CorpComms

CorpComms is a monthly trade magazine targeted at the in-house communicator. Published in London, it is distributed throughout the UK and internationally.
The magazine offers advice and articles on a range of topical subjects, such as social media, digital media, internal communications, sponsorship and corporate social responsibility.
The magazine runs regular features including interviews with leading in-house communicators, experts offering their 'top ten tips' on a variety of topics, and a focus on recent corporate rebrandings. New initiatives include personal views written by in-house communicators and an analysis of developments in the world of media.
"CorpComms" also publishes a weekly newsletter and hosts a website of the same name.
History.
"CorpComms" was launched in June 2005 as a bi-monthly publication by Cross Border Group. The launch editor was Jana Sanchez, who left when the magazine moved to a monthly publication cycle, to establish financial PR agency City Savvy. Helen Dunne became editor in January 2006. In its first year, "CorpComms" was shortlisted in the Best Launch category at the Independent Publisher Awards. "CorpComms" was the subject of a management buyout by long standing editor Helen Dunne in July 2008, and is now published by her new company, Hardy Media.
Contributors and reporters.
Notable regular contributors to "CorpComms" include:
CorpComms 100 Club.
The CorpComms 100 Club was established in October 2007. It is an organisation which recognises the top performing corporate communicators in the UK
Previous member have included:
Events.
"CorpComms" hosts a national awards ceremony every year. The CorpComms awards were launched in 2006 and celebrate excellence in corporate communications. They include, amongst others, awards for Best corporate publication; Best annual report; Best employee communications; Best crisis management; Best CSR strategy and overall grand prix winner.
In September 2010 CorpComms magazine launched the inaugural Digi Awards.The awards were launched in order to acknowledge how digital and social media are changing the way that organizations communicate with their various stakeholder communities. The Digi Awards programme ran for eight years, with the last Digi Awards ceremony taking place in 2017.
"CorpComms" also organizes a range of events targeting the key issues faced by in-house communicators such as digital media and sustainability.
Editor.
Helen Dunne has worked in journalism for more than 20 years. An economics graduate, Helen started her career on "International Financing Review", the weekly bible for the capital markets. She joined "The Daily Telegraph" in 1993, where she spent ten years, latterly as associate City editor. Helen then spent two years as deputy City editor of "The Mail on Sunday", where she was shortlisted for Business Journalist of the Year, before embarking on a freelance career. She has written for many publications, including "The Business", "The Observer", "The Sunday Telegraph" and "The Sun".
Dunne has also written three novels, including "Trixie Trader" about a fictional City trader
, based on a column in the "Daily Telegraph".


Rico Malvar

Henrique "Rico" S. Malvar (born 1957) is a distinguished Brazilian engineer and a senior signal processing researcher at Microsoft Research's largest laboratory in Redmond, Washington, United States. He was the Managing Director of the lab following the departure of long-time Managing Director Dan Ling in 2007, and oversaw about 350 researchers. Currently, he is the Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research.
History and contributions.
Malvar earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Brasília and his master's degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1986, where his thesis was on "Optimal pre- and post-filtering in noisy sampled-data systems," and served as a visiting professor at MIT for the next year. From 1979 to 1993, Malvar was a faculty member at the University of Brasília, where he founded and headed the Digital Signal Processing Research Group (in Portuguese, "Grupo de Processamento Digital de Sinais" or GPDS).
In industry, Malvar served as vice president of Research and Advanced Technology at PictureTel from 1985 to 1987 (which has since been acquired by Polycom). In Fall 1997, he joined Microsoft Research where he co-founded and managed the Signal Processing research group, now the Communication and Collaboration Systems and Knowledge Tools groups. He was a Redmond lab director from 2004 to 2007 before stepping up to become Managing Director. In 2010 he took on a new position of Chief Scientist, working on cross-labs strategic projects. Currently, he leads the Microsoft Research Enable group, which develops technologies to help people with disabilities.
At Microsoft, Malvar contributed to the development of audio coding and digital rights management for the Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video, and to image compression technologies, such as HD Photo / JPEG XR formats and the RemoteFX bitmap compression, as well as to a variety of tools for signal analysis and synthesis.
As of December 2017, he has published over 160 technical articles and has been issued over 120 patents.
Editorial and committee positions.
Malvar has served as an editor or committee member for the following journals, conferences, and organizations:
Titles and awards.
Malvar holds the following prestigious titles and awards. A sample:


Civil Servants Pension Fund

Civil Servants Pension Fund (CSPF) is an Iranian independent legal entity under the governance of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security, and run as an insurance company. This organization is responsible for the affairs related to the retirement of Iran's civil servants. The regular military, law enforcement agencies, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s second major military organization, have their own pension systems.
Iran did not legislate in favor of a universal social protection, but in 1996, the Center of the Statistics of Iran estimated that more than 73% of the Iranian population was covered by social security. Membership in the social security system for all employees is compulsory.
Beneficiaries.
In 2012, CSPO had 1.1 million pensioners. CSPO's beneficiaries include:
Funding.
The pension systems is based on the defined benefit which is the standard model (vs the defined contribution model). In 2012, CSPO had 1 million public employees contributing to the fund. The government is also supporting financially the CSPO. Due to the reduced amount of resources CSPO gathers from public employees, the system now relies more on government resources.
In the future, the system will no longer rely on the government budget, and shift focus toward a (privately) funded system. The pension system will have three major pillars such as:
Investments.
Civil Pension Fund Investment Company is the investment arm of CSPO. As of 2012, the fund’s investments allocation was as follows:


Stephen Hawinkels

Stephen John Hawinkels (born 12 March 1982) is a South African banker and former first-class cricketer.
Hawinkels was born at Cape Town in March 1982. He later studied in England at University College at the University of Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket, making his debut for Oxford University against Cambridge University in The University Match of 2001, with Hawinkels also featuring in its 2002, 2003 and 2004 fixtures. In addition to playing for Oxford University, he also made three first-class appearances for Oxford UCCE in 2002 and 2004. In seven first-class appearances, Hawinkels scored 322 runs at an average of 29.27 and with a high score of 78, his only first-class half century. With his right-arm medium pace bowling, he took 2 wickets.
After graduating from Oxford, he became a banker with Goldman Sachs. In 2017, he was promoted to become a managing director at the group.


