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 progressive rock radio and album-oriented rock airplay, and enabling <mask> to headline more shows. Yet still, <mask> had a popularity imbalance. In June 1976, he was a featured performer at the Pontiac Silverdome outside Detroit in front of nearly 80,000 fans.The next night, <mask> played before fewer than a thousand people in Chicago. Peak of success: 1976–1987

<mask> finally achieved his commercial breakthrough with his October 1976 album Night Moves. The title track, "Night Moves" was critically and commercially well-received, becoming a  hit on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and receiving airplay on AOR radio. The album also featured the songs "Mainstreet" (written about Ann Arbor's Ann Street), a  hit ballad that emphasized <mask>'s rock credibility as well as guitarist Pete Carr's lead guitar line,  and "Rock and Roll Never Forgets", which peaked at  on the Billboard Hot 100. Night Moves was <mask>'s first top-ten album in the Billboard album chart, and as of 2006 was certified at 6 million copies in the United States, making it the biggest-selling studio album of his entire career. The success of Night Moves also bolstered sales of <mask>'s previous releases. <mask>'s 1975 release Beautiful Loser would eventually sell two million copies and the 1976 album Live Bullet would go on to sell six million copies in the United States.Live Bullet would eventually be cited as one of the greatest live albums of all time. In February 1977, Silver Bullet Band drummer Charlie Allen Martin was hit by a car from behind while walking on a service road and was left unable to walk. David Teegarden, previous drummer for <mask> on his 1972 album Smokin' O.P. 's was his replacement. Despite the loss of Martin, <mask>'s 1978 album Stranger in Town was also a success. The first single, "Still the Same", reached  on the Billboard Hot 100. "Hollywood Nights" reached  on the same chart, while the ballad "We've Got Tonight" reached ."We've Got Tonight" was a major hit again when it was covered in 1983 by country music superstar Kenny Rogers and pop singer Sheena Easton. Notably, it topped Billboard's Hot Country Songs and peaked at  and  on Billboard's Adult Contemporary and Hot 100 charts respectively. "Old Time Rock and Roll", a song from George Jackson and Thomas E. Jones III that Seger substantially rewrote the lyrics for,K. Sharp, Classic Rock, Issue 102, page 59. Future Publishing, 2007. peaked at  on the Hot 100, but achieved greater popularity after being featured in the 1983 Tom Cruise film Risky Business, in which Tom Cruise's character dances in his underwear to the song. It has since been ranked the second-most played Jukebox Single of all time, behind Patsy Cline's "Crazy". "Old Time Rock and Roll" was named one of the Songs of the Century in 2001.<mask> has since remarked that not taking one-third writing credit on his recording was, financially,  "the dumbest thing I ever did". <mask> also co-wrote the Eagles'  hit song "Heartache Tonight" from their 1979 album The Long Run; their collaboration about <mask>'s and Glenn Frey's shared early lives in Detroit. In 1980, <mask> released Against the Wind (with ex-Grand Funk Railroad member Craig Frost replacing Robyn Robbins on keyboards) and it became his first and only  album on the Billboard album chart. The first single "Fire Lake" featured Eagles Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit, and Glenn Frey on backing vocals and Muscle Shoals guitarist, Pete Carr, on 12-string acoustic. Fire Lake reached  on the Hot 100, while the title song "Against the Wind" reached  as a single and even crossed over to the Top 10 on Billboards Adult Contemporary chart. "You'll Accomp'ny Me" became the third hit single from the record, reaching . Against the Wind would also win two Grammy Awards.As of 2006, both Stranger in Town and Against the Wind had sold over 5 million copies each in the United States. The live 1981 album Nine Tonight encapsulated this three-album peak of <mask>'s commercial career. <mask>'s take on Eugene Williams' "Tryin' to Live My Life Without You" became a Top Five hit from Nine Tonight and the album would go on to sell 4 million copies. <mask> released the acclaimed The Distance in December 1982. During the recording of this album, Silver Bullet guitarist Drew Abbott left the band due to his frustration with Seger's frequent use of session musicians in the studio and was replaced by Dawayne Bailey. After the album's release, David Teegarden also left the band due to internal conflict and was replaced by ex-Grand Funk drummer Don Brewer. Critically praised for representing a more versatile sound than that of his recent material, The Distance spawned numerous hits beginning with Rodney Crowell's "Shame on the Moon".It was the biggest hit of the Silver Bullet Band's entire career, hitting  on the Adult Contemporary chart and holding at  for four consecutive weeks – behind Patti Austin and James Ingram's "Baby, Come to Me" and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" – on the Hot 100. It also crossed over to  on Billboards Country Singles chart. The follow-up single, "Even Now", just missed the Top 10, and "Roll Me Away" peaked at . The driving album track "Making Thunderbirds" was a popular music video filmed in Detroit and well-received on MTV. <mask>'s multi-platinum sales dropped off at this point, with The Distance peaking at  and selling only 1.9 million copies in the United States. The Distance was belatedly released on 8-track tape; Capitol reportedly had no plans to do so, but <mask>, claiming that many of his fans still used 8-track players in their vehicles, requested that the label also release the album in the waning format. In 1984, <mask> wrote and recorded the power rock ballad "Understanding" for the film soundtrack Teachers.The song was another Top 20 hit for <mask> in late 1984. In 1986, he wrote and recorded "Living Inside My Heart" for the film soundtrack of About Last Night....

<mask> was no longer as prolific, and several years elapsed before his next studio album, Like a Rock, emerged in the spring of 1986. The fast-paced "American Storm" was another Top-20 single aided by a popular music video featuring actress Lesley Ann Warren, and "Like a Rock" followed, reaching  on Billboard's Hot 100. Later, it would become familiar to many Americans through its association with a long-running Chevrolet ad campaign (something <mask> explicitly chose to do to support struggling American automobile workers in Detroit). <mask>'s 1986–1987 American Storm Tour was his self-stated last major tour, playing 105 shows over nine months and selling almost 1.5 million tickets. Like a Rock reached  and eventually sold over three million copies, although it has never been certified above platinum. On March 13, 1987, <mask> & the Silver Bullet Band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their contributions to the music industry, located at 1750 Vine Street.In 1987, <mask> recorded the song "Shakedown" for the soundtrack to the film Beverly Hills Cop II. A synth-driven pop-rock song, it was <mask>'s first and only  hit on the pop singles chart. The song had originally been intended for fellow Detroiter Glenn Frey, but when Frey lost his voice just before the recording session, he asked <mask> to take his place. <mask> changed the verses of the song but kept the chorus the same. The song earned <mask> an Academy Award nomination as co-writer in the Best Original Song category the following year. Later years: 1988–present
<mask>'s next record was 1991's The Fire Inside, at a time when glam metal, grunge and alternative rock were taking the forefront. His new music found little visibility on the radio or elsewhere.The same was true of 1995's It's a Mystery, although the album was certified gold (500,000 copies sold). However, in 1994, <mask> released Greatest Hits; the compilation album was his biggest-ever record in terms of sales, selling nearly 10 million copies in the United States . <mask> did go back on the road again for a 1996 tour, which was successful and sold the fourth-largest number of tickets of any North American tour that year. (<mask> was once known for his concerts in small venues, as witnessed with his appearance at the 18th Amendment in Omaha, Nebraska.) <mask> took a sabbatical from the music business for about ten years to spend time with his wife and two young children. In 2001 and 2002, <mask> won the prestigious Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race aboard his  sailboat Lightning. He subsequently sold the boat.He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2004. Fellow Detroiter Kid Rock gave the induction speech and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm proclaimed that date <mask> Day in his honor. In 2005, <mask> was featured singing with 3 Doors Down on the song "Landing in London" from their Seventeen Days album. <mask> & The Silver Bullet Band were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005. <mask>'s first new album in eleven years, titled Face the Promise, was released in 2006. In its first 45 days, it sold more than 400,000 copies. The album sold over 1.2 million copies, returning Seger to platinum status and staying on the Billboard chart for several months.His supporting tour was also eagerly anticipated, with many shows selling out within minutes. Showing that <mask>'s legendary appeal in Michigan had not diminished, all 10,834 tickets available for his first show at Grand Rapids' Van Andel Arena sold out in under five minutes; three additional shows were subsequently added, each of which also sold out. In 2009, <mask> released a compilation album titled Early Seger Vol. 1, which contained archival material from the 1970s and 1980s, including some fully or partially re-recorded tracks from his albums Smokin' O.P. 's (1972) and Seven (1974) and some never-before-released songs. The album was initially only available for purchase at Meijer stores and then later for download at BobSeger.com. <mask> contributed piano and vocals on Kid Rock's 2010 album Born Free.<mask> staged a successful arena tour during 2011, accompanied by the release of a two-CD compilation album, Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets. On May 28, 2011, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder proclaimed that date as <mask> Day for his more than 50 years of sharing his celebrated musical talents with fans all over the world. On December 30, 2011, before a sell-out crowd at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, <mask> closed another successful tour. On October 30, 2011, he told AnnArbor.com director, <mask>, he was returning to the studio to complete another new album for release in the fall of 2012, followed by another supporting tour. On June 14, 2012, <mask> was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. On January 10, 2013, <mask> announced another tour in the US and Canada. <mask> performed a duet of "Who'll Stop the Rain" with John Fogerty on Fogerty's album Wrote a Song for Everyone, released in 2013.<mask>'s 17th studio album, Ride Out was released on October 14, 2014. Ride Out was accompanied by a highly successful arena tour of the United States and Canada. On December 22, 2016, <mask> performed "Heartache Tonight" as the Kennedy Center honored the Eagles. A few weeks later, on January 18, 2017, <mask> gave away the single "Glenn Song" on his website as a tribute marking the one-year death of Eagles founding member Glenn Frey, with whom Seger was close friends. Starting on August 24, 2017, Seger embarked on a 32-city Runaway Train tour that was originally scheduled to conclude on November 17, 2017 in Chicago. This tour included a show on September 22, 2017, at The Palace of Auburn Hills (Michigan), which was the last event to be held at that venue. The same day, <mask> announced his new studio album, I Knew You When, and released "Busload of Faith", a cover of the Lou Reed song from the 1989 album New York, as the first single taken from the album.I Knew You When was released on November 17, 2017, which would have marked the last day of <mask>'s Runaway Train tour. However, due to "an urgent medical issue with his vertebrae", all concert dates starting September 30 had to be postponed. Of the 32 scheduled tour dates, <mask> could complete 13 and had to postpone 19. On September 18, 2018, <mask> announced his final tour. Named the Travelin' Man tour, it includes postponed dates from the 2017 tour as well as additional shows, and was scheduled to kick off on November 21 at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI. Legacy
Lincoln Park declared November 17, 2017, "Bob Seger Day" in the city. Mayor Thomas Karnes called Seger the voice of the city for their generation.<mask> attended school there in his youth and performed at the city's bandshell in the 1960s. Personal life
<mask>'s first marriage to Renee Andrietti in 1968 lasted for "one day short of a year". He had a long-term relationship with Jan Dinsdale from 1972 until 1983. In 1987, he married actress Annette Sinclair and they divorced one year later. He married Juanita Dorricott in 1993, in a small private setting at The Village Club, in Bloomfield Hills; they have two children. <mask> lives mainly at his home in Orchard Lake Village, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Politics
Politically, <mask> has characterized himself as a centrist: "[I'm] right down the middle", he remarked.He supported Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. He tackled antiestablishment themes in early songs such as "2+2=?" (1968) and "U.M.C. (Upper Middle Class)" (1974), according to Brian McCollum of the Detroit Free Press. On his 2014 album Ride Out, he addressed topics such as gun violence, and wrote "It's Your World" about climate change. On the subject, he said, "There are a lot of culprits in climate change, and everybody's responsible, myself included. Nobody gets a free pass on this one.We've got to change our ways and change them fast." He has considered President Barack Obama to be the favorite president of his lifetime; he met him at the 2016 Kennedy Center Honors and thanked Obama for his "wisdom and dignity". Discography

