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<mask> (born as Princess <mask> of Cooch Behar; 23 May 1919 − 29 July 2009) was the third Maharani consort of Jaipur from 1940 to 1949 through her marriage to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II. Following her husband's signature for the Jaipur State to become part of the Union of India and her step-son's assumption of the title in 1970, she was known as <mask>, Rajmata of Jaipur. Ethnically born in a Koch Rajbongshi Hindu family, her father was Maharaja Jitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar in West Bengal, and her mother was Maratha Princess, Indira Raje of Baroda, the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, and she was sister to Jagaddipendra Narayan, informally known as 'Bhaiya', who became the Maharajah of Cooch Behar. Following India's independence and the abolition of the princely states, she became a successful politician in the Swatantra Party. <mask> was also celebrated for her beauty and became something of a fashion icon in her adulthood. She served 12 years in Swatantra Party, during which she was a prominent critic of Indira Gandhi's government. After her departure from politics, she lived a quiet life in her large estate, spending time with her grandchildren and on hobbies and leisure.She died on 29 July 2009 in Jaipur, at the age of 90. She was suffering from paralytic ileus and a lung infection. She left an estate estimated at , which was passed on to her grandchildren. Early life

Ethnically born in a Koch Rajbongshi Hindu family, her father, Prince Jitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar, presently in West Bengal, was the younger brother of the Yuvaraja (Crown Prince). Her mother was Maratha Princess Indira Raje of Baroda, the only daughter of Maratha King, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, an extremely beautiful princess and a legendary socialite. Early in her life, her uncle's death led to her father ascending the throne (gaddi). Gayatri studied at Glendower Preparatory School in London, Patha Bhavana of Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan, and later in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she travelled with her mother and siblings, then studied secretarial skills in London School of Secretaries; Brillantmont and Monkey Club London.She first met Sawai Man Singh II when she was 12 and he had come to Calcutta to play polo and stayed with their family. She married Sawai Man Singh II Bahadur on 9 May 1940. Gayatri was a particularly avid equestrienne. She was an excellent rider and an able Polo player. She was a good shot and enjoyed many days out on 'Shikars'. <mask> was fond of cars and is credited with importing the first Mercedes-Benz W126, a 500 SEL to India which was later shipped to Malaysia. She also owned several Rolls-Royces and an aircraft.<mask> had one child, Prince Jagat Singh of Jaipur, late Raja of Isarda, born on 15 October 1949, who was granted his uncle's fief as a subsidiary title. Jagat Singh was the half-brother to Bhawani Singh, who was the eldest son of his father born by his father's first wife. <mask> was once included in Vogue magazine's Ten Most Beautiful Women list. She started two schools in Jaipur,  Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls’ Public School established in 1943  and the other one being Maharaja Sawai Man Singh Vidyalaya, Jaipur which is a co-educational school opened in the memory of her husband Maharaja Sawai Man Singh of Jaipur. She revived and promoted the dying art of blue pottery. Political career
After partition and independence of India in 1947, <mask> <mask> ran for Parliament in 1962 and won the constituency in the Lok Sabha in the world's largest landslide, winning 192,909 votes out of 246,516 cast. She continued to hold this seat on 1967 and 1971 as a member of the Swatantra Party founded by C. Rajagopalachari, running against the Indian National Congress party.In 1965, during a meeting with Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, <mask> was again asked to join Congress. This was the time when, despite the fact that her husband was being made ambassador to Spain, she stuck to her principles and decided not to join the party. In 1967 the Swatantra party joined hands with Jan Sangh that was led by Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. The alliance won a large number of seats in the 1967 election. In the assembly election <mask> lost to Damodar Lal Vyas, in Malpura constituency, but won the Lok Sabha election. The privy purses were abolished in 1971, terminating all royal privileges and titles. <mask> was arrested during the Emergency due to an alleged political vendetta on the false accusation of violating tax laws, and served 5 months in Tihar Jail.She retired from politics and published her biography, A Princess Remembers, written by Santha Rama Rau, in 1976 (this biography also published in Marathi language as A Princess Remembers: <mask> <mask>). She was also the focus of the film Memoirs of a Hindu Princess, directed by Francois Levie. There were rumours that she might re-enter politics as late as 1999, when the Cooch Behar Trinamool Congress nominated her as their candidate for the Lok Sabha elections, but she did not respond to the offer. Family
<mask> <mask> had one son, Prince Jagat Singh, Raja of Isarda (15 October 1949 – 5 February 1997), who was granted his paternal uncle's (father's elder brother) fief of Isarda as a subsidiary title. Jagat Singh was married on 10 May 1978 to Mom Rajawongse Priyanandana Rangsit (b. 1952), daughter of Prince Piyarangsit Rangsit and Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit (née Rajani) of Thailand. The married couple had two children:
 Rajkumari Lalitya Kumari (b.1979)
 Maharaj Devraj Singh, Raja of Isarda (b. 1981)
Today, they are her only surviving descendants, and as such, have claimed to be heirs of their paternal grandmother. Maharaj Jagat Singh was, thus, half-brother to Bhawani Singh of Jaipur, the eldest son of the late Maharaja by his first wife, a Jodhpur princess. Family relationships

<mask> <mask> was related to several other erstwhile royal families in India. She was herself not from the Rajput community, but from a dynasty native to Cooch Behar in Bengal, and was daughter of Maharaja Jitendra Narayan and Maharani Indira Raje, who was daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III and Maharani Chimnabai, belonging to the Gaekwad dynasty of the Marathas. Her grand-nephew, along with his wife, Poonam Singh Mewar, and 2 sons died in a car crash. Her paternal grandparents were Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur and Suniti <mask> of Cooch Behar.Maharani Suniti <mask> was the daughter of the Brahmo social reformer Keshab Chandra Sen.

She had two brothers, Jagaddipendra Narayan and Indrajitendra Narayan of whom Jagaddipendra Narayan became the Maharaja of Cooch Behar in his infancy after the death of their father in 1922. Thus, maternally, she was closely connected to Gaekwads of Baroda State. Further, her sister Ila <mask> was married into the Tripura royal family, and her younger sister, Menaka <mask>, was married into the royal family of Dewas State. Thus, through various interconnections, she was related to the royal houses of Kota, Sawantwadi, Akkalkot State, Jath State, Dewas Jr., Jasdan State, and Sandur, Tehri-Garhwal, Mayurbhanj, Dhar State, Kolhapur, Lunawada State, Baria and Raja of Payagpur, which was considered normal amongst the royalties of India. Polo sport
<mask> <mask> is known for her equestrian skills and polo-playing abilities. She was associated with polo since childhood. In 1933, she participated in her first Polo match in Calcutta.She was the chief patron of Jaipur Riding and Polo Club during her later years. After her death in 2009, both her and her quintessential polo skills were honoured by "Rajmata Gayatri Devi Memorial Cup", sponsored by Rambagh Palace, and "Maharani Polo Club", which is celebrated every year in Argentina. Death
<mask> <mask> developed gastric problems in Tihar jail during the infamous state of emergency imposed by Congress Party, then led by PM Indira Gandhi. Later, her gastric problem grew worse, so she was admitted to King Edward's Hospital in London. She was being treated for the gastric disorder there, when she had expressed her desire to return to Jaipur. She was flown in an air ambulance to Jaipur. She was admitted at Santokba Durlabhji Memorial hospital (SDMH) on 17 July 2009.She died at the age of 90 on 29 July 2009, reportedly due to lung failure. Filmography
 Stephane Bern. Gayatra <mask>, une princesse au pays des Maharajas. Documentary by Roland Portiche and Vanessa Pontet. 1h45'. 2013. First broadcast on 26 December 2013, FR2 (French TV).References

