kevin yates is a canadian politician who served as an mla in the legislative assembly of saskatchewan from 1999 to 2011 for the constituency of regina dewdneyborn february 17 1963 in carmichael saskatchewan he moved to regina in 1983 before yates was elected the mla for regina dewdney he was employed by the saskatchewan provincial government as a social worker and corrections worker for 15 years he was the chief negotiator for the public service bargaining unit of sgeu for six yearsyates was first elected to the saskatchewan legislature in a 1999 byelection for regina dewdney he was reelected in 2003in 2006 yates was named to the executive council of saskatchewan as minister of corrections and public safety and deputy government house leaderon september 15 2006 yates stepped down from his position as the minister of corrections and public safety for personal reasons which he declined to name beyond explaining that he was not stepping down for healthrelated issues some media sources along with saskatchewan party opposition leader brad wall speculated that his resignation was the result of insubordination to saskatchewan premier lorne calvertfollowing a may 31 2007 cabinet shuffle yates returned to cabinet as minister of community resources and minister responsible for disability issues
james fraser kasting born january 2 1953 is an american geoscientist and distinguished professor at penn state university kasting was educated at harvard university and the university of michigan where he received his phd in atmospheric science in 1979 he is married with three children kasting has published dozens of reviews and papers covering the geophysical history and status of the earth with a focus on atmospherics he has also considered the habitability criteria of other stellar systems and planets and is broadly considered the world leader in the field of planetary habitability in their popular 2001 work rare earth peter ward and donald brownlee note although many scientists have been doggedly pursuing the various attributes necessary for a habitable planetone name stands out in the scientific literature james kasting pg 266 a 1993 paper on habitable zones was particularly decisive in shaping thinking on this field he won a lexen award for his work collaborative research methanogenesis and the climate of early mars kasting is also a member of numerous professional scientific societies and committees he was elected fellow of both the american academy of arts and sciences and geochemical society in 2008 he has served nasa at the ames research center in various capacities including as a member of the scientific working group for the terrestrial planet finder and as a civil servant for most of the 1980skasting said his calculations indicate the earths oceans will evaporate in about a billion years much earlier than previously thought
aslie pitter mbe is a british footballer who founded stonewall fc britains first and most successful gay football club in 1991 for his work in combating homophobia he was appointed a member of the order of the british empirepitter grew up in balham south london his parents vincent and evelyn were jamaican immigrants pitter realised at the age of 10 that he was gay and dealt with homophobic abuse from his schoolmates he has played football since his youth for a number of amateur clubs he was chosen to play midfield for the sutton united youth team and had a trial at wimbledon while playing for clapham old boys he suffered racism from other players and was demoted from the first team to the fourth team after one of his teammates found out that he was gay observing that they wanted him gone pitter quit in 1991 after seeing a listing in time out he joined a group of gay men playing football in regents park this became stonewall fc the first gay football club in britainin november 2010 he was informed that he would be appointed a mbe for his work against homophobia in london his father died shortly after before the new year honours list was made public in december pitter collected his mbe from buckingham palace on 8 february 2011 accompanied by his sister his fianc and his motherinlaw he was conferred with an honorary doctorate by the university of east london in 2011pitter currently lives in balham with his fianc alan whom he plans to marry now that he has received his mbe and works as an assistant manager at boots he plays for and manages stonewall fcs second team
elena alexandra apostoleanu professionally known as inna is a romanian singer and dancer her music is written by play win members sebastian barac radu bolfea and marcel botezan she was the first european female singer to surpass one billion total views on youtube having accomplished this milestone in february 2012innas debut studio album hot was an international success appearing in many record charts around the world and particularly popular in the united kingdom where it reached number one the albums lead single of the same name charted worldwide topping in 2009 a united states yearend chart the song won the award for the mtv europe music award for best romanian act at the 2009 mtv europe music awards it got gold music recording sales certification in italy 3 platinum in norway and platinum in spaininnas second studio album i am the club rocker was produced by play win and received the romanian album of the year award from her label roton her third studio album party never ends was released in march 2013 and reached the 10 in mexicoshe has won numerous awards including two mtv europe music awards and over thirteen awards in three consecutive years at the mtv romania music awards as of may 2011 inna has sold over 100000 albums and over 600000 singles in the united kingdom at the end of 2011 inna became the richest recording artist in romania and in eastern europe her net worth is over 10 million euro as of april 2014 she has sold over 3 million copies of her 3 studio albums
viktoriya yermolyeva ukrainian born november 2 1978 is a ukrainian pianist she started as a classical pianist and won several international piano competitions but she later became known through her youtube portal under the nickname vkgoeswild for creating piano covers of famous rock and metal songs after the success thanks to her youtube videos she officially switched her career from classical to rock musicafter studying at the tchaikovsky music academy in ukraine 2000 she completed her graduate studies at the franz liszt academy of music in weimar and the international piano academy incontri col maestro in imola italy with the famous pianist lazar berman further studies took her to the codarts academy of music and modern dance at rotterdam conservatory netherlandsin the early classical phase of her career she won a variety of piano competitions such as 1st prize at filippo trevisan competition for piano interpretation in italy winner of the grachtenfestival 2005 amsterdam 1st prize at 35th international competition vincenzo bellini in italy 1st prize at 20th international piano competition citta di marsala 1st prize at international piano competition citta di trani 1st prize at 4th sigismund thalberg international competition and the grand prix at 9th pierre lantier international music competition in duet with v dmitriev flute in francesince 2006 she refocused her career on playing rock music concentrating on heavy metal covers by the whole gamut of famous metal bands her works have over 80 million views on youtube and her subscribers number over 300000 she also occasionally covers classical orchestral compositions as well as music from sound tracks that are not otherwise available in sheet musicon january 29 2011 she performed her first live rock concert in reykjavk iceland viggie vika live in iceland collaborating with drummer brian viglione
shirley erena murray born 31 march 1931 is a new zealand hymn lyrics writer her hymns have been translated into numerous languages and are represented in more than 140 hymn collectionsborn a methodist in invercargill she earned a master of arts degree with honours in classics and french from the university of otago she later worked as a teacher and researcherafter marrying presbyterian minister john murray in 1954 she eventually moved to wellington where john was minister for the st andrews on the terrace from 1975 to 1993 her hymn writing started in the 1970s and often used the congregation of st andrews as a testing place for the hymns many different composers have put music to her hymn textsher hymns have been translated into several european and asian languages and are represented in more than 140 hymn books around the world in addition to new zealand they are particularly used in north americaamong her most known hymns are hymn for anzac day where mountains rise to open skies our life has its seasons star child and upside down christmasprofessor and hymn writer colin gibson who has set music to some of her songs described murrays hymns in 2009 as distinguished by their inclusive language and their innovative use of mori their bold appropriation of secular terms and their original poetic imagery drawn from nature and domestic life but equally by the directness with which they confront contemporary issuesin 2001 she became a member of the new zealand order of merit for services as a hymn writer in 2006 she became a fellow of the royal school of church music she received an honorary doctor of literature degree from the university of otago in 2009 the same year she was named a fellow of the hymn society in the united states and canadamurray lives with her husband at raumati beach near wellington the couple has three children and several grandchildren
rune hauge born april 23 1954 is a norwegian football agentin english football hauge is best known as the agent who represented john jensen and pl lydersen during their transfers to arsenal in the early 1990s this would lead to arsenal manager george graham becoming embroiled in allegations that hauge paid him a 425000 bung to sign the players graham was later found guilty by the football association after admitting receiving an unsolicited gift and was suspended for a year before this hauge was involved in the signings of two key manchester united players andrei kanchelskis and peter schmeichelhauge was banned from operating as an agent for life by fifa in 1995 but this was later reduced to two years suspension of his licence 1 after he regained his licence he went on to represent several norwegian players including ole gunnar solskjr steffen iversen and eirik bakke he was also involved in the transfer of rio ferdinand from west ham united to leeds united 2in 2005 he was involved in the transfer dispute between manchester united and chelsea over john obi mikel claiming along with others that he had the right to represent the nigerian youthhauges current clients include rosenborg bks norwegian midfielder morten gamst pedersen
matt johnson born november 6 1970 in houston texas is an american drummer who played in the band of jeff buckley appearing and cowriting one song on his album grace in 1994 as well as on subsequent live releases and eps although he stopped playing with buckley before recording began on what was to become the singers final original album released posthumously as sketches for my sweetheart the drunk johnson shares writing credits for one of its tracksmatt johnson has also performed and recorded with duncan sheik elysian fields rufus wainwright martha wainwright gabriel kahane dean wareham britta phillips beth orton david poe and theo eastwind johnson is currently collaborating with sheik and fellow musiciansongwriters david poe morgan taylor and fil krohnengold on an asyet unnamed band project artistdrummer matt johnson has stepped away from the drum lift to record and release the solo project cagefighter its a moody and graceful collection of matt johnson original music including the piece together we say johnson is also expected to release more solo materialmatt johnson has appeared in many live performances and toured with american indie musician st vincent from 2011 to 2014the authentic styled drummer is also a member of the australian singersongwriter duo angus julia stone with which he performed around the year 2011 when the duo split apart for a time to work on soloprojects matt johnson accompanied angus stone on his solotourmatt johnson has released his second solo album titled law of the land here is a multifaceted artist with a unique voice as can be heard in the wellrounded emotion of dying breed and the kicking tempo of break you down the smiling chagrin of those shoes is nicely counterbalanced by the resigned sorrow of low soft refrain again johnson is expected to release more solo material
ioannis samaras greek born 3 may 1961 is an australianborn greek former footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1980s and 1990ssamaras was born in melbourne australia to greek parents his father georgios was a cofounder of south melbourne fc an australian soccer club with strong ties to the greek community he moved to greece at the age of thirteen his son also named georgios is a footballer who previously played for manchester city and celtic he now plays for west bromwich albion fc samaras is a common member of the greek squad greek national teamhe began his football career in 1980 with vyzas fc but before long he had attracted the attention of several bigger teams and he signed for ofi crete in the summer of 1984 he went on to play over 100 matches for crete before he left for panathinaikos fc in january 1989 in 1991 samaras returned to crete playing 103 games and retiring in 1996samaras earned 16 caps for the greek national team between 1986 and 1990 he scored one goal on his eighth cap in a 42 friendly win over norwayhe was appointed on 26 july 2010 as the new technical manager for the panathinaikos fc academies replacing nikos kovis
nancy kemparendt born 22 may 1969 in eschsuralzette ne nancy arendt is a politician and former athlete from luxembourg she competed in triathlon and swimming she now sits in the national legislature the chamber of deputies for the christian social peoples partykemparendt competed under her maiden name nancy arendt at the 1988 summer olympics in seoul participating in the 100m breaststroke and 200m breaststroke she finished twentyninth and thirtyfirst respectively after converting to triathlon kemparendt competed in that sports first appearance in the summer olympics in 2000 she took tenth place with a total time of 2031494 she has won the title of luxembourgian sportswoman of the year a total of six times two for swimming and four for triathlon making her the only athlete male or female to have won it for success in two different sportsafter her early sporting success arendt went into politics becoming a member for the christian social peoples party csv in 1993 she was appointed to the chamber of deputies to fill a vacancy on 23 january 1996 and finished out the term until the legislative election in 1999 in that election she finished eleventh on the csv list for the sud constituency with seven being elected however this was high enough to ensure her replacement of ady jung on 3 june 2003 in whose place she served until the following year she placed eleventh again in the following election but on a landslide csv victory that saw nine csv members elected from sud allowing her to be appointed to fill one of three ministervacated seats and has sat in the chamber since then
uladzimir vasilyevich yurchanka belarusian russian born 26 january 1989 in mogilev is a belarussian footballer who plays for shakhtyor salihorskyurchenko made his debut for the u21 national team on 9 september 2008 in a match against latvia u21 he was part of the belarus u21 side that participated in the 2009 uefa european under21 football championship and made appearances in all three matches on 12 august 2009 yurchenko netted his first goal for the belarus u21 team opening the scoring against the austria u21 in the 21 home win in a 2011 uefa european under21 football championship qualifier on 12 october 2010 yurchenko netted twice to help his team to a 30 win against italy u21 which secured qualification for the 2011 uefa european under21 football championshipon 2 november 2010 yurchenko earned his first callup to the senior team of his country but was subsequently injured and withdrawn from the squad for the friendly match against omanon 1 june 2011 yurchenko was selected to take part in the 2011 uefa european under21 football championship in denmark but was injured in a pretournament friendly and missed the competition he was replaced by aliaksandr perepechka following his recovery from injury he made the belarusian squad for the 2012 toulon tournament and participated in all three group stage matches he was also selected as part of the preliminary squad including 43 players for the 2012 london olympics but did not make the final cut of 22 18 nominees 4 reserves footballers for the games
darren shaw is an australian former rugby league footballer and coach he is the coach of rochdale hornetsbefore his coaching career shaw played for a number of clubs in england and australia shaw played for brisbane broncos london broncos sheffield eagles castleford tigers and salford city reds at the sheffield eagles shaw earned a challenge cup winners medal when the eagles beat wigan in the 1998 final darren shaw was assistant coach to bobbie goulding at rochdale hornets prior to taking charge at leigh in 2006 shaw replaced tony benson after benson was relieved of his duties following a shock playoff defeat by batley bulldogsshortly after shaws appointment it was found that he did not have the relevant coaching qualifications to take charge of a team at national league level to counter this shaw was made football manager with paul rowley becoming first team coachdarren shaws first full season in charge of leigh centurions ended with a 196 play off defeat away to whitehaven leighs 2007 season was one dogged by inconsistency convincing wins were often followed by heavy defeats as shaw was forced to field a number of youngsters due to injury problems the unsettled nature of the side in 2007 was reflected by the fact that shaw gave debuts to over 20 players over the course of the seasondespite the disappointing end to the 2007 season shaw was given a contract to coach leigh for the 2008 seasonafter a promising start to the 2008 season shaw tendered his resignation following defeats by salford widnes and featherstone rovershe was appointed as head coach of rochdale hornets in may 2008
susan akin born august 12 1965 is an american beauty pageant titleholder from meridian mississippi who was miss america 1986 akin was a member of pi beta phi fraternity for women at the university of mississippiin the past susan traveled extensively with bob hope performing at conventions both in las vegas and atlantic city susan has been politically active since her win and was formerly the spokesperson for the national downs syndrome association during which she spoke before many state legislatures and advocacy groups she now lives in meridian mississippi she is also the granddaughter of bernard l akin a conspirator of the mississippi civil rights workers murders of 1964 the meridian star reported akins response to her grandfathers involvementwhen asked about some of the negative publicity she had received about her grandfather miss akin commented thats something that doesnt involve me i wasnt even born and cant be involved in this and the people who have taken it out of context thinking they can drag me down cannot and theyre notwhen the press asked about akins opinions of mixed marriages the new york press reportedthe new miss america says she opposes mixed marriages i feel in mixed marriages it could be mainly up to the individual but to me i feel at this time intermixing could lead to more problems
christopher gregory malkin born june 4 1967 in bebington merseyside is a former english professional football player he played as a centreforwardmalkin began his professional career at tranmere rovers whom he joined from stork on a free transfer in 1987 he spent eight years at prenton park forming a successful partnership with john aldridge upon his arrival from real sociedad in 1991 halfway through malkins stay on the wirral a couple of months earlier malkin scored the winning goal at wembley stadium to win the division three playoff final against bolton wanderersafter over 200 league appearances and 60 goals for rovers malkin joined millwall in 1995 for a 400000 price tag in fifteen months at the den he scored thirteen goals in a halfcentury of league appearances for the lionsin 1996 malkin moved back north joining gary megsons blackpool for 275000 becoming the seasiders record signing which he remained until 2008 an injuryprone period at bloomfield road meant he made only 65 league appearances and scored six goals for the lancashire club in just under three yearsblackpool didnt receive any return on their record outlay when in august 1999 nigel worthington let the forward join telford united on a free transfermalkin joined chester city as playerphysio in 2001 and a year later moved to oswestry town with whom he finished his careermalkin now works as a physiotherapist at spire murrayfield hospital in wirral helping patients back to fitness he previously had spells as club physio for aston villa and nottingham forrest
katarzyna kasia kowalska born june 13 1973 in sulejwek poland is a polish pop rock singer songwriter producer and actressher musical experience began in the 1980s when she sang as a female vocalist for numerous polish bands including human fatum and talking pictures in 1994 she started solo career releasing album gemini the album is said to represent her complex personality with the name following her zodiac signin 1995 she took part in the sopot festival where she won grand prix one of the judges was malcolm mclaren after that she released her 2nd album koncert inaczej a collection of her live performances and rock and jazz coversin 1996 she represented poland in the eurovision song contest with a song called chc zna swj grzech and finished 15th out of 23 and received 31 points including 7 from three countries turkey greece and bosnia and herzegovina but very little from the other ones afterwards she starred in a movie called nocne graffiti and recorded a song for soundtrack of the movie she also recorded a song to the soundtrack of a disney movie the hunchback of notre dame the prayer of esmeraldashe got involved in a relationship with kostek yoriadis the future father of her daughteron 2 may 1997 she gave birth to her daughter aleksandra juliain 2001 was nominated for mtv europe music awards as best polish artist and won the awardkowalska writes all the lyrics for her albums by herself reflecting in large part her own experiences usually about disappointment in love she is known as a true stage animal because of her strong vocal abilities and great communication with audiences she collaborates with some of the best polish musicians including the great bass player wojciech pilichowskion 23 june 2008 she gave birth to her second child son ignacy uanowskiher latest album was released on nov 10 and is being promoted by the single a ty czego chcesz
jonathan simon woodgate born 22 january 1980 is an english footballer who plays as a defender for middlesbroughwoodgate started his career at leeds united where he established himself in the starting eleven however woodgate was sold to newcastle united for 9 million in january 2003 he impressed at newcastle but he also suffered a number of injury problems his performances in europe for newcastle led to spanish giants real madrid signing woodgate for 134 million in august 2004 injuries blighted his time in madrid as he failed to make a single appearance during the entire 200405 season he endured an awful debut for real madrid as he scored an own goal and was later sent off for two bookable offenceshe went on to play 14 times for los blancos before rejoining his hometown club middlesbrough on loan before joining the teesside club permanently for a fee of 7million he then joined tottenham hotspur for 8 million in january 2008 he scored the winning goal for spurs in the league cup final against chelsea and went on to play 44 times during the 200809 season however after more injury problems he only made four appearances in the next two seasons and was released in june 2011 in july 2011 he signed on a payasyouplay deal with stoke city he spent the 201112 season at stoke and after his contract expired he resigned for middlesbrough
rashid yakhyayevich gaysanov russian born 17 september 1972 last name also spelled gaisanov is a russian politician in the southern republic of ingushetia he has served as the prime minister of ingushetia under ingush president yunusbek yevkurov he was further appointed the acting president of ingushetia following an assassination attempt against yevkurov in june 2009the russian government of dmitry medvedev appointed gaysanov as the acting president of ingushetia by presidential decree following the assassination attempt against president yunusbek yevkurov in june 2009 the bombing left yevkurov in a coma for two weeks after the bombing and unable to governgaysanovs appointment as acting president was seen as an attempt by the kremlin to halt potential political infighting both gaysanov and former ingush president ruslan aushev had reportedly shown interest in becoming acting president until yevkurov returned to office gaysanov was directed by the president of russia dmitry medvedev to exercise operational leadership of the republic in view of the powers that gaysanov has to assume that rolegaysanov pledged to continue all of yevkurovs programs and policies during yevkurovs recovery all the programs and projects led by president yevkurov and launched by him will be continuedrashid gaysanov was the acting president of ingushetia
leela devi dookhun luchoomun mp born on 16 april 1961 is current minister of social security of mauritius serving in the cabinet of navin ramgoolam having been appointed on 11 may 2010 by president anerood jugnauth she is member of parliament representing constituency no 8 moka quartier militaire she is a former minister of arts culture serving in the cabinet of paul berenger for a short period of 6 monthsshe was appointed as parliamentary private secretary in september 2000 after the msmmmm coalition won the elections she firstly served in the cabinet of sir anerood jugnauth she is a member of the militant socialist movement and is the vice president of the party she is also president of the women wing of the same political party she is along with nando bodha and showkatally soodhun to form the front bench of the msm in the ptrmsmpmsd coalition governmentshe is an educator by profession she is well known for being a highly renowned biology teacher in the country leela devi dookhun luchoomun has a rich political career in 1996 she joined the militant socialist movement and took part in the municipal elections of vacoasphoenix then stood as candidate in constituency no 15 la caverne phoenix in 2000 she was elected and served as 1st member of parliament for the constituency in 2005 the msmmmm coalition lost to social alliance and she was elected 3rd mp for the same constituency but serving in the opposition she was member of the opposition from 2005 to 2010 before the general elections in 2010she holds a bsc hons from the university of delhi and completed her postgraduate certificate in education at the mie and her postgraduate diploma in education pgdip from the university of brighton she is also a part time lecturer at the mauritius institute of education she is married and is the mother of two children
grant nelson born 27 april 1971 in london also known as wishdokta bump flex and nng is an english dj remixer and record producernelson is heralded as one of the godfathers of uk garage due to his numerous club hits on his nice n ripe record label in the early 1990s it was his sound along with a few others that gave birth to the then known as sunday scene which evolved into uk garagehe also produced under the name wishdokta from 19901993 when he was producing breakbeat hardcoredrum and bass for the legendary london label kickin records in 1993 wishdokta teamed up with dj vibes and together they delivered some of happy hardcores biggest anthems on vibes asylum music inc and other labels including happy traxin 1997 nelson started using the alterego bump flex and began to produce uk 2step he delivered some of the scenes biggest records including funk on ah roll by james brown nelson has always remained a house head since his early nice n ripe days and continues to do so to the present with his swing city records label that consistently delivers top drawer house musicsome of the artists nelson has remixed and worked with include kelis jodeci misteeq aaliyah james brown the artful dodger jamiroquai lutricia mcneal thelma houston another level goldie roy ayers guy rosie gaines juliet roberts liberty x towa tei evelyn champagne king bebel gilberto negrocan beverley knight brand new heavies faithless simply red frankie knuckles and agnes
william dehning born august 13 1942 is an american conductor teacher and author who spent almost his entire career in the collegiate realm he is known primarily for his work as conductor of the university of southern california thornton chamber choir and as author of the book chorus confidential decoding the secrets of the choral art published in 2003 under his leadership the thornton chamber choir won seven prizes in international european competitions including grand prizes in varna bulgaria and tours france after winning the choral competition with the usc chamber choir in bulgaria dehning was awarded the judges conducting prize by a panel of ten judges in 1999 during his tenure the ensemble also appeared at american choral directors association acda conventions six times including nationals in 2001 and 2005 they also completed a tour of east asia in 2006 performing at the national concert hall in taipei while at northern michigan university from 19701972 dehning was the founder of the marquette choral society which is still active later he was from 19851995 the founderconductor of the california choral company a semiprofessional chamber chorus that attained a reputation in europe as well as in the united states as chairman of the usc department of choral music now retired dehning was awarded the first annual deans faculty award for excellence in teaching and he was also the 2007 recipient of the thornton schools ramo award dehning was one of four founding members of the national collegiate choral organization ncco which held its first national conference in san antonio in 2006
allan harris born 28 december 1942 in hackney london was a footballer who played for chelsea coventry city and qpr his brother ron was also a professional footballerharris was a fullback and began his career with chelsea for whom he played 70 league games in his first stint with the club he joined coventry in 1964 spending two years there before briefly returning to chelsea again where he played in their 1967 fa cup final loss to tottenham hotspur in 1967 he moved to qpr as a replacement for jim langley and made his debut in august that year against portsmouth harris was a member of the 196768 side that won promotion to the first division for the first time in the clubs historyharris played 94 league games for qpr before transferring to plymouth argyle in 1971 and later played for cambridge united in 1974 he joined nonleague hayes as playermanager until his dismissal in march 1975 he signed for st patricks athletic in february 1976 along with terry venables and made his debut on the 22nd1 after retiring from playing harris went on to be assistant manager to venables at crystal palace qpr helping the team reach the fa cup final in 1982 and win promotion to the first division in 198283 and fc barcelona winning la liga in 198485 and reaching the 1986 european cup final he also led egyptian giants alahly to the african cup as champions from 1993 to 1995he was the coach of the malaysian national team from december 2000 to 2004
john paul kissock born 2 december 1989 is an english association football player who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for whitehawkborn in the north liverpool suburb of fazakerley kissock joined premier league club evertons youth system aged seven progressing quickly he began playing for englands under16 team in november 2004 aged only 14 he appeared for englands under18 side in september 2006 aged 16 and signed professionally for everton on 12 december 2006 he became a regular player for the clubs under18 and reserve teams and was an unused substitute for the first team on numerous occasions following loan spells at scottish premier league club gretna for whom he made his professional debut on 9 february 2008 and english fourthtier side accrington stanley the following year he was released by everton at the end of the 200809 seasonkissock briefly returned to scotland at the start of the next season joining hamilton academical in august 2009 but was let go by the club after three appearances in four months he trialled at various english football league clubs during the 201011 preseason but failed to win a contract leading him to begin the season playing for amateur side newton in the eleventhtier west cheshire league he transferred to ninthlevel formby in october 2010 and only two months after that moved up another four levels when he signed for southport of the conference premier having impressed the clubs manager liam watson kissock performed well for southport during the second half of 201011 and after playing four matches in the 201112 season signed for luton town on 26 august 2011
vivian gonzalez a native of miami fl is a current miami weather anchor for wsvn vivian joined 7 news in 2005 as a weather producer in the midst of the most active hurricane season on record thirtyone systems were spawned that year with wilma and katrina impacting south florida directly her geography background was extremely valuable in helping to track everything mother nature threw our waydue to her hard work she was quickly promoted to weather anchor in 2007 for today in florida saturday edition it is her commitment and passion to keep you aware of south floridas fast changing weather patterns that makes her a great team membervivian is a proud member of both the national weather association and american meteorological societyas a miami native vivian knows the ins and outs of south floridas weathershe enjoys being a part of the community teaching children about math and science vivian supports causes such as la liga contra el cancer and participates with the community partnership for the homeless and habitat for humanityin her spare time she likes to spend time with family and friends enjoys cooking kickboxing watching movies and following sports especially from her hometown teams look for her forecasts every saturday morning from 8 to 10 am
joanna gregoryscocchi born april 13 1959 was a republican politician who served in the new jersey general assembly from february 16 1994 december 1 1994 representing the 18th legislative districtafter christine whitman took office in 1994 she named republican assemblywoman harriet e derman to head the new jersey department of community affairs where she was responsible for a 1 billion budget and some 1000 employees republican joanna gregoryscocchi of north brunswick was chosen by a republican special convention to fill dermans vacancy and was sworn into office on february 16 1994 while in the assembly gregoryscocchi proposed legislation that would forbid state green acres funds to be used to purchase land against the will of the owner after the township sought to obtain funds that would be used to purchase the land belonging to a farmer who had no interet in selling with the intent of converting the farm into park land gregoryscocchi was the prime author of new jerseys sexual registration act known as megans law and call before you dig legislationin a november 1994 special election early favorite gregoryscocchi was defeated by barbara buono after unfounded allegations that a temporary employment firm owned by gregoryscocchi had hired illegal immigrants a few weeks before the election us immigration and naturalization ins agents reviewed close to 3000 records and found only 6 paperwork errors the gregoryscocchi camp had always maintained that this was orchestrated by her opponent in what became a hotly contested race in the november 8 1994 special election for the unexpired term barbara buono received 27229 votes 5374 and gregoryscocchi received 23436 votes 4626 buono was sworn into office on december 1 1994
michael mike trebilcock born 29 november 1944 in gunnislake cornwall is a retired english professional footballer he played primarily as a winger and is most famous for scoring twice in the 1966 fa cup final for everton becoming the second black player to score in an fa cup final bill perry of blackpool being the first in 1953mike trebilcock played for nonleague tavistock before joining plymouth argyle in december 1962 he scored 27 times in 71 league games for the pilgrims leading to a 23000 move to everton on 31 december 1965 he made his debut a few days later against aston villa but was injured and spent much of the rest of the season on the sidelines in the meantime everton had been progressing through to the fa cup final where they would meet sheffield wednesdaydespite having only played 4 reserve games since his injury trebilcock was included in the squad and surprisingly picked ahead of england international centreforward fred pickering to play in the final wednesday took a 20 lead with goals from jim mccalliog and david ford but within 5 minutes of fords goal trebilcock had scored twice to level the scores a goal from derek temple sealed the win for evertoneven after the cup final he struggled to establish himself in the everton side and in january 1968 after 3 goals in only 11 league games for everton he moved to portsmouth for a fee of 40000 he was a regular goalscorer at portsmouth netting 33 times in 109 league games before a free transfer took him to torquay united in july 1972 he spent just one season at plainmoor hitting 10 goals in 24 league games leaving in june 1973 to join weymouth on a free transfer in march 1974 he emigrated to sydney australia where he played for western suburbs and won the nsw rothmans medal in 1974
claire sproule born 10 april 1985 is a singersongwriter from county donegal irelandshe was born in derry northern ireland into a musical family her uncle is dith sproule of altan after playing the clarinet for some time she showed an interest in guitar having been brought up listening to tom waits joni mitchell and elvis costello in derry and donegal at the age of 14 she started writing her own songsafter leaving school she began by performing eva cassidy songs in local pubs in donegal before starting to sing her own songs she made a rough demo tape which was sent to both the parlophone and blue note record labels who jointly offered her a recording deal within a week parlophone publishing in europe and blue note in the united states her selftitled debut album claire sproule was released on parlophone on 10 october 2005 the album was produced by stewart levine and included top musicians such as pino palladino the album consist of tracks which sproule wrote between the ages of 17 and 19 and attracted widespread attentionafter the release of her first album sproule played numerous irish television and radio shows including the bbc northern irelands an stuif ceart and rts other voices and the late late showher second album entitled shades of night was released in may 2009
neil shaka hislop cm born 22 february 1969 is a former football goalkeeper the majority of his career was spent in the top division in england where he was a part of the newcastle united team which finished second in the premier league for two successive seasons under kevin keegans first tenure before this he played for reading where he was on the losing side in the 1st division playoffs despite finishing second overall which became an automatic promotion slot the following season he later played for west ham united on two separate occasions receiving an fa cup runnerup medal during his second term in 2006 and also portsmouth where he won the 1st division in 200203he was eligible to play for both england and trinidad and tobago he initially played for the england u21 team and was on the bench for a full international against chile but in the end opted to play for trinidad tobago a dispute with the national team ruled him out of contention for several years but he returned to play and starred in the countrys first ever world cup appearance in 2006he is now working for sports news and broadcasting service espn and regularly provides commentary on eredivisie serie a and mexican liga mx matches he had also briefly worked as a goalkeeping coach for the football team at quinnipiac university
jacqueline rayner is a best selling british author best known for her work with the licensed fiction based on the longrunning british science fiction television series doctor whoher first professional writing credit came when she adapted paul cornells virgin new adventure novel oh no it isnt for the audio format the first release by big finish the novel featured the character of bernice summerfield and was part of a spinoff series from doctor who she went on to do five of the six bernice summerfield audio adaptations and further work for big finish before going to work for bbc books on their doctor who linesher first novels came in 2001 with the eighth doctor adventures novel earthworld for bbc books and the bernice summerfield novel the squires crystal for big finish rayner has written several other doctor who spinoffs and was also for a period the executive producer for the bbc on the big finish range of doctor who audio dramas she has also contributed to the audio range as a writer in all her doctor who and related work bernice summerfield stories consists of five novels a number of short stories and four original audio playsrayner has edited several anthologies of doctor who short stories mainly for big finish and done work for doctor who magazine beyond doctor who her work includes the childrens television tiein book horses like blazewith the start of the new television series of doctor who in 2005 and a shift in the bbcs doctor who related book output rayner has become along with justin richards and stephen cole one of the regular authors of the bbcs new series adventures she has also abridged several of the books to be made into audiobooksshe was also a member of doctor who magazines original time team
efim isaakovich zelmanov russian born 7 september 1955 in khabarovsk is a russian mathematician known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory including his solution of the restricted burnside problem he was awarded a fields medal at the international congress of mathematicians in zrich in 1994 zelmanov was born into a jewish family in khabarovsk soviet union now in russia he obtained doctoral degree at novosibirsk state university in 1980 and a higher degree at leningrad state university in 1985 he had a position in novosibirsk until 1987 when he left the soviet unionin 1990 he moved to the united states becoming a professor at the university of wisconsinmadison he was at the university of chicago in 19945 then at yale university as of 2011 he is a professor at the university of california san diego and a distinguished professor at the korea institute for advanced study zelmanov was elected a member of the us national academy of sciences in 2001 becoming at the age of 47 the youngest member of the mathematics section of the academyhe is also an elected member of the american academy of arts and sciences 1996 and a foreign member of the korean academy of science and engineering and of the spanish royal academy of sciences in 2012 he became a fellow of the american mathematical societyzelmanov gave invited talks at the international congress of mathematicians in warsaw 1983 kyoto 1990 and zurich 1994zelmanovs early work was on jordan algebras in the case of infinite dimensions he was able to show that glennies identity in a certain sense generates all identities that hold he then showed that the engel identity for lie algebras implies nilpotence in the case of infinite dimensions
jere allen is an internationally known artist and a former professor of art at the university of mississippi ole miss in oxford mshis work can be described as figurative strong colors images and symbols are often melded with portraits providing a sense of an artist looking for answers and a reality that never fully materializes his work is typically inspired by myths and symbols these factors combined had him labeled in 1999 by a regional newspaper as the mississippi rembrandt art and antiques has described allen as a modernday master known for his dramatic electric colorsallen himself describes his work thus my paintings employ a reactive method in the search for an elusive notion that has perplexed me for many years the pictures that stem from personal social political realities are often a foil to assist in the realization of feelings generated by that evasive notionhis work can be found at the huntsville museum of art and mobile museum of art both of which are in alabama they can also be found at the meridian museum of art mississippi and coos art museum in coos bay oregonin 2003 allens work along with that of robert rauschenberg roy lichtenstein and wolf kahn toured southeast asia in the washingtonbased meridian international centers exhibition outward bound american art at the brink of the twentyfirst century cocurated by fellow mississippian bill dunlap jere allen has an artist son jeffery m allen though their styles vary considerably
peter trudgill fba trdl born 7 november 1943 is a sociolinguist academic and author he was born in norwich england where he attended the city of norwich school from 1955 trudgill studied modern languages at kings college cambridge and obtained a phd from the university of edinburgh in 1971 before becoming professor of sociolinguistics at the university of essex he taught in the department of linguistic science at the university of reading from 1970 to 1986 he was professor of english language and linguistics at the university of lausanne switzerland from 1993 to 1998 and then at the university of fribourg also in switzerland from which he retired in september 2005he is now parttime professor of sociolinguistics at the university of agder in kristiansand norway and adjunct professor at the research centre for linguistic typology at la trobe university melbourne australia as well as honorary professor at the university of east anglia in norwich englandhe has carried out linguistic fieldwork in britain greece and norway and has lectured in most european countries canada the united states colombia australia new zealand india thailand hong kong fiji malawi and japan peter trudgill is the honorary president of the friends of norfolk dialect society and contributes a regular column on language and dialect to the eastern daily press newspapertrudgill is a wellknown authority on dialects as well as being one of the first to apply labovian sociolinguistic methodology in the uk and to provide a framework for studying dialect contact phenomenapeter trudgill is also the author of chapter 1 the meanings of words should not be allowed to vary or change of the popular linguistics book language myths of which he is also a coeditorhe is a member of the norwegian academy of science and letters and a fellow of the british academy
sam grimley born 3 january 1991 is an australian rules footballer in the australian football league currently with the hawthorn football clubafter hawthorn won the 2008 premiership the hawthorn recruitment officer concentrated on the younger players in the 2009 afl draft grimley was a thirdround selection hawthorn no 39 overallthe lightly built former junior basketballer came to hawthorn as a longterm project after three years of development the club started seeing good results grimley spent a lot of time close to goal in 2012 hoping to set himself up as a forwardruck option he played six games in box hills senior team early in the year but suffered a hand injury grimley started 2013 showing strong performances for box hill and the selectors were watching grimley was named as an emergency for the hawks on a number of occasions in 2013 an ankle injury to david hale helped open up an opportunity for grimley to debut against gold coast in round 9 of the 2013 afl season his debut started well by taking an early mark and kicking a goal with his first kick in the afl he finished the day with fourteen possessions and 11 hitouts before being subbed off at three quarter timegrimley did not play a senior game in 2014 and spent the whole season playing with hawthorns vflaffiliate box hill he tied with port melbournes daniel connors for the frosty miller medal as the leading goalkicker in the 2014 vfl homeandaway season kicking 38 goals for the yearthe club has delisted 23yearold ruckmanforward at the end of 2014 but has committed to reselect sam in the rookie draft if he is not selected by another team prior to thathe is the son of brett grimley and the grandson of ken grimley
robert robbie buck is an australian radio announcer best known for his work at the national youth broadcaster triple j since january 2012 he has hosted the inside sleeve on radio nationalrobbies radio experience began in his home town of lismore where he took up a late night shift on the local radio station once he moved to sydney he began doing graveyard shifts on community station 2ser and eventually became a fulltime employee for the station following this he spent time at sbs radio and tv as a sound producer during his time at sbs he cohosted alchemy which was a late night tv program focused on the electronic music scenein 2003 he took on the role of a new show at triple j home and hosed the successor to richard kingsmills australian music show the new program aired every weeknight from 9pm for two hours replacing the single threehour timeslot that kingsmills show had taken the show cemented the stations tradition of being a strong supporter of australian music at a time when the station was going through turmoil in management changes in 2006 caroline tran took the reins of home and hosed and robbie started a new program top shelf radio airing in the afternoon drive timeslot from 3530pm he remained the host of the program until the end of the 2007 ratings period to make way for dools and linda in 2008 hosted by scott dooley and linda marigliano robbie subsequently joined lindsay mcdougall and marieke hardy to host the new breakfast show robbie marieke and the doctor during his time at triple j robbie also hosted the lunch and weekend lunch shows and has appeared on abc tv programs including mondo thingo hosted by amanda keller in september 2009 robbie announced that he would be leaving triple j to host the evenings program on 702 abc sydney 1233 abc newcastle 666 abc canberra and abc local radio stations across new south wales in 2012 he was replaced by dominic knight and now hosts the inside sleeve on radio national
luther james grosvenor born 23 december 1946 evesham worcestershire england is an english rock musician who played guitar in spooky tooth briefly in stealers wheel and under the pseudonym ariel bender in mott the hoople and widowmakergrosvenor first began playing in local bands in his hometown of evesham he met jim capaldi who later played with traffic with whom he formed a group called deep feelinlater he joined a group called the vips in which keith emerson played for some time the vips were renamed art and later became spooky toothfor contractual reasons he changed his name to ariel bender at the suggestion of singersongwriter lynsey de paul for his stint with the band according to ian hunter interviewed in the documentary ballad of mott the hoople the band were in germany with lynsey de paul for a tv show when mick ralphs walked down a street bending a succession of car aerials in frustration de paul came out with the phrase aerial bender which hunter later suggested to grosvenor as a stage namethe years with spooky tooth 1967 to 1970 stealers wheel 1973 and mott the hoople 1973 to 1974 were the most successful years in his musical careerafter leaving mott the hoople grosvenor published a few solo albums and formed widowmaker releasing widowmaker in 1976 and too late to cry in 1977in the 1990s grosvenor returned in a spooky tooth reunion in 2005 he revived his pseudonym forming the ariel bender band in 2007 and 2008 he performed under the name ariel benders mott the hoople performing both spooky tooth and mott the hoople songs as well as cover songsin 2009 he worked with london act the winter olympics recording guitar parts for their song the great outdoors which was released in august 2010
robert patrick tate forcier born august 7 1990 is an american football quarterback who is currently a free agent he most recently attended training camp with the hamilton tigercats of the canadian football league he was a starting quarterback for the 2009 michigan wolverines football team ahead of denard robinson and robinsons back up for the 2010 michigan wolverines football team before he left the program in january 2011 when head coach rich rodriguez was replaced by brady hoke he missed the january 1 2011 gator bowl after being ruled academically ineligible and was no longer enrolled at the university when the new term began following the semester break on february 9 2011 forcier announced his transfer to the university of miami he originally intended to redshirt the 2011 season and play for the miami hurricanes football team in the 2012 and 2013 season but instead transferred to san jose state university to play for the spartans football team he soon withdrew from the san jose state football programforcier is from a family of quarterbacks with two older brothers who played pacific10 conference football and a father who also played quarterback in college his oldest brother jason played briefly for michigan before transferring to stanford university following in the footsteps of his brothers and father forcier has been a quarterback since his junior peewee pop warner football days
ngel rozas born march 22 1950 is an argentine politician he is a leading member of the radical civic union ucr and served as governor of chaco province between 1995 and 2003rozas was born in general pinedo chaco to a smallholding family he earned a law degree at the universidad nacional del litoral rozas first held elected office in 1983 as a chaco provincial deputy serving for three terms he was a candidate to be vicegovernor in 1987 rozas served as governor of chaco province from december 1995 to december 2003 reelected in 1999 in 1999 he was also elected vicepresident of the national committee of the ucr and in 2001 was elected president serving until 2005 when he was replaced by roberto iglesiashe was elected to the argentine chamber of deputies for chaco in 2005 as a leading figure in his party he was seen as a possible candidate for the 2007 presidential elections although the ucr was and continues to be electorally weak and split between supporters of president nstor kirchner and roberto lavagna eventually rozas ran to be governor of chaco once again in support of the presidential campaign of lavagna he lost to jorge capitanich by just 08 of the votefrom june 2005 rozas has headed the leandro n alem foundation he is married with two daughters his son died in 1990
gabriel kney born 21 november 1929 is a renowned canadian builder of pipe organs based in london ontario kney was born in speyeramrhein germany at the age of 15 he apprenticed to paul sattel of speyer to become an organ builder and concurrently studied organ and composition with erhard quack and ludwig doerr at the bishops institute for church music in speyerin 1951 he moved to canada to work as a voicer with the keates organ coin 1955 he formed with john bright the kney and bright organ co to build tracker organs blanton 1957 described their first instrument as a handsome little organ with mechanical action slider chests 134 pressure they were at the vanguard of the tracker organ revival in canada so much so that they were then to build 30 electropneumatic organs before customers caught on and started ordering instruments with mechanical action in the early 1960s they rebuilt the organs of aeolian hall in london and st michaels cathedral in toronto in 1967 kney formed gabriel kney pipe organ builders ltd and by 1990 he and his seven employees had built more than 110 organs mostly for customers in the great lakes region some of the best examples of this companys designs are the organs of roy thomson hall in toronto ontario grace and holy trinity cathedral in kansas city christ church parish in pensacola florida and the university of st thomas in st paul minnesota
dr john h moore is professor and former chair of the anthropology department at the university of florida in gainesville florida his research specialties include north american indian ethnology kinship demography and sociocultural evolution his fieldwork includes research with the cheyenne mvskoke creek seminole choctaw cree and pamunkey his most recent work is a demographic exploration of the feasibility of space colonization published by nasa in the book interstellar travel and multigenerational space ships he was featured in the spacemen episode of national geographic channels naked science television series he works as a consultant and expert witness on behalf of native american groups who are seeking to protect their land resources and treaty rights especially the descendants of those killed or attacked at the sand creek massacre in colorado in 1864 who were promised reparations under the treaty of the little arkansas in 1865 which have never been paid he is interested in the interactions between the biological and cultural aspects of race and is editorinchief of the 2007 macmillan encyclopedia of race and racism he is a fellow of the american association for the advancement of science and former chair of the anthropology sectionhe currently lives in gainesville florida with his wife shelley arlen they have two daughters
aparisim bobby ghosh is a journalist and the managing editor of the business news website quartz he was previously time magazines world editor an indian national he was the first nonamerican to be named world editor in times more than 80 years he has previously been times baghdad bureau chief and one of the longestserving correspondents in iraq he has written stories from other conflict areas like palestine and kashmir he has also worked for time asia and time europe and has covered subjects as varied as technology and soccer like his very famous article about lionel messi business and social trends he started his career as journalist with deccan chronicle a popular english daily at visakhapatnam andhra pradesh india his baghdad journalism has included profiles of suicide bombers and other terrorists stories about extraordinary iraqis and also political figuresauthor of provocative time magazine article related to the cover is america islamophobic mildly titled does america have a muslim problem when us attention to the building of a mosque near ground zero lead the newshe has postulated that to a believing muslim the perception may be that burning the koran is much worse than burning the bible because the koran is directly from god while the bible isnt
john harvey born january 26 1950 is a former award winning canadian football league running back in 1970 he was a junior college 1st team allamerican at tyler junior college in tyler texashe burst into the cfl with the montreal alouettes in 1973 rushing for 1024 yards with an incredible 75 yards per rush average and 32 pass receptions he was an allstar and won the jeff russel memorial trophy being runner up as cfl mvplike many other players lured by the big money he jumped to the world football league in 1974 playing 2 seasons with the memphis southmen in his first season he rushed for 945 yards caught 21 passes for 275 yards scored 5 touchdowns and threw 3 passes one for a td in 1975 rushing behind future nfl halloffamer larry csonka he gained 137 yards caught 8 passes for 107 yards scored 4 tds and threw 2 passes 1 for a td in the short history of the wfl he was 13th on the all time rushing list with 1082 yardswhen the wfl folded he returned to the cfl playing 10 games for the toronto argonauts in 1976 rushing for 68 yards catching 26 passes for 459 yards and 5 tds and 1 game for the hamilton tigercats in 1977
sachindra puthran is the founder of thatz it pvt ltd mumbai after his bsc in microbiology in 1986 to explore his creative side he pursued bachelors in fine arts at sir jj institute of applied art where he received a gold medal for his excellent artistic understanding after his double graduation he began his work by teaching art he later consulted ad agencies and trained agency professionals he also was a visiting faculty at sndt college and sir jj institute of applied artin 1995 he started a design production studio named here n now graphix leading ad agencies approached this agency for design and 3d illustration and it won many accolades for its contribution to animation in 1997 the agency started animation production and in 2001 it entered the web design industry with the advent of technology came a need of digital design and sachin founded thatz it productions a complete production house that handled concept script shoot edit graphics music voice and finishing this brought opportunities of films tv channels corporates ad agencies and software companies in 2007 it entered web application development in 2008 it became a fullfledged brand strategy and innovation technologies applications eventually thatz it transformed into a private limited company and a creative digital agency in 2010 thatz it became a recognised member of confederation of indian industrysachin is a multifaceted being he is the director of thatzit pvt ltd he is an active committee member of jjaaan sir jj institute of applied art alumni network and communication arts guild
m k hobson born january 21 1969 is a speculative fiction and fantasy writer in 2003 she was a pushcart prize nominee and her debut novel the native star was nominated for the 2010 nebula award she lives in oregon city oregonhobsons short fiction has appeared in magazines such as sci fiction the magazine of fantasy and science fiction realms of fantasy strange horizons and chizine her work has also appeared in anthologies such as polyphony 5 and polyphony 6 and medicine show hobsons story the hand of the devil on a string appeared on the 2008 best american fantasy recommended reading list and her other work has received honorable mentions in years best fantasy and horror and years best science fictionshe is the author of the veneficas americana historical fantasy series the first novel in the series the native star was published by bantam spectra on august 31 2010 the sequel the hidden goddess followed on april 26 2011 the third novel the warlocks curse begins a new duology and follows characters from a new generation hobson has described the style of the first two novels as bustlepunkshe is also a cohost of the fantasy podcast podcastle a sister podcast of escape pod in the past she was coeditorwith author douglas lainof the surrealistanarchist zine diet soap
michael p mike mccarthy born march 21 1953 is a professional football executive and scout he was born in oneida new york and raised in rome new york mccarthy began playing football at rome ny free academy hs where he earned allstate football honours and was an allstar in lacrosse and wrestling currently he is a pro football player personnel consultantmccarthys career highlights include induction into the rome sports hall of fame for lifetime achievement in sports 1992 induction into the scouts hall of fame and his 2008 induction into southwestern colleges athletic hall of fame other highlights include being named the youngest general manager ever to win a cfl championship when the toronto argonauts captured the grey cup in 1991 pulling off one of the largest trades in the history of professional football when he orchestrated a deal with the edmonton eskimos which saw 16 players switch teamshe has given public football seminars everything you wanted to know about football but were afraid to ask has been featured in various sports media including stories by stephen brunt of the globe and mail a 2003 story by perry lefko of the toronto sun where lefko wrote about mccarthys plans to participate in the running of the bulls in pamplona spain and sports illustrateds story about the chicago blitzs tryout with illinois prison inmate mike sifford in 1982mccarthy is listed in the 1997 edition of whos who in canada and is coeditor of cuts and keeps an annual registry of rookie and firstyear pro football players mike is an honorary director for sports for kids inc in north america mike was appointed by the city of hamilton ontario as member of the board of directors of the canadian football hall of fame and museum in march 2011 and later named vicechairman of the board
thomas g tom odonnell born 30 august 1926 is a former irish fine gael politician he was born at bulgaden county limerick and was educated at the crescent college salesian college and university college dublin where he received a bachelor of arts degree he worked as a teacher and a voluntary community activist before becoming involved in politicsodonnell was first elected to dil ireann at the 1961 general election as a fine gael teachta dla td for limerick east he was opposition front bench spokesperson on transport power and tourism from 1969 to 1973 he served in the government on one occasion in the national coalition under taoiseach liam cosgrave between 1973 and 1977 as minister for the gaeltacht he was opposition front bench spokesperson on telecommunications from 19771979 odonnell was elected to the european parliament at the 1979 elections he retired from national politics following the 1987 general election when he lost his seat he was spokesperson on regional policy for the european peoples party epp from 1979 to 1989after his retirement from politics he subsequently became actively involved in the voluntary sector he was chairperson of the limerick peace institute at the university of limerick chairperson of the paul partnership chairperson to the limerick city and county strategy group and the limerick employment pacthe was honoured by limerick city council with a civic reception and a special presentation in 2005 to mark his half a century of his political and voluntary services to the people of limerick city and countyhe is married to helen oconnor from sligo former honorary national secretary of fine gael and they have one son his uncle richard oconnell was a cumann na ngaedheal td for limerick from 1924 to 1932 and his nephew kieran odonnell is a td for limerick since 2007
dr christopher b anderson born 31 december 1976 in north carolina is an ecologist working in southern patagonias tierra del fuego archipelago shared between chile and argentina anderson obtained his bs in biology with honors from the university of north carolina at chapel hill in 1999 and his phd in ecology from the odum school of ecology university of georgia in 2006 his research in southern patagonia has involved social entrepreneurial efforts as well such as the creation of the omora subantarctic research alliance usa a nonprofit dedicated to promoting research education and conservation in tierra del fuego and southern patagonia anderson and his colleagues also have developed longterm socioecological research platforms that attempt to link longterm academic endeavors with society to demonstrate the inextricable union between conservation and social well being in 2005 this initiative was able to successfully apply to unesco to obtain the designation of the cape horn biosphere reserve anderson was the founding coordinator of chiles longterm socioecological research network and from 20092011 was the administrative director of the subantarctic biocultural conservation program a binational effort between the university of north texas and the universiad de magallanes currently he is a visiting scientist at the forestry resources lab at the austral center for scientific research in ushuaia argentina where his research focuses broadly on watershed ecosystem ecology and the role of invasive species in tierra del fuego particularly the eradication of north american beavers honors for his research and teaching include a fulbright fellowship from the us state department a national security education program grant from the us department of defense various national science foundation grants a tinker foundation award and a uga excellence in undergraduate mentoring award
tony ageh born 1959 is the bbcs controller of archive development having previously been controller bbc internet bbccoukhis first job as a school leaver was production assistant on home organist working for richard desmond now the proprietor of express newspapershe then moved to publishing holdings which owned list titles including what mortgage and what telephone with four colleagues he set up and ran publishing cooperative brass tacks publishers of mortgage magazine during which time he helped football fanzine when saturday comes to gain national distribution and upgrade its production to magazine quality also during the 1980s he joined richard bransons shortlived london listings magazine event set up while time out journalists were on strike then became publisher of city limits magazine rival to listings magazine time out which eventually ceased publication in 1993he was invited to join the guardian media group in 1990 by jim markwick then managing director by the mid1990s he was head of product development at the guardian where he launched the guide a listings supplement wired uk and introduced online content to a uk national newspaper for the first time from the guardian he rejoined branson to work on the launch of virginnet originally a portal for the virgin group of companies now part of virgin mediahe joined the bbc after quitting the uk listings and information service upmystreet in 2002 at the bbc he led the team which devised and developed the bbc iplayer which necessitated no fewer than 84 internal bbc presentations in october 2008 he was appointed as the controller of bbc archive development
john david spence born november 10 1944 is a canadian medical doctor medical researcher and professor at the university of western ontario along with his affiliation with the university of western ontario where he teaches clinical neurological science he is affiliated with the london health sciences centres university hospital where he has set up and runs stroke prevention clinics and the robarts research institute one of canadas leading medical research organizations he is a recognized expert in stroke prevention and stroke prevention research and has published over 200 articles in medical journals in the last 35 yearsdr spence is the director of the stroke prevention atherosclerosis research centre sparc located at the robarts research institute with maria dicicco rvt he pioneered the measurement of total plaque area tpa in a patients carotid artery using ultrasound technology the ability to measure tpa gives doctors the ability to treat and measure the change in the amount of plaque in a patients arteries and has given researchers the ability to measure the effectiveness of new drug treatment therapies for stroke prevention dr spence is recognized as the father of total plaque area measurement and the importance of tpa measurement is in dr spences words we can now treat arteries instead of just treating risk factors
yolande thibeault born october 8 1939 in montreal quebec is a journalist and politician in quebec canada she was elected a member of parliament of the canadian house of commons for the saintlambert riding in the 1997 general election she was reelected in the 2000 election with considerable majority over other candidatesshe is a former freelance journalist for the canadian press she also volunteered as assistant to the chief organizer of the no committee in saintlambert during the 1995 quebec referendum and was a volunteer on the yes committee during the 1992 charlottetown accord referendum she served as cochair for jacques saadas federal election campaign in the 1993 election and was city leader for the quebec liberal party in saintlambert for the 1994 provincial electionduring her first mandate as member of parliament mp she was assistant deputy chair of the committees of the whole house for her second term she was vicechair of the standing committee on official languages a member of the standing committee on human resources development and the status of persons with disabilities chair of the prime ministers caucus task force on seniors chair of the canadagermany friendship group chair of the canadacyprus friendship group executive member of the canadafrance interparliamentary association and executive member of canadaafrica parliamentary group she won the liberal nomination for saintlambert in 2004 against carole marcil she was subsequently defeated in the election of 2004 losing by 5370 votes to africanborn sovereigntist maka kotto of the bloc qubecois thibaults defeat was remarkable both because the riding had been considered a liberal fortress and because of her large majority in 1997
oberon zellravenheart born timothy zell november 30 1942 st louis missouri formerly known as otter gzell is a cofounder of the church of all worlds as well as a writer and speaker on the subject of neopaganism he completed a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from westminster college in fulton missouri in 1965 in 1967 he received a doctor of divinity from life science college in rolling meadows illinois then a teaching certificate from harris teachers college in st louis in 1968 he also attended graduate studies at washington university in st louisin an interview with natalie zaman in 2008 zell described himself as a wizard distinguishing his practice from the wizards of fiction zell used the alternative spelling magick with final k and claimed that his interest therein began at an early age with the reading of greek myths and fairy tales as a child zell had visions which his mother told him were derived from the life of his grandfatheran early advocate of deep ecology zellravenheart claims to have articulated the gaia thesis using the spelling gaea in 1970 independently of dr james lovelock who is usually credited therewith along with his wife morning glory and the other members of his group marriage he has been influential in the modern polyamory movementzellravenheart cofounded the ecosophical research association in 1977 an organization that explores the truth behind myths this group was known for the living unicorns they created by minor surgery to the horn buds of goats one of their unicorns lancelot toured with the ringling bros and barnum bailey circus
harvey kenneth bostrom born february 11 1946 in st boniface manitoba is a former politician in manitoba canada he was a new democratic member of the legislative assembly of manitoba from 1973 to 1981the son of joseph rubin bostrom he was educated at the university of manitoba and subsequently worked as a teacher and economist in 1969 bostrom married sandra louise mcnabb he was first elected to the manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1973 in the northern riding of rupertsland despite his relative youth and inexperience he was appointed to the cabinet of edward schreyer on december 23 1974 being named as minister of cooperative development with responsibility for lands and renewable resources he was named minister of renewable resources and transportation services on october 15 1975 and held this position until the schreyer government was defeated in the election of 1977bostrom himself was reelected in the 1977 election with a reduced majority in 1979 he supported howard pawleys successful bid to succeed schreyer as party leader bostrom did not seek reelection in the 1981 electionhe entered the civil service after leaving politics and become the executive director of the provinces native affairs secretariat later renamed the aboriginal affairs secretariat in 1990 he was appointed acting deputy minister of aboriginal and northern affairs by ndp premier gary doer in 2001 and was given full deputy minister status shortly thereafter
antonello bonci born august 3 1966 in pesaro italy is a neurologist and a neuropsychopharmacologistin 1985 he went to medical school at the catholic university of rome where he graduated in 1991 in that same year he started a residency in neurology at the university of rome tor vergata that he finished in 1995when he left the university of california in san francisco in 2010 dr bonci was professor in residence in the department of neurology at the university of california san francisco ucsf and the howard j weinberg endowed chair in addiction researchhe is internationally renowned for the elegance and multidisciplinary breadth of his studies on the longterm effects of drug exposure on the brain dr boncis laboratory was the first to demonstrate that drugs of abuse such as cocaine modify the strength of the connections between neurons this finding cast a new light on the phenomenon of drug addiction which could now be seen as a process of maladaptive learningin 2010 he was appointed as the scientific director of national institute on drug abuses nida he is now also adjunct professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at the johns hopkins school of medicinehe has published more than 120 articles in many of the most prestigious scientific journals such as cell nature science neuron nature neuroscience pnas just to name a fewhe has received the jacob p waletzky memorial award at the society for neuroscience in 2004 given to young scientists for innovative research in drug addiction and alcoholismhe also received the daniel h efron award at the american college of neuropsychopharmacology in 2009 for outstanding basic and translational research
shalon baker born august 22 1973 was an award winning canadian football league player and was a playercoach in the arena football leagueplaying with the university of montana grizzlies between 1991 and 1994 baker caught passes for 2561 yards 3rd best in school history and 26 touchdown receptions a team recordhe went to canada playing with the edmonton eskimos in his first season 1995 he had 79 catches gaining 1156 yards and 5 touchdowns and won the cfls most outstanding rookie award he played in the cfl for 2 more years but did not enjoy the same success and after one season with the winnipeg blue bombers in 1997 he left the cflbaker started playing with the san jose sabercats of the arena football league in 1998 as a wide receiverlinebacker this was the beginning of a 7year career in which baker would catch 261 passes for 3551 yards and 61 touchdowns he would also make 128 tackles and 7 interceptionsbaker ended his playing career as the alltime leader in assisted tackles and ranks in the top 10 in 9 categories for the san jose sabercats in 2006 he began a new career as the offensive coordinator of the world champion san jose sabercats under bakers direction the 2006 sabercats became the most prolific offense in the history of the arena football leaguebaker is now a single father of daughters kailyn quincy and kendal he owns an importexport business and was a football conditioning coach as well as an offensive quality control coach at chandler high school in chandler arizona he was hired by his alma mater the university of montana as the grizzlies wide receivers coach in 2010
jeremiah wilson jay nixon born february 13 1956 is an american politician who is the 55th and current governor of missouri a member of the democratic party jay nixon was first elected governor in 2008born in de soto missouri jay nixon is a graduate of university of missouri school of law beginning a career in private practice nixon was elected to the missouri state senate in 1986 in 1988 after two years in the state senate nixon ran for the united states senate posing a challenge to incumbent republican senator john danforth nixon lost in the general election with 32 of the vote to danforths 68 he served in the state senate until he was elected attorney general of missouri in 1992 in the 1998 us senate election nixon lost to incumbent kit bond 5344in 2008 after incumbent republican governor matt blunt announced he would not seek reelection nixon declared his candidacy for governor of missouri won the democratic primary and faced representative kenny hulshof in the general election on november 4 2008 nixon defeated hulshof and was elected governor nixon was sworn in on january 12 2009 he was reelected in 2012 and began his second term in january 2013
denis dino cregan born 4 may 1940 an irish publican and former fine gael party politician from cork who served for 17 years as a senatora former branch vicepresident of the irish transport and general workers union cregan is a longstanding member of cork city council and was lord mayor of cork from 1991 to 1992 he had unsuccessfully contested the cork southcentral constituency at the 1981 and february 1982 general elections he stood in the 1982 seanad elections winning a seat on the labour panel which he held until his defeat in the 1989 elections to the 19th seanad ireannhe was unsuccessful again when he stood again in cork southcentral at the 1992 general election but in the subsequent elections to the 20th seanad he was reelected on the labour panel he was reelected in 1997 to the 21st seanad but was narrowly defeated in the 2002 elections to the 22nd seanadat the 2004 local elections he held his seat on cork city council though with a margin of less than 50 votes over the sinn fin candidatein january 2009 he announced his retirement from politics and did not contest the 2009 local elections he is well known in cork for his chain of restaurants called dinos
robert alexander petar stambolziev born 26 october 1990 in melbourne australia is an australian association footballer of macedonian origin who plays for sydney fc in the aleaguestambolziev began playing in the junior teams of melbournebased club preston lions before joining the reserveteam of hume city in 2006 he then joined the youth academy of englands bristol city in 2007 featuring for the clubs under18 squad in the 200708 and 200809 fa youth cup editions and also for the clubs reserveteam having scored 9 goals in 23 league appearances in the 200809 premier academy league stambolziev was one of four academy graduates that were offered professional contracts for the clubs firstteam however he declined the offer in favour of joining the under21 squad of superleague greece outfit panathinaikos in june 2009in 2009 stambolziev was loaned to ao nea kavala before returning panathinaikos to join the club for the 201011 superleague greece season in 2011 he joined greek third division club proodeftiki and would then sign with greek second division side thrasyvoulos for whom he scored on his debut in a 21 away victory against panserraikos on 14 january 2012 from 2012 to 2014 stambolziev played over 50 matches in the cypriot first division turning out for olympiakos nicosia 20122013 and aek kouklia 20132014 before returning to greece to join niki volos fc for the 201415 superleague seasonstambolziev has represented australia at under20 level and has played in three out of greeces four respective professional leagues in the greek football league system
alfred j lewy aka sandy lewy graduated from university of chicago in 1973 after studying psychiatry pharmacology and ophthalmology he is a full professor and vicechair of the department of psychiatry at ohsu oregon health science university and holds an md and phd prior to moving to oregon in 1981 lewy was at the national institute of mental health nimh in bethesda maryland working with senior colleague thomas wehr in oregon he has worked closely with robert l sack as of december 2005 he had 94 publications available on pubmed he describes his research as follows my laboratory studies chronobiologic sleep and mood disorders these disorders include winter depression jet lag maladaptation to shift work and certain types of sleep disturbances relying on a very precise assay for plasma melatonin a hormone that has a clearly defined 24hour pattern of secretion biological rhythm disorders can be assessed and their treatment can be monitored current research is focused on developing bright light exposure and melatonin administration as treatment modalities for these disorders treatment must be precisely scheduled morning light exposure and evening melatonin administration cause circadian phaseadvance shifts evening light exposure and morning melatonin administration cause circadian phasedelay shifts totally blind individuals have 25hour circadian rhythms drifting an hour later each day unless they take a melatonin capsule at a certain time every day
alan baxter born 18 april 1970 sussex united kingdom is an author of dark fantasy science fiction and horror he also runs dark fiction publisher blade red press and is a martial artist and personal trainer running the illawarra kung fu academy on the south coast of nsw australiabaxter was born in the uk and moved to australia in the mid1990s his first novel a dark fantasyhorror thriller called realmshift the balance book 1 was selfpublished in 2006 baxter set up independent publisher blade red press in 2008 and rereleased realmshift along with the sequel magesign the balance book 2 in 2010 both realmshift and magesign were acquired and republished by gryphonwood presshe is the author of the dark urban fantasy trilogy bound obsidian and abduction the alex caine series bound is due out from harpervoyager australia in july 2014 baxter has more than 50 short stories published in a variety of journals and anthologies in australia the us the uk and france including fantasy science fiction forthcoming beneath ceaseless skies daily science fiction postscripts wily writers and midnight echo among many others and more than twenty anthologies including the years best australian fantasy horror 2010 and 2012 in 2011 baxter was nominated for a ditmar best new talent award and his 2013 story not the worst of sins was nominated for ditmar award in the best short story category in 2014alan also writes narrative arcs and dialogue for video games and freelance work including reviews feature articles and opinion hes a contributing editor and cofounder at thirteen oclock australian dark fiction news reviews and cohosts authorcast a genre fiction podcast hes a member of the australian horror writers association international thriller writers the canberra speculative fiction guild and a full active member of the horror writers associationalan baxter is represented by literary agent alex adsett of alex adsett publishing services
henry small is a canadian singersongwriter musician and record producer possibly best known as the former frontman for the rock bands prism scrubbaloe caine and small wonder with prism small enjoyed great success and recognition in the early 1980s his first album with the band was small change it was the bands most commercially successful studio album on the billboard 200 and it was their first and only album to the make the top 100 the lead single dont let him know inspired by the kim carnes song bette davis eyes and written by jim vallance and bryan adams became prisms first and only top 40 hit in the us it went on to peak at number 1 on the billboard mainstream rock tracks chart in 1982 and stayed in the charts for just over four months their follow up beat street however was more of a solo album by small than a prism album as it features no other members of the band apart from guitarist paul warren and it relied heavily on session musicians after prism broke up in 1984 small worked with the whos bassist john entwistle singing the lead vocals on his sixth solo album the rock he has also worked with eddie money doug cox and richie zito
patrick d stier is a canadian politician who is an elected member to the legislative assembly of alberta representing the electoral district of livingstonemacleodhe sits with the wildrose official opposition as a member of the wildrose party and is the sustainable resource development criticstier defeated progressive conservative candidate and agriculture minister evan berger who went on to be hired as a senior policy advisory to the deputy agriculture ministeras an mla stier has spoke out against the alberta health services policy of separating married seniors in nursing homes stier and wildrose party leader danielle smith criticized the provincial government for cancelling plans to build the alberta public security and law enforcement training college in fort macleodin the 2013 spring sitting stier brought forward motion 507 to repeal the alberta land stewardship act and create a new land use framework that better protects the rights of landowners and respects the role of locally elected and accountable municipal councils the motion did not passstier was raised on the family ranch near de winton and has lived there in the foothills area of alberta all of his life he was employed primarily in the seismic data segment of the oil and gas industry for 25 years in calgary stier has 30 years farming experience and 15 years of service with municipal government including four years as a municipal councillor with municipal district of foothills 31 in 20042007 he was also co chair of the subdivision and development appeal board at md of foothills 31
dr glenn d price is a canadian conductor who is the director of wind studies at the cincinnati collegeconservatory of musicdr price holds a bmus from the university of toronto and an mmus and dma from the eastman school of music at rochester university and has an international reputation as one of the leading conductors of his generation an active conductor on the international scene price has conducted professional and student orchestras and wind ensembles throughout north america as well as in europe the united kingdom south america the middle east and asia he is the appointed artistic director for the international youth wind orchestra conducts the imc concert orchestra and serves as the conductor for the national youth wind orchestra of great britain where he is next scheduled to conduct in the summer of 2014 in addition to his appearances as a conductor dr price serves extensively as a prominent music educator clinician guest lecturer and speaker for a variety of professional organizations around the worldcurrent engagements include appearances in england for the cheltenham international music festival as guest conductor with the royal northern college of music wind orchestra in ireland for the international youth wind orchestra the hong kong band festival the california band directors association 50th anniversary conference the american bandmasters association and teaching the conducting masterclass for the jungfrau music festival in switzerland he will appear with the top professional ensembles in both argentina the banda sinfonica de cordoba and china the peoples liberation army band in addition he will work with student groups in new york california manitoba nova scotia and ontario
marlon castillo magtira is one of the two founders of newsbytes philippines newsbytesph an online news portal that covers the philippine science and technology landscape marlon magtira and melvin calimag founders of newsbytesph were former philippine correspondents for newsbytescom a global technology news web site of usbased broadsheet the washington post a former faculty member of the college of education in the university of the philippines diliman marlon was engaged with development and design of online portals of a number of philippinebased print publications where he also occupied the position of online editor including the manila standard today metropolitan computer times business mirror philippines free press and the philippines graphic marlon who also blogs at techtvph is also one of the founding members of philippine bloggers network bloggersnetph and an officer of it journalists association of the philippines cyberpressph he is currently the chief information officer of the media and civil affairs group of the civil relations service armed forces of the philippines he developed the first philippine radio station web site dwddcomph with mobileready live streaming for dwdd 1134khz am katropa radio formerly armed forces of the philippines radio a faculty member of the afp civil military operations school marlon is a course director and class facilitator for technologyrelated courses of the said institution
walker stapleton born april 15 1974 is serving in his second term as colorados state treasurer he was elected on november 2 2010 after defeating incumbent cary kennedy with 5073 of the vote and reelected on november 4 2014 defeating former congresswoman betsy markey by 5 currently treasurer stapleton is the only twoterm republican elected official serving in a statewide elected office in colorado the duties of the colorado state treasurers office include investing colorados tax dollars overseeing the unclaimed property division which distributes property back to its lawful owners and serving on the board of the public employee retirement association perain 2014 treasurer stapleton was named one of americas top 24 rising political stars by the aspen institute he received the aspen institutes prestigious rodel fellowship a program designed to bring together elected officials who have demonstrated an outstanding ability to work responsibly across partisan divisions and bring greater civility to public discourseother than serving as an advocate for the colorado pension members and taxpayers treasurer stapleton wrote the law to allow county treasurers to invest in us treasuries after the sp downgrade of the united states credit rating which has saved millions of dollars in lost revenue he has also changed the way colorado issues debt making it more transparent and saving coloradans millions of dollars in the process
fred jackson born june 9 1950 is an american football coach and former player he is currently the running backs coach at the university of michigan and is the longest tenured member of the michigan wolverines football coaching staff having been with the program since 1992 jackson has served on the staffs of gary moeller lloyd carr rich rodriguez and brady hoke in addition to coaching running backs jackson has served as michigans offensive coordinator 19951996 assistant head coach 19972002 and associate head coach 20032007 after michigan head coach lloyd carr retired following the 2007 season jackson was the only member of the coaching staff retained by carrs successor rich rodriguez when rodriguez was fired after the 2010 season jackson was the only member of rodriguezs staff retained by his successor brady hoke hoke and jackson served as assistants together under carr and gary moeller for a total of eight years including the 1997 national championship seasonbefore coming to michigan jackson coached at the university of toledo 19791981 the university of wisconsinmadison 19821986 the united states naval academy 1987 the university of south carolina 1988 purdue university 19891990 and vanderbilt university 1991jackson is a resident of ann arbor michigan his son jeremy jackson was a sophomore wide receiver on the 2011 michigan wolverines football team
ben lennon born 5 july 1995 is an australian rules footballer who plays for the richmond football club the tigers in the australian football league afl lennon was recruited from the northern knights in the tac cup competition and was richmonds first pick in the 2013 afl national draft and the twelfth pick overall in the draft he started training with the main squad in late november 2014lennon who played in the 2013 afl under18 championships was a soughtafter player in the months prior to the 2013 draft with richmond brisbane lions and collingwood football clubs sounding him out he represented victoria in the junior under 12 15 16 and 17 categories and was in the aisafl academy program he was also a good junior cricketer playing senior a grade cricket at his local club macleod at age 14 lennon was termed a gun prospect by the afl in a feature article on its website in november 2013 during the 2013 tac cup season with the northern knights lennon had a season average of 25 possessionsduring the 2014 preseason period lennon starred in an afl media documentary called draft days the documentary follows the progress of three players who are childhood friends and striving to be a part of the afl draft the other players are jack billings drafted by st kilda and luke mcdonald drafted by north melbournelennons first season as a richmond player was interrupted in february 2014 when a knee injury required surgery following his recovery he resumed his 2014 preparation by playing half a game in the richmond vfl teams practice match on 22 march 2014 in round 9 of the 2014 afl season lennon finally got his chance at afl level lennon made his debut against melbourne and started as the sub lennon came into the game and kicked a goal with his first kick in afl footy lennon finished the match with a teamhigh 2 goals but his tigers went down in a surprise loss to the dees 91 74
