texts: 61*. He frequently works on films by Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner.He also appeared in many of these films. <mask> has earned seven Academy Award nominations, a Tony Award and a Grammy Award for his work on the musical Hairspray, and an Emmy Award for co-writing Billy Crystal's Academy Award performances. He has also been Grammy-nominated for his arrangements for Harry Connick Jr.'s recordings When Harry Met Sally... and We Are in Love as well as Hairspray and Smash and Emmy-nominated for his work on Saturday Night Live and Smash. In 2002, he was honored with the "Outstanding Achievement in Music-In-Film" award at The Hollywood Film Festival, and in 2007 he was honored with ASCAP's Henry Mancini Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements and contributions to the music of film and television. He is the first recipient of the Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Comedy Feature Film. On Saturday Night Live, <mask> portrayed Skip St. Thomas, the accompanying pianist for The Sweeney Sisters, a singing duo played by Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks, which earned him an Emmy nomination. He began his professional relationships with Billy Crystal and Martin Short during his tenure at Saturday Night Live.He wrote and sang the song "Yes" for his agent's film Finding Kraftland. He co-wrote (with partner Scott Wittman) songs for Neil Patrick Harris when Harris hosted the 63rd Tony Awards (2009) and the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards (2009), and was Emmy-nominated for musical directing and co-writing the 82nd Academy Awards (2010). Shaiman co-produced and co-wrote cuts on Mariah Carey's 2010 Christmas album Merry Christmas II You. <mask> & Wittman wrote original songs for the musical-based television show

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texts: for NBC, Smash, and served as executive producers. For their song "Let Me Be Your Star," Shaiman and co-lyricist Wittman were nominated for both an Emmy Award and a Grammy Award, and as executive producers they were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical. Shaiman co-wrote Billy Crystal's farewell to Jay Leno which featured Carol Burnett and Oprah Winfrey among others. He collaborated on the final performances for Johnny Carson's Tonight Show (with Bette Midler), Conan O'Brien's Late Night (with Nathan Lane), both of Jay Leno's final Tonight Show broadcasts, and Nathan Lane's farewell to David Letterman called "Dead Inside."Shaiman & Wittman were honored on April 28, 2014, by The New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Shaiman produced Bette Midler's CD It's the Girls, which had the highest debut of Midler's recording career on the Billboard Album charts. Shaiman appeared on The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, having co-created Martin Short and Maya Rudolph's salute to musical sketch characters. Jennifer Hudson sang <mask> & Wittman's Smash song "I Can't Let Go" at the 87th Academy Awards, which they revised to fit the In Memoriam section. Shaiman & Wittman's latest Broadway musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ran on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, after finishing a four-year run on London's West End at The Royal Drury Lane Theater. Shaiman was Tony-nominated for his orchestrations for their previous Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can. In 2021, Shaiman & Wittman wrote a song titled "Save the City" for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in-universe Broadway production titled Rogers: The Musical featured in the first


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 episode of Hawkeye, "Never Meet Your Heroes".It was released as a single on November 24, the day the episode became available on Disney+. Shaiman & Wittman are currently writing a new musical version of Some Like It Hot, coming to Broadway in 2022 with a book by Amber Ruffin and Matthew Lopez. Activism
In 2008, a controversy erupted nationwide when California Musical Theatre's then artistic director Scott Eckern resigned over the revelation of his personal donation of $1000 to a political campaign to support California Proposition 8, which was an amendment to change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California. After the amendment was passed, donor information became public. <mask> and other Broadway artists who had previously worked with the director became critical and called for a boycott of the theatre by all gay artists and performers, ending in the director's resignation days later. To protest the passage of California Proposition 8 in November 2008, Shaiman wrote a satiric mini-musical called Prop 8 — The Musical. The 3-minute video was distributed on the internet at FunnyOrDie.com, beginning on December 3, 2008.It was written and produced in just a few days. The cast includes Jack Black (who plays Jesus), Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Margaret Cho, and Rashida Jones. <mask> plays the piano and appears briefly in the video. It received 1.2 million internet hits in its first day. Filmography

Films

Television

Theatre

Broadway
Peter Allen: Up in One (1979)
Bette! Divine Madness (1980)
André De Shields' Haarlem Nocturne (1984)
Leader of the Pack (1985)
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Patti LuPone on Broadway (1995)
Hairspray  †# (2002)
The Odd Couple (2005)
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (2006)
Catch Me If You Can † (2009)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2017)
†  = Tony nominee†# = Tony winner

West End
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013)

Off-Broadway
Dementos - The Production Company
Livin' Dolls - Manhattan Theatre Club
Legends -  Ahmanson Theatre
The Sound of Muzak - Club 82
Trilogy of Terror - Club 57
Non Pasquale - Delacorte Theatre

Internet
Prop 8 - The Musical (2008) (composer, lyricist, pianist) - 2009 "Webby" winner for Best Comedy: Short or Individual Episode
Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Celebration for the Film and TV Music Community ("The End Titles" song) † (2020)
† = Emmy nominee

Discography

Mariah Carey
Merry Christmas II You

Bette Midler
Thighs and Whispers
Mud Will Be Flung Tonight
Some People's Lives
Experience the Divine
Bette
Bathhouse Betty
It's the Girls! Harry Connick, Jr.
We Are in Love †
† = Grammy nominee

Peter Allen
Making Every Moment Count

Original Broadway cast recordings
Hairspray †#
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
 Catch Me If You Can
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical (West End musical)
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical (Broadway musical)
† = Grammy nominee†# = Grammy winner

Soundtracks
The Addams Family
The Addams Family Values
Beaches
When Harry Met Sally... †
 ‘’Heart and Souls’’
For the Boys
City Slickers
A Few Good Men
Sister Act
Sleepless in Seattle
North
The American President
The Out-of-Towners
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
The Story of Us
Alex & Emma
Rumor Has It…
Hairspray  †
The Bucket List
Smash Season One †
Smash Season Two


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Vice-Admiral <mask>  (29 May 1874 – 27 May 1949) was a British Royal Navy officer. Biography
<mask> was born in New Zealand and educated there at Christ's College. In 1888 he joined the Royal Navy, being promoted to Lieutenant in 1896. He served in the South African war from 1899 to 1900 and the Ogaden Somali expedition from 1900-1901. In March 1902 he was appointed to serve at the Aboukir, deployed at the Mediterranean station. He was promoted to the rank of Commander in 1906, and was navigating commander of the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert between 1911 and 1914. He became captain in 1913 and at the Naval Review of July 1914 served as master of the fleet.Battle of Jutland account
He came to the attention of the public in the aftermath of the Battle of Jutland; after World War I was over, the Admiralty decided to commission an official account of the battle, and <mask> was chosen to do this. The Harper Record was commissioned by First Sea Lord Rosslyn Wemyss and was completed during his term of office in 1919. <mask>, who was Director of Navigation, was to 'prepare a record, with plans, showing in chronological order what actually occurred in the battle'. The account was to be based solely on the written records available at the Admiralty, without commentary on the merits of what had taken place. An official report had by now been long expected by the public; questions had been asked in Parliament about when it would be completed. The First Lord, Walter Long advised the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 29 October 1919 that the record would be printed once it was ready. It was not finally published until 1927, the matter being raised in

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 He was naval aide de camp to King George V from 1923 to 1924, becoming Rear-Admiral in August 1924.In 1926 he was advised that he would probably be appointed commander of a dockyard, but the newly appointed Controller of the Navy, Chatfield, decided against the appointment. He was placed on the retired list in February 1927, though promoted to Vice Admiral in retirement in 1929. From 1934 to 1946 he was nautical assessor to the House of Lords

After his retirement, <mask> published another account of the battle, The truth about Jutland, in his own name. In this he commented about the battlecruiser engagement commanded by Beatty "it is an indisputable fact that, in the first phase of this battle, a British squadron, greatly superior in numbers and gun-power, not only failed to defeat a weaker enemy who made no effort to avoid action, but, in the space of 50 minutes suffered what can only be described as a partial defeat." <mask> died 27 May 1949 and the funeral took place at All Saint's church, Hawkhurst, Kent. His son, also <mask>, also became a commander in the Royal Navy. Filmography

