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 the hip are right up there in terms of execution and attractiveness. ...He can score quickly at times but it is his way of being able to read situations that sets him apart. ... He knows when to grind it out or move up through the gears. Some people think he could move through the gears quicker when batting, and that is probably a fair argument on occasions, but the majority of the time he knows what he can do at the crease and believes South Africa has a better chance of winning if he stays there. Given his impressive all-around record, <mask> has also been compared with Sir Garfield Sobers. In November 2012, noted journalist Gideon Haigh wrote in The Australian that statistically, they were almost inseparable; Sobers scored 8032 at an average of 58 and took 235 wickets at an average of 34, while <mask> at the time of writing averaged 57 with the bat and 33 with the ball. Haigh also analysed how <mask> and Sobers were also polar opposites in certain ways:
Sobers [was] all prowling grace and feline elasticity, with his 360-degree batswing and three-in-one bowling; [whereas] <mask> [is] all looming bulk and latent power, constructed like a work of neo-brutalist architecture.... Yet what they are just as many opposites of are their respective eras. Sobers was the most explosive cricketer of a more staid age, the more mercurial because of the orthodoxy and rigidity around him; <mask> is the most stoic and remorseless cricketer of an era more ostentatious and histrionic. ... Sobers was a cavalier among roundheads; <mask> has steadily become a roundhead among cavaliers. Personal life
<mask> shared a close relationship with his father, Henry, whom Kallis cited as his primary

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 influence. His sister Janine <mask>, five years his junior, was a cheerleader in Indian Premier League 2009 and is also a physiotherapist based in East London. When it was discovered that his father had terminal cancer, <mask> took time out of cricket to be with his father:

We heard something was wrong with my dad during the [2003] World Cup.He started feeling unwell and then, out of the blue, we were told he only had a few months to live. It was a huge shock because we've always been a very close family. I missed the first couple of Tests in England that year so I could be at home with him. It was obviously the saddest time of my life but those last weeks were maybe some of the most beautiful. It gave me a chance to say thank you and goodbye. After a while, I realized how lucky I was to do that. It's far harder if a parent is taken away before you have that time together.So his death put cricket in perspective for me. It's just a game – and a very simple game if you keep your mind straight. In January 2019, <mask> married Charlene Engels. The couple had a son, Joshua Henry <mask>, on 11 March 2020. Jacques Kallis Scholarship Foundation
The Jacques Kallis Scholarship Foundation was established in <mask>' benefit year to combine the academic and life skills programs of existing school structures with funding and mentoring support from <mask>. The Foundation with its partners hopes to provide talented youngsters the opportunity to reach their full sporting and academic potential. Currently, the Foundation sponsors 2 boys from Wynberg Boys', 2 boys from Pretoria Boys High School, 2 from Maritzburg College, and 2 from Selborne College.<mask> participates in annual fundraising

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 events for his Foundation, to which he invites fellow South African celebrities and cricketers like Mark Boucher and André Nel. Achievements and records

<mask> has achieved the following career-best rankings in the cricket ratings as determined by the International Cricket Council 3:

Test Batting: career-best 1st; career-high points 935
Test Bowling: career-best 6th; career-high points 742
Test All-rounders: career-best 1st; career-high points 616
ODI Batting: career-best 1st; career-high points 817
ODI Bowling: career-best 15th; career-high points 641
ODI All-rounders: career-best 1st; career-high points 506
 1st & only player in cricket history to achieve the mark of 10,000 runs in Tests & ODI each and more than 200 wickets in the Tests and ODIs each
 He was also the first bowler to take a fifer in ICC Champions Trophy history. He was also the only bowler to take a 5 wicket haul in the finals of the ICC Champions Trophy (in the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy tournament)
 <mask> was also the first player to bag the Player of the final, as well as the Player of the Tournament awards in ICC Champions Trophy. He along with Graeme Smith set the record for the highest ever partnership for any wicket as debutants in T20 Internationals (84 for the 1st wicket)
 He holds the record for a most man of the matches in Test Cricket – 23. References

External links

 <mask> at Cricket South Africa

1975 births
ACA African XI One Day International cricketers
Cape Cobras cricketers
Cricketers at the 1996 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 1999 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 2003 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 2007 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 2011 Cricket World

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<mask> (born 12 May 1958) is an Australian politician. She is an independent member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, having held her seat of Goyder since the 2008 election. Prior to entering Parliament, <mask> was the CEO of the NT Minerals Council for 16 years. Originally elected as a member of the Country Liberal Party, she became an independent in 2015. She served as Speaker of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since the CLP's victory in the 2012 Territory election, a post she retained after leaving the CLP. Following Territory Labor's landslide victory at the 2016 Territory election, the new Labor government retained Purick as Speaker. She resigned as speaker on 23 June 2020.Early life and education
<mask> was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She was educated initially in Darwin for Primary School then in Western Australia at Methodist Ladies' College, Perth. She graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia. She worked for St John Ambulance Australia from 1985 until 1991, when she became CEO of the NT Minerals Council. Political career

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Purick was preselected as CLP candidate for Goyder at the 2008 Territory election. The seat, long a CLP stronghold, had been taken by Labor's Ted Warren in Labor's 2005 landslide and due to the splitting of the conservative vote by two conservatives standing along with the CLP candidate. A redistribution made the once vast rural seat slightly more compact, adding some conservative-leaning territory on Darwin's outer fringe.This was enough to erase Warren's already slim majority and make the seat a notional CLP seat. <mask> defeated Warren on a swing of over seven percent, enough to revert Goyder to its traditional status as a safe CLP seat. She served as shadow minister for Major Projects, Trade and Economic Development, Planning and Lands, Housing, Statehood and Women's Policy in the Territory opposition from 2008 to 2012. In addition, she was deputy leader of the CLP, and therefore deputy leader of the opposition. Prior to the 2012 election, party leader Terry Mills indicated that should the party win government, Purick would remain as his

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texts: deputy, and hence become Deputy Chief Minister. The parliamentary wing of the party overrode Mills' preference; Robyn Lambley was elected as deputy leader, and Purick was left out of cabinet. When the parliament resumed on 23 October 2012, <mask> was elected unopposed as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.As Speaker, Purick is chairman of the House Committee, a member of the Standing Orders and Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committees and was the chairman of the select committee enquiring into foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. As speaker, Purick was well known for criticising the federal government of Malcolm Turnbull, even though the CLP was part of the Liberal/National Coalition. When the federal Minister for Social Services Kevin Andrews, suggested de facto couples don't stay together as long as married couples, Purick took to Facebook to denounce him as a "pooncy, pasty faced person from some pissant place that no one cares about," and pointed out most of her constituents are in de facto relationships. She also threatened him with a "green rubber ring"—a castration device for young bulls—if he dared to tell her constituents how they should live. On 20 July 2015, Purick announced that she was quitting the CLP because of her annoyance at the lack of integrity within the government and government's lack of communication with elected CLP members. She said she would continue to sit in parliament as an independent and wanted to remain as Speaker; both major parties supported keeping Purick in the speaker's chair. Purick's move to the crossbench reduced the CLP to a minority government; earlier in the year, three indigenous CLP MPs had also left the CLP to become independents.However, she undertook not to support any motion of no-confidence against the government for the remainder of the term, saying, "Territorians voted this government into office and have the ultimate right and responsibility to unelect it." On 17 November 2015, Attorney-General John Elferink moved a motion to suspend standing orders to debate removing Purick from the Speaker's role, citing what he claimed were partial comments she had posted on Facebook regarding


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<mask> () (born 17 February 1971) is a Paraguayan former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He captained the Paraguay national team at international level and was for a long time the most capped player in Paraguayan football history, having made 110 international appearances and scoring 12 goals. Throughout his career, <mask> was known for his leadership, physical strength, ability in the air, heading accuracy, and outstanding tackling skills, which made him one of the most respected defenders in South America. <mask> appeared for the Paraguay national team 110 times, scoring 12 goals, from 1993 to 2006, representing the team at 10 major tournaments and captained the squad during the latter part of his career. He is the second most capped player of the national team, his record being broken by Paulo da Silva in 2013. <mask> appeared for Paraguay at three FIFA World Cup tournaments (1998, 2002 and 2006), five Copa América tournaments (1993, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2004), and twice at the Summer Olympic Games (1992 and 2004, with Paraguay claiming Silver Medals in the latter). <mask> was named as the Paraguayan Footballer of the Year in 1997 and 1998, and was also included in the 1998 FIFA World Cup Team of the Tournament.Club career
Born in Ypacarai, <mask> began his club career playing for Cerro Porteño in his home country in 1991, and went on to win the Paraguayan national championship with Cerro in 1992. He moved to Independiente for the 1992–93 football season in Argentina, but stayed only briefly before moving back to Cerro Porteño. In 1995, Gamarra joined Internacional in Brazil, where his profile grew, eventually resulting in the naming of him as Paraguayan Footballer of the Year in 1997 by the Paraguayan newspaper Diario ABC Color (an achievement which <mask> repeated in 1998). He moved to S.L. Benfica for the Portuguese 1997–1998 season, before returning to Brazil, this time with SC Corinthians, where he won Serie A Brazilian Championship in 1998. After finishing the 1999

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 Brazilian football season with Corinthians, he moved to the Spanish league, playing for Atlético Madrid. Atlético were relegated in 2000, and Gamarra briefly moved back to Brazil, this time joining CR Flamengo.The 2001–2002 season was more successful for <mask>, as he joined AEK Athens in Greece in a transfer record of 5m€ for the club. There he played in 24 league games and won the Greek Cup. He also became a favorite player of the AEK fans. On the back of his World Cup performance in 2002, he joined Internazionale in Italy's Serie A for the 2002–2003 season. In his first pre-season, he scored the winning goal in the Pirelli Cup final against A.S. Roma. Inter finished the season as runners-up in the league, with <mask> making 14 appearances. His next season at the club was less successful, as Inter finished fourth in the league, and Gamarra made only 10 appearances.He remained at Inter for the 2004–2005 season, but after another season largely spent on the bench he joined the Brazilian side Palmeiras in July 2005. In 2007, <mask> decided to return to Paraguay to end his football career and signed for Olimpia. <mask> decided to retire after the 2007 season being Olimpia his last professional club

International career
His first international cap came against Bolivia on 27 March 1993, a game which Paraguay lost 2–1. He stayed at Cerro Porteño until 1995. <mask> made his first big impact in international football during Paraguay's campaign at World Cup France 1998, in the second round of which Paraguay were knocked out by France (the eventual winners). <mask> played in all four of Paraguay's games, garnering great respect for his defensive skills, and did not concede a single foul in any of his side's matches. FIFA named him as part of the All-Star team of the World Cup.At the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, Paraguay were once again knocked out in the second round. <mask> played every single minute of Paraguay's campaign, and again completed his side's participation without conceding a foul.

