title: Tanguy Ndombele

texts: A French professional footballer who plays for club Lyon, on loan from Spurs, and the France national team, was born on December 28, 1996. Longjumeau is where the early life of <mask> was born. He was born in France to parents from DR Congo. He was a player at FC pinay Athlético, a club based in pinay-sous-Sénart, about 20 kilometres south-eastern of Paris. He moved to Brittany when he was 14 in order to play for Guingamp. He didn't get a professional contract at the end of his development. He made his senior debut at the age of 16 when he replaced Vital N'Simba at the final whistle.He took the opportunity to trial at a number of clubs but wasn't signed by any of them. The main reason that he wasn't signed by clubs was because of his weight, even though trialists were aware that he was a good player. He played for the Amiens reserve team. He only played one game in the entire season, coming on late in the match. He played in 18 matches during the 2015–16 season. He started at the age of 18 years and 9 months. He moved to Lyon on a one-year loan.Lyon paid 2 million for the loan. Lyon secured an option to sign him permanently for 8 million, plus a possible 250,000 in bonuses and 20% of any profit made should he be transferred from Lyon to another club. In Lyon's 2–0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the first match of the season on 17 September, he started and was replaced by Christopher Martins in the 72nd minute. The first career goal for Lyon's first team was scored in the 46th minute of their 3–1 home win over Villarreal in the round of 32 of the 2017). His first season at Lyon was a success as he provided great energy to the team and helped them get back to the playoffs as they finished third behind Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco. He was one of the best young players on the team, along with Ferland Mendy and Houssem Aouar. Lyon made it clear that he won't be sold and won't return to his former club Amiens as they paid the 8 million release clause to buy him.He was signed permanently by Lyon in the next season, as was previously stated in the loan deal. He played well against the best players in the world and helped his team upset the English giants in the first match of the season. He gained attention from European teams such as Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid because of this 5-star performance. He scored his first goal for the club against Hoffenheim. It appeared that he was going to leave that summer as he played consistently throughout the season. Lyon finished 3rd in Ligue 1 after he scored his first goal against Nmes. His team was eliminated by FC Barcelona in the Round-of-16 and finished the season trophyless despite giving out great performances against superior teams.Jean-Michel Aulas, the president of Lyon, said that he might leave that summer. The deal was worth 62 million and included up to 10 million in add-ons. He made his debut in the International Champs Cup. Within a minute of being taken out of the game and put in a Spurs shirt, he assisted Lucas Moura. The game was won by Spurs. He scored the first league goal for the club on 10 August, helping the team to come from behind to win against Villa. He's a player with great talent, but he's not playing well due to his poor form.He has to know that I can't keep giving him opportunities to play because the team is more important. His poor relationship with the manager led to widespread expectation that he would leave in the summer, but he stayed and the rift healed. In the 2020–21 season, on 17 September 2020, the late winner against Lokomotiv Plovdiv sealed a 2–1 win that sent Spurs to the next qualification round. He scored his first goal of the season in the game against Manchester United on October 4th and Spurs went on to win 6–1. He was considered to be one of the most polarising players in the league that season due to his string of strong performances and his skill move to get away from Thiago Silva. His team was at the top of the league in December. While facing away from the goal and flicking the ball towards the far corner of the goal, he scored from a tight angle with the ball landing at the far corner of the goal, capping a 3–1 win for Spurs.He scored his first FA Cup goal in a 4–1 away win over Wycombe in the Fourth Round on January 25, 2021. In the final rounds of the season, Ryan Mason left him out of the squad due to poor fitness and an injury. The player will return to Lyon on a loan deal until the end of the season, with an option to buy him for 65 million. He made his senior France debut as a substitute in the 67th minute of the friendly match against Iceland at the Stade du Roudourou in Guingamp that ended in a 2–2 draw. The style of play is a box-to-box player who can also play defensive or attacking positions. He has dribbling ability, body balance and passing ability. There was a positive test for COVID-19 on August 27th, 2020.He didn't get to play in two matches for the France national team. References External links 1996 births Living people People from Longjumeau Sports people from France French expatriates play football in England and Black French people play sports in England.


title: Terence Otway

type: paraphrased

texts: The commander of the paratroop assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day was Lieutenant Colonel <mask> DSO. <mask> was born in Cairo, Egypt, on June 15, 1914 at the American Hospital, he returned with the family to England in 1915, where he stayed while his father served in France. Rushbrooke, County Cork, Ireland, was where he lived from December 1918 to autumn 1921. After returning to England, the family sent their son to the local Council school at Thame. He became ill with a disease in the last 6 months of 1923. He was sent to a college where the sea air would help lungs that were in a poor state. He was at the junior and senior schools.In January 1933, <mask> entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and became a cadet sergeant. Although he was eligible to join the Indian Army, he chose the British and was commissioned into the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles in August 1934. <mask> had a serious middle ear operation in the summer of 1935. The Crown Prince of Spain was in the next room. <mask> was posted to Hong Kong in 1935. He took up his post as intelligence officer after travelling by P & O liner. He was posted to Hong Kong in May 1937.As part of the international force sent to protect the settlement from the Japanese who had invaded China, he was promoted to lieutenant in August 1937. The battalion lost twenty people in four months of bombing, shelling and machine-gun fire from the Japanese. The battalion was posted to Pakistan in 1937. The battalion was posted to the North West Frontier after six weeks of leave. <mask> was appointed as a signals officer. <mask> married the daughter of the Chief of Police in Penang, Malaya, during his three months leave during the war. The battalion returned by sea to Oxford after being converted to mechanised infantry from the camels, mules and horses they had been using in India.<mask> was promoted to Major in December 1940. He passed out of Staff College in December 1941. He worked for the War Cabinet as a Staff Officer in London. He was a company commander in July 1943. The 6th Airborne Division had a battalion. <mask> became Second-in-Command of the 9th Battalion in August 1943. He took over as Commanding Officer in March 1944 after being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.The invasion of Europe took place in June 1944. In the night before the 9th was dropped, vital objectives were secured, particularly to the Merville Gun Battery. The battalion took the Merville battery despite the difficulties. Of the 150 men who took part in the Otway attack, 65 were killed or wounded, which saved many Allied lives. His numerically weak and exhausted battalion pushed into Le Plein, where they encountered stiffening resistance and were able to beat off two enemy attacks in a matter of hours. A stray shell landed close to Otway two days later during a routine tour of his positions. He was posted as a Staff Officer to the War Office after being graded fit for a return to active service after being diagnosed with a severe concussion.In October 1944, <mask> was awarded the DSO for his outstanding leadership in the actions at Merville and Le Plein. The citation stated that his disregard for personal danger had been an inspiration to his men. He was regraded category 'A' in May 1945 and posted as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion King's Regiment (Liverpool) (Wingate's Burma Force) in Rawalpindi with instructions to turn them into the 15th (King's) Parachute Battalion. In December of 1945, <mask> was appointed GSO1 at Division and posted to Karachi, where he was joined by his son, Michael. The family returned home after one year after <mask> was posted to the War Office as a GSO1. The official history of "airborne forces" was written by him. It became available to the public in 1990 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Second World War.<mask> quit his commission in January 1948. He joined the Colonial Development Corporation as an assistant general manager and was promoted to a general manager a year later. He was banned from further service in the East after he was invalided back to the UK. Between 1949 and 1965, <mask> worked in the area of sales and management, starting by selling life insurance as a learning experience and ending as general manager of the Empire News, a Sunday paper with a circulation of over five million. The financing requirements of the papers were one of the reasons why <mask> resigned. He started an import/export business that sold toys and gifts. In 1965, a change in Value Added Tax law killed the business.<mask> joined Scotia Investments as Administrative Controller in 1966 after a brief period with Outward Bound. He joined the London Chamber of Commerce with responsibility for membership in 1975, after a scandal over misuse of funds. He worked in non-executive directorships after retiring. Retirement During retirement, he continued to be active in areas relating to the welfare of soldiers and their widows, as well as historical aspects of The Parachute Regiment, especially in respect of monuments in Normandy, France. He became known as 'Colonel X' when he fought for the rights of serviceman's' widows. The Government was persuaded to change their attitude. In 1991, aged 76, he still had the energy to take up the cases of three guardsmen seriously injured during a training exercise in Canada, publicising the issue and successfully putting pressure on the Government for adequate compensation for the men.In 1995 his health and energy were still undiminished and he was still pruning branches from a tree in the garden of his home in Tadworth. He was involved on the fringes in the case for the release of Lee Clegg, who was imprisoned for murder after a shooting in Northern Ireland at the time of the troubles. When he met the German commander of the battery in 1993 he admitted that he did not have the guts to refuse the proferred hand, but said afterwards that he could not forget his men, shot by the Germans as they hung helpless in trees. Picknickers were shooed away from the battery, which is now a memorial and museum. The citizens of Merville-Franceville-Plage decided to honor Otway by placing a bust depicting him at the age of 29 at the time of D-Day. This was unveiled in the grounds of the Merville Battery Museum on 7 June 1997 by Raymond Triboulet, a leader of the French Resistance during the war, and the Mayor. The bust was created by Vivienne Mallock, who also created busts of John Howard, Bernard Law Montgomery and Richard Nelson Gale.There was a large family gathering to witness the ceremony and twenty-one people sat down to dinner that night at the Moulin du Pre, a local restaurant, converted from a farmhouse. A new road was named after him after he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur. His medals and beret were given to the museum by his wife. The DSO and Légion d'honneur can now be seen by visitors, along with a description of the battle taken from a documentary. For the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Mark Fielder produced a documentary called 'D-Day: Turning the Tide' in which Charles Wheeler, a D-Day veteran, visited the area of the Merville Battery and interviewed some of the protagonists. The attack on the bridge was led by Maj John Howard. D-Day 6 June 1944 was the subject of a drama-documentary which included interviews with members of both the Allied and German armed forces, as well as dramatisations of some of the key scenes.Philip Rham played <mask>'s character in the 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 888-666-1846 The film was released on DVD. The 6th Airborne Division in Normandy, The Merville battery museum Obituary in the Telegraph, and the Otway family tree can be found in the Times.

