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<mask> (alternate spellings: Argirios, Argiris, Argyrios) (; born May 26, 1964) is a retired Greek professional basketball player and current basketball coach, most recently of Greek Basket League club Peristeri. Playing career

Club career
<mask> started playing youth basketball with the youth clubs of Peristeri in 1977. He made his professional debut with Peristeri in 1983. In 1986, he moved to Panathinaikos, and he was one of the best Panathinaikos players of his era. He played for Panathinaikos until 1992. In 1993, he returned to Nikas Peristeri, and played for them until his retirement in 1995. National team career
<mask> was a member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team that played at the 1986 FIBA World Championship.Coaching career
Peristeri has seen glory days with Pedoulakis. The 2000-2001 season took the first place in the regular season. The same season Peristeri participates in Euroleague. In regular season Peristeri took the second place behind Fortitudo Bologna. Fortitudo had players like Vrankovic, Fucka, Myers, Meneghin Bazile. Peristeri won Fortitudo 83-70 in Athens. At playoffs Peristeri faced Taugress.Taugress qualified with 2-0 (79-81, 81-68). Coach Dusko Ivanovic said that Peristeri was a great team. In the 2001-2002 season, Peristeri participated again in Euroleague. Peristeri won the subsequent champion Barcelona into their home with 73-77. Barcelona had players like Bodiroga, Jasikevicius, Navarro, Karnisovas, Rentzias, Oikonomou, De La Fuente and coach was Svetislav Pesic. The season 2002-2003 was good enough for Peristeri. The team took the fourth place in regular season.Peristeri was eliminated in the semi-finals by Panathinaikos with 2-1 (82-85, 71-69, 78-71) after amazing games. In the small finals, Peristeri occupied the third position by defeating Olympiacos 3-1. In 2001 and 2003, Pedoulakis was named Greek League Best Coach. In the 2003-2004 season, Peristeri took the seventh place in A1. Peristeri qualified for the F4 Cup in Lamia. Peristeri faced serious financial problems and in the summer of 2004 declared it impossible to participate in the A1. During his years in Peristeri, Pedoulakis used foreign players who wrote their own history in European basketball such as Pete Michael, Alfonso Ford, Byron Dinkins, Milan Gurovic, Marco Jaric, Adam Wojcik, Alexey Savrasenko, Andre Hutchon, and Larry Stuart.At the same time, he gave the opportunity to several Greeks to compete in A1, such as Kostas Tsartsaris, Michalis Pelekanos, Manolis Papamakarios, and Alexis Papadatos. In 2005, he reached the EuroCup Final, while working as the head coach of Makedonikos despite the big financial problems. In October 2005 he took over Panellinios B.C. He built a good team with players such as Mulaomerovic, Tsaldaris, Boumtje-Boumtje, Page, and Nadfeji. The team made 14 wins and 12 defeats. Panellinios won 5th place. This place was the best for the Panellinios since 1978.Panellinios decided not to participate in Europe. <mask> resigned in October 2006 following a disagreement with the team's administration. <mask> passed from the bench of Rethymno, PAOK and AEK. In Summer 2010, he returned to Peristeri. Peristeri had financial problems and this is why it started the year with the smallest budget of the league. Pedoulakis set up a well-trained team. Scott was the first scorer, with Papanicolaou following.Looby, Vrkic, King, Petrulas, Tsiakos, Psaropoulos, Mocnik were also important. The basic guard was the 20-year-old Vangelis Mantzaris. Peristeri takes the seventh place and is excluded from the playoffs by Panathinaikos with 88-60 and 74-72. The next season (2011-2012) is even more difficult. Debts too much due to old irregularities. Eventually, the group won its stay in the category. Giorgos Papagiannis and Dionysis Skoulidas at the age of 15, make a debut at the A1, while Haris Giannopoulos was the first scorer.In June 2012, he signed a two-year contract to work as the head coach of Panathinaikos, making him the first head coach of the club in the post-Obradović era. With Panathinaikos, he won the Greek Cup in 2013. In the same year, he coached Panathinaikos to a 3-0 sweep, with a home court disadvantage, of the Greek League Finals, by beating the back-to-back reigning EuroLeague champions, Olympiacos. <mask> left Panathinaikos on March 8, 2014, after a poor start to the EuroLeague Top16. On July 27, 2014, <mask> signed a one-year contract to be the head coach of the Russian VTB United League team UNICS. He left due to poor results in November 2014. On April 20, 2016, <mask> signed again with Panathinaikos, for the rest of the season.He resigned as Panathinaikos' head coach in October 2016. On June 11, 2018, Pedoulakis signed with Peristeri.Peristeri B.C. managed to finish second in the regular season and finished forth during the playoffs, securing a place in the upcoming Basketball Champions League. Pedoulakis created a tough to beat team and with star players like Ryan Harrow, Steven Gray, Ben Bentil and Panagiotis Vasilopoulos along with youngsters Zois Karabelas and Ioannis Agravanis, made an impressive return to Greek Basket League, beating both Panathinaikos and Olympiacos B.C. On June 24, 2019, he signed a two-year-contract with Panathinaikos, returning for a third stint with the Greek champions. On November 15, 2019, the two sides amicably parted ways for a third time after a streak of unfortunate results in the Greek Cup and the EuroLeague. References

External links
 FIBA Player Profile
 FIBA Europe Player Profile
 EuroLeague Coaching Profile
 Hellenic Federation Player Profile
 The top of the Greek bench: <mask> Pedoulakis

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<mask> (born 20 March 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Home Secretary since 2021, and previously from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, previously Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997.

<mask> served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2008 to 2010 and as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2010 to 2011. She was Minister of State for Housing and Planning under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. She served in the Cabinet between 2008 and 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. After Labour lost the 2010 general election, <mask> served in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2010 to 2011. In 2011, her husband Ed Balls was promoted to Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer; <mask> replaced Balls as Shadow Home Secretary and served until Labour lost the 2015 general election. On 13 May 2015, <mask> announced she would run to be Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election following the resignation of Miliband.<mask> came third with 17.0% of the vote in the first round, losing to Jeremy Corbyn. <mask> subsequently resigned as Shadow Home Secretary in September 2015. <mask> was the chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee from 2016 to 2021. She became Shadow Home Secretary again in Keir Starmer’s November 2021 reshuffle. Early life and education
<mask> was born on 20 March 1969 in Inverness, Scotland. Her father is <mask>, former General Secretary of the Prospect trade union, a former non-executive director of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and a former Chairman of the British Nuclear Industry Forum. He was also a government adviser on the Energy Advisory Panel. Her mother, June, was a maths teacher.She was educated at Eggar's School, a comprehensive school in Holybourne, and Alton College, both in Alton, Hampshire. She read Philosophy, politics and economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class honours degree. She won a Kennedy Scholarship in 1991 to study at Harvard University, and she completed her postgraduate studies with an MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics. Early career
<mask> began her career as an economic policy researcher for Shadow Chancellor John Smith in 1990 before working in Arkansas for Bill Clinton, nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States, in 1992. Later that year, she became a policy advisor to then Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Harriet Harman. At the age of 24, <mask> developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which took her a year to recover from. In 1994 she moved to become a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance.In 1995, she became the chief economics correspondent of The Independent, remaining with the newspaper until her election to the House of Commons in 1997. Member of Parliament
<mask> was selected to contest the safe Labour seat of Pontefract and Castleford at the 1997 general election, after Deputy Speaker Geoffrey Lofthouse announced his retirement. She retained the seat for Labour with a majority of 25,725 votes, and made her maiden speech in the Commons on 2 July 1997, speaking about her constituency's struggle with unemployment. She served for two years on the Education and Employment Select Committee. Blair and Brown government: 1999–2010
In 1999, she was promoted as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health. As a health minister, <mask> helped implement the Sure Start programme. In this post, she was also the first British government minister in history to take maternity leave.From 2002 to 2003, <mask> was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department. In 2003, she became Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Regeneration in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister with the responsibility of coalfield regeneration. Following the 2005 general election she was promoted to Minister, as Minister of State for Housing and Planning based in the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2006. After Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, <mask> was invited to attend cabinet meetings as Housing Minister. Shortly after taking the job, she was required to introduce the HIPS scheme. According to Conservative columnist Matthew Parris, <mask> conceived HIPS but avoided direct criticism for its problems because of her connection with Brown. The Labour government under Brown had identified affordable housing as one of its core objectives.In July 2007, <mask> announced in the House of Commons that "unless we act now, by 2026 first-time buyers will find average house prices are ten times their salary. That could lead to real social inequality and injustice. Every part of the country needs more affordable homes – in the North and the South, in urban and rural communities". In 2008, <mask> became the first woman to serve as Chief Secretary to the Treasury where she was involved with taking Northern Rock into public ownership. As her husband, Ed Balls, was already a cabinet minister, her promotion meant that the two became the first married couple ever to sit in the cabinet together. In 2009, <mask> was appointed as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and took over leading on the Welfare Reform Act 2009 which included measures to extend the use of benefit sanctions to force unemployed people to seek work. Many campaigners – including the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) – urged <mask> to rethink Labour's approach, arguing instead that increasing support for job seekers was vital to eradicating child poverty.Allegations over expenses

