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

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

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

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

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

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

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<mask> (born June 17, 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Great Balls of Fire, <mask>'s first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award. In 2018, he won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Early life and education
Padgett’s father was a bootlegger in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He influenced many of Padgett's works, particularly in the writer's taste for independence and a willingness to deviate from rules, even his own. This would later be described as a stubborn streak of boyishness, allowing a wry innocence in his poetry.Padgett started writing poetry at the age of 13. In an interview, the poet said that he was inspired to write when a girl he had a big crush on did not return his affection. In high school, Padgett became interested in visual arts while continuing to write poetry. He befriended Joe Brainard, the visual artist who also became a well-known writer. They, with fellow Central High student Dick Gallup, co-founded the avant-garde literary journal The White Dove Review. Padgett and Gallup solicited work for The White Dove from Black Mountain and Beat Movement writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, LeRoi Jones, Paul Blackburn, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Robert Creeley. After five issues, Padgett, on his way to college, retired the White Dove.In 1960, <mask> left Tulsa to study at Columbia College fin New York City. At that time he was interested in Pound, Rimbaud, the Black Mountain poets, and the Beats but soon he fell under the spell of the New York School, particularly the poetry of Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch. In an interview, Padgett said that he went to Columbia partly because Ginsberg and Kerouac had gone there. After receiving his B.A. (1964), Padgett briefly studied creative writing at Wagner College with Kay Boyle, Howard Nemerov, and Koch. On a Fulbright Fellowship (Paris, 1965–66) he studied 20th-century French poetry. Career
From 1968 to 1969 Padgett was a workshop leader for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in New York City.With David Shapiro, <mask> co-edited An Anthology of New York Poets, published by Random House in 1970. He founded The Poetry Project Newsletter in 1972. Padgett also worked in poet-in-the-school programs nationally from 1969 to 1976. After directing The Poetry Project for two and a half years, he became the publications director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative (1980-2000), where he also edited The Teachers & Writers Collaborative Newsletter. <mask> was a cofounder, publisher, and editor of Full Court Press from 1973 to 1988, bringing out books by Ginsberg, Brainard, O'Hara, Edwin Denby, Tom Veitch, William S. Burroughs, Larry Fagin, Philippe Soupault, John Godfrey, and others. At the same time, he lectured and taught at educational institutions, including Atlantic Center for the Arts, Brooklyn College, and Columbia University. He also hosted a poetry radio series and the designer of computer writing games.Padgett's papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Poetry
Padgett is the author of more than twenty poetry collections, including Great Balls of Fire (1969, reissued 1990); You Never Know (2001); How to Be Perfect (2007); How Long (2011); and Collected Poems (2013). Seven of Padgett's poems are featured in Jim Jarmusch's 2016 film Paterson, including three written expressly for the film. Like Padgett, Jarmusch studied poetry under Kenneth Koch at Columbia University. Padgett collaborated with poet Ted Berrigan and artists Jim Dine, George Schneeman, Bertrand Dorny, Trevor Winkfield, and Alex Katz, along with Joe Brainard. Other works
Padgett is also the author of nonfiction works, including Blood Work: Selected Prose (1993), Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan (1993), Creative Reading (1997), and The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets (2000), Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers (2003), and Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (2004). Padgett’s novella Motor Maids across the Continent appeared in 2017 from Song Cave.His numerous works on education and writing include The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (editor), The Teachers & Writers Guide to Walt Whitman (editor), and Educating the Imagination (co-editor). He was also the editor of the three-volume reference work, World Poets (2000). Padgett also translated French poets Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, Valery Larbaud, and Guillaume Apollinaire. Book-length collections of his own work have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Faroese, German, Finnish, Norwegian, and Italian. Awards and honors
His grants, fellowships. and awards include a Guggenheim (1986), a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (1996), the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2001), the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets (2016). His book How Long was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and his Collected Poems won the L.A. Times Book Prize in 2013.He was also the recipient of grants and awards for his translations, which include those given by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Columbia University’s Translation Center. 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Poetry) winner for Collected Poems
2015 Robert Creeley Award
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<mask> and his wife, <mask>, who also grew up in Tulsa, have lived in the same East Village apartment since 1967. They also have a rustic retreat in Vermont where they spend their summers. The couple's son Wayne was born in 1966. Works
 Summer Balloons, self-published (Tulsa, Oklahoma), 1960. In Advance of the Broken Arm, "C" Press (New York, NY), 1964. Some Things, (with Ted Berrigan and Joe Brainard), "C" Press (New York, NY), 1964.Two Stories for Andy Warhol, "C" Press (New York, NY), 1965. Sky, Goliard Press (London, UK), 1966. Bean Spasms: Poems and Prose, (with Ted Berrigan) Kulcher Press (New York, NY), 1967; reprinted Granary Books (New York, NY), 2012. Tone Arm, Once Press (Wivenhoe Park, Essex, England), 1967. 100,000 Fleeing Hilda (with Joe Brainard), Boke Press (Tulsa, OK), 1967. Bun (with Tom Clark), Angel Hair Books (New York, NY), 1968. Great Balls of Fire, Holt (New York, NY), 1969; reprinted, revised Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1990.The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and <mask> (with Jim Dine) Cape Goliard Press (London, England), 1970. Antlers in the Treetops (with Tom Veitch), Coach House Press (Toronto, Canada), 1970. Sweet Pea, Aloes Books (London, England), 1971. Poetry Collection, Strange Faeces Press (London, England), 1971. Sufferin' Succotash (with Joe Brainard) (bound with Kiss My Ass by Michael Brownstein), Adventures in Poetry (New York, NY), 1971. Back in Boston Again (with Ted Berrigan and Tom Clark) Telegraph Books (Philadelphia, PA), 1972. Oo La La (with Jim Dine) Petersburg Press (New York, NY), 1973.Crazy Compositions, Big Sky (Southampton, NY), 1974. The World of Leon (with others), Big Sky No. 7 (Southampton, NY), 1974. Toujours l'amour, SUN (New York, NY), 1976. Arrive by Pullman (with George Schneeman) Générations (Paris, France), 1978. Tulsa Kid, Z Press (Calais, VT), 1979. Triangles in the Afternoon, SUN (New York, NY), 1980.How to Be a Woodpecker, (with Trevor Winkfield), Toothpaste Press (West Branch, IA), 1983. How to Be Modern Art (with Trevor Winkfield), Morning Coffee (West Branch, IA), 1984. Light as Air (with Alex Katz), Pace Editions (New York, NY), 1988. The Big Something, The Figures (Great Barrington, MA), 1989. Blood Work: Selected Prose, Bamberger Books (Flint, MI), 1993. New and Selected Poems, David Godine (Boston, MA), 1995. You Never Know, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2001.How to Be Perfect, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2007. How Long, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2011. Collected Poems, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2013. Alone and Not Alone, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2015. How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide (with Jason Novak), Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2016. Big Cabin, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2019. Encore with Philosophy and Rectangle (with Trevor Winkfield), Cuneiform (Houston, TX), 2019.Memoirs
Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan, The Figures (Great Barrington, MA), 1993. Albanian Diary, The Figures (Great Barrington, MA), 1999. Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 2003. Joe: A Personal Memoir of Joe Brainard, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2004. Translations

