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 Home and Away. McMahon is the son of the former Prime Minister of Australia Sir William McMahon and Lady McMahon.<mask> and McMahon were married for less than two years and divorced in 1995. <mask> stated that McMahons mother, Lady Sonia McMahon threatened not to attend their wedding and caused a rift. In October 1995, <mask> posed nude in the Australian edition of Playboy. Commenting on the reason she posed nude, <mask> said she "just had a marriage break-up. Most women go to the hairdressers – I did Playboy. I chose the photographer, the location, what I did or didn't want to wear, and everything else about the pictures. I found it a really liberating, empowering experience."In October 1999, <mask> became engaged to 1997 Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve (son of Ferrari Formula 1 great Gilles Villeneuve), but their relationship ended in 2001. In early 2002, she began dating music producer and Bros bassist Craig Logan, whom she met while recording material for Neon Nights. Media reports in March 2002 claimed <mask> and Logan were engaged, but in December 2002 they ended their relationship. In August 2008, <mask> began dating English model and ex-professional rugby league player Kris Smith. They met in Ibiza, where Smith was celebrating his 30th birthday. On 9 January 2010, it was announced that <mask> was pregnant; the news was revealed after receiving her 12-week scan. <mask> gave birth via caesarean section to an 8 lb 3oz/4 kg boy, Ethan Edward <mask>-Smith, at Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia on 5 July 2010.She had previously planned for a home birth. In April 2012, <mask> announced on Twitter that she and Smith had separated. Controversies
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 far-right and anti-immigration political party, falsely claimed that <mask> supported their cause following comments she had made in an interview with Britain's GQ. In the interview, <mask> was quoted saying that French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen had "struck a chord with people". <mask> responded saying that she had been misquoted and was "mortified" to be associated with the party adding that "Australia is the most multicultural melting pot of people. I'm completely proud of that." <mask> responded to the British National Party's claims in Gay Times magazine saying, "I am not a racist.That is not how I live my life. I have a Jewish manager, I perform in gay clubs, I come from a multicultural background and I am very proud of that." <mask> received much criticism during series 6 of The X Factor. Controversy began after the first live show on 10 October, after <mask> commented on press reports stating that Danyl Johnson was bisexual. After his performance of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", in which he had changed the gender of the person being addressed in the song from male to female, <mask> remarked to Johnson on air that he didn't need to change the gender if the press was to be believed. <mask>'s remarks sparked an online backlash. <mask> released a statement on the issue:

I want to clear up exactly what happened on last night's X Factor show and post my sincere apologies to anyone who took offence.I made a comment about Danyl changing the lyrics of his song. It was meant to be a humorous moment about the fact he has an opportunity to have fun with his song. An openly bisexual singing a song that is lyrically a 'girl's song'. Danyl and I were joking about the very same thing in rehearsals on

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 Friday, so it carried on to the show. I'd like to apologise to anyone that was offended by my comments, it was never my intention. I spoke to Danyl straight after the show last night and he wasn't offended or upset by my comments, and knew exactly what I was saying. <mask> also apologised on the live results show on 11 October, saying Johnson was not upset by her comments.It has since been reported that British regulator Ofcom received around 4,000 complaints from viewers over the comment. As a result, Ofcom launched an investigation, which cleared <mask> and The X Factor. No penalties were imposed. Media portrayal and other activities
Throughout her career, <mask> has often been compared with her sister, Kylie, whose career has been considerably more successful. Referring to the comparison, <mask> said: "[I]t is hard to be compared all the time to Kylie. On the other hand, however, people will always try to compare you to somebody. Look at Britney and Christina."In an interview with Elle in April 2009, Kylie criticised X Factor judge Louis Walsh for his jibes at her sister: "I'm so proud of my sister and it annoys the hell out of me when comparisons between us are made. In England you lot don't know where she came from. She was on TV every week from 7 years old. It makes it harder for her when she gets Louis Walsh's rather pathetic jibes – one of which is she hasn't had a hit record and that's just not true." She also denied rumours that she did not get along with Cheryl Cole and that she had referred to former judge Sharon Osbourne as "so cheap". <mask> has performed multiple times at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and the London nightclub G-A-Y. She credits her gay following for much of her success, commenting

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 that gay culture has "always been a part of [her] music".<mask> openly supports gay rights causes for social equality and believes that same-sex marriages should be accepted by all governments. <mask> is an ambassador for the Terrence Higgins Trust, an organisation that works to increase awareness of AIDS. She joined the charity in hope that her endorsement would encourage people to discuss safe sex and the disease more openly. In 2004 she posed nude, wrapped only in a red ribbon, to promote World AIDS Day in Australia and the UK. She has long been a supporter of breast cancer research and in August 2008 became an ambassador for the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre Appeal. Discography

Dannii / Love and Kisses (1991)
Get into You (1993)
Girl (1997)
Neon Nights (2003)
Club Disco (2007)

Filmography

Film

Television

DVDs

Theatre credits

Bibliography
 My Story (autobiography book) (2010)
My Style (fashion book) (2011)

Awards and recognition

References

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1971 births
Australian people of Irish descent
Australian people of Welsh descent
20th-century Australian actresses
21st-century Australian actresses
Actresses from Melbourne
Australian child actresses
Australian dance musicians
Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Australian film actresses
Australian house musicians
Australian television actresses
Australian disco musicians
Nu-disco musicians
Participants in British reality television series
People associated with Solent University
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Living people
Australian women pop singers
Australian child singers
20th-century Australian women singers
21st-century Australian women singers
Racing drivers' wives and girlfriends
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All Around

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<mask> was convicted of the murders of Fred Fulton, 74, and Veronica "Verna" Decarie, 70, of Minto, New Brunswick, Canada, after stabbing them on April 23, 2005. He also decapitated Fulton with a homemade sword. On March 5, 2008, the Court found <mask> guilty, but not criminally responsible for his actions at the time. Early life

<mask> was born in Minto, New Brunswick in July 1982. As a young child, his mother, Jenny Despres, separated from <mask>' father. <mask> lived a nomadic existence nearly his entire life. In his youth, he moved with his mother to Massachusetts.By the age of 16, <mask>' mother began noticing changes in his personality which she dismissed as teenage rebellion. At 17, <mask> moved back to Minto. <mask> also severed ties with his mother for almost 2 years, until she herself had returned to Minto. By this time <mask> had become isolated from society locking himself away in his residence for long periods of time rarely being seen by outsiders. His mother was concerned, asked him if he was doing drugs. Despres denied it. Despres state continued to deteriorate beyond that point.Murders

On the evening April 23, 2005, <mask> left his trailer and traveled a short distance on foot to the residence of Fred Fulton and Veronica Decarie. Despres gained access to the house by cutting open the screen of one door with a knife and kicking in the second door. <mask> went to the couple's bedroom where he stabbed Decarie to death. While Fulton attempted to escape the house, he only made it to the porch before being overpowered by <mask>. Despres then  dragged Fulton back to the kitchen where he decapitated him. While it was originally

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 reported to the media that <mask> had thrown Fulton's head out the back door, it was actually found under the kitchen table in a pillowcase. Fugitive

Shortly after the murders, Despres packed up a car with the murder weapons and drove toward the United States.The car was later found in a gravel pit near the Canada-U.S. border and identified as Fulton's. On April 25, 2005, one day before the bodies were discovered, <mask> arrived at the Calais, Maine, border crossing. He presented himself to the U.S. border guards while carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chainsaw stained with what appeared to be blood. At the border, <mask> boasted of being an assassin for the United States government and of having killed 700. The weapons were confiscated and <mask> was fingerprinted. Although it was determined that <mask> was due in court to be sentenced for an assault conviction, <mask> held U.S. citizenship and under US law, the officers could not legally compel <mask> to return to Canada. Although contact was made with the RCMP, they had no other information that would have allowed the officers to detain <mask>.The bodies had not yet been discovered. He was therefore properly permitted to enter the United States. There were however other grounds for possibly detaining Despres that were not acted upon by the border patrol agents. "Joseph Gutheinz, a University of Phoenix criminal justice professor said they could have arrested <mask> for lying to a customs officer. The comment about 700 kills should have tipped them that he was not telling the truth, he said." Gutheinz, a retired Senior Special Agent who had previously

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 served with three Federal agencies also said "if the customs agents wanted to exercise their discretion in regard to a person who they believed might be mentally ill, there was also a non-criminal option. In Maine, as in many states, there is a protective custody statute, which permits law enforcement officers to take into custody individuals they have reasonable grounds to believe may be an imminent threat to themselves or others.This authority to apprehend and process a person is designed to permit a psychological evaluation. From there, Despres hitchhiked south to Massachusetts. On April 27, 2005, a Mattapoisett, MA police officer spotted <mask> wandering on the side of the road. During a routine check for outstanding warrants, it was found that <mask> was expected in court that day in Fredericton, New Brunswick for an assault on Fulton's son-in-law in August 2004. The day prior, Fulton's daughter discovered the bodies of her father and Decarie at their residence in Minto, New Brunswick. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) quickly suspected <mask> and learned later he had been arrested in the United States and was currently jailed in Boston. <mask> was extradited from Boston to Fredericton on September 15, 2005.First trial