Film

References
 Janus biography and index to collected papers

Publications
 "The Truth About Jutland" (1927)
 "The Riddle of Jutland" (1934) (with Langhorne Gibson)
 "The Royal Navy at War" (1941)

External links

 The Papers of Vice-Admiral <mask> held at Churchill Archives Centre

1874 births
1949 deaths
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Royal Navy admirals
Royal Navy officers of World War I
Royal Navy personnel of the Second Boer War
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<mask> (; born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He wrote or co-wrote screenplays for four Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has directed 19 feature films, including his directing debut, the crime drama Blue Collar (co-written with his brother, <mask>), the crime drama Hardcore (a loosely autobiographical film also written by Schrader), the horror remake Cat People (1982), the crime drama American Gigolo (1980), the biographical drama Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), the true life biopic Patty Hearst (1988), the cult film Light Sleeper (1992), the drama Affliction (1997), the biographical film Auto Focus (2002), the erotic dramatic thriller The Canyons (2013), the dramatic thriller First Reformed (2017), which earned him his first Academy Award nomination, and  the crime drama The Card Counter (2021). Upbringing and critical writing
<mask> was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Joan (née Fisher) and Charles A<mask>, an executive. <mask>'s family attended the Calvinist Christian Reformed Church. <mask>'s mother was of Dutch descent, the daughter of emigrants from Friesland, while Schrader's paternal grandfather was from a German family that had come to the U.S. through Canada. His early life was based upon the religion's strict principles and parental education.He did not see a film until he was seventeen years old, when he was able to sneak away from home. In an interview he stated that The Absent-Minded Professor was the first film he saw. In his own words, he was "very unimpressed" by it, while Wild in the Country, which he saw some time later, had quite some effect on him. Schrader attributes his intellectual rather than emotional approach towards movies and movie-making to his having no adolescent movie memories. Schrader earned his B.A. in philosophy with a

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 minor in theology from Calvin College. He then earned an M.A.in film studies at the UCLA Film School upon the recommendation of <mask>. With Kael as his mentor, he became a film critic, writing for the Los Angeles Free Press and later for Cinema magazine. His book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, which examines the similarities between Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, and Carl Theodor Dreyer, was published in 1972. The endings of his films American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, and The Card Counter bear obvious resemblance to that of Bresson's 1959 film Pickpocket. His essay Notes on Film Noir from the same year has become a much-cited source in literature on film. The September–October 2006 issue of Film Comment magazine published his essay Canon Fodder, which attempted to establish criteria for judging film masterworks. Other film-makers who made a lasting impression on Schrader are John Ford, Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Alfred Hitchcock, and Sam Peckinpah.Renoir's The Rules of the Game he called the "quintessential movie" which represents "all of the cinema". <mask> continues to share his impressions of contemporary films and filmmakers on Facebook, in addition to commentary on current events. His posts are notoriously provocative, at times causing public relations issues for his own films. Film career
In 1974, <mask> and his brother Leonard co-wrote The Yakuza, a film set in the Japanese crime world. The script became the subject of a bidding war, eventually selling for $325,000. The film was directed by Sydney Pollack and starred Robert Mitchum. Robert Towne, best known for Chinatown, also received a credit for his rewrite.Although The Yakuza failed commercially, it brought <mask> to the attention of the new generation of Hollywood directors. In 1975, he wrote the script for Obsession for Brian De Palma. <mask> wrote an early draft of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), but

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texts: Lucas served as executive producers. <mask> also directed Patty Hearst (1988), about the kidnapping and transformation of the Hearst Corporation heiress. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1990s work included the travelers-in-Venice tale The Comfort of Strangers (1990), adapted by Harold Pinter from the Ian McEwan novel, and Light Sleeper (1992), a sympathetic study of a drug dealer vying for a normal life. In 2005 Schrader described Light Sleeper as his "most personal" film. In 1997 he made Touch (1997), based on an Elmore Leonard novel about a young man seemingly able to cure the sick by the laying on of hands.In 1998, <mask> won critical acclaim for the drama Affliction. The film tells the story of a troubled small town policeman (Nick Nolte) who becomes obsessed with solving the mystery behind a fatal hunting accident. <mask>'s script was based on the novel by Russell Banks. The film was nominated for multiple awards including two Academy Awards for acting (for Nolte and James Coburn). The same year, <mask> received the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award. In 1999, <mask> received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America. In 2002, he directed the acclaimed biopic Auto Focus, based on the life and murder of Hogan's Heroes actor Bob Crane.In 2003, <mask> made entertainment headlines after being fired from The Exorcist: Dominion, a prequel film to the horror classic The Exorcist from 1973. The film's production companies Morgan Creek Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures greatly disliked the film <mask> had made. Director Renny Harlin was hired to then re-shoot nearly the entire film, which was released as Exorcist: The Beginning on August 20, 2004 to disastrously negative reviews and embarrassing box office receipts. Warner Bros. and Morgan Creek put over $80 million into the endeavor and Harlin's film only made

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texts: back $41 million domestically. <mask>'s version of the film eventually premiered at the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film on March 18, 2005 as Exorcist: The Original Prequel. Due to extreme interest in Schrader's version from critics and cinephiles alike, Warner Bros. agreed to give the film a limited theatrical release later that year under the title Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist. The film was only shown on 110 screens around the United States and made just $251,000.The critics liked <mask>'s version much better than Harlin's. However, <mask>'s film ultimately met with a generally negative reaction. After that, Schrader filmed The Walker (2007), starring Woody Harrelson as a male escort caught up in a political murder enquiry, and the Israeli-set Adam Resurrected (2008), which stars Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. <mask> headed the International Jury of the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival, and in 2011 became a jury member for the ongoing Filmaka short film contest. On July 2, 2009, <mask> was awarded the inaugural Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriting award at the ScreenLit Festival in Nottingham, England. Several of his films were shown at the festival, including Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, which followed the presentation of the award by director Shane Meadows. After five years of trying and failing to find funding to make feature films, Schrader returned with The Canyons (2013) an erotic dramatic thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan and adult-film star James Deen.The film gained notability as it was one of the first films to use the website Kickstarter to crowd-source its funding. <mask> also used the website Let It Cast to have unknown actors submit their audition tapes over the internet. American Apparel stepped in to provide some wardrobe for the film. The film gained media coverage due to Lohan's notorious on-set behavior, as well as the film's unusual

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 production route. The film was ultimately made for just $250,000 and had a limited theatrical release from IFC Films on August 2, 2013. The film was poorly received by general critics and audiences. The film only made $56,000 in theaters but found later success when released on various Video on Demand platforms.In 2014, Schrader directed The Dying of the Light, an espionage thriller starring Nicolas Cage as a government agent suffering from a deadly disease, Anton Yelchin and Irène Jacob. In post-production <mask> was denied final cut by the film's producers. The film was negatively received by many film critics and was a box-office bomb. Schrader later recut Dying of the Light into the separate, more experimental work Dark, which received more positive reviews. <mask>'s dramatic thriller First Reformed, starring Ethan Hawke, premiered at the 2017 Venice Film Festival and received critical acclaim. <mask> received his first Academy Award nomination for the film in the category Best Original Screenplay. In 2021, <mask> directed the crime drama film The Card Counter, starring Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish.The film also premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival and was widely lauded by critics. Theatre career
<mask> has written two stage plays, Berlinale and Cleopatra Club. The latter saw its premiere at the Powerhouse Theater in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1995 and its foreign language debut in Vienna in 2011. Themes
A recurring theme in <mask>'s films is the protagonist on a self-destructive path, or undertaking actions which work against himself, deliberately or subconsciously. The finale often bears an element of redemption, preceded by a painful sacrifice or cathartic act of violence. <mask> has repeatedly referred to Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, The Canyons and The Walker as "a man in a room" stories. The protagonist in each film changes from an angry, then narcissistic, later anxious character, to a