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<mask>. "Bill<mask> (born 1943 in Bryan, Ohio) was the Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from August 3, 1981 through October 21, 1985. He was appointed to the FDIC Board of Directors by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 at the age of 34 and was named Chairman of the FDIC in 1981 by President Reagan. In 1986, <mask> founded the regulatory consulting firm The Secura Group LLC which became part of FTI Consulting, Inc., a global consulting firm. <mask> served as Chairman of the Board of Fifth Third Bancorp from 2009 through 2014. <mask> left FTI Consulting at year end 2019 and joined The Isaac-Milstein Group as Co-Chairman with New York financier and philanthropist Howard Milstein who is Chairman & CEO of New York Private Bank & Trust which in turn owns Emigrant Bank. <mask> sits on a number of corporate boards (including New York Private Bank & Trust and Emigrant Bank and is Chairman of Sarasota Private Trust and Cleveland Private Trust and speaks and writes regularly on financial and regulatory issues. Early life and education
<mask><mask> was born in 1943 to parents Charles and <mask>.He grew up in Bryan, Ohio. <mask> earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1966. While a student at Miami, he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the Student Senate, and served as Treasurer of his class. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LL.D) from Miami University in 1984. He also received a Doctorate of Law (summa cum laude) from the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University in 1969. Career
After earning his law degree, <mask> went to work for the law firm Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee. Witnessing incredible changes rippling through the banking sector at the time, he worked on the forefront of the vast expansion of bank holding companies and the difficulties posed by the recession and real estate collapse of 1972-1974.Making a move to focus his career on the banking industry, <mask> departed Foley & Lardner in 1974 to join the First Kentucky National Corporation in Louisville, KY, the largest banking company in the state. He served as vice president and general counsel of the corporation and its subsidiaries, which included the First National Bank of Louisville and First Kentucky Trust Co. There, he got his first taste of dealing with shareholders and reporting to regulatory agencies, including the FDIC, and learned to deftly navigate the economic waters of the mid-1970s. In 1978, at age 34, <mask> was tapped by President Jimmy Carter to serve as the youngest-ever member of the board of the FDIC. The position proved to be full throttle from day one – in fact, on his first day in office at the FDIC, <mask> was called down to Puerto Rico, where one of the territory's largest banks, Banco Credito, was set to fail. <mask> was named Chairman of the FDIC in 1981 following the election of President Ronald Reagan. He served in that position through 1985 and is credited of preparing the FDIC for an onslaught of bank failures throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s.<mask> served as FDIC Chairman during the Reagan Administration from 1981 through 1985, a very tumultuous period in U.S. banking, which has recently been a point of comparison to the financial crisis of 2008. He was appointed to the three-member board of directors of the FDIC on March 16, 1978 by President Carter. Some of the major challenges during <mask>'s tenure at the FDIC were sky-high interest rates (the U.S. prime rate reached 21.5 percent); widespread bank failures and massive insolvencies in the thrift industry; the Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act deregulating interest rates; a major recession in 1981-1982 with unemployment reaching 11 percent in 1983; the collapse of Continental Illinois, then the seventh largest bank in the US; the third world debt crisis; a depression in the agricultural sector; a collapse of the bubble in the energy sector; and a severe nationwide collapse in the real estate sector. Altogether during the crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s some 3,000 banks and thrifts failed, including many of the largest banks in the country and nine of the ten largest banks in Texas. <mask> is widely credited, including by President Reagan and former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, with helping to maintain stability in the financial system during a period of severe stress. While at the FDIC, <mask> served as a member of the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee, Chaired the Financial Institutions Examination Council, and served on the Vice President's Task Force on Regulation of Financial Services.After his service at the FDIC, <mask> founded The Secura Group, a consulting firm providing regulatory counseling, risk management services, strategic studies, expert testimony, and management consulting for financial institutions, law firms, and governments. LECG acquired the Secura Group in 2007 at which time <mask> became an integral part of the financial services group at LECG, which was later acquired by FTI Consulting. <mask> is involved extensively in thought leadership relating to the financial services industry and policy makers worldwide. His articles are published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Forbes, American Banker, and other leading publications. He also appears regularly on leading television and radio programs in the US and abroad, is a contributor to CNBC, testifies before Congress, and is a frequent speaker throughout the world on finance and regulatory matters. <mask> served as Senior Managing Director for FTI Consulting.until the end of 2019  In May 2010, <mask> was elected chairman of Fifth Third Bancorp, and in 2014 was elected to the board of directors of Total System Services, Inc. (TSYS). He is a regular commentator on banking and financial issues for CNBC TV and regularly contributes opinion pieces for American Banker magazine and Forbes.His book Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed America, about the financial crisis of 2008, with foreword by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, was published in June 2010 by Wiley & Sons. <mask> left FTI Consulting and partnered with New York banker and philanthropist Howard Milstein at the end of 2019, both serving as Co-Chairman of The Isaac-Milstein Group, a global financial services consulting firm. <mask> serves on the boards of New York Private Bank & Trust and Emigrant Bank in New York City and is Chairman of Sarasota Private Trust and Cleveland Private Trust, both part of the Milstein family of companies. References

External links
 http://www.williamisaac.com/
 Wiley book webpage

Miami University alumni
People from Bryan, Ohio
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law alumni
Chairs of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
American bankers
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Carter administration personnel
Reagan administration personnel

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<mask> (born 16 May 1978), known as <mask>, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking or central midfielder. He is the technical director at Arsenal. Club career

Early career
<mask> started his career in Série A with Corinthians. While with Corinthians, <mask> won the 1998 and 1999 Brasileiro championships, and the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. Arsenal
After initially planning to join Arsenal in 2000, his transfer was put on hold after it was realised that he was in possession of a fake Portuguese passport. Months later, after qualifying for a European Union (EU) passport (aided by Italian lineage on his father's side), he signed for Arsenal on 16 January 2001 for £6 million. He had a turbulent time early on as his sister was killed in a car accident.His Arsenal debut came in 2001 in a goalless draw tarnished by an injury after 15 minutes against Leicester City. He had replaced Freddie Ljungberg at half time only to be replaced by Dennis Bergkamp minutes later. It was an unfortunate start and he only managed to play in four more matches for the club during that season, one of which was a 0–3 defeat at home to Middlesbrough in which he contributed an own goal. His first goal for the club came against Grimsby in the League Cup on 27 November 2001. He went on to make a substitute appearance in the 2002 FA Cup Final as Arsenal emerged victorious. He also contributed 14 league appearances, and a goal against Aston Villa, as Arsenal won the 2001–02 Premier League, with <mask> becoming the first Brazilian to win the Premier League. In 2002–03 <mask> made 18 appearances in the Premier League and featured heavily as Arsenal got to the FA Cup final for the third year running.<mask> scored in Arsenal's fifth round win against Manchester United at Old Trafford, however injury issues in the latter part of the season meant he was left out of the squad for the final. 2003–04 season in midfield for Arsenal was seen as his finest season so far in football, he was part of the team which went 49 games unbeaten, (the whole 2003–04 Premier League season without defeat). He appeared in 30 League games and scored 2 goals, both against Chelsea, he scored the fourth of Arsenal's 5 in a 5–1 historic win against Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League in November 2003, he made a career high 48 appearances and 7 goals for Arsenal in all competitions. <mask> was on the pitch as Arsenal clinched the 2003–04 Premier League title at White Hart Lane on 25 April 2004. During the season, he made his 100th appearance for Arsenal. <mask> enjoyed mixed fortunes in the 2004–05 season. He missed the start of the season because he was away with Brazil at the Copa América.This was followed by speculation over his future at the club as he was in the last year of his contract with Arsenal. Talks with Valencia of Spain in January 2005 failed as the Mestalla outfit were not able to pay the fee Arsenal demanded. <mask> only scored two goals for Arsenal in 2004–05 – one was a fine chip in the 2–0 away win at West Bromwich Albion in May 2005, and the other a penalty kick in a 7–0 win over Everton in 2005. He did however come on as an extra time substitute as Arsenal won the 2005 FA Cup Final. Valencia
In May 2005, it was confirmed that he would leave Arsenal in the summer on a Bosman ruling free transfer. Valencia, Juventus, Inter Milan, and Barcelona were hot favourites to secure the signature of <mask>, and on 30 May, Valencia announced it had signed him to a five-year deal. Shortly after signing, <mask> suffered a pre-season injury that ruled him out of first-team action until 4 April 2006, when he made his debut in the 5–3 victory over Cádiz.On 3 July 2009, the Brazilian midfielder left Valencia through contractual termination. Corinthians
After being released in Spain, <mask> signed a contract with his former club, the Corinthians, on 6 August 2009, which was to last until 31 December 2011. After playing four matches during the 2010 season, his contract was terminated by mutual consent, and <mask> announced his retirement from professional football. International career
<mask> initially considered playing for the England national team upon gaining a British passport as he did not think he would be picked for Brazil. He finally got a call-up to the Brazilian national team in 2004 and made his debut on 28 April 2004 in a friendly match against Hungary. He played for them in the 2004 Copa América and 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, which were both won by Brazil. In the final of the Copa América 2004 he scored one of the penalties in the shootout as Brazil defeated Argentina.Post-playing career
On 17 March 2011, Corinthians announced that <mask> would take over from William Machado as the club's director of football. He also assisted Carlos Queiroz's Iranian national team during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. From 2016 to 2019, he was the general coordinator of the Brazilian national team. On 9 July 2019, it was announced that <mask> had become Arsenal's first ever technical director. The club's director of football, Raul Sanllehi said: "We're very excited that <mask> is joining the team. He has great experience and technical football knowledge and most importantly is a true Arsenal man. He understands the club and what we stand for to our millions of fans around the world."Honours
Corinthians
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1998, 1999
FIFA Club World Championship: 2000

Arsenal
Premier League: 2001–02, 2003–04
FA Cup: 2001–02, 2004–05
FA Community Shield: 2002

Valencia
Copa del Rey: 2007–08

Brazil
Copa América: 2004
FIFA Confederations Cup: 2005

Individual
Premier League Player of the Month: February 2004

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Copa América-winning players
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Brazilian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in England
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in England
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Arsenal F.C. non-playing staff
FA Cup Final players

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<mask>'<mask>, editor and collector of books on dance notation. <mask>'<mask> (1913–2005) collected books on dance notation, the shorthand used by choreographers to make detailed records of their work. Especially strong in 18th-century European material, her collection, given to Penn State in 2003, was the best in private hands. Career
She was born 13 March 1913 (or, as she liked to say, on 3/13/13) in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Agnes (Lynch) and Lawrence O'Brian, who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad. A 1937 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, she married Donald Woodward Lee, an instructor at Penn State, and the couple moved to New York City so that Lee could pursue a doctorate at Columbia University; this marriage ended in divorce. While working at the R. R. Bowker Company in the mid-1940s, she met Sol.M<mask>, editor of the Antiquarian Bookman (AB). <mask> purchased this weekly magazine from Bowker in 1953, by which time it had become a prime source for timely news, book reviews, and coverage of trade and library conventions. It attracted a large subscription list of dealers, both those especially concerned with selling used books and those primarily engaged in the sale of new books but who ran an out-of-print search service for their customers. She worked for the magazine, which later renamed itself AB Bookman’s Weekly, as administrative assistant, copy editor and – as “Grandma Lynch” – a features writer, posing as a book collector who lived in the mountains of Frugality, PA, and who kept her books in caves (good humidity) with bear traps in front of each cave (inexpensive security). <mask> O'Brian married Sol. <mask> in 1953. She was a frequent book reviewer in AB especially of needlepoint and cook books (AB’s readers got quite accustomed to these reviews, madly irrelevant though they were to the concerns of most of the magazine’s subscribers).She signed her reviews with her initials, MAM –  and it was as MAM that she was known to her many friends in the book and dance worlds. Sol<mask> sold the magazine in 1972; a year later, the Malkins were jointly awarded the Clarence Day Award of the American Library Association, an award annually made to a librarian or other individual for outstanding work in encouraging the love of books and reading. The <mask> were the first non-librarians to receive this honor. Philanthropy

