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<mask> (born September 8, 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. Career
Born in Washington, D.C., <mask> grew up in Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C. and attended Woodrow Wilson High School. She holds an undergraduate degree from American University and a master's degree from the University of Connecticut. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories published in The Western Humanities Review, Ninth Letter, the Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. In 1976, she published her first book of short stories, Distortions, and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, which was later made into a film. <mask>'s style has evolved over the years.In 1998, she published Park City, a collection of old and new short stories, about which Christopher Lehman-Haupt wrote in The New York Times:

<mask> has taught at Harvard College and the University of Connecticut and was for a long time associated with the University of Virginia, where she was first appointed as a part-time lecturer in 1980. She later became Edgar Allan Poe Chair of the Department of English and Creative Writing in 2000 and remained at UVA until 2013, when she resigned over disappointment at the direction in which the university was heading. In 2005 she was selected as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, in recognition of her outstanding achievement in that genre. Her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976), was adapted as a film alternatively titled  Chilly Scenes of Winter or Head Over Heels in 1979 by Joan Micklin Silver, starring John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Gloria Grahame, and Peter Riegert. The first version was not well received by audiences, though upon its re-release in 1982, with a new title and ending to match that in book, the movie was successful, and is now considered a cult classic. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. Recent works

Appraisal of <mask>'s recent work has been mixed.Writing in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called her novel Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life (2011) "preposterous," "narcissistic," and "self-indulgent"—the "sort of pretentious volume that makes people hate academics." In The Washington Post, Book World Editor Marie Arana characterized it as "a bill of goods" devoid of "anything resembling a story line" that is "less about the eponymous Mrs. than about an endless parade of wordsmiths trotted out for show." The book "is not, except in the most perfunctory way, about Mrs. Nixon," Arana determined. "It's about Beattie." "[T]he book does not succeed," wrote William Deresiewicz in The Nation. "Its bric-a-brac approach is ultimately wearying: nothing ever quite gets under way. One ends up feeling as if Beattie has spent the whole performance clearing her throat. . . .Her subject often seems a pretext, something just to get the conversation started." By contrast, Dawn Raffel, in the San Francisco Chronicle, called the book "splendidly tricky", "at times... movingly lyrical", and said "Nothing in Mrs. Nixon is perfectly clear, and that is the source of its power." Mary Pols described her short-story collection The State We're In (2015), which is set in Maine, in The New York Times Book Review as "slippery" and "peculiar." Pols wrote, "I read this collection twice trying to unravel the mystery of what else, beyond Maine, ties these unfinished-feeling stories together." In a review of Beattie's collection The Accomplished Guest (2017) for The Washington Post, Howard Norman admired <mask> for her "beguiling originality" and determined that "she is one of our few contemporary masters of storytelling." He also wrote, "When I read <mask>’s stories, I think of Chekhov’s; when I read Chekhov’s stories, I think of Beattie’s. Both are writers for the ages."Of <mask>'s recent novel A Wonderful Stroke of Luck (2019), Publishers Weekly wrote, "Beattie offers sharp psychological insights and well-crafted prose, but the novel lacks the power and emotional depth of her best work." In The New York Times Book Review, Martha Southgate wrote, "Ultimately, this is a novel in which nothing seems to matter much.” She also called the book “shapeless.” Southgate nonetheless praised A Wonderful Stroke of Luck for "some elegant sentences and cutting observations that remind a reader of Beattie at her strongest." <mask>'s papers are held by the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. Personal
<mask> was married to the writer David Gates. The couple divorced in 1980. In 1985, she met the painter Lincoln Perry, and they married in 1998. She and Perry both taught at the University of Virginia until 2013.From there they moved together to Key West, Florida, where she continues to write. In 2005, the two collaborated on a published retrospective of Perry's paintings. Entitled Lincoln Perry’s Charlottesville, the book contains an introductory essay and artist's interview by Beattie. Bibliography

Novels
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976)
Falling In Place (1981);
Love Always (1986);
Picturing Will (1989);
Another You (1995);
My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (1997);
The Doctor's House (2002);
Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines A Life (2011)
A Wonderful Stroke of Luck (2019)

Short fiction
Collections
Distortions (1976);
Secrets and Surprises (1978);
The Burning House (1982);
What Was Mine (1991);
Where You’ll Find Me and Other Stories (1986);
Park City (1998);
Perfect Recall (2000);
Follies: New Stories (2005);
The New Yorker Stories (2011);
 The State We're In: Maine Stories (2015)
 The Accomplished Guest (2017)

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Children's Books
Spectacles (1985)

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<mask> profile at IMDb. <mask> discusses her writing process on Bookworm in October, 1998
Audio: <mask> reads an essay on ambient sound in the works of Joyce, Yates, and Carver. (Key West Literary Seminar 2008)

Narrative 10 Interview with <mask> at Narrative Magazine, Fall 2014. Online New Yorker story Coping Stones
Online New Yorker story The Rabbit Hole As Likely Explanation

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<mask><mask> (July 18, 1924March 20, 2007) was an American lawyer and judge. He was a judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals for 12 years, after serving nearly 30 years as a trial court judge in Milwaukee County. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a child, he suffered from paralysis due to the Polio virus, which left him dependent on crutches and wheelchairs for nearly his entire life. He would graduate from Marquette University and earned his J.D. from the Marquette University Law School. He returned to school later in life and received his LL.M.in taxation from UIC John Marshall Law School in 1972. Judicial career
In 1953, at age 28, <mask> ran for Wisconsin Circuit Court in the Milwaukee-based 2nd circuit. He challenged incumbent Judge Ronold A. Drechsler, who had been appointed in 1952 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Daniel W<mask>. At the time of the election, a poll of the Milwaukee Bar Association senior membership found that 96.7% did not think <mask> was qualified for the job. However, the membership may have been somewhat biased by the fact that Judge Drechsler was a past president of the organization. Nevertheless, <mask> won a narrow victory in the April election, carrying 52% of the Milwaukee county electorate and defeating Judge Drechsler by about 10,000 votes. At the time, some local journalists attributed his win to the fact that he shared the name "<mask>" with the recently deceased judge, although there was no known familial relation.<mask> was then appointed to begin his term early when Judge Drechsler was appointed to a different judicial vacancy in September 1953. Judge <mask> was re-elected in 1959, but left the circuit court in October 1963, when he was appointed County probate court Judge by Governor John W. Reynolds Jr. Although the circuit court would appear to be a more prestigious appointment within the state judiciary, the probate court offered more patronage opportunities and was therefore seen as a more lucrative position for <mask>'s personal advancement. He remained in that office for the next fifteen years. Court reorganization

In the mid-1970s, the Wisconsin Supreme Court began experimenting with organizational reforms to the state court system and, in 1975, set up 14 judicial administrative districts—each with a chief judge tasked with managing judicial assignments for circuit and county judges in the district and supervising court schedules. Judge <mask> was elected Chief Judge for the Milwaukee district by a vote of his colleagues, but, within a year, his attempts to apply the new powers prescribed by the Supreme Court led to significant pushback from judges in Milwaukee County—who questioned both Judge <mask>'s methods and the constitutional authority of the state Supreme Court to impose such rules on the judges. The need for reform, confronted by the objections of the judges, necessitated a legislative and constitutional solution.This controversy resulted in the 1977 referenda on amendments to the Constitution of Wisconsin which created the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, gave new powers to the state Supreme Court, and enabled the legislation which flattened the county and circuit court system. Throughout the reorganization process, Judge <mask> was outspoken as an advocate for judges in the discussion, offering his suggestions for the reorganization plan and identifying flaws that needed to be addressed in the new system. Following the judicial reorganization plan, the Milwaukee County court was combined with the 2nd circuit to create the Milwaukee Circuit court. Judge <mask> transitioned from a Milwaukee County judge to a judge for the Milwaukee circuit, effective August 1, 1978. Judge <mask> was also selected to remain in his role as Chief Judge for the Milwaukee district—with the chief judges now appointed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. After a year of the new system, however, Judge <mask> announced his plan to resign, effective January 1, 1980, for personal reasons. Over the next several years, <mask> continued to serve as a reserve judge, and became a full time acting judge for Branch 11 of the Milwaukee circuit when Judge Christ T. Seraphim was suspended for misconduct in office.In 1982, he solicited appointment to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the event of Justice John Louis Coffey's appointment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, but Governor Lee S. Dreyfus instead appointed Louis J. Ceci. Bail-for-profit dispute
In the month before his 1979 resignation, Judge <mask> received an informal reprimand from the state Ethics Board. The reprimand resulted from Judge <mask>'s complaints against two state legislators, Speaker Edward Jackamonis and Edward F. McClain, who he accused of interfering in the judiciary. He also publicly accused fellow Milwaukee judge Fred Kessler, himself a former-legislator, of conspiring with the Assembly leadership to circumvent his ruling which had enabled bail for profit operations in the state. <mask> ultimately withdrew his complaints, but the Ethics Board scolded him for the public nature of his complaint, saying that his actions were "contrary to the Ethics Code's purpose of promoting faith and confidence of the people of this state in their state public officials." Court of Appeals

In 1984, Judge <mask> was elected to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. He was re-elected in 1990, but was defeated in 1996 by Circuit Court Judge Patricia S. Curley, though he continued to serve as a reserve judge.Family and personal life

Over the course of his life, <mask> donated 257 pints of blood. Having contracted poliomyelitis during childhood, <mask> died of post-polio syndrome. He was preceded in death by his wife, Jeanne. They had one son, <mask>, Jr., who followed his father into the legal profession.