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 person who hides behind a mask of superficiality.Although many of his films or scripts are based on real-life biographies (Raging Bull, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Patty Hearst, Auto Focus), Schrader confessed having problems with biographical films due to their altering of actual events, which he tried to prevent by imposing structures and stylization. Personal life
Schrader battled a severe cocaine addiction that ruined his first marriage to art director Jeannine Oppewall. He then moved from Los Angeles to Japan in hopes of getting his life on track, finally quitting drugs around 1990. His second marriage is to actress Mary Beth Hurt, who has appeared in smaller roles in a variety of his films. In 2012, Schrader participated in the Sight & Sound film polls of that year. Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select ten films of their choice. Schrader gave the following ten in alphabetical order.Citizen Kane (1941)
 The Conformist (1970)
 In the Mood for Love (2000)
 The Lady Eve (1941)
 Orpheus (1950)
 Pickpocket (1959)
 The Rules of the Game (1939)
 Tokyo Story (1953)
 Vertigo (1958)
 The Wild Bunch (1969)

<mask> was raised as a Calvinist but became an Episcopalian after the birth of his children. His films frequently feature religious themes. Notes on Film Noir, Film Comment, Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 1972. External links

 Interview with <mask> from 1998 on 'Bringing Out the Dead' and his writing techniques by Mikael Colville-Andersen. 1946 births
American film critics
American male non-fiction writers
American male screenwriters
American people of Dutch descent
American people of German descent
AFI Conservatory alumni
Calvin University alumni
Christians from Michigan
English-language film directors
Film directors from Michigan
German-language film directors
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Screenwriters from Michigan
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
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<mask> (born 30 January 1974; known as <mask> for work) is a British screenwriter, television, film and documentary producer and the founder of Instinct Productions, a television production company. She was formerly a journalist and associate editor of The New Statesman, a British political and cultural magazine, and served as the European editor-at-large for the American magazine Vanity Fair. Early life and education
Born at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, England, <mask> is the eldest child of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and financier Sir <mask> (1933–1997). Her mother, from an aristocratic Anglo−Irish family, is the daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry. <mask>'s father was the son of a luxury hotel tycoon and former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Major <mask>, who was a member of the <mask> family of German−Jewish descent. Her paternal grandmother was French. <mask>'s parents were married to different partners at the time of her birth, but they married each other in 1978 in order to legitimize their children.She has two younger brothers, Zac <mask> and <mask>, and five paternal and three maternal half-siblings, including Robin Birley and India Jane Birley. <mask> grew up at Ormeley Lodge and attended the Old Vicarage preparatory school, then Francis Holland Girls School. From age 10 to 17, she was an equestrian in London. In 1993, <mask> enrolled at the University of Bristol and studied English, but she dropped out when she married Imran Khan in 1995. She eventually completed her bachelor's degree in March 2002 with upper second-class honours. She later studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies and was awarded a master of arts degree in Middle Eastern Studies, focusing on Modern Trends

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In 2015, <mask> Khan founded Instinct Productions, a London-based content company specializing in television, documentaries and film with former Princess Productions managing director, Henrietta Conrad. Through Instinct Productions, Khan was the executive producer for the Emmy-nominated six-part documentary series The Clinton Affair, alongside Alex Gibney and Emmy-winning director Blair Foster, for the A&E Network. She was the executive producer of Emmy-nominated The Case Against Adnan Syed, a TV documentary series for Sky Atlantic and HBO about the Adnan Syed case, which inspired the popular 'Serial' podcast which Academy Award nominee Amy Berg ("Deliver Us from Evil") directed. She was a producer on the Golden Globes nominated Impeachment, Ryan Patrick Murphy's FX American Crime Story Season Three, a 10 part drama series about the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. Khan wrote and produced What's Love Got to Do With It?, a cross-cultural romantic comedy for Working Title Films and Studio Canal, starring Lily James and Emma Thompson due to air in 2022. Previously, she was the executive producer for the BAFTA nominated documentary film We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks by Alex Gibney, released in 2013. She was also the co-executive producer for the documentary films Unmanned: America's Drone Wars (released in 2013) and Making A Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA (released in 2016), both directed by Robert Greenwald.She co-produced the play Drones, Baby, Drones at the Arcola Theatre, directed by Nicolas Kent and Mehmet Ergen, that premiered in November 2016.Khan is also the executive producer of a TV drama series about the Rothschild banking dynasty written by Julian


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 Fellowes. She was also a contributor to the fifth season of the historical drama series The Crown, which would depict the final years of Diana, Princess of Wales; however, she asked for her contributions to be removed as she felt the "storyline would not necessarily be told as respectfully or compassionately" as she had hoped. Journalism career
Although <mask> had written articles when she lived in Pakistan, she started contributing op-eds to the United Kingdom's newspapers and magazines including The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Evening Standard and The Observer. In 2008, she was granted an exclusive interview with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the eve of the elections for The Independent. She was a Sunday Telegraph columnist from 21 October 2007 to 27 January 2008. She was a feature writer and a contributing editor for British Vogue from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, she was appointed Vanity Fair'''s new European editor-at-large.She was also associate editor at The Independent. In April 2011, she guest-edited the New Statesman and themed the issue around freedom of speech. She interviewed the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and included contributions from Russell Brand, Tim Robbins, Simon Pegg, Oliver Stone, Tony Benn, and Julian Assange, with cover art by Anish Kapoor and Damien Hirst. According to Nick Cohen in The Observer, "<mask> Khan was by a country mile the best editor of the New Statesman that the journal has had since the mid-1970s". The magazine issue included "an unexpected scoop" from Hugh Grant who went undercover to hack Paul McMullan, a former News of the World journalist, who had been involved in hacking as a reporter. In November 2011, she joined as an associate editor of the New Statesman. Fashion
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During her marriage, <mask> established the Jemima Khan Afghan Refugee Appeal to provide tents, clothing, food, and healthcare for Afghan refugees at Jalozai camp in Peshawar. She became an Ambassador for UNICEF UK in 2001, and made field trips to Kenya, Romania, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the last of which she later helped victims of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake by raising emergency funds.She has promoted UNICEF's Breastfeeding Manifesto, Growing Up Alone and End Child Exploitation campaigns in the UK. In 2003, she visited Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza to promote the charity Hope and Optimism for Palestinians in the Next Generation (HOPING). She also supports the Soil Association and the HOPING foundation for Palestinian refugee children. Politics and social action
In addition to her charitable work, <mask> campaigns for various social and political causes. She has campaigned against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as for freedom of information; she attended Assange's extradition hearings and gave a speech at the Stop the War Coalition's rally in defence of Wikileaks alongside Tony Benn and Tariq Ali. Along with John Pilger and Ken Loach, she was part of the six-member group in Westminster Magistrates Court

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 willing to post bail for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010. However, she later changed her mind about Assange, questioning his unwillingness to answer the sexual misconduct allegations which led to his arrest and what she described as his demand for "cultish devotion" from his supporters.In 2014, she publicly backed the Hacked Off campaign group which advocates reform of British press regulation. In August 2014, she was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. On 3 November 2018, <mask> criticised the fact that the Government of Pakistan was considering putting the Christian woman, Asia Bibi, on the exit control list despite the fact that she was acquitted by the Supreme Court, in order to compromise with the Islamist political party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan. Personal life
In 1995, <mask> married Imran Khan, a cricketer (and future Prime Minister of Pakistan), with whom she had two sons. The couple divorced in 2004. <mask> was a close friend of Diana, Princess of Wales, who visited her in Lahore in 1996. On 29 December 2000, <mask> and her family were on a British Airways jet to Kenya which was temporarily knocked off course and dived thousands of feet after a mentally ill passenger tried to seize controls in the cockpit.Her mother later said, "Jemima was frightened of flying even before the incident; she's petrified [now]". In 2002, she was listed at number 18 with £20m on the Evening Standard's young millionaires list. Following her divorce in 2004, she returned to London and later became involved in a romantic relationship with Hugh Grant. A 2005 article in the Evening Standard

