near the end of his life, Provisional Middle Captain of the Right Division of Inner Palace Guards. After the recurring use of the phrase in The Tales of Ise, he is also known as . Poetry
Narihira left a private collection, the , which was included in the . This was likely compiled by a later editor, after the compilation of the Gosen Wakashū in the mid-10th century. Thirty poems attributed to Narihira were included in the early 10th-century Kokinshū, and many more in later anthologies, but the attributions are dubious.Ki no Tsurayuki mentioned Narihira in his kana preface to the Kokinshū as one of the Six Poetic Geniuses—important poets of an earlier age. He was also included in Fujiwara no Kintō's later Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses. Of the eleven poems the Gosen Wakashū attributed to Narihira, several were really by others—for example, two were actually by Fujiwara no Nakahira and


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 Kokinshū No.747:

Scholars have subjected this poem, Narihira's most famous, to several conflicting interpretations in recent centuries. The Edo-period kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga interpreted the first part of it as a pair of rhetorical questions, marked by the particle ya. He explained away the logical inconsistency with the latter part of the poem that his reading introduced by reading in an "implied" conclusion that though the poet remains the same as before, everything somehow feels different. The late-Edo period waka poet  took a different view, interpreting the  as exclamatory: the moon and spring are not those of before, and only the poet himself remains unchanged. A similar problem of interpretation has also plagued Narihira's last poem (quoted above). The fourth line, , is most normally read as "(I never thought) that it might be yesterday or today", but has been occasionally interpreted by scholars to mean "until yesterday I never thought it might be today"; others take it as simply meaning "right about now". But the emotion behind the poem is nonetheless clear: Narihira, who died in his fifties, always knew he must die someday, but is nonetheless shocked that his time has come so soon.Reception
Tsurayuki's preface to the Kokinshū describes Narihira's poems as containing "too much feeling and insufficient words. They are like faded flowers whose colour has been lost but which retain a lingering fragrance". <mask> Yoshimochi


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texts: legends. He and his contemporary <mask> no Komachi were considered the archetypes of the beautiful man and woman of the Heian court, and appear as such in many later literary works, particularly in Noh theatre.It is believed Narihira was one of the men who inspired Murasaki Shikibu when she created Hikaru Genji, the protagonist of The Tale of Genji. Genji makes allusion to The Tales of Ise and draws parallels between their respective protagonists. Though not directly stated in the text, later commentators have interpreted The Tales of Ise as implying that Narihira's illicit union with the empress Fujiwara no Takaiko made him the true father of Emperor Yōzei; whether Murasaki interpreted the work this way is uncertain, but The Tale of Genji describes a very similar incident in which the protagonist, a former imperial prince made a commoner, has an affair with an empress and sires a son who ultimately becomes emperor as his true parentage is kept secret. Narihira appears in tales such as 35 and 36 of Book 24 of the late Heian-period Konjaku Monogatarishū. Along with his contemporary <mask> <mask>chi and the protagonist of The Tale of Genji, Narihira figured prominently in Edo-period ukiyo-e prints and was alluded to in the ukiyo-zōshi of Ihara Saikaku. The 16th-century warrior  used Narihira and the courtly world of The Tales of Ise as an ironic reference in a poem he composed about the severed head of his defeated enemy Tachibana Nagatoshi (), the

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<mask> (December 25, 1835December 24, 1916) was an American lawyer and Union Army officer throughout the American Civil War. He served in the famous Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac and was awarded an honorary brevet to brigadier general after the war. Early life
<mask> was born on Christmas Day, 1835, and ultimately died on Christmas Eve, 1916. He was the eldest of nine children born to <mask> and <mask> ( McKenzie) at Poland, Ohio. He received a common school education and read law; he was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1857, by Justice Thomas W. Bartley, with the endorsement of Jacob Dolson Cox. The following spring, he moved to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and began a legal practice. He quickly distinguished himself, and, in the 1860 general election, he was elected district attorney of Chippewa County.Civil war service
At the outbreak of the American Civil War, <mask> immediately resigned as district attorney, and set about gathering a company of volunteers from Chippewa County. He was offered a commission as captain of the company, but refused. He subsequently accepted commission as . His company became Company A of the 7th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. The 7th Wisconsin Infantry mustered into service August 16, 1861, and went east to Washington, D.C., for service in the eastern theater of the war. He was promoted to captain in February 1863, and, at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, he had been detailed from his regiment to serve on the brigade staff of General Solomon Meredith. During the first day of the battle, the Iron Brigade was one of the first two Union brigades to engage the enemy northwest of the town of Gettysburg.During the intense fighting on that first day of battle, Colonel Meredith was wounded, along with several of the other field officers of the brigade—Captain <mask> played an instrumental role in maintaining order and communication among the regiments during the critical retreat to Seminary Ridge. <mask> was

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 effectively in command of the brigade until Colonel Robinson assumed command in the afternoon. General Lysander Cutler, who had previously commanded the Iron Brigade, and who was in command of the brigade next to the Iron Brigade on the first day of Gettysburg, wrote a commendation for Captain <mask>:

General James S. Wadsworth, who was in command of their division, also commended Captain <mask> in a letter to Governor Alexander Randall:

Captain <mask> carried orders along the line to various regiments. As the Union line began to falter in the afternoon, <mask> picked up the colors of a Pennsylvania regiment—which had collapsed in panic—and tried to rally the men to stand together. Unfortunately, the regiment did not re-form, and <mask> ultimately withdrew, still carrying the flag. <mask>'s actions on the first day of Gettysburg were specifically mentioned in General Abner Doubleday's account of the battle in the Official War Records, Series 1, Volume 27, Part 1, Item 29. During the evening after the first day of the battle, <mask>, moving alone between regiments, came upon a Confederate lieutenant and captured him.The lieutenant gave <mask> information about the Confederate plans for the second day of battle, and <mask> rushed to deliver the information to General Doubleday. Doubleday brought <mask> to the council of war, taking place that evening, where <mask> suggested locations for cannon placements. <mask> was promoted to acting lieutenant colonel on August 8, 1864, and took command of the 7th Wisconsin Infantry in December 17, 1864, following the resignation of Colonel Mark Finnicum. During the Battle of Five Forks, in the closing weeks of the war, <mask> personally saved the life of Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, and was wounded in the process. After the war, Warren offered to sponsor <mask> for a commission in the regular army, but <mask> refused. <mask> was mustered out of the volunteers on July 3, 1865. Throughout the war, he

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 was wounded six times and received three honorary brevets, including his final brevet to brigadier general, nominated by President Andrew Johnson on January 13, 1866, and confirmed by the United States Senate on March 12, 1866.Postbellum years
After the war, <mask> remained in Baltimore for several years, restarting his legal career there. While there, he also was selected as a delegate to the 1868 Republican National Convention, and was an enthusiastic supporter of General Ulysses S. Grant's presidential campaign. He returned to Wisconsin in 1870, and maintained a successful legal practice at Chippewa Falls for the next twenty years. During the Spanish–American War he was commissioned as a major in the quartermasters department and served in the Philippines. He moved to the state of Washington in 1900 and established a home at Keyport, in Kitsap County. He died there after a brief illness in 1916, the day before his 81st birthday. Personal life and family
During the first winter of the Civil War, in 1861, <mask>'s commanding officer, Colonel William W. Robinson, brought his family to camp with the regiment in northern Virginia.While there, <mask> befriended Robinson's daughter, Leonora, and fell in love with her. Colonel Robinson objected to their relationship, saying that he did not want his daughter to become a war widow, but <mask> and Leonora defied Colonel Robinson and eloped at Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1862. Colonel Robinson refused to speak to his son-in-law for several months after the marriage, but the two later became close friends. After the war, Colonel Robinson came to live with <mask> and his wife. <mask> and Leonora had two daughters, both were still living at the time of his death in 1916. References

External links

 <mask> <mask> at Wisconsin Historical Society

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<mask> (born Charles Allen Pendleton; July 29, 1923 – September 20, 2003) was an American actor and bodybuilder who made about 200 B movies. Biography
Charles Allen Pendleton was born in Denver, Colorado, and began working out in his Denver neighbourhood to deal with his tough companions. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army in the Battle of the Bulge where he was taken prisoner of war. He later obtained a degree at the University of Southern California under the G.I. Bill. He became a high school teacher and guidance counselor in Los Angeles, where due to his physique he was given classes containing many delinquent students. Following a return enlistment for the Korean War, he found film extra work in movies such as Prisoner of War, The Man with the Golden Arm and Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, where he and his friend Joe Gold dragged Charlton Heston's Moses to Pharaoh Yul Brynner.Mae West chose him to appear in her nightclub act as part of her "buffed all-male chorus line". He was one of the American bodybuilder-actors who migrated to Italy in the wake of Steve Reeves' success in the 1958 film Hercules after he sent a photo to an Italian producer who signed him on a contract. Prior to going to Italy, he saw a clairvoyant who asked him if he had ever been known by the name of <mask>. He replied no, but on arrival in Rome, <mask> was given his new name. He found work first in sword and sandal films such as Sinbad, Seven Slaves Against the World,  Treasure of the Petrified

