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Basic machine learning - clustering
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| """https://www.coursera.org/learn/ml-foundations?specialization=machine-learning#about""" | |
| import pandas | |
| from sklearn import neighbors | |
| from sklearn import metrics | |
| from sklearn.feature_extraction import text | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| people_df = pandas.read_csv("people_wiki.csv") | |
| # TF-IDF Vectorizer | |
| tfidf_vectorizer = text.TfidfVectorizer(analyzer="word") | |
| # Transforming data | |
| features_vector = tfidf_vectorizer.fit_transform(people_df["text"]) | |
| # Manually computing distances between a few people | |
| # ------------------------------------------------- | |
| obama_index = people_df[people_df["name"] == "Barack Obama"].index.item() | |
| clinton_index = people_df[people_df["name"] == "Bill Clinton"].index.item() | |
| beckham_index = people_df[people_df["name"] == "David Beckham"].index.item() | |
| # Is obama closer to Clinton than to Beckham? | |
| print("Score between Obama and Clinton:") | |
| print( | |
| metrics.pairwise.cosine_distances(features_vector[obama_index], | |
| features_vector[clinton_index])) | |
| print("Score between Obama and Beckham:") | |
| print( | |
| metrics.pairwise.cosine_distances(features_vector[obama_index], | |
| features_vector[beckham_index])) | |
| # Building a nearest neighbor model for document retrieval | |
| # -------------------------------------------------------- | |
| knn_model = neighbors.NearestNeighbors() | |
| knn_model.fit(features_vector) | |
| indices_of_obama_neighbors = knn_model.kneighbors( | |
| features_vector[obama_index], return_distance=False)[0] | |
| print("\nNearest neighbors of Obama are:") | |
| for index in indices_of_obama_neighbors: | |
| print(people_df.iloc[index]["name"]) |
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| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Digby_Morrell>,Digby Morrell,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alfred_J._Lewy>,Alfred J. Lewy,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Harpdog_Brown>,Harpdog Brown,harpdog brown is a singer and harmonica player who has been active in canadas blues scene since 1982 hailing from vancouver he crossed tens of thousands of miles playing club dates and festivals in canada the northwestern united states and germanyover the years he has issued seven cds in 1995 his home is where the harp is won the muddy award for the best nw blues release from the cascade blues association in portland oregon as well that year it was nominated for a canadian juno for the best bluesgospel recording teamed up with graham guest on piano his cd naturally was voted 1 canadian blues album of 2010 by the blind lemon surveybrown tours extensively with his guitarist j arthur edmonds performing their electric mid1950s chicago blues either as a duo or with the full band while he is home he juggles a few combos working many venues big and small he also leads the harpdog brown band which is a gutsy traditional chicago blues band in 2014 they released what it is comprising mainly original songs and a few classic covers influential blues promoter and broadcaster holger petersen called what it is browns best albumhe was just awarded the maple blues award in toronto for best harmonica player in canada 2014 and was honored with a life time membership to the hamilton blues society | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Franz_Rottensteiner>,Franz Rottensteiner,franz rottensteiner born in waidmannsfeld lower austria austria on 18 january 1942 is an austrian publisher and critic in the fields of science fiction and the fantasticrottensteiner studied journalism english and history at the university of vienna receiving his doctorate in 1969 he served about fifteen years as librarian and editor at the sterreichisches institut fr bauforschung in vienna in addition he produced a number of translations into german of leading sf authors including herbert w franke stanislaw lem philip k dick kobo abe cordwainer smith brian w aldiss and the strugatski brothersin 1973 his new york anthology view from another shore of european science fiction introduced a number of continental authors to the englishreading public some of the authors in the work are stanislaw lem josef nesvadba gerard klein and jeanpierre andrevonthe year 1975 saw the start of his series die phantastischen romane for seven years it republished works of both lesser and betterknown writers as well as new ones ending with a total of 28 volumes in the years 19791985 he brought out trnaslations of h g wellss works in an eighteen volumes seriesrottensteiner provoked some controversy with his negative assessment of american science fiction what matters is the highest achievements and there the us has yet to produce a figure comparable to hg wells olaf stapledon karel apek or stanisaw lem rottensteiner describedroger zelazny barry n malzberg and robert silverberg as producing travesties of fiction and stated asimov is a typical nonwriter and heinlein and andersonare just banal however rottensteiner praised philip k dick listing him as one of the greatest sf writers from 1980 through 1998 he was advisor for suhrkamp verlags phantastische bibliothek which brought out some three hundred books in all he has edited about fifty anthologies produced two illustrated books the science fiction book 1975 und the fantasy book 1978 as well as working on numerous reference works on science fiction his close association with and promotion of lem until 1995 was a factor in the recognition of the latter in the united statesrottensteiner has been the editor of quarber merkur the leading german language critical journal of science fiction since 1963 in 2004 on the occasion of the hundredth number of this journal he was awarded a special kurdlawitzpreis | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/G-Enka>,G-Enka,henry krvits born 30 december 1974 in tallinn better known by his stagename genka is an estonian rapper and record producergenka started rapping in 1996 along with revo and dj paul oja who was genkas schoolmate together they started a band called toe tag their first album the real kuhnja homophobes was released next year in 1998 genka and revo joined another estonian rap group arhm and toe tag went on vacation also genka started making his own solo songs the most famous hit was tallinn which was rapped along with droopy in 2001 during the same year toe tag came back together and started a big estonian tour in 2004 toe tag released their second studio album legendaarne legendary which consisted of 18 songs the most famous songs from the album were legendaarne and pankrot bankruptcy in 2006 genka and arhm released their new album leegion which had 23 songs the most famous songs from this album were palmisaar palm island and tugitooli gangster armchair gangstergenka and dj paul oja started their own record company legendaarne records also genka and arhm were the warmup performers for 50 cent on his 2007 europe promo tour for the curtis album in tallinn | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sam_Henderson>,Sam Henderson,sam henderson born october 18 1969 is an american cartoonist writer and expert on american comedy historyhenderson was born in woodstock new york he attended boiceville new yorks onteora high school graduating in 1987 and the school of visual arts in new york city where he graduated in 1991henderson has been selfpublishing xeroxed minicomics since 1980 in the midtolate 1980s he drew and published a comic called captain spaz with his friend bobby weiss the series ended in 1988 as he was busy in college in college he drew a series of minicomics featuring a character known as monroe simmons in 1993 he began selfpublishing his bestknown title the magic whistle now published by alternative comics also in 1993 he began the wordless comic strip scene but not heard starring a pink man and a red bear in nickelodeon magazine it was the magazines longestrunning comic strip a collection is due out in 2010in their review of magic whistle bigger larger and bigger the san antonio expressnews wrote that hendersons crude blobby little scratchings are some of the funniest junk being turned out henderson was nominated for the harvey awards special award for humor every year from 19992004in 2003 hendersons writing and storyboard directing work on spongebob squarepants earned him a nomination for best animated program for programming less than one hour in the 55th emmy awardshis earliest comic which was reprinted in magic whistle number 4 contained 5009 toilets 5009 penises sic and 5009 asses henderson currently lives in his hometown of woodstock new yorksince march 2010 hendersons comic magic whistle has been published weekly in niblit comics journal | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Aaron_LaCrate>,Aaron LaCrate,aaron lacrate is an american music producer recording artist dj fashion designer of milkcrate records and milkcrate clothing and a film director he was born in baltimore maryland and grew up in highlandtown east baltimoreaaron lacrate is credited for popularizing baltimore music and culture on a world wide level via his music and clothing in 2009 aaron lacrate produced the first ever baltimore club platinum record for pop star dizzee rascals song road ragehbo commissioned milkcrate athletics and aaron lacrate to create the official fashion range for the baltimore based cable television series the wire this was first time that hbo collaborated with a streetwear fashion designer milkcrate athletics is baltimores first original streetwear brandaaron lacrate productions is credited for the early success of lily allen amanda blank spank rock mndr eliza doolittleat the age of 10 lacrate began experimenting with diy culture lacrate began djing at baltimore nightclubs house parties writing graffiti and even started making custom tshirts his first studio was in his basement where he created mixtapes and tshirts sold throughout baltimore lacrate was the youngest working dj in baltimore prior to attending syracuse university where he took over the campus music scene he spent his summers in new york city interning for def jam recordings payday and rocafella records helping launch jayzs classic reasonable doubt lacrate also played a vital role in the hard knock life tour and later produced the exclusive jay z x milkcrate fade to black collaboration tshirtin 1999 aaron lacrate and milkcrate athletics sponsored a highly successful series of live shows at nyc nightclub tramps featuring eminems first nyc show tribe called quest rakim slick ricks first show upon being released from prison outkast wutang clan epmd ultramagnetic mcs and many other historical performanceslacrate has produced and remixed official major label commissioned music for madonna gorillaz soulja boy tell em dizzee rascal young mc lily allen and the cool kids tracks from lacrates album bmore gutter music released in 2005 was used by marc jacobs in a fashion showlacrate has toured with lily allen mark ronson dizzee rascal rakim and most recently kanye west aaron has developed exclusive specialedition fashion collaborations with vans colette paris rakim hbo the wire jayz and cashmere king lucien pellatfinet lacrate has also collaborated with cocacola hbo delicious vinyl dazed confused and ferrariwhich ferrari his music has been featured on hbo the wire entourage life support dj hero videogame and on the soundtrack to observe and report starring seth rogenrecently lacrate released the first bmore major label record bmore club crack which features mr vegas eliza doolittle and local baltimore gutter artists including mz streamz and verb | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Trevor_Ferguson>,Trevor Ferguson,trevor ferguson aka john farrow born 11 november 1947 is a canadian novelist who lives in hudson quebec he is the author of nine novels and four plays he has been called canadas best novelist both in books in canada and the toronto starborn in seaforth huron county ontario in 1947 he was raised in montreal from the age of three in his midteens he gravitated towards canadas northwest where he worked on railway gangs and also began to write working at night in the bunkhousesin his early twenties he travelled and worked throughout europe and the united states before returning to montreal to write he settled into driving a taxi by night and writing by day until the publication of his first novel high water chants in 1977 which dennis lee called one of the best in the language his second novel onyx john in 1985 received arguably the highest critical acclaim in the history of canadian literature leon rooke called it one of the five best novels of the twentieth century sixteen years later the novel would become a bestseller in france indeed his work is highly regarded in france where hes often cited as being one of the worlds preeminent writersextraordinary praise also awaited the publication of his third novel the kinkajou the timekeeper won the hugh maclennan prize for fiction and was developed into a film 1 a ninth novel river city was published in 2011 and the paperback at 1000 pages in 2012 the option for it to be a miniseries has been agreed upon as of november 2013 trevor fergusons next novel will be the river burns published by simon and schuster in april 2014city of ice written under the penname john farrow has been published in 17 countries the vancouver sun called the book the best ever produced in canada in genre fiction the second in the series ice lake caused the new york library journal booklist to claim that the series is among the very best in crime fiction today die ziet a major cultural newspaper in germany declared the series the best of all time river city was the third of the three and was equally well received a new trilogy of john farrow crime novels the storm murders has been sold to thomas dunne booksst martins press in new york the first will appear in 2015in 2002 trevor fergusons first play long long short long was produced by infinitheatre dir guy sprung in montreal and has become the first english play in history to be nominated by lacadmie qubcoise du theatre for a masque award for best text it returned to the stage in french in the fall of 2005 at place des arts in montreal and was seen by more than 20000 people his second play beach house burnt sienna was chosen to commemorate the tenth anniversary of village theatre west in hudson in 2002 coproduced with infinitheatre dir guy sprung it enjoyed a highly successful run a third play barnacle wood was produced in montreal also by infinitheatre in march 2004 his fourth play zarathustra said some things no opens with the bridge theatre company at studio 54 in new york city in april 2006 ferguson is a past chair of the writers union of canada he has been a writerinresidence at the university of alberta an invit dhonneur at the salon des livres in montreal and he was among the quebec authors invited as special guests of the paris book fair in 1999 in 2002 he was one of the few canadian writers invited to the festival of the americas in paris also in 2002 he served on the faculty of the may writers studio at the banff centre for the arts he frequently teaches creative writing at concordia university | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Grant_Nelson>,Grant Nelson,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cathy_Caruth>,Cathy Caruth,cathy caruth born 1955 is frank h t rhodes professor of humane letters at cornell university and is appointed in the departments of english and comparative literature she taught previously at yale and at emory university where she helped build the department of comparative literature she received her phd from yale university in 1988 and is the author of empirical truths and critical fictions locke wordsworth kant freud johns hopkins up 1991 unclaimed experience trauma narrative and history johns hopkins up 1996 literature in the ashes of history johns hopkins up 2013 and listening to trauma conversations with leaders in the theory and treatment of catastrophic experience johns hopkins up forthcoming 2014 she is also editor of trauma explorations in memory johns hopkins up 1995 and coeditor with deborash esch of critical encounters reference and responsibility in deconstructive writing rutgers university press 1995 robert jay lifton md describes her as one of the most innovative scholars on what we call trauma and on our ways of perceiving and conceptualizing that still mysterious phenomenon for a good discussion of both caruths work on trauma theory see roger luckhurst the trauma question and shoshana felman the juridical unconscious trials and traumas in the twentieth century harvard university press 2002 pp 173182 n3 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sophie_Crumb>,Sophie Crumb,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jenn_Ashworth>,Jenn Ashworth,jenn ashworth is an english writer she was born in 1982 in preston lancashire she has graduated from cambridge university and the manchester centre for new writing she previously worked as a librarian in a mens prisonshe founded the preston writers network later renamed as the central lancs writing hub and worked as its coordinator until it closed in january 2010 she has also taught creative writing at the centre for new writing at the university of manchester and at the university of central lancashireshe currently runs a literature consultancy called the writing smithy with the poet sarah hymas and works as an editor and mentor there she is also a lecturer in creative writing at the department of english and creative writing at the university of lancasterin march 2011 she was featured as one of the bbc culture shows best 12 new novelistsshe has written short stories and her first novel a kind of intimacy was published in february 2009 it is the story of a lonely woman failing to come to grips with reality unable to relate to others and full of selfdeception it contains strong elements of both comedy and tragedy and eventually violence this novel won a betty trask award in 2010two earlier novels are both unpublished one of them was lost as a result of a computer theft in 2004 however an extract from this lost novel was the winner of the 2003 quillercouch prize for creative writing at cambridge universityashworths 2011 novel cold light aims according to her own account to be dark and funny and odd this novel tells the story of three teenage girls one of whom dies with her boyfriend in suspicious circumstances the novel is set on the tenth anniversary of the death when a memorial summerhouse is built and another body is found a third novel the friday gospels published in january 2013 imagines a lancastrian family welcoming their son home from a twoyear mission for the church of jesus christ of latterday saints lds church jenn ashworth was herself brought up as member of the lds church but left the church in her teens | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jonathan_Hoefler>,Jonathan Hoefler,jonathan hoefler born august 22 1970 is an american typeface designer hoefler pronounced heffler founded the hoefler type foundry in 1989 a type foundry in new york in 1999 hoefler began working with type designer tobias frerejones and from 20052014 the company operated under the name hoefler frerejones until their public splithoefler has designed original typefaces for rolling stone magazine harpers bazaar the new york times magazine sports illustrated and esquire and several institutional clients including the solomon r guggenheim museum and alternative band they might be giants perhaps his bestknown work is the hoefler text family of typefaces designed for apple computer and now appearing as part of the macintosh operating system he also designed the current wordmark of the church of the latterday saintsin 1995 hoefler was named one of the forty most influential designers in america by id magazine and in 2002 the association typographique internationale atypi presented him with its most prestigious award the prix charles peignot for outstanding contributions to type design hoefler and frerejones have been profiled in the new york times time magazine and esquire magazine and appearances on national public radio and cbs sunday morninghoeflers work is part of the cooperhewitt national design museums permanent collection | |
| "<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anthony_Gueterbock,_18th_Baron_Berkeley>","Anthony Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley",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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_Chernushenko>,David Chernushenko,david chernushenko born june 1963 in calgary alberta is a politician professional speaker sustainability consultant and documentary filmmaker in ontario canada he was elected to ottawa city council in the 2010 municipal election and is running for reelection in 2014 he is the former senior deputy to the leader of the green party of canada and a former leadership contestant for that partya graduate of queens university political science and alumnus of cambridge university international relations chernushenko has worked for the canadian international development agency cida the canadian department of foreign affairs and international trade dfait and the united nations environment programme he has served on committees and boards of local housing and environment groups schools and health advisory bodieschernushenko is a green building professional accredited by the leed leadership in energy and environmental design certification program as owner of the consulting firm green gold inc since 1998 he has advised public private and nonprofit organizations on adopting more sustainable and socially responsible practicesfrom 1998 to 2004 chernushenko served on the international olympic committees commission on sport and the environment he has written several books on sustainable management practices including sustainable sport management unep 2001 and greening our games running sports events facilities that wont cost the earth centurion 1994 and the electronic publication greening campuses and their communities iisdacccunep 1996 in 2001 he cofounded clean air champions a national charity that engages athletes in raising awareness about air pollution climate change and the benefits of physical activity in canada he is a director of the sustainable ottawa energy cooperativehe was the green party candidate for ottawa centre in the 2004 federal election he finished fourth with 4730 votes 8 receiving more votes than any other green candidate in ottawa he ran again in ottawa centre in the 2006 federal election and again came fourth losing to paul dewar from the new democratic party ndp chernushenko received 6766 votes 102 the highest vote count of any green party candidate in canada the 2006 election he passed the 10 threshold thus becoming eligible for partial government reimbursement of campaign expenditures chernushenko was endorsed by the ottawa citizen newspaper in both the 2004 and 2006 elections he also ran as the green party candidate in ottawa south in the 2003 ontario general electionon november 10 2006 prime minister stephen harper appointed chernushenko to canadas national round table on the environment and the economy a nonpartisan panel that advises the federal government on environmental policy and works to promote the integrated pursuit of excellence in environmental social and economic practices in canadas public private and civil society sectors chernushenko served as a member on the nrtee from 2006 to 2009 and served as vicechair in 20082009chernushenko resigned as deputy leader of the green party in july 2007 in order to devote more time to his international consulting business and the nrtee and to make documentary films since then he has launched the living lightly multimedia project and produced three documentaries titled be the change 2008 powerful energy for everyone 2010 and bike city great city 2013chernushenko ran as city councillor for capital ward in the 2010 ottawa municipal election he won with 4134 of the vote he is running for reelection in 2014 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Joerg_Steineck>,Joerg Steineck,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Andrew_Pinsent>,Andrew Pinsent,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paddy_Dunne_(Gaelic_footballer)>,Paddy Dunne (Gaelic footballer),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alexandros_Mouzas>,Alexandros Mouzas,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Angus_Campbell>,John Angus Campbell,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Chris_Batstone>,Chris Batstone,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ceiron_Thomas>,Ceiron Thomas,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Adel_Sellimi>,Adel Sellimi,adel sellimi arabic was born on 16 november 1972 in the bab jedid district of tunis as a child he drew inspiration from the 1978 world cup team who became the first african nation to win a world cup match at the age of 10 he joined his first club club africain of tunis and he stayed there for the next 14 years picking up two tunisian league titles and one tunisia cup along the wayhis quick pace strength on the ball and creativity earned him a callup to the national team and he earned his first cap in september 1993 during a match against germany following a promising performance he carved out a virtually permanent place for himself in the countrys national team for the next eleven yearstunisians grew to appreciate his discretion in life outside football as a modest and determined professional on the pitch he singularly distinguished himself at international level during the 1996 african cup of nations finals in south africa as one of the best players of the tournament sellimi became a household name throughout the country a skillful and talented bright spark who carried the team to the final of the tournament for the second time in their history sellimi struck twice in the semifinal against zambia and was widely considered one of the best players in the tournamentthis movement into the limelight earned the player a transfer to french ligue 1 side fc nantes atlantique following another impressive showing at the 1996 olympic games in atlanta but his move to france marked the start of a long barren period although the nantes fans dubbed him the lung on account of the distance he clocked up during matches he never really settled in at his new club he hit just two goals in 30 appearances in his first season and failed to achieve the kind of success he had enjoyed back home in tunisia after another disappointing season in 199798 sellimi left nantes for spanish second division side real jan it was here that he got some firstclass matches under his belt and finally found form this surge in form earned him a callup to the 1998 world cup squad where he put in steady performances against england and romaniabundesliga side freiburg took a gamble on sellimi and partnered the player with other tunisian internationals anchorman zoubeir baya and fellow striker mehdi benslimane but here too he took a long time finding his true form and many at freiburg considered him a mistaken purchase during his first year however he proved his detractors wrong in the best possible way in the 19992000 season sellimi just could not stop scoring goals and even headed the bundesligas goalscoring list going into the winter breaka disappointing 2001 lead to sellimi missing out on the 2002 african cup of nations in mali and a number of international friendlies after a fallout with former national coach henri michel but the frenchmans replacement with ammar souayah coupled with the national teams goal drought brought about his recall the 2002 world cup in korea and japan turned out to be adel sellimis swansong in premier football competitions and he retired from international football shortly after the tournament at the age of 31 he returned to club africain shortly afterwards and is now head coach of jendouba sport in tunisia recently gaining promotion to ligue 1 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Faith_Soloway>,Faith Soloway,faith soloway born march 28 1964 is an american folkrock musician comedic performer and creator of several folkrock musicals based in the boston area she studied theater at indiana university and performed improv comedy regularly along with leaving school to tour with second city she spent three years as music director for second city which led to the creation of soloways first original musical the real life brady bunch the show which premiered in 1990 was a collaboration with her sister jill soloway and it toured across the country both soloway sisters moved to hollywood briefly to produce television shows but faith soloway decided she was not interested in television work and in 1994 moved to cambridge massachusetts to pursue a songwriting careerafter performing at open mike nights as a solo musician soloway began producing a series of rock operas that were performed at club passim she started with the minimalist the principal and the potter which was followed by miss folk america which featured what became one of soloways signature songs queer in revere and debbie does falcon ridge both of which parodied the folk scene in 2000 soloway produced miss folk america at the somerville theater a larger venue this was followed by jesus has two mommies the title refers to the controversial childrens book heather has two mommies which featured such notable boston folk musicians as catie curtis and jennifer kimballsoloway also works at charles river creative arts program in dover massachusetts in the summer in the theater and music departments for the camp she has written the musicals harrie norbert beany is action man and hamletta with tom evans soloways lone solo album training wheels features her song lesbo song which is at once a statement of her sexuality and a tweaking of the earnest humorless stereotype of womens music her song sisters boyfriend was featured on the respond compilation a benefit for domestic violence causes she continues to perform with her band the faith soloway crisissoloways expartner writer harlyn aizley wrote a book entitled buying dad about the couples efforts to conceive a child via artificial insemination their daughter betsy was born in 2002 soloway wrote an essay betsy loves bobbies that will appear in a forthcoming anthology edited by aizley the other mother tales from the lesbian homefront or nonbiological mothers tell all after the couple separated soloway started work on a new show journey to the self one womans self journey her new partner carol rosenthal is very active in hollywood | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tom_Jennings>,Tom Jennings,tom jennings born 1955 as thomas daniel jennings in boston massachusetts is a los angelesbased artist and technician he is the creator of fidonet the first message and file networking system for bbses originally the fidonet protocols were implemented in a program named fido authored by jennings but they were ultimately implemented by other authors in other software to create a network using a multiplicity of platformsaside from creating the most influential protocol for networking computer bulletin boards jennings built wired magazines first internet presence wrote the portable bios that led to phoenix technologies bios ran an early regional internet service provider the little garden later incorporated as tlgnet inc and maintains an informal archive of cold war science and technologywhile he lived in san francisco from 1988 until 1991 jennings was the publisher and coeditor with deke nihilson of homocore one of the earliest queercore zines the name came from the pages of jds zine and featured musicians and writers such as the apostles steve abbott donna dresch larry livermore daniel nicoletta and gb jones the editors other activities such as organizing homocore shows where bands such as fugazi and beat happening appeared and writing for and creating other publications were instrumental in popularizing the queercore movement particularly on the west coast deke also performed in films such as the yoyo gang and had his own queercore band comrade in arms internationally homocore zine throughout its eight including the rarely seen issue 512 issues along with jds was influential in the rise of queercore as the zines found their way into the hands of queer punk kids across north america south america and europejennings currently resides in los angeles california with his partner josh stehlik he is faculty at calarts arttechnology program and also works as a technician at the university of california irvines arts computation engineering graduate program | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Vic_Stasiuk>,Vic Stasiuk,victor john stasiuk born may 23 1929 is a retired canadian professional ice hockey left winger and a former nhl head coach stasiuk played junior hockey in his native lethbridge alberta before signing with the chicago black hawks he played sparingly in chicago and he was traded to the detroit red wings in 1951 for much of the early portion of his career stasiuk was viewed as a physical defensiveoriented forward on the offensiverich red wings stasiuk was often the odd man out and he spent significant time toiling in the minors with the indianapolis capitals and the edmonton flyers he won the stanley cup in 1952 and 1953 however in 1954 although stasiuk played 42 regular season games for detroit because he spent the playoffs in the minors his name was left off the stanley cup after the wings captured the league crown1in 1955 stasiuk was traded to the boston bruins and found instant chemistry with johnny bucyk and bronco horvath a grouping dubbed the uke line because of the ukrainian ancestry of the three players in 195758 this line became the first in nhl history to have all three participants reach the 20 goal mark now a formidable twoway presence stasiuk scored a career high 68 points in 1960 in 1961 he was traded back to detroit playing with this club until 1963 before finishing his career in the minors he played for the chicago black hawks detroit red wings and boston bruins he recorded 183 goals and 254 assists in 745 nhl games2 after retiring stasiuk moved to coaching he took over the pittsburgh hornets of the american hockey league for two seasons and later led the same leagues quebec aces to backtoback difficult losses in the calder cup finals stasiuk then earned a job with the philadelphia flyers his team finished out of the playoffs by a single point in 196970 then were eliminated in the first round of the postseason the next year stasiuk was fired after the 197071 season the flyers offered him a scouting position but he took a head coaching job three games into the nhl season with the california golden seals 3 stasiuk was fired after the season due to a stylistic conflict with management and he then spent one year behind the bench of the vancouver canucks before settling into a career in junior hockey coaching4 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anthony_Caruana>,Anthony Caruana,anthony caruana born 2 january 1968 is a melbourne australia based technology journalist who writes for australian macworld the australian broadcasting commission several titles from next media it wire and many other publications he was the chief editor of the anz section of techtarget from april 2011 to january 2012 where he regularly wrote articles for searchcio au he was also a regular contributor to the age for several yearshe was the founding editor of technology decisions a new technology magazine that launched in october 2012 and focuses on the needs of senior it executives and influencershe made his start as one of the original review team members for pocket pc thoughts before being given an opportunity to write product reviews for apc magazine under editor david flynnin addition to writing about technology caruana has appeared on the australian broadcasting corporations the business as a technology commentator as well as other nationally broadcast news and current affairs shows in australia he is also a regular on raf epsteins drive program on 774 local radio melbourne as part of the geek club segment that is on air every wednesday from 330pmsince early 2011 caruana has been blogging about how to run a successful freelance business at journo advice he regularly speaks at events about this topic and spoke at the melbourne freelance convention in march 2012 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ian_Mitchell_(author)>,Ian Mitchell (author),ian mitchell is a scottish author who grew up mainly in south africa he is the author of isles of the west a hebridean voyage and isles of the north a voyage to the realms of the norse both books are concerned with apparentlyvirtuous environmental ngos which operate in rural scotland but which in the point of view of the author actually do damage to it mitchell is a critic of bodies like the royal society for the protection of birds and scottish natural heritage and has compared aspects of their behavior to that of the nazismitchell was founder and director of an organisation called people too described by him as an organisation founded to defend rural communities from the imposts of centralized bureaucracymitchell has also written a book called the cost of a reputation about the aldingtontolstoy libel trial which took place in london in 1989 and concerned the claims that a controversial british army operation in may 1945 handed back tens of thousands of cossack and yugoslav refugees from stalin and tito for the most part illegally to the dictators the book mainly concerned the london trial at which mitchell claims lord aldington who had issued the illegal orders in 1945 as staff brigadier perjured himself in this as an exdeputy chairman of the conservative party he was assisted by both the foreign office and the ministry of defensemitchell lived for fifteen years on the hebridean island of islay where he has three children he now lives in moscow where he works as a journalist and has broadcast about books on the voice of russia on april 6 2007 he delivered a lecture seeing scotland historical places and themes at the ele public forum in moscow | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Leon_Hapgood>,Leon Hapgood,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Emily_Osment>,Emily Osment,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dom_Flora>,Dom Flora,dominick a dom flora born june 12 1935 is an american former college basketball standout at washington and lee university wl located in lexington virginia flora played for the wl generals from 195455 to 195758 dom flora was a native of jersey city new jersey and played high school basketball for william l dickinson high schoola point guard flora was an explosive scorer whose accurate jump shot and crisp ballhandling ability helped him average 21 points per game for his career he was able to score despite being double and tripleteamed by opposing defenses and his aggressive style of play led him to become one of the most prolific free throw shooters in ncaa division i history as of the conclusion of the 201112 season floras 696 free throws made are still in the top 25 alltime in division i history he shot 696for954 730 in 109 career games played as a senior in 195758 flora was named the southern conference player of the year the virginia big six player of the year and a first team allamerica selection by the helms foundation he also earned his second straight first team allsouthern conference selection when his career ended flora finished with 2310 points which at the time was the fifthhighest total in ncaa history he also played baseball all four years while at wlbill brill a sports writer for the roanoke times world news once wrote about floraflora left the fans gasping with one bit of razzledazzle on which he dribbled with his left hand jumped into the air switched the ball behind his back to his right hand and made a jump shot it was worth the price of admission | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ted_Hill_(mathematician)>,Ted Hill (mathematician),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mindaugas_Murza>,Mindaugas Murza,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bob_Reece>,Bob Reece,robert scott reece born january 5 1951 is an american former professional baseball player a catcher he was a graduate of stanford university and spent nine seasons in the minor league system of the montreal expos playing in nine games in the major leagues for montreal at the beginning and the end of the 1978 season he threw and batted righthanded stood 6 feet 1 inch 185 m tall and weighed 190 pounds 86 kgreece was signed by the expos as a nondrafted free agent in 1973 he reached the triplea level in 1975 as a member of the memphis blues of the international league then the expos top farm system affiliate the following season montreal signed a player development contract with the denver bears of the american association and reece would spend all or parts of six years as a member of the bearsin 1978 reece batted a careerhigh 296 in 47 games for denver in between his major league trial with the expos he played rarely for montreal appearing in a total of seven games between april and early june on may 7 his third big league game reece collected his first mlb hit run scored and run batted in when he doubled off relief pitcher dave tomlin during a 195 rout of the cincinnati reds at riverfront stadiumhe started his first mlb game at catcher two days later during the second game of a doubleheader against the atlanta braves he was held hitless in two at bats by future hall of famer phil niekro then was pinch hit for by the expos regular catcher another future hall of famer gary carter during his lateseason stint with the expos reece got into two september gamesin the second of those on september 16 he singled off don robinson of the pittsburgh pirates for his second and final mlb hit in his final bigleague appearancereece started three of the mlb games in which he played he collected two hits in 11 atbats with no bases on balls striking out four times his minor league career ended after the 1981 season and 672 games played | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Douglas_Davies>,Douglas Davies,douglas james davies born 1947 is professor in the study of religion in the department of theology and religion at the university of durham he is an authority in the history theology and sociology of death his fields of expertise also include anthropology the study of religion the rituals and beliefs surrounding funerary rites and cremation around the globe and mormonism his research interests cover identity and belief and anglican leadershipborn in wales he read two bachelor of arts degrees at st johns college university of durham before doing his phd at the university of nottingham he then achieved both master and doctor of letters at oxford university and has recently been awarded an honorary doctorate of theology from uppsala university sweden one book reusing old graves a report on popular british attitudes which he cowrote with alastair shaw won the 1995 booksellerdiagram prize for oddest title of the yearhis current projects include writings on the encyclopedia of cremation the clergy and british society 19402000 a brief history of death innerspeech and prayer and ritual purityhe has also published a large number of articles on death and contemporary christianityprofessor davies has been involved with various editorial boards and conferences including the editorial board of mortality and the british sociological association religion group chairman 20002003 he was also guest speaker at both the scandinavian sociological society conference in 2004 and the international cremation federation conference in barcelona 2003within the university of durham he teaches three undergraduate modules study of religion death ritual and belief and theology and anthropology he also teaches ritual symbolism and belief to those studying a taught masters degree in theologyhe is a member of the senior common room of st chads college durham | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Freimut_B%C3%B6rngen>,Freimut B%C3%B6rngen,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Th%C3%BCring_Br%C3%A4m>,Th%C3%BCring Br%C3%A4m,thring brm born 10 april 1944 is a swiss composer and conductorbrm graduated from a high school in basel he then studied piano conducting and composition in basel and musicology at the university of basel and the university of heidelberg he worked as a conductor and rptiteur at the curtis institute of music the aspen music festival and school and holds a master of arts in composition from the university of california berkeleyfrom 1973 to 1987 he was a member of the board of the city of basel music academy and from 1987 to 1999 director of the conservatory of lucerne from 1999 to 2001 he was founding rector of the lucerne college of music from 2000 to 2006 he was a board member of the association europenne des conservatoire he is a member of the research council of the swiss national science foundationfrom 1984 to 1990 he was president of the jeunesses musicales de suissebrm was from 1987 to 2006 chief conductor of the junge philharmonie zentralschweiz he is head of the regio choir binningenbasel and a regular guest conductor of the chamber philharmonic pardubice he gave master classes in the czech republic slovakia and argentinahe is a jury member of the concours de musique du festival de fribourg and the sacred johannes brahms chamber music competition of the music academy in gdanskbrm was influenced by composers such as anton webern pierre boulez and john cagehe composed more than 100 works among his most famous compositions include the angelus silesius cantata the requiem for cs and litteri un schatt luci e ombre as a guest composer he worked variously at the hokuto international music festival and with the swiss groupe lacroix and the german ensemble sortisatio on a cd called 8 pieces on paul klee in honor to the painter paul klee | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Aharon_Solomons>,Aharon Solomons,aharon solomons b september 27 1939 is a freediver and national record holderborn ernest henry child simpson solomons is the son and only child of ernest aldrich simpson and his third wife the former mary raffray ne mary huntemuller kirk his father was a partner with the shipping brokerage firm simpson spence young and best known as the second husband of wallis simpson who later married the former edward viii of the united kingdom solomons was born and baptised as ernest henry child simpson at guards chapel wellington barracks london england his mother died in 1941 and his father died in 1958 the same year ernest hc simpson changed his name to aharon solomons solomons spent the early years of his childhood in the uk india and with friends of his father in pennsylvania us he returned to the uk in 1946 and attended westbourne house school in sussex england then harrow school and finally institut le rosey in switzerlandin 1957 he was inducted into his fathers regiment the coldstream guards and was commissioned as an officer in the intelligence corps and served in the middle east in 1962 solomons moved to israel and joined the israeli defense forces where he saw action in 196768 and on the golan heights in 1973 he married joy corisande jackson april 25 1932 september 22 2010 in 1960 they had two sons uri b 1964 and nadav b 1965the solomons lived for ten years on communal agricultural settlements and then in rosh pinna from 1975 he traveled in the sinai greece micronesia and mexico where he settled for a time he taught scuba for many years in eilat in 1992 he met francisco ferreras pipin and trained with him in cuba in the no limits and constant weight disciplines of freedivingsolomons married mariateresa mt solomons in 1997 and had another son zeev in 1998 the solomons are currently separated but work and train together in the freedivers association solomons and his wife were members of the israeli freediving team in ibiza in 2001 and mt was on the uk team in egypt in 2008 both are aida instructor trainers and teach in israel the turks and caicos greece and mexicomarcus greatwood aharons student quotes aharons ideology as a foundation of his system of freediving | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Steven_Weil>,Steven Weil,steven weil is an american rabbi who grew up on a cattle farm in upstate new york he attended ohr torah high school and yeshivat kerem byavneh in israel and yeshiva university in new york he was ordained at the rabbi isaac elchanan theological seminary and earned a masters in business administration from new york university stern school of businessweil became rabbi of the young israel of oak park michigan and then at beth jacob congregation in beverly hills california in both synagogues he substantially increased membership and expanded programming he has delivered invocations for president george h w bush vice president dick cheney governor arnold schwarzenegger and beverly hills mayors stephen h webb and jimmy delshad he has served internationally as scholar in residence while visiting congregations across the country and strongly advocating for israel and jewish education he has worked closely with leaders in the american israel public affairs committee and has worked with the beth medrash govoha of lakewood township new jerseyin his term as rabbi of beth jacob congregation weil increased membership by over 250 families to 750 families he increased the congregations endowment fund and was considered the most successful fundraiser in southern californiaweil currently resides in teaneck new jersey with his wife yael their three boys and four girls | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gary_Emineth>,Gary Emineth,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Timothy_Grucza>,Timothy Grucza,timothy grucza born 1 july 1976 melbourne australia is a cameraman and documentary film maker he is best known for his work in conflict zones such as iraq and afghanistan he is currently based in paris francegrucza began his career in australia working on issues in the south pacific including civil unrest in west papua in 1999 he documented repatriated kosovan australian refugees who had escaped the war in kosovo and were granted safe haven in australia he began covering iraq in 2002 when he entered the kurdish enclave in the north of the country during the 2003 invasion of iraq grucza worked as a correspondent for the french network canal since then he has worked extensively in iraq israel and the palestinian territories pakistan and afghanistan for pbs frontlinein 2006 along with yuri maldavsky grucza released his first feature length documentary film named white platoon aka la section white the film is a unique look at a platoon of soldiers who spend one year in baghdad entering as idealistic young men and leaving as cynical sometimes bitter veterans the film won best feature length documentary at the banff world television festival and was selected for the hot docs canadian international documentary film festivalin 2009 grucza was awarded a news and documentary emmy for outstanding individual achievement in a craft cinematography for his work on the frontline documentary the war briefinghe continues to produce his own films and pieces for frontline | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bob_Adams_(American_football)>,Bob Adams (American football),robert bruce bob adams born august 15 1946 in stockton california is a former professional american football tight end in the national football league and an official within the church of scientology he attended el camino high school during the 1960s and was encouraged by a coach at the college of san mateo to play football he played for a single season at the college during 1966 while participating in other sports at the school including trackandfield and basketball a former coach of the college of san mateo doug scovil recruited adams to the college of the pacific where he received a full scholarship to play football there by 1968 he was captain of the teams offense at the schoolhe was not drafted by the national football league and was signed as a free agent with the pittsburgh steelers where he played under coach chuck noll in 1973 while a member of the pittsburgh steelers adams became a scientologist he said applying scientology methodology helped his performance playing football after seven years with the national football league adams finished his procareer as a member of the atlanta falcons he subsequently took up other professions including owning a fitness center in redwood city california being a consultant for high tech companies and working as a teacherin 2004 adams served within the scientology organization as senior vice president of its association for better living and education able a nonprofit founded by scientology members in 1988 to supervise the secular programs narconon criminon the way to happiness and applied scholastics by 2006 he had become a media executive and vice president of the church of scientology and worked out of the organizations facilities in hollywood california he represented the church of scientology at the 2006 conference of the religion newswriters association in utah adams held the position of vice president of public affairs for the church of scientology international in 2009 and was a reverend within the organization he traveled to melbourne australia in december 2009 for the world religions conference he continued to serve as vice president of the church of scientology international in 2010 and was one of four officials listed as spokespersons for the church | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sylvie_Roy>,Sylvie Roy,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Rob_Sheffield>,Rob Sheffield,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Michel_Che>,Michel Che,professor michel che born in lyon france completed his doctorate epr study of titanium dioxide in 1968 at the university of lyon and studied as a postdoctoral fellow at princeton university 196971 he was appointed professor at university of paris vi pierre et marie curie in 1975 and senior member of the institut universitaire de france in 1995his work has led to around 400 publications in international journals he has been very active in the promotion and organisation of catalysis being the presidentfounder of efcats european federation of catalysis societies with creation in 1993 of the cycle of the now famous biennial europacat congresses and president of iacs international association of catalysis societies in 200004 culminating with the organisation and opening of the 13th international congress on catalysis in paris in 2004his research activity has been largely devoted to catalysis processes involving gassolid liquidsolid and solidsolid interfaces he has pioneered a molecular approach to heterogeneous catalysis based on transition elements taken as probes specific isotopes and physical techniques which provided him with an original position in the field his work has led to the emergence of interfacial coordination chemistry at the junction of colloidal electro supramolecular geo and solidstate chemistries his studies have largely contributed to improve understanding of the elementary processes involved in laboratoryindustrial catalysis and particularly watermediated assemblies in catalyst preparationmichel ches awards include j h vant hoff netherlands japan society for the promotion of science japan m sklodowskacurie and p curie poland a joannides and p sue france von humboldt gaylussac germany he is doctor honoris causa of several universities cracow poland lisbon portugal bucharest romania and member of several highranking academies eg academia europaea deutsche akademie der naturforscher leopoldinain 2014 he was awarded the royal society of chemistrys faraday lectureship prize | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jaafar_Aksikas>,Jaafar Aksikas,jaafar aksikas born 1974 in azemmour morocco is an american academic and cultural critic he holds a phd in cultural studies from george mason university an ma in the humanities and comparative literary studies from al akhawayn university morocco and a ba in english language and literature from chouaib doukkali university morocco he is currently associate professor of cultural studies at columbia college chicago united states he is also president of the cultural studies association his books and edited volumes includecultural studies ofand the law edited with sean johnson andrews 2014arab modernities2009 the sirah of antar an islamic interpretation of arab and islamic history 2002his other publications includeculture industries critical interventions 2011 an inaugural special journal issue on the culture and media industries for the journal lateral critical purchase in neoliberal times a special journal issue on engaged and communitybased forms of cultural studies scholarship for the journal lateralhis work has appeared in several scholarly journals including cultural studies reviews in cultural theory lateral mediterranean politics and cultuur en migratie aksikas has taught and published widely in the fields of cultural studies mediaculture industry studies critical legal studies american studies and middle eastern studies he also serves on the editorial boards of cultural studies and lateral journals he has received numerous awards including the george mason university vision award 2003 and the marquis who is who in america award 2010 he also holds membership at the phi beta delta honor society for international scholarshe is the founding general editor of cultural landscapes the founding coordinator of the cultural studies colloquium series at columbia college chicago and he serves as a member of the illinois network on islam and muslim societies he also serves as consultant for lawyers and the media on middle eastern and north african societies cultures and politics | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Will_Tuttle>,Will Tuttle,will m tuttle born 1953 is an american writer speaker and musician and author of the amazon 1 bestseller the world peace diethe is the cofounder with judy carman of the circle of compassion and the worldwide prayer circle for animals he has lectured through unity church and other new thought and progressive centers throughout north america since 1990 and was the first guest of animal rights zone in 2010 he made an international debut in august 1995 at the 8th international vegan festival in san diego where he performed inspirational classical music and spoke about inner and outer peace and harmony in the context of a vegan diet tuttle is a former zen monk who studied in korea he obtained his bachelors degree in administrative science with an emphasis of literature and music from colby college waterville maine in 1975 his masters degree in humanities from san francisco state university and his phd from the university of california berkeley specializing in the philosophy of education he is a frequent speaker at vegetarian spiritual and animal rights conferences and at local vegetarian societies he and steve prussack organized the veganpalooza online audio conference 1115 june 2012 and has organized other online events and conference calls on the theme of veganism and world peace tuttle has been