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 <mask> captained the Paraguay side to a silver medal in the football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic Games, losing 1-0 to Argentina in the final. On 4 August, before the Summer Olympics began, he played in a preparation game against the Portugal of Cristiano Ronaldo in the city of Algarve, resulting in a 5–0 defeat. In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, <mask> was the first player in the tournament to score an own goal, from an incoming free kick from David Beckham in his team's opening match against England, which eventually led to England's 1-0 win. (Scored after just three minutes, this became the fastest World Cup finals own goal in history, until the 2014 FIFA World Cup where Sead Kolašinac scored just after two minutes playing for Bosnia and Herzegovina against Argentina in the group stages.) During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, <mask> announced his retirement from the Paraguay national team.Career statistics

Club

International
Scores and results list Paraguay U23's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gamarra goal. Benfica footballers
Primeira Liga players
AEK Athens F.C. players
Super League Greece players
Club Olimpia footballers
Cerro Porteño players
Paraguayan Primera División players
1998 FIFA World Cup players
1993 Copa América players
1995 Copa América players
1997 Copa América players
1999 Copa América players
2002 FIFA World Cup players
2004 Copa América players
2006 FIFA World Cup players
Association football central defenders
Paraguay international footballers
Paraguayan expatriate footballers
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate footballers in Brazil
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Brazil
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Spain
FIFA Century Club
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 2004

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<mask> (born September 26, 1946) is a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the United States Army, American businessman, inventor of Job Order Contracting, entrepreneur, and founder and Chairman of The Gordian Group, Inc. In 1982, <mask> conceived the idea of Job Order Contracting. He was working as the Chief Engineer at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium. In 1985, <mask> implemented the Job Order Contracting concept for the U.S. Army, which was called the "Mellon Plan" at the time. Following implementation at the U.S. Army, <mask> moved the idea into the U.S. Air Force and Navy. In 1990, <mask> started The Gordian Group for the sole purpose of providing the services, software, data and documents that would make facility and infrastructure owners successful at Job Order Contracting. Early years
<mask> was born September 1946, in San Mateo, California to Commander Hugh and <mask>, USN.The <mask>s had five sons and a daughter of which <mask> was the eldest. <mask> moved to Hawaii, Chicago and Guam before his family finally settled on Coronado Island in California. <mask> graduated from Coronado High School in 1964. Much to the disappointment of his father, a Navy officer and World War II POW, <mask> enlisted in the Army in 1965. <mask>'s parting words to his son when dropping <mask> off to report for duty was, "Son, this is lowest day of your life, you can go no lower." Military service
<mask> completed basic training at Fort Polk, Louisiana and Engineer Officer Candidate School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia and was commissioned a second lieutenant at the age of 19. <mask> served in Vietnam as an Engineer Company Commander in the Mekong Delta.His primary mission was the construction of the Đồng Tâm Base Camp for the 9th Infantry Division. Following his service in Vietnam, <mask> was assigned

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 to various Army installations including the Presidio of San Francisco. While serving at the Presidio in 1971, <mask> was responsible for coordinating the massive Federal Cleanup effort after the collision of two oil tankers under the Golden Gate Bridge. Following his service in San Francisco, <mask> attended San Diego State University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in Mathematics in 1973. <mask> was then assigned as the Resident Engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers at Langley Air Force Base, VA, where he was responsible for the timely construction of a number of facilities critical to the activation of the first squadron of F-15 fighter aircraft. While serving at Langley, <mask> earned a master's degree in business administration from George Washington University. <mask> was then selected for an appointment to the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.In preparation for that assignment, <mask> spent two years at Princeton University earning a master's degree in Civil Engineering. In 1978, <mask> joined the West Point faculty and taught Mathematics for three years. Following West Point, <mask> graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College and was assigned as the Chief Engineer, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium where he invented Job Order Contracting. In 1984, <mask> was reassigned as the Facilities Engineer for the United States Military Academy. That assignment was interrupted in January 1985 when <mask> was reassigned to Corps of Engineers Headquarters for the purpose of developing and implementing the Job Order Contracting process for the United States Department of Defense. <mask> retired from the U.S. Army in July 1986 after 21 years of active service. Job Order Contracting History

1982-1984: The Origins

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 Contracts was born out of the concept of on-call contractors similar to the way architects and engineers were hired at the time for miscellaneous work. The main obstacle in procuring on-call contractors was the requirement to award all construction contracts to the lowest responsive bidder.<mask> and his staff looked at existing indefinite quantity/indefinite delivery contracts (IDIQ) being used at the time in which the owner defined the task and quantities and the contractor bids a price for each task. These contracts were often single traded and resulted in an unbalanced bid structure causing an owner to overpay for construction. At that point, that they decided to do something unique in public contracting: the owner would set the price. For example: the owner would select a particular work task, such as installing a square yard of carpeting. The owner would then establish the price that they were willing to pay for installation of one square yard. The price would include the direct cost of materials, equipment, and labor. The owner would not include any profit or overhead in that price.<mask> and his team developed a full collection of tasks, approximately 10,000, and then developed prices for each task. The idea was simple, let the contractor bid a markup to the task prices. Not a markup for each individual task price, but a single markup for all of the task prices. The lowest markup would be the lowest bid and the contractor that bid it would get the contract. The concept of the "open end construction contract" was first tested at SHAPE in 1982. The first contract was awarded to the Belgium firm Lixon, S.A.

1984-1986: The "Mellon Plan" becomes JOC

In 1984, <mask> was reassigned as the Facilities Engineer for the United States Military Academy at West Point. Upon arriving at West Point, <mask> noticed the

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texts: same facility problems that existed at the SHAPE headquarters in Belgium.Since there were no open-ended construction procurement tools, <mask> was forced to use the traditional design/bid/construct model for all contract work. Colonel Bill Badger, USMA Engineer, always aiming to find methods to raise standards and make improvements, was <mask>'s supervisor at West Point. Badger and <mask> shared the same frustrations of the standard contracting process. During the course of many discussions about their frustrations of the standard contracting process, <mask> shared the idea he used during his SHAPE project just a few years earlier. In late November 1984, during the United States Army Corps of Engineers Worldwide Engineers' Conference in Philadelphia, Badger spoke to Brigadier General Jerry Helms, the Southwestern Division Engineer, about the SHAPE project and arranged a breakfast meeting between <mask> and Helms. Prior to the breakfast, Helms mentioned the idea to the Chief of Engineers, Lieutenant General Elvin R. "Vald" Heiberg. Heiberg joined the breakfast meeting with <mask>, Helms, and Badger.<mask> explained the concept of the SHAPE project to the group. Though they were attentive and patient throughout the meeting, Heiberg and Helms did not demonstrate a lot of emotion. Though they remained noncommittal, both Generals did agree that this was an idea worth pursuing sometime in the future. Heiberg, while speaking later that day at the conference, announced that he had some prepared remarks but he would be putting those remarks aside because the answer to most of the questions people had was the "Mellon Plan." The audience looked around in an attempt to determine who was behind the "Mellon Plan." Sitting next to <mask> was a Corps of Engineers civilian, Jim Lovo. Lovo turned to <mask>, having met him only

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 moments before, and asked, "You wouldn't happen to be the <mask> of the Mellon Plan?"<mask> responded, "Well, as a matter of fact, I probably am." Lovo wished <mask> luck with his new plan, and later became instrumental in the success of Job Order Contracting in the federal government. Following the lunch and closing remarks of Heiberg, <mask> was approached by Major General Mark Sisinyak, who was the Director of Military Programs for the Office of the Chief of Engineers. Sisinyak ordered <mask>, "my office 8:00 a.m. Monday morning." <mask> replied quickly, "Yes sir!" 1985: A Rough Start to JOC