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title: Ollie Shepard (blues pianist)

texts: <mask> was an American blues pianist, vocalist, and songwriter who was born in 1909. <mask> performed at Jerry's Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge in Oneonta, New York, at 15 Dietz Street. Monser opened the restaurant on August 5, 1954. The building was torn down to make way for a parking lot. Mark Bresee. The property was purchased from Robert W. Melmer, his father, John J. Melmer, and his brother, John E. Melmer. Poet and academician Richard George Frost, who had played drums with <mask> in a lounge in Oneonta, described him as a tyrant.The arrogant cuss was determined to derange me. He played a fast, galloping blues style that often threw me. He would make faces and groan loudly at his drummer when he thought I had failed. <mask> <mask> and His Kentucky Boys were released on Decca Records. "Good Woman" and "Baby It's My Time Now" are Side X. The issue was published from 28 October 1937 to 18 April 1939. Selected compositions "It's A Low Down Dirty Shame" were written in the 19th century.State Street Music Pub is located in "Sweetheart Land". "I'm Going Back To Kokomo" is a song by <mask> Shephard. "Tee Nay" was written by <mask> <mask> and was recorded at the Charles K. Harris Music Pub. "Restless As The River" was written by <mask> <mask> and Sammy Gallop. "That's What True Love Can Do" (1956) <mask> <mask> (w&m) Peer International Corp.

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title: Jim Haslam

texts: The founder of Pilot Corporation, which operates a chain of convenience stores and travel centers throughout the United States and Canada, is an American businessman and philanthropist who was born in 1930. Over the course of several decades, <mask> has given tens of millions of dollars to the University of Tennessee. <mask> is the current owner of the National Football League's ClevelandBrowns and Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew, while Bill is a former Governor of Tennessee. The son of James Arthur and Melitta Fry was born in 1930 in Detroit, Michigan. His father was a veteran of World War I and worked for the Studebaker Corporation. The family lived in Pennsylvania before moving to Florida. <mask> had offers to play football at many colleges.Following a visit from the legendary U.T., he chose the University of Tennessee. Robert Neyland is a coach. He was a student at the University of Tennessee in 1948. During the Volunteers' 1951 national championship season, he was a starter on an offensive line that helped his brother, Hank, to an All American season and a second place finish in the voting for the Heisman Trophy. The 1952 team had a captain, but he missed the last few games due to eligibility issues. After graduation, he joined the United States Army. He was in Korea for several months after the Korean War ended.He turned down the chance to coach the South Pittsburg High School football team after returning to Tennessee. After about a year, Fleet president Sam Claiborne appointed <mask> head of the company's new Sail Oil chain of stations. After leaving Sail Oil to start his own company, he made an agreement with Claiborne that he would not compete in East Tennessee for three years. The name of the company was inspired by an insurance ad <mask> had seen while traveling in North Carolina. The first filling station the company purchased was in Gate City, Virginia. The first station sold cigarettes and soft drinks. While waiting for his non-compete agreement with Fleet Oil to end, he focused on the Virginia and Kentucky areas.<mask>, a former Pilot board member and early associate of <mask>, said that he would sometimes spend days driving around a city, analyzing traffic patterns, before deciding on a new location for a filling station. By 1965, Pilot had grown to a dozen stations, but was struggling with debt and sold a 50% stake in the company to Marathon Oil. Marathon gave Pilot a $4 million loan and a consistent supply of source oil, which allowed the company to expand. <mask> took his mother's place on the company's board of directors in 1974 after Cynthia died suddenly. Pilot entered the convenience store market. Pilot opened its first travel center in Kentucky in 1981 because of a visit to the U.T. Ken was operating a travel center in Louisiana.Marathon's share of the company was bought out by Haslam as Marathon began to complain about Pilot's expansion efforts. Pilot became the nation's second-largest truck stop chain when it acquired 11 Pro Stop stations in 1994. In 1995 Pilot had over 80 travel centers in 33 states and 51 convenience stores in Tennessee and Virginia. <mask> moved up to CEO, while Bill moved up to president. He became the company's chairman. Pilot formed a partnership with Marathon-Ashland in 2001. Pilot bought 60 locations from Williams' Travel Centers for $189 million.Pilot was the nation's largest operator of travel centers, with locations in 40 states and Canada, and was the largest seller of diesel fuel. After buying out Marathon's share of Pilot Travel Centers for $700 million, Pilot sold a 47.5% stake to CVC Investments. Pilot Travel Centers and Flying J merged in 2010 to form Pilot Flying J. This new company has over 500 locations in 23 states and Canada. In Tennessee, where Pilot is based, he has been involved in politics as well as a Republican Party fundraiser. He raised money for both Howard Baker and Gerald Ford. In the early 1970s, he was appointed chairman of the public building authority.The initiative to build the Knoxville City-County Building was spearheaded by the chairman of this group. In 1999, the Public Building Authority was not renewed by the county because of his support of a failed metropolitan government initiative. Bill ran for mayor of Knoxville in 2002 and brought more scrutiny to the family. Bill denied that he was a puppet of his father and the region's oil interests. She blamed <mask> for the hiring of John Shumaker. During Bill's 2010 gubernatorial campaign, his opponents brought up allegations of price-gouging against Pilot. Bob Corker, <mask>'s college roommate and long-time family friend, was elected to the United States Senate.He was the financial manager for the campaign. The state co-chairman of Romney's presidential campaign was <mask> <mask>, who serves on the school's board of trustees. The football team's practice field was named after him in 2002. The family's gift in 2006 was the largest gift in the school's history. The money was used to build a new College of Business building and to build a new School of Music building. The Baker Center and renovations to Neyland Stadium will be supported by the money.The Knoxville Museum of Art, the East Tennessee Historical Society, the Foothills Land Conservancy, the Boys and Girls Club, and the United Way are all major donors to the Haslams. Three of the zoo's newborn lioncubs were named Ann, Bill, and <mask> in honor of <mask>'s children. "Knoxville's most conspicuous philanthropist" is what the alternative newspaper called him. The College of Business at the University of Tennessee was renamed after the family donated $50 million. Cynthia Allen was married to the family of <mask>. They have three children who are named <mask>, Ann and Bill. He married his friend, Natalie Tucker, after his first wife died.He has three step children through her. Bill is a former governor of Tennessee who was sworn in on January 15, 2011. James III resigned as CEO of Pilot in September 2012 but returned to his role as CEO in February. In order to accommodate his purchase of the Cleveland Browns, he planned to sell his minority stake in the Pittsburgh Steelers. Video of the James II and <mask> speaking about their donation to UT Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame 1930 births