Philippine House Committee on Labor and Employment

The Philippine House Committee on Labor and Employment, or House Labor and Employment Committee is a standing committee of the Philippine House of Representatives.
Jurisdiction.
As prescribed by House Rules, the committee's jurisdiction includes the following:


Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women

The Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women was an organisation set up in Ireland during the First World War as a central advisory scheme for local organisations. It operated from November 1914 until June 1919. The organisation was similar to the Central Committee on Women's Employment set up in mainland Britain.
History.
The Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women (CCEW) was set up by the British Government in November 1914, in partnership with the Queen's Work for Women Fund. It covered the regions of Leinster, Munster, and Connaught, and there was a separate committee for the Ulster region of Ireland. Prominent suffragist Mary Galway was a member of the Ulster branch. The CCEW consisted mainly of Dublin women's suffrage campaigners, with its aim being as a central advisory committee to the localised branches. At its formation, the chairman of the committee was Elizabeth Burke-Plunkett, Countess of Fingal. James Mallon was CCEW secretary, and Isabel Talbot, Baroness Talbot de Malahide and Lady Caroline Arnott were also committee members. Anti-war suffragette Cissie Cahalan was involved in the CCEW. The CCEW aimed to pay Irish women the same as British women in mainland Britain.
Many professional nurses volunteered themselves for the war effort, whilst non-professionals helped with sewing and making bandages. Over the course of the war, 1,400 women worked in state-owned munitions factories in Dublin, Waterford, Cork and Galway. A toy-making factory was set up in Dawson Street, Dublin, to replace toys that had previously been made in Germany. In late 1915, the CCEW made an appeal in Dublin to manufacture 300,000 pairs of socks and 300,000 belts for the Army.
After the First World War, the committee was disbanded by the British Government on 30 June 1919.
Criticism.
There was some criticism of the CCEW, as some munitions factories favoured volunteer labour over paid labour, which prevented women from getting paid employment. One such complaint was escalated to Matthew Nathan, Under-Secretary for Ireland in 1916. There were also cases where factories replaced women by girls under 18, as the minimum wage for under 18s was only 5s per week. Women in CCEW also sometimes received low wages, and so these workplaces were sometimes referred to as "Queen Mary's Sweatshops".


Susan Decker

Susan Lynne Decker (born November 17, 1962) is an American businesswoman. She was president of Yahoo! Inc in 2007 and 2008, leading the operations of the company while Jerry Yang was chief executive officer. In 2017, Decker co-founded a social networking platform called Raftr.
Career.
Investment banking.
Decker received her Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and economics from Tufts University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Prior to joining Yahoo, she worked at the U.S. investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette for 14 years. She spent 12 years as an equity research analyst, providing coverage to institutional investors on more than 30 media, publishing, and advertising stocks. In this capacity, she was listed by "Institutional Investor" magazine as a top rated analyst for ten consecutive years. She subsequently became the global director of equity research, a $300 million operation.
Yahoo!
Decker was chief financial officer and executive vice-president of finance and administration of Yahoo from 2000 to 2007. From 2006 to 2007 she was executive vice president of the Advertiser and Publisher Group in addition to her CFO responsibilities,
where she led a consortium with the newspaper industry, and launched a display ad platform.
Decker was under consideration as CEO during Jerry Yang's CEO leadership, when the company was receiving a takeover offer from Microsoft. Decker drove a proposed search deal with Google as an alternative to a transaction with Microsoft, but this was rejected by the U.S. Justice Department as a breach of United States antitrust law. The company asked Yang to resign, and for the board to select an outside candidate for the CEO position. Decker and Yang were unable to resolve shareholder concerns as Yahoo's share price fell in 2007 and 2008 during Google's ascendency. Decker announced her intention to resign from the company on January 13, 2009, following the appointment of Carol Bartz as CEO.
Post-Yahoo! directorships.
Decker is on the boards of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, SurveyMonkey, Intel Corporation, Costco, and LegalZoom. She was on the board of directors of Pixar Animation Studios from June 2004 to May 2006, until its sale to The Walt Disney Company, and on the board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research from March 2005 to May 2007. She was named a Trustee of Save The Children in March 2010.
In the fall of 2009, Decker became an Entrepreneur In Residence at the Harvard Business School, working with students in their own ventures and helping to develop and deliver the entrepreneurship-focused curriculum of the school's Immersion Experience Program.
In 2017, Decker joined the board of directors for SurveyMonkey.
Other career.
Decker co-founded Raftr, a social networking platform, in 2017. The platform allows users to follow stories rather than people. The app's name stems from the idea of the otter: "Otters travel in rafts — social groups of two to 100 that float together,” Decker said. “On Raftr, those groups comprise people who share passions in common."
Awards and recognition.
On September 30, 2010, Decker received Harvard Business School's Alumni Achievement Award.
Personal life.
Decker was married to Michael Dovey but the couple divorced in 2012. Decker has three children and lives in Marin County. She enjoys skiing and grew up in Denver, Colorado.


Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen

Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen is a Danish software engineer, technology executive, and co-founder of Google Maps.
Early life.
After graduating from Høje-Taastrup Amtsgymnasium in 1986, Rasmussen enrolled at the University of Aarhus to study Computer Science and Mathematics.
Digital Fountain.
From July 1999 to November 2002, Rasmussen was a senior engineer at Digital Fountain in California. Digital Fountain used forward error correction to deliver files and stream on-demand content over dynamic mobile, internet and private network environments. Rasmussen developed several new services while employed by Digital Fountain.
Where 2 Technologies and Google Maps.
In early 2003, Rasmussen and his brother Lars started Where 2 Technologies, a mapping project that developed the prototype of their mapping application called Expedition. Google acquired Where 2 Technologies in October 2004, and the Rasmussen brothers led the team that launched Google Maps in early 2005.
Google Wave.
Rasmussen invented Google Wave in 2004, while the brothers were in talks with Google about selling Where 2 Technologies to Google. The Rasmussen brothers started working on Google Wave in 2006, and in 2007 Jens moved to Sydney, Australia, where he continued working with Lars and a small team on the Google Wave idea, under the project name Walkabout. Google Wave was an open source code internet application launched in 2009 and discontinued in 2012.
Google described Wave as an application which "lets you communicate and collaborate in real time." Wave made it possible for several people to edit a document at the same time and to conduct a group discussion at the same time. Waves could also be used as forums or just for emails and instant messaging between two or more people.
Google Maps Pin.
Rasmussen designed the Google Maps pin while he was employed by Google. The pin is a simple pointer with a bubble top which tapers to a narrow point with a drop shadow. A Google spokesperson told the New York Times that Rasmussen avoided using a star or dot on the map, because they would obscure too much of the map. The Google Maps Pin touches the map only at the exact point of the location.
In 2014, Museum of Modern Art in New York City acquired a representation of the Google Maps Pin for its permanent collection.
Patents.
Rasmussen holds patents on thirty-five software services and applications.
Awards.
Google Maps won two Webby Awards in 2006, one in the General Website Services category and another in the Best Practices category.
In 2010, the Pearcey Foundation named the Rasmussen brothers New South Wales ICT Entrepreneurs of the Year and inducted them into the foundation's hall of fame. The foundation noted that the Rasmussens had positioned Australia "as a global leader in online services" and brought many technology jobs to Australia.
In 2011, the Rasmussen brothers won the Inaugural 2011 Benson Entrepreneur Award. The Pearcey Foundation notes that the invention of Google maps motivated Google to start a research and development team in Sydney, Australia.