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

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 Poetry Foundation Article
 "Do It", Jacket 37 2009
"Padgett", Penn Sound
Ron Padgett Papers.Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. American essayists
American male poets
American translators
Columbia College (New York) alumni
French–English translators
Poets from New York (state)
New York School poets
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<mask> is a Venezuelan chef who has opened multiple restaurants and became famous through appearances on multiple television shows. She is known for the restaurants she currently owns in airports across the United States, and for competing on the show Top Chef Masters. <mask> has put out her own cookbook and a line of kitchenware, while also making strides in her life to help end obesity. Early life
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, <mask> grew up around her family. Her mother is Blanca Ibáñez, a Venezuelan politician who served as secretary to former Venezuelan president Jaime Lusinchi. Ibáñez married Lusinchi in September 1991. Lusinchi was since <mask>'s stepfather until his death in May 2014.As a child, she would cook for them at their family gatherings. She entertained her family by cooking for them and credits her success to these gatherings. Education
Originally seeking to become a lawyer, <mask> attended Santa Maria University in Caracas, Venezuela and earned her law degree. She then relocated to the United States to earn an associate degree in Paralegal Studies and took a class on speaking English. However, <mask> soon sensed that her passion wasn't in the field of law and felt the need to change her career path. She decided to convert her career choice into becoming a chef and enrolled at Johnson & Wales University to earn her degree in culinary arts. Cooking inspirations
<mask>'s passion for food came from her family and their gatherings in her hometown.Her mother and her mother's perseverance inspired <mask> to expand on this passion of hers and become a chef. <mask> aimed to inspire others as well. She chose to develop nutritional programs for childhood obesity to inspire families to reduce childhood health issues. <mask> finds it to be fulfilling to watch families make changes and gain their own inspiration through her programs. <mask>'s main inspiration as a chef is to bring loved ones together to enjoy wonderful food, just how it would bring her own family together. Career