In 1985, MAM established an annual lecture under the auspices of the Book Arts Press at Columbia University in honor of her husband Sol., who died in March 1986, a few months after Michael Winship gave the first lecture. The Malkin lecture, later renamed the Sol. M. and <mask> O'Brian Malkin Lecture in Bibliography, moved with the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School (RBS) to the University of Virginia in 1992.MAM was a frequent attendee of RBS courses during the school's Columbia days, and a regular visitor to the school after its move to Charlottesville, Virginia. From 1999 through 2004, MAM funded the New Scholars Program of the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA); each year the BSA invited three early-career scholars to present 20-minute papers at a panel preceding the annual meeting in New York City in late January. The program gave participants an opportunity to present unpublished research and to acquaint members of the Society with new work on bibliographical topics. After MAM's death, the BSA raised endowment funds to institutionalize her annual subsidy; one of the New Scholars grants is named in her honor. Though never a professional dancer herself, MAM always had an interest in both contemporary ballroom dancing and the history of dance, and she was a supporter of many dance groups and societies, including the American Dance Guild (ADG). In 2003, the ADG and Columbia University co-sponsored a Mary Ann Malkin Gala Concert of dance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City in honor of her generous support of dancing and dance history. Collecting Dance Books

MAM began to collect dance books in the mid-1970s: "Neither Sol.nor I collected books seriously during our AB days," she wrote in recollections published in the newsletter of The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies. "Sol. felt deeply that it would have been unfair to our subscribers for us to do so." In the 1970s, MAM acquired an 18th-century book on the history of dance that used a visual shorthand system of dance step notation. "I had trouble reading this book: stenochoregraphic dance notation has an alarming resemblance to chicken tracks," she said, but she decided to collect books showing the history of dance notation as three-dimensional objects that could be loved for themselves, as well as for their contents. She soon had a substantial collection of dance notation books, thanks in large part to the English dealer Richard Macnutt, who represented her at the 1979 Jack Cole Sotheby's sale in London. Other dealers who helped her form her collection include Bennett Gilbert, Gordon Hollis of Golden Legend, the Lubranos, Bruce McKittrick, the Sallochs, and Stephen Weissman.Some of MAM's dance books were exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York City in 1986 and at the Houghton Library at Harvard in 1987. She was the principal lender to Madison U. Sowell's 1993 exhibition at Brigham Young University, The Art of Terpsichore: From Renaissance Festivals to Romantic Ballets, mounted in conjunction with a meeting of the Society of Dance History Scholars. In her heyday as a collector, it was a treat to see her at an antiquarian book fair. She loved to go into a strange dealer's booth, spot an old book dealing with the history of dance, and ask to see it. The dealer would obligingly take the book out of the case and show it to her, with no thought of selling such an expensive book to a little old lady with bright orange hair. MAM would then whip out her checkbook and write a four- and sometimes even a five-figure check on the spot, handing it to the astonished but gratified dealer. In 2002, she mounted a solo show of her books at the Grolier Club and then gave her collection to her alma mater, Penn State, which mounted an exhibition of the books in October 2003.In 2003, she privately published the substantial Dancing by the Book, a catalog of her collection of dance notation books. In the Introduction to this book, MAM wrote: "We could have (and should have) done more -- and worked longer and harder -- before publishing this catalogue. But I am now 90 years old, and it seems an appropriate time to show the results of our work thus far." The book, distributed by Golden Legend and by the Lubranos, was designed by Jerry Kelly, with photographs by Ropbert Lorenzson. Toward the end of her life, MAM's eyesight began to fail, and she became unsure on her feet. She fell twice in 2004, breaking first one hip and then the other. Mentally she remained alert, however, and with help from home care worker Ceceal Sergeant, she graduated to a three-wheeled walker and then to a cane.In July 2005, MAM took a train to Charlottesville to attend the 21st annual Sol. M. and <mask> O'<mask> Lecture in Bibliography, given on July 27 by Richard Wendorf, then the Director of the Boston Athenaeum, and to attend a dinner in her honor. She seemed tired but well when she returned to New York City on Friday, 30 July, and in a telephone conversation on Sunday night she gave a lively account of her visit to RBS to a friend; but she died, apparently in her sleep, later that evening. She was 92 years old. There were no near surviving relatives. MAM's temperament was a sunny one. She was remarkably without self-pity of any kind, and she was always good company.In later life, she was glad that she had the means to support generously two of her principal interests: dance and the history of the book. Her residual estate was divided between the Grolier Club and Rare Book School. References

Dance notators
1913 births
Pennsylvania State University alumni
2005 deaths
20th-century American philanthropists

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<mask> (14 June 1931 – 25 February 2005) was a monk of the Ramakrishna Mission. He was a prolific writer and orator in Kannada. He was also known as singer. Biography

Birth
<mask> was born on 14 June 1931 at Moodahadu, a village near Saligrama in the undivided district of Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka as Ramachandra Bayari. He completed matriculation and served as a teacher in Malpe and Madikeri. Work as Sannyasi of Ramakrishna Mission
He joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1960 as a brahmacharin at Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama (presently Ramakrishna Math), Bangalore. He was an initiated disciple of <mask>da, the then president of Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Bangalore and the Vice President of the Ramakrishna Order.He, as brahmachari Mukunda Chaitanya, underwent probationer's training at the Belur Math, headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission for two years. He served at the Bangalore centre (now known as Ramakrishna Math, Basavanagudi) for about 33 years (up to 1993), managing several of its activities, including Vivekananda Balaka Sangha and Vivekananda Yuvaka Sangha (the twin organizations for the character development of youth). During May 1993 – November 2000, <mask> served as the President of the Ramakrishna Saradashram at Ponnampet, Kodagu; and conducted a number of spiritual retreats and other programmes. The shrine and the prayer-halls were renovated and Sadhu-nivas (monks' quarters) constructed. In November 2000 he took over as the President of the newly affiliated Ramakrishna Mission ashrama at Belgaum. The historic building in Belgaum, where <mask> stayed in 1892 for 12 days, was gifted to the Ramakrishna Mission by the Govt. of Karnataka.<mask> was instrumental in renovating this building, and constructing the Ramakrishna Universal Temple in the adjacent land in January 2004. He has authored several books, mainly in Kannada, including three biographies: on Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi and <mask>. One of his famous books — A letter to a student, focuses on  students elaborating various techniques to help them achieve all-round excellence. The biography of Vivekananda won him the Vishwamanava literary award of the De.Ja.Gou. Trust. The Swamiji was instrumental in the setting up of several voluntary organizations, Satsangs, as well as independent Ramakrishna Ashramas throughout Karnataka. He took a very active role in the Ramakrishna Mission activities — through his discourses, bhajans, and Satsang programmes.He is also well known for his singing and composing the bhajans, and for inspiring others to take monastic vows. His music
Swami <mask>ji was a noted singer and could allegedly transport the satsang into a spiritual trance. The most notable Bhajanas sung by him were Shraddeya sarovaradi, Tayi durgeya, kabir doha "Theertha yaatrage" etc. His most well-known songs are:

<mask>nda : Sanyassi Geetay. Ananta Roopini, <mask>nda
Swami Purushottamananda Bhajan : Prema Roopa Sri Ramakrishna

Death
<mask> died on Friday 25 February 2005 at the Narayana Hrudayalaya, due to a massive heart attack at the age of 73. Books, Cassettes and CDs

Books

In Kannada

Biographies
 Veerasanyasi-, Vishwa Vijeta-, and Vishwamanava-Vivekananda – the three volumes of a comprehensive biography of <mask>
 Yugavatara Shri Ramakrishna (Vol. I to Vol.IV) – a biography of Sri Ramakrishna in Kannada
 Shri Sharadadevi Jeevanaganga – a biography of the Holy Mother Shri Sharadadevi
 Brahmananubhavi – a biography of <mask>mananda

Booklets
 ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗೊಂದು ಪತ್ರ - Vidyarthigondu Patra
 ಆಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಏಕಾಗ್ರತೆ - Adhyayanadalli Ekagrate
 Dheerateya Dundhubhi
 ಕಬೀರ ಬೀರಿದ ಬೆಳಕು - Kabeera Beerida Belaku
 ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಇಷ್ಟು ಸಾಕು - Sadyakke Ishtu Saaku (a minimalist Kannada dictionary for beginners)
 ತಪಸ್ಸು ಯಶಸ್ಸು - Tapassu Yashassu
 ಶಾಂತಿಯ ಹರಕೆ - Shaantiya Harake
 ಪ್ರಯತ್ನವೇ ಪರಮೇಶ್ವರ - Prayatnave Parameshwara
 ಶಕ್ತಿಶಾಲಿ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣ - Shanktishaali Vyakthitva Nirmaana
 ಚಿಂತನ ಮಂಥನ - Chintana Manthana
 ಯುವ ಶಕ್ತಿಯ ರಹಸ್ಯ - Yuva Shaktiya Rahasya
 ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಾಗಿ - Vidhyaarthigaagi. ಶಾಂತಿಯ ಮಂತ್ರಗಳು - Shaanti Mantragalu. English
 Letter to A Student
 Secret of Concentration
 Man and Money
 Youth and Vitality
 Useful thoughts for youths
 Build your personality
 Gospel of Strength