Ralph Stackpole

Ralph Ward Stackpole (May 1, 1885 – December 10, 1973) was an American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator, San Francisco's leading artist during the 1920s and 1930s. Stackpole was involved in the art and causes of social realism, especially during the Great Depression, when he was part of the Public Works of Art Project, Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, and the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture. Stackpole was responsible for recommending that architect Timothy L. Pflueger bring Mexican muralist Diego Rivera to San Francisco to work on the San Francisco Stock Exchange and its attached office tower in 1930–31. His son Peter Stackpole became a well-known photojournalist.
Early career.
Stackpole worked as a laborer early in life to support himself and his mother following the death of his father in a lumber mill circular saw accident. At sixteen, he came to San Francisco to study at the California School of Design (now San Francisco Art Institute) beginning in 1903; he was influenced strongly by Arthur Frank Mathews, muralist and painter at the school. He met painter Helen Arnstein (later Helen Salz) while both were teenagers, and she became his first girlfriend. Arnstein, the daughter of wealthy Jewish art lovers and one year Stackpole's senior, described him as "a remarkable draftsman" who painted and sketched constantly. She was less impressed with his sense of color than with his precision in line. Stackpole polished his craft by working with artists at the Montgomery Block, playfully called "Monkey Block", a bohemian hangout which included studios for painting and sculpture. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he used a grant of 200 ($ in current value) to travel to France to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in the class of Antonin Mercié in 1906–1908, exhibiting at the Salon in 1910. It was in Paris that he became friends with painter Diego Rivera He painted under Robert Henri in New York in 1911.
San Francisco.
Stackpole returned to San Francisco in 1912 and married Adele Barnes, two months younger than he, an art student of Xavier Martinez and one of the first graduates of the California Academy of Arts and Crafts. Adele Stackpole was a perfectionist in many ways, including the precision of her bookplate engravings and the demands she placed on her relationships. On June 15, 1913, the Stackpoles' son Peter was born in San Francisco.
Stackpole was part of the foursome that founded, early in 1913, the California Society of Etchers (CSE). The other founders were Robert B. Harshe, an etcher and art professor at Stanford University, etcher and educator Pedro Lemos, who taught at the San Francisco Institute of Art, and Gottardo Piazzoni, an Italian-American painter and muralist who was Stackpole's master in France. The CSE exhibited twice in 1913, and grew to 78 artist members and five associate after two years. In 1926, the annual publication listed 46 artist members and 156 associate members: Stackpole was still a member. Decades later, the CSE merged with another group to become the California Society of Printmakers.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Around the same time, Stackpole was commissioned to sculpt architectural features for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, a major assignment that was to take two years to complete, even with the aid of assistants. To give a grand entrance portal to the Palace of Varied Industries, he completed a copy of the main entrance to the Hospice of Santa Cruz, built in Toledo, Spain in the 16th century. Stackpole's design replaced the original figures of Catholic saints with figures of industry. His works for the Palace of Varied Industries included "Man with a pick", "Tympanum group of Varied Industries", "New World Receiving Burdens of Old", "Keystone figure", and "Power of Industry". Stackpole also sculpted figures of "Thought" on the columns flanking the half domes of the west facade of the Palace Group. At the Palace of Fine Arts, Stackpole produced a kneeling "Venus" on the Altar of Inspiration. Visitors wishing to view "Venus" were kept some away by a man-made lagoon.
Modern trends.
With Piazzoni, Stackpole went to France again in 1922, taking his family; he enrolled his nine-year-old son in the , a private school in Paris. The two artists wished to investigate the most modern trends in Europe, and they encountered Diego Rivera. While there, Stackpole's marriage unraveled, and he returned to the Bay Area in 1923 with a 24-year-old French still life artist and model named Francine Mazen, nicknamed "Ginette"; his wife and son returned after the school year to take up residence across the bay in Oakland. Stackpole obtained a divorce, and then married Ginette in Mexico.
In late 1923, Stackpole organized a major art exhibit, in partnership with Piazzoni. This was the first large-scale art show in San Francisco since 1915; there had been no expected rush of artists after the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The exhibit, held in Polk Hall in the Civic Auditorium, was companion to a nearby print exhibit which included Gauguin and Matisse works. Critic and author Laura Bride Powers felt that the event was a disappointment—it displayed "inconspicuous examples" of leading artists, and failed to show any Picasso, avant-garde or Dadaist works.
In 1926, Stackpole delivered the William A. Coleman Fountain to the city of Sacramento, a Moderne work (centrally located in what is now known as Cesar Chavez Park) which celebrated the city's completion of a difficult water filtration project. That same year, Stackpole traveled to Mexico City to see Rivera working on some of his 124 frescoes in the courtyard of the Secretariat of Public Education. Returning with a small Rivera painting, Stackpole gave it to San Francisco Arts Commission president William Gerstle (who was initially unimpressed), and began a several-year effort to bring Rivera to work in California.
Stackpole accepted an offer to teach at his former school, its name having changed to the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) [now San Francisco Art Institute]. For a stretch of almost twenty years, he taught a number of subjects. Dorr Bothwell studied sculpture under Stackpole, then the head of the Sculpture Department, and thought him to be sexist—she said he told the women in the class that "the place they really belonged was in bed."
Kenneth Rexroth wrote of Stackpole in 1929 that "He knew everybody in town from top to bottom ... and he took us everywhere." Stackpole's sizable San Francisco studio at 716 Montgomery (adjacent to Montgomery Block) served as a social center for San Francisco's artist community. Photographer Dorothea Lange rented upstairs studio space there in 1926, and Helen Clark and Otis Oldfield, both artists, married there the same year. Lange's husband Maynard Dixon had his studio next door, and the Stackpole and Dixon families were close—both men were members of the Bohemian Club.
Throughout the 1930s, Stackpole worked frequently with architect Timothy Pflueger on various commissions. Beginning in 1929 when the two men first met, Stackpole was given responsibility for selecting the artists who worked to execute and augment Pflueger's basic design scheme for the San Francisco Stock Exchange and its associated Tower, especially the Luncheon Club occupying the top floors of the Tower. Stackpole said later of the experience, "the artists were in from the first. They were called in conference and assumed responsibility and personal pride in the building." At the Sansome Street tower entrance, Stackpole worked on a scaffolding with a crew of assistants to direct carve heroic figures in stone. After the building was completed, Stackpole was finally successful in winning a commission for Rivera; Pflueger became convinced that Rivera would be the perfect muralist for decorating the staircase wall and ceiling of the Stock Exchange Club. This was a controversial selection considering Rivera's leftist political beliefs in contradiction to the Stock Exchange's capitalist foundation. Into the mural, Rivera painted a figure of Stackpole's son Peter holding a model airplane.
During his stay, Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo lived and worked at the studio, becoming in the process lifelong friends with Stackpole and Ginette. They met tennis champion Helen Wills Moody, an avid painter-hobbyist, who soon agreed to model for Rivera at the studio. Neighbor Dixon saw the attention, and the American money being given to Rivera, and with etcher Frank Van Sloun organized a short-lived protest against the Communist artist. However, both Dixon and Van Sloun quickly realized that the San Francisco art world "oligarchy" who were obviously smitten with Rivera, including Stackpole's well-connected patrons, were the same group that they themselves would need to support their own art aspirations.
For much of 1931, Stackpole partnered with other artists to decorate Pflueger's Paramount Theatre in Oakland, an Art Deco masterpiece. A bas-relief scene of horses, waves and a central winged figure was placed over the stage's proscenium arch, finished in gold-toned metal leaf—the work jointly designed by Stackpole and Robert Boardman Howard. The design worked into Pflueger's metal grille ceiling grid likely came unattributed from Stackpole's sketches. Pflueger was an able project leader; Stackpole later described his involvement: "He was the boss alright, as an architect should be ... He would call the plays just as a symphony conductor does ... There wasn't a lock, molding, or window that he did not inspect in the drawings and in the actual building with the utmost thoroughness and care."
Stackpole worked through ten months of 1932 on a monumental pair of sculptures flanking the grand entrance of the Stock Exchange: a male and a female grouping showing the polarity of agriculture and industry, showing in their rounded human shapes the influence of Rivera. Chiseling into of Yosemite granite, he wore goggles and a mask. The unveiling ceremony took place in the cold of New Year's Eve, with Mayor Angelo Rossi joining Stackpole, Pflueger and artisans in smocks.
Stackpole took his son Peter to visit their photographer friend Edward Weston in Carmel in the early 1930s, and the two older men spent the day discussing photography, "the difference between making and taking a photograph, between the intended and the random". This conversation, and the 1932 exhibit by Group f/64, a collection of innovative photographers such as Weston and Ansel Adams, was later seen as foundational to Peter Stackpole's conception of photography.
In July 1933, Stackpole completed a model of a design to be incorporated into the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge's central anchorage on the western side. The anchorage, to be constructed of concrete rising above the water, was to display over much of its height a bare-chested male figure standing solidly between the two suspension spans. However, Arthur Brown, Jr., Pflueger's colleague on the Bay Bridge project, did not like the scale of the figure, which belittled the bridge. Engineer Ralph Modjeski agreed, writing "The gigantic figure which is proposed for the centre anchorage is out of place for a structure of this kind and would not harmonize with the end anchorage." Stackpole's design was abandoned in favor of a largely flat expanse of poured concrete.
In 1933 and 1934, Stackpole took part in the Public Works of Art Project assignment to paint murals for Coit Tower. Many of the murals were executed in styles reminiscent of Rivera, and Stackpole himself was portrayed in five of them; in one he is shown reading a newspaper announcing the destruction of a Rivera mural in New York.
In 1937, Stackpole received a commission to sculpt his interpretation of Colorado River explorer John Wesley Powell, for display in the Main Interior Building of the U.S. Department of Interior. It was to be a companion piece to Heinz Warneke's portrayal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Warneke learned that Stackpole intended a water scene, so he changed his portrayal of Lewis and Clark to be one of them on land. Stackpole and Warneke delivered their stone reliefs in 1940, and the two panels were mounted on either side of the stage of the building's auditorium. Another work of Stockpole's, "Dispossessed," one of his most notable canvases and a painting of great power and (unfortunately but apparently) permanent relevance, is also in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian.
A notable feature of Stackpole's work in the 30s and after is his West Coast integration of elements from the artistic traditions of Mexico, Native America, the Pacific Islands, and Asia.
"Reverence".
In 1938 Stackpole was contacted by the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. As an ensign at the 1915 fair in San Francisco, FDR had seen Stackpole's figure of "Reverence", also known as "Worship", on the long-gone altar at the Palace of Fine Arts. It had stuck in his mind somehow. He wanted one. Stackpole responded that the original had deteriorated, and was lost, but that he would be happy to undertake another version in travertine as a commission. FDR agreed, with regular inquiries on the progress of the piece over the next five years. In April 1943 Stackpole explained the result about to be revealed:
This was not what the President had remembered or wanted. He ordered it to a secluded area of Hyde Park, where it was re-discovered in 1987, identified, then concealed all over again within a new ring of trees according to FDR's wishes.
Golden Gate International Exposition.
Pflueger made certain that Stackpole was given a major commission for art in preparation for the Golden Gate International Exposition, also called the Pacific Pageant, a world's fair to be held on Treasure Island between San Francisco and Oakland. Stackpole worked to create an tall frame-and-stucco embodiment of "Pacifica", the theme of the exposition. By November 1938, when "Life" photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt was capturing images to promote the event, "Pacifica" was ready for his camera. The magazine carried the image of this, Stackpole's most monumental work, "a peaceful, contemplative, almost prayer-like female figure" intended only for temporary placement. The heroic sculpture stood in front of a tall "prayer curtain" of regular star-shaped steel bangles that rippled in the wind. Vivid orange and blue lights washed the curtain at night, while "Pacifica", the image of Peace, was brilliant in white. Over two years, 16 million visitors came to the exposition. When it was over, Stackpole proposed that the sculpture be recast in a more permanent form—steel, stone or concrete—and positioned prominently on an island in the San Francisco Bay, perhaps Alcatraz or Angel Island, in a manner similar to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.The plan was not seriously considered by civic leaders whose attention was on the gathering war clouds in Asia and Europe. The sculpture and most of the exposition buildings were dynamited in 1942, and the U.S. Navy took ownership of the island as a base in World War II.
Later life.
In the early 1940s, Stackpole left the CSFA to teach privately. In April 1945, he led a sculpting class at the California Labor School, a leftist organization advocating equal rights for workers. From 1941 to 1945, he served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the first commission member from the West Coast.
In 1949, Stackpole moved to Chauriat in the Puy-de-Dôme area of central France, returning with his second wife Ginette to her birthplace. There, his art became less figurative and more abstract, both in sculpture and in painting. He kept a flow of correspondence with his old friends in San Francisco, including Helen Salz, who described his letters as devoid of any mention of sculpture or painting, or any project that Stackpole might have been working on—instead, he wrote of musicians and music, and of his encounters with people. Salz bought a Stackpole bust of poet George Sterling and donated it to the University of California in 1955–56, to be displayed in Dwinelle Hall. In early 1964, Stackpole visited San Francisco to see his family, and he called up his old friend Kenneth Rexroth. In his "San Francisco Examiner" newspaper column, Rexroth wrote of having lunch with the Stackpole family, and reminded his readers that the man had been known "for 20 years or more [as] San Francisco's leading artist."
Stackpole died in France in 1973, his wife in 1978.
Some of Stackpole's sculptures, paintings and drawings were destroyed in the Oakland firestorm of 1991, a blaze which leveled the home of Peter Stackpole. Floyd Winter, a neighbor, helped rescue a very few items "moments before the conflagration consumed the house".