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 Forest (1965), then in Spaghetti Westerns such as Beyond the Law and Savage Guns. <mask> also appeared in Fellini Satyricon (1969), directed by Federico Fellini. From the early 1970s onwards, he started to diversify into everything from horror (Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks - 1974), Nazi exploitation (Achtung!The Desert Tigers! -1977), sexploitation (Porno-Erotic Western - 1979), French criminal comedy (The Umbrella Coup - 1980), and post-apocalyptic films (Endgame - 1983). He also appeared in the bizarre 1982 Israeli adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's She as "Hector." The film was directed by Avi Nesher and co-starred Sandahl Bergman. <mask> was close friends with fellow American expatriate actors Richard Harrison, Mike Monty (he appeared in a number of films with both and shared an apartment with Monty in Italy during the 1960s), and John P. Dulaney. Like Monty, Harrison and Dulaney, <mask> acted in low-budget action films in the Philippines during the 1980s, having roles in Commando Invasion and SFX Retaliator for director John Gale. He returned to the United States in the late 1980s and retired from acting, but kept making occasional film appearances until his death from an apparent heart attack in Marina Del Rey, California, aged 80.Shooting Is Better (1968) - Roy Fulton
 Cry of Death (1968) - Donkey / Morgan Pitt
 Seven Times Seven (1968) - Big Ben
 Hour X Suicide Patrol (1969) - Sgt. Orwell Smith
 Fellini Satyricon (1969) - Robber
 Sartana the Gravedigger (1969) - Deguejo
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 occhi blu (1969) - Football player
 The Arizona Kid (1970) - Coyote
 Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End (1970) - Black Burt Keller / Burt Kelly
 Dead Men Don't Make Shadows (1970) - Roger Murdock
 Io non spezzo... rompo (1971) - Joe il Rosso
 Tre nel mille (1971)
 Se t'incontro t'ammazzo (1971) - Chris Forest
 A Barrel Full of Dollars (1971) - John
 Giù le mani... carogna! (Django Story) (1971) - Buck Bradley
 Let's Go and Kill Sartana (1971) - Greg "The Crazy Person"
 Drummer of Vengeance (1971) - Deputy Norton
 Le Saut de l'ange (1971) - Henry Di Fusco
 Il suo nome era Pot (1971) - Ray Potter
 A Fistful of Death (1971) - Ironhead Donovan / Testa di Ferro
 Savage Guns (1971) - <mask> (uncredited)
 Un uomo chiamato Dakota (1972) - Dakota
 The Big Bust Out (1972) - El Kadir
 Magnificent West (1972) - Martin
 Casa d'appuntamento (1972) - Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
 Go Away! (1977) - Burt
 Natascha - Todesgrüße aus Moskau (1977) - Gooming
 Gli uccisori (1977) - Pablo
 Zanna Bianca e il grande Kid (1977) - Morgan
 Pugni, dollari e spinaci (1978) - Frank Stilo
 Ishyri dosi... sex (1978)
 A Very Special Woman (1979) - Gordon
 Strategia per una missione di morte (1979) - Paul
 Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot (1979) - Pretorius
 Porno erotico western (1979)
 I mavri Emmanouella (1980) - Robert / Factory manager
 Holocaust parte seconda: i ricordi, i deliri, la vendetta (1980) - Felix Oppenheimer
 The Umbrella Coup (1980) - Moskovitz, le tueur
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<mask> (born August 2, 1994) is an American football offensive tackle for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Mississippi. High school career
A native of Lake City, Florida, <mask> attended Columbia High School, where he played football and competed in track and field as a shot putter. He was a two-time All-State offensive lineman for the Tigers football team. Tunsil credits his development as an offensive tackle to going up against defensive lineman Timmy Jernigan, his Columbia teammate, in practice. "He's always trying to get better every day. He's strong and he's fundamentally sound.He's got all the tools you need to be one of the best," said his high school coach Brian Allen. In his senior year, Tunsil helped Columbia High School rush for 275 yards per game en route to the FHSAA Class 6A state quarterfinals, where they lost 28–21 to Navarre High School. After the season, Tunsil played in the 2013 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Regarded as a five-star recruit by Rivals.com, Tunsil was listed as the highest ranked offensive tackle prospect of his class. Tunsil had offers from every major BCS program, including every SEC school. From early on, he made depth chart, i.e. the possibility of starting as a true freshman, one of his priorities.He eliminated his home-state Florida Gators early in the process, because the Gators had signed five-star offensive tackle D. J. Humphries from the previous class. For a long period of time, <mask> was believed to be leaning towards Georgia, since the Bulldogs started true freshman John Theus at right tackle in every game of the 2012 season, and Tunsil hoped to do so at

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 left tackle in 2013 as incumbent starter Kenarious Gates was graduating. But after a visit to Ole Miss in late January, <mask> reportedly changed his mind and was considered a "done deal" for the Rebels. <mask> made his announcement on National Signing Day on ESPNU, where he indeed committed to Ole Miss. College career
At Ole Miss in 2013, Tunsil played every game, starting all but four games—Vanderbilt, Southeast Missouri State, Alabama, and Auburn. He was one of only two true freshmen serving as his team's full-time starting left tackle, the other being Virginia Tech's Jonathan McLaughlin. Tunsil had his first start against Texas, competing against Longhorns defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat, who finished the game with only three tackles and no sacks.Following the Rebels' 34–24 victory over SEC West rival Arkansas, Tunsil was named SEC Offensive Lineman of the Week, after helping the offense piling up 531 total yards and a near-school record 428 passing yards. Tunsil earned SEC All-Freshman honors by the league's coaches, and first team Freshman All-American honors by The Sporting News, after allowing only one sack throughout his freshman season. As a sophomore, started at the left tackle position in all 11 games that he played in, only missing the Auburn and Presbyterian games due to a partially torn bicep. Tunsil was back in the starting line-up for the Peach Bowl, but fractured his fibula in the first half when quarterback Bo Wallace fell on the back of his right leg. After the season, Tunsil was named All-SEC by the Associated Press. In June 2015, before his junior season, Tunsil was accused by his stepfather, Lindsey Miller, of having accepted improper benefits from

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 sports agents. Coach Hugh Freeze decided to bench Tunsil for the season-opener against Tennessee–Martin on September 5, as a “precautionary measure.” <mask> was suspended by the NCAA and missed the first seven games of the season.He was reinstated before the #15 Texas A&M game on October 24. His matchup with defensive end Myles Garrett, who entered the game with  quarterback sacks, was highly anticipated. According to analysts <mask> emerged as “the big winner,” not giving up a sack and helping the Rebels to a 23–3 upset win over the Aggies. Having missed the first half of the season, <mask> was not selected to any All-American team despite solid performance. During the Sugar Bowl game against Oklahoma State, Tunsil had a two-yard rushing touchdown as time expired in the first half. Ole Miss won the Sugar Bowl, 48–20. Professional career

Shortly after Ole Miss's bowl game, Tunsil announced his decision to forgo his final college year and enter the 2016 NFL Draft.In February, a number of mock drafts projected him to be the No. 1 overall selection by the Tennessee Titans. NFL Media analyst Lance Zierlein compared Tunsil to All-Pro offensive tackle Tyron Smith. After an outstanding performance in offensive line drills at the NFL Combine, Tunsil further established himself as the No. 1 draft prospect. On April 14, the Titans announced a trade of their first overall draft pick to the Los Angeles Rams, who were widely believed to be looking for a quarterback rather than an offensive lineman, and eventually selected quarterback Jared Goff out of California. Ten minutes before the draft was set to begin, <mask>'s Twitter account showed a video of him wearing a gas mask and

