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<mask>. (born 1959) is an American evangelical theologian, the ninth president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and host of the podcast The Briefing, where he daily analyzes the news and recent events from a evangelical perspective. He has been described as "one of America's most influential evangelicals". Education and personal life
<mask> was born on October 19, 1959, in Lakeland, Florida. During his Lakeland years, he attended Southside Baptist Church. <mask> attended college at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton in Palm Beach County as a Faculty Scholar. He then received a Bachelor of Arts from Samford University, a private, coeducational Baptist-affiliated college in Birmingham, Alabama. His Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in systematic and historical theology were conferred by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.Career
In addition to his presidency at SBTS, <mask> was the host of The Albert Mohler Program, a nationwide radio show "devoted to engaging contemporary culture with Christian beliefs." He currently produces a weekday podcast on the news, The Briefing, in which he provides commentary on current events from a Christian point of view, often providing a historical background as well. He also regularly broadcasts interviews with various different people on a podcast called Thinking in Public. He is former vice chairman of the board of Focus on the Family and a member of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Christianity Today recognized <mask> as a leader among American evangelicals, and in 2003 Time called him the "reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S." <mask> has presented lectures or addresses at a variety of conservative evangelical universities. <mask> served as editor of The Christian Index, the biweekly newsletter of the Georgia Baptist Convention. From 1985 to 1993 he was Associate Editor of the bi-monthly Preaching Magazine.<mask> also served on the Advisory Council for the 2001 English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible. <mask> previously blogged on Crosswalk.com, a web site maintained by Salem Web Network of Richmond, Virginia. <mask> currently blogs on his website, where his podcasts can also be listened to for free. In 2018, <mask> labeled turmoil in the Southern Baptist Convention as the SBC's "own horrifying #MeToo moment" and said it stemmed from "an unorganized conspiracy of silence" about sexual misconduct and abuse. He wrote that the SBC's "issues are far deeper and wider" than the controversy surrounding Paige Patterson, who’d been moved that day from president to president emeritus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. In early 2019, explosive newspaper reports of sexual abuse by church leaders and volunteers shook the Southern Baptist Convention, and <mask> called for independent third-party investigations. Just days after the Houston Chronicle’s 2019 report of allegations of hundreds of sexual abuse cases (some of which were not reported to law enforcement), <mask> apologized in an interview with the newspaper for supporting a religious leader who was accused of helping conceal sexual abuses at his former church.Some have lauded <mask>, while others have questioned the timing and motivations of these comments. One day after <mask>'s remarks to the Houston Chronicle, his Southern Baptist Theological Seminary office released a related statement by him. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

<mask> joined the staff of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1983 as Coordinator of Foundation Support. In 1987, he became Director of Capital Funding, a post he held until 1989. From 1983 to 1989, while still a student, he had served as assistant to then-President Roy Honeycutt. In February 1993, <mask> was appointed the ninth President of the seminary by the institution's board of trustees to succeed Honeycutt. Theology and other faiths
In 2008, <mask> declined to sign An Evangelical Manifesto, publishing a lengthy explanation for his decision.<mask> is an Evangelical and an exclusivist, which means that he believes Jesus is the only way through which an individual can attain salvation or have a relationship with God the Father. As a Calvinist, <mask> believes that human salvation is a free gift from God which cannot be earned by human action or will and is only given to the elect. He has publicly advanced this position with respect to Judaism, Islam, and Catholicism. He recently stated that "any belief system, any world view, whether it's Zen Buddhism or Hinduism or dialectical materialism for that matter, Marxism, that keeps persons captive and keeps them from coming to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, yes, is a demonstration of Satanic power." He believes Muslims are motivated by demonic power and in the months after the September 11, 2001 attacks, <mask> characterized Islamic views of Jesus as false and destructive:

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<mask> appeared on MSNBC's Donahue on August 20, 2002. The subject was Christian evangelization of Jews. <mask> and Michael L. Brown, a Messianic Jew, debated this subject as well as <mask>'s insistence that salvation lies exclusively in the personal acceptance of Christ before the afterlife with Donahue, a Catholic, and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, an Orthodox Jew.On April 15, 2003, <mask> was interviewed by Time on the subject of evangelizing Iraqi Muslims in the form of Christian aid groups. On May 5, 2003, <mask> appeared on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross to discuss the issue of evangelization of the Iraqis. At issue was whether the coupling of evangelizing with basic human aid relief might be perceived as aggressive or coercive by the Iraqi people, and whether such a perception, if widespread, might place other relief workers in jeopardy. <mask> argued that biblical, evangelical Christianity is not uniquely American, but exists as a movement throughout the world, so that Christian witnessing is not, in his view, to be interpreted as a move on the part of any single nation against the religion of another. At the same time, however, <mask> acknowledged the need for "sensitivity," and distanced himself from the idea that religion coerced. When pressed, <mask> expressed support for the idea of religious freedom as a theoretical matter of law. On December 18, 2004, <mask> debated retired Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong on Faith Under Fire, a program hosted by Lee Strobel and appearing on PAX, a Christian television network.The subject was the historicity and truthfulness of the Bible. On December 19, 2013, <mask> appeared on CNN to discuss the controversy surrounding comments made by Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty. GLAAD National Spokesman Wilson Cruz was also on the program. Speaking engagements
On November 8–9, 2004, <mask> spoke at the annual meeting of the Florida Baptist State Convention. On May 21, 2005, <mask> gave the commencement address at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. <mask> told graduates they could display the glory of God by telling and defending the truth, sharing the gospel, engaging the culture, changing the world, loving the church and showing the glory of God in their own lives. On February 25, 2014, <mask> delivered a Forum Lecture in the Marriott Center Arena at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.The title of <mask>'s lecture was, "Strengthen the Things that Remain: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Human Flourishing in a Dangerous Age." Justice Sunday
<mask> was on the board of directors of Focus on the Family. In this role he was one of the principal organizers of Justice Sunday, a nationally televised event broadcast from Highview Baptist Church, in Louisville on April 24, 2005. <mask> shared the stage with Charles Colson and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson. US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist appeared at the event via videotape. Another host of the program was Family Research Council president Tony Perkins. The purpose of the broadcast was to mobilize the conservative base in lobbying the United States Senate to curtail debate on the nominations to the federal judiciary made by George W. Bush.Theological views

Catholics and the Pope
<mask> believes the Catholic Church is a "false church" that teaches a "false gospel" and that the Pope's office is not legitimate. During a March 13, 2014 podcast of The Briefing, <mask> stated that Evangelicals "simply cannot accept the legitimacy of the papacy" and that "to do otherwise would be to compromise Biblical truth and reverse the Reformation." <mask> has denounced Pope Francis for his perceived left-leaning leadership. <mask> stated that he was one of the original signatories to the Manhattan Declaration because it is a limited ecumenical statement of Christian conviction on the topics of abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage, and not a wide-ranging theological document that subverts confessional integrity. He emphasized that he signed the document in spite of his deep theological disagreements with the Catholic Church. Deliberate childlessness
<mask> spoke in June 2004, about married adults who choose not to have children. <mask> has also been critical of birth control methods that prevent implantation of the fertilized egg, which he believes "involve nothing less than an early abortion."He has attempted to bring about a new reflection on the topic within evangelical opinion. Gender roles and sexuality
In 2017, <mask> signed the Nashville Statement. Science
<mask> is a young earth creationist. Yoga
According to <mask>, yoga practice is not consistent with Christianity. After voicing his stance on the topic, <mask> stated that he was 'surprised by the depth of the commitment to yoga found on the part of many who identify as Christians'. Libertarianism
<mask> has argued that libertarianism is idolatrous, and as a comprehensive world view or fundamental guiding principle for human life, is inconsistent with Christian ideals. He is a proponent of personal liberty, but believes such liberties can run into problems when applied in the political sphere.The more limited economic libertarianism, on the other hand, can be consistent with the "comprehensive world view that Christianity puts forward." Selected bibliography

Books authored by R<mask> <mask> Jr.
Atheism Remix: A Christian Confronts the New Atheists
Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues with Timeless Truth (Today's Critical Concerns)
He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World  (September 1, 2008)
Desire and Deceit: The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance  (September 16, 2008)
The Conviction to Lead: The 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters, expresses the view that leadership stems from conviction and moral character (2012). Chapter 6 (p. 58), entitled "Being Baptist Means Conviction" (Broadman & Holman, 2001)
A Theology For The church Daniel L. Akin (Editor). Conclusion (p. 927) entitled "The Pastor as Theologian" (Broadman & Holman, 2007)
Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy by J. Merrick and Stephen M. Garrett, eds. (Zondervan, 2013)

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"Modeling Modesty" by <mask>
"Transforming Culture: Christian Truth Confronts Post-Christian America"
"Ministry is Stranger Than it Used to Be: The Challenge of Postmodernism"
"The Urgency of Preaching"
"Biblical Pattern of Male Leadership Limits Pastorate to Men"
"Does God Give Bad Advice? The 'Open' View of God Stakes its Ground"
"Keeping The Faith In a Faithless Age: The Church As The Moral Minority"
"The Compassion of Truth: Homosexuality in Biblical Perspective"
"The Scandal of the Empty Tomb: The Glory of the Resurrection"
"Consider Your Calling: The Call to the Ministry"

"The Seduction of Pornography and the Integrity of Christian Marriage" PDF and MP3. Address on "Justice Sunday" in MP3
Russell D. Moore, Senior Vice President of Academic Administration, and Dean of the School of Theology at Southern Seminary, presented an article at ETS entitled "After Patriarchy, What?Why Egalitarians Are Winning the Evangelical Gender Debate"

