Andy Gavin

Andrew Scott Gavin (born June 11, 1970) is an American video game programmer, designer, entrepreneur, and novelist. In the video game industry, he is known for co-founding the video game company Naughty Dog with childhood friend Jason Rubin in 1986, where games such as "Crash Bandicoot" and "Jak & Daxter" were released to critical acclaim. The sophistication of Naughty Dog technology is often credited to Gavin's background in LISP at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Education.
Gavin earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Neurobiological Science from Haverford College.
Gavin studied for his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he carried out research for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Mars Rover Vision Project, under his advisor Rod Brooks. While still a student, Gavin learned the computer programming language LISP. Influences from M.I.T. and his own work led him to develop a number of custom programming languages that improved the quality of graphics, controls, sounds, and artificial intelligence in Naughty Dog video games.
Career.
Gavin and Rubin sold their first video game, Math Jam, in 1985. In 1989, they sold "Keef the Thief" to Electronic Arts. In the early '90s, their fighting game, "Way of the Warrior", led to a multi-title deal with Universal Interactive Studios. It was under the auspices of this Universal deal that they produced the multi-million selling "Crash Bandicoot" series from 1994 until 1999, and later segued into the critically acclaimed "Jak and Daxter" series of games. At the end of 2000, Rubin and Gavin sold Naughty Dog to Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA). All in all, they created 14 Naughty Dog games, including "Math Jam" (1985), "Ski Crazed" (1986), "Dream Zone" (1987), "Keef the Thief" (1989), "Rings of Power" (1991), "Way of the Warrior" (1994), "Crash Bandicoot" (1996), ' (1997), ' (1998), "Crash Team Racing" (1999), ' (2001), "Jak II" (2003), "Jak 3" (2004), and ' (2005). Together, these games have sold over 35 million units and generated over $1 billion in revenue.
While at Naughty Dog, Gavin developed two LISP dialects for use in game development, GOOL (Game Object Oriented Lisp) and its successor GOAL (Game Oriented Assembly Lisp). These represented a departure from the mainstream in terms of language choice, and featured some innovations in design.
Shortly after leaving Naughty Dog in 2004, Gavin co-founded a new Internet startup called Flektor with his former business partner, Jason Rubin, and former HBO executive Jason R. Kay. In May 2007, the company was sold to Fox Interactive Media, which is a division of News Corp. Fox has described the company as: "a next-generation Web site that provides users with a suite of Web-based tools to transform their photos and videos into dynamic slideshows, postcards, live interactive presentations, and video mash-ups." In October 2007, Flektor partnered with its sister company MySpace, and MTV to provide instant audience feedback via polls for the interactive MySpace / MTV Presidential Dialogues series with then-presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama.
Gavin left Fox Interactive Media in 2008. In 2009, he announced a return to the video game business with his Naughty Dog co-founder Jason Rubin. They have formed a new social game startup called Monkey Gods that is working on a new version of "Snood" along with a casual word game called "MonkWerks".
In recent years, Gavin has turned to novel writing. His first novel, the dark historical fantasy, "The Darkening Dream", was published in December 2011. His second novel "Untimed", which involves time travel, was released on December 19, 2012.


Henry Dimbleby

Henry Richard Melville Dimbleby (born May 1970) is a British businessman and cookery writer who is a co-founder of Leon Restaurants and the Sustainable Restaurant Association. He was appointed lead non-executive board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in March 2018. He is the son of veteran BBC broadcaster David Dimbleby and Josceline Dimbleby.
Early life.
Dimbleby was born to David Dimbleby and his cookery writer wife Josceline Dimbleby in May 1970. His sister Kate Dimbleby is a cabaret singer. He was educated at Eton College, where he was a Newcastle scholar and a contemporary of Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. Later, he attended the University of Oxford where he read Physics and Philosophy. In 1984 he played Tom Dudgeon in the TV series "Swallows and Amazons Forever!"
Career.
Cookery writing.
Dimbleby began his career with Michelin-starred chef Bruno Loubet, before joining "The Daily Telegraph" as a food columnist.
Later, he was a regular cookery columnist for "The Guardian", and has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s "Kitchen Cabinet" and BBC One’s "Saturday Kitchen."
Management Consultancy.
Dimbleby worked for management consultants Bain & Co for seven years from 1995 to 2002.
Restaurant entrepreneurship.
During his time at Bain, Dimbleby met John Vincent, and together they formulated the idea of Leon Restaurants. Leon Restaurants was subsequently co-founded by Vincent and Dimbleby with chef Allegra McEvedy.
Dimbleby co-founded the Sustainable Restaurants Association in 2009, and The London Union, which controls some of London’s biggest street food markets.
Campaigning.
School meals.
In 2013, Dimbleby and John Vincent were invited to write a report on school meals. The pair instead created a collaboration and co-authored the Government backed School Food Plan, which set out to transform what children eat in schools and how they learn about food. Vincent and Dimbleby visited over 60 schools, eating as many school meals as they could and speaking to everyone involved, from headteachers to caterers and – most importantly – the children. They found that, while some of the best schools were great at weaving food education into school life, there was still a lot of work to be done. At the time, 57% of children weren't eating school meals at all, and only 1% of packed lunches met the nutritional standards that apply to school food.
The plan they created contains 17 separate and detailed recommendations on what should be done. As a result of the plan, the government now provides free school lunches to all infants in years Reception, 1 & 2. In addition, practical cooking and nutrition is now part of the National Curriculum for 4- to 14-year-olds, and two major food flagships have been launched across Lambeth and Croydon.
On 25 November 2015, the government's spending review confirmed that free infant school meals would be safe from national spending cuts.
National Food Strategy.
In July 2020 the National Food Strategy, Part One, was published, which Dimbleby led. This proposed actions to help disadvantaged children and to promote environmental and animal welfare standards. The recommendations for disadvantaged children were supported by Marcus Rashford in his 2020 covid-related campaign.
Recognition.
In 2015, Vincent and Dimbleby were appointed MBEs for their work on the School Food Plan.
In 2017, Dimbleby received the Sustainable Restaurant Association's "Raymond Blanc Sustainability Hero" award along with Vincent.
Personal life.
Dimbleby is married to Jemima Lewis, a journalist. They have three children, George, Johnny and Dory, and live in Hackney, London.


Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall.
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.


Brauer

Brauer or Bräuer is a surname of German origin, meaning "brewer". Notable people with the name include:-
Bräuer


Alan B. Oppenheimer

Alan B. Oppenheimer is the president and founder of Open Door Networks, Inc., creator of the mobile app Art Authority. From 1983 to 1994, he worked for Apple, Inc. where he helped design the AppleTalk network system for the original Macintosh computer. He also played a key role in the production of the LaserWriter printer, AppleTalk Remote Access, AppleShare file server and the Apple Internet Router. Alan is author of several books and runs the Alan and Priscilla Oppenheimer Foundation with his wife.
Education.
A graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, his graduate thesis was “A Local Area Disk Server for RT-11.” (RT-11 was one of the Digital Equipment Corporation's operating systems). Per the abstract, his thesis focused on “the potential of the fast-growing field of Local Area Networking… explored through the creation of an Ethernet-based disk server for the popular standalone RT-11 operating system.”
Apple, Inc..
After graduating from MIT, Alan was hired to work for Apple Inc. in 1983. His team was responsible for creating a network for a low-cost computer project called the Macintosh led by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Oppenheimer was responsible for AppleTalk's protocols in the Macintosh and the LaserWriter printer. Initial sales of the Macintosh computer were strong but follow up sales were relatively weak. However, it is suggested that the LaserWriter printer (along with PageMaker, an early desktop publishing package) was responsible for the success of the Macintosh because it was the world's first reasonably priced PostScript laser printer.
During his tenure at Apple, Inc. from 1983 to 1995, Oppenheimer also worked on AppleShare, the Apple Internet Router and Apple Remote Access. Regarding the creative energy of the company at the time: "As a kid right out of school I didn’t realize [just] how exciting it was. It was like a rookie going to the World Series in his first season.”
Open Door Networks, Inc..
In 1995, Oppenheimer founded Open Door Networks. Three years later, the company released the first firewall for the Macintosh (Mac OS 8.1). Since then, they have been instrumental in providing security for Apple products with consistent releases between 1998 and 2006.
We-Envision.
Realizing early that the iPhone was going to be a big success for Apple, Oppenheimer changed Open Door's focus towards mobile app development. In a partnership with company Project A (formerly “We-Envision” when working together), Open Door shipped 100 “Envi” apps, accumulated over 200,000 downloads, and produced apps in five separate categories (Art and Architecture, Space, Travel, Fun and Other which included photography and holiday themed apps) within their first year. However, the height of Oppenheimer’s push into mobile app development came in 2010 with the release of Art Authority.
Art Authority.
“Art Authority is a media viewing software application for Apple's iOS and Macintosh, and Amazon's Kindle Fire." Best described as "a virtual museum," the app allows users to access a collection of classic western paintings and sculptures by hundreds of artists. At launch, it offered nearly 40,000 high-resolution images of classic works of art.
Built specifically for the iPad, Art Authority was described as “an experience unlike any other” when it released in 2010. Art Authority was one of the first art-related apps made available on the App Store. Since its release it has constantly been referenced as a Top-10 product.
Author.
In addition to his tenure with Apple, Inc. and Open Door, Oppenheimer has co-written several books. Published in 1990, "Inside AppleTalk" explores the protocol architecture of the AppleTalk network system. Co-authored with Charles Whitaker, "Internet Security for Your Macintosh: A Guide for the Rest of Us" is a beginners guide to personal Macintosh security for both Mac OS 9 and OS X. And, Oppenheimer recently co-wrote an e-book companion to the Art Authority app called "Exploring Art with Art Authority".