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title: Louis B. Seltzer

texts: The editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Press from 1928 to 1966 was an American journalist named <mask>. Seltzer earned the nickname "Mr. Cleveland" as editor of the Press, becoming one of the most powerful and well-known citizens of Cleveland. The Press gained the largest circulation of any newspaper in Ohio and cultivated a reputation as a "fighting paper" that "fought like hell for the people". Seltzer emphasized the public service aspect of the paper and developed the idea that his reporters were watchdogs for the public over political and governmental affairs. He gained a reputation as a "kingmaker" for his sponsorship of many local politicians, including Cleveland mayors Anthony Celebrezze and Frank J. Lausche, who later became governor of Ohio and a U.S. senator. Seltzer was praised and criticized for his coverage of the trial of Sam Sheppard. <mask> was born on the west bank of the Cuyahoga River in 1897.<mask> was an unsuccessful writer of romantic short stories. Seltzer dropped out of school to work as an office boy at The Cleveland Leader when he was 12 because his family lived in poverty. Seltzer was successful enough at his job that he refused to quit and go back to school. <mask> and Champlan were married at the age of 18. After getting married, Seltzer moved to the Cleveland News to work as a reporter. Seltzer was hired by the Cleveland Press as a police reporter and became the city editor in 1916. Seltzer decided to switch to the role of political editor after three months because he didn't have the experience for the position.Seltzer was editor of the Cleveland Press. Seltzer earned the nickname "Mr. Cleveland" during his editorship of the Press, becoming one of the most well-known and powerful people in the city. The Press gained the largest circulation of any newspaper in Ohio and cultivated a reputation as an advocate for its readers under his leadership. Seltzer said the Press fought like hell for the people under his leadership. Seltzer was the subject of glowing profiles in the national media, which emphasized his civic mindedness, his flamboyant public persona, and the freewheeling atmosphere of the Press newsroom. Seltzer received both praise and criticism for his handling of the Sheppard trial. Seltzer was involved in numerous civic and charitable endeavors and emphasized the public service aspect of the Press.The Cleveland Press played an important part in bringing the city such things as downtown redevelopment, a municipal zoo, bridges, highways and parks along what was once a dilapidated Lake Erie waterfront, according to <mask>'s obituary in The Wall Street Journal. As editor of the Cleveland Press, Seltzer developed the idea that his reporters were watchdogs for the public over political and governmental affairs. According to a 1950 profile of him in LIFE magazine, "No crook in public office has slept well in <mask>er's regime, although many a crook in private pursuit has doubtless slept like a baby". The Press struck with editorial might, even if it meant using a sledgehammer to crush a gnat. The cause was just for the little guy. Seltzer enjoyed taking down a peg if he tried to play outside the rules or if he was seen as looking down on his mostly blue-collar readers. Seltzer gained a reputation as a "kingmaker" for his use of the paper's influence to help politicians.According to a 1950 LIFE profile of Seltzer, no civic campaign can get off the ground without his support. For more than a decade, nobody has been elected mayor or carried Cuyahoga County for governor without the support of the press. When Sam Sheppard, a Bay Village doctor, was accused of murdering his wife, the Cleveland Press published a series of front-page editorials, some of which were written by Seltzer himself. The July 20 article "Somebody Is Getting Away With Murder" was written by Seltzer. On the day after, the Press published another front-page editorial, addressed to the County Coroner. Do it now, Dr. An inquest was ordered a few hours after the editorial was published.An editorial was published by the Press on July 30. Sheppard was charged with murder that evening. <mask> and the Press were criticized for their handling of the case. "If ever there was a trial by newspaper, this is a perfect example," said Carl A. Weinmann in his 1964 ruling that Sheppard did not receive a fair trial. The Cleveland Press was an example. The newspaper took on the role of accuser, judge and jury. The United States Supreme Court ruled in 1966 that Sheppard did not receive a fair trial because of the negative publicity he received."Seltzer used his newspaper like a club, ordering politicians around like minions and intimidating everyone who disagreed with him," wrote F. Lee <mask>, one of Sheppard's lawyers. Seltzer would spread an editorial across eight columns of his newspaper if he was roused. In his memoir The Years Were Good, Seltzer defended the Cleveland Press and his own involvement in the case. Seltzer believed that the Sheppard family was involved in a conspiracy to get away with murder and that he personally wrote the editorials, out of concern for the safety of his staff. Seltzer's memoir, The Years Were Good, was published in 1956. Seltzer's memoir emphasizes his rise from relative poverty to professional success via persistent hard work. Seltzer published a collection of character sketches, Six and God, after retiring as editor of the Press in 1966.He was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board from 1956 to 1968. <mask>'s wife died in 1965, and he moved in with his daughter in Ohio. Seltzer was with Cooper and her husband when they moved to Spencer. On April 2, 1980, Seltzer died in his daughter's house. The living relatives of Seltzer at the time of his death were his daughter, two siblings, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Chester E<mask> was a journalist and writer. <mask>'s 1956 memoir, The Years Were Good, can be found on The Cleveland Memory Project.

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title: Cleve Backster

texts: He was an interrogation specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency, best known for his experiments with plants using a polygraph instrument in the 1960s, which led to his theory of primary perception. The scientific community has rejected these claims. He was born in New Jersey. <mask> began his career as an Interrogation Specialist with the CIA and went on to become Chairman of the Research and Instrument Committee of the Academy for Scientific Interrogation. He was a polygraph instructor and the director of the Backster School of Lie Detection in San Diego. He received a degree. The California Institute for Human Science Graduate School and Research Center was founded by Hiroshi Motoyama and is un accredited.He wrote a book about 36 years of his work called Primary Perception - Biocommunication with Plants, Foods, and Human Cells. He died after a long illness. The CIA's polygraph unit was founded by <mask>. The Backster School of Lie Detection is in San Diego. After <mask> left his position with the Central Intelligence Agency, the school was founded in New York City. Policemen are trained to use a polygraph test. <mask> observed that a polygraph instrument attached to a plant leaf registered a change in electrical resistance when the plant was harmed or threatened.His work was inspired by the research of physicist Jagadish Chandra Bose, who claimed to have discovered that playing music in the area where plants grow causes them to grow faster. Bose used a crescograph to measure plant responses to various stimuli. In the 19th century, he wrote two books about the idea that plants can feel pain and understand affection. <mask> attached polygraphs to a Dracaena cane plant to measure the time taken for water to reach the leaves. The plant showed readings that were similar to those of a human, when the electrodes were used to measure galvanic skin response. The readings went off the chart when <mask> pictured burning the leaf, because the plant registered a stress response to his thoughts of harming it. He conducted another experiment where he observed a plant's response to the death of a brine shrimp in another room, and his results convinced him that plants had telepathy.He reported that he found that other human thoughts and emotions caused reactions in plants, which could be recorded with a polygraph instrument. He published his findings from the experiments in the International Journal of Parapsychology in 1968. <mask>'s paper was titled "Evidence of Primary Perception at a Cellular Level in Plant and Animal Life" and was presented at the first Psychotronic Association conference. He claimed that his results showed that primary perception could be measured in all living things. The controlled experiments that attempted to replicate <mask>'s findings failed and the theory was not accepted because it did not follow the scientific method. The claim was not supported by the panel of biologists at the 141st annual meeting of American Association for the advancement of science. repeatability is still a problem for him and the people who tried to perform his experiment.His lack of control experiments were criticized and explanations such as that the polygraphs were responding to static electricity build-up and humidity changes were put forward. The polygraph test's reliability has been questioned. Plants do not have ESP because they do not have sensory organs. Arthur Galston said that plants don't have nervous systems. They have little electrical currents that are subject to manipulation. He said that plants can show altered electrical responses to light, chemical agents and disease, but they can't respond to human thoughts and events. There were no results that supported <mask>'s findings in the experiment, where the death of brine shrimp caused electrical voltage changes in the leaves of a plant.<mask> explained that they did not follow the exact laboratory techniques which he had used to perform the original experiments and that he had not attempted to repeat them himself. The results of primary perception were replicated by Grant Imahara and others from the science based program Mythbusters. They used the same polygraph and took it a step further, but all the tests failed. The findings of <mask>'s work were similar to the beliefs of Hindus, Buddhists and New Age followers. The results of his work were criticized by some parapsychologists. The Secret Life of Plants and Robert Stone's The Secret Life of Your Cells are both books that have his theory in them. He was a guest on the evening radio show, "Coast To Coast AM", on June 27, 2007, in which he discussed with host George Noory and with callers to the program his experiments with primary perception and findings of an interconnection between all living cells.He has been a guest on Art Bell's Coast to Coast several times, as well as on Jeff Rense's radio shows, and has presented papers at many international conferences and meetings. He claimed to be able to duplicate this effect by using plants as transducers for bio-energetic fields from the human mind. Ron Hubbard was interested in <mask>'s work. Hubbard used the polygraph as an "E-meter" and he published plant communication experiments on tomato plants. <mask>'s "Primary Perception" theory was the subject of a Discovery Channel show. <mask>'s experiments were reproduced by the Mythbusters team after all human and environmental stimuli were removed. Some of the experiments were done with a model of polygraph machine identical to the one <mask> used in his original research, while other experiments were done with a different technology than the polygraph.Experiments where the team employed the same model of polygraph machine used by <mask> showed positive results with the plant reacting both to actual harm and thoughts of harm. In another part of the show, the team connected an EEG to a plant to see if it could see eggs being catapulted into boiling water. In that particular segment of the episode, the myth was considered to have been "busted" after the EEG instrument registered no change in the plant. The results were different because of the differences between the two technologies. In an episode of Adam Ruins Everything that discussed the pitfalls of forensic science, there was a cutaway that criticized polygraphs and referenced <mask>'s Primary Perception experiment. "The Intelligent Plant: Scientists debate a new way of understanding flora" is a show on the Backster School of Lie Detection Website. People from Lafayette Township, New Jersey are psychiatrists.