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 <mask> Official Website. <mask> on Twitter. 1959 births
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<mask> (born 19 June 1983) is an English actress, known for her role as Kerry Wyatt on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. <mask> has also appeared in numerous television series working for ITV and the BBC, and has significant theatre credits, including The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Live Theatre Company. Early life
<mask> was born on 19 June 1983 in Newcastle upon Tyne. She attended Seaton Burn Community High School. Career

<mask> began her acting career at the age of fourteen with a youth theatre project with Live Theatre in Newcastle. <mask> auditioned for the opening play of the project called Get Out of That Then. She continued to work with the youth theatre until she was 19.It was there that Paul James, the actor and associate director for education and participation at the Live Theatre in Newcastle, got <mask> her first professional audition for a television series called Badger; <mask> booked the role. Wanting to pursue an acting career, she undertook a BTEC and HND performing arts courses at North Tyneside College. <mask> returned to the Live Theatre youth project when she was 21 years old, after completing her performing arts courses at North Tyneside College. It would be with the theatre that she would earn her first major stage role. The Royal Shakespeare Company in partnership with the Live Theatre, Newcastle, collaborated on a project called Keepers of the Flame. <mask> booked a role with the production, portraying Lisa in Keepers of the Flame. Before she undertook her role in 2003, <mask> discussed booking her first major professional stage role, "I cried when I was told I had got through the audition.I still can't believe it. It really is a dream come true. Lisa's the one who brings lightness to the play. She's quite humorous - the only character who there's a bit of hope for. Am I like her at all? Well, I can be feisty sometimes!" Building upon her first professional stage role, <mask> booked a role in Live Theatre's production Smack Family Robinson.A tale of a family of drug dealers, she played the youngest daughter, Cora. Alfred Hickling of The Guardian commented on <mask>'s performance: "<mask> is quietly outstanding as the younger daughter Cora." In 2004, she also took part in A City on the Tyne at the Live Theatre, a celebration of local writer Sid Chaplin. <mask> read extracts from one of Chaplin's works, Grace Before Meat. From 27 November to 23 December 2004, <mask> appeared as Pepita, in The Weather Kitchen at the Chelsea Theatre London. In 2004, <mask> played small roles as Geordie Girl in 55 Degrees North and Susie in Steel River Blues. <mask> also worked as an extra on Byker Grove before she was cast as Sam, a local journalist.Roles in Angel Cake, The Royal Today and Vera followed. <mask> also featured in Hoops, a short feature sitcom as part of collaboration with Newcastle-based comedy improvisational group, The Suggestibles. Also in 2004, she appeared as Charity Girl in Paul Gilbert's Would You Like to Meet. She also featured in Dene Film's Apple Crush as Beatrice and in Aggro, a short for Shakabuku Films. After two years away from the stage, <mask> returned, booking a role as Sharon in Writing Wrong at The Customs House, South Shields as part of the theatre's February Drama Festival in 2006. She then appeared in New Writing North's production of Immaculate Deception. In 2007, <mask> returned to the Customs House to take her first foray into Pantomime.Starring as Princess Jill in Jack and the Beanstalk alongside David Ducasse and Victoria Elliot. In 2008, she appeared at the Northern Stage (formerly Newcastle Playhouse) as Blackie the Cat in Hansel and Gretel. In 2009, <mask> appeared in You Couldn't Make It Up, "A fascinating and satirical look at the recent media circus surrounding the trials and tribulations of The Toon Army." In the same year, <mask> appeared at the Customs House in Lucky Numbers a comedy by playwright Mike Yeaman. She played the role of a Goth. In 2009, <mask> portrayed the role of Dara, a "20 something good time girl" in the Live Theatre's production of Jump. In 2010, <mask> also booked a role as Carol, a businesswoman, in Canoeing For Beginners.Carol was in a desperate search for her father Frank, who faked his own death and subsequently tracks him down in Cuba to find out the truth. She earned good reviews for her performances with one reviewer calling her performance "superb". The production was performed at the Customs House, South Shields. Also in 2010, <mask> booked a role in A Nightingale Sang portraying the role of Helen. The production toured the North of England and was performed at the Oldham Coliseum Theatre and at the Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough in early 2010. Commenting on A Nightingale Sang, What's on Stage's Malcolm Wallace praised <mask>'s portrayal of Helen, saying "<mask> takes a while to warm up, but as the evening progresses and the character develops, her performance grows and her final scenes with Jack Bennett, who excellently plays Helen's lover Norman, are dignified and poignant." Also in 2010, <mask> portrayed the role of lap dancer Carla in Faith & Cold Reading opposite Stephen Tompkinson.She earned positive reviews for her role in Faith & Cold Reading. Chris Collett of The Stage magazine commented, she was "restrained yet, heart-rending performance as Carla, Sammy's world weary girlfriend." Over the course of rehearsing Faith & Cold Reading, <mask> also kept a blog on Live Theatre's website. She spoke of the privilege she felt working on the production and the "surreal" nature of working with Stephen Tompkinson. Reviewers commented that she and Tompkinson shared a good on stage rapport and her performance was compelling. <mask> also appeared as Chelle a young woman in her 20s, in Nativities. She again earned critical acclaim for her role as Chelle, with Paul Clifford of the Shields Gazette giving her a positive review."<mask> did a fine job as Chelle, a young mum who would rather go out and get drunk than look after her child." Speaking about the production with co-star Melanie Hill, <mask> stated that the characters in the play were "extreme" and all "interweaved into each others lives". Delving into her character, she explained Chelle's journey, "She has had a baby really young, has got trapped in this life she does not want to be in. She's really bitter and regretful, mourning for the life she has lost. She feels her life has been taken away from her and that's why she gets her claws into this young lass, whose life she wants. She is vile." In 2011, at the Live Theatre, <mask> appeared alongside actor Mark Benton and Joe Caffrey in Jesting About."A collaborative project between the BBC and Northern Film and Media (NFM), aimed at unearthing new laugh-making talent" within the North East. The 30-minute comedy sketch show was also broadcast on BBC Radio Newcastle on 2 May 2011. In 2012, <mask> appeared alongside Bev Fox (co-founder), Paula Penman and Jayne Humphreys in partnership with Newcastle-based improvisational group The Suggestibles, at the Newcastle Pride Festival 2012. She performed comedy sketches in the Women's tent as part of the Pride festival. Early in 2012, <mask> also appeared in I'm Sorry – Present:Tense with Nabakov, a play based around a specific topic effecting the local area of Newcastle. After development of the idea a theme was selected after it featured heavily in the Evening Chronicle. It was announced that the series of plays would focus on "How Government cuts are disproportionally affecting women."Alongside James Baxter and Chloe Allen, <mask> was selected to feature in the week-long project under the directorship of Phil Ormrod. On 8 October 2012, she also appeared on the CBBC television series Wolfblood as Sergeant Ashford. Later in 2012, it was announced that <mask> would be joining the Yorkshire-based soap opera Emmerdale as Kerry Wyatt, the estranged mother of Amy Wyatt (Chelsea Halfpenny). Emmerdale marked <mask>'s first regular television role and she made her first appearance on 17 July 2012. <mask> has subsequently added that she feels Kerry is vulnerable and complicated, saying: "She's complicated, vulnerable and childlike. You come to see pretty quickly that Amy is the grown-up one and Kerry is complicated and damaged. She's just desperate for some love.She wants a relationship. She felt that she was doing everything she could to keep Amy [when she was young]. Really, she made some terrible decisions that weren't right at all." <mask> was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2013 British Soap Awards. On 23 February 2013, <mask> returned to the Live Theatre in Newcastle in White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, a play written by Iranian Nassim Soleimanpour. She performed the production alone, without even seeing the script beforehand, on a simplified set and without direction. Personal life
<mask> is engaged to former Emmerdale co-star Mark Jordon.On 24 August 2020, the couple announced that they are expecting their first child, due in January 2021. On 29 January 2021, she gave birth to a son. On 9 February 2013, <mask> showed her support for a campaign to prevent the closure of libraries in the Newcastle area. <mask> read scenes from We love you, Arthur and also a monologue about dementia. <mask> was joined by Emmerdale colleagues, Chelsea Halfpenny and Charlie Hardwick. Credits

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<mask> (born March 17, 1950) is an American photographer and author. She is one of the first female rock and roll photographers. <mask> also makes fine art photography with an emphasis on women and global photojournalism. Early life
<mask> was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 17, 1950 and raised in Sherman Oaks, California. Her mother, <mask> (née Friedman), is a poet and was a fashion model and English literature teacher at Beverly Hills High School. Her father, <mask>, was a businessman and avid photographer. <mask>'s interest in photography was born out of her father's passion for photography.He bought her first camera for her when she was a teenager. <mask> attended Hollywood High School and graduated in 1968. In 1969, she began dating Sandy Konikoff, the drummer for Jackson Browne. He invited her to live at Paxton Lodge in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Elektra Records was recording one of Browne's first albums. There was a darkroom at the studio, and she was inspired by the experience and made a decision to pursue photography professionally. <mask>'s grandfather, <mask>, managed the historic Lincoln Theater, often called the Apollo of the West. Rock & roll photography

1969 – Fanny
In 1969, <mask> began working at Warner Bros./Reprise Records, where she met the first all-girl rock band to sign with a major record label, Fanny.They became friends, and she moved in with the group at Fanny Hill, a mansion on Marmont Lane in Hollywood, where she lived for a year and a half as the band's documentary photographer. During her stay, she met Lowell George and band members from Little Feat and began photographing them as well. 1970 – Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour

<mask> met Joe Cocker a week before the Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour began. He had just arrived in the U.S. and was staying with his roadie and keyboard player at Leon Russell's house. His record label informed him that he was to start a U.S. tour in six days, but he had just recently broken with his band, The Grease Band. Russell offered to quickly assemble a touring band, and recruited over 40 of his friends. Denny Cordell, who produced the tour, invited <mask> along after seeing her photography.She and Andee Nathanson were the two official photographers for the two-month U.S. concert tour, which included  Russell, Rita Coolidge, Chris Stainton, Claudia Lennear, Bobby Keys, Pamela Polland, Matthew Moore, and musicians representing the Tulsa Sound including Carl Radle, Jim Keltner, and Chuck Blackwell. The music documentary Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen was released in 1971 and credited <mask> for her tour photography. <mask> authored Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen: A Memory Book, which included over 150 new photographs, quotes and stories from alumni. It was released in 2015 at the Lockn' Festival. On September 11, 2015, <mask> joined the Tedeschi Trucks Band & Friends and alumni from the 1970 Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour, as the official photographer, and sang in the encore with the Space Choir, for a tribute concert to honor Joe Cocker and the Mad Dogs and Englishmen music. Participating alumni included Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, Chris Stainton, and Pamela Polland. Cocker died on December 22, 2014 and <mask>'s photographs were used in articles written about his life and music legacy by the Associated Press.2020 - Tribute: Cocker Power
On April 28, 2020, Insight Editions released Tribute: Cocker Power, a 335-page coffee table book featuring <mask>'s documentary photos, tour alumni stories, and vignettes from the Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour and the 2015 tribute concert at the Lockn' Festival led by the Tedeschi Trucks Band with Leon Russell and original tour alumni. The book, which received favorable reviews, was released on the 50th anniversary of the tour. It includes contributions from over one hundred musicians and crew members, including Denny Cordell, Leon Russell, Chris Stainton, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, and Warren Haynes. Her photography was included in the Multicultural Focus exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, in Barnsdall Park. In 2012, the 12 artists from the original Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery were brought back together to show new work at the Arena 1 Gallery: Refocus: Multicultural Focus: an initiative of the J.Paul Getty’s Pacific Standard Time. Solo exhibitions
 1972 – La Chapelle des Penitents Bleus, Aix-en-Provence, France
 1973 – Le Chateau de Goult, Aix-en-Provence, France
 1973 – L'Ancienne Poste, Goult, France
 2013 – Grace Church; Global Portraits, Bainbridge Island, Washington, US

<mask> conceived and co-curated the 2017 Women in Photography exhibit at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, where many of her own photographs were exhibited. <mask> was a featured guest on the KNBC/PBS series Talk About Pictures in 1981.Public art projects
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, <mask> created a public art project of murals consisting of photos of ordinary people sitting on bus benches. The photographs were placed on the sides of buses and the backs of bus benches in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Oakland, California in the US, and Arles, France. The benches were conceived as a response to the dehumanizing effects of advertising, and were exhibited in numerous venues including the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Rencontres International Festival of Photography in Arles, France. One of the benches sits in the courtyard of Musée Réattu as part of their permanent collection in Arles. <mask> then developed the project L.A. Welcomes the World, a series of large-scale multicultural portraits of people presented on billboards throughout Los Angeles, for the 1984 Summer Olympics, which was sponsored by Eastman Kodak. Organizations
 1981 – Co-founder of Women in Photography International, which is archived in Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Peter E. Palmquist Collection
 1993 – Co-founder of The Daughters Sisters Project, now called Teen Talking Circles, a non-profit organization supporting girl's empowerment, gender relationships, and youth activism

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<mask> has authored five books and three documentary shorts featuring her photography:
 1997 – Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood
 2005 – Speaking and Listening From the Heart, The Art of Facilitating Teen Talking Circles<ref><mask>, <mask>, Welton, Neva.Speaking and Listening from the Heart", 2005.</ref>
 2012 – Bridge of Glass: My mother and me: the relationship with my mother, poet, <mask> 2014 – I Am A Full Woman (documentary)
 2015 – Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century: Stories from a New Generation of Activists 2015 – Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen Memory Book 2018 – The Caravan: Seeking Asylum in the United States  2020 - Tribute: Cocker PowerContributions to published books and films:
 1984 – Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of LA - Alfred van der Marck Editions
 2010 – Leon Russell - Tulsa Area Music Archives
 2011 – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Video: Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs and Englishmen (film, 1970)
 2012 – Making Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing - Imperfect Publishing
 2012 – Twenty Feet From Stardom: Leon Russell Montage (film)
 2013 – Willin': The Story of Little Feat - Da Capo Press
 2015 – Land of a Thousand Bridges: The June Millington Autobiography 2016 – Delta Lady: the Autobiography of Rita Coolidge 2017 – Intensa Levedad: Pury Estalayo''

Education
<mask> graduated from Hollywood High School in 1968. From 1970 to 1975, she lived and studied in Provence, France, attending the Institute for American Universities, and L'Ecole Experimental Photographic. Her early photographic work in France focused on people and village life in the Vaucluse Mountains. Upon returning to the US, <mask> attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She taught photography through the University of California at Los Angeles Extension and worked as a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Citywide Mural Project. References

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<mask> (; born November 22, 1987) is a Chinese Sanshou, kickboxer who competes in the middleweight division. A multiple time provincial and national Sanshou titlist in his home country, <mask> later made the switch to Oriental rules kickboxing and gained recognition fighting internationally in promotions such as Fight Code, K-1 and Shootboxing. Career

Early career
<mask> began sanshou training at an early age and rose to prominence by winning provincial titles in his native Shandong three years consecutively; he won the Shandong Province Sanshou Championships at -65 kg/143 lb in 2003 and 2004 and at -70 kg/154 lb in 2005. Staying at -70 kg/154 lb, he then won the Chinese National Sanshou club Championships in 2005 and 2006, and affirmed himself as the country's top middleweight by winning a tournament held by Heroes of Legends in January 2007. Fighting for the first time internationally, <mask> was part of a team of sanshou fighters that challenged shoot boxing at Shoot Boxing 2007 Mu-So 2nd in Tokyo, Japan on May 25, 2007. He lost to Kenichi Ogata via a knee to the body knockout in the third round, the first loss of his professional career. In September 2007, he won the IFB International Sanda Tournament in Guangzhou, China, defeating Muay Thai stylist Akarn Sannaha by decision in the final.A month later on October 13, 2007, <mask> beat Joey Pagliuso by unanimous decision in Shenzhen, China, using his height and reach advantage to outpoint the American. <mask> won a second Legend of Heroes tournament in December 2008 before losing a unanimous decision to Vuyisile Colossa in the same promotion in Beijing, China on January 18, 2009. Making the foray into Oriental rules kickboxing, he debuted in K-1 on March 20, 2009 at K-1 Award & MAX Korea 2009 in Seoul, South Korea where he lost to Kim Se-Ki by technical knockout after being dropped twice in the second round. On May 31, 2009, he competed in the four man middleweight tournament at The Challenger event held at The Venetian Macao in Macau. After beating Keiji Ozaki by unanimous decision in the semi-finals, he lost to Heung Pak-Wing by first-round knockout in the final. SportAccord and King's Cup tournament
<mask> then rebounded with a split decision win over Baxter Humby in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States on August 30, 2009 before returning to K-1 to fight Yuichiro Nagashima in a non-tournament bout at the K-1 World MAX 2009 World Championship Tournament Final in Tokyo on October 26, 2009. Although a heavy underdog, he scored an upset win by knocking Nagashima down with a left hook inside the opening thirty seconds of the fight before finishing him with the same technique soon after.He was then set to face Lim Chi-Bin at The Khan 2 in Seoul on November 27, 2009 but Lim was replaced by Lee Su-Hwan. He lost to Lee by TKO in round two. After beginning the year with wins over Ben Barwise and Lewis Corris, <mask> was given the toughest test of his career in the form of Buakaw Por. Pramuk in a Wu Lin Feng promoted event at Henan Provincial Stadium in Zhengzhou, China on June 19, 2010. <mask> was outfought and lost on points. He also received a controversial count by the referee in round two after going down from a low blow. He fought and beat another Thai in his next outing, outpointing Malaipet Sasiprapa at Legends of Heroes: Muaythai vs. Kung Fu at the Arena of Stars in Pahang, Malaysia on October 9, 2010.In his second appearance on US soil, <mask> was scheduled to fight Raul Rodriguez at Wu Lin Feng: Battle of Las Vegas II on November 13, 2010 in Las Vegas but a change occurred as Rodriguez was replaced by Shane Oblonsky. He lost via unanimous decision. Three weeks later, <mask> was drafted into the 2010 edition of the King's Cup Muay Thai tournament as one of three replacement fighters. Going down in Bangkok, Thailand on December 5, 2010, <mask> was eliminated at the quarter-finals when he lost to Alexander Vogel on points. Fight Code tournaments
On March 12, 2011, <mask> faced Sudsakorn Sor Klinmee on the Oktagon 2011 card in Milan, Italy. Round one was close but Sudsakorn asserted his dominance early on with a throw and only got better in the second. <mask> faded in round three and received a somewhat controversial standing eight count before losing the decision.He put a halt to his three-fight losing streak five months later when he knocked out Adil Abbas at a Legends of Heroes event in Nanchang, China before returning to Europe to compete for the Fight Code promotion and entered into the organization's 2011 Dragons Series -70 kg/154 lb tournament at the quarter-finals stage when he took the place of Dzhabar Askerov who withdrew due to scheduling conflicts. He lost to Abdallah Mabel via split decision on October 15, 2011 in Marseille, France but it later emerged that the French sporting commission had not allowed Fight Code's complete rule set just hours before the event and so a rematch was set for Geneva, Switzerland on November 26, 2011. Three weeks before the rematch, <mask> suffered a first-round KO loss to Lamsongkram Chuwattana in Changsha, China. Against Mabel, <mask> rallied back in round three but the Frenchman dominated the first two and took the unanimous judges' decision. K-1 tournaments
He stopped another three-fight skid with a win over Yuya Yamamoto at Krush.16 in Tokyo on February 17, 2012. <mask> got off to a good start, landing against the defensively flawed Yamamoto and took over in the second by scoring three knockdowns and earning him the TKO victory. <mask> outpointed Quinton Arendse on a Legends of Heroes show in his native country on April 21, 2012 before making a return to K-1 after an almost three-year absence to compete in the K-1 World MAX 2012 World Championship Tournament.At the K-1 World MAX 2012 World Championship Tournament Final 16 in Madrid, Spain on May 27, 2012, he fought Yasuhiro Kido in the tournament's opening stage. The fight got off to a rather lackluster start and had the crowd booing at one point in the first round before <mask> fell victim to Kido's patented spinning backfist late in the third. After rebounding with a high kick knockout of a Japanese opponent in Legends of Heroes in Kunshan, China two months later, <mask> was soundly beaten to a unanimous decision in the tournament reserve match at the K-1 World MAX 2012 World Championship Tournament Final in Athens, Greece on December 15, 2012. WMC and Hero Legends titles
<mask> scored a first-round knockout over Ton Kunchat at Combat Renaissance in Hong Kong on September 17, 2013. He defeated Mike Zambidis by unanimous decision, dropping him in rounds one and two, at Hero Legends in Jinan, China on December 3, 2014. Hero Legends title reign
After winning the Hero Legends title, <mask> fought with the organization five more times in non-title bouts. In May 2014, he fought Yoshihiro Sato to a draw.A year later, he knocked out Kraisorn Singmamor, and a month after this fight, he scored a TKO win over Yodpichai SorSaksri. In July 2015, he fought twice in the span of two weeks, he won a unanimous decision against Munguntsooj Nandin-Erdene and defeated Ryota Kojima by first round TKO. A month later, he stepped in on short notice to replace Yodsanklai Fairtex against Giorgio Petrosyan, with Hero Legends making the fight a title bout. Petrosyan won the fight by knockout, after dropping <mask> by a knee in the third round. style=background:white colspan=9 |
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See also
 List of male kickboxers

