Dennis Moore (politician)

Dennis Moore (born November 8, 1945) is an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Representative for , from 1999 until 2011. He is a member of the Kansas Democratic Party.
He and Sharice Davids are the only two Kansas Democrats to serve since 2010.
Early life and education.
Moore was born in 1945 in Anthony, Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas, from which he earned a bachelor's degree, and was briefly enrolled at Southern Methodist University. He received a Juris Doctor degree from Washburn University School of Law.
Career.
He served in the United States Army before becoming Assistant Kansas Attorney General. After a period in private practice, he was elected District Attorney in Johnson County, serving in that capacity from 1977 to 1989. While a defense attorney at the practice of Moriarty, Erker & Moore, Moore represented Debora Green when she was charged with murder in 1995. The case ended in 1996 with Green pleading no contest to the charges.
Moore was first elected to the United States House in 1998, defeating the Republican incumbent, Vince Snowbarger. The district had traditionally elected moderate Republicans, but Snowbarger's unyielding conservatism caused many voters to shift to Moore. He thus became the first Democrat to represent the district in 37 years, after Democrat Newell A. George lost re-election to Republican Robert Fred Ellsworth, when it was the 2nd District. (It has been the 3rd District since 1963.)
Moore faced Republican Phill Kline in 2000, and narrowly held on to his seat, taking 50% of the vote. His margin of victory was fairly close due to George W. Bush's strong performance in the district. In 2002, he faced another close race, this time against moderate Republican Adam Taff, an airline pilot. In 2004, Moore defeated law professor Kris Kobach, another conservative, in the general election, with 55% of the vote.
In the 2006 Congressional election, Moore successfully defended his seat against Republican Chuck Ahner, winning with 64% of the vote, a much larger margin than he had in the past.
In August 2007, Republican State Senator Nick Jordan of Shawnee announced he would challenge Moore for the 3rd District seat in 2008. Moore defeated Jordan by a vote of 56% to 40%.
On November 23, 2009, it was reported that after six terms, Dennis Moore would not seek re-election in 2010, when he would turn 65 years old. Moore's wife, Stephene Moore, was the Democratic nominee. She lost the election to Republican State Representative Kevin Yoder. The district was not represented by a Democrat again until 2019 when it was taken by Sharice Davids.
U.S. House of Representatives.
While in office Moore represented Kansas's 3rd congressional district, the state's smallest and most affluent, which includes most of the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan area, including Kansas City, Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa and De Soto. However, during his tenure the town of Lawrence was located in the third district but was later redistricted to the 2nd District.
Committee assignments.
Moore was the policy co-chair for the Blue Dog Coalition in the 110th Congress and a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
Political positions.
Budget, spending, and taxes.
In 2005–2006, Representative Moore supported the interests of Citizens for Tax Justice, an organization supporting fair taxes for middle and low-income families and the closing of corporate tax loopholes, 83% of the time.
In 2007, the National Taxpayers Union, an organization favoring a flat tax or a national sales tax, gave Representative Moore a rating of F for a 4% rating. The NTU explains "A score significantly below average qualifies for a grade of “F.” This failing grade places the Member into the “Big Spender” category." Representative Moore supported the interests of the National Tax Limitation Committee 0 percent in 2007–2008.
National security.
In 2007–2008 the Center for Security Policy, a Washington, D.C. think tank that focuses on national security issues, gave Representative Moore a rating of 25 percent. Their Congressional Scorecard cites Representative Moore for voting against the CSP position on 18 of 24 key votes. Specifically, Rep. Moore voted to limit Iraq war funding, limit surveillance to FISA guidelines, and voted against Missile Defense funding.
Military.
Representative Moore sponsored HR 5055, which would have raised the death gratuity paid to the family of a soldier who died in combat from $12,000 to $50,000. This amount was raised again to $100,000 and was added to "The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror and Tsunami Relief Act 2005" and signed into law as Public Law 109-13 on May 11, 2005.
Representative Moore sponsored House Resolution 387 in 2003, calling on the Department of Defense to cover all travel costs for troops from Iraq and Afghanistan granted leave under the Rest & Recuperation Program. The legislation was added to the Department of Defense Supplemental Spending Bill of 2004 and is now law.
Property rights.
For 2007, with points assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to American Land Rights Association position, Representative Moore received a rating of 8 (out of 100). He received the 8% rating for voting on 11 of 12 key votes in opposition to the "Private Property Position".
Gun control.
Through 2003, Representative Moore supported the interests of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 88% of the time.
In 2008, the National Rifle Association gave Representative Moore a grade of F, in its scorecard for candidates seeking office in 2008. In 2007 the organization Gun Owners of America gave Representative Moore a rating of F.
Women's issues.
Representative Moore is pro-choice and has a 100% rating with NARAL.
In 2007, Representative Moore voted with the League of Women Voters 100% of the time. The League of Women Voters presented Moore with the Making Democracy Work Award in 2010.
For 2007–2008, with points assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to National Right to Life Committee position, Representative Moore received a rating of 0. Representative Moore earned the rating of zero by voting against the Right-To-Life positions during his entire political career.
Environment and animal protection.
The environmental watchdog group League of Conservation Voters gave Moore a score of 92% for 2006, citing pro-environment votes on eleven out of twelve issues deemed critical by the organization. The League praised Moore for supporting right-to-know legislation regarding the Toxics Release Inventory program, the Clean Water Act, and energy and weatherization assistance for low-income families, as well as for opposing oil drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, opposing salvage logging, opposing logging roads in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, and for opposing measures designed to expedite the production of new oil refineries.
The Animal Welfare Institute a national animal protection organization founded in 1951 gave Representative Moore consistently high marks for supporting various animal protection issues on its Compassion Index.
Representative Moore received a rating of 91% in the 109th Congress, a 100% rating in the 110th Congress and a 78% in the 111th Congress.
Personal life.
On February 8, 2012 Moore announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in its early stages. The diagnosis was made in June 2011 by St. Luke's Neuroscience Institute. Representative Moore's father was also afflicted with Alzheimer's. Moore now lives a peaceful life at a senior living facility in Overland Park, Kansas. He and his wife Stephene have been public about Moore’s diagnosis, and Stephene has become a national advocate for families struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease.


Trygve Heltveit

Harald Trygve Heltveit (8 December 1913 – 21 August 1985) was a Norwegian philologist.
He was born in Balestrand as a son of teacher Olav Heltveit (1873–1959) and Petra Sættevik (1878–1947). In 1943 he married Erna Røisum.
He became a student in 1936 and graduated with the cand.philol. degree from the University of Oslo in 1942. He was hired as a school teacher at Vestheim School in 1943 and Sinsen School in 1952, but received a research fellowship in 1947 and took the dr.philos. degree in 1954 with the thesis "Studies in English Demonstrative Pronouns". He was hired as a lecturer in 1954, was promoted to docent in 1962 and professor in 1970. His field was English philology. He retired in 1981 and died in 1985 and was buried at Vestre gravlund.


Lower Sava Valley dialect

The Lower Sava Valley dialect ("posavsko narečje", "posavščina") is a Slovene dialect in the Styrian dialect group, bordering on the Lower Carniolan dialect group. It is spoken in the Sava Valley from Litija to Brežice and along the lower course of the Savinja River. It is divided into three subdialects: the Zagorje-Trbovlje subdialect, Laško subdialect, and Sevnica-Krško subdialect.
Phonological and morphological characteristics.
The Lower Sava Valley dialect predominantly shares features with the Lower Carniolan dialects but does not have pitch accent. Its transitional nature is shown by its older Lower Carniolan vocalic features overlaid by more recent Styrian features.


Andrew Stevens

Herman Andrew Stevens (born June 10, 1955) is an American executive, film producer, director and actor.
Early life.
Stevens was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the only child of actress Stella Stevens and her former husband Noble Herman Stephens.
Career.
Prior to his producing career, Stevens was a writer, director, and actor. He had a bit role in "Shampoo" (1975), and went on to appear in cult thrillers such as "Massacre at Central High" (1976), "Vigilante Force" (1976) and "Day of the Animals" (1977), as well as the cult horror film "The Fury" (1978) starring Kirk Douglas. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance in "The Boys in Company C" (1978), and later starred with Charles Bronson in two films, "Death Hunt" (1981) and "10 to Midnight" (1983).
He appeared in the miniseries "Once an Eagle" (1976) and played 17-year-old Andrew Thorpe on the NBC Western series "The Oregon Trail". The program filmed only thirteen episodes, seven of which never aired. Also the Canadian television series "The New Liars Club".
Stevens starred in "The Bastard" (1978) and "The Rebels" (1979), based on the John Jakes novels. He appeared opposite Dennis Weaver and Susan Dey in the short-lived drama "Emerald Point N.A.S.", as a playboy/tennis bum in "Columbo: Murder in Malibu", and as one of J.R. Ewing's stooges Casey Denault, on "Dallas", for two seasons, beginning in 1987. He also played Ted Rorchek in the 1981-82 television series Code Red. He appeared in the miniseries "Hollywood Wives" (1985). During this time, he also starred in the erotic thriller "Night Eyes" (1990), and its sequels.
Producing.
In early 1990, Stevens left the public eye to become an independent entrepreneur writing, producing, directing and financing films for his own companies. He was President/CEO of Franchise Pictures, which produced films for Warner Bros. from 1999 through 2005, including "The Whole Nine Yards" and its sequel, "The Whole Ten Yards", as well as "The In-Laws".
Franchise and its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 19, 2004, after losing a multimillion-dollar fraud case in Los Angeles, and is now defunct.
Prior to Franchise, Stevens was an owner and president of Royal Oaks Entertainment, which produced and/or distributed seventy pictures over a three-year period including many HBO, Showtime and Sci-Fi Channel world premieres. Prior to Royal Oaks, Stevens' entrée into foreign sales and production company ownership was with Sunset Films International, which amassed a library of 19 titles (including seven in-house productions) during his first year as president of the company. He currently operates Andrew Stevens Entertainment and Stevens Entertainment Group.
In 2017, he published a screenwriting manual, "Screenwriting for Profit: Writing for the Global Marketplace." The book discusses how writers can use better understanding of the domestic and international film markets to assist their screenplays.
Personal life.
Prior to his marriages, he dated Pattie Sullivan from 1976 to 1978. Stevens was married to actress Kate Jackson from 1978 to 1982. He has three children by his second marriage to Robyn Suzanne Scott, which ended in divorce in 2010. Stevens married Diana Phillips Hoogland in 2016. As of April 9, 2018, his Facebook status changed to single.