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<mask> (born 1949) is an American writer on politics and literature. His books include Terror and Liberalism (a New York Times best-seller in 2003), The Flight of the Intellectuals, A Tale of Two Utopias, Power and the Idealists, and an illustrated children's book, Make-Believe Empire. He edited, among other anthologies, Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems, for the American Poets Project of the Library of America. Born to a Jewish family, <mask> attended Columbia University, receiving an M.A. in American history in 1973. <mask> was a longtime contributor to The Village Voice, then The New Republic. He is critic-at-large at Tablet, a member of the editorial board of Dissent, and an Advisory Editor at Fathom.He has been awarded fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations and from the Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library. He was a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. Totalitarianism and the modern world

In Terror and Liberalism, <mask> offers a theory of totalitarianism. In his interpretation, totalitarian movements of the right and the left arose in Europe in the aftermath of the First World War as a reaction to the successes and failures of liberal civilization. The ideologies promoted mythologies of world events that were paranoid, apocalyptic, utopian, obsessed with purity, and ultimately nihilist. In <mask>'s account, the totalitarian movements were mass mobilizations for unattainable aims. <mask> tries to trace the influence of these European movements upon the modern Muslim world.He identifies two principal totalitarian tendencies in the Muslim countries, Baathism and radical Islamism – mutually hostile movements whose doctrines, in his interpretation, overlap and have allowed for alliances. <mask> regards suicide terror and the cult of martyrdom as a re-emergence of totalitarianism's nihilist strand. <mask> draws a distinction between the religion of Islam, founded in the 7th century, and the political movement of radical Islamism. In July 2010, he wrote in the Wall Street Journal that "Islamism is a modern, instead of an ancient, political tendency, which arose in a spirit of fraternal harmony with the fascists of Europe in the 1930s and '40s." In <mask>'s interpretation, observers relying on modern liberal values have sometimes found it difficult to identify the anti-liberal and anti-rational quality of totalitarian movements. <mask> proposed this argument and offered an explanation based on the concept of "rationalist naiveté" in Terror and Liberalism. He developed the argument further in The Flight of the Intellectuals.<mask>'s ideas have influenced writers such as Martin Amis and Bernard-Henri Lévy, helping to shape debates about the concept of the "post-left" in Britain. Amis invokes <mask>'s argument in the opening paragraph of his book on 9/11, The Second Plane (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), p. ix. Regarding Lévy, see p. 269 of his book American Vertigo (NY: Random House, 2006) and an article in The American Interest. The British journalist Nick Cohen, in explaining his switch to support for the wider war on terror, cited Terror and Liberalism as a major influence: "The only time I realised I was charging up a blind alley was when I read <mask>'s Terror and Liberalism. I didn't see a blinding light or hear a thunder clap or cry 'Eureka!' If I was going to cry anything it would have been 'Oh bloody hell!' ...I was going to have to turn it round and see the world afresh. The labour would involve reconsidering everything I'd written since 11 September, arguing with people I took to be friends and finding myself on the same side as people I took to be enemies. All because of <mask>." <mask>'s approach has not been without its critics. A writer in The Nation magazine, Anatol Lieven, labeled <mask> a "Philosopher king" of the liberal hawks and criticized him for "[promoting] and [justifying] the most dangerous aspect of the Bush Administration's approach to the war on terrorism: the lumping together of radically different elements in the Muslim world into one homogeneous enemy camp." <mask> has also been criticized in books by the liberal sociologist, Alan Wolfe, and the neo-Marxist political theorist, Robert Meister. Liberal interventionism and the Middle East
<mask> argued that the NATO war in the former Yugoslavia in 1999 was justified by the doctrine of "liberal interventionism": an intervention intended to rescue endangered populations from extreme oppression and to promote liberal and democratic freedom.He looked on the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq in the same light. In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, he declined to endorse the Bush administration's policy and warned that it was likely to fail: "we are wielding power without liberalism, which will turn out to be no power at all." Once the invasion had begun, he nonetheless called on the liberal left to support the war on humanitarian and anti-totalitarian grounds, even while continuing to elaborate his criticism of the larger Bush Doctrine. His pro-war and anti-Bush positions confused some, as they managed to irk people on each side of the American political spectrum. His argument corresponded, however, to the views of the political tendency that is sometimes described as the anti-totalitarian left. He was one of the American signatories of the Euston Manifesto in 2006, a British document which expressed that tendency. <mask> is also sometimes associated with the "New Philosophers" movement in France.Reflecting on the Iraq War in 2007, <mask> wrote in The New York Review of Books, "I approved on principle the overthrow of Saddam. I never did approve of Bush's way of going about it. In the run-up to the war, I became, on practical grounds, ever more fearful that, in his blindness to liberal principles, Bush was leading us over a cliff… It is true and it is a matter of satisfaction to me that, in the years since then, I have not made a career of saying 'I told you so.'" Speaking of Israel in an interview, <mask> commented of anti-Zionism that its "true origin ... is anti-Semitism, the assumption that the Jews are the center of the world and therefore the center of the world's evil." History of the 1968 generation

<mask>'s A Tale of Two Utopias and Power and the Idealists are the first two parts of a history of the so-called Generation of 1968 (of which he was a member). He argues that packaged together with the liberal ideals in this movement were decidedly disturbing elements. Joschka Fischer, for example, the 1968 activist who would later become a leading figure in the German Green Party and Foreign Minister, decided that there was in fact the presence of anti-Semitic impulses in this movement when he saw the Revolutionary Cells participate in the Entebbe hijacking.The hijackers split the passengers by ethnicity, with Jews on the one side and non-Jews on the other, with the intention to kill all of the former. Also, Berman tracks major figures like Bernard Kouchner—the later founder of Doctors Without Borders—a member of the 1968 Generation who would later marry active improvement of human rights to established political goals. At the close of the book, <mask> considers the effect of the war in Iraq on these graduates of '68. He suggests that the war split the movement greatly, with many now deeply aware of the dramatic excesses of the regime of Saddam Hussein, as well as the potential negative consequences if such a dictator remained in power. Nonetheless, they were deeply concerned by the arguments offered by the Bush Administration. Controversy
In 1986, Michael Moore became the editor of Mother Jones magazine. He was fired a few months later, partly for refusing to print an article by <mask> that was critical of the Sandinista human rights record in Nicaragua.Moore stated that he would not run the article because he believed it to be inaccurate. "The article was flatly wrong and the worst kind of patronizing bullshit. You would scarcely know from it that the United States had been at war with Nicaragua for the last five years". Moore sued for wrongful dismissal and the case was settled out of court for $58,000, providing Moore with seed money for his first film, Roger & Me. Moore returned to the attack in 2011 in his book Here Comes Trouble, by humorously describing <mask> as a "neo-nudnik". Bibliography
<mask>, <mask> (1972) (ed.). Quotations from the Anarchists.Praeger Publishers. <mask>, <mask> (1996). A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968. W W Norton & Company. .
<mask>, <mask> (2003). Terror and Liberalism. W W Norton & Company. .
<mask>, <mask> (2005). Power and the Idealists: Or, The Passion of Joschka Fischer, and its Aftermath.Soft Skull Press. .  New edition, with preface by Richard Holbrooke, W. W. Norton, 2007.  .

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External links
 Brief profile, American Academy in Berlin
 "Nazi Sheikhs", interview by Joel Whitney, Guernica, 15 May 2010
 "The Philosopher of Islamic Terror" by <mask> (essay adapted from Terror and Liberalism), The New York Times, 23 March 2003
 Video of interview with <mask> on Bloggingheads.tv
 Irfan Khawaja, Review of <mask>'s Flight of the Intellectuals in Reason Papers: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies, Vol. 33 (Fall 2011), pp. 165–89. American political writers
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<mask> (born 31 July 1992) is a Latvian professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently playing for Brynäs IF of the SHL. Gudļevskis was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 5th round (124th overall) of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. Gudļevskis is the only player to have played in the ECHL, AHL, NHL, Olympic Games, and IIHF World Championships in the same season. Playing career

Europe
Gudļevskis started his professional career in the 2009–10 season playing for HK Ogre of the Latvian Hockey League. In the next season, he moved on to play for Dinamo Riga affiliate HK Rīga of the Minor Hockey League (MHL). He played for three seasons with HK Rīga.Throughout the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons he made the Dinamo Riga roster several times as a healthy scratch. On 5 October 2012, he finally made his debut during a 2–1 overtime win against Vityaz Chekhov, replacing injured Mikael Tellqvist after the second period tied at 0–0. Later in the season he played his first full game as starter in a 2–0 loss against Sibir Novosibirsk. Tampa Bay Lightning
Gudļevskis is only the second (after Artūrs Irbe) and highest-ranked Latvian goaltender ever selected in NHL Entry Draft. Dinamo Riga agreed to release Gudļevskis from the final year of his contract; he later signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). Following the Lightning's 2013 pre-season camp, he was reassigned to their ECHL affiliate, the Florida Everblades. While attending pre-season training camp with the Everblades, Gudļevskis was recalled to join the Lightning.He was later reassigned to the Everblades without making the Lightning roster, and made his official North American debut with 20 saves in a 4–1 win over the Orlando Solar Bears. <mask> was recalled to the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL on 24 October 2013, due to an injury to Riku Helenius. He made his AHL debut on 26 October 2013, with a shutout against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. Gudļevskis became the fifth goaltender in Crunch history to post a shutout upon debut. After four games with the Crunch, <mask> once again was reassigned to the Everblades. On 7 December 2013, <mask> was promoted to the Syracuse Crunch in order to give him more AHL ice time. Gudļevskis cemented his place on the Crunch roster posting 10 wins in 21 games.On 15 January 2014, Gudļevskis was named the CCM/AHL Player of the Week. On 31 January 2014, due to injuries of Ben Bishop and Anders Lindbäck, Gudļevskis received an emergency call-up to the Lightning along with Cédrick Desjardins. <mask> made his first NHL start on 11 April 2014, in a game between the Lightning and the Columbus Blue Jackets, he stopped 36 shots in a 3–2 win for the Lightning. He made his NHL playoffs debut after replacing Lindbäck mid-game on 18 April 2014, against the Montreal Canadiens in the second game of the first round. He replaced Lindbäck in game four of the series as well. During this season, Gudļevskis became the first goalie in the history of the sport to play in an ECHL, AHL, NHL and Olympics in the same season, which also included his Stanley Cup playoffs debut. On 10 June 2015, in game four of the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals against the Chicago Blackhawks, Gudļevskis became the back-up goalie for fellow prospect Andrei Vasilevskiy, who started the game after Ben Bishop was injured in game two (Bishop played injured in game three).On 24 October 2015, Gudļevskis played in his second NHL regular season game against the Chicago Blackhawks, stopping 31 shots. Though he had a great effort, he lost in overtime 1–0, when a backhand shot slipped by taken from Jonathan Toews. On 2 July 2016, the Lightning announced the re-signing of Gudļevskis to a one-year, two-way contract. Gudļevskis played in 41 games with the Syracuse Crunch in the 2015–16 AHL season, posting a 16–12–8 record with a 2.83 goals-against average and a .907 save percentage. New York Islanders
On 1 July 2017, Gudļevskis was traded by the Lightning to the New York Islanders in exchange for Carter Verhaeghe. On 11 July 2017, Gudļevskis signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Islanders. In the following 2017–18 season, Gudļevskis was assigned to AHL affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers for the duration of the year.In splitting starting duties, he recorded 12 wins in 37 games. Return to Dinamo

