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<mask> (born January 5, 1956) is an attorney, college instructor, and former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. In 2009, she was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama. <mask> was both the first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. She succeeded Michael Sullivan in that position, with Michael J. Loucks serving as the interim U.S. Attorney between Sullivan's resignation and <mask>'s confirmation. Noteworthy prosecutions by her office include those of Whitey Bulger, Tarek Mehanna, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as well as the controversial prosecution of Aaron Swartz which resulted in his suicide. In December 2016, <mask> announced that she would step down from her post in January. Her announcement was not unexpected, due to the fact that President Donald Trump would have the authority to name new U.S.Attorneys. Early life and education
Born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, <mask> grew up in East Harlem. <mask> has said that, as a child, watching Perry Mason on television inspired her to become a lawyer. After graduating from The Saint Agnes School in 1974, <mask> earned her B.B.A from Adelphi University in 1978, working in her family's gift shop during her years there. <mask> later earned her J.D. at George Washington University's National Law Center in 1981. In the summer of 1980, <mask> interned in the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice with Eric Holder, who later became U.S. Attorney General.She also worked on judicial reform in Guatemala with Harvard professor, former Watergate prosecutor, and former deputy attorney general Philip Heymann. Legal career
From 1981 to 1983, <mask> was an attorney with the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division. <mask> served as Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in two stints: 1983 to 1988 and 1991 to 1994. In 1988, <mask> went into the private sector with the Braintree law firm Marinelli & Morisi, where she would work until 1989. <mask> also coordinated the Center for Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991. In 1990, after being appointed by NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, she served on a commission that investigated allegations of sexual harassment against members of the New England Patriots. In 1997, <mask> became an Assistant U.S. Attorney.In September 2017, <mask> joined the Boston-based law firm of Anderson & Kreiger. In December 2019, it was announced she will be made a partner at the firm. United States Attorney
In May 2009, Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry recommended <mask> to President Obama for the vacant United States Attorney position in the District of Massachusetts. On September 18, Obama nominated <mask> for the position. On November 5, the United States Senate confirmed her appointment by unanimous consent. <mask> was both the first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. <mask> was rebuffed in several harshly worded rulings by judges on cases brought by her office.These cases were accused of "stretching the evidence" and "gross exaggeration" by federal judge Judith Dein, an "overkill" and "unusual prosecution" by federal judge Douglas Woodlock and being "over the top" by federal judge Nancy Gertner. White collar cases

In 2011, <mask>'s office was responsible for the prosecution of GlaxoSmithKline general counsel Lauren Stevens. Ultimately, the court dismissed the case, ruling that "it would be a miscarriage of justice to permit this case to go to the jury." On March 23, 2012, <mask>'s office secured grand jury indictments against former state Probation Commissioner John J. O’Brien and two of his former deputies, Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke III, for their involvement in running a sham hiring system in which friends and family members of legislators and politically connected job seekers were hired over more qualified applicants. Each faces one count of racketeering conspiracy and 10 counts of mail fraud for sending rejection letters to applicants they knew they were never going to consider. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison on each of the 11 counts. <mask> said the indictments are “one step in an ongoing investigation.”

In 2015, <mask> was expected to pursue $1.1 million 'Insider Trading' scam involving two Indian Americans Iftikar Ahmed & Amit Kanodia which involved sharing of insider information leading to illegal gains in the NYSE.Whitey Bulger case

<mask>'s office led the prosecution of mobster Whitey Bulger. On July 6, 2011, Bulger was arraigned in federal court. He pleaded not guilty to 48 charges, including 19 counts of murder, extortion, money laundering, obstruction of justice, perjury, narcotics distribution and weapons violations. <mask>'s office also led the prosecution of Bulger's girlfriend Catherine Greig. In March 2012, Greig plead guilty to conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, identity fraud, and conspiracy to commit identity fraud. On June 12, 2012, she was sentenced to eight years' confinement in a federal penitentiary. Terrorism and drug cases

<mask> led the prosecution of American pharmacist Tarek Mehanna, who was accused of, among other crimes, translating and posting online materials described by prosecutors as Al Qaeda propaganda.Mehanna's lawyers argued that he never tried to join an armed group and never tried to hurt anyone, and that his internet activities were protected under the U.S. First Amendment. In April 2012, Mehanna was sentenced in federal court in Boston on four terrorism-related charges and three others related to lying to agents of the FBI and other U.S. federal officials. <mask> came under fire after her office was involved in the January 19, 2013 arrest of a man who reportedly "looks very much like" a wanted drug suspect. The man was released by a federal magistrate the following day after prosecutors admitted "significant doubt" that the arrested man was indeed the suspect. Donald Gonczy case
<mask> was "admonished by a federal appeals court in 2004 for advocating a harsher jail term for a fraud defendant than she had promised him in a plea-bargain agreement." In a plea deal, <mask> had agreed to leniency, but she "substantively argued" for a harsher sentence. The Appeals Court ruled that <mask> "violated the plea agreement it entered into with Gonczy," and it vacated the sentence.Motel Caswell confiscation case
<mask>'s office sought to confiscate the Motel Caswell in Tewksbury, Massachusetts from its owner, Russ Caswell. Prosecutors contended that, despite the fact that Caswell himself had never been charged with any crime, his property was subject to civil forfeiture as a long-term site of criminal activity. <mask>'s spokeswoman said "The government believed that this was an important case, not only for the town of Tewksbury, which has been plagued for decades by the criminal activity at Motel Caswell, but because of the important deterrent message it sends to others who may turn a blind eye to crime occurring at their place of business." The property had been the location of 15 drug crimes between 1994 and 2008, which Caswell said is small considering that he rents about 14,000 rooms per year. Caswell was represented by the Institute for Justice, a non-profit libertarian public interest law firm that frequently intervenes in asset forfeiture cases. On January 24, 2013, U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith Dein sided with Caswell. In a written decision, Dein dismissed the government's forfeiture action, ruling that Caswell, "who was trying to eke out an income from a business located in a drug-infested area that posed great risks to the safety of him and his family, took all reasonable steps to prevent crime.The Government’s resolution of the crime problem should not be to simply take his Property." In the ruling, the court criticized the prosecution for "stretching the evidence" and engaging in "gross exaggeration." After considering an appeal, her office announced that in March 2013 that they would not pursue the matter further. Prosecution of Aaron Swartz

<mask>'s office prosecuted  computer programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. In 2011, Swartz was arrested for unauthorized, bulk downloading of free articles from internet archive JSTOR, in violation of the JSTOR's terms of use. In a 2011 press release announcing Swartz's indictment on  federal charges, <mask> said "Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars. It is equally harmful to the victim whether you sell what you have stolen or give it away."After State Prosecutors dropped their charges, federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment adding nine more felony counts, which increased Swartz's maximum criminal exposure to 50 years of imprisonment and $1 million in fines. The prosecution brought by <mask> involved what was characterized by numerous critics such as former White House Counsel John Dean as "overcharging" and "overzealous" prosecution for the alleged computer crimes. In all, prosecutors charged Swartz with 13 felony counts, despite the fact that both MIT and JSTOR had chosen not to pursue civil litigation; he faced 30 years' imprisonment. Swartz committed suicide on January 11, 2013, before the case came to trial. More than 60,000 people petitioned the White House to remove <mask> from office for "overreach." On January 15, 2013, following his suicide, all charges against Swartz were dropped. The next day, <mask> issued a statement saying that her office had never intended to seek maximum penalties against Aaron Swartz.However, the same day, <mask>'s husband, IBM executive Tom Dolan, scolded the Swartz family for issuing a statement criticizing the prosecutors and MIT. He rationalized: "Truly incredible that in their own son's obit, they blame others for his death and make no mention of the 6-month offer." Esquire writer Charlie Pierce replied, "the glibness with which her husband and her defenders toss off a 'mere' six months in federal prison, low-security or not, is a further indication that something is seriously out of whack with the way our prosecutors think these days." Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly published an op-ed piece by Massachusetts criminal defense attorney Harvey Silverglate about the case. He said attorneys familiar with the case had told him the Middlesex County District Attorney's office had planned for Swartz's case to be "continued without a finding, with Swartz duly admonished and then returned to civil society to continue his pioneering electronic work in a less legally questionable manner." "Under such a disposition," Silverglate later told CNET's Declan McCullagh, "the charge is held in abeyance ("continued") without any verdict ("without a finding"). The defendant is on probation for a period of a few months up to maybe a couple of years at the most; if the defendant does not get into further legal trouble, the charge is dismissed, and the defendant has no criminal record.This is what the lawyers expected to happen when Swartz was arrested. But then the feds took over...." "Tragedy intervened," Silverglate wrote, "when <mask>'s office took over the case to send 'a message'." Boston's WBUR reported in February 2013 that <mask> was expected to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's probe into the handling of the Aaron Swartz case. The Department of Justice gave a private briefing about the case to the House Committee, and subsequently, in March 2013, Attorney General Eric Holder defended <mask>'s aggressive prosecution before the Senate Judiciary Committee, terming it "a good use of prosecutorial discretion." In January 2015, two years after Swartz's death, the White House declined to act on the petition to remove <mask> from office. Boston Marathon bombings

