title: William Gormley

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<mask>. "Bill" <mask> (born May 2, 1946) is an American attorney and Republican Party politician whose career in New Jersey's state Legislature spanned four decades. Representing the state's 2nd Legislative District, which includes most of Atlantic County, Gormley emerged as an influential and dominating figure in New Jersey government and a leader in the continued economic revitalization of the greater Atlantic City region. <mask>, the son of former Atlantic County Sheriff <mask>, was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1977, serving until 1982. He served as a member of the state Senate from 1982 to 2007, a length of tenure unmatched in Atlantic County since state Sen. Frank S. Farley's 31-year-run ended in defeat in 1972. Gormley chose not to seek re-election to the Senate in 2007. Education and military service
<mask> graduated from St. Augustine Preparatory School in 1964. He received a B.A.from the University of Notre Dame in History and was awarded a J.D. from Villanova University. He served in the United States Marine Corps and was honorably discharged in 1975 with the rank of captain. Political career
<mask> was first elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1977. In 1981, <mask> was the most vocal member of a small group of Republican lawmakers who aligned with Democrats to pass legislation that eliminated the practice of awarding favorable ballot positions to candidates endorsed by county political organizations. Though the courts would restore the party line years later, the legislation paved the way for Tom Kean to win the Republican gubernatorial primary against the Republican establishment candidate, Paterson Mayor Lawrence "Pat" Kramer. Kean would go on to serve two terms as one of the most popular governors in New Jersey history."Getting rid of the party line cracked Kramer and made Kean," recalled Republican campaign strategist Dave Murray. "What was so impressive about that is there were other guys supporting Kean, but <mask> was the one shouting it from the rooftops. Really, there's only one word to describe him – and that's ballsy." In 1990, Gormley cast the only Republican vote for then Gov. Jim Florio's ban on assault weapons and became a target of the National Rifle Association. As political payback, the NRA funded the campaigns of a string of Gormley opponents in both local races and runs for higher office. Growth of Atlantic City
Gormley was credited with writing legislation to secure state funding for crucial development projects in the Atlantic City region including the Atlantic City Corridor Project (now "Tanger Outlets The Walk"), Boardwalk Hall, the Atlantic City Rail Terminal, the Atlantic City–Brigantine Connector, The Borgata, the Quarter at Tropicana Casino, "The Pier Shops at Caesars" now "Playground Pier"), the Atlantic City Convention Center, and Atlantic City International Airport.In 1991, after suing the governor of New Jersey to protect the rights of coastal homeowners, Gormley wrote and secured passage for a constitutional amendment that defined and delineated the rights of property owners who held riparian lands. The amendment resolved a protracted and contentious legal dispute that had pitted the state's jurisdictional powers against private ownership rights. In 1992, Gormley wrote a constitutional amendment that shifted the cost for the operation of the county court system to the state, creating a more coordinated and modern justice system. Racial Profiling Hearings
As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gormley led a 2001 investigation into the practice of racial profiling by New Jersey State Police. The nine days of hearings chaired by Gormley ultimately led to the enactment of reform legislation to eradicate the practice of racial profiling, including the creation of a system of oversight and monitoring to maintain integrity in law enforcement practices. Electoral history
Over the course of his career, <mask> ran for higher office three times and lost in the primary each time. He ran for governor in 1989, the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994 and the U.S. Senate in 2000, when he lost to Bob Franks by 3,700 votes.1989 Race for Governor (Republican primary)
Jim Courter (R), 29.02%
W. Cary Edwards (R), 22.04%
Chuck Hardwick (R), 21.29%
<mask> (R), 17.17%
Gerald Cardinale (R), 8.33%
Tom Blomquist (R), 0.98%
Lois Rand (R), 0.66%
James A. Kolyer, III (R), 0.51%

1994 Race for U.S.House (Republican primary)
Frank LoBiondo (R), 54.47%
<mask> (R), 35.26%
Robert D. Green (R), 10.27%

2000 Race for U.S. Senate (Republican primary)
Bob Franks (R), 35.68%
<mask> (R), 34.10%
James W. Treffinger (R), 17.66%
Murray Sabrin (R), 12.56%

Charitable projects
<mask> has also been active in a number of philanthropic efforts and charitable projects in the Atlantic City region, benefitting organizations such as the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Big Brothers and Big Sisters and the Sisters of Christian Charity. Gormley also helped lead fundraising efforts to build a facility for the Milton and Betty Katz Jewish Community Center in Margate, spearheaded the recruitment of speakers for a lecture series at the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton College (now Stockton University) and, along with his wife Virginia, founded the Atlantic City Friends of Music to raise money to support music and arts programs in Atlantic City schools. On Oct. 21, 2021, Gormley received the Gregor Mendel Medal, the highest honor bestowed by his alma mater, St. Augustine Preparatory School, for his many innovative charitable contributions to his community. A video tribute to Gormley included appearances from former New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer, Jr., former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Chairman Kevin O’Toole, a former State Senate colleague. Post-political career
In 2007, New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner appointed Gormley chairman of the Public Officers Salary Review Commission. Gormley is currently a partner in the law firm of DLA Piper. He resides in Margate City, New Jersey with his wife, Virginia.References

External links
Senator <mask>'s Senate Website
New Jersey Voter Information Website 2003
New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure form for 2005 (PDF)
New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure form for 2004 (PDF)

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1946 births
Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
County commissioners in New Jersey
New Jersey state senators
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University of Notre Dame alumni
Villanova University alumni

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title: John Paul Strain

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<mask> (born September 22, 1955) is an American artist specializing in art depicting American history. He creates hyper-realistic paintings of patriotic historical scenes, such as the American West, Civil War and D-Day, that are exhibited or used by institutions such as the US military, US Park Service and others. He has been compared as inheriting the mantle of 19th-century print makers such as Currier & Ives and Louis Prang. Biography and career

For the first 15 years of his career he painted numerous original oil paintings of the American West. From the age of 21, <mask>'s paintings of landscapes, wild life paintings, and depictions of Indian life were represented by Trailside Galleries. <mask> began painting scenes from the American Civil War in 1991. These Civil War historical paintings are larger and have more detail than his western paintings.According to <mask>, each painting is meticulously researched and painted with such detail (<mask> often wears a jeweler's magnifying glass and uses a two to three haired brush to paint most of the composition's intricacies), that one painting may require more than three months to create. <mask> participates in Civil War reenactments. "I have been reenacting for many years. Currently, I am Captain of the 7th Texas Calvary. My unit has about 20 mounted cavalry men, and we participate in Civil War reenactments throughout the southwest. Working with men, horses, and equipment gives me insight into what life was like back in the 1860s. I know from experience how horse equipment should look when in use, or how a seasoned horseman carries himself in the saddle.I feel it really helps my art." -<mask> <mask>. Other historical paintings by <mask> <mask> include Spirit of Discovery, a rendition of the Lewis and Clark expedition, as well as three World War II representations:  Bastogne, Omaha Beach, and Utah Beach. More recently, Mr. <mask> has composed three individual "Paintings of Paradise":  Celarian Light House, Punta Sur Park Natural Reserve;  Evening on the Plaza, Downtown San Miguel; and The Monument to Divers,  Coast Road San Miguel. Inspired by his favorite vacation destination, <mask> represents historical landmarks in the Caribbean island of Cozumel, Mexico. Awards, honors, holdings and exhibitions

Author <mask>. Dwyer said that <mask> "is roundly regarded as one of the greatest painters, living or deceased, of American historical art." Reproductions of <mask>'s paintings have won the PICA Awards (Printing Industry of the Carolinas).At the PIAG 2008 Awards in Georgia, <mask> was awarded the 'Top Gold Award' for his painting New Year's Wish, and the 'Best of Category Giclée' for Fire In the Sky. <mask> was awarded the Henry Timrod Southern Culture Award (2010) by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars for his contributions toward the understanding, appreciation and explanations of Southern Arts and Letters, as a member of the Order. <mask> has completed commissioned works for the United States Army, which are on permanent display at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Fort McNair in Washington D.C., and the battlefield visitor's center at Normandy, France. <mask>'s painting, D-Day, a 50th Anniversary portrayal of the first Infantry Division's landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France on June 6, 1994, was commissioned by the Class Gift Committee of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in April 1994. The painting is now on display in the Eisenhower Hall of the CGSC, and was reproduced in an edition of 1290 prints for the 1994 graduates. In April 2009, <mask> was commissioned by the University of Alabama to paint a historical work for the Confederate Corp of Cadets assembling to fight the Union invaders in April 1865. The finished work was unveiled at the annual Gen. <mask> C. Calhoun Sanders Lecture Series on the University campus.On November 22, 1998, <mask> appeared in an interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal Feature, where he discussed his inspiration and techniques as a historical artist. On episode 18, season 5 of Extreme Home Makeover, <mask> worked and painted on the set and donated a large original painting, 'Chatham House'. "Along with renowned artist <mask> <mask>, Ty looks at a photo of the original Chatham house to make sure they've gotten the details right. 'I want it to look kind of mysterious,' Ty says. Ty and <mask>, who completed his work in less than a week, secure the framed canvas—the molding was painted silver—with French cleats." <mask>'s paintings have helped to raise funds for many historical restoration projects and battlefield preservation organizations. The National Park Service uses <mask>'s paintings in their publications and at battlefield sites.Books

