Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Fumiko Kaneko.

Fumiko Kaneko

<s>Fumiko Kaneko</s><s>Early life. Fumiko Kaneko was born in the Kotobuki district of Yokohama during the Meiji period in Japan. Her parents were Fumikazu Saeki, a man from a samurai family, and Kikuno Kaneko, the daughter of a peasant. Because they were not officially married, Fumiko could not be registered as a Saeki. She remained unregistered until she was 8 years old, at which point she was registered as her mother's sister, a fairly common practice for children born out of wedlock. Kaneko recalls that the first few years of her life were fairly happy, as her father was employed as a detective at a police office and cared for his family, though they were fairly poor. However, Fumikazu left his job at the police station, and the family moved around a considerable amount over the next few years. Fumikazu was also increasingly drawn to gambling and drinking, began to abuse Kikuno, and became involved with other women, including Kikuno's sister Takano. Eventually, Fumikazu left Kikuno and married Takano. During this time, Fumiko was first confronted with the problems of

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being an unregistered child. Her circumstances made her "invisible to educational authorities," and she was not technically allowed to attend school. Some schools eventually permitted her to attend classes, but she was not called in attendance, did not receive report cards, and was ineligible to receive the official certificate of graduation at the end of a class year. Despite these difficulties, including frequent gaps in her attendance, she did very well in school. After Fumiko's father left, her mother was involved with several other men, but none of these relationships led to better living circumstances and they were nearly always extremely impoverished. Kikuno even considered selling Fumiko to a brothel, claiming that it would be a better life for her, but she abandoned this plan when it turned out that Fumiko would be sent far away to another region of Japan. After several years of these difficult circumstances, Fumiko lived briefly with her maternal grandparents while her mother remarried again. In 1912, her father's mother, Mutsu Sakei-Iwashita, came to visit, and it was agreed that Fumiko would go back with her to her home in Korea, where she would be adopted by her aunt, who was childless. Before leaving Japan, Fumiko

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was finally registered as the daughter of her maternal grandparents.</s><s>Life in Korea. Shortly after her arrival in Korea, it became clear that Fumiko would not be adopted or provided with the higher level of living that she expected. For the first year or so, they kept up the pretense of including her in their family by allowing her to use the name Iwashita, but after that she was called Kaneko. Her grandmother introduced her to visitors as a child she had taken in out of pity from some people she barely knew and her grandmother and aunt treated her like a maid. It appears that they did initially intend to adopt her, but, at least from Fumiko's perspective, they decided quickly that she was too poorly brought up and unrefined to be their family heir. The only advantage she had was finally being able to attend school regularly, and even her education was limited because her relatives refused to let her read anything besides her required work for school. She was initially promised a high level of education that would eventually lead her to college, but they only allowed her to continue her schooling through the lower primary and higher primary grades and did not attempt to enroll her in a high school. After she finished school, she had to spend all her time

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working in the house, and she cites this period as the worst of her time in Korea. Fumiko was subjected to extremely poor treatment under her relatives in Korea. Despite their relative wealth, she was only provided with the bare minimum in terms of clothing and living circumstances, and was frequently beaten and deprived of food as a punishment for perceived wrongdoing, sometimes so badly that she contemplated suicide. Her time in Korea also allowed her to observe the mistreatment of the native Koreans by her relatives and other Japanese occupiers.</s><s>Return to Japan. In 1919, when she was 16, Fumiko was sent back to her maternal family in Japan, presumably because she was of marriageable age and her grandmother and aunt did not want to have to arrange a match for her. She stayed with her maternal grandparents again and began to form a strong relationship with her Uncle Motoei, who, because of the way she was registered, was officially her brother. By this time, she had reconnected with her birth father, living with him for short periods of time, and he attempted to arrange a marriage between Fumiko and Motoei. The arrangement fell through, because Motoei discovered that Fumiko had developed a relationship with another young man and claimed that her potential loss of virginity

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suggested by that relationship voided his agreement with her father. Fumiko was sent back to live with her father after this event, but her life there was unpleasant and she was not allowed to follow her desires for a serious education, so she decided to go to Tokyo and pursue a life there.</s><s>Experiences in Tokyo. When Fumiko arrived in Tokyo in 1920, she initially lived with her great uncle, but soon managed to get a position as a newspaper girl. She requested an advance on her wages in order to pay her enrollment fees at two different co-ed schools, and started to take classes in mathematics and English. Her job introduced her to a number of groups, most notably the Christian Salvation Army and members of the socialist movement who advocated their philosophies on the street. However, the job was difficult, her employer exploited his workers and was immoral in his personal life, and she hardly had any time to keep up with her school work, so she eventually quit. She then briefly maintained a relationship with the Salvation Army group, but she was not compelled by their beliefs and was abandoned by her one Christian friend after a time because he believed the feelings he was developing for her were threatening his beliefs. While she hoped to escape the hypocrisy she saw in this group

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by joining the socialist movement, she found that socialists could also behave in ways that seemed to contradict their beliefs, and she eventually abandoned them as well in favor of a more independent activism. Fumiko was able to attend school on and off in the midst of these life developments, and the major shift in her thinking, from socialism to anarchism and nihilism, began in 1922, when she met Hatsuyo Niiyama at her night school classes. In her memoirs, Fumiko calls Hatsuyo her "closest friend," and mentions that she introduced her to the ideas of foundational nihilist thinkers like Max Stirner, Mikhail Artsybashev, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Around this time, Fumiko was also introduced to a Korean activist named Pak Yol, who shared many of her ideas, and when she finally abandoned the socialist movement she worked with Pak to attempt to accomplish her vision.</s><s>Fumiko Kaneko and Pak Yol. Together, Fumiko and Pak published two magazines which highlighted the problems Koreans faced under Japanese imperialism (though they were never directly a part of the Korean independence movement) and showed influences of their radical beliefs. The articles Fumiko wrote for these publications were probably her most obvious activist activity

Fumiko Kaneko

. Sometime between 1922 and 1923, they also established a group called "Futei-sha (Society of Malcontents)," which Fumiko identified as a group advocating for direct action against the government. These activities soon brought Pak and Fumiko under government scrutiny. In September 1923, the hugely destructive Great Kantō earthquake led to massive public anxiety, with many people concerned that the Koreans, who were already agitating for independence from Japan, would use the confusion to start a rebellion. The government therefore made a number of arrests, mostly of Koreans, on limited evidence, and among those arrested were Pak and Fumiko. After lengthy judicial proceedings, Fumiko and Pak were convicted of high treason for attempting to obtain bombs with the intention of killing the emperor or his son. They confessed to this crime, and it appears that at least Fumiko made herself appear guiltier than she actually was, possibly with the intention of sacrificing herself for her cause. During the trial, Fumiko wrote the story of her life as a way of explaining "what made me do what I did," and this memoir is the main source of information about her life, along with court documents. Pak and Fumiko, who had been romantically involved for most of

Fumiko Kaneko

their time together, were legally married a few days prior to their sentencing, which historian Hélène Bowen Raddeker identifies as a move to "underscore the obvious irony in the fact that the Japanese state had united them legally in life before uniting them legally in death." Pak and Fumiko were initially given the death sentence, but an imperial pardon commuted that sentence to life imprisonment. Instead of accepting this pardon, Fumiko tore it up and refused to thank the emperor. While Pak survived his time in prison and was released years later, Fumiko was reported to have committed suicide in her cell in 1926, although there were suspicious circumstances around her death.</s><s>Ideological views. Though Fumiko considered the belief systems put forth by the Salvation Army group and the Socialists, she eventually settled on nihilism as her guiding philosophy. Her perception of nihilism changed over time, as is indicated by a statement she made to the court in 1925. She stated, in reference to the strictly negative version of nihilism she originally pursued, that "formerly I said 'I negate life'... [but] my negation of all life was completely meaningless... The stronger the affirmation of life, the stronger the creation of life- negation together

Fumiko Kaneko

with rebellion. Therefore, I affirm life." However, she also takes care to define what this affirmation of life means for a nihilist, which she expects to be very different from the perspectives of the officials: "Living is not synonymous with merely having movement. It is moving in accordance with one's will… one could say that with deeds, one begins to really live. Accordingly, when one moves by means of one's own will and this leads to the destruction of one's body, this is not a negation of life. It is an affirmation." The anarchist cause that she eventually followed was supported ideologically by her rejection of nationalism and the idea of the emperor, as well as a pessimistic belief about the nature of revolutions. In her testimony at her trial, she explained that she and Pak "thought of throwing a bomb [at the emperor] to show he too will die like any other human being," and rejected "the concepts of loyalty to the emperor and love of nation" as "simply rhetorical notions that are being manipulated by the tiny group of privileged classes to fulfill their own greed and interests." Initially, this rejection of the emperor system may have led her to believe in an alternative political system, but after seeing the way members of other groups behaved, she came to

Fumiko Kaneko

believe that any leader, whether the emperor, or other government officials, or a completely new government under socialists, would equally abuse power dynamics and oppress the people. For her, "[revolution] simply means replacing one authority with another," and since she believed that no system of authority could or would operate without oppression, it is logical that she eventually directed her activities towards abolishing all authority. Though she believed, in line with nihilistic thought, that it was not possible to cure the evils in the world, her actions as an anarchist reflect her belief that "even if we cannot embrace any social ideals, every one of us can find some task that is truly meaningful to us. It does not matter whether our activities produce meaningful results or not… this would enable us to bring our lives immediately in to harmony with our existence." While Fumiko did not formally associate herself with any sort of women's movement, she clearly held strong beliefs about the need for equality between men and women. When her great-uncle repeatedly tried to persuade her to abandon the idea of education and "marry a working merchant," she insisted that she could "never become the wife of a tradesman." Though she does not appear to have fully verbalized her reasoning to her great-uncle, she states in

Fumiko Kaneko

her memoir that she wanted to be independent, "no longer… under the care of anybody." Fumiko also expressed concerns that schools specifically for women did not provide equal opportunities, and committed to pursuing her own education only at co-ed schools. Finally, some of the hypocrisy she was most concerned about in the socialist groups had to do with their treatment of women in general, and her in particular. For instance, she broke off a relationship with a fellow socialist, Segawa, after he brushed off a question about the possibility of their relationship leading to pregnancy. She "expected him to take some responsibility," and saw that she "was being toyed with and taken advantage of." Within this context, she challenged the double standard that allowed men to participate in casual relationships without repercussions while women were expected to bear full responsibility for the possible consequences. Additionally, she saw this behavior as further evidence that these men were not truly committed to the ideas they espoused, as real socialism would require a greater level of equality.</s><s>In popular culture. - Fumiko and, particularly, her trial was portrayed in the 2017 film "Anarchist from Colony". - A newspaper containing Fumiko's photograph was discussed in "Mr. Sunshine."</s><s>See also. - Anarch

Fumiko Kaneko

ism in Japan - Amakasu Incident - Toranomon Incident - Japanese resistance during the Shōwa period - Assassination attempts on Hirohito</s><s>References.</s><s>References.:Bibliography. - - -</s><s>Further reading. - {{cite book |last=Ebrey</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of G. Venugopal.

