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Sir <mask>, QPM (born 3 January 1956) is a British former police officer and the former Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police. He resigned  in October 2012 amidst controversy about his role in the Hillsborough disaster, in which he was involved in the implementation of a cover-up of police errors. He remained the subject of an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation, and was charged on the 28 June 2017 with four counts of misconduct in public office. The case was dropped on 21 August 2018. <mask>'s own book Hillsborough Untold (2016) contains his version of events. Early life

<mask> was born in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 3 January 1956, the son of <mask>, a steelworker, and Betty Heathcote. He married Patricia Favell in Rotherham in 1976.Bettison said that he attended football matches as a spectator from time to time, following Sheffield Wednesday. He described his experience as a 14-year-old boy watching Sheffield Wednesday vs. Manchester City on 22 April 1970 from the Leppings Lane terraces at Hillsborough stadium:

"... the terraces had become so full ... there was no room to move ... I remember, at one time, being squashed against a barrier to such an extent that I was exerting all my energies to prevent injury ... I dreaded any goals or near misses as this was followed by a surge of people which caused me to be squashed painfully against the barrier. After fighting my way through a crowd I found a more comfortable position. I had been in very large football grounds before and since but had never experienced anything quite like the pressure that was created in this crowd at Hillsborough." The experience led him to state in 1989 that "I wonder, now, whether the Leppings Lane terraces at Hillsborough is somehow susceptible to retaining the pressure created in crowd build up".Education

Bettison attended South Grove Comprehensive School before leaving  at the age of 16 to join South Yorkshire Police as a cadet. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in philosophy and psychology from the University of Oxford, which was later upgraded to a Master of Arts (MA) – an automatic process which requires no further study or examination – and gained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in business administration and media studies from Sheffield Hallam University. – the former Sheffield Polytechnic. He is also a graduate of the FBI Executive Programme

Career

<mask> began his police career in 1975 when, at the age of 19, he joined South Yorkshire Police as a Constable. He served through its ranks, acting as a Superintendent in the Traffic Division from October 1989 to January 1991, whilst simultaneously working in the Hillsborough disaster liaison unit; as Superintendent in the Divisional Commander's office from January 1991 to April 1992; and as Chief Superintendent in the Corporate Development unit from April 1992 to May 1993. In May 1993 he was appointed Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, where his portfolios included Management & Information Support, Personnel, and Operations Support. Chief Constable of Merseyside Police

He left West Yorkshire in 1998 to become Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, covering the area where most of the Hillsborough victims had lived and still had relatives living.A member of Merseyside Police Authority, Councillor Steve Foulkes, said the appointment had caused outrage among the families of the victims of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, because Bettison had been involved in the investigation, which had been controversial. Bettison offered to meet the families to defuse the controversy. As Chief Constable of Merseyside he was a pioneer of Neighbourhood Policing: a policing style which provides dedicated teams of police officers and community support officers (CSO) who work with the community and partners at a local level

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He retired from the police in January 2005 to become Chief Executive of Centrex, which provided training and development to police forces in the UK and enforcement agencies throughout the world until it was abolished in March 2007. Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police

He rejoined the police service in January 2007 as Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police. He attempted to secure a package to receive both a retirement pension from Merseyside and a salary from the new post; he threatened legal action but the claim was settled out of court. Shortly after taking office as Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, Sir <mask> ordered a review of shifts worked by officers claiming they did not provide the best service to the public as they included four rest days when officers were not at work. A new shift pattern consisting of two distinct patterns referred to as VSA 1 and VSA 2 (variable shift arrangement) was produced and commenced in March 2008.Response officers worked VSA 1 and neighbourhood policing teams worked VSA 2. The VSA 2 still included four rest days for officers. Officers posted to Communications Division were allowed to continue working the more popular previous shift pattern, FSDR (Force Standard Duty Rosta) as Communications Division had been able to successfully argue that VSA was not fit for purpose for their requirements. The VSA 1 proved deeply unpopular with many officers claiming that they were more tired than they had been working the previous shift pattern. A report leaked from the Police Federation to local media suggested that there had been an increase of 16,000 hours of sickness between April and August 2008, a 3.4% increase on the previous year. After pressure by the police federation a further review was taken and VSA 1 was re-designed and commenced in April 2009. Many officers remain unconvinced as to the need to deviate from the FSDR shift pattern which had allowed West Yorkshire Police to achieve 'very significant performance gains' and be regarded as one of the most improved forces.Media statements

In October 2008, <mask> was touted as a possible replacement for Sir Ian Blair as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, but ruled himself out of consideration citing the politicisation of the role and the way Blair was removed. He warned of "dangerous consequences" if the independence of chief constables were lost, saying "I am not prepared to set aside my professional judgement and integrity, forged over 36 years, in order to meet short-term political expediency" and warning of "the ambition which seems to be shared by all three major political parties at the moment... to make the police service more accountable to elected representatives. What that means is bringing the police service under greater political control." On 12 April 2010 <mask> wrote an article in The Times saying "I'm not worth £213,000"; his annual cost to the tax payer when pensions and benefits are considered. He criticized the notion, in the National Health Service and other government bureaus, that public sector organisations had to offer wages for senior managers comparable to those for private industry, or that businesspeople should be brought in to conduct strategic reviews of public agencies. Instead, he wrote, "People join, and remain in, the public sector because of a sense of vocation — to make a difference to society or to the quality of people’s lives. The best leaders are those who can secure long-term public value and a vision for their staff.Not some mercenary performance manager peddling a short-term fix." Thus he suggested freezing public sector pay, without exceptions, beginning with the highest wage earners, which he felt in combination with a 50p in the pound increase in taxes for higher earners and the removal of all tax allowances would sustain public services. In an article for the Yorkshire Post, <mask> wrote that over-zealous health and safety officials were making the jobs of his front line officers increasingly more demanding, branding them "the health and safety Taliban". He described feeling that he was "pushing the boundaries" by commending a police officer who jumped into a canal to save a suicidal man, due to the officer's personal risk, and that in another case police and ambulance crews failed to save two shooting victims after being delayed 20 minutes, because it is "genuinely easier, in that kind of environment, to do nothing. We are not trained, equipped, practised or informed sufficiently for this or that particular scenario." He also described the conviction of Metropolitan Police for the death of Jean Charles de Menezes as "A triumph for health and safety, a lucrative new territory for lawyers, a disaster for common sense." Role in Hillsborough disaster

Match attendance

On 15 April 1989, as an off-duty police Chief Inspector/private citizen Bettison, attended the semi-final FA Cup football match tie between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield.At 15:06 the Hillsborough disaster unfolded, which resulted in 97 Liverpool fans being fatally crushed (although three of them died at later dates), and remains the deadliest stadium-related disaster in British history and one of the world's worst ever football disasters. Bettison subsequently left his seat and joined in the South Yorkshire Police efforts to control the unfolding disaster. He claims to have attended a number of casualties, and set up a rendezvous centre for relatives at a local boys' club. South Yorkshire Police review/liaison

After the disaster and in the period leading up to the Taylor Report, Bettison was seconded to an internal review group within South Yorkshire Police team who were tasked with liaising with regards issues associated with Hillsborough. Later described as a "black propaganda" unit, the media output included a 30 minute film narrated by Bettison that was shown to MP's during a visit by SYP to Westminster, which verbally reiterated the claims of drunk, violent and ticketless fans breaking down the dilapidated turnstiles at the Leppings Lane end. During a prior meeting to brief Michael Shersby MP and show him the film, it was also claimed that the South Yorkshire Police had deliberately left the rescue operation to the fans so that the fans "would not take out their frustration on the police". Bettison has consistently described his role in Hillsborough as 'peripheral', which has been disputed.He has been asked to explain how exactly  his role was peripheral, what exactly his role was, who he was answerable to, and what he did for the two-year period. As a result of his role within the unit, the Hillsborough Families Support Group later led protests on Merseyside when Bettison was proposed as the Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, objections which were over ruled by the police authority. Contribution hearings

On 12 July 1990, Bettison prepared and submitted a document for the Hillsborough contribution hearings, the civil court case through which the police sought to recover damages from other parties with liability such as the football club and stadium engineers. In this document, Bettison wrote:

"The fullest information on the closure of the central tunnel at the 1988 Semi-Final ... it was an informal initiative at junior level not reported to command level"

This conclusion was also drawn by the Coroner who directed the inquest jury that the senior officers had not been aware of diversions from the tunnel by police officers in 1988. Internal documents later released by South Yorkshire Police to the Hillsborough Independent Panel included the minutes of a meeting held on 17 April 1989 with senior members of South Yorkshire Police. It is not clear whether Bettison was in attendance. In the meeting, the then Chief Constable is documented to have stated:

