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<mask> (born 1977) is an American horror and science fiction author. <mask>'s first published novel, I Am Not a Serial Killer, was adapted into a movie in 2016. He is currently cowriting The Apocalypse Guard with Brandon Sanderson. Early life
<mask> spent his childhood in Salt Lake City, Utah and began writing at a young age. While in the second grade, he wrote his first stories based on the Choose Your Own Adventure series. He has cited Where the Wild Things Are as one of his first influences. During his childhood, <mask> was also exposed to science fiction and fantasy: namely, titles such as The Hobbit and Star Wars.He frequented the library and loved to read. In addition to sci-fi and fantasy novels, he read classics, including those of French and Russian literature. He also enjoyed writing scripts, songs, and poetry as a child. In high school, <mask> wrote a series of comic books, novellas, and a serial. He began to take writing more seriously in college, finishing his first serious novel when he was 22. He studied English and anthropology at Brigham Young University (BYU). It was there that he met his wife, Dawn.As a student, <mask> also worked on BYU's speculative fiction magazine, Leading Edge, and began writing game reviews; he has since described himself as a "rabid gamer." Before becoming a published novelist, he worked as a corporate writer for NuSkin. Career
<mask>'s debut novel, I Am Not a Serial Killer, was published in 2009. It has been printed in English, Spanish, French, German, and Russian. <mask> did extensive research to make the series protagonist, John Cleaver, appear genuine. His fascination with serial killer predictors also inspired him to write the novel. In 2016, it was adapted into a film, starring Max Records and Christopher Lloyd.<mask> wrote a sequel, Mr. Monster, which was published by Tor Books in 2010. In 2011, his third installment to the John Cleaver series, I Don't Want to Kill You, was published. <mask> continued John Cleaver's story with a second trilogy of books, in which the protagonist changes and develops. In 2016, <mask> told Deseret News that the fifth book in the series, Over Your Dead Body, was one of the most challenging to write. Some of <mask>'s novels feature main characters with mental health issues. In Serial Killer, John Cleaver is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, and the protagonist of The Hollow City suffers from schizophrenia. <mask> expanded into young adult dystopia with his Partials Sequence in 2012.The series made an appearance on the New York Times Best Seller list for children's series in 2014. He followed up in 2016 with a Young Adult science fiction novel, Bluescreen, set in Los Angeles in the year 2050. He continued this Mirador series with Ones and Zeroes in 2017 and Active Memory in 2018. Other releases include middle-grade sci-fi audiobooks, Zero G (2018), Dragon Planet (2019), and Stargazer (2021). <mask> is one of the four authors (including Mary Robinette Kowal, Brandon Sanderson, and Howard Tayler) who regularly host the podcast Writing Excuses. <mask> was a writer for the Extinct (2017 TV series) and wrote his own stage play, "A Night of Blacker Darkness." Personal life
He is the brother of author Robison <mask>.He has six children. He has lived in Utah, Mexico, and Germany. He also has his own YouTube channel on which he reviews TTRPGS (Tabletop role-playing game). The channel shares his name. Critical reception
School Library Journal described his novel Bluescreen as "exciting and innovative." A School Library Journal review of Ones and Zeroes complimented <mask>'s complex and diverse characters, plausible dystopian plot, and understandable descriptions of future technology. Kirkus said that Partials' "rushed ending" signalled there would be a sequel.In 2011, <mask> was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His novella, The Butcher of Khardov, received a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 2014. His podcast Writing Excuses has won a Hugo Award and three Parsec Awards. In February 2017 <mask> was the Literary Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the 35th annual Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium. Morris (October 2011, Peculiar Pages, )

Novellas
 The Butcher of Khardov (June 2013, Privateer Press, )

Editorials
 How to Write Good (September 2000), in Leading Edge #40

Awards

2016 Association for Mormon Letters Award for Best Novel  Over Your Dead Body
2016 AML Award for Best Novel  Over Your Dead Body
 2015 Whitney Award for Speculative Fiction  The Devil's Only Friend
2011 Whitney Award for Best Novel of the Year  I Don't Want to Kill You
2010 Whitney Award for Best Novel of the Year  Mr. Monster
2009 Whitney Award for Best Novel by a New Author  I Am Not a Serial Killer

References

Additional reading
Interview with Teenreads, March 2, 2017

External links

<mask>'s author website
<mask>'s blog
Writing Excuses Website

<mask> literary manuscripts, MSS 8073 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University

1977 births
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American novelists
American horror writers
American male novelists
American male short story writers
American science fiction writers
American writers of young adult literature
Brigham Young University alumni
Harold B. Lee Library-related 21st century articles
Latter Day Saints from Utah
Living people
Novelists from Utah
People from North Salt Lake, Utah

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Maximilian, <mask> (29 June 1764 – 5 July 1815), among the most famous of an illustrious old Westphalian family, entered Habsburg military service, rose to the rank of General of Cavalry, served as Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador to Russia, and became special envoy extraordinaire to the Court of St. James's (Great Britain). He fought with distinction in the wars between the Habsburg and the Ottoman empires, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. Maximilian entered the military as a young man, and acquired his first combat experiences the Habsburg wars with the Ottoman Empire. Following his experience in the Balkans, he retreated to the cloister at Bonn, where he spent a year as a novice in the Teutonic Order. At the outbreak of war between the Habsburg Monarchy and France in 1792, he returned to military service, and proved an intrepid and enterprising cavalry field officer. His role in the Habsburg victory at Neerwinden in 1793 earned him the honor of conveying the news to the Emperor in Vienna. In the War of the Second Coalition, Maximilian served in Swabia and northern Italy and Switzerland.In subsequent wars between France and the Habsburg Monarchy, his role on the battlefield often meant the difference between defeat and victory. He was wounded and captured at the Battle of Leipzig and, as a condition of release, he agreed not to bear arms against France again. He was subsequently appointed as an envoy to Britain, where he died in 1815. Family and early career
Maximilian was born on 29 June 1764 in the ecclesiastical territory of Münster, in Westphalia. His was an old Westphalian family, raised to comital status in 1726. He joined the military service in 1782, in a dragoon regiment, and was promoted to lieutenant and first lieutenant by 1787. In the wars between Austria and the Ottoman Empire, (1787–1791), he was a Rittmeister, or captain of cavalry and wing adjutant to Field Marshal Franz Moritz, Count von Lacy.In 1790, Merveldt commanded the Volunteers Grün-Loudon and later that year, after his promotion to major, he served on the staff of Field Marshal Ernst Gideon, Baron von Laudon in Moravia. Military career

