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<mask> (, March 11, 1963 – September 12, 1998) was the leader of the student movement in 1990–1991 that led to the fall of communism in Albania. He then became a politician of the  Democratic Party of Albania (DP). He symbolizes the start of the democratic era in Albania. He was a member of the Albanian parliament and the Chairman of the Defence Parliamentary Commission. He was assassinated in Tirana on September 12, 1998. On October 2, 1998, <mask> was posthumously awarded Honorary citizenship of Tirana, and in 2007 he was decorated with the Skanderbeg's Order by president Bamir Topi. A monument honoring <mask> and Besim Çera was placed on the crime scene where both were killed ().Early life

Hajdari came from a working family. He finished elementary school and high school in Bajram Curri. Hajdari studied philosophy at the University of Tirana, and was married to Fatmira <mask>, with whom he had three children: Kirardi, Rudina, and <mask> Junior (who was born four months after <mask>'s assassination). He was one of the main leaders of student demonstrations that brought the collapse of the Party of Labour of Albania in December 1990. He was also, briefly, the first leader of the Democratic Party of Albania (DP). He remained in that position until he was replaced in early 1991 by Sali Berisha, who later became Prime Minister of Albania. Hajdari was a close associate of Berisha, and came from the same district of Tropojë.Education
In 1993 <mask> graduated on Philosophy Branch at the University of Tirana. In 1995 he graduated Jurisprudence again at the University of Tirana. On 1993 until 1994: Studied English language and philosophy in the United States and at 1996 he studied defense and security policy in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany. Political activities in his youth included serving as a leader of the students' movement which overthrew communism in Albania. From December 1990 to February 1991, he was Chairman of the Leading Commission of the Democratic Party (the first opposition party after 50 years of totalitarian regime). From February 1991 to September 1993 he was Deputy-Chairman of the Democratic Party and a member of its steering committee. Public service
In the four free elections after the collapse of communism, <mask> has been elected a Member of Parliament.March 31, 1991 MP of Shkodër
March 22, 1992 MP of Shijak
May 26, 1996 MP of Bulqizë
June 29, 1997 MP of Tropojë
Hajdari served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the Public Order and the National Intelligence Service from 1992–1996. In 1996 he was the Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the Public Order and the National Intelligence Service, and is November 1996 became President of the United Independent Albanian Trade Unions. In June 1997 he became the Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission of Defense. From 1995 to 1998, Hajdari was the President of the KS Vllaznia Shkodër, the first sport club in Albania. He also served as the President of the Albanian Federation of Martial arts. Assassination attempts
Hajdari began receiving death threats from the beginning of his involvement in the student protests. On March 22, 1991, he received a package containing a severed rooster head and a letter written in blood: "<mask> Hajdari, you are sentenced to death."Tropojë attack
On June 4, 1998, at about 22:30, Hajdari and other members of the DP (including Jozefina Topalli and Vili Minarolli) were ambushed by gunmen. Bardhyl Pollo, former General Director of Albanian Radio and TV, was seriously wounded. Shot in Parliament
On September 18, 1997, Hajdari fought with Gafur Mazreku, a Member of Parliament of the Prime Minister Fatos Nano's governing Socialist Party, in a dispute over a proposed increase in the added value tax. Mazreku shot Hajdari five times with a pistol and ran from the hall. Hajdari was taken to a military hospital in grave condition. Mazreku ran to the nearby Albanian telegraph agency building, where he surrendered to police. Mazreku was sentenced to eight years imprisonment by parliament.On December 17, the court located in Tirana sentenced Mazreku to eleven years in prison for attempted murder. The prosecutor had demanded a 16-year sentence. Mazreku argued that he fired the shots in an act of revenge after Hajdari verbally assaulted and punched him. <mask>, however, claimed the attack was politically motivated. Assassination
<mask> was shot and killed as he stepped out of the Democratic Party's office in Tirana with his two bodyguards, Besim Çera, who was killed, and Zenel Neza, who was seriously injured but survived. The three men were shot by Fatmir Haklaj who had been waiting in a car parked nearby. Hajdari was taken to the hospital by Besnik Docaj, a fellow Democrat.Cangu was seriously injured, and later died in hospital. <mask> died of severe shock from trauma and hemorrhaging due to numerous wounds to the chest and stomach. He was posthumously awarded a Martyr of Democracy award. Neza asked for asylum in the United States. His daughter Rudina is a current MP in the Albanian Parliament. Reaction
The murder triggered two days of violent protests. During <mask>'s funeral procession on September 14, 1998, armed DP supporters ransacked government offices, and for a brief period, held the PM's office, the parliament building, and the Albanian State television and radio building.Estimates of casualties during the protests and riots ranged between 3 and 7 deaths and 14 and 76 injuries. After 72 hours, the Government restored order and reclaimed tanks and armored personnel carriers seized by DP supporters. Parliament subsequently lifted Berisha's immunity due to his alleged role in what the government described as a coup d'état, but no charges were laid. Berisha blamed the Socialist Party of Albania and its leaders for the murder. Twelve people were arrested for their alleged involvement in the violence. In February 2002 five people, including Jaho Mulosmani, were sentenced for the murder by a Tirana district court. Awards
 Honorary citizenship of Tirana, Albania (1998)
 Order "Honor of the country", Albania (2002)
 Gold medal of the League of Prizren, Kosovo
 Skanderbeg's Order, Albania (2007)

See also
 Azem, ti je gjallë
 History of Albania
 Politics of Albania

References

Further reading

Po vjen Azem Hajdari
Assassinated Albanian People: Assassinated Albanian Politicians, Essad Pasha, <mask> <mask>, Patrona Halil

External links
TV Klan's documentary about Azem Hajdari
Ndrekë Gjini: Rivrasja e Azem Hajdarit

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<mask> (born November 26, 1972) is an American football coach who was most recently the assistant head coach for special teams and tight ends coach at the University of Texas. Personal life
<mask> earned his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Texas in 1996. He is married to <mask>, with whom he has one daughter, Jordin. Coaching career
The coaching career of <mask> began while he was still a student-athlete at the University of Texas. After two years as a backup offensive tackle, <mask> was slated to start in 1993 before his career ended after being diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia. No longer able to play, he became a student-assistant coach for the Longhorns before becoming a graduate assistant working with the tight ends in 1996. <mask> received his first full-time position coaching tight ends at Northern Illinois University, where after one season he was promoted to co-offensive line coach.During his four years at NIU, <mask> helped develop one of the best offenses in the nation as the Huskies ranked 12th in the nation in both rushing and scoring and 19th in total offense. In 2001, <mask> was lured away as tight ends coach for John Mackovic at Arizona. <mask> was also put in charge of special teams for the first time in his career and the following season his Wildcats kick returns unit finished ranked 4th in the nation. Upon the firing of Mackovic, <mask> left to join the Stanford staff as the running backs coach. In the summer months of 2004, <mask> honed his coaching skills working with the San Francisco 49ers as a participant in the NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship Program. After Urban Meyer left for the Florida job, newly promoted Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham brought in <mask> to fill the vacant position coaching tight ends. He also served as co-special teams coordinator where he oversaw the nation's top ranked punting.He left the Utes to join Gene Chizik's staff at Iowa State in 2007, serving as running backs coach and special teams coordinator. In <mask>'s first season, newcomer tailbacks Alexander Robinson and J.J. Bass both posted a pair of 100-yard games. The performances marked the first time two different Cyclone running backs topped the century barrier twice in a single season since 2002. ISU's special teams finished second in the Big 12 in punting during 2008. The Cyclones also improved to 12th nationally in kickoff returns after ranking 109th the previous season. When Chizik left to take the head coach position at Auburn, he brought <mask> along. On January 4, 2009, it was announced <mask> would serve as special teams coordinator as well as fill the vacant spot coaching tight ends.While special teams struggled due to depth issues during the 2009 season, junior college transfer Demond Washington ended the season ranked 6th in the nation in kickoff returns (averaging over 31 yards per return). In 2011, Auburn led the SEC in kickoff returns, kick return touchdowns, kickoff coverage and fewest punts returned. <mask> was also in charge of a punt unit that allowed only four punt return yards on 70 punts (ranked second in the country in punt return defense) in 2012. The Tigers also ranked third in the country in kickoff return defense, allowing just 16.6 yards per return. On January 10, 2013, new head coach Gary Andersen hired <mask> to join his staff at Wisconsin. <mask> resigned after just two months to take the same position at Oklahoma. Coach <mask> has experience coaching in 7 bowl games including the 1994 Sun Bowl, 1995 Sugar Bowl, 1996 (1997) Fiesta Bowl, 2005 Emerald Bowl, 2006 Armed Forces Bowl, 2010 Outback Bowl, 2011 BCS National Championship Game, 2011 Chick-fil-A Bowl, and the 2014 Sugar Bowl.Players coached
<mask> has served as position coach for a number of prominent players over his career. While still an assistant at Texas, one of the players he coached (Pat Fitzgerald) was named a first-team All-American. At NIU, Ryan Diem, a three-year starter for <mask>, was a two-time all-MAC selection and was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in 2001. He was joined by another all-MAC player in McAllister Collins. <mask> was also responsible for recruiting current Atlanta Falcons running back Michael Turner to Northern Illinois. While at Arizona, <mask> coached second-team all-PAC10 running back Mike Bell who is now playing for the New Orleans Saints. At Utah, he helped freshman kick returner Brent Casteel earn honorable mention Freshman All-America honors from Sporting News, averaging over 23 yards per return.While at Iowa State, he coached another standout freshman kickoff returner, Leonard Johnson, to a top-20 national performance. The Rivals.com second-team Freshman All-American kick returner was the 2nd leading returner in his class after gaining 1055 yards, averaging over 26 yards per return. With 319 kickoff return yards against Oklahoma State, Johnson set an NCAA FBS single-game record. At Auburn, freshman Tre Mason ranked 15th in the nation in kick returns. <mask> also tutored All-America punter Steven Clark, a 2011 Ray Guy Award finalist. Kicker Wes Byrum set a single-season Auburn record for field goal percentage (93.8), connecting on 15-of-16 field goals, and set a school record for conversions and attempts, going 54-of-54 on PATs in his first season under <mask>. <mask> also guided Demond Washington to an Auburn single-season record for kickoff return average, as Washington’s average of 31.1 yards per return led the SEC and ranked sixth nationally.His star pupil at tight end was Philip Lutzenkirchen, a second-team All-SEC selection in 2011 who set the Auburn tight end record for career touchdown receptions. References