G. Venugopal

<s>G. Venugopal Gopinathan Nair Venugopal (born 10 December 1960), popularly known as G. Venugopal, is an Indian playback singer known for his works in Malayalam films. He started his singing career in the film "Odaruthammava Aalariyam" (1984). Since then he has sung in more than 4000 films; and has over 500 private albums to his credit.</s><s>Early and personal life. Venugopal was born in Thattathumala, near Kilimanoor. Venugopal is the eldest of the two children of Gopinathan Nair, who hails from Thattathumala and Sarojini, who was the head of the department of music, Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram. K. Sharadamani and K. Radhamani, who were popularly known as Parur sisters, are the maternal aunts of Venugopal. Singers Sujatha Mohan and Radhika Thilak are his cousins and Shweta Mohan is his niece. Venugopal married Reshmi on 8 April 1990 and they have two children, Arvind and Anupallavi. Arvind

G. Venugopal

is also a playback singer.</s><s>Television shows. - As Judge</s><s>Awards. - Kerala State Film Awards - 1988 - Best Male Playback Singer - "Unarumee Gaanam" (Moonnam Pakkam) - 1990 - Best Male Playback Singer - "Thaane Poovitta Moham" (Sasneham) - 2004 - Best Male Playback Singer - "Aadadi Aadaadadi" (Ullam) - Kerala Film Critics Association Awards - 1987 - Best Male Playback Singer - "Onnam Ragam Paadi" (Thoovanathumbikal) - 1989 - Best Male Playback Singer - "Mainaka Ponmudiyil" (Mazhavilkavadi) - Asianet Film Awards - 2006 - Best Playback Singer (Male) - "Kainiraye" (Baba Kalyani) - 2022 - Janmashtami Award by Balagokulam for Contributions in Art and Culture of Kairali. The youngest to get this award.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Pogo (musician).

Pogo (musician)

<s>Pogo (musician) Christopher Nicholas "Nick" Bertke (born 26 July 1988), better known by his stage name Pogo, which is symbolized by an icon of a rabbit, is a South African-born Australian electronic musician. Much of his work consists of recording small sounds, quotes, and melodies from films, TV programmes or other sources, and sequencing the sounds together to form a new piece of music (a genre also known as plunderphonics). A number of Pogo's works consist almost entirely of the sounds he samples, with few or no additional music or sound samples.</s><s>Music. Pogo has produced tracks using samples from films and TV shows such as "Pulp Fiction". He has also sampled from other sources, such as field recordings for his project "Remix the World. Remix the World" was an ambitious project, consisting of all original content. Bertke shot real-world footage and then used those sounds and images to capture the essence of the places he visited. The Real World Remix was shot in Kenya, South Africa, Bhutan, and Perth (AU). Bertke is best known for his use of video sampling to produce music videos, which he uploads on the video-sharing website YouTube. As of October 2017

Pogo (musician)

, his most popular YouTube video is "Alice", made of samples of Disney's animated film "Alice in Wonderland", with more than 30 million views. In 2010, his music video "Gardyn," created from footage of his mother working in her garden, was juried along with 24 other YouTube videos for an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. On 29 September 2016, Pogo released a song called "Trumpular" on SoundCloud which consisted of quotes from Republican nominee, and later President, Donald Trump. Later, in 2019, he made a music video called "Homarge", based on "The Simpsons" (mostly from the episode "Simpson and Delilah"), which gained over a million views. On August 27, 2021, Pogo released a remix called "Strangerous", taking voices and sounds from "Stranger Things", which has become Pogo's second most viewed on SoundCloud, and on November 5, 2021, he released "Cabin Fever", which samples "Muppet Treasure Island". Pogo's music is used on the conservative YouTube talk show "Louder with Crowder", hosted by Steven Crowder, and is used as bumper music to transition in and out of commercial breaks.</s><s>Personal life

Pogo (musician)

. On his September 2011 US tour, Bertke was arrested and taken into custody for three weeks due to the lack of a proper work visa, and was prohibited from re-entering the United States until 2021. In January 2020, Pogo's YouTube channel was hacked and hijacked by an unknown user, who renamed the channel "Ethereum 2.0 Foundation" and deleted all the videos on the channel. The hacker then started a scam livestream promoting Ethereum cryptocurrency, and claiming that any amount of crypto sent to them during the stream would be multiplied and sent back. Pogo took to Twitter to let fans know that he was aware of the hack and has contacted YouTube for help. The hacked channel was terminated by YouTube on January 17, and Pogo remained without a channel for four days while fans created accounts hosting temporary re-uploads of his videos and music. On January 22, YouTube restored the account, including his view counts, subscribers, and comments sections.</s><s>Controversies. Bertke was criticized for a 2015 video that derided feminists as gold diggers and "making misogynist arguments against women's rights". He later claimed that it was made "to impersonate the radical right". In a YouTube livestream that was uploaded in 2016, Bertke stated that he has

Pogo (musician)

a "fairly robust resentment of the gay community". In the same video and on the topic of the Orlando nightclub shooting, a terrorist attack at a gay bar in Florida in 2016, he said, "It amazes me to see the West welcoming a culture through the floodgates that wants gays dead. I think that's fantastic". Bertke later claimed to not have any hate for the gay community and also claimed Asperger syndrome and bipolar disorder as contributing factors. He stated that the video was made in bad taste and that he never intended for it to go public, although he also stated that he was trying to "impersonate the far-right and create hysteria", noting that the video was made around the time of the 2016 American election. YourEDM compared his "homophobic rhetoric" to the 2015 video, which he similarly tried to explain as a social experiment. Writing for "The Verge", Megan Farokhmanesh saw this explanation as a transparent attempt at plausible deniability.</s><s>Discography.</s><s>Discography.:Albums. - "Texturebox" (release date: 30 December 2010) - "Wonderpuff" (release date: 27 June 2011) - "Forgotten Fudge" (release date: 2 November 2013

Pogo (musician)

) - "Star Charts" (release date: 22 December 2014) - "Kindred Shadow" (release date: 11 June 2015) - "Weightless" (release date: 30 December 2016) - "Ascend" (release date: 22 February 2018) - "Quantum Field" (release date: 29 December 2018) - "Valley of Shadow" (release date: 4 March 2020) - "Cultures" (release date: 28 December 2020) - "Cosmoluxe" (release date: 7 January 2022)</s><s>Discography.:EPs. - "Wonderland" (release date: 28 May 2007) - "Broken Beats" (release year: 2008) - "Table Scraps" (release year: 2008) - "Weave and Wish" (release date: 22 March 2009) - "Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole" (release date: 30 November 2010) - "Fluctuate" (release date: 5 January 2014) - "Perfect Chaos" (release date: 21 May 2014) - "Younghood" (release date: 8 June 2014) - "Unity" (release date: 18 February 2020)</s><s>See also. - Deep Forest - Kut

Pogo (musician)

iman - Todd Edwards - The Avalanches - DJ Shadow</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Brianna Keilar.

Brianna Keilar

<s>Brianna Keilar Brianna Marie Keilar (born September 21, 1980) is an Australian-born American journalist who formerly was the co-anchor of "New Day" with John Berman on CNN. She previously worked as a White House correspondent, senior political correspondent, Congressional correspondent and general assignment correspondent for CNN in Washington. Prior to that, Keilar worked at CNN Newsource as a national correspondent, also in Washington. Before joining "New Day", she was the host of "CNN Right Now with Brianna Keilar".</s><s>Early life and education. Keilar was born in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Her father Glenn is Australian, and her mother Miriam was American. The Keilars were stationed in Australia at the time of Brianna's birth. In 1982, Keilar and her family moved to the United States and settled in Orange County, California. Keilar graduated from Mission Viejo High School in 1998, where she was voted homecoming queen in her senior year. Keilar then attended the University of California, Berkeley, from which she graduated in 2001 with dual bachelor's degrees in mass communications and psychology.</s><s>Career. Keilar began her on-air career in Yakima, Washington, at the CBS affiliate

Brianna Keilar

KIMA. She also co-hosted the morning drivetime show "Billy, Blue and Brianna, too: The Morning Zoo" on contemporary hits station, KFFM. She then moved to CBS News, where she served as an anchor, reporter and producer for a CBS newscast that aired on MTVU, MTV's college network. She was also a fill-in anchor on the CBS News overnight newscast, "Up to the Minute", and a freelance reporter for the weekend edition of "CBS Evening News". From CBS, Keilar joined CNN as a correspondent for CNN Newsource, providing breaking news coverage and reports from the nation’s capital for approximately 800 CNN Newsource partner stations. As a general assignment correspondent for the network, she covered a wide range of stories, including the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, where she was the first CNN correspondent at the scene. While covering Congress, Keilar earned the 2009 National Press Foundation Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress for her fall 2008 coverage of the $700 billion bank bailout. While covering the Obama White House, Keilar earned the White House Correspondents' Association's 2014 Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for her coverage of the rollout of Obamacare. Keilar,

Brianna Keilar

a military spouse, began writing a column called "Home Front" in 2019, which tells stories of military families and tries to bridge the civilian-military divide. On September 15, 2022, it was announced that Keilar would leave her role on "New Day with John Berman" as the show is replaced by "CNN This Morning". She continued to co-anchor the show until the new CNN revamped morning show debuted on November 1. She was assigned a new anchor role at the network anchoring a program which is currently untitled with Boris Sanchez and Jim Scuitto. The program will begin later this spring.</s><s>Personal life. Keilar married Dave French on May 2, 2009. They later divorced. In July 2016, Keilar announced that she was engaged to Fernando Lujan, an active duty Green Beret who was then a director on the National Security Council at the White House. During CNN's "New Year's Eve Live" on December 31, 2016, Brooke Baldwin announced that Keilar and Lujan had married the previous evening in Las Vegas. She gave birth to a boy on June 8, 2018.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Kerwin Bell.