b j fogg was the first scientist to articulate the concept of captology a word he coined to describe the overlap between persuasion and computersfogg was named in article on fortune magazine 10 new gurus you should knowas a doctoral student at stanford university 19931997 fogg used methods from experimental psychology to demonstrate that computers can change peoples thoughts and behaviors in predictable ways his thesis was entitled charismatic computersfogg founded the stanford persuasive technology lab he directed the stanford web credibility project which published how do people evaluate a web sites credibility results from a large study in 2002 the lab received a grant from the national science foundation in 2005 to support experimental work investigating how mobile phones can motivate and persuade people an area the lab calls mobile persuasionin 2003 fogg published the book persuasive technology using computers to change what we think and do this book lays the foundation for captologyin 2007 fogg created a stanford course about facebook apps using what fogg calls mass interpersonal persuasion his students engaged over 16 million people in 10 weeks 1 with projects done for the classhe is the founder and director of stanfords annual mobile health conferencefogg has created a new model of human behavior change in 2011 the world economic forums wellness workplace alliance selected the fogg behavior model as their framework for health behavior change however the model has been criticized as inadequate for behavior change in gamification in december 2011 fogg created a new way to develop permanent habits from baby stepsfogg is the brother of linda fogg phillips an author and speaker on the issues of social media and parenting
barbara tucker brooklyn new york is an african american house and soul singer songwriter and choreographer her music has had an impact on mainstream and dance music across the united states and throughout europe tucker had six 1 hits on the us hot dance club songs chart in the 1990s and into the 2000s and several hits on the uk sceneraised in brooklyn new york barbara started singing through her entertainer father jayotis washington of the group the persuasions as an actress barbara has performed in various offbroadway plays which allowed her to receive the tor award through the american theater for actors for most promising actress with distinguishing artiste as a dancer she has choreographed and danced for various dance artist such as cc music factory soul system jay williams and deelite she also choreographed the first club music award show and is choreographer for the underground network dancers she has been managed by celebrity and sports manager glenn tobyas a vocalist barbara has recorded with and sang background vocals for such esteemed artists as deeelite and george clinton shes had many underground tunes such as set it off black delilah dee open your heart and she was featured on unity in her ongoing career as a singer of soulful house she has collaborated with such house music producers as david guetta and blaze she is signed to the production team masters at work little louie vega kenny dope gonzalez which brought forth such tunes as deep inside beautiful people i get lifted stay together and stop playing with my mindtucker has also become the only recording artist to boast a yearly residency at europes clubbing mecca ibiza
gustafrizal busra or known as gus tf sakai born in payakumbuh west sumatra 13 august 1965 age 48 years is an indonesian writer his name gus tf sakai is used when he writes proses while gus tf used when he writes poems he settles in payakumbuh west sumatra he graduated from elementary middle and high schools in payakumbuh then he went to the faculty of animal science andalas university padang completed 1994his creativity evolved from his early childhood which starts from the drawing writing poems and essays on the diary his first publication was a short story that won a contest when he was in 6th grade 1979 then he often join the competition and won after publishing his works with a variety of pseudonyms until the end of high school in 1985 he decided to live by writing since then he uses two names gus and gus tf sakai in 1996 he returned to payakumbuh together with his wife zurniati he decided to live and settle in the village with their three childrensome of his works have been translated into some languages a collection of short stories kemilau cahaya dan perempuan buta who won the lontar literary award 2001 and translated into english and published by the lontar foundation under the title the barber and other short stories which was translated by justine fitzgerald anna nettheim and linda owens
frederik frits bolkestein dutch pronunciation fredrk frdz blkstin 13px born 4 april 1933 is a retired dutch politician of the peoples party for freedom and democracy vvd he served as a member of the house of representatives from 16 january 1978 until 5 november 1982 when he became state secretary for economic affairs from 5 november 1982 until 14 july 1986 in the cabinet lubbers i and again a member of the house of representatives from 3 june 1986 until 24 september 1988 when he became minister of defence from 24 september 1988 until 7 november 1989 in the cabinet lubbers ii he again returned to the house of representatives on 14 september 1989 and nine months later on 1 may 1990 he became the parliamentary leader in the house of representatives and the peoples party for freedom and democracy party leader he served in this position for eight years until 30 july 1998from 15 september 1999 until 22 november 2004 he was the european commissioner for internal market and services in the european commission bolkestein was responsible for internal market taxation and customs union issues some of the more politically sensitive items in his portfolio were the draft community patent regulation and the draft directives on the patentability of computerimplemented inventions and services in the internal market the socalled bolkestein directive which has become the focus of heated debate
marc fleury born 1968 is the creator of jboss an opensource java application serverfleury was born in paris he holds a degree in mathematics and a doctorate in physics from the cole polytechnique in paris and a master in theoretical physics from the cole normale he worked in france for sun microsystems before moving to the united states where he has worked on various java projectsmarcs research interest focused on middleware and he started the jboss project in 1999 jboss group llc was incorporated in 2001 in atlanta georgia jboss became a corporation under the name jboss inc in 2004after selling his company to red hat fleury became senior vice president and general manager of the jboss division however fleury went on a paternity leave in january 2007 supposedly until 15 march 2007 but was widely rumored to be leaving red hat on 9 february 2007 his departure from red hat was made public saying fleury has decided to leave red hat to pursue other personal interests such as teaching research in biology music and his familyhe is an exlieutenant for the french paratroopersin 2008 fleury started a new open source project called openremote to build home automation systemsin 2010 fleury started producing electronic music with the label acid all stars
carlos lopes is a bissauguinean development economist author educator and civil servant the executive director of the united nations institute for training and research unitar since march 2007 and executive secretary of the economic commission for africa since september 2012 he has previously served the united nations as director for political affairs 2005 to 2007 in the executive office of the un secretarygeneral and director of the united nations system staff college march 2007 to august 2012 an international educator lopes serves or advises the boards of the bonn international center for conversion geneva graduate institute of international and development studies iscte lisbon university institute instituto ethos kofi annan foundation and the unesco international institute for educational planning he advises or serves on the editorial boards of the journals gopolitique africaine african sociological review and african identities he is also a member of the king baudouin international development prize selection committeein 1988 lopes began working with the united nations development programme serving various administrative roles there with focus in zimbabwe and new york before in 2003 taking the role of united nations resident coordinator and undp resident representative in brazillopes received his phd from the panthonsorbonne university and was granted an honorary phd from the universidade cndido mendes he has a master of research degree from the geneva graduate institute of international and development studies his research and writing specialize in development and strategic planning
chris batstone was the 20002002 lead singer of the thirdwave ska band suburban legends he joined the band in 2000 as the replacement for tim maurer who had left the band after the recording of origin edition chris first and only official recording with the band was on their first ep suburban legends released in 2001 chris has credits for cowriting the song i want more and desperate found on the ephe left the band in early 2002 reportedly he became increasingly dissatisfied with the direction the band was taking and decided to pursue other musical directions and an acting careerhe was replaced by tim maurer who rejoined the band in 2002 as the lead singer the band then rerecorded the vocal tracks on their selftitled ep with tim to create suburban legends tim remixchris batstone also recorded songs with the band on various compilations he can be found singing all the nights on supporting the scene compilation gummi bears on because we care a benefit for the childrens hospital of orange county compilation he produced and performed on suburban legends cover of rose tint my world singing along with aaron bertram dallas cook and vince walker on an unreleased tribute albumchris can also be seen in the video for i want more
graeme crosby born 4 july 1955 is a former grand prix motorcycle road racer from new zealand crosby has won the daytona 200 the imola 200 the suzuka 8 hours and the isle of man ttcrosby began his racing career in 1974 in the new zealand racing scene in 1976 he raced in the australian superbike championship he then left for europe to compete in britain where he won the 1980 isle of man senior tt by 1980 he had worked his way up to the 500cc road racing world championship on a suzuki rg 500 also in 1980 he teamed up with wes cooley on a yoshimura suzuki to win the suzuka 8 hours endurance race and won the 1981 tt formula one on a suzukicrosby finished fifth in the 1981 500cc championship and successfully defended his tt formula one title he then joined giacomo agostinis yamaha factory racing team he began the 1982 season by winning the prestigious daytona 200 despite injuries crosby still managed second overall in the championship frustrated by the internal politics of his race team crosby quit the grand prix circuit after the 1982 seasonafter his retirement crosby returned to new zealand and has run a number of successful motorcycle businesses he also began auto racing driving successfully in touring car racing mostly in new zealand and australia crosby was inducted into the new zealand sports hall of fame in 1995 in 2007 he was inducted into the new zealand motorcycling hall of famecrosbys autobiography entitled croz larrikin biker was published in 2010
clare bowditch born 1975 is an australian musician occasional actor offspring channel 10 and the founder of the loveproject big hearted business wwwbigheartedbusinesscom which aims to teach creative people about business and business people about creativity in ways that make sense she won an aria award in 2006 best female and was nominated for a logie award for her work on channel 10s offspring tv show in 2012 shes had top ten albums been named rolling stone woman of the year contribution to culture yen young woman of the year music toured all over with the likes of gotye and leonard cohen written for harpers bazaar rolling stone and the drum and currently hosts an australian music show on qantas bowditch has released seven albums in total her last the winter i chose happiness was released on 14 september 2012 in may 2012 bowditch released the single you make me happy her first top 40 song which was featured in the network ten television show offspring a series that she also acts inclare is currently an ambassador for apra ppca and smiling mind and a member of the governments live music round table panel she was the secretary of the music victoria board until 2012 she is currently preparing for the second ever big hearted business conference in melbourne australia may 2014 and plans to release album number eight in 2015
gordon francis lee born 13 july 1934 is a former english footballer and football manager he played 120 league matches in a 12year career in the football league before going on to greater success as a managera rightback during his playing days he moved from hednesford town to aston villa in 1955 he spent the next eleven years with the villans winning a second division championship medal in 195960 a league cup winners medal in 1961 as well as a league cup runnersup medal in 1963 he then moved on to shrewsbury town in 1966 where he made the shift from player to coachhe began his management career with port vale in 1968 leading them to promotion out of the fourth division in 196970 switching to blackburn rovers in january 1974 he took them to the third division title in 197475 this won him the top job at newcastle united and in 1976 he led newcastle to the league cup final he took up the reins at everton in january 1977 and also took them to the league cup final later in the year after losing his job at everton in may 1981 he was appointed manager of preston north end before he departed two years later in 1985 he moved to iceland to manage kr reykjavik before he left the club in 1987 returning to england behind the scenes at leicester city he spent a brief period of 1991 as the clubs caretakermanager
david ellard born 13 march 1989 is an australian rules footballer with the carlton football club in the australian football league aflellard is a relatively small player who plays mainly as an inandunder or tagging midfielder he played football with the swan districts football club in the wafl in 2007 he was drafted to the carlton football club in the afl for the 2008 season as a rookie in the rookie draft with the clubs third selection no 34 overall ellard played in several of carltons preseason games including his carlton debut in an exhibition match in south africa and in the clubs two nab cup gamesellard began the regular season with carltons vflaffiliate the northern bullants he impressed sufficiently to be elevated to the senior list and made his debut against the west coast eagles at subiaco oval in round 7 he did not play again for the blues during the season playing a total of eighteen games for the bullants in 2009 ellard returned to the rookie list and played the entire season with the northern bullants where he was one of the clubs best midfielders and was a part of the clubs losing grand final team ellard won the carlton football clubs best clubman award and the northern bullants best and fairest award the laurie hill trophy in 2009ellard was given a third year as a rookie and continued playing for the bullants after playing his 50th senior game for the bullants and more than two years after his afl debut ellard played his second afl match in round 17 2010 against the west coast eagles at subiaco oval and played every carlton game for the rest of the season ellard was formally elevated to the senior list after the 2010 season he was a regular part of carltons midfield in 2011 with great tackling and accurate goalkicking
chuck hartlieb born charles gregory hartlieb march 12 1966 is a former american football quarterback he played college football for the iowa hawkeyes from 19841988 and started at that position from 19871988 he was a high school standout at marian central catholic high school in woodstock illinois where he was named the 1983 courier news player of the yearhartlieb emerged as the hawkeyes starting quarterback in 1987 winning the job from dan mcgwire he passed for 3092 yards and 19 touchdowns en route to a 93 record and a 2019 victory over wyoming in the 1987 holiday bowl his 7 passing touchdowns against northwestern remain a school recordin 1988 hartlieb set school records for passes attempted 460 completions 288 and yards gained 3738 perhaps his greatest performance came on october 29 1988 against indiana hartlieb went 4460 for 558 yards in a losing effort the hawkeyes finished with a record of 643 and lost to north carolina state in the 1988 peach bowlhartlieb was named first team allbig ten and academic allamerican in 1987 and 1988 he played in the postseason allstar hula bowl and the japan bowl he was drafted by the houston oilers in 1989 but did not play his brother jim also played football at iowatoday hartlieb works as a financial planner in des moines
lance lee nichols born july 25 1939 is an american former catcher manager farm system official and scout in professional baseball nichols threw and batted righthanded he stood 6 ft 18 m tall and weighed 195 lb 88 kg as an active playernichols was born in kansas city missouri he attended lyndon kansas high school and played baseball basketball and football at emporia state university before signing his first pro baseball contract with the los angeles dodgers in 1961 he progressed as far as the triplea spokane indians of the pacific coast league for 77 games in 1966 but never appeared at the major league level batting 225 over six minor league seasons with 15 home runsafter five seasons as the baseball coach at dodge city high school nichols returned to the professional ranks as a manager in the farm systems of the montreal expos st louis cardinals and baltimore orioles reaching the triplea level with the new orleans pelicans in 1977 and the rochester red wings in 19821983 his record as a manager was 768819 484 over 12 seasons 19721983he then served the orioles farm system as director of field operations before spending the 1989 season as director of player development of the philadelphia phillies he also was a scout for the colorado rockies during their early years in mlb and a montreal expos and washington nationals scout
john edward james born 19 february 1934 is an english former professional footballer who made 130 appearances in the football league playing for birmingham city and torquay united he played as an inside forwardjames was born in harborne birmingham as a youngster he was on the books of brighton hove albion but he was working in a brass foundry when birmingham city signed him in as a junior in june 1950 he turned professional the following year and made his firstteam debut on 4 march 1953 replacing the injured peter murphy in a sixthround fa cup replay against tottenham hotspur which finished as a 22 draw he played in the next three league games scoring twice in the last of these to secure a 31 win against barnsley but managed only two firstteam games in the next season and one the season after and moved on to torquay united at the end of the 195455 season james spent six seasons with torquay and scored 11 goals from 125 league appearancesjames went on to be a very successful scout at both torquay united and plymouth argyle earning torquay in particular many thousands of pounds in transfer fees from his talent spotting darren moore and mark loram are examples of players he brought to the club after his move to plymouth he was instrumental in signings including dan gosling who went on to play for everton and england under21s
michael king born december 18 1962 in gary indiana is an american commentator columnist and emmy awardwinning television producer he attended both purdue university and howard universityking was a 1980 graduate of garys roosevelt high school he is the son of 1955 roosevelt graduate howard and gloria king kings career includes radio news and talk work in northwest indiana washington dc and atlanta while at purdue king reported for the purdue exponent he was also part of the team that developed cnnsicom in 1997as a member of project 21s national advisory board king has provided commentary for radio television and newspapers across the united states he has written political commentary columns that have been syndicated by project 21 to more than 400 newspapers in the us on behalf of project 21 king has provided testimony and commentary to congressional subcommittees and to other public interest and public policy groups across the nationking has been interviewed on a number of national and local radio programs including nprs morning edition the tavis smiley show the ken hamblin show the michael reagan show janet parshalls america and othersking has been a semiregular contributor to cable television talk shows including msnbcs scarborough country and fox news channels hannity colmes and the oreilly factorking withdrew from active commentary late in 2005 in order to become a producer and reporter with wxiatv atlanta king has been nominated for 10 southeast regional emmy awards since 2005 and has won six emmys he has also received regional associated press awards in 2006 through 2012 and an edward r murrow award for his web site work in 2006
harm van veldhoven dutch pronunciation rm vn vltovn born 28 september 1962 in luyksgestel is a dutchbelgian football manager and currently manages indian super league club delhi dynamosvan veldhoven started his career with local youth team de raven he was picked up by sk lommel at the age of 17 he made his way up to the highest level of belgian football with germinal ekeren he then went to rwdm and eventually returned to sk lommel when they had also arrived in first division the 3 teams for which van veldhoven was active as footballer at senior level are already all defuncthe began his career as striker but throughout his career he went more and more playing as midfielder or even defenderwhen harm van veldhoven finished his playing career with lommel he became assistant coach it only took him one season to become head manager of the team afterwards he was manager for fc brussels with which he became champions this success woke the interest of cercle brugge where he stayed 3 years when his contract ended van veldhoven went to germinal beerschot of which his former team germinal ekeren was a predecessor after a very successful season he could not repeat his achievement and was sacked as a consequence he went back to his country of birth and signed for roda jc in november 2008 he avoided relegation after play offs his contract ended in 2012 which allowed him to sign with kv mechelen where he was sacked on 30 december 2013
glen william pine is an american musician and songwriter from boston ma he is most known for his role in the slackers where he plays the trombone and sings pine joined the slackers before the release of the question on which he contributed with the song mountainside glen was an original member of boston based reggae outfit the pressure cooker 1 along with vic ruggiero he has performed under the name the redlightspines lyrics usually touch upon lost love and other sad themes although there are exceptions like the abovementioned mountainside his songs often take the shape of ballads but his range of styles also includes soul and ska pine has covered the sam cooke song cupid on several occasions including the album upsettin ernestos and live on a wedding gig in colorado he is also a wellknown fan of horace andy something that is apparent in the cover version of the beatles we can work it out found on the slackers lost and found releasein the fall of 2011 pine released two tracks on pickle don records under the project name the hall trees the tracks were mixed by dj 100dbs and featured dan brenner guitar and drums and bandmate marcus geard bass and guitar
scott leitch born 6 october 1969 in motherwell is a scottish former professional footballer and former manager of ross countyleitch began his playing career in 1989 at shettleston juniors fc before turning professional with dunfermline athletic in april 1990 after three years at east end park he joined hearts where he remained for another three years before moving to england with swindon town in a 15000 transfer leitch returned to scotland in 2000 with hometown team motherwell where he became an integral part of their midfield he played 128 league games scoring 1 goala succession of injury problems prompted leitch to quit football in 2006 and turn to management with ross county where he was officially appointed on 18 april 2006 he guided the staggies to their first national trophy in november 2006 when they won the scottish challenge cup against clyde in perth however the club were also relegated from the scottish first division the same seasonon april 30 2007 leitch resigned as manager of ross county after the clubs relegation from the first division he subsequently became assistant manager to mark mcghee at motherwell leitch became the assistant manager of aberdeen when mcghee became their manager leitch was sacked by aberdeen on 1 december 2010 along with manager mark mcghee and colin meldrum after a poor run of results left them only spared from the foot of the spl by goal difference and they also oversaw the spls heaviest ever defeat when celtic beat the dons 90in november 2013 leitch was appointed as academy director at motherwell
alexandra louise kuczynski born december 6 1967 is a reporter for the new york times a columnist for the new york times magazine and the author of the awardwinning 2006 book beauty junkies about the cosmetic surgery industry the book was translated into ten languages her father pedro pablo kuczynski of lima peru is an economist and politician who lost the presidential election in peru in april 2011after graduating from barnard college in 1990 she became a journalist with the new york observer and then the new york times on 10 september 2001 she was transferred by howell raines from media reporter to the style section where kuczynski would write the sort of popfeature pieces that would appeal to the times national audience she has been described as a giddy blast she always would have 10 ideas at story meetings and eight of them would be terrible and two would be brilliantkuczynski married the investor charles porter stevenson jr in 2002in 2006 she authored a book about the growth of the cosmetic surgery business beauty junkies inside our 15 billion obsession with plastic surgery isbn 9780385508537 reviewers have noted that readers of the book may take a pass after reading this expos about extreme makeovers kuczynski concludes looks are the new feminism an activism of aesthetics as vulgar and shallow as it sounds looks matter more than they ever have especially for womenin 2008 she wrote an article in the new york times about her decision after eight years of marriage to use a gestational surrogate mother to have her genetic child after several miscarriages
manuel buchwald oc frsc born june 7 1940 is a canadian geneticist and academic born in lima peru he received a bachelor of arts degree summa cum laude in 1962 from dartmouth college and a phd in 1967 from brandeis university he was a member of the phi beta kappa societyin 1971 he joined the hospital for sick children as a staff geneticist in 1970 he was appointed scientist and in 1980 became a senior scientist in 1996 he was appointed senior scientist and director of the hospital for sick childrens research institute he also holds the lombard insurance chair in pediatric research his research interests are human molecular genetics fanconi anemia cystic fibrosis and gene cloning and function from 1973 to 1977 he was an assistant professor at the university of toronto and was an associate professor from 1977 to 1986 he is part of the team which holds the united states patent for methods of detecting cystic fibrosis gene by nucleic acid hybridization 1 filed in 1995in 1991 he was made an officer of the order of canada for major molecular biological thrust into cystic fibrosis research in 1992 he was awarded the 125th anniversary of the confederation of canada medal in 1994 he was made a fellow of the royal society of canada he is a fellow of the canadian academy of health sciences
nicholas de jongh born 2 march 1944 is a british theatre critic and playwright he was born into a secular jewish household de jongh served as the senior drama critic of the evening standard from 1991 to 2009 prior to that he worked for the guardian newspaper for almost 20 years at the evening standard de jongh established a reputation for his acerbic reviews nonetheless he is regarded as a fixture of the london theatrical establishment in 2008 he successfully made the transition from critic to playwright when his play plague over england was staged at the finborough theatre in earls court set in 1950s england the play takes a look back at the arrest of the actor john gielgud for homosexual soliciting at the height of his fame plague over england was an instant hit and sold out for its run at the finborough in 2009 the play transferred to the west end following the success of his first play de jongh then resigned from his post at the evening standard in order to pursue a fulltime writing career he has also written two books not in front of the audience 1992 a study of the depiction of homosexuality in english drama and politics pruderies and perversions 2000 a history of british theatrical censorship
rustem hayroudinoff russian is a russian concert pianist tatar by nationality he was born in kazan russian federation republic of tatarstan his father afzal hayroudinoff is a professor of cello at the kazan state conservatory he is a brother of halida hayrutdinova also acclaimed concert pianist rustem hayroudinoff graduated from the moscow conservatory where he studied with lev naumov and received his postgraduate degree dipram at the royal academy of music in london with christopher elton he was the very first student from soviet union to come to study at the royal academy where he is now a professor of pianohis performances have been broadcast on most major classical radio stations around the world and he has appeared in the documentary the unknown shostakovich alongside vladimir ashkenazy valery gergiev and maxim shostakovich he has recorded cds for various labels including chandos decca and nami his recordings of shostakovichs theatre music and the dvok piano concerto with the bbc philharmonic were selected amongst the best cds of the year by bbc music and the gramophone magazines respectively his cd of the rachmaninoff complete preludes was selected by classic fm magazine as a part of the four discs essential rachmaninoff collection alongside the recordings of arthur rubinstein and andr previn and his recording of the complete etudestableaux by rachmaninoff became the instrumental choice of the month with the bbc music magazine and was nominated for the bbc music magazine best instrumental cd of the year award it was also selected as the finest version of these pieces on bbc radio 3s building a library programme presenter david nice
andr hurst born in 1940 in geneva is a hellenist professor and former rector of the university of genevaandr hurst is the author of books and articles mainly covering the domains of greek epics and ancient theatre he has also been involved in the editions of papyri for all his publications see the publication listhe has been successively visiting professor at mcgill university montreal babesbolyai university clujnapoca romania university of lausanne switzerland and ecole normale suprieure rue dulm paris as well as member of the senior common room at st johns college oxford for eight years he was on the committee for the conservatory of music and the performing arts in geneva heading the committee several times for eight years he held the chairmanship of the socit acadmique de genve a private research fund and was for twelve years in charge of collaborations of the university of geneva with central and eastern european universitiesalso active in the musical life of geneva as evidenced by his presidency of the conservatoire de musique de genve he is the instigator and cofounder of the world knowledge dialogue he presides the wkd foundationdistinctions honorary doctorate from the university of babebolyai in clujnapoca romania commander of the order of merit of romania officer of the order of academic palms of france gold cross of the order of the phoenix of greece
jeffery l jeff dangl b oct 13 1957 is an american biologist he is currently john n couch professor of biology at the university of north carolina at chapel hill dangl earned his bas of biological sciences and modern literature ms of biological sciences and phd degrees from stanford university he joined the unc faculty after a postdoctoral period at the department of biochemistry maxplanckinstitut fr zchtungsforschung in kln germany and as a group leader in the maxdelbrck laboratorium of the same institutedangl was an immunologist prior to studying arabidopsis as a model system to study plant disease resistance dangl has studied the genetic and molecular basis of plant disease susceptibility and resistance geneforgene relationship he along with collaborator jonathan d g jones proposed the zigzag model for the coevolution of plant resistance genes and pathogen effectorsdangl is an elected member of the us national academy of sciences 2007 the deutsche academie der naturforscher the leopoldina 2003 and the american association for the advancement of science 2004 jeff dangl is the recipient of the 2009 award from the international society for molecular plantmicrobe interactions ismpmi the board of directors of the ismpmi noted that dangls seminal work in understanding the molecular basis of plantpathogen interactions has made innumerable and invaluable contributions in elucidating the innate immune response in plants in 2009 dangl received the stephen hales prize from the american society of plant biologistshe is a member of the editorial board of eight leading journals in genetics genomics and cell biology he has served on several scientific advisory boards for companies and he served administrative roles in several national and international societies relating to plant biology research
johann niklaus schneiderammann born 18 february 1952 is a swiss businessman and politician member of the free democratic party he was elected to the swiss national council in 1999 the son of a veterinary born in sumiswald switzerland he graduated as an electrical engineer from the eth zrich in 1977 and obtained a master of business administration from insead in france in 1983he acted as head of his familys mechanical engineering company ammann group in the 4th generation from 1990 to 2010 when he passed control over the company to his two sonshe chaired the corporate union swissmem from 1999 he was elected to the national council in 1999 and reelected in 2003 and 2007in the context of the 2008 financial crisis he took a critical stances on bonuses awarded to the finance industryin 2008 his company moved substantial funds to a tax haven in jerseyon 22 september 2010 he was elected to the swiss federal council as successor to hansrudolf merz he is the head of the federal department of economic affairs education and researchthe swiss commerce ministerformerly the federal department of economic affairstaking office on 1 november 2010schneiderammann had previously announced his intention to step down from his corporate responsibilities as well as various board memberships if electedschneiderammann is married has two children and lives in langenthal
james ottis stewart born december 27 1971 is a retired american football running back who played nine seasons in the national football league from 19952003stewart played football at his high school of morristown west high school he played college football at the university of tennessee and in 1995 he was the second pick of the expansion jacksonville jaguars selections in the first round of the nfl draft selected 19th overall1991 190 carries for 939 yards with 8 td 18 catches for 106 yards1992 85 carries for 386 yards with 7 td 7 catches for 121 yards with 1 td1993 86 carries for 537 yards with 9 td 12 catches for 89 yards1994 170 carries for 1028 yards with 11 td 17 catches for 147 yards with 3 tdstewart played solidly for the jaguars and still holds the franchise record for the most points in a single game 30 he also holds the jacksonville jaguars franchise record for the most touchdowns in a game with 5 rushing touchdowns both these records were obtained on october 12 1997 against the philadelphia eaglesstewart became a free agent and signed with the detroit lions prior to the 2000 season in his first year playing for the lions stewart rushed for a career high 1184 yards and 10 touchdowns 2 years later he had another 1000plus yard season 1021 however he was injured and did not play in 2003 and never played again due to injuries according to coy wire stewarts injury occurred because of a bounty system established by then buffalo bills head coach gregg williams coy wire stated i shattered james stewarts shoulder and he never played again i was showered with praise for that its a shame thats how it was now i see how wrong that was buffalo news 342012stewart wore number 33 while playing at the university of tennessee and while playing for the jaguars he wore number 34 while playing for the lions
jean stafford born 1 january 1950 at latrobe tasmania is a successful australian country music artist she spent some of her childhood in meander attending the local school and was married at the meander methodist church she has won golden guitar awards as australias best female country singer in 1989 she was crowned australias queen of country music by australian legend smoky dawson stafford was given the keys to the city of nashville tennessee in 1991in recognition for her significant contribution to australian country music in 2008 jean stafford was inducted into the country music roll of renown the plaque readsjean is one of our outstanding stars coming to prominence during the 1970s and 80s she learnt her craft singing at hotels country halls and dances recording initially with dusty rankin in 1965 jean released her debut solo album in 1974 the song what kind of a girl do you think i am winning the first of her three golden guitars and setting jean on the road to stardom from northern tasmania to tamworth and nashville it has been a triumphant journey for the silver voiced girl who made her first public appearance at the age of 12 with many awards honours and accolades to show for her long and illustrious career we salute jean stafford as one of australian country musics finest and most enduring talents
steven p rosenthal born january 21 1953 is a longtime labor and political strategist based in washington dc he was born in brooklyn new york and grew up in a union household the new york times has described rosenthal as one of the democratic partys smartest and most influential strategistsin 2003 rosenthal was one of the founders and chief executive officer of america coming together act a voter mobilization project aimed at defeating incumbent republican president george w bush act raised and spent over 142 million and built one of the largest voter mobilization campaigns in democratic history in a 2004 washington post article about steve rosenthals leadership of act donna brazile al gores former campaign manager was quoted praising rosenthal by saying hes the last great hope of the democratic party charlie cook described acts work in the national journal democrats chiefly through america coming together mounted what was not only the most sophisticated getoutthevote operation in the partys history but it was probably the best field work by a factor of at least 10in his seven year tenure as political director of the aflcio rosenthal designed and directed labor 96 labor 98 labor 2000 and labor 2002 which was the labor movements unified grassroots mobilization effort business week published an article in 1996 about rosenthals effectiveness as a labor strategist asserting that steven p rosenthal has injected a new sense of urgency into the aflcios rusty political machine by pulling together its farflung operations into a coordinated national effort upon leaving his post at the aflcio the new york times reported that many union leaders give mr rosenthal credit for transforming organized labors feeble forgettable campaign operation into one that many political analysts say is the most effective in the nation
hadi ghabel is an iranian cleric and member of the central council of the reformist islamic iran participation front he was imprisoned on april 7 2008 to begin a 40 month jail term following prosecution and conviction by the special court for the clergy the special court charged with investigating other clerics for alleged crimes has prosecuted clerics who challenge official religious interpretations of the islamic republic according to the international campaign for human rights in iran the courts prosecution of religious scholars based solely on their beliefs and opinions constitutes a form of modern inquisition aimed at rooting out clerics whose beliefs are considered politically threateningaccording to roozonline security agents approached ghabels house in april 2008 on the pretext of having religious questions when the cleric appeared at the front of his house the agents pushed their way inside and after searching the rooms confiscated his papers writings and computer and took him to prison after his arrest hadi ghabel was taken to the clerics court and interrogated repeatedly during his two month detention despite the express legal provisions that political crimes must be reviewed in the presence of a jury and must be publicghabel was sentenced to one year in prison for acting against national security 10 months for propaganda against state 15 months for disturbing public opinion 100 days for aspersion of the clergy and a financial fine of 5 million rials 550 usd for insulting the authorities he was also defrockedghabel was one of six political prisoners highlighted in international campaign for human rights in irans september 18 2008 document rights crisis escalates faces and cases from ahmadinejads crackdown
rick ladson is a professional australian rules footballer who played for the hawthorn football club in the australian football league ladson was selected at no 16 in the 2001 afl draft from the bendigo pioneers and is a defender and outside midfielderhe debuted in round 6 2003 against the carlton football club and continued to play six of 22 possible games in 2003 in 2004 he suffered a fractured wrist in a preseason game and missed the first seven games in 2006 ladson played all 22 games with an average of 18 disposals per game and finished ninth in the best and fairest in 2007 ladson continued his form missing only two games in the home and away season and playing two finals gamesladson played in every game of the 2008 season culminating in being a part of hawthorns premiership winning side he had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee after that season delaying his return until round 13 he only played three games before he injured his right knee which also required surgery and resulted in ladson missing the remainder of the seasonfor the 2012 season he was with the essendon football club as a development coachin 2013 ladson was playing coach for golden square club in the bendigo football league
not to be confused with the english michael campbell musician of the courteeners or with the american mike campbell musician of tom petty and the heartbreakersfor other people by that name see michael campbell disambiguationmichael campbell born in anderson indiana started his public career as a singer songwriter and musician in detroit in 1967 with a shortlived band called the abstract reality a 45 rpm single love burns like a fire inside was released with bob babbitt kreinar ray monette and andrew smith he formed scorpion 19681970 band his name appears as mike campbell on scorpion 1969 album and meat loafs debut album stoney meatloaf 1971 for this recording apart from having cowritten four songs he played the harmonica on lady be minehe became an actor by the name michael champion and since 1979 played in several tv series and movies such as diagnosis murder 1993 matlock 1989 and the flash 1991 history of the world part i 1981 beverly hills cop 1984 total recall 1990 and toy soldiers 1991 and video game characters like the terrorist in flash traffic city of angels 1994 and wolf in maximum surge 1996musician and record coproducer ralph terrana has been quoted he campbell was a very talented writer he also could be a little unusual we called him crazy mike
jason jay mckeever born july 23 1976 is an american singersongwriter composerjason mckeever is an acoustic folk rock singersongwriter from logansport indiana united states born in irving texas 1976 to dalton marquita mckeever jason would spend the next 25 years moving every two years all over the midwest living in small towns in missouri oklahoma texas illinois indiana arkansas has given him a unique feel and musical style jason starting playing guitar in high school with friends and continued during his short time at columbia college in missouri songwriting began to influence jason after a 3 month trip to europe in 2000 after returning to the states jason to write and improve with several local musicians and writing whenever possible also in logansport indiana jason has existed in two incarnations the first being ditch and later live fridays with scott jason and currently with barefoot murphy the acoustic rock style of the latter duo and the vocal styles of jason mckeever pat murray of webster street gives the duo their unique sound another signature mark of the duo is strength in their individual songwriting which often are blues infused and intwined with loss and problems in love life the band also incorporates a bit of influence from folk music in 2007 jason first solo indie ep the lights and the fury was released a mix of rock and acoustic songs fury is the first of a trio of records planned in the next few years fury is a blend of electronic blues rock songs that allude to a dark side of love the next two albums are planned to explore different genres of music and subject matters
cristian jimnez bundo born 2 july 1988 in barcelona known as el porta or simply porta is a catalan rapper it became popular in 2006 through its huge success in social networks with their maqueta no es cuestin de edades 2006 and no hay truco 2007 which were widely disseminated on the internet where he broke the record of downloads porta won greater popularity by releasing his first album en boca de tantos 2008 and so he has to know his world rap comando group his third album trastorno bipolar was released in 2009 but did not have the same sales success since their first lp because it did not have the same promotion both albums were released by universal music label group over time things between porta and porta label did not agree and ended up resigning his contract on 24 august 2011 his previous work reset was released on 7 may 2012 under the label pias spain after leaving the universal music label his new album scored a number of sales and was welcomed by the public in a positive way and gaining more followers his latest album algo ha cambiado was released on 10 june 2014 in physical format in spain and in digital format on itunes worldwide until today no hay truco is portas most downloaded album until now today porta has about 11 million followers on all his accounts online
carmen magallnportols is a phd a physicist and master in philosophy of science by university of zaragoza spain committed with the advancement of women through researching their contributions to two important fields science and peace her thinking is an important reference in the spanish studies of women in science and feminist pacifismin 2011 she was elected president of wilpf spain the spanish section of the womens international league for peace and freedom in september 2013 the martin luther king institute of the polytechnic university of nicaragua upoli in the celebration of its 20th anniversary awarded her the order of peace martin luther king for her outstanding contribution to the development of womens rights the feminist thought and the construction of a culture of peace in the world at the ceremony dr magalln presented the keynote universalize female legacies build a civilizatory rationality steps towards a culture of peacewomen contributions to science and peacethe recovery of the history of women their experiences and their knowledge is a must for building a gender equality in particular it is important to deepen the knowledge of women in science much of the literature on this subject comes from the anglosaxon world this article wants to add the perspective of women scientists in spain through the writings published by carmen magalln
dr michael peter briggs obe born 3 december 1944 was master of the company of educators in the city of london in 20112012 he was appointed officer of the order of the british empire obe in the 2010 new year honours shortly after his retirement from roehampton university at roehampton he was both principal of southlands college and a pro vicechancellor of the university prior to taking up his role at roehampton peter had been chief executive of the british association for the advancement of science the ba which was subsequently rebranded the british science association in 2009 in all he spent 22 years at the ba initially being responsible for developing its work with young people then taking responsibility for media links and for enhancing the associations growing role in the public understanding of science before being appointed executive secretary later chief executive in 1990 peter graduated from the university of sussex with a bsc in molecular science in 1966 and a dphil in theoretical chemistry in 1969 after two postdoctoral posts in the universities of sheffield and bristol he changed tack and worked for seven years in the voluntary sector with roles in the overseas division of the methodist church and christian aid he was awarded an honorary degree of dsc by the university of leicester in 2002
darijo srna pronounced drijo sna born 1 may 1982 is a croatian professional footballer who plays for shakhtar donetsk as a captain and is also the captain of the croatian national team he can play all across the right wing and is known for his crossing freekick and diving ability he began his career at hajduk split before moving to shakhtar in 2003 he has won numerous trophies during his time at shakhtar including a uefa cup title in 2009 7 ukrainian premier league titles 5 ukrainian cup titles and 5 ukrainian super cup titles srna made his international debut for croatia in november 2002 in 2009 manager slaven bili made him the captain of the national teamhe is the most capped player in the history of croatian national team and has represented the country on 2006 fifa world cup 2014 fifa world cup uefa euro 2004 uefa euro 2008 and uefa euro 2012 he is also the most capped shakhtar donetsk player in the history of the ukrainian premier league since its foundation in 1991 he is considered to be one of the most legendary players in the history of shakhtar donetsk to the extent of being even referred to as the icon of shakhtarwhile in shakhtar srna had offers from clubs like chelsea fc and bayern munich which he declined due to his loyalty to shakhtar
sylvie roy born november 4 1964 in la tuque quebec is a politician in quebec canada and the coalition avenir qubec member of the national assembly for the electoral district of arthabaska she previously represented the riding of lotbinire from 2003 until 2012 initially as a member of the nowdefunct adq until the merger of that party into the caq in 2012she was awarded a law degree from universit laval in 1987 and admitted to the barreau du qubec in 1988 she was lawyer for 15 years including 12 years for mental health organizations in mauricie she served as mayor of saintsophiedelvrard from 1998 to 2003 she also worked for the bcancour regional county municipality quebecroy was first elected to the national assembly in the 2003 election with 37 of the voteparti qubcois pq incumbent jeanguy par finished third with 26 of the votein the 2007 election roy was easily reelected with 59 of the vote liberal candidate laurent boissonneault finished second with 22 of the voteon march 29 2007 roy was appointed deputy official opposition house leaderin the 2008 election roy won reelection with 44 of the vote even though her partys support sharply declined and party leader mario dumont announced his resignation on february 27 2009 she was named the interim leader of the adq until gilles taillon became the permanent leader later that year the adq merged with the caq in 2012 and roy was reelected in the 2012 election
henry joseph rodriguez jr aka junior rodriguez born september 27 1935 is a local politician from st bernard parish louisiana in the greater new orleans area he is of isleo descent and is registered as an independent he served as councilmember on the st bernard parish council from 1976 to 2004 and as president of the st bernard parish council from 2004 to 2008 st bernard parish is a louisiana parish the equivalent of counties in other states that is adjacent to new orleans lower ninth ward neighborhoodduring katrina he and his councilors requested boats and rescued hundreds of people who took refuge on rooftops when the flood occurred however rodriguez reached national fame in the aftermath of hurricane katrina as a regular guest to cnn news show anderson cooper 360 hurricane katrina and related levee failures resulted in almost all homes and businesses of st bernard parish being catastrophically flooded most had to permanently evacuate their house and as of early 2006 the majority of the returned population were in the federal emergency management agency fema housing trailersknown for his matteroffact style and his sometimes colorful language he used his presence on the show to criticize the federal emergency management agency for the slow pace of the recovery in st bernard parish and asked for a more effective response among other aspects he claimed that femas bureaucratic approach kept victims of the hurricane from getting proper assistanceother local politicians criticized the way the federal government handled the aftermath of hurricane katrina new orleans mayor ray nagin and parish presidents benny rousselle from plaquemines and aaron broussard from jefferson are among the most notable onesjunior rodriguez was one of the participants to movie director spike lees documentary when the levees broke a requiem in four acts
the rev carey cash is a us navy chaplain currently assigned to camp david the us presidential retreat as such he has found himself ministering to president barack obama in this sense rev cash can be considered mr obamas pastora 6 ft 4in graduate of the citadel in south carolina and of southwestern baptist theological seminary rev cash nearly became a professional american football player he is the greatnephew of the singer johnny cash and the brother of a former miss america kellye cashcash was born in memphis tennessee to an accomplished deeply religious family his father roy cash jr was a fighter pilot in the navy for 30 years his older sister kellye was crowned miss america in 1987 his mother billie runs a christian ministry and is the author of several books about her faith lt cash served on the battlefield during the invasion of iraq in 2003 as a fervent believer in the christian faith he was deeply committed to spreading christianity within the armed forces and believed a wall of angels protected his men as they fought their way from kuwait to baghdad he baptized more than 50 men during the warnow a commander in the navy cash has been recently reassigned from camp david and currently serves as senior protestant chaplain at the united states naval academy in annapolis maryland
rp mukne marathi is an indian politician his full name is rajaram pandurang mukne popularly known as anna or ramrao mukne he was president of jawhar municipal council of jawhar former princely state he was elected unopposed as a president of jawhar municipal council 1994 to 1997 he is a leader of the nationalist congress party ncp mukne is lawyer by profession who has been appointed as secretary of the ncp for the state of maharashtra he is more social activist than a politician working for rural adivasi and needy people in thane district from last 4 decadeshe was born in the jawhar state on 5 july 1940 to pandurang anusaya mukane his mother anusaya passes away at the age of 101 mukne studied at university of mumbai earning an ballb while serving in central government for eight years he acquired higher education and obtained degree in law he resigned his government post in mumbai to practice law in remote rural areas with the motivation to help tribal and scheduled caste people and other disadvantaged populations and to able to actively participate in social work mukne is well known personality in legal social field in thane district he is fist advocate in the thane district among dalits and adivasis and long experience in profession as lawyer social work writing sufficient knowledge in various field laws and administrationmukne is vice president of maharashtra state allindia depressed classes league founded by jagjivan ram who was deputy prime minister of india in 1994 he was elected unopposed for the post of president of jawhar municipal council from 1994 to 1997
richard alan bosetti born august 5 1953 is a retired major league baseball outfielder who played from 1976 to 1982 for the philadelphia phillies st louis cardinals toronto blue jays and oakland athleticsbosetti was drafted by the philadelphia phillies in the 7th round of the 1973 amateur draft and made his major league appearance on september 9 1976 in 1979 bosetti played in all 162 games for the blue jays and in the same season led all al outfielders in putouts assists and errors during his relatively short career in the big leagues he is on record multiple places as stating it was his goal to urinate in the outfield of every baseball stadium in americaon all four of the teams he played for in his career he was teammates with pitcher tom underwood bosetti was released by the oakland athletics on september 6 1982 at which point he retiredafter his baseball career he returned to his hometown of redding and became involved in local business and politics in 2006 he was elected to the redding city council and bosetti has also served as mayor of redding he coaches the simpson university baseball team and is currently running for the california state assembly district 1
lithang tulku tenzin delek rinpoche or tenzing deleg tibetan wylie bstan dzin bde legs born 1950 in lithang tibet is a tibetan buddhist leader from garze sichuan he was arrested on april 7 2002 during a raid on jamyang choekhorling in garze sichuan china he was accused of being involved in a bomb attack on april 3 2002 on the central square of sichuans provincial capital chengduhe was convicted for alleged involvement in a series of unsolved bombings in his region by the chinese authorities and sentenced to death in december 2002 along with lobsang dhondup a 28year old assistant of his lobsang was executed almost immediately in late january 2003 marking the first execution of a tibetan for political crimes in 20 years tenzin deleks trial began on november 29 2002 before the local court in garze and was sentenced to death with a twoyear execution adjournment overseas human rights groups and united nations human rights experts protested that the case against him was seriously flawed that he did not receive a fair trial and was mistreated in detentionhis sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on 26 january 2005 many overseas advocates of tenzin delek rinpoche continue to fight for a retrialtenzin delek is also widely known for working to develop social medical educational and religious institutions for tibetan nomads in eastern tibet as an advocate for environmental conservation in the face of indiscriminate logging and mining projects and as a mediator between tibetans and chinesein november 2009 40000 tibetans in tenzin delek rinpoches home area signed a petition asking for a retrial they staged a hunger strike at the county seat of lithang for a few days which led to the temporary arrest of about 70 tibetans
joseph massucci born in pittsburgh pennsylvania is the author of several bestselling technothrillers he has written more than 2200 articles for corporate and trade publications on a variety of topics and he is now founder and owner of safari multimedia llcmassuccis first novel codealpha leisure books 1997 describes saddam husseins biological terror attack on united states soil on the eve of war with iraq the book is described as a heartpounding technothriller about a beautiful and brainy biochemist whose inadvertent creation a genetically engineered virus known as saint vitus becomes a terrible weapon of revenge for the middle easts most dangerous terrorist with nonstop action cuttingedge medical science romance and the very real specter of domestic terrorism the book has garnered rave reviews from critics and readers alike with a first printing of 70000 copies totally believable says kirkus reviews usa today this fiction can become reality our reality most recently the book was translated and published in polish by amber press as kod alfahis second novel a sequel to codealpha titled the millennium project leisure books 1998 was touted as one of the most popular books about year 2000 and the millennium timeanddatecom the herald tribune pasadena says this thriller takes readers on a ride made even more compelling by the idea that its events could really happen a good read with plenty of bang for your millennium buck the book was translated and published internationally
for a hong kong entrepreneur please refer to vincent fang entrepreneurvincent fang chinese pinyin fng wnshn was born on 26 january 1969 in hualien taiwan he is a taiwanese multigolden melody award nominated lyricist best known for his collaboration with singersongwriter jay chou fang won best lyricist at the 19th golden melody awards for blue and white porcelain sung by jay chou from on the runin 1997 he sent samples of his lyrics to record companies hoping to find a new career that complemented his passion for writing record company owner jacky wu was impressed with his work and hired fang to work with chou who had just started his songwriting career in 2000 chou released his first album titled jay and since then produced albums in which fang contributes the majority of the lyrics chous fame grew rapidly across asia pulling fang into the limelight as wellfangs lyrics are noted for covering a wide of issues from family to war beyond what is normally discussed in love ballads he is known for using a writing style similar to traditional chinese poetry making frequent references to chinese history and folklore esp in chinese style music a fusion genre made popular in the 2000s decade by jay chou fusing modern rock and contemporary rb together with traditional chinese music he calls his style of lyrical poetry su yan rhyme poetry which has become a new poetry form in modern chinese musical literature
thomas mccarthy born 1954 is an irish poet novelist and critic born in cappoquin co waterford ireland he attended university college cork where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of john montague among his contemporaries described by thomas dillon redshaw as that remarkable generation there were theo dorgan poet and memoirist sean dunne poet greg delanty poet maurice riordan poet and william wall novelist and poet mccarthy edited at various times the cork review and poetry ireland review he has published seven collections of poetry with anvil press poetry london including the sorrow garden the lost province mr dineens careful parade the last geraldine officer a major achievement in the view of academic and poet maurice harmonand merchant prince described as an ambitious and substantive book the main themes of his poetry are southern irish politics love and memory he is also the author of two novels without power and asya and christine he is married with two children and lives in cork city where he works in the city libraries he won the patrick kavanagh poetry award in 1977 his monograph rising from the ashes tells the story of the burning of the carnegie free library in cork city by the black and tans in 1920 and the subsequent efforts to rebuild the collection with the help of donors from all over the worldin his work the ludicrous and the homely go handinhand but the relaxed conversational style can switch from emphatic narration to literary observation as when the poet quotes henry jamess remark as the picture is reality so the novel is historyand not as the poem is a metaphor and closed thing
sen g hailpn born 22 may 1977 is a fijianirish hurler and gaelic footballerin an intercounty playing career that spanned three decades hailpn played for the cork senior hurling and football teams winning major honours with both he also enjoyed much success with club side na piarsaigh and represented munster in the interprovincial championshipsafter starting his career as a hurler at minor level hailpn joined the cork senior hurling team in 1996 between then and 2012 he won three allireland medals five munster medals and one national hurling league medal hailpns threeyear career with the cork senior football team saw him win one munster medal and one national football league medalat club level hailpn is a twotime county hurling championship medalist with na piarsaigh hailpn has a number of personal achievements including three consecutive all star awards in 2004 he made a clean sweep of all the top individual awards winning the alln star texaco and gpa hurler of the year awards four years later in 2009 he was chosen on the munster team of the past twentyfive yearshis brothers setanta teu and aisake are also notable sportsmenin october 2013 hailpn released his autobiography called sean og o hailpin the autobiography
ivan ivica senzen born 4 may 1951 in sisak ia a former croatian footballer after beginning his career at his hometown club metalac sisak senzen was picked up by dinamo zagreb in 1970 senzen spent the next nine years playing for the club and had appeared in a total of 447 matches and scored 103 goals for the club 206 appearances and 29 goals in the yugoslav first league in a generation that featured other notable players such as drago vabec zlatko kranjar and velimir zajecin 1979 he moved to germany where he spent three seasons playing for 1860 munich and scored 8 goals in 82 appearances for the german side he then moved on to austria klagenfurt where he played between 1982 and 1986 before returning to croatia and spending two years with jugokeramika today known as inter zaprei and then two years with radnik velika gorica before retiring in 1990after retiring from active football senzen turned to managing and coaching he first worked at radniks youth academy for a year before taking over as clubs manager and winning promotion to prva hnl in 1991 between 1991 and 1999 he managed several croatian clubs before coming to dinamo zagreb in 1999 as assistant manager to ilija lonarevi dinamo won the championship title that season and senzen stayed at the club working at dinamos academyhe currently works as a coach of the youngest age group at the dinamo academy the zagii ii under8 team and occasionally does scouting for the club bringing in youth players to dinamo
otmar szafnauer born 13 august 1964 in romania is the chief operating officer of the sahara force india formula one motor racing teamhe was formerly the vice president of honda racing developments and a member of the management board of the honda f1 teamhe was born in romania to an american father of german descent and a romanian mother but moved to detroit when he was seven years oldhe received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from wayne state university in detroit before completing a masters degree in business and finance from the university of detroit he joined the ford motor company in 1986 while working for ford he attended the jim russell racing driver school and started racing in formula ford in 1991 in 1993 he was appointed programmes manager for ford in the uswhile working at ford he met adrian reynard who asked him to become operations director at british american racing in formula one in 1998 after three years at bar he was recruited by bobby rahal in 2001 to be chief operating officer at jaguar racing but a week before he was supposed to start rahal was fired and szafnauer never joined the team several months later he was hired by honda who had made a comeback to formula 1 to help its engineersafter leaving honda in 2008 he founded soft pauer which released the official formula one timing and track positioning application on the iphone in june 2009 before joining sahara force india in october 2009szafnauer has played an integral role in sahara force indias improved performance since his arrival with the team finishing seventh in 2010 and sixth in 2011 and 2013 szafnauers efforts also played an instrumental role in the team securing a longterm agreement to use the mercedesbenz powertrain from the 2014 season onwards
russel e kaufman md is president and ceo of the wistar institute in philadelphia in addition to his administrative role at wistar kaufman maintains a research program that focuses on the genetics behind various types of blood diseases and cancer during his time in research some of kaufmans discoveries include the characterization of the globin genes and the discovery of the cd7 ligand k12 additionally he has focused on the regulation of genes expressed in hematopoietic stem cells and their progenitorskaufman is active in a number of philadelphia regional organizations and national organizations related to cancer research he has served as chair of the greater philadelphia life sciences congress a board member of the board of directors for the university city science center an adviser to the national institutes of health and an adviser to the american cancer society in 2008 kaufman received the cancer control award from the american cancer society for his exemplary individual achievements in the field of cancer control in 2012 the philadelphia business journal named kaufman life sciences ceo of the yearprior to taking his role at wistar in 2002 kaufman worked at duke university medical center where he served as chief resident division chief of medical oncology vice chair of the department of medicine and vice dean for education and academic affairs
prayut chanocha previously spelt prayuth chanocha thai ipa prjt tnt born 21 march 1954 is a former thai army officer who is now 2014 the prime minister of thailand and head of the national council for peace and order ncpo a military junta that has the power to control the prime ministerprayut is a former commander in chief of the royal thai army the post he held from october 2010 to october 2014 after his appointment as army chief prayut was characterised as a strong royalist and an opponent of former prime minister thaksin shinawatra considered a hardliner within the military he was one of the leading proponents of military crackdowns on the red shirt demonstrations of april 2009 and aprilmay 2010 he later sought to moderate his profile talking to relatives of protesters who were killed in the bloody conflict and cooperating with the government of yingluck shinawatra who won parliamentary election in july 2011during the political crisis that began in november 2013 and involved protests against the caretaker government of yingluck prayut claimed that the army was neutral and would not launch a coup however in may 2014 prayut launched a military coup against the government and then assumed control of the country as ncpo leader he later issued an interim constitution granting himself sweeping powers and giving himself amnesty for staging the coup in august 2014 a militarydominated national legislature whose members were handpicked by prayut elected him as the new prime ministerafter seizing power prayut launched crackdowns on dissent he required all students in thai schools to recite the twelve values as formulated by him he has also banned public discussion about democracy and any criticism of his government
ric falt born 22 august 1962 in lyon france is a french senior official at the united nationssince september 2010 he has served as assistant directorgeneral for external relations and public information at the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization unesco based in paris with the rank of assistant secretarygeneral asgin his current capacity he oversees the work of the organization in the political field and coordinates activities geared towards civil society he also guides the organizations communications and public information effortsfrom 2007 to 2010 he was director of the outreach division of the united nations department of public information in new yorkfrom 2002 to 2007 he simultaneously served as director of communications for the united nations environment programme unep and director of the un information centre in nairobi kenyafrom 1998 to 2002 he served as director of the un information centre in islamabad pakistan when the events of 11 september occurredthroughout the 1990s eric falt held different positions in un peacekeeping and humanitarian operations in 1992 and 1993 he was based in phnom penh cambodia as spokesperson of the united nations transitional authority in cambodia untac he then served in portofprince from 1993 to 1997 as spokesperson and head of information for the united nations mission in haiti unmih from 1997 to 1998 he was based in baghdad for the office of the un humanitarian coordinator for iraqbefore joining the united nations eric falt served with the french ministry of foreign affairs in chicago and in new york
angus clark is a guitarist singer songwriter and producer he has toured with the internationally renowned and grammywinning new age artist kitaro as well as with the hard rock acts drill and naked sun and is currently touring with the transsiberian orchestra and daredevil squadron clark is also an onstage guitarist with the fictional 80s rock band arsenal in the broadway musical rock of ageshis stage performance on the kitaro 1999 concert dvd an enchanted evening clearly demonstrates his unique talent and skill ie kokorohis first solo album grace period was released in 2004 the album also served as his debut as a lead singerin 2006 he produced and played guitar for his band trouble clubs debut ep the unbreakable heart also in 2006 he cowrote and played guitar on jethro tull and tso violinist anna phoebes debut albumette gypsy jethro tull went on to perform two songs cowritten by clark while on tour in europehis wifes name is bonnie and they have 2 cats they live in brooklynin 2009 he released his first instrumental album your last battlefieldclark is also one of two guitarists in the band daredevil squadron and they released their first album out of the sun in 2010 they have toured sporadically in 2010 and 2011 in march 2011 the band followed up their first album with a cover version of mumford and sons little lion manclark also teaches at the national guitar workshop a music school in the united states
dr alex boraine born 1931 is a south african politician he was born in cape townhaving been ordained as a methodist minister in 1956 he studied at rhodes university in south africa oxford university in england and drew university in the usain 1970 he was appointed youngestever president of the methodist church of southern africa a position he held until 1972 he was elected to parliament as an mp for the progressive party in 1974 he resigned in 1986 and together with frederik van zyl slabbert founded idasa which organized the 1987 meeting with anc leaders in dakar senegalfrom 1986 to 1995 dr boraine headed two south african nonprofit organizations concerned with ending apartheid and addressing the legacy it left behindboraine was one of the main architects of south africas truth and reconciliation commission in 1995 he was appointed by president nelson mandela to be its deputy chair serving under chairman archbishop desmond tutu from 1996 to 1998from 1998 through early 2001 he served as professor of law at new york university and as director of the new york university law schools justice in transition program in 2001 dr boraine cofounded the international center for transitional justice an international human rights ngo he served as ictjs president for three years and subsequently the chairperson of ictjs south africa office alex boraine has travelled to many countries that are in transition from dictatorship to democracy at the invitation of governments and ngos to share the south african experience boraine is currently a member of advisory board of directors and a global visiting professor of law at the nyu school of laws hauser global law school programhe has published two books a country unmasked was published by oxford university press in november 2000 a life in transition was published by struik publishers in june 5 2008
guillermo scar sanguinetti giordano born june 21 1966 in montevideo uruguay is a retired football player and the current manager of primera divisin peru team alianza limahaving made his debut on may 5 1991 against the united states 01 he obtained a total number of twenty international caps for his national team scoring one goal in the 1990ssanguinetti played for a number of uruguayan football clubs before joining gimnasia y esgrima de la plata in argentina where he played 390 games scoring 32 goals between 1991 and 2003 he was nicknamed topoin december 2007 he was given the job of manager of gimnasia y esgrima de la plata but on september 29 2008 the day after gimnasia lp lost 31 against their arch rivals estudiantes lp sanguinetti resign as head coach of the teamel topo was dismissed from football at age 37 with 383 matches in argentina and 18 at international became the player with most appearances in the history of gimnasia la plata and a symbol of the club platense people cheered in his last game against hurricane and responded with an inscription on the shirt as a tribute from mole to lobo in 12 years during his tenure with the club scored 30 goalson january 3 2008 again gymnastics technical director of the hand of the new president walter gisande1 directed against gimnasia in 28 argentine football official matches with 6 wins 9 draws and 13 defeats on august 13 2009 took over as new coach closed on 8 december 2010 took over as coach of sportivo luqueno a is designated half of 2012 bella vista coach his country replacing diego alonso which reaches located in the top of the table at the beginning of the 2nd championship 2012in 2014 he is the coach of alianza lima
ross tipon is a freelance author based in baguio city philippines who formerly wrote a column for a nowdefunct daily publication in manila called philippines newsdayhis later works are mainly political in nature being a critic of government corruption in the philippines and an advocate of philippine recolonization by the united statesin july 2005 tipon published a book entitled the power and the glory the cult of manalo which is critical of the iglesia ni cristo a politically influential philippinebased religion the inc promptly filed a lawsuit claiming that the book was defamatory of its organization the inc further claimed that the publication of tipons book will cause social unrest for his part tipon accused the inc of suppressing his rights to free speechthe power and the glory the cult of manalo catalogued what he believed to be the incs unbiblical doctrines critics of the inc believe members of the inc and the public should be free to study educated criticisms directed at any doctrine of any religious group in the spirit of the free speech and religious freedomthe eventual publication of the power and the glory the cult of manalo has effectively challenged the limits of the incs perceived influence among political leaders in the philippines
rafael felipe scheidt born february 10 1976 in porto alegre brazil is a brazilian footballer he was signed by the john barneskenny dalglish management of celtic from grmio for 5 million and failed to make an impact plagued by injury and finding it hard to settle he started one game in the 199900 in scottish football against st johnstone and was let out on loan to corinthians by new manager martin oneill after just three appearances indeed scheidt later admitted that following an umimpressive showing in a preseason friendly oneill had told him i like footballers who are not like you further adding i like footballers who play well the guardian newspaper called scheidt the second worst transfer in the history of soccer in an article published in 2001scheidts loan spell at corinthians came to an end in 2002 and he maintained his hope of making it at celtic informing the sunday herald that i want this year to be known as the scheidt year however he no longer met uk work permit requirements and celtic paid off the remainder of his contract he then returned to brazil joining atltico mineiro a year later he signed for botafogo before being released by them in 2006scheidt won three caps for brazil in 1999 shortly prior to his transfer to celtic these games were friendlies and rumours later surfaced that brazilian based players at that time were being handed caps in return for sweeteners from their clubs wanting to sell them to european clubs for large transfer fees
jnos krecska born 28 october 1965 is a hungarian former football player and coach he has played for ferencvrosi tc iii kerleti tve and perak fa among his clubs during his career his preferred playing position is as a defenderamong his greatest achievement is helping perak to win malaysia cup in 1998 together with his compatriot laszlo repasi he also was part of the ferencvaros team that finished runners up in the hungarian league for the 198283 seasonafter his playing career ended he embarks on a coaching role in hungary and malaysia jnos was the head coach of bkv elre sc for three years before leaving the club in 2006 he has worked in arsenal soccer schools malaysia before he was appointed as assistant coach to mat zan mat aris at kl plus fc in 2010 when mat zan resigned before the start of malaysia cup that year he was appointed as head coach of the club until the club resigns from malaysia super league before the start of 2011 seasonin april 2011 janos was appointed head coach of perlis fa taking over from salim tofel mohamad who is the caretaker coach after the resignation of moshtakeen omar on 1 march 2011 he failed to stop perlis slide as the team eventually finished last in the league and were relegated to malaysia premier leaguehe was appointed head coach of penang fa for the 2012 malaysia fam league season in 2013 he switched to coach penangs allianze university football academy who was the penang fa sponsor in the 2012 season
ivan katalini born 17 may 1951 is a croatian football manager and former hajduk split and southampton goalkeeper he manages jedinstvo biha in the first league of the federation of bosnia and herzegovina as a member of hajduks famous golden generation of the 1970w he won four yugoslav championships and five consecutive cupsin early 1980 came a move to southampton where he stayed for three and a half seasons on his return from england katalini once again joined hajduk becoming part of the coaching staff and a third choice goalkeeper for the 198384 seasonso far in his managerial career katalini has managed 17 clubs most success was achieved with hajduk from 1993 until 1995 two croatian championships and cups were won along with two supercups season 199495 is remembered as the most successful in hajduks history besides winning the double hajduk reached quarterfinals of the champions leagueas a goalkeeper katalini was capped 13 times for yugoslav national team debut came on 30 january 1977 when yugoslavia beat colombia 10 at estadio el campn in bogot and his last game was in rome on 18 may 1978 versus italy at stadio olimpico in ascoreless draw from 1996 until 2002 he was part of the croatian national teams coaching staff that led croatia to bronze medal in the world cup 1998
thomas walter hampson born june 28 1955 is an american lyric baritone a classical singer who has appeared worldwide in major opera houses and concert halls and made over 170 musical recordingshampsons operatic repertoire spans a range of more than 80 roles including the title roles in mozarts don giovanni rossinis guillaume tell and the barber of seville ambroise thomas hamlet and tchaikovskys eugene onegin the center of his verdi repertoire remains posa in don carlo germont in la traviata the title roles in macbeth and simon boccanegra and more recently also amfortas in wagners parsifal and scarpia in puccinis toscaas a recitalist hampson has won worldwide recognition for his thoughtfully researched and creatively constructed programs that explore the rich repertoire of song in a wide range of styles languages and periods he is one of the most important interpreters of german romantic song especially known for his interpretations of the music of gustav mahler and with his song of america project collaboration with the library of congress has become known as the ambassador of american songhampsons diverse and expansive discography has earned him an edison award for lifetime achievement four edison award four echo prizes numerous veb deutsche schallplatten gramophone awards and grand prix du disque as well as six grammy award nominations and one grammy awarddame elisabeth schwarzkopf once said of her student thomas is the best singer in europe right now
francis edo osagie 1914 was a notable nigerian businessman from benin he was born into an elite benin family his father worked at the forestry department and was also a farmer in benin he attended the baptist primary school in benin and the baptist high school ibadan for secondary education after completing his secondary education he took on a variety of duties from being a transport clerk to a sales agent and an accountant it was while working as an accountant that he noticed the potential of trading in timber especially the prospective wood resources available in the southeastern part of the country he left his job and formed a joint venture with two other partners to explore timber but the venture yielded little as timber prices crashed after the closure of the venture he started his own firm osagie sons the new venture stayed in the timber business and finally found a successful way of selling timber the company was advised to explore some areas where toledo worms seemed to have caused some devastation on some trees it was discovered that with inspection and a few work the core of the trees could be saved he started exporting large scale timber from the area to europe and america and was very successfulhe was also an apolitical community leader this allowed him to mediate on civil duties particularly does affecting the oil companies their workers and the communities they operate in
rosalind chait barnett phd is a social scientist and psychologist presently she is a senior scientist at the womens studies research center at brandeis university as well as an author and practitioner of clinical psychology her pioneering research on workplace issues and family life in america has been sponsored by major federal grants and her work appears in major journals as well as in the popular press she is often invited to lecture at major venues in the us and abroad and has been hosting the annual ann richards roundtable on gender and the media at brandeis university for four successful years nowdr barnett attended queens college and received her phd in clinical psychology from harvard university she has held research positions at the harvard business school the radcliffe institute the henry a murray research institute at harvard university and the wellesley college center for research on womenthe national institute of mental health funded her study of family and work role stress in men and a study of patterns of competence in preschool girls the national science foundation funded a study of women in the middle years and the sloan foundation funds her research on workfamily issues she is often invited to lecture at major venues in the us and abroad she has been a key note speaker at conferences in such countries as canada portugal uk grand canary islands hungary greece ireland and various cities throughout the usms barnett has published numerous books and articles with coauthor caryl rivers professor of journalism at boston university
jerahl hughes born august 10 1989 is an english football player currently unattachedthe winger born in brighton was a product of crystal palaces youth academy and played a major role in their run in the fa youth cup in 2007 in march 2007 he was taken on trial by yeovil town and the somerset club signed him permanently for the 200708 season at yeovil he went on to make 23 appearances scoring 9 goals and was crucial in there run of 11 wins in the last 24 games to keep there status in league 1 in came a new manager and was eventually loaned out to worthing before being released at the end of the season he was subsequently signed by andy hessenthaler manager of dover athletic after a successful trial hughes again played a very successful role in the clubs consecutive promtions from the ryman premier league up to the football league conference hughes played 52 games scoring 26 goals along with numerous assist when used as a winger on the right hand side of midfield hughes left dover and gained a transfer to whitehawk in december 2011 hughes again became fans favorite scoring 56 goals in 110 appearances leaving his mark on 3 successful seasons with 2 promotions and a fourth place finish
dr vanessa theme ament born january 8 1955 in glendale california is an american author academic foley artist and musician best known for her 2009 book updated in 2014 the foley grail published by focal press elsevier the first mainstream academic text explicitly concerned with the history and development of as well as the personalities behind the art of foley she is currently the edmund f and virginia b ball endowed chair professor of telecommunications at ball state university ament is well known also for her 1989 appearance on the television program late night with david letterman the only foley artist ever invited as a guest though she started her career as an actress singer and dancer ament achieved success in the world of foley and postproduction sound after gaining experience in television shows such as knots landing dallas and cagney lacey working on such major films of the 1980s and 1990s as prizzis honor platoon predator die hard beauty and the beast noises off batman returns and a goofy movie her exhusband david edwin stone is an academy awardwinning sound editor having won in 1993 for his work in bram stokers dracula despite her success in the film industry ament has also taught in primary schools since 1978 and in universities including depaul university georgia state university ball state university columbia college chicago and cuesta college since 2001 has an mdiv from starr king school for the ministry 1990 and a phd in moving image studies from georgia state university 2014 and released a jazz cd in 2004 entitled working without a net she also lent her voice and songwriting to the 1999 film foreign correspondents which featured her song every other night
asahito nanjo is a japanese underground musician best known for his psychedelic rock groups high rise mainliner and musica transonic and the ethnic improvisation unit toho sara he has been active on the tokyo underground scene since the late seventies part of his sonic aesthetic is to record mix and master using extreme levels of distortion dynamic range compression and clipping making the sound of the instruments unrecognizable the results can be said to contain elements of noise musicbelow are the main groups with which he has been involved from 1979 to the present red alert\tpsychedelic punk group 7981 red experimental performance 7989 conformist\tdark psychedelic group 8182 deaf and dumb house\testhetic improvisation unit 8182 virus freak\tavantgarde free rock group 8182 tako avantgarde performance group 8182 im useless\tstrange free rock unit centring around tamio shiraishi 8182 telepatys going bad of rotness\tpsychedelic punk group 8182 kosokuya\tpsychedelic avantgarde group 8283 sweet inspirations\tprogenitor of maher shalal hash baz 8384 psychedelic speed freaks\tthe urhigh rise 8384 high rise\theavy psychedelic group 84 present shokubaiya\timprovised music unit 8889 nijiumu\timprov unit formed with keiji haino 8890 ohkami no jikan\tdark psychedelic group 90 present ten no okami\tavantgarde unit with keiji haino 9091 johari\tethnic meets experimental 9092 toho sara\tavantgarde shamanism 92 present group musica\tavantgarde symphonic group 94 present bibliotheca hermetica\tavantgarde 94 present mysterious adni\tavantgarde 94 present ancient wisdom\tavantgarde 94 present splendour solis\tavantgarde 94 present up tight free jazz unit 94 present musica transonic\tpsychedelic improvised music 94 present mainliner heavy psychedelic noise rock group 95 present psychedelic background\ttrip psychedelic group 96 present minus three years old\tnew psychedelic blues band with keiji haino 96 present
ceiron thomas born 23 october 1983 is a welsh rugby union footballer currently playing for st ives rfc after signing from the cornish pirates in june 2012 his previous clubs are leeds carnegie and the scarlets his regular position is at flyhalf though he is often played at fullbackthomas began his rugby career with the llanellibased scarlets and made his debut for the region in 2003 when he played in a friendly against the slovenia national team llanelli won the game 950 scoring 14 tries with thomas converting eleven of them he also scored one penalty bringing his points total for the game to 25 in the 200304 season thomas made five appearances for llanelli including three in the 200304 celtic leaguehowever thomas did not play for the regional side again until april 2005 almost 18 months after his last appearance he made three more appearances in the 200405 season before falling out of favour and not making another appearance until april 2006 again he only made two more appearances in the 200506 season but managed to hold down a place in the side for the 200607 magners league sharing duties at fullback with barry davies and morgan stoddart he made 25 appearances that season and scored 110 pointsthomas began the 200708 magners league as the scarlets starting flyhalf while regular number 10 stephen jones was on wales duty at the 2007 rugby world cup in france but lost the berth to rival flyhalf rhys priestland before jones return in the 200809 magners league thomas spent much of his time on the bench playing secondfiddle to jones and priestland at flyhalf and the majority of his playing time was spent in other positions including two starts on the wing in december 2008 thomas only made six appearances for the scarlets in 2009 resulting in a transfer to leeds carnegie in june 2009
melanie ann huckaby fain born october 14 1958 is a printmaker specializing in wildlife art the texas artist is best known for her etchings and watercolors featuring birds botanicals insects and sporting themesmelanie fains professional art career began in 1982 when she studied intaglio printmaking and began creating etchings fain cites thomas aquinas daly and thomas quinn as important influences in the development of her distinctive style melanie fains etchings and watercolors have been included in numerous exhibitions museums and gallery shows birds in art in wausau wisconsin blossom the art of flowers art of the animal kingdom in bennington vermont american art in miniature in tulsa oklahoma and the society of animal artists melanies work has been featured in periodicals including southwest art magazine wildlife art magazine the hunting retriever magazine and grays sporting journal melanies art has been published in two books icons of loss and grace written by susan hanson and is this forever or what poems and paintings of texas by naomi shihab nyemelanie fains etchings and watercolors are included in private and public collections including leigh yawkey woodson art museum southwest airlines cox communications texas tech university health sciences center wells fargo bank and the king ranch in kingsville texas