a vegan since 1980 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Vanessa_Ament>,Vanessa Ament,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marc_Logan>,Marc Logan,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Corey_Woolfolk>,Corey Woolfolk,corey woolfolk born february 26 1983 in ann arbor michigan is a former american soccer forwardwoolfolk attended pioneer high school where he was a 1996 first team all state and nscaa high school all american he then attended stanford university where he played on the mens soccer team from 1997 to 2000 he graduated with a bachelor degree in urban planning on february 6 2001 the san jose earthquakes drafted woolfolk in the 5th round 49th overall in the 2001 mls superdraft he played seven preseason games scoring four goals the earthquakes waived woolfolk on may 30 2001 to free up a roster spot for landon donovan on june 18 2001 woolfolk signed with the minnesota thunder in the usl aleague he broke his foot in 2002 and lost most of the season playing part of the time with the dayton gemini of the premier development league and serving as an assistant coach with the university of michigan mens soccer team in 2003 he played for the pittsburgh riverhounds then in 2004 he moved to the rochester rhinos in 2005 he joined the puerto rico islanders where he was the teams second leading scorer with nine goals on february 1 2006 he signed with the vancouver whitecaps he suffered a stress fracture in the preseason and played only one game before with vancouver the team released him in december 2006 in 2007 he played three games for the atlanta silverbacks | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Professor_Lyrical_(rapper)>,Professor Lyrical (rapper),professor lyrical is a hip hop artist from lowell massachusetts who also teaches college his 2005 album infiniti won for album of the year in the mic hip hop awards in bostonhe is a fulltime lecturer at northeastern university and has been an adjunct professor at several other schools parttime in massachusetts primarily in the areas of math and entertainment including a hip hop course at lasell college entertainment courses at bay state college and math courses at new england arts institute his latest 82013 album put em all to shame is both an album and a book and they appear together as the worlds first albook the book is entitled put em all to shame the curriculum he speaks and performs regularly at many different venues but primarily at colleges and universities he received a bs and an ms mathematics from umasslowell lyrical is a doctoral candidate at northeastern in the early and mid 1990s he competed in several invitation only freestyle battles such as the battle for world supremacy in nyc and the universal zulu nation east coast finals he went on to win many more in the years to follow he is part of the mass industry committee which also created 617live tv lyrical has filled in for fellow boston rapper akrobatik on jamn 945 to perform the daily sports rap up part of the highly rated morning show on occasion when akrobatik has been unavailable he has appeared on many different radio segments television shows news programs and even movies | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Michelle_Ye>,Michelle Ye,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robert_N._Chatigny>,Robert N. Chatigny,robert neil chatigny born 1952 taunton ma is a federal judge for the united states district court for the district of connecticut having served on the court from 1994 to the present judge chatigny was nominated to the court by president bill clinton on august 5 1994 to a seat vacated by warren w eginton confirmed by the united states senate on september 28 1994 and received his commission on september 29 1994 he has served as chief judge of the court from 2003 to september 2009 judge chatigny received an ab from brown university in 1973 and a jd from georgetown university law center in 1978 where he was case and note editor of the georgetown law journal he served as a law clerk to three different judges samuel conti of the us district court for the northern district of california 19791980 jose cabranes of the us district court for the district of connecticut 1980 and jon o newman of the us court of appeals for the 2nd circuit 19801981judge chatigny was elected to the house of delegates of the connecticut bar association and has served on the executive committee of the federal practice section he advised the federal courts study committee tasked with developing longrange plans for the federal judiciary the university of connecticut school of law awarded him the center for childrens advocacy childrens justice award in 2008he gained national attention in 2005 when he delayed the execution of michael bruce ross in order to determine if he was competent to waive challenges to his death sentence and potentially prevent a violation of the eighth amendments prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment ross was subsequently found competent to waive his rights and was executed the prosecution filed a complaint against judge chatigny that was dismissed by the second circuit judicial council in a 24page decision on july 26 2006judge chatigny has been nominated by president barack obama to a seat on the second circuit court of appeals the nomination received a unanimous rating of well qualified from the american bar associations standing committee on the federal judiciary and the us judiciary committee approved the nomination on june 10 2010 on an 117 partyline vote no date was set for full senate considerationopposition to the nomination has centered upon judicial restraint and attitude toward sexual offenders on march 5 2010 one of the prosecutors in the ross case michael e ohara supervisory assistant states attorney for the state of connecticut wrote a 12page letter to the u s senate judiciary committee to elaborate upon the complaint that was filed and dismissed in 20052006 stating that judge chatignys actions certainly call into questions sic judge chatignys fitness to serve on the united states court of appeals for the second circuit a may 26 2010 washington times editorial enumerated 1 that chatigny served as cocounsel for director woody allen when he unsuccessfully complained against a prosecutor who had publicly stated he had probable cause grounds for allens reportedly abusing a minor stepchild 2 that judge chatigny was reversed by the us supreme court in 2001 when the judge tried to rule against one aspect of his states version of a megans law sexoffender registry 3 that the sentences imposed by judge chatigny in 12 childpornography cases were either at or more lenient than the recommended minimum with most downward departures involving sentences less than half as long and 4 that in the ross case judge chatigny threatened to take away an attorneys law license if the lawyer failed to appeal the death sentence of an eighttime murderer of girls and young women the judge claimed the killers sexual sadism was a mental disorder that made the murderer himself a victimsupport for the nomination includes three republican former appointees as us attorney for the district of connecticut who said in a letter to the judiciary committee in april 2010 that they support without any reservation this nomination they wrote while each of us has dealt with judge chatigny under different circumstances we have found him to be even tempered thorough and without agenda we believe that he is a fair minded and impartial judge who has appropriate fitness and temperament for the appellate court we believe that a close examination of judge chatignys record in sentencing federal criminal defendants shows that he is appropriately sensitive to the facts of the person before him and the rights of victims of the crimes that have been committed indeed it is our understanding that the government has never filed an appeal from judge chatignys sentencings and that there has only been one defendant who has appealed from an upward departure we are of the strong opinion that judge chatignys record on the bench makes him an outstanding and very qualified candidate seventeen former federal prosecutors who have worked with judge chatigny wrote to the senate judiciary committee that in criminal as well as civil matters judge chatigny has proven himself over the course of 15 years on the bench to be unbiased compassionate and temperatein its 2006 dismissal of charges in the ross case the second circuit judicial council found that judge chatignys actions were not motivated by any bias in favor of ross the prisoner or against the death penalty but only by the judges reasonable perception that the discharge of his own judicial dutyrequired that he take forceful steps on rosss behalf while the judge used strong language there was no misconductin the judges reasonable view the circumstances thrust on him called for unusual action in discharge of judicial duty to ensure the fair resolution of the important proceeding before himchatigny has yet to rule on the appeal of former yale professor james van de velde who had sued the city of new haven in 2001 then yale in 2003 for allowing his name to be leaked at the inception of the investigation into the death of yale student suzanne jovin in december 1998 chatigny dismissed the federal fourth amendment claims in march 2004 but left alone the state claims relating to the ruination of van de veldes career by not allowing the case to proceed van de velde claims his efforts to shed light on the cold case and pressure the authorities try to solve the case have been stonewalledof the 440some opinions judge chatigny has issued as a federal court judge since 1994 16 have been reversed an analysis by the sentencing commission for fiscal years 20059 provided by judge chatigny place his departure rate in line with the average for the district of connecticut as a whole | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Vincent_Fang_(lyricist)>,Vincent Fang (lyricist),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Misa_Telefoni_Retzlaff>,Misa Telefoni Retzlaff,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mary_Goldring>,Mary Goldring,mary goldring obe is a british business journalist and broadcasteran economist who graduated from lady margaret hall oxford university goldring turned to journalism in the late 1940s and became a member of staff at the economist where for a long time she was its business editor rising to the rank of deputy editor alongside norman mcrae she left the paper suddenly in spring 1974 following a dispute over its editorship in the wake of the surprise departure of alastair burnet who left to become editor of the daily expressgoldring then moved to the bbc and meantime also wrote a weekly column for the investors chronicle edited at the time by andreas whittam smith in 1976 she became one of the main regular presenters of bbc radio 4s analysis series of analytical authored currentaffairs documentaries she developed it into a flagship programme staying with it until 1987 she also made five series of television documentaries the goldring audit for channel 4 screened from 1993 to 1998in the late 1960s mary goldring became particularly noted as the economists aviation correspondent for her sustained and trenchant critique of the development programme for the anglofrench concorde supersonic aircraft on the basis of noise pollution and above all what she predicted would be disastrous commercial economics an almost solitary voice of dissent at the time her views turned out to be wellfounded | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Susan_Westerberg_Prager>,Susan Westerberg Prager,susan westerberg prager 1942 is an american legal scholar and administrator she is currently since november 1 2013 the dean of southwestern law schoolpreviously prager was provost of dartmouth college and president of occidental college starting in september 2008 she was the sixth executive director and ceo of the association of american law schools from 1982 through 1996 she was the dean of the ucla school of law giving her the longest tenure of any dean in ucla law history she was one of the first female deans of a law school in the united states and she was the first alumnusalumna to become dean of ucla law during her term at the ucla law she became the second woman to serve as the president of the association of american law schoolsprager was born in sacramento california and grew up in sloughhouse california a small town outside of sacramento she received her undergraduate degree in history from stanford university in 1964 and she later received a masters degree in history also from stanford she served for 14 years as a trustee of stanford university she worked for a number of legislators in the us senate the us house of representatives and the california state assembly including us senator thomas kuchel of california she received her law degree from ucla law and was editorinchief of the ucla law reviewshe practiced law at powe porter alphin in durham north carolina before returning to the ucla school of law faculty where she focused on family law community property and historic preservation law | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Yohannes_Yual>,Yohannes Yual,yohannes yual both or johannes yoal bath etc was a leader of the south sudan defense forces whose mobile forces gave the sudan peoples liberation army considerable difficulty during the second sudanese civil war 19832005in august 1991 riek machar lam akol and gordon kong announced that john garang had been ejected from the splm the breakaway faction based in nasir until 1995 and then in waat and ayod was called the splmanasir faction from 1991 to 1993the bul nuer anyanya 2 militia at mayom under paulino matip and the lou nuer anyanya 2 militia at doleib hill under yohannes yual declared for rieklater these forces become part of the governmentsponsored ssdf militiathe civil war ended in january 2005 yohannes yual accepted the juba declaration of 8 january 2006 joining the army along with other soldiers under the command of paulino matiep his men are primarily lou nuer now in the 8th divisions command in jonglei state he is a major general and has been deputy commander of the 4th division in duar upper nile statea group called the south sudan united democratic alliance alleged that on 12 april 2006 lou nuer janaigatliek section spla forces under johannes yoal bath launched a revenge attack on ulang and killed more than 30 people including both civilians and soldiersthe attack was said to be in retaliation for cattle raids in nyayin on the east bank of the sobat river made by combined forces of the spla and jikany nuer under commander george athor dengjohannes yoal bath had been involved in an attack on nasir in may 1994 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Christopher_Sorrentino>,Christopher Sorrentino,christopher sorrentino born may 20 1963 is an american novelist and short story writer of puerto rican descent he is the son of novelist gilbert sorrentino and victoria ortiz his first published novel sound on sound 1995 draws upon innovations pioneered in the work of his father but also contains echoes of many other modernist and postmodernist writers the book is structured according to the format of a multitrack recording session with corresponding section titles secondary percussion vocals playback and so forthhis second novel trance 2005 an epic fictional treatment of the patty hearst saga used many of the same experimental techniques as sound on sound but according to sorrentino incorporated them more carefully and subtly into the text the book was widely praised for its lush descriptions riveting characterizations and dialogue imaginative departures and attention to period detail trance ended up on several reviewers best lists was named a finalist for the 2005 national book award for fiction and was longlisted for the 2007 international impac dublin literary award in 2009 trance was named one of the 61 essential postmodern reads by the los angeles timesin 2006 new york magazine revealed that sorrentino and jonathan lethem were the writers behind the pseudonymous ivan felt and harris conklin authors of believeniks 2005 the year we wrote a book about the mets a hyperliterary account of the mets 2005 season that was intended as a playful poke at bookworld scamssorrentinos next book american tempura a collaboration with artist derek boshier was published by nothing moments press in the fall of 2007 a novella american tempura is a satire about commercial moviemaking in los angeles death wish a monograph on the 1974 film of the same name was published in the fall of 2010 by soft skull press as one of the inaugural entries in its deep focus series of film booksin april 2014 it was announced that sorrentino would publish his next novel the fugitives with simon schustersorrentinos work has appeared in such publications as the new york times esquire harpers playboy granta mcsweeneys tin house open city bookforum conjunctions and many otherssorrentino has taught at eugene lang college the new school for liberal arts and at columbia university school of the arts and is a member of the faculty at the unterberg poetry center of the 92nd street y he was the visiting writer at fairleigh dickinson university in 20102011 he currently lives in new york city with his partner the writer and editor minna proctor and their children | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alexis_Bhagat>,Alexis Bhagat,alexis bhagat is a writer and curator in new york he was born and raised in new york city and studied sculpture and ecological design at goddard collegehe was an active member of the spoken word poetry scene on the lower east side in the early 1990s notably organizing the atm poetry opens in bank lobbies in the summer of 1994 at goddard college he produced his first multichannel tape installations and tapecollages for radio a practicing sound artist from 19992009 producing sound installations speak deep whitman death songs bandshell ghost everybody says lecture on democracy stereo version collages lecture 2 on the possibility of life without the sun no one is neutral on moving train his blood is no match for chinas industrial strength authority look in the mirror radioplays and performances lecture 1 on sound as art words that should be abandoned or repaired everybody says the same bullshit in all lands and through all ages lecture on democracy threechannel version that utilized the recorded voice as material from 20012004 he interviewed a crosssection of senior and emerging sound artists through his project sound generation an unpublished book project that has manifested as concerts panel discussions and radio broadcasts he began working with free103point9 in 2003 and is included in their publication transmission arts artists and airwaves paj he has organized lectures listening lounges and convocations around the world to catalyze discussions about sound | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_Vernon_Williams>,David Vernon Williams,professor david vernon williams is a professor and former deputy dean of the university of aucklands faculty of law he came from the hawkes bay region of new zealand and was educated at wanganui collegiate schoolhis formal tertiary education qualifications include undergraduate degrees in history and in law ballb from victoria university of wellington a graduate degree in law bcl from the university of oxford england where he was a rhodes scholar at balliol college and a doctoral research qualification from the university of dar es salaam tanzania phd that included an analysis of colonial legal history in new zealand and a diploma in theology from the university of oxford diptheolhe is a barrister and solicitor of the high court of new zealand and holds a practising certificate to act as a barrister he was employed as a legal academic at universities in england tanzania and new zealand from 1971 to 1991 and during that time he wrote numerous published articles and book chapters on issues related to colonial law indigenous law and the treaty of waitangifrom 1992 to 2000 his primary occupation was as a consultant contracted to research on law in history and on treaty of waitangirelated legal issues he has acted in a variety of capacities in contracts with the crown forestry rental trust the law commission and te puni kkiri he was responsible for the mori land legislation manual and database which was published in two volumes by the crown forestry rental trust in 1994 and 1995 he is the author of te kooti tango whenua the native land court 18641909 published by huia publishers in 1999he has acted as an arbitrator in respect of moriowned forestry land he is the honorary legal adviser to te phopatanga o aotearoa anglican church and a member of the anglican churchs general synodte hinota whanui in 2001 he was appointed an associate professor in law at the university of auckland and in 2005 was promoted to full professorhe also campaigned for the new zealand national party in 1966 but has never voted for them | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Guillermo_Roux>,Guillermo Roux,guillermo roux born in 1929 is an argentine painter known for his watercolors collages and frescoesroux was born in buenos aires argentina and his father ral roux was a wellknown uruguayan painter he studied in the buenos aires school of fine arts until 1948 and in 1956 he travelled to rome there roux worked in umberto nonnis bottega as an assistant in restoration and decoration projects he returned to argentina in 1960 and relocated to jujuy province where he taught art and continued to painthe lived in new york city where he worked as an illustrator and a painter from 1966 to 1967 and returned to buenos aires he traveled extensively exhibiting in berlin london munich paris and sicily and in 1975 he earned his first international prize at the xiii so paulo art biennial this was followed by among other honors the konex award the highest prize in the argentine cultural realm in 1982 rouxs work was added to the prestigious phillips collection in washington dc in 1988 and he contributed one of four new frescoes that were added to the cupola of the shopping arcade galeras pacfico when it was reopened in 1991roux created his own teaching workshop in 1997 his themes include still life harlequins italian actors and geometric shapes they are often surrealistic he was named illustrious citizen of buenos aires in 2007 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/William_J._Ely>,William J. Ely,william jonas ely jr born december 29 1911 is a retired lieutenant general in the united states army he is a 1933 graduate of the united states military academy west point he served during world war ii with the united states army and was stationed in australia new guinea philippine islands and japan he also served with the united states army corps of engineers in the 1930s in the midway islands he eventually retired at the rank of lieutenant 3 star general he is a former deputy commanding general of the army development logistic command and deputy commander of the us army materiel command he was born in sycamore pennsylvania the son of j ross and frances d ely his awards include the army distinguished service medal silver star bronze star and two legions of merit after his retirement ely was an avid golfer and designed and operated a golf course near pittsburgh pennsylvania he gave up golf when he turned 100 in 2011 as of 2015 he is the oldest living graduate of west point ely was married to helen mountford from february 10 1940 to march 25 2014 when she died at the age of 100 he was formerly married to jane i meyers whom he wed on may 20 1937 and had three children with he resides at a nursing home in delray beach florida | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alan_Roper>,Alan Roper,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bob_Havens>,Bob Havens,bob havens born may 3 1930 is an american big band and jazz musician who appeared on the lawrence welk show from 1960 to 1982 his instrument is the tromboneborn to a musical family in quincy illinois he began studying violin and trombone at age seven and played both instruments throughout his school years he landed his first professional job with a local dance band at age 12 by the age of 16 his talent as a trombonist was recognized with a scholarship from the interlochen music camp in michigan and bob held the first trombone chair in the schools 250 piece concert band he later held the first trombone chair in the quincy symphony while also playing in many popular dance groups in illinoisafter serving in the illinois national guard as a bandsman during the korean war he left quincy in 1955 to tour with the ralph flanagan orchestra in 1956 he joined george girards dixieland band at the famous door in new orleans there he met his idol jack teagardenin 1957 bob joined al hirt at dans pier 600 on bourbon street when hirt formed his very first band the front line consisted of hirt havens and pete fountain during the time in new orleans he recorded albums for good times jazz and vic labels with the girard band and on verve and audio fidelity with hirt he also recorded about a dozen albums for the southland label with many other new orleans musiciansbob stayed with this group until 1960 when he was persuaded to move to the west coast and join the lawrence welk orchestra as a featured soloist on their weekly tv series his tenure with this show lasted for 23 years until the show ended in 1982following that he continued as a freelance professional working often with the bob crosby bob cats and the benny goodman orchestra led by clarinetist peanuts hucko from 1985 to 1995 havens played with the great pacific jazz band along with bob ringwald lead vocalspiano don nelson saxophone and zeke zarchy trumpetin 2005 he performed with the north carolina pops orchestra at campbell university with fellow welk star ava barber in a benefit concert raising money for victims of hurricane katrinabob havens lives in quincy illinois he continues to record and appear at jazz festivals and concerts throughout the world | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Susan_Christie>,Susan Christie,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Elizabeth_Gunn_(author)>,Elizabeth Gunn (author),elizabeth gunn is an american author of mystery novelsgunn lives in tucson arizona her careful research into police techniques results in precisiontooled procedurals according to marilyn stasio of the new york times one series is set the fictional city of rutherford minnesota a second is set in tucson where she moved in 1999 her publishers include walker dell harlequin forge and severn houseprior to her career as a writer gunn earned her private pilots license became a sky and scuba diver hiked deserts and mountains and travelled extensively in the us canada mexico and europe including several years as a liveaboard sailor while she was sailing gunn began to write travel articles many of which were published in regional papers around the us this was the beginning of her path to becoming a fulltime writer before retiring to her career as a writer gunn made her living as an innkeeper in helena montana where she owned a motel with her husband phillip together they raised two daughters and the family lived in a small apartment directly above the lobby of their motel as a result of those cramped quarters gunn developed her desire to travel she grew up in the southeast minnesota of her jake hines novels and later moved to tucson the setting of her sarah burke series | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bo_Hampton>,Bo Hampton,bo hampton born 1954 in united states is a noted comic book and cartoon artisthe graduated from the school of visual arts new york city he drew wrote and painted comics and graphic novels for 15 years always with a bent toward realism that was fairly uncommon in the medium some art highlights from that period include viking glory a 96 page graphic novel for dc comics legend of sleepy hollow for tundra publishing and verdilak a horror story cowritten and painted for nbm publishing hampton spent a year as a professor at savannah college of art and design helping to develop the original incarnation of their sequential arts program before moving into the realms of storyboarding animated shows and tv commercials he was behind one of the most popular uk advets of all times smash means mashhe has worked on extreme ghostbusters for sony tv and full length video feature as well as superman warner bros and batman animation for cartoon network spot he has done live storyboard work for commercial clients including papa johns pizza bellsouth cocacola motorola and many more ad agencies that use his work regularly include mccannerickson washington dc pearson mcmahon fletcher and england indianapolis fricksfirestone atlanta and over 40 more all over the us | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Milva>,Milva,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Will_Tiao>,Will Tiao,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Quintin_E._Primo_III>,Quintin E. Primo III,quintin e primo iii born march 14 1955 is the cofounder chairman and ceo of capri capital partners llc one of the largest minorityowned real estate investment management firms in the united states that advises pension funds and other institutional investors primo whose firm has 404 billion in assets under management in domestic and international commercial real estate is ranked on the forbes top twenty richest african americans in the world listprimo who is a regular contributor on cnbc is known in the real estate industry for his innovation in 2000 under primos leadership capri capital developed and launched one of the industrys first real estate mezzanine fundsas a minorityowned firm capri capital was also an early investor in americas underserved urban markets such as south los angeles in 2006 capri purchased baldwin hills crenshaw plaza one of americas oldest urban regional malls that was opened in 1947in 2012 black enterprise magazine saluted primo and his firm as its financial services company of the yearprimos latest visionary move was to become one of americas first minorityowned firms to invest overseas in september 2013 capri capital partners llc launched capri global capital limited which was formed after signing a strategic alliance with money matters financial services limited in india which included the renaming of money matters financial services limited to capri global capital limited mr primo is the newly appointed nonexecutive chairman and director of capri global capital limiteds board of directors in india in this position mr primo becomes one of if not the first africanamerican to serve on the board of an indianregistered publicly listed companyin addition to his business acumen primo is known for his philanthropy as the founder and chairman of the primo center for women and children a transition homeless shelter for moms and their kids that is located on the west side of chicago | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Geoffrey_Bayldon>,Geoffrey Bayldon,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ulf-Dietrich_Reips>,Ulf-Dietrich Reips,prof dr ulfdietrich reips is a full professor in the faculty of sciences at the university of konstanz where he holds the chair for psychological methods assessment and iscience between 2009 and 2013 he was a fulltime tenured ikerbasque research professor at university of deusto in bilbao spain and remains affiliated with ikerbasque until 2009 he was an assistant professor and lecturer oberassistent at the psychology department of the university of zurich switzerland he received his phd in 1997 and his habilitation venia legendi title privatdozent in 2004 from the university of tbingen germany in 1992 he received an ma in psychology from sonoma state university california reips spent most of his undergraduate and graduate years at the university of tbingen where he had attended the leibniz kolleg he majored in both psychology and general rhetoric as a student of walter jens and had a minor in political science in 2012 ulfdietrich reips received a first award from university of colorado boulder and is since affiliated on an honorable basis with its department of psychology and neuroscience based on his affiliation with ikerbasque the consejo superior de investigaciones cientificas spain ranked him 7th of top scientists working at spanish private universities in 2014ulfdietrich reips is working on internetbased research methodologies or iscience internet science online research methods in particular internetbased psychological experimenting a method used in experimental psychology and internetbased tests the psychology of the internet measurement the cognition of causality social media and big data in 1994 and 1995 he founded the web experimental psychology lab the first laboratory for conducting real experiments on the world wide web in 1997 he was one of the seven founders of the german society for online research dgof and wrote a book chapter on the methodology of conducting experiments via the internet that later won him a young scientist award by the german society for psychology his 2002 article in the journal experimental psychology standards for internetbased experimenting defined the field and became one of its journals most cited articles in 2005 reips was elected the first nonnorth american president of the society for computers in psychology scipulfdietrich reips is the founding editor of the international journal of internet science currently serving jointly with uwe matzat | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marcel_J._Melan%C3%A7on>,Marcel J. Melan%C3%A7on,marcel j mlanon is a philosopher and scientist who works in canada and is mostly known for his book on the french philosopher albert camus albert camus an analysis of his thought albert camus analyse de sa pense he has mostly worked together with the biologist richard d lambertprofessor mlanon teaches in the department of philosophy in the collge de chicoutimi and he is a researcher in bioethics funded by sshrc fonds de la recherche en sant du qubecfrsq and the programme de soutien des chercheurs de collge pscche is also associate professor in the department of religion and ethics at the universit du qubec at chicoutimi where he is codirector of a graduate program in bioethicshe received a masters degree in experimental medicine with a specialty in genetics from universit laval and a doctorate in philosophy from the universit de fribourg in switzerlandprofessor mlanon has authored more than two books and some articles on ethical issues in genetics with particular reference to genetic testing and screening he is currently the director of an interinstitutional and interdisciplinary group gnthiq in quebec representing researchers in genetics ethics sociology and law and codirector of the ethics division of the clinical ethics network funded by the frsqprofessor mlanon is a founding member of the canadian bioethics society where he served as vicepresident from 1986 to 1988 he is also a member of various bioethics committees and also a member of the ncehr committee on evaluation | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mike_Powell_(journalist)>,Mike Powell (journalist),mike powell is a british former newspaper and radio journalist who hosted shows on several uk music radio stations before transitioning to station management after working in provincial newspapers in the westcountry powell joined devonair radio exeter and torbay at its launch in 1980 as a senior journalist then head of news and current affairs he later jointly hosted the breakfast showpowell moved to guildford surrey in 1983 as launch news editor of county sound radio he was promoted to program director from 1984 to 1986 and then ceo from 1986 to 1991 growing the group to four radio stations his innovations at county sound included being the first uk radio station to use rcs radio computing services selector musicscheduling software 24 hours a day and introducing the uks first gold format radio station county sound gold powell designed the programming for awardwinning station fox fm a joint venture with capital radio londonafter taking county sound to a uk stock market listing he departed to form radio investment research and management company infinity radio which set up pirate fm cornwall with powell as launch ceo pirate fm was featured on the bbc technology programme tomorrows world for its pioneering use of computerised music playoutshortly after the launch of pirate fm infinity radio merged with ukrd group where powell became ceo eventually building the group to over 20 radio stations and associated companieswhile running ukrd powell played a key role in launching manchesters kiss 102 and served as launch ceo of berkshires star fm which was joint launch customer in the uk for the computerised rcs master control studio automation system in 1995 he launched the new county sound radio network consisting of county sound radio 964 the eagle and delta radioin 2001 powell became chairman of infinity media which then separated from ukrd to concentrate on digital platform technologiesin october 2002 he joined rcs as vice president of its international division based at its world headquarters in white plains new york in october 2014 he was promoted to senior vice president international operations and chief compliance officer | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Vladimir_Yurchenko>,Vladimir Yurchenko,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Nobuo_Uematsu>,Nobuo Uematsu,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Warner_(writer)>,John Warner (writer),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Doug_McIntosh>,Doug McIntosh,doug mcinstosh is a retired american basketball player and is currently a pastor he won two national championships at ucla and appeared on the cover of sports illustrated magazine in 1965mcintosh a center from lily high school in lily kentucky went west to play college basketball for future hall of fame coach john wooden at the university of california at los angeles he was a key reserve for the bruins as they won their first national title in 1964 playing 30 minutes in the championship game against duke and grabbing 11 rebounds mcintosh became a starter for his junior and senior seasons anchoring the pivot for woodens 1965 champions as a junior for his bruin career mcintosh scored 543 points 64 per game and 486 rebounds 57 per gameyears later john wooden would say that doug mcintosh was one of the two players in his coaching tenure who came closest to fulfilling their potential wooden stated that he didnt believe that mcintosh would play much but that he surprised him as a significant contributor as a sophomore and a starter the next two years through his hard workfollowing his college career doug mcintosh was not drafted in the 1966 nba draft he attended seminary at dallas theological seminary and later cofounded the cornerstone bible church in lilburn georgia | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Avi_Muchnick>,Avi Muchnick,avi muchnick born 1979 is an artist author programmer and entrepreneurin 2002 while attending benjamin n cardozo school of law muchnick cofounded the popular creative contest site worth1000 together with israel derdikin 2007 he cofounded aviary a company that built an awardwinning multimedia application suite of creative web apps with israel derdik and michael galpert as ceo he raised 17 million in venture capital from amazon founder jeff bezos mit media lab director joi ito linkedin founder reid hoffman venture capital firm spark capital and other notable investors in september 2011 citing stalling growth of the multimedia application suite he shifted aviarys business strategy to powering the photoediting in thirdparty apps on web and mobile smart phones seeing enormous immediate growth he chose to focus the company exclusively around this new direction and closed down aviarys consumerfacing multimedia application suite one year later on september 15 2012 as of march 2013 aviary announced passing 35 million monthly active users 3500 partners and 3 billion photos edited across its partner network muchnick served as ceo until december 2012 when he brought on former walmart executive tobias peggs to take over at which point he stepped into the chief product officer role on september 22 2014 aviary was acquired by adobe systemsmuchnick was named one of the top 35 innovators under 35 by mits technology review magazine in 2010 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robin_MacPherson>,Robin MacPherson,robin macpherson born 1959 glasgow scotland is professor of screen media at edinburgh napier university director of screen academy scotland a creative skillset film academy partnership with edinburgh college of art and of the institute for creative industries at edinburgh napiereducated at garthamlock secondary school glasgow and at the university of stirling he entered the film and television industry in 1989 as a producer at edinburgh film workshop trust where he made documentary current affairs and drama including the baftanominated halfhour drama the butterfly man in 1997 he established asylum pictures an independent production company whose films include the scottishbafta nominated documentary tree fellers and as coproducer the awardwinning fellini im a born liarafter two years as development executive at scottish screen in 2002 he joined edinburgh napier university where in 2005 he became the first director of screen academy scotland since 2008 he has led engage an eu mediafunded collaboration with the irish estonian and finnish national film schoolsin 2010 he was appointed by the scottish government to the board of creative scotland the following year he was appointed as director of the institute for creative industries at edinburgh napier university in april 2011 he joined the board of creative edinburgh | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Judi_Silvano>,Judi Silvano,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Evelin_Lindner>,Evelin Lindner,evelin gerda lindner born may 13 1954 in hameln germany is a transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities she holds two doctorates one in medicine and the other in psychology her research focuses on human dignity and she believes that the humiliation of honor and dignity may be among the strongest obstacles on the way to a decent world community she is the founding president of human dignity and humiliation studies humandhs a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliationher parents were displaced from silesia in 1946 and she therefore grew up in west germany she has since confirmed that her familys traumatic experiences have formed the background of her workin 1994 she obtained her first doctorate in medicine dr med from the university of hamburg germany and in 2001 her second doctorate in psychology dr psychol from the university of oslo norway she graduated in psychology in 1978 and in medicine in 1984 both from the university of hamburg and heidelberg university she has also studied law and sinology at the goetheuniversitt frankfurt am main philosophy at the university of hamburg and has participated in the norwegian research councils ethics programme under philosopher dagfinn fllesdalsince 1977 lindner often spends time in norway following her marriage to a norwegian from 1984 to 1991 she also lived and worked in cairo egypt where she was a clinical psychologist and psychological counselor at the american university in cairo for 3 years and had her own practice for 4 years she also lived studied and did research in asia japan 3 years china thailand australia new zealand in africa west africa somalia kenya rwanda burundi in the middle east usa and in europe mostly in france belgium and switzerland in 1993 she founded the ngo better global understanding and organized an important peace festival in hamburg and in 1994 she was a candidate in the european parliament election 1994she speaks english french german norwegian and egyptian arabic fluently and is familiar with a number of other languages among others swedish danish dutch portuguese russian chinese japanese indonesian and modern hebrewsince 1997 she is affiliated with the university of oslo where she wrote her doctoral dissertation from 1997 to 2001 since 2001 she is also affiliated with columbia universitys advanced consortium on cooperation conflict and complexity ac4 in new york since 2003 she is furthermore affiliated with the maison des sciences de lhomme in paris her first book making enemies humiliation and international conflict has been honored as outstanding academic title by the journal choice for 2007 in the usa she published her second book in 2009 on emotion and conflict also her third book on gender humiliation and global security that was published in 2010 with a foreword by desmond tutu is being highly recommended by choice she has also written numerous articles and book chapters for example for bernt hagtvets anthology genocides black book 2008 she has received several awards among them the prisoners testament peace award in 2009lindner advocates equality in dignity locally and globally she has chosen norway as a main base because she believes that norway is in a unique historical position the ideal of equality in dignity likeverd in norwegian is at the core of the human rights message it is at the same time deeply rooted in norwegian culture and an important part of norwegian heritage while it is new to cultures with more hierarchical traditions that stand for social inequality research points at the importance of equality for health and stability both at the individual and the community level equality in dignity is important for a sustainable future locally and globally lindner believes that norway has a responsibility to make the norwegian cultural heritage more accessible globally norway enjoys very high reputation in the world which means that the message of equality in dignity when it comes from norway has a greater impact | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robert_S._Gold>,Robert S. Gold,robert s gold is a researcher in the application of computer technology to health education and health promotion his publications include more than seventy research and evaluation articles dozens of pieces of software for organizations such as the american cancer society and the department of defense commercially published software including healthquest and abledata and several textbooks gold is professor of health education and dean of the school of public health at the university of maryland college parkhe earned an associate of science from orange county community college in 1967 followed by a bs in biology from the state university of new york at brockport in 1969 he earned his ms in health education at the same school two years later gold earned a phd in health education from the university of oregon in 1976 and a drph with a specialization in community health practice from the university of texas school of public health at houston in 1980 he was an instructor in suny brockports department of health science 19701974 before earning his phd and returned there as assistant professor from 1976 through 1978 after completing the degree while working on his second doctorate he served as an evaluator for the texas department of mental health and mental retardation he next joined the faculty of southern illinois university at carbondale siuc in 1980 as associate professor of health education he received a leave of absence from siuc in 1984 to serve as director of the school health initiative of the us department of health and human services in 1986 he joined the faculty of the university of maryland college park as professor of health education from 1988 through 1989 he joined the world health organization where he was invited to help reestablish whos division of health educationhealth promotion in 1990 he began dividing his time between the university of maryland and macro international where he became vice president and director of public health research in 1994 in 1999 he returned to a fulltime faculty position at the university of maryland and became chair of umds department of public and community health since july 2002 gold has been dean of the school of public health college of health and human performance prior to 2005 at the university of maryland at college park he is also the director of the public health informatics lab at umd a research and evaluation lab that heavily emphasizes multimediabased training and educational applications gold works in the application of advanced technologies to health education ranging from interactive video and computer software to knowledge management decision support and expert systems technology during his years at suny brockport he partnered with david f duncan in offering a course on computers in health education in 1980 gold and duncan published two papers on the use of computers in health education the second of these explored the potential of personal computers several years later at southern illinois university gold and duncan taught the first course on pcbased health education during his tenure at siuc he spent several summers at the university of cologne where he collaborated with klaus klein in developing applications of computers in health education beginning in 1983 gold wrote a regular column in the journal of health education entitled computing health | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Agnes_Baltsa>,Agnes Baltsa,agnes baltsa greek a m born 19 november 1944 is a leading greek mezzosopranobaltsa was born in lefkada she began playing piano at the age of six before moving to athens in 1958 to concentrate on singing she graduated from the greek national conservatoire in 1965 and then travelled to munich to continue studying under a maria callas scholarship baltsa made her first appearance in an opera in 1968 as cherubino in the marriage of figaro at frankfurt opera before going on to appear as octavian in der rosenkavalier at the vienna state opera in 1970 under the guidance of herbert von karajan she soon became a regular at the prestigious salzburg festival she became kammersngerin of the vienna state opera in 1980her most well known performance is that of carmen by georges bizet which she has sung a number of times with jos carreras she has also sung works by mozart notably cos fan tutte rossini il barbiere di siviglia la cenerentola semiramide litaliana in algeri mascagni cavalleria rusticana saintsans samson et dalila verdi aida la forza del destino il trovatore don carlos bellini i capuleti e i montecchi and donizetti il campanello maria stuardashe also starred in the austrian film duett in 1992 playing an opera singer | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Zvonimir_Juri%C4%87>,Zvonimir Juri%C4%87,zvonimir juri born 4 june 1971 is a croatian film director and screenwriterborn in osijek juri finished his primary and secondary education in his hometown as a teenager the 1980s he appeared in minor roles in a number of tv series produced by tv zagreb such as the 10part biographical series nikola tesla 1977 the partisan series nepokoreni grad 1982 and the popular childrens series smogovci 1982after graduating from high school juri spent the 199192 semester studying film directing at the loyola marymount university in los angeles in 1992 he returned to croatia and enrolled at the film directing department of the academy of dramatic art in zagreb while a student at the academy juri directed several short films and documentarieshis feature film directorial debut which he codirected and cowritten with goran devi was a critically acclaimed 2009 psychological war drama titled the blacks the film deals with a fictional croatian army unit who refuse to lay down their arms during a ceasefire in the croatian war of independence the film won juri and devi the golden arena for best director at the 2009 pula film festival the croatian national film awards it went on to be selected as croatias submission to the 83rd academy awards for the academy award for best foreign language film but it failed to make the final shortlist | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John-Paul_Himka>,John-Paul Himka,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Elisha_Qimron>,Elisha Qimron,elisha qimron is an academic in the study of ancient hebrew in which he took his phd in 1976 at the hebrew university of jerusalem writing his dissertation on the hebrew of the scrolls currently he is a professor in the department of hebrew language at bengurion university of the negev in israel for several decades he has been one of the team of international scholars working on the dead sea scrolls in particular on the texts found in cave 4 at qumranin 1979 qimron was coopted by john strugnell the editorinchief of the dead sea scrolls publication team to assist in completing longoverdue work on the halakhic letter 4qmmt on which strugnell had been working alone since 1959 the work on the fragments was eventually completed and published in 1994 qimron was the first israeli scholar on the teamduring the late 1970s and early 1980s many scholars felt frustrated at the delay in publishing the dead sea scrolls it was generally known that most of the texts had been translated but were still not available to researchers some also complained about the proprietary attitude of some of strugnells team toward the scrolls they were working on which made access to them difficult if not impossible in some caseshershel shanks of the biblical archaeology society decided that the reconstructions of the dead sea scrolls should be made available to scholars so in 1992 he published the twovolume a facsimile edition of the dead sea scrolls which included without permission material on the halakhic letter 4qmmt that qimron had been working on for some eleven years qimron had even given the document its titleqimron decided to sue the biblical archaeology society for breaching his copyright on the grounds that the research bas had published was his intellectual property as he had reconstructed about 40 of the published text such reconstruction is unique in the sense that if the original photographs had been given to a hundred different researchers a hundred different reconstructions would be made in 1993 judge dalia dorner of the israeli supreme court awarded qimron the highest compensation allowed by law for aggravation in compensation against hershel shanks and others a 2000 appeal in front of judge aharon barak and colleagues against the verdict was upheld in qimrons favor | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robert_Grant_Irving>,Robert Grant Irving,robert grant irving phd is an author and lecturer specializing in the history of art and architecture of britain and the british empire his book indian summer lutyens baker and imperial delhi yale university press 1981 and oxford university press 1982 is the story of the creation of new delhi from 1911 to 1931 the grandest architectural undertaking in the history of the british empire the principal architects were the two leading practitioners of the day sir edwin lutyens and sir herbert baker dr irvings book won the british council prize in the humanities as well as the highest honor of the society of architectural historians the alice davis hitchcock book awarddr irving was born in hartford connecticut of scottishcanadian parents and was educated at balliol college oxford kings college cambridge and yale university he holds degrees in history and the history of art and architecture a fellow of berkeley college at yale he has taught at yale wesleyan trinity college in hartford and the university of virginia dr irving has lectured at universities and museums on six continents he has held research grants in india africa britain and the united states including a fulbright scholarship and fellowships from the woodrow wilson national fellowship foundation american institute of indian studies american council of learned societies ernest oppenheimer memorial trust national endowment for the humanities and the john simon guggenheim memorial foundationdr irving has been a lifetime advocate and activist for historic preservationduring his studies at yale in preparation for his dissertation mr irving had been conducting research in india in 196869 mr irving had placed all his research material in two trunks that were shipped from new delhi to hartford upon his return to yale in 1969 he discovered that pan american world airways had lost his research the airline permitted mr irving to visit john f kennedy airport to search through 16 acres not 60 as stated in a news article of unclaimed luggage he was able to locate one trunk but the contents had become damaged and useless because of exposure to the weather mr irving filed a successful 15000 not 35000 as stated in a press article lawsuit in order to recoup expenses accrued on his return to india to redo his entire research and photography discovered too late to be of use the second trunk surfaced at a boston airport warehouse after more than four yearsthe completed dissertation became the basis for the awardwinning book indian summer | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sam_Leach_(artist)>,Sam Leach (artist),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Patricia_Crowther_(caver)>,Patricia Crowther (caver),this article is about the cave explorer for the wiccan see patricia crowther wiccanpatricia pat p crowther born 1943 later known as patricia p wilcox is an american cave explorer and cave surveyor active in the 1960s and early 1970s she also worked as a computer programmercrowther was wellknown among kentucky cavers for her slight frame she weighed 115 pounds and her extreme dedication these two traits led her to pursue promising leads that other cavers were unwilling or unable to attempt of particular note is her traversal of a narrow canyon known as the tight spot in the portion of the flint ridge cave system underlying houchins valley the tight spot proved to be the critical juncture leading to the passages connecting mammoth cave and the flint ridge cave system both patricia crowther and her thenhusband will crowther participated in many expeditions that attempted to connect the caves she was part of the september 9 1972 expedition that discovered and surveyed the historic final connectioncrowther earned a bs degree in physics at mit where she met and married william the couple had two daughters sandy and laura and divorced in 1976 around 1977 crowther married john wilcox who had led the cave connection expeditionscrowther authored the grand kentucky junction an account of the expeditions undertaken to connect the mammoth and flint ridge cave systems | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Katja_Herbers>,Katja Herbers,katja mira herbers dutch pronunciation ktja mira rbrs born 19 october 1980 is a dutch actress of theatre film and televisionherbers was born on 19 october 1980 in amsterdam in the netherlands she is the daughter of dutch violinist vera beths and german oboist and conductor werner herbers she had a canadian au pair and learned to speak dutch german and english while growing upherbers went to the ignatius gymnasium in amsterdam from 1993 to 1999 she studied psychology at the university of amsterdam 19992000 but stopped after a year during her studies she attended the local theatre school de trap she then went to the hb studio