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title: Jean-Baptiste de Valbelle

texts: Jean-<mask> was a French naval officer who was descended from a prominent naval family. During the Franco-Dutch War of 1672–78, he was the commander of a squadron of French ships. The <mask> family is traced back to the old viscounts of Marseille. The <mask> family went back to Honoré I, an apothecary, who made a fortune from his profession, and was elected second consul of Marseille, according to Sieur Garcinire's letter to <mask>. The nobility of the family is shown by the fact that no second consul of Marseille was ever taken from a mechanical trade. Pierre d'Hozier noted on one of the letters that the late Sieur <mask> did not stop drawing up the genealogy of the Valbelle family even though he was warned against it. The first time <mask>e was involved in the defense of Marseille was against Bourbon in 1524) and the second time was against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1536.Honoré left handwritten memoirs on the two defenses. His son was a captain in the army of Francis I of France and fought in the Battle of Ceresole. In 1552, Henry II of France sent three galleys to the Kingdom of Naples to help the prince of Salerno, and in 1553 he helped take the Isle of Corfu. The Huguenots were defeated in 1584 and 1579. Under Louis XIII of France, Cosme II was a captain of 100 men and commander of a galley. Cme <mask> <mask> was married to Anne-Marguerite <mask> in 1606. They had two sons.Jean-Baptiste was born in 1627. His family home was built in the 16th century and was adorned with sculptures. It had a porch with columns that supported a stone engraved with the family's coat of arms. Cme II died in a clash with Spanish galleys outside Genoa at the age of 70. The older son, Jean-Philippe, was badly wounded in the action. He was made capitaine de galre on December 15, 1638, in recognition of his role in the fight. The flags of the Spanish galleys that Cme <mask> <mask> had defeated before Genoa in 1638 were hung above the high altar.He was wounded in the Battle of Tarragona when he was fourteen years old. He was the first to board one of the enemy ships after the Battle of Barcelona. He was given a small boat as a reward. Soon after he encountered a Spanish ship stronger than his own, he approached without firing a single shot, wrestled it, boarded it with all his volunteers and soldiers, and took it to Toulon. This prize was one of several that contributed to his large fortune. Despite his young age, the Order of Saint John accepted him as an officer. He fought against the Muslims.During the Regency of Anne of Austria, Valbelle became a galley captain. He rose through the ranks of ensign and lieutenant before being made galley captain in 1647. He was faithful to the crown during the Fronde rebellion. At the Siege of Candia on October 8, 1649, he personally made a Turkish pasha prisoner, whom he was going to take to the city alive, but being surrounded by attackers forced him to kill his prisoner to save himself. He was between religion and his country. In October 1654, he served on one of the ships of the Chevalier Paul and gave a great service in the taking of Castellammare di Stabia. In 1655, when the navy of Louis XIV was weak, he armed two galleys at his own expense to fight the Spanish and the Turks.In 1655 he commanded a single vessel that fought four English ships and got an honourable surrender. Valbelle was promoted to capitaine de vaisseau in 1666. He commanded a squadron that tried to relieve the Siege of Candia in 1669 and commanded another squadron on the coast of Tunisia and Algeria. He fought in the Franco-Dutch War. In 1674, the future governor of New France commanded the Maure in the Mediterranean fleet. A man of medium height, swarthy and nervous, Valbelle was 51 years old at that time. He had affairs and was attractive to women.His secret correspondence with the king and his ministers shows he was witty, bold and familiar. Valbelle is best known for his expedition to Sicily in 1674–75. The Merli supported Spain while the Malvizzi wanted the protection of France. In the 1674 Messina revolt, the people of the city drove out the Spanish garrison, gained control of almost all of the city and requested protection from Louis XIV. At anchor off the coast of Catalonia, Valbelle was with the fleet of Louis Victor <mask>uart <mask>rtemart. Valbelle was sent with a small squadron to help the rebels. The Messinese expelled the Spanish from the last fort at the harbour entrance.He asked for more effective assistance because he didn't have enough provisions to act against the Spanish. On January 1, 1675, a small corps of land forces under Lieutenant-General Vallavoire was brought back by Valbelle's squadron. The city was about to be taken by the Spanish army, who were camped outside the city. The Spanish had a fleet of 22 ships and 19 galleys. Valbelle had six warships and three fire ships that attempted the passage on January 8, 1675 and entered the harbour unharmed. He was helped by the tide and wind. Although the Spanish troops left some distance from the city, Valavoire didn't have the resources to move inland.Another squadron was sent under Capitaine <mask>. They were not strong enough to attack the Spanish force of 15 warships and 15 galleys. On February 11, 1675, Vivonne arrived with eight warships and three fireships. Nine of the 20 sailing warships in the French fleet were ships of the line. The Spanish were defeated in the Battle of the Lipari Islands by the French. The ship was able to deliver large quantities of food. The French increased their strength in Sicily and along the southern coast of Italy in the 1675's.Augusta, Sicily, was taken by Vivonne on 17 August 1675. The Dutch General sent a fleet to help Spain. The battle of Stromboli took place on January 8, 1676, and was fought by Abraham Duquesne. He wanted to take back Augusta. On April 22, 1676, the Battle of Augusta took place. Vice admiral d'Almeras was killed at the start of the battle. A cannonball from the Valbelle's ship smashed his right leg and half of his left foot.The siege of Augusta ended with the death of Ruyter in the port of Syracuse. The Battle of Palermo took place on 3 June 1676 and resulted in the destruction of the combined fleet of Spain and Holland. Valbelle was accused of punishing the corsairs of Tripoli. He freed a lot of slaves. The Grand Cross of the Order of Malta was named after Pope Innocent XI after he returned from this expedition. On 17 April 1681, Valbelle died. There were births and deaths of French military personnel in the 17th century.

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title: Chika Unigwe

texts: <mask>we is a Nigerian-born author who writes in English and Dutch. She was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. She moved to the United States from Belgium. <mask>we was the sixth of her parents' seven children. She obtained a degree in English from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1995. She obtained an MA degree in English from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1996. She received her PhD in Literature from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.Her first novel, De Feniks, was published in 2005 and was nominated for the Vrouw en Kultuur debuutprijs for the best first novel by a female writer. She is the author of two children's books. She has published short fiction in a number of publications, including Wasafiri (University of London), Moving Worlds, Per Contra, Voices of the University of Wisconsin and Okike of the University of Nigeria. She won two awards in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. She was a nominee for the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her short story made the top 10 of the Million Writers Award for best online fiction. She won third prize in the Equiano fiction contest.Her first novel, De Feniks, was published in Dutch in September 2005 and is the first book of fiction written by a Flemish author of African origin. In 2008 her second novel, Fata Morgana, was published in Dutch and then in English as On Black Sisters' Street. Jonathan Cape published On Black Sisters' Street in London in 2009. The 2012 Nigeria Prize for Literature is worth $100,000 and is Africa's largest literary prize. In 2012 Unigwe was rated one of the top five African writers. She was the second Diaspora writer to win the $100,000 Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature. She met an aboriginal chief for the first time at the festival.She wrote an article about forgiveness and healing after reading about the Aborigines in Australia. Unigwe is a Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the pan-African literary initiative Writivism. She was selected for the Festival's Africa39 list of 39 sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in Africa. The University of Tbingen welcomed Unigwe and her fellow authors Taiye Selasi, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, and Priya Basil to the year's Writers' Lectureship, all of them authors representing what Selasi calls Afropolitan literature. Zwarte Messias was published in the same year. Unigwe was appointed as the Bonderman Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University. Night Dancer was published in 2012 and was a finalist for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature.She was a Man Booker International judge. She was a visiting professor at the university. Better never than late is a collection of short stories published in 2019. There are stories about Nigerian immigrants in Belgium. She contributed to New Daughters of Africa in the same year. The NAACP nominated the book for an award. Margaret Busby compared the process of assembling the volume to trying to catch a flowing river in a calabash, as she introduced the collection of orature and literature by more than 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora.The middle of a sentence is a short prose anthology. The Common Breath Short Prose anthology is a celebration of fiction in its shortest form, bringing together work from some of the greatest contemporary novelists, alongside an exciting selection from the open submissions process, and supplemented by pieces from a range of literary history's finest artists. She was appointed a professor of creative writing at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia, in July of the same year. She began writing a weekly column for Nigeria's Daily Trust in November 2020. Unigwe was nominated for the Diverse Voices Award. Unigwe used to live in Turnhout, Belgium, with her husband and four children. She moved to the United States.She writes in both languages. The Rockefeller Foundation fellowship was for creative writing in 2009, and the HALD fellowship was for writing in 2011. I was born in Nigeria in 1995. There is a rainbow for dinner. Oxford: Macmillan in 2002. Igbo women's writing is an act of righting. The thesis was written in 2004, at the University of Leiden.Thinking of Angel in 2005. Dreams in 2004. The city of Phoenix. Farafina Publishers was in Lagos. The street is called Black Sisters Street. Jonathan Cape was in London in 2009. Night Dancer.Jonathan Cape is in London. Black Messiah is from Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Atlas Contact. Vamba Sherif and Ebissé Rouw edited and collected stories and essays in Dutch. There is a story by Unigwe. Better than late. The Republic of Cassava is in 2019. There is a short prose anthology.The common breath in 2020. The author's website has links to External links.