<mask>'s office led the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing. On June 27, 2013, <mask> unveiled a grand jury's 30-count indictment against suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.On July 10, 2013, Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to all charges. On August 8, 2013, two of Tsarnaev's friends were indicted on federal obstruction of justice charges. Another <mask> prosecution, this time of Tamerlan's friend Khairullozhon Matanov who pleaded guilty rather than face 20 years in prison, has been described as overzealous. Martin Gottesfeld case

In 2017 <mask> was prosecuting Gottesfeld under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for taking the Boston Children's Hospital website down during an online donation drive to protest the hospital's treatment of Justina Pelletier. Pelletier was taken from her family by the hospital under a controversial Massachusetts law. Martin Gottesfeld claimed responsibility for an attack by Anonymous that prevented the Boston Children's Hospital (and other treatment facilities) from receiving donations for limited period of time with denial-of-service attacks that briefly prevented access to a public website or server. He has been held for trial since February 2016 and had reported that he was on a hunger strike and claimed that he had been put in solitary confinement as punishment for the hunger strike.Teamsters Picketing/Extortion Case
In 2014 <mask> prosecuted 5 Teamsters activists for picketing the Bravo Network show Top Chef for extortion and racketeering in response to their picketing the show for not hiring union drivers. 4 of the 5 charged were acquitted, with the remaining member pleading guilty to lesser charges. Recognition
In 2011, the Boston Globe named her "Bostonian of the Year" for her prosecution of "corruption and white-collar crime". Boston magazine labeled her the third most powerful person in Boston in 2012 for her successful corruption prosecutions of former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Salvatore DiMasi, former state Senator Dianne Wilkerson, and former Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner. Personal life
<mask> has two daughters and is married to IBM executive Thomas J. Dolan; her first husband, Michael Vittorio Morisi, died in 2000. <mask> reportedly considered a campaign for Governor of Massachusetts, but she denied interest in such a run. This decision also came on the heels of the unpopular Swartz prosecution, with other critics describing <mask>'s professional record as marked by a "hands-off leadership style" and "overzealousness."References

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title: Mechtilde

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<mask> of Hackeborn (1240/1241 – 19 November 1298) was a Saxon Christian saint (from what is now Germany) and a Benedictine nun. She was famous for her musical talents, gifted with a beautiful voice. At the age of 50, Mechtilde went through a grave spiritual crisis, as well as physical suffering. In the modern Benedictine calendar, her feast is celebrated on the anniversary of her death, November 19. She died in the convent of Helfta, near Eisleben. Birth and Baptism

Born Matilda von Hackeborn-Wippra, in 1240 or 1241, she belonged to one of the noblest and most powerful Thuringian families; her sister was the illustrious Abbess Gertrude of Hackeborn. The family of Hackeborn belonged to a dynasty of Barons in Thuringia who were related to the Hohenstaufen family and had possessions in northern Thuringia and in the Harz Mountains.Some writers have considered that <mask> von Hackeborn and <mask> von Wippra were two distinct persons, but, as the Barons of Hackeborn were also Lords of Wippra, it was customary for members of that family to take their name indifferently from either, or both of these estates. So fragile was she at birth, that the attendants, fearing she might die unbaptized, hurried her off to the priest who was just then preparing to say Mass. He was reported as a person of "great sanctity," and after baptizing the child, is reported to have made a statement to this effect, judged by some to be prophetic: "What do you fear? This child most certainly will not die, but she will become a saintly religious in whom God will work many wonders, and she will end her days in a good old age." Early life
When Mechtilde was seven years old, having been taken by her mother on a visit to her elder sister Gertrude, at that time a nun in the Cistercian monastery in Rodersdorf, she became so enamoured of the cloister that her pious parents yielded to her requests and allowed her to enter the alumnate. Here, being highly gifted in mind as well as in body, she made remarkable progress in virtue and learning. Ten years later (1258) she followed her sister, who, now abbess, had transferred the monastery to an estate at Helfta given her by her brothers Louis and Albert.As a nun, Mechtilde was soon distinguished for her humility, her fervour, and that extreme amiability which had characterized her from childhood and which, like piety, seemed almost hereditary in her clan. She joined the convent and eventually became the headmistress of the convent school. Mechtilde was employed in the convent looking after the library, illuminating scripts, and writing her own texts in Latin. Mechtilde wrote many prayers. In 1261, the abbess committed to her care a child of five who was destined to shed glory and fame upon the monastery of Helfta. This was Gertrude who in later generations became known as Gertrude the Great. Musical and spiritual gifts
She was famous for her musical talents and was called the “Nightingale of Helfta”.Gifted with a beautiful voice, Mechtilde also possessed a special talent for rendering the solemn and sacred music over which she presided as domina cantrix. All her life she held this office and trained the choir with indefatigable zeal. Indeed, divine praise was the keynote of her life as it is of her book; in this she never tired, despite her continual and severe physical sufferings, so that in his revelations Christ was wont to call her his "nightingale". Souls thirsting for consolation or groping for light sought her advice; learned Dominicans consulted her on spiritual matters. At the beginning of her own mystic life it may have been from Mechtilde that Gertrude the Great learnt that the marvellous gifts lavished upon her were from God. Revelations
The Lord would say to Mechtild: "Everything you have and by which you can please Me you have from Me and through Me." In one extraordinary vision she perceived that "the smallest details of creation are reflected in the Holy Trinity by means of the Humanity of Christ, because it is from the same earth that produced Them that Christ drew His Humanity."While Julian of Norwich (1342 - about 1416) is the most famous English author to employ the idea of God as mother, the concept did not originate with her. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) had already fostered devotion to 'our Lord, our Mother' in his widely used Orationes. The Cistercians and Carthusians spread it by the use of these prayers in their monasteries; and women such as Marguerite d'Oyngt (d. 1310 ) and Mechthild of Hackeborn took it up. In the description of her visions Mechthild von Hackeborn appears throughout as a person of even temper and great sweetness of disposition. In her revelations Christ, the Virgin, and other members of the hierarchy of heaven enter as living realities. She is particularly fond of the angels, whom she loves to picture as the associates of men on earth and in heaven. Devotion of the Three Hail Marys
Mechtilde was distressed over her eternal salvation and prayed that the Most Holy Virgin would assist her at the hour of death.The Blessed Virgin appeared to her and reassured her, saying: "Yes, I will! But I wish, for your part, that you recite three Hail Marys every day, remembering in the first the Power received from the Eternal Father, in the second the Wisdom received from the Son, with the third one the Love that has filled the Holy Spirit". The Blessed Virgin taught her to pray and to understand especially how the three Hail Marys honor the three persons of the Trinity. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Mechthilde and Gertrude of Helfta, became ardent devotees and promoters of Jesus’ Heart after It was the Subject of many of their visions. The idea of hearing the Heartbeat of God was very important to medieval saints who nurtured devotion to the Sacred Heart. Women such as Mechtilde and Gertrude (d. 1302) perceived Jesus’ Heart as the breast of a mother. Just as a mother gives milk to nourish her child, so Jesus in the Eucharist gives us His Life Blood.In one vision, Mechtilde reported that Jesus said, "In the morning let your first act be to greet My Heart and to offer Me your own. Whoever breathes a sigh toward Me, draws Me to himself." One of the visions recounted by Mechtilde states that Jesus having appeared to her, commanded her to love him ardently, and to honor his Sacred Heart in the Blessed Sacrament as much as possible. He gave her his Sacred Heart as a pledge of his love, as a place of refuge during her life and as her consolation at the hour of her death. From this time Mechtilde had an extraordinary devotion to the Sacred Heart, and she received such great graces from it that she was accustomed to say that if she had to write down all the favors and all the blessings which she had received by means of this devotion, a large book would not contain them. In another, Jesus himself recommended the Gospel. Opening to her the Wound of His Most Gentle Heart, he said to her: "Consider how great is My Love: If you want to know It well, you will not find It expressed more clearly anywhere than in the Gospel.No one has ever expressed stronger or more tender feelings than these: As My Father has loved Me, so have I loved you (John 15:9)". Her accounts of these visions were later compiled in the Liber Specialis Gratiae. The Book of Special Grace
At the age of 50, Mechtilde went through a grave spiritual crisis, as well as physical suffering. She learned that two nuns in whom she had especially confided had noted down the spiritual favours granted her. Much troubled at this, Mechthilde first had recourse to prayer. She had a vision of Christ holding in his Hand the book of her revelations, and saying: "All this has been committed to writing by My Will and Inspiration; and, therefore you have no cause to be troubled about it." He also told her that he wished this book to be called The Book of Special Grace (Liber specialis gratiae) because it would prove such to many.When she understood that the book would tend to God's glory, she ceased to be troubled, and even corrected the manuscript herself. Some authorities believe that one of the authors was Gertrude the Great. Immediately after her death it was made public, and copies were rapidly multiplied, owing chiefly to the widespread influence of the Friars Preachers. Boccaccio tells how, a few years after the death of Mechtilde, the book of her revelations was brought to Florence and popularized under the title of La Laude di donna Matelda, promoting the devotion to the Divine Mercy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is related that the Florentines were accustomed to repeat daily before their sacred images the praises learned from Mechtilde's book. Gertrude to whose devotedness we owe the Liber Specialis Gratiae exclaims: "Never has there arisen one like to her in our monastery; nor, alas! I fear, will there ever arise another such!"Four centuries later, printed chapbooks in the emblem style had made the devotion so widespread in Europe, even in lands where the Protestant reformed churches were in the ascendency, that it was elevated under this name to a universal feast on the liturgical calendar with Mass and Office proper composed by the French cleric John Eudes. (Another female religious Mary Margaret Alacoque spread the devotion among urban illiterate lay faithful of France with numerous testimonies of her supernatural visions of Christ's passion imagined as an inflamed pierced heart, encircled with thorns.) Mechtilde died in the Monastery of Helfta, on November 19, 1298. Her feast is celebrated on the anniversary of her death. With that of Gertrude, the body of Mechtildis most likely still reposes at Old Helfta, though the exact spot is unknown. Dante's Donna Matelda
Critics have long been perplexed as to one of the characters introduced by Dante in his Purgatorio under the name of Matelda. After ascending seven terraces of Mount Purgatory, on each of which the process of purification is carried on, Dante, in Canto xxvii, hears a voice singing: "Venite, benedicti patris mei"; then later, in Canto xxviii, there appears to him on the opposite bank of the mysterious stream a lady, solitary, beautiful, and gracious.To her Dante addresses himself; she it is who initiates him into secrets, which it is not given to Virgil to penetrate, and it is to her that Beatrice refers Dante in the words: "Entreat Matilda that she teach thee this." Mechtilde's model of the soul's ascent provided the inspiration for his poetic treatment of the Mountain of Purgatory's seven terraces, one for each virtue (or more accurately one each for the purging—or detachment from—each of the seven vices) at the top of which she appears in his closing cantos of the second book of his Divine Comedy. Most commentators have identified Matilda with the warrior-Countess of Tuscany, the spiritual daughter and dauntless champion of Pope Gregory VII, but all agree that beyond the name the two have little or nothing in common. In more places than one the revelations granted to the mystics of Helfta seem in turn to have become the inspirations of the Florentine poet. All writers on Dante recognize his indebtedness to Augustine of Hippo, the Pseudo-Dionysius, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Richard of St. Victor. These are precisely the writers whose doctrines had been most assimilated by the mystics of Helfta, and thus they would the more appeal to the sympathies of the poet. Dante could not have been a stranger to a book which was so popular among his fellow-citizens.The Purgatorio was finished between 1314 and 1318, or 1319—just about the time when Mechtilde's book was popular. This interpretation is supported by the fact that Mechtilde in her Book of Special Grace (pt. I, c. xiii) describes the place of purification under the same figure of a seven-terraced mountain. For another among many points of resemblance between the two writers compare Purgatorio, Canto xxxi, where Dante is drawn by Matelda through the mysterious stream with pt. II, c. ii. of the Liber Specialis Gratiae. Many scholars, however, deem it more likely that the figure of Matelda in Dante's Divine Comedy had been inspired by the mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg.Legacy
There is a gilded wooden statue of Mechtilde of Hackborn at the side chapel dedicated to St. Scholastica in the Benedictine Abbey church at Tyniec, Poland. Dressed in a monastic habit, she wears a cross indicating that she is an abbess. The Sisters of St. Benedict's of Ferdinand, Indiana, sponsor a "Mechtilde of Hackeborn Sacred Music Series", supported through an endowment established by the Verkamp Family in honor of Sister Mary Aquin and Sister Mary Ann Verkamp. In 2018, The Episcopal Church added both Mechtilde and Gertrude to their calendar of saints by including them in Lesser Feasts and Fasts. See also
Gertrude of Hackeborn
Gertrude the Great
Saint Mechtilde of Hackeborn, patron saint archive

