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<mask> (born May 15, 1995 in Tala, Jalisco, Mexico) is a Mexican, second-generation, luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler who is known for his work for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where he used a tecnico ("Good guy") wrestling character. <mask>'s real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans. <mask> also works for Ring of Honor, where he was ROH World Television Champion, and ROH World Tag Team Champion with La Faccion Ingobernable teammate Kenny King. He also wrestles for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), under the name <mask> (リュウ・リー　Ryū Rī), where he is a former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion. <mask> is the son of professional wrestler Arturo Muñoz, known under the ring name La Bestia del Ring, where the family relationship is publicly acknowledged. He is the second person to use the <mask> ring persona and mask, the first <mask> being his older brother, Carlos, who now wrestles under the ring name Místico. <mask> has another brother, William, who works under the ring name Rush.<mask> was voted the 2014 Rookie of the Year by readers of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. In April 2015, <mask> won his first professional wrestling title, the CMLL World Lightweight Championship. <mask> is also the fourth wrestler to win titles in ROH, CMLL, and NJPW after Rocky Romero, Matt Taven, and Tama Tonga. Personal life
The man known under the ring name <mask> was born on May 15, 1995, in Tala, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, son of professional wrestler Arturo Muñoz, who had worked as Toro Blanco, Poder Boriqua, Poder Mexico, and Comandante Pierroth over the years. <mask>'s two older brothers grew up to become professional wrestlers as well, with the oldest of the brothers, William, making his wrestling debut in 2008 and would later become known as "Rush". Another of <mask>'s brothers, Carlos, became a professional wrestler in 2011, adopting the enmascarado (masked) character <mask> initially. In 2012, the original <mask> was offered the opportunity to take over the Místico character after the original wrestler under the Místico mask left Mexico.It was public knowledge that <mask> had taken over the Místico character, leaving the mask and character of <mask> behind. <mask>'s uncles are also professional wrestlers, known as Franco Columbo, Pit Bull I, and Pit Bull II, and all had a hand in training <mask> prior to his professional wrestling debut. At the age of 14, his father took him to Mexico City to start training in amateur wrestling, participating in several wrestling events. He would also participate in boxing; but, as <mask> recalls in a 2015 interview, during his first match he performed a Suplex (a wrestling throw) on his opponent and was disqualified. At that point he realized that his future was in Lucha Libre. In December 2019, <mask> married his fiancée, Lupita Orozco. The wedding was officiated by Fray Tormenta.Professional wrestling career

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (2013–2019)
Muñoz began training in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's (CMLL: Spanish for "World Wrestling Council") gym in 2013, working towards a contract to become a regular wrestler for CMLL. He made his first public appearance as <mask> on November 20, 2013 when he competed in CMLL's 2013 Bodybuilding Contest, winning the beginners category while CMLL regulars Pequeño Olimpico and Stukita took second and third place. He made his in-ring debut for CMLL on January 1, 2014, as part of the 2014 La Copa Junior tournament. During the match <mask> eliminated Herodes, Jr., but was himself eliminated by Cachorro as the third man eliminated in the tournament that was eventually won by Super Halcón Jr. <mask> was referred to as part of CMLL's Generacion 2014, a group of wrestlers who all made their debut around January, 2014 and also included Black Panther, Cachorro, Espiritu Negro, Flyer, Hechicero, El Rebelde and Star Jr. A month after his CMLL debut <mask> participated in the 2014 Torneo Gran Alternativa ("Great Alternative") tournament, which is an annual a tag team tournament that has a wrestling rookie team up with an experienced wrestler for the tournament. For the tournament, <mask> teamed up with older brother Rush. In the first round the brothers defeated Negro Casas and Canelo Casas, then went on to defeat Herodes, Jr. and Shocker in the second round before losing to eventual tournament winners Bárbaro Cavernario and Mr. Niebla in the tournament semi-final. On March 23, 2014 <mask> was one of 16 wrestlers in a tornero cibernetico (elimination) match, hoping to qualify for one of eight spots in CMLL's annual En Busca de un Ídolo ("In search of an idol") tournament.<mask> was one of the eight survivors of the match alongside Cachorro, Cavernario, Guerrero Negro Jr. Hechicero, Star Jr., Soberano Jr. and Super Halcon Jr. and thus qualified for the actual tournament. The first round consisted of a round-robin tournament where he wrestled against all other participants. Following the matches each wrestler was given points by a panel of judges as well as points from an online poll. The first round saw <mask> in 4th place with 423 points following victories over Cachorro, Guerrero Negro, Jr. and Soberano, Jr., 423 points qualified him for the second round along with Cavernario, Hechicero and Cachorro. <mask> only defeated Cachorro during the second round, landing him in 3rd place with 198 points. On August 25, 2014 it was announced that <mask> would team up with fellow rookie Cachorro for the CMLL 81st Anniversary Show, marking <mask> first appearance at CMLL's Anniversary Shows, the promotion's most important show of the year. They were scheduled to compete in the first match against the brother-duo of Puma and Tiger.In early 2015, <mask> started a storyline rivalry with Japanese wrestler Kamaitachi. The prolonged storyline rivalry culminated on March 20 at the Homenaje a Dos Leyendas ("Homage to Two Wrestlers") show. The two masked men faced off in a Lucha de Apuestas, or "bet match", with both wrestlers risking their mask on the outcome. <mask> defeated Kamaitachi two falls to one, forcing his rival to unmask. On April 5, 2015, <mask> won his first professional wrestling championship, when he defeated Virus to capture the CMLL World Lightweight Championship. On May 15, 2015 <mask> outlasted Bárbaro Cavernario, Fuego, Kamaitachi, Luciferno, Mephisto, Místico, Niebla Roja, The Panther, Titán, Virus and Volador Jr. to win the first round torneo cibernetico of the 2015 Leyenda de Plata ("Silver Legend") tournament, one of CMLL's most prestigious annual tournaments. On May 22, he lost to Negro Casas in the finals of the tournament.In January 2016, <mask>. After the match, <mask> was attacked by Kamaitachi, which led to a match the following day, where <mask> lost the CMLL World Lightweight Championship. <mask> regained the championship from Kamaitachi on March 4 when the two had a rematch in Mexico City. During the summer, <mask> became involved in a rivalry with La Máscara, a storyline that sprung from La Máscara feuding with the entire Muñoz family. La Máscara and Rush had teamed together as Los Ingobernables for years, but over the summer of 2016 the group had broken up. Initially the feud focused on Rush and La Máscara but late changed focus from Rush to <mask>.On August 5, <mask> made a challenge for a Mask vs. Mask Lucha de Apuestas between the two, which was accepted by La Máscara. On September 2 at the 83rd Anniversary Show, <mask> defeated La Máscara win the second mask of his career. In January 2017, <mask> took part in the Fantastica Mania 2017 tour, successfully defending the CMLL World Lightweight Championship against Bárbaro Cavernario during the January 20 event. <mask> as a participant in the 2017 International Gran Prix. He was eliminated from the torneo cibernetico on September 1 by Juice Robinson. On September 27, 2019, CMLL announced that they had fired both <mask> and Rush for not following guidelines set by the programming department.According to Dave Meltzer, CMLL wasn't happy with <mask> since he participated in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla's Battle of Los Angeles after they told him to not work in the tournament. Ring of Honor (2016–2021)
<mask> made his Ring of Honor (ROH) debut on September 30, 2016, at ROH's All Star Extravaganza VIII, in a victory over Kamaitachi. <mask> was unsuccessful in a three-way dance for the ROH World Television Championship, against champion Marty Scurll and Will Ospreay at ROH's December pay-per-view, Final Battle 2016, where Scurll retained his title. At the 2019 Final Battle show, <mask> defeated Shane Taylor to win the ROH World Television Championship. On December 15, 2019, <mask> joined his brother RUSH, Amy Rose, and Kenny King in forming La Faccion Ingobernable, turning heel. Following this, <mask> started to wrestle a more aggressive style, and wear darker colors. On February 10th, (recognized as February 27th due to tape delay), <mask> and King defeated The Foundation (Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham) to win the ROH World Tag Team Championships for the first time, thus making <mask> a dual champion.Both of these reigns ended at ROH's 19th anniversary show when <mask> was sidelined with an ear injury. King lost the Television title on <mask>'s behalf to Foundation member Tracy Williams, as well as dropping the Tag team championship to Williams and his Foundation stablemate, King's former tag team partner, Rhett Titus. On November 21, 2021, <mask> lost the title against Dalton Castle. New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2017–present)
On January 5, 2017, <mask> made a surprise return to NJPW, attacking Hiromu Takahashi (the former Kamaitachi) and Tetsuya Naito during their match against Kushida and Michael Elgin. Following the match, <mask> posed with Takahashi's IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship belt. This led to <mask> unsuccessfully challenging Takahashi for the title on February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka. The following May, <mask> realized one of his goals in professional wrestling, when he was announced as a participant in the Best of the Super Juniors 24 tournament.In his opening match of the tournament on May 17, <mask> handed rival Hiromu Takahashi his first singles loss since returning to Japan at the end of 2016. <mask> finished the tournament on May 31 with a record of four wins and three losses, failing to advance to the finals. <mask> returned to NJPW the following October, teaming with Titán in the 2017 Super Jr. Tag Tournament, from which they were eliminated in the first round by Bushi and Hiromu Takahashi. On May 7, NJPW announced <mask> as a participant in the 2018 Best of the Super Juniors tournament. He finished the tournament with 3 wins and 4 losses, failing to advance to the finals. On G1 Special in San Francisco, <mask> challenged Hiromu Takahashi for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship. However, he didn't win the title.At the G1 Supercard on April 6, 2019, <mask> defeated Taiji Ishimori and Bandido in a triple threat match to win the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship for the first time, and in the process, becoming the third Mexican to hold the title (behind Juventud Guerrera and Mistico, who were the first and second, respectively). On December 8, 2019, <mask>, now having changed his ring name to Ryu <mask>, challenged Jyushin Thunder Liger to be Liger's final opponent at Wrestle Kingdom 14. On January 5, he and Takahashi successfully defeated Liger and Naoki Sano in a tag match. It was then announced that at the New Beginning in Osaka, <mask> would once again challenge Takahashi for the Jr. Heavyweight title. Independent circuit (2018)
While working for CMLL, <mask> was allowed to take independent bookings for days where he was not needed for CMLL shows, which has allowed <mask> to work on both the Mexican and US independent circuit, mainly against other CMLL wrestlers. In early 2018, he challenged Shane Strickland for the PCW Light Heavyweight Championship as part of PCW's Opposites Attack pay-per-view show, but lost. On July 6, 2018, <mask> competed in the All Pro Wrestling/Pro Wrestling Revolution jointly promoted "King of Indies" tournament, defeating Ryusuke Taguchi in the first round, Brody King in the semi-finals and Flip Gordon to win the whole tournament.Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (2019, 2021–present)
On November 7, 2019, <mask> appeared in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide promotion at the press conference where, he was announced as a challenger to the AAA Mega Championship against Kenny Omega in Triplemanía Regia, however he was defeated in his debut. On October 9, 2021, at Héroes Inmortales XIV, <mask> returned for AAA accompanied by his brother Dralístico, challenged Los Lucha Bros (Fénix and Pentagón Jr.) for the AAA World Tag Team Championship, after they had retained the title over Jinetes del Aire (Hijo del Vikingo and Laredo Kid). In other media
In the late summer of 2018 <mask> was one of the participants in the Mexican version of the Exathlon sports reality show, <mask> was part of the "celebrity/athlete" Exathlon team, competing against a team of amateurs that was shown several days a week on the Mexican Azteca Uno television station. Due to the show <mask> did not wrestle between August 15 and December 13, 2018. He was eliminated from the show on November 20, 2018 for medical reasons, as he was suffering from a severe ear infection that threatened his hearing. He later revealed that he had been advised that he may need surgery on his ear and nose. He also revealed that he had lost  during the show as he was not allowed to eat the same amount of food as he did while staying in wrestling shape.Professional wrestling persona
Muñoz's "<mask>" ring character is that of a tecnico or the good guy; in Lucha Libre traditional good guy/bad guy divide is still maintained much stricter than most other countries in the 20th century. His wrestling style is a high speed, high flying version of Lucha Libre, where he will take higher risks than a lot of wrestlers when executing moves off the top rope or from inside the ring to the outside. (Bridging package fallaway powerbomb) During his long running storyline with Takahashi the two developed such a trust in each other that they were able to perform high risk moves that <mask> would not be able to do against other wrestlers who would not be able to execute their part of the move safely. His high risk style has led him to often use a Running frankensteiner throw where he leaps over the top rope and executes the leg scissor takedown on an opponent standing on the apron, sending him to the floor. His high flying style has earned him the nickname "El Niño Maravilla" ("The Boy Wonder"). One of his signature finishing moves is the "Dragon Driver", also known as the "Phoenix-Plex" - a Bridging package fallaway powerbomb where he lifts his opponent up, hooks his legs in a "package" position and then falls backwards so the opponent is slammed to the ground and he holds them there for a pinfall. The Phoenix-Plex is one of the riskier professional wrestling moves, designed to look like it hurts the opponent without actually inflicting too much pain, but can go wrong when the person executing or the person taking the move makes a mistake.That risk was highlighted in a match between <mask> and Takahashi at NJPW's G1 Special in San Francisco, where <mask> released his opponent too early and Takahashi landed on his neck, breaking it in the process. Championships and accomplishments
All Pro Wrestling
King of Indies tournament (2018, 2019)
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
CMLL World Lightweight Championship (2 times)
CMLL World Welterweight Championship (1 time)
CMLL Bodybuilding Contest: Beginners Category (2013)
CMLL Bodybuilding Contest: Intermediate Category (2014, 2015)
Lucha Libre Azteca
Azteca Championship (1 time)
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Torneo de Parejas Familiares (2019) – with Místico
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 Ranked No. 41 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2021
Ring of Honor
ROH World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Kenny King
ROH World Television Championship (2 times)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Rookie of the Year (2014)