John F. Benton

John F. Benton (1931 Philadelphia – February 25, 1988 Pasadena) was the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History, at the California Institute of Technology.
He graduated from Haverford College, with a BA in 1953, from Princeton University with an MA in 1955, and PhD in 1959.
He taught at Reed College and the University of Pennsylvania.


Arthur Stein (historian)

Arthur Stein (10 June 1871, in Vienna – 15 November 1950, in Prague) was an Austrian-Czech historian and epigrapher.
From 1892 to 1897 he studied history, archaeology and epigraphy at the University of Vienna, where his teachers were Eugen Bormann, Otto Benndorf and Emil Szántó. Following graduation, he took an extended study trip to Bulgaria, Italy, Greece and Asia Minor. In 1915 he obtained his habilitation for classical history and archaeology at the University of Prague, where in 1922 he was named a full professor of Roman archaeology and epigraphy. Because of his Jewish heritage, he was imprisoned at Theresienstadt concentration camp from July 1942 to May 1945.
With Edmund Groag, he published three volumes of the second edition of the "Prosopographia Imperii Romani" (1933–43).


Louis Gerstman

Louis "Lou" Gerstman (April 22, 1930 - March 17, 1992) was an American neuropsychologist best known for his work in speech synthesis. He was a co-inventor, along with John Kelly, of the computer portrayed as HAL 9000 in the film "". He also worked with Irv Teibel on Teibel's psychoacoustic environments recording series at Bell Labs, where Gerstman was working at the time.
Early life.
On April 22, 1930, Gerstman was born in Buffalo, New York.
Education.
Gerstman attended the University of Buffalo, Harvard University, and New York University.
Career.
In 1950s and early 1960s, Gerstman was a researcher and consultant for Western Electric, Bell Labs, Haskins Laboratories, and Columbia University during which he worked on computer speech processing to aide stroke recovery and learning disabilities. In 1966, he began teaching at City University in New York City and he became a professor at City College in 1969. At the latter, he specialized in speech processes and disorders and oversaw doctoral programs in experimental cognition.
Gerstman was also an expert in "voiceprint" spectrograms and testified as an expert witness in the 1973 bribery trial of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. In 1961, he helped create the first computer program for speech synthesis while working with IBM. The program was intended to be used in Kubrick's "2001", but the two parties eventually parted ways and the film crew employed an actor to read the lines.
Personal life.
In March 1992, Gerstman died of lung cancer. Gerstman was 61.


Uni-DSL

Uni-DSL (UDSL) is a digital subscriber line (DSL) marketing buzzword developed by Texas Instruments which would provide bit rates of at least 200 Mbit/s in aggregate on the downstream and upstream paths. UDSL is backwards compatible with all discrete multitone modulation (DMT) standards (ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+, VDSL and VDSL2).
Uni-DSL means "One DSL for universal service". It was marketed to service providers as an affordable option to support all of their network requirements and services in fiber to the node configurations.
It was announced in June 2004 with an expected "rolling-out" in 2006.


Subway Academy I

Subway Academy I is a public alternative high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally, Subway Academy I was simply called "Subway Academy", but after Subway Academy II opened, the name was changed to "Subway Academy I". It was founded in September 1973, making it one of the oldest secondary alternative schools in Toronto. The original staff were Achim Krull, Judith Robertson and Murray Shukyn. The school was a reflection of the Ivan Illich "deschooling" movement, which proposed that people would learn best from community resources. As a result, a directory of resources along the Toronto subway system was created, and the school derives its name from that initiative. The community resource aspect of the program however faded very quickly. Students were more interested in formal credit courses and academic courses leading to admission to university or college admission.
Subway Academy started as an independent studies program. It was intended to make education available to students with family or other obligations which limited their ability to attend school during regular hours and who could not attend night school. The school enrolled students at any time during the year, not just in September. Originally, there was no upper age limit on enrolment. The school attracted many adults.
The independent studies program at Subway Academy operated very differently from regular high school programs. Students met their teachers by appointment several times a week, but there were no formal classes. During the appointments, students reviewed their progress with their teachers, wrote tests, handed in assignments, and received new work. Students could work at the school, or at home, or at the local library, wherever they were comfortable. Students started courses when they joined, and finished courses whenever they had completed all the required work. Additional courses could be started at any time. Today Subway Academy combined formal classes with independent studies, and students are required to complete courses during a regular semestered timeframe.
Subway Academy One continues to share a building with Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute. Today it offers courses from grades 9 to 12 at both the academic and applied level. As the enrolment at Subway Academy increased, it was divided into two branches. Subway Academy II was opened in the west end of Toronto. Judith Robertson became the first coordinator of that program. It continues today as an independent studies program.


Jack Barnes (English footballer)

John Benjamin Barnes (28 April 1908 – 1 April 2008) was an English footballer who played as an outside left for several Football League clubs, as well as for non-League side Atherstone Town.
Early life.
Born in Atherstone, Warwickshire, Barnes left school at 12, to help provide for his family. He worked in various coal mines, as well as a bakery. His football career began as an amateur for Atherstone Town. He signed on professional terms for Coventry City in March 1928.
Professional career.
Barnes played eight consecutive games for Coventry at the end of the 1927–28 season. One of these matches—a 2–2 draw with Crystal Palace—was the lowest attendance in Coventry's history, attracting 2,059 spectators. After being confined to Coventry's reserves the following season, Barnes joined Walsall in June 1929. He stayed there for two years, scoring 18 goals in 68 appearances as they recorded consecutive 17th-placed finishes in the Third Division South. In July 1931 he joined Watford, managed by Neil McBain. After 83 games and 11 goals for the Vicarage Road based club, he was transfer listed for an asking price of £300, before eventually joining Exeter City for a third of that figure. His stay in Exeter lasted just one season, before he joined what would be his last professional club, York City, in August 1934. Barnes played 15 York City games, scoring once, before retiring from professional football due to a foot injury. Barnes rejoined first club Atherstone Town as an amateur in 1935.
After football.
Following his retirement, Barnes worked in a munitions factory during the Second World War, and later did work as a painter/decorator, plumber and tanner. His family included wife Nancy, daughter Janet (who later had two children Angela and Paul), and he lived to see all four of his grandchildren, Jenna, Matthew, Naomi and Niall. Apart from football, Barnes' sporting interests included golf, boxing, cricket, swimming and greyhound racing. Barnes considered becoming a professional golfer in 1938, and although he did not pursue this possibility, he continued playing until the age of 93. Barnes died from Alzheimer's disease in a nursing home in Coleshill, Warwickshire, only 27 days before his 100th birthday. Prior to his death, he was the oldest surviving former Football League player and one of the last surviving professional footballers to have played before World War II.


Burak language

Burak (Ɓúúrák) is an Adamawa language spoken in Burak town of Shongom LGA, Nigeria.


Grillo telephone

The Grillo telephone was designed in 1965 by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper. The telephone was manufactured in Italy by Società Italiana Telecomunicazioni Siemens (aka Telcer., the Italian arm of Siemens tel.)
The modern shape and design features were revolutionary for the 1960s. The fact that the phone could be manufactured in such a small package, during the 60s, set it apart from all other designs at the time. It incorporated a flip-design that opened automatically as the phone was picked up. This clam-shell design was to go on and eventually influenced the design of modern mobile telephones during the 90s and beyond. The name "Grillo" is Italian for cricket and was named so because the 'ringer', which was incorporated inside the wall plug, sounded like a cricket.
The dial of the Grillo phone employs an innovative solution to the design challenge of condensing the dial mechanism into a limited space, while still incorporating a finger-stop. The Grillo phone's dial couldn't employ a conventional finger-stop like the type found on conventional dial phones, but instead has a button within each of the dial's number holes, which, when depressed, pushes a pin through the back of the dial which stops the dial once it's turned to the dial's end position.


Repetitive electrical impulse noise

Repetitive electrical impulse noise (REIN) is a term applied to some interference found on problematic DSL internet connections. The interference can be detected as electrical impulses on the physical telephone line on which the internet connection operates. REIN is particularly problematic as it can cause DSL modems to lose synchronisation and drop connection.
The noise causes interference which in turn causes a DSL modem to mount up CRC errors. This eventually causes DSL synchronisation to drop.
REIN is often caused by faulty electrical equipment which is in the proximity of the broadband telephone line. Usually the equipment is emitting a radio frequency, which causes electrical impulses along the telephone line.
The cause of the repetitive electrical impulse noise can be traced by using a directional radio frequency analyzer.