<mask>' trial was originally scheduled for September 5, 2006. On August 4, 2006, however, Despres fired his lawyer, Randy Maillet, with whom he disagreed on how the defense should be presented. This caused a major delay and the trial date was moved to January 8, 2007. The Despres trial would be heard by a judge and not a jury. Judge Judy Clendening would preside over the case. The prosecution focused its case on the

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 blood trail, DNA evidence, and his relations with Fulton. The prosecution stated Despres and Fulton were constantly fighting over the waterline, a conflict worsened by Despres' use of recreational drugs.On February 1, <mask> lashed out at his new lawyer, Ed Derrah, accusing him of working for Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. He demanded his lawyer be fired, but Clendenning refused his request. Derrah requested his client be sent for a psychological evaluation; Clendenning agreed and the trial was ended. Hearings were held on April 24, 25 and 26, 2007. During this time, one expert, Dr. Louis Theriault, said that <mask> was unfit to stand trial due to the fact he believe Despres had paranoid schizophrenia. Jeannie, <mask>' mother, backed this up by saying her son seemed to act strangely since the age of 17. Another expert testified that <mask> was in fact fit to stand trial and that medication could help any mental disorder he was facing.Clendenning disagreed with that theory and ruled that <mask> was unfit to stand trial on April 26. On July 11, 2007, <mask> was brought before the provincial mental health review board which found that he had responded well to treatment and was in fact fit to stand trial. A new trial was promptly ordered. Second trial
<mask>' second trial began on November 5, 2007 and was overheard by Justice Grant. Evidence from the first trial was admitted into court. On the second day of the trial, <mask>' grandfather, Adolph, testified that <mask> had repeatedly tried to join the military and had been rejected every time. He also testified that <mask> would stay in his room for hours talking to himself.Also presented this day

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 defense presented their summation to the court and Justice Grant reserved decision until March 5, 2008. In Canadian criminal law, while the burden of proof which must be met to find the accused guilty of a crime is that of "beyond a reasonable doubt", the burden of proof for the defense of non-criminal responsibility based on mental condition is the lower standard of a "balance of probabilities". Court's decision

On March 5, 2008, Justice William Grant found <mask>res guilty of causing the deaths of Fred Fulton and Verna Decarie in 2005.However, Justice Grant agreed with the defense in finding that <mask> was not criminally responsible for his actions at the time. <mask> is currently being held at Shepody Healing Centre which is part of the Dorchester Penitentiary. Due to his non-criminal responsibility stemming from delusions caused by paranoid schizophrenia, Despres has his case reviewed by the New Brunswick Mental Health Review Board every two years. Transfer Request

In March, 2019, <mask> requested during his semi-annual meeting with the review board to be transferred from New Brunswick to the closest high-security psychiatric facility where English is spoken; the Waypoint Health Centre for Mental Health in Penetanguishene, Ontario. The board recommended the transfer take place, but the decision was later rejected by the Attorney General. References

External links
 CBC.ca 15 September 2005
 CBCnews.ca 11 Jan 2007
 CTV.ca 23 January 2007
 Macleans.ca 06 Nov 2007
 CBC.ca 07 November 2007
 CBC.ca 29 January 2008
 The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton, New Brunswick) 30 January 2008
 CBC.ca, 05 March 2008
 The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, NB 06

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<mask> (born February 24, 1946) is an American professor of computer science at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human–Computer Interaction Group. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language using the SHRDLU program. Education
Winograd grew up in Colorado and graduated from Colorado College in 1966. He wrote SHRDLU as a PhD thesis at MIT in the years from 1968–70. In making the program Winograd was concerned with the problem of providing a computer with sufficient "understanding" to be able to use natural language. Winograd built a blocks world, restricting the program's intellectual world to a simulated "world of toy blocks". The program could accept commands such as, "Find a block which is taller than the one you are holding and put it into the box" and carry out the requested action using a simulated block-moving  arm.The program could also respond verbally, for example, "I do not know which block you mean." The SHRDLU program can be viewed historically as one of the classic examples of how difficult it is for a programmer to build up a computer's semantic memory by hand and how limited or "brittle" such programs are. Research
In 1973, <mask> moved to Stanford University and developed an AI-based framework for understanding natural language which was to give rise to a series of books. But only the first volume (Syntax) was ever published. "What I came to realize is that the success of the communication depends on the real intelligence on the part of the listener, and that there are many other ways of communicating with a computer that can be more effective, given that it doesn’t have the intelligence." His approach shifted away from classical Artificial Intelligence after encountering the critique of cognitivism by Hubert Dreyfus and meeting  with the Chilean philosopher Fernando Flores. They  published a critical appraisal from a perspective based in

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 phenomenology as Understanding Computers and Cognition: a new foundation for design in 1986.In the latter part of the 1980s, <mask> worked with Flores on an early form of groupware. Their approach was based on conversation-for-action analysis. In the early 1980s, <mask> was a founding member and national president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a group of computer scientists concerned about nuclear weapons, SDI, and increasing participation by the U.S. Department of Defense in the field of computer science. In general, <mask>'s work at Stanford has focused on software design in a broader sense than software engineering. In 1991 he founded the "Project on People, Computers and Design" in order to promote teaching and research into software design. The book "Bringing Design to Software" describes some of this work. His thesis is that software design is a distinct activity from both analysis and programming, but it should be informed by both, as well as by design practices in other professions (textile design, industrial design, etc.).Starting in 1995, Winograd served as adviser to Stanford PhD student Larry Page, who was working on a research project involving web search. In 1998, Page took a leave of absence from Stanford to co-found Google. In 2002, Winograd took a sabbatical from teaching and spent some time at Google as a visiting researcher. There, he studied the intersection of theory and practice of human–computer interaction. Recently, Winograd has continued to research collaborative computing, including uses of ubiquitous computing in collaborative work. Winograd continues to do research at Stanford and teach classes and seminars in human–computer interaction. In addition to the Computer Science Dept., Winograd is associated with the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, also known as the "d.school", which he helped found.Awards
He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009)  and received

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 the SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award in 2011. Publications
Books by <mask>rad
 1972. Understanding Natural Language Academic Press, New York. 1982. Language As A Cognitive Process, Volume 1, Syntax Addison-Wesley. 1986. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design (with Fernando Flores) Ablex Publ Corp.
 1992.Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools (with Paul S. Adler) Oxford University Press. 1996. Bringing Design to Software  ACM Press. References

External links

 Oral history interview with <mask> Winograd Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis—65-page interview describes his education, first in liberal arts at Colorado College and then in computer science and introduction to linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He discusses the work of Marvin Minsky and others in artificial intelligence. He describes his move to the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and his additional linguistic research at Xerox-PARC. Winograd compares the approach to artificial intelligence at MIT and Stanford.He describes his involvement with obtaining funding from the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Stanford HCI Group
 <mask>'s faculty page
 Interviewed by Morten Thanning Vendelø
 Siri, Who is <mask>, a 2017 strategy+business magazine "creative mind" profile of <mask>'s remarkably fruitful 40-year career as a pioneer of the fraught and vital labor of human–computer interaction. 1946 births
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Cognitive scientists
Colorado College alumni
Jewish scientists
20th-century American Jews
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Google employees
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
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Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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<mask> (born March 6, 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American poker player and television host/commentator. One of the top ranked female poker players in the world, and a Women in Poker Hall of Fame inductee, she has over $4,000,000 in live tournament winnings. <mask>'s live tournament poker record includes 63 WSOP cashes, 5 World Series of Poker final tables (including 1 WSOP Europe final table), 13 World Poker Tour cashes, 4 WPT final tables (including 1 WPT title), and numerous additional final tables on the professional poker circuit. Outside of poker, she has been seen on many primetime television shows; making it to "Hollywood Week" on season 3 of American Idol, competing as the only all-female team on the fifteenth season of The Amazing Race and appearing as a celebrity guest on Deal or No Deal in January 2019. Early life
Fluent in Mandarin and born into a traditional Taiwanese family, <mask> grew up just outside Los Angeles in Arcadia, California, after her family moved from Taiwan to the United States when she was four-years-old. <mask>'s older sister is a media personality and psychologist <mask>, who is known for hosting the CBS syndicated talk show Face The Truth. <mask> started playing poker in college.She was drawn to the psychology and competitive spirit of the game and soon went from playing games with college friends to playing limit cash games at nearby Indian casinos. When <mask> graduated from UCSD in 2005, with a major in communications and a minor in law, she had gone from playing low limits to high-stakes cash games and had grown her poker bankroll to the point that she felt confident to embark on a career as a professional poker player. Career

World Series of Poker

<mask>'s first major tournament success came at the 2007 World Series of Poker where she was the last woman remaining in the Championship Event, placing 38th out of 6,358 players and earning a $237,865 payday. She repeated this accomplishment in 2014, when she came in 77th place out of 6,683