Studio albums

 Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (1969)
 Noah (1969)
 Mongrel (1970)
 Brand New Morning (1971)
 Smokin' O.P. 's (1972)
 Back in '72 (1973)
 Seven (1974)
 Beautiful Loser (1975)
 Night Moves (1976)
 Stranger in Town (1978)
 Against the Wind (1980)
 The Distance (1982)
 Like a Rock (1986)
 The Fire Inside (1991)
 It's a Mystery (1995)
 Face the Promise (2006)
 Ride Out (2014)
 I Knew You When (2017)

Live albums
 Live Bullet (1976)
 Nine Tonight (1981)
Compilation albums
 Greatest Hits (1994)
 Greatest Hits 2 (2003)
 Early

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<mask> (born 25 August 1972) is a British writer of comics, video games, and novels. He is known for the post apocalyptic comic series Wasteland, the graphic novel The Coldest City (adapted for film as Atomic Blonde), and his work on several Image Comics series. Career
Despite an early interest in comics and role-playing games, <mask> started his career as a graphic designer. He began his writing career with work for role-playing magazines before the Mark Salisbury-edited Writers on Comic Scriptwriting (Titan Books, 1999) rekindled his interest in comics. Drawing on his design skills, he now designs many of his own comics and graphic novels. In May 2001, <mask> was one of the three founding editors of NinthArt.com, an attempt at taking a literary and critical approach to the comics medium designed to act as a journal and aimed at "the discerning reader". Between 2001 and 2004, he contributed a mostly-monthly editorial entitled "Cassandra Complex", and for five years formed one-third of the infrequent "Triple A" discussions, including the last (on 19 June 2006).His fiction debut, Frightening Curves, was an illustrated horror novel with artwork by Aman Chaudhary, published by now-defunct Cyberosia Publishing in 2001. The book won the Best Horror Award in the 2002 IPPY awards at Book Expo America. <mask> would also produce a graphic novel – Rosemary's Backpack – and a contribution to the first PopImage anthology for Cyberosia in 2002. <mask>'s early comics work consisted primarily of non-serialised graphic novels for Oni Press, and authorised comics adaptations of prose and poetry works by Alan Moore for Avatar Press. In 2002, he began his association with Oni Press by writing the five-issue miniseries Three Days in Europe (with art by Mike Hawthorne). After this initial mini-series, <mask> penned a number of graphic novels for Oni Press – Spooked (with Sophie Campbell), Julius (with Brett Weldele) and Closer (with Mike Norton) released between February and May 2004; The Long Haul (with Eduardo Barreto) and F-Stop (with Matthew Loux) released in February and April 2005. Wasteland

In 2006, <mask> and  Christopher Mitten launched Wasteland (2006), an ongoing post-apocalyptic series, for Oni Press.It ran for 60 issues and concluded in April 2015. Other projects

In 2006, <mask> adapted Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series for Walker Books, beginning with Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel. <mask> also wrote Wolverine: Prodigal Son, a Marvel Comics-licensed original English-language manga version of Wolverine, . Other Marvel work by <mask> included several Daredevil comics. In 2008 <mask> wrote the script for the video game Dead Space as well as a comic book prequel to the Electronic Arts videogame. In 2013 <mask> began publishing with Image Comics, starting with the "dark fantasy" Umbral in November 2013, and sci-fi/crime series The Fuse in February 2014. In 2015, he launched Codename Baboushka, an espionage thriller.<mask> worked with doom metal band Waves of Mercury on their 2013 EP As Seasons Fleet. In 2015 he started two podcasts: Unjustly Maligned at The Incomparable network, and the independent heavy-metal podcast Thrash It Out. That year he also launched a dark ambient/drone music project, SILENCAEON. The Coldest City and Atomic Blonde

In 2012, <mask> wrote The Coldest City, an original hardback graphic novel in the Cold War espionage genre, intended to be the first in a series of books all set in Berlin during the Cold War. A prequel, The Coldest Winter, was released in 2016. Both titles were published by Oni Press. At the Cannes Festival 2015, Focus Features announced they had acquired North American distribution rights to The Coldest City.Starring Charlize Theron and directed by David Leitch, the film, retitled Atomic Blonde, premiered in March 2017 at the South by Southwest festival. Awards
<mask>'s 2001 novel Frightening Curves won the 2002 American Independent Publishing (IPPY) "Best Horror" award at Book Expo America.

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<mask> (born 15 June 1948) is a Scottish politician, author and academic who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2000 to 2001. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Fife from 1987 to 2001 and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the equivalent seat from 1999 to 2003. Born in Methil, Fife, <mask> was educated at Buckhaven High School before pursuing a career as a professional footballer. After suffering from injury, he studied at Heriot-Watt University and became an urban planner. He was first elected for Central Fife at the 1987 general election and served as Minister of State for Scotland following the 1997 general election. When the Scottish Parliament was established in 1999, he contested and won the Central Fife constituency in that year's election. In May 1999, <mask> was appointed Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning by First Minister Donald Dewar in Dewar's cabinet.Following Dewar's death in October 2000, <mask> succeeded him as first minister. McLeish implemented the free personal care for the elderly scheme as well as the implementation of the McCrone Agreement for education teachers in Scotland. His tenure as first minister was short, as he resigned the following year following a financial scandal referred to as "Officegate"; the first major scandal the Scottish Parliament had faced since its reincarnation two years earlier. After standing down as first minister, he stood down from the Scottish Parliament at the 2003 election. Since leaving office, <mask> has remained politically active and has written several books. In 2007, he was appointed to the Scottish Broadcasting Commission and the following year he chaired the Scottish Prisons Commission. In the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, he campaigned in-favour of remaining in the UK.However, following Brexit, <mask> has stated he would back another referendum if Scotland was taken out of the EU against its wishes. Early life and career
<mask> <mask> was born on 15 June 1948 in Methil, Fife, into a coal mining family. Educated at Buckhaven High School, he left school in 1963 at the age of 15 to become a schoolboy professional football player at Leeds United and represented Scotland as a youth international. After six weeks, he was suffering from homesickness and moved back to Scotland, where he joined Scottish Football League club East Fife. His footballing career was cut short by injury, and he returned to education, studying at Heriot-Watt University 1968–1973, where he graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Town Planning. After graduating, <mask> worked as a research officer at Edinburgh Corporation's department of social work from 1973 to 1974, then as a planning officer for Fife County Council from 1974 to 1975 and Dunfermline District Council from 1975 to 1987. He also worked as a part-time lecturer and tutor at Heriot-Watt University from 1973 to 1986.Political career

Fife local government
<mask> joined the Scottish Labour Party in 1970. He was a local councillor on Kirkcaldy District Council from 1974 to 1977, and then on Fife Regional Council 1978 to 1987, fighting East Fife unsuccessfully in 1979. He served as leader of Fife Regional Council from 1982 until his election as Labour MP for Central Fife at the 1987 General Election. Westminster and Holyrood
In the end of the 1980s and into the 1990s, <mask> was a Labour shadow spokesman for several portfolios, including education and employment 1988 to 1989, employment and training 1989 to 1992, shadow Scottish Office Minister of State 1992 to 1994, shadow Minister of Transport 1994 to 1995, shadow Minister of Health 1995 to 1996, and shadow Minister of Social Security 1996 to 1997. When Labour came to power in May 1997, <mask> was appointed as a Minister of State for Scotland, with responsibility for home affairs and devolution. As Donald Dewar's right-hand man in Westminster, <mask> helped secure devolution for Scotland and manoeuvre the Scotland Act through the Westminster Parliament. After the creation of the Scottish Parliament in May 1999, <mask> was elected as MSP for Fife Central and became Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning.First Minister of Scotland, 2000–2001

After Dewar's death in October 2000, <mask> defeated his rival Jack McConnell by 44 votes to 36 in the race to become the second first minister. The ballot was held amongst a restricted electorate of Labour MSPs and members of Scottish Labour's national executive, because there was insufficient time for a full election to be held. September 11 attacks