in new york city 20002001 and studied theatre at the theaterschool in amsterdam 20012005during her studies she played in the films peter bell 2002 and brush with fate 2003 after her graduation herbers became a member of ntgent in ghent she is currently member of the munich kammerspiele in munich and het nationale toneel in the hague she lives in munich and amsterdam in 2013 she won the guido de moor award for young talentshe performed the piece im wunderschnen monat mai with pianist conductor and composer reinbert de leeuw in 2013in february 2014 it was announced that she will play the role of the only female physicist at los alamos in the wgn americas drama series manhattan | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Shaka_Hislop>,Shaka Hislop,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Martin_Iveson>,Martin Iveson,martin iveson is a british composer known for his audio work within the video games industry and better known for his contributions to the world of music releases martins music ranges from mainstream house music to deep house hiphop and nu jazz and he writes under the moniker atjazz martin also owns and runs atjazz record companyfrom his misspent youth skateboarding the frontier towns of north eastern england martin iveson arrived into the uks midland scene in the early nineties here he was to take a job at a new computer games development studio by the name of core design ltd this company is now synonymous with lara croft and the series of tomb raider gamesnot content with scoring this one of the worlds most famous video games martin left the company 13 years later to concentrate more on his own studio environment in which to channel his musical aspirations further and invite other musicians and producers to do the samethe success of his early works including his first ep story in 1996 led to the wellreceived album that something which was later licensed in japan by sonykioon in 1998 this debut album also featured cover artwork by fujio akatsuka very well known in japan for his illustrations and animated cartoons with two further albums labfunk labresults following soon after atjazz had at this time established himself as a distinct and inspirational voice in the underground music scenemartin has also been a prolific remixer throughout his career remixing and reworking songs works for artists such as nitin sawhney bob sinclar jazzanova zed bias omar to name but a few and was even requested to rework henri mancinis the pink panther returns for emi records martin is still remixing heavily as he states that remixing has helped to launch his production techniques forward and its the perfect practice pitch for trying out new ideas and breaking the mould within a diluted industry remixing helps to hone your sound and allows the producer to print their trademark into another spacemartins trademark sound has been requested on many occasions by top class vocalists including clara hill replife deborah jordan for their own artist album projects and also rubbing shoulders with some amazing musicians producers along the way martin has also teamed up with worldclass production legend charles webster as version and are working on their debut album for miso records2009 saw martin close his label mantis recordings due to harsh industry changes and from these ashes came the imprint appropriately named atjazz record company which has flown to great heights within the digital realm and has seen many fantastic and sought after releases including his 3rd long player full circle this label concentrates heavily on martins productions and collaborations atjazz record company is a new chapter for atjazz but with a continuation of his trademark soundmartin atjazz iveson is in demand across the world whether it be renowned producer sought after remixer or floor filling dj martin gives his heart to hold the soulhe cites shostakovich stravinsky john frizzell and john williams as influencers for the soundtrack of tomb raider the angel of darkness | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Eva_Habermann>,Eva Habermann,eva felicitas habermann born january 16 1976 is a german actress who has appeared in numerous films and tv series she is best known for playing the role of zev bellringer in the television series lexx she was succeeded in her role by xenia seebergwhile studying for the german equivalent of her senior high school diploma advanced placement courses only eva received singing and dancing lessons soon after graduation she obtained her first television role in lexx she also moderated the children pumuckl tv broadcast on german tv 19951996while lexx was on hiatus between seasons 1 and 2 eva appeared in the zdf series rosa roth and the ard series the beach club as well as appearing in the rosamunde pilcher film two sisters due to scheduling conflicts she was ultimately unable to commit to the second season of the show as with a twoyear gap between the first and second seasons she accepted other projects and thus when season two was ultimately greenlit she was unavailable she was however able to free up enough time in her schedule to appear in the first two episodes allowing the writers to deal with her character properlyin 1999 she took drama lessons and played in such german tv series as the crime scene the investigators the commissioner and wild angelsin 2005 she was in the new episodes of the twentyyearold series the black forest clinic and in 2006 she was seen in the tv movie in heaven you write love differently alongside erol sanderin 2008 she played again with sander the role of olivia orourke in the film who loves promises by rebecca rymanher comedy roles included angel express 1997 fire ice and cans of beer 2001 and in the old monkey fear 2002in the clown payday 2005 she played the role of leah diehlin 2003 she was ranked no 17 in fhmgermanys 100 sexiest women | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Steve_Castle>,Steve Castle,steve castle born 17 may 1966 in barking is a former english football midfielder who played in the football league between 1984 and 2001 he played for leyton orient in three separate spells amassing a total of 322 appearances for them castles combative style attracted the attention of liverpool boss kenny dalglish and wimbledon manager bobby gould castle was named in the pfa third division team of the year for the 199091 season a twitter poll in 2014 saw castle voted as orients greatest ever captainhe also played league football with plymouth argyle birmingham city gillingham and peterborough unitedplymouth argyle boss peter shilton was seeking a midfield general to rally his newlook squad following relegation from the second tier in 1992 on the advice of a scout he took in a game at brisbane road and left at halftime instructing argyle director denis angilley to start negotiations as he had seen enough of his target a 225000 transfer fee duly paid castle headed to home park and was promptly injured in a preseason friendly argyle fans would have to wait until late october to see their new midfield marvel in meaningful action but it turned out to be well worth the wait he scored on his debut in a 20 victory vs wigan athletic and by seasons end had notched up 12 more he continued in a similar vein the following season as argyle marched to the playoffs bagging 16 goals by christmas and eventually ending the campaign with 22 the undisputed highlight of his argyle career and one of his own personal highlights incidentally was a recordbreaking hattrick in a fine 32 win at stockport county in december 1993 his three goals in six secondhalf minutes were an astonishing feat and one that confirmed his place as a firm favourite of the fans indeed super stevie castle became home parks undisputed golden boy thanks to his barnstorming allaction style and a left foot that developed an intimate relationship with the back of the net castle was named alongside his midfield partner steve mccall in the alltime argyle xi in a poll taken on the clubs website in 2011 he was named in the pfa second division team of the year for the 199394 season before transferring to birmingham city in 1995castle joined peterborough on a free transfer as playercoach for the 199798 season and over the next three seasons he played 122 senior matches and scored 20 goals winning the playoff final at wembley in his final game he moved to leyton orient on a free for 200001 in his final season at orient castle gained his uefa a coaching licence castle retired due to a persistent knee injuryin september 2006 he became assistant manager to jimmy quinn at cambridge unitedon the 13th december 2013 he became royston town manager with his first game in charge expected to be the boxing day home fixture against top of the table dunstable town | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Armen_Ra>,Armen Ra,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_Shaughnessy>,David Shaughnessy,david james shaughnessy also spelled shaughnessey is a britishborn television director theatre director and producer and actor he was educated at eton college and the central school of speech and drama london he started in repertory theatres all around the uk and went on to become a principal actor with the old vic theatre company in london and touring around the world he went on to perform in national tours including 18 months in godspell for producer cameron mackintosh and acted in television series and movies both in the uk and the uslater he turned to theatre and television directing then moved into producing ultimately becoming executive producer of the daytime drama the young and the restless he now directs for the bold and the beautiful on a freelance basis while developing and seen a service for actors with geoffrey wade he also provides voiceovers for films cartoons commercials and video gameshis father was alfred shaughnessy a scriptwriter he is best known for his work as writer and producer of upstairs downstairs his older brother is the actor charles shaughnessy best known as maxwell sheffield on the television show the nanny his wife is former days of our lives head writer anne schoettle david and anne live in los angeles and have three daughters amy katie and josiehe is the heir presumptive to the barony of shaughnessy which is held by his brother | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Reynolds_(Canadian_politician)>,John Reynolds (Canadian politician),john douglas reynolds pc born january 19 1942 was the member of parliament for the riding of west vancouversunshine coastsea to sky country in the canadian house of commons from 1997 to 2006 he had also been an mp in the 1970s as well as a provincial politician in british columbia in the 1980s and 1990s he was first elected to parliament as a candidate of the progressive conservatives in 1972 and was reelected in 1974 he resigned in 1977 after disagreeing with joe clarks red tory policiesbeginning in 1983 he was active in the social credit party of british columbia and served as speaker of the british columbia legislative assembly and as a cabinet minister in 1986 he was a candidate at the social credit leadership convention coming in fifth he remained in provincial politics until 1991 when he was defeated in his bid for reelectionreynolds returned to parliament in 1997 as a reform mp and served as chief opposition whip he remained in this role when the reform party was folded into the canadian alliance when stockwell day faced a revolt in his caucus in 2001 and chuck strahl resigned as house leader reynolds was named in his place when day resigned as alliance leader reynolds was chosen as interim party leader and leader of the opposition and served until stephen harper was elected the new party leaderreynolds resigned as house leader on january 24 2005 but continued as mp for his riding until his retirement at the 2006 federal election he was the coordinator of the conservative campaign in british columbia on the day after the election which resulted in a conservative minority government harper asked reynolds to approach liberal minister david emerson about crossing the floor and serving as a minister in harpers government emerson eventually accepted the offer which triggered a firestorm of criticism however reynolds who had strongly criticized belinda stronachs switch from the conservatives to the liberals told a suburban vancouver newspaper that he was very happy that emerson was a conservative and claimed that the people of emersons leftleaning vancouver riding got the better end of the bargain instead of having someone in opposition he said they have someone who is a cabinet minister of a new government | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dean_Greig>,Dean Greig,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Maha_el-Samnah>,Maha el-Samnah,maha elsamnah born 1957 has canadian citizenship and is the widow of ahmed khadr a prominent egyptiancanadian who allegedly worked for charities for afghan refugees and was alleged to have been an alqaeda financier they had two daughters and five sons three of whom abdullah abdurahman and omar khadr attained notability in pakistan afghanistan and canada in relation to the war on terror by the united states and the george w bush administration she moved to toronto in 1977 where she met and married the egyptian immigrant ahmed khadr in 1979 in the 1980s together with her husband and first three children maha elsamnah moved to afghanistan during the soviet occupation of that country in 1995 elsamnah and her husband founded a canadian charity with a mandate to provide aid in wartorn afghanistan and pakistans federally administered tribal agencies her husband ahmad was later held by the pakistani police without charge due to suspicions that his daughters fiance may have been involved in a plot to bomb the egyptian embassy in pakistan elsamnah received canadian news coverage after pleading with canadian prime minister jean chretien on camera during a visit to pakistan to raise her husbands case with pakistani authorities she was again the subject of media coverage when her son omar khadr became the youngest detainee to be held at the guantanamo bay detention camp as of 2008 he was the last western citizen still being held there he pleaded guilty in a plea agreement in october 2010 and was sentenced to eight years in prison he was returned to canada in 2012 where he will complete the remainder of his eightyear sentence | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Stewart_(American_football)>,James Stewart (American football),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Fredrik_Jacobson>,Fredrik Jacobson,fredrik ulf yngve jacobson born 26 september 1974 is a swedish professional golfer who plays on the pga tour and formerly the european tourjacobson was born in kungsbacka he turned professional in 1994 and was a member of the european tour in 1995 and from 1997 to 2004 in 2003 he won his first european tour title and went on to claim two more victories that season his fourth place finish on the order of merit that year equalled anders forsbrands swedish record set in 1992 and was the first swede to win three official money events in one season on the european tour in 2004 he joined the pga tourin 2003 jacobson was the top scorer in the seve trophy collecting four and a half points out of five in 2004 he just missed out on a ryder cup place finishing one place short in both the european tour rankings and the world ranking points rankings and not being selected as a captains pickjacobson won his first pga tour title in 2011 at the travelers championship he beat ryan moore who missed a short four footer at the 72nd hole which would have gotten him into a playoff with jacobson but instead settled for a tie with john rollins one shot behind during the week jacobson went 63 holes bogeyfree until the difficult par four 10th on sunday where he made a bogey five he hit 100 of the fairways during rounds three and fourin november 2011 jacobson had his best finish ever in a world golf championship event when he finished solo 2nd at the wgchsbc champions in shanghai china jacobson had led the tournament after rounds two and three and entered the final round with a two stroke advantage over louis oosthuizen however it was a final round surge from martin kaymer that denied jacobson the german firing nine birdies on the day to post a 63 jacobson could only record a 71 to fall short by three strokesat the 2013 northern trust open jacobson had a chance to win his second pga tour title when he birdied the 15th and 16th holes in the final round to tie the lead he then missed a short birdie putt at the 17th to take the outright lead on the 72nd hole jacobson missed a fivefoot par putt which left him one shot outside of the playoffjacobson has been featured in the top 20 of the official world golf rankings | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anerood_Jugnauth>,Anerood Jugnauth,sir anerood jugnauth kcmg qc gcsk pc born 29 march 1930 is a mauritian politician and currently the prime minister of mauritius since december 2014 he also holds various ministerial portfolios including minister of rodrigues defence home affairs and national development unit he also serves as member of parliament mp for constituency no 7 piton riviere du rempartjugnauth has continuously except for periods 19952000 and 20122014 hold a constitutional office since 1976 he was leader of the opposition from 1976 to 1982 he served as prime minister from 1982 to 1995 and again from 2000 to 2003 he was then elected as president of mauritius and served as such from 2003 to 2012 following his partys victory in the 2014 general elections he was appointed again to serve his sixth term as prime minister by president kailash purryag on 14 december 2014he served four consecutive terms as prime minister from 1982 to 1995 and was then voted out of office from 1995 to 2000 he is the longest serving prime minister with more than 16 years of tenure thus overtaking seewoosagur ramgoolam who held the office for 14 years as leader of the militant socialist movement he became prime minister again for a fifth term after the 2000 election his alliance partner paul brenger of the mauritian militant movement succeeded him in 2003 after serving as jugnauths deputy for three years jugnauth was then elected president in 2003 often nicknamed as rambo a film character known to be unbeatable in mauritian politics he is known as such for his personality as he is the only prime minister who won four general parliamentary elections in a row those in 1982 1983 1987 1991 he is also the only mauritian who has served as leader of the opposition prime minister and president of the country he is the only prime minister to have had a sibling and his son in his own cabinet from 2000 to 2003he was called to the bar by lincolns inn he was a cabinet minister during the leadership of seewoosagur ramgoolam from 1965 up to 1969 in 1970 he moved out and went to the newly created political party of the mauritian militant movement where he eventually became its leader in 1982 he created his own political party called militant socialist movement in 1983 and was once more elected his party remained in power up to 1995 in 2000 he was once more elected prime minister and served until 2003 when he was sworn into the presidency from the beginning of his first mandate as prime minister he expressed his countrys readiness to establish strong economic ties particularly in creating technologybased projects with economic feasibility jugnauth is credited with the legacy of mauritius economic miracle of the 1980s a set of policies such as the revitalization of the dutyfree trade zone and establishing mauritius as a leader in textiles production which allowed the island to develop an economic presence in the regionhe founded the militant socialist movement party in 1983 he was honoured with pravasi bharatiya samman awards for his continued support for indias causes and concerns and for strengthening indias relationship with mauritius he has expressed his countrys readiness to establish strong economic ties particularly in creating technologybased projectshe was made queens counsel in 1980 and was made a member her majestys most honourable privy council in 1983 he was knighted by queen elizabeth ii in 1988 when mauritius was still a commonwealth realm and the queen was nominal head of state therefore he still uses his formal title of sir anerood and also the prefix used by privy councillors the right honourable his name is often abbreviated as saj being the initials of sir anerood jugnauthfollowing his resignation as president on 30 march 2012 due to major disagreement with the members of the government he led the main opposition coalition msmmmm from 2012 to mid2014however in april 2014 paul berenger announced the dissolution of the coalition due to major disagreement within both parties later berenger announced a coalition between the labour party and the mauritian militant movement jugnauth is since then leading the opposition team composed of the militant socialist movement pmsd and the ml which is a breakaway group of individuals who resigned from the mmm due to the coalition with the labour party jugnauths alliance known as lalliance lepep won the 2014 general elections | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Khalid_Khannouchi>,Khalid Khannouchi,khalid khannouchi arabic born september 12 1971 is a moroccan american marathoner he was born in meknes morocco he is the former world record holder for the marathon and held the former road world best for the 20 km distance he is one of only five men to break the marathon world record more than once and one of only four to break their own marathon world record the others are jim peters derek clayton and haile gebrselassiekhalid fell out with the moroccan athletics federation over training expenses and moved to brooklyn new york city in 1992 with three of his friends he married american sandra inoa in 1996 who now coaches him and acts as his agent they set up home in ossining new york he became a naturalized citizen of the united states on may 2 2000as of 2013 khalid holds the american record for the marathon with a time of 20538 at the london marathon in 2002 ryan hall ran faster in 2011 20458 but that was in the pointtopoint boston marathon considered an assisted course because of the elevation dropkhannouchi officially retired on march 27th 2012 due to reoccurring foot injuries since 2003 khannouchi stated it was really my feet that betrayed me every time i go and try to push hard i get the pain and soreness again i cant train hard and if you cant train at a certain level where you can be competitive its not worth it to keep wasting time | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Juan_Pablo_Montoya>,Juan Pablo Montoya,juan pablo montoya roldn born september 20 1975 is a colombian racing driver he is one of the few drivers to have participated in nascar formula one cart and irl after a sevenyear stint in the nascar sprint cup series with chip ganassi racing he returned to the verizon indycar series in 2014 driving for team penskethe highlights of his career include winning the international f3000 championship in 1998 and the cart fedex championship series in 1999 as well as victories in some of the most prestigious races in the world he is the only driver to have won the premier north american openwheel cart title the indianapolis 500 and the 24 hours of daytona all at the first attempt montoya is one of two drivers to have won the cart title in his rookie year the first being formula one world champion nigel mansell in 1993 he has also equaled graham hills feat of being a monaco grand prix and indianapolis 500 race winner montoya is one of two active drivers along with jacques villeneuve who has won two legs of the triple crown of motorsportmontoya has also become a crossover race winner by winning races starting in each case in his rookie year in formula one cart indycar grandam and nascar equaling in that respect mario andrettis caliber of success except for the f1 world championship and shares honors as well with dan gurney in being a race winner in indycarf1nascarin october 2009 montoya was ranked 30th in a list of the top 50 formula one drivers of all time by times online | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ichikawa_Ennosuke_III>,Ichikawa Ennosuke III,ichikawa ennosuke iii sandaime ichikawa ennosuke b 9 december 1939 is a japanese kabuki actor famous for his love of keren stage tricks he is considered the king of chnori he has flown out over the audience held aloft on strings over 5000 timesennosuke made his stage debut at the age of eight at the tky gekij as ichikawa danko iii he would formally take the name ennosuke in 1963 at the age of 24 he is the brother of ichikawa danshir iv their father is danshir iii their greatgrandfather and grandfather respectively were the first and second to be called ichikawa ennosukeennosuke is known as a great proponent of dramatic costumes flamboyant theater signage and stage tricks keren which are looked down upon by many kabuki connoisseurs as playing to the gallery and as distracting from the true dramatic art nevertheless among those who enjoy keren ennosuke is quite well regarded he performed chnori for the first time in 1968 as the fox in yoshitsune senbon zakura and for the five thousandth time in 2000 as guan yu he has revived a number of old plays including date no jyaku the ten roles of date in which he played ten roles in one performance through the use of a number of methods of hayagawari costume quickchangein november 2003 ennosuke suffered from symptoms of a stroke and did not perform for most of the following year however today he is still actively performinghis son is the actor teruyuki kagawa | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Shirley_Erena_Murray>,Shirley Erena Murray,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cajjmere_Wray>,Cajjmere Wray,cajjmere wray aka ccw is a canadian producer dj and remixer from toronto he is known for a variety of his original and remix productions he has remixed for many major recording artists including jennifer lopez rihanna esthero nelly furtado girlicious christina aguilera mariah carey deborah cox oscar g melanie c and othersthe late grammy award winning djproducer peter rauhofer helped in discovering wray by aiding in his burst onto the music scene in 2005 with wrays remix of the kobbe austin leeds single bodyshaker this success helped wray achieve more accomplishments with other remixes on rauhofers star 69 label his extended works have been made available on various labels including island def jam tommy boy records universal music and nervous records us in addition to his musical career wray also hosted an evening popdance music radio show from the spring of 2007 to early winter 2010 on a toronto terrestrial stationhis musical works have received support by a variety of celebrity djs around the globe and have also been supported on various radio stations he djs most frequently at clubs in toronto and montreal but he has also toured internationally to destinations including new york mexico brazil serbia italy and others he has released music under various aliases and pseudonyms including most recently the name ccw for his widely popular remixes of jennifer lopezs on the floor ft pitbull christina aguileras you lost me and rihannas only girl in the worldin early 2012 he moved away from the mainstream pop world to dig back into his underground house roots he has since released a few major big room singles including in the night and i love miami which was a big success at the 2012 winter music conference in miami florida this sound would meet the likes of many other great progressive artists including avicii alesso and the swedish house mafia following these releases cajjmere returned to the tribal sound where it all began for him by releasing his early 2013 single tribal kuntalong with his ongoing studio and touring schedule wray also produces a podcast series available on itunes titled klub tasty each episode features new and upcoming house music as well as artist insight | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anna_Kournikova>,Anna Kournikova,anna sergeyevna kournikova russian ipa an srejvn krnikova 13px born 7 june 1981 is a russian retired professional tennis player her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide despite her never winning a wta singles title at the peak of her fame fans looking for images of kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on google searchdespite her lack of a title she reached no 8 in the world in 2000 she achieved greater success playing doubles where she was at times the world no 1 player with martina hingis as her partner she won grand slam titles in australia in 1999 and 2002 they referred to themselves as the spice girls of tenniskournikovas professional tennis career ended prematurely at the age of 21 due to serious back and spinal problems including a herniated disk she lives in miami beach florida and plays in occasional exhibitions and in doubles for the st louis aces of world team tennis she was a new trainer for season 12 of the television show the biggest loser replacing jillian michaels but did not return for season 13 in addition to her tennis and television work kournikova serves as a global ambassador for population services internationals five alive program which addresses health crises facing children under the age of five and their families | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi>,Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Frank_Millar_Jr>,Frank Millar Jr,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Angus_Clark>,Angus Clark,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Casey_McKee>,Casey McKee,casey mckee born 1976 phoenix arizona is an american artist based in shanghai chinamckees work has appeared in many exhibitions such as the village people at kunstverein wolfsburg 1 germany human conditions 2 at the scottsdale museum of contemporary art 3 in scottsdale arizona and unfair trade die kunst der gerechtigkeit at the neue galerie graz am landesmuseum joanneum in graz austria in 2011 his work was featured in the 4th moscow biennale of contemporary art in moscow russia alongside such artists as ai weiwei gerhard richter and olafur eliasson he is represented by galerie greulich 4 in frankfurt germanymckees process is a combination of photography and painting he first creates the photograph and then prints it onto the surface eg canvas wood panel handmade paper etc using a photographic emulsion mckee spends the majority of time working with oil paint to bring out the desired expression in his worksmckees work has been featured in several print publications alongside other prominent contemporary artists such as daniel richter and john currin most notably in the upset young contemporary artmckees work is included in the permanent collection of the scottsdale museum of contemporary art smoca scottsdale arizona the phoenix art museum phoenix arizona the tucson museum of contemporary art tucson arizona the phynque phamily phoundation museum minneapolis minnesota the sr rusche oeldeberlin collection in berlin germany the national arts club in new york new york and the mer ko collection istanbul turkey | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Al_Hairston>,Al Hairston,alan leroy al hairston born december 11 1945 is an american former professional basketball player and a college and high school head coach his high school career has garnered him multiple league district and state championships as well as numerous individual awardsa 61 185 m guard from bowling green state university hairston was selected by the seattle supersonics in the fifth round of the 1968 nba draft and by the kentucky colonels in the 1968 aba draft hairston appeared in two seasons for the sonics averaging 22 points per gameby far hairston has made his biggest contributions to the sport of basketball as a prep coach widely regarded as one of the best prep hoops coaches in washington state history hairston achieved great success as head coach of the historically dominant boys hoops program at garfield high school in seattle washington including guiding the program to five state titles from 1980 through 1991 1980 1983 1986 1987 and 1991 and two more state runnerup appearances during the same period 1989 and 1990 he also successfully coached the kentmeridian kent wa and seattle odea high school boys basketball programs to postseason appearances in assuming the odea post he took over for the late phil lumpkin also a former nba basketball player and prep coaching starhairston also served as head coach of the seattle university mens basketball team which competed as a member of the national association of intercollegiate athletics naia and as assistant coach of the university of washington husky mens basketball team under former head coach bob bender as an assistant huskies coach during the 199798 season hairston helped guide a team led by former nba player todd mccullough and donald watts son of former seattle sonic donald watts to the ncaa sweet 16 where it lost to a jim calhoun coached university of connecticut team on a buzzerbeater by nba star richard rip hamilton | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Apuzzi>,Albert Apuzzi,albert apuzzi is a pharmacist and onewall handball player notable for being a champion at the sport his seven consecutive outdoor usha national doubles championships made him a usha record holder his play was noted for power speed and stamina he won two national singles titles before a career ending arm ailment robbed him of prime years in singles play he has helped run many tournaments and has been described as a goodwill ambassador for the sportfrom 1983 to 1989 albert apuzzi dominated the onewall doubles emerging victorious each time his handball partner was joe durso except in 1985 when his partner was al torres albert also won in 1992 with ed goldenapuzzi won outdoor usha national championships in onewall singles handball in 1986 and in 1993 in addition he has won the indoor usha national 1wall singles doubles as well as 9 ymca 1wall singles 1989 1995 doubles 1989 19931996 2002 2004 titlesalbert apuzzi has a total of 20 national titles and has been in 32 national finals that is more than any other player exceeding joe dursos 31 oscar oberts 30 he received his usha handball hall of fame plaque jacket at the icha awards dinner during october 2011 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ron_Shuman>,Ron Shuman,ron shuman born september 15 1952 is an american sprint car race driver from tempe arizona shuman won the turkey night grand prix a major event in the midget cars series on four consecutive occasions from 1979 to 1982 he has won that event eight times in total he won the knoxville nationals in 1979 he tried his hand at championship car racing in 1980 and finished in 11th place in his first race at ontario motor speedway in april of that year however a month later he failed to qualify for the 1980 indianapolis 500 in 1981 shuman sided with usac in their split with cart and shuman entered in two dirt track races on usacs gold crown champ car calendar failing to qualify for one and finishing 15th in the other the following season in 1982 shuman notched his best champ car finish at the illinois state fairgrounds racetrack with a 5th place and competed in two other dirt track gold crown races he made another appearance in 1983 before the series ended shuman continued to race sprint cars during his foray into champ car and still makes occasional appearances in major sprint car events to this dayhe was inducted into the national sprint car hall of fame in 2003a race named in honor of him the ron shuman classic is held every year in kansas city kansas at lakeside speedway | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Christine_Langan>,Christine Langan,christine langan born january 1965 is an english film producer who has been head of bbc films since april 2009after graduating from cambridge university in 1987 and working in advertising for three years langan joined granada televisions drama serials department where she script edited daytime soap operas from there she transferred to granadas newly created comedy department where she developed the acclaimed television series cold feet and other oneoff comedies in 2000 she left granada to become a freelance producer and produced the romantic comedy series rescue me for the bbc she returned to granada in 2002 where she produced the acclaimed dramas the deal 2003 and dirty filthy love 2004 she made her feature film production debut on pierrepoint 2005 which got her a carl foreman award nomination at the 60th british academy film awards langan also produced the queen 2006 for granada which won the bafta award for best film and was nominated for the academy award for best picturein 2006 langan became an executive producer at bbc films developing features such as the other boleyn girl 2008 and the duchess 2008 in april 2009 she was appointed creative director of bbc films giving her control of a 12 million annual budget and which projects are commissioned for development by 2010 langan had led bbc films to a record 13 nominations at the british academy film awards which included in the loop 2009 fish tank 2009 and an education 2009langan lives in london with her partner writer christian spurrier and their two children | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Young_(Australian_rules_footballer)>,Bill Young (Australian rules footballer),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kenneth_James_Gibson>,Kenneth James Gibson,kenneth james gibson born october 8 1973 is a musician who has been recording and releasing records since 1994 he founded the minimal techno record label adjunct audio in early 2005 with friend konstantin gabbro through kompakt records gibson releases music under the aliases apendicsshuffle eight frozen modules dubloner the premature wig men in slippers cascabel gentz kj gibbs reverse commuter bal cath electronic music composer and hiss buzz with jack dangers of meat beat manifesto gibson also founded the 1990s noise pop band furry things who released most of its material on king coffeys of the butthole surfers label trance syndicate touch and go records imprint gibson along with brian mcbride of the dronebased ambient music duo stars of the lid started the band bell gardens in 2009 through the music of bell gardens the two explore the many realms of chamber pop folk psychedelic pop and americanaapendicsshuffle apendicsshuffle is gibsons main electronic music alias under this alias he creates a mix of minimal house and techno micro house and experimental electronic dance music apendicsshuffle has released music on many labels such as trapez orac adjunct audio mos ferry prod lick my deck we are leftroom sunset diskos and more as apendicsshuffle gibson has collaborated with and remixed a number of other artists such mr c of the shaman mikael stavstrand mark blakkat bell damian lazarus brad laner and vladislav delaydubloner is a dub project from gibson dubloners output ranges from deep and spacious dub techno and house to more rootsy dirty dub experiments he has as dubloner remixed and collaborated artists such as meat beat manifesto jack dangers a duo of dubloner and jack dangers called hiss buzz isaac haile selassie and markus nikolaieight frozen modules also known as 8fm is another of gibsons experimental electronic music projects eight frozen modules recorded material is a mix of idm techno dub electro breakcore dancehall and noise the project started as a side project to the now defunct noisepop band furry things which gibson started with cathy shive in 1992 and was released on king coffeys trance syndicate label who also released the first 8fm material as 8fm he has released music on labels such as phthalo planet mu orthlorng musork tigerbeat 6 city slangshockout mutant sniper mille plateaux warp in vitro records lo recordings and tino corp to name a few | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bruce_Tulloh>,Bruce Tulloh,michael bruce swinton tulloh born 29 september 1935 in datchet berkshire is an athlete longdistance runner from england who still competes occasionally though now in his lateseventies he won the european title in the mens 5000 metres at the 1962 european championships in belgrade yugoslavia he was part of a national title winning team portsmouth ac in crosscountry and road running in the 1960s he is still part of that club now called city of portsmouth ac he was famous for running barefoot in many of his races his twin daughters were teenage running phenomena in the 1980s setting agebest marks running for their club swindon ac they also ran barefoot in 1969 tulloh ran 2876 miles across america from los angeles to new york city in 64 days this is described in bruce tullohs book four million footsteps published by pelham books and as a mayflower paperback in 1970bruce was also coach to british marathon athlete richard nerurkarhe taught biology at marlborough college for 20 yearshe has written a book called running is easy essentially an amateurs guide to becoming a good runnertulloh has also been writing for runners world one of his most important contributions is a threefold training program for the ten mile race the first program provided by tulloh aims to get you sub80 mins on a 10m 16k that is 455k for 16 k the second program aims to get you sub70 mins on 10m this entails 417k each kilometer of the 16 kilometers which are the ten english miles | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Oscar_Milani>,Oscar Milani,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Se%C3%A1n_%C3%93g_%C3%93_hAilp%C3%ADn>,Se%C3%A1n %C3%93g %C3%93 hAilp%C3%ADn,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mike_Trebilcock>,Mike Trebilcock,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Edmondson_(musician)>,John Edmondson (musician),for the australian ww2 victoria cross medal award see john hurst edmondsonjohn baldwin edmondson born 3 february 1933 is known throughout the world for his more than 1000 publications in the field of band and educational music his contributions to the literature are accessibleamazingenjoyable to perform and exciting to hear most importantly his music has helped train the young musicians of todayin addition to his achievements in educational music he has written several hundred arrangements and compositions for various professional military college and high school groups in the areas of marching band concert band jazz band dance combos and choral as well as commercial television and radio jingles this varied writing experience has brought a unique perspective to his educational writinga graduate of sarasota florida high school 1949 he received his bachelor of arts from the university of florida in 1955 majoring in music theory with minors in english and sociology after a twoyear stint with the us army 8th and 9th division bands he received his master of music in composition from the university of kentucky in 1960 where he studied composition with kenneth wright and band scoring with r bernard fitzgerald he was the first recipient of the graduate degree from the universityhe taught public school music for 10 years in the central kentucky area where he wrote extensively for his own students during this same time he freelanced as a writer for various university and high school marching bands including seven years as staff arranger for the university of kentucky wildcat marching band in addition to freelance composing and arranging he was a professional trumpet player and pianist and developed his own educational publishing firm it is now noted that this was the first sitelicense publisher which allowed buyers to duplicate music for their own use the forerunner of todays internet publishingfollowing his teaching career he was appointed alfred reeds successor as educational editor with hansen publications in miami beach florida and remained in that position ten years he was responsible for hundreds of publications including works for concert band marching band the funway band method coauthored with paul yoder instrumental solo books and other instructional materials from there he went to wisconsin as director of concert band publications for jenson publications adding several new works to his growing catalogafter freelancing for several publishers for seven years mr edmondson and anne mcginty formed queenwood publications in 1987 and were responsible for the creation production promotion and international sales and distribution of queenwoods catalog of concert band jazz band and string orchestra music they sold their company to the neil a kjos music company in march 2002 and wrote exclusively for them under the queenwoodkjos company name until 2009john edmondson was honored in 1991 as the recipient of the university of florida department of fine arts music department alumni achievement award he is a member of the american society of composers authors and publishers and is listed in the international whos who of musichis interests include playing jazz piano and the study of history philosophy and politicoeconomic theory | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ramiro_Torres>,Ramiro Torres,ramiro torres is a boston massachusetts area radio personality television host and actor also known as the freakin puerto ricanborn in everett massachusetts to luz maria and ramiro torres sr ramiro started at iheartmedia as an intern while attending the new england institute of art in 1994 he landed his first job at fun 107 wfhn on the day he graduated and after his very first radio show was offered a weekend airshift on jamn 945 wjmn fmtorres worked his way up to nights then afternoons and in october 2001 was named host of the ramiro and pebbles morning show on jamn 945 replacing thenmorning dj baltazar ramiro draws his audience from his honesty sarcasm and humor listeners welcome his prank calls also known as jam scams his personal stories and the tasks he sends his crew on in january 2013 the show was renamed ramiros houseand then ramiro the jamn morning show after iheartmedia released pebbles from her contract and features sidekicks ashlee feldman a former cast member of the real world new orleans 2010 and santi deoleo in a short amount of time the new shows popularity exploded to the point that it garnered its own channel on the iheartradio app torres also hosts a daily afternoon show for my 939 in miami one for iheartradio and the weekend top 30 countdown a nationally syndicated weekend countdown showalongside radio ramiro has made numerous television appearances and hosted community auditions a new englandbased television talent show which has garnered more emmy nominations than any other program in new england history torres was nominated for best host in 2011 hes also been featured on the new england sports network as an on air contributorin his spare time ramiro takes great pride in his health he practices martial arts regularly a video game on the jamn website ramiros nightmare features torres as the main character kicking and punching karate style competes in endurance events such as marathons and triathlons participates in crossfit and the freakin puerto rican says that every morning he wakes up at 3 am to exercise before arriving at jamn 945 in january 2008 ramiro was featured in the bodies by boston issue of stuffnight magazine | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Steven_Point>,Steven Point,steven lewis point obc xw l qwl tl born july 28 1951 is a provincial court of british columbia judge and former lieutenant governor of british columbia whose term of office ended on november 1 2012 he also served as the chair of the advisory committee on the safety and security of vulnerable women a committee that provides communitybased guidance to the implementation of the recommendations from the missing women commission of inquiryfrom 1975 to 1999 steven point served as chief of the skowkale first nation from 1994 to 1999 he served as tribal chair of the stl nationsteven point attended the university of british columbia where he graduated with a bachelor of laws degree in may 1985 from 1986 to 1989 he practiced criminal law and native law as a partner in the law firm of point and shirley he worked for citizenship and immigration canada as an immigration adjudicator for several years starting in about 1989 at its refugee backlog office in vancouver in 1999 he became a british columbia provincial court judge on february 28 2005 he became chief commissioner of the british columbia treaty commissionhis appointment as lieutenantgovernor was announced on september 4 2007 by prime minister stephen harper he assumed his duties in a ceremony at the legislative assembly of british columbia on october 1 2007 as the queens viceregal representative in british columbia he is styled his honour while in office and the honourable for lifea fire broke out at his private residence in chilliwack on february 1 2009 the royal canadian mounted polices investigation believes the fire was deliberately set but its not clear on the motive a 13yearold suspect and band member of the same first nation was arrested on february 5 2009on february 24 2009 point was appointed an honorary naval captain by the commander of maritime forces pacificon december 17 2012 point was appointed chair of an advisory committee under a oneyear contract that allowed him to bill up to 220000 in that year the position required him to assist the minister of justice to implement the recommendations dealing primarily with police reform and public safety made by wally oppal in his inquiry report released december 12 2012 on may 17 2013 point resigned from his position as chair on the pretext that lawsuits commenced by the children of missing women prevented him from fulfilling his mandate members of the advisory committee and family members expressed doubt about this reason on the basis that point had expressed his intention to resign before the childrens lawsuits were filed and on the basis that there is no logical or practical connection between his work as chair of the advisory committee and the lawsuitson february 20 2014 point was reappointed as a provincial court judge effective march 3 2014 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Victor_Clube>,Victor Clube,stace victor murray clube born 22 october 1934 in london is an english astrophysicisthe was educated at st johns and christ church oxford he played firstclass cricket for oxford university he appeared seventeen times for the university between 1956 and 1959 but only won a bluethe awarding of the oxford colours to sportsmenin his first year there appearing in the 1956 university match against cambridge during that match which finished as a draw he took just one wicket with his off break bowlingclube obtained his doctorate in 1959 with a thesis titled interferometry of the solar chemosphere and photosphere and went on to become a professional astrophysicist and astronomer he has been dean of the astrophysics department of oxford university and has worked at the observatories of edinburgh armagh and cape townredirect templateunreliable sourcethis is a redirect from a page that has been moved renamed this page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links both internal and external that may have been made to the old page name for more information follow the category link he is known primarily for his work in collaboration with bill napier and others on the theory of coherent catastrophismthe asteroid 6523 clube is named after him | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Viktoriya_Yermolyeva>,Viktoriya Yermolyeva,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/L%C3%A1zaro_C%C3%A1rdenas_Batel>,L%C3%A1zaro C%C3%A1rdenas Batel,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Moana_Jackson>,Moana Jackson,moana jackson is a new zealand mori lawyer specialising in treaty of waitangi and constitutional issues jackson is of ngti kahungunu and ngti porou descent he is director of nga kaiwhakamarama i nga ture the mori legal service which he cofounded in 1987he graduated in law and criminology at victoria university of wellington and after a short period in practice took up the teaching of maori language he then undertook further study in the united states before returning to new zealand to conduct research for the then justice department report on the maori and the criminal justice system he whaipaanga hou his report was published in 1988he has also worked extensively overseas on international indigenous issues particularly the drafting of the united nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples he was a judge on the international tribunal of indigenous rights in hawaii in 1993 and again in canada in 1995 he was also counsel for the bougainville interim government during the bougainville peace processjackson was a vocal critic of the governments foreshore and seabed legislation in 2004he was also a vocal critic of the october 2007 police terror raids he resigned as patron of the police recruit wing 244 due to his opposition to how the raids were conducted saying i do not buy that this was a raciallyneutral acthe is also quoted as saying those who take power unjustly defend it with injustice he teaches in the mori law and philosophy degree programme at te wananga o raukawa | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Carlos_Bea>,Carlos Bea,carlos tiburcio bea born april 18 1934 is a federal judge on the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit he was appointed to that court by president george w bush in 2003 to replace judge charles edward wigginsbea was born in san sebastian spain and emigrated with his family in 1939 to cuba while present under a nonimmigrant visa he studied at stanford university and received his ba there in 1956 he joined delta tau delta international fraternity while at stanford in 1952 bea represented cuba as a member of the countrys basketball team in the helsinki olympics upon his return he was put into deportation proceedings for allegedly avoiding the draft bea suggested to the immigration judge that he be drafted to cure the apparent violation but the judge refused as the korean war had already ended bea won his appeal at the board of immigration appeals opining that the lower court had abused its discretion after having his residency reinstated and accumulating the requisite physical presence bea petitioned for and became a naturalized citizen in 1959 he attended stanford law school and received his jd in 1958 he was in private practice in california after that but in 1990 he became a trial judge on the san francisco superior court he served there until his appointment to the ninth circuit in 2003bush nominated bea to the ninth circuit on april 11 2003 the united states senate then confirmed him on september 29 2003 by a vote of 860 and bea received his commission on october 1 2003bea had previously been nominated in 1991 to be a federal district judge for the united states district court for the northern district of california by president george h w bush but he never received a vote in the senatehis son is olympic rower sebastian bea | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hossein_Modarressi>,Hossein Modarressi,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Joseph_Massucci>,Joseph Massucci,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gregory_Charles_Rivers>,Gregory Charles Rivers,gregory charles rivers chinese cantonese ho kwok wing born 1965 is a hong kong actor of australian heritagegrowing up in katoomba he moved to hong kong in 1987 before finishing a medical degree at university of new south wales speaking fluent cantonese he was a tvb actor until 2008 practically every major character who is a foreigner no matter the time period or whether frenchenglish or persian in tvb dramas is played by him he has also appeared on stage as protagonist in 2005 the aussie often says that in hong kong hes found americahis chinese name is made up of the chinese equivalent of his surname rivers and the name of his idol leslie cheung kwok wing he is also a frequent youtube poster having his own prolific number of video clips of himself and his many colleagues within the hong kong media industryin a tv interview aired on 19 march 2007 on the hong kong terrestrial channel tvb gregory rivers mentioned his reason for learning cantonese was his association with hong kong cantonese speaking friends during his time at university at the age of 20 years old it was this close friendship which led him to become more interested in the learning the language when he first heard the songs sung by leslie cheung kwok wing inspiring him to learn the words so he could sing itin october 2007 rivers was one of the four nonchinese tv actors featured in an indepth interview and feature story hello neighbour in muse discussing his sense of cultural identity and how he sees his work | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Angela_Conner>,Angela Conner,angela conner frbs is an english sculptor who works in london conner has exhibited internationally and has large scale sculptures in public and private collections around the worldin her early life as a sculptor conner assisted barbara hepworthangela conners kinetic sculptures are concerned with utilizing natural elements like water sun gravity or wind to create mobiles that entice viewers to stop and watch their gentle movement the movement of conners sculptures entirely depend on the natural forces they react with and not electricity if mankind were suddenly to die out and if as a result there were no artificial power the sculpture would still continue its pattern of opening and revealing then closing and embracing rob cassy garden designer describing revelation declared one of englands best water features by country life magazine in her long career conner has created many notable large scale kinetic sculptures which are entirely powered by natural forces conners 129 ft water and wind sculpture wave at park west dublin is possibly the tallest kinetic water and wind sculpture in europe conner is also well known for her enigmatic figurative work modeled from life which on an intimate and personal level probe the character behind the mask conner has created posthumous portraits but prefers to work from life working from life is a form perhaps of an osmosis it has to be done by instinct its not something you can do intellectually chatsworth house has a collection of 14 bronze busts located in the grounds including portraits of lucian freud the eleventh duke of devonshire harold macmillan roy strong and john betjeman conner was commissioned to sculpt from life hrh the queen of england elizabeth ii by the knights of the garter to celebrate the queens 80th birthdaywhile there are many notable public sculptures created by conner include yalta victim memorial twelve responses to tragedy featuring at the va conners statue of laurence olivier playing hamlet was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of his birth and is located on the south bank opposite the national theatre | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Erik_Marcisak>,Erik Marcisak,erik marcisak pronounced marseesack born march 17 1978 in queens ny is an american writer sketch comedy producer actor and vip customer of david gagnon taxi based in charlottetown pei erik marcisak was named one of back stages top ten comedy best bets in 2005 for producing the controversial sketch comedy show