Arjun Sethi (entrepreneur)

Arjun Sethi (born January 15, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur, investor and executive. He is co-founder and partner at venture capital firm Tribe Capital. He previously was partner at Social Capital and served as an executive at Yahoo! where he launched Yahoo! Livetext. Before that, he was co-founder and CEO of MessageMe (acquired by Yahoo!) and he was CEO of Lolapps, the developer behind Ravenwood Fair.
Career.
Lolapps.
In 2008, Sethi took the role as CEO of Lolapps, which developed social games on the Facebook platform. Lolapps developed Ravenwood Fair which had 10 million monthly active users. At its peak, Lolapps had 150 million monthly active users across its portfolio of games.
Lolapps merged with game publisher 6waves in 2011 which made the merged entity 6waves Lolapps the second largest game publisher on Facebook measured by monthly active users after Zynga. Sethi became Chief Product Officer in 6waves Lolapps, which went on to raise $35 million in funding from Korean gaming company Nexon.
In 2012, 6waves Lolapps laid off most of its development team and Sethi left to join venture capital firm Social Capital as an entrepreneur in residence.
Angel investments.
Sethi began angel investing at Lolapps. He is now considered one of the top angel investors in Silicon Valley. His angel investments include Opendoor, Gusto and Long-Term Stock Exchange.
MessageMe and Yahoo.
Later in 2012, Sethi became co-founder and CEO of mobile messaging app MessageMe. MessageMe reached 5 million users within 75 days of launch. The company raised close to $12 million across two rounds of funding led by Greylock Partners.
MessageMe's rapid growth led to Facebook revoking its access to the Facebook Platform’s “Find Friends” functionality for competitive reasons. Leaked internal Facebook emails expressed concern about resulting negative publicity for Facebook, particularly given Sethi’s relationship with Social Capital and previous position at Lolapps.
Yahoo acquired MessageMe in 2014 for a price between $30 million and $40 million,
 shut down the app MessageMe, and put Sethi and the ex-MessageMe team to work on a Yahoo messaging app meant to compete with Snapchat and WhatsApp. Yahoo's acquisition of MessageMe was part of CEO Marissa Mayer's larger strategy to bring in new talent via small startup acquisitions.
In 2015, Sethi and the former MessageMe team launched Yahoo! Livetext, an audio-free video messaging app. It never gained significant traction and Yahoo shut down the product in 2016.
Social Capital.
In early 2016, Sethi left Yahoo to join Social Capital as an investing partner focused on consumer startups.
At Social Capital, Sethi backed the firm's investments in and served on the board of directors of Carta, Relativity Space, Cover, and CryptoMove.
Tribe Capital.
In 2018, three former Social Capital investing partners, Sethi, Ted Maidenberg and Jonathan Hsu, left to form Tribe Capital with $200 million targeted for its first fund. Tribe invests in early-stage startups and uses quantitative data to inform investment decisions.
At Tribe, Sethi made its first investment in cryptocurrency trading platform SFOX. He has also followed on to his investments in Carta, Relativity Space, and Cover. Other investments include Applied Intuition, Docker, Republic, Instabase, and Momentus. Sethi serves on the board of directors of Docker.
In 2020, Tribe launched its investing program Firstlook to allow accredited investors to co-invest in selected companies alongside Tribe.
In March 2021, Tribe and Arrow Capital co-sponsored a SPAC raising $240 million, led by Sethi as CEO.


Resignation from the United States Senate

A member of the United States Senate can resign by writing a letter of resignation to the governor of the state that the senator represents. Under Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States, and under the Seventeenth Amendment, in case of a vacancy in the Senate resulting from resignation, the executive authority of the state (today known in every state as the governor) can fill the vacancy by appointment unless the state legislature has provided for some other means of filling the vacancy, such as a special election. Whenever a senator needs to be appointed or elected, the Secretary of the Senate mails one of three forms to the state's governor to inform them of the proper wording to certify the appointment of a new Senator.
The first resignation from the Senate was that of William Paterson of New Jersey on November 13, 1790, who resigned in order to accept the office of Governor of New Jersey. His resignation was only the third time a person ceased to hold a seat in the Senate, which had first convened during the preceding year, 1789. The earlier ones resulted from the death of Senator William Grayson of Virginia, and the expiration of the term of the temporary senator John Walker of Virginia, who was appointed by the Governor of Virginia to hold that office until a successor could be elected in November.
Before 1796, eight senators resigned. Nine senators resigned during that year—a record-high number that stands to this day. Most resignations have been motivated either by declining health or a decision to accept another office. Sixteen persons have resigned from the Senate twice and two have resigned three times.


Kristin Forbes

Kristin J. Forbes (born August 21, 1970) is an American economist. She is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Early life.
The eldest of three children, Forbes was raised in Concord, New Hampshire and attend Concord High School. In 1988, as a high school senior, she was selected as New Hampshire's Presidential Scholar, which gave her the opportunity to meet President Ronald Reagan at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.
Career.
After graduating summa cum laude in 1992 with a B.A. with highest honors in Economics from Williams College, Forbes joined the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley as an analyst on Wall Street, New York City. In 1993, she joined the policy research department of the World Bank. While working on a study about Asia, she decided to concentrate on a career in economics.
She studied for a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), during which she spent a summer in New Delhi, India, and then spent three months traveling throughout the country. She completed her Ph.D. in 1998 in international and development economics, and was hired by the MIT Sloan School of Management. While teaching, her post-doctorate studies focused on financial contagion, looking at how it spread from business-to-business.
Treasury department, CEA.
In 2001, Forbes was hired by John B. Taylor, then the undersecretary of international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, to serve in the Office of International Affairs as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Quantitative Policy Analysis and Latin American and Caribbean Nations. A year later she returned to MIT to teach and study. In 2003, she was approached by Gregory Mankiw, the head of the Council of Economic Advisors, and after confirmation by the U.S. Senate, she served until 2005 as the youngest-ever member of the President's CEA, in the administration of George W. Bush.
Return to academia.
Forbes returned to academia in mid-2005 to take up her current position. She has since been researching financial crises, financial contagion, capital controls, macroprudential regulations, foreign investment and tax holidays. In August 2012 she presented the opening paper at the Federal Reserve's annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on the subject of financial contagion.
During this period, Forbes served as a member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisers for the State of Massachusetts. She was also a member of the Trilateral Commission and sat on the Panel of Economic Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office, the Academic Advisory Board for the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and the Center for Global Development. She also became more involved in poverty reduction, and helped start DeWorm the World, along with Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, and Rachel Glennerster, a non-profit organization which is now part of EvidenceAction and has supported programs deworming over 300 million children in Africa and Asia.
In May 2014, she was appointed to the United Kingdom's Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, as an "external member", replacing Ben Broadbent. She delivered a number of influential speeches reflecting her "deep dives" on economic challenges facing the United Kingdom. She dissented on March 16, 2017, preferring to raise rates, arguing inflation could overshoot the 2% target. She is finished her term in June 2017, and returned to MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Forbes is currently a research associate at the NBER and research fellow at the CEPR. She is a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, Bellagio Group, and Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the Economic Advisory Panel for the New York Federal Reserve Bank and Scientific Committee for the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies.
Personal life.
Forbes is married and has three children. She ran the Boston Marathon in 2014, for Boston Children's Hospital and earned qualifying time. She ran the London Marathon in 2016.


Joe Kraus

Joe Kraus is the founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, along with his long-time business partner Graham Spencer. Currently, Kraus is an Investment Partner on the GV team and President at Lime.
Career.
A long time entrepreneur, Kraus has been involved with early-stage technology development and starting companies for more than twelve years. Upon graduation from Stanford University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in political science, he joined with five engineering friends to found the Internet company Excite, which would declare bankruptcy in 2001 . As the original President of Excite, Kraus was involved in product strategy, direction and vision as the company grew. He also held senior operational roles in business development, international development and content.
After leaving Excite@Home in 2000, Kraus was a co-founder of Digitalconsumer.org, a non-profit consumer organization with more than 50,000 members dedicated to expanding consumers' fair-use rights to digital media. Kraus, along with other co-founder Graham Spencer, continued to work on these issues. In 2006, Kraus joined the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to his non-profit focus, he has also spent many years as an angel investor, working with numerous early-stage technology companies.
Kraus was CEO of JotSpot, which was purchased by Google in 2006. While at Google, Kraus was the Director of Project Management. One of his projects was OpenSocial, Google's effort to develop API standards for social networking platforms. In 2009, he became a partner at Google Ventures.
Kraus helped to lead the investment for GV in OpenCandy and is on their board of directors.
In November 2018, it was announced that Joe Kraus would become Lime’s first COO.


Cheesman

Cheesman is a surname, meaning a maker or seller of cheese. Notable people with the surname include:


Robert Norton (typographer)

Robert Norton (1929–2001) was a British publisher, consultant on printing and Microsoft executive.
The son of the children's author Mary Norton, he established the company Photoscript, a phototypesetting technology company, before moving into digital font technology. He later moved to Seattle to take up a position as an executive at Microsoft, advising on fonts to be included with Windows. Many of the release notes accompanying Microsoft typefaces were written by him. While in Washington, he self-published the book "Types Best Remembered/Types Best Forgotten" on good and bad choices of font.<ref name="TBR/F"></ref>
He married Abigail Scully in the United States and had four children. After retiring from Microsoft in 1997, he ran his fine press brand, the Parsimony Press, in Huntspill, Somerset.


Neumann International

Neumann International, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, is a European human resource consulting and executive search firm, with offices throughout Europe and in China.
The company, which is a member of the New York-based Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC) provides services such as executive search, executive consulting and compensation consulting.
Neumann International's CEO, Serge Lamielle, is the Chairman of the AESC Europe and Vice-Chair of the Global Board of the AESC.
In the spring of 1989, just a few months before the fall of the Iron Curtain, the company opened its branch in Budapest, Hungary, being the first Western-European Executive Search having a fully owned representation in the Eastern Bloc. In 2011, the company, having to cover $12 million worth of unsecured investments, began a reorganization effort to solve its insolvency.


Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Paul Myhrvold (born August 3, 1959), formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and the principal author of "Modernist Cuisine" and its successor books. Myhrvold was listed as co-inventor on 17 U.S. patents at Microsoft and is co-inventor on over 900 other U.S. patents issued to his corporation and its affiliates.
Early life and education.
Myhrvold was born on August 3, 1959 in Seattle, Washington. He was raised in Santa Monica, where he attended Mirman School and Santa Monica High School, graduating in 1974, and began college at age 14. Transferring from Santa Monica College, he studied mathematics (B.Sc.), and geophysics and space physics (Master's) at UCLA. He was awarded a Hertz Foundation Fellowship for graduate study and studied at Princeton University, where he earned a master's degree in mathematical economics and completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Vistas in curved space-time quantum field theory" under the supervision of Malcolm Perry. For one year, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge working under Stephen Hawking.
Career.
Early career.
Myhrvold left Cambridge to co-found a computer startup in Oakland, California. The company, Dynamical Systems Research Inc. (DSR), sought to produce Mondrian, a clone of IBM's TopView multitasking environment for DOS. Myhrvold served as DSR's president. Microsoft purchased DSR in 1986 for $1.5M in stock. Myhrvold worked at Microsoft for 13 years in a variety of executive positions, culminating in his appointment as the company's first chief technology officer in 1996. At Microsoft he founded Microsoft Research in 1991.
Intellectual Ventures.
After Microsoft, in 2000 Myhrvold co-founded Intellectual Ventures, a patent portfolio developer and broker in the areas of technology and energy, known as "the ultimate patent trolls," by many in the business world, which has acquired over 30,000 patents. Intellectual Ventures exploits the market for inventions and patents, buying patents from companies and inventors under the assumption the patents will be more valuable in the future. IV also files patents through the work of a team of on-site inventors. Startup companies spun out of IV, including Kymeta, Echodyne, and TerraPower, have developed commercial products from IV's inventions. Through its Global Good unit, which Myhrvold founded in collaboration with Bill Gates, IV has also invented and produced commercial products, such as improved vaccine coolers and milking cans, aimed at low-income markets in Africa and Asia. However, in most cases, IV's inventions are limited to the descriptions provided in their patents, which are bundled into portfolios for licensing.
Myhrvold has described his goal for Intellectual Ventures as helping to create a market for patent-backed securities. The company's business practices have caused controversy, however, with some deprecating the firm as a patent troll. Myhrvold has publicly defended his firm's practices, arguing that they foster innovation by serving as a marketplace for intellectual property. He has noted that many of the largest companies in Silicon Valley, including Google, Apple, and Facebook, have also bought large patent portfolios and used litigation to protect them, but he has criticized them as focusing too much on creating "tools or toys for rich people."
Nuclear power.
Myhrvold is vice chairman of TerraPower, a spin-out of Intellectual Ventures that is developing a new kind of nuclear reactor, known as a traveling-wave reactor, that is designed to be safer, cheaper, and cleaner than current nuclear power plants. In 2017, the company launched a joint venture with the China National Nuclear Corporation to build and operate a prototype reactor of this kind in Hebei province.
Science.
In addition to his business activities, Myhrvold is a working scientist who has published original, peer-reviewed research in the fields of paleobiology, climate science, and astronomy. A prize-winning nature and wildlife photographer, he has also been involved with paleontological research on expeditions with the Museum of the Rockies. His work has appeared in scientific journals including "Science", "Nature", "Paleobiology," "PLOS One", and the "Physical Review", as well as in "Fortune", "Time", "Scientific American", "National Geographic Traveler", and "Slate". He and Peter Rinearson helped Bill Gates write "The Road Ahead", a book about the future that reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 1995 and 1996. Myhrvold has contributed $1 million to the nonprofit SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA, for the development of the Allen Telescope Array, which was envisioned to be the most powerful instrument for SETI.
After the Science Museum in London successfully built the computing section of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine #2 in 1991, Myhrvold funded the construction of the output section, which performs both printing and stereotyping of calculated results. He also commissioned the construction of a second complete Difference Engine #2 for himself, which was on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, from May 10, 2008 to January 31, 2016 and currently resides in the Intellectual Ventures Laboratory.
In research presented at scientific conferences and published in the astronomy journal "Icarus", Myhrvold has been a vocal critic of procedures and results about asteroid diameters published by the NEOWISE team. A preprint of his work on the subject received wide press coverage prompting a public statement by NASA.
Cooking.
While working as chief technology officer at Microsoft, Myhrvold took leave to earn his culinary diploma from École de Cuisine La Varenne in France. Myhrvold's early culinary training was as an observer and unpaid apprentice at "Rover's", one of Seattle's leading restaurants, with Chef Thierry Rautureau. Myhrvold is the principal author of a culinary text entitled "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking," released in March 2011, on the application of scientific research principles and new techniques and technology to cooking. That book, which earned a James Beard Foundation Award for "cookbook of the year" in 2012, was followed by the books "Modernist Cuisine at Home", "The Photography of Modernist Cuisine", and "Modernist Bread: The Art and Science", all self-published by Myhrvold and with him as lead author. Myhrvold was part of a team that won first place at the world barbecue championships in Memphis. He has appeared as a guest judge on "Top Chef".
Advocacy.
In interviews with CNN, "SuperFreakonomics" author Stephen Dubner, and "Scientific American", Myhrvold has discussed ways to reverse some of the effects of global warming/climate change by using geoengineering. Myhrvold and other inventors working with Intellectual Ventures have proposed several approaches, including one that would use hoses, suspended from helium balloons above the Earth at high latitudes, to emit sulfur dioxide, which is known to scatter light. Another approach would stimulate the formation and brightening of marine clouds to reflect more sunlight back into space.
Controversy.
In the popular press, Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures have been repeatedly accused of acting as patent trolls and stifling innovation by buying patents and then forcing inventors to license their ideas by means of litigation. Walt Mossberg interviewed Myhrvold about Intellectual Ventures' role as a "patent troll" during the 10th annual All Things Digital conference. This American Life's Laura Sydell ran an investigative story about patent trolling and Intellectual Ventures' role in that business.
According to The New York Times, Intellectual Ventures at one point controlled nearly 70,000 intellectual property assets (patents and patents pending) that it has used to generate approximately $3 billion in revenues, primarily in the form of license fees from large corporations. The company responds that it has returned more than $500 million to individual inventors and most of the remaining revenues to its investors.
Affiliations and awards.
Myhrvold received the James Beard Foundation Award for cookbook of the year in 2012 and an honorary degree from The Culinary Institute of America in 2013 for his book "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking". His book "Modernist Bread" received a James Beard Foundation book award in 2018. In 2010, Myhrvold was named by "Foreign Policy" magazine to its list of top 100 global thinkers. He was selected as the keynote speaker for the UCLA College commencement ceremonies on Friday, June 12, 2015. In 2013, Myhrvold was a judge for the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Princeton University awarded him the James Madison Medal in 2005. He received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1996.
Myhrvold endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Personal life.
Myhrvold is married to Rosemarie Havranek, whom he met while studying at Princeton. They have twin sons, Conor and Cameron A. Myhrvold. Cameron studied Biology at Princeton, and then did his PhD at Harvard's Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology Program. After that he got a postdoc position at Pardis Sabeti lab in Harvard, working closely with Feng Zhang on CRISPR. After his postdoc, he moved started his own lab at Princeton.
He also has a younger brother, Cameron.


Oliver J. Moore

Oliver Moore is a British Sinologist, and the first Chair in Chinese at Groningen University.
Career.
Moore was educated at Bryanston School, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of Cambridge, and Fudan University in Shanghai. He has worked at Leiden University, Kyoto University, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden and the British Museum in London. He has researched a variety of topics, including the social history, visual arts and material culture of China. His inaugural lecture as Professor at Groningen, on 12 December 2017, was titled "Facts, Fictions, and Attitudes: Common Tactics for Representing China".


Cordier

Cordier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


Robert Steven Kaplan

Robert Steven Kaplan (born 1957) is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He was appointed to the position on September 8, 2015.
Prior to joining the Dallas Fed, Kaplan was a Senior Associate Dean and the Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School.
Kaplan is an active venture philanthropist through his work as co-chairman of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm which has invested in approximately 110 new non-profit ventures. He serves as chairman of Project A.L.S., and a board member of Harvard Medical School.
He is the author of three books: "What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011)," What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), and "What You Really Need to Lead: The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner" (Harvard Business School Review Press, 2015).
In August 2015, Kaplan was named to head the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, effective September 2015.
Career.
Prior to joining Harvard in 2006, Kaplan was vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. with global responsibility for the firm's Investment Banking and Investment Management Divisions. He became a partner in 1990 and served as co-chairman of the firm’s Partnership Committee. He was also a member of the Management Committee.
Following his 23-year career at Goldman Sachs, Kaplan became a senior director of the firm.
Personal life and education.
Kaplan was born and raised in Prairie Village, Kansas, and is a graduate of the University of Kansas in 1979 and Harvard Business School in 1983. He lives with his two sons in Dallas, Texas.
Bibliography.
Books
Journal articles


