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<mask> (born September 11, 1964) is an American former outfielder and current New England Sports Network (NESN) studio analyst and part time color commentator. <mask> played in Major League Baseball for 18 seasons. He batted and threw right-handed. Early life
Burks was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, but raised in Fort Worth, Texas, and attended Everman High School. <mask> was initially overlooked by scouts and only received a scholarship offer from Ranger Junior College after a showcase at Arlington Stadium. His school lost a junior college championship to the Jay Buhner-led McLennan Community College. Career
Selected by the Boston Red Sox in the first round (20th pick) of the 1983 Major League Baseball draft, <mask> made his debut in the 1987 season as a regular center fielder at age 22, becoming the third player in Red Sox history to hit 20 home runs and steal 20 bases in one season.He was selected to both the Baseball Digest and Topps "All-Rookie" teams. Defensively, <mask> showed excellent range, a sure glove and a strong arm. <mask>, however, was injury-prone. He had shoulder surgery in 1989, and it was the first of many setbacks for him. During the  season he hit two home runs in the same inning of a game, to become the second player in Red Sox history to achieve the feat; Bill Regan was the first, in . Later, <mask> suffered from bad knees and back spasms. After six seasons in Boston, and despite his injuries, he ended up leaving as a free agent and signing with the Chicago White Sox in January 1993.He surpassed expectations around him by turning in a solid, injury-free season, filling the White Sox' urgent need for a quality right fielder. He was one of the club's better performers in the playoffs, batting .304. A free agent at the end of the season, he signed a five-year contract with the Colorado Rockies (1994–98). On April 17, 1994, <mask> hit a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 10th inning against the Montreal Expos. It was the only major league walk-off home run ever hit at Mile High Stadium. His 1,000th career hit also came against the Expos, a triple in July 1995. In , <mask> enjoyed his best season.He led National League hitters in runs (142), slugging average (.639), total bases (392) and extra-base hits (93); was second in hits (211) and doubles (45), and fifth in home runs (40) and RBI (128). His .344 average was also second in the batting title race (behind Tony Gwynn, .353). <mask> finished third in the MVP voting. He also stole 32 bases that season, marking only the second time that two players from the same team collected at least 30 home runs and 30 steals, as Colorado outfielder Dante Bichette accomplished the feat. He remains in the top ten in many offensive categories for the Rockies. While with the Rockies, <mask> was part of the Blake Street Bombers that included Andrés Galarraga, Bichette, Larry Walker and Vinny Castilla. This was the heart of the Rockies' lineup that was second in the National League in home runs by team in 1994, then led the National League in home runs from 1995 to 1997.<mask> was traded to the San Francisco Giants in mid-season 1998 for Darryl Hamilton and Jim Stoops. In 2000, batting fifth behind Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent, he compiled numbers of .344, 24, 96, in only 122 games and 393 at-bats. He won the 2000 Willie Mac Award for his spirit and leadership. He was signed by the Cleveland Indians after the season. In his new role as a DH for the Indians, <mask> provided consistent production in the middle-of-the-lineup, hitting .280, 28, 74 in 2001, and .301, 32, 91 in 2002. He sprained his wrist in spring training of 2003 and kept playing in 55 games until the muscles in his right hand affected his ability to swing the bat. He underwent season-ending surgery to repair nerve damage in his right elbow.The Indians did not pick up their 2004 contract option or offer him salary arbitration, and he returned to the Red Sox in 2004, playing eleven games without making the postseason roster. He retired at the end of the season with a World Series ring with the team that he began his career with. In an 18-year career, <mask> was a .291 hitter with 352 home runs, 1,206 runs batted in (RBI), 1,253 runs, 2,107 hits, 402 doubles, 63 triples, 181 stolen bases and 793 walks in 2,000 games. Defensively, <mask> recorded a .983 fielding percentage playing at all three outfield positions. After the  season, <mask> joined the Indians' front office staff as a special assistant to the general manager. In 2021, <mask> joined NESN as a studio analyst and alternate color commentator for Red Sox games. Personal life
<mask> resides in Chagrin Falls, Ohio and his son Chris plays baseball for the San Francisco Giants organization.He also has three daughters, Carissa, Elisha, and Breanna. He met his wife, Dori, in Connecticut in 1985. He is a cousin of fellow Major League outfielder Roosevelt Brown. See also
List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders
List of Major League Baseball career hits leaders
List of athletes on Wheaties boxes
List of Major League Baseball career doubles leaders
List of Major League Baseball career runs scored leaders
List of Major League Baseball career runs batted in leaders
30–30 club
List of Major League Baseball annual runs scored leaders
List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders

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(biography and highlights) Baseball Library
Q&A with Baseball America
MLB historical statistics

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American League All-Stars
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Boston Red Sox players
Chicago White Sox players
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title: Lloyd Andrews Hamilton

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First Lieutenant <mask> (13 June 1894 – 24 August 1918) was a World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories. During five months of 1918 he became an ace with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and then again with the United States Air Service (USAS). Hamilton Air Force Base is named after him. Early life
<mask> was born in Troy, New York, the only child of Methodist minister Reverend John A<mask> and his wife <mask>. He was a bright scholar who took his Baccalaureate Degree magnum cum laude from Syracuse University in 1916 and was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He initiated post-graduate studies at Harvard Business School in September 1916. When America entered World War I, he enlisted in the USAS, on 28 April and in May he reported to Plattsburgh, New York, for officer training.Aviation service
<mask> shipped out to England in late 1917 where he trained in early 1918 in an Avro 504, perhaps at RFC Bramham Moor which was then renamed RAF Tadcaster, near Bramham cum Oglethorpe in Yorkshire. <mask> was temporarily posted as a first lieutenant to United Kingdom No. 3 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, on 2 March 1918 He first scored as a combat pilot on 11 April 1918, flying the Sopwith Camel against his first German opponent, an LVG C.VI observation aircraft. The next day he made his second aerial kill; his third a week later. On 20 April he was flying at the tail end of 'C' flight when his commander Richard Raymond-Barker was attacked and killed by Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron. From far away <mask> saw Richthofen shoot down a second aviator (who crashed but lived), then <mask> was near enough to engage a blue Fokker Dr.I triplane, expending more than 300 rounds at it after which it went into a dive and spin, but <mask>'s own maneuvers prevented him from seeing what happened to it. <mask> returned to base and claimed a kill but it was never confirmed—all of Richthofen's flight had returned safe from the engagement.On 3 June 1918, <mask> became an ace, scoring his fifth confirmed victory. <mask> was assigned to the USAS 17th Aero Squadron to help them complete their training. When they moved into combat, he was one of their Flight Commanders. In his service he downed three enemy aircraft and two observation balloons, becoming a double ace—once flying under RFC command and once again for USAS. His first USAS victory on 7 August was during an offensive patrol; the squadron was flying high at  when they noticed eight Fokker D.VIIs well below them over Armentières. The 17th squadron dove to attack and <mask> downed an enemy aircraft after firing 200 rounds. On <mask>'s final mission he was paired with Lt. Jesse F. Campbell to bomb and strafe transports along the Bapaume–Cambrai road, to strafe enemy troops in retreat and to attack an observation balloon that had been spotted to the north.After dropping their bombs on a small building and transports, Campbell and <mask> turned to bust the balloon. <mask> sprayed the balloon with machine gun rounds, and its German observer officer was seen to jump from the basket as the balloon exploded in flame. <mask> was then killed by defensive fire from ground forces. Legacy

<mask> scored five victories each in 3 Squadron RAF and in the 17th Aero Squadron. He shared some of his victories teamed with such other aces as Douglas John Bell, William Tipton, Adrian Franklyn, Will Hubbard, and Robert Miles Todd. <mask>'s body was laid to rest at Pittsfield Cemetery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His father mentioned <mask> in Sunday sermons for many years after the war.In July 1932, the new military airfield at Novato, California was named Hamilton Field in tribute. In April 1934, a plaque was emplaced to commemorate him. Honors and awards
Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to <mask><mask>, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Varssenaere, Belgium, August 13, 1918. Leading a low bombing attack on a German aerodrome, 30 miles behind the line, Lieutenant <mask> destroyed the hangars on the north side of the aerodrome and then attacked a row of enemy machines, flying as low as 20 feet from the ground despite intense machine-gun fire, and setting fire to three of the German planes. He then turned and fired bursts through the windows of the chateau in which the German pilots were quartered, 26 of whom were afterwards reported killed. General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919.Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)

On 13 August 1918, Lt. <mask> led his flight on a special mission against Varssenaere aerodrome. He dropped four bombs from 200 feet on some aeroplane hangars, making two direct hits and causing a large amount of damage. He then machine gunned the German officers' billets and made four circuits of the aerodrome, shooting up various targets. On the first circuit, he destroyed one EA on the ground which burst into flames when he shot it up. On the third circuit he repeated this performance, setting afire another Fokker biplane. His dash and skill very materially helped in the success of the operation. In addition this officer destroyed a Fokker biplane over Armentières on 7 August 1918.On 12 July he brought down two EA in flames and on two other occasions has driven down out of control enemy machines. He is an excellent patrol leader. See also

 List of World War I flying aces from the United States

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Army portrait of <mask> in Hamilton Field, Novato Historical Guild