Books by <mask>

 <mask>, <mask>. Witness to the Civil War: The Art of <mask> <mask>. Courage Books, 2002. Print. <mask>, <mask>. The Historical Art of <mask> <mask>. John Paul Strain Historical Art, 2010.Print. Books featuring art of <mask>

 Beck, Brandon H.  The Three Battles of Winchester: A History and Guided Tour. The Civil War Society Special Edition. Country Publishers, 1988. Print. (Cover)
 Bishop, Randy. Mississippi’s Civil War Battlefields: A Guide to their History and Preservation.Pelican Publishing, 2010. Print. (Cover)
 Bishop, Randy. Tennessee's Civil War Battlefields. Pelican Pub., 2010. Print. (Cover)
 Carter, Alden R.  Bright Starry Banner:  a Novel of the Civil War.Soho Press, 2005. Print. (Cover)
 Cozzens, Peter. The Battle of Stones River, Civil War series. Eastern National Park and Monument Assoc., 1995. Print. (Cover)
 Gorin, Betty J.  Morgan is Coming!: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky. 3rd ed. Harmondy House Publishers, 2006. Print. (Cover)
 Matthews, Gary R.  Basil Wilson Duke, CSA:  The Right Man in the Right Place. 1st ed. The University Press of Kentucky, 2005.Print. (Cover)
 Mollring, Christine. The Artists of Trailside Galleries. Trailside Two Inc., 1980. Print. Phillips, David. Daring Raiders.1st ed. Friedman/Fairfax Publishing, 1998. Print. Phillips, David. Maps of the Civil War. Barnes & Noble Publishing Inc., 2005. Print.(Cover)
 Ramage, James A. Rebel Raider: The Life of General <mask> Morgan. The University Press of Kentucky, 1995. Print. (Cover)
 Robertson, William G.  The Battle of Chickamauga, Civil War Series. Easter National, Ft. Washington, PA, 1995. Print.(p. 38)
 Samuels, Peggy, and Harold Samuels. Contemporary Western Artists. Bonanza Books, 1987. Print
 Sauers, Richard A. The Devastating Hand of War; Romney, West Virginia, During the Civil War. Gauley Mount Press, 2000. Print.(Cover)
 Seabrook, Lochlainn. Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American Patriot. 2nd ed. Sea Raven Press, 2009. Print. (Cover)

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title: Erik Brynjolfsson

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<mask> (born 1962) is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR, the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a best-selling author of several books. He is known for his contributions to the world of IT productivity research and work on the economics of information and the digital economy more generally. Biography

<mask> was born to <mask> and <mask>, a nuclear physicist. He earned his A.B., magna cum laude, in 1984 and his S.M. in Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences at Harvard University in 1984.He received a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics in 1991 from the MIT Sloan School of Management. <mask>  served on the faculty of MIT from 1986 to 2020, where he was a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business. Previously, he was at Harvard from 1985 to 1995 and Stanford from 1996 to 1998. In 2001 he was appointed the Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He lectures and consults worldwide, and serves on corporate boards. He taught the popular course 15.567, The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure, and Pricing, at MIT  and hosts a related blog, Economics of Information. He was also a contributing member to the Winter, 2004 Boston Ski and Sports Club (BSSC) Championship flag football team.In February 2020, Stanford announced that <mask> would join its faculty in July. His research has been recognized with nine "best paper" awards by fellow academics, including the John DC Little Award for the best paper in Marketing Science. <mask> is the founder of two companies and has been awarded five U.S. patents. Along with Andrew McAfee, he was awarded the top prize in the Digital Thinkers category at the Thinkers 50 Gala on November 9, 2015. <mask> is of Icelandic descent. Work
<mask>'s is one of the most widely cited scholars studying the economics of information systems. He was among the first researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital and other intangibles.<mask> has done research on digital commerce, the Long Tail , bundling and pricing models, intangible assets and the effects of IT on business strategy, productivity and performance. More recently, in his books The Second Machine Age and Race Against the Machine, <mask> and his co-author Andrew McAfee have argued that technology is racing ahead, and called for greater efforts to update our skills, organizations and institutions more rapidly. Information technology and productivity
<mask> wrote an influential review of the "IT Productivity Paradox"   and in separate research, documented a correlation between IT investment and productivity. His work provides evidence that the use of Information Technology is most likely to increase productivity when it is combined with complementary business processes and human capital. Selected publications

AI, machine learning and the economy
 Brynjolfsson Erik and Mitchell, Tom (December, 2017) What can machine learning do? Workforce implications Science. <mask> <mask>, Syverson, Chad and Rock Daniel (2019) Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics National Bureau of Economic Research.<mask>, <mask>, Hui, Xiang and Liu, Meng (2019). Does machine translation affect international trade? Evidence from a large digital platform Management Science. <mask>, <mask> and Andrew McAfee. (2017) The Business of Artificial Intelligence: What It Can—and Cannot—Do for Your Organization. Harvard Business Review. <mask>, <mask> and Andrew McAfee.(2017) "What's Driving the Machine Learning Explosion?" Harvard Business Review. Measuring the digital economy
 <mask>, <mask>, Avinash Collis, and Felix Eggers. (March, 2019) Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-Being Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <mask>, <mask> and Avinash Collis. (2019) How Should We Measure the Digital Economy? Harvard Business Review,

Computers, productivity and organizational capital
 McAfee, Andrew and <mask>, <mask> (June, 2017) Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing the Digital Revolution, W.W. Norton & Company,
 <mask>, <mask> and McAfee, Andrew (January, 2014) The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, W.W. Norton & Company,
  <mask>, <mask> and McAfee, Andrew (October 2011) Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy.Digital Frontier Press. <mask>, <mask> and Saunders, Adam (October 2009) Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy. The MIT Press. Wu, Lynn and <mask>, <mask> (August 2013) "The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales". NBER Conference Technological Progress & Productivity Measurement, 2009; WISE, 2009; ICIS, 2009. <mask>, <mask> and Hitt, Lorin (June 2003) "Computing Productivity: Firm-level Evidence,Review of Economics and Statistics. <mask>, <mask> and Hitt, Lorin (Fall 2000) "Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol.14, No. 4, pp. 23–48. Bresnahan, Timothy, <mask>, <mask> and Hitt, Lorin (February, 2002) "Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm Level Evidence" Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 117, pp. 339–376. <mask>, <mask>, Hitt, Lorin and Yang, Shinkyu (2002)"Intangible Assets:  Computers and Organizational Capital", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Macroeconomics, 137–199.Bundling and pricing of information goods
 Bakos, Yannis and <mask>, <mask> (December, 1999) "Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits and Efficiency", Management Science, Vol. 45, No. 12, pp. 1613–1630. Bakos, Yannis and <mask>, <mask> (January, 2000) "Bundling and Competition on the Internet", Marketing Science, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp.63–82. Internet commerce and the long tail
 <mask>, <mask>, Smith, Michael and Hu, Yu (November, 2003) "Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety at Online Booksellers,"  Management Science, Vol 49, No. 11. <mask>, <mask>, Hu, Yu and Rahman, Mohammad (November, 2009) "Battle of the Retail Channels: How Product Selection and Geography Drive Cross-channel Competition",  Management Science, Vol. 55, No. 11. <mask>, <mask>, Hu, Yu and Simester, Dunan (2006) "Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales"

References

External links
 <mask>'s Web Site with links to research papers.The Stanford Digital Economy Lab. Economics of Information Blog
 Profile in Business Week, September 29, 2003. ("If e-business had an oracle, <mask> would be the anointed.") Profile in Optimize, October, 2005. (Brynjolfsson ranked second in research study of "most influential academics of business technology")
 Profile in Supply Chain Management, January, 2006. CIO Insight Interview, "Expert Voice: <mask> on Organizational Capital" October, 2001. Profile in  Informationweek, April 17, 2000.("When it comes to explaining the relationship between IT and worker productivity—bandwagon jumpers like Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan notwithstanding—the generally acknowledged expert in the field is <mask> ...")

 TED Talk on the impact of technical change (TED2013)

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MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
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Harvard University faculty
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title: Bhupinder Singh Mann