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 Oklahoma profile
 Iowa State profile

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<mask> (born October 14, 1949) is an American poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry. Her writing focuses on political and social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abortion, racism, welfare reform, feminism, and poverty. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was an agent involved in real estate. Her parents encouraged <mask> to pursue her interest in poetry. Her father was Protestant and her mother was Jewish.<mask> wrote extensively of her family in Learning to Drive, which is dedicated to her parents. <mask> earned a B.A. in philosophy from Radcliffe College in 1972 and an M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University in 1975. During her time at Harvard, she was involved with Students for a Democratic Society and took part, along with Jared Israel, in the student strike and shut down of 1969. Professional life
<mask> is best known for her bimonthly column "Subject to Debate" in The Nation magazine. Her writing is also featured in other publications such as Ms. Magazine, The New York Times, and the London Review of Books.Her poetry has been republished in many anthologies and magazines, including The New Yorker and the 2006 Oxford Book of American Poetry. She has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air and All Things Considered, Charlie Rose, The McLaughlin Group, CNN, Dateline NBC and the BBC. Much of <mask>'s writing is in defense of contemporary feminism and other forms of identity politics and tackles perceived misimpressions by critics from across the political spectrum; other frequent topics include abortion, the media, U.S. foreign policy, the politics of poverty (especially welfare reform), and human rights movements around the world. <mask> coined the phrase "The Smurfette Principle" in 1991, in which she typifies the cartoon character Smurfette as the "lone female" in a group of males who is often a stereotypic figure. In 2003 she was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. In 2020, she was one of the signers of the so-called Harpers Letter, which expressed support for protests for social justice while criticizing the growing number of disproportionately severe punishments for perceived slights or offenses. On May 20, 2020, <mask> said she would vote for Joe Biden's presidential campaign, even "if he boiled babies and ate them" in an article about how she would vote for Joe Biden even if he had sexually assaulted a woman.Publications

Essay collections
In 1994, <mask> published Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism (Vintage), a collection of nineteen essays that first appeared in The Nation and other journals. The book's title was a reference to a line in Mary Wollstonecraft's 1794 treatise, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – "I wish to see women neither heroines nor brutes; but reasonable creatures." Most of her Nation essays from 1994 to 2001 were collected in Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics and Culture, published by the Modern Library in 2001. On June 13, 2006, Random House published her book Virginity or Death! : And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time, a collection of 84 of her Nation columns. In 2007, <mask> published Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories (Random House), a collection of personal essays. Learning to Drive is a departure from her political commentary, covering a range of topics from webstalking a cheating boyfriend to what she learned about her parents using the Freedom of Information Act.Learning to Drive was adapted by screenwriter Sarah Kernochan and director Isabel Coixet into the 2014 film Learning to Drive, which stars Patricia Clarkson. Poetry
The first book <mask> published was a collection of poetry called Antarctic Traveler (Knopf, 1982), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award (1983). Her second volume of poetry, The Mind-Body Problem, was published in 2009 and excerpted at Granta. Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

Politt has said that Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014), was intended as a response to the "feeling among many pro-choice people that we need to be more assertive, less defensive". While the topic is always in debate, <mask> posits that it needs to be discussed in a way that recognizes abortion as an integral component of women's reproductive lives. Her argument is built upon the notion that abortion is a "positive social good" and "an essential option for women". <mask> says abortion needs to be looked at as "back into the lives and bodies of women, but also in the lives of men, and families, and the children those women already have or will have".She argues that the issue brings about how we discuss menstrual cycles with young girls and the number of resources we have available for families, both single parent and two-parent. Further the decision should not be looked at as the action of a woman thinking independently because abortion requires the “cooperation of many people beyond the woman herself". She said in October 2014 that Jewish tradition "does not have the concept of the personhood of the fetus (much less the embryo or fertilized egg). In Jewish law, you become a person when you draw your first breath." A group of feminist scholars and activists analyzed Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights for "Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism," an initiative of the feminist journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. The commentaries include a response by <mask>. Personal life
On June 6, 1987, she married Randy Cohen, author of the New York Times Magazine column "The Ethicist."They later divorced. They have a daughter, <mask>-Cohen (September 25, 1987), author of the bestselling book The Notebook Girls, written while <mask>-Cohen was a student at Stuyvesant High School. On April 29, 2006, <mask> married the political theorist Steven Lukes. They reside in Manhattan. Awards, honors, grants
The Frost Place poet in residence (1977)*
National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry (for Antarctic Traveler, 1983)
National Endowment for the Arts (grant, 1984)
Academy of American Poets ("Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award," 1984)
Fulbright Scholarship (1985)
Arvon Foundation Prize (1986)
New York Foundation for the Arts (1987)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (Fellowship, 1987)
National Magazine Award (for "Essays and Criticism," 1992)
Whiting Award (1992)
Planned Parenthood Federation of America ("Maggie Award," 1993)
Freedom from Religion Foundation ("Freethought Heroine Award,"  1995)
National Women's Political Caucus ("Exceptional Merit Media Award," 2001)
National Magazine Award (for "Best Columns and Commentary," 2003)
American Book Award ("Lifetime Achievement Award," 2010)
The Nation Institute (Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow)
Freedom From Religion Foundation (Honorary Board of distinguished achievers 2010)
 American Humanist Association ("Humanist Heroine," 2013)

Bibliography
Antarctic Traveller: Poems (Knopf, 1982) ()
Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism (Vintage, 1995) ()
Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (Modern Library Paperbacks, 2001) ()
Virginity or Death! : And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time (Random House, 2006) ()
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories (Random House, 2007) ()
The Mind-Body Problem: Poems (Random House, 2009) ()
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (Picador, 2014) ()

References

External links
Katha Pollitt official blog
Column archive at The Guardian
Column archive at The Nation

In Depth interview with Pollitt, July 6, 2008

Profile at The Whiting Foundation

 Beyond the Politics of Irony and Lip Gloss: An Interview With Feminist Writer Katha Pollitt by Jessica Clark, LiP Magazine: 2001."Strident" and Proud (July 12, 2006 interview of <mask> by Jessica Valenti on salon.com)

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<mask> is a vocalist, bassist, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Corrin was an active-duty soldier in the United States Army, stationed with United States Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, KY from 2011 to 2017. <mask> was the only original music artist to be endorsed by a branch of the military. She is also a Co-Founder and the Director of Growth at Indepreneur. Biography
Hailing from Duluth, Minnesota, Corrin joined the United States Army and served as a bass guitar player and vocalist in the Army Band Field. In addition to regular bandsman duties, she also participated in the 2003 U.S. Army Soldier Show: a 90-minute live musical review showcasing active duty soldiers. The show assembled in six weeks and then toured for 7 months in the continental United States, Cuba, and portions of Korea.Crowds would range from 100 to 13,000 people. During this time she was featured in promotional TV and radio interviews while on tour, and also performed behind Wynonna Judd at the 2003 Army Birthday Ball. From 2004 to 2005, she deployed with the 1st Cavalry Division to Baghdad in Operation Iraqi Freedom II. As a lead singer of the rock group, band leader of the jazz combo, and bass player of the Latin band, nearly every day contained a musical mission. Most days consisted of travel by Blackhawk to entertain soldiers across Iraq. She was featured at many high-profile shows, including the farewell parties of General Ricardo Sanchez and Ambassador Paul Bremer. She also met and opened for Robin Williams, Ted Nugent and Toby Keith when their USO tours came through Baghdad.<mask> served three years with the Maryland National Guard Band before returning to active duty in November 2009. She then served with the Army Materiel Command Band at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. It was while stationed here that <mask> was selected to play at Lilith Fair in Columbia, Maryland. <mask> relocated to the Nashville, Tennessee area when the Army Materiel Command Band moved to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama in November 2010 and was employed as the featured artist with the U.S. Army Musical Outreach Team until March 2017. On January 7, 2017, <mask> announced to her fans, the Campbell Corps, that her band, Dash|Ten, is breaking up, and that she was leaving the Army. "First, Dash|Ten has come to an end. I (Corrin) am leaving the Army in just a couple months.I've had an incredible career and so many amazing opportunities. It is what brought me to you! However, Steve and Pete are staying in the Army to continue on, and that means we have to part ways." -<mask>