Kerwin Bell

<s>Kerwin Bell Kerwin Douglas Bell (born June 15, 1965) is an American football coach and former player who has been the head coach of the Western Carolina Catamounts football team since 2021. Bell was born in the rural North Central Florida town of Live Oak and was a star high school football quarterback at Lafayette County High School. Though he led the Lafayette Hornets to their only state championship, he did not attract the attention of top college football programs while playing at the small high school. He enrolled at the University of Florida, made the football team as a walk-on, and was redshirted during his freshman season of 1983. Injuries to more experienced players just before the 1984 season pushed Bell into a starting role for the Gators' season opening game against the defending national champion Miami Hurricanes in what was one of the first prime time college football broadcasts on ESPN. He played well in his first collegiate appearance, throwing a go-ahead touchdown pass with under a minute remaining. Though Miami responded and scored the winning touchdown with seven seconds left, Bell's performance under difficult circumstances cemented his position as the team's starting quarterback. Even as head coach Charley Pell was fired mid-season due to NCAA rules violations, Bell and interim coach Galen Hall led the Gators

Kerwin Bell

to a conference-best 9–1–1 record, and he was named the Southeastern Conference (SEC) player of the year. Bell played at Florida for four seasons and was named to several more All-SEC and All-American lists before graduating in 1987. After college, Bell played professionally in the National Football League (NFL), World League of American Football (WLAF) and the Canadian Football League (CFL) for fourteen seasons in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. Though he started dozens of games in the WLAF and the CFL, he never started an NFL contest and threw only five regular season passes in his NFL career. However, he completed all five of those passes for 75 yards and a touchdown, leaving him with the highest career passer rating in league history, albeit in a very small sample size. After retiring as a player, Bell returned to Florida and became a high school football coach, leading Trinity High School in Ocala to their first state football championship in 2005. He became the head coach at NCAA Division 1 (FCS) Jacksonville University in 2007 and led the Dolphins to their first three conference championships during his nine seasons at the school. Bell moved to Valdosta State University in 2016, and in 2018, he

Kerwin Bell

led the Blazers to their first undefeated season and the NCAA D-II national championship on the strength of the highest scoring offense in college football. Bell accepted the position of offensive coordinator for the South Florida Bulls under head coach Charlie Strong in 2019 but was dismissed along with the entire staff when Strong was fired after the season. Bell became the head football coach at Western Carolina in 2021. The Catamounts had not won more than three games for several seasons until Bell led them to their first winning record in six years in 2022.</s><s>Early life. Bell was born in Live Oak, Florida in North Central Florida to Doyle and Zelda Bell and grew up in nearby Mayo, Florida, population 800. His parents were tobacco farmers, and Kerwin helped with various farming tasks throughout his youth. Bell attended Lafayette County High School, where he was the president of the student council and a multi-sport athlete, playing shortstop on the baseball team, leading the basketball team in scoring as a starting guard, and starting at quarterback on the football team. In 1981, he led the Lafayette Hornets to their only state football championship, earning the nickname "The Throwin' Mayoan."</s><s>College career. Despite his prep success, Bell was lightly recruited during his senior year with no athletic scholarship offers

Kerwin Bell

from major football programs, as his rural high school had competed in the lowest division of Florida high school football and coaches were unsure if he could succeed against top collegiate talent. Instead of attending a smaller college, Bell decided to walk-on at the University of Florida in nearby Gainesville and join the Florida Gators football team without an athletic scholarship. He was eighth on the Gators' quarterback depth chart during his freshman season of 1983 under head coach Galen Hall and was redshirted without playing in a game. Bell was the Gators' backup quarterback coming into the 1984 season due to his consistent performance on the practice field and the fact that several quarterbacks ahead of him on the depth chart had graduated, transferred, or were injured. When senior starter Dale Dorminey suffered a serious knee injury four days before the Gators' first game, Bell was suddenly thrust into the starting role. The Gators opened the 1984 season against the defending national champion Miami Hurricanes in Tampa Stadium in one of the first college football games to be nationally televised by ESPN. In his first collegiate start, Bell threw a touchdown pass with under a minute remaining to give the Gators the lead, only to have Miami quarterback Bernie Kosar lead the Hurricanes to a winning score with seven seconds remaining. The Gators would not lose another game

Kerwin Bell

during Bell's redshirt freshman season. Behind an outstanding offensive line, memorably dubbed "The Great Wall of Florida," and which included Phil Bromley, Lomas Brown, Billy Hinson, Crawford Ker and Jeff Zimmerman, and supported by fullback John L. Williams, halfback Neal Anderson and wide receiver Ricky Nattiel, Bell led the Gators to a 9–1–1 record, an SEC championship, and a top-5 national ranking. However, due to NCAA infractions committed under coach Charley Pell, the Gators' were ineligible for bowl consideration, and their SEC championship was vacated months after the 1984 season ended. In 1985, now with a full scholarship, Bell led the Gators to a second consecutive 9–1–1 record. Though ineligible for the conference championship, the Gators finished with best-in-the-conference records of 5–0–1 and 5–1 in 1984 and 1985 and briefly held their first ever No. 1 ranking in the AP poll during the 1985 season. Due to the effects of ongoing NCAA penalties, the Gators' record slipped to 6–5 in 1986 and 6–6 in 1987, Bell's junior and senior seasons. A highlight of those campaigns was Florida's upset of the No. 5 and undefeated Auburn Tigers in

Kerwin Bell

November 1986. Bell had injured his knee a month prior and did not start the game. But with the Gators trailing 17–0 in the fourth quarter, he entered the contest wearing a large knee brace and led his team to a dramatic 18–17 comeback win, capped with a last-minute touchdown pass to Ricky Nattiel followed by Bell himself "hobbling" into the endzone for a successful two-point conversion. Bell was the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Player of the Year in 1984, an honorable mention All-American in 1985 and 1986, a first-team All-SEC selection in 1985, and the recipient of the Gators' Fergie Ferguson Award and a team captain in 1987. He finished his four-year college career with 549 completions on 949 passing attempts, for 7,585 yards and fifty-six touchdowns. Bell graduated from Florida with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1987, and was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1997. Among the top 100 Gators of the first 100 years of Florida football, the sportswriters of "The Gainesville Sun" ranked him the No. 26 greatest Gator of all time in 2006.</s><s>Professional career

Kerwin Bell

. Bell had a well-traveled football career. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the seventh round (180th pick overall) of the 1988 NFL Draft, and spent the season on the Dolphins' practice squad. He spent part of 1989 as the Buccaneers' third-team quarterback, but a serious knee injury ended his season and prevented him from playing at all in 1990. In 1991, Bell finally got a chance to start with the Orlando Thunder of the World League of American Football and threw for 2,214 yards, and was the Thunder's backup quarterback in 1992 when the team went to the World Bowl. Bell began a seven-year Canadian Football League career in, with the Sacramento Gold Miners, part of the failed CFL expansion into the United States. As a back-up quarterback in 1993, Bell threw for 296 yards, but his passing production increased to 1,812 yards in. Bell played for the Edmonton Eskimos in. In, Bell landed a roster spot with the Indianapolis Colts of the NFL, and in week 15 he entered the game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Bell attempted five passes and completed all of them, throwing for 75 yards and a touchdown on the day. He never again threw a pass in a regular season NFL game, leaving him

Kerwin Bell

with the highest career passer rating of any quarterback in NFL history. He was the Colts' third-team quarterback in but did not play in a regular season game. Bell returned to the CFL in with the Toronto Argonauts and had his best professional year. He threw for 4,991 yards and 27 touchdowns and set a lead record with a completion percentage of 67.3%, earning him a spot on the CFL All-Star team. He signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and again passed for over 4000 yards in, but was injured early in and was traded back to Toronto, where he remained until retiring after the season. Bell played for the Argonauts more than any other team in his career, passing for 8,811 career yards in forty-six regular season games with Toronto. Overall, Bell played in 126 regular season CFL games, completed 1,560 passes in 2,558 attempts, and threw 101 touchdowns.</s><s>Coaching career.</s><s>Coaching career.:University of Florida. Bell first coached in 1990, when his playing career was temporarily interrupted by a serious knee injury. Bell returned to the University of Florida while rehabilitating to serve as a graduate assistant coach under Steve Spurrier, who was in his first season as the Gators' head ball coach