saturday night rewritten which used the previous nights saturday night live as a creative jumpingoff point for an entirely new sketch show that was written rehearsed and performed within 8 hours the next day saturday night rewritten ran in nyc from 20032006 20042006 erik marcisak produced managed the theater company known as juvie hall he produced and helped create several shows such as sara schaefer is obsessed with you the midnight kalan and saturday night rewritten some comedic writers and performers who did shows at juvie hall included sara schaefer elliott kalan brock mahan amanda melson dan mccoy and rick younger juvie hall received an emerging comics of new york award for best venue in 2005 he also likes turtlesfrom 20022004 marcisak ran above kleptomania a theater company devoted to improv and sketch comedy shows that was in a space known then as show world the space changed its name to the laugh factory times square he and his associate producer joe guercio produced more than 700 performances above kleptomania was named by time out new york magazine in their best of 2003 issue as best local development in comedyin 2004 marcisak was the talent coordinator for the bass ale red triangle comedy tour he was in charge of their national search for the best improv and sketch comedy teams in san francisco los angeles chicago atlanta boston and new york cityin 2006 at the toronto international film festival it was revealed that erik marcisak played the role of eric rost a fictional filmmaker in the jt petty film sman the other interview subjects in the mostlytrue horror documentary were identified accurately many early reviews of the film treated erik rost as a real person and not a charactersince 2006 he has been a writer at longtail studios a video game company hes worked on tna wrestling iphone mobile football u iphone speed daters mobile and an unannounced nintendo ds game | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Daniel_Falzon>,Daniel Falzon,daniel lawson falzon born 16 march 1994 is a professional motorcycle racer from adelaide australia he competes in the australian supersport championship as a privateer in the jon daniels racing team aboard the caterpillar epsa yamaha yzfr6 he is the current 2013 australian supersport champion and also the 2012 australian superstock 600 championin 2012 daniel won the asbk superstock championship by 725 points and secured the lap record at 3 of the 4 tracks visited the same year he was also a contestant on the one hd tv program the ultimate rider in 2013 he moved up to the highly contested supersport category with hopes of finishing in the top 5 as the rookie in the class he surprised everyone by leading every round and eventually winning the supersport championship one of the youngest riders to have ever done soin 2014 daniel again be competed in the australian superbike championship in the supersport class which he won to become the first person to win the australian supersport championship back to back in addition he competed in the high exposure phillip island championship which is run in conjunction with the australian rounds of the world superbike wsbk and motogp championships at the australian round of the motogp championship daniel won all 3 races to secure his 5th national title in 6 years | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Conrad_Phillip_Kottak>,Conrad Phillip Kottak,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marilyn_Hall_Patel>,Marilyn Hall Patel,marilyn hall patel born 1938 is a retired federal judge who presided in the us district court for the northern district of california she was chief district judge of that jurisdiction from 1997 until 2004 and heard several notable cases during that timepatel was born marilyn hall in amsterdam new york she obtained a ba from wheaton college in 1959 and a juris doctor degree from fordham university in 1963from 1963 until 1967 she worked as an attorney in private practice in new york city from 1967 until 1971 she was general counsel for the us immigration and naturalization service in san francisco she then returned to private practice in san francisco during which time she was counsel for the national organization for women before becoming adjunct professor of law at the university of california hastings college of the law where she remained until 1976 in 1976 she was appointed to the bench of the municipal court for the oaklandpiedmont judicial district a position she held until 1980 on may 9 1980 president jimmy carter nominated patel to fill the seat vacated by lloyd hudson burke on the us district court for northern california she was confirmed by the united states senate in june of that year she was the chief district judge for the northern district from 1997 until 2004 the first woman to hold the position as well as the districts first female judge upon her appointment in 1980 her replacement as chief district judge was judge vaughn r walker who has also retired from the federal benchin 1966 she married indianamerican banker magan c patel the couple have two sons brian and gian patel won the california women lawyers rose bird memorial award in 2003 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Qiu_Zhijie>,Qiu Zhijie,qiu zhijie born 1969 is a contemporary chinese artist who works primarily in video and photography overall qius work suggests the struggle between the forces of destiny and selfassertion other common themes are social fragmentation and transienceqiu was born in 1969 in fujian province in 1992 he graduated from the printmaking department at zhejiang academy of fine arts hangzhou he now lives and works in beijingthe artists breakthrough exhibition was in 1992 with chinas new art post1989 at the hanart gallery and hong kong arts centre by 1999 his work began receiving overseas interest with his inclusion in revolutionary capitals beijinglondon at the institute of contemporary arts london in 2007 he had his first solo exhibition in the united states at the new york gallery chambers fine artin 2005 his work was exhibited in the victoria and albert museums between past and future new photography and video from china including tattoo 1 which explores qius assertion that in our mediasaturated age signs and codes have overpowered actual human beings and our bodies have become merely their vehicles the character bu meaning no is written across the artists body and on the wall behind him creating the illusion that it floats free of the body | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Allison_Booth>,Allison Booth,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Yolande_Thibeault>,Yolande Thibeault,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Annie_Ernaux>,Annie Ernaux,annie ernaux born in lillebonne seinemaritime on 1 september 1940 is a french writershe won the prix renaudot in 1984 for her book la place an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in france and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her parents place of originas a child annie ernaux lived in yvetot in normandy very early in her career she turned away from fiction to concentrate on autobiography her work combines historic and individual experiences she charts her parents social progression la place la honte her adolescence ce quils disent ou rien her marriage la femme gele her passionate affair with an eastern european man simple passion her abortion lvnement alzheimers disease je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit the death of her mother une femme and breast cancer lusage de la photo ernaux also wrote lcriture comme un couteau which should be understood as writing as sharp as a knife with frdricyves jeannether latest novel les annes gallimard 2008 is considered her magnum opus and was very well received by the french critics in this latter book ernaux writes of herself in third person point of view elle for the first time she gives a vivid look at french society from after second world war until today it is the poignant social history of a woman and of the society she lived in the female character in the book has looked death in the eye she describes what she realizes will soon be disappearing and how relative that all is if she should disappear toomany of her works have been translated into english and published by seven stories press ernaux is one of the seven founding authors of the press from which it got its name | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tom_Bradley_(author)>,Tom Bradley (author),tom bradley is an american novelist essayist and writer of short stories he is the author of the sam edwine pentateuch a fivebook series various volumes of which have been nominated for the editors book award the new york university bobst prize and the awp award series in the novel tom bradleys nonfiction is regularly featured by arts letters daily and has also appeared in saloncom mcsweeneys internet tendency and ambit magazine he has been characterized as an outsider by the la times book bloghis sixth book fission among the fanatics was named nonfiction book of the year 2007 by 3am magazine with the citation a literary giant among pygmies npr commentator andrei codrescu called this book the first appearance of a genre so strange we are turning away from naming it the publication of his seventh book lemur by raw dog screaming press is part of the bizarro fiction movement according to the advocate lemur could do as much to raise the rainbow flag as two mediumsize midwestern stonewall day parades tom bradley has meanwhile contributed to the theoretical elucidation of the bizarro aesthetic with his criticism and his interviews his eighth novel vital fluid is based on the life writings and performances of stage hypnotist johnivan palmer and was published by crossing chaos enigmatic inkhis twentieth book family romance illustrated by nick patterson is forthcoming from debra di blasis jaded ibis press described by forbes magazine as a hotpoint where the novel is undergoing radical transformation to reflect its time | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cameron_Sharp>,Cameron Sharp,robert cameron sharp born 3 june 1958 is a scottish former sprinter in 1975 he won the scottish schoolboys 100 and 200 championshipsin 1978 he won a gold medal at the commonwealth games in edmonton in the 4 x 100 m relay alongside david jenkins allan wells and drew mcmasterhe went on to compete at the 1980 summer olympic games in moscow in the 100m 200m where he reached the semi finals of both sprints and was a member of the 4 x 100 m relay where the uk finished 4th in the final in a new british record he took the silver medal in the 200 m at the european championships in athens in 1982 narrowly losing the gold to east german sprinter olaf prenzler but beating another top east german frank emmelmann the 100 metre winner into bronze sharp also finishing 4th in the 100 metres final again narrowly missing out on a 2nd medal at these championships he went on to compete in the 1982 brisbane commonwealth games picking up 3 bronze medalsin the 100200and 4x100 relay where he again beat off top quality sprinters to secure the medals in all 3 sprintshe also competed at the world championships in helsinki in 1983 and again reached the semi finals of both the sprints narrowly missing out in places of the finals he was also scottish 100m and 200m champion with a famous 100 metre victory over 1980 olympic champion allan wells sharp also won 3 uk national championships the aaa 100 metres and was also the aaas indoor 60 metre championhe competed in his 3rd commonwealth games in edinburgh in 1986 where he won another bronze medal with the sprint relay team | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Rajiv_Shah>,Rajiv Shah,rajiv raj shah born march 9 1973 is administrator of the united states agency for international development usaid he was confirmed by the senate on december 24 2009 in this role shah leads more than 9600 professionals in 80 missions around the world and manages an annual budget of over 22 billion usaid is focused on ending extreme povertyduring his years at usaid administrator shah has also led the humanitarian response of the united states to crisis such as the earthquake in haiti flooding in pakistan famine in the horn of africa refugees fleeing syria and the typhoon in the philippinesthis new model of development focused on partnership innovation and results is best exemplified by some of shahs signature priorities feed the future the child survival call to action power africa grand challenges for development development innovation ventures and usaid forward administrator shah has worked to ensure that usaids goals ending poverty and preventable childhood death and reducing the incidence of childhood hunger are accomplished through a partnership between public resources and private investors prior to his appointment at usaid administrator shah served as under secretary of agriculture for research education and economics and chief scientist on april 17 2009 shahs nomination was confirmed by the united states senate by unanimous consent on may 12 2009before serving in this administration shah worked in a range of leadership roles at the bill melinda gates foundation including director of agricultural development director of financial services leader of the strategic opportunities initiative and manager of the foundations 15 billion commitment to the vaccine fundshah announced on december 17th 2014 that he will be stepping down from his position at usaid in early 2015 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Frits_Bolkestein>,Frits Bolkestein,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ren%C3%A9_Froger>,Ren%C3%A9 Froger,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lady_Clover_Honey>,Lady Clover Honey,lady clover honey is an american drag queen comedian and television correspondent who lives and works in new york born kevin clover welsh in totowa new jersey he moved across the hudson river to manhattan in 1998 lady clover honey is perhaps best known as an entertainment news reporter on the television program under the pink carpet a show that highlights gay nightlife and culture in new york city and is broadcast on nyc lifenyc media wnyetv and on wybe mind tv in philadelphia making her the first recurring drag personality to be regularly seen in a series on an official nyc media broadcasther film appearances include the casper andreas movies a four letter word 2007 between love and goodbye 2008 the big gay musical 2009 and violet tendencies 2010 along with shore thing 2008 directed by lovari farm girl in new york 2007 directed by j robert spencer and an englishman in new york a quentin crisp biopic she also appeared in a nonsexual celebrity cameo as a fashionista in the adultentertainment film michael lucas la dolce vita lady clover honeys theatrical credits include replacing the legendary lady bunny as rambunctious ministers wife charity divine in the acclaimed political comedy when joey married bobby with performances at the roy arias theater on west 43rd street in nycs broadway theater districtlady clover honeys notable live performances including being the first and only drag maestro conductor at carnegie hall where she took the baton to guide the orchestra and choir at a concert for the new york city gay mens chorus in december 2005 she also is known for hosting events at the annual fresh fruit festival the largest lgbt arts festival in new york city and for curating visual fine art and photography shows at the leslie lohman gay art foundation in soho nycs art district | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anne_Kellas>,Anne Kellas,anne kellas is a south african poet reviewer and editorshe was born in germiston in 1951 in what was then the transvaal now gauteng in south africa her earliest work appeared in 1968 but she began writing seriously in 1975 when she met up with a group of writers associated with lionel abrahams who at one stage called themselves the circle of eight this group gathered around lionel abrahams had included at various times the writers anne schuster sinclair beilis basil du toit debbie aarons novelist critic and editor ivan vladislavic academic and publisher shirley pendlebury michael gardiner francis faller and others an earlier incarnation of this group had included robert and eva royston who later moved to the ukanne kellass first book of poetry poems from mt moono was published by shirley pendleburys hippogriffe press in 1989 by this time kellas and her husband the journalistphotographerwriter giles hugo had already emigrated to australia in tasmania she served for many years as poetry editor for the small magazine famous reporter and from circa 2003 was web content editor for island formerly island magazine her second collection isolated states received funding from tasmanias arts funding body in 1993 and was later accepted for publication by australian poetpublisher tim thorne thornes cornford press was active until 2004 in publishing poets on the political left andor nonmainstream poets such as liz winfield and the late selwyn hughes and jenny boultmagenta blissin 1995 anne kellas and giles hugo had set up one of the first australian online magazines the write stuff which they jointly edit among its other content such as book reviews and interviews with writers their web site documents the vivid poetry landscape of tasmania with an online showcase of tasmanian poetry holding vignettes of over 40 tasmanian poetsin 2004 kellas established roaring forties press a small literary press which though based in tasmania australia published the posthumous collection of poetry by lionel abrahams chaos theory of the heart produced in conjunction with jacana media in johannesburg they also published the australian short storywriter geoffrey deans seventh collection the literary lunchsome of kellas poems have been set to music and recorded by tasmanian composer and classical singer matthew dewey | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gary_Fila>,Gary Fila,gary fila born 18 november 1981 is australian rules football field umpire in the australian football league prior to joining the senior list he umpired in the south australian national football league and officiated in both the 2005 and 2006 sanfl grand finals he made his afl dbut on 30 june 2007 in a match between fremantle and carlton at subiaco ovalat the end of the 2008 afl season fila was delisted from the afl panel after 16 matches however he spent 2009 and 2010 working hard to improve in the sanfl in a bid to remake the afl his effort was rewarded when he umpired the 2010 sanfl grand final alongside richard williams 11th grand final and leigh haussen who was making his grand final debut he also won south australias most prestigious umpiring honour that year the golden whistle ranking him as the best field umpire in the statefila subsequently retrialed for the afl and was rewarded with a rookie spot whilst this was a step in the right direction it meant he had to have another successful year at sanfl level he did so umpiring his 4th sanfl grand final in 2011 alongside colin rowston 2nd and haussen 2nd at the start of 2012 fila was offered a senior spot on the afl list and had a successful return season umpiring 20 matches 1at the beginning of february 2014 gary fila was appointed as the new afl queensland state umpire manager in his new role fila will oversee the development of the states neafl and qafl umpires with the view to giving them the best possible chance of making the afl ranks as well as ensuring there is a clear pathway through community football to elite umpiringthe former sanfl umpire replaces cameron nash who has become the afl victoria umpires managerlast season fila volunteered his time assisting the sanfl umpiring department with recruitment campaigns liaising with schools to entice more young people to pick up the whistleoriginally planning to head back to the sanfl and strive towards umpiring his 200th sanfl game he opted to instead head down the coaching path in 2014fila will draw on his experiences mentoring and developing umpires in the sanfl as he takes on the role of coaching queenslands top flight officialsonly giving up umpiring at the end of last season mr fila has a strong understanding of the demands on high level umpires and will take an active role in training and drills throughout the yearafl queensland ceo michael conlan said he was delighted with the appointmentgary is a great addition to the umpiring department here in queensland he said given his extensive experience within a high performance environment with the sanfl and the afl he is fully aware of what it takes to get to the top and will be able to instil that into our neafl and qafl umpiring grouphis background in his nonumpiring portfolio in business development will be beneficial in leading our umpiring department | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roger_James_(footballer)>,Roger James (footballer),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Aled_de_Malmanche>,Aled de Malmanche,aled peter de malmanche born 11 september 1984 in palmerston north new zealand is a new zealand rugby union footballer he plays at hooker for stade franais in the top 14 he signed in 2011 from the chiefs in super rugby and waikato in the air new zealand cup he has also played for new zealand he can also play as a prop on both sides of the scrum he was also qualified to play for wales through his welsh grandparents but became ineligible after his all blacks debut however with ioc rules taking precedent for rugby following its inclusion in the 2016 olympics de malmanche will be eligible for wales selection for the 2015 rugby world cupde malmanche was educated at hamilton boys high school and also attended waikato institute of technology he played club rugby for hamilton old boys he progressed through agegrade ranks and impressed at provincial rugby level in 2006 for waikato winners of the inaugural 2006 air new zealand cup he made his debut for waikato in 2005 against north harbour in hamilton he played over 35 games for them and scored three tries his first super 14 game was against the brumbies in the 2007 super 14 season he was soon selected into the new zealand mori team playing for them in the 2007 churchill cup against canada his first game for the all blacks was against italy in the 2009 midyear rugby test seriesaled de malmanche is a distant cousin of another former all black jules le lievre in genealogy terminology they 3rd cousins twice removed aled jules are also descendants of the first french settlers to arrive at akaroa in 1840 aboard the vessel comte de paristhey trace their common ancestry to emeri de malmanche and his wife rose victoire jerzeau who arrived in new zealand with their then surviving family a daughter justine rose and a son pierrealed is descended from emeris roses son pierre de malmanche and his wife elizabeth marguerite margaret hamiltonalso aboard the compte de paris was an etienne francois le lievre who subsequently married emeris roses daughter justine rose de malmanche from whom jules le lievre is descended | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jane_Shepherdson>,Jane Shepherdson,jane elizabeth shepherdson cbe born 23 august 1961 in kingston upon hull yorkshire is an english businesswoman and is currently the chief executive of uk clothing brand whistles and was previously the brand director for highstreet womens wear store topshopshe grew up in bristol where her father was head of the mathematics department at the university and her mother was a biochemist she was educated at clifton high school where she began customising her clothes she studied business studies at the university of north london joining the burton group now the arcadia group after being inspired by her mothers story of a fashion buyer friendshepherdson started as a warehouse picker sending stock to stores and was then promoted to become a buyer in the jersey department she ordered a shipment of tank tops of which 500000 were sold in a week her initiatives at topshop have includedtopshop freshers week party with annual discount evenings and free alcohol to tempt teenagers to spend their student loanstopshop to go 100 select items are delivered by mercedes to hometopshop express a fleet of vespas deliver up to five items within three hours of the online ordershe is credited with being the leading british proponent of fast fashion in the mid noughties a trend demonstrated by topshops reaction to demand for boho chic in 20045a week after topshop owner philip green announced that supermodel kate moss had signed a deal to design clothes to be launched in 2007 shepherdson resigned from topshop since resigning from the brand she is now producing a fashion chain for oxfam aimed at ethically conscious shoppers she is receiving no pay for this work and has hit out at cheap cheap clothes possibly referring to kate mosss range that exploit workers in developing countriesas of january 2008 shepherdson bought a 20 per cent share in whistles and was appointed chief executiveshepherdson is married to a criminal defence lawyer and cycles from their flat in south london to work she lists her hobbies as running horse riding skiing and shoppingalready member of the order of the british empire mbe she was appointed commander of the order of the british empire cbe in the 2015 new year honours for services to uk retail business | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Seiko_Lee>,Seiko Lee,seiko lee born tokyo japan is a japanese soprano who began her musical studies at age four in tokyo as a member of the nhk childrens choir for ten years she traveled on several goodwill tours including a concert tour of eastern europe after marrying a south korean she became interested in korean music and has performed extensively in korea her second cd liberation is a collection of wellknown korean art songs the liberation cd was an important factor in her being invited to sing in north koreaas a professional she has performed in both the opera house and concert stage in europe south america asia and the united states she has recorded as soloist for sony rca victor and manhattan center records her concert tours have taken her to several of the worlds preeminent venues including new yorks lincoln center manhattan center and madison square garden japans makuhari messe and shin kogukikan stadium and seouls olympic stadium in 1992 where she performed for 120000 people as part of the first world cultural and sports festival she has performed for many world dignitaries including the japanese emperor and former heads of state including sir edward heath of britain kenneth kuanda of zambia rodrigo escobar navia of columbia and stanislav shushkevich of belarusshe is a graduate of the tokyo metropolitan art high school music major and the tokyo national university of fine arts tokyo geidai after graduating she came to the united states and has appeared in international opera productions including carmen macbeth la traviata suor angelica cos fan tutte and un destino immortale in addition she has performed with the japan opera studio in tokyo she made her us operatic debut in new york city with the la scaletta opera and she has also appeared with the connecticut opera and new yorks henry street opera in 1998 she presented a joint recital in asuncin paraguay with national icon gloria del paraguaysince 1996 she has been a frequent soloist with the new york city symphony and the nyc symphony chamber ensemble in 1996 she toured with the nyc symphony chamber ensemble in concerts in new york los angeles san francisco chicago connecticut and washington dc in 1998 and 1999 she appeared as a soloist at the lincoln center with new yorks historic goldman memorial band in 2002 she appeared with the new york city symphony chamber ensemble in the temple recital series in salt lake city utah in 2005 she was the featured soloist at the inaugural ceremony of the universal peace federation at lincoln centers alice tully hallshe appeared as a featured soloist in the three sopranos world peace concert in asuncin paraguay in 2007 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Zombie_Kids>,The Zombie Kids,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barbara_Kolb>,Barbara Kolb,barbara kolb b hartford connecticut february 10 1939 is an american composer her music uses sound masses and often creates vertical structures through simultaneous rhythmic or melodic units motifs or figures barbaras musical styling can be identified by her use of colorful textures impressionistic touch and atonal vocabulary with influences stemming from literary and visual arts she was the first american woman composer to win the rome prize she received her bm cum laude 1961 and mm degrees 1964 from the hartt college of music now the hartt school at the university of hartford and studied with arnold franchetti lukas foss and gunther schuller following her various degrees kolb relocated to vienna austria from 19661967 with a fullbright fellowship grant she was the first female american composer to win the rome prize prix de rome in 1969 from 1979 1982 kolb served as the artistic director of contemporary music at the third street music school settlement where she presented the music new to new york concert series additionally she has had a professional teaching career teaching at rhode island college and eastman school of music as a visiting professor in composition a selection of barbaras compositions were featured at the kennedy center performed by the theatre chamber players as part of the boston modern orchestra project however kolb was not only known as a composer but she was also proficient at the eb clarinether compositions include all in good time 1993 commissioned for the 150th anniversary of the new york philharmonic and voyants 1991 a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra dedicated to the memory of aaron copland voyants was most recently performed by kathleen supov with the rhode island college symphony orchestra under the direction of dr edward markward on october 16 2006 in providence ri discs devoted solely to the music of ms kolb have been released to the general public by cri and new world records her orchestral composition all in good time was recorded by the grant park symphony orchestra under the direction of carlos kalmar along with works by john corigliano aaron jay kernis john harbison and michael hersch on a cd released by cedille records in the summer of 2006 her music is published exclusively by boosey and hawkes | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tevian_Dray>,Tevian Dray,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Yevgeniy_Chazov>,Yevgeniy Chazov,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kevon_Glickman>,Kevon Glickman,kevon glickman born november 5 1960 is an american music producer and entertainment lawyer responsible for facilitating the careers of platinum artists the fugees lauryn hill wyclef jean cypress hill kris kross flo rida rick ross trina among many others glickman is currently principal at offit kurman attorneys at law and talent managerdigital mobile distributor for blingnot media llc1 among many other accolades glickman is noted for the highest selling hip hop album of all time fugees the scorepreviously glickman has represented rick ross whose first two albums entered 1 on billboards pop album chart trina whose fourth album recently entered 1 on billboards rb album chart and flo rida whose single low featuring tpain is the top single of 2008 spending 11 weeks at 1 on the pop singles chart and selling the largest amount of digital downloads in history during this time glickman also settled lawsuits against clive davisbmg on behalf of philadelphia grammy winners the delfonics as well as copyright suits against producers nate danjahands hill timbaland and warnerchappell4previously glickman was president and ceo of ruffnation records a joint venture with warner bros records that charted multiple albums and published songs on major labels and soundtracks including the academy awardwinning 8 mile soundtrack featuring eminem and bait starring jamie foxx before being sold to warner brothers4from 1994 to 1999 glickman was sr vice presidentgeneral counsel for ruffhouse records a joint venture with sony entertainment which sold over 100 million albums in the urban and dance genres notably ruffhouse was responsible for the highest selling rap album of all time the fugees the score which also garnered two grammy awards and lauryn hills the miseducation of lauryn hill which won five grammy awards ruffhouse also signed among others wyclef jean cypress hill nas and kris kross before being sold to sony entertainment 4prior to joining ruffhouse in 1994 glickmans private practice in new york city included among others representation of cutting edge artists dangelo a two time grammy award winner and funkmaster flex celebrity dj extraordinaire kevons first job in the industry in 1988 was that of staff attorney for metropolitan broadcasting corporationglickman also is a partner in wdst and theradio woodstock network in upstate new york which is the promoter of mountain jam an annual threeday june music festival at hunter mountain ny featuring the worlds most popular jam bands 4 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Leslie_R._Landrum>,Leslie R. Landrum,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Cotton_(Manitoba_politician)>,James Cotton (Manitoba politician),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Colleen_McGill>,Colleen McGill,colleen mcgill is a renowned canadian designer who has gained international recognition for her work she is a principal in the architectural and interior design firm mcgill design group inc based in toronto which has been involved in highend residential interior design projects around the world she is also a member of the leaders of design council ldc an exclusive membership body of the top architects and designers in the usin 2012 mcgill launched her own furniture line called plum furniture which features a collection of fine upholstered furniture along with case goods and accessoriescolleen mcgill is the only canadian to be included in designers house along with celebrity designers aerin lauder celerie kemble alexa hampton jeffrey alan marks from the show million dollar decorators and suzanne kasler a site which showcases the worlds elite designers work and their collectionsmost recently one of her designs was featured on the show hgtvs top 10 which highlights the top 10 rooms in north america and her work is regularly featured in canadian house and home magazine in canadian house and homes 20th anniversary issue mcgill was listed in their it list of designers whose work had graced their pages most often over the past decadein an october 2014 segment called inside design which has previously featured designers such as christian louboutin jonathan adler nate berkus and india hicks canadas style at home magazine interviewed colleen mcgill to recognize her growing design success internationallyin the 2010 spring edition of homefront magazine jeffrey fisher a contributor to the national post magazine conducted an interview with colleen titled sitting down with colleen mcgillmcgill was a featured designer in the book titled spectacular homes of toronto and toronto life magazine consistently recognizes her as one of the best in the business and consults her regularly to provide decorating advice to its readers | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/William_Dehning>,William Dehning,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jimmy_Dorrell>,Jimmy Dorrell,jimmy dorrell is executive director of mission waco in waco tx and pastor of church under the bridge dorrell is also a parttime professor at baylor university and has authored two bookshe grew up in conroe texato waco in 1968 to attend baylor university where he majored in religion and received a ba in 1972 he graduated from southwestern baptist theological seminary with an mdiv in 1978 and received his ma in environmental studies from baylor in 1993 in 2001 he received his doctor of ministry degree from eastern baptist theological seminary in philadelphiadorrell is pastor of church under the bridge and also teaches classes at baylor university and george w truett theological seminary in waco he has served on many boards including teen pregnancy prevention council parents as teachers compassion ministries of waco waco tribune herald board of contributors census 2000 special housing subcommittee chair and currently the christian community development association he has been honored through awards such as family of the year awardwaco conference of christians jews hometown hero award citizen of the yearnational association of social workers waco unit and baylor university alumnis abner v mccall humanitarian awardafter receiving his degree from seminary in 1978 he and his wife janet moved into the north waco neighborhood where they began their call to incarnational ministry to live among the poor and help bring good news through relationships and empowerment opportunities his passion for the poor and mobilizing the middleclass to become involved in the lives of the poor became the strategy for mission waco that continues today jimmy dorell and his wife janet dorell started mission waco and recently helped bnuild solar panels for haiti | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ant%C3%B3nio_Castanheira_Neves>,Ant%C3%B3nio Castanheira Neves,antnio castanheira neves born november 8 1929 in tbua is a portuguese legal philosopher and a professor emeritus at the law faculty of the university of coimbraaccording to castanheira neves law can only be understood through legal problems roughly legal cases which have to be solved within the legal system including a necessary connection to morality law he claims is not something given or previous but the solution to legal problems legal problems are the decisive starting point his opposition to positivism to natural law and to the several theories of legal syllogism would make him one of the first and most accomplished advocates of interpretivismcastanheira neves however has always claimed that law the task of lawyers is not essentially interpretive or hermeneutical but practical ie action guiding he maintains that legal interpretation is not a necessary feature of legal reasoning on the contrary law always arises from legal problems which are concrete historically situated normative and practical every legal decision aims to settle what someone legally ought to do in a particular case in a particular historical and social situation and that is its defining feature a legal decision is also itself an action interpretation is not always needed and when it is it is auxiliarythe central tenets of castanheira neves philosophy of law were made clear in his 1967 massive book on the philosophical and methodological distinction between matter of fact and matter of law castanheira neves addresses the similarities and significant differences between his and dworkins theses in the last part of his 2003 bookcastanheira neves also claims that there is no law in general norms rules principles etc as laid down by legislators but only in solving particular cases to this thesis he calls jurisprudentialismlaw is not an element but a synthesis not a premise for validity but fulfilled validity not a prius but a posterius not a given but a solution it is not in the beginning but in the end castanheira neves 1967 p 586in this he was preceded by authors like viehweg and schools of thought like critical legal studies but he differed from these authors as he claimed it to be essential to law as a normative matter and not only descriptively his position is therefore equivalent in this subject to j dancys later moral particularism castanheira neves would come to agree with gadamers dictum that all interpretation is application as dworkin did | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tofusquirrel>,Tofusquirrel,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Michael_Petrelis>,Michael Petrelis,michael anthony petrelis born january 26 1959 is an american aids activist lgbtq rights activist and blogger he was diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome aids in 1985 in new york city new york as a member of the lavender hill mob a forerunner to the aids coalition to unleash power act up he was among the first aids activists to protest responses to the disease he was a cofounding member of act up in new york city new york and later helped organize act up chapters in portland oregon washington dc and new hampshire as well as the act up presidential project petrelis was also a founding member of queer nationnational capital the washington dc chapter of the militant lgbtq rights organizationin 1990 he organized a nationwide boycott of products manufactured by philip morris companies inc now altria group inc including marlboro cigarettes and miller beer to protest the companys support for jesse helms a republican senator from north carolina whose rhetoric and policy positions petrelis said were harmful to lgbtq communities petrelis was among several activists who disclosed in 1989 that mark hatfield a republican senator from oregon who supported antigay legislation was secretly gay the first such political outing of an elected official by american activists over the next few years petrelis became an outspoken proponent of outing and one of its most prominent practitioners at a 1990 press conference on the steps of the us capitol he outed a dozen public figures although no news outlets published the names and he played a pivotal role in the 1991 outing of assistant secretary of defense for public affairs pete williams by writer michelangelo signorile in the advocate an american lgbtinterest magazinewhen terry m helvey and an accomplice murdered helveys shipmate us navy seaman allen r schindler jr in october 1992 because schindler was gay petrelis traveled twice to japan to press the navy for justice on schindlers behalf and to monitor the trial while raising awareness of the hate crime in the usafter relocating to san francisco california in 1995 petrelis successfully lobbied the citys department of public health sfdph to make the female condom available to gay men and advocated reopening the gay bathhouses there he also founded the aids accountability project a watchdog organization that obtained irs tax forms 990 from nonprofit aids service organizations then published the financial information disclosed therein online he currently lives with his partner of eighteen years mike merrigan and writes a blog called the petrelis files on april 5 2014 petrelis announced his candidacy for the san francisco board of supervisors running against incumbent scott wiener for the district 8 seat representing the castro noe valley diamond heights and glen park neighborhoods of san franciscoin january 1999 out magazine included petrelis in the out 100 recognizing him for creating the aids accountability project as one of the people who defined 1998in august 1999 the advocate named petrelis among its best and brightest activists citing the aids accountability project and other controversial causes | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ian_Mellor>,Ian Mellor,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Antonio_Meneses_Saillant>,Antonio Meneses Saillant,antonio meneses saillant born alfonso antonio meneses august 17 1963 is an american actor director screenwriter producer and green activist an alumnus of the new york institute of technology where he earned a degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering and then served as a top management executive for over 15 years in the energy field managing over 1 billion in both the private and public sector his specialties included energy conservation energy supply management energy infrastructure where he evaluated and implemented in many companies and projectsborn and raised in new york city saillant became both an energy engineer and a skilled actor as an actor saillant landed a supporting role as the italian henchman in the 2006 film entitled killa season film directed by rapper camronnow a filmmaker and innovator he has produced the fantasy thriller the ascension starring corbin bernsen and a romantic dark comedy entitled heterosexuals starring j robert spencer from broadways musical jersey boysted kotcheff director and executive producer to nbcs law order special victims unit closed the deal to have saillant direct his documentary the apprenticeship of ted kotcheff which explores kotcheffs life and times as a canadianhollywood director academy award winner richard dreyfuss will be narrating the documentary kotcheff was the helmer of the first rambo movie first blood starring sylvester stallone and weekend at bernies starring andrew mccarthy kotcheff has several films under his belt but he is best known for his longevity and success with nbcs law order special victims unit where saillant has been privileged in shadowing kotcheff for several seasonsprior to starting his production company angel light pictures entertainment group saillant served as an energy consultant to corporate giants such as con edison and pharmaceutical companies for many years saillant continues his work by connecting with the industrys most influential and talented people and later expanded his companies range of services to include consulting with leading american and international corporations in green productionson april 18 2012 addressing the students and staff of syracuse university entitled green economy followed by an overview of sustainable entertainment strategies as executed by saillantsaillant on june 2 2012 interviewed oscar winner kevin spacey is a maverick among actors in hollywood kevin spacey along with dana brunetti president of trigger street productions and benjamin leavitt writer and director and us winner of the jameson first shot for his short film the ventriloquist starring kevin spacey shared in what was an incredible premiere in new york city benjamin leavit was one of three winners out of 748 international entries whose script the ventriloquist was chosen to be produced by trigger street productions for the short film competition | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ventimiglia_Giovanni>,Ventimiglia Giovanni,giovanni ventimigliagiovanni ventimiglia is full professor of theoretical philosophy at the faculty of theology of lugano ftl switzerland and senior research fellow at kings college london he teaches ontology and philosophical anthropology at ftl where he is also director of the department of philosophy as well as of the institute for philosophical studies isfi which he founded in 2003 moreover he teaches themes and problems of philosophy at the catholic university in piacenza italy and psychology and religions within the online graduate degree programme of the rete institute lugano he is member of the editorial board of rivista teologica di lugano he runs a series of studies entitled thomistic metaphysics and analytical metaphysics published by carocci rome he is founder and chairman of the nonprofit organization profilo umano whose main purpose is to promote philosophy as a form of social service in prisons and drug rehabilitation centres etc professor ventimiglia belongs to the house of ventimiglia and is knight of honour and devotion of the sovereign military order of maltahe works on thomas aquinas thomism and their interface with the continental and analytical traditions of the philosophy analytical thomism his main interests are the classic ontology analogy and senses of being reception of platos nonwritten doctrines in the thought of thomas aquinas and in some medieval commentaries on aristotles metaphysics transcendentals transcendental multiplicity and divine trinity also in light of its relevance in contemporary debates related to analytic ontology furthermore he has been focusing on the ontology of material digital objects and the socalled cyberspace he has also developed and carried out some analysis with regard to borderline subject matters concerning philosophy and psychoanalysis ie divine trinity and jungian psychology the issue of the male identity within the contemporary mens movements and studies and in relation to cyberfeminism philosophy and cinemahe has cooperated in competitive research such as ethicbots in the field of roboethicshis bibliography includes tommaso daquino la scuola brescia 2014 transl into portuguese so paulo 2014 forthcoming transl into spanish bogot 2014 forthcoming transl into french submitted transl into english submitted existence o esse la questione dellessere nel tomismo continentale carocci roma 2014 forthcoming lente lessenza e lesistenza prime nozioni di ontologia in prospettiva analiticotomistica eupressftl lugano 2012 distinctio realis ontologie aristotelicotomistiche nella prima met del novecento eupressftl lugano 2012 to be o esse la questione dellessere nel tomismo analitico carocci roma 2012 doubleblind peerreviewed se dio sia uno essere trinit inconscio preface by p coda editrice ets pisa 2002 differenza e contraddizione il problema dellessere in tommaso daquino preface by a bausola vita e pensiero milano 1997 la critica tomistica allargomento ontologico per una impostazione del problema isupubblicazioni delluniversit cattolica milano 1987 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Antonello_Bonci>,Antonello Bonci,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Adrian_Brooks>,Adrian Brooks,adrian brooks born 2 october 1957 in derby england is a retired englishamerican soccer midfielder who spent two seasons in the north american soccer league and at least one in the major indoor soccer league he was a 1977 and 1978 first team all american coached at the collegiate level and is a sales representative for adidasbrooks attended philadelphia textile playing on the mens soccer team from 1975 to 1978 he was a 1976 second team and 1977 and 1978 first team all american and graduated with a bachelors degree in business management in 1978 in 1979 the atlanta chiefs selected brooks in the first round of the north american soccer league draft he played 29 games in 1979 but only one in 1980 in 1980 he moved to the denver avalanche of major indoor soccer league where he was named the 19801981 all star game mvp in 1982 he moved to the baltimore blast playing two seasons with the blast in 1984 brooks and his team mates won the misl championshiphe left professional soccer after the championship series he moved to atlanta where he played for the soccer city amateur club for several years he then moved to atlanta datagraphic for several years in september 1989 brooks signed with the expansion atlanta attack of the american indoor soccer association he also served as an assistant coach to head coach keith tozer in march 1990 brooks led the team while tozer served a game ban after being ejected from a gamein 1987 kennesaw state university hired brooks as the schools head soccer coach he took the team to a78 record but the school dropped the soccer program two months later in 1992 he coached clayton state university to an 1151 recordhis brother john played professionally in the united states | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ed_Rubbert>,Ed Rubbert,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gerard_Toal>,Gerard Toal,gerard toal irish gearid tuathail born 1962 in the republic of ireland is professor of government and international affairs and director of the government and international affairs program virginia polytechnic institute and state university national capital region campus toal grew up in the border region of ireland in the village of smithborough county monaghan he received a ba in history and geography from national university of ireland maynooth with first class honours in 1982 he obtained a ma in geography from the university of illinois at urbanachampaign in 1984 and a phd in political geography from syracuse university in 1989 john oloughlin in illinois and john a agnew in syracuse were his academic advisors following his ph d toal was hired in 1989 as assistant professor of geography at virginia tech in blacksburg where he worked for ten years before moving to the washington dc region to establish what became the government and international affairs program in the school of public and international affairstoals research specializations include critical geopolitics nationalism political geography postcommunism and globalization he conducts research in washington dc bosniaherzegovina and on the caucasus region tuathail has been a key figure in establishing critical geopolitics as a domain of research within political geography and international relations he is one of the contemporary geographers featured in the book key thinkers in space and place he had authored coauthored andor edited seven books his current book is bosnia remade ethnic cleansing and its reversal coauthored with dr carl dahlman professor of geography at miami university in ohio it examines how wartime ethnic cleaning and a postwar displaced person returns process transformed the character of three towns in bosnia professor toal is an associate editor for the academic journals geopolitics and eurasian geography and economics and serves on the editorial board of political geography and nationalities papers toal has held fellowships at the copenhagen peace research institute and the center for international studies at the university of southern california in 2005 he testified before the united states congress on political developments in bosniaherzegovina he lives in washington dc with his wife and two daughters | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arturo_J._Marcano_Guevara>,Arturo J. Marcano Guevara,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cam_Cairncross>,Cam Cairncross,cameron cairncross born 11 may 1972 is a former lefthanded pitcher in major league baseball who debuted for the cleveland indians on 20 july 2000 and pitched his final game on 1 october of that same seasoncairncross was born in cairns queensland australia and attended cairns state high school he signed with the san diego padres as an amateur free agent in 1990 and began his professional career a year later with the charleston rainbows for the season he had an 85 winloss record and a 356 earned run average era in 24 games the following season cairncross pitched for the waterloo diamonds and had an 88 record a 361 era and 138 strikeouts in 24 games in 1993 he was promoted to the rancho cucamonga quakes and in 29 games for them he had a 1011 record and a 512 eracairncross started the 1994 season with the quakes then was promoted to the wichita wranglers and the aaa las vegas stars after the season concluded he had to have tommy john surgery on his shoulder and missed both the 1995 and 1996 seasons as a result cairncross then rejoined the quakes in 1997 and pitched in 60 games going 13 with a 562 era the padres released him after the season ended after spending 1998 with the brisbane bandits of the australian baseball league he was picked up by the cleveland indians and spent 1999 with the kinston indians and buffalo bisons he then spent 2000 on the akron aeros and with buffalo and was planned to be named to the australian national baseball team for the 2000 olympics but was instead promoted to the major league rosterhe made his major league debut on 20 july and his lone major league win came on 3 september 2000 against the baltimore orioles cairncross got the last two outs in the top of the 13th of an 1111 game then kenny lofton hit a walk off home run in the bottom of the 13th for a 1211 victory for the season he appeared in 15 games all in relief and had a record of 10 with 2 games finished 8 strikeouts and an earned run average era of 386 in 91 innings pitched in 2001 cairncross had shoulder surgery and ended up missing the entire season he was released after the 2001 season ending his professional baseball career | |