<mask> was First Minister during the time of the September 11 attacks in the United States, and watched the events unfold in his office in St Andrews House, the HQ of the Scottish Government in Edinburgh. <mask> has spoken about his serious concern about the defence strategies in place within Scotland to protect the country from a terrorist attack of a similar nature. He initially worried about Scotland's major cities, such as Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen being targets based on their economic strength and significance to the Scottish, UK and European economies. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, <mask> focussed on strengthening security, protection and defence systems in Scotland to ensure the country was equipped to deal with a large scale terrorist attack. <mask> lead the then Scottish Executive to working with the UK Government to ensure appropriate measures and strengthen security was in place within Scotland.In the immediate aftermath of the attacks in the United States, McLeish instructed all airports in Scotland to be on alert and tighten their security measures. On September 13, 2001, <mask> moved a motion in the Scottish Parliament to send condolences to the people of the United States and New York. Through the motion, McLeish said "the Parliament condemns the senseless and abhorrent acts of terrorism carried out in the United States yesterday and extends our deepest sympathies to those whose loved ones have been killed or injured". As a Labour First Minister, and with a Labour UK Government in office at the time of the attacks under Tony Blair, <mask> initially supported the War on Terror, however stated in 2021 that he regrets that the war ultimately turned out as a "war on Islam". Governmental record

Professor John Curtice, a prominent political analyst, commented that <mask> would not have the "kind of authority" that Donald Dewar enjoyed. He travelled widely, particularly in the United States. He managed several task forces designed to improve the competitiveness of Scottish industry, especially the PILOT project for Scottish oil and gas supply chains.He was embarrassed when an open microphone recorded him with Helen Liddell in a television studio, describing Scottish Secretary John Reid as "a patronising bastard" and said of his colleague, Brian Wilson, "Brian is supposed to be in charge of Africa but he spends most of his time in bloody Dublin. He is a liability". Acts of parliament

Whilst in government serving as first minister, McLeish oversaw and implemented the free personal care for the elderly scheme as well as the implementation of the McCrone Agreement for education teachers in Scotland. Officegate and resignation

McLeish resigned as first minister in November 2001, amid a scandal involving allegations he sub-let part of his tax-subsidised Westminster constituency office without it having been registered in the register of interests kept in the Parliamentary office. The press called the affair Officegate. Though McLeish could not have personally benefited financially from the oversight, he undertook to repay the £36,000 rental income, and resigned to allow Scottish Labour a clean break to prepare for the 2003 Scottish Parliament election. McLeish did not seek re-election.After politics

Since leaving mainstream politics, McLeish has lectured widely in the United States, particularly at the United States Air Force Academy and the University of Arkansas, where he holds a visiting professorship shared between the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and the University of Arkansas School of Law. He is considered an expert on European-American relations and on the European Union. He has written books including Scotland First: Truth and Consequences (2004), Global Scots: Voices from Afar (with Kenny MacAskill) (2006) (published in the United Kingdom as  Global Scots: Making It in the Modern World), Wherever the Saltire Flies (with Kenny MacAskill) (2006) and Scotland: The Road Divides (with Tom Brown) (2007). In August 2007, he was appointed to the Scottish Broadcasting Commission, established by the Scottish Government. He also chaired the Scottish Prisons Commission, which produced a report into sentencing and the criminal justice system in 2008 entitled "Scotland's Choice". McLeish concluded a "major report" on the state of football in Scotland, which had been commissioned by the Scottish Football Association, in April 2010. McLeish claimed that Scottish football was "underachieving, under performing and under funded" at a press conference to unveil the report.In the run up to the referendum on Scottish independence on 18 September 2014, there was much media and public speculation towards whether McLeish backed a "No" vote to remain within the United Kingdom, or whether he supported a "Yes" vote in order to create an independent separate sovereign Scotland. Speculation from the public came from media articles in which <mask> was reported to be talking negatively about the prospect of a "No" vote to remain within the union, but was later reported as stating it would be "near impossible" to vote Yes in the referendum. Following the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, in which the majority of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, but the majority of the Scottish electorate voted to remain in the EU, McLeish has since claimed that he would support and campaign for an independent Scottish sovereign state and campaign for it to be a fully functioning member and participate fully within the European Union despite Brexit. In September 2021, he reiterated that he would support independence if the union was not reformed. Titles and achievements

McLeish also holds the following positions and titles:

 Privy Counsellor
 Hartman Hotz Visiting Professor in Law and the Liberal Arts, jointly in the Fulbright College and Law School, University of Arkansas
 Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver
 Visiting lecturer at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
 Honorary Fellow at the College of Humanities and Social Science at Edinburgh University
 Honorary Fellow at the Cambridge Land Institute, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University
 Adviser, Consultant and Facilitator to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and the European Monitoring Centre for Change, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
 Adviser and Consultant to the LEED Programme of the OECD in Paris, France, including visits to Austria, Italy, and Mexico
 Consultant, in partnership with Jeremy Harrison, Cambridge (Public Value Partnership, working on new project development and evaluation of existing projects in the community and voluntary sector)

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<mask> (, ; born 2 May 1960) is a Macedonian politician, who served as the 4th President of North Macedonia from 2009 to 2019. Early and personal life
Born at Valandovo, <mask> finished primary and secondary school in his hometown. He lived there until the age of 27, then moved to Skopje, Yugoslavia which has since been his permanent residence. <mask> is married to <mask>. Together they have a son named Ivan. Political and civil society activism
<mask> has been politically active since the Yugoslav era, when he pushed for political pluralism and market economy. Until 1990 he was an activist in the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia and a member of the last presidency of the organisation, where he worked on reforming the political system and promoting political plurality and free market economy.<mask> is considered a leading expert on civil society, specialising in political management. He is the founder and honorary president of the Macedonian Political Science Association and one of the founding members of the Institute for Democracy Societas Civilis, a leading analytical centre in North Macedonia. Academic career
His professional career began in 1988, when he became an editor at the Macedonian Radio and Television, the national broadcasting station. He later taught political theory and political philosophy at the Law Faculty of the University of Skopje. In 1999, he became a visiting professor for the Southeast European programme at the University of Athens in Greece. A series of academic appointments followed, including at universities in Bologna and Sarajevo. Ss.Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje named him associate professor in 1992 and a full-time professor in 2008. The same year, he became president of the Council for Accreditation in Higher Education in Macedonia. Published works
 Цивилно општество (Civil Society)
 Демократијата во поделените општества: македонскиот модел (Democracy in divided societes: the Macedonian Model)
 Современи политички теории (Current political theories)
 Политички теории - Антика (Political theories - Antiquity)

President of the Republic of Macedonia

Campaign and election

On 25 January 2009, the strongest party in the Macedonian parliament, VMRO-DPMNE, appointed <mask> as the party's presidential candidate for the 2009 Macedonian presidential election. 1,016 party delegates voted for his candidacy at the party's convention. Although he was proposed as a candidate by VMRO-DPMNE, he is not a member of the party. During his campaign, <mask> announced that if he is going to be elected president, he would "insist on a meeting between the President of the Republic of Macedonia and the President of the Republic of Greece" and that one of his highest priorities is the resolution of the country's long-running name dispute with Greece. In the first round of the 2009 Macedonian presidential election 343,374 (35.06%) citizens of The Republic Of Macedonia voted for <mask>mir Frčkoski, with 20.45% of the votes.<mask> won the second round of the presidential election with 453,616 votes; opposition candidate Ljubomir Frčkoski got 264,828 votes. One day after his election, <mask> reaffirmed his intention for a meeting to be realised between him and the president of Greece, Karolos Papoulias. He added that he will officialise his invitation just after taking office. After a meeting with the president of the Democratic Union for Integration, Ali Ahmeti, <mask> announced that he will also include ethnic Albanian intellectuals in his future presidential cabinet. On 16 April, <mask> on a ceremony received the presidential certificate from the State Election Commission. Inauguration

<mask> took office on 12 May 2009, thereby succeeding Branko Crvenkovski. After taking the oath he held his inauguration speech in the Macedonian parliament and made public his priorities - EU and NATO membership, economic recovery, inner stability, interethnic relations and good relations with the neighbouring countries, especially with Greece.The swearing-in ceremony was attended by Crvenkovski, prime minister Nikola Gruevski, the first president of independent Republic of Macedonia Kiro Gligorov, military officials, leaders of the religious communities in Macedonia and foreign ambassadors in the county. Also, four foreign statesmen were present — the president of Serbia Boris Tadić, the president of Montenegro Filip Vujanović, the president of Croatia Stjepan Mesić and the president of Albania Bamir Topi. Later that day <mask> held bilateral talks with the four presidents. The second inauguration of President <mask> was held on 12 May 2014 in the Macedonian parliament The swearing-in ceremony was attended the prime minister Nikola Gruevski, military officials, leaders of the religious communities in Macedonia and foreign ambassadors in the county. The inauguration was boycotted by the Democratic Union for Integration the largest Albanian political party in the Republic of Macedonia and the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia the largest opposition party in Macedonia. First term

On the day <mask> officially became president of his country, he sent a letter to the president of the United States Barack Obama in which he underlined The Republic Of Macedonia's aim to join NATO and EU and to find a "mutually acceptable solution" to the "name difference" with neighbouring Greece. He also thanked Obama for his words of support at the 2009 NATO Summit.One day after the inauguration, <mask> together with Prime Minister Gruevski travelled to Brussels to meet with European Union and NATO officials. <mask> claims to promote a Macedonian model of a multi-ethnic society and Pax Europaea, a united Europe living in peace and respecting the diversity and identity of the nations of Europe. Second term