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Baxter (name)

Baxter is an Anglo-Saxon and Scottish name, originally from the English occupational surname meaning "baker," from the early Middle English "bakstere" and the Old English "bæcere." The form "Bakster" was originally feminine, with "Baker" as the masculine equivalent, but over time both names came to apply to both men and women. Ancient variations in the spelling of the surname include Bakster, Baxstar, Baxstair, Baxstare and Baxster. Also a reference to the rhyme “Fee-fi-fo-fum” where one of the MacMillan clan ground the bones of the English to make their bread. Hence the nickname Baxter (the Baker).
Fictional characters.
 *Booker Baxter from Raven’s Home


Ann Hardy

Ann Hardy ("née" Haley, born 20 April 1933) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur, best known for her pioneering work on computer time-sharing systems while working at Tymshare from 1966 onwards.
Early life and education.
Hardy was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father had a small advertising agency and her mother, Ruth H. Ewing, was a high school math teacher and homemaker. Hardy was the eldest of five children in a conservative Methodist family. She grew up in Evanston, Illinois.
In 1951, Hardy graduated from Evanston Township High School. In 1955, Hardy graduated from Pomona College with a degree in physical education. She chose physical education because it was the only degree program which allowed her to take math and science courses after her desire to major in chemistry was stymied by the chemistry department head who was opposed to having women in the lab. Following her graduation, she took chemistry classes at Columbia University, but ultimately decided that a career in physical therapy had little appeal. On the advice of a friend working for IBM, she took the company's Programmer Aptitude Test when searching for a job.
Career.
In 1956, Hardy entered the programming field after taking IBM's Programmer Aptitude Test. Her official title was System Service Girl, which is equivalent to the position of a current day system engineer. Hardy then switched to programming and worked in IBM Research, which was in Poughkeepsie, and then in Ossining, New York. She worked at IBM for five years.
A job on the STRETCH supercomputer project led to an offer to work at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in 1962. Hardy was one of a team of five who worked on the Livermore STRETCH's Fortran compiler from 1963 to 1966.
In February 1966, after her husband got a job at IBM in the Bay Area, Hardy got a job at Tymshare, a newly formed time-sharing company in Los Altos, California. She worked for Tymshare from 1966 to 1985.
Hardy worked on some of the first time-sharing systems and computer networks, used by a variety of corporations and government agencies. In 1968 she, with her husband Norm Hardy and LaRoy Tymes, first used minicomputers to log onto mainframe computers. She eventually rose to vice-president, the first woman in that role. Though Hardy was solely responsible for the writing the code for Tymshare's time-sharing product, many of her male colleagues assumed her husband had written the OS. It wasn't until she was in the hospital giving birth to her first child, and her coworkers encountered problems that they did not know how to fix, that they began to defer to her as the expert on the system she had written.
After Tymshare was acquired by McDonnell Douglas in 1984, she left to found KeyLogic, which sold the timesharing hardware and software developed at Tymshare, under a licensing arrangement, until changing market conditions forced its closure in the early 1990s. She subsequently co-founded Agorics, which focuses on web-based marketplace applications.
Hardy's experiences are representative of the state of gendered labor in the field of computing during the mid to late 20th century: despite having technical skills and proving their value as workers, women in computing were continually undervalued as the field rose in power and importance. While at IBM, at one point Hardy learned that she was being paid less than one-half of the salary lowest ranked man who reported to her. As historians like Nathan Ensmenger, Janet Abbate, and Marie Hicks have shown, women programmers were denied credit for their work and historically submerged, leading to an inaccurate view of men's and women's roles in the field.
In 2004, Hardy retired. She currently serves as co-chair of the Software Industry Special Interest Group at the Computer History Museum.
Personal life.
Hardy married, and later divorced, Norman Hardy, also an alumnus of IBM and Tymshare. She has two daughters, born in 1968 and 1970; one became an environmentalist and the other a costume designer.