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<mask> (born 7 November 1969) is a French classical pianist and the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. She described family nationalities in a New York Times interview with John Rockwell: "My father came from a background of Sephardi Jews in Africa, and my mother's ancestors were Jewish Berbers from Corsica." Her father was adopted as a child by a French family and he became a  university tutor teaching languages. According to Luc Antonini   the name <mask> is typical of the region of Trets in Provence. She discovered the piano at seven. In 1982, she entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where she studied with Jacques Rouvier.In 1985, she won 1st Prize at the Conservatory and the Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Charles Cros for her recording of the Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No. 2. She experiences synesthesia, where one physical sense adds to another, in her case seeing music as colour, which helps her with memorising music scores. Career
<mask> <mask> has established herself not only as a virtuoso pianist, but also as a committed wildlife conservationist, a compassionate human rights activist and as a writer. <mask> began her piano studies at the local conservatory with Jacqueline Courtin before going on to work with Pierre Barbizet in Marseille. She was accepted into the Paris Conservatoire at just 13 and won first prize in piano performance a mere three years later. She continued to study with György Sándor and Leon Fleisher until, in 1987, she gave her well-received debut recital in Tokyo.That same year, renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim invited her to perform with the Orchestre de Paris: this marked the launch of <mask>'s musical career, characterised ever since by concerts with most of the world's major orchestras and many celebrated conductors. Between her debut in 1995 with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Claudio Abbado and her first performance with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur in 1999 – just two of many notable musical milestones – <mask> made a wholly different kind of debut: in upper New York State, she established the Wolf Conservation Center. Her love for the endangered species was sparked by a chance encounter with a wolf in northern Florida; this led to her determination to open an environmental education centre. "When you look at a wolf in the eye, you establish a connection," Ms. <mask> said. "Hearing about wolves and seeing a wolf are two very different things. It’s about accomplishing the goals of outreach — building a bridge of understanding to our counterparts in the wild — and environmental conservation. If you call me an activist, I’m happy."But <mask>'s engagement does not end there: she is also a member of the organisation Musicians for Human Rights, a worldwide network of musicians and people working in the field of music to promote a culture of human rights and social change. For a number of years, she also found time to pursue a writing career, publishing three books that have appeared in various languages. Her first, Variations Sauvages, appeared in 2003. It was followed in 2005 by Leçons particulières, and in 2013 by Retour à Salem, both semi-autobiographical novels. It is, however, through her music-making that Hélène <mask> most deeply touches the emotions of audiences. She tours extensively as a soloist and recitalist. A committed chamber musician, she has also performed at the most prestigious festivals and cultural events with a wide range of musical collaborators, including Sol Gabetta, Rolando Villazón, Jan Vogler, Truls Mørk, Clemens Hagen, Gidon Kremer, Gil Shaham and the Capuçon brothers.Her contribution to and impact on the world of classical music were recognised by the French government when she was admitted into the Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur (France's highest decoration) at the rank of Chevalier (Knight). <mask> <mask> has been an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2002. Her recordings have been critically acclaimed and awarded numerous accolades, among them the Cannes Classical Recording of the Year, Choc du Monde de la musique, Diapason d’or, Grand Prix du disque, Record Academy Prize (Tokyo), Midem Classic Award and the Echo Klassik Award. Her early recordings include Credo and Reflection (both of which feature a number of thematically linked works); a Chopin and Rachmaninov Sonatas disc; a Bartók CD on which she plays the Third Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Pierre Boulez; a Beethoven disc with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Vladimir Jurowski which was chosen as one of history's greatest classical music albums in the iTunes "Classical Essentials" series; a selection of Bach’s solo and concerto works, in which she directed the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen from the piano; and a DVD release of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Claudio Abbado. In 2010 <mask> recorded the solo recital album Resonances, showcasing music by Mozart, Berg, Liszt and Bartók. This was followed in 2011 by a disc featuring her readings of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 23 as well as a collaboration with singer Mojca Erdmann in the same composer’s Ch’io mi scordi di te?.Her next release, Duo, recorded with cellist Sol Gabetta, won the 2013 Echo Klassik Award for "chamber recording of the year", and her album of the two Brahms piano concertos, the First recorded with Andris Nelsons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Second with Nelsons and the Vienna Philharmonic, appeared in September 2013. This was followed by Water (January 2016), a live recording of performances from tears become… streams become…, the critically-acclaimed large-scale immersive installation at New York's Park Avenue Armory created by Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon in collaboration with Grimaud. Water features works by nine composers: Berio, Takemitsu, Fauré, Ravel, Albéniz, Liszt, Janáček, Debussy and Nitin Sawhney, who wrote seven short Water Transitions for the album as well as producing it. April 2017 then saw the release of Perspectives, a two-disc personal selection of highlights from her DG catalogue, including two "encores" – Brahms's Waltz in A flat and Sgambati's arrangement of Gluck’s "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" – previously unreleased on CD/via streaming. <mask>'s next album, Memory, was released in September 2018. Exploring music's ability to bring the past back to life, it comprises a selection of evanescent miniatures by Chopin, Debussy, Satie and Valentin Silvestrov which, in the pianist's own words, "conjure atmospheres of fragile reflection, a mirage of what was – or what could have been". For her latest recording, The Messenger, <mask> has created an intriguing dialogue between Silvestrov and Mozart."I was always interested in couplings that were not predictable," she explains, "because I feel as if certain pieces can shed a special light on to one another." She is joined by the Camerata Salzburg in Mozart's Piano Concerto K466 and Silvestrov's Two Dialogues with Postscript and The Messenger – 1996, of which she also performs a solo version. Completing the programme are Mozart's Fantasias K397 and K475. The Messenger was released on 2 October 2020. Highlights of the pianist's 2019–20 season included performances of Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in Philadelphia and at Carnegie Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Ravel's Concerto in G major with MusicAeterna and Teodor Currentzis in Luxembourg and Munich; and the Ravel Concerto and Mozart's Piano Concerto K466 on tour in Germany with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Jakub Hrůša, as well as recitals in North America featuring repertoire from Memory. Critical reception
Critics have praised <mask>'s willingness to reinterpret works and take chances, and compared her to Glenn Gould:
<mask> doesn't sound like most pianists: she is a rubato artist, a reinventor of phrasings, a taker of chances."A wrong note that is played out of élan, you hear it differently than one that is played out of fear," she says. She admires the "more extreme players . . . people who wouldn't be afraid to play their conception to the end." Her two overriding characteristics are independence and drive, and her performances attempt, whenever possible, to shake up conventional pianistic wisdom. Brian Levine, the executive director of the Glenn Gould Foundation, sees in Grimaud a resemblance to Gould: "She has this willingness to take a piece of music apart and free herself from the general body of practice that has grown up around it." Personal life
In 1991, at age 21, Grimaud moved to Tallahassee, Florida. In 1997, she settled in Westchester County, north of New York City.After some time spent in Berlin, she took up residence in Weggis, near Luzern, Switzerland. She has a passion for wolves and wolf conservation. She now divides her time between her musical career and the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York. <mask> lives with her partner, the German photographer Mat Hennek, in California and Upstate New York. Honours
 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2002). National Order of Merit (France) (16 May 2008). Legion of Honour (3 April 2015).Discography
On Denon
 Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No. 2, Études-Tableaux, Op. 33 (1986)
 Chopin Ballade No. 1, Liszt Après une Lecture de Dante, Schumann Sonata for Piano (1987)
 Schumann Kreisleriana, Brahms Piano Sonata No. 2 (1989)
 Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3, Klavierstücke (1992)
 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Ravel Piano Concerto (1993)

On Erato
 Schumann Piano Concerto, Richard Strauss Burleske (1995)
 Brahms Piano Pieces Op.116–119 (1996)
 Gershwin Piano Concerto, Ravel Piano Concerto in G (1997)
 Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (1998)

On Teldec
 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4, Piano Sonata No. 30, Piano Sonata No. 31 (1999)
 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Prelude Op. 32/12, Études-Tableaux Op.33/1, 2 and 9, Variations on a Theme of Corelli (2001)

On Deutsche Grammophon
 Credo  John Corigliano Fantasia on an Ostinato, Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 "Tempest", Choral Fantasy, Arvo Pärt Credo (2003)
 Chopin | Rachmaninoff (2005)
 Bartók The Piano Concertos (on the third) (2005)
 Reflection Schumann Piano Concerto, Various by Brahms and Clara Schumann (2006)
 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor", Piano Sonata No. 28 (2007)
 Bach Various (2008)
 Resonances Mozart: Sonata No. 8, Berg: Sonata op.1, Liszt: Sonata in B minor, Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances (2010)
 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 19, Piano Concerto No. 23, Ch'io mi scordi di te?(with Mojca Erdmann, soprano) (2011)
 Duo (with Sol Gabetta, cello) Works by Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, and Shostakovich (2012)
 Brahms Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 with the Bavarian Radio SO and Vienna PO, conducted by Andris Nelsons (2013)
 Water Various (with Nitin Sawhney) (2016)
 Memory Debussy (including "Clair de Lune"), Satie, Chopin, Silvestrov, Sawhney  (2018)
 The Messenger Mozart, Silvestrov with Camerata Salzburg (2020)

On Philips
 Schumann Sonata for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 105, Gidon Kremer violin and Helene Grimaud piano. Recording date: 7/1989. Release: Lockenhaus Festival 1982–1992 A Decade of Music-Making (1997)

On ACA Digital Recording, Inc
 Bassoon Music Of The Americas, Composers on Bassoon Music Of The Americas: Alvin Etler, Valdir Azevedo, Jose Siqueira, Magda Santos/Pó, Pixinguinha, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Willson Osborne. Jeff Keesecker – bassoon and Hélène <mask> – piano (2002)

Bibliography
 Variations sauvages (2003, published in English as Wild Harmonies)
 Leçons particulières (2005)
 Retour à Salem (2013)

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title: DJ Mog

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<mask>g is a Northern Irish house DJ and producer whose single "Somewhere" (featuring the singer Sarah Lynn) reached #1 on Billboards Hot Dance Airplay Chart in America. Career