References

External links
Benedict XVI, "On St. Matilda, God's Nightingale", Zenit, 29 September 2010
''The Love of the Sacred Heart", Vol. III, (Illustrated by St. Mechtilde), Burns, Oates, and Washburne Ltd., London, 1922
Kloster Helfta

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13th-century German nobility
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title: Daphne Lorraine Gum

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<mask> MBE, OA (24 January 1916 – 28 February 2017) was an Australian pioneer in the care and education of children with cerebral palsy. Early life and education
<mask> was born to Cecil and <mask> on 24 January 1916 in the Pinnaroo Hospital; Pinnaroo, South Australia. Her grandfather and father owned farming lands in Pinnaroo. In 1919, she moved with her parents and elder sister Marjorie to the township of Crystal Brook, where Marjorie and <mask> commenced school. <mask>'s younger siblings Betty Christina ("Chris"), Donald and Denise were born at the Crystal Brook Hospital. In 1927, the family moved to North Unley, a suburb of Adelaide. <mask> and her sister Chris attended a private school, Fairford House.After passing the Qualifying Certificate Examination of Grade 7, <mask> entered the Methodist Ladies College (which became Annesley College in 1977). As a result of The Great Depression, and the death of Ruby in 1931, most of the family moved to the farming property at Pinnaroo, while <mask> remained in Adelaide. In 1933 <mask> commenced her three-year kindergarten and primary school teaching training at the Methodist Ladies College. Early career

In February 1936, after graduation, <mask> commenced in a single teacher position with a family at the Tapio Subsidised School, in the Broken Hill Inspectorate of the New South Wales Education Department. She commenced with three students from the Barnfield family of the Tapio Station. They were later joined by one more student. In 1942, she took up a position as a teacher in residence at Woodlands Church of England Girls' Grammar School, working with both the kindergarten and lower school.Due in part to her late mother having suffered from poliomyelitis (or infantile paralysis, as it was then known), <mask> was interested in working with sick or disadvantaged children. In 1945, she commenced employment at the Spastic Centre at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. There Gum worked with children with cerebral palsy; attending the weekly clinics of Dame Jean Macnamara, a specialist in the treatment and care of children with cerebral palsy. During her tenure in Melbourne, <mask> resided in the Presbyterian Ladies College boarding house in East Melbourne. In 1946, at the request of Mr Norman Taylor, the then president of The Crippled Children's Association of South Australia (now known as Novita Children's Services), <mask> returned to Adelaide to establish a centre for the care of children with cerebral palsy, becoming the Director of the Spastic Centre. In Adelaide, she returned to Woodlands Church of England Girls' Grammar School ("Woodlands") in residence, again taking charge of the Junior Boarding House in the evenings, while devoting her days to her new work. "The Centre", as it was then known, was established in the then Adelaide Children's Hospital, officially opening on 6 March 1946.The Centre used one room in the first-floor  Outpatients' Department. As the lifts were old and unreliable, at times pupils were carried up and down the stairs. In 1948  <mask> left Woodlands; taking  up residence nearer to the Adelaide Children's Hospital and concentrating wholly on her work for The Crippled Children's Association of South Australia. On 3 November 1949, the Centre moved to a prefabricated building of three rooms which had been purchased in Kermode Street, North Adelaide. Ashford House