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 smoking a substance from a bong.Although Tunsil's agent Jimmy Sexton immediately explained that the account was hacked, it resulted in some teams taking Tunsil off their draft boards entirely. The Baltimore Ravens (at No. 6) and Tennessee Titans (at No. 8), both in need of an offensive tackle, passed over Tunsil and chose Ronnie Stanley and Jack Conklin, respectively. The Miami Dolphins eventually selected him with the 13th overall pick. In a parallel incident, Tunsil's Instagram account published a screenshot of a text requesting money from Ole Miss assistant athletic director John Miller for rent and so Tunsil's mother could pay her electric bill. During a post-draft press conference, Tunsil admitted that he took money from an Ole Miss coach while a member of the school, but explained his Instagram account had also been hacked.Miami Dolphins
On April 28, 2016, the Miami Dolphins selected <mask> with the 13th overall selection in the 2016 NFL draft. He was the highest selected offensive lineman for the Dolphins since Jake Long went first overall in 2008, and the highest drafted Ole Miss player since linebacker Patrick Willis went 11th overall to the San Francisco 49ers in 2007. On May 6, 2016, it was announced that <mask> had signed a $12.45 million, four-year contract with the Dolphins. As a rookie in the 2016 season, <mask> played in 14 games, 13 of those at the left guard position. He helped the Dolphins to finish with the ninth best rushing offense in the league. After the 2016 season, veteran left tackle Branden Albert was traded to the Jacksonville Jaguars, making room for Tunsil to move to the left tackle position for the 2017 season. On April 18, 2019, the

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 Dolphins picked up the fifth-year option on Tunsil's contract.Houston Texans
On August 31, 2019, <mask>, Kenny Stills, and a fourth-round pick were traded to the Houston Texans in exchange for two first-round picks, a second-round pick, Johnson Bademosi, and Julien Davenport. He started 14 games at left tackle in 2019, earning his first trip to the Pro Bowl. On April 24, 2020, Tunsil signed a three-year, $66 million contract extension with $57.85 million guaranteed with the Texans, making him the highest-paid offensive lineman in terms of annual value. On October 16, 2021, Tunsil was placed on injured reserve after undergoing thumb surgery. Personal life
<mask> was arrested on domestic violence charges in Oxford, Mississippi, after an altercation with his step-father Lindsey Miller on June 25, 2015. Miller claimed the incident stemmed from an argument about Tunsil "riding around with agents," while others claimed Tunsil acted in defense of his mother. Later, Miller met with Chris Howard, the NCAA's director of enforcement, accusing Tunsil of NCAA rules violations, which triggered an NCAA investigation that resulted in Tunsil's suspension for the first seven games of his junior season at Ole Miss (see above).References

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texts: <mask> (born 7 January 1945) is a Kenyan politician who served as the Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. He is assumed as the Leader of Opposition in Kenya since 2013 as the New Constitution of Kenya does not prescribe for such a position. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Langata from 1992 to 2007. <mask> served in the Cabinet of Kenya as Minister for Energy from 2001 to 2002, and as the Minister for Roads, Public Works and Housing from 2003 to 2005. <mask> was appointed High Representative for Infrastructure Development at the African Union Commission in 2018. He was the main opposition candidate in the 2007 presidential election, running against the then incumbent Mwai Kibaki. In the subsequent presidential election 5 years later he placed second against Uhuru Kenyatta, garnering 5,340,546 votes, which represented 43.28% of the total votes cast.He made another attempt for the presidency in August 2017 against Uhuru Kenyatta. The electoral body declared Uhuru Kenyatta winner with 54% of the votes cast to <mask>'s 43%. This outcome was eventually annulled by the Supreme Court following findings that the election was marred by "illegalities and irregularities". A subsequent fresh election ordered by the Court was won by Uhuru Kenyatta when <mask> declined to participate citing inadequate reforms to enable a fair process in the repeat poll. Son of the first Vice President of Kenya, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, he draws a large chunk of his support from various regions in Kenya, most notably the Coastal Region and his native former Nyanza Province. <mask> is commonly known as "Baba", coincidentally, he was an MP at the same time as his father between 1992 and 1994. Other nicknames that have been associated with the premier

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texts: are such as "Nyundo" which is hammer in Kiswahili, "Tinga" which means tractor in Kiswahili a symbol of his National Development Party (NDP) and "Agwambo" meaning a man who is unpredictable (enigma or mysterious) and 'Baba' which means a political father.<mask> first ran for president in the 1997 General Elections, coming third after President Daniel arap Moi of KANU and Mwai Kibaki of the Democratic Party (DP), respectively. He contested for the presidency again in the 2007 General Elections on an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) ticket. In readiness for that poll, on 1 September 2007, <mask> was picked as ODM's presidential nominee to face off with PNU's Mwai Kibaki. He managed to garner significant support in that election. According to the he Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK), the electoral body at the time, he swept the majority of the votes in Rift Valley (Kenya's most populous area), Western, his native Nyanza, and Coast. Kibaki on the other hand won majority votes in Nairobi (the capital), North Eastern province, Central province and Eastern province, taking 4 provinces against <mask>'s 4. <mask>'s ODM party got 99 out of the 210 seats in the parliament, making it the single largest party in parliament.The Kriegler report, commissioned to investigate the violent aftermath of the 2007 elections and alleged vote-rigging, stated that about 1.2 million dead voters existed in the voters register, raising serious doubts to the integrity of the election. On 30 December 2007, then chairman of the Kenyan election commission the late Samuel Kivuitu, declared the incumbent, President Kibaki, the winner of the presidential election by a slim margin of about 230,000 votes. <mask> disputed the results, alleging fraud by the election

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 commission. However he refused to follow due process of petitioning the courts, believing that the courts were under manipulation by Kibaki and so could not give a fair and impartial hearing. Most opinion polls had speculated that <mask> would defeat the president, though the margin kept narrowing as election day neared. Independent international observers have since stated that the poll was marred by irregularities in favor of both PNU and ODM, especially at the final vote-tallying stages. The announcement of Kibaki's win was followed almost immediately by rioting and violent protests, from both ODM and PNU supporters, and the post-election violence continued for several weeks resulting in over 1000 deaths and the displacement of 500,000 people.Besides his father, <mask> is identified as one of the leading forces behind the democratization process of Kenya, particularly during the repressive regime of President Daniel arap Moi (1978–2002) and the lead-up to the adoption of the new Constitution (2010) that re-affirmed many formerly neglected fundamental rights. In 2017, <mask> ran for the presidency a fourth time, but lost to Uhuru Kenyatta. Odinga contested the election result in the Supreme Court, which nullified the results and called new elections as a result of electoral irregularities. Despite the Supreme Court ruling, <mask> announced on 10 October 2017 that he would withdraw from the second Presidential election. Early life and education
<mask> <mask> was born at the Anglican Church Missionary Society Hospital, in Maseno, Kisumu District, Nyanza Province on 7 January 1945 to Mary Juma <mask> and Jaramogi Oginga <mask>. His father served as the first Vice President of Kenya under President Jomo Kenyatta. He is a member of

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 the Luo ethnic group.He went to Kisumu Union Primary and Maranda High School where he studied until 1962, when he was transferred by his father to Germany. He spent the next two years at the Herder institution,which would train foreign students on the German language and was part of the philological faculty at the University of Leipzig in East Germany. He received a scholarship that in 1965 sent him to the Technical School, Magdeburg (now a part of Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg) in the GDR. In 1970, he graduated with a diplom (roughly equivalent to a Master's degree) in Mechanical Engineering and Welding. While studying in East Berlin during the Cold War, as a Kenyan he was able to visit West Berlin through the Checkpoint Charlie. When visiting West Berlin, he used to smuggle goods not available in East Berlin and bring them to his friends in East Berlin. He returned to Kenya in 1970.In 1971, <mask> established the Standard Processing Equipment Construction & Erection Ltd (later renamed East African Spectre), a company manufacturing liquid petroleum gas cylinders. In 1974, he was appointed group standards manager of the Kenya Bureau of Standards. In 1978 he was promoted to its deputy director, a post he held until his 1982 detention. Political career

Detention
In an era of unrelenting human rights abuse by the Kenya government, <mask> was placed under house arrest for seven months after evidence seemed to implicate him along with his late father Oginga <mask> for collaborating with the plotters of a failed coup attempt against President Daniel arap Moi in 1982. Hundreds of Kenyan civilians and thousands of rebel soldiers died in the coup. Several foreigners also lost their lives. Odinga was later charged with treason