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title: Françoise Foning

texts: <mask> was a politician for theCPDM. She began her career in business at the age of 12 and went on to work in tourism, transportation, food, medical and education. In 1992 she became president of the women's division and five years later was appointed the leader of the party. She began serving in the National Assembly in 2002 after being elected deputy mayor. The World Bank, the African Development Bank and several international agencies were consulted by <mask>. She was the founding president of the Association of Cameroonian Businesswomen. There was a street named after her.In 1949, <mask> was born to a modest Bamileke family in the western region of Menoua. She didn't enroll at university because she didn't have a proper background, but she did learn English and French. She went into tourism at age 12 after being encouraged by her family to work. New Style was established in 1966 to make extra money. She diversified into the transportation industry by purchasing 2 taxis from Toyota. The Socamac food and OviCAM export-import companies were added to the list. She left the Ministry of Tourism in the 70s to focus on her business career.There was a medical clinic in Dschang and a school in the city. She was awarded with honours by the local authorities of her home region. She was crowned queen of Menoua's Bafou community after being granted the title of Nijh. The Grand Officer Order of Merit was given to <mask>. She was appointed president of the women's wing of the CMP in 1992. Following a 1996 reform of the political party to allow women to lead sections of the party, <mask> became president of the CPDM in 1997. She was close to the wife of the president of the country and worked at a foundation with her.In 2002, <mask> was elected the deputy mayor of Douala II and went on to serve in the National Assembly. She focused on helping the young, building power lines, health centers, roads, schools and organizing funeral services. She was involved in the signing of a partnership convention in June of 2003 to train "bendskin drivers" at professional driving schools. A month later, he was involved in a car accident. She was flown to France for medical attention after she fractured her legs on the road in Nomayos I. She walked with a limp after the accident. She was named African manager of the year.In 2005, she was elected president of the World Association of Women Entrepreneurs. She was the first black woman president of the World Female Company Managers. In the parliamentary election of 2007, <mask> lost her seat after securing 41 per cent of the vote over the winning candidate who received 48 per cent of votes. She was re-elected to the National Assembly in 2009, despite being accused of stealing money from the municipal government. In 2012 she left her position as president. She led the African Network for the Support for Female Entrepreneurship, consulted The World Bank, and was the founding president of the Association of Cameroonian Businesswomen. She was involved in several international conferences and meetings, including the USA/Africa summit in Washington, D.C.Her fellow citizens called her "national leader" because she praised the Cameroonian presidential couple at official ceremonies. She had six children and was married three times. The 4th assembly of the United Cities and Councils of Cameroon was held in the capital of Yaoundé. After leaving the meeting, the driver of the car carrying her and her bodyguard lost control after trying to avoid a motorcycle that was holding sand in the opposite direction, causing the car to roll several times. She was taken to the emergency unit at the Central Hospital of Yaoundé after breaking her legs and ribs. The news of <mask>'s death was made public by hospital officials about midday, after a sudden spike in blood pressure and hypertension. The official funeral service for <mask> was to be held five days later.A celebration of her life was held before her funeral. The work on the burial site was finished on March 20. The service was held in the palace of Johny Baleng in Menoua with members of her family and government officials in attendance. There was an internment at the family home. The foundation of the Francoise Foning Foundation was established by her son to help keep the memory of her work alive. Carlos Ngoualem was elected mayor of Douala 5 on August 5, after the contest to take her place as president of the Association of Cameroonian Businesswomen ended. At the request of her family, a street in the Douala 5 district was renamed in late 2016 to honor her.A monograph on the life and works of <mask> was published in 2017: an accompanying plaque was installed at both ends of the street. There are people from the West Region who have died in the last year.

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title: Peter Vronsky

texts: <mask> is a Canadian author. He has a PhD in criminal justice history and espionage from the University of Toronto. He is the author of three books, including the New York Times Editors' best seller, Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters and Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers From the Stone Age to the Present. He has directed several feature films, including Bad Company and Mondo Moscow. A large body of formal video and electronic artworks and new media is created by Vronsky. He worked as a producer and cinematographer in the field of documentary production and news broadcasting with CNN and other global television networks in North America and overseas. Vronsky's book, Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada, is the definitive history of Canada's first modern battle, the Battle of Ridgeway.He teaches in the history of international relations, terrorism, espionage, American Civil War, and the Third Reich. He consults with a number of law enforcement cold case homicide units including the NYPD, New York State Police, and Bergen County Prosecutor's Office New Jersey. <mask> was a writer and film reviewer for Canada's national film magazine Cinema Canada. He was a member of the University of Toronto Film Board. He studied with several Canadian film directors. <mask> dropped out of the University of Toronto at the end of his second year to pursue a career in film. The Cardboard Brains: American Nights and The Sheep-Eaters were both written and directed by him.He received several Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council Grants and directed and produced a thirty-minute music documentary special on punk rock. Bad Company was produced and directed by <mask>. He was an assistant-director on three Canadian feature films. Vronsky collaborated with <mask> on Video Culture International projects and with a horror film director who worked as a D.O.P. Art Director on several Vronsky films. There were numerous video art tapes and formal video installations created by <mask> in the 1980's. He was the artist-in-residence at Video/Culture International.He was a field producer for The Fifth Estate and W5 as well as an undercover video specialist. The Project Director of the Berlin Wall Videodisc was <mask>, who was the Head of Interactive Laser Optical Software Development. He worked as a field producer for CNN in Rome. Russian Rock Underground was a thirty-minute music television special on underground rock music in the Soviet Union, featuring Boris Grebenshchikov, Televizor, Zvuki Mu and Auktion. <mask> was the writer-producer-director of Mondo Moscow, a feature-length documentary on incipient Stalinism and underground culture in the USSR. <mask> was the first Westerner to interview Lee Harvey Oswald's friends, lovers and acquaintances in Russia. <mask> was the cameraman-line producer on The Hunt for Red Mercury, an investigative one-hour documentary on nuclear weapons material smuggled in Chechnya.He was the writer-director of The Uncanadians, but withdrew his name from the director's credit in a dispute with the National Film Board over the film's controversial contents. <mask> was the Head of English Language Production at the time. In 2000 <mask> was the Queens Park/Toronto Bureau Chief at E-Press, Canada's first online news streaming service. He was the Director of Photography on the feature-length music documentaries, Life Could Be A Dream and I'll Fly Away Home. He wrote two books about women becoming serial killers. <mask> was a full-time student at the University of Toronto from 2003 to 2010 and had degrees from the University of Toronto and Trinity College. The University of Toronto has a graduate school.The year 2004. The University of Toronto has a PhD in History. Dave Walker, a friend of <mask>'s, went missing in Cambodia in 2015. When the Canadian government seemed to want Walker's story to be forgotten, Vronsky was working hard to find out what happened. Vronsky was told by Walker that he had worked as an advisor for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, ferreting out genocidal Khmer Rouge perpetrators infiltrating Canada among legitimate refugees from Cambodia during the 1980s and 1990s. Vronsky thought this could have been a factor in his death. Vronsky is writing a book about the life and crimes of serial killer Richard Cottingham, the Times Square Torso Killer and the New Jersey Girls Murderer.In January 2020, Vronsky revealed that the man who has been in prison for 30 years for six murders had recently confessed to three more murders. Vronsky teaches international relations, American Civil War, Third Reich, espionage and the history of terrorism. He was the writer-in-residence at the Toronto Public Library. Vronsky is in the midst of interviewing serial killer Richard Cottingham who is the subject of Joe Berlinger's new show, Crime Scene (Season 2): The Times Square Killer (2021) about the 1979-80 torso murders in New York. <mask> lives in Toronto, Canada, and Venice, Italy. <mask>ky Home Page: CV, Streaming Video Excerpts, Websites, etc