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. Bell remained in Gainesville for only one season, as he resumed his playing career in the summer of 1991 with the Orlando Thunder of the WLAF. However, working under Spurrier and watching the "Fun 'n' Gun" offense in games and in practice would have a strong influence on Bell's future offensive philosophies. “The spacing and just the concepts of the routes and the rhythm of the system. That’s almost perfection and that’s what I try to obtain every day in practice,” he said in 2019.</s><s>Coaching career.:Toronto Argonauts. Bell next coached in, when he served as the co-offensive coordinator for the Toronto Argonauts during his last season as an active player.</s><s>Coaching career.:Trinity High School. After retiring as a player, Bell returned to his home state to become the first head football coach at brand-new Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala, Florida, which fielded its first varsity team in 2002. The program grew quickly under Bell, with the Celtics making the district playoffs in their second season. In 2005, Trinity went 14-0 and won the Florida 2A state high school football championship on the strength of a prolific passing attack that produced 41 touchdown passes

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against 5 interceptions. Trinity went undefeated for a second consecutive regular season in 2006 and lost in the state championship game, ending a 27-game winning streak.</s><s>Coaching career.:Jacksonville University. In 2007, Bell became the head coach of the Jacksonville Dolphins, a non-scholarship NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) football program representing Jacksonville University. In Bell's second season, the JU Dolphins went 9–4 and won the Pioneer Football League (PFL) championship, and Bell was recognized as the PFL Coach of the Year and was a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Award. The Dolphins won another PFL championship in 2010 with a 10–1 record. During his tenure at Jacksonville, Bell was rumored to be a candidate for coaching positions at major college programs and confirmed a 2011 interview for the offensive coordinator position with the Florida Gators. Regarding other job options, Bell stated that he intended to build a "strong legacy" at Jacksonville University and would only leave for "the right situation". Despite compiling a 66–35 record and winning three PFL championships at a school that had only posted one winning season before his arrival, Bell's contract was not renewed after the 2015 season. The school's administration announced that the decision was due to

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"philosophical differences" stemming from the fact that the school wanted to keep the non-scholarship football program as-is while Bell had publicly speculated that the JU could eventually develop a major FCS football program by offering scholarships.</s><s>Coaching career.:Valdosta State. In January 2016, Bell was named the new head coach of the Blazers of Valdosta State University, a scholarship football program that competes in NCAA Division II. In 2018, Bell led the Blazers to the program's first undefeated season (14–0) and the Division II National Championship. The Blazers led D-II in scoring with 52 points per game and scored the most points in Gulf South Conference history.</s><s>Coaching career.:USF. In January 2019, Bell was named the offensive coordinator for the South Florida Bulls by head coach Charlie Strong, who knew Bell from several stints as an assistant coach at the University of Florida. Bell was given "total control" of the Bulls' offense, which had stagnated before his arrival. USF suffered through a disappointing 4–8 2019 season, resulting in the dismissal of Strong. Incoming head coach Jeff Scott opted to build a new staff, and Bell was dismissed along with the rest of Strong's assistant coaches on

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December 16.</s><s>Coaching career.:Western Carolina. Bell was hired as the 14th head coach at Western Carolina on April 27, 2021. In his first year, Bell led the Catamounts to a 4-7 record after starting the season 0-6. In his second year, Bell led the Catamounts to a 6-5 record, their first winning season since 2017.</s><s>Personal life. Kerwin Bell married the former Cosette Odom in 1986, while they were both students at the University of Florida. The two had first met in kindergarten in their hometown of Mayo, and at the time of their marriage, Cosette was Florida's majorette captain while Kerwin was the Gators' star quarterback. Their son, Kade Bell, joined his father's coaching staff at Valdosta State and was the primary playcaller during their national championship season in 2018. Kade also joined his father's staff at USF.</s><s>Head coaching record.</s><s>Head coaching record.:College. - Official record was 0–0 due to rules violations</s><s>See also. - List of Florida Gators in the NFL Draft - List of SEC Most Valuable Players - List of University of Florida alumni - List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of

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Fame members</s><s>Bibliography. - Carlson, Norm, "University of Florida Football Vault: The History of the Florida Gators", Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia (2007).. - Golenbock, Peter, "Go Gators! An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory", Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002).. - Hairston, Jack, "Tales from the Gator Swamp: A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told", Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois (2002).. - McCarthy, Kevin M., "Fightin' Gators: A History of University of Florida Football", Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2000).. - Nash, Noel, ed., "The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football", Sports Publishing, Inc., Champaign, Illinois (1998)..</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Tom Coburn.

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<s>Tom Coburn Thomas Allen Coburn (March 14, 1948 – March 28, 2020) was an American politician and physician who served as a United States senator for Oklahoma from 2005, until his resignation in 2015. A Republican, he previously served as a United States representative. Coburn was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1994 as part of the Republican Revolution. He upheld his campaign pledge to serve no more than three consecutive terms and did not run for re-election in 2000. In 2004, he returned to political life with a successful run for the United States Senate. Coburn was re-elected to a second term in 2010 and kept his pledge not to seek a third term in 2016. In January 2014, Coburn announced he would resign before the expiration of his final term due to a recurrence of prostate cancer. He submitted a letter of resignation to Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, effective at the end of the 113th Congress. Coburn was a fiscal and social conservative, known for his opposition to deficit spending and pork barrel projects, and for his opposition to abortion. Described as "the godfather of the modern conservative austerity movement", he supported term limits, gun rights and the death penalty and opposed same-sex marriage and embryonic stem cell research

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. Many Democrats referred to him as "Dr. No" due to his frequent use of technicalities to block federal spending bills. After leaving Congress, Coburn worked with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research on its efforts to reform the Food and Drug Administration, becoming a senior fellow of the institute in December 2016. Coburn also served as a senior advisor to Citizens for Self-Governance, where he was active in calling for a convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution.</s><s>Early life, education, and medical career. Coburn was born in Casper, Wyoming, the son of Anita Joy (née Allen) and Orin Wesley Coburn. Coburn's father was an optician and founder of Coburn Optical Industries, and a named donor to O. W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University. Coburn graduated with a B.S. in accounting from Oklahoma State University, where he was also a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. In 1968, he married Carolyn Denton, the 1967 Miss Oklahoma; their three daughters are Callie, Katie and Sarah, a leading operatic soprano. One of the top ten seniors in the School of Business, Coburn served as president of the College of Business Student Council. From 1970

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to 1978, Coburn served as a manufacturing manager at the Ophthalmic Division of Coburn Optical Industries in Colonial Heights, Virginia. While Coburn was manager, the Virginia division of Coburn Optical grew from 13 employees to over 350 and captured 35 percent of the U.S. market. After recovering from an occurrence of malignant melanoma, Coburn pursued a medical degree and graduated from the University of Oklahoma Medical School with honors in 1983. He then opened Maternal & Family Practice in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and served as a deacon in a Southern Baptist Church. During his career in obstetrics, he treated over 15,000 patients, delivered 4,000 babies and was subject to one malpractice lawsuit, which was dismissed without finding Coburn at fault. Together Coburn and his wife were members of First Baptist Church of Muskogee.</s><s>Early life, education, and medical career.:Sterilization controversy. A sterilization Coburn performed on a 20-year-old woman, Angela Plummer, in 1990, became what was called "the most incendiary issue" of his Senate campaign. Coburn performed the sterilization on the woman during an emergency surgery to treat a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, removing her healthy intact fall

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opian tube as well as the one damaged by the surgery. The woman sued Coburn, alleging that he did not have consent to sterilize her, while Coburn claimed he had her oral consent. The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed with no finding of liability on Coburn's part. The state attorney general claimed that Coburn committed Medicaid fraud by not reporting the sterilization when he filed a claim for the emergency surgery. Medicaid did not reimburse doctors for sterilization procedures for patients under 21 and according to the attorney general, Coburn would not have been reimbursed at all had he disclosed this information. Coburn says since he did not file a claim for the sterilization, no fraud was committed. No charges were filed against Coburn for this claim.</s><s>Political career.</s><s>Political career.:House career. In 1994, Coburn ran for the House of Representatives in Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district, which was based in Muskogee and included 22 counties in northeastern Oklahoma. Coburn initially expected to face eight-term incumbent Mike Synar. However, Synar was defeated in a runoff for the Democratic nomination by a 71-year-old retired principal, Virgil Cooper. According to Coburn's 2003 book, "Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outs

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iders Into Insiders", Coburn and Cooper got along well, since both were opposed to the more liberal Synar. The general election was cordial since both men knew that Synar would not return to Washington regardless of the outcome. Coburn won by a 52%–48% margin, becoming the first Republican to represent the district since 1921. Coburn was one of the most conservative members of the House. He supported "reducing the size of the federal budget," wanted to make abortion illegal and supported the proposed television V-chip legislation. Despite representing a heavily Democratic district and President Bill Clinton's electoral dominance therein, Coburn was reelected in 1996 and 1998. In the House, Coburn earned a reputation as a political maverick due to his frequent battles with House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Most of these stand-offs stemmed from his belief that the Republican caucus was moving toward the political center and away from the more conservative Contract With America policy proposals that had brought the Republicans into power in Congress in 1994 for the first time in 40 years. Coburn endorsed conservative activist and former diplomat Alan Keyes in the 2000 Republican presidential primaries. Coburn retired from Congress in 2001, fulfilling his pledge to serve no more than three terms in the House. His congressional district returned to