For a short stint, <mask> opted to rename her project PRYM and released an EP and toured to several states in Summer 2017. Shortly after, however, she released a statement on her site explaining the short-lived band name and stated she would be returning to her solo name. Solo Artist <mask> <mask> (2018–present)
Corrin re-released PRYM's EP "At First Light" under her solo name on February 15, 2018. on August 14, 2017. She also released a single, entitled "Charlatan", one year later on February 18, 2019 and its BAD ONE remix on December 13, 2019.In February 2020, <mask> announced her Greatest Hits Dual Disc would include one "cinematic" disc and one "remix" disc, to be in full on January 8, 2021, with digital singles starting in April 2020. PRYM (2017–2018)
PRYM released its first single, "Lights", in March 2017. This single was followed by the "At First Light" EP, released on August 14, 2017. The EP also includes "What You Wanted" and "Our Time Now", songs previously released with Dash|Ten. Band members were never disclosed. Dash|Ten (2016–2017)
The band came together in early 2016, and their first public performance was the Warped Tour kick-off at Full Sail University in March 2016. All current members of the band are combat veterans of the U.S. Army, and the band is the only group officially backed by a branch of the military, touring and performing exclusively original music.The band's name comes from an Army term for a basic operating manual for equipment. "We consider our musical sound as the basics of rock – just a power trio with no AutoTune, very little edits, not a lot of support tracks. We're rock at its basic level." Dash|Ten was forced to drop off of the line-up of Warped Tour 2016 for uncited reasons. <mask> provided a quote to Rara's Farm, "Unfortunately we had to leave the tour unexpectedly after the Darien Center, NY show. We're broken up about it, and hoping it's something that can be remedied. Kevin has been super supportive of us and let us know that we're welcome to come back if and when the Army works it all out."Band members
Steve Ebert (Guitar)
Pete Greenberg (Drums)

On January 7, 2017, <mask> announced in her fan email list, Campbell Corps, that she is leaving the Army in 2017, and because Ebert and Greenberg are still in, they will be parting ways. <mask> <mask> and The Election (2008–2015)

<mask> transitioned from her solo artist name to <mask> <mask> & the Election in 2008, though all current releases are still listed under her solo name. Based in Baltimore, the band played mostly small local shows in the region until being selected to open Lilith Fair 2010 in Columbia, MD and dissolved into <mask>'s Army position upon her selection for Army Musical Outreach. Fest – New York City, NY

In 2014, <mask> appeared at select high schools, such as Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, and its sister school, Red Land High School, in Lewisberry, Pennsylvania. Reviews
"PRYM is a band that deals in intensity; <mask> <mask>’s compelling vocals come from a very authentic and impassioned place, monolithic slabs of primordial guitars drive through the middle ground and the solid bass and back-beat create the perfect platform to hold it all together." – Dave Franklin of The Swindonian. "Dash|Ten certainly show promise on their debut.Simply by merit of intentionally avoiding the "Paramore sound," they have a head start on the vast majority of their contemporary female-fronted acts." – Randy Shatkowski of AntiHero Magazine. "The ten track album is a full bodied music work of art that highlights their raw energy and passion for their music." – Marisol of Music Junkie Press. "Finding an original sound in the female pop/rock world is a hard task, but it doesn't seem that way for <mask> <mask>. Her music displays many sides of her natural talent as <mask> shifts from harder electric guitar rock to the softer side of piano ballads. She has successfully found her footing and one step at a time, is sure to reach to top of the mountain of musical success."– Lisa Perron of Target audience Magazine

"'Exhibit A' is a CD with memorable tunes combined with appealing lyrics that you want to learn right away so you can sing along!" – Alicia and the RadioIndy Review Team

"If her eight-song EP, Exhibit A, is any indication, we'll be hearing a lot more of Ms. <mask> in the coming years. Sweetly seductive vocals combine with girl-next-door good looks giver her an instant appeal for fans of the current crop of twenty-something female hitmakers. But it is her ability to turn of a phrase that lifts her above the crowd." -Mike Parker of buddyhollywood.com

Personal life
She graduated from Full Sail University and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. <mask> has been connected to Paramore lead vocalist Hayley Williams. In 2003, they met through a shared vocal coach and William's Twitter account as also identified her as a friend.On August 14, 2012 "Thanks Corrin" trended worldwide on Twitter when she attended and updated fans on the Paramore show at the Pomona Fox Theater in Pomona, California. Discography
<mask> has released different albums under her solo name, <mask> <mask> & the Election, Dash | Ten, and PRYM from 2007 to present. She has stated all music in the future will be released under her solo name. <mask> recorded the first portion of "Gilded" at Dark Horse Recording Studio in March 2012. Shae Padilla of KSM (band) was featured as a guitarist. On April 2, via the band's official blog, Corrin also announced that the band would be recording more songs to complete "Gilded" for release May 21, 2013. It was also stated that the album would be released under "Corrin Campbell & the Election" instead of as a solo-artist record.The band released a single in the meantime entitled "Not for Sale" on June 5, 2012. Greatest Hits – January 8, 2020
Two discs: One "cinematic" and one remix containing new recording and arrangements of songs ranging Corrin's complete discography. Volume 1: Cinematic
 Our Time Now (Orchestral Version)
 Pieces (Orchestral Version)
 Find Your Way (Orchestral Version)
 Sunbeam (Cello Version)
 Ready, Set... (Cello Version) (feat. Pete Stewart)
 Time to Let Go (Acoustic Version)
 Remember Me (Orchestral Version)
 What You Wanted (Orchestral Version)
 Not for Sale (Orchestral Version)

Volume 2: The Remixes
 What You Wanted (BAD ONE Remix)
 Our Time Now (BAD ONE Remix)
 Pieces (BAD ONE Remix)
 Sunbeam (kkami Remix)
 Not for Sale (BAD ONE Remix)
 Heavy (BAD ONE Remix)
 Remember Me (BAD ONE Remix)
 Time to Let Go (BAD ONE Remix)
 Ready, Set... (BAD ONE Remix)
 Find Your Way (BAD ONE Remix)

At First Light [Re-Release] – February 15, 2018
This re-release of the "At First Light" EP contained all songs previously released under PRYM. What You Wanted
 Exit Strategy
 Lights
 Flames & Games
 Our Time Now

At First Light – August 14, 2017
This debut release from PRYM contains two songs previously released under the Dash|Ten name. What You Wanted
 Exit Strategy
 Lights
 Flames & Games
 Our Time Now

Dash | Ten – May 21, 2016
The Dash|Ten album contains a good deal of Corrin's previously released material from her 2013 album "Gilded". This album was licensed free to the U.S. Army and the band has operated as a non-profit in support of the Army.What You Wanted
 The Scene
 Where I Stand
 Not for Sale
 Pieces
 Sunbeam
 Truth
 Truly Untitled
 Heavy
 Equations

Gilded – May 21, 2013
 You Guys Ready? Just Around the Bend
 Not for Sale
 Ready, Set... (feat. Pete Stewart)
 The Scene
 Truth
 Pieces
 Truly Untitled
 Heavy
 Equations
 The Call (feat. Pete Stewart)

Where I Stand (SP) – November 6, 2012
 Where I Stand
 Remember Me (Punk Remix feat. Ethan Luck)

Game Night (Remixed/Remastered) – November 24, 2010
 Sunbeam
 Blink of an Eye
 Find Your Way
 Always Be
 Drone
 Done With You
 Remember Me
 Apologize [a cover of OneRepublic's Apologize (song)]
 Colors of You
 Time to Let Go
 Keep Movin'
 A New Page

Game Night (Original) – November 24, 2009
 Find Your Way
 Time to Let Go
 Always Be
 Drone
 Done with You
 Remember Me
 Colors of You
 Bounce
 Apologize [a cover of OneRepublic's Apologize (song)]
 Sunbeam
 Blink of an Eye
 Keep Movin'
 Cast it Off
 A New Page

Exhibit A (EP)
 Colors of You
 Friend in D
 Cast It Off
 Through Your Eyes
 Shame
 Keep Movin'

Exhibit A – Limited Edition (EP)
 Colors of You
 Friend in D
 Cast It Off
 Through Your Eyes
 Shame
 Keep Movin'
 When It Rains [Piano cover of Paramore's "When it Rains"]
 Snow (Acoustic)

Singles
 Charlatan (feat. Nino Bless) – Released February 18, 2019
Lights – Released March 27, 2017
 Our Time Now – Released Jun 2016
 What You Wanted – Released Jun 2015
 Where I Stand – Released Nov 2012
 Not for Sale (Single Version) – Released Jun 2012
 Sunbeam (Single Version) – Released Nov 2008