Early career
Taking up DJing at early age of just 9, <mask>g started out his career playing at local under age events in his hometown of Belfast. He entered and won many local DJ competitions before quickly being spotted by one of Northern Ireland's most established DJs and Producers, Modelle. It was Modelle who convinced Mog at that time to spend more time in the studio than behind the turntables. Mog & Modelle later went on to become well known studio partners and produced under a number of aliases including: Funkaholicz, The Columbians, Tuff Twins and the Blitz Kidz. They also remixed for major record labels such as AATW and top artists such as Tina Turner, Nomad, Major Players and Hard House Queen, Rachel Auburn. The most well known of their productions was their local club hit "Tribal Satisfaction" which gave Mog his first taste of radio play and earned him a place on the line-up for Northern Ireland's most famous superclub, The Met Arena.2004–2006

In 2004 <mask> was crowned Northern Ireland Mixing Champion and began making his mark on the Irish club circuit. In 2005 Mog setup his own recording studio, Hairy Lemon Studios and began producing under an array of aliases including: Space Hustlers, Krowd Killerz & Tatoe & Tease. In 2006 Mog's bootleg of "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers was crowned Tried & Tested record of the week by Judge Jules on BBC Radio 1 show. The bootleg also went on to be named One for the Weekend by BBC Radio 1 and was played on air by all the Radio 1 jocks from Pete Tong to Vernon Kay. As a DJ he took residency at the popular nightclub, Clubland in Cookstown & played main stage for the first time at Northern Ireland's biggest dance music festival, Planet Love. A stage he shared with superstar DJs and PAs that included Paul van Dyk, Chicane, Happy Mondays, Judge Jules, Eddie Halliwell and Mauro Picotto. 2006 also saw Mog travel abroad for the first time as a DJ to play at Majorca's most famous nightclub, BCM.2007–2009

In 2007 MTV Dance broadcast live from <mask>'s residency at Clubland in Cookstown and he made his first appearance on BBC Radio 1 as a special guest on Dance Anthems with Dave Pearce. He was also nominated for Best Live Performance alongside Fatboy Slim and Tiesto at the Irish Dance Music Awards. In 2008 Mog started up his own digital label, Ego Records. The labels first release "DJ Mog & Phil Crawf Present Tatoe & Groove – Scorpion" was crowned Tried & Tested record of the week by BBC Radio 1's Judge Jules & topped the DJ Download best sellers chart. As a remixer he teamed up with fellow Northern Irish producer Phil Crawf to remix the single, "Just When I Think There's An Answer" by The A&N Project (also known as Agnelli & Nelson). The remix featured on Judge Jules' "Judgement Sundays" compilation which reached Top 10 in the UK album charts. In the Summer of the same year Mog was handpicked by Judge Jules to join the line-up on the BBC Introducing stage at Creamfields 10th Anniversary Festival.His set was broadcast live from the festival on BBC Radio 1 & was filmed as part of a BBC documentary. He ended the year by supporting Armin van Buuren in front of 8000+ people in his hometown of Belfast at Planet Love's sold out Dance Against The Machine event. In 2009 Mog released his first official single, "Searching". The single which featured singer Mark Le Sal on vocals became a huge worldwide radio hit & topped charts all over world, putting his name & record label firmly in the public eye. Later the same year he released the follow-up single, "Not For Long" which also featured singer Mark Le Sal on vocals. The single broke download records by becoming then first release to top DJ Download's Top 4 with different versions/remixes of the same release. The single was later complied alongside Deadmau5 & David Guetta for the Azuli Miami compilation series which reached the Top 10 in the UK album charts.2010
In 2010 Mog released his debut artist album, Somewhere in Between. The album featured collaborations with producers Judge Jules, Paul Kennedy, John Gibbons, Scimon Tist & vocalists Mark Le Sal, Sarah Lynn and Amanda Angelic. The album's third single "Somewhere" featuring the singer Sarah Lynn was Mog's biggest hit to date. The single reached number one on Billboard magazines Hot Dance Airplay Chart and remained in the Top 20 for over 8 weeks, as well as dominating radio and clubs back in Europe, the UK and Ireland. He was also chosen as support act for the Fatboy Slim and Deadmau5 sell-out concert in Belfast's Giant Park. 2011
At the start of 2011 Mog launched his weekly radio show on Northern Ireland's most popular music station, Cool FM & went Top 20 with the single, "Full Circle" feat Paul Kennedy & The Stetz. He also toured India supporting global chart sensation, Avicii.2012
Mog released his 1st solo single for 3 years, the instrumental track "Juntos". The track was signed to the famous Swedish record label "Stoney Boy" owned by Grammy nominated DJ/Producer, Stonebridge. The track received heavy support from radio stations such as BBC Radio 1 & incredibly despite featuring no vocals still reached Top 20 in Sweden. His track "Aimee" taken from his debut album "Somewhere in Between" (and featuring the vocals of Mark Le Sal) was used by the BBC as the backing for coverage of the GAA Championships. In the summer he launched his very own club night called "Karma" & teamed up with fellow Northern Irish producer (& one half of the legendary "Agnelli & Nelson") Robbie Nelson for the track, "Agarta". He has also announced that he has been in the studio working on a collaboration with his lifelong idol, Paul Masterson (AKA Yomanda). 2013–present
He remixed the single 'Hold On' for Grammy nominated DJ/Producer, Stonebridge.And remixed the track 'Raise Your Glasses' by Colorado producer Thyron!x which features the Canadian singer/songwriter Nora B. The track featured on Paul Oakenfold's 'We Are Planet Perfecto Vol. 03 – Vegas To Ibiza' compilation released by Armada Music. Movies & TV
In 2012 DJ Mog's remix of 'So True' by Ago was used in the movie 'Miami II Ibiza'. The movie which was directed by Miguel Delgado and Jon Jacobs also features cameos from the likes of: Carl Cox, Tiësto, Judge Jules, Bob Sinclar & Pete Tong. Mog's remix was also used as part of the motion picture soundtrack. In 2016 DJ Mog's song 'Feel' featuring vocals from Mark Le Sal was featured on the hit US TV show, 'Pretty Little Liars' in the 18th episode titled "Burn This" from Season 06.

iPhone App
In 2010 Mog launched his own official iPhone Application made available from the Apple App Store.He is also credited as one of the 1st producers to produce an electronic dance record using only apps available for the iPhone. The track that he produced was titled 'iTune' & was the outcome of a special feature on Judge Jules' BBC Radio 1 show. The feature (known as the Producer Challenge) set Mog the task of producing a song in less than a week using only his iPhone, iPhone headphones & the various apps available from the Apple App Store. The end result was then to be played the following week on the show for the listeners to judge. The 'iTune' proved to be extremely popular with both Judge Jules & the shows listeners and continued to be played on the show for several weeks after the feature. It has also appeared in both Judge Jules & Mog's live DJ Sets. In 2011 Mog's official iPhone App reached over 17,000+ users worldwide & charted higher than other EDM Apps from the likes of Steve Angello of the "Swedish House Mafia" on the iTunes App Store.

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title: Van Williams

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<mask> (February 27, 1934 – November 28, 2016) was an American actor best known for his leading role as Kenny Madison in both Warner Bros. television detective series Bourbon Street Beat (1959–1960) and its sequel, Surfside 6 (1960–1962). He teamed for one season with Bruce Lee as his partner Kato, in the television series The Green Hornet, which was broadcast during the 1966–1967 season. Early life
<mask> was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of Priscilla Anne (Jarvis) and <mask>. He grew up on a ranch outside Fort Worth and later studied animal husbandry and business at Texas Christian University. He moved to Hawaii in 1956 after differences with his father on how the ranch should be run. Career
A diving instructor in Hawaii in 1956, <mask> was discovered there in 1957 by producer Mike Todd, who urged him to come to Hollywood. <mask> recalled, "Todd liked the look of me and said I should try the acting business, but added, 'First, boy, go back to college and get your degree.'I followed his advice, took my degree in business administration and then wandered into Hollywood." Todd died in a plane crash in 1958, but <mask> took vocal and acting lessons. He managed to get cast in an episode of General Electric Theatre and was seen by executives from Warner Bros., who signed him to a contract in 1959. "I stumbled into the business, unknown and untrained," he says. "I was really lucky." Bourbon Street Beat and Surfside Six

<mask> guest starred on episodes of General Electric Theater, Lawman, and Colt .45. His big break came as co-star of the television series Bourbon Street Beat, which was set in New Orleans.The show aired during the 1959–1960 season; his co-stars were Andrew Duggan, Richard Long, and Arlene Howell. <mask> appeared in Tall Story (1960), in which he stepped naked out of the men's locker room shower. Bourbon Street Beat was axed after one season, but <mask>' character, Kenny Madison, was recycled into the new Surfside 6 television series in the same time slot, with Miami Beach colleagues played by top-billed Troy Donahue, Lee Patterson, Diane McBain, and Margarita Sierra. The series lasted until 1962. During the run of these series, <mask> occasionally guest-starred on other Warners shows, such as Cheyenne, 77 Sunset Strip, and Hawaiian Eye. He appeared in a Warners anti-communist propaganda short Red Nightmare (1962). <mask> also starred in a World War II television pilot titled The Leathernecks that was shown as an episode of The Gallant Men.<mask> had a supporting role in The Caretakers (1963). The Tycoon
<mask> was series regular Pat Burns in The Tycoon with Walter Brennan. After his Warner Brothers contract lapsed in 1964, <mask> worked in television commercials and guest appearances on various television series such as The Dick <mask> Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Preview Tonight, and The Milton Berle Show. The Green Hornet