"You were well aware that there were contingencies to deal with the filled stand.i.e the shutting off of the tunnel." Hillsborough Independent Panel report

On 12 September 2012 <mask>'s role in the Hillsborough disaster was revealed by the Hillsborough Independent Panel report. Families of the victims demanded Bettison's resignation. In response to the report, Bettison released a statement saying that his role was never to "besmirch" the fans, but said that Liverpool fans' behaviour that day made policing the event "harder than it needed to be." His comments sparked fury, and led to calls for him to resign. The IPCC later criticised <mask>'s statement saying that it was "insensitive and inappropriate to make reference to fan behaviour  at all, bearing in mind that publication of the report represented a vindication for the fans that their behaviour was not a factor," and that his "unwise" comments "flew in the face of the report's definitive findings". Trevor Hicks, chair of the families support group, said; "Sir <mask>, currently chief constable of West Yorkshire police and a former chief constable of Merseyside, should quit.As a South Yorkshire chief inspector and later superintendent, he was a member of the internal review group or liaison unit on Hillsborough and, as such, the families say he had a key role in presenting the police in the best light and blaming the fans for the disaster. Labour MP Maria Eagle told parliament: the "liaison unit orchestrated what can only be described as a black propaganda campaign." Hicks, who lost his two teenage daughters in the disaster, said: "If he is anything of a man, he will stand down and scurry up a drainpipe somewhere." On 13 September 2012 former Home Secretary Jack Straw said in a radio interview that Bettison was "bound to be considering his position". He added that in his experience Bettison was a fine police officer . Later that same day, Bettison was referred to the West Yorkshire Police Authority, over his role and post-disaster conduct at the Hillsborough disaster. He was quoted as saying "I really welcome the disclosure of all facts that can be known about the Hillsborough tragedy because I have absolutely nothing to hide."On 14 September, Bettison issued an apology for his statement issued on 13 September "for any upset caused by a statement he issued about his role in the Hillsborough tragedy." Bettison said he had not intended to suggest Liverpool fans had hindered police during the disaster, that Liverpool fans were "in no way to blame", and that he was sorry if he had "caused any further upset". On 28 June 2017, he was charged with offences related to alleged lies in the aftermath. The case was dropped on 21 August 2018. Resignation

At the start of October 2012 he announced that he was to retire in March 2013, ending 38 years of service to the police. On 23 October 2012, Bettison resigned with immediate effect as Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, after Maria Eagle MP on the floor of the House and thus protected by Parliamentary privilege, accused him of boasting about the Hillsborough cover-up operation involving concocting a story that all the Liverpool fans were drunk and that police were afraid that they were going to break down the gates and so decided to open them. Bettison denied the claim, and more general allegations about his conduct, saying "there is nothing I'm ashamed of".Merseyside Police Authority confirmed that he would receive an £83,000 pension, unless convicted of a criminal offence in relation to Hillsborough. Hillsborough families called for the payments to be frozen during the IPCC investigation. Gross misconduct charge

Following a Freedom of Information request, the minutes of West Yorkshire Police Authority were released and they revealed that Bettison resigned  after learning that "he faced possible dismissal over a last minute discussion with a police authority executive in which he allegedly sought to influence talks about his role in the Hillsborough scandal." This conversation would have justified his sacking if it was proved that he had interfered with the “integrity of the complaints handling process." Bettison is also to be investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission over allegations that he was involved in the theft of a substantial quantity of precious metal on 11 August 1987. Alleged misconduct in Stephen Lawrence enquiry

On 3 July 2013 Bettison was referred to the IPCC by West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson in relation to alleged misconduct during the Macpherson Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a black South London teenager who had been fatally stabbed in a racist attack 20 years earlier. Three documents were found, about which Burns-Williamson said:

"These documents raise significant concerns over the role of Sir <mask>on at the time he was Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police in 1998 in commissioning a report to be prepared in the respect of a key witness appearing before the Macpherson Inquiry.This may suggest an attempt to intervene in the course of a public inquiry and influence the manner in which the testimony of a witness, who was due to present evidence before it, was received. I have today referred this to the Independent Police Complaints Commission." Honours

<mask> was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University in 2004. In the 2000 Birthday Honours, he was awarded the Queen's Police Medal, and was knighted in 2006. Liverpool John Moores University came under pressure to rescind <mask>'s fellowship, following the publication of the report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel. The University responded that the requests were being treated with the 'utmost seriousness' but that it would be 'prejudicial' to IPCC investigation to make a decision before the outcome of that investigation was known. On 9 April 2013, LJMU announced they were withdrawing the honorary fellowship granted to Bettison.He was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of the University by the University of Huddersfield in 2012. References

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<mask> (December 3, 1796 or 1797 –  July 8, 1863) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the third Bishop of the Diocese of Philadelphia (1842–1851) and the sixth Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore (1851–1863). Biography

Early life and education
<mask> was born in Dublin to Thomas and Jane (née Eustace) <mask>. His younger brother, Peter, would later become the first Archbishop of St. Louis. His uncle was the pastor of St. Nicholas of Myra Church in Dublin, and took an active role in his education. At the age of eighteen, he was selected to study at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, where he became a distinguished student. He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Candido Maria Frattini on April 7, 1821. Ordination and ministry
Shortly after his ordination, <mask> accepted an invitation from Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, S.S., to join the Diocese of Bardstown, Kentucky, in the United States.He then held the chair of theology at St. Thomas Seminary for nine years, in addition to teaching Greek and history at St. Joseph's College. Apart from his academic duties, he also engaged in missionary work; he facilitated several conversions and publicly debated with Protestant ministers. He earned a reputation as an eloquent preacher and effective apologist, and was a recognized theologian and scripture scholar. <mask> was later made private secretary to Flaget, whom he accompanied to the First Provincial Council of Baltimore in 1829 as his personal theologian. He also served as an assistant secretary of the Council. Bishop of Philadelphia
On February 25, 1830, <mask> was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Philadelphia, and Titular Bishop of Arath by Pope Pius VIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 6 from Flaget, with Bishops Henry Conwell and John Baptist Mary David, S.S., serving as co-consecrators, in Bardstown.<mask> assumed full administrative powers from the aged Bishop Conwell, whose tenure had been plagued by a public feud with a schismatic priest named William Hogan. Immediately upon his arrival, he also became engaged in the long-running dispute between episcopal authority and the lay trustees of St. Mary's Church. The trustees eventually conceded their struggle for power after <mask> placed St. Mary's Cathedral under interdict. He also placed all church property in the name of the bishop instead of those of the trustees. In 1832, <mask> founded St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, which was originally located at his personal residence. That same year an outbreak of cholera took place in Philadelphia. The Committee of the Almshouse, later known as Philadelphia General Hospital, asked Bishop <mask> if he could request additional help from the Sisters of Charity to serve as nurses.Father Michael Hurley, pastor of St. Augustine's Church turned it into a makeshift hospital under the supervision of Dr. Oliver H. Taylor. <mask> led the local Catholic clergy and sisters in ministering to the sick; his efforts were publicly recognized by Mayor John Swift. <mask> successfully petitioned the Holy See to separate Western Pennsylvania into a new diocese, and the Diocese of Pittsburgh was established in 1836; <mask> was initially considered for the new diocese as well as for coadjutor bishop of New York, but withdrew his candidacy. <mask> succeeded Conwell as the third Bishop of Philadelphia upon the latter's death on April 22, 1842. As Bishop, <mask> expressed public concern over the fact that Catholics in Philadelphia were forced to participate in Protestant religious instruction in the public schools. This dispute led to 1844 riots, a series of riots resulting from increasing anti-Catholic sentiment at the growing population of Irish Catholic immigrants. Although most of the patients cared for by the Sisters at St. Augustine were listed as non-Catholic, the church was burned to the ground during the riots.Throughout the violence, <mask> encouraged Catholics "to follow peace and have charity." He closed all Catholic churches and ordered the suspension of all Masses until the riots were brought to a halt by military force. Following the riots, <mask> ended his advocacy for changes in the religious instruction of public schools and initiated the creation of a Parochial school system designed for Catholic students and run by the Church. Influenced by the work of his contemporary, an English priest named John Lingard, <mask> published his own translation of the four Gospels in 1849; he eventually translated the entire Bible, as a new revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible. Between 1830 and 1850, the number of churches in the diocese grew from 22 to 92; priests from 35 to 101; charitable institutions from two to six; and the Catholic population from 35,000 to 170,000. He also began construction on the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul and oversaw the rebuilding of St. Michael and St. Augustine following the 1844 riots. Archbishop of Baltimore
Following the death of Archbishop Samuel Eccleston, S.S., <mask> was named the sixth Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, by Pope Pius IX on August 19, 1851.His installation took place on the following October 9. He presided over the First Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1852. As Archbishop of Baltimore, <mask> expanded the Parochial School System beyond Philadelphia and help to make Catholic instruction the norm for Catholic children in America. Under his tenure, parochial schools were free for all students, and were supported directly by the parishes. In 1854, he was invited by Pius IX to attend the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in Rome. In 1858, the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, with the approval of Pius IX, conferred a "prerogative of place" on the Archbishop of Baltimore over all archbishops and bishops in the United States, regardless of seniority in promotion or ordination. Death and legacy
In his later years, Archbishop <mask> struggled to reduce tensions between Catholics and the Protestant majority.While several anti-Catholic Riots took place in the US during the 1850s, none took place in <mask>'s archdiocese except the Know-Nothing Riots of 1856. <mask> was greatly troubled by the outbreak of the Civil War. He died aged 66 on July 8, 1863, shortly after reading of the massive slaughter that had taken place in nearby Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. (The entire state was part of his ecclesiastical province at the time.) <mask> will be remembered primarily for his contribution to the development of the US Parochial School System. His best known literary works include the following:

 A new translation of the Douay Bible, with a commentary;
 Theologia Moralis (3 Vols) (1860);
 The Primacy of the Apostolic See, Vindicated (1848);
 A Treatise on Baptism (1852);
 Theologia dogmatica. Secundis curis auctoris (1858);
 A Vindication of the Catholic Church, in a Series of Letters Addressed to the Rt.Rev. John Henry Hopkins (1855). See also

 Catholic Church hierarchy
 Catholic Church in the United States
 Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
 List of Catholic bishops of the United States
 Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops

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Parts of <mask>'s Bible Translation
Marschall, John P.,<mask> <mask>, 1851-1863: The Baltimore Years (Ph.D. diss., Catholic University of America, 1965)
Spalding, Thomas W. The Premier See: A History of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1789-1989. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989

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  Kennedy-Kenrick Catholic High School
 Kenrick's Bible Editions
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<mask> (born August 8, 1927) is a current basketball consultant/special assistant and a former National Basketball Association (NBA) assistant coach, scout and executive with the Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Jazz. A pioneering proponent of film study, advance scouting, player development and basketball analytics, <mask> has spent more than 50 years in the NBA and has been a part of 10 NBA championships with the Lakers, including seven as an assistant coach. Early life
<mask> was born in Akron, Ohio, in August 1927 and later credited the local Akron YMCA as the place where he developed a passion for the game of basketball. He played at nearby Buchtel High and won a city championship in 1945. He went into the U.S. Army out of high school, serving in communications rebuilding efforts for two years in Salzburg, Austria, following the conclusion of World War II. Using the GI Bill to fund his education upon his return from Europe, <mask> attended Kent State University and played for the Division I basketball team from 1949–51. Pre-NBA career
After graduating, <mask> began a coaching journey that brought him to the West Coast.He coached at the high school level for three years before spending nine years at two different colleges. It was at that time, during a two-year span beginning in 1952, that <mask> played professionally for the Santa Maria Golden Dukes of the National Industrial Basketball League, a precursor to the NBA. In 1954, he took over in his first collegiate head coaching role at Hancock College (Santa Maria, CA), where he would later lead the Bulldogs to a 41-game winning streak and the state community college championship in 1957. <mask> also coached his alma mater of Kent State from 1957–61, where, at the age of 30, he was one of the youngest college head coaches in America. He left coaching in 1961 to take a job as the director of community recreation for the city of Santa Barbara, where he served for a decade. It was during this time that he and his wife, Solveig, began an endeavor called "Bertka's Views" that became one of the most successful college scouting services in the country. Operating from 1961–1995, many of the nation’s premier college basketball programs utilized Bertka’s Views as their sole scouting service, which also served as a key starting point for a number of scouts and coaches that would eventually make it to the NBA.Additionally during this time, <mask> hosted Sports With Bertka, his own radio show in Santa Barbara that won three Golden Mike Awards in the 1970’s. Professional coaching career
<mask> began his NBA career in 1968 when the Los Angeles Lakers followed the recommendation of former West Virginia great Rod Hundley and hired him to scout college players for the NBA Draft, making him the first full-time scout in league history. When Head Coach <mask> took over the team in 1971–72, <mask> began working with players in an assistant coaching role while also adding advance scouting duties. In what was revolutionary at the time, he would compile film on upcoming opponents in order to prepare the team. That group would later go on a 33-game winning streak – still a professional sports record – en route to an NBA title, giving Bertka his first ring. In 1974, <mask> left the Lakers to become the first general manager of the New Orleans Jazz (now the Utah Jazz) and also had an initial ownership stake in the franchise through his company, Invest West Sports. He would later serve as a Jazz assistant coach under Elgin Baylor beginning in the 1977–78 season.In 1981, Pat Riley became head coach of the Lakers and brought <mask> back as his first assistant. Together, the duo constructed what came to be known as the Lakers “Showtime” era, guiding the team to seven NBA Finals appearances in nine seasons and winning four NBA titles (1982, 1985, 1987, 1988). During this time, <mask> and Riley created their own measure of player performance – the plus-minus system – in what became one of the league’s earliest preludes to modern basketball analytics. <mask> remained as an assistant coach with the Lakers for two decades, later winning back-to-back championships under Head Coach Phil Jackson in 2000 and 2001, his final season on the Lakers bench. <mask> then transitioned to a primary role as Director of Scouting, a position in which he served through the 2011–12 season, winning three more league titles. He continues to advise the Lakers as a basketball consultant. <mask> has twice served as interim coach of the Lakers.His first stint, in relief of Randy Pfund toward the end of the 1993–94 season, lasted two games. The Lakers went 1–1, winning at Dallas, 112–109, and losing at Houston, 113–107. He also replaced Del Harris in the 1998–99 season, defeating the Clippers by a score of 115–100. At 71 years of age, the interim stint made <mask> the oldest person to ever coach an NBA game. Throughout his career, <mask> has coached some of the best players in the game’s history – including Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, among others. Overall, he has 10 NBA Championship rings, including seven as an assistant coach with the Lakers and three in other roles with the team. Awards and honors
<mask> is a member of several halls of fame, including the Santa Barbara Sports Hall of Fame (1989), the Summit County (OH) Sports Hall of Fame (1989), the Kent State University Sports Hall of Fame (2004) and the Santa Barbara Basketball Court of Champions (2014).In July 2019, he received the prestigious Tex Winter Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Basketball Coaches Association, an honor recognizing <mask>’s extraordinary contributions to the sport throughout his career by building a body of work that has had a positive and powerful impact on the NBA coaching profession. Personal life
<mask> and wife Solveig were married in 1956 and have two daughters – Britt, who is married to veteran NBA assistant coach Jim Eyen, and Kris, married to Yankees scout <mask> – and they live on a 50-acre avocado farm in Santa Barbara. References

External links
 Career coaching statistics from Basketball-Reference.com

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<mask> (born 27 November 1961) is an English actress, who is best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in four <mask> films during the Pierce Brosnan years, and for her role on Downton Abbey as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. She is also known for originating the role of "Miz Liz" Probert in the Rumpole of the Bailey series. <mask> is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In her television career, she is known for her role as "Auntie Angela" in the sitcom Outnumbered and the villain Mrs Wormwood in the CBBC Doctor Who spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures. Early life
<mask> is the daughter of actor <mask> and TV producer Pat Sandys, and is the sister of the actress <mask> and the journalist <mask>. <mask>'s paternal grandparents were Welsh. She was brought up in London, in homes in Barnes and St Margarets.She attended the Godolphin and Latymer School, and studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Career

Early career

<mask>'s first acting role came at the age of 21, as a student in the original stage production of Denise Deegan's play about a girls' school, Daisy Pulls It Off, which opened at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre in 1983. Her earliest television roles took place during the same year, when she played Maria Rushworth (née Bertram), in the BBC mini-series adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, and Rumpole's pupil in chambers "Miz Liz" Probert in the fourth series of Rumpole of the Bailey. In 1985, she appeared as Julia Simmons in the BBC's televised adaptation of Agatha Christie's crime novel A Murder is Announced, part of the Miss Marple series. Theatre