As an impending restricted free agent with the Islanders and with his NHL career stalled after five seasons in North America, Gudļevskis opted to return to home in agreeing to a one-year deal with former club, Dinamo Riga of the KHL, on June 21, 2018. He was released on 1 October 2019, after posting a 3.45 GAA and a .863 save percentage in just 9 games. Fischtown Pinguins
On 2 December 2019, he signed a contract with the Fischtown Pinguins of the DHL. International play
Gudļevskis became the starting goaltender for Team Latvia in the 2013 IIHF World Championship after original starter Edgars Masaļskis could not recover game form coming from injury. He registered 2–2 win-loss record and was named one of three best players for Team Latvia in the tournament. On 7 January 2014, Gudļevskis was named to the Latvian national team roster for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.Latvia entered the qualification playoff stage ranked as one of the lowest seeds (ahead of only Norway), amassing no points in group play. In the second round, Gudļevskis got the start in the matchup against reigning Olympic champions Canada, despite the Latvian team upsetting Switzerland earlier with Masaļskis. In what was expected to be a routine victory for the Canadian squad, the Latvian team responded with an early equalizer and managed to stay alive behind Gudļevskis' goaltending (saving 55 of 57 shots he faced) until late into the third period, eventually falling in a 2–1 loss. Gudļevskis was praised, especially in Canadian media and sports commentary, for his performance in the quarter-final against the Canadian national team. Career statistics

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<mask> (1831–1908), also known in Manx as Ned Beg Hom Ruy, was a Manx language poet, folklorist and cultural guardian. He is considered to be the last important native writer of Manx and perhaps the most important guardian of Manx culture during a time when it was most under threat. The folklorist, Charles Roeder, wrote that Faragher had "done great services to Manx folklore, and it is due to him that at this late period an immense amount of valuable Manx legends have been preserved, for which indeed the Isle of Man must ever be under gratitude to him." Youth (1831–1876)
Faragher was born into a large family of twelve children in Cregneash, a fishing village at the south of the Isle of Man. At this time Manx was the only language spoken in Cregneash, and so his mother stood out as "the only person who could converse with strangers" due to her grasp of English. His father was one of the few people in the village who could write, and so he was called upon to write letters on behalf of other villagers. It was from his father, known as Ned Hom Ruy in Manx, that Faragher's familiar Manx name derives – with the Manx word for "little" being added, making it Ned Beg Hom Ruy ('Little Ned with the Red Beard').Faragher attended infants' school in Port St Mary followed by the parish school of Kirk Christ Rushen, but his family could not afford for him to attend any longer than two years. The rest of his education came from his parents, or else was self-taught. At a young age he began earning his living as a fisherman in his father's boat. He was a fisherman for the next seven years; then he moved to Liverpool to work in a safe-making factory. Faragher enjoyed himself in England, finding that his natural talent at composing verse proved to be popular with young women. In 1899 he would write of this time that:

"[...] when I was living in England, I was putting the young women in a frenzy with my songs. I was often forced to stay at the house on Sunday afternoon because there were so many of them coming after me.And I was serving them all on the same plate. When I would be writing a song to one, she would be reading it to her comrades and they would be all striving to get acquaintance with me, and to get me to do a song for themselves until they were bothering my head." It was whilst in Liverpool, aged around 26, that Faragher began to write down his verse for the first time, having previously retained it only in his head. Although he enjoyed himself at first in Liverpool, after some years in the city he eventually came to want to return to the Isle of Man. He expressed his feelings in a poem he composed at that time, A poem about things I have seen in Liverpool:

Farewell to phantasy and art
That never can fill up my heart,
And those fair maids, with witching smile,
No more can my sad heart beguile;
For still my fancy lingers where
The youthful Kitty blooms so fair,
And father tills my native soil
Among the hills of Mona's Isle. Fisherman (1876–1889)

Faragher returned to Cregneash in around 1876, and earned a living fishing for mackerel at Kinsale and on the west coast of Ireland for the rest of his working life. During this time he encountered rough storms and was even shipwrecked, narrowly surviving.In middle age he married and had children. Despite the central place of alcohol and heavy drinking in the traditional way of life at that time, upon his return to the island Faragher took up abstinence. This started the greatest period of creative output in Faragher's life, as he would go on to write some 4,000 hymns or poems in Manx and English. Also at this time his poetry expanded from the romantic and lyrical to include more contemplative and sacred topics. Despite his phenomenal output, Faragher's poetry and song received little attention in his own community. Instead they tended to bring him only the "jeers and derision of his uncultured companions and the buxom village belles." Folk celebrity (1890–1899)
During the 1880s or 90s Faragher met the Manchester-based German folklorist, Charles Roeder.Roeder recognised the importance of Faragher, particularly as a source of folklore and cultural knowledge, and as a speaker of Manx Gaelic, ranking him as "one of the best vernacular conversationalists extant in the Island." This was especially important at that time as Manx language and culture were in steep decline and in serious danger of dying out completely, due to the dying off of the older generation and the indifference and often even hostility of the youth. Roeder started up a strong correspondence with Faragher, sending him blank notebooks to fill with folklore "yarns" that he collected before sending them back. A strong friendship developed between them that would last until Faragher's death. Through Roeder, Faragher became well known in circles concerned with Manx Gaelic culture. He became connected with the major figures of the Manx cultural revival, including Sophia Morrison, John Kneen, Edmund Goodwin and John Clague. As this was at the time of Pan-Celticism, there was also an interest in Faragher from outside the island.Faragher's letters to Roeder tell of visits from gentlemen who had "heard [Faragher's] name mentioned in London," academics such as the Professor of Gaelic from Scotland who communicated with him through Scottish Gaelic, and <mask> Dodgson (brother of Campbell Dodgson; they were distant cousins of Lewis Carroll) who visited Faragher in Cregneash when visiting the island. In 1896 the foreign interest in Faragher reached such an extent that he would write that he was being "kept busy answering young ladies letters ones that I never saw." However, the local community grew to resent and even shun Faragher for these visitors and correspondences, as they felt that "he was drawing undue attention both unto himself and the village." This reached such a pitch that Roeder was forced to publish disclaimers in the newspapers to try and cool some of the "aggravation" caused by Faragher's status as folklore informer, mentioning that Faragher was suffering "greatly by the general animus against him." These social problems that Faragher was suffering at this time were perhaps eclipsed by the serious economic problems that he encountered due to the dire state of the traditional crofting way of life on the island. In the 1890s Faragher began to find it increasingly difficult to make a living as a fisherman and a small-scale farmer. In 1898 Faragher wrote (in his imperfect English) of that year's fishing that, "It has been hard times we could not catch mackerells enough to eat sometimes."By this time Faragher was in his 60s and was beginning to be afflicted by rheumatism, from which he was to suffer increasingly and which threatened to keep him from work entirely. These problems were then compounded by what he saw to be the unfair treatment he received from farmers who kept wages unfairly low. A poem he wrote on this subject features the following stanza:

In response to Faragher's struggle to earn enough to live on, Roeder tried to create an interest in him as a literary and cultural figure, so that a public fund might be raised to support him. In 1898 he wrote to the Manx novelist Hall Caine, at that time perhaps the British isles' most popular and successful writer, to ask him to write about Faragher so as to raise his profile and the public's awareness of him. However, Caine responded with a letter that reflected the lack of understanding or interest in Faragher at that time:

"I have read the poems with pleasure; but while I think they show a good deal of sensibility & poetic feeling, to certain homely states of emotion, I do not think they are sufficiently remarkable as literature to warrant any special attention. [...] That the author is a man of very amiable character, & that his love of his native island is very tender & beautiful is sufficiently obvious, but I doubt if these are enough to warrant us in claiming for him any attention beyond that which is due to a really admirable man who has preserved a simplicity of natural feeling that is rather too rare." A public fund was never raised for Faragher, much to the frustration of Roeder and others.Publishing (1900–1907)