Early culinary jobs

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

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

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

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

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

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

External links
 Official website

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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O'Doherty's audio blog on Irish arts
<mask> O'Doherty's Official website
Belfast Telegraph columnist profile on <mask> O'Doherty
Slugger O'Toole: O'Doherty: His best book? CAIN: 'The Trouble with Guns'
 Irish Association speech, 2003
 Speech to Alliance Party conference, 12 March 2005. 1951 births
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<mask> (September 30, 1837 – April 19, 1913) was an American businessman, philanthropist and art collector from Chester, Pennsylvania. <mask> came from a wealthy family including his grandfather <mask> and father John O<mask>. He operated a successful quarry business for years and was a director of the Delaware County National Bank. He invested his fortune in the collection of art. <mask> donated liberally to support the Chester Hospital and upon his death, donated his trust and land to the city of Chester which resulted in the creation of the Deshong Art Museum and Deshong Park. Over time, the museum fell into disrepair, suffered theft and eventually closed. The art museum is currently vacant and the art collection resides with Widener University.Early life
<mask> was born in Chester, Pennsylvania to John O<mask> and Emmeline L. (Terrill) <mask> and educated in the local schools. He attended the Bolmar Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1862, <mask> enlisted as a private in Company K, Tenth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia and served in the Battle of Antietam under Captain Thatcher. He was honorably discharged on September 27, 1862. In 1863, <mask> re-enlisted when Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania. He enlisted in company A of the 37th Regiment, Emergency Corps, known as the "Slipher Phalanx". He served in the Battle of Gettysburg and was honorably discharged on August 4, 1863.Career
In 1865, he entered into partnership with his brother, John O<mask>, Jr., and operated the Deshong quarries in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania. The partnership was successful and lasted for 30 years until John's death on November 1, 1895. In 1895, <mask> was elected a director of the Delaware County National Bank. Philanthropy
<mask> donated liberally to support Chester Hospital, located at 9th and Barclay Streets in Chester. The <mask>. <mask> sanitary cottage for the treatment of tuberculosis was built by <mask> and donated to the Chester Hospital. After his death, he left in trust his art collection, mansion and 27-acre estate to the city of Chester as an art gallery and for educational purposes. The bequest resulted in the establishment of the Deshong Memorial Park and the building of an art gallery.Deshong Mansion