<mask>'s association with the Royal Shakespeare Company (known as the RSC) began in 1987; she performed in three of the company's stage productions that year: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Hero and Leander, and Lorca's Women. In 1992, the RSC cast her as Rosalind in Shakespeare's As You Like It, which she performed in their Stratford-upon-Avon and London theatres, and as Hermione in The Winter's Tale, also at the company's two theatres. She then toured with the RSC as Hermione in 1993.<mask> starred as the titular Amy in the Royal National Theatre's West End production of David Hare's play Amy's View, opposite Judi Dench, in 1997 and into early 1998. Later in 1998, she co-starred in playwright Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Water, also in the West End. In 1999, <mask> and Dench reprised their roles in Amy's View on Broadway for a limited run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Their performances garnered <mask> a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and Dench the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play. Hare received a special citation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle. <mask> revisited The Memory of Water, making her directorial debut on a short touring production of the play in 2000, the same year it won an Olivier award for Best New Comedy. She also performed in numerous stage productions during the 2000s, among them:
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2001, as Hippolyta and Titania, again for the RSC; Donald Margulies's Pulitzer prize-winning Dinner with Friends, as Karen, opposite her Downton Abbey co-star Elizabeth McGovern and directed by McGovern's husband Simon Curtis, in 2001; The Vagina Monologues in 2002; and in Shakespeare's Macbeth, as Lady Macbeth opposite Sean Bean in the title role, on tour in 2002 and 2003.Other stage performances include Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance in 2003; The Rubenstein Kiss in 2005; Michael Frayn's Donkey's Years at London's Comedy Theatre in 2006; and David Leveaux's West End revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre, in 2009 as Hannah, alongside another Downton Abbey co-star, Dan Stevens. The next decade brought <mask> onstage in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, as Mrs. Cheveley opposite her real-life actor husband Alexander Hanson as Mr. Cheveley, in 2010–2011, and as Nell in Passion Play by Peter Nichols in 2013. In 2014, <mask> acted and sang in the West End musical production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, playing the role of Muriel Eubanks. <mask> stated in an interview that she hadn't sung on stage in over 30 years and had many moments during rehearsals where she turned her back toward anyone listening to her sing and frequently shook "with terror" at the prospect. In a Radio Times review of the play, the critic described <mask> as "stage royalty" and "hilarious." In October and November 2017, <mask> appeared in the English language premiere of Florian Zeller's modern French farce, The Lie, once again alongside her husband, Alexander Hanson, at an Off-West End theatre called the Menier Chocolate Factory. Television and film

In 1989, <mask> starred as Mary MacKenzie, a young Scottish woman, in the television adaptation of Oswald Wynd's novel The Ginger Tree, and was featured in Erik the Viking, an independent fantasy film with Tim Robbins in the title role.She appeared in a 1990 adaptation of Agatha Christie's short story, The Adventure of the Cheap Flat, for the series Agatha Cristie's Poirot on ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. <mask> was also seen on ITV in an episode of the "Inspector Morse" detective drama series based on novels by Colin Dexter, in 1992, and in a 1995 episode of Ghosts, an anthology series of ghost stories on the BBC. In 1996, she portrayed Mrs. Weston in the television movie Jane Austen's Emma, starring Kate Beckinsale as Emma, a Meridian-ITV/A&E production that has been described as grittier and "more authentic" to Austen's story than the theatrical film starring Gwyneth Paltrow that was released the same year. The television movie was broadcast in the US in 1997 on PBS. From 1995 to 2002, <mask> played Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary at MI6, in the four <mask> films with Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day. The role of Miss Moneypenny is the smallest role she ever played, yet the character remains a favorite among <mask> fans. In a BBC interview, <mask> remarked that she retired from the role when Pierce Brosnan stepped down as the lead.However, she later appeared as Miss Moneypenny in an advertisement for London's 2012 Olympic bid, alongside previous <mask> actor Roger Moore. <mask> co-starred in 2004 with Peter Davison, as a married couple who uproot themselves to a remote island to save their marriage, in the ITV drama-comedy Distant Shores. In 2007, she played the villain Mrs. Wormwood in the pilot episode of the BBC children's drama series The Sarah Jane Adventures, a spin-off of Doctor Who. She later came back to play the same character in the two-part finale of the show's second series, Enemy of the Bane. <mask> guest-starred in three episodes of the long-running and popular murder mystery series Midsomer Murders: Destroying Angel in 2001, Shot at Dawn in 2008, both starring fellow RSC member John Nettles in the lead role of DCI Tom Barnaby, as well as the first episode in 2011's series 14, Death in the Slow Lane. The 2011 episode is notable for Neil Dudgeon's debut as DCI John Barnaby, who takes over as the new detective in Midsomer after his cousin Tom Barnaby retired. From 2007 to 2014, <mask> had a recurring role as Auntie Angela in the BBC's semi-improvised comedy series Outnumbered, alongside Hugh Dennis, Claire Skinner and David Ryall.She appeared in all five series. From 2010 through 2015 (in the UK), <mask> appeared as Lady Rosamund Painswick in the ensemble cast of ITV's drama series Downton Abbey, written and produced by Julian Fellowes. The show quickly became an unprecedented worldwide hit. Each series was shown in the US on PBS's Masterpiece program one year following its broadcast in the UK; according to PBS, Downton Abbey rose to become the most popular drama ever shown on the station, and the most popular series in the history of Masterpiece. Lady Rosamund is the widowed, wealthy, and sometimes meddling sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. <mask>'s first appearance was in the last episode of the first series; she appeared in 18 episodes overall, throughout the entire show. The ITV show Home Fires featured <mask> as Frances Barden, a woman working to strengthen connections among the women in her small English village by keeping the local Women's Institute operating during the early days of World War II.The show premiered in the UK in 2015 and was cancelled in 2016, to which fans reacted by petitioning ITV to reinstate the popular drama, to no avail. It played in the US on PBS's Masterpiece in 2016 and 2017, where viewers were similarly disappointed to learn of the show's demise. The series creator, Simon Block, has stated he intends to continue the story in written form, as novels. In 2020 <mask> played Joanne Henderson in Death in Paradise (S9:E5). Audiobooks
<mask> has narrated a number of audiobooks including Mary Norton's The Borrowers, Joanna Trollope's An Unsuitable Match, Anthony Horowitz's Magpie Murders and Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries' 'Goldeneye. She has most recently released S J Bennett's novel, The Windsor Knot. She received an Earphones Award for Magpie Murders.Personal life
<mask> lives in St Margarets, London, and has been married since 1989 to Alexander Hanson, with whom she has two children, Molly and Tom. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Northampton in 2014. Filmography

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Daisy Pulls It Off (Denise Deegan) at the Nuffield Theatre, 1983
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Christopher Hampton) (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Ambassadors Theatre, 1987
Hero and Leander (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Barbican Theatre, 1987
Lorca's Women (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Barbican Theatre, 1987
Man of the Moment (Alan Ayckbourn) at the Globe Theatre, 1990
Rosalind in As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1992
Hermione in The Winter's Tale (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1992
Rosalind in As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Barbican Theatre, 1993
Hermione in The Winter's Tale (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Barbican Theatre, 1993
Infanta in Le Cid (Pierre Corneille) at the Cottesloe Theatre, 1994. Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Amy in Amy's View (David Hare), 1997 and 1998
The Memory of Water (Shelagh Stephenson), 1998
Amy in Amy's View (David Hare) at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1999. Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Nominated for Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play.Hippolyta and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Barbican Hall, 2001
Dinner with Friends (Donald Margulies) at the Hampstead Theatre, 2001
The Vagina Monologues, 2002
Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, 2002 and 2003
Mrs Arbuthnot in A Woman of No Importance (Oscar Wilde) at the Haymarket Theatre, 2003
The Rubenstein Kiss (James Phillips) at the Hampstead Theatre, 2005
Donkey's Years (Michael Frayn) at London's Comedy Theatre, 2006. Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Hannah in David Leveaux's West End revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre, 2009
Mrs. Cheveley in An Ideal Husband (Oscar Wilde), 2010-2011
Mrs Prentice in What The Butler Saw (Joe Orton) at the Vaudeville Theatre, 2012
Nell in Passion Play (Peter Nichols), 2013
Muriel Eubanks in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 2014. Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical category. Nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical category at the WhatsOnStage Awards. Appeared in English language premiere of Florian Zeller's modern French farce, The Lie, 2017

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<mask> (January 5, 1791 – May 15, 1847) was a Canadian businessman, who is considered the first French Canadian millionaire. Seigneur of Terrebonne, Quebec, president of Masson societies, president of the City Gas, he was also vice-president of the Banque de Montréal, president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal and member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada. He was the major Canadian businessman in the 1830 years, and he is a member of the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. Biography
<mask>, born in Saint-Eustache, Quebec in 1791, was the only son (there were also three daughters) born to <mask>, joiner who did not know how to write, and Suzanne née Pfeiffer or Payfer. After studies at Saint-Eustache school, he went at 16 to Saint-Benoît, Mirabel to learn the commercial business, as an apprentice of the merchant Duncan McGillis. Import-export