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title: Magic Johnson

texts: Earvin "<mask><mask>. is an American former professional basketball player and former president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. One of the 50 greatest players in NBA history, <mask> played 13 seasons for the Lakers and was considered the best point guard of all time. In the 1979 NBA draft, <mask> was selected first by the Lakers. He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his first season with the Lakers. After retiring abruptly in 1991, <mask> returned to play in the All-Star Game and won the Most Valuable Player Award. After four years of retirement, he came back in 1996 at the age of 36 and played 32 games for the Lakers before retiring for the third and final time. <mask>'s career achievements include three NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, nine NBA Finals appearances, twelve All-Star games, and ten All-NBA First and Second Team nominations.He led the league in regular season assists four times, and is the NBA's all-time leader in average assists per game. The United States men's Olympic basketball team won the gold medal in 1992. The <mask> Johnson All-Stars traveled around the world playing exhibition games after <mask> left the NBA. <mask> was a member of the "Dream Team" and was a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame twice. His friendship and rivalry with Boston Celtics star Larry Bird, whom he faced in the 1979 NCAA finals and three NBA championship series, are well documented. Since his retirement, <mask> has been an advocate for HIV/AIDS prevention and safe sex, as well as anentrepreneur, philanthropist, broadcaster and motivational speaker. His public announcement of his HIV-positive status in 1991 helped change the perception that HIV was a "gay disease" that heterosexuals don't need to worry about.<mask> was named one of America's most influential black businessmen in 2009, and was a part-owner of the Lakers for several years. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Sparks were purchased by a group of investors. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Sparks won the World Series during <mask>'s ownership. <mask> has 10 NBA titles, five as a player and one as a minority-owner of the Lakers. The son of a GM worker and a school janitor, Earvin <mask>. was born in Michigan. <mask>, who had six siblings and three half-siblings by his father's previous marriage, was influenced by his parents' work ethic. His mother spent many hours after work each night cleaning their home and preparing the next day's meals, while his father did janitorial work at a used car lot and collected garbage, all while never missing a day at General GM.<mask> was teased by children who called him "Garbage Man" because he helped his father on the garbage route. As a young man, <mask> loved basketball. Bill Russell was his favorite basketball player, despite his athletic ability. He practiced all day and idolized players such as Earl Monroe. <mask> is a descendant of an athletic family. <mask> learned a lot from his father, who played high school basketball in Mississippi. As a child, <mask>'s mother played basketball and grew up watching her brothers play.<mask> began to think about a future in basketball when he was in the eighth grade. He scored 48 points in a junior high game. It was only five blocks from his home that <mask> would be playing basketball at Sexton High School, a school with a very successful basketball team and history. When he learned that he would be bused to a predominantly white high school instead of going to a predominantly black school, his plans changed dramatically. <mask>'s sister Pearl and his brother Larry didn't have a good experience when they went to Everett the previous year. There were incidents of racism, with rocks being thrown at buses carrying black students and white parents not sending their children to school. Larry begged his brother not to play after he was kicked off the basketball team.<mask> joined the basketball team but became angry when his teammates didn't pass the ball to him during practice. George Fox stopped him from getting into a fight with another player. A small group of black students looked to <mask> as their leader after he accepted his situation. In his memoir, he talked about how his time at Everett had changed him, and how he was first dubbed "<mask>" as a 15-year-old sophomore. After the game, Fred Stabley Jr., a sports writer for the Lansing State Journal, gave him the nickname despite the belief of <mask>'s mother that the name was sacrilegious. In his final high school season, <mask> led his team to a 27–1 win–loss record and took his team to an overtime victory in the state championship game. Reggie Chastine, <mask>'s best friend, was killed in a car accident the previous summer.He gave Chastine a lot of the credit for his development as a basketball player and as a person. <mask> and Chastine were always together, savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay Magic ran from his home after learning of Chastine's death. He was named to the 1977 McDonald's All-American team and was considered to be the best high school player ever to come out of Michigan. Although <mask> was recruited by several top-ranked colleges, he chose to play close to home. His college choice was between Michigan and Michigan State. He decided to attend Michigan State when he was told he could play the point guard position.The talent on Michigan State's roster drew him to the program. <mask> didn't initially want to play professionally, but he did want to become a television commentator. <mask> led the Spartans to a 25–5 record, the Big Ten Conference title, and a spot in the 1978 NCAA as a freshman, playing with future NBA draftees Greg Kelser, JayVincent and Mike Brkovich. The Spartans lost to Kentucky in the Elite Eight. Michigan State advanced to the championship game of the NCAA Tournament, where they faced Indiana State, which was led by Larry Bird. Michigan State defeated Indiana State 75–64 in the most watched college basketball game of all time, and <mask> was voted Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. He was selected to the All-American team in 1978.After two years in college, <mask> entered the NBA draft. On June 8, 1995, <mask> returned to the Breslin Center to play in the All-Star tribute game after the 1994–95 season. He scored 39 points. The Los Angeles Lakers drafted <mask> first overall in 1979. The Lakers' 7 ft 2 in center who became the leading scorer in NBA history, was the most amazing thing about <mask> joining the team, he said. Despite Abdul-Jabbar's dominance, he had failed to win a championship with the Lakers, and was expected to help them achieve that goal. Even though Norm Nixon was already one of the best players in the league, Jack McKinney had the rookies, who some analysts thought should play forward, be a point guard.<mask> was named an NBA All-Star Game starter after he averaged 18.0 points, 7.7 rebound, and 7.3 assists per game for the season. The Philadelphia 76ers, led by Julius Erving, defeated the Lakers in the 1980 NBA Finals to win the NBA Championship. The Lakers took a 3–2 lead in the series, but Abdul-Jabbar, who averaged 33 points a game in the series, injured his ankle in Game 5 and couldn't play in Game 6. <mask> recorded 42 points, 15 rebound, 7 assists, and 3 steals in a 123–107 win, while playing guard, forward, in a game in which Westhead decided to start <mask> at center. One of the best clutch performances in NBA history is still regarded as one of the best by <mask>, who won the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award. He was one of four players to win NCAA and NBA titles in the same year. Early in the 1980– 81 season, <mask> injured his left knee and was out for a while.He missed 45 games and said that his rehabilitation was the most down he had ever felt. Pat Riley said that <mask>'s return made the Lakers a "divided team". Houston upset the Lakers 2–1 in the first round of the playoffs after <mask> missed a last-second shot. In 1981 <mask> signed a 25-year, $25 million contract with the Lakers, which was the highest-paying contract in sports history. <mask> had a dispute with Westhead, who he said made the Lakers slow and predictable. Lakers owner Jerry Buss replaced Westhead with Riley after <mask> demanded a trade. Even though <mask> denied responsibility for Westhead's firing, he was booed by Laker fans.Buss was unhappy with the Lakers' offense and had intended on firing Westhead days before the Westhead–<mask> altercation, but assistant GM Jerry West and GM Bill Sharman convinced him to delay his decision. <mask> was voted a member of the All-NBA Second Team despite his off-court troubles. He was the only NBA player to have at least 700 points, 700 rebound, and 700 assists in the same season. The Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Lakers for the second time in three years in the 1982 NBA Finals. The Lakers defeated the 76ers 4–2 as <mask> won his second NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award. <mask> averaged 16.2 points on.533 shooting, 10.8 rebound, 8.0 assists, and 2.5 steals per game during the championship series against the 76ers. <mask> said that his third season was when the Lakers became a great team.During the 1982–83 NBA season, <mask>'s first of nine consecutive double-double seasons, he averaged 16.8 points, 10.5 assists, and 8.6 rebound per game, and earned his first All-NBA First Team nomination. For the third time, the Lakers faced the Philadelphia 76ers, and this time they had to contend with center Moses Malone. The Lakers were swept by the 76ers, with Nixon, James Worthy, and Bob McAdoo all injured. In a losing effort against Philadelphia, <mask> averaged 19.0 points on.403 shooting, 12.5 assists, and 7.8 rebound per game. Prior to <mask>'s fifth season, West traded Nixon to free <mask> from sharing the ball-handling responsibilities. <mask> had a double-double with 18.6 points, 13.1 assists, and 7.3 rebound per game. The Lakers reached the Finals for the third year in a row, where <mask>'s Lakers and Bird's Celtics met for the first time in the playoffs.The Lakers won the first game, and led by two points in Game 2 with 18 seconds to go, but after a layup by Gerald Henderson, <mask> failed to get a shot off before the final buzzer. <mask> responded with 21 assists in a 137–104 win, but he made several crucial errors late in the contest. <mask> missed two free throws that could have won the game after the Celtics center stole the ball from him. The teams split the next two games after the Celtics won in overtime. In the decisive Game 7 in Boston, the Lakers trailed by three points in the final minute and <mask> stole the ball from them. He was consoled by his friends Isiah Thomas and Mark Aguirre in his Boston hotel room. During the Finals, <mask> averaged 18.0 points on.560 shooting, 13.6 assists, and 7.7 rebound per game.The series was described as the one championship we should have had but didn't. In the 1984–85 regular season, <mask> averaged 18.3 points, 12.6 assists, and 6.2 rebound per game, and led the Lakers into the 1985 NBA Finals, where they faced the Celtics again. The Lakers allowed an NBA Finals record 148 points to the Celtics in the first game of the series. In the second game of the series, Abdul-Jabbar scored 30 points and grabbed 17 rebound, and in the fifth game, he scored 36 points and led Los Angeles to a 3–2 lead. After the Lakers defeated the Celtics in six games, Abdul-Jabbar and <mask>, who averaged 18.3 points on.494 shooting, 14.0 assists, and 6.8 rebound per game in the championship series, said the Finals win was the highlight of their careers. In the 1985–86 NBA season, <mask> averaged a double-double with 18.6 points, 12.6 assists, and 5.9 rebound per game. Houston advanced to the Finals in five games despite being unable to defeat the Lakers.In the next season, <mask> averaged a career-high of 23.9 points, as well as 12.2 assists and 6.3 rebound per game, and earned his first regular season Most Valuable Player award. In the fourth game of the NBA Finals, <mask> hit a last-second hook shot to give the Lakers a win over the Celtics. The game-winning shot, which <mask> dubbed his "junior, junior, junior sky-hook", helped Los Angeles defeat Boston in six games. <mask> averaged 26.2 points on.541 shooting, 13.0 assists, 8.0 rebound, and 2.33 steals per game to win his third Finals Most Valuable Player title. Before the 1987–88 NBA season, Lakers coach Pat Riley publicly