References

External links
 Official K-1 profile
 Official Krush profile

Living people
1987 births
Chinese male kickboxers
Welterweight kickboxers
Middleweight kickboxers
Chinese sanshou practitioners
People from Binzhou
Sportspeople from Beijing

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<mask>, Earl of Surrey  (1516/1517 – 19 January 1547), KG, was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry and was the last known person executed at the instance of King <mask>. He was a first cousin of both Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of King <mask>. His name is usually associated in literature with that of the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt. He was the son of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, and when his father became Duke of Norfolk (1524) the son adopted the courtesy title of Earl of Surrey. Owing largely to the powerful position of his father, Howard took a prominent part in the court life of the time, and served as  a soldier both in France and Scotland. He was a man of reckless temper, which involved him in many quarrels, and finally brought upon him the wrath of the ageing and embittered <mask>.He was arrested, tried for treason and  beheaded on Tower Hill. Origins
He was born in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife Elizabeth Stafford, a daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham. He was thus descended from King Edward I on his father's side and from King Edward III on his mother's side. Career
He was brought-up at Windsor Castle with <mask>oy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, the illegitimate son of King <mask>. He became a close friend, and later a brother-in-law, of Fitzroy following the marriage of his sister to him. Like his father and grandfather, he was a soldier, serving in <mask>'s French wars as Lieutenant General of the King on Sea and Land. He was repeatedly imprisoned for rash behaviour: on one occasion for striking a courtier and on another for wandering through the streets of London breaking the windows of houses whose occupants were asleep.He assumed the courtesy title  Earl of Surrey in 1524 when his grandfather died and his father became Duke of Norfolk. In 1532 he accompanied  Anne Boleyn (his first cousin), King <mask>, and the Duke of Richmond to France, staying there for more than a year as a member of the entourage of King Francis I of France. 1536 was a notable year for Howard:  his first son was born, namely  Thomas Howard (later 4th Duke of Norfolk), Anne Boleyn was executed on charges of adultery and treason, and the Duke of Richmond died at the age of 17 and was buried at Thetford Abbey, one of the Howard seats. In 1536 Howard also served with his father in the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion against the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Marriage and progeny

He married Frances de Vere, a daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, (by his wife Elizabeth Trussell) by whom he had two sons and three daughters:
 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (10 March 1536 – 2 June 1572), who married three times: (1) Mary FitzAlan (2) Margaret Audley (3) Elizabeth Leyburne. <mask>, 1st Earl of Northampton, who died unmarried. Jane Howard, who married Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland.Margaret Howard, who married <mask>, 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton. Katherine Howard, who married <mask>, 7th Baron Berkeley. Downfall

The Howards had little regard for the "new men" who had risen to power at court, such as Thomas Cromwell and the Seymours. Howard was less circumspect than his father in concealing his disdain. The Howards had many enemies at court. Howard himself branded Cromwell a 'foul churl' and William Paget a 'mean creature' as well as arguing that 'These new erected men would by their wills leave no nobleman on life!' <mask>, consumed by paranoia and increasing illness, became convinced that Howard had planned to usurp the crown from his son the future King Edward VI.Howard suggested that his sister Mary FitzRoy, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset (widow of <mask>'s illegitimate son <mask>) should seduce the aged King, her father-in-law, and become his mistress, to "wield as much influence on him as Madame d'Etampes doth about the French King". The Duchess, outraged, said she would "cut her own throat" rather than "consent to such villainy". She and her brother fell out, and she later laid testimony against Howard that helped lead to his trial and execution for treason. The matter came to a head when Howard quartered the attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor. John Barlow had once called Howard "the most foolish proud boy that is in England" and, although the arms of Howard's ancestor Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, show that he was entitled to bear Edward the Confessor's arms, doing so was an act of pride. In consequence, the King ordered Howard's imprisonment and that of his father, sentencing them to death on 13 January 1547. Howard was beheaded on 19 January 1547 on a charge of treasonably quartering the royal arms.His father escaped execution as the king died the day before that appointed for the beheading, but he remained imprisoned. Howard's son Thomas Howard, became heir to the Dukedom of Norfolk in place of his father, which title he inherited on the 3rd Duke's death in 1554. Burial

He was buried in Framlingham Church in Suffolk, where survives his spectacular painted alabaster tomb. Literary activity and legacy
He and his friend Sir Thomas Wyatt were the first English poets to write in the sonnet form that Shakespeare later used, and Howard was the first English poet to publish blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) in his translation of the second and fourth books of Virgil's Aeneid. Together, Wyatt and Howard, due to their excellent translations of Petrarch's sonnets, are known as "Fathers of the English Sonnet". While Wyatt introduced the sonnet into English, it was Howard who gave them the rhyming meter and the division into quatrains that now characterises the sonnets variously named English, Elizabethan, or Shakespearean sonnets. In popular culture
<mask>, Earl of Surrey was portrayed by the actor David O'Hara in The Tudors, a television series which ran from 2007 to 2010.References

Further reading

 —with a memoir by the editor

External links

 "Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover Being upon the Sea" set to music From the 1990 concept album "Tyger and Other Tales”

1517 births
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Courtesy earls
16th-century English poets
Heirs apparent who never acceded
<mask>, Earl of Surrey
Knights of the Garter
People executed under the Tudors for treason against England
Executed people from Hertfordshire
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Prisoners in the Tower of London
People executed by Tudor England by decapitation
People executed under Henry VIII
People convicted under a bill of attainder
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English male poets
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<mask>v (, September 2, 1941, Tomsk) is a Russian political and civil activist. He is an executive director of the all-Russian movement "For Human Rights." He is a member of the Federal Political Council of Solidarnost, and was deputy to the State Duma in its first period. Education and early career
Ponomaryov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MFTI) in 1965 and from the doctorate program of the same institute in 1968, becoming a doctor of physics and mathematics. He worked in the Theoretical and Experimental Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and simultaneously taught at MFTI in the general physics department. Human rights and political activities