<mask> was re-elected as President of the Republic of Macedonia for a second term in April 2014. In March 2016 <mask> stated that the European Union had failed the Republic of Macedonia and other Balkan countries in the European migrant crisis. On 12 April 2016 <mask> halted judicial inquiries into officials involved in a wiretap scandal. <mask> stated to have done so in the best interest of the country, and to end the political crisis. A move that the opposition called <mask>'s coup d'état and an effective disagreement to cooperate and find a common ground solution to the problem.His own party, the VMRO-DPMNE did not agree with his action. Opposition media called it a political manoeuvre to prevent further judicial inquiry by the special prosecutor Katica Janeva, proposed by the international community to normalise the political situation. Opposition leader Zoran Zaev subsequently called for protests. A demonstration occurred in Skopje on 13 April, with the presidential offices being attacked by rioters and several people detained. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje alumni

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Gjorge Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Maja Ivanova
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanovbo
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov
Ivanov


title: John Van Druten

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<mask> (1 June 190119 December 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director. He began his career in London, and later moved to America, becoming a U.S. citizen. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society. Biography
<mask> was born in London in 1901, son of a Dutch father named <mask> and his English wife Eva. He was educated at University College School and read law at the University of London. Before commencing his career as a writer, he practised law for a while as a solicitor and university lecturer in Wales. He first came to prominence with Young Woodley, a slight but charming study of adolescence, produced in New York in 1925.However, it was banned in London by the Lord Chamberlain's office owing to its then controversial portrayal of a schoolboy falling in love with his headmaster's wife. In Britain, it was first produced privately (by Phyllis Whitworth's Three Hundred Club) and then at the Arts Theatre in 1928. When the ban was lifted, it had a successful run at the Savoy Theatre in the West End with a cast including Frank Lawton, Derrick De Marney, and Jack Hawkins. The play was filmed twice. It was revived at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2006. He was one of the more successful playwrights of the early 1930s in London, with star-studded West End productions of his work, including Diversion (1927), After All (1929), London Wall (1931) with Frank Lawton and <mask>, There's Always Juliet (1931), Somebody Knows (1932), Behold, We Live (1932) with Gertrude Lawrence and Gerald du Maurier, The Distaff Side (1933), and Flowers of the Forest (1934). He later emigrated to America, where he wrote Leave Her to Heaven (February 1940), a drama set in London and Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, which was shortly followed by major successes with Old Acquaintance (NY December 1940 – May 1941 and London with Edith Evans) and The Voice of the Turtle (1943), which ran for three seasons in New York and was filmed with Ronald Reagan.I Remember Mama (play) (1944) ran for 713 performances. It was later made into a movie and a television series. In 1944, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. His play Make Way for Lucia (1948), based on the Mapp and Lucia novels of E.F. Benson, was premiered in New York and had its first professional British production in 1995. His 1951 play I Am a Camera, together with Christopher Isherwood's short stories, Goodbye to Berlin (1939), formed the basis of Joe Masteroff's book for the Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret (1966). When I Am a Camera opened on Broadway in 1951, The New York Times drama critic Walter Kerr wrote a famous three-word review: "Me no Leica." In the late 1930s and early 1940s, he was in a relationship with Carter Lodge (died 1995).Lodge was the manager of the AJC Ranch that van Druten, British actress Auriol Lee and Lodge bought together in Coachella Valley. When the relationship ended, Lodge continued to live on the ranch with his new partner, Dick Foote. When van Druten died in 1957, he left the entire property of the ranch to Lodge and the rights in his work, including "I Am a Camera", which entitled Lodge to earn a percentage from the movie Cabaret (1972). He died at Indio, California on 19 December 1957 of undisclosed causes. He is buried in the Coachella Valley Public Cemetery. New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1951–52
 I've Got Sixpence (1952)

Other work
<mask>n directed the last nine productions of his own plays (see above). At the St. James Theatre, New York in March 1951 he directed the first production of The King and I (1,246 performances).He also restaged this production at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, in London, October 1953 (946 performances). At the Theatre Royal, Brighton in November 1954 he staged a production of The Duchess and the Smugs. <mask>n wrote two autobiographies:
 The Way to the Present (1938)
 The Widening Circle: Personal Search, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1957)

He also published two novels: a version of Young Woodley (1928), and The Vicarious Years in 1955. He also published a book on his work, Playwright at Work, just after the Second World War.

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John William Van Druten
Van Druten
Wilhelmus van Druten
John Mills
Van Drute
Van Drute


title: Pavel Ludikar

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<mask> (3 March 1882 – 19 February 1970) was a Czech operatic bass who had a highly successful international singing career from 1904 through 1944. He began his career in his native country and by 1911 had arisen at many of the major opera houses in Europe. From 1913 to 1935 his career was mainly centered in North and South America. The peak of his opera career was reached at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he was committed from 1926 to 1932. He returned to Europe in 1935 to assume directorship of the Neues deutsches Theatre in Prague, remaining there until the theatre was closed in September 1938 due to Nazi occupation, effectively ending his stage career. The height of his later years in Prague was his portrayal of the title hero in the world premiere of Ernst Krenek's Karl V in June 1938. One of the great singer-actors of his generation, <mask> sang a broad repertoire of music which encompassed a total of twelve languages.He was particularly loved for his portrayals of roles in operas by Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Giacomo Puccini. <mask> began teaching singing in Prague in 1941. In 1947 he joined the faculty at the Vienna Music Academy, where he taught until his death almost three decades later. He also gave annual master classes at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg for many years. His voice is preserved on a number of recordings from the Supraphon label. Early life and education: 1882–1904
Born <mask> in Prague, his father was a conductor at the Prague Opera and his mother, Františka <mask>-Vyskočilová, was an operatic contralto. He first studied law and philosophy at the University of Prague and then trained as a concert pianist.In 1901, at the age of 19, he traveled throughout North America giving piano concerts. Upon his return home he decided he wanted to pursue a singing career and began opera studies with first his mother and then Jean Lassalle in Paris. He made his professional opera debut at the National Theatre in his native city in 1904 as Sarastro in The Magic Flute. International success: 1905–1938

After several more initial successes in Prague, he made a number of highly lauded guest appearances at the Vienna Volksoper and the Semperoper in Dresden. He reached La Scala in Milan in 1911 where he sang in the Italian premières of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier (as Ochs) and Engelbert Humperdinck's Königskinder (as the Fiddler). Other roles he appeared in at La Scala included Bluebeard in Ariane et Barbe-bleue, Falstaff in Otto Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Geronimo in Domenico Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto, and both Pagner and Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. In the years before World War II, <mask> performed at the opera houses in Rome, Trieste, Turin, Paris, Budapest and Havana.In 1911, 1913, and 1920 he was committed to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where he was an admired Wotan in The Ring Cycle and King Marke in Tristan und Isolde. In 1913-1914 he worked with the Boston Opera Company, having a great success there as Archibaldo in Italo Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re and in the role of Hans Sachs. In 1917 he was committed to the Zurich Opera where he portrayed such roles as Leporello in Don Giovanni, the Speaker in The Magic Flute, and Oreste in Strauss's Elektra. From 1926 to 1932 <mask> was a member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He made his debut at the house on November 16, 1926 as Timur in the United States premiere of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot with Maria Jeritza in the title role, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi as Calàf, Martha Attwood as Liù, and Tullio Serafin conducting. He sang in several more United States premieres with the company including Puccini's La Rondine (March 10, 1928, Rambaldo), Ildebrando Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo (March 21, 1929, Guido), Giuseppe Verdi's Luisa Miller (December 21, 1929, Wurm), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko (January 25, 1930, the Sea King), and Felice Lattuada's Le Preziose Ridicole (December 10, 1930, Gorgibus). Although he was most often seen in operas by Puccini, Mozart, and Wagner, <mask> repertoires.His repertoire there included Alvise in La Gioconda, Archibaldo, Capulet in Roméo et Juliette, Ashby in La Fanciulla del West, Colline in La Bohème, Daland in The Flying Dutchman, Don Alfonso in Così Fan Tutte, Ferrando in Il trovatore, Geronte in Manon Lescaut, Gesler in William Tell, Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande, Hermann in Tannhäuser, Hunding in Die Walküre, Leporello, Kecal in The Bartered Bride, King Heinrich in Lohengrin, King Marke, Mathieu in Andrea Chénier, Pedro in L'Africaine, Peter in Hänsel und Gretel, Pogner, Ramfis in Aida, Rocco in Fidelio, Sarastro, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, and Sparafucile in Rigoletto. His final and 220th performance with the Met was as Coppélius in Les Contes d'Hoffmann for an out of town engagement in Cleveland, Ohio on April 23, 1932. After leaving the Met, <mask> toured the United States for a few years with the Hinshaw Grand Opera Company. He returned to Europe in 1935 when he became director of the Neues deutsches Theatre in Prague. In the 1930s, with the growing Nazi threat, the Neues deutsches Theatre was among the bastions of democracy, serving as a refuge for artists from Germany. Political developments shortly before signature of the Munich Agreement coupled with financial problems led to the theatre's closing in September 1938, effectively ending <mask>'s opera career. The great achievement of his later years in Prague was his portrayal of the title role in the world premiere of Ernst Krenek's Karl V on 22 June 1938.Career as teacher: 1939–1970
During the years of World War II, <mask> continued to perform in concerts in Germany and Austria. He taught singing in Prague from 1941 to 1943. In 1944 he taught master classes at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg and gave his final public concerts in that city in that year. He then returned to Prague. After the end of World War II, <mask> wanted to move to Austria but was forbidden to leave by the now Soviet controlled government in his country. He spent the next couple years living in seclusion in the vicinity of Prague. He managed to leave the country in late 1947 upon which time he joined the faculty of the Vienna Music Academy.He taught there and gave annual masterclasses at the Salzburg Mozarteum up until his death in Vienna in 1970. He also served for a few years as the director of the opera house in Graz. Documents
Documents by <mask> in the Saechsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig. References