The Centre remained in North Adelaide until 1951, when The Crippled Children's Association of South Australia purchased Ashford House and its property of one and one half acres on Anzac Highway, Ashford with assistance from the South Australian government. The buildings at Kermode Street were dismantled and rebuilt in the grounds of Ashford House. In 1955, <mask> took twelve months leave of absence to study and to visit relevant schools and centres overseas.Around 1956, the school was renamed Ashford House School for Cerebral Palsied Children. School colours of green and silver (green and grey for school uniforms) were chosen. The school motto, "Animo et Fide", meaning 'with Courage and Faith" was worked into a school badge. House names – Schweitzer, Wilberforce, Shaftesbury, Flynn, Sturt and Nightingale – were employed instead of grades. The dismantled and rebuilt prefabricated buildings remained The Ashford Spastic Centre until 1960, when the proceeds of a Channel Nine television telethon were donated to the Spastic Centre. This support, with a government subsidy, was used to build a permanent school, the first sod being turned on 7 July 1961. In 1960 the Ashford House Activity Centre – a therapeutic learning centre for teenagers and young adults, planned by the medical director, Dr Ralph Horton – had been built and was opened by the then premier, Sir Thomas Playford.In September 1966 <mask> attended the Tenth World Congress of the International Society for Rehabilitation of the Disabled in Wiesbaden, Germany; also touring facilities in other countries. In August 1968, <mask> resigned her position. New Guinea and Beyond

Due to her interest in the children of New Guinea, <mask> was appointed to work in the Methodist Overseas Mission school in Raluana, New Britain, New Guinea. In the following year she was appointed to the school at Halis, New Ireland, New Guinea, where she worked with three New Guinean teachers and one trainee student in the village two miles away. In English lessons in New Guinea, <mask> used the "Words in Colour" reading charts which she and others had pioneered at the Ashford Centre. Around 1971, <mask> was asked by Miss Ruth Watts, headmistress of the Methodist Ladies College, to take on a temporary position at the school. The position became permanent and Ms <mask> again used the pioneering "Words in Colour" system.In 1975, at the age of 60 years, <mask> completed her last years as a teacher with a double Grade 7 group in a large open classroom, term-teaching with two other teachers. Post-retirement

In 1975, <mask> returned to New Guinea to share the "One Hundred Years in the Islands" celebration. From 1976, she pursued various interests including chess, sketching, the Methodist Ladies' College Old Scholar's Association committee (including a time as president during 1979–80), university lectures, a world tour and time spent in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador with her nephew, Geoff Renner, Director of World Vision in the Latin American Countries of Central and South America. Gum became involved in the work of Marjorie Black House on King William Road, Unley, a voluntary organisation meeting place and support centre for people with mental health issues. In 1982, <mask> became chair and co-ordinator of the work of Marjorie Black House, when it was threatened with closure. <mask>'s Tuesday Club, the last of the Marjorie Black clubs to close, held its final gathering on 16 August 2005. She participated in the transfer of the building to the South Australian Council of Social Service.She committed her Mondays to the Patchell Library Historical Centre at Annesley College, where she has, since the early 1970s, participated in the collection of and care of the college memorabilia. On 27 May 2013, <mask> attended the unveiling ceremony of the Daphne Gum Playground at the Annesley Junior School. Until 2015, she lived independently, close to Ashford House, which is now a school for children with autism. On 24 January 2016, she celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends. Gum died in February 2017 at the age of 101. Publications
 The Intriguing Origins of Ashford House (1995)
 The Old Gum Tree at Ashford
 A Rich Tapestry of Lives: Celebrating the 90th birthday of the Methodist Ladies college/Annesley College Old Scholars Association (1995)

Former Students
Gum's former students include "Brenton", whose reunion with Gum in 2010 featured in the South Australian television programme, "Postcards", the late Michael Wooley (awarded the 2005 Distinguished Service Medal by CP Australia), and the late John Hickman, PhD whom Gum helped overcome profound cerebral palsy to obtain a PhD and a research post at Australian National University. Honours
In 1960 Gum became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of her work with children affected by cerebral palsy.In 1966 <mask> was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for her services to education and in helping children with cerebral palsy. References

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title: Jason Pominville

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<mask> (born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian-American  former professional ice hockey right winger. He had played for the Buffalo Sabres and the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). Playing career

Amateur
As a youth, Pominville played in the 1995 and 1996 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with minor ice hockey teams from Repentigny, Quebec and Rive-Nord. <mask> played junior hockey for the Shawinigan Cataractes of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). In his fourth and final year with Shawinigan, 2001–02, he amassed 121 points in 66 games – seventh in league scoring – and was awarded the Frank J. Selke Memorial Trophy as the league's most gentlemanly player. Professional

Buffalo Sabres
Pominville was drafted 55th overall in the second round by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. He played for the Sabres' minor league affiliate, the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL), until the 2005–06 season, when he earned a roster spot with Buffalo.To begin the 2005–06 campaign, <mask> had initially been waived by the Sabres. Clearing waivers, he continued to play in the minors until he was called up a few months into the season. He scored his first NHL goal on November 27, 2005 – a powerplay goal against Olaf Kölzig in a 3–2 win against the Washington Capitals. Pominville quickly became an integral part of the Sabres line-up and finished the rest of the season with the Sabres with 18 goals in 57 games. In the 2006 playoffs, he recorded a hat-trick in Game 2 of the first round against the Philadelphia Flyers. Later in the Sabres' playoff run, he scored the series-clinching goal in the second round against the Ottawa Senators – a shorthanded effort in overtime of Game 5. It marked the first time in NHL history that a playoff series was decided by an overtime shorthanded goal.Buffalo announcer Rick Jeanneret marked this occasion with a call that is now famous in Buffalo hockey lore: "Oh, now do you believe? Now do you believe? These guys are good, scary good!" The Sabres had qualified as the fourth seed in the playoffs after failing to qualify the previous three seasons. After improving to 68 points the following season, <mask> made a name for himself in 2007–08. He scored at nearly a point-per-game with 80 points in 82 games. In the absence of departed co-captains Chris Drury and Daniel Brière from the previous season, the Sabres utilized a rotating captaincy during the 2007–08 season; <mask> was named captain for the months of March and April.At the end of the season, he was nominated for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as the league's most sportsmanlike player, along with Pavel Datsyuk and Martin St. Louis; the honour was awarded to Datsyuk. On September 18, 2008, the Sabres acknowledged Pominville's rise to prominence and signed him to a five-year, $26.5 million contract extension (taking effect in 2009–10). His existing contract saw him make just over $1 million per season. On October 13, 2010, his consecutive start streak of 335 games was broken because of the concussion he had received from Chicago Blackhawks defensemen Niklas Hjalmarsson (who was suspended two games for the illegal hit) in the previous game on October 11, 2010, when he was checked into the boards head first and then removed from the ice in a stretcher. On October 6, 2011, in Helsinki, Finland, Pominville was named permanent Sabres captain. He became the 16th full-time captain in Sabres team history. While captain of the Sabres, he filmed a video for the You Can Play campaign, which aims to reduce homophobia in sport.With the lockout postponing the beginning of the 2012–13 season, <mask> signed his first European contract on a temporary basis with German club Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga on November 30, 2012. <mask> produced 12 points in just seven games for the Eagles before returning to prepare for the Sabres' season opener. Minnesota Wild
With the Sabres enduring a largely unsuccessful season and with the intentions to revamp the roster, <mask>, along with a 2014 fourth-round pick, were traded to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Johan Larsson, Matt Hackett, a 2013 first-round pick and 2014 second-round pick on April 3, 2013. With the Wild, <mask> recorded nine points in ten regular season games. During the 2013–14 season, he scored 30 goals and 30 assists for 60 points to lead the Wild in scoring. Return to Buffalo
On June 30, 2017, <mask> returned to the Sabres in a trade that sent him, Marco Scandella and a 2018 fourth-round pick to Buffalo in exchange for Tyler Ennis, Marcus Foligno and a 2018 third-round pick. On November 1, 2018, Pominville played in his 1,000 career NHL game.He recorded a goal in a 4–2 loss to the Ottawa Senators. The next game, following a pregame ceremony by the Sabres to commemorate his milestone, <mask> recorded two goals and an assist in a 9–2 win over the Senators. The Sabres did not renew <mask>'s contract during the 2019 offseason. He spent the year in Buffalo, playing in beer leagues. In a June 2020 interview, it was stated that <mask>'s playing career had ended. Personal life
<mask> is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. His father, Jean-Marie, is a native of Montreal and his mother, Deborah, is a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin.Pominville and his wife Kim have two children together. The family resides year-round in East Amherst, New York. The family resided in Edina, Minnesota during his stint with the Wild. International play
Because <mask> has dual citizenship, he was eligible to play for either the United States or Canada in international tournaments, and opted to play for Team USA. Making his international debut, he chose to represent the United States at the 2008 World Championships and scored five points in seven games. Career statistics