War of the First Coalition
Following the defeat of the insurrection in the Austrian Netherlands, he received permission from Field Marshal Laudon, shortly before the latter's death, to take a one year novitiate in the Teutonic Order, at Bonn where he remained until April 1792. The outbreak of the War of the First Coalition against France required his military talents and Mervelt rejoined the Habsburg army at as adjutant to Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. He led two infantry battalions in the Habsburg victory at Neerwinden (18 March 1793), during which his battalions repulsed a strong French column. For his role at the head of his battalions of grenadiers, which his commander considered greater than duty required, in this victory, Merveldt received the honor of carrying the message to the Emperor Francis in Vienna. There, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa on 7 July 1794. Subsequently, he was appointed as an attaché to the staff of Frederick, Duke of York.In the 1794 campaign, Merveldt fought at the Battle of Famars and again at the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies,  south of Landrecies on 22 April, during which he commanded the right wing. After the Battle of Tournai (22 May 1794), he was promoted on the field to Oberst (colonel). His failing health prevented him from continued field service and he took sick leave until early 1796. In 1796 he transferred to the 18th Chevau-légers Regiment Karaczay and fought at the Battle of Kircheib, in the Westerwald, where, despite the French superiority of numbers, the Habsburgs eked out a victory. At Kircheib, with two squadrons of Chevaux-legers, Merveldt saved the Austrian artillery from French capture, thus contributing to the Hahsburg victory. The Tagebericht (daily dispatch) of the Army of the Rhine referred to his keen sense of duty, and his ability to seize the moment, which, in this case, proved a vital element in the extraordinary success of the small Habsburg force against the considerably larger French one. Afterward  he was promoted to major general.He was assigned as proprietor of the First Lancer's Regiment, and given command of a cavalry brigade in Franz von Werneck's Reserve of the Army of the Lower Rhine. <mask> was known to his contemporaries for his strength of will, presence of mind, and his self-control. Those same qualities made him attractive to his military superiors as part of the negotiation party in the cease-fire preliminaries at Leoben in 1797. He opposed Napoleon's desire to move a general peace congress closer to Vienna, and later was a co-signator of the Peace of Campo Formio on 17 November 1797. He brought the document to Rastatt, where the Rastatt Peace Congress convened. He stayed in Rastatt in the capacity of ambassador. War of the Second Coalition
At the outbreak of the War of the Second Coalition in March 1799, and the dissolution of Congress on 7 April 1799, Merveldt returned to his regiment, which by this time had crossed the Lech and Iller rivers, and was advancing into Swabia.During the campaigns of 1800,  he commanded the left wing by Eckartsweiler at the Battle of Alt-Breisach on 25 April, and on 10 May conducted a rear-guard action to protect the Imperial army's withdrawal. He remained with his brigade on the right bank of the Danube, where he directed a series of bold actions against the French, and then along the Iller and Lech rivers, he organized a series of well-timed thrusts designed to keep the French from pushing the retreating army. After the battle at Offenburg, he was promoted to lieutenant field marshal on 4 September 1800. At the Habsburg defeat in the Battle of Hohenlinden on 3 December, <mask> commanded a division in the left wing. He signed the 24-hour cease-fire at Kremsmünster with Jean Victor Moreau on 22 December. During the cease-fire, he retreated to Pressburg. Diplomatic and military career during the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars
In 1805 he was in Berlin when the hostilities between France and Austria resumed, and he returned to the Danube valley, where he fought a series of rearguard actions.He avoided being caught in the capitulation of Ulm and fell back toward Mikhail Kutuzov's Russian army. With 6,000 soldiers in six line and ten Grenz infantry battalions plus 14 squadrons of cavalry, <mask> made for Styria, hoping to join the army of Archduke Charles. Napoleon detached Louis Davout's III Corps in pursuit. Slowed by heavy snow in the mountains, his "poorly-handled corps" was overtaken by the French at Gross-Ramig, also called Mariazell, in the Austrian Steiermark, on 8 November. His exhausted troops were routed by General of Brigade Etienne Heudelet de Bierre's advanced guard of Davout's III Corps; half, about 2,000, were taken prisoner, and they lost four colors and 16 guns. After the War of the Third Coalition, he acted as ambassador to St. Petersburg for over two years, with the assignment of improving military relations between the armies of the respective countries. He attempted to do this, including trying an offer to mediate between Britain and France,   and was appointed Privy Councilor.During this time, he married  Maria Theresia Gräfin von Dietrichstein. In 1808 he was given command of a cavalry division in Lemberg. In early 1809, <mask> became a prominent member of the group pushing for war against France, together with such notables as Archduke Ferdinand, Archduke John, Empress Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, and Count Heinrich von Bellegarde. In the 1809 campaign, <mask>'s force was stationed in the Bukowina and part of Galicia, and from 1809 to mid-1813, he spent three years in Moravia. On 22 July 1813 he was appointed governor of the fortress of Theresienstadt and shortly after that Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia. He then became commander of II Corps; the First Division held the village of Nollendorf, in the French defeat at the Battle of Kulm (now Chlumec) on 29–30 August 1813. On 16 October, during the Battle of Leipzig, <mask>'s forces were arrayed on the right flank of the French center, commanded by Napoleon.On his own right stood Wittgenstein's Corps, and beyond that, Johann von Klenau's. His troops were interspersed among several wooded sections and surrounding several small villages: Dölitz, Mark-Kleeburg and Gautsch. Opposite him were the forces of Józef Antoni Poniatowski and Pierre Augereau. He rode out to view the battlefield and to direct the disposition of his force. Near Dölitz, which lay close to the French line, he wandered into a troop of Hungarians, or so he thought, but they were actually a mixed group of Saxons and Poles, whom he mistook for Hungarians, and was captured. Most of the action, on the first day, occurred to the north, where Blücher's Prussians repelled Michel Ney's cavalry, but when Napoleon heard that Ney and Marmont had been forced back, he sought a cease-fire from the Allied monarchs. He called for Merveldt, and, after a meeting, Merveldt carried Napoleon's proposal to the allied monarchs, which they refused.Final diplomatic missions
As a condition of his release at Leipzig, he agreed not to participate in combat against France. Subsequent to his release, <mask> was appointed commanding general of Moravia, and lived in Brno, where he received in January 1814 the instructions to proceed to London as an envoy extraordinaire to the Court of St. James's, replacing Baron Wessembourg. He arrived in London in early March, and met the Prince Regent at Carlton House on 7 March 1814, where he ceremoniously presented his ambassadorial credentials. He was well-received in Britain, and became a notable personage, invited to many social events; he told good stories about the wars and the various people he had encountered, which made him popular in social circles. His comings and goings were widely reported in the society columns: For example, on 4 July 1814, he attended a lecture by the Abbé Secard, and was listed among the distinguished persons present. When he died in 1815, the British government proposed to bury him at Westminster Abbey. However, his widow took into account his last wishes and had the remains sent to Germany.He was buried in the crypt of the Michaelis chappel in Lembeck Castle where his grave still exists. In 1903, in the Lößnig neighborhood of the city of Leipzig a square and a street were named after Maximilian von Merveldt, in honor of his contribution to the Battle of Leipzig. In 1950, the communist authorities of East Germany renamed Merveldt square to Rembrandt square and Merveldt street to Rembrand street. References

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Bibliography

  Ebert, Jens Florian. Mervelt, Maximilan. In Die Österreichischen Generäle 1792-1815.. October 2003. Accessed 26 December 2009.„Merveldt, Maximilian Graf von" in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 21 (1885), ab Seite 476, Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe in Wikisource, (Version vom 27. Dezember 2009, 03:58 Uhr UTC). "The Battle of Leipzig." Map, Leipzig. At Napoleon, His Army and Enemies. Accessed 27 December 2009. Nedopil, Leopold."Wilhelm, Erzherzog von Österreich." Deutsche Adelsproben aus dem Deutschen Ordens Central-Archiv. II. Band. Wien: 1868. Petre, F. Loraine. Napoleons̓ last campaign in Germany, 1813.London: John Lane Co., 1912. Rothenberg, Gunther E. Napoleon's Great Adversaries, The Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army, 1792-1814. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1982. Smith, Digby & Leopold Kudra. "Mervelt." A biographical dictionary of all Austrian Generals in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792–1815.Napoleon Series. Robert Burnham, editor in chief. April 2008 version. Accessed 15 December 2009. Smith, Digby. "Gross-Ramig." The Napoleonic Wars Data Book.London: Greenhill, 1998. . Newspaper sources

 "State Paper. Answer To The Note Of Count Merveld [sic] (The Austrian Ambassador)". The Times (London),  Friday, 31 Jul 1807; p. 3; Issue 7113; col D.
 "The Prince Regent's Court", The Morning Chronicle, (London, England), Tuesday, 8 March 1814; Issue 13990. The Morning Chronicle. (London, England). Wednesday, 5 July 1815; Issue 14405.1764 births
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<mask> [Mayer] (September 24, 1921 – June 3, 1999) was a female utility in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, playing mainly at second base and center field from  through . Listed at , 105 lb., Pryer batted and threw right-handed. She was nicknamed Shorty amongst her friends and family members because of her slight build and minuscule stature. <mask> is recognized as one of the fastest baserunners of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years of existence. An All-Star at second base, she also led all outfielders in fielding percentage in a single season and topped the circuit in stolen bases for two consecutive years. In a career that spanned seven seasons, she was a member of two championship teams while hitting a .255 average with 510 stolen bases in 704 games, including single-season leads in hits and in runs scored. The AAGPBL flourished in the 1940s when the Major Leagues went on hold as men went to World War II.The circuit operated from 1943 to 1954 and gave over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball and to play it at a level never before attained. Since the only organized ball for women in the country was softball, the AAGPBL created a hybrid game which included both softball and baseball. Over the twelve years of history of the league, the rules were gradually modified to more closely resemble baseball, progressively changing the pitching styles, extending the length of the base paths and pitching distance and decreasing the size of the ball until the final year of play. Early life
A native of Watsonville, California, Pryer was the daughter of Willard 'Maurice' <mask>, a minor league pitcher who played in the early 1940s for the Fargo-Moorhead Twins of the Northern League. Her father and his brothers were known for their baseball playing skills in Fortuna, California Besides teaching her basic baseball fundamentals, Pryer's father also taught her that hard work and determination were key to success. Following her school graduation, Pryer joined the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve in 1944, entertaining troops as a singer with the Dick Jurgens Orchestra. Notably, she also was one of the first female disc jockeys in the United States.After serving in the military for 28 months she became a ballplayer in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. AAGPBL career
<mask> entered the league in 1946 with the expansion Muskegon Lassies, playing for them through the 1950 midseason before joining the Kalamazoo Lassies (1950) and South Bend Blue Sox (1950–1952). In her rookie season, she hit .202 in 108 games, including 77 hits and 18 runs batted in while scoring 64 times. Considering the AAGPBL was using underhand pitching and a ball with a 11-inch circumference, her numbers were quite respectable. In 1947 Pryer improved to .249 (105-for-422) in 108 games, scoring 51 runs while driving in 20 more. In addition, she was voted the best outfielder in the league with a fielding average of .995. Pryer increased her numbers in 1948, when the league switched to overhand pitching.She raised her average to a solid .262 (107-for-406), scoring 70 runs with 29 RBI in 112 games, but missed most of the 1949 season after suffering a severely broken ankle while sliding on a base. At the time of her injury, she was batting .235 with 56 runs and 10 RBI in 76 game appearances. In 1950 Pryer returned to the Lassies. She started the year in Muskegon, moved with the team to Kalamazoo during the midseason, and landed in South Bend late in the year. But she was still finding ways to improve her game, regardless of moving to different towns, bolstering her average to .269 (115-for-497) with 75 runs and 25 RBI, while matching her season-high of 112 games. Pryer had her most productive season in 1951, when she posted career-numbers with a .312 average, 133 hits, 106 runs, 32 RBI and 129 stolen bases in 109 games, leading the league in hits, runs and steals, while ranking seventh to Betty Foss of the Fort Wayne Daisies, who won the batting crown with a .368 average. Pryer capped her big season with an All-Star Team selection and a championship title with the Blue Sox.With Karl Winsch at the helm, South Bend combined strong pitching with good hitting, collecting a 76–36 record in the regular season, then defeating Fort Wayne in the first round of the playoffs, two to one games. In the best-of-five series, South Bench clinched the title over the Rockford Peaches after overcoming a 2–0 deficit. In addition to the standout pitching of Jean Faut, who won 15 games during the regular season and four more in the two playoffs, Pryer averaged .357 in South Bend's final three victories. Winsch, after a positive season, became more demanding of his players. Dissension within the South Bend team peaked just before the 1952 season ended, when <mask> was disciplined following a dispute with Winsch. The incident occurred when he suspended Pryer from the team after she responded slowly to his order to pinch-run late in a game. In protest, five South Bend teammates joined Pryer in a walkout, leaving Winsch's team short-handed for the playoffs.<mask> was reinstated at the club, but she decided to retire for good. That season she stole a league-high 59 bases, despite appearing in only 79 games. She added a .239 average and drove in 18 runs while scoring 41 times. Life after baseball
Following her baseball retirement, <mask> married Jack Stuart Mayer, who died in 1993. The couple had a daughter, a son and three granddaughters. A longtime resident of Medford, Oregon, she worked as a school truant officer and playground assistant for Medford School District 549C for more than 25 years, retiring in 1994. As a campus monitor and attendance investigative officer, she also worked at recesses, becoming a forward on the basketball court, a running back on the gridiron, or reprising her role as player on the baseball field by coaxing speedy runs, strong swings and artful catches from hundreds of students.She also managed to referee, coach and make sure everyone minded their manners. Besides her passion for music and sports, she served as a Rogue Valley Medical Center auxiliary volunteer and was a member of the Christ Unity Church in Medford. <mask> died in her home of Medford at the age of 77. In October 1999, four months after her death, the Wilson Elementary School officially dedicated its baseball field in her honor. She also is part of the AAGPBL permanent display inaugurated at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York in 1988, which is dedicated to the entire league rather than any individual player. Sources