1980s
In 1988, Ponomaryov helped create the human rights organization Memorial. In 1989, Ponomaryov filled the place of academic Andrei Sakharov in the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union after he died suddenly from a heart attack.Ponomaryov took part in the Coordination Council of Moscow Union of Electors and in the initiative group for the creation of the Civil Action Committee. 1990s
In 1990, he was elected a People's Deputy of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. From 1990 to 1993, <mask>v was a People's Deputy of the Russian Federation; a member of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation; a member of the Committee on Mass Media relating to public organizations, mass movement of citizen and public opinion research; and a member of the political movement Democratic Russia and the deputies group Army Reform (Reforma armii). In the autumn of 1991, he presided over the parliamentary commission for investigation of GKChP activities and the KGB’s role in the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt. In 1993, he lost the elections to the State Duma in a single-mandate constituency and in the list of the electoral union Democratic Choice of Russia. Ponomaryov entered the Parliament only after the death of deputy Vasilii Seliunin. From 1994 to 1996 Ponomaryov was a deputy of the State Duma, a member of the committees for CIS Affairs and relations with nationalities.In 1997, Ponomaryov founded the Russian human rights society "For Human Rights" (Za prava cheloveka), becoming its executive director and a member of the Council on Motion. Also in 1997, Ponomaryov was one of the founders of the "Hotline" (Goriachaia liniia) and founded and is one of the most active members of the group Common Action (Obshchee deistvie). 2000s
He has been a member of The Other Russia coalition since its foundation in 2006 and also a member of its executive committee. In 2007, he lost a case of defence of honour and dignity against Yury Kalinin, the Director of the Federal Service of Execution of Penalties (FSIN). The court obliged Ponomaryov to refute the unreliable information about Kalinin that he had made public. He actively defended the ex-owner of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the other persons sentenced for economical offences in the YUKOS case. Some human rights activists consider that these persons are persecuted for political reasons (making them political prisoners) and that the charges against them are fabricated.In 2007, he appealed to President Putin to release Khodorkovsky. In 2009, together with other Solidarnost activists, Roman Dobrokhotov, Oleg Kozlovsky, Aleksander Rykline, Sergey Davidis, Mikhail Schneider, Vladimir Milov, Garry Kasparov and Boris Nemtsov, <mask>v took part in a series of individual pickets in front of Meschansky district court and held a slogan "Freedom to Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev". <mask> is a member of the United Democratic Movement "Solidarnost". On December 13, 2008, at the first Solidarnost congress, he was elected as a member of the political council of this movement. Late in the evening on March 31, 2009, he was physically assaulted near his home. Ludmila Alekseeva thinks that this attack was connected with his political and human rights activities within the "Solidarnost" movement. At the meeting of Russian and US Presidents on April 1, 2009, Barack Obama, according to his assistants, mentioned the attack against Ponomarev among the main US concerns about Russia.2010s
On March 10, 2010 he signed an appeal of the Russian opposition stating "Putin must go". On July 14, 2010, he declared that he considered it necessary to maintain article 282 of the Penal Code. On August 25, 2010 he was sentenced to a 3-day arrest for attempting to carry the state flag of the Russian Federation along Arbat Street on State Flag Day, August 22. The day before, Boris Nemtsov was acquitted in the same case. On September 7, 2010 he was sentenced to a 4-day arrest for disobedience of the police. Ponomaryov was sentenced to at least 25 days of detention in December 2018 in because of a Facebook post publicising an unauthorised rally that was to take place at Lubyanka square in Moscow on 28 October. The aim of that protest was to demonstrate solidarity with certain young activists being charged with alleged anti-terrorism and anti-extremism offences.2020s
On 28 December 2020, Ponomaryov was added to the list of media "foreign agents" by the Russian government alongside four other persons. No reason however was provided as to why they were added to the list. On 30 January 2022, during the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Ponomaryov led a public declaration published in Echo of Moscow opposing the Russian threat to further invade Ukraine. By 7 February, 5000 people had co-signed the declaration. On 20 February 2022, Ponomaryov and seven others, including Yuri Samodurov, held solitary street protests in Moscow against the Russian threat to attack Ukraine and were arrested. Controversy

On March 22, 2012, Komsomolskaya Pravda published transcripts of a YouTube video, purporting to show Ponomaryov to be demanding money for civil organizations in the Russian Far East from an official working at the Embassy of Japan in Moscow, in return for promoting Japanese claims to the disputed Kuril Islands of Shikotan and Habomai. The video also purports to show him saying that people like Boris Nemtsov, Mikhail Kasyanov and Vladimir Ryzhkov would go to blood if allowed to handle it.The news outlet also questioned him about the video. Ponomaryov stated that he had complained to the Prosecutor-General of Russia for invasion of his privacy and the Japanese had initiated contact with him over the islands. In a discussion with , Ponomaryov said that while the video was mostly genuine, the publishers had particularly tried to signify words like "money". However, he said that he was talking about simply encouraging funding of civil society organizations in the Far East, not asking money to organize protests in favour of Japan's claim as was being alleged. He admitted that human rights organisations got foreign funding, but stated it was necessary since the authorities had driven them into such a position. He claimed that the video had edited the portion where he said Nemtsov and Ryzhkov would go to blood, adding he was talking about the authorities who would go to blood if these people try to hold rallies. Ponomaryov also noted that Putin himself had promised to hand back the disputed islands per the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956.Decorations and awards
2010—<mask> was decorated with a Commandor's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by a decree of the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński "for outstanding results in the defence of human rights and promotion of civil freedoms". See also
 Gleb Yakunin

Family
<mask>v has two daughters from his first marriage, Elena Liptser and Xenia. He was then married to Eugenia Ilyina with whom he has had two children, Anastasia and Fedor, born in 1984 and 1986, respectively. References

External links
 All Russia Movement for Human Rights
 Committee to Free Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev
 Habeas-Corpus.net, the pro Justice and Democracy web
 Open Letter to Russian President by Sergey Kovalyov regarding the attack on <mask>v

1941 births
Living people
People from Tomsk
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Russia
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni
Soviet physicists
Soviet mathematicians
Soviet human rights activists
Russian human rights activists
Russian dissidents
Soviet dissidents
Moscow Helsinki Group
Memorial (society)
First convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Solidarnost politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
People listed as a Russian foreign agent

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<mask>,   (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill in a grim sub-genre that McDermid and others have identified as Tartan Noir. Biography
McDermid comes from a working-class family in Fife. She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was the first student to be admitted from a Scottish state school. After graduation she became a journalist and began her literary career as a dramatist. Her first success as a novelist, Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery occurred in 1987. McDermid was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sunderland in 2011. She is co-founder of the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival and the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, part of the Harrogate International Festivals.In 2016 she captained a team of St Hilda's alumnæ to win the Christmas University Challenge. In 2017, McDermid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Work
McDermid's works fall into four series: Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan, Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, and Inspector Karen Pirie. Her characters include a journalist, Lindsay Gordon; a private investigator, Kate Brannigan; a clinical psychologist, Tony Hill; and DCI Karen Pirie working out of Fife, Scotland. The Mermaids Singing, the first book in the Hill/Jordan series, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. The Hill/Jordan series has been adapted for television under the name Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green. McDermid has stated that Jacko Vance, a TV celebrity with a secret lust for torture, murder and under-age girls, who was featured in the Wire in the Blood and two later books, is based on her direct personal experience of interviewing Jimmy Savile.In 2010, McDermind received the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association for "outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing". McDermid considers her work to be part of the "Tartan Noir" Scottish crime fiction genre. In addition to writing novels, McDermid contributes to several British newspapers and often broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland. Her novels, in particular the Tony Hill series, are known for their graphic depictions of violence and torture. Raith Rovers

McDermid was a lifelong Raith Rovers fan, her father having worked as a scout for the club. In 2010, she sponsored the McDermid Stand at Stark's Park, the club's ground in Kirkcaldy, in honour of her father. A year after sponsoring the stand, she became a board member of the club, and starting in 2014 her website became Raith's shirt sponsor.In February 2022, McDermid said she would be withdrawing her support and sponsorship from Raith Rovers after the club signed striker David Goodwillie, who had been ruled to have raped a woman and made to pay damages in a civil case in 2017. Ink attack
On 6 December 2012 a woman poured ink over McDermid during an event at the University of Sunderland. McDermid was signing books, and a woman asked her to autograph a Top of the Pops annual which contained a picture of the disgraced late TV presenter Jimmy Savile. After McDermid reluctantly agreed the woman threw ink at her and ran out of the room. McDermid said the incident would not stop her from doing signings. Northumbria Police arrested Sandra Botham, a 64-year-old woman from the Hendon area of Sunderland, on suspicion of assault. Botham was convicted of common assault on 10 July 2013, received a 12-month community order with supervision and was made to pay £50 compensation and a £60 victim surcharge.She was also given a restraining order forbidding her from contacting McDermid for an undefined period of time. The Northern Echo reported that Botham's actions were motivated by McDermid's 1994 non-fiction book, A Suitable Job for a Woman, as Botham claimed that the book contained a passage that besmirched her and her family. Personal life
McDermid formerly lived in both Stockport and near Alnmouth in Northumberland with three cats and a border terrier dog. Since early 2014 she has lived in Stockport and Edinburgh. In 2016, McDermid captained a team of crime writer challengers on the TV quiz Eggheads, beating the Eggheads and winning £14,000. In 2010, she was still living between Northumberland and Manchester with publisher Kelly Smith, with whom she had entered into a civil partnership in 2006. On 23 October 2016 McDermid married her partner of two years, Jo Sharp, a professor of geography at the University of Glasgow.<mask> is a radical feminist and socialist. She has incorporated feminism into some of her novels. Jane Graham, <mask>mid: "There were no lesbians in Fife in the 1960s", The Big Issue, 7 February 2018. 1955 births
Living people
People from Kirkcaldy
People educated at Kirkcaldy High School
Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford
Scottish crime fiction writers
Scottish mystery writers
Scottish women novelists
Scottish lesbian writers
Members of the Detection Club
Lambda Literary Award winners
Anthony Award winners
Macavity Award winners
Barry Award winners
Dilys Award winners
Radical feminists
Scottish socialists
Women mystery writers
Scottish LGBT novelists
20th-century Scottish novelists
21st-century Scottish novelists
20th-century Scottish women writers
21st-century Scottish women writers
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
Tartan Noir writers
People from Alnmouth
Cartier Diamond Dagger winners