<mask> was hired in May 1812 by the Scottish merchant Hugh Robertson, who found him very clever. The company had some difficulties, and a bankruptcy in 1814.But <mask> proved his worth, and became partner in 1815 with 12.5% of the shares. He became responsible for sales in Scotland, and then the chief of the Canadian company. His partnership contract with the Robertsons was revised in 1818 and in 1819, when William Robertson died, and his share of the profits rose to 50%. <mask> was married in 1818 to Marie-Geneviève-Sophie Raymond, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Raymond (1757–1825), seigneur of Lake Matapedia and deputy of Huntingdon. Masson devoted all his energy to develop his business, and admitted wanting to "beat" and "break down" his competitors. His import-export companies grew and diversified. In 1830, the group had three companies: the W. and H. Robertson and Company, in Glasgow, led by Hugh Robertson; the Robertson, Masson, LaRocque and Company in Montreal, led by Masson; Masson, LaRocque, Strang and Company in Quebec, created by Masson and directed by John Strang.Masson and Robertson held more than 80% of their capital. Masson was while the Canadian businessman most involved in trade with the UK market. Transports and energy

To transport his products, he bought a new boat of 290 tons, he gave it the name of his wife, "Sophie". Then he bought, in whole or in participation, two other boats and a steamboat. Also related to transport, he asked the Legislative Assembly to build a canal; he created a shipping company and initiated the construction of a railway. In 1832, <mask>on involved in the founding of the first railway in Canada: the railway Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad. Masson also invested in urban utilities of water supply and Gas lighting, in Montreal, in Quebec and in Toronto.At the invitation of his associates, he made an initial investment in Montreal, and his participation in 1842 reached more than a third of the société du Gaz de Montréal. He founded with John Strang in 1841 the Compagnie de l’eau et de l’éclairage au gaz of Quebec, and with Furniss founded the City of Toronto Light Gas and Water Company, of which he was president. The banks

Vice chairman of Bank of Montreal
The Banque de Montréal (Bank of Montreal) acted as Canada's central bank. Already a shareholder of the Bank of Canada, <mask> bought shares of Bank of Montreal in 1824. He joined the board of directors of Bank of Montreal in 1826. In 1830, Masson increased his shareholding, and reached his goal to increase his influence in the region. <mask> was appointed in 1834 vice chairman of Bank of Montreal.He was also linked with the Bank of the City, Montreal, the Gore Bank and the Commercial Bank of Midland District. Systematic use of credit
<mask> was one of the few businessmen in this time to make substantial profits using credit to develop his business. He managed to double his business volume systematically using credit; but he had trouble to convince his Scottish partner to do the same. Masson companies
Masson became the main manager of the companies of the group; he was also their major shareholder, and their names were changed to include his name: <mask>on, Sons and Company (Montreal); Masson, Langevin, Sons and Company (Quebec); Masson, Sons and Company (Glasgow). The last was devoted to managing the purchasing. He was the major Canadian businessman in the 1830 years. Seigneur de Terrebonne
IN 1832, <mask> acquired the seigneurie de Terrebonne, a holdover from seigneurial system of New France.It was mostly for the prestige, but <mask> worked to rapidly gain a large return on this investment. He developed trade and industry, with forges and mills, offering new processes. As a result, his revenues increased to $3,000 and more. Politician

 Montreal and the Legislative Council of Lower Canada
<mask> was Member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada from 1834 to 1838. He was also member of the Montreal City Council from December 1842. He was invited to become the Mayor of Montreal in December 1842, but declined. He was militia captain from 1823, member of the Board of Trade of Montreal, first churchwarden of Notre-Dame parish and judge of the peace.Loyalist and patriot

Masson focused on his business above all else, and he was generally loyalist. In 1837 he was the Commission to administer loyalty oaths in Montreal. But he was a patriot when he hid Louis-<mask>, who had a bounty on his head in 1837, and in 1845 when he agreed to be elected the third president of the Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Death; Family

<mask> died in 1847 at Terrebonne. He is considered to be the first French-Canadian millionaire. After his death, his wife, Marie-Geneviève-<mask> (daughter of Jean-Baptiste Raymond) and her eldest sons continued Masson's companies and the managing of the seigneurie. She created the seigneurial bureau in 1850, constructed the Masson manor from 1848 to 1854, developed the industry and the mills, and founded the Collège Masson à Terrebonne.They had twelve children. Amongst them:
 Isidore-Édouard-Candide <mask> (1826–1875), businessman and political figure, founder of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, Quebec. Louis-Rodrigue <mask>, PC (1833–1903), Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, Minister of Militia and Defence, President of the Privy Council. Honours
 <mask> was elected one of the members of the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. A commemorative plaque, placed in 1975 by The Commission des monuments historiques on the former Masson Manor, states that Masson served as an example to all Canadian people. His name was given to:
 Masson (electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Quebec. An avenue, a street, a promenade, a park in Montréal, Quebec.The name of his widow was given to the new Pont Sophie-Masson across the Riviere des Mille Iles. Bibliography

 Gérard Parizeau, "<mask>, ou le sens de la durée", in La société canadienne-française au XIXè siècle, Montreal, Fides, 1975. <mask>, dernier seigneur de Terrebonne, 1791-1847, Montréal, 1972. R. Rumilly, Histoire de Montréal'', Fides, 1970. Notes and references

See also
 Canadian Business Hall of Fame
 Isidore-Édouard-Candide <mask> (1826–1875), businessman and political figure, his son. Jean-Baptiste Raymond, his father-in-law. Legislative Council of Lower Canada
 Louis-Rodrigue <mask> (1833–1903), Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, another son.Masson (electoral district)
 Terrebonne (provincial electoral district)
 Terrebonne, Quebec

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<mask> (born August 5, 1977) is an American former professional baseball player. A left-handed starting pitcher, <mask> pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB)  for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals. He is a two-time All-Star. Baseball career

College career
<mask> attended Michigan State University, where he played college baseball for the Michigan State Spartans. In 1997, he played collegiate summer baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Bourne Braves, and was named a league all-star. Oakland Athletics
<mask> was selected by the Oakland Athletics with the second overall pick in the 1998 MLB draft. He was placed on the fast track to the MLB and made his MLB debut on April 18, ; he was still only 22 years old and had less than two seasons of minor-league experience.He had a rocky start to his MLB career, going 9-10 with a 5.44 ERA. In , <mask> played his first full major-league season and quickly became a dominant pitcher. Leading the American League with 21 wins, he anchored a powerful Oakland rotation along with Barry Zito and Tim Hudson, called "The Big Three." <mask> finished second in AL Cy Young Award voting behind Roger Clemens. He continued to do well in , winning 19 games and striking out a career-high 159 batters in 207.1 innings. Limited by injuries in , he would only log 26 starts, he still won 15 games and had a career-best 3.13 earned run average. was an inconsistent year for <mask>.He started the season strong, and was chosen to start that season's All-Star Game. However, he had a higher ERA and walked more batters in the second half of the season. The A's traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals on December 18, 2004, for pitchers Dan Haren and Kiko Calero, and minor league catcher Daric Barton. <mask>, Hudson, and Zito were able to carry their team to the postseason four seasons in a row (2000–2003). <mask> competed in the playoffs in 2001 and 2002, logging two starts each against the New York Yankees (2001) and the Minnesota Twins (2002). He carried over his strong regular-season performance by pitching 24 innings in the four playoff starts, with an ERA of 2.25 and 19 strikeouts. St. Louis Cardinals
After the 2004 season, the Athletics traded <mask> to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Dan Haren, Kiko Calero, and Daric Barton.In the 2005 season, <mask>'s first with the Cardinals, he pitched well, 16-8 with a 3.64 ERA. His efforts helped the Cardinals reach the NLCS, where they lost to the Houston Astros. <mask> began the 2006 season strong, with a 5-1 record and 3.69 ERA through May 17. However, his next six starts were mediocre to awful, and his ERA ballooned to 6.09. He turned out to be suffering from rotator cuff and shoulder problems, and the Cardinals placed him on the disabled list June 23. In August he was taken off the disabled list and made several starts in the minors. On August 23, he made his first ML start in two months and gave up 9 runs, all of which were earned, in 3 innings.After undergoing rotator cuff surgery, and with a return for the opening of the 2007 season unlikely, <mask>'s future with the Cardinals looked somewhat uncertain in the 2007 offseason. However, despite being offered comparable deals with the Cleveland Indians and the Texas Rangers, <mask> re-signed with the St. Louis Cardinals on January 10, to a two-year $13 million contract, with performance-based incentives and a club option that could take the deal to three years at a possible $45 million. After being re-activated on September 5, 2007, he continued to struggle with his command, losing all three of his starts with an ERA of 12.27. In that time, he pitched only 11 innings, and gave up 22 hits and seven walks. This prompted an MRI scan, which led the team to the conclusion that <mask> needed additional clean-up rotator cuff surgery. Although he was expected to recover from surgery in time for Spring training, <mask> started the 2008 season on the disabled list. On June 30, 2008, <mask> made his return.He came in from the bullpen with a 7-1 lead over the New York Mets in the top of the ninth. <mask> finished the ballgame with no runs. On July 9, 2008, <mask> started his first game of the season against the Philadelphia Phillies. After striking out Jimmy Rollins to begin the game, <mask> threw eight consecutive pitches out of the strike zone, and left the game with a shoulder injury while attempting a pickoff throw. After the 2008 season, the Cardinals chose not to exercise <mask>'s $11 million option for the 2009 season, instead buying out his contract for $1.5 million. After remaining unsigned, <mask> announced his retirement on June 15, 2010, saying "I guess I have retired." 2014 comeback attempt
While watching the 2013 MLB postseason, <mask> began to mimic the throwing motion of Paco Rodriguez, and felt the hand separation at the top of the delivery felt natural.<mask> began auditioning for teams in November 2013. On January 1, 2014, <mask> came to terms with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on a minor league deal with an invitation to spring training. <mask> expressed going into spring training that his shoulder felt strong, but wondered about the susceptibility of his lower back and legs to injury. On February 15, <mask> tore his achilles tendon. He suffered the injury in agility drills on the second day of spring training, before he was scheduled to throw his first bullpen session. The Angels released <mask> on March 11. Accomplishments
 Led American League in wins in 2001 (21)
 Led American League pitchers in complete games in 2003 (9) and 2004 (5)
 Led American League in shutouts in 2001 (4) and 2003 (2)
 American League All-Star, 2003 and 2004