Canadian Club of Toronto

The Canadian Club of Toronto, now known as Canadian Club Toronto, is a non-profit speakers' forum in Toronto, Ontario. It meets several times a month to hear speeches given by invited guests from diverse fields, including politics, law, business, science, media and the arts.
History.
The Canadian Club of Toronto was founded in 1897 to encourage interest in Canadian public affairs. It subsequently developed a role as an opinion-formation vehicle for some of Toronto's most prominent citizens.
Speeches were initially given in the evening, but starting in 1902, the club moved to its present lunchtime format. In 1903, several members of the Canadian Club, concerned that the club was not sufficiently opposed to the wave of anti-British sentiment being expressed in the wake of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal decision, left the Canadian Club to found the more pro-British Empire Club of Canada.
In the days before radio and television, the club provided a chance for influential Torontonians to have contact with Canadian and international leaders in a variety of fields. Today, the club hosts events in a number of different formats, but most events use the traditional luncheon style.
Speakers that addressed the club since 2000 have included Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, Vladimir Putin, Justin Trudeau, Paul Bremer, Bob Rae, Michael Dell, Jean Charest, John de Chastelain, Hillary Clinton, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Margaret Atwood, Karen Kain, The Right Honourable David Johnston, David Frum, Pamela Wallin, David Suzuki, Beverley McLachlin, Dalton McGuinty, Belinda Stronach, David Dodge, Pinball Clemons, Galen Weston Jr., Louise Arbour, Adrienne Clarkson, Donovan Bailey, Mark Carney and Jack Layton.


Godfrey Gumbs

Godfrey Gumbs is a professor of theoretical solid state physics. He is a distinguished professor of physics at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Maria A. Chianta and Alice M. Stoll Professor of Physics at Hunter College, CUNY.
Gumbs was awarded a Guyana Scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1968 and then went on to receive his Ph.D. in theoretical solid state physics (now commonly known as the physics of condensed matter) from the University of Toronto in 1978. From 1978 to 1982, he was a research associate at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. From
1982 to 1989, he was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada University research fellow, serving as both assistant and associate professor.
Gumbs has taught at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center since 1992. His research focuses primarily on nanophysics, especially the way in which the particles carrying the charge behave in very small confined spaces. Among several others, his interests include strongly interacting particles in semiconductors, graphene sheets, carbon nanotubes, graphene nanoribbons, as well as ways of isolating and transporting single electrons. Device applications of this work include photon detectors and sources, as well as quantum information processing. He has published extensively on these topics in scientific journals. He has shown that the properties of quasicrystals depend critically on the way in which their quasi-periodicity is arranged. He is a research fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), fellow of the Institute of Physics(F InstP), a Chartered Physicist (CPhys) both of the UK, a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, a visiting fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University in 2007–2008 and a Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics Scholar at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He has been honored by the APS with the Edward A. Bouchet Award in 2005, for his significant contributions to physics and his mentoring of students. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in 1990 and a J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar in 2005.


Frank Spotnitz

Frank Charles Spotnitz (born ) is an American television writer and executive producer, best known for his work on "The X-Files" and "The Man in the High Castle". Spotnitz is also the chief executive officer and founder of Big Light Productions, a London and Paris-based production company, which specializes in international television series, including drama, comedy and documentaries. Spotnitz's career includes creating, writing and producing series with networks, cable, streaming and other broadcast platforms around the world.
Under the Big Light banner, Spotnitz has produced: Amazon's Emmy-winning "The Man in the High Castle"; "Medici: Masters of Florence" and two seasons of "Medici: The Magnificent" (RAI, Netflix, SFR Play); "The Indian Detective" (Netflix, CTV); "Ransom" (CBS, Global, TF1, RTL); "Crossing Lines" season three with Tandem/StudioCanal; and "" season two (TNT, M6, HBO Canada). Most recently, Spotnitz co-created and executive produced "Leonardo", which is currently in production in Italy.
Early life.
Born in Camp Zama, Japan. Spotnitz's father is Jewish, though Spotnitz was not raised religiously. Spotnitz's father was a doctor in the US Army. His family moved around until they settled in Phoenix, Arizona. As a child, Spotnitz consumed television shows and films as much as he could, sometimes watching the same film two or three times in a row. Spotnitz attended Camelback High School, where he was inspired him to pursue a career in Hollywood.
Spotnitz graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1982, where he was a reporter for the "Daily Bruin". He later received a MFA in screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory in 1991.
Career.
Journalism.
Upon graduation from UCLA, Spotnitz was employed as a wire-service reporter for the United Press International in Indianapolis and New York. He also briefly worked for the Associated Press in Paris. Spotnitz freelanced for "Entertainment Weekly" and"Rolling Stone" before returning to his passion and studying screenwriting at AFI.
Television.
Spotnitz's writing and producing credits include: counter-terrorism drama series "Strike Back" (HBO/Cinemax, Sky); action series "" (TNT); ABC's mystery series "Night Stalker" (ABC), starring Stuart Townsend and Gabrielle Union; Michael Mann’s crime series "Robbery Homicide Division" (CBS); unconventional heroes comedy-drama "The Lone Gunmen" (Fox); sci-fi drama "Harsh Realm" (Fox); and crime thriller "Millennium" (Fox).
"The X-Files".
Spotnitz served on "The X-Files" for eight of its nine seasons after joining the show in 1994. He called it "a life-changing experience", graduating from staff writer to executive producer after three seasons. He directed two episodes and wrote or co-wrote more than 40 instalments of the series, including the Emmy-nominated "Memento Mori" with Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan and John Shiban in 1997. He served for four years as executive producer and three years as president of Carter's Ten Thirteen Productions. He was a producer and co-writer of both "The X-Files" feature films, "Fight the Future" (1998) and "" (2008). Spotnitz shares three Golden Globes for Best Dramatic Series and a Peabody Award for his work on "The X-Files". He was also nominated for an Emmy Award for writing and three times for Outstanding Drama Series.
"Hunted".
In 2012, Spotnitz created, wrote and executive produced the international spy drama series "Hunted" for BBC1 and HBO/Cinemax, starring Melissa George, Adam Rayner, Stephen Dillane and Patrick Malahide. The series follows Sam Hunter, an operative for a private spy agency, Byzantium. After she is betrayed and nearly killed by one of her colleagues, Sam returns to London in an attempt to root out the traitor, while working undercover in the home of a wealthy and dangerous London gangster on an assignment that could cost her life. The series was BAFTA nominated for cinematography and won the ASC Award. It was also nominated for Best Editing by the Royal Television Society.
"The Man in the High Castle".
Spotnitz created, executive produced and wrote several episodes of "The Man in the High Castle", based on the classic alternative history novel by Philip K. Dick, which upon its release became Amazon's most viewed series ever. Starring Alexa Davalos, Rufus Sewell and Joel de la Fuente, the series explores life in a 1962 America where the Allies lost the war and the country is divided between the fascist Japanese in the West and the Nazis in the East. The series won two Emmy Awards, was nominated for two others, and named Best Drama Series at the Roma Fiction Festival. It was also nominated for an ASC Award for Outstanding Cinematography, the USC Scripter Award and Best Drama at Monte Carlo Television Festival's Golden Nymph Awards.
"Medici".
Spotnitz co-created, executive produced and co-wrote "Medici: Masters of Florence", starring Richard Madden, Dustin Hoffman and Annabel Scholey. Chronicling the rise of the Medici family during the Italian Renaissance, it shows how the family's ascent from simple merchants to power brokers sparked an economic and cultural revolution, creating powerful enemies in the process. The Netflix Original Series was produced with Lux Vide Productions for RAI, Italy's largest broadcaster, and SFR in France. The RAI premiere attracted a record-breaking seven million viewers in Italy, becoming the country's most-watched new series.
Set 20 years later, "Medici: The Magnificent" starred Daniel Sharman, Bradley James and Sean Bean, and was also co-created, executive produced and co-written by Spotnitz. After an attempt on Piero de Medici's life, his son Lorenzo is forced to assume leadership of the family-run bank. Once in power, young Lorenzo resolves to abandon the cynical politics of the past to usher in a new era of creative and political revolution, bringing him into open conflict with rival banker Jacopo Pazzi, who will stop at nothing to defeat him. Their clash gives rise to one of the most thrilling true-life political intrigues of all time, the infamous Pazzi conspiracy. The second season of "Medici: The Magnificent" was broadcast on RAI in December 2019 and premieres as a Netflix Original Series in May 2020.
"The Indian Detective".
In 2017, Spotnitz co-created, executive produced and co-wrote the comedy-drama series "The Indian Detective" for Canadian broadcaster CTV and Netflix. It starred international comedy sensation Russell Peters, whom Forbes magazine ranked three times in its Top 10 highest-grossing comics list. Peters portrays Doug D’Mello, a charming, smart Toronto cop, who unexpectedly finds himself investigating murder in his parents’ Indian homeland, where, despite his heritage, he remains an outsider. Canada's biggest series debut in two years was the second-most watched programme on the day of its CTV premiere, with 1.6 million viewers. It was bestowed the Golden Screen Award by the Canadian Screen Academy.
"Ransom".
"Ransom", produced for CBS in the US, France's TF1, Canada's Corus/Global and RTL in Germany, was a suspense drama set against an international backdrop. It starred Luke Roberts and was co-created, executive produced and co-written by Spotnitz. The thriller follows crisis and hostage negotiator Eric Beaumont, whose team is brought in to save lives when no one else can. Beaumont understands criminals better than they understand themselves and uses his insight into human behaviour to resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases. Despite the stakes, Beaumont refuses to resort to violence, even when confronted by some of the world's most dangerous criminals. "Ransom" was VOX Germany's highest rated drama premiere for over 15 months and France's TF1 premiere reached over 4 million viewers for a market share of 25%. The show ran for three seasons.
"Leonardo".
Spotnitz co-created, executive produced and co-wrote "Leonardo", which was one of the first productions to complete filming during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. The series was released in early 2021 in RAI for Italy, Amazon Prime for the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as Sony LIV in India, and PikTV in Canada. The eight-part limited series shows the terrible personal sacrifice that led Leonardo to create masterpieces that changed the way we see the world forever. Starring Aidan Turner and Freddie Highmore, the series is the first produced by The Alliance (RAI, France Télévisions, ZDF and RTVE).
Writing process.
Spotnitz adopted the writers' room process from his experience in the US, which he brought to the UK when he founded Big Light Productions. He cards the story scene by scene on a corkboard, with one board for each episode. Spotnitz favours carding in order to better analyse the story and to enable better collaboration. He always asks: why do I care about this story? Why do I care about this character? And aims to draw in the audience early on.
Personal life.
Spotnitz lives with his family in Paris and divides his time between Big Light’s London and Paris offices.
Spotnitz shared his feeling in an interview about his show "The Man in the High Castle": "Frank is the closest to me in the TV series, because my father's Jewish, my mother's not. I don't identify as Jewish in a religious way. I'm not a religious person, and yet if you were living in a Nazi state, that would be no defense. Jews don't get to decide if they're Jews. That's really terrifying to me."
Works and publications.
Books.
"TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution", Neil Landau (2015)
"Dalla parte di John Fante", by Giovanna Di Lello and Toni Ricciardi (Rome: Carocci 2020)