In 1966, ABC-TV had William Dozier revive George W. Trendle's famous radio character in a new series, The Green Hornet. <mask> signed with 20th Century-Fox to portray the mysterious masked hero and his alter ego, newspaper editor Britt Reid (son of Dan Reid, Jr. who was the nephew of John Reid, a.k.a. The Lone Ranger although The Lone Ranger was not given that as his official true identity name). <mask> played the role straight, unlike the comedy approach of the same producer's Batman show.He and co-star Bruce Lee also made three guest appearances, in character, on Batman, first in a "batclimb" cameo, ("The Spell of Tut", 9/28/1966), and later in a two-part episode ("A Piece of the Action", 3/1/1967 and "Batman's Satisfaction", 3/2/1967). By the time he starred in The Green Hornet, <mask> had become successful investing in various commercial ventures; a TV Guide profile of 1966, titled "Banker with a Sting", characterized him as "your friendly neighborhood tycoon." <mask> later said "By the time The Green Hornet came along, I had pretty well decided to get out of the television business. About the only thing I enjoyed about those years was the location work. Basically I'm a shy person. I know that public appearances and autographs and all that are a necessary part of the business, but it wasn't for me." Post-Green Hornet

After The Green Hornet ended, <mask> guest starred on shows such as The Big Valley, Mannix, Love, American Style, Nanny and the Professor, Ironside, Mission: Impossible, Apple's Way, Gunsmoke, and The Manhunter.<mask> returned to the lead in a regular series with Westwind (1975), a children's adventure series. He was in a TV movie The Runaways (1975), and guest-starred on Bert D'Angelo/Superstar, The Red Hand Gang , Barnaby Jones, A Twist in the Tale, The Streets of San Francisco, How the West Was Won, Colorado C.I., Centennial, The Night Rider, Mrs. Columbo and The Rockford Files. Retirement
<mask> retired from acting in 1982 to open a communications company in Santa Monica, California that leases time on six two-way radio repeater stations. <mask> was also a longtime reserve deputy sheriff with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and worked at the substation in Malibu, California. He turned down the offer of a role in Falcon Crest, because it involved too much location shooting. In 1993, <mask> made a cameo in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story as a director of The Green Hornet. In 2010, the filmmakers of the 2011 Green Hornet film adaptation had wanted him to make a cameo appearance as a cemetery guard, but <mask> turned it down.<mask> stated he did not care much for acting, citing some reasons being his resentment toward the people in the industry and their unfair method of going about things. He was also wary of typecasting, pointing to examples of failures it caused in people's acting careers, such as the case of George Reeves when he became too affiliated with his portrayal of Superman. This also became one of his concerns when playing The Green Hornet. Another concern was its strong similarity to Batman, but he claimed that because William Morris, his agent, wanted him to do it, he did it. He also stated that his only interest in acting was taking it up as a business rather than to gain celebrity status. Personal life and death
<mask> married Vicki Flaxman in 1959. Together they had two children, and one from Vicki's prior marriage.He had nine grandchildren. He had twin daughters from a previous marriage, which also included four grandchildren. In 1988, <mask> owned houses in Sun Valley, Idaho, Fort Worth (which included a ranch he inherited from his parents), and Hawaii. He said it was the fruits of good investments. Pat Priest (The Munsters), <mask>'s longtime friend and neighbor, said he was her mentor. Outside his acting career, <mask> was also closely affiliated with co-star Adam West. The two of them were neighbors in Sun Valley and spent much leisure time together.West also claimed when people saw them together outdoors, they would comment about Batman and The Green Hornet being on a secret case together. Producer Kevin Burns revealed on December 5, 2016, that <mask> died on November 28, 2016, from kidney failure at the age of 82 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

 William Dozier, the producer and narrator of The Green Hornet TV series, has his papers preserved at the American Heritage Center. There are several items of correspondence with <mask>. 1934 births
2016 deaths
American male television actors
American male film actors
Deaths from kidney failure
Green Hornet
Male actors from Fort Worth, Texas
Texas Christian University alumni
Warner Bros. contract players

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title: Ken Mora

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<mask> (born December 17, 1960) is an American graphic novel publisher, screenplay writer, director, producer, and voice actor. In film, he is best known for creating the computer-animated shorts entitled Magnum Farce: (2009, 2011) and the mixed-media Your Face Global Jam (2017). In publishing, <mask> is creator/producer of the serialized Comic Book and subsequent Graphic Novel biography of Caravaggio Caravaggio: A Light Before The Darkness (2015,2019). <mask> is also executive producer of Adventures in Plymptoons (2012) the official biographical documentary of animator Bill Plympton, and associate producer of Revengeance (2017) the feature animated film by Plympton and Jim Lujan. Early life
<mask> was born in Hollywood, the youngest of two siblings. His father, <mask>, is a native of Costa Rica, Central America. His mother, Betty Paulina Wood y Meza, was also a native of Costa Rica, and emigrated to the United States in 1957.His parents met in Los Angeles. The couple were married in April 1959 and were divorced in September 1961. An avid comic book fan since childhood, when his father bought him How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way, Mora began his relationship with art and storytelling. Education and early career
After graduating from North High School (Torrance) in 1979, Mora studied variously at El Camino College, worked a variety of jobs, often two at once, and later continued his studies at DeVry University, Santa Monica College, and various private non-accredited learning institutions. In 1984, with the release of the Apple Macintosh personal computer, Mora began his parallel development of computer and artistic skills. After receiving a layoff from Hughes Spacecraft, in El Segundo, CA, he work freelance with his graphic designer with MacTemps (now Aquent) and was ultimately hired away to the post of Art Director at The Verity Group, a management consulting firm in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. In 1995 Mora returned to Santa Monica College to major in Art and Art History, and under the advisement of artist/professor Ronn Davis, transfer to University of Southern California (USC Roski School of Fine Arts) in 1997.At USC he earned his BFA, graduating with distinction with the class of 1999, where he shared speaking honors at the commencement ceremony during the tenure of then dean, Ruth Weisberg. Career in entertainment industry
In 2003 <mask>'s first screenplay A Light Before The Darkness, based on the volatile Baroque-era artist Caravaggio won several screenwriting competition awards, gained him representation via the Jack Scagnetti literary and talent agency, and an option from Buzzmedia Network for the feature film to be directed by Heinrich Dams. By the time rights to A Light Before The Darkness reverted to him, he had completed his second and third screenplays, Magnum Farce, and Ms. Valkyrie. After several near-misses with production of Magnum Farce, he established his own sole-proprietorship production company Bella Fe Films in 2008, to produce the short film adaptation Magnum Farce: A Shot in the Park which garnered top accolades at film festivals. In 2010, <mask>, who had been a long-time fan of Bill Plympton who has been cited variously as "The King" or "Dean" of Indie Animmation" became executive producer of the documentary on Plympton, Adventures in Plymptoons, directed by Alexia Anastasio. In 2013, Mora established the pay-per-download New media venture Screenplay Theater. The venture produces "Audiomovies" which dramatize previously optioned or award-winning Screenplays, that have not been produced as Movies.Like most audiobooks these "Audiomovies" employ SAG-AFTRA actors, but also feature Foley and musical scores. In 2017, Your Face Global Jam, an international collaborative tribute to Bill Plympton's first Academy Award-nominated short, produced and directed by Mora was released on his Bella Fe Media channel on YouTube. Career in publishing
In 2015, Mora published the first issue of his serialized graphic novel A Light Before the Darkness, a biography of the artist Caravaggio on the cloud-based  distribution platform comiXology with a limited first printing for patrons of his successful Kickstarter campaign. The concluding issue of the series was published in March 2018. In 2020 the premiere Trade paperback (comics) edition won the Screencraft Cinematic Book Award (Graphic Novel)  for 2019. The publication was also a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Award 2020  and finalist in Billy Bob Buttons The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards, 2019. June 2020, Mora published the first internationally available print edition in association with U.K. publisher Markosia
.Screenwriter
 Magnum Farce (IMDb) (2013 – in development)
 Magnum Farce: Along Came a Sniper (IMDb) (2011)
 Magnum Farce: A Shot in the Park (IMDb) (2009)
 The Cook and the Thief (IMDb) (in development)
 A Light Before The Darkness (optioned, not produced)

Director
 Your Face Global Jam (2018)
 Magnum Farce: Along Came a Sniper (2011)
 Magnum Farce: A Shot in the Park (2009)

Producer
 Magnum Farce (IMDb) (2013 – in production)
 Magnum Farce: Along Came a Sniper (2011, short)
 Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011, documentary)
 Magnum Farce: A Shot in the Park (2009, short)

Actor
 Magnum Farce: A Shot in the Park (2009, short)
 Revengeance (2017, feature film)

Consultant / crew / other
 Revengeance - Associate Producer, Sound Recordist, Voice Actor (2017, feature film)
 Wong Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest - Production Assistant (2010, drama)
 Townies - Script Consultant (2009, short)
 A Mass of Wine - Special Thanks (2010, short, documentary)
 The Other Side of Paradise - Very Special Thanks (2009, feature film)
 board member, Burbank International Film Festival, 2011, 2012, 2015

References

External links
 IMDb
 KenMora.com
 BellaFeMedia.com
 Author Page at Amazon.com
 Author Page at Goodreads

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Actors from Torrance, California
American animated film directors
American animated film producers
American animators
American male screenwriters
American comics writers
Computer animation people
Film directors from Los Angeles
Film producers from California
American graphic novelists
Living people
Screenwriters from California
USC Roski School of Fine Arts alumni
Writers from Los Angeles