Post-playing career
After first retiring from baseball, <mask> pursued golf.He won the 2015 American Century Championship, considered to be the "premier" celebrity golf tournament. He won it again in 2016, successfully defending his title. On July 16, 2017, he won his third straight American Century Championship. In October 2018, he played in a PGA Tour event, the Safeway Open, via a sponsor's invitation. <mask> is annually one of the contenders at what is now the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions. He won the celebrity division in 2017. He also served as an analyst on ESPN's Baseball Tonight, and as a part time analyst for Athletics telecasts on NBC Sports California in 2016 and 2017.See also

 List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders

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<mask> (1807–1888) was a pioneer, known as "the Father of Brownwood, Texas". When a land and water dispute necessitated a new site for Brown County's seat of Brownwood, <mask> donated the land for the new location. He was a military veteran of the Texas Revolution and was a member of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives. <mask> was a Chief Justice when he lived in Bastrop, Texas. When he relocated his family to Brown County, he became a substantial land owner and served the people in several positions of local government. In 1968, the home of <mask>  <mask> was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. February 25, 2004, the home was put on the National Register of Historic Places.Early years

<mask> <mask> was born in Penfield (Monroe County), New York on May 19, 1807 to <mask> and Rebecca Canfield <mask>. At the age of 12, <mask> worked on a dairy farm in New Jersey. <mask> originally intended to enter the Presbyterian ministry and enrolled in Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. He furthered his education at  Hanover College in Indiana. Many have errorenously reported that <mask> <mask> was born in Albany, New York (225 miles from Penfield), and repeatedly cited these inaccurate reports. Texas

In 1834, <mask> moved to Bastrop County in the community of Mina, which eventually became the city of Bastrop, where he met and married his first wife, Mary Ann Manlove, daughter of Col. Bartholomew "Bat" Manlove. He built a stagecoach inn on his property at 1005 Hill Street in Bastrop, as a wedding present for his bride.The house is now on the National Historic Register (#78003353). He later sold it and two more veterans of San Jacinto lived in the house—Jesse Halderman and Campbell Taylor. <mask> enlisted in the company of Mina Volunteers, 49 Bastrop County men with Captain Jesse Billingsley, under Edward Burleson. <mask> missed participation in the Battle of San Jacinto that happened on April 21, 1836, due to the news of the defeat and death of James Fannin at the Goliad massacre on March 27, 1836. Upon hearing of the massacre, Burleson ordered several of the Mina Volunteers, including <mask>, to "guard the baggage at Harrisburg." But later, when he heard the settlers were in trouble on the Runaway Scrape, he ordered <mask>, John Holland Jenkins, and several other men to return to Bastrop to help the settlers who were fleeing the Mexicans. <mask>'s name is on the wall of the San Jacinto Monument as a participant and he received a land grant for his participation.The remaining Burleson troops pressed on to San Jacinto without <mask>. In 1838, <mask> served one year as a legislator for the Third Congress Republic of Texas,  became district court clerk in Bastrop, and in 1841 was named chief justice (now called county judge) for Bastrop County. <mask> was also elected mayor of Bastrop from 1839-1840. Other offices and areas of service for Fisk were: first county judge of Williamson and Brown Counties, chief surveyor of the Republic of Texas, district clerk and county surveyor for Bastrop and Brown Counties, Indian negotiator for the Comancheria, Mina Volunteer, Texas Ranger, and Mexican War veteran. Brown County

Fisk became a large landholder in Brown County, eventually owning over 14,000 acres, including the league that he inherited from his wife, Mary Ann Manlove <mask>. On November 18, 1847, Fisk obtained a grant of 1,240 acres of the Marcus Huling survey, Abstract 405, Patent 150, in Bastrop County. On December 8, 1847, Fisk obtained a grant of 4,605.50 acres of the E.D.Prewitt survey, Abstract 741, Patent 159, in Brown County. On June 7, 1848, <mask> obtained a grant of 1476.13 acres of the John Kellogg survey, Abstract 578, Patent 478, in Brown County. On June 17, 1862, <mask> obtained a grant of 320 acres of the H. Upchurch survey, Abstract 925, Patent 589, in Travis County. On August 21, 1862, <mask> obtained a grant of 949.30 acres of the Taylor Smith survey, Abstract 821, Patent 63, in Brown County. On November 25, 1870, <mask> obtained a grant of 288 acres in the William S. Mitchell survey, Abstract 632, Patent 288, in Brown County. On December 1, 1877, <mask> obtained a grant of 320 acres in the Juan Armendaris survey, Abstract 1004, Patent 253, in Brown County. In 1860, <mask> and his new family moved to Brown County and constructed a log house east of what is now Brownwood.In time, <mask> constructed a home of native limestone and added a gristmill. That home has now been designated with historic markers, both state and national. <mask> wore many hats, as county judge, justice of the peace, county surveyor, district clerk, county clerk, county treasurer, and teacher at Brownwood school, the county's first. <mask> also gave land and money at his death to help establish Daniel Baker College in Brownwood. His daughter Phoebe was later one of the first female students at the college. This college later merged with the Baptist college of Howard Payne University. The original site of Brownwood (county seat for Brown County) was on the east of Pecan Bayou.When a dispute arose over land and water rights, settlers were forced to find a new location. <mask> <mask> donated 60 acres to relocate the county seat to the west side of the bayou on what is now the current site of Brownwood, and 100 additional acres for county use. The town of Brownwood was incorporated in 1884 and was named for Henry Stevenson Brown, a commander at the Battle of Velasco. Personal life and death

Between May and July 1835, <mask> married Mary Ann Manlove, daughter of Colonel Bartholomew Manlove (first mayor of Bastrop, Texas) and Avarilla Perkins. Mary Ann was born in Kentucky, probably Bourbon County in 1811. They later moved from Bastrop County to Williamson County in 1848. Mary Ann inherited her father's league and labor in Williamson County, and Greenleaf and she owned around 27,000 acres in what is today Georgetown, Leander, and Liberty Hill, Texas.Mary Ann also owned a league of land in what is today Brown and Coleman Counties. This league was given to her as a replacement for land she lost in Bastrop County over a land dispute, after the Texas Revolution. Both <mask> and Mary Ann's children inherited this land after her death. <mask> and Mary Ann also gave land and money to what is today Southwestern University in Georgetown. This was to help finance the removal of the failed Methodist college from Reutersville and establish a new college at Georgetown. Later, <mask> and Mary Ann's son, James Bartholomew <mask>, married Mary Martha Rachel Euphemia "Feemie" Carothers, daughter of Col. Samuel Carothers of Georgetown. <mask>'s sister-in-law, Lizzie Carothers Weiss, saved the university in 1937, when it became destitute, by endowing it with $160,000 at her death.Lizzie, a lifelong Methodist, had graduated from Southwestern. She stipulated that the college be reorganized on a better financial footing, but she literally saved the college from extinction. Mary Ann and <mask> had seven children together. Mary Ann died in 1853. <mask> <mask> then married Mary Ann's sister, Margaret Jane Manlove (born in 1823) on January 20, 1855, in Williamson County, Texas. Margaret died in 1855 several days following the birth of a child (this baby died about two weeks later). Both Margaret Jane and the baby are also buried in the Fisk-Cashion Cemetery in Williamson County.On May 8, 1857, in Williamson County, Texas, Mary Piper Hawkins became the third wife of <mask> <mask>, and they had eight children together. The third Mrs. <mask> died in 1905 and is buried at Greenleaf Cemetery in Brownwood, Texas next to her husband. <mask> <mask> died on January 26, 1888, and is buried at Greenleaf Cemetery in Brownwood, Texas. At his death his family gave land for the establishment of Daniel Baker College. One of <mask>'s daughters was one of the first female students there. Later, the Baptist College, Howard Payne College, merged with Daniel Baker College and is today known as Howard Payne University. Its main building is located on Fisk Street in Brownwood.The day of <mask> <mask>'s funeral at the First Presbyterian Church of Brownwood, the entire town shut down in his honor. Two memorial cenotaphs for <mask> <mask> and his first wife Mary Ann Manlove can be found side by side at Texas State Cemetery. <mask>'s memorial was dedicated by the <mask> family on April 26, 2003, whereas Mary Ann's memorial was dedicated in 2009. References