1882 births
1970 deaths
20th-century Czech male opera singers
Operatic basses

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Pavel Ludikar
Ludikar
Ludikar
Pavel Vyskočil
Ludikarová
Ludikar
Ludikar
Ludikarrio
Ludikar
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Pavel Ludikar


title: Edward Zander

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<mask><mask>  is an American business executive. He was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Motorola from January 2004 until January 2008, remaining as chairman until May 2008. His work in the technology sector included management positions at Data General and Apollo Computer before joining Sun Microsystems in 1987, where he was later promoted to Chief Operating Officer and President. After leaving Sun in 2002, he became managing director at Silver Lake Partners, a private-equity firm. He also serves on the board of directors for Jason Foundation for Education, on the science advisory board of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (where he received a degree in electrical engineering), the advisory board for IOCOM Communications, and the advisory board of the Boston University School of Management (where he received his Master of Business Administration and later an honorary D.H.L.). He was also a member of the board of directors at Seagate Technologies from 2002 to 2004, and at Time Warner Inc. from January to May 2007. He has been a member of the board of directors at EagleView Technologies Inc. since 2008.Personal

<mask> is the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland (father) and Greece (mother), who couldn't afford college but stressed education to their children. His father reportedly dreamed of being a lawyer but instead settled for a job as a furrier in order to support his ill parents. His mother, blind with glaucoma, emigrated from Greece after her entire family was wiped out by Turkish nationalists in 1922. Growing up, he was given the nickname "Fast Eddie" by his friends because, according to a Boston Globe article, he frequently demonstrated the "hustle of a street kid spoiling for a good fight." <mask> himself remarked, "I'm from New York, so I'm New York fast" (June 19, 2000). <mask> attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and graduated in the class of 1968. <mask> is married to <mask>, and the couple have two sons.Career at Sun Microsystems
<mask>'s career at Sun Microsystems began in 1987. Throughout the 1990s, he rose through the ranks, taking the role of vice president of corporate marketing, and then becoming president of Sun's software division in 1991, moving to the same position for Sun's systems division in 1995. In January 1998, he was promoted to COO for the entire company and was given the additional role of President of Sun in April 1999. <mask> was responsible for Sun's seven product divisions which included engineering, product development, sales, service, and marketing. The CTO and corporate brand marketing also reported to him. After <mask> left the company in 2002, CEO Scott McNealy reassumed the duties of President and COO until the promotion of Jonathan Schwartz to those roles on April 2, 2004. Career at Motorola
On January 5, 2004, <mask> was selected by the Motorola board of directors to succeed Chris Galvin who retired in September 2003, ending a three generation reign of his family at the head of the electronics giant.The primary candidates considered to replace him were <mask> and Mike Zafirovski, though well-known executives such as AT&T Corporation's President Betsy Bernard, Qwest Communications International's Richard Notebaert, and Verizon Communications's Lawrence Babbio were also considered. Earlier, Zafirovski had proved himself an excellent executive at Motorola. He arrived from General Electric and led the cell phone business to profitability. Unfortunately for him, the board was looking for a more radical change in leadership. Even though Zafirovski was virtually an outsider himself (having served at the corporation for only three years), the board of directors went with someone with more experience in a complex organization like Motorola. <mask>’s impressive career at Sun and his radical "mover and shaker" attitude won the board over and he was given the position. Zafirovski was disappointed and was expected to leave the company, especially with his history of reported run-ins with the board of directors but stayed until 31 January 2005, when he resigned.<mask>'s first task was to oversee the new spin-off that Motorola had begun just shortly before he joined, Freescale Semiconductor. He announced that he would focus the company on its consumer electronics business and start taking better care of its customers (he even assigned the Chief Information Officer, Samir Desai, to one of their largest and angriest customers, Nextel). During his time, he acquired 12 companies and wound down poor-performing businesses. He also ramped up the business units that sell radio equipment to the government, cable set-top box components, and wireless communications products. <mask> came into a tough corporate culture - Motorola's departments have been referred to as "warring tribes". He created a bonus structure that based 25% of all bonuses on customer satisfaction, meeting product deadlines, cooperation between departments, etc. He started looking to target major corporations for communications gear and services, instead of just aiming at customers of the phones and telecom companies with wireless gear.A reorganization of Motorola's business divisions became likely. <mask> wanted to see new types of products that focused on melding Internet technologies with wireless phone technologies. He established the philosophy of "seamless mobility" to integrate Motorola's products and create a sense of unity within the company. After Motorola posted a $181 million loss for the first quarter of 2007, Zander came under increased pressure, with Carl Icahn first demanding a share buyback, then a seat on the board of directors. <mask> has since been named a defendant in a securities fraud class action, on behalf of investors who purchased Motorola stock between July 19, 2006 and January 4, 2007, as a result of allegedly false and misleading public statements issued by Motorola during that time. <mask> received $12.5 million in incentive-based pay, much of it dependent on Motorola's financial results, as well as $1.5 million in salary during 2006. <mask> capitalized on the success of the Motorola RAZR too long and was slow adopting 3G.The company lost market share to Samsung and LG Electronics. By 2007, without new cellphones that carriers wanted to offer, Motorola sold tens of millions of Razrs and their offshoots by slashing prices, causing margins to collapse in the process. Under <mask>, Ron Garriques (who was responsible for the successful RAZR) departed for Dell Inc., while Stu Reed failed to turn around the struggling mobile handset division. Only after Sanjay Jha took the reins of Motorola's Mobile Devices Unit did it finally managed to right itself. In January 2007, he rode a yellow bike onto the stage in Las Vegas for his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show. Instead of developing new and exciting products, Motorola placed Razrs into colored lingerie (red in February for Valentine's Day) while Apple Inc. unveiled the revolutionary new iPhone. <mask> “inspired” Steve Jobs with Moto's multimedia (e.g., iTune) + smartphone product concept.In result, Apple gained new product concept which was named "iPhone" while Motorola ironically walked away with limited version of iTunes app for Rokr/Slvr. <mask> stepped down as CEO on 1 January 2008, succeeded by Greg Brown, who was prior to then President and Chief Operating Officer. He was succeeded as chairman by former AT&T CEO David Dorman in May 2008. References

External links
 <mask> bio—note that this source incorrectly describes his promotion to president of a Sun division in 1995 as promotion to the head of the entire company

 Motorola insider tells all about the fall of a technology icon, Ryan Block, Engadget, March 26, 2008

1947 births
Living people
Boston University School of Management alumni
American technology chief executives
Motorola employees
American computer businesspeople
American people of Greek-Jewish descent
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
American chief operating officers
Silver Lake (investment firm) people

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Edward J
. Zander
Zander
Zander
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Mona Zander
Edward Zander
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Zander
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Ed Zander
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Ed Zander


title: Dencio Padilla

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Prudencio Baldivia (September 2, 1928 – October 10, 1997), better known as <mask> or Tata Dens, was a veteran Filipino actor and comedian. Career
He appeared in films as the favorite sidekick of Fernando Poe Jr. Known for his Batangueño accent when speaking, <mask> also played supporting roles for other Filipino stars, like Ace Vergel, Rudy Fernandez, Phillip Salvador, Vilma Santos, Nora Aunor, Sharon Cuneta, Maricel Soriano and other big stars. Personal life
He was married to Catalina Baldivia from Mabalacat, Pampanga, a housewife and they had 8 kids; Dennis, Samuel, Glenn, Jennifer, Gene, Richard, Ched, and Rot. They lived their entire life in P.Jacinto Street corner, Biglang Awa and EDSA, Caloocan city. Dennis is also an actor as well as a politician; Samuel is an OFW Seaman; Glenn is OFW in Middle East places such as Kuwait, Jeddah, Riyadh, Dubai, and is presently in the USA; Jennifer is OFW in Dubai; <mask> also a comedian and actor; Richard died in 1999; Ched is OFW in Singapore; and youngest Rot is in Baldivia. The 5 boys were products of Notre Dame of Manila, and the 3 girls of Our Lady of Grace Academy, both in Caloocan city, a walking distance from their home.All 8 attended college in UST/San Sebastián/Centro Escolar/UE. All 8 appeared in movies and commercials during their childhood. Health and death
<mask> was rushed to the hospital on September 30, 1997 after complaining of chest pains. About to be checked out from the hospital, <mask> died of cardiac arrest on October 10, 1997 at Quezon City, Philippines. Apart from his son <mask> who followed his footsteps to become a comedian, <mask> <mask> has other children. He was buried at Nagcarlan Municipal Cemetery in Nagcarlan, Laguna