| "<http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Taylor_(cricketer,_born_1937)>","John Taylor (cricketer, born 1937)",john taylor born 9 june 1937 was an english cricketer he was a righthanded batsman and wicketkeeper who played for essex and marylebone cricket club he was born in west hamtaylors first representative cricket match came in a royal air force xi against yorkshire during the 1957 season while he played his debut second xi championship match against middlesex second xi in 1959 a regular in the second xi side during his first season his debut firstclass match came during 1960 in a match against oxford university his debut in the county championship came just two months later in a defeat to derbyshire he played four further county championship matches during the season as the team finished in sixth place in the county championshiptaylor featured occasionally during the following season achieving both of his career halfcenturies including a careerhigh 86 against somerset taylors final county championship appearance came towards the end of july 1961 in a match in which he finished the second innings with a duck essex finished seventh in the table a slight decline on the previous years performance but taylor was out of the team from then ontaylor made one further firstclass appearance just a day after his thirtieth birthday playing for marylebone cricket club against cambridge university a full six years after his final county championship appearance | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Doug_Heveron>,Doug Heveron,doug heveron born march 29 1961 is an american race car driver from liverpool new york he has driven supermodifieds modifieds indy cars nascar winston cup cars nascar busch grand national cars sprint cars late models and midgetsdoug heveron is the son of gail and tom heveron tom was an oswego speedway hall of famer in 1969 heveron began racing at the syracuse geddes microd track at the new york state fairgrounds when he was 8 years old when he was 13 years old heveron started racing quarter midgets when he was in high school at liverpool high school he spent time helping regionally known racer jim shampine at shampine auto partshe entered the supermodified ranks in 1978 in one of shampines cars known as 8 ball heveron used the car to become the youngest winner at oswego speedway in the alean 75 lapper he won the international supermodified association isma rookie of the year award that year heveron became the dominant driver at oswego he won 13 races in 1981 the oswego international classic in 1981 and 1982 and track championships both years heveron was the champion of the isma tour series from 1978 until 1981in 1983 he drove in the cart championship car race at atlanta motor speedway and finished 12th then prepared to qualify for the 1983 indianapolis 500 he spun the car into a wall and shattered his ankle between 1983 and 1986 he raced in nascars winston cup series he qualified in the only field in talladega superspeedway history in which every car qualified with a speed in excess of 200 miles per hour he raced in 31 races with no top 10 finishes heveron is best known for flipping over in turn one at the 1984 firecracker 400 which brought out the final caution to set up an exciting finish with richard petty and cale yarborough petty beat cale en route of his 200th win his best year was 1986 when he finished 35th in pointsafter his nascar team ran out of money he returned to modified racing in 1989 he set a new track record starting on the pole position as a rookie in the little 500 the usac sprint car championship he returned to racing in oswego in may 1989from 1994 until 1997 heveron returned to the nascar this time racing in the busch series he found more success in nascars secondtier circuit with five top 10 and three top 5 finishes in 65 starts his best result was a second place finish at nazareth speedway in 1995from 2000 until 2002 heveron raced in the tbara winged sprint asphalt racing series he then starting racing for heckman motorsports living in jensen beach florida | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Steven_Marrs>,Steven Marrs,steven marrs born march 11 1967 in landstuhl germany is the founder president and managing partner of outeast entertainment an independent multimedia entertainment studio where ideas are brought to life by connecting creative talent content creators and distributors to create compelling programming for broadcasters and distributors globally outeast entertainment was launched in november 2013 with its first scripttoseries drama project with the cw network titled the cover and recently announced a development deal with marble media for the scripted drama series titled ashley madison the company announced its first foray into the unscripted television business with the acquisition of the dutch format fish tales outeast is based in los angeles with a satellite office in new yorkprior to outeast marrs was the founder and president of momentum entertainment group part of the momentum worldwide group of companies owned by interpublic group nyseipg meg was created to develop distribute and produce programming for broadcast and digital platforms with an emphasis on dramas comedies reality and broadcast event television under marrs leadership meg successfully launched scripted reality and special series and programs including rogue full circle croc files how sweet the sound the award winning pge energy house calls digital series and elite model look in february 2013 marrs parted ways with momentum to launch new ventureprevious to meg steven was the founder and owner of branded pictures formerly brand entertainment studios an independent cross platform production and distribution company that was folded into meg at its inception he is the executive producer of such shows as nbcs world music awards cws sean combs presents americas party and cbs christmas from central park as well as several cable live event and internet shows including comedy hall of fame on abc got game on spike and anatomy of an awkward situationformerly marrs was the cofounder president coo of tribal ddb a worldwide internet services company which is part of the omnicom group nyseomc where he was one of the companys youngest division heads prior to tribal ddb he was a partner is one of the first internet advertising agency and entertainment companies blue marble acgraised in new orleans louisiana marrs is a 1991 graduate of the university of florida where he majored in advertising he is the son of cynthia h marrs a noted new orleans entrepreneur | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Axel_Ockenfels>,Axel Ockenfels,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mike_P%C3%A9rez_(baseball)>,Mike P%C3%A9rez (baseball),michael irvin prez ortega born october 19 1964 is a former american professional baseball player who was a pitcher in the major leagues for eight seasons in the 1990s perez played college baseball for the university of florida and troy state university and thereafter he played professionally for the st louis cardinals chicago cubs and kansas city royalsperez was born in yauco puerto ricoperez received an athletic scholarship to attend the university of florida where he played for coach joe arnolds florida gators baseball team in 1985 he also attended troy university in troy alabama and played for the troy trojans baseball team perez was selected by the st louis cardinals in the twelfth round of the 1986 mlb draftperez made his lateseason major league debut for the st louis cardinals on september 5 1990 and played for the cardinals for five seasons from 1990 to 1994 he also played for the chicago cubs from 1995 to 1996 and the kansas city royals in 1997 perez appeared in 313 games as a relief pitcher finished 100 of them and posted twentytwo saves he retired after the 1997 season and finished his major league career with a winloss record of 2416 224 strikeouts and an earned run average era of 356 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mario_Michel>,Mario Michel,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Terrell_Stone>,Terrell Stone,terrell stone is an american lutenist and recording artist he is a longtime resident of italy where he holds the position of a professor of lutehe began his musical studies in the united states dedicating himself to the study of the lute since 1974 beginning in 1978 he studied at the schola cantorum basiliensis in basel switzerland under eugene dombois and hopkinson smith and in paris france under frank eylerhe completed his lute studies at the italian state conservatory f e dallabaco in verona under the guidance of orlando cristoforettifor many years he has performed as a soloist and has participated in important music festivals in north and south america europe and the middle east he is also very active as a chamber musician performing basso continuo on the archlute and theorbostone has recorded for television radio and recording companies and has over thirty recordings to his credit his solo recordings include a compact disc of the solo music of johann paul schiffelholz misattributed to giuseppe antonio brescianello for gallichon a threecd box set containing partitas composed by silvius leopold weiss for baroque lute from the warsaw manuscript and a cd containing music of 16th century paduan lute composers recorded in the famous anatomical theater of the universit degli studi di padova university of paduaduring his over 25 years of residency in italy stone has taught lute at the conservatory santa cecilia in rome at the conservatory n piccini in bari and is professor of lute and president of the early music department at the conservatory a pedrollo in vicenzain addition to his performing recording and teaching activities stone has edited several modern editions of music for lute and hasconducted research and has written scholarly articles concerning silvius leopold weiss he has given seminars and master classes in the united states germany italy denmark and mexico and participated in the development of the macos9 computer program tastar de corde used for writing lute tablature and transcribing it to modern notation | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_P._Liautaud>,James P. Liautaud,jim liautaud is the creator of pdt process designed training proven to increase emotional intelligence by using sequential iso international organization for standardization training processes rather than teachers findings from his research have been published in the journal of management development often headlined in the emotional intelligence consortiums web page and featured in the best seller extraordinary leadership he created pei a less rigorous program than pdt as a process directed emotional intelligence graduate credit course for the university of illinois at chicago and depaul university the liautaud institute was funded to expand the behavior research developed at the university adaptable to his iso processes to make them readily assessable to the general public his processes teach the how of emotional intelligence changing behavior by following his processesprior to his academic career liautaud was awarded 65 patents from the four industrial companies he founded and one of the early pioneers of iso processes used in manufacturing the first air bag sensors he later became the founding investor in four startups including jimmy johns a national food franchise two insurance companies raffles and national interstate and blue rhino a gas distribution company the latter two are now public companies close to retirement he founded two organizations serving ceos ypos windycity chapter and the chicago family business council he then sold all his business interests prior and joined uic in 1999 serving his current position as a behavior researcher | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robbie_Buck>,Robbie Buck,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Salvatore_Russo>,Salvatore Russo,salvatore russo born in nola june 27 1958 is an italian camorrista and boss of the russo clan from nola which he cofounded he has been running the clan together with his brother pasquale for over thirty years he has been on the most wanted list of the italian ministry of the interior since 1995 for camorra association murder concealment of corpse and other crimes on april 15 1994 an international warrant was issued against him to be arrested for extraditionthe criminal career of the russo brothers started in the 1970s and they had close ties to mario fabbrocino and michele zaza later they were in the top of the clan of carmine alfieriin march 2008 assets worth 300 million euros belonging to the russo clan were seized by the italian state including real estate two supermarkets luxury cars and swiss bank accounts police said the russo clan had total control over illegal activity in about 40 towns in the naples regionsalvatore russo was arrested on october 31 2009 in somma vesuviana close to his native area nola he had set up a small hideout at a chicken and rabbit farm the arrest was made just after 700 am at the farm after russo returned from hunting his brother pasquale was arrested a day later on november 1 2009 in sperone avellino together with their younger brother carmine russo a fugitive since 2007 and on the list of 100 most wanted fugitives with the arrest of the top leadership the clan has been dealt another severe blow he is now serving a life sentence | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Masahiko_Kimura_(bonsai_artist)>,Masahiko Kimura (bonsai artist),masahiko kimura kimura masahiko 1940 was born in miyaku saitama japan on march 31 1940 and is a widely recognized bonsai master he is not related to the judo practitioner also named masahiko kimurahis father died when masahiko was 11 by the wishes of his mother at age 15 he started spending his time as an apprentice under the bonsai master motosuke hamano of tojuen bonsai garden this was for eleven years until about 1966 kimura would later say that during his teens he really wanted to be a rock and roll musician after this he took to working in the horticulture field on his own he went on to become known as the magical technician of kindai shuppan kimura has said that he personally doesnt really care for the title of magician his breathtaking sculpting and styling of trees on behalf of that kyoto bonsai magazine publisher was done using hand and power tools of his own design his skill with carving deadwood quickly made him well known in the bonsai community while his work was at first highly controversial his energy and vision soon became as respected as his art a characteristic of his trees is a defined interplay of artistically sculptured deadwood with a smaller amount of more traditionally appearing live wood snaking up from the soil to foliage apex many of his trees have a more elaborate starkness than is ordinarily found in the wild innovatively creative without historic modelbecause of kimuras willingness to break with convention many in japan refused to take him seriously at least in the early years nowadays no one disputes kimuras genius or his pioneering position in the bonsai world the sometimes controversial author and videotape producer has traveled in many countries doing presentations and demonstrations he first demonstrated and conducted a workshop outside of japan at the 1987 golden state federation bonsai convention in anaheim california kimura has demonstrated at these other major conventions among others golden state bonsai federation 1990 burlingame and 2006 sacramento world bonsai friendship federation 1989 omiya japan and 1997 seoul korea european bonsai association 1990 turin italy and 1992 luxembourg bonsai clubs international 1992 memphis tennessee 1996 washington dc and 2006 foshan city china american bonsai society symposium 2000 detroit michigan asiapacific bonsai and suiseki exhibition and convention 2003 manila philippines and 2011 takamatsu japan federatin latino americana de bonsai 2003 caracas venezuela and association of australian clubs 2005 sydneyhis work as documented in the form of articles and photographs has graced the pages of many major specialty publications around the world trees designed by him mostly juniperus chinensis var shimpaku won the prestigious prime ministers award for the years 1988 1995 2000 and 2001 and the minister of education award in 1999 he has had a number of students and apprentices from japan europe and america several of which have gone on to become masters in their own right these include marco invernizzi salvatore liporace ernie kuo marc noelanders kawabe takeo and ryan neilkatsuhito onishi edited the japanese texts the magical technician of kindai shuppan in 1982 part ii in 1984 and part iii in 1989 the english version made up of part ii with some of part i was published as the bonsai art of kimura by stone lantern publishing co in 1992 the magician the bonsai art of kimura 2 was released in 2007 by stone lantern a spanish translation masahiko kimura el tcnico mgico del bonsai actual was published in 1988 by ediciones tyris sa | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jeremy_Beck>,Jeremy Beck,jeremy beck is an american composer who knows the importance of embracing the past while also going his own way the critic mark sebastian jordan has said that beck was committed to tonality and a recognizable musical vernacular long before that became the hip bandwagon it is today indeed he is an original voice celebrating musicbecks most recent opera review with a libretto by patricia marx was one of three finalists in the 2010 national opera associations new chamber opera competition it was performed by oberlin opera theater in february 2014 and twice by peabody opera in october 2011 in baltimore and in richmond virginia at the college music societys annual convention review was previously included in the 2009 opera america and houston grand opera new works sampler following that successful showcase review was then produced by the moores opera center at the university of houston and later was given its new york premiere by the center for contemporary operabeck has released five cds of his music on the innova label the critic donald rosenberg describes the music on becks most recent cd string quartets 2013 as forceful and expressive concise in structure and generous in tonal language savouring both the dramatic and the poetic while joshua kosman of the san francisco chronicle states becks music is appealing and skillfully crafted with lush tonal harmonies kosman further observes that novelty isnt the only thing music can provide and the moody expressiveness of becks writing is its own rewardbecks 2011 cd ionsound project features the ensembleinresidence at the university of pittsburgh his music on this recording has been described as uplifting buoyant and emotional and sensitive to both the performer and the listener in addition critic andrew sigler finds becks music rhythmically intricate and makes nods to the past while sitting squarely in the present though architecturally rigorous beck writes clearly and without pretensebecks third innova cd never final never gone 2008 features a variety of chamber and vocal music his second cd pause and feel and hark released in may 2006 includes black water a monodrama based on the novel by joyce carol oates black water received its australian premiere at the 2012 adelaide fringe festival in 2004 wave a slovak radio symphony orchestra cd devoted to becks music was releasedbecks opera the biddle boys and mrs soffel was named by the pittsburgh postgazette as one of the top ten cultural events in pittsburgh for the year 2001beck has earned awards grants and honors from the american composers orchestra california arts council the los angeles chapter of the american composers forum kentucky arts council millay colony for the arts wellesley composers conference oregon bach festival and the iowa arts councilhe holds degrees from the yale school of music duke university and the mannes college of music where his principal teachers included jacob druckman martin bresnick stephen jaffe and david loebbeck currently resides in louisville kentucky where he is a practicing attorney he blends his music background into his law practice with an emphasis on copyright and contracts | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Laura_Manuelidis>,Laura Manuelidis,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pavlo_Khazan>,Pavlo Khazan,pavlo khazan is a ukrainian public and political figure sustainable development and energy campaigner of zelenyi svit friends of the earth ukraine he was born on november 17 1974 in dnipropetrovsk he graduated from the dnipropetrovsk state university department of radiophysicssince 1991 pavlo khazan was involved in the green movement as a member of the zelenyi svit friends of the earth ukraine in 1993 pavlo khazan founded the first in the dnipropetrovsk region and one of the first in ukraine independent youth environmental organization youth environmental league of the prydniprovya melp which subsequently became a member of the international organization youth and environment europesince 1996 pavlo khazan was the head of international programs and projects on environmental management information technology development industrial pollution and the new energy saving technologies biosafety international and national environmental law trade and sustainable development alternative energy and protect human rights development of the youth movement ordering and inventory of hazardous areas since 2000 he was conducting environmental audits of industrial enterprisespavlo khazan was the member of the national council and chairman of the youth commission of zelenyi svit friends of the earth ukraine 19992005 pavlo joined the green party of ukraine in 1998 1998 and 2002 he was one of the leaders and organizers of the campaign of the green party of ukraine in dnipropetrovsk region in 2002 he ran to the verkhovna rada ukrainy ukrainian parliament member of the working group of the verkhovna rada ukrainy on biosafety 20012002 in 2010 ran for city mayor of dnipropetrovsk vicechairman of the green party of ukraine 20092010 the representative of the green party of ukraine in the european green party 20102012 pavlo khazan is the author of scientific and popular publications in the field of sustainable development environment and green technologies the author of music for guitar and piano songs and ballads coauthor of the international music cd source freiburg 1995 coauthor of the film when the bells strike dnipropetrovsk 1999 devoted to problems of ecological disaster in the ukraine the author of poetry collection cmoll 2010 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bernie_Hayes>,Bernie Hayes,bernie hayes is an australian singersongwriter who has released two albums as a solo artist and written songs for other australian artists notably you made me hard which was the third single from the the whitlams love this city albumhayes was born and raised in canberra and was a member of a musical family including brothers pat hayes of stella one eleven and formerly of the falling joys justin hayes of whopping big naughty and the late anthony hayes aka stevie plunder of the whitlams and the plunderers fame he began playing around the wine bars of canberra at age 15 and among his first bands was secret seven hayes later relocated to sydney along with a number of other canberra musicians including his brothershe first came to public prominence when he joined club hoy in 1990 he played on that bands thursdays fortune album released in 1991 which enjoyed a positive critical response and minor chart success grant mclennan of the gobetweens produced the bands first single da da da dagreen and blue club hoy later played on of mclennans solo albums 1 after the breakup of club hoy hayes and julia richardson of club hoy formed a new group called the troublemakers however the troublemakers failed to enjoy much success 2hayes is perhaps best known among fans however as a member of the shout brothers aka the shouties with brothers anthony and pat and drummer pete velzen the band held a sunday afternoon residency at the sandringham hotel in newtown sydney through the 1980s until 1996 playing a mix of covers and original songs they released two albums colossus and indeliblein 1996 hayes younger brother anthony of the whitlams committed suicide bernie hayes played guitar on the whitlams eternal nightcap released later in 1997 3hayes released his first solo album every tuesday sometimes sunday in late 1999 the album was acousticbased and included material that he had written since the beginning of his musical career 4 the album featured several singles in mission in life matchbox cars and marbles and your boyfriends back in town with mission in life receiving airplay on triple j 5 the whitlams recorded a track from the album you made me hard on their 1999 love this city album it was released as the third single from the album in 2001 with hayes present in the studio for the recording of the single 6after the release of his solo album hayes put together a band the bernie hayes quartet featuring john encarnacao bill gibson and jess ciampa he played with his band and solo on the abc television program love is a four letter word in 2001 he released his second album domestic departures in 2003 with the band genevieve maynard and peter odoherty of mental as anything produced the album while nic dalton formerly of the lemonheads produced the first single your green light 7more recently hayes has worked with bow campbell of front end loader and brendan gallagher of karma county as the dead marineshe is currently working on a third album with the bernie hayes quartet and playing a regular wednesday night residency gig at the rose of australia hotel in erskineville sydney | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Emmanuel_Pierre-Antoine>,Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine,emmanuel pierreantoine b in haiti is a professional ballroom dancer based in new york he currently competes in the american rhythm division with liana churilova and is ranked 2nd in the united statesa student of ballet jazz modern dance haitian folklore and ballroom dance his passion for partner dancing led him to found caminito a top school of internationalstyle ballroom dance in his native haiti he came to be honored as an official dance representative of haiti when competing abroadantoine closed caminito in 2003 and moved to new york to further his dance career in 2004 he partnered with fellow haitian alexandra gregoire in american rhythm and the two took 4th place in the world mambo championships that year between 2005 and 2006 the pair also won the empire state ballroom challenge and las vegas holiday classicafter gregoire moved to florida to be with family antoine paired with fellow stepping out studios instructor joanna zacharewicz they won the world mambo championships in 2005 and got 2nd place in the 2006 us national dancesport champions professional rhythm in 2006 their success also garnered them appearances on pbs americas ballroom challenge and abcs dancing with the starsin 2007 zacharewicz and antoine ended their partnership and antoine paired with american rhythm champion julia powers whose husband and longtime partner bob powers had been forced to retire from competition due to an injury the pair placed 3rd in the us national dancesport champions professional rhythm and 2nd in the national showdance championships in american rhythmhis twoyearold son ishaan was killed in the 2010 haiti earthquake | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Usama_Alshaibi>,Usama Alshaibi,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Scott_Dibble>,Scott Dibble,scott dibble is a socan award winning canadian singersongwriter recording artist and producer the son of high school teachers he was raised in toronto and began taking his bands to perform in local clubs during his teens he was signed by wea records in 1989 that led to the release of his first record under the name watertown produced by terry brown no singing at the dinner table saw the release of two singles paper walls and if we turn out the lights the second single charted as high as 5th spot on the ac chartsin the early days sharing the stage with the barenaked ladies he cowrote new kid on the block from bnls first record gordon this led to ed and steve guesting on scotts second record one phoebe street that record featured toronto musicians colin linden jonathan goldsmith gordy johnsonbig sugar and gary craig radio releases include run to you featuring the backing vocals of ed steve from bnl and thats what love is forafter the second record scott obtained a release from his commitment with wea this provided the opportunity for scott and mark sterling to join david martin as partners in the revamped group hemingway corner their 1995 record under the big sky produced a number 1 single big sky and the multiformat crossover top 10 single watch over you which won the 1997 socan award a third top ten single was the cover of neil youngs song tell me why which also appeared on the 1994 neil young tribute record borrowed tunesthrough the late 1990s and 2000s scott continued to write record and tour he also began to shift some of his focus to producing and writing for other artists this led scott to open his hidden sound studio in 2007 in 2011 he coproduced cowrote recorded and performed on hemingway corners third release speed of life and coproduced and recorded jon brooks record delicate cages as well as arlene bishops record 24 is 12 twice or 24 for shortin 2012 scott embarked on building his second studio and completed it in 2013 currently he is working on his solo record followed by a tour in 2015 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Joe_B._Mauldin>,Joe B. Mauldin,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_J_Smith>,Stephen J Smith,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gulzar_Banu>,Gulzar Banu,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_M._Becker>,David M. Becker,david m becker now a partner at cleary gottlieb was twice general counsel and senior policy director of the united states securities and exchange commission secbecker graduated from columbia college 1968 and columbia university law school 1973 where he was editorinchief of the columbia law review he then was a law clerk for judge harold leventhal of the us court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit and a year later for justice stanley reed of the us supreme courthe served from january 2000 to may 2002 after joining the sec staff as deputy general counsel in 1998 and again beginning in 2009 he left the second time in 2011sec inspector general h david kotz in performing a madoffrelated investigation that after the scheme was uncovered made a finding that becker recommended how the victims would be compensated despite the fact that beckers family had a 2 million inheritance in madoff account kotz referred the matter to the us justice departments criminal division becker indicated that he had notified seven senior sec officials about the account including the chairman and the secs ethics officer and none suggested that he recuse himself becker said i have seen inspector general kotz do this before make a big fuss about sending reports to the justice department nothing has happened in any of them and some of them from my time at the sec were laughable the justice department declined to pursue the matteron september 22 2011 becker testified before the oversight and investigations subcommittee of the house committee on financial services and the tarp financial services and bailouts of public and private programs subcommittee of the house committee on oversight and government reform about his role in advising the sec related to the bankruptcy of bernard l madoff investment securitieshe is now a partner at cleary gottlieb | |
| "<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mick_O\'Brien_(footballer,_born_1979)>","Mick O\'Brien (footballer, born 1979)",michael george mick obrien born 25 september 1979 in liverpool is an english former professional footballer he represented england as a schoolboyobrien a leftsided midfielder began his career as a trainee with everton turning professional in october 1997 at everton he had captained the fa youth cup winning side in 1998 but his progress was hampered by injury and he was released at the end of the 199899 seasonhe joined torquay united in august 1999 and later that month on the opening day of the season scored on his league debut against shrewsbury town at gay meadow after a first season in and out of the starting lineup but with some notable moments including as a goal from a 30yard free kick at loftus road in the fa cup third round tie against queens park rangers in december 1999 obrien fell out of favour with manager wes saunders he was loaned to conference side southport in january 2001 returning in march with torquay struggling at the foot of the football league with saunders sacked obrien returned to the first team squad under new manager colin lee playing four times as a substitute before the end of the season the last of these games on the final day of the season saw obrien come on early in the first half for jason rees as torquay won 32 away to barnet to avoid relegation and send barnet down insteadlee left at the end of the season and was replaced by roy mcfarland obrien was one of a number of players on shortterm contracts giving mcfarland a chance to assess the squad he appeared as a late substitute for tony bedeau on 11 august 2001 as torquay lost 10 away to bristol rovers but was released at the end of that monthhe joined droylsden in september 2001 moving to chester city the following month and appearing in their conference side he was released by chester at the of the 200203 season having not played in their first team that seasonhe returned to droylsden in august 2003 playing seven times up to early octoberhe returned to the droylden side in october 2005 playing his final game for them that season on 12 december as droylsden lost at home to workingtonhe also became kit man to the everton youth team also taking some of the coaching and by april 2008 was one of evertons academy coaches | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/William_Kipsang>,William Kipsang,william rop kipsang born 26 june 1977 is a kenyan longdistance runner who specialises in the marathon he has won marathons in amsterdam rotterdam beirut and seoul his personal best for the event is 20549 hourshis best performance was on 13 april 2008 winning the rotterdam marathon with a new course record and pr of 20549 on 15 april 2007 he was placed third in this race running in difficult circumstances due to the warm weather he has previously won the amsterdam marathon 2003 the egmond half marathon 2004 and the dam tot damloop 10 mile race 2005in 2006 he earned seventh place in the new york city marathon kipsang did not compete in the marathon for two years between 2008 and 2010 and his comeback at the seoul international marathon was a slow 22411 run for 33rd place a time only two seconds quicker than the womens winner that year he struggled to return to his previous form but did manage to improve upon his seoul outing the following year taking sixth at the rock n roll san diego marathon in 21506 he ran two marathons in 2012 a return to san diego saw him fare worse than the previous year managing only ninth in 21643 but his run of 21453 hours for third at the beirut marathon was his best time and placing in a marathon since 2008at the 2013 milan city marathon he came sixth in 21624 but a run of 21334 at the beirut marathon saw him take his first victory at a race in over five years | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tony_Mordente>,Tony Mordente,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_Pastr%C5%88%C3%A1k>,David Pastr%C5%88%C3%A1k,david pastrk czech pronunciation davt pastrak born may 25 1996 is a czech professional ice hockey player he is currently playing with the boston bruins in the national hockey league he was selected by the boston bruins in the first round 25th overall of the 2014 nhl entry draft his father wanted him to play hockey following a lengthy battle with cancer his father died david accounts this as the reason why he began practicing and training so hard to make it as a hockey player for his fatherduring the 201112 season pastrk led the czech u18 league with the most goals 41 and most points 68 it was announced the on july 15 2014 the bruins have signed him to a threeyear entrylevel contractpastrk attended bruins training camp for the 201415 season before being assigned to the providence bruins the teams ahl affiliate on october 7 2014pastrk made his nhl debut with the boston bruins on november 24 2014 logging 753 of icetime in a 32 overtime loss to the pittsburgh penguinspastrk scored the first and second goals of his nhl career against ray emery on january 10 2015 as the initial pair of goals resulting in a 31 bruins matinee road win over the philadelphia flyers | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Andreas_Alm>,Andreas Alm,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Rosalind_Harris>,Rosalind Harris,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Renny_Pritikin>,Renny Pritikin,renny pritikin was the director of the richard l nelson gallery and the fine arts collection at the university of california davis until 2012 on 20140428 he begins his job as chief curator of san franciscos contemporary jewish museumpritikin was named chief curator for all artistic programs filmvideovisual art performing arts education of the yerba buena center for the arts in san francisco in january 1997 after serving as director of the visual arts program since 1992 from 1979 to 1992 he served as executive director of new langton arts in san francisco an alternative space internationally renowned for its presentations of new visual art interdisciplinary performance video literature and music pritikin has curated numerous exhibitions and has authored catalogue essays and articles some of his projects include alan rath robot dance and other sculpture bay area now a regional survey fred tomaselli the urge to be transported eight from south africa the art of star wars hall of fame hall of fame don ed hardy at the cuenca bienal and you seepritikin has been a frequent consultant for the national endowment for the arts and the california arts council and was a founder of the national association of artists organizations and has also served on their board of directors as a writer he received the 1989 mccarron fellowship for art criticism and has had three chapbooks of his poetry published how we talk collective foundation pod press 2007 all these trees eg press oakland 1985 and fourth gear city limits two windows press berkeley 1976 he has been a contributing writer for art practical since 2009 in 1995 he received a united states information agency fellowship to tour and lecture in japan and the koret israel prize a fellowship to visit israel in 1999 he travelled to taiwan as a juror for the ninth annual international print and drawing biennale at the taipei fine arts museum in 2001 he was the curator chosen to represent the united states at the cuenca ecuador bienal and in 2003 he lectured in three cities in new zealand as a fulbright fellowin addition to the california college of the arts he has taught art administration and artist professional skills training at california state university san francisco and golden gate university pritikin holds a masters degree in interdisciplinary art from california state university san francisco and a ba from the new school for social research in new york | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Christy_Burke>,Christy Burke,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marc_Fleury>,Marc Fleury,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Andr%C3%A9_Hurst>,Andr%C3%A9 Hurst,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jerry_Adams>,Jerry Adams,jerry mckee adams faa frs born 17 june 1940 is a molecular biologist whose research into the genetics of haemopoietic differentiation and malignancy led him and his wife professor suzanne cory to be the first two scientists to pioneer gene cloning techniques in australia and to successfully clone mammalian genes adams currently shares with andreas strasser the position of jointhead of the molecular genetics of cancer division at the walter and eliza hall institute of medical research wehi in melbourne australia their research following that by susumu tonegawa also led to the discovery that antibody genes encode as bits and pieces that can recombine in a myriad of ways to help fight infection they also confirmed earlier work by shenong cole leder hood croce and hayward that genetic mutation leads to burkitts lymphoma a malignancy of antibodyproducing cells called b lymphocytes it was in adams lab that his phd student david vaux made the connection between apoptosis programmed cell death and cancer while studying bcl2 gene in follicular lymphoma the most common human lymphomaafter completing his phd adams was awarded the helen hay whitney fellowship to pursue postdoctoral training he spent a year working under professor james watson at the mrcl of molecular biology in cambridge england he then moved to the institut de biologie molculaire at the university of geneva where he trained under professor a tissires during this stay in geneva he met suzanne cory and started their longterm collaboration adams and cory subsequently moved to australia and began working at wehi where they established the institutes first molecular genetics laboratorytheir research first looked into how lymphocytes could produce so many different antibodies providing insights into the constant and variable segments of antibodies and how they are rearranged and deleted next adams and his team moved into the study of the genetics of cancer in 2007 adams was appointed member of the medical research advisory committee at the australian cancer research foundation acrf he is part of a group of leading scientists who assess applications for grants for medical research received by the acrf | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Otto_Happel>,Otto Happel,dr ing otto happel is a global investor he has maintained a family office in lucerne switzerland since 2000in 1974 after receiving his phd in engineering dr happel became ceo of the german machine tool maker gea the happel family business established by his father before wwii during the following 25 years he dynamically expanded gea productwise and geographically to a world market leader in several product lines aftermaking over 70 acquisitions he fully globalized the group with over 200 subsidiaries in 60 countries in 1989 he took his company public at the frankfurt stock exchange but kept the majority of the voting stock in the family by 1999 happel increased geas revenues 20fold to over 5bn deutsch mark but also its net earnings proportionally in 1999 and in 2006 he sold his controlling stake in 2 stepsgea group ag is the largest listed german machine tool manufacturer and is broadly diversified in 2013 it accounted for revenues of appr eur 58 bn and employed appr 25000 peoplesince 2000 dr happel is a global investor and maintains a family office in lucerne switzerland he is also keeping the familys entrepreneurship alive by making direct investments in operating companies in various industries | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ronnie_Wallwork>,Ronnie Wallwork,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/George_Brent_Mickum_IV>,George Brent Mickum IV,george brent mickum iv is an american lawyer with the washington dc law firm hollingsworth llp mickum represented three british residents bisher al rawi jamil el banna and martin mubanga in el banna v bushthe three were captured in africa held first in cia custody then transported to the guantanamo bay detention camps in cubabefore entering private practice mickum worked as a trial attorney for the federal trade commission he also worked as a special assistant us attorney for the department of justice and as the senior investigative counsel for the senate special committee on investigationswhen the united states supreme court forced the department of defense to provide an opportunity for captives to learn why they were being held they designed administrative procedures called combatant status review tribunalsthe guardian quoted mickums advice to his clients that they decline to participateon january 12 2005 the guardian published an article by mickum where he described one of his clients bisher al rawi being punished for trying to forward the names of other guantanamo captives who wanted habeas corpus petitions submitted on their behalf the lawyers who were prepared to submit habeas corpus petitions could only do so when they were approached by a detainees next friendin february 2008 mickum was one of the first two lawyers to see abu zubaydah one of the three captives the cia acknowledges waterboarding when he was in one of their black sitesall the attorneyd who are allowed to meet with the guantanamo captives had to agree not to disclose secret information they learn from their clients however the cia argued this agreement wasnt sufficient for those attorneys who wanted to meet with their former clients because the clients could reveal information that was top secret mickum said the hypocrisy that we cannot discuss zubaydahs treatment but the government can admit to waterboarding him and claim that it is legal is rather astoundingon march 30 2009 the guardian published an article by mickum entitled the truth about abu zubaydah the bush administrations false claim that my client was a top alqaida official has led to his imprisonment and torture mickums text was submitted to the cia who required multiple redactions mickum wrote these facts really are no longer contested zayn was not and never had been a member of either the taliban or alqaida the cia determined this after torturing him extensively and zayn was never a member or a supporter of any armed forces that were allied against the united states he had no weapon when he was taken into illegal custody he never took up arms against the united states nor against its coalition allies he was not picked up on a battlefield in afghanistan at the time of his detention but was taken into custody in pakistan where he was wrongfully attacked shot and nearly killed | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Acquaviva>,John Acquaviva,john acquaviva born in 1963 is an italianborn canadian dj producer artist and musical entrepreneurjohn began his international career in 1989 with richie hawtin by founding one of the worlds best known and influential techno labels plus 8 records the founding of plus 8 records put john acquaviva and richie hawtin at the vanguard of the emerging international electronic music movement and dj culturein 1993 acquaviva and hawtin also founded definitive recordings and the label is now celebrating 20 years of club and underground anthems an acknowledged pioneer of new music and ideas john was one of the first people to take notice and embrace electronic musics digital future at the dawn of 2000 by championing final scratch and following that success john took another step to help found and launch beatportcom the largest dancemusic download site in the worldhe currently runs definitive recordings a label that he began in 1993 with richie hawtin and karl kowalski after the labels hiatus in the late 1990s acquaviva relaunched definitive recordings in 2005 with an entertainment attorney mark quail since then the label has carved out a name with its distinctive driving but funky tech house sound and six number one tunes on beatportcomnot satisfied with just his own work john started fostering new artists for his definitive label djs and producers such as olivier giacomotto simon doty damon jee dj tonio jan van lier and dan diamonhaving been on the international dj circuit since the founding of plus 8 in 1990 and on a perpetual world tour ever since john achieved his commercial pinnacle in 2006 with acquaviva reaching no22 on the dj mag 2006 listhis international career has spanned well over two decades at the very highest level throughout thousands of parties with millions of people having heard him play keeping him in high demand john has had both personally and with his label six number ones and narrowly missed a seventh when his track sofa king made together with olivier giacomotto peaked at number two on the overall beatport chartin december john acquaviva released an official music video for the underground track good music made together with alex delia nihil young and the us based singer dan diamond official music video for good music | |
| "<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jose_Luis_Nazario,_Jr.>","Jose Luis Nazario, Jr.",sergeant jose luis nazario jr born 1980 is the first american to be tried in a civilian court for war crimes which were allegedly committed while he was on active dutynazario was charged with voluntary manslaughter assault with a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence for his role in the death of four unarmed iraqisthe iraqis were killed on november 9 2004 in fallujah iraq when nazario was leading a squad of 13 marines on house to house searches as part of operation phantom fury during the second battle of fallujahnazario a former marine was charged under the 2000 military extraterritorial jurisdiction act for the killing of unarmed iraqi detainees in the city of falluja his trial began on august 19 2008nazario retired from the marine corps in 2005after his retirement he was to become a police officer in his hometown of riverside californiathe incident became known publicly when one of nazarios subordinates sergeant ryan weemer applied for a job with the united states secret serviceduring his interview he was asked to identify the most serious crime he had participated in and he described his role in the killingnazarios attorneys told cnn in july 2007 that nazario totally denied the chargesnazario was released on bail after his arrest but because he was still in his probationary period with the police when he was arrested he was dismissedin 2010 nazario sued the riverside police to try force them to rehire himduring his trial five of the thirteen subordinates in his squad testified that they were not eyewitnesses to the killings but they heard the shots firedtwo of nazarios subordinates sergeant weemer and sergeant jermaine nelson faced contempt of court charges for their refusals to testifythe contempt charges were dropped a month lateralthough he refused to testify during navarios trial in september 2009 jermaine nelson would later apologize for his role in the killings during his own trial and place the blame for all the killings on nazarioaccording to the guardian during nelsons trial a tape of a confession nelson made in 2007 was played that offered a grisly account that nazario beat detainees killed two of them by shooting them in the forehead and ordered squad members to kill the other twonazarios trial was held in his home town riverside california where he was formerly a police officerhe was acquitted on august 28 2008nazarios defense team included joseph preis jared n klein and david foberglawyers from the firm pepper hamilton a firm that had worked previously on behalf of guantanamo detaineesafter us district court judge virginia a phillips ruled in favor of riverside in a civil suite navario launched richard k de atley of the press enterprise wrote that court statements revealed that the main reason riverside had not reinstated navario was not that riverside investigators concluded navario had in fact killed the iraqi civilians rather it was troubling statements from federal wiretaps of navarios phone and a 2008 domestic abuse court actionnavario had sued based on the uniformed services employment and reemployment rights act aking for 6 million in damagesde atley quoted a passage from the wiretaps which stated navario said it was fun to around with people that he gets to beat somebodys because theyre drunk de atley noted that the court papers did not include evidence navario had beaten vulnerable members of the public for kicksthe transcripts also recorded navario discussing how to subvert the reliability of polygraph tests with another police officer according to de atley in a passage in the wiretap transcripts that had been deemed inadmissible at his manslaughter trial but had been admissible at his civil suit navario described how to respond directly if asked he had murdered anyone de atley wrote navario said just be like yeah i was in combat and they waive all that navarios lawyers had argued that if the city decided not to put any weight on the murder allegations once navario was acquitted they should have dropped the investigation so they would not have come across the domestic violence court action or navarios statements captured in the federal wiretaps | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jimmy_Lewis_(surfer)>,Jimmy Lewis (surfer),jimmy lewis is a hawaiian surfer sailor and surfboard shaperhe lives on maui where he personally takes care of the research and development of his boards at his workshop on nehe place in haikuat the young age of 15 years he shaped his first surfboard showing a talent that led him to develop many innovative projects from surfing to windsurfing to towsurfing to kitesurfing then on to stand up paddle boardsin the early 80s mike waltze brought jimmy lewis into the limelight as the shaper of the moment winning the aloha classic with one of jimmys custom windsurf boardsin 1982 the french windsurfer pascal maka broke the speed sailing record on a windsurf board reaching 278 knots using a board created by jimmy lewis specifically for the eventin 1986 pascal maka was the first windsurfer to break the speed sailing record from timothy colmans crossbow ii which had held the record for six years he reached a speed of 3886 knots using a jimmy lewis board and a sail manufactured by gaastra the same day three other athletes broke the record before him eric beale 3673 knots jimmy lewis 3631 knots and fred haywood 3613during the 1990s he began his collaboration with bic and sailboards maui developing models of commercial success he also worked with windsurfing international designing plugs for production boards including the windsurfer 99 among othersthen around 1995 with lou wainman a famous pioneer of kite surfing he developed the first bidirectional board completely innovating the sportin 2005 his interest in stand up paddle sup began to grow and he quickly became one of the protagonists of this new discipline shaping the first prototypes for laird hamilton the jimmy lewis cruise control 1107 is still in production and is the most sold stand up paddle board in the worldthe jimmy lewis board is entirely handbuilt in the kinetic factory in vietnam using a sandwichstructured composite jimmy lewis claims that the manufacturing is done almost exactly the same way as he builds boards on maui using the same materials and techniques and above all with the same meticulous care and attention to detailthe kiter niccol porcella the sup racer paul marconi and his son not an asp pro marlon lewis are among his athletes using his boards | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Henry_Honiball>,Henry Honiball,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Randal_Quarles>,Randal Quarles,randal keith quarles born september 5 1957 in san francisco is founder and head of the cynosure group a private investment firm backed by a network of large family offices in the united states before founding cynosure he was a partner of the carlyle group one of the worlds largest private equity firms from august 2001 until october 2006 he held several important financial policy posts in the george w bush administration ultimately serving as under secretary of the treasury for domestic finance as under secretary he was the lead advocate for imposing greater regulation on fannie mae and freddie mac arguing that they posed significant risk to the financial sector and argued for fundamental reform of the entire financial regulatory systemextending broader and more uniform federal regulation to investment banks and insurance companiesbecause the current system restricted regulators ability to observe and limit risk in the system in his earlier positions in the administration he had a key role in response to several international crisesthe argentine debt default as well as near defaults in brazil turkey and uruguayand chaired the international working group that led to changes in the terms of sovereign debt finance that now permit collective action by creditors in such crises he also argued strongly for improving international coordination of financial regulation initiating a regular dialogue with the european union on financial regulatory matters and representing the united states at the financial stability forum he negotiated the historic debt relief agreement for the worlds poorest countries reached at the g7 meetings in london during 2005 in prior government service he was an important member of the team developing the governments response to the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s at the time of his departure from government hank paulson the treasury secretary noted that he had played a role in an unusually large range of matters in the history of the treasury from the argentine debt default to terrorism risk insurance and from chinese currency flexibility to gse reform and awarded him the alexander hamilton medal the treasury departments highest honor he is widely mentioned as a possible treasury secretary or senior white house adviser in any future republican administration | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kat_Coiro>,Kat Coiro,katherine cunninghameves known as kat coiro is an american awardwinning film director writer and producer whose films have played at festivals worldwide including at tribeca the los angeles film festival and cannes she attended carnegie mellon university and the moscow art theater for history and directing coiro was also accepted as a fellow at the american film institute conservatory before she left to pursue a professional career in film and televisionher most recent feature a case of you was distributed by ifc she directed lfe happens which opened in april 2012 and and while we were here which premiered in competition at the 2012 tribeca film festival she directed the first film shot entirely at 35000 feet above the air when she wrote and directed departure date for virgin airlines which stars emmynominee ben feldman she directed funny or die a 2010 viral video idiots and kidnapping caitlynn 2009coiros directorial debut adapted from a short story by emily raboteau entitled murdering mamas boy starring joely fisher and nadege august premiered at the 2008 vail film festival and screened at twenty or so other festivals coiro produced tom everett scotts directorial debut entitled glock and wrote and directed no place ca starring abby brammellas an actress coiro has appeared on law and order ci law and order svu judging amy she spies charmed and veronica mars feature film appearances include slingshot and sublime warner independent she won the 2006 genarts film festival inaugural stargazer award for best performance in the passage of mrs calabash | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Bailey>,Peter Bailey,peter bailey born september 16 1980 is an american author and journalist originally from saint thomas us virgin islands bailey is known for his gritty but yet inspirational profile stories on unsung heroes in miamis impoverished inner city bailey graduated from the university of delaware with a degree in english with a concentration in journalism during his junior year he landed an internship at the village voice in new york city where his first assignment was to investigate a warehouse used by former new york mayor rudy giuliani to store documents upon graduation he went on to write for newsweek then time magazine bailey covered issues ranging from the aids epidemic to whiteness studies his reporting landed him interviews with major figures including former president bill clinton guyana president bharrat jagdeo new york mayor michael bloomberg and recording executive russell simmons bailey then went to the miami herald for what he calls its grassroots appeal his series entitled on the margins won the 2007 award for best education reporting throughout florida by the society of professional journalists and the series was also awarded 2nd place green eyeshade award for best videography he was also honored by the national association of black journalists for a project called shackled education on november 16 2010 baileys first book was published magic city trials of a native son was written in collaboration with miami rap legend trick daddy bailey chronicled tricks povertystricken childhood crimeladen adolescence and eventual incarceration for drug trafficking leading to his redemption and fame against the backdrop of miami the book is published by mtv publishinggallery booksbailey portrays leo edwards in the film the north star which has a planned release in 2013as of early 2013 bailey is the host of nitecap with peter bailey | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Owen_Temple>,Owen Temple,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Logan_Aldridge>,Logan Aldridge,wesley logan aldridge born january 25 1991 is a lacrosse player and wakeboarder in raleigh north carolina he is achieved notoriety for rebounding after the traumatic amputation of his left arm above the elbow in a wakeboarding accident in june 2004 on lake gaston on the virginianorth carolina border returning to his favorite sports and achieving at even higher levelsaldridge subsequently embarked on a motivational speaking enterprise designed to incentivize young people to break barriers real or imagined to excel in their avocations collateral to that he established the organization beyond expectations which coordinates his speaking engagements throughout the us his clients have included such organizations as mark millons camps for youthwith the help of his family and marketing team he has also launched the logan aldridge foundation to support youth who have experienced sportsrelated injuries logans first goal is to donate wii gaming systems to all the childrens hospitals throughout the southeast us to aid patients in their recoverylogan placed second in wakeboarding at the first annual extremity games held in 2006 he placed third in wakeboarding at the second extremity games in 2007 out of 35 competitorshe has received media coverage for his friendship with teenage pro surfer bethany hamilton who likewise lost her left arm in a shark attack | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tobias_Frere-Jones>,Tobias Frere-Jones,tobias frerejones born tobias edgar mallory jones 1970 is an