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title: Martin of Braga

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<mask> of Braga (in Latin <mask>nsis, in Portuguese, known as <mask>  520–580 AD) was an archbishop of Bracara Augusta in Gallaecia (now Braga in Portugal), a missionary, a monastic founder, and an ecclesiastical author. According to his contemporary, the historian Gregory of Tours, <mask> was plenus virtutibus ("full of virtue") and in tantum se litteris imbuit ut nulli secundus sui temporis haberetur ("he so instructed himself in learning that he was considered second to none in his lifetime"). He was later canonized in the Catholic Church as well as in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, for his work in converting the inhabitants of Gallaecia to Chalcedonian Christianity,. His feast day is 20 March. Life
Born in Pannonia, in Central Europe, <mask> made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he became a monk. He found his way to Hispania, decided to settle in Gallaecia. "His intentions in going to a place so remote by the standards of his own day are unknown," writes Roger Collins.But his arrival in Gallaecia was historically significant, for he played an important role in converting the Suevi from their current Arian beliefs to the Chalcedonian Christianity of their Fifth-century king Rechiar. While there he founded several monasteries, the best known of which was at Dumium; around 550 he was consecrated bishop of Braga, whence comes his surname. In May 561, <mask> attended the provincial First Council of Braga as bishop of Dumio. He presided over the Second Council of Braga held in 572 as archbishop of Braga, having been elevated to the archdiocese between the two events; Laistner notes "His authorship of ten chapters submitted and approved in 572 is certain and there is little doubt that he also compiled the Acts of both Councils." Works
<mask> of Braga was a prolific author. Besides his contributions to the two provincial councils, he translated into Latin a collection of 109 sayings attributed to Egyptian abbots, while at his instigation the monk Paschasius, whom <mask> had taught Greek translated another collection of sayings, entitled Verbum seniorum. But for modern scholars, his most interesting works were two treatises he wrote in the final decade of his life, De ira and Formula vitae honestae, because they were adapted from two essays of Seneca the Younger which were subsequently lost."<mask>'s tract are valuable evidence that some at least of Seneca's writings were still available in the land of his birth in the sixth century," writes Laistner. Three other short essays on ethics demonstrate his clear familiarity with the works of John Cassian. Another important work is his sermon, written in the form of a letter to his fellow bishop Polemius of Asturica, De correctione rusticorum, which discusses the issue of rural paganism. Noting that this sermon has often been seen as evidence of <mask>'s missionary work against rural paganism, Collins asserts that a closer look does not support this thesis, for "there are no points of contact [in this work] with what is known of the indigenous pre-Christian cults of rural Galicia." The influences present in this work have been debated: Laistner sees evidence of the sermons of the Gallic bishop Caesarius of Arles, who lived a generation ago; Collins believes it is modelled on a treatise of Augustine of Hippo on the same topic. <mask> also composed poetry; Gregory of Tours notes that he authored the verses over the southern portal of the church of Saint Martins of Tours in that city. Moral treatises
 Formula vitae honestae, or De differentiis quatuor virtutumvitae honestae (Rules for an Honest Life, or On the Four Cardinal Virtues): addressed to Miro, king of the Sueves.From its similarities to other works of Seneca the Younger modern scholars believe that <mask> adapted his work from a lost writing of Seneca. In the twelfth century, an accident caused the loss of the preface attributing the work to <mask>, causing scribes and readers mistakenly to identify the treatise as a genuine work by Seneca. As such, over the next three centuries, Formula vitae honestae was used alongside the Epistle to Seneca the Younger as proof for Seneca's adherence to Christianity. (572) De ira (On Anger): also adapted from a work of Seneca. Three linked treatises: the two vices, Vanity and Pride, are taken from a list of eight set out by John Cassian. Pro repellenda jactantia (Driving Away Vanity)
 De superbia (On Pride)
 Exhortatio humilitatis (Exhortation to Humility)

Councils and canons
 (561) First Council of Braga
 (572) Second Council of Braga
 (572) Canons of St. Martin: appended to the text of the Second Council. These a collection of eighty-four canons translated by <mask> from the (Greek and Egyptian) canons of the Eastern church.(570?) De Pascha (On Easter): part of the Canons of St. Martin and the Second Council of Braga De Pascha is <mask>'s explanation on how to calculate the date of Easter. According to <mask>, Easter may be observed no earlier than March 22, and no later than April 21, and the date may be announced during Advent so the people may know when Lent begins. Other works and treatises
  De correctione rusticorum (On the Reform of Rustics)
 De trina mersione (On Triple Immersion): addressed to Bishop Boniface, of whom little is known other than that he resided in sixth century Visigothic Iberia. In his letter, <mask> denounces the Arian practice of performing baptism in the three names of the Trinity. <mask> insists the correct practice is to perform triple immersion in the  Trinity's single name. Sententiae Patrum Aegyptiorum (Saying of the Egyptian Fathers): translated by <mask> from an anonymous Greek manuscript he carried with him to Iberia.Two translations exist: one by the monk Paschasius, who was instructed in Greek by <mask>, and one by <mask> himself. The version by <mask> is twenty-two sections shorter than Paschasius's, as most of the anecdotes about the daily life of the Egyptian ascetic monks were removed to focus on their moral instruction. Poetry: only three poems by <mask> are preserved from history. Two of them are inscriptions for buildings, and the third is a six-line epitaph about <mask>'s own life. De correctione rusticorum

In 572, the Second Council of Braga decreed that bishops are to call the people of their church together, so they may be converted to Christianity. After the council, a bishop named Polemius of Astorga wrote to <mask> of Braga asking for advice on the conversion of rural pagans. Polemius was especially concerned about their perceived idolatry and sin.<mask>'s reply was a treatise in the form of a sermon, enclosed in his responding letter to Polemius. Out of all of <mask>'s works, De correctione rusticorum (On the Reform of Rustics) is of particular interest to modern scholars. It contains both a detailed catalogue of sixth-century Iberian pagan practices, and an unusually tolerant approach to them by <mask>. Alberto Ferreiro attributes <mask>'s acceptance to his classical education in the East, as well as the influence of philosophers like Seneca and Plato.<ref>Ferreiro, A. (1995). "Braga and tours: Some Observations on Gregory's "De virtutibus sancti martini" (1.11). Journal of Early Christian Studies, 3, 195.Retrieved March 5, 2015</ref> <mask> himself had avoided religious suppression by traveling to Dumiam, in what is now Portugal . He had sailed east around 550, during the period when Justinian I was attempting to reunite the Later Roman Empire through consolidation of the empire's faith. In 529, Justinian had placed the Neoplatonic Academy under state control, effectively signifying the end of pagan philosophical teaching. Later, in 553, Origen was also anathematized, effectively crushing Origenism. The Codex Justinianus enforced Nicaean Christianity over all other rival doctrines. <mask> may have chosen to flee east to avoid Rome's anti-intellectual policies, which possible explains his relatively gentle approach to the Suevi in Gallaecia. Although <mask>'s training as a monk was based on the ascetic Desert Fathers of the Egyptian desert, he lessened their severe monastic regulations to aid the Iberians to adapt.When converting the Suevi, he avoided enforcing Catholicism, preferring persuasion over coercion. He also wrote his sermon in a deliberately rustic style, incorporating ungrammatical Latin constructions and local vulgarisms. In his instructions, <mask> objects to the astrological custom of naming the days of the week after gods (planets). Due to his influence Portuguese and Galician (which, at the time, were one single language), alone among the Romance languages, assumed names for the days from numbers and Catholic liturgy, rather than from pagan deities. Galician has largely returned to the earlier nomenclature. Notes

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 Torre, Chara (ed., trans., comm.). <mask>i Bracarensis De ira: introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento'' (Roma: Herder, 2008).(Studi e testi tardoantichi, 7). 520 births
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title: Bob Mayer (author)

