title: Al-Muzaffar II Mahmud

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Al-<mask>bid emir of Hama first in 1219 (616 AH) and then restored in 1229–1244 (626 AH–642 AH). He was the son of al-Mansur Muhammad and the older brother of al-Nasir Kilij Arslan. Usurpation
In 1219, al-Mansur called together the leading men of Hama and made them swear allegiance to his eldest son, <mask>, as his heir apparent, before sending al-Muzaffar to Egypt to aid Sultan al-Kamil. Some time later he sent his second son, an-Nasir Kilij Arslan to join Al-Muazzam in his campaigns in Palestine. However, as he lay dying some of the leading emirs decided to invite an-Nasir back to Hama to usurp the throne in place of his brother, in the hope that they would be able to exercise real control under his nominal rule. Al-Mansur died in January 1221 (Dhu'l Qa'da 617), and An-Nasir duly installed himself as ruler in Hama. In Egypt, when al-Muzaffar learned of his father's death, he obtained Sultan al-Kamil's permission to go and claim his throne.On reaching Syria however he found his brother firmly established on the throne. None of the notables of Hama would support him in removing An-Nasir, and none of the other Ayyubid princes in Syria was interested in helping him, so he had to return to Egypt, where he was given an estate by Al-Kamil. Restoration
Al-Muzaffar was eventually restored to Hama as a result of the changing balance of power between the major rulers of the Ayyubid family. In November 1228 (Dhu’l Hijja 625) negotiations took place at Tell el-'Ajul near Gaza between Aa-Kamil and his rival al-Ashraf as they sought to agree a balance of power between them across the Ayyubid realms. The result was a comprehensive agreement on redistribution of domains. Al-Kamil's client al-Muzaffar was to be restored to Hama, together with Baarin and Maarrat al-Nu'man. Salamiyah was to be detached from the Hama domain and given to al-Mujahid of Homs.Al-Ashraf and al-Kamil now worked in tandem to put this plan into effect, and Al Kamil led his armies to Damascus in support of al Ashraf who was laying siege to it. The city surrendered in June and almost at once, al-Kamil turned his attention to Hama. On 25 July 1229 (2 Ramadan 626), Al Kamil, in alliance with al-Mujahid of Homs, laid siege to Hama to remove Kilij Arslan and restore al-Muzaffar. After a few days of siege, Kilij Arslan came out to negotiate, and eventually agreed to leave Hama in return for receiving the fortress of Montferrand near Baarin. Eventually, Kilij Arslan died on the same year. Reign
Al Muzaffar took part in the major campaign of 1232 (629) led by Al-Kamil which took Amida and Hasankeyf. He also took part in the unsuccessful campaign of 1234 (631) which apparently aimed at Malatya.In 1238–9, he decided to raze the Montferrand castle to the ground. Conflict with Homs
Al-Muzaffar owed his throne to the ruler of Homs, al-Mujahid, who had organised the conference of the Ayyubid rulers at Tell el-'Ajul in 1228–29 which agreed his restoration. However one of the terms of this agreement was that was that Hama was to turn over the fief of Salamiyah. This was to be the source of constant hostility between the two rulers thereafter. On taking control of the town however Al-Mujahid built a great fortress nearby, which al-Muzaffar interpreted as a threat to him. This led to bad relations between the emirs, and when al-Muzaffar joined al-Kamil of Egypt in a campaign to oust al-Mujahid, the tensions between them broke out into open conflict. When al-Kamil died al-Mujahid attacked the territory of Hama, devastating the countryside and diverting both the River Orontes and the canals which irrigated the fields around the city.He was not able to take the city however, but constant tension and aggression prevailed between the two rulers for the remainder of their days. In the diplomatic manoeuvres which followed the death of al-Kamil, the emir of Hama, Al-Muzaffar, allied himself with As-Salih Ayyub and persuaded him that he could usefully secure his position in Syria before attacking Egypt by removing Al-Mujahid from Homs. al-Mujahid was allied with as-Salih' Ayyub's rival as-Salih Ismail. In March 1239 (Sha’ban 636), As-Salih Ayyub set out with his forces to attack Homs, but soon after he received envoys from Egypt complaining of the rule of al-Adil II and urging him to come and take power himself. In April 1239 therefore as-Salih Ayyub turned away from Homs and moved his forces south in preparation for an invasion of Egypt. As the threat receded, Al-Mujahid conspired with As-Salih Ayyub's uncle, As-Salih Ismail, to take Damascus and divide the Syrian domains between them. Al-Mujahid also undertook some covert warfare against Hama in a rather unusual way.Theobald of Champagne was leading a new crusade and arrived in Palestine in September 1239 (Safar 637). Al-Muzaffar lured Theobald's group with empty promises of converting to Christianity and turning over fortresses to the crusaders. He then managed to start a rumour in the city that al-Muzaffar was about to hand it over to the Crusaders to prevent it from being taken by him. Believing themselves to be in danger, a number of the civic and military leaders of Hama fled to Homs, where they were immediately imprisoned by al-Mujahid. The effect of this incident was to disable Hama temporarily and prevent al-Muzaffar from doing anything to stop Al-Mujahid from moving on Damascus. As a result, al-Mujahid and as-Salih Ismail were able to take Damascus on 28 September 1239 (27 Safar 637). However shortly afterwards al-Mujahid died.As-Salih Ayyub steadily extended is control over all the Ayyubid domains, and al-Muzaffar continued to rule in Hama until his death in 1244. Family
Al-Muzaffar was married to a woman called Ghaziya Khatun, who was the mother of his successor Al Mansur II. References

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title: Donald Martino

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<mask> (May 16, 1931 – December 8, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer. Biography
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, <mask> attended Plainfield High School. He began as a clarinetist, playing jazz for fun and profit. He attended Syracuse University, where he studied composition with Ernst Bacon, who encouraged him in that direction. He then attended Princeton University as a graduate student, where he worked with composers Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt. He also studied with Luigi Dallapiccola in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar. He became a lecturer and teacher himself, working with students at Yale University, the New England Conservatory of Music (where he became chair of the composition department), Brandeis University, and Harvard University.He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1974 for his chamber work Notturno. In 1991, the journal Perspectives of New Music published a 292-page tribute to <mask>. <mask> died in Antigua in 2005. A memorial concert was held at the New England Conservatory on May 8, 2007. A recording of the concert was released by Navona Records in 2009. Music
Most of <mask>'s mature works (including pseudo-tonal works such as Paradiso Choruses and Seven Pious Pieces) were composed using the twelve-tone method; his sound world more closely resembled the lyrical Dallapiccola's than his other teachers'. The pianist Easley Blackwood commissioned Martino's sonata Pianississimo, explicitly requesting that it be one of the most difficult pieces ever written.The resulting work is indeed of epic difficulty, but has been recorded several times. (Blackwood declined to perform it.) <mask> presented Milton Babbitt with at least two musical birthday cards: B,a,b,b,i,t,t on his 50th birthday and Triple Concerto on his 60th. Musical compositions
Many of the instrumental pieces have extensive doublings, such as flute/piccolo/alto flute. Principal publishers: Ione, Dantalian, McGinnis & Marx. Works for orchestra and concertos
Sinfonia, 1953, withdrawn, unpublished
Contemplations, 1956
Piano Concerto, 1965
Mosaic for Grand Orchestra, 1967
Cello Concerto, 1972
Ritorno, 1976, arr. for band, 1977
Triple Concerto, clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, 1977
Divertisements for Youth Orchestra, 1981
Alto Sax Concerto, 1987
Violin Concerto, 1996
 Concertino (clarinet and orchestra), 2004
 Concerto for Orchestra, 2005

Chamber music
String Quartet No.1, withdrawn, unpublished
String Quartet No. 2, 1952, withdrawn, unpublished
String Quartet Mo. 3, 1954, withdrawn, unpublished
Seven Canoni Enigmatici, canons with resolutions (2 violas, 2 ‘cellos/2 bassoons, 1955; string quartet, 1962; 2 clarinets, alto clarinet/basset horn, bass clarinet, 1966, may be combined with version of 1955)
String Trio, 1955, withdrawn, unpublished
Quartet (clarinet and string trio), 1957
Trio (clarinet, violin, piano), 1959
Five Frammenti (oboe, double bass), 1961
Concerto (wind quintet), 1964
Notturno (piccolo/flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet,  violin, viola, ‘cello, piano, percussion), 1973
String Quartet [No. 4], 1983
Canzone e Tarantella sul Nome Petrassi (clarinet, ‘cello), 1984
From the Other Side (flute, ‘cello, piano, percussion), 1988
Three Sad Songs (viola, piano), 1991
Octet (flute, clarinet, flugelhorn, trombone, percussion, piano, violin, ‘cello), 1998
 Serenata Concertante (flute, clarinet, flugel horn, French horn, percussion, piano, violin, ‘cello), 1999
 String Quartet No. 5, 2004
 Trio (violin, cello, piano), 2004
 Trio (clarinet, cello, piano), 2004

Works for solo instrument
Clarinet Sonata, 1950–51
Suite of Variations on Medieval Melodies (‘cello), 1952, rev. 1954
A Set (clarinet), 1954, rev. 1974
Violin Sonata, 1954
Harmonica Piece, 1954
Quodlibets (flute), 1954
Fantasy (piano), 1958
Fantasy-Variations (violin), 1962
Parisonatina al’dodecafonia (‘cello), 1964
B, A, B, B, IT, T (clarinet with extensions), 1966
Strata (bass clarinet), 1966
Pianississimo, piano sonata, 1970
Impromptu for Roger (piano), 1977
Fantasies and Impromptus (piano), 1980
Quodlibets II (flute), 1980
Suite in Old Form (Parody Suite) (piano), 1982
Twelve Preludes (piano), 1991
15, 5, 92, A.B.(clarinet), 1992
A Birthday Card for Alea III (clarinet), 1997
 Romanza (violin), 2000
 Sonata (violin), 2003
 Violin Sonata No. 2, 2004