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 players. Her 27th place "Last Woman Standing" finish at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event along with a 2017 6th place final table finish makes <mask> the only player to ever hold the title Last Woman Standing four times over and at both the WSOP and WSOPE Main Events. At the 2012 World Series of Poker, <mask> was the Most-Cashing Female of the series, with six individual tournament cashes. She repeated this feat at the 2014 WSOP with a total of eight cashes.World Poker Tour
In March 2019, for a second year in a row, she final tabled the LA Poker Classic $25,000 High Roller tournament and earned 1st place, earning her second highest live tournament score of $276,690. The following month she made the 6-handed TV final table of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event and placed 3rd for $344,960, which was the second highest cash of her tournament career. Host and Commentator
<mask> has been the celebrity spokesperson for the WinStar World Casino since 2011. In 2013, she joined the Heartland Poker Tour season 9 broadcast team as a co-host and strategic commentator. She was the first female in history to be hired to a poker television broadcast as the resident strategic commentator, and remained with the production for two years until she signed on as co-host and commentator of CBS Sports The Final Table. Since then she has been seen as a host and commentator on Amazon eSports Mobile Masters Invitational series, Battle of Malta, and as a break desk commentator on ESPN's coverage of the World Series of Poker Main Event from 2017 to 2021. <mask> also works as a break desk commentator for PokerGO during High Roller Triple Crown, US Poker Open, Super High Roller Bowl, and World Series of Poker events.In 2019, <mask> won the Global Poker Award for Broadcaster of the Year. She has also contributed her expertise to several print publications, and authored a chapter in the book Winning Women of Poker: Secret Strategies Revealed. Invitationals
<mask> has received

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 invitations to play in various types of games all over the world. In 2008, she traveled to Hong Kong to play in the World Mahjong Tour, going head to head with various Chinese and Taiwanese celebrities and professional Mahjong players. For two consecutive years, she participated in the Inaugural World Team Poker Invitational, as a member of Team China, helping her team secure a 1st Place victory in 2010. In 2016, <mask> was named one of 12 Team Managers (for Team LA Sunsets) in the inaugural season of the Global Poker League, notably drafting Emmy winning actor Aaron Paul as one of her Wild Card picks, as well as coaching her team to the championship match. Awards and accolades
Notable accolades include a 2019 Global Poker Award for Broadcaster of the Year (and a 2020 Global Poker Award nomination for the same category), being inducted into the Women In Poker Hall of Fame the very first year she was eligible and nominated (in 2018), three consecutive nominations as Favorite Female Poker Player by the Bluff Reader's Choice Awards, and on seasons 9 and 10 of the World Poker Tour she was named as one of WPT's "Ones to Watch".YouTube
On February 22, a video featuring <mask> was published on the YouTube Channel "The Try Guys", quickly getting recognition with over 5 million views. When asked in an interview about this experience and her views on video content, <mask> declared that she would like to do more videos of that kind in the future, aimed at beginners and amateurs. Personal life
In an interview done in April 2020, <mask> declared that she likes watching documentaries on Netflix such as "Inside Bill’s Brain", the series on Bill Gates, while her two favorite shows are The Voice and Survivor. References

External links
 <mask>'s Official site
 <mask> Interview

1983 births
American poker players
Female poker players
Living people
American sportspeople of Taiwanese descent
Sportspeople from Taipei
The Amazing Race contestants
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<mask><mask><mask> (January 10, 1936December 19, 2013) was an American pornographer. He is known for helping normalize hardcore pornography in the United States. He was described in his obituary in The New York Times as "a cartoonishly vituperative amalgam of Borscht Belt comic, free-range social critic and sex-obsessed loser who seemed to embody a moment in New York City's cultural history: the sleaze and decay of Times Square in the 1960s and ‘70s." <mask> was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to a Jewish family. He attended Boys High. He served in the Army as a photographer (in the Signal Corps), captained the debate team at Pace College (for whose newspaper he interviewed <mask>), and was a photojournalist, taking pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy on a 1962 state trip to Pakistan and spending several days in a Cuban jail for taking unauthorized photos of Fidel Castro's brother, Raúl. He sold insurance; wrote freelance articles; ran a dime-pitch concession at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair; sold rugs, encyclopedias, and his own blood; drove a cab (he kept his taxi license active until his death); and landed a job as an industrial spy infiltrating a labor union, an experience that so appalled him he wrote an exposé about it for the New York Free Press, a radical weekly.Print publications

Screw
In November 1968 in New York, <mask> and his partner Jim Buckley, investing $175 each, founded Screw, a weekly tabloid. It featured reviews of porn movies, peep shows, erotic massage parlors, brothels, escorts and other offerings of the adult entertainment industry. Such items were interspersed with sexual news, book reviews of sexual books, and hardcore "gynecological" pictorials. He regularly ran, without permission, photos and drawings of celebrities. "Screw grew from a combination of many factors, chief of which was my own dissatisfaction with the sex literature

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 of 1968 and my yearning for a publication that reflected my sexual appetites," he wrote. "I may be making a lot of money, but I really believe I'm doing some good by demythologizing a lot about sexuality", he said in a Playboy Interview. It was described as "raunchy, obnoxious, usually disgusting and sometimes political."The initial price was 25¢. At its peak, Screw sold 140,000 copies a week. Arrested 19 times on obscenity charges, he spent millions on First Amendment lawsuits, ultimately scoring a major victory when a federal judge dismissed an obscenity case in 1974. (<mask> believed that the case began as a result of Screws article, "Is J. Edgar Hoover a Fag? ", the first published comment on Hoover's sexuality.) Venue-shopping prosecutors selected conservative Wichita, Kansas, to prosecute <mask> for obscenity; when he was found not guilty, he flew the jury to New York to attend a party at the swing club Plato's Retreat. His long-term attorney was Herald Price Fahringer.According to Will Sloan, "<mask> was the first journalist to seriously review porn films. Had he not written a rave review of a low-budget film called Deep Throat (“I was never so moved by any theatrical performance since stuttering through my own bar mitzvah”), it would never have become a hit at New York's World Theater, would never have been targeted by the vice squad, would never have spawned a First Amendment cause célèbre, and might not have led to the modern porn industry." Bitch magazine
In the March 11, 1974, issue of Screw Goldstein ran an ad seeking subscribers to a new magazine, Bitch, which "brings women's sexuality out of the closet for the first time" and also "takes women out of politics and puts them back on their back where they belong." (Note: there have been several other magazines also called Bitch.) The first issue "contain[ed] an explosive symposium about

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 blowjobs by four women who talk about giving head and what they like and don't like about it". It also included an interview with actor James Caan, and a centerfold of a man shot by a female photographer. Smut Magazine
In the same March 11, 1974, issue of Screw Goldstein also ran an ad seeking subscribers to Smut, a magazine "so filthy that not only do you have to wash after every page, but every reader must disinfect after reading!SMUT is so dirty, so scummy, that once you have it on your hands you can't get it off!" The magazine offered pornography in images and words, without the news articles found in Screw. National Screw
In 1976-1977 National Screw was published; the place of publication was given as Secaucus, New Jersey. The June 1977 issue of the magazine contained, according to its cover, a new story by William Burroughs and an interview with <mask>. It is known to have published at least nine issues (76-77), also containing original adult comic strip work from comic artist legends Wally Wood and Will Eisner. Death magazine
In 1979, <mask> began Death magazine. It lasted four issues.The February, 1980 issue had a picture of Elvis Presley on the cover, "Grim Reaper Awards", "Eulogy to a War Lover", "Death by Hanging", "Femme Fatales", and other articles. Screw West
In 1979-1980 <mask>'s company, Milky Way Productions, published Screw West out of an office in Hollywood, California. According to an advertisement, it was intended to answer such questions as, "Where can I get laid in San Francisco? What's the best swinger's club in Los Angeles? How do I find all those out-of-the-way Pacific Coast nude beaches? And what are those bawdy brothels outside Las Vegas really like?" It is known to have published 54 issues.Movies and television

It Happened in Hollywood
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 produced by <mask>'s partner Jim Buckley. <mask> played a character in the movie, and is also credited as "fourth unit director." At the 2nd Annual New York Erotic Film Festival it won awards for Best Picture, Best Female Performance, and Best Supporting Actor. Midnight Blue
In 1974 <mask> began Screw Magazine of the Air, soon renamed Midnight Blue, a thrice weekly hour-long adult-oriented public access television program that ran for nearly 30 years on Manhattan Cable's Channel J; federal regulations regarding public access to cable TV systems made it impossible for the cable system to refuse his program. (Similarly, <mask> used a legal prohibition on the censorship of political advertisements to force television broadcast of pornography, under a transparent, but legal, veil of "political candidacy".) In it, he regularly interviewed porn stars, other adult industry figures, and sympathetic celebrities and "freaks", and ran advertisements for brothels and phone sex services. In the later years, after departure of original director <mask>, <mask> featured on each program a "Fuck You" segment, a few minutes in which he viciously attacked celebrities, politicians, the judge who presided over his latest trial, the New York County District Attorney, and businesses he felt had wronged him.In its early years, Midnight Blue presented porn star Georgina Spelvin doing her nude tap-dance act at the Melody Burlesque; <mask> attempting the world's biggest gang bang at Plato's Retreat, the New York swing club; the 10th anniversary Screw party, where Buck Henry and Melvin Van Peebles hobnob with <mask>'s jurors; and an early look at the S&M community in New York. Throughout its run, Midnight Blue interviewed almost every major porn star, and regularly hit the limits of what was acceptable for cable television." Seven volumes of excerpts from the show have been reissued