Nicholas Lowick

Nicholas Manning Lowick (1940-1986) was a leading specialist in Islamic numismatics and epigraphy at the British Museum.
Biography.
Lowick was educated at Clifton College, and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he earned a First in French and German. He joined the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum in 1962, working with John Walker. From 1964, he began a prolific series of articles on the medieval coinages of Central Asia, India, Iran, the Persian Gulf, the Yemen and the near East, and was part of the team working on Siraf. On the strength of his publications he was promoted to Deputy Keeper in 1979. He died on 11 November 1986, aged 45.
Lowick was a member of the Royal Numismatic Society (Library Secretary, 1964-1981, Reviews Editor of the "Numismatic Chronicle", 1975-1986, and a regular contributor to "Coin Hoards"). He was also a member of the British Institute of Persian Studies, and the Royal Asiatic Society.
Selected publications.
After Lowick's death, his colleague Joe Cribb collected his papers and published them in the Variorum series:


Antonio Frasconi

Antonio Frasconi (28 April 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay – 8 January 2013 in Norwalk, CT, USA) was an Uruguayan - American visual artist, best known for his woodcuts. He was raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, and lived in the United States since 1945.
Life.
Antonio Rudolfo Frasconi was born 28 April 1919 on a boat between Argentina & Uruguay and was raised in Montevideo, Uruguay. He had parents of Italian descent. They had moved to South America during World War I. Frasconi's mother managed a restaurant whilst his father was frequently unemployed. Frasconi frequently quotes his mother and her view of his talents. He said that his mother talked of art at the church where she was brought up as if it had been done by God rather than man. She felt that if Frasconi had been born with a gift, he would already be a famous artist rather than working like her each day. His mother worked in the restaurant, cared for Frasconi and his two sisters and still found time to be a seamstress
By the age of twelve, he was learning a trade at a printers after abandoning a course at Círculo de Bellas Artes. During his teenage years he admired Gustave Doré and Goya, whilst indulging in creating caricatures of political figures.
During the war, an exhibition of impressionism and post-impression was organised by the French in Latin America. Artists such as Van Gogh and Cézanne captured his imagination. However it was the woodcuts of Paul Gauguin that he was attracted to most. Frasconi says he became intrigued by American writers and musicians. He would hear Jazz on the radio and read American authors like Walt Whitman.
Frasconi moved to the United States in 1945 at the end of World War II. He worked as a gardener and as a guard at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. It was at that museum that he had his first dedicated show. His recognition was beginning to grow and within twelve months he had a similar show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Frasconi was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1952.
In 1955, Frasconi's woodcuts were exhibited at the Summit Art Association, now known as Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, in Summit, NJ. This show was an extensive traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution.
In 1959 he was a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal from the U.S. children's librarians, which annually honors the illustrator of the best American picture book for children. Thus "The House That Jack Built", which he also wrote, is retrospectively termed a Caldecott Honor Book.
In 1962 Frasconi won a "Horn Book" Fanfare award for "The Snow and the Sun - La Nieve y el Sol" a book he had created in two languages. He has frequently produced multilingual books. Also in 1962, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1969.
In 1982 Frasconi was the Distinguished Teaching Professor of Visual Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase.
Frasconi's students have included Martha Zelt, Adrian Lee Kellard and Ron Rocco.
Between 1981 and 1986 he created a series of woodcuts under the name "Los desaparecidos" (The Disappeared). This series refers directly to the people who were tortured and killed during the Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay.
Antonio Frasconi died on 8 January 2013.
External links.


Oh! Those Bells

Oh! Those Bells is a 1962 United States comedic television series starring The Wiere Brothers about the misadventures of three brothers who work in a Hollywood theatrical supply shop. It aired from March 8 to May 31, 1962.
Synopsis.
Herbie, Harry, and Sylvie Bell are three gentle-natured brothers who are the last surviving members of a family with a long history of making theatrical props, costumes, and wigs. They work in a Hollywood theater supply shop, where their irascible boss is Henry Slocum. Although they mean well, they manage to turn even the simplest everyday tasks into slapstick disasters. Slocums secretary, Kitty Mathews, is sweet and understanding. Mrs. Stanfield is the Bells landlady.
Production.
A loosely structured show, "Oh! Those Bells" attempted to bring slapstick humor to American television. At the time, The Wiere Brothers – Herbert, Harry, and Sylvester – were internationally known slapstick comedians. Jules White created the show, and he and Sam White produced the pilot episode, known both as "Money Mixup" and "Movie Money." Ben Brady produced the rest of the episodes. Jules Whites is known for his short-subject comedies starring The Three Stooges.
Although they did not air until 1962, the shows episodes were filmed in 1960.
Broadcast history.
"Oh! Those Bells" premiered on CBS on March 8, 1962. It was cancelled after the broadcast of its thirteenth episode on May 31, 1962. It aired on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. throughout its run.
Episodes.
Sources


R. Scott Morris

R. Scott Morris is an American author, financial engineer and quantitative consultant. He is president of Morris Consulting, LLC, Chief Investment Strategist of Blackthorne Capital Management, LLC, and served as CEO of the Boston Options Exchange from 2006-08. He has also served as Managing Director of Goldman Sachs and Partner at Hull Trading Company.
Education and Hull Trading.
Morris was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and attended Pike High School. After completing a degree in Economics at the University of Chicago in 1986, he entered a rapidly changing futures industry as the NYSE and NASDAQ began trading equity options contracts. As an associate for GNP commodities, Morris developed strategies for risk hedging and management and began his lifelong research into algorithmic trading.
After joining a team of mathematicians and scientists working under Blair Hull at Hull Trading Company, he obtained an M.B.A from the University of Chicago, where he specialized in both finance and statistics. During his tenure with Hull Trading, Morris engineered electronic option pricing systems and developed option pricing and volatility models, eventually becoming a Partner and the Director of Financial Engineering.
Goldman Sachs and Boston Options Exchange.
Hull Trading Company was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 1999 for $531 million.
Morris joined Goldman Sachs, where he managed the equity trading financial engineering groups and continued his work on trading systems and statistical modeling. After two years, he became a Managing Director and led the firm's algorithmic trading division at the Automated Execution Strategies desk.
In 2006, Morris became CEO of the Boston Options Exchange Group, an automated equity options stock exchange. As CEO, Morris continued his engineering work, developing execution speed and messaging capacity for hedge funds and algorithmic traders.
Morris led the implementation of the Sola Trading platform and PIP price improvement algorithm. He departed in 2008 after the TMX majority ownership acquisition.
Consulting and writing.
Morris is the founder of Morris Consulting, LLC, which develops quantitative models and automated trading strategies, and advises large trading firms on regulatory relations, risk management, and recruiting. He has spoken at numerous educational and industry events and has lectured at the Chicago Board Options Exchange Risk Management Conference, the Futures Industry Association, and the Security Traders Association of Chicago.
In 2002, he lectured on volume-price ratios and optimal execution at the Computational Finance program at Carnegie Mellon, and he is currently a guest lecturer for the University of Chicago Careers in Business program. Morris is also the author of Polished, a careers resource book that teaches resume, cover letter, and interview skills to college students and other first-time job seekers.
Blackthorne Capital Management.
In July 2016, Morris joined Blackthorne Capital Management as the Head of Research and Strategy Design. He has spearheaded the design and implementation of Blackthorne’s Sentiment Enhanced trading models.
In 2018, Morris was named Chief Investment Strategist of Blackthorne Capital Management, LLC.


Hugh Robertson (politician)

Sir Hugh Michael Robertson , (born 9 October 1962, Canterbury, Kent) is the Chairman of the British Olympic Association and Chairman of Camelot, the operator of The National Lottery. He was formerly a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Faversham and Mid Kent from 2001 to 2015. He was the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs until July 2014, having previously been the Minister for Sport and for the Olympics.
Education.
Robertson was educated at The King's School, Canterbury. He then read Land Management at the University of Reading from 1982 to 1985, obtaining a BSc (Hons) degree, before attending the RMA Sandhurst between 1985 and 1986.
In April 2014, Robertson was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship by the University of Reading in recognition of the role he played in the London 2012 Olympics. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bedfordshire in November 2017 for his contribution to sport.
Career.
Robertson served as an officer in the Life Guards from 1982 to 1995, rising to the rank of Major. Robertson saw active service in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, The Gulf War and served with the UN peacekeeping force UNPROFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also commanded The Household Cavalry on the 1993 Queen's Birthday Parade and at the 1993 State Opening of Parliament.
From 1995 until 2001, he was a banker with the investment management division of Schroders, then head of new business development for the property division.
Parliamentary career.
Robertson was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Faversham and Mid Kent, a large constituency in Kent, which stretches from the outskirts of east Maidstone to the rural areas of The Weald and Faversham. He doubled his majority at both the 2005 and 2010 elections.
Having shadowed this post in Opposition, he was appointed a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State as the Minister for Sport and the Olympics in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in May 2010. In September 2012, he was promoted to Minister of State in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport as the Minister for Sport, Olympic Legacy Tourism and was appointed a Privy Councillor. He took The Equal Marriage Bill through Parliament. In 2013, he moved to be Minister of State at The Foreign and Commonwealth Office responsible for The Middle East, North Africa and Counter Terrorism. He was involved in John Kerry's Middle East Peace initiative, the Iran nuclear negotiations and the Geneva Peace process to end the war in Syria. He stood down from government in the 2014 reshuffle and was knighted for his work as Minister for The Olympics during London 2012 and his work in The Middle East.
In January 2015 Robertson announced that he would stand down from Parliament at the next general election.
Personal life.
Robertson married Anna Copson on 17 May 2002 at the Church of St. Margaret, Westminster. The wedding had to be rescheduled at short notice from 5 April after the death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. They have one son.
Honours.
Sir Hugh has received the following decorations:


Renaissance Capital (Russian company)