Vocal works
Separate Songs (high voice and piano), 1951
All day I hear the noise of waters (James Joyce)
The half-moon westers low, my love (A. E. Housman)
From "The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts" (Hilaire Belloc) (high voice and piano), 1952
The Lion, the Tiger
The Frog
The Microbe
Portraits: a Secular Cantata (Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman, e.e. Cummings) (mezzo-soprano and baritone solos, chorus, orchestra), 1954
Arrangement of Anyone lived in a pretty how town (SATB chorus, piano 4 hands, optional percussion, 1955
Three Songs (James Joyce) (soprano/tenor or bass, piano), 1955
Alone
Tutto e sciolto (in English)
A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight
Two Rilke Songs (mezzo-soprano and piano), 1961
Die Laute
Aus einem Sturmnacht VIII;
Seven Pious Pieces (Robert Herrick) (chorus with optional piano/organ), 1972
Paradiso Choruses (Dante) (solo voices, chorus, orchestra, tape), 1974
The White Island (SATB chorus and chamber orchestra), 1985

Film scores
The White Rooster, c1950, unpublished
The Lonely Crime, 1958, unpublished

Other works
Augenmusik, a Mixed Mediocritique (actress/danseuse/uninhibited female percussionist, tape), 1972
Many popular songs and jazz arrangements, all unpublished

References
Barkin, Elaine, and Martin Brody (2006). "Martino, Donald (James)". Grove Music Online, edited by Deane L. Root. (updated 18 January). Oxford Music Online (accessed 26 August 2017).Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich, ed. (2001). "1974 Award: About the Chamber Music Piece Notturno by <mask><mask>". In The Pulitzer Prize Archives: Part E, Liberal Arts: Volume 15, Musical Composition Awards 1943-1999: From Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber to Gian-Carlo Menotti and Melinda Wagner, edited by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer in cooperation with Erika J. Fischer, 121–24. Munich: K. G. Sauer. .
Griffiths, Paul (2002). "<mask>, <mask> (James)". The Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Alison Latham.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Los Angeles Times Staff (2005). Los Angeles Times: Obituary of <mask>. Retrieved December 25, 2005. Bibliography

Articles by <mask>
<mask>, <mask>. 1961. "The Source Set and Its Aggregate Formations."Journal of Music Theory 5: 224-273. <mask>, <mask>. 1964. "Claudio Spies: 'Tempi'." Perspectives of New Music 2/2: 112-124. <mask>, <mask>. 1966."Notation in General - Articulation in Particular." Perspectives of New Music 4/2: 47-58. <mask>, <mask>, and Ricci, Robert. 1968. "Wherefore Modern Music?" Music Educators Journal 55: 94-96. <mask>, <mask>.1971. "In Memoriam Stravinsky." Perspectives of New Music 9/2-10/1: 64. <mask>, <mask>. 1972. "Exotic Winds." The Musical Times 113/1555: 865.<mask>, <mask>. 1974. "In Memoriam Dallapiccola." Perspectives of New Music 13/1: 240-245. Interview with <mask>
<mask>, <mask>, and Boros, James. 1991. "A Conversation with <mask>."Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 212-278. Further reading
Boros, James. 1991. "<mask>'s Fantasy Variations: The First Three Measures." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 280-293. Brody, Martin. 1991."MSHJ: Faith and Deeds in The White Island." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 294-311. Dembski, Stephen. 1991. "Misreading Martino." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 312-317. Fogg, Jonathan Leonard Ryan.2006. An Aggregate of Styles: <mask>’s 'Fantasies and Impromptus'. A Treatise presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts, Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin. Kizas, Andrew J. 2004. From Octatonicism to Dodecaphony: A Study of Pitch Organization in Selected Works by <mask>. A Dissertation prepared for the Degree of Ph.D., University of Western Ontario.Kizas, Andrew J. 2009. The Music of <mask>: A Theory of Pitch Organization in Selected Works. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag. Klumpenhouwer, Henry. 1991. "Aspects of Row Structure and Harmony in <mask>'s Impromptu Number 6."Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 318-354. Krims, Adam. 1991. "Some Analytical Comments on Text and Music in <mask>'s 'Alone'." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 356-380. Kyr, Robert. 1991."Point/Counter-Point: <mask>'s Radical Statement of Mind and Soul." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 382-392. Littleton, Laurann. 1981. An Analysis of <mask>'s 'Fantasies and Impromptus' For Solo Piano. A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Eastman School of Music. Nicholls, David.1992. "<mask>: a survey of his recent music." Music & Letters 73/1: 75-79. Rothstein, William. 1980 "Linear Structure in the Twelve-Tone System: An Analysis of <mask>'s 'Pianississimo'." Journal of Music Theory 24: 129-165. Stadelman, Jeffrey.1991. "A Symmetry of Thought." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 402-439. Vishio, Anton. 1991. "An Investigation of Structure and Experience in Martino Space." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 440-476.Webb, Glenn. 2014. The Percussion Music of <mask>o. A document submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts, University of Nevada. Weinberg, Henry. 1963. "<mask>: 'Trio' (1959)."Perspectives of New Music 2/1 (Fall-Winter): 82-90. Yang, Yoon Joo. 2011. A Practical Approach to <mask>'s Twelve-Tone Song Cycles: 'Three Songs' and 'Two Rilke Songs,' for Performance. A Dissertation prepared for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts, University of North Texas. Notes

External links
 Publisher's website
 Interview with <mask>, January 12, 1991

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title: Vicki L. Gregory

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Dr. <mask><mask> is  professor at the School of Information at the University of South Florida (USF). She and was director of the School from 1999 until 2007. Her fields of specialization include: academic libraries, digital librarianship, technical services, information science, library networking, library automation, and collection development. She currently teaches Introduction to Library Administration, Collection Development/Maintenance, and Digital Libraries. Prior to teaching at USF Dr. <mask> was Director of Systems and Operations for the Auburn University at Montgomery Library. She is currently President of Beta Phi Mu. She was Treasurer for the Association for Information Science and Technology  (ASIS&T) and the winner of the 2014 Watson Davis Award.She is also the author, co-author, or editor of seven books and has published numerous articles. Education
<mask> received  an A.B. in History in 1971 from the University of Alabama (UA), and a M.A. in History, also at UA, in 1973. Remaining at the University of Alabama, she went on to complete the Graduate School of Library Service's M.L.S. degree in 1974. Finally, she received her Ph.D. in Communication, Information and Library Studies from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 1987.<mask> began her professional career at the Auburn University at Montgomery Library in 1976 as an audio-visual librarian and a supervisor for the Acquisitions Department, then Coordinator of Technical Services, and finally Head of the Department of Systems and Operations. She finished her time at the library in 1988, by which time she had become a tenured librarian. In August 1988 she became an Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida (USF). She was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1994, then Professor in 2000. That same year she was made Director of the School of Library and Information Science, a position she held until 2007. She is currently a Professor at the USF School of Information. Professional activities
Dr. <mask> <mask> has been active in many professional associations.She is president of Beta Phi Mu, the international honor society. and is past Treasurer for the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). She has served the American Library Association (ALA) as a Member-at-Large for the Library Research Roundtable Steering Committee, and she was the ALA Councilor for the Florida Library Association (FLA). Dr. <mask> has served as Chair of the ALA Committee on Accreditation from 2010 until 2012 and was a member of the Committee from 2007 until 2009. She is currently serving on the ALA Notable Book Council. Dr. <mask> was Director of the FLA from 2001 until 2003, was a past Chair of the Florida ASIS&T, past Chair of ASIS&T's Special Interest Group - Library Technologies (SIG-LT), a past chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Committee, past Chair of the ACRL Research Committee, and a past Secretary of the Library Research Round Table Steering Committee. She serves as Florida representative to the Southeastern Library Association.Honors
 Beta Phi Mu (Library and Information Science Honorary Society)
 1985 Recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries and Institute for Scientific Information Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
 1987 Selected as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America
 1995 Florida SUS Teaching Incentive Program Award
 1996 Florida Library Association Transformers Honor Roll
 2003 USF President's Award for Faculty Excellence
 Phi Alpha Theta (History Honorary Society)
 2007 Outstanding Alumni, University of Alabama, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
 2014 Watson Davis Award, American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)

Select journal articles
 <mask>, V., & Cox, K. (2013). Implications of voluntary communication based on gender, education level and cultural issues in an online environment. Informing Science & Information Technology, 10, 227-239. Kwon, N., & <mask>, V. (2007). The effects of librarians' behavioral performance on user satisfaction in chat reference services. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 47(2), 137-148
 Hastings, S., <mask>, V., Montague, R., & <mask>, J. (2005).Distance education: How are we doing, and how do we know? Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 42(1), NA-NA. <mask>, V., & Wohlmuth, S. R. (2002). Planning for the internationalization of a postgraduate professional degree programme in library and information science. Higher Education in Europe, 27(3), 261-268. Perrault, A., & <mask>, V. (2002). The integration of assessment of student learning outcomes and teaching effectiveness.Books
<mask>. (2019) Collection development and management for 21st century library collections. (2nd ed.) Chicago: ALA Editions. <mask>, V., de la Peña McCook, K., & <mask>, A. (Eds.). (2011). ACURIL XLI: Proceedings from the annual conference: The role of libraries and archives in disaster preparedness.Tampa, FL: Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries. <mask>, V. (2011). Collection development and management for the Twenty-First Century library collections. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman, Inc.
 <mask>, V. (2006). Selecting and Managing Electronic Resources. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman, Inc.
 <mask>, V. (Ed.).(2000). Selecting and managing electronic resources. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman, Inc.
 Gregory, V., & Stauffer, M. (1999). Multicultural resources on the Internet: The United States and Canada. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited
 <mask>, V. (1993). The state and the academic library. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press
 Gregory, V.(Ed.). (1991). A dynamic tradition: A history of Alabama academic libraries. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Public Library Press. References