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Sardar <mask>, born in Gujranwala (now in Pakistan) on 15 September 1939 was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1990 by the Honorable President of India as recognition to his contribution to the farmers' struggle. He served from 1990–1996. His family moved from Lyallpur, now Faisalabad during partition to settle at Batala. His father S<mask> was a prominent landlord of the area and Chak 207 in Faisalabad is still named after him. Socio-political activities
He was one of founder members of  "Farmer Friends Association" in 1966, which grew to a state level organization Known as "Punjab Kheti Bari Union", which further grew to a National level Kisan organization, "Bharti Kisan Union" (BKU) and coordinated with other farmers organizations to form Kisan Coordination Committee (KCC). In 1967 he helped the candidate of Jan Sangh Party, Brig. <mask>.Took charge of his entire election as an Election Agent. Defeated Pt. Mohan Lal, the then Home Minister in Kairon Ministry. He had the zeal to fight corruption from the very beginning which was deeply inculcated in him by his mother Smt Harbans Kaur, who faced the brunt of dislocation during the partition of India in 1947. Sardar <mask> in 1968, resisted rampant corruption in the Food Corporation of India. Took a pledge over blood in the market yard Batala, not to fall prey to corrupt officials, uprooting bribery in purchase of paddy by FCI. In 1969 he became Director of Cooperative Sugar Mills, Batala.In 1972, he led the agitation for cleansing and redefining the sugar cane supply system to the sugar mills which resulted in formation of Calendar System of sugar cane supply before the start of each crushing season. This was a landmark in the Sugar cane procurement system. In 1974 he led an agitation against Zonal Restrictions of movement of wheat. He launched a successful Agitation against Hike in Electric Power Tariff. He was arrested along with hundreds of Kisans, to be released only after Punjab Government withdrew the hiked tariff. In 1975, Emergency was imposed in India by the then Prime Minister Smt Indira Gandhi. He and his organisation opposed the imposition of Emergency and was jailed for several months along with many kisans.He continued his struggle to uplift the farmers and launched a "Lekhe Patte Da morcha" (a morcha launched for persuading the Government to give account of loans due from farmers vis-à-vis the economic squeeze of the farmers). In 1976 he spearheaded a successful agitation against supply of tractors with manufacturing defects (Tractor Morcha). He led the agitation for regulating diesel supply to farmers in 1977. He also led an agitation for providing support price of potatoes, which the State Government had to accept as demanded by the farmers. He was arrested in 1979 along with farmers from many states when they participated in Agitation in 1979 against taking over of Charagah at Vill Kanjhawala, in Delhi. In 1980, he was elected the Elected State President Bharti Kisan Union. He remained the President of the State BKU up to 1989.He spearheaded the famous sugar cane agitation which changed the complete picture of sugar cane farming 1981. The agitation culminated in getting sugarcane price hiked from Rs. 16 per quintal to Rs. 28 per quintal. He was instrumental in nationalising the farmers movement and in 1981, the BKU and Shetkari Sangathna (farmers' body from Maharashtra under the leadership of Sh. Sharad Joshi) joined hands in a Joint meeting. In 1984, he was elected National President Bharti Kisan Union 1984 and re-launched the agitation for defying for Zonal Restrictions of movement of wheat.In March 1984, a historical an unmatched agitation was launched under his leadership during an agitation when Punjab Raj Bhawan (residence of the Punjab Governor) was Gheraoed (seized) for seven days by lakhs of farmers from various states under the banner of BKU. This was immediately followed by a historical agitation of Boycott of Sale of Wheat from 1 to 7 May as a result of which not a single kilogram of wheat came to Punjab Markets. Various news clippings can be viewed at:-
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He was instrumental in the formation of the all India level Kisan Coordination Committee (KCC) which is a coordinating platform of various State level Farmers organizations, currently 17 in number. In 1985, he was elected Chairman Kisan Coordination Committee (1985–1988). In 1986, he launched an Anti-corruption drive and lakhs of rupees was got returned from the corrupt officials. He also got the waiver of arrears of Brick Lining of canal Distributaries amounting to Rs. 3.50 billion.In 1989, he was nominated as Member of Consultative Committee of Punjab State Electricity Board, PSEB for the term of 1989–1990. Nominated to Rajya Sabha
In 1990, he was nominated to Rajya Sabha. During his tenure as a Member of Parliament, he raised 118 starred or un-starred questions in the Rajya Sabha. Few special achievements in Parliament:

 This was for the first time that the then Prime Minister, Mr. Narasimha Rao, while replying to his question, had to accept in Rajya Sabha, that Indian Farmers are victims of Negative Support amounting to 72% of value of agriculture produce. This was done after extensive research work on agriculture costing, subsidisation and other parameters governing the intricate economics of agriculture. Agriculture Minister Mr. Balram Jakhar, was made to admit on the floor of Rajya Sabha that Farmers cannot freely add value to their produce, not even shell rice from their paddy produce. Main focus in the Rajya Sabha remained to explore and raise the economic issues of farmers of the country.In 1995, continuing his struggle, and to highlight the Zonal restriction levied by the Government to suppress the costs of agriculture produces, he led an agitation to press government to allow free movement of wheat. He being a Sitting Member of Rajya Sabha was arrested along with hundreds of farmers while breaking un-announced restrictions on movement of wheat. He was a member of delegation of Indian Members of Parliament to UN in 1995. Later activities
In 1997, he led a march to Wagha Border, along with Sh. Sharad Joshi and thousands of farmers from Maharashtra, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab, as a symbolic gesture to impress for free trade route through Pakistan. In 1998, there was a spate of suicides by farmers in Punjab due to rising debt. Alarmed, he led thousands of farmers to pray and pledge before Shri Akal Takhat Sahib, Amritsar, not to commit suicides, but to fight against anti-farmer policies, on 15 August 1998.An agitation was launched in 2000 against procurement of Paddy at prices even lower than Minimum Support Price (MSP) fixed by the Government of India. During 2001, there was an ongoing debate on the benefits of WTO. Many people were raising doubts on the opening of the Indian economy. He organised a talk on WTO by Sh. Sharad Joshi and other renowned scholars at Chandigarh, to highlight the rights of farmers to be liberated from the unconstitutional and inhuman economic blockade. Thousands of farmers attended and got educated on the true picture. In 2002, under his leadership, the BKU in Punjab supported Congress to power in Punjab.In 2003 he led a successful Agitation against the Punjab Government (Congress which his party had supported to Power) to get the arrears of sugarcane, by organising a massive Dharna, at National Highway at Dina Nagar, Gurdaspur district, and afterwards Gheraoing DC Gurdaspur Office Complex for continuous 16 days. This resulted in release of all the arrears of 800 million rupees. He participated in Global Forum on Agricultural Research at Dakar, Senegal. May 2003. He was re-elected Chairman of the KCC for three years in 2003. He led a massive Kisan rally in front of Parliament of India in New Delhi highlighting lower than cost of production procurement prices of food grains, paddy, wheat and sugar cane and payment of arrears of sugar cane in 2003. The Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amarinder <mask> also sat in the agitation along with the farmers.In 2004, he organised a seminar on the significance and importance of the River Water issues. Capt Amarinder <mask>, CM Punjab was honoured for taking a bold step on protecting the rights of Punjab in this regard. In 2005, he was invited to attend the World Agriculture Forum meet at St. Louis, USA from 16–18 May 2005 on the issue "The key to Peace, Security and Growth- Local Regional and Global Agri Food System". He was nominated as a Member of Sub Committee of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission in 2009. BKU, under his leadership supported Congress in Punjab and Haryana for the Lok Sabha Elections. In 2010, he organised meeting of the Kisan Coordination Committee in September 2010 under his Chairmanship in which one of the main issues discussed was regarding land acquisition, which is a burning issue in India at the moment. While discussing the issue of land acquisition, it was stressed that the fact that in India, companies are allowed to purchase thousands of acres of land and earn profits to the tune of crores of rupees whereas on the other hand, land Ceiling Act is implemented against the poor farmers who cannot even sustain themselves on whatever little land they have.This clearly shows the callous attitude of the governments towards the farmers. That the Companies, either themselves or through the government, which takes the land from the poor farmers and after acquiring it, gives it to multinational companies at throw away prices who can otherwise also purchase the said land at market price and when it comes to farmers, the land Ceiling Act comes into play. It was also stressed that such a policy should not be made by the Government without consulting the members of the Kisan Coordination Committee and in case the Government went ahead with the draconian laws and policies framed against the farmers, the Kisan Coordination Committee would start its nationwide protest against the Government from its next Convention proposed to be held at Kerala. In 2012, he and his BKU fully supported the Congress party under the command of Capt Amarinder <mask> because of his pro farmer approach, clean governance and administrative skills. In 2012, he led a delegation to Sh Rahul Gandhi to request him that Government should start giving payments to the farmers directly instead through the commission agents (direct payment to farmers). Gandhi was convinced and he deputed a team to visit Punjab to carry out a detailed study on this aspect. In 2012, UPA government had opened up FDI in retail.He led a team to thank Smt Sonia Gandhi ji for this farmer friendly step. He presented a badge of BKU to Smt Sonia Gandhi ji for this historic step. In 2013, he gave a detailed memorandum to Sh. Jai Ram Ramesh, the then Rural Development Minister  to request him to include small and marginal farmers in the MNREGA. This suggestion was greatly appreciated and this scheme was included in MNREGA as an amendment to the act. In 2014, Sh Rahul Gandhi invited him for suggestions on the Congress Manifesto (2014 polls). He gave very elaborate suggestions to him during a session organised at Ghanaur, Panipat.UPA government had passed a historic Act to protect farmers in land acquisition. But when Modi Government came to power, they wanted to dilute this Act. However, he on behalf of BKU and KCC submitted his strong opposition (2015) to any dilution to this Act before the committee headed by SS. Ahluwalia, MP. In 2014 and 2015 he led a delegation (three times) of BKU to submit memorandum to Punjab Governors (Sh. Shivraj Patel and Prof Kaptan Sinh Solanki) to highlight the plight of Punjab farmers because the then Punjab Government had fully failed in protecting the interests of farmers. In 2016 he led a delegation of BKU to meet the Chief Electoral officer Punjab requesting him to make the election manifesto legally binding document.In 2016/2017 he and his BKU fully supported Capt Amarinder <mask> led Congress party. He canvassed for Congress candidates in many constituencies and highlighted the leadership qualities of Capt Amarinder <mask> and his pro-farmer work done during his last tenure. In 2017 April he organised a National Level meeting of KCC at Chandigarh. From here he launched a uniqu andolan “Jo vada kia vo nibhana padega” to force Modi Government to fulfil his poll promise of implementing Swaminathan Report. This andolan was spread throughout the nation by the KCC. This andolan has spread like a wild fire across nation and has pushed the Modi Government to the corner. Currently, he is National President of BKU and Chairman of the All India Kisan Coordination Committee.References