Filmography

Movies

Lo' Waist Gang at si Og sa Mindoro (1958)
Laban sa Lahat (1958)
Sumpa at Pangako (1959)
Ang Kanyang Kamahalan (1959)
Tough Guy (1959) Dencio
Gabi ng Lagim (1960) (segment 2)
Cuatro Cantos (1960)
Hong Kong Honeymoon (1960)
Mga Tigreng Taga-Bukid (1962)
Batang Maynila (1962)
Dead or Alive (1962)
Cuatro Condenados (1962)
Sigaw ng Digmaan (1963)
Kung Gabi sa Maynila (1963)
Ito Ang Maynila (1963)
Ang Asawa Kong Barat (1963)
Isputnik vs. Darna (1963)
Sierra Madre (1963)
Baril na Ginto (1964)
Swanie (1965)
Dandansoy (1965)
Ang Daigdig Ko'y Ikaw (1965)
Guillermo Bravado (1965)
Zamboanga (1966)
Ang Iniluluha Ko'y Dugo (1966)
Alyas Phantom (1966)
Itinakwil Man Kita (1966)
Si Siyanang at Ang 7 Tsikiting (1966)
Dedicate To You (1966)
Mga Alabok sa Lupa (1967)
Ex-Convict (1967)
Like Father, Like Son: Kung Ano Ang Puno Siya Ang Bunga! (1967)
Langit at Lupa (1967)
Durango (1967)
Alamat ng 7 Kilabot (1967)
To Susan With Love (1968)
Tatlong Hari (1968)
Tanging Ikaw (1968)
Sorrento (1968)
Magpakailanman (1968)
Dos Por Dos (1968)
Zato Duling: The Cross-Eyed Swordsman (1969)
Our Man Duling (1969)
Nardong Kutsero (1969)
Ikaw Ang Lahat Sa Akin (1969)
Gun-Runners (1969)
Batang Matadero (1969)
Tora!Tora! Toray! (1971)Liezl At Ang 7 Hoods (1971)Family Planting (1971)Apat na Patak ng Dugo ni Adan (1971)Ang Kampana sa Santa Quiteria (1971)Salaginto't Salagubang (1972)Bilangguang Puso (1972)Karnabal (1973) BadongHanggang Sa Kabila ng Daigdig: The Tony Maiquez Story (1973)Ang Agila At Ang Araw (1973)Aking Maria Clara (1973)Dragonfire (1974)Batya't Palu-Palo (1974) Takio
Kaming Matatapang Ang Apog (1975)
Hit and Run (1975)
Anino ng Araw (1975)
Anak ng Araw (1975)
Ang Leon at Ang Daga (1975) Dencio
Sapagka't Kami'y Mga Misis Lamang (1976)
Bato sa Buhangin (1976) Lucio
Tutubing Kalabaw Tutubing Karayom (1977)
Nagbabagang Asero (1977)
Bontoc (1977)
Little Christmas Tree (1977)
Tatak ng Tundo (1978) Damian
Isang Araw Isang Buhay (1978)
The Jess Lapid Story (1978)
Salonga (1978)
Mahal...Ginagabi Ka Na Naman (1979)
Holdup: Special Squad, D.B. (1979)
Dakpin... Killers For Hire (1979)
Anak ng Atsay (1979)
Isa Para Sa Lahat, Lahat para Sa Isa (1979)Dobol Dribol (1979)Mahal, Saan Ka Nanggaling Kagabi? (1979)Tatak Angustia (1980) GudoyKalibre .45 (1980)
Ang Leon At Ang Kuting (1980)
Angelita, Ako Ang Iyong Ina (1980) Dennis
Ang Agila At Ang Falcon (1980)
Tartan (1981)
Rocky Tu-log (1981)
Iskorokotoy (1981)
Palpak Connection (1981)
Kamandag ng Rehas ng Bakal (1981)
Boogie (1981) Boogie
Juan Balutan (1982)
Cross My Heart (1982) Dexter
Bad Boys From Dadiangas (1982)
Annie Sabungera (1982)
D'Wild Wild Weng (1982) Mr. Dencio
Forgive and Forget (1983)
The Cute The Sexy n' The Tiny (1982)
Inside Job (1983)
Aking Prince Charming (1983)
Idol (1984)
Somewhere (1984) Tengteng
Naku Ha! (1984)
Anak ni Waray vs. Anak ni Biday (1984)
Julian Vaquero (1984)
Bagets 2 (1984) Erpat
Tinik sa Dibdib (1985)
Nagalit Ang Patay Sa Haba ng Lamay (1985)
Blue Jeans Gang (1985)
Anak ng Tondo (1985) Tata Teban
Public Enemy No.2: Maraming Number Two (1985) CarlosTatak ng Yakuza (1986)Kamagong (1986)Inday-Inday Sa Balitaw (1986) SimoCaptain Barbell (1986) Police ChiefBatang Quiapo (1986) Momoy "Lugaw" DavidVigilante (1987)No Retreat, No Surrender, Si Kumander (1987)Kapag Puno Na Ang Salop (1987) Sgt. SibalKapag Lumaban Ang Api (1987) NardoBoy Tornado (1987) InggoHumanda Ka ... Ikaw Ang Susunod (1987)Stupid Cupid (1988) Tomas (segment "Hahabul-Habol")Langit at Lupa (1988)Jockey T'yan (1988)Leon at Tigre (1989)Tatak ng Isang Api (1989)Bote, Dyaryo, Garapa (1989)Ako ang Huhusga (1989) Sgt. (1994)Tunay na Magkaibigan Walang Iwanan Peksman! (1994) Tata EmilioCuadro De Jack (1994)Chickboys (1994)Baby Paterno: Dugong Pulis (1994)Abrakadabra (1994) BasteIsmael Zacarias (1994) BugalooKanto Boy 2: Anak ni Totoy Guapo (1995) ManingUrban Rangers (1995) EgayMinsan Pa: Kahit Konting Pagtingin Part 2 (1995) BasilioIkaw Pa ... Eh Love Kita! (1995) Karina's UnclePulis Probinsiya 2: Tapusin Natin ang Laban (1995) Father SanchezDog Tag: Katarungan Sa Aking Kamay (1995) Mang MartinSPO1 Don Juan: Da Dancing Policeman (1996) Lolo TasyoPusong Hiram (1996)Makamandag Na Dugo (1996)Maginoong Barumbado (1996)Ikaw Ang Mahal Ko (1996) TebanAng Syota Kong Balikbayan (1996)Totoy Mola (1997) Tatay PasyoPablik Enemi 1 n 2: Aksidental Heroes (1997)Laban Ko Ito: Walang Dapat Madamay (1997) SimonKriselda: Sabik sa Iyo (1997)Go Johnny Go (1997)Enteng en Mokong: Kaming Mga Mababaw Ang Kaligayahan (1997)Ang Maton at ang Showgirl (1998)

TelevisionEat Bulaga (1983) RpnTonite With Boots and Dencio (1984-1988)RpnIsang Mundo Isang Lahi (1988) as Amado SalazarGMA Supershow (1991) GuestAno Ba Siya? The Trip Show (1992-1995)TNT: Talak ng Taon (1995) as Main HostASAP (1996) as Singer PerformerAfternoon Overload Saya (1997) Last TV Appearance before his death. Awards
1964: Nominated - Best Supporting Actor, Ito ang Maynila - FAMAS 1963
1984: Nominated - Best Supporting Actor, Tatak ng Yakuza - FAMAS 1984
1991: Won - Best Supporting Actor, Kahit Konting Pagtingin'' - FAP 1991

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title: Leyla Gencer

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<mask> (, née Çeyrekgil; 10 October 192810 May 2008) was a Turkish operatic soprano. <mask> was a notable bel canto soprano who spent most of her career in Italy, from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s, and had a repertoire encompassing more than seventy roles. She made very few commercial recordings; however, numerous bootleg recordings of her performances exist. She was particularly associated with the heroines of Donizetti. Early life
<mask> was born in Polonezköy (near Istanbul) to a Turkish father and a Polish mother. Her father, Hasanzade İbrahim Bey (who took the surname Çeyrekgil under the Surname Law of 1934), was a wealthy businessman, whose family was from the city of Safranbolu. Her mother, Lexanda Angela Minakovska, was from a Roman Catholic family of the Lithuanian aristocracy (she later converted to Islam and chose the name Atiye after her husband's death.)Gencer's father died when she was very young. She grew up in the Çubuklu neighbourhood of Istanbul, on the Anatolian side of the Bosphorus strait. In 1946, she married İbrahim <mask>, a banker related to the influential İpekçi family. Education and early career
She began to study singing at the Istanbul Conservatory but dropped out to study privately in Ankara with her teacher the Italian soprano Giannina Arangi-Lombardi. After Arangi-Lombardi's death, Gencer continued her studies with the Italian baritone Apollo Granforte. She sang in the chorus of the Turkish State Theater until 1950, when she made her operatic debut in Ankara, as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. During the next few years, she became well known in Turkey and sang frequently at functions for the Turkish government.Career in Italy