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<mask> (September 28, 1881 – September 16, 1950) was an American actor. Biography
<mask> was born in New York City to parents who were French and Cuban in origin. He was a classically trained theatre actor who confessed he did not enjoy appearing in silent films nearly as much as he liked working on stage, but his career during the silent film era was extensive. His first film was Cecil B. DeMille's version of Carmen (1915), and he soon became a regular leading man in Hollywood. His Broadway career cast him with such stage actresses as Jane Cowl and Katharine Cornell. In the sound era, his deeply resonant speaking voice made him perfectly suited to talking pictures and was active as a character actor in Hollywood, from the mid-1930s through to the end of his life. He was most often cast as aristocratic, or clerical characters of Hispanic origin, as in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), because of his last name as well as his royal bearing.On rare occasions, he would be cast in the role of a villain. His "living skeleton" sideshow character hides fugitive Robert Cummings (and Priscilla Lane) in his carnival wagon overnight in the Alfred Hitchcock film Saboteur (1942). He was a devout Catholic and served for a time as president of the Catholic Actors Guild of America. The last film in which he appeared, a political drama set in an unnamed South American dictatorship, Crisis (1950), was released shortly after his death. Selected filmography

Silent
The Little White Violet (1915) (*short) as Phillip Randall
Jeanne of the Woods (1915) (*short) as Hugh Travers N.W.M.P. Cambret (uncredited)
Keep Smiling (1938) as J. Howard Travers
Storm Over Bengal (1938) as Abdul Mir
Dramatic School (1938) as LeMaistre in "Joan of Arc" (uncredited)
Heart of the North (1938) as Father Claverly
Devil's Island (1939) as Marcal
Winner Take All (1939) as Pantrelli
Juarez (1939) as Riva Palacio
Man of Conquest (1939) as Oolooteka
Chasing Danger (1939) as Gurra Din
Five Came Back (1939) as Latin Ambassador (uncredited)
Range War (1939) as Padre Jose
Law of the Pampas (1939) as <mask>
Charlie Chan in City in Darkness (1939) as Antoine
Escape to Paradise (1939) as Don Miguel
The Light That Failed (1939) as Monsieur Binat
My Favorite Wife (1940) as Dr. Kohlmar
Earthbound (1940) as Minister
The Ghost Breakers (1940) as Havez
The Sea Hawk (1940) as Capt. Susanna (1951) as Pactola (uncredited)
Cuban Fireball (1951) as Don Perez
When the Redskins Rode (1951) as Chief Shingiss (final film role)

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American male radio actors
American male film actors
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American people of French descent
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<mask> is an Iranian-born Swedish aircraft pilot, the second woman to earn a pilot's license to fly aircraft in Iran, after Princess Fatemeh Pahlavi. She is a writer, artist and politician based in Stockholm, Sweden. However, the first female pilots in Iran were flying in the 1940s. Aviation
She was born in Tehran in 1946. In 1974, while married and with five children, <mask> began taking lessons in gliders at the Royal Aviation Club (Nowadays: Civil Aviation Technology College ) in Doshan-Tapeh. Located next to the Air Force Base, Doshan-Tapeh was filled with students who were interested in learning to fly. After receiving her glider license, she went to the Ghaleh-Morghi School of Flight in October of the same year in order to take lessons in single and twin-engine aircraft.She started her training with the Cessna 172 and after only 14 hours of flight, she successfully completed her first solo flight. Her next phases of training consisted of night and long-distance flights to a number of cities such as Tabriz, Kermanshah, Ahwaz, Isfahan and Rasht. In her four years of flying, she flew 150 hours with an instructor and 50 hours solo in both day and night time. In addition to following the practical phase of training, she attended a ground school where she took subjects like aerodynamics, engines, precision instruments, meteorology, navigation, and English. Upon obtaining her license, she received two job offers: one as a flight instructor at the Royal Aviation Club, and the other as a co-pilot for twin-engine planes with the Air-Asseman Airline. However, she was unable to pursue a career or further her training in this field due to the revolution in Iran. Later on in 1989 and while living in Sweden, she took flying lessons along with theory lessons at Bromma Flight-School, (Bromma Flygskola), in Stockholm and received her Swedish pilot's license.Writing
<mask> <mask> <mask> left Iran in 1985 during the Iran–Iraq War, as a refugee with her children and relocated to Sweden. In 1998, a new chapter in her life began as she started putting together a collection of her romantic poems and short stories, which she had started writing in 1975 for publishing purposes. Her first book called Pejvak-e eshq (English: Love's Echo) was published in April 1999 in Sweden. Pejvak-e eshq is a book about separation, homeland, expatriation, women's political rights, and also about love. Her second book, Sargozashteh Pari (Pari's memoir) is based on women's subjugation in patriarchies and was published in Sweden in 2000. Another one of her books that deals with issues surrounding women's oppression are a novel called Anahita which was published in Sweden in 2007. The book, which is inspired by true events in the tragic life of a young woman in an abusive relationship, was translated from Swedish to English in 2008 and, eventually, published as an eBook in 2016.In 2013, one of her books was chosen by Legimus (government entity for accessible media—MTM—under the ministry of culture) in Sweden and published as an audio-book. To date, she has published 15 books in three languages: Persian, Swedish, and English. Her most recent book called En lyckad landning på säker mark: Den farliga flykten från Khomeinis klor till frihetens land Sverige (A successful landing on safe ground: The dangerous escape from Khomeini's claws to the land of freedom Sweden) is her autobiography which was published in Sweden in early summer of 2012 and translated from Swedish to English in 2013. In her autobiography, she provides an account of her personal life both in Iran and Sweden, and she takes a glance at Iran's history from past to present. She has participated in many Swedish literary events and poetical contests. She received the second prize in Swedish poetry in February 2000 at Kista Library in Stockholm as well in December 2000 in Fisksätra, Stockholm. She is a member of the Association of Swedish Authors.Publications

 2012 - A Successful Landing on Safe Land: Dangerous Escape From Khomeini's Chlorine to the Land of Liberty Sweden (Swedish: En lyckad landning på säker mark: Den farliga flykten från Khomeinis klor till frihetens land Sverige), Publisher: Arya, Location: Stockholm, Sweden,
 2007 - Anahita: Based on a True History, Publisher: Recito, Location: Borås, Sweden,
 2004 - Brinnande Hjärta: Dikter i Urval (English: Burning heart: Selected Poems), Publisher: Invandrarförlaget, Location: Borås, Sweden,
 1999 - Pejvak-e eshq or Pizhvāk-i ishq (English: Love's Echo, or Love of Love), Publisher: Akram Āryā, Location: Kista, Sweden,