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 noted that "<mask>'s profile" changed from "high during her first marriage" to "soaring since she became involved with Hugh Grant". Her relationship was scrutinised extensively by the tabloids, but a 2005 survey of London visitors favoured them as "the celebrity couple people would most like to show them round London". In February 2007, Grant announced that the couple had "decided to split amicably". Grant's spokesman added that he "has nothing but positive things to say about Jemima."In September 2013, The Daily Telegraph reported that she was dating British activist and actor Russell Brand. In September 2014, she and Brand separated.Eizabeth Beynon "No Khan do: <mask> and Russell Brand ‘split after a year’", The Sunday Times, 21 September 2014

Marriage to Imran Khan
On 16 May 1995, <mask> and Imran Khan were married in a Nikah ceremony in Paris. They also had a civil ceremony on 21 June 1995 at the Richmond Register Office, followed by a midsummer ball at Ormeley Lodge. A few months before her wedding, she converted to Islam, citing the writings of Muhammad Asad, Charles le Gai Eaton and Alija Izetbegović as her influences. After her marriage to Khan, she relocated to his hometown, Lahore, Pakistan, where she learned to speak Urdu and also wore traditional Pakistani clothes. She wrote in a 2008 article for The Times'' that she "over-conformed in [her] eagerness to be accepted" into the "new and radically different culture" of Pakistan. <mask> stated that prior to her conversion to Islam she was technically Anglican but "was made familiar with Jewish traditions", since her paternal grandfather <mask> was German Jewish.During her marriage, her Jewish heritage was used by Khan's political opponents to question their credibility in

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 Pakistani politics, especially concerning accusations that they supported the Jewish lobby. <mask> has two sons from her marriage to Khan: Sulaiman Isa (born 1996) and Kasim (born 1999). In 1999, she was charged in Pakistan with illegally exporting Islamic era antique tiles. She said that the charge was a fabrication to harass and damage her husband, but nevertheless left Pakistan to stay with her mother for fear of incarceration. After General Pervez Musharraf overthrew elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a coup d'état in 1999, the Ministry of Culture and Archaeology verified the tiles were not antiques, and the court dropped the charges, allowing her to return to Lahore. <mask> supported her husband as he became more involved in his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. On 22 June 2004, it was announced that the couple had divorced ending the nine-year marriage because it was "difficult for Jemima to adapt to the political life of Imran Khan in Pakistan".The marriage ended amicably. Khan has said the six months leading to the divorce and the six months after were the hardest year of his life. After the divorce, <mask> returned to Britain with the former couple's two sons. According to the divorce settlement, Khan's boys visit him in Pakistan during their school holidays, and when he comes to London to see them he stays with his former mother-in-law, Lady Annabel <mask>. According to <mask> <mask>, she and Khan remain on good terms. While she was married, she was described as being shy, but also modest, stylish and levelheaded. <mask> retained "Khan" as her family name until December 2014, when Imran Khan married news anchor Reham Khan, but she has continued to be credited as <mask> Khan on work projects.References

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<mask> (born October 6, 1959) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for , serving since 2005. The district, numbered as the 27th district from 2005 to 2013, includes Buffalo and Niagara Falls. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and is a member of several congressional committees and caucuses. <mask> was born and raised in Buffalo, and graduated from college in Buffalo, later obtaining graduate degrees from Buffalo State College and Harvard University. Self-described as both an independent and conservative Democrat, <mask> is also considered a centrist. He supports the strengthening of Social Security, and has been a proponent for a public option for health insurance. He further supports national and regional economic development.Previously anti-abortion, <mask> now supports abortion rights. He has also supported efforts for peace in many areas of the world, and has been actively involved in the Northern Ireland peace process. Early life, education, and career

<mask> was born on October 6, 1959, in Buffalo, New York. A native of South Buffalo, <mask> served on the Buffalo Common Council (city council) from 1988 to 1993, representing the South District. <mask>'s grandparents were from Ireland. In 1993, during his final year on the Council, <mask> was rated "Buffalo's Best Lawmaker" in a 1993 Buffalo News Survey of Western New York business and community leaders. Responding to the survey were 158 business, community, and government leaders in Western New York.<mask> earned the highest rating of any political leader, with a 3.81 out of a possible score of 5. The Buffalo News wrote of <mask>: "During his 5 1/2 years on the Council, he has earned a reputation as a thoughtful, soft-spoken law-maker who has paid attention to both district and citywide concerns." One community leader said, "<mask> is a very bright, responsible public official", while a government leader said of <mask>, "The best Councilman in Buffalo. Has great vision." <mask> graduated from Buffalo State College with a B.A. in political science in 1984. He received an M.A.in history from Buffalo State College in 1995, and an M.P.A. from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy

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2012

Jack Quinn, a moderate Republican who had represented the heavily Democratic 27th since 1993, unexpectedly announced his retirement in 2004. In April 2004, <mask> entered the race, and narrowly defeated then-Erie County Comptroller Nancy Naples. Even after redistricting following the 2000 census, the district was made slightly friendlier for Quinn (in part, by adding mostly rural Chautauqua County), but was still at the time the most Democratic district in the country represented by a Republican.The district has since reverted to form, and <mask> was reelected three times without serious difficulty, never receiving less than 60% of the vote. He easily dispatched his 2008 and 2010 opponents even after they posted six-figure fundraising numbers. In 2006 and 2008, <mask> garnered more than 70% of the vote. For his first four terms, <mask> represented the southern two-thirds of Buffalo, as well as Chautauqua County. After the 2010 census, his district was renumbered as the 26th, and a special master redrew it to be much more compact and Democratic. He picked up the rest of Buffalo, as well as several inner-ring suburbs that used to be in the territory of Louise Slaughter, while losing Chautauqua County to its traditional Southern Tier district. He also picked up a large slice of Niagara County, including all of North Tonawanda and Niagara Falls.<mask> has received financial contributions for his campaigns from many business executives in Western New York throughout his tenure in Congress. In 2012, his reelection committee raised more than $1,000,000, with approximately 2/3 coming from individual donors, representing major businesses in Western New York. Tenure

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 21st Century. <mask> received an "A+" on the 2007 Congressional Scorecard on middle-class issues from the Drum Major Institute, which describes itself as "providing the ideas that fuel the progressive movement." Several media outlets named <mask> as one of the leading candidates to succeed Hillary Clinton in the United States Senate after she became Secretary of State in an Obama administration. He was one of six candidates on New York Governor David Paterson's "short list" for the position; a WKBW-TV poll showed 75% of respondents on the station's website would support <mask>'s nomination. In the end, Paterson appointed Representative Kirsten Gillibrand. On January 31, 2009, <mask> led a delegation of Western New York elected leaders in welcoming Gillibrand to the region, moderating an economic roundtable discussion held at the Bioinformatics Center of Excellence, on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.In December 2008, after only two terms in the House, <mask> secured a spot on the United States House Committee on Ways and Means, considered one of the most important and powerful committees in Congress due to its wide jurisdiction. <mask> was subsequently appointed to serve on the Ways and Means Committee's subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures and its subcommittee on Oversight. After the GOP takeover of the House following the 2010 elections, <mask> left the Ways and Means Committee (while maintaining a right to return) and became a member of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the United States House Committee on Homeland Security. On the latter, <mask> quickly rose to the position of Ranking Member of the United States House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. Committee assignments

Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-Proliferation, and Trade
Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats
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Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security
Subcommittee on Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence, Ranking Member
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Ad Hoc Committee on Irish Affairs

Caucus memberships
Co-chair, Revitalizing Older Cities Task Force
Former co-chair, member, Great Lakes Task Force
Former co-chair, member, House Cancer Caucus
Former co-chair, Historic Preservation Caucus
Former co-chair, member, Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition
Former co-chair, Northern Border Caucus
Member, New Democrat Coalition
Member, House Steel Caucus
Member, China Caucus
Member, Arts Caucus
Medicare for All Caucus
Congressional Arts Caucus
Afterschool Caucuses
Blue Collar Caucus