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title: Nanni Moretti

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Giovanni "<mask>" <mask> (; born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for The Son's Room, a Silver Bear at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival for The Mass is Ended and a Silver Lion at the 1981 Venice Film Festival for Sweet Dreams, in addition to the David di Donatello Award for Best Film on three separate occasions (for Caro diario in 1994, The Son's Room in 2001 and Il caimano in 2006). Every film he has directed since Caro diario has been shown at the Cannes Film Festival, and in 2012 he was the president of the Official Competition jury. Life and work
<mask> was born in Bruneck, Italy to Roman parents who were both teachers. His father was the late epigraphist <mask>, a Greek teacher at Sapienza University of Rome. His brother is literary scholar <mask>. While growing up Moretti discovered his two passions, the cinema and water polo.Having finished his studies he pursued a career as a producer, and in 1973 directed his first two short films: Pâté de bourgeois and The Defeat (La sconfitta). In 1976, <mask> <mask>'s first feature film Io sono un autarchico (I Am Self-Sufficient) was released. In 1978, he wrote, directed and starred in the movie Ecce Bombo, which tells the story of a student having problems with his entourage. It was screened at the Cannes Festival. Sogni d'oro won the Silver Lion at the 38th Venice International Film Festival. La messa è finita won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. He may be best known for his films Caro diario (Dear Diary, 1993; followed in 1998 by a sequel, Aprile) and La stanza del figlio (The Son's Room, 2001), the latter of which won the Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.Moretti has used certain actors several times in his films, generally playing minor roles. His father Luigi appears in 6 films, Dario Cantarelli and Mauro Fabretti in 5, Antonio Petrocelli in 4. More notable Italian actors he has employed frequently in his films include Silvio Orlando, who appears in 5 films (including the role of protagonist in Il caimano) and Laura Morante, who was featured in Sogni d'oro, Bianca and The Son's Room. Having played waterpolo in the B division of the Italian championship, his experience later inspired his film Palombella Rossa ("palombella," which literally means "little pigeon," refers to a type of lob shot). His other work has not been widely seen outside Europe, but within his country <mask> is known as a maker of wryly humorous and eccentric films, usually starring himself. His most recent role was in the film Mia Madre (My Mother, 2015)

<mask> is also an outspoken political leftist. In 2002, he organized street protests against the government of Silvio Berlusconi.Il caimano (2006) is in part about Berlusconi's controversies: in one of the three portraits of the Italian prime minister <mask> himself plays Berlusconi. Aprile also deals with Italy's political situation and <mask>'s views on it. His 2011 film We Have a Pope screened In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He lives in Rome, having been resident since birth, where he is co-owner of a small movie theater, Nuovo Sacher, named like this because of <mask>'s passion for Sachertorte. The short film, Il Giorno della prima di Close Up (Opening Day of Close-Up, 1996), shows <mask> at his theatre attempting to encourage patrons to attend the opening day of Abbas Kiarostami's film, Close Up. He is not religious. In his words, "I remember the shirts that said 'Thank God I'm an atheist'.Funny. But I do not think so. I'm not a believer and I'm sorry." His 2015 film Mia Madre was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Conversations avec Nanni Moretti, Paris, 2008, Editions des Cahiers du cinéma. Mazierska, Ewa & Laura Rascaroli. The Cinema of Nanni Moretti, Wallflower, 2004.External links

 Interview with <mask> <mask> with his own thoughts on his films, filmlinc.com; accessed 12 December 2014. 1953 births
Living people
Male actors from Rome
Italian film directors
Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters
Italian male film actors
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners
David di Donatello winners
European Film Awards winners (people)
Nastro d'Argento winners
Directors of Palme d'Or winners
People of Venetian descent
People of Campanian descent

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title: Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf

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<mask>-Wahab al-Shawaf (also spelled <mask>-Shawwaf) (1916 – 9 March 1959) was a colonel in the Iraqi Army and played a part in the 14 July Revolution in 1958 as a member of the Free Officers Movement of Iraq. Early life
Al-Shawaf was born in Baghdad to the prominent al-Shawaf clan of Iraq, a religious and landowning Sunni Muslim family. He attended the Baghdad Military College, then the Baghdad Staff College. He was classmates with Nazim Tabaqchali and <mask>. Al-Shawaf later attended the Senior Officers' School in the Great Britain. While author Mehdi Herav suggests that al-Shawaf ideologically leaned towards the Ba'ath Party, author Juan Romero says he leaned towards the National Democratic Party, who were moderate socialists. Military career

Coup plot
Al-Shawaf was a member of the original Free Officers group, which plotted the overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy of Iraq, which had been in power since 1932 and was a close ally of the British.He was one of the seven leading officers that planned and executed the coup on 14 July. In one of several scenarios planned by the Free Officers, al-Shawaf and fellow Free Officer Ahmad Muhammad Yahya were to launch the revolt as their army units returned to Abu Ghraib, near the capital Baghdad, from al-Rutba, in the country's western desert, in early May 1958. Yahya refused to initiate the maneuver, however, and the Baghdad-based Free Officers would not lend support to al-Shawaf. Al-Shawaf was later discouraged from starting the revolt by one of the group's leaders, <mask>-Karim Qasim, who feared any success on al-Shawaf's part would challenge Qasim's future leadership role. 14 July Revolution
With the success of the 14 July Revolution of 1958, which resulted in the overthrow and killing of King Faisal II and long-time Prime Minister Nuri al-Said, al-Shawaf was to be assigned as Military-Governor General by order of decree. However, due to pressure from leading Free Officer <mask>-Salam Arif, with whom al-Shawaf had differences, al-Shawaf was appointed to the less influential position of garrison commander in the northern city of Mosul on 15 July. He considered this an unjustified demotion by fellow Free Officer and newly inaugurated President <mask>-Karim Qasim, interpreting it as a way keep him distant from Baghdad, the center of Iraqi politics.According to historian and journalist Said Aburish, al-Shawaf was one of the "minor and least imposing figures" of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), which administered the country after the revolution. However, the former President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, claims that al-Shawaf was "one of the most prominent free officers with democratic leanings." Mosul revolt and death
Tensions increased between Qasim and his communist allies on one side (Qasim was not a communist himself but was an ally of the USSR and saw the communists as a powerful base of support) and United Arab Republic (UAR) President Gamal <mask> Nasser and his Arab nationalist supporters in Iraq, including al-Shawaf, on the other side as the two competed for regional influence. By February 1959 Qasim had imprisoned his rival Arif, a pan-Arabist supporter of Iraqi membership of the UAR, which included Egypt and Syria, and ousted all other pro-unity officers from the RCC. Al-Shawaf saw an opportunity to fill Arif's position in Baghdad, but this was blocked by Qasim, who kept al-Shawaf in his post at Mosul. The exiled pro-unity officers, who found refuge in the UAR, immediately plotted to overthrow the Qasim government with the help of Nasser and the UAR's Northern Region (Syria) intelligence chief, <mask>-Hamid Sarraj. Al-Shawaf, already disgruntled with Qasim's leadership, was further influenced Iraqi Arab nationalists, including the Ba'ath Party, to move against the president.With Sarraj, al-Shawaf coordinated the smuggling of arms into Mosul from Syria. Qasim, aware of rising dissent in the Mosul region and attempting to stave off a possible insurrection, permitted the communist Partisans of Peace to hold a mass rally in Mosul and dispatched communist-led Popular Resistance Forces from Baghdad to reinforce the Partisans' numbers. Participants in the rally, who were opponents of pan-Arabism, numbered roughly 100,000. Clashes between them and Mosul-based supporters of Nasser erupted between 5–7 March. The Baghdad-based leader of the coup plot, Colonel Rifaat Haj Sirri, was unable to organize the plan by the time of the disturbances. However, al-Shawaf bypassed Sirri and, having stirred the nationalistic and religious emotions of Mosul's inhabitants, announced the coup against Qasim on 8 March, raising the flag of the UAR over Mosul's citadel. In his announcement, al-Shawaf publicly stated that Qasim had "thrown thousands of innocent citizens into internment camps, the likes of which had never been seen under the rule of the oppressor Nuri Said ..."

Al-Shawaf immediately arrested suspected Qasim loyalists within his Fifth Brigade, as well as a number of civilians believed to be pro-Qasim.The communist leader of the Partisans of Peace, Kamel Kazanji, was also arrested and personally executed by al-Shawaf while in custody. The rebellion received support from some 3,000 fighters from the Shammar tribe, allegedly armed by the UAR, who managed to reach Mosul's suburbs before being pummeled by the Iraqi Air Force. Al-Shawaf also gained support from a number of Kurdish tribes in the Iraqi border regions near Iran and Turkey, but also faced pro-government Kurdish irregulars and armed members of the Partisans of Peace. The following day, on 9 March, al-Shawaf was injured by shrapnel and hospitalized. A non-commissioned officer from his brigade entered his hospital room and shot al-Shawaf dead with his own revolver. Afterward, the revolt appeared to have ended with thousands of Shammar tribesmen being pursued by the Iraqi military to the border with the UAR. Several of al-Shawaf's officers also fled to the country.A massive communist-led campaign to retaliate against pro-Shawaf citizens and soldiers in Mosul immediately followed, and by the end of the hostilities, nearly 2,000–3,000 people were slain. Relations between the UAR and Iraq, and in turn between nationalists and communists, deteriorated further after the failure of the revolt. During a funeral procession near Saladin's tomb in Damascus for Iraqi officers wounded in the Mosul hostilities who later died in UAR hospitals, placards were raised with the exclamation "Shawwaf, you shall be avenged!" and "Qasim the traitor". Arif, who was imprisoned by Qasim, was honored as a hero of pan-Arabism. References