myles r allen is head of the climate dynamics group at the university of oxfords atmospheric oceanic and planetary physics department he is the principal investigator of the distributed computing project climatepredictionnet which makes use of computing resources provided voluntarily by the general public and was principally responsible for starting this project he is professor of geosystem science in the school of geography and the environment and a fellow of linacre college oxfordhe has worked at the energy unit of the united nations environment programme the rutherford appleton laboratory in oxfordshire and the massachusetts institute of technology he contributed to the third assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change as a lead author of the chapter on detection of change and attribution of causes and was a review editor for the chapter on predictions of global climate change for the ipcc fourth assessment report his research focuses on the attribution of recent climate change and assessing what these changes mean for global climate simulations of the futurein 2010 allen was awarded the appleton medal and prize by the institute of physics for his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictionsallen also provided the technical expertise for the game fate of the world which is a pc strategy game that simulates the real social and environmental impact of global climate change over the next 200 years
jesse louis jackson jr born march 11 1965 is a former democratic american congressman who represented illinoiss 2nd congressional district in the united states house of representatives from 1995 until his resignation in 2012 he is the son of activist and former presidential candidate jesse jackson and prior to his career in elected office worked for his father in both the elder jacksons 1984 presidential campaign and his social justice civil rights and political activism organization operation push jacksons wife sandi jackson served on the chicago city council he served as a national cochairman of the 2008 barack obama presidential campaign jackson established a consistent liberal record on both social and fiscal issues and he has coauthored books on civil rights and personal financein october 2012 jackson was investigated for financial improprieties including misuse of campaign funds jackson resigned from congress on november 21 2012 citing mental and physical health problems including bipolar disorder clinical depression and gastrointestinal problems on february 8 2013 jackson admitted to violating federal campaign law by using campaign funds to make personal purchases jackson pleaded guilty on february 20 2013 to one count of wire and mail fraud on august 14 2013 he was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison
arturo j marcano guevara a native of caracas venezuela is an author on the topic of professional baseball in latin americawith professor david p fidler of indiana university marcano has been at the forefront of generating awareness in the united states canada and latin america about problems in latin american countries caused by the globalization of baseball his groundbreaking scholarship with professor fidler includes the globalization of baseball major league baseball and the mistreatment of latin american baseball talent published in the indiana journal of global legal studies 1999 stealing lives the globalization of baseball and the tragic story of alexis quiroz and exploitation and reform major league baseballs recruitment of latin american baseball talent north american congress on latin america nacla volume xxxvii no 5 marchapril 2004marcano is also the coauthor of several letters and reports sent to major league baseball mlb authorities and staff highlighting issues related to the globalization of baseball marcano served as the international legal advisor to the venezuelan baseball players association advising on issues affecting professional baseball in venezuela marcano and fidler argue that major league baseball deserves criticism from nongovernmental organizations for human rights and labor standards suggesting that the solution to mlb unfair labor practices in the dominican republic is the unionization of dominican playersmarcano earned his law degree from universidad catlica andrs bello in caracas venezuela in 1992 received an llm degree from indiana university school of law in 1998 and a master of science ms in sport management from the university of massachusetts amherst in 2005he has two daughters isabella and lucia
blaise matuidi french pronunciation blz matidi born 9 april 1987 is a french international footballer who currently plays for french club psg in ligue 1 as a central midfielder he is described as a fierce and strong tacklermatuidi began his football career playing for amateur clubs in the ledefrance region such as us fontenaysousbois and co vincennois in 1999 he was selected to attend the prestigious clairefontaine academy after departing clairefontaine matuidi joined semiprofessional club crteil and spent three years developing in the clubs youth academy in 2004 he signed with professional club troyes and made his professional debut in the 200405 season after three seasons with troyes matuidi joined sainttienne with sainttienne he played european football for the first time after participating in the 200809 edition of the uefa cup in the 200910 season he was named firstchoice captain under manager alain perrin in july 2011 after four seasons with sainttienne matuidi transferred to paris saintgermain on a threeyear dealmatuidi is a former french youth international having represented his nation at under19 and under21 level in august 2010 matuidi was called up to the senior team for the first time under new manager laurent blanc he made his international debut in september 2010 in a uefa euro 2012 qualifying match against bosnia and herzegovina
hadley p arkes born 1940 is an american political scientist and the edward n ney professor of jurisprudence and american institutions at amherst college where he has taught since 1966arkes received a ba degree at the university of illinois and a phd from the university of chicago where he was a student of leo straussin a series of books and articles dating from the mid1980s arkes has written on a priori moral principles and advocated for their impact on constitutional interpretation he has also dealt with their relation to constitutional jurisprudence and natural law and their challenge to moral relativism his works draw on political philosophers from aristotle through the us founding fathers lincoln and contemporary authors and juristsjohn o mcginnis reviewing arkes constitutional illusions anchoring truths in the wall street journal writes that it tries to find a path between the extremes of originalism where the meaning of the u s constitution is fixed by its original text and the idea of the living constitution where its meaning is updated by evolving moral principlesarkes is founder and a member of the committee for the american founding a group of amherst alumni and students seeking to preserve the doctrines of natural rights exposited by some american founders and lincoln through the colloquium on the american founding at amherst and in washington dcin 2010 arkes born and raised a jew converted to catholicism which he described as a fulfillment of his jewish faitharkes serves on the advisory board and writes for first things an ecumenical journal that focuses on encouraging a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society
paul nettleton is a lawyer and politician from british columbia canadaa member of the british columbia liberal party he was elected from prince georgeomineca to the legislative assembly of british columbia in 1996 and reelected in 2001on november 13 2002 he publicly opposed the campbell governments introduction of bill 10 to break up and privatize the bc hydro power utility he was removed from caucus several days later and sat as an independent liberal until the 2005 election in that election he ran as an independent candidate in prince georgemount robson but placed third out of five with 2158 votes paul had been working as the poverty lawyer for legal services of nunavut commencing in 2006 in 2008 he was promoted to executive director for legal services of nunavut where he was responsible for the delivery of legal services throughout the territory at that time he resided in the capital iqaluit with his wife elite and their two children disa and thorinin november 2009 paul joined the law firm of robson oconnor located in his hometown of ladysmith bc on vancouver island in january 2011 paul became a partner in the law firm he and his family reside in chemainus british columbia
michael joseph rochford born march 14 1963 in methuen massachusetts but raised in south burlington vermont is a former relief pitcher in major league baseball who played from 1988 through 1990 for the boston red sox he also pitched for the yakult swallows at the end of the 1990 seasona 6 ft 4 in 193 m 205 lbs lefthanded specialist rochford was selected by the red sox in the first round of the 1982 january draft out of santa fe fla community college prior to college he was an outstanding threesport athlete at south burlington high school graduating in 1981 in high school he led the rebels to vermont state championships in baseball and football quarterback and was one of best basketball players in the state scoring over 1000 career points as a fouryear starter he is the first and only product of a vermont high school to be selected in the major league baseball amateur draft and go on to reach the major leagueshe spent six years in the boston minor league system before joining the big club late in 1988in a threeseason big league career rochford posted a 01 record with a 958 era in eight appearances giving up 17 runs 11 unearned on 18 hits and nine walks while striking out two without a save in 10 innings of work in part of nine minor league seasons he went 7564 with a 353 era in 250 games including 161 starts pitching for winstonsalem in 1983 he was named to the carolina league allstar team and he led pawtucket of the aaa international league in victories 11 in 1986 he made his major league debut on september 3 1988 against the california angels at anaheim stadiumhe currently is a golf pro in southern florida
edgar steven davids dutch pronunciation txr davts 13px born 13 march 1973 is a surinameseborn dutch former professional footballer after beginning his career with ajax he subsequently played in italy for milan and juventus before a loan spell with barcelona he went on to play for internazionale and tottenham hotspur before returning to ajax having struggled with injuries for two years davids returned to competitive football during a brief spell with crystal palace before retiring at the age of 37 in 2012 he was appointed playermanager at english league two club barnet he resigned by mutual agreement as manager in january 2014 he was capped 74 times by the netherlands at international level scoring six goals and represented his country at the fifa world cup once and the uefa european football championship three timesdavids was known for standing out on the football field for his dreadlocked hair and the protective goggles he wore due to glaucoma a combative energetic and creative midfielder davids was nicknamed the pitbull by louis van gaal because of his marking ability and his aggressive tackling throughout his career davids was renowned for his outstanding technique and ball skills as well as his passing ability and vision he was also known for his pace strength power stamina tactical intelligence versatility and tenacity as well as his ability to read the game which along with his technical ability allowed him to be deployed in several midfield positions including as a left midfielder or as a central boxtobox or defensive midielder he was one of the players chosen by pel to feature in the fifa 100 his list of the worlds greatest living footballers his cousin lorenzo is also a footballer
nick garriehamilton better known as nick garrie is a british singersongwriter best known for his extremely rare 1969 debut album the nightmare of jb stanislas original copies of the album which was reportedly only available in france are known to be very expensive and it was not until 2005 when revola records issued it that it was available on compact disc in 2010 elefant records reissued the album as a deluxe edition with newly recorded songs written in the late 1960s demos of the originals and a short book written by the artistgarrie was never commercially successful in the englishspeaking world though his second album suitcase man peaked at number 1 in spain in the 1980s he toured spain with leonard cohen and in the 1990s he toured japan and korea with francis lai a friend and admirer of garries music over the years they have cowritten a number of songsin 2009 elefant records put out a collection of garries new songs entitled 49 arlington gardens recorded with scottish musicians in glasgow including duglas t stewart bmx bandits norman blake teenage fanclub francis macdonald teenage fanclub and ally kerr singersongwriter in june 2012 for the first time in over 40 years garrie performed the nightmare of jb stanislas in its entirety with a string section and members of trembling bells at the primavera sound festival in barcelona to a rapturous reception and critical acclaimin recent years garrie has played shepherds bush empire with camera obscura celtic connections glasgow tanned tin barcelona tonic new york linternational paris lemonpop easypop and felipop spain and altafidelidad madrid and barcelona
rhys okeeffe born 8 august 1990 is an australian rules footballer with the carlton football club in the australian football league aflokeeffe played his junior years in adelaide nominally as a defender he joined the north adelaide football club in 2006 to play under17s and by the end of 2008 had played a handful of senior games he also represented south australia at the under18s championships in 2008 and was selected in the under 18s allaustralian team and named as south australias mvp for the tournamentokeeffe was selected in the 2008 afl national draft by the carlton football club with its fifth round selection no 65 overall his initial twoyear contract was ruined by injury he managed eight games for vflaffiliate the northern bullants at the start of 2009 before succumbing to osteitis pubis and managed only two vfl games in 2010 with hip and back injuries keeping him out for most of the year at the end of two years with almost no senior football to base its decision on carlton opted to move okeeffe to the rookie list due to afl list management procedures this was achieved by first delisting okeeffe then redrafting him in the second round of the 2011 rookie draft no 35 overallokeeffe had more continuity in 2011 his third season playing the full season for the bullants he was elevated to carltons senior list in place of the injured andrew collins prior to round 14 and made his first afl appearance that same week his only for the 2011 season he missed the first half of the 2012 season with a foot injury and played a further two afl matches he was retained on carltons rookie list for 2013after three matches in five seasons okeeffe was delisted at the end of the 2013 season he will return to north adelaide in the sanfl from 2014
simon grdenfors born march 23 1978 is a swedish cartoonist rapper television presenter and radio hosthis comics are drawn in a round iconlike cartoony style although their content is often realistic or autobiographical he has published 3 graphic novels as well as several short pieces for the swedish comic anthology galagohe is possibly most famous for his comic about perolof svensson the formerly accused subsequently acquitted murderer of then swedish minister for foreign affairs anna lindhby a weird twist of fate shortly in connection to the murder allegations a short comic in galago was publishedaccording to grdenfors he had met svensson during a stay in lund and included him in his comic as a subject of mythomania in 2005 grdenfors has had his book lura mig fool me published containing interviews with different people he considers mythomaniacs and his comments about the media coverage of the eventalongside his childhood friend calle thrn he is also a member of the underground hiphop duo las palmas that received a lot of airtime on swedish radio in the fall of 2004 primarily with the song spkskrivare ghostwriter claiming that it actually was simon who had written all famous hiphop songs he is also part of an additional hiphop project far son father and son featuring frej larsson of slagsmlsklubbenhis graphic novel the 120 days of simon simons 120 dagar was published in english translation by top shelf productions in 2010in 2008 grdenfors hosted a sixepisode series on ztv titled the simon grdenfors skrpkulturshow the simon grdenfors junk culture show with each episode focusing on a different category of junk culture such as candy wrappers comics and pinballhis father peter grdenfors is a philosopher and professor of cognitive science at lund university sweden
gerrit l verschuur phd born in 1937 in cape town south africa is a naturalized american scientist who is best known for his work in radio astronomy though a pioneer in that fieldhe has 50 years of experienceverschuur is also an author he has written about astronomy natural disasters and earth sciences inventor a selfemployed ip consultant adjunct professor of physics for the university of memphis and a lifetime fan of manchester united fc since 1996 he has been the chief scientist for translucent technologies llc a company which is based in memphis tennesseein 1992 verschuur became a resident of the city of lakeland which is located in shelby county tennessee and is northeast of memphis in 2001 verschuur was elected and served a fouryear term as commissioner in 2007 verschuur was elected again and is currently serving another term as commissioner this one for two years at present verschuur is also the president of the garner lake association since 1986 he has been married to dr joan schmelz a fellow scientist whose specialty is solar astronomy specifically coronal loops verschuur has one son who lives in englanda frequent lecturer verschuur has taught at the university of manchester rhodes university the universities of colorado and maryland ucla and the university of california berkeley among others he has been an annual speaker at midsouth stargaze which is the annual amateur astronomers conference and star party held at rainwater observatory in french camp mississippi in 1971 verschuur was hired as the first director of fiske planetarium for the university of colorado at boulder and in 1980 he worked with dr john lillyin his primary field of study however verschuur pioneered the measurement of the interstellar magnetic field using the 21cm zeeman effect technique a thing which according to virginia trimble for the first time allowed astronomers to measure magnetic strengths and their placetoplace variations with some confidence
david h dolphin oc frs frsc born january 15 1940 is a canadian biochemisthe is an internationally recognized expert in porphyrin chemistry and biochemistry he was the lead creator of visudyne a medication used in conjunction with laser treatment to eliminate the abnormal blood vessels in the eye associated with conditions such as the wet form of macular degenerationborn in london england he received a bachelor of science degree in 1962 and a phd in 1965 from the university of nottingham he then attend harvard university as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of harvard organic chemist robert b woodward in 1966 he was appointed an assistant professor at harvard in 1974 he joined the faculty of science at the university of british columbia where he became the killam research professor from 1988 to 1989 he was the acting dean of science from 1999 to 2000 he was the acting vice president of researchhe is chief executive officer of the bc innovation council and vicepresident technology development at quadra logic technologies incorporated qlt inche is a fellow of the royal society of canada the royal society canadian institute of chemistry and the royal society of chemistry in 2006 he was made an officer of the order of canada in 2005 he was awarded the gerhard herzberg canada gold medal for science and engineering with a guarantee of 1 million in research funding over the next five years from the natural sciences and engineering research council nserc in 2012 he was awarded the queen elizabeth ii diamond jubilee medal
mikko innanen born 1978 in lapinjrvi finland is a saxophonist and composerinnanen graduated in 2003 from the jazz department of sibelius academy the only university level music academy in finland innanen spent one year of his studies in copenhagen denmark at the rhythmic music conservatoryover the last few years he has played with a number of groups including several groups with other finnish jazz musicians such as nuijamiehet gourmet mr fonebone and mikko innanen innkvisitio as well as delirium with danes kasper tranberg stefan pasborg and jonas westergaard triot with pasborg and nicolai munchhansen as a featured guest of the french trio triade cedric piromalli sebastian boisseau and nicolas larmignat the european jazz youth orchestra drummer teppo mkynens teddy rok 7 itchy jakob dinesen jeppe skovbakke rune kielsgaard ulf krokors iro haarla loco motife ibrahim electric espoo big band and the umo jazz orchestrahe has also performed with han bennink jaak soor john tchicai ingrid jensen anders bergcrantz marc ducret tim hagans chris speed barry guy juhani aaltonen liudas mockunas hiroshi minami lelo nika billy cobham andre sumelius marcus shelby dayna stephens and many others including virtually all of the musicians currently active on the finnish jazz scene and a growing number of international artistsinnanen was awarded a oneyear artists grant by the finnish states arts council in 2003 the best soloists prize at the international competition for jazz groups in getxo spain in 2000 and the first prize at the first jukka perko saxophone competition in 2001 in 2004 finnish jazz journalists voted innanen as the runnerup alto soprano and baritone saxophone player of the year 2003 and 2004
manfred kaltz born 6 january 1953 is a former german football player and managerkaltz played in the bundesliga for hamburger sv and 13 times one goal for fc mulhouse in ligue 1 after initially joining mulhouse league rivals girondins de bordeaux 1989 he returned to hamburg the season after the consequence of the relegation of fc mulhouse from ligue 1 at the end of 198990 previously kaltz was forced to leave hamburg the club for which he had been a professional since the 197172 season after the authorities eg erich ribbeck had decided not to go on with the contract of the longserving fullback their successors lured him back from france in september 1990 to give him the chance to serve his final year as a player at his old clubin total he played in 581 bundesliga games for hamburger sv to this day remaining the second greatest total of an individual in bundesliga history an expert in penalties the hamburg fanfavourite scored 53 of his 76 goals from the spot a record in the bundesliga internationally he was part of the squad that won the 1980 uefa european championshipskaltz was famous for his rightfooted crosses which he hit with so much spin that they curved like a banana they were affectionately called bananenflanken banana crosses he often used this technique to set up hulking striker horst hrubesch who often headed them into the opposing goal hrubesch once described their partnership when he explained one of his goals with the often quoted words manni banana i head goal
gijs m de vries born 22 february 1956 in new york is a dutch democrats 66 d66 politician he was deputy interior minister between 1998 and 2002 and was the european unions antiterrorism coordinator from 25 march 2004 to march 2007 as of september 2008 he was the chairman of the european security research and innovation forum esriffrom 1984 to 1998 gijs de vries was a member of the european parliament for three consecutive terms from 1994 to 1998 he was chairman of the group of the european liberal democrat and reform party he quit the european parliament to become state secretary of the interior in the dutch government kok iias the eu antiterrorism coordinator he worked for javier solana in the police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters pjccm pillar solana outlined his duties as being to streamline organise and coordinate the eu and its members fight against terrorismhe stood down from the post in march 2007 citing personal reasons but it is commonly understood that the positions mandate didnt have the necessary operational powers as well as an overall reluctance within member states to supply information regarding antiterror activities even though the member states fully supported the establishment of the antiterrorism coordinator after the 2004 madrid train bombings in september 2007 meps called for the post to be filled having been vacant for six months and for it to be given real powers to carry out the posts tasks on 20 september 2007 the belgian gilles de kerchove was appointed to succeed de vries in the postprior to 2010 he had been a member of the peoples party for freedom and democracy vvd however due to dissatisfaction at the vvds decision to form a minority government with the support of the party for freedom led by geert wilders he left the party and joined the social liberal democrats 66
howard moskowitz is an american market researcher and psychophysicist he is best known for the detailed study he made of the types of spaghetti sauce and horizontal segmentation by providing a large number of options for consumers moskowitz pioneered the idea of intermarket variability as applied to the food industryhoward moskowitz is the ceo of inovation inc as well as president of moskowitz jacobs inc a firm he founded in 1981dr moskowitz graduated from harvard university in 1969 with a phd in experimental psychology prior to that he graduated queens college new york phi beta kappa with degrees in mathematics and psychology he has writtenedited sixteen books has published well over 300 articles and serves on the editorial board of major journalshis latest book with coauthor alex gofman selling blue elephants demonstrates and popularizes how ideamap inovations flagship product creates new products and messages from areas as diverse as credit cards jewelry offers presidential messaging during election years stock market communications and transnational innovationmoskowitz has won the scientific directors gold medal for outstanding research at the us army natick laboratories and the 2001 and 2003 awards by esomar european society of market research in 2004 dr moskowitz was elected as an ift fellow and also was awarded the david r peryam award from astm in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of basic and applied sensory sciencein 2005 dr moskowitz was awarded the charles coolidge parlin marketing research award for his substantial contributions and dedication to the advancement of marketing research practices most recently he is the recipient of the arf research innovation award and the market research council hall of fame award both in 2006
douglas doug mcclelland ac born 5 august 1926 was elected to the australian senate as a member of the australian labor party at the 1961 election representing new south walesmcclelland was born in the sydney suburb of wentworthville and he served in the second australian imperial force from june 1946 to january 1947 in the northern territory he was a reporter before entering parliamentmcclelland was the manager of government business in the senate from 9 july 1974 minister for the media in the whitlam government until 6 june 1975 and then special minister of state he also served as president of the senate from 21 april 1983 until his resignation on 23 january 1987 he was no relation to fellow alp cabinet minister jim mcclelland from 1981 until his resignation he was the father of the senate he went on to serve as australian high commissioner to the united kingdommcclelland was awarded the douglas wilkie medal for services to nonfootball in 1973 by the antifootball league the accolade was presented after mcclelland introduced a points system for television programmingmcclelland married lorna mcneill and they have one sonrobert mcclelland member for bartonand two daughters he was made a companion of the order of australia in june 1987
for the japanese novelist see yoshie wadayoshimasa yoshi wada born november 11 1943 is a japanese sound installation artist and musician living in the united states he lived in new york for many years but now lives in san francisco californiaborn in japan wada joined the fluxus movement in 1968 after meeting george maciunas1 he also studied with the north indian vocalist pandit pran nath wadas works often incorporate the use of drone and are usually performed at very high volume allowing for the overtones within the sound to be heard very clearlyhe frequently performs his own compositions which feature much freedom of improvisation on scottish highland bagpipe and voice and also employs a number of homemade instruments these include pipe horns very long horntype instruments made from metal plumbing pipe as well as large reed instruments involving multiple bagpipelike pipes connected to a large air compressor due to their appearance wada named these latter instruments alligator and the elephantine crocodile his music has been scarcely released on recordings having seen only two lp releases on the india navigation 1982 and fmp 2 labels lament for the rise and fall of elephantine crocodile the appointed cloud and off the wall were reissued by japanese labels em records and editions omega point in 20083wada is also known for his mechanical and robotic installations in pittsburgh pennsylvania in the mid1990s he performed a whimsically entitled piece lament for the rise and fall of handyhorn in which several compressedair auditory flare signals used for nautical emergencies the handy horn brand named in the title were sounded for the duration of their usefulness giving rise to an alarmingly highdecibel airpressure environment and charged psychoacoustic environment
anthony william james tony lundon born 13 april 1979 galway ireland is an irish singer dancer cinematographer director producer writer presenter and actor he is best known as a member of the poprb group liberty xliberty x enjoyed success worldwide before splitting up in 2006 after liberty x split lundon presented the toast quiz series on the den on rt two on saturday mornings and also produced and promoted an irish music and sport live event series in london known as the big shindigs in 2010 he moved to new york city to study film and returned to the uk in 2012 to establish a film tv and music production company the cell productions with the cell lundon produced and directed a short film for the scout association which has become their most watched worldwide and has since aired across the discovery channel channels in the ukliberty x reformed in 2012 for the itv2 series the big reunion followed by a oneoff performance at the hammersmith apollo alongside other pop acts such as five atomic kitten and bwitched due to the success of the show liberty x and the other acts from the show are currently embarking on an arena tour around the uk and ireland followed by a christmas party tour in december 2013
robert betts born 21 december 1981 in doncaster is an english footballer who plays as a midfielder currently playing nonleague footballhe made his debut for doncaster rovers when he was just 16 during the 199798 season when a doncaster side made up mostly of players from the youth team and nonleague football were relegated from the football league he made 3 appearances that season and impressed enough to earn a move to premiership side coventry cityhere he settled into their youth system appearing on the losing side in two fa youth cup finals he made a few appearances in the premiership and had loan spells at plymouth argyle and lincoln city coventrys relegation from the premiership in 2001 gave him more opportunities to play but he was still on the fringes of the team and was released on 22 may 2003the 200304 season saw betts move between three clubs having spells at rochdale kidderminster harriers hereford united he was released by hereford in the summer of 2004 and linked up with the dr martens league side racing club warwick on noncontract terms he soon secured a months contract with forest green rovers but this was not extended and in october 2004 he rejoined racing club warwickin the summer of 2006 the racing club warwick manager marcus law was appointed manager of quorn and betts soon followed him he won the midland football alliance player of the season award for 200607
daniel a reed is an american computational scientist known for his contributions to highperformance computing and science policy he is vice president of research and economic development at the university of iowa he previously served as director of scalable computing and multicore at microsoft research he founded the renaissance computing institute in 2004 and served as its director until december 2007 reed also was chancellors eminent professor and served as senior adviser for strategy and innovation to uncchapel hill chancellor james moeser he served as cio and vice chancellor for information technology services at uncchapel hill from june 2004 through april 2007he was appointed to the presidents council of advisors on science and technology pcast by president bush in 2006 and served on the presidents information technology advisory committee pitac from 20032005 as chair of pitacs computational science subcommittee he was lead author of the report computational science ensuring americas competitiveness on pcast he cochairs the networking and information technology subcommittee with george scalise of the semiconductor industry association and recently coauthored a report on the national coordination offices networking and information technology research and development nitrd program called leadership under challenge information technology rd in competitive world he is also a member of pcasts personalized medicine subcommitteereed has been chair of the board of directors of the computing research association cra since 2005 and a member of the board since 1998 cra represents the research interests of the university national laboratory and industrial research laboratory communities in computing across north america
nancy ames born 1937 as nancy hamilton alfaro is an american folk singer and songwriter she regularly appeared on the american version of the television series that was the week that was the tw3 girl as she was known sang the show theme and special material she was born in washington dc she is the granddaughter of ricardo joaqun alfaro 18821971 who served as president of panama from 1931 to 1932a folk singer with a partially latin repertoire she was signed to liberty records her first album was entitled cu cu rru cu cu la paloma she broke the top 100 twice in 1966 he wore the green beret her answer song to staff sgt barry sadlers ballad of the green berets hit number 89 and later in the year cry softly also placed in the chartsames has resided in houston texas since 1972 she had a tv show which aired on kprctv channel 2 the houston area nbc affiliate from 197277 she and her husband danny ward are the cofounders of ward and ames special events she is listed as the cowriter of the theme song to the smothers brothers comedy hour with mason williams per williams own 1969 lp entitled music by mason williams
gerry ryan is a former irish professional football player who was born in dublinryan began his career at bohemians on 9 february 1975 and after 14 goals in 53 appearances he earned him a move to derby county in 1977 he was later moved to brighton for 100000 with whom he played in the 1983 fa cup final against manchester united before his career was ended in 1985 after a broken leg sustained in a game versus crystal palacehe played eighteen times for ireland between 1978 and 1984 ryan made his debut in april 1978 when he played in a 42 win against turkey in a friendly at lansdowne road his only goal for ireland came over a year later at the same venue but it was only a consolation effort as ireland lost 31 to west germany in a friendly ryans last appearance in a green shirt came in 1984 when he played in a scoreless draw against mexico at dalymount park also earned one cap for the republic of ireland u21 sideafter his retirement from the professional game ryan bought and ran the witch inn in lindfield west sussex with his wife simeon he turned out regularly for the witch in the lewes sunday leagueryan was admitted to hospital on 18 august 2007 after suffering a stroke ryans recovery from the stroke left him with a weakness in his left side and he decided to sell the witch
meddy ford born 13 may 1989 is a former british model and actress ford retired from modeling and began a career in the film industry in 2010 in 2014 ford was longlisted for the best british short film bafta but missed out on a nomination to date her productions have won 40 awards at film festivals world wide ford is a member of the conservative party and speaks about her political views in most interviews that she gives in september 2008 along with dear deirdre and the sun newspaper ford was part of a meeting with gordon brown at 10 downing street to discuss the effect of divorce on children and what needs to change in the uk to help children whose parents are divorcing she has also spoke about this campaign on bbc news bbc radio 5 live bbc radio wales and radio glamorganin march 2009 ford took part in the british reality television show paris hiltons british best friend she was eliminated in episode 6 out of 8 but spoke out about her friendship with paris hilton in the national press by praising her business skills and confidence and supportford has had parts in a number of british tv shows including a wag in an episode of the third series of skins appearances in gavin stacy and series 4 of the it crowd
filippo gaetani is a composer record producer engineer and musicianactive since the mid1980s he started working as arranger bassist and guitarist for several underground jazzrock bands and performing live with his band in northern italy supporting important italian live acts such as pfm ivano fossati and skiantos after joining gianluca mosole band as vocalist percussionist and coproducer he performed an entire summer tour supporting acts like sting gil evans miles davis and al di meolain the 1990s started his work as engineer and producer recording over 40 jazzpoprock albums of italian and international acts and writing music for tv and writing and recording in ennio morricone studio forum in romefor the original soundtrack for the movie ritorno a parigi his collaborations and productions include stefano bollani andy bellphilip larsen katja werker don grusin adrina thorpe my excellence erik friedlander tessa drummond peter doran martin klein papermoonin 2000 he had chart success with a funksoul song he wrote for the artist malina called by your side remixed and licensed by tommy boy label ny reaching 12 on the billboard chartsfrom 2006 to 2008 hes been part and active contributor of ken andrews music collective los angeles digital noise academy he is currently band member cowriter and coproducer with jordon zadorozny and eric matthews of the musical project sheloom he is the founder of ray recordings and recording festival
taina kokkonen born 15 may 1975 in vantaa near helsinki finland is a former awardwinning finnish singershe has performed on italian tv in brussels and in argentina and uruguay as part of the tango 2000 educational tourshe first tried for the prestigious tangomarkkinat competition in 1995 but did not reach the semifinals in 1996 she got through the raisio semifinals and was one of the 10 best she rather frightened herself with her successi was in a great panic i thought do i really want this i secretly hoped i wouldnt get any further i have watched my performance on video and it shows how inexperienced i was nyman p 175she did not however reach the seinjoki finals and saija varjus became tango queen tainas third attempt was in 1998 when she reached the finals and became tango princess losing the winning place to kirsi ranto after a record four attempts she finally became tango queen in 1999in 2002 taking advantage of the new rule that songs may be in any language she composed an italianlanguage entry for the eurovision song contest this was silenzio and was performed by pertti haverinen but it was not selected and the finnish entry for that year was the englishlanguage addicted to you sung by laura which came 20th with 24 pointsbefore she became a tango queen in seinjoki kokkonen had been finished her studies and became a master of education sciences and a teacher in hmeenlinnaat the moment she works as a class teacher in vantaayear 2007 kokkonen got married to a man called cemo timucin working in an itbranch and is educated as a master of engineering and they live in vantaa with their son tinoyear 2009 taina kokkonen worked during the summertime as a radiohost having morning programs in a local radiostation near helsinki resorttaina kokkonen the singer is not the same person as taina kokkonen the printmaker whose website is httpwwwtainakokkonennet
neil doherty born february 21 1969 is a former english professional footballer from barrowinfurness lancashire doherty played as a winger as well as having two spells at barrow his hometown club doherty played with watford birmingham city northampton town and kidderminster harriersdoherty began his career with watford though never played a professional game for the club he signed for barrow in 1990 under ray wilkie and became part of the fa trophy winning squad after barrow were relegated from the conference national in 1992 doherty initially remained with the team however promotion was not forthcoming and he was sold to birmingham for 40 000 in 1994 having made over 300 appearances for the club he was with the birmingham team for two seasons winning division two and the football league trophy in 1995 during this period however doherty was never a first choice player and he left having made 23 league appearances for the club after a spell on loan to northampton town at the end of his time with birmingham doherty joined kidderminster harriers of the conference for the start of the 199697 season dohertys time with the club was initially successful with his 14 goals earning him an england semiprofessional cap in 1997 doherty fell out of favour however and in 1998 played on loan with barrow who were briefly back in the football conference he left kidderminster at the end of the 199899 season and moved to barrow permanently in august 1999 he played his last few seasons with the club but had noticeable lost pace and he retired at the end of the 200102 season having made a total of 446 appearances for barrowsince retiring doherty has coached at and represented barrow within the local community he now runs the insideout soccer schools for children in barrow
joseph kevin keegan obe born 14 february 1951 is an english former football player and manager he played for several clubs including liverpool and hamburger sv he went on to manage newcastle united fulham and manchester city winning promotion as champions in his first full season at all three clubs he also managed the england national teamas a player in the 1970s and 1980s he has been described as arguably the first superstar english player to attract the modern media spotlight he began his playing career at scunthorpe united in 1968 before moving to liverpool in 1971 at liverpool keegan won three first division titles the uefa cup twice the fa cup and the european cup he also gained his first england cap in 1972 and moved to german club hamburg in the summer of 1977 at hamburg he was named european footballer of the year in 1978 and 1979 won the bundesliga title in 197879 and reached the european cup final in 1980 keegan moved to southampton that summer and spent two seasons at the club before a transfer to newcastle united in the english second division in 1982 he helped newcastle to promotion in his second season and retired from football in 1984 having been capped 63 times for england scoring 21 goalshe moved into management at newcastle in 1992 winning promotion as first division champions newcastle then finished second in the premier league in 199596 after leading for most of the season after a spell at fulham he took charge of the england team in 1999 but resigned in the autumn of 2000 following a loss against germany in world cup qualification he then became manager of manchester city in 2001 and spent four years at the club before resigning in 2005 he had been out of football for almost three years when he returned to newcastle united for a second spell as manager in january 2008 this spell lasted only eight months however as keegan resigned on 4 september 2008 following speculation regarding a dispute with the clubs directors
sajeel shahid also spelt as sajil shahid was one of the leaders of almuhajiroun an islamist group based in the united kingdom that endorsed al qaedas terror attacks on september 11 2001 he was called the emir or lahore emir and was the head of almuhajiroun in pakistanon december 1 2001 an interview with shahid was published in the manchester evening news in which he described fellow young men from the manchester area traveling to pakistan to fight beside the talibanin 2005 it was reported that shahid had run a safe house in lahore for violent extremists from the united kingdom the pakistani government abducted and held shahid in 2005 at an undisclosed location without access to the justice system for three month before expelling him pti chief imran khan called shahids abduction and detention a gross human rights violationduring the 2007 trial of individuals suspected of involvement in the luton cells bomb plot the daily mail and bbc reported that the training camp in pakistan where mohammed quayyam khan and omar khyam received bombmaking training had been allegedly set up by shahidthe daily mail and bbc reported that mohammed siddique khan was also suspected of involvement in training at a camp set up by shahidshahid has a degree in computer science from manchester university
scott barry guyett born 20 january 1976 in ascot berkshire england is a professional football defender he is of australian nationality having spent most of his childhood in australia he has been on the books of the brisbane city soccer club in newmarket queenslandguyetts career in england started at gresley rovers where he won a southern premier league title in 199697 before making an impact with southport who were enjoying a period of relative success in the football conference he helped them to a topfour finish in 200001 and then followed manager mark wright to football league side oxford united along with central defensive partner phil bollanda year later guyett was on the move again as he teamed up with wright at chester city where he was named player of the season in 200203 and then won a conference championship medal a year later but he opted to join yeovil town in the summer of 2004 and remained there until 2008 bar a loan spell with aldershot town in 2005 in may 2007 guyett played at wembley stadium in the football league one playoff final against blackpool making him the first australian to play at the new wembleyhe moved to bournemouth in the summer of 2008 at the age of 32 after being allowed to leave yeovil town by mutual consent he was released two years later and after a short spell with dorchester town moved to crystal palace to work as the clubs fitness coach
philip spalding born 19 november 1957 london england also known as phil spalding is an english bass player he is best known as a session musician and player of fender precision bass guitars he has played and appeared with performing artists such as mick jagger seal orchestral manoeuvres in the dark elton john and randy crawfordat an early age he was a successful child model and appeared in a television advertisement for smiths crisps spalding was a computer operator for a high street bank before joining rock artist bernie torm in 1976 later he joined original mirrors before beginning a collaboration with toyah in december 1980 whilst with the toyah band he recorded and cowrote songs for studio albums and toured with the band until 1983 since then he has been a member of gtr and mike oldfields band more recently he has appeared on albums by michel polnareff suggs robbie williams and kylie minoguespalding also recorded all bass tracks on the lion king soundtrack studio albumas someone formerly affected by hepatitis c he appeared on bbc oxford on 28 july 2008 to promote a vaccine trial for the diseasein february 2012 he joined the simon townshend band for the secret weapon uk tour in support of the album looking out looking in
misa telefoni retzlaff born hermann theodor retzlaff 21 may 1952 is a former samoan deputy prime minister and deputy leader of the human rights protection partyretzlaff was educated at kings college in auckland new zealand he studied law at the university of auckland before going on to practice law in samoa he was appointed attorneygeneral of samoa in 1986in 1988 he resigned his position as attorneygeneral to run for election winning the seat of falelatai samatau initially part of the opposition he joined the government of tofilau eti alesana in 1991 as minister of agriculture forests fisheries and shipping in 1996 he became minister of health and in 2001 deputy prime minister in addition to that role he currently holds the portfolios of commerce industry and labourhe has stated he will not be standing to retain the seat he has held for 22 years in the 2011 general electionretzlaff is of germanswedishsamoan descent having inherited his german ancestry from his paternal grandfather his name telefoni is the name that was given by the samoan community in the early twentieth century to his grandfather when he arrived in the german colony as a public servant of the postal services to introduce the telephone to the country he has had two books published love and money a love story about the richest young bachelor in auckland new zealand falling in love with and marrying the young samoan kitchen help from his exclusive boarding school and to thine own self be true a collection of articles speeches and poemsin february 2011 telefoni confirmed he was retiring from politics at the 2011 election see a short tribute to misa telefoni published in the samoa observer 9 march 2011 by his son lemalu hermann paul retzlaff tribute to misa telefoni httpwwwsamoaobserverwsindexphpoptioncomcontentviewarticleid31878tributetocatid1latestnewsitemid50
richard jacob bernstein born may 14 1932 is an american philosopher who teaches at the new school for social research and has written extensively about a broad array of issues and philosophical traditions including classical american pragmatism neopragmatism critical theory deconstruction social philosophy political philosophy and hermeneutics his work is best known for the way in which it examines the intersections between different philosophical schools and traditions bringing together thinkers and philosophical insights that would otherwise remain separated by the analyticcontinental divide in 20th century philosophy the pragmatic and dialogical ethos that pervades his works has also been displayed in a number of philosophical exchanges with other contemporary thinkers like hannah arendt jrgen habermas richard rorty hansgeorg gadamer jacques derrida agnes heller and charles taylor bernstein is an engaged public intellectual concerned not only with the specialized debates of academic philosophy but also with the larger issues that touch upon social political and cultural aspects of contemporary life throughout his life bernstein has actively endorsed a number of social causes and has been involved in movements of participatory democracy upholding some of the cardinal virtues of the american pragmatist tradition including a commitment to fallibilism engaged pluralism and the nurturing of critical communities
michelle ye or ye xuan born february 14 1980 is a chinese actress and producer in 1999 she won the miss chinese international competition ye then signed a contract with tvb from 1999 to 2005 after she left tvb she signed with rich famous talent management group limited to pursue a movie careerye is fluent in cantonese english and mandarin she immigrated to the united states at age 10 she attended john dewey high school where she won first place at the international science and engineering fair in the botany sector 1998 she was a scholarship student at wellesley college but left before graduating to pursue a career in the entertainment industryin july 1999 ye accepted a contract offered by tvb after winning the miss chinese international pageant she had a number of leading roles in dramas such as eternal happiness triumph in the skies and lost in the chamber of loveye has worked as a host and mcin 2004 she was tvbs onsite reporter at the olympic games in athens additionally she was the mc for a special midautumn evening broadcast on cctvshe left tvb in june 2005 and moved on to rich famous one month after to get more exposure in the movie industry ye also starred in a few series with atv china productions and icableye published an autobiography titled shang shan ruo shui xuan gong lue in july 2006apart from her acting career she is currently owner and chairman of a production company michelle ye studioszhejiang bohai television ltd owner of a sushi restaurant and vice president of the hengdian film association
johnpaul himka born may 18 1949 in detroit michigan is a canadian historian and retired professor of history of the university of alberta in edmonton he is of mixed ethnic background ukrainian on fathers side and italian on mothers initially he wanted to become a greek catholic priest and studied at st basil seminary in stamford connecticut however due to the radicalization of his political views to the left by the end of the 1960s he did not pursue that vocationhimka received his ba in byzantineslavonic studies and phd in history from university of michigan in 1971 and 1977 respectively the title of his phd dissertation was polish and ukrainian socialism austria 18671890 as a historian himka was a marxist in the 1970s80s but became influenced by the postmodernism in the 1990s in 2012 he defined his methodology in history as eclecticsince 1977 he taught at university of alberta department of history and classics he became full professor in 1992 and retired from the university in 2014in his academic interests himka focused on history of greek catholic church and socialism in habsburg galicia sacred culture of the eastern slavs on iconography in particular and the holocaust in ukraine since the late 1990s his contention with what he calls ukrainian nationalist historical myths became subject of increasing sometimes heated debates both in ukraine and ukrainian diaspora especially in north america himka challenged the interpretation of holodomor as a genocide and the view that ukrainian nationalism and nationalists played none or almost to none role in the holocaust in ukraine he also opposed official glorification of such nationalistic heroes as roman shukhevych and stepan bandera in ukraine during presidency of viktor yushchenko
mathias woo yan wai chinese born 1968 is a cultural worker in the crossmedia discipline in hong kong with creative works ranging from theatre and multimedia design to cultural policy research and analysis art education architectural design and screenplay writingwoo was born in hong kong and studied architecture at the university of hong kong and architectural association londonwoo joined the arts collective zuni icosahedron in 1988 and is now the executive director and coartistic director of the group since the 1980s he has been actively involving in the areas of politics cultural policy urban development and social welfarein 1996 woo founded the hong kong development and strategic research centre hkdsrc and is also the chairperson of the organisation over the past years he has initiated a series of studies on arts and cultural policies including both the 1991 1993 edition of in search of cultural policy in search of film policy 97 and in search of information policy 97woo has been writing regularly for newspapers and magazines on architecture arts culture and the media since the 1990s his writings could be seen in publications like yazhou zhoukan hk economic times ming pao and cup magazinein 2006 woo was appointed by the government of the hksar as a member of public service broadcasting review committee and also a member of the advisory groups performing arts and tourism of the consultative committee on the core arts and cultural facilities of the west kowloon cultural district in 2009 woo was appointed member of the task force on economic challenges by the chief executive
dr christoph sutter born 20 march 1973 in basel switzerland is a swiss carbon expert and entrepreneur christoph attended the swiss federal institute of technology where he studied for a msc in environmental science 19931999 and a master of didactics on environmental science he also concluded his phd on the topic sustainability assessment of cdm projects under the kyoto protocol there his thesis was awareded the eth medal for the best phd thesis in 2003 he completed his education with a mckinsey mini mba in toronto in summer 2005after working for the consultancy ernst basler partner in zurich during his studies he was part of setting up the myclimate foundation based on his phd results myclimate is an offset provider for the voluntary offsetting market focused on cdm gold standard certificates during this activity christoph was called to work for the unfccc methodology panel in 2005 where he worked for 3 yearsunsatisfied with the exclusive focus on voluntary offsetting he later founded the company 1 south pole carbon with his former colleagues thomas camerata and renat heuberger he was coceo of south pole carbon asset management ltd from 2006 until 2012 but continue to act as nonexecutive chairman and shareholderon 1st of june 2012 he joined swiss power generator axpo as head of asset developmenthe was awarded as one of the wef young global leaders in 2009additionally christoph is actively engaged in the worklife balance community as he reduced his workload to 80 taking off on fridays after the birth of his son
roy gerela born april 2 1948 sarrail alberta is a former american football placekicker best known for his years with the pittsburgh steelers with whom he won three super bowl ringsgerela graduated from kalani high school in honolulu and played college football at new mexico state university he was selected in the fourth round of the 1969 afl draft by the houston oilers and played for them in the american football league in 1969 as well as their first nfl season of 1970 he signed with the steelers before the 1971 season and quickly became popular with steelers fans inspiring a fan club gerelas gorillas he led the afc in scoring in 1973 and 1974 and was named to the pro bowl in 1972 and 1974gerela was a member of the steelers super bowl championship teams in 1974 1975 and 1978 but was released by the steelers before the 1979 season in favor of matt bahr he appeared in three games for the san diego chargers in 1979 before a torn groin muscle ended his careergerela ranks third on the steelers alltime scoring list behind gary anderson and jeff reedsince his playing career ended gerela has worked as both a high school and college assistant football coach in 2012 he became the head football coach of gadsden high school in anthony new mexicogerela came from a particularly gifted family his brothers were also professional kickers in the canadian football league ted gerela with the bc lions and metro gerela briefly with the montreal alouettes metro is enshrined in the canadian soccer hall of fame in 1993 his son ted gerela was drafted in the 7th round of the 1993 cfl draft by the bc lions as a linebacker from rocky mountain college
rajiva wijesinha ma dphil sinhala born 16 may 1954 is a sri lankan writer in english distinguished for his political analysis as well as creative and critical work an academic by profession for much of his working career he was most recently senior professor of languages at the university of sabaragamuwa sri lankain june 2007 president mahinda rajapakse appointed him secretarygeneral of the sri lankan government secretariat for coordinating the peace process and in june 2008 he also became concurrently the secretary to the ministry of disaster management and human rights the peace secretariat wound up in july 2009 and in february 2010 he resigned from the ministry as well as the university and became a member of parliament on the national list of the united peoples freedom alliance following the general election held in april 2010 following which he was appointed a member of parliamenthe belongs to the liberal party of sri lanka and has served as its president and leader and also as a vicepresident of liberal international he is currently chair of the council of asian liberals and democrats and was reelected leader of the liberal party sri lanka on the proposal of the previous leader following the liberal party annual congress of 2011 he has travelled widely including as a visiting professor on the semester at sea programme of the university of pittsburgh and has published beyond the first circle travels in the second and third worlds
peter haddock born 9 december 1961 is an english former footballer who played in the football league as a defender for newcastle united burnley and leeds unitedhaddock was born in newcastle upon tyne and joined his hometown club as an apprentice in 1978 turning professional the following year he made his debut in the football league on 5 september 1981 in a 30 defeat at queens park rangers in the second division he played in a calm and collected manner and got a good run in the side during 198182 but lost his place halfway through the following season he remained at the club playing only infrequently and had a spell on loan at burnley before leaving for leeds united in july 1986 for a fee of 45000he now works as a courier alongside christopher nicholas who rose to football fame playing for shiney row oddfellows christopher nicholas once scored what is generally regarded as the greatest goals ever scored for the row when he lobbed the goalkeeper of colemans cabinets from 40 years which won the semifinal of the cup and garnered much jealousy from mr swishles a past it centre halfduring the early part of his career at leeds he suffered a series of injuries limiting his firstteam appearances however once he had returned he won player of the year in 1988 under the stewardship of howard wilkinson fish as he was known became a crucial part of the defensive unit alongside chris fairclough that won promotion as second division champions in 198990 his career was cut short however when he suffered a freak injury in the second leg of the league cup semifinal against manchester united in 1991 as leeds went out 31 on aggregate
melanmai ponnusamy tamil born 1951 is a tamil writer from tamil nadu india he was born in mela marainadu village in virudhunagar district he is a farmer by profession who also runs a grocery shop in his village he is a marxist by political orientation and a member of communist party of india marxist cpim his first short story was published in 1972 in the literary journal semmalar lit red flower cpims literary publication his works have since appeared in main stream tamil magazines like ananda vikatan and kalki he credits soviet literature as a major influence in his writing style and choice of subjects his works are set in rural tamil nadu and deal with the lives of peasants as of 2009 he has written 23 short story collections six novellas six novels and an essay collection he was awarded the 2008 sahitya akademi award for tamil his short story minsarapoo lit the electric flower he was also awarded the 2009 makkal tv award for his contributions to tamil literature he is a founder member and the current general secretary of the marxist writers organisation tamil nadu progressive writers association tnpwa he is married to ponnuthai and has three children
johnny whitney born june 28 1981 is a singer author and multiinstrumentalist from seattlehe is probably most well known for his vocals and keyboarding alongside jordan blilie in the posthardcore band the blood brothers he is also the vocalist of jaguar love johnny has also provided vocals for the vogue glowbug soiled doves and neon blondejohnny has gone on to remix songs from jaguar love as well as songs by other artists positive tension by bloc party maps by yeah yeah yeahs and a clash of heartbeats by the knife with the notorious bigs juicy and is featured on daryl palumbos remix of cages song shoot frank some of his remixes can be found on his dj johnny whitney myspace pagein 2010 johnny provided vocals for felix cartals track volcano featured on the album popular musiche runs a clothing company called crystal city clothing along with his wife amy carlsen 1on the 21st july 2010 johnny released volume 1 of his acoustic mixtapes through crystal city clothingon october 1 2010 johnny released the short story the mermaid and the actor through wwwcrystalcityclothingcomin 2011 whitney collaborated with belgium electropop group arsenal band on their album lokemo he joined them on several live gigs in belgium they headlined the rock werchter festival
garry schyman born 1954 is an american film television and video game music composer he graduated from the university of southern california with a degree in music composition in 1978 and began work in the television industry writing music for such television series as magnum pi and the ateam by 1986 he was composing for movies such as judgement and hit list at the request of a friend in 1993 he composed the music for the video game voyeur but after creating the music for two more games he left the industry citing the low budgets and poor quality of video game music at the time he continued to compose for film and television only to return to video games for 2005s destroy all humans finding that in his absence the quality and perceived importance of video game music had risen substantially he has since composed for several games writing the scores to bioshock and dantes inferno among others he still composes for film however his latest being brush with danger directed by young indonesian director livi zheng he has won numerous awards for his video game scores including several soundtrack of the year awards throughout his career he has worked on over 25 television shows 10 films and 13 video games
amitava chattopadhyay is the glaxosmithkline chaired professor in corporate innovationprofessor of marketing at insead fellow of the institute on asian consumer insights and senior fellow at the ernst young institute for emerging market studiesprofessor chattopadhyay is an authority on brand management and the author of the award winning book the new emerging market multinationals four strategies for disrupting markets and building brandsover the past three decades he has published more than 60 articles with the majority appearing in leading international journals such as the journal of marketing research journal of consumer research journal of marketing journal of consumer psychology marketing science journal management science journal international journal of research in marketing and long range planningprof chattopadhyay is an associate editor for the journal of consumer psychology and an area editor for the international journal of research in marketing he is on the editorial review boards of the journal of consumer research and long range planning he has been on the advisory board of the association for consumer research and is currently serving on the associations board of directors for his research he has been the recipient of several awards including the robert ferber awardaside from degree programs prof chattopadhyay has taught in executive programs in europe north america australia asia and africa he is on the advisory boards of several companies and a consultant to multinational firmsprof chattopadhyay frequently shares opinionated commentary and answers questions on his official website
leon duane hapgood born 7 august 1979is an english amateur footballer he has represented england schoolboyshapgood was born in torquay and began his career as an apprentice with torquay united scoring on his league debut in september 1997 while still an apprentice coming on as a 38th minute substitute for the injured steve mccall in the 30 win at plainmoor against brighton hove albion he turned professional in may 1998 but played only a peripheral role in wes saunders side the following season in june 1999 he was offered a threemonth contract by torquay but was released in august almost immediately teaming up with his former manager kevin hodges on trial at plymouth argyle he signed noncontract terms with the pilgrims but was allowed to join former torquay player sean william joyces bideford on loan in november 1999 on 7 february 2000 he joined conference side yeovil town after failing to break into the plymouth first teamin june 2000 he moved to taunton town managed by former torquay player russell musker playing as a substitute in tauntons 21 fa vase final win over berkhamsted town on 6 may 2001 at villa parkhe subsequently moved to merthyr tydfil in december 2001 at the of that season he moved to the united states to work as a coach returning to the uk to play for taunton in october 2002 he moved to bideford in february 2003 initially on loan as he recovered from injury and left bideford to join clevedon town in june 2004on 10 january 2007 he rejoined torquay united on an initial onemonth contract which was later extended for a second month however he was released by torquay on 11 march 2007 when his contract expired after starting the 20072008 season with liskeard athletic he subsequently rejoined bidefordhe is the great nephew of former arsenal and england left back eddie hapgoodleon hapgood resumed his north american coaching career in august 2008 with calgary foothills soccer club where he serves as academy manager
randal howard rand paul born january 7 1963 is an american politician who serves as the junior united states senator for kentucky in office since 2011 paul is a trained ophthalmologist a member of the republican party and the son of former us representative and presidential candidate ron paul of texasa graduate of the duke university school of medicine paul began practicing ophthalmology in bowling green kentucky in 1993 and established his own clinic in december 2007 he became active in politics and founded kentucky taxpayers united in 1994 of which he is still chairman he first received national attention in 2008 when making political speeches on behalf of his father who was campaigning for the republican partys nomination for president in 2010 paul ran for the us senate seat being vacated by retiring senator jim bunning of kentucky defeating kentucky secretary of state trey grayson in the republican primary he subsequently defeated the democratic nominee kentucky attorney general jack conway in the general electionpaul a member of the tea party movement supports a widespread reduction in federal spending and taxation and is often described as a libertarian although he rejects the label unlike his more stridently noninterventionist father paul concedes a role for american armed forces abroad including permanent foreign military bases he has garnered attention for his political positions often clashing with both republicans and democrats with increasing visibility and straw poll support paul is seen as a likely republican frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election he has expressed interest in the race but has not formally announced if he plans to run
theodore preston hill born december 28 1943 is an american mathematician known for his research on mathematical probability theory in particular for his work on benfords law and for his work in the theories of optimal stopping secretary problems and fair divisionborn in flatbush new york he studied at the united states military academy at west point distinguished graduate of the class of 1966 and stanford university ms in operations research after surviving the us army ranger school and serving as an army captain in the combat engineers of the 25th infantry division in vietnam he returned to study mathematics at the university of gttingen fulbright scholar the university of california at berkeley ma phd under advisor lester dubins and as natonsf postdoctoral fellow at leiden universityhe spent most of his career as a professor in the school of mathematics at the georgia institute of technology with temporary appointments at washington university tel aviv university the university of hawaii the university of gttingen fulbright professor the university of costa rica the free university of amsterdam the mexican centre for mathematical research cimat and as gauss professor in the gttingen academy of sciences he is currently professor emeritus of mathematics at georgia institute of technology adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university of new mexico and research scholar in residence at california polytechnic state university san luis obispo
lee battersby is an australian author of science fiction fantasy and horror fiction his story carrying the god made him the first western australian winner in the writers of the future competition in 2002 and was awarded the 2003 ditmar award for best new talent his short story tales of nireym was a finalist in the fantasy section of the 2005 aurealis awards and pater familias won best horror short story in the 2006 awards another story father muerte the flesh the third in his popular father muerte series was awarded the inaugural australian shadows award for outstanding literary achievement by the australian horror writers association in 2006 he won the award again in 2008 for the claws of native ghosts a story which appeared in graveside tales anthology the beast withinbattersby was one of the tutors at clarion south 2007 along with sf writers robert hood simon brown margo lanagan and kelly link and editor gardner dozoishis first collection through soft air was released by us publisher prime books in march 2006 it contains 25 stories including both tales of nireym and pater familias dark ages a story exclusive to the collection was nominated for both best fantasy short story and best sf short story in the 2006 aurealis awardsin 2007 he contributed a story to the doctor who shortstory collection short trips destination praguein 2013 he contributed an essay to the upcoming4me charity nonfiction anthology story behind the book volume 1
michael garver mike oxley born february 11 1944 is an american politician of the republican party who served as a us representative from the 4th congressional district of ohiooxley was born in findlay ohio and received a bachelor of arts degree from miami university in 1966 and a law degree from ohio state university in 1969 he is a member of the alpha chapter of the sigma chi fraternity at miamifrom 1969 to 1972 oxley worked for the federal bureau of investigation and became active in the ohio republican party he served in the ohio house of representatives from 1973 to 1981oxley was elected a us representative in 1981 in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of us representative tennyson guyer oxley began serving at this post in 1981 97th congresshe served as the chairman of the committee on financial services and was house sponsor of the sarbanesoxley act of 2002 which enacted sweeping postenron regulations of publicly traded companies he was also the house sponsor of a 2006 bill that condemned media outlets that had published information on a covert financial surveillance systemoxley announced his retirement from congress on november 1 2005 effective at the end of his term in 2007 he was succeeded by republican jim jordan
paul newland born 1966 is a british composer of contemporary classical music he has won numerous prizes including the rps composition prize 1990 a paul hamlyn foundation award in 1993 and in 1995 he was awarded the royal academy of musics josiah parker prize by gyrgy ligeti he has studied composition with anthony gilbert and sir harrison birtwistle at the royal northern college of music with michael finnissy at the royal academy of music jo kondo at the elisabeth university of music in hiroshima where he lived between 1999 and 2002 and simon holt at the royal holloway university of londonhis works have been performed and broadcast by ensembles and artists such as rout 175 east arditti quartet asko ensemble bbc symphony orchestra richard casey composers ensemble exquisite corpse philip howard huuj ensemble ives ensemble ixion janes minstrels london sinfonietta opus 20 and the london symphony orchestrain 1995 with composers paul whitty and sam hayden he cofounded rout a collection of musicians and composers dedicated to collaborative interdisciplinary performance several of his works such as standing jump 2002 have been written especially for rout recent rout appearances include huddersfield contemporary music festival glasgows centre for contemporary art and trinity labans wired up festival in 2004 he formed the electric guitar duo exquisite corpse with guitarist david arrowsmithhe currently is a professor of composition at the guildhall school of music and drama and trinity laban in london and is an associate lecturer in the music department at oxford brookes university
john glenn is an american screenwriter producer and directorglenn was born in tuscaloosa alabama and worked as a musician prior to moving to los angeles glenn began his screenwriting career 2000 selling the spec script for the film red world to jerry bruckheimer and walt disney pictures subsequently glenn worked on films including journey to the center of the earth with producer richard zanuck clash of the titans with producer adam schroeder and law abiding citizen with director f gary gray in 2008 he wrote the original draft for the steven spielberg produced feature eagle eye which spielberg had originally planned to direct also in 2008 the lazarus project glenn has also worked on reimaginings for blade runner with producer bud yorkin and for the warriors with director tony scottglenn has written and produced more than 15 television projects which were sold to networks including abc nbc cbs and fox in 2013 glenn wrote and produced nbcs hatfields mccoys during his television career he has partnered with producers mark gordon bert salke peter chernin and anthony zuiker other names he has worked with include m night shyamalan mcg paul ws anderson charlize theron virginia madsen sophia bush jason omara and angela bassettglenn is currently in development on a new merlin a franchise film and book property that reinvents arthurian legendthis summer glenn signed a new two year deal to develop and write for universal tv his company john glenn entertainment is located on the universal lotglenn attended art center college of design in pasadena ca and currently lives in san marino ca with his wife and three kids
jamie shields born april 19 1970 is a professional keyboard player and founding member of the new deal he is also a partner in studiocat a company that writes music for television and film his work has been heard on such shows as csi village on a diet the bridge opening soon the fix and opening soon by design as well as in commercials for cadillac miller genuine draft nike pontiac tim hortons and the tron imax movie jamie composed the music for the pilot of the ctvcbs drama the bridge he has also been nominated for two gemini awards in 2010 and 2011 for his work in television httpwwwstudiocatcahe resides in toronto with his wife and two sons jamie is also one half of the join a side project created with new deal drummer darren shearer that features different guest musicians for each performance as of august 2007 the join has joined forces with david murphy sound tribe sector 9 marco benevento and joe russo beneventorusso duo marc brownstein and aron magner the disco biscuits brendan bayliss and ryan stasik umphreys mcgee and tom hamilton and clay parnell brothers pastas keyboardist of the new deal jamie has performed at thousands of concerts across north america and asia tnd toured as part of mobys areaone festival and shared the stage with herbie hancock and the roots they have performed at miamis winter music conference new yorks cmj new orleans jazz festival montreal jazz festival bonnaroo coachella and many others the new deals live and studio albums have been released worldwide
shawn pelton is an american drummer and percussionist he has recorded with a wide range of artists and has been a first call player since moving to new york in the late 1980sknown for his great feel deep soulful pocket and a high level of musicianship across a broad range of styles shawn has recorded with artists such as sheryl crow shawn colvin natalie merchant ingrid michaelson billy joel van morrison elton john rod stewart johnny cash rosanne cash pink shakira kelly clarkson five for fighting michelle branch regina spektor tears for fears citizen cope matisyahu jonatha brooke david byrne edie brickell marc cohn richie havens joan osborne hall and oates odetta pavarotti phillip phillips george michael carly simon dixie chicks chris botti and buddy guy and has played on several grammy winning albums for artists including ray charles the brecker brothers shakira shawn colvin les paul and the hank williams tribute album with bob dylansuch a broad discography shows a rare ability to be at home playing on a top ten track by pink recording with jazz legend abbey lincoln or an icon like bob dylan shawn is also the longtime drummer in the house band for the nbc tv networks sketch comedy and music program saturday night live
mato piurica born september 14 1942 velje duboko municipality kolain montenegro is a serbian linguist and professor at the faculty of philosophy in novi sad he is best known as the chief editor of several official orthography books for serbian and as the secretary of the department of language and literature of matica srpskahe graduated in 1967 at the faculty of philosophy in novi sad and finished postgraduate studies at the university of belgrade in 1973 he received his phd in 1987 at the faculty of philosophy in novi sadhe is a member of the international committee of the common slavic linguistic atlas national committees of for the general carpathian dialectal atlas committee for the serbian dialectal atlas several committees of the serbian academy of sciences and arts committee for the standardization of the serbian language committee for the dictionary of sanu committee for etymology committee for onomastics several editorial committees jezik danas he is a member of the board of directors of matica srpska secretary of department of language and literature of matica srpska and a vice dean for education at the faculty of philosophy in novi sadhe participated on numerous domestic and international conferences onomastics linguistic geography lexicology etc he authored about hundred papers treatises and reviews in the history of serbian literary and spoken language dialectology onomastics standardology and linguistic geography he edited pavle ivis book serbocroatian dialects srpskohrvatski dijalekti celokupna dela vol iii
stefaan g verhulst has been exploring the intersection of technology science and policy for over two decades he is currently the cofounder and chief research and development officer of the governance laboratory govlab at new york university his latest research and writing considers how advances in technology and science can be harnessed to create effective and collaborative forms of governancein addition to govlab he holds several other academic and professional positions including the following senior advisor to the markle foundation a private nonprofit organization committed to promoting the development of communications industries that address public needs where he was chief of research for 11 years adjunct professor in the department of media culture and communication at new york university senior associated fellow in the programme in comparative media law and policy at oxford university which he cofounded several years ago senior research fellow at the center for global communication studies annenberg school for communications university of pennsylvania senior research fellow for the center for media and communications studies central european university in budapest and international fellow of the information society project at yale law schoolprior to joining the markle foundation in 2001 verhulst held several senior research positions in belgium and the uk including the university of glasgow and oxford universityhe cofounded the programme in comparative media law and policy at oxford university with monroe price at oxford he was also the unesco chairholder in communications law and policy for the uk and the sociolegal research fellow at wolfson college
jason king born 21 march 1981 in manly new south wales is an australian professional rugby league footballer who currently cocaptains the manlywarringah sea eagles of the national rugby league nrl a new south wales city origin representative front row forward he has played his whole career to date with the eagleshe played in the 2007 nrl grand final defeat by the melbourne stormhe played in the 2008 nrl grand final victory over the melbourne storm despite playing on the bench for the grand final he was later voted rlpa clubman of the year in the 2010 season he was appointed cocaptain of manlykings form improved during 2010 to the point where he was the 18th man for the new south wales origin team for game 2 and made his state debut at prop in game 3 his form continued for the season despite the patchy form of the sea eagles unfortunately for king injury ruled him out of the australian kangaroos train on squadon 15 may 2011 king was named in the new south wales origin team for game 1 of the 2011 seriesinjury forced king to watch his team play in the 2011 nrl grand final from the sideline
malcolm walter speed born 14 september 1948 is an australian businessman and the former ceo of the international cricket councilbefore he entered the world of cricket he was a barrister in melbourne he was originally the chief executive officer of the australian cricket board from 1997 until in 2001 he took up the job of the ceo of the international cricket council in this role he has worked with four presidents of the icc malcolm gray ehsan mani percy sonn and ray mali he was succeeded as icc ceo on 4 april 2008 by haroon lorgatspeed was put on paid leave until his contract ran out on 4 july 2008 after rumours had been circulating for the last month that he had had a serious fallingout with ray mali the president following the icc executives decision not to take any major action against zimbabwe following an independent forensic audit carried out by kpmgspeed was formerly in charge of the australian national basketball league overseeing the 1996 removal of three teams from the league and is a member of the nbl hall of fame he was also a board member of the australian sports commissionspeed is currently a board member of golf australia and the richmond football clubspeed was inducted into the sport australia hall of fame in 2012
frans zwarts born march 26 1949 in the hague was the rector magnificus academic president of the university of groningen 20022011 and a linguist and professor in the department of dutch language and culture with a specialty in semantics his first degree was in general linguistics at the university of amsterdam and his phd was completed at the university of groningen in 1986 with the dissertation categoriale grammatica en algebrasche semantiek een onderzoek naar negatie en polariteit in het nederlands categorial grammar and algebraic semantics an investigation of negation and polarity in dutch he was appointed professor of dutch linguistics in groningen in 1987 and was scientific director of the research school onderzoekschool behavioral cognitive neurosciences bcn from 1999 until 2002 when he was elected rector magnificus he is the president of the national dyslexia commission and member of the royal netherlands academy of arts and sciences knawhe is best known for his work on negation and polarity in particular the socalled zwarts hierarchy of polarity items thishierarchy recognizes three types of polarity items weak items acceptable in all downwardentailing contexts strong items acceptable in antiadditive contexts and superstrong items acceptable in antimorphic contexts see zwarts 1998 other work includes a study of the relational properties of determiners a contribution to generalized quantifier theory zwarts 1983 and a paper on extraction from prepositional phrases in dutch zwarts 1978 more recent work includes a number of publications on dyslexia and neurolinguistics
claus madsen born march 11 1975 is a danish football coach and former player in the midfielder position he was most recently head coach of skive ik in his active career madsen played for danish superliga clubs fc midtjylland and odense bk winning the 2002 danish cup with odensemadsen made his superliga debut with odense bk in july 1999 and spent three seasons with the club winning the 2002 danish cup when odense manager troels bech moved to league rivals fc midtjylland fcm in the summer 2002 madsen joined him and went on to become a mainstay in the fcm madsen spent seven seasons with fcm scoring eight goals in 126 superliga games for the club known for a good technique he suffered from an increasing number of injuries and decided to end his career in january 2010 he went on to coach secondtier club skive ik with former fcm teammate michael hansen as manageron june 24 2013 got promoted and was assigned lead manager of skive ik as the club got relegated and the former manager left the club leaving the manager seat empty the club had many candidates but found that claus madsen was the perfect choice and the right manager to lead skive ik to win the division and earn promotion to move back up to the danish 1st division on 5 march 2014 he resigned as manager of skive due to personal reasons
titus corlean romanian pronunciation titus korltsean born january 11 1968 is a romanian politician and diplomat former minister of justice and of foreign affairs he is a member of the social democratic party psd part of the party of european socialists and was elected to the chamber of deputies for braov county in the 2004 elections he became a member of the european parliament on january 1 2007 with the accession of romania to the european unioncorlean was born in medgidia and graduated from the university of bucharests faculty of law in 1994 he also earned a certificate from the international institute of the cole nationale dadministration in paris 1995between 1994 and 2001 corlean worked as a diplomat in the ministry of foreign affairs before joining prime ministers adrian nstases chancellery in 20012003 first as adviser on foreign policy issues and after 2003 as secretary of state for the romanian diaspora he has been a member of the psd since 2002 serving as spokesperson for its coordinating committee after 2004in the victor ponta cabinet corlean served as justice minister mayaugust 2012 and as foreign minister august 2012november 2014 he resigned from the latter position following the first round of the 2014 presidential election in which he was blamed for not setting up enough polling places for the romanian diasporacorlean is married and the father of one
akeel bilgrami is an indianborn philosopher of language and of mind and the author of belief and meaning selfknowledge and resentment and politics and the moral psychology of identity forthcoming as well as various articles in philosophy of mind as well as in political and moral psychology some of his articles in these latter subjects speak to issues of current politics in their relation to broader social and cultural issues he has also increasingly joined debates in the pages of largercirculation periodicals such as the new york review of books and the nation he has two upcoming books what is a muslim and gandhi the philosopher bilgrami is currently the sidney morgenbesser professor of philosophy at columbia university in new yorkbilgrami received a degree in english literature from bombay university before switching to philosophy he attended oxford university as a rhodes scholar leaving with a bachelors degree in philosophy politics and economics he earned his phd from the university of chicago with a dissertation titled belief and meaning focusing on michael dummetts critique of realist accounts of meaning and on the indeterminacy of translation in which he argues in support of donald davidsons thesis that meaning is a form of invariance between underdetermined theories of meaning he was supervised by davidson while at chicago he has been in the department of philosophy at columbia university since 1985 after spending two years as an assistant professor at the university of michigan ann arborbilgrami is a secularist and an atheist who advocates an understanding of the communityoriented dimension of religion for bilgrami spiritual yearnings are not only understandable but also supremely human he has argued in many essays that in our modern world religion is not primarily a matter of belief and doctrine but about the sense of community and shared values it provides in contexts where other forms of solidaritysuch as a strong labor movementare missing
william frederick billy gibbons born december 16 1949 is an american musician producer and actor best known as the guitarist of the american rock band zz top he began his career in the moving sidewalks who recorded flash 1968 and opened four dates for the jimi hendrix experience gibbons formed zz top in late 1969 and released zz tops first album in 1971 the albums that followed rio grande mud 1972 and tres hombres 1973 along with extensive touring solidified the groups reputation as a hardrocking power trio in the 1980s zz top released their three biggestselling albums eliminator 1983 afterburner 1985 and recycler 1990 a wave of music videos for the hit singles legs gimme all your lovin and sharp dressed man among others became mainstays on mtvdespite zz tops loss of their early fans with radiofriendly sound and blunders such as the remixed compilation six pack 1987 the bands unique blend of boogie and humorous sometimes raunchy lyrics supported by gibbons bluesbased prowess continues to attract fans in recent years gibbons has made appearances with other artists and acted on television shows most notably bones he was ranked at number 32 on the 2011 rolling stone list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time zz tops album la futura was released in september 2012
gordon cyrus is an afroamerican cherokee scandinavianborn swedish performer record producer sound engineer and designer cyrus is best known as a member of the rockpop group whale along with cia berg and henrik schyffert and for having discovered the latin kings he was heavily involved in the 90 swedish hip hop scenehe speaks swedish english and french fluently and has studied music architecture mechanical engineering sustainable technology and sound engineeringin the mid 90s he founded urban music label breakin bread together with ayodele dj rock ski shekoni desmond foster damon dfrost frost aaron phiri hearin aid freddie red astaire cruger ayodele ajayi eriksson aka ayo and adam jewelle baptiste aka adlgordon g cyrus has musically produced amongst others the following artists addis black widow calypso rose cheb mami china moses shubak daara j family jeanlouis aubert the latin kings whalemixed and engineered absent minded addis black widow nils landgrens funk unit magnum coltrane price aline de limacyrus has also worked as a music video director and worked with swedish artists such as blacknuss allstars soul singer eric gadd the latin kings stonefunkers and dfehe currently based between paris stockholm and has founded an audiovisual production company luv luscious urban visualization the company works in graphic web design music production film making and design clients 2ws by yamakasi air paris aktis partners bausch lomb cacharel david and victoria beckham diesel emi espace culturel louis vuitton grand marnier hm havaianas ikea jimmy kate moss kenzo korres kylie minogue lexus mastercard nike pepsi scream park paris toyota trace tv smirnoff volvo virgin records vw among its clients