General Sisinyak, made the decision that Monday morning to put together a taskforce to go to Europe in the early part of January 1985 to study the SHAPE project and to see how the process worked and what the results were. The task force gave a unanimous recommendation that the Corps of Engineers pursue adopting the same type of program.Sisinyak appointed Mellon to the task of implementing the "Mellon Plan" within the U.S. Army's facilities system, and assigned <mask> to the office adjacent his. A senior executive civilian, Chuck Smith, headed the management group under Sisinyak that Mellon worked with. Also working in that group were Jim Lovo, Pete Amquist and Dave Spivey. The first order of business was to come up with a more suitable name than the "Mellon Plan." Open ended construction contract was not acceptable because no one in Washington would approve anything "open ended." Dave Spivey said, "You know, when a customer calls the Facility Engineer and issues a work request, the Army generates a job order for that work request, so why don't we call that contract a Job Order Contract?" That was the day, in January 1985, that the "Mellon Plan" became Job Order Contracting or JOC.The first step in implementing JOC within

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texts: the U.S. Army's facilities system was to develop a management plan. First, the team needed to determine if the process was legal and solicit support both on Capitol Hill and in the Pentagon. Next, they needed to designate a test base or bases for the concept. Finally, and most critical, they needed to develop the contract documents. Lovo was assigned to work directly with <mask> on the project and the two proceeded to execute the plan. <mask> and Lovo prepared briefings for the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition (SARDA), and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations. Both resulted in strong support, but additional briefings to other Army staff were met with resistance.The Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, and, more specifically, the contracting community, felt very threatened by the idea of Job Order Contracting and resisted it. The resistance came from the notion that there would be a reduction in the number of contractual actions, thereby potentially impacting staff levels and ultimately impacting grading and promotions. Allegations were also made that Job Order Contracting would damage the small business community, and the Office of the Small and Disadvantaged Business Unit (SADBU) sided with the contracting community. After many briefings, discussions and memorandums, these issues found their way over to Capitol Hill, where <mask> and Lovo began to receive negative feedback from The House of Representatives Small Business Committee. The two met with a number of Congressional staffers for the various committees to brief them on the concept, the advantages, how it was a program of inclusion not exclusion, and that the contractor would use multiple trade contractors in executing job orders. The lack of knowledge on the part of the contractor of future jobs

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texts: would prevent the contractor from maintaining the proper staff to complete the work, thereby making subcontracting crucial to the process. <mask> was required to attend a hearing of the House Small Business Committee.The Committee told <mask> he was, "disrupting the social fabric of the nation by trying to implement a Job Order Contracting process." Some on the committee attempted to stop the development of Job Order Contracting by insisting on adherence to laws that no longer existed instead of the Federal Acquisition Regulation in existence at the time. The Committee requested the General Accounting Office (GAO) to review JOC and provide information on whether or not it was consistent with Federal laws. The GAO concluded that Job Order Contracting met all regulations. The key to the implementation of Job Order Contracting during the initial development period is the fact that each of the District Engineers, organized under the Chief of Engineers, held a warrant as a contracting officer. The Directors of Engineering and Housing at the test installations were made ordering officers of the contract. This allowed the group to bypass the contracting community, an impediment at the time.This scheme did not go over well with the Assistant Secretary of the Army, John Shannon. Shannon was infuriated that the group was able to bypass the Army contracting authority and use the Corps of Engineers' contracting authority. To illustrate how upset Shannon became: In one heated meeting, Shannon made several personal attacks against <mask>, demanding to know what his source of commission was, how he got into the Army, and why he was even in the meeting. This was the point at which <mask> was reminded of Tom Peters book In Search of Excellence where Peters theorizes that the innovator is typically destroyed by the organization.


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 <mask> was making more enemies than friends with the "Mellon Plan" but was committed to bring about change for the better. 1985: The Test Sites Chosen

The test installations had to have a corresponding engineering district to provide the contracting authority. The proposal went forward to Sisinyak that a base from each of the Army's major commands be test sites.The Chief of Staff of the major command would have to give their permission to test Job Order Contracting at a base or nominate a base for testing. Sisinyak and <mask> traveled around the country visiting the various Chiefs of Staff. The first stop was the Chief of Staff of the Army Material Command (AMC) to recommend Watervliet Arsenal in New York. The AMC Commander agreed to test at Watervliet but insisted that Aberdeen Proving Ground also be included in the test. Both were included. The Training and Doctrine Command approved the recommendation of Fort Sill but only if Fort Monroe would be included. Forces Command had the same reaction when they approved Fort Bragg on the condition that Fort Ord be included.Finally, West Point itself was added to the test sites. 1985: The Documents

The next task would prove to be the most challenging: the price book. <mask> and Lovo looked at off-the-shelf estimating guides and determined very quickly that they would not work for a number of reasons. The biggest obstacle of using an estimating guide was the lack of detail. Other obstacles included: prices that were not local to the work; lack of demolition items; no quantity discounts; and no technical specifications defining the quality of material and workmanship of the tasks. <mask> and Lovo looked at the work being done by the Huntsville District of the Army Corps of Engineers on construction pricing for the Middle East. With that idea in mind, <mask> and Lovo went

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texts: August or September of that year. About this time the Navy and Air Force showed great interest in the Job Order Contracting Process.<mask> briefed Navy staff at Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) and Air Force Staff at Air Force Headquarters on the process. Both service branches asked to be part of the test program with one installation each. The Air Force chose Langley Air Force Base of the Tactical Air Command (TAC). The TAC Engineer was Brigadier General Mike Goodwin. <mask> worked directly with Goodwin to produce the documents necessary to solicit the contract. The Air Force wanted to use a name other than Job Order Contracting for their version of the same system. The price book for the solicitation was held up for a couple of weeks while a name was being formulated.Goodwin called <mask> to inform him of the new name: Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements (SABER). In the meantime, the Navy chose Mare Island within Western Division (WESTDIV) as their test site. The commander of WESTDIV at the time was Benjamin F. Montoya, who later became Rear Admiral and Chief of the Navy Civil Engineer Corps and Commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. The Navy decided that they wanted their version of the same system to be called Work Order Contracting (WOC). <mask> made a trip to San Bruno to brief Montoya's staff on the concept. During the presentation, a member of the audience spoke out saying, "You can't do that. That's illegal!"It turns out that the vocal outburst came from <mask>'s father. <mask> had invited the elder <mask> to the presentation to learn about the project being developed by his son. They had dinner together the night before, met in the morning, went to San Bruno's headquarters building together, met the Chief Procurement Officer, Helen Lyle, and then proceeded


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 to the briefing together. Following the outburst, Montoya turned around and look at the elder <mask> upon which <mask> remarked, "Sir, may I introduce you to my father, Commander <mask>, U.S.N. Supply Corps, retired and obviously a contracting guy." At this point, almost everything was going through final review prior to the solicitations being advertised. The one task that had yet to be started was the evaluation plan.The Army Secretariat required a formal approved plan for evaluating the test sites. <mask> and Lovo decided to remove themselves from the distractions of Washington, D.C. and relocate to the Corps' training facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The evaluation plan was written over the course of several weeks. It was a difficult task to determine what was to be evaluated, how to evaluate it, and how to measure the results. <mask> would later recall that this was probably the most cerebral task of the entire development process. 1985: The First Job Order Contracts

Requests for Proposals for all of the test sites were advertised by September 1985. The pre-bids occurred in October and November.These were critical because of the unique nature of the contract. Mellon and Lovo wanted to make sure that the contractors understood the concept and could prepare good proposals. The first Job Order Contract awarded was by the Tulsa District for Fort Sill, OK to Triangle Construction in early December. There was a celebration in Washington among the development team led by Mellon and Lovo, as they had met the deadline to have a Job Order Contract in place by the end of 1985. The second contract was awarded later that December by the Savannah District for Fort Bragg to Tier/Jorgensen. The rest of the test contracts were awarded over the next couple of months and all by the end of February, 1986. The initial reports

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 said, "We can't do this. This is just so totally illegal!" The Army Counsel who was present at the time replied, "No, it's actually legal." This outburst demonstrated to all present the frustration that the contracting staff were feeling as they watched their world change to a different paradigm.1987: Job Order Contracting Takes Off

After about two years of testing and a final evaluation, the Army made the decision to make Job Order Contracting available to all. They moved the contracting authority away from the Corps of Engineers and back to local contracting. By now the Army recognized the value of the process. The Federal Acquisition Regulation was amended to define and legitimize the process, and include some restrictions. Job Order Contracting, SABER, and WOC are now institutionalized in the Army, Air Force and Navy. Retirement from The Army
<mask> retired from the Army in July 1986 and joined one of the largest Architectural, Engineering and Constructions firms in the nation, CRSS (Caudill Rowlett Scott Sirrine). As he managed one of several design offices for CRSS, he saw the process that his team developed in Huntsville, to manage the production of price books for Job Order Contracting, begin to erode.By 1990, the Army lost the ability to generate a Job Order Contracting unit price book. Installations began to look to private companies for alternative solutions to their need for a unit price book. Medals and decorations
Lieutenant Colonel <mask> was awarded several medals and decorations during his distinguished career in the Army. Of special note is The Legion of Merit he received for his work "... creating, developing, testing, and fielding a completely new concept for procurement of contractor support for facilities engineering activities", Job Order Contracting. Individual awards