american type designer who works in new york city he was formerly a partner with designer jonathan hoefler at hoefler frerejones a type foundry in lower manhattan frerejones teaches typeface design at the yale school of art mfa program with type designer matthew carterhe is a son of robin carpenter jones and his wife the former elizabeth frere and a brother of music critic sasha frerejones he is a grandson of alexander stuart frerereeves the former chairman of the board of william heinemann ltd the british publishing house a greatgrandson of the writer edgar wallace who wrote the screenplay for the film king kong and a nephew of vice admiral sir richard tobias frere kcbafter receiving a bfa in 1992 from rhode island school of design frerejones joined font bureau inc in boston over seven years as a senior designer he created a number of the typefaces that are font bureaus best known among them interstate and poynter oldstyle gothic he joined the yale school of art faculty in 1996 as a critic in 1999 he left font bureau to return to new york where he began work with jonathan hoefler since working together the two have collaborated on projects for the wall street journal martha stewart living nike pentagram gq esquire magazine the new times business 20 and the new york times magazinehe has designed over seven hundred typefaces for retail publication custom clients and experimental purposes his clients have included the boston globe the new york times the cooperhewitt national design museum the whitney museum the american institute of graphic arts journal and neville brody he has lectured at rhode island school of design yale school of art pratt institute royal college of art and universidad de las americas his work has been featured in how id page print eye and graphis inc and is included in the permanent collection of the victoria albert museum london in 2006 frerejones received the prestigious gerrit noordzij prize an award given by the royal academy of art the hague to honor innovations in type designhe married dr christine annabelle bateup in 2006 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Davi_Kopenawa_Yanomami>,Davi Kopenawa Yanomami,davi kopenawa yanomami name also written davi kobenaw yanomam born toototobi brazil c 1956 is a shaman and portuguesespeaking spokesperson of the yanomami indians in brazil he came to international prominence for this advocacy regarding tribal issues and amazon rainforest conservation when the tribal rights organization survival international invited him to accept the right livelihood award on its behalf in 1989 davi spoke to both the british and swedish parliaments about the catastrophic impact on yanomami health as a consequence of the illegal invasion of their land by 40000 garimpeiros or goldminers prince charles publicly called the situation genocide in a sevenyear period from 19871993 one fifth of the yanomami died from malaria and other diseases transmitted by the minersof all yanomami who have emerged as public figures probably the most important is davi kopenawa yanomami davi kopenawa was born near the rio toototobi near the border of venezuela he learned portuguese from a christian mission run by new tribes mission an american evangelical organization specializing in the proselytization of isolated peoples the acquisition of portuguese language proficiency then rare among the yanomami enabled davi kopenawa to interact with brazils lusophone majority both directly and through the mass mediain his own words translated from portuguesei know that the authorities and many people came here because the planet is sick and they are trying to find out how to cure it the people who come from many places from the other side of the big lake all come here to learn about how we live i want to speak giving the message from omai omai is the creator of the yanomami who also has created all the shaboris that are the shamans the shaboris are the ones that have the knowledge and they sent two of us to deliver their message the message is to stop destruction to stop taking out minerals from under the ground to stop taking out the steel with which all the metal utensils are made and to stop building roads we feel that a lot of riches have already been taken out of the indigenous lands and a lot of these riches are getting old and useless and it would be much better if the brazilian government would give these riches to the poor in brazil our work is to protect nature the wind the mountains the forest the animals and this is what we want to teach you peopledavi kopenawa is the soninlaw of another traditional tribal leader with whom he apprenticed to be a shaman his wife lost much of her family to measles and other diseases brought to the area in the 1970s by road construction crews and garimpeiros smalltime gold miners davi kopenawa has mentioned this as part of his personal motivation to speak out on his peoples behalf davi was orphaned as a child when his parents died from diseases transmitted by outsidersafter some months of staying on our territory they started to transmit malaria to us that means that the garimpeiros were already sick mosquitos bit the garimpeiros and then bit us that is how we got the disease the garimpeiros also brought in other diseases there are complications of pneumonia sometimes associated with malaria tuberculosis skin diseases that often are associated with other diseases and especially in children can be fatal there was an epidemic of yellow fever in the area hepatitis in the 1980s he began working for the brazilian government organization fundao nacional do ndio funai at a post in demini in the center of yanomami territory as an intermediary between the government and indigenous peoples with whom outsiders had little or no contact he also accompanied health workers to yanomami villages and has worked closely with organizations such as comisso pryanomami ccpy and survival international in the fight for the integrity of yanomami lands in brazilsince the invasion of yanomami territory began in 1987 by illegal goldminers davi kopenawa has worked for their removal from the area and for the creation of a parkland therein his action resulted in death threats from the miners and an award from the united nations environment programme in 1988 after a major international campaign led by davi survival international and ccpy the brazilian government finally recognized yanomami land rights in 1992 just before the uns earth summitdavi kopenawas unique role among his people has been commented on skeptically even by those sympathetic to him and his cause anthropologist napoleon chagnon wrote regarding davi kopenawa his nonyanomam supporters in brazil intelligent and wellintentioned advocates of the yanomam cause are promoting him as a spokesman for his people such a role exists largely because our culture must deal with other cultures through their leaders it is the only way we know how to deal with them everything i know about davi kobenaw is positive and i am confident that he is a sincere and honest man when i read his proclamations i am moved but i am also sure thatsomeone from our culture wrote them they have too much the voice of rousseaus idealism and sound very nonyanomam my concern is that he is being put into a difficult position fraught with consequences for the future of the yanomam for one thing there is currently no such thing as a panyanomam awareness and so he cannot possibly be speaking for the venezuelan yanomamsurvival international and many others with extensive experience of the yanomami have severely criticized chagnons work which portrays the yanomami as sly aggressive and intimidating and falsely claims that they live in a state of chronic warfare this characterization has undoubtedly been detrimental for them it was referred to by the brazilian government when it planned to fragment yanomami land in 1988 in a proposal which would have been catastrophic for the indians and which was only prevented by a vigorous campaignchagnons views in this matter were criticized by investigative journalist patrick tierney in his muchdefamed book darkness in el doradodavi has spoken out for over 20 years and visited many countries with his message about the importance of respecting indigenous peoples rights and their fundamental and unique role in conserving rainforest for the benefit of humanityin 2004 davi and other yanomami in brazil set up an organization called hutukara to defend their rights as well as advocating for yanomami rights it runs educational projects where yanomami teachers work in the communities teaching literacy maths geography and human rightsdavi continues to speak out about the dangers facing the yanomami he has warned about the impact large scale mining will have on the yanomami if the brazilian congress votes to allow mining on indigenous landswe the yanomami people think that mining will not bring any benefits to anyone it will only destroy nature it will only destroy the streams and the rivers and kill the fish and kill the environment and kill us and bring in diseases which never existed in our land it will bring roads and people who will bring in disease guns and violence so we the yanomami people do not want the national congress to approve the law or the president to sign it we do not want to accept this law our land has to be respected our land is our heritage a heritage which protects us this land belongs to us so that we can plant hunt be healthy it is our home where will live for the rest of our livesin 2009 he was honoured by the bartolome de las casas award in spain and later gave a speech to the uk parliament where he warned that the goldminers are once again invading yanomami land and disease is spreading | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roland_De_Wolfe>,Roland De Wolfe,roland de wolfe born 1979 in london is an english professional poker player and a former writer for the poker magazine inside edgeafter winning first prize in an event at the 2004 gutshot poker festival he went on to make a money finish in the 1000 no limit event of the 2005 world series of pokerin july 2005 he won first place in the major grand prix de paris event of the world poker tour wpts fourth season defeating former champion juha helppi in the final headsup battlein april 2006 he finished 3rd out of 605 runners in the wpt 25000 championship event at the bellagio winning over 1000000 in october 2006 de wolfe won the european poker tour ept dublin event and the 554300 first prize in the process he became the first person to win an event in the wpt and the ept this achievement was superseded in january 2008 when gavin griffin won a wpt event to follow up on his wsop and ept wins thus becoming the first person to win titles in all 3 competitionsde wolfe also reached the final table of the 2008 edition of late night poker finishing in 2nd placein june 2009 de wolfe won his first world series of poker bracelet winning the 5000 pot limit omaha hilow split 8 or better tournament for 246616 and in doing so became only the second person after gavin griffin to complete the hattrick of wsop ept and wpt titlesas of 2014 his total live tournament winnings exceed 5325000 his 17 cashes at the wsop account for 1214153 of those winnings | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kim_Kirkpatrick>,Kim Kirkpatrick,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Judith_Jacob>,Judith Jacob,judith jacob born 13 december 1961 is a british actress best known for her role as the health visitor carmel roberts in the bbc soap opera eastenders a role she played from 1986 to 1989 during her stint in albert square her character suffered from severe marital abuse and her husbands attempted murder and eventual separation jacob attended londons anna scher theatre two of her classmates were also former eastenders actors susan tully playing michelle fowler and phil daniels playing kevin wicks before landing her role on eastenders jacob was a cofounder of the black theatre coop btc a london theatre group of black actressesjacobs first appearance on uk television was in the bbc production play for today 1976 before her role in eastenders she had been a regular cast member in the hospital drama angels 19791981 and the sitcom no problem 198385 other television credits include various roles in the comedy sketchshow the real mccoy 1991 the queens nose 1995 holby city 2003 doctors 2003 and my family 2004she starred as a prison guard in the 2006 drama provoked which told the true story of a punjabi woman named kiranjit ahluwalia who leaves india to marry a londonbased man only to be badly abused she ends up in prison for murdering her abusive husbandin mayjune 2009 jacob hosted judith jacob yabba yabbas with friends in the marie lloyd bar at the hackney empire interviewing her showbiz friends to find out what makes them tick the singers actors and comedians participating included felix dexter janet kay curtis walker wayne marshall victor romero evans tameka empson and noel mckoyjacobs daughter aisha worked with her on eastenders during her time on the show in the 1980s playing her young niece aisha roberts now in her 20s aisha plans to follow in her mothers footsteps by also becoming an actress | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Glen_Pine>,Glen Pine,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Keith_Jennings_(basketball)>,Keith Jennings (basketball),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tony_Lundon>,Tony Lundon,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_Vanacore>,David Vanacore,david vanacore is a multiaward winning television music composer dubbed by television music industry insiders as the king of reality david vanacore is the composer behind such acclaimed series as survivor the apprentice big brother american chopper dirty jobs hells kitchen us tv series wipeout 2008 us game show whale wars and hundreds moredavids diligence in working closely with producers and directors to understand their vision has earned him top honors among film tv composers winning ascaps prestigious most performed themes and most performed underscore awards every year since 2005david began his musical journey studying piano at the age of seven for years he worked as a studio session pianistkeyboardist and toured with cher among other wellknown artists while continuing to refine his chops as a studio musician david studied composition orchestration and conducting at cal state university and the dick grove school of music a chance meeting with famed television composer mike post led to an offer as his studio keyboard player which introduced him to the world of music supervision for televisiondavids first major breakout as a tv composer occurred when he landed a job with mark burnett for the first season of survivor in 2000 at that time reality tv was new to audiences around the world as a result david was able to craft a style of music which today is commonly used for unscripted tv as his success and workload increased he began to hire composers in order to keep up with the high demand of music his venture as a oneman composer blossomed into a fullfledged composing house known as vanacore music with an impeccable reputation for producing music for unscripted television seriestoday as president ceo of vanacore music david continues to provide music for major network and cable shows in collaboration with his team of diversely talented composers and producers at his fullservices stateoftheart music production facility in los angeles and recently established offices in santa monica and new york | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jeff_Mauro>,Jeff Mauro,jeff mauro is the host of the food network series sandwich king and 24 in 24 prior to this he was the winner of the seventh season of the food network star competition mauro who is originally from elmwood park illinois incorporates local chicago restaurants into the context of his showduring food network star where fifteen contestants competed for an opportunity to have their own cooking show mauro maintained a strict concentration on sandwiches throughout the competition the judges on the show noted mauros humor and likable persona which are focal points of his personality on sandwich kingmauro rejected criticisms that there wasnt enough to say about sandwiches to fill out a season noting that any handheld meal could be classified as a sandwich in 2012 mauro was nominated for a daytime emmy award for his show sandwich king on the food network channel the award eventually went to bobby flay for his show bobby flays barbecue addictionin january 2014 mauro became a cohost on the food networks series the kitchen along with sunny anderson katie lee marcela valladolid and geoffrey zakarianmauro graduated from bradley university in peoria illinois in 2000 where he studied radio and television jeff mauro is also a sigma chi | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Meddy_Ford>,Meddy Ford,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dave_Chomiak>,Dave Chomiak,david walter chomiak born february 15 1953 is a politician in manitoba canada he is currently a cabinet minister in the new democratic party government of greg selingerchomiak was born in winnipeg and grew up in east kildonan graduating from miles macdonell collegiate he currently lives in the west kildonan area he worked as a lawyer before entering politics and was a member of the ukrainian cultural and educational centre the canadian shield foundation and the big brothers association of manitobachomiak was first elected to the legislative assembly of manitoba in the 1990 provincial election in the north winnipeg riding of kildonan he defeated progressive conservative candidate david langtry by 210 votes progressive party leader sidney green finished fourth after the election chomiak joined with 19 other ndp mlas as the official opposition to gary filmons governmentchomiak was reelected in the 1995 election defeating tory robert praznik 5812 votes to 3324 he again increased his margin of victory in the 1999 election defeating pc candidate shannon martin by 6101 votes to 2542 the ndp won this election and chomiak was appointed to cabinet as minister of health and minister responsible for sport he was relieved of responsibility for sport on january 17 2001in 2003 chomiak supported bill blaikies campaign to lead the federal new democratic partyin 2003 he was reelected in the oncemarginal riding of kildonan with over 70 of the vote on october 12 2004 he was appointed as manitobas minister of energy science and technology with responsibility for the gaming control act and the manitoba hydro act chomiak had been the longestserving health minister in canada prior to this shuffle and there were rumours that he requested a transfer to a less stressful portfolioin september 2006 chomiak was appointed as minister of justice and attorney general and to the manitoba public insurance and manitoba gaming control commission in gary doers new cabinetchomiak is prolife but as health minister never sought to criminalize abortions he was reelected in the 2007 provincial election | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ernestine_Huckleby>,Ernestine Huckleby,ernestine huckleby 8 years old became the face of methylmercury poisoning in the early 1970s after her photograph was published in the 1971 national geographic publication as we live and breath the challenge of our environment the iconic photograph of ernestine a young black girl with large staring eyes clutching her teddy bear broke the heart of a nation the photographer james p blair has said that of all the assignments i have had over the 35 years i was a staff photographer for the society this was one of the saddestin 1969 in alamogordo new mexico ernest huckleby purchased grain from the golden west seed company to feed his hogs as part of his purchase he was also given some waste grain which included some seeds dyed pink in warning which had been treated with a mercuric fungicide unaware of the danger huckleby fed the mercury treated seed grain to a hog which he later slaughtered and fed to his wife who was 3 months pregnant and to his 7 children several of hucklebys hogs had appeared to be ill and he believed that they were suffering from what farmers called the blind staggers but the hog he fed to his family had appeared unaffectedwithin 3 months the children had developed ataxia agitation visual impairment and impaired consciousness when born baby michael was severely neurologically impaired blind subject to convulsive seizures and only minimally aware of his environment ernestine 8 years old became blind unable to sit unsupported or to roll over unable to hold objects incontinent and unable to speak amos 13 years old became functionally blind with sensory degradation and impaired coordination dorothy jean huckleby 20 years old suffered from tunnel vision slurred speech impaired coordination and numbness and tingling in her extremities mr and mrs huckleby were unaffected which corresponds well with current medical findings that methylmercury is more dangerous to the developing nervous system of infants and children but for reasons the doctors did not understand 4 of the hucklebys 8 childrenall of whom shared the mealwere unaffected of the 4 that were affected dorothy jean and amos were hospitalized in a rehabilitation center in roswell new mexico for 18 months when placed in the facility dorothy had not been able to stand or use her arms or legs she had no control over her bowels and bladder and was unable to speak after 18 months in the facility she had regained most of her function a recovery her doctors and the press lauded as miraculous at release amos was blind confined to a wheelchair and could speak only with difficulty baby michael was born blind and seriously mentally and physically impaired and remained so ernestine was placed in gerald champion memorial hospital in alamogardo where she remained in a coma for more than a year when she emerged from the coma she was blind with severe physical disability and it was reported that she may never understand what has happened to herdorothy jean later sued the federal government alleging the government was negligent in oversight of the warning label on the treated seed as the label was insufficient to apprise the golden west seed company of the possibility of foodchain poisoning she was unsuccessful the judge expressed his regret that in following the law he was not able to reach a finding in dorothy jeans favor most countries had restricted the use of organic mercurial fungicides in reaction to similar poisonings but legal maneuvers stalled the deregistration of organomercurial fungicides in the united states and it continued to be used as a seed treatment for some time that use was still ongoing at least 10 years later as evidenced by the experience of a yakima washington family whose home flock of chickens was contaminated through feeding of seed grain treated with a mercurial fungicideernestine who had been 8 years old when she was poisoned suffered from quadriplegia blindness and severe mental retardation until her death at the age of 30 an autopsy conducted showed cortical atrophy neuronal loss and gliosis most pronounced in the paracentral and parietooccipital regions massive amounts of inorganic mercury were discovered in her brain a fact which led researchers to conclude since inorganic mercury crosses the bloodbrain barrier poorly biotransformation of methyl to inorganic mercury may have occurred after methylmercury crossed the bloodbrain barrier accounting for its persistence in brain and causing part of the brain damage | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jimmy_Johnson_(cartoonist)>,Jimmy Johnson (cartoonist),jimmy johnson is an american comic strip cartoonist who writes and draws arlo and janisjohnson was born and grew up in lanett alabama graduating from lanett high school in 1970 he is an alumnus of auburn university class of 1974my earliest cartoon work was copying fred and barney and yogi bear i became quite proficient and was able to amaze my friends wrote johnson johnson credits his mother with being especially supportive of his early artworkas a young man just out of college johnson briefly worked as a reporter and in the public relations department of auburn university in the years before arlo and janis from about 1980 to 1985 johnson drew cartoons professionally for newspapers he did so on a parttime basis when he was a reporter and editor and then fulltime as an editorial cartoonist in jackson mississippi while employed in this role johnson won the prestigious robert f kennedy awardfrom 1985 to the present johnson has drawn arlo and janis for national syndication by nea johnson said at the time i sold arlo janis to the newspaper syndicate united media in 1985 there were a lot of talking animal strips newspaper editors reacted to this by demanding more comic strips about human beings particularly young families so it really was a marketdriven thingjohnson draws the strip in traditional comic strip fashion with an oldfashioned pen nib and india ink on 2ply bristol paper but johnson nodding to modernity scans the finished drawings for transmission to the syndicate editors and syndicate colorists color the daily strips he uses photoshop to color the sunday strips himselfin his comic strip about a small family johnson the former reporter and editorial cartoonist presents political and social commentary through his characters of course humor is also integral and johnson writes jokes about many different subjects not unlike standup comedians do much of the strips content is grounded in arlo and janis love and continued desire for each other johnsons signature style is notable for undeniable sexual suggestiveness so much so that the arlo award is awarded to cartoonists who slip one by the syndicates censorsjohnson was at one time married to author rheta grimsley johnson and the two remain good friendsas of 2006 despite the damage caused by hurricane katrina he still owns a home in pass christian mississippion april 3 2006 he suffered a mild heart attack | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alexi_Lalas>,Alexi Lalas,panayotis alexander alexi lalas born june 1 1970 is an american retired soccer player who played mostly as a defender lalas is best known for his participation with the united states national team in the 1994 fifa world cup being considered the standout player of the team through his distinctive appearance bearing long beard and hair after the world cup lalas went on to become the first american in italys serie a as a member of calcio padova lalas would later return to the united states in 1996 to take part in the newly formed major league soccer being a member of new england revolution while also joining club sport emelec of ecuador and the mls squads metrostars and kansas city wizards lalas most successful club stretch was with los angeles galaxy with whom he won the concacaf champions cup lamar hunt us open cup and mls cup before retiring in 2002 lalas playing style was noted for physical ability and endurancefollowing his playing career lalas served as general manager of the san jose earthquakes new york red bulls and los angeles galaxy of major league soccer he was elected to the national soccer hall of fame in 2006 he currently works as an analyst for fox sports | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gordon_Wu>,Gordon Wu,sir gordon wu yingsheun gbs kcmg fice simplified chinese traditional chinese pinyin h yngxing is a hong kong businessman he is the chairman of the board of hong konglisted asian infrastructure firm hopewell holdings ltdborn in hong kong in 1935 wu has been an advocate for more than two decades for the construction of asias largest bridge project linking hong kong macau and chinas zhuhai city the hong kongzhuhaimacau bridge project was given support by the prc government in august 2003since the 1980s wu has steered hopewell holdings towards developing his vision of creating an advanced transport system for chinas manufacturing powerhouse in the pearl river delta which includes much of guangdong province and makes use of its proximity to hong kong to access professional services and logisticsthe bridge will span two manmade islands allowing it to go through an undersea tunnel and let shipping pass the concept is based on the existing chesapeake bay bridgetunnel in virginia united stateswu has predicted that commercial development in hong kong will focus upon the growth of four major pillar industries including retailing tourism and logistics he predicts a diminishing role for the property and textiles industries source october 2001 logistics hong kong productivity council | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jon_Bounds>,Jon Bounds,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Caan_(entrepreneur)>,James Caan (entrepreneur),james caan cbe born nazim khan 28 december 1960 is a britishpakistani entrepreneur and television personality he is best known as a former investor on the bbc television program dragons den in which he was one of the dragons from 2007 to 2010 more recently he has hosted the business class on cnbc a series which sees him joined by experts from a cross section of industries to analyse and advise innovative uk small and medium enterprises he is also chairman of the uk governments start up loans scheme which supports entrepreneurs with funding and mentoring to start their own businesscaan initially achieved success in the recruitment industry he founded the recruitment company alexander mann group in 1985 and sold it in 2002 in 1993 caan cofounded the executive headhunting firm humana international in which he sold his stake in 1999 he is also the founder and currently ceo of the ukbased private equity firm hamilton bradshaw in 2013 he was named chairman of the year at the international business awardscaan has been involved in a number of charitable activities and founded the james caan foundation in 2006 caan did not attend university as an undergraduate but graduated from the advanced management program at harvard business school in 2003 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_Eldridge_(dramatist)>,David Eldridge (dramatist),david eldridge born 20 september 1973 is an english dramatist born in romford greater london united kingdom ukhis plays have been performed at major new writing institutions in the uk including the royal court theatre the bush theatre the finborough theatre and the national theatre his stage adaptation of the film festen transferred from the almeida theatre to the west end and broadwayhis play market boy informed by his childhood working on a stall at romford market played at the national theatres largest space the olivier in june 2006 and in july 2008 his play under the blue sky was revived at the duke of yorks theatre starring chris odowd catherine tate and francesca annisin march 2011 his play the knot of the heart played at the almeida theatre and starred lisa dillon for whom the role of lucy was written and in february 2012 his play in basildon played at the royal court theatre directed by dominic cooke starring linda bassett and ruth sheen both plays opened to critical acclaim the knot of the heart won the offwest end theatre award for best new play and in basildon was voted the guardian theatre critics and arts writers no1 theatre of 2012 in april 2012 the royal exchange theatre presented his new version of miss julie by august strindberg starring maxine peakedavids screenplay for a ninety minute single film the woman in red based upon hallie rubenholds book lady worsleys whim will be broadcast on bbc2 in 2015 starring natalie dormer and directed by sheree folkson | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Atu_Emberson_Bain>,Atu Emberson Bain,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Brett_Hull>,Brett Hull,brett andrew hull born august 9 1964 is a canadianamerican former national hockey league nhl player and general manager and currently an executive vice president of the st louis blues he played for the calgary flames st louis blues dallas stars detroit red wings and phoenix coyotes between 1986 and 2005 his career total of 741 goals is the third highest in nhl history and he is one of five players to score 50 goals in 50 games he was a member of two stanley cup winning teams his championship winning goal for dallas in overtime of game six of the 1999 stanley cup finals is one of the best in league history and remains the focus of debate over whether it was scored within the rules of the timeknown as one of the games greatest snipers hull was an elite scorer at all levels of the game he played college hockey for the university of minnesotaduluth bulldogs where he scored 52 goals in 198586 he scored 50 the following year with the moncton golden flames of the american hockey league ahl and had five consecutive nhl seasons of at least 50 goals his 86 goals in 199091 is the third highest singleseason total in nhl history hull won the hart memorial trophy and lester b pearson award that year as the leagues most valuable player he was named a first team allstar on three occasions and played in eight nhl allstar gamesa dual citizen hull was eligible to play for either canada or the united states internationally and chose to join the american national team he was a member of team that won the 1996 world cup of hockey and was a twotime olympian winning a silver medal at the 2002 winter olympics hull was inducted into the hockey hall of fame in 2009 joining his father bobby to become the first fatherandson pair of players in the hall they are the only pair to each score 1000 career points in the nhl hulls nickname the golden brett is a reference to his fathers nickname of the golden jet his jersey number 16 was retired by the st louis blues | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Keyshia_Cole>,Keyshia Cole,keyshia cole born october 15 1981 is an american singer songwriter record producer businesswoman and television personality she was born in oakland california and her career began when she met mc hammer at the age of twelve and later met rapper tupac shakur at the age of eighteen she moved to los angeles and was later introduced to am records she released her debut album the way it is 2005 which five singles never i changed my mind i just want it to be over i should have cheated and love it was certified gold within 17 weeks and then platinum just eight weeks later the album stayed on the charts for over a year eventually selling over 16 million copiescole released her second album just like you 2007 the album debuted and peaked at number two on the billboard 200 it was nominated for best contemporary rb album at the 50th grammy awards the album has been certified platinum in sales by the recording industry association of america and has sold 17 million copies in the us a different me is coles third album released in 2008 the album debuted at number two on the billboard 200 with first week sales of 322000 the highest of coles career the album has been certified platinum by the riaacalling all hearts is coles fourth album released on december 21 2010 in the united states by geffen records the album debuted and peaked at number nine on the billboard 200 with first week sales of 129000 the album has sold 400000 copies in the us as of november 2012coles fifth album woman to woman 2012 debuted at number ten on the billboard 200 with first week sales of 96000 lower than her last effort the album has sold 329000 copies in the us as of september 2013besides music cole has ventured into reality television she signed to a record breaking realitydocumentary series keyshia cole the way it is which aired on bet from 2006 until 2008 giving viewers a closer look into coles career and family life with her biological mother and sister her second reality show family first premiered on october 9 2012 her third reality show keyshia cole all in will premiere on february 24 2015 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jeoff_Long>,Jeoff Long,jeoffrey keith long born october 9 1941 is an american former professional baseball player although he began his career as a pitcher long struggled on the mound during his first two minor league seasons and converted to first baseman in his third season to take advantage of his powerful bat he reached major league baseball at the age of 21 and spent part of the 1963 season and all of 1964 as a member of the st louis cardinals and chicago white soxlong threw and batted righthanded stood 6 feet 1 inch 185 m tall and weighed 200 pounds 91 kg he signed with the cardinals in 1959 after graduating from high school in erlanger kentucky as a pitcher in his first two years in the low minors he compiled a record of two wins and 14 defeats in 45 games but successfully changed positions in 1961 and the following year he swatted 30 home runs for the tulsa oilers of the class aa texas leaguethe cardinals recalled him in july 1963 and he made five appearances as a pinch hitter for them that season garnering one hit the following year he served as a pinch hitter and substitute first baseman and right fielder for the 1964 redbirds through the first week of july he collected four hits including a double and his only mlb homer against the milwaukee braves during a weekend series in may but was restricted to pinch hitting after may 29 the cardinals then sold his contract to the white sox on july 7 to make room for rookie mike shannon eight days later long playing left field slipped and hurt his knee on a wet field at fenway park the injury affected his play in 1964 he would start only two more times for the white sox and restricted him to only 46 minor league games played in 1965 in an attempt to rehabilitate the knee long lost three full seasons 19661968 and he retired after a brief 1969 minor league comeback attempt all told he appeared in 56 major league games and collected 16 hitsafter leaving baseball long joined the family business the cincinnati drum service | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marcus_Vick>,Marcus Vick,marcus deon vick born march 20 1984 is a former professional football player who briefly appeared in one game for the miami dolphins in 2006 he is the younger brother of new york jets quarterback michael vick who also began playing high school football in newport news public schools after accepting a football scholarship to attend virginia tech marcus played quarterback for the team however he was suspended for the entire 2004 season due to many criminal convictions after a conditional reinstatement he started every game in the 2005 season but was involved in several highly publicized incidents during the season including the display of his middle finger to the crowd and stomping on the leg of louisvilles elvis dumervil as well as having additional traffic arrests in early 2006 he was dismissed from the virginia tech football program due to a cumulative effect of legal infractions and unsportsmanlike play vick then declared himself eligible for the nfl spring draft in 2006 but was not selected he was later signed by the miami dolphins as an undrafted free agent but was released from the team on may 1 2007his legal troubles continued after leaving virginia tech and have included a charge of brandishing a firearm against a group of people a civil lawsuit involving a juvenile girl who claimed that she was 15 years old below the legal age of consent in virginia when forced into a sexual situation with vick who was 20 years old and additional traffic incidents and arrests in january 2007 february 2008 and june 2008 in the hampton roads area after the june incident in norfolk he was convicted of dui misdemeanor eluding police and driving on the wrong side of the road and on october 20 2008 received a 12month suspended jail sentence and 530 in fines and his privilege to operate motor vehicles in virginia was suspended for a year in november 2012 after the eagles loss to the new orleans saints on monday night football vick made controversial tweets criticizing the eagles offensive line for troubling vicks brother michael and requesting for him to be traded the tweets have since been deleted he was arrested in georgia on december 30 2013 on charges of driving under the influence of drugs driving without a license and driving with an expired registration according to a forsyth county georgia sheriffs report | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tom_Noddy>,Tom Noddy,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Guy_Sorman>,Guy Sorman,guy sorman born march 10 1944 paris france is a french professor columnist author and public intellectual in economics and philosophy he has written twenty books that promote the ideals of creativity and modern capitalism his views are close to classical liberalism his ideas about renewable energy and environmentalism as expressed in his book progress and its enemies are particularly controversial he is assertive in regard to human rights in china and in regard to democracy in many places including turkey egypt iran chile poland and argentina sorman was a founder of a french ngo action against hunger acf in 1979 and was its president until 1990 when he became its honorary president he is the global advisor of the south korean president sorman has held many government positions in franceguy sorman is also a publisher his company ditions sorman publishes 14 weekly newsletters in france and the magazine france amrique in the united statessorman is the author of twenty books on contemporary affairs he is a regular columnist for le figaro in france the wall street journal and city journal as a contributing editor in the united states dong a in korea fakt in poland la nacion in argentina and other foreign publications sorman taught economics at the paris institute of political sciences from 1970 to 2000 and at foreign universities in 1985 he was a visiting scholar at stanford hoover institution he has also held several public offices including advisor to the prime minister of france 19951997 member of the national commission for human rights and deputy mayor of boulogne since 1995 near paris and recently as chairman of greater paris west economic and social councilhe attended the new york carnegie council on april 9 2008 where he talked about china and how it is socially developing as a nation presenting his new book the empire of lies newly translated into english he says there are not 2 million tibetans in china there are 1 billion tibetans in china the idea was to show that chinese people also suffer the same oppression as tibetans in his view like the dalai lama he also does not want china to be boycotted for the olympicssormans next book on economy as a science economics doesnt lie a defense of the free market in a time of crisis has been published july 2009 by encounter new york also in one of his lectures should we fear china on january 2011 at asan institute for policy studies he mentioned china as a country to be concerned about because its unpredictability will continue as long as it maintains its economic policies and the communist partys role in the government he further stated that chinese economy needs innovation and needs to make its exchange currency renminbi convertibleguy sorman also wrote many articles regarding globalization and asias growing economy in his what is the west2008 he claimed the term westernization is vague and it is hard to draw a line between the west and the east in his what asian century 2010 he stated that in asia there are still too many weaknesses such as absence of coordinating institutions no innovations and declining asian countries for the 21st century to become the asian century as many scholars predict instead he believes we have entered the global century where interdependence on one another increases and where there is no such thing as national economy or national problem | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Cassidy>,Stephen Cassidy,stephen cassidy is the president of the uniformed firefighters association of fire department of new york firefighterscassidy is a vocal critic of former new york city mayor rudy giulianis record of response to the september 11 2001 terrorist attackshe charges that giulianis reputation of a hero or as americas mayor is an undeserved myth he has key appearances in the international association of fire fighters video rudy giuliani urban legend released on july 11 2007 to fire departments across the us the dvd rebroadcasts images of the collapsing twin towers the video outlines new york firefighters complaints against giuliani in the video cassidy said the things that we needed to do our jobs even better we didnt have because of his administration he added on the heroic memory of 343 dead firefighters he wants to run for president of the united states its a disgrace many other present and former iaff leaders and firefighters from new york city appear in the video he faulted the 911 commission for its treatment of giuliani the 911 commission gave rudy giuliani a pass not asking him tough questions about what he knew when he knew it or why he failed to provide respirators to firefighters and other first responders he said that the lack of respirators led to exposure of first responders to fatal or otherwise serious pathogenshe has criticized the reduction of the number of firehouses in brooklyn while up to 60000 units of housing are planned for waterfront areas of brooklynin 2007 he sided with the fire department and the city of new york in a federal lawsuit initiated by the vulcan society of black firefighters which charged that the written entrance exams had disparate impact on minority candidateshe endorsed president george w bush in his 2004 reelection bid in midjuly 2007 he and former new york senator alfonse damato had what marcia kramer of wcbstv called a friendly breakfast with potential republican presidential candidate fred thompson | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jack_McMahan>,Jack McMahan,jack wally mcmahan born july 22 1932 in hot springs arkansas is a former righthanded batting lefthanded throwing major league baseball pitcher who played in 1956 for the pittsburgh pirates and kansas city athleticshe attended university of arkansas at little rockoriginally signed by the new york yankees prior to the 1952 season mcmahon was drafted by the pirates from the yankees in the 1955 rule 5 drafthe made his big league debut on april 18 1956 in eleven games with the pirates he posted a 608 era after allowing eighteen hits and nine earned runs in 1313 innings of work on june 23 he was traded by the pirates with curt roberts to the athletics for spook jacobs although he lowered his era with the athletics to 482 he still went 05 in 23 games nine starts with them in 612 innings he walked 31 batters and struck out only 13 between the two teams he went 05 with a 504 era in 34 games nine started in exactly 75 innings of work he allowed 87 hits and 40 walks he had only 22 strikeouts he was also an 0fer as a batter as well in 15 at bats he collected zero hits but he did strikeout 8 times he played his final big league game on september 23although he never appeared in the majors after 1956 he was still active in the minors and he was involved in a big trade that took place between the athletics and yankees while in the minors on february 19 1957 the athletics with players to be named later wayne belardi art ditmar and bobby shantz sent mcmahan to the yankees for a player to be named later irv noren milt graff mickey mcdermott tom morgan rip coleman and billy hunter the yankees sent jack urban to the athletics to complete the trade the athletics sent curt roberts and clete boyer to the yankees to complete the trade | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ronald_Caltabiano>,Ronald Caltabiano,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Evans_(actor)>,Stephen Evans (actor),stephen evans born 27 november 1970 is a british actor and comedy writer in theatre film radio and television he graduated with a ba hons degree in theatre at dartington college of arts in devon 199295member of fiveman comedy sketch group dutch elm conservatoire nominated for the prestigious perrier award at the 2005 edinburgh festival fringe for the show dutch elm conservatoire in conspiracythe dutch elm conservatoire performed their last live show prison at the 2006 edinburgh festival fringe and the belfast theatre festival in november 2006 but made several television appearances during 2007 and 2008his television credits include vine in two series of hyperdrive bbc two nighty night bbc two several appearances in my family bbc one and holby city bbc one also fear of fanny by brian fillis directed by coky giedroyc for bbc four and sketch show no signal for sky he also appeared in the green green grass by john sullivan bbc onepast theatre credits include the 24hour play the warp with the late directorperformer ken campbell evans also wrote and performed alongside renton skinner and neil edmond in a sketch troupe called benders 200002 more recently performed in a play called coffee by glyn cannon in 2009 at the edinburgh festival and the waiting mortuary by dave florez at the soho theatre in 2011 in 2009 stephen performed in and directed colin hoults carnival of monsters at the edinburgh festival fringe one year later he performed and directed colin hoults second solo show entitled enemy of the world for 2010 edinburgh fringe festival as well as writing the musical arrangements for the showfilm includes dust spivs and shooters he appeared in an adaptation of the novel the dark is rising the seeker by susan cooper for twentieth century fox he also featured in three short films by actor and writer tim plester antmuzak blakes junction 7 and world of wrestling and a short film written and directed by julian barratt and dan jemmett called curtains other film includes cut paste by renton skinner and rufus jones motion picture house the savage canvas directed by tim hope for passion films and the baron directed by gareth tunleystephen appeared in a television pilot for baby cow productions titled lizzie sarah with jessica hynes and julia davis and the bbc childrens show hotel trubble most recently he featured in doctorsstephen is currently 2014 appearing in colin hoults carnival of monsters on bbc radio 4 he is also developing a solo comedy show called walking whilst appearing on the london comedy circuit | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Indu_Shahani>,Indu Shahani,indu shahani born july 171951 principal of hr college was appointed the sheriff of mumbai on jan 5 2008 she is the principal of h r college of commerce and economics in south mumbai since 2000 as director academics of hyderabad sind national collegiate board hsncb she is responsible for enhancing the academic standards of all the 29 educational institutions managed by the hsnc board in mumbai including the thadomal shahani engineering college mumbai dr shahani graduated from sydenham college in mumbai and holds a phd in commerce from the university of mumbai and has a teaching experience of 31 yearson january 5 2008 she was sworn in as the sheriff of mumbai an honorary post which links between the citizens and the government providing an opportunity to make a difference within the communities of mumbai by the governor of maharashtra s m krishnadr mrs indu shahanis nomination to boards of large national and global companies has provided the impetus to the platform for significant collaboration between industry and academia as well as bringing diversity to the boards of these corporations given the width of her experienceon assuming charge as sheriff dr shahani immediately launched the womens helpline 1298 with the support of twenty leading ngos promoted voluntary blood donation for the citizens to free the patients from the pressure of procuring blood harnessed student energy for the municipal corporations cleanup mumbai campaign where the student volunteers would blow the sheriffs whistle to keep mumbai city clean initiated the muchneeded green mumbai project and provided for clean drinking water in the mumbai district jail dr shahani has led sheriffs delegations to interact with premier institutions and universities abroada doyenne in the field of academics dr mrs indu shahani has over three decades of teaching experience at the college and university level where she has played the lead role in nurturing future leaders she is a firm believer of a student empowered teachinglearning model which places the responsibility of learning on the learner and which also promotes creative faculty developmentdr indu shahani who is the first indian to be appointed vicechair on the board of the governors of the international baccalaureate and has over a decade of experience with the ib recognised as an international academician dr mrs indu shahani was advisor india for ibo the ibo has over 3000 schools in 140 countries and provides education across the world in india there are over 70 schools run by ibodr shahani holds a phd in commerce from university of mumbai on enhancing academiaindustry linkages at the university level dr shahani holds key positions at the academic council faculty of commerce and board of studies in business managementdr shahani is a visiting faculty member at the university of california berkeley new york university stern school of business usa and she is a lead speaker at various conferences in india and abroad she has also developed many linkages for student and faculty exchanges with leading universities in usa uk australia and new zealanddr shahani has received many awards prominent among them are mumbai women of the decade achievers award by assocham ladies leaguecitizen of mumbai award by rotary club of bombay sindhu gaurav award by international sindhu chamber of commerce womens achievers award by young environmentalists programme trust woman of the year award by junior chamber international excellence in education award at the flo great women achiever awards the giants international education award and achiever of excellence women achievers 2012 by bombay management association recognising her contribution to society at largedr shahani was awarded the honorary doctor of letters degree by the university of westminster in london on november 16 2009 as a tribute to dr shahani the university has instituted the sheriff of mumbais scholarships for women from mumbai to study a mastersprogramme in the years 2008 and 2009a visionary and a thought leader dr mrs indu shahani has been acknowledged worldwide for her significant contribution to education and valuebased leadership | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Goldstuck>,Arthur Goldstuck,arthur goldstuck born 1959 is a south african journalist media analyst and commentator on information and communications technology ict internet and mobile communications and technologies he grew up in trompsburg free state south africa and resides in johannesburg south africagoldstuck led early research into the size of the internet user population and the extent of web commerce in south africa which established trend lines for internet growth in the country today goldstuck heads the world wide worx research organization and has led research into ict issues like the impact of it on small business the role of mobile technologies in business and government and the technology challenges of the financial services sectorfrom the beginning of 2009 both the international telecommunications union itu and internetworldstats 1 have used world wide worx statistics when providing internet data for south africagoldstuck established the first benchmarks for web strategy and web site evaluation in south africa and leads a team of usability experts that advises on web site usability and strategy he represented south africa as a judge for the interactive category of the cannes international advertising festival in france in june 2002 and as a judge in the online category of the 2003 london international advertising festivalgoldstuck is the author of among other works south africas bestselling it bookthe hitchhikers guide to the internet as well as the art of business on the internet he has written five books on south african urban legends and has contributed as a writer to numerous south african and international publications including the times of london and billboard he was winner of the online category in the telkom ict journalist of the year awards for 2003 and was runnerup in the lifestyle category for 2002 and the business magazine category in 2004he contributes to a number of south african publications on technology and business strategy issues including the radar column for african communications magazine he is editor of the big change an electronic newsletter on business strategy in the hightech economy and of gadget the online consumer technology magazine in 2007 mail guardian invited arthur goldstuck to host his own blog on their thought leader servicehe also lectures at universities and other institutions on trends in technology and business strategy and delivers presentations on his analysis of the technology environment at conferences and corporate events he provided the closing keynote address for the microsoft teched conference in durban in august 2009 looking to the communications revolution of the next ten years | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robert_Watt>,Robert Watt,robert douglas watt lvo frhsc born 1945 was the first chief herald of canada he was appointed at the foundation of the canadian heraldic authority and was succeeded by claire boudreau in 2007watt was born in picton ontario in 1945 he received a bachelor of arts in 1967 and a master of arts in 1968 from carleton university from 1969 to 1970 he was an archivist for the public archives of canada from 1971 to 1973 he was the vancouver city archivist in 1973 he was appointed curator of history at the vancouver centennial museum now the vancouver museum he became chief curator in 1977 and was director from 1980 to 1988 in 1988 he was appointed chief herald of canadarobert watt is married to alison watt the former director university secretariat of simon fraser universityhe was appointed lieutenant of the royal victorian order lvo in the 2008 new year honours and received his insignia from the prince of wales at buckingham palace on may 16 2008 mr watt is also an officer of the most venerable order of the hospital of st john and has been awarded the 125th anniversary of the confederation of canada medalthe queen elizabeth ii golden jubilee medal and the queen elizabeth diamond jubilee medal watt was made an honorary senior fellow of renison university college in 1990watt is currently serving as a citizenship judge in vancouver | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lisa_Rose_Apramian>,Lisa Rose Apramian,lisa rose apramian also known as dr lisa is an armenian american author and director she is most known for the documentary she wrote directed produced not bad for a girl which was executive produced by tina silvey coproduced by kyle c kyle former drummer for venus and the razorblades and the motels and courtney love and kurt cobain the film focused on the women in rock creativity and gender performance it included grunge and womens rock movements such as rock for choice with feminist majority the riot grrrl scene and musicians including artists such as l7 babes in toyland hole and the lunachicks joan jett is also interviewed apramian studied at the university of southern california where she received a bs in psychology and a bs in critical gender studies a ms