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

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

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

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

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<mask> (; ; ; born 15 July 1947) is a Thai economist. He was the Governor of the Bank of Thailand from 2001 to 2006. Following the 2006 Thai coup d'état he served as minister of finance and deputy prime minister in the interim civilian government led by Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont. Following the 2014 Thai coup d'état he was appointed as a deputy prime minister in the first military appointed cabinet under General Prayut Chan-o-cha. Two days earlier he had resigned from his position as chairman of the board of Post Publishing PLC, the publisher of the Bangkok Post, Thailand's leading English-language newspaper. Early life and education
<mask> is a son of Prince <mask>. He is therefore a grandson of Prince Devawongse Varopakarn, and a great-grandson of King Rama IV.(Mongkut). Reflecting his distant royal descent, Thai media refer to him as Mom Ui (; "Lord Ui"), using his nickname, "Ui". <mask> was educated at Saint Gabriel's College from year 1 to 12. During his childhood, Pridiyathorn rarely came second in school exams. He was nearly always first in his studies. He studied economics at Thammasat University, graduating with a bachelor's degree, and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned an MBA in 1970. Career
From 1971 to 1990 he worked for the Thai Farmers Bank, becoming senior executive vice president.In 1990 he became official spokesman for Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan. In the governments of Anand Panyarachun and Suchinda Kraprayoon (1991–92) he was deputy minister of commerce. He was appointed a member of the Thai Senate from 1992 to 1993. In 1993 he became president of the Export-Import Bank of Thailand. Pridiyathorn served as the Chairman of the NIST International School Foundation, the governing body of NIST International School, from 2009 to 2017. Bank of Thailand Governor
In May 2001 he was appointed Governor of the Bank of Thailand, the nation's central bank. He is also a director of the Civil Service Commission and of the Thammasat University Council.Pridiyathorn repeatedly criticised Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who took office in 2001. Pridiyathorn disagreed with Thaksin's spending policy, which he saw as a cause of inflation. In 2004, the state-owned Krung Thai Bank (KTB) shocked Thailand's financial world by reclassifying approximately 40 billion baht as problem loans. Pridiyathorn threatened to fire KTB chief executive officer Viroj Nualkhair if he did not resign. Viroj was a former financial advisor to media proprietor Sondhi Limthongkul, having helped him make the initial public offering of one of his first companies. As Krung Thai Bank head, Viroj had forgiven 1.6 billion baht of Sondhi's debts and arranged for further rounds of forgiveness. Using all his media outlets, Sondhi attacked Pridiyathorn and defended Viroj.Viroj was eventually forced to leave Krung Thai Bank. Sondhi's public criticism of Thaksin started to increase, eventually leading to the establishment of the People's Alliance for Democracy. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Two days after the coup which deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the Bangkok newspaper The Nation reported that business leaders had asked the junta (Council for Democratic Reform under Constitutional Monarchy) to appoint Pridiyathorn as an interim prime minister. He was notably endorsed by Chatri Sophonpanich, chairman of Bangkok Bank. Eventually, the junta chose retired general Surayud Chulanont as interim prime minister, but he in turn named Pridiyathorn to his cabinet as minister of finance, a move that business leaders saw as positive. He was succeeded as governor of the Bank of Thailand by Tarisa Watanagase, the first woman to head the BOT. Pridiyathorn's policies as minister of finance included:
 Fiscal deficits.A budget deficit of 147 billion baht for fiscal year 2007. This was the first budget deficit since 2003. Fiscal deficits were also expected for 2008. Suvarnabhumi City. Pridiyathorn opposed the establishment of a new province, dubbed Suvarnabhumi City, around the newly constructed Suvarnabhumi Airport. The plan to establish a new province had been proposed by the deposed government of Thaksin Shinawatra. "There are a lot of retention ponds in the area and water experts said they serve as waterways, allowing floods to flow to the sea.If there are buildings, they will obstruct water from flowing out, and cause the inner city to flood. If the Department of Town and Country Planning proposes to build a community in the area, I'll oppose it," said Pridiyathorn. Capital controls. Pridiyathorn instituted capital controls to attempt to reverse a strengthening of the baht, but reversed the measure after the Thai stock market crashed, destroying US$20 billion of market value in one day. Pridiyathorn later noted that "This was not a mistake. Measures always have side effects. Once we knew the side effects, we quickly fixed it.... Just one day of stocks falling