Unit awards

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<mask> (November 20, 1900August 10, 1974) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party, served as mayor of Baltimore twice, from 1943 to 1947 and again from 1963 to 1967. <mask> was the 53rd Governor of Maryland from 1951 to 1959. Early life
<mask> was born in Baltimore. His father had worked as a stonecutter and later was a Baltimore City police officer. He had 10 other siblings. McKeldin attended the noted academic all-male third oldest public high school in America at  The Baltimore City College at night in the "Evening High School of Baltimore" program by the Baltimore City Public Schools while working as a bank clerk during the day.The City College was then located at the southwest corner of North Howard and West Centre Streets since 1875, then in the late 1910s when McKeldin attended until it moved in 1928. He graduated later from the University of Maryland Law School at the original campus of the University of Maryland in Baltimore in 1925, and passed into the Maryland Bar. Two years later, he began his political ascent when worked as a secretary to Mayor William F. Broening (1870–1953, served two terms as mayor, 1919–1923 and 1927–1931), one of the few Republican mayors of the city. McKeldin was also a vice president of the local chapter of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. In 1934, he was a founding member of Santa Claus Anonymous, a charity organization started during the   "Great Depression" of the 1930s to support children in need, showing his early sense of social consciousness. Political career
McKeldin challenged the Democratic incumbent Mayor of Baltimore, Howard W. Jackson, in the municipal election of 1939, but McKeldin was defeated in the election.He went on challenging incumbent Maryland Governor in the State House three years later - Herbert R. O'Conor in the state election of 1942, and again  was defeated at the polls in this heavily leaning Democratic controlled state. <mask> persisted, and he was elected mayor of Baltimore in 1943. As mayor, he oversaw the construction of Friendship Airport, (since renamed

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texts: Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport). However, Baltimore saw hard times during this period following the Second World War, with the inner city decaying, ghettos forming, and racial prejudice still present in government policy-making. <mask> ran a second time for governor in 1946, challenging William Preston Lane Jr., but was defeated yet again. <mask> ran for governor a third time in 1950, successfully defeating Lane in a rematch. As governor, McKeldin endeavored to improve the state highway system, namely by establishing the Baltimore Beltway (now I-695), the Capital Beltway (I-495), and the John Hanson Highway (US 50 between Washington, D.C. and the state capital at Annapolis).He was a staunch supporter of interstate cooperation, saying once: "I rode by train over several state borders. I carried no passports. No one asked me to identify myself. No one had the right to. This is America." He was also an advocate for civil rights for African Americans and was awarded the Sidney Hollander Award. In 1952 <mask> was a major figure in the moderate Republicans of the East Coast who were instrumental in gaining the Republican nomination for president for former five-star  General and World War II Commander in Europe and later briefly president of Columbia University in New York City - Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas.Speaking in the stentorian tones that were common for the time, McKeldin delivered the principal nominating speech for the former general at the July 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago. In 1954, he was re-elected against Democratic nominee former "Terrapins" football player and coach becoming University of Maryland at College Park President Harry C."Curley" Byrd by 54.46% to 45.54% who had attracted white segregationist support for his resistance to Black student enrollment at UMD. After his second term in Government House, <mask> retired in 1959 from the governorship and returned to his law practice in Baltimore, succeeded by lower Eastern Shore Democrat J. Millard Tawes of Crisfield. Four years later in 1963, he returned to

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 public service after again being elected  to a second non-consecutive term once again as mayor of his beloved hometown of Baltimore, focusing on the urban renewal of the Baltimore Inner Harbor. He saw the city council vote to condemn 700 homes of the Rosemont neighborhood in 1966 to build the East West Expressway "Highway to nowhere" that he started as a project with Robert Moses in 1941. McKeldin served his second term as mayor until 1967. To date, McKeldin is the last Republican mayor of Baltimore; indeed, he is the last Republican mayoral candidate to win even 25 percent of the vote.He is the first of only two Republican governors in Maryland to be re-elected, the other being Larry Hogan, who was reelected in 2018. Personal
<mask> was born in Baltimore, Maryland, attending Maryland public schools and later graduating from Baltimore City College. He furthered his education by earning his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1925 and with some graduate work at Johns Hopkins University. <mask> married Honolulu Claire Manzer on October 17, 1924. They had two children, <mask>. and Clara. He died on August 10, 1974, and is buried in Greenmount Cemetery. Dedications
 McKeldin Center at Morgan State University
 McKeldin Library and McKeldin Mall at the University of Maryland, College Park
 Theodore McKeldin Gymnasium at Bowie State University
McKeldin Building at Springfield Hospital Center
McKeldin Beltway, though still widely known as the Baltimore Beltway or Interstate 695
McKeldin Area, Patapsco Valley State Park
McKeldin Planetarium at St. John's College

References

General references
<mask>. <mask> biography from the Maryland State Archives.Accessed Oct 25, 2004. <mask>. McKeldin papers, at University of Maryland Libraries. External links

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Governors of Maryland
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<mask> (born 29 July 1971) is an Australian former professional triathlete and two time World Triathlon Champion. She is one of a few triathletes in the world to have won two ITU world titles. She was the world number one triathlete according to ITU rankings in 1995, 1996 and 1997, and achieved 19 World Cup wins. With seven wins in 1996, she also holds the record for the greatest number of ITU World Series wins in a single season. She is an inductee of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame (2016), the International Triathlon Union Hall of Fame (2014), and the Triathlon Australia Hall of Fame (2012). Early life
<mask> was born in England, but moved with her family to Australia at an early age. Carney began her sporting life as a runner: when she was in grade four, she was the only girl to win a medal in the school (Wesley College) cross-country mixed race.As a teenager <mask> remembers jogging after school every day. "From that time on there has hardly been a day when I haven't trained", she said. At 13 she set a Victorian record in her 3,000 m debut, and at 18 she was winning national school titles. She wanted to go to the Olympics, but realised she was not going to hit her peak as a middle-distance athlete until her late 20s. She reached the finals in the under-20 national championships in the 1,500 m and 3,000 m. As she thought running for another 10 years would be "boring", she decided instead to do some cross-training and triathlons. <mask> quickly became one of the few athletes to represent Australia in two sports - athletics and triathlon. Triathlon
In the spring of 1993, Carney tried her first triathlon, which she won after overcoming a seven-minute deficit from a 700 metre

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 swim.Her accountant father, David, told her, "It's 18 months until the world championship in Wellington. If you learn to swim and train, you'll be the best triathlete in the world." She recalled, "My father went over everything I had to do point by point and it all made sense." ITU racing
In November 1994, she fulfilled her father's prediction, winning the ITU World title — her first international triathlon — by a record margin of 2 minutes 12 seconds. From June 1995 to April 1997, Carney recorded an unbroken string of 12 straight ITU World Cup wins. After a narrow loss to Michellie Jones at the 1997 Monaco World Cup, she recorded another four straight World Cup victories, before adding another ITU World Champion title in November. Viral infections meant that she failed to win the 1995 and 1996 World Championships, but still finished second in 1996.Her fellow 1997 World Champion, Chris McCormack said, "<mask> is hard! ", referring to her shockingly long training at fearlessly high intensity, and her ruthless ferocity in competition. Decline
After winning the Ishigaki World Cup race in April 1998, <mask> never again won a World Cup or World Championship race. In July she could only manage 15th in the World Cup race at Gamagōri, then failed to finish at the Lausanne World Championships in August, but partly recovered to finish fourth in the November Auckland World Cup race. Following a metatarsal injury in 1999 which prevented her running for eight weeks, she finished 3rd in the Montreal World Championships. In 2000, she failed to qualify for the Australian Olympic women's triathlon team, despite an appeal to the CAS. She described this period as a "shitty time", when she could

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 not work out what was wrong.She said, "my reaction to racing badly was to train harder—which was the worst thing I could do for my heart." Despite her problems, she won some races, including the 1998 Australian National Championship, the 1999 Australian Long Course Championship and the 2000 Australian long course and sprint national championships. Retirement from professional triathlon
<mask> was forced to retire from professional triathlon in 2004 after suffering a cardiac arrest in Canada. She was later diagnosed with ventricular tachycardia, a life-threatening condition that causes the heart to beat too fast and out of control, usually during high-intensity anaerobic exercise. The doctors found it difficult to diagnose her condition, partly because <mask>'s resting heart rate when asleep was only 21 bpm. In October 2004 surgeons implanted an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in the right ventricle of her heart. She later speculated, "I always raced so hard that maybe it contributed to damaging my heart.Having said that, I probably was unable to approach it differently. That was just the way I was wired - all or nothing." Later life
In 2006, <mask>'s elder sister Jane died of cancer. She had thought that her heart problems were "really hard", but describes her sister's death as "a well of anguish that surpasses anything I'd ever seen or felt in life." After her ICD implant, doctors told her that she could not exercise at all, but Carney found that not exercising made her heart worse and that instead it was better to exercise a little every day to keep it under control. She then found that she could do "quite a lot" of training, provided she avoids damaging

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 high-intensity spurts. For example, she completed an iroman-length (180 km) bike ride, and hopes eventually to complete a full iron-distance race.Occasionally, she exercised too hard, causing her ICD to "shock" her heart, as happened once when she was out running with her father. It also happened in 2008 when she was taking part in the 299 km Melbourne-to-Warrnambool bike race, when she forgot about her condition and attempted to chase down the leading pack. <mask> has had a strained relationship with her sport's governing body, Triathlon Australia (TA), partly because of their reluctance to allow her to compete, with her well-known heart condition, in their races. She has called on TA to require annual ECG and ultrasound tests of their elite athletes. <mask> now spends her time coaching through her website. Results
Note: only top-ten finishes are shown in the table below. Source: ITU profile.Awards and honours
 2012 - Triathlon Australia Hall of Fame
 2014 - International Triathlon Union Hall of Fame
 2016 - Inducted as Athlete Member of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame

References

External links
 Official website

1971 births
Australian female triathletes
Duathletes
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<mask> (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She teaches creative writing at New York University and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU. Early life
<mask> was born on November 19, 1942, in San Francisco, California, but was brought up in Berkeley, California, along with her siblings. She was raised as a "hellfire Calvinist," as she describes it. Her father, like his before him, was an alcoholic who was often abusive to his children. In Olds' writing she often refers to the time (or possibly even times) when her father tied her to a chair.Olds' mother was often either unable or too afraid to come to the aid of her children. The strict religious environment in which Olds was raised had certain rules of censorship and restriction. Olds was not permitted to go to the movies and the family did not own a television, but her reading was not censored. She liked fairy tales, and also read Nancy Drew and Life magazine. By nature "a pagan and a pantheist," she has said that in childhood she was exposed in her church to "both great literary art and bad literary art," with "the great art being psalms and the bad art being hymns. The four-beat was something that was just part of my consciousness from before I was born." Of her Calvinist childhood, she said in 2011 that though she was about 15 when she conceived of herself as an atheist, "I think it was only very recently that I can really tell that there's nobody there with a copybook making marks against your name."Olds was sent east to Dana Hall School, an all-girls school for grades 6 to 12 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, that boasts an

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 impressive list of alumnae. There she studied mostly English, History, and Creative Writing. Her favorite poets included William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, but it was Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems that she carried in her purse through 10th grade. For her bachelor's degree <mask> returned to California where she earned her BA at Stanford University in 1964. Following this, <mask> once again moved cross country to New York, where she earned her Ph.D. in English in 1972 from Columbia University. She teaches creative writing at New York University. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on "Emerson's Prosody," because she appreciated the way he defied convention.Personal life

On March 23, 1968, she married Dr. David Douglas <mask> in New York City and, in 1969, gave birth to the first of their two children. In 1997, after 29 years of marriage, they divorced, and Olds moved to New Hampshire, though she commutes to New York three days a week. There, she lives in the same Upper West Side apartment she has lived in for the past 40 years while working as a Professor at New York University. In New Hampshire she lives in Graylag Cabins in Pittsfield. Her partner, Carl Wallman, is a former cattle breeder. In 2005, First Lady Laura Bush invited Olds to the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Olds declined the invitation and responded with an open letter published in The Nation. The editors suggested others follow her example.She concluded her letter by explaining: "So many Americans who had felt pride in our country now feel anguish and shame for the current regime of blood, wounds and fire. I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not

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 stomach it." Poetry
Following her Ph.D., Olds let go of an attachment to what she thought she knew about poetic convention and began to write about her family, abuse, and sex, focusing on the work and not the audience. Olds has said that she is more informed by the work of poets such as Galway Kinnell, Muriel Rukeyser and Gwendolyn Brooks than by confessional poets like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath. Plath, she comments "was a great genius, with an IQ of at least double mine" and while these women charted well the way of women in the world she says "their steps were not steps I wanted to put my feet in." When Olds first sent her poetry to a literary magazine she received a reply saying, "This is a literary magazine. If you wish to write about this sort of subject, may we suggest the Ladies' Home Journal.The true subjects of poetry are … male subjects, not your children." <mask> eventually published her first collection, Satan Says, in 1980, at the age of 37. Satan Says sets up the sexual and bodily candour that would run through much of her work. In "The Sisters of Sexual Treasure" she writes, "As soon as my sister and I got out of our/ mother's house, all we wanted to/do was fuck, obliterate/her tiny sparrow body and narrow/grasshopper legs." The collection is divided into four sections: "Daughter," "Woman," "Mother," "Journeys." These titles echo the familial influence that is prevalent in much of <mask>' work. The Dead and the Living was published in February 1984.This collection is divided into two sections: "Poems for the Dead" and "Poems for the Living." The first section begins with poems about global injustices. These injustices include the Armenian genocide during WWI, the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and even

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 Arias

Bibliography

Collections

1987 The Gold Cell, Knopf
1987 The Matter of This World, Slow Dancer Press
1991 The Sign of Saturn, Secker & Warburg
1992 The Father, Secker & Warburg
1996 The Wellspring, Knopf
1999 Blood, Tin, Straw, Knopf
2002 The Unswept Room, Tandem Library
2004 Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980–2002, Knopf
2008 One Secret Thing, Random House
2012 Stag's Leap, Knopf
2016 Odes, Knopf
2017 Penguin Modern Poets 3: Your Family, Your Body by Malika Booker, <mask>, Warsan Shire. Penguin. 2019 Arias Penguin Random House

References

External links

 Official Website of Sharon Olds
 Audio recording (.mp3) of Sharon Olds reading from her work at the Key West Literary Seminar, January 2003
 "Advice to Young Poets: Sharon Olds in Conversation" from the 2009 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Recorded by The Poetry Trust
 Sharon Olds: Poems and Profile at Poets.org
 Poems by Sharon Olds at PoetryFoundation.org
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Modern American Poetry's Sharon Olds section
 Sharon Olds, Gwen Harwood and Dorothy Hewett: Truth, Lies, Poetry Cordite Poetry Review
 Reviews of Blood, Tin, Straw
 Olds' Poet Laureate site

 Interview recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 10, 2002. (Audio 1hr 30 mins)
 "Sharon Olds: 'I want a poem to be useful'", Kate Kellaway, The Observer, 5 January 2013

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<mask> () (852 – April 29, 926), né <mask> () or <mask> (), known as <mask> () during Later Liang, courtesy name Guowei (), formally Prince Zhongsu of Qi (), was a late Tang Dynasty warlord who later was a senior official during the succeeding Later Liang and Later Tang. He was credited for rebuilding the city of Luoyang from utter destruction from the warfares in the late Tang period into a prosperous city. During Tang Dynasty

Background and service under Huang Chao
<mask> was born in 852, during the reign of Emperor Xuānzong. His biography in the History of the Five Dynasties indicated that he was originally named <mask>, and his biography in the New History of the Five Dynasties indicated that he was originally named <mask>. His family was from Linpu (臨濮, in modern Heze, Shandong), and both his grandfather <mask>n () and father <mask> () were farmers. <mask> himself served as a farm inspector for the Linpu County government, but in his service was often insulted by the county magistrate. Therefore, when, late in the Qianfu era (874-879) of Emperor Xuānzong's grandson Emperor Xizong, when the region was overrun by the major agrarian rebel Huang Chao, <mask> joined Huang's army.After Huang captured the Tang imperial capital Chang'an and forced Emperor Xizong to flee to Chengdu around the new year 881, Huang established a new state of Qi with himself as emperor. <mask> served in Huang's government as the minister

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 of civil service affairs (吏部尚書, Libu Shangshu) and the director of transportation. Service under Zhuge Shuang and Zhuge Zhongfang
After Huang Chao was eventually defeated by Tang forces and chased out of Chang'an, <mask>yi joined the army of the Tang general Zhuge Shuang the military governor (Jiedushi) of Heyang Circuit (河陽, headquartered in modern Jiaozuo, Henan). He distinguished himself serving under Zhuge, and Zhuge eventually made him the prefect of Ze Prefecture (澤州, in modern Jincheng, Shanxi). Zhuge died in 886. <mask> and another officer of Zhuge's, Liu Jing (), supported Zhuge's son Zhuge Zhongfang () as acting military governor. Liu, however, controlled the governance of the circuit, drawing resentment from other officers.Late in 886, Liu became suspicious of the officer Li Hanzhi, and he decided to use Luoyang as a base to launch a surprise attack on Li's base at Minchi (澠池, in modern Luoyang). Li defeated him, however, forcing him to abandon Luoyang and flee north of the Yellow River back to the circuit capital Heyang. Li gave chase, and was about to chase the Yellow River, when Liu sent <mask> to try to stop Li. However, as <mask> also resented Liu's hold on the circuit governance, he instead joined Li, and they jointly attacked Heyang but could not capture it. They then withdrew to Huai Prefecture (懷州, in modern Luoyang). As this Heyang Circuit internecine confrontation was going on, the former Tang

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 general Qin Zongquan, who had declared himself emperor at Fengguo Circuit (奉國, headquartered in modern Zhumadian, Henan), sent his general Sun Ru toward Heyang, and Sun soon captured the city. Zhuge Zhongfang fled to Xuanwu Circuit (宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan).Sun thereafter claimed the title of military governor of Heyang. However, <mask> and Li occupied Huai and Ze Prefectures, respectively, and resisted Sun. After Qin thereafter suffered a major defeat at the hands of Xuanwu's military governor Zhu Quanzhong, Sun withdrew from Heyang. <mask> and Li rejoined forces, with Li taking over Heyang and <mask> taking over Luoyang; they then jointly sought aid from the major warlord Li Keyong the military governor of Hedong Circuit (河東, headquartered in modern Taiyuan, Shanxi). Li Keyong sent his officer An Jinjun () to take over Ze Prefecture as prefect and to aid Li Hanzhi and <mask>; he also commissioned Li Hanzhi as the military governor of Heyang and <mask> as the mayor of Henan Municipality (河南, i.e., Luoyang). As vassal of Li Hanzhi/Li Keyong
At the time that <mask> took over as the mayor of Henan, it was said by historical accounts that the city had been laid waste by the wars, with the remnants of the population gathered within three castles of the city, totaling less than 100 households. <mask> set up his headquarters at one of those castles, Zhongzhou (), while selecting 18 capable officers and