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<mask> is an American singer, songwriter, and musician whose songs have been recorded by recording artists Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Waylon Jennings, Tim McGraw, Colin Raye, and Mark Wills among others. The debut single from McGraw's Set This Circus Down, "Grown Men Don't Cry", was nominated for a 2002 Grammy award and also garnered the No. 1 position on the Billboard Country Single Chart in June 2001. <mask> also is known for performing at schools in support of the Operation Respect/Don't Laugh at Me project, named after "Don't Laugh at Me," a song he wrote with Allen Shamblin that was recorded by Mark Wills and Peter, Paul and Mary, among others. <mask> splits his time between touring, Nashville and Northern California. Early life
<mask> was born (March 31, 1952) in The Bronx, New York to parents Zelda (née Wein) and <mask>. <mask> began playing guitar at 14 years old and started writing songs shortly after.He moved to San Francisco in 1971 and began his music career as a street performer progressing to festivals and clubs. There he met <mask>. They were married in 1981 and have one son, David. After opening a concert for Crystal Gayle, she suggested that <mask> should go to Nashville to pursue songwriting, which he did. During his first visit there in 1985, <mask> began with only one appointment with an ASCAP executive who subsequently arranged <mask>'s appointments with several publishers. Music career

Selected Discography

Grown Men Don't Cry
"Grown Men Don't Cry", written by Tom Douglas and <mask> was recorded by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in April 2001 as the first single from McGraw's 2001 album Set This Circus Down.The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart and peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100

"Grown Men Don't Cry" debuted at number 30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the chart week of March 24, 2001. Don't Laugh at Me
"Don't Laugh at Me", written by Allen Shamblin and <mask>, was recorded by American country music artist Mark Wills. It was released in July 1998 as the second single from album Wish You Were Here. "Don't Laugh at Me" was a number 2 hit on the Billboard country charts. The song received Country Music Association nominations for Country Music Association's Single, Song and Video of the Year in 1998. "Don't Laugh at Me" debuted at number 69 on the U.S.Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of July 18, 1998. The song peaked at number 2 on the Hot Country Songs chart on October 10, 1998. Books
Sing My Song Book & CD - A Kid's Guide to Songwriting - 2008
A Chance to Shine Book & CD - 2006

Don't Laugh at Me Book & CD - 2002
Songwriting and the Guitar - 2000

Teaching
<mask> teaches songwriting workshops throughout the U.S. as well as teaching songwriting courses at San Francisco State University, The Kerrville Folk Festival Songwriting School and The Rocky Mountain Folk Festival. He has played an active role as a songwriting teacher and mentor at West Coast Songwriters Association since 1988 and Nashville Songwriters Association International since 1995. Operation Respect Don't Laugh at Me
<mask> is the co-writer of “Don’t Laugh At Me”, the song that was the impetus for the Operation Respect program and organization, co-founded by Peter Yarrow. Operation Respect, a non-profit education and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the social and emotional growth of children and youth, was founded in 1999 by Peter Yarrow of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, and Dr. Charlotte Frank. Operation Respect was first inspired by a moment between father and daughter (Bethany Yarrow), a singer and activist who told her dad that he had to hear a song called Don’t Laugh at Me.She believed that it was exactly the kind of movement creating music Peter, Paul and Mary stood for. Written by <mask>, now an Operation Respect Board Member, and Allen Shamblin, the lyrics of Don’t Laugh at Me is Operation Respect's theme song and classroom-based curricula. Since its inception, their speakers and performers have addressed over 500,000 educators, educational leaders, parents, students, policy makers and community members throughout the world. Kids Write Songs
<mask> is the founder of Kids Write Songs, a songwriting workshop teaching creative expression to children of all ages as well as teaching them to create their own songs that address issues that affect bullying, respect, peer pressure, diversity, and self-esteem. Workshops consist of 3 to 4 sessions with about 30 students each session. The Parkland Project - Wake Up America
The Parkland Project, a youth-inspired songwriting initiative, released original songs at the National Association for Music Education National Conference. The tracks tell of the surviving students’ deep trauma from the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day, Feb 14, 2018 and reflect a commitment to the student-led movements dedicated to stopping the killing of their classmates and peers, and the passing of gun laws to do so.Written and composed by the students of Parkland, Florida, with the guidance of noted songwriters such as <mask> and Peter Yarrow and music producers affiliated with Operation Respect, the album, Wake Up, America, its title track, followed by compositions, Song for the Silenced, Transparent, Valentine’s Day, Change the Ref, We Got the Power, Armor Off, Watering Can Full of Tears, The Children Will Lead the Way, and We Need was released. Proceeds from the songs benefit Shine MSD and Change the Ref, Parkland-based organizations providing art-based trauma informed therapy and advocates of gun-violence prevention. Sources
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External links
www.steveseskin.com – Official website
 – Operation Respect/Don't Laugh at Me project
 – All Music
 - Kids Write Songs

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<mask> (; born January 7, 1976) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. After signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB) as a free agent in 1995, Gagné began his career as a starting pitcher. After he struggled in that role, the Dodgers converted Gagné from a starter to a reliever, where for three years (2002–2004) he was statistically the most outstanding closer in the game, winning the Cy Young Award in 2003. During that period, he set a major league record by converting 84 consecutive save opportunities. The phrase "Game Over" was heavily used by the Dodgers and the media in connection with his appearances to finish close games. Gagné played sparingly in 2005 and 2006 due to injury, undergoing elbow surgery in 2005 and back surgery in 2006. The Dodgers did not re-sign him after 2006, and Gagné started the 2007 season with the Texas Rangers, where he briefly enjoyed success again as a closer.However, he was less successful in stints with the Boston Red Sox and Milwaukee Brewers, and was finally released after the 2008 season. In December 2007, days after signing a contract for 2008 with the Milwaukee Brewers, he was linked to baseball's steroids scandal after he was named in the Mitchell Report. Early life and education
Gagné comes from a Québécois family and grew up in the town of Mascouche, near Montreal. As a child, he played baseball and ice hockey at Montreal's Polyvalente Édouard-Montpetit High School, the same high school that Russell Martin attended. His Little League teams were coached by his father, Richard. He eventually became a star with Canada's Junior World Championship teams. He was a fan of the Montreal Expos and Montreal Canadiens throughout his childhood.Playing career

Early career
Gagné attended Seminole Junior College in Seminole, Oklahoma. Coming from a French-speaking  Canadian  providence, Gagné knew very little English; he became proficient in English by watching American TV while in college, mainly the sitcom Kenan and Kel. He eventually became the star pitcher for Seminole's baseball team. He was a 30th-round draft choice (845th overall) of the Chicago White Sox in 1994 MLB draft, but the following year he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent. Los Angeles Dodgers
Gagne then pitched in the minor leagues but missed the entire 1997 season due to Tommy John surgery. He made his MLB debut on September 7, when he started a game for the Dodgers against the Florida Marlins, working six shutout innings and striking out eight. In his first year in MLB, he appeared in only five games as a starting pitcher, with a 1–1 record and 2.10 ERA.Over his first three seasons he won eleven games while losing fourteen in 48 games, 38 of them starts. At the start of the 2002 season, following the retirement of Dodgers closer Jeff Shaw, he was converted from a starting pitcher to a relief pitcher. He picked up his first career save on April 7 against the Colorado Rockies and soon became the National League's leading reliever. He saved 10 consecutive games before he suffered his first blown save on May 7 against the Atlanta Braves. He was elected to his first All-Star Game that year, becoming the second player from Quebec to be named an All-Star (the first being Claude Raymond). In the All-Star Game he served up a two-run homer to Alfonso Soriano in the fifth, allowing the AL to cut the NL lead to 4–2. Overall, he earned 52 saves for the season.In 2003, as a closer, Gagné was called upon 55 times to save a baseball game and converted every one of them en route to becoming both the first pitcher to record 50 saves in more than one season and also the fastest pitcher to ever reach the 100-save plateau. His 55 saves in 2003 also equalled the National League record set the previous season by John Smoltz. Between August 26, 2002 and July 5, 2004, he converted 84 consecutive save chances, a major league record. More than half (55%) of the batters he retired during the 2003 season came by strikeout. When Gagné entered a game at Dodger Stadium, usually in the eighth or ninth inning with the Dodgers in the lead, the words "Game Over" would flash across the scoreboard and the PA system would play the song "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses. In addition to his 55 saves, Gagné finished the 2003 season with a 1.20 earned run average and had 137 strikeouts and 20 walks in  innings pitched. This translated into 1.66 strikeouts per inning pitched.For his performance, he won the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award and became the first relief pitcher in 11 years to win the Cy Young Award. He and Ferguson Jenkins are the only two Canadian pitchers to win the most prestigious pitching award in baseball. He is the only pitcher to win the award while having a losing season (his record was 2–3). As a result, in the off-season, during contract arbitration he asked for a 14-fold raise from $550,000 to $8 million but settled for $5 million. On July 15, 2004—just ten days after his saves streak ended—Gagné collected his 130th save as a Dodger in a 5–2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, Arizona, surpassing Jeff Shaw for the most career saves in team history. Gagné threw three shutout innings during his first appearance in the playoffs that year, but the Dodgers lost the division series 3–1 to the St. Louis Cardinals. Prior to the 2007 season, Gagné had converted 161 saves out of 168 save opportunities for a conversion rate of 95.8%.Injuries
Gagné sustained several injuries in early 2005. Although he was still an effective pitcher, 2.70 ERA and 8 for 8 in save opportunities, Gagné was only able to appear in 14 games that season. On June 21, 2005, it was announced that Gagné would undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery to repair a sprained ligament in his right elbow. Recovery would take a year or more; furthermore, a return to major league pitching after a second Tommy John operation (Gagné's first was in 1997) is nearly unheard of, having since been achieved by another Dodger reliever, the Taiwanese left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo. However, as surgeons began to perform the operation, they discovered instead a nerve entrapped by scar tissue and were able to release it with a less invasive procedure. Gagné was still unable to play for the remainder of the 2005 season. Gagné expressed hope that an accelerated recovery would allow him to pitch for Canada in the World Baseball Classic in March 2006, but he eventually decided that it was not worth the risk, and to focus on preparing to pitch in the regular season.After some encouraging outings in early spring training, pain in Gagné's pitching elbow forced him to undergo a second surgery, this time to remove entirely the nerve that doctors had previously attempted to stabilize. More recovery time ensued, but Gagné finally pitched in his first regular-season game of 2006 on June 3. He made two appearances for the Dodgers, pitching two scoreless innings and earning one save, but pain from the nerve in his elbow recurred, and he returned to the disabled list on June 12. A further (and apparently unrelated) setback occurred on July 4, when Gagné awoke with intense pain in his back. An examination revealed two herniated discs, and Gagné underwent a season-ending back surgery on July 8. Texas Rangers