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the Democratic fold, as attorney Brad Carson defeated Andy Ewing, a Republican endorsed by Coburn. After leaving the House and returning to private medical practice, Coburn wrote "Breach of Trust", with ghostwriter John Hart, about his experiences in Congress. The book detailed Coburn's perspective on the internal Republican Party debates over the Contract With America and displayed his disdain for career politicians. Some of the figures he criticized (such as Gingrich) were already out of office at the time of the book's publishing, but others (such as former House Speaker Dennis Hastert) remained influential in Congress, which resulted in speculation that some congressional Republicans wanted no part of Coburn's return to politics. During his tenure in the House, Coburn wrote and passed far-reaching pieces of legislation. These include laws to expand seniors' health care options, to protect access to home health care in rural areas and to allow Americans to access cheaper medications from Canada and other nations. Coburn also wrote a law intended to prevent the spread of AIDS to infants. "The Wall Street Journal" said about the law, "In 10 long years of AIDS politics and funding, this is actually the first legislation to pass in this country that will rescue babies." He also wrote a law to renew and

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reform federal AIDS care programs. In 2002, President George W. Bush chose Coburn to serve as co-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). During his three terms in the House, Coburn also played an influential role in reforming welfare and other federal entitlement programs.</s><s>Political career.:House career.:"Schindler's List" TV broadcast. As a congressman in 1997, Coburn protested NBC's plan to air the R-rated Academy Award-winning Holocaust drama "Schindler's List" during prime time. Coburn stated that, in airing the movie without editing it for television, TV had been taken "to an all-time low, with full-frontal nudity, violence and profanity." He also said the TV broadcast should outrage parents and decent-minded individuals everywhere. Coburn described the airing of "Schindler's List" on television as "irresponsible sexual behavior. I cringe when I realize that there were children all across this nation watching this program." This statement met with strong criticism, as the film deals mainly with the Holocaust. After heavy criticism, Coburn apologized "to all those I have offended" and clarified that he agreed with the movie being aired on television, but stated that it should

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have been on later in the evening. In apologizing, Coburn said that at that time of the evening there are still large numbers of children watching without parental supervision and stated that he stood by his message of protecting children from violence, but had expressed it poorly. He also said, "My intentions were good, but I've obviously made an error in judgment in how I've gone about saying what I wanted to say." He later wrote in "Breach of Trust" that he considered this one of the biggest mistakes in his life and that, while he still felt the material was unsuitable for a 7 p.m. television broadcast, he handled the situation poorly.</s><s>Political career.:Senate career. After three years out of politics, Coburn announced his candidacy for the Senate seat being vacated by four-term incumbent Republican Don Nickles. Former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys (the favorite of the state and national Republican establishment) and Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony joined the field before Coburn. However, Coburn won the primary by an unexpectedly large margin, taking 61% of the vote to Humphreys's 25%. In the general election, he faced Brad Carson, the Democrat who had succeeded him in the 2nd District and was giving up his seat after only two terms

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. In the election, Coburn won by a margin of 53% to Carson's 42%. While Carson routed Coburn in the generally heavily Democratic 2nd District, Coburn swamped Carson in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area and the closer-in Tulsa suburbs. Coburn won the state's two largest counties, Tulsa and Oklahoma, by a combined 86,000 votes, more than half of his overall margin of 166,000 votes cast. Coburn's Senate voting record was as conservative as his House record. Coburn was re-elected in 2010. He received 90% of the vote in the Republican primary and 70% in the general election. While he already planned on not seeking a third term in the Senate due to his self-imposed two-term term limit, on January 16, 2014, Coburn announced he would resign his office before his term ended at the end of the year due to his declining health. On April 29, 2014, Coburn introduced the Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014 (S. 2270; 113th Congress) into the Senate and it passed on June 3, 2014.</s><s>Political career.:Senate career.:Use of Senate hold. Coburn used the Senate hold privilege to prevent several bills from coming to the Senate floor.

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Coburn earned a reputation for his use of this procedural mechanism. In November 2009 Coburn drew attention for placing a hold on a veterans benefits bill known as the Veterans' Caregiver and Omnibus Health Benefits Act. Coburn also placed a hold on a bill intended to help end hostilities in Uganda by the Lord's Resistance Army. On May 23, 2007, Coburn blocked two bills honoring the 100th birthday of Rachel Carson. Coburn called Carson's scientific work "junk science," proclaiming that Carson's landmark book "Silent Spring" was "the catalyst in the deadly worldwide stigmatization against insecticides, especially DDT." Democratic Senator Benjamin L. Cardin of Maryland had intended to submit a resolution celebrating Carson for her "legacy of scientific rigor coupled with poetic sensibility," but Coburn blocked it, saying that "the junk science and stigma surrounding DDT—the cheapest and most effective insecticide on the planet—have finally been jettisoned." In response to Coburn's holds, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced the Advancing America's Priorities Act,, in July 2008. S. 3297 combined thirty-five bills which Coburn had blocked into what Democrats called the "Tomnibus" bill. The bill included health care

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provisions, new penalties for child pornography, and several natural resources bills. The bill failed a cloture vote. Coburn opposed parts of the legislation creating the Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Area, which would add protections to wildlands in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Coburn exercised a hold on the legislation in both March and November 2008, and decried the required $10 million for surveying and mapping as wasteful. The Mount Hood bill would have been the largest amount of land added to federal protection since 1984. In March 2009, those wilderness areas became protected under the Omnibus Public Land Management Act, which passed the Senate 73–21. According to the "Boston Globe", Coburn initially blocked passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), objecting to provisions in the bill that allow discrimination based on genetic information from embryos and fetuses. After the embryo loophole was closed, Coburn lifted his hold on the bill. Coburn had initially blocked passage of the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, which would help to disarm the Lord's Resistance Army, a political group accused of human rights abuses. On March 9, 2010, Coburn lifted his hold on the LRA bill freeing it to move to the Senate floor after reaching

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a compromise regarding the funding of the bill, and an eleven-day protest outside of his office.</s><s>Political career.:Senate career.:John Ensign scandal. Coburn was affiliated with a religious organization called The Family. Coburn previously lived in one of the Family's Washington, D.C. dormitories with then-Senator John Ensign, another Family member and longtime resident of the C Street Center who admitted he had an extramarital affair with a staffer in 2009. The announcement by Ensign of his infidelity brought public scrutiny of the Family and its connection to other high-ranking politicians, including Coburn. Coburn, together with senior members of the Family, attempted to intervene to end Ensign's affair in February 2008, before the affair became public, including by meeting with the husband of Ensign's mistress and encouraging Ensign to write a letter to his mistress breaking off the affair. Ensign was driven to a branch of Federal Express from the C Street Center to post the letter, shortly after which Ensign called to tell his mistress to ignore it. Coburn refused to speak about his involvement in Ensign's affair or his knowledge of the affair well before it became public, asserting legal privilege due to his separate statuses as a licensed

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physician in the State of Oklahoma and a deacon. In October 2009, Coburn did make a statement to "The New York Times" about Ensign's affair and cover-up: "John got trapped doing something really stupid and then made a lot of other mistakes afterward. Judgment gets impaired by arrogance and that's what's going on here." In May 2011, the Senate Ethics Committee identified Coburn in their report on the ethics violations of Senator John Ensign. The report stated that Coburn knew about Ensign's extramarital affair and was involved in trying to negotiate a financial settlement to cover it up.</s><s>Political career.:Senate career.:Whistleblower rights. Coburn was involved in the Bush Administration's struggle with Congress over whistleblower rights. In the case of "Garcetti v. Ceballos", the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that government employees who testify against their employers did not have protection from retaliation by their employers under the First Amendment of the Constitution. The free speech protections of the First Amendment have long been used to shield whistleblowers from retaliation. In response to the Supreme Court decision, the House passed H.R. 985, the Whistleblower Protection Act of 2007. Bush, citing national security concerns,

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promised to veto the bill should it be enacted into law by Congress. The Senate's version of the Whistleblower Protection Act (S. 274) was approved by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on June 13, 2007. However, that version failed to reach a vote by the Senate, as Coburn placed a hold on the bill; effectively preventing the passage of the bill, which had bipartisan support in the Senate. Coburn's website features a news item about United Nations whistleblower Mathieu Credo Koumoin, a former employee for the U.N. Development Program in West Africa, who has asked U.N. ethics chief Robert Benson for protection under the U.N.'s new whistleblower protection rules. The site has a link to the "United Nations Watch" of the Republican Office of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information and International Security, of which he was the ranking minority member. Coburn's website also features a tip line for potential whistleblowers on government waste and fraud.</s><s>Political career.:Senate career.:Council on American–Islamic Relations. Coburn joined Congressmen Sue Myrick (R-NC), Trent Franks (R-AZ), John Shadegg (R

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-AZ), Paul Broun (R-GA) and Patrick McHenry (R-NC) in a letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman on November 16, 2009, asking that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) be investigated for excessive lobbying and failing to register as a lobbying organization. The request came in the wake of the publication of a book, "Muslim Mafia", the foreword of which had been penned by Myrick, that portrayed CAIR as a subversive organization allied with international terrorists.</s><s>Political career.:Senate career.:Criticism of the National Science Foundation. On May 26, 2011 Coburn released his 73-page report, "", receiving immediate attention from such media outlets as "The New York Times", Fox News and MSNBC.</s><s>Political career.:Senate career.:STOCK Act. Coburn was one of three senators who voted against the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (STOCK Act). On February 3, 2012, Coburn released the following statement regarding the Act:</s><s>Political career.:Senate career.:Committee assignments. Coburn was a member of the following committees: - Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Ranking Member) - Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations - Subcommittee on Financial and Contract

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ing Oversight - Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce - Subcommittee on Emergency Management, Intergovernmental Affairs, and the District of Columbia - Select Committee on Intelligence - Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - Subcommittee on Economic Policy - Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment - Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development</s><s>Political positions.</s><s>Political positions.:Abortion. Coburn opposed abortion, with the exception of abortions necessary to save the life of the mother. In 2000, he sponsored a bill to prevent the Food and Drug Administration from developing, testing, or approving the abortifacient RU-486. On July 13, the bill failed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 182 to 187. On the issue, Coburn sparked controversy with his remark, "I favor the death penalty for abortionists and other people who take life." He noted that his great-grandmother was raped by a sheriff. Coburn was one of the original authors of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act upheld by the United States Supreme Court in "Gonzales v. Carhart". The act relied on an expansive view of the Constitution's Commerce Clause, as it applies to "any physician who, in or affecting