is not considered much damage."He came under harsh criticism. Bratin Sanyal, head of Asian equity investments at ING in Hong Kong noted, "The one thing worse than an incompetent central bank is an incompetent central bank that flip-flops." Catherine Tan, head of Asia Emerging Markets at Forecast in Singapore, noted, "They are proving themselves to be very unprofessional. Their actions are very irresponsible. They have totally lost credibility... I don't see foreigners returning to Thailand any time in the near future. Markets now have no confidence in the government."The Export-Import Bank of Thailand also criticized the capital controls. Limiting foreign companies investing in List I and II businesses (including media, telecoms, and aviation) from holding more than 50 percent of shares. List III businesses (including retailers and hotels) were exempted from the new restrictions. Investors holding more than 50 percent would be forced to lower their stakes within a year. Investors holding more than 50 percent of voting rights would be forced to lower their voting stakes within a year. Finance Minister <mask> noted, "If they [foreign investors] had seen the details [of the foreign investment law], I am sure that they would be happy." He later backtracked, and said that telecommunications firms would be exempt from the new regulations.He claimed that he had misspoken when he earlier included the telecommunications business in the categories to be affected by amendments to the law . Corruption investigations into Thaksin Shinawatra. Pridiyathorn sparked controversy in his dealings with Jaruvan Maintaka of the junta-appointed Assets Examination Committee. Jaruvan accused Thaksin's wife of inappropriately buying a plot of land from the Financial Institutions Development Fund (FIDF) while Pridiyathorn was FIDF Chairman. Pridiyathorn asserted that the purchase was legal and refused to file charges, claiming that the FIDF was not a damaged party. Jaruvan then claimed that Pridiyathorn violated the law by sitting on the boards of more than three state enterprises. Pridiyathorn countered by claiming that Jaruvan was trying to destroy his reputation.Monetary policy. Pridiyathorn took the unusual step of urging the Bank of Thailand to cut interest rates by half a percentage point, rather than 25 basis points as expected by most analysts. Bank of Thailand is independent of the Ministry of Finance, and did not heed <mask>'s call. He resigned the next day. <mask> resigned on 28 February 2007. As a reason for his resignation he cited Premier Surayud's decision to appoint <mask>'s rival, former Thaksin-government Finance Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, as a "self-sufficiency economy" special envoy. Somkid resigned from his position after less than a week.Another reason given was the Minister to the Office of the Prime Minister Thirapat Serirangsan's alleged preference for certain private media interests. Several analysts speculated that he was referring to the preferential treatment the junta gave to leading anti-Thaksin critic Sondhi Limthongkul, who was also a long-time critic of Pridiyathorn. His resignation shocked the political world as well as the business community. "The reasons he gave were quite strange," noted Pornsilp Patcharinpanakul, deputy secretary-general of Board of Trade. <mask> was replaced by Chalongphob Sussangkarn. Junta leader General Saprang Kalayanamitr was also implicated in <mask>'s resignation. The Bangkok Post reported that Pridiyathorn resigned in protest after a CNS member lobbied him to sell shares of IRPC (formerly known as Thai Petrochemical Industry or TPI) back to a former shareholder.Saprang's brother, Chienchuan, was a key financial advisor to Prachai Liaophairat, the estranged founder of TPI. Economic advisor to the 2014 junta
<mask> was an outspoken critic of Yingluck Shinawatra's government, especially its scheme assuring a  fixed minimum rice price to farmers. In November 2013 he estimated the costs of the programme at 425 billion baht. In February 2014 he called Yingluck's economic policies a failure and asked her to step down. Instead, he called for the appointment of a "neutral", unelected government. After the 22 May 2014 coup d'état, the junta—which calls itself National Council for Peace and Order—appointed Somkid a member of its "advisory board" in charge of economic issues. On 31 August <mask> was appointed as a deputy prime minister in the first military-appointed cabinet under General Prayut Chan-o-cha.Wealth
Disclosures to the National Counter Corruption Commission revealed that 30 days after leaving his cabinet position in March 2007, Pridiyathorn had 730 million baht in assets, a slight drop from 754 million baht when he took office in October 2006. His wife, Praphaphan, had a net worth of 283 million baht, while his daughter Pudjeep had seven million baht. In October 2014 the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) published the declared wealth of all ministers in the cabinet. Pridiyathorn was the wealthiest with assets of 1.38 billion baht. Decorations
Pridiyathorn holds the titles Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Noble Order of the White Elephant and Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand. Ancestry