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 on DVD. SOS: Screw on the Screen
In 1975, <mask> issued SOS: Screw on the Screen, a stridently unsexy attempt at a cinematic newsmagazine that included a lot of goofy comedy, a gay scene, and several minutes of <mask> ranting about America's sexual hypocrisy. Also appearing was Honeysuckle Divine (who often appeared in SCREW). A poster of her was on sale in the same issue. Honeysuckle Divine was a Times Square stripper whose specialty was inserting objects such as pickles in her vagina, shooting out many of them.She put the pickles in baggies and sold them to patrons. <mask> said that her act "was unbelievably disgusting, so naturally, we made her our symbol." Other business ventures

The Screw Store
In the May 17, 1976, issue of Screw <mask> ran an ad for the "Screw Store", which offered dildos, including a "Bicentennial Dildo", vibrating Ben wa eggs, and a vibrating cock ring. Selling dildos brought one of <mask>'s many arrests. <mask>'s Cinema
The October 17, 1977, issue of Screw contained an advertisement for "<mask>'s Cinema", located at 8th Avenue and 46th Street near Times Square. Admission was 99¢. In the same issue, in the movie listings, it is described as "a large, comfortable porn house which shows average hardcore features.Some of these are first-run features, some have already played theaters in the city." The theater is not found in a listing of porn theaters from 1979. Rabbit Ranch
In 2001, on Saint Martin, an island in the Lesser Antilles, <mask> planned to open the Rabbit Ranch, the first of what he hoped would be a chain of 10 to 30 bordellos that would flourish wherever prostitution is legal. He intended to use the profits to finance his second run for sheriff. The brothel never opened; authorities refused to give him a license because he was not a citizen of that nation. "We didn't bribe the right people or something," he said.

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 Political and religious views

Free speech
In 1989, <mask> ran a full page ad in Screw offering $1 million for the assassination of the Ayatollah Khomeini, in response to Khomeini's fatwa against novelist Salman Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam.View on Christianity
In his book XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul, Luke Ford wrote about a conversation with <mask>, in which Ford asked <mask> why Jews were dramatically overrepresented in the porn industry. He answered, "The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged. " Ford then asked, "What does it mean to you to be a Jew?" To which <mask> responded, "It doesn't mean anything.It means that I'm called a kike." Ford also asked, "Do you believe in God?" <mask> said, "I believe in me. I'm God. Screw God. God is your need to believe in some super being. I am the super being.I am your God, admit it. We're random. We're the flea on the butt of the dog." Personal life

Friendship with Larry Flynt
One of <mask>'s best friends was Larry Flynt. <mask> said that Flynt's Hustler magazine, founded seven years after Screw, stole the Hustler format from Screw, but that he was not angry. According to <mask>, Flynt succeeded in creating a national publication, at which he had failed. <mask> married five times and had a son, Jordan Ari <mask>, with his third wife, Gina.According to <mask>, he and Jordan had a close relationship until the <mask>s' divorce. They became estranged after <mask> called Gina "a contemptible vagina". Life in Florida
While mostly associated with the city of New York, <mask> was

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 also a well-known figure in Broward County, Florida, making the cover of a local alternative tabloid, New Times. He owned a 10,000-square-foot mansion in Pompano Beach, famous for its statue,  high, of a raised middle finger on the back lawn, visible to boaters on the Intracoastal Waterway. In 1992, he filed to run for sheriff against Nick Navarro, who had gained <mask>'s enmity by arresting on obscenity charges 2 Live Crew members and a record dealer who sold their album As Nasty As They Wanna Be. (The accused were convicted, but won on appeal.) <mask> withdrew before the election took place.In 2001 he spoke publicly of his intent to run a second time, against Ken Jenne, on a platform of "leaving folks the hell alone". He never filed, saying that he could not afford the campaign. Final years

Legal issues and financial woes
In 2002, <mask> was found guilty of harassing a former employee, having published her telephone number and place of employment in Screw and encouraging readers to call her and tell her "to stop being such a cunt." <mask> was sentenced to 60 days in jail. He served six days  before the charges were overturned on appeal. <mask> apologized as part of a plea bargain. Screw folded in 2003, unable to make payroll; only 600 copies were sold of the last issue.<mask>'s company, Milky Way Productions, which published Screw and Midnight Blue, entered bankruptcy in 2004, having lost sales and subscribers as a result of the proliferation of internet pornography, abetted by <mask>'s financial mismanagement. <mask> lost his Florida mansion and his townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Jobless and penniless, he ended up living briefly in a Manhattan homeless shelter. He was fired from New York's well-known Second Avenue Deli for sleeping in the basement, after a brief stint there as a greeter. He was arrested for shoplifting four health-related

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 books from Barnes & Noble. He worked in 2005 as a commissioned salesman for New York City Bagels. Between 2005 and 2008, he blogged for booble.com, a pornographic search engine he then continued on his own website until 2009.He was financially supported in his last years by his friend the illusionist Penn Jillette, on whose floor he once slept, and who admired <mask> for his First Amendment activism. His final residence, prior to a nursing home, was a small apartment in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, paid for by Jillette. <mask> died on December 19, 2013, aged 77, from renal failure at a nursing home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Legacy

Documentary
In 2003, Lancaster Pictures produced a documentary on <mask> entitled <mask>: The Trials of the Sultan of Smut. It focused on his legal troubles. Larry Flynt, Ron Jeremy, and Jimmy Breslin appeared in the movie. He claimed to have had 7,000 sexual partners.Another writer called him "a hairy, sweaty, cigar-chomping, eczema-ridden fatso". Retrospective
In his 2011 book Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! – of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers, an American Tale of Sex and Wonder, former Screw writer and editor Mike Edison documents <mask>'s rise and fall against the successes of his peers Larry Flynt of Hustler, Bob Guccione of Penthouse, and Hugh Hefner of Playboy. Edison also lauds <mask> as a staunch fighter for the First Amendment, quoting Gay Talese, who referred to <mask> in his book Thy Neighbor's Wife, saying, "We need a free society, and freedom is not won by literary tea parties and well-meaning, virtuous publishers, it is won by disreputable people like <mask>." Edison also quotes the New York reporter Jimmy Breslin as saying, "<mask> is one of four people in the last 35 years who has effectively protected the First Amendment rights of reporters who bring the news to you.The others are Ralph Ginzburg, Larry

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General <mask> (born February 17, 1934) is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who served as Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), from 1985 to 1987; and Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command/Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command (CINCNORAD/USCINCSPACE), from 1987 to 1990. Early life and education
<mask> was born in 1934, in Detroit and graduated from Henry Ford Trade School in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1951. He attended Arizona State University and Florida State University, and graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He did postgraduate work at the University of Southern California and Auburn University, and attended the program for management development at Harvard University. He completed Squadron Officer School in 1956, Air Command and Staff College in 1965, Armed Forces Staff College in 1968 and the Royal Air Force College of Air Warfare, Royal Air Force Station Manby, England, in 1971. Military career
He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in September 1952. After basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, he was assigned to Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, as a student in basic electronics and ground radar.In July 1953 <mask> transferred to Harlingen Air Force Base, Texas, for navigator and observer training in the aviation cadet program. After graduating as a distinguished graduate, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force in August 1954. He then returned to Keesler Air Force Base for advanced training in electronic countermeasures. In January 1955 he received the electronic warfare rating and was assigned to the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing in South

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texts: Aviano Air Base, Italy. In April 1974 <mask> became chief of the Air Force Six-Man Group, located at Maxwell Air Force Base, directly responsible to the chief of staff. He became vice commander of Keesler Technical Training Center, Keesler Air Force Base, in March 1975. He took command of the reactivated 552d Airborne Warning and Control Wing at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, in July 1976 and was instrumental in establishing the E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft as an operational Air Force weapon system. While Congress debated the E-3 future (due to huge cost over-runs), General <mask> took the planes on continuous road shows. Especially Europe, and Korea. He filled the planes with observers who would benefit, or could appreciate the capability to project tactical forces anywhere in the world, in less than 24 hours.He was not only an effective leader, he was very personable and warm hearted. Before Piotrowski, the E-3 was going to be a system that would orbit America in defense, and after he arrived he changed the system to deploy to where the war was, and bring tankers and fighters along. A true tactical mission, with troops who could live out of an A-3 bag for 200 days a year. <mask> was named deputy commander for air defense, Tactical Air Command, Peterson Air Force Base, in September 1979. In April 1981 he became Tactical Air Command's deputy chief of staff for operations at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, and in August 1982 was assigned as the command's vice commander. He served as commander of 9th Air Force, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, from October 1982 to July 1985, when he became vice chief of staff of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. He