Artwork
Akram Monfared <mask> began her painting career in 2007 when she attended a painting course at Birkagården College in Stockholm. Later attended art courses at People's University of Amsterdam (Folkuniversitetet), Midsommargården, Folkuniversitetet. Her primary theme with her paintings is based on the situation of women in the world. Exhibitions
In July 2007, she was invited to Jokkmokk and Kvikkjokk, along with seven other artists for the celebration of Linnaeus' 300-year anniversary. The paintings which were made as tributes to Linnaeus were donated to Jokkmokk Municipality. Her first joint exhibition was held in Kvikkjokk in July 2007 with seven other artists. In January 2008, she held a second joint exhibition at Husby Arts Hall in Husby, Stockholm.In July 2008, she had her first solo exhibition at Gallery Kocks in Stockholm exhibiting a total of 52 paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolour, and charcoal on canvas and paper. In November 2008, she had a second exhibition at Lyxigt & Mysigt gallery in Hammarby Sjöstad. In 2009, she held 3 exhibitions in March, August, and October at Gallery RICA in Östermalm, Gallery Darling in Södermalm, and Gallery Törnfågeln in Västertorp respectively. In spring 2010, she held two more exhibitions one at Luma Library in Hammarby Sjöstad and one, which was held in collaboration with the Breast Cancer Association (BRO), at Gallery Ängel in Gamla Stan. In January 2012 and following an interview with Sjöstadsbladet newspaper in fall of 2011, <mask> <mask> <mask> held another gallery at Sjöstadsbladets Redaktion locale. As one of the ambassadors for the National association against honor related violence (GAPF) and in collaboration with GAPF, <mask> <mask> <mask> held an art gallery at Gallery Ängel in October 2015. See also

 Women in Iran
 List of Iranian women
Effat Tejaratchi, the first Iranian woman aviator to fly a plane.References

External links
 Radio: Interview with <mask> Monfared <mask> on Radio Farda

1946 births
Living people
Iranian women writers
Iranian writers
Iranian poets
Iranian women painters
People from Tehran
Iranian women poets
20th-century Iranian women artists
21st-century Iranian women artists

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<mask> (24 July 1884 – 7 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official and politician who was the Party's  Gauleiter of Hesse-Nassau South from 1927 to 1933 and Gau Hesse-Nassau from 1933 to 1945. He was also the Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) and Minister-President of the People's State of Hesse, the Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Nassau and an SA-Obergruppenführer. Early life
Sprenger, the son of a farmer, was born in Oberhausen in the Rhenish Palatinate. He attended volksschule there and after graduating from the gymnasium in Bad Bergzabern in 1901, he served as a one-year volunteer with the 18th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment “Prince Ludwig Ferdinand,” headquartered in Landau. From 1902 he was employed in the administrative service of the Imperial Postal Service, first in Mannheim, then in Hamburg and from October 1912 in Frankfurt. Sprenger volunteered for service in the First World War in August 1914. He was assigned to his old regiment as an Offizierstellvertreter (Officer Deputy) training volunteers and reservists.He was then deployed to the western front and was wounded in action in November 1914, losing a toe on his right foot. He was decorated for valor and awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class. After discharge from the hospital in January 1915, he was assigned as a  zugführer (platoon leader) with a machine gun company. Promoted to Leutnant in April 1916, he was deployed to the eastern front in June 1916 with the 1st Royal Bavarian Landsturm Regiment. He subsequently served as a deputy company commander and a poison gas defense officer (gasschutzoffizier) in Pinsk and Rivne in the Ukraine. After the war ended, he returned to Germany in December 1918. Discharged from the service in July 1919, he resumed his career as a postal official in Frankfurt in December.Nazi career
In 1922, Sprenger became a member of the Nazi Party. When the Party was banned in the wake of the failed Beer Hall Putsch, he briefly joined the German Party (Deutsche Partei, DP) a Nazi front organization in January 1924. He became the leader of the DP in Frankfurt, Hesse, and Hesse-Nassau, and worked as a campaign speaker. In June of that year, he gravitated to the National Socialist Freedom Party, another Nazi front group, and was put on its executive board. After co-founding its Ortsgruppe (Local Group) in Frankfurt, Sprenger became the Bezirksleiter (District Leader) for Frankfurt, Hesse, and Hesse-Nassau. On 28 April 1925 he was elected to the Frankfurt City Council and served there until 1933. Sprenger formally rejoined the Nazi Party on 14 August 1925 (membership number 17,009).He was anti-Semitic, and rose quickly through the ranks. He immediately was made Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader) and SA leader of Frankfurt and became a Bezirksleiter in Hesse-Nassau South on 31 October 1926. He was appointed Gauleiter of Hesse-Nassau South on 1 April 1927, succeeding Karl Linder. On 17 November 1929, he became a member of the municipal Landtag of Wiesbaden and the provincial Landtag of Hesse-Nassau. In January 1930 he became the Nazi faction leader in both bodies and, in addition, was made a member of the Prussian State Council. In September 1930 Sprenger was elected a member of the Reichstag for electoral constituency 19, Hesse-Nassau. He would become the Nazi faction’s specialist on civil service issues and was given a seat on the Reichstag Committee on Civil Service Matters.The same year, he founded a Nazi newspaper in Frankfurt called Frankfurter Volksblatt. From 1930 to 1933 he also sat on the Board of Directors of the German Postal Service, though leaving his employment with the postal service in November 1932. In early 1931, Sprenger joined the National Socialist Motor Corps with membership number 5. In April 1931, Sprenger became the Reich Specialist for Civil Service Questions in the Party Reichsleitung (National Leadership). He would become head of its Civil Service Department from September 1931 through July 1933. Sprenger became the leader of the German Civil Servants Association from April to June 1933, and then continued as the Honorary President of the German Civil Service through the end of the Nazi regime. He was also made a member of the Academy for German Law.On 15 July 1932 came his appointment as Landesinspekteur-Southwest. In this position, he had oversight responsibility for his Gau and four others ( Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Nassau North &  Württemberg-Hohenzollern). This was a short-lived initiative by Gregor Strasser to centralize control over the Gaue. However, it was unpopular with the Gauleiters and was repealed on Strasser's fall from power in December 1932. Sprenger then returned to his Gauleiter position in Hesse-Nassau South. When his Gau was merged with the neighboring Gau of Hesse-Darmstadt (comprising the federal People's State of Hesse) on 1 January 1933, Sprenger became the Gauleiter of the unified Gau Hesse-Nassau. On 10 April 1933, he became the leader of the Nazi faction in the Prussian State Council.On 5 May 1933, he was appointed Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of the People's State of Hesse. In the process of the Gleichschaltung, in particular due to the Reichsstatthaltergesetz (Reich Governors Law) of 30 January 1935, he was also appointed Minister-President and took over leadership of the state government from Philipp Wilhelm Jung on 1 March 1935. Sprenger was promoted to SA-Obergruppenführer on  9 November 1938. He was a holder of the Golden Party Badge. Involvement in euthanasia and the holocaust
In the Hessian town of Hadamar, the psychiatric clinic there was converted into the Hadamar Euthanasia Center where over 14,000 mentally and physically disabled men, women and children were killed with either poisonous gas or lethal injection as part of the Aktion T4 program between January 1941 and March 1945. This certainly was done with the knowledge of Sprenger, the chief Party and government official in the region. It is estimated that some 7,000 Jews emigrated from Frankfurt in the time between Kristallnacht in November 1938 and the formal ban on Jewish emigration of 23 October 1941.From that time forward, Jews were rounded up and deported by train from Frankfurt to ghettos and extermination camps in the east. It is estimated that over 10,600 Jews were deported and that only about 600 Frankfurt Jews survived the war. In May 1943, Sprenger declared Frankfurt to be "Judenfrei". War years
When the Second World War broke out on 1 September 1939, Sprenger was named Reich Defense Commissioner for Wehrkreis (Military District) XII, based in Wiesbaden. This encompassed the western half of his Gau along with Gau Koblenz-Trier, Gau Saarpfalz and part of Gau Baden. In this new position, Sprenger had responsibility for civil defense including air defense and evacuation measures, as well as administration of wartime rationing and suppression of black market activity. On 16 November 1942, the jurisdiction of the Reich Defense Commissioners was changed from the Wehrkreis to the Gau level, and he remained Commissioner for only his Gau of Hesse-Nassau.In 1943, the Oberpräsident (High President) of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau, Philipp von Hessen, fell out of favor and was removed from office. Subsequently, the province was partitioned in two, effective 1 July 1944, and Sprenger was appointed Oberpräsident of the new Prussian Province of Nassau. He thus united under his control the highest party and governmental offices in the province, as he had already done in the State of Hesse. On 25 September 1944, Sprenger became commander of the Volkssturm forces in his Gau. On 15 March 1945, with U.S. Army forces already across the Rhine river, Sprenger issued orders to his Kreisleiters on the need to keep the German population “in check” by having the Gestapo arrest “rumor mongers” and send them to concentration camps. He also ordered the destruction of  secret documents relating to concentration camps and the “extermination of some families.” The memo also stated:

Germans who do not defend themselves on the approach of the enemy or who wish to flee, are to be shot down ruthlessly, or, where suitable, hanged to frighten the population. As American armed forces approached Frankfurt, Sprenger issued further orders on 23 March 1945 prohibiting any able-bodied man or woman from leaving the city.Despite this, on the night of 25 to 26 March just before the start of the Battle of Frankfurt, Sprenger himself fled from Frankfurt to Kössen in eastern Tyrol, Austria where the Russians and U.S. Army were executing a pincer maneuver to envelop the whole country. Trapped, Sprenger and his wife committed suicide by ingesting poison on 7 May 1945. See also
List of Gauleiters

References

Sources

 Orlow, Dietrich: The History of the Nazi Party: 1919-1933 (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1969, . External links

 <mask> in the Hessian State History Information System
 <mask> in the Frankfurt People’s Lexicon

1884 births
1945 suicides
Gauleiters
German newspaper editors
Holocaust perpetrators in Germany
Joint suicides by Nazis
Members of the Academy for German Law
Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
Ministers-President of Hesse
Nazi Party officials
Nazi Party politicians
Nazis who committed suicide in Austria
People from the Palatinate (region)
Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 2nd class
Sturmabteilung officers
Suicides by poison
Volkssturm personnel

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<mask> (17 August 1501 in Hanau – 28 March 1529 in Hanau) was Count of Hanau-Münzenberg from 1512 until his death. He was the son of Count Reinhard IV and his wife, Katharina of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg. Regency
<mask> of Hanau-Münzenberg was only 11 years old when he inherited the county. A guardian and regent were needed for him and his seven years younger brother Balthasar. A regency council was installed by the Reichskammergericht at the recommendation of their mother, after she had consultad the lower nobility in the county. The council consisted initially of <mask>'s mother and his great-uncle Count Johann V of Nassau-Dillenburg. <mask>'s mother died in 1514 and Johann V was the sole regent until he died himself in 1516.After Johann's death, the Reichskammergericht appointed, at <mask>'s recommendation, Johann's son, Count William I of Nassau-Dillenburg as regent. Wilhelm held the regency for five years, until <mask> was declared an adult in 1521, at the age of 20. Reign
During the regency, Hanau-Münzenberg joined the Wetterau Association of Imperial Counts. The start of the Reformation fell during <mask>'s reign. However, it hardly effected the county. The German Peasants' War also happened in this period, but it only sporadically came to riots in Hanau-Münzenberg. The Benedictine convent at Schlüchtern had to put itself under <mask>'s protection, according to different sources either in Hanau or in Steinau an der Straße, when rebellious peasants were approaching from Fulda.There were incidents in other towns in the country, for example in Orb, Partenstein, Preungesheim, Bornheimerberg and Niederrodenbach. The St. Wolfgang monastery in the Bulau forest near Hanau was devastated. In 1528, construction began of a new city wall surrounding Hanau. The city had grown outside its Medieval city wall and a new settlement had sprung into existence arounds today's Hospital street. The new wall would surround these newer parts of the city. It was the first implementation of a new defensive system designed by Albrecht Dürer. Construction took nearly 20 years.Simultaneously, the City Castle in Hanau was extended and strengthened. This project would take until 1560 to complete. The potential existed for a dispute between <mask> and his seven years younger brother Balthasar about whether to obey the primogeniture statue and to give Balthasar only an apanage or to divide the county. When Balthasar's twentieth birthday approached, the regency council decided to opt for primogeniture. A treaty to this affect was drafted. However, <mask> died before the treaty was sealed. This created a legal problem when Balthasar wanted to take up the regency for <mask>'s sons, since his renunciation of his right to inherit and to reign was included in this draft treaty.Death
<mask> II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg died on Easter Sunday of 1529, only 28 years old, leaving three surviving children and a pregnant widow. His funeral took place just one day later in the St. Mary's Church in Hanau, without any pump or circumstance, to spare his widow in her condition. The day after the funeral, she gave birth to his posthumous daughter Juliana. During the almost 200 years that Hanau-Münzenberg existed, almost all counts died before their 30th birthday, leaving a minor to inherit the county. This is unlikely to be a coincidence, as it happened in nine successive generations. It suggests that the counts suffered from an inheritable disease, although it is unknown which disease that would be. The first of the nine counts to die early was Reinhard III.Legacy
The new Hanau city gate was decorated with a portrait, carved in stone, of <mask> and Balthasar. The portrait was later put on display in the museum the Historical Society of Hanau. It was destroyed in a bomb attack on 19 May 1945, during World War II. Marriage and issue

On 27 January 1523, <mask> married Countess Juliana of Stolberg (15 February 1506 – 18 June 1580). They had five children:
 Reinhard (10 April 1524 – 12 April 1525)
 Katharina (1525–1581), married to Count Johann IV of Wied-Runkel
 <mask> (1526–1561)
 Reinhard (1528–1554)
 Juliana (1529–1595), married with Thomas, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Kirburg, and after his death with Count Herman of Manderscheid-Blankenheim

After <mask>'s death, Juliana married William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg and had twelve more children. Ancestors

References
 Reinhard Dietrich: Die Landes-Verfaßung in dem Hanauischen. Die Stellung der Herren und Grafen in Hanau-Münzenberg aufgrund der archivalischen Quellen, vol.34 in the series Hanauer Geschichtsblätter, Hanauer Geschichtsverein, Hanau, 1996,
 Rolf Glawischnig: Niederlande, Kalvinismus und Reichsgrafenstand 1559–1584. Nassau-Dillenburg unter Graf Johann VI., vol. 36 in Schriften des Hessischen Landesamtes für Geschichtliche Landeskunde Elwert, Marburg, 1973,
 Eduard Jacobs: Juliana von Stolberg, Ahnfrau des Hauses Nassau-Oranien. Nach ihrem Leben und ihrer geschichtlichen Bedeutung quellenmäßig dargestellt, Hendel, Wernigerode, 1889
 Eckhard Meise: Bernhard Hundeshagen – kein Denkmalschutz im Hanau des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts, in: Neues Magazin für hanauische Geschichte, 2006, ZDB-ID 535233-2, p. 3–61. Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses, in: Reinhard Suchier (ed. ): Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27.August 1894, Heydt, Hanau 1894, p. 7–23. Karl Wolf: Die vormundschaftliche Regierung des Grafen Johann des älteren von Nassau-Dillenburg in der Grafschaft Hanau-Münzenberg, in: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte vol. 15, 1936, , p. 81–94 and vol. 16, 1937, p. 1–14. Ernst J. Zimmermann: Hanau Stadt und Land. Kulturgeschichte und Chronik einer fränkisch-wetterauischen Stadt und ehemaligen Grafschaft. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der älteren Zeit, 3rd extended edition, self-published, Hanau 1919, unaltered reprint: Peters, Hanau 1978,

Footnotes

Counts of Hanau-Münzenberg
1501 births
1529 deaths
16th-century German people

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<mask>. (August 27, 1945 – February 10, 2017) was an American science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave. At the time of his death, he resided in North Denver. Life and work

<mask> was born in White Plains, New York. However, he was raised on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. He had strong roots in that state attested to in his collection Wyoming Sun. He attended school in Wheatland, Wyoming, and received his MA in English from the University of Wyoming in 1968. During the 1950s his uncle, a rodeo star, encouraged his love of film.This perhaps ultimately led to his occasional work in screenplays and as an actor. He was in the films The Laughing Dead (1988) and Ill Met by Moonlight (1994). He also wrote screenplays for TV shows on channels from CBS, Lifetime and Disney. At the beginning of his career he developed an association with Harlan Ellison, which proved longstanding. This led to collaborative efforts such as the novel Phoenix Without Ashes, based on Ellison's pilot script for The Starlost. His writing career began in 1968 with his attendance at the Clarion Workshop. By 1973, he had gained acclaim for stories with a conversational style that mask rather dark realities.His short horror story "Dark Angel", which appeared in Kirby McCauley's anthology Dark Forces, featured modern-day witch Angela Black. She reappears as the narrator of <mask>'s short novel Fetish. He won two Nebula Awards for his short stories, "Stone" (1978) and "giANTS" (1979). He was mostly known as a writer of short fiction; however, he also wrote poetry, nonfiction, reviews, criticism, and edited an e-zine. When <mask> moved to Denver in 1972, he founded the Northern Colorado Writers Workshop, which continues today, and has produced a number of notable writers, including Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem, John Dunning, Wil McCarthy, Bruce Holland Rogers, Dan Simmons, and Connie Willis. <mask> was a senior editor of Wormhole Books. In addition, he facilitated a number of other writing workshops over the years for writers ranging in skill and experience from amateur to professional.<mask> served as Toastmaster for Denvention II, the 1981 Worldcon, as well as World Fantasy Convention, ArmadilloCon, TusCon, and Death Equinox. He also chaired (and otherwise was a special guest at) multiple years of the World Horror Convention. Although "Flirting With Death" is sometimes listed, as it is here on wiki, as one of <mask>'s collections of short fictions, in actuality, such a collection was never published. Hence, the surfeit of uncollected short stories by <mask>. Illness and death