C. Allen Parker

C. Allen Parker (born February 17, 1955) is an American business executive and attorney. He was the senior executive vice president and general counsel of Wells Fargo, and also served as its interim CEO and president. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Parker was a partner at New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and served as its fifteenth presiding partner.
Early life and education.
Parker was born in Jacksonville, Florida and spent his childhood years in Georgia. He is the son of Charles A. Parker, a college professor, and Sara Parker (née Hobby), an elementary school teacher. Parker attended Duke University, where he received a B.A., magna cum laude, in political science and comparative area studies, in 1977. In 1980, he received an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago, where his studies focused on South Asia and the Middle East. In 1983, Parker received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Columbia University School of Law, where he served as a Notes and Comments editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Career.
From 1983 to 1984, Parker served as a law clerk to the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Upon the completion of that clerkship, he became an associate in the corporate department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
During his early years at Cravath, Parker was mentored by, among others, Cravath partner Robert Rosenman, a person Parker says taught him “the importance of being exhaustively prepared and treating everyone . . . with respect.”
Parker became a partner in the corporate department at Cravath in June 1990, and focused his practice on commercial bank financing, as well as a broad range of other matters in the areas of general corporate practice, securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and derivative transactions. His practice experience included acquisition finance and other commercial banking transactions throughout the world, and Parker was regularly recognized as one of the country’s preeminent practitioners in banking and finance. During his time as a Cravath partner, Parker worked closely with JPMorgan vice chairman James B. Lee, who later credited Parker for his help as JPMorgan built its investment banking business.”
Parker served from January 2001 to December 2004 as the managing partner of Cravath’s corporate department. Then, from January 2007 to December 2013, he served as Cravath’s deputy presiding partner and, for two years during that period, also served as the head of Cravath’s corporate department.
From January 2013 through December 2016, Parker served as Cravath’s fifteenth presiding partner.
Wells Fargo.
In March 2017, after what was described as a “successful turn as Cravath’s Presiding Partner” during which he made “principles and culture a focus of his tenure,” Parker left Cravath to become the General Counsel of Wells Fargo, then stating that he intended "to make the legal department of Wells Fargo a beacon for other departments in ethics.”
In March 2019, upon the retirement of Wells Fargo CEO and president, Timothy J. Sloan, Parker was elected by the board of directors to serve as the chief executive officer and president, on an interim basis, while the board conducted a search for a permanent CEO. He was also elected a member of the board of directors, then was reelected by shareholder vote, in April 2019. Parker returned to the General Counsel role in October 2019, and left Wells Fargo in March 2020.
During his years as a Cravath partner, Parker gained a reputation as a person who “has the skills of a ‘master negotiator’ in that he can navigate the intricacies and personalities of a deal to ensure both sides feel like they won,” and as having keen strategic and business abilities.
Personal life.
Parker has been married since 1996. He and his wife have four children.


Rhona Graff

Rhona Cheryl Graff is a long-standing executive assistant to Donald Trump and senior vice-president of the Trump Organization. She worked at Trump Tower in New York City for nearly thirty years prior to Trump's election to the United States Presidency, and has been described as Trump's 'gatekeeper'. Following Trump's election to the White House, Graff continued to handle his arrangements outside official engagements.
Early life and education.
Graff grew up the daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl Graff in the Queens borough of New York City. She holds a master's degree in psychology and education from Queens College.
Career.
In 1987 Graff heard of a job vacancy at Donald Trump's business, and successfully applied for it. She has since held the positions of assistant to the president and senior vice-president within the Trump Organization, handling a large quantity of Trump's business activity and acting as occasional spokesperson. She has also appeared alongside Trump on NBC television show "The Apprentice" and has been a judge on "Miss Teen USA".
Graff has been nicknamed "Trump's right hand". John Catsimatidis has similarly remarked, "If I really wanted to whisper something in his ear, I would probably go to Rhona". In a 2004 interview with "Real Estate Weekly" Graff stated, "Everybody knows in order to get through to him they have to go through me, so they are always on their best behavior". She has been a contributor to "Inside Tennis" magazine.
Trump Presidency.
Since Trump's assumption of the US presidency, Graff reportedly communicated with Trump through his former White House assistant Madeleine Westerhout and a former Deputy Chief of Staff, Katie Walsh.
Graff's name came to the attention of Congressional investigators of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections in August 2017 following reports that she appeared to be referred to by name by music publicist Rob Goldstone in an email to Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr, concerning the then-upcoming Veselnitskaya meeting in Trump Tower in June 2016, when Goldstone wrote: "I can also send this info to your father via Rhona, but it is ultra sensitive so wanted to send to you first". Goldstone also emailed Graff herself in July 2015, appearing to offer to help set up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Personal life.
Graff lives in New York. In 1993, she married New York City's former Deputy Commissioner of Transportation, Lucius Joseph Riccio, in a ceremony performed by New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins at the Plaza Hotel.


Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov

Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov (; October 28, 1930 in Moscow – July 29, 2017 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of fluid dynamics, political and social activist, diplomat, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1970), member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Academician since 1987; Corresponding Member since 1981), former Russian Ambassador to France (1992-1998).
Biography.
Grew up in central Moscow's Arbat District, where he attended local high school No. 59.
In 1954 graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a degree in Aeromechanics.
While still an undergraduate he began his collaboration with TsAGI (Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute in Zhukovsky) where he conducted research on experimental and theoretical thermodynamics of air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles until 1958.
In 1958, following an invitation by academician Georgy Petrov, Ryzhov joins the Keldysh Research Centre (at the time known as NII-1); here his work focused on high speed aerodynamics.
In 1961-1992 and since 1999 he has worked at the Moscow Aviation Institute: docent, professor, pro-rector, rector (1986-1992), head of the aerodynamics department since 2003.
1960-1990: Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1987-1990: Deputy of the Moscow City Council, also known as Mossovet.
1989-1992: Deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union.
1989-1991: Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, chairman of the Supreme Soviet's Committee for Science and Technology. One of the organizers of the Inter-regional Deputies' Group, the first legal parliamentary opposition in the Soviet Union.
1990-1991: Senior deputy chairman of the Higher political advisory council to the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR.
1991: Chairman of the Committee for Science, Technology and Education at the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of USSR; member of the Political advisory council to the President of USSR.
According to the Soviet and Russian journalist and statesman Mikhail Poltoranin, Ryzhov was offered the post of Prime Minister during Boris Yeltsin's time in office, but had turned it down.
1992-1998: Ambassador of the Russian Federation to France.
1992-1993: Member of the President's Advisory Council of the Russian Federation; since 1993: Member of the President's Council of the Russian Federation.
2001-2012: Chairman of the Russian Pugwash Committee at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
2002-2013: Member of the Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
Chairman of the "History of World Culture" Research Council at the Russian Academy of Sciences, chairman of the judging panel at the "Triumph-Science" independent prize for the encouragement of achievements in science, member of the Public Committee for the Protection of Scientists, member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, supervisory board member of the INDEM Foundation, member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Was on the inaugural board of the "Moskovskiye Novosti" Newspaper.
Field of scientific research.
Yuri Ryzhov's main works are in the fields of supersonic aerodynamics, rarefied-gas dynamics, interaction of atomic scale particles with surfaces, non-equilibrium processes in gas flows, non-stationary heat transfer.
Political position in recent years.
In 2014 he was among the 31 signatories of a declaration, dedicated to the "September 21st Peace March", demanding "to end the aggressive reckless venture: to withdraw Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine and to stop providing propaganda, material and military support to the separatists in the South-East of Ukraine".
He was a critic and opponent of the regime of President Vladimir Putin.


Cranes Today

Cranes Today is an international monthly trade magazine for the crane and lifting industries, published by World Market Intelligence. It was first published in November 1972 and has been recognised as the leading journal for the crane industry.
"Cranes Today"'s annual Middle East Cranes conference has been running since 2007, and is held in Dubai in association with a number of crane companies and associations.
The inaugural Cranes Asia conference is to take place in Singapore from 9–10 December 2009
"Cranes Today" publishes its Fleet File every summer, usually in the June edition. Fleet File is a database of who owns what in the crane industry. In 2009 it included entries from 500 companies owning more than 38,000 cranes in 50 countries.


Lawton Fitt

Lawton Wehle Fitt (born July 1953) is an American banker.
She completed college at Brown University, majoring in European history. After working in Burkina Faso with the Peace Corps, she studied at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
From 1979 to 2002, Fitt was a banker with Goldman Sachs.
In 2002, Fitt succeeded David Gordon as secretary of the Royal Academy, holding that position until 2005.


Dan Clute

Dan Clute (born January 14, 1966) represented the 59th District in the Iowa House of Representatives 2007–2009. He received his BBA (1988) and MBA (1989, with “First in Class” honors) from the University of Iowa, and is Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer at Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines.
Clute was elected in 2006 with 7,250 votes (58%), defeating Democrat Jim Sammler. Mike Huckabee appeared at a campaign event for him 9 September 2009 in Clive. In the Iowa House, Clute served on the Commerce committee, the Economic Growth committee, the Local Government committee, and the Economic Development Appropriations Subcommittee. His campaign raised and spent money in 2007, but hardly at all in 2008; he was not a candidate for the Iowa General Assembly in 2008.
Before his election to the Iowa House he was elected to the Clive City Council in a special election in 2003 and to a four-year term in 2004. He began in politics at the age of ten years, and was a College Republican. After establishing his career in the Des Moines area, he joined the Bull Moose Club of young Republican professionals. He worked for George W. Bush's Iowa caucus effort in the 2000 presidential primary season.
Mr. Clute was employed at Wells Fargo Financial (1989–2000) before joining the Citi Cards operations center in West Des Moines, Iowa. He has lived in Clive since 1997, and is a member of the Lions Club and Historical Society there. He was elected President of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation's board of directors, and Vice President of the Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity's board. In 2003 he was named to the Des Moines Business Record’s “40 Under 40” list, and honored on 2004 with Mason City High School Distinguished Alumni Award – Alumnus of the Decade 1980’s.


Daimary

Daimary is a surname found among the Boro people of north-eastern India. Daimary comes from the word "Daima-ároi", meaning River-folk
Notable people.
People with this surname include:


Baratta

Baratta is an occupational surname of Italian origin for a market trader. Notable people with this name include:


Hugh Adam (MP)

Hugh Adam was an English politician who was MP for Derby in September 1388. He also served as commissioner of arrest (June 1380) and bailiff (Michaelmas 1380-1381) in his native Derby.


Jeff De Luca

Jeff De Luca is a global information technology strategist and an author in the field of software development methodology. He is considered the primary architect of "Feature Driven Development" (FDD) circa 1999 [^JDLBIO], a lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money.
In 1999, Jeff De Luca co-authored "Java Modeling In Color With UML" (1999, ), along with Peter Coad and Eric Lefebvre.
Jeff De Luca was born in 1964. Although Jeff dropped out of secondary school (high school), and did not start with a college degree, he learned, on-the-job, working for years with programmers and designers at IBM in Melbourne, Australia and transferred with IBM to the United States in Raleigh, North Carolina (^JDLBIO). At the IBM Rochester Minnesota Programming Laboratory, Jeff developed network software to connect different types of IBM computer systems, and continued learning at IBM for those 11 years. He had begun in the mailroom: in 1981, aged 17, he had left school and started working at IBM, Melbourne, as the mailroom clerk.
Jeff resigned from IBM in 1993, as a senior systems strategist.
After IBM, Jeff formed his own consultancy company, Nebulon Pty Ltd, based in Melbourne, Australia, and developed extensive, complex software systems using the Java technology (with the programming language),
object-modelling in UML, and FDD.