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 assumed command of NORAD in February 1987.Awards and decorations
<mask> was a command pilot with more than 5,000 flying hours, including 100 combat missions and 210 combat flying hours. His military decorations and awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster, Presidential Unit Citation and Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with three oak leaf clusters. He received the Eugene M. Zuckert Management Award for 1979. On May 13, 2017, General <mask> was inducted into the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame at their facility located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Defense Distinguished Service Medal
  Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
  Legion of Merit
  Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters
  Air Medal
  Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
  Presidential Unit Citation
  Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with three oak leaf clusters

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<mask> (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member best known for his efforts to stop war crimes during the Japanese takeover of Nanjing (Nanking) and his work to protect and help Chinese civilians during the massacre that ensued. The Nanking Safety Zone, which he helped to establish, sheltered approximately 250,000 Chinese people from slaughter. He officially represented Germany and acted as senior chief of the European-U.S. establishment that remained in Nanjing, the Chinese capital at the time, when the city fell to the Japanese troops. Early life and career

Born in Hamburg on 23 November 1882, <mask> pursued a career in business and worked in Africa for several years. In 1908, he left for China, and between 1910 and 1938 worked for the Siemens AG China Corporation in Mukden, Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai and later Nanking. Rabe suffered from diabetes by the time he worked in Nanking, requiring him to take regular doses of insulin. At the time of the Japanese attack on Nanking, <mask> was a staunch Nazi and the party's local head, serving as a Deputy Group Leader in the Nazi Party.Establishment of the Nanking Safety Zone

Many Westerners were living in Nanking, the Chinese capital city, until December 1937, conducting trade; others were there on missionary trips. As the Japanese army approached Nanking and initiated bombing raids on the city, all but 22 foreigners fled, with 15 American and European missionaries and businessmen forming part of the remaining group. On 22 November 1937, as the Imperial Japanese Army advanced on Nanking, <mask>, along with other foreign nationals, organized the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone and created the Nanking Safety Zone to provide Chinese refugees with food and shelter from the impending Japanese slaughter. He explained his reasons thus: "there is a question

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 of morality here… I cannot bring myself for now to betray the trust these people have put in me, and it is touching to see how they believe in me". The zones were located in all of the foreign embassies and at Nanking University. The committee was inspired by the establishment in November of a similar neutral zone in Shanghai which had protected approximately 450,000 civilians. <mask> was elected leader of the committee, in part because of his Nazi party status and the German-Japanese bilateral Anti-Comintern Pact.The committee established the Nanking Safety Zone in the western quarter of the city. The Japanese government had agreed not to attack parts of the city that did not contain Chinese military forces and the members of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone attempted to persuade the Chinese government to move all their troops out of the area. In this they were partly successful. On 1 December 1937, before fleeing the city, Nanking Mayor Ma Chao-chun ordered all Chinese citizens remaining in Nanking to move into the Safety Zone. When Nanking fell on 13 December 1937, 500,000 non-combatants remained in the city. <mask> also opened up his properties to help 650 more refugees. Nanking Massacre

According to <mask>, the Nanking Massacre resulted in the deaths of 50,000 to 60,000 civilians.<mask> and his zone administrators tried frantically to stop the atrocities. Modern estimates of the Death toll of the Nanking Massacre vary but some put the number of murdered civilians as high as 300,000. <mask>'s appeals to the Japanese using his Nazi Party credentials often only delayed them but the delay allowed hundreds of thousands of refugees to escape. The documentary Nanking credited <mask> with saving the lives of 250,000 Chinese civilians; other sources suggest he saved 250,000 to 300,000. In his diary, <mask> documented Japanese atrocities

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 committed during the assault on and occupation of the city. In a series of lectures he gave in Germany after his return, <mask> would say that "We Europeans put the number [of civilian casualties] at about 50,000 to 60,000". <mask> was not the only person to record Japanese atrocities.By December 1937, after the defeat of the Chinese force, Japanese soldiers often went house-to-house in Nanking, shooting any civilians they encountered. Additional evidence of these violent acts came from the diaries kept by some Japanese soldiers and by Japanese journalists appalled at what occurred. Return to Germany

On 28 February 1938, <mask> left Nanking. He traveled first to Shanghai, returning to Berlin on 15 April 1938. He took with him a large number of source materials documenting Japanese atrocities in Nanking. Rabe showed films and photographs of Japanese atrocities in lecture presentations in Berlin and wrote to Hitler, asking him to use his influence to persuade the Japanese to stop further violence. <mask> was detained and interrogated by the Gestapo; his letter was never delivered to Hitler.Due to the intervention of Siemens AG, <mask> was released. He was allowed to keep evidence of the massacre (excluding films) but not to lecture or write on the subject again. <mask> continued working for Siemens, which briefly posted him to the safety of Siemens AG in Afghanistan. <mask> subsequently worked in the company's Berlin headquarters until the end of the war. Postwar

After the war, <mask> was arrested first by the Soviet NKVD, then by the British Army. Both let him go after intense interrogation. He worked sporadically for Siemens, earning little.He was later denounced by an acquaintance for his Nazi Party membership, losing the work permit he had been given by the British Zone of Occupation. <mask> then had to undergo lengthy de-nazification (his first

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 attempt was rejected and he had to appeal) in the hope of regaining permission to work. He depleted his savings to pay for his legal defence. Unable to work and with his savings spent, <mask> and his family survived in a one-room apartment by selling his Chinese art collection but it was insufficient to prevent their malnutrition. He was formally declared "de-Nazified" by the British on 3 June 1946 but continued to live in poverty. His family subsisted on wild seeds, his children eating soup and dry bread until those too ran out. In 1948, Nanking citizens learned of the <mask> family's dire circumstances and quickly raised a sum of money equivalent to $2,000 USD ($ in ).The city's mayor traveled to Germany via Switzerland, where he bought a large amount of food for the <mask> family. From mid-1948 until the communist takeover, the people of Nanking also sent the family a food package each month, for which <mask> wrote many letters expressing deep gratitude. Death and legacy

On 5 January 1950, <mask> died of a stroke. In 1997, his tombstone was moved from Berlin to Nanking, where it received a place of honour at the massacre memorial site and still stands today. In 2005, <mask>'s former residence in Nanking, the <mask> Rabe House, was restored to its former state; it houses the <mask>be and International Safety Zone Memorial Hall, opened in 2006. The Austrian Service Abroad was later invited to send a Peace Servant there. <mask>'s grave in Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Charlottenburg was re-erected in 2013.War diaries

<mask>'s wartime diaries were published in English as The Good German of Nanking (UK title) or The Good Man of Nanking (US title) (original German title: Der gute Deutsche von Nanking). Portrayals in film

<mask> has been portrayed in numerous films:
 In Mou Tun Fei's 1995 film Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre. Minnie Vautrin

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 and George Ashmore Fitch are also depicted. In Wu Ziniu's 1995 film Don't Cry, Nanking, actor Ulrich Ottenburger played <mask>, although his name was changed to "<mask>". In Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman's 2007 documentary film Nanking, actor Jürgen Prochnow played <mask>. In Lu Chuan's 2009 film City of Life and Death, actor <mask> played <mask>. In Florian Gallenberger's film John Rabe, also released in 2009, Ulrich Tukur played <mask>.See also

 Robert Jacquinot de Besange, a French Jesuit who saved over half a million Chinese civilians. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary who saved thousands of lives during the Nanking Massacre. Robert O. Wilson, an American physician who treated victims brought to the Nanking Safety Zone. <mask>, an American priest and missionary who documented the Nanking Massacre. Bernhard Arp Sindberg, a Danish worker who saved thousands of people by harbouring them in a factory during the Nanking Massacre. Georg Rosen, consular employee of the German Foreign Office who helped create the Nanking Safety Zone. References

Sources
 Erwin Wickert (editor).(1998). The Good German of Nanking: The Diaries of <mask>, Knopf. Original German: (1997). <mask>. Der gute Deutsche von Nanking. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart. External links

 <mask>be Peace and Communication Center Heidelberg

 Museum Recalls Hero of 'The Rape of Nanking' Fall 2006 NPR program about Rabe
 <mask>'s Nanjing Diaries | Testifying and Contesting War Experiences in China and Japan Research project: <mask>'s Nanking Diaries: Testifying and Contesting War Experiences in China and Japan

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<mask> (full name - <mask>; 4 February 1943 – 12 December 2008) was a Lithuanian poet, translator, playwright, essayist, critic and a member of the Lithuanian independence movement, Sąjūdis, and of the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas. Life

Early life
<mask> was born in the village of Paterai, in the Lazdijai district of Lithuania, to <mask> and Aleksandra Gedienė. He was the fourth of seven children. Education and career
<mask> studied history and philology at Vilnius University. His collection Pėdos (Footprints) was published in 1966. He was also a leading figure in the Movement for the Support of Perestroika or Sąjūdis. For a time <mask> withdrew from public life in the independent Lithuania because of his dislike of corruption and infighting.<mask>'s poetry has been translated into English by Kerry Shawn Keys. Awards
 1994 Lithuanian National Prize
 1998 Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature, the Arts and Science