and phd in counseling psychology and phenomenology she currently facilitates workshops teaches courses and conducts research she occasionally engages in theatrical coaching two of her clients renee humphrey and alicia witt were awarded jury awards for best acting sundance film festival in rafael zelinskys movie funfrom psychcrime database apramian lisa rose psychologist us california while employed as an independent contractor at donovan correctional facility san diego ca apramian was alleged to have engaged in dual relationships with inmates there dual relationships is an ambiguous term and can include acceptable legal and ethical nonexploitive relationships read about positive dual relationships by ofer zur phd httpwwwzurinstitutecomdualconsensushtml while being investigated she continued to work at several more maximum security prisons dr lisa did not need nor desire to contest the allegations but instead surrendered her license while still under investigation in may 24 2004 she chose instead to become a legal advocate for abused prisoners and expose correctional officers and warden corruption within several prisons after a successful lawsuit she helped gang members by exposing them to new worlds she promoted their participationg in gang awareness tfk and prisoners recovery from shu syndrome she is working on a book about her experiences of selfrealization which informed her liberated view and the truth about the allegations she had been studying the teachings of sri ramana maharshi gangaji and exconvict john sherman and incorporating these teachings working with prisoners from consultations within san quentin she moved on to become director of spiral awakening llc and in addition to midwifing paroles she focuses on global womens issues such as helping to eradicate fgm female genital mutilation dog bite prevention expressive arts consciousness and holistic sex research and education at aasect conferences httpwwwaasectorgpdfsaasect41stannualconferenceregistrationpdf you can participate in her womens study at httpwwwsurveymonkeycomsenlightenedpilotsurvey she is currently working on her next feature length film and reintroducing an ancient practice and archetype naga yoga and meditation as part of snake medicine series httpwwwocregistercomarticlessnakes377410snakearoundhtmlpic2 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Raja\'a_Alem>,Raja\'a Alem,rajaa alem arabic born in mecca in 1970 is a saudi arabian novelist from meccahejazshe received her ba in english literatureand works as a tutor for the center for training kindergarten teachers in jeddah saudi arabia she is an active writer of prose and her stylea blend of modern style with traditional themes is unique among saudi authors alem has published several plays three novels and a collection of short stories nahr alhayawan the animal river 1994 she is the recipient of several prestigious international prizesher short story one thousand braids and a governess has been translated into english and published in voices of change short stories by saudi arabian women writers edited by abubaker bagader ava m heinrichsdorff deborah akers her birth in mecca and her family background is highly influential to her work and outlook she has reflected on her relationship with the now overhauled and renovated city mecca saying i belong to a stream of thinking rather than a piece of land to a current that runs everywhere my country is all over the globenow in mecca i felt i belonged not to the ceremonies performed by thousands of bodies but to a spirit that was reaching out to me alone i somehow felt that i was seeing beyond things past the glare of the full moon feeling the elation you experience when you reach the power behind things or maybe it was about the way the moonlight mingled with the longings of the pilgrims some of her works in arabic have been banned writing in english was a significant decision for alem she has said the fact is that my people are drifting away from their own culture and many of them no longer have a clue about what im writing about so i find myself looking for new ways to communicate for other languages and english was the first one that came to handcoming out in another language is a way of shedding inhibitions all the things that made me feel ashamed lost their morbid grip on me and became acceptable ive never read any of my books published in arabic it makes me feel completely naked reading them in another language though i feel alive in a poetic wayamong her significant work khatam sayidi wehadana masra ya rageeb hubba the silk road and many more novelsshe divides her time between jeddah and paris | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Leonardo_%C3%81lvarez_Romo>,Leonardo %C3%81lvarez Romo,leonardo lvarez romo born 7 october 1972 is a mexican politician affiliated to the ecologist green party of mexico former mexican congressman in two occasions he started his political career in 1994 at the campaign of the presidential candidate luis donaldo colosio murrieta along with the actual mexican senator armando ros peter after the assassination of colosio he worked in the environmental ngo that he founded and called cambios changes and continued his studies in political sciences and public administration later on he was the personal assistance of the famous politician manuel camacho solis in the center democratic party from 1997 to 2000 then in november 2000 he affiliate to the green party of mexico from 2000 to 2003 he was the political adviser of the green legislators in the mexican senate and then adviser of the president of the green party of mexico later on he was postulated by his party as deputy of the lix legislature of the mexican congress as a plurinominal representative from 2003 to 2006 there as a congressman he was president of the special commission for the reform of the state member of the commissions of national defense indigenous affairs environmental affairs and fishing affairs he reformed the environmental law to make the army and the navy of mexico participate in the protection of the environment also he left a profound study of the necessities of a political reform for mexico then from 2006 to 2009 he was deputy of the house of representatives of mexico city there he was leader of the greens president of the commission of environmental affairs and in several occasions chairman and vicechairman of the house of representatives of mexico city he reformed the law to create the environmental police to prohibit the use of plastic bags in supermarkets and stores and to create the forest firefighters from 2004 to 2012 he was the secretary of foreign affairs of the green party of mexico he was elected in santiago chile president of the federation of green parties in the americas for the term 20092011 at the moment he works in the federal government at the ministry of environment and natural resources with the position of general director in matters of indigenous legislative and ngos affairs | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kasugafuji_Akihiro>,Kasugafuji Akihiro,kasugafuji akihiro born february 20 1966 as yasunori iwanaga is a former sumo wrestler from oshika miyagi japan he made his professional debut in march 1981 joining kasugayama stable he reached the top makuuchi division in march 1989 reaching his highest rank of maegashira 1 in january 1990 in the same year his stable closed and he moved to ajigawa stable he earned a special prize for fighting spirit in july 1990 he favoured pushing and thrusting techniques and his most common winning kimarite was oshidashi he fought in the top division for a total of 42 tournaments making his final appearance in may 1996 he retired in september of that year and became an elder of the japan sumo association under the name of kasugayama oyakata he reestablished the kasugayama stable and coached the korean born wrestler kasugao to the top division in 2003 in february 2012 he was elected to the sumo associations board of directors and as a result stood down from the day to day running of the stable passing control over to the former hamanishiki and taking the ikazuchi namehe was forced to resign from the sumo association in september 2012 in a scandal involving a bogus expense claim to cover up an affair with a female employee of the association | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paul_McGrath_(politician)>,Paul McGrath (politician),paul mcgrath born 1 february 1948 is a former irish fine gael politician he was a teachta dla td for longfordwestmeath and westmeath constituencies from 1989 to 2007mcgrath a native of ballymore county westmeath was educated at st finians college mullingar and at leeds trinity and all saints college prior to entering national politics he worked as a primary schoolteacher in county westmeathpaul mcgrath was first elected to dil ireann at the 1989 general election as a fine gael candidate in the longfordwestmeath constituency replacing the retiring fine gael td patrick cooney he retained his seat in all subsequent elections which since the 1992 general election has been part of the westmeath constituency in 1991 he was elected as a member of westmeath county council and mullingar town council and was a member of both bodies until his retirement from local politics in 2002in dil ireann he served as fine gael spokesperson on public works from 1993 to 1994 and as front bench spokesperson on education in 1994 while fine gael were in opposition during fine gaels period in government between 1995 and 1997 he was not appointed as a senior or junior minister but was chairperson of the joint oireachtas committee on the family between 1995 and 1997in 1993 mcgrath spoke against the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the debate he remarked that if this bill is passed i am concerned about the possible effect on irish society will we now see exhibitions in public by homosexuals holding hands kissing cuddling etc is homosexual behaviour to be put on a par with heterosexual behaviourin the 29th dil elected in 2002 he was a member of the joint oireachtas committee on finance and the committee on the houses of the oireachtas as well as being fine gaels deputy spokesperson on financein 2005 his westmeath constituency was reconstituted into the new longfordwestmeath constituency in an unexpected move mcgrath retired at the 2007 general election among the reasons cited were his age his dissatisfaction with fine gaels proposed candidate selection strategy in the new constituency and that he felt it unlikely that he would be chosen as a minister if fine gael were returned to government | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bruce_Webster>,Bruce Webster,bruce webster is an expert on information technology as well as a software engineer an entrepreneur and a former game programmerwebster is a 1978 graduate of brigham young university with a bachelors degree in computer science he also did graduate work in computer science at the university of houstonclear lake in southeast houston texaswebster performed the codesign and programming of the original apple ii version of the computer game sundog frozen legacy for ftl games the game was somewhat of a success and is still recognized today as one of the landmark games for early home computers after finishing version 20 of sundog webster quit ftl due to burnout his disenchantment with programming was so severe that he did not take another programming job for four yearsinstead webster went on to write for byte and macworld and taught computer science at his alma mater of brigham young university he later went on to help found another software startup pages software inc where he served as chief technical officer and chief software architect for five yearswebster is the author of several books regarding programming and the programming process 150 articles on computer industry analysis and several white papers hes been an invited speaker at several international it conferences and is an experienced expert witness in it matters in addition he has given presentations at private conferences of the world bank the us intelligence community and us congressional staff he has testified about information technology issues three separate times before congress and has provided analysis and documents to senate and house committeeswebster is the founder of bruce f webster associates llc a company which provides expert analysis in matters involving information technology with a focus on system development project failure intellectual property web and internet technologies and software engineering ibidone of websters current projects is the sundog resurrection project an opensource rewrite of his early game his original plan was to implement it in java but it has since been started in python without his involvement | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uffe_Elb%C3%A6k>,Uffe Elb%C3%A6k,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gary_R._Roberts>,Gary R. Roberts,gary r roberts is the former dean of the indiana university robert h mckinney school of law and gerald l bepko professor of law roberts earned his bachelor of arts degree from bradley university and his jd from stanford university in 1970 and 1975 respectivelyafter completing his legal studies roberts clerked for the honorable ben c duniway on the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit in san francisco in 1976 he entered private practice in washington dc with the firm of covington burling specializing in sports law in 1983 he became a faculty member at tulane law school in new orleans and eventually was named the deputy dean sumter davis marks professor of law and sports law program director since 1987 roberts has been on the board of directors for the sports lawyer association and has since edited a monthly sports newsletter and the publication of the sports lawyers journal he served as president of the association from 1995 through 1997as a practitioner of sports law his clients have included major sports leagues and associations teams players and coaches in the us and englandroberts joined the indiana university robert h mckinney school of law as dean in july 2007 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ken_Monkou>,Ken Monkou,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marc_Butan>,Marc Butan,marc butan is an american film producer who runs 2929 productions a production and financing arm of 2929 entertainment formed in 2003 as of 2013 2929 productions projects included godsend starring robert de niro greg kinnear and rebecca romijnstamos criminal starring john c reilly and maggie gyllenhaal and produced by steven soderbergh and george clooney the jacket starring adrien brody and keira knightley and also produced by soderbergh and clooney good night and good luck which has been nominated for six academy awards and akeelah and the bee starring laurence fishburne angela bassett and keke palmerprior to joining 2929 productions butan was executive vice president of production at lions gate entertainment where he was responsible for overseeing all creative elements of film development and inhouse film production at the studio while at lions gate butan produced or was executive producer for films including godsend confidence directed by james foley and starring edward burns rachel weisz andy garca and dustin hoffman and the rules of attraction directed by roger avary butan was previously an independent producer producing films for miramax lions gate and samuel goldwyn films and as a media and entertainment investment banker for kidder peabody co and prudential financialbutan is a native of dayton ohio and an alumnus of ohio state university where he became a member of phi kappa tau fraternity | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mathias_Woo>,Mathias Woo,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bruce_Adolphe>,Bruce Adolphe,bruce adolphe born may 31 1955 is a us composer and music scholar the author of several books on music and pianist he earned a bm and mm from juilliard in 1976 his current positions include resident lecturer and director of family concerts of the chamber music society of lincoln center and founder and creative director of the learning maestros formerly called pollyrhythm productions he creates and performs a weekly piano puzzler segment on the nationally broadcast performance today classical music radio program hosted by fred child the piano puzzler show was heard on national public radio starting in 2002 and is now on american public media it is available as a podcast and from itunesadolphe has composed music for yoyo ma itzhak perlman joshua bell carlo grante sylvia mcnair the beaux arts trio the brentano string quartet the miami quartet the national symphony the orpheus chamber orchestra the chicago chamber musicians the chamber music society of lincoln center and many other renowned performers and organizations in 2009 adolphes oneact opera let freedom sing the story of marian anderson with a libretto by carolivia herron was premiered at the atlas theater in washington dc by the washington national opera and the washington performing arts society who commissioned the opera also in 2009 adolphes violin concerto was premiered by violinist eugene drucker a member of the emerson string quartet with the idyllwild academy orchestra conducted by peter askim at the redcat theater of disney hall in los angeles and an evening of adolphes chamber music was presented at the kennedy center music is for childrens chorus and youth orchestra was premiered as part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the thurnauer school of music in june 2009 with the young peoples chorus of new york city and the thurnauer orchestra adolphes cantata on themes of social justice civil rights and freedom around the world reach out raise hope change society was commissioned to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the school of social work of the university of michigan it was premiered by the chamber chorus and musicians of the universitys school of music conducted by jerry blackstone in november 2011 in 2015 adolphes violin concerto inspired by the life of joachim prinz rabbi in berlin during the nazi regime and later a civil rights leader with martin luther king jr in the us receives its premiere with the iris orchestra conducted by michael stern with sharon roffman soloist the film einsteins light a documentary about albert einstein by nickolas barris is scheduled for release in 2015 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of general relativity the soundtrack features violinist joshua bell adolphes piano concerto is scheduled for a premiere in july 2016 with the philharmonia zrich conducted by fabio luisi with piano soloist carlo granteon may 3 2009 yoyo ma played the world premiere of bruce adolphes self comes to mind a neuroscienceinspired work for solo cello with two percussionists the percussion parts were performed by john ferrari and ayano kataoka self comes to mind is a collaboration with neuroscientist antonio damasio who wrote a text in poetic form about the evolution of consciousness for adolphe specifically for this musical composition the premiere took place at the american museum of natural history in new york city and featured live interactive images that responded to the music the images were based primarily on brain scans created by hanna damasio wife and collaborator of antonio damasio the damasios are the founders and codirectors of the brain and creativity institute in los angeles and have invited bruce adolphe to be composerinresidence there previous to his collaboration with damasio to create self comes to mind adolphe composed two other works based on passages in antonio damasios book descartes error memories of a possible future for piano and string quartet and body loops for piano and orchestraadolphe is also known for his repertoire of compositions for young listeners these works created primarily for his company the learning maestros are interdisciplinary in nature combining music with science literature history visual arts and current topics these works include tyrannosaurus sue a cretaceous concerto premiered by the chicago chamber musicians in 2000 at the field museum of chicago for the unveiling of the trex sue red dogs and pink skies a musical celebration of paul gauguin created in conjunction with an exhibition at the metropolitan museum of art in new york city witches wizards spells and elves the magic of shakespeare premiered by chicago shakespeare theater actors and the chicago chamber musicians tough turkey in the big city a thanksgiving comedy with a script by louise gikow featuring a bass trombone as the turkey premiered at chamber music northwest in oregon and at the chamber music society of lincoln center new york and zephyronia a piece about the power of wind energy created with writer louise gikow for the imani winds who both perform the music for wind quintet and act the parts of the characters in the story all of these works are recordedthe learning maestros is adolphes interdisciplinary education company cofounded and directed with julian fifer an impresario best known as founder and executive director of the orpheus chamber orchestra their large repertoire of works cds books and projects for all ages can be found at wwwthelearningmaestroscom adolphes music is recorded on naxos cri pollyrhythm new world koch musicmenlo archives delos and other labels his film scores include the permanent documentary shown in the holocaust museum washington dc | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sidney_Samson>,Sidney Samson,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kerr_Cuhulain>,Kerr Cuhulain,kerr cuhulain is the pen name of canadian occult author and retired detective constable charles ennis a former child abuse investigator he is the author of several articles on child abuse investigation that appeared in law order magazine a former air force officer cuhulain was a police officer for over 28 years a police dispatcher for another 8 years and a wiccan for over forty hes served on the swat team gang crime unit and hostage negotiation teambetter known to the pagan community by his wiccan name kerr cuhulain ennis was the first wiccan police officer to go public about his beliefs 36 years ago he is the former preceptor general of officers of avalon a nonprofit benevolent association for pagan and wiccan law enforcement firefighting and emergency medical personnel and their families he is a frequent contributor to the witches voice networking website and has applied his abilities as an investigative journalist to the histories of several controversial individuals in the neopagan and new age communities such as john todd and michael warnke he speaks at writers conferences and pagan festivals throughout north americancuhulain lives in sechelt british columbia he founded an order of knighthood the order of paladins wwworderofpaladinscom he now also writes fantasy fiction as c a ennis and paranormal romance as carrie bryce | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Merrow>,John Merrow,john merrow born june 14 1941 is a broadcast journalist who has reported on education issues for more than three decades he serves as the education correspondent for the pbs newshour program these features often under the umbrella heading of the merrow report have become a staple of education reporting on public broadcasting additionally he is currently the executive producer host and president of learning matters inc a notforprofit corporation that creates television radio and online segments and documentaries focusing primarily on education merrow earned an ab from dartmouth college in 1964 and received an ma degree in american studies from indiana university in 1968 in 1973 merrow graduated from the harvard graduate school of education with a doctorate in education and social policy he began his career as an education reporter in 1974 when national public radio began airing his first investigative reports on the nations schools merrow quickly developed a devoted following with his program options in education which aired for eight years the weekly radio broadcast received the prestigious george polk award in 1981merrow later produced a sevenpart television series for pbs along the same lines entitled your children our children this program received an emmy nomination in 1984 he also served as education correspondent for the macneillehrer newshour for five years 19851990 and briefly occupied a similar position with the learning channel before returning to the pbs program in 1993in 1995 merrow established learning matters which produces his newshour reports along with other media content in 1998 he created listen up a project which trains disadvantaged youth and their teachers in broadcast production skills and techniques he received the george foster peabody award in 2001 for school sleuth the case of an excellent school and won a second peabody award for listen ups production beyond borders in 2006 in 2005 and 2007 learning matters programming received emmy nominations in 2012 merrow was honored with the prestigious harold w mcgraw prize in education merrow is also a published book author he wrote choosing excellence 2001 below c level 2010 and the influence of teachers 2011 he also coedited with richard hersh declining by degrees 2005 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giovanni_Carrara>,Giovanni Carrara,giovanni carrara jimnez carrahra born march 4 1968 is a retired major league baseball pitcher he most recently pitched in mlb for the los angeles dodgers carrara bats and throws righthanded he established himself as a valuable middle relief man in mlb but is a starter in italya failed starter in mlb he converted to an effective long reliever carrara has a 9092 mph fastball he also throws a couple of breaking balls a deceptive slow curve as his offspeed pitch and a hard one that is somewhere between a slider and cut fastball he controls the running game as well with a good move to both first base and second and a quick delivery to the plateon august 15 2001 carrara combined with fellow venezuelan pitchers omar daal kelvim escobar and freddy garca to win their respective starts carrara of the dodgers facing montreal 131 daal in a phillies victory over the brewers 86 escobar of the blue jays over oakland 52 and garca of seattle against the red sox 62 this marked the first time in major league history that four pitchers coming from venezuela have recorded a winning game in their respective starts in the same dayon august 26 2006 carrara was designated for assignment by the dodgers he was called up in september 2006 when rosters expanded and used sparingly after rejoining the big league club the dodgers chose not to resign carrara in the offseasonon may 4 2007 carrara was signed by the caff danesi nettuno of serie a1 in italy in 2008 he was 82 with a 235 era and 49 strikeouts | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Henkjan_Honing>,Henkjan Honing,henkjan honing born 1959 in hilversum is a dutch researcher he is professor of music cognition at both the faculty of humanities and the faculty of science of the university of amsterdam uva he conducts his research under the auspices of the institute for logic language and computation illc and the university of amsterdams brain and cognition abc centerhoning obtained his phd at city university london in 1991 with research into the representation of time and temporal structure in music during the period between 1992 and 1997 he worked as a knaw research fellow academieonderzoeker at the university of amsterdams institute for logic language and computation illc where he conducted a study on the formalization of musical knowledge up until 2003 he worked as a research coordinator at the nijmegen institute for cognition and information nici where he specialized in the computational modeling of music cognition in 2007 he was appointed associate professor in music cognition at the university of amsterdams musicology capacity group in 2010 he was awarded the knawhendrik muller chair designated on behalf of the royal netherlands academy of arts and sciences knaw in 2012 he was appointed strategic professor of cognitive and computational musicology and in 2014 he became full professor in music cognition at both the faculty of humanities and the faculty of science of the university of amsterdam henkjan is the older brother of the saxophonist yuri honing | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Eigen>,Peter Eigen,peter eigen born june 11 1938 in augsburg germany founded the advisory council of transparency international ti a nongovernmental organization promoting transparency and accountability in international development since 1993 headquartered in berlin ti supports national chapters in more than 90 countries a lawyer by training eigen has worked in economic development for 25 years mainly as a world bank manager of programmes in africa and latin america under ford foundation sponsorship he provided legal and technical assistance to the governments of botswana and namibia and taught law at the universities of frankfurt and georgetownin september 2001 eigen joined the carnegie endowment for international peace as visiting scholar while teaching at johns hopkins university sais he also joined the board of the centre for international environmental law ciel and since 2002 has been teaching as an honorary professor of political science of the freie universitt berlin in 2005 eigen chaired the international advisory group of the extractive industries transparency initiative eiti and became chair of eiti in 2006in 2000 he received the award of honorary doctor of the open university uk and in 2004 received the readers digest award european of the year 2004from 1988 to 1991 he was the director of the regional mission for eastern africa of the world bank and from 1999 to 2001 eigen was a faculty member of the john f kennedy school of government at harvard universityeigen is a member of the africa progress panel app a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in africa every year the panel releases a report the africa progress report that outlines an issue of immediate importance to the continent and suggests a set of associated policies in 2012 the africa progress report highlighted issues of jobs justice and equity the 2013 report will outline issues relating to oil gas and mining in africain 2007 peter eigen together with burkhard gnrig founded the berlin civil society center and is currently the organisations chairin 2004 he married gesine schwan the socialdemocrat candidate for the federal presidential elections in germany in 2004 and 2009 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Andrey_Kuraev>,Andrey Kuraev,andrey vyacheslavovich kuraev russian born 15 february 1963 is a russian orthodox protodeacon protodeacon means firstservant in greek language but in the russian orthodox church it is an honorary title given to married deacons andreey kuraev became a deacon on 29 november 1983 and then a protodeacon of the russian orthodox church on 5 april 2009he studied at moscow theological academy seminary in 19851988 and graduated from moscow theological academy in 1992 he studied in bucharest theological institute bucharest romania during 19881990 andrey kuraev worked as the dean of russian orthodox university during 19931996he received his kandidat of philosophy degree from the philosophy institute ru of russian academy of sciences in 1994 in 1995 he received the kandidat of theology degree from moscow theological academy for his thesis tradition dogma ceremonyandrey kuraev wrote a very harsh book how to relate to islam after beslan after the tragedy of beslan school hostage crisis and that book ignite an intense and emotional discussions in the society back in 2004 a similar and even more intense discussions outbreak happens then kuraev commented the etnical and religious background of tsarnaev brothers who organized boston marathon bombings at april 2013several mass media reported that kuraev had pleaded to counter the radical politics of mejlis of the crimean tatar people illegal ethnical parliament of crimean tatars during his lection tour in crimea september 2006he drowned an analogy between a radical policy of that mejlis and a mobyoungster behaviour in men society he became a laureate of the man of the year premia at 2008andrey kuraev is the only one cleric of russian orthodox church who is writing since october 2013 about existence of gay lobby inside the russian orthodox church on the different levels this kind of accusations constantly provoke a negative responses from church officialsthe science board of moscow theological academy at 30 december 2013 decided to dismiss andrey kuraev from the staff of the academy because of his provocative and scandal activity in mass media and in his blogkuraev has been outraged by that decision blaming that this is a revenge of the gay lobby he is certain that his dismissal caused by his exposure of homosexual scandal in kazan theological seminary which lead to attorney investigation afterwards one cleric was fired then at march 2014 most of administration members were dismissed too and his publically known position about crime process and prison punishment for pussy riot group members | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alice_Doria-Gamilla>,Alice Doria-Gamilla,filealice doriagamilla black and whitejpgalice doriagamilla became remarkable for her composition of a million thanks to you using her original piano arrangement in 1960 the song was later on recorded by asias queen of songs pilita corrales which hit the millionth mark in sales which was a first in the philippine recording history it eventually became the signature song of pilitas longest running musical show on television an evening with pilita it was later recorded by bobbi martin of the jackie gleason show in the united states under coral records the song was such a big hit it was recorded in 7 different languages after she was born on 20 september 1931 in nagcarlan laguna philippines as someone who could play the piano by ear at the age of three she was given formal instructions when she was six she was reared in an atmosphere of music teaching by her mother socorro plantilla cuento father santos montaano doria and elder sister consuelo cuento doriashe completed elementary teachers certificate at the national university she first worked as a critic teacher for two years at the elementary department of national university she became the pianist of the division city schools of manila and a demonstrator and choral conductor of teachers and childrens group as a new discovered composer in 1964 she was featured as a pianist playing her own compositions in the television filipinesque show in channel 3 sponsored by northern motors in coordination with music promotion foundation of the philippines another composition she made which was to become as popular as a million thanks to you was her sa lahat ng oras she took up bachelor of science in education and graduated as magna cum laude at the national university manila in 1965 she continued her music studies at the university of santo tomas majored in piano under professor bernardino custodio alice took up further studies in composition under professor felipe padilla de leon to date she had composed more than 300 published unpublished recorded and unrecorded songs she appeared in various concerts for sociocivic organizationsradio and television shows both in the philippines and in the us alice received numerous awards and citations in the musical arts sector but she considers as her crowning glory when she was bestowed the gintong ina award for the musical arts sector in 1982 she was a memberboard of trustee of the filipino society of composers authors and publishers filscap for many years | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Hall_(baseball)>,Albert Hall (baseball),albert hall born march 7 1958 in birmingham alabama is an american former professional baseball player who played the majority of his major league career for the atlanta braves hall appeared in a total of 375 games played in the national league between 19811989 and 355 of those were as a member of the braves he added twenty games to his mlb rsum at the end of his career with the 1989 pittsburgh pirateshall was a switch hitter who threw righthanded he stood 5 feet 11 inches 180 m tall and weighed 155 pounds 70 kg he was selected by the braves in the sixth round of the 1977 major league baseball draft out of birminghams jones valley high school after spending his first two professional seasons in rookie ball hall quickly developed a reputation as a prolific base stealer in minor league baseball in successive seasons he stole 66 1979 100 1980 60 1981 and 62 1982 bases at progressively higher levels of the braves farm system then in 1986 he stole 72 bases for the triplea richmond braveshall spent only two full seasons 1984 and 1987 in major league baseball his finest big league season was 1987 when he set mlbcareer highs in games played 92 runs scored 54 hits 83 doubles 20 triples 4 home runs three runs batted in 24 stolen bases 33 and batting average 284 on september 23 he became the first atlanta brave to hit for the cycleduring his mlb career hall stole 67 bases and was caught stealing 29 times 698 in the minors he had 455 thefts in 566 attempts 803 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Lafortune>,Charles Lafortune,charles lafortune born july 25 1969 is a canadian actor and radio and television hostlafortune grew up in saintbruno quebec he graduated from conservatoire dart dramatique de montral in 1993 he appeared in a number of canadian television films and series in quebec including watatatow in 1990 with other notable series including diva zone de turbulence catherine riviredesjrmie and les poupes russes he has played roles on stage in a number of theatrical productions on thtre du rideau vert le thtre jean duceppe la licorne and thtre stdenishe also hosted a number of important quebec television shows including chasse lhomme but he was hugely famous for lcole des fans for five seasons from 2003 to 2008 in a format similar to one presented on french television by jacques martin where young children interprete songs in presence of the original artist in 2003 he also hosted the multiple awards winning tv game show le cercle on tva for six consecutive seasons from 2005 to 2011 and la classe de 5e quebec version of the tv game show are you smarter than a 5th grader between 2005 and 2007 he hosted the charitable tlthon opration enfants soleilhe was presenter of until june 2011 selftitled radio programme lafortune vous sourit in 2011 closely followed by les poids lourds de retour ckoifm radio station as a cohost with patrick marsolais and mario tremblay in 2013 he became host of inaugural season of la voix the french canadian version of the voice he was renewed for hosting a second season of the show in january 2014in 2012 he cofounded the production house c majuscule mdia in partnership with jacquelin bouchard of pixcom the company launched the web series marc gendron et ses amis starring phil roy | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Joseph_Garrett>,Joseph Garrett,joseph garrett is an english youtube commentator who posts videos about the game minecraft as the character stampy cat in 2014 garretts was one of the ten most watched youtube channels in the worldthe channel is aimed at children and his audience is largely 6 to 14yearolds as the character of stampy cat an orange cat garrett tells stories within minecraft as well as giving viewers ideas for activities to pursue with their friends garrett describes the character as a bigger brighter better version of himself he receives correspondence from his viewers and thinks they see him as a friend rather than a presenter in a studio other characters in the videos include iballisticsquid played by garretts friend david spencergarrett studied video production at university and initially intended to be a games journalist his early youtube work consisted of lets play videos which he made for his own amusement when he noticed that his primary audience was children he reoriented his work to be familyfriendly when the videos became popular garrett left his job as a barman to focus on producing the content fulltimein april 2014 garrett launched a spinoff educational youtube channel in collaboration with maker studios the series wonder quest is scripted professionally produced and designed so that it can be used in classrooms garrett has also been attached to a minecraft film | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Astrid_Yunadi>,Astrid Yunadi,astrid ellena indriana yunadi or presently known as astrid ellena is the titleholder of miss indonesia 2011 raised in surabaya indonesia and gaithersburg maryland united states she is also an accomplished piano player for which during her school year in the united states brought her opportunities to performed live in few places including the us state department representing east java astrid ellena was crowned as miss indonesia 2011 on june 3 2011 at central park jakarta astrid ellena represented indonesia at the miss world 2011 pageant in london united kingdom along with contestants from 113 other countries and placed in the semifinals top 15 top 10 talent and she also won miss beauty with a purpose award along with miss ghana she was the first indonesian to placed in the semifinalists in miss world historyshes an international relations student at pelita harapan university ellena had won several beauty pageants before winning miss indonesia in 2011 including miss pelita harapan university in her college ellena was previously educated at quince orchard high school in maryland united states graduating as a distinguished honor student ellena speaks indonesian fluently along with some spanish mandarin and englishshe wants to be a diplomat in order to promote indonesian culture to the world | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Danko>,James Danko,james m danko is the current president of butler universitydanko was appointed dean of the villanova school of business vsb in 2005 with danko as dean vsb has moved from an unranked regional college to a nationally ranked american business school in just over four years financial gifts to vsb have quadrupled applications to the school have more than doubled student quality has reached an alltime high at both undergraduate and graduate program levels vsb is ranked 7 in the nation for its undergraduate program by businessweek magazine and the executive mba programs have been recognized by the financial times and businessweek as being among the best in the world media mentions of the school have moved from fewer than 20 citations to over 500 million brand impressions per year danko is regularly featured in the media and invited to speak at conferences as an expert on business school strategy business education curricular innovation and executive development he works closely with the association to advance collegiate schools of business aacsb international on initiatives including accreditation and leadership education danko currently serves on the board of the graduate management admissions council gmac and served three consecutive terms as president and board member of mba roundtable mbardanko earned his bachelors degree in religious studies at john carroll university and his mba at the university of michigan prior to work at villanova danko worked at tuck school at dartmouth the university of michigan and uncchapel hill danko was named the 21st president of butler university on april 27 2011 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Daniel_Janssen>,Daniel Janssen,daniel janssen born brussels 15 april 1936 is a belgian businessman he is a son of charlesemmanuel janssen liberal deputy of walloon brabant and maya bol daughter of the vicepresident of the senate pol bol he married thrse bracht and together they have three children charlesantoine janssen b 1971 nicolas janssen b 1974 and edouard janssen b 1978he started school at the hamade school of brussels 1940 1945 continued at the athenaeum robert catteau of brussels 1945 to 1953 from 1953 until 1958 he then studied at the polytechnic faculty of the universite libre de bruxelles ulb where he graduates as civil engineer in nuclear physics from 1959 until 1960 he worked at the cabinet of commissioner de groote at euratom after which he studied at harvard business school in the united states from 1960 to 1962 where he obtains an mbafrom 1962 to 1984 he worked at the union chimique belge as an engineer then director of rd and then president of the executive committee from 1975 to 1984 he was vicepresident of the board of directors from 1986 onwards he was successively ceo and chairman of solvayduring his career he was chairman of the federation des entreprises de belgique and of cefic he served on various advisory boards including fortis he offered a chair for corporate social responsibility to the solvay business school in may 2006 he retired he is a member of the executive committee of the trilateral commission and a member of the european round table of industrialists ert he is a former member of the steering committee of the bilderberg group | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Xiao-Gang_Wen>,Xiao-Gang Wen,xiaogang wen simplified chinese traditional chinese pinyin wen2 xiao3 gang1 born november 26 1961 is a chineseborn american physicist he is a cecil and ida green professor of physics at the massachusetts institute of technology his expertise is in condensed matter theory in strongly correlated electronic systemshe is the author of a wellknown book in advanced quantum manybody theory entitled quantum field theory of manybody systems from the origin of sound to an origin of light and electrons oxford university press 2004wen studied superstring theory under theoretical physicist edward witten at princeton university where he received his phd degree in 1987 he later switched his research field to condensed matter physics while working with theoretical physicists robert schrieffer frank wilczek anthony zee in institute for theoretical physics uc santa barbara19871989wen introduced the notion of topological order 1989 and quantum order 2002 to describe a new class of matter states this opens up a new research direction in condensed matter physics he found that states with topological order contain nontrivial boundary excitations and developed chiral luttinger theory for the boundary states 1990 the boundary states can become ideal conduction channel which may lead to device application of topological phases he proposed the simplest topological order z2 topological order 1990 which turns out to be the topological order in the toric code he also proposed a special class of topological order nonabelian quantum hall states they contain emergent particles with nonabelian statistics which generalizes the well known bose and fermi statistics nonabelian particles may allow us to perform fault tolerant quantum computations with michael levin he found that stringnet condensations can give rise to a large class of topological orders 2005 in particular stringnet condensation provides a unified origin of photons electrons and other elementary particles 2003 it unifies two fundamental phenomena gauge interactions and fermi statistics he pointed out that topological order is nothing but the pattern of long range entanglements this led to a notion of symmetry protected topological spt order shortrange entangled states with symmetry and its description by group cohomology of the symmetry group 2011 the notion of spt order generalizes the notion of topological insulator to interacting cases he also proposed the su2 gauge theory of high temperature superconductors 1996on september 16 2011 it was announced that dr xiaogang wen would be leaving mit to join the perimeter institute for theoretical physics in waterloo ontario canada | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gunnar_Svensson>,Gunnar Svensson,gunnar svensson born 1956 is a retired swedish ice hockey player and head coach currently working as a sports agent for players like henrik zetterberg andreas pihl and fredrik emvall during his playing career svensson played for rnskldsvik and if bjrklven he began his coaching career in rnskldsvik before signing on to ik vita hsten svensson coached his first and only elitserien club when he signed on a fiveyear contract with djurgrdens if in 1984 svenssons first season in djurgrden went well the team won the league and beat frjestads bk in the semifinals however sdertlje sk proved to be too hard in the final and became swedish champions the following season was quite the opposite djurgrden was close to be relegated and svensson was subsequently fired on 26 january 1986 after his stay in djurgrden he became coach for if trojaljungby until 1988 this marked the end of svenssons coaching career and he went on to be a manager in vita hsten he left his post in vita hsten for the same post in malm redhawks in 1995 after internal conflicts in the club svensson left his position as manager in 1996 and started to work as a sports agentsvensson is the father of the nhls edmonton oilers winger magnus pjrvisvensson | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hadi_Ghabel>,Hadi Ghabel,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gioconda_Vessichelli>,Gioconda Vessichelli,gioconda vessichelli born in rome italy is an opera singer gioconda is the inventor and pioneer of bollywoopera style she has sung in the bollywood movie prague in 2013 on 20 december 2014 the song thodi daaru has been released featuring mika singh and kuwar virk mika singh the king of bollywood and gioconda the queen of opera first time ever in a bollywoopera songa fusion between opera and bollywood style she is in the annual book of italian opera singer for having sung in the first world edition of contemporary opera at teatro comunale di modena broadcast in italian state radio rai gioconda is the first singer in the premiere world ever of the contemporary opera lavinia fuggita by matteo damico she got two degrees in opera singing and musicology in italian conservatory santa cecilia and international high school of opera hwolf the famous tenor luciano pavarotti has been her teacher among lots of other famous opera singers who selected her as one of the best students she is selected as best singer at accademia rossiniana in pesaro and she debuts the difficult role of madama cortese in il viaggio a reims by rossini with the symphonic orchestra of rof at rossini theatre in pesaro she sings again in a rossini opera at ercolano international opera season in il barbiere di siviglia and at teatro politeama opera season in lecce after rossini she debuts carmen by bizet very successful her interpretation of the role mim in the opera la boheme by puccinithanks to her musical versatility she has been invited to the venice awards to sing for the composer ennio morricone with the programme being broadcast on rai italian state television in 2007she works with the great coreographer and director linsday kemp and the conductor david haughton for the opera a midsummer nights dream by benjamin britten at theatre of giglio in lucca and later in teatro verdi in pisa and teatro goldoni in livornoshe is not only singer but also director in the opera tosca at international festival quattro notti in benevento and the next year at the same festival she makes her debut as an actress also and not only as just a singer in la vedova allegra by lehar and as actress and singer again in orfeo allinferno by offenbach at teatro lirico di cagliari as well as in christmas carol with choir and orchestra also with the famous violinist uto ughi and the famous actor michele placido and in germany she sings not only italian opera arias but she is also specialized in lieder at international chamber music academy h wolfshe supports the women cause in a puccini concert with all love opera songs devoted to women she supports aids researche through a concert in french polinesia thaiti papeete where she is honorary citizen also aired in radio as a musicologist she has a deep interest in fusion which has lead her to perform in several concerts among which the one in santa cecilia auditorium in rome with the great italian jazz man renzo arbore and with the great conductor pappanoshe has been the first real opera singer in the world to make a fusion between opera and hindi music she has sung for balaji productions and she often collaborates with the bollywood singer shibani kashyapshe has been the only international member of the jury of miss india worldwide in pune in 2014 in which she also performed an ancient bollywood song pyar hua iqraar in opera version composed by herselfshe has received various invitations from bollywood industry to give not only her voice but also her presence as a special western opera actress in bollywood movies but up to now she is only focused on music and she has just accepted to do the ramp as a model at miss india worldwide because it was linked to a musical performance of her compositionrecently she has accepted to feature as the queen of opera together with the king of bollywood mika singh as a dancer in a special latino passionate style in dilbagh singhs video bottoms up releasing in february 2015she is involved in several philanthropic projects and for that she got the noble chivalric title of dame from cernetic royal house she won the norman international academy medal for her 20 years artistic career as she started very young to sing opera as a prodigy child when she was just 14 years old even if normally an opera singers career starts at around 30 years of age her colleagues in fact were 40 years old and she has grown up faster than her biological agethanks to indian music and a spiritual journey that brought her in india she is rebirthing into new sound suggestions and she said in some interviews that her natural environment is india and the use of oriental quarter of tone that is not present in western music and hindi instruments let her go in trance that s why she wants to live all her lifelong in indiashe sings in italian english hindipunjabi french german spanish bulgarian albanian russian latin languagesgioconda has done live performances as first time ever fusion beetween opera and classical hindi music with great artists of the caliber of gino banks niladri kumar silvaganesha in festivals and prestigious auditoriums like nehru centre in mumbai | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Massimo_Milano>,Massimo Milano,massimo milano born torino 1967 is an ethnomusicologist critic and sound experimentalistmember of aistugia italian association for japanese studies venice and of the international jury of the down beat annual critics poll usa he has been editorinchief of the monthly magazine finis terrae httpwwwfinisterraemagazineit for which he interviewed zimbabwes musical icon in exile thomas mapfumo in addition he regularly contributes to several italian and spanish leading newspapers and magazines il manifesto jam rumore jazzit il giornale della musica carnet amadeus playboy cuadernos de jazzhis activity also includes extensive studies researches and essays on contemporary brazilian music msica popular brasileira its social implications and its leading role in the collective imagination as a paradigm of the socalled world sound he coauthored the encyclopedia of rock recently republished by arcana editrice and during the 90s he actively collaborated as a consultant both for blue note artists the doky brothers and pianist niels lan doky for whom he wrote the liner notes for the album haitek haiku produced by gino vannelli in 1998 he published a book of essays and conversations with japanese composer ryuichi sakamoto ryuichi sakamoto conversazioni featuring a foreword by banana yoshimoto a year later he contributed with a semiological essay transititransits to the catalog for the exhibition musica senza suono soundless music conceived and realized by producer francesco messina and critic enzo gentile for the museo revoltella in trieste italyin 20032004 he settled in tokyo to conduct researches for the japan foundation in collaboration with the kyoto university under the supervision of philosopher akira asada on the theme of the reversed exoticism in modern japanhis upcoming projects include a short essay about the perception of western pop culture in the far east a book about alejandro jodorowsky and his influence on the psychedelic movement the neomysticism and the counterculture of the 1960s and a selfproduced dvd about japan for which hes currently writing the music and the screenplay | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Harvey_Pittel>,Harvey Pittel,harvey pittel born june 22 1943 is an american saxophonist who performs principally in north america and is currently the professor of saxophone at the university of texas at austin sarah and ernest butler school of music in the college of fine artsfollowing studies as a music education major at the university of southern california usc pittel obtained his masters degree under the tutelage of fred hemke at northwestern university and subsequently studied at the juilliard school with joseph allard he performed a solo recital at carnegie hall in 1973 as a winner of the concert artists guild competition he has edited the saxophone and piano reduction of the ingolf dahl concerto for saxophone and band based on his work with dahl during his studies at the university of southern california his version of the concerto is the standard version of this piece played today and has performed the piece under dahl as well as michael tilson thomas and zubin mehta mr pittel has performed with many major orchestras including the los angeles philharmonic louisville orchestra boston symphony new york philharmonic san antonio symphony and austin symphonypittel has been critically acclaimed in leading newspapers and magazines by both harold c schonberg and raymond ericson in the new york times michael steinberg in the boston globe and winthrop sargeant in the new yorker and his many awards include two martha baird rockefeller fund grants and a national endowment for the arts solo recitalist grantfilm soundtracks on which pittel has collaborated include for woody allens manhattan and he has appeared as a guest on the today show and live from lincoln center works written for harvey pittel include the paul chihara saxophone concerto soprano saxophone sonata and milton babbitts images for saxophone and tapeformer students includedr jeffrey benedict faculty department of music california state university los angelesdr dan goble dean school of visual and performing arts western connecticut state university also plays with the harvey pittel saxophone quartet todd oxford faculty school of music texas state university san marcossteve mohacey dr jack cooper faculty university of memphis school of music vincent gnojek faculty school of music university of kansasroger greenberg retired from university of northern coloradojames rotter retired cal state fullerton usc thornton school of musicrobert medina elision saxophone quartettodd yukomoto university of hawaiijavier oviedo faculty western connecticut state universitypaul haar university of nebraskalincoln rami elfarrah faculty school of music university of texas at san antoniomace hibbard georgia state universityjeremy justeson kutztown university of pennsylvania allen won faculty the mannes college for musicwilliam