In 1953, Gencer made her Italian debut at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples as Santuzza. She returned to Naples the following year for performances of Madama Butterfly and Eugene Onegin. In 1957, she made her debut at La Scala in Milan as Mme. Lidoine in the world premiere of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. She went on to appear regularly at La Scala, performing nineteen roles between 1957 and 1983 including Leonora in La forza del destino, Elisabetta in Don Carlos, the title role in Aida, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, the title role in Norma, Ottavia in L'incoronazione di Poppea and Alceste. At La Scala, she also appeared as the First Woman of Canterbury in the world premiere of Pizzetti's L'assassinio nella cattedrale in 1958. In 1960, she toured the USSR, singing concerts in Moscow and Baku.In 1962, she debuted at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Elisabetta di Valois in Don Carlos and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. Her United States debut had been at the San Francisco Opera in 1956, as Francesca in Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini. She sang in other American opera houses as well, but never at the Metropolitan Opera, despite discussions about her being engaged to sing Tosca there, also in 1956. She sang Chopin's Polish songs in Paris with Nikita Magaloff, a Liszt-Bartók concert at La Scala, and a concert involving 'operas about Turks' in the Venetian carnival at La Fenice, showing her innovative character as an opera singer. Her last appearance on the operatic stage was in 1985, with La Prova di un'opera seria at La Fenice. She continued to appear in concerts until 1992. She was still active as of 2007, and had recently been appointed by La Scala's music director Riccardo Muti to run its school for young artists.Throughout her career, Gencer was particularly well known for her Donizetti, including Belisario, Poliuto, Anna Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia, Maria Stuarda and Caterina Cornaro. Her most acclaimed and best-known performance, though, was the Roberto Devereux she sang in Naples in 1964. Aside from bel canto roles, her repertory included works by such composers as Prokofiev, Mozart and Puccini. She appeared in many rarely performed operas, including Smareglia's La Falena, Rossini's Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, Spontini's Agnese di Hohenstaufen, Pacini's Saffo and Gluck's Alceste. Gencer rose to international stardom in a short time, singing under some of the greatest Italian maestros, such as Vittorio Gui, Tullio Serafin, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, and Riccardo Muti. She contributed to the 'Donizetti Renaissance' with her great performances of Donizetti's forgotten operas. Her repertoire consisted of 72 roles, including operas by Monteverdi, Gluck, Mozart, Cherubini, Spontini, Simon Mayr, Puccini, Prokofiev, Britten, Poulenc, Menotti, and Rocca, encompassing lyric, coloratura, and dramatic soprano roles.Starting in 1982, she dedicated herself to teaching young opera singers. She worked as didactic art director of As.Li.Co. of Milan between 1983–88, and was appointed by Maestro Riccardo Muti to run La Scala's School for Young Artists in 1997-1998. As artistic director of the academy for opera artists in Teatro alla Scala, she specialized in teaching operatic interpretation. In 1996, she appeared in Jan Schmidt-Garre's film Opera Fanatic. Death
Gencer died on 10 May 2008, aged 79, in Milan. Following her funeral service in San Babila Church and subsequent cremation in Milan, her ashes were brought to Istanbul and scattered in the waters of the Bosphorus on May 16, by famous musician Fazıl Say, according to her wish.Ten years after her death, in 2018, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts commemorated <mask> <mask> with the 9th edition of the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition and an exhibition titled Primadonna and Solitude. In 2019, IKSV commissioned a film, Leyla Gencer: La Diva Turca, written by Zeynep Oral, which was screened at the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre. Discography
 Bellini: Norma/1966, de Fabritiis, Gencer, Cossotto, et al. Bellini: Norma/1965, Gavazzeni, Gencer, Simionato, et al. Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda1964/Gui, Gencer, Zanasi, et al. Bellini: I Puritani 1961/Quadri, Gencer, Raimondi, et al. Pacini: Saffo 1967/Gencer, Del Bianco, Mattiucci
 Cherubini: Medea 1968/ Gencer, Bottion, et al.Mayr: Medea in Corinto 1976/Ferro, <mask>, Johns
 Gluck: Alceste 1967/ Gui, <mask>, Picchi
 Chopin: Polish Songs; Liszt/<mask> <mask>, Nikita Magaloff
 Donizetti: Anna Bolena 1958/ Gavazzeni, <mask>, Simionato, et al. Donizetti: Anna Bolena 1965/Gavazzeni, <mask>, Cava, et al. Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro 1972/Cillario, <mask>, Aragall
 Donizetti: Les Martyrs/1975 Camozzo, <mask>, Bruson, et al. Donizetti: Les Martyrs/1978 Gelmetti, <mask>, Bruson, et al. Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia/1970 Gracis, Gencer, Raimondi et al. Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia/1966 Franci, <mask>, Aragall, Petri et al. Donizetti: Maria Stuarda/1967 Molinari-Pradelli, <mask>, Verret, Tagliavini et al.Donizetti: Messa di Requiem/Gavazzeni, Teatro La Fenice
 Donizetti: Roberto Devereux 1964/Gencer, Cappuccilli, et al. Donizetti: Belisario 1969/Gavazzeni, Gencer, Taddei et al. Mozart: Don Giovanni 1960/Molinari-Pradelli, <mask>, Petri, Bruscantini, Stich-Randall et al. Mozart: Don Giovanni 1962/Solti, Gencer, Jurinac, Freni
 Ponchielli: La Gioconda 1971 / de Fabritiis, <mask>, Raimondi
 Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmélites 1957/ Nino Sanzogno conductor, Gencer, Virginia Zeani, Gianna Pederzini, et al. (premiere in Italian translation)
 Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini 1961 / Capuana, Gencer, Cioni, et al. Rossini: Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra 1971/Sanzogno, Gencer, Grilli
 Verdi: I due Foscari" 1957/Serafin, <mask>, Guelfi
 Verdi: La Battaglia di Legnano 1959/ Gencer, Limarilli
 Verdi: Rigoletto 1961/Quadri, <mask>, McNeil, Raimondi
 Verdi: Gerusalemme 1963/Gavazzeni, <mask>, Aragall, Guelfi
 Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani 1965/Gavazzeni, Gencer, et al. Verdi: Macbeth 1960/Gui, Gencer, Taddei, Picchi et al.Verdi: Macbeth 1968/Gavazzeni, <mask>, Guelfi, Corradi, et al.

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title: Tony Lombardi

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<mask><mask> (born January 29, 1962) is an American football player and coach. Lombardi served as the interim head football coach at Eastern Michigan University for one game in 1999. He is the father of NIU quarterback <mask>. Playing career
Lombardi attended Rich East High School in his hometown of Park Forest, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, graduating in 1980. While in high school, he played tailback on the football team, which was coached by his father, <mask>. Lombardi played running back for the Arizona State University Sun Devils from 1980 through 1983, and was awarded a varsity letter for all four years of play. Lombardi went undrafted in the 1984 NFL Draft and signed as a free agent with the Chicago Bears.However, he did not make the team's roster. Coaching career

Assistant coaching
After spending the 1985 season as defensive coordinator for his alma mater, Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois, Lombardi served as defensive backs coach for the Wisconsin Badgers while earning a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. From 1989 through 1996 he was the defensive coordinator for the NCAA Division II Mankato State Mavericks (now Minnesota State University). In 1997, then-head coach Rick Rasnick hired him as the linebackers coach for the Eastern Michigan Eagles, and in the 1998 and 1999 seasons, he served as the team's defensive coordinator. Eastern Michigan
The first ten games of the 1999 season were coached by Rick Rasnick, with <mask> serving as defensive coordinator. Eastern Michigan athletic director Dave Diles Jr. fired Rasnick on November 16, and named <mask> as the interim head coach, to serve for the final game of the season. Under Rasnick, the 1999 team had compiled a record of 4 wins and 6 losses.<mask>'s one game as EMU's head coach was a 24-30 loss to the Northern Illinois on November 20, 1999 that was played in DeKalb, Illinois. With the loss on the last game of the year under Lombardi, the team concluded its season with a record of 4–7. Lombardi is the only EMU head football coach to serve for just a single game, and as a result, his five days served is the shortest tenure of any head coach in the history of Eastern Michigan football. Jeff Woodruff hired Lombardi to coach the running backs and coordinate the special teams for the 2000 season. Following the 2001 season <mask> departed for the upstart professional football league the XFL. High school

At the end of Eastern Michigan's 1999 season, none of Rasnick's assistant coaches were retained. In 2001, Lombardi was the defensive coordinator for the short-lived Chicago Enforcers of the XFL.When the XFL folded after one year, <mask> decided to stay close to home coaching high school football in order to spend more time with his four-year-old son Rocky, saying, "Football has been so great, providing me with everything I've had in life. There's no way I was going to let Rocky grow up hating football because his dad is always gone." In 2002, Lombardi became the head coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Homewood, Illinois, where his father had been coach in the late 1960s, and he quickly revitalized the struggling team. However, after just one season, Lombardi left Homewood-Flossmoor moving closer to his family who lived in Plainfield, taking over at Hinsdale Central High School in Hinsdale, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. After three seasons at Hinsdale Central, in which the team posted a 30–7 record, two trips to the Class 8A quarterfinals and one trip to the semifinals, Lombardi had taken the Red Devils to the best three year record in school history. However, in iIllinois you are not a tenured faculty member until your fourth year of employment so Lombardi was asked to resign his post as there was no need to show cause by state law. Lombardi among great community support chose to stay and fight for his job, the community came out in large numbers with 5,000 signatures on a petition and months of supportive testimonials at every school board meeting in the end he was not retained.His lawsuit against the school district for breach of contract was settled for $10,000, and the following year the entire administrative team was fired. Lombardi moved on to Cedar Rapids Washington High School there he took on the responsibility of Head Strength and Conditioning coach, Head Football Assistant Track and was later the Head Baseball Coach. Lombardi made an immediate impact returning the Warriors to the playoffs in 2006. Over the next 7 years the Warriors were either in the quarterfinals or the semi-finals of the state championships all but one season. The track team won two state championships and never finished lower than 5th place. In addition to that Lombardi sent over 100 athletes on to play at the collegiate level. He built a youth program that won a National Championship and was voted the top middle school team in the nation by several youth websites in addition to that his work with youth athletics produced Nationally ranked Football, Wrestling and Baseball teams.In his free time <mask> enjoys writing autobiographies on multiple web sites, including Wikipedia. In 2013 following the baseball season Lombardi resigned as Head Football and Baseball Coach and moved to West Des Moines to go into Medical Sales, following an out-of-court settlement with the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners resulting in temporary suspension of his teaching license and coaching certificate. The youth football teams that Lombardi coached have yet to lose a lower level game at Cedar Rapids Washington. Lombardi is currently coaching at West Des Moines Valley High School where his family resides and His son is currently the starting Quarterback at Valley and is a highly recruited Division I prospect. References

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title: Cahal Daly

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Charles (<mask><mask> KGCHS (1 October 1917 – 31 December 2009) was an Irish philosopher, theologian, writer and international speaker and, in later years, a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. <mask>io by Pope John Paul II in the consistory of 28 June 1991. Early life
<mask> was born in Ballybraddin, Loughguile, a village near Ballymoney in County Antrim, the third child of seven born to <mask> and Susan Connolly. His father was a primary school teacher originally from Keadue, County Roscommon, and his mother a native of Antrim. He was educated at St. Patrick's National School in Loughguile, and then as a boarder in St. Malachy's College, Belfast, in 1930. The writer Brian Moore was a near contemporary.Studies
<mask> studied Classics at Queen's University in Belfast. He earned his B.A. with Honours and also the Henry Medal in Latin Studies in 1937 and completed his M.A. the following year. He entered St Patrick's College, Maynooth and was ordained to the priesthood on 22 June 1941. He continued studies in theology in Maynooth, from where he obtained a doctorate in divinity (DD) in 1944. His first appointment was as Classics Master in St. Malachy's College (1944–1945).In 1945 he was appointed Lecturer in Scholastic Philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast, retaining the post for 21 years. In the academic year 1952–53 Queens granted him sabbatical leave, which he spent studying at the Catholic Institute of Paris where he received a licentiate in philosophy. He would return to France at many points, particularly for holidays. He persisted with his studies well into his retirement. He was a popular figure with the university and fondly remembered by his students. Episcopate