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 and detained without trial for six years.A biography released 14 years later in July 2006 apparently with <mask>'s approval, indicated that <mask> was far more involved in the attempted coup than he had previously admitted. After its publication, some Members of Parliament in Kenya called for Odinga to be arrested and charged, but the statute of limitations had already passed and, since the information was contained in the biography did not amount to an open confession on his part. Among some of his most painful experiences was when his mother died in 1984 but the prison wardens took two months to inform him of her death. He was released on 6 February 1988 only to be rearrested in September 1988 for his pro-democracy and human rights agitation at a time when the country continued to descend deep into the throes of poor governance. and the despotism of single-party rule. multi-party democracy Kenya, was then, by law, a one-party state. His encounters with the authoritarian government generated an aura of intrigue about him and it was probably due to this his political followers, christened him "Agwambo", Luo for "The Mystery" or "Unpredictable", or "Jakom", meaning chairman.<mask> was released on 12 June 1989, only to be incarcerated again on 5 July 1990, together with Kenneth Matiba, and former Nairobi Mayor Charles Rubia, multiparty system and human rights crusaders . <mask> was finally released on 21 June 1991, and in October, he fled the country to Norway amid indications that the increasingly corrupt Kenyan government was attempting to assassinate him without success . Multi-party politics
At the time of <mask>'s departure to Norway, the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD), a movement formed to agitate for the


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texts: return of multi-party democracy to Kenya, was newly formed. In February 1992, <mask> returned to join FORD, then led by his father Jaramogi Oginga <mask>. He was elected Vice Chairman of the General Purposes Committee of the party. In the months running up to the 1992 General Election, FORD split into Ford Kenya, led by <mask>'s father Jaramogi Oginga <mask>, and FORD-Asili led by Kenneth Matiba. <mask> became Ford-Kenya's Deputy Director of Elections.<mask> won the Langata Constituency parliamentary seat, previously held by Philip Leakey of KANU. <mask> became the second father of multi- party democracy in Kenya after Kenneth Matiba. When Jaramogi Oginga <mask> died in January 1994, and Michael Wamalwa Kijana succeeded him as FORD-Kenya chairman, <mask> challenged him for the party leadership. The elections were marred by controversy after which <mask> resigned from FORD-Kenya to join the National Development Party (NDP). In his first bid for the presidency in the 1997 General Election, <mask> finished third after President Moi, the incumbent, and Democratic Party candidate Mwai Kibaki. He however retained his position as the Langata MP. In a surprise move, <mask> decided to support Moi, his arch-enemy, even entering into a political merger between his party, NDP, and Moi's much-hated KANU party, which many Kenyans likened to the yoke of oppression.The merger was called New KANU. Previous admirers of <mask> now saw him as a sell-out to a cause he had once championed by closing ranks with a despot. He accepted a position in Moi's cabinet as Energy Minister, serving from June 2001 to 2002, during Moi's final term. In the subsequent KANU elections held later that year, he was elected the party's Secretary General (replacing Joseph

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texts: Kamotho). It was apparent to many that <mask> hoped to ascend to the presidency through KANU and with Moi's support. In 2002, much to the chagrin of <mask> and many other hopefuls in the party, Moi endorsed Uhuru Kenyatta – son of Kenya's first president Jomo Kenyatta but a relative newcomer in politics – to be his successor. Moi publicly asked <mask> and others to support Uhuru as well.This was taken as an affront by many of the party loyalists who felt they were being asked to make way for a newcomer who, unlike them, had done little to build the party. <mask> and other KANU members, including Kalonzo Musyoka, George Saitoti and Joseph Kamotho, opposed this step arguing that the then 38-year-old Uhuru was politically inexperienced and lacked the leadership qualities needed to govern. Moi stood his ground, maintaining that the country's leadership needed to pass to the younger generation. Dissent ran through the party with some members openly disagreeing with Moi, despite his reputation as an autocrat. It was then that the Rainbow Movement was founded, comprising disgruntled KANU members who exited KANU. The exodus, led by <mask>, saw most big names fleeing the party. Moi was left with his handpicked successor almost alone with a party reduced to an empty shell with poor electoral prospects.The Rainbow Movement went on to join the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which later teamed up with opposition Mwai Kibaki's National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK), a coalition of several other parties, to form the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). Amid fears that this opposition "super alliance", would fail to unite and rally behind a common candidate as in previous occasions thus easily hand victory to the government, <mask> declared

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 "Kibaki tosha", Swahili for "Kibaki is sufficient", an endorsement of a Kibaki ticket. This resolved the matter of candidacy and Narc went on to defeat Moi's protege, Uhuru Kenyatta. The opposition won a landslide 67% of the vote, dealing a humiliating blow to Moi. <mask> led the campaign for Kibaki throughout the country while Kibaki was bedridden and incapacitated following an accident in which he sustained injuries. Dissent from within

On assuming office, President Kibaki did not appoint Odinga as Prime Minister in the new government, contrary to a pre-election memorandum Of understanding. (Kenya's constitution had no provision for Prime minister yet); neither did he give LDP (<mask>'s faction) half of the cabinet positions as per the MOU.He instead sought to entrench and increase his own NAK's side in cabinet, even appointing MPs from the opposition parties (KANU and FORD people) to the cabinet. The perceived "betrayal" started a simmering disquiet which in time led to an open rebellion and a split within the cabinet. A key point of disagreement was a proposed new constitution for the country, which was a major campaign issue that had united Kibaki's NAK and <mask>'s LDP in the campaign. This constitution included provisions to trim presidential powers to rein in what was seen as an autocratic presidency, a feature of both the Moi and first president Jomo Kenyatta's regimes which had led to a lot of power abuse and an unaccountable leadership. Once in power however, Kibaki's government instituted a Constitutional Committee which turned around and submitted a draft constitution that was perceived to consolidate presidential powers and weaken regional governments, contrary to the pre-election draft. <mask>, out of 8 provinces,

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 only one ( Central Province where his tribe the Kikuyu are dominant) voted "yes" for the document, isolating his own tribe from the rest of Kenya and exposing his campaign as ethnic- based. A shell-shocked and disappointed President Kibaki sacked the entire cabinet on 23 November 2005. When it was reconstituted two weeks later, <mask> and the entire LDP group were left out. This led to the formation of a new opposition outfit, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) – an Orange was the symbol for the "No" vote in the constitutional referendum. In January 2006, <mask> was reported to have told police that he believed his life was in danger, having received assassination threats. Presidential elections

2007 presidential election
On 12 July 2007, with Kibaki's reelection bid drawing close, <mask> alleged that the government was withholding identity cards from voters in opposition strongholds with intention to skew the election in favour of Kibaki. He also claimed that the intended creation of 30 new constituencies was a means by the government to fraudulently engineer victory in the December 2007 parliamentary election.In August 2007, the <mask>'s own Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya suffered a setback when it split into two, with <mask> becoming head of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) while the other faction, the ODM-K, was headed by Kalonzo Musyoka who parted ways with Odinga. On 1 September 2007, the ODM elected <mask> as its presidential candidate in a National Delegates Conference held at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi. <mask> received 2,656 votes; the only other candidates who received significant numbers of votes were Musalia Mudavadi with 391 and William Ruto with 368. Earlier, Najib Balala had withdrawn

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 his candidature and endorsed <mask>. The defeated candidates expressed their support for <mask> afterward, and Mudavadi was named as his running mate. <mask> then launched his presidential campaign in Uhuru Park in Nairobi on 6 October 2007. <mask>'s bid for the presidency however failed when after the 27 December presidential election, the Electoral Commission declared Kibaki the winner on 30 December 2007, placing him ahead of <mask> by about 232,000 votes.Jeffrey Sachs (Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and Special Advisor to former UN Secretary General) faulted the United States' approach to the post-election crisis and recommended an independent recount of the vote. <mask> and his ODM leaders rallied against the decision with James Orengo and Prof. Nyong'o calling for mass action. Later violence broke out in the country. The government's response was heavy-handed as it deployed police and paramilitary units to counter public protests. Following two months of unrest, which led to the death of about 1000 people and displacement of about 250, 000, a deal between <mask> and Kibaki, which provided for power-sharing and the creation of the post of Prime Minister, was signed in February 2008; it was brokered by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. <mask> was sworn in as Prime Minister, along with the power-sharing Cabinet, on 17 April 2008. The post of Prime Minister was last held by Jomo Kenyatta between 1963 and 1964 following independence.<mask> is thus the second person in Kenya's history to hold the position. 2013 presidential election

The next presidential election in which Odinga was to run was the 2013 March poll, involving Kibaki's handover of power. Uncertainty loomed