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title: Evangeline Walton

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<mask> (24 November 1907 – 11 March 1996) was the pen name of <mask>, an American author of fantasy fiction. She remains popular in North America and Europe because of her “ability to humanize historical and mythological subjects with eloquence, humor and compassion”. Life
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Marion Edmund Ensley and Wilna Eunice Ensley née Coyner, <mask> came from a lively, educated, Quaker family. <mask> suffered chronic respiratory illnesses as a child, and was privately or self-taught at home. Her parents separated and divorced in 1924. Growing up and living with her mother and her grandmother and witnessing her parents’ marital difficulties roused a natural feminism in <mask> which appears throughout her writings. As a child, <mask> enjoyed the works of L. Frank Baum, James Stephens, Lord Dunsany and Algernon Blackwood, which she would later cite as influences on her fiction.<mask> and her mother traveled often to New York City, Chicago and San Francisco for opera, especially for Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen; opera was a passion her entire life. In 1946 after the death of her grandmother, <mask> and her mother moved to Tucson, Arizona. Wilna Ensley died in 1971 but not before she saw the dawn of public recognition for <mask> and her works. Most of <mask>’s published and unpublished works were originally written in the 1920s through the early 1950s. She worked on her best known work, the Mabinogion tetralogy, during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and her Theseus trilogy during the late 1940s. Once success found her after 1970, she reworked many of her manuscripts for publication over the next twenty years. <mask> said of her knack for writing fantasy: “My own method has always been to try to put flesh and blood on the bones of the original myth; I almost never contradict sources, I only add and interpret.” In 1991, she underwent surgery for a brain tumor that proved benign.However, her health continued to decline. Treated as a child with silver nitrate tincture for frequent bronchitis and severe sinus infections, <mask>, who had extremely fair skin, absorbed the pigment of the tincture, causing her skin to turn gray and darken as she aged. <mask> corresponded with the British novelist, essayist and poet John Cowper Powys for many years. Some of <mask>'s papers from 1936-1984—including biographic material, manuscripts and the correspondence with Powys—are archived in Special Collections at the Library, University of Arizona in Tucson. She was first cousin to Clifford C. Furnas (1900–1969), author of The Next Hundred Years, Assistant Secretary of War in the Eisenhower administration, co-founder of NASA and chancellor of SUNY Buffalo; and to Clifton J. Furness (1898–1946), professor of music and author of The Genteel Female: An Anthology (1931). Furness edited and introduced a facsimile edition of Leaves of Grass (1939) and Walt Whitman's Workshop: A Collection of Unpublished Manuscripts (1928). A writer himself, Furness encouraged, inspired and mentored his young cousin Evangeline.<mask> herself wrote about her chosen pen name, "I use the name <mask> professionally, partly because I originally hoped to build up different lines of work under different names, partly because <mask> is an old family name and appears on the Declaration of Independence. Not that I can trace any blood connection between my Quaker <mask>s and the Declaration signer. They came from Virginia, and were supposed to have had a [Native American] man somewhere up the family tree. He may be the reason why both records and tradition trail off into vagueness. But when I was a child, old folk remembered the <mask>s as very tall, very dark people, too full of restless energy to fit quietly into their peaceful little Quaker community: a vivid, turbulent note in it." Writings

<mask> is best known for her four novels retelling the Welsh Mabinogi. She published her first volume in 1936 under the publisher's title of The Virgin and the Swine.Although receiving warm praise from John Cowper Powys, the book sold poorly and none of the other novels in the series reached print at the time. Rediscovered by Ballantine's Adult Fantasy series in 1970, it was reissued as The Island of the Mighty. Editors at Ballantine were unaware that she was still alive, till she got in touch and sent them a second novel that had been left unfinished when the first failed to sell. This appeared as The Children of Llyr in 1971. It was followed by The Song of Rhiannon in 1972 and Prince of Annwn in 1974. All four novels were published in a single volume as The Mabinogion Tetralogy in 2002 by Overlook Press. The four novels are translated and available in several European languages.The rights to <mask>’s Mabinogi work were purchased by Stevie Nicks in the hopes of bringing the epic to the big screen. <mask>'s Witch House was written in the mid- to late-1930s and published in 1945 as the first volume in “The Library of Arkham House Novels of Fantasy and Terror”. It is an occult horror story set in New England. In 1956, she published The Cross and the Sword, a historical novel set during the Danish conquest of England and the destruction of its Celtic culture. In 1983, <mask> published The Sword is Forged, the first of a planned Theseus trilogy. <mask> had completed the trilogy in the late 1940s but the publication by Mary Renault of her Theseus novels in 1958 and 1962 kept <mask> from publishing her own. The remaining two novels in the trilogy remain unpublished.<mask> published several short stories. The best-known of these are “Above Ker-Is” (1980), “The Judgement of St. Yves” (1981) and “The Mistress of Kaer-Mor” (1980). She also wrote seven unpublished novels, several volumes of unpublished short stories, poems and a verse play. Some of these works have been published posthumously. Currently Douglas A. Anderson is the agent for <mask>'s literary works. Awards
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, Best Novel nominee, 1972: The Children of Llyr. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, Best Novel winner, 1973: The Song of Rhiannon.Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, Best Novel nominee, 1975: Prince of Annwn. Locus Award, 1975: Prince of Annwn, 20th place. Fritz Leiber Fantasy Award, "Gray Mouser Award", Science Fiction/Fantasy's Fantasy Faire, 1979. World Fantasy Convention, Convention Award, 1985. Locus Award, 1984: The Sword is Forged, 26th place. World Fantasy Convention, World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, 1989. Bibliography

Mabinogion tetralogy
The Virgin and the Swine.November 1936. Republished as The Island of the Mighty. July 1970. The Children of Llyr. August 1971. The Song of Rhiannon. August 1972.Prince of Annwn. November 1974. Other novels
Witch House. September 1945. The Cross and the Sword. October 1956. The Sword is Forged.July 1983. She Walks in Darkness. Tachyon Publications, September 2013. Collections
Above Ker-Is and Other Stories. March 2012. Short stories
"At the End of the Corridor." 1950."Above Ker-Is." 1978. "The Mistress of Kaer-Mor." 1980. "The Chinese Woman." 1981. "The Judgement of St.Yves." 1981. "The Ship from Away." 1982. "The Forest That Would Not Be Cut Down." 1985. "Cannibal Sorcerer" (with Bruce D. Arthurs).1993. "They That Have Wings." Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2011. "Lus-Mor." 2012. "The Other One." 2012."The Tree of Perkunas." 2012. "Werewolf." 2012. References