Renaissance Capital is an emerging and frontier markets focused investment bank founded in 1995 in Russia. The firm has offices in Moscow, London, New York, Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Cairo and Nicosia.
Since 2012, Renaissance Capital has been part of ONEXIM Group, one of the largest private investment holding companies in Russia, owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.
Renaissance Capital offers investment banking services in debt and equity capital markets, M&A, equity and equity derivatives, fixed income, FX and FX derivatives, commodities products, prime brokerage, research, as well as REPO and financing.
As of 31 December 2020, the Firm’s total assets and equity amounted to $3.7bn and $465mn, respectively, and reported FY20 net profit was $28.4mn.
History.
Renaissance Capital was established in 1995 by a group of founding partners, including Stephen Jennings, Boris Jordan, Leonid Rozhetskin, Anton Kudryashov and Richard Deitz.
On September 22, 2008, ONEXIM Group and Renaissance entered into a strategic partnership whereby ONEXIM Group purchased a 50% (minus one share) stake in Renaissance Capital for $500 million following the issuance of new equity, commenting that the acquisition “presents the opportunity to take Renaissance Capital to the next level”.
In 2010, Renaissance Capital paid 207 million rand ($27 million) to acquire Barnard Jacobs Mellet Securities Ltd., the South African stock brokerage.
In November 2012, ONEXIM Group acquired further stakes in Renaissance Capital which resulted a full ownership of the investment bank and indirect ownership of an 89% stake in the consumer finance bank Renaissance Credit.
Commenting on the deal, Dmitry Razumov, chief executive officer of ONEXIM Group, said “We strongly believe in the strategy of Renaissance Capital and that the financial resources of ONEXIM will only strengthen the unique position of the bank in the markets in which it operates.”
The transaction was completed in April 2013, following the receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals.
Renaissance Capital opened an office in Dubai in February 2014, and launched trading in the Middle East markets, including UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman and Tunisia.
Renaissance Capital has been active in Africa for several years. The firm established a presence on the continent in 2007 with locations in Lagos and Nairobi and opened offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Cairo in 2010, 2015 and 2017 respectively. In March 2015, Renaissance Capital doubled its net profit from core business for the full year 2014, reporting a total operating income of $250 million.
In April 2017, Renaissance Capital announced the upcoming opening of its Cairo office, focusing on investment banking, financing and research, and received its licence to operate in the country later that year.
In July 2019, Renaissance Capital became a trading member of Astana International Exchange (AIX) in Kazakhstan.
Management.
Since April 2017, Renaissance Capital has been led by co-CEOs Ruslan Babaev and Anna Vyshlova, who oversee strategy and the day-to-day operations of the firm. Both Ruslan Babaev and Anna Vyshlova had previously served in management positions at the firm.
Dmitry Razumov is chairman of Renaissance Capital's board of directors, providing oversight and guidance on its strategic development and international expansion and managing the firm's relationships with key clients and stakeholders in all of the firm's markets.
Anthony Simone, Renaissance Capital's president, focuses on the firm's international offices and institutional client coverage, as well as regulatory, governance and other corporate matters.
Elena Grishina is Renaissance Capital's CFO. Within this role, she is responsible for Renaissance Capital's financing activities and investor relations.
Amr Helal is CEO for North Africa. He has been with the firm since October 2017 as an independent non-executive director in Cairo. In the capacity of chief executive officer, Amr leads the firm's franchise in North Africa and oversees the company's strategy and senior client coverage in the region.
Stanley Kariuki is CEO and head of equities for Kenya, where he oversees the local team and has responsibility for trading and operations.
Marios Hadjiyannakis is CEO for Cyprus. He has the overall responsibility for regional business development, operations and regulatory relations.
Geography.
Renaissance Capital is focused on emerging and frontier markets. The firm has offices in Moscow, London, New York, Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Cairo and Nicosia.
Cairo serves as the focal point for the firm's activities in the Middle East and North Africa. One of the landmark transactions in this region was the first equity placement on the Egyptian Stock Exchange, completed in May 2016 on behalf of Egypt El Mansour & El Maghraby Investment and Development Company through an accelerated book build of Crédit Agricole Egypt SAE shares. Renaissance Capital acted as the sole organiser and bookrunner of the placement.
Renaissance Capital's office in Lagos (Nigeria) serves as a hub for the firm's West African operations, and its Nairobi (Kenya) office provides a base for its activities in the east of the continent. The firm has managed transactions in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Egypt and Zambia.
Rankings, ratings and awards.
In 2020, Renaissance Capital has been named 'Investment Bank of the Year for Emerging Markets in Europe' and 'Independent Investment Bank of the Year for Sustainability' in The Banker magazine's annual 'Investment Banking Awards 2020'. Previously, the Banker named Renaissance Capital the Most Innovative Bank for Emerging Markets in 2018 and the Most Innovative Bank from Central and Eastern Europe in 2019.
The Global Finance’s Best Investment Banks award named Renaissance Capital as the Best Investment Bank in Frontier Markets for 2018 and the Best Debt Bank in Central and Eastern Europe for 2020, Best Bank for Crisis Financial Solutions in CEE and Best Investment Bank in Kenya in 2020.
GlobalCapital named Renaissance Capital #1 in the category Most Impressive Local Bank for CEE Bonds in 2018.
In 2019, Renaissance Capital was named the Best Investment Bank in Russia in 2018 in the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2019.
In the 2020 Financial Mail awards for African equity research, the Firm's local team was ranked #3. The team excelled in the sectors covered by Renaissance Capital and was rated top-3 in 13 sectors. The SSA team scooped the #1 rating in both the equities and non-equities categories.
Product offering.
Renaissance Capital offers a variety of investment banking services in debt and equity capital markets and M&A, sales and trading in equity, fixed income, FX and derivatives, hedging, REPO and financing, as well as prime brokerage and research.
The firm has established an algorithmic trading unit as part of its existing derivatives business to meet growing client demand, and capitalise on market opportunities.
Renaissance Capital has acted as organiser on a number of capital markets transactions in Russia, including: Beeline $127.4 mn IPO on NYSE in November 1996 – the first IPO out of Russia; ALROSA $1.3bn IPO in October 2013 – the largest IPO ever on Moscow Exchange; RUSAL $2.24 bn IPO in January 2010 – Hong Kong’s first ever offering by a Russian company; as well as major retail IPOs – Rosneft $10.7 bn IPO in July 2006 and VTB c.$8 bn IPO in May 2007.
In the frontier and emerging space, Renaissance Capital has organised a number of pioneering transactions including the following:


Joe Belfiore

Joe Belfiore is an American business executive who has held various roles at Microsoft since August 1990, mostly in the field of user experience. He is currently the Corporate Vice President in the Experiences and Devices division of Microsoft. A frequent speaker, Belfiore has appeared at many Microsoft conferences, often giving demos on stage. He has also hosted a TED Talk.
Early life.
Born in Tampa Bay, Florida, Belfiore became enamoured of computers as a child through his experience with a Timex Sinclair 1000 belonging to the father of a fellow kid in his neighborhood. He attended Clearwater Central Catholic High School and graduated in 1986. He then attended Stanford University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1990.
Career at Microsoft.
Windows and IE user experience.
Soon after graduation he was hired by Microsoft, working as Program Manager for OS/2, but his post was short-lived as Microsoft ended its partnership with IBM regarding OS/2. He moved over to the Windows NT team.
Belfiore served as user interface manager for NT during its development. In 1993 as NT shipped he joined the Windows team and became Lead Program Manager for the user interface of project Chicago, which would become Windows 95. Following this, he worked on user interface for Internet Explorer 3 and Internet Explorer 4, including IE4's Windows integrated shell. Belfiore then became manager for user experience in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, including the engineering and design team that created the Windows XP user interface.
Windows Media Center.
In 2002 Belfiore joined Microsoft's new eHome division for digital home media where he initially helped with the development of Windows XP Media Center Edition. Later becoming vice president of the division, he was also responsible for design, business and marketing of Windows Media Center and related products. Belfiore successfully negotiated a deal with US cable companies to enable PCs to consume and broadcast digital TV signals around the home.
Zune.
In 2008 he became corporate vice president of the Zune division.
Metro and Windows Phone.
In February 2009, Belfiore moved over to the Mobile Communications Business division, which was responsible for Windows Mobile. He became Director of Program Management and his team worked on the creation of the Metro user interface in upcoming Windows Phone 7, which had influences from previous Windows Media Center design, and was rolled out to many other Microsoft products including Xbox 360 and Windows 8.
In addition he led the effort to create Cortana and many other aspects of the platform; he served as the face of the company's Windows Phone efforts.
Belfiore was forced to apologize in 2011 to unhappy Windows Phone 7 users after complaints that updates promised by Belfiore were not rolled out to users.
On October 8, 2017, in response to a Twitter question about Windows Phone, Belfiore broke Microsoft's silence about the platform by saying it will continue to be supported for bug fixes and security only, but no new features or hardware. This clarified Microsoft's position that the platform, then having fallen below 1% market share, is on end of life support amid ongoing rumors of a "Surface Phone"Surface Duo
. Media interpreted this tweet as a final confirmation that Windows Phone was "dead". In a second tweet to another user he wrote:
Operating Systems Group and Windows 10.
In the summer of 2013, Belfiore was named the leader of the "PC/Tablet/Phone" vertical within the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft, responsible for delivering Windows 10 on PCs, Tablets and Phones. This group significantly updated the Windows desktop experience, owned and created the Cortana digital assistant, and created the "Continuum" feature set, which enables 2-in-1 PCs (like the Surface) to transform between "PC Mode" and "Tablet Mode"; and additionally enables Windows Phone devices to connect to a keyboard, mouse and monitor and work in a PC-like experience.
Later that year he also expanded into app development and user experience for Internet Explorer.
In Fall 2015, Belfiore announced that he would take a 9-month leave of absence from Microsoft to travel around the world with his family aboard the MV World Odyssey. While on this leave of absence, Belfiore was noted for using an iPhone, as well as a Galaxy S7, as two of his primary-use phones.
After returning from a leave-of-absence in 2016, Belfiore resumed his work on Windows 10 and announced many new features at Build 2017, including cross-platform features enabling "Windows PCs to love all your devices"—including iOS and Android phones.
Client Experience.
In 2018 he headed Windows Client Experience which includes Windows shell and cross-device experiences of Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Launcher.
Office.
In 2020 it was announced Belfiore will lead the Microsoft Office Experience Group, while still leading the group that involves Microsoft mobile apps for the iOS and Android platforms.
Other ventures.
The Game.
Belfiore is also known for being the founder of the non-stop 24- to 48-hour treasure hunt The Game, run in the San Francisco Bay and Seattle areas.
At TED 2004 in Monterey, California he delivered a TED Talk on "The Game" where he caused the cell phones of most audience members to ring, leaving them with a trail of clues to solve at the TED conference.
Seattle Sounders ownership.
In August 2019, Belfiore and his wife Kristina joined the ownership group of Seattle Sounders FC, a Major League Soccer club.
Awards.
His work on Windows 10 earned him kudos as "Stuff" magazine's #16 innovator of the year for 2015 and in May 2013, he was recognized by "Business Insider" as the #10 Best Designer in Technology.
Personal life.
Belfiore is married to Kristina Belfiore who also graduated from Stanford in 1990 and worked at Microsoft for 12 years. They live in Bellevue, Washington and have 3 children.