Luchas de Apuestas record

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1995 births
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Professional wrestlers from Jalisco
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<mask> (; born July 21, 1955) is an American politician, who served as the 88th governor of Connecticut from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he chaired the Democratic Governors Association from 2016 to 2017. On July 1, 2019, he began his tenure as the Chancellor of the University of Maine System. Born in Stamford, Connecticut, <mask> attended Boston College for both undergraduate and law degrees. <mask> began his career as an assistant district attorney in New York in 1980 before moving back to Stamford and entering private practice. He served on the Stamford board of finance from 1984 to 1994 before being elected Mayor of Stamford. He served four terms as mayor from December 1995 to December 2009.<mask> ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Connecticut in 2006, losing the Democratic primary to John DeStefano, Jr., the Mayor of New Haven, who was defeated in the general election by acting Republican Governor Jodi Rell. He ran again in 2010 and comfortably won the primary, defeating Ned Lamont, the 2006 U.S. Senate nominee, by 57% of the vote to 43%. Rell did not run for reelection and Malloy faced former United States Ambassador to Ireland Thomas C. Foley in the general election, defeating him by fewer than 6,500 votes. <mask> was sworn in on January 5, 2011. He was reelected in a rematch with Foley in 2014, increasing his margin of victory to over 28,000 votes. As of July 2018, he had a 21% job approval rating and a 71% disapproval rating, making him the second least popular and third most disliked governor in the United States, after Mary Fallin of Oklahoma. On April 13, 2017, Malloy announced he would not seek reelection in 2018.He was succeeded in office by Democrat Ned Lamont on January 9, 2019. Early life, education and early career
<mask> <mask> was born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut, the seventh of seven sons and youngest of the eight children of Agnes Veronica (née Egan), a nurse, and William Francis <mask>. He is of Irish descent and was raised as a Catholic. As a child, Malloy suffered from learning disabilities and difficulties with motor coordination. He did not learn to tie his shoes until the fifth grade. Malloy eventually was diagnosed with dyslexia and learned the skills necessary to succeed academically. He does not write or type, and rarely reads from notes in public, but developed an extraordinarily useful memory.He graduated magna cum laude from Boston College, where he met his wife Cathy, and later earned his J.D. degree from Boston College Law School. After passing the bar exam, Malloy served as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York from 1980-84. During his tenure as a prosecutor, Malloy tried 23 felony cases, four of them homicides, and won 22 convictions. He was subsequently a partner in the Stamford law firm of Abate and Fox from 1984-95. He served on the Stamford Board of Finance from 1983-94. Mayor of Stamford (1995–2009)
In 1995, he ran successfully for Mayor of Stamford, defeating two-term Republican incumbent Stanley Esposito.At the same time, voters approved a measure to extend the Mayor's term of office from two years to four, effective at the next election. He was re-elected in 1997, 2001 and 2005. <mask> made crime reduction a priority during his tenure as mayor; Stamford saw a dramatic decrease in homicides under his administration. Stamford is currently ranked as the 9th safest city in the United States and 3rd safest in the Northeast region and for the past six years has ranked in the top 11 safest cities with populations of 100,000 or more, according to the FBI. Malloy wrote a blog known as "The Blog That Works", since deleted, until mid-January 2010. Budgeting and districting of the various fire departments throughout the city has been unstable since 2007, due to an extended legal conflict between the volunteer departments and the Malloy administration, which sought to consolidate the fire departments against the advice and wishes of the volunteer fire departments. Governor of Connecticut (2011–2019)