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<mask>,  (born 18 July 1944) is best known as a British athlete. He was also a British former track and field athlete, winner of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Early life
<mask> was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, but his father's accounting work took the family to the United States, where he attended school and graduated from Boston University. At one point the family had returned to Britain for a time, and Hemery moved back and forth across the Atlantic during his training. Athletics career
<mask>'s first International title came at the 1966 Commonwealth Games, where he won the 120 yd hurdles in 14.1 seconds, a title he retained four years later at the 1970 Commonwealth Games (by then it was the 110m hurdles which he won in 13.8 seconds). at 3:35. At the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, Hemery won the 400m hurdles in 48.12 seconds, a new world record.His margin of victory was the largest since 1924, beating second-placed Gerhard Hennige from West Germany by almost a second. After Hemery crossed the line BBC commentator <mask> famously exclaimed "Who cares who's third – it doesn't matter!" Hemery's British teammate John Sherwood turned out to be the bronze medal winner in a close finish that had to be settled by photo finish. <mask>'s performance helped him win the 1968 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. In 1969, Hemery won a silver at the European Championships in the 110m hurdles, but missed the next European Championships in 1971 due to injury. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Hemery defended his title and finished third, behind John Akii-Bua from Uganda and Ralph Mann from the United States. He was also a member of the silver medal winning British 4 × 400 m relay team, one of whose members was <mask>.Superstars
<mask> won the first ever British Superstars competition, held in 1973, registering a second victory in 1976, and was recognised as Britain's best Superstar from 1973 to 1977. As a recently retired athlete, Hemery was free to participate in the professional Superstars contests and keep any prize money he won – unlike many other competitors (like Kjell Isaksson or Andy Ripley). Noticing the very high standard of competition within a short time of the event starting, Hemery created his own training regime, becoming adept at the gymnasium tests and canoeing and propelling himself into national fame. After winning the original British title, <mask> then entered the 1974 event though he was struggling with illness. Eventually narrowly beaten by John Conteh, Hemery then went on to the 1975 European contest where he was beaten again, this time by Ties Kruize. When Kruize suffered serious injuries in a car crash before the final, Hemery was invited to participate and performed bravely, scoring points in every event. He was soundly beaten by Kjell Isaksson, but could still finish second.The rules for European Superstars allowed athletes to compete in "near specialist" events with a handicap, meaning that both <mask> and Isaksson were allowed to run in the 100m and Steeplechase, but only after giving the other finalists a head start. In the final 600m Steeplechase event <mask> had to make up a 100m handicap on his rivals in order to finish in overall second, and valiantly did so, but only after again falling badly at the water jump. Hitting the ground hard while challenging Isaksson for the lead, Hemery rose with a grimace of pain on his face then sprinted for the line, grabbing third. However, as soon as the race was over he collapsed, with the TV cameras showing huge swelling to his injured leg – he had run the last 100m with badly torn ankle ligaments. In 1976 <mask> won back his British title with a dominating performance. He could not qualify for the European Final this year (beaten by Isaksson again), so he then tried his hand at the American version, qualifying for the final before finishing a disappointing 11th. Because of this sojourn to the USA, <mask> was not eligible to compete in the inaugural 1977 World Final, and he did not compete again in individual Superstars again until the 1981 Challenge of the Champions, where he finished joint fourth with his great hurdling rival John Sherwood.Winning the 1983 Past Masters event enabled him to compete in the 1984 International Final (where he finished third, though 40 years old). Superstars record

Later life
After his running career, Hemery worked as a coach in the United States and Great Britain. He returned to his alma mater, Boston University, at which as track coach he was widely admired by his student athletes and in which post he succeeded in recruiting many top-notch British runners to Boston University. In 1969 he was made an MBE followed by the  Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. He received a masters degree in Education from Harvard University. For a period in the 1970s he taught at the famous English school Millfield. In 1998, he was elected as the first president of UK Athletics.In 2011 <mask> became the first Briton to be awarded the European Olympic Committee’s Laurel Award for services to sport. In 2015, he ran the London Marathon to raise money for the charity that he had founded - '21st Century Legacy'. Author
<mask> has written several books. Another hurdle: The making of an Olympic champion, 1976,
 The Pursuit Of Sporting Excellence A Study Of Sport's Highest Achievers, 1986,
 Athletics in Action, 1987,
 Winning Without Drugs,  with Alan Evans, Guy Ogden, 1990,
 Sporting Excellence: What Makes a Champion? 1991,
 How to Help Children Find the Champion Within Themselves, 2005,

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Bibliography
<mask>, Another Hurdle, Heinemann, London, 1976. His autobiography.

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<mask> (Arabic:  هدى الهبري الزغبي Hudā al-Hibrī az-Zughbī; born 1954), born <mask>-Hibri, is a Lebanese-born American geneticist, and a professor at the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience and Neurology at the Baylor College of Medicine. She is the director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute. She became the editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience as of 2018. Her work helped elucidate the genes and genetic mechanisms responsible for a number of devastating neurological disorders, such as Rett syndrome and Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1. <mask>'s discoveries have provided new ways of thinking about other neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, autism and intellectual disability, which could lead to new therapeutics and better, more efficient treatments. In 2017, she was awarded the Canada Gairdner International Award and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1954, and raised in Beirut.She loved reading works by William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and William Wordsworth in high school and intended to pursue literature at university. Her mother convinced her to study biology instead, on the grounds that 'a woman growing up in the Middle East should pick a career ensuring independence and security, while she can always write on the side'. <mask> was admitted as a biological sciences major at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 1973 and entered the university's medical school 2 years later. The Lebanese Civil War began in 1976 during her first year of medical school. Although she and her classmates decided to stay at the university, after her brother was injured by shrapnel, their parents sent them to live with their sister in Austin, Texas, with plans to return the following summer. The war, however, raged on, and <mask> was under the impression that school terms at American medical schools began in October, as was the case with Lebanese schools. However, in October, it was confirmed that she was still unable to return to Lebanon due to the war, and US medical schools had begun their fall term 2 months earlier.Her family friends in America suggested she apply to Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt did not accept transfer students, but recommended Meharry Medical College instead; Meharry accepted her on the spot. Despite her continued desire to return to Lebanon the next summer, on the advice of professors at AUB, she stayed at Meharry and earned an MD degree in 1979, after which she joined the Texas Children's Hospital at the Baylor College of Medicine as a pediatric resident. Zoghbi initially intended to specialise in pediatric cardiology, out of an interest in the heart. During her rotation at pediatric neurology, Marvin Fishman, the head of the division, convinced her that the brain was more interesting than the heart. She thus started a 3-year term as a postdoctoral researcher in pediatric neurology after she finished her residency in 1982. Career
From 1982 to 1985, Zoghbi was a postdoctoral researcher in pediatric neurology at the Baylor College of Medicine.She became an assistant professor at the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor in 1988, and was successively promoted to associate professor in 1991 and professor in 1994. At present, Zoghbi is a professor at the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor, with appointments as a professor at the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Pediatrics Section of Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience, the Ralph Feigin, M.D. Endowed Chair, the director of the Texas Children's Hospital Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, a member of the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor, and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is also a member of the board of directors of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. She also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2014. Research
In 1983, Zoghbi learnt of Rett syndrome from Bengt Hagberg's account in Annals of Neurology. The paper allowed Zoghbi to diagnose a five-year-old she treated at Texas Children's Hospital, and a week later she saw another patient with the same set of symptoms.When she investigated medical records, she found more cases of Rett syndrome that had been misdiagnosed. This sparked her interest in Rett syndrome, at a time when there was no report of the disease in the US. An article she published in 1985 attracted many Rett syndrome patients to Texas Children's Hospital, giving her access to a large number of cases. Since most patients of Rett syndrome were girls, and symptoms were very consistent across patients, Zoghbi believed genetics were involved in the disease process. This led her to join Arthur Beaudet's group in 1985, after finishing her term as a postdoctoral researcher, for training in genetics and molecular biology. Beaudet advised against Rett syndrome as her research project since its mode of inheritance was still not obvious, and recommended a more approachable problem – spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, a dominantly inherited neurological disorder. In 1988, Zoghbi left Beaudet's group and founded her own lab at Baylor.In addition to her research on spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 and Rett syndrome, Zoghbi is participating in a joint research collaboration into CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder, funded by the Loulou Foundation, Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1
Following the establishment of her own lab, Zoghbi continued studying spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), in collaboration with Harry Orr from the University of Minnesota. On the same day, 8 April 1993, both <mask> and Orr identified ATXN1 as the gene responsible for SCA1. They determined that the disease was caused by an expansion of the glutamine-encoding CAG trinucleotide repeat in this gene, and that the younger the age of onset, the longer the CAG repeat. Further work by <mask>, Orr and their teams demonstrated that the misfolding, aggregation, and proteasomal degradation of the protein product of this gene, Ataxin 1, played a role in the disorder. Math1
After solving the etiology of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, Zoghbi began studying animal genes related to balance. As Baylor's Hugo J. Bellen described the role of the atonal gene in balance in fruit flies, Zoghbi chose to study its mammalian homolog. A member of her lab successfully cloned the mouse homolog, Math1, in 1996.Her team went on to find that, in addition to its involvement in balance and coordination, Math1 is also crucial to hearing  and the formation of secretory cells in the gut. Her lab has also shown that aberrant activation of Math1 could lead to medulloblastoma, a common childhood brain tumor, and that mice which did not express Math1, did not develop the tumor. Rett syndrome