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<mask> is a New York Times-bestselling author and the CEO of Cool Gus Publishing. He is a West Point graduate and former Green Beret. <mask> has authored over 60 novels in multiple genres, selling more than 4 million books, including the #1 series Area 51, Atlantis, and The Green Berets. He has written under the pen names Joe Dalton, Robert Doherty, Greg Donegan and <mask>. He holds the distinction of being the only male author on the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll. Early life
Robert John "<mask><mask> was born in the Bronx, New York City on October 21, 1959. After high school, <mask> was accepted to the United States Military Academy at West Point.There, he graduated with honors in the top 10 percent of his class, earning a BA in psychology in 1981. He later earned a master's degree in Education at Austin Peay State University. In the Army, <mask> served in the infantry with the 1st Cavalry Division, later as platoon leader and a brigade recon platoon leader. He joined Special Forces and commanded a Green Berets A-Team from 1984 to 1988. He served as the operations officer for 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and with Special Operations Command (Special Projects) in Hawaii. He later taught Green Beret recruits at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School in Fort Bragg, NC. <mask> is an honor graduate of the Special Forces Qualification Course, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School Instructor Training Course and the Danish Royal Navy Fromandkorpset.He is a Master Parachutist/Jumpmaster Qualified and graduated from the International Mountain Climbing School. He has completed 14 marathons, including qualifying for the Boston Marathon and running it three times. Writing career
<mask>'s prolific writing encompasses both his military experience and his fascination for history, legends and mythology. To date, he has published over 65 titles. Though most of his novels reside within the realm of science fiction, he has crossed successfully into multiple genres including historical, military, suspense, young adult and romance. His books have hit on numerous bestselling lists including The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly. <mask> began his writing career in 1991 with the Green Beret novel Eyes of the Hammer.The next year, he followed with his second novel, Dragon Sim-13. A total of 9 books have been written in the series. In 1997, under his pen name Robert Doherty, <mask> released Area 51. He wrote eight sequels to Area 51 from 1998 to 2004. Four more were published from 2018 to 2020. In September 2004, <mask> met romance novelist Jennifer Crusie at a writer's conference in Maui. The pair collaborated on a series of military-themed romance novels - Don't Look Down (2006), Agnes and the Hitman (2007), and Wild Ride (2009).<mask> and Crusie's unique collaborations took place via email, with <mask> writing from the male perspective and Crusie writing those scenes that involved the female perspective. Agnes and the Hitman became a NYT bestseller, earning <mask> a spot on the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll. In 2009, <mask> realized a rapidly evolving digital transition in the publishing industry was happening. Along with Jen Talty, <mask> formed Cool Gus Publishing (formerly Who Dares Wins Publishing) in 2010 as a platform to reissue his extensive backlist. Cool Gus Publishing authors currently include Colin Falconer, Jennifer Probst, Janice Maynard, and Amy Shojai. <mask> has also written five books in the Nightstalkers series for the Amazon Publishing imprint 47North. In addition to his writing and publishing career, <mask> has been a speaker at the Maui Writer's Conference.He holds workshops and seminars on the leadership tactics learned in his Green Beret training. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, PBS, NPR, the Military Channel and the SyFy Channel. Personal life
<mask> resides in Tennessee with his wife and their English Yellow Lab, Cool Gus and their newest addition,  Scout the dog. His most recent books include the Time Patrol series, featuring characters from both The Nightstalkers and The Cellar series of books. - ()
 2015: Shit Doesn't Just Happen Vol II: Challenger, Kursk, Sultana, et al. - ()
 2016: Prepare Now Survive Later - ()
 2016: Survive Now Thrive Later - ()

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"Is there gold in your backlist? Self-publish and find out!"by Alan Rinzler Forbes 5/18/11

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title: Zinny J. Zan

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<mask><mask> (born Bo Stagman on January 18, 1964 and earlier known as Bosse Belsen) is a Swedish rock/glam metal singer who is the former lead-singer for Shotgun Messiah and is currently the founder and frontman for Zan Clan and reunited Easy Action. Musical career
<mask><mask> is probably best known internationally as the original lead singer for the 1980s glam metal band Shotgun Messiah (1985–90). However, he was already well known in his native Sweden by the time he was 18, when his band Easy Action (1981–85) toured Scandinavia and soon thereafter signed a contract with Warner Bros. Records. Easy Action was the first Swedish music artist ever to sign a worldwide deal. His music career started earlier when he played drums in band such as Belsen Boys, Alarm X and Beauty Box. He was also singer in Brilliant Boys. Zinny's work with Easy Action included one album as well as a Swedish slasher movie titled Blood Tracks, which Easy Action both provided the music for and starred in.After a few years of enjoying local success touring the Scandinavia region, <mask> wanted the band to try to make a go of it in the U.S., while the other members of the band were hesitant to leave their home country. These conflicting views eventually prompted <mask> to leave Sweden for New York and start looking for a new band. He was soon contacted by fellow Swedes Tim Sköld and Harry Cody and asked to join Kingpin (the band that would eventually become Shotgun Messiah). While still performing under the name Kingpin, the band recorded the album Welcome to Bop City. After being signed to Relativity Records and relocating to Hollywood, California, they changed their name to Shotgun Messiah and remixed and released the Bop City album as Shotgun Messiah's self-titled debut album. The album Shotgun Messiah was a moderate success, spawning three fairly popular singles as well as two music videos for MTV and reaching #52 on the American Billboard chart. Eventually though, personality and creative differences between Harry, Tim and Zinny began to grow and led to <mask>'s departure from Shotgun Messiah in 1990.After the split, <mask> went back to Stockholm to recalibrate, but due to various personal problems (a divorce, the death of his father, his sister's cancer diagnosis, and his own battle with a stomach disease), it would be over four years before the eventual 1994 release of the album Citizen of Wasteland, credited to his new band Zan Clan. The album saw rather limited success. In 2002, <mask> would record and release the solo album City Boy Blues which enjoyed moderate commercial and critical success in Scandinavia and earned distinction as the "Comeback Album of the Year" in the UK´s Classic Rock Magazine but failed to garner much attention in the U.S.

Zinny then signed a TV contract to be the Tour Manager and Mentor for a band called Tribal Ink for the TV show Wannabe in 2002. Shortly thereafter, Zinny would resurrect the Zan Clan with a new line up including producer/guitarist/songwriter friend Chris Laney. In 2005, the Zan Clan released the album We Are Zan Clan, Who The Fuck Are You in addition to opening a series of shows in Europe for Whitesnake and Queensrÿche. Easy Action reunion
In 2006, Zinny reunited with his former Easy Action bandmate, guitarist Kee Marcello (who had served a stint in the band Europe in the interim) for a Reunion gig at Sweden Rock Festival. This performance led to more shows for Easy Action, including serving as the opening act for Twisted Sister on their farewell tour in 2007.In 2008, Easy Action released a new single "Jack's Back" (Produced by Chris Laney) and opened up The Speedway Grand Prix at Ullevi in Gothenburg. This tune remained on the singles chart in Sweden for weeks. At one point later in the 2000s, it was reported that <mask> and Easy Action were finishing up the recording of their new album, which had the working title of Looking Up Your Old Address. However, in 2013, it was revealed that the Looking Up Your Old Address album would not be released, as Easy Action had split up once again, with Kee and Zinny parting ways. Influences and Tributes
Zinny was heavily influenced by such bands as Aerosmith, Kiss, Sex Pistols, and Thin Lizzy, inspirations which are reflected in his songwriting and singing style. In addition to his work with numerous bands, he has also performed on several tribute albums. He contributed to the FastLane Records release Tricked Out, a tribute to Cheap Trick, where he performed the CT hit "Surrender."He later also contributed a cover version of the Thin Lizzy song "Dedication" to the A Tribute to Phil Lynott album. Recent years/Currently
<mask> is reportedly in the process of writing an autobiography titled The Lies and Faults of <mask> J<mask> which will reveal everything, from groupies to "behind-the-scenes" content within his bands and the record industry. On April 19, 2013, Zinny released the single "The Perfect Age of Rock n Roll," which also appears on the soundtrack for the American movie of the same name starring Peter Fonda. Later in 2013, Zinny also put together the band Shotgun, an idea proposed by his old musical partner, Chris Laney, and Rob Marcello (not to be confused with his former Easy Action bandmate, Kee Marcello) in commemoration of the upcoming 25th anniversary of Shotgun Messiah's highly acclaimed debut album. Pekka "Stixx" Ollinen, original drummer in Shotgun Messiah also came on board for this celebration tour, which included stints at The Club in STHLM; Sticky Fingers in GTB; and a number of Festivals such as Grebbestad Festival, Skogsröjet, and the grand finale at Väsby Rock Festival. In 2014, Zinny became a member of the Väsby Rock Festival Management, making the festival a two-day event, as opposed to its previous one-day duration. In 2017, <mask> released his first-ever solo album in his native language, Swedish, under his birthname, Stagman.The album, titled Är Ni Kvar Därute? ("Are You Still Out There? "), features former Easy Action 2006 bandmates, drummer – and in this case also producer – Björn Höglund and guitarist Simon Roxx, along with a few other great musicians such as Martin Sweet (Crash Diet) and Nalle Påhlsson (Treat, Therion) to name a few. Personal life
Zinny is a father of two children: a daughter Yasmine and a son Zack (born 2009), the latter of whose mother is Zinny's fiancée for the last 14 years, Beatrice. Previous bands
Belsen Boys, Brilliant Boys, Alarm X, Bangshot, Dream Police,  Grand Slam