Jill Cook

Jill Cook (born 1954) is a British museum curator who is the acting Keeper of the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory at the British Museum. She curates the collection of European Prehistory and is a specialist in Ice Age art and the archaeology of human evolution.
Career.
Cook joined the British Museum in 1986 as the curator of European Prehistory, becoming Deputy Keeper and is presently the Acting Keeper (head of department) of Britain, Europe and Prehistory. Cook was elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1990.
Ice Age Art.
Cook curated the exhibition "Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind" at the British Museum in 2013. The exhibition was a surprise success for the British Museum, which extended its run, despite the fact that it had struggled to attract sponsorship. "Ice Age art" attracted large visitor numbers and good reviews. Cook used art by Picasso, Degas, Mondrian, and Matisse, as well as work by modern artists such as Ghislaine Howard in combination with Ice Age artefacts to examine the development of western art.
"Ice Age art" was transformed into a new exhibition called "Art in the age of Altamira" at the Fundación Botín, Santander in late 2013.
The Lampedusa Cross.
The Lampedusa Cross was acquired by Cook for the British Museum in 2015. It was made and donated by Francesco Tuccio, a carpenter who created crosses from the wreck of a boat which sank on 11 October 2013 off the coast of Lampedusa resulting in the deaths of 311 people.
Living with Gods.
Cook curated the exhibition "Living with gods: peoples, places and worlds beyond" at the British Museum in 2017-2018. The exhibition was part of a series of related projects produced by the British Museum and the BBC.


Jeff Henley

Jeffrey "Jeff" O. Henley (born 1945) is an American businessman and the vice chairman of Oracle Corporation, having previously served as chairman.
Early life.
Henley graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1966. He received an MBA in finance from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1967.
He and his wife Judy Henley established the Jeff Henley Endowed Chair in Economics at UCSB.
Henley is a member of the Cal Gamma chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Career.
Prior to joining Oracle in 1991, Henley served as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Pacific Holding Company, and as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Saga Corporation. He also served as director of finance at Memorex Corporation, and as controller of international operations at Fairchild Semiconductor.
He served as chairman of Oracle from January 2004 to September 2014, prior to which he was the chief financial officer and an executive vice president for 13 years from March 1991 to July 2004. He is also a member of the company's board of directors. Henley was appointed vice chairman in September 2014.


Hugo Barra

Hugo Barra (born 28 October 1976 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a Brazilian computer scientist, technology executive and entrepreneur. From 2008 to 2013, he served in a number of product management roles at Google in London and California, including Vice President and product spokesman of Google's Android division.
He was vice president of the Chinese electronics company, Xiaomi, from 2014 to 2017. As of January 2017, he is Vice President of Virtual Reality at Facebook, which he joined shortly after his departure from Xiaomi.
Early life and education.
Barra attended primary and secondary schools at local Colégio Pitágoras in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and in 1995 enrolled at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), majoring in Electrical Engineering. In 1996, Barra transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating with a bachelor's degree in management science and masters in electrical engineering and computer science. He was class president of the class of 2000 and student keynote speaker at MIT commencement 2000.
Career.
Google.
Barra joined American technology company Google in London in March 2008 as Group Product Manager for the Google Mobile team. In 2010 Barra joined the Android team.
From 2010 to 2013, Barra's role expanded to include product spokesperson for the Android team, speaking at both press conferences and Google I/O, Google's annual developer-focused conference. Barra's product involvement included the entire Android ecosystem of software and hardware, including Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and KitKat operating system launches, the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 smartphones, the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets, and other related products such as Google Now, selected in 2013 as Popular Science's Innovation of the Year, and Google Voice Search, Google's speech recognition service. He was promoted to Vice President in 2012.
Xiaomi.
In September 2013, Barra left Google for Chinese electronics company Xiaomi, serving as Vice President of International. The move was considered a ‘significant hire’ for Xiaomi, one of the fastest growing manufacturers in China, enhancing international legitimacy to the company by adding a key former Google Android executive to its senior management.
In December 2013, Barra spoke at LeWeb tech conference in Paris, France about his impressions of the Chinese economy and the opportunity it represented for tech companies such as Xiaomi, citing China's 600 million internet users, high market caps of recent Chinese IPOs, the massive scale of the top Chinese apps' monthly active users, and the size of companies such as Alibaba's Taobao, a shopping site more than double the size of eBay and Amazon combined. The talk was widely cited throughout the industry.
In February 2014, Barra announced the launch of the new Redmi and Mi3 smartphones in Singapore, then in India. Global expansion outside of China into surrounding emerging markets is a key initiative for Xiaomi, given the company's business model to release high performance smartphone products at an affordable consumer price, generating revenue not only from the hardware itself, but the software and internet services provided to the consumer. According to Xiaomi co-founder and president Lei Jun, it is "entirely Barra’s job to figure out which region that we should enter next and how." Barra has stated intentions to expand next into various countries.
In March 2014, Barra visited Foxconn, a Taiwanese manufacturing company with plants in Brazil and Mexico responsible for assembling products for various tech brands, indicating plans for Xiaomi to expand into Latin America.
In May 2014, Barra announced the launch of the Mi Pad, a 7.9 inch tablet. "We spent four years working up to the point where we thought we had the right hardware design and software capability to build a world-class tablet," Barra said. "We think we are there, finally." Barra described the release as part of Xiaomi's overall strategy to expand both its product lineup and into new international markets including Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. Barra also indicated eventual plans to enter the U.S. market.
In January 2017, Barra announced his departure from Xiaomi. Barra explained his decision had been strongly motivated by a feeling of detachment from his family and the life he had built up in Silicon Valley. "What I've realized is that the last few years of living in such a singular environment have taken a huge toll on my life and started affecting my health. My friends, what I consider to be my home, and my life are back in Silicon Valley, which is also much closer to my family. Seeing how much I've left behind these past few years, it is clear to me that the time has come to return."
There are reports that quoted Barra saying that his resignation was prompted by health reasons and some analysts noted that the departure came amid Xiaomi's declining sales in China. On the other hand, global expansion has been successful. Around the time of his resignation, Xiaomi announced that it has exceeded US$1 billion in revenue from the Indian market alone.
Facebook.
He announced in a Facebook post on 25 January 2017 that he would be joining Facebook as Vice President of virtual reality, writing:
"I’m excited to share my next adventure as I return to Silicon Valley—in a couple of months I'll be joining Facebook as VP of virtual reality (VPVR!) and lead the Oculus team. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun always says that the highest calling of an engineer is to make technology breakthroughs quickly and readily available to the widest possible spectrum of humanity. That will be my mission at Facebook and I look forward to building the future of immersive technology with Mark Zuckerberg, Brendan Trexler Iribe, Mike Schroepfer, and the visionaries in the Oculus team."Based on his early pronouncements, Barra appears to be focusing on the development of standalone VR headsets as well as social VR. During an appearance at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), he described the technology as "a product category that will help us bring the most number of people into VR and really start unlocking these opportunities for social presence." During the event, Barra announced Oculus' standalone VR headset called Oculus Go, with Xiaomi as global hardware partner.
Honors and awards.
In 2011, Barra was ranked #23 in Wired Magazine's Wired 100. In 2013, Business Insider's Silicon Valley 100 included Barra at #92. Brazil's "Época" magazine ranked Barra among the most influential Brazilians in both 2011 and 2013.


Conklin (surname)

Conklin is a surname of Irish origin
Spelling variations include Concklin, Conkling, Conckeleyne, Coughlin, Couglin and others.