Elections

2006

In 2004, <mask> was the first candidate to announce his bid for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor of Connecticut.In a major upset in <mask>'s favor, he received the convention endorsement of the Democratic Party on May 20, 2006 by one vote. <mask> lost in the primary election however against New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. on August 8, 2006. 2010

On February 3, 2009, Malloy officially filed paperwork with Connecticut's State Elections Enforcement Commission to form a gubernatorial exploratory committee, and subsequently announced that he did not intend to seek re-election as Mayor of Stamford. On March 9, 2010, <mask> filed the required paperwork to officially run for governor. <mask> received the Democratic Party's endorsement for governor on May 22, 2010, in a 68-32 vote over 2006 Democratic senatorial candidate Ned Lamont. Connecticut's Democratic Party rules allow any candidate who received more than 15% of the vote at its nominating convention to challenge the endorsed candidate for the nomination in a primary, and Lamont announced that he would challenge Malloy in the gubernatorial primary. The primary was held on August 10, 2010.<mask> won with 58% of the vote, according to AP-reported unofficial results. According to preliminary numbers, he beat Lamont 101,354 to 73,875. As a Democratic candidate for governor prior to the Democratic state convention and subsequent primary, <mask> chose Nancy Wyman to be his running mate. Wyman is the only woman elected State Comptroller since the office was created in 1786. <mask>'s choice was confirmed by the Democratic nominating convention on May 22, and Wyman became the official 2010 Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor when she defeated primary opponent Mary Glassman on August 10. After the primaries, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run together as a team on a single ticket. Thus, <mask> and Wyman were both elected on November 2, 2010.Malloy faced Republican Thomas C. Foley, the former United States Ambassador to Ireland under President George W. Bush, in the race for governor. Tom Foley had never been elected to public office. In the last Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll released on the morning before Election Day, <mask> trailed Foley 48% to 45%. According to The New York Times on November 3, Malloy was elected governor; they later placed Foley in the lead with no declared winner. The Associated Press had at one point also placed Foley ahead by 8,424 votes because they hadn't added the votes from New Haven or Bridgeport at that time. In the days following the election, there was controversy over several polling locations in Bridgeport remaining open until 10 p.m. on Election Day due to ballot shortages. Foley's team looked into the events that took place in Bridgeport and determined there was insufficient evidence of enough fraud to overcome the vote deficit.2014

On March 28, 2014, <mask> announced his intention to seek a second term. With full support, he was unopposed in the Democratic primary. On August 12, Tom Foley, <mask>'s Republican opponent in 2010, won his party's nomination, making the 2014 election a rematch of the bitter 2010 contest. As expected, the race was very close. On November 4, <mask> won reelection with 51.1 percent of the vote. Foley conceded the election on November 5 without direct communication with Malloy. Tenure

<mask> was sworn in as the 88th Governor of Connecticut on January 5, 2011, succeeding Republican Governor Jodi Rell.In the state's legislative elections of November 2012, Republicans tried to tie Democratic legislators to Malloy, who had consistently faced negative job approval ratings. The strategy did not work and the Democrats recorded no losses in either house. Malloy called the results a "vindication" and said that "Tough times require tough decisions that are not immediately popular... you should not be afraid to make tough decisions, particularly if you are transparent about those decisions, if you explain why those decisions were necessary. In our case, the tough decisions we had to make were in fact caused by Republican governors." According to a July 2016 New York Times survey, <mask> was the most unpopular Democratic governor in the country, with a 64% disapproval and 29% approval rating, and the second-most unpopular overall, after Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas. Economy
The first task facing Malloy upon taking office was addressing a multibillion-dollar deficit as a result of the prior state budget enacted by the Democratic super-majority-controlled legislature which Rell chose to accept without signing. Malloy adopted what he called an agenda of "shared sacrifice" which was dependent on increases in various taxes, including the income tax, the gas tax, the sales tax, and the estate tax, as well as $1 billion each year in union concessions.Malloy chose not to reduce aid to municipalities as part of his budget agenda, although such aid would have been jeopardized if labor concessions were not reached. After two months of negotiations, in May 2011, Malloy won $1.6 billion in union givebacks. The budget deal meant that, in contrast to many other states, there were no layoffs. Many of <mask>'s proposed tax increases were unpopular, despite a statewide "listening tour" to promote the budget. Marijuana
In June 2011, Malloy signed a bill that decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana. Offenders pay a $150 fine for a first offense and a fine ranging from $200 to $500 for subsequent offenses. Those younger than 21 face a 60-day driver's license suspension.Paraphernalia has also been decriminalized as long as the person possesses under 1/2 an ounce of marijuana. Offenders may still be arrested for under 1/2 an ounce or a pipe if they are in a school zone and there is a mandatory minimum sentence (MMS) of 3 years. There is also an MMS of 3 years for sale to a minor. Connecticut became the 17th state to legalize medical marijuana on June 1, 2012 after Malloy signed a bill into law. Some portions of the law were effective immediately while the remaining portions became effective on October 1, 2012. In December 2016, <mask> publicly stated that he opposed the legalization of recreational marijuana in Connecticut and that he would not support legislative efforts at legalization. LGBT equality
Malloy supports progressive social measures, including protections for transgender identity.Malloy praised the Transgender Rights Bill HB 6599 and promised he would sign it into law. It passed the legislature and he signed it on July 5, 2011. The bill protects the rights of transgender residents, including the right to use public facilities of the gender a person identifies with. Labor laws
On September 21, 2011, Malloy issued Executive Orders 9 and 10, which would allow the Service Employees International Union to unionize day care workers subsidized through Care 4 Kids and personal care attendants under Medicaid waivers by redefining these employees as state employees for collective bargaining purposes. The executive orders generated intense opposition from child care providers, personal care attendants, their employers with disabilities, the National Federation of Independent Business, and We the People of Connecticut, a constitutionalist organization. Disability advocates objected to being excluded from the decision-making process, to union interference in the intimate relationship between employers and PCAs, and to the likely loss of PCA hours under a capped program; NFIB feared a "terrible precedent" in allowing other union organizing drives of small businesses by executive order through card check; and legislators viewed Malloy's actions as a violation of the state Constitution's separation of powers. Malloy responded that these workers, whom he described as being among the hardest working and lowest paid, deserved the opportunity to collectively bargain if they wished to do so.Criminal justice
Malloy, who has long campaigned against capital punishment, signed a bill to repeal the state's death penalty on April 25, 2012. The bill was not retroactive and did not affect those on death row in Connecticut at the time. On August 13, 2015, however, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in 2015 in State v. Santiago that the legislature's decision to prospectively abolish capital punishment rendered it an offense to "evolving standards of decency," thus commuting the sentences of the 11 men remaining on death row to life in prison without parole. Malloy was in the process of having Connecticut be the first state in the nation to raise the age of being within the juvenile system from 18 to 21 via the Second Chance initiative. Education
<mask>'s "centerpiece" education reform bill was unanimously passed by the Connecticut House of Representatives and signed into law in early May 2012. The bill increases funding for early childhood education and poorer school districts, creates 1,000 more preschool places, creates a kindergarten to third grade literacy pilot program and reformed teacher tenure, tying it to performance. Voting
Also in May 2012, Malloy signed a bill that expanded voting rights in Connecticut, allowing for same-day voter registration.Other provisions to allow early voting and "no-excuse" absentee ballots will be subject to a referendum, to be held in 2014. It also allows for online voter registration, beginning in 2014. Gun laws
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown in December 2012, Malloy pushed for strict new gun control laws. In April 2013, he signed into law a bill that passed the legislature with bipartisan support and required universal background checks, banned magazines with a capacity of more than 10 rounds, created the country's first registry for dangerous-weapon offenders and added over 100 types of gun to the state's assault weapons ban. In December 2015, Malloy announced he would issue an executive order to prohibit anyone on federal terrorist watchlists (such as the No Fly List) from obtaining the permits required to acquire firearms in Connecticut. The executive order would also revoke existing permits for people on such lists. Immigration laws
On June 7, 2013, Malloy signed a bill that allows all residents of Connecticut, including illegal immigrants, to apply for a driver's license.He called it a public safety issue that "needs to be addressed". The licenses cannot be used to vote or board a plane and the bill took effect in July 2015. Other issues