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title: Reggie Houston

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<mask> (born July 2, 1947, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American musician who plays soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone and baritone saxophone. He is best known for his association with the New Orleans pianist Fats Domino. Early life
A seventh generation New Orleanian, <mask> was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to <mask>, a pianist and acoustic bassist, and <mask>, who was both an educator and social activist. At the age of 10, <mask> began studying the saxophone. <mask>'s first professional gig came at the age of 12 when he joined the Batiste family band, The Gladiators, widely considered to be one of the pioneering bands of funk. <mask> continued to perform with The Gladiators throughout high school and while home on holiday from his undergraduate studies at Southern University and Xavier University of Louisiana. Although performing jazz, blues and funk throughout New Orleans during this time, it was forbidden to practice these musical styles in any African American university in the United States.After returning from fighting in the Vietnam War, <mask> learned that his former Southern University music professor, Alvin Batiste had just begun a jazz program at Southern University. <mask> made a phone call to Southern University and one day later was studying with Alvin Batiste in the country's first university jazz program . (Years later <mask> returned to Southern to reunite with the former students of that class, and to be inducted into The Music Hall of Fame at Southern University where Alvin Batiste worked until his death in 2007.) While <mask> was preparing for graduation from Southern, Batiste was being consulted about the organization of the first annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Alvin convinced Quint Davis (who would become the main creative force behind the festival) to hire some of the graduate students from Southern's jazz program. Upon his graduation in 1973, <mask> returned to New Orleans and was immediately put to work in the jazz tent at The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Over the next ten years <mask> became an integral part of the festival, and as a paid employee of the festival, he worked as stage manager, booking agent, and emcee.While working for the festival, <mask> continued to gig with artists like New Orleans' soul queen Irma Thomas. In 1982, <mask> joined The Survivors, whose other original core members included keyboardist Sam Henry, drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, The Neville Brothers, Charmaine Neville, and Ramsy McLean. Other players with The Survivors included guitar virtuoso Steve Masakowski, drummer Ricky Sebastian, Bobby McFerrin, and a teenaged Harry Connick Jr. In 1983, <mask> joined The Fats Domino Band, and aside from a three-year hiatus that began in 1988, was a permanent member of Fats' band for the next 22 years. During that hiatus, Dr. John, with whom <mask> occasionally gigged in New Orleans, offered <mask> the baritone saxophone role in his band. But by that time <mask>, who had been playing sax with Charmaine Neville, had accepted her offer to lead her band, which he did until moving to Portland, Oregon in 2004. Other collaborators in the Charmaine Neville Band included pianist, Amasa Miller and drummer, Raymond Weber.Today <mask> lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is an arts educator and continues to gig regularly with The Charmaine Neville Band and his own bands, The Box of Chocolates, The Earth Island Band, The Crescent City Connection, and The Reggie Houston Arkestra. Recording credits
2010 - "Homage 1" by <mask>, featuring Grammy nominated pianist Janice Scroggins
2009 - "Bridges" by Mary Flower. 2006 - "The Katrina Sessions" by Matthew Voth, with guest musician <mask>
2004 - "Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: Big Ol' Box of New Orleans" Shout! Factory's mammoth 4 disc collection that covers the full range of Crescent City music, from R&B to jazz, zydeco and funk. 2003 - "Louisiana Night" by Jimmy "Bean" Ballero, with guest musician <mask>
2003 - "Makin' Groceries" by <mask> and Friends
2001 - "Fats Domino Live! (Shout)" Recorded live in 2001 at The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
2001 - "Guthro" by Bruce Guthro
2001 - "Sisters on the Riverbed" by Nanaco
2000 - "Urgin' For The Virgin" by <mask>'s Earth Island Band
2000 - "Mardi Gras Mambo" by Cubanismo
2000 - "As Long as You're Living Yours: The Music of Keith Jarrett"
1999 - "Wordless Praise The Gospel Saxophone of <mask>" with Ezekiel Williams on organ & piano, Damian Brown on piano, organ & synthesizer, Cornell Williams on bass, and Jeffrey Alexander drums. Produced by Mark Bingham
1999 - "Come On Now Social" by The Indigo Girls.<mask> appears on track 6 "Peace Tonight" along with guest vocalist Joan Osborne
1999 - "Dew Drop Out" by The Yockamo All-Stars
1999 - "Little Red Wagon" by Ramsey & Vaan, <mask> appears as a guest musician on track 1 "The Lady I Hated to Lose"
1997 - "The Best of Austin City Limits: Legends of Country Music"
1996 - "Up Up Up" by The Charmaine Neville Band
1996 - "StarGeezer" by Spider John Koerner
1994 - "Gazebo Sessions" by The <mask> Miller Trio
1992 - "It's About Time" by The Charmaine Neville Band
1992 - "Us" by Peter Gabriel, <mask> plays on track 6 "Washing of the Water" and Grammy nominated track 4 "Steam" which topped Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart for 5 weeks. 1992 - "Coincidence and Likely Stories" by Buffy Sainte-Marie
1990 - "Brother's Keeper" by The Neville Brothers
1988 - "Creole Nightingale" by Tim Williams
1988 - "Ed Frank Quintet/Ramsey McLean & The Survivors - New New Orleans Music: Jump Jazz"
1986 - "Fats Domino: His Greatest Hits" Recorded live at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles on August 22, 1985

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Biographical data contained in an August 2005 video interview with <mask>, conducted by Kristin Valinsky. External links
reggiehouston.com The official <mask> website

1947 births
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title: Erja Lyytinen

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<mask> (born July 7, 1976 in Kuopio, Finland) is a Finnish vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. Youth, studies and influences
<mask> began playing the guitar when she was 15 years old. Around the same time, she started writing her own songs. In high school, she performed with various projects, one of them being a soul-influenced Brothers & Sisters band, in which she was the singer. At the time she was influenced heavily by artists like Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. Later on, she found the music of Koko Taylor, and she mentions one of her favourite songs from Taylor was the piece “I’m A Woman” from The Earthshaker album. She also mentions Bonnie Raitt as a great influence.Throughout 1997 <mask> spent a year in Sweden studying in Malmö Musikhögskolan as an exchange student. After that, she moved back to Finland to study music education at Sibelius Academy. At the time she was the first woman to study electric guitar as a major at that institution. <mask> took part in Finland’s MTV3 channel’s series called Kulkuri ja Kaunottaret (The Rover and The Beauties) in 1999. There she worked as a bandleader and as a lead guitarist. The music on the program was mainly based around the style of Finnish schlager music. Many famous Finnish artists of that genre performed on the series.Attention!, <mask>’s first album was published with “Dave’s Special” band in 2002. The songs on the album were mostly danceable jump and swing blues numbers and were for the most part written by <mask> herself. Throughout her career <mask> has been the opening act for Robert Plant, Focus and Tom Jones, and played with Joe Bonamassa, Jennifer Batten, Sonny Landreth and Carlos Santana, among others. 2000–2010: Career beginnings and going international
On November 10, 2002 <mask> was the opening act for Robert Plant, the former vocalist of Led Zeppelin. She has mentioned that the occasion is one of her most treasured concert memories. <mask> <mask> was the only Finnish act to perform at "Puistoblues" in 2003, the biggest blues festival in Finland, where she played on the main stage. Her second album Wildflower was released at the festival.The artists Koko Taylor and Bonnie Raitt, two of her biggest influences and idols, also performed at the festival, and Lyytinen had the chance to meet Bonnie Raitt there. At the time Lyytinen balanced between touring and studying at the Sibelius Academy. Later on, in 2003 she went to study abroad in Denmark. In Kobenhavn Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium she studied with Paul Banks, jazz guitarist Jacob Ficher, singer Etta Cameron, and with guitarist Billy Cross, who had played with Bob Dylan. In the spring of 2003, <mask> was awarded a stipend to attend the Musician's Institute of Technology in Los Angeles. There she got to study with Scott Henderson, who has played in Chick Corea's Electric Band, and with Keith Wyatt who, according to her, kept amazing lectures about the history of blues. Thomas Ruf from the German Ruf Records label brought his Blues Caravan tour to Finland in 2005.There Lyytinen got to jam with female blues artists Candye Kane, Ana Popovic and Sue Foley, who at the time had contracts with Ruf Records. After that Ruf offered a record deal to Lyytinen which lead to recording her international debut album, "Pilgrimage". The album was recorded in Memphis and Mississippi with two other artists, Aynsley Lister and Ian Parker. In 2006 <mask> had a chance to record her next album Dreamland Blues in Oxford, Mississippi with local musicians. On this record, her playing is more slide guitar-oriented than on earlier albums. In Finland, the album was picked as the “Album of the Year” by Bluesministeri (The Bluesminister) radio show, which was broadcast on YLE (Finnish public service media company). In the same year, <mask> also toured with the Blues Caravan.The Grip of the Blues album was released in 2008. <mask> has mentioned that she thinks this record as her first “real” album as it was the first record to feature her own band. The line-up for the album was: Rami Eskelinen (drums), Iiro Kautto (bass), Davide Floreno (guitar). At the beginning of 2009 <mask> toured again with "Ruf's Blues Caravan". Other artists on that tour were Joanne Shaw Taylor and Oli Brown. In Norway at the Notodden Blues Festival the trio got to jam with Joe Bonamassa, with whom they played the song “Further Up On The Road”. 2010–2018: Awards and career highlights
On the album Voracious Love, which was released in 2010, <mask> continued to push her musical boundaries.On the song "Bed of Roses", she collaborated with the singer Marko Hietala, known from the bands Nightwish and Tarot, and with Paavo Lötjönen from Apocalyptica. In fall 2010 <mask> <mask> toured for five weeks with her band in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and England. In England, she was the opening act for Walter Trout. Later in the same year, <mask> graduated from Sibelius Academy with a master of music degree. Throughout 2011 <mask> toured extensively in Britain. The tour consisted of 11 shows around the country. She also made an appearance on the distinguished "Blues Show" with Paul Jones on BBC Radio 2 where she performed the songs “Don’t Let a Good Woman Down”, “Oil and Water”, and the Blind Willie Nelson cover “The Soul of a Man”.At the time the line-up for the band was: Roger Inniss (bass), Miri Miettinen (drums) and Davide Floreno (guitar). In the fall of 2012 <mask> participated in the Finnish version of the “Strictly Come Dancing” TV show. The show was broadcast on MTV3. The album "Forbidden Fruit" was released in 2013. The songs “Joyful Misery” and ”At Least We Still Fight” were written in collaboration with Alan Darby, who has performed with Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney and wrote music for Bonnie Raitt. In 2014 <mask> released the album The Sky is Crying, which was a tribute to the music of Elmore James. This more blues-oriented record turned out to be her breakthrough album on which she proved her skills as a slide guitarist.The Canadian "Underground Blues Network" chose the album as “The Best European Blues Album of the Year” and as “The Best Tribute Album”. The British Blues Matters! magazine placed it amongst the three best international albums of the year and honoured her by placing her 2nd on “The International Solo Artist” chart. In 2015 following the release of the Live in London concert album, which was recorded at The 100 Club in London, <mask> was voted the #1 International Solo Artist by Blues Matters! magazine. She was also awarded ”The Artist of the Year” title in the Finnish Blues Awards. The Stolen Hearts album was released in 2017.The record was produced by Chris Kimsey, who has been the producer for The Rolling Stones and engineered albums for Pink Floyd, amongst others. In Finland] <mask> toured extensively with the guitarist/actor Heikki Silvennoinen in sold-out venues and performed in India for the first time. That was followed by two successful tours in England and her first "Blue Christmas" tour in Finland. European blues awards
In 2017 <mask> was voted as “The Best Guitarist of the Year” in the European Blues Awards. She also took part in ”Tähdet, Tähdet” (Stars, Stars), a competitive music entertainment TV show on Finland's MTV3. Jamming with Carlos Santana
Lyytinen performed with Carlos Santana in front of 20,000 people at Kaisaniemi, Helsinki in 2018. “My new friend represents the future – and I like the future!Erja… I call her lightning! Lightnin’ Hopkins, you know” Santana announced when inviting her on stage, thus giving her a new moniker “Lightning”. A highlight preceding the Kaisaniemi, concert was on New Year's Eve when <mask> played in front of over 80,000 people at TV channel YLE’s "New Year's Eve Concert". The concert was also broadcast nationwide in Finland. 2019: Another World and debut biography “The Blues Queen”
The Another World album was released in 2019. The album combines influences from blues, rock, pop, funk and progressive rock. Jennifer Batten, former guitarist for Michael Jackson, and Sonny Landreth, an American slide guitar virtuoso, perform on the album.The album was mixed in Texas by Chris Bell and mastered by Gavin Lursen in Los Angeles, who has also been awarded several Grammys. Later in the same year, Lyytinen performed in Canada with Downchild Blues Band, and with the actor Dan Aykroyd, who is known for his role in the movie Blues Brothers. In August she was the opening act for Tom Jones at his concerts in Naantali and Oulu, Finland. Throughout June and July ‘19, Guitar World asked their online readers for their opinions in it’s ’30 best blues guitarists in the world today’ poll. More than 60,000 votes were cast between the site's list of nominees and following the completion of the competition Lyytinen was ranked 14th. On 21 November 2019, Lyytinen was bestowed the prestigious "Savonmuan Hilima" award by the Savon Sanomat newspaper. The announcement was made on the front page of the aforementioned publication on the same day.The previous winners have included notable designers, artists, researchers, classical singers and so on coming from the Savolax area in the Eastern-part of Finland. The award carries a long tradition, but <mask> was the first recipient to represent the popular music genre. Along with the award came a trophy designed by local designer-artist Ritva-Liisa Pohjalainen. The trophy is called “The Balance” and is made from black and white glass. <mask>'s autobiography called ”Blueskuningatar” (The Blues Queen) was released in Finland in November 2019. Discography