J. J. Hinchion

John Joseph Hinchion (1926 – 13 March 2015) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for club sides Macroom, Millstreet and Canovee, as well as at senior level for the Cork county team. He lined out in both attack and defence.
Career.
Hinchion began his Gaelic football career with the Macroom minor team before winning a County Senior Championship medal with Millstreet in 1948. He subsequently joined the Canovee team, winning a County Junior Championship title in 1950. This victory resulted in Hinchion taking over the captaincy of the Cork junior team in 1951, ending the year with an All-Ireland- medal in that grade. This success saw him drafted onto the senior team and he won National League and Munster Championship medals in his debut season. Henchion won a second Munster Championship medal in 1957; however, the ultimate success eluded him after Cork's 1-09 to 1-07 defeat by Louth in the All-Ireland final.
Personal life and death.
Hinchion began his working life in the drapery business before opening an auctioneering business in Macroom. He died on 13 March 2015


Ellen Zentner

Ellen Beeson Zentner is the managing director and the Chief US Economist at Morgan Stanley. Zentner previously worked as a Senior Economist for the Texas State government, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., and Nomura Securities International.
Education.
Zentner studied economics. For her bachelor's degree, Zentner studied business administration at the University of Colorado Denver. She continued her studies at the University of Colorado Denver to pursue a master's degree in economics with a focus in econometrics.
Career.
After graduate school, Zentner began her career at Texas State Comptroller as a Senior Economist in the Revenue Estimating Division. She worked there for five years, from 1998–2003, for Carole Keeton Strayhorn. There, she did a study on how the state of Texas's different taxes impacted households of different income levels.
Zentner moved to New York to work on Wall Street at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. She worked as Senior US Macro Economist for eight years and monitored the U.S. economy to make forecasts. In May 2011, Zentner moved to Nomura Securities International, where she served as a Senior Economist for Fixed Income. In August 2013, Zentner joined Morgan Stanley, as a Senior U.S. Economist and Managing Director. In February 2015, Zentner was appointed as Chief U.S. Economist.
Economic and academic advisory panels.
In 2015–2016, Zentner was president of New York Association for Business Economics. Zentner is currently involved in the New York Federal Reserve Bank's Economic Advisory panel, the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank's Academic Advisory Panel, and the American Bankers' Association Economic Advisory Committee. Zentner also sits on the board of directors for the National Association for Business Economics.
Research and forecasts.
"The Economic Cost of Inequality".
There are three parts in this paper: historic view of income and inequality, how income inequality has grown since the financial crisis, observable factors to close the income inequality gap. Historically, inequality has always been growing, as Zentner says, "For decades, the average American household had been taking on more and more debt to supplement the lack of income growth, all so that Middle America could stay, well, in the middle".Zentner says, "What the financial crisis did was lay bare the ugliness of a growing income gap by removing the layer of debt accumulation that had been masking its presence". However, wages have been increasing among small businesses, households are experiencing less debt and more savings, and workers are having greater job stability.
Millennials, Gen Z and the Coming ‘Youth Boom’ Economy.
Zentner discusses the implications of Gen Z, the generation born between 1997 and 2012, who will likely dominate the U.S. by 2034. Zentner and her economic team at Morgan Stanley project that the combination of Gens Y and Z in the U.S. workforce will yield higher consumption, wages, and housing demand, thus stimulating GDP growth. However, these impacts of the demographic shifts are not taken into account in the Congressional Budget Office's projections for growth in the labour force. Zentner says, "The CBO projections understate potential labor-force growth by 0.2 to 0.3% per year in the 15 years through 2040. We concluded that the CBO forecasts could be underestimating the level of potential GDP in 2040 by as much as 2.4% to 4.3%”. Besides beyond-average GDP growth, Social Security and Medicare solvency have an optimistic outlook. Between the 2020s and 2040s, investors may take a bullish view on the U.S. economy. Zentner says, “Powered by the economic machine of Gens Y and Z, the prime working-age population is projected to accelerate into the 2030...We project trend consumption growth moves up steadily to average 2.5% in the 2030s, driven by Millennials, and then Gen Z, moving through their prime working years". Some supporting contributors of the "youth boom" include: new Gen Z entrants to the workforce are more financially stable compared to Millennials, more jobs are available, cheaper college tuition, better skills match to available jobs, and no generational gap between Millennials and Gen Z, thus driving an increase in productivity in the workforce. A virtuous cycle of growth is created to the growing labour force, productivity, income, and consumer spending.
Awards and recognition.
Zetner received the Lawrence Klein Award in 2018 and 2020.


Salaries of members of the United Kingdom Parliament

The basic annual salary of a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons is £81,932, as of April 2020. In addition, MPs are able to claim allowances to cover the costs of running an office and employing staff, and maintaining a constituency residence or a residence in London. Additional salary is paid for appointments or additional duties, such as ministerial appointments, being a whip, chairing a select committee or chairing a Public Bill committee.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority was introduced in response to the parliamentary expenses scandal that broke in 2009.
Salary and benefits: Commons.
Basic salary.
The basic annual salary of an MP in the House of Commons is £81,932.
Historical salaries.
Members of parliament were unpaid until 1911, as it was assumed they had independent means, which restricted membership of Parliament to well-off men. There had been attempts since the late 18th century to provide salaries. The Labour Party, founded in 1900, pressed for MPs to be paid, allowing men—and women from 1918—who could not afford to serve unpaid to become members of Parliament.
The first regular salary was £400 per year, introduced in 1911. For comparison, average annual earnings were £70 in 1908. Some subsequent salary levels were £1,000 in 1946, £3,250 in 1964, £11,750 in 1980, and £26,701 in 1990. The increases in MPs' basic salaries since 1996 have been:
In December 2013, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority recommended that pay be increased to £74,000 per annum, linked "to the pay of the people they represent". At the same time, pensions benefits would be reduced, resettlement payments scrapped and expenses tightened. In July 2015, this was implemented (backdated to 8 May 2015, the day after the general election), with annual changes now "linked to changes in average earnings in the public sector".
Additional salary.
Many MPs (the Prime Minister, ministers, the Speaker, senior opposition leaders, opposition chief whip, etc.) receive a supplementary salary for their specific responsibilities. As of 1 April 2015 these additional entitlements ranged from £15,025 for Select Committee Chairs to £79,990 for the Prime Minister. On 24 May 2015 David Cameron announced that he intended to freeze ministerial pay for the next five years.
Salary of the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister does not always claim the total amount entitled to in legislation. The Prime Minister is entitled to other benefits, including use of the Prime Minister's apartment at 10 Downing Street, the country house Chequers, and other official residences, and chauffeur-driven transport.
The Prime Minister's salary figures below include the salary for being an MP.
Pension.
MPs will normally receive a pension of either 1/40th or 1/50th of their final pensionable salary for each year of pensionable service depending on the contribution rate they will have chosen. Members who made contributions of 13.75% of their salary gain an accrual rate of 1/40th.
If an MP stands down during the course of a Parliament for ill health reasons, an ill health retirement grant is payable, calculated in the same way as the Resettlement Grant (as well as an immediate pension based on the service the MP would have accrued if he or she had continued to serve until age 65).
Resettlement Grant and Winding-up Allowance.
On leaving the House of Commons, an MP will be entitled to what is essentially severance pay.
Resettlement Grant.
The Resettlement Grant motherhood is the name given to the MPs' severance pay package. It may be claimed to help former MPs with the costs of adjusting to life outside parliament. It is payable to any Member who ceases to be an MP at a general election. The amount is based on age and length of service, and varies between 50% and 100% of the annual salary payable to a Member of Parliament at the time of the dissolution.
In the UK the first £30,000 of severance pay is tax-free. As stated above, the amount retiring MPs, or those who lose their seats receive, depends on how old they are and how long they have served in the House. For example, an MP who stays in office for one term (say 5 years) and then leaves office will currently receive tax-free severance pay of 50% of their current salary, or £32,383 at current rates – equivalent to an annual salary increment of over £12,000 at current tax rates and pay scales.
From the start of the 2015 Parliament, a "Loss of Office Payment", at double the statutory redundancy payment, was introduced. "For the 'average' MP, who leaves office with 11 years' service, this may lead to a payment of around £14,850."
Winding-up Allowance.
An allowance is available (up to £46,000 as of July 2011) to pay for winding up staff contracts and office rent. An allowance of up to one third of the annual Office Costs Allowance was paid for the reimbursement of the cost of any work on parliamentary business undertaken on behalf of a deceased, defeated or retiring member after the date of cessation of membership. On 5 July 2001 the House agreed to change the allowance to one third of the sum of the staffing provision and Incidental Expenses Allowance in force at the time of cessation of membership.
Summer recess.
Parliament takes a break of around 45 days for the summer. This is not only for holiday, but so that MPs can spend more time away from Parliament in their constituencies to do work there.
Expenses.
In addition to the above benefits, MPs can claim for the reimbursement of expenses incurred as a result of their duties.
Office expenses.
MPs are entitled to claim £9,000 a year for postage and stationery (financial year 2015-16). This amount is in addition to any stationery and postage costs which Members may have reimbursed under the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority's expenses Scheme.
During the COVID-19 pandemic MPs were able to claim additional expenses of up to £10,000 to support the costs of them and their staff working from home.
Housing, second home, and travel.
MPs receive allowances towards having somewhere to live in London and in their constituency, and travelling between Parliament and their constituency.
Salary and benefits: House of Lords.
Members of the House of Lords are not salaried. They can opt to receive a £305 per day attendance allowance, plus travel expenses and subsidised restaurant facilities. Peers may also choose to receive a reduced attendance allowance of £150 per day instead.
Scrutiny and audit process of claims.
In 2010, following the parliamentary expenses scandal, the payment of MPs' salaries and allowances, and many staff, was moved from the Fees Office, which was effectively self-policing by MPs of their expenses, to a more autonomous body, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. In 2010 the IPSA was also given the responsibility of setting MPs' salary levels. It is accountable to the Speaker's Committee for the IPSA, comprising the Speaker, the Leader of the House, the Chair of the Standards and Privileges Committee and five MPs selected by the Speaker (one of whom is the Shadow Leader of the House).
The National Audit Office, another independent parliamentary body, has some audit authority.


Ormonde Maddock Dalton

Ormonde Maddock Dalton, FBA (1866–1945) was a British museum curator and archaeologist. Though very much an all-rounder, his main expertise was in medieval art. He usually published as O. M. Dalton, but also wrote under the pseudonym W. Compton Leith.
From 1921 to 1928 he was Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the British Museum. As well as the books below, he wrote a stream of articles and short books for the museum.