Music in CDs and Cassettes
 Prarthana Pushpanjali – recording of his live performance at Ramakrishna Institute of Culture, Kolkota
 Bhakthi Geetam – Live Performance at Ramakrishna math, Chennai
 Bhakthi Sudha – assorted bhajans and namavalis
 Bhajana Mala – assorted bhajans and namavalis
 Shiva Shakti Mala – Sanskrit and Hindi devotional songs
 Sri Ram Aradhana – Sanskrit and Hindi devotional songs
 Sri Krishna Bhajans – Sanskrit and Hindi devotional songs
 Bhajans(Vol-4) – Hindi devotional songs
 Bhajans(Vol-5) – Hindi and Sanskrit devotional songs
 Stotras and Bhajans
 Arati & Sankirtana – Sanskrit devotional songs
 Bhajanakusumanjali – Kannada & Hindi devotional songs
 Baarenna Thaayi – Kannada devotional songs
 Kabeera Beerida Belaku (vol. I & II) – Hindi & Kannada

Lectures in Audio Cassettes and CDs
 Vachana-Veda (16 CDs)
 Vishnusahasranama (3 CDs)
 Tittiriya Upanishad (2 CDs)
 Bhakti Yoga (1 CD)
 Chintana Part 1 & 2 (2 CDs)
 Pavitrateyatta payaNa (1 CD)
 Manassinante Mahadeva
 Yugakke Takka Saadhane (1 CD)
 Vinoda-Sunaada (1 CD)
 Sarvatomukha BeLavaNige(1 CD)
 PrItiya Riti (1 CD)
 Dhyana Yoga (1 CD)
 Vishwaroopa Darshana (1 CD)
 Sarada Devi Sandesha (1 CD)
 Satsanga Sourabha Bhaga 1(1 CD)
 Satsanga Sourabha Bhaga 2(1 CD)
 Sri Sharadadevi Mahatmya (1 DVD audio)
 Prayatnave Parameshwara (1 CD)
 Bharata Pravaasa Kathana (1 CD)
 Adhyatma & Mantradeekshe (1 CD)

References

External links

Video Collections
prarthana_pushpa
Satsanga – Swami Purushottamananda
A Day with Swami Purushottamananda – 1
A day with Swami Purushottamananda – 2
A Day with Swami Purushottamananda – 3. Audio Collections
Collection at esnips
Sri Ramakrishna Vachanaveda Lecture Kannada
Bhajans by Swami Purushottamanandaji_Devi
Bhajans by Swami Purushottamanandaji_Rama
Bhajans by Swami Purushottamanandaji_Composed by Swamiji
Bhajans by Swami Purushottamanandaji_Vividh Bhajans
Bhajans by Swami Purushottamanandaji_Krishna
Bhajana Mala 1
Arati_and_Bhajans_Ramakrishna_Mission

Monks of the Ramakrishna Mission
1931 births
2005 deaths
People from Dakshina Kannada district

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Swami Purushottamananda
Swami Yatiswaranan
Swami Purushottamananda
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Purushottamananda
Swami Vivekananda
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Swami Purushottamana
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Swami Purushottamanandaji
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<mask> is an actor and musician who emerged in the 1960s Hong Kong music scene. He was a member of the popular Hong Kong group The Kontinentals as well as the front man for <mask> & The Inspiration. In later years he became an actor and in an early role he played a thug in the movie Way of the Dragon that starred Bruce Lee. Early life
<mask> was born in California, USA, to Swedish missionaries. His family moved to Hong Kong in 1950 when he was 4 years old. He studied at King George V School between 1958 and 1965. Older kids in KGV allowed him to play in their bands in school hall.They played on Friday afternoons

Music career

1950s and 1960s

In the late 1950s, <mask> was in a band called  The Cagey 5 which was a twist around of the name of their school King George V. In a few years the band had become The Kontinentals. In 1963 <mask>'s school band The Kontinentals, signed their first recording contract and shortly afterwards released I Think Of Her and I Still Love You, released on the Orbit Records label. Both were chart-topping hits in Hong Kong. He was entertainment editor for sensationalist newspaper The Star in 1968. 1970 to 1976

In the 1970s, Nelson was the front man in a successful band called Ming

which was signed to EMI records. It was formed in 1973 and lasted until 1976. Most of the recordings the band made were composed by <mask>.Some of the band's releases that did very well in the 1970s included "Never Coming Home" and "Reasons Why". Due to a few things he'd seen with other bands that included drinking backstage and taking drugs, also not wanting to sing past 30, he decided on a change of direction and as a result, he broke up Ming. 1976 onwards
In 1976 he switched to composing and producing and has written many jingles and film soundtracks, including the main theme for the award-winning Cantonese movie Mr. Vampire. From 1976 to 1979 he worked for EMI (HK) Ltd as Artist & Repertoire Manager and in 1979 started his own group of Companies, The Melody Bank which became a successful production and publishing house, and The Entertainment Company, which managed several successful Hong Kong artists, including Rowena Cortes and Louie Castro. 10 years later he sold The Melody Bank to BMG Pacific Limited and joined this newly emerging 'major' in the music industry as Managing Director. In this role he set up BMG's music publishing operations in the Asian Region as well as running the record company in Hong Kong. After completing his three-year contract <mask> was headhunted by the well-known Hong Kong Swaine family (patriarch of this family, Sir John Swaine QC was at the time chairman of both the Royal HK Jockey Club and the Legislative Council.)A new company called The Media Bank was set up under the Chairmanship of elder son John Swaine Junior, with <mask> as MD. Through <mask>'s music industry contacts the company acquired representation of several indie labels and publishing catalogues. <mask> left the company shortly after the Handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997 to pursue China-related opportunities as a consultant. Over the decades <mask> has also presented concerts by and booked major international artists such as Kenny G,

Elton John, Bob Dylan, INXS, Bananarama and Michael Bolton. He still books artists for corporate events and charity events. He still enjoys singing and in mid-2005 started a new concept band…..the concept being that it can range in size from just <mask> and a pianist up to as many musicians as a client can afford or accommodate on a stage! In view of this flexibility, he named the band INFINITY and the group has performed at many high-profile events including the 2005 Macau Grand Prix, the final New Year's Eve party at the legendary, now-closed, Hyatt Regency Hotel, the Canadian Community Ball (2004, 2005, 2006), the Jailhouse Rock party at the historical Victoria Prison to raise funds for the Community Chest and many private parties and events.In September 2006 a Guangzhou, China-based record company released an album of Chinese favorites sung in English by <mask>. He is also recording a CD of some of his favorite songs for release in 2010 which will be the 60th anniversary of <mask>'s arrival in Hong Kong as a child in 1950 with his parents. Producer
The artists that Nelsson has produced include Gracie Rivera, Mona Richardson, Carole and Perry Martin. Acting
His acting career started with a small role in Bruce Lee's Way of The Dragon

in 1972. He got the part as a result of knowing Lee via his brother Robert Lee who was a fellow musician. He has appeared in countless Hong Kong-made TV dramas since then, for all the Hong Kong channels, CTV, RTHK, HK-TVB and RTV/ATV. Among his roles have been Divine Retribution (ATV), Wiselee (TVB) and feature film Journey To The West with Nicholas Tse, released in late 2005.During late 2005 and early 2006 he taped several drama serials for HK-TVB including Stanley Story, which went on air on May 15, 2006 and Land of Wealth, which was screened in October 2006. He has also appeared as a guest in Jade Solid Gold and is currently seen as an expert promoting HK-TVB's HD-TV channels. He finds that having his face appear on TV on a regular basis opens many doors, especially in China, and keeps this aspect of his career as a business tool as well as hobby. Other business interests
He is currently a well-respected entertainment industry and PR consultant doing work for prestigious Asian companies, including some of the major record companies, Hong Kong's popular restaurant and bar district Knutsford Terrace, and his native country of Sweden, through his group of companies, which include a music production company, a music publishing company and a PR company. <mask> is considered somewhat of an expert in music-related copyright matters and in a more serious side to his career has been engaged by the Hong Kong government as an expert witness from time to time. He has in the past served several terms as a director on the boards of both the Music Publishers Association (M.P.A.) and The Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (C.A.S.H.)Honors and awards

 Order of the Knights of Rizal - (October 25, 2019).