Ever since Zoghbi was introduced to Rett syndrome early in her career, she has been working on the disorder alongside other research, despite the lack of enthusiasm from her colleagues, fellow researchers and funding agencies. The main reason is that very few individuals and even fewer families are available for investigation. In the 1990s, she collaborated with Uta Francke from Stanford University to identify the gene responsible for Rett syndrome. In 1992, she narrowed down the target to a section of the X chromosome. In 1999, a postdoctoral researcher in Zoghbi's lab identified MECP2 as the causative gene.The MECP2 protein binds methylated cytosine (5-methylcytosine) in CpG sites, and is indispensable for almost all brain cells. In the paper, she and her team demonstrated that Rett syndrome was an X-linked dominant disorder, meaning that when 1 of the 2 copies of the MECP2 gene is abnormal, Rett syndrome will result. <mask>'s team keeps studying MECP2, and discovered in 2004 that overexpressing the protein in mouse led to an autism-like neurological disorder. In 2009, she found mice deficient of the Mecp2 gene (the mouse homolog of human MECP2) had lower levels of norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin, consistent with her clinical observations of patients of Rett syndrome in 1985. Recently, Zoghbi confirmed that the MECP2 protein also bound 5-methylcytosine not in CpG sites, and that restoring the level of MECP2 protein in a subset of neurons was sufficient to rescue some symptoms of Rett syndrome. Ataxin-1 link to Alzheimer's
After linking the gene Ataxin-1 to SCA1, <mask>'s lab was approached by Dr. Jaehong Suh of the Massachusetts General Hospital's MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease to investigate the connection between ataxin-1 gene and Alzheimer’s disease. The subsequent study found that loss of ataxin-1 elevates BACE1 expression and Aβ pathology in mouse models, rendering it a potential contributor to risk and pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.Awards and honors
 2020 – Brain Prize
 2019 – Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award, American Society of Human Genetics
 2018 – Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 2018 – Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine, Molecular Medicine
 2018 – National Order of the Cedar, Lebanon
 2017 – Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
 2017 – Canada Gairdner International Award
 2016 – Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal
 2016 – Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
 2015 – Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science, Northwestern University
 2015 – Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
 2015 – Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health
 2015 – American Task Force for Lebanon Award
 2015 – Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D. In 1977, she continued her medical school study in Meharry Medical College, and William transferred to Meharry next year. They both had their residencies in the Baylor College of Medicine after graduation. They married in 1980 and have 2 children. William is the chief of the Department of Cardiology at Houston Methodist Hospital. References

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<mask> is an Indian cultural entrepreneur, music director and producer, best known for being a pioneer in the Indian non-filmi music field and for shifting the focus of the industry to Delhi. He has worked with singers Baba Sehgal and Daler Mehndi in the 1990s. Over the years he has composed 3,000 jingles, given music for television series like, The World This Week, Himalaya Darshan and Ru Ba Ru, besides he has composed 73 music albums out of which 19 have gone multi-platinum. He was awarded one of India's highest civilian honours, the Padma Shri in 2008. Early life and background
<mask> grew up in Delhi, where his passion for music led him to train in classical and instrumental Western music as a teenager and to play the guitar. By the age of 21, he had already composed and sung numerous advertising jingles and performed for leading professional record labels like EMI India. The dream culminated in his setting up a multi-track digitalised production house and an accredited advertising agency by the time he was 21.This Production House was the first of its kind in India's capital. Major projects

Advertisements: <mask> has directed and produced more than 3,000 commercials. They include: Ponds, Pepsi, Hero Honda, KLM, Usha Fans, Boost, Horlicks, Lufthansa, Maggi, Nescafé and Mirinda. Brand Promotion: He has been actively engaged in brand promotions and execution of various product launches, with experience in the field of software production for multimedia applications. Additionally, he has been involved in the export of entertainment software to various countries across the world including the USA. Instrumental in corporate image building and promotions for public and private sector companies, his clients include: public sector organisations, BHEL, MMTC and STC to name a few. Public Service Announcements: Producer of public service announcements (PSAs) on social issues – ranging from primary health care, education to sanitation and more for UNICEF.Producer, First Earth Run event, a joint production for the United Nations. Theater: For many years, he has been actively involved in theatre productions for private and government entities. One of his hit productions – 'Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan' premiered in the UK

Tele-Serials: <mask> has scored musical compositions for tele-serials such as: 'Tol Mol Ke Bol,' 'Himalaya Darshan,' 'Newsline, ' S'anjha Choolah,' 'Ruba Ru,' 'Saas Pe Sawa Saas,' 'Quiz Time.' He has also scored for musicals like 'Mira' and telefilms such as 'Kanjoos Makhichoos.' In-flight Music: He was an early pioneer in creating in-flight music with compositions for Indian Airlines. Live Recordings: Known for his high quality live recordings, he has recorded a veritable Who's Who of artists including: Pt Ravi Shankar and his orchestra for the Festival of France in India, Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt Bhim Sen Joshi, Pt Birju Maharaj, Pt Kelucharan Mahapatra, Ut Amjad Ali Khan and Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma among others. Original Albums: <mask> has composed, directed and produced 73 albums in a span of six years out of which, fifteen went platinum.These have included everything from Punjabi Bhangra, Rajasthani folk, Christmas carols, Sufiana repertoire and ghazals, to a pop album in Tamil. As a result, some of today's best-known Indi-pop superstars like Baba Sehgal, Daler Mehndi, Shweta Shetty, Hans Raj Hans and Shubha Mudgal, to name a few, were launched. August 2008 Global Adviser-Advertising, Content Entertainment- SPICE GLOBAL. December 2009– Consultant Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt Of India. 2011– Member working group on Information and Broadcasring Sector for 12th-five year plan-2012-2017. 2011-Member steering committee for International Film Festival
2012– Director- board of directors National Film Development Corporation Ltd.

International releases
 "Divine Inspiration" – Aruna Sairam

Major awards
 2008 National Award: Padmashri
 2000 Sangeet Samrat Award: the Press Club of Punjab
 2000 Multi-platinum Award: Mera Dil Bole Piya Piya
 1999 Multi-platinum Award: Mahi O Mahi
 1999 Multi-platinum Award: Punjabi Munda
 1999 Multi-platinum Award: Piya Se Milke Aaye Nain
 1999 Multi-platinum Award: Jhanjhar
 1998 Channel V Award: Best Music Composer
 1998 Multi-platinum Award: Ho Jayegi Balle Balle
 1997 Multi-platinum Award: Deewane to Deewane Hain
 1996 Multi-platinum Award: Ali More Angana
 1996 Multi-platinum Award: Dardi Rab Rab
 1995 Multi-platinum Award: Bolo Ta Ra Ra

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Jingle composers
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<mask> (1921-2015) was a Sikh American investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was also the founder-trustee of the Sikh Forum of New York, senior vice president of the Hemkunt Foundation, and patron of the Sikh Art and Film Foundation. <mask> has received numerous awards and has been recognized in many national and international events. In 1999, <mask> was honored as Humanitarian of the Year by the Interfaith Nutrition Network. In 2000, he was honored with the “Punjab-Ratan” award by then-First Lady Hillary Rodham-Clinton. In 2006, <mask> was awarded with the “Lifetime Achievement” award for his service to the community by the World Punjabi Organization during its International Convention in New York. Early life
<mask> was born to a Gur Sikh family in Kallar, a small village in Punjab.He was the first in his family to attend college and graduated from Dayanand Anglo Vedic College in 1939. During his second year in college, he became engaged to Kuljeet Kaur. Three years later, the two were married on February 20, 1940. <mask> eventually became the father of seven children: Amrit, Pritam, Inderjeet, Kuldip, Virinder, Kanwaljeet, and Tejinder. Time in the Indian Army
Towards the end of World War II, he became an officer of the Indian Army in Riwalpindi in the Ordnance Corps, where he was first stationed in Jahanpur, India, and later Singapore. During the partitioning of India in which the country gained its independence from British rule while also separating from Pakistan, <mask> along with his family was forced from their homes in Northern Punjab. Approximately five and half million people traveled each way across the New India-Pakistan border in Punjab.Career in telecom
In June 1948, <mask> left the army and started his career as a telecommunications engineer in India's Telephone Department. He began as a technical assistant and quickly moved his way up to an officer heading the department and maintaining the telephone services of several major district headquarters, sub-district headquarters and business centers in India. In 1960, <mask> was promoted to deputy divisional engineer at the Telephone Department in Ambala but quickly transferred to Srinagar in 1961 to become the assistant engineer Trunks Telelphone System. He later held posts in Jammu, Patalia, Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Jalandhar. In 1975, he transferred to Dharamsala and was promoted as divisional engineer, the pinnacle of his career in the Telecommunications industry. On January 31, 1979, <mask> retired after 30 years of government service in the Telephone Department of India. Coming to America
Soon after his retirement, <mask> moved to the United States and immediately started a business selling garments with his sons Kuldip <mask> on Long Island, New York.They introduced Indian fashions into the markets they sold in such as ghaghras, gauze kurtas, bagroo skirt (block-printed skirts), which all quickly became a very popular. The business started with one booth at a flea market but quickly expanded to multiple booths, becoming profitable enough for them to expand their business into a garment wholesale company. The company came to be known as Jeetish, a combination of Jeet (short his Ishar's wife's name Kuljeet) and Ish (short for Ishar). The Jeetish Group of Companies
The Jeetish Group of Companies began as an importer of primarily women's apparel that catered to major retailers as well as boutiques and local vendors all across the United States. The initial product line started with ladies garments such as dresses, skirts, blouses, jump suits and skirt sets. In 1984, it began importing crinkle ladies dresses from Greece and became one of the first companies to successfully launch the product in the US, allowing the company to establish a reputation that gave it access to mainstream department and chain stores in the US. In 1987, Verinder joined Jeetish.Soon after, the company opened a showroom in the main garment district in New York and grew to become a multimillion-dollar company. It has become a diversified business with interests in apparel, commodities, real estate, and imports and exports. Personal life
<mask> has been married for the past seventy years to Mrs. Kuljit Kaur, a very religious and pious lady. They have seven children, seventeen grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. The children are very well educated and professionally qualified in their respective fields. Philanthropy
<mask> is heavily involved in many charitable and humanitarian causes. His efforts have been acknowledged by the Interfaith Nutrition Network, which honored him with the “Humanitarian of the Year” award.He was the first Indian American recipient of the prize. He has also been honored by President Bill Clinton for his work. <mask> was awarded with the “Lifetime Achievement” award for his service to the community by the World Punjabi Organization during its International Convention in New York. He was honored by the Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to the support of medical facilities in India. He is also the founder-trustee of the Sikh Forum of New York, senior vice president of the Hemkunt Foundation, and Patron of the Sikh Art and Film Foundation. Sardarni Kuljit Kaur <mask> Chair in Sikh Studies
One of his most notable contributions is the Sardarni Kuljit Kaur <mask> Chair in Sikh Studies established at Hofstra University. The chair was established in April 2000, and its principal aim was to promote academic study of the Sikh religion, culture and history.In order to do so, it would support the appointment of a faculty member in Sikh Studies, build Hofstra University library's holdings in Sikhism, provide scholarship assistance to students interested in Sikh religion and culture, and fund annual conferences and lectures directed toward the academic community as well as the general public. Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize
On April 4, 2006, <mask> established the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize. On the recommendation of the selection committee, the prize is given biennially to individuals (or organizations) who have made significant contributions in promoting inter-religious dialogue, have made efforts to end religious and ethnic violence, or have the ability to use the prize to further the cause of religious dialogue. The Kuljit Kaur Bindra Foundation established the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize as an endowment and it carries a cash award of $50,000, which is awarded at a gala dinner. In 2007, the Dalai Lama was approved as the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize's inaugural recipient, and was later accepted by him. Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, and Religions for Peace, a worldwide multi-religious coalition, was awarded Hofstra's Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize for 2010. The Sikh Art Exhibition
On September 17, 2006, the exhibition entitled I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion was opened in the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan, the first Sikh exhibition ever held in New York.It was made possible by <mask> and his son Tejinder, who had established the Sikh Art and Film Foundation in 2004 and serves as its president. The exhibition brought together works of art from international and national collections that identified core Sikh beliefs. The exhibition opened with a grand gala and was inaugurated by the then Indian Ambassador, Ronen Sen, Member of Parliament Sardar Tarlochan Singh and Honorary Patron of the Sikh Art and Film Foundation, and Congressman Gregory Meeks. The Assemblymen Thomas Di’Napoli and Upendra J. Chivukula, Ambassador Lewis, and Consul General Neelam Deo were also present at the exhibition. References