Further reading
 Lin Carter. Imaginary Worlds: The Art of Fantasy. NY: Ballantine, 1973, pp.169–73. External links
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<mask> (born April 19, 1973) is an Italian actor. Biography
Son of lawyers, originating in Avellino, there lives his childhood, later he moved to Naples, in Vomero, completed his classical studies at the Liceo Umberto I of Naples, he graduated in law from the University Federico II of Naples with the maximum of the votes and became assistant in tax law at the University of Salerno, then attended the Academy of Amateur Dramatics of Milan standing out to the attention of the director Antonio Calenda who entrusted him with the role of Laertes in Hamlet. He works on television in the soap opera of Channel 5, Vivere and in the TV miniseries Una donna per amico (TV series) of Rossella Izzo 2 but continues to engage in the theater realizing the monologue The last hours of AI with his friend Tommaso Mattei which will start a production partnership artistic creating the Khora Theatre company. Later he left the soap, reads in Trilogy by Aeschylus, always directed by Calenda, in Herald garments in Agamemnon and Orestes in The Libation Bearers and Eumenides getting critical acclaim. But the popularity arrives with Elisa di Rivombrosa, television series Cinzia TH Torrini, transmitted between December 2003 and February 2004 by Canale 5 (an italian Network), thanks to the great success which won the Telegatto as a male character of the year in the role of Earl Fabrizio Ristori. In the second season it is present only in the first two episodes, having chosen to rededicate themselves to the theater with King Lear, directed by Calenda, is role, is that of Edmund, followed by the musical comedy Datemi tre caravelle (Give me three caravels), the original production of Khora Theatre, in which she plays Christopher Columbus, a role that will come back to play in subsequent performances of 2005 and 2006. After the short movie of 2001 dedicated by director Giorgio Reale Scieri to the case, in 2004 is the protagonist of his first film for the film Vanilla and chocolate Ciro Ippolito, and the television miniseries in six episodes of Captain Vittorio Sindoni, broadcast by RAI 2 ; in the second season, which aired in 2007, it is present only in the first two episodes.In 2007 he appears on the big screen in the film The Viceroys by Roberto Faenza, and The Lark, by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. In September, it is called to participate as the narrator, along with Giannini, Guaccero and Fulco, event The Agora night on the esplanade of the Shrine of Loreto, the first youth meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. In 2008 he returned to television on Rai Uno with Commissioner De Luca, 4 TV movie, taken from the novel by Carlo Lucarelli, directed by Antonio Frazzi. Commissioner De Luca, work of high quality standards, the Italian Kineo receives award for best television film at the Venice Film Festival 2008 and the great international prize of Agrigento Efebo D'Oro for Best TV adaptation of a literary text, while <mask> is assigned Efebo D'Argento for "masterful interpretation". With this realization, the actor also won the international award Golden Chest, with director Antonio Frazzi. Also in 2008, is a producer and performer of two theater events: the melodrama The Bridge, written by Pennisi with music by Di Battista, and Hamlet, reducing the homonymous tragedy of Shakespeare texts by Eugenio Montale. The melodrama, through the anxieties of a simple worker, brings to life the history and stories of the South; which premiered in May in Rome on the occasion of Labor and Creativity Workshop in September is proposed in Reggio Calabria between the appointments of the Seventh International Architecture Laboratory.The Hamlet directed by Armando Pugliese debuts in July at the Roman Theatre in Verona, the first stage of un'applaudita summer tour. On the occasion of "La Versiliana", crowning a commitment in the theater, he was awarded the Golden Talent in the first edition of the Franco Martini Prize: a theater a lifetime. On the film front, Preziosi is among the interpreters of the film The blood of the vanquished, based on the controversial historical essay by Giampaolo Pansa, directed by Michele Soavi, with Michele Placido protagonist. The film was presented as a special event in October 2008 at the Rome Film Festival. The Hamlet with <mask> and a company of actors, both young and long career, is successfully represented during a double tour (seasons 2008/2009 and 2009/2010) which reaches theaters in 50 Italian cities and towns. In summer 2009, confirming the continuing support of civic and cultural values, the theatrical production company Khora.Teatro - founded in 2004 by <mask> and Tommaso Mattei Aldo Allegrini - care of the production and participate as an actor in the video of the show " the Taste of Ashes "by Ariel Dorfman, directed by Juan Diego Puerta Lopez, inspired by the book by Kerry Kennedy" Speak truth to power "with a special appearance in the video Piera Degli Esposti, Enrico Lo Verso, sponsored by the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation of Europe Onlus in coproduction with Khora Theatre and the Museum of Contemporary Art "Luigi Pecci" (Prato). Inaugurated the Shakespearean Festival of Verona 09 with an innovative Twelfth Night, in which Luca De Filippo directed by Armando Pugliese tries his hand for the first time with the Great Bard.In September 2009 <mask> plays in Mine Vaganti, award-winning comedy set in Salento with Riccardo Scamarcio and Ennio Fantastichini, directed by Ferzan Ozpetek, in theaters in March 2010 (English: Loose Cannons). In January 2010, he plays St. Augustine in the miniseries of Lux Vide directed by Christian Duguay, followed on raiuno by an average of 7 million viewers. In the same year he joined the cast of the new work by Fausto Brizzi: double Males film against females and males against females. Also in 2010, thanks to the intensity of his Hamlet, <mask> received the prestigious Premio Gassman - Teatranti year, the only Italian theatrical award where the public to give the awards to distinguished artists on the stage. In 2011 shooting a TV series for Channel 5 entitled A love and revenge, directed by Raffaele Mertes in the role of the mysterious entrepreneur Lorenzo Bermann, and is on the film set as the protagonist, along with Chiatti, the art film The face of another Pappi Corsica, presented at the Rome film Festival in 2012 and will be released in theaters in 2013, the same year that the film comes out Left Passion of Marco Ponti, in which he stars opposite <mask> Lodovini, Riccobono and Marchionni. Meanwhile the artist works as Programs Leader DAMS Link Academy - European Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome and, since 2011, for three years he was Artistic Director of the Teatro Stabile of Abruzzo. In the period of Aquila, the promoter of the imaginary Shipyards, processes and assists three shows-lab / event: Troilus and Cressida (Wounded Eagle), A Midsummer Night's Dream (the dream of recovering the City) and Odyssey (return the exiles to the City).The cooperation of TSA and Khora.Teatro born Cyrano de Bergerac starring and directed by <mask>, who in two seasons of replicas (2012/2013 and 2013/2014) broad support of the public and critics. In 2014 the artist carefully and interprets the monologue Cyrano on the moon that will be awarded the Golden Mask of the Italian theater. For RAI Fiction, plays the judge Sossi in 70 years Trilogy by Graziano Diana (2012), starred in Lucky Italo German TV movie My lovely Italian family of Olaf Kreinsen (2013) and in the miniseries For love of my people - Diana Don Antonio Frazzi, in memory of the heroic priest of Casal di Principe (2013). The delicate and sensitive rendering of the role earned him awards and critical accolades. Also in 2013, Lux Vide plays a retelling of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, directed by Fabrizio Costa, which will give the RAI in the 2014 holiday season a great success in terms of audience and interest on social media. Other 2013/2014 projects include participation in a US film 'indie', Voice Over work in commercials and movies, the recording of the readings from the masterpiece by Agostino da Tagaste for the CD included in the book The Confessions of St. Augustine, published by New cities, and collaboration with the writer Erri De Luca for the project the Music Proven, published by Feltrinelli. Called to serve on the Jury of the National Theatre Prize Luigi Pirandello (2013/2014), even in the theatrical season 2014/2015 Preziosi puts its expertise at the service of the stage, setting up as a director and performer refined Don Juan by Moliere, product by TSA and Khora.Teatro with Nando Paone in the role of Sganarelle and original music by Andrea Parri.He has two children: Andrea Eduardo (1995) was born from the relationship with Rossella Zito and Elena (2006) by the relationship with Vittoria Puccini. In 2016 he played Filippo Brunelleschi in the tv series Medici: Masters of Florence, also with Dustin Hoffman and Richard Madden. External links

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title: Ron Padgett

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<mask> (born June 17, 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Great Balls of Fire, <mask>'s first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award. In 2018, he won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Early life and education
Padgett’s father was a bootlegger in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He influenced many of Padgett's works, particularly in the writer's taste for independence and a willingness to deviate from rules, even his own. This would later be described as a stubborn streak of boyishness, allowing a wry innocence in his poetry.Padgett started writing poetry at the age of 13. In an interview, the poet said that he was inspired to write when a girl he had a big crush on did not return his affection. In high school, Padgett became interested in visual arts while continuing to write poetry. He befriended Joe Brainard, the visual artist who also became a well-known writer. They, with fellow Central High student Dick Gallup, co-founded the avant-garde literary journal The White Dove Review. Padgett and Gallup solicited work for The White Dove from Black Mountain and Beat Movement writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, LeRoi Jones, Paul Blackburn, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Robert Creeley. After five issues, Padgett, on his way to college, retired the White Dove.In 1960, <mask> left Tulsa to study at Columbia College fin New York City. At that time he was interested in Pound, Rimbaud, the Black Mountain poets, and the Beats but soon he fell under the spell of the New York School, particularly the poetry of Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch. In an interview, Padgett said that he went to Columbia partly because Ginsberg and Kerouac had gone there. After receiving his B.A. (1964), Padgett briefly studied creative writing at Wagner College with Kay Boyle, Howard Nemerov, and Koch. On a Fulbright Fellowship (Paris, 1965–66) he studied 20th-century French poetry. Career
From 1968 to 1969 Padgett was a workshop leader for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in New York City.With David Shapiro, <mask> co-edited An Anthology of New York Poets, published by Random House in 1970. He founded The Poetry Project Newsletter in 1972. Padgett also worked in poet-in-the-school programs nationally from 1969 to 1976. After directing The Poetry Project for two and a half years, he became the publications director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative (1980-2000), where he also edited The Teachers & Writers Collaborative Newsletter. <mask> was a cofounder, publisher, and editor of Full Court Press from 1973 to 1988, bringing out books by Ginsberg, Brainard, O'Hara, Edwin Denby, Tom Veitch, William S. Burroughs, Larry Fagin, Philippe Soupault, John Godfrey, and others. At the same time, he lectured and taught at educational institutions, including Atlantic Center for the Arts, Brooklyn College, and Columbia University. He also hosted a poetry radio series and the designer of computer writing games.Padgett's papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Poetry
Padgett is the author of more than twenty poetry collections, including Great Balls of Fire (1969, reissued 1990); You Never Know (2001); How to Be Perfect (2007); How Long (2011); and Collected Poems (2013). Seven of Padgett's poems are featured in Jim Jarmusch's 2016 film Paterson, including three written expressly for the film. Like Padgett, Jarmusch studied poetry under Kenneth Koch at Columbia University. Padgett collaborated with poet Ted Berrigan and artists Jim Dine, George Schneeman, Bertrand Dorny, Trevor Winkfield, and Alex Katz, along with Joe Brainard. Other works
Padgett is also the author of nonfiction works, including Blood Work: Selected Prose (1993), Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan (1993), Creative Reading (1997), and The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets (2000), Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers (2003), and Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (2004). Padgett’s novella Motor Maids across the Continent appeared in 2017 from Song Cave.His numerous works on education and writing include The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (editor), The Teachers & Writers Guide to Walt Whitman (editor), and Educating the Imagination (co-editor). He was also the editor of the three-volume reference work, World Poets (2000). Padgett also translated French poets Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, Valery Larbaud, and Guillaume Apollinaire. Book-length collections of his own work have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Faroese, German, Finnish, Norwegian, and Italian. Awards and honors
His grants, fellowships. and awards include a Guggenheim (1986), a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (1996), the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2001), the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets (2016). His book How Long was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and his Collected Poems won the L.A. Times Book Prize in 2013.He was also the recipient of grants and awards for his translations, which include those given by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Columbia University’s Translation Center. 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Poetry) winner for Collected Poems
2015 Robert Creeley Award
2018 Robert Frost Medalist