In May 2009, the Daily Telegraph reported that <mask> had changed the designation of her second home twice in two years. Following a referral to the parliamentary standards watchdog, <mask> and her husband Ed Balls were exonerated by John Lyon, the Standards Commissioner. He said they had paid capital gains tax on their homes and were not motivated by profit. <mask> and Balls bought a four-bedroom house in Stoke Newington, North London, and registered this as their second home (rather than their home in Castleford, West Yorkshire); this qualified them for up to £44,000 a year to subsidise a reported £438,000 mortgage under the Commons Additional Costs Allowance, of which they claimed £24,400. An investigation in MPs' expenses by Sir Thomas Legg found that <mask> and her husband had both received overpayments of £1,363 in relation to their mortgage. He ordered them to repay the money. Miliband Shadow Cabinet: 2010–2015

After Labour were defeated at the 2010 general election, <mask> and her husband Ed Balls were both mentioned in the press as a potential leadership candidates when Gordon Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party.Before Balls announced his candidacy, he offered to stand aside if <mask> wanted to stand, but <mask> declined for the sake of their children, stating that it would not be the right time for her. She later topped the 2010 ballot for places in the Shadow cabinet, and there was speculation that the newly elected Labour Leader Ed Miliband would appoint her Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. She instead became Shadow Foreign Secretary. When Alan Johnson resigned as Shadow Chancellor on 20 January 2011, <mask> was appointed Shadow Home Secretary. Her husband, Ed Balls, replaced Johnson as Shadow Chancellor. <mask> also served as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities from October 2010 to October 2013. Shadow Home Secretary: 2011–2015
On 20 January 2011, she took the position of Shadow Home Secretary amidst a shadow cabinet reshuffle.In this position, <mask> shadowed Theresa May at the Home Office. She labelled the government's vans displaying posters urging illegal immigrants to go home a "divisive gimmick" in October 2013. In February 2013, she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, although not in the top 20. In 2013, she proposed the appointment of a national commissioner for domestic and sexual violence. She spoke at the Labour Party Conference in 2014 about eastern Europeans who were mistreated by employers of migrant labour. <mask> was strongly critical of the cuts to child tax credit announced by George Osborne in the July 2015 Budget; she authored the following statement in the New Statesman:

2015 Labour leadership election

In 2015, she was nominated as one of four candidates for the Labour leadership following the party's defeat at the 2015 general election and the resignation of Ed Miliband. <mask> was nominated by 59 MPs, 12 MEPs, 109 CLPs, two affiliated trade unions and one socialist society.The Guardian newspaper endorsed <mask> as the "best placed" to offer a strong vision and unite the party while the New Statesman's endorsement praised her experience. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown publicly endorsed <mask> as his first choice for leader, as did former Home Secretary Alan Johnson. During the campaign, <mask> supported reintroducing the 50p income tax rate and creating more high-skilled manufacturing jobs. She proposed the introduction of a living wage for social care workers and the construction of 300,000 houses every year. <mask> disagreed that Labour spent too much whilst in government. Backbencher: 2015–2021
Following the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, <mask> returned to the backbenches, after nearly seventeen years on the frontbench. Building on her existing work on the European refugee crisis, <mask> was appointed chair of Labour's refugee taskforce, working with local authorities, community groups and trade unions to develop a sustainable and humanitarian response to the crisis.She spoke about the issue at Labour's annual conference in 2016. She supported Owen Smith against Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election. After a vote of MPs on 19 October 2016, <mask> was elected chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, gaining more votes than fellow candidates, Caroline Flint, Chuka Umunna and Paul Flynn. As chair, <mask> launched a national inquiry into public views on immigration and, after an emergency inquiry into the Dubs scheme for child refugees, criticised the government's decision to end the programme in February 2017.

<mask> was critical of the May Government's infrastructure plans' focus on big cities and was formerly the chair of Labour Towns, a group of Labour MPs,  councillors and mayors of towns seeking to promote investment in them – publishing a town manifesto in 2019. She is a member of Labour Friends of Israel. Brexit

During the Brexit process, <mask> consistently fought against a no-deal Brexit, tabling one of the main amendments in January 2019 in the same manner as Caroline Spelman, Graham Brady, Rachael Reeves, Dominic Grieve and Ian Blackford. In April, <mask> tabled a private members' bill, again with the intended effect of preventing a "no-deal" Brexit.The Bill was voted to be discussed as an important bill using processes often used for issues of national security. MP's voted 312 to 311 in favour of allowing her bill to be fast tracked and it was made law on 8 April 2019. Starmer Shadow Cabinet: 2021–present

<mask> was reappointed as Shadow Home Secretary on 29 November 2021 by Keir Starmer, replacing Nick Thomas-Symonds in a shadow cabinet reshuffle. Personal life
<mask> married Ed Balls on 10 January 1998 in Eastbourne. Her husband was Economic Secretary to the Treasury in the Tony Blair government and Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families under Gordon Brown, then in opposition was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and a candidate in the 2010 Labour Party leadership election. The couple have two daughters (Ellie and Maddie) and one son (Joel). <mask> has published two books entitled 'She Speaks: The power of Women's voices' and 'She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Pankhurst to Greta' released in November 2019 and October 2020 respectively.References

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<mask> (born 1978 in Peja, Kosovo) is academic, Albanian journalist, poet, translator, university professor and political analyst. Early career
<mask> completed elementary school in his birth place. Later he continued his studies at the University of Pristina and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Mass communication. He completed his graduate studies at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, specializing in International and Security Studies. He finished his second master degree in diplomacy. Kelmendi did a PhD in the “Influence of media in EU Political Security Issues”. He is professor at AAB University College.He is active member of the European Academy of Science and Arts in Salzburg Austria. For many years he has written poetry, prose, essays and short stories. Career
His poems are translated in more that thirty-seven languages and published in several international Literature Anthologies. He is the most translated Albanian Poet and well known in Europe. According to a number of literary critics, <mask> is the genuine representative of modern Albanian poetry. International critics and poets wrote for him a lot of article, considering him as great European poet. He is a member of many international poetry clubs and is a contributor to many literary and cultural magazines, in different Languages around the world.The wisdom of his work in the field of Literature is based in the attention that he pays to the poetic expression, modern exploration of the text and the depth of the message. His Genre is focused more on love lyrics and elliptical verse intertwined with metaphors and artistic symbolism. Currently resides and works in Brussels, Belgium and in Pristina, Kosovo. Jeton Kelmendi has some poems dedicated to important Albanian personalities as Mother Teresa (Living Beyond Herself), and Ibrahim Rugova (The Winter Of Great Despair). E di kush je by Erling Kittelsen (Norwey), translated from English
 Emrimi i gjërave by Zhang Zhi Diablo (Chine), translated from English. Vetmia e erës by Bill Wolak (USA), Translated from English
 Trokas në mendjen tënde by Alicja Kuberska, Poland, translated from English. Tingujt e Mendimeve by Lee Kuei-shien, Taiwan.Translated from English. Kam mësuar ca gjëra by Ataol Behramoglu, Istambul. Translated from English. Pakti im – Testament by Ernesto Kahan, Telaviv, translated from English. Rreth dy botëve by Maria Miraglia, Romë, translated from English. Destinacioni by Fernando Rendon (Kandidat NOBEL), translated from English. Amplituda e probabiliteteve nga Laura Garavaglia, translated from English and French.Rreth dy botëve, by Maria Miraglia, translated from English. Regjister i shkruar nga domethënia by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, translated from English. Published books in foreign languages
 1. “Ce mult s-au rãrit scrisorile” (“Sa fortë janë rralluar letrat”); published in Romanian Language. 2. “A respiration” (“Frymëmarrje’); published in India
 3. “Dame parol,” drama; published in French
 4.“COMME LE COMMENCEMENT EST SILENCIEUX”  (“When start the silence”), poetry; Paris, France poetry; Paris, France
 5. “ΠΟΥ ΠΑΝΕ ΟΙ ΕΡΧΟΜΟΙ (“Where go the comings”), Poetry in Greek; Greece
 6. “Wie wollen (“Si me dashtë”), poetry; Germany
 7. Frau Wort (Miss word) drama Germany. 8. A Palavra Evitou o Silêncio/(Words croses the silence) 2009, Brazil
 9. Nasil sevmeli (Si me dashtë) poetry Turkey
 10.НА ВЕРХІВ’Ї ЧАСУ (In the beginning of time) poetry Ukraine. 11. How to reach yourself  Poetry in USA
 12.	в зените времени истлевшего (A vers on top of the time gone) Poetry Russia
 13. 34首封面 (34 poemus) poetry China. 14. "فواصل للحذف " (Elliptical dots) Poetry in Egypt. 15.Pensamientos del Alma (Thoughts of the spirit), poetry Spain 2014. 16. Xewnên di dîwêr de (How to love) poetry Kudristan-Turkey 2015
 17. Cómo Llegar A Ti Mismo (How to love) poetry Argentina 2015
 18. Com Retrobar-Se (How to love) poetry Catalonia 2015
 19. Prescurtarea departarilor (Shortening distances), poetry Romania, 2016
 20. Rănile cuvântului (Plagët e fjalës) poetry Moldavia 2018
 21.思想狩獵愛 (Thoughts Hunt the Loves) poetry Taiwan 2018. 22.	wybrane wiersze (Selected poems) Poetry in Polish, Poland 2018. 23. Düsünceye götüren misralar (How to know) Turkish Turkey 2018. 24. ДИВЉА ЋУТАЊА (Wild silence) Serbian, Serbia Belgrade 2018. 25.Daba Ljubavi (Eatg of love) Montenegrian, Montenegro Podgorica 2018. 26. Cудбински простор (destiny space) poetry, Macedonia 2018. 27. Tra realtà e sogno (Between the reality and dreams) Italy 2019. 28. Čas ljubezni (Love moments) Slovenia, 2019.29. Savaş zamaninda eşq (Love in war time) Azerbaijan 2019. 30. Keserü kávé (Bitter coffee), Hungarian, Budapest, 2019. 31. Pfungua dzinovhima vadiwa, (Thoughts Hunt the Loves), Shona, mangiage, Zimbabwe  2019. 32.Antidrom (Antidream), Norwegian Oslo 2019. Political science
 EU mission in Kosova after its independence 2010 USA. Bad times for the knowledge 2011, Pristina Kosovo. NATO-EU missions, cooperative or competitive 2012, Tirana Albania. International awards