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texts: over <mask>'s main rivals, Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto, who had both been indicted by the ICC of the Hague for their alleged role in the 2007 election violence. Despite their pending case, the duo had been nominated by the Jubilee party with Uhuru as presidential candidate and Ruto as running mate. Many felt they were unfit to run for office before clearing their names from such serious crimes while others felt that their opponents were trying to unfairly exploit the situation by eliminating them from the race and pave the way for their easy victory. A Synovate survey released in October 2012 found <mask> to enjoy a leading 45 percent approval rate against Uhuru and Ruto. <mask>'s party, Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) joined Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper Party and Moses Wetangula's Ford Kenya (FK) in a CORD coalition (Coalition for Reforms and Democracy) for the presidential race with <mask> as the presidential candidate and Kalonzo as his running mate to face Jubilee's coalition ( Uhuru Kenyatta's (The National Alliance – TNA), William Ruto's (United Republican Party – URP), Charity Ngilu's (National Rainbow Coalition – NARC) and Najib Balala's (Republican Congress – RC)).A number of western countries were not in favour of the Uhuru and Ruto candidacy in view of their pending ICC cases and association with crimes against humanity. Former UN Secretary General Koffi Annan voiced his reservations, as did former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson who cautioned against the election of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto. He was notably quoted as saying that "Choices have consequences, " referring to the fate of US-Kenyan relations, with a Uhuru administration. <mask> ran for president in the elections held


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texts: on 4 March 2013 and garnered 5,340,546 votes (43.70%) out of the 12,221,053 valid votes cast. The winner, Uhuru Kenyatta garnered 6,173,433 votes (50.51%). As this was above the 50% plus 1 vote threshold, Uhuru won it on the first round without requiring a run-off between the top two candidates. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) therefore officially declared Uhuru Kenyatta the president elect on Saturday 9 March at 2:44 pm.Uhuru was set to take office as Kenya's 4th president. However, in a press conference shortly after the results were announced, <mask> said that the election had been marred by massive failures of the Biometric Voter Registration(BVR) kits, EVID (electronic voter identification or "Pollbooks"), RTS (results transmission system or "tallying system") and the RPS (results presentation or "transmissions system"). He claimed that the manual tallying was suspect leaving him no choice but to The Kenya Presidential Election Petition 2013 contest the result in Kenya's highest court, The Supreme Court. In anticipation of the legal challenge, <mask> and his lawyers George Oraro, Mutula Kilonzo, and James Orengo, secretly instructed Raj Pal Senna, a Management Consultant from Barcelona to carry out a forensic investigation of the technology used in the Kenyan General Election 2013, during which the IEBC made claims on TV and media that there were "technological challenges", that servers overloaded and that database crashed. Kenya's chief justice Dr. Willy Mutunga announced on Monday, 11 March that the Supreme Court was fully formed and ready to deliver its judgements within 14 days as stipulated by the constitution of Kenya. During the Petition hearing, Chief Justice Willy Mutunga made a finding

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texts: body) server and tampered with its database.He stated that the results that were being transmitted by IEBC were false because they had been manipulated via a computer algorithm designed to maintain an 11% gap between him and Uhuru's votes. As such, he proved the votes were not real votes cast by human voters but the outcome of a computer generated formula producing artificial values. This intrusion into IEBC's system, he further said, affected not just the presidential results but the entire election, including the votes cast for MPs, Senators, Governors and Women Representatives. He called the alleged intrusion "the biggest vote theft in Kenya's history." Later while vote tallying was still in progress and the country was awaiting announcement of the final results, <mask> revealed that his team had received information from a confidential source in IEBC indicating that results from its server showed him leading with an unassailable 8 million votes over Uhuru's 7 million votes. Based on this, he demanded he be declared the 5th President of Kenya. The IEBC however rejected <mask>'s contention, saying the winner could not be announced before the tallying was complete and also being an independent body it could not be compelled by one of the candidates to announce the results.The IEBC finally announced the results declaring Uhuru the winner with 8.2 million votes against <mask>'s 6.7 million. The results showed massive losses for NASA, with Jubilee invading traditional NASA strongholds. NASA refused to recognize the results. Shortly after Uhuru's declared victory, violence was reported in some parts of the country which are opposition strongholds. However the violence was not of the scale witnessed in the 2007 election aftermath and

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 broke out only sporadically. Both <mask> and President Kenyatta called for public calm. Annulment of the presidential election
After initially declining to take his case to court on the grounds that the court had previously made an unfavourable judgment against him, <mask> reconsidered and lodged a petition.After 2 days of hearing, the judges in a majority 4–2 decision returned a verdict on 1 September annulling the presidential results and ordered a new election to be held within 60 days. The court decision, read by Chief Justice David Maraga and widely viewed as unprecedented both in Africa and globally held that the IEBC failed to conduct the election in the manner provided by the Constitution and so could not stand. Despite the Supreme Court ruling, <mask> announced his withdrawal from the Presidential election, scheduled for 26 October, on 10 October. The reason for his withdrawal was his belief that the election would again not be free or fair, since no electoral process reforms had been made since the annulment of the last election, as well as various defections which occurred from his coalition. IEBC later stated that Odinga had not officially withdrawn from the race for presidency and his would still appear on the ballot on 26 October among other candidates who contested in the 8 August General Elections. This resulted to violent uproar in various parts of the country some few days before and after the repeat polls especially in the NASA dominated zones. Alleged police brutality was reported as independent medic research organization (IMLU) cited 39 deaths and high assault cases

Swearing in of People's President, and reconciliation
On 30 January, <mask> staged a swearing in ceremony in Nairobi where he named himself

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 'People's President.Following this ceremony TV stations across Kenya were taken off air. A month and a half later, on 9 March, <mask> and president Uhuru Kenyatta made a joint televised appearance in which they referred to each other as 'brothers,' and agreed to put aside political differences to allow Kenya to move forward. Post election

The Building Bridges Initiative
Following the March 2018 truce between Mr. Odinga and President Kenyatta, the two commissioned a joint task force that would collect views from Kenyans and report their findings. After touring the country and holding consultative sessions, the team compiled and submitted the report to President Kenyatta at State House Nairobi on 26 November 2019 which was followed by a public launch at the Bomas of Kenya the following day. The efforts by President Kenyatta and Mr. Odinga to bring peace and cohesion in the country were applauded by several leaders locally and internationally with the duo being invited to the International Lunch in Washington DC, USA in February 2020

Announcement For Fifth Bid For President
10 Dec 2021, Mr. Odinga announced that he will be eyeing a fifth stab at the presidency, putting an end to months of suspense after his surprise truce with President Kenyatta. His announcement was made while launching the Azimio La Umoja Convention - which would be his vehicle to State House - held at the Kasarani Stadium, Nairobi. Political positions

Economics
<mask>'s political ideology can be loosely styled as social democracy, more closely aligned with American left wing politics.His position was once in favour of a parliamentary system as seen when he initially backed a Constitution giving executive powers to a Prime Minister but he subsequently changed


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 to a presidential system with a devolved power structure, which is reflected in Kenya's current constitution. Among others, <mask> is seen as one of the main force behind devolution now enshrined in Kenya's constitution as an essential part of Kenya's governance system. This was inspired by a feeling that all successive governments under the centralized power structure had consistently abused that power to favour certain areas along political or ethnic lines while denying many regions access to resources and development because of their ethnicity or perceived disloyalty. Devolution aimed to address this and guarantee regions their fair share of resources regardless of their political affiliation or ethnicity. Due to an economic downturn and extreme drought, <mask> has called for the suspension of taxes on fuels and certain foods that disproportionately impact the poor. <mask> has supported an element of state welfare in the form of cash-transfer programs to low-income people. This is currently implemented but in a limited way to poor, elderly people.Nevertheless, on social issues, <mask> has taken a more conservative line. On LGBT issues, Odinga stated that "the constitution is very clear on this issue and men or women found engaging in homosexuality will not be spared", adding that "If we find a man engaging in homosexuality or a woman in lesbianism, we'll arrest them and put them in jail". These comments were widely condemned from LGBT activists, who stated that his rhetoric put the lives of LGBT Kenyans in danger. In response, his office walked back <mask>'s statement, claiming he only meant to clarify that same-sex marriage is illegal under the constitution. Personal life