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interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion." The Act's reliance on such a broad reading of the Commerce Clause was criticized by Independence Institute scholar David Kopel and University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, who noted that "[u]nless a physician is operating a mobile abortion clinic on the Metroliner, it is not really possible to perform an abortion 'in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce.'" When Coburn later called Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan "ignorant" due to her "very expansive view" of the Commerce Clause, his support for the Act was used by Kagan supporters who charged him with hypocrisy on the issue. On September 14, 2005, during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, Coburn began his opening statement with a critique of Beltway partisan politics while, according to news reports, "choking back a sob." Coburn had earlier been completing a crossword puzzle during the hearings, and this fact was highlighted by "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" to ridicule Coburn's pathos. Coburn then began his questioning by discussing the various legal terms mentioned during the previous day's hearings. Proceeding to questions regarding both abortion and end-of-life issues, Coburn, who noted that

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during his tenure as an obstetrician he had delivered some 4,000 babies, asked Roberts whether the judge agreed with the proposition that "the opposite of being dead is being alive."</s><s>Political positions.:Fiscal conservatism. The best-known of Coburn's amendments was an amendment to the fiscal 2006 appropriations bill that funds transportation projects. Coburn's amendment would have transferred funding from the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska to rebuild Louisiana's "Twin Spans" bridge, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The amendment was defeated in the Senate, 82–14, after Ted Stevens, the senior senator from Alaska, threatened to resign his office if the amendment were passed. Coburn's actions did result in getting the funds made into a more politically feasible block grant to the State of Alaska, which could use the funds for the bridge or other projects. The renovations for the Elizabethtown Amtrak Station were cited by Coburn as an example of pork barrel spending in the stimulus bill. Coburn was also a member of the Fiscal Watch Team, a group of seven senators led by John McCain, whose stated goal was to combat "wasteful government spending." On April 6, 2006, Coburn and Senators Barack Obama, Thomas Carper and John McCain introduced the Federal Funding

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Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. The bill requires the full disclosure of all entities and organizations receiving federal funds beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2007 on a website maintained by the Office of Management and Budget. The bill was signed into law on September 26, 2006. Coburn and McCain noted that the practice of members of Congress adding earmarks had risen dramatically over the years, from 121 earmarks in 1987 to 15,268 earmarks in 2005, according to the Congressional Research Service. In July 2007, Coburn criticized pork-barrel spending that Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson had inserted into the 2007 defense spending bill. Coburn said that the earmarks would benefit Nelson's son Patrick's employer with millions in federal dollars and that the situation violated terms of the Transparency Act, which was passed by the Senate but had not yet been voted on in the House. Nelson's spokesperson said the Senator did nothing wrong. At that time, newspapers in Nebraska and Oklahoma noted that Coburn failed to criticize very similar earmarks that had benefited Oklahoma. In 1997, Coburn introduced a bill called the HIV Prevention Act of 1997, which would have amended the Social Security Act. The bill would have required confidential notification of HIV exposure to the sexual partners of those diagnosed with HIV, along with counseling and testing

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. In 2010, Coburn called for a freeze on defense spending. The following year, along with Democratic Maryland Senator Ben Cardin, he introduced a bill to "get rid of the most venerable big ethanol subsidy: the blenders tax credit." Coburn served on the Simpson-Bowles debt reduction commission in 2010 and was one of the only Republicans in Congress open to tax increases as a means of balancing the budget. In 2011 Coburn broke with Americans for Tax Reform with an ethanol amendment that gathered 70 votes in the Senate. He said that anti-tax activist Grover Norquist's influence was overstated, and that revenue increases were needed in order to "fix the country." In 2012, Coburn identified less than $7 billion a year in possible defense savings and over half of these savings were to be through the elimination of military personnel involved in supply, transportation, and communications services. In May 2013, after tornadoes ripped through his state, Coburn said that any new funding allocated for disaster relief needed to be offset by cuts to other federal spending. Coburn was a fierce critic of the plan to attempt to defund the Affordable Care Act by shutting down the federal government, saying that the strategy was "doomed to fail" and that Ted Cruz and others who

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supported the plan had a "short-term goal with lousy tactics".</s><s>Political positions.:Gun rights. In regards to the Second Amendment, Coburn believed that it "recognizes the right of individual, law-abiding citizens to own and use firearms," and he opposed "any and all efforts to mandate gun control on law-abiding citizens." On the Credit CARD Act of 2009, which aimed "to establish fair and transparent practices relating to the extension of credit under an open-end consumer credit plan and for other purposes," Coburn sponsored an amendment that would allow concealed carry of firearms in national parks. The Senate passed the amendment 67–29. Coburn placed a hold on final Senate consideration of a measure passed by the House in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings to improve state performance in checking the federal watch list of gun buyers. However, after the Sandy Hook massacre in December 2012, Coburn (who had already announced he would not run for re-election) reversed himself and came out in support of universal background checks. Coburn partnered with Democratic members of the Senate such as Charles Schumer and Joe Manchin (to whose re-election campaign Coburn donated money) to determine what a universal background check measure should look like. However, these talks ultimately broke down

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, and in April 2013, Coburn was one of 46 senators to vote against the amendment in its final form, defeating its passage.</s><s>Political positions.:Health care reform. Coburn voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009, and against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Coburn co-authored the Patients Choice Act of 2009 (S. 1099), a Republican plan for health care reform in the United States, which in part 1) Requires the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convene an interagency coordinating committee to develop a national strategic plan for prevention. The act provided for health promotion and disease prevention activities consistent with such a plan. Secondly it set forth provisions governing the establishment and operation of state-based health care exchanges to facilitate the individual purchase of private health insurance and the creation of a market where private health plans compete for enrollees based on price and quality. Thirdly it intended to amend the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for qualified health care insurance coverage. Fourth it sets forth programs to prevent Medicare fraud and abuse, including ending the use of social security numbers to identify Medicare beneficiaries. Fifth it sought to terminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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</s><s>Political positions.:Presidential nominations to the Judicial and Executive branches of government. During the administration of President George W. Bush, Coburn spoke out against the threat by some Democrats to filibuster nominations to judicial and Executive Branch positions. He took the position that no presidential nomination should ever be filibustered, in light of the wording of the U.S. Constitution. Coburn said, "There is a defined charge to the president and the Senate on advice and consent." In May 2009, Coburn was the only Senator to vote against the confirmation of Gil Kerlikowske as the Director of the National Drug Control Policy.</s><s>Political positions.:Same-sex marriage. Coburn opposed same-sex marriage. In 2006, he voted in support of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban it.</s><s>Political positions.:War in Iraq. On May 24, 2007, the U.S. Senate voted 80–14 to fund the war in Iraq, which included U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007. Coburn voted nay. On October 1, 2007, the Senate voted 92–3 to fund the war in Iraq. Coburn voted nay. In February 2008, Coburn

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said, "I will tell you personally that I think it was probably a mistake going to Iraq." On December 15, 2014, Coburn stalled the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act aimed at stemming veteran suicides. The bill would require a report on successful veteran suicide prevention programs and allow the United States Veterans Administration to pay incentives to hire psychiatrists. Paul Rieckhoff, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said that despite his reputation as a budget hawk, Coburn should have recognized that the $22 million cost of the bill is worth the lives it would have saved. "It's a shame that after two decades of service in Washington, Sen. Coburn will always be remembered for this final, misguided attack on veterans nationwide," he said. "If it takes 90 days for the new Congress to re-pass this bill, the statistics tell us another 1,980 vets will have died by suicide. That should be a heavy burden on the conscience of Sen. Coburn and this Congress." Speaking out against the legislation, Coburn said "I object, not because I don't want to save suicides, but because I don't think this bill will do the first thing to change what's happening," arguing that the bill" "throws money and doesn

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't solve the real problem"</s><s>Post-Senate career. After resigning from the U.S. Senate, Coburn joined Citizens for Self-Governance as a senior advisor to the group's Convention of States project, which seeks to convene a convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution. In 2017, he authored a book on the subject titled "Smashing the DC Monopoly: Using Article V to Restore Freedom and Stop Runaway Government". Coburn was affiliated with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, consulting on the institute's Project FDA, an effort to promote faster drug approval processes. He also sat on the board of the Benjamin Rush Institute, a conservative association of medical students across 20 medical schools. In 2016, he became a Manhattan Institute senior fellow.</s><s>Awards. In 2013, Coburn received the U.S. Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official, an award given out annually by the Jefferson Awards.</s><s>Personal life. Despite their stark ideological differences, Coburn was a close friend of President Barack Obama. Their friendship began in 2005 when they both arrived in the Senate at the same time. They worked together on political ethics reform legislation, to set up an online federal spending database

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and to crack down on no-bid contracting at the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In April 2011, Coburn spoke to Bloomberg TV about Obama, saying, "I love the man. I think he's a neat man. I don't want him to be president, but I still love him. He is our President. He's my President. And I disagree with him adamantly on 95% of the issues, but that doesn't mean I can't have a great relationship. And that's a model people ought to follow." Before the 2009 BCS game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Florida Gators, Coburn made a bet over the outcome of the game with Florida Senator Bill Nelson—the loser had to serenade the winner with a song. The Gators defeated the Sooners and Coburn sang Elton John's "Rocket Man" to Nelson, who had once flown into space.</s><s>Personal life.:Illness and death. In November 2013, Coburn made public that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. In 2011, he had prostate cancer surgery while also surviving colon cancer and melanoma. The results caused Coburn to resign from the senate in 2014. Coburn died at his home in Tulsa on March 28,

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2020, exactly two weeks after his 72nd birthday. A memorial service to honor his life was held a year later on May 1, 2021, at South Tulsa Baptist Church.</s><s>Books. -  (with John Hart) -  (with John Hart) -</s><s>See also. - Physicians in the United States Congress</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Kari Matchett.