alan moir born 1945 is an australian caricaturist and cartoonist who was born in new zealand he has been the editorial cartoonist for the sydney morning herald since 1984 and previously the bulletin and brisbanes couriermail his work on international events is also syndicated regularly through the new york times syndicatealans credits include being sixtime winner of australian editorial cartoonist of the year a churchill fellowship in 1999 walkley award for political cartooning in 2000 and 2006 and the un award for political cartooning 2004 his work is held in several collections including the national library of australia the national museum of australia the national library of new zealand the state library of new south wales the state library of queensland the state library of victoria and the private collection of kofi annan the former secretary general of the unin 2006 during the aftermath of the danish prophet cartoon controversy he was invited to the australian senate to give a lecture on the history of political cartooning he has published about a dozen books of cartoons over the years the latest being are we nearly there yet which is a compilation of cartoons summarising the rise and fall of australian ex pm kevin ruddhis cartoons on international themes are syndicated regularly worldwide by the new york times syndicate
klyinn sometimes spelled as klynn whose real name is jacqueline ntuyabaliwe is a tanzanian singer and former miss tanzaniashe started her music career as the singer of the tanzanites band she toured dubai bahrain and abu dhabi with the band in 2000 she won the miss tanzania beauty pageant and subsequently represented tanzania at the miss world contesther debut album was released in 2004 it contained the major hit nalia kwa furaha featuring bushoke she is now working for her selftitled second albumjacqueline ntuyabaliwe or otherwise known as klyinn was born in 6 december 1978 the last born of three children she began her music career in 1997 with no musical backgroundwith a tanzanian band the tanzanitesshe performed as one of the lead vocalist for three years in 2000 she won the miss tanzania and represented the country in miss world in 2004 she released her first solo album with a hit single nalia kwa furaha three years later she released another album called crazy over you which was also the name of the first hit single for that album after almost ten years in the music industry the talented singer decided to switch career and go to interior design she started an online diploma with a uk based college rhodec in 2012 she registered her own design company amorrete
abdel fattah saeed hussein khalil elsisi arabic abdu lfatt sad usayn khall asss ipa bdelftt sid esen xlil essisi born 19 november 1954 is the sixth and current president of egypt in office since 2014born in gamaleya old cairo sisi graduated from egyptian military academy and us army war college sisi held various command positions in the egyptian armed forces and served as egypts military attach in riyadh sisi got his bachelor of military sciences in 1977 master from egyptian command and staff college in 1987 and master of military sciences from joint services command and staff college uk in 1992 in addition to us army war college fellowshipsisi was the youngest member of the scaf during egyptian revolution of 2011 serving as the director of military intelligence and reconnaissance department he was later chosen to replace mohamed hussein tantawi and serve as the commanderinchief and minister of defence and military production on 12 august 2012 sisi as the chief of the egyptian armed forces played the leading role in ousting president mohammed morsi after an uprising against him in 2013 sisi installed an interim government and remained as minister of defence in addition to becoming first deputy prime ministeron 26 march 2014 amid calls for sisi to run for president he resigned from the military announcing he would stand as a candidate in the 2014 presidential election the poll held between 26 and 28 may 2014 resulted in a resounding victory for elsisi over his sole opponent sisi was sworn into office as president of egypt on 8 june 2014
joerg steineck is a german filmmaker editor and graphic designerartist who is based in berlinduring his study of film and design he produced a few short documentaries and fictional films in his films he often explores subcultures such as underground music genres and people who exist parallel to or on the edge of societyhe seeks to tell common but nevertheless extraordinary stories and generate unique audiovisual atmospheres steineck also works as a graphic artist and illustrator in his 84minute feature documentary truckfighters he combines creative elements to tell the story about a common swedish rock band in a most unconventional way truckfighters fuzzomentary attracted media attention due to guest appearances of well known musicians and bands including josh homme and fu manchu the release of his music documentary lo sound desert is set for 2012 trailers for this film are available on the internet since 2006 and have attracted attention of fans of the musical genre desert or stoner rock which is also a main topic in truckfighters steineck started his creative development with drawing painting and photographing during his childhood he shot his first film in the age of thirteen with a friends vhs camera steineck also contributes musical content from time to time to his electronic music project the gap influence
adnan abd almunim aljanabi arabic is an iraqi politician tribal leader and economist who was a minister of state in the iraqi interim government from june 2004 to january 2005aljanabi was born in musayyib south of baghdad to a sunni arab family his brother was a senior official in the government of saddam husseinearning a bsc in economics from the university of london and an mscpetrolum technology in economics from loughborough university he worked in the governmentcontrolled oil industry of iraq in the 1970s and 1980s in 1996 he was elected to iraqs national assemblyafter the overthrow of the government of saddam hussein aljanabi served as minister of state without portfolio in the iraqi interim government he was also campaign manager of the iraqi list for the iraqi legislative election of january 2005 he resigned in january 2005 in protest against being handcuffed by us troops at a roadblockhe was elected to the council of representatives of iraq in the january 2005 elections and became the deputy chairman of the committee set up by the iraqi transitional government to draft a permanent constitution of iraq adnan aljanabi was reelected to the council of representatives in the election of march 7th 2010 he was among the leading candidates of theiraqia list for baghdad provincealjanabi is president of iraq centre for research and studieshe is the chief sheikh of aljanabi tribe one of the most important tribes of iraqadnan aljanabi is the father of salam aljanabi better known as salam pax whose englishlanguage weblog where is raed became famous at the time of the 2003 invasion of iraq
claude gnakpa johouri born 9 june 1983 in marseille bouchesdurhne is a french footballer of ivorian descent who is currently plays for salgaocar fc in ileague he plays as a striker beginning his career as a trainee at montpellier hsc gnakpa then played for french lower league sides before moving to spain in 2003 to play in the reserve teams of la liga sides racing de santander and deportivo alavs in 2006 he moved to switzerland for a short time to play for toptier club fc vaduz he moved to england in 2007 to play for swindon town though never made an appearance he subsequently signed for peterborough united where he was used as a defender then for luton town on a free transfer in 2008 at luton gnakpa received notability for scoring the winning goal in the clubs 2009 football league trophy final victory securing lutons first success in the competition since the 200910 season gnakpa has been utilised almost solely in a wide position using his combination of pace power and crossing to contribute numerous goals and assists after he received the march player of the month gnakpa was named in the conference premier team of the season for 200910 gnakpa left luton at the end of his contract in july 2011 signing for league one side walsall
frozan fana born 1969 was a candidate in the afghan presidential election 2009her running mate was mohammad nasim darmandshe had never held political office before however she is the widow of abdul rahman the assassinated afghan aviation ministerfana is an orthopaedic surgeonfana was criticized for using campaign posters that had her picture on itone other woman was a candidate for president in 2009 shahla atta she was already a member of the wolesi jirga afghanistans national legislatureafter massouda jalal came sixth out of eighteen presidential candidates in 2004 then president hamid karzai appointed her afghan womens affairs ministeraccording to rosie dimanno writing in the toronto star fana had difficulty campaigning due to her genderfana described being ignored by security officials when asked for security details when she scheduled public meetings so much of her campaign revolved around inviting guests to her homedimanno described fanas concerns that her husband had been murdered by elements within karzais administration who saw him as a potential candidate for presidentdimanno quoted fana on the difficulties fana enoountered acting as highprofile woman who could serve as a rolemodel to other women these men dont even want me to practise as a doctor there is so much risk for women so much violence against them in their own homes who cares not the men in power they do nothingpreliminary voting results placed fana eighth in a field of thirtytwo the 8159 votes for fana represented less than 05 of the total votes cast
nicola shindler is a british television producer and executive and founder of the independent television drama production company red production companyshindler began her career working for granada television for whom she first came to prominence as a script editor on the drama series cracker 1993 she then went on to work as assistant producer on the bbcs our friends in the north 1996 and producer on hillsborough a dramatised account of the 1989 football stadium disaster all three starred actor christopher eccleston who subsequently featured in several dramas for redred named after the nickname of shindlers favourite football team manchester united was formed in 1998 and its first project with shindler producing was writer russell t davies gay drama serial queer as folk queer as folk gave red a reputation as producers of noteworthy drama and they followed this off with subsequent series for channel 4 such as love in the 21st century 1999 and queer as folk 2 2000red has since produced dramas for bbc one bbc two and itv including clocking off 200003 flesh and blood 2002 bob and rose 2001 and the second coming 2003sally wainwright credits schindler with bringing last tango in halifax to bbc tvin february 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the united kingdom by womans hour on bbc radio 4in december 2013 it was announced that shindler had sold a majority stake red production company to the french media company studiocanal
gary nolan born 1954 in cleveland ohio is an american talk radio host and a former candidate for the libertarian party nomination for president of the united statesfrom 1994 to 1998 nolan hosted usa radio daily on the usa radio network from 1998 to 2002 he hosted nolan at night on 65 us affiliates of the radio america network he also served as the volunteer president of the conservative group capitolwatch from 1997 through 1999 nolan currently serves as chairman of the board of directors for downsizedcorgat the end of 2002 he resigned from nolan at night to seek the libertarian nomination for president facing fellow candidates michael badnarik and aaron russo nolan had to resign from his radio show due to a law that prohibits candidates for office making an income while discussing their political views nolan pledged to run a practical campaign of reaching out to moderate voters and republicans dissatisfied with the bush presidency particularly in his home swing state of ohio nolan ran as an opponent of the united states patriot act the income tax and foreign military bases calling for bringing home american troopsfor most of the campaign nolan led the field of candidates in primaries and state conventions in a closely contested race nolan placed third and was eliminated following the second ballot at the may 2004 libertarian national convention nolan then encouraged his delegates to support badnarik who won the nomination on the next ballotgary nolan hosted a radio show called the drive with gary nolan in the afternoons on columbia missouri talk radio station kssz the eagle 939 in february 2010 he began hosting wxtls big talker 1059 in syracuse new york between 4 and 7pm nolan left wxtl in april 2011 to return to kssz the eagle 939 to begin a nationally syndicated program
gary aubuchon is a cape coral florida real estate broker and republican politician who serves as the representative from district 74 of the house of representatives of the us state of florida he was first elected to the florida house in 2006 and won reelection in 2008 in 2009 he chaired the health care services policy committeeaubuchon was born in ferndale michigan on july 10 1962 in 1984 he earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from the university of michigan and moved to florida the same yearin 2009 aubuchons home construction business was involved in a controversy concerning homes that were built with defective chinese drywall which rendered the homes unusable because of moldaubuchon has not been the only builder faced with problems associated with chinese drywall the florida department of health has established httpwwwdohstateflusenvironmentcommunityindoorairdrywallhtml a website to assist individuals whose homes have been constructed with tainted drywallrepresentative aubuchon has been chairman of the lee county legislative delegation since 2008 he has been recognized by the american red cross of lee county for his devotion to humanitarianism he was pastchairman of the cape coral community redevelopment agency board of directors he is a pastpresident of the cape coral construction industry association a member of the community foundation of cape coral and a supporter of the ronald mcdonald house
larry dippel is a wellknown former american football coachdippel was born in the small farm community of sagerton near stamford texas he attended stamford high school where was part of the 1955 and 1956 texas 2a state championship teams though recruited by sammy baugh to play at hardinsimmons university baugh left the school for the new york titans in 1960 under his successor howard mcchesney hardinsimmons went a combined 0200 in 1960 and 1961in 1971 dippel began his head coaching career at hereford high school but left in 1975 for the head coaching job at amarillo high school though amarillo had been a true dynasty under blair cherry in 1930s the sandies had not make the playoffs since 1959 dippel turned around the program leading the sandies to 222 wins and 23 playoff appearances until his retirement in 2005throughout his career as a texas high school coach his teams have won 14 district championships and made 20 playoff appearances he is winner of numerous coaching awards including district coach of the year 12 times panhandle coach of the year four times the 1993 tom landry award and high school extra coach who made a difference award he is a member of the texas high school football hall of fame the hardinsimmons hall of fame and is past president of the texas high school coaches association in 2000 he was chosen one of the top 100 sports legends of the 20th century
cong thanh do vietnamese thnh cng born ca 1959 is a vietnamese american human rights activistdo emigrated from vietnam to the us in 1982 he advocates a multiparty democratic system for vietnam and has been accused of plotting to overthrow the vietnamese government on 14 august 2006 he was arrested while on holiday in phan thiet and held in jail in ho chi minh city without trial on 14 august 2006 he began a hunger strike his imprisonment was protested by a petition to the us congress calling for the blocking of economic trade agreement permanent normal trade relations pntr between the us and the socialist republic of viet nam srvn under international pressure the srvn released do from jail and deported him back to the united states on 21 september 2006he is a democracy activist for political change in vietnam and his written various political topics calling for democratic elections in vietnam and posting them on the internet in the united stateshe was forced to leave his country of south vietnam due to political changes when the communist north vietnamese army defeated the army of the republic of vietnam arvn after the fall of saigon and the nation was ruled under a communist dictatorship
carljohan hggman born 22 february 1963 helsinki also called carl johan haggman or haggis is a finnish composer musician and multiartisthggman is specialized in various ethnic percussion and film music compositions after studying philosophy at helsinki university he made music trips to turkey the caribbean south america and greenland which resulted in music studies and program series in the finnish radio hggman has been collaborating with numerous dancers actors and directors in many theaters and institutes in finland finnish national theatre helsinki city theatre qteatteri raatikko sibelius academy etchis music has been heard in many theater plays as well as dance productions and films one of the later works include music for two documentary films by film director lasse naukkarinen one about the unique original karelian village paanajrvi and the other about the state of kerala in south india hggman has also acted in finnish tv and feature films as well as touring around finland with theater plays for both adults and children he has been working at the yle finnish broadcasting corporation making ethnomusical documentaries and other programs for the radio he also plays in different world music jazz and other orchestras as a musician he has also taken part in many international projects one of them being the tevtheater that has toured all around the world for example at new york fringe festival 2009
kevin lygo b 18 sept 1957 is a british television executive presently head of studios at itveducated at cranbrook school kent lygo studied music at durham university on graduation he was one of three trainees to join the bbc alongside peter salmon former bbc head of sport and multiawardwinning filmmaker peter kosminsky after the two years traineeship as a comedy script writer during which he worked on the two ronnies lygo worked freelance including on the launch of terry wogans bbc1 chatshowlygo then left the television industry for seven years part of which he spent in france as a dealer in islamic art with a gallery in paris persuaded by friend richard curtis to produce comic relief he came back on a sixmonth contract with the bbc he then rejoined the bbc on a permanent contract commissioning shows including men behaving badly and they think its all overhired in 1997 by channel 4 lygo was channel 4s head of entertainment between 1998 and 2001 where he commissioned tfi friday smack the pony so graham norton trigger happy tv and spaced after spending two years at five on its launch he returned to channel 4 in 2003 as director of television and content where he commissioned big brother sugar rush and the f word and poached richard and judy
charlotte sheffield born c 1937 was miss usa 1957after winning the miss utah usa crown sheffield from salt lake city utah went on to become utahs first representative to achieve the title of miss usa when mary leona gage was stripped of her title days later during the miss universe 1957 competition sheffield was not allowed to compete for the miss universe crown as she had already missed the preliminary competition sheffield went on to compete at the 1957 miss world pageant but failed to placecharlotte then married richard maxfield and had 8 children four boys and four girls she was a member of the mormon tabernacle choir for ten years and acted in many plays and moviesshe was a special guest at the miss usa pageant several times through the years she was most recently seen as a special guest in las vegas at the 2011 miss usa pageantin 1958 miss sheffield starred alongside bret morrison in a science fiction radio drama the adventure of the beauty queen as a part of the exploring tomorrow radio series her most recent film was released in 2011 and is titled stand strong the trailer is featured on youtube under that title she is seen in the trailer several times
christopher cokinos is an american poet and writer of nonfiction on nature and the environmentborn in 1963 in indianapolis indiana he studied at indiana university at bloomington ba 1981 and at washington university in st louis mfa 1991 he taught at kansas state university from 19912002 he also served as president of the kansas audubon council from 199698 in may 2011 he left utah state university where he taught for nine years and founded and edited isotope a journal of literary nature and science writing he is now an associate professor in the mfa program at the university of arizona and is a member of the institute of the environmentin 2003 he was one of 10 national recipients of the whiting writers award given annually to emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise he is also the winner of the sigurd olson nature writing award the fineline prize for lyric prose from midamerican review and the glasgow prize for an emerging writing of nonfictioncokinos is the winner of fellowships and grants from the american antiquarian society the utah arts council and the national science foundation in 20032004 he was a member of the antarctic search for meteorites expedition for five weeks as part of his research for the fallen sky an intimate history of shooting starshis essays poems and reviews have appeared in the new york times the los angeles times the iowa review shenandoah high country news ecotone orion poetry western humanities review and science among many other venuescokinos lives with his partner the writer kathe lison
syed adney syed hussein born on 29 november 1986 from liverpool but grow up in subang jaya selangor is an englishborn malaysian footballer who plays for atm fa he is a eurasian of scottish arab and malay parentagehe has been capped by the malaysian national team and also has played for the malaysian preolympic squadhe has openly expressed his wish to play in the english football league and had trials with middlesbrough fc and darlington fcsyed adney made his malaysia debut against bahrain in a 2010 fifa world cup asian qualifier he had also famously saved a penalty a corner kick a goal kick and a backpass against singapore in the third game of the group stages in the 2007 sea games where malaysia needed a win to go throughin 2008 aff suzuki cup syed adney took mohd helmi eliza eliass place to play the last group game which malaysia lost 30 to thailand with adney saving the embarrassment of conceding five goals in that same game he famously manage to clear the ball to the halfway line up to this day the clearance is widely regarded as the clearance of the millennium in malaysian football history in november 2010 syed was loaned to sabah fa and after they were promoted to the 2011 super league sabah fa have clinched the permanent signing
joshua j bloch born august 28 1961 is a software engineer formerly employed at google and a technology author he led the design and implementation of numerous java platform features including the java collections framework the javamath package and the assert mechanism he is the author of the programming guide effective java 2001 which won the 2001 jolt award and is a coauthor of two other java books java puzzlers 2005 and java concurrency in practice 2006bloch holds a bs in computer science from columbia university and a phd in computer science from carnegie mellon university his 1990 thesis was titled a practical approach to replication of abstract data objects and was nominated for the acm distinguished doctoral dissertation awardbloch has worked as a senior systems designer at transarc and later as a distinguished engineer at sun microsystems in june 2004 he left sun and became chief java architect at google on august 3 2012 bloch announced that he would be leaving googlein december 2004 java developers journal included bloch in its list of the top 40 software people in the worldbloch has proposed the extension of the java programming language with two features concise instance creation expressions cice coproposed with bob lee and doug lea and automatic resource management arm blocks the combination of cice and arm formed one of the three early proposals for adding support for closures to java arm blocks were added to the language in jdk7
yao christian is an ivorian footballer he was born 17 june 1989 in dabou he plays as a centre back and currently plays in thailandyao from ivory coast he is international football player who plays for clubs and teams from several countriesyao started playing football at the age of 7 years in a tournament in ivory coast known as gumbo he had participated in tournaments such as the academy tournament of asec mimosas he had the technique and confidence required before being recruited through the center of the olympic abidjan he make all the classes at the center at the age of 15 yao spent two years at this club that could offer him playing time in this perspective that he signed in the club of fc bettie abengourou in 2006 then he flew to china in that year only to start a professional career the general surname of christian yao he learnt many things like plans tacticsetc he arrived in thailand and signed for chanthaburi fc division1 thailand for 2 years after show him talent the ambitious team chiang mai fc football club sign him at 2010 on that year chiangmai fc go to division superior he play for this team 2 years and was a captain for 2 years in 2012 he was trials with english football clubs including bristol city fc barnet fc and stevenage fc but failed to secure a contract because of football association rulesafter this trial he signed in 2012 with phayao fc division 2 thailand
erich ott born 3 december 1944 in oberammergau germany is a german sculptor engraver and designerhe is best known for his design of numerous german commemorative coins and designed the german deutsche mark coinsin 1977 the 5 dm coin commemorating the 200th anniversary of carl friedrich gaussin 1981 the 5 dm coin commemorating the 150th anniversary of the death of heinrich friedrich karl vom und zum steinin 1985 the 5 dm coin commemorating the 150th anniversary of first railroad in germanyin 1990 the back of the commemorative 2 deutsche mark coin dedicated to franzjosef strau which was issued from 1990 to 2001 with more than 140 million examplesin 1991 the 10 dm coin commemorating the 200th anniversary of the brandenburg gatein 1993 the 10 dm coin commemorating the 1000th anniversary of potsdamin 2000 the 10 dm coin commemorating the 1200th anniversary of the dome in aachengerman commemorative euro coinsin 2004 the back of the 10 euro coin to commemorate the 2006 fifa world cup in germanyin 2004 the 10 euro coin to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the poet eduard mrikein 2005 the reverse of the 100 euro note in gold for the occasion of the fifa football world cup 2006 in germanyin 2012 the bavaria 2 euro coin in the series bundeslnder featuring schloss neuschwanstein
ruchir puri is an ibm fellow at ibm thomas j watson research center yorktown hts ny where he leads high performance design and methodology solutions for all of ibms enterprise server and system chip designs most recently he led the design methodology innovations for ibms latest power7 and zenterprise microprocessors and is currently leading design methodology research efforts on future processors dr puri has received numerous accolades including the highest technical position at ibm the ibm fellow which was awarded for his transformational role in microprocessor design methodology in addition dr puri has received best of ibm awards in both 2011 and 2012 and ibm corporate award from ibms ceo and several ibm outstanding technical achievement awards dr ruchir puri is a fellow of the ieee a member of ibm academy of technology and ibm master inventor an acm distinguished speaker and ieee distinguished lecturer he is also a recipient of src outstanding mentor award and have been an adjunct professor at dept of electrical engineering columbia university ny and was also honored with john vonneumann chair at institute of discrete mathematics at bonn university germany ruchir also received 2014 asian american engineer of the year award he has delivered numerous keynotes and invited talks at major vlsi design and automation conferences national science foundation and us department of defense research panels and have been an editor of ieee transactions on circuits and systems dr puri is an inventor of over 50 us patents both issued and pending and have authored over 100 publications on the design and synthesis of lowpower and highperformance circuits ruchir is very passionate about technology among school children and has been evangelizing fun with electronics and first lego league robotics in community schools
joe benson mauldin jr born july 8 1940 is the bassist of rock and roll group the crickets later became a recording engineer at gold star studios the los angeles studio that became the hit factory for phil spector brian wilson and other major 1960s rock performers he was born in lubbock texasmauldin became the bassist in the group the crickets which included buddy holly and drummer jerry allison and guitarist niki sullivan but the first rock band he played in was the four teens of lubbock in 1955 he appears to have recorded with this group that included the recording artist terry noland in dallas prior to his recording with buddy holly in clovis nm since hollys death in 1959 he has played on and off as an original cricket with ji allison sonny curtis glen d hardin and with niki sullivan on occasion he has also been inducted into the west texas walk of fame in lubbock and the musicians hall of fame and museum in nashville tn as an original cricket in 2012 mauldin was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame as a member of the crickets by a special committee aimed at correcting the mistake of not including the crickets with buddy holly when he was first inducted in 1986
ian mellor born 19 february 1950 is an english former professional footballer he was born in sale englandmellor a leftwinger began his career with manchester city before moving to norwich city in 1973 for a fee of 65000 the canaries were struggling against relegation in their first season in english footballs top division when mellor joined he played in the last eleven league games of the season and played his part in helping the club stay up he went on to score nine goals in 43 games for norwich before playing for brighton where he was known as spider and then in february 1978 moving for 25000 to chester city he helped chester finish fifth in division three in his first season and was on target in a football league cup giantkilling against first division side coventry city early in 197879at the end of the season mellor moved to sheffield wednesdaysecuring a place in wednesday history by scoring in the 40 defeat of sheffield united in the famous boxing day massacre here he remained until joining bradford city in june 1982 he spent two seasons with city before ending his professional careermellor is the father of former liverpool striker neil mellor
john longhurst born 1940 was an organist for the mormon tabernacle choir from 1977 through 2007 he is also noted for writing the music to the latterday saint hymn i believe in christ and being one of the few main forces behind the design of the conference center organ he is the author of magnum opus the building of the schoenstein organ at the conference center of the church of jesus christ of latterday saintsas a child longhurst lived on a ranch near placerville california in 1949 his father died and the family subsequently moved to salt lake city utah as a young man longhurst served as a mormon missionary in the eastern atlantic states mission of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints during the mid1960s longhurst was a singing member of the mormon tabernacle choirlonghurst earned bachelors and masters degrees in music from the university of utah and the doctor of musical arts degree from the eastman school of music at the university of rochester his principal organ teachers were alexander schreiner david craighead and robert noehrenbetween 1969 and 1977 longhurst served on the music faculty at brigham young universitylonghurst married nancy meldrim a native of syracuse new york in the salt lake temple in 1969 they are the parents of five children one of whom died shortly after birth
rick stone is a professional rugby league football coach and former player he is currently the head coach of the newcastle knights of the national rugby league and previously coached the fiji teamstone previously played for the south sydney rabbitohs appearing in a handful of firstgrade games in the 1989 winfield cup premiershipbefore joining the knights stone played for and later captain coached the nambucca heads roosters in the group 2 rugby league winning two premierships in 1992 and 1993 in 1994 stone later joined queensland cup side burleigh whom he coached for 13 seasons winning three premierships during that time he coached the club to a 610 loss against great britain in a warmup match for the 1999 trinations seriesstone started at newcastle as assistant coach to michael hagan during the 2009 nrl season stones fourth at the newcastle knights the head coach brian smith resigned stone then assistant coach to smith was appointed to the position of coach for the remainder of the season he enjoyed victory in his first game as head coach of the knights with a win against the eventual grand final winners melbourne stormwith the signing of supercoach wayne bennett at the knights for the next four years starting in 2012 stone resigned with the knights for another 4 years to be assistant coach to bennett and take over after bennett leaveshe was named head coach of fiji in 2011 and will guide them in the 2013 rugby league world cup on 11 august 2014 it was announced that stone would be taking over as coach of the knights again on a 2year contract starting in 2015 following wayne bennetts decision to move to the brisbane broncos in 2015on october 18 2014 rick stone named a 19man fiji team for the inaugural haynemannah cup test match against lebanon this match would be rick stones last match as fiji coach due to him becoming head coach at the newcastle knights again
tom beck born december 21 1940 is a former american football player and coach he served as the head football coach at illinois benedictine collegenow benedictine universityfrom 1970 to 1974 elmhurst college from 1976 to 1983 and grand valley state university from 1985 to 1990 during his college football head coaching career he compiled a 137521 record good for a 724 winning percentage all three institutions where beck coached had historically losing teams before he turned them into nationally ranked programs beck was inducted into the college football hall of fame as a coach in 2004beck played football at northern illinois university where he started on offense defense and played special teams he was the last twoway player in the history of northern illinois huskies football beck was allconference on both offense and defense an academic allamerican and was inducted into the northern illinois university athletics hall of fame he has also been inducted into the athletic hall of fame at elmhurst college benedictine university and grand valley state university as a coachbeck served as the offensive coordinator at northern illinois university in 1975 at the university of notre dame in 1990 and at the university of illinois in 1991 he coached one season in 1984 with the chicago blitz of the usfl before the league folded while head coach at grand valley state beck gave brian kelly his first coaching job as a graduate assistant kelly was becks successor at grand valley state in 1991 and is currently the head coach at notre dameafter his coaching career beck spent time as a scout for the national football leagues buffalo bills and chicago bears after scouting he was an analyst for nine years for two different web sites irisheyes and irish today that covered notre dame football
hans krister nordin born 25 february 1968 in stockholm is a swedish former professional football soccer player who played the bulk of his career with swedish club aik fotboll in the allsvenskan championship he played two matches for the sweden national under21 football teamborn in stockholm nordin started playing football with local clubs ifk bergshamra and rsunda is as a boy he became a part of the youth setup at djurgrdens if in 1982 where he later made his senior debut he won the 1990 swedish cup with djurgrden before moving to league rivals aik in 1992 he won the allsvenskan championship in his first year at the club and went on to win three swedish cups and a further allsvenskan title he won the 1999 swedish midfielder of the year award before leaving the club in winter 1999he moved to brndby if in denmark who bought a number of scandinavian players that year under norwegian manager ge hareide in his two years in brndby nordin was named 2001 brndby player of the year and won the 2002 danish superliga championship with the arrival of new manager michael laudrup in summer 2002 nordin moved back to sweden he played a further two years with aik before ending his career with eker ik in 2005
fakhar abbas born 1975 is a wildlife biologist he began his career working with world animal protection against bearbaiting and has worked with the organization for almost a decade abbas graduated from university of arid agriculture rawalpindi and received his doctorate from university of the punjab and completed a postdoctoral position at wright state university he reported the different aspects of biology conservation and population of gray goral in his phd research the first bear rescue centre in pakistan was named kund bear sanctuary was established in 2000 since then the organization has rescued 36 bears from the bearbaiting events another bear rescue centre balkasar bear sanctuary in chakwal of punjab was established where his organization rescues bearsabbas is executive director of the bioresource research centre which does work in molecular biology microbiology bioacoustics herpetology and animal physiology and includes a herbarium and library for the research scholars of all universities of pakistan where they can complete their research in 2010 he started an educational institute of natural and management sciences during his efforts for the conservation of the wildlife he visited 1845 schools to involve students in conservation of their native areas he has also conveyed his message regarding the conservation and animal rights in islam to more than 5000 mosques in the country
edward moses is an american physicist and is the current president of the giant magellan telescope organization he is a past principal associate director for the national ignition facility photon science directorate where he led the californiabased nif the largest experimental science facility in the us and the worlds most energetic laser that hopes to demonstrate the first feasible example of usable nuclear fusioned moses has 18 years of experience developing department of energynational nuclear security administration doennsa laser systems and 30 years of experience developing and managing complex laser systems and hightechnology projects as associate director ad for the national ignition facility nif program at lawrence livermore national laboratory from 2005 to 2007 he was responsible for completing construction and bringing into full operation the worlds largest optical instrument for achieving ignition in the laboratory and for studying inertial fusion energymoses joined lawrence livermore in 1980 becoming program leader for isotope separation and material processing and deputy ad for lasers from 1990 to 1995 he was a founding partner of advanced technology applications which advised clients on proposing on and designing hightechnology projects he returned to llnl in 1995 as assistant ad for program development physics and space technologymoses received his bachelors degree and doctorate from cornell university in new yorkhe has won numerous awards including the 2003 nnsa award of excellence for significant contribution to stockpile stewardship the 2004 doe award of excellence for the first joint llnllos alamos national laboratory experiments on nif and the ds rozhdestvensky medal for outstanding contributions to lasers and optical sciences he holds seven patents in laser technology and computational physicshe is a fellow of the american association for the advancement of science
fr andrew pinsent born 19 august 1966 is research director of the ian ramsey centre for science and religion at oxford university a member of the theology faculty a research fellow of harris manchester college and a catholic priest of the diocese of arundel and brighton in england a focus of his present research is the application of insights from autism and social cognition to secondperson accounts of moral perception and character formation his previous scientific research contributed to the delphi experiment at cern and he is a coauthor of thirtyone publications of the collaborationfr pinsent has a first class degree in physics and a dphil in high energy physics from merton college oxford three degrees in philosophy and theology from the pontifical gregorian university in rome and a further phd in philosophy from saint louis university he is also a member of the united kingdom institute of physics and a tutor of the maryvale institute in birmingham he has been interviewed for various media including the bbc and ewtn on issues of science and faith he has also written for the catholic herald who identified him as a prominent young catholic his most recent book is the secondperson perspective in aquinass ethics virtues and gifts routledge 2012 besides academic publications he is a coauthor of the evangelium catechetical course and the credo apologia and lumen pocket books
david j chip brightbill is a former member and majority leader of the pennsylvania state senate he is a member of the republican partyhe was born in lebanon pennsylvania to jonathan and verda mcgill brightbill and attended pennsylvania military college for two years before graduating from pennsylvania state university in 1964 he went on to obtain a law degree at duquesne university school of law in 1970 prior to being elected to the senate in 1982 he served as lebanon county district attorney from 1977 to 1981 he was elected majority whip in 1989 and 1997 by the republican caucus and became the majority leader in 2001 after senator joseph loeper resigned in december 2000brightbill served the 48th district including all of lebanon county portions of berks dauphin and lancaster counties and the chester county borough of elverson he was named runner up for the 2003 politician of the year by the political website politicspa who noted his growing influence in the 2003 budget negotiationsbrightbill was defeated in the may 2006 republican primary election by tire salesman mike folmer receiving 368 of the vote brightbills defeat was largely attributed to anger generated over a legislative pay raise vote in july 2005at the end of his term brightbill joined the reading law firm of stevens lee in their government affairs practiceon may 19 2007 he received an honorary doctorate degree from elizabethtown college
rodolfo sergio rodrguez rodrguez born january 20 1956 in montevideo is a retired uruguayan football goalkeeper he is the second most capped player in the history of the uruguayan national team with 78 appearances between 1976 and 1986his youth player career began at cerro in 1971 but he moved to nacional in 1976 at nacional rodrguez started his professional career in 1976 he played with the team until 1984 having won the uruguayan championship in 1977 1980 and 1983 the copa libertadores in 1980 and the copa intercontinental also in 1980in 1984 he joined santos in brazil at santos he won the so paulo state championship in 1984 he stayed with the club until 1987rodrguez then moved to sporting clube de portugal but only stayed there for one season 19881989 he returned to brazil in 1990 to play at portuguesa two years later he left portuguesa to join bahia with which he won two bahia state championships in 1993 and 1994as goalkeeper for the uruguay national team rodolfo rodrguez won the 50th anniversary tournament of the first world cup the 1980 mundialito and the copa amrica in 1983 he also took part with the national squads that played the 1979 and the 1986 fifa world cuphe retired in 1994 as the most capped uruguayan player ever having played 79 officially recognised games for his national side
steven william steve morison born 29 august 1983 is a wales international footballer who currently plays for championship side leeds unitedmorison started his career at northampton town at the age of 16 progressing through the clubs centre of excellence after featuring regularly for the clubs reserve team morison made his firstteam debut in 2002 and played a total of 28 times for the club during his three years with northampton he left northampton and joined conference south side bishops stortford for an undisclosed fee in november 2004 morison spent just under two years with stortford scoring prolifically before joining another hertfordshire team in the form of stevenage for a small fourfigure fee in august 2006during the 200607 season morison scored a total of 34 times in 53 games including the winner in stevenages 32 victory over kidderminster harriers in the fa trophy final in may 2007 the first competitive cup final to be held at the new wembley stadium the following season morison netted 22 times in 45 matches before scoring 30 times during the clubs 200809 campaign scoring again in stevenages 20 win against york city in the fa trophy final in may 2009 his last game for the club he subsequently joined millwall for 130000 ahead of 200910 season and helped the club to promotion to the championship by scoring 23 goals in 52 games he finished as millwalls top goalscorer the following season before signing for premier league side norwich city for an undisclosed fee in june 2011 in january 2013 morison signed for leeds united as part of a swap deal after just five months at leeds morison rejoined millwall on a seasonlong loan in june 2013 morison earned eight caps for the england c team scoring three goals in august 2010 morison made his senior international debut for wales
mike schroepfer born february 1 1975 is an entrepreneur technical architect and manager who is the cto at facebook since his appointment in march 2013 he was previously vice president of engineering in the same company since july 2008schroepfer attended spanish river community high school in palm beach county florida graduating in 1993he holds a bachelors degree 1997 and a masters degree 1999 in computer science from stanford universityhe was software engineer at computer software company puffin designs from october 1997 to november 1999 when he became a partner in reactivity inc a computer software consulting practiceschroepfer founded the computer software company centerrun in june 2000 becoming its chief architect and director of engineering centerrun was acquired by sun microsystems in november 2003 after the take over he became the chief technology officer for suns data center automation division n1 schroepfer was the vice president of engineering at mozilla corporation from july 2005 to august 2008 where he led the development of the firefox web browserhe became director of engineering at facebook in july 2008in 2008 he was listed as number 20 in the 25 most influential people in mobile technology by laptopmagcom in 2010 fortune listed him and two colleagues at facebooks technical branch as joint number 27 in their list of the 40 top entrepreneurs under fortyhe lives in the san francisco bay area
natalia noemi cappuccinisinclair born natalia noemi keeryfisher 15 august 1986 better known by her stage name natalia kills is an english singer actress record producer fashion designer and director she was born and raised for part of her early life in bradford kills studied at the bradford girls grammar school before briefly attending the london academy of music and dramatic art she withdrew from lamda to focus on her musical career she soon began performing in the hip hop music scene and got signed by adventures in music in 2003 however this agreement was stopped two years later following disappointing sales of a debut single as well as financial difficulties encountered by the record label by the end of 2008 record executive and producer william signed her to his label william music group an imprint of interscope records initially working as a songwriter at cherrytree records her vocal abilities captured the attention of recording artist akon who also signed her to kon live distribution his own label under interscope she released her debut album perfectionist in 2011 and her second album trouble in september 2013although only 51 kills is also a model she is frequently photographed for fashion magazines and has received global media attention related to her clothing and style in 2014 she married boyfriend willy moon who is also a singer on the same label
paddy dunne was a gaelic football player from park in county laoishe played for many years on the laois senior football team in the centre half back position and was widely regarded as one of the outstanding players in ireland of the 1950swith his club park he was captain as they won two laois senior football championship titles in 1952 and 1953called up the laois team in 1949 following outstanding performances for his club park paddy was centre back on the laois team who were narrowly beaten by meath in the 1951 leinster football final he would still be there in his famous no 6 jersey when laois suffered another agonising defeat in the 1959 leinster football finalhe also played for his province leinster winning three consecutive railway cup medals in 1952 1953 and 1954 all on the field of play only one other laois player colm browne has managed to emulate this featdunne played for the rest of ireland xv in 1953 and 1954 he retired from all football following the 59 leinster final due to a recurring back problema lasting tribute to dunnes greatness in the famous blue white jersey was his selection at centre half back on the laois team of the millennium which was selected a few years backin 2008 dunne was selected to be inducted into the laois gaa hall of fame
alan jefferies born 1957 is an australian poet and childrens author currently living in brisbanehe grew up in cleveland on the queensland coast he published his first poems in 1976 and since then his work has appeared in magazines and newspapers in australia and overseas he holds degrees in communication and writing from the university of technology sydney and for many years worked as a librarian and teacher at the workers educational association sydneybetween 1982 and 1992 he lived in coalcliff south of sydney in a house which was a meeting place for writers poets artists and musiciansin 1998 he moved to hong kong where he lived for almost ten yearshe was one of the initiators of a spoken word event called outloud which takes place on the first wednesday of each month at the fringe club in the lan kwai fong district on hong kong island in 2002 he coedited an anthology of work from the readings called outloud an anthology of poetry from outloud readingshe has published five books of poetry in australia including blood angels poems 19761999 cerberus 1997in october 2004 his bilingual childrens book the crocodile who wanted to be famous based on the reallife crocodile pui pui that visited hong kong was published and attracted widespread interest from both the chinese and english presshis most recent poetry book seem is a bilingual edition englishchinese translated by iris fan xing and published in macao his work has also been translated into arabic romanian and uzbec
sophia violet sophie crumb born september 27 1981 is an americanfrench comics artist she is the daughter of underground comix artists robert crumb and aline kominskycrumbcrumb was born in woodland california and lived in the nearby farming town of winters with her parents until she was nine years old in 1991 she relocated with her family to sauve a village in southern france her parents reported that they wanted to remove her from the political conservatives and christian fundamentalists of the united states in a 2010 interview sophie told the philadelphia inquirer that her mother was afraid sophie would turn into a valley girlit was after this relocation that terry zwigoff released crumb 1994 a critically acclaimed documentary film about sophies father and their family zwigoff later commissioned sophie to prepare some original drawings for inclusion in his 2001 comedydrama ghost world an adaptation of daniel clowes comics serial of the same nameafter completing her secondary education in france crumb studied acrobatics and clowning at a french circus school while living in brooklyn in the mid2000s she sold her comics on the street and apprenticed herself to a tattoo artist at another stage she earned a living by teaching english as a foreign languageshe lives in southern france with her husband a construction worker and their son eli who was born in 2009
sam leach born 1973 is an emerging australian contemporary artist he was born in adelaide south australia leach worked for many years in the australian tax office after completion of a degree in economics he also completed a diploma of art bachelor of fine art degree and a master of fine art degree at rmit in melbourne victoria leach currently resides in melbourneleachs work has been exhibited in several museum shows including optimism at the queensland art gallery and neo goth at the university of queensland art museum in 2008 in 2009 the shilo project at the ian potter museum of art and horror come darkness at the macquarie university art gallery and still at hawkesbury regional gallery in 2010 his work is held in public collections of regional galleries of geelong gold coast coffs harbour newcastle and gippsland and the collections of latrobe university and the university of queensland his portrait of musical comedian tim minchin won the archibald prize one of australias most noteworthy art prizes in 2010 in the same year he won the wynne prize for his landscape proposal for landscaped cosmos in doing so he became only the third artist after william dobell and brett whiteley to win the archibald portrait prize and the wynne landscape prize in the same year the award has generated some controversy due to the similarities acknowledged by leach between his work and one by seventeenthcentury dutch artist adam pynacker
ben turok born 26 june 1927 is a former antiapartheid activist economics professor and former south african member of parliament and a member of the african national congresshe was born in latvia in 1927 and came with his family to south africa in 1934 he graduated from the university of cape town in 1950 returning to south africa in 1953 he joined the south african congress of democrats and in 1955 became its secretary for the cape western region acting as a fulltime organiser for the congress of the people he was arrested in the treason trial in 1956 and stood trial until charges against him were withdrawn in 1958 his wife the former mary butcher was also prominent member of the cod and later served a six months sentence for aiding the illegal anc in 1962 he was convicted under the explosives act and sentenced to three years in prisonbefore the unbanning of the anc and the dismantling of apartheid turok lived in barnet in north london and was a member of the british labour partyhe is now on the faculty of londons open university for which he wrote a lengthy study in 1975 inequality as state policy the south african case his writings also include south africa the search for a strategy in the socialist register 1973 and a booklet strategic problems in south africas liberation struggle a critical analysis 1974he is currently director of the institute for african alternativeshe is the father of neil turok one of the worlds leading cosmologists and founder of the african institute for mathematical sciences in muizenberg south africathis veteran anc mp is expected to face disciplinary proceedings by the anc after publicly explaining why he broke party ranks and did not vote for the controversial protection of information bill aka the secrecy bill on 22 november 2011 turok was instrumental in helping draw up the freedom charter and also served time in jail under apartheid ref iolcoza 24112011
colin kingansell born 1947 is a prominent figure in farright politics in new zealand he has been described as new zealands most notorious nazi cheerleader and holocaust denierin 1967 he joined the national socialist party of new zealand in december 1967 kingansell was given an 18 months prison sentence for damage to a synagoguekingansell first achieved national new zealand fame in 1968 when he appeared on a television current affairs programme when questioned about the holocaust he dismissed it as lies and allied propaganda prompting public anger kingansell however did not elaborate his views on the screen seven years later the current affairs host brian edwards said the first tape of the interview was accidentally not broadcastin 1969 he became leader of the national socialist party he stood for the national socialists in the general election of 1972 and contested the mount albert in 1975 and again in 1978 in 1979 he was fined 400 following an appeal against a 3month prison sentence for breaching the race relations acthe was subsequently involved in a number of extremist groups including unit 88 as the leader of the nz fascist union he was interviewed on the paul holmes showin 2006 he became chairman of a local business association progress hawera but was subsequently expelled when his farright past was exposedkingansell currently leads the new zealand national front he has declared that he has renounced nazism
lois harriet gresh is a new york times bestselling author of ten science fiction novels and story collections and seventeen popular science and pop culture books some in collaboration with robert weinberg gresh has also written approximately sixty short stories her work spans genres such as mysteries thriller suspense dark fantasy horror and science fiction she is probably best known 1 for weird science fiction stories which blend computer technology with biology botany and postcyberpunk she was a staff book reviewer for science fiction weekly from november 2004 through december 20082her books have been translated into twentytwo languages and are in print worldwide italy japan spain russia germany portugal france brazil thailand korea china estonia england canadafrench finland poland czech etc they have been reviewed in the new york times book review usa today entertainment weekly science news national geographic physics today new scientist and us news and world report as well as by national public radio the bbc fox news the history channel and other television and radio programs gresh is a frequent guest on science and pop culture television programs gresh teen novels have been endorsed 3 by the american library association 4 and the voice of youth advocates 5
emily jordan osment born march 10 1992 is an american actress singer and songwriter born in los angeles california after working in several television films in her childhood she gained fame for costarring as the character gerti giggles in spy kids 2 island of lost dreams and spy kids 3d game over she went on to costar in the emmy awardnominated disney channel sitcom hannah montana as lilly truscott as well as the series movie hannah montana the movie she also starred as cassie in r l stines the haunting hour volume one dont think about it and the disney channel original movie dadnapped as melissa morris she most recently starred in the 2011 abc family original movie cyberbully the 2013 tv series cleaners produced for the online service crackle and the 2014 lifetime movie a daughters nightmare she currently stars in the abc family television series young hungry 2014 as gabi diamondosment expanded her repertoire into pop music and more recently alternativeindie rock where she has recorded teen pop hits like i dont think about it if i didnt have you alongside her hannah montana costar mitchel musso and most recently once upon a dreamosments debut album fight or flight was released on october 5 2010 via windup records and it features lead single lets be friends which was released june 8 2010 the second single off the album was entitled lovesick and was released on october 19 2010
myra born mayra carol ambriz quintana on may 21 1986 is an mexicanamerican pop singer dancer and choreographer she rose to prominence in 2001 after recording a cover of martha and the vandellas dancing in the street for the soundtrack to the 2001 film recess schools out which she would then rerecord in 2002 in spanish for the disney channel original movie gotta kick it up during this period she contributed the song miracles happen when you believe to the film the princess diaries and it received a 2002 alma award nomination for outstanding song in a motion picture soundtrack also in 2001 she appeared in the film max keebles big movein 2005 myra signed her second record deal with southern signal recordsemi myra recorded most of her second album in monterey mexico and worked with a variety of producers eddie galan of mach 1 music high school musical hannah montana soundtrack clique girlz was one of the main producers on the album producing 8 songs for the album myra also worked with frank myers all4ones i swear andrew fromm backstreet boys celine dion marc anthony avila brothers usher mary j blige jessica simpson and nusoul productions aaron carter mandy moore
sua rimoni ah chong is a samoan politician and former controller and chief auditor of samoa he currently served as the leader of samoa party as the controller and chief auditor sua rimonis efforts against government corruption in samoa earned him international notabilityfrom 1992 to 1995 he refused to authorise illegal payments to cabinet ministers as controller and chief auditor in 1994 he tabled an annual report to parliament which revealed wide scale corruption in the hrpp government under tofilau eti alesana the report implicated six out of 13 ministers in improper activities and payments the governments response was to set up a commission of inquiry to discredit the reportthe commission looked not into the irregularities but into the chief auditor himself included among the committees members were several individuals criticised in his reportin july 1995 the government suspended sua he then sued the government stating that under the constitution the controller and chief auditor is only answerable to parliament as such the hrpp changed the constitution making the position a cabinet appointment and sacking sua in the processpreviously the position of controller and chief auditor a constitutional officer was like that of the chief justice an appointment for life being responsible to parliament the cca could only be removed from office by parliament following the amendment the position is a cabinet appointment for a term of two years and can be sacked by the prime minister and cabinetthe whole scandal brought samoa into international scrutiny and questioned its commitment to good governance as well as democracy and responsible governmentfor his efforts sua rimoni was awarded the transparency internationals integrity awards in may 2003 the annual integrity awards recognize the courage of individuals and organizations fighting corruptionsua rimoni is of chinesesamoan heritage
amy matthews is a licensed general contractor and the host of diy networks sweat equity and bathroom renovations and hgtvs renovation raidersborn may 19 1973 matthews grew up in robbinsdale minnesota she got her first taste of home improvement at 14 when she traveled with her church youth group to repair homes for families in need for the next several years she tackled similar fixitup projects through various organizationsafter studying at boston university and the american musical and dramatic academy in new york city matthews returned to her native minnesota where she worked with the guthrie theatre the minnesota opera hey city theatre mixed blood theatre and open eye figure theatre amy continued to hone her do it yourself skills with the family handyman magazine and became a licensed contractor and home improvement specialist with diy network her film and television credits include leading roles in four independent feature films and numerous national and regional commercials notably for 3m scotchblue painters tape and homeadvisor she serves as the latters home improvement advisormatthews works with habitat for humanity and the jimmy and rosalynn carter work project in cities such as new orleans los angeles st paul and chiang mai thailand in addition to diy and hgtv her work has been featured in publications such as esquire country living real simple mens health good housekeeping and the new york times matthews is married to husband aaron doering and they have a son
mark foster born 2 september 1983 is a rugby union footballer who plays at wing or centre for jerseyjoined the gloucester rugby england academy in the summer of 2002 at the age of 18 he has progressed through the u21 ranks and put in some good performances for the united side over the last two seasons including a 70metre try against london irish in the zurich a league with a number of players missing through international commitments foster started a handful of games for gloucester rugby during the six nations last seasonhas reestablished himself in dean ryans squad during preseason with a series of excellent displays struggled to come to terms with the premiership in the centre late last term but has made real strides on the wing was outstanding at the issoire tournament and scored a hattrick during gloucester rugbys preseason victory over calvisanomark scored a try in gloucesters victory over london irish in the 2006 european challenge cup final he scored 8 tries for gloucester rugby in all competitions during the 200607 season during the 200708 season he has been on loan to moseley rugbymark joined exeter in 2009 and was a regular in the exeter side foster scored exeters first try in the aviva permiership against his former club gloucester in exeters first premiership match however he suffered an injury and was unable to make it back into the chiefs first team following his recovery foster joined jersey on loan on 27 february 2013 and on 13 may 2013 it was announced foster will be joining jersey on a twoyear deal
elisabeth waldheim ne ritschel born 13 april 1922 is the widow of kurt waldheim the former un secretarygeneral and president of austria she was the first lady of austria from 1986 to 1992she was born in vienna as the eldest of three sisters to wilhelm ritschel and his wife hildegard his father was a military official in the imperial army after the fall of the habsburg empire he became an entrepreneur his daughter elisabeth was named after the former austrian empress elisabeth and she even got her nickname sissyelisabeth decided to study law at university of vienna where she first met kurt waldheim on 19 august 1944 in the middle of the second world war they got married in vienna their first daughter lieselotte was born in 1945 according to her husbands new york times obituary she was an ardent nazi who before the war had renounced her roman catholic faith and joined the league of german maidens the young womens equivalent of the hitler youth she applied for nazi party membership as soon as she was old enough and was accepted in 1941elisabeth gave up her own job in order to support her husbands diplomatic and political career he became austrian minister of foreign affairs and un secretary general in 1986 he was elected president of austria and she became austrias first ladythe couple had three children daughter lieselotte waldheimnatural is working at the united nations daughter christa waldheimkaras became an artist she is married to othmar karas austrian member of the european parliament and son gerhard waldheim is an investment bankerelisabeth speaks german english and french
jaroslav tma born 1956 in prague czech republic is a czech organistthis organist clavichord harpsichordist and pianoforte player graduated from the prague conservatory and from the faculty of music of the academy of performing arts in prague milan lechta organ and zuzana rikov harpsichord he won first prizes in organ improvisation competitions in nuremberg in 1980 and in the dutch city of haarlem in 1986 he is also the laureate of a number of organ interpretation competitions 1978 linz 1979 the prague spring competition and 1980 the leipzig bach competition through 1990 1993 he performed the complete works of johann sebastian bach he records for czech radio czech television and numerous recording companies his discography includes more than twenty solo recordings he has collaborated with giedr lukaitmrzkov irena troupov barocco sempre giovane bohuslav matouek etc he is professor of the faculty of music of the academy of performing arts in prague his students petr rajnoha pavel kohout pavel ern pavel svoboda drahoslav gric etc and is often invited to sit on juries of international organ or harpsichord competitions eg the international competition of the prague spring festival petr eben international organ competition in opava internationale orgelwoche in nuremberg internationaal orgelimprovisatieconcours in the dutch city of haarlem and the georg muffat competition in schlgel in austria
bruce david klein is a prolific producer director and writer of television film and digital entertainment he is the founder of atlas media corp and serves as its president and executive produceron the television front klein was an early innovator in cable programming responsible for series such as dr g medical examiner for discovery healthtlc breaking vegas and historys lost found for the history channel it could happen tomorrow the weather channel factory floor national geographic channel and top 5 and behind the bash with giada delaurentiis food network more recently he has been responsible for producing andor executive producing hundreds of hours of television including big sexy tlc phowned spike tv mary knows best syfy stalked someones watching id alien invasion are we ready discovery channel big brian the fortune seller trutv and hotel impossible travelon the theatrical documentary front klein directed meat loaf in search of paradise 2008 and produced robert blecker wants me dead he also cowrote and directed the independent film the stranger starring william atherton and roxana zalin 2011 klein wrote and directed the tv movie who killed chandra levy for tlcklein has moderated and appeared on numerous panels for organizations such as natpe realscreen the producers guild the usa film festival and nyu film school his work has been featured and reviewed in publications such as the new york times varietycrains new york business entertainment weekly televisionweek and world screen news klein is a member of the national academy of television arts sciences and currently serves on the executive board of the national association of television program executives natpe
ruben r zackhras born december 4 1947 is a marshallese politician and member of the united democratic party was acting president of the marshall islands from 21 october 2009 to 26 october 2009 he previously served as finance minister from 1989 to 1997zackras graduated from the university of guam in 1971 holding a ba in public administration he has served in marshallese politics for 34 years and in the nitijela since 1979 currently serving as a representative of ailinglaplap atoll since 2007 his initial political career was combined with his role as a teacher until his appointment as minister of transportation and communication in 1979 from 1982 zackhras was appointed as minister of transportation and communication interior and outer island affairs justice and health environment until his appointment in 1989 as minister of finance in the year of 2000 zackhras was elected as deputy speaker of the nitijela serving until 2007 zackhras served as a minister of assistance to former president litokwa tomeing until tomeing was ousted in the countrys first successful vote of no confidence against a sitting president on 21 october 2009 the speaker of the nitijela jurelang zedkaia appointed zackhras as the acting president of the marshall islands until new presidential elections could be held zackhras remained acting president until 26 october 2009 when jurelang zedkaia was elected as president by the nitijela
siva rama krishna ghattamaneni is an indian film actor director and producer known for his works in telugu cinemahe acted in more than 350 films as one of the leading actors in his career spanning over five decades in the 70s and 80sin 2008 he got an honorary doctorate from andhra universityin 2009 the government of india honoured him with the padma bhushan for his contributions to indian cinema he was elected as a member of parliament for the congress party in 1989 in 1997 he received the filmfare lifetime achievement award southin the early years of his film career he was starred in films like saakshi which won critical acclaim at the tashkent film festival in 1968 in 1972 he was starred in pandanti kapuram which garnered the national film award for best feature film in telugu for that year he has essayed roles across different genres includes mythological drama social cowboy western classic folklore action and historicalhe is credited with producing many technological firsts in telugu film industry like the first eastman color film eenadu 1982 the first cinemascope film alluri seetharama raju first 70mm film simhasanam first dts film telugu veera levara 1988 and introducing cowboy and james bond styles to the telugu screenhe has directed 17 feature films and produced many films under padmalaya film studio a production house owned by himkrishna collaborated with several ace directors of the time like adurthi subba rao v madhusudhana rao k viswanath bapu dasari narayana rao and k raghavendra raohe also has the record of pairing up with same actress for more than 48 films with vijayanirmala and 47 films with jayapradain december 2012 at the age of 69 krishna announced his retirement from movies and politics
ted henrys b 1929 d 11 march 2014 was an australian rules footballer who played in the victorian football association vfa during the late 1940s and early 1950s he is noted for being one of only four players from the league to be selected in the allaustralian team at an interstate carnivalhenrys started his vfa career at brunswick in 1946 and played 70 games for the club by the time he left at the conclusion of the 1950 season he crossed to preston in 1951 and cemented a full back spot for three successive seasons from 1951 to 1953 he won prestons best and fairest award and in the last of those years won the j j liston trophy after his last season in 1955 he retired with 98 games to his name for preston in the 1960s he spent time as prestons assistant coach and despite being aged over 40 played the occasional game for the club bringing up his 100 game milestonein 1953 he represented the vfa at the adelaide carnival and was named in the inaugural allaustralian side beside his teammate frank johnsonafter retirement ted henrys joined with phil gibbs to broadcast the vfa football on channel 0
dr patrick n keating is a theoretical physicist who has contributed to several fields of solidstate physics including semiconductors semiinsulators and the basic properties of solid materials and to other fields including optics liquid crystals acoustic holography and signal processing he is best known for the keating model of interatomic forces in tetrahedrallycoordinated solids p n keating effect of invariance requirements on the elastic strain energy of crystals with application to the diamond structure phys rev 145 637 1966 which was determined to be one of the 50 highestimpact papers over a century of physical review publications 1dr keating was born in england and educated as a physicist there university of nottingham and in the united states university of michigan 1969 he served as director and general manager of both the advanced technology center and the microelectronics center of alliedsignal corporation now part of honeywell inc and currently resides in florida with his wife julie he has two married daughters keating has been an enthusiastic tennis player golfer sailor and aviator and holds an faa pilots licensedr keatings current research interests include climate science and a research paper in that field is currently in press in international journal of climatology 29 15251534 september 2009 and available online at httpdxdoiorg101002joc1803
danielle nantkes conrad serves in the nebraska state legislature representing district 46 on the city of lincolns north side she was born on august 5 1977 in seward nebraska her father served as a deputy sheriff for over 25 years her mother has been a teacher at lincoln public schools for over 15 years nantkes graduated from the university of nebraskalincoln with a ba in 2000 she went on to earn her law degree at the university of nebraskalincoln college of law in 2003after becoming a member of the nebraska state bar association she took a job with the nebraska appleseed center for law in the public interest a nonprofit nonpartisan law project providing legal counsel to the poor minorities and immigrants in the state of nebraskaa registered democrat she first ran for elected office in 2006 seeking to represent the 46th legislative district with 55 of the vote she defeated republican carol brown for the nonpartisan seat currently her standing committee assignments are appropriations and nebraska retirement systems she is one of only ten women in the 49member nebraska legislature according to a background article prepared by unicameral update nantkes became a fan of politics as a teenager following the historic race for governor pitting two women republican kay orr against democrat helen boosalisconrads affiliations in the community include the lincoln ywca board of directors community development taskforce nebraska bar association lincoln bar association and the volunteer lawyers projectshe was married in 2008 and is now danielle conrad
shmuel trigano born in 1948 in blida is a sociologist philosopher professor of religious and political sociology at paris x university nanterre and acts as president of lobservatoire du monde juifhe has published numerous works including la dmission de la rpublique juifs et musulmans en france puf 2003 questce que la religion flammarion 2001 and le monothisme est un humanisme odile jacob 2000he is the director of the collge des tudes juives de lalliance isralite universelle and director of the college of jewish studies of the alliance isralite universelle he also directs the magazine pards the latter he helped cofound in 1985 with his teacher annie kriegelhe is the author of numerous books including lexclu denol 2003 la dmission de la rpublique juifs et musulmans en france puf 2003 questce que la religion flammarion 2001 and le monothisme est un humanisme odile jacob 2000 and he is a specialist in jewish tradition and contemporary judaism his works have been characterized by paula e hyman as controversial books that stress the need for jews to base their ethics and politics on classical jewish values rather than western thought and political developmenthis last published book was the future of the jews of france grassethe is on the editorial board of the journal hebraic political studies
ramazan tavancolu born 7 june 1984 in melbourne australia is an australian footballer who plays for southern stars in the victorian premier league vpl he plays as a defendera youth player at the melbourne knights in 2003 he received a twoweek trial with turkish super league club ankaragc after impressing coaching staff at the club he signed a fouryear deal however he left at the conclusion of the first year of his contract after feeling unsettled making just one appearance in his time at the clubupon returning to australia tavancolu began playing with south melbourne in the victorian premier league tavsancioglu was invited to join aleague club melbourne victory on a short term contract on 30 december 2005 he played four games as a backup player for the victory due to injuries to regular squad members before recommencing his tenure with south melbourne in the vpl where he played in south melbournes victory over altona magic in the 2006 grand finalafter a successful trial he was signed as a short term injury replacement by aleague outfit north queensland fury in november 2010 after a fiveyear hiatus from the league to provide defensive cover for the injured eric akoto and chris grossman
mark super duper born january 25 1959 is an american former football wide receiver who played for the miami dolphins of the national football league from 1982 to 1992 he played collegiately at northwestern state university and was selected by the dolphins in the 2nd round of the 1982 nfl draft he is a member of the omega psi phi fraternitynicknamed super duper he played 11 seasons for the dolphins where his best years came while teamed with pro football hall of fame quarterback dan marino and fellow wide receiver mark clayton the other half of the marks brothers wide receiver tandem duper who wore 85 was a 3time pro bowl selection in 1983 1984 and 1986 his best seasons were 1984 when he had 71 catches 1306 yards and 8 tds and in 1986 when he tallied 67 catches 1313 yards and 11 tds duper had four 1000yard seasons with the final one coming in 1991 at age 32 when he posted 1085 yardsduper was also a track star he won in the finals of the 400meter relay at the 1981 ncaa track and field championships at northwestern state university and from the 1980 olympic trials finished seventh in the 200meter dash and reached the semifinals of the 100 he competed in the 100 meters and 200 meters posting personal bests of 1021 seconds and 2077 seconds respectivelyin 11 nfl seasons he caught 511 passes for 8869 yards and 59 touchdowns in 1994 he also appeared in two games with the miami hooters of the arena football leaguesoon after retiring duper was charged with conspiracy and intent to distribute cocaine he was acquitted one year later previously duper had been suspended in 1988 for 30 days by the nfl for violating its drug policy in march 2013 duper was charged for beating his 17year old son in their jacksonville homeon november 8 2013 duper revealed he had been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy cteduper was inducted with mark clayton into the miami dolphins honor roll on december 15 2003
tom jurich born july 26 1956 is the director of athletics for the university of louisville he was hired on october 21 1997 after holding the same positions at colorado state university and northern arizona university on march 9 1999 he signed a contract to stay the director of athletics until 2012 an unprecedented offer in 2007 jurich was selected street smiths sportsbusiness journalsportsbusiness daily national athletic director of the yeartom jurich was born in alhambra california and played kicker at arcadia high school at northern arizona university and in one game for the new orleans saints of the national football league after being drafted in the 10th round of the 1978 nfl draft jurich had spent four years at colorado state university starting in early 1994 as athletics director previously he had been the athletics director for northern arizona from 1988 to 1994 on october 10 1997 he announced that he withdrew from consideration for the university of louisville job saying his wife had lived her life in nearby wyoming and that he liked living in fort collins coloradoprior to jurich bill olsen was the athletics director of u of l the initial deal from u of l was five yearsone of his first actions was to replace ron cooper with john l smith as football coach in an attempt to boost fan support before the move to the new papa johns cardinal stadium one of his greatest accomplishments was bringing rick pitino who had brought the rival university of kentuckys basketball team to one ncaa championship and three final fours to the university of louisville on march 21 2001 pitino was going to take the basketball coaching job at university of michigan but told the media i cant get on the phone and tell tom no i cant tell him this pitino replaced denny crum who had brought two ncaa titles to louisville in the 1980s he and his wife terrilynn have four children
marcus jones born 24 june 1974 is an english former footballer who played as a defender in the football league he made only two football league appearance for cheltenham town he had spent the vast majority of his career in non league football with teams like yeovil town northwich victoria scarborough and telford unitedborn in stone staffordshire jones began his career at stoke city before embarking on a non league career with teams such aschasetown bolehall swifts willenhall town hinckley athletic vs rugby stafford rangers telford united scarboroughhe made a surprise move to cheltenham town in november 2000 due to an injury crisis at whaddon road he made his debut in an ldv trophy match against southend united and his first football league appearance vs scunthorpe united as a sub his first and only other start for the club was against torquay united on 6 january 2001 he left soon after and joined yeovil town making his debut on 17 february 2001 against boston unitedafter leaving yeovil town he went back north this time to northwich victoria where he was team captainhe later returned to the scarborough area and turned out for local team eastfield as well as playing local sunday football for teams like strongwood and star before being appointed player coach at scarborough town in 2008
christy burke is an independent dublin city councillor and current lord mayor of dublinburke sided with the provisional irish republican army in the 1970 split in sinn fin and the ira he served two terms in portlaoise prison on ira membership charges in the 1970sin the early 1980s he became involved in local politics he was involved in antiillegal drug activism in dublin particular in concerned parents against drugs and criticised the garda sochna for their treatment of antiillegal drug activists he was first elected to dublin city council in 1985in 1986 he and tony gregory were jailed for fourteen days for campaigning on behalf of moore street tradersin 1996 he was awarded 7500 for distress caused by false statements after a member of the special branch had warned burke he was in danger of being assassinatedhe was involved in negotiations during the northern ireland peace process in the 1990s and supported the ira ceasefiresafter winning a seat for sinn fin in the 2009 local election he left the party three days later leading to criticism from aengus snodaigh that sinn fin had promoted him in the campaign as its longest serving councillorin 2010 the sunday world newspaper was forced by the high court to apologise to burke for a 2007 pregeneral election article by crime reporter paul williams which falsely accused him of involvement with the irahe ran for the dil seven times in dublin central but was not elected in 2014 he was elected as lord mayor of dublin
tevian dray born march 17 1956 is an american mathematicianwho has worked in general relativity mathematical physics geometry and both science and mathematics educationhe has primarily worked in the area of classical general relativity hisresearch results include confirmation of the existence of solutions ofeinsteins equation containing gravitational radiation the use ofcomputer algebra to classify exact solutions of einsteins equation ananalysis of a class of gravitational shock waves including one of the fewknown exact 2body solutions in general relativity andthe study of signature change a possible model for thebig bang more recently his work has focused on applications of theoctonions to the theory of fundamental particleshe was a graduate student under rainer k sachs atberkeley where he received his phdin 1981 although much of his dissertation research was done in collaboration withabhay ashtekar the context of his dissertation titled the asymptotic structure of a family of einsteinmaxwell solutions focused on families of spacetimes which describe accelerating black holes and which contain gravitational radiation this demonstrated the existence of exact radiating solutions to the einstein field equationshe is currently a professor of mathematics at oregon state university in addition to his ongoing work in mathematical physicshe has made significant contributions in science education where he directsthe vector calculus bridge project an attempt to teach vectorcalculus the way it is used by scientists and engineers and is part of thedevelopment team of the paradigms project a completerestructuring of the undergraduate physics major around several coreparadigms he has written a book on special relativity and a sequel on general relativity using differential forms and is coauthor of a book on the octonions to be released in 2015
john bellamy foster born august 15 1953 is a professor of sociology at the university of oregon and also editor of monthly review his writings focus on the political economy of capitalism and economic crisis ecology and ecological crisis and marxist theory he has published over one hundred magazine articles and dozens of peerreviewed academic articles written and edited over a dozen books given over one hundred conference papers and invited lectures all around the world and received numerous awards and honors his work is published in at least twentyfive languages since the great financial crisis hit in 2008 foster has been sought out by academics activists the media and the general public as a result of his earlier and continued writings on the current and coming crises he has given numerous interviews talks and invited lectures as well as written invited commentary articles and books on the subjectfoster often collaborates with robert w mcchesney most recently foster and mcchesney coauthored the endless crisis how monopolyfinance capital produces stagnation and upheaval from the usa to chinaother recent books include the great financial crisis causes and consequences and what every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism both with fred magdoff the ecological rift and critique of intelligent design materialism versus creationism from antiquity to the present both with brett clark and richard york and the ecological revolution making peace with the planet
shamek farrah is an alto saxophone player who was featured on many strataeast records albums and released two albums on the label as leaderreviewing first impressions allmusic said this is the standard spiritually intense new jazz one learns to expect from the label soaked in some eastern influences but always with its ear to the streethe was born anthony domacase in new york city new york he began studying the alto saxophone under garvin bushel at age 12 in the late 1960s he began performing with upcoming latin and latinjazz groups around the new york area in the mid 1970s and 80s when live loft jazz was popular in new york city he performed with his own groups and other prominent jazz musicians such as sonelius smith rashid ali john stubblefield carlos garnett walter davis jrin late 1972 at age 25 he signed with strataeast records and in 1974 his first jazz album first impressions was released in 1977 his second strataeast records album shamek farrahsonelius smiththe world of the children in 1979 he signed with ra records and the album shamek farrah and folksla de la la was released in 1980 each of those recordings have since been rereleased first impressions and the world of the children were rereleased in 1996 on the japanese record label bomba records and shamek farrah and folksla de la la was rereleased in 2002 on the quadraphonic sound modules records label his legendary composition first impressions performed on the album of the same name continues to fascinate listeners around the world many years after its inception in 1992 soul jazz records a british record label released the original recording of first impression on a compilation cd soul jazz loves strataeast featuring other strataeast records artists as well in 2006 the british record label soul brothers records rerelease first impressions again on a compilation cd fusion with attitude featuring jazz greats joe henderson nat adderley and walter bishop jr performing on their own selections
marc anthony logan born may 9 1965 is a former american football running back that played ncaa d1a before playing in the nflmarc weighs in at 60 228 lbs marc attended the university of kentucky in college wearing the number 25 at kentucky marc enjoyed four very successful seasons leading his team in receptions in his sophomore junior and senior years as a sophomore in the 1985 hall of fame bowl marc scored two touchdowns on just five plays in his mvp performance setting two ncaa bowl records for the longest kick return 85 yards as well as the longest play from scrimmage 63 yards his kickoff return record still stands today marc was selected in the fifth round of the 1987 nfl draft by the cincinnati bengals he then went on to play eleven years in the national football league from 1987 to 1997 for the bengals miami dolphins san francisco 49ers and washington redskins throughout his career marc rushed for 1391 yards on 325 carries averaging 44 yards per carry with 15 tds marc also had 123 receptions for 1135 yards averaging 92 yards per reception with 3 tds he also added 1830 yards on 89 returns averaging 206 yards with 1 td he played in super bowl xxiii for the bengals and was a part of the super bowl xxix winning san francisco 49ers
uma gajapathi raju ba was a member of indian parliamentshe was born at palghat kerala on november 17 1953 she was educated at madras university she married pusapati ananda gajapathi raju on august 18 1971 they had 2 daughters they divorced in 1989 and she married film maker ramesh sharma in 1991she is a political and social worker she was joint secretary of andhra pradesh congress committee for one yearshe was elected to the 9th lok sabha from visakhapatnam lok sabha constituency as a member of indian national congress in 1989she was member of consultative committee ministry of information and broadcasting in 1990she was vicepresident of all india womens hockey federation vicechairperson organising committee freedom run and marathon member nehru cricket club vicepresident national institute of social action and national red cross society she is interested in flood and drought relief work promotion of orphanage activities environment protection and malaria eradication programmesshe was director trade fair authority of india member film festival selection committee for international film festival 1989 member cultural subcommittee nehru implementation committeeshe joined the board of moving picture co india ltd in 1989 and resigned from the board in 2010 she has been anchor for 8 years of the prime time news program on doordarshan called india this week she has been exec producer of many award winning documentaries including the emmy nominated film the journalist and the jihadi the murder of daniel pearl directed by her husband ramesh sharma
leslie roger landrum is an american botanist serving as senior research scientist at arizona state university school of life sciences and curator of the asu vascular plant herbarium he attained ms and phd degrees from the university of michigan and has been at arizona state university since 1986 from 1969 to 1973 he worked with the peace corps at the forestry school of the university of chile where he gained an interest in the flora of south america particularly the myrtle family myrtaceae since then he has published descriptions of new genera and species within the south american myrtaceae devoting particular study to the genus psidium which includes the commercially important guava other concentrations include the chilean species of the widespread genus berberis the usage of computer models in evaluating methods of phylogenetic analysis and serving on a committee of botanists including dj pinkava working on a new manual of the vascular plants of arizona to replace the aging arizona flora by kearney and peebles last updated in 1960he is on the editorial board of the journal of the arizonanevada academy of science and since 2005 he has been the editor of canotia a new journal of arizona botanylandum is one of the original scientists to participate in the ask a biologist program and the subject of the smashing success article detailing his work with asu vascular plant herbarium
