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"philip joseph phil hughes born june 24 1986 is an american righthanded professional baseball pitcher for the minnesota twins of major league baseball mlb he played in mlb for the new york yankees from 2007 through 2013 he stands 6 feet 5 inches 196 m tall and weighs 240 pounds 110 kg he was the yankees firstround pick in the 2004 mlb draftduring his time in the yankees minorleague system hughes was one of the most highly anticipated prospects in baseball but his major league career has thus far been marked by inconsistency he debuted in the major leagues in 2007 as a starting pitcher and quickly demonstrated his potential with a bid for a nohitter in only his second mlb start however injury cut short his outing as well as significant portions of his 2007 and 2008 seasons hughes began 2009 in the minors but later returned to the major leagues eventually converting to a relief pitcher in june pitching as a setup man for mariano rivera hughes excelled in the new role during the regular season despite his struggles in the postseason hughes won a championship with the yankees in the 2009 world seriesupon returning to the starting rotation in 2010 he won 18 games and earned his first allstar selection arm fatigue cost hughes nearly half of the season in 2011 but the following year he stayed healthy for the entire season winning 16 games as the yankees third starter in 2013 he had his worst season posting a 414 winloss record and 519 earned run average a performance that led to him being removed from the rotation the following year hughes had a turn around season with the twins where he went 1610 with an era of 352 that resulted in him placing 7th in american league cy young award voting"
"william patrick duggan born 12 march 1950 is a former ireland international rugby union player he won 41 irish caps the first in 1975 and finished his international career in 1984 as captain he toured new zealand in 1977 with the british and irish lions and at the time played club rugby for blackrock college rfcwillie was widely regarded as one of the hard men of world rugby at the time despite not enjoying training and being a heavy smoker this attitude was entirely different on the pitch as willie was widely regarded as the premier no 8 in europe at the time which was reflected in his being picked for the lions in 1977 in january 1977 he became along with wales geoff wheel the first player to be sent off in a five nations match according to fellow player moss keane duggan did not consider himself to have been sent off simply being asked by the referee would he mind leaving the field to which he replied sure not at all i was buggered anywayon one occasion was smoking a cigarette as he ran onto the field to play against france passing the cigarette to referee allan hosie who was pictured holding the cigarette in the television coverage he was once told by a coach that if he gave up the smokes he would be faster around the pitch typical of willies wit he replied but then i would spend most of the match offsidewillie lives and works in kilkenny where he runs the lighting shop that he took over from his father willie duggan lighting ltd but is still a huge supporter of the game and is one of the most revered and loved rugby players in the history of the irish game"
"mohammad seifzadeh persian born 1948 is an iranian lawyer a former judge human rights activist and a cofounder of centre for the defence of human rights in iran he is the older brother of hossein seifzadeh an iranian political scientist seifzadeh was a member of nobel peace prize laureate shirin ebadis legal team in 2004 when she represented the mother of canadian photojournalist zahra kazemi who had been murdered in an iranian prison allegedly by an iranian security officerin october 2010 seifzadeh was charged with collusion and assembly with intent to disrupt internal security propagation activities against the regime and establishing the center for human rights defenders he was sentenced to 9 years of prison and 10 years of ban from the practice of law he called the ruling the result of an unlawful court proceedingwhile appealing the ruling seifzahed remained at liberty in april 2011 he visited urumiyeh on the turkish border and was arrested by iranian officials on charges of attempting to leave the country illegally seifzaheds lawyer argued that he had only been in the city for a research projectsince then various organizations such as the international federation for human rights fidh and reporters without borders rsf have called for his release amnesty international designated him a prisoner of conscience"
"richard d dick taylor born april 5 1931 is a former iowa state representative from the 53rd and 33rd districts he served in the iowa house of representatives from 2000 to 2009 he resigned in october 2009 because of family health concernsprior to serving in the iowa house taylor served in the united states navy and was an electrician taylor served on the robins iowa city councilduring his last term in office taylor served on several committees in the iowa house the commerce local government and veterans affairs committees he also served on the natural resources committee where he was vice chair and on the justice system appropriations subcommittee earlier in his term until november 2007 he served as vice chair of the veterans affairs committeetaylor was first elected to house district 53 in a january 4 2000 special election following fellow democrat kay chapmans resignation the unusual early date of the election meant that voter registration deadline was on christmas and the county auditors office had to be open on new years day both public holidays after the district lines were redrawn for the 2002 election he represented the new district 53 he resigned from office on october 14 2009 and was succeeded by fellow democrat kirsten runningmarquardt"