Through the instigation and endorsement of Roeder, a small amount of Faragher's writing began to appear in print at the start of the 20th century. Besides the occasional poem printed in sympathetic newspapers or publications, Faragher's single publication under his own name during his lifetime was his translation into Manx of Aesop's Fables. Faragher had translated other folk tales previously, including Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, but at the instigation of Roeder he completed his translation of all 313 of the Aesop fables in four months in 1901, "while not in the best health, and harassed by domestic afflictions." The publishers, S.K. Broadbent of Douglas, published 25 of these tales under the Manx title, Skeealyn Aesop, in 1901. The intention was to publish further stories in future issues, but there was insufficient interest in the 1901 publication to justify it. Realising the value of the work, despite the lack of interest at that time, Roeder deposited Faragher's full manuscript in the library of the Manx Museum for safekeeping, where it still remains today.Skeealyn Aesop also included a number of poems and a sketch of old Cregneash. Amongst the poems was Verses Composed at Sea Some Twenty Years Ago, with lines that had perhaps become more pertinent with time:

Mona, where I have slept,
Mona, where I have toiled,
Mona, where I have wept,
Mona, where I have smiled,
My native cot, still dear to me,
I wish to rest in death near thee. Faragher also published a number of recollections in prose of folk beliefs, stories and traditions. These were printed as "the greater part of" Manx Notes and Queries, Charles Roeder's serialised column in The Isle of Man Examiner, which was at that time "sympathetic to the Manx language revival." The column ran between 21 September 1901 and 24 October 1903, incorporating 87 separate columns, with 261 separately numbered notes. The column ceased due to a lack of collaboration in its production, again despite Roeder's hopes. In 1904, S. K. Broadbent released the column in book form, under the title Manx Notes and Queries.Much to Roeder's chagrin, the book suffered the same fate as Skeealyn Aesop, with poor sales resulting from the lack of interest from the Manx public. This lack of interest in Faragher and his work at this time extended also to his poetry. Although Mona's Herald and The Cork Eagle published his poetry during his lifetime,  they did not publish much, and many publications refused his poetry. One such publication was The Isle of Man Examiner, who refused his poems when sent in by Sophia Morrison. His poetry has been described as "of the homely, descriptive kind, and appeals to the simple emotions of the heart." Although Roeder and the others of the Manx cultural revival never doubted Faragher's importance, they came to despair of ever rousing sufficient interest in his work during his lifetime. Roeder was to write in a personal letter after Faragher's death that, "he was a very disappointed man & was very shabbily served by the Manx people who ignored him."Later life (1907–1908)
By the start of 1907, conditions in Cregneash had become so bad that Faragher's widowed daughter and her two sons were left no option but to emigrate to Canada. Because she had been acting as his housekeeper since his wife had died, Faragher, now aged 76, was forced to leave the island, to live with his son W. A. Faragher, at his house at 56 Blackwell Colliery, near Alfreton in Derbyshire. Faragher was very sad to leave the island, but he tried to keep up to date with it as best as he could through letters and by reading The Isle of Man Examiner, sent to him each week courtesy of Roeder. He wrote in thanks to Roeder, commenting sadly that "I am not longing for much but a sight of the sea." He composed a lot of poetry whilst first at his son's, until illness overtook him. His son wrote that: "He has been writing verse since he came here until his head got bad, and now he says he shall write no more." One of the most striking poems of this period comments on his sorrow at the decline of Manx culture:

Within 18 months of leaving the island, he had succumbed to a painful illness from which he died between 8 and 10 o'clock on Friday 5 June 1908.He was buried in Derbyshire in an unmarked grave. In the obituary notice for Faragher in The Manx Quarterly, Roeder wrote that:

"There was no man who loved his Mona so much as he, and every fibre of his heart was intertwined with her traditions and memories of the soil. [...] there was no other Manxman who was so steeped in its lore, and, gifted with a true poetical vein, he sang its beauties and charms. [...] It is entirely due to him that so much traditional folklore has been preserved; he had a fine memory, and his knowledge of things Manx seemed to be inexhaustible, which he would communicate with unreserved readiness and liberality to those who enjoyed his friendship." Legacy
In recent years the estimation of Faragher's importance has risen to that given to him by Roeder and others during his lifetime. His poems and prose have been re-printed today and form a part of the canon for Manx language learners. His status as a Manx poet of importance was confirmed in 2010 by his being featured with multiple entries in the 2010 anthology of Manx literature by Robert Corteen Carswell, Manannan's Cloak.His house has been incorporated into the Manx National Heritage folk museum at Cregneash. Marking the 100th anniversary of Faragher's death, Yvonne Cresswell, Social History Curator from Manx National Heritage, accurately observed that, "It was, as so often is the case, after his death that the real value and contribution of Ned Beg's work to preserve Manx culture really come to bear." References

External links
 Skeealyn Aesop by <mask>, Isle of Man: S.K. Broadbent, 1901 – available from http://manxliterature.com/ (accessed June 5, 2016)
 Skeealyn Cheeil-Chiollee ('Manx Folk Tales') by Charles Roeder, ed. Stephen Miller, Isle of Man: Chiollagh Books, 1993
Oie'll Vreeshey at Earyween on YouTube; one of <mask>'s stories recounted by Ruth Keggin (also available in Manx)
  one of <mask>'s stories read in Manx by Brian Stowell, available on YouTube (accessed 31 September 2013)
 Lines composed on a visit to the grave of Wm.Milner, Esq. an otherwise uncollected poem by <mask>er

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<mask><mask> (born January 3, 1969) is an American association executive and former public official. He is currently the president and CEO of the American Bankers Association. He was previously president and CEO of the Financial Services Forum from 2005 to 2015 and an assistant secretary at the U.S. Treasury Department during the George W. Bush administration. Early life, education and career
<mask> was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1969. He was raised in Seattle and moved to Washington, D.C., to attend George Washington University. He is a Sigma Alpha Epsilon Alumni Association member

After graduation in 1991, he worked in the White House in the George H. W. Bush administration and served as an aide to then-Transportation Secretary Andy Card. After the Bush administration ended, <mask> held positions with the Washington state Republican Party; as a senior aide for the late Rep. Jennifer Dunn and former Sen. Slade Gorton.In 1995, he married his wife, Rebecca, whom he met at GWU. They have two children. Treasury Department
In early 2001, <mask> was named deputy assistant Treasury secretary for public affairs in the George W. Bush administration, serving as the Treasury Department's spokesman. In April 2003, Bush nominated <mask> as assistant secretary for public affairs. He was confirmed in August 2003 and sworn in by Treasury Secretary John Snow. As assistant secretary, <mask> oversaw all public affairs for the department and led efforts to educate the American people about tax and currency policy, debt management, Social Security and Medicare financing, and international issues that impact the U.S. economy. <mask> is a recipient of the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest honor of the Department of the Treasury.Financial Services Forum
In 2005, <mask> was hand-picked to lead the non-partisan Financial Services Forum, which was at the time located in New York City. The forum represents 18 CEOs of America's largest financial firms, including banks, insurers, and asset managers. <mask> relocated the organization to Washington, D.C., and worked to raise its profile, educating the public about the importance of robust capital markets, encouraging a competitive global marketplace, and shaping the national and international regulatory dialogue. Time referred to the forum as "perhaps the country's most powerful trade association," <mask> is frequently cited by the news media on capital markets and financial services issues. He was regularly quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, and frequently appears on CNBC, Fox Business Network and Bloomberg. He has testified on several occasions before the House Committee on Financial Services and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, two key congressional committees that oversee the financial services industry. From 2009 to 2014, <mask> was recognized by The Hill newspaper as one of the most effective trade association leaders in Washington, D.C.The New York Times called <mask> "among the most powerful lobbyists in Washington," in 2011. In November 2011, <mask> was included on The New Republic's list of Washington's most powerful, least famous people. In 2010, CEO UPDATE also named <mask> one of the year’s top trade association leaders. While he represented large financial institutions, <mask> also expressed concern for smaller community banks. In 2013, he wrote an op-ed for Politico stating:
. During <mask>' tenure, the forum also co-chaired Engage China, a coalition of 12 financial trade associations pushing for greater access to Chinese markets for overseas firms and more financial liberalization in Chinese markets. American Bankers Association
In May 2015, <mask> was named president and CEO of the American Bankers Association, the nation’s largest trade group representing banks of all sizes.During his tenure as CEO, several bills and regulatory proposals supported by ABA have been enacted, including the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and the first major banking reform bill since the Dodd-Frank Act, the bipartisan Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155). In 2019, <mask> was a vocal advocate for the SAFE Banking Act, which would allow banks to serve the cannabis industry. With ABA’s support, the legislation was passed by the House with a bipartisan vote in September 2019. Since <mask>’ arrival at ABA, the association’s push for “tailored regulation” and other refinements to the post-financial crisis regulatory framework has seen traction at regulatory agencies such as the Federal Reserve, FDIC, OCC and CFPB. <mask> also reorganized ABA’s political engagement strategy, with the association producing ads endorsing congressional candidates for the first time—both Republicans and Democrats—and increasing its political activity in the 2020 campaign cycle. “Our goal is to support candidates who understand and appreciate the critical role banks of all sizes play in the economy,” <mask> said, according to the Wall Street Journal. “We plan to expand our efforts in 2020 on a rigorously bipartisan basis.” He made several key executive hires at ABA, including former managing director at JPMorgan Chase Naomi Camper as chief policy officer, former director for Freddie Mac’s single-family business Alethia Baggett as chief human resources officer, and former Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook as chief communications officer.The Washington Post has cited <mask> as one of a “new generation of trade group CEOs” taking an unconventional approach to lobbying to remake the image of trade associations. <mask> has also been regularly named one of the "Top Lobbyists" by The Hill. In November 2016, the association announced a new student debt repayment benefit for employees, something offered by only 4% of U.S. employers at that time. In 2018, ABA was recognized as a "Great Place to Work" by the company that produces Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list. <mask> also announced ABA efforts to help banks innovate, including the association’s first direct investments in fintech companies. At ABA’s annual convention in 2018, he challenged large core processing firms to improve the services they provide to community banks, especially when it comes to implementing mobile banking, real-time payments and other services customers are demanding. As CEO, <mask> has increased participation of women in the ranks of ABA’s officers and executive staff.Within his first four years at the association, ABA elected the second and third women to chair the association in its 145-year history. As of 2019, the association had a female chief human resources officer, chief policy officer, general counsel, chief financial officer and senior adviser, five out of the association’s nine C-suite executive staff. Philanthropy
<mask> is former vice chairman and a current board of governors member of Food Allergy Research and Education, a nonprofit group that supports scientific research and allergy-related advocacy. FARE helped support the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act, which was signed in 2013. External links
American Bankers Association bio