External links
 Sikh Arts and Film Foundation Site
 Hofstra Sikh Studies Site

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Bradley Glenn "<mask>" <mask> (born November 14, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was the lead guitarist for the glam metal band SouthGang from the late 1980s to early 1990s as well as the lead vocalist and guitarist for rock band Marvelous 3 from 1997 until 2001. Career
<mask> grew up in Cartersville, Georgia, working as a guitarist and performer in several rock bands in the 1980s, including Badd Boyz and Byte the Bullet. In 1988, he took Byte the Bullet to Los Angeles and they were signed to Virgin Records within the year. The band then changed their name to SouthGang and released two albums, Tainted Angel in 1991 and Group Therapy in 1992. SouthGang was one of the first bands to tour China in the early 1990s. SouthGang eventually disbanded after Virgin modified their contract and tried to send them in the wrong direction.<mask> and the rest of the SouthGang members continue to remain on good terms. After Southgang, <mask> formed a new band with ex-SouthGang members Jayce Fincher and Mitch McLee (aka: Doug Mitchell), calling themselves Floyd's Funk Revival after <mask>'s birthplace Floyd County, Georgia. <mask> shared lead vocals in the band with Fincher's wife, Chrystina Lloree. They released one full-length album, Creamy. The album contained thirteen original tracks with Lloree taking a large share of the lead vocals and heavy reliance on guitar. The band then shortened their name to The Floyds. They released one self-titled album on the Deep South label, which contained ten original tracks along with a humorous intro piece.Bonus tracks included a cover of Duran Duran's "Rio", and a live rendition of the Shasta soda jingle from the late seventies. The style of both these albums was guitar-oriented, mainstream rock with mild funk influences, and was a forerunner to the more basic guitar-oriented rock approach <mask> took later with Marvelous 3. Although the albums are highly regarded among the people who discovered them, they failed to sell many copies, and both albums are now quite rare. They are highly coveted by fans of <mask>, and the few copies that surface in the used CD market today command very high prices. In 1997, <mask>, Fincher, and McLee transformed themselves again, scaling back to a trio with <mask> handling all the lead vocals. They also decided to change to a more power pop sound. Calling themselves Marvelous 3, they released the album Math and Other Problems on Deep South Records in 1997.They followed this in 1999 with Hey! Album on Elektra Records and had a minor hit with the song "Freak of the Week." The next year, they released their final album, ReadySexGo, also on Elektra. That album failed to continue the momentum created by the prior release, however, and perceiving a lack of support from their record label, they disbanded in 2001. Their final concert was on August 3, 2001 at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park in front of their hometown fans. <mask> then began a solo career, releasing the albums Left of Self-Centered in 2002, Letters in 2004 and The Rise and Fall of <mask> and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites in 2006. In 2005 he played over 200 live shows across both the U.S. and Japan, and he released his first DVD, Live at Budokan.At the end of 2005 he was named as Rolling Stone'''s producer of the year. <mask> was featured as a headlining artist on the MySpace-promoted Inaugural Hotel Cafe tour, supporting independent artists from the Los Angeles venue of the same name. On February 14, 2008, an audio release of <mask>'s live performance in his hometown of Atlanta, GA, was released. A DVD of this show followed on March 17, 2008. The DVD and audio are titled Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street (Luckie Street is the road the venue at which the show was played, the Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA). Then working with Michael Chislett of The Academy Is... and Darren Dodd of The Let's Go Out Tonites under the name 1969 released a full-length debut album titled Maya on April 1, 2008. Sycamore Meadows was originally slated for a holiday release in the summer of 2008, but was postponed due to personal reasons until November 11, according to his MySpace blog.The first single from Sycamore Meadows was the first track, titled "The Weight of Her". The video for "Ships in a Bottle" documents <mask> walking on the grounds of his home on Sycamore Meadows Drive in Southern California after it was destroyed by the wildfires of November 2007. Both Maya and Sycamore Meadows were released on a limited run of vinyl. <mask> played a series of sold-out live shows with just acoustic guitar and vocals beginning in fall 2009, accompanied at various times by Pink, actor Jeremy Piven, Jim Bianco, the Chapin Sisters, Gregory Macdonald of Sloan (band) and more. Out of the shows came a cover of Taylor Swift's single "You Belong with Me" on banjolin, which was later recorded as a video and audio version in his studio. Swift blogged about the video and then invited <mask> to appear with her at the winter 2010 Grammy Awards. <mask> began work on his next album in 2009, and ultimately released I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart on February 23, 2010 under the band name <mask> & the Black Widows.Recording sessions were held at RubyRed Productions in Santa Monica, California. <mask> support of the record included touring with Train beginning March 2010, a headlining tour of the US, and opening for Pink in Europe on her Stadium Festival Tour. On August 30, 2011 <mask> released his second album with the Black Widows, titled The Spade. On October 25, 2011 <mask> released his first book, an autobiography entitled Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt. In late 2012, <mask> was featured on the show Live from Daryl's House on MTV Live (then Palladia). Following the release of two EPs in 2013 and 2014, <mask> released his seventh full-length album, Afraid of Ghosts, on February 3, 2015. The album was produced by Ryan Adams.In June 2016 it was announced that <mask>'s upcoming album would be titled Stay Gold. It was released on August 26, 2016, on Dangerbird Records in the United States and on Lojinx in Europe. The album is once again self-produced by <mask>, with the songs "Stay Gold", "East Coast Girl" and "Descending" (featuring Ashley Monroe) issued before the album's release. On March 27, 2020, <mask> premiered the first promo track for his upcoming album named American Love Story, which is set to be released on May 8. This song, "Pretty Crazy", was released on social media and streaming services. Productions and collaborations
<mask> has been called "one of America's best singer-songwriters" by Rolling Stone. He has penned choruses for artists ranging from Frank Turner to Fall Out Boy.He has produced and composed multiple Pink records and songs including "Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)" from I'm Not Dead, "Bad Influence" from Funhouse, and "Heartbreak Down" from Greatest Hits... So Far!! !In 2019, he was a producer on Green Day's highly anticipated 2020 release, Father of All Motherfuckers, which debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200. <mask> worked with Weezer on their albums Raditude and Pacific Daydream. <mask> mentioned working with the band during a radio interview with 99X. <mask> co-wrote and produced several songs on Raditude, including the first single, "If You're Wondering if I Want You To... (I Want You To)", which hit number two on the Modern Rock Chart. In 2007, <mask> provided guest vocals on Fall Out Boy's third record Infinity on High, on the track, "You're Crashing, but You're No Wave", and co-produced the track "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?"with singer Patrick Stump. He also made a brief cameo in the video for "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race". In 2012, <mask> produced Fall Out Boy’s fifth studio album Save Rock and Roll, which debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, earning the band’s second career number one. In 2007, <mask> also helped write and produce Panic! At The Disco’s album, Vices & Virtues. Preceded by the lead single, "The Ballad of Mona Lisa", the album debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 selling 56,000 copies within its first week.The album has sold 750,000 copies worldwide. <mask> also appears in The Academy Is... videos for "Slow Down" and "We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands" as well as the video for "So What" by Pink. He also co-wrote the songs "Breaking" and "Younglife", both of which are performed and co-written by Anberlin. <mask> also joined the 9th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers. [17] He was also a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards. [18] In 2008 <mask> signed on to judge a competition called Spin's Hot Pursuit to find an unsigned band for Epic Records/Original Signal hosted on Music Nation. [19]