<mask> was a peritus, or theological expert, at the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) to Bishop William Philbin during the first session of the Council and to William Cardinal Conway for the rest of the council. He dedicated himself to scholarship for 30 years, and published several books seeking to bring about understanding between the warring factions in Northern Ireland.<mask> was appointed Reader in Scholastic Philosophy at Queen's University in 1963, a post he held until 1967, when he was appointed Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise on 26 May. <mask> converted his forename Charles into Cahal ahead of his episcopal consecration in St. Mel's Cathedral, Longford, on 16 July 1967 from William Cardinal Conway, with Archbishop Giuseppe Sensi and Bishop Neil Farren serving as co-consecrators. He spent 15 years as bishop in Longford and was diligent about parish visitation and confirmations gradually assumed a greater national profile. From 1974 onwards, he devoted himself especially to ecumenical activities for the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. His pastoral letter to Protestants, written in 1979, pleaded for Christian unity. <mask> succeeded William Philbin as the 30th Bishop of Down and Connor when he was installed as bishop of his native diocese at a ceremony in St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast, on 17 October 1982. Cardinal
On 6 November 1990, <mask> was appointed Archbishop of Armagh and, as such, Primate of All Ireland.His age made him an unexpected occupant of the post. Despite this it was requested that he stay in the role for three years before usual age of episcopal retirement at 75. Cardinal <mask> took a notably harder line against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) than his predecessor, Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich. <mask> was respectful of Protestant rights, and opposed formal integrated education of Catholics and Protestants. This policy was criticised by those who believed segregated education to be one of the causes of sectarianism in Northern Ireland, but was seen by the Catholic clergy as important for passing on their faith to future generations. He was utterly orthodox in opposing divorce, contraception, abortion, the ordination of women and any idea of dropping clerical celibacy. He was heckled by the audience on live television during a broadcast of The Late Late Show on RTÉ One on the topic of paedophilia in the 1990s.After his retirement in 1996 he made no public statement on the issue. <mask> retired as Archbishop of Armagh on his 79th birthday, 1 October 1996, and subsequently suffered ill health. Although it was announced that he would attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II, he stayed home on the advice of his doctors. His age made him ineligible to participate in the 2005 conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI. His death in 2009 brought to an end a two-year period during which Ireland had, for the first time in its history, three living Cardinals. In 1967 <mask> took as his episcopal motto, "Jesus Christ, yesterday and today", taken from  and his armorial bearings were a personalised variation of the arms of the Ó Dálaigh family. As Archbishop of Armagh his Moto and bearings were [[Impalement (heraldry)|impathem with those of the Archdiocese of Armagh.Declining health and death
Cardinal <mask> was admitted to the coronary unit of Belfast City Hospital on 28 December 2009. His health had already been declining, leading to prayers being ordered for him. Dr <mask> died in hospital in Belfast on 31 December 2009, aged 92. His family were at his bedside at the time. In tributes, both Taoiseach Brian Cowen and former UK prime minister Tony Blair stressed Cardinal <mask>'s contribution to the peace process in Northern Ireland. The deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, the Sinn Féin MLA Martin McGuinness, said it was no secret that Republicans and Cardinal <mask> had never enjoyed a close relationship during The Troubles, but that relations had warmed since then. Warm tributes also came from the Primate of the Church of Ireland, the Most Rev.Alan Harper, the President of the Methodist Church in Ireland, the Rev. Donald P. Ker, and the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Stafford Carson. He lay in state in Belfast  and then his remains were taken to Armagh. Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute at this stage. Large numbers of people travelled from as far as County Westmeath to attend Mass at Armagh on 4 January, at which Monsignor Liam McEntaggart, the former parish priest of Coalisland, said, "When the history of peace making in Ireland comes to be written, the contribution of Cardinal <mask> will be accorded a high place".Monsignor McEntaggart himself died on 22 August 2010, aged 81, less than eight months after Cardinal <mask>'s passing. <mask>'s funeral was held on 5 January 2010, attended by the president Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Brian Cowen. Cardinal <mask> was buried in the grounds of St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Armagh next to his three predecessors in the see, Cardinals Ó Fiaich, Conway and D'Alton. Written legacy
In 2001, eight years before his death, Dr. <mask> donated his entire set of writings to the Political Collection of the Linen Hall Library. His donation to the Library, which is bound in handsome volumes, includes 500 sermons, essays, addresses and press statements. Cardinal <mask> said at the time:

His collection Philosophy in Britain from Bradley to Wittgenstein and The Minding of Planet Earth was published in 2004. Two of his speeches feature in Teachers of the Faith: Speeches and Lectures by Catholic Bishops, a book of international addresses by members of the clergy spanning 26 years.See also
 Roman Catholicism in Ireland
 Roman Catholicism in Northern Ireland

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 Obituary in The Daily Telegraph
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title: Abraham Reynardson

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<mask> (1589 – 4 October 1661) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1649. Early life
<mask> was born at Plymouth, the son of <mask>, Turkey merchant of Plymouth and his wife Julia Brace, He served his apprenticeship in London to Edmund James, of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. Reynardson became a member of the Merchant Taylors' Company, and became a freeman of the city on 5 October 1618. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1630 to 1631 and a Court Assistant from 1630 to 1632. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1634 to 1635, a Court Assistant from 1635 to 1636 and a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1636 to 1640. Political career
In 1639 Reynardson purchased his manor house at Tottenham. In the same year, he was elected Sheriff of London and became treasurer of the Levant Company until 1641.In 1640 he took an assignment of Sir W. Acton's house in Bishopsgate Street. He served as Sheriff and master of the Merchant Taylors company from 1640 to 1641. He sympathised with the Royalist cause and as master of the Merchant Taylors he helped to respond to King Charles's demand for a loan from the city companies in 1640. On 12 November 1640, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Bishopsgate ward. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1641 to 1650. Neither he nor his colleagues on the court of the company assisted the corporation, except under compulsion, in raising loans for the parliament in 1642 and 1643. In 1648 became Alderman for Candlewick ward.In 1648 <mask> was elected Lord Mayor of London, the first Devonshire man to become Lord Mayor. His election sermon was preached by Obadiah Sedgwick, an eloquent divine, whom Oliver Cromwell had stigmatised as "a rascally priest." <mask> soon came into conflict with the Rump Parliament, which had declared all oaths of allegiance to the king illegal. He refused to admit to the common council members who had not made the customary loyal subscription, but parliament retaliated on 5 January 1649 by ordering him to assemble the council and suspend the taking of oaths. Expecting resistance, they further directed him to remove the chains which had been placed across the streets as a protection from cavalry charges. Reynardson did not countenance the act constituting the court for the trial of King Charles and it was read in his absence at the Exchange and in Cheapside by the sergeant-at-arms, with the commons' mace upon his shoulder. <mask> presided at a meeting of the common council on 9 January when a petition was read which had been circulated in the city, affirming "that the commons of England, in parliament assembled, have the supreme power of this nation".A committee recommended the petition's adoption, but when this recommendation was brought up at the meeting of the council on 13 January Reynardson refused to put the question. The debate on the subject lasted from eleven in the morning till eight in the evening, when the lord mayor left, and the resolution for presenting the petition was carried. The House of Commons took no proceedings against the Reynardson, but passed an ordinance that, if the mayor failed to call a meeting of the council on the requisition of six members, any forty of the members could convene the council without the Lord Mayor's presence. After the execution of Charles on 30 January, Reynardson held in his possession the "personal treaty," which was subscribed by most of the common council in favour of the proposed treaty between Charles and the parliament. Reynardson burnt the document "to ashes privately in his chamber," because it contained the names of leading citizens who had by their signatures approved its loyal sentiments. Reynardson accepted the presidency of St Bartholomew's Hospital in February 1649. On 23 March a copy of the act proclaiming the abolition of the kingly office was brought to <mask>'s house.When he refused to make it public, he was summoned to the bar of the House of Commons. He pleaded his conscientious scruples, but the house ordered him to pay a fine of £2,000, to be imprisoned in the Tower of London for two months, and to be deposed from the mayoralty. The court of aldermen at once took possession of the insignia, and proceeded to the election of a new mayor. <mask>'s tenure of office had brought with it a heavy pecuniary burden. By his own statement, he lost as much as £20,000 while mayor. When he refused to pay the fine imposed by parliament, "his goods, household stuff, and wearing apparel were ordered to be sold by the candle." In September 1649 he resigned the presidency of St Bartholomew's, on account of ill-health.Part of his fine was not paid, and on 7 May 1651, an order was issued that the whole of his estate was to be seized until the fine was liquidated. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1653 to 1654 and from 1655 to 1656. Later life
After the Restoration, <mask> and thirteen other members of the common council presented to the king a resolution commending Reynardson's action in January 1649. Charles II knighted the members of the deputation in May 1660, but <mask> was knighted separately by Charles on his visit to the Guildhall on 5 July. He was formally restored as alderman for Bassishaw ward on 4 September He declined the office of Lord Mayor for 1660 to 1661 because of "his sickly condition". <mask> died at Tottenham in 1661 at the age of 71. His body lay in state at Merchant Taylors' Hall till 17 October when it was taken for burial at the church of St. Martin Outwich.His widow was buried in the chancel of the same church on 14 July 1674, but no monument was raised to either, and their remains, with many others, were removed to the city of London cemetery at Ilford in 1874, when the church was demolished. In his will he provided £300 as a pension for six poor women of his company, and 140 ounces of silver to be made into a basin and ewer for use at the feasts. During his lifetime <mask> lent large sums of money to the Merchant Taylors' Company and regularly attended the meetings of the court. He had presented two silver flagons and two gilt cups with covers to the church of St Martin Outwich. His extensive property included lands in Essex and Sussex. <mask> married twice. His first wife was Abigail Crisp, daughter of Alderman Nicholas Crisp of Bread Street and by her he had two sons of whom only one survived them.Abigail died in July 1632. He married secondly Eleanor Wynne, daughter of Richard Wynne of Shrewsbury and they had three sons and three daughters, all of whom survived their father. References

1590 births
1661 deaths
17th-century lord mayors of London
Sheriffs of the City of London

masks:
Abraham Reynardson
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Thomas Reynardson
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