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<mask> (; October 22, 1923August 16, 2011) was an American football player and coach. <mask> played college football, principally as an end and fullback, for Indiana University from 1942 to 1943 and 1945 to 1946. He was selected as a first-team All-American in 1942, 1943, and 1945. His college playing career was interrupted by service in the United States Army during World War II. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1966, the first Indiana player to be so honored. <mask> played professional football as an end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1947 to 1955. While with the Eagles, he helped the team win back-to-back NFL championships in 1948 and 1949.He was selected six times to play in the Pro Bowl (1950–1955) and six times as a first-team All-Pro (1948, 1949, 1952–1955). During his career, he was one of the NFL's leading receivers. He was named to the NFL 1940s All-Decade Team in 1969 and inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1970. After his playing career was over, <mask> was the head football coach for National Agricultural College (later renamed Delaware Valley University) from 1956 to 1958. He also held coaching positions with Tulane University (assistant coach, 1959–1960) and the Richmond Rebels (head coach, 1964–1965). Early life
<mask> was born in 1923 in Orlando, Florida. His parents, Louis and <mask>, were Greek immigrants.In August 1937, when <mask> was 13 years old, his father, the operator of an all-night restaurant in Orlando, was murdered. His body was discovered behind the counter of the restaurant with his skull fractured in 12 places. Police concluded he had been struck with a meat cleaver or axe. A young truck driver was arrested and charged with the murder but was not convicted. <mask> attended Orlando High School where he played football as a tackle and basketball as a guard. When he was a junior in high school, his mother moved the family to Chicago, where he attended Austin High School. College and World War II

1942 and 1943 seasons
<mask> attended the Indiana University and played for the Indiana Hoosiers football team, first as an end in 1942 and 1943.As a sophomore in 1942, <mask> caught 17 passes for 295 yards. He scored the only touchdown in a 7–0 upset victory over the seventh-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers, which came in the game's closing minutes and ended Minnesota's hope of a third straight Big Ten Conference title. He was named to the All-America team selected based on the votes of 1,706 fellow players, earned honorable mention on the United Press (UP) All-America team, and was a second-team selection on the UP's All-Big Ten team. As a junior in 1943, <mask> caught 20 passes for 265 yards and four touchdowns and scored two rushing touchdowns. He led the Hoosiers to a 34–0 victory over Wisconsin; after catching a touchdown pass from Bob Hoernschemeyer in the first half, head coach Bo McMillin moved him into the backfield for the second half where he scored two rushing touchdowns. He was named a first-team All-American by Sporting News, Collier's Weekly, and The New York Sun. He was also a unanimous selection by conference coaches as a first-team end on the 1943 All-Big Nine Conference football team.On January 1, 1944, <mask> and teammate Bob Hoernschemeyer played for the East team in the East–West Shrine Game, with Hoernschemeyer throwing a touchdown pass to <mask> in a 13–13 tie game. World War II
<mask> was drafted into the United States Army in January 1944. He served in the 35th Infantry Division under George S. Patton. Commissioned as a second lieutenant on the battlefield, he was awarded the Bronze Star and Silver Star medals for bravery. He was granted a furlough to return to Indiana University in September 1945 while awaiting his final discharge. 1945 and 1946 seasons
When <mask> returned to Indiana after his military service, he played at the fullback position for the 1945 Indiana Hoosiers football team that compiled the only undefeated record (9–0–1) in Indiana football history, won the program's first Big Ten Conference championship, and finished the season ranked No. 4 in the final AP Poll.He had only two days of practice before his first game back, Indiana's second game of the season, against Northwestern. He scored Indiana's only touchdown in the game, when he caught a pass at the Northwestern five-yard line and dragged three defenders with him over the goal-line. He scored the first two touchdowns in Indiana's 26–0 win over Purdue in the final game of the year. <mask> finished the season having carried the ball 92 times for 410 yards and seven touchdowns. He earned first-team All-America honors from Yank, the Army Weekly magazine, and finished eighth in voting for the Heisman Trophy. As a senior, <mask> played three positions (fullback, halfback, and quarterback) and was named the most valuable player on the 1946 Indiana Hoosiers football team. In a show of versatility, and despite suffering from a throat infection and thigh injury during the 1946 season, he carried the ball 76 times for 262 rushing yards, completed seven of 12 passes for 84 passing yards, had ten catches for 213 receiving yards, and scored eight touchdowns.He ended his college career by scoring three touchdowns against the Purdue Boilermakers, helping the Hoosiers win the Old Oaken Bucket for that year. <mask> finished third in the voting for the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the most valuable player in the Big Nine Conference. In four seasons at Indiana, <mask> scored 138 points, which was then the school's all-time scoring record. He also broke Indiana career records for touchdowns and receptions. Bo McMillin, Indiana's head football coach since 1934, called <mask> "the greatest all-around football player our team has known in my time at Indiana." Professional football player
<mask> was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round (41st overall pick) of the 1945 NFL Draft, but he continued to play for Indiana in 1945 and 1946. In February 1947, he signed to join the Eagles after his graduation in June.In his first NFL season, he caught 23 passes for 382 yards and seven touchdowns. He also blocked a punt by Sammy Baugh and returned it 26 yards for a touchdown against the Washington Redskins. The Eagles made it to the NFL Championship Game in each of <mask>' first three seasons with the team. In 1947, the team captured its first division championship. In the playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers for the Eastern Division title, <mask> blocked a punt to set up the first touchdown in the Eagles' 21–0 win. The Eagles then lost 28–21 to the Chicago Cardinals in the 1947 NFL Championship Game. <mask> caught three passes for 27 yards in that game and intercepted a pass while playing defense.The Eagles then won consecutive NFL championship games in 1948 and 1949. <mask> scored the only offensive touchdown of the 1949 championship game via a 31-yard reception in the second quarter during a heavy downpour. <mask>' 766 receiving yards and 11 receiving touchdowns in 1948 were both the second-most in the NFL that season. He earned first-team All-Pro recognition in 1948 from United Press (UP), New York Daily News, Chicago Herald-American, and Pro Football Illustrated and in 1949 from the International News Service, UP, Associated Press, and New York Daily News. He was invited to his first of six-straight Pro Bowls after the 1950 season. In 1951, <mask> led the Eagles in receptions and receiving yards and intercepted two passes as a defensive end. <mask> caught only 12 passes and scored only one touchdown in 1952, causing the Eagles front office to suspect he was washed up.However, he still managed to make the Pro Bowl and earn first-team All-Pro honors by the AP as a defensive end. Not willing take a pay cut and be an exclusive defensive end, he trained heavily during the off-season prior to 1953. He went on to have his greatest statistical success over the next three seasons, which were ultimately his final three; he recorded similar statistics over that three-year span (185 receptions, 2,785 yards, and 27 touchdowns) to his first six seasons (188 receptions, 2,834 yards, and 34 touchdowns). <mask> led the NFL in receptions in each of his final three seasons, in receiving yards twice, and in receiving touchdowns once. In 1953, he became the third different player to record a "triple crown" in receiving; he led the NFL in receptions (63), receiving yards (1,049), and receiving touchdowns (10) that season. In November 1955, <mask> announced that the current season would be his last as a player. In his final NFL game, on December 11 against the Chicago Bears, he caught 11 passes for 114 yards.He retired after playing in the Pro Bowl that January, in which he caught four passes and scored the East's first touchdown by out-leaping defender Jack Christiansen to snag a 12-yard pass from Eddie LeBaron. During his nine seasons of play with the Eagles, <mask> missed just one game. Coaching career