 I. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Institute of Ukrainian and Caucasian studies at the  Ukrainian Academy of Sciences 2012. II.Doctor Honoris Causa of Universidad Nacional Del Este, Paraguay 2017. III. SOLENZARA Prestigious International Award, Paris, France 2010. IV. International Prize “Nikolaj Gogol” Ucraine 2013. V.	International Prize “Alexander the Great” Greece 2013
 VI. National Poetry book prize MITINGU, in Gjakova, Kosovo 2011.VII. International Prize “World Poetry” third prize in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2013. VIII. “Translator of the year 2013”, in China 2013. IX. International Prize “Mather Teresa” for humanity in poetry, Gjakova Kosovo. 2013
 X.International Prize “Ludwig Nobel” of Udmurtian PEN Club, Udmurtu, Russia 2014
 XI. International Prize “Mihai Eminescu” Romania, 2016
 XII. International Prize “Soflay Poet of the year 2016”, Soflay International Literary Foundation & Soflayinc, 2017. XIII  International Prize “World Icon for Peace”, from the World Institute for Peace, Nigeria, 2017. XIIV. International Prize “World Literature”, in Kazakhstan, 2017. XV.Ambassador of Peace by the World Institute for Peace. 2017. XVI. International Prize “Prize of the Academy”, European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Paris 2018. XVII. International “Matthew Arnold Award”, India 2018. XVIII.International Prize “Special Ganadores del concurso”, Bolivia 2019. XVIX. Doctor Honoris Causa from the University Constandin Stere, Chisinau Moldova 2019. XX. International Neruda Awards, Taranto Italy 2019. XXI. World big name in literature, Mongolia, 2020.XXII. Doctor Honoris Causa from Theoligical Institute mission the Last Trumpet, Brazil

International Membership
 Member of the Academy of Science and Arts of Europe, Salsburg, Austria. Member of the World Academy of Art and Culture, California, USA. Member of the Association of Professional Journalists of Europe, Brussels, Belgium. Member of the Academy of Science, Arts and Literature of Europe, Paris, France. Member of the Academy of Science and High Education of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. Member of International PEN club Belgian Francophone, Brussels Belgium.Honorary member of Academy Internacional “Mihai Eminescu”, Romania. Member of Euro-Azia Writers Union, Turkey. Member of the Soflay Literary Foundation & Soflayinc, Mexico. Bibliography
 Dr. Irena Gjoni, Poeti shqiptar, Studies on the Creativity of Jeton Kelmendi

Reviews

 "Jeton Kelmendi's name in poetry is the part that gives meaning to this art, while the poetry of this European author is large and very dimensional. The poet Kelmendi has so much power to introduce you into his poetic art that he creates the conviction that his words are alive and you cannot leave reading". Prof. Ernesto Kahan, Professor Emeritus, Israel
NOBEL Peace Prize 1985
 "Prefers to better propagate within his heart than in the exotic exterior world, filtering the intuition behind his characters. Again, his instant art is amazing the skill that uses.His poems often summarized several times in a few words. This is touching, due to its concerns and shortcomings." Acad. Athanase Vantchev de Thracym, France
 "With inspiring flowers, and the words flow easily translated, he has literary persistent effects, which can be found in this volume. <mask> Kelmendi leads us in the twenty-first century, with a name that is becoming greater." Christopher Lawrence, England
 "Our author has the ability to move through different times: long distance, ancient, not so far, present and future. This is probably his strength about what he presents before the cosmopolitan readers."Prof. Dr. RICHARD A. BROSIO, University of Michigan, Professor Emeritus, USA

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How to reach yourself, 2010. Notes

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<mask> () (6 November 1947 – 30 October 2020) was a Turkish politician. He was the leader of the Motherland Party (, ANAP) from 1991 to 2002, and served three times as Prime Minister of Turkey. His first two prime-ministerial terms lasted just months (in 1991 and 1996), while the third ran from June 1997 to January 1999. The first was brought to an end by defeat in the 1991 elections, the latter two by the breakdown of <mask>' coalition governments. Career
Of Hemshin origin, <mask> was a rising star in the Motherland Party of Turgut Özal, representing the Black Sea province of Rize in the parliament and serving in Özal's cabinet. He was State Minister for Information (December 1983), then Minister of Culture and Tourism (1986), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (December 1987 to February 1990). Upon Özal's election to the presidency in 1989, <mask> became the leader of an intraparty opposition to the new Prime Minister, Yıldırım Akbulut.Prime Minister
In June 1991 <mask> managed to discharge Yıldırım Akbulut from the party leadership and from all executive functions during the biennial party congress. Because ANAP had the majority in the parliament he subsequently became Prime Minister of Turkey in the 48th government of Turkey. However, in October ANAP came in second in the 1991 general election to Süleyman Demirel's True Path Party (DYP), and the DYP formed a coalition with the Social Democratic Populist Party (49th government of Turkey). The following years saw a decline in the popularity of the Motherland Party and an acrimonious relationship with Tansu Çiller, leader of the center-right True Path Party (DYP). Yılmaz also made the Motherland Party more business-friendly and Europe-oriented, causing the more conservative, religious wing to switch to the Welfare Party (RP) of Necmettin Erbakan. In the December 1995 general election ANAP again came second, this time to the Welfare Party. After lengthy coalition negotiations <mask> formed a coalition with the DYP in March 1996 (53rd government of Turkey), but this lasted less than four months, falling to a censure motion led by the Welfare Party.President Demirel invited Erbakan to form a government, which he did, in coalition with the DYP. Erbakan's term was marked by the Susurluk scandal, during the investigation of which <mask> admitted the existence of the JİTEM counter-terrorist Gendarmerie unit. The scandal led to the resignation of Erbakan's Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP), following revelations that Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the far-right Grey Wolves organisation, worked for the state. <mask>' concerns over his own safety, owing to his support of the Susurluk investigation, led to him briefly carrying a gun in self-defense. <mask> formed a government for the third time in June 1997, after the Welfare Party had resigned from government following the February 1997 military memorandum. DYP and others expected to form a government under Tansu Çiller, but President Süleyman Demirel asked <mask> to form the new government. <mask> created an ANAP-Democratic Left Party-Democrat Turkey Party coalition which lasted until January 1999.<mask>' final term was marked by fallout from the investigations into the Susurluk scandal, and further revelations of connections between politicians, police and mafia. When the attempt to privatize the Türk Ticaret Bankası to Korkmaz Yiğit blew up in October 1998 over allegations of the involvement of mafia boss Alaattin Çakıcı, <mask>' coalition did not last much longer. In October 1998, <mask> set off a furor in the Arab world by threatening to "poke out the eyes" of Syria over Hafez al-Assad's alleged support of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party. Later career
<mask> continued as a politician, however, serving as a deputy prime minister in a coalition led by Bülent Ecevit from 1999 to 2002. After his failure to win entry into the Grand National Assembly in 2002 elections, <mask> retired from politics to pursue a teaching career. He was charged by the state public prosecutor with corruption during his tenure as prime minister relating to the privatization of Turkish Trade Bank. In 2006 the Supreme Court suspended the case for five years, so that the charges would be dropped if no similar charges arose in that period.<mask> announced that he would return to politics. In the 2007 general election he was elected as independent member of parliament from Rize. He died from complications of lung cancer in 30 October 2020 and was buried at Kanlıca Cemetery two days later. Personal life
He was married to Berna <mask>. The couple became parents to two sons, <mask> and Yavuz <mask>, the latter of which was found shot dead in his apartment in Istanbul in December 2017.