Kari Matchett

<s>Kari Matchett Kari Matchett is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Colleen Blessed on "Power Play", as Joan Campbell on "Covert Affairs" and as Kate Filmore in the science fiction movie "". She has also appeared in films such as "Apartment Hunting" (2000), "Angel Eyes" (2001), "Men with Brooms" (2002), "Cypher" (2002), "Civic Duty" (2006), "The Tree of Life" (2011), and "Maudie" (2016).</s><s>Early life and education. Matchett was born in Spalding, Saskatchewan. She attended high school at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute in Lethbridge, Alberta. She attended the National Theatre School in Montreal and the Moscow Theatre School. Matchett performed on stage for three years at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.</s><s>Career. In Canada, her first major role was on "The Rez", and her first starring role was as Colleen Blessed in "Power Play" (1998–2000). Matchett was a cast member on the A&E Network TV series "A Nero Wolfe Mystery" (2001–2002), with Timothy Hutton in which she

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played several characters, including a recurring role as Lily Rowan. On "Wonderfalls", she played Beth, the bisexual love interest of the main character's lesbian sister. In 2001, she played Candace in the drama film "Angel Eyes". In 2002, she played Kate Filmore in the science fiction horror thriller "". In 2003, she starred with Timothy Hutton in the Syfy miniseries "Five Days to Midnight". Her next role was as Detective Elaine Bender in "Blue Murder" in 2004. She previously guest starred on "Blue Murder" in 2001 as a suspect in a murder investigation, for which she won a Gemini Award. In 2005, Matchett starred in the ABC series "Invasion", about aliens taking the form of humans. She also appeared in "". She also appeared as Mary Tate on "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip". She appeared in both "Shark" and "Wild Card". She played a single mother stalked by her boyfriend in "Intimate Stranger", in 2006. In the same year she starred with Peter Krause in "Civic Duty". In 2007, Matchett joined the cast of "24", as. In June 2007, she played Kate Armstrong in the TNT series "Heartland". In 2007 and

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2008, she was cast as ER chief Skye Wexler on "ER". In 2008 and 2009, she played Dennis Hopper's character's daughter, Jules, in the critically acclaimed Starz series "Crash". She had a recurring role in the TNT series "Leverage", reuniting with "Nero Wolfe" co-star Timothy Hutton, portraying Maggie Collins, the ex-wife of Hutton's character, Nathan "Nate" Ford. Matchett starred as Joan Campbell in the USA Network series "Covert Affairs" (2010–2014). In 2016, Matchett appeared as Sandra in "Maudie" with Ethan Hawke. She also played a supporting role in Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life", with Sean Penn and Brad Pitt. Shot in 2008, the film premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2011 and received the Palme d'Or.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Clancy Brown.

Clancy Brown

<s>Clancy Brown Clarence John "Clancy" Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor. Prolific in film and television since the 1980s, Brown is often cast in villainous and authoritative roles. His film roles include Viking Lofgren in "Bad Boys" (1983), Rawhide in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" (1984), The Kurgan in "Highlander" (1986), Sheriff Gus Gilbert in "Pet Sematary Two" (1992), Capt. Byron Hadley in "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994), Sgt. Charles Zim in "Starship Troopers" (1997), Stanley Thomas in "Promising Young Woman" (2020), and The Harbinger in "" (2023). On television, he has played Brother Justin Crowe on the HBO series "Carnivàle" (2003–2005), Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat on the Showtime series "Billions" (2018–2019), and Kurt Caldwell on the Showtime series "" (2021–2022). Brown is a prolific voice actor, who is best known as the voice of Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Universe (1996–2006) as well as other DC Comics

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projects, and Mr. Krabs on "SpongeBob SquarePants" (1999–present). Other characters he has voiced include Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka in the "Crash Bandicoot" franchise (1997–2003), Savage Opress in "" (2011–2013), Surtur in "" (2017), and Hank Anderson in "" (2018).</s><s>Early life. Clancy Brown was born on January 5, 1959, in Urbana, Ohio, and had an older sister, Beth who died in 1964. Their mother, Joyce Helen (Eldridge), was a conductor, composer and concert pianist. His father, Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr. (1927–2022), was a newspaper publisher who helped manage the Brown Publishing Company, the family-owned newspaper business started by Clancy's grandfather, Congressman Clarence J. Brown. From 1965 to 1983, Bud Brown also served as a congressman, in the same seat as his own father, and later as Chairman of the Board of Brown Publishing. The family continued to operate the business until 2010. Brown graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and Northwestern University. At St. Albans, Brown performed the role of Deputy Governor Thomas Dan

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forth in "The Crucible". Brown has been married to Jeanne Johnson since 1993. They have a son and a daughter. Brown is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.</s><s>Career.</s><s>Career.:Live-action performances. In Brown's first mainstream movie, he was cast as Viking Lofgren alongside Sean Penn in the 1983 crime drama "Bad Boys". Brown is known for his role as the Kurgan in the 1986 film "Highlander", his role as Captain Byron Hadley in "The Shawshank Redemption", Rawhide in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" (1984), Frankenstein's monster in "The Bride" (1985), Army mercenary Larry McRose in "Extreme Prejudice", the role of a band manager in "Thunder Alley" (1985), vicious killer Steve in "Shoot to Kill" (1988), the police officer in Michael Jackson's short movie "Speed Demon" (1988), "Dead Man Walking", Sheriff Gus Gilbert in "Pet Sematary Two", Sergeant Zim in "Starship Troopers" (a role he would reprise in the animated series ""), and Captain William Hadley in "The Guardian". He also played a role in "Flubber

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" as one of the evil henchmen that get harmed by uncontrollably bouncing sports equipment. In 1989, he appeared in the action thriller "Blue Steel". Brown has played prison officers in three films dealing with miscarriages of justice: the tyrannical Captain Byron Hadley in "The Shawshank Redemption", the sympathetic Lt. Williams in "The Hurricane", and Lt. McMannis in "Last Light". In 2001, he played a magical character credited as 'The granter of wishes' in the Hallmark version of "". In 2007, he played the Viking leader opposite Karl Urban in "Pathfinder". He starred in several independent films in 2008: "The Burrowers", screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, and released in the United States on DVD in April 2009, and "The Twenty". He appeared in Steven Soderbergh's 2009 film "The Informant!" opposite Matt Damon in which he played an attorney. He also portrayed Alan Smith in Samuel Bayer's 2010 remake of the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street". In 2011, he appeared in "Cowboys & Aliens" (directed by Jon Favreau) with Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. He was cast as the voice of "The Goon" in the

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animated feature film. He also starred as Albert Marconi in the film adaptation of the David Wong novel "John Dies at the End", directed by Don Coscarelli. Brown was a series regular on the science fiction series "Earth 2" from 1994 to 1995, playing the role of John Danziger. Brown was notable as the sinister preacher Brother Justin Crowe in the HBO series "Carnivàle". Though the series only ran for two seasons, "Carnivàle" has attained a cult popularity and his performance was applauded by critics for showcasing a new side to his acting talents. He also starred in the Showtime production "In the Company of Spies" and the HBO film "Cast a Deadly Spell". As conservative United States Attorney General Jock Jeffcoat, he was one of the primary antagonists in seasons three and four of the Showtime series "Billions". He has also made many guest appearances on various television series including "ER", the "" episode "Desert Crossing" as Zobral, "Lost" as Kelvin Joe Inman, and former baseball player (and investment scam mark) Rudy Blue on "The Riches". Brown also appeared as the frontiersman Simon Kenton, the key to America's westward expansion, in

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the 2000 Kentucky Educational Television production "A Walk with Simon Kenton". Kenton resembled Brown in stature and is buried in Brown's hometown. Brown most recently appeared as Hart Sterling, founding partner of fictional law firm Sterling, Huddle, Oppenheim & Craft in ABC's "The Deep End". He also guest starred on the "Leverage" series episode "The Gone Fishin Job" and on "The Dukes of Hazzard" sixth-season episode "Too Many Roscos". Currently, he appears on The CW's TV production of "The Flash" in the recurring guest-star role of General Wade Eiling. He has also portrayed Ray Schoonover in the "Daredevil" episodes "Guilty as Sin" and "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel" and "The Punisher" episode "Kandahar". He played Sheriff Joe Corbin in "Sleepy Hollow". In 2022, Brown joined the cast of "The Boys" spin-off series "Gen V" in an undisclosed role.</s><s>Career.:Voice-over work. As a voice-over actor, Brown has appeared in several video games, usually playing an antagonistic character. He lends his voice to several of the crystallized dragons in the PlayStation

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game "Spyro the Dragon". He voiced the corrupt Baron Praxis in the PlayStation 2 video game "Jak II"; Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka in a number of the "Crash Bandicoot" video games; Montross (a Mandalorian rival of Jango Fett) in ""; Hades in "God of War III"; Thrall in the cancelled video game ""; Scourgelord Tyrannus in ""; the conniving Alderman Richard Hughes in the Xbox 360 game "Saints Row"; and the cynical, foul-mouthed Lt. Anderson in "". For animated television series, he voiced several characters (Hakon, Tomas Brod and Wolf) in the series "Gargoyles"; Tanuki Gonta in the English language dub of "Pom Poko" (1994); Raiden on the animated series ""; a Hessian trooper in "The Night of the Headless Horseman" (1999); billionaire Maxmilian Speil in ""; and five of the six members of Legion Ex Machina in "Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot". Since 1999, he has played the role of Mr. Krabs of "SpongeBob SquarePants" (as well as "The Sponge