Richard Hatem

Richard Hatem (born November 2, 1966) is a Lebanese-American television and film screenwriter and producer. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA). He is also a professor on staff with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), teaching a television writing class.
Early life.
Hatem was born in Burbank, California and grew up in Monterey Park, California. Prior to his career in television writing and production, he was a waiter at Tony Roma's in Pasadena, California for several years. He also taught comedy traffic school for five years.
When asked when he knew he wanted to be a writer, he stated, "I thought it happened when I was in high school. But apparently I'd written and talked about being a writer since I was about five. I just don't remember it. Back then I thought I wanted to be an actor and a stand-up comedian. I've done a little of both and want to do more."
He attended the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Film production.
Hatem lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife and children.
Professional background.
Film.
Hatem's career in filmmaking started in 1995, when he co-wrote "" with writer, director, and producer Matt Reeves.
In 2002, Hatem wrote and co-produced "The Mothman Prophecies".
Television.
In 2003, he created the ABC/Touchstone television series "Miracles". He also served as the Co-Executive Producer and Writer. In 2005, Hatem worked with Fox Broadcasting Company, serving as the Supervising Producer of six episodes of the series "Tru Calling" and 13 episodes of the series "The Inside". He wrote "The Loneliest Number" for "The Inside", and "The Last Good Day" for "Tru Calling". He served as the co-executive producer of 21 episodes of CW's "Supernatural" from 2005–2006. He also wrote two episodes entitled "Asylum" and "Phantom Traveler".
In 2006, he was the executive producer of three episodes of the SyFy Channel mini-series "The Lost Room". In 2007, he was consulting producer of the USA's "The Dead Zone". He wrote two episodes of the series entitled, "Big Top" and "Exile".
In 2010, he co-created and served as executive producer and writer on the ABC television series "The Gates". The series is executive-produced by Gina Matthews and written and executive-produced by Grant Scharbo and Hatem. He created an ABC Studios untitled pilot. The crew included Chris Brancato, Bert Salke, and Gary Fleder. The cast included Katee Sackhoff, Will Yun Lee, Richard T. Jones, Treat Williams, Goran Visnjic, Nia Long, Jason Wiles and Miles Williams.
In 2011, he was consulting producer for the NBC show "The InBetween". He wrote episode two, "Made of Stone". He wrote 4 episodes for the NBC show "Grimm" from 2012–2013, 2 for "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" and in 2018, became a writer and producer on "Titans".
Academics.
In addition to writing and producing, Hatem also teaches a television writing class for the extension program at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Podcasts.
Hatem has appeared on several episodes of the Kulturecast, a movie podcast, as well as appearing on episodes of The Kolchak Tapes, a podcast about .
In 2017, Hatem was interviewed on the podcast Astonishing Legends, discussing his screenplay for The Mothman Prophecies.


Camillo Praschniker

Camillo Praschniker (13 October 1884, Vienna – 1 October 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian archaeologist.
He studied classical philology and archaeology at the universities of Innsbruck, Vienna and Berlin. At Berlin, his instructors were Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, Hermann Winnefeld, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Heinrich Wölfflin. From 1908 to 1910, via a travel grant from the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), he conducted research in Italy, Greece and Asia Minor. In 1912 he was named secretary of the ÖAI.
In 1913/14, on behalf of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, he did excavations in Palestine (Shechem, Nablus) with German theologian Ernst Sellin. In 1916 he participated in an archaeological expedition to Albania and Montenegro. In 1922 he became an associate professor at the University of Vienna, and during the following year, succeeded Wilhelm Klein as professor of archaeology at the German University of Prague (dean 1929/30). In 1926/27 he returned to Palestine, and performed additional excavatory work with Ernst Sellin at Shechem. After a short stay at the University of Jena (1930), he returned to Vienna, where in 1934 he replaced Emil Reisch as professor and director of the archaeological and epigraphic seminar at the university. In 1935 he was named honorary director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute.
In 1933 and 1935 he took part in excavations at Ephesus, and from 1935, was involved in archaeological work in Carinthia. With architect Max Theuer, he conducted investigations of the Belevi Mausoleum in Turkey.


Demonic Toys (comic book)


Sayuri Kurata


Buddha Sayami

Buddha Sayami (; 1944 – 26 December 2016) was a Nepalese poet and Newa politician, born in Kathmandu. He wrote poetry in Nepal Bhasa, the Newari language. Sayami was the president of Newaa Deygoo. He was awarded the Rastriya Pratibha Puraskar and was elected in 2008 as representative to the Constituent Assembly election by the Nepa Rastriya Party. He died at a hospital in Jawalakhel in 2016 at the age of 72, from complications of diabetes.
He published two books of poetry: Ji: Jigu Vartaman/Me: My Present (1974), Jindagi: Bayan Wagu Hi Chetanaya Mi/Life: Spilled Blood and the Fire of Knowledge (1997) and a commentary on contemporary Nepal Bhasa poetry: Kawita: Thaunya Mikhan/Poetry: In Contemporary Eyes.


Bob Cato

Robert G. Cato (September 5, 1923 – March 19, 1999) was an American photographer and graphic designer whose work in record album cover design contributed to the development of music and popular culture for five decades. He was vice president of creative services at Columbia Records, and later at United Artists.
Biography.
Bob Cato was born in 1923 to Cuban immigrant Ysabel Soto and Robert Bailey Cato in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a teenager, he studied with Mexican painters Pablo O'Higgins and José Clemente Orozco. A Quaker, Cato was imprisoned during World War II as a conscientious objector. He then lived in Chicago, studying with László Moholy-Nagy of the Bauhaus school. Moving to Philadelphia in 1947, Cato studied with renowned art director and magazine designer Alexey Brodovitch, eventually becoming Brodovitch's assistant at "Harper's Bazaar".
Cato painted and exhibited throughout the 1940s and 1950s, while serving as art director at "Dance", "Glamour", "Jr. Bazaar" and "Theatre Arts" magazines.
Cato began working in the music industry in 1959 at Columbia Records, becoming vice president of creative services there and later at United Artists. During the next 20 years, he designed and oversaw hundreds of albums for dozens of artists, forging lasting relationships with many, including The Band, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Janis Joplin, and Van Morrison.
In 1966, he directed the CBS-TV miniseries "Playback", featuring Leonard Bernstein, Miles Davis, John Gielgud, Johnny Mathis, and Igor Stravinsky. He also served for many years on the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences advisory council. In 1997, the Academy awarded Cato the President's Merit Award.
Among Cato's other accomplishments was a redesign of "McCalls", art directorships of "Ladies' Home Journal" and "Jazz Review", and while vice president of Revlon, he conceived and designed the "Charlie" fragrance campaign, contracting Lauren Hutton to be the brand ambassador. He produced the book "Joyce Images" (1994), a collection of photos and art devoted to James Joyce. Cato also taught, at the School of Visual Arts and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Bob Cato was married to Kate Jennings, an Australian writer, poet and novelist, in 1988. He died as a result of complications of Alzheimer's disease in 1999 in New York City.
His archive is at the Rochester Institute of Technology.


Lignophagia

Lignophagia is the abnormal behaviour of chewing and eating wood. It has been recorded in several species, but perhaps most commonly in horses where it is usually called, simply, "wood chewing". Lignophagia is a form of the pica disorder, in which normally non-nutritive substances are chewed or eaten. For some animals, wood is the normal primary food source; such animals are known as xylophagous.
A related stereotypy in horses is cribbing, where a horse grabs a board or other edged object with its teeth, arches its neck and sucks in air. While this activity may cause some tooth marks on the surface used, this is not the same disorder as lignophagia.
Etymology.
Lignophagia is derived from the Latin "lignum", meaning "wood", and the Greek "phago", meaning "to eat".
In horses.
Horses often gnaw on wood rails, fences or boards as if they were food. This has been linked with dietary deficiencies, and often can be remedied with a balanced diet or dietary supplementation Lignophagia in horses can be a cause of colic due to the ingestion of wood splinters. and in severe cases, can cause excessive wearing and deterioration of the teeth. A related vice is cribbing, wherein the horse grabs a wood board and sucks in air; not all wood-chewing is cribbing and though cribbing may also result in chewing on the wood surface, the two vices are not identical.
Colic can be a consequence of wood chewing due to the ingestion of wood splinters. Both cribbing and wood chewing can cause excessive wearing and deterioration of the teeth in severe cases. Horses displaying these behaviors may be less desirable to potential buyers and may be devalued as a consequence.
Wood chewing also is destructive to barns and fences, sometimes requiring costly repairs and ongoing maintenance.
Wood chewing has been linked with dietary deficiencies, and often can be remedied with a balanced diet or dietary supplementation. Some cases are thought to be linked to boredom or anxiety, often related to confinement.
In dogs.
Dogs sometimes eat wood which can have negative consequences. Sometimes they will chew the furniture of their owners meaning items must be replaced. Splinters may lodge in the mouth, gums or tongue, causing a depressed appetite. The wood can perforate or block the oesophagus or the intestine, often requiring surgery. Chemically treated wood can result in poisoning. A potential cause for Lignophagia in dogs is being confined in an area with wet wood and having a diet lacking in proper nutrition.
In humans.
Humans sometimes chew or eat wood, e.g. pencils. In humans, eating wood is sometimes referred to as xylophagia.