Baptised as an Anglican Christian in the Church


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 Missionary Society (CMS) in his childhood, Odinga later became a Born-Again Christian and is a communicant member of All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi. <mask> is married to <mask> (Ida Anyango Oyoo). They live in Karen, Nairobi and have a second home at central Farm, in Siaya County.The couple had four children: Fidel (1973–2015), Rosemary (born 1977), <mask> Jr. (born 1979) and Winnie (born 1990). Fidel was named after Fidel Castro and Winnie after Winnie Mandela. Winnie is currently studying Communication and International Area Studies as a double major student at Drexel University in Philadelphia. In an interview with BBC News in January 2008, <mask> asserted that he was the first cousin of US president Barack Obama through Obama's father. However, Barack Obama's paternal uncle denied any direct relation to Odinga, stating "<mask>'s mother came from this area, so it is normal for us to talk about cousins. But he is not a blood relative." <mask> briefly played soccer for Luo Union (now Gor Mahia) as a midfielder.<mask> was appointed by the African Union to mediate the 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis, which involved Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo. <mask> wrote "Flame of Freedom" a 1040 paged autobiography which talks about his life from childhood. It was launched on 6 October 2013 in Kenya and subsequently in United States on 15 October 2013. He was accompanied by a section of Kenyan county governors. Controversy

Miguna Miguna claims
During his premiership, <mask> appointed Miguna Miguna as his advisor on coalition affairs, whom he later suspended in August 2011, citing "gross misconduct". The Daily Nation quoted his reason for suspension as being "accused of misrepresenting the office of the Prime Minister, possibly a reference

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 to his having aired strong views which may have embarrassed the PM." Miguna Miguna later published controversial books about his working relationship with Odinga.According to one of Miguna Miguna's books, Peeling Back the Mask: A quest for justice in Kenya, instances of abuse of office, corruption, political trickery as well as public deception were planned, coordinated and covered up in Odinga's office in the three years where he worked there as an advisor of Odinga. His suspension came at a time when the electoral body, the IIEC, was in an uproar and unsettled by anonymously authored complaints which the commissioners characterise as a hate campaign but which raise troubling questions on corruption and nepotism. Later Miguna, after suspension, issued a statement that said he "was instructed to write my article on the IIEC chairman and the position he had taken with respect to the party's decision to kick out rebellious MPs and Councillors." He later denied, according to the Nairobi Star. Maize scandal
During <mask> <mask>'s tenure, The Office of the Prime Minister was implicated in the 'Kazi kwa Vijana scandal' where by a World Bank funded project was suspended due to embezzlement of funds. Similarly,The 'Maize scandal' where by aflatoxin contaminated maize was imported into Kenya was also linked to The Office of the Prime minister leading to the suspension of Odinga's top aides Permanent Secretary Mohammed Isahakia and Chief of Staff Caroli Omondi. 2019 Gold scam
Odinga has been reportedly linked to a 2019 multi-million dollar advance-fee scam of non-existent and "fake gold" in Kenya by a number of politicians from both sides of the political divide in Kenya.According to the reports UAE prime minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al

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 Maktoum's cousin lost money in disguised transactions for non-existent or otherwise "fake gold" in Kenya. In May 2019, in a leaked video recording, a voice of Moses Wetangula, the then Senator of Bungoma, appeared to implicate Odinga in a gold deal gone sour, a deal in which millions of dollars were lost by the UAE royal family in an advance fee scam of non-existent gold in Kenya In the same video as was reported wetangula claimed Odinga runs ODM like a gestapo where nothing happens without his concessions, and that Odinga met the president to explain the matter of the gold deal. In the same month Odinga claimed that he was the one that outed the cons to the Dubai-based complainants. Later in the same month a number of political leaders in Kenya called for Odinga to be investigated by the DCI for international conmanship. The legislators claimed they had compelling evidence against Odinga; According to them Odinga cannot be part of a criminal transaction and then claim to be a whistleblower at the same time, whilist being a direct individual beneficiary of proceeds of the scam

Honours and awards

Honorary degrees

See also
Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania
Raila Odinga Biography

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External links

Profile on BBC
Profile on Aljazeera
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<mask><mask> (23 May 1859 – 23 March 1943) was a Christian missionary who was a witness to the Armenian genocide. Coan served as a missionary in Persia for over 50 years. He was an author of many books including Yesterdays in Persia and Kurdistan and has provided detailed eye-witness accounts of massacres of Armenians during the Armenian genocide. <mask> believed that the number of dead during the Armenian genocide exceeded one million people. He referred to the Ottoman government's policy towards the Armenians as one of "extermination". Early life
<mask> was born on 23 May 1859 in Urumia, Persia (presently the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran). His parents, <mask> and Sarah (Power) <mask>, were both pioneering missionaries.<mask> grew up in Persia, then left for the United States for his education during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). At Wooster University in Wooster, Ohio, Coan studied music and planned to become a professional musician. He also met his future wife, Ida Jane Speer, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, whom Coan married in 1885 before returning to the Ottoman Empire. During his sophomore year, <mask> helped organize a male quartet. He also played the organ at a local Lutheran Church where the quartet sang. Upon graduating from Wooster University in 1882, his mother convinced him to give up his musical dreams and instead continue his studies in order to become a missionary and return to the Ottoman Empire. Coan thus began studies at the Western Theological Seminary.There, he met Samuel H. Kellogg, a missionary from India, who rekindled <mask>'s missionary spirit. After graduating from the seminary, he continued his education at Princeton for two more years, graduating in 1884. In 1885, <mask> was ordained

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 as a Presbyterian minister. On 25 July 1885, immediately after their marriage, <mask> and his wife sailed to the Middle East. The newlyweds toured Mosul and Baghdad, among other historic places, along the way. In 1904, <mask> took charge of the Urumia College, a position he held until 1912. Armenian genocide witness

Background
Armenian Christians had been an oppressed (and restive) minority in the Ottoman Empire, often turning to Eastern Orthodox Russia as well as Western Protestant missionaries for protection.Russian troops had been stationed in several Eastern Ottoman Provinces after the treaty ending the Russo-Turkish war, pending the Ottoman Empire's adoption of reforms, even as modified by the Congress of Berlin in 1878. Moreover, an Armenian nationalist movement which led riots in Constantinople and several Eastern provinces had been brutally suppressed in the Hamidian Massacres of 1894–1896. Ottoman military officers including Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had seized power from Sultan Abdülhamid II and attempted to establish a constitutional monarchy in the Young Turk Revolution of 1908. The collapsing Ottoman Empire lost its Balkan possessions after Orthodox Christian uprisings in  the First Balkan War of 1912–13. At least half a million Muslim Ottomans from the Empire's former Balkan possessions sought refuge in Turkey, some seeking revenge against Christians. Muslim Balkan refugees intensified Turkish fears that the Empire's Armenian Christian minority—with the assistance or encouragement of Western governments—might also attempt to establish an independent state and thus break up the Empire's Eastern provinces. As World War I began in July 1914, the Ottoman Empire's Eastern provinces, with their significant Armenian population,

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 became strategically important, both because Russia continued to seek a warm water port and protect its southern border, and as it continued protecting fellow Christians.On 2 January 1915, Kurdish and Turkish regular troops advanced deep into Persia, breaking through Russian lines, and stationed themselves around the Urumia plain, where <mask> had been born and had long been stationed. Russian troops advanced across the Turkish border into the heavily Armenian-populated vilayet of Van in early 1915. The Turkish government blamed Armenian disloyalty, and adopted extreme measures later termed the Armenian genocide. Deportations and massacre
When the Kurdish and Turkish troops advanced into the Eastern Ottoman provinces in January 1915, an estimated 20,000 Armenians and other Christians sought protection in the Urumia plain. Coan managed to provide necessary shelter for these refugees and as many provisions as possible. After five months of caring for the refugees and hearing the Armenian deportations had just begun, Coan made a desperate attempt to travel around those districts and assess the Armenians' situation. Thus, in the summer of 1915, <mask> reported:

Then, through deportation, they determined to complete what had already been begun by the sword.The Turkish soldiers, in many cases offered by Germans, drove the Armenians across the plains, perpetrating upon them brutalities that were enough to break anyone's heart. I found one day a great mass of human bones, thirty feet high, and I said to my Turkish guide: "How do you account for this?" He replied: "We got tired of driving them, we got tired of hearing their moans and cries, and took them up that that precipice one day and flung them down to get rid of the job." <mask> later

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 encountered a trench filled with the bones of human bodies:

There was a trench full of human bones, and I was told of the brave fight that 2,000 Armenians, standing for their homes and for the honor of their wives and daughters, had waged with their flintlock rifles against the Turkish troops. They held off a Turkish regiment for two weeks, until their ammunition was exhausted. Then the Turkish officer, taking an oath on the Koran, the most binding of all oaths to Moslems, promised the Armenian fighters that if they surrendered, he would, in deference to their courage, allowed them to go unharmed. These 2,000 men had no sooner surrendered than they were given picks and spades and told to dig a trench.When they had dug it they were shoved in with the bayonet. Upon seeing more human bones around a Church, <mask> asked the Turkish guide what had happened. The guide replied, "After we had killed off 30,000 in this district we came to this church and to our surprise found it filled with men, women and children who had sought refuge there, thinking that they might not be discovered." He continued describing the circumstances:

As soon as they saw us coming they barricaded the door. We sat around, making up our minds to starve them to death. We waited forty-eight hours for a sign of surrender, and not a sound came from the church. You might have thought it was a tomb.Then an officer went to the door and called to the priest to come and confer with him, and he said, 'I am here to offer you life and liberty. If you will come out one by one and following your priest repeat the Mohammedan creed, you shall go unscathed.' There was not a word of parley inside; the church door opened and the aged priest, with hoary locks and bared head, stood


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 before that army without a plea, without a word. They understood the meaning, and with one flash of the sword he lay dead. Then several hundred men and women, mothers with their little babes in their arms, fathers and mothers with little boys and girls clinging to them, walked out of that church without a plea, without a tear, without a cry for mercy. When they exited the church, they were massacred. The Turkish guide said, "as we killed them, not even the children cried."He remarked that they died with a "smile on their face and a strange light in their eyes." Later life
<mask> returned to the United States in 1917 and appealed for the plight of the Armenians through public lectures. During his lectures, he continuously stressed the importance of relief for the Armenians in Syria. <mask> returned to the United States and lived in various cities, such a Minneapolis and Princeton, New Jersey. After finally settling in Claremont, California, <mask> had his first book published, Yesterdays in Persia and Kurdistan. <mask> retired from his missionary activities in 1932 after serving for over fifty years. His wife Ida died in 1939 in Claremont.<mask> died in Shreve, Ohio, on 23 March 1943 in the home of a friend. Both he and his wife are buried in the Wooster Cemetery in Wooster, Ohio. Works
Yesterdays in Persia and Kurdistan. Saunders Studio Press. 1939. (284 pp.) References

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<mask> (born 25 December 1962) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and record label owner. <mask> was the lead singer and guitarist for British prog-pop band It Bites between 1982 and 1990. Since 1990 he has pursued a solo career, and has owned and run his own record label, Aquarian Nation, since 2001. He has collaborated with artists including Robert Plant, Ian Brown, Lauryn Hill, Santana and Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe and as a producer and/or collaborator with David Sancious, Chris Difford (of Squeeze), James Sonefeld (Hootie and the Blowfish), Erin Moran, Steven Harris (ex-The Cult, Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction), and Ashley Reaks (Younger Younger 28s). <mask> was one of the candidates invited to audition as a lead singer and frontman for Genesis following Phil Collins' departure in 1996 (although the position ultimately went to Ray Wilson). He also played in the reformed 1960s beat/prog band The Syn between 2008 and mid-2009. Early life

<mask> grew up as part of a musical family in the small Cumberland town of Egremont (at 28 Queens Drive on the Gulley Flats estate).He is the younger son of <mask>, a former member of the Jimmy Shand band, and his wife, Kathleen. He displayed an interest in music from an early age, with his mother later recalling that "he was always drumming with his hands. Asking him what he wanted for his tea, he'd be drumming on something the whole time." His elder brother Barry "Baz" <mask> (whom <mask> cites as his greatest single influence) was a guitarist with heavy rock band Necromandus and subsequently Ozzy Osbourne's first post-Black Sabbath band and the ELO-spinoff Violinski. <mask> has described his family home as having been like "a bustling café" full of musicians and family friends of all generations, and recalls "my Mam and Dad were the greatest. They were kind, funny and gracious in a working class way. They

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 sure that I had other places to live and spend my time (talk about the power of the human spirit) because I couldn't bear to be at home when my parents were drinking. I can still remember the smell of the house when my parents were drowning in hops. To this day the smell of Carlsberg Special Brew makes me want to vomit." Career

1982–1990: It Bites

In 1982, when he was nineteen, <mask> formed the rock band It Bites (taking the role of lead singer and guitarist).The other members of the band were his Egremont school friends Bob Dalton (drums, vocals) and Dick Nolan (bass, vocals) plus John Beck (keyboards, vocals) who came from Mirehouse; a suburb of Whitehaven. Following a career playing the pub and youth club circuit the band temporarily split, with <mask> moving to London. The band reformed some time later and left Egremont entirely to relocate to London in 1984, eventually signing a record contract with Virgin Records. It Bites released three studio albums, The Big Lad in the Windmill (1986), Once Around the World (1988) and Eat Me in St Louis (1989). It Bites' biggest hit single was "Calling All The Heroes" in 1986, which reached No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart. It Bites split up in 1990 in Los Angeles on the eve of recording their fourth studio album.Commenting on the breakup, <mask> said: "the band had come to the end. It was a natural process. We fell out over a few things, there wasn't one big issue or problem, it was daft little things. We had just drifted apart. It wasn't anyone's fault, but we split." Following <mask>'s departure, It Bites briefly continued with a new frontman (Lee Knott) and a succession of new names (including Navajo Kiss and Sister Sarah) but split up after failing to sign a new recording deal. A post-breakup It Bites live album (drawn mainly from 1989 concerts) called "Thank You and Goodnight," was released in 1991.1990–1995: Los Angeles and

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Following the 1990 break-up of It Bites, <mask> moved to Los Angeles, indulging what he later acknowledged to be a disastrously hedonistic lifestyle. During this period he recorded his first solo album, Welcome to the Wild Country, which was released on Virgin Records in 1991 and produced by David Hentschel. The record enjoyed little success and was released only in Japan. He regained the rights in 2001, re-issuing it on Aquarian Nation Records. He has since described Welcome to the Wild Country as "having been recorded at a time when I didn't know who I was". Towards the end of his time in Los Angeles, <mask> addressed his drugs and alcohol problems and cleaned up his lifestyle. He has subsequently been open about his problems with alcohol addiction and drug abuse during this period.In 1993 <mask> returned to the UK and joined Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant's live band, performing on several tracks on Plant's 1993 album Fate of Nations and on the accompanying world tour. <mask> then released Fearless on Atlantic Records in 1994, promoting the album with his first solo tour of the UK. The Glasgow date of the tour was recorded for a live album, One Night in Sauchiehall Street, released in 1995. 1995–1999: New York and Vermont
In 1995, <mask> relocated to New York City. His third studio album, Tall Blonde Helicopter, was released on Atlantic that year. In 1996, <mask> was approached to audition as lead singer for Genesis. <mask>'s next album Let's Go Do What Happens, was released in 1998 on Razor and Tie Records, initially only in the United States.During this period, <mask> also played on Lauryn Hill's 1998 debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and Carlos Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. <mask> went into semi-retirement as a musician later in 1998 and set up a new home in the Vermont mountains where he devoted the next few years to breeding and training horses

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 (for which he studied under John Lyons, the "horse whisperer") as well as carpentry, astrology, and Jungian psychology. 2000–2003: Return to music

In 2000, inspired by watching a televised Shakti concert, <mask> later admitted he "realised there was still a musician in me, and that I had to be as true to that side of my character as I was being to the other sides." He decided to re-engage with the music business by returning to the UK for the first time in five years to play a few concerts, and by creating his own internet-based record label, Aquarian Nation, with the intention of releasing his future albums as well as albums by other artists. For the UK tour, <mask> formed a new backing band called The Grass Virgins, featuring second guitarist Dave Colquhoun, bass guitarist Matt Pegg, and singer/keyboard player Erin Moran, followed soon afterwards by a larger tour and support slots with Hootie and the Blowfish. <mask>'s first new album following his comeback was Man, released in 2001. On the album, <mask> said: "I was very depressed when I wrote the 'Man' CD.It was a difficult birth. I was going through such turmoil in my life. My mother was dying, my relationship was ending, and in complete contrast, my daughter Ava was being born. [But] I think I'm at peace with that side of my life now." <mask> toured the UK to promote Man, accompanied by Matt Pegg on bass guitar. A live album – Hometown 2001 – was recorded 14 June 2001 at the Whitehaven Civic Hall in Cumbria and released later the same year. During 2002, <mask> played on and produced several albums released on Aquarian Nation.The first of these releases was Chris Difford's I Didn't Get Where I Am, with whom <mask> also toured to promote the album. This was followed by John & Wayne's debut Nearly Killed Keith, and Songs From the Mission of Hope, the debut album by Stephen Harris. In 2003, <mask> performed with former It