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<mask> and his wife, <mask>, who also grew up in Tulsa, have lived in the same East Village apartment since 1967. They also have a rustic retreat in Vermont where they spend their summers. The couple's son Wayne was born in 1966. Works
 Summer Balloons, self-published (Tulsa, Oklahoma), 1960. In Advance of the Broken Arm, "C" Press (New York, NY), 1964. Some Things, (with Ted Berrigan and Joe Brainard), "C" Press (New York, NY), 1964.Two Stories for Andy Warhol, "C" Press (New York, NY), 1965. Sky, Goliard Press (London, UK), 1966. Bean Spasms: Poems and Prose, (with Ted Berrigan) Kulcher Press (New York, NY), 1967; reprinted Granary Books (New York, NY), 2012. Tone Arm, Once Press (Wivenhoe Park, Essex, England), 1967. 100,000 Fleeing Hilda (with Joe Brainard), Boke Press (Tulsa, OK), 1967. Bun (with Tom Clark), Angel Hair Books (New York, NY), 1968. Great Balls of Fire, Holt (New York, NY), 1969; reprinted, revised Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1990.The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and <mask> (with Jim Dine) Cape Goliard Press (London, England), 1970. Antlers in the Treetops (with Tom Veitch), Coach House Press (Toronto, Canada), 1970. Sweet Pea, Aloes Books (London, England), 1971. Poetry Collection, Strange Faeces Press (London, England), 1971. Sufferin' Succotash (with Joe Brainard) (bound with Kiss My Ass by Michael Brownstein), Adventures in Poetry (New York, NY), 1971. Back in Boston Again (with Ted Berrigan and Tom Clark) Telegraph Books (Philadelphia, PA), 1972. Oo La La (with Jim Dine) Petersburg Press (New York, NY), 1973.Crazy Compositions, Big Sky (Southampton, NY), 1974. The World of Leon (with others), Big Sky No. 7 (Southampton, NY), 1974. Toujours l'amour, SUN (New York, NY), 1976. Arrive by Pullman (with George Schneeman) Générations (Paris, France), 1978. Tulsa Kid, Z Press (Calais, VT), 1979. Triangles in the Afternoon, SUN (New York, NY), 1980.How to Be a Woodpecker, (with Trevor Winkfield), Toothpaste Press (West Branch, IA), 1983. How to Be Modern Art (with Trevor Winkfield), Morning Coffee (West Branch, IA), 1984. Light as Air (with Alex Katz), Pace Editions (New York, NY), 1988. The Big Something, The Figures (Great Barrington, MA), 1989. Blood Work: Selected Prose, Bamberger Books (Flint, MI), 1993. New and Selected Poems, David Godine (Boston, MA), 1995. You Never Know, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2001.How to Be Perfect, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2007. How Long, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2011. Collected Poems, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2013. Alone and Not Alone, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2015. How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide (with Jason Novak), Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2016. Big Cabin, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2019. Encore with Philosophy and Rectangle (with Trevor Winkfield), Cuneiform (Houston, TX), 2019.Memoirs
Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan, The Figures (Great Barrington, MA), 1993. Albanian Diary, The Figures (Great Barrington, MA), 1999. Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 2003. Joe: A Personal Memoir of Joe Brainard, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2004. Translations

 The Poet Assassinated by Guillaume Apollinaire (illustrated by Jim Dine) Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY), 1968. Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne, Viking (New York, NY), 1971. Kodak by Blaise Cendrars, Adventures in Poetry (New York, NY), 1976.The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth by Valery Larbaud, Mushinsha Ltd. (Tokyo), 1977; revised edition Black Widow Books (Boston, MA), 2008, with Bill Zavatsky. Complete Poems by Blaise Cendrars, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1992. Complete Fiction by Serge Fauchereau, Black Square Editions, (New York, NY), 2002, with John Ashbery. Prose Poems by Pierre Reverdy, Black Square Editions (New York, NY), 2007. Flash Cards by Yu Jian, (Zephyr) 2010, with Wang Ping. Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, NYRB Poets (New York, NY), 2015. Sources
 <mask>tt Papers
 Poetry Foundation

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 "Do It", Jacket 37 2009
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title: Lorena Garcia

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<mask> is a Venezuelan chef who has opened multiple restaurants and became famous through appearances on multiple television shows. She is known for the restaurants she currently owns in airports across the United States, and for competing on the show Top Chef Masters. <mask> has put out her own cookbook and a line of kitchenware, while also making strides in her life to help end obesity. Early life
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, <mask> grew up around her family. Her mother is Blanca Ibáñez, a Venezuelan politician who served as secretary to former Venezuelan president Jaime Lusinchi. Ibáñez married Lusinchi in September 1991. Lusinchi was since <mask>'s stepfather until his death in May 2014.As a child, she would cook for them at their family gatherings. She entertained her family by cooking for them and credits her success to these gatherings. Education
Originally seeking to become a lawyer, <mask> attended Santa Maria University in Caracas, Venezuela and earned her law degree. She then relocated to the United States to earn an associate degree in Paralegal Studies and took a class on speaking English. However, <mask> soon sensed that her passion wasn't in the field of law and felt the need to change her career path. She decided to convert her career choice into becoming a chef and enrolled at Johnson & Wales University to earn her degree in culinary arts. Cooking inspirations
<mask>'s passion for food came from her family and their gatherings in her hometown.Her mother and her mother's perseverance inspired <mask> to expand on this passion of hers and become a chef. <mask> aimed to inspire others as well. She chose to develop nutritional programs for childhood obesity to inspire families to reduce childhood health issues. <mask> finds it to be fulfilling to watch families make changes and gain their own inspiration through her programs. <mask>'s main inspiration as a chef is to bring loved ones together to enjoy wonderful food, just how it would bring her own family together. Career

Early culinary jobs

After receiving her degree in culinary arts from Johnson and Wales University, <mask> began her career as a chef through an apprenticeship at the Ritz-Carlton in Paris, France. After working at the Ritz-Carlton, <mask> went on a tour through several cities known for their culinary cuisine and landed culinary jobs in several countries, including Italy, Japan, Korea, Thailand and China.Through these jobs <mask> was able to get an exposure to world cuisine and was able to work with world-renowned chefs such as Pascal Audin. Restaurants

Previous restaurants
In 2002, <mask> opened Food Café in Miami's Design District. Later that year, she established Elements Tierra in the Design District as well. The cuisine of the two restaurants was influenced by both Latin and Asian cooking styles. In 2008, <mask> sold both restaurants. Current restaurants

In February 2011, <mask> accepted a job as an executive chef at the Miami International Airport. She recognized the need to provide comfort food to stressed-out travelers.To fill this need, <mask> <mask>cina, seeks to provide diners with a healthy twist on traditional Latin Cuisine. <mask> <mask> provides travelers with dishes such as Shrimp Ceviche, Baked Empanadas, and Caribbean Jerk Chicken, in order to satisfy their cravings for nutritious and gourmet food while traveling. In August 2012, <mask> opened her second travelers' restaurant, Lorena <mask> Tapas, in the Atlanta International Airport, Delta International. <mask> has opened a third restaurant in the Dallas/ Ft. Worth Airport as of September 2016. In May 2017, Chef <mask> paired with John Kunkel of 50 Eggs (Yardbird, Swine, etc.) to open an upscale Latin American restaurant named CHICA inside the luxurious Venetian on the Las Vegas Strip.<mask> is the first female-Latin chef to be featured on the strip. Obesity campaigns

Big Chef, Little Chef
One thing <mask> was introduced to growing up was obesity. Living near Hispanic homes, <mask> saw it become a problem and wanted to do something about it. <mask> created "Big Chef, Little Chef", in an effort to help end the problem of childhood obesity. "Big Chef, Little Chef" is a non-profit organization that aims to encourage healthy eating starting at a young age. The foods <mask> develops for "Big Chef, Little Chef" are Hispanic foods. Taco Bell's Cantina Bell Menu
<mask> continued her fight against obesity by working with Taco Bell.The partnership began in 2010 and progressed into major changes for Taco Bell. <mask> came to Taco Bell with hopes of creating variety within the menu. To do this, <mask> helped rework the existing menu and add 8 new ingredients to various dishes. Starting on July 5, 2012, Taco Bell implemented the new Cantina Bell menu which was largely credited to <mask> <mask>. Other campaigns
<mask> also developed food for public schools through the organization "Alliance for a Healthier Generation" in 2011. As of spring 2014, <mask> was added as a partner with Charlotte Motor Speedway and promoted by NASCAR driver Danica Patrick in the "10 Blockbuster Days of Racing" in Charlotte, North Carolina. Television

Spanish television cooking shows
Due to her Latin upbringing and culinary skills, <mask> has been featured on numerous Spanish networks, including Telemundo, Gems, and Mundo TV, She hosted the cooking shows "Vida Gourmet", "Cocine Mundos", "De Mañanita", and "El Arte del Buen Gusto", and on the FoxLife series "Sazón con Lorena <mask>", "Lorena en su Salsa", and "El mejor de los peores."<mask> competed on Top Chef Masters, a reality competition on the network Bravo, challenging the world's leading chefs to compete against one another. <mask> ranked third among the twelve competitors on season four of the show. <mask> was also a judge on both "Cocineros al limite" and "Top Chef: Estrellas". While on "Top Chef: Estrellas", <mask> served alongside fellow chefs Jaime Martín Del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu. Top Chef Masters
<mask> <mask> participated in the fourth season show Top Chef Masters, and she chose to compete for the organization Alliance for a Healthier Generation. <mask> made it through nine episodes, winning two quickfire competitions and two elimination challenges. Throughout the whole process <mask> was berated by other opponents for her lack of classical training.<mask>'s last episode called "Old School, New School", consisted of instructing a culinary student without getting involved in the preparation, and <mask> <mask>'s dish lost to Kerry Heffernan's. NBC's America's Next Great Restaurant
<mask> <mask> participated as one of the investors and judges on NBC's "America's Next Great Restaurant". The show was also judged by chefs Curtis Stone, Bobby Flay, and Chipotle Mexican Grill founder Steve Ells. Even though the show comes from the producers of Top Chef Masters, it is not the conventional cooking show. In fact, it is a reality show where contestants are competing for investors and do not solely compete in direct cooking competitions. On May 13, 2011, NBC cancelled the show after the first season because of low ratings. Other television appearances
<mask>'s other television appearances included The Kovak Box and El C.I.D.These two screenings are the only two appearances that she did not play herself, but she did appear as herself in many other roles. Her success with food has led her to fame, as she appeared on many talk shows. She was on The Queen Latifah Show, The Talk, Guy's Grocery Games, The Chew, The Wendy Williams Show, and The Biggest Loser. She also played a semi-fictionalized version of herself in several episodes of the Nickelodeon show Talia in the Kitchen. Products