In 2010, various writers & editors including Melanie Tem and Ellen Datlow set up a Crowd-funding page to help <mask> deal with financial emergencies brought on by his ongoing fight against the effects of Type 1 diabetes. <mask> died at his home in Colorado on February 10, 2017, after a long illness. He was 71.Works

Novels

 Phoenix Without Ashes (1975, with Harlan Ellison). An adaptation of Harlan Ellison's pilot script for The Starlost

Mosaic novels

Wild Cards series
 Bantam Books #1. Wild Cards (1987). Story "Down Deep" (with Leanne C. Harper)
 Bantam Books #3. Jokers Wild (1987). Segments with the character "Sewer Jack"
 Bantam Books #4. Aces Abroad (1988).Story "Down in the Dreamtime"
 Bantam Books #5. Down and Dirty (1988). Story "The Second Coming of Buddy Holly"
 Bantam Books #11. Dealer's Choice (1992). Segments with the character "Wyungare"

Short story collections

 Among the Dead and Other Events Leading Up to the Apocalypse (1973). Contains 17 short stories:
 "The Hanged Man" (1972)
 "Shark"
 "No. 2 Plain Tank Auxiliary Fill Structural Limit 17,605 lbs.Fuel-PWA Spec. 522 Revised" (1972)
 "Adrift on the Freeway" (1970)
 "Jody After the War" (1972)
 "Teleidoscope"
 "The Poet in the Hologram in the Middle of Prime Time" (1972)
 "The Human Side of the Village Monster" (1971)
 "Among the Dead" (1971)
 "File on the Plague" (1971)
 "The Soft Blue Bunny Rabbit Story" (1971)
 "Tactics"
 "Sending the Very Best" (1970)
 "Their Thousandth Season" (1972)
 "Love Song of Herself" (1971)
 "Pinup"
 "Dune's Edge" (1972)
 Cinnabar (1976). Contains 8 short stories:
 "The Road to Cinnabar" (1971)
 "Jade Blue" (1971)
 "Gray Matters", AKA "Their Thousandth Season" (1972)
 "The Legend of Cougar Lou Landis" (1973)
 "Hayes and the Heterogyne" (1974). Novelette
 "Years Later"
 "Sharking Down" (1975). Novelette
 "Brain Terminal" (1975). Novelette
 Wyoming Sun (1980). Contains 5 short stories:
 "Prairie Sun"
 "giANTS" (1979)
 "Teeth Marks" (1979)
 "Beyond the Sand River Range" (1972)
 "Strata".Novelette
 Particle Theory (1981). Contains 12 short stories:
 "Particle Theory" (1977)
 "The Thermals of August". Novelette
 "Hayes and the Heterogyne" (1974). Novelette
 "Teeth Marks" (1979)
 "Winslow Crater" (1978). Poem
 "Shark" (1973)
 "Precession" (1980)
 "Stone" (1978)
 "Strata" (1980). Novelette
 "The Hibakusha Gallery" (1977)
 "giANTS" (1979)
 "To See" (1980)
 Neon Twilight (1990). Contains 3 short stories:
 "Waiting in Crouched Halls" (1970)
 "Pilots of the Twilight" (1984).Novelette
 "Neon"
 Darker Passions (1992). Contains 3 short stories:
 "Doing Colfax" (1987)
 "The Loneliest Number" (1990)
 "Human Remains"
 Flirting With Death: Short Fiction By <mask> (1997)
 The Baku: Tales of the Nuclear Age (2001). Contains 3 short stories:
 "The Baku" (1987). Novelette
 "The Hibakusha Gallery" (1977)
 "Jody After the War" (1972)
 Trilobyte (2014). Contains 3 short stories:
 "An Easter Treasure" (1987)
 "Coon Dawgs" (1987)
 "Drummer's Star" (1987)
 Predators and Other Stories (2014). Contains 6 short stories:
 "Predators" (1987)
 "The Baku" (1987). Novelette
 "Frat Rat Bash" (1987)
 "Haunted" (1987)
 "Buggage" (1987)
 "Doing Colfax" (1987)

Short stories

Uncollected short stories."In the Silent World" (1970)
 "They Only Come in Dreams" (1970)
 "Eyes of Onyx" (1971)
 "Her Lover's Name Was Death" (1971)
 "The Lurker in the Locked Bedroom" (1971)
 "Audition: Soon to Be a Major Production" (1972)
 "Beside Still Waters" (1972, with James Sutherland)
 "Darling, When You Hurt Me" (1972)
 "Nova Morning" (1972, with Jody Harper)
 "The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By ..." (1972)
 "2.46593" (1973)
 "Nightmare Syndrome" (1973)
 "Paths" (1973)
 "And Then He Died" (1974)
 "Cowboys, Indians" (1974)
 "Going West" (1974)
 "Xenofreak/Xenophobe" (1975)
 "Kicks Are For Kids" (1978)
 "Dark Angel" (1980)
 "We'll Have Such a Good Time, Lover" (1980)
 "This Is the Way the World Ends, Soggily" (1981)
 "Freezing to Death" (1982)
 Angie Black series:
 In the Shade (1982)
 Armageddon Between Sets (1984)
 Fetish (1991). Novelette
 "Bean Bag Cats®" (1983)
 "Dancing Chickens" (1984)
 "Party Time" (1984)
 "The Man of the Future" (1984)
 "The Serrated Edge" (1984)
 "The Man Who Always Wanted to Travel" (1985)
 "The Overly Familiar" (1985)
 "Presents of Mind" (1986, with Connie Willis, Steve Rasnic Tem, Dan Simmons)
 "The Transfer" (1986)
 "Author's Notes" (1987)
 "A Functional Proof of Immortality" (1988)
 "Chrysalis" (1988)
 "Skin and Blood" (1988)
 "The Cutter" (1988)
 "While She Was Out" (1988)
 "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" (1989). Novelette
 "Good Kids" (1989)
 "Mod Dogs" (1989)
 "'Saurus Wrecks" (1989)
 "Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard" (1990, with Dan Simmons). Novelette
 "Slippage" (1990)
 "Colder Than Hell" (1991)
 "Country Mouse" (1991)
 "Down Home" (1991)
 "The Great Steam Bison of Cycad Center" (1991). Novelette
 "Aqua Sancta" (1993)
 "The Fire That Scours" (1994)
 "Big Dogs, Strange Days" (1995)
 "Calling the Lightning by Name" (1995)
 "Flirting with Death" (1995)
 "Raptured Up in Blue" (1995)
 "Disillusion" (1996)
 "Talkin' Trailer Trash" (1996)
 "Ashes on Her Lips" (1998)
 "Knock" (1998, AKA Ed Bryant)
 "Styx and Bones" (1999)
 "The Clock That Counts the Dead" (1999)
 "The Flicker Man" (1999, with Trey Barker). Novelette
 "The Shuttlecock" (1999). Novelette
 "Mr.Twisted" (2000, AKA <mask>)
 "Everything Broken" (2003)
 "Bad German" (2010)
 "Marginal Hants" (2015)
 "Bitten Off" (2017)
 "War Stories" (unpublished). Novelette

Chapbooks

 The Man of the Future (1990)
 Fetish (1991)
 The Cutter (1991)
 The Thermals of August (1992)
 Aqua Sancta (1993)
 While She Was Out (2001)

Anthologies

 2076: The American Tricentennial (1977, with Jo Ann Harper)
 The Shadow on the Doorstep / Trilobyte (1987, with James P. Blaylock)

See also

 List of horror fiction authors
 splatterpunk

References

External links

 <mask> at FantasticFiction.com
 <mask> at Locus Online

1945 births
2017 deaths
People from White Plains, New York
American horror writers
American science fiction writers
American short story writers
Nebula Award winners
Splatterpunk
University of Wyoming alumni
American male short story writers
American male novelists
Novelists from New York (state)
People from Wheatland, Wyoming

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Devorah Simone Frost is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by her ring name, Epiphany. She performed for Ohio Valley Wrestling from 2008 to 2013, winning the OVW Women's Championship on three occasions. Professional wrestling career