Muriel Lezak

Muriel Deutsch Lezak is an American neuropsychologist best known for her book "Neuropsychological Assessment", widely accepted as the standard in the field. Her work has centred on the research, assessment, and rehabilitation of brain injury. Dr. Lezak is Emeritus Professor of Neurology at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine.
She favors the flexible approach to administering neuropsychological batteries.
Biography.
She holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago, and earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Portland in 1960.
She modified the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test by adding a 45-word list recognition trial. This version is the most widely used by clinicians.
In 1996, she received the Distinguished Neuropsychologist Award from the US-based National Academy of Neuropsychology. Past recipients include the prominent neuropsychologists George Prigatano, Brenda Milner, Ralph Reitan and Arthur Benton.
Lezak has three children: Anne, David, and Miriam. Her husband Sid was U.S. Attorney in Oregon for more than twenty years. He died on April 24, 2006.


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Annabel Park

Annabel Park () is a Korean American documentary filmmaker, political activist and community volunteer.
Early years.
Born in 1968 in Seoul, South Korea, Annabel immigrated to the United States with her family when she was nine years old, and was raised in Texas and Maryland. She studied Philosophy at Boston University and Political Theory at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar.
Career history.
Park has worked in her family owned truck diner, worked as a nanny in New York City and briefly worked in strategic planning at "The New York Times" as a strategy analyst. She has also worked as playwright, theater director, and documentary film maker.
Political activism.
Park was the national coordinator for a network of second-generation Korean Americans, the 121 Coalition, and was instrumental in the passing of House Resolution 121. She co-directed and produced the documentary, "9500 Liberty", about the battle over the "Immigration Resolution" law in Virginia.
She is a co-founding member and was initially the de facto-coordinator of Coffee Party USA, an organization which described itself as a fact-based, non-partisan and solutions-based network that considered itself to be a "more thoughtful and reasoned alternative to the Tea Party." Park served for a time as spokesperson and Advisory Board member for Coffee Party USA. She has since departed the organization due to dissatisfaction with its governance process. She was a volunteer for Jim Webb's 2006 US Senate campaign and for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
Park is the creator and content producer for the interactive documentary "2010 Okinawa", exploring the controversy over U.S. bases in Okinawa. She teamed with film director Eric Byler on the web series Story of America (StoryofAmerica.org) which helped to launch both the Moral Monday movement and the "Walking Mayor" Adam O'Neal and the fight for rural healthcare (SaveourHospital.org).
Filmography.
"9500 Liberty" was directed by Annabel Park and Eric Byler. It chronicles the only eight weeks in American history where an "Arizona style" immigration crackdown was actually implemented, and why it was quickly repealed. "9500 Liberty" began as an "interactive documentary," allowing its viewers to not only comment, but suggest new directions and additional coverage of the story, which was uploaded almost immediately after it was shot. Today there are more than 100 installments on the YouTube channel, most of them posted between September 2007 and June 2008. These videos were combined with never-before-seen footage, including a behind-the-scenes portrayal of Park and Byler's challenge with citizen journalism and civic duty in the midst of a divisive culture war, to create the critically acclaimed feature film. "9500 Liberty" is the winner of four film festival awards. It was released theatrically in more than 30 cities, and picked up by MTV Networks for a Sept 26, 2010 cable premiere.
"Story of America" is an ambitious documentary web series launched in 2012 directed by Annabel Park about searching for hope and healing in America's divide. A particular focus on voting rights called attention to voter suppression in many states and counties, particularly during the 2012 US Presidential election, when elected officials, such as Elijah Cummings, and lawyers and activists were interviewed to share what they witnessed in terms of the practices used to block minority voters from exercising their rights at the polls.


Regina Carter

Regina Carter (Detroit, August 6, 1966) is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of jazz saxophonist James Carter.
Early life.
Carter was born in Detroit and was one of three children in her family.
She began piano lessons at the age of two after playing a melody by ear for her brother's piano teacher. After she deliberately played the wrong ending note at a concert, the piano teacher suggested she take up the violin, indicating that the Suzuki Method could be more conducive to her creativity. Carter's mother enrolled her at the Detroit Community Music School when she was four years old and she began studying the violin. She still studied the piano, as well as tap and ballet.
As a teenager, she played in the youth division of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. While at school, she was able to take master classes from Itzhak Perlman and Yehudi Menuhin.
Carter attended Cass Technical High School with a close friend, jazz singer Carla Cook, who introduced her to Ella Fitzgerald. In high school, Carter performed with the Detroit Civic Orchestra and played in a pop-funk group named Brainstorm. In addition to taking violin lessons, she also took viola, oboe, and choir lessons.
Carter was studying classical violin at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston when she decided to switch to jazz. She transferred to Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan where she was a jazz major under the direction of Marvin "Doc" Holladay . She also studied and performed with trumpeter Marcus Belgrave Through Belgrave Carter was able to meet a lot of people active in the Detroit jazz scene, including Lyman Woodard. She graduated in 1985. After graduating, she taught strings in Detroit public schools. Needing a change of scene, she moved to Europe and spent two years in Germany. While making connections, she worked as a nanny for a German family and taught violin on a U.S. military base.
Career.
Carter returned to the U.S. and first came into the spotlight as the violinist for the all female pop-jazz quintet Straight Ahead in 1987, with Cynthia Dewberry, Gayelynn McKinney, Eileen Orr, and Marion Hayden. In the early to mid-1990s, Branford Marsalis was quoted as saying, "They truly swing." They released a trio of albums on the Atlantic Jazz label including their self-titled debut, "Body and Soul", and "Look Straight Ahead". Carter went solo before the release of their third album, "Dance of the Forest Rain", and established herself as a force in the jazz world on the violin. In 1991 she left the band and moved to New York City.
While in New York she was a relative unknown and undertook work accompanying performers such as Aretha Franklin, Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Billy Joel, and Dolly Parton. She also played with Max Roach and Oliver Lake, as well as being in the String Trio of New York. Carter worked on the albums "Intermobility" (1993), "Octagon" (1994), and "Blues ... ?" (1996) with the group.
While with the trio, she released her first solo CD, "Regina Carter" (1995). 1997 saw the release of her second solo album dedicated to her mother, entitled "Something For Grace". She toured with Wynton Marsalis for the 1997 production "Blood on the Fields". She then changed record companies, from Atlantic Records to Verve Music Group, which allowed her more artistic freedom and she released "Rhythms of the Heart" (1999).
She released "Motor City Moments" in 2000, paying homage to her hometown.
In December 2001, she played a concert in Genoa using "Il Cannone Guarnerius", a violin that was made in 1743 and was once owned and favoured by Niccolò Paganini. The violin was bequeathed to Genoa after Paganini's death in 1840. The name of instrument is given because an "explosive" sound can be achieved. Carter was invited to play after the incidents of the September 11 attacks as a gesture of solidarity. She was both the first jazz musician and African American to play the instrument. She later recorded "Paganini: After a Dream" for Verve Records. The album featured classical works by Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, and "Cinema Paradiso" by Ennio Morricone.
"I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey", Carter's sixth CD and was conceived as a tribute album to her late mother, which included some of her favorites as well as American standards from the 1920s-1940s. Some songs include "Blue Rose" (Duke Ellington), "Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown), "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Ella Fitzgerald), as well as "I'll Be Seeing You".
Active as an educator, mentor, and proponent of the Suzuki method, Carter has given workshops and master classes at numerous institutions. She was Artist in Residence at her alma mater, Oakland University from 2007- 2018. She has also taught at the jazz summer camp at Stanford Jazz Workshop.
In 2018, Carter was named Artistic Director of the New Jersey Performing Arts All-Female Jazz Camp.
During the 2000s she performed at the head of a quintet. In 2005, she performed on Eddie Palmieri's album "Listen Here!" which won a Grammy award for best Latin Jazz album. In May 2006, she was touring with Darryl Harper (clarinet), Xavier Davis (piano), Alvester Garnett (drums)(still with her in 2011), and Matt Parish (Upright bass).
Carter was awarded a MacArthur Fellows Program grant, also known as a "genius grant", in September 2006. The award includes a grant of $500,000 over five years, and the committee stated this about Carter:
Regina Carter is a master of improvisational jazz violin. Though her work draws upon a wide range of musical influences – including Motown, Afro-Cuban, Swing, Bebop, Folk, and World – she has crafted a signature voice and style. ... Carter's performances highlight the often overlooked potential of the jazz violin for its lyric, melodic, and percussive potential. Her early training as a classical musician is reflected in the fluidity, grace, and balance of her performance. Carter's repertoire retains a firm connection with the familiar while venturing in new, unexpected directions. ... Through artistry with an instrument that has been defined predominantly by the classical tradition, Carter is pioneering new possibilities for the violin and for jazz.
In 2018, Carter was a recipient of the Doris Duke Award.
Carter married Alvester Garnett in Detroit, Michigan, on September 5, 2004. They knew each other because Garnett plays drums in her band. She has been a resident of Maywood, New Jersey.
Discography.
As leader
With the String Trio of New York
With Kenny Barron
With Anthony Davis
With Mark Helias
With Elliott Sharp
With Cassandra Wilson
With Steve Turre
With James Carter
With Sir Simon Rattle, Luther Henderson, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Lena Horne
With Carmen Lundy
With Joe Jackson
With Eddie Palmieri
With Danilo Perez
With Wynton Marsalis