Books
<mask> <mask> has many recipes, and she compiled many of those into a cookbook. That book is entitled "<mask> <mask>'s New Latin Classics". The hard cover book is 256 pages long of recipes of Latin cuisines, usually featuring ingredients such as beans, rice, and salsa.She is also the author of "<mask> <mask>'s New Taco Classics" (2015). Kitchenware
On November 14, 2013, <mask>, along with Ingenious Design's president, Joy Mangano, released their line of new kitchenware, the Lorena Bella Kitchen Collection. Some items included on the Lorena Bella Kitchen Collection for HSN include cookware with Technolon +, Corningware oven to tabletop serveware, and a plethora of smart accessories. On October 14, 2016, <mask> launched her first international reality show called Food Hunters, in where each team of eight (8) or six (6) kids cook-off from all about countries of Latin America compete to be called the best of the best of the competition in the farm and in the kitchen, in which she is the first new host and judge. References

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title: Sven Väth

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<mask> (born 26 October 1964) is a German DJ and electronic music producer. He is a three-time DJ Awards winner, and his career in electronic music spans over 30 years. The single "Electrica Salsa" with OFF launched his career in 1986. Referred to as "Papa Sven" by his fans, <mask> has made his mark in the music community by being one of Germany's pop stars in the nineties, running two night clubs in Germany, and starting his own company Cocoon, which encompasses a booking agency, record label, and a branch for events. He is recognized for cultivating the underground electronic music scene not just in Germany but in Ibiza as well, with his own night at Amnesia for eighteen years and after-parties at creative locations around the island. <mask> is a major proponent of vinyl, using only two decks and a mixer for his extensive DJ sets, his longest set having been 30 hours. Biography
Both of <mask>'s parents were from East Germany.They escaped separately and met each other by chance in the West when they were very young, in a town near Frankfurt. The two of them married and had three sons, including <mask>, while his father was still a painter. Young at heart, his parents would go dancing often and his father wished to open an English pub, which they did. The pub had a small dance floor, where <mask> was introduced to a wide range of music, from rock’n’roll to disco. In the summer of 1980, Väth went for the first time to Ibiza after hearing about it from the local scene in Frankfurt, where he was living at the time. Using his job seeker's allowance money, Väth hitchhiked from Barcelona and ended up spending three months on the island, sleeping on beach chairs and distributing flyers for clubs in order to get by. It was that summer he decided that he wanted to become a DJ, after becoming enchanted with Ibiza and his time there.When he returned to Germany, <mask>'s mother asked if he would DJ at his parents' pub. <mask> gladly accepted. He was 17 at the time. Career

Only a year later, in 1982, <mask> was asked to play a residency at the club Dorian Gray in Frankfurt am Main. It was there that he met Michael Münzing and Luca Anziloti and got into music production. In 1985, the three came together as Off (Organisation for Fun) and produced the track “Bad News”, which he brought with him to Ibiza and proffered it to Alfredo, Pippi, and Cesar – Ibiza's popular DJs at the time. The following year, in 1986, Off broke ground with their new record, “Electrica Salsa” from their debut album, Organisation For Fun.The track became such a hit across Europe that <mask> found himself as a pop sensation performing with stars such as Vanessa Paradis and Axel Bauer at the age of 22. It sold one million copies. Off released a series of singles and a second album, Ask Yourself, in 1989. Their final single, "Move Your Body" was released in 1990. Münzing and Anziloti moved on to their new project, Snap!. Omen
At the age of 24 in 1988, Väth opened the dance club “Omen” in Frankfurt with Michael Münzing and Mattias Martinsohn. Previously, it was open under the name “Vogue” and Väth had been its resident there as well for a stint.The new club became one of the best clubs in Germany, as voted by Groove Magazine and is considered to be one of the birthplaces of techno in Germany. A short German film of twelve minutes documents how the club prepares for another night with scenes of people on the dance floor interviewed for their thoughts on Omen. Ten years later with a heavy heart, <mask> decided to close the club in 1998. The closure came in part due to problems faced with landlords and city authorities. At its last party, there were so many partygoers that speakers were set up outside and people danced in the street. Police did not intervene the party except to block car traffic. Eye Q & Harthouse Records

Eye Q was started in 1991 with <mask>, Heinz Roth, and Matthias Hoffman, which released of two of Väth's best-known albums: Accident in Paradise (1992) (which Mixmag named one of the 50 best dance albums of all time) and The Harlequin, the Robot, and the Ballet-Dancer (1994).In 1992, <mask> also started the label Harthouse Records, on which he recorded under the alias Barbarella. Separation from the two labels came in 1997, when <mask> moved on to work on other projects. In 1998, the two labels declared bankruptcy. Virgin
Sven Väth signed a 3-album contract with major record label Virgin Records in 1998. He released Fusion (1998), Contact (2000), and Fire (2002). With the Fusion album, Väth toured worldwide his sound of techno, electro, and trip hop. The album was also remixed by various artists and released in a special six-record vinyl edition.Virgin also released a compilation in 2000 of some of <mask>'s best work at Eye Q Records. Cocoon
Cocoon began in 1996 as a series of parties that <mask> would pour his savings into. The name came about after <mask> saw La Fura dels Baus in 1994 in Berlin at the Tempodrom. The show featured props of hanging cocoons filled with water, which ultimately inspired the name for his next project representing metamorphosis and change. He toured with the concept throughout and Germany and even North America. Although the parties strained him monetarily and were not entirely successful, Väth decided to reopen the project in 1999, this time by starting off with a booking agency. After the agency was established, the rest followed – events and then the record label.The booking agency, established with the help of Talida Wagner, has sported many famous names amongst its roster such as Ricardo Villalobos, Matt John, Dubfire and <mask> himself. Today it continues to provide bookings for artists such as Tobi Neumann, Onur Özer, Raresh, and many others. Cocoon Recordings has been the launchpad for many of today's famous DJs’ careers. Artists such as Martin Buttrich, Loco Dice, Roman Flügel, and Guy Gerber have all released tracks on Cocoon. Each year the record label releases a compilation named by a letter of the alphabet (i.e. Cocoon Compilation A) in order to showcase signed artist work. The goal of the label was to enable aspiring producers to have a platform to release their music on without having to refer to a major label.In 2013 the label celebrated its 100th release. Cocoon Ibiza

In the 1999 summer season in Ibiza, Mar T of Amnesia offered <mask> to throw his Cocoon parties on the one day that Amnesia was closed – Mondays. After a trial period of four parties, Cocoon parties continued for fourteen Mondays in 2000 and for the next thirteen years. The night has featured a spectacular array of the world's best DJs in electronic music, with artists such as Cassy, Carl Craig, Josh Wink, Adam Beyer, and Ricardo Villalobos manning the decks. After each season, Väth releases a mix called “The Sound of the Season.” Väth's Monday parties at Amnesia fostered the underground sound of Ibiza at a time when trance and commercial music started dominating the island. Each year, Cocoon's Ibiza team works on a new theme to create an exciting and different atmosphere for each season. Johannes Goller, a long-time friend of <mask>'s, has led the team since the beginning in producing each successful season.Cocoon is also famous for throwing after-parties in various locations throughout Ibiza and Formentera that were often illegal, and sometimes closed down by the police. The Cocoon parties also cultivated “Cocoon Heroes” (the theme for the 12th season) such as Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, Dubfire, and Cassy alongside <mask>, all of them gathering on Mondays to play long sets in the terrace and main room of the club. Cocoon Mondays at Amnesia continued strong until 2018. In 2018 Cocoon was moved to Pacha. Cocoon Frankfurt
In 2004, Väth opened the club “Cocoon” in Frankfurt. Considered the successor for <mask>'s endeavor at Omen, Cocoon club was also very popular. Techno, house, and trance acts were known to play there, some of the better-known being Richie Hawtin, Ricardo Villalobos, Armin van Buuren, and Above & Beyond.Some of the resident DJs included Väth himself, DJ Karotte, Toni Rios, C-Rock, and Sidney Spaeth. The building contained two restaurants run by a celebrity chef, lounges, and interesting architecture featuring “cocoon” niches for people to hang out in. In November 2012, <mask> closed down Cocoon club due to bankruptcy. Personal life

Family
<mask> has two children. He has a daughter who was born in 1989. Then in 1991, he met Nina Peter, a Viennese leather fashion accessories designer, during a private party in his own home in Ibiza. They married in Thailand with a Buddhist ceremony in 2008, and three years later, their son Tiga was born in Vienna on July 26, 2011.Väth is good friends with the renowned Canadian DJ/producer Tiga and named his son after him. In 2012, <mask> and Peter separated. <mask> has two brothers, one of whom is an art director and DJ, and the other a flower shop owner. Living
Väth spent his childhood near Frankfurt. As he grew older, he would spend his summers in Ibiza and the rest of the year in Frankfurt, in between world tours. Now, Väth has a home in Ibiza, where he tends to spend six to eight months of the year, including the summer season for his Cocoon parties at Amnesia. In 2013, he decided to move to London to re-experience its culture, art, and parties.After many years of DJing and partying, Väth believes in taking care of the mind and body. He learned discipline from Ayurveda, which he picked up when he lived in Goa where he met an Ayurvedic. As the constant long nights and traveling can be quite tiring, Väth tries to live as healthily as possible. From October to January (off season) he strictly follows a regimen of Ayurvedic eating with no meat, sugar, or alcohol. When his daughter was born, he ceased his use of cocaine and a few years later quit smoking as well. Vinyl
A staunch supporter of vinyl, Väth will only play music that has been released on vinyl in his sets. He mentions in the IMS 2013 interview, “I like to go to the record store and talk to people…I’m just enjoying it so much.” He often mentions as well that his most treasured belongings are his records.He says "a well-manufactured record, played with a good pick-up system on a good pre-amp/mixing console simply sounds better than any of its digital competitors. Vinyl is THE medium for everybody who sets high values on good sound." He is one of the few top 30 DJs, according to Resident Advisor, to continue to use just turntables and mixers when they DJ, which he describes as his "instruments". When he heard that Technics were discontinuing manufacture of their renowned SL-1200 turntables he likened it to a pianist being told there would be no more grand pianos made.