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texts: sending them out to the 18 counties of the municipality other than the two in the city center, to be in charge of rebuilding their counties and welcoming the refugee population back.He simplified the laws, making murder the only capital offense, while the other offenses were punishable only by caning; he also exempted the people from taxes. As a result, the refugee population returned in droves, and he trained them in the military arts so that they could defend themselves. Within a few years, the city recovered to appearing to be like the old days before the wars, and the fields were no longer fallow, but filled with mulberries and hemp. It was said that the larger counties were capable of producing 7,000 soldiers, and the smaller counties 2,000. It was said that <mask> governed with intelligence and that his subordinates could not deceive him. He rewarded the households that was particularly good at farming wheat or sericulture with clothes and tea. Under his rule, Henan became a rich city again.Meanwhile, <mask> initially had a cordial relationship with Li Hanzhi, whose Heyang Circuit his Henan Municipality belonged to, and they even cut their own arms to swear to be brothers. However, Li Hanzhi viewed <mask>'s promotion of farming lightly. He also made a habit of making all kinds of material demands on <mask>, to the point that whenever he was not satisfied with what <mask> supplied his army, he would arrest

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 <mask>'s subordinates and cane them. Initially, <mask> put on the appearance of fearing Li Hanzhi and doing everything to appease him. In 888, when Li Hanzhi was on a campaign against the army of Huguo Circuit (護國, headquartered in modern Yuncheng, Shanxi), Huguo's military governor Wang Chongying sent secret emissaries to persuade <mask> to turn against Li Hanzhi. <mask> agreed, and he launched a surprise attack on Heyang at night, capturing it and taking Li Hanzhi's household captive. He then claimed the title of military governor of Heyang for himself.As vassal of Zhu Quanzhong
Li Hanzhi fled to Ze Prefecture and sought aid from Li Keyong. Li Keyong sent his officer Kang Junli, commanding five other officers (Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan (), Shi Yan (), An Jinjun, and An Xiuxiu () to aid Li Hanzhi in trying to recapture Heyang. They put Heyang under siege, and the food supplies ran out. <mask> thus sent his wife and children to Zhu Quanzhong as hostages to seek aid from him. Zhu sent his officers Ding Hui, Ge Congzhou, and Niu Cunjie () to aid <mask>. They defeated the Hedong forces, and then postured to cut off the Hedong forces' return path to Hedong through the Taihang Mountains. In fear, Kang took his army and withdrew.Zhu commissioned Ding the acting military governor of Heyang and recommissioned <mask> as the mayor of Henan. It was said that because <mask> was appreciative of Zhu's saving his life, he never had

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texts: any thoughts of turning against Zhu from this point on, and he plenteously supplied Zhu's army in Zhu's subsequent campaigns. Soon thereafter, Henan was turned into its own circuit (Youguo ()), and then-reigning Emperor Zhaozong (Emperor Xizong's brother and successor) commissioned <mask> its military governor. In 890, when the imperial government, at the request of Zhu's and that of Li Kuangwei the military governor of Lulong Circuit (盧龍, headquartered in modern Beijing, declared a general campaign against Li Keyong, <mask> led an army to participate in Zhu's operation, along with Ge and Zhu's son Zhu Youyu (), to wrest Zhaoyi Circuit (昭義, headquartered in modern Changzhi, Shanxi) from Li Keyong's control. The campaign, however, eventually ended in failure when Li Keyong's main forces crushed the imperial forces commanded by the chancellor <mask>, and Li Keyong was able to retain Zhaoyi at that point. Later in the year, <mask> received the honorary chancellor title of Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (). In 892, after Zhu, for reasons unclear to history, requested that then-military governor of Heyang, Zhao Keyu (), be demoted, <mask> was made the military governor of Heyang, in addition to Youguo.(However, at some point, Ding was made acting military governor of Heyang again, and in 899 was made full military governor.) In 896, by which time Emperor Zhaozong had fled to Zhenguo Circuit (鎮國, headquartered in

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texts: modern Weinan, Shaanxi), which was then governed by Han Jian, due to attacks on Chang'an by Li Maozhen the military governor of Fengxiang Circuit (鳳翔, headquartered in modern Baoji, Shaanxi), Zhu Quanzhong and <mask> were submitted repeated joint petitions for the emperor to move the capital to Luoyang. In fear, Li Maozhen apologized to the emperor, repaired the palace and office buildings at Chang'an, and welcomed Emperor Zhaozong back to Chang'an. In 898, Emperor Zhaozong bestowed the greater honorary chancellor title of Shizhong on <mask>. In 900, when the eunuch Liu Jishu briefly overthrew Emperor Zhaozong in a coup and replaced him with his son Li Yu, Prince of De the Crown Prince, <mask>, who had by that point retired to Changshui (), one of the counties of Henan, went to meet with <mask>yi to encourage him and the other military governors to start a campaign to restore Emperor Zhaozong. There was no record of any actual action taken by <mask>yi. (However, in 901, Emperor Zhaozong was restored in a countercoup headed by the imperial guard officers Sun Dezhao (), Dong Yanbi (), and Zhou Chenghui ().Shortly after, <mask> was given the honorary chancellor title of Zhongshu Ling (). By 903, Zhu Quanzhong had taken Emperor Zhaozong under his control, and was planning on eventually usurping the Tang throne. He feared that <mask> would again encourage the military governors to attack him. He thus ordered <mask> to

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 kill <mask>. <mask> sent his officer Yang Lin () to take a group of soldiers, disguised as bandits, to attack <mask>'s mansion and slaughter his household. Only <mask>'s son <mask>e escaped the slaughter. Subsequently, Zhu Quanzhong destroyed Chang'an and moved Emperor Zhaozong to Luoyang.He then moved <mask> to be the military governor of Tianping Circuit (天平, headquartered in modern Tai'an, Shandong. He also had <mask> created the Prince of Dongping. In 904, by which point Zhu had assassinated Emperor Zhaozong and replaced him with his son Li Zuo the Prince of Hui (as Emperor Ai), <mask> was again made the mayor of Henan; he was additionally also made the military governor of Zhongwu Circuit (忠武, headquartered in modern Weinan), apparently commanding it remotely, and the overall commander of the imperial guards. During Later Liang

During Emperor Taizu's reign
In 907, Zhu Quanzhong had Emperor Ai yield the throne to him, ending Tang and starting a new Later Liang as its Emperor Taizu. He made <mask> the military governor of Heyang, in addition to being the mayor of Henan, again, and created him the Prince of Wei. Soon thereafter, he changed <mask>'s name to <mask>, apparently due to naming taboo as his own name included the character "Quan." In 908, in addition to his other offices, <mask> was also made Taibao () and the military governor of Zhenguo Circuit (鎮國, headquartered in modern Sanmenxia, Henan).In 910,

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 he was additionally made the military governor of Xuanyi Circuit (宣義, headquartered in modern Anyang, Henan. In 911, Emperor Taizu spent the summer at <mask>'s summer mansion. He used the opportunity to have sexual relations with virtually every woman in <mask>'s household. <mask>'s son <mask>o (), humiliated, wanted to assassinate the emperor. <mask> pointed out that it was because of Emperor Taizu's initially stopping Li Hanzhi's attack that the <mask> household was preserved, and he managed to persuade <mask>o not to carry out the assassination. (According to <mask>'s biography in the New History of the Five Dynasties, the women that Emperor Taizu had sexual relations with included even <mask>'s wife Lady Chu and his daughters.) During Zhu Yougui's and Zhu Zhen's reigns
In 912, Emperor Taizu was assassinated by his son Zhu Yougui the Prince of Ying, who took the throne thereafter.As part of the governmental reorganization that took place after Zhu Yougui took the throne, he disbanded the headquarters for financial matters at the eastern capital Kaifeng (which previously had been the headquarters of Xuanwu Circuit while Zhu Quanzhong governed it), which Emperor Taizu had created and had named Jianchang Palace (). The responsibility of overseeing the financial matters was transferred to <mask>shi. <mask> was also made the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit (whose headquarters had been moved to modern Shangqiu,

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 Henan by that point). In 913, Zhu Yougui's younger brother Zhu Youzhen the Prince of Jun overthrew him and took the throne, and subsequently moved the capital from Luoyang to Kaifeng, but it appeared that <mask> remained in charge of the financial matters of the state. In 917, Zhu Youzhen (who had changed his name to Zhu Zhen) further bestowed on <mask> the title of Deputy Generalissimo of All Circuits (). (The Generalissimo title belonged to Qian Liu the Prince of Wuyue, whose state was a Later Liang vassal state.) In 921, Zhu Zhen, suspicious of the intentions of the major general Liu Xun, who had sought retirement, approved Liu's retirement and had him reside at Luoyang.He then ordered <mask> to poison Liu to death. In 923, Zhu Zhen, with the territory of his Later Liang state north of the Yellow River gradually taken piece by piece by his rival Li Cunxu the Prince of Jin (Li Keyong's son and successor), planned a major counterattack. At the recommendation of his close associates Zhao Yan and <mask>e (), he made the general Duan Ning, whose military abilities was not respected by the army, the overall commander of the operations. <mask>, knowing that Duan was not the appropriate commander and that the army generals were more respectful of another general, Wang Yanzhang, submitted a petition stating:

Despite <mask>'s petition (and similar remarks made by the chancellor Jing Xiang), Zhu Zhen continued to leave