The Dodgers declined to extend Gagné's $12 million contract after the season, making him a free agent. On December 12, 2006, Gagné signed a one-year deal with the Texas Rangers worth $6 million, with a possible $5 million in performance bonuses.Gagné had a poor spring training, allowing five earned runs in only three innings of work. For the third consecutive year, Gagné was placed on the disabled list to start the season to let him recover from his injuries. Gagné started to make his recovery by tossing in three minor league games, two of them on consecutive days, allowing a home run and having one loss. In his last minor league game, Gagné retired all three of the batters he faced, and he was activated on April 13. In his first week back, Gagné pitched three innings, earning one save. But in the middle of his second save situation, Gagné left the game after complaining of leg pain. He said that it would take about a week to recover from the injury, but the Rangers, not taking the risk, placed Gagné on the disabled list with a hip injury.He was reactivated on May 8 and returned to the closer role. During his time with Texas, he was 2–0 with 16 saves and an ERA of 2.16; opposing hitters batted only .192 against him. Boston Red Sox

On July 31, 2007, Gagné was traded to the Boston Red Sox for pitcher Kason Gabbard and minor league outfielders David Murphy and Engel Beltré. Gagné was expected to serve as a setup man for closer Jonathan Papelbon. Theo Epstein was quoted as saying that "I think the bullpen is already a strength of the club, but acquiring a pitcher the caliber of <mask> Gagné only makes it stronger and helps give us what we hope will be a truly dominant bullpen for the remainder of the year." However, Gagné struggled in his new role with the Red Sox. In his first 15 appearances, Gagné allowed 14 earned runs in 14 innings (a 9.00 ERA) with three blown saves and an opponent batting average of over .350.Gagné seemed to improve down the stretch and was eventually added to the playoff roster. In the playoffs, he was most often used in games in which the Red Sox were winning by a wide margin, including his only World Series appearance in which he pitched a perfect ninth inning in a 13–1 Game 1 victory. The only exception to this was his appearance in Game 2 of the American League

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 Championship Series against the Cleveland Indians. Brought into a tie game in the top of the 11th inning, Gagné took the loss after allowing the first two runs of a 7-run 11th inning. In Boston, Gagné wore the number 83, as starting pitcher Curt Schilling already wore Gagné's usual number 38. Milwaukee Brewers

On December 9, 2007, Gagné reached a preliminary agreement with the Milwaukee Brewers. On December 10, he inked the one-year deal to become their new closer.The one-year deal had a base salary of $10 million, with incentives worth up to an extra $1 million. Gagné went back to wearing the number 38 after wearing 83 in Boston. On May 11, Brewers manager Ned Yost announced Gagné would be removed from the closer's role for a while, after 3 blown saves in 6 attempts. After a few days, Gagné indicated he was ready to return to his role as closer, and a couple of days later, got his 10th save. However, Gagné continued to struggle as the team's closer and ultimately became the set-up man after losing his closer job to the veteran Salomón Torres. Gagné's struggles continued out of the bullpen, however, and he eventually lost his set-up job to Guillermo Mota. He finished the season as a middle relief pitcher, a role in which he still struggled.Gagné finished 2008 with his worst full season in the major leagues: 10 saves in 17 opportunities, an ERA of 5.41, and 38 strikeouts in 46 innings. He did not convert a save after losing the closer job to Torres. His poor performance on the field coupled with his high salary led to him being considered a "ten million dollar mistake" by many Brewers fans. Gagné became a free agent following the 2008 season. He re-signed with the Brewers on a minor league deal. He was released midway through spring training in part due to a shoulder injury. Québec Capitales
On May 26, 2009, Gagné announced that he had signed with the Quebec Capitales of the independent Can-Am League as a starting pitcher/coach.Gagné began playing with the team on June 9, 2009. He had been highly praised by Capitales manager Michel Laplante for his hard work and mentorship of other pitchers and hitters on the team. Gagné helped the team win the League Championship in September 2009. On July 26, 2009, in a game versus the New Jersey Jackals, he recorded 6 no-hit innings in a 7-inning game. He would surrender two straight hits. However, the team would end the game on a triple play. Attempted comeback with Los Angeles Dodgers
On February 18, 2010, Gagné agreed to a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers with an invite to spring training.Dodgers reliever Ramón Troncoso, remembering Gagné's mentorship of young pitchers such as himself during Gagné's earlier stint with the Dodgers, "had no problem" releasing to Gagné his old uniform number 38. Gagné made three Spring training appearances with the Dodgers, allowing six runs on eight hits in  innings, for a 20.25 ERA. On March 15, he was reassigned to minor league camp, acknowledging that he needed more work to bring his game back to the Major League level. After appearing in just one minor league intra-squad game after his demotion, on March 21, Gagné asked for and was granted his release from the Dodgers, with the hope that he could find another opportunity with another team. However, he announced his retirement on April 18, 2010. Can-Am League
On August 28, 2015, six years after his last presence in professional baseball, Gagné participated in a game with the Trois-Rivières Aigles of the independent Can-Am League as a starting pitcher. Gagné recorded 2 strikeouts in  innings, allowing only 1 run and two hits but gave up 5 walks to the opposite team, the Quebec Capitales, in a 5–3 win for the Aigles.On September 5, 2016, Gagné pitched for the Ottawa Champions of the Can-Am League, attracting nearly 8,000 fans. 2017 World Baseball Classic
On January 14, 2017, it was reported that Gagne, along with retired pitcher Ryan Dempster, would be joining the Team Canada pitching staff for the 2017 World Baseball Classic. Second comeback attempt
Prior to the start of the 2017 season, Gagne announced that he was pondering a return to Major League Baseball. After working out with the Dodgers during spring training and pitching in the WBC, he signed a contract with the independent Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He retired again on May 21, 2017. Coaching career

Coach for France
Gagné, who is Canadian and whose native language is French, served as the pitching coach for the France national baseball team during the 2013 World Baseball Classic qualifiers in September 2012. France failed to win a game and did not qualify for the main tournament.In the fall of 2013, Gagné was named the head coach of the French national baseball team. The team finished in sixth place in the 2014 European Championships under Gagne. France competed in the 2016 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers in Panama. Texas Rangers
Gagné was announced as the pitching coach for the Arizona League Rangers 2018 season. Gagné rejoined the Texas Rangers organization as a coach in 2018, serving as the pitching coach of the Arizona Rangers of the Rookie-level Arizona League. In 2019 Gagné was promoted to bullpen coach of the Nashville Sounds of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. Gagné was released by the Rangers organization following the 2019 season.Use of HGH
On December 13, 2007, Gagné was listed in the Mitchell Report—former Senator George Mitchell's report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Gagné was identified as a user of HGH (Human Growth Hormone). Allegedly, Gagné received the drugs from steroids dealer Kirk Radomski. At first, Radomski said that Gagné obtained them from Dodgers teammate Paul Lo Duca, but then Radomski said in the report that he mailed two shipments of HGH directly to Gagné in 2004. Receipts of FedEx and USPS shipments indicate that Radomski received at least one payment from Gagné and two from Dodgers teammate Lo Duca on behalf of Gagné. Gagné declined to meet with Senator Mitchell to respond to the charges before the report was released. In a 2009 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Gagné expressed remorse not only for what he had done, but also for the fact that he could not speak openly about it, likely (according to the Times) due to reluctance to implicate others.Gagné acknowledged that he has been looked to as a role model, and called himself an example of what one should not do. On the other hand, when asked whether he had given an honest performance to Dodgers fans, he maintained that he had always worked hard to do so. In a February 2010 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Gagné admitted that he had used HGH, saying that it was to recover from a knee injury. Pitching style
Gagné had an assortment of pitches he used as a reliever but his most commonly used were a four-seam fastball in the mid-to-upper 90s and a Vulcan changeup in the mid 80s. Gagné also featured a two-seam fastball, a slow curveball, and a rarely used slider. Although he was also praised for his "Bugs Bunny curveball," Gagné's changeup was considered his best pitch. Sportswriter Dan Habib wrote:
Most closers depend on one pitch that becomes synonymous with their success: Trevor Hoffman's changeup, Mariano Rivera's cut fastball.Gagné thrives on the dizzying oscillation between his changeup and his fastball. They have the same release point and the same arm speed. The fastball is straight gas ... but the changeup is a devious thing, a bowling ball rolled off a picnic table. It travels some 10 mph slower than his fast-ball, anywhere from 83 to 88 mph, and like a splitter it breaks late and sharp. Gagné used this combination of pitches to rack up strikeouts at a very high rate. In his Cy Young-winning season of 2003, he had 100 more strikeouts (137) than hits he allowed (37). This produced a strikeout-to-hit ratio of 3.7, a single-season record for relief pitchers with 50 innings.He also has the highest percentage of swinging strikes as a percent of his total pitches (18.5%) among all pitchers since the 2002 season. He also owns the highest percentage of swinging strikes on pitches inside the strike zone. Gagné exhibited an emotional presence on the mound: "I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning." Personal life