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Bob SquarePants Movie" and its two sequels " and "). From 2000 to 2005, he played several roles (Captain Black, Ratso and the animated moose doll Super Moose) on "Jackie Chan Adventures". He also voiced Vice-Principal Pangborn in "All Grown Up!", Barkmeat in "Catscratch", Otto in "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!" (which also stars fellow "SpongeBob" co-star Tom Kenny, who voices Gibson) and Gorrath in "Megas XLR". For Disney, he has played roles such as the Dark Dragon in "", the Ugly Bald Guy in the movie "", as well as Undertow in "", and he also made a guest appearance in the "Kim Possible" episode "Oh, No! Yono" where he played the titular character. He also lent his voice to King Frederick in the Disney Channel series "Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure" and the Disney Channel movie "". For Nickelodeon, Brown has voiced several characters in the "Avatar" franchise, such as corrupt Dai Li leader Long Feng in "" in 2006 and top gangster Yakone in "The Legend of Korra" in 2012. He guest-star

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red in as the Demon Cat and the narrator for the opening and closing quotes in the episode. Brown also voices Destro in ""; Jeff Fischer's biological father in "American Dad!"; Grune the Destroyer in the "ThunderCats" reboot; and the recurring role of Agent Silas in "". From 2011 to 2013, Brown voiced Savage Opress, Count Dooku's new apprentice and Darth Maul's brother, in "". He starred as Chris "Dogpound or Rahzar" Bradford, Shredder's top henchman, in the 2012 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" television series. From the third quarter of 2014, Brown began doing voice-overs as the main talent for Chevy truck national and regional television commercials. On March 21, 2016, Brown began voicing a new character to the series, Red Death, a parody of the Marvel villain Red Skull, in "The Venture Brothers" episode "Red Means Stop". He continued this role in season 7, and was signed to appear in season 8 before the show's cancellation.</s><s>Career.:Voice-over work.:DC Universe. Brown is well known for voicing the villainous Lex Luthor in various animated media for over twelve years. He first voiced Luthor in the DCAU, starting with

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"" (where he had originally auditioned for the role of Superman) and reprised his role in the subsequent animated series "Justice League" and "Justice League Unlimited". He also voiced the character in the video game "" as well as "The Batman" cartoon series. Brown later again played Luthor in the 2009 animated film "". He also voiced a character under the name Rohtul (which is Luthor spelled backwards) in "" (while Kevin Michael Richardson provided the voice of the actual character). Brown once again voiced Lex in the video games "", "" and "Lego DC Super Villains". From all these vocal appearances, Brown has played Lex Luthor longer than any other actor in history, including his own "Justice League" co-star Michael Rosenbaum (in "Smallville"). Brown is also known for his voice work as villains in various DC animated series, movies, television shows, and video games: Charlie "Big Time" Bigelow on "Batman Beyond", Trident on the "Teen Titans" cartoon series, Mr. Freeze and Bane on "The Batman" cartoon series, Per Degaton in "", Parallax in the live-action "Green Lantern" film, King Faraday in the "Young Justice" cartoon series, and General Zartok

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in "". He appeared on The CW's "The Flash" recurring in the first season as General Wade Eiling.</s><s>Career.:Voice-over work.:Marvel Universe. Brown has also voiced various Marvel characters in various animated projects: Sasquatch on "The Incredible Hulk" 1996 cartoon series, several characters (George Stacy, Rhino and Ox) on "The Spectacular Spider-Man", Mr. Sinister on "Wolverine and the X-Men", Odin in "", and both Red Hulk and Taskmaster on "Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H." and the "Ultimate Spider-Man" cartoon series. In "Daredevil" and "The Punisher" he plays Major Schoonover, Frank Castle's former commanding officer. In "", he voices the fire demon Surtur.</s><s>Further reading. -</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Gary Woodland.

Gary Woodland

<s>Gary Woodland Gary Woodland (born May 21, 1984) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Woodland won the U.S. Open in 2019, his first major championship and sixth professional victory. Following a successful college career, he turned pro in 2007 and briefly competed on the circuit then known as the Nationwide Tour, now the Korn Ferry Tour. Woodland has competed on the PGA Tour since 2009 and has four wins.</s><s>Early life. Woodland was born in Topeka, Kansas, the son of Dan and Linda Woodland. He attended Shawnee Heights High School in the suburb of Tecumseh. After high school, he attended Washburn University in Topeka on a basketball scholarship, but left after his freshman year to attend the University of Kansas in Lawrence on a golf scholarship. He studied sociology while at KU. Woodland had a successful college golf career, winning four tournaments before turning professional in 2007.</s><s>Professional career. After turning professional, Woodland played in a handful of tournaments on the Nationwide Tour in 2007 and 2008. At the end of the 2008 season, he entered the Qualifying school for the PGA Tour, and finished in a tie for 11th, which was good

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enough to earn him a full card to play on the PGA Tour in 2009. However, he struggled for form in his debut season, making just eight cuts in 18 appearances before a shoulder injury cut his golfing year short in July. In 2010, Woodland divided his time between the PGA and Nationwide Tours. He continued to struggle for his best form but did not record a single top ten finish on either tour. He did display enough consistency to finish 92nd in the Nationwide Tour money list. Once again, he entered the season-ending qualifying school, and again he finished T-11, to secure a return to full PGA Tour status. Woodland's second tournament of 2011 was the Bob Hope Classic, where he and Jhonattan Vegas finished tied for first place at 27-under-par; Vegas edged out Woodland in a playoff for the title. This was his first top-10 finish on either of the two main tours. In March 2011, Woodland won his first PGA Tour title at the Transitions Championship by one stroke when fellow American Webb Simpson missed a par putt on the final hole. Just a few moments earlier Woodland had scrambled a fantastic par from the same position as Simpson on the last, after hitting his second shot

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over the back of the green. This win secured Woodland a place at the 2011 Masters Tournament and also elevated him to what was then a career high 53rd in the Official World Golf Ranking. He later earned an invitation into the U.S. Open after moving into the Top 50. He left the tournament with an OWGR ranking of 39th. In November 2011, he won the Omega Mission Hills World Cup with Matt Kuchar. He finished 2011 ranked 17th on the PGA Tour money list and 51st in the OWGR. He had ended 2009 ranked 962 and 2010 591. Woodland reached the final of the 2015 WGC-Cadillac Match Play, where he lost to Rory McIlroy, and moved to a career-best 32nd in the OWGR. In February 2018, Woodland won his third PGA Tour event, at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in a sudden-death playoff over Chez Reavie. After finishing tied at 18 under, Woodland won with a par on the first extra hole to end a five-year drought on tour. Woodland moved up to fifth in the season's FedEx Cup standings. Woodland held the 36-hole lead at the PGA Championship in 2018 with a total 130

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, which was a tournament record through the first two rounds. He led by a stroke over Kevin Kisner at the halfway stage. He started the final round at nine under par, three shots behind leader Brooks Koepka. He finished in a tie for sixth with a score of 10 under par, six strokes behind the winner Koepka. In January 2019, Woodland held the lead entering the final round at the winners-only Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua Resort in Maui, Hawaii. He shot a five-under-par 68 but still lost to champion Xander Schauffele who shot a course record-tying 62. In February 2019, Woodland invited Amy Bockerstette, a collegiate golfer with Down syndrome, to play the par-3 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale during a Tuesday practice round at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. After hitting her tee shot into a greenside bunker, Bockerstette surprised Woodland by parring the hole in front of a roaring crowd. The PGA Tour's video capturing the moment went viral, receiving 43 million views across various social media platforms. At the U.S. Open in June 2019, Woodland held the 54-hole lead at Pebble Beach Golf Links

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. On Sunday, he shot a 2-under-par 69 for 271 (−13), which gave him a three-shot margin over the runner-up, two-time defending champion Koepka. Woodland became the fourth champion in U.S. Open history who was double-digits under-par. The victory was his first major and his sixth professional win. In his previous thirty starts in majors, Woodland had only carded two top-ten finishes, both in the PGA Championship (2018, 2019). The win at the U.S. Open moved him from 25th to 12th in the Official World Golf Ranking. At the post-win press conference, Woodland FaceTimed Bockerstette live, telling her "I used your positive energy." Two days later, Woodland joined Bockerstette with a surprise appearance on "The Today Show" where, pointing to the U.S. Open trophy in Bockerstette's hands, he told her "We won this together." In December 2019, Woodland played on the U.S. team at the 2019 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia. The U.S. team won 16–14. Woodland went 1–2–1 and lost

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his Sunday singles match against Im Sung-jae.</s><s>Amateur wins. - 2005 (2) Cleveland State Invitational, Kansas Amateur - 2006 (1) Kansas Invitational - 2007 (3) All-American Golf Classic, Louisiana Classics, Kansas Amateur</s><s>Professional wins (6).</s><s>Professional wins (6).:PGA Tour wins (4). PGA Tour playoff record (1–2)</s><s>Professional wins (6).:Adams Pro Tour wins (1). - 2008 Southwest Kansas Pro-Am</s><s>Major championships.</s><s>Major championships.:Results timeline. "Results not in chronological order in 2020." CUT = missed the half-way cutbr WD = withdrewbr "T" indicates a tie for a placebr NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic</s><s>Major championships.:Summary. - Most consecutive cuts made – 6 (twice) - Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2019 PGA – 2019 U.S. Open)</s><s>Results in The Players Championship. CUT = missed the halfway cutbr "T" indicates a tie for a placebr C = Canceled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic</s><s>Results in World Golf Championships

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. "Results not in chronological order before 2015." Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemicbr QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match playbr NT = No tournamentbr "T" = Tied</s><s>U.S. national team appearances. Professional - World Cup: 2011 (winners) - Presidents Cup: 2019 (winners)</s><s>See also. - 2008 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates - 2010 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates</s>