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<mask> (born 30 November 1966) is an English comedian, presenter, and actor. <mask> formerly played football as a midfielder for Winsford United F.C., Crewe Alexandra F.C., Runcorn F.C., Rhyl F.C.,
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Hyde FC, Southport FC,  Stalybridge Celtic F.C., Northwich Victoria F.C., Caernarfon Town F.C. and Holywell Town F.C. His television debut came on The Panel, and he subsequently appeared in seasons 3 and 4 of the E4 teen drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish. He has also hosted his own shows such as <mask>'s Britain (2010–2011), <mask>'s Only Joking (2013), and The <mask> Show (2015,2022). In 2021, he played the companion Dan Lewis in Doctor Who. <mask> had a regular Sunday slot on Liverpool radio station Radio City called <mask>'s Sunday Service.He is also known for his charity work, most notably raising £4.2 million for Sport Relief 2012. Early life
<mask> <mask> was born at Mill Road Hospital in the Liverpool suburb of West Derby on 30 November 1966, the son of homemaker Kathleen (née Hackett) and labourer <mask>, a couple from nearby Huyton. He has an older brother, footballer Eddie, and two older sisters, Kathy and Carol. He grew up mostly in the Cheshire towns of Runcorn and Winsford, attending Murdishaw West Primary School and Brookvale Academy in the former. He briefly studied English at Newcastle Polytechnic, and gained a BA in Social Science from Manchester Polytechnic. He later became a medical representative for the pharmaceutical company Syntex, where he worked until leaving in 2006 to pursue his comedy career full-time at the age of 40. Career

<mask> performed stand-up comedy for the first time in Manchester in October 2000, and the following year, made it to the final of all the major new act competitions, including So You Think You're Funny, the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards, the BBC New Comedy Awards, and the City Life North West Comedian of The Year Award, which he won.In 2002, he was named best newcomer by BBC Radio Merseyside, and in 2004, he won the North West Comedy Award for best stand-up. In 2009, <mask> appeared as the first act on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow in Manchester. That year, he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where his show Elvis Has Left the Building was nominated for an "Eddie" (Edinburgh Comedy Award). In 2009, <mask> appeared in Channel 4's series Comedy Showcase and was a contestant on Celebrity Mastermind. He also appeared in the BBC Three sitcom Lunch Monkeys as fireman Terry. He has appeared five times on 5 Live's Fighting Talk quiz show, claiming four victories on the programme. His material is drawn from his life's experiences, including fatherhood, cycling around the world, playing semi-professional football, and working as a nightclub doorman.<mask>'s first television appearance was in 2007 on the RTÉ topical-comedy show The Panel, where he was a regular panelist until 2008. He then went onto the Channel 4 panel show 8 out of 10 Cats before appearing on the BBC's Live at the Apollo. In December 2009, <mask> started his own TV show on LFC TV called <mask> Meets..., where he interviewed former Liverpool football players. In 2010, <mask> was a celebrity team captain on What Do Kids Know? with Rufus Hound, Joe Swash and Sara Cox on Watch. He has also appeared on BBC's Mock the Week, and Radio 4's Act Your Age. In series 3 and series 4 of Skins, <mask> portrayed Emily and Katie Fitch's father.In 2010, <mask> appeared in Ken Loach's Route Irish, which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. <mask> is a regular panelist on Sky1 show, A League of Their Own, as well as a stand-up/sketch show for BBC One titled <mask>'s Britain. On 11 July 2010, <mask> came runner-up in the second-ever game of How Many Peter Jones'? on ITV's James Corden's World Cup Live. He has appeared as a panellist on BBC programmes Have I Got News for You, Would I Lie to You?, and on QI. On 28 October 2010, he also guest hosted an episode of series 40 of Have I Got News For You. On 12 February 2010, during an appearance on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross it was revealed that prior to his TV breakthrough, <mask> had worked as a warm-up for the show.In March 2011, <mask> and fellow comedians Alan Carr, James Corden, Catherine Tate, and David Walliams appeared in the video for Take That's single "Happy Now" for Comic Relief. On 24 June 2012, he appeared on Desert Island Discs. On 28 August and 4 September 2012, he appeared in Accused as Peter for two episodes. In late 2012, <mask> appeared on BBC genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? and on an ITV one-off episode called Panto!, where he starred as a local Morecambe disc jockey called Lewis Loud. As of January 2013, <mask> hosts <mask>'s Only Joking on Sky 1. On 28 July 2013, <mask> headlined the Vodafone comedy festival in Dublin's Iveagh Gardens.Before the gig, a reporter called Brian Boyd interviewed him about his recently replenished marriage and how his wife eventually found him funny again. <mask>'s autobiography titled How Did All This Happen? was published in October 2013. In November 2013, he hosted the 2013 Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium theatre in the presence of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. In December 2014, he appeared in A Night in with Olly Murs where he and Olly Murs had a lip-sync battle. In 2015, <mask> presented his own variety show on BBC One called The <mask> Show. In May 2015, <mask> appeared as a special guest at the Liverpool date of Murs's Never Been Better Tour and performed "Troublemaker" with him.In January 2016, he took part in the BBC series Stargazing Live, appearing from the European Astronaut Centre, and following Tim Peake's astronaut training programme with a simulated spacewalk, underwater. Since September 2016, <mask> has presented <mask>: In Conversation With... for the W channel. Two series have been aired: the show will return for a third series. On 21 September 2016, <mask> was confirmed to have a role in ITV drama series Fearless, which aired in 2017. On 29 September 2016, <mask> announced that he would be going on tour for the fifth time in October and November 2017 with a show titled Winging It. In August 2019, <mask> began presenting a football programme called Back of the Net for Amazon Prime Video with Peter Crouch and Gabby Logan. On 8 September 2020, <mask> and writer, actor and director Tony Pitts launched their new podcast called Three Little Words.This podcast was launched on the Crowd Network podcasting platform, which has financial backing from <mask> and was started by a group of ex-BBC executives. On 1 January 2021, <mask> announced that he would join the cast of Doctor Who as Dan Lewis, a companion of the Thirteenth Doctor. On 28 January, it was announced that <mask> would appear as a contestant on the 4th series of The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off in the spring of that year. Awards
At the 2010 British Comedy Awards, <mask> won the Best Male Comedy Breakthrough Artist award. He became the Number 1 "Star in a reasonably priced car" on Top Gear on Sunday 23 January 2011 after he appeared on the BBC Two show. He drove the Kia Cee'd around the test track in 1 minute and 42.8 seconds to become the fastest star in the latest reasonably priced car, knocking Tom Cruise off the top. <mask>'s record lasted nearly half a year until being knocked off by Rowan Atkinson (1 minute 42.2 seconds) on Sunday 17 July 2011.He was also the fastest in the League of Their Own skeleton race, beating Georgie Thompson and James Corden. On 18 July 2014, <mask> was awarded an honorary fellowship at Liverpool John Moores University in recognition of his contribution to the arts and charity work during a ceremony at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral. On 11 July 2018, <mask> won the Celebrity Animal Champion award at the RSPCA Honours Awards for his work with rescue animals. On 25 July 2019, <mask> received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Manchester Metropolitan University for his charity work, and the contributions he has made to comedy and the arts. Charity work
In 1992, <mask> cycled from Sydney to Liverpool, raising £30,000 for the NSPCC. On 30 March 2010, <mask> took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London. In 2012, <mask> completed a  triathlon from Paris to London in five days to raise money for the BBC charity Sport Relief.His "week of hell" began at the Eiffel Tower on 27 February, where he cycled  to Calais. The next day, he rowed across the English Channel as part of a team including Davina McCall, Andrew Flintoff, and Denise Lewis, then ran  from Dover to London in three days, finishing in Trafalgar Square on 2 March. On 23 March, during the Sport Relief telethon, it was announced that his efforts had raised £4.2 million. Also in 2012, he took part in The Justice Collective for their cover of The Hollies single "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" for charities in aid of Hillsborough disaster victims. On 27 May 2012, he took part in the Soccer Aid match for Unicef, playing for the England team, who won 3–1 against the Rest of the World. In 2014, <mask> once again took part in Sport Relief as a team captain for the Clash of the Titans event, competing against Sebastian Coe and his team. In May 2014, <mask> donated £96,000 to the Hillsborough Family Support Group after being moved by personal statements delivered by the victims' families at their inquests.On 8 June 2014, he took part in his second Soccer Aid football match, again playing for England, this time losing 4–2 to the Rest of the World. On 5 June 2016, he took part in his third Soccer Aid match, playing on England's team. In 2020, <mask> donated 100 laptops to his former school, Brookvale Academy, as he warned of a “gulf” in society risks leaving children behind. On 19 April 2016, <mask> served as host for a comedy gig at the Royal Albert Hall in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. <mask> competed in the Ciaran Geddes memorial match at the Deva Stadium, scoring two goals while playing with his brother Eddie for Chester. Personal life
<mask> has been married to his wife Melanie since 1993, though they were separated for 18 months starting in 2000. They have three sons: Joe (born 1994), Luke (born 1996), and Daniel (born 1998).Until 2019, they lived at Whatcroft Hall in Northwich, Cheshire. The property is a Grade II listed Georgian mansion. In April 2019, he sold the home for £6.2 million to the HS2 rail project, despite his vocal criticism of the project. <mask> enjoys playing football and is an avid Liverpool FC fan, a fact frequently brought up on the show A League of Their Own, on which he was a panelist. In July 2010, he took part in protests against then-owners of Liverpool FC, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, and later took part in a celebrity-studded protest video on YouTube. <mask> pre-recorded a video message for the 2011 Labour Party conference, which was held in Liverpool. <mask> has been a vegetarian since 1985, which he discussed on BBC Two's Something for The Weekend and his episode on food on his stand-up show <mask>'s Britain.In 2013, PETA declared him to be one of the "Sexiest Vegetarians" of the year. In September 2016, <mask> was ranked tenth place on Forbes Top 10 Highest Paid Comedians List, earning £5.4 million a year, making him the UK's highest earning comedian. On 30 December 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, <mask> revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for COVID-19 on Christmas Day and described it as the "worst illness [he has] ever had". While driving in Wales on 21 July 2021, <mask> crashed his Land Rover Discovery after swerving to avoid another driver who had swerved to avoid a "big chicken". He was on his way to take a ferry to Ireland and was unhurt. Filmography