Georgia Academy of Arts, Mathematics, Engineering and Science

The Georgia Academy of Arts, Mathematics, Engineering and Sciences, (formerly known as GAMES), is an dual-enrollment early college entrance program created in 1997 and facilitated by the University System of Georgia in the United States. Typically, juniors in high school who meet the base requirements of GPA and SAT/ACT scores may apply and be admitted to the two-year program which is located at the Cochran, Georgia campus of Middle Georgia State University, although rising seniors and exceptional sophomores may also apply. Students at the Georgia Academy receive college-level education with specialization in the fields of the arts, mathematics, engineering and science. Academy students take a full college course load and can participate in activities such as the Honors Program, Undergraduate Research, and collegiate clubs such as Science Club, Anime Club, Dungeons & Dragons, the PSYCH-KNIGHTS, Model African Union, Mock Mediation and Math Competition.
Students live in residence halls located on the Middle Georgia State University campus in Cochran, interact with faculty, and are given similar status to traditional students within the university. When students complete the program, they are awarded associate's degrees as well as high school diplomas from their former high schools, and can enter a four-year college or university with junior standing.
More than 700 students have been admitted to The Georgia Academy since its inception in 1997, and The Academy counts two Gates Millennium Scholars (2009 & 2014) among its many very successful alumni.
After the Academy.
Following completion of an associate degree from Middle Georgia State University and receiving a high school diploma, Academy alumni have gone on to attend schools such as:
"The Georgia Academy Student Creed:".
"To Develop our potential in life through our individual, academic, and social endeavors;"
"To Promote respect, responsibility and maturity by displaying our elite character and integrity to the University and community;"
"To Live in unity with diversity while fully benefiting from the advantages of The Georgia Academy throughout the rest of our lives."


George of the Jungle (2007 TV series)

George of the Jungle is a Canadian-American animated television series. It is a reboot of the 1967 animated series of the same name, using Flash animation. It is produced in Canada, airing there on Teletoon. The remake mostly stays true to the original production, with a few key differences existing between the two. One episode of the show typically consists of two 11-minute segments. This is unlike the original cartoon, which featured other stories such as "Tom Slick" and "Super Chicken".
The original series aired from June 29, 2007 until January 11, 2008. The original series premiered on Teletoon on January 11, 2009 and on Cartoon Network in the United States exactly a year prior.
The series returned 8 years after the original first season with a second season on September 10, 2016. The revival season concluded on February 18, 2017.


Lakeside Singers

Based in Chicago, Illinois, The Lakeside Singers is a Chicago area ensemble made up of professional singers, composers and arrangers, half of whom have the majority of their performing experience in classical choral music and half in non-classical styles. Individually, they have performed in TV and radio commercials, operas, early music ensembles, film scores, Broadway shows, jazz clubs, cruise ships, cabarets and classical and popular concerts across the country. The Lakeside Singers was founded in the fall of 1999 by Artistic Director Robert Bowker and Executive Director Mary Stewart.
The Lakeside Singers typical concert format involves a classical sound during the first half of the concert and the same group of singers at microphones in front of a live band for the second half. The Lakeside Singers typically present a Spring and Christmas Concert series as well as appearing at other public and private events. During their 2008 season they were featured with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia Festival and made their debut at the Harris Theater in Chicago's Millennium Park.
The Lakeside Singers are headquartered in Evanston, Illinois and operate under the leadership of Robert Bowker, a singer, conductor, composer, arranger and producer. Individuals must audition for acceptance to the group and must re-audition every two years.


Christina Koning

Christina Koning is a novelist, journalist and academic.
She was born in Kuala Belait, Borneo, and spent her early childhood in Venezuela and Jamaica. After coming to England, she was educated at Girton College, Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh – the setting for her first novel.
She has worked extensively as a travel writer and literary critic – notably as Books Editor for The Times and Cosmopolitan, and on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour - and was a judge for the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize for three years.
As an academic, she has taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and University of London, and was the 2014-15 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. She has taught at Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall and was Editor of "Collected", the Royal Literary Fund's magazine.
Koning's first novel, "A Mild Suicide" (Lime Tree, 1992) is set in Edinburgh in 1977 and was short-listed for the David Higham Prize for Fiction. Her second novel "Undiscovered Country" (Penguin, 1997) won the Encore Award and contended for the Orange Prize for Fiction. That novel explores aspects of colonialism, an awareness from her early childhood in Venezuela. "Fabulous Time" (Viking, 2000) is another novel with colonial themes and is partly set in China during the Xinhai Revolution (1911 revolution). It won the Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship. The Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa (1879) is the setting for her work "The Dark Tower" (Arbuthnot, 2010).
Recent novels include "Variable Stars" (Arbuthnot, 2011), about the 18th-century astronomer Caroline Herschel and "Line of Sight" (Arbuthnot, 2014), the first in a series of detective stories set during the 1920s in the aftermath of the First World War. "Game of Chance" (Arbuthnot, 2015), set in 1929, continues the "Blind Detective" series, and is followed by "Time of Flight" (Arbuthnot, 2016), "Out of Shot" (Arbuthnot, 2017), and "End of Term" (Arbuthnot, 2018).
Koning has two children, and lives in Cambridge.


Thomas Sheridan (actor)

Thomas Sheridan (1719 – 14 August 1788) was an Irish stage actor, an educator, and a major proponent of the elocution movement. He received his M.A. in 1743 from Trinity College in Dublin, and was the godson of Jonathan Swift. He also published a "respelled" dictionary of the English language (1780). He was married (1747) to Frances Chamberlaine. His son was the better known Richard Brinsley Sheridan, while his daughters were also writers - Alicia, a playwright, and Betsy Sheridan a diarist. His work is very noticeable in the writings of Hugh Blair.
Life.
Thomas Sheridan was the third son of Dr Thomas Sheridan, an Anglican divine, noted for his close friendship with Jonathan Swift, and his wife Elizabeth McFadden He attended Westminster School in 1732–1733 but, because of his father's financial problems, he had to finish his initial education in Dublin. In 1739, he earned his BA from Trinity College, Dublin and he went on to earn his MA from Trinity in the early 1740s. He had his début in acting when he played the title role in Shakespeare's "Richard III" in Dublin. Soon after, he was noted as the most popular actor in Ireland, being compared often with David Garrick. Not only an actor, he also wrote "The Brave Irishman or Captain O'Blunder" which premièred in 1738. He became the manager of the Dublin theatre sometime in the 1740s.
Sheridan left his acting career, although he continued to manage theatre companies and occasionally play bit parts, and moved permanently to England with his family in 1758. There, his time was spent as a teacher and an educator offering a very successful lecture course. In 1762 Sheridan published "Lectures on Elocution". Following that work, he published "A Plan of Education" (1769), "Lectures on the Art of Reading" (1775), and "A General Dictionary of the English Language" (1780). Each of these works was based on some form of an argument taken in an earlier work "British Education: Or, The source of the Disorders of Great Britain. Being an Essay towards proving, that the Immorality, Ignorance, and false Taste, which so generally prevail, are the natural and necessary Consequences of the present to defective System of Education. With an attempt to shew, that a revival of the Art of Speaking, and the Study of Our Own Language, might contribute, in a great measure, to the Cure of those Evils" (1756).
He lived in London for a number of years before moving to Bath where he founded an academy "for the regular instruction of Young Gentlemen in the art of reading and reciting and grammatical knowledge of the English tongue". This venture apparently proving to be unsuccessful, he returned to Dublin and the theatre in 1771. Thomas's son Richard became a partial owner of the Theatre Royal in London in 1776. Two years later Thomas was appointed manager of the theatre, a position he held until 1781.
Beliefs.
Sheridan attempted to supply the willing student with a guide to public speaking that was correct, appropriate, and successful. What he actually wanted was a total reform of the British education system, as he saw it disregarding elocution and/or rhetorical delivery. In his work "British Education", Sheridan revealed that poor preaching was negatively affecting religion itself.
Sheridan's belief in the valuable effects of strong and correct public speaking was so strong that he was sure studying elocution would help ensure perfection in all of the arts. In "British Education", Sheridan writes that preaching from the pulpit "must either effectually support religion against all opposition, or be the principal means of its destruction."
Convinced that English preaching was not done as well as it should be, Sheridan focused on delivery as the principal avenue toward delivering effective messages to an audience: "Before you can persuade a man into any opinion, he must first be convinced that you believe it yourself. This he can never be, unless the tones of voice in which you speak come from the heart, accompanied by corresponding looks, and gestures, which naturally result from a man who speaks in earnest." Sheridan believed that elocution was not restricted to the voice, but embodied the entire person with facial expressions, gestures, posture, and movement.
"A Course of Lectures on Elocution".
Published in 1762, this work is considered by many to be Sheridan's most well-known. He established a niche for his insights through decrying the current state of public speaking, as he often did: "so low is the state of elocution amongst us, that a man who is master even of these rudiments of rhetoric, is comparatively considered, as one of excellent delivery." Besides establishing the points previously mentioned, the quote also offers a more narrow definition of rhetoric that seems to be influenced by Peter Ramus.
Central to Sheridan's work was his emphasis on the importance of tones to eloquence. These tones, which correlated with the expressive effects one can give to their speaking, were something Sheridan considered an important part of persuasion. He stated, "The tones expressive of sorrow, lamentation, mirth, joy, hatred, anger, love, &c. are the same in all nations, and consequently can excite emotions in us analogous to those passions, when accompanying words which we do not understand: nay the very tones themselves, independent of words, will produce the same effects." For Sheridan, how a message was communicated was apparently as important as the message itself. He uses the example of someone saying in a calm demeanor, "My rage is rouzed to a pitch of frenzy, I can not command it: Avoid me, be gone this moment, or I shall tear you to pieces" to show the importance of tones to a message.
Because of this, Sheridan set out to address what he thought John Locke had left out in his treatment of language: "(t)he nobler branch of language, which consists of the signs of internal emotions, was untouched by him as foreign to his purpose."