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 Duan in command. Subsequently, before Duan could start his operations, Li Cunxu made a surprise maneuver across the Yellow River around Duan's army, and directly attacked Kaifeng. Zhu Zhen, unable to resist and unable to flee, committed suicide. Li Cunxu, who had by that point declared himself the emperor of a new dynasty, Later Tang (as its Emperor Zhuangzong), and claimed to be the legitimate successor to Tang, entered Kaifeng and took over virtually all of the Later Liang territory.During Later Tang
The Later Liang military governors, including <mask>, largely immediately submitted to the Later Tang emperor. In winter 923, <mask> went to Kaifeng to pay homage to Emperor Zhuangzong, and he changed his name back to <mask>. He submitted a large amount of money and horses as tribute. Emperor Zhuangzong had his son Li Jiji and brother Li Cunji () honor <mask> as an older brother. Subsequently, when Emperor Zhuangzong considered opening up the tomb of Emperor Taizu of Later Liang, <mask>, still grateful to Emperor Taizu for his survival, submitted a petition stating that while the two states were rivals, such an action at this point would be meaningless and would merely show Emperor Zhuangzong to be vengeful. Emperor Zhuangzong agreed and did not do so, although he still destroyed the memorials built for Emperor Taizu on his tomb. Soon thereafter, at <mask>'s suggestion, Emperor Zhuangzong moved the capital to

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 Luoyang.He bestowed on <mask> the title of Shangshu Ling (). He also changed <mask>'s princely title to Prince of Qi. In 924, Emperor Zhuangzong and his wife Empress Liu visited <mask>'s mansion for a feast. At the feast, Empress Liu, claiming that she lost her parents in her youth and that she missed having parents, asked to treat <mask> as her father. <mask>, in fear, initially declined, but eventually accepted. Thereafter, Empress Liu and he often sent messengers back and forth, and he submitted much tribute to her. In 926, Emperor Zhuangzong, who had alienated his soldiers due to his failure to properly reward them for their contributions during his campaigns, was facing a mutiny by the Weibo Circuit (魏博, headquartered in modern Handan, Hebei) army.He initially sent the general Li Shaorong to try to suppress the rebellion, but Li Shaorong was unable to do so. <mask>, instead, recommended the senior general, and Emperor Zhuangzong's adoptive brother, Li Siyuan. Upon Li Siyuan's arrival at Weibo, however, his own soldiers mutinied and forced Li Siyuan to join the Weibo soldiers in the rebellion. Li Siyuan subsequently led his army south, toward Kaifeng. When <mask> heard this, he became fearful as he was the one who had recommended Li Siyuan, and he stopped eating. He died soon thereafter. Notes and references

 History of the Five Dynasties, vol.63
 New History of the Five Dynasties, vol. 45. Zizhi Tongjian,

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<mask> (30 January 1772 in Owston, Yorkshire – 9 August 1833 in Cambridge) was an English magistrate and landowner, a prominent advocate for social reform, historian, and antiquarian. He wrote concerning ancient myths. His book Anacalypsis, was published posthumously, in which he asserts a commonality among various religious myths, which he traces back to the supposed lost religion of Atlantis. He has been termed a "political radical, reforming county magistrate and idiosyncratic historian of religions". Life

Early career
<mask> was the son of <mask> of Skellow Grange, near Doncaster. He was educated in Hemsworth before being admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1790, and transferring to Trinity Hall in 1791. He later studied law at the Inner Temple, but was not granted a license to practice law, and refrained from practice.When Napoleon threatened an invasion of the United Kingdom, <mask> joined the Volunteer Corps and became a Captain of the Third West York Militia. In 1800 he married Jane Thorpe, who gave birth to his son, also named <mask>, and two daughters, Jane and Charlotte. After <mask>' promotion to the rank of major in 1808, he resigned from the Volunteer Corps citing a severe fever as reason. Soon thereafter he was appointed as magistrate or justice of the peace in Yorkshire. Reformist activities
<mask>' work as a magistrate featured reformist campaigns, as part of which he "courageously exposed the scandalous treatment of pauper lunatics and campaigned for Parliamentary Reform, criticizing excessive taxation, the Corn Laws, and the exploitation of children in factories". He was also favoured disestablishing the Church of Ireland. In 1814 he had a major role in uncovering the abuse of patients at the York Lunatic Asylum after rumours of serious misconduct had come to his attention.He joined Quaker William Tuke in

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 agitating for reform. In a surprise visit he forced staff to open doors which revealed female patients kept in "a number of secret cells in a state of filth, horrible beyond description...the most miserable objects I ever beheld." Most of the staff were dismissed and <mask> was able to secure a government enquiry into the management of the asylum, at which he gave evidence. <mask> was appointed as a Governor of the Asylum. He proceeded to investigate a suspicious fire that had destroyed many of the asylum's records, concluding that it was unlikely to have started by accident. Writings on mythology
He developed a regimen to study the meaning of life and religion, and wrote:
I came to a resolution to devote six hours a day to this pursuit for ten years. Instead of six hours daily for ten years, I believe I have, upon the average, applied myself to it for nearly ten hours daily for almost twenty years.In the first ten years of my search I may fairly say, I found nothing which I sought for; in the latter part of the twenty, the quantity of matter has so crowded in upon me, that I scarcely know how to dispose of it. A keen antiquarian, <mask> was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. According to Ross Nichols, <mask> was also a "Chosen Chief" of the Order of Druids, founded by John Toland in 1717. <mask> was claimed a member of An Uileach Druidh Braithreaches (The Druid Order), an ancient Druid order that predates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; however, these claims are unsubstantiated. Regardless, <mask> demonstrated extensive knowledge and familiarity with the traditions of Druid orders in his work, The Celtic Druids. <mask>' wife died on 18 May 1822. <mask>' own death, on 9 August 1833, resulted from an illness which he suffered while attending a meeting of The British Association for the Advancement of Science at

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 Cambridge.Writings

<mask>' main writings were part of the syncretism of the day, which was an attempt to associate Biblical narratives to evidence emerging about other religious traditions. <mask> discussed, and argued with, other authors of this tradition such as Jacob Bryant, Roger O'Connor and William Jones. <mask>' own writings, especially Anacalypsis, were later to have a major influence on the development of Theosophy, through the publications of Helena Blavatsky. According to Ronald Hutton, <mask>' Anacalypsis says that,

These ideas "lay dormant for about forty years, and was then taken up and given a considerable popularity by one of the century's truly international figures, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky". Hutton describes <mask> as an "occultist and mystic", and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke also terms him an "occultist". Nevertheless, Wouter Hanegraaff, who has written a detailed history of esotericism, says that <mask> had no interest in either occultism or esotericism. <mask> main interests were the history of religious beliefs and practical sociology.Principal works
Horae Sabbaticae, published in 1826, was a study of the Sabbath. <mask> recommended the Sabbath remain a festival instead of a "gloomy" fast. The Celtic Druids, published in 1827 and 1829 as three parts, was intended as a precursor to Anacalypsis. The Celtic Druids was "an attempt to show that the druids were the priests of oriental colonies who emigrated from India, were the introducers of the First or Cadmean System of Letters, and the builders of Stonehenge, Carnac, and other Cyclopean works in Asia and Europe." <mask> prefaced the 1829 second edition stating that he was preparing a review of "all the ancient Mythologies of the world, which, however varied, and corrupted in recent times, were originally one, and that one founded on principles sublime, beautiful, and

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 true." This review would become Anacalypsis. An Apology for the life and character of the celebrated Prophet of Arabia called Mohamed, or the Illustrious was published in 1829.Anacalypsis was written in 1833 and published posthumously in 1836 as two quarto volumes numbering 1,436 pages with meticulous references to hundreds of books. Anacalypsis was printed initially as a limited edition of 200 copies, reprinted partially in 1878, and reprinted completely in a limited edition of 350 copies in 1927. The full title is Anacalypsis; An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis; or an Inquiry into the Origin of languages, Nations and Religions. The book is a review of the history of religions; however, due to his death <mask> was unable to complete the final chapter on Christianity. In it he claims that the Druids and Jews originated in India, that Abraham is really Brahma, and that there is a secret "pandeist" global movement. Quotations
 In Anacalypsis <mask> asserts a commonality among various religious myths:

'"One thing is clear—the mythos of the Hindus, the mythos of the Jews and the mythos of the Greeks are all at bottom the same; and what are called their early histories are not histories of humankind, but are contrivances under the appearance of histories to perpetuate doctrines." <mask> bluntly declares that every ancient author, without exception, has come to us through the medium of Christian editors who have "either from roguery or folly, corrupted them all.”

 In the same publication <mask> makes some interesting claims, stating that all the Greek Gods and Goddesses of Greece were black, such as Jupiter: "Osiris and his Bull were black; all the Gods and Goddesses of Greece were black: at least this was the case with Jupiter, Bacchus, Hercules, Apollo, Ammon.The Goddesses Venus, Isis, Hecati, Diana, Juno, Metis, Ceres,

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 Cybile, are black.The Multi-mammia is black in the Campidoglio at Rome, and in Montfaucon, Antiquity explained." Page 138
In Anacalypsis he states that the Jews of Jacob or Israel were Ethiopians:
"There seems to be nothing improbable in these Ethiopians being the tribe of the Jews—the tribe of Jacob or Israel. I think these Ethiopians did come under Jacob, and did settle in Goshen, and gave the names of Maturea and Avaris to the city in which they dwelt." Page 399

In Anacalypsis he states that the Jews of Asia minor were a tribe and colony of black Buddhists from India: "Solomon was a personification or incarnation of wisdom, and the Jews, of Asia Minor were a tribe or colony from India, of black Buddhists, at or about the same time with the Ioudi to Syria, under the Brahmin." He also states that all the hero Gods and saviours were black too. "All the hero Gods Theseus, Bacchus, Æsculapius, &c., were saviours and black saviours too. These black icons were made when man himself was black.He made his God after himself, and then said that man was made after the image of God." See also
Gerald Massey
Kersey Graves
Druidry
Freemasonry