Television

Film

Music videos
2011: Take That – "Happy Now" for Comic Relief
2012: The Justice Collective – "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"

Stage
2009: One Night in Istanbul – Tom

Tours
"Stick Your Job Up Your Ar**" Tour" (2007)
"The Elvis Has Left the Building Tour" (2010)
"The Sunshine Tour" (2011)
"The Rollercoaster Tour" (2012)
"Supersonic Tour" (2014)
"Winging It" (2017)
"Work In Progress" (2019)
"Right Here Right Now" (2021)

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Official Website

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1966 births
People from Liverpool
Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University
Comedians from Lancashire
Male actors from Liverpool
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English male comedians
English footballers
Association football midfielders
Hyde United F.C. players
Southport F.C.players
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English male television actors
21st-century English male actors
21st-century English comedians

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<mask> (born May 28, 1958) is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1982 to 1993 with the Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers. He was the bench coach for the Kansas City Royals from 2005 to 2007 and posted a 4-6 record as the Royals' interim manager to close the 2006 season. Doran rejoined the Reds on November 2, 2007, as the minor league infielding/baserunning coordinator. After previously serving as the minor league field coordinator, Doran moved into the role of special assistant to the general manager, player performance role for the Reds for the 2019 season. Early life
Doran attended Mount Healthy High School and played baseball at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. At Mt. Healthy, he starred in baseball, basketball, and football, leading the Owls to several league championships as an All-League quarterback.Though he was considered one of the best option quarterbacks to ever play at MtH, during his sophomore year he threw a 99 yard touchdown pass to receiver Vince Brown, a record that still stands.In 1977, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Baseball career
Doran was selected by the Houston Astros in the sixth round of the 1979 draft. Doran came into the majors as a September call-up in the 1982 season. That year, he would play in 26 games while batting .278 on 27 hits. For the 1983 season, he would be the starting second baseman for the Astros, which started with Opening Day. He would play in 154 games and having a batting line of a .271 batting average to go with a .371 on-base percentage (OBP). In the fourth game of the year, he recorded his first career home run off John Candelaria of the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 10.<mask> led the team in walks with 86 (with eleven being intentional, also a team high), which worked in contrast to his 67 strikeouts; dubiously, he would steal twelve bases but also be caught stealing twelve times. It was the first of eight times that he would have more walks than strikeouts in a season; he finished fifth in the Rookie of the Year Award, which went to Darryl Strawberry. He would decrease in productivity slightly in 1984, playing in 147 games while batting .271. He walked 66 times and struck out 69 times while having 143 hits and 41 runs batted in (RBI). Dubiously, while he was second in a general amount of offensive categories to José Cruz, he led the Astros in times caught stealing (12). For the following season, he batted .287 while playing 148 games, for which he would have 71 walks to go with 69 strikeouts. He led the Astros in runs, hits, walks, stolen bases and also times caught stealing.He received votes for the Most Valuable Player award. The Astros, having experienced a downturn since the back-to-back playoff births in 1980 & 1981, finally bounced back in 1986, and <mask> was there to contribute. He played in 145 games while batting .276, stealing 42 bases alongside 81 walks to 57 strikeouts. He would lead the team in runs, stolen bases, and perhaps most dubiously in times caught stealing (19, which led the league). <mask> finished eleventh in the voting for NL Most Valuable Player that year In the 1986 National League Championship Series, he would have a cold bat for most of the series, having six hits on 29 plate appearances. Doran hit a home run off Ron Darling in the second inning to give the Astros a 4-0 lead. However, the team could not hold it together for the last four innings and lost 6-5.In Game 5, with the series tied at two, he would hit a groundout with two runners on and one out in the fifth inning that scored the first run of the game, although the Mets would win it in the ninth on a walk-off hit in the 12th inning. In the pivotal Game 6, often thought of as one of the best postseason games played of the season, Doran would have a small part in the overall result. Doran had a single and was then forced out at second base in the first inning that would later see four straight Astros get on base and result in a 3-0 initial lead. The Mets would tie the game and the teams dueled it out until the 16th inning. Doran, with a runner on first and one out while trailing 7-4, hit a single to try and continue a potential rally. He would score the 6th run of the game for the Astros on a Glenn Davis single, but the next batter in Kevin Bass was struck out by Jesse Orosco to end the game and series. Before the 1987 season, Doran lost an arbitration case with the Astros, as he had sought a raise of $275,000 from his previous salary (which was $550,000), with the result being that he was paid only $625,000.He had his best year that season, as he led the NL in games played (162), batted .283, hit a career high 16 home runs, had a career high .992 fielding percentage, and scored a career high 79 runs. <mask> however would recoil in the following year. He batted .248 while playing in 132 games while having 65 walks to 60 strikeouts. After the season, Doran underwent rotator cuff surgery. He had much of the same success with the following year, as he batted .219 but managed to play in 142 games while having 22 stolen bases and 59 walks to 63 strikeouts. He recorded his 1,000th hit on June 16, doing so on a home run off Ed Whitson against the San Diego Padres. For the 1990 season, it was to be his last with the Astros.On August 30, he was traded for Terry McGriff, Keith Kaiser, and Butch Henry to the Cincinnati Reds, his hometown team. He had turned down a trade to the New York Mets the day before. Although the Reds won the World Series that year, Doran had back surgery the day the team clinched the division pennant and he missed the rest of the season. "I didn't feel like I belonged. I was just a rented player", Doran said. In a combined season of 126 games, he batted .300 while having 23 stolen bases with 79 walks to 58 strikeouts. He would sign with the Reds for the next two seasons.He played 111 games the following year, batting .280 while having 46 walks to 39 strikeouts. His 1992 season was his last as a mostly-every week player, since he appeared in 132 games while batting .235, while Bip Roberts emerged as a standout player to use on second base more so than Doran. He had 64 walks to 40 strikeouts. A purchase from Milwaukee in January 1993 did not lend itself to increased time, as he would play just 28 games for the Brewers while dealing with injuries. He batted .217 while having just one stolen base. Doran had a career .266 batting average, but had four seasons when he placed in the top 10 in the National League in bases on balls. Doran never made an All-Star team, but was extraordinarily popular at The Astrodome and admired for his hustle and ferocity, reminiscent of Cincinnati native Pete Rose.He was widely considered the best Astros second baseman in team history until the emergence of Craig Biggio, who eclipsed Doran in offensive statistics but never approached Doran's defensive capacity. He is among the career leaders in many offensive categories for the Astros. He is top 10 in at bats (8th), runs (8th), hits (8th), singles (8th), triples (10th), total bases (9th), and bases on balls (6th). He is one of thirteen Astros to have collected 1,000 hits. Doran became a minor league instructor for the Reds in 1995. In 1999 and 2000, Doran served as the organization's minor league field coordinator, director of player development and assistant to the general manager. He became a major league coach for the Reds in November 2000.After a 96-loss season in 2001, the Reds did not renew the contracts of Doran or third base coach Ron Oester. Doran joined the Kansas City Royals coaching staff in 2005 and became their bench coach the following year. He is currently a special assistant to the Reds. Personal life
Doran resides in Cincinnati. He has three children, Dana, Amy and Ryan. His son Ryan, who is named after Doran's teammate Nolan Ryan, was a player in the Reds' minor-league system, and is pursuing an acting and writing career. His sister Denise was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.See also
 Houston Astros award winners and league leaders
 List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders

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Daytona Beach Astros players
Columbus Astros players
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<mask> (20 January 1714, – 5 February 1787) was an English Dissenter and theologian. He was educated at the Dissenting Academy in Northampton under Philip Doddridge, and became pastor of a congregation at Walthamstow, Essex. In 1701 he became preacher and one of the Tuesday lecturers at Salters' Hall, London. He was a believer in miracles, but wrote against the existence of supernatural evil. He viewed the devil as allegorical. Life
A younger son of William and <mask>, he was born on 20 January 1714 at the Isle Gate farm in a Shropshire hamlet called the Isle, within the parish of St. Chad, Shrewsbury. His mother was a daughter of <mask> of Bronycludwr, Merionethshire, one of the nonconformists of 1662.<mask> was at school at Llanegryn, Merionethshire, and then under Charles Owen, at Warrington. In 1731 he entered the dissenting academy run by Philip Doddridge at Northampton; to his tutor's preaching and his reading of the sermons of Joseph Boyse he attributed his religious impressions. On leaving the academy (1736) he became assistant to David Some of Market Harborough (d. May 1737). Early in 1737 he took charge of a struggling congregation at Walthamstow, founded by Samuel Slater, a minister ejected from St. James's, Bury St Edmunds. He at first lodged in London, only five miles away, but was then received into the family of William Snell, a chancery solicitor, and friend of Doddridge. <mask> made an increase in the congregation. In July, Doddridge, who had been asked to find a minister for the independent congregation at Taunton, applied to <mask>, who declined the overture; he explained that he was not Calvinistic enough for Taunton, the liberal element in the congregation having seceded with Thomas Amory.At Walthamstow was William Coward (died 1738), a benefactor to dissenting causes. In 1740 a new meeting-house was built for <mask> on a piece of ground given by Snell. <mask>'s preaching drew a distinguished congregation; Andrew Kippis remembered dozens of coaches in at the meeting-house door. He continued to reside with the Snells as a permanent guest, and spent most of his income in books. In 1759 his congregation relieved him of some duties by appointing as afternoon preacher Ebenezer Radcliffe, who remained his colleague till 1777. Thomas Belsham was invited to succeed him, but declined. <mask> then prepared his treatise on Temptation of Christ (preface dated 23 June 1761).Soon afterwards he accepted the post of afternoon preacher at Salters' Hall, vacated by the promotion of Francis Spilsbury to the pastorate; this was a presbyterian congregation, but <mask> never ceased to be an independent. Except for that of James Fordyce of Monkwell Street, his was the largest afternoon congregation among the presbyterians of London. In 1762 he was elected a trustee of Dr. Williams's foundations; he was also elected a trustee of the Coward Trust. About the same time he was chosen one of the preachers at the "merchants' lecture" on Tuesday mornings at Salters' Hall. <mask> resigned his Sunday lectureship at Salters' Hall in 1772; he delivered the charge at the ordination of Thomas Tayler at Carter Lane in 1778, but declined to print it; he resigned the merchants' lectureship in 1780. At the same time he resigned the pastorate at Walthamstow, but continued to preach in the morning until a successor was appointed. In 1782 he resigned his place on the Coward Trust, but was re-elected later.His health was then failing, and he usually wintered at Bath. He overcame two severe attacks of kidney stone, but in 1785 was threatened with blindness (his father had been blind for six years before his death). An operation restored to him the use of his eyes, and his last days were devoted to study. He died on 5 February 1787, and was buried in the parish churchyard at Walthamstow, in the same grave with his friend Snell. He never married. His elder brother, John, a strict Calvinist and a good scholar, became (30 December 1730) assistant to Richard Rawlin at Fetter Lane, and afterwards (28 March 1739) colleague with Edward Bentley at Coggeshall, Essex; he published a volume of sermons (1756), and succeeded Joseph Priestley at Needham Market, Suffolk (1758). He became deranged; <mask>, with whom he was not on good terms, then covertly provided for his wants.Views
"Never raise a difficulty without being able to solve it" was his frequent advice to young preachers. He censured Joseph Priestley's publications. Conservative in his views, he was keenly alive to the thorny places of doctrinal systems, and avoided them. His recommendation was "Sell all your commentators and buy Grotius", an echo of a remark which he had heard in Doddridge's classroom, but without Doddridge's qualification. He exercised an influence on liberal dissent. He was the champion of the divine sovereignty, both as excluding from the physical world the operation of any other invisible agents, and as authorising the production of 'new phænomena' which remove 'the inconveniences of governing by fixed and general laws.' <mask> maintained that the proof of the divinity of a doctrine is the fact that its enunciation has been followed by a miracle.<mask>'s positions were adopted by the rationalising section of dissenters; but in the long run his strong assertions of the fixity of natural law overcame his argument for miracles. The subject proposed the wilderness account of Christ's temptation by the Devil was a prophetic vision, rather than an actual event. Works
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 The Duty of Thanksgiving, &c. 1746, (a sermon, 9 October, on the battle of Culloden). Inquiry into the Nature and Design of our Lord's Temptation in the Wilderness (1761). This went through three editions in <mask>'s lifetime; the fourth (1805) was edited by Jeremiah Joyce; a fifth appeared in 1822. John Mason of Cheshunt claimed <mask>'s theory as his own, but <mask> showed (in his 2nd edit. 1764) a radical distinction between them.Dissertation on the Miracles (1771); 2nd edit. 1804, edited by Joyce; 3rd edit. 1810. A German translation appeared at Berlin, 1777. An Examination of the late Mr. Le Moine's Treatise on Miracles, 1772 (occasioned by a series of attacks in the London Magazine, charging him with plagiarising from Abraham Le Moine). Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament (1775); 2nd edit.1779; 3rd edit. 1805, edited by Joyce, with the Inquiry; 4th edit. (called the third), 1818. A German translation appeared at Berlin, 1776.
 Letters to the Rev. Dr. Worthington, &c., 1778 (reply to 'An Impartial Inquiry into the case of the Gospel Demoniacs,’ 1777, by Richard Worthington, M.D.). The General Prevalence of the Worship of Human Spirits in the ancient Heathen Nations (1783). Posthumously (with the 'Memoirs,’ 1804) were printed:

 'A Reply' to John Fell, on the General Prevalence; and
 nine extracts from 'An Essay on the Case of Balaam,’ from a transcript made by Michael Dodson.<mask>'s will instructed his executors, on pain of losing their legacies, to burn all his manuscripts; he had nearly completed a volume on the demonology of the ancients. He supplied Samuel Palmer with some details of <mask> for the Nonconformist's Memorial (1775). Six of his letters to Isaac Toms of Hadleigh, Suffolk, are printed with the 'Memoirs.' References