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In March 1956, shortly after retiring from the NFL, <mask> was hired as the head football coach at National Agricultural College (later renamed Delaware Valley University) in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He had been an advisory coach for the college in 1955 and also taught classes in business law. He remained in the position for three years and led the 1958 National Aggies to a 5–2–1 record. His contract was not renewed after the 1958 season. Tulane
In August 1959, <mask> was hired as an assistant coach under head coach Andy Pilney for the Tulane Green Wave football team.He was given responsibility for coaching the ends. He spent two years coaching at Tulane with the team compiling 3–6–1 records in both 1959 and 1960. In December 1960, <mask> resigned his position at Tulane. Cincinnati
In February 1961, <mask> was hired by a group seeking to secure a professional football franchise for Cincinnati in the American Football League (AFL) for the 1962 season. He was the general manager of the enterprise and was also slated to be head coach of the proposed team. However, when the AFL announced its expansion plans for 1962, Cincinnati was not awarded a franchise. Semipro and minor league football
In 1962 and 1963, <mask> served as the head coach of the Hammonton Bakers, a semipro football team in Hammonton, New Jersey.In 1964, <mask> served as the head coach of the Richmond Rebels of the Atlantic Coast Football League. He remained with the Rebels in 1965 as the team joined the Continental Football League. He led the Rebels to records of 8–5–1 in 1964 and 6–8 in 1965. He stepped down as the coach of the Rebels in February 1966. Honors
<mask> received numerous honors for his accomplishments as a football player. His honors include the following:
 In October 1961, he was named to the Helms Athletic Foundation's Major League Football Hall of Fame. In February 1966, he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.He was the first Indiana Hoosiers football player to receive the honor. In a halftime ceremony during the opening game of Indiana's 1966 season, the school presented <mask> with a special citation for his contribution to the university through football. In August 1969, as part of the NFL's 50th anniversary, the Pro Football Hall of Fame selected all-decade teams for each of the league's first five decades. <mask> was selected as an end on the NFL 1940s All-Decade Team. In February 1970, he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. At the induction ceremony in August 1970, a telegram was presented from Vice President Spiro Agnew calling <mask> "the golden Greek of football" and "the most durable and versatile football player" of his time. In 1978, <mask> was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.In 1982, he was one of the inaugural inductees into the Indiana Hoosiers Hall of Fame. In November 1987, he was one of the 11 inaugural inductees into the Philadelphia Eagles Honor Roll. Family and later years
<mask> was married four times. In May 1944, he married Dorothea Lansing at the First Methodist Chapel in Bloomington, Indiana. <mask> was at that time a private in the Army stationed at Camp Reynolds. They met while both were students at Indiana University. She became a pediatrician.They were divorced in 1949. <mask> was next married in December 1949 to model Mary Cecile Clark, also known as Cecile Chandler. He and his second wife separated in 1965 and were divorced in 1967. He was married for a third time to Charlotte Berlings Wolfe in November 1967. His fourth marriage was to Donna Ballenger. After retiring from football, <mask> had a business career. As of 1970, he was a vice president of Regal Home Improvement Co. in Richmond, Virginia.In 1977, he was living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and was employed as a vice president of Franklin National Life Insurance Co. In 2001, <mask> was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In 2004, he was victimized by a con artist who acquired <mask>' lifetime collection of sports memorabilia in exchange for $30,000 in bogus checks. He spent his last years at the Grace Healthcare nursing home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He died there at age 87 in August 2011. His neurologist opined that <mask>' dementia was caused by blows to the head during his career as a football player. <mask> was buried at Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery in Winston-Salem.<mask>' daughter <mask> made a series of documentary films about her father. She began in 2010 with a documentary short titled Dear Dad juxtaposing photos and footage from his days as a football player with images of him as he fought the disease. She also created Pihos: A Moving Biography, exploring aspects of her father's life and his struggle with Alzheimer's disease through film and dance. Her efforts culminated in a feature-length documentary titled Pihos: A Life in Five Movements. References

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<mask><mask> is an American lawyer, former U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocate, and the current Director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. Personal life

<mask> grew up in Sudbury, MA. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1983 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and infantry officer in the Marine Corps. He later attended Yale Law School (Class of 1989). He and his wife have two adult children. Careers

Military career

After graduating from Yale, <mask> continued his military service as a Marine Corps Judge Advocate. Although Marine Corps judge advocates often are assigned to non-legal jobs, <mask>'s service was even more unusual.He began as an infantry officer and commanded a rifle company. He was the first lawyer to command a recruit training battalion, and immediately prior to being assigned to work for the National Security Council, Lietzau was the first judge advocate to command the Marine Corps installation at Henderson Hall (2007-2009). Civilian career

Lietzau served in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law and Detainee Policy. In this capacity, his official biography said he served as the principal advisor to the United States Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy on matters ranging from creating a principled, credible, and sustainable detention policy for 21st century warfare, to balancing military and humanitarian interests with respect to specific weapons systems. He guided development of the Department's role in rule of law capacity building and was lead for the Department in implementing the President's National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security. He retired from the Marine Corps as a Colonel with 27 years of service prior to his appointment as DASD. From April 2009 to February 2010, Lietzau was assigned as Deputy Legal Counsel to the National Security Council at the White House.During that time, he addressed a variety of legal issues dealing with subjects such as international criminal law, counter-narcotics, interdictions, piracy, counterterrorism, weapons of mass destruction, non-proliferation, missile defense, foreign assistance, and treaty implementation. He was asked to serve on the national security staff by then-National Security Advisor General James L. Jones, who had been the Commander of U.S. European Command while Lietzau was the Staff Judge Advocate (the first Marine lawyer to hold the position) from 2005 to 2007. Over the course of his military career, Lietzau acquired interagency experience beyond that usually found in the Marine Corps. As Deputy Legal Adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Special Adviser to the General Counsel in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Lietzau worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations and served on several United States delegations in multilateral treaty negotiations, including those adopting the Terrorist Bombing Convention, the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines, the Second Protocol to the Hague Cultural Property Convention, and the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court. He led the United States negotiating team responsible for defining war crimes for the International Criminal Court in the late 1990s and was called back to work on the crime of aggression, which was negotiated in Kampala in 2010. He taught international law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center in the late 1990s. While in the Marine Corps, he served as the first acting chief prosecutor of the office of military commissions and developed policies and processes for the tribunals envisioned to try those who planned the September 11 attacks in 2001.The military commission regulatory structure <mask> crafted was adopted, in major part, by the various military commission laws that guide the conduct of commissions in the present day. In March 2014, <mask> published an Oped in the Wall Street Journal explaining his long-held positions on U.S. detention policy and the way to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Lietzau also served in a variety of traditional roles as a Marine lawyer, including as prosecutor, defense counsel, military judge, special assistant U.S. attorney, staff attorney, Chief of the Law of War Branch for the Department of the Navy's International Law Division, and chief of government appellate attorneys for the Department of the Navy. <mask> played a role in a diplomatic controversy in February 2012 when a writ of habeas corpus in the United Kingdom compelled the UK government to seek the return to them of a Pakistani national held by the United States in Afghanistan that the British had apprehended in Basra, Iraq, in 2004. They handed Rahmatullah over to American forces, who transferred him to the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. The UK Supreme Court ruled that his transfer was in violation of international law (see Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Rahmatullah). On July 14, 2011, US forces accidentally released a secret form used to classify whether captives were an "Enduring Security Threat" to the American Civil Liberties Union.Lietzau explained that the accidental release posed a security threat to the United States as it
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According to the New York Times in an interview in the late Summer of 2012 Lietzau said the USA was "on a trajectory to be able to comply" with an agreement to devolve control of the Bagram Theater Internment Facility to Afghan control by the agreed date of September 9, 2012. The New York Times noted that the Lietzau referred to September 9 as a "milestone", rejecting the word "deadline". It noted Lietzau said the agreement only applied to the captives who were in custody when the agreement was signed, and that the USA was nevertheless going to retain certain selected captives under permanent US control—including all the non-Afghan captives. Lietzau sent an email to his staff and colleagues in July 2013, letting them know he would step down from his position by September 1. He was offered a more senior policy position in the Pentagon that would have allowed him to retain authority over detention issues generally, but he could not commit to staying in any new job long enough. Lietzau has played a major role in shaping detention policies across two administrations.After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when he was a uniformed lawyer for the Marine Corps, he served as an adviser in the creation of the first version of President George W. Bush's system of military commissions trials. In the Obama administration, he has been the primary official shaping policies for "law of war" detention at the prison at Guantánamo Bay and Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. References

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