At the end of May 2012, Malloy signed a bill that repealed Connecticut's ban on the sale of alcohol on Sundays. Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana and Minnesota had previously been the only states that still had broad restrictions on the sale of alcohol on Sundays. In response to Hurricane Sandy, Malloy partially activated the state's Emergency Operations Center on October 26, 2012 and signed a Declaration of Emergency the next day. On October 28, President Barack Obama approved Connecticut's request for an emergency declaration, and hundreds of National Guard personnel were deployed. On October 29, Malloy ordered road closures for all state highways.Numerous mandatory and partial evacuations were issued in cities across Connecticut. <mask>'s strong initial response is credited with helping the state to avoid much of the damage that affected neighbouring New York City and nearby New Jersey. Five people were killed and over 30,000 houses were destroyed. The Federal Emergency Management Agency gave the state over $283 million in the 6 months following the hurricane and in August 2013, <mask> announced that the Department of Housing and Urban Development was giving another $71.8 million. Later career
<mask> was unanimously chosen by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees to be its Chancellor on May 30, 2019, with his service beginning on July 1. Memberships
 Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, 2016 – 2017
 Trustee and Vice Chair for Education of the Jobs, Education & Workforce Committee, United States Conference of Mayors
 Co-Chair of Small Business/Partner America Task Force, United States Conference of Mayors
 Former Member, Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee
 Former President, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
 Adjunct Professor, the University of Connecticut
 Member, Board of Trustees, Mitchell College, New London, Connecticut
 Member, Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition

Personal life

<mask> and his wife have been married since 1982. <mask> is the chief executive officer of the Greater Hartford Arts Council.She formerly served as  executive director of the Center for Sexual Assault Crisis Counseling and Education serving lower Fairfield County. The couple has three sons: <mask>, Ben, and Sam. Electoral history

See also
 2006 Connecticut gubernatorial election
 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial election
 2014 Connecticut gubernatorial election

References

External links

 Governor <mask> P<mask> official government website
 <mask> for Governor

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Democratic Party state governors of the United States
Governors of Connecticut
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title: William Pennefather

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<mask> (1816-1873) was an Irish Anglican  cleric who spent most of his adult life in England. He was famous for his hymns and sermons,  and also for missionary work with  his wife <mask>. Catherine founded several projects in his name in the twenty years after his death. Early life

He was born in Dublin, youngest son of the highly respected  High Court judge <mask>, and his wife Jane Bennet. His father came from a long established family of landowners in County Tipperary, while his mother was the daughter of another High Court judge, John Bennett. One of his uncles was <mask>, a distinguished barrister and judge. Among  his cousins was General Sir <mask>.He went to school first in Dublin, then to a private school at Westbury on Trym  near Bristol,  where he was nicknamed "the saintly boy". Due to his chronic ill-health he was then placed with a private tutor, Mr Stephens,  at Levens near Kendal, Cumbria. He entered Trinity College, Dublin  in 1834 but due to his constant health problems he did not matriculate  until 1840. Early career

He entered holy orders  in 1842. He became curate of Ballymacash, near Lisburn, in 1843 and of Mellifont the following year. During the Great Irish Famine he was noted for his charity to all those who lived in his parish, regardless of whether they were Catholics or Protestants. He then left Ireland, and spent the rest of his life working in England, mostly in or near London.In 1848 he was appointed vicar of Holy Trinity, Walton, near Aylesbury. This was a very difficult parish to work in as he had no vicarage and the income was small, but he is said to have gained the trust and respect of his parishioners. In 1852 he was transferred to Christ Church, Barnet, where he rapidly built up a considerable influence. For example, his parishioner Emma Robarts founded the Prayer Union, which decades later merged into the YWCA. His house in Barnet became a meeting place for evangelicals of all social classes and walks of life "from noblemen to farmers", and he began in 1856 a famous series of conferences on inter-denominational missionary work. Shortly before his arrival, the ancient village had been linked to central London by the opening of its railway station, making it easy to make and receive visits. There in 1860 he and his wife began to train deaconesses, a role similar to a nurse (not then a fully respectable occupation) and a social worker (then unknown).This became the Deaconess Institution, the first in the English-speaking world. When Florence Nightingale decided on a nursing career, she had to travel to Kaiserswerth to train with  the deaconesses. Mildmay

In 1864 the Pennefathers were transferred to St. Jude's Church, Mildmay Park; the annual assemblies became known as the Mildmay Conferences. Islington was undergoing great changes as Victorian housing sprawled over the ancient villages, and what had been built as desirable residences soon became overcrowded Dickensian slums. The Pennefathers rose to the occasion of the cholera epidemic of 1866, seeing it as an opportunity for domestic mission. The organisation he and his wife founded was the Mildmay Mission, judged "one of most influential home and overseas missionary organizations" in the country, "which led to founding of many other bodies". The Deaconess Institution trained well-educated young women in theory and practice for two years at Mildmay, before sending them to full-time careers in outlying missions in London or further afield.There were "About 200 deaconesses at any one time; [their] distinctive uniform allowed them to work in roughest areas unmolested." The uniforms had been designed by Elizabeth Baxter who had joined in 1866 and had then lead the institution for two years. In 1869 the Pennefathers built a large hall at Mildmay, to host the annual conferences and to serve as the centre for several missionary organisations. The Conference Hall, abutting the south side of Newington Green, had three stories and sat up to 3000 people. It was used throughout the week by 20 organisations, and on Sunday the services were led by different denominations. Up to 600 men attended its night school. Mildmay founded or nurtured organisations such as the Dorcas Society, a charitable sewing circle; Caroline Hanbury's initiative to distribute flowers to hospitals; an orphanage training girls for domestic service; Mildmay Lads' Institute, to keep boys out of trouble; Metropolitan Free Dormitory Association, a homeless shelter involving Lord Shaftesbury; children's services, stimulated by a visit from American evangelist Edward Payson Hammond.The Railway Mission and the Young Women's Christian Association were for a time headquartered at Mildmay Mission. Mrs Pennefather brought together the Working Girls' Institute (founded 1855) to form the YWCA. Later life and legacy

He continued to hold conferences on missionary work until his sudden death on 30 April 1873. This interdenominational initiative, and his evident piety, were precursors of the Keswick Convention. The leader of the Church Mission Society, Eugene Stock, called him "the George Mueller of the Church of England". He was remembered as one of the most influential mission preachers of his time. He was the author of numerous hymns, of which probably the best-known is "Jesus,  Stand Among Us".He  also published several books of sermons. The Mildmay Conference Hall was demolished in the 1940s; council housing was built on its site. Mildmay is an HIV charity which traces its roots back to Pennefather and his Church-sponsored hospital. Mildmay Mission Hospital  operates in London, with related work abroad. References

 Buckland, Augustus Richard     "<mask>efather"  Dictionary of National Biography 1885-1900  Vol. 44 p. 327
 Ball,  F. Elrington  The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921  London John Murray 1926

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title: Darin Strauss

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<mask> (born March 1, 1970) is a best-selling American writer whose work has earned a number of awards, including, among numerous others, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award. <mask>'s 2011 book Half a Life, won the 2011 NBCC Award for memoir/autobiography. His most recent book, The Queen of Tuesday, came out in August, 2020. It is currently nominated for the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize. Early life
<mask> was born in the Long Island town of Roslyn Harbor. He attended Tufts University, where he studied with Jay Cantor. After attending graduate school at New York University, he played guitar in a band with Jonathan Coulton

Career
His ALA Alex Award-winning, best-selling 2000 first novel Chang & Eng, – a runner-up for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the Literary Lions Award, a Borders Award winner, and a nominee for the PEN Hemingway award, among others – is based on the lives of the famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng.Chang & Eng was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, a Newsweek Best Book of the Year, among others. The rights to the novel were optioned to Disney, for the director Julie Taymor; the actor Gary Oldman purchased the rights from Disney. <mask> and Oldman are together adapting Chang and Eng for the screen. <mask>'s second book, The Real McCoy (2002), was based on the life of the boxer Charles "Kid McCoy." "The Real McCoy" was named a New York Times Notable Book,"  and one of the "25 Best Books of the Year," by the New York Public Library. It was after this novel that <mask> won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction Writing. <mask>'s third novel, More Than It Hurts You, his first in a contemporary setting, was published by PenguinPutnam in 2008.The book made a number of year-end best-book lists, and was also a national bestseller—reaching as high as No. 3 on both the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News lists, and No. 6 on the New York Post list, in July 2008. Publicity for the book was strong, and <mask> blogged about his extensive book-tour for Newsweek, and was featured on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Good Morning America. He appeared on This American Life in a July 2008 episode titled "Life After Death," in which he talks about the effects of a traffic accident during high school, in which a classmate on a bicycle swerved in front of his car, and was killed. Although he could not have avoided the accident, and was not at fault, he still felt guilty, and it affected him for decades. His next book, Half a Life is a memoir concerning that traffic accident; it was published by McSweeney's in September 2010, and was excerpted in GQ magazine, and This American Life, and also in The Times and The Daily Mail (UK).Half a Life was named an Entertainment Weekly Must Read and a The New York Times Editor's Pick—and a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Amazon.com, The Plain Dealer, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among many others. A critical favorite in the UK, Half a Life was called "a masterpiece" by Robert McCrum in The Guardian, "one of the best books I have ever read" by Ali Catterall on The BBC, as well as "precise, elegantly written, fresh, wise, and very sad ... indicative not only of a very talented writer, but of a proper human being" by Nick Hornby. Half a Life won the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography). His most recent book, The Queen of Tuesday, is a hybrid of fiction, biography, and memoir, focused around an imagined love-affair between the author's grandfather and Lucille Ball. Another critical success, it has received favorable reviews in The New York Times , The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, among many others. In "New Pop Lit," Karl Wenclas wrote,  "If <mask> <mask> isn't the best contemporary American writer, he's near the top...No one could write a better book!". On NBC News, Bill Goldstein said "I love this book...Brilliant." Critical reception
<mask> has been called "a brave new voice in literature" by The Wall Street Journal, and "one of the most sharp and spirited of his generation," by Powells Books, "sublime" and "brilliant" by The Boston Globe. Personal life
<mask> is married to the journalist Susannah Meadows, who writes a monthly Newly Released Books column for The New York Times''' daily Arts Section. He is the father of identical twin boys. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at New York University. 11)''