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texts: promised that they would defend the NBA title, even though no team had won consecutive titles since the 1969 NBA Finals. Despite missing 10 games with a groin injury, <mask> was still productive with averages of 18.6 points, 11.9 assists, and 6.2 rebound per game. In the 1988 playoffs, the Lakers swept the San Antonio Spurs in 3 games, then survived two 4–3 series against the Utah Jazz and the Dallas Mavericks to reach the Finals and face Thomas and the Detroit Pistons.<mask> and Thomas kissed each other on the cheek before the opening tip of Game 1, which they said was a display of brotherly love. After the teams split the first six games, Lakers forward James Worthy had his first career triple-double of 36 points, 16 rebound, and 10 assists, and led his team to a108–105 win. <mask> averaged 21.1 points on.550 shooting, 13.0 assists, and 5.7 rebound per game in the championship series, despite not being named the Most Valuable Player. He won five NBA titles in his career. In the 1988–89 NBA season, <mask>'s 22.5 points, 12.8 assists, and 7.9 rebound per game earned him his secondMVP award, and the Lakers reached the 1989 NBA Finals, where they faced the Pistons. The Lakers were no match for the Pistons after <mask> went down with a injury in the second game. After a strong 1989–90 NBA season in which he averaged 22.3 points, 11.5 assists, and 6.6 rebound per game, <mask> won his third NBA Most Valuable Player award.The Lakers were eliminated from the playoffs in the Western Conference semifinals for the first time in nine years. When <mask> became the league's third-oldest point guard, Mike Dunleavy became the Lakers' head coach. He had become stronger and more powerful, but he was also slower and less mobile. The team had a renewed emphasis on defense under Dunleavy. The Lakers reached the 1991 NBA Finals with <mask>'s averages of 19.4 points, 12.5 assists, and 7.0 rebound per game. The Chicago Bulls were led by Michael Jordan, a five-time scoring champion regarded as the finest player of his era. The series was portrayed as a battle between <mask> and Jordan, but Bulls forward Scottie Pippen defended well against <mask>.Jordan led his team to a 4–1 win despite two triple-doubles from <mask>. In the last championship series of his career, <mask> averaged 18.6 points on.431 shooting, 12.4 assists, and 8.0 rebound per game. <mask> tested positive for HIV after a physical before the 1992 NBA season. On November 7, 1991, <mask> made a public announcement that he would retire immediately. He stated that his wife Cookie and their unborn child did not have HIV, and that he would dedicate his life to battle this deadly disease. <mask> initially said that he didn't know how he contracted the disease, but later admitted that he had many sexual partners during his playing career. He admitted to having "harems of women" and talked openly about his sexual activities because he was convinced that heterosexuals needed to know that they, too, were at risk.At the time, only a small percentage of HIV-positive American men had contracted it from heterosexual sex, and it was initially rumored that <mask> was gay or bisexual, although he denied both. Isiah Thomas denied <mask>'s accusation that he spread rumors. In 2004, <mask>'s HIV announcement was named as the seventh most memorable moment of the previous 25 years. Bush said, "For me, <mask> is a hero, a hero for anyone who loves sports." Despite his retirement, <mask> was voted by fans as a starter for the 1992 NBA All-Star Game, despite the fact that several NBA players argued that he shouldn't play. The West won the All-Star game 153–113 and <mask> was named the Most Valuable Player. Both teams ran onto the court to congratulate <mask> after he made a three-pointer at the end of the game.The U.S. national team was dubbed the "Dream Team" because of the NBA stars on the roster. The Dream Team, which included fellow Hall of Famers such as Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, was considered unbeatable. After winning a gold medal at the 1992 Tournament of the Americas, the Dream Team dominated in Olympic competition, winning the gold medal with an 8–0 record, beating their opponents by an average of 43.8 points per game. During the Olympics, <mask> averaged 8.0 points per game, and his 5.5 assists per game was second on the team. <mask> received standing applause from the crowd and used it to inspire HIV-positive people. Before the 1992–93 NBA season, <mask> announced his intention to stage an NBA comeback. He retired again before the start of the regular season due to controversy over his return, after playing in several pre-season games."If I knew what I know now, I wouldn't have retired," <mask> said in an August 2011 interview. <mask> said that despite the physical, highly competitive practices and scrimmages leading up to the 1992 Olympics, some of those same teammates still expressed concerns about his return to the NBA. He retired because he didn't want to hurt the game. During his retirement, <mask> has written a book on safe sex, run several businesses, worked for NBC as a commentator, and toured Asia, Australia and New Zealand with a basketball team of former college and NBA players. "A Midsummer Night's Magic" was a charity event that included a celebrity basketball game and a black tie dinner. <mask> held this event for twenty years and the proceeds went to the United Negro College Fund. The Magic Johnson Foundation was founded in 1991.The first event after <mask>'s appearance in the Olympics raised over a million dollars for UNCF. The white team was coached by Arsenio Hall and the blue team was led by <mask>. At the end of the 1993-94 NBA season, <mask> returned to the NBA as coach of the Lakers, replacing Randy Pfund, who had served as an interim coach for two games. <mask>, who took the job at the urging of owner Jerry Buss, admitted "I've always had the desire to coach." While downplaying questions about returning as a player, he insisted that his health was not an issue. Let's leave it at that. Jerry West said that he may only coach until the end of the season, but <mask> took over a team that had a 28–38 record, and won his first game as head coach.He was the head coach of a team that had five of his former teammates on the roster: Kurt Rambis, Elden Campbell, Tony Smith, and Michael Cooper. <mask>, who still had a guaranteed player contract that would pay him $14.6 million during the 1994–95 NBA season, signed a separate contract to coach the team that had no compensation. After winning five of their first six games under <mask>, the Lakers lost the next five and he resigned. The Lakers finished the season with a ten-game losing streak, and <mask>'s final record as a head coach was 5–11. He bought a 5% share of the team in June 1994 because he didn't want to be a coach. During the 1995–96 NBA season, <mask> attempted another comeback as a player when he re-joined the Lakers at the age of 36. During his retirement, <mask> increased his bench press from 135 to 300 pounds and his weight from 135 to 260 pounds.On January 29, 1996, he returned to the team and played his first game against the Golden State Warriors. Coming off the bench, <mask> had 19 points, 8 rebound, and 10 assists to help the Lakers to a 128–118 victory. On February 14, <mask> recorded the final triple-double of his career, when he scored 15 points, along with 10 rebound and 13 assists, in a victory against the Atlanta Hawks. He averaged 14.6 points, 6.9 assists, and 5.7 rebound per game as a power forward in 32 games, and was tied for 12th place in the voting for the Most Valuable Player Award. The Lakers had a record of 22–10 in the games <mask> played, and he considered his final comeback a success. There were struggles on and off the court for <mask> in 1996. Ceballos left the team for several days because he was upset over a reduction in his playing time.He was stripped of his title as team captain because he missed two games. Nick Van Exel was given a seven-game suspension for bumping a referee. <mask> was critical of Van Exel. <mask> was suspended for five days after bumping a referee. He missed several games due to an injury. The Lakers finished with a record of 53–29 and fourth seed in the NBA playoffs. The Lakers had home court advantage in the five-game series against Houston.The Lakers played poorly in the first game of the series and <mask> was upset with his role in the offense. <mask> led the way to a Game 2 victory with 26 points, but averaged only 7.5 points per game for the rest of the series, which the Rockets won three games to one. After the Lakers lost to the Houston Rockets in the first round of the playoffs, <mask> initially expressed a desire to return to the team for the 1996–97 NBA season, but he also talked about joining another team as a free agent, hoping to see more playing time at point guard instead of <mask> retired permanently after changing his mind a few days later, saying, "I am going out on my terms, something I couldn't say when I aborted a comeback in 1992." The Magic Johnson All-Stars were formed to play competitive basketball despite being out of the NBA. The team played games in Australia, Israel, South America, Europe, New Zealand, and Japan. They played five games against teams from theCBA in the US.In the final game of the series, <mask> had 30 points, 17 rebound, and 13 assists, leading the All-Stars to a victory over the Oklahoma City Cavalry. By the time he returned to the Lakers in 1996, the Magic Johnson All-Stars had amassed a record of 55–0, and <mask> was earning as much as $365,000 per game. The most memorable game <mask> played in was in November 2001. <mask> played for the All-Stars against Michigan State at the age of 42. In 1995 he played in a celebrity game to honor his coach, but this was his first meaningful game in 22 years. <mask> had a triple-double in front of a sold-out arena, but his all-star team lost to the Spartans by two points. <mask>'s half-court shot at the buzzer would have won the game.<mask> played a second exhibition game against Michigan State on November 1, 2002. Playing with the Cannons of Australia's National Basketball League instead of his usual group of players, <mask> scored 12 points, with 10 assists and 10 rebound, as his team defeated the Spartans 104–85. <mask> joined the Swedish squad M7 Bors in 1999 and was perfect in five games. The project failed after one season and the club was forced into reconstruction. He joined The Great Danes. After Michigan State defeated Bird's Indiana State team in the 1979 NCAA finals, <mask>'s squad became rivals with Bird. In the NBA, Boston and Los Angeles met in three out of four NBA Finals from 1984 to 1987.The regular season consisted of 80 normal games and two Lakers–Celtics games. Bird admitted that <mask>'s daily box score was the first thing he looked at in the morning. Several journalists theorize that the <mask> rivalry was so appealing because it represented many other contrasts, such as the clash between the Lakers and Celtics, between Hollywood flashiness and Boston/Indiana blue collar grit, and between blacks and whites. It drew national attention to the faltering NBA because of the rivalry. The NBA had gone through a decade of declining interest and low TV ratings before <mask> and Bird arrived. The league won a whole generation of new fans with the two future Hall of Famers, drawing both fans of Bird's dirt court Indiana game and those of <mask>'s public park flair. Larry Schwartz said that <mask> and Bird saved the NBA.Despite their on-court rivalry, <mask> and Bird became close friends during the filming of a 1984 Converse shoe advertisement that depicted them as enemies. <mask> appeared at Bird's retirement ceremony in 1992 and described Bird as a "friend forever", while Bird formally inducted him into the Hall of Fame. When the Game Was Ours was a non-fiction book written by <mask> and Bird. Their friendship was detailed in the book. Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals was a documentary about their rivalry. In 905 NBA games, <mask> averaged 19.5 points, 7.2 rebound, and 11.2 assists per game, the highest assists per game average in NBA history. The single-game playoff record for assists is shared by <mask> and the Finals record for assists in a game is held by him.He has averaged 12 assists in the NBA Finals six times. He holds two All-Star Game records for career and single-game assists. <mask> introduced a fast-paced style of basketball called "Showtime", which was described as a mix of "no-look passes off the fastbreak, pin-point alley-oops from halfcourt, spinning feeds and overhand bullets under the basket through triple teams." Michael Cooper said that there have been times when <mask> threw passes and he wasn't sure where he was going. I ran back up the floor, convinced that one of our