Gagné and his ex-wife Valerie (née Hervieux) have four children—two daughters and two sons. His father's cousin, <mask>, played several seasons in the NHL. Career highlights

See also

 List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
 List of Major League Baseball annual saves leaders
 List of Major League Baseball players named in the Mitchell Report

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<mask> (1 March 1932 – 2 August 2014) was an Indian poet writing in English, a scholar, a literary critic, a revisionist of Indian culture, literary and secular personalities, and a novelist born in Lahore Cantt (now in Pakistan). He has often been described as a "Poet of Many Voices" with the note of mythical/mystical themes noticeable in his writings. His psycho-analytical studies have the influence of the depth psychology of Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Sigmund Freud; the mythological studies of Joseph Campbell; the spiritual endeavors of Aurobindo, Otto Rank, Rudolfe, Vedanta and Tantra, and the philosophical notions that of Schopenhauer. Background

<mask> was born in Lahore, British India. His father was an employee of the Accountant General's Office in Lahore which was shifted to Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) following the India-Pakistan partition in 1947. He had to migrate to India along with his mother, father, three brothers and a sister. This displacement ruined the family fortunes; the siblings had misgivings about career and education which made them anxious and restless.One of the brothers, <mask>, qualified in Civil Services and retired as an Additional Chief Secretary, Gujarat. Ranchan absented from college and worked in Delhi picking up some odd jobs like insurance agent, marketing and reporting for an English magazine, Delhi Mirror (although a very short-lived magazine). He himself describes the year 1951–1954 as the "Struggle Period" of his life. During the struggling years, <mask> completed his MA (Eng) as a private candidate. If one has to know more about Ranchan one needs to read and understand his works better, as he proclaims: "All my poetry is autobiographical" (Journal of Indian Writing in English, 1980). The author however, feels that the above quote doesn't truly represent him as it is decontexualized. The critical consensus is that <mask>'s poetry is many-layered, it is personal, experiential of life and times and thus truly archetypal.The consensus further is that he is an epic poet and especially an inventor of dialogue epics on secular and spiritual Wisdom Figures. Career in teaching

In 1954, <mask> started teaching and established himself as a teacher. One after the other, Ranchan taught in four different colleges (including Vaish College, Bhiwani, Hisar and Malerkotla, Erstwhile Princely State, (PEPSU). Finally, he taught in Govt. Mahindra College, Patiala, from which he went to the United States of America on a Fulbright Fellowship (1960–1964). His first four years' stay in the USA (as a fellow for three years and an instructor for a year at California State University, Northridge) resulted in a prose book sojourn in America. Later on, at California State University, Fullerton, he gave courses in American and English literature in addition to Group Process, Dream Work, Basic Principles of Jungian Psychology and team-taught with a certified Jungian psychologist, Pan Coucoulis.He created many new courses in literature and interdisciplinary studies such as "Search for Self: East and West", "Yoga", "Graduate Seminar in Walt Whitman", "Senior Seminar in J. D. Salinger", and "Seminar in R. K. Narayan and Raja Rao," to name only a few. He was an immensely popular teacher whose classes where always packed and who was known for his care for and attention to students. During this period, he wrote much outstanding poetry, including "Me and Columbia" (later called "America with Love"), "Christ and I", "Mother Sarada and I" and many other brilliant poems. His most quoted poem, "Blind Beggar" is also a part of the curriculum in India as also more than one hundred research papers have been published centering on his works. He guided the doctoral research of 25 students at HP University, India in addition to M.Phil. guidance to scores of students. After 1992, that is, post-retirement, he extended his research mentorship to another 26 students belonging to different universities.Writing career

Ranchan's interest in writing poetry started when he had just begun his college studies. During his sojourn in America he stayed with Raja Rao in Austin, Texas, (for almost a week) with whom he shared a lot of spiritual experiences, which he described in one of his lectures delivered at Himachal Pradesh University. On Walt Whitman, he did his PhD from the University of Wisconsin. Thereafter, the passion for writing had taken a path never trod by anyone as the impact of Walt Whitman and his writings, somehow, prevails in a latent form. As Kirpal Singh describes it: "the libidinous nature of touch in Whitman…equally pronounced in Ranchan". The impact of such stylistics could be seen in his "America with Love." Ranchan's Ph.D. dissertation substantially advanced the understanding of Whitman as a pre-eminent poet of the soul.He brought to his work on Whitman an insight and understanding only an Indian steeped in Tantra could reveal. Ranchan defends these claims with a note of relative vitality: "I am not a clone of Walt Whitman but do use chant, catalogue style." However, it is a noteworthy feature of his poetry that it has a lyricism rarely felt in Whitman. He came back from America and taught for three years as an Associate Professor of English at Punjabi University, Patiala (1964–66). Soon after, he went back to the United States and taught there for almost six years at California State University, Fullerton, where he held many administrative responsibilities: the Executive Council (1970–71), Comparative Literature Committee (1972–1974), Asian Studies Committee (1974–75), Interdisciplinary Studies where he worked as a professor (1968–77) and Membership of C.G. Jung Club of Southern California, U.S.A. Ranchan's diaspora was full of joy, cheers and a learning experience for him. It was in California that his interest in comparative literature developed him as a writer.The experience of which, he claims: "shows in my [his] writings." He became, as he quotes: "an Indo-American, mediating, relating across the board." More than anything, Ranchan's range in poetry displays a remarkable mind with both profound curiosity and a nature with the deepest desire to explore the spiritual. The range of his poetry and its multiple voices is likewise quite rare. His poetry displays mastery of both Indian esoteric traditions of Vedanta and Tantra and Western depth psychology and religious figures. More than anything, Ranchan perceives and reveals the myth that operates in  everyone's lives. His experience of teaching diverse courses, exposure to American people from all walks of life, his pastoral counselling for the Church of Antioch, Order of Missionary Ministers, become the tap root of his creativity and inter-disciplinary ranging in subjects as diverse as political theory, folklore, myth, psychology, therapy etc.Criticism
<mask> <mask> is known for his elaborate style; mythical, mystical allusions, burrowing the deep layers of culture and personalities. His voice in his poetry is neither of an extrovert or an introvert but consists of the polyphonic echoes, predominantly of a centrovert. Ranchan claims that obscure poetry discourages the "common reader" but is essential to sustain a variety of "multi-culturism, mythical and archetypal reverberations and metaphysical experiences" (Kirpal Singh). Orrington Ramsay, Professor of English, California State University (USA), opines: "<mask> P. Ranchan's lyrical tongue is the ultimate universal love of earth, of man, and of the gods…he incorporates the lush cadences of our own English verse and the mystic vision of India" ("Back Cover" Som P. Ranchan: A Poet of Many Voices, 1994). For the readers of Ranchan, a collection of papers by the most prominent scholars of India, Ved Sharma's A Profile in Creativity (1992) is an ever-illuminating endeavor. Usha Bande opines that: "<mask> P<mask>'s 'Blind Beggar', sitting astride a Shimla road is perceptive enough to know the passers-by. He [the beggar] as the narrator, is quite intelligent and far from being a pathetic, stinking presence."Citing some rhetorical questions, Kirpal Singh opines: "Is Ranchan's poetry derivative or idiosyncratically original? Does it belong to any tradition?" Besides these, there is a long list of subsequent criticism and interviews:

 Special issue on the poetry of <mask> <mask>, Ken (Autumn 1990)
 Ved Sharma, "Representation of Self in Ranchan's Poetry"
 A.K. Srivastava, "Iconography of Experience: Poetry of <mask> P. Ranchan." Kirpal Singh, "<mask> P<mask>: The Poet of Eros." Kirpal Singh, <mask> P. <mask>: A Poet of Many Voices
 Anil Wilson, "The Poetry of Som P. Ranchan: An Overview"
 Ranjit S. Sra, "<mask> P. Ranchan's Lexical Journey to the Spirit"
 Janesh Kapoor, "Relationships: A Note on Ranchan's Anteros"
 Lalit Mohan Sharma, "The Wounded Quester and Anteros"
 B.M.Sagar, "Som's Energy: Soul Making with Sri Aurobindo"
 Sankaran Ravindran, "Magical-Religious Indian consciousness in America with Love"
 R.S. Pathak, "Ranchan's Poetry: Some Preliminary Observations"
 A.N. Dwivedi, "Ranchan's Short Verse"
 Jaidev, "She: An Appreciation"
 D.N. Verma, "Ranchan's Psychedelia on Identity"

Works

Short verse

 The Splintered Mirror (1960)
 Loose Ends (1986)
 In the Labyrinth of the Self (1988)
 Long Dialogue Poems
 Christ and i (1982)
 Mother Sharda and I
 To Vivek Then I Came (1984)
 Soul-Making with Sri Aurbindo (1986)
 To Krishna with Love (1986)
 Manjushri: Tibetan Buddha (1993)
 Shirgul Parmar
 Dwarf Titan
 Paramahansa Ramkrishan
 Kali (1998)
 The Man Said (1998)
 Anteros (1992)
 Friendship Sahridya (1992)
 Eros, Satya-Asatya Alchemy, Enlightenment (2014)

Epics and epic cycle

 Me and Columbia (1960) rechristened as America with Love (1987)
 She (1987)
 Devi (1988)
 Nigmas (1989)
 Shirdi Sai

Criticism, religion, psychology, etc. 2014 deaths
Poets from Lahore
1932 births
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni

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