External links

 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/farmers-split-merits-dunkel-proposals

 https://web.archive.org/web/20120513045257/http://www.chiefkhalsadiwan.com/gurdas.htm

 http://www.docstoc.com/docs/68498100/Commodity-Market-Project-Report

 http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACO440.pdf
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080835/http://www.columbia.edu/~sr793/doc/VVakulabharanam.pdf

 https://web.archive.org/web/20060511204358/http://www.egfar.org/documents/02_-_Meetings/Conferences/GFAR_2003/GFAR2003-00-02.en.pdf

1939 births
Living people
People from Gujranwala
Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha
Activists from Punjab, India
Agriculture in India
Indian social reformers

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. Anoop Singh
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title: Christophe Bassons

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<mask> (born 10 June 1974 in Mazamet, France) is a French former professional road racing cyclist. <mask>' career ended when he spoke out about doping in the Tour de France. Origins
<mask> was born in Mazamet, in the Tarn department. He studied and qualified in civil engineering. He began cycle-racing in 1991 in mountain biking. He started racing on the road in 1992 and won the Tour du Tarn et Garonne in 1995. That same year he won the world military time-trial championship and became national time-trial champion.He turned professional in 1996 for Force Sud and then, when the team failed, for Festina, a watch and clock maker. 1998 and Festina
<mask> became known during the 1998 Festina doping scandal, when the discovery of a carload of drugs being driven to the team's riders in the Tour de France led to evidence that doping was widespread in the team. In September 1998, the newspaper France Soir published statements made to the police. Two convicted riders, Armin Meier and <mask>au, said that <mask> was the only rider on the team not taking drugs. Jean-Luc Gatellier said in L'Équipe:

It's true he's not one of them and he hasn't come out of the same mould. It's true that he refused to 'load the cannon' (the pretty expression used by those who take EPO) these past years, it's true that <mask> doesn't belong to the family of cheats and the corrupted. Moreau's and Meier's court statement brought attention to a rider who had never acquired it through his racing.He wrote in Vélo, a French monthly, that riders who spoke out against quarterly medical checks imposed by the sports ministry after the Festina trial were hypocrites. He said: "That makes me laugh when I hear they're asking for changes to the tests. The truth, however, is that they are obliged to change their behaviour. They talk about 'two-speed cycling' But me, for three years, I've been the second speed. They have ruined three years of my life as a racer and I never said anything." In 1998 he turned down a 270,000 franc-per-month raise (more than 10 times what he was earning at the time) offered to him if he would use Erythropoietin (EPO). His stance against doping led other riders, most notably Lance Armstrong, to harass him for breaking the longstanding code of silence about doping in the sport.1999 Tour

The interest that the Festina trial brought to him led to an invitation to write a column during the 1999 Tour de France for Le Parisien, a newspaper in the same corporate group as the Tour de France itself. Bassons wanted to write about the "suspicious" speeds he was seeing; the average speed at the 1999 Tour was ; no Tour had ever been run faster than . As he later told Bicycling, "The 1999 Tour was supposed to be the "Tour of Renewal," but I was certain that doping had not disappeared." He was not the only rider concerned about how fast the 1999 Tour was going; fellow Frenchman Jean-Cyril Robin who rode for US Postal in 1997-98, told Bassons at one point, "This has got to stop! We can't go on racing like this!" Ian Austen wrote in Procycling:

On the whole his columns were largely innocuous if entertaining looks at life in the peloton. If anything, he sometimes went out of his way to dispel doping rumours.After the stage into Blois, which passed at record average speed, Bassons warned readers: 'Don't get any ideas about the record speed. With a wind like we had, it's normal to ride this fast.' But two columns stuck out. After Lance Armstrong showed that not only had he recovered from cancer, he'd risen to the top of the pack, <mask> wrote that his performances had 'shocked' the peloton. Stage 10 took place on 14 July and was from Sestrieres to Alpe d'Huez. Nobody had been talking to him. The entire peloton planned to ride slow for the first 100 km without telling him.<mask> only heard about this because a mechanic from his team told him. Bassons decided he was "fed up" and decided to ride ahead of the others ("attacked from the start"). As they came to a flat spot,  "all of the teams rode together to close me down". As the teams rode by him, they stared at him.

" . . . and then Lance Armstrong reached me. He grabbed my by the shoulder, because he knew that everyone would be watching, and he knew that at that moment, he could show everyone that he was the boss.He stopped me, and he said what I was saying wasn't true, what I was saying was bad for cycling, that I musn't say it, that I had no right to be a professional cyclist, that I should quit cycling, that I should quit the tour, and finished by saying [*beep*] you. . . . I was depressed for 6 months. I was crying all of the time. I was in a really bad way." - <mask>, from BBC Radio 5, 2012 10 15

<mask> said Armstrong also asked him why he was speaking out; "I told him that I'm thinking of the next generation of riders. Then he said 'Why don't you leave, then?'" Armstrong confirmed the story.On the main evening news on TF1, a French national television station, Armstrong said: "His accusations aren't good for cycling, for his team, for me, for anybody. If he thinks cycling works like that, he's wrong and he would be better off going home." <mask> was shunned by other riders. Giving a television interview at St-Étienne (after Stage 11), he said, a passing rider in his own team said: "Watch what you say!" <mask> said: "I started feeling isolated. In the middle of 170 riders, that's a tough way to live." Race director Jean-Marie Leblanc chastised Bassons for speaking as if "he is the only rider who is beyond reproach."Officials with his own team joined in on the condemnation, calling him a coward who only spoke to burnish his own image. Riders shunned him or at best nodded. He cracked, saying he had not wanted to leave the race but his nerves could not stand it anymore. He said:

The [team doctor] comforted me. We often talk together about the problem of doping and we share the same ideas. I confided in him and I whined [j'ai chialé]. I got to sleep but a bit after midnight I could no longer sleep because of my worries.I went into the corridor, I phoned my coach, Antoine Vayer, and Pascale, my wife. At 5.30am I had my breakfast and I packed my case. I crossed with Marc and he said I was letting down the team. He said a rider could leave the race if he cracked physically but he couldn't accept that one can crack mentally. I said goodbye to everyone but one rider didn't look at me and refused to shake my hand. That hurt. The reporter Jean-Michel Rouet wrote:

Sometimes he was congratulated on his courage, as Daniel Baal, the president of the FFC at the start at Sestrieres.But more often, others pointed at him [on le montrait du doigt], looked elsewhere, if they didn't just insult him. He has a few friends and a heap of enemies. His solitude was the living proof that nothing fundamental has changed in the morals of the milieu. <mask> died at the stake [est mort au bucher], burned by his passion. On official communiqués, he left two words: non partant. The peloton had already forgotten rider number 152. The sports minister, Marie-George Buffet, said: "What a strange role reversal.Rather than fighting against doping, they're fighting its opponent." She wrote to him to sympathise, saying that it was time someone spoke out. <mask>' colleagues in the  team refused to share their prizes with him. Normally teams pool their winnings and share them out by the number of days a rider has survived the race. One rider, Xavier Jan, said: "<mask> rode only for himself and didn't at any time work for the overall good of the team." It had nothing to do with his comments about doping, he said. Thierry Bourguignon, part of another team but earlier a member with Bassons of Force Sud, confirmed: "I was the only one to talk to Bassons...He doesn't listen to anyone. <mask> is an individualist. Even in a race he doesn't easily lend a hand. He rides for himself." Cycling after 1999

<mask> raced again, riding in Germany and Belgium. He said: "I felt a lot of tension. Some didn't talk to me.Others pretended nothing had happened, which is worse. Some say it's just youthful folly, but I feel more adult than them. I'm not the only clean rider but there aren't many who can say 'I don't take drugs'. For most riders, their health is the last of their concerns." He moved to a smaller team, Jean Delatour, but the mistreatment continued. In 2001 at Four Days of Dunkirk, he later told Bicycling, "several guys tried to ride me into the ditch . . . it got dangerous, and I realized that it wasn't worth continuing".He ended his professional road racing career. In her book about the Armstrong doping scandal, Cycle of Lies, Juliet Macur wrote that <mask>' mistreatment was a sign of the power Armstrong had over international cycling at the time. On 20 October 2012 he was suspended for one year by the French Cycling Federation (FFC) for having missed an antidoping test during the 2012 French national mountain bike championships. He had quit the race partway through, and by the time he heard he was one of the riders chosen for testing, it was too late to get back to the race site for the test. His suspension was reduced to one month on appeal. <mask> took the FFC to court and they found in his favour ruling that the governing body owed him compensation. The FFC appealed but the court did not find in their favour and they had to pay <mask> €31,691 (£28,440/$36,270) in compensation.In 2011/2012, after investigations into past doping in cycling, especially the 2012 USADA report on Armstrong's US Postal Service team, some media re-told <mask>' story. In one interview for the BBC, Tyler Hamilton publicly apologized for being part of the peloton that shunned him, saying that he (Tyler) was "100% wrong" not to talk to Bassons. <mask> said "that's life, it's nothing. I don't begrudge Hamilton. I understand." After professional cycling

In 2000 he published his autobiography Positif and in 2001 he qualified as a sports teacher and began teaching. He now works for the ministry of youth and sport at Bordeaux, in charge of drug tests.He told Willisher of Guardian in 2012 that he considered his career to be as a sports professor, not his six years of cycling. He also said that he was "not bitter" against Armstrong, and was content with his situation, comparing it to what Armstrong was going through in the wake of the 2012 USADA report. Palmarès