Bibliography

Bibliography in Lithuanian

Original works
 Pėdos: eilėraščiai. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1966. Strazdas: poema. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1967. Panteistinė oratorija: libretas. 1970.Užmigę žirgeliai: eilėraščiai. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1970. 26 rudens ir vasaros giesmės: eilėraščiai. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1972. Velnio nuotaka: scenarijus, 1974. Mėnulio žiedai: eilėraščiai. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1977.Baltojo Nieko dainelės: eilėraščiai. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1977. Paskutinės pagonių apeigos: libretas, 1978. Marių paukštė: libretas, 1979. Mėlynas

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 grąžina viską: poezija. – Vilnius: Andrena, 1999. Grigoras Narekaci. Sielvartingų giedojimų knygos. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1999. Edgar Lee Masters. Spūn Riverio antologija: epitafijos.– Vilnius: Adrena, 2000. Servus, Madonna: mažoji meilės antologija. – Vilnius: UAB „Meralas“, 2000. Josif Brodskij. Poezija. – Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2001. Omaras Chajamas.Rubajatai. – Vilnius: Presvika, 2002. Arthur Rimbaud. Sezonas pragare; Nušvitimai / kartu su J. Mečkausku-Meškėla – Vilnius: Andrena: Dictum, 2003. Charles Baudelaire. Piktybės gėlės: poezija. – Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, 2005.A. A. Milne. Kai mes buvome maži: eilėraščiai vaikams. – Vilnius: Garnelis, 2005. Dante Alighieri. Dieviškoji komedija. Pragaras: poezija.– Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, 2007. Koranas: Literatūrinių prasmių vertimas. – Vilnius, Kronta, 2008. William Shakespeare. Sonetai – Vilnius, Žara, 2009. Tarielis Čanturija. Iš gruzinų poezijos.Poezijos pavasaris 1978. - Vilnius: Vaga, 1978

Bibliography in English
 Selected Poems of <mask> <mask>, Biopsy of Winter, translation from Lithuanian, Vaga Press, 2002
 Preface to Thirteen Poems by <mask> <mask> by Jonas Zdanys

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Guillaume-<mask>, (Périgueux, 8 April 1761 – Bordeaux, 22 January 1850) was a French Catholic priest who survived persecution during the French Revolution and later founded the Society of Mary, usually called the Marianists, in 1817. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 3 September 2000 his feast day is celebrated on 22 January. The Marianist Family's other three branches — the Religious Sisters known as the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, the married and single men and women of the Marianist Lay Communities, and the consecrated laywomen of the Alliance Mariale  — also look to Chaminade as a founder or inspiration. Early life
<mask> was born in 1761 in Périgueux to Catherine Bethon and <mask>, in the former province of Périgord, now the Department of Dordogne. He was the 14th child of deeply religious parents. Three of his brothers became priests. Feeling called to serve in this way as well, he entered a minor seminary in Mussidan at the age of ten.He was ordained a priest in 1785 for the local diocese. The Revolutionary era
In 1790, after the start of the French Revolution, Chaminade moved to Bordeaux. There he became an enemy of the state by defying the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which would have required him to take an oath affirming the Revolution's secular values and disclaiming the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. He secretly continued to work as a priest, risking a possible death penalty. One of his allies in this work was the Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de Lamourous, whom he later assisted in founding Bordeaux's Miséricorde (House of Mercy) for "fallen women". In 1795, when the national government sought to work with the non-juring clergy, Chaminade accepted responsibility for supervising the reconciliation of the clergy of Bordeaux who had taken the Constitutional Oath but wanted to make peace with the Catholic Church; about fifty such priests completed their reconciliation with his help. After the Coup of 18 Fructidor by the French

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 Directory in 1797, he fled the country and found refuge for three years in Zaragoza, Spain

While living there, he would regularly visit the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar out of his strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.As a result of his prayer he developed a vision for restoring the Catholic faith to France. To this end, he decided to build an organization of both lay and religious Order members, taking the Virgin Mary as the model of a perfect disciple of Jesus. Founder
When he returned to Bordeaux in November 1800, he re-established the Marian Sodality, which he hoped would promote the desecularization of France by offering "the spectacle of a people of saints". He saw the development of the young lay movement as the prime focus of his mission. In this he was opposed by the traditionalist forces in the Church, both clergy and lay, who saw the re-creation of the privileges and institutions of the pre-Revolutionary Church as the true goal of their restoration of the faith in France. In 1824 Chaminade published a reply to that line of thinking in which he stated, "The levers that move the moral world somehow need a new fulcrum." The sodality spread to other cities, and the Holy See recognized his efforts by appointing him Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Bazas and later, in 1801, naming him an "Apostolic Missionary" to the region, confirming its trust in him.Some sodalitists wanted to make a more complete commitment to the Church, so <mask>, along with the Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon, founded the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate in Agen in 1816. A year later, he founded the Society of Mary at Bordeaux. Both religious institutes devoted themselves to teaching. Chaminade sought to establish a network of schools to train Catholic teachers, but this effort was checked by the 1830 Revolution. However, both of <mask>'s religious institutes continued to grow: the Daughters of Mary founded schools in south-western France to

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 educate rural women and the Society of Mary expanded in France and spread to Switzerland (1839) and the United States of America (1849). Death
The last ten years of <mask>'s life were filled with problems of health, finances and obstacles to his vision in the administration of the Society. He was replaced in January 1846 as Superior General by a General Chapter, which he considered illegitimate, called by members of the General Council of the Society, with the approval of the Holy See.Partially paralyzed, he thereafter was left in virtual isolation by the government of the Society. <mask> died in Bordeaux in 1850, surrounded by members of the Society he had founded. His tomb is located in the city. Veneration

The process of inquiry for the cause of Chaminade's canonization was opened in 1909, with testimony taken in until 1912 in France and Spain, where he had lived. The cause was submitted to Rome by the Marianists in 1918. Study on the matter continued until 1973, when Chaminade was declared Venerable by Pope Paul VI. Miracle worker

Argentina
In 1995 the healing from lung cancer of Elena Otera, a resident of Buenos Aires, was studied as a possible miracle to be attributed to the intercession of Chaminade.After a positive conclusion in the local inquiry conducted by the Marianist Postulator of the cause, the matter was referred to the Vatican for investigation. The medical boards consulted by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints finally declared her healing as "scientifically inexplicable" in January 1999. A review of the cause then took place by the theologians and bishops of the Congregation. They voted unanimously in favor of declaring a miracle that following October. This was approved by Pope John Paul II, who beatified <mask> in 2000. United States

Rachel Baumgartner, then a high school student in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, was diagnosed in December 1998 with Askin's tumor, a kind of sarcoma. She underwent emergency surgery to

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<mask> (born November 15, 1974) is the United States Associate Attorney General, serving since April 22, 2021. <mask> served as the president and chief executive officer of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and as the head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she was the chief civil rights prosecutor for the United States from 2014 to 2017. Formerly, she was a civil rights lawyer and the deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she oversaw its national criminal justice reform efforts. She has also served as Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Throughout her career, she has drawn support from a wide range of liberal and conservative activists, as well as law enforcement groups, for building support for policing and criminal justice reform. On January 7, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated <mask> to serve as Associate Attorney General. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 21, 2021.Early life and education
<mask> was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Indian immigrant parents. She is the daughter of Rajiv L<mask> and Kamla Varshney. She received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Yale University. She received her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law in 2001. Career

NAACP Legal Defense Fund
<mask>'s first case, while working for the LDF directly after law school, involved 40 African Americans and six white or Latino people who were romantic partners of African Americans in Tulia, Texas, who had been convicted by all-white juries of dealing drugs. In almost every case, the only evidence was the testimony of an undercover agent, Tom Coleman. Coleman did not use wiretaps or marked money and records showed that he had "filed shoddy reports".He had previous misdemeanor charges for stealing gasoline from a county pump and abuse of official capacity. <mask> won the release of her clients in 2003, four years after they were jailed, then negotiated a $6 million settlement for them. Paramount is making a film, Tulia, about the case. ACLU
In 2007, after becoming a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, <mask> filed a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and

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 Customs Enforcement (ICE) about detention conditions for children whose parents were asylum seekers. In August 2007, a landmark agreement was reached between ACLU and ICE, under which the conditions in the T. Don Hutto Residential Center improved and several children were released from the center. On August 6, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security announced intentions to improve the nation's immigration detention system, including ending family detention at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center. After her time as a staff attorney at the ACLU, <mask> served as its deputy legal director and director of its Center for Justice.She has been credited with pioneering the ACLU's National Campaign to End Mass Incarceration. She built bipartisan coalitions to advance pre-trial and sentencing reforms around the country. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (2014-2017)