Discography

Easy Action
 Easy Action (1983) – vocals
"We Go Rocking [New 2008 version]" / "Jack's Back" (single, Official Speedway Grand Prix Anthem 2008)

Kingpin
 Welcome To Bop City (1988) – vocals

Shotgun Messiah
 Shotgun Messiah (1989) – vocals

Zinny J. Zan
City Boy Blues (2002) – vocals

<mask> Zan
 "The Perfect Age of Rock 'n Roll" (single)(2013) The Perfect Age of Rock n Roll Movie soundtrack

Zan Clan
Citizen of Wasteland (1994) – vocals
We Are Zan Clan, Who the Fuck Are You (2005) – vocals
(Kickz the living shit outta Stockholm City) Live album recorded at Klubben STHLM (2006)

Stagman
 Är Ni Kvar Därute? (Are You Still Out There? - album in Swedish) (2017) – vocals

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References

External links
The Sweet Success of Smell Business Week
Top 5 Hidden Gems of the 80s Guitar World
Review of Stagman - Är ni kvar därute?Music & Festival Reviews

1964 births
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Musicians from Stockholm
Shotgun Messiah
Glam metal musicians
Swedish male musicians
Swedish heavy metal singers

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title: Werner Küchenthal

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<mask> (13 January 1882 - 20 June 1976) was a German jurist and public official who became a leading politician (DNVP, NSDAP) in what was then the Free State of Brunswick ("Freistaat Braunschweig"). Life
<mask> was born in Münchehof, a small manufacturing country town focused on limestone extraction and cement production, positioned in the countryside between Braunschweig to its north and Göttingen to its south. After leaving school he studied jurisprudence, passing his Level 1 national law exams in 1903. As a student he became a member of what became the "Alte Turnerschaft Eberhardina-Markomannia Tübingen" student fraternity. He received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1907   His dissertation concerned property and possession rights in respect of game killed by poachers and the duties and rights of lawful huntsmen and gamekeepers against poachers ("Über den Eigentumserwerb am Wilderergute und die Ansprüche und rechtlichen Befugnisse des Jagdberechtigten gegen den Wilderer"). Küchenthal entered the public service a court assessor, and shortly afterwards joined the public prosecution service. Later he became a judge in the regional court and a permanent member of the Berlin-based Imperial Oversight Office for Private Insurance.He volunteered to fight in the First World War and was also active in the Ministry of War. After his promotion to the higher ranks of the public service (als "Oberregierungsrat") in 1920 he worked in the tax department of the Regional Finance Office
in Hanover. He joined the German National People's Party ("Deutschnationale Volkspartei" / DNVP) in 1919, remaining a member till 1933. From 22 January 1926 till 13 December 1927 he served in the regional government under Gerhard Marquordt as Minister for Finance and the Economy. His term in office was characterised by attempts to cut back on public spending. Between 1928 and 1930 he took over as head of the Regional Finance Office, based in Hanover. Following the election results of September 1930 the moderate left-wing coalition in the regional parliament was replaced by a broadly constituted coalition headed up by the DNVP and NSDAP.On 1 October 1930 these two, with the other smaller parties to the new governing coalition, voted <mask> in as chair of the Council of Ministers / Minister-president of Braunschweig, the duties to be combined with departmental responsibilities for Finance and Justice. The Interior and Education ministry went to the NSDAP member, Anton Franzen who was succeeded by fellow-Nazi Dietrich Klagges on 15 September 1931. Klagges expanded his portfolio, replacing  <mask> as Braunschweig's Minister-President, on 9 May 1933. Adolf Hitler surrendered his Austrian citizenship in 1925 and submitted an application for German citizenship. Under the Weimar constitution (Art. 41 para. 2) he would never be able to become President without it.A (bizarrely, anonymous) application was quietly submitted on Hitler's behalf in Thuringia. The application was not successful. Over the next seven years applications for German citizenship were submitted by or on behalf of Hitler in various other parts of Germany, but it became increasingly clear that they were all being blocked by Berlin, mindful of Hitler's attempt to overthrow the government back in 1923. Along the way, it was discovered by eagle eyed readers of the constitution that if Hitler could be found a job in government service, German citizenship might be conferred automatically. Various attempts to find the Nazi leader a low profile appointment floundered, partly because of resistance in the political establishment and partly because Hitler had more important preoccupations than accepting a low profile appointment in government service. In 1932 the focus of those attempting to obtain citizenship for the party leader switched to the Free State of Brunswick/Braunschweig. Braunschweig was small and for most purposes outside the usual ambit of political commentators.More importantly, it was a state where the Nazi Party already held power, albeit in coalition with other parties. The political leadership, including Minister-President <mask> of the DNVP, were supportive. <mask> suggested that Hitler might be appointed mayor of the little town of Stadtoldendorf. That was rejected by other parties in the coalition, however. In the end it is not clear whether it was the support of the regional government under <mask> that secured Hitler's appointment to a government post in Braunschweig, and how far it was the implicit threat of the Nazi Party to pull out of the governing coalition which would have triggered new regional elections (which all parties had good reason to fear at that point). On 26 February 1932 Adolf Hitler was duly appointed to the appropriately obscure post of "Regierungsrat der braunschweigschen Gesandtschaft beim Reichsrat" (loosely "Government official of the Braunschweig delegation to the National Council"). Citizenship for Adolf Hitler followed, backed by the practical support of the Free State of Brunswick/Braunschweig led by <mask>thal.It was, in its way, an important contribution. On 1 May 1933 <mask> joined the Nazi Party less than two months after the Enabling Act of 1933 which enshrined in statute the transformation of Germany into a one-party state. After Oskar Stübben had been persuaded to resign the position, <mask> took over as president of the board at the Braunschweig State Bank. (Stübben was not Jewish and he was certainly not a communist, but he was not a Nazi either.) <mask> remained in charge at the bank until relieved of his duties there on 13 August 1945 in the aftermath of another national military defeat. He spent the rest of his life as a farmer in Hedeper. References

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title: Christina of Norway, Infanta of Castile

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<mask> of Norway (; 1234 – 1262) was the daughter of Håkon IV and his wife, Margaret Skulesdatter. She was born in Bergen. As part of an alliance she was betrothed to Philip, brother of Alfonso X of Castile. They married in 1258, and she lived in Castile until her death four years later. Tradition states that <mask> desired that a church dedicated to St Olaf should be built in Castile. 750 years later, "a modernized version of [a] simple pre-Roman church" was built and dedicated in Covarrubias, Spain. Medieval source
The primary source on <mask> is that of Icelander Sturla Þórðarson (Sturla was a nephew of Snorri Sturluson and had come to Norway in 1263).Sturla was commissioned by Kristina's brother, Magnus Lagabøte, (King Magnus VI of Norway) to write his father's saga (Saga of Håkon Håkonsson ) shortly after King Håkon died in the Orkney Islands on 16 December 1263. In relating the stories in the saga, Sturla would have been able to interview contemporaries of the King and those that had taken the journey to Spain with <mask>. In the 19th century, Norwegian historian Peter Andreas Munch related the story of King Haakon's daughter, <mask>, in his work, A History of the Norwegian People (Det norske folks historie), which was published in the 1850s. The saga narrates how King Håkon sent a delegation to Castile in 1255 where they presented gifts to the court of falcons, furs, and leather. The Norwegian envoys were well received by the Spanish court and the next year when they returned to Norway, they were accompanied by representatives of Alfonso X, King of Castile, León and Galicia – headed by the royal notary, Sira Ferrant. Ferrant asked King Håkon if his daughter <mask> could be betrothed to one of King Alfonso's brothers. The saga relates that King Håkon considered the request with careful thought.He consulted with the archbishop, and several wise men in making a decision. Håkon consented to the request under the condition that <mask> be allowed to choose her husband from among the brothers of the King of Castile. (King Håkon had lost a son only a short time before to illness). The journey to Spain