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<mask>, Jr. (born October 17, 1948), known as “<mask>,” is a cave explorer. He is a speleologist who has led and participated in expeditions to many of the longest and deepest caves in the USA, Mexico, and China. He has explored more than 2,500 caves across North America and Asia and has written two books chronicling his expeditions: "Yochib: The River Cave", and "Huautla: Thirty Years in One of the World's Deepest Caves.”  TV shows such as National Geographic Explorer, NOVA and How’d They Do That? have aired programs on his expeditions. Biography
<mask> was born in Dayton, Ohio. As a child he moved to Los Angeles and Atlanta before settling back in Dayton where he graduated from Centerville High School in 1966. According to <mask>, while out on a Boy Scout adventure when he was 13 years old, he discovered a previously unexplored passage in a Kentucky cave.During the trip he got the taste of original exploration and from that moment he was "bitten by the bug." The following year, he organized an explorer post that specialized in speleology, joined the National Speleological Society, and became an Eagle Scout. In the late 1960s, <mask> was involved in the exploration and mapping of Ellison’s Cave, Georgia. He began organizing caving expeditions to Mexico. In 1971, he explored and mapped the longest cave in Mexico at the time, Grutas de Juxtlahuaca, which contains the oldest known cave paintings in the Western Hemisphere. Based up on this exploratory work,  Juxtlahuaca  subsequently became a national park. He graduated from Indiana University in 1973, and became a full-time explorer for the remainder of the decade.He participated in numerous expeditions to the Silvertip Cave System in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area of Montana. Through the 1970s, along with others from an Austin, Texas-based group known as the Association for Mexican Cave Studies, he explored southern Mexico to look for deep caves. In 1976 and 1977, he led expeditions to explore a cave said to be the “world’s most dangerous and difficult cave,” Sumidero Yochib, in Chiapas, Mexico. In 1977, he also co-led three expeditions to Oaxaca, Mexico, to explore Sistema Huautla, a cave system first discovered in 1965, and considered the deepest in the Western Hemisphere. Continuing to explore caves throughout the United States, <mask> led and participated in expeditions to Sistema Huautla in Mexico almost every year through the 1980s. In 1987, the Huautla expedition connected the deep cave Nita Nanta to Sistema Huautla; which established it as the second deepest cave in the world. <mask> went to Kijahe Xontjoa on the plateau to the east of Huautla with an expedition of Swiss explorers in 1993, and explored depths over 1,000 meters.<mask> joined the Hong Meigui Cave Exploration Society Study Area in 2011 and 2012. The expedition explored two of China’s longest caves in the Wulong Province: San Wang Dong and Er Wang Dong, cave systems which <mask> describes as the “Carlsbad Caverns of China”. In 2014, <mask> helped to form the Proyecto Espeleologico Sistema Huautla (PESH), an official project of the National Speleological Society and the United States Deep Caving Team. The mission of PESH is to explore, survey and conduct a comprehensive speleological study of the Sistema Huautla area caves. Along with fellow cave explorer, Tommy Shifflett, <mask> will lead annual expeditions from 2014-2023 to seek the deep. They have a goal of reaching 100 km in length and 1,610m in depth, a vertical mile. The expedition will also support the underground research of Mexican scientists.In addition to his expeditions, <mask> had a 34-year career with the Boy Scouts of America, retiring in 2014 as National Director for Alumni Relations and the National Eagle Scout Association. The National Eagle Scout Association's magazine Eagles Call published a nice farewell to him on page 4 and a feature article on page 14 of the Winter 2015 issue. https://issuu.com/scoutingalumniassociation/docs/winter_2015_eagles_call?ff

He is the Chairman for the United States Deep Caving Team. He has written two books that chronicle his cave exploration in Mexico: “Yochib:The River Cave” and “Huautla: Thirty Years in One of the World’s Deepest Caves”, both published by Cave Books. He is well-published in caving newsletters and journals. With Tommy Shifflett, he co-authored a chapter for “Encyclopedia of Caves.”  He was profiled as one of 120 contemporary explorers in the 2009 book "Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives". In 2018, Hemirrhagus billsteelei, a newly discovered species of spider was named after <mask> in honor of "his contribution to the knowledge of Mexican Caves and his help in the collection of cave tarantulas and other arachnids in the Huautla Cave System".In June 2018 National Geographic published an online article about a major speleological expedition <mask> led to Sistema Huautla in southern Mexico. He was interviewed by the writer and quoted extensively in it. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/sistema-huautla-cave-mexico-culture/

In May 2019 <mask> led the way in making significant new discoveries in the popular Texas show cave Natural Bridge Caverns, the first new passages found in nearly 60 years. New discoveries continued in 2020 and 2021.

https://naturalbridgecaverns.com/new-phase-of-discovery/

https://www.ksat.com/news/2019/08/28/underground-lakes-part-of-major-new-discoveries-at-natural-bridge-caverns/

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/cave-north-of-san-antonio-explored-for-first-time

SiriusXM radio interview on August 1. 2021    https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/eNd6JXY1q7

Awards and recognition

National Speleological Society, Fellow Member, 1976

National Speleological Society, Lew Bicking Award, 1977

The Explorers Club, Fellow Member, 1979

National Speleological Society, International SpeleoArt Salon, Merit Award,"Brake Bar Necklace," 2009

Boy Scouts of America, Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, for accomplishments as a cave explorer, 2011

The Explorers Club, Fellow Emeritus Member, 2013

The Explorers Club, Citation of Merit, 2015

National Speleological Society, SpeleoArt Salon, Best of Show and Caver Popular Vote, "Calcite-covered Rope," 2015

National Speleological Society, Spelean Arts and Letters Award, 2015

Pod Casts

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/cavingpodcast/episodes/2021-01-02T11_53_07-08_00

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-5-a-conversation-with-world-famous/id1519844290?i=1000536908460

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Living people
Indiana University alumni
1948 births
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People from Centerville, Ohio
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<mask> (born 9 August 1974 in Elephant and Castle, London) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in EastEnders as Mandy Salter and Emmerdale as Danielle Hutch. A graduate of the Sylvia Young Theatre School, <mask> began her career at an early age, appearing in films such as Hansel and Gretel and on television in the children's show Simon and the Witch in 1987. In 1992, she secured a high-profile role on British television as Mandy Salter in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 1994, <mask> quit the role, but in 2011, returned to the role after 17 years. In 2012, she left the role for a second time. <mask>'s other notable television roles include that of Janine Nebeski in ITV's Bad Girls (2005–06) and Joe Nardone in Channel 4's Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (1998).In 2017, she joined Thomas & Friends as the voice of Rosie, taking over from Teresa Gallagher in the UK and Jules de Jongh in the US. 28 October 2017 marked <mask>'s third appearance in Casualty playing her third different character in the show. Early life
Stapleton was raised near East Street, which runs east to west between the Old Kent Road and Walworth Road in Walworth, south London. She and her younger brother Vince were born to working class parents, Kate, a cleaner from Scotland and <mask>, who ran a car hire business. She attended the Townsend Primary School in South East London, where her parents were advised by a teacher "to channel her energy into something positive." As a result, they sent her to the Corona Theatre School and Sylvia Young Theatre School, where Denise Van Outen and her future EastEnders co-star, Danniella Westbrook, were among her contemporaries. Career