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 Bites members John Beck, Dick Nolan and Bob Dalton at the Union Chapel, with the event was recorded and released on DVD as Live at the Union Chapel the following year. 2004–2007
In 2005, <mask> released The Gulley Flats Boys, a more sedate and acoustic album than its predecessor, featuring next to no drum or percussion parts and sparse use of electric guitar. It was recorded by <mask> with piano/keyboard player David Sancious and Dorie Jackson on backing vocals. In 2005, <mask> embarked on a "house concert" world tour, suggesting to fans that they book him to perform in their own homes for a paying audience, in a drug and alcohol-free environment. <mask> continues to perform house concerts to this day.In October 2007 <mask> released a free download of Feels Like Summertime, a song which had initially been written for It Bites shortly before the band's original split in 1990 and was reworked as part of the unsuccessful 2003 reunion. 2008–2011
In 2008, <mask> performed numerous solo performances and house concerts, this time centred on material from Tall Blonde Helicopter. His summer and fall schedule included a full-band tour, culminating in a performance in Seattle which was recorded by Flying Spot, Inc. for subsequent release as a special edition concert/documentary DVD. (Originally scheduled for a 2009 release and titled Louder Than Usual, this was finally released in September 2010 as a DVD with accompanying CD)

In 2010, <mask> released an "official video bootleg" DVD from the 2001 Man tour, titled In The Garden of Mystic Lovers, and produced and played on Snowman Melting, the first solo album by James Sonefeld of Hootie and the Blowfish. <mask> joined Steve Nardelli's revived 1960s progressive rock/beat band The Syn as guitarist, playing alongside Nardelli, keyboard player Tom Brislin and bass player Jamie Bishop as well as two members of American progressive rock band


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 Echolyn, guitarist Brett Kull and drummer Paul Ramsey. There's a Whole New World Out There, released on 3 October 2009, featured a new group, The New Progressives, plus guest musicians performing reworkings of It Bites songs. The New Progressives toured the UK, American and Australia to promote the record, with guest appearances from other musicians.In 2009, Jem Godfrey (Frost*) announced on the Frost* Forum that he and <mask> had both contributed solos to the title track of Big Big Train's upcoming album, The Underfall Yard. 2011–present

On 12 August 2011, <mask> released Made in Space and supported the album with a tour of the UK, which featured himself and Dorie Jackson. He also announced that he would be recorded a cover version of Peter Gabriel's The Rhythm of the Heat as part of Sonic Elements, a new "fantasy rock" band put together by Dave Kerzner. In 2012, <mask> made a guest appearance on Steve Hackett's album Genesis Revisited II, singing on two tracks – "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight" and "Supper's Ready" (the "As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)" section) – as well as contributing additional guitar. <mask> also made a guest appearance on Hackett's subsequent Genesis Revisited tour, singing at the Arcada Theater show in St Charles, Illinois on 20 September 2013, and at the Scottish Rites Auditorium in Collingswood, New Jersey. From late 2012 to autumn 2013, <mask> recorded Frankenstein Monster, a covers album featuring songs from his brother's former band Necromandus. Regarding the album, <mask> commented: "I must say that this has been one hell of a journey both emotionally and musically.I learned so much about my brother during the making of this album and so much about myself ... Listening back now as it comes into focus I am very pleased and proud of the results. We have kept very close to the originals, sometimes exact and where it need a little more

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 musicality or space we were smart enough to add our own parts without ruining the song. I know exactly what Baz would have liked so I only added things I know he would have liked. In late 2013, <mask> put together The Sensational Francis Dunnery Electric Band, which toured both Necromandus songs and songs from the <mask> back catalogue. The band also featured on <mask>'s 2016 release Vampires, an album of re-recorded It Bites songs. Since January 2016, <mask> has presented "The <mask> Radio Show" on British progressive rock radio station Progzilla Radio.Musical style
 <mask>'s musical approach is diverse. His early musical influences were progressive rock (with Genesis being a particular inspiration) and jazz-rock fusion musicians including John McLaughlin, Soft Machine, Focus, Return to Forever and Jeff Beck. His aggressive and dramatic playing style merges hard rock, pop and funk stylings with a fluid, spiralling hammer-on lead-guitar technique inspired by Allan Holdsworth. He has criticised his lead guitar approach at that time as having been immature. He has also incorporated elements of jazz, classical and country fingerpicking into his style. On his songwriting, <mask> has said: "I cannot write songs on a nine-to-five basis. At the risk of sounding pretentious, my songs come from somewhere else and I have to wait for them, so it's not up to me when I receive them.When the songs start to come, they all come at the same time. I may get 20 songs in three to four days and then it all stops again." Aside from singing and playing the guitar, <mask> plays drums, bass guitar, organ, keyboards, percussion and tapboard (a guitar-related instrument). Personal life

<mask> has a daughter, Francine Nicholson from a relationship with Jackie O'Sullivan. He married American singer Julie Daniels (frontwoman of the rock band Star 69) on 8 December 1990 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was later in

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 a relationship with Helena Faccenda, with whom he had a daughter, Ava Faccenda-<mask>, in 1999. Around 2004 he met his girlfriend Erica Brilhart.During their relationship they had two children, Elsie (2012) and Frankie (2015) Dunnery. <mask>'s nephew, <mask>, has contributed to his uncle's live concerts and recordings. Charitable work
In 2002, <mask> founded the Charlie and Kathleen Dunnery Children's Fund a volunteer-run fundraising charity based in his hometown of Egremont, and named in honour of his late parents. Explaining his reasons for setting up the charity, <mask> has said "My mother was a wonderful woman... so this is my way of honouring her and my dad. A line in one of my songs is that the only thing you get to keep is what you give away – I like that idea. I think that by the time you are 40 if you aren't doing something to help others then you probably should be. People take all the time and I think it is nice to put something back."The fund raises money for projects and activities supporting the health, wellness and educational needs of children and young people in the Egremont area. He continues to support the charity via regular concerts in Egremont as well as participation in and publicity for various sponsored events. Discography

Studio albums
Welcome to the Wild Country (Virgin Records, 1991)
Fearless (Atlantic Records, 1994)
Tall Blonde Helicopter (Atlantic Records, 1995)
Let's Go Do What Happens (Razor and Tie Records, 1998)
Man (Aquarian Nation, 2001)
The Gulley Flats Boys (Aquarian Nation, 2005)
There's a Whole New World Out There (Aquarian Nation, 2009) (re-recordings of solo/It Bites songs, plus cover versions - remixed and reissued 2017 as Whole New World Remix)
Made in Space (Aquarian Nation, 2011)
Frankenstein Monster (Aquarian Nation, 2013) (cover versions and reworkings of Necromandus songs - remixed and reissued 2017 as Frankenstein Monster

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<mask> (née Rogge; born June 13, 1982) is an American accountant and politician who has served as the State Auditor of Missouri since 2015. She was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Missouri in the 2020 election, losing to incumbent Republican Mike Parson. <mask> was appointed to the office of State Auditor by Governor Jay Nixon on April 14, 2015, following the death of Tom Schweich in February 2015. She was elected to a full term in the 2018 election. In 2018, following the electoral defeat of U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill to Josh Hawley, <mask> became both the only female state officeholder and the only Democratic statewide elected official in Missouri. On June 4, 2021, <mask> announced that she would not run for reelection as State Auditor in 2022.Early life and education
<mask> grew up in Fenton, Missouri and graduated high school from Ursuline Academy in Oakland, Missouri. She holds a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and economics from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. During college, she was a member of the S&T soccer team, member of a service organization, and was a server at Applebee's. She has a master's degree in business administration from the University of Missouri. She is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner. Private sector career
Before working in government, she worked at the public accounting firm of Brown Smith Wallace in Creve Coeur, Missouri. At Brown Smith Wallace, she served as an auditor of national and international Fortune 500 companies and insurance companies.She has worked at Allstate Insurance as an actuarial analyst and at Shelter Insurance's Columbia headquarters as a corporate auditor. <mask> cites her experience in the private sector as key to being a "strong, independent watchdog for Missourians" in her role as auditor of Missouri. She served as secretary/treasurer of the Missouri Technology Corporation, helping invest in entrepreneurs to create jobs for Missourians. She held the same role for the Missouri County Employees' Retirement Fund to safeguard retirement benefits of 16,000 Missouri residents in 111 counties across the state and

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