In October 2014, President Barack Obama appointed <mask> as the United States Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and head of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Under <mask>'s leadership, the Civil Rights Division worked to advance criminal justice reform and constitutional policing, including by investigating and working to reform police departments in Ferguson, Missouri; Cleveland; Baltimore, and Chicago, among other cities. <mask> also oversaw a wide range of other enforcement efforts for the Division, including prosecuting hate crimes and human trafficking, promoting disability rights, protecting LGBT rights, and combating discrimination in education, employment, housing, lending and voting. <mask>'s tenure was marked by several high-profile matters, including the investigations of the Ferguson, Baltimore, and Chicago police departments; the appeals of the Texas and North Carolina voter ID cases; the challenge to North Carolina's HB2 law and other LGBTQ rights litigation; enforcement of education, land use, hate crimes, and other statutes to combat religious discrimination; the issuance of statements of interest on bail and indigent defense reform, and letters to state and local court judges and administrators on the unlawful imposition of fines and fees in the criminal justice system; and the

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 administration's report on solitary confinement. In 2016, under <mask>'s leadership, the division sued North Carolina, alleging that the state's implementation of House Bill 2 discriminated against transgender individuals in violation of federal civil rights laws.In August 2016, an investigation by <mask>'s division concluded that the Baltimore Police Department engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct that violated the Constitution and federal statutory law, including unconstitutional stops, searches, arrests, excessive force, and enforcement strategies that produced an unjustified disparate impact on African-American residents. Associate Attorney General (2021-present)
On January 7, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated <mask> to serve as the United States Associate Attorney General. On March 9, a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held on her nomination. Her nomination was supported by a broad range of civil rights and law enforcement groups, as well as by prominent conservatives who had worked with her on criminal justice reform and voting rights. She faced strong opposition from Republicans who criticized her civil rights advocacy, particularly during the Trump administration. The Senate confirmed <mask> to the position by a 51-49 vote on April 21 after Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski agreed to vote to confirm her, and she was sworn in on April 22. <mask> has indicated that the Department of Justice intends to take a hard line toward "killer acquisitions" as part of the Biden administration's effort to rein in monopolies.Personal life
<mask> is married to Chinh Q. Le, the legal director of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. They have two sons. References

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<mask> (born 29 October 1960 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German comedian, cabaret artist, author and television presenter. Nuhr's stage program nuhr in Berlin (the title is a pun; for explanation, see below) is the first German stand-up comedy which was created exclusively for Netflix. Early life and education
Nuhr was born in Wesel but his family moved to Düsseldorf when he was four years old. Growing up he attended the secondary school Leibniz-Gymnasium. In 1981 he started to study art and history at the University of Duisburg-Essen and received his teaching degree in 1988. From 1981 to 1989, Nuhr studied art and history at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Life and career
His first appearance on stage was with a school theater group where he also started to write his first own texts.In 1986, he and Frank Küster founded the cabaret-duo V.E.V.-K.Barett. Their first official appearance on stage was part of their program called “Haben Sie sich ihre Schranknummer gemerkt?”, which can be translated as “Have you memorized your locker-number?”. In 1987, he appeared for the first time as a cabaretist. In 1989, the duo developed their second stage program “Pralle Pracht” (lit. bulging opulence) and after a name change in 1990 to V.E.V.Kabarett  the duo performed their third stage program “Schrille Stille” (lit. sharp silence). The last project of the group called “Zipfeltreffen”, which is a play on words in German (Gipfeltreffen = summit conference whereas Zipfeltreffen = summit of dicks), followed.In 1994, Nuhr started his first


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texts: hop group from Stuttgart. Nuhr recorded the song “Buenos Dias Messias“ in his office room.In this song he played all the instruments himself and recorded it with his equipment, which he uses for radio reports otherwise. In addition to that, the album includes a conversation between Nuhr and the initiator of the album project Andreas "Bär" Läsker. From 20 January 2011 until 2014, he presented the TV show "Satire Gipfel" on ARD. He replaced Mathias Richling, whose contract ended in 2010. In October 2014, this TV format was replaced by "Nuhr im Ersten" which was presented by him as well. Nuhr produced a two-part TV special concerning the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In doing so he referred to the topic soccer in an ironical way.Furthermore, he produced weekly cabaret segments for the radio station WDR 2. Together with Ralph Casper he presented the quiz show "Null gewinnt" in the early evening time slot of ARD from July to March 2013. In the year 2012, <mask> Nuhr was mentor for the "ARD-Themenwoche" (a special TV format, covering a weekly particular topic) with an emphasis on the topic: living with death. To this TV format he contributed the television show "Nuhr am Leben" which was recorded in the St. Elisabeth church in Berlin Mitte and broadcast on ARD on 19 November 2012. In 2013, he took part in the "ARD-Themenwoche" again, when the topic "fortunately/I'm glad that..." was concerned. His broadcast "Nuhr im Glück" was recorded in the orangery of the tropical Botanical Garden, Potsdam and was aired on 22 November 2013. The ARD-Themenwoche 2014 will


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 be about tolerance and Nuhr will perform his stage program “Nuhr mit Respekt” (Only with respect) and will be broadcast from the Jewish museum Berlin.Nuhr can also be seen regularly on the TV show “Mario Barth deckt auf!” in which he and the German comedian Mario Barth show examples of projects which only wasted tax money. In 2014, Nuhr received the Jacob-Grimm-Award. The Jury praised Nuhrs way of performing and his intelligent form of cabaret. His stage programs were eloquent and his punch lines hit. Though the main aspect of his work was not the extraordinary quality of his speeches but also his ability to perform critique with and through language and the way Nuhr invites the audience to think about how language is able to influence our thoughts and emotions. Nuhr's stage program nuhr in Berlin (the title is a pun; for explanation, see below) is the first German stand-up comedy which was created exclusively for Netflix. On November 15, 2016, it became available on Netflix in several countries (optionally with subtitles), including the United States and the United Kingdom.Islamic cabaret controversy

<mask> <mask> is one of the few German cabaret artists who deals with the topic of radical sides of Islam in his programmes and books. In October 2014, a suspected Salafist pressed charges against Nuhr because he was allegedly insulting creeds and religious communities. Erhat Toka (board member of the former Muslimisch Demokratischen Union – MDU, now Bündnis für Innovation und Gerechtigkeit (BIG)) initiated the process and denoted Nuhr to be

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 right-wingers.Nuhr, on his part, criticized the report of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, which related the term “hate preacher-image” to Nuhr in their online issue. The Tagesspiegel cited Nuhr's entry from his Facebook site: “Been accused as “hate preacher” by Islamists because I quoted the Quran correctly. Begging for regular visits in jail! Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung only asks for the opinion of the Islamists and shows understanding. The question is: Does a country, that has that kind of newspapers, even need Islamists?” Richard Herzinger comments that there were some concerns and that the complaint would especially harm the image of Muslims. On 5 November 2014, the Prosecution Office of Osnabrück announced that the proceedings against Nuhr would be closed. The prosecution justified this with the lack of “xenophobic sentiment” in the works of <mask> Nuhr as well as the circumstance, that it obviously is satire.Awards
 1998: Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis
 2000: Bayerischer Kabarettpreis (Bavarian Cabaret Awards) and Morenhovener Lupe
 2003: Deutscher Comedy-Preis: Bester Liveact (German Comedy-Prize: best Live Act)
 2008: IQ Award
 2009/10: Deutscher Comedy-Preis: Bester Komiker (German Comedy-Prize: best comedian)

Personal life
As of 2010, Nuhr lives in Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Productions

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Since "nur" means only, simply or just in German, the titles of his stand-up programs and CDs often involve puns. Nuhr am Nörgeln, lit. Nuhr grousing or Just grousing (1994)
Nuhr weiter so, lit. Nuhr, go on or Just going on (1996)
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title: Greta Rana

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<mask> (born 1943), MBE (awarded Order of the British Empire in 2005) is an author and poet born in Yorkshire, U.K. She has been living in Nepal for almost half a century. She is the aunt of well known Castleford personality Kathryn Jones. Working in mountain areas in Nepal during her first two decades in the country led her to accept the task of establishing a publishing and PR unit for the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), a regional organisation which operates at the interface of research and development in the eight countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas in 1989. She continued to build on this unit, now a sizeable programme, until her retirement at the end of 2004. In 1991 <mask> was joint winner of the Arnsberger Internationale Kurzprosa and in that year she delivered a paper at the International PEN Congress in Vienna on 'Mondialism: The Future Looking at the Past,' which outlines the unchangeability of human nature across cultures and continents based on three recurring themes from the Iliad and the Mahabharat;viz.,
'War is futile' but war is inevitable, and it is the duty of the warrior to fight. Against such human destructiveness, the future lies not in the call to conform as in the call to "When in Rome do as the Romans do," but in a human capacity to tolerate and celebrate difference and the whole kaleidoscope of human cultures and creativity. A committed interest in children's education, especially children whose families cannot afford to send them to school, led to the founding of the 'New Shakespeare Wallahs' an amateur drama group working under the auspices of the Nepal Britain Society to raise money for children's education amongst the poorest communities.Brief periods of residence in Laos and Afghanistan in the late 70s and early 80s, besides her time in Nepal, have given her a unique outlook on what the author refers to as "the colonisation by development aid." Works

Born in 1943 in the coal-mining town of Castleford, West Yorkshire (birthplace of the