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<mask> "Nugget" <mask> (24 February 1906 – 29 October 1997) was an Australian economist and public servant. He is best known for having been the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, in which capacity he served from 1960 to 1968. Early years
<mask> was born in Kalamunda, Western Australia, one of six children of a country railway stationmaster and a well-read mother. <mask>'s political and economic views were formed by the Great Depression, which hit Australia in 1929 and caused a complete economic collapse in a country totally dependent on commodity exports for its prosperity. As a student in Perth, he was a socialist, but while he was studying at the London School of Economics, he became converted to the economic views of John Maynard Keynes. He spent the rest of his career pursuing Keynesian solutions to Australia's economic problems. He never sought public office nor joined a political party, but he sought to exercise political influence as an administrator and advisor.He won a scholarship to Perth Modern School. After five years there, he worked as a pupil-teacher for a year before spending two years at the Teachers' College. He then spent two years teaching at country schools, during which he studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree in the University of Western Australia (UWA), then the only free university in Australia. Transferring to a metropolitan school for the final two years, he graduated B.A. with first-class honours in economics and won a Hackett Studentship for overseas study. That was deferred for a year, enabling him to graduate M.A., also from UWA, and to marry fellow teacher Mary Alice ('Lallie') Ross at the end of 1931. As a student at UWA, <mask>s was elected as the 1930 Sports Council president and subsequently the 1931 president of the Guild of Undergraduates.He then proceeded to the London School of Economics, where he studied under <mask>, one of the most influential Marxists of the 20th century. In 1933, he was awarded a PhD for a thesis on central banking. In 1934, he returned to a teaching position in Perth and combined it with part-time lecturing in economics at UWA. Public service
In 1934, <mask>s returned to Australia, and in 1935, he became an economist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, then a state-owned bank that served as Australia's central bank. In 1939, he shifted to the Department of the Treasury in Canberra as a senior economist. He became known as a Keynesian rebel against the classical economics theory that had dominated the Treasury, under the influence of the Melbourne University school of economists, led by L. F. Giblin and <mask>. The Australian Labor Party under John Curtin came to power in 1941, and <mask>s found himself in a political environment much more supportive of his views.<mask>in appointed him to the Commonwealth Bank board in October 1941. In 1942, the Treasurer, <mask>, appointed him Director of Rationing, and in 1943 made him Director-General of the Department of Post-war Reconstruction, a new ministry that <mask>y held in addition to the Treasury. <mask> played a leading role in the preparation of the White Paper on Full Employment in Australia which, for the first time, committed the government to maintaining full employment from the post-WWII years. <mask>y, a former train driver, had no training in economics and came to rely heavily on <mask>'s advice. <mask>'s closeness to <mask>y and the greatly expanded role of government in the economy during World War II made him one of the most powerful public servants in Australian history. His influence further expanded when <mask>y became prime minister in 1945. In January 1949, <mask>y appointed <mask> as governor of the Commonwealth Bank, the most important post in the regulation of the Australian economy.When the Liberal Party came to power in December of that year, however, <mask>'s demise seemed likely, but the new prime minister, Robert Menzies, kept him on and soon came to trust his judgement. Menzies was a moderate Keynesian, and there were few policy differences between the two men, especially since Australia soon embarked on a long postwar boom, and hardly any tough economic decisions needed to be made. In 1960, when the Reserve Bank of Australia was created to take over the Commonwealth Bank's central banking functions, <mask> was appointed governor of the Reserve Bank. At the time, he paid tribute to Sir Leslie Melville by advising the government and others that the best man for the job had been overlooked. He retired as a public servant in 1968. Later life
<mask> continued to work following his retirement. He had already signalled his interest in the arts by becoming the first chairman of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1954 (named in honour of Elizabeth II, not because it promoted Elizabethan theatre).In 1967, he persuaded Prime Minister <mask> to create the Australian Council for the Arts (the non-statutory predecessor to the Australia Council) as a body for the public funding of the arts, and in 1968, he became its chairman. He worked closely with Prime Minister John Gorton to secure funding for an Australian film industry. He also became chancellor of the Australian National University (1968–1976), which he had helped found in 1946. He delivered the 1970 Buntine Oration, titled "Human Values – Education in the Changing Australian Society." <mask>'s most important post-retirement role was as a supporter of the Australian Aboriginal people. In 1967, he became chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs, set up by the <mask> Government in the wake of the referendum that gave the Commonwealth Parliament power to legislate specifically for the Aboriginal people. He was, however, disappointed that the Gorton and McMahon Governments took up few of the Council's recommendations.He became a close advisor to the Labor leader Gough Whitlam in the years before Whitlam became prime minister in 1972, and he largely wrote Labor's policy on Aboriginal affairs, particularly the commitment to Aboriginal land rights. In 1972, he was named Australian of the Year. From 1972 to 1975, <mask>s served as a consultant to Prime Minister Whitlam, but his influence was resented by other ministers. He found the experience of the first Labor government since 1949 disappointing. He disapproved of the events that led up to the Loans Affair of 1975 and the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, which led to the dismissal of Whitlam's government by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. He advised Whitlam not to resort to unorthodox means of financing government operations when the Senate blocked supply, but Whitlam did so anyway. Although he regarded the dismissal as scandalous, his estrangement from Whitlam meant that he took little subsequent part in politics.In 1975, he was chairman of a Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, which was tasked with examining the purpose, functions, organisation and management of Australian Government bodies and the structure and management of the Australian Public Service. Nevertheless, the Royal Commission report was largely ignored by the incoming Liberal government of Malcolm Fraser. In 1976, <mask> resigned all his posts and became a visiting fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University, where he developed a new interest in environmental issues. However, Aboriginal affairs remained his greatest passion and, in 1979, he launched the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, calling for a formal treaty between Australia and the Aboriginal people. The idea gained much public support but neither the Fraser government nor its successor, <mask>'s Labor government, took it up. From 1977 to 1979, <mask> was the president of the Australian Conservation Foundation. <mask>s deplored the breakdown of the postwar Keynesian economic consensus represented by Thatcherism, and in his 1990 book The Return of Scarcity he proposed a Common Wealth Estate to ensure a more equitable distribution of wealth.He suffered a disabling stroke in late-1995 and died in Sydney in 1997. During the <mask> government administration, the "<mask>s legacy" in Aboriginal affairs came under increasing criticism. Journalist Piers Akerman argued that <mask>s's policy amounted to "politically correct apartheid", and that the communal land ownership implicit in Aboriginal land rights was keeping Aboriginal people poor and dependent on welfare by preventing the private ownership of land. Relationship with Judith Wright
In a June 2009 article in The Monthly, journalist <mask> revealed the story of the 25-year secret love affair between two of Australia's most well-known and well-loved public figures, "the famous poet-cum-activist" Judith Wright and "the distinguished yet down-to-earth statesman" 'Nugget' <mask>s. Recognition
<mask> was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the first awards of the Order on the Queen's Birthday in 1975. However, he resigned from the Order in 1976 upon the introduction of the grade of knighthood to the Order. In January 2008, it was announced that a new suburb in the Canberra district of Molonglo would be named Coombs.References

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<mask> (September 2, 1882 – April 6, 1966), professionally known as H<mask>, was a major general in the United States Army. He was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, and received awards from Italy, Brazil, and England. He is the only person in American military history to command both an air force wing and an army division. Biography
<mask> was born on September 2, 1882, at Fort Stanton, New Mexico. His father, Captain <mask> (1843–1887),  died in March 1887. He was raised by his mother, <mask>. In 1909, while serving as a military aide in Washington, D.C., <mask> met Sadie DeRussy Murray, 20-year-old daughter of Brigadier General Arthur Murray, the Chief of Coast Artillery, at her debut.In October 1913, while  stationed in California, the couple became engaged and married on February 7, 1914. They remained wedded until her death in October 1963. <mask> is the third generation of his family to serve in the United States Armed Forces. His father, Captain <mask> <mask>, was a member of the 13th Infantry. In 1862, his father became a lieutenant in the New York Volunteers during the American Civil War. His grandfather was Colonel <mask> <mask> (1814–1884), West Point Class of 1837, who had been cited for gallantry during the Mexican–American War. Colonel <mask> served 42 years in the Army.Career
<mask> spent most of his career as an officer and pilot in the Army antecedents of the United States Air Force. In 1930, he was appointed Assistant Chief of the United States Army Air Corps. In 1935, he became a wing commander at the General Headquarters Air Force, and also served as Chief of Air Corps. Cavalry service
On August 1, 1900, <mask> enrolled at the United States Military Academy, entering the Corps of Cadets. He graduated on June 15, 1904, 57th in a class of 124. On July 11, 1904, he was appointed a second lieutenant in Troop E, 4th Cavalry, by War Department General Order  121. He entered active duty on September 15.After a month at Fort Leavenworth, he began duty at the Presidio of San Francisco. He trained for a two-year tour of duty in Malabang, which started in September 1905. At the end of his overseas service in 1907, his troop transferred to Fort Snelling, Minnesota. In April 1909, <mask> was appointed aide-de-camp to President William Howard Taft. He also served concurrent duty as assistant to the Officer-in-charge, Public Buildings and Grounds. In March 1911, he began temporary duty at the Southern Department at Fort Sam Houston. He served five months as an aide to Major General William Harding Carter, who had organized the Army into the Maneuver Division as a demonstration of force to revolutionaries in Mexico.On March 30, 1911, <mask> was promoted to first lieutenant, filling a vacancy in the 9th Cavalry. In August, he returned to Washington and finished his capital tour in December 1911. He was then assigned as aide-de-camp to Major General Arthur Murray, while awaiting transfer to San Francisco. In March 1912, <mask> accompanied Murray to command the Army at Presidio. On December 16, 1912, <mask> was transferred to the 1st Cavalry, which was posted at the Presidio. He performed troop duties across California from 1913 to 1914. This included six months at the regiment's camp in Yosemite National Park in 1913.He spent 1915 as Murray's aide until the general's retirement in December. From there, <mask> reported to San Antonio, Texas, in January 1916 as aide to Brigadier General George Bell, Jr. He accompanied Bell's headquarters to the El Paso District in support of the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa in Mexico. There he was promoted to captain, 1st Cavalry, on July 1. In October he was assigned as assistant adjutant of the district. On January 31, 1917, <mask> left El Paso to rejoin his original regiment. He arrived at the 4th Cavalry, at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in March.When United States entered World War I in April, he received temporary promotion to major. In August, he secured another commission as temporary major, this one in the Signal Corps, and assignment to the Aviation Section. He left Hawaii in the first week of October 1917. World War I and Air Service
<mask> transferred into the Aviation Section during wartime expansion, and assigned training duties. He reported to Kelly Field on October 14, and a month later became the post adjutant at Call Field, a newly opened training field at Wichita Falls, Texas. His three months at Call Field prepared him to be the first base commander of Brooks Field near San Antonio. <mask> was promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel within a few days of taking command in February 1918.During this time he was an administrator, not a flier. In Europe, the Air Service of the Army Expeditionary Force (AEF) organized and began combat operations, and <mask> was promoted to colonel (temporary, Signal Corps) at the end of August. He completed pilot training, receiving a rating of Junior Military Aviator on September 12, 1918. This would qualify him for aviation command. Within ten days, <mask> was on duty at the Division of Military Aeronautics (DMA) in Washington, D.C. He was sent to Europe at the end of the first week of October, when the Meuse Argonne Offensive was underway. He participated in staff operations of the American Expeditionary Force.By the time of his arrival, the final push had begun that resulted in an armistice with Germany on November 11. <mask> returned to the United States and the DMA, assigned to the Board of Organization on December 2. In January 1919, with demobilization underway, he became base commander of Kelly Field. On March 9, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson issued an executive order formally consolidating all military aviation functions under the Director of Air Service, Major General Charles Menoher, and <mask> was assigned to his staff on March 17 to help organize and implement a "divisional staff" system along the lines of that used by the AEF. As acting Third Assistant Executive, he supervised the Operations and Training Group until April, when General Billy Mitchell took over. In August 1919, Congress extended the existence of the Air Service for another year, while it determined its role during peacetime. All of <mask>'s wartime promotions expired by September 8, returning him to his established rank of captain.He entered the course of study for junior officers at the General Staff School in Washington, D.C. on September 1. By the date of his graduation, June 29, 1920, Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1920. This made the Air Service a statutory combatant arm of the line, enabling <mask> to transfer to that branch. On July 1, 1920, he was promoted to major. He was then transferred to the Air Service on August 6. He served in the Office of the Chief of Air Service until July 13, 1920, when he again became post commander at Kelly Field. On September 25, <mask> moved up to Air Officer, Eighth Corps Area, located at Fort Sam Houston, until April 26, 1921.During that period his pilot rating was changed to 'Airplane Pilot'. In spring 1921, <mask> began more than three years of continuous professional military education. By June, he completed the student officer course at the Air Service Bombardment School at Kelly by the 2nd Group. In September, he entered the courses of the General Service Schools at Fort Leavenworth: the School of the Line in 1921–22, and the Regular Course of the General Staff School in 1922–23. <mask> completed the line course as a distinguished graduate. Between August 15, 1923, and June 30, 1924, he successfully completed the course of study at the Army War College in Washington, D.C.