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title: Charles Truman

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<mask>, FSA (5 April 1949 – 10 February 2017), was an art historian and a leading authority on gold boxes. Biography

Early years
Born at Stratton Audley in Oxfordshire, "Charlie", as he was widely known in the art world, was the son of <mask> and <mask> (née Harris). His father was a solicitor as was his father before him. He attended Marlborough College and then after a summer course at Indiana University embarked upon a degree in law at the University of Kent. Career
Although expected to follow in his father's footsteps, <mask> chose to forge a very different career in the art world. He soon abandoned his studies at Kent and thanks to an inheritance from his maternal grandfather, was able to enrol for an internship in the Department of Furniture and Woodwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1969. In 1971, he transferred to the Department of Metalwork.He was subsequently appointed Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ceramics in 1977. In 1984, he was headhunted by Christie's to run the firm's London Silver Department, together with the Russian Department and the Department of Objects of Vertu. He was appointed a director of Christie's, and of Christie's Education the following year. Amongst the great pieces which passed through his hands was the Portland Gold Font, 1797–8, from the workshop of Paul Storr, now in the British Museum. In 1991 he moved to run the Antiques Department at Asprey before establishing himself as an independent dealer. One very pivotal moment in his career while at Asprey's was his negotiating the sale of the silver frames of three crowns once worn by British sovereigns. They are now on display at the Tower of London.With the antique dealer Lucy Burniston he set up the firm of C. & L. Burman (Works of Art) Ltd in 2000 as an antique dealership and art consultancy. Until its dissolution in 2010, the firm exhibited at the Grosvenor House, Olympia and BADA fairs in London, and at antiques fairs in New York and Palm Beach. At the time of his death <mask> was working as an independent dealer and consultant for works of art, particularly in silver and gold, advising private collectors, museums and heritage groups. His special areas of expertise were gold boxes, Renaissance jewellery, French porcelain and also glass,

<mask> was formerly chairman of the British Antique Dealers' Association, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Liveryman of the Goldsmiths’ Company, a former member of the Antique Plate Committee of the Goldsmiths' Company, a past chairman of the Silver Society, and a member of the French Porcelain Society, the Glass Circle, the Furniture History Society and the Society of Jewellery Historians. Private life
He married Laura Green in 1984. Honours
<mask> was appointed a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. Writings
His contribution to the literature of decorative art history was substantial.He published on precious metalwork from early on in his career, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to the pioneering works of Kenneth Snowman on Fabergé and on gold boxes. By the age of twenty-six <mask> himself was already becoming an authority on gold boxes, contributing significantly to the book The James A. de Rothschild Collection: Gold Boxes and Miniatures (1975). His article "Reinhold Vasters, The Last of the Goldsmiths", published in Connoisseur in March 1979, dealing with fake Renaissance jewellery and works of art by the Aachen maker, reflected an important area of concern in his work as scholar and later as dealer. With Anna Somers Cocks, he co-authored The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Renaissance Jewellery, Gold Boxes and Objets de Vertu (London, 1984). The first volume of his book The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, was published in 1991 by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). His edition of The Sotheby's Concise Encyclopaedia of Silver came out soon after in 1993. The second volume of The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes was published in London in 1999, the year before the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection as a whole went on display at Somerset House in London.His catalogue of the Renaissance jewellery in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, was published in 2012, and his catalogue raisonné of the gold boxes at the Wallace Collection, London, in 2013. Bibliography

Works of art history
Books by <mask>, or works to which he contributed<p>
1972-3
 Encyclopædia Britannica: several micro entries
1975
 With Serge Grandjean, Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti and Anthony Blunt, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century. Fribourg: Office du Livre (for the National Trust), 1975
1977
 French Gold Boxes. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Small Colour Book 16, 1977
1981
 Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels of the Renaissance, 1500–1630, exh. cat. Victoria and Albert Museum: 14 entries. London: Debrett's Peerage, 1981   (main)
1982
 "Vivant Denon and the Sèvres Egyptian Service" in The Sèvres Egyptian Service 1810–12.Catalogue compiled by <mask>. Book published to accompany an exhibition held at the Wellington Museum, Apsley House, of the Sèvres Egyptian Service, commissioned by Napoleon and in 1818 donated (after Napoleon's downfall) by the King of France to the Duke of Wellington. London: H.M.S.O. ( V & A Album, No. 1), 1982
1984
 Snodin, Michael (ed.) Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth’s England, exh. cat., 18 entries.London: Trefoil, 1984
 With Anna Somers Cocks (gen. ed. Simon de Pury), The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes and Objets de Vertu. London: Sotheby Publications, 1984
 An Introduction to English Glassware to 1900. London: H.M.S.O. (V & A Introductions to the Decorative Arts), 1984
1989
 With preface by Philippa Glanville, The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1989
1991
 The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991
 "Silver" in Battie, David (ed.)The Encyclopaedia of Antiques: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Collecting. Leicestershire: Acropolis Books, 1991
1992
 "The Company’s Plate" in Archer, Ian W., A History of the Haberdashers' Company. Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1992
 Meissen through Three Centuries exh. cat., London: Asprey, 1992
1993
 Ed. Sotheby's Concise Encyclopaedia of Silver. London: Conran Octopus Books, 1993  ; paperback, 1996  )
1999
 With Melissa Larner, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes (vol. 2).London: Philip Wilson Publishing, 1999
2005
 "Rundell's and Their Gold Box Suppliers" in Hartop, Christopher  (ed. ), Royal Goldsmiths, The Art of Rundell and Bridge, 1797-1843. Cambridge: John Adamson, 2005
2009
"Some German Gold Boxes in the Wallace Collection" in Annual Handbook. London: British Antique Dealers' Association, 2009/10
2012
 "Jewelry and Precious Objects" in Decorative Arts in the Robert Lehman Collection (vol. XV), New York: Metropolitan Museum, 2012   (main); Princeton University Press, 2012 , pp. 95–152
2013
 With contributions from Seoyoung Kim and Rebecca Wallis, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Gold Boxes. London: Wallace Collection, 2013

Essays and reviews
 "Three Centuries of Continental Silver" Apollo, no.187, June 1977, pp. 428–32
 "The Master of the Easter Egg - Carl Fabergé" Apollo, July 1977
 "Reinhold Vasters — 'the last of the goldsmiths'?" Connoisseur, vol. 200, no. 805, March 1979, pp. 154-61
 "Emperor, King and Duke - The Sèvres Egyptian Service acquired for the Nation" Connoisseur, vol. 202, no.813, November 1979, pp. 148–55
 "A St. Cloud Nécessaire de voyage circa 1750" Connoisseur, vol. 203, no. 818, April 1980: pp.