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texts: famous sculptor Henry Moore), <mask> <mask> attended the local Grammar school and then went on to graduate from the Victoria University of Manchester. During this period she came into contact with the 'Manchester Poets', 'Stand' and Jon Silkin when she was editor of the University CND's journal 'Fallout.' In 1966 she lost contact with her poetic roots when she married and went to Canada. In 1971 she arrived in Nepal with two of her sons: her youngest son was born in Nepal the following year and from then on she began once more to write poetry. She has always referred to poetry as her 'highest excellence,' but in the early 70s she was commissioned to write three novellas with a Nepali background for the International Bookfair in New Delhi. These were titled Nothing Greener, Distant Hills, and Right As It Is.The first is a teenage novel about a village girl who escapes an arranged marriage as a co-wife to a much older couple. Providing them with the son they crave her life is made so miserable she runs away. The bulk of the novel deals with her work as a domestic in an American family working in development, her love affair with the son, and sudden demise just as her life is beginning to change for the better. Distant Hills is a 'housewife' novel( author's words) about an impoverished hill aristocrat who brings a secret to her marriage to a rich Kathmandu <mask>. Widowed she suddenly becomes all powerful in a family sense and the unusual denouement deals with how she handles her 'secret' affairs in the twilight of her life. The final novel is a psychodrama set against the background of Nepal's ethnic animosities. A ritualistic wife murders her doctor husband at the 'command' of her tutelary goddess who instructs her that he is 'unclean' because of his previous and resumed love affair with a higher caste woman.The novel builds up suspense as the obviously disturbed woman progresses from pregnancy to childbirth and post-partum depression and paranoia. Guests in This Country is set in an imaginary country -

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texts: Lapalisthan. Basically this is a catchall name for the three developing countries the author has lived and worked in: Laos, Nepal, and Afghanistan. It is a satire about a young programme officer who sets out to be an interpreter but ends up as a Junior Programme Officer for the United World Institution for the Loaning of Technology and Resources Internationally(UWILTRI). From her landing at the airport in Lapalisthan, the protagonist, Becky Sidebottom, gets into hair-raising situation after situation because of the impish but gazelle-like presence of Desi Khunbarrah, a scion of the old aristocracy, who opens Becky's eyes to the 'colonisation' of development aid and the hypocrisy of many of its protagonists. A sequel to this satire, 'Ghosts in the Bamboo,' will soon be available. A Place beneath the Pipal Tree is about three generations of Sherpa women and their relationship with their own people, the monastic order in a famous monastery, and the ruling elite of Nepal.Of all her novels this one tells the story of a world that is now fast vanishing, of a time of hope in Nepal, and the fear of disintegration and things falling apart. By the time we move on to 'Hostage', things have already fallen apart in Nepal and the poor are exploited as labourers in the Gulf States. This novel deals with Hari Prasad, a humble river boatman, who sells his labour through the auspices of a corrupt brother-in-law who is a politician in Kathmandu. Hari Prasad is eventually murdered and the denouement of this story deals with an essentially corrupt society where parties tout political ideals to which they do not adhere and the majority have to cope in whatever way they can. Hidden Women released in May 2012 by Roli Books, India, is the historical novel about the wives and concubines of Jung Bahadur Kunwar <mask> the founder of the Rana dynasty. It is a novel look at his story, worn out by many Nepali writers, because it is told through the eyes of the women in his life; and starts with his wet nurse. Very little is known


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 about the lives of Nepali women but the author has used research for a doctorate undertaken many years previously to build together a feasible picture of how women lived and thought, hoped and died in a restrictive feudal environment.Poetic works by this author deal with a range of issues, from personal angst, joy, nature-its beauty and human abuse of the same- and the sorrowful aspects of refugees,racism,torture, and the hollowness of human loss. Poetry

Mara
The Stone God Thunders
Middle Load
Beneath the Jacaranda,
Hunger is Home
Nothing Personal
So Why Not Sleep
From Castleford to Kathmandu (Winner KLF poetry book of the year 2021)

Novels

Nothing Greener
Distant Hills
Right As It Is
Guests in This Country
Place Beneath The Pipal Tree ( also in German as Im Schatten des heiligen Baumes)
Hidden Women (India Ink, Roli Books, India)
Hostage (Speaking Tiger, India)
Ghosts in the Bamboo (Book Hill Publications,Nepal)
Others include
Mount Everest
Monsoon Heat Wave

Other information
Besides these she has numerous journalistic contributions and short bodies of work. Her work has also been translated into other languages. She also translated the popular Nepalese historical novel 'Seto Bagh' by Diamond Shumshere <mask> into English and gave it the title 'Wake of the White Tiger'. Since then it has been translated into several other languages. She has received several awards for her writing. She was one of the founders of the PEN Centre in Nepal in 1987 and has recently become a member of the PEN centre of San Miguel de Allende where she has many friends.She has also been directing plays to raise money for the Nepal Britain Society for social causes under the production name of New Shakespearewallahs for the past decade or so. From 1984 to 1986 she was Chair of The International PEN Women Writers' Committee, representing women writers at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 where a motion was tabled about internal repression of women through 'cultural' mores and the self-censorship this


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<mask> (born Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice; 27 February 1951) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as frontman of the rock group Cockney Rebel, with whom he still tours, albeit with frequent and significant personnel changes. Early life
<mask> was born in 1951 in Deptford, London, the second of five children. His father was a milkman and his mother a semi-professional jazz singer. During the summer of 1953, <mask> contracted polio, causing him to spend four years in hospital between the ages of three and 16. He underwent two major surgeries in 1963 and 1966. After recovering from the first operation at the age of 12, <mask> was introduced to the poetry of T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, the prose of John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway, and the music of Bob Dylan, which inspired him to a career of words and music. From the age of nine, <mask> began taking classical violin lessons and would later play as part of his grammar school orchestra.Aged 10, he began learning the guitar after receiving a Spanish nylon-strung guitar from his parents at Christmas. <mask> was a pupil at Edmund Waller Primary School in New Cross, London. He then attended Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys' Grammar School until he was 17. He left school without completing his advanced level exams. Career
In 1968, at the age of 17, <mask> began his first full-time job, working as a trainee accountant with the Daily Express – despite having gained only 24% in his mock O-level maths exam. From there he progressed to become a reporter. After being interviewed by several newspaper editors, <mask> signed to train with Essex County

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 Newspapers.Over three years, <mask> worked at the Essex County Standard, the Braintree and Witham Times, the Maldon and Burnham Standard and the Colchester Evening Gazette. He later returned to London to work for the East London Advertiser (ELA). <mask> became disillusioned with the job when his editor insisted he write a report on a shoplifter who had absentmindedly walked out with a tin of soup and a tin of baked beans. Taking advice from his union representative, he stopped wearing a tie, grew his hair and was duly sacked. Among many of <mask>'s peers who went on to gain successful careers in national journalism were John Blake and Richard Madeley; the latter took over <mask>'s desk at the ELA in 1972. <mask> started his musical career playing in bars and clubs in 1971, mainly at folk venues on open-mike nights. He sang at Les Cousins, Bunjies and The Troubadour on nights featuring John Martyn, Ralph McTell, Martin Carthy and Julie Felix, who were all popular musicians within the London folk movement of the time.In 1971, he auditioned for the folk band Odin as rhythm guitarist and co-singer, which was where he met Jean-Paul Crocker, who would become the first Cockney Rebel violinist. <mask> began busking around London in 1972, including on the Underground and in Portobello Road, whilst also writing songs. After the folk scene proved not to be his preference, he formed the band Cockney Rebel in late 1972 as a vehicle for his own work. Cockney Rebel 1972–77

The original Cockney Rebel consisted of <mask>, Crocker, drummer Stuart Elliott, bassist Paul Jeffreys and guitarist Nick Jones. Jones was soon replaced by Pete Newnham;

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texts: however, <mask> felt the band did not need electric guitar, particularly with the arrival of keyboardist Milton Reame-James. They settled on the combination of Crocker's electric violin and Reame-James' Fender Rhodes piano. During 1972, representatives of Cockney Rebel began to send demo tapes to various labels.Mickie Most discovered the band at a London nightclub known as The Speakeasy Club and offered them their first contract with his RAK Publishing. In turn this influenced the A&R personnel at EMI Records, who then offered the band a three-album deal. With producer Neil Harrison, Cockney Rebel recorded their debut album, The Human Menagerie, during June and July 1973. Their debut single "Sebastian" became a hit across Europe, but failed to chart in the UK. When released in November 1973, The Human Menagerie suffered a similar fate. Despite the lack of commercial success, the album was critically well-received and soon gained cult status. The Human Menageries lack of success led EMI to feel that the band had yet to record a potential hit single.In response, <mask> went away to re-work the unrecorded song "Judy Teen", with the objective of making it single material. "Judy Teen" was released in March 1974 and peaked at No. 5 in the UK. During February and March 1974, the band recorded their second album The Psychomodo, which was produced by <mask> and Alan Parsons. Released in June, the album peaked at No. 8 in the UK. From May until July the band embarked on a major UK tour to promote the album; tensions grew among them as the tour progressed.On 18 July they received a 'Gold Award' for outstanding new act of 1974; a week

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