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title: Arup Chandra

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<mask>, born in 1951 in  Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal, is a writer, poet, essayist, art critic, and an educator. He is the writer of more than fourteen books, and has edited twelve others. Two of his books are translated into English and published. His research speciality is the history, poetry, art, culture and literature of Murshidabad District. Profession & Works
Took various professions at the beginning, sold even glassware, batteries etc. Later got a job as a medical representative in a Kolkata-based company. In latter years he got a drug license and started a business of medicine.1 September 1977 he established his dream organization - Chandra Commercial & Art Institute, at Palashipara in Nadia district, a language and vocational training institute. His most known works are related to education, arts, literature and history. He remarkably researched and developed 'Bengali Shorthand'; presently 'Arup Chandra Bengali Shorthand System' is the most popular 'Bengali Shorthand System' in Bengal. A list of his 'Books' written by him is attached herewith. As an editor of Basabhumi Patrika, he always manifested the struggle of people, and their art & culture. A list of 'Special Issues of Basabhumi Patrika' is also attached here. As the secretary of 'Little Magazine Sanrakshan O Gobeshona Kendra, Berhampore' (Little Magazine Preservation And Research Centre, Berhampore), he takes care in the preservation of thousands of old & new little magazines, this organization also gives chances to other researchers to collect information for their works.He is also the secretary of 'CCAI - Basabhumi Award Committee', a foundation that felicitates and awards the persons for their remarkable contribution in the field of art-culture and social movement, since 2008. Associations
 Chandra Commercial & Art Institute (Founder Principal)
Basabhumi Patrika (Editor)
 Little Magazine Preservation & Research Centre, Berhampore (Founder Secretary)
 Murshidabad Bikkhan - a fortnightly, published from Berhampore, Murshidabad, (Journalist and member of editorial board)
 CCAI-Basabhumi Award Committee' (Founder Secretary)

Publications
 Hirak Buke Sikal Baje – Bengali Poetry (1980)
 Jharer Britte - A Novel (1987)
 Shilper Byakaran - Book on Art (1990) Five editions are published already. Mao-Tse-Tung'er Kobita - Poetry, Translation of the Poems of Mao-Tse-Tung (1993)
 Amar Bharatbarsha - Poetry (1997)
 Sanket Lipi - (Bengali Shorthand) - Research (1998)
 Dhasto Prithibir Kabita – Poetry (2004)
 Kemon Achi Amra – Poetry (2007)
 Janmo Kanna – Poetry (2012)
 The Theory of Art (English) - Book on Art (2012) - Translated by Prof. Ashokendu Das
 Murshidabader Chitrakala Bhaskarya Sthapatya - History of Art in Murshidabad Region (2014)
 Murshidabad Jilanchaler Kalapanji - History, Chronological discourse of the history of this region (2014)
 Shilper Byakaran : Bharat O Biswashilpa - Book on Art, Sculpture & Architecture (2016) -
 Banglar Shilpi : Debobrata Mukhopadhyay - Kamrul Hasan (2016)- Biography of the said artists. Academy of Music and Fine Arts, Barrackpore, Kolkata honored him with an 'Upadhi' (an honorary title) - 'Shastri' on 6 September 1992 at Sukanta Sadan, Barrackpore. Received 'memento' in honor in the occasion of 'Berhampore Grant Hall Centenary Celebration'. (2003)
 Received 'memento' in honor, in the occasion of 130th anniversary celebration of Berhampore Municipality. (2007)
 Arup Chandra was 'Felicitated' by 'Murshidabad District Kobita Academy' on their 125th poetry-assembly on 7 March 2010.He was Awarded with 'Acharya Prafulla Chanda Roy Smarak Samman-2010' by 'Academy of Bengali Poetry, Kolkata', at National Library, Kolkata. He was Awarded with 'Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore Smarak Samman-2011' by 'Academy of Bengali Poetry, Kolkata' on 16 April 2011, at Moulali Yuva Kendra. He was Awarded with 'Barnaparichay Sahitya Samman-2011' for his work on 'Basabhumi Patrika' - 'Khuda Daridro Anahar (Eei Desh Eei Samay) Sankha-2011'. The award ceremony was held on 17 December 2011 at Kolkata Town Hall. Received Award on behalf of 'Basabhumi Patrika' from 'Prabrajja' Patrika - 'Prabrajja Patrasathi Puraskar-2012' on 27 July 2012. He was Awarded by "Kali Kumar Kala Kendra, Berhampore", for his lifetime work in Art and Painting, on 23 December 2013 at Berhampore Grant Hall. He was Awarded with "Trinayonne Padak" (on 16 November 2014), Kandi Trinayonee Sahitya Sansad, Kandi, Murshidabad.Received Certificate of Honor from Biswabharati, Sreeniketan oi the occasion of "Gramin Kabi O Sahityiek Sammelan" as a poet, in the year of 2014, at Sreeniketan Sikshasatra Manch. He was Awarded with "Rahila Sahitya Padak" (on 22 February 2015), by Rahila Sanskriti Sangha, Salar, Murshidabad. He was awarded with "Biswanath De Sahitya Puraskar & Padak" by "Sutapa"-a little magazine of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, as the Editor of the "Best Little Magazine of the year-2015" on 8 November 2015 at Dhanbad, Jharkhand. He was awarded with "Tagore Village Sahitya Sammanana" on 27 November 2016 at Berhampore Rabindra Sadan by 'Chatak' Sahitya Patrika, published from Nadia district in the state of West Bengal. Awards from Bangladesh
 He was invited to Bangladesh, by "Bangladesh Jatiyo Sahityo Parishad, Chapai Nawabgunj Sakha" to attend a literary assembly of the poets and writers of both the countries of India and Bangladesh, during 14 December 2015 to 17 December 2015, and attended many social, cultural, and literary functions & seminars, and also received felicitation from twelve organizations there. As follows -
"Bangladesh Jatiyo Sahityo Parishad, Dhaka", "Smarak", awarded by Honorable Sirajul Karim, general secretary of the organization. "Bangladesh Jatiyo Sahityo Parishad, Chapai Nawabgunj Sakha"  Sammana-Smarak, awarded by Honorable Mohit Kumar Dwan and Prof. Saidur Rahaman."Chapai-Nawabgunj Municipality" felicitated him, a "Subhechha - Smarak" was awarded to him by the Mayor. Attended an 'International Level Seminar', arranged by "Nawabgun Govt. College", Bengali Department, received "Subhechha - Smarak" awarded to him by Prof. Mazharul Islam Toru, departmental head, Bangla Department, of the same college. Felicitated by "Exim Bank Agricultural University", awarded by Vice Chancellor of the University Honorable Golam Kibria. "Chapai-Nawabgunj Mukta-Mahadal (Scout)" felicitated him on their 40th anniversary of foundation, awarded by founder secretary Advocate Md. Mosfiqur Rahaman. Felicitated on the opening of the book titled "Vijay", felicitated by Poet, Playwright, Writer and editor Honorable Golam Rabbani Tota."Namosankarbati Uccha Vidyalaya", the Headmaster Mr. Aslam Kabir, felicitated him. Awarded by Renowned Author of Bangladesh honorable Hasan Azizul Huq at the function of 'Bangladesh Jatiyo Sahitya Parished' 'Sahitya O Sanskritic Utsav - 2015' at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. 'Imperial Polytechnic Institute' and 'Peace International School & College'  felicitated and awarded him on his unparalleled contribution in 'Bengali Poetry and Journalism', awarded by the managing director of the said organization Honorable Md. Afsar Ali.' 'Hriday Multimedia Preparatory School' Chapai-Nawabgunj awarded him. He has been certified by honorable Dr. Rejia Sultana, the principal of "Nawabgunj Govt. College" for presenting a paper titled "Biswa Shilpakala o Bangladesh" (The world Arts and Bangladesh) in the 'International Level Seminar' arranged at "Nawabgunj Govt.College" on 16 December 2015. References

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title: Malachi O'Doherty

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<mask>'Doherty (born 1951, Muff, County Donegal, Ireland)
is a journalist, author and broadcaster in Northern Ireland. He is the producer and presenter of the audio blog Arts Talk. Career