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title: Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi

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<mask>-Arabi or, in full Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn al-ʿArabī al-Maʿāfirī al-Ishbīlī () born in Sevilla in 1076 and died in Fez in 1148) was a Muslim judge and scholar of Maliki law from al-Andalus. Like Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, Ibn al-Arabi was forced to migrate to Morocco during the reign of the Almoravids. It is reported that he was a student of Al-Ghazali. He was a master of Maliki Jurisprudence. His father was a student of Ibn Hazm. He also contributed to the spread of Ash'ari theology in Spain. A detailed biography about him was written by his contemporary Qadi Ayyad, the famous Malikite scholar and judge from Ceuta.(died 1149). Biography

<mask> Ibn al-'Arabi (born 468/1076, died 543/1148) was a "Andalusian Malikite qadi". He was born in Seville Al-Andalus, Ibn al-'Arabi's father (<mask> <mask>-'Arabi) was a high ranking statesman working for the Taifa king of Seville, al-Mu'tamid <mask>Abbad (r.1069-91). However, in 1091 when Al-Andalus was taken over by the Almoravids, Ibn al-'Arabi (now 16), and his father decided to leave for a less turbulent setting (his father also had political motivations). The two al-'Arabis travelled by ship to Egypt, and from there they turned to Jerusalem, where they stayed from 1093-1096. Al-'Arabi devoted himself to his studies, teaching, and writing. He wrote many books on several different subjects, including hadith, fiqh, usul, Qur'an studies, adab, grammar and history.Some of his works include: Book on the Arrangement of the Travel that Raised my Interests in Religions and Experiences of the Great Authorities and Eminent People by the Observer of Islam and the Various Lands. Ibn al-'Arabi also wrote The Rule of Interpretation, and Protective Guards Against Strong Objections (a source of comments that al-Ghazali made to his students) among many others of his works. Two of al-'Arabi's books (Tartib al-rohla li al-targhib fi al-millah and Qanun al-ta'wil) provided descriptions of the al-Arabi's travels, and specifically recounted religious life in the holy city of Jerusalem. These accounts are important, as they may be the only eyewitness accounts by a Muslim in Jerusalem during the Seljuq period, and they also provide a critical Muslim objective. After leaving Jerusalem in 1096, both al'-Arabis' traveled to Damascus and Baghdad to study. They settled in Baghdad and returned there after they took pilgrimage. While in Jerusalem, Ibn al-'Arabi was enticed by all of the scholars he met there, and performing the hajj became an addition in his quest for knowledge.It was only when he returned to Baghdad in 1097 that Ibn al-'Arabi finally met Imam Abū Ḥāmed al-Ghazālī, under whom Ibn al-'Arabi studied, beginning at the age of 21. Under al-Ghazali, an Islamic theologian, philosopher and Sufi mystic, Ibn al-'Arabi studied closely. As a result, Ibn al-'Arabi is said to be one of the "most important sources of information about al-Ghazali's life and his teachings". When it came to al-Ghazali's theology, Ibn al-'Arabi became a master, and was enthusiastic, but perhaps more importantly critical of his teachings. Although Ibn al-'Arabi undoubtedly respected al-Ghazali, he was not afraid to express his feelings of difference when it came to the teachings of falsafa (Islamic philosophy). After his father died in 1099 (at age 57), Ibn al-'Arabi, age 26, headed back to Seville. After being gone for 10 years studying in the Muslim east, he was an esteemed and credited scholar and teacher, as well as a main source to spread the works and teachings of al-Ghazali in the Muslim west.Ibn al-'Arabi continued to study, reflect upon, and challenge the works of al-Ghazali. For example, al-Ghazali believed that, "there is not in the sphere of possibility anything more excellent, more perfect or more complete than what God has in fact created." However Ibn al-'Arabi argues that there is a limitation of God's power. We can see this argument by Ibn al-'Arabi in some of his other works. For example, there were (and probably still are) times when judges and lawyers were/are faced with a situation where there is no legal text or scripture to help provide insight or guidance on the judicial decision. In these cases, judges and lawyers must use their best discretion to determine the rule of law. Laws of slander came into question, and defining the punishment as a right of God or a private right were debated.While Ibn al-'Arabi recognized that there are two views on whether the right is of God or a private right, ultimately he felt that the crime should largely be seen as a private right, as it is conditioned by the victim filing a petition. Ibn al-'Arabi reflected upon the nature of the soul and the study and theory of knowledge. Ibn al-'Arabi studied the Sufi argument that knowledge can only be achieved through purity of the soul, chastening of the heart, and an overall unity between the body and the heart, as well as removal from material motives. Ibn al-'Arabi argues that this is an extreme position, and believes rather that there is no connection between knowledge a person acquires and any sacred or devout acts that his soul has performed. Ibn al-'Arabi used his knowledge of the soul in his studies of law and ethics. For example, when discussing abortion, madhhabs judgments differ considerably. Malikis and Hanafis tend to take opposite positions on this issue.Malikis generally forbid induced miscarriage after conception, as this is seen to be the point at which the soul is breathed into the unborn child. While Hanafis hold that "induced miscarriage is not punishable until the 120th day of conception". Ibn al-'Arabi tried to bridge the gap between the Maliki and the Hanafi opinions by "granting greater protection rights to the embryo after ensoulment," although ultimately he did not succeed in bridging this gap. Ibn al-'Arabi wrote on many other subjects. For instance, he wrote on the mistreatment and disciplining of women. He once wrote, "The [slaves] need to be disciplined with a stick, while the [free man] will not need more than an indication. Among women and even men, there are those who will behave well only through correction (adab).Any man who knows it has to resort to discipline [his wife], although it is preferable if he abstains from it." However, it seems that Ibn al-'Arabi was more focused on trying to express "beating in a non violent way." He believed that this is the "only way allowed by the divine revelation," because the objective of beating in a non violent way was ultimately to improve the wife's behavior. Although <mask> <mask>-'Arabi may have some critics, he was generally a highly acclaimed authority on hadith, and was regarded as being trustworthy and reliable. Works
His Major books are:
Commentary on Tirmidhi's Hadith Collection (book) famously known as "'Aridhat al-Ahwazi'". Commentary on the Quran known as '"Ahkam al-Quran"'. It contains commentary on the legal rulings of the Qur'an according to the Maliki school.Al-'Awasim min al-Qawasim (العواصم من القواصم) or "Defense Against Disaster", is a history book that became famous for his strong reply against the Shia. References