Early career
<mask>'s career in showbusiness started when she was six, and at the age of eight she had a minor role as an extra in the James Bond film Octopussy (1983).She made her TV debut in the detective series, Dempsey and Makepeace (ITV), in 1985 and she went on to have roles in feature films such as Little Shop of Horrors (Geffen Pictures, 1986); Hansel and Gretel (MGM, 1987); Snow White (MGM, 1987) and Courage Mountain (Paramount, 1990). At aged 12 she played the part of Sally in the 1987 Children's BBC production, Simon and the Witch. She also had a minor role in the BBC sitcom, Bread. EastEnders
<mask> is perhaps best known for her role as the wayward Mandy Salter in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, which she played from 1992 to 1994. During her time in the soap, <mask>'s character was featured in storylines about child and drug abuse, homelessness and prostitution. Her EastEnders character was also featured in a special episode of the science fiction series, Doctor Who, which was entitled Dimensions in Time (1993). The episode was specially screened as part of BBC's annual fund-raising event, Children in Need.Viewers were asked to phone in and vote which EastEnders character, Mandy or 'Big' Ron, would appear in the show. Two versions were filmed for each voting outcome, but the Mandy version won with 56% of the vote. <mask> grew tired of all the attention she received from being in such a high-profile show, so she resigned from the role in 1994. In 2005, in an interview, <mask> commented: "Working on EastEnders was so high-profile it put me off working on soaps for a while… I've been asked a number of times to go back, but I've done a lot of really credible stuff in theatre, and I thought, 'It took me a long time get here. I'm not ready to go back to Mandy just yet'… The publicity with something regarding EastEnders is huge, and sometimes you end up feeling like a famous person rather than an actress - I wanted my work to be more fulfilling than that." In June 2011, <mask> announced that she would be returning to EastEnders after a 17-year hiatus, and she reappeared as Mandy in an episode broadcast in August that year. <mask> left the role for a second time at the end of her contract, with Mandy departing in May 2012.Other roles
<mask>'s subsequent TV credits have included; You Bet! (ITV, 1993); The Thin Blue Line (BBC, 1995); The Bill (ITV, 2002); Casualty (BBC, 1999) and Casualty@Holby City (2004); Harry Enfield and Chums (BBC); Audrey and Friends (2000); Brinks Mat: The Greatest Heist (2003) and Jane Hall (ITV, 2006), among others. She has also appeared in feature films including: Urban Ghost Story (Living Spirit Pictures, 1998); The Killing Zone (1999); It Was an Accident (2000); South West Nine (2001); Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001); Lava (2002) and Chunky Monkey (2001). On stage, she played the role of Peter Pan in a musical version of the J.M. Barrie novel, which she then toured the United Kingdom, alongside actors Terence Donovan and Laurence Mark Wythe, who later become a composer and lyricist in musical theatre. In 1994, she provided the voice of the popular comic character Minnie the Minx in the second and final Beano Video film Beano Videostars taking over the role of Susan Sheridan (who was the original voice of Minnie in the very first video), although Sheridan voiced a couple of characters in other Beano segments. In 1998, she was cast in Channel 4's successful Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star.She played Joe Nardone, a sex-mad guitarist in a Scottish band, which goes from playing pubs to netting a record deal via a string of wild parties. In 2002, <mask> guest-starred in her first of two roles of ITV1's cop show The Bill, She played tough-talking young mum Tina Pope, who eventually becomes the second victim of the Sun Hill Serial Killer. <mask> is more recently known for playing the prisoner Janine Nebeski in the seventh and eighth series of ITV prison drama Bad Girls (2005–06). In the final series, her character embarked on a romance with male prison officer, Donny Kimber who was played by her ex-EastEnders co-star, Sid Owen. On 4 November 2006, the <mask> family appeared on Celebrity Family Fortunes, headed by <mask> and that same month, <mask> guest-starred in the ITV police drama The Bill; her second role in the programme to date. She acted alongside Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson, to form a drug-addicted mother-daughter duo. She played the role of Louise Parker in the 2007 Lynda La Plante televised mini-series, The Commander: The Devil You Know, and appeared in BBC's The Last Enemy in 2008.On stage, <mask> has appeared in Cockroach Who at The National Theatre; Of Mice and Men, which toured the United Kingdom; Scissor Happy at the Duchess Theatre (1997); Essex Girls, Corner Boys and Four Star Hotel, which were all shown at the Royal Court Theatre. <mask> also appeared on a television Goodies/Baddies special of Weakest Link. She was the 6th one voted off. In August 2008, it was announced that she would play the role of Eli Dingle's friend Danielle Hutch on the soap opera Emmerdale; her first scene aired in September 2008. <mask> said of her role: "Danielle is such an intriguing character because there's more to her than meets the eye. I'm really looking forward to starting filming and I think viewers can expect some interesting encounters as we explore the relationship between Danielle and Eli." Emmerdale series producer Anita Turner added: "I'm so pleased to welcome an actress with <mask>'s calibre to the show.Eli likes to manipulate people, but Danielle is a different proposition and she'll definitely get under his skin." In September 2009, <mask> appeared in Channel 4's Hollyoaks Later, as the friend of Cindy Cunningham called Savannah. In October 2009, <mask> appeared in the UK Film Council funded short film Hands Solo, a mockumentary about the world's most famous deaf porn star. Aside from lending her voice to Thomas & Friends, <mask> has also provided voice talents to the video games Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper and Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom in which she voiced Ratja in the English version. Personal life
In October 2001, <mask>'s father was jailed for his part in an £11million VAT computer-chip fraud. Her brother was also fined £10,000, for helping in the fraudulent business, which involved importing VAT-exempt microchips from EU countries and selling them to firms with added VAT, before claiming money back from Customs and Excise. <mask> provided the £125,000 bail, for her brother during the trial.In September 2005, Mr. <mask> was eventually told by the Court of Appeal, to pay a confiscation order of £1.6 million. In July 2008, <mask> battled against the Customs Prosecution Office at the High Court in order to keep her property in South Norwood, which she had purchased from her father for £175,000 before his imprisonment for fraud. The prosecution claimed that the house had originally been purchased from "ill-gotten gains", and wanted to seize the property as part of the confiscation order. <mask> maintains that she bought the property out of her earnings as an actress in 2000. The court found in favour of <mask>. In January 2014, <mask> gave birth to her first child (with fiancé David Luck), a boy named Ray. Filmography

Radio
 Time Hops (BBC, 1994) (5 episodes) [Science Fiction, rerun on BBC Radio 4Extra, 2012]

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English stage actresses
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<mask> (pronounced 'storts') is the founder and president of Visible Music College in Memphis, Tennessee and founding guitarist of the Grammy-nominated band Skillet. Visible Music College is an accredited, bachelor-degree-granting institution of higher education in music, music production, and music business. He is president of Madison Line Records, a non-profit artist development and music production company and a BMI songwriter/guitarist/band leader in his band "the beep." Steorts is a church music leader and active in the music community of Memphis. Early life and Music Education

Steorts was born at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California to Lt. Colonel <mask> of Hartland, West Virginia and Georgia Sue Jackson of Pascagoula, MS. Steorts now lives in Chesapeake, Virginia, and Steorts' mother in Shreveport, Louisiana. As the child of an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, Steorts spent his childhood and teen years in many different locations, moving eight times between 1966 and 1984 when he relocated to his current home of Memphis, Tennessee.Steorts' entry into music began in his elementary years with songwriting and trumpet compositions, and at sixteen he picked up the guitar. During his teen years at Airline High School in Bossier City, Louisiana, he played trumpet in band and guitar in jazz band, as well as with local bands and artists, including Limit (Gautier, Mississippi) and Steve Higgs (Bossier City, Louisiana). After high school, he went on to study classical guitar at Rhodes College in Memphis from 1984-1985. After Rhodes, Steorts studied Music production at Memphis State (now University of Memphis) from 1985-1988, and finished at University of Memphis in 1993 with a master's degree in composition and a BFA in commercial music-recording technology. In 2014, he received his Doctorate in Sociological Research from Oxford Graduate School in Dayton, Tennessee. Musical and Religious Influences
<mask>'s musical influences range widely, with early influences deriving from pop music and rock of the 1970s, to disco and metal. Specifically, he finds influence in many different bands: The Beatles, ELO, King's X, The Cars, Blondie, Foo Fighters, and Muse just to name a few.In 1985, during a snowstorm on Tutweiler Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, <mask> became a Christian and was baptized soon after at Lindenwood Christian Church. He then discovered the world of Christian music through his time at what is now Cornerstone Community Church in Memphis. From this moment on, he found additional influence in people that he felt accurately spoke to his beliefs. The first of these being the words of Jesus in The Bible, also including early twentieth-century writers, C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton, novelist and artist Douglas Coupland, and pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The Cost of Discipleship by Bonhoeffer, now known as a classic in Christian thought, had a great deal of influence in <mask>'s foundation for Visible Music College. Skillet

Skillet was formed in 1996 by John Cooper and <mask>. <mask> and John met at church and the club 704b and spent time with their bands touring together, but were encouraged by their pastor to pursue their own side project.[2] Shortly after, Trey McClurkin joined the band as a temporary drummer, and they decided to name the band Skillet, as a tribute to their different styles of rock coming together. A month after their beginning, Skillet received interest from major Christian record label ForeFront Records. In 1996 they released a well-received self-titled debut Skillet, leading them to tour the United States for the first time and continue to write new music as a trio. In 1997, Skillet recorded their follow-up album, titled Hey You, I Love Your Soul, which was released in April 1998. Their second effort was a change in style from the band's first release. With this release, Skillet would abandon their post-grunge approach for a lighter alternative rock and style. His wife Korey was enlisted soon after to play keyboards live in order to alleviate John's live performance duties, but he still played on the Love Your Soul UK Tour in 1998.Shortly before the band began recording for their third album, Invincible, Steorts left the band to be with his family and launch Visible Music College, a modern music ministry college located in Memphis, and Kevin Haaland joined the band as their new guitarist. Visible Music College
Visible Music College began from a $2000 gift from Grace Covenant Church and <mask>'s own credit cards. He personally recruited 21 students to the program in the summer of 2000, before the school existed in physical form. Beginnings
Visible School was created in the spring of 2000, after <mask>, founding guitarist of the Christian rock band Skillet (band), had left the band to travel to Coventry, England to view a Christian music college resembling the idea of Visible School. After visiting the Nexus Academy of Music website, he began Visible Community School of Music and Worship Arts[5] as a ministry of Grace Covenant Church, also located in Memphis, Tennessee. The 2000-2001 school year began with the twenty-one recruited students and four full-time faculty. During the 2001-2002 school year, the school became an incorporated and authorized school of higher education in the state of Tennessee.[6] In August 2002, the school grew to sixty-nine first and second year students, and partnered with Crichton College for accredited coursework through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Growth
From its beginning in 2000 to the start of the 2003-2004 school year, the student body had doubled in size and quadrupled in faculty members. In 2009, Visible was granted College status through institutional accreditation by TRACS and continued to see enrollment numbers rise. The newly named Visible Music College moved in 2011 after receiving a 3 million-dollar matching grant to move the campus into Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Moving into the downtown area of Memphis now acts as a home base for students to become more visible to the Memphis community. The new urban campus is located in the renovated C&I Bank Building on 200 Madison Avenue, in Downtown Memphis. Also in 2011, the college launched Madison Line Records, signing six artists into 2012 and creating numerous music projects annually since.<mask> oversees Visible Music College with 40+ employees and 120+ students from 50 states and 20 countries, while developing the curriculum and programs at the school, representing the vibrant institution to the local music industry and church leaders, creating opportunities for musicians of all kinds to interact and be empowered, and forging partnerships with groups like Stax Academy (labs and tech help for students and organization), Ardent Studios (audio production coursework), and various churches and ministries around the world (Visible Events in Europe). Visible Music College also operates local community music schools in cities in which they have relationships to establish Visible Community Music Schools, such as Memphis, Chicago, and Dallas, and international locations. According to a 2012 interview with Christian magazine "Greenville In One Accord," President <mask> stated his desire for the future of the college as, "A series of small campuses around the world bringing worship leadership, music training, and equipping young people on every continent in groups of less than 140 students and 20-30 staff in each location serving." This growth is underway with a Holden, Germany sister school, a satellite campus in Lansing, IL, and a Dallas, TX campus opening Fall of 2016. <mask> and the Memphis Community