dennis johannes van wijk dutch pronunciation dns jons vn ik born 16 december 1962 in oostzaan north holland is a dutch football coach and former football player he is the current coach of westerlo in the belgian first divisionvan wijk was a leftback who began his career in the youth system of ajax amsterdam he was unable to break into the first team and joined norwich city fc in 1982 he spent four years at carrow road and was a member of the norwich teams that won the english league cup in 1985 and the second division championship in 1986 in that 1985 final van wijk conceded a penalty kick when he handled in the area to the relief of van wijk and norwich clive walker of sunderland missed the penalty and norwich won 10after leaving norwich van wijk played for a series of teams until 1995 he won the belgian league championship and belgian supercup with club brugge after having managed several belgium teams since 1995 he became manager of willem ii tilburg in the netherlands in 2006 on 4 november 2007 he left the club due to bad performances of the team van wijk is the son of former professional footballer hassie van wijk
jamie lyon born 24 january 1982 in narrabri new south wales is an australian professional rugby league footballer who currently captains the manly warringah sea eagles of the national rugby league nrl an australian international and new south wales state of origin representative goalkicking centre he played his first club football for the parramatta eels before joining super league with english club st helens with whom he won the 2006 championship and challenge cup titles lyon then returned to the nrl with manly warringah winning the 2008 and 2011 grand finals with them since switching from fiveeighth back to his regular centre position in 2009 he has been hailed as one of the alltime great centres winning the dally m centre of the year in 2010 and 2011 rlif centre of the year in 2011 and dally m captain of the year along with cocaptain jason king in 2012lyon is also notable for his reluctance to participate in representative fixtures since 2011 so he can concentrate on playing for the sea eagles in effect lyon has retired from representative football to some small controversy as some have called for him to be stood down from manly during origin time though there have been continued calls for him to play for both nsw and australia
clayton h w hee is a democratic party member of the hawaii senate representing the 23rd district since 2004 hee serves as chairman of the state senates judiciary and labor committeehee is a native hawaiian politician and is half chinese and half hawaiian he is married to lynne waters and has a younger brother ted grass after graduating from the kamehameha schools and attaining degrees at the university of hawaii hee taught at various community colleges and high schools from 1975 until 1981 hee served as state representative from 1982 to 1984 for the district encompassing molokai lanai and west maui from 1984 until 1988 hee served as the state senator for the district encompassing kailua to kaneohe he was also the chairman of the judiciary committee in 1990 hee began serving on the board of the office of hawaiian affairs in 2002 he stepped down from the board to run for lieutenant governor of hawaii losing in the democratic primary to matt matsunaga hee ran successfully for the hawaii state senate in 2004 hee was an unsuccessful candidate for the united states house of representatives in hawaiis 2nd congressional district in 2006 finishing 4th in the democratic primary behind mazie hirono colleen hanabusa and matt matsunaga
meredith braun began her career as a child actor in her native new zealand before moving to england and acting in a number of west end musicalsas a child in auckland braun appeared in numerous stage productions plus occasional television shows the haunting of barney palmer and advertisements in 1989 she earned a place at londons prestigious italia conti stage college she began her west end career six months later with a lead role in shortlived musical bernadette at the dominion theatre cameron mackintosh then cast meredith as eponine in les miserables a role she played in both london and manchester in 1993 she was cast as betty schaeffer in andrew lloyd webbers musical version of sunset boulevard having been part of an audition process that involved 300 other potential actresses lloyd webber said of meredith when i saw meredith and heard her i knew she was going to be a starfurther shows in the west end included starring as christine in the phantom of the opera plus out of the blue and killing rasputin between 20002001 meredith starred as lily in the rscs production of the secret garden at both the theatre royal stratford and the aldwych theatre londonmeredith also acted as belle in disneys 1992 holiday film the muppet christmas carol opposite michael caine and the cast of the muppets and has done a number of television roles in englandafter a tenyear absence from performing meredith released her debut solo album someone elses story in 2012 a mix of contemporary show songs and classical crossover material the album features musical direction and arrangements by paul bateman musical director for sarah brightman and lesley garrett and was released on stage door records on march 26 2012
dr mark chignell born june 17 1956 is a tenured professor of mechanical and industrial engineering with a statusonly cross appointment to the department of computer science at the university of toronto canada in january 2013 he was appointed director of the knowledge media design institute at the university of torontohe is also a visiting scientist at the ibm centre for advanced studies he joined the university of toronto as an associate professor of industrial engineering in 1990chignell received a bsc 1st class hons in psychology from the university of canterbury new zealand in 1977 and an ms in industrial and systems engineering from the ohio state university 1984 he has a phd in psychology specializing in mathematical psychology and his supervisor was professor robert a m gregson from the university of canterbury new zealand 1981 he was also an assistant professor at the department of industrial and systems engineering university of southern california from 1984 to 1990chignell has coauthored several books including two books on intelligent databases and one book on expert systemshe participated in an 2003 experiment which gave doctors online access to medical databases through a handheld ipaq pc which led to changes in the decisions the doctors madechignell was the general chair of acm hypertext 2010 his 1991 paper with john waterworth situated hypertext within a model of information exploration that considers both search and browsingin 2003 chignell founded vocalage inc a company that does usability consulting outsourced research and software development
oscar milani was born in rosario argentina november 24 1946 where he studied medicine and music a bariloche foundation scholarship holder he went to buenos aires to specialize harpsichord chamber music and interpretation on early keyboard instruments his activities as a soloist and chamber musician with the camerata bariloche took him to several countries of south america and also to europe he has made recordings for the orf and picks recordshe built one of his countrys first harpsichords based on historical models baffo of 1574 which has met with great acclaim from the european press claudio di veroli was a great helpa german state grant daad enabled him to continue his studies in europe first with kenneth gilbert in stuttgart then in courses with marinette extermann johann sonnleitner colin tilney and bob van asperenwith his friend and compatriot gabriel garrido elyma ensemble in french and for more than ten years he organised the early music classes at neuburg an der donauoscar milani has been teaching harpsichord chamber music and continuo at the hochschule in nuremberg since 1981 and at the fachakademie fr kirchenmusik in bayreuth since 1993 as a performer he is also interested in works of the present day and he has recorded works by stor piazzolla self transcribed works for harpsichord with mario raskin hugo distler and frank martin he has appeared at the gewandhaus leipzig the semperoper dresden the liederhalle stuttgart the salle cortot paris the konzertsaal of the meistersinger conservatorium and meistersingerhalle the martha kirche in nuremberg and at the teatro coln in buenos aireshis last recording was sonatas for harpsichord of the famous padre martini of bologna
harrie vredenburg born 1952 is professor of strategy at the university of calgarys haskayne school of business and is the suncor energy chair in competitive strategy and sustainable development a research chair affiliated with the universitys institute for sustainable energy environment and economy he also holds an appointment as an international research fellow at oxford universitys said business school in 2010 he cofounded and as of july assumed the position of academic director of the new haskayneihs cera global energy executive mba a program targeted to the global energy industry with classroom sessions in calgary houston london and the middle east he has authored or coauthored more than 40 scholarly journal articles including important papers in strategic management journal organization science harvard business review and mit sloan management review a leading authority on corporate strategy governance innovation and the management of environmental issues in energy and resource industries vredenburgs work is recognized in academic circles corporations governments and nonprofitsa popular teacher he lectures in mba executive mba msc doctoral executive director and directors programs he is also a nonexecutive director of the tsxlisted energy and technology company petrobank energy and resources tsxpbg where he is a member of the audit and compensation committees and serves on the boards of several nonprofits he holds the icdd designation from the institute of corporate directors as a certified corporate director he is married to dr jennifer maguire a dentist with a private practice calgary fine dentistry they have three children
vincenzo alfonso visco italian pronunciation vintntso visko born 18 march 1942 in foggia is an italian politician and economist who has served as a government minister he gained an msc in economics at the university of york in 1969 and was awarded an honorary degree in 2004visco was elected to the parliament of italy in 1983 for the sinistra indipendente group joining the democratic party of the left in 1991 the democrats of the left in 1998 and the democratic party in 2007 he served as finance minister for a few days in 1993 and then again from 1996 to 2000 and treasury minister from 2000 to 2001he returned to government in 2006 as viceminister of economy a role in which he courted controversy he was accused of using his political influence to benefit unipol in a bank takeover although he was cleared of any illegal activity he also hit the headlines in this role when he described the countrys debt as a disaster one of his final acts in this role was to publish the tax details of every italian citizen for 2005 in a move he described as an act of transparency of democracy similar to what happens elsewhere in the world
robert h cumming born 1943 worcester massachusetts is an american painter sculptor photographer and printmaker best known for his photographs of conceptual drawings and constructions which layer meanings within meanings and reference both science and art history he earned a bfa in 1965 from massachusetts college of art in boston and an mfa in 1967 at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign his first teaching position was at the university of wisconsinmilwaukee where he was involved with mail art an early conceptual art movement that conferred art status on items sent through the postal system in 1970 cumming moved to southern california to lecture on photography and in 1974 he started teaching at the university of california los angeles in 1978 cumming moved back to new england where he continues to teach and make artcumming is represented in the permanent collections of various major art museums including the museum of modern art new york the baltimore museum of art the art institute of chicago the dallas museum of art the museum of fine arts houston the denver art museum the minneapolis institute of arts the whitney museum of american art new york the walker art center minneapolis the san francisco museum of modern art the j paul getty museum los angeles and honolulu museum of art spalding house formerly the contemporary museum honolulu
larry c olsen phd is director of research at city labs inc an early stage manufacturer of betavoltaic batteries for microelectronics based in homestead florida dr olsen is a pioneer in the commercialization of betavoltaic technology due to his successful work in leading the development of the first commercially available betavoltaic nuclear battery at mcdonnell douglas corporation in the 1970s several hundred of these batteries were fabricated and a large number were used to power implanted heart pacemakers throughout his career dr olsen has published more than 80 articles in the fields of betavoltaics photovoltaics thermoelectric materials and solid state physics he has also earned several awards for his research including the rd 100 award presented each year by rd magazine to identify the 100 most significant newly introduced research and development advances in multiple disciplines see awardsbelowdr olsens early work began as a research scientist with dwdl 1965 to 1974 following this initial work he became a professor of materials science and engineering at washington state university 1974 to 2001 more recently he served as a staff scientist at the pacific northwest national laboratory from 2000 until his retirement in 2009 he chose to come out of retirement in order to join city labs as director of research
kenneth john ken monkou born 29 november 1964 in nickerie in suriname is a retired dutch footballer who played in a defensive roleborn in suriname but raised in the netherlands monkous first major side was feyenoord rotterdam he moved to england in may 1989 to sign for newly promoted to the first division chelsea for 100000 he was their first player from outside the commonwealth of nations since petar borota in 1982 he made an impressive start for his new side being voted club player of the year in his first season the first black player to do so for chelsea as the team finished 5th in the first division and won the full members cup he remained with chelsea until 1992 when he was sold to southampton for 750000 just 3 months after signing a new 5year contract with chelseamonkous time with southampton saw regular battles for premier league survival though the club were never actually relegated in the 199394 season he scored a last minute winner in a 54 defeat of norwich city from a matt le tissier corner which helped the club to stay in the premier league he stayed on the south coast until 1999 when he joined huddersfield town on a free transfer scoring once against yorkshire rivals barnsley however disagreements with huddersfield manager steve bruce ensured his time with the club was shortlived monkou made a return to chelsea during the 20022003 season before finally retiring from the gameafter his playing career monkou ran a pancake house in the dutch city of delft 2009 and is actively involved in dutch media as well as making appearances on chelsea tv monkous cousin is arsenio halfhuid who currently plays in the aston villa fc reserves and academy teams
tim evans born 13 august 1953 in tasmania is a former australian rules football player who played for geelong in the victorian football league vfl and port adelaide in the south australian national football league sanfloriginally from tasmania evans played for penguin football club in the north west football union before being recruited by geelong in 1971 where he spent four seasons at half backin 1975 he joined port adelaide and went on to play 248 games for the club initially used in defense he was moved to full forward in 1977 by coach john cahill and was an immediate success leading the league with 87 goals including 7 in the 1977 sanfl grand final win over glenelg he repeated the performance in 1978 kicking 90 for the seasonevans first kicked over 100 goals in 1980 when he kicked a then sanfl record 146 goals and would win the leagues inaugural ken farmer medal in 1981 kicking 98 for the season evans went on to kick 1044 goals before his retirement at the end of the 1986 season the second highest total in sanfl history behind north adelaides ken farmer who kicked 1419 between 1929 and 1941 he also kicked 25 goals in seven games for south australia in interstate footballtim evans played port adelaides 1977 197981 premiership teams as well as playing full back in the losing 1976 grand final to sturt in front of the sanfl record crowd of 66897 at football parkevans topped the sanfls goalkicking six times and was ports leading goalkicker ten times he was an inaugural inductee into the south australian football hall of fame in 2002 and was inducted into the tasmanian football hall of fame in 2008 tim evans is also a port adelaide life member an sanfl player life member for having played 200 games and was selected at full forward in port adelaides greatest team of players from 18702000
jon bounds is a blogger freelance social media and multimedia consultant and humorist from birmingham englandraised in the citys perry barr district he attended king edward vi grammar school astonafter working as a technical and commissioning editor for friends of ed he spent nearly four years working for the bbc as technical coordinator of the public space at bbc birmingham and studied computer science at the university of birmingham he was online editor for the big picture project wwwinthebigpicturecoukhe is perhaps best known for creating the cult website birmingham its not shit binson 11 november 2008 starting at 11am he spent eleven hours on birminghams number 11 bus route the outer circle documenting his journey online using twitter facebook and a blog elevenbuscouk the next month he organised twitpanto a pantomime on twitter which featured a cast that included government minister tom watson mp and guardian writer jemima kiss a further twitpanto on 18 december 2009 in which watson by then a backbench mp again had a part was hosted by birmingham hippodrome and named as an official honouree by the webby awards the event ran again on 20 december 2010he has written professionally for a number of publications including the birmingham post and the guardian with julia gilbert his then partner he presented a saturdaymorning radio show on rhubarb radiohe was said to be the 14th most influential person in the west midlands in the birmingham posts power 50 a list of people they considered the most influential in the birmingham area in 2008 and was considered for inclusion again in 2009he now resides in oxford
melissa gaboriau auf der maur f dr mar born march 17 1972 is a canadian musician singersongwriter photographer and actressborn and raised in montral qubec auf der maur began performing in 1993 after forming the indie rock band tinker while she was a student at concordia university she was recruited as the bassist for the american alternative rock band hole in the summer of 1994 and is featured on several hole releases including the bands third studio album celebrity skin 1998 following her departure from hole in 1999 auf der maur briefly joined the smashing pumpkins as a touring member for its 2000 tour and began her solo career her debut studio album auf der maur was released in 2004 on capitol records and her second studio album out of our minds was released in 2010 on her own independent record label phimadm music incbest known for her music career auf der maur is also an established photographer and occasional actress her photographs have been featured in national geographic and exhibited at sothebys as an actress she has appeared in how to make the cruelest month 1998 beyond borders 2003 and collaborator 2011 amongst other films as part of her 2009 multidisciplinary project out of our mindswhich featured an album a single a film and a comic bookauf der maur acted as a film and record producer working alongside her husband and filmmaker tony stone stone and auf der maur are the creative directors and owners of basilica hudson an arts and performance center in hudson new york united statesauf der maur has been regarded as one of alternative rocks most celebrated female musicians with vh1 placing her at number 48 on its list of 100 greatest women of rock roll and her solo albums receiving favorable acclaim in addition to her contributions to tinker hole and the smashing pumpkins she has collaborated with a number of artists including indochine rufus wainwright ric ocasek and neverending white lights
judi silvano born 1951 is a jazz singer and composer a native of philadelphia her singing style bears similarity to norwegian jazz singer karin krog she is a scholar of sheila jordan and of jeanne lee silvano researches and performs underrepresented music by women composers some of which is featured on her womens work cd on jsl records her 10th recording as leader indigo moods cd on jazzed media is a collection of standards from the great american songbook played in an empathetic trio with just piano voice and trumpet silvano also writes many original songs with or without lyrics as well as chamber music pieces and has had her compositions played on stages in new york city and in europe composer lori dobbins wrote sketches for silvano for her scored for voice percussion and vibes jazz pianist and composer kenny werner wrote the vocal narrator part for silvano in his no beginning no end for wind and percussion ensemble her husband is tenor saxophonist joe lovano and upon marriage she changed her name from formerly silverman to silvanobefore attending college she studied flute piano and dance she has a bachelors degree in music and dance from temple university of philadelphia she has taught at rutgers university and other collegesshe has collaborated with joe lovano mal waldron kenny werner and bill frisell aside from performing in the united states she has toured europe since 2011 she has been studying painting at the wallkill river school of art in montgomery ny and has had 3 solo art shows recently with her many watercolor and pastel paintings
turgay semerciolu born 25 february 1954 is a former turkish footballer he was a very successful player playing for trabzonspor and the turkey national football teamhe played for trabzonspor during their dominance of turkish football in his time there he won six league championships as well as playing 31 times for the national team he even set a record at the time of playing in 29 consecutive international matches he played in defense as a right back and was known for his excellent defending as well as his runs into the opposition half he was one of the undisputed stars of the trabzonspor efsanesi team of the late seventies and early eightiesafter his playing days were over he became involved with the highly successful trabzonspor youth academy he helped to develop and train many of the players who would later play for the senior team in december 2003 he was briefly put in charge of the trabzonspor first team whilst a new manager was scouted and following the election of a new president atay aktu he resigned to make way for a new managerhe is fondly remembered by both fans and critics alike as one of the most talented turkish footballers of all time
melissa g trainer april 22 1978 in philadelphia pennsylvania is an astrobiologist who in 2004 demonstrated empirically that life could have formed on earth through the interaction of methane carbon dioxide and ultraviolet light sunlightwhile a doctoral student at the university of colorado at boulder in the department of chemistry and biochemistry and the cooperative institute for research in the environmental sciences working in the field of atmospheric chemistry she conducted two experimental studies on the formation of aerosols tholins in the early atmosphere of earth and the current atmosphere of titan project investigator owen toon reported as had been predicted in some theoretical studies we found that the production rate of aerosols declines as the abundance of co2 relative to methane increases in simulated terrestrial atmospheres 1trainer and her coexperimenters reported on their findings in astrobiology 44 409419 in a 2004 paper called haze aerosols in the atmosphere of early earth manna from heaven 2she later presented the findings at the 2006 nasa astrobiology science conference abscicon in march 2006 where she was recognized for her workraised in northern new jersey since the age of four melissa trainer attended hackensack high school from which she graduated as valedictorian in 1996 she completed her bachelor of arts degree at franklin and marshall college in lancaster pa graduating magna cum laude with a major in chemistry and a minor in abstract mathematics in 2000 she was married in september 2005
absar ahmad born 1945 is a distinguished pakistani philosopher he is a brother of dr israr ahmad he was born in hisar haryana indiaahmad took a ba hons and ma degree in philosophy from karachi university and then went to the united kingdom for further studies in philosophy he obtained his mphil degree from the university of reading berkshire and a phd degree from the university of london coming back to pakistan ahmad began to teach philosophy at the philosophy department of university of the punjab lahore he has been chairperson of the philosophy department twice he is currently teaching as a visiting at ibitinstitute of business and information technology department besides he has been the visiting professor at iasinstitute of administrative sciences university of the punjab for teaching islamic philosophy also he has been visiting professor at universities in uganda usa and pakistan in addition to academic preoccupations he is honorary director of quran academy lahoreahmad was trained in the tradition of analytic philosophy despite this he is an admirer of idealistic metaphysics and believes in the ancient concept of philosophy that combines knowledge with practice in epistemology he is inclined towards rationalism but he does not ignore the limitations of reason following alghazali he asserts the primacy of faith to gain the knowledge of something he vindicates the placement of the foundation of modern muslim philosophy on alghazalis thought rather than on ibnrushds moreover he has made great contributions in philosophy of mind philosophy of religion moral philosophy and islamic philosophy he also given the exploring islamic theory of knowledgeahmad an iqbal professor has contributed to different national and international journals of philosophy his main publications are the concept of mind in contemporary philosophy kant and kierkegaard a comparative study knowledge morality nexus and a book on moral philosophy in urdu
chris reis born september 19 1983 played as an american football safety for the new orleans saints of the national football league he was signed by the atlanta falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2006 he played college football at georgia tech and played high school football for roswell high school in 2007 he also played in the nfl europe as safety for the cologne centurionsreis played a central role in a crucial play during super bowl xliv with the saints trailing the indianapolis colts 106 at the beginning of the second half saints head coach sean payton unexpectedly called for an onside kick by rookie punter and kickoff specialist thomas morstead the kick bounced off the colts hank baskett and a fierce battle for the ball ensued the officials eventually ruled that the saints had recovered the ball although jonathan casillas was officially credited with the recovery casillas and other saints players said it was actually reis who did so the play was considered a key turning point in the saints eventual 3117 winreis suffered a shoulder injury in week 4 of the 2010 season and was put on ir afterwards reis was cut from the new orleans saints on september 3 2011reis is a christian
angus loughran born 24 november 1966 is a british sports commentator and pundit he appears regularly on television newspapers and websites usually concentrating on horse racing and football such as the daily telegraph and online bookmaker easyodds writing tipping sections every day he has also provided english language football commentary for eurosport and espnhe first worked for ladbrokes providing racing commentary into their betting shops but rose to fame as statto the resident statistician on the bbc two television show fantasy football league clad in a dressing gown and pyjamas he would stand in the corner of the set and provide facts and figures on each of the guests fantasy football teams while being made fun of by hosts frank skinner and david baddiel he also appeared in the rowan atkinson comedy film bean in 1997 and the mel smith directed blackball in 2003he is the son of conductor james loughran and was educated at ampleforth college he is a fan of manchester united fche was declared bankrupt at a hearing at manchester county court on 4 february 2008 due to large debts owed to sporting index the bankruptcy was annulled in april 2008 when he presented an iva to his creditors
darren asherton byfield born 29 september 1976 is a footballer who plays solihull moors as a forwardbyfield won six caps for jamaica in 2003 and has scored 110 goals in 484 appearances across all domestic competitions so far in his football career he was briefly married to pop star jamelia with whom he had one childhe began his career with aston villa in 1997 and enjoyed loan spells with preston north end northampton town cambridge united and blackpool before winning a move to walsall in june 2000 he scored the winning goal in the 2001 second division playoff final and then made a 50000 move to rotherham united in march 2002 he was traded to sunderland in february 2004 and then moved on to gillingham five months later he transferred to millwall in june 2006 before joining bristol city in august 2007 he moved on to doncaster rovers in july 2008 before linking up with oldham athletic in august 2009 having played on loan at the club during the previous season his stay at oldham lasted only a handful of games after which he returned to walsall he left the football league in june 2011 following an injuryhit 201011 campaign he joined nonleague solihull moors for a brief spell in march 2012 before moving on to afc telford united six months later he joined tamworth in january 2013
lidija horvatdunjko born 1967 in varadin is a soprano from croatia and a docent at the zagreb academy of music she was awarded the highest croatian national decoration for her achievement in culture the order of danica hrvatska with the image of marko marulishe graduated in the class of professor zdenka abihesky at the university of zagreb where she now teaches she played the queen of the night in the magic flute marie a vivandire in la fille du rgiment rosina in the barber of seville gilda in rigoletto blonde in die entfhrung aus dem serail and created more than thirty successful opera roles in croatia as well as abroad she has performed in paris thtre des champslyses vienna musikverein toronto ryerson theatre massey hall berlin munich brussels dublin salzburg turin venice zrich geneva zagreb ljubljana buenos aires teatro coln teatro nacional cervantes madrid santiago de chile lisbon montevideo moscow tchaikovsky hall of the moscow conservatory johannesburg pretoriashe cooperates with greatest names in opera of today as well as most eminent directors and orchestras horvatdunjko founded the opera school of mirula in 2003 in conjunction with the international summer music school puia on the island of bratogether with the group magazin she performed the song nostalgija for croatia in the eurovision song contest 1995 and finished 6th in a field of 23 entries
monte cassim ahmed mumtaz masoon cassim is a sri lankan academic he is the vicechancellor of the ritsumeikan trust and from april 2004 until january 2010 was president of ritsumeikan asia pacific university beppu japan where he remains professoreducated in sri lanka at the prestigious royal college colombo he graduated from the university of ceylon in 1970 after working as an architect for valentine gunasekereas practice he moved to japan in 1971 as recipient of a japan ministry of education postgraduate scholarship and gained a masters from the university of tokyos graduate school of engineering in 1976 thereafter started doctoral studies therefollowing his studies he worked for mitsui construction and for the aur urban and regional planning practice in tokyo before taking up a teaching position at the universiti sains malaysia in penang he joined the united nations centre for regional development in nagoya 1985 and worked there until 1994 that year he joined ritsumeikan university as professor in 1994 in the faculty of international relations 19941996 and the faculty of policy science his research centers on process analysis systems design and knowledge management to develop earthfriendly and humanfriendly technological solutions at ritsumeikans discovery research laboratory he became president of ritsumeikan asia pacific university apu and vicechancellor of ritsumeikan trust in 2004
tom noddy is the stage name of an american entertainer whose television performances of bubble magic in the early 1980s led to a book deal and bubble festivals at science centers all across america in the early 1980s tom first performed his original demonstration of skills with soap bubbles on american televisions thats incredible and johnny carsons tonight show in 1983 and then the uks paul daniels magic show frances incroyable mais vrai germanys die verflixte sieben with rudi carrell irelands pat kenny chat show australias mike walsh show netherlands bananasplit show japans chiky donburi norways scantertainment and several othersfollowing the attention that this exposure brought to him tom worked with san franciscos exploratorium to develop a bubble festival in 1983 that featured toms performance and that of another bubble performer who tom encountered in his travels with octogenarian eiffel g plasterer performing his bubbles concerto and exploratorium exhibits highlighting the science of soap films and allowing the public to experiment with soap bubbles for themselves the event attracted an estimated 15000 people over a weekend in 1983these appearances came after more than a decade of developing his skill with soap bubbles and inventing the tricks featured in his performances in 1988 with philadelphias running press toms howto book tom noddys bubble magic was published in the us and helped to inspired several other performers to turn their attention to soap bubblessome of toms television appearances included the late show with david letterman usa feb 27 2007 germanys tv total with stefan raab in 2009tom noddy continues to bring his performance and science education to science centers in the us europe and other parts of the world abu dhabi in november 2011 in august 2011 he featured in the bbctv programme the code presented by mathematician marcus du sautoy where he demonstrated the ability of bubbles to form minimal surface structures
barry ion born 9 october 1941 is a former australian rules footballer and radio personality he played with footscray in the victorian football league vfl yarraville in the victorian football association vfa and woodville in the south australian national football league sanfl he became a well known radio personality in adelaide and sydneyion started in radio early commentating football matches for melbourne radio in 1960 while also playing with the carlton rovers he joined his elder brother graham ion at footscray in 1961 and played with him in the 1961 vfl grand final as a half back flanker the grand final was just his sixth league game having played just four home and away matches before the finals series he made 29 appearances over the next two seasons but then struggled with injuries playing just five more gamesin 1966 he joined yarraville in the victorian football association he wasnt able to play sunday games as he was calling football for radio station 3kz but he still polled sufficient votes to finish third in the j j liston trophy for the year he moved to adelaide in 1967 and spent two seasons playing for woodvillewhile in adelaide ion began working for 5ad and formed a radio breakfast duo with tony pilkington called bazz and pilko ion voiced a character called peter plus he joined 5ka during the 1980s where he continued to work with pilkington in 1985 the duo brought their breakfast show to sydney station 2uw where they lasted until late 1991
tony clubb born 12 june 1987 in gravesend kent is an english professional rugby league footballer for wigan warriors of super league an england international representative centre he has played his whole professional career to date with the harlequins up until the end of the 2013 where he signed for wigan warriors for an undisclosed feehis first team dbut came in a home fixture against the bradford bulls on 18 february 2006the big centre was selected to play for the harlequins rugby union side for the middlesex sevens at twickenham stadium he was however unable to play as he was called back for london broncosharlequins rl 282006e28093201129 to replace the unavailable paul sykes in the match against wigan warriorshe has been named in the england training squad for the 2008 rugby league world cuphe has been named in the england team to face wales at the keepmoat stadium prior to englands departure for the 2008 rugby league world cuphe made his england dbut in the victory over wales on 10 october 2008on 6 november 2010 he became the tenth ever england rugby league player to score 4 tries in an international fixture this was achieved in englands 3610 win over papua new guinea in their final game of the 2010 four nations tournamentfor 2014 super league season highlights stats and results click on 2014 super league season results
allan dawson boardman is a british physicist known for his work on surface plasmons and guided wave optics especially nonlinear waves solitons magnetooptics and negative refracting metamaterials he is a theorist and numerical analyst in these areas especially magnetooptics and metamaterials in 2006 he was made a fellow of the optical society of america for his contributions in these fields and for exemplary leadership and service to the optics communityallan boardman is professorial research fellow at the university of salford and holds a doctor of science degree from the university of durham uk he is a fellow of the uk institute of physics and a fellow of the uk institute of mathematics and its applications he was the conference chair for the major uk photonics meeting called photon10 he is a fellow of the spie and cochair of the spie photonic metamaterials conference series to be held in san diego in 2014 he has also organized other conferences including being a director of a number of pivotal nato advanced study instituteshe is the chair of the optics and photonics division of the uk institute of physics and is vicepresident of the united kingdom consortium for optics and photonics ukcpo he has served as a board member of the quantum electronics and optics division of the european physical society he is the uk voice on the new european strategy program called opera optics and photonics in the european research area 2015boardman was honoured with a special session in his name at the 3rd international conference on metamaterials photonic crystals and plasmonics meta 12 in paris in 2012 he has presented nearly 300 conference papers and has been editor for several books such as solitondriven photonics httpwwwamazoncomsolitondrivenphotonicsnatoscienceiidp0792371313
bryan m cantrill born 1973 is an american software engineer who worked at sun microsystems and later at oracle corporation following its acquisition of sun he left oracle on july 25 2010 to become the vice president of engineering at joyent he is currently chief technology officer at joyentcantrill was born in vermont later moving to colorado where he attained the rank of eagle scout he studied computer science at brown university spending two summers at qnx software systems doing kernel development upon completing his bsc in 1996 he immediately joined sun microsystems to work with jeff bonwick in the solaris performance groupin 2005 bryan cantrill was named one of the 35 top young innovators by technology review mits magazine cantrill was included in the tr35 list for his development of dtrace a function of the os solaris 10 that provides a noninvasive means for realtime tracing and diagnosis of software sun technologies and technologists including dtrace and cantrill also received an infoworld innovators award that year in 2006 the dtrace troubleshooting software from sun was chosen as the gold winner in the wall street journals 2006 technology innovation awards contest in 2008 cantrill mike shapiro and adam leventhal were recognized with the usenix software tools user group stug award for the provision of a significant enabling technologytogether with shapiro and leventhal cantrill founded fishworks a stealth project within sun microsystems which produced the sun storage 7000 unified storage systemshe is a member of the acm queue editorial board
kenneth charles brown born 1925 is a former canadian diplomat born on february 13 1925 in ann arbor michigan usa he is the son of george williams brown and vera beatrice kenny he grew up in toronto ontario and attended the university of toronto schools he graduated in modern history and modern languages from victoria college university of toronto in the class of 1945 in 1944 he joined the canadian army serving in the intelligence corps in northwestern europe in 1946 he was awarded a rhodes scholarship canadian forces overseas to study at oxford university he read philosophy politics and economics at balliol college earning a halfblue in ice hockey and a ba oxon in 1948 in the same year he joined the canadian foreign service in the department of external affairs in addition to headquarters assignments he had postings in the canadian delegation to ecosoc meetings in geneva switzerland and to the united nations general assembly in paris france both in 1948 and in the canadian embassies in havana cuba 19511954 berne switzerland 19571960 and washington dc usa 19631967 from 197073 he was canadian ambassador concurrently to cuba and haiti at the time there was a canadian diplomatic office in portauprince headed by a charg daffaires but the ambassador was resident in havana from 197680 he was ambassador to sweden from 198083 he chaired the refugee status advisory committee a nonstatutory forerunner of the immigration and refugee board of canada in 1983 following the passage of the first canadian access to information act he established the access to information office in the department of external affairs and served as the departments access to information coordinator until 1986 he was then seconded to the treasury board secretariat until his retirement in 1988 to prepare a manual for access to information coordinators he married ruth louise johnston in 1948 and they have three sons and one daughter
geoffrey hugh geoff muntz born 11 july 1938 is a former australian politicianhe was born in beenleigh to hugh dunstan muntz and ethel rebecca ne doherty he attended pimpana state school and queensland agricultural high school before becoming a rural and urban valuer he married jean saverin on 27 february 1960 they would have four children in 1961 he was appointed an inspector with the state lands department and in 1964 became district manager of the state agricultural bank a member of the national party he was elected to the queensland legislative assembly in 1980 as the member for whitsunday in 1983 he was promoted to the front bench as minister for welfare services moving to corrective services administration services and valuation in 1986 in december of that year he was assigned to tourism national parks and sport and then in 1987 to environment conservation and tourism he stepped down from the ministry in september 1989 and on 9 november 1989 resigned from the national party he ran as an independent candidate at the 1989 state election but was defeated on 22 april 1991 he was convicted of nineteen counts of misappropriation of ministerial expense funds he was sentenced to twelve months jail
barbara bostock born december 19 1935 in palm beach florida is a retired american actress in 1955 she appeared in silk stockings at the imperial theatre in new york city she made her debut in front of the cameras in 1958 when she was cast in the films girls on the loose and senior promshe also appeared in the jerry lewis film visit to a small planet 1960 as the beatnik dancer desdemona under the name barbara lawsonshe also appeared in summer stock musicals including annie get your gun and cancan in the early 60s the rest of her brief career was spent in television making guest appearances in route 66general electric theater i dream of jeannie and the rookies she also had roles in the tv movies delancey street the crisis within and the spell 1977 with lee grantbostocks biggest role was in the shortlived abc comedy love on a rooftop starring pete duel and judy carne as dave and julie willis a young newlywed couple their neighbors and best friends were stan rich little and carol parker as carol bostock appeared in each of the thirty episodes of the seriesbostock in 1960 also was a guest star on route 66 play it glissando first season
sam stephenson born 1966 in chapel hill north carolina is a writer who grew up in washington north carolina since 1997 he has been studying the life and work of photographer w eugene smith authoring three books of smiths work including the jazz loft project which was published by alfred a knopf in november 2009 the jazz loft project was accompanied by an exhibition a public radio series a website and a multimedia collaboration with jazz pianist jason moran in september 2010 the jazz loft project won the innovative use of archives award from the archivists roundtable of metropolitan new york stephensons 2001 book dream street w eugene smiths pittsburgh project was published by ww norton and remains in print in 2010 stephenson has been associated with the center for documentary studies at duke university since 1996 either as a consultant or a fulltime employee and instructorstephenson is currently working on a biography of smith for farrar straus and giroux the manuscript to be completed by the end of 2011 future projects he has mentioned concern jazz musicians sonny clark zoot sims and thelonious monk as well as writer joseph mitchell and a national oral history project on primary health care providers doctors nurses midwives over the age of seventyfive in the early fall 2010 hes also been talking about initial explorations of a hypothetical independent literary institute based in durhamchapel hill with several fellow writers and partners
lisa ryder born 26 october 1970 is a canadian actress who portrayed the role of beka valentine on the science fiction television series gene roddenberrys andromedaryder was born in edmonton alberta and attended the university of toronto where she began acting she formed a local theatre group bald ego productions in toronto after graduation and landed her first film and television roles in the mid1990s such as a cameo in babylon 5 she starred in many theater productions including put me away a onewoman show she wrote herself she gained a following as detective tracy vetter on the final season of the science fiction drama forever knight in 19951996 and was cast on the syndicated sciencefiction series andromeda in 2000 the series ended in 2005 after 110 episodes she also costarred as android kayem 14 in the 2001 movie jason xryder gueststarred in gene roddenberrys earth final conflict total recall 2070 kung fu the legend continues wind at my back and psi factor chronicles of the paranormal she also had a recurring role on the newsroomher other movie roles include the critically acclaimed canadian indie film stolen heart the thriller blackheart and the short films strands and lemon she also wrote produced and starred in the film sf seeks featuring michael shanks gordon michael woolvett keith hamilton cobb and lexa doig she has also appeared in a television advert for cheer laundry detergent in the late 80searly 90s
rosemary edghill born 1956 is an american writer and editor some of her work has appeared under her original name eluki bes shahar lower case intentional her primary genres are science fiction and fantasy but she began by writing regency romance novelsthe publishers of her first novel felt that eluki bes shahar her legal name at the time sounded insufficiently english to attract readers so she adopted the penname rosemary edghill which became her legal name in 2004 her sister a reference librarian writes as india edghillshe cites some of her influencestoo many to count damon runyon and mark twain for use of language c l moore and eric frank russell ditto for storybuilding and sheer artfulness john le carre for language again margaret atwood for a great story which is the first thing in my book john d macdonald peter odonnell ian fleming leslie charteris raymond chandler dashiell hammett and were back to the language thing again kipling poe clark ashton smith robert e howard robert a heinlein lovecraft for that matter i think i owe as much to the great editors of sfs silver age as to the writers so heres to you john w campbell groff conklin and damon knight edghill has collaborated in writing fiction with andre norton mercedes lackey and the late marion zimmer bradley her books with andre norton include shadow of albion and leopard in exile her books with mercedes lackey include spirits white as lightning and mad maudlinedghill lives in upstate new york with cats and king charles spaniels she trains and shows her dogs in obedience competitions
kim kirkpatrick born 1952 is a landscape photographer who lives and works in the washington dc areakirkpatrick earned a bachelor of fine arts from the corcoran college of art and design and a master of fine arts from the university of maryland in 1993 the aaron siskind foundation awarded kirkpatrick an individual photographers fellowship grant kirkpatrick taught photography as an adjunct member of the faculty at the corcoran college of art and design and at the smithsonian residents associate program he has exhibited his photography in galleries and museums the musical group interface used a kirkpatrick photograph on the cover of their cd swank kirkpatricks landscape photos focus on construction and industrial zones around washington dc as kirkpatrick said in a 2001 interview i take pictures where nature and man meet where one is taking over the other he uses an 810 view camera because kirkpatrick said its highresolution image never falls apart even when you get closer adding i want the detail that people misssally troyer a dc gallery owner said of kirkpatricks work i have never seen work so sensitive to light and colorkirkpatrick created a large body of work in five to six years during the 1980s and 1990s that extensively used the photo effect bokeh the effect of light in outoffocus areas of a photograph mike johnston noted in reference to bokeh that kirkpatrick made deft use of it as design as figuration and as a way to use color abstractly mike johnston further wrote that kirkpatrick is the american master of bokehaji and selected kirkpatrick as one of the 10 best living us photographerskirkpatrick once worked as a postman and also as a disc jockey on washington dc radio stations including whfs and wamu he continues to write and publish music reviews on a blog that he codirects
colin peter groves is professor of biological anthropology at the australian national university in canberra australiaborn in england on 24 june 1942 colin groves completed a bachelor of science at university college london in 1963 and a doctor of philosophy at the royal free hospital school of medicine in 1966 from 1966 to 1973 dr groves was a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at the university of california berkeley queen elizabeth college and the university of cambridge he emigrated to australia in 1974 and has been at the australian national university since being promoted to full professor in 2000professor groves research interests are human evolution primates mammalian taxonomy skeletal analysis biological anthropology ethnobiology and biogeography he has conducted extensive fieldwork in kenya tanzania rwanda india iran china indonesia sri lanka and the democratic republic of congoalong with the czech biologist professor vratislav mazk groves was the describer of homo ergaster groves also wrote primate taxonomy published by the smithsonian institution press in 2001 and ungulate taxonomy 2011 johns hopkins presshe is an active member of the australian skeptics and has many published skeptical papers as well as research papers covering his other research interests he has also conducted regular debates with creationists and antievolutionists
chris m n tofts born 1964 is an english computer scientistchris tofts studied mathematics as an undergraduate at clare college cambridge followed by a diploma in computer science from the same college he went on to do a phd supervised by robin milner in the laboratory for foundations of computer science at the university of edinburgh scotland his postdoctorate research saw some of the first applications of process algebra to the study of the behaviour of animals and disease processes which led to his interest in the correctness of simulation modelstofts held lectureships at swansea university 199294 the university of manchester 199496 and the university of leeds 199699 from 1999 to 2008 he was a scientist at hewlettpackard hp research laboratories in the uk from 2008 to 2011 he was the chief mathematics officer of concinnitas ltd before returning to hpchris tofts is a visiting professor of computer science at swansea university he is a fellow of the british computer society and fellow of the institute of mathematics and its applications as well as a past president of the bctcstofts is responsible for technology development in the united kingdoms and probably europes first service science management and engineering startup he is the first formally appointed chief mathematics officer to serve on the board of a uk company
danny oneil is a former american football quarterbackoneil was a star high school quarterback at mater dei in orange county california and was heavily recruited by alabama and usc but chose to play for rich brooks at the university of oregondespite being a four year starter who set numerous passing records for the ducks oneil struggled throughout his career in eugene however in 1994 oneil led the ducks to the pac10 championship and a berth in the 1995 rose bowl oregons first since 1958 though the ducks lost to 2 penn state 3820 oneil set rose bowl records for most passes completed 41 most attempts 61 most yardage 465 most plays 74 and most total offense 456 yards and was named the games comvp with penn states kijana carter he was named to the rose bowl hall of fame in 2003oneil was named first team allconference as a senior leading the ducks to three pivotal comefrombehind victories defeating 9 washington 11 arizona and archrival oregon state in order to win the pac10 conference championship he passed for 8301 yards and 62 touchdowns in his career at oregon and also led the ducks to the 1992 independence bowloneil was not drafted into the national football league he played part of one season with the anaheim piranhas of the arena football league before retiring from football to become a youth pastor he is currently a pastor in eugene oregon where he has ministered to players from his former team
hazel v carby is professor of african american studies and of american studies at yale university before joining yale university faculty she taught english at wesleyan university for seven years she currently teaches courses on issues of race gender and sexuality through the culture and literature of the caribbean and its diaspora through transnational and postcolonial literature and theory through representations of the black female body and through the genres of science fiction identified as a marxist feminist her work primarily deals with detecting and probing discrepancies between the symbolic constructions of the black experience and the actual lives of african americans dr carby is considered a pioneer in black feminism and is also known as one of the worlds leading scholars on race gender and african american issues one of her most influential contributions to african diaspora studies came with her first book reconstructing womanhood the emergence of the afroamerican woman novelist reconstructing womanhood offers one of the earliest and most comprehensive studies on black female writers including frances ellen watkins harper pauline elizabeth hopkins anna cooper and ida b wells among others carby followed this book with race men the body and soul of race nation and manhood after race men she penned cultures in babylon black britain and african america currently she is working on her forthcoming book child of empire carby has lectured at numerous colleges and universities worldwide including columbia university stanford university the university of paris and university of toronto
monroe edward palmer baron palmer of childs hill obe fca born 30 november 1938 is a british liberal democrat politician and life peer in the house of lords born on 30 november 1938 palmer was liberal party treasurer from 197183 he was appointed an officer of the order of the british empire obe in the 1982 new year honours he contested the hendon south constituency at the 1979 1983 and 1987 general elections for the liberal party and was joint treasurer of the liberal parliamentary party from 197783 following the creation of the liberal democrats he contested hastings and rye at the 1992 and 1997 general elections palmer has been a barnet councillor in childs hill first elected 1986 and is currently chair of its audit committee of a council with a 500million net annual expenditure on 19 november 2010 it was announced that palmer would be created a life peer he was created baron palmer of childs hill of childs hill in the london borough of barnet on 17 january 2011monroe palmer is a chartered accountant and a former senior partner in general practicein the lords he speaks on defence and international affairs procurement housing veterans local government taxation fire and safety and all matters relating to trade and business he has a longstanding interest in achieving peace in the middle east and is a regular speaker on this and also on matters of concern to the uk jewish communityhe is married to susette who has written a book on knitting and lectures on cruise liners and has three children and seven grandchildren including up and coming rap artist dave in charge
leslie craven is a british clarinettist he is principal clarinettist in the orchestra of the welsh national opera and teaches at the royal welsh college of music and dramahe is co founder of the clarinet convention hosted by the university of cardiff college of musiche has given master classes in many establishments including the royal college of music trinity college of music birmingham conservatoire the clarinet summer school hope university liverpool and as far afield as cape town school of music cape town university and hong kong academy of performing artshe has played principal clarinet on recordings and for many performances with the royal philharmonic orchestra the philharmonia the london symphony orchestra london musici and the bbc concert orchestradiscography includes the cd expressionsromantic trios with 2cellos star stjepan hauser and yoko misumi and rota centenary with michael pollock and yoko misumi and stjepan hauserother discs include clarissima to be recorded april 2014 the music of roma cafollawith virtuoso friends lana trotovsek and yoko misumi katharine thomas harp boris bizjak flute and patrick king bodhran he has recorded much of the music of christopher ball written for and dedicated to him his concerto for clarinet and chamber works including celtic twilight and the recently recorded 2013 quintet for clarinet and string quartet with flautist anna noakes he has recorded sonatine by andre jolivet and choros no2 by villa llobos commercial work includes film soundtracks for the original wicker man howards end the pope must die mickey blue eyespirate prince and many tv series including house of elliot soldier soldier anna lee and many others he is one of great britains most sought after teachers and has written a pedagogical selfhelp book for clarinet instant help for playing and teaching the clarinetleslies personal design mouthpiece is made by bradford behn in the usa and is played by many leading players in the profession in uk and overseas
meiting sun simplified chinese traditional chinese pinyin sn mitng born 14 march 1981 is a classical pianista native of shanghai sun arrived in new york at the age of nine he entered the professional childrens school and the mannes college of music where he studied ear training with marie powers theory with robert cuckson and piano with edward aldwell he has since received his bachelors and masters degrees from the mannes college of music currently he is a cv starr doctoral fellow at the juilliard school studying with robert mcdonaldsun was the first prize winner of the 7th national chopin piano competition of the us in 2005 and the first international pianoecompetition in 2002 named one of the musicians of the year 1996 by the village voice at age 15 the now 30yearold pianist has performed in many of new yorks concert halls including alice tully hall where his performance of ravels concerto in g was praised by the new york times as a stunningly fluid readingsun has been featured several times on wqxr classical radio as part of the young artist showcase program and on npr as part of the performance today program he has been heard in recital in much of the united states japan china france spain and italy recent appearances include concert tours of spain china and japan and concerto engagements with the richmond and winnipeg symphonies the national spanish orchestra the macau orchestra and the hong kong sinfonietta upcoming engagements include a twenty concerttour of the united states and abroad sponsored by the chopin foundation of the united statessun is also highly involved in classical music education and outreach his latest effort at whitekeyscom garnered major media attention shortly after its grand opening and his website has become a model for other musicians websitessun is a yamaha artist
larry donovan born march 30 1941 is a former head football coach for the montana grizzlies and bc lionsa 1964 graduate of the university of nebraska donovan served as an assistant at south dakota washington state iowa and kansas before becoming montanas head coach on december 15 1979in his six seasons as head coach of the grizzlies donovan had a 25381 record and only one winning season on november 25 1985 athletic director harley lewis announced that the contracts of donovan and eight of his assistants would not be renewed donovan believed that he had been unjustly fired and blamed the antiquated dornblaser field for his lack of success in recruiting his requests for a new stadium resulted in the construction of washingtongrizzly stadium which opened in 1986donovans next coaching job was as the defensive line coach for the bc lions on october 30 1987 head coach don matthews was fired and donovan was named interim head coach the lions went 40 after the coaching change and finished the season in first place in the west division in his first full season as head coach the lions had a 108 record and made it to the grey cup losing to the winnipeg blue bombers 2221 the lions struggled in 1989 and donovan was fired after an 04 startdonovan was an assistant coach for the saskatchewan roughriders in 1990 and 1991 he traveled to japan to coach the japanese x league hurricanes sponsored by hitachi limited and renesas technologies from 1992 until 2007 he was a training camp coach and consultant for the asahi beverage challengers in osaka japan in 2010
gulzar banu born 1963 is an indian politician and incumbent mayor of the mangalore city corporation india a member of the indian national congress inc banu is the sixth woman to hold the position of mayor she has studied until class 10 in the school bem school mangalore and married shamsuddin they couple have ten children prior to becoming mayor banu was a corporator from the katipalla ward having been elected twice into the position banu won the 2012 mayoral election after the bharatiya janata party bjp candidate roopa bangera was disqualified due to a failure to properly submit her caste certificate in the prescribed format within the given time and that the certificate subsequently submitted by her was past the time stipulated for filing the nomination as a result banu became the only running candidate and was hence declared elected by default this incident came as a shock to many since the bjp nominee was widely considered to be most likely to win due to the absence of any provision in the karnataka municipal corporations act 1976 to call for a noconfidence motion banu will serve as mayor for the proscribed term from 7 march 2012 to 20 february 2013 she took office on 7 march 2012 with bjp politician amitakala as deputy mayor
herbert d kleber md is an american psychiatrist and substance abuse researcher from 1968 to 1989 he founded and headed the drug dependence unit at yale university where he was professor of psychiatry he then served for 2 years as the deputy director for demand reduction at the office of national drug control policy in the white housein 1992 dr kleber with his late wife dr marian fischman cofounded the substance abuse division one of the leading centers in the country within the department of psychiatry at columbia university he is director of that division and heads a number of projects on new methods to treat individuals with cocaine heroin prescription opioids alcohol or marijuana problems he also cofounded the national center on addiction and substance abuse at columbia university casa with joseph califanodr kleber is author or coauthor of more than 250 papers and the coeditor of the american psychiatric press textbook of substance abuse treatment now in its 4th edition he has received numerous prestigious awards and two honorary degrees in 2014 it was reported that he serves as a paid consultant to the opioid pharmaceutical industryhe is listed as one of the best doctors in america and best doctors in new york and was elected in 1996 to be a member of the institute of medicine of the national academy of science he is on the board of a number of organizations including the partnership for a drug free america the treatment research institute at the university of pennsylvania and the betty ford institute
kim rntved born may 9 1960 in copenhagen known as the rocket is a danish former professional football soccer player and former head coach of the missouri comets indoor soccer team and current director of operations for the wichita b52s indoor soccer team rntved younger brother of per rntved played for randers fc in 1980 the wichita wings of the major indoor soccer league purchased rntveds contract he spent seven seasons in wichita in 1982 he played outdoor soccer with the tulsa roughnecks of the north american soccer league in 1983 he played for the dallas americans of the american soccer league in 1987 financial difficulties led the wings to release several veteran players including rntved on july 8 1987 he signed as a free agent with the kansas city comets when the comets folded in the summer of 1991 rontved became a free agent in september 1991 he signed as a playerassistant coach with the wings he was the 1993 npsl defender of the year on july 5 1992 he signed with the colorado foxes of the american professional soccer league in 1992 the wichita wings moved to the national professional soccer league in 1998 the wings came under new ownership and they released rontved he then signed as a free agent with the kansas city attackrntved is a 17time allstar and a fan favorite during his playing days with indoor soccer team wichita wings he was formally inducted into the indoor soccer hall of fame in february 2014kim rntved a former kansas city comets star was named the head coach of the missouri comets on august 16 2010 the missouri comets assistant coach vlatko andonovski was promoted to head coach on august 29 2013 succeeding rntved in october 2014 it was announced that he was named director of operations for the wichita b52s indoor soccer team for the 20142015 season
oleg brega born october 26 1973 is a journalist activist and filmmaker from chiinu the republic of moldova he has been the president of the moldovan public activism group hyde park since 2003 oleg brega hosts the show inamicul public the public enemy on jurnal tvoleg brega worked for teleradiomoldova september 1 1992 september 15 1995 he graduated from the music theater and fine arts academy chiinu 1996 and the academy for theater and film in bucharest 1999 in 2001 brega began to host a nightly radio show called hyde park on antena c the moldovan ministry of the interior soon intervened and the program was shut downon march 10 2008 oleg brega was assaulted by the prime ministers bodyguards in the hallway of the moldova national opera ballet which hosted a meeting of prime minister zinaida greceani in may 2008 oleg brega was arrested for peacefully protesting in front of the national palace where a celebration was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of moldova 1 the buiucani district court ruled that his placard which bore the inscription 50 years of lies constituted injury and sentenced him to three days detentionhis group hyde park founded in 2003 after his radio show of the same name was shut down helped organise 2009 moldova civil unrest on april 9 2009 amnesty international wrote that oleg brega ghenadie brega and natalia morari are currently in hiding for fear of being arrested
tofusquirrel elizabeth siegel born november 1 1983 is an american poster artist and illustrator residing in the city of boston she received a bfa in illustration and animation at the art institute of boston at lesley university in 2006she is known for creating psychedelic creepycute detailed posters for new england comics and musicians such as mc chris slick rick math the band and harry and the potters she is also a member of a boston based award winning female art collective paint pens in purses her illustrated posters were included in the bare knuckle brawlers rock poster show that was associated with died young stayed pretty rock poster documentary being shown at the museum of fine arts boston in november 2009 she joined a traveling female art exhibition feminality that included some of the most talented female artists from around the world the hive gallery in la launched the first feminality show where tofusquirrel exhibited her illustrations and performed live painting with tara mcpherson tofusquirrels illustrations were also displayed at art basel miami in december 2009 pabst blue ribbon recently sponsored a show featuring pbr inspired art by tofusquirrel which has now been displayed on billboards in various citiestofusquirrels illustrations have been published in a wide assortment of books and magazines including la weekly bostons weekly dig wired magazine the boston herald and the fat chunk robot anthology she was also featured in the best of boston 2008 and 2010 issues of the boston phoenix newspaper
phil hurley born october 7 1969 is a versatile american singersongwriter from potsdam new york he has collaborated with many prominent musicians and bands in new york boston washington state the netherlands los angeles and austinsinging in rock bands with his brother steve from the age of eight phil was playing around upstate new york professionally by fourteen on bass drums guitar and vocals at sixteen he cofounded gigolo aunts with his brother steve hurley dave gibbs and paul brouwer after quickly outgrowing potsdam the group relocated to boston where they caught the ear of the indie label coyote records that released the aunts first record everybody happy in 1988after ten years of touring and recording phil left the group for seattle in 1995 his plans quickly changed when he jumped into a van with island records artist tracy bonhamafter a year and a half with tracy phil stepped away to participate in the fertile seattle music scene where he recorded with groups like the tycoons hulabees shuggie and alex woodard and toured with miles hunt of the wonder stuff lisa loeb and fountains of wayne among others after a year in the netherlands phil moved to los angeles ca and in february 2009 he relocated to austin texas where he has been touring and playing with his countryrock group stonehoneyin 2006 he was featured in wayne federmans annual christmas show at largo los angeles with margaret cho and paul f tompkinshis work can be found on the soundtrack of hbos lucky louis showtimes weeds and the syndicated greg behrandt show
akezhan kazhegeldinov kazakh russian born on 27 march 1952 served as the prime minister of kazakhstan until he resigned in october 1997 ostensibly for health reasons though many saw it as an act protesting authoritarianism in kazakhstan he now heads the republic peoples party of kazakhstan but lives in the west in exile adam albion of radio free europe characterized kazhegeldins efforts at democratizing kazakhstan as defiant confrontational and openly scornful of the idea that nursultan nazarbaev the president of kazakhstan will ever share power willinglydigital freedom foundation credits kazhegeldinovs prime ministership with establishing a stable currency bank system and privatization programs that led to growth he worked at attracting foreign investment and helped to lay groundwork for a stock marketin 1998 he was elected president of the union of industrialists and entrepreneurs of kazakhstanthe publishing of his book kazakhstan the right to choose led to a political rift with president nazarbayev the rift widened when kazhegeldinovs 21st century freedom foundation sponsored amendments to the constitution regarding free elections he has since been barred from participating in presidential elections because he participated in an unsanctioned demonstration an administrative offense in april 1998 after he had left the country the government charged him with tax evasion and illegally buying real estate in belgium he denies the charges and said they were motivated by politicskazhegeldin has accused president nazarbaev of authoritarianism nepotism and indifference to violations of human rights
stphane mottin born 16 august 1966 is a french former professional footballer who played as a midfielder he is currently the manager of championnat de france amateur side avranchesmottin spent the majority of his playing career with angers making 172 league appearances in nine seasons with the club including 26 matches in ligue 1 during the 199394 campaign he also had a spell with clermont foot in the 199495 season following his retirement in 1997 mottin moved into management with amateur side intrpides angers he left three years later to become youth team director at his former club angers in january 2001 he was appointed manager of the ligue 2 club following the departure of denis goavec but could not prevent the teams relegation to the championnat national at the end of the season mottin led angers to a ninthplace finish in the third division the following season and was subsequently replaced by ric gurit in the summer of 2002 in 2003 mottin was appointed manager of championnat de france amateur outfit moulins the team finished tenth in their group in 200304 and mottin left the club at the end of the season a year later he joined division dhonneur atlantique side le poirsurvie and led the team to promotion to the championnat de france amateur 2 in 2006 after leaving le poirsurvie in 2007 mottin spent three years out of management before being hired by avranches in the summer of 2010
maria ilva biolcati commander omri italian pronunciation maria ilva bjolkati born july 17 1939 known as milva is an italian singer stage and film actress and television personality she is also known as la rossa italian for the red due to the colour of her hair and additionally as the panther of goro which stems from the italian press having nicknamed the three most popular italian female singers of the 1960s combining the names of animals and the singers birth places popular in italy and abroad she has triumphed on musical and theatrical stages the world over and has received popular acclaim in her native italy and particularly in germany where she has often participated in musical events and televised musical programmes she has also released numerous successful albums in france japan korea greece spain and south americahaving received enormous success both in italy and internationally she remains to this day one of the most popular italian personalities in the fields of music and theatre her artistic stature has been officially recognised by the italian german and french republics each of which have bestowed her with the highest honours she is the only italian artist in contemporary times in fact who is simultaneously chevalier of the national order of the legion of honour of the french republic paris 11 september 2009 commander of the order of merit of the italian republic rome 2 june 2007 officer of the order of merit of the federal republic of germany berlin 2006 and officier of the ordre des arts et des lettres paris 1995
roger james born 21 october 1975 is a former australian rules footballer who played for port adelaide football club in the australian football league afljames debuted during port adelaides inaugural afl season and made a name for himself as a tough midfielder the brother of former adelaide crows player brett james roger displayed immense talent throughout his careerafter suffering a succession of groin injuries throughout the 2003 afl season james returned early in the 2004 afl season playing every game from round seven onwards and was one of the best players during port adelaides maiden premiership win that yearin 2005 things took a turn for the worse though with james knee cartilage deteriorating in condition after round 18 limiting him to only 10 games for the seasonin late august 2005 port adelaide announced that due to the condition of the knee they would not be offering james a contract for the 2006 afl season and on medical advice james was forced to retire at only 29 years of age ive spoken to a couple of doctors and theyve advised me that it is in my best interests to give football away now so that further down the track ill be able to live a normal life he said
alan fletcher born 1956 is president and ceo of the aspen music festival and school and a music administrator and composer he came to aspen in march 2006 from the positions of head of the school of music and professor of music at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh pennsylvania where he had been since 2001 and before that from leadership and faculty positions including provost and senior vice president at the new england conservatory where he was engaged for 16 years he holds doctorate and masters degrees from the juilliard school and a bachelors degree from princeton university and has studied with distinguished composers such as roger sessions milton babbitt edward t cone and paul lanskyhe has won numerous composing awards and commissions including recent commissions for the pittsburgh symphony and the national gallery of art he lectures nationally and internationally on music and music administration has a blog for gramophone and has written oped pieces for newspapers such as the wall street journal pittsburgh postgazette symphony and baltimore sun in addition he sat on some of the fields most prestigious committees such as the gilmore prize artistic board and jury on which he served with former amfs artistic administrator ara guzelimianhe lives in aspen colorado with his partner ronald schiller
marlon charles broomes born 28 november 1977 is an english former professional footballer who played as a centreback from 1994 to 2012he also played as a sweeper leading to his nickname of broomes the sweeper although he could play at leftback as well he began his career in 1994 with premier league club blackburn rovers he was part of the squad that went on to win the title in the 199495 season but didnt play a match all season whilst with rovers he spent time on loan with swindon town queens park rangers and grimsby town in september 2001 he notably scored the equaliser in grimsbys 21 victory over liverpool in the league cup third round he later went on to join sheffield wednesday permanently before moving on to preston north end stoke city blackpool crewe alexandra and tranmere rovers he dropped out of the professional game at the end of the 201011 season where he signed for clitheroe his stay with the club was brief and he moved back up the leagues by joining conference north side altrincham he left alty at the conclusion of the 201112 season in 1997 whilst a blackburn player broomes was capped twice each by the england u20 and england u21 sides
ricky petterd born 24 july 1988 is an australian rules footballer who currently plays for the richmond football club in the australian football league aflpetterd previously played for the melbourne football club having been taken at pick no 30 in the 2006 afl draft he is a state representative footballer from broadbeach on the gold coast queensland who made his senior debut with melbourne in round 5 of 2007 where he had 22 disposals in the midfield and featured in the demons best player list he followed up his first game performance with an afl rising star nomination in round 6while with melbourne he had a seasonending injury in round 14 of 2007 against carlton he collapsed during the game and could not breathe two club doctors realised there was no time to send him to hospital and punctured his chest wall in the change rooms allowing air to escape from his chest cavity this in turn allowed his ruptured lung to reexpand effectively saving his life he subsequently had surgery to permanently repair the lungpetterd suffered another seasonending injury with melbourne in may 2010 when he suffered a dislocated right shoulder that required surgery and a four month recovery period he played only six games in that seasonpetterd joined richmond in 2013 as a rookie in his first season with the tigers he played 12 games averaging 17 disposals and five marks per game and was then elevated to the senior list at the 2013 national draft
mike smartt obe is a journalist and broadcaster and was the founder and editorinchief of bbc news online the bbcs internet news service with project director bob eggington he led the team which launched the service in 1997 and held the post of editorinchief of bbc news interactive which also encompassed interactive television news until 2004 during this time news online won all four interactive news bafta awards the category was scrapped after the fourth win and most of the worlds online news prizes including the usbased socalled webby internet oscars on a number of occasionsoriginally many had doubts about the feasibility of the web service including smartts friend and bbc world editor john simpson who described the project as sounding quite nerdy later simpson conceded that news online had become one of the main outlets for his work at the 2003 european online journalism awards smartt received an award for outstanding contribution to online journalism in europe and in 2004 he was made an obe for services to broadcastingbefore being placed in editorial charge of the launch of the online service he was for 20 years a correspondent for bbc television news covering major news stories at home and abroad he was also during the late1980s a main copresenter on the bbc six oclock news and the bbc nine oclock news and an occasional presenter of all the other bbc news output on tvmike started his career at the corporation at bbc radio humberside in the early 1970s as a news producer and very occasional rock music dj following some years learning the craft of journalism on newspapers during the late 1970s and early 1980s he was the bbcs staff reporter and a presenter of bbc norths leeds regional tv news programme look northsmartt who spent more than 30 years at the bbc was succeeded by pete clifton at news interactive he now consults lectures and writes about journalism and interactive news and is also editorinchief of world press photos online magazine enter
daniel gilmore born 2 march 1983 is a former australian rules footballer for the fremantle dockers in the australian football league after playing nine games in 2004 he had a frustrating 2005 only playing two games and appearing emergency nine times after playing mainly as a defender or wingman in 2006 he was tried as a reserve ruckman due to injuries to regular ruckmen aaron sandilands and justin longmuir at 91 kg and 191 cm tall he is much shorter than most other ruckmen and has to rely on his leap speed and endurance to competein 2007 he continued to play as a ruckman because of long term injuries to longmuir and sandilands and towards the end of the season produced some of his best football gaining more than 20 disposals in 4 consecutive games including a career high 31 against essendon in round 19when not playing for fremantle gilmore played for south fremantle in the wafl and in 2005 was a member of their premiership side and finished in the top 10 for the sandover medal at the end of the 2009 season gilmore was delisted from fremantle and retired from all football to concentrate on becoming a chiropractor after winning his second wafl premiership with south fremantlehe is the grandson of brian gilmore a member of footscrays 1954 premiership team
john deeksie deeks born 1 may 1951 is an australian television presenter and voice artist for the seven network where he has been working since 1975 based in melbournefor many years deeks was the announcer who said come on down on the australian version of game show the new price is right although frequently the programs host ian turpie is erroneously named as the person to voice the phrase deeks was also the announcer on game show man o man and presented the tattslotto lottery draw for many yearshe has acted as announcer on several popular programs making his voice and style highly recognisable leading to his being cast as voice over artist in recreations of game shows in some dramatic workssince 1984 he is best known as the announcer of the nowdefunct wheel of fortune on the seven network during deeks time on wheel of fortune he would travel to adelaide where the show was taped between 1981 and 1996 as did the shows host john burgess who would travel from his home in perth hostess and letterturner adriana xenides lived in adelaide each weekend to work on the show and often used his comedic skills to entertain the studio audience between takesdeeks departed wheel in 1996 to host family feud taking over from rob brough after feud was cancelled later that year deeks returned to his old gig as wheels voiceover man which continued until the shows cancellation on 28 july 2006 at which point deeks was offered a position at the collingwood football club which he acceptedin addition to providing the audience warmup for australias got talent wheel of fortune and deal or no deal deeksie is a continuity announcer for seven network stations across australia voicing trails promos and ratings announcements he also voices commercials for australian retailers such as jb hifideeks is also a former cohost of radio program family counsellor on 3uzhe also does the introduction to wil andersons podcast tofop
demetrious johnson born july 21 1961 in st louis missouri is a former professional american football player johnson is a native st louisan who grew up in the darstwebbe housing project he was the youngest of eight children and was raised by a single parent with the odds against him johnson was able to stay focused and graduated from mckinley high school and earned a full athletic scholarship to attend the university of missouri columbiaduring his years at columbia johnson was recognized as a premier defensive back including big 8 all star johnson graduated with a bachelors degree in education with a major in counseling psychology upon graduation the detroit lions drafted johnsonjohnsons professional football career lasted five years during his career johnson was the lions defensive captain and earned numerous awards including player of the week johnson ended his professional football career with the miami dolphins in 1987following his retirement from pro football johnson joined sherwood medical company which is now covidien as the national sales manager for the athletic sports medicine divisionunderstanding the importance of the community recreation center during his childhood johnson started exploring ways to give back to his community with a deep desire to encourage and support underprivileged children to reach their potential johnson founded the demetrious johnson charitable foundation inc the foundations motto is helping todays youth towards a better tomorrow its mission is to help better the lives of innercity youth by providing mentoring financial vocationaltutorial and scholastic assistance programsjohnson has been married to his high school sweetheart for over 25 years with three lovely daughters ashley taylore and alexandria he also has another daughter lakisha born 197980
charbel farhat is the vivian church hoff professor of aircraft structures in the school of engineering at stanford university where he is also chairman of the department of aeronautics and astronautics professor of mechanical engineering professor in the institute for computational and mathematical engineering director of the army high performance computing research center and director of the king abdullah city of science and technology center of excellence for aeronautics and astronautics he also serves on the united states bureau of industry and securitys emerging technology and research advisory committee etrac at the united states department of commerce and on the technical assessment boards of several national and international research councils and foundationsfarhat is listed as an isi highly cited author in engineering by the isi web of knowledge thomson scientific company for his lasting contributions to aeroelasticity cfd on moving grids computational acoustics computational mechanics and high performance computing he received numerous awards and academic distinctions he is a member of the national academy of engineering and a fellow of six international professional societies the american institute of aeronautics and astronautics the american society of mechanical engineers the world innovation foundation the international association of computational mechanics the us association of computational mechanics and the society of industrial and applied mathematics he is also an editor of the international journal for numerical methods in engineering and the international journal for numerical methods in fluids
keith russell mister jennings born november 2 1968 is an american basketball coach who formerly played in the nbajennings a 57 170 m point guard attended east tennessee state university for four academic years 198791 jennings won the 1991 frances pomeroy naismith award given to the outstanding collegiate senior six feet tall and under and was a secondteam consensus allamerican he also led the ncaa division i that year in threepoint field goals shooting 59 percenthe was not selected in the nba draft and started his nba career as a free agent he spent three seasons in the nba with the golden state warriors 199295 playing in 164 games and averaging 66 points and 37 assists in 180 minutes per game jennings personal best in the nba was a 23 point performance in his nexttolast regular season game with the warriors on april 22 1995 in that game jennings made 8of10 field goals including 3of4 treys and was perfect in 4 freethrow attempts in 41 minutes he dished off 10 assists that game to cap off his best performance in the nba he was selected by the toronto raptors in the 1995 expansion draft but did not play for them he also played professionally in europe in 200304 he parlayed his experience on the court to help the basketball club in strasbourg francefrom 2004 to 2007 he was the head coach of the boys varsity basketball team at the private highland school in warrenton virginia jennings joined the staff at his alma mater east tennessee state as a graduate assistant coach for the 200708 season while he completed his degree after a year as an assistant coach at science hill high school in johnson city tennessee jennings is now an assistant coach at bluefield college in bluefield virginia
padraig parkinson is an irish professional poker player he is chiefly recognised as the grand final winner of late night poker series 5 where he defeated korosh nejad and as the thirdplace finisher of the 1999 world series of poker where he lost to fellow countryman noel furlongoriginally parkinson refused to play in late night poker as he did not wish to have his cards shown to the audience his mood changed when money was added to the prize pool and sponsorship also became a factor in his heat he was actually the favourite with 21 odds against series 3 champion phil hellmuths 52 odds despite this parkinson bet on ken lennard who finished 2nd at 61 despite the fact that hellmuth admitted he could see parkinsons cards during the heat parkinson went on to winparkinson still plays numerous tournaments and has money finishes in both the world poker tour and european poker tour in december 2009 he was the winner of the inaugural event of the united kingdom ireland poker tour in his home town of galway for 125000 he also finds time to commentate on poker events including the poker nations cup and the partypokercom football poker legends cuphe has been voted into the irish hall of famecaptained ireland to victory in poker nations cupeurope and in 2013 won wpt plo event in paris winning 77000as of 2010 his total live tournament winnings exceed 1610000 his 8 cashes at the wsop account for 780031 of those winnings
walter guggenberger born 23 august 1947 in landeck is an austrian civil servant and politician sp from 1983 to 1999 guggenberger was member of the national council of austriaguggenberger attended the elementary school from 1953 to 1957 and switched afterwards to the federal grammar school landeck where he passed his final exams after this guggenberger studied jurisprudence at the university of innsbruck and completed his degree with the academic grade mag jur in 1972 he passed his court year in 1973 and since 1974 he is in the civil invalids office of tyrol which he leads since 1986 in 1994 he was appointed privy councillorsince 1980 guggenberger is local councillor in landeck and was member of the national council from 1 december 1983 to 20 april 1999 afterwards form 30 march 1999 to 20 october 2003 guggenberger was representative of the state parliament of tyrol and parliamentary party leader of sp tyrol from 1995 guggenberger was furthermore member of the countrys partys executive of sp tyrol in 1992 he founded with andreas hrtnagl and andreas maislinger the austrian holocaust memorial service guggenberger was awarded in 1992 the grand decoration of honour in silver for services to the republic of austria and in 1999 the grand decoration of honour in gold for services to the republic of austria by the national councils president heinz fischer