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<mask> (born <mask>, 17 November 1952) is an Austrian singer-songwriter and world musician. With his mix of rock music and elements of traditional Volksmusik he has become a prominent exponent of the so-called New Volksmusik and Alpine Rock in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. His stage name <mask>isern refers to his hometown. <mask> has won numerous record certifications and several national and international awards. Biography
He was born in Bad Goisern. Already interested in music as a youth, he joined the local brass band where he learned playing the trumpet as his first instrument. When conflicts arose with the band leader about the band's repertoire and <mask>'s long hair, he had to leave the band and return the trumpet.He then learned to play guitar starting with an acoustic guitar and then expanding his skills to a self-purchased electric guitar. He also took lessons in trumpet and clarinet. Other instruments like the Steirische Harmonika that was introduced to him by his grandfather were learned in private study. South Africa, Canada, Philippines (1972–1983)
Aged 20, he left Austria with his girlfriend and relocated to South Africa where he worked in a chemical laboratory. He became involved in the struggle against apartheid but returned to Austria five years later. There he married his Canadian wife and adopted her surname Sullivan. At the age of 27 he decided to become a professional musician.He studied guitar in Toronto for two years and learned to play flamenco music. After separating from his wife, he went on another journey and learned to play the nose flute on the Philippines. This was also where he began to develop his own musical style by incorporating elements of a foreign traditional music into the traditional music of his home country Austria. Austria: the Alpinkatzen (1984–1995)
Back in Austria in 1984, he worked as a freelance musician and composer and studied electroacoustics and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. In 1986 he and Wolfgang Staribacher founded the band Original Alpinkatzen. At this time he also adopted his stage name <mask> Goisern while Staribacher was <mask> Wien. Beginning with small performances in clubs and pubs, they published a studio album Alpine Lawine [Alpine Avalanche] in 1988 on CBS using the moniker "Alpinkatzen featuring <mask> Goisern".Together with Wolfgang Ambros, Joesi Prokopetz and Manfred Tauchen the Alpinkatzen performed the Watzmann tour, a stage adaption of the audio drama Der Watzmann ruft [Mount Watzmann is calling]. Afterwards the band parted with Wolfgang Staribacher. <mask> Goisern kept his stage name and continued the project with a number of new musicians: Stefan Engel (keys), Wolfgang Maier (drums), Reinhard Stranzinger (guitar) and Sabine Kapfinger (vocals). Kapfinger became later known as "Alpine Sabine" and eventually "Zabine". At first she participated in studio recordings only, but taught <mask>n how to yodel. The band had a breakthrough in 1992 with their album Aufgeigen stått niederschiassen [Striking up instead of shooting down] that featured the tracks "Heast as nit" (Austrian German for "don't you hear it"), "Weit, weit weg" [far, far away], and "Koa Hiatamadl" (dialectal for "no herder girl"). "Koa Hiatamadl" received extended airplay and peaked at No.2 in the Austrian singles charts. The Alpinkatzen toured across German language countries and became one of the most successful Alpenrock bands. In 1994, the second album Omunduntn (dialectal for "Up and down") was released. It contains the track "Goisern" which is a German language adaption of Ray Charles' song "Georgia", and also reworked versions of the songs "Cocaine" and "Kren & Speck" [horse radish and bacon] from the Alpinkatzen's first album Alpine Lawine. A new tour was conducted through Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Another quick tour included performances in Paris, San Antonio and Austin, Texas, and New York City. It was the last concert tour by the Alpinkatzen.Their last concert was given on 1 November 1994. Shortly before, a performance at the Circus Krone Building had been filmed by director Joseph Vilsmaier and his wife Dana Vávrová. The documentary Wia die Zeit vergeht [how time passes by] was presented at the 1995 Munich Festival and was later published on VHS and DVD. The concert at Circus Krone was declared the farewell performance by the band. Fashion and film
Apart from his musical activities, <mask>n had created two fashion lines together with his friend Klaus Höller, which were produced by Modehaus Meindl. Like his music, these collections were meant to interpret traditional elements in a modern way. <mask> made his debut as an actor in the 1995 television drama Hölleisengretl by director Jo Baier.He played the husband of protagonist Gretl (Martina Gedeck), and wrote the film score together with Austrian singer-songwriter Stefan Melbinger. Due to the Omunduntn tour he was unable to accept another acting offer for the role of Elias in Vilsmaier's film Brother of Sleep (German title: Schlafes Bruder), but he wrote the film score together with Winfried Grabe and Enjott Schneider. Other film music by <mask> Goisern includes the scores for two films by Austrian actor and director Julian Pölsler in 1991, and a television film Die Fernsehsaga – Eine steirische Fernsehgeschichte [the TV saga – a Styrian television tale] (1995). The soundtrack for the children's television film Ein Rucksack voller Lügen [A backpack full of lies] was published in 1996 as Ein Sack voller Lügen [A bag full of lies]. Africa and Tibet (1997–1998)
<mask> Goisern had been introduced to anthropologist Jane Goodall by their common friend, publisher Michael Neugebauer. Intrigued by her work and eventually invited by her for a visit to Gombe Stream National Park, <mask>n travelled to Tanzania in 1996 for the first time. During another voyage, a documentary film was made in cooperation with the Austrian ORF and German Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcasters: Von Goisern nach Gombe [From Goisern to Gombe].The soundtrack Gombe was published on CD in 1998. Tseten Zöchbauer, chairwoman of the Austrian organisation Save Tibet introduced <mask>n to artists of the India-based Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA). Subsequently, he accompanied and presented their Austrian tour. Afterwards he planned a voyage to Tibet and invited Zöchbauer, who had left her native country aged two, to come along. For six weeks they travelled through Tibet and later, in an ORF interview, reported on the status of the Tibetan people, culture, and relationship with their Chinese national government. Together with Wolfgang Spannberger he later travelled to Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, where the Central Tibetan Administration is located. There they met Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.With a mobile sound studio they recorded traditional Tibetan music performed by artists of TIPA. These recordings and other songs from a recording session with Tibetan guest musicians in Salzburg, Austria, were released in 1998 on the album Inexile [in exile]. The Dalai Lama followed an invitation by <mask> Goisern and visited him in Bad Ischl in 1998. Restart (1999–2006)
In 1999, <mask> Goisern worked again on recordings for an album of his own. The tracks for Fön [Foehn wind] were recorded with a new band in the summer of 2000. The album was released the same year. In early 2001, the band went on a promotional tour starting in Linz, and Trad, a compilation of Austrian folk songs, was released.In May 2001, <mask> Goisern received his first Amadeus Austrian Music Award as best national rock/pop artist. In his acceptance speech, which turned out to have been edited by ORF prior to airing, he criticised the Austrian music industry for a lack in supporting Austrian artists. Following the Fön tour, <mask> Goisern played a number of concerts in Egypt and West African countries. In Assiut he shared the stage with Mohamed Mounir, one of the best-known Egyptian musicians, who fuses elements of traditional Sufi music and modern rock. During his tour through West Africa, <mask>n was accompanied by a film team that recorded a documentary Grenzenlos [Without Borders] about connecting the meetings of the Austrian musicians with various African artists. In the summer of 2002, a concert tour was made in Germany, and the album Iwasig [Above] was released. The same year, when the Dalai Lama performed a kalachakra ceremony in Graz, Austria, <mask> <mask> and Tseten Zöchbauer presented several Sounds of Tibet concerts with TIPA artists.After an indoors concert tour through Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, the band recorded the album Trad II in a studio that had been custom-built in an abandoned hotel on Mount Krippenstein in the Dachstein Mountains. The subsequent concerts included locations in Sarajevo and Cape Verde. In 2003, <mask>n toured with Mohamed Mounir through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After presenting Trad II on Mount Krippenstein in October 2003, <mask>n went on the Trad II tour in 2004. In January 2005, <mask> <mask> and his band performed at the Festival au Désert in Mali together with balafon player Kele Tigi. Again, this trip was recorded on film and was later shown as Warten auf Timbuktu (Waiting for Timbuktu). After the numerous tours of the past years, <mask>n turned to different activities.Examples include the presentation of a sound installation in a cave of the Dachstein mountains. In November 2005 he recorded the duet Rita mir zwei with Wolfgang Niedecken which was released on the anniversary album of the German band Bap: Dreimal zehn Jahre [Three times ten years]. In April 2006, the Freedom Party of Austria used <mask>n's song "Heast as nit" [Don't you hear it?] in an election campaign. <mask> <mask> then published an open letter to party leader Heinz-Christian Strache, demanding that the Freedom Party stopped using his songs. The letter included a statement: "I stand for an open, tolerant society, for the destruction of fear of the unknown and new, and not for the fomentation thereof. I stand for looking changes in the eye and looking forward, not for the attempt to stop time, or to even turn it back; that is the content of 'Heast as nit...'."Linz Europe Tour 2007–2009

In 2007, <mask>n started the Linz Europe Tour 2007–2009 which was a promotional tour for Linz as European Capital of Culture 2009. The planning had already begun in 2005. Until 2009, he navigated several European rivers with a convoy of three ships, including a cargo ship converted to a floating stage, a towboat MS Wallsee, and a houseboat. This included concerts with local musicians in numerous towns along the route. Performances were made at the 2007 Donauinselfest in Vienna (featuring Willi Resetarits), The first part of the tour lead down the river Danube to its delta at the Black Sea. In 2008, a documentary DVD of this tour was released: Goisern goes East. In 2008, the second leg of the tour went upstream the Danube via Passau and Regensburg, through the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, and downstream the Rhine to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.Simultaneously the album s'Nix [The Void] was released. The river tour ended with a three-day-long celebration in Linz, the ships' homeport. Participating musicians included Klaus Doldinger, Bap, Haindling, Konstantin Wecker and Xavier Naidoo. Von Goisern wrote a logbook Stromlinien [Streamlines] about this tour. It was published in 2010. Entwederundoder
From late 2010 to spring 2011, <mask> Goisern toured pubs and inns in Austria and Germany. Live recordings and a documentary were broadcast by the Salzburg-based station Servus TV in August 2011.Soon after, the album Entwederundoder [Either and or] was released that reached the top 20 charts in Austria and Germany. Hitradio Ö3 put the track "Brenna tuat's guat" [It burns well] on the playlist. The single reached position No. 1 in the Austrian within a few weeks, outperforming the previous success "Koa Hiatamadl". "Brenna tuat's guat" got a platinum certification in Austria in 2012 and was also a success in Germany where it was <mask>n's first single in the charts. The album was awarded three platinum certifications in Austria and gold in Germany. Music

Style
<mask> Goisern is counted among the exponents of the so-called "Neue Volksmusik", lit."New Traditional Music". He is however more often associated with "Alpenrock" or "Alpine rock". His music fuses modern rock and traditional Alpine music. His style is significant for stressing the sound of the harmonica which is then balanced by electric guitars. Other influences include traditional African music as recorded on Gombe as well as Brazilian samba and also funk. The latter genres have helped <mask>n develop from Alpine music towards world music. Lyrics
The lyrics of <mask> Goisern's songs are often political and critical of society.An example are the references to far right politician Jörg Haider who hailed also from Goisern, and whose Freedom Party enjoyed high polls during the late 20th century and early 2000s. Discography

Albums

Alpinkatzen feat. <mask> Goisern
1988: Alpine Lawine [Alpine avalanche]