Pension fund

A pension fund, also known as a superannuation fund in some countries, is any plan, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income.
Pension funds typically have large amounts of money to invest and are the major investors in listed and private companies. They are especially important to the stock market where large institutional investors dominate. The largest 300 pension funds collectively hold about $6 trillion in assets. In 2012, PricewaterhouseCoopers estimated that pension funds worldwide hold over US$33.9 trillion in assets (and were expected to grow to more than $56 trillion by 2020), the largest for any category of institutional investor ahead of mutual funds, insurance companies, currency reserves, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, or private equity.
The Federal Old-age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund is the world's largest public pension fund which oversees $2.72 trillion USD in assets.
Classifications.
Open vs. closed pension fund.
Open pension funds support at least one pension plan with no restriction on membership while closed pension funds support only pension plans that are limited to certain employees.
Closed pension funds are further subclassified into:
Public vs. private pension funds.
A public pension fund is one that is regulated under public sector law while a private pension fund is regulated under private sector law.
In certain countries, the distinction between public or government pension funds and private pension funds may be difficult to assess. In others, the distinction is made sharply in law, with very specific requirements for administration and investment. For example, local governmental bodies in the United States are subject to laws passed by the states in which those localities exist, and these laws include provisions such as defining classes of permitted investments and a minimum municipal obligation.
By country.
Romania.
The pension system in Romania is made of three pillars. One is the state pension (Pillar I – Mandatory), the second is a private mandatory pension where the state transfers a percentage of the contribution it collects for the public pension, and the third is an optional private pension (Pillar III – Voluntary).
The Financial Supervisory Authority – Private Pension is responsible for the supervision and regulation of the private pension system.
Turkey.
Government.
Social Security Institution was established by the Social Security Institution Law No:5502 which was published in the Official Gazette No: 26173 dated 20.06.2006 and brings the Social Insurance Institution, General Directorate of Bağ-kur and General Directorate of Emekli Sandığı whose historical development are summarized above under a single roof in order to transfer five different retirement regimes which are civil servants, contractual paid workers, agricultural paid workers, self-employers and agricultural self-employers into a single retirement regime that will offer equal actuarial rights and obligations.
Private.
OYAK (Ordu Yardımlaşma Kurumu/Armed Forces Pension Fund) provides its members with "supplementary retirement benefits" apart from the official retirement fund, T.C.Emekli Sandığı/SSK, to which they are primarily affiliated.
In addition to the retirement benefit, OYAK pays "disability benefits" to the members on duty when they become partially or fully disabled as well as "death benefits" to the heirs of the deceased member if the death occurs during the member's subscription to the foundation.
OYAK is incorporated as a private entity under its own law subject to Turkish civic and commercial codes. OYAK, while fulfilling its legal duties, as set in the law, also provides its members with social services such as loans, home loans and retirement income systems.
The initial source of OYAK's funds is a compulsory 10 percent levy on the base salary of Turkey's 200,000 serving officers who, together with 25,000 current pensioners, make up OYAK's members.
Some other Turkish private pension funds:
United States.
In the United States, pension funds include schemes which result in a deferral of income by employees, even if retirement income provision isn't the intent. The United States has $19.1 trillion in retirement and pension assets ($9.1 trillion in private funds, $10 trillion in public funds) as of December 31, 2016. The largest 200 pension funds accounted for $4.540 trillion as of September 30, 2009.


John Arnold (MP for Hampshire)

John Arnold of Winchester (died 1433) was an English politician who was MP for Hampshire in May 1413. He also served more than eighteen years as the bailiff of Bishop Henry Beaufort.


Ross Moffett

Ross Embrose Moffett (February 2, 1888 – March 13, 1971) was an American artist specializing in landscape painting, social realism themed murals and etching. He was a significant figure in the development of American Modernism after World War I. He worked with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to complete four murals in the 1930s. For the most part, his paintings depict the life and landscapes of the Provincetown, Massachusetts area.
Biography.
Early life.
Born on February 2, 1888 in Clearfield, Iowa. Moffett began his studies at the Cummins Art School of Des Moines in 1907. In 1908 he transferred to the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (now known as the Art Institute of Chicago) and studied with John Vanderpool and Harry Wallcott. He then studied with Charles Hawthorne, in Provincetown, Massachusetts in the summer of 1913. In 1914, he continued his studies at the Art Students League of New York, returning to Provincetown to establish his career as an artist in 1915. As one of the founders of the Provincetown Art Association, he was a leading figure in the town's art scene.
Moffett married artist Dorothy Lake Gregory, best known as a printmaker and illustrator of children's books and magazines, in 1920, in Brooklyn, New York. Moffett and Gregory met while studying in Provincetown under Charles Hawthorne.
Career.
In 1924, after serving in the United States Army and traveling across Europe, Moffett returned to Provincetown, Massachusetts and became one of the early founders of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM).
Moffett had his first one-man show at the Frank Rehn Gallery in New York and also at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1928.
Between 1932 and 1933, he taught at the University of Miami in Ohio and, in 1942, Moffett became a full member of the National Academy of Design. Moffett painted four murals in two Massachusetts post offices for the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1936 and 1938.
Although he deepened his commitment to the Provincetown Art Association, his output lessened during World War 2.
Moffett became interested in archaeology in the 1950s, delivered a few lectures on the subject, and wrote an article for "American Antiquity" entitled "A Shell Heap Site on Griffin Island, Wellfleet, Massachusetts" which appeared in Volume 28 No 1. In 1954, he was chosen, along with another artist, to paint murals of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's civilian life for the new Eisenhower Memorial Foundation Museum by the National Academy of Design.
In 1960, Moffett joined the movement to establish acreage known as the Province Lands as part of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park. He wrote and published a definitive history of the first thirty-three years of the Provincetown Art Association in a book titled "Art in Narrow Streets" in 1964. He continued serving as a juror for the Provincetown