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title: Kurt Maloo

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<mask> (born <mask>, April 16, 1953, in Zurich, Switzerland) is a Swiss singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. He first achieved international success in 1986, as the singer and front man of the group Double with the hit single, "The Captain of Her Heart". Biography
<mask> was born in Zurich, Switzerland, as the only child of Arnold and Babette Meier. His father's family emigrated to France when Arnold was four years old. During World War II, his father returned to Switzerland, where he met Babette, a daughter of a locomotive driver, and married her. Her family was very musical; each played an instrument and performed at house concerts. When Meier was born, Babette used to play the mandolin and sing and dance for him, and later, when he started to play the guitar, jammed along with her.The early days
At school, Meier was part of several bands that performed in local competition festivals, playing covers from The Beatles to Cream. From 1969 to 1972, he attended the Swiss Business School, but, after receiving his degree, chose a career as a conceptual artist and painter. He exhibited his works at local galleries in Zurich and founded, along with three artist friends, the performance group MAEZ. At his own gallery openings, <mask>, who changed his name to <mask> in 1975, always played the electric guitar. The solo performances metamorphosed into a band, including two other members of MAEZ. But Troppo, true to its name, grew to a nine-piece fusion art-punk band, influenced mainly by the New York Dolls and Funkadelic. After its first show at the Rote Fabrik in 1976, Troppo became a cult act in Switzerland in the mid to late 1970s.In 1979, <mask> released his first 7" single, "Giant Lady/Kontiki" on the new wave label, Forum Records. A year later, he teamed up with publisher Peter Zumsteg and released a hybrid format vinyl record with the title Luna, Luna + 7 Notorious Maloo Homeworks. On the A-side was one song spinning at 45 rpm and on the B-side, seven more at 33 rpm. The A-side song was a studio recording, while the B-side was recorded at home on his Revox B-77, using the ping-pong technique to simulate multitrack recording. Ping Pong
He continued to play solo concerts until he met Felix Haug, later the other half of Double. Haug used to play drums with the Swiss techno band Yello. He joined Maloo and, with the addition of a bass player, they formed the trio, Ping Pong.With the help of publisher Peter Zumsteg, they got the chance to record four songs at the Roxy Music studio with guitarist Phil Manzanera as producer, but the tracks never got released. When they signed with Teldec's label Big Mouth, they re-recorded the tracks together with new material for their album From Exile (1982). The band played in numerous European festivals, including the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival. Double
In 1983, <mask> and Felix Haug decided to make a go of it as a duo. As Double, they released three 12" maxi singles—"Naningo" (1983), "Rangoon Moon" and "Woman of the World" (1984)—before they had a chance to record their first album. The black-and-white music video for "Rangoon Moon" became a cult clip in Europe and received airplay on VH1 in the United States. Two years later, Double became known worldwide with their first hit single, "The Captain of Her Heart" from their first album, Blue, a best-seller that has been released in more than fifty countries.In 1987, <mask> and Felix Haug recorded their second and last album, Dou3le, visualized best in the performance of the legendary Swiss mime group Mummenschanz in the award-winning music video for their song "Devils Ball", featuring Herb Alpert on trumpet. Double started to work on a third album in late 1988, but, due to artistic differences, disbanded a few months later. Solo career
<mask> continued his career solo again and released, under his own name, Single (1990), Soul & Echo (1995), Loopy Avenue (2006), Summer of Better Times (2009) and "What About (2014)". Since 2007, he has been performing with his own band and played several concerts and festivals, including NuNote Lounge Fest in Moscow. Personal life
In 1986, <mask> met his future wife, Anja Muller, a fashion model from Hamburg, Germany. Together, they moved to Paris, France, where they lived for seven years and where their daughter was born in 1991. They then relocated to Hamburg, Muller's hometown, where their son was born in 1994 and where they still live.Hot Love: Swiss Punk & Wave 1976–1980. Edition Patrick Frey, 2007. Michaels, Randolph. Flashbacks to Happiness: Eighties Music Revisited. iUniverse, 2005. Blythe, Daniel. The Encyclopaedia of Classic 80s Pop.Allison & Busby, 2005. Whitburn, Joel. Top Pop Singles 1955–1999. Record Research, 2001. Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. Billboard Books, 2004.<mask>, <mask>. The Captain Of Her Heart's Log. BookBaby, 2013. External links

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title: Steve Howard (sociologist)

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<mask> (born March 21, 1953) is an American sociologist. His studies and work focus upon social change in Africa and social movements within the Muslim world. He has written about his experiences with the Muslim community in Sudan. <mask> is a professor and an associate director of graduate studies at Ohio University. He works within the School for Media Arts and Studies in the Scripps College of Communications. Early life
<mask> was born on March 21, 1953, to parents William S. and <mask> in Boston, Massachusetts. He began his career in education studying International Relations at Georgetown University in Washington DC.During his senior year he was invited to join the Peace Corps and, after graduating, traveled to Chad. After working in high schools in rural Chad, he returned to the United States and pursued graduate studies at Michigan State University. He graduated with a master's degree and PhD in Sociology and African Studies. He conducted his PhD research in Sudan, where he wrote about the Republican Brotherhood. His dissertation was "Social Strategies in Petty Production: Three Small Scale Industries in Urban Sudan")
He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Career
Following his graduation from Michigan State University, <mask> left for Sudan in 1982. There, he joined the Republican Brotherhood, a group of men and women who hold a more progressive view of Islam.Their leader, Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, built a community around the Brotherhood and accepted <mask> into the group after his request to explore their community's beliefs. Unlike many Sufi groups in Sudan, the Brotherhood did not have formal initiation and <mask> was encouraged to spend as much time as possible with the group. Taha dedicated the group's focus to understanding the Quran and Islamic tradition as well as promoting positive change. What set Taha and the group apart was largely their belief that the Quran's texts should be adapted to modern times. As a result of this belief, the brotherhood came under heavy pressure. Taha was arrested multiple times. He advocated for women's rights to participate in the same Islamic activities as men, both within society and religiously.The Brotherhood participated in demonstrations on issues that sought a more inclusive sense of community amongst Muslims. The intense bond within the brotherhood sparked <mask>'s initial interest in joining the group. In his memoir, Modern Muslims, <mask> says, "I chose this group more on the basis of my rapid inclusion in the group initially than, I would have to admit, on being convinced of the power or veracity of its message." <mask> describes the hours the group spent together as overwhelming at times, to a point where he eventually asked Taha for more time to himself. Taha granted him this and <mask> writes, "Eventually, I managed to find a way to 'do my own thing' while enjoying and learning from everyone's company". The group's beliefs isolated them from the majority of Sudan and made them a government target. Toward the end of his time there, a larger portion of the Brotherhood's members were arrested.Shortly after, <mask> was able to use his status as a Fulbright Scholar to meet with U.S. Ambassador Hume Horan and speak on behalf of the Brotherhood. By mid-December 1984, shortly after <mask> left Sudan, the Brotherhood members were suddenly released from prison. Their leader Taha, however, was arrested and brought to trial on January 5, 1985 for distributing pamphlets calling for an end to Sharia law, which he believed needed to adapt to modern times. After refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the court under Sharia law, Taha was sentenced to death the following day. On the final page of his memoir, <mask> acknowledges Taha and the Brotherhood's powerful influence on his life as he writes, "My teachers have been my brothers and sisters, all of them always ready to push me to the next level." Women's rights
<mask> covered the Islamic effort to extend women's rights in Sudan in Modern Muslims.He explains that one of Taha's chief goals for the Brotherhood was "women's full participation in all of Islam's obligations". Traditionally in Sudan, women are kept separate from men during religious ceremonies, in-line with traditional practice. For example, women were allowed to be with men during the burial of Am Fadl, an action which "provoke[d] a small group of men...non-Republicans who had been preparing the burial site". <mask> explains the group's goal was to "evolve sharia" so as to give women an equal say in Islamic society and law. According to Ikhlas Himlet "there was never a religious society for women before the Republican community". In a talk at Ohio University, <mask> discussed the scandal rocking Omdurman-based Ahfad University for Women, wherein the school's headmaster was caught on video beating a student during protests. The incident spread through social media, leading to disciplinary actions against the official, a pattern of events that <mask> describes as similar to #MeToo.<mask> is one of the only Western academics to study these social developments in Sudan, and one of the few to cover Islamic gender equality movements in Africa. Ohio University
<mask> currently teaches at Ohio University School of Media Arts and Studies, in the Scripps College of Communication. He studies  research methods/field methods in Africa; participatory research methods, Islam in Africa and Communication in the Muslim World. He is Director of International Studies. He serves as Director of the National Resource Center for African Language and Area Studies, 1 of 10 in the nation. In 2010 he received the African Students Union's "African Hero Award". Publications