<mask> Goisern und die Alpinkatzen

<mask> Goisern
Studio albums

Live albums

Compilations

Soundtracks

DVD
2003: Iwasig [Above] (live)
2003: Grenzenlos [Without borders]
2005: Ausland [Overseas] (live)
2008: Goisern goes EastBibliography

Awards and nominations

Von Goisern has won multiple Amadeus Austrian Music Awards by IFPI Austria, and RUTH, the German World Music Prize. In 2004, he was granted an honorary citizenship by his hometown Bad Goisern. Further reading

References

External links

 Official website

  Interview with <mask> Goisern, partially published in Die Presse'' on 20 February 1993. 1952 births
Living people
Austrian singer-songwriters
People from Bad Goisern

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Brigadier General <mask> (; July 21, 1726 – September 18, 1787) played an important role in the early history of New Hampshire and many tales of his adventures would become legendary. He is the namesake of the town of Moultonborough in Carroll County, New Hampshire. Early colonial life and King George's War
<mask> was born in the town of North Hampton. He spent much of his childhood as an apprentice (indentured servant) to a cabinetmaker. In 1745, he won his freedom and left the cabinet making trade. He worked as a silversmith and formed the Moulton and Towle Silversmithing Company. He ended up leaving the silversmithing trade to his partner and the company is still called Towle Silversmithing Company today, where it still manufactures silverware and kitchen utensils.He was appointed as a captain of a ranger company in the New Hampshire Militia. In the same year, he was with the New England army under the command of William Pepperrell that took Fortress Louisbourg from the French. For the rest of King George's War, <mask> fought against the Ossipee Indians that were allied to the French around Lake Winnipesaukee until they were killed or driven to Canada. During one winter scout from Dover, New Hampshire, Capt. <mask> and his men ambushed six Ossipee warriors on the ice of Lake Winniepesaukee. Five of the warriors were killed in the first volley and the sixth ran away, followed closely by <mask>'s massive black dog that attacked and killed the fleeing warrior. The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the war in 1748.It would be only six years until the next war between Britain and France. After the end of the war in 1749, <mask> married Abigail Smith. Together they had eleven children. Also during this time, <mask> opened a store in Hampton and started importing goods from Europe and the West Indies. French and Indian War until the American Revolution
With the resumption of the colonial struggle in 1754 with the French and Indian War, <mask> once again served as a captain in the New Hampshire Militia and was elected to the New Hampshire General Court. After the end of the French and Indian War, <mask> was granted large tracts of land on the north side of Lake Winnipesaukee in the towns of Moultonborough (named after himself), New Hampton, Tamworth, Center Harbor and Sandwich, by the governors Benning Wentworth and John Wentworth. In 1764, with the wreck of the mast-ship St. George off the coast of Hampton, Moulton and many of the other town residents salvaged many of the goods aboard for their own profit.In the early morning hours of March 15, 1769, <mask>'s mansion burned to the ground. This fire helped to start one of the most interesting legends about him as the "Yankee Faust". The American Revolution
During the events that led up to the American Revolution, <mask> was elected as moderator of the Hampton town meetings, chosen as a member of the Committee of Safety, appointed as a delegate to the patriot assembly at Exeter, New Hampshire, and commissioned as the Colonel of the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment of Militia. On September 21, 1775, his wife Abigail died of smallpox. A year later, he married Sarah Emery, with whom he fathered four more children. For the first two years of the American Revolutionary War, Col. <mask>'s regiment guarded the 18-mile seacoast of New Hampshire against British invasion. But in the fall of 1777, he marched with his men to the Battle of Saratoga in New York and the defeat of Lt. General John Burgoyne's British army invading from Canada.Col. <mask> and the 3rd New Hampshire Militia served in Gen. John Stark's brigade during the battle. He was promoted to Brigadier General by George Washington who was impressed with his battlefield skills. Post-war
After the end of the American Revolution, <mask> continued his role in the New Hampshire militia. On March 25, 1785, he was created Brigadier General of the 1st Brigade of the New Hampshire Militia. <mask> was rewarded lands (for his successes during the war) in the lakes region of New Hampshire and founded the town of Moultonborough. He settled in North Hampton, New Hampshire and was one of the first people to paint his house colonial white. This was not a popular decision with some of the local townspeople since paint had to be imported from Britain.<mask> participated in a feud over farm land with a neighbor which was exacerbated by a series of slanderous editorials written in The Boston Post, Boston's major newspaper at the time. The feud became part of a civil suit in which the judge, a long time friend of the general, ruled in his favor. Mysteriously, the <mask>'s barn was burned down and no one ever claimed responsibility. He expressed that he was more upset about losing the animals than losing the barn itself, which could be re-built. He died at the age of 61 on September 18, 1787. His body was moved in the middle of the night before burial and his tombstone disappeared. Two years later, in 1789, George Washington stopped and paid his respects to General <mask>'s widow Sarah on his tour of the new United States of America.Supernatural legends
During his life, <mask> was a controversial figure in the Province of New Hampshire and later the state. The Yankee Faust
In the first legend, in which his house burns down, it was said that he had made a deal with the Devil and had outsmarted him by saying that he would sell his soul to the devil if the devil would fill his boots up with gold coins on the first of every month. <mask> found the largest set of boots in all of the Province of New Hampshire. The next month the devil returned to fill up the boots with gold, but no matter how many gold coins he poured in the boots they would not fill. <mask> had cut off the soles of the boots and put the boots over a hole in the floor and all the gold coins fell into the basement of the house. The devil, after being outsmarted by <mask>, burned down his house in revenge. The gold coins disappeared.The New Wife and The Old, written by John Greenleaf Whittier
In the second tale, the ghost of <mask>'s first wife Abigail appears on his wedding night and takes the ring off the finger of his new wife Sarah as the two are in bed together. In a final legendary story, a pallbearer at <mask>'s funeral opened his coffin to find it empty, replaced by a box of gold coins with the devil stamped on them. <mask> was in fact buried without a tombstone and the site of his grave is now unknown. See also
John Goffe
John Lovewell
John Greenleaf Whittier

References

State Builders: An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire. State Builders Publishing, Manchester, NH 1903

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"General <mask>", Lane Memorial Library, Hampton, NH

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<mask> (born 13 November 1944) is an English entrepreneur, philanthropist and political activist. Early life
<mask> was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and brought up in Whitley Bay as the only child in a strongly political family. His father <mask> (1906–1990) was a Labour councillor for the Monkchester ward of Newcastle City Councilfor 35 years, and served as the city's Lord Mayor for one year in 1981-2. His mother <mask> was a concert hall violinist for the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and a Labour councillor in Newcastle. Abrahams was educated at Ascham House preparatory school, now Newcastle School for Boys in Gosforth, and passed his 11+ to Rutherford Grammar School. In 1977, Mohammed Ali paid a visit to the Abrahams family home in Gosforth, where his 105-year-old Grandmother Annie Abrahams chatted to him about the underprivileged. In July 1979, he accompanied his Grandmother aged 107 to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace.Political career

<mask> was a councillor for the Labour Party on Tyne and Wear County Council for two and a half years from 1978 to 1981 when he lost to the Liberal candidate <mask> who took 60% of the vote in a two way contest. His special interest was economic development. He was selected in 1990 as the Labour candidate for Richmond, Yorkshire in the 1992 general election. In 1997 he was unsuccessful in his attempt at selection for the safe Labour seat of Wansbeck near Newcastle. A close associate of Tony Blair and Lord Levy during the New Labour-era, Abrahams faced high-profile media accusations in 2007 that he had secretly made £630,000 in donations to the Labour Party, by channelling the donations through four different individuals in what was thought to have been a breach of the electoral law on transparent disclosure. The Donorgate scandal put pressure on then Prime Minister Gordon Brown who set up an internal enquiry, although no report has ever been published. <mask> was subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing by the police, in April 2008.In April 2016, following remarks made by a Labour MP Naz Shah and the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, <mask> said that he would no longer financially support the Labour party, alleging that it was becoming increasingly anti-semitic. In an article for The Guardian he accused the hard left of perverting the principles of social justice and liberal, progressive politics. Following the election of Keir Starmer as Leader of the Labour Party, <mask> resumed making regular donations. In December 2020, Muslim groups, including the Muslim Council of Britain, called on Starmer to take action against Abrahams as a result of online comments he'd made, which were described as "abhorrent and Islamophobic" and "deeply disturbing". Among his comments was the claim that Muslims have "mixed loyalties"; he also stated "Don’t think I know how to divide political Islam from moderates and fundamentalists. It is the very nature of the beast!" and, commenting on Israel, he claimed that it was a "brand new hi-tech state with new inventions to benefit mankind" while its "close neighbours chose terrorism and invented suicide bombers".Mish Rahman, a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, called on Starmer to return Abrahams donations. Other Interests