O'Doherty was one of the longest running commentators/columnists on any Irish radio programme, having been a regular on Radio Ulster's Talkback from its creation in the mid-1980s until a revamp of the programme in 2009. He provides political and social commentary for BBC NI's Hearts and Minds programme, and was often a frequent reporter for BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence in the programme's heyday. His political journalism has been published in many Irish and British newspapers and periodicals, including The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Scotsman and The New Statesman. In the mid-1990s he worked on and presented several television documentaries on Northern Irish culture and politics, for Channel Four, The BBC and UTV, all of them with independent production companies, chiefly Observer Films, DBA and Chistera. He is a former Managing Editor of Fortnight magazine.He writes for the Guardians Comment is Free blog. He writes most frequently now in the Belfast Telegraph where his is often commissioned to write about religion and terrorism. He frequently writes through memoir. He has published four memoirs. One, I Was A Teenage Catholic (2003), deals with the development of his thinking on religious issues and the other, The Telling Year (2007) recounts his work as a young inept journalist in Belfast in the worst year for deaths (1972) of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He wrote about his father, Barney, in Under His Roof (2009) and more recently a reflection on cycling and ageing in On My Own Two Wheels (2012). He has dabbled in fiction and drama.He wrote comedy sketches for a controversial BBC television cabaret called The Show in the early 1990s and scripted a history of the Dominicans in Ireland for a nationwide schools production in 2007. O'Doherty has avoided expressions of party-political commitment though he has been more critical of the IRA than of any other party to the conflict, frequently accusing it of having been the prime irritant. But he has supported the Good Friday Agreement, which was endorsed by both the IRA and Loyalist groups and most political parties. He has addressed political groups from across the spectrum, including the Ulster Unionist Party and the SDLP. He has twice been a keynote speaker at the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland's annual conference. He gave a major speech at the Irish Association's annual conference in 2003 examining the future of nationalism. O'Doherty appears at literary festivals in Northern Ireland and Scotland (Aspects and Wigtown, for example) and has also read at The Blue Met in Montreal (2004) and the Ottawa International Writer's Festival (2008).On 16 March 2007, O'Doherty delivered a lecture to the French Society for Irish Studies on the life and thinking of Margaret Noble, a County Tyrone-born Methodist who had taken the name Sister Nivedita, when initiated into the Ramakrishna Mission by her Guru, Swami Vivekananda. In the 1970s for four years he was in India, in the ashram of Swami Paramananda Saraswati. He has written about this in I Was A Teenage Catholic. Books by <mask> O'Doherty
The Trouble With Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA (The Blackstaff Press, 1998), . Described by the former leading IRA volunteer and informant Sean O'Callaghan as "An honest and decent book . . . It is lucid and accessible, and is the most subtle analysis of the modern-day republican movement that I have read ... one of the most valuable books to emerge from Northern Ireland in recent years."I Was a Teenage Catholic (Mercier/Marino, 2003), . An account of <mask> O'Doherty's upbringing in west Belfast, his experiences of Catholicism and his eventual rejection of the church's beliefs. The book also narrates his travels in India and his encounter with a Hindu swami. The Telling Year: Belfast 1972 (Gill and Macmillan, 2007), . A memoir of living and working as a journalist through the worst year of the Troubles, 1972. This was also the year O'Doherty was approached by an RUC officer in Northern Ireland and invited to become an "informer". He declined.Empty Pulpits: Ireland's Retreat From Religion (Gill and Macmillan, 2008), . An account of the rapid secularisation of Ireland. O'Doherty attracted the wrath of humanist groups for his own attacks on the "new atheists" and his claims that their critiques of religion were flawed by a failure to comprehend religious motivation. Under His Roof (Summer Palace Press, 2009),
On My Own Two Wheels (Blackstaff Press, 2012),
Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life (Faber, 2017),
Fifty Years On: The Troubles And The Struggle For Change In Northern Ireland (Atlantic, 2019),
Terry Brankin Has A Gun (Merrion, 2020),
The Year of Chaos: Northern Ireland on the Brink of Civil War, 1971/72 (Atlantic 2021)

Biography
O'Doherty was born in 1951 in Muff, County Donegal but raised in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. He trained as a journalist at the College of Business Studies in Belfast and as a mature student in 1990, took a master's degree in Irish Studies from Queen's University, Belfast. In June 1995 he married poet and broadcaster Maureen Boyle. He is a former Writer in Residence at Queen's University Belfast.He was awarded a PhD by the School of English at QUB in 2012. References

External links
O'Doherty's audio blog on Irish arts
<mask> O'Doherty's Official website
Belfast Telegraph columnist profile on <mask> O'Doherty
Slugger O'Toole: O'Doherty: His best book? CAIN: 'The Trouble with Guns'
 Irish Association speech, 2003
 Speech to Alliance Party conference, 12 March 2005. 1951 births
Living people
Journalists from Belfast
Male non-fiction writers from Northern Ireland
Date of birth missing (living people)
Former Roman Catholics
21st-century writers from Northern Ireland
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title: Alfred O. Deshong

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<mask> (September 30, 1837 – April 19, 1913) was an American businessman, philanthropist and art collector from Chester, Pennsylvania. <mask> came from a wealthy family including his grandfather <mask> and father John O<mask>. He operated a successful quarry business for years and was a director of the Delaware County National Bank. He invested his fortune in the collection of art. <mask> donated liberally to support the Chester Hospital and upon his death, donated his trust and land to the city of Chester which resulted in the creation of the Deshong Art Museum and Deshong Park. Over time, the museum fell into disrepair, suffered theft and eventually closed. The art museum is currently vacant and the art collection resides with Widener University.Early life
<mask> was born in Chester, Pennsylvania to John O<mask> and Emmeline L. (Terrill) <mask> and educated in the local schools. He attended the Bolmar Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1862, <mask> enlisted as a private in Company K, Tenth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia and served in the Battle of Antietam under Captain Thatcher. He was honorably discharged on September 27, 1862. In 1863, <mask> re-enlisted when Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania. He enlisted in company A of the 37th Regiment, Emergency Corps, known as the "Slipher Phalanx". He served in the Battle of Gettysburg and was honorably discharged on August 4, 1863.Career
In 1865, he entered into partnership with his brother, John O<mask>, Jr., and operated the Deshong quarries in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania. The partnership was successful and lasted for 30 years until John's death on November 1, 1895. In 1895, <mask> was elected a director of the Delaware County National Bank. Philanthropy
<mask> donated liberally to support Chester Hospital, located at 9th and Barclay Streets in Chester. The <mask>. <mask> sanitary cottage for the treatment of tuberculosis was built by <mask> and donated to the Chester Hospital. After his death, he left in trust his art collection, mansion and 27-acre estate to the city of Chester as an art gallery and for educational purposes. The bequest resulted in the establishment of the Deshong Memorial Park and the building of an art gallery.Deshong Mansion

The Deshong mansion was built in 1850 on 22 acres off Edgemont Avenue in the Greek Revival Italianate style by <mask>'s father, John O<mask>, Sr. It was willed to the people of Chester after <mask>'s death. The land was turned into a public park named Deshong Park and an art museum was built on the property. The mansion and art museum fell into disrepair in the 1980s. The trust was dissolved and the property was taken over by the Delaware County Industrial Development Authority. The mansion suffered a partial collapse in 2013 and was demolished in 2014. Deshong Art Museum and collection
The Deshong Art Museum was built in 1914 after his death on the same property as the Deshong Mansion.The building was designed to be fireproof with exterior walls of Dover marble. The large main gallery for paintings was modeled after the Emperor of Germany's gallery at Cassel. It housed over 300 pieces of art including carved Japanese ivory figures, Chinese carved hard stone vessels and 19th century American and European paintings including American Impressionists Edward Redfield, Robert Spencer and George Loftus Noyes

Other select works from the collection include:
Allan Piu bella, painting by Francesco Vinea
Alpine Mountain Scene, painting by Alexandre Calame
At the Cobblers, painting by Jose Jimenez Aranda
Child Feeding her Pets (1872), painting by Gaetano Chierici
Departure for the Hunt (1899), painting by Vladimir Makovsky
 Hasty Pudding (1883), oil on canvas painting by Gaetano Chierici
Her Japanese Dolls (1872) by Adrien Moreau
Kindergarten, painting by <mask>
Meadows in Winter, painting by George Loftus Noyes
Morning in Thuringia, painting by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
 Raspberries on a Leaf (1858), oil on panel painting by Lilly Martin Spencer
Spirited Conflict (1859), painting by Alberto Pasini
The Artists Den, painting by Francois Auguste Biard
The Avalanche (1886), painting by Gerolamo Induno
Une gardienne du feu sacre de vesta by Louis Hector Leroux

<mask>'s last art purchase was a pair of large Foo dogs cast in bronze. The statues were placed flanking the doors of the <mask> mansion. At one time it was the only public art gallery on the East Coast. From 1961 to 1978 the building was operated as a library, but over the years the museum fell into disrepair. Art theft
In July 1977 the museum was looted and several pieces of art were stolen.The heist was carried out by 15 year old Laurence McCall from Chester, Pennsylvania who would skip school and frequent the museum. The museum had limited security and McCall was able to steal paintings valued at the time at $450,000 by simply taking them off the wall and sliding them out of the museum's windows. Many of the stolen items were sold through Sotheby's and other art auction houses in New York City. McCall was eventually caught when he was 19. The authorities were not able to prove that he stole the artwork, but he was convicted for failure to pay taxes, sentenced to fifteen years in prison and served three. A majority of the artwork was recovered. In 1979, Widener University leased the building and restored the museum.In July 1984 the remaining trustees that managed the art museum dissolved the trust. The Asian and impressionistic art collection and $500,000 of the trust were given to Widener University where the collection is currently displayed. Personal life

<mask> was known as a lavish host, entertaining artists, musicians and political figures at the <mask> mansion. He never married and became reclusive toward the end of his life. <mask> is interred at Chester Rural Cemetery. His grave is marked by the bronze sculpture, "Sorrow" by Samuel Murray. References

External links
The Widener University Art Collection & Gallery

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1913 deaths
19th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American philanthropists
American art collectors
American bankers
American mining businesspeople
Burials at Chester Rural Cemetery
People from Chester, Pennsylvania
People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War
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