Political positions

Social Security
On a previous policy position from his website, <mask> said: "For too long, the Social Security Administration has under-funded and under-staffed hearing offices in Western New York ... Citizens who have contributed to the Social Security system throughout their lives should have proper customer service when their benefits come due." In 2010, <mask> and many other congressional members sent President Barack Obama a letter, encouraging him to keep Social Security and make it stronger, saying: "We write today to express our strong support for Social Security and our view that it should be strengthened. We oppose any cuts to Social Security benefits, including raising the retirement age.We also oppose any effort to privatize Social Security, in whole or in part ... Cutting Social Security benefits beyond the already scheduled increase in the retirement age from 65 to 67 would create even more needless hardship for millions of vulnerable Americans." This was in response to Obama giving the task of cutting government spending to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform on October 15, 2010. The letter also stressed that Social Security is "prohibited by law from adding to the national budget deficit". <mask> opposes privatizing Social Security. He "support[s] full funding for the Social Security Administration to process checks on time; fight against waste, fraud, and abuse; and combat unacceptable claims backlogs". His district includes nearly 150,000 senior citizens.<mask> introduced related legislation, House Resolution (HR)

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While serving in the New York State Assembly from 1999 to 2004, <mask> consistently voted anti-abortion. Since running for Congress in 2004, <mask> identifies himself as pro-choice. In 2006, <mask> was given a rating of 9% by the NRLC, which indicates a pro-choice stance. <mask> received a score of 100% (a perfect score) from Planned Parenthood in 2012, and from NARAL Pro-Choice America in 2011. Health care
<mask> voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as "ObamaCare".In June 2012, <mask> said he believed that health care providers will have to embrace "Accountable Care Organizations, comparative effectiveness research — which studies various treatments to determine what works best — and other changes". He believed that this should have been done decades ago. On his congressional website, <mask> has stated that "there is no question that [the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act] was needed". He added that it is a beginning of health care reform in the United States. <mask> strongly believes in a national health care program, with a "public option", whereby the government provides health insurance that would compete with other businesses' plans. A letter <mask> signed from a group of representatives to Senator Harry Reid, then the Senate Majority Leader, stated: "As the Senate continues to work on health reform legislation, we strongly urge you to consider including a public option." The American Public Health Association gave <mask> a perfect rating of 100% in 2009.Stimulus spending
It was reported that <mask> was "proposing something unprecedented in this era of $1.3 trillion annual deficits: a $1.25 trillion, five-year plan to rebuild the nation's roads, bridges, railroads, ports, and airports". <mask>'s website gives the

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 cost of these endeavors as $1.2 trillion. The bill, the Nation Building Here at Home Act, based on research by the New America Foundation, would cost significantly more than Obama's $787 billion stimulus package. <mask> said that he wants to rebuild the US, "as we've rebuilt other countries — Iraq and Afghanistan — in recent years". He also said that it is not a stimulus bill, but a "nation-building bill". Education
<mask> is a supporter of education, including early education through higher education. He has said, "Every child has a right to a quality education."Ensuring that young people have a quality early education, and that legislators are supportive of education for individuals in primary, elementary, secondary, and higher educational institutions, are among <mask>'s aims. He is a proponent of congressional support for measures that increase student achievement, but that also reward success, rather than punish failure, as the No Child Left Behind Act has done. <mask> further believes that financial barriers to education should not hinder anyone from pursuing higher education. Student loan interest rates
<mask> supports maintaining lower interest rates on loans incurred by college and university students. He co-sponsored two bills — H.R. 3826, and H.R. 4816 — in efforts to extend the period of time in maintaining the reduced 3.4% interest rate on student loans.In 2007, <mask> supported The College Cost Reduction and Access Act, a bill passed into law that included the reduced 3.4% interest rate on subsidized Stafford student loans through the end of the 2012 academic year. Personal life
<mask> resides in South Buffalo. He has two adult children, Maeve and John. References

External links

Congressman <mask> official U.S. House website
<mask> for Congress

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Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
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<mask><mask> (born in 1962) is the George & Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and Professor of Economics at Ball State University. Early life and military career
<mask> graduated from Langley High School in McLean, Virginia and the Virginia Military Institute. He served as an active duty infantry officer with the 26th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Regiment and Division Tactical and Assault Command Posts of the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized). He left active duty as a captain and served as a reserve officer, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Major General <mask>, USAF is his brother. Academic career
In 1998, he received a Ph.D. from University of Tennessee. <mask> held academic positions at the University of Tennessee, Marshall University and the Air Force Institute of Technology.Appalachian coal and environment
<mask> authored several studies of the coal industry and the impact of federal environmental policy on coal production and the West Virginia economy. <mask> and two other co-authors developed a clean water financing plan for West Virginia which ultimately became the Special Reclamation Fund. This fund was financed by a combination of a 7 cent tax per ton of coal, with a secondary 7 cent phase-out tax. This was designed to provide water treatment funds for abandoned coal mines. This remains the largest state level water treatment trust fund in the United States. Governor Bob Wise (D) appointed <mask> to the Fund commission, where, after approval by the West Virginia State Senate he served from 2003–2006. In 2002 <mask> testified in a court case in Boone County, West Virginia that would eventually culminate in one of the most celebrated recent cases before the U.S. Supreme Court Caperton v. Massey.This case became inspiration for the John Grisham Novel "The Appeal." Burton and <mask> also provided testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands and Climate Change, regarding the fiscal and

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 economic effects of mining restrictions. This committee meeting also featured an appearance by one of the Backstreet Boys which prompted several committee members to walk out of the hearing. Burton and <mask> also served as consultants to the National Academies of Science review of the economic consequences of the coal slurry spill in eastern Kentucky. West Virginia Workers' Compensation controversy
A 2001 study co-authored by <mask> found little negative economic consequences of West Virginia's Workers' Compensation rates on the overall economy. This report sparked much criticism from the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce and unleashed a series of op-Ed pieces and a letter writing campaign to state newspapers. The public debate culminated in an editorial in the Charleston Gazette criticizing the Chamber's attack on the Marshall University research team.However, the chair of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce wrote to Marshall University President Dan Angel, demanding that Dr. <mask>' tenure be revoked as a consequence of this study. <mask> was not tenured at the time. He received tenure in 2004. Hurricane and flood damages
Mark Burton and <mask> developed models of flood damages from data collected on the Great Flood of 1993. These were used to simulate flood damages on the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers. In September 2005, Burton and <mask> used this model to estimate damages from Hurricane Katrina. Subsequently, both participated in the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force which reviewed the response to the Hurricane.In 2008 Ball State University released studies onfloods in Indiana and Iowa. In 2010 Burton and <mask> were asked by the Army Corps of Engineers to provide an estimate of flood damages for the Pakistan Flood of 2010. Local government consolidation
<mask> is co-author with Dagney Faulk of a book on local government consolidation. This book developed from work on local government consolidation study teams authored by former governor <mask> and Supreme court Justice Randy Shepard. The book was published in

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<mask> was an early researcher of Wal-Mart's impact on communities, and since 1999 has published several papers and a book on the economic impact of Walmart. Along with Kristy Wilburn, <mask> published the first econometric study to address the endogeneity of firm location decision related to Wal-Mart. Subsequent to this, <mask> appeared in a November 2005 Global Insight conference on Wal-Mart's impact which received significant national attention. These papers were later published, along with a book. <mask>' work has been frequently cited in the academic literature, media and advocacy groups. Economic columnist
<mask> writes a weekly economics column, which is syndicated in more than two dozen Indiana newspapers,. Awards
Marshall University's Distinguished Artist and Scholar Award (with Mark L. Burton), as well as the Graduate Student Teaching Award at Tennessee's College of Business, and awards from the Air Force Institute of Technology's student association and Ball State's Miller College of Business.In 2008 the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University received the Association for University Business and Economic Research Award for its Manufacturing Scorecard. In 2009 the Center won a then-unprecedented three awards from AUBER for a research study, county profiles and promotional materials. The United States Army Corps of Engineers awarded <mask> the Commander's Award for Civilian Service for his efforts in support of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Team (IPET) and Task Force Guardian, Task Force Hope and the New Orleans District following Hurricane Katrina. Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal with two Battle Stars