<mask> has served on the Board of Governors of the Memphis chapter of The Recording Academy (Grammys), is a former officer and was pleased to present Grammy participation certificates to his former bandmates in Skillet in May 2005 and be on hand as Skillet was nominated for a Grammy at the 50th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2008. <mask> is a member of the Gospel Music Association and a regular participant in the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce. <mask> is a regular supporter of the arts in Memphis, from dance to music to visual art.As a principal partner in the non-profit Cooper Walker Place, <mask> serves the community through facilitating arts, faith and entrepreneurial programming in underserved areas. <mask> is a 2013 Visionary Award winner, presented by the Downtown Memphis Commission. Personal life

<mask> is married and lives in Memphis with the couple's two sons. References

Performers of Christian rock music
Year of birth missing (living people)
American rock guitarists
People from Fairfield, California
American male guitarists
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American performers of Christian music

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<mask> (29 June 1868 – 4 April 1953), was a Norwegian postmaster and politician, began his political career in the Liberal Party and was first elected to the Storting (parliament) in 1900. He later switched to the Labour Party before eventually joining the Communist Party of Norway, serving as party chairman from 1934 to 1946. Life and work

Parents
<mask> was born on an Øvre Rinnan farm at Frol (today part of Levanger) in Nord-Trøndelag, where his father Paul Christian Egede-Nissen (1835–1891) was then serving in the medical corps of the Norwegian Army. Having qualified as a medical doctor in 1858 and having been active as a military physician in the Italian liberation struggle led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, by 1863 Paul Egede-Nissen was practicing medicine in Tromsø; in 1867 he was a commissioned officer with the rank of major and was a regimental surgeon stationed with the army at Levanger. <mask>'s mother was Sophie Amalie Normann of Harstad (1826–1912), widow of Søren Schøning (1816–1861), who had been a merchant on Grøtøya in Kvaløya municipality; she married his father in 1863, and the couple had two children, Pauline Fayette Egede-Nissen (born 1864) and Søren Kristian Henrik Egede-Nissen (born 1866) before their last child, <mask>, was born in 1868. Besides his two full siblings, he had a stepbrother, Jakob Schøning. Youth and early career
<mask> graduated from Trondheim Cathedral School in 1886, receiving his Cand philol.(master's degree) two years later. In 1887 he was appointed as a post office assistant in Nordland county; and in 1890 as a mail clerk; he transferred in the following year to become a mail clerk in Bergen. He was postmaster in Vardø (in Finnmark near the Russian border) from 1897 to 1911, when he became postmaster in Stavanger. On 13 May 1899, during his time in Vardø, he founded the newspaper "Finnmarken"; he was its editor for many years. Egede-Nissen was a member of the Vardø city council from 1903 to 1911. With Vardø being the easternmost town in Norway — and indeed in all of Western Europe — it formed a thriving duty-free centre for the Pomor trade of Norwegian pollock for Russian rye grain and other goods brought by merchants from Arkhangelsk. Making use of his contacts with Russian merchants and officials, Egede-Nissen was among the first Norwegians to establish working links with anti-Tsarist Russian groups.As early as 1902 he had begun printing and smuggling literature across the border into Russia promoting democracy and socialism. In 1906 he was a co-founder of Nordens Klippe, a decidedly socialist Norwegian mineworkers union. Left and Labour Party
In 1900 Egede-Nissen was first elected to the Storting, representing the Liberal Party for the Hammerfest-Vardø-Vadsø electoral area. During his first term in parliament, he was a member of the Standing Committee on Roads (1900–1903). During some of his time in parliament, fellow socialist Thorolf Bugge, who had worked in the Vardø post office with him since 1898, served as acting postmaster there (1901 to 1906). Having been re-elected in 1903, Egede-Nissen broke with the Liberals in 1905 and joined the Labour Party in the Storting, becoming one of its leaders. He was re-elected for the Labour Party at the next two parliamentary elections in 1906 and 1909, representing the same constituency as before.From 1903 through 1912 he was a member of the Standing Committee on the Military, and during the years from 1906 to 1912 the Storting elected him as a member of the Lagting. Views on neutrality and disarmament
Egede-Nissen gained prominence during the August 1909 parliamentary debate on army reorganization, espousing the then radical ideas of neutrality and military disarmament. Views on temperance and prohibition
From 1910 he served as one of nine members of a parliamentary alcohol commission which was mandated to chart Norway's future laws on the sale of wine, beer and distilled spirits. The Storting adopted their 1918 majority report, in which the commission recommended that all importation and sale of alcohol be conducted through controlled storehouses (samlag), the profits of which flowed into the Norwegian Treasury (Statskassen), while breweries and distilleries remained privately owned — a position held by a six-member majority of the committee. Egede-Nissen and Sven Aarrestad, parliamentary leader of the Temperance Party (Avholdspartiet), however, contended that the government should restrict the legal sale of alcohol by allowing individual municipalities to vote to ban its local sale and set a goal of eventually achieving national prohibition, at least of distilled spirits, whilst a third dissenter, famed Norwegian physician and psychiatrist Johan Scharffenberg, supported an immediate total prohibition of all liquor sales, characterizing alcohol as "this nerve poison that turns people into animals." Resignation from Stortinget
Having become Stavanger's postmaster in 1911, he declined to stand for re-election in the 1912 election, especially as he would no longer be living in the electoral area that he had represented. Communist views
Egede-Nissen was elected to the Stavanger municipal council in 1913, and in 1915 he was elected mayor, a post he retained till 1919.After the Russian Revolution of 1917, though, Egede-Nissen became sympathetic to the Bolshevik cause. Having been elected to leadership of the labour Party in 1918, he went to the new Soviet Russia, where he met with Lenin and participated in a meeting that led to the establishment of the Comintern, although he did not attend the founding meeting in March 1919; the only Norwegian attending was Emil Stang, supposedly to represent the Norwegian Labour Party. The Soviets had invited the Labour Party to join the Communist International, a goal that Egede-Nissen shared, but his party eventually repudiated the principles of Lenin and remained social democratic. During his mayoralty, Egede-Nissen was fined for his leading role in organizing a general strike held on 21 June 1919 in support of the Russian Revolution. In 1921 he was once again elected to the Storting, this time representing Stavanger for the Labour Party. In 1923 the tensions could no longer be papered over, and the Labour Party formally split into two factions; the smaller group organized itself as the Communist Party of Norway, and Egede-Nissen become a founding member of the nascent Communist Party, serving as party chairman from 1934 to 1946; another Labour Party member who joined at this time was Peder Furubotn, who served as Communist Party chairman from 1925 to 1930. At their 1946 congress the party replaced Egede-Nissen with Emil Løvlien as chairman.Nazi occupation of Norway
During the Nazi occupation of Norway in World War II, Egede-Nissen fled to Canada aboard a whaling ship. In Toronto he enlisted in the anti-Nazi struggle and was sent first to Reykjavík and later to New York City. The ship taking him to the U.S. was torpedoed, and although some sailors were killed, Egede-Nissen and many others were rescued by the crew of an American ship. In the autumn of 1944 he returned to Finnmark in northern Norway, where he participated in the struggle against Nazi occupation by serving as one of the translators for the Red Army, which had begun to drive the occupying German troops out of the country. Family
Egede-Nissen was married to Georga ("Goggi") Wilhelma Ellertsen (1871–1959); they had eleven children, seven of whom became stage and film actors: Aud Egede-Nissen (1893–1974), Gerd Grieg (1895–1988), Ada Kramm (1899–1981), Oscar Egede-Nissen (1903–1976), Stig Egede-Nissen (1907–1988), Lill Egede-Nissen (1909–1962) and Gøril Havrevold (1914–1992). References

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<mask> (; born February 3, 1983) is an Iranian football coach and former player who has managed Padideh in the Persian Gulf Pro League. He played for the Iran national team between 2004 and 2013. Club career

Early career
<mask> started his professional career with Fajr Sepasi in 2000, he stayed for four years at the club and made 40 appearances before transferring to Sepahan. After only one season with Sepahan, <mask> again transferred, this time to Esteghlal. Although he had good performance in the Esteghlal squad, Vahid Talebloo had better performances and he proved himself as the number one keeper for Esteghlal