<mask> is a Freeman of the City of London and a member of the Reform Club in Pall Mall. <mask> has been an active supporter of peace initiatives in the Middle East. His diplomatic efforts in many Middle East countries brought him into contact with Yasser Arafat as well as Hamas and other leaders establishing grounds for ongoing dialogue. In 2010 it was reported that Abrahams had met senior Hamas officials including Palestinian Legislative Council speaker Aziz Dwaik and had appeared to wrest a significant change in tone from the Palestinian leadership. He indicated that Hamas officials were prepared to accept – but not necessarily recognise – the existence of Israel, and they would be prepared to nullify the part of the Hamas charter that calls for the obliteration of Israel. He became Vice President of Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), in Whitehall in 2008, and subsequently its first global ambassador.His first mission was to organise a conference of Arab foreign ministers to discuss normalisation of relations with Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian state. During his term of office, he focused on promoting peace within the MENA region paying personal visits to most of the countries to discuss security and defence issues as well as geopolitical alliances whilst attending many conferences at the UN and throughout the area. Whilst at RUSI he initiated the All Party Parliamentary Group on Defence and Diplomacy and is one of their global ambassadors. In August 2013, Royal United Services Institute named <mask> as new senior vice president. In 2013 it was reported that he had donated two tranches of £250,000 to found a chair in International Politics of the Middle East at Warwick University from 2005. He has also served as Vice-Chairman of the Jewish Labour Movement, Acting Director of Labour Friends of Israel and on the Executive of the Trade Union Friends of Israel. Since 1968, he has been involved North East Prisons After Care Society (NEPACS).He is currently a trustee and Board Member. He is a former founder and Vice Chair of North East Alzheimer’s Society and was for many years National Director of The Campaign For Pensioner Poverty. He served for twelve years as a trustee and on the executive of The Council for Christians and Jews, becoming their Director of Parliamentary Affairs. Business
Abrahams founded the nationwide “London Girl” group of fashion shops and a chain of hotels in the north east. He has developed more than a hundred new homes in the former pit village of Haswell. In an interview with the Guardian he spoke of the need to create jobs for people in “pit villages where there's a lot of deprivation, drugs and crime. People with nothing to do”.In 2009, <mask> obtained planning permission to build a 540-acre business park to create jobs on a site which he owned, near Bowburn, outside Durham, with onsite connectivity to the main Edinburgh-London railway line and off Junction 61 on the A1(M). He said he would donate the profits from building the business park to “causes he has supported in the past”. In 2010, <mask> was reported to be in talks with 15 potential tenants for a 540-acre site on the edge of Durham. He was subsequently reported to be selling the site. In 2018, it was reported that the Integra 61 project on the site would include industrial units, offices, a hotel, shops, gym, care home, pub and GP surgery. Persimmon Homes obtained permission to build up to 270 houses on the site. In 2019, it was reported that Amazon had bought part of the site and were building a warehouse of almost 2 million square which would create 4,000 new jobs.It is set to open in September 2020. References

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<mask> (born 4 March 1936) is a German composer, pianist and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's King Lear, the opera Lear, was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who sang the title role. His opera Medea after Grillparzer's play premiered in 2010 at the Vienna State Opera. He was a professor of contemporary Lied in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2011, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for his life's work. Life and career

Reimann was born in Berlin. He studied composition, counterpoint and piano at the Musikhochschule Berlin with Boris Blacher and Ernst Pepping, among others.During his studies, he worked as a repetiteur at the Städtische Oper. His first appearances as a pianist and accompanist were in 1957. In the early 1970s, he became a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. He was professor of contemporary Lied at the Musikhochschule Hamburg from 1974 to 1983, then at Berlin's Hochschule der Künste from 1983 to 1998. Besides his work as composer and music teacher, Reimann is co-editor and pianist of the Edition Zeitgenössisches Lied (contemporary song) CD series of the record laber Orfeo, edition, together with Axel Bauni. Reimann's reputation as a composer has increased greatly with several great literary operas, including Lear and Das Schloß. Besides these, he has written chamber music, orchestral works and songs.He has been honoured repeatedly, including the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Order of Merit of Berlin. Invited by Walter Fink, he was the seventh composer featured in the annual  of the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1997, in songs and chamber music with the Auryn Quartet, playing the piano himself. His commissioned work, Cantus for Clarinet and Orchestra, dedicated to the clarinetist and composer Jörg Widmann, was premiered on 13 January 2006, in the WDR's Large Broadcasting Hall in Cologne, Germany, in the presence of the composer, who claims the work was inspired by Claude Debussy's compositions for clarinet. His opera Medea, after Franz Grillparzer, was premiered at the Vienna State Opera in 2010, conducted by Michael Boder, with Marlis Petersen in the title role. In 2011 he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize "for his life's work". ), »Vanitatis fuga, Aeternitatis amor«. Wolfgang Witzenmann zum 65.Geburtstag, »Analecta Musicologica«, vol. 36, Laaber (Laaber) 2005, pp. 689–695. Siglind Bruhn, <mask> Reimanns Vokalmusik. Waldkirch, Edition Gorz 2016. Wolfgang Burde, <mask> Reimann, Mainz (Schott) 2005. Albert Gier, Zurück zu Shakespeare!Claus H. Hennebergs Lear-Libretto für <mask> Reimann und seine englische Übersetzung von Desmond Clayton, in: Herbert Schneider/Rainer Schmusch (eds. ), Librettoübersetzung: Interkulturalität im europäischen Musiktheater, Hildesheimn (Olms) 2009, »Musikwissenschaftliche Publikationen«, vol. 32), pp. 329–349. Kii-Ming Lo, Unsichtbarer Herrscher über ein gehorsames Volk. <mask> Reimanns Oper »Das Schloß« nach Franz Kafka, in: Peter Csobádi, Gernot Gruber, Ulrich Müller et al. (eds.), »Weine, weine, du armes Volk!« ─ Das verführte und betrogene Volk auf der Bühne, »Kongreßbericht Salzburg 1994«, Anif/Salzburg (Müller-Speiser) 1995, pp. 663–674. Jürgen Maehder, <mask> Reimanns »Nachtstück« ─ Studien zu musikalischer Struktur und Sprachvertonung, in: Aurora (»Jahrbuch der Eichendorff-Gesellschaft«) 36/1976, p. 107-121. Jürgen Maehder, <mask> Reimanns »Lear« ─ Anmerkungen zu einigen Strukturproblemen der Literaturoper, program book for the world premiere at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, München (Bayerische Staatsoper) 1978, pp. 61–73. Jürgen Maehder, Anmerkungen zu einigen Strukturproblemen der Literaturoper, in: Klaus Schultz (ed. ), <mask> Reimanns »Lear«.Weg einer neuen Oper, München (dtv) 1984, pp. 79–89. Jürgen Maehder, <mask> <mask> and Paul Celan: The Setting of Hermetic Poetry in the Contemporary German Lied, in: Claus Reschke/Howard Pollack (eds. ), German Literature and Music. An Aesthetic Fusion: 1890─1989, »Houston German Studies«, vol. 8, München (Fink) 1992, pp. 263–292.Jürgen Maehder, Étude sur le théâtre musical d'<mask> Reimann ─ de »Lear« à »La sonate des spectres«, programme de salle pour l'Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg (TNOR) 1998, pp. 27–45. Jürgen Maehder, Untersuchungen zum Musiktheater <mask> Reimanns. Musikalische Dramaturgie in »Lear« und »Die Gespenstersonate«, in: Jürgen Kühnel/Ulrich Müller/Oswald Panagl (eds. ), Musiktheater der Gegenwart. Text und Komposition, Rezeption und Kanonbildung, Anif/Salzburg (Müller-Speiser) 2008, . Jürgen Maehder, <mask> <mask> et Paul Celan.La mise en musique de la poésie hermétique dans le lied allemand contemporain, in: Antoine Bonnet/ Frédéric Marteau (eds. ), Paul Celan, la poésie, la musique. »Avec une clé changeante«, Paris (Hermann) 2015, . Klaus Schultz (ed. ), <mask> Reimanns »Lear«. Weg einer neuen Oper, München (dtv) 1984. Ulrich Tadday (ed.), <mask> <mask>, »Musik-Konzepte«, vol. 139, München (text + kritik) 2008. Anselm Weyer: Günter Grass und die Musik (= »Kölner Studien zur Literaturwissenschaft«, vol. 16). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2007,  (Zugleich: Köln, Universität, Dissertation, 2005). Sigrid Wiesmann (ed.), Für und Wider die Literaturoper'', »Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater«, vol. 6, Laaber (Laaber) 1982. External links

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Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin
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Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
German male classical composers
20th-century German composers
Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winners
21st-century German composers
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<mask> (born 1975) is a Belgian philosopher of technology. He is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna and former President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He was previously Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, Managing Director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, and a member of the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente. Before moving to Austria, he has lived and worked in Belgium, the UK, and the Netherlands. He is the author of several books, including Growing Moral Relations (2012), Human Being @ Risk (2013), Environmental Skill (2015), Money Machines (2015), New Romantic Cyborgs (2017), Moved by Machines (2019), the textbook Introduction to Philosophy of Technology (2019), and AI Ethics (2020). He has written many articles and is an expert in ethics of artificial intelligence. He is best known for his work in philosophy of technology and ethics of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), he has also published in the areas of moral philosophy and environmental philosophy.Early life and education
<mask> was born in 1975 in Leuven, Belgium. He was first educated in social sciences and political sciences at the University of Leuven (Licentiaat, 1997), before moving to the UK where he studied philosophy. He received his master's degree from the University of East Anglia (MA in Social Philosophy, 1999)  and his PhD from the University of Birmingham (PhD in Philosophy, 2003). During the time of his PhD study he also painted, wrote poems, played piano, and worked on engineering ethics at the University of Bath (UK) and at the Belgian nuclear research centre SCK-CEN. Career
In 2003 he started teaching at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands and in 2007 he was Assistant Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente, also in the Netherlands. In the same year he received the Prize of the Dutch Society for Bioethics (with J. Mesman). In Twente he started working on the ethics of robotics.In 2013 he became Managing Director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology. During his time in Twente he published many articles on philosophy of technology (especially robotics) and he was regularly interviewed about the ethics of drone technology. In 2014 he was appointed full professor, before the age of 40, at the Centre of Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, a position he held through early 2019. In 2014 he was nominated for the World Technology Awards in the Ethics category. In December 2015 he joined the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna as full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology. Coeckelbergh is the President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, a member of the High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence for the European Commission, a member of the Austrian robotics council (Rat für Robotik), inaugurated by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, and a member of the Austrian Advisory Council on Automated Mobility. He is also a member of the editorial advisory boards of AI and Sustainable Development, The AI Ethics Journal, Cognitive Systems Research, Science and Engineering Ethics, International Journal of Technoethics, Techne, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society,  Journal of Posthuman Studies, Kairos.Journal of Philosophy & Science, Technology & Regulation (TechReg), and The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique. Moreover, he is a fellow of the World Technology Network (WTN) and finalist of the World Technology Award 2017. Recently, Coeckelbergh joined the Technical Expertise Committee at the Foundation of Responsible Robotics, along with Charles Ess and Kevin Kelly. Works