In January 2009, post-hardcore band Saosin tapped <mask> to produce their second album for Capitol Records.In March 2009, the song "Open Happiness" debuted, a new business venture by Coca-Cola, written by <mask>, and featuring Cee-Lo Green, Brendon Urie, Patrick Stump, Janelle Monáe and Travis McCoy. This song has a Cantonese cover version by Joey Yung on her new album, A Time For Us, and she is also filming advertisements for Coca-Cola in Chinese. In 2012, <mask> produced the song 	"Everything Has Changed", written and recorded by Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran for Swift's fourth studio album, Red. In 2021, <mask> produced the re-recorded version of the song for Swift's second re-recorded album, Red (Taylor's Version). Many of the songs that he co-wrote or produced have been hits for other artists, including SR-71, Avril Lavigne, Sevendust, Injected, The Donnas, Hot Hot Heat, American Hi-Fi, Default, Gob, Midtown, Puffy AmiYumi, Pink, Katy Perry, Pete Yorn, Quietdrive, Green Day, Adam Lambert, Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, Rayland Baxter, Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra, Train, The Wallflowers, Jewel, The All-American Rejects, The Academy Is..., The Cab, Saosin, Never Shout Never, Weezer, New Politics, Fall Out Boy, The Struts, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Matt Nathanson, and Elizabeth Cook. Documentary film
The documentary Out of Focus premiered at the Nashville Film Festival in April 2012. Directed by Shane Valdés and Peter Harding, it focuses on <mask>'s life and music.Its first European showing occurred in the context of the Oldenburg Filmfest, Germany (August 2012). Personal life
In November 2007, <mask> and his family lost all of their possessions, including the masters to every song he had ever recorded, when the Malibu home he was renting from Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers burned down as a result of a wildfire in Southern California. He titled his next album Sycamore Meadows after the street the house was on. He currently lives in Nashville, TN with his wife and son. <mask> is an ordained minister in the state of Ohio. At a concert September, 7 at the House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio, <mask> climbed off the stage and into the crowd to marry a couple live before the end of the show. Discography

Studio albums

Live and other albums
 This Is Me...Justified and Stripped (2004)
     Acoustic: Live In Atlanta (2005)
 Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street (2008)
 Over the Holidays and Under the Influence (2017) #20 Heatseekers American Love Story: Live & Quarantined (2021)

EPs
 Heartwork (2004)
 Cover Me Badd (2005)
 Live at Lollapalooza 2008 (2008)
 Here Comes The... EP (2009)
 Peachtree Battle (2013) #127 US, #3 Heatseekers End of the World (One More Time) / Battle vs. The War (2014)
 Cassette Backs (2016)

DVDs
     This Is Me... Justified and Stripped (2003)
 Live at Budokan (2005)
 Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street (2008)
     <mask>: Out of Focus (2013)

Book
    Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt (2011)

Featured In
 "One Tree Hill (soundtrack)" by various artists (2005)
 "You're Crashing, But You're No Wave" by Fall Out Boy (2007)
 "Christmas All Over Again" duet with Taryn Manning (2008)
 "Good Times" by Tommy Lee (2005)
 "One Night in New York" by The Whiskey Gentry (2013)
 "Better Than That" by Suzanne Santo (2017)
 "I'm Not In Love" by The Dove & the Wolf (2018)
 "Clock Work" by Asian Kung-Fu Generation (2018)

As a producer
 Marvelous 3 – Math and Other Problems (1997)
 Marvelous 3 – Hey! (2005)
 Family Force 5 – Business Up Front/Party in the Back (2006)
 <mask> - Cover Me Badd (2006)
 Happy Feet: Music from the Motion Picture (2006)
 Pink – I'm Not Dead (2006)
 Rock Star Supernova – Rock Star Supernova (2006)
 Sound of Superman (2006)
 PUFFY AmiYumi – Splurge (2006)
 The Bronx - The Bronx (2006)
 Bowling for Soup – The Great Burrito Extortion Case (2006)
 Butch Walker - The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites (2006)
 Quietdrive – When All That's Left Is You (2006)
 Pete Yorn – Nightcrawler (2006)
 Hot Hot Heat – Happiness Ltd. (2007)
 Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High - "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?" (2007)
 Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur - "Imagine" [Avril Lavigne] (2007)
 P.S. I Love You (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2007)
 PUFFY AmiYumi – Honeycreeper (2007)
 The Academy Is... – Santi (2007)
 The Honorary Title – Scream & Light Up the Sky (2007)
 Avril Lavigne – The Best Damn Thing (2007)
 Secondhand Serenade – A Twist in My Story (2008)
 Pink – Funhouse (2008)
 Katy Perry – One of the Boys (2008)
 Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows (2008)
 The Automatic – This Is a Fix (2008)
 Plastiscines – About Love (2009)
 Dashboard Confessional – Alter the Ending (2009)
 The Films – Oh, Scorpio! (2009)
 Saosin – In Search of Solid Ground (2009)
 PUFFY AmiYumi – Bring It!(2009)
 The Von Bondies - Love Hate and Then There's You (2009)
 Hot Chelle Rae - Lovesick Electric (2009)
 All Time Low – Nothing Personal (2009)
 Weezer – Raditude (2009)
 Train - Save Me, San Francisco (2009)
 Almost Alice (Music Inspired by the Motion Picture) (2010)
 Hey Monday - Beneath It All - "Hangover" (2010)
 The Maine – Black & White (2010)
 <mask> & The Black Widows - I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart (2010)
 Ida Maria – Katla (2010)
 Mishka - Talk About (2010)
 Never Shout Never – What Is Love? (2010)
 All Time Low - Dirty Work (2011)
 Avril Lavigne – Goodbye Lullaby (2011)
 Gin Wigmore – Gravel & Wine (2011)
 Happy Feet Two (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2011)
 Gavin DeGraw – Sweeter (2011)
 Eulogies - Tear the Fences Down (2011)
 <mask> & The Black Widows - The Spade (2011)
 The Wombats – This Modern Glitch (2011)
 Panic! at the Disco – Vices & Virtues (2011)
 Train - California 37 (2012)
 Taylor Swift – Red (2012)
 Pink – The Truth About Love (2012)
 Lit – The View from the Bottom (2012)
 Big B - Fool's Gold (2013)
 Keith Urban – Fuse – "Even the Stars Fall 4 U" (2013)
 Gavin DeGraw - Make a Move (2013)
 <mask> - Peachtree Battle (2013)
 Fall Out Boy – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
 Panic! at the Disco – Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! (2013)
 Big Hero 6 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014)
 Train - Bulletproof Picasso (2014)
 Christina Perri - Head or Heart (2014)
 Butch Walker - Afraid of Ghosts (2015)
 Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
 Frank Turner – Positive Songs for Negative People (2015)
 Harry Connick Jr. - That Would Be Me (2015)
 Brian Fallon – Painkillers (2016)
 Gavin DeGraw - Something Worth Saving (2016)
 Butch Walker - Stay Gold (2016)
 Suicide Squad: The Album - "Bohemian Rhapsody" [Panic!

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<mask> (born December 8, 1947) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is notable for directing several full-length theatrical horror films including Tourist Trap (1979), The Seduction (1982), Crawlspace (1986), Catacombs (1988), Puppet Master (1989), and Netherworld (1992). In May, 2012, <mask> was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil where his new feature film, 2 Little Monsters (2012) was screened along with his other notable films. Life and career
<mask> was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised and educated in Texas. He completed a Masters program in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Fluent in Spanish, he was briefly an interpreter for ABC Sports during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. He spent six months as an intern with writer-director Peter Hyams on the film Capricorn One, before writing and directing his first theatrical feature, Tourist Trap (1979).Tourist Trap was based on <mask>'s University of Texas thesis film The Spider Will Kill You. Shot in 24 days, it features a score by Pino Donaggio, performances from Chuck Connors and Tanya Roberts, and contains sound effects culled from The Time Machine (1960) and Gone with the Wind (1939). Though it was not a major hit at the time, it has since developed a cult following and been praised by renowned horror author Stephen King (who lauded the film as an obscure classic in his book Danse Macabre (1981)). Tourist Trap would also mark <mask>'s first collaboration with executive producer Charles Band, who would produce several of Schmoeller's films, first though his own production company and later with Empire International Pictures and Full Moon Features. For his sophomore film, <mask> directed The Seduction (1982), a thriller film starring Morgan Fairchild and Andrew Stevens. The film was not well-received and generated several Golden Raspberry nominations (though it won none of them). He followed the Seduction with 1986's Crawlspace (which he wrote and directed), a horror film starring famously difficult actor Klaus Kinski.Kinski's on-set antics would later inspire <mask>'s short film about the subject entitled Please Kill Mr. Kinski. Next, he co-wrote and directed Catacombs starring Timothy Van Patten. The film was shot in only 20 days, and was subsequently delayed from being released for almost five years due to the financial problems of distributor Empire International Pictures. When it was finally released direct-to-video in 1993, it was re-titled Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice by Columbia TriStar Home Video, despite being completely unrelated to the series of films which began with The Curse in 1987. With Catacombs completed but still not released, <mask> moved on to direct another horror film, Puppet Master, in 1989. Producer and writer Charles Band—previously the head of the now-failed Empire International Pictures—produced the film under the name of his new company Full Moon Productions (later renamed Full Moon Features). Many of the puppet characters Schmoeller created for Puppet Master have appeared in the various sequels produced by Full Moon Features, though <mask> himself was not involved.In 1991, Schmoeller directed horror-themed science fiction tale The Arrival starring John Saxon. The following year, he released another horror film, the direct-to-video  Netherworld (again produced by Band for Full Moon Entertainment). In 1998, he directed the sci-fi/adventure film The Secret Kingdom. Following its release, he would not direct another feature film until 2009. In the early 1990s, he directed several episodes for television series such as Silk Stalkings and Renegade, and also directed a TV movie called Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum in 1999. In recent years, <mask> has produced many of his own film projects including the full-length feature Thor at the Bus Stop (2009) as well as the notable shorts Please Kill Mr. Kinski (1999), Spanking Lessons (2007), Wedding Day (2008) and the short horror film Ha, Ha Horror (2012). He also served as a voice director for the English dubbed version of the anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in the 1980s when it was re-titled as Warriors of the Wind.His most recent film, the full-length feature film titled 2 Little Monsters, was released in 2012. The film is a psychological drama fictionalizing the modern life of notorious child killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who in 1993 were convicted of the murder of James Bulger. The film's subject matter marks a departure for the director, who had previously been associated with films in the fantasy and horror genres. To get the film made, <mask> self-financed it for what he describes as, "a really small sum, about 30 times less than Tourist Trap." The same year, <mask> also appeared in the 2013 documentary Rewind This! about the impact of VHS on the film industry and home video. He is currently employed as a film professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Filmography (as director)