<mask> again left this time to Mes Kerman where he played very well. He continued performing well in Mes and helped the club qualify for the AFC Champions League for the first time in the club's history. Persepolis showed some interest on him but he reject the bid.Sepahan
On July 14, 2009, <mask> signed a two-year contract with Sepahan for an approximate sum of $450,000 turning down an offer from Norwegian club Rosenborg BK. At Sepahan he was the first choice keeper for the entire season and one of the most important players that helped the club win the league. He repeated the same feat with Sepahan the next season, he was regarded as the league's best goalkeeper after his performances with Sepahan. Esteghlal
He joined Esteghlal in July 2011 where he won the Hazfi Cup in the first season. He extended his contract for another season on June 18, 2012. On April 12, 2013, <mask> achieved a recorded twenty-four clean sheets, equalling with Iker Casillas in a season. He also helped his team to win league title after four years.At the end of the season, he extended his contract with the club. After the retirement of Farhad Majidi, <mask> was named as Esteghlal's captain. Paykan
On June 18, 2014, <mask> left Esteghlal and joined Paykan for $1.5 million, signing a two-year contract. He played his first match for Paykan in 3-4 home loss to Tractor Sazi Tabriz F.C in 2014 Shohada Cup

Return to Esteghlal
On June 29, 2015, <mask> returned to his former club Esteghlal on a one-year contract. In 2018 he won the Hazfi Cup with Esteghlal. He holds the record for the most Appearance in Persian gulf league and is the first player who appeared in 18 consecutive seasons in Persian gulf league . Considered one of the best goalkeepers in Asia, He also holds the record of most clean sheet in  Persian gulf league with (180).Padideh
On June 16, 2019, <mask> joined Padideh on a two-year contract. International career

He was part of the Iran national team in 2004 AFC Asian Cup but he did not play any match. He won the 2004 West Asian Football Federation Championship with Team Melli. He was again part of the team in 2007 AFC Asian Cup but he did not play any match again. Since the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, he has been the number one keeper for Team Melli. He also played for Team Melli in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification. He was one of the best players for Iran in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification and 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification where his saves played an important role.<mask> was the first choice keeper in West Asian Football Federation Championship 2010 and 2011 Asian Cup. Retirement
On January 20, 2012, <mask> <mask> announced his temporary retirement from the national team, he stated in an interview "Maybe I cannot be at the service of Team Melli, so I temporarily announce my resignation." He added, "Due to some problems, I prefer not to say anything for the time being, but I have to say just one thing that I am not at the service of Team Melli for a while." After the announcement Iran national team coach Carlos Queiroz made a comment that he respected <mask>'s decision and would not invite him any more. Many in the Iranian FA tried to convince him to invite <mask> again but Queiroz said that he was not involved in the decision and he could not see any reason to negotiate this matter with <mask>. In March 2013 <mask> made a comment that Queiroz should not be the coach of Iran and the best he could do was to help as the assistant. At the end of the season <mask> apologised to the Iranian people but not Queiroz personally in Navad TV show.Before the final three matches in June 2013 for the World cup qualifications it was rumoured that the Iranian FA and Queiroz asked him to sign an apology letter provided by them which he refused. A month later in July 2013, Hadi Aghili revealed that <mask> told him not to sign the apology and they will beg us to return after they lose the first match which did not happen. However <mask> was present in Training Camp in October 2014, but he was never called for an international match. Personal life
<mask>'s family is Tat Persian Iranian Azerbaijani from the Osku city of East Azerbaijan Province. <mask> <mask> married in 2004. He has two children, Ali and Ata. Career statistics

Managerial record

Honours

Fajr Sepasi
Hazfi Cup: 2000–01

Sepahan
Iran Pro League: 2009–10, 2010–11

Esteghlal
Iran Pro League: 2005–06, 2012–13
 Hazfi Cup: 2011–12, 2017–18

Iran U23
Asian Games Gold Medal: 2002

Iran
WAFF Championship: 2004

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Football Iran News & Events
Goalkeeper of the year (2007–08, 2012–13)
Iran Football Federation Award
Goalkeeper of the year (2007–08, 2012–13)
Iran Football Federation Award
Player of the season (2012–13) (Second)

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External links

Seyed <mask> Rahmati Official Website
<mask> <mask> at PersianLeague.com
<mask> <mask> Mes Kerman F.C. players
Shahr Khodro F.C. players
Iran under-20 international footballers
Iran international footballers
2004 AFC Asian Cup players
2007 AFC Asian Cup players
2011 AFC Asian Cup players
Asian Games gold medalists for Iran
Asian Games medalists in football
Footballers at the 2002 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
Azadegan League players
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Iranian football managers
Shahr Khodro F.C. managers

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<mask> (27 October 1943 – 22 December 2004) was a Mexican Badminton player that competed in the different categories of singles, doubles and mixed doubles, both nationally and internationally. His father, Dr <mask> was a dentist who taught his two children about the importance and benefits of practising sports, while his mother Luz Ojeda Lacroix was a school teacher. <mask> started to play badminton when he was about ten years old, together with his older brother Raúl, at the Centro Deportivo Chapultepec AC. In 1965, <mask> extended to three games his match against Erland Kops in the third round of the US Open; in that year, the Danish player - then ranked as the number one of the World - had been beaten by his opponents in only two games. In 1968, <mask> graduated from the School of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and, one year later, 13 December 1969, he married Flor Lujan; they had four children: <mask>, Flor, David and Jorge. Since <mask> got married, he concentrated all his energy to his family and his professional career and he practically retired from the badminton competitions. Sports career
In 1958, when he was just 14 years old, <mask> became the national champion of Mexico for the first time, competing in the doubles category, together with his brother <mask>.By 1967, he had already won 23 Mexican National Championships. In 1966, he won two more titles in the Mexican Open of Badminton as a singles player and in the doubles category, teaming up with his brother Raul <mask>. Mexican National Championships of Badminton

Mexican National Open
The Mexico City International Tournament was held in the years 1949, 1952, 1958, 1959 and 1961. Since 1964, this competition became known as the National Mexican Open. <mask> competed in the Mexican National Open from 1964 to 1968 where he played against  players such as Erland Kops, Channarong Ratanaseangsuang, Jamie Paulson, Don Paup and Bill Berry, among others. Other competitions
1963 - Member of the Mexican team that competed in Indonesia in the "Games of New Emerging Forces", also known as the GANEFO games. 1963 - Lost the singles final of the III University of Texas Open, also known as the Texas Open, against Tan Joe Hok.1963 - Together with his brother Raul <mask>, he lost the men's doubles final of the III University of Texas Open against Tan Joe Hok and J. Izen. 1964 - Champion of the IV University of Texas Open in the singles event. 1964 - With his brother Raul <mask>, he won the men's doubles category of the IV University of Texas Open against George Harman and John Sudbury. 1964 - Teaming up with Carolina Allier, he won the mixed doubles event of the IV University of Texas Open defeating George and Lana Harman of Ponca City, OK.
 1965 - Singles champion of the I Torneo Internacional del Perú after defeating the Peruvian champion Miguel Arguelles. 1965 - He and the Danish player Knud Christiansen were runners up in the men's doubles category of the I Torneo Internacional del Perú after losing against the Peruvian couple formed by Percy Levi and Miguel Argüelles. 1966 - Champion of the Torneo Internacional de Badminton de Perú in the singles event. 1966 - Champion with his brother Raul <mask> of the Torneo Internacional de Badminton de Perú in the men's doubles category.The Gentleman of the Badminton (visit to Peru)

In October 1965, <mask> visited Peru to participate in the 1st International Tournament of Peru by invitation of the Peruvian Federation of Badminton (Federación Peruana de Bádminton) who was interested in promoting the badminton in that country. <mask> won the men's singles event after defeating the Peruvian Champion Miguel Argüelles 15-2 and 15-9, and Ismael Seminario 15-11 and 15-5. However, playing together with the Danish player Knud Christiansen, <mask> lost the men's doubles final 15-5 and 15-11 against the Peruvian couple integrated by Percy Levi and Miguel Argüelles. When the competition was finished, <mask> prolonged his stay in Peru, accepting an invitation from the Peruvian Federation of Badminton, who wanted to promote further the badminton in Peru by organising some exhibition games in the Naval Centre of Peru (el Centro Naval del Perú), the Pacific Expo (la Feria del Pacífico) and some sporting precincts such as the "Club Regatas" of Lima and the "Club Lawn Tennis de la Exposición". For his involvement, the then Mayor of Lima, Dr Luis Bedoya Reyes, gave <mask>l a plate for his first place in the 1st International Tournament of Peru with an inscription: "Ambassador of Badminton". Also, the Naval Centre of Peru gave him an award for his collaboration in fomenting the badminton among the youth in Peru. Finally, the President of the Peruvian Federation of Badminton, Don Alfredo Salazar, expressed their gratitude to <mask> with the following words:

"Aparte de su juego, Rangel nos ha impresionado con su caballerosidad y corrección que hacen que sea un gran embajador de ese pueblo tan querido".Translation: "Besides his performance as a badminton player, Rangel has also impressed us with his gentleness and kindness that make him a great ambassador of that nation (Mexico) so beloved by us (Peru)". Since his travel to Peru, <mask> was also referred to as the "gentleman of the badminton". Thomas Cup
<mask> was part of the first Mexican team that competed in the Thomas Cup (American zone) and that was defeated by Japan in February 1964 (0-9). In February 1967, he competed for the second time with the Mexican team that was eliminated by Canada in the semi-finals of the zone; <mask>l lost against the Canadian champion, Wayne Macdonnell: 12-15, 15-6 y 15-8. In men's doubles, he played together with Oscar Luján, against the brothers Ed and Rolf Paterson and lost: 15-5 y 15-6. In 1970, <mask> participated in the Thomas Cup for the last time as member of the team that was coached by the former Indonesian player Tan Joe Hok (winner of the All England in 1959), this time Mexico lost against the United States (2-7), in San Diego, California. References

2004 deaths
Mexican male badminton players
1943 births

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