On June 30, 1924, <mask> was assigned to the Operations and Plans Group in the Office of the Director of Air Service. He would serve there for four years.Air Corps

On July 1, 1926, the Air Service was renamed the Air Corps by act of Congress, but little changed in the service. <mask>'s position continued, now under the Chief of Air Corps. On June 5, 1928, <mask> was assigned command of Mitchel Field, New York, and promoted to lieutenant colonel, Air Corps. The Army's annual maneuvers were held in Ohio in the last two weeks of May 1929. <mask> was assigned to command the aviation of the "Blue" force near Dayton. He established his headquarters at the Fairfield Air Depot and dispersed his 82 airplanes at several airports in the vicinity. During maneuvers, his bombardment and attack forces made several simulated air raids on "Red" force airfields in the vicinity of Columbus and Newark, Ohio, while his pursuit aircraft defended against Red force attacks, culminating in a large mock air battle over Cincinnati at the end of the first week.The maneuvers concluded with a live ordnance demonstration that <mask> orchestrated on the portion of the depot reservation that is now the main runway of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In July 1929, <mask> was transferred to Fort Shafter, to assume the duties of Air Officer for the Hawaiian Department. This overseas tour was cut short in July 1930 by the retirement of Brig. Gen. William E. Gillmore, one of the three Assistant Chiefs of Air Corps. Gillmore's retirement left a vacancy for Chief of the Air Corps Materiel Division, and President Herbert Hoover named <mask> to fill the position. <mask> became a brigadier general and took charge of the division on August 1, 1930, at its Wright Field headquarters. One of the key decisions of <mask>'s tenure was to advise the Boeing Aircraft Company in 1932 that the design and production specifications of its proposed Boeing 247 airliner were developments of the Air Corps' B-9 monoplane bomber and therefore classified information, and that the Air Corps would block export of the airliner if Boeing responded to interest expressed by the Empire of Japan.His term as Assistant Chief of Air Corps expired July 16, 1934, and he returned to his permanent rank of lieutenant colonel with temporary duty in the Office of the Chief of Air Corps. <mask> was given command of the 2nd Wing at Langley Field, Virginia, after the War Department activated the General Headquarters (GHQ) Air Force on March 2, 1935. In December 1935, the GHQ Air Force conducted a major exercise under field conditions in which 55 of its best bombardment and attack aircraft simulated air raids on Miami, Florida, defended by 55 Boeing P-26 fighters based at Miami Municipal Airport under <mask>'s direction. The interceptors succeeded in defeating the first simulated attack on December 3, launching 36 fighters just four minutes after 18 bombers were observed over Hollywood, Florida, theoretically wiping out the bomber force. In the week of operations that followed, the attackers succeeded in reaching their targets only when the bombers and attack aircraft approached simultaneously from different directions, or when the attacking bomber force split to use similar tactics. September 1935, politically embattled Chief of Air Corps Benjamin Foulois decided to retire in December "for the good of the service" and took his terminal leave. The Roosevelt administration scrutinized senior Air Corps officers for a replacement, and looked at <mask> as one of its two main candidates."He [<mask>] has greater mental ability than others on the list," noted Secretary of War George Dern to Roosevelt, "but it is possible that he is not as cooperative as Westover." Oscar Westover was eventually selected to become the Chief of Air Corps. <mask> received his permanent promotion to colonel on August 1, 1936. On January 16, 1937, the Senate approved a promotion list to permanent brigadier general that included <mask> and, among others, George C. Marshall, with date of rank from January 1. <mask> became commandant of the Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS) and ex officio president of the Air Corps Board at Maxwell Field, Alabama, on March 14, his last assignment as a member of the Air Corps. 1938 to retirement
<mask> was the first member of the Air Corps to achieve the permanent grade of brigadier general. He completed his assignment as commandant of ACTS on August 6, 1938.There were no vacancies in the Air Corps for a general officer, so he returned to Washington. In 1938, <mask> served as commandant of the Air Corps Tactical School. During the pre-war years of 1935–1940, <mask> commanded both an air force wing and an army division. After becoming a general officer, <mask> was assigned non-aviation commands including ground forces commands. During World War II <mask> did not serve as a general in the Army Air Forces but as commander of service and defense commands in the Western Hemisphere. October 24, 1938, he arrived in Manila to take command of the 23rd Infantry Brigade at Fort William McKinley. The 23rd Brigade was the Philippine Scouts component of the division, consisting of the 45th and 57th Infantry Regiments.It served tactical responsibility for the defense of the Lingayen area on Luzon. <mask> served as  interim commander of the Philippine Division twice:  from July 25, 1939, to November 1939, when Major General Walter S. Grant was advanced to command of the Philippine Department; and from May 31, 1940, to the end of his own tour on November 6, 1940, replacing Major General George Grunert. These two terms makes <mask> the only person to command both a U.S. Air Force wing and an army division. Prior to his return to the United States, <mask> was promoted to temporary major general. This permanent rank was granted on March 1, 1941. His next assignment was field command of the II Corps, from December 26, 1940, to the following August 21. He was headquartered in the Pennsylvania Railroad Building in Wilmington, Delaware.During his time as commander, both the 28th and 29th Infantry Divisions were inducted into Federal Service as part of II Corps, on February 17 and February 3, 1941, respectively. August 1941, <mask> moved to Baltimore to command the Third Corps Area, which had become a service command headquarters in 1940. He was serving there when the United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941. In January 1942, <mask> took command of the Trinidad Base Command at Fort Read. He had been chosen upon the recommendation of Lt. General Frank M. Andrews, former commander of GHQ Air Force who was then commanding the Caribbean Defense Command. In November 1943, he returned to the United States for duty with the Third Service Command. In January 1944 he commanded the Southern Defense Command.His last command was of the Western Defense Command in October 1944, where he was serving as commanding general. He issued the revocation order of December 17, 1944, rescinding the order for Japanese American internment. At the end of the war he was assigned to the Office of the Chief of Staff. <mask> retired on September 1, 1946, after serving 42 years. He ended his career with ratings of Senior Pilot, Combat Observer, and Technical Observer. He receive a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster, in lieu of a second Army Distinguished Service Medal. <mask> had been recognized as a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Grand Officer of the Order of the Liberator (Venezuela) and the Order of the Southern Cross (Brazil), Commander of the Order of Merit, Juan Pablo Duarte (Dominican Republic), and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).He was carried on the retired list of the United States Air Force in the rank of major general. Awards and decorations
SOURCES - U.S. decorations: Biographical Data on Air Force General Officers, 1917–1952, Volume II – L through Z; Foreign decorations: Cullum's Biographical Register, Volume 9

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 ("Cullum's Biographical Register")
 Cullum's Biographical Register Vol. 5 1900-1910
Cullum's Biographical Register Vol. 6 1910-1920
 Cullum's Biographical Register Vol. 7 1920-1930
 Cullum's Biographical Register Vol. 8 1930-1940
 Cullum's Biographical Register Vol. 9 1940-1950

Craven, Wesley Frank, and Cate, James Lea, editors (1983).The Army Air Forces In World War II, Air Force Historical Studies Office,  (Vol. 1)

Head, William (1995). Every Inch a Soldier: Augustine Warner Robins and the Building of US Airpower. Texas A&M University Press. Heitman, Francis B. (2012), Dictionary of the United States Army, from its organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903. Genealogical Publishing Company.Maurer, Maurer (1987). Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919–1939, Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C.
Rice, Rondall Ravon (2004). The Politics of Air Power: From Confrontation to Cooperation in Army Aviation Civil-Military Relations, University of Nebraska Press. External links
Arlington National Cemetery gravesite: <mask> <mask>, Major General, United States Air Force
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