1990s
 <mask>, W.S., "Participation and Development," Communication and Development, 1995.<mask>, W. S., editor and author, lead article, Democracy and Education. "Knowing Democracy: Teachers, Schools and Global Transformation." 1997, p. 2. <mask>, W. S. and Harold Herman, co-editors, Democracy and Education "Coping with Rapid Change: focus on South Africa's Teachers 1998. <mask>, W. S. book review, War and Drought in Sudan by E. Eltigani, MESA Bulletin #33, 1999, pp 89-90. <mask>, W. S., "Introduction," in Retold Tales from Northern Sudan, by Ali Lotfi, Interlink Press, 1999, pp ix-xv. 2000s
 <mask>, W. S., "World Traveler," Democracy and Education, v. 13, #4.2000. <mask>, W. S., "Human Rights Everyday: Sudanese Possibilities," Bulletin of the Center for Advanced Study in International Development. East Lansing, Fall 2000, pp 68–72. <mask>, W. S., "A Possibility of Inclusion," Democracy and Education, v. 14, #1, 2001. <mask>, W. S., "Sudanese Brotherhoods," in Stephen Glazier, ed., Encyclopedia of African and African American Religion. Berkshire Press, 2001, pp 330–334. <mask>, W. S., "Chalk and Dust: Teachers Lives in Rural Sudan," in Bowen and Early, eds.Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, 2nd edition, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2002, pp 189–198. <mask>, W. S., "Making Childhood Possible: Education and Health for Africa's Children," 2002, Institute for the African Child Working Papers Series #1, Athens. <mask>, W.S., War and Slavery in Sudan by Jok Madut Jok, book review, Middle East Journal, January 2002. <mask>, W. S., "Mahmoud Mohammed Taha," in Lobban, et al. eds., Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Scarecrow Press, 2002, pp 287–288. <mask>, W. S., "Republican Brotherhood," in Lobban, et al., eds.Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Scarecrow Press, 2002, pp 336–338. <mask>, W. S., "Transformational Leadership in Islam: Mahmoud Mohammed Taha and the Possibilities of Faith," Kultur, 2002, Islamic University of Indonesia. <mask>, W. S., "Transforming Islamic Society: Mahmoud Mohammed Taha and the Republican Brotherhood," Fall 2003, Journal for Islamic Studies. <mask>, W. S., "Ethnography and Exile" 2003, UWC Papers in Education, Cape Town. <mask>, W. S., "The Possibilities of African Leadership: Children and HIV/AIDS, What shall we do?" 2003 in Singhal and <mask>, eds.The Children of Africa Cope with AIDS: Challenges and Possibilities. Ohio University Press. <mask>, Stephen, "Africa Moves," review of Mobile Africa, H-Africa, H-Net Reviews, September 2003. <mask>, W. Stephen, "Children and the Five Pillars: How Islam Is Learned," 2004. Democracy and Education, v. 15, #1. 2010s
 <mask>, <mask>, editor, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, v. 2 #2, Fall 2012. Indiana University Press.<mask>, <mask>, "Children and Youth," Oxford Annotated Bibliographies of African Studies, 2013. Career
 1975–1977: Peace Corps, Volunteer Secondary School teacher. 1981–1984: University of Khartoum, Sudan, Research Assistant. 1984–1985: Kalamazoo College and Michigan State University, Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology. 1986–2003: Ohio University Department of Educational Studies
 1988–1989: University of Gezira, Sudan, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Rural Development. 1991: Ngwane College, Swaziland, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Education. 1991–2015: Ohio University African Studies Program
 1997: University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Education.2014–2016: Director, Center for International Studies, Ohio University. 2017–2018: Visiting Professor, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman Sudan. Bibliography
Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir (2016)

Awards
 1981: Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Award
 1988: Fulbright-Hays Senior Scholar Award
 1990: Center for Arabic Study Abroad Faculty Fellow, American University in Cairo
 1994: named Ahenemahene, Chief of the Children, Ahansua, Ghana
 1995: Baker Research Award, Ohio University
 1996: Office of African Studies, American University in Cairo, Research Fellow
 2001: Ohio University Division of Student Affairs, Faculty Contribution Award
 2002: nominated for Presidential Research Scholar Award, Ohio University
 2006: Fulbright Senior Scholar Award- Nigeria
 2009: "African Hero Award," Ohio University African Students Union
 2009: Presidential Award, from the President of Somalia, for service to community

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<mask> (; 27 June 1950 – 17 April 2003) was a liberal Russian politician. He was assassinated on 17 April 2003, just hours after registering his political party to participate in the December 2003 parliamentary elections. Political career
Yushenkov was an elected member of all Russian Parliaments from 1989 to 2003. During the Soviet coup attempt of 1991, he organized the "living chain" of civilians who came to protect their Parliament in Moscow, and he successfully negotiated with military personnel sent to storm the building. As a person with a military background, Yushenkov was the strongest proponent of reform in the Russian Army, and he campaigned tirelessly to abolish  conscription, reduce the size of the Army, and protect all rights of  military personnel who suffered from abuse and dedovshchina. Yushenkov was a prominent critic of the First and Second Chechen Wars. He argued that Russian Army operates in Chechnya (a part of Russia) illegally.His political party, Liberal Russia, was officially formed on October 22, 2002. The other initial organizers of this party before its registration were Vladimir Golovlyov, Viktor Pokhmelkin, and controversial businessman Boris Berezovsky. Vladimir Golovlyov was assassinated on 21 August 2002 (his killers were never found), and Boris Berezovsky was expelled, presumably on the request of State authorities who refused to register the party, and possibly due to tensions between the initial organizers of the party. Investigation of Russian apartment bombings
<mask> was vice chairman of the <mask>v commission formed to investigate the Russian apartment bombings, and his views that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) had orchestrated the bombings to generate public support for the Chechen War were similar to those of journalist David Satter, a Johns Hopkins University and Hoover Institute scholar. During his visit to the United States in April 2002, Yushenkov described a secret order issued by Boris Yeltsin to initiate the Second Chechen War, according to Alexander Goldfarb The order was issued in response to a demand from 24 Russian governors that the then-unpopular Yeltsin should transfer all state powers to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin's order was dated September 23, 1999, the same day that FSB operatives were caught red-handed while planting a bomb in an apartment complex in the city of Ryazan (after which the sequence of bombings in several Russian cities suddenly stopped). The next day, Vladimir Putin began the military campaign in Chechnya.According to Yushenkov, Putin's rise to power represented a successful coup d'état organized by the FSB. On 5 March 2002, Yushenkov flew to the premier of the documentary film Assassination of Russia in London. The film described Russian apartment bombings as a terrorism act committed by Russian state security services. He announced that his party Liberal Russia is going to distribute copies of the film around the country to demonstrate "how the secret services deceived Russian citizens". Although some copies were confiscated by Russian Customs, tens of thousands of copies of the film were smuggled and distributed in Russia. Investigation of Moscow theatre hostage crisis
Yushenkov also investigated the alleged involvement of the FSB in staging the Moscow theatre hostage crisis through their agent provocateur Khanpash Terkibaev, the only hostage taker who left the theater alive and allegedly guided the terrorists to the theater. In the beginning of April 2003 former FSB Aleksander Litvinenko gave information about Terkibaev ("the Terkibaev file") to <mask>v when he visited London.Yushenkov passed this file to Anna Politkovskaya. A few days later Yushenkov was assassinated. Terkibaev was killed later in a car crash in Chechnya. While flying south in September 2004 to help negotiate with those who had taken over a thousand hostages in a school in Beslan (North Ossetia), Politkovskaya fell violently ill and lost consciousness after drinking tea. She had reportedly been poisoned, with some accusing the former Soviet secret police poison facility. Assassination
<mask>v was shot dead near his house in Moscow on 17 April 2003, just hours after finally obtaining the registrations needed for his Liberal Russia party to participate in the December 2003 parliamentary elections in 55 regions. His last known public utterance was "Registration has been completed." .Mikhail Trepashkin believed that Yushenkov was murdered because he was a leader of an opposition party that openly challenged the power of the FSB and Russian authorities. Moreover, Yushenkov promised voters an independent investigation of the Russian apartment bombings as a key issue of his election campaign (an interview of Trepashkin can be seen in director Andrei Nekrasov's documentary "Disbelief", Google Video). Just before his death, <mask>v received threats from a high-ranking FSB general, Aleksander Mikhailov, according to Grigory Pasko. Investigation
Four people have been convicted during a controversial trial for the murder of <mask>v and are currently serving prison sentences. Most prominent among them is Mikhail Kodanev, a former co-chairman of the Liberal Russia party organized by Yushenkov himself. During the trial, Mikhail Kodanev strenuously claimed to be innocent. He later tried to commit suicide and was placed in the FSB's special Lefortovo prison.According to attorney Henry Reznick, Kodanev was convicted solely on the basis of the false testimony of another convicted suspect (Alexander Vinnik) who made a series of contradictory statements, including claims that Yushenkov was killed by the government. Critics also insisted that the political murders of two chairmen of the Liberal Russia party should have been considered as the same case in the court, which would make it clear that some of the suspects were wrongly accused. Some observers noted that Kodanev was relatively unknown in Russian politics until he was named to Yushenkov's party by Boris Berezovsky, ostensibly to make a mockery of Vladimir Putin (Kodanev was nicknamed "Putin" because he looks very much like the President). Some Russian media claimed that it was Boris Berezovsky who organized the murder of <mask>v through his agent Mikhail Kodanev. Former FSB officer Aleksander Litvinenko suggested that <mask>v had been killed because he knew that FSB organized the Moscow theatre hostage crisis, consistent with a previous report by journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

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title: Anne Spiegel

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<mask> (born 15 December 1980) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens, serving as Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 8 December 2021. In 2021, Spiegel served as Deputy Minister-President and Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Mobility, Energy and Forests in the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate. Previously, she was Minister for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection in the second cabinet of Minister-President Malu Dreyer from 2016 to 2021. She was a prominent youth leader in Germany during the 2000s. <mask> was first elected to the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate in the 2011 state election, and re-elected in 2016. She was the lead candidate for the Greens in the 2021 Rhineland-Palatinate state election. Early life and career
Spiegel has Italian ancestry; among others, her maternal grandmother is from Sicily.Spiegel grew up in Speyer and Ludwigshafen, and attended the Albert Schweitzer elementary school, passing her Abitur in 2000 at the Heinrich Böll grammar school. She then studied politics, philosophy and psychology in Darmstadt, Mainz, Mannheim, and Salamanca until 2007. In spring 2007, she graduated as Master of Arts from the University of Mainz with a major in political science and minors in philosophy and psychology. Spiegel then worked as a language teacher at Berlitz in Mainz, Mannheim, and Heidelberg from 2008 to 2010. Political career