darren cheesman born 23 february 1986 in hackney london is an england and great britain hockey field hockey internationala member of the england and great britain hockey teams he was also a member of the great britain u21 team that won silver medal at the 2007 junior olympic games in sydney australiathe midfielder forward plays club hockey at southgate after spells at reading east grinstead and old loughtonians after playing in the 2005 junior world cup cheesman was signed by oranje zwart a premier league club in netherlands he spent a year there playing with and against the best players in the world during his first spell at east grinstead cheesman was voted premier league player of the year cheesman played an instrumental role in east grinsteads successes both domestically and in the euro hockey leaguecheesman came into hockey through arsenal fcs sport in the community programme it is a programme that sees the football club send coaches into local schools and communities to teach them various sports cheesman attended arsenals in the community scheme and gained opportunities and life skills that have helped him reach his position todayhe became muslim in 2007 after reading a copy of islam for dummies in waterstones he married his wife zara in 2007 and their daughter aisha was born in 2009
dan macarthur is an australian film director and director of photography and founder of 18 entertainmentin 2013 dan wrote and directed gangster comedy feature film nice package about a wannabe professional thief his gay best friend a sexy hostage and a package everybody wants the film stars the tribe heart throb dwayne cameron funny man leon cain and australian actress isabella tannock nice package was produced by dan and melanie poole cofounder of 18 entertainmentas a director of photography dan has received high acclaim for his work on a number of feature films most notably 2013 action thriller film absolute deception starring academy award winner cuba gooding jnr directed by brian trenchardsmith who described macarthur as being up there with the best dops i have ever worked within 2011 dan shot bollywood hit go goa gone starring saif ali khan indias first zombie comedy dan was also dop on 2013 psychological thriller the suicide theory starring steve mousakis i frankenstein australian gangster action film blood money starring pitbull and kungfu legend gordon lui and 2009 thriller sleeperduring the years 2003 and 2005 dan was also director of photography for russell crowes band thirty odd foot of grunts shooting three of their music videos and an international tour documentary dan also shot an oprah winfry segment at russells farmdans early career also included a string of successes shooting music videos for big name australian bands like powderfinger the whitlams killing heidi john butler trio and many morein 2014 he started working on a tamil movie yennai arindhaal starring ajith kumar which was directed by gautam menon the movie released on 5th february 2015
frank millar is a northern irish journalist and former unionist politicianthe son of frank millar also a unionist politician he was known as frank millar jr during his early political career he joined the ulster unionist party uup and remained a member when his father left the organisation to sit as an independent unionistmillar was the press officer of the uup during the early 1980s he stood unsuccessfully for 1982 northern ireland assembly in south antrim however he was elected to that body in 1984 in an uncontested byelection in belfast south caused by the ira murder of edgar grahamin 1983 millar became the general secretary of the uup at the 1987 uk general election he stood in belfast west receiving 187 of the votes cast the same year he worked with uup mp harold mccusker and the dups peter robinson to produce a report on power sharing following a positive report on the topic by the ulster political research group the task force report gave serious consideration to the idea and called for a strategic unionist rethink in the wake of the angloirish agreement it was rejected by their respective leaders ian paisley and james molyneaux millar then resigned from his party postmillar subsequently became a journalist and has long been the london editor of the irish times in 1998 he was named the irish print journalist of the year in 2004 he wrote a biography of uup leader david trimble entitled david trimble the price of peace
jean armour polly is a librarian by profession the author of a series of books on safe internet services surfing the internet ref now freely available at project gutenberg secondary gutenber ref and has been an active internet user since 1991she received her ba in medieval studies at syracuse university in 1974 and her masters in library science from the same university in 1975polly was key in popularizing but is often credited with coining the phrase surfing the internet being the author of an article called surfing the internet published in the university of minnesota wilson library bulletin in june 1992 coining the phrase has since been attributed to internet pioneer mark mccahillpolly is the author of the wellknown series of books the internet kids families yellow pages this was a spinoff of the original series harley hahns internet yellow pages by harley hahn because of her longstanding work devoted to family and childrelated issues on the internet polly is often referred to as one of the original mothers of the internetshe was director of public services and internet ambassador at nysernet inc 19921995she has served on the internet society board of trustees 19931996 and on the icann atlarge advisory council alac 20042006 as well as on the board of icrashe lives near syracuse new york where she runs the netmom internet site she has one son stephen who is in the doctoral program at the rochester institute of technology
chris karan born chrisostomos karanikis 14 october 1939 melbourne victoria australia is a jazz percussionist primarily a drummer of greek descent he played in mike nocks trio in sydney in the early 1960s after moving to london in 1962 karan gained international renown as the drummer in the dudley moore trio he toured and recorded with moore for many years including the trios numerous appearances on the tv series not only but also and the soundtrack of the 1967 movie bedazzled their professional association continued until moores last major public appearance at carnegie hall in new york in 2001 karan also worked with roy budd as a member of the roy budd trio and performed on the get carter soundtrack karan became a prolific and indemand studio musician he has worked with many famous names including the yardbirds michel legrand lalo schifrin charles aznavour stanley myers basil kirchin tony hatch jackie trent quincy jones herbie hancock jerry goldsmith jerry fielding pat williams andr previn richard rodney bennett barry tuckwell carl davis henry mancini the beatles the seekers and roy budd he has also toured with acts including john dankworth and cleo laine the bee gees caterina valente dusty springfield lulu and the swingle singers and has performed with many of the biggest names in jazz karan was also a member of the harry stoneham group which provided the musical backing for the michael parkinson shows on bbctvin recent years he has worked with katie melua along with putting out cds of his own other than drums he has an interest in various percussion styles of the world and plays the tabla on some albums having studied the instrument under the renowned indian master alla rakha
john angus campbell born march 10 1942 in portland oregon usa is a retired american professor of rhetoric and is a fellow of the center for science and culture a branch of the discovery institute a conservative christian think tank and of the international society for complexity information and design a professional society dedicated to the promotion of intelligent designcampbell served as an assistant and associate professor of communications at the university of washington from 19681995 and as a professor of communications at the university of memphis from 1995 until his retirement in 2005 together with stephen c meyer who is also a fellow of the center for science and culture he edited darwinism design and public education a collection of articles from the journal rhetoric and public affairscampbell was slated to appear as a witness for the defense in the kitzmiller v dover area school district trial but withdrew on june 2 2005 the day of his scheduled depositionin 2007 campbell ran for a seat on the school board in north mason county washington he offered his services to restore trust and establish transparency but did not disclose his links to intelligent design in a telephone interview he stated that he would not be dealing with curricula and that he is a darwinist who considers that debating darwin can engage the interest of students and improve their skills in critical thinking he was quoted as saying rather than demonizing people that believe in id i think there are ways people could use their ideas to study darwinism more closely the election was held on november 6 2007 and the unofficial results showed john campbell defeating the incumbent glenn landram by 2996 votes 6806 to 1406 3194 he currently serves on the schoolboard
paddy cullen is a former gaelic footballer who was an intercounty goalkeeper and manager with the dublin senior football team during his playing career cullen won three allirelands and four all star awardscullen won his first of his allirelands when dublin defeated galway by a scoreline of 014 to 16 in a game in which cullen saved a penalty this penalty save that famously ended galways hopes of winning the allireland is ranked as number 17 in the top 20 gaa moments he won his second all star in 1976 when dublin defeated bitter rivals kerry 38 to 010 in the final in croke park he won his final allireland in 1977 in a game where he had three goals scored against him despite which dublin had a comfortable 512 to 36 win over armagh cullen is renowned for the freak incident in which he conceded a goal against kerry in the 1978 allireland final mikey sheehy scored a lobbed goal for kerry while cullen was busy arguing with the referee michael ohehir described the incident as the greatest freak of all time and the goal is number 12 of the top 20 gaa momentscullen won his all star awards in the years 1974 1976 1977 and 1979 he won two national football league medals with dublin in 1976 against derry and again in 1978 against mayo he also managed dublin to national football league success in 1991 and then took dublin to the famous and epic four game first round saga against meath which dublin eventually lost by a pointpaddy cullen was inaccurately linked to the x case after a period of time the vicious rumors became so widespread that he had to appear on the late late show to set the record straight paddy appeared as a mentor on celebrity bainisteoir season 2 helping george hook who was managing cuala
joseph joe cada born november 18 1987 is an american professional poker player from shelby charter township michigan best known as the winner of the main event at the 2009 world series of poker wsop by winning the 6494entrant main event at the age of 21 cada surpassed peter eastgate as the youngest champion ever cada had two previous wsop in the money finishes both in 2009 cada had been a regular online poker player for several years prior to winning the live wsop event he is primarily an online poker player with more than 500000 in online tournament winnings at present as of august 2014 his total live tournament winnings exceed 10290000 cada became a representative of team pokerstars in 2009 in the weeks prior to becoming world champion on june 18 2012 he lost heads up in the 2811entrant 1500 no limit texas hold em event at the 2012 world series of pokerhe is from a family of card enthusiasts although his parents disapproved of his chosen profession his agent dubbed him the kid and he has also taken on the role as a statesman of the profession in the media and political circles where he is a proponent of legalization of gambling
daryl jones born june 25 1987 in royal oak michigan is a former american professional baseball outfielderjones attended spring high school in spring texas where he was a football prospect as well as a baseball prospect jones was rated as one of the top position prospects at the 2005 predraft showcase where he also showed off his pitching abilityjones was drafted by the st louis cardinals in the third round 110th overall of the 2005 major league baseball draft he turned down a scholarship offer with rice university to sign with the cardinals for a 450000 bonus after struggling in class a with the swing of the quad cities in 2006 and 2007 jones hit 326 in 2008 and was named the cardinals minor league player of the year while playing with the class a advanced palm beach cardinals in 2009 he was named the cardinals seventh best prospect and was chosen to represent the cardinals in the allstar futures game however he played in the futures game while not fully recovered from a quad injury and reinjured himself in the game setting back his career prospectsafter the 2011 season jones became a free agent and signed with the cincinnati reds receiving an invitation to spring training in 27 games with the aaa louisville bats he hit only 187 and he was released on july 5
john oneill born 3 january 1974 in glasgow is a scottish football midfielder playing for auchinleck talbotoneill started his career with amateur club queens park before signing for celtic in 1994 in his career he had two spells of playing for dumfries club queen of the south while he was with queens oneill won the 200102 scottish second division and he was the clubs top scorer and won the divisional player of the year title oneill scored in the 2002 scottish challenge cup final victory against brechin city oneill also made a substitute appearance for queens in the 2008 scottish cup final against rangers which turned out to be his last appearance for the club he was also a penalty kick specialist at queens scoring 27 goals from 29 attempts in total he scored 70 goals for queens in competitive first team fixturesin the summer of 2008 oneill signed for stirling albion as a player and was also appointed assistant manager after manager allan moore left for morton oneill was appointed the new manager of stirling albion in may 2010 after winning only three league games in the 201011 season however oneill was sacked in january 2011after being sacked by stirling he went junior with auchinleck talbot
anthony dominick tony benedetto born august 3 1926 known as tony bennett is an american singer of traditional pop standards show tunes and jazz bennett is also an accomplished painter having created worksunder the name anthony benedettothat are on permanent public display in several institutions he is the founder of the frank sinatra school of the arts in astoria queens new yorkborn and raised in astoria bennett began singing at an early age he fought in the final stages of world war ii as an infantryman with the us army in the european theater afterwards he developed his singing technique signed with columbia records and had his first numberone popular song with because of you in 1951 several top hits such as rags to riches followed in the early 1950s bennett then further refined his approach to encompass jazz singing he reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as the beat of my heart and basie swings bennett sings in 1962 bennett recorded his signature song i left my heart in san francisco his career and his personal life then suffered an extended downturn during the height of the rock music erabennett staged a comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s putting out gold record albums again and expanding his audience to the mtv generation while keeping his musical style intact he remains a popular and critically praised recording artist and concert performer in the 2010s bennett has won 17 grammy awards including a lifetime achievement award presented in 2001 and two emmy awards and has been named an nea jazz master and a kennedy center honoree he has sold over 50 million records worldwide
tom long born 1958 is a lawyer and political activist he is a director of the manning centre for building democracy he chaired former ontario premier mike harriss victorious 1995 and 1999 election campaigns and was one of the authors of harris common sense revolution platform long was president of the progressive conservative party of ontario from 1986 to 1989in 1983 long was brian mulroneys youth campaign chair for the 1983 federal progressive conservative leadership convention and served as an executive assistant in the prime ministers office from 1984 to 1986 during mulroneys tenure as prime minister of canadalong cochaired the founding convention of the canadian alliance in january 2000 and was a candidate for the partys leadership later that year placing third with 1816 of the votelong was an advisor to ontario pc leader tim hudak in the 2014 provincial election he and hudaks campaign manager ian robertson steered hudak into promising to slash 100000 civil service jobs the oftenrepeated assertion was cited by party members and commentators as a principal reason for the tories disastrous routa lawyer by profession long is a former partner of egon zehnder and russell reynolds associates who set up his own governance and executive search firm tom long consulting in early 2014
richard goode born june 1 1943 is an american classical pianist especially known for his interpretations of ludwig van beethoven and chamber musicgoode was born in east bronx new york he studied piano with elvira szigeti claude frank nadia reisenberg at mannes college the new school for music where he currently is a faculty member and rudolf serkin and mieczysaw horszowski at the curtis institute in philadelphia pennsylvania he won numerous prizes including the young concert artists international auditions in 1961 first prize in the clara haskil competition in 1973 and the avery fisher prize in 1980he has made many recordings including mozart concertos with the orpheus chamber orchestra and the music of schubert schumann brahms and bach goode also was the first americanborn pianist to record the complete beethoven piano sonatas he regularly appears at the worlds leading venues with highly acclaimed orchestras with mitsuko uchida he is coartistic director of the marlboro music school and festival he has premiered works written for him by carlos chvez george perle robert helps and others his chambermusic partners have included dawn upshaw richard stoltzman alexander schneider and many others goode is married to violinist marcia weinfelda literary portrait of richard goode is in david blums book quintet five journeys toward musical fulfillment cornell university press 1999 it originally appeared as an article in the 29 june 1992 issue of the new yorker
john j murphy born 1959 is an american republican party politician from new jerseyas of 123112 he is currently in his fifth 3year term on the morris county board of chosen freeholders he served two terms as freeholder director and is currently liaison to the department of administration and finance and the department of economic development he is a former liaison to the department of law and public safetymurphy is currently a partner with the morristown financial group a financial planning and investment firm he joined the morris township volunteer fire department where he still serves as an active firefighter he served as the departments volunteer chief in 1990 and 1991he served two terms on the morris township committee from 1994 to 1998 and was mayor of morris township in both 1996 and 1997in january 2005 murphy announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for the 2005 race for governor of new jersey with plans to advocate for an elected attorney general and an auditor general who would also be elected murphy finished third in balloting for the republican nomination with 14 of the vote behind doug forrester who won the republican nomination with a plurality of 36 and bret schundler who received 31 murphy won morris county and was competitive in other countieshe and his wife jennifer have four children
bobby ray simmons jr born november 15 1988 better known by his stage name bob is an american rapper from decatur georgia in 2006 bob was discovered by brian richardson who then brought him to tj chapman who then brought him to american record producer jim jonsin after hearing his music jonsin subsequently signed bob to his rebel rock entertainment imprint a couple of years later jonsin and bob signed a joint venture deal with atlantic and american rapper tis grand hustle recordsbob quickly rose to fame after his commercial debut single nothin on you reached number one in both the united states and the united kingdom he would later release his third single airplanes which also topped several music charts his fifth single magic became his third top ten hit on the billboard hot 100 bobs debut studio album the adventures of bobby ray which was preceded by two extended plays eps and several mixtapes was released on april 27 2010 the album reached number one on the us billboard charts and was eventually certified gold by the recording industry association of america riaa later that year bob was named the ninth hottest mc in the game of 2010 by mtv on their annual listbob released his second studio album strange clouds on may 1 2012 strange clouds spawned six singles four of which charted exceptionally well internationally the song strange clouds the albums eponymous lead single became his fourth top ten hit on the billboard hot 100 the singles so good both of us and out of my mind followed behind with the former two being certified platinum by the riaa the album itself debuted at number five on the billboard 200 his third album underground luxury was released in december 2013 and supported by the lead single headband bob is currently working on the grand hustle compilation album and is set to release an ep which will only include rock music as well as a collaborative album with his grand hustle labelboss ti all in the near future
carlyle javar holiday born october 4 1981 is a former american football wide receiverholiday attended roosevelt high school in san antonio tx in football he was named as the top high school scrambling quarterback in the nation after a heavy bid from nebraska he eventually committed to the university of notre dame holiday was the starting quarterback for three years at the university leading them to the gator bowl in his final full season at quarterback during that time he broke the schools rushing record for 100 yard games in a season by a quarterback as well as most completions without an interception and touchdown passes in a game the later two which were broken by brady quinn during his senior year at notre dame holiday was converted to a wide receiver and punt returner due to the emergence of true freshman quarterback brady quinn even though holiday never played college baseball he was drafted by the cincinnati reds in the 44th round of the mlb amateur draft in 2002 and by the new york mets in 2003carlyle made his first nfl start against the chicago bears on monday night football in his second season with the arizona cardinals when larry fitzgerald was out with a sprained ankle he was later signed out of free agency by the green bay packers on december 5 2006 after being released from the arizona cardinals he caught brett favres record breaking completion against the detroit lions breaking dan marinos career completions mark carlyle injured his knee playing against the philadelphia eagles in the first game of the 2007 season ending his year while being placed on injured reserve in february 2008 holiday was released by the green bay packerscaryle is currently a recruiter at mckinsey company in san francisco
dick tommy ohlsson born 13 june 1973 in osterhaninge sweden is a swedish physicist he is a full professor in theoretical physics with specialization in elementary particle physics at the royal institute of technology kth in stockholm sweden situated at the albanova university center his research field is theoretical particle physics particularly neutrino physics and physics beyond the socalled standard model he is an author of around hundred scientific publications and one textbook see publications he has also written a popular science text about the theory of special relativity at nobelprizeorgohlsson received his phd at kth in 2000 and was a postdoc at the technische universitt mnchen munich germany between 2000 and 2002 he is employed at kth since 2002 and was promoted to full professor in 2008 in 2003 he was awarded the gustafsson prize for young researchers at uppsala university and kth by the gran gustafsson foundation between 2005 and 2009 he held a research fellow position at the royal swedish academy of sciences kva which was funded by the knut and alice wallenberg foundation kawin december 2012 ohlsson was elected for a fouryear term 20132016 to serve on arxivs member advisory board as one of eight voting members from the contributing organizationssince january 1 2014 ohlsson is the coordinating editor of the scientific journal nuclear physics b which focuses on the domain of high energy physics quantum field theory statistical systems and mathematical physics
matthew jan oppenheim born 1967 is the managing partner of oppenheim zebrak llp the firm regularly represents content owners and technology companies among others he received a juris doctor in 1993 from cornell university law school after working for proskauer rose llp as a litigation associate for 5 years he joined the recording industry association of america riaa as the senior vice president of legal and business affairs at the riaa oppenheim was responsible for many well known copyright cases including napster in march 2004 oppenheim joined the law firm of jenner block as a cochair of their entertainment and new media practice while there oppenheim was part of the team that took the mgm studios inc v grokster ltd case to the supreme court where they won a 90 victory for the movie and record industriesin 2006 oppenheim founded his own firm the oppenheim group llp which ultimately became oppenheim zebrak llp at his new firm oppenheim has tried a number of notable cases to large verdicts including both the jamie thomas case and sony bmg music entertainment v tenenbaum in addition to representing the record industry he regularly appears in litigation matters on behalf of book publishers video game manufacturers and software companies
mark william rudd born june 2 1947 is a political organizer mathematics instructor antiwar activist and counterculture icon most well known for his involvement with the weather undergroundrudd became a member of the columbia university chapter of students for a democratic society sds in 1963 by 1968 he had emerged as a leader for columbias sds chapter during the 1968 columbia university protests he served as spokesperson for dissident students protesting a variety of issues most notably the vietnam war as the war escalated mark rudd worked with other youth movement leaders to take sds in a more militant direction when the general membership of sds refused to go in a more violent and procommunist direction rudd together with some other prominent sds members formed a radical violenceoriented organization referring to themselves collectively as weatherman after the lyrics from a famous bob dylan songrudd went underground in 1970 hiding from law enforcement following the greenwich village townhouse explosion that killed three of his weather underground peers he surrendered to authorities in 1977 serving a short jail sentence after serving as a mathematics instructor at central new mexico community college he is now retired in albuquerque new mexico and has since expressed some regret for advocating and using violence
ramazan rragami born 3 april 1944 in shkoder albania is a former national football player and coach for albania he is also one of ks vllaznia shkoders most notable players of all time recently is a member of the disciplinary commity affiliated with the albanian football federationramazan rragami has a brilliant career as a player as well as a coach in the national and international arena he started playing with vllaznia shkoderhis native town at the age of 16 this career continued until 1967 year in which he was recruited by partizani team of tirana playing there until 1970 in 1970 returns to his home team vllaznia where he wins in 1972 both the league title and league cup in the final of league cup rragami scores 7 times from the penalty boxtwice during regular time and five more times when the match was decided on penalty kicks after an aggregate tie it is worth noting that this is the first time and last when a player scored all penalties for one team until then fifa regulations allowed one player to execute all penalty kicks after a regular game tie fifa has chsnged the rule since now different players are required to do the executionrragami made 20 appearances for the albania national football team from 1965 to 1973ramazan rragami started his career as football coach when he was still playing in 1972 after finishing his career as a player he started as a fulltime coach with ks vllaznia where he won the league in the 19821983 season at the same time he was the assistant coach for the albania national under21 football team which reached the quarter finals of the euro 84 they became the only albanian team in any level to qualify for a competitive tournamentramazan rragami than studied in coverciano in italy where he received his coaching certification in one of the most prestigious coaching schools in the world
anthea benton is a british television commercial and music video director best known for her adverts for stella artois and levis benton began her career as a fashion designer and moved into directing in 1982 as half of the directing duo vaughan and anthea with vaughan arnell the two worked together for over a decade initially concentrating on music videos making a number of memorable promos in the burgeoning field including dead or alives you spin me round like a record jamiroquais space cowboy take thats back for good angguns snow on the sahara and george michaels fastlove and spinning the wheel in 1992 the duo moved into commercials creating wranglers dj commercial the first european advert to feature young black urban culture the duos commercials won a large number of awards with levis creek picking up two prestigious dad awards for best direction and best commercial their work for stella artois launched the brands distinctive style of honouring european cinema with its nod to jean de florette their second advert for stella les nouvelles chaussures winning that years dad award for best direction their work was defined by strong art direction an awareness for fashion and an ability to set trends especially in terms of the music used for levis planet the duo selected a little heard track called spaceman by babylon zoo the track was to go on to sell 418000 copies in a week a record at the time propelling it to number one in the uk singles chart in 1996 the duo decided to split with both continuing to direct commercials and music videos anthea went on to direct commercials for brands including sony tmobile audi levis peugot adidas hyundai and barclaycardin 2004 anthea benton joined believe media she continues to direct acclaimed work recently working with actresses anna friel and keeley hawes in commercials for pantene and boots no7 respectively featured in shots magazines list of the top 100 creative people anthea is currently working on her first feature script
dr rebecca mercuri phd born october 20 1954 is an expert in computer security especially in electronic voting where she has been researching writing about and testifying since 1989 having completed a fellowship at harvard universitys radcliffe institute for advanced study where her research focused on transparency and trust issues in computational systems she has returned to notable software where she conducts forensic computing investigations and provides expert witness testimony on a broad range of criminal civil and municipal matters some in the elections arenashe is known to have popularized the idea of using voterverified paper ballots whereby an electronic voting machine prints a paper ballot under transparent glass or plastic for the voter to verify before casting their vote often referred to as the mercuri methodmercuri put up a web site when she noticed the 2000 presidential election falling into confusion and within 15 minutes had a call from the associated press who had found her materials she submitted testimony in bush v gore that was subsequently referenced in the briefs to the us supreme court and has since testified before the us house science committee the us civil rights commission the uk cabinet and numerous other federal and state legislative bodies about voting systems
alison booth is the author of the jingera trilogy which comprises the three novels stillwater creek the indigo sky and a distant land written by alison booth an australian author and academic all three novels are set in the fictional coastal town of jingera hence the trilogys titlethe novels published by random house australia span the years from 1957 to 1971 the first book in the trilogy is stillwater creek 2010 which captures a particular time in australian history memories of the war are still relatively fresh communism is the new fear and social mores are still very conservativein an interview booth is quoted as saying about the town of jingera i like to think of it as a stage on which a few actors play out the universal stories translated into french les rivages du souvenir by helene collon for publication by presses de la cite in 2011 this novel was also highly commended in the 2011 act book of the year award and has been published as a select edition in 2011 by readers digest in australasia and in the ukthe second novel the indigo sky 2011 is set in late 1961 booth uses jingera as a microcosm for the social and political issues faced by postwar australia she weaves the gritty issues of paedophilia racism and postwar trauma into her first book and the removal of aboriginal children and bullying into her second book but manages to maintain a light and hopeful tonethe final book in the trilogy is a distant land 2012 set in jingera sydney and cambodia in 1971 human rights civil liberties and war are a particular focus in this most recent booka distant land expands the characters horizons nationally and internationally exploring the darkest themes in the greatest depth through that darkness as is the case in all of booths novels there is hope that the good in us all will prevail
lene espersen born 26 september 1965 is a danish politician and member of parliament who was danish minister of foreign affairs from 23 february 2010 to 3 october 2011 and was leader of the conservative peoples party and deputy prime minister from 9 september 2008 to 13 january 2011 a member of parliament folketinget since 1994 she served as minister of justice from 27 november 2001 to 10 september 2008 and as minister of economic and business affairs from 10 september 2008 to 23 february 2010she attended lester b pearson united world college of the pacific in canadaon 13 january 2011 she announced at a press conference at 1900 pm briefly after her arrival in denmark that she would not continue as leader of the conservatives the announcement came after months of increasing pressure where various issues regarding her work ethics had gained national attention and decreasing support in opinion polls for the conservative party during her tenure as political leader support for the conservative peoples party has been reduced from around 10 to below 5 on 14 january lars barfoed succeeded lene espersen as political leader of the conservative peoples partylene espersen was also an attendee of trilateral commission meetings in 2002 and 2005she has two children
shane valenti born 29 january 1987 is an australian rules footballer who played for the melbourne football club in the australian football league afl and currently plays for port melbourne in the victorian football league vflvalenti was selected with the 51st selection in the 2007 nab afl rookie draft which was melbournes final draft selection for that season he made his mark in the victorian football league playing with melbournes vflaffiliate sandringham as a tough inandunder midfielder and won the fothergillround medal as the leagues most outstanding young playervalenti made his senior debut for melbourne in round 8 against adelaide in the 2008 season he played a total of nine games for the year the 2009 season saw valenti only manage six senior games for melbourne spending majority of the season as a consistent performer in the vfl with melbournes new affiliate team casey he finished fifth in caseys best and fairest at the end of the 2009 season valenti was delisted by melbournein 2010 valenti moved to port melbourne in the vfl he had an outstanding second half of the season and was joint winner of the j j liston trophy tying on 20 votes with north ballarats steve clifton he became the first player in league history to win both the fothergillround medal and the liston trophy he was also named in the vfl team of the yearin 2011 valenti won his second consecutive j j liston trophy becoming the third player in vfavfl history to win the award backtoback with his win there was speculation that he may be recruited by afl teams greater western sydney or essendon but neither eventuated and he remained with port melbourne
ren rydlewicz born 18 july 1973 in forst is a former professional german footballerrydlewicz started his career as a youth team player for chemie dbern and went on to play with fc energie cottbus berliner fc dynamo and bayer 04 leverkusen in his later youth years he signed his first professional contract with bfc dynamo and stayed with the club until 1990 when he signed for bayer 04 leverkusen he stayed at leverkusen for two years and made just 15 appearances for the club scoring some goal in the summer of 1994 he moved to tsv 1860 mnchen played 28 games and two years later made the move back to bayer 04 leverkusen in 1997 he was once again on the move this time to bundesliga club arminia bielefeld he quickly established himself at the club and became the captain he stayed with bielefeld for three years and played 70 games for them before moving on to fc hansa rostock in the summer of 2000 where he played almost 200 games until to 2008 he retired after playing one year for fc anker wismaron 1 march 2009 he took over the job as general manager of hansa rostock he was sacked in may 2010 due to lack of success
du qinglin chinese pinyin d qngln born november 1946 in panshi jilin city jilin is a politician of the peoples republic of china he currently serves as vice chairman of chinese peoples political consultative conference cppcc and a secretary of the secretariat of the central committee from 2007 and 2012 he served as the director of united front work department of communist party of chinadu graduated from law department of jilin university with a masters degree he joined the communist party of china in march 1966 in early years du served in faw car co ltd in changchun and communist youth league jilin committee from september 1984 to 1991 he served as vice secretary of cpc changchun municipal committee a standing committee member of cpc jilin committee director of organization department in jilin and vice secretary of cpc jilin committee in march 1992 du became the vice secretary of cpc hainan committee he was elected the chairman of hainan peoples congress in february 1993 from february 1998 to august 2001 du was the secretary of cpc hainan committee from august 2001 to december 2006 du served as minister of agriculture in december 2006 he became the secretary of cpc sichuan committee and was elected chairman of sichuan peoples congress in january 2007 in december 2007 du succeeded liu yandong as the director of united front work department of cpc on march 13 2008 du was elected vice chairman of cppcc du was a member of 15th 16th and 17th central committee of the communist party of china he is a current member of the 18th central committee of the communist party of china
dr michal opas is a research scientist and a professor in the department of laboratory medicine faculty of medicine at the university of toronto he is a graduate of warsaw university from where he received his msc and a phd from the polish academy of sciences in cell biology working at the nencki institute of experimental biology on the mechanism of amoeboid movementmichal opas field of expertise is in cell motility and adhesion cytoskeleton and their role in stem cell choice of fate he is a recognized authority in a variety of microscopies michal opas is an author of many peerreviewed scientific publications on movement of giant amoebae cell biology techniques of interference reflection holographic fluorescence and confocal microscopies and threedimensional visualization of cells and tissues his collaboration with marek michalak university of alberta led to identification of calreticulin as major calcium buffer in the endoplasmic reticulum of nonmuscle cells a molecular chaperone and important regulator of cellular differentiationmichal opas was an early proponent of the importance of mechanical integration of cell and its environment cytomechanics initially a concept considered esoteric that nevertheless became a cornerstone of understanding of organization and function of cells tissues and organs in 1985 a group of scientists comprising architects biologists engineers and physicists met in stuttgart at a meeting sponsored by the sonderforschungsbereich 230 natrliche konstruktionen leichtbau in architektur und natur which led to the publication of a book appropriately entitled cytomechanics thus the field was namedopas lab interests at present can be referred to as cytomechanics of embryonic stem cell fate commitment and determination during differentiation researched using a variety of in vitro cell and embryoid body culture and microfluidic technologies
ronald caltabiano born december 7 1959 is an american arts administrator and composer of contemporary classical music with his music showing elements of modernism and romanticismhe holds bm mm and dma degrees from the juilliard school where he studied composition with elliott carter and vincent persichetti he also has studied composition with peter maxwell davies and conducting with harold farberman and gennady rozhdestvensky his music has been commissioned by the emerson quartet the chamber music society of lincoln center the san francisco symphony the dallas symphony orchestra and the cincinnati symphony orchestra additional ensembles that have performed his works include the arditti quartet the bbc symphony orchestra the hong kong sinfonietta and the royal scottish national orchestra a theatrical work the chamber opera marrying the hangman 1999 is on a text by margaret atwood and was written for the psappha new music ensemblecaltabiano has received awards from the american academy of arts and letters the john simon guggenheim memorial foundation the rockefeller foundation broadcast music inc bmi and the american society of composers authors and publishers ascapcaltabiano worked as an assistant to aaron copland during the last five years of that composers life and has served on the faculties of the manhattan school of music peabody institute peabody conservatory of the johns hopkins university and san francisco state university where he also was associate dean of the college of creative arts until june 2011in january 2011 ronald caltabiano was named dean of the jordan college of fine arts at butler university indianapolis indiana
stephen raudenbush is the lewissebring professor of sociology and chairman of the committee on education at the university of chicago he is best known for his development and application of hierarchical linear models hlm in the field of education but he has also published on other subjects such as health and crime hierarchical linear models which go by many other names are used to study many natural processes to use an example from education a three level hierarchical model might account for the fact that students are nested in classrooms which are nested in schools with the right data one could go further and note that schools are nested in districts which are nested in states repeated measures of the same individuals can be studied with these models as observations nested in peopleraudenbush received an edd in policy analysis and evaluation research in 1984 from harvard university in subsequent years he made major contributions to education research his work has earned him numerous honors in 2006 he was awarded both the distinguished contributions to research in education award and the robert park award for outstanding work in community and urban sociology raudenbush is also is a member of the american academy of arts and sciences and the national academy of sciences
catherine heenan full name mary catherine elizabeth heenan is a television news anchor and reporter at krontv in san francisco she grew up in indiana and illinois and spent several summers in ireland and england in northern ireland she graduated from illinois state university where she majored in communication and journalism in milwaukee wisconsin she covered legal and political beats and received numerous awards for her investigative and general assignment reporting when she left milwaukee for san francisco in 1989 to anchor the kron weekend news a city proclamation naming a day in her honor was issuedher work has ranged from political reporting to feature pieces covering everything from papal visits to mafia trials particularly noteworthy is her exclusive series cloistered nuns she and her photographer became the only outsiders ever allowed to enter the monastery of the poor clares in los altos hills heenan is one of the most highly honored reporters in the san francisco bay area in addition to many regional emmys she has won a national emmy and a peabody awardheenan has also covered the peace plan process in northern ireland the womens world cup championship and the 1994 northridge earthquake heenan has been cited in local newspaper best of lists as one of the top anchors in the san francisco bay area
ben tankard born january 24 1964 is a 66 former professional basketball player and an american gospel jazz keyboardist producer author recording artist and songwriter with over 200 songs recorded tankard and his wife jewel donate their time as nonsalary senior pastors of destiny center church of murfreesboro tennessee tankard is also a motivational speaker for the national basketball association dleague and a reality tv costar with the bravo show thicker than water the tankards the family show premiered november 10 2013 15 million viewers and became highest rated new show for network with over 13 million viewers on the season season two premiered on sunday january 4 2015on august 21 2013 tankard was nominated for three gospel music dove awards these nominations were for tankards most recent cd release full tank and the categories included contemporary gospelurban song of the year contemporary gospelurban album of the year and instrumental album of the year his wow gospel 2006 collaboration cd with shirley murdock kirk franklin marvin sapp and others climbed to 1 gospel and 20 on billboard top 200 and is certified gold his arrangement of the lionel richie song jesus is love has been one of the most played songs on sirius xm radio gospel channel for eight years running he has been called the godfather of gospeljazz
tang fong har is a lawyer who was detained on 20 june 1987 by the government of singapore during operation spectrum under the internal security act her detention was speculated by many as a means to crush political dissidents in her letter she states that she was physically abused kept incommunicado and forced to admit guilt of subversion of state it is speculated that her opposition to the newspapers and printing presses act and the legal profession amendment bill during her time at the law society of singapore in 1986 was the reason for her detention she was later released on 12 september 1987 tang has accused officer sk tan of assaulting her during her interrogation and indefinite detention by the internal security department tang is currently wanted by the singapore police for having breached a condition under a special suspension direction when she failed to return to singapore after she was granted permission to visit united kingdom and hong kong between 7 march 1988 to 7 april 1988 on october 8 2011 tang with exiled political dissident francis seow publicly addressed a singapore democratic party forum from abroad via teleconference in the address they advocated abolishing the internal security act isa singapore police were investigating the legality of the event the following daytang fong har currently resides in hong kong
rob sheffield born february 2 1966 is an american music journalist and author he is currently a contributing editor at rolling stone writing music reviews and essays on pop culture prior to that he was a contributing editor at blender before the print version of the magazine folded in 2009 and at spin a native of boston sheffield attended yale and the university of virginiahis first book love is a mix tape life and loss one song at a time an excerpt of which was featured in the january 2007 issue of gq was released by random house in january 2007 it received starred reviews in publishers weekly and library journalmost of love is a mix tape takes place in charlottesville virginia where sheffield met and married his late wife rene crist a fellow dj at radio station wtju and continues in new york city after crists death in 1997 the couple had no childrensheffield remarried in 2006 and lives in brooklyn new yorksheffields second book released in july 2010 is called talking to girls about duran duran one young mans quest for true love and a cooler haircutsheffields third book released in august 2013 is called turn around bright eyes the rituals of love and karaoke and discusses how he met and fell in love with ally the woman who would become his second wife thanks to their mutual love of music
jim bates born july 21 1941 is a former democratic politician from san diego california he served four terms in the united states house of representatives 19831991bates was born in denver colorado and graduated from east high school denver in 1959 he joined the united states marine corps in 1959 and served in the corps until 1963 relocating to san diego bates became a banker and later a businessman in the aerospace industrybates was elected to the san diego city council in 1971 and served until 1974 he was elected chairman of the san diego county board of supervisors in 1974 and held the position until 1982 at the time he was the youngest chairman of the board while serving 1975 he obtained his bachelors degree from san diego state universitybates resigned from the board to run for a seat in the us house of representatives representing californias newly created 44th congressional district his district was created after the 1980 census round of redistricting as the most democratic district in the san diego area it included much of the territory represented for 18 years by lionel van deerlin before his defeat by duncan hunter bates was easily reelected in 1984 1986 and 1988however in 1990 bates was bogged down in a scandal involving charges of sexual harassment his republican opponent was randy duke cunningham a naval ace during the vietnam war cunningham hammered bates about the scandal promising to be a congressman we can be proud of cunningham won by 50377 votes to 48712 votes his win meant that the san diego area was represented entirely by republicans for only the second time since the city was split into two districts after the 1960 census bates was later implicated in the house banking scandal bates ran in the democratic primary in june 1992 but lost the nomination to his former aide bob filner who used the sexual harassment case against him
pankaj pachauri hindi born 24 september 1963 is a indian tv anchor and journalist pachauri is mainly associated with ndtv he was also associated with other international media houses including the bbc india today the sunday observer and tha patriot newspaper he has more than 20 years of experience in print and broadcast journalism he is a commerce graduate from st johns college agra and studied journalism at lal bahadur shastri institute of communication in lucknowhe has many awards such as the the statesman award for rural reporting in 1989 for his expose on the practice of female infanticide in rajasthan he also received the srikant verma award for journalism in 1990 he has worked as a correspondent worldwide he had been adjudged the best hindi language anchor by peers between 20052011 in january 2012 pachauri was appointed as the communications adviser to the prime ministers office in india under dr manmohan singh he was responsible for getting the pmo on various social media platforms for the first time and pioneered indian governments highest offices policy in social media interaction he demitted office alongwith dr singh on 26 may 2014 now he is a political expert participating in tv debates and speaks at prestigious institutions like the iimc kolkatta
armen ra is an american artist and performer of iranianarmenian descent born in tehran iran he was raised by his mother a concert pianist and his aunt an opera singer and ikebana master he taught himself to play theremin his music fuses armenian folk music with modern instrumentation along with melodic lounge standards and classical arias his concerts are known for their combination of both visual arts and his musicarmen ra has played at the united nations wiener konzerthaus mozartsaal vienna cbgbs knitting factory la mama etc joes pub boulder museum of modern art lincoln center the gershwin hotel bb king museum and dietch projects he has been featured on and appeared in cnn hbo mtv vh1 vogue the new york times the new york post the village voice rolling stone and glamourhe has performed and recorded with various bands and on many projects including a collaboration with british recording artist marc almond on the song my madness i from his 2010 release variet his debut solo cd plays the theremin released on bowl fork records in 2010 showcases many classical armenian laments and folk songs representing both armens heritage and his very first musical influence he has a cameo appearance in the film party monsterhe currently resides in hollywood californiain october 2010 armen appeared as a guest judge on the logo network show the arrangementra appeared on the cover track everyday is halloween playing the theremin for sharon needles album pg13 in 2014 he played the theremin for voltaires album raised by bats
rachel barr phd is an associate professor at georgetown university her research focuses on understanding the learning and memory mechanisms that develop during infancy because infants are preverbal her techniques rely on imitation and learning methods to find out what infants have learned and how well and how long they remember it her previous research has focused on how infants pick up information from different media sources television siblings adults and different contexts most recently barrs studies focus on factors that might enhance infant learning from televisionbarrs lab is called the georgetown early learning project information about the research conducted can be found at httpwwwelpgeorgetowneduin 2005 barr became part of the sesame beginnings advisory board which included other national child development and media experts this year also marked her involvement in the zero to three leaders development initiativeshe is currently a reviewer for many popular and prestigious peer journals including journal of experimental child psychology infant behavior and development developmental psychobiology developmental psychology developmental science current directions in psychological science archives of pediatric and adolescent research child development infant and child development her posters and presentations are often found at international child development conferences such as srcd and isiseducation includes a phd in developmental psychology diploma in clinical psychology and bsc hons in psychology from the university of otago
william d bill young born 6 june 1931 is a former australian rules footballer who played with the st kilda football club in the victorian football league vflyoung was an allround sportsmana top goal scorer in country football a cricketer who once topscored for a victorian country team against england he was also a wellperformed track cyclist represented country victoria in tennis and later in life was an agrade squash player he is widely regarded as the best allround sportsman to come out of gippslandin 1948 1950 1952 1954 and 1955 young was leading goalkicker in the gippsland football league kicking 160 goals in 1954 and 136 in 1955 his best efforts were 26 goals in a game in 1950 and 22 in 1954young debuted aged of 25 with st kilda football club a full forward kicking 56 goals in his debut year winning the vfls leading goalkicker awardhe was also st kildas leading goalkicker from 1956 to 1960blair campbell credited him with inventing the reverse punt shot at goal he was most certainly the first vfl player to do soyoung was rather frail for a vfl fullforward and under 6ft but he used his leap well to mark overhead and was a deadly accurate kick for goal
ronald ronnie wallwork born 10 september 1977 is an english former footballer who could play as either a defender or a midfielder an england under20 international he began his career at manchester united where he made his professional debut in 1997 he never fully established himself in the united firstteam however and was loaned out to carlisle united and stockport county during a further loan spell at royal antwerp he was banned from football for life for attacking a belgian referee although the ban was later substantially reduced he returned to football in 2014 signing for ashton united in 2002 wallwork moved to west bromwich albion where he was the player of the year for 200405 he was not always a regular in the side however and spent time on loan at bradford city barnsley and huddersfield town his spell at barnsley was cut short when he was stabbed in a nightclub causing him to miss more than two months of the 200607 season wallwork was transferred to sheffield wednesday in january 2008 but was released just four months later and has since been without a club in december 2011 he was sentenced to 15 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to three counts of receiving stolen goods
stanley maddox rumbough jr born april 25 1920 was born in new york city and attended yale university his parents were ltcol stanley maddox rumbough 18861961 and elizabeth morse colgate 18891962 greatgranddaughter of william colgate founder of colgatepalmolive he had one sister named elizabeth colgate rumboughfor many years he worked for a variety of manufacturing companies rumbough also had an interest in republican politics in 1951 he was cofounder with charles f willis of the citizens for eisenhower movement which helped develop grass roots support for the presidential campaign of dwight d eisenhower branches of citizens for eisenhower were established in each state and helped plan local campaign activities at the height of the 1952 campaign the national headquarters of citizens for eisenhower in new york city had over 700 volunteers and an extensive administrative staffafter eisenhower became president rumbough became a special assistant in the white house where he helped organize the executive branch liaison office this office compiled newsletters known as fact papers analyzing statements by the president and cabinet officers on a variety of issues and explaining major administration programs and accomplishments the newsletters were circulated to members of the administration who had been appointed by the president this enabled political appointees to follow the evolution of administration policy the office staff also helped coordinate public speeches made by administration officials to ensure that the officials would appear in venues that would be most beneficial to the administrationhe was married to actress dina merrill between 1946 and 1966 they had three children stanley hutton rumbough david post rumbough 19501973 and nedenia nina colgate rumbough
luis prezoramas born 1960 in caracas is a venezuelan poet art historian and curator he is the author of seven poetry books four recollections of essays as well as numerous art exhibition catalogues he has contributed as op ed author to national newspapers in venezuela el nacional and el universal as well as to various litterary and art magazines in latin america and europehe studied comparative litterature in caracas at the andrs bello catholic university graduating summa cum laude after writing a thesis on the mexican poet jos gorostiza later he pursued his studies in philosophy and art history in toulouse and paris france receiving a phd from the ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales ehhss paris in 1994 under the direction of louis marin and hubert damisch after completing his doctoral dissertation on diego velazquezhe taught art history at the university of rennes 2upper brittany the ecole suprieure de beaux arts de nantes and the instituto superior de estudios universitarios en artes plsticas armando revern caracas he has also taught at the master program in museum architecture and museology at the faculty of architecture central university of venezuelahe was member of grupo guaire in venezuela and took part at the taller calicanto under the direction of the venezuelan poet antonia palacioshe has organized numerous art exhibitions in venezuela brasil europe and the us in 2011 he was appointed curatorial director of the xxxth so paulo biennial which he organized under the title the inminence of poetics an edition extremely well received both nationally and internationally he currently works at the museum of modern art new york where he holds the position of latin american art curator since 2006
johan martin lianes born 4 june 1976 is a retired norwegian football goalkeeperhe started his career in kongsvinger il and played for norwegian youth national teams he was drafted into kongsvinger ils senior team ahead of the 1993 season ahead of the 1995 season he left for galterud if he also played for brandval il before rejoining kongsvinger ahead of the 1998 season he played 12 games over the next three seasonsin 2000 he joined aalborg chang a club that changed name to fc nordjylland in 2001 in early 2002 he expressed desire to leave fc nordjylland and he joined sander il in the same year he then retired but changed his mind and ahead of the 2004 season he joined strmmen ifafter the 2004 season he retired again and he remained inactive for a period despite the announcement that he signed for galterud if ahead of the 2006 season in the 2007 season he made a comeback for nes sk in the fifth division sixth tier he had recently moved to helgya in 2008 he appeared for galterud if and he also spent some time in lunderseter il before joining vaaler if in 2009he has also been a football referee in the lower leagues
christophe lamaison born 8 april 1971 in dax landes france is a former french rugby union footballer who represented france at international level and brive agen and aviron bayonnais at professional club level he won 37 caps and is the current alltime leading points scorer for france with 380 points lamaison played most of his rugby as a centre and possessed reliable distribution and kicking skills which made up for his only real weakness a lack of pace he could also play at flyhalf he made his international debut against south africa on 30 november 1996 in paris and rose to prominence as a key member of frances grand slamwinning sides of 1997 and 1998 his goalkicking ability also helped brive reach the heineken cup final in 1998 and 1999 lamaisons finest hour came at the 1999 rugby world cup in the semifinal against new zealand at twickenham selected at flyhalf for the match lamaison scored a full house of points and set up several tries he scored the first try of the game but new zealand hit back with jonah lomu scoring two tries to lead 2410 in the second half then lamaison kicked two drop goals and two penalties bringing the score back to 2422 in 13 minutes of rugby the french scored 26 unanswered points and won 4331 in one of the biggest upsets in rugby world cup historyin 2000 lamaison almost repeated his semifinal performance against new zealand scoring 27 points in a 4233 victory in 2004 he stopped his professional rugby union career despite lucrative offers from the english side saracens and played for saintmdardenjalles in the fdrale 2 he retired from all rugby in 2006
nella cotrupi is an italianborn canadian author lawyer scholar and educator she has also been a candidate for public office her scholarly work on canadian literary theorist northrop frye has focused on the social function of literature and the role that metaphorical language plays in process poetics she has written and presented on the links between process theology and process poeticsdr cotrupis book northrop frye and the poetics of process was the first major work to explore how longinian poetics the theories of giambattista vico and process thinking influenced fryes writing taking her cue from fryes notion that cultural and literary works function as the laboratory for fashioning new and hopefully better worlds she explores the notion that some literature does indeed function as a secular scripture carving out a path for individual and collective moral actsin 2002 she delivered the keynote address to the northrop frye festival titled process and possibility northrop fryes spiritual visioncotrupi was a candidate for political office in the riding of richmond hill ontario canada during one provincial election and one federal electioncalled to the ontario bar in 1980 she practiced law in a toronto legal clinic providing services to low income and immigrant groups in the 1980s and later in the 1990s with a toronto law firm specializing in notforprofit and charity law during this time she served on the board of away a torontobased company founded and staffed by individuals who had experienced mental health challengesthroughout the period of her legal practice and more currently during her business involvements in the field of continuing professional and legal education nella cotrupi has continued to teach and make presentations on subjects associated with literature and the social and moral processes literature fuels
jody byrne is a retired irish footballer who played in the league of ireland in the 1980s and 1990safter playing for cambridge boys he moved to dundalk fc where he was an understudy to richie blackmore he did make his debut keeping a clean sheet at finn harps on the 13th of february 1983 he made a total of 2 appearances for dundalk keeping 2 clean sheets in his 2 years therein april 1983 he played for the league of ireland xi u21s against their italian league counterparts who included roberto mancini and gianluca vialli in their team 1in may 1983 jim mclaughlin footballer brought byrne to shamrock rovers and at milltown he went to win four league medals and the fai cup three timesin his 7 years at rovers byrne played 196 league games keeping 76 clean sheets he played 302 competitive games altogether including 8 games in the european champion clubs cup keeping 2 clean sheets he was player of the year on two occasions in 198687 and 198889 shamrock roversplayer of the year award recipients he was everpresent for two consecutive seasons 198788 and 198889in 1990 he moved to shelbourne fc where he helped the reds to their first league title in 30 years in 1992 and their first fai cup success in thirty years in 1993 he got sent off after only 27 seconds on st patricks day 1992he then had spells at cork city and dundalk again
maharaj kishan bhan is an indian paediatrician and clinical scientist he holds mbbs and md degrees from post graduate institute of medical education and research chandigarh and has carried out extensive post doctoral research at all india institute of medical sciences in the realm of diarrhoeal diseases and child nutrition with emphasis on public health issueshe is known for developing rota viral vaccine in collaboration with bharat biotech international he was positioned as secretary department of biotechnology government of india until 2012 dr bhan conceived the newly formed birac which is expected to result in product development by industry in collaboration with academia this initiative is to boost product development in the country for this dr bhan was actively assisted by drs renu swarup ravi dhar from birac besides these certain luminaries of indian science like prof padmanabhan dr chauhan prof tandon and several others were constantly advising birache was awarded in 1990 the shanti swarup bhatnagar prize for science and technology the highest science award in india in the medical sciences category he holds honorary doctor of science and is responsible for policy formulation and is member of the jury for nearly all major national science awards awarded by the government of india
rotimi adebari born 1964 in okeodan ogun state is a nigerianborn irish politician he was elected as the first black mayor in irelanda convert from islam to christianity he fled nigeria in 2000 and made a claim for asylum on the grounds of religious persecution his application was rejected because of insufficient evidence he had personally suffered persecution but he gained residency because his third child another boy was born in ireland against claims that he was a train operator working out of the queens park depot on the bakerloo tube line adebari says he travelled to ireland directly from nigeria via paris and never worked or lived in london at any timehe and his family settled in county laois in 2004 he was elected as a town councilor in local elections in june 2007 he was elected as mayor of portlaoise town council 9 members with support from fine gael sinn fin and an independent councillor in the 2009 local elections he was reelected to the town council and also to laois county council for the portlaoise electoral areahe completed his masters degree in intercultural studies at dublin city university and set up a firm called optimum point consultancyhe ran as an independent candidate in the 2011 general election for the laoisoffaly constituency though failed to get elected he received 628 1st preference votes a share of 085he lost his council seat at the 2014 local elections
ali sadreddine albayanouni arabic is a muslim brotherhood leader in exile in london he was born in 1938 age 7677 in aleppo and brought up in a religious family where his father and grandfather were both well known muslim scholars he joined the muslim brotherhood while in secondary school in 1954 and went on to graduate with a law degree from the university of damascus in 1963 he served as a reserve officer in the syrian army from 1959 to 1960 bayanouni became a member of the syrian muslim brotherhoods shura council and executive office in 1972 due to his membership of the muslim brotherhood bayanouni was imprisoned from 1975 to 1977 after his time in prison he emerged to become the deputy leader of the brotherhood in 1977 he left syria two years later and eventually settled in jordan where he remained for twenty years he arrived in britain as a political refugee in 2000 after the jordanian authorities requested he leave the countryin the wake of the unrest in syria he has called for the end of the bashar alassad government and the convention of a free conference of all the nationalist forces in syria which would enable syrians to develop a collective national alternative
beth anderson born 1954 is an american singer and voice actress from lexington kentuckyandersons first notable release was the song dance dance dance which appeared in the 1983 film scarface as well as on its soundtrack the song dance dance dance became iconic in the following years due it its use in the scene where octavio the clown is gunned down the song also appeared on the us 7 version of debbie harrys single rush rush another song from the scarface soundtrack dance dance dance was also featured in the 2006 video game scarface the world is yoursfeaturing with limahl anderson sung the no 1 hit the neverending story the theme song for the 1984 eponymous film her lyrics were recorded in america separately from limahls and accordingly she did not appear in the music video one of limahls back up singers mandy newton lip synced andersons lyrics for the music video limahl and anderson only performed the song together on a few occasions including on the tv series solid gold and american bandstandanderson also performed the songs just imagine way beyond fear for the 1984 film thief of hearts and angel baby for the 1989 film shes out of controlanderson has also worked as a voice actress she has voiced characters in the animated films the brave little toaster the swan princess daisyhead mayzie an all dogs christmas carol and the 1999 disney film tarzan
lucian charles grainge cbe born 29 february 1960 is the chairman and chief executive officer of universal music group over the course of his career he has been instrumental in the careers of artists such as amy winehouse abba eurythmics mika duffy take that psychedelic furs sting jamie cullum and andrea bocelli grainge has worked in the music business for his entire career in 2013 grainge was ranked first in billboards power 100 listirving azoff called him the great hope for the music business and jimmy iovine commented that grainge is working to restore a spirit of risktaking and innovation by being willing and open to entrepreneurship and that kind of thing the record industry has gotten depleted ofin an interview with grainge billboard wrote if power means moving markets or greenlighting massive spends universal music group chairman lucian grainge demonstrated a staggering penchant for it when umg completed its 19 billion acquisition of emis recordedmusic assets in september 2012 grainge is a fierce and tireless advocate for the recordedmusic business in 2013 cnet wrote that grainge is positioning universal to lead the pack of major labels in their embracing of new digital opportunities a 2014 frontpage la times profile of grainge said that if anyone can save the music business it might be grainge
will tiao is a taiwanese american actor and producer born and raised in manhattan kansas he worked in the field of international politics before entering the hollywood scene tiao was a cello performance major at the university of michigan before transferring to tufts university where he received his ba in international relations magna cum laude and a ma in international affairs from columbia university he received a fulbright scholarship for his research on the association of southeast asian nations in manila philippinestiao worked as a presidential management fellow under the clinton administration and went on to become an international economist under the george w bush administration however in 2002 he decided to leave politics to pursue a career in entertainmenttiao has worked as an actor producer and writertranslator for tv film and stage his tv credits include madtv fox yes dear cbs untold stories from the er tlc mind of mencia comedy central the winner fox and the internet series quarterlife his theatre credits include waiting for lefty extremities marty in the boom boom room and proof he starred in and produced the awardwinning short film a starbucks story as well as the independent dark comedy stan he is the writer actor and producer of formosa betrayed a feature film based on the true events surrounding taiwanese democracy and independence activists in the 1980s
c d payne born c douglas payne july 5 1949 is an american writer of absurdist fiction who is best known for his series of novels about fictional teenager nick twisp they are called the youth in revolt series or the journals of nick twispin the novels the protagonist nick strives to balance out his budding sexual urges while remaining an intellectual teenager in a world of moronic adultsalong with the youth series he is the author of several other novels including frisco pigeon mambo and civic beauties a parody of politics in the united states which follows the lives of two teenage twin girls whose father is campaigning to be vice president he has also published a play titled queen of america a royal comedy in three acts frisco pigeon mambo was bought by fox animation but was never made into a film youth in revolt was developed and distributed by dimension films in january 2010payne was born in akron ohio in 1949 july 5 he graduated from harvard college in 1971 he then moved to california and has worked as a newspaper editor cartoonist typesetter graphic artist proofreader photographer advertising copywriter trailer park handyman and carpenter he is married and lives in sonoma county
robert m pepper ph d b february 10 1948 in new york city is a specialist in communications policy he received his ba and phd from the university of wisconsinmadison and held faculty positions at the university of iowa indiana university and university of pennsylvania and was a research affiliate at harvard university following this he was director of the annenberg washington program in communications policyhe was subsequently chief of the office of plans and policy and chief of policy development at the us federal communications commission fcc and office now known as osp at the fcc he worked on issues such as implementing telecommunications legislation planning for the transition to digital television designing and implementing the first us spectrum auctions he has also been acting associate administrator at the national telecommunications and information administration ntia and initiator of a program on computers communications and information policy at the national science foundationhe is vice president for global technology policy at cisco having joined the company in 2005 he is responsible for the international aspects of the companys advanced technology policy working in areas such as broadband ip enabled services wireless security and privacy and ict developmenthe serves on the board of directors of the us telecommunications training institute ustti and the advisory boards for columbia university and michigan state university and is a communications program fellow at the aspen institute he is a member of the us department of commerces spectrum management advisory committee the uks ofcom spectrum advisory board and the us department of states advisory committee on international communications and information policy
terry oneill born 10 june 1956 is a former australian rules football player who played with the south melbourne and fitzroy football clubs in the victorian football league vfl after two modest seasons which brought him just 11 games oneill was one of south melbournes best players in 1977 despite having never played as a defender previously oneill spent the season as a fullback oneill kept peter hudson to three goals on the two occasions they met that year which was impressive considering the hawthorn fullforward kicked 110 goals for the season he polled well in the brownlow medal count with 14 votes to finish as his clubs second top votegetter behind only the winner graham teasdale originally from narrandera he also played every vfl game during the season and didnt miss a game again in 1978oneill played just once in 1980 and instead spent the season in the vfa with port melbourne he was the fullback in ports premiership team that year he returned to the vfl in 1981 as a fitzroy player and took part in their finals campaign that season his first appearance in 1983 against footscray at waverley park was his 100th league game and he played just one more time for fitzroyin 1984 he was a member of queensland club coorparoos premiership team and played in another premiership two years later he also coached coorparoo in 1987 and 1988 state captain in 1988 oneill represented queensland at interstate football on 25 occasions
nicholas a christakis born may 7 1962 is an american sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic and biosocial determinants of behavior health and longevity he is the sol goldman family professor of social and natural science at yale university he directs the human nature lab and he is the codirector of the yale institute for network science until july 2013 he was a professor of medical sociology in the department of health care policy and a professor of medicine in the department of medicine at harvard medical school a professor of sociology in the department of sociology in the harvard faculty of arts and sciences and an attending physician at the harvardaffiliated mt auburn hospital from 2009 to 2013 christakis and his wife erika christakis were comasters of pforzheimer house one of harvards twelve residential housesin 2009 he was named to the time 100 time magazines list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and again in 2010 christakis was named by foreign policy magazine to its list of top global thinkershe was elected to the institute of medicine of the national academy of sciences in 2006 and he was named a fellow at the american association for the advancement of science in 2010
susan christie is an american singersongwriter from philadelphia pennsylvania she had a minor hit with the novelty song i love onions written by donald cochrane and john hill the track which peaked at 63 on the billboard hot 100 chart in 1966 is described as having a sound reminiscent of the 1930s with christies breathy vocal backed by a chorus of kazoo players and male backup singersin canada however the single fared much better reaching 19 on the rpm 100 national singles chart on august 1 1966 the tune was adapted as i love funyuns for a late 60s tv commercial for an onionflavored snack food the tune was later adapted for a canadian television commercial as i love turtles in 1980signed to columbia records christie recorded an album in 1970 paint a lady described as psychedelic folk music the album went unreleased by columbia which considered it to be noncommercial and christie was dropped from the label the album of which only three vinyl copies were ever pressed languished in obscurity until 2006 when manchesterbased dj andy votel received a copy and brought the album renewed attention and a cd release spin magazine described the album as funky free folk filled with brilliantly original songs and christie as a dark strange songbirdchristie participated in the 2008 lost ladies of folk project spearheaded by votel and his spouse recording artist jane weaver performing in concert at queen elizabeth hall in london and appearing on the compilation album bearded ladies in 2010 christie appeared as a guest artist on weavers album the fallen by watch bird
cristin patricio larroulet vignau born 1953 in temuco was the minister general secretariat of the presidency of chile under president sebastin pieralarroulet graduated from high school at colegio sagrados corazones de manquehue and he obtained his business administration degree from the pontifical catholic university of chile and a masters degree in economics from the university of chicago united states of americalarroulet was a professor at the universidad catlica universidad adolfo ibaez and at the school of economics of the universidad de chile he was a visiting researcher at the institute of the americas the university of california san diego united states of america at present he is dean of the universidad del desarrollos economics faculty he has written several academic publications in chile and abroad and he is author of economa published by macgrawhilllarroulet has experience in the design and implementation of political policies he was chief of staff of the treasury under former minister hernn bchi and was the executive director of the instituto libertad y desarrollo from that position he advised the national congress on a wide range of policy subjects and he is a member of several commissions such as the one that led to the general education law as well as the new corporate governance agreement for codelcolarroulets contributions have been recognized with distinctions on several occasions such as economist of the year in 2009 by the newspaper el mercurio
james cotton is a political figure in manitoba canada he was chosen as the leader of the freedom party of manitoba in 2007 and intended to lead the party into the 2007 provincial election he was unable to do so as the party failed to register any candidates with elections manitobacotton was 29 years old at the time of the election and lived in matlock near winnipeg beach he was previously a member of the progressive conservative party of manitoba but left because he believed it was too liberal and did not pay sufficient attention to the concerns of grassroots membershe became politically active through talks with chris buors who was leader of the small manitoba marijuana party from 2005 to 2007 buors offered the party leadership to cotton who accepted it on condition that the name be changed to the freedom party while his political views are largely similar to buorss cotton has said that he is not a marijuana guyhe planned to run against justice minister dave chomiak in the division of kildonan but was unable to do so when the party could not field the minimum five candidates required for official ballot status buors surmised that some people who had promised to run as candidates backed out at the last minute cotton himself was not available for commentcotton does not appear to have played an active role with the freedom party after the election although he remained its nominal leader for an unspecified period of time the party is no longer registered with elections manitobain march 2010 the winnipeg free press reported that cotton plead guilty to income tax evasion over an internet investment scheme cotton was fined 40000 sentenced to two years of supervised probation and ordered to get treatment for his gambling addiction
amit nilkanth patel md bs ms is an indian american cardiac surgeon and director of clinical regenerative medicine and tissue engineering at the university of utah in salt lake city patel studied medicine at the case western reserve university in 2002 he led a breakthrough study demonstrating that stem cell transplantation could treat congestive heart failure he is currently the national lead investigator for aastrom biosciences to treat cardiomyopathy both ischemic and nonischemic using adult stem cells in the us he is also lead investigator for a number of trials to use adult stem cells to treat limb ischemia inadequate blood flow to the leg he has taught many surgeons around the world in countries such as thailand and india notable patients of his include hawaiian singer don ho ho credited patels 2005 procedure on him with saving his life and allowing him to return to performing after being forced into retirement for health reasons he is currently working on programs for type 2 diabetes burn wound therapies with the us military arteriocyte traumatic brain injury and plastic resconstruction he has started collaborative programs in peru argentina ecuador germany and india his newest program is to treat heart failure patients with one day out patient cell therapies harvest patel has recently developed a stem cell spray for rapid healing of heart surgery and burns
frank brinsley b may 1971 in washington dc is a selfproclaimed small market shock jockas the son of a preacher his family moved a lot for his fathers work brinsley spent time in places like colorado springs cincinnati and the small town of ashland kentucky in northeastern kentucky the latter is where he spent most of his time growing up brinsley graduated from boyd county high school in 1989brinsley entered radio at age 15 on christian am station 1040 wokt in ashland from there he moved on to wwku in glasgow kentucky the first top50 station he worked for outside of kentucky was in memphis for fm 100 memphis from there he moved on to market number 19tampa shortly after he went to new york city to work as a music director for hot ac radio station big 105 which is now power 105after two years in new york he got the offer to join up with former memphis coworker john michael in this new position he travelled to tucson to do mornings at alternative rock station kfma after two years of problems michael left in summer 2002 leaving brinsley to do mornings with the other cohosts it became the frank show syndication later followed to rock station kdot in reno nevada ratings were good and the show became popular among the target audience for alternative radioin 2003 he met his wife allison who worked for clear channel communications in november 2005 they married they currently live in maranain 2007 brinsley stated on the air that he wanted a pony
alice nkom is a cameroonian lawyer well known for her advocacy towards decriminalization of homosexuality in cameroon she studied law in toulouse and has been a lawyer in douala since 1969 at the age of 24 she was the first black woman called to the bar in cameroonher work involved the defence in a variety of situations including young victims of police violence but she became best known for her defence of people accused of homosexuality criminalized in cameroon in 2003 she founded adefho the association for the defence of homosexuality and she became more and more the shining example of a ally to the lgbt causein january 2011 she was threatened with arrest by a representative of cameroons ministry of communication after adefho was awarded a 300000 grant by the european union later that year she represented jeanclaude roger mbede a man imprisoned for three years for homosexuality and attempted homosexuality following a series of sms messages to a male acquaintance and who was named a prisoner of conscience by amnesty internationalin 2006 and 2013 she was a keynote speaker at the human rights conferences that took place in conjunction with the outgames in montral canada 2006 and antwerp belgium 2013 in march 2014 alice nkom was awarded with the 7 menschenrechtspreis 7th human rights award by the german section of amnesty international
owen temple born september 4 1976 in kerrville texas is an american folk and country music songwriter and musician based in austin texas work with producer and pedal steel guitar musician lloyd maines led to 1997s general store and 1999s passing through the year 2002 saw the release of the phil madeiraproduced right here and nowin 2007 and 2011 temple was a kerrville folk festival new folk finalist and he was the winner of the 2007 b w stevenson songwriting competition two thousand miles a fourth studio project was produced by maines and was released on january 22 2008 on el paisano records a review in allmusic noted great lyrics full of insight and plainspoken poetrya fifth studio album dollars and dimes was released june 9 2009 it is a concept album focused on different regions of north america during hard times in july 2009 the album was the no 1 record on the euro americana chart in august 2009 the album was no 5 on the freeform american roots charta sixth studio album mountain home was released april 26 2011 and the songs on the album focus on small texas towns and the eccentrics inhabiting themstories they tell a seventh studio album will be released on september 24 2013
grzegorz zenon schreiber born 14 february 1961 in bydgoszcz poland is a polish politician who is a current vicechairperson of kuyavianpomeranian regional assembly between 1991 and 1993 he was sejm member he was bydgoszcz city councillors also 20022006in 1986 he graduated philology in pedagogical university polish wysza szkoa pedagogiczna current kazimierz wielki university in bydgoszcz between 1987 and 1991 he worked as teacher in primary school in kotomierz in 1991 he was a principal of 16th primary school in bydgoszcz in 1990s he was the president of multisport club polonia bydgoszcz bks poloniain 1991 parliamentary election he joined the sejm of poland the lower house i term representing the 17th district bydgoszcz running on the catholic election action list in 1993 election he was not electedbetween 1994 and 1995 he was a vicepresident vicemayor of bydgoszczin 1997 parliamentary election he joined the sejm of poland again iii term representing the 6th district bydgoszcz running on the solidarity electoral action list in 2001 election he was not electedin 2002 local election he joined the bydgoszcz city council iv term representing the 3rd district he polled 1178 votes and was first on the law and justice listin january 2006 he was nominated as the undersecretary of state podsekretarz stanu in the ministry of sport of poland in cabinet of kazimierz marcinkiewiczin 2006 local election he joined the regional assembly iii term representing the 1st district he scored 8547 votes running on the law and justice list assembly elected him as vicechairperson of the assembly wiceprzewodniczcy sejmiku wojewdztwa kujawskopomorskiegoin 2007 parliamentary election he candidated to the sejm of poland again he polled 5364 votes and was first candidate who was not elected from law and justice list in bydgoszcz district
john southern spencer born 10 august 1947 is a former england international rugby union player he was born in grassington yorkshire in 1947 and educated at cressbrook sedbergh school and queens college cambridge he has three children david hazel and emilyspencer played for cambridge in the varsity matches of 1967 1968 and 1969 he played club rugby for headingley as a centre and made his england debut at the age of 21 against ireland at lansdowne road dublin in february 1969 he went on to play 14 times for england scoring 2 tries his last game was against the presidents overseas xv in a rugby football union centenary match at twickenham in april 1971 he captained england in four internationalsspencer was selected for the 1971 british lions tour to new zealand and played in ten matches on the tour but he did not appear in any of the four test matches against the all blacks he also represented the barbarianshe is now head of club england which is part of the rfu as well as president of the wharfedale rufc in grassingtonin 2017 and the lead up to 2017 spencer will act as tour manager for the british and irish lions on their 2017 tour to new zealand
john warner born 1970 is an american writer and editor he is the author of four books and the editor of mcsweeneys internet tendency he is a frequent contributor to the morning news and has been anthologized in may contain nuts stumbling and raging more politically inspired fiction and the future dictionary of america he frequently collaborates with writer kevin guilfoile warners most debut novel was the funny man the book has been reviewed by publishers weekly and kirkus reviews his most recent work is the short story collection a tough day for the army edited by michael griffith and published by the lsu press series yellow shoe fictionhe is the chief creative czar of tow books a publishing imprint dedicated to humorous books distributed by fw publications incwarner was born in northbrook illinois his great uncle is the american writer allan seagerhe previously taught at clemson university in clemson sc his focus was creative writing and he was the director of a humor creative inquiry in this inquiry he was working to teach students what humor is and how to create it this three course series resulted in a student publication in 2008currently warner teaches creative writing at college of charleston in charleston sc
jonathan francis bennett born 17 february 1930 is a british philosopher of language and metaphysics and a historian of early modern philosophyborn in greymouth new zealand to francis oswald bennett and pearl allan brash bennett bennett read philosophy at the university of canterbury formerly canterbury university college and at the university of oxford where he was a member of magdalen college oxfordbennetts first academic post was as a junior lecturer at the university of auckland new zealand then auckland university college 1952 he was an instructor in philosophy at haverford college pennsylvania 195556 then a lecturer in moral science philosophy at the university of cambridge 195668 then at simon fraser university 196870 the university of british columbia 197079 and syracuse university 197997 in 1980 he was the tanner lecturer at brasenose college of oxford university in 1992 he was the john locke lecturer at the university of oxford in 1985 he was elected a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences the british academy extended him the same honor in 1991he has also written extensively on philosophy of mind events conditionals and consequentialist ethics bennett is renowned for his interpretations of major early modern philosophersbennetts website is devoted to making the texts of early modern philosophers more accessible to todays students