Motion Pictures
 The Spider Will Kill You (1976)
 Tourist Trap (1979)
 The Seduction (1982)
 Crawlspace (1986)
 Catacombs (1988)
 Puppet Master (1989)
 The Arrival (1991)
 Netherworld (1992)
 The Secret Kingdom (1998)
 Mysterious Museum (1999)
 Please Kill Mr. Kinski (1999) (documentary short film)
 Wedding Day (2008) (short film)
 Two Frenchmen Lost in Las Vegas (2010)
 The Price of Beautiful (2010)
 The Rules of House-sitting (2010)
 Ha, Ha Horror (2012) (Short film)
 2 Little Monsters (2012)

Television series (as director)
 Silk Stalkings (TV series) (1992–1993)
 Renegade (TV series) (1992)

References

External links

Official Website
The Man Behind...Tourist Trap! : An Interview with <mask>ller - November 1999
<mask>ller Interview: Dr. Gore's Funhouse - September 2009

1947 births
American male screenwriters
Film directors from Kentucky
American voice directors
Living people
Writers from Louisville, Kentucky
Screenwriters from Kentucky
Film producers from Kentucky

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<mask> (October 6, 1897 – January 24, 1972) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Early years
Cowan was born in New York City, the son of <mask>, a confectioner of Scottish descent, and <mask>, née Palmer. Stage
At 18, Cowan joined a travelling stock company, shortly afterwards enlisting in the United States Navy during World War I. After the war he returned to the stage and became a vaudeville headliner, then gained success on the New York stage. His Broadway debut was in We've Got to Have Money (1923). His other Broadway credits include Frankie and Johnnie (1930), Just to Remind You (1931), Rendezvous (1932), The Little Black Book (1932), Marathon (1933), Both Your Houses (1933), As Thousands Cheer (1933), Ladies' Money (1934), Paths of Glory (1935), Boy Meets Girl (1935), My Three Angels (1953), Lunatics and Lovers (1954), Rumple (1957), and Say, Darling (1958). Film
He was spotted by Samuel Goldwyn and was given a film contract, his first film being Beloved Enemy.He appeared in more than one hundred films, but is probably best remembered for two roles in classic films:  Miles Archer, the doomed private eye partner of Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Thomas Mara, the hapless district attorney who has to prosecute Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. <mask> also played Dagwood Bumstead's boss Mr. Radcliffe in several installments of Columbia Pictures' Blondie series. He also appeared in Deadline at Dawn, June Bride, and High Sierra. Television
In 1959 he played Horatio Styles in the episode "Winter Song" of The Alaskans, with Roger Moore. That same year, he made two guest appearances in Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr. He played murdered playwright Ernest Royce in "The Case of the Lost Last Act" and then Victor Latimore in "The Case of the Artful Dodger." He also appeared in The Twilight Zone episode "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" and guest-starred on Richard Diamond, Private Detective.In the 1960-1961 television season, <mask> starred as John Larsen, the owner of Comics, Inc., and the boss of Paul Morgan, a young cartoonist portrayed by Tab Hunter in The Tab Hunter Show. In 1962, he guest starred on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He also appeared on Daniel Boone and Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly. In 1964 and 1965, <mask> appeared as the demanding Herbert Wilson in The Tycoon. Earlier in 1963, he appeared on The Real McCoys in its final season on CBS. Death
On January 24, 1972, <mask> died at Encino Hospital Medical Center in Encino, California at age 74. He was survived by his wife and two daughters.Recognition
<mask> has a star at 6251 Hollywood Boulevard in the Television section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960. Filmography

Beloved Enemy (1936) as Tim O'Rourke
You Only Live Once (1937) as Dr. Hill
Shall We Dance (1937) as Arthur Miller
New Faces of 1937 (1937) as Robert Hunt
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937) as W. Brockton
The Hurricane (1937) as Captain Nagle
The Goldwyn Follies (1938) as Director
There's Always a Woman (1938) as Nick Shane
St. Louis Blues (1939) as Ivan DeBrett
The Saint Strikes Back (1939) as Cullis
East Side of Heaven (1939) as Claudius De Wolfe
Exile Express (1939) as Paul Brandt
The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939) as Daniel Mirche
She Married a Cop (1939) as Bob Adams
The Old Maid (1939) as Joe Ralston
The Great Victor Herbert (1939) as Barney Harris
Wolf of New York (1940) as Cosgrave
Castle on the Hudson (1940) as Ed Crowley
Framed (1940) as Monty de Granville
Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me (1940) as Ted Carter
Torrid Zone (1940) as Bob Anderson
City for Conquest (1940) as 'Dutch'
 The Quarterback (1940) as Townley
Meet the Wildcat (1940) as Digby Vanderhood III
Melody Ranch (1940) as Tommy Summerville
Street of Memories (1940) as Mr. Gower
Victory (1940) as Martin Ricardo
High Sierra (1941) as Healy
The Round up (1941) as Wade McGee
The Great Lie (1941) as Jock Thompson
Affectionately Yours (1941) as Cullen
Singapore Woman (1941) as Jim North
Too Many Blondes (1941) as Ted Bronson
Out of the Fog (1941) as Assistant D.A. Kisses for Breakfast (1941) as Lucius Lorimer
Rags to Riches (1941) as Marshall Abbott
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941) as Bert Fisher
One Foot in Heaven (1941) as Dr. Horrigan
The Maltese Falcon (1941) as Miles Archer
The Bugle Sounds (1942) as Mr. Nichols
A Gentleman at Heart (1942) as Finchley
Mr. and Mrs. North (1942) as Ben Wilson
Frisco Lil (1942) as Vince Warren
The Girl from Alaska (1942) as Ravenhill
Moontide (1942) as Dr. Frank Brothers
Thru Different Eyes (1942) as Jim Gardner
Joan of Ozark (1942) as Phillip Munson
Street of Chance (1942) as Bill Diedrich
Who Done It? (1942) as Marco Heller
No Place for a Lady (1943) as Eddie Moore
Ladies' Day (1943) as Updyke (banker)
Mission to Moscow (1943) as Spendler (uncredited)
Silver Spurs (1943) as Jerry Johnson
Hi'ya, Sailor (1943) as Lou Asher
Find the Blackmailer (1943) as D.L. Trees
The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943) as Mallory Cartwright
The Song of Bernadette (1943) as Emperor Louis Napoleon III
Sing a Jingle (1944) as Andrews
Mr. Skeffington (1944) as Edward Morrison
South of Dixie (1944) as Bill 'Brains' Watson
Minstrel Man (1944) as Bill Evans
Crime by Night (1944) as Sam Campbell
Guest in the House (1944) as Mr. Hackett
Fog Island (1945) as Kavanaugh
The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945) as Jeffers 'Jeff' Jerome
G. I. Honeymoon (1945) as Ace Renaldo
Blonde Ransom (1945) as Ice Larson
The Jungle Captive (1945) as Detective W.L.Harrigan
Hitchhike to Happiness (1945) as Tony Riggs
Divorce (1945) as Jim Driscoll
Behind City Lights (1945) as Perry Borden
Getting Gertie's Garter (1945) as Billy
One Way to Love (1946) as A.J. Gunther
My Reputation (1946) as George Van Orman
Deadline at Dawn (1946) as Lester Brady
Claudia and David (1946) as Brian O'Toole
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) as Fight Announcer
Murder in the Music Hall (1946) as George Morgan
Night in Paradise (1946) as Scribe
One Exciting Week (1946) as Al Carter
Deadline for Murder (1946) as Lynch
Mr. Ace (1946) as Peter Craig
Flight to Nowhere (1946) as Gerald Porter
Blondie Knows Best (1946) as Charles Peabody
Blondie's Big Moment (1947) as George M. Radcliffe (uncredited)
The Perfect Marriage (1947) as Addison Manning
The Unfaithful (1947) as Prosecuting Attorney
Blondie's Holiday (1947) as George M. Radcliffe
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) as Dist. Atty. (1965) as Ambassadaor Brinkley
Frankie and Johnny (1966) as Joe Wilbur (uncredited)
Penelope (1966) as Bank Manager
The Gnome-Mobile (1967) as Dr. Ramsey
The Comic (1969) as Lawrence

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1897 births
1972 deaths
Male actors from New York City
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male stage actors
Male actors from Los Angeles
20th-century American male actors
United States Navy personnel of World War I
United States Navy sailors
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