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<mask> (born 16 July 1971) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Chair of the Committee on European Union Affairs since September 2020. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal constituency since 2016, and previously from 2007 to 2016 for the Donegal North-East constituency. He served as Minister for Education and Skills from 2018 to 2020 and as a Minister of State from 2014 to 2018, including as Government Chief Whip from 2017 to 2018. He was a Senator for the Administrative Panel from 2002 and 2007. Early life
Born in Carrigart, County Donegal, in 1971. <mask> was educated at Umlagh National School and the Loreto Convent, Milford. He attended the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where he received an honours degree in economics and sociology, and a higher diploma in education.A keen sportsman, <mask> has been a member of the Carrigart Boxing Club, has played soccer in the Donegal League with Cranford F.C. and Bonagee United F.C., and has also been a Gaelic footballer. <mask> taught geography and mathematics at the Loreto Convent Secondary School, Letterkenny, from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1996, he taught A-level economics in Dubai, during which time he helped establish the first GAA club in the United Arab Emirates. In 1996, he returned to Ireland and became a youth worker in the Ballyboe area of Letterkenny. Political career

Donegal County Council
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He was elected to Seanad Éireann as a Senator for the Administrative Panel in 2002, where he served as Fine Gael Spokesperson on Community, Rural, Gaeltacht and Marine Affairs. <mask> set up a full-time constituency office in Letterkenny. When he was selected as the Dáil candidate for Donegal North-East, he moved into a new constituency office, which was officially opened by Fine Gael party leader Enda Kenny on 6 October 2006. Dáil Éireann
<mask> topped the poll Donegal North-East at the 2007 general election with 22.6% of the first preference vote. His wife Olwyn Enright also won re-election to the Dáil, making them the third married couple to sit in the same Dáil.<mask> was appointed party deputy Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and the Department of the Taoiseach, with special responsibility for North-South Co-operation in October 2007. <mask> was re-elected to the Dáil at the 2011 general election, attaining 19.3% of the first-preference vote. In January 2011, <mask> called for a monument, funded by the government, in Donegal, dedicated to the founding of the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1912. <mask> was criticised by Eileen Doherty, a sister of Donegal County Councillor and Provisional IRA member Eddie Fullerton, who was assassinated by loyalists in 1991. Doherty claimed <mask> and other Fine Gael councillors in Donegal had snubbed a number of commemorative events and opposed the

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texts: building of a monument in Fullerton's memory in Buncrana. Fullerton was the third elected official in the Republic of Ireland to be assassinated. In Manchester in October 2011, <mask> became the first Fine Gael TD to address delegates from the British Conservative Party.He described it as an "opportunity." On 15 July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with responsibility for Gaeltacht Affairs and Natural Resources. His appointment was met with criticism as his knowledge of the Irish language was at a basic level, although he subsequently received praise for his efforts to improve his language skills to the point where he could conduct lengthy interviews in the language. RTÉ Radio 1 produced the radio documentary Fine Gaeilgeoir, narrated and produced by Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh, following McHugh's efforts to improve his Irish over the course of a year. Shane Ross later wrote of his fear of having what he described as a "<mask> moment", meaning being a non-Irish speaker to a Gaeltacht ministry. In February 2016, <mask> was heavily criticised for allocating 93% of Gaeltacht grants to the Donegal Gaeltacht, which is located in and beside his constituency. This revelation led to calls for McHugh to appear before the Dáil Public Accounts Committee to explain such a disproportionate allocation of funding.<mask> subsequently denied the claims. At the 2016 general election, <mask> was elected to the new five-seater Donegal constituency on the 11th count. The following May, he met Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, during their day visit to the county. The couple's visit

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 to Glenveagh National Park during the trip is accredited with driving up visitor numbers to record levels in 2017. He was appointed as Minister for Education and Skills on 16 October 2018. He was not re-appointed to the Government of the 33rd Dáil in June 2020, and declined the offer of appointment as a Minister of State. In September 2020, <mask> became Chair of the Committee on European Union Affairs.Personal life
In July 2005, <mask> married Olwyn Enright, who served as a Fine Gael TD for Laois–Offaly from 2002 to 2011. They have three children. See also
Families in the Oireachtas

References

External links

<mask>'s page on the Fine Gael website

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<mask> (born December 21, 1940) is a novelist, poet, essayist, and a former Poet Laureate of Virginia (2010–2012). A resident of Halifax, Virginia, she was named the state's Poet Laureate by Governor Bob McDonnell in July 2010. She succeeded Claudia Emerson in this post (Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2008–2010). Literary themes and styles
Award-winning poet and novelist <mask> is concerned with philosophy; with, as she explains it, "the becoming-aware of abstraction in real life--since, in order to abstract, you must have something to abstract from." Within her novels, the abstract notions of morality become her focus: "My novels deal with moral dilemmas and the shapes they create as they reveal themselves in time," she once told CA. "My poems seek out the most suitable

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texts: temporal or kinetic structure for a given emotion." Writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1983 on <mask>'s fiction, Mark Harris concluded that "she manages to capture, in very readable stories, the indecisiveness and mute desperation of life in the twentieth century."From the beginning of her career, <mask> has written both formal verse and free verse. According to the citation preceding her receipt of the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 1989, "Her poetry is marked by a firm intellectual passion, a reverent desire to possess the genuine thought of our century, historical, philosophical, and scientific, and a species of powerful ironic wit which is allied to rare good humor." Reviewing Relativity, Patricia Goedicke noted in Three Rivers Poetry Journal that "her familiarity with the demands and pressures of traditional patterns has resulted...in an expansion and deepening of her poetic resources, a carefully textured over- and underlay of image, meaning and diction." Mark Harris felt that <mask>'s "ability to sustain a narrative by clustering and repeating images [lends] itself to longer forms, and 'A Bird's Eye View of Einstein,' the longest poem in [Relativity], is an example of <mask> at her poetic best." Reviewing <mask>'s collection, Death and Transfiguration, Patricia Gabilondo wrote in The Anglican Theological Review that "the abstract prose poem 'Requiem' that closes this book...translates personal loss into the historical and universal, providing an

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 occasion for philosophical meditation on the mystery of suffering and the need for transcendence in a post-Holocaust world that seems to offer none. Moving through the terrors of nihilism and doubt, <mask>, in a poem that deftly alternates between the philosophically abstract and the image's graphic force, gives us an intellectually honest and deeply moving vision of our relation to each other's suffering and of God's relation to humanity's 'memory of pain'." Biography

Early life
<mask> was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but moved to Ithaca, New York, at age 5, and Chesterfield County, Virginia, at age 9.Early career

<mask> graduated from the University of Mary Washington in 1961, did graduate work at the University of Virginia in Philosophy as a Du Pont Fellow, and received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After working in publishing for some years, she accepted a position at Southwest Minnesota State College. She began teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1977. <mask> is the Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Later career
She retired in 1999, after 22 years (23 in Madison), and in retirement continues to hold those titles while also holding named chairs and distinguished writer positions at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Eminent Scholar), Colgate University, Mercer University, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Hollins University. She has

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 received numerous literary and academic honors. <mask> continues to give numerous public and private readings, often teaming with other notable Poets Laureate of Virginia such as Claudia Emerson and Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda.She has published reviews widely, including for the NYT, the LA Times, the Chicago Book Review, the Minneapolis paper, the Hollins Critic, America magazine, the Women's Review of Books, the London Independent, and others. Teaching positions in retirement
Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Chair, Appalachian State University
Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Writer-in-Residence, Hollins University
Master Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts
Ferrol A. Sams, Jr., Distinguished Chair in English, Mercer University
NEH Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Colgate University
Eminent Scholar, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1999-2004

While at U of Wisconsin
Wyndham Robertson Writer-in-Residence, Hollins University
Distinguished Professor, Rhodes College
Full Professor and Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Western Washington University

Other positions and posts include
Member, Electorate, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC (five-year term beginning 2009; extended to 2016; now Electorate Emeritus)
Associated Writing Programs Board of Directors (1990–93)
Discipline Advisory Committee for Fulbright Awards (1991–94)
Advisory Editor, Shenandoah (1988–92)
Contributing Editor, The Hollins Critic (1996–present)
Contributing Editor, The Smart Set (2015–present)