28th Writers Guild of America Awards

The 28th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1975. Winners were announced in 1976.
Winners & Nominees.
Film.
Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.


Dana G. Mead

Dana George Mead (February 22, 1936 – October 31, 2018) was an American businessman and corporate director. Mead was chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Foundation's board of trustees, where he served as chairman from 2003 through 2010.
Early life.
Mead, born in Cresco, Iowa, graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1957 and received his Ph.D in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967. He served in the U.S. Army line armor and airborne units in West Germany and Vietnam between 1957 and 1978.
Career.
From 1992 until 2000 Mead was president, chairman and CEO of Tenneco, Inc., a large conglomerate, operating in 50 countries, in oil and gas pipelines, farm and construction equipment, shipbuilding, auto parts, industrial and consumer packaging, chemicals and minerals. Tenneco was named one of the 100 Best Managed Companies in the World four times during his tenure. At Tenneco he was elected chairman of both the Business Roundtable (1998–1999) and the National Association of Manufacturers (1994–1995).
Before Tenneco, Mead was executive vice president and a member of the board at International Paper. Prior to his work at International Paper, Mead was professor and deputy head of the Social Sciences Department at West Point; while there he served on the Pentagon teams writing the final chapters of the Pentagon Papers and Westmoreland's Report on the War in Vietnam.
Between his time in the military and his business career, Mead spent significant time in the White House. Mead was a White House Fellow between 1970 and 1971. Following this, Mead served as deputy director of the White House Domestic Council focusing on desegregation, community development, revenue sharing, and transportation from 1972 to 1974. As White House liaison to the District of Columbia, Mead drafted the first Home Rule Bill for the District.
Mead was a co-founder of the French-American Business Council, chaired the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue and the Royal Shakespeare Company USA board, and sat on the parent London board. He was also a member of the boards of directors for Cummins (1993–1996), Zurich Financial Services (1997–2006), Pactiv (1998–2000), the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Textron, Center for Creative Leadership, and Pfizer. Mead was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, the advisory board of the George C. Marshall Foundation, and the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
Personal life.
Mead co-authored "High Standards, Hard Choices: A CEO's Journey of Courage, Risk and Change", published in 2000.
Mead died in Boston on October 31, 2018 at the age of 82.


Barbara Higbie

Barbara Higbie (born 1958) is an American Grammy nominated, Bammy award winning pianist, composer, violinist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has played on over 65 CDs including three tunes on a Carlos Santana album. A longtime Windham Hill recording artist, she has also recorded for Olivia/Second Wave records and Slowbaby Records. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. She is a folk, jazz, pop, and fusion singer-songwriter, noted for her highly melodic, jazz/folk piano performances. She has toured nationally and internationally since the early 1980s. An early recording artist on the Windham Hill record label, she formed and played with the group Montreux along with Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, and Michael Manring. She recorded a critically acclaimed album titled "Unexpected" with singer Teresa Trull in 1983, which was included in The Boston Globe's Guide to Best Albums of 1983. Higbie and Trull teamed up again in 1997 to record an album titled "Playtime". Since 1990, Barbara Higbie has released a number of solo albums on the Windham Hill and Slowbaby labels. She is known as a versatile and soulful musician.
Born in Michigan and raised in Indiana, she spent several years as a teenager in Ghana with her family. She went to Mills College, attended the Sorbonne in Paris, and collected traditional music in West Africa on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. It was in Paris that she met Darol Anger and began a fruitful musical collaboration. Together they recorded the record "Tideline" (1982), one of the early successful records of Windham Hill. Two years later they led a group with three other musicians (Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, and Andy Narrel) for the Montreux Jazz Festival. The concert was considered so successful that a recording made at the concert was released as a Windham Hill record ("Live at Montreux–Darol Anger/Barbara Higbie Quintet") and a new group was formed. However, after two studio releases, "Sign Language" and "Let Them Say", the group disbanded. Barbara occasionally collaborates with her Montreux colleagues. She has performed with Bonnie Raitt, Terry Riley, The Kronos Quartet, Jaron Lanier, Cris Williamson, Holly Near, Teresa Trull and Ferron.
Barbara Higbie has an active performing schedule. In August 2006, she participated in the Windham Hill 30th Anniversary Concert. She spent 18 months living in Hawaii with her family and moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area in June 2009. She is married to husband Wayne, and they have one daughter, Lena.
Partial discography.
Solo
With Darol Anger
With Teresa Trull


Yogbir Singh Kansakar

Yogbir Singh Kansakar (Devanagari: योगवीरसिं कंसकार) (alternative name: Jogbir Singh Kansakar) (16 April 1885 - 29 March 1942) was a Nepalese poet, social reformer and one of the Four Pillars of Nepal Bhasa. He worked to develop his mother tongue and promote Buddhism in the face of repression by the Rana rulers.
Kansakar was the guru and inspiration of Chittadhar Hridaya, one of the greatest literary figures of 20th-century Nepal.
Early life.
Kansakar was born at Kel Tol, Kwachhen Nani, Kathmandu. His father was Chaityabir Singh and his mother was Laxmi Nani. The family owned a cloth shop. As a young man in 1905, Kansakar got involved in the social reformist activities of an organization known as Arya Samaj. He was fined and jailed by the Ranas for promoting an unorthodox religion. Out of prison, a dejected Kansakar went to Kolkata, India where he was inspired by the activity in Bengali language publication and love of literature among Bengalis.
Career.
Returning to Kathmandu, Kansakar took to writing poetry, and his cloth shop was turned into a gathering place for poets. Each week, they would bring a copybook filled with their compositions and discuss each other's works. When the Bada Guruju (chief royal priest) came to know about it, he had all the copybooks confiscated.
Inspired by Tulsi Meher's homespun movement, Kansakar campaigned to popularize homespun and encouraged people to install handlooms in their homes. In 1927, he established a company named Vastrakala Bhavan to produce textiles. Kansakar was an advocate of female education, and he sent his daughter Vidyabati Kansakar to India among the first batch of students to receive nurse training.
Library incident.
In 1929, Kansakar headed a committee which petitioned the prime minister to be allowed to open a library. Kansakar and the rest of the signers of the appeal were arrested and fined. In 1934, all the Newar authors were summoned before the prime minister and warned to stop writing in Nepal Bhasa.
Kansakar also worked to promote Theravada Buddhism which aroused the anger of the government. In 1931, he was fined and jailed with 11 other people including Buddhist teacher Dhammalok Mahasthavir, poet Chittadhar Hridaya and trader Dharma Man Tuladhar for trying to spread an "unorthodox religion". He was also harassed and flogged for his activities.
His wife Shobha Laxmi died in 1937, and he married Buddha Maya. In 1940, the government mounted a clampdown against political workers, writers and anybody it saw as a threat to the state. Kansakar was arrested and held for 85 days.
An anthology of Kansakar's poems entitled "Yog-Sudha" was published by Nepal Bhasa Parisad in 1951.
Legacy.
A street in central Kathmandu was named Yogbir Singh Marg in his honor by Kathmandu Metropolitan City.


Deep temporal nerves

The deep temporal nerves, are two branches of the anterior division of the mandibular nerve that innervate the temporalis.
Structure.
The deep temporal nerves are usually two in number and termed the anterior deep temporal nerve and posterior deep temporal nerve. They branch from the anterior division of the mandibular nerve and travel above the upper border of the lateral pterygoid muscle. They ascend to enter the temporal fossa and enter the deep surface of the temporalis.
Function.
The deep temporal nerves provide motor innervation to the temporalis, which is a muscle of mastication that elevates and retracts the mandible. The deep temporal nerves also have articular branches which provide a minor contribution to the innervation of the temporomandibular joint.
Variation.
Sometimes, three deep temporal nerves are present branching from the anterior division of the mandibular nerve. In this case the extra nerve is situated between the anterior and posterior and called the middle deep temporal nerve.
The anterior deep temporal nerve is sometimes a branch of the buccal nerve.
The posterior deep temporal nerve is sometimes a branch of the masseteric nerve.


Stargate School

Stargate School, also called Stargate Charter School, is a charter school for gifted and talented children in Thornton, Colorado, in the Adams 12 Five Star Schools District in Adams County, Colorado, in the United States. It was founded in 1994, and teaches children from kindergarten to 12th grade. The name Stargate combines "Star" from the name of the school district with the initial letters of "gifted and talented education". In the 2018-2019 school year, the school had 1,393 students, of which 62.5% were white, 19.7% Asian, 10.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% black or African-American, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 6.5% two or more races. 63.8% are classified as gifted.
History.
The school opened on August 29, 1994. It is the largest charter school in the state of Colorado; it is also the only one to require a test of intelligence for admission.
In November 2014 Standard and Poor's changed its rating of Stargate School's bond debt from "stable" to "negative", citing the school's "weak operations" and "insufficient annual debt service coverage" as reasons; however it maintained unchanged at BBB its issuer credit rating for the bonds.
A new school building and new campus of were opened in 2016. Since then, the school has received at least 8 civil rights complaints.
There have also been charges of sexual harassment by a teacher and two other cases resulting in federal monitoring.
Activities.
Students participate in the Adroit Program, which is "designed to support the academic, social, emotional, creative and post-secondary needs of gifted students."
Assessment and recognition.
In both 2012 and 2013 Stargate School received an A+ rating from ColoradoSchoolGrades.com and was the highest-ranked of about 500 middle schools. The school was among the 178 recipients of the John J. Irwin School of Excellence Award in 2013.