Ohio Valley Wrestling

Early career (2008)
Frost made her first appearance in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) as a production assistant in November 2008. During her first appearance, she was carried out after Pat Buck attacked her during a hardcore falls count anywhere match between Buck and Rob Conway. She was not seen again until Derby City Wrestling's Christmas Chaos event during a match between Theta Lambda Psi (TPL) and the team of Ben Eclipse (Benjamin Bray and Jesse Mercer) where she came out to counter the interference of TLP's Reggie. Women's Championship reigns (2009–2011)
On May 17, 2009, Frost (under the ring name Epiphany) made her debut to the company as part of an eight women tag team match refereed by Sojourner Bolt at OVW's Future Talent Showcase event. Epiphany, along with Bailey Parker, Adrienne and Belle Von Black lost to the team of C.J.Lane, Taryn Shay, Jessica Cheyanne and Odessa Firechild. On June 28 at OVW's Trial by Fire event, after winning her tag team match with Andrew Lacroix against Hog Wild and Taryn Shay, Epiphany attacked Adrienne, Bailey Parker, C.J. Lane and Jessica Cheyenne during a tag team match. She then challenged the other women to take her on during OVW television. During the weeks following, Epiphany took out each female during one on one matches or attacking them during matches for which she was not scheduled. On July 26 at OVW's Futureshock event, Epiphany once again attacked C.J. Lane, but Melody returned to save Lane.Epiphany then received a match for the OVW Women's Championship against Melody on the August 12 episode of OVW, defeating her and winning the championship for the first time. On September 22, at OVW's Capitol Punishment event, Epiphany successfully defended her championship against C.J. Lane. On September 27 at OVW's Fall Brawl, Epiphany teamed up with Taryn Shay in a losing effort to Lane and Bailey Parker, with Lane earning a championship match. On the September 30 episode of OVW, Epiphany defeated Lane to retain her championship. However, she lost the championship to The Blossom Twins on the October 12 episode of OVW, after the two twins switched, ending her reign at 56 days. After time off Epiphany, made her return to the women's division as a spectator for match 1 of what would be a best of 3 series between Taryn Shay and C.J.Lane for contendership for the OVW Women's Championship. Later it was reported by Josie that Epiphany attacked Shay in order to take her spot in a contendership match, which she would go on to lose via disqualification against Lane. On the February 3, 2010 episode of OVW, Epiphany served as the special guest referee for the match between Josie and Shay. Epiphany disqualified Josie and gave Shay the championship, which caused a brawl between the two in the end of the match. Later, Josie offered Epiphany a title shot, which ended in a no contest when the remaining girls on the roster would interfere, surprisingly pick sides; Taryn Shay and C.J. Lane on behalf of Epiphany and The Blossoms on behalf of Josie. Epiphany teamed up with Shay on the February 17 episode of OVW, defeating Lane and Josie.However, Epiphany, Lane and Shay lost to The Blossom Twins and Josie on February 28 at OVW's Retribution event in a six-women tag team match. On the March 3 episode of OVW, Epiphany and Shay lost to The Blossoms in a tag team match. The following week, on the March 10 episode of OVW, Epiphany lost to Hannah Blossom in a singles match. However, on the March 31 episode of OVW, Epiphany defeated Hannah Blossom. In the summer of 2010, Epiphany teamed up with various partners against opponents like Lane, Shay and The Blossoms. On December 10 at OVW's Saturday Night Special event, Epiphany teamed with her real-life cousin Rudy Switchblade to defeat C.J. Lane and Paredyse.Going onto 2011, Epiphany took part of several tag team and singles matches against opponents like Lane, Jessie Belle Smothers, Taeler Hendrix and Solo Darling. Various feuds (2012–2013)
On the January 4, 2012 episode of OVW, Epiphany defeated C.J. Lane. Epiphany also pinned Taeler Hendrix on the February 15 episode of OVW during a dark match. Epiphany then won a three-way match against both Lane and Hendrix. On the April 18 episode of OVW, Epiphany teamed with Randy Royal against Taeler Hendrix and Dylan Bostic in a winning effort, earning a championship match against Hendrix. The following week at the April 25 episode of OVW, Hendrix defeated Epiphany to retain the Women's Championship.On May 12 at OVW's Saturday Night Special event, Epiphany and Royal defeated Blair Alexxis and Paredyse and Taeler Hendrix and Dylan Bostic in a three-way tag team match. On the May 16 edition of episode 665, Hendrix defeated Heidi Douglas in a dark match. On June 2, at OVW's Saturday Night Special, Epiphany defeated Hendrix to win the OVW Women's Championship for the second time. On the June 27 episode of OVW, Ken Wayne (member of the Board of Directors) vacated all of the championships in the promotion, leaving Epiphany's reign at 25 days. This led to a match between <mask> and Hendrix for the vacant championship on July 7 at OVW's Saturday Night Special in an evening gown match which Hendrix won after Dylan Bostic distracted Epiphany. On the August 1 episode of OVW, Epiphany defeated Scarlett Bordeaux, and Heidi Lovelace, Jessie Belle Smothers and Taeler Hendrix in a fatal-four-way match on the August 8 episode of OVW in a dark matches. On the October 31 episode of OVW, Epiphany started a feud with Jessie Belle after defeating her in a singles match.On the November 7 episode of OVW, Jessie Belle and Heidi Lovelace defeated <mask> and Taeler Hendrix in a tag team match. On the November 14 episode of OVW, Epiphany faced Jessie Belle which ended up as a draw. After a long losing streak, Epiphany finally got a victory over Taeler Hendrix on the January 26, 2013 episode of OVW to become the number one contender for the Women's Championship. Since February, Eddie Diamond showed his feelings of love to Epiphany, which started as a storyline between the two. At OVW's Saturday Night Special on February 2, Epiphany was unsuccessful in winning the championship from Jessie Belle, after a distraction from Eddie Diamond. However, Epiphany got a rematch for the championship at OVW's Saturday Night Special on March 2, in which Epiphany would defeat Jessie Belle to win the OVW Women's Championship for the third time. On the April 6 episode of OVW, Epiphany defeated Taeler Hendrix in the main event of the show to retain her championship.On the April 20 episode of OVW, <mask> lost the Women's Championship to Trina after Eddie Diamond's interference backfired. On the July 3 edition of OVW episode 724, when Lei'D Tapa was facing off against Holly Blossom. Epiphany came to ringside and pulled down the hood on one of the cameramen to reveal that this is Eddie Diamond, with Epiphany believing that Tapa is his secret girlfriend. This would set up a singles match at the Saturday Night Special on July 3, with Tapa winning the match thanks to Eddie Diamond. After the match, Epiphany powerbombed Eddie and broke up with him. The following day she announced on her Facebook page that she retired from pro wrestling. Championships and accomplishments
New Focus Wrestling
NFW Women's Championship (1 time)
Ohio Valley Wrestling
OVW Women's Championship (3 times)
Miss OVW (2009)

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1981 births
African-American female professional wrestlers
American female professional wrestlers
Living people
Professional wrestlers from Ohio
21st-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
20th-century African-American women