Bibliography

Novels

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 The Woman Who. Boson Books (2010), Bitingduck Press.Short stories. A Kind of Dream. Interlinked short stories, U. of Wisconsin Press, spring 2014. Twelve Women in a Country Called America: Stories. Press 53, May 2015. Temporium: Before the Beginning To After the End: Fictions. Press 53.October, 2017. NonfictionThe Globe and the Brain: On Place in Fiction, Talking River Publications, Lewis-Clark State College, (2006) History, Passion, Freedom, Death, and Hope: Prose about Poetry, University of Tampa Press, (2005) The Poem: An Essay, Sandhills Press, 1999Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the Writing Life, BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2009,

 Poetry
Collections
 Beholder's Eye, poems. Groundhog Poetry Press, 2017. Weather, poems. A chapbook. N.Y.: Rain Mountain Press, 2017.Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Poem. (In shorter poems.)LSU Press, February 2017.Physics for Poets: Poems. Unicorn Press, spring 2015The Life and Death of


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 Poetry: Poems, LSU Press, March 2013Vectors: J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Years before the Bomb, Parallel Press, 2012Benjamin John, March Street Press, 1993, Natural Theology, Louisiana State University Press, 1988, Lovers and Agnostics, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1995, An Other Woman, Somers Rocks Press, 2000Songs for a Soviet Composer, Singing Wind Press, 1980, Time Out of Mind, March Street Press, 1994, Relativity: A Point of View, Louisiana State University Press, 1977, Welsh Table Talk, The Book Arts Conservatory, 2004

List of poems

OtherA Kelly <mask> Reader. TX: Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2015. Intro by Fred Chappell. Stories, novel excerpts, essays (familiar, instructive), eight poems. Translations
Antigone (trans. ), in Sophocles, 2, ed.by Slavitt and Bovie
Octavia (trans. ), in Seneca: The Tragedies, Vol. 2, ed. Slavitt and Bovie

Publications in Prize Anthologies
Best American Short Stories (1972)
Prize Stories: The O. Henry Award (1994)
The Pushcart Prize (1977)
New Stories from the South (1989, 2009)

Honors, awards and fellowships

Honors
2010–12    Poet Laureate of Virginia

Awards
2017 The William "Singing Billy" Walker Award for  Lifetime Achievement in Southern Letters
2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2015   Finalist, Library of Virginia Fiction Award for A Kind of Dream: Stories. 2015   Selected by LJ among 30 Top Indie Fiction titles. 2013   L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award
2012   Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize
2012   Rebecca


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 Mitchell Taramuto Short Fiction Prize for "On Familiar Terms," Blackbird at www.blackbird.vcu.edu
2011   The Bravo!Award by the Chesterfield Public Education Foundation, Chesterfield County Public Schools in Virginia, USA
2010   Finalist, People's Choice Awards, Library of Virginia, for Girl in a Library: On Women Writers & the Writing Life2010   Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
2010   The Ellen Anderson Award (first recipient) from the Poetry Society of Virginia
2009   Finalist (with Marvin Bell and Mark Jarman) for The Poets' Prize
2009   Finalist, Book of the Year Award, ForeWord Magazine, nonfiction, for Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the Writing Life2002   Book of the Year Award by ForeWord Magazine, Silver Prize for Poetry, for Rising Venus. 2000   Bradley Major Achievement Award (Lifetime), Council for Wisconsin Writers
2000   Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Mary Washington
2000   Dictionary of Literary Biography Award for the best volume of short stories (The Society of Friends: Stories) published in 1999
 1999  Leidig Lectureship in Poetry, Emory & Henry College
1992   USIS Arts America Speaker Award (The Philippines).USIS is now called the USIA
1992, 1991    Wisconsin Arts Board New Work Awards
 1991  VCCA Writers Exchange Fellow (with Edwin Honig et al.) to Russia (Leningrad, Peredelkino, Yalta)
1991   First Prize for Book-length Fiction, Council for Wisconsin Writers (for My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers)
1991   Wisconsin Notable Author,


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1990, 1987, 1983    PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards
1989  Hanes Poetry Prize given by the Fellowship of Southern Writers for a body of work, first recipient. 1980  First Prize for Book-length Fiction, Council for Wisconsin Writers (for Augusta Played)
1974  Canaras Award for first novel, Sick and Full of BurningFellowships
2009    Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, USA
2005    Fellow, Le Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France
1997    WARF Award (Eudora Welty Chair)
1993    Bascom Award (Evjue-Bascom Chair)
1994    Hawthornden Residency Fellowship, Scotland
1991, 1988, 1984    Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowships, USA
1989, 1979    Fellow, Yaddo
1986    Fellow, The Ragdale Foundation, USA
1984    UW Chancellor's Award
1983    UW Romnes Fellowship
1979    National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, USA
1978    Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, USA. Also, 1985; 1986; December–January 1987/1988; 1989; December–February 1990/1991; 2003; 2004; 2007; 2011 (Weinstein Fellow); June 13-July 14, 2013
1975     Allan Collins Fellowship, Bread Loaf, USA

References

Further reading

 Elliot, Okla.  What <mask> Knows''. "An Embarrassment of Riches". Inside Higher Ed BlogU. Inside the Education of Ornate Churm.August 4, 2011. "An Embarrassment of Riches" by Okla Elliot. What <mask> Knows. Inside Higher Ed BlogU. Inside the Education of Ornate Churm. August 4, 2011. interview by Okla Elliot
 Alger, Derek. "From the Editor: Interview with <mask>".PIF Magazine. October 1, 2010.

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 "From the Editor: Interview with <mask>" by Derek Alger. PIF Magazine. October 1, 2010. interview by Derek Alger

External links
<mask>'s former website
Poets Laureate of Virginia from the Library of Congress

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<mask> (March 26, 1946 – April 29, 2021) was an American actor, singer, and musician. He first performed before a national audience as a Mouseketeer. At age 12, <mask> rose to prominence playing Mark McCain in the series The Rifleman, for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award at age 13. <mask> had a brief career as a recording artist in the 1950s and 1960s. He continued to act on television and in film as an adult. Beginning in 1992, <mask> led the California-based Johnny Crawford Orchestra, a vintage dance orchestra that performed at special events. Early life
<mask> was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, the son of Betty (née Megerlin) and <mask>. His maternal grandparents were Belgian; his maternal grandfather was violinist Alfred Eugene Megerlin.In 1959, <mask>, his older brother Robert L<mask> Jr., a co-star of the series Laramie, and their father Robert Sr. were all nominated for Emmy Awards (the brothers for acting, and their father for film editing). He was of Russian-Jewish, German, and English ancestry. Career
<mask> began his career as a child actor. One of The Walt Disney Company's original Mouseketeers in 1955, he acted on stage, in films, and on television. Disney started out with 24 original Mouseketeers, but at the end of the first season, the studio reduced the number to 12, and <mask> was cut. His first important break as an actor followed with the title role in a Lux Video Theatre production of "Little Boy Lost", a live broadcast on March 15, 1956. He also appeared in the popular Western series The Lone Ranger in 1956 in one of the few color episodes of that series.Following that performance, the young actor worked steadily with many seasoned actors and directors. Freelancing for two and one-half years, he accumulated almost 60 television credits, including