<mask> left Tønsberg, Norway in the Summer of 1257 – the procession consisting of more than 100 people. After crossing the North Sea to Yarmouth, England, they crossed the English Channel to Normandy – continuing their journey across France on horseback to the Spanish border of Catalonia. In Barcelona, the party was met by King James I of Aragon, (father of Violant of Aragon, wife of King Alfonso X), who was taken with <mask>'s beauty. On Christmas Eve, 1257, the party lodged at the Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas at Burgos; an abbey that has survived intact to modern day.At Palencia, the Norwegians were officially met by King Alfonso who accompanied them to the city of Valladolid on 3 January 1258, "where she was warmly welcomed by all the townspeople, the nobility, and the clergy who were gathered there for the Cortes". There she met the King's brothers for the first time, and ultimately chose the youngest, Philip, who was three years older than <mask>. Although he had been trained for an ecclesiastical position and had charge of the church at Covarrubias, his greatest enjoyment was in hunting boars and bears. (Philip had been groomed by his father, Ferdinand III of Castile, for a life in the church and was subsequently rewarded with territories and properties (benefices) as part of this bargain, but after his father's death in 1252, Philip relinquished that role to the "chagrin" of Alfonso). Infante Philip and <mask> of Norway were married on 31 March 1258 in the Santa Maria la Mayor church (The Cathedral of Valladolid now exists on the site). There are not extant records that provide details about what the marriage was like. They did not have children, and just four years later, <mask> died at the age of 28 in Seville.<mask> was carried to the abbey church in Covarrubias, Spain, which is 40 km (25 miles) south of Burgos. There, her wooden casket was placed within a simple limestone sarcophagus, ornamented with carved grape leaves. Tomb opened

In 1952, her sarcophagus was opened by craftsmen while in the midst of doing restoration work. The parish priest at Covarrubias, Father Rufino Vargas Blanco, was shown a piece of written parchment that was found in the casket. The lid was replaced, later to be officially opened in 1958, partially based upon a 1757 church manuscript that indicated this as the resting place of Infanta <mask>. (The year 1958 marked 700 years since the marriage had taken place). Archaeologists and historians, Manuel Ayala and Jose Luis Monteverde, were employed to interpret the data.The limestone is from Hontoria. The fabrics within the casket were shown to be from the 13th century. The report by doctors Maximiliano Gutierrez and Gabriel Escudero stated:

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The cities of Tønsberg and Covarrubias have entered a friendship agreement as the result of this old connection. In 1978 a statue of Infanta <mask> by artist Brit Sørensen was unveiled in Covarrubias and a copy was later placed in Tønsberg. The Princess Christina Foundation has been established to further the work to preserve and advance the cultural and historical ties. Tradition states that <mask> had desired for a church to be built in Spain dedicated to St Olaf. "A modernized version of the simple pre-Roman church", designed by architect Pablo López Aguado, has been built in Covarrubias, Spain."Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway have financed close to 40% of the total cost of the project. Local Spanish authorities as well as several Spanish and Norwegian companies are among the other contributors." 750 years later, a church was constructed and consecrated to Olav the Holy on 18 September 2011 in Covarrubias. Representatives from both Spain and Norway were present at the opening, as well as more than 1300 spectators. For several years now the area of Covarrubias has become a pilgrimage of sorts for visitors from Norway to visit the final resting place of a Norwegian daughter. Ancestry

References

External links
https://www.nrk.no/vestfoldogtelemark/bokskatt-til-norge-for-forste-gang-pa-400-ar-1.15626086 [Literary treasure to Norway for the first time in 400 years] (2021) NRK

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title: Mokah Jasmine Johnson

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<mask> is a community activist, social entrepreneur, and educator in Athens, Georgia. She is the co-founder of Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement (AADM), a civil rights organization formed in 2016 as a community effort to combat discrimination. On August 14, 2019, <mask> announced that she is exploring a run for the Georgia House of Representatives’ House District 117 seat. On January 2, 2020, <mask> officially announced her candidacy to run for the seat. Her campaign has been endorsed by former President Barack Obama, Stacey Abrams, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Georgia Association of Educators, Georgia AFL-CIO, the Georgia Working Families Party, Swing Left, Fair Fight, Democracy for America, EMILY's List, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Georgia Stonewall Democrats, and Our Revolution Georgia. Early life, education and career
Originally from Jamaica, <mask> migrated to the United States. She met her husband, Knowa D<mask>, in Orlando, Florida in 2004.Together, they have built a blended family of seven children and seven grandchildren. In 2012, the pair moved to the area of Athens, Georgia, where they currently reside. Though at various times they lived outside of Athens proper. In 2012, she and her husband founded of United Group of Artists, a special events production, management, and marketing company. Through their company, they have curated multiple community events, including Athens Hip-Hop Awards, Athens MLK Day Parade and Music Fest, and the Athens in Harmony concert. <mask> <mask> was first called to action in activism against discrimination in 2015, when a popular Athens bar called General Beauregard’s served a drink with a racial slur in the title. It was determined that there was no proof a drink ever existed beyond a baseless social media claim.Propelled into action by this incident, the <mask>s co-founded Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement in January of 2016. <mask> stepped down as president of AADM to run for Georgia House District 117. She did not win this seat as many pointed out she had tenuous ties to the communities she claimed to represent. From 2013 to 2016, Mokah founded and operated the VIP Girlz Hip-Hop Dance and Leadership Program, a mentorship and dance program designed to develop the skills and confidence of girls in Athens. Mokah now serves as the Hip-Hop Director for Girls Rock, a program that works to build self-esteem, inspire confidence, and encourage creativity in girls through mentorship and dance. Mokah has ten years of experience working as an educator, and worked for four years at Athens Technical College as an adult GED educator. <mask> has a B.S.in Marketing Management from Everest University, and an M.S. in Education Media Design and Technology from Full Sail University. Activism
<mask> <mask> claims to be a prominent activist in Athens, Georgia, organizing around issues such as discrimination, civil rights, criminal justice reform, gun violence prevention, and voting rights. Anti-Discrimination Efforts
As president of AADM, <mask> led efforts to bring attention to the discriminatory practices of downtown bars. This work led to the creation of a local alcohol license ordinance. In 2016, AADM launched the “United Against Discrimination” sticker campaign for businesses in downtown Athens. In 2017, AADM launched the Swadeshi Black Market and Co-op to promote local minority-owned businesses.<mask> was pivotal to the creation of the AADM End School-to-Prison Pipeline program and a Teen Social Justice Club after school program. The End School to Prison Pipeline program also provides meaningful community service opportunities for at risk youth and adults, and partners with local businesses to provide career mentoring services. <mask> also served on a task force created by former Athens Mayor Nancy Denson to develop a community-wide plan for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. <mask> also led the push for the creation of an Inclusion Office and Inclusion Officer to focus on diversity and inclusion efforts in Athens. Criminal Justice Reform
In 2019, <mask> <mask> and AADM worked with the Georgia American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and local social justice organization Athens for Everyone, to lobby for cash bail reform in Athens-Clarke County. The work led to The Freedom Act of Athens-Clarke County on June 3, 2019. The Freedom Act put an end to cash bail for all violations of Athens-Clarke local ordinances, with an exception for violence and threats of violence.Community Policing and Race Relations
Working with the local public school system, Mokah has led youth development workshops and “Know Your Rights” seminars. Furthermore, by leading forums on topics including community policing and race relations, Mokah has worked to build unity and understanding in the Athens area. She has not though, worked much with any of the law enforcement agencies in assisting their community programs such as Shop With A Cop where toys are purchased for disadvantaged youth. Voting Rights
<mask> was featured on HBO Vice News 2018 Midterm election documentary for her “Get on the Bus and Vote” initiative. In 2018, <mask> served on the Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections as the representative for the local Democratic party. The ACC BOE later used taxpayer money to violate state voting machine law in 2020 then cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Author
<mask> is the author of Spirit of an Activist: Stop Sitting on the Sidelines.Spirit of an Activist is a 104-page autobiography about her life story, from her early days as a Jamaican immigrant in the United States to her recent activism work in building the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement as a response to racial injustices in her hometown and nationwide. References

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