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texts: guys threw the ball to someone. <mask> was able to dominate a game without scoring, running the offense and distributing the ball with flair. In the 1982 NBA Finals, he averaged just 16.2 points, the lowest average of any FinalsMVP award recipient in the three-point shot era.<mask> was exceptional because he played point guard, a position normally reserved for frontcourt players. He is third all-time in triple-double games behind Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook. In NBA Finals history, <mask> is the only player to have triple-doubles in multiple games. In 1996, <mask> was voted as one of the 50 greatest players of all time by the NBA, and in 2021, he was selected to the NBA 75th anniversary team. He was in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. The greatest point guard of all time, <mask>, was ranked 17th in the "50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century" by SportsCentury. <mask> was listed first in the all-time NBA point guard rankings by Bleacher Report.Among the top moments in the NBA are several of his achievements in individual games. The NBA Lifetime Achievement Award was shared by Larry Bird and <mask>. On February 21, 2017, <mask> replaced Jim Buss as the president of basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers sought to acquire multiple star players and cleared existing players, including future All-Star D'Angelo Russell, off of their roster in an attempt to free up room under the league's salary cap. The team tried to trade for Anthony Davis during the season but was unsuccessful. The Lakers did not make the playoffs. On April 9, <mask> resigned from the Lakers, citing his desire to return to his role as an NBA ambassador.<mask> first fathered a son in 1981 when he was married to Mitchell. During the summer, he worked for <mask> as a marketing director, even though he was raised by his mother. Earlitha "Cookie" Kelly was married to <mask> in a small wedding in 1991. The son of <mask> and Cookie is openly gay and a star on the reality show Rich Kids of Beverly Hills. In 1995 the couple adopted a daughter. <mask> has a vacation home in Dana Point, California. <mask> says his faith is the most important thing in his life.In 2010, <mask> and current and former NBA players, as well as Maya Moore from the WNBA, played a basketball game with President Barack Obama as an exhibition for a group of military troops who had been injured in action. Reporters covering the president were not allowed to enter the gym where the game was played. The festivities for Obama's 49th birthday included a basketball game. <mask> had a close relationship with Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who he saw as a mentor and father figure. <mask> spent five hours visiting Buss at the hospital just a few months before his death from cancer. Speaking to media just hours after Buss had died, <mask> was emotional, saying "without Dr. Jerry Buss, there is no Magic." The team was acquired by Buss shortly before he drafted <mask> with the #1 pick in the 1979 NBA draft.<mask> had an ownership stake in the team for nearly twenty years and played 13 seasons for the Lakers. Buss took a special interest in <mask>, introducing him to important Los Angeles business contacts and showing him how the Lakers organization was run, before eventually selling <mask> a stake in the team in 1994. <mask> became part owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers because of the business knowledge Buss gave him. Buss kept <mask> close to the organization even after he revealed his HIV diagnosis, and even brought him in as a coach. At Buss' request, <mask> agreed to take the head coaching position with the Lakers in 1994. Buss gave <mask> a contract that paid him 14 million dollars a year as payback for not being the league's highest-paid player. Buss insisted that he still be paid despite the fact that <mask>'s retirement voided the contract.<mask> did not receive any additional salary as a result of this arrangement. Buss sold a 4% stake in the Lakers to <mask> for $10 million after he ended his coaching career. Magic Johnson Entertainment signed a deal with Fox in 1997. The Magic Hour, a late night talk show hosted by <mask>, was canceled after two months because of low ratings. <mask> started a record label after his talk show was canceled. Magic Johnson Music was renamed in 2000 when <mask> signed a joint venture with MCA. R&B artist Avant was signed by Magic Johnson Music.Janet Jackson's tour was co-promoted by <mask>'s company Magicworks. He was an NBA commentator for Turner Network Television for seven years before becoming a studio analyst for the NBA show. Magic Johnson Entertainment, a film studio, is one of the subsidiaries of Magic Johnson Enterprises, which has a net worth of $700 million. The Magic Card, a pre-paid Mastercard aimed at helping low-income people save money and participate in electronic commerce, is one of the business ventures created by <mask>. A contract food service was created by <mask>. Magic Johnson Theaters was sold by <mask> and Lombard in 2004. The first Magic Johnson Theater in Baldwin Hills closed in 2010 and re-opened as Rave Cinema 15 in 2011.Similar to networks such as Black Entertainment Television (BET) and TV One, <mask> launched a cable TV network in 2012 called "Aspire". While still playing with the Lakers, <mask> began to think about life after basketball. He asked why so many athletes had failed at business. He had a meeting with Michael Ovitz, the CEO of Creative Artists Agency. Ovitz encouraged him to use his connections and read business magazines. During road trips, <mask> met with corporate executives. <mask>'s first store, a high-end sporting goods store named Magic 32, failed after one year and cost him $200,000.He learned to listen to his customers and find out what they wanted. Through his movie theaters and partnership with Starbucks, <mask> has become a leading voice on how to invest in urban communities. He went to Starbucks with the idea of opening coffee shops in urban areas. <mask> was able to purchase 125 Starbucks stores after showing the buying power of minorities. The partnership put Starbucks in locations such as Detroit, Washington, D.C., Harlem, and the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles. In 2010, <mask> sold his remaining interest in the stores to the company. Through the Canyon-Johnson and Yucaipa-Johnson funds, he has made investments in urban real estate.Aon Corp. is an insurance services company. In 2005, <mask> was part of a syndicate that bought the tallest building in Brooklyn, the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, for $71 million and converted it into luxury condominiums. The largest minority-owned facility in the U.S. was obtained by <mask> and Earl Graves in 1990. He was the team vice president. In October 2010 <mask> sold his stake in the Lakers to Patrick Soon-Shiong, a Los Angeles surgeon and professor at UCLA. In February of last year, <mask> returned to the Lakers as an advisor. Reports indicated that <mask> had expressed an interest in purchasing the Los Angeles Clippers.In 2015, <mask> completed his planned acquisition for a "majority, controlling interest" in EquiTrust Life Insurance Company, which manages $14.5 billion in annuities, life insurance and other financial products. He is an investor in a company called aXiomatic. In January 2012 <mask> joined with Guggenheim Partners and Stan Kasten in a bid for ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. The winner of the proceedings to buy the Dodgers was announced in March of 2012 by <mask>'s ownership group. The largest amount paid for a sports team is $2 billion for the Dodgers, which was paid by the Johnson-led group. Mark Walter is the chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners and he is the controlling owner. The co-owner of the Golden State Warriors, Peter Guber, has a small stake in the Dodgers.The Dodgers won the World Series in 2020 and gave <mask> a Major League Baseball title. The Dayton Dragons, a Class-A minor league baseball team in Dayton, Ohio, sold out more than 1,000 games in a row, a record for professional sports. <mask> and Guber sold their stake in the Dragons. In February of last year, <mask> and Guggenheim were involved in the purchase of the Los Angeles Sparks. <mask> was one of the Impact 25. He won the title as the owner. The Major League Soccer expansion franchise based in Los Angeles was co-owned by <mask>.The permanent name was Los Angeles Football Club. <mask> supports the Democratic Party. In 2006 he publicly endorsed Phil Angelides for Governor of California, in 2007 he supported Hillary Clinton in her presidential campaign, and in 2010 he endorsed Barbara Boxer for re-election to the U.S. Senate. He supported Barack Obama for president. He appeared in campaign ads for Wendy Greuel. He endorsed Hillary Clinton again in 2015. He hosted a campaign event for Hillary Clinton.<mask> created the Magic Johnson Foundation to fight HIV, but later diversified it to include other charitable goals. He joined the National Commission on AIDS in 1992. <mask> left after eight months, saying that the White House had "utterly ignored" the work of the panel, and had opposed the commission's recommendations, which included universal healthcare and the expansion of Medicaid to cover all low-income people with AIDS. He served as a United Nations Messenger of Peace and was the main speaker for the UN World AIDS Day Conference in 1999. <mask>'s campaigns sought to show that the risk of HIV was not limited to drug users and homosexuals. <mask> wants to help educate all people about what HIV is about and teach others not to stigmatize people who have HIV and AIDS. The AIDS community criticized <mask> for his decreased involvement in publicizing the disease.<mask> takes a daily combination of drugs to prevent his HIV from progressing to AIDS. He worked with Abbott Laboratories to promote the fight against AIDS in African American communities. Three-time NBA Most Valuable Player, nine-time All-NBA First Team, two-time NBA All-Star, and 10-time NBA champion are some of the award recipients. 32 was retired by the Lakers statue in front of the Staples Center, which was the site of the 1992 Olympic gold medal. The Michigan State Statue at Michigan State High school has 33 retired. The Lakers had 77 and 72, with.530 and.226, respectively. The Lakers are 37, 35, and 8.6.The Lakers had 78 and 77, as well as 9.6 and 18.6 The Lakers had a score of.800 with a background of.548. The Lakers had 67, 66, and 73, with.565,.206, and.810, respectively. Lakers 77, 77, 36.1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Lakers 72, 70, 35.8,.526,.233, and.871 are shown. Lakers 80, 80, and 80 are 36.3,.522, and.206, respectively. Lakers 72, 70, and 70 are 36.6,.486, and.196, respectively..509 is the style of the Lakers. The Lakers had a score of.480,.384, and.890. The Lakers had a score of.320 with 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 There are 32 Lakers, 9 of which are 29.9 and....................... 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