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"derek nash born 28 july 1961 is a british jazz saxophonist band leader and recording engineerfor over thirty years nash has led sax appeal which won the john dankworth award for ensemble in the 1998 bt jazz awards and subsequently the british jazz award for best small group in 2000he also leads the funkfusion band protect the beathe has been a member of the jools holland rhythm and blues orchestra since 2004after studying electroacoustics at salford university nash became a sound engineer at the bbc in 1982 leaving in 2002 to become a fulltime musician and to set up his own clowns pocket recording studionash has performed with david sanborn john dankworth dick morrissey spike robinson humphrey lyttelton paul mccartney eric clapton solomon burke annie lennox eddie floyd madeleine peyroux roger daltrey eddi reader tom jones don grusin dave grusin john etheridge russell ferrante nelson rangell snake davis bob dorough oscar castro neves clare teal jamie cullum alan barnes axel zwingenberger dave green charlie watts george melly bob dorough shakatak lulu india arie alison moyet clark tracey alec dankworth ben waters digby fairweather and jools hollandthe album he recorded with spike robinson young lions old tigers 2000 was named best jazz cd of the year a feat repeated in 2012 with his joyriding album by the derek nash acoustic quartet both albums are released on jazzizit records and nash is a codirector of the label"
"mark landon johnson born september 12 1975 is a former professional baseball player a catcher who played with several major league teams but primarily with the chicago white sox in 2011 he retired as a player and became a minor league managerstanding at 60 and weighing 185 pounds johnson attended warner robins high school in warner robins georgiabatting lefthanded but throwing righthanded johnson was drafted by the chicago white sox 26th overall in the 1994 draft the first two seasons of his professional career were nothing near stellarin 1994 he hit only 241 in 32 games and in 1995 he hit 182 in 107 games1996 saw a slight improvement at least while in singlea he hit 257 in 67 games there but in singlea advanced ball that year he hit only 241great at drawing walks he walked 106 times and struck out only 85 times in 1997 but he still only hit 252 in 1998 he had a career year in the minors batting 283 with 105 walks and only 72 strikeouts that prompted his promotion and on september 14 1998 at the age of 22 he made his big league debut he went 0for1 at the plate the rest of his season was not impressive eitheroverall he collected only two hits in 23 at bats for a 087 batting average he made the best out of his two hits thoughthey were both triples his first one came off pedro martnez on september 19 and his second came off scott service on september 25he spent his entire 1999 season with the white sox backing up brook fordyce in 73 games that season he hit 227 with four home runs and 16 rbihe hit 225 in 2000 this time as the white sox starting catcher in 75 games he hit three home runs with 23 rbi2001 was a career year for johnson even though he spent 55 games in the minors his major league season would be the best of his career he hit 249 with 10 sacrifice hitsgood for fourth most in the leaguehe hit only 209 in 2002 and that may have prompted his trade on december 3 2002 he was traded with keith foulke joe valentine and cash to the oakland athletics for billy koch and two players to be named later who would end up being neal cotts and minor leaguer daylan holthe spent most of his season in the minors in 2003 hitting only 228 in the thirteen games that he played in the majors his batting average was 111after the 2003 season he was granted free agency and signed by the milwaukee brewers like the season before he spent most of his time in the minors that year actually breaking the 250 mark and hitting 259 his time in the majors was again unimpressivein eleven at bats he collected only one hit for a 097 batting averageafter 2004 he was granted freeagency but was resigned by the brewers who then traded him to the chicago cubs for travis ezi he spent 2005 entirely in the minors hitting 266 in 60 games after the 2005 season he was granted free agency and picked up by the brewers again he spent all of 2006 in the minors hitting only 203 thereon november 10 2006 he signed with the arizona diamondbacks and spent the entire year in the minors though johnson did have the best season hitting for average in his career with a 320 batting average in december 2007 he signed a minor league contract with the st louis cardinals and was invited to their 2008 spring training but did not make the team he was called up by the cardinals in september 2008 appearing in the majors for the first time in four yearsone source describes him as this he has decent gap power resulting in his share of doubles as well as a good eye at the plate defensively he calls a good game and gets the ball quickly down to second basealthough he has never quite lived up to the gap power he has shown a fairly good eye at the plate with 123 walks and 195 strikeouts so far in his career his defense is also reliablehis career fielding percentage is 993that same source goes on to say this about him he has very little home run power and is a fairly light hitter on the whole even worse against southpawshe has average just over two home runs a season in the majors and his statistics 217 batting average with 16 home runs and 81 rbi so far in his career are rather unsavory in november 2009 johnson was granted free agency from the chicago cubs on january 20 2010 johnson resigned a minor league contract with the cubs"
"laurie e evans born october 14 1933 is a politician in manitoba canada between 1988 and 1990 he served as a member of the legislative assembly of manitoba representing the riding of fort garry for the manitoba liberal partyborn in unity saskatchewan evans has a bachelor of science degree from the university of saskatchewan and master of science and phd degrees from the university of manitoba he worked as an agriculturalist before entering public life and joined the academic staff of the university of manitoba in 1958 from 1968 to 1969 he was a technical advisor to the canadian international development agency cida in kenyahe is married to mary ellen evans he has three daughters from a previous marriage laura norma and nancy and two stepsons joseph and johnevans first ran for the provincial legislature in the provincial election of 1986 in the rural riding of springfield located just outside winnipeg he received 1376 votes finishing well behind incumbent new democrat andy anstett and the winner progressive conservative gilles rochtwo years later he was elected in the central winnipeg riding of fort garry which includes the university of manitoba defeating incumbent progressive conservative charlie birt by almost 1000 votes the liberals increased their parliamentary representation from one to twenty in this election and evans sat with the official opposition for the next two years in the provincial election of 1990 he was defeated by progressive conservative rosemary vodrey amid a general loss of support for the liberal partylaurie evans is now an elected councillor for ward 6 in the rural municipality of ste anne manitoba has served two terms and is serving his third term"
"ernest tate known as ernie tate is a longstanding supporter of the reunified fourth international based in canada born in northern ireland tate was recruited by ross dowson into the canadian section of the fourth international in the late 1960s he went from north america to great britain to work with supporters of international to solidify the young international marxist group of which he became a leader ernie and fellow canadian pat brain worked side by side with bertrand russell in the russell tribunal set up to investigate us war crimes in vietnam the famous beating of tate in 1966 by supporters of gerry healy was a cause clbre within the world trotskyist movement one of his recruits to the img was tariq alitate was one of two members of the vietnam solidarity campaign organising committee for the demonstration against the vietnam war in london in october 1968 who successfully opposed a proposal to halt the march in whitehall which would have caused unnecessary confrontation with the police and a degeneration into violence he was thus instrumental in ensuring that the 200000 participants passed through london peacefully despite dire prognostications in the press and on television who reported the march but also gave undue coverage to a simultaneous 5000strong violent counterprotest by maoists attacking the united states embassy as a result opposition to the war grew enormously in britain at the same time as in the united statestate was a founder of the leninist trotskyist tendency in 1973 he returned to canada in 1969"