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texts: featured roles in three episodes of NBC's The Loretta Young Show and an appearance as Manuel in "I Am an American", an episode of the crime drama The Sheriff of Cochise. He starred as Bobby Adams in the 1958 drama Courage of Black Beauty. He appeared as Tommy Peel in the 1958 episode "The Dealer" in Tales of Wells Fargo. By the spring of 1958, he had performed 14 demanding roles in live teleplays for NBC Matinee Theatre, appeared on CBS's sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, in the Wagon Train episode "The Sally Potter Story" (in which Martin Milner also appeared), and on the syndicated series Crossroads, The Sheriff of Cochise, and Whirlybirds, and made three pilots of television series. The third pilot, made as an episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, was picked up by ABC, and the first season of The Rifleman began filming in July 1958. <mask> was nominated for an Emmy Award as Best Supporting Actor in 1959, at age 13.He received the nomination for his role as Mark McCain (the son of Lucas McCain, played by Chuck Connors) in The Rifleman. <mask> also played a young boy named Clay Holden, who befriends Connors in a 1965 episode of Branded. Connors and <mask> were close friends when Connors died on November 10, 1992, and <mask> gave a eulogy at Connors' memorial. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, <mask> had wide popularity with American teenagers and a recording career on Del-Fi Records that generated four Billboard Top 40 hits, including the single "Cindy's Birthday", which peaked at number eight in 1962. His other hits included "Rumors" (number 12, 1962), "Your Nose Is Gonna Grow" (number 14, 1962), and "Proud" (number 29, 1963). Late in 1961, <mask> appeared as Victor in the episode "A Very Bright Boy" on The Donna Reed Show. His brother Robert had been a guest star on The Donna Reed Show.In 1964 and in

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texts: 1965, <mask> appeared on the NBC education drama Mr. Novak playing JoJo Rizzo. <mask> played Jeff, Wilbur's neighbor in Mister Ed, who was more interested in pop music than his algebra. Among his films, <mask> played an American Indian in the unique adventure film Indian Paint (1965). He played a character involved with a disturbed young girl played by Kim Darby in The Restless Ones (1965), and played a character shot by John Wayne's character in El Dorado (1966). He played young deputy Billy Norris in The Big Valley episode "The Other Face of Justice" in 1969. While enlisted in the United States Army for two years, <mask> worked on training films as a production coordinator, assistant director, script supervisor, and occasional actor. His rank was sergeant at the time of his honorable discharge in December 1967.In 1968, <mask> played a soldier wanted for murder in "By the Numbers", an episode of the television series Hawaii Five-O. The Resurrection of Broncho Billy was a student film <mask> agreed to do as a favor to his close friend, producer John Longenecker. It won the 1970 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Subject. The Naked Ape was a partially animated 1973 feature film starring <mask> and Victoria Principal, produced by Hugh Hefner. In 1976, <mask> co-starred as Ben Shelby in the 10th episode of season three of Little House on the Prairie, "The Hunters". <mask> appeared as Deputy Noah Paisley in a 1985 episode of Murder, She Wrote. <mask> played a key role in the early career of entertainer Victoria Jackson of Saturday Night Live fame.After the two appeared together in a summer stock production of Meet Me in St. Louis, he presented her with a one-way ticket to California and encouraged her to pursue a career in Hollywood. This led Jackson to early appearances on The Tonight Show Starring <mask>,

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 then she was cast as a regular on SNL. His final role in a film was playing William S. Hart in the 2019 Western Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws. Beginning in 1992, <mask> led a California-based vintage dance orchestra, which performed at special events. The formal name of the band was JCO (Johnny Crawford Orchestra). The JCO logo appeared on <mask>'s drums when the band played in Las Vegas, Nevada. The band has been sponsored by the Playboy Jazz Festival, and the orchestra has been the choice for 15 consecutive annual Art Directors Guild Awards shows at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.A remastered version of the orchestra's highly rated first album, Sweepin' the Clouds Away, was released on August 21, 2012, on the label CD Baby. Personal life and death
<mask> reconnected with Charlotte Samco, his high school sweetheart, in 1990, and they married in 1995. In 2019, MeTV reported that <mask> had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. His longtime friend, actor Paul Petersen, started a GoFundMe fundraiser to help cover <mask>'s medical costs. <mask> died in a personal care home at age 75 on April 29, 2021, after contracting COVID-19 and catching pneumonia before later succumbing to Alzheimer's disease. Before his death, <mask> was the last surviving main cast member of The Rifleman. Singles

 AAlso peaked at #2 in Billboard Adult Contemporary charts.References

External links
 Official website

 The Rifleman: <mask> Billy short film
 <mask>'s MySpace site

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Joseph J<mask> (; born October 7, 1954) is an American public servant and a former politician who served as the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and was also a former deputy mayor of New York City. He was the Republican nominee in an unsuccessful bid for the 2013 election for Mayor of New York City. In January 2014, he became senior vice president, vice dean, and chief of staff at NYU Langone Medical Center. In 2017, he returned to the chairmanship of the MTA, but would not run the authority day-to-day. He resigned from that position in 2018. Early life and education
<mask> was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of Jackie and Joseph "<mask>" <mask>, a New York City police officer. His paternal grandfather was a New York City firefighter, and his maternal grandfather was a New York City taxi driver.His father's family is Czech. His maternal grandfather was of Italian descent and his maternal grandmother was Jewish. Lhota was raised Catholic, and self-identifies as a Christian. The family later moved to Lindenhurst. He was the first member of his family to attend college, graduating with honors from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business with a degree in business administration in 1976. He received an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School in 1980. Private sector career
Upon graduating from Georgetown University, Lhota joined Arthur Andersen & Co. in Washington, D.C. and specialized in health care finance.He worked there for two years before entering the Harvard Business School. Following Harvard, Lhota returned to New York City and began a fourteen-year career as an investment banker at First Boston and Paine Webber. He specialized in public finance, serving state and local governments throughout the United States. In 2002, Lhota became executive vice president of Cablevision, as well as president of Lightpath, a

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 fiber-based telecommunications company that offered telephone and high speed data services to businesses throughout the New York area. In 2010, he joined The Madison Square Garden Company as executive vice president as a member of the senior management team and chief administrative officer. In early 2014, after his mayoral run, Lhota was appointed as senior vice president, vice dean, and chief of staff at NYU Langone Medical Center, in charge of "government outreach", emergency preparedness, and business planning. From 2002 to 2015, Lhota served as a member of the board of directors of First Aviation Services, Inc.In 2015, FAVS became a private company. In 2014, Lhota became a board member of Cablevision Systems Corporation and was chairman of its audit committee until the company was sold in June 2016 to Altice USA. In 2016, Lhota became an independent member of the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee of MSG Networks. Public service career

Giuliani administration
In 1994, Lhota joined the administration of Mayor Rudy Giuliani, where he held several positions over Giuliani's two terms. He first served as chief of staff to the deputy mayor for finance and economic development and that year was quickly promoted to New York City finance commissioner. In 1995, he was selected as director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Management and Budget. In 1998, Giuliani appointed Lhota to deputy mayor for operations.As the head of the mayor's rat abatement task force, he was humorously known as "the Rat Czar". Lhota served as Mayor Giuliani's liaison to the White House, United States Congress, governor of New York, New York State Legislature and New York City Council. Additionally, he was responsible for oversight of the city's relationships with the public employee unions and development of collective bargaining agreement strategies.


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 Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
On October 20, 2011, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo nominated Lhota to serve as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the largest mass transit provider in the United States (servicing 8.5 million customers daily). While awaiting confirmation by the New York State Senate, Lhota began serving as interim CEO. He was unanimously confirmed on January 9, 2012. Lhota was responsible for New York City Transit’s Fastrack program, which saw more than $16 million in productivity gains in 2012, by concentrating and targeting subway station maintenance efforts.In July 2012, <mask> announced a $30 million service enhancement package that restored transportation services that the MTA had previously eliminated in 2010, and added new transit services in underserved areas, including Williamsburg, the South Bronx and Brooklyn Navy Yard—all New York City neighborhoods that had seen significant residential and commercial development since 2005. Lhota headed efforts to make information about the MTA and its services more accessible to its customers through its website and apps. He granted pay raises to managers at the MTA. When Hurricane Sandy devastated much of the New York metropolitan area in October 2012, Lhota shut down the MTA in advance of the storm and moved the system's trains to high ground to avoid damage from the storm surge. His other notable hurricane recovery measure was the rapid deployment of a free Rockaway Park Shuttle to service the worst damaged line in Rockaway, Queens. Lhota also directed the MTA to provide regular details and updates to the public on the recovery efforts via social media and local news channels. 2013 Mayoral candidacy

Lhota resigned as head of the MTA on December 31, 2012, to explore running for mayor of New York City.On January 17, 2013, he filed paperwork