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<mask> (born 14 February 1951) is an Irish lawyer, author and former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence from 2011 to 2014. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency from 1981 to 2002 and from 2007 to 2016. He ended his membership of Fine Gael in early 2018. His most recent books are Life is a Funny Business (2017) and Frenzy and Betrayal: The Anatomy of a Political Assassination (2019). Personal life
Born in Dublin to a Jewish family, Shatter is the son of Elaine and <mask>, a British couple who met by chance when they were both on holidays in Ireland in 1947. He was educated at The High School, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and the Europa Institute of the University of Amsterdam. In his late teens he worked for two months in Israel on a kibbutz.<mask> has lived most of his life in Dublin; he grew up in Rathgar and Rathfarnham and lives now in Ballinteer with his wife, Carol Ann (Danker) <mask>. He has two adult children. With interests in fifteen properties, Shatter had the largest property portfolio of any member of Ireland's cabinet while a cabinet minister (2011-2014). Legal and writing career
<mask> was a partner in the Dublin law firm Gallagher Shatter (1977-2011). As a solicitor he acted as advocate in many seminal and leading cases determined both by the High Court and Supreme Court. He is the author of one of the major academic works on Irish family law (1977, 1981, 1986 and 1997) which advocated substantial constitutional and family law reform. As a politician he played a lead role in effecting much of the constitutional and legislative change he advocated.He is a former chairperson of FLAC (the Free Legal Advice Centres), a former chairperson of CARE, an organisation that campaigned for child care and children's legislation reform in the 1970s and a former President of the Irish Council Against Blood Sports. Among his professional affiliations, he is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is also the author of the satirical book Family Planning Irish Style (1979), and the novel Laura (1989). In 2017, his Life is a Funny Business was published by Poolbeg Press and in 2019 Frenzy and Betrayal: The Anatomy of a Political Assassination was published by Merrion Press. The former is a biography of the years prior to his election as a member of the Irish parliament and their relationship to later events. The latter is the story of controversies that occurred in the period immediately preceding his resignation from government in May 2014, and the reports into these events. Political career
<mask> was first elected to the Dáil at the 1981 general election, and was re-elected at each subsequent election until he lost his seat at the 2002 general election.He was re-elected at the 2007 general election. <mask> was a member of Dublin County Council from 1979 to 1999 for the Rathfarnham local electoral area. While in opposition, he published more private member's bills than any other TD had done previously. His Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 1989, radically reforming Irish family law, was the first piece of legislation enacted by an opposition TD for 35 years. His Adoption Act 1991 provided for the recognition for the first time of foreign adoptions in Ireland. As Fine Gael’s Spokesperson on the Environment, he published in 1989 Ireland’s first ever legislation to establish an Environment Protection Agency. His bill embraced the precautionary principle prioritizing environmental protection principles in government decision making.Whilst it was opposed by the then Fianna Fáil government it laid the foundation for subsequent government legislation. Prior to becoming a member of the Oireachtas, <mask> satirised some of the bizarre measures contained in a government sponsored 1979 Family Planning Bill in a short best seller book, "Family Planning – Irish Style" which contained cartoons by Chaim Factor, a well known artist and sculptor. Amongst his targets was a provision which required a medical prescription to purchase condoms with the prescription designating the monthly number of condoms that could be lawfully purchased. During the 1980s, <mask> successfully lobbied for the establishment of an Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the Committee from its foundation in 1992, apart from a brief period in 1993 to 1994, and its chairman from December 1996 to June 1997. He was also for many years a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Law Reform and Defence. He is a former member also of the Health and Children Committee and the Special Committee that considered the wording for a Children's Rights referendum.Wording he drafted substantially influenced the content of an amendment on Children’s Rights incorporated into the Irish Constitution after a successful referendum in 2012. <mask> was the founder of the Ireland/Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group and acted as its chairperson for many years. In 1985, <mask> visited the Soviet Union together with his Fine Gael colleague, Senator Seán O'Leary, and met with various Jewish refusenik families who had been prevented from emigrating to Israel and were in substantial difficulties with some family members imprisoned and others fired from academic and scientific jobs and forced to engage in menial employment. Upon returning to Dublin, <mask> and O’Leary published a report and held a press conference on their plight. The previous year on international human rights day <mask> proposed a Dail motion on the plight of Soviet Jewry which was passed and adopted by Dáil Éireann. Subsequently similar motions were adopted in other European Parliaments. In 1983, <mask> was involved in controversy when he defied his party's whip to vote against the inclusion in the Irish constitution of an anti abortion provision.In 1998, he was the author of a major report published by the Health Committee which criticised tobacco companies and recommended various controls on smoking and tobacco advertising. In the years that followed most of the recommendations made were implemented by government. During a period in 1993 to 1994, he was removed from the Foreign Affairs committee by party leader John Bruton as a disciplinary measure for breaking the party whip by his voting in favour of a Bill to ban live hare coursing. He was Fine Gael Front Bench Spokesperson on Law Reform (1982, 1987–88); the Environment (1989–91); Labour (1991); Justice (1992–93); Equality and Law Reform (1993–94); Health and Children (1997–2000); Justice, Law Reform and Defence (2000–02); Children (2007–10); and Justice and Law Reform (2010–11). During the 2009 Gaza War, Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh claimed that <mask> and the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland had exposed the Oireachtas committee on Foreign Affairs to "propaganda, twisted logic and half truths". Ó Snodaigh also said that Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, would have been proud of it. The Sinn Fein TD's attack on Shatter generated controversy, resulting in him being accused of anti-semitism.In February 2009, during a sitting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs concerning the Gaza conflict, <mask> clashed verbally with Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, Professor of History at the University of Exeter, accusing Pappé of biased scholarship and historical inaccuracies. <mask> opposed the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 to ban the sale of products from Israeli settlements in Ireland, saying that the Bill’s proponents ignored Israel's security needs, the complexities of the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict and that the Bill sought to discriminate against Israel. On 9 March 2011, <mask> was appointed by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny as both Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence. Minister for Justice (2011–2014)

Under <mask>'s steerage, a substantial reform agenda was implemented with nearly 30 separate pieces of legislation published, many of which are now enacted including the Personal Involvency Act 2012, Criminal Justice Act 2011, DNA Database Act, and the Human Rights and Equality Commission Act. Under his guidance, major reforms were introduced in 2011 into Ireland's citizenship laws and a new Citizenship Ceremony was created. <mask> both devised and piloted Ireland’s first ever citizenship ceremony which took place in June 2011 and a new inclusive citizenship oath which he included in his reforming legislation. During his time as Minister, he cleared an enormous back log of citizenship applications and 69,000 foreign nationals became Irish citizens.Some applications had lain dormant for 3 to 4 years. He introduced a general rule that save where there was some real complication, all properly made citizenship applications should be processed within a six month period. <mask> also took steps to facilitate an increased number of political refugees being accepted into Ireland and created a special scheme to facilitate relations of Syrian families already resident in Ireland who were either caught up in the civil war in Syria, or in refugee camps elsewhere as a result of the civil war in Syria, to join their families in Ireland. <mask> had enacted legislation before the end of July 2011 to facilitate access to financial documentation and records held by third parties in investigations into banking scandals and white collar crime. The legislation was first used by the Gardaí in September 2011. During Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2013, he chaired the Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) meetings and, in January 2013, in Dublin Castle, the meeting of EU Defence Ministers. Under his guidance, Ireland played a more active role than in the past in EU defence matters and in deepening Ireland's participation in NATO's partnership for peace.Under his guidance, during the course of the Irish Presidency, substantial progress was made at the European Union level in the adoption and development of new legislation and measures across a broad range of Justice and Home Affairs issues. In June 2011, he apologised for "unfair and inaccurate" comments he made about RTÉ crime correspondent Paul Reynolds after saying he "consistently engages in tabloid sensationalism". When eight former attorneys general criticised the proposed Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution on Oireachtas inquiries he described their views as "nonsense" and "simply wrong". Shortly after taking office, the Cloyne report which had been commissioned by the previous government to investigate clerical sex abuse of children in the Diocese of Cloyne, was released. In response to this report and several other sex abuse scandals involving the Catholic Church, the Fine Gael–Labour Party government announced controversial plans to criminalise failure to report an allegation of child abuse. Seán Brady, the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, condemned this as compromising the Seal of the Confessional. <mask> steered the legislation through the parliament and it was enacted in 2012.Following publication in 2012 of the report of then Independent Senator Martin McAleese into the Magdalene Laundries, which <mask> commissioned, he established with government agreement a financial scheme to compensate the survivors of the laundries and other supportive measures. A state apology for the survivors scandalous ill treatment by various religious orders was, as a result of <mask>'s engagement with this long ignored issue, made in the Dail by the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. The plight of the survivors of the laundries had been ignored for decades and there was widespread welcome for the government action taken. Major reform of the Irish prison system occurred and greater co-operation between the prison and probation services was implemented. A prison modernisation programme was implemented and slopping out virtually ended. Mountjoy Prison was refurbished to provide proper in cell sanitation and construction of a new Cork Prison was commenced. He also had enacted legislation to require the courts to make greater use of community service orders for minor offences and to facilitate the payment of court imposed fines by instalment.In September 2011, <mask> published the Legal Services Reform Bill to modernise the legal profession, introduce greater competition and tackle the problem of excessive legal costs. The Bill generated enormous opposition from both the barristers and solicitors professional bodies. It was welcomed by the Competition Authority and some other bodies, including the Troika to whom the Irish government was obliged to report as a result of the financial and banking collapse. <mask> engaged in an extensive consultative process on the Bill and it was substantially amended and improved as it went through the legislative process. <mask> refused to amend the provisions designed to reduce legal costs and increase competition and to enable barristers and solicitors work together jointly as court advocates and in partnerships. The barristers opposition to the bill remained strident whilst the solicitors became supportive of most of its provisions. The Bill still had to complete its enactment when <mask> resigned in May 2014.Following <mask>'s resignation, his successor as Justice minister, Frances Fitzgerald, amended some of the provisions. On 3 March 2012, a convicted Garda killer escaped from low security open detention centre Loughan House in County Cavan, and fled across the border into Northern Ireland. <mask> later apologised and said "it should not have occurred." <mask>'s proposal to cabinet in the autumn of 2013 that a referendum on marriage equality be held in the first half of 2015 was accepted and with cabinet agreement he published in February 2014 the draft Children and Family Relationships Bill to substantially reform and modernise various aspects of child and family law. The legislation was enacted shortly before the referendum was held in 2015. The legislation enacted substantially reflected the draft bill <mask> published, save that the government omitted provisions relating to surrogacy, announcing in September 2014 that the issue would be addressed in separate legislation. As of June 2020, a general scheme of an Assisted Human Reproduction Bill has been published, but it has not advanced in the legislative process.He was the Minister responsible for two amendments to the Constitution of Ireland which were passed in referendums: the Twenty-ninth Amendment in 2011 to allow for the reduction of judges' pay, and the Thirty-third Amendment in 2013 to establish a Court of Appeal. Just prior to his resignation from government the draft legislation to create the court was published and the court was established and sitting by October 2014. The jurisdictions of the courts were extended for the first time in 20 years and the maximum civil damages payable for the emotional distress of bereaved relations following a negligent death was increased. Minister for Defence (2011–2014)
<mask> implemented substantial reform in the Department of Defence and restructured the Irish Defence Forces. He is a strong supporter of the Irish Defence Forces participation in international peacekeeping and humanitarian engagements. As a member of the Irish Parliament and as Minister on many occasions, he visited Irish troops participating in UN missions in the Middle East. Under his watch contracts were signed for the acquisition of 2 new naval vessels with an option to purchase a third.All three naval vessels are now part of the Irish naval service and have been actively engaged in recent years in rescuing from drowning refugees in the Mediterranean attempting to enter Europe. As Minister for Defence, he enacted legislation to grant a pardon and an amnesty to members of the Irish defence forces

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