1999
1 stage in the Dauphiné Libéré

References

External links

a page on Bassons

Living people
1974 births
French male cyclists
People from Mazamet
Doping cases in cycling
Knights of the National Order of Merit (France)
Sportspeople from Tarn (department)

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title: Mikey McCleary

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<mask> is an Indian-born New Zealand songwriter, composer, performer, producer and director living in Mumbai, India since 2007. He has worked on a large number of advertisements such as for brands like Levi's, Coca-Cola, Vodafone etc. and films such as Waiting, Margarita with a Straw, Shaitan, Shanghai, David, Bombay Velvet, Nautanki Saala, Shaadi Ke Side Effects, Shaandaar etc. Besides his prolific work on soundtracks for ad-films, background scores and songs for Bollywood films, he is also well known for his re-interpretations of old Bollywood songs under the stage name of The Bartender, most notably Khoya Khoya Chand and Hawa Hawai from Shaitan, Neend Na Mujhko Aaye and Eena Meena Deeka from Shaandaar, Fifi from Bombay Velvet, O Lal Meri / Mast Kalandar from David and Dhak Dhak from Nautanki Saala. He has also released a one-of-its-kind album of full-length versions of some of his most popular advertisement jingles called TV Dinners. Personal life
<mask> is a New Zealander who was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He lived and worked in London, England for nearly fifteen years and is currently based primarily in Mumbai, India.He studied Composition and Orchestration at the Wellington Conservatorium of Music and at Victoria University of Wellington, then worked as a music producer in London at the Trident Studios among other places. He is married to writer and actor Diksha Basu. Career in India
<mask> began his career in the Indian industry with a collaboration with Lucky Ali. He was responsible for the music arrangement for the album Sunoh and several subsequent Lucky Ali albums and he has also worked regularly with A. R. Rahman. He is the talent behind some of the most successful and recognisable tracks for India's biggest advertising campaigns including Vodafone, Coca-Cola, Levi's, Titan, Garnier, Lakme, Reliance, Canon, Sony, Pond's, Cadbury Dairy Milk and countless more. In addition to advertising, <mask> continues to make his mark in Bollywood. He composed & produced all the tracks and background music for the recently released film Waiting.In 2015 he won the Best Composer Award for the Film Margarita with a Straw at the Asian Film Awards. He also created the critically acclaimed background score for Dibakar Banerjee's 2012 political thriller Shanghai as well as contributing music for several other films including Shaitan, Kahaani, Love Sex aur Dhokha, Shaandaar, Bombay Velvet and Chennai Express. He composed the background score and a few tracks for Bejoy Nambiar's second film, David and then turned into a full-fledged Bollywood music director for Rohan Sippy's 2013 film, Nautanki Saala. He also created the background score and one track for the 2014 film, Shaadi Ke Side Effects. TV Dinners
TV Dinners was <mask>'s debut album of English songs. The album consists of songs that Mccleary composed and wrote for major TV advertising brands like Vodafone, Levi's, Audi, Titan and Lakmé. He has extended these 45-second jingles into full-length songs by adding new composition and lyrics so that instead of sounding like jingles, they sound like tracks from various artists that were placed in TV ad films.Featuring his own vocals on half the album, it also features the singers Anushka Manchanda, Shalmali Kholgade, Monica Dogra and Mauli Dave. Five music videos directed by him have been released for tracks from this album. The Bartender
Going by the stage name of The Bartender, McCleary has three albums released, Classic Bollywood: Shaken not Stirred (2011), B Seventy (2013) and Classic Bollywood with a Twist (2014). The first album re-invents Bollywood songs from the '50s and '60s in a jazzy, seductive style and includes hit songs such as Khoya Khoya Chand (featured in Bejoy Nambiar's film Shaitan) and Tum Jo Mil Gaye Ho from the Coca-Cola advertisement directed by Dibakar Banerjee. The second album, B Seventy, was created in honour of Amitabh Bachchan and was released as a dedication to him on his 70th birthday. It features revamped versions of his most iconic hit film songs, combining reggae, cabaret and motown while staying true to the original soul of the songs. The third album, Classic Bollywood with a Twist, was launched by Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh.In this album, McCleary has chosen some of the most loved songs from the 50s, 60s and 70s and reinterpreted them with jazzy, seductive and mischievous flare using various genres and a predominantly live band feel. McCleary has been quoted saying, 'A beautiful song is like a beautiful woman. The musical arrangements are like the clothes that she wears. The music recordings, much like clothes, may appear old and outdated to the younger generation, but the beauty of the song composition and lyrics are eternal. My goal is to give that beautiful song new clothes that suit and enhance her beauty for all to see afresh and enjoy. I personally also still love listening to the old recordings.' The Bartender as an artist includes Suman Sridhar, Shalmali Kholgade, Shibani Dandekar, Rachel Varghese, Saba Azad and Mauli Dave on vocals, Vinay Lobo on guitar, Aditya Ashok on drums, Anand Bhagat on percussions, Ramon Ibrahim on keyboards, Rhys D'Souza on saxophone, Kishore Sodha on trumpet and <mask> <mask> on bass.It has in the past also included Anushka Manchanda, Monica Dogra and Sagarika Mukherjee on vocals, Merlin D'Souza on keyboards, and Warren Mendonsa on guitar. Notable performances
 Amitabh Bachchan's 70th Birthday Celebrations
 Book Launch for Abu Jani – Sandeep Khosla's book, India Fantastique
 Blue Frog, Mumbai

Discography

Music albums

Films

References

18) http://kamlashow.com/2015/04/16/podcast-mikey-mccleary-on-creating-music-for-bollywood/

External links
 Official website

Indian film score composers
New Zealand music arrangers
New Zealand film score composers
New Zealand expatriates in India
New Zealand composers
Male composers
Indian composers of Western classical music
Living people
1969 births
Musicians from Chennai
Indian male film score composers

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title: Joseph M. Carey

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<mask> (January 19, 1845February 5, 1924) was an American lawyer, rancher, judge, and politician, who was active in Wyoming local, state, and federal politics. In the 1860s, <mask> practiced law in the eastern United States and participated in Pennsylvania and New Jersey politics. In 1869, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as the United States attorney in the Wyoming Territory and later to the Wyoming Supreme Court. After serving as the 14th Mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, he was elected to serve as Wyoming's delegate to the United States House of Representatives, where he introduced legislation admitting Wyoming as a state. Upon Wyoming's statehood, he was selected to serve as the state's first senator alongside Francis E. Warren. In 1910, he left the Republican Party and was elected as Governor of Wyoming with the Democratic nomination. He retired from politics after leaving the governorship in 1914.He is to date the last mayor of Cheyenne to be elected governor. Early life

<mask> <mask> was born on January 19, 1845, in Milton, Delaware, to Robert Hood <mask> and Susan Pitt Davis. He attended the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute until he was a sophomore in 1865. He studied law in the offices of B. F. Temple, W. L. Dennis, and Henry Flanders before graduating with a bachelor of laws from the University of Pennsylvania in 1867. On September 27, 1877, he married Louisa David and later had two children with her. Career

Politics

During the 1866 and 1869 Pennsylvania gubernatorial elections, <mask> supported and gave speeches in favor of Governor John W. Geary. He cast his first vote in 1866 and was later asked by the chairman of the Republican Party of New Jersey to give speeches in multiple New Jersey towns.On April 3, 1869, <mask> was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant as the first United States attorney in the Wyoming Territory and arrived on May 8. On December 14, 1871, he was nominated as an Associate Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court by Grant, confirmed by the Senate on January 18, 1872, and served until 1876. During the second session of the United States Centennial Commission, <mask> was selected to represent the Wyoming Territory and served on the Committee on Nomination of Secretaries of Departments. <mask> abstained when the commission voted on whether or not to allow the Centennial Exposition to remain open on Sundays. In 1876, he was selected to serve as the Wyoming Territory's National Republican committeeman on the Republican National Committee and remained in the position until 1897. Mayor

In 1880, <mask> was elected as mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming while he was out of state by running on a public works improvement platform. He was reelected in 1881, and again without opposition in 1882.During his tenure as mayor, the city's water and sewage systems were completed, an opera house was built, and the Stock Growers National Bank was organized and selected <mask> to serve as its first president. The Wyoming Development Company was founded in 1883 with the intention of bringing water to thousands of arid acres of land in the Wheatland Flats. In 1885, <mask> was selected to lead the organization and built a reservoir using water from the Laramie River. Water from the reservoir was transferred throughout the flats through canals and ditches and successfully irrigated 50,000 acres of land, allowing the area to become inhabitable. U.S. House of Representatives