adil rami french pronunciation adil ami arabic born 27 december 1985 is a corsicanborn french footballer of moroccan descent who plays as a centre back for serie a club milan and the france national teamrami began his football career playing for amateur club toile frjus saintraphal then known as es frjus due only playing the sport as a hobby he spent three seasons at the club playing in the championnat de france amateur the fourth division of french football in 2006 rami ascended three divisions after signing with ligue 1 club lille osc at lille rami developed in a starter making his professional debut in may 2007 he is nicknamed shrek by teammates and lille supporters in january 2011 rami joined spanish club valencia agreeing to a fouryear contract he was immediately loaned back to his previous club and was subsequently a part of the lille team that won the league and cup doubledespite constant early inquiries from morocco prior to his first selection rami is a french international he was preselected to play for france at the 2010 fifa world cup but did not make the final squad rami made his senior debut on 11 august 2010 in a friendly match against norway
gert andreas alm born 19 june 1973 in gllivare and grew up in eskilstuna is a swedish former football player he is the current manager of aik and also a former player for the club during his active career he played for the two stockholm rivals aik and hammarby if in the swedish allsvenskan he also played for ifk norrkping in the swedish superettan and also in norway and kongsvinger il for a short timeafter his active career he showed up in swedish television as a football commentator in the national channel tv4on 27 november 2008 he was appointed as a new assistant manager for aik following the departure of former assistant neboja novakovi earlier the same month in protest against the boards decision to sack rikard norling together with other assistant manager christer swrd and manager mikael stahre aik managed to win both allsvenskan and svenska cupen during their first year together the following year aik started by winning the supercupen against the recent league runnersup ifk gteborg but the rest of the season became a big disappointment and stahre left the club for greek outfit panionios gss in april 2010 alm remained as assistant manager during caretaker bjrn wesstrms stay and later appointed alex millers stay when miller and aik during mutual consent split up alm later on was appointed as aiks new manager in december 2010 novakovi rejoined the team staff as assistant manager together with swrd
dr malcolm james washer born 12 august 1945 australian politician was a liberal member of the australian house of representatives from october 1998 to august 2013 representing the division of moore western australia he was born in bunbury western australia and was educated at the university of western australia graduating in 1970 with degrees in medicine and surgery he was a general practitioner before entering politicshe is considered a moderate liberal in a very conservative state and is supportive of socially liberal issues such as samesex marriage during 2010 and 2011 he was the contact for the australian parliamentary group on drug law reform apgdlr a cross party group of 100 mps from australian state and commonwealth parliaments the group was set up in 1993 after a meeting in canberra convened by michael moore act assembly and ann symonds mlc nswin august 2011 he announced he would not be contesting the next federal electionin march 2014 washer announced his resignation as chair of the alcohol and other drug council of australia he said the reason was the illinformed decision of assistant health minister fiona nash to cut the organisations funding without notice noting that her decision was a bloody tragedy which wasnt subject to any review it was dumb advising dumber and dumb won
stephen steve mcclaren born 3 may 1961 is an english football manager and former player who is currently head coach at derby county his managerial career began at middlesbrough in the premier league who won the league cup in 2004 and were runners up in the 2006 uefa cup final mcclaren then served as manager of england from august 2006 to december 2007 he was sacked after england failed to qualify for the 2008 european championship in 2008 mcclaren became manager of fc twente with whom he won the clubs first eredivisie championship in the 200910 season he then worked as manager of vfl wolfsburg in germany between may 2010 and february 2011 after a short spell as manager of nottingham forest he returned to twente in january 2012despite his successes at manchester united where he had been assistant manager to alex ferguson from 1999 to 2001 and middlesbrough he was strongly criticised by the english media following englands failure to qualify for euro 2008 mcclarens time in charge at fc twente saw his professional reputation recover somewhat after he managed them to the eredivisie title for the first time since their founding in 1965 though he was subsequently dismissed from vfl wolfsburg and nottingham foresthis return to fc twente was initially greeted with enthusiasm and the club was deemed to be one of the favourites to the 201213 eredivisie championship at the start of the season however after unsuccessful results at fc twente mcclaren resigned his position on 26 february 2013 within seven months however he was back in management with derby county the club where he had once been assistant manager
lzaro crdenas batel born april 2 1964 in jiquilpan michoacn is a mexican politician he served as governor of michoacn from 2002 to 2008 representing the party of the democratic revolution prd prior to his election to that office in 2001 he had represented his home state in both the federal chamber of deputies and the senatecrdenas batel is a member of a distinguished political family his grandfather lzaro crdenas del ro served as president of mexico from 1934 to 1940 and his father cuauhtmoc crdenas has been a presidential candidate on three occasions and was the first democratically elected head of government of the federal district mexico city both father and grandfather also served as governors of michoacn lazaro cardenas batel studied at the national school of anthropology and history from 1983 to 1987some prd members criticized crdenas batel for his lack of support for andrs manuel lpez obrador during the 2006 presidential campaign some even asked him to leave the party on the night of election according to the wall street journal batel accepted a call from lpez obradors opponent and eventual winner felipe calderncrdenas batel holds a degree in ethnohistory from the national school of anthropology and history enah in mexico city he was succeeded in the position as michoacn governor by leonel godoy in february 2008
nicholas james sterling born july 18 1990 is a guitar player and songwriter from mesa arizona he started learning guitar at the age of 7 years old by the age of 10 he had released his first cd ten at age 10 he shared a stage with alice cooper at a new years eve concert when he was 13 guitarist dave mason expressed admiration for his talent in 2005 he released his second cd life goes on sterling played all the instruments did the vocals and recorded both cds himself his third album invisible was released in 2010sterling has played with quite a few famous rock musicians and bands including aerosmith kid rock cheap trick cinderella steve vai joe satriani eric johnson gary hoey peter frampton gavin degraw bachmanturner overdrive jackyl sebastian bach and guns n rosessince 2008 he has been a columnist for modern guitars magazineon october 12 2009 sebastian bach announced that after a long search he has chosen sterling to be his new guitar player sterling joined bach on stage for the first time in helsinki finland on december 12 2009 when they opened for alice cooperon august 13 2012 nick sterling was fired by bach after contractual disagreements over fair compensation of songs that nick and bach wrote together that would be performed by bach on axstv bach didnt bend bach also stated in a radio interview that nick was fired for personal reasons involving ongoing disagreements
aldo deng is a former sudanese politician and father of several professional basketball playersa christian and a member of the dinka deng was elected to the sudanese parliament in 1967 between 1967 to 1989 he held positions of provincial governor deputy speaker minister of culture minister of irrigration minister of transportation and deputy prime ministerin 1988 deng sent his wife and children to alexandria to avoid the escalating second sudanese civil war the next year omar albashir led a military coup that took control of the government and deng was arrested at gunpoint spending three months in prison omar albashir released deng so that deng could negotiate with the sudan peoples liberation army of southern sudan but in 1993 deng fled to the united kingdom and claimed political asylum shortly afterwards he travelled to egypt to collect his family and they settled in south norwood london he has since organized several charities to support women children and schools in sudan after the end of the civil war in 2005 and the independence of south sudan in 2011 he returned to serve on the committee that wrote the new countrys constitutiondeng is the father of 16 children several of whom have become notable for their basketball prowess son luol deng attended duke university and currently plays for the miami heat of the national basketball association sons ajou deng and deng deng have played in the british basketball league and daughter arek deng played for the university of delaware
romesh c batra is a professor in the department of engineering science and mechanics at virginia tech he has made contributions to continuum mechanics and nonlinear elasticity and has published over 300 journal articles widely read and reputed referred journalshe was born in india and completed his bachelors in mechanical engineering from university of punjab in 1968 where he won the gold medal for being first in three states he went on to pursue higher studies in university of waterloo canada batra earned his doctorate in 1972 from johns hopkins university under the direction of j l ericksen his dissertation was titled on nonclassical boundary conditionshe worked as a postdoctoral fellow at hopkins for a year and also at mcmaster university canada for a year before joining the university of missourirolla as a visiting assistant professor in fall 1974 he was promoted to associate professor in 1977 and to full professor in 1982 in 1994 he joined virginia tech virginia polytechnic institute and state university as the clifton c garvin professor of engineering science and mechanics where he has written his own text book elements of continuum mechanics in 2010 he was appointed as a member of the state council of higher education for virginia
phillip phil james small born the 2nd august 1954 is an australian musician and songwriter best known as the bassist for australianpub rock band cold chisel he has written songs for cold chisel including my baby for the 1980 album east notion for you off the teenage love album and the gamefor cold chisels 1998 comeback album the last wave of summer small contributed the unnamed fifteenth track titled once around the sun as well as cowriting with steve prestwich and don walker a better time a better place as a b side to one of the singlessmall has played in a number of other bands such as planet 1971 palladium 1972 pound 1985 the earls of duke 19851988 hot ice 1986 the outsiders 1989 and billy thorpe band 2005 he also played with fellow cold chisel members jimmy barnes in his band for the 1999 tour and ian moss in late 2000 through the eastern states of australiain 2003 small teamed up with fellow band mates as cold chisel to perform and record the ringside album and dvd in 2005 he performed with cold chisel at the tsunami benefit concert at the myer music bowl in melbourne small has continued song writing and performing through the 2000ssmall is married to christine and they have a son richard
andrzej nowak born june 12 1953 in warsaw polish psychologist one of the founders of dynamical social psychology he is a pioneer in applying computer simulations in social sciencesnowak received his ma 1978 and his phd 1987 from the university of warsaw his scientific interests include complex systems in psychology and social sciencesandrzej nowak is currently a professor at the university of warsaw at the warsaw school of social sciences and humanities and at florida atlantic university he is a director and founder of the institut of social psychology of internet and communication at the warsaw school of social sciences and humanities he is one of the founders of the institut for social studies at the warsaw university where he is a director of the center for complex systems researchnowak is one of the worlds leading experts on the modeling and computer simulation of social processes using cellular automata he has modeled the emergence of public opinion in society and linear versus nonlinear societal transitions at fau he conducts both simulation and experimental research in the dynamical social psychology lab in collaboration with robin vallacher current research projects include the use of cellular automata to simulate the emergence and maintenance of selfconcept and linear and nonlinear scenarios of societal change the use of attractor neural networks to model interpersonal and group dynamics and the use of coupled dynamical systems to simulate the emergence of personality through social coordination dr nowak is also developing software for identifying attractors equilibrium states in the temporal patterns of thought and emotion on the part of people diagnosed with various forms of mental illness
uffe elbk born 15 june 1954 is a danish politician who served as minister of culture 20112012 and who has been a member of the danish parliament or folketing since 2011 initially a member of the danish social liberal party he now sits as an independent in the folketing he is also the founder and former principal of the kaospilots international school of new business design and social innovation located in aarhus the kaospilots school inspired the creation of several international schools located in norway sweden and the netherlandselbk previously was a politician of the danish social liberal partyfrom 2007 to 2009 elbk served as the ceo for the 2009 world outgamesin july 2010 elbk founded the consulting company change the game with focusing on leadership training skills political campaigning and social innovation concepts elbk served as the special advisor to the leadership team at kaospilots and as an academic adviser for the hkicc lee shau kee school of creativity in hong kongelbk won a seat in the folketing for the danish social liberal party in the 2011 danish parliamentary election on 3 october 2011 he was appointed culture minister of denmark in the government cabinet of helle thorningschmidt he resigned his minister position in december 2012 after criticism for holding five official gatherings at the organization afuk akademiet for utmmet kreativitet where he previously held a chairman post and where his husband was employed the national audit agency of denmark later concluded that he had not had a conflict of interest the ministry was criticized for some other facets related to the case in 2013 he resumed his work at the folketingelbk lives with jens pedersen in a registered partnership
richard dick posthumus pronounced pahsthumeus born 19 july 1950 is an american farmer businessman and politician he was the 61st lieutenant governor of michigan and majority leader of the michigan senate in 2002 he was the republican gubernatorial candidate in michigan posthumus grew up on a dairy farm in alto michigan outside of grand rapids he graduated from michigan state university during which he served as chairman of the college republicans and as a vice chairman of the michigan republican party in 1971 he managed the successful michigan house of representatives campaign of fellow student and future michigan governor john engler posthumus was elected to the senate in 1982 and became majority leader in 1990 when engler was elected governor his 1982 campaign was managed by saul anuzis posthumus was the longest serving majority leader in the history of the senate posthumus joined engler on as his running mate and candidate for lieutenant governor in 1998 and went on to serve in that post for four years he was the republican nominee for governor in 2002 having defeated joe schwarz in the republican primary but lost to democrat jennifer granholm in the general election he joined compatico in 2005 and became the chief executive officer in 2006on 8 november 2010 governorelect rick snyder named posthumus to be his senior adviser and legislative lobbyistposthumus married pam bartz in 1972 they have four children and four grandchildren pam died of cancer on 18 august 2010
prianti nur ramadhani born 16 april 1990 better known as nia ramadhani is an indonesian actress she was born in jakarta indonesia on 16 april 1990 nia has one younger sister thalita ramadhani and both of them were raised by their mother ever since their parents divorce when nia was only 4 years oldnia started stepping into the world of entertainment industry when she was 15 her name began to be recognised among the fans in indonesia when she played one of the major lead roles in bawang merah bawang putih alongside dimaz andrean and revalina tematnia ramadhani was famous with her being in a number of short relationships she was reportedly in a relationship with an rb singer ressa herlambang which did not last long she later paired up with the bambang reguna bukit or bams the lead singer of one of the most popular boy bands in indonesia samsons there were also brief relationships with andhika pratama her partner in one of her movies kesurupan as well as edy baskoro the son of indonesias current president susilo bambang yudhoyono in april 2010 nia had married to adriansyah bakrie the son of indonesias wellknown politician and entrepreneur aburizal bakrie their marriage was said to be a lavish one with an estimated spending of up to 10 billion rupiahs in total the president also attended the wedding as he was quite close with the grooms father nia and adriansyah welcomed their daughter named mikhayla on 2 july 2012
michael alan mike burton born 18 december 1945 in maidenhead is a former english rugby union footballer who won a reputation as an uncompromising prop forward for gloucester england and the british and irish lionsburton made his debut in the gloucester front row at the age of 18 on the 14th of november 1964 he went on to make 360 appearances before retiring in 1978 he was captain of the same club in 1975 gloucester was his only club but he played 40 times for gloucestershire in the county championship winning it four times he won the john player cup with gloucester at twickenham in 1972 against moseley and in 1978 against leicesterhe made his england debut in 1972 against wales and toured south africa with an undefeated england side that year as a member of the test team that defeated the springboks on ellis park 189 england took him on the tours of new zealand in 1973 and australia in 1975 where he became the first englishman to be sent off at international levelin the second test against australia the battle of brisbane burton was sensationally sent off after just three minutes by local queensland referee bob burnett for a late tackle on the australian winger doug osborne the match had started with punchup between the packs and the disciplinary hearing that followed ruled that no further punishment was necessaryin 1974 burton toured south africa again this time as a member of willie john mcbrides invincible british and irish lions team he won a total of seventeen england caps and represented the famous invitational club the barbarians on eight occasionshis autobiogaphy never stay down told of a tough upbringing in post war britain and his single minded determination to succeedafter retiring from rugby he became a successful businessman in the field of corporate hospitality specialist sports travel and event management he lives in a small village near gloucester with his wife patricia married 1967
martha elaine wash born december 28 1953 is a two time grammy nominated american rb pop soul and house singer and songwriter with a career spanning over thirty years known for her distinctive and powerful dramatic soprano voice wash first achieved fame as one half of the successful act two tons o fun who sang backing for the often dubbed queen of disco sylvester after gaining their own record deal they released three consecutive commercially successful songs which all peaked at number 2 in the dance charts the duo was renamed the weather girls in 1982 when they released the multi platinum single its raining men in 1982 which brought the band to mainstream pop attention after the disbanding in 1985 wash subsequently made a successful transition into house music as a featured artist on several successful songs this has led her being branded as the queen of clubland with six dance songs peaking at number one on the american billboard charts and a further four dance songs peaking at number two her most recent being the 2014 tony moran radio edit of im not coming downwash is also noted for spurring legislation in the 1990s that made vocal credits mandatory on cds and music videos after being denied proper credit and royalties for the million selling 1 song gonna make you sweat everybody dance now after she had been labeled unmarketable due to her weight
the zombie kids is a band formed by edgar candel kerri and cumhur jay two disc jockeys and record producers who live in spain the newformed band became popular with their debut in rock in rio lisbon 2010 and the release of their first single album face 2010 which was a great success the song was chosen to be part of the ost of the movie tengo ganas de ti and the mexican brewery advertisement of cerveza indio its good acceptance made the record label universal music sign an agreement with the band to record its first album the zombie kids which went on sale 27 july 2012 that same year the band was awarded with the best spanish artist of the mtv european music awards during the summer of 2013 the zombie kids was the musical band which had performed the most in public they have also launched their first project tzk radio with monthly sessions with which they have made public their new song my house is your house feat mc ambushtheir music is eclectic but always stays within the electronic music genre even though theyve admitted in many interviews to be influenced by many other different music genres like punk soul metal or rap
anna kalata was an economist politician businesswoman economic advisor former minister of labour and social policy 20062007 in the polish government chairman of the trilateral socialeconomic commission and member of the polish financial supervision authority 20062007the speakers advisor in the polish parliament 20052006 she was the president of the board of the regional credit fund of the mazovia region and was a member of the management board of the financial guarantee fund of the mazovia region she has led her own business activity for many years operating in the fields of business consultancy financial services and trade at present she is the president of the institute of global change foundation and the vice president of the indopolish chamber of commerce industry as well as the president and managing director of the center for new business and management and kalata media ltd she graduated with a master of economy at the university of warsaw and completed phd level coursework at the warsaw school of economicsin private life she is the mother of two children she is fascinated with culture and religions of asia she loves traveling anna gracefully combines strict economic rules with her artistic spirit through painting dance and yoga after she lost 38 kg she appeared in 2010 on the cover of shape she participated in the 12th edition of dance with the stars in poland anna published her book real changing my elixir of youth in which she described not only her battle with being overweight and her travels in india but also her journey to find her inner self
benjamin m ogles born 1961 was the dean of arts and sciences at ohio university and became dean of the brigham young university byu college of family home and social sciences in july 2011ogles was born in whittier california but raised in brigham city utah from the age of five he graduated from box elder high school and then attended brigham young university receiving his bachelors degree in accounting while at byu ogles took two years off to serve as a missionary for the church of jesus christ of latterday saints in norwayogles totally switched his focus and entered a graduate program in clinical psychology at byu his phd advisor was michael j lambert ogles did a clinical internship at indiana university he completed his phd in 1990 and that year became a professor of psychology at ohio university he would later serve as head of the department of psychology at ohio universitypublications coauthored by ogles have appeared in the journal of clinical psychology professional psychology research and practice and the journal of child and family studies among other publications he was the lead author of the book essentials in outcome management written with michael j lambert and s fieldogles was also the lead researcher involved in producing the ohio youth problems functioning and satisfaction scalesin march 2014 ogles was made president of the lds churchs provo ysa 17th stakeogles is married to the former maureen garrett
eugene gene honda is a popular public address announcer for the chicago white sox starting in 1985 full time since 1991 chicago blackhawks since 1990 depaul university basketball big ten tournament since illinois fighting illini football and the ncaa final four since 2010 he is also a constant voice on chicagos pbs station wttw channel 11 the big ten network and the chicago marathon he formerly worked for radio station wlit the lite in chicago honda was the pa announcer for the 2009 nhl winter classic on january 1 at wrigley field also honda was the pa announcer for the 2012 frozen four at the tampa bay times forumhonda is the only person to have announced at the mlb world series major league baseball all star game nhl stanley cup playoffs ncaa final four ncaa frozen four and a world class marathonhonda appeared briefly in the 1990 film opportunity knocks as mr nimokugene honda also is a teacher for the after school matters asm sports broadcasting program at curie high school for the past 10 yearson october 11 2008 honda was inducted into the illini media alumni hall of fame 2008 illini media hall of fame inducteesin his spare time honda works as an instructor for asmhonda made an appearance in ron howards film the dilemma starring vince vaughn and kevin james as himself
conrad phillip kottak born october 6 1942 in atlanta georgia is an american anthropologist he earned his phd from columbia university and he did extensive research in brazil and madagascar visiting societies there and writing books about themhe then wrote several textbooks including window on humanity a concise introduction to anthropology madagascar society and history and anthropology the exploration of human diversity and cultural anthropology which are often used by colleges and high schools in the united states he is currently an anthropology professor at the university of michigan where he has been teaching since 1968 he believes that various american legends and stories such as star trek star wars and the thanksgiving story are growing into a type of mythology which someday might be comparable to greek roman or other stories which today are considered to be mythskottak has received several honors for his work among these awards is an excellence in teaching award by the college of literature sciences and the arts of the university of michigan in 1992 and the american anthropological association aaamayfield award for excellence in the undergraduate teaching of anthropology in 1999 he was elected to the membership of the national academy of sciences in 2008
vaai papu vailupe is a samoan politician and member of parliament he is the leader of the tautua samoa partyvaai was first elected to the samoan legislative assembly at the 1991 election after being reelected in 1996 he served as parliamentary undersecretary for works epc and the water authority before being appointed to cabinet as minister of justice between 1998 and 2001 he served as minister of agriculture since 2006 he has been a backbench mpin december 2008 he became a founding member of the tautua samoa party as a result in may 2009 he was one of nine tautua mps declared to have resigned their seats under an antiparty hopping law he was subsequently reinstated after the supreme court of samoa overturned the law and declared the formation of new parties legalin january 2010 new antipartyhopping laws came into force barring mps from declaring their support for political parties or organizations with political aims other than the party they were elected for in march 2010 he joined lealailepule rimoni aiafi and palusalue faapo ii in formally declaring his membership of the party and so was deemed to have resigned his seat however the hrpp was unable to find a candidate for the resulting byelection and on 2 may 2010 he was declared elected unopposed becoming the first nonhrpp mp to win a byelectionvailupe won his seat in the 2011 election but the result was overturned by an electoral petition which found him guilty of bribery and treatingvailupe is the son of former prime minister vaai kolone and the brother of samoan democratic united party leader asiata saleimoa vaai
alan roper born may 1939 in tipton staffordshire england is a retired professional footballerhe began his career in the youth team at wolverhampton wanderers in the mid 1950s but was unable to break into the first team beginning his career when wolves were one of the top club sides in england and signed for walsall in 1962 he made his debut in september of that year in a 32 win over middlesbrough in the football league second division at fellows park and spent three years with the club making 60 league and cup appearances mostly as a fullback scoring twice he remained there until the end of the 196465 seasonafter retiring from football roper was the landlord of the union public house in his hometown tiptonhe has been married to valerie since 1964 and they have two children lesley born 1966 and steven born 1970 lesley was seriously injured in a car crash in 1982 at the age of 16 in dudley which claimed the lives of two other teenage girlshe still lives in tipton but now suffers from alzheimers diseasehe is not related to ian roper who played nearly 400 games for walsall between 1995 and 2008references 1 express and star 10 may 1982 midlands today 27 march 2014
yevgeniy ivanovich chazov born 10 june 1929 russian is a prominent physician of the soviet union and russia specializing in cardiology chief of the fourth directorate of the ministry of health of the ussr academician of the russian academy of sciences and the russian academy of medical sciences a recipient of numerous awards and decorations soviet russian and foreign he is a graduate of kiev medical instituteas the chief of the fourth directorate of the soviet ministry of health which took care of soviet leaders he is widely regarded to be a person responsible for the health of the soviet leadership although he sometimes denied that he was their personal physicianin his book of memoirs health and power he describes many circumstances concerning the health of the soviet leaders and of some leaders of the soviet satellitesyevgeniy chazov is a member of international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war charged with promoting research on the probable medical psychological and biospheric effects of nuclear war the group was awarded the nobel peace prize on december 10 1985 on the occasion of the award chazov gave the acceptance speech in oslo at that time the group represented more than 135000 members from 41 countrieschazov is the director of the moscow cardiological center since 1976 it is one of the largest such centers in the world comprising 10 separate institutes
for the fictional character on the tv series sister sister see sister sister section characterslisa landry born august 5 is an american comedian actress and writer she grew up in harvey louisiana her mother served in the us navy and was often stationed in other countries leaving lisa and her little brother for months at a time to be raised by their father and grandparentslisa landry is cajun and dreamed of studying theater in new york and was so dedicated to getting into the american musical and dramatic academy that she flew from nola to atlanta to audition for their acting programafter nine years of open mics lisa landry starred in her own halfhour special comedy central presents lisa landry on the comedy central cable tv network lisa taped her special while pregnantfor four years lisa landry contributed jokes to us weekly for their fashion police landry has appeared on the bob and tom show the todd and tyler radio empire and on the uncle nasty show she was a featured performer on premium blend bonnie hunt comedydottv and the e channel she was a commentator on cmts 20 greatest redneck moments and was featured as a standout in tv guide lisa landry was offered the first ever talent holding deal with lifetime television she made her late night television debut on the late late show with craig fergusonshe selfproduced her first comedy cd put your keys in the keybowl it was chosen to be one of the top ten best comedy cds by the comedy editors on itunes and was also included that same year 2008 in the top ten best by punchline magazine her followup project is the dvd brazillionaire the cd of the same title is available on itunes as of june 2011she met her husband in new york city she currently lives in los angeles and performs all over the united states lisa landry was raised as a catholic and converted to judaism the religion of her husband while she was pregnant with her son
usama alshaibi arabic born in baghdad iraq on november 20 1969 is an iraqiamerican independent filmmaker and visual artiststarting in early 2004 alshaibi worked on a documentary on his homeland and its current situation titled nice bombs the documentary is alshaibis first official release and was produced by alshaibis wife fellow filmmaker kristie alshaibi and executive produced by studs terkel the documentary was funded in part by creative capital and the playboy foundation it premiered at the 2006 chicago underground film festival where it won the best documentary feature award and had studs terkel and christie hefner introduce the screening nice bombs had a theatrical release in 2007 a broadcast premiere on the sundance channel in march 2008 and was released on dvd on october 2009usama alshaibi is interviewed in fellow chicagoan studs terkels book hope dies lastalshaibi is the director of two narrative feature length films profane and muhammad and jane and more than fifty short films he has also produced and directed numerous music videos for a variety of musicians including mahjongg panicsville and bobby conn alshaibi was the founder and director of the z film festival 20002005 and his short films have toured with author jack sargeants underground film programs several of his short films including the amateurs are available on the dvd solar anus cinema
anna anderson mccurley ne gemmell born 18 january 1943 is a scottish politician mccurley a teacher by vocation served as a councillor on strathclyde regional council 197882 mccurley contested west stirlingshire in 1979 and glasgow central in a 1980 byelectionshe was elected as conservative member of parliament for renfrew west and inverclyde in the landslide of 1983 she lost the seat to labour candidate tommy graham in 1987 during her time in parliament she was described by the scotsman newspaper as outspoken and formidable and praised by her successor for her political independence and interest in her constituents she contested the chairmanship of the scottish conservative and unionist association the partys voluntary wing in 1989 losing to sir michael hirst the former mp for strathkelvin and bearsden with whom she publicly opposed the parliamentary candidature of following a long rivalryin 1997 she attempted to become the conservative parliamentary candidate for the eastwood constituency but failed to make it to the shortlist stage with paul cullen eventually taking the candidature she explained her defeat by suggesting her views are more traditional conservative than modern conservativemccurley defected to the scottish liberal democrats in 1998 and stood as a candidate in the 1999 elections to the scottish parliament for eastwood
tony mordente born december 3 1935 is an american dancer choreographer actor and television directorborn in new york city mordente attended the high school of performing arts and made his professional dance debut at the jacobs pillow dance festival in massachusetts soon after he joined the ballet company at radio city music hall where he was discovered by michael kidd who cast him in the 1956 broadway musical adaptation of the al capp comic strip lil abnermordente then was featured in the broadway and west end productions and film version of west side story albeit playing different roles in the stage version he played arab and in the film he played action tony was the voice of oliver cool on the 45 rpm single recording oliver cool bw i like girls by oliver cool roulette r4292 the record did not chart nationally in the us but was a big hit in australia in 1961he understudied the title role and served as assistant to gower champion in bye bye birdie 1960 before teaming again with kidd for ben franklin in paris 1964 and the illfated breakfast at tiffanys 1966 which closed during previews he received his first credit as sole choreographer for heres where i belong 1968 which never made it past opening nightas an actor mordente appeared in the film love with the proper stranger and had guest shots on the series combat and the outer limits he began to choreograph for television variety shows including the ed sullivan show and the sonny and cher comedy hourin the mid1970s mordente switched gears and began to direct for television his credits include twentynine episodes of rhoda ten episodes of matlock thirtyseven episodes of walker texas ranger five episodes of the ateam four episodes of the love boat and thirtythree episodes of 7th heaven in addition to episodes of the practice 1976 busting loose love sidney family ties day by day and burkes law among other television shows
this page is for the musician for the architect see tony garnier architecttony garnier born saint paul minnesota august 18 1956 is an american bassist both double bass and bass guitar best known as an accompanist to bob dylan with whom he has played since 1989 he is dylans longestrunning sideman and has sometimes been characterized as his musical director as wellin addition to his work with dylan garnier has recorded with tom waits loudon wainwright iii paul simon marc ribot and eric andersen and was a member of asleep at the wheel from 197678 and the lounge lizards he also played with robert gordon in the early 1980s he was also a longtime sideman for david johansen in his buster poindexter persona and was also briefly a member of the saturday night live house bandhis musical heritage descends from the camelia brass band in new orleans led by his grandfather djalma garnier also spelled ganier while with camelia brass band a legendary early jazz player noted on the preservation hall roster in the new orleans french quarter3 garnier is one of numerous grandsons descended from djalma thomas garnier the new orleans bandleader trumpet player pianist and violinist said to have taught louis armstrong at the new orleans boys home for colored waifs4 tony garnier is the younger brother of djalma garnier born 1954 the fiddler composer guitarist and pedestrian scholar of louisiana creole fame the two brothers are the only descendants of papa garnier to become professional musicians in the legacy of this significant new orleans musical family both of their parents were musicians working with nonprofits in californiabefore joining dylans neverdending tour band in 1989 tony added bass tracks to films by jim jarmusch most notably down by law filmed in louisiana he appeared in bob dylans 2003 film masked and anonymousgarnier worked with michelle branch on her third studio album everything comes and goes released in 2010
atu emberson bain is a fijian political leader a leading figure the fiji labour party flp she served from 1999 to 2006 as one of 8 senators nominated by the leader of the oppositionbain is known for her outspoken opinions she has called for the voting age currently 21 to be lowered for the national flag which currently bears the british union jack to be changed and for the portrait of queen elizabeth ii to be removed from the national currency she is on record as saying that after 18 years as a republic fiji should consider whether it is appropriate to retain the symbols of its colonial pastbain has a tense relationship with fellowsenator ratu george cakobau one of 14 nominees of the great council of chiefs parliamentary debates between the two have sometimes turned acrimonious with cakobau questioning her right to speak on matters pertaining to indigenous fijians on the grounds that she is not indigenous bain is registered as a general elector an omnibus category including caucasians chinese and other minority groups he has attacked her for commenting on the vola ni kawa bula vkb or native land register saying that only registered members of the vkb have the right to make comments on it in late 2005 a senatorial committee investigated a complaint from bain that cakobau insulted herfirst appointed to the senate in 1999 by thenprime minister mahendra chaudhry bain was kidnapped along with many of her colleagues and held as a hostage by gunmen led by george speight during the fiji coup of 2000bain was not reappointed to the senate in 2006 and differences between her and the flp leadership subsequently became public when she joined fellowflp politicians krishna datt felix anthony agni deo singh and poseci bune in criticizing mahendras leadership style
grady livingston born c 1972 is an american former college basketball player for howard university who is best known for leading ncaa division i in blocks as a junior in 199394 he stands 7 ft 0 in 213 m tall and played the center position in livingstons junior year he averaged 442 blocks per game over the span of 26 games to earn the honorary title of national blocked shots leaderlivingston grew up in oakland california and attended bishop odowd high school from 1986 to 1990 he then attended merritt college from 199192 through 19921993 where he majored in social and behavioral sciences after he finished community college he enrolled at howard which is located in washington dc and played basketball for the bison although he was known for blocking shots livingston also became known for a fight he incited during a game against delaware state on thursday february 24 1994 he appeared to elbow an opposing player when attempting to box out to grab a rebound which caused the delaware state player to yank livingstons uniform as livingston turned around he punched the player causing a violent brawl between the two teams six players were ejected including livingston and he was suspended from playing in the next gamelivingston finished his collegiate basketball career after the 199495 season in which he failed to repeat as the season blocks leader he played on the national basketball associations new jersey nets preseason team but was cut prior to the start of the 199596 regular season livingston never made it into the nba and today works as a group counselor in the marin county california probation division
randy c hoback born december 19 1967 in prince albert saskatchewan is a canadian politician who was elected to represent the electoral district of prince albert in the 2008 canadian federal election he is a member of the conservative party he was subsequently reelected in the 2011 federal election with 622 of the votehoback has a business administration certificate from the university of saskatchewan and chartered directors designation from mcmaster university and the conference board of canadahoback worked for farm machinery manufacturer flexicoil and later case new holland from 1986 to 2000 when he purchased the family farm in 2000 he subsequently expanded the farm to 3300 acres 13 km2 as well as developing custom spraying and trucking business he was nominated for the saskatchewan outstanding young farmer award in 2005hoback served chairman of the western canadian wheat growers association wcwga and represented them at world trade organization meetings in geneva and hong kongas an mp hoback was a member of the standing committee on procedure and house affairs and is a member of the standing committee on agriculture and agrifood and the standing committee on finance on oct 16 2013 he became chair of the standing committee on international trade hoback is married with two children
phil husbands born 1961 is a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at the english university of sussex situated next to the east sussex village of falmer within the city of brighton and hove he is head of the evolutionary and adaptive systems group and codirector of the centre for computational neuroscience and robotics ccnr husbands is also is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary roboticshis research interests are in longterm investigations of artificial evolution of nervous systems for robots with emphasis on visually guided robots acting in the real world theoretical and practical development of advanced evolutionary algorithms for hard engineering and design optimisation problems development of biologically inspired artificial neural networks incorporating diffusible modulators computational neuroscience computer manipulation of sound and image history and philosophy of ai machine learning husbands has edited several books including coediting the mechanical mind in history mit press 2008 isbn 9780262256384 as well as author of numerous scientific articles with neuroscientist michael oshea he introduced the idea of gasnets artificial neural networks that use diffusing virtual gases as modulators these are inspired by nitric oxide no volume signalling in real brains the sussex team has also done pioneering work on detailed computational modelling of nitric oxide diffusion in the nervous system
dean terlich born 13 december 1989 is a professional australian rules football player at the melbourne football club in the australian football league afl he was recruited by the club with draft pick 68 in the 2012 national draft he made his debut in round 2 2013 against essendon at the melbourne cricket ground in a match where melbourne were defeated by 148 pointsterlich enjoyed a successful debut year at the melbourne football club where he averaged nearly 20 possessions a game he capped off his first year by finishing third in the keith bluey truscott medal behind colin garland and winner nathan joneshe was previously recruited by the sydney swans in the 2008 rookie draft from the murray bushrangers terlich was recruited from the osborne cats country nsw hume league club prior to playing with the representative team the murray bushrangers he was delisted at the end of the 2008 season without playing an afl gamehe then moved to adelaide and played for norwood in the south australian national football league sanfl where he won the jack oatey medal as the best on ground in norwoods 127 79 to 312 30 win over west adelaide in the 2012 sanfl grand final
jonathan llyr born 1966 in mississauga ontario is a canadian actor and tv personalityllyr sometimes credited as jonathan bryn llyr is best known for his work as an onair personality for space canadas science fiction specialty channel he first appeared on that network in 1998 on its latenight movie interstitial program spacebar as the alien barfly and ultimate star trek fan grot during the shows final year llyr also assumed writing duties after fellow cast member and head writer denis mcgrath left the seriesafter spacebars 2002 cancellation llyr transferred to hosting spaces new entertainment news program hypaspace he remained as host until 2005 when he was succeeded by actress kim poirier llyr stayed on as one of hypaspaces reporters and fronted his own weekly segment the scoop an often tongueincheek look at strange celebrity and science fiction media news items of the week llyr also hosted the weekly audio podcast version of hypaspace for several years during his time at space llyr also introduced films on spaces sister station drivein classics this time as the character of drivein dick again llyr had writing duties for these segmentsllyr was also a founding member of the toronto ontario based shakespearean theatre company the tempest theatre group where he played a variety of roles including hamlet macbeth marc antony and iago among many others and has appeared in various episodes of the decoder ring theatre 1 including a number of different roles in the red panda adventures and as the titular character in deck gibson far reach commanderon may 1 2008 llyr and several colleagues launched their own podcast project hardcore nerdity 23in 2013 llyr guested on the television show nikita and in 2014 appeared as mick oshea in four episodes of murdoch mysteriesllyr also cowrote the acclaimed middlegrade novel how to curse in hieroglyphics 2013 with lesley livingston the sequel the haunting of heck house was released in october 2014
alexandros mouzas born 1962 is a greek composer he studied composition with theodore antoniou advanced theory with haris xanthoudakis and electronic music with dimitris kamarotos he has composed for various ensembles and has received commissions from organizations and orchestrashe has collaborated with the choreographer konstantinos michos and the lathos kinissi dance group in many productions among them trisha never left home days of vironas papageno and calamity till the dawn and with airesis dance companyhis professional activities include imagerelated music he has written original music for short films television series documentaries and commercials for most of the greek television channelshe was the artistic director of the greek section of the european programme new media edge project 2003in 2004 he composed under commission by the athens 2004 organizing committee original music for the athens olympic games corporate videos his recent professional activities include production management of various important cd releases of greek orchestral music he is the manager and founding member of the ergon ensemblehe runs his own production company anax cultural projects he teaches music technology and film music at top schools in athenssince 1998 he has been a member of the board of directors of the greek composers unionnaxos music label released the cd with orchestral works titled music for an imaginary film performed by the sofia philharmonic orchestra
rocco morabito bova marina rc november 23 1960 is an italian criminal and a member of the ndrangheta a mafiatype organisation in calabria he is the son of giuseppe morabito also known as tiradrittu the head of the ndrangheta in africo and succeeded him as the head of the clan after his father had been arrested in february 2004 morabito is seen as s diplomatic broker a peacemaker in the interest and for the good of the ndrangheta clans in addition to driving the powerful and wellnetworked underworld faction of africo with tentacles in different regions of northern italy and especially in lombardyhis role as mediator became clear when in march 2010 the police managed to place a bug in the home of giuseppe pelle another emerging boss and son of antonio pelle also known as ntoni gambazza the capo crimine the ceremonial head of the ndrangheta in just over a month hundreds of meetings were recorded between mafiosi politicians entrepreneurs professionals businessmen and middlemen of any kind and even people with links to intelligence servicesthe conversations confirmed the existence of la provincia a provincial commission of the ndrangheta formed at the end of the second ndrangheta war in september 1991 to avoid further internal conflicts they also confirmed that rocco morabito and giuseppe pelle had succeeded their fathers and were in charge of managing the affairs of the ndrangheta clans on the ionic side the aspromonte mountains and locride of calabria other socalled mandamenti are those for the tyrrhenian side the plains of gioia tauro and one central mandamento for the city of reggio calabriaas a result of the bugs giuseppe pelle was arrested on april 22 2010 in an operation dubbed reale royal together with 8 others including his sons rocco morabito was able to escape but was arrested a few days later on april 26 2010 in melito di porto salvo while he was visiting his sister
randy brown born july 30 1967 is an american national football league kicking coach for the baltimore ravens the ravens won super bowl xlvii in 2012 against the san francisco 49ersprior to consulting for the baltimore ravens brown served as a kicking coach for the chicago bears and the philadelphia eagles brown and ravens head coach john harbaugh have been friends since the late 1990s since that time brown worked with harbaugh for the eagles in 2004 and 2005 and again with the ravens beginning in 2008 brown has coached in three afc championship games he has coached pro bowl kickers justin tucker billy cundiff and david akers along with pro bowl punters sam koch and todd sauerbrunharbaugh has been quoted in the wall street journal calling brown the foremost kicking coach in the countryprior to the working in the nfl brown was a decorated allstate allcounty and all conference football player at cherokee high school before his college career at catawba college in north carolina at catawba college he was named academic allamerican and second team naia allamerican as a place kicker brown was the alltime leading scorer in catawba football history with 234 points and was the holder of 10 scoring and kicking records many of which still stand brown graduated in 1989 with a degree in journalism in 2009 brown was inducted to catawbas hall of fame
mikio sato sat mikio born april 18 1928 is a japanese mathematician who started the field of algebraic analysis he studied at the university of tokyo and then did graduate study in physics as a student of shinichiro tomonaga since 1970 sato has been professor at the research institute for mathematical sciences of kyoto universityhe is known for his innovative work in a number of fields such as prehomogeneous vector spaces and bernsteinsato polynomials and particularly for his hyperfunction theory this theory initially appeared as an extension of the ideas of distribution theory it was soon connected to the local cohomology theory of grothendieck for which it was an independent origin and to expression in terms of sheaf theory further it led to the theory of microfunctions interest in microlocal aspects of linear partial differential equations and fourier theory such as wave fronts and ultimately to the current developments in dmodule theory part of mikio satos hyperfunction theory is the modern theory of holonomic systems partial differential equations pdes overdetermined to the point of having finitedimensional spaces of solutionshe also contributed basic work to nonlinear soliton theory with the use of grassmannians of infinite dimension in number theory he is known for the satotate conjecture on lfunctionshe has been a member of the national academy of sciences since 1993 he also received the schock prize in 1997 and the wolf prize in 2003
sidney samson born 2 october 1981 is a dutch dj and dance musician samson started djing at the age of 13 focusing on hip hop music before working seriously on house music from 1999 he is a resident dj at the matrixx a major dutch nightclub and released bring that beat back and its all funked up on the digidance and spinnin records labels respectively after collaborating with gregor salto he formed his own record label samsobeats in 2007samson managed to get his debut single riverside to 1 on the dutch top 40 9 on the australian aria charts 1 on the irish singles chart and 2 on the uk singles charthe released his second single shut up and let it go featuring lady bee in february 2010in 2011 sidney samson collaborated with the uk singersongwriter tara mcdonald releasing set me on fire through spinnin records followed by dynamite which was released through his own label rock the houze with spinnin records remixed by nicky romerosamson frequently collaborates with top industry influencers and has worked on hittracks including get outta my way by kylie minogue getting over you by david guetta commander bykelly rowland hello by martin solveig and hip hop by dead prezzs hip hopafter touring with lmfao last summer sidney is back in the studio working hard to put out new tracksfor his fans his recent hits include change your life with far east movement and florida and better than yesterday with william he is also playing at shows around the us including hishuge residency at the wynn clubs in las vegason july 14 2014 sidney samson married eva simons a dutch dance singer the two have been engaged for about six months and have also collaborated on a track called celebrate the rain
rosalind harris 1950 is an american actress who played tzeitel the oldest daughter of tevye chaim topol and his wife golde norma crane in the film adaptation of the broadway musical fiddler on the roof in 1971 she also starred as tzeitel on broadway having replaced bette midlernearly twenty years after the film in an ironic twist harris played the mother golde in a national tour revival starring opposite topol as his wifeharris also had an extensive theatre career having performed in leading roles in many musicals off broadway regional theatre and stockcredits include elsie in horatio arena stage jenny hill in major barbara american shakespeare festival aldonza in man of la mancha mama rose in gypsy leona samish in do i hear a waltz equity library theatre 10 productions of funny girl as fanny brice her favorite production at chateau deville dinner theatre was directed by christopher hewitt along with original broadway musical director milton rosenstock and off broadway as dora in the rise of david levinsky american jewish theatre harris made many television commercials as well and her spot as a female doctor in a mogan david wine commercial won a clio awardin 1991 she was nominated for a mac award for her work in the cabaret show hollywood opera at dont tell mamas in new york city written by and also starring barry keating she appeared as fanny brice in the 1984 film the cotton club with richard gere and diane lane and with woody allen in zelig after costarring in 1996 opposite angela lansbury in the hallmark hall of fame madefortelevision movie mrs santa claus harris took time off to create her own vintage and estate jewelry business rosalinds as you liked it she garnered excellent reviews in a comeback performance in 2012 as sadie in the new musical misspelled at the cherry lane theatre and recently performed at town hall in new york city as part of the 50th anniversary gala of fiddler on the roof with sheldon harnick andrea martin chita rivera and chaim topol
trevor junior benjamin born 8 february 1979 is an englishborn jamaican former professional footballer who played as a forward from 1995 to 2012he is famed for being a prime example of a journeyman footballer having represented 29 different teams in his career and with that making over 350 appearances in the football league between 1995 and 2008 he most notably spent time in the premier league with leicester city who he joined in 2000 from cambridge united he was also capped by england u21 but went on to feature for jamaica as a full international where he earned two caps benjamin has also played as a professional in the football league for crystal palace norwich city west bromwich albion gillingham rushden diamonds brighton hove albion northampton town coventry city peterborough united watford swindon town boston united walsall and hereford unitedat the age of 28 benjamin dropped out of the professional game and firstly signed for conference north side gainsborough trinity he has since gone on to play for northwich victoria hednesford town wellingborough town kidsgrove athletic tamworth harrogate town and woking in 2010 he briefly joined australian semipro side sunshine george cross but failed to make an appearance and returned to the english nonleague game where he went on to feature for bedlington terriers wroxham and morpeth town having initially been on loan at morpeth from bedlington he was later appointed playermanager of the club in november 2010 and managed the club until the end of the 201011 season
philip james phil brown born 16 january 1966 in sheffield is an english former professional footballer who played in the football league for chesterfield stockport county and lincoln city he plays as a striker or attacking midfielderhe started his career as an apprentice at chesterfield and made his debut on 14 may 1983 as a substitute in a 10 home defeat to millwall in the third division in december 1986 ernie moss and brown were transferred to stockport county for a joint fee of 10000 in the summer of 1987 he moved to lincoln city who had recently become the first club to be automatically relegated out of the football league he was the leading goalscorer as the imps secured their return to the league at the first attempt he spent a further two seasons with lincoln before moving into nonleague football with kettering town where he was leading scorer in the 199293 season boston united and gainsborough trinitybrown was originally signed by matlock town in 2002 as a player but he and gareth williams were made joint playermanagers in 2004 after previous manager ernie moss left for hucknall town the pair remained in post for more than four years until sacked in october 2008
gretchen wynnifer massey lukas born in newport news virginia is a los angelesbased radio host and performer her cbs radio talk show crackinup w gretchen the lukes aired weekly on the los angeles station klsx 971 free fm every fraturday their word for fridays 11pm1am pacific gretchen had a long run at klsx as a talk radio host of several different programs over many years up until the station changed to all music format on february 20 2009massey has a history in entertainment of being an actor comedian and also as a talk show host in the past she was lead host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show radio girls and was on 971 klsk fm talk radio station in los angeles as cohost of lauren gretchen uncut massey had a love of the theatre and performing from an early age and attended dallass booker t washington high school for the performing and visual arts this love evolved into a long journey of writing and performing through many cities with various theater companies improvisational theatre groups and then as a standup comedian later in her life she is well known for being one of the various presenters on the playboy tv television show sexcetera
leura garrett canary was the united states attorney for the united states district court for the middle district of alabama she is married to career republican activist william bill canaryshe graduated from huntingdon college in 1978 and later attended law school at university of alabama before becoming a us attorney leura had been a career litigator beginning as a civil litigator in the office of the attorney general for the state of alabama canary was nominated for alabama middle district us attorney general by george w bush on august 2 2001 and confirmed by the united states senate on november 6 2001she has come under scrutiny concerning the prosecution of don siegelman a former democratic alabama governor for conflicts of interest she eventually recused herself and turned the prosecution over to her assistant middle district us attorney franklinon june 1 2007 it became public knowledge that a republican activist lawyer dana jill simpson of rainsville alabama filed a sworn statement suggesting leura canary was directed to use her office for political purposesrecently as part of a broader national investigation into the department of justice congress requested documents related to the prosecution of former governor don siegelman due july 28 2007 these would include the recusal papers of leura canary the doj has not yet complied with this request
maurice s brookhart is the william r kenan jr professor of chemistry 1990 to the present in the department of chemistry at the university of north carolina brookhart received his bachelor of science from johns hopkins university in 1964 he received his phd in 1968 from the university of california los angeles in physical organic chemistry where his thesis advisor was saul winstein after an nsf postdoctoral fellowship at the university of california los angeles in 1968 and a nato postdoctoral fellowship at southampton university england in 1969 he joined the faculty of the university of north carolina his research group is noted for its research in the general area of synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry a recent major thrust has been the development of postmetallocene catalysts based upon late transition metal complexes for olefin coordination polymerization they carry out their mechanistic investigation of the polymerization reactions primarily by low temperature ir and nmr spectroscopies the work provides a detailed understanding of catalyst resting states and relative intermediates a second major focus of brookharts group concerns fundamental studies of ch and cc bond activations by transition metal complexes and the incorporation of these bond activation steps into catalytic cycles they have successfully demonstrated catalysis of the orthoalkylation of aromatic ketones alkyl aldehyde isomerization hydroacylation and the dehydrogenation of alkoxy silanes to generate silyl enol ethers recent work on alkane metathesis has received attentionhe has over 200 publications in the scientific literature and holds over 22 us patents he is a member of the national academy of sciences
dr charles chuck russell severance is an american computer scientist and academic who currently serves as clinical associate professor of information at the university of michiganseverance studied at michigan state university gaining his bs in 1984 his ms in 1990 and his phd in 1996 all in computer science after graduation he became an adjunct assistant professor at michigan state also serving as director of the division of engineering computer services he left this role in 1999 to become associate director for advanced technology at the university of michigans media union and left the institution entirely in 2001 to serve as director of product development for strategic interactive in august 2002 he returned to the university of michigan as the first chief architect of the sakai project later becoming a member of the sakai foundation board of directors and then its first executive directorin 2007 he resigned from his position as the executive director of the sakai foundation becoming clinical associate professor of information at the university of michigan in 2012 he was hired by blackboard inc to lead their initiatives involving sakai projects he announced his departure from this role in march 2014 outside of teaching and the private sector severance helped write the posix p1003 standard and has hosted several television shows including nothin but net and internettci
alan marshall clark is an author and an artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction he was nominated for the bram stoker award for best first novel for his 2005 book siren promised cowritten by jeremy robert johnsonhe has won the world fantasy award for his illustrations best artist 1994 and he has won many association of science fiction and fantasy artists chesley awards his book the paint in my blood was nominated for the best art book for the 2005 locus awards it was also nominated for the 2005 international horror guild award for their nonfiction category his artwork has been featured on many signed limited editions from cemetery dance publications lonely road books subterranean press earthling publications and many other publishers of hardcovers as well as illustrations on the covers and interiors of textbooks childrens books paperbacks magazines and cdshe received his bachelor of fine arts from the san francisco art institute in 1979 he owns the publishing company ifd publishing started in 1999 he currently lives in eugene oregon with his wife melodymr clark is listed in the newest edition of science fiction and fantasy artists of the twentieth century a biographical dictionary edited by robert weinberg jane frank mcfarland company 2009
juan pascual azorn soriano 6 august 1951 yecla is a spanish politician at the moment he is the mayor of elda and senator for alicante in the spanish senate he belongs to pspvpsoehe moved with his family to elda at the age of eighteen months in 1983 he was chosen town councillor in the lists of the independent candidates of elda candidatura independiente de elda and later he joined the psoe in 1985 he was appointed general secretary of the unin general de trabajadores a trade union historically linked to the pspvpsoe in the comarca of alt vinalop as town councillor he occupied the post of personnel and industry until in 1996 he held the post of mayor of elda he was also president of pspvpsoe tooat the 1996 general election he was placed seventh on the pspvpsoe list for alicante province with the party winning just five seats he failed to be elected however as the pspvpsoes second substitute he joined the congress in 1999 as substitute for pedro solbes he was not reelected at the 2000 general election but was elected to the senate at the 2004 general election retaining his seat at the 2008 general electionin the senate he has held various posts such as first vice president in the industry tourism and commerce commission and first secretary in the local entities commission and he is president of honour in the commercial institute of alicante
sergio ramrez mercado born august 5 1942 in masatepe nicaragua is a nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served in the leftist government junta of national reconstruction and as vice president of the country 19851990 under the presidency of daniel ortegaborn in masatepe in 1942 he published his first book cuentos in 1963 he graduated from the universidad nacional autnoma de nicaragua of len in 1964 where he obtained the gold medal for being the best studentin 1977 ramrez became head of the group of twelve a group of prominent intellectuals priests businesspeople and members of civil society who publicly stated their support for the frente sandinista de liberacin nacional fsln in its struggle to topple the dictatorship of anastasio somoza debayle with the triumph of the revolution in 1979 he became part of the junta of the government of national reconstruction where he presided over the national council of education he was elected vicepresident of nicaragua in 1984 and was sworn in 1985though the fsln lost power to the uno coalition headed by violeta barrios de chamorro in 1990 ramrez continued to serve as the leader of the sandinista block in the national assembly until 1995 when he founded the movimiento de renovacin sandinista mrs because of his differences with other leaders of the fsln such as former president daniel ortega on issues of democratic reform he has since become retrospectively critical of certain sandinista policies that he views as having turned the country against the fsln he made an unsuccessful bid for president on the mrs ticket in 1996 since then ramrez has retired definitively from politics he currently lives in managua nicaraguahe married his wife gertrudis tulita guerrero mayorga in 1964 he has three children sergio maria and dorel and 6 grandchildren elianne carlos fernando camila alejandro luciana and andreseven during his years in politics ramrez continued to publish his work for which he has won numerous awards and distinctions
stephen j smith is a senior investigator at the allen institute for brain science previously dr smith was professor of molecular and cellular physiology at the stanford university school of medicinein 1990 smith published an article in the journal science which proposed that certain glial cells in the human brain known as astrocytes would be able to communicate through chemical signals rather than electrical by utilizing the neurotransmitter glutamate he was able to show that these cells which had once been perceived as inert tissue between neurons in fact were actively communicating with the rest of the brain this discovery showed that astrocytes likely play an important role in learning and memory since smiths discovery astrocytes have become an increasingly important part of neural researchsmith has also been a primary leader in the development of array tomography at a proteomic imaging method of volumetric microscopy in which ultrathin sections of a plasticembedded tissue are sliced using an ultramicrotome bonded in an ordered array to a glass coverslip stained and imaged the public methodology for this technique was introduced in a 2007 article in the scientific journal neuron journal with kristina micheva and was expanded upon in a 2010 article also in neuron journal with micheva brad busse nicolas weiler and nancy orourke in utilizing array tomography smith and his colleagues created threedimensional models of brains in mice achieving a level of detail previously unattainablesmith received his phd from the university of washington in 1977 after which he conducted postdoctoral research at the university of california berkeley from 1977 to 1980 he accepted a faculty position at yale university in 1980 before relocating to stanford in 1989
isabella desire lwengrip spngberg commonly known as blondinbella born 21 october 1990 is a swedish blogger entrepreneur and authorin 2005 when lwengrip was 14 she started her blog called blondinbellas blogg blondinbella being an alter ego with a glamorous lifestyle the blog which focuses on topics such as fashion and partying became very popular at one point being the ninth most popular blog in sweden as of august 2009 it receives about 250000 visits every week it has been criticised for covertly advertising products for companies such as elizabeth arden and black in lwengrip confirmed in interviews with several swedish newspapers that she was paid for expressing positive opinions about various products this caused the swedish consumer agency to scrutinise the blog in 2008 in order to determine whether the advertising was against the swedish marketing act which states that paid advertisements must be identified as such in 2008 lwengrip turned over approximately sek 26000 per month from the advertising on her blog while the reported net profits were sek 7000 per month these figures were in great contrast with lwengrips own prior allegations of profits in the millions this was reported by one of the leading news papers in sweden dagens nyheter under the headline blondinbella not a profit machinelwengrip participated in the swedish version of lets dance in 2008 as one of the celebrity contestants and she was an interviewer at the 2009 mtv video music awards in new york city
john halligan is an irish independent politician he was elected as a teachta dla td for the waterford constituency at the 2011 general election he was first elected to the waterford city council in 1999 for the workers party of irelandat the 2004 local elections he topped the poll in waterford no 3 electoral area in february 2008 he resigned from the workers party when the party refused to drop its opposition to service charges which halligan supported in 2009 as an independent candidate halligan again topped the poll in his area after the 2009 elections halligan entered into a pact with the labour party and fine gael on waterford city council and was duly elected mayor of waterford city serving from 2009 to 2010 he was an unsuccessful workers party candidate for the waterford constituency at the 2002 and 2007 general electionshe was elected as td for waterford at the 2011 general election receiving 5546 first preference votes 103 and was elected on the 11th countfollowing his election to the dil in february 2011 sean reinhardt was coopted to replace halligan on waterford city councilin march 2011 halligan joined the dil technical group which gives independents and minor parties more speaking time in dil debateson 15 december 2011 he helped launch a nationwide campaign against a proposed household charge being brought in as part of the 2012 irish budget
ole didrik lrum born 23 april 1940 is a norwegian professor of medicinehe was born in brum as a son of physician birger lrum jr 19061991 and weaver goro lynne 19092003 he grew up in vossevangen and finished his secondary education there in 1959 he has been married twicehe graduated from the university of oslo in 1965 with the candmed degree having also spent some studying time at the pasteur institute he was then a research fellow at rikshospitalet and took the drmed degree in 1969 he was appointed as a docent at the university of bergen in 1974 and was promoted to professor in 1980 his fields are oncology and experimental pathology in 1978 he won the anders jahre prize for young researchers he was the prorector of the university of bergen from 1984 to 1989 and rector from 1990 to 1995he also chaired the research council of norway from 1992 to 1994 he is a member of royal norwegian society of sciences and letters since 1981 the norwegian academy of science and letters since 1991 and academia europaea since 2001 he has been given honorary degrees at the university of copenhagen and the carol davila university of medicine and pharmacy he was decorated as a grand knight of the order of the falcon in 1994 and commander of the order of st olav in 1996
gary emineth born october 24 1958 is a political figure in the us state of north dakota serving as the chairman of the north dakota republican party since july 2007s retirement of ken karls he was chosen at the partys committee meeting in fargo north dakota in july 2007in the 2010 election he led the north dakota republican party as every single republican candidate for statewide office won election including us representative and us senator during both of his terms as state party chairman republicans significantly increased their majorities in both houses of the state legislature republicans currently lead the house by a 6925 margin and the senate by a 3512 marginin a letter to the members of the republican national committee he wrote as a former finance director executive director finance chairman and finally party chairman i learned one thingit wasnt about me it was all about getting all the pieces in place and setting the wheels in motion so that the victory train would come rolling into the station exactly on time with republican candidates on board to be a successful chairman is first and foremost to know your job description and not become distracted by the siren songs heard inside the beltway 1
ren froger amsterdam 5 november 1960 is a dutch singerhe was born and spent his first years in the jordaan a neighbourhood in amsterdam his father bolle jan had a cafe that froger started performing in he began with ted de braak and mini en maxi and in 1987 he released his first single love leave me major success eluded him until winter in america entered the dutch top 40 in 1988 later that year he teamed up with the popular dutch band het goede doel to top the dutch charts 1 for three weeks in 1989 with alles kan een mens gelukkig maken everything can make a man happy a song for which in particular the refrain starting with een eigen huis een plek onder de zon a private home a place under the sun morphed into a community singalong evergreen from 1989 on he has released more singles with mixed results he started the tour pure more in amsterdam arena the stadium occupied by his favourite football team ajaxin 1997 he made a song with female singer anita doth who was part of the world famous group 2 unlimited the song was called thats when i stop loving you in 2005 he was diagnosed prostate cancer that resulted in several complications in the same year he stated collaborating with gerard joling and gordon in the opportunity formation de toppers rene represented the netherlands at the eurovision song contest 2009 in moscow as part of de toppers his daughter natascha got married in 2006 and gave birth to his first grandchild later that year
andrew john andy kennedy born october 8 1964 in stirling scotland is a former scottish professional footballer who played as a centreforwardkennedy started his career with rangers and after making around 2030 1st team appearances glasgowandrew spent time at seiko hong kong and was then transferred to birmingham city in march 1985 his goals helped ensure the clubs promotion from the second division and in 198586 his first full season he was the clubs leading scorer but with only nine goals for a side which failed to avoid relegation in 1987 he joined sheffield united on loan whilst recovering from injury and then moved to blackburn rovers where he scored 25 goals in two seasons followed by watford between 1990 and 1992 a loan spell at division three bolton wanderers was cut short after one game when kennedy sustained a back injury in 199293 he joined division two club brighton hove albion spending two seasons there before finishing his football league career at gillingham still only 30 years of age andrew moved to hong kong with tsing tao before moving to northern ireland with portadownfrom 2005 andrew has coached and is currently an integral part of the rangers soccer schools programme both at home and north america in 2008 andrew gained his uefa youth licence diploma and is currently working for the rangers fc youth academy andrew also has a uefa b and a uefa a coaching licence
matthew w matt mccoy born march 29 1966 is the iowa state senator from the 31st district which is composed of south and southwest des moines a democrat mccoy has served in the iowa senate since 1997 he graduated from dowling high school received his ba from briar cliff college and is serving as vice president of community development downtown development corporationmccoy currently serves on several committees in the iowa senate the committees on commerce local government transportation appropriations of which he is vice chair and ways and means which he also vice chairs in addition he serves as chair of the appropriations committee subcommittee on transportation infrastructure and capitals appropriations his prior political experience includes serving as a representative in the iowa house of representatives from 1993 to 1997 and serving on the polk county conservation board from 1988 to 1995 he became an eagle scout in 1981mccoy was reelected in 2006 with 13276 votes 66 defeating republican opponent nicholas g van patten and again in 2010on march 14 2007 mccoy was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly violating the hobbs act on december 13 2007 he was found not guilty after two hours of deliberationsmccoy is openly gay and was the first openly gay member of the iowa general assembly he now serves as one of two alongside rep daniel lundby dmarion mccoys 2006 and 2010 reelection campaigns won the backing of the gay lesbian victory fundmccoy has one son jack and worships at plymouth congregational church
david marquette kopay born june 28 1942 is a former american football running back in the national football league who in 1975 became one of the first professional athletes to come out as gaykopay attended notre dame high school in sherman oaks california he entered the university of washington in 1961 and became an allamerican running back in his senior year he was signed by the san francisco 49ers he played professional football from 1964 to 1972 after he retired from the nfl he was considered a top contender for coaching positions but he believes he was snubbed by professional and college teams because of his sexual orientation he went to work as a salesmanpurchaser in his uncles floorcovering business in hollywood he is also a board member of the gay and lesbian athletics foundationhis 1977 biography the david kopay story written with perry deane young became a bestseller in 1986 kopay revealed his brief affair with jerry smith without naming him who played for the washington redskins from 19651977 and who died of aids without ever having publicly come out of the closetsince kopay only four additional former nfl players have come out as gay roy simmons in 1992 esera tuaolo in 2002 wade davis in 2012 and kwame harris in 2013 kopay has been credited with inspiring these athletes to be more open about their sexual orientationkopay appears as himself in a small but pivotal role in the film tru loved 2008 his scene features young actor matthew thompson and alexandra paulkopay became a gay games ambassador for the federation of gay games he came to gay games vii in chicago in july 2006 and was a featured announcer in the opening ceremonieskopay announced in september 2007 that he will be leaving 1 million as an endowment to the university of washington q center
brie howard born august 9 1949 is an american musician and actress she has also appeared or been credited under the names brie brandt brie berry brie darling and brie howard darlinghoward played in the pioneering allwoman rock band fanny the first allwoman rock band to release an album on a major label she played drums for the high school band the svelts which included future fanny members june millington and jean millington and played drums in fanny itself toward the end of their run around the time of their final album she has also been a singer and percussionist with the american girls and the lead singer and percussionist of the boxing gandhishoward starred opposite klaus kinski in aaron lipstadts scifi film android and appeared in a few other films including somebody to love with the screamin sirenshoward has appeared on many albums as a backing vocalist or percussionist or both including peter crisss let me rock you lynda carters portrait jimmy buffetts feeding frenzy the pointer sisters break out andrew ridgeleys son of albert carole kings in concert and ringo starrs ringo the 4th she was also the drummer on alexander oneals famous video for his single criticizehoward is the mother of playboy playmate brandi brandt
franco p preparata born december 1935 is a computer scientist the an wang professor of computer science at brown university he is best known for his 1985 computational geometry book with michael shamos for many years the standard textbook in the field but preparata has worked in many other areas of computer science his initial work was on coding theory and his 1981 paper in distributed computing describing the cubeconnected cycles computer communications network is still highly cited as is his 1967 paper on fault diagnosis his 1991 paper with zhou and kang on interconnection delays in vlsi was awarded the 1993 darlington best paper award by the ieee circuits and systems society and he has attracted media coverage for his more recent work in computational biologypreparata was born in italy in december 1935 he received a doctorate from the university of rome in 1959 after a postdoctorate at cnr and several years of working in industry he joined the faculty of the university of illinois at urbanachampaign in 1965 where he stayed for many years advising 16 phd students there he received his italian libera docenza in 1969 in 1991 preparata moved from illinois to brown university where he has remained active in research and student advising in 1997 the university of padova awarded preparata an honorary doctorate preparata is an acm fellow an ieee fellow and a fellow of the japan society for the advancement of science
takayuki hattori hattori takayuki born november 11 1965 is a japanese film television video game and nonsoundtrack music composer arranger and conductor he is the son of the composer katsuhisa hattori with whom he produced symphonic suite final fantasy he has won three japan academy prize awards in the category outstanding achievement in music and was the music director of the japan pavilion at the expo 2010 in recent years hattori has worked with popular supergroup jam project serving as orchestral arranger and conductor on two of their albums victoria cross and thumb rise again as well as in their live concerts promoting said albumshe graduated from the conservatoire de paris in 1988 and since then has worked in japan the works he has scored include all of the slayers anime films and oav series martian successor nadesico anime tv series and film liveaction films godzilla 2000 godzilla vs spacegodzilla and welcome back mr mcdonald anime tv series battle athletes codebreaker ground defense force maochan and sister princess anime films space brothers and rough tv drama series great teacher onizuka hero nodame cantabile hanzawa naoki and shinsengumi video games arc the lad twilight of the spirits and intelligent qube and tv show hook book row
john joseph clague phd frsc born 1946 is an awardwinning canadian authority in quaternary and environmental earth sciences he is a professor of earth sciences at simon fraser university and an emeritus scientist of the geological survey of canada clague was the editorinchief of the canadian journal of earth sciences president of the canadian geomorphology research group and vice president of international union for quaternary research inqua clague is an expert in the science of the last 2 million years of earth geological history and specializes in geological hazards such as earthquakes tsunamis landslides and floods he has 35 years experience in surficialterrain mapping quaternary stratigraphic investigations engineering and environmental interpretations of surficial geological information and natural hazard studies he is noted for international research collaboration with other geologists geographers biologists and physicists he has published 250 papers reports and monographs on a wide range of earth science topics of regional and national importance he has prepared innovative geoscience products for educators and the public has had numerous television and radio interviews and has been featured in newspaper and magazine articleshe has been recognized for his internationally renowned research his innovative communication of science to the public and his exceptional service and leadership in geoscience
anne letitia dickson born 18 april 1928 is a former northern ireland unionist politicianborn in london she moved with her family to northern ireland at an early age and was educated at holywood and richmond lodge school after service as the chair of the northern ireland advisory board of the salvation army she become actively involved in politics for the ulster unionist party elected as chair of the carrick division unionist association she later became a member of the newtownabbey urban district council serving as vicechair of the council from 1967 to 1969she was then elected as an ulster unionist politician for the carrick constituency in the parliament of northern ireland at stormont as a supporter of the prime minister terence oneill after the dissolution of the stormont parliament she was elected in the 1973 assembly election for south antrim as an independent unionist candidate having resigned from the uup in 1972 after the ulster unionist party split in 19734 over the sunningdale agreement she joined the newly formed unionist party of northern ireland upni along with other supporters of the former northern ireland prime minister brian faulkner she retained her seat in south antrim in the 1975 constitutional convention election after the retirement of brian faulkner she became leader of the unionist party of northern ireland upni in 1976 becoming the first woman to lead a major political party in northern irelandin 1979 she contested the belfast north constituency in the westminster election polling 10 of the vote the best performance by a upni candidate in northern ireland however her intervention was sufficient to split the moderate unionist vote resulting in the seat being gained by the dup the upni disbanded in 1981 after poor results in the local government elections that year and dickson retired from active politics subsequently she was chair of the northern ireland consumer council from 1985 to 1990
judy carmichael born november 27 1957 is a grammynominated jazz pianist and vocalist who is one of the few jazz pianists honored as a steinway artistshe specializes in a rare form of pre1950s jazz stride piano where the pianist plays the bass line of the music with their left hand and swing jazzwhat made me unusual when i started doing that was that all the people playing stride were big men and i was a surfer girl from california she told the new york timescarmichael is listed in american women in jazz whos who in american woman whos who in the east whos who in finance and industry in america whos who in the world and in the encyclopedia of jazzon radio ms carmichael has been a guest performer on garrison keillors a prairie home companion and also made radio appearances on nprs morning edition she primarily appears on radio as the host of public radios judy carmichaels jazz inspired a radio program that interviews creative people from all walks of life who talk about their creative process and how their interest in jazz has affected that processon television she has appeared on entertainment tonight and cbs sunday morning both with host charles kuralt and with charles osgoodher show appears on american public radio as well as siriusxms npr now channel she also writes articles for jazztimes she also produced and hosted a fifteenpart series for public radio pet style radio with judy carmichael
liam christopher chilvers born 6 november 1981 is an english footballer who plays as a centre backa graduate of the arsenal academy he won the fa youth cup with the club in 2000 after turning professional he spent four weeks of the 200001 season on loan at northampton town three months on loan at notts county in the 200102 season and the first half of the 200203 season on loan at belgian side ksk beveren he spent the second half of the 200203 season and the whole of the 200304 campaign on loan at colchester united after which he was allowed to join the club permanently he stayed at colchester for the next two years and helped the club win promotion into the championship before he transferred to preston north end in july 2006 he spent four years with the club though was out of action for a year due to injury he rejoined notts county on a permanent basis in july 2010 and was loaned out to port vale in september 2011 he signed with afc telford united in september 2012 before beginning a second loan spell with port vale in november 2012 which was made into a permanent move two months later he helped vale win promotion out of league two in 201213 he joined hyde in september 2014
blake james pedersen born 1964 or 1965 is a canadian politician who is an elected member to the legislative assembly of alberta representing the electoral district of medicine hat he was born at gull lake saskatchewanhe was first elected in the 2012 provincial election as a member of the wildrose party caucusin the spring 2013 sitting of the alberta legislature pedersen put forward motion 510 to restore a competitive tax credit system for film industry labour costs which was supported by the progressive conservatives ndp and liberals motion 510 was the first wildrose motion to ever pass in the alberta legislature the proposal in pedersens motion would replace the current system of awarding grants to film companies through the alberta multimedia development fund with a tax credit that would enable all companies to recoup a portion of their production costspedersen was born and raised in gull lake saskatchewan on the family ranch following graduation from gull lake high school he moved to vancouver as a drummer with a band but returned to gull lake a few months later and entered the work force with a local oilfield services company experiencing his first of many boom and bust cycles after one year of employment pedersen participated in a 10 month agricultural exchange program to australia with the international agricultural exchange association upon his return to canada pedersen returned to the oilfield services industry and in 1999 became a small business owneron december 17 2014 he was one of nine wildrose mlas who crossed the floor to join the alberta progressive conservative caucus