References

External links

Anacalypsis Vol. I, Vol. II
"The Anacalypsis of <mask> — Precursor of Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine" (Theosophical History: Volume 1, Issue 3; 1983)
"Timeline of <mask>" (The New Age Observer; same information as above)
Mandaean Bibliography: The Anacalypsis
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors (Chapter 16, Kersey Graves)
The Celtic Druids is located at the Special Collections/Digital Library in Falvey Memorial Library  at Villanova University. 1772 births
1833 deaths
Neo-druids
Christ myth theory
People from the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster
Pseudohistorians
Atlantis proponents
British social reformers
English historians
English antiquarians
Freemasons of the Premier

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<mask> (born February 4, 1956) is an Argentine speech therapist, businesswoman, and Justicialist Party politician. She was elected to the Argentine Senate in 2009, and in 2011 became the first woman and first Jew to be designated as its Provisional President; the post put her second in Argentine line of succession, after Vice President Amado Boudou. Both Rojkés and her husband, <mask>, who has been governor of Tucumán since 2003, are considered leading “K” (or Kirchner) politicians who are “very close to the Casa Rosada.” Their lavish way of life has been severely criticized, as has the fact that several of their relatives have been given high-level government jobs. Both of them have been the subject of corruption allegations. Also, Rojkés has frequently made remarks that have been viewed in the media as insensitive to the poor and to crime victims. In 2015, she visited flood victims in the town of El Molino and made headlines when she called one of them a “lazy bum” and boasted of having ten mansions. Early life and education
<mask> was born in San Miguel de Tucumán to Luisa Werblud and Salomón Rojkés, both Ashkenazi Jews who emigrated from Europe.Salomón <mask> inaugurated a textile mill in the city, Textil Americana. She earned a degree in Psychopedagogy and married a fellow member of Tucumán's Jewish community, <mask>, with whom she had four children. Career
She became a partner in her father-in-law's auto dealership, León Alperovich de Tucumán S.A., in 1997, and by 2010 controlled 98% of the firm (one of Tucumán's largest Ford and Volkswagen distributors). Following the election of her husband as Governor of Tucumán, she was elected in 2005 to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies on the Front for Victory ticket (the majority, center-left Justicialist Party faction then headed by President Néstor Kirchner). She

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 introduced numerous bills advancing children's rights, women's rights and nutrition, among other issues. She was elected to the Senate in 2009. Her stake in the Rojkés and <mask> family businesses made her the wealthiest woman in the Senate by 2010, and the fourth-wealthiest overall.She was named to the Senate committees on Constitutional Affairs, Labor, Health, Ombudsmanship, and Bermejo River works. In early 2010, the opposition was able to transfer <mask> <mask>'s position on the Congressional Bicameral Committee to an opposition politician, Luis Juez. The government protested. On April 29, 2010, the Appeals Court confirmed Rojkés's reinstatement on the committee. She said that “We will be able to work normally from now on.”

Rojkés was elected Provisional President of the Senate on November 30, 2011. Married to one of the few Jews in Argentina to be elected governor, she herself made history by becoming both the first Jew and the first woman to hold this key post. Rojkés promised the President her “loyalty.” In a radio interview, <mask> <mask> said that she “fully supports the political system” of the Kirchner government and that she was “proud” to have been selected for the position.The Provisional President of the Senate is second in the line of succession to the Presidency in Argentina. Speculation mounted in the days leading to the second inaugural of President <mask> <mask> that Senator <mask> might be asked to administer the Oath of Office in lieu of Vice President Julio Cobos, who had been distanced from the rest of the administration since his surprise tie-breaking vote in 2008 against an export tax increase supported by the president. President <mask> Kirchner ultimately opted to take the oath independently, as did Vice President Amado Boudou. In June 2013, Cristina Kirchner criticized opposition

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 politicians for failing to come up with new ideas so as to make possible “a healthy democratic debate.” When she made the remarks, she was flanked by <mask> and Rojkés, whom the Buenos Aires Herald described as “two staunch supporters of her administration.” In February 2014, it was announced that <mask> <mask> would be replaced as provisional leader of the Senate by Zamora. Controversies
At a public event in March 2006, Rojkés condemned the writer and journalist Tomás Eloy Martínez, calling him a former Tucumáno – effectively disowning him as a resident of the province – because he had published an article in La Nación about the high level of poverty in the province. She was criticized in November 2011 by a political opponent, Senator Jose Cano, for saying that there were no street urchins in the province of Tucumán. Cano said that her remark gave him the feeling that “she lives in another province.”

<mask> caused controversy in 2012 by commenting on the brutal murder of a six-year-old girl, <mask>, saying that her parents were “drunks” who had not cared for her properly and that as First Lady she could not associate herself with such people.She later apologized for the remarks. Marita Verón case
The disappearance of a young woman named Marita Verón in Tucumán became a public issue and was held up as an example of the extent of human smuggling in the province. Suspects went on trial but were acquitted on December 12, 2012, in a verdict widely seen as exemplary of the corruption of courts in the province and the collusion of judges with gangsters. Rojkés said that she was “shocked” and “surprised” by the court's decision to free all of the defendants, but also, in what became a very controversial statement, added that prostitution and human trafficking “exists and will continue to exist.”

El Molino incident
In

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 the doctors that protested in favour of higher salaries and questioned mothers that take drugs for not taking care of their children.”

In a March 25, 2015, commentary headlined “Adding insult to injury,” the editors of the Buenos Aires Herald condemned Rojkés <mask> for the remarks she made to the flood victims. “Throwing in the face of somebody who has just lost his home her possession of 10 mansions (in any case a false claim, according to her) is so obviously wrong that it becomes hardly necessary to elaborate,” they stated.“This is not the first evidence of an authoritarian regime in the province governed by her husband for the last 12 years – remember that by far the bloodiest repression of the late 2013 looting occurred in Tucumán. The latest Rojkés gaffe thus largely serves to suggest that this is an authoritarian style where the sticks are much longer than the carrots.”

In an April 2015 commentary for La Nación, Fernando Bracaccini and Renzo Lavin suggested that the incident in El Molino underscored the lack of accountability for public officials under the Kirchner government. They noted that Rojkés had not made public any information about her income or fortune since 2009, and that there was no way to know how many houses she owned. A 2013 federal law, they explained, enabled public officials to avoid disclosing their private financial or property information by putting it in the names of their spouses or children, and under provincial legislation her husband, even though serving as governor of Tucumán, was not required to disclose such data. Alleged Nepotism
A July 2012 article in La Nación held up the province of Tucumán, and particularly the relatives of Rojkés and Alperovich, as “a crude example” of nepotism in government and the enrichment of Kirchner-connected families with government funds. At the


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 time the article was published, Rojkés's sister Silvia Rojkés Temkin was the provincial Minister of Education, her brother Carlos Rojkés was an officer in the national Senate, her niece Veronica Rojkés was a member of the National Congress, and her brother was a supplier to the province of Tucumán state. Also, Paul Zeitume, Alperovich's son, was Director of Commerce for Tucumán province; Isaac Bromberg, an Alperovich cousin, was a national deputy; another cousin, Beatriz Mirkin, was a former Minister of Social Development and a current national deputy; Oscar Mirkin, yet another cousin, was Secretary of Public Works in Tucumán; and Lucia Temkin, niece of Alperovich's private secretary, was provisional president of the national Senate.Corruption allegations
In November 2014, <mask> was criticized by opposition leaders for claiming that there had been “no corruption” in Tucumán during her husband's term as governor. Opposition politician Manuel Avellaneda said that she must have a “very poor memory,” given the number of allegations of corruption that had been made against her husband, his efforts to control the judiciary, and his refusal to take action for greater transparency. Avellaneda said that according to Enrique Romero, <mask>'s administration is the “most corrupt in history.” Avellaneda stated that “as in dictatorships, corruption is the soul of the government of her husband, which is the most corrupt in the democratic history of Tucumán.”

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1956 births
Living people
Argentine Jews
People from San Miguel de Tucumán
Argentine businesspeople
Jewish Argentine politicians
Justicialist Party politicians
Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Tucumán
Members of the Argentine Senate for Tucumán
Women members of the Argentine Senate
Argentine women in business
Women members of the Argentine

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<mask> (October 30, 1942 – April 18, 1998) was an American Mesoamerican archaeologist who was an expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography. She played an invaluable role in the decipherment of much of the Maya hieroglyphs. She produced a massive volume of drawings of stelae and inscriptions, which, following her wishes, are free for use to scholars. In 1978, she founded the annual Maya Meetings at The University of Texas at Austin. She was from Hendersonville, TN, a northern suburb of Nashville. Her mother Ruby Richmond was active in historic preservation at Historic Rock Castle in the 1980s. Early life
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, <mask> began taking commercial art courses at the University of Cincinnati in 1960 and graduated in Education and Art in 1964.With an increasing interest in literature, she spent another four years in Cincinnati's graduate program and obtained her master's degree in Art in 1968. She married the architect <mask> in 1968, and started teaching Studio Art at the University of South Alabama, remaining there till 1980, by which time she was Professor. Work
In 1970 she traveled with her husband, <mask>, to photograph Mesoamerican monuments in Yucatán on behalf of the University. An obligatory visit to Palenque the next summer turned into a 12-day stay spent drawing and studying Maya architecture after she was fascinated by the art. She decided to investigate the culture and history of the ancient people who had created the city. Mentored by Merle Greene Robertson, Schele worked with Peter Mathews to decipher a major section of the list of Palenque kings, presenting her work in the 1973 conference Mesa Redonda de Palenque, organized by Robertson. This meeting established

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