Scott Hilton (politician)

Scott Hilton is an American banker and former politician from Georgia. Hilton is a former Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the District 95. Hilton is a Senior Vice President in a bank.
Education.
Hilton earned a Bachelor degree with honors in finance and international business with a minor in psychology from Georgetown University. Hilton earned an one-year accelerated MBA from Emory University.
Career.
In 2006, Hilton was a Senior Vice President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, until 2016. In 2016, Hilton became the Senior Vice President of Commercial Banking at SunTrust Banks.
On November 8, 2016, Hilton won the election unopposed and became a Republican member of Georgia House of Representatives for District 95. Hilton sworned in on January 9, 2017.
In Nov 2018, Hilton lost the election for District 95 with 48.60% of the votes. Hilton was defeated by Beth Moore.
Hilton sponsored 53 bills. He is a member of the Republican party.
Hilton currently serves as Executive Director for the Georgians First Commission under the Office of Governor Brian Kemp.
Personal life.
Hilton's wife is Meredith Hilton, an attorney. They have three children. Hilton and his family live in Peachtree Corners, Georgia.


Darcy Burner

Darcy Gibbons Burner (born November 12, 1970) is an American businesswoman and politician and a member of the Democratic Party from Carnation, Washington.
Early life, education, and family.
Burner was adopted at birth in Alaska and grew up in a Republican household in Nebraska farm country. Her father, Ralph Gibbons, spent 20 years in the Air Force, settling after his military retirement with his wife and five kids in Fremont, Nebraska. Burner was the Civil Air Patrol National Cadet of the Year in 1989.
In high school, Burner was a National Merit Scholar. She worked multiple jobs, both part-time and full-time, to earn her way through Harvard University, graduating in 1996 with a B.A. in computer science with a special field of economics. Following graduation, she became co-founder, keyboardist and co-songwriter of Ossian's Ride, the world's first (and last) Heavy Celtic Space Punk band. She also briefly attended law school at the University of Washington in 2004. Her jobs included working for Lotus Development, Asymetrix, and, starting in 2000, as a lead product manager for Microsoft .NET.
Burner married in 1993. She and her former husband Michael have a son, Henry, born in 2003. After a 2015 divorce, she married Jonathan S. Shapiro.
Career.
Burner worked for twelve years in high technology, including five years at Microsoft as a Marketing Manager, working on .NET. Burner left Microsoft to attend law school at the University of Washington in 2004. She left her law studies in 2005 to enter her first political race against Reichert.
She served on the boards of a number of local and national organizations, including ActBlue, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Netroots Foundation, the Center for International Policy, the Progressive Ideas Network, and Council for a Livable World's PeacePAC.
From 2009 to 2011 she was the president and executive director of ProgressiveCongress.org and the Progressive Congress Action Fund, non-profits associated with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. She was also a principal in the Afghanistan Study Group, whose report on ending the war in Afghanistan was endorsed by both Republicans and Democrats.
Electoral history.
Burner was the Democratic nominee for in 2006 and 2008, losing to Republican incumbent Dave Reichert in both elections. She was then a candidate in the open primary for the newly redrawn in 2012 finishing third behind Republican John Koster and Democrat Suzan DelBene. On February 22, 2016 she launched a campaign for the Washington state legislature in the 5th legislative district.
2006 election.
Burner had been a volunteer in the unsuccessful 2004 campaign of Dave Ross for , an open seat, and was a local Democratic activist. In 2006, she became a first-time candidate running for the same seat against freshman Republican U.S. Representative Dave Reichert. She was supported via small dollar donors using the Democratic online fundraising website ActBlue, and both national parties spent heavily on the race.
Between August and October 2006, political commentary indicated growing support for the Democratic candidate, and multiple polls showed Burner in a virtual tie with Reichert with just weeks left before the election. In late October the two major Seattle newspapers split in their endorsements: The "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" endorsed Burner while the "Seattle Times", which had endorsed Democrat Dave Ross in 2004, endorsed Reichert.
Burner conceded at a press conference on November 14, 2006. Dave Reichert's final margin of victory was 7,341, just over 2.9% of the votes.
2008 election.
Burner ran for the 8th district seat again in the 2008 election.
According to FEC reports, Burner outraised Dave Reichert in her campaign. One of her issues during the election cycle was an end to the war in Iraq. She wrote A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, which was endorsed by more than 50 candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate as well as Major General Paul Eaton, former Security Transition Commanding General in Iraq; Dr. Lawrence Korb, former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration; Capt. Larry Seaquist, former commander of the U.S.S. Iowa and former Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning; and Brigadier General John Johns, specialist in counterinsurgency and nationbuilding. The plan was cited on the floor of the U.S. House. Burner was briefly challenged in the 2008 Democratic primary by State Senator Rodney Tom, who endorsed her in September 2007.
Burner's home on Ames Lake, near Carnation, Washington, was completely destroyed by a fire during the 2008 campaign for Congress.
She conceded November 7, 2008 after The Associated Press determined that Reichert's lead for the 8th District seat was insurmountable. When all the ballots were tallied, Reichert had won with 53% of the vote compared to Burner's 47%.
2012 election.
Burner lost in the August primary election for the open seat in , being vacated by Jay Inslee.
At the 2012 Netroots Nation conference in early June 2012, Burner was a keynote speaker who asked the women in attendance if they had had an abortion and were willing to let it be known. She is quoted as having said,
"If you are a woman in this room who has had an abortion and is willing to come out about it, please stand up."
Later she explained, "The people who don’t want them to be able to stand up, who don’t want people to stand with them, are the people who are trying to shame them into silence and it’s long past time we stopped giving into them." She further said during the Keynote "People think they don't know women who've had abortions, when in fact their mothers or their sisters or their co-workers or their friends often have. Women being able to come out of the closet and being able to say 'I've had an abortion' would change people's view of what it meant."
2016 election.
In February 2016, Darcy Burner began running for the Washington House of Representatives, seeking to represent 5th Legislative District. On February 17, she received the endorsement of the 5th Legislative District Democrats. This nomination was also sought by Matt Larson (D), the Mayor of Snoqualmie. In the August, 2016 primary, Burner finished in the top two with Republican Paul Graves, a Seattle attorney whose practice focuses on toxic torts. Graves and Burner moved on to face each other in the November general election. Graves defeated Burner.
Views.
Burner describes herself as a "practical progressive". Her positions include pro-choice on abortion, repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, support for stem cell research, and extending military health coverage to families of Reservists and National Guardsmen.


Katuwal (messenger)

Katuwal is a Nepalese term for a messenger. A person who roams or walks to a village or villages and delivers messages to people of villages or loudly announces programs organized by the government or an institution is a "Katuwal".
This is an old system which is still in use in some villages of Nepal. The main reason of this system to be still in use in some villages of Nepal is because they are not connected to other areas via roads and other transportation means.


Linda Stone

Linda Stone (born 1955) is a writer and consultant who coined the phrase "continuous partial attention" in 1998. Stone also coined "email apnea" in 2008 which means "a temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathing, while doing email."
Stone was at Apple Computer from 1986 to 1993, working on multimedia hardware, software and publishing. In her last year at Apple, Stone worked for CEO John Sculley on special projects. In 1993, Stone joined Microsoft Research under Nathan Myhrvold and Rick Rashid. She co-founded and directed the Virtual Worlds Group/Social Computing Group, researching online social life and virtual communities. During this time, she also taught as adjunct faculty in New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. In 2000, she became a Microsoft vice president, working on industry relationships and improving Microsoft's corporate culture. She left Microsoft in 2002.
Stone served a six-year term on the National Board of the World Wildlife Fund and is currently on the WWF National Council. She is an adviser for the Internet and American Life Project, the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force for the Center for Worklife Policy, and is on the Advisory Board of the MIT Media Lab for social computing. Stone has been written about in many major publications, including "Wired", the "New York Times", and Forbes.
She conceived Science Foo Camp, a series of interdisciplinary scientific conferences organized by O'Reilly Media and Nature Publishing Group.


List of Wells Fargo directors

The List of Wells Fargo Directors includes all members of the Board of Directors of the express mail company from its founding in 1852 until the cessation of its express service in 1918. It does not include the directors of the Wells Fargo Bank after it became a separate institution in 1905.


Prashant Khemka

Prashant R. Khemka, CFA, is the founder and Managing Director of White Oak Capital Management, an investment management firm he founded in June 2017 after a career in fund management with global investment banks.
Early Life and Career.
Prashant was born on 4 November 1971, in Mumbai, India and has a BE in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bombay and an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University.
Prashant's first job was at State Street Global Advisors as Assistant Portfolio Manager in Boston in 1998, right after he completed his MBA.
Through his stint at Street Global Advisors, he gained experience in the investment sector and in leading portfolio management teams, business development, and other business operations.
Life at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
On the back of his performance in US and India equities, Prashant was made the CIO of Global Emerging Markets equity at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in 2013, based in Singapore. In addition to managing the India funds, he was given the responsibility of turning around the Global Emerging Markets equity strategy. The Goldman Sachs Asset Management Global Emerging Markets equity saw a turnaround and became a 5-star rated fund ranking in the top 1 percent of the peer group since Prashant became the Lead Portfolio in June 2013. The assets under GEM strategy rose from a low of under US$500mn to US$2.6bn at the time of Prashant's departure in April 2017.
Personal life.
Prashant Khemka is married to Ritu Khemka and has three children. He is an avid cricket fan and makes it a point to catch as many matches as possible. He was a chess enthusiast in college.


Alice Holford (bailiff)

Alice Holford (died 1455) was an English bailiff of London Bridge for 25 years. She was a rare example of a woman in authority in the fifteenth century.
Life.
Holford was married to Nicholas Holford, who was the bailiff of London Bridge. When he died in 1433 she took over the job. She had the task of gathering the toll from boats that sailed under the bridge and from the wagons that passed over it into London. The task was complicated because the fee depended on what was being carried. A woman having a position of authority and responsibility in the fifteenth century was unusual. This came about because she inherited her husband's business. She died in office in 1455, twenty-two years later.