Agostino Dati

Agostino Dati, also known as Augustinus Datus or Dathus (1420 – 6 April 1478) was a fifteenth-century orator, historian and philosopher best known for his grammatical textbook "Elegantiolae". In 1489 Erasmus praised Dati as one of the Italian masters of eloquence.
Life.
Born in Siena, Agostino Dati spent most of his life there. He studied under Francesco Filelfo. After teaching in Urbino, he returned to Siena in 1444 and taught rhetoric and theology. In 1457 he was appointed Siena's secretarius. He died 6 April 1478. Much of his work was published posthumously by his son Niccolo.
The "Elegantiolae".
"Isagogicus libellus pro conficiendis epistolis et orationibus" was first printed at Ferrara by Andrea Belfortis in 1471. Reprinted over 100 times under various titles between 1470 and 1501, the "Elegantiolae" has been characterized as "the school book "par excellence" in the second half of the fifteenth century".


Anil Grover

Anil Grover (born 15 August 1958) is an Indian molecular biologist, professor and the head of the Department of Pant Molecular Biology at the University of Delhi. He also heads the "Anil Grover Lab" of the department, serving as the principal investigator. Known for his research in the field of molecular biology of plants, Grover is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely the National Academy of Sciences, India, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy as well as the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2002.
Biography.
Anil Grover, born on the Indian Independence Day of 1958 in the National Capital Region of Delhi to Shori Singh Grover-Krishna Grover couple, did his undergraduate and master's studies at the University of Delhi, earning the degrees of BSc (honors) and MSc in 1977 and 1979 respectively. Subsequently, he did his doctoral research at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute under the guidance of S. K. Sinha and secured a PhD in 1984 for his thesis, "Carbon Nitrogen Metabolism of Leaves Supporting Developing Pods in Legumes". He started his career as a research associate at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1984 but moved to Tata Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi in 1985, again as a research associate.
In 1987, Grover went to Canada to continue his research at the University of Guelph and returned to India in 1988 to join his alma mater, Delhi University, as a scientist. A year later, he moved to the faculty position of a lecturer and worked in that position until 1993, simultaneously continuing his research at the university. It was during this time he received Rockefeller Foundation post-doctoral fellowship which he utilized to do his post-doctoral work at the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry in Australia. He returned to Delhi University in 1994 and resumed his career, taking up the post of a senior lecturer. He has been associated with Delhi University ever since, holding positions of a reader during 1996–2002, a professor since 2002 and heads the Department of Pant Molecular Biology. He also heads "Anil Grover Lab" where he hosts a number of research scholars as their principal investigator. He had a second stint at CSIRO Division of Plant Industry during 1996–98, this time as a career fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. He also had a sabbatical at the University of California, Davis as a visiting fellow from 2002 to 2004.
Anil Grover is married to Anita Grover and the family lives in Janakpuri, New Delhi.
Legacy.
Gorver's work is primarily focused on rice crop and Arabidopsis thaliana, a common weed found in India and their gene expressions to heat stress. He demonstrated through transcriptome and proteome studies that heat stress affects the biochemical, cellular and physiological processes of the plant and these studies have assisted in widening the understanding of genomic and proteomic alterations as well as the ROS metabolism of the plant. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 161 of them. He has also mentored several research scholars in their doctoral and master's studies.
Grover sits in the national committee of the Indian National Science Academy for cooperating with the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and is a member of the board of directors of the 12th congress of the International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB2018) scheduled to be held in Montpellier He is a former member of the "Plant Science" and an editorial board member of "Plant Physiology and Biochemistry", both journals published by Elsevier. He guest-edited the special issue of "Plant Reproduction" journal on pollen development and the special issues of "Current Science" on Transgenic Crops in February 2003 and "Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants" in 2008.
Awards and honors.
Anil Grover, a member of the Guha Research Conference and a recipient of the Professor Hira Lal Chakravarty Award of the Indian Science Congress Association, received Young Scientists Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1990 and the B. M. Birla Science Prize of the Birla Science Centre in 1997. Two years later, the National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 1999. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2002. He received the elected fellowship of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2003 and of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2007. He has delivered award orations such as the G. V. Joshi Memorial lecture of the Indian Society of Plant Physiology (2011) and the research scholarships/fellowships he has held included the National Scholarship of the University Grants Commission of India, two fellowships from Rockefeller Foundation, an Indo-Australia visiting fellowship (2013), CIDA/NSERC research associateship of the Canadian International Development Agency and the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Science and Engineering Research Board twice; the first in 2011 and the second in 2015 with tenure of the fellowship running until 2020.


Margarita Terekhova

Margarita Borisovna Terekhova (; born August 25, 1942 in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1996.
Biography.
Margarita Terekhova was born on August 25, 1942 in the town of Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast. In school, Margarita was interested in sport and was a basketball captain. She finished school with a gold medal.
From 1959 she studied at the physics and mathematics faculty at the Tashkent State University from 1959 until 1961. After that she went to Moscow and tried to get into VGIK but her application was declined. After that she enrolled to study at the school-studio of Yuri Zavadsky at the Mossovet Theatre.
After her graduation in 1964 she worked for many years as an actress of the Mossovet Theatre. From 1983 to 1987 she acted in the theatre group "The Puppet Show" organized by her and Igor Talkov.
Terekhova's acting debut was in 1965 in the film "Hello, That's Me!". Margarita became particularly popular in the late 1970s, after the release of a costumed musical TV films "The Dog in the Manger" and "D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers". At first she played the capricious Countess Diana de Belflor, in the second - the treacherous Milady. Leading roles followed in films made by directors including Andrei Smirnov and Ilya Averbakh ("Monologue", 1972) as well as the dual-role in Andrei Tarkovsky's acclaimed "Mirror" (1975). And more international co-productions came after, including George Cukor's "The Blue Bird" (1976) and Konrad Wolf's "Mama, I'm Alive" (1977). Terekhova's subsequent work in film proved her high level of acting expertise but did not attain the success as her earlier work.
Margarita Terekhova worked and was friends with Igor Talkov. They had a close relationship and worked for some time together at the musical theatre collective "Balaganchik".
In 2005 she made her debut as a director, shooting the film "The Seagull" based on the work of Anton Chekhov. Since then, Terekhova has retired from acting and almost never gives interviews due to her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. She rarely appears in public and hardly ever attends public events.


John Torpey

John Christopher Torpey (born August 22, 1959) is an American academic, sociologist, and historian best known for his scholarship on the state, identity, and contemporary politics. Torpey is currently a professor of sociology and history at the Graduate Center, CUNY and director of the Graduate Center's Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. From 2016 to 2017, Torpey served as the president of the Eastern Sociological Society.
Education and career.
Torpey received his bachelor of arts degree from Amherst College in 1981 in political science, before completing his Ph.D. in sociology at University of California, Berkeley in 1992. At Berkeley, Torpey wrote his dissertation under the guidance of Jerome Karabel, Robert Bellah, and Martin Jay, which later became the foundation of his first book "Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and its Legacy".
Torpey has held permanent teaching positions at the University of California, Irvine, the University of British Columbia, and at the Graduate Center, CUNY. In 2010, Torpey was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria.
In addition to teaching, Torpey also sits on the editorial boards of the journals "Theory and Society" and "Journal of Human Rights".
Work.
Torpey has written extensively on the role of the state in shaping modern social life. In "Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent", Torpey examined the role of intellectuals within the German Democratic Republic, their role in the Republic's eventual collapse, as well as their aspirations for reform. Torpey has also received significant attention for his book "The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State," which examines the institution of the modern passport. In "The Invention of the Passport", Torpey borrows from sociologist Max Weber, arguing that states hold a “monopolization of the legitimate means of movement” and that the passport functions as a way of displacing and amplifying their administrative power.
Torpey's most recent scholarship focuses on religion in modern society. Alongside Christian Joppke, Torpey has written on the legal and cultural integration of Islam into Western liberal democracies, comparing the United States, Germany, France, and Canada. He has also been a contributor to the axial age debate.


Do Not Disturb (telecommunications)

The Do Not Disturb or (DND) function on most PBX or PABX systems prevents calls from ringing on an extension for which DND is activated. Some Do Not Disturb (DND) attributes include directing the call to a preassigned extension (like a secretary or assistant), busy signal, DND signal, or recorded message generated by the telephone switch. Some switches allow the call to go through to the extension but restrict the response to a visual indication. Some PBX systems allow the assignment of DND circumvention codes to supervisors.
The implementation of this feature is vendor-specific. In some cases, the ringer just does not ring and the called party is thus not alerted. Usually, though, the phone just acts as being busy. Depending on the infrastructure, the caller may end up on the called party's voice mailbox, sometimes after a certain delay.
Some special configurations combine DND with other features like call forwarding, where calls to a party with DND on are forwarded to another phone.


Ponam language

Ponam is an Austronesian language spoken on Ponam Island, just off Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.


Oblo language

Oblo is a poorly attested, unclassified, and possibly extinct language of northern Cameroon. It is, or was, spoken in a tiny area including Gobtikéré, Ouro Bé, and Ouro Badjouma, in Pitoa, Bénoué Department. (Note: the map in "Ethnologue" shows it in Mayo-Rey Department, possibly an error.)
Oblo has been classified as one of the Adamawa languages, but it has not been included in recent classifications. It might be best left unclassified altogether.


Lelepa language

Lelepa (Havannah Harbour) is a small Oceanic language of Vanuatu, off northwest Efate Island.


Djimini language

Djimini (Jinmini) is a southern Senufo language of Ivory Coast. Blacksmiths among the Djimini once spoke Tonjon, a Mande language.