See also
 Bank of Thailand

References

External links
Speeches by Pridiyathorn Devakula
"Bt820-billion blunder",  The Nation, 2006/12/20

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Václav (later <mask>) Vodička AM DA (Prague) FRMIT MACE (28 September 1921 - 30 September 1992) was a Czech born gold and silversmith who emigrated to Australia in 1950 and taught at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) from 1955 to 1983. It has been said that 'his contribution to Australian jewellery was made as the lecturer in charge of gold and silversmithing in Australia'. Early life and education
Vodička was born in Modřany, a southern Prague neighbourhood in Czechoslovakia. After attending the local primary and secondary schools, in 1941 he graduated from Prague College of Industrial Arts, specialising in gold and silver design and manufacturing. He later attended the prestigious State School of Jewellery in Turnov in 1942 and 1943. After graduating, he worked for a large firm of gold and silversmiths in Prague before moving to Jablonec nad Nisou (Gablonz an der Neiße) in 1946 as the national manager/designer of the Robert Scholtze company, an expropriated Sudeten German costume jewellery manufacturing company. He also freelanced as a jeweller and lectured part-time at the Jablonec School of Applied Arts at this time.Immigration to Australia
After the Second World War, Vodička was active in democratic politics, supporting President Edvard Beneš and his Czech National Social Party (Czech: Česká strana národně sociální, ČSNS) in the only free post-war elections in Czechoslovakia (until 1990) in May 1946. When the political situation deteriorated in Czechoslovakia following the communist coup in February 1948, he fled Czechoslovakia, 'illegally' leaving the country for Germany in September 1949 and made his way to the British occupation zone in Berlin. Branded an 'enemy of the people's government' and charged with bogus crimes, he would not be permitted to return to Czechoslovakia until the late 1980s. Vodička spent Christmas 1949 in Charlottenburg, Berlin with fellow Czech refugees and then made his way to Friedland Refugee Camp where he was officially granted political refugee status under the auspices of the International Refugee Organisation. In mid-January 1950, he moved to the Fallingbostel Displaced Persons Camp for the purposes of emigrating to Australia. In March 1950, he went by train to the Bagnoli Displaced Persons Camp in Italy and on 31 March 1950 left Naples on the USAT General M. L. Hersey with 1,335 other European refugees bound for Australia, arriving in Melbourne on 27 April 1950. After arriving in Australia, he spent about three weeks at the Bonegilla Migrant Camp before returning to Melbourne to take up work.Career
In the first few years after arriving in Australia, Vodička had a number of jobs, mainly as a silversmith at a range of companies. Early on, he began using a name Australians could pronounce and became known as <mask> or <mask> rather than Václav Vodička. When he applied for the position of instructor in gold and silversmithing at Royal Melbourne Technical College, later RMIT University, he used the name <mask> <mask> - he was appointed in August 1955. In the succeeding years, Vodicka 'transformed gold and silversmithing at RMIT into the leading course of its kind in Australia'. His vision 'right from the beginning...[was] to develop and build up a School of Gold and Silversmithing or at least Department...which would have silversmithing, jewellery, engraving, enamelling and gem cutting and possibly gem engraving divisions'. Vodicka’s first Diploma students graduated in 1957  and in 1958, Emily Hope. the daughter of poet, A.D. Hope, and Margaret Goldthorpe became the first women to enroll full time into the course.Between 1962 and 1964 Vodicka doubled the intake of students, while reducing the numbers of part timers with the ambition and standard of work produced by the students leapt ahead. Throughout the 1960s, Vodicka expanded the course with more specialised subjects: design in 1963 and history of gold and silversmithing in 1964. In 1962, W.E. McMillan, a friend and admirer of Vodicka’s work at RMIT, instituted an acquisitive award for outstanding student work and in 1966 Vodicka held a student competition to design a medal for the winner of the McMillan prize. The W.E. McMillan Collection inspired other acquisitive awards and together they represent a unique record of almost 60 years of student work at RMIT. Students were also encouraged to enter the Made in Australia Awards.Over the years, Vodicka kept up with contemporary gold and silversmithing and maintained a small practice undertaking commissions for RMIT and external clients and during the 1970s, he was commissioned by the Commonwealth government to research the viability of replicating his model in other Australian states. The result was that a generation of new courses in gold and silversmithing were initiated around the country. He retired from RMIT in 1983 and in 1987 was honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to the craft of gold and silversmithing. Personal life and interests
In 1953, Vodicka married an Australian and was naturalised as an Australian citizen in 1956. In the late 1950s, Vodicka renewed another passion from his native home when he was introduced to the pleasures of skiing and bushwalking in the Australian high country by fellow RMIT lecturer and Second World War artist, R.W. (Bill) Rowed. In 1959, Rowed took Vodicka to the Wangaratta Ski Club, which has its lodge at Mount St. Bernard near Mount Hotham in the Victorian Alps and he joined it shortly afterwards in 1960.Both men were foundation members of the Mount Bogong Club, which was formed in 1965 to promote the safe recreational use of Mount Bogong. During the 1960s, Vodicka, by then a father of three young children all born in the mid to late 1950s, continued with his education, completing a Tertiary Technical Teachers Certificate in 1963 and a Fellowship Diploma in Art/Industrial Design - Gold and Silversmithing from RMIT in 1967. He was an active member of the Czech community in Melbourne being a co-founder of the Czech Language School established at the Technical Teachers College, Toorak in 1963. He was also a regular visitor to the Sumava Centre (now Sumava Peksa Centre) at Belgrave in the Dandenong Ranges, founded by the exiled priest Josef Peksa, and was involved in the Czechoslovak National Association and the Prahran Slavia soccer club. Vodicka retained his interest in democratic politics in Australia and was the Foundation President of the Clarinda Branch of the Australian Labor Party and Vice President of the Hotham Electorate Assembly for the ALP in 1989. <mask> eventually returned to his native Czechoslovakia in 1987 after the communist regime withdrew the bogus criminal charges laid nearly forty years earlier. He visited again in 1991 after the collapse of communism in November 1989 and even got back his long withheld Czech passport.In September 1992 he passed away in Melbourne due to acute myeloid leukemia. At his request, his ashes were spread on his beloved Mount Bogong. References

1921 births
1992 deaths
Silversmiths
Goldsmiths
RMIT University alumni
RMIT University faculty
Czechoslovak emigrants to Australia
Artists from Prague

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