Following his articles on robot ethics and his book Growing Moral Relations, Coeckelbergh has been attributed a 'relational turn' in thinking about moral status. In his articles Coeckelbergh argues for a phenomenological and relational approach to the philosophy of robotics. His theory on 'Social Relationalism' in regards to Artificial Intelligence and Morality is discussed by Gunkel and Cripe in their paper entitled 'Apocalypse Not, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Machine'. He has published mainly on robot ethics and ICT in health care, but also on many other topics.He also wrote a book on vulnerability and technology (Human Being @ Risk) in which he proposes an 'anthropology of vulnerability' and engages with discussions about human enhancement and transhumanism. His first books are about freedom, autonomy, and the role of imagination in moral reasoning. Later books discuss the problem of disengagement and distancing in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and society's relation to the environment: in Environmental Skill he argues against modern and romantic ways of relating to the environment and in Money Machines he discusses new financial ICTs. In New Romantic Cyborgs he investigates the relation between technology and romanticism and reflects on what he calls "the end of the machine". He also wrote opinion articles in The Guardian and in Wired. Coeckelbergh's textbook on philosophy of technology,'Introduction to Philosophy of Technology', has been roundly praised by other academics working in the same field. Shannon Vallor of Santa Clara University calls it a “model of philosophical clarity” while Diane Michelfelder of Macalster College rates the book as “...excellent.One can imagine students getting excited about the philosophy of technology, and philosophy in general, from reading Coeckelbergh's work.”

Coeckelbergh's book New Romantic Cyborgs has been described as offering 'a whole new way of looking at our use of technologies' and he has been called 'one of the most versatile, profound, and original thinkers in the contemporary philosophy of technology.' David Seng, University of Arizona, writes: 'One of the strengths of this book is that it is provides a critical process of inquiry and helpful analysis of inherited philosophical orientations regarding the relationship between technology and society.' A review by Roland Legrand for De Tijd especially compliments <mask>h's analysis of virtual worlds, among other aspects of the book. Wendell Wallach of Yale University, USA, referring to 'Money Machines' comments: “<mask>h is recognized internationally for illuminating the manner in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) create new forms of “distancing” and in particular “moral distancing”. This important book extends that analysis to underscore the hidden ways ICTs shape money and global finance, alter relationships, and undermine responsibility”. Also, Keir James Cecil Martin writes about Money Machines: "Coeckelbergh’s view of money as a technology of relationality that shortens some geographical and temporal distances, whilst simultaneously widening moral and social gaps (…) has much to offer to anthropological debates on the nature of finance and money." Marks publications that have been peer-reviewed and received reviews include: Money Machines  'Environmental Skill', 'Human Being @Risk'  and 'Growing Moral Relations'  as well as articles and other peer-reviewed research publications.For example, David Gunkel has written in his review in Ethics and Information Technology that Growing Moral Relations is 'a real game changer' and 'a penetrating analysis of moral status'. Jac Swart has called the book 'an important contribution to animal ethics' and Frank Jankunis says in his review that it is 'an impressive contribution to the literature on moral status'. Yoni Van Den Eede has called Human Being @ Risk 'one of the most comprehensive and fine-grained in the current literature' and Pieter Lemmens has written that the book ''is thoroughly unique and original in showing the importance and extreme usefulness of philosophical anthropology and the phenomenological tradition for thinking through the consequences of the epochal technological mutations of our time'. Bert-Jaap Koops calls Human Being @ Risk  'an important and original book' and on the website of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Nikki Olson writes: 'Coeckelbergh develops an impressive case that all our technological and social measures create new sources of vulnerability … Coeckelbergh drives home an important point for our debates about the human future. … Human Being @ Risk identifies important choices that we must debate as we imagine and (to a limited extent) plan the future of humanity. It raises issues that are fundamental to ongoing thinking about how to better the human condition.' Carl Mitcham writes about Environmental Skill that it is 'an insightful argument for an environmental philosophy that draws on the resources of and at the same time extends work in philosophy of technology.The notion of skilled engagement with the world as this has emerged from pragmatism and phenomenology is here deepened and re-thought in an effort to understand and respond to the challenges of living in a techno-transformed nature.' Jochem Zwier and Andrea Gammon say in their critical but sympathetic review: 'One of the strong points of Coeckelbergh’s diagnosis is that it deepens the discussions regarding environmental concerns and the problem of motivation by laying bare the modern roots of these phenomena.' Tara Kennedy has published a review of the book in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. She writes: 'There is much for contemporary environmentalists to find compelling about Coeckelbergh's account, being not only an interesting analysis of the factors at work in motivation but also a convincing and optimistic approach to the problem.' She questions Coeckelbergh's interpretation of Heidegger but also praises 'Coeckelbergh's effectiveness in articulating a compelling account of the problem of motivation and how the development of an ethics of skilled engagement with the environment, a focus on habit and virtue, would find us better equipped to deal with the environmental crises we face. It is a welcome and interesting addition to a field in need of voices focused on bringing about meaningful, practical change.' And Louke van Wensveen writes in her review in the journal Environmental Ethics that the book reminds us of 'an overly autistic, obsessively controlling tendency in Western philosophical and everyday cultures.Such a distancing pattern and its ideological scaffolding prevent environmental action.' <mask>'s recent book New Romantic Cyborgs has been described as offering 'a whole new way of looking at our use of technologies' and he has been called 'one of the most versatile, profound, and original thinkers in the contemporary philosophy of technology.' David Seng, University of Arizona, writes: 'One of the strengths of this book is that it is provides a critical process of inquiry and helpful analysis of inherited philosophical orientations regarding the relationship between technology and society.' A review by Roland Legrand for De Tijd especially compliments <mask>h's analysis of virtual worlds, among other aspects of the book. In the Media

Coeckelbergh has appeared regularly in Dutch (and British) media talking about the ethics of drone technology. He has talked about the ethical development of drones in relation to surveillance in an article for Kennislink entitled 'The Irrepressible Drone' and about the ethics of drone fighting for Universonline. He has been interviewed on live radio for BBC radio Leicester  where on 15 April 2015 he talked about drone technology and discussed robots that cook food.On 11 June 2013 he appeared on Dutch national television for the Een Vandaag programme also talking about drones   and has appeared in articles for the Dutch newspaper Trouw on the subject of environmental philosophy  and 'Down To Earth' magazine (Netherlands) discussing drones for environmental purposes. In 2015 he was also interviewed about drones in Stedelijk Interieur, a Dutch magazine on public space. In August and September 2015 Coeckelbergh's book "Money Machines" received media attention: he was interviewed on BBC Radio Leicester, in the Leicester Mercury where he warns for a growing reliance on computer algorithms in global finance, and in the Belgian national newspaper De Standaard, which printed a large article on the book in its weekend edition of 12 September 2015. In the De Standaard interview (in Dutch), Coeckelbergh warns that we might delegate too much to technology, and that we lack control and overview. The ethical and societal influence of new technologies may be invisible but is and remains powerful. But, he argues, if technology is part of the problem, it is also part of the solution: we need to develop new, alternative technologies and technological practices, also in the financial world. Coeckelbergh has also been quoted in international mainstream media such as CNN and has a profile at the Guardian  due to many comments from readers responding to his article regarding his thoughts about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.On 6 November 2012 Coeckelbergh was Interviewed by Stephen Edwards for a report appearing in the Economist newspaper Intelligence Unit (EIU) exploring the interaction between humans and technology. In 2014 Coeckelbergh received much response on social media by other philosophers such as Evan Selinger  for his Wired magazine article with posts appearing on Twitter and Facebook. Coeckelbergh's paper entitled 'Humans, Animals, and Robots: A Phenomenological Approach to Human-Robot Relations' was referenced in an online article for Dailydot.com entitled 'sex and love in the robot age' where human-robot relations were discussed. He also wrote an opinion article with Katleen Gabriels in the Dutch newspaper nrc.next which questions a call for banning sex robots and asks attention for (more) pressing societal issues, and was interviewed about his critical comments on the campaign in the Leicester Mercury. In May 2017 he has been included in the top of tech pioneers named by the Belgian newspaper De Tijd, in the category leaders and thinkers. Public Talks

Coeckelbergh has a long record of international public speaking appearances for diverse audiences at academic, public policy, legal, and business events. Recent examples since 2018 include the President's Keynote at SPT 2019 (Austin, TX), keynotes at ECSS 2018 (Gothenburg, Sweden), Robotiuris 2019 (Madrid, Spain), OtroMundo International Congress (Medellín, Colombia), SOLAIR 2019 (Prague, Czech Republic), INBOTS 2018 (Pisa, Italy),  and invited talks at University of Sydney's "Sydney Ideas" lecture series, Chung-Ang University (Seoul, South Korea), Beijing Forum 2019, UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico), Workshop at Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois), and others.A full listing of his talks can be found on his website. Academics References
From his more than 100 academic publications Coeckelbergh has been cited hundreds of times, for example his publications in Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, Science, Technology and Human Values, Ethics and Information Technology, International Journal of Social Robotics, and AI & Society. Human Being @ Risk (2013) is his most cited book. References

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Research group Philosophy of Media and Technology at University of Vienna

1975 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
21st-century Belgian philosophers
Artificial intelligence researchers
Artificial intelligence ethicists

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