robert francis bob mcdonnell born june 15 1954 is a former american politician he was the 71st governor of virginia mcdonnell served on the executive committee of the republican governors association mcdonnell was a lieutenant colonel in the united states army reserves he served in the virginia house of delegates from 1992 to 2006 and was attorney general of virginia from 2006 to 2009mcdonnell was elected governor of virginia after using the campaign slogan bobs for jobs he defeated democratic state senator creigh deeds by a 17point margin in the 2009 general election which was marked by the severe recession of the late 2000s mcdonnell succeeded democrat tim kaine virginia law does not allow a governor to run for reelection after taking office as governor mcdonnell advocated privatization and promoted offshore drilling for virginia he moved to extend a contract to outsource the states computer operations and sought to fund transportation improvements from asset sales including a proposal to auction off liquor stores operated by the virginia department of alcoholic beverage control the states unemployment rate declined from 74 in january 2010 when mcdonnell took office to 52 in december 2013 comparable to the decline in the national unemployment rate from 98 to 67 during the same period mcdonnells governorship ended with a 55 to 32 approval to disapproval rating among registered voterson january 21 2014 mcdonnell and his wife maureen were indicted on federal corruption charges for receiving improper gifts and loans from a virginia businessman they were convicted on most counts by a federal jury on september 4 2014 mcdonnell was sentenced on january 6 2015 to two years in prison followed by two years of supervised release he is the first virginia governor to be indicted or convicted of a felony
anna louise friel born 12 july 1976 is an english actress born in rochdale she has been acting since the age of 13 appearing in a number of british television programmes she played beth jordache in the channel 4 soap brookside which had the first lesbian kiss in a british soap opera in january 1994 she made her west end stage dbut in london in 2001 and has subsequently appeared on stage in several productions including an adaptation of breakfast at tiffanys and as yelena in a 2012 production of chekhovs uncle vanyafriel made her film debut in 1998 in david lelands land girls and has since made a number of films appearing with such notable costars as christian bale gerard butler colin farrell keira knightley robert de niro will ferrell and rachel weisz outside of film she is probably best known in the usa for her work as charlotte chuck charles in the abc comedy series pushing daisies for which she was nominated for a golden globe award in 2008she is the recipient of a number of awards including national television award 1995 drama desk award 1999 and the royal television society award 2009 she has also appeared in music videos and television and print media advertising campaigns and is the recipient of an honorary degree from the university of boltonshe was previously in a relationship with the actor david thewlis and in 2005 had a daughter with him
edward rubbert born may 28 1964 is a former american football quarterback in the national football league for the washington redskins as a member of the redskins replacement team during the 1987 nfl players strike rubbert played college football for the university of louisville he completed the longest pass from scrimmage in the 1987 nfl season an 88yard touchdown to anthony allen on october 4 and led the redskins to two consecutive wins on their way to a super bowl xxii championship rubbert still holds the record for the most passing yards by a quarterback in their first nfl game with 334 rubbert also started a third game only to be injured the redskins eventually won that game behind backup replacement quarterback tony robinson and the following week the redskins regular players returned to the field following the end of the strike rubbert now coaches a high school near his native suffern new yorkrubbert also played for the albany firebirds in the arena football league for three years 1991 to 1993 where he completed 42 of 96 passes for 532 yards and four touchdowns and seven interceptionsadditionally rubbert was the inspiration for keanu reeves character in the football movie the replacements
belinda wollaston born 1983 in sydney australia is an australian musical theatre actorwollaston is a graduate of the nida singer actor dancer and young actors studio and the prestigious talent development project she has performed extensively in cabaret and major musical theatre productions in australia new zealand and asia wollaston made her debut in songs from my hairbrush the bedroom mirror and me to sellout audiences at kabarett junction a sydney cabaret venue it is regarded as the show that began the trend of younger performers as opposed to older performers performing full length cabaret shows2003 proved to be a defining year in wollastons career with her commercial musical theatre debut in the smash hit musical mamma mia often touted as the worlds most successful and entertaining musical belinda spent two years performing in the australian touring production of the show which took in melbourne brisbane sydney perth adelaide new zealand singapore and hong kongin august 2005 she made her sydney theatre company debut in the musical summer rain gaining considerable audience acclaim for her performancein 2006 belinda starred in a production of putting it together at the seymour centre in sydneymost recently belinda starred kate mcgowen in the australian production of the broadway musical titanic alongside her longtime friend and fellow musical theatre actor hayden teewollaston is currently starring in the return brisbane season of respect alongside rhonda burchmore
jonathan ionatana falefasa tana umaga onzm tn um samoan tana umaa born 27 may 1973 in lower hutt is a new zealand rugby union footballer and former captain of the national team the all blacks he played for the hurricanes starting with the super 12s inception in 1996 and took over the captaincy in 2003 graham henry named him as all blacks captain in 2004 under his leadership the all blacks won 19 of their 21 games including the clean sweep of the british and irish lions and the grand slam in 2005 at the end of 2005 after 74 test caps where he scored 36 tries umaga retired from international rugby umaga played four games in 2007 for the wellington lions in the air new zealand cup to play 100 matches for the province before taking up the position of coach at toulonhis coaching future was uncertain in the 200809 season as toulon was a poor performer in the first half of the season and facing a relegation scare and there was speculation that he would be replaced by philippe saintandr umaga returned to a playing role for toulon in the second half of that season and at the same time announced that he would not continue as head coach beyond that season after helping toulon exit relegation trouble they ultimately finished ninth that season he retired as a player and remained at toulon as assistant coach for backs under saintandr in march 2010 umaga again returned to the playing ranks following a serious hip injury to christian loamanu umaga returned to new zealand after the 200910 french season to become a playercoach with counties manukau and played with the waikato chiefs in the 2011 super rugby competition
ray vandeveer born july 8 1953 is a minnesota politician and a member of the minnesota senate representing district 52 which includes portions of anoka and washington counties in the northeastern twin cities metropolitan area a republican he was first elected to the senate in 2006 and was reelected in 2010prior to being elected to the senate vandeveer was a member of the minnesota house of representatives representing district 52a and prior to the 2002 redistricting the old district 51b he was first elected to the house in a january 1998 special election after rep doug swenson was appointed a district judge by governor arne carlson he was reelected that november in the general election and again in 2000 2002 and 2004 he chaired the house taxes subcommittee for the property and local tax division during the 20052006 legislative sessionvandeveer is currently chair of the senate local government and elections committee and is also a member of the senate commerce and consumer protection and the senate energy utilities and telecommunications committees his special legislative concerns include taxes education transportation and crime preventionvandeveer is a real estate appraiser by profession he graduated from columbia heights high school in columbia heights then went on to st cloud state university in st cloud where he earned his bs in marketing in 1975 he is a former member of the forest lake planning commission and of the mounds view charter commission he is currently a member of the greater minneapolis area board of realtors
grald jean causs born 20 may 1963 has been a general authority of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints lds church since 2008 and is the first person from france appointed as a general authority on march 31 2012 he became first counselor in the presiding bishopric of the lds churchcauss was born in bordeaux and raised as a latterday saint his parents joining the church when he was six months old causse became the sunday school president in his branch when he was 16 filling a position normally only given to adultscausse served for a year in the french air force he has a masters degree in business from cole suprieure des sciences conomiques et commercialesprior to his call as a general authority causs was the general manager and a member of the board of pomona frances largest food distributorcauss was president of the paris france stake of the lds church from 2001 to 2007 in april 2007 he became an area seventy in the europe west area of the church on 5 april 2008 causs became a member of the churchs first quorum of the seventy for most of his four years as a member of the first quorum of the seventy causs served in the presidency of the churchs europe areaon 31 march 2012 he was called as the first counselor in the presiding bishopric under the direction of the first presidency the presiding bishopric is tasked with general oversight of many of the churchs daytoday operations among other areas of management this includes the construction and maintenance of church meetinghouse facilities around the worldcauss and his wife valrie were married on 5 august 1986 in the bern switzerland temple they are the parents of five children
donny mccaslin born august 11 1966 is an american jazz saxophonistmccaslins father was a vibraphonist and he played in his fathers ensemble at the age of twelve he had his own group in aptos high school which played three years at the monterey jazz festival he studied under paul contos and brad hecht in the san francisco region both of whom played in his fathers group he played in a number of youth ensembles most notably under the legendary band director and music educator don keller and toured europe and japan with them he was offered a full scholarship to the berklee college of music where he enrolled in 1984 while there he was influenced by gary burton herb pomeroy billy pierce george garzone and joe viola mccaslin performed regularly in boston and cambridge with the true colors big band run by composer ken schaphorst in 1987 he joined burtons group and toured the world with him for four yearsin 1991 he moved to new york city and was a member of steps ahead until 1994 replacing michael brecker he also played with the gil evans orchestra the george gruntz concert jazz band danilo perez maria schneider and santi debriano in 1996 he played on ken schaphorsts uprising alongside john medeski doug yates and uri caine the following year he played with david binney scott colley and kenny wolleson on the collaboration lan xang in 2006 he joined the dave douglas quintet in 2010 he recorded as a featured soloist on the cd coming through slaughter the bolden legend mccaslin performs in newyork regularly with antonio snchez drummer david binney dekel bor scott colley danilo prez and others his first record as a leader appeared in 1998 and he has continued issuing releases under his own name into the late 2000s
khalid chalqi born 28 april 1971 is a french professional football midfielderchalqi was born in oujda morocco and played for aubervillers olympique noisylesec vincennes and le havre before joining portuguese first division side unio madeirahe then moved on to naval and french second division side crteil but lost his place when the clubs new owner made money available for new players he joined torquay united on trial in october 2000 and impressed manager wes saunders sufficiently to be rewarded with a contract on the 10th of november becoming the third french player at plainmoor the others being jules mendy and habib sissoko he made his league debut the following day scoring in a 32 away defeat against york city although struggling to adapt to the pace of the english game he made up for it with his tough tackling and workrate however his combative style got him into to disciplinary trouble he was sent off for throwing a punch in the game against cardiff city in december 2000 and could have almost cost the gulls their league status when he was sent off at plymouth argyle in a vital game towards the end of the 200001 season and was suspended for the final game against barnet which torquay won to stay up at barnets expense new torquay manager roy mcfarland decided towards the end of july 2001 that both chalqi and mendy could leave plainmoor and chalqi left after settling his contract in early august he was soon linked with a move to hull city but on the 23rd of august was due to begin a trial with plymouth argyle by playing in a reserve game at yeovil town however after a communication problem chalqi going to plymouth when the match was in yeovil he finally began his trial with argyle a week later his trial was not successful
jesse kaikuranta born in maarianhamina finland on april 13 1982 is a finnish singer he spent his childhood in htri but resides in kokkola while working as a qualified singing instructor he took part in the the voice of finland in 2012 the inaugural season of the show in finland in the blind audition stage broadcast on january 20 2012 he auditioned with the edge of glory by lady gaga two of the four judges turned their chairs he picked paula koivuniemi to be his mentor he proceeded through various stages of the show to reach the final 4 where he sang vie mut kotiin as his choice for winning single he finished 3rd4th with mikko sipola winning the title and saara aalto as runnerup\tdespite his failure to win the title kaikuranta gained great popularity in finland he signed with universal music finland and his song vie mut kotiin charted on the finnish singles chart reaching number 11 on the official finnish download chart the song peaked at number onehis debut album also titled vie mut kotiin was released on november 2 2012 and went straight to number one on the official finnish album chart selling platinum the album was produced by matti mikkola and eppu kosonen and includes work by aki tykki djpp paula vesala freeman and hector the followup single jrjetn rakkaus was released on november 14 2012 and the third single nytn sulle rannan on january 25 2012kaikuranta released his second album vaikka min muutuin on october 30 2013
hossein baharvand is an iranian stem cell and developmental biologist and director of royan institute for stem cell biology and technologyhossein baharvand was born in 1972 and obtained his phd degree in 2004 in the field of developmental biology from kharazmi university formerly tarbiat moallem university tehran iran he began work at the royan institute in tehran from 1996 he is currently full professor and head of department of stem cells and developmental biology at royan institute for stem cell biology and technology moreover he is the head of department of developmental biology at university of science and culture in tehran he and his colleagues have established several human embryonic stem cell lines since 2003 and later human induced pluripotent stem cells this has enabled them to pursue many avenues of research into methods of generating therapeutic cells from stem cells and made them the pioneer in stem cell research throughout the middle easthe has published more than 150 peerreview papers in national and international journals as well as 4 chapter books in international books and 9 books in persian he is editor of trends in stem cell biology and technology book he is an editorial board member of five international journals he has won 11 national and international awards and presented as invited speaker in several meetings
isabel allende bussi born january 18 1945 in santiago de chile is a chilean socialist party politician and the daughter of former president of chile salvador allende and his wife hortensia bussi from 1994 to 2010 she was a deputy and in march 2010 she became a senator for the atacama region on 28 february 2014 allende was selected as president of the senate as of 11 march 2014 making her the first woman president of the body in chilean historyshe went to the maisonette college and unlike her sisters was initially attracted to the catholic church and received her first communion in 1962 at the age of 17 she began studying sociology and joined the universitys socialist brigade five years later she accompanied her father to the congress of the socialist party in chile her first marriage with sergio meza son of gonzalo meza allende did not last long but they had a son gonzal with her second husband romilio tambutti she had a daughter named marciaon 11 september 1973 the day of the military coup led by general augusto pinochet isabel was the last person to enter the presidential palace but after the military begin to bomb the presidential palace and the outcome was already clear her father ordered the women to leaveisabel obtained political asylum in mexico with her mother and sister where she spent sixteen years in exile before returning to chile in 1989 in the final stretch of the military regimeon returning to her homeland isabel began a successful political career after chiles return to democracy in 1990 she was elected as an mp presiding over the house between 2003 and 2004 becoming the second woman to head this legislative body after adriana muoz
basarab nicolescu b march 25 1942 ploieti romania is an honorary theoretical physicist at the centre national de la recherche scientifique cnrs laboratoire de physique nuclaire et de hautes nergies universit pierre et marie curie paris he is also a professor at the babebolyai university clujnapoca romania and docteur ssciences physiques phd 1972 universit pierre et marie curie paris he was appointed professor extraordinary at stellenbosch university south africa for the period 1 january 2011 to 31 december 2013 and was elected as stellenbosch institute for advanced study stias fellow in 2011he is the president and founder of the international center for transdisciplinary research and studies ciret a nonprofit organization 163 members from 26 countriesin addition he is the cofounder with ren berger of the study group on transdisciplinarity at unesco 1992 and the founder and director of the transdisciplinarity series rocher editions monaco and of the romanians of paris piktosoxus editions parishe is also a specialist in the theory of elementary particles basarab nicolescu is the author of more than one hundred thirty articles in leading international scientific journals has made numerous contributions to science anthologies and participated in several dozens french radio and multimedia documentaries on sciencebasarab nicolescu is a major advocate of the transdisciplinary reconciliation between science and the humanities he has published many articles on the role of science in contemporary culture in journals in france romania italy united kingdom brazil mexico argentina japan and in the usa
william moehle is the supervisor of the town inbrighton in monroe county in new york state he is the chief executive office of the town and leads the administrative government for the townhe was first elected as the democratic candidate for supervisor of brighton in 2011 with 4996 votes out of a total of 8963 votes cast before his election as supervisor he served as attorney to the town of brighton for over 18 years prior to that he had been a partner at the rochester new york law firm underberg kessler and an associate at the law firm of nixon hargrave devans doyle now nixon peabody llp in rochester he has been active in community organizations in brighton where he served as president of brighton rotary club and the brighton chamber of commerce and also served on a number of other business and community boardshe has been involved in the fight against hydrofracking in the state of new york and is a member of mayors for equality a national group of mayors supporting equal marriage rightshe is running for reelection as brighton supervisor in november 2013 and has been nominated by the democratic partymoehle was born in detroit michigan on march 14 1955 he graduated from williams college in 1976 with a ba cum laude in political economy he graduated from new york university law school in 1979
kyle rodney kendrick born august 26 1984 is an american professional baseball pitcher for the colorado rockies of major league baseball mlb he previously played for the philadelphia phillies he was born in houston texas but attended high school in mount vernon washington while growing up he was greatly influenced by his father from whom he developed his composure when pitching upon graduation he turned down a scholarship to play college football instead signing a contract to begin his professional baseball career in the phillies organization after a slow ascent through the lower levels of the phillies minor leagues he made his mlb debut in 2007 and was a member of the starting rotation of the 2008 world series champion teamsubsequently he was demoted to the minor leagues to develop secondary pitches from 2010 until 2012 his role on the bigleague squad frequently fluctuated but overall was an underrated member of the pitching staff according to several writers nevertheless he drew the ire of the phillies fans who were tired of his consistent inconsistency during the course of his career after a successful 2012 campaign however he firmly implanted himself in the phillies starting rotation before the 2013 season again in 2013 though he was inconsistent and entering 2014 some suggested he should be traded to another teamhis pitching style is characterized by his poise on the mound that allows him to go with the flow of the game he predominantly throws a sinker and mixes in some secondary pitches in which he lacks confidence he is married has two children and lives in snohomish county washington during the offseason
chan ka nin born 3 december 1949 is a canadian composer and music educator of chinese descent he became a naturalized canadian citizen in 1971 he has been commissioned to write works for the calgary philharmonic orchestra the cbc radio orchestra the esprit orchestra the manitoba chamber orchestra the national arts centre orchestra new music concerts the quebec contemporary music society and symphony nova scotia among many others he has also been awarded funds to compose works by the canada council ontario arts council ontarios ministry of citizenship and immigration and the toronto arts council he has won two juno awards for best classical compositionborn and raised in hong kong chan immigrated with his family to canada in 1965 at the age of 15 the family settled in vancouver and after completion of high school chan entered the university of british columbia where he studied music composition with jean coulthard while pursuing degrees in both music and electrical engineering he graduated from the ubc in 1976 and proceeded to enter the graduate composition program at the jacobs school of music at indiana university where he was a pupil of bernhard heiden he earned both a master of music 1978 and a doctor of music 1983 from the school in 1982 he pursued further studies in music composition at the darmstdter ferienkurse in darmstadt germanyin 1982 chan became a member of the music faculty at the university of toronto where he continues to teach courses in music theory and composition to this day he is an associate of the canadian music centre and a member of the canadian league of composers
david dworkin born 1934 is an american conductor clarinetist and educator much of his career focused on work with young people conductor of the university of vermont summer music session for 15 years music director of the vermont youth orchestra conductor and clarinet teacher of precollege division orchestra of the manhattan school of music 10 years conductor of the philharmonic on the hudson 15 yearshe has also conducted the new jersey vermont and manhattan symphony orchestras he was conductor and artistic consultant to the pbs television series grow old with me series and conducted kurt weills threepenny opera on cbs television he performed with of the american symphony orchestra under leopold stokowski and with the orchestra of the metropolitan opera and as a soloist in concerts around the world he graduated juilliard school where he studied clarinet with daniel bonade and robert mcginnis and conducting with jean morel and earned graduate degrees from columbia universityhe now promotes his musicbased exercise program conductorcise which combines an aerobics workout with basic conducting and listening skills the program is popular with senior citizens in the united states a recent collaboration with chamber music charleston brought the program to a new level with the addition of live classical music
filogia ian filo tiatia born 4 june 1971 in wellington new zealand is a new zealand international rugby union footballer who used to play as a backrow forward and occasionally lock ospreystiatia made his debut for wellington in 1992 playing through the advent of professionalism and then represented the hurricanes in the super 12between 1996 and 2002tiatia won 2 caps for the new zealand in 2000 his first was as a replacement in a 1020 win against tonga where he scored a try the next was a start at flanker against italy where he again scored another try match listhe then moved to japan to play four season for toyota verblitz before signing for the welsh region the ospreyshe became a cult figure at the ospreys impressing fans with his all action style and appetite for work around the field he played 99 times for the ospreys scoring 10 tries he was so popular at the ospreys fans set up the filo tiatia appreciation society on facebook 1 tiatia also had a grogg made of him in 2008 2 and fought to keep swansea tennis centre open in 2010 3tiatia retired at the age of 38 but stayed at the ospreys as a coach and he was named head coach for the lv cup in 2011 4wwwbbccoukfilo tiatia will leave his ospreys coaching role at the end of the season to become forwards coach at japanese side toyota verblitzvia the bbc websiteafter one season as forwards coach tiatia was promoted as head coach for toyota verblitz the following 2012 13 seasonfilo tiatia was also involved with the japanese national rugby team as a spot coach looking after the forwards in the 2013 asian 5 nations under head coach eddie jones tiatia was later also involved to help the japanese national team for their november test match against the all blacks where the new zealand side were far too strong and won the game 546 tiatias younger brother ace has also played professional rugby at both provincial and super rugby levels as well as making appearances for the samoa national team
nancy elise howell etchemendy born february 19 1952 is an american writer of science fiction fantasy and horror including four childrens novelsnancy elise howell was born in reno nevada her novels short fiction and poetry have appeared regularly since 1980 both in the united states and abroad her work has earned a number of awards including three bram stoker awards two for childrens horror a golden duck award for excellence in childrens science fiction and an international horror guild award her fourth novel the power of un was published by front street cricket books in march 2000 cat in glass and other tales of the unnatural her collection of short dark fantasy for young adults was published in 2002 also by front street cricket books and appears on the ala best books for young adults list for 2002 she holds a ba in fine arts and english literature from university of nevada reno she is a former officer of the horror writers association and currently serves on the board of the clarion foundation she attended the clarion science fiction and fantasy writers workshop in 1982 at michigan state university in east lansing michigan she lives and works in northern california and is married to john etchemendy provost of stanford university
clayton andrew donaldson born 7 february 1984 is an english professional footballer who plays for birmingham city as a strikerdonaldson started his career with hull city in 2002 scoring on his first team debut in the football league trophy later that year he was sent out on loan to nonleague clubs on four occasions and with chances in the first team at hull limited he was released in 2005 and subsequently joined york city in his first season at the club he was voted as their clubman of the year and his second season saw him finish as the teams highest scorer and third highest scorer in the leaguehe joined scottish premier league team hibernian in july 2007 after signing a precontract agreement with them in january whilst with york after a season at the club he left to return to england with crewe alexandra after three years with crewe being the top goalscorer in league two in his last season he joined brentford in 2011 he spent three years with the club helping them gain promotion to the championship in 201314 before signing for birmingham city at the end of that season when his contract expired he played internationally for the england national game xi who represent england at nonleague level with whom he earned two caps
michael dee dowis was the quarterback for the united states air force academy football team from 1986 to 1989 generally regarded as one of the best option quarterbacks in ncaa history dowis finished sixth in the heisman trophy voting in 1989 that same season he set the ncaa division i career record for rushing yards by a quarterback with 3612 this record was broken by antwaan randle el of indiana university in 2001 became the fifth player in division i history to both pass and rush for 1000 yards was an honorable mention all american and was the western athletic conference offensive player of the year he set the ncaa record for most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in a game with 6 against san diego state university in 1989 he set the western athletic conference record for most rushing yards by a quarterback in a game in the same game with 249 dowis graduated from the air force academy in 1990 and briefly served as a coach on the air force staff he was inducted into the franklin county sports hall of fame as a charter member on july 17 1998 more recently on april 20 2011 dowis was selected to be inducted into the colorado springs sports hall of famehe currently resides in greenville south carolina near royston georgia where he was born and raised he works as a manager for pfizer pharmaceuticals and is married with two childrendowis 249 yard game was the air force school record for rushing in a single game by any player until october 13 2007 the record was broken by chad hall who had 256 rushing yards against colorado state
judy joo is an american chef and television personality she is the executive chef for jinjuu restaurant in london she was one of the four iron chefs on the cooking show iron chef uk and was a judge on season four of the food network show the next iron chef she has also been a regular judge on iron chef america and a challenger in the iron chef uk vs iron chef america battle she is also the host of korean food made simple cooking channel in the usa and food network uk she is also a resident judge on kitchen inferno food networkjoo graduated from columbia university with a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering and operations research she began a career in the banking industry working at goldman sachs and morgan stanley as an institutional fixed income derivatives saleswoman however she switched careers and began working as a chef at gordon ramsays restaurants including maze petrus gordon ramsay at claridges and the boxwood caf she has also worked in the restaurants the french laundry and the fat duck she is opening up her own restaurant in london called jinjuu in soho expected winter of 2014 prior to that she was the executive chef for the playboy club londonin addition to her iron chef roles joo has appeared on uk food channels market kitchen and food networks the best thing i ever ate and the best thing i ever made she is also a regular judge on guy fieris guys grocery games
axel ockenfels born 9 february 1969 is a german economist he is professor of economics at the university of cologne he also is director of the cologne laboratory of economic research coordinator of the dfg research unit design behavior and of the cologne universitys key profile area behavioral economic engineering and social cognitionockenfels received his diplom in economics from the university of bonn in 1994 where he studied under reinhard selten he earned his doctoral degree in economics from the ottovonguericke university magdeburg in 1998 where his doctoral advisor was joachim weimannockenfels was awarded the 15 million euro gottfried wilhelm leibniz prize germanys highest research honor by the deutsche forschungsgemeinschaft dfg in 2005renowned for his research on behavioral and design economics ockenfels is considered one of most influential german economists both in fundamental research and in practical market design he publishes in leading journals in economics but also in business administration information systems psychology and sociology as well as in applicationoriented outlets his theory of equity reciprocity and competition coauthored with gary e bolton is one of the most cited papers in economics ockenfels is a member of the berlinbrandenburgische and of the north rhinewestphalian academy of sciences the academic advisory board at the federal ministry of economics and technology and contributing author for the intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc
kevin oconnell is the chief weather anchor for wgrztv the nbc affiliate in buffalo new yorkoconnell also subhosted on the david letterman show on nbc hosted the game show go on nbc from october 1983 to january 1984 and presented the syndicated disco series disco stepbystep from 1977 to 1980 he was often a substitute weathercaster for weekend today during the 1990soconnell was previously a news and weather anchor for buffalos wivb as well as los angeles knbc and kcbstv during the 1980s before returning to buffalo in 1990 he was also a disc jockey early in his career before moving into work in weatherhis father is the late george oconnell the city comptroller who led to effort to save the sheas performing arts center after it had fallen prey to taxes his sister is mary kate oconnell a stage actresssince joining wgrz in the 1990s oconnells primary focus has been weather forecasting and he obtained an american meteorological society seal of approval as a result of his work there oconnell does not go by the title of meteorologist since he does not hold a bachelors degree in the science of meteorology he has some meteorology education from buffalo state college
bartosz brenes polish bart spanish enes born 25 july 1989 in san jos costa rica is a charttopping house dj producer remixer and record label owner he began his career as a dj at the age of 16 in belgium and quickly started touring throughout europe shortly after bartosz started producing electronic dance music using ableton live and by 2009 the 20yearold had already established 1744 records his 2010 single heaven topped the russian music charts for 73 consecutive weeks peaking at 3 on the russian billboard chart since 2011 bartosz has been commissioned to remix artists such as atrak amanda wilson bob sinclar boy george david vendetta dillon francis eddie amador gary pine janelle monae jean beauvoir joachim garraud joe smooth kurd maverick olav basoski perry farrell ron carroll sander kleinenberg sophie ellisbextor steve edwards and tommy trash just to name a few with over 100 productions originals remixes and ghost tracks on labels like armada defected dim mak flamingo fools gold hed kandi ministry of sound nettwerk spinnin stealth or subliminal bartosz quickly gathered the attention of highprofile djs including tisto dimitri vegas like mike knife party the crystal method paul oakenfold alesso nicky romero showtek cedric gervais morgan page john dahlbck and michael woods in 2012 bartosz achieved popularity with his remix of breaking up by chuckie which became a mainstay on the beatport top downloads charts for almost half a year
nadir belhadj arabic born 18 june 1982 is an algerian professional football player who currently plays as a left wingback or as a left winger for qatar stars league side alsadd he is well known for his pace and staminaan algerian international belhadj was a former french youth international having played for the french under18s for a couple of games in 2000 belhadj was among the first footballers to profit from the 2004 change in fifa eligibility rules as he had played as a french youth international after his switch of national allegiance to algeria he was called up to an unofficial friendly on 30 march 2004 against belgian club raa louviroise he made his senior international debut in a friendly against china on 28 april 2004 he featured for algeria at the 2010 africa cup of nations reaching the semifinals and the 2010 fifa world cup on 4 may 2012 he announced his international retirement ending his career with 54 caps and 4 goals belhadj played a vital role for qatari club al sadd in the 2011 asian champions league final by beating south korean side jeonbuk hyundai motors 42 in a penalty shootout belhadj scored the decisive penalty after the game had finished 22 in regulation time holding his nerve to beat kim minsik this was the first win for a qatari club since the afc champions league started in 2003 and ended five consecutive triumphs for south korea and japan
john galvin is a former gaelic footballer who played as a midfielder for limerick in a career spanning 15 years from 1999 to 2014 he played his club football with croom before transferring to cratloe in clare where he had been living for some yearshe was captain of the limerick team that won the munster under21 football championship in 2000 he played in 4 munster senior football championship finals but lost all 4 to kerry in 2003 2004 and 2010 and to cork in 2009 in april 2003 he was named vodafone gaa allstars player of the month for his part in helping limerick win the division 4 final of the national football league he was man of the match in the 2010 final scoring 102 he was picked on the 2010 gpa awards team at midfield he also plays hurling with croomhe has bean an all star nominees 3 times 200420092010 in 2008 he was part of the munster team that won the railway cupin 2014 galvin switched clubs to play for cratloe in county clare after living in the area for four years he won the clare senior football championship with cratloe in 2014galvin announced his retirement from intercounty football on 8 january 2015 after spending 15 years with limerick and became what some people said limericks greatest ever player
gary buckenara born 3 july 1958 is a former australian rules footballer who played for hawthorn in the victorian football league vflbuckenara first played senior football for subiaco in the west australian football league from 1979 to 1981 subiaco agreed to lease him for three years for 210000 and after a court case began his career at hawthorn his kicking was highly regarded by his teammates and his reputation in football was assured when he kicked a goal after the siren in the 1987 preliminary final to defeat melbourneduring his time at hawthorn buckenara played 154 games usually playing in the centre or at halfforward when he had problems with his knees he kicked 293 goals won four premierships and played in one losing grand final team he played for his state regularly from 1979 onwards and was selected as the western australian captain in 1983 85 and 86 he was named in the all australian team his career ended early due to knee injuries and he moved into coaching he was appointed senior coach of the sydney swans in 1992 but was replaced in the middle of the 1993 season when the swans were performing quite badly he returned to his original club subiaco to coach in 1995 and 1996 and is now one of the staff at hawthorn in 2003 he was named in the hawthorn team of the century
al santing is a businessman and former municipal politician in windsor ontario canada for years he was a fixture in the citys conservative movementsanting was born in the netherlands and moved to canada with his family at age thirteen he lived for a while in rural new brunswick and later moved to ontario he owned a tire store in private life santing campaigned for the progressive conservative party of ontario in the 1977 provincial election and finished third against new democratic party candidate dave cooke in windsorriversidesanting served on the windsor city council from 1980 to 1985 and was known as one of its more rightwing members in 1982 he sided with a group of ratepayers in seeking wage cuts for city workers other councillors accused him of grandstanding and of undermining the citys labour negotiationshe campaigned for mayor of windsor in the 1985 municipal election calling for privatesector investment in the citys waterfront a newspaper article described him as a fortyseven years old he finished second against david burr who was supported by the new democratic partyafter leaving public office santing worked as chairman of the tourism and convention bureau and corporate fundraising chairman for the heart and stroke foundation he joined vr windsor inc brokers in april 1987 santing supported bringing a casino to windsor as early as 1988 several years before city council decided to accept the proposalsanting worked with the ontario liberal party in the 1987 provincial election he attempted to return to council in the 1988 and 1991 municipal elections but was defeated both timesduring the late 1990s santing argued that the federal goods and services tax gst caused significant damage to canadas retail industry in the early 1990s
patrick xavier heriniaina ramiaramanana is a malagasy politician he was mayor of antananarivo the capital of madagascar before serving in the government from 2007 to 2008ramiaramanana began working at marc ravalomananas dairy company tiko in 1997 holding positions in management ravalomanana won the disputed december 2001 presidential election and ramiaramanana was named president of the special delegation of antananarivo to replace ravalomanana who had been the citys mayor he was appointed chairman of the board of the state electricity and water company jirama in october 2003 and soon afterward on october 16 he publicly announced his anticipated candidacy for mayor of antananarivo as the candidate of the ruling tiako i madagasikara tim was elected mayor in the municipal election held on november 23 2003 his victory had been expected in 2006 he was the tenthplaced finalist for world mayor he stepped down as mayor when he was appointed as minister of energy in the government of prime minister charles rabemananjara named on january 25 2007ramiaramanana ran as a tim candidate for a seat in the national assembly of madagascar from the antananarivo i constituency in the september 2007 parliamentary election and along with his fellow tim candidate for the constituency arinosy jacques razafimbelo he won by a large margin with 6121 of the vote according to provisional resultsfollowing the election in the government named on october 27 2007 ramiaramanana was moved from his position as minister of energy to that of minister of sports culture and leisure he was suspended from this post in the government named on april 30 2008 jeanlouis robinson replaced ramiaramanana in an interim capacity before being formally appointed to head the ministry in june 2008
li kwan ha cbe qpm cpm chinese was the first ethnic chinese to serve as the commissioner of police in hong kong he took office in 1989 and retired in 1994li attended queen elizabeth school and joined the hong kong police force in 1957 he became an inspector in 1969 and assistant commissioner of police in 1978he was the first chinese senior assistant commissioner of police in 1984 and deputy commissioner of police in 1985 he rose to the rank of commissioner following the retirement of raymon anning in 1989after retiring from the force li joins sir kashing lis cheung kong holdings and hutchison whampoa to advise the firms on security matters he also acted as a senior consultantduring the 1997 handover period li became a member of the chinese peoples political consultative conferencein 1990 li intervened in the kidnapping incident of li kashings son victor li and walter kwok by cheung chi keunglis wife whom he met at secondary school deceased in nov 2007 one of lis children child who used to live in vancouver canada but moved back to hong kong to keep li company the other one is living in london uk with lis grandsons namely thomas and joseph
thomas tom roach born 2 september 1985 is an australian rules footballer who played in the australian football league aflroach is the son of former richmond champion michael roach and was drafted to the richmond football club at pick 37 in the 2003 afl draft under the fatherson rule he was delisted by richmond at the end of the 2006 seasonroach an onballer managed eight games in 2004 his debut season but played just one game in 2005 mostly playing in the victorian football league vfl with richmonds affiliate coburg despite solid form he struggled to push for selection and managed just two senior games for the 2006 season both against the west coast eagles in these two games he collected a total of fourteen possessions 9 in round 3 and 5 in round 22 these two games took his career total of games to 11 as at the end of the 2006 season in these 11 games he had a total of 80 possessionsat richmond thomas wore the number 8 guernsey of his legendary father for the 2005 and 2006 seasons the tigers had hoped for his potential to develop but after he had struggled to win a place in the senior side in 2006 they decided to delist himthomas roach grew up in richmond victoria and played for richmond junior football club he was the first and so far only afl player to have played for rjfcroach played the 2007 season for the north ballarat football club in the vflhe is currently playing football for the swan districts football club in the west australian football league wafl and is a teacher by profession
john iliopoulos greek language 1940 kalamata is a greek physicist and the first person to present the standard model of particle physics in a single report he is best known for his prediction of the charm quark with sheldon lee glashow and luciano maiani the gim mechanism iliopoulos is also known for the fayetiliopoulos dterm formula which was introduced in 1974 he is currently an honorary member of laboratory of theoretical physics of cole normale suprieure parisiliopoulos graduated from national technical university of athens ntua in 1962 as an mechanicalelectrical engineer he continued his studies in the field of theoretical physics in paris university and in 1963 he obtained the dea in 1965 the doctorat 3e cycle and in 1968 the doctorat d etat titles between the years 1966 and 1968 he was a scholar at cern geneva from 1969 till 1971 he was a research assosiate in harvard university in 1971 he returned in paris and began working at cnrs he also held the director position of the laboratory of theoretical physics of ecole normale superieure between the years 19911995 and 19982002 in 2002 iliopoulos was the first recipient of the aristeio prize which has been instituted to recognize greeks who have made significant contributions towards furthering their chosen fields of science iliopoulos and maiani were jointly awarded the 1987 sakurai prize for theoretical particle physics in 2007 iliopoulos and maiani received the dirac medal of the ictp for their work on the physics of the charm quark a major contribution to the birth of the standard model the modern theory of elementary particles
jonathan toubin born july 29 1971 is an american dj record producer musician writer and historian he is the founder and proprietor of the new york night train event production company heralded the mostliked man in the soul music scene by rolling stone and new yorks best dj by vice toubin is best known for his energetic dance party sets consisting of tightly juxtaposed obscure 1950s and 1960s rhythm and blues rock and roll and soul 45s new york times describes the djs fare as cleaner and more appreciative of american pop music history than much of the rest he is also known for his new york night train parties and their role in revamping the entire landscape of new york and brooklyn from midnight till the after hours in what the village voice describes as his own kind of dance revolution his best known event is the new york night train soul clap and danceoff which has been called the most popular soul dance party in the world by sxsw it is the only soul dance party to have had an entire night dedicated to it at lincoln center midsummer night swing and at sxsw and plays in dozens of international markets and major festivals annually plus monthly at the brooklyn bowl in over 1600 gigs since 2007 toubin has appeared in hundreds of night clubs he currently has dj compilations available on burger records
timmy simons born 11 december 1976 is a belgian footballer who plays for club brugge in the belgian pro league he plays as a defensive midfielder he is known for his tireless work ethic and penaltytaking ability having scored 48 competitive goals through penalty missing only 5 in 2012 at age 36 simons was both the outfield player with the most minutes and the most kilometres in the bundesliga simons former clubs include lommel club brugge psv eindhoven and 1 fc nrnberg he has captained both club brugge and psv eindhoven and won the belgian golden shoe in 2002 while playing for club bruggein the summer 2005 he decided to leave club brugge for psv eindhoven he was named vicecaptain in the 200506 season after philip cocu left after the 200607 season he was named captain he became a key player for psv and was very popular among the fans he took over the number 6 shirt after mark van bommel left the club he left for 1 fc nuremberg in summer 2010 and became a regular starter for the team from franconia having played in all 102 games in the three seasons in the summer of 2013 simons returned to his former team club brugge where he signed a twoyear contracthe is the secondmost capped player of all time in the belgium national football team after jan ceulemans having earned 93 caps
geoffrey bayldon born 7 january 1924 in leeds west riding of yorkshire is a british actor after playing roles in many dramas including shakespeare he became known for portraying the title role of the childrens series catweazle 197072 after turning down the opportunity to play both the first and second doctors in the longrunning bbc science fiction television series doctor who bayldons other longrunning parts include the crowman in worzel gummidge 197981 and magic grandad in the bbc television series watch 1995bayldon made several film appearances in the 1960s and 1970s including king rat 1965 to sir with love 1967 casino royale as q 1967 the envy segment of the magnificent seven deadly sins 1971 the marc bolant rex film born to boogie and the film version porridge of the television series porridge 1979 as the governoramong his more recent television appearances was the five game show fort boyard 1998he also had a guest appearance in doctor who as organon in the creature from the pit 1979 more recently he has played an alternative first doctor in two audio plays based on the doctor who television series by big finish productions in the doctor who unbound series auld mortality and a storm of angelsother television roles include parts in the dramatisation of blott on the landscape 1985 and in two episodes of the avengers 1961 1967 and of star cops 1987 he was in the tales of the unexpected episode down among the sheltering palms 1983 he has also appeared in a number of bbc schools programmes where he has displayed a number of otherwise unexploited talents such as singing in 1993 he played simplicio in the open university video newtons revolution in 2007 he made a guest appearance in new tricks as leonard caseyin 1986 bayldon provided the vocals on paul hardcastles the wizard which was also used without the vocal as the theme for bbc tvs top of the pops
ariadna thalia sodi miranda spanish pronunciation aiana talia soi mianda born august 26 1971 known mononymously as thala is a mexican singer published author actress and entrepreneur who has sung in various languages including spanish english portuguese and filipinoshe is recognized as the most successful female solo mexican singer by latin media conglomerates such as univision televisa and azteca while she is often referred to as the queen of latin pop by the media internationally mainly because of her legacy within the latin pop music scene of the last 25 years as a solo artist she has sold over 40 million records worldwide being considered one of the bestselling latin musicians of all time she has had 28 top 10 singles 16 of which went to no1 and she has received numerous accolades including five latin billboard awards several premios juventud awards and various latin grammy nominationsapart from her success as a recording artist thala has also had a successful career in acting as she starred in a variety of soap operas known as telenovelas that have aired in over 180 countries during the decade of the 1990s she was converted into a television icon and was publicly referred to as the queen of telenovelas by the mass media around the world she was also reported to be the most successful and bestpaid telenovela actress as stated by televisa the largest mass media company in the spanishspeaking worldin 2008 the british tabloid the sun named her one of the 50 female singers who will never be forgotten and in 2011 terra networks included her in their list of the most powerful and iconic women in music she is also an occasional fashion designer and has her own nationally syndicated radio show while she is an accomplished author having released four books one of them being her personal memoir on december 5 2013 she was honored with a star on the hollywood walk of fame as a recognition for her successful career in music and entertainment
herbert hacki wimmer born 9 november 1944 in eupen belgium is a former footballer besides winning five national championships and two uefa cups with his club side borussia mnchengladbach he won the 1974 world cup and the uefa euro 1972 with germanyherbert wimmer started his playing career with lowly borussia brand a place close to the city of aachen between 1966 and 1978 the played in 366 bundesliga matches for borussia mnchengladbach and scored 51 goals with the club he won five national championships 1970 71 75 76 78 the german cup in 1973 and in 1975 the uefa cup he started out as a forward but in mnchengladbach his role was primarily to cover defensively for the star of the team in this era midfield playmaker gnter netzer his physical endurance the iron lung was one of his major assets he was considered as a paragon of a player that never runs out of steambetween 1968 and 1976 wimmer also played in 36 matches for the german national football team where he scored four goals with germany he won the 1972 european football championship there he scored the second goal in the 30 win in the final against the ussr and the 1974 fifa world cup where he took part in two matches
jason gissing born 1970 is one of the founders of ocado an online grocery retailer in the united kingdomgissing was born in the uk and educated at oundle school in northamptonshire and worcester college oxford university he has an english father and japanese motherhe is one of the founders of ocado the uk based egrocer he started the business with two friends and former colleagues from goldman sachs tim steiner and jonathan faiman in january 2000 prior to ocado jason spent eight years as a banker at goldman sachs ocado is the largest dedicated internet grocery retailer in the world and has won numerous customer service awards in the uk it has been operationally profitable since november 2007 but did not make posttax profit until 2014 it listed on the london stock market in july 2010 valuing the company at 940 millionjason graduated from worcester college oxford with a law degree in 1992 he played tennis for oxford and was a member of vincents and the bullingdon club he is a keen skier and footballer and is married to former professional skier katinka daughter of the late arne naess jr they have 4 childrenin january 2014 gissing announced that he would retire staying on until the agm on may 7 ocado had sales of circa 1 billion in 2014 and made its first ever profit this leaves chief executive tim steiner as the last remaining founder still with the companyin july 2014 gissing and his eldest son survived being hit by a freight train in zimbabwe africa attending a wedding where he was best man
vasil sikharulidze georgian born may 30 1968 is a georgian diplomat and politician he has been foreign affairs advisor to the president of georgia since august 27 2009 he had previously served as ambassador to the united states 20062008 and georgias minister of defence 20082009 born in tbilisi thensoviet georgia sikharulidze graduated from tbilisi state medical university in 1993 and practiced psychiatry from 1993 to 1995 after a brief tenure as an executive director of the atlantic council of georgia an umbrella organization that brings together georgian ngos working on euroatlantic integration issues sikharulidze worked for the parliament of georgia as a leading specialist on defense and security issues from 1996 to 2000 he headed the nato division at the ministry of foreign affairs of georgia from 2000 to 2002 and served as a deputy head of the georgian mission of nato in brussels he worked for the national security council of georgia in 2004 and served as a deputy minister of defense in the years 20052006in march 2006 sikharulidze was appointed the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of georgia to the united states canada and mexico he was recalled in december 2008 to replace as the minister of defense of georgia davit kezerashvili whose conduct during the august 2008 war with russia had been criticized by the opposition sikharulidze held the post for eight months overseeing the rebuilding of georgias shattered military after the war on august 27 2009 he was replaced with deputy bacho akhalaia a close ally of president mikheil saakashvili and influential interior minister vano merabishvili a decision subjected by the opposition to criticism sikharulidze was moved to the post of presidents foreign policy advisor
ran libeskindhadas is a professor of computer science at harvey mudd college his research interests lie in the fields of algorithm design and analysis and complexity theory but focus more specifically on routing algorithms for optical networks and collective communication in parallel computers and networkslibeskindhadas graduated from harvard university with a degree in applied mathematics in 1987 he went on to complete an ms and phd in computer science at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign in 1993 in august of that year he was hired into the department of mathematics at harvey mudd college a liberal arts school that focuses on science and engineering he has been in the department of computer science since may 1994 and served as acting chair of the department in 20062007libeskindhadas holds the joseph b platt endowed chair for effective teaching from 2005 to 2010 his research has been funded by the national science foundation most recently he has been the director of an nsf research experiences for undergraduates reu site at harvey mudd college which has allowed harvey mudd to greatly increase the number of undergraduate research students it can support during the summers in addition to increasing crossuniversity interactions additionally libeskindhadas has been the key faculty member in encouraging a group of students to form a student chapter for the association for computing machinery acm which has been successfully running and helping members of the claremont colleges and surrounding community since the beginning of 2005
kstutis ivakeviius born 17 april 1985 in klaipda is a lithuanian footballer who plays for bnei yehuda in the israeli premier leagueivakeviius is as an attacking midfielder capable of playing wide right or centrallyhe started his career at hometown club atlantas klaipda and after impressing there earned a move to fbk kaunas in the second part of 2006 season he was loaned out to fk ilut but returned for the 2007 and scored 7 goals earning himself a move to hearts for the 200607 seasonat hearts he struggled to make an impact on the first team he made his hearts debut in september 2006 in a 40 victory over alloa athletic in the scottish league cup with his first league appearance occurring 6 months later in a 20 win at motherwell he scored his first league goal against celtic on 29 april 2007 in a surprising 31 win on 15 september 2007 he scored against the other half of the old firm rangers in a 42 victory a win which ended rangers 100 start to the seasonon 20 august 2008 a statement on the hearts official website revealed that ivakeviius loan with hearts had been cancelled and he had returned to fbk kaunasin 2009 he made only one appearance for fbk kaunas in the lithuanian cup and in spring cancelled his contract after the club was relegated to third division as of july 2009 he was on trial at kryvbas
anthony fitzhardinge gueterbock 18th baron berkeley and baron gueterbock obe ceng mice hon fimeche hon dsc frsa fcit born 20 september 1939 also known as tony berkeley is a british labour politician he is both an english hereditary peer and a life peerafter being educated at eton college gueterbock went up to trinity college cambridge where he graduated ma he then embarked upon a career in civil engineering joining george wimpey plc where he worked as an engineer until 1985 for the next ten years he worked as an engineer for eurotunnel 8595gueterbock inherited his ancestors ancient title of baron berkeley in 1992 succeeding his aunt mary foleyberkeley 17th baroness berkeley berkeley was created a life peer too in 2000 as baron gueterbock of cranford in the london borough of hillingdon so as to remain sitting as a labour peer in the house of lords following the removal of hereditary peers automatic right to seats in parliamentsince lord berkeley first entered the house of lords in 1992 he has held the positions of opposition spokesperson for transport 199697 and opposition whip 199697lord berkeley is the secretary of the all party parliamentary cycling group and has asked many questions in the house of lords on transport matters including about bicycles on trains berkeley has also tabled questions about police conduct with regards to civil liberties he has also questioned restrictions on peers being entitled to bring guests into the house of lordshe is chairman of the rail freight group the industry representative body of the rail freight sector and a board member of the european rail freight association he is also a trustee of plymouth marine laboratory he lives in polruan cornwalllord berkeley is president of the uk maritime pilots association and a harbour commissioner of the port of fowey
kevin rose born 23 november 1960 in evesham is an english former footballer who played in the football league for hereford united bolton wanderers carlisle united and rochdale as a goalkeeper he holds the record of most consecutive appearances for hereford unitedhe started his career at hometown club evesham united before moving to worcester city a loss of form and confidence saw rose lose his place in the worcester goal and his contract with them was cancelled by mutual consent in february 1979 the following month rose signed for ledbury town in the process becoming the clubs first contracted player his performances for ledbury attracted the attention of several league clubs and shortly into the 197980 season he was signed by lincoln city for 10000 ledbury used the fee to erect floodlights at their new street ground and rose and lincoln returned on 12 november 1979 to defeat ledbury town 41 in the inaugural match under the lightsrose failed to make the first team at lincoln city and in september 1980 his contract was cancelled after a second spell at ledbury and having a potential move to worcester city rejected he signed for hereford united in january 1983 he was first choice keeper at edgar street making 253 consecutive appearances in the mid1980s although hereford enjoyed little success in the fourth divisionin 1989 he joined bolton wanderers but only played 10 league matches in two seasons and was loaned to carlisle united and rochdale he joined the latter in 1991 and had a goal incorrectly disallowed in a match against bury he came up for a corner and his header crossed the line by a couple of yards not that it matter as rochdale scored seconds later with rose providing the assisthe finished his career at kidderminster harriers and also played for the england semiprofessional team
dean greig born 31 october 1968 is a former australian rules footballer in the australian football leaguegreig played under 19s football for hawthorn in the victorian football league vfl during the 1980s captaining the team and winning its best and fairest award in 1985 despite this hawthorn did not wish to retain him and it released him at the end of 1985 he trialled a preseason at collingwood but was also not recruited to its senior listin 1990 grieg played for the ailing camberwell football club in the victorian football association he polled ten j j liston trophy votes in only nine games and camberwell coach gary brice described griegs performances as the sole shining light in a winless season which turned out to be the clubs last in the vfagrieg was subsequently recruited to the australian football league to which the vfl had changed its name in 1990 by the st kilda football club in 1991 on debut in round 21 1991 at nearly 23 years of age he compiled a league record 39 disposals 23 kicks 16 handballs against carltona strongly built midfielder he didnt progress as expected nevertheless managed some fine games with the st kilda and was noted for his creative handballin 2001 whilst playing for his suburban club scoresby he suffered a broken leg and due to the onset of gangrene following infection had his lower leg amputated after an onfield mishap
clarence saxby chambliss born november 10 1943 is an american politician who was a united states senator from georgia from 2003 to 2015 a member of the republican party he previously served as a us representative from 1995 to 2003during his four terms in the house chambliss served on the united states house of representatives permanent select committee on intelligence and chaired the house intelligence subcommittee on terrorism and homeland security which oversaw investigations of the intelligence community after the september 11 attacks in 2001during his 2002 bid for the us senate chambliss focused on the issue of national defense and homeland security he won with 53 of the vote for several years he was the ranking republican on the senate committee on agriculture nutrition and forestry and chaired the committee during the 109th congress 20052007 in the 112th congress 20112012 he is the ranking republican on the select committee on intelligencechambliss has a conservative voting record in the senate but he has participated in some bipartisan legislation in december 2011 the washington post named chambliss and the gang of six as one of the best leaders of 2011 for attempts to craft a bipartisan deficit reduction packageon january 24 2013 chambliss announced that he would not be running for a third term
terry wheeler born 13 march 1955 is a former australian rules footballer who played for and coached footscray in the australian football leaguewheeler played as a defender during his 157game career for footscray from 1974 to 1983the following season he joined vfa club williamstown as captaincoach in five seasons with williamstown wheeler played 94 games and he led the club to a premiership in 1986 and to grand finals in 1985 and 1988 his presence coupled with that of enthusiastic president tony hannebery was considered critical to attracting bigname players like barry round and tony pastore to williamstown and to the revival of the club during the 1980s after an indifferent decade during the 1970she was appointed to the position of assistant coach to mick malthouse at footscray in 1989 malthouse left shortly after the season and shortly before merger between footscray and fitzroy to form the fitzroy bulldogs was announced footscray supporters began to fight the merger in court and on october 8 wheeler was appointed senior coach of footscray for 1990 even though it was not certain there would be a team for him to coach he was active in the campaign against the merger which was ultimately defeated on 23 october when the supporters raised enough money and sponsorship to make the club viablewith twelve wins in 1990 he took footscray close to a finals spot in his first year at the helm in 1992 they finished second after the homeandaway season only missing out on the minor premiership by percentage they however failed to make the premiership decider after losing in the preliminary final to geelong but wheeler was named as coach of the allaustralian team he was sacked in the early stages of the 1994 season following an 88point loss to geelong
digby morrell born 10 october 1979 is a former australian rules footballer who played with the kangaroos and carlton in the australian football league aflfrom western australia morrell played his early senior football for west perth his 44game senior career for the falcons spanned 19982000 and he was the clubs leading goalkicker in 2000 at the age of 21 morrell was recruited to the australian football league by the kangaroos football club with its third round selection in the 2001 afl rookie draft as a forward he twice kicked five goals during his time with the kangaroos the first was in a losing cause against sydney in 2002 and the other the following season in a drawn game against brisbaneafter the 2003 season morrell was traded along with david teague to the carlton football club in exchange for corey mckernan he played 32 games for the blues before being delisted at the end of 2005 he continued to play victorian football league vfl football with the northern bullants carltons vflaffiliate in 2006 and acted as playing assistant coach in 2007 in 2008 he shifted to the box hill hawks before retiring from playing at the end of the season from 2009 until 2013 morrell was the senior coach of the strathmore football club in the essendon district football league leading the club to the 2011 premier division premiership since 2014 he has coached the west coburg football club also in the edflhe currently teaches physical education at parade college in melbourne
francis marion campbell born may 25 1929 is a former american football defensive lineman and head coach campbell played college football for the georgia bulldogs from 1949 until 1951 where he was appropriately nicknamed swamp fox during his nfl playing career campbell played for the san francisco 49ers 19541955 and the philadelphia eagles 19561961 winning pro bowl honors in 1959 and 1960 and also being named 1st team allpro in 1960 1 as part of the eagles championship team that year he was one of the last of the nfls twoway players who played all offensive and defensive snaps in a gamecampbell was head coach of both the atlanta falcons twice and philadelphia eagles as well as being defensive coordinator for both teams separate from his times as their head coach he also served as defensive line coach for the patriots 19621963 vikings 196419651966 and rams 196719682 he was an expert in the 34 defense his philadelphia eagles defenses ranked first in the league in points allowed in 1980 and 1981 and second and first in yards allowed in those same years 3 campbell has the third lowest winning percentage among head coaches who have coached more than three seasons in the nfl 4 the only coaches behind him are bert bell and david shula
lindsay smith born 18 july 1982 is a former australian rules footballer who played with kangaroos and carlton in the australian football leaguea tall key positionruckman originally from bordertown in the kowreenaracoortetatiara football league he was originally recruited to the sanfl by glenelg football club and from there was recruited to the australian football league by the north melbourne football club in the 1999 national draft with a fifth round draft pick no 77 overall smith spent two years on the north melbourne playing list but managed only one senior game in round 8 2001 against st kilda after the 2001 season smith was traded to the carlton football club in exchange for a fifth round draft pick no 61 overall he played three games in one season for carlton before being delistedsmith returned to play one season for bordertown in 2003 where he won the kntfl league best and fairest from 2004 until 2011 smith played for geelong amateur in the bellarine football league he was regularly one of the leagues top players and won the league best and fairest in 2009 smith was named as first ruck in the geelong amateur team of the decade and won two premierships with the club he retired from playing after the 2011 season at age 31
spencer trethewy born 1971 is a selfproclaimed property developer who saved aldershot football club from closure in august 1990 with a 200000 signed affidavit he remained on the clubs board as a director for just three months and was voted off by the other directors after it transpired that he was unable to repay any of the money he had borrowed from other individuals in order to honour the affidavitin 1994 trethewy was convicted of breaching the companies act by running up bills when his company was suspended from trading and sentenced to twenty five months in prison this was reduced due to some successful appeals to eleven monthsin 2007 trethewy having changed his name by deed poll in 1998 taking his mothers maiden name spencer day emerged as the owner and manager of combined counties football league club chertsey town where has invested heavily in the club including kitting out their 22 sides ground improvements and substantial playing squad investmentday is reported by the nlp to have built a substantial company finance investment business holding managing partner of hh finance in the last fifteen years which specializes in residential and commercial holdings worldwide hh own significant waterfront holdings in kingston upon thames according to the land registry day is known to own at least two superyachts helicopters and homes throughout the world one of his main residences was featured in the sunday times beyond the brochure article 1st nov 09 and is listed at 12m day is also reported to be building one of the largest private homes in surrey
hossein modarressi is a leading muslim jurist born in qom iran he attended the islamic seminary at qom where he received a complete traditional islamic education in islamic philosophy theology and law ending with a certificate of ijtihad the highest degree in islamic religious tradition he also taught there for many years before pursuing his secular education which ended in 1982 with a d phil from oxford university he has been a professor at princeton university since 1983 where he is bayard dodge professor of near eastern studies he has simultaneously been golestaneh fellow at st antonys college oxford since 1988 and a senior research scholar at the school of international and public affairs of columbia university since 1990 he has also occasionally taught at other institutions such as ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in paris yale law school and harvard where he was the custodian of the two holy mosques visiting professor of law at harvard law school in 2007he is a prolific author of some thirty books and many articles in english arabic and persian his books in english include kharaj in islamic law london 1983 an introduction to shii law london 1984 crisis and consolidation in the formative period of shiite islam princeton 1993 and tradition and survival a bibliographical survey of early shiite literature oxford 2003
mario f michel born 1960 is a saint lucian lawyer and politician and since 2009 has been a judge of the eastern caribbean supreme courtmichel studied economics and history at the university of the west indies in cave hill barbados he then went on to study at the hugh wooding law school in trinidad and tobago from 1988 to 1990 in 1990 he started his own legal practice michel company which he pursued until being elected to parliament in 1997 representing the district of gros isletmichel is a former president of the national youth council and an avid bridge player who has represented the island at many tournaments from 1997 he was part of the prime minister kenny anthonys cabinet serving as minister of education human resource development youth and sports and the position of deputy prime minister he presided over the establishment of universal secondary education and cut a figure of principle and was sometimes construed as obdurate his tenure was also characterised by confrontations with saint lucia teachers union some of which ended in short industrial actionsafter the executive of the saint lucia labour party voted to remove their term limit clause and effectively allow current leader dr kenny anthony to take the party into the 2006 elections he announced his intention not to partake in the general elections of 2006 he returned to his private legal practice there has been talk about the return of michel to the helm of the party he has hinted this in a recent television interview where he said coyly that he was getting many requests from people to return to politics but he was still weighing up his optionsin 2009 michel was appointed a high court judge of the eastern caribbean supreme court he was assigned to reside in and hear cases from antigua and barbuda in 2012 he became an appeals court judge for the same court with jurisdiction over all states of the eastern caribbean supreme court
owen hatherley born 24 july 1981 in southampton uk is a british writer and journalist based in london who writes primarily on architecture politics and culturehis first book militant modernism was published by zero books in 2009 the guardian described the book as an intelligent and passionately argued attempt to excavate utopia from the ruins of modernism and an exhilarating manifesto for a reborn socialist modernism icon described the book as sparky polemical and ferociously learned although it falters a little towards the end whilst jonathan meades in new statesman described the book as a deflected bildungsroman of a very clever velvetgloved provocateur nostalgic for yesterdays tomorrow for a world made before he was born a distant preposterously optimistic world which even though it still exists in scattered fragments has had its meaning erased its possibilities defiled and hatherley as a commentator on architecturein a school of one the journal planning perspectives suggested that the book nicely explores the irony of the potential status of the remains of futureoriented architecture and urban design as modern heritagehis book a guide to the new ruins of great britain was published by verso in 2010hatherley has written for dezeen building design the guardian icon the london review of books new humanist the new statesman socialist review and socialist worker he has maintained three blogs sit down man youre a bloody tragedy the measures taken and kino fist
george edward fox born december 17 1945 is a researcher at the university of houston and with carl woese in the early 1970s was the first scientist to classify archaea as a separate domain of life within the threedomain system fox and woese also introduced the idea of a progenote as a primordial entity in the evolution of life while with woese he pioneered use of comparative analysis in prediction of rna secondary structure using comparative analysis he also recognized the limitations that rna sequences could provide when identifying closely related species his research centers around understanding the early evolution of life fox contends that one of the earliest components of the genetic machinery to appear in a form bearing resemblance to its modern equivalent was the ribosome his research is actively involved in the search for biosignatures on marsfox received his ba degree in 1967 and completed his phd degree in 1974 both in chemical engineering at syracuse university from 1973 till 1977 he was a research associate with carl woese at the university of illinois he became an assistant professor of biochemical biophysical sciences at the university of houston in 1977 he became a full professor there in 1986
henry william honiball born 1 december 1965 is a former south african rugby union footballer he played at flyhalf for south africa during the postapartheid era although he was physically and technically acquainted in any back positionhoniball was a rarebreed of flyhalf who had a very expansive running game which brought the looseforwards into the game quickly he was also very tall for a flyhalf and extremely physical being a strong tackler and not afraid to take the ball and challenge the opposition he earned his nickname of lem which is afrikaans for blade for his ability to cut through his opponents defence honiball was part of nick malletts legendary springbok squad that equalled the record for 17 consecutive test victories a record shared with new zealand such was his reading distribution and tactical knowledge of the game that he had an enviable springbok success rate of nearly 75 per centhe made his debut in 1993 against the wallabies in sydney coming on as a replacement although south africa lost the match 1912 honiball was also a member of the south african team that mauled australia 6122 during the 1997 tri nations tournament which was only replaced in 2008 30 august 2008 538 win to south africa in johannesburg during the 2008 tri nations series as australias heaviest ever defeat he was also a mercurial member of south africas first ever tri nations victory honiball retired from international rugby after the springboks beat new zealand in the 1999 rugby world cup thirdfourth place playoffafter the world cup he played one season for bristol amassing 283 points before a serious neck injury forced him to retire
mindaugas gervaldas until 2012 year mindaugas murza born december 16 1973 is an antisemitic lithuanian politician a radical nationalist former member of the national democratic party lithuania former member of the lithuanian national defence volunteer forces a lithuanian government sponsored paramilitary organization a one time leader of the neonazi national socialist party and member of iauliai city municipality council he is known for his antisemitic statementsin 1998 gervaldas and other members of his party lithuanian alliance of nationalistsocialist unity in their publications voice of the nation attacked lithuanias minorities of jews poles and russians and demanded that conditions for these minorities be made so unbearable so that they would leave lithuania in 2001 he attempted to revive moribund logic of life party gyvenimo logikos partija when registration for the national socialist alliance was refusedin april 2005 gervaldas passed plans to establish a new political party called the unified lithuanian national workers movement its aims would be to encompass up to 3 of the population eventually and win in the next municipal elections to iauliai city council at the creation of new party mindaugas murza compared globalism to zionism which led to investigation against him being carried out by lithuanian prosecutors on basis of preaching hatred antisemitism on april 12 2005 police seized hard drives from gervaldass personal computer and computers of his colleagues for legal reasons prosecution pending the court did not allow mindaugas murza to change his name to mindaugas gervaldason november 19 2011 he married russian citizen zlata rapova the marriage was conducted using neopagan rituals
leonard mlodinow is an american physicist author and screenwritermlodinow was born in chicago illinois of parents who were both holocaust survivors his father who spent more than a year in the buchenwald concentration camp had been a leader in the jewish resistance under nazi rule in his hometown of czstochowa poland then generalgouvernement fr die besetzten polnischen gebiete as a child mlodinow was interested in both mathematics and chemistry and while in high school was tutored in organic chemistry by a professor from the university of illinoisas recounted in his book feynmans rainbow his interest turned to physics during a semester he took off from college to spend on a kibbutz in israel during which he had little to do at night beside reading the feynman lectures on physics which was one of the few english books he found in the kibbutz librarywhile a doctoral student at the university of california berkeley and on the faculty at caltech he developed with nikos papanicolaou a new type of perturbation theory for eigenvalue problems in quantum mechanics later as an alexander von humboldt fellow at the max planck institute for physics and astrophysics in munich germany he did pioneering work with m hillery on the quantum theory of dielectric mediaapart from his research and books on popular science he also cowrote the screenplay for the 2009 film beyond the horizon and has been a screenwriter for television series including star trek the next generation and macgyver he coauthored with matt costello a childrens chapter book series entitled the kids of einstein elementarybetween 2008 and 2010 mlodinow worked on a book with stephen hawking entitled the grand design a step beyond hawkings other titles the grand design is said to explore both the question of the existence of the universe and the issue of why the laws of physics are what they arehis phd thesis written at uc berkeley in 1981 is titled the large n expansion in quantum mechanics
alan emanuel pierson born may 12 1974 chicago illinois is an american conductor his parents are elaine pierson and edward s pierson the latter an engineering professor at purdue university calumet pierson is a 1996 graduate of the massachusetts institute of technology with degrees in music and physics at mit he was a timpanist and an assistant conductor with the mit symphony orchestra and also a composerpierson continued his studies in music at the eastman school of music where he was a cofounder of the new music ensemble ossia subsequently he was a cofounder of the related new music ensemble alarm will sound which gave its first concert in 2001 pierson became the first music director of alarm will sound in the same year and continues to serve in the postin january 2011 pierson was named the artistic director of the former brooklyn philharmonic he formally assumed the brooklyn title as of the 20112012 season and served one season after which his contract was not renewed outside of the usa pierson also serves as principal conductor of the crash ensemble in irelandpierson has resided in new york city since 2002 in private life he is civil partners with david herszenson a medical doctor the couple affirmed their partnership in august 2010in february 2013 pierson was featured on the radiolab episode speedhoven
jim mills born 29 september 1944 in aberdare is a british former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 70s a wales and great britain international representative front row forward big jim as he was known played club rugby in england with halifax salford bradford widnes and workington town and also in australia for north sydney his son david mills also became a front row forward for widnes playing in super leaguemills originally played rugby union in wales with cardiff rfc before turning professional he started playing rugby league in 1965 for halifax mills won caps for great britain in 1974 against australia 2 matches and new zealand in 1968 he started playing for widnes mills played at front row forward and scored a try in widnes 147 victory over warrington in the 197475 northern rugby football league seasons challenge cup final at wembley stadium on saturday 10 may 1975after a strong display in wales win against england in the 1975 world series in brisbane sydneys manlywarringah and canterburybankstown clubs were keen to get the prop forwards signature mills was banned for the rest of the season after stomping on john greengrasss head in the 2524 win over new zealand at swansea in the same tournament the ban was eventually lifted on 2 january 1976 however mills remained banned for life by the new zealand rugby leaguemills played in the front row during the 123 victory over wakefield trinity in the 197879 northern rugby football league seasons challenge cup final at wembley stadium on saturday 5 may 1979 he played for great britain again in 1978 and 79 against australiamills was also one of the original thirteen former widnes players inducted into the widnes hall of fame in 1992 that year he also worked as team manager for the welsh national team
freimut brngen born october 17 1930 is a german astronomer a few sources give his first name wrongly as freimuthhe has studied galaxies with the schmidt telescope at the karl schwarzschild observatory in tautenburg germany in 1995 he retired but continues to work as a freelancer for the observatory as a byproduct of his work he has discovered numerous asteroids 519 as of july 2006 the research on asteroids had to be done in his spare time as the search for small objects was not considered prestigious enough by the gdr research managers during the gdr regime brngen restricted himself to politically neutral names for his asteroids such as topics related to thuringia or famous scientists and composers examples include 2424 tautenburg 3181 ahnert 3245 jensch or 3941 haydn after the german reunification he chose systematically historical cultural scientific and geographical namings and at times honoured amateur astronomers other names include references to resistance fighters against the nazi suppression or document a religious interestfreimut brngen has achieved great reputation in the international scientific community for his human qualities and the wellsubstantiated choice of names the iau honoured him with asteroid 3859 brngen which was discovered by e bowell at the anderson mesa station of the lowell observatory arizonain the year 2006 he was also awarded the bundesverdienstkreuz am bande cross of merit on ribbon by german federal president horst khler
laura manuelidis is a physician and neuropathologist at yale university she earned her ba degree from sarah lawrence college where she studied poetry and her md from yale medical school she is head of the section of neuropathology in the department of surgery at yale she is also on the faculty of neurosciences and virology her major contributions include the discovery of complex repeated dnas at centromeres and on chromosome arms lines and their organization in interphase nuclei in addition to elucidating mechanisms of infection in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies tsesshe has challenged the originally considered bizarre but now generally accepted explanation for the cause of bovine spongiform encephalopathy better known as mad cow disease and the human equivalent creutzfeldtjakob disease the generally accepted explanation was put forth by stanley b prusiner who won the 1997 nobel prize in physiology or medicine in his work he coined the term prion proteinacious infectious agents to refer to a previously undescribed form of infection due to malformed proteins in january 2007 manuelidis and her colleagues published a contributed article in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences claiming that they found a virus that could be responsible for the diseases manuelidis said although much work remains to be done there is a reasonable possibility these are the long sought viral particles that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies the prion is probably not infectious but is a pathological result of an infectious virus binding to this host protein
david smith monson born june 20 1945 is a former us representative and the second lieutenant governor of utah he is a member of the republican partyborn in salt lake city utah monson attended public schools he earned a bs from the university of utah in 1970 he became a certified public accountant afterwards he also served as a sergeant in the utah air national guard from 1967 to 1973monson was elected utah state auditor in 1972 he was only one of two republicans to win a statewide office that year the rest being taken by the democrats he served from 1973 to 1977 he then served as lieutenant governor of utah for two terms from 1977 to 1985in 1984 monson ran for the united states house of representatives for the ninetyninth congress he had a surprisingly difficult race that year in the general election he defeated former state senator frances farley by a vote of 105540 to 105044 he was not a candidate for reelection in 1986 ending his political career in january 3 1987 after serving only one term as a representative he subsequently became a business executive involved in international trade and recycling paper he currently resides in salt lake citymonson is a member of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints
nobuo uematsu uematsu nobuo born march 21 1959 is a japanese video game composer best known for scoring the majority of titles in the final fantasy series he is considered one of the most famous and respected composers in the video game community uematsu a selftaught musician began playing the piano at the age of eleven or twelve with elton john as his biggest influenceuematsu joined square later square enix in 1986 where he met final fantasy creator hironobu sakaguchi they have worked together on many video game titles most notably the games in the final fantasy series after 18 years with square he left in 2004 to found his own company called smile please and the music label dog ear records he has since composed music as a freelancer for many other video games including ones developed by square enix and sakaguchis development studio mistwalkersoundtracks and arranged albums of uematsus game scores have been released pieces from his video game works have been performed in final fantasy concerts he has worked with grammy awardwinning conductor arnie roth on several of these concerts from 2002 to 2010 he was in a rock band with colleagues kenichiro fukui and tsuyoshi sekito called the black mages in which he played electronic organ and other keyboards the band played arranged rock versions of uematsus final fantasy compositions he has since performed with his band earthbound papas
catherine webb born 1986 is a british author educated at the godolphin and latymer school london and the london school of economics she was 14 years old when she completed mirror dreams which was written during her school holidays her father is author and publisher nick webb and he suggested she should send the manuscript to an agent he knew who eventually offered to represent her the book was published in 2002 by atom books part of time warner now hachette book group and webb was named young trailblazer of the year by the magazine cosmogirl uk she has published eight young adult novels all with atom books and studied at the royal academy of dramatic art from which she graduated in 2010webb prides herself on the scientific and historical accuracy of her horatio lyle books a lifelong londoner she enjoys walking through the areas she describes in her books bethnal green clerkenwell and along the river thames comparing the city of london as it is now to how it was at various times in the past she appeared in cosmogirl in 20067 in an interview and inspired many young writers to try to get their works published she also appeared in online interviews with cbbc and nzgirl when she was 15 and also with the telegraph which described her as a teen queencatherine webb also writes fantasy novels for adults under the name kate griffin as claire north she has written two sciencefiction novels