gravesjames hairstondebra mckim hastings college branford marsalis and kenny garrett are among the most notable jazz saxophonists that have studied with pittel | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marat_Dzhumaev>,Marat Dzhumaev,marat dzhumaev born january 12 1976 is an uzbekistani chess grandmaster 2001played for uzbekistan in the chess olympiads of 2000 and 2002 in the world team chess championship of 2001 and in the asian team chess championships of 1999 2003 and 2008 he tied for 1st3rd with ziaur rahman and sergei tiviakov at the 6th united insurance tournament in dhaka 2003 came first at pune 2004 and lucknow 2004 in 2008 he tied for 3rd7th with susanto megaranto darwin laylo draen sermek and ashot nadanian at the 5th dato arthur tan malaysia open chess championship in kuala lumpur in 2009 he tied for 1st2nd with viacheslav zakhartsov in the cappellelagrande open and tied for 2nd5th with tamaz gelashvili luciancostin miron amon simutowe and vladimir burmakin in the rochefort open in the same year he won the hokim cup in tashkent and tied for first with andrey kvon in the tashkent mayors cup in 2011 he tied for 1st3rd with tigran l petrosian and anton filippov in the georgy agzamov memorial in tashkent in 2012 tied for 1st2nd with sethuraman p sethuraman in the rose valley tournament in kolkatain the december 2012 fide list dzhumaev has an elo rating of 2530 making him uzbekistans number three | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jan_Hopkins>,Jan Hopkins,jan hopkins is the president of the economic club of new york she was the anchor of the daily cnn financial news show street sweep from the new york stock exchange hopkins now runs her own strategic communications and marketing companywhile a member of the girl scouts of the usa she earned the curved bar a girl scout gold award predecessor after graduating from hiram college hopkins went to prague with the american friends service committee while she was there soviet tanks rolled in ending the prague spring she pursued a masters degree in american studies and communication at case western reserve university she began her 30year career in journalism during that time working as an intern on a latenight interview talk show as her career in radio and television continued she managed to complete a oneyear fellowship at columbia business school and focused on business journalismshe worked for cbs abc and cnn before joining citibank as managing director of client communications hopkins left citigroup private bank in 2005 to open her own firm the jan hopkins group in new york it is a strategic communications and marketing company specializing in deepening relationships with highnetworth clients the company also provides media coaching and video production services | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Naur>,Peter Naur,peter naur born 25 october 1928 is a danish pioneer in computer science and turing award winner his last name is the n in the bnf notation backusnaur form used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages he contributed to the creation of the algol 60 programming languagehe began his career as an astronomer for which he received his phd degree in 1957 but his encounter with computers led to a change of profession from 1959 to 1969 he was employed at regnecentralen the danish computing institute while at the same time giving lectures at the niels bohr institute and the technical university of denmark from 1969 to 1998 naur was a professor of computer science at university of copenhagenhis main areas of inquiry are design structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms areas such as software engineering and software architecture have also been pioneered by naur in his book computing a human activity 1992 which is a collection of his contributions to computer science he rejects the formalist school of programming that view programming as a branch of mathematics he does not like being associated with the backusnaur form attributed to him by donald knuth and says that he would prefer it to be called the backus normal formnaur was married to computer scientist christiane floydnaur dislikes the very term computer science and suggests it be called datalogy this term has also been adopted in denmark and in sweden as datalogiin later years he has also been quite outspoken of the pursuit of science as a whole naur can possibly be identified with the empiricist school that tells that one shall not seek deeper connections between things that manifest themselves in the world but keep to the observable facts he has attacked both certain strands of philosophy and psychology from this viewpoint he is also currently developing a theory of human thinking which he calls synapsestate theory of mental lifenaur won the 2005 acm am turing award for his work on defining the algol 60 programming language in particular his role as editor of the influential report on the algorithmic language algol 60 with its pioneering use of bnf was recognized naur is the only dane to have won the turing award | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Nivio_Ziviani>,Nivio Ziviani,nivio ziviani belo horizonte brazil august 27 1946 is a professor emeritus at the department of computer science of the federal university of minas gerais ufmg he has a phd in computer science from the university of waterloo canada 1982 nivio ziviani is well known for his research in computer science mainly focused on information retrieval algorithms and web recommender systems as can be seen in his dblp and google scholar he is member of the brazilian academy of sciences and the in 2011 he received the prize of scientific merit of the brazilian computer science society he has erds number 2nivio ziviani is author of the following books about algorithms projeto de algoritmos com implementaes em pascal e em c cengage learning isbn 9788522110506 third edition 2010 in portuguese diseo de algoritmos com implementaciones en pascal y cthomson learning isbn 9788497325387 2007 in spanish translated from the portuguese version projeto de algoritmos com implementaes em java e c thomson learning isbn 8522105251 second edition 2007 in portuguesehe was the creator of one of the first search engines he cofounded the miner technology group in 1998 which was acquired by group folha de so paulo uol in 1999 and a search engine company called akwan information technologies in 2000 which was acquired by google inc in 2005 an acquisition that became worldwide news with akwan google bootstrapped its rd center for latin america which is located in belo horizonte nowadays he is also cofounder and the chairman of the board of zunnit technologies a startup company focused on software for recommending items of interest to web users and cofounder of neemuat ufmg he coordinates the laboratory for treating information latin and is cofounder of the information retrieval group at ufmg he has coauthored over 100 refereed papers and 2 books in algorithm design and information retrieval the latter his primary area of research nivio ziviani was the general cochair of the 28th acm sigir conference on research and development in information retrieval and cofounder and member of the steering committee of the international conference on string processing and information retrieval spire | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alan_Parkinson_(engineer)>,Alan Parkinson (engineer),alan parkinson is a mechanical and nuclear engineer who lives in canberra australia he is also a whistleblower who has written the 2007 book maralinga australias nuclear waste coverup about the cleanup of the british atomic bomb test site at maralinga in south australiain 1993 parkinson became the key person on the maralinga cleanup project representing the then federal labor government through the department of primary industry and energy by 1997 however there was much costcutting involved in the project and differences of opinion about how the project should proceed which led to the sacking of parkinson by the new howard governmentthe cleanup which involved simply burying untreated longlived radioactive debris in holes in the ground was totally unsatisfactory according to parkinson he exposed the situation through the australian broadcasting corporation provoking a strong rebuttal from the government composed of scientific distortion and personal abusethe plan was to collect some of the contaminated soil and bury that soil in a specially prepared trench 15 metres deep several thousand tonnes of debris contaminated with plutonium was to be treated by a process of in situ vitrification after collection and burial of the soil the project moved to the second phase the treatment of 21 pits by vitrification against the advice of parkinson the government department extended the contract of the project manager even though that company had no knowledge of the complex process of vitrification at that stage parkinson was removed from the project the government and the project manager then embarked on a hybrid scheme in which some pits would be exhumed and others treated by vitrification after successfully treating 12 pits there was an unlucky thirteenth during which something in the pit exploded and severely damaged the equipment the government then cancelled the vitrification and simply exhumed the remaining pits placed the debris in a shallow pit and covered it with clean soil | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Abdul_Salam_Azimi>,Abdul Salam Azimi,abdul salam azimi persian born 1936 in farah province was the chief justice of afghanistan and as such the head of the afghan supreme court from may 2006 to october 2014 when he resigned his positiona former professor at the university of nebraska at omaha in the united states azimi served as legal advisor to afghan president hamid karzai and assisted with writing the 2004 constitution of afghanistan he is an ethnic pashtun of the alizai tribe prior to the soviet invasion of 1979 azimi and his family resided in the kabul province of afghanistan and were forced to flee the country in 1981 after the fall of the communist regime and resulting civil war azimi has three daughters and three sons one being abdul ghafar azimi whom studied in omaha nebraska and graduated from the university of nebraska at omaha and another is hanan azimi whom also studied at the university of nebraska at omaha and is a wellrespected teacher in the omaha areaas chief justice azimi replaced faisal ahmad shinwari a conservative islamic cleric with no higher education azimi in contrast is reported to have gained a reputation as a fairminded moderate active in upholding the rule of law and improving the countrys dilapidated legal system | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Thomas_McCarthy_(poet)>,Thomas McCarthy (poet),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/K._Vardachari_Thiruvengadam>,K. Vardachari Thiruvengadam,dr kv thiruvengadam frcpe is an indian physician and medical teacherhe graduated from the stanley medical college in chennai madras in 1950 he was the recipient of the padma shri award 1981 for his contributions in the medical field during his academic career thiruvengadam was declared the best outgoing medical student of the stanley medical college and the university of madras in 1950 he was awarded a number of prizes and medals including the government gold medal of the stanley medical college and the raja of panagal medal for the best outgoing medical student of the university of madras dr thiruvengadam served for 31 years in the madras medical service as a medical teacher he has undergone training in chest diseases under the colombo plan in brompton hospital london and the mrc unit at cardiff from 1958 to 1959 he has been recognized as a medical teacher by the medical council of india with the dr b c roy award for eminent medical teacher and he has been regent for the international college of chest physicians for india his services as a medical teacher have been recognized with distinguished service awards by the ramachandra medical college and by the diabetic association of india the national board of examination honoured him for his services as a medical teacher in 2000 the indian chest society awarded dr thiruvengadam the distinguished chest physician award he has been on the scientific advisory committee of the indian council of medical research the indian pharmacopoeia committee the board of studies of the dr mgr medical university and other institutions as the chief of the medicinal chemistry research unit of the madras medical college he and his colleagues have conducted studies on indigenous medicines especially ayurvedic preparations he has given a number of endowment orations and has a large number of publications to his credit particularly in chest diseases he has been chairman of a session on antibiotics at geneva in 1970 under the auspices of the international college of chest physicians dr thiruvengadam has been a physician in consultation practice in internal medicine chest diseases asthma and allergies for nearly 45 years he is the recipient of the for the sake of honour award of the rotary club of madras the vocational excellence award of the rotary club of madras marina and the cathedral excellence award of the lions club for his academic work he was elected fellow of the royal college of physicians of edinburgh in 1982 and fellow of the academy of medical sciences in 1972 he received the star of stanley award as a distinguished alumnus and teacher of stanley medical college in 2001 the mgr medical university awarded him the honorary doctorate of sciences in 1996 dr kv thiruvengadam was also a student of the late dr ks sanjivi founder of the voluntary health services vhshis late elder brother was also a renown physician dr k v krishnaswami who was the professor of tuberculosis and chest diseases at madras medical college for decades both brothers were awarded the b c roy national award for medical excellence his sister in law late dr mrs k krishnaswami was also a professor of physiology at the madras medical college for decades thus three in the same family were professors at the madras medical college two of his brothersinlaw late dr t s srinivasan also an mrcp and late dr vijayaraghavan were also doctorsdr k v thirvengadam was born october 12 his father was late mr k varadachari a renowned attorney at chennai his mother was mrs pattammalhe had 3 sisters late mrs susila vijayaraghavan late mrs sarojini parthasarathy and mrs lalitha srinivasan | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anna_Parzymies>,Anna Parzymies,anna parzymies b on 5 january 1939 in sofia a polish arabist doctor of oriental studies professor at warsaw university she specializes in three areas of research islam in europe primarily as relates to the maghreb minorities in france chechens ingush tatars and other muslim communities in the russian federation albanians and bosnian muslims in the balkans arabic sociolinguistics and in particular the turkish influences on spoken arabic methodology of historical linguistics with an emphasis on the altaic language groupanna parzymies finished secondary school and college in sofia in the years 19571962 she studied at the faculty of turkish philology at the university of sofia named after st clement of ohrid in 1962 she received a bulgarian government grant to study arabic at bourguiba institute of modern languages institut bourguiba des langues vivantes in tunis in 1971 she received a masters degree at the faculty of foreign languages at warsaw university in 1978 she was awarded a phd degree at the jagiellonian university in krakow following habilitation in 1992 she was awarded a postdoctoral degree in the humanities in the field of turkic linguistics her main research interests include language contacts between turkic and slavic peoples and the cultures of muslim communities | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Nagwa_Fouad>,Nagwa Fouad,nagwa fouad arabic egyptian arabic nw fod born 1936 is a famous egyptian belly dancer after her release she performed at the abdeen casino where she met ahmad fuad hassan her future husband for 6 years a producer of stage shows that later became a famous conductor he convinced her to perform live at the most prestigious music and dance show in the 1960s called adwa el madina city lights which had featured such superstars as shadia abdel halim hafez fayza ahmed and sabah in 1976 the famous composer mohammed abdel wahab wrote an entire musical piece exclusively for her belly dancing show titled qamar arbatashar meaning the full moon of the 14th it was her transition from traditional oriental dance to a choreographed stage performancesthe next important career step was nagwas marriage to ahmed fouad hassan the talented violin player composer and conductor ahmed gave nagwa fouad her chance to appear in the very popular sixties stage show adwoua almadina city lights which had featured such superstars as abdelhalim hafez fayza ahmed shadia and sabah nagwa featured on many of the covers of the ahmed fouad hassan lpscds nagua took every career step well calculated hassan was 17 years older than me but i needed him he nurtured my amateurs talents he taught me the importance of studying and working on my talent if i wanted to be a big star he trained me at the nelly mazloum dance school and i joined the national dance troupe to study folklore with russian teachers nagoua fouad learned showmanship and eyecatching techniques which were obvious in her performances of ayoub almasri and bahiya wa yassin but fouad hassan wanted to have a baby with nagua something she didnt approve to so this eventually led to her first divorce after six years of marriagein 1976 nagwa fouad reached the top of her career when composer mohamed abdelwahab wrote qamar arbaatashar blue moon or 14the moon for her her stage performance to this special piece allowed her to change the way bellydancing was presented on stage transforming it from traditional oriental dance to more of a choreographed lavish spectacle adding more dramatic elements to it than ever before the composition served as a transition for nagwa i was able to combine the oriental dancing of tahiya karioka and samia gamal with naemas acrobatic style and created a stage show like a dramatic piece she says najwa established her own dance group but it did not last long and later tried to retire dancing to become actress she played on the stage and in the cinema and finally became cinema producer | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Chuck_Hartlieb>,Chuck Hartlieb,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jeff_Juden>,Jeff Juden,jeffrey daniel juden born january 19 1971 in salem massachusetts is a former major league baseball player he is 6 ft 8 in 203 m and weighs 270 lbs he batted and threw righthandedjuden was one of the top high school pitching prospects in the nation after his senior season while leading salem high to the state championship he was named the gatorade massachusetts baseball player of the year and the houston astros selected him with the 12th overall pick in the first round of the 1989 june draft he began his professional career that year with sarasota of the florida state league advancing quickly through the minors juden made his major league debut on september 15 1991 becoming the youngest active player in baseball that year when he appeared in relief of chris gardner in a game against the cincinnati redsdespite his early promise and some degree of success as a strikeout artist juden struggled to establish himself in the majors he lacked control often walking more than four batters per nine innings he gave up home runs at a greaterthanaverage rate and experienced a lack of success in holding opposing baserunners his best season was probably 1997 where he pitched 16113 innings for the montreal expos and cleveland indians compiling an 116 record with 136 strikeouts and a 446 era he enjoyed one impressive day with the bat hitting a grand slam on august 25 1995 helping to set an obscure record as the third national league pitcher to do so that seasonjuden was involved in a large number of trades throughout the course of his career he and closer doug jones were sent to the philadelphia phillies after the 1993 season in exchange for mitch williams in 1995 he and prospect tommy eason went to the san francisco giants for infielder mike benjamin two years later juden moved from the montreal expos to the indians for reliever steve kline at the trading deadline and after that season ended he and marquis grissom went to the milwaukee brewers in a deal for mike fetters ben mcdonald and ron villone this deal was enveloped in controversy after it became clear that mcdonald had suffered a careerending shoulder injury shortly before it had been completedjuden inadvertently ignited a public debate when on may 20 1998 a column by san francisco chronicle writer tim keown about a lawsuit by nba player latrell sprewell suggested that sprewell hire the law firm of juden juden and juden a reference to judens personality however as juden is german for jews some people inferred not only a stereotypical reference to jewish lawyers but a reference to the holocaust the remark was changed to jeff juden and associates in later printings of that days paper to avoid any confusionjuden last pitched in the major leagues in 1999 as a member of the 1999 world series champion new york yankees he retired after that season and an attempt at a comeback in 2004 with the nashua pride of the independent atlantic league proved unsuccessful he ended his career with a 2732 record 441 strikeouts and a 481 era in 533 career major league inningsduring judens stint with the indians he wore 7after retiring from professional baseball jeff juden is very active with the makeawish foundation | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hasna_Benhassi>,Hasna Benhassi,hasna benhassi arabic born june 1 1978 in marrakesh is a moroccan middle distance athleteshe first came to international prominence at the 2004 summer olympics in athens greece winning a surprise silver medal behind kelly holmes she repeated this feat by winning silver at the 2005 world athletics championships in helsinki finland at the 2007 world athletics championships in osaka she cemented her place as a perennial bridesmaid with yet another impressive silver medal performance at the 2007 world athletics champions in osaka japan she added another olympic medal to her impressive resume with a bronze medal at the 2008 summer olympicsin beijing chinahasna benhassi is most noted for her strong finishing kick she tends to sit back in the pack in the early stages of a race and begin making her move only midway through the final lap often she successfully comes over the top of runners down the stretch passing rivals to earn important medalsit is also her possible weakness as she often leaves herself just too much ground to make up to catch the gold medalin 2005 benhassi was selected as the best sportsperson in morocco by a survey conducted by the moroccan radio among 43 press institutions | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gary_Nolan_(radio_host)>,Gary Nolan (radio host),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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Matt_Oppenheim>,Matt Oppenheim,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Yekaterina_Lobysheva>,Yekaterina Lobysheva,yekaterina alexandrovna lobysheva russian born 13 march 1985 kolomna is a russian speed skater who won a bronze medal in the womens team pursuit at the 2006 winter olympics and the 2014 winter olympics shes specialized in the distances of 1000 m 1500 m and team pursuitin the season of 200506 lobysheva acted for the first time in the european championships allround after good results on the short distances 1st on 500 m 4th on 1500 m she finished sixth in the rankings thus she placed herself for the world allround speed skating championships in 2006 where she despite her good 500 m second did not qualify for the final 4th distance she was the thirteenth in the rankingin the same year she won three matches at the 1500 world cup in the b group she placed herself for the 1000 and 1500 meters at the olympic winter games in turin she became the eleventh and sixth respectivelyat the european championships allround 2007 lobysheva thanks to third place in the 500 m was thirteenth in the final rankings she was with this class its second world cup championship allround skating together in 2006 and ended on the thirteenth place in the rankingsat the european championships allround 2008 she ended in her hometown kolomna in tenth place in the 500 m she was in first place as in the year 2006 she ensured that these rankings show places for the world allround championship and finished this time in the fourteenth place in the rankingsin the season of 200809 she skated in no european allround championship nor in the world allround championship since this season she decided to work more on her sprint qualities 500 m 1000 m and 1500 m for next years olympics in vancouver her trainer now is sergey klevchenyain 2009 the world sprint championship was in her home country russia moscow this was her second world sprint championship and she ended as 19th in the rankingsat the 2014 olympic wintergames in sochi russia she was a member of the bronze medal winning russian pursuit team | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alan_Moir>,Alan Moir,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Elizabeth_Peet_McIntosh>,Elizabeth Peet McIntosh,elizabeth betty peet mcintosh born 1915 in washington dc usa was known for her undercover work during world war ii for the oss forerunner of the ciashe was the daughter of two reporters and raised in honolulu hawaii while in hawaii mcintosh studied and learned to speak japanese just like her parents she also became a reporter and returned to the washington dc area once world war ii had begun in order to cover eleanor roosevelt and other government activities in january of 1943 she was asked to join the office of strategic services because she had become fluent in japanese she was then sent to india where her main job was to intervene in the postcard communication that troops would send home to india while stationed in japan she became one of the few women assigned to morale operations where she created disinformation or fake reports documents and postcards that would undermine japanese morale after her time with the oss mcintosh published her book titled undercover girl in 1947 she discussed her experiences with the oss and then went on to write two childrens books as well in 1958 mcintosh began working for the cia and worked there until she retired in 1973 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Devyani_Saltzman>,Devyani Saltzman,devyani saltzman is a canadian author curator and journalist she is the daughter of film directors paul saltzman and deepa mehtashe is the writer of shooting water a memoir as well as articles for the globe and mail the national post the literary review of canada the atlantic tehelka marie claire room literary journal and the walrus magazineher debut book shooting water 2005 was published in canada the us and india and received starred reviews in both publishers weekly and the library journal and was called a poignant memoir by the new york times shooting water is a memoir of a motherdaughter relationship that was rekindled during the filming of water touching on saltzmans history with her mother and father the book delves into indian politics cinema and her yearning for love and belonging the majority of the book takes place between india and sri lankaher freelance writing subjects include interviews with pico iyer sarah polley floria sigismondi and articles on india longterm care facilities and immigrant domestic workers she is the founding curator literary programming at luminato torontos festival of arts and creativity and has been involved in a number of arts initiatives including project bookmark canada the toronto museum project as well as being a juror for the national magazine awards canada council for the arts ontario arts council and the hilary weston writers trust prize for nonfictionsaltzman received her degree in human sciences from hertford college at oxford university in 2003 she specialized in sociology and anthropology | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Carlos_Almeida_(swimmer)>,Carlos Almeida (swimmer),carlos fernandes esteves de almeida also carlos almeida born august 4 1988 in lisbon is a portuguese swimmer who specialized in breaststroke events he is a twotime olympian a 2011 big east conference champion and a current portuguese record holder in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke almeida is a resident athlete for amadora swimming club in lisbon portuguese clube de natao da amadora and is coached and trained by filipe coelhoalmeida made his official debut at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing where he competed in the mens 200 m breaststroke he cleared a fina bcut of 21500 from the dutch open in eindhoven netherlands almeida blasted a 215 barrier and a new portuguese record of 21334 to top the second heat but he finished only in thirtysecond overall from the preliminariesat the 2012 summer olympics in london almeida qualified for the mens 100 m breaststroke by establishing a portuguese record and achieving a fina bstandard entry time of 10119 from the european championships in debrecen hungary he challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat including fellow twotime olympian martin liivamgi of estonia he raced to third place by two tenths of a second 020 behind greeces panagiotis samilidis in 10140 almeida failed to advance into the semifinals as he placed twentyfifth overall out of 44 swimmers on the first day of preliminariesalmeida is a member of the swimming team for the louisville cardinals and currently a fourthyear senior with a sports administration major at the university of louisville in louisville kentucky almeida also became the first swimmer in his schools history to claim a 200 m breaststroke title at the ncaa division i championships in federal way washington he blasted a time of 15188 to match former olympic silver medalist ed moses for the fourthfastest all time in collegiate history | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Carlyle_Holiday>,Carlyle Holiday,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Fakhar_Abbas>,Fakhar Abbas,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Rich_Bordi>,Rich Bordi,richard albert bordi born april 18 1959 is a former major league baseball relief pitcher who played from 19801988 he played for the oakland athletics seattle mariners chicago cubs new york yankees and baltimore orioles bordi threw and batted righthanded was 67 tall and weighed 220 pounds he attended fresno state university he is currently a scout for the cincinnati redsin 1977 he was drafted in the 5th round 119th overall by the minnesota twins he opted not to sign in 1980 he was drafted by the athletics in the 3rd round 56th overallin the same year he was drafted he made his major league debut july 16 1980 he was 21 years old in that game and his lone game that season he pitched 2 innings and gave up only one runhe bounced around between the minors and majors between 1980 and 1983 finally settling as a fulltime reliever in 1984 with the cubs to whom hed been traded along with porfi altamirano henry cotto and ron hassey for ray fontenot and brian dayett between 1984 and 1986 with the cubs yankees and orioles he had an era well under 400 after those three fairly successful seasons his career quickly went in the wrong direction he ended up with the athletics in his final season 1988 where he started two games and lost one of them won zero his final game was july 19 1988 he was 29 years old when he retiredin his record 130 stolen base season in 1982 rickey henderson stole his 102nd and 103rd base off bordi on august 4 1982 he stole 2nd and 3rd all in the first inningbordi was the last player signed by charlie finley currently he lives in rohnert park california | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ray_MacDonnell>,Ray MacDonnell,raymond arthur ray macdonnell born march 5 1928 is an american actor best known for his role as dr joe martin on the daytime soap opera all my children a role he played for 40 years macdonnell received a daytime emmy award for lifetime achievement in 2004 along with now deceased fellow all my children castmate ruth warrick prior to appearing on all my children he played philip capice on the soap the edge of night from 196169 in 1967 he played the title role of dick tracy in a liveaction television pilot the show was not picked upon september 29 2009 macdonnell announced his retirement from all my children production of the show moved from new york to california in december 2009 marking the end of his 40year run although he will make guest appearances from time to time his retirement from amc left susan lucci portrayer of erica kane as the only original cast member still performing on the show in february 2011 it was announced that macdonnell along with onscreen wife lee meriwether would be making a threeday return to all my children on march 8 9 and 16th macdonnell returned to all my children for the abc finale in september 2011 he returned to the show in 2013 for the brief prospect park revival of the show | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lorna_Boothe>,Lorna Boothe,lorna boothe born 5 december 1954 in kingston jamaica is a commonwealth games gold and silver medalwinning english 100 metres hurdler who was formerly the british record holder in the event she went on to become a senior athletics administratorshe competed in the 1976 summer olympic games in montreal and 1980 summer olympic games in moscow and was the gold medalist in the 100m hurdles at the commonwealth games in 1978 and the silver medallist in the event in 1982 she went on to become the athletics gb team manager for 9 years and was the senior team manager for the 2000 summer olympics in sydney she has worked for the international association of athletics federations iaaf and was involved in setting up the iaaf academy and world class coaches club and the lottery funded world class performance programme she is a member of english sports council racial equality advisory group and helped set up the sporting equals programme with the commission for racial equality she coaches hurdlers and sprinters at junior level and is on the board of the olympians committee uk her son tremayne gilling is a sprinter with a personal best time of 1025 seconds over 100 metres | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mart%C3%ADn_Emilio_Rodr%C3%ADguez>,Mart%C3%ADn Emilio Rodr%C3%ADguez,martn emilio rodrguez gutirrez born 14 april 1942 known by the nickname cochise is a retired colombian road racing cyclistcochise started his first vuelta a colombia in 1961 he would win his first vuelta two years later in 1963 and would win the event four times in total he was the road racing champion of colombia in 1965 he had won gold in the 4000 metre pursuit at the central american games in 1962 the bolivarian games in 1965 the american games in 1965 and 1966 and the panamerican games in 1967 cochise also won colombias second most important stage race the clsico rcn in 1963 as well as winning the vuelta al tchira in venezuela three times on the october 7 1970 cochise beat the world hour recordin 1971 in track world championships in varese italy rodriguez won the amateurs 4000ms individual track pursuit beating swiss josef fuchs cochise turned professional in 1973 where he won two stages in the giro ditalia cochise was partnered with the great italian champion felice gimondi for two man time trial events and won the 1973 baracchi trophy and the verona grand prix cochise rode the 1975 tour de france and finished 27th overall after 1975 cochise returned to colombia and competed again as an amateur winning a final stage in the vuelta a colombia in 1980 cochise is currently involved with a colombian professional team indeportes antioquia that has former time trial world champion santiago boterothe nickname cochise is derived from the fact that he was a great admirer of the apache chief cochisehe also competed at the 1964 summer olympics and the 1968 summer olympics | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Shane_Valenti>,Shane Valenti,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dudley_Riggs>,Dudley Riggs,dudley riggs born 1932 is an improvisational comedian who created the instant theater company in new york which later moved to minneapolis to become the brave new workshop bnw comedy troupe riggs was born in little rock arkansas and joined the circus when he was five years old his family performed in a variety of acts with the ringling bros and barnum bailey circus where he learned comedy in the vaudeville style later he formed a group that toured the country during winters when the circus was not operatingaudiences at shows put on by the troupe were often quite hostile toward the performers after years of trying to appease the crowds with traditional performance styles riggs began to request input from them as an example he might ask who do you hate in this town if the audience replied the mayor the performers would quickly improvise a scene about the mayor however at the time improvisation was a word primarily used to describe the actions of jazz musicians riggs was an admirer of jazz and avoided using the term himself preferring the phrase instant theater later a new york times critic called riggs performances word jazz while members of the second city troupe visiting in the 1960s and 1970s referred to the shows as spot improvone year the booking agent for the troupe stated that he couldnt find anyplace willing to take the performers in order to keep skills strong riggs rented a streetlevel space in new york city where group members could practice people walking by could see what was going on by looking through the window and passersby soon began to offer money to watch rehearsals riggs soon booked a venue and put on a regular showthe famous critic walter kerr was an early attendee and was amazed by what he saw he held off writing a review for three weeks because he couldnt believe that the performers were actually taking in the audiences ideaskerr was convinced that group members were calling upon accomplices for input and were using prearranged material after realizing the authenticity of performances he wrote a glowing reviewthe group began touring and eventually settled in minneapolis in 1958 they were originally at a site called dudley riggs caf espresso on east hennepin avenue where riggs operated the first espresso machine in the state after the caf moved to south hennepin in uptown in 1965 claims of the first espresso machine west of the mississippi river were also made incidentally the uptown neighborhood now proclaims that they have more coffee shops per capita than seattle so riggs may have been influential there as well the name was finally changed to brave new workshop at the same timeriggs opened the experimental theater company etc in the seven corners area of minneapolis next to the university of minnesota in the early 1970s this theater provided a wider range of material including standup comedy variety shows and specialty actsa number of famous performers started at the brave new workshop including regional natives louie anderson and al franken and writers such as pat proft television executive producer linda wallem and scriptwriter and producerdirector peter tolanthere was some sharing of experience and technique between bnw and second city in chicago del close worked with riggs for a time and members of both troupes were regulars at each others shows when travelingafter operating it for 39 years riggs sold the brave new workshop in 1997 to mark bergen john sweeney and jenni lilledahl though bergen eventually moved on to other projects sweeney and lilledahl still operate the theater and have made some changes their focus is more on longform improvisation while riggs had always been more focused on shorter individual sketches | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Leslie_Craven>,Leslie Craven,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 | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Carrie_Underwood>,Carrie Underwood,carrie marie underwood born march 10 1983 is an american singer songwriter and actress she rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of american idol in 2005 underwood has since become one of the most prominent mainstream recording artists in the music industry setting and breaking several records throughout her career her achievements led her to be inducted into the grand ole opry in 2008 and into the oklahoma music hall of fame in 2009 she has won a vast array of awards including six grammy awards sixteen billboard music awards eleven academy of country music awards and eight american music awards along with being nominated for a golden globe award for best original songher debut album some hearts was released in 2005 bolstered by the huge crossover success of the singles jesus take the wheel and before he cheats it went on to become the fastest selling debut country album in nielsen soundscan history the bestselling solo female debut album in country music history and the bestselling country album of the last ten years underwood won three grammy awards for the album including best new artist her second album carnival ride released in 2007 had one of the biggest ever opening weeks by a female artist and earned underwood two grammy awards for the singles last name and i told you so her next two albums 2009s play on and 2012s blown away were both their years second bestselling release by a female artist the former spawned the successful single cowboy casanova and the latters single blown away won underwood a grammy award with more than 64 million records sold globally her tour revenues and a net worth estimated by forbes at over 110 million underwood is the biggest american idol earner of all timerecognized by rolling stone as the female vocalist of her generation in any genre and by billboard as country musics reigning queen underwood is the only solo country artist in the 2000s to have a number one hit on the billboard hot 100 and the first and only country artist to ever debut at number one on the hot 100 as inside your heaven topped the chart in 2005 she is also the female country artist with the most no 1 hits on the billboard hot country songs chart from 1991 to present having 14 number ones and breaking her own guinness book record of ten some hearts was named the no 1 country album of the 2000s by billboard and she was the topranked female artist on billboards best country artists of the 2000s list time has listed underwood as one of the 100 most influential people in the world | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Valerie_Pitts>,Valerie Pitts,valerie pitts lady solti born 19 aug 1937 is the widow of sir georg solti she was one of the bbcs original team of television presenters during the 1950s she left the programme in 1960 to marry james sargent who was stage manager of the sadlers wells opera company she also worked at granada television she had met solti in september 1964 when she interviewed him fortuitously as a last minute alternative to replace a missing news item solti pursued her romantically and finally persuaded her to leave her husband they married in 1967 and had two daughters gabrielle and claudia she appeared on childrens television as a presenter of play school and then at granada a series for older children extraordinary which involved strangebuttrue stories from science and the arts she gave up her career as a presenter though she continued to appear occasionally on television notably on the quiz show face the music and worked with solti for various charitieslady solti is the patroness of the world orchestra for peace which her husband founded and whose first concert at the united nations he conducted in addition she has devoted time to other cultural organizations including the sadlers wells theatre trust the mariinsky theatre trust the chicago symphony orchestra musica nel chiostro battignano italy the hungarian cultural centre london liszt academy budapest and the w11 opera childrens opera company in londonafter soltis death 5 september 1997 lady solti gabrielle solti and claudia solti began the solti foundation to assist young musicians in 2002 a website dedicated to georg solti was launched under the instigation of lady solti | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ray_Sansom>,Ray Sansom,ray sansom born july 11 1962 in fort walton beach florida was a republican member of the florida house of representatives representing portions of okaloosa and santa rosa counties from 2002 to february 21 2010sansom is married to tricia raimey sansom and they have three children sansom lists his religious affiliation as baptist and actively attended wright baptist church in fort walton beach fl for many yearssansom received his bachelors degree in political science from the florida state university in 1984 and his masters in education from the university of west florida in 1993 prior to his election to the florida house of representatives he served on the okaloosa county board of commissioners from 1992 to 2000 he received the okaloosa county management associations presidents award in 1999 and the association of counties freshman of the year award in 2003sansom was elected speaker of the florida house on november 18 2008 he temporarily stepped down on january 30 2009 following a scandal over accepting an unadvertised job he was formally charged with thirddegree felony grand theft and conspiracyon february 2 sansom resigned the speakership just minutes before his caucus was due to oust him his resignation was on the eve of his criminal trial for misappropriation of state tax dollars if sansom had remained at his post he could have been the first lawmaker expelled from the chamber in nearly 50 years | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Adrian_Reynard>,Adrian Reynard,adrian reynard born 23 march 1951 in welwyn england was the founder of reynard motorsport which was a successful racing car manufacturer before it went bankrupt in 2002as a student reynard was keenly interested in motorsport particularly in the production of recordbreaking motorcycles he left oxford polytechnic now oxford brookes university and then cranfield university without graduating at either institution in place of the strain gauge he had been expected to present as a finalyear project he turned up for his viva voce examination in mechanical engineering with a brand new selfdesigned formula ford chassis which he had to disguise as a formula three as he was sponsored by a rival car manufacturer on a trailer at cranfield reynard was a classmate of pat symonds teaming up with the experienced mechanic bill stone reynard set up sabre automotive which later became reynard motorsport reynards cars were originally built so he could go racing himself he was successful in formula ford and formula ford 2000 but the company he built rapidly became successful in many other formulaeadrian reynard had several brushes with formula one early in his careerhe was commissioned to design a hawke formula one car for rupert keegan in the mid1970s perhaps fortunately at that point in his career this was not seen throughreynard had never designed a monocoque before and later became chief engineer for rammarch in 1982 when the team was struggling with overweight copies of the williams fw07 he claims to have engineered the cars to the state they should have been in at the start of the 1981 season but little was achieved while reynard was undertaking these contracts other hands continued to run his firma reynard f1 project went sour in 1991 and took the company to the brink of bankruptcyreynard had to sell many of his personal assetsbut the firm fought back continuing to dominate formula 3000 until it became a singlechassis formula at the end of the 1995 season and entering champ car very successfully in 1994 overly ambitious attempts to expand the company and possibly adrian reynards increasing involvement with british american racing led to financial difficultiesoxford brookes university made up for reynards lack of a degree by awarding him an honorary doctorate adrian reynard maintains his links with cranfield university where he is visiting professor and serves on the advisory panel for the msc motorsport engineering and management he makes an annual award for the best motorsport thesis project at cranfieldhe received the queens awards for export achievement in 1990 and 1996 currently reynard has signed up to join the founders of virgin galactic an elite group of civilians who will be among the first people to ride into space for a pricereynard has recently partnered with andre brown to relaunch reynard racing cars with a new street legal trackdayrace carin february 2009 he was linked with richard bransons virgin group regarding a takeover of the honda racing f1 team | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Qayyum_Inamdar>,Qayyum Inamdar,qayyum inamdar was born on april 4 1963 he has inherited the business of pharmaceutical products from his father mr munawwar hussain inamdar who is one of the very few prominent personalities of early era of pharma sellings this explains how he is a successful pharmaceutical distributor since 25 yearsgenuinely committed to serve not only to his professional brethren but to the society as a whole he is always on his toes this is why he was elected as a president of solapur district chemist and druggist association and then general secretary and organizing secretary of maharashtra state chemist and druggist association western zonebeing one of the founder members he was elected as a secretary of athar blood bank to implement the noble life saving service to the society he is also a life member of indian red cross societynow serving as a director of solapur chamber of commerce industries and agriculture he is also on board of members of divisional railway users consultative committeehonorable excentral home minister mr sushil kumarji shinde has an eagle eye on development of his birth place solapurhence he spotted highly committed and devoted 11 people and formed solapur development committee and he is one of themwell this is all about his vision for the society but as it is highly said that charity begins at home he has proved his nickel here alsohappily married and he executed his duties omnisciently to make his daughter doctor in homoeopathy also to make his son attend the degree of masters in management | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama>,Barack Obama,barack hussein obama ii brk husen bm born august 4 1961 is the 44th and current president of the united states and the first african american to hold the office born in honolulu hawaii obama is a graduate of columbia university and harvard law school where he served as president of the harvard law review he was a community organizer in chicago before earning his law degree he worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the university of chicago law school from 1992 to 2004 he served three terms representing the 13th district in the illinois senate from 1997 to 2004 running unsuccessfully for the united states house of representatives in 2000in 2004 obama received national attention during his campaign to represent illinois in the united states senate with his victory in the march democratic party primary his keynote address at the democratic national convention in july and his election to the senate in november he began his presidential campaign in 2007 and after a close primary campaign against hillary rodham clinton in 2008 he won sufficient delegates in the democratic party primaries to receive the presidential nomination he then defeated republican nominee john mccain in the general election and was inaugurated as president on january 20 2009 nine months after his election obama was named the 2009 nobel peace prize laureateduring his first two years in office obama signed into law economic stimulus legislation in response to the great recession in the form of the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 and the tax relief unemployment insurance reauthorization and job creation act of 2010 other major domestic initiatives in his first term included the patient protection and affordable care act often referred to as obamacare the doddfrank wall street reform and consumer protection act and the dont ask dont tell repeal act of 2010 in foreign policy obama ended us military involvement in the iraq war increased us troop levels in afghanistan signed the new start arms control treaty with russia ordered us military involvement in libya and ordered the military operation that resulted in the death of osama bin laden in january 2011 the republicans regained control of the house of representatives as the democratic party lost a total of 63 seats and after a lengthy debate over federal spending and whether or not to raise the nations debt limit obama signed the budget control act of 2011 and the american taxpayer relief act of 2012obama was reelected president in november 2012 defeating republican nominee mitt romney and was sworn in for a second term on january 20 2013 during his second term obama has promoted domestic policies related to gun control in response to the sandy hook elementary school shooting and has called for full equality for lgbt americans while his administration has filed briefs which urged the supreme court to strike down the defense of marriage act of 1996 and californias proposition 8 as unconstitutional in foreign policy obama ordered us military involvement in iraq in response to gains made by the islamic state in iraq after the 2011 withdrawal from iraq continued the process of ending us combat operations in afghanistan and has sought to normalize us relations with cuba | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton>,Bill Clinton,william jefferson bill clinton born william jefferson blythe iii august 19 1946 is an american politician who served from 1993 to 2001 as the 42nd president of the united states inaugurated at age 46 he was the thirdyoungest president he took office at the end of the cold war and was the first president from the baby boomer generation clinton has been described as a new democrat many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist third way philosophy of governance before becoming president he was the governor of arkansas for five terms serving from 1979 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1992 he was also the states attorney general from 1977 to 1979born and raised in arkansas clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician he is an alumnus of georgetown university where he was a member of kappa kappa psi and phi beta kappa and earned a rhodes scholarship to attend the university of oxford he is married to hillary rodham clinton who served as united states secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 and who was a senator from new york from 2001 to 2009 both clintons earned law degrees from yale law school where they met and began dating as governor of arkansas clinton overhauled the states education system and served as chair of the national governors associationclinton was elected president in 1992 defeating incumbent george h w bush clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in american history and signed into law the north american free trade agreement after failing to pass national health care reform the democratic house was ousted when the republican party won control of the congress in 1994 for the first time in 40 years two years later clinton became the first democrat since franklin d roosevelt to be elected president twice he passed welfare reform and the state childrens health insurance program providing health coverage for millions of children in 1998 he was impeached for perjury before a grand jury and obstruction of justice during a lawsuit against him both related to a scandal involving a white house intern he was acquitted by the us senate and served his complete term of office the congressional budget office reported a budget surplus between the years 1998 and 2000 the last three years of clintons presidencyclinton left office with the highest endofoffice approval rating of any us president since world war ii since then he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work clinton created the william j clinton foundation to address international causes such as the prevention of aids and global warming in 2004 he published his autobiography my life he has remained active in politics by campaigning for democratic candidates most notably for his wifes campaign for the 2008 democratic presidential nomination and then barack obamas presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012 in 2009 he was named united nations special envoy to haiti and after the 2010 haiti earthquake he teamed with george w bush to form the clinton bush haiti fund since leaving office clinton has been rated highly in public opinion polls of us presidents | |
| <http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_Beckham>,David Beckham,david robert joseph beckham obe bkm born 2 may 1975 is an english former professional footballer he has played for manchester united preston north end real madrid milan la galaxy paris saintgermain and the england national team for which he holds the appearance record for an outfield player he was the first english player to win league titles in four countries england spain the united states and france he announced his retirement at the end of the 201213 season and on 18 may 2013 played the final game of his 20year careerbeckhams professional career began with manchester united where he made his firstteam debut in 1992 aged 17 with united beckham won the premier league title six times the fa cup twice and the uefa champions league in 1999 he then played four seasons with real madrid winning the la liga championship in his final season with the club in july 2007 beckham signed a fiveyear contract with major league soccer club la galaxy while a galaxy player he spent two loan spells in italy with milan in 2009 and 2010 beckham was the first british footballer to play 100 champions league gamesin international football beckham made his england debut on 1 september 1996 at the age of 21 he was captain for six years during which he played 58 times he made 115 career appearances in total appearing at three fifa world cup editions 1998 2002 and 2006 and two uefa european championship tournaments 2000 and 2004renowned for his range of passing crossing ability and bending freekicks he has twice been runnerup for fifa world player of the year and in 2004 he was named in the fifa 100 list of the worlds greatest living players consistently ranked among the sports highest earners in 2013 beckham was listed as the best paid player in the world earning over 50 million in the previous 12 monthshe has been married to victoria beckham since 1999 and they have four children beckhams eldest son brooklyn currently plays football for arsenal u16 in february 2014 mls announced beckham and a group of investors would own an expansion team in miami which would begin play in 2016 or 2017 |
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