Early beginnings
Spiegel was a member of the board of the Green Youth of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1999 to 2002, including two years as board spokeswoman. She then served on the federal board of the Green Youth until 2004. In 2005, Spiegel became the first German youth delegate to the United Nations.In autumn 2005 she represented young people in Germany at the United Nations General Assembly, where she also met the then-Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan. Career in state politics
In the 2006 Rhineland-Palatinate state election, <mask> was the Greens candidate in the constituency of Ludwigshafen am Rhein II, and #7 on the party list. The party fell short of the 5% electoral threshold and failed to win any seats. In the 2011 state election, <mask> was the Greens candidate in the constituency of Speyer. She won 17.1% of votes, placing third behind the CDU and SPD candidates. She was third on the party list and was comfortably elected as one of the 18 Greens deputies, becoming deputy leader of the party's parliamentary group in the new Landtag. She served as spokesperson for women, integration, migration, and refugee policy.From 2014 to 2016, Spiegel also served on the Speyer city council. In the 2016 state election, Spiegel was again the Greens' candidate in Speyer, this time winning 10.4% of votes. She was again elected third on the party list. After the Greens entered a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party and Free Democratic Party, <mask> became Minister for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection in the second Dreyer cabinet. She resigned from the Landtag to join the cabinet and was succeeded by Pia Schellhammer. As one of the state’s representatives at the Bundesrat, Spiegel is a member of the Committee on Agricultural Policy and Consumer Protection, the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, the Committee on Economic Affairs, and the Committee on Transport. She is also a member of the German-French Friendship Group set up by the German Bundesrat and the French Senate.As State Minister for Families, <mask> continued the work of her predecessor Irene Alt in advocating for marriage equality, campaigning for a vote in the Bundestag on the issue. In November 2016, she wrote a protest letter from the Bundesrat to Norbert Lammert, then President of the Bundestag. The initiative undertaken by <mask> led to the introduction and passage of the Act introducing the right of marriage to persons of the same sex in June 2017. <mask> became the first minister in Rhineland-Palatinate to take maternity leave, which she did in April 2018 to give birth to her fourth child. <mask> brought the baby to a meeting of the Federal Council in October 2018. In November 2018, <mask> represented the German federal government at the Women MPs Conference on the subject of "100 years of women's suffrage" in London. There she also met then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May.At the meeting, <mask> urged her to prevent Brexit. In the 2021 state elections, <mask> was nominated as lead candidate for the Greens. The party won 9.3% of votes in the election, becoming the third-largest in the Landtag. The coalition government between the SPD, Greens, and FDP was subsequently renewed, and <mask> became Deputy Minister-President and Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Mobility, Energy and Forests. Career in federal politics
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, <mask> was part of her party's delegation in the working group on climate protection and energy policy, co-chaired by Matthias Miersch, Oliver Krischer and Lukas Köhler. On November 25, 2021, she was nominated by the federal board of the Greens as Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the Scholz cabinet. She took office on December 8.<mask> was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022. Other activities
 Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO), Ex-officio Co-Chair of the Board of Governors (since 2021)
 German Foundation for Active Citizenship and Volunteering (DSEE), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2021)

Political positions
Within the Green Party, <mask> is considered to be part of its left wing. Controversy
After a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death by her Afghan-born ex-boyfriend in Kandel in 2017, <mask> – in her capacity as state minister in charge of integration – faced such massive hostility and threats that she was given personal protection. Personal life
<mask> lives in Speyer with her husband, who is Scottish, and four children. References

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People from Leimen (Baden)
Alliance 90/The Greens politicians
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title: Oshor Williams

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<mask> (born 21 April 1958) is an English former footballer in the English Football League who now works for the PFA as a union learning representative. During his playing days he played both in midfielder and in attack. During his career he took part in two successful Fourth Division promotion campaigns. He started his career as a youth team player at Middlesbrough, before joining Manchester United in 1976. Failing to make the first team, he joined non-league Billingham Synthonia and then Gateshead, before returning to the professional game with Southampton in 1978. A year later he signed for Stockport County, where his career really took off. Five years he spent with Stockport, making close to 200 league appearances.He then spent two years at Port Vale and then Preston North End. In 1989, he left the professional game permanently, joining non-league Lancaster City. He signed with Winsford United in 1993 and then Hyde United a year later. He retired as a player in 1995. Playing career

Early career
Born and raised in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, <mask> joined his local league club Middlesbrough as a schoolboy in 1972, signing apprentice forms with the club once he had turned fifteen. However, when "Boro" decided not to offer <mask> a professional contract in August 1976, he was immediately offered a second chance by Manchester United. <mask> spent twelve months at Old Trafford before they in turn decided to release him.Upon his release from United, <mask> returned to the North East and had spells with both Billingham Synthonia and Gateshead before he was spotted by a scout from Southampton, who offered him a trial with the club in March 1978. Southampton
After impressing manager Lawrie McMenemy, <mask> signed professional forms with the Dell club after they secured his services for a £4,000 fee. After just a handful of reserve team outings, he was loaned out to basement club Exeter City for the start of the 1978–79 season. In his month at St James Park, <mask> made two appearances, scoring once, before returning to the "Saints". He made his debut on 3 March 1979, taking Terry Curran's place at outside left at home to Arsenal. Despite showing plenty of natural ball control, his final touch was lacking, and he made only three further starts, plus two substitute appearances, before he was given a free transfer to Stockport County in September 1979. Stockport County
It was at County that <mask> found his feet, becoming a favourite with the Stockport fans.A quick Winger with an eye for goal, <mask> was at his most dangerous with the ball at his feet attacking the opposition full back. He acted as the captain whenever skipper Tommy Sword was unavailable. In four-and-a-half seasons at Edgeley Park, <mask> played 216 games in all competitions, scoring 31 goals, before being surprisingly sold to Port Vale for £7,000 in November 1984. Under Jimmy McGuigan's stewardship, the "Hatters" struggled in the lower half of the Fourth Division table in 1979–80, 1980–81, and 1981–82. Their form improved slightly under new boss Eric Webster in the 1982–83 and 1983–84 campaigns. Port Vale
His first season at Vale Park saw him make 22 appearances, scoring two goals. He cracked his left kneecap in a training accident in February 1985, but recovered his first team place on his recovery two months later.His second season with the club saw <mask> win his first promotion, when John Rudge's "Valiants" were promoted to the Third Division in 1986. Soon, though, after 62 games and seven goals for Vale, troubled Preston North End came calling, and after agreeing a bargain £2,000 fee in August 1986. Having recently refused new terms with the Vale, the move came as little surprise to observers of the game. Preston North End
Manager John McGrath immediately installed <mask> as captain. He made his debut on 26 August, and scored on his home debut at Deepdale the following week in a 2–1 victory over Swansea City. Preston stormed to promotion at the end of the 1986–87 season; <mask> missed three months with injury but scored 14 goals in 36 games, with four of his goals coming in braces against former clubs Stockport and Exeter. The next two seasons, however, were almost a washout, with injury restricting <mask> to just a handful of games.At the end of the 1988–89 season, <mask> decided to call it a day from playing full-time and started work behind the scenes at Deepdale, both as a coach and in the commercial department. Nevertheless, <mask> still turned out part-time for Lancaster City in the Northern Premier League. Later career
Upon leaving Lancaster at the end of the 1990–91 season, <mask> moved onto Winsford United. He started five games and made three substitute appearances for Conference club Witton Albion in the 1993–94 season. He signed for Northern Premier League Premier Division side Hyde United for the 1994–95 season. He played 29 games and scored once during his time at Ewen Fields, helping the "Tigers" to a fourth-place finish and qualification to the First Round of the FA Cup, with his goal coming as a last-minute equaliser to take the FA Cup Second Round qualification match at Colwyn Bay to a replay. Post-retirement
It was after leaving Hyde that <mask> studied at the University of Salford for his BA in politics and history.He later worked as a Sports studies lecturer at North Trafford College. He joined the coaching staff at Aberdeen in February 2003, and remained at Pittodrie until he was sacked alongside manager Steve Paterson in May 2004. <mask> now works for the PFA education service, where he is on hand to offer help and advice to footballers past and present in their efforts to gain qualifications for life after football. <mask> also coached the under-16s at Wigan Athletic's Centre of Excellence. Statistics
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Northern Premier League players
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Wigan Athletic F.C. non-playing staff
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