On July 30, 1874, the Wyoming Republican Party unanimously nominated <mask> at its state convention to serve as the territory's delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the at-large congressional district, but was narrowly defeated by incumbent Democratic Delegate William Randolph Steele. On October 22, 1884, <mask> was given the Republican nomination for the at-large congressional district after Francis E. Warren declined the nomination. In the general election, he defeated Democratic nominee William H. Holliday.During the 1884 election, the Wyoming Democratic Party did not nominate a candidate for the at-large congressional district and <mask> received almost ninety percent of the popular vote with the remainder being split among Democratic write-in candidates. On October 8, 1888, he received the Republican nomination again and was reelected against Democratic nominee Caleb P. Organ. On May 18, 1887, he gave a speech at the dedication ceremony of the Wyoming State Capitol building. When Territorial Governor William Hale died, <mask> asked President Chester A. Arthur to nominate Warren, as he was a resident of Wyoming, rather than select a non-resident. Warren was nominated and the rest of Wyoming's territorial governors until statehood were residents of Wyoming. President Benjamin Harrison offered to appoint <mask> to an important position in Wyoming, but he declined as he wanted to work towards Wyoming statehood. In 1889, <mask> proposed legislation that would admit Wyoming as a state, but Congress did not act upon on his proposal.Although <mask>'s proposal was unsuccessful, Governor Warren still ordered an election for delegates to a constitutional convention to write a state constitution. On March 26, 1890, <mask> introduced legislation to admit Wyoming as a state, passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 139 to 127 in favor, and passed the Senate with 29 to 18 in favor. The legislation was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison on July 10, 1890. Although Wyoming had a population of less than 60,000 at the time of its statehood, <mask> stated that it did not matter as several other states had been admitted with populations lower than Wyoming's. United States Senate

Following Wyoming's statehood, the first state legislature held a session at the order of Governor Warren. On November 12, 1890, the state legislature voted on the appointment of its two senators to the United States Senate. <mask> defeated George W. Baxter while Warren defeated M. C. Brown, <mask>, H. R<mask>, and Henry A. Coffeen.In 1895, he ran for reelection, but the state legislature unanimously voted in favor of Francis E. Warren due to <mask>'s opposition to the free silver movement. Interlude

In 1894, he was named as honorary chancellor of Union College and was given an honorary LL. D. During the 1896 United States presidential election he stated that Governor <mask> would narrowly defeat William Jennings Bryan. In 1897, a constitutional convention was held in Delaware where a letter from <mask> in support of women's suffrage was read on February 16. On September 6, he and his brother, <mask>, were thrown from a carriage. <mask> received cuts on his head while Davis was uninjured. Governor

Election

In May 1910, <mask> announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for the Wyoming gubernatorial election.In June, he and former state Treasurer William C. Irvine, who served as <mask>'s campaign manager, campaigned across Wyoming. On September 10, he announced that he would run as an independent in the gubernatorial election in order to break the Republican political machine that controlled Wyoming. On September 21, he defeated William L. Kuykendall for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. In the general election, he defeated Republican nominee William E<mask> and Socialist nominee W. W. Paterson and won every county. Tenure

On January 21, 1911, nine senators, six governors, and thirteen representatives from the Republican Progressive League signed a declaration of principles supporting progressive legislation. <mask> was one of the signatories. On January 29, 1912, he endorsed former President Theodore Roosevelt for the Republican presidential nomination against incumbent President William Howard Taft.On July 15, he issued a call for a Progressive state convention to select delegates to attend the national convention of Roosevelt's Progressive Party. Although Wyoming had a member of Roosevelt's Progressive Party as its governor, in the presidential election, Roosevelt placed third behind Taft, who placed second, and Governor Woodrow Wilson, who won the state. In the House of Representatives election, Charles E. Winter, the Progressive Party's nominee for Wyoming's at-large congressional district, placed third behind Democratic nominee Thomas P. Fahey and incumbent Republican Representative Frank Wheeler <mask>. On January 20, 1913, fighting broke out in the Wyoming House of Representatives during the selection of the Speaker of the House. <mask> was asked to restore order to the state house, but declined to intervene. During his tenure as governor, he pardoned sixty-three people and commuted the sentences of ninety-six people. Later life

On October 14, 1916, <mask> endorsed incumbent President Woodrow Wilson for reelection during the 1916 presidential election against Republican nominee Charles Evans Hughes.In 1917, he came out in support of the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. In 1918, his son, Robert D<mask>, won the gubernatorial election with the Republican nomination, making <mask> the only governor of Wyoming to be the father of another governor of Wyoming. In January 1922, <mask> and <mask> traveled through the eastern United States. In January 1924, he suffered a stroke and later died on February 5. Following his death, he was honored by the Casper Kiwanis branch alongside former President Woodrow Wilson. On February 8, all business in Wyoming was suspended and members of the state government, including Governor William B. Ross, eulogized <mask>. On February 13, the Wyoming Supreme Court had resolutions written by Hugo Donzelman, Thomas Hunter, and Anthony C. Campbell eulogizing <mask> placed into the record.In 1959, he was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Electoral history

References

External links

<mask> Family Papers at University of Wyoming - American Heritage Center

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People from Milton, Delaware
American people of English descent
Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Wyoming Territory
Republican Party United States senators from Wyoming
Governors of Wyoming
Democratic Party state governors of the United States
Wyoming Democrats
Wyoming Republicans
Progressive Party (1912) state governors of the United States
Wyoming Progressives (1912)
Mayors of Cheyenne, Wyoming
Justices of the Wyoming Supreme Court
United States Attorneys for the District of Wyoming
Pennsylvania Republicans
Politicians from Laramie, Wyoming
Ranchers from Wyoming
Union College (New York) alumni
University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni

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title: Ohad Talmor

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<mask> (born 1970 in Lyon ) is a jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, conductor and arranger. Life and work

Early Years

<mask> grew up in Geneva, Switzerland where he began piano lessons at the age of 5 at the local conservatory. He met virtuoso pianist Martha Argerich in his teens who exposed him to a world of music and musicians which helped shape his musical upbringing both as an instrumentalist and as a composer. Talmor discovered the saxophone while attending high school in the US in 1987. Back in Switzerland, he devoted himself to this instrument while briefly studying musicology and philosophy at the University of Geneva. He also studied composition with Russian pianist and composer Alexander Rabinovitch. In 1989, he met alto saxophonist Lee Konitz at a recording session.Lee Konitz would prove pivotal in <mask> <mask>'s career, mentoring him closely for years to come. Eventually Talmor became one of Lee Konitz's privileged musical partner, resulting in 4 records and over 200 concerts worldwide. [1]
From 1990 to 1995, <mask> was deeply involved in the European Jazz scene, leading his own quartet or quintet which featured American trombonist Glenn Ferris. During this time, he collaborated with many of Europe's leading musicians including Joachim Kühn, Matthieu Michel, Benoit Delbecq. In 1994 and 1995 he toured Europe with Lee Konitz, Steve Swallow and different large ensembles (including string quartet ) featuring music he had composed. <mask> eventually moved to New York in 1995 getting a Composition degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 1997. Present day

<mask> <mask> lives currently in New York where he plays regularly with his own project NEWSREEL; a flexible group mirroring his multi-faceted musical identity and which features some of New York's most creative musicians: Dan Weiss, Jacob Sacks, Miles Okazaki, Shane Endsley and Matt Pavolka.Talmor's other projects include:
"Steve Swallow/<mask> <mask>/Adam Nussbaum TRIO"
"MASS TRANSFORMATION" a Nonet focusing on the Music of Anton Bruckner and featuring Austria's Spring String 4tet, singer Judith Berkson, Pete McCann, Shane Endsley, Mark Ferber. "TRIO", with Miles Okazaki and Dan Weiss. The group's original repertoire focuses on short forms with highly interactive rhythmic studies. Since 2004, he is a devoted student of Hindustani music, playing the bansuri under the guidance of his teacher, virtuoso flutist Steve Gorn. Talmor is involved with the bustling Brooklyn Jazz scene  and performs regularly with Jason Moran, Joshua Redman, Gregoire Maret, Fred Hersh, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Cheek, Dave Douglas, Carla Bley, Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Billy Hart. As a Composer and Arranger, Talmor is equally involved in writing for Jazz and Classical idioms. Talmor has composed, arranged and conducted music written for large ensemble and the following soloists:  Kurt Rosenwinkel, Joshua Redman/Mark Turner/Chris Cheek, Gregoire Maret, Lee Konitz, Chris Potter.His music has been performed by various Jazz ensembles all over the world, including: Germany "WDR Big Band", Portugal's "OJM Big Band", Switzerland's "Big Band de Lausanne", "Lucerne Jazz Orchestra" and "DKSJ All Stars", Brazil's "SoundScape Orquestra", Belgium's "Bruxelles Jazz Orchestra" and NYC's "MSM Big Band" with the Brecker Brothers. His contributions to the Classical idiom include music for pianist Martha Argerich, São Paulo's Symphonic Band, the Spring String Quartet from Austria or Portugal National Orchestra. Talmor's large form composition include his Concerto for Piano/Drums and Double Orchestras "LAYAS"  premiered in February 2010 by the Porto National Orchestra, the OJM Big Band with Jason Moran and Dan Weiss as featured soloists. Other Activities

Talmor is actively involved as a composer for films and radio plays. His latest score is for the movie  "Low Down" featuring John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close and musician Flea. The movie was primed at the Sundance and Karlovy Vary  (Czech Rep)  Film Festivals in 2014. He has contributed numerous scores to Sci-Fi's Radio Drama Channel Seeing Ear Theater including the Tales from the Crypt audio series

Talmor is a Professor of Composition and Arranging at the Geneva Conservatory of Music.He is also an Adjunct Professor at the New School and Queens College CUNY in New York City. In 2011 <mask> founded the Performance Space SEEDS::Brooklyn located in Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, NY. [2][4]

In 2012 he was awarded the Jazz prize from Switzerland's SUISA Foundation for Music for his "innovative and creative jazz work". [3]