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External links

Ibn Khallikan's Biographical dictionary, part 3, p. 12-15  (retrieved on 17-07-2010)
Article on <mask> <mask>-Arabi by Abdalhaqq Bewley on Dar sirr  (retrieved on 17-07-2010)
  Définition de l'innovation par le Qâdî Abû Bakr Ibn Al 'Arabî
  Critique de l'anthropomorphisme et des partisans de cette doctrine par le Qâdî Abû Bakr Ibn Al 'Arabî

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title: Jeff Kent (author)

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<mask> (born 28 July 1951) is an English academic, musician, activist and historian. Early life and education
<mask> was born on 28 July 1951 in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, England, and was educated at Hanley High School in Stoke-on-Trent. He gained an honours degree in International Relations from the University of London in 1973 and a postgraduate Certificate of Education from Crewe College of Higher Education in 1974. Career

Academic work
Kent taught History and Geography at Maryhill Comprehensive School, in Kidsgrove, from 1974 to 1975 and at Leek College from 1976 to 1980. In 1980, he became a full-time lecturer in General Studies at Stoke-on-Trent Technical College, but halved his post in 1986 to enable him to spend more time on his creative work. In 1982, he established and co-ordinated the first Flexi-Study (Open Learning) course in Staffordshire and went on to tutor in History, Geography, Ecology and Sociology. In 1991, he began lecturing in English at Stoke on Trent College and later lectured there in History, Geography and International Perspectives.From 1994 to 2010, he lectured in Writing & Publishing and Creative Writing and from 2006 to 2010 served as the college's UCU branch secretary. Writings
<mask> became a freelance author in 1972 and wrote record reviews for Hard Graft magazine. In 1983, he published his first book, The Rise And Fall of Rock, a 484-page critical rock music history, which had taken him eight years to complete. It covered over 1,800 artists and 3,000 records as well as outlining the battle between the creative and business interests in the music industry. By then, he had also written an even bigger tome, a 634-page book of pop music lists, The British Charts, which was never published. In 1987, he published Principles of Open Learning, an examination of a radical, flexible and student-centred method of education. He then wrote the preface to and an essay on The Case for Open Learning for Routes to Change: A Collection of Essays for Green Education, which was published the following year.In 1989, he published a biography of Eric Burdon, the lead singer of The Animals, entitled The Last Poet: The Story Of Eric Burdon. Kent's book used detailed material from extensive interviews with Burdon and remains the only such biography of the famous vocalist. In 1989, <mask> showed his versatility by publishing the first of his seven books on Port Vale Football Club, Back To Where We Once Belonged! : Port Vale Promotion Chronicle 1988–1989, a celebration of the club's return to the Second Division of the Football League for the first time in 32 years. His interest in Vale had started in 1956 when he saw the first-team debut of his cousin, Harry Poole, who became the club's second-longest-serving player. In 1990, Kent published the first-ever detailed history of Port Vale, entitled The Valiants' Years: The Story Of Port Vale. In researching for it, he went across the country to find archived information from past newspapers and magazines, as well as private collections, to build statistics on past seasons and players, as he also did with other books in his Port Vale series.One of his most important discoveries, which he presented in detail in The Valiants' Years, was that the club was probably founded in 1879 and not in 1876, as had long been believed. In 1991, he published Port Vale Tales: A Collection Of Stories, Anecdotes And Memories, which featured the recollections of 65 contributors closely connected with the club, including Mick Cullerton, Ken Hancock, Brian Horton, Stanley Matthews, Harry Poole, John Rudge, Phil Sproson, Roy Sproson, Ray Williams and Kent himself. In 1992, Kent contributed ten walks, as a co-writer, to 100 Walks In Staffordshire. Later that same year, he published a Port Vale Forever song book to accompany his ten-track album of the same name. It included the lyrics, chords and recording data for each song. In 1993, he published The Port Vale Record 1879–1993, a statistical history of Port Vale, cataloguing all the first team's reported season by season results, appearances, goalscorers and crowds throughout the club's entire history. Three years later, he published Port Vale Personalities: A Biographical Dictionary of Players, Officials and Supporters, which contained the biographies of 1,347 individuals (mainly footballers) involved with the club since its inception.Kent was the main author of The Mercia Manifesto: A blueprint for the future inspired by the past, which was published in 1997 by The Mercia Movement, a radical political organisation campaigning for the restoration of Mercia as an independent region. The manifesto advocated the development of a new society in the Midlands, based on communalism, organic democracy and ecological balance. In 1998, Kent returned to the world of football and published The Potteries Derbies, which outlined the story of the first-team matches between Port Vale and Stoke City. The book also described in detail all the 180 games that had thus far been contested by the two teams. <mask> was the main author of A Draft Constitution For Mercia, which was based on the principles of The Mercia Manifesto and was likewise published by The Mercia Movement, in 2001. The Movement's purpose in producing the draft constitution was to present it to a constitutional convention, which first met in the spring of that same year. Also in 2001, <mask> published the last book in his own name for ten years, The Mysterious Double Sunset.The book was the first, and remains the only, in-depth study of the extraordinary solar phenomenon, which was traditionally observed on the summer solstice from St Edward's churchyard in Leek, Staffordshire, looking at The Cloud, 6.5 miles to the northwest. The book also included details of other double sunsets discovered by Kent, against Chrome Hill, Parkhouse Hill, and Thorpe Cloud (all in Derbyshire), and two quintuple sunsets he observed against The Cloud. <mask> was the main author of The Constitution of Mercia, which was published by The Mercian Constitutional Convention in 2003 after over two years' work. It consisted of 28 Articles and numerous sub-articles and claimed to be 'the ultimate legal authority in Mercia'. The constitution offered the people of the wider Midlands a new holistic society based on organic democracy, co-operative community and ecological balance. In 2004, Kent had a poem, My Friend The Sun, published in the Poetry Now book, Heart of England 2004 and, the following year, another, Staring Down The Barrel of a Loaded Gun, published in the anthology, Animal Antics 2005. In 2011, after a long absence from the writing world, he published his seventh book on Port Vale, entitled, What If There Had Been No Port in the Vale?: Startling Port Vale Stories. The book explored fourteen crucial, and numerous minor, situations in the club's history, which might have ended up very differently and he speculated upon the consequences had they done so. The book was believed to be the first-ever published counterfactual football history. In 2013, Kent published Staffordshire's 1,000-Foot Peaks, a guide to the 65 hills of the county which reached that height, with a series of circular walks through which all the peaks could be climbed from low ground. The book was believed to be the first ever published on the subject. In 2014, he published Peak Pictures, a book of 137 selected colour pictures of unusual scenes photographed in the southern Pennines between 2012 and 2014. In 2015, Kent published Cheshire's 1,000-Foot Peaks, a guide to the 46 hills of the county reaching that height, which included nineteen circular walks through which all the peaks could be climbed from low ground.Although <mask> is primarily an author of books, over the years, he has written articles on a variety of subjects for Hard Graft, Education Now, First Hearing, NATFHE Journal, Alsager Chronicle, The Sentinel, Eric Burdon Connection Newsletter, TAG Mag, Widowinde and other publications. Editing
Although <mask> is mainly a writer, he also occasionally acts as an editor of the works of other writers. He was the editorial adviser for The Wars of the Roaches, which was written by King Doug, Lord of the Roaches, and published in 1991. The book told the story of the ultimately unsuccessful battle of Doug Moller and his wife, Anne, to survive as Britain's last cave dwellers at Rockhall Cottage, high in the Staffordshire Moorlands. <mask> was a co-editor of The Man Who Sank The Titanic? : The Life And Times of Captain Edward J. Smith, which was written by Gary Cooper and published in 1992. The book was the first-ever biography of the captain of the Titanic.<mask> was the editor of The Mercia Manifesto: A blueprint for the future inspired by the past, which was published by The Mercia Movement in 1997. In 2000, he released his ecological concept album, Only One World, and made rare live appearances to promote it. Both his solo works were released on Witan Records. His musical style has most frequently been described as folk-rock, in a similar vein to Strawbs. From 2008 to 2013, <mask> played percussion in the Glorishears of Brummagem morris dance band and claimed to have invented a new technique of playing the drum tambourine, strapped over a shoulder, with a timpani mallet and a drumstick, to create bass drum and rim shot snare drum-type sounds. In 2013, <mask> co-founded Mercia Morris, in which he played various pieces of percussion strapped to his body, and he became the side's music co-ordinator. Instrumental pieces of music from Kent's four albums were used to create the soundtrack of the film, Pictures From The Potteries, which was released in 2014.Films
<mask> was the historical adviser to the video history of Port Vale, entitled Up The Vale!, which was produced and released by Action Sports International in 1998. The video documented the story of Port Vale from its origins to the then present day. <mask> was also the historical adviser to a second history of the club, Port Vale Football Club Millennium Documentary, which was produced and released by Cavsport in 2000. Like the earlier video, it charted the club's history from its formation to the then present day. In 2014, he directed Pictures From The Potteries, a film showing the

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