In 2015 Talmor was awarded the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Award for European Jazz Composer of the year. A composer speak
2. Meeting Lee Konitz-<mask> <mask> Big Band: Portology ()
3. All That Jazz The borough Brooklyn is where it's at, Village Voice from January 23, 2013 [2]
4.Press release SUISA
5. Downbeat 80 Coolest places [4]

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title: Daniel Scioli

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<mask> (, ; born 13 January 1957) is an Argentine politician, sportsman, and businessman. He was Vice President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and Governor of Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2015. Since 2020 he has been Argentina's ambassador to Brazil. He has also served two tenures as president of the Justicialist Party. He was the candidate to the presidency for the Front for Victory ticket in the 2015 general elections, and lost to Mauricio Macri in a runoff election. <mask> was born in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires. He spent his first years in a middle class home located at the corner of Corrientes and Humboldt.His grandfather ran an electrical hardware store, which over time grew into a store selling electrical appliances that was to become the family business. Scioli has described himself as a loyal man devoted to his stable and intimate circle, and an understanding but demanding father. In 1975, his brother <mask> was kidnapped by a cell of the Montoneros guerrilla group. <mask>, then aged 18, carried out the negotiations with the kidnappers to free his brother. José was released in exchange for a cash payment by their father. He was married to former model and entrepreneur Karina Rabolini and has an extramarital daughter, Lorena. Scioli refused to recognize his daughter, but he was eventually forced by law to recognize her.She was then accepted by Scioli as his daughter when she was 18 years old. Regarding this issue, he says, "It helped me to grow and to give me peace of mind. My relation with Lorena improved my life, and that’s why now I can also enjoy Father’s Day". Education
Scioli attended Colegio Ward’s primary school in Villa Sarmiento, where he lived until he was 17 years old. For his secondary schooling, he graduated from the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini with a diploma in commercial expertise, having attained one of the three best grade averages. He started studies in marketing at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (U.A.D.E.) in Buenos Aires; in October 2015 he graduated finishing his final exams.<mask> and Ricardo Orosco, head of the UADE, were denounced for a possible degree forgery, as several topics of study approved by him are no longer part of the scheduled studies. Sports career

His interest in sports began at the Villa Crespo club. He took part in swimming, tennis, basketball and a form of badminton, representing his city in each. His passion for offshore powerboat racing took off when a friend invited him for a ride in a powerboat. Some time later he competed in his first Offshore Powerboat race in Mar del Plata, in which he finished last. "This made me very angry, so I decided to train until I started winning, and finally ended up as the world champion," he states. <mask> started to compete in offshore powerboat racing in 1986 in 1987 he joined the Italian powerboat designer, builder and engineer Fabio Buzzi who ran FB Design, one of the most successful powerboat racing teams in the world.On December 4, 1989 he lost his right arm in an accident while racing on the Paraná river in the 1000 km Delta Argentino race. A wave produced by an oil tanker is believed to have overturned his boat. A fitted prosthesis enabled Scioli to pursue his love of offshore powerboat racing. Even with this handicap he won many offshore powerboat racing championships in various categories. On board La Gran Argentina, a Fabio Buzzi-designed FB 55, <mask> was a three-time winner of the World Superboat USA Championship and captured 4 European titles. The boat's hull was modified in 2000 into a long-distance record setter. Scioli went on to set the Miami-Nassau-Miami record with an average speed of 100 mph.Business career
In the field of business his activity was linked to the electrical appliances market. In 1991, the Swedish company Electrolux, which had left the Argentine market on account of the country’s instability, nominated him as the agent of its brand for Argentina. In 1994 <mask> encouraged the firm to re-establish in Argentina, an effort which gave rise to Electrolux Argentina, of which he became the director, a post he held until 1997. Political career

<mask>’s political career took off in 1997, when he ran for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies on behalf of the Justicialist Party in the City of Buenos Aires. He was elected and on December 10 of that year he became a Deputy in the Argentine Congress. He was nominated president of the Sports Committee of the House for a two-year tenure, a nomination that was renewed for another two-year period on the basis of a unanimous vote. Having been re-elected as a Deputy in 2001, in December 2001 he became a minister as the Secretary of Sports and Tourism.In 2003 the formula Kirchner-<mask> running on the Front for Victory ticket won the presidential election. Thus <mask> became Argentina’s Vice-President and the President of the Senate. In 2007, upon Néstor Kirchner's retirement as President, <mask> was elected Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, considered one of the most influential political jobs in Argentina. Following disappointing results for the ruling Front for Victory (FPV) in the June 28, 2009, mid-term elections, <mask> replaced Kirchner as President of the Justicialist Party (to which the FPV belongs). <mask> was the FPV candidate in the 2015 Argentine presidential election, and was endorsed by incumbent President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The initial polls pointed him as a favourite, with some predicting he would win enough votes to win outright and avoid a ballotage. However, he only narrowly won the first round, forcing him into a ballotage against Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri.The ballotage round was held on November 22. <mask> narrowly lost to Macri, and conceded the race with 70% of the votes counted. References

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Site of the team of <mask>i
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Twitter of <mask>i
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Youth for Scioli. Group that supports <mask>i
Biography by CIDOB (in Spanish)

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Governors of Buenos Aires Province
Justicialist Party politicians
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Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires
Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province
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Ambassadors of Argentina to Brazil

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title: Geeta Mehta

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<mask> is an Indian-American social entrepreneur, urban designer, architect and author. She is the co-founder of Asia Initiatives, and URBZ, and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Simla, India. She earned her bachelor's degree in Architecture from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, a master's degree in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University, and a doctorate in Urban Engineering from the University of Tokyo. <mask> is an adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York City. She is also an advisor to Millennium Cities Initiative at the Earth Institute. Until 2009, <mask> was a professor of architecture at the Temple University campus in Tokyo.She founded with business partner Jill Braden the interior design firm Braden & Mehta Design located in Honolulu and New York City. The blend of Western and Asian influences appear in the firm's work throughout U.S., Vietnam, and India as well for various corporations and private homes. <mask> was featured in Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, a full-length documentary film about activist Jane Jacobs directed by Matt Tyrnauer. <mask>, in the film, warned that global development, without the philosophies of Jacobs, could result in "the slums of the future". She was appointed in 2018 by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to serve on the Waterfront Management advisory board. She has spoken on social capital, sustainable and equitable urbanism, and community-based change at forums in Australia, Austria, Brazil, India, Japan, UAE and the US, including the Public Ideas Form in Perth, Australia, and the Post City event at ARS Electronica in Linz, Austria and she has served as a panelist at WomenDeliver in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Women's Summit in Sharjah organized by UN Women. She serves on the board of WomenStrong International, The Center for the Living City, and Friends of University of Tokyo.She served on the advisory board of the Millennium Cities Initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and People Building Better Cities. Asia Initiatives

Inspired by M. S. Swaminathan, a scientist and humanist, <mask> <mask> and Krishen <mask> co-founded Asia Initiatives in 1999 in Tokyo. Since 2010 it has been registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in New York City. Asia Initiatives has also supported projects in education and healthcare in underserved areas with non-profit organizations such as the Self-Employed Women's Association in Delhi and Ahmedabad, the Center for Development in Ahmedabad, Save Indian Farmers and Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan in Maharashtra, the Shohratgarh Environmental Society in UP, Friends of the Doon Society in Dehradoon, Ashta No Kai in Pune, Arpana Trust in Delhi, Women Lead in Nepal, Saving Mothers in Bangladesh, and Philippine Christian Foundation in Manila. The M.S. Swaminathan Award was presented at the Asia Initiatives Gala to the economist Jeffrey Sachs (2014), Indra Nooyi for steering PepsiCo towards Performance with Purpose (2015) and Kerry Kennedy for her work on human rights (2016). The 8th Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, is a patron of Asia Initiatives.In his honor, Asia initiatives instituted the Ban Ki-moon Award for Women's Empowerment in 2017. The recipients of the award have included  Gloria Steinem, Yue Sai Kan, Eva Haller, Prof. Chelsea Clinton, Dr. Susan Blaustein, Kathy Matsui, Cecile Richards, Madhura Swaminathan, Dr. Jane Goodall, Dr. Paul Polman and Dr. Lee Bae-yong. SoCCs (Social Capital Credits)
<mask> developed Social Capital Credits (SoCCs) into communities across India, Ghana, Kenya, and the US, helping them incentivise their ability to help themselves by communities and individuals earning SoCCs for the common good, redeemable for services or items such as healthcare, education, and skill empowerment to help communities climb out of poverty. The SoCCs team at Asia Initiatives works with communities to customize SoCCs menus to their specific needs and capabilities. SoCCs Earning Menus include items such as getting children vaccinated, sending children (especially daughters) to high school, waste management, providing childcare or senior care, planting trees, and paving streets. iSoCCs Redemption Menus include items such as school fees, skill training classes, home repairs and telephone talk time. CommSoCCs can then be used for common projects such as a micro-sewage system, improvements to streets or public spaces, or child-care centers.A local SoCC Manager is trained to work with the community. Asia Initiatives also has an online platform, www.SoCCmarket.org, for trading SoCCs and capturing necessary data. SoCCs are currently being used in pilot sites in Costa Rica, Ghana, Kenya, India, and United States. with local partners that range from corporations to municipal governments. <mask> has appeared in articles in Forbes and Huffington Post which describe the creation and use of SoCCs in greater detail. Asia Initiatives was among the six winners of the Amravati Happy Cities competition in April 2018, and has signed an MoU with the government of Andhra Pradesh to implement SoCCs in this new city. In 2019, SoCCs was recognized as a winner of Fast Company's 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards, that honor the businesses and organizations driving change in the world.In addition Asia Initiatives received the MIT Inclusive Innovation Award in 2019 for the Asia Region category. In 2020, Asia Initiatives received awards from MIT SOLVE, General Motors, Vodafone and Experian. In 2021, Asia Initiative received the Jacobs Foundation Conference Grand Innovation prize. Asia Initiatives is also partnering with SaveLIFE Foundation on implementing SoCCs on the Mumbai Pune Expressway to reduce the number of accidents and to incentivize good driving. URBZ
With urban planner Matias Echanove and urban anthropologist Rahul Srivastava, <mask> co-founded URBZ: User Generated Cities, a research collective that focuses on participatory urban planning and design systems. URBZ was named one of the 100 most influential names in architecture in the world by the magazine Il Giornale dell'Architettura. Bibliography
 City Connect: Regeneration, Sustainability and Equity in the 21st Century, released in 2016 by Arch-media Inc. and co-edited with George Kunihiro
 New Japan Architecture, published in 2011 by Tuttle Publishing and co-authored with Deanna MacDonald
 Japan Gardens: Tranquility, Simplicity, Harmony, released in 2008 by Tuttle Publishing and co-authored with Kimie Tada
 Japan Living: Form & Function at the Cutting Edge, released in 2008 by Tuttle Publishing and co-authored with Marcia Iwatate
 Japan Houses: Ideas for 21st Century Living, published in 2005 by Tuttle Publishing and co-authored with Iwatate; and
 Japan Style: Architecture + Interiors + Design, released in 2004 by Tuttle Publishing and co-authored with Tada.Awards
<mask> was named in 2015 by Women's eNews as one of the 21 leaders of the 21st century. Personal life
<mask> is married to Krishen <mask> of New York, who retired as a partner from PricewaterhouseCoopers to advise Global Financial Integrity, and the couple has two sons, <mask> and Arjun <mask>. References

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title: Frank Luntz

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<mask> (born February 23, 1962) is an American political and communications consultant, pollster, and pundit, best known for developing talking points and other messaging for Republican causes. His work has included assistance with messaging for Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, and public relations support for pro-Israel policies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He advocated use of vocabulary crafted to produce a desired effect; including use of the term death tax instead of estate tax, and climate change instead of global warming. Luntz has frequently contributed to Fox News as a commentator and analyst, as well as running focus groups during and after presidential debates on CBS News. Luntz describes his specialty as "testing language and finding words that will help his clients sell their product or turn public opinion on an issue or a candidate." He is also an author of business books dealing with communication strategies and public opinion. In January 2021, Luntz declared himself no longer a Republican.Early life and education
<mask> was born and grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Phyllys (née Kelmenson) and <mask>, who together wrote the first American forensic dentistry textbook. His family is Jewish. He graduated from Hall High School, earned a bachelor of arts degree in history and political science from the University of Pennsylvania, and received a doctorate in politics from Trinity College, Oxford where he was a contemporary of future British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. <mask>'s doctoral thesis formed the basis for his first book, Candidates, Consultants, and Campaigns: The Style and Substance of American Electioneering. published in 1988. <mask>'s studies at Oxford were funded by The Thouron Award, a scholarship established in 1960 by Sir John R.H. Thouron, K.B.E., and Esther du Pont Thouron to strengthen the "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom through educational exchange between British universities and the University of Pennsylvania to foster the sort of relationship that Luntz had with Boris Johnson (as Luntz counseled Johnson regarding his election as President of the Oxford Union debate society). Since its founding in 1960, the Thouron Award has sponsored programs of graduate study for more than 650 fellows, known as Thouron Scholars.Career
<mask> has appeared as a consultant or panel member on a number of television news shows, including The Colbert Report, Capital Gang, Good Morning America, Hannity, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Meet the Press, PBS NewsHour, Nightline, The O'Reilly Factor, Real Time with Bill Maher, and The Today Show. He has written op-eds for publications such as The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. In addition to his work in the US Luntz also provides analysis for British news programmes such as Newsnight. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1989 until 1996 and also taught at George Washington University and Harvard University. On January 10, 2020, Luntz suffered a stroke, a matter he freely discussed in interviews afterwards. He recovered, and continued his public analysis and media appearances. Use of language
Luntz frequently tests word and phrase choices using focus groups and interviews.His stated purpose in this is the goal of causing audiences to react based on emotion. "80 percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. ... If I respond to you quietly, the viewer at home is going to have a different reaction than if I respond to you with emotion and with passion and I wave my arms around. Somebody like this is an intellectual; somebody like this is a freak." In an article in The New Yorker Luntz is quoted as saying,The way my words are created is by taking the words of others....I've moderated an average of a hundred plus focus groups a year over five years... I show them language that I've created. Then I leave a line for them to create language for me. In a 2007 interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Luntz redefined the term "Orwellian" in a "positive" sense, saying that if one reads George Orwell's essay on language, "To be 'Orwellian' is to speak with absolute clarity, to be succinct, to explain what the event is, to talk about what triggers something happening… and to do so without any pejorative whatsoever." Luntz believes that Orwell would not have approved of many of the uses to which his pseudonym is applied by quoting Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language", where Luntz focuses on how Orwell derides the use of cliché and dying metaphors. Luntz's description of his job revolves around exploiting the emotional content of language. "It's all emotion.But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. ... my job is to look for the words that trigger the emotion. ... We know that words and emotion together are the most powerful force known to mankind." Additionally in his 2007 interview on Fresh Air, Luntz discussed his use of the term "energy exploration" to refer to oil drilling. His research on the matter involved showing people a picture of current oil drilling and asking if in the picture it "looks like exploration or drilling." He said that 90 percent of the people he spoke to said it looked like exploring."Therefore I'd argue that it is a more appropriate way to communicate." He went on to say, "if the public says after looking at the pictures, that doesn't look like my definition of drilling—it looks like my definition of exploring—then don't you think we should be calling it what people see it to be, rather than adding a political aspect to it all?" Terry Gross responded, "Should we be calling it what it actually is, as opposed to what somebody thinks it might be? The difference between exploration and actually getting out the oil—they're two different things, aren't they?" James L. Martin, chairman of the conservative 60 Plus Association, described Luntz's role as being that of pollster and popularizer of the phrase "death tax. "Martin gained an important ally in GOP pollster <mask>, whose polling revealed that 'death tax' sparked voter resentment in a way that 'inheritance tax' and 'estate tax' couldn't match. After all, who wouldn't be opposed to a 'tax on death'?Luntz shared his findings with Republicans and included the phrase in the GOP's Contract with America. Luntz went so far as to recommend in a memo to GOP lawmakers that they stage press conferences 'at your local mortuary' to dramatize the issue. 'I believe this backdrop will clearly resonate with your constituents,' he wrote. 'Death is something the American people understand.' Apparently, he's right. Spurred by Luntz, Republicans have employed the term 'death tax' so aggressively that it has entered the popular lexicon. Nonpartisan venues like newspapers and magazines have begun to use it in a neutral context—a coup for abolitionists like Martin.In a confidential memo to the Republican party, <mask> is credited with advising the Bush administration  that the phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of "climate change", which he called a "less frightening" phrase than the former. Publications
<mask> is the author of the 2007 New York Times Best Seller, "Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear." His second book, "What Americans Really Want ... Really: The Truth About Our Hopes, Dreams and Fears," climbed to #6 on the New York Times Business Best Sellers list. In March 2011, Luntz released his book,"Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business From Ordinary to Extraordinary". Work and views

U.S. politics, 1990s

Luntz was Pat Buchanan's pollster during the 1992 U.S. Republican presidential primary, and later that year served as Ross Perot's pollster in the general election. <mask> also served as Newt Gingrich's pollster in the mid-1990s for the Contract with America. During that time, he helped Gingrich produce a GOPAC memo that encouraged Republicans to "speak like Newt" by describing Democrats and Democratic policies using words such as "corrupt," "devour," "greed," "hypocrisy," "liberal," "sick," and "traitors."In 1993 and 1997 Luntz served as pollster and strategist for the successful mayoral campaigns of Rudolph Giuliani in New York City. Israel and the Palestinians
In December 2008 to January 2009, Luntz wrote a report titled "The Israel Project's 2009 Global Language Dictionary" that has been used by the Israeli government to defend Israeli policy in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The report, commissioned by The Israel Project, advised media spokespeople to use specific language that Luntz believed would create a more favorable impression of Israel in the United States and the rest of the international community. For example, when discussing the contours of a two-state solution, the report advised describing Palestinian negotiating points as "demands" because Americans dislike people who make "demands." The report was marked "not for distribution or publication", but it was leaked to Newsweek shortly after it was written. Global warming

Although Luntz later tried to distance himself from the Bush administration policy, it was his idea that administration communications reframe global warming as climate change since "climate change" was thought to sound less severe. Luntz has since said that he is not responsible for what the Bush administration did after that time.Though he now believes humans have contributed to global warming, he maintains that the science was in fact incomplete, and his recommendation sound, at the time he made it. In a 2002 memo to President George W. Bush titled "The Environment: A Cleaner, Safer, Healthier America", obtained by the Environmental Working Group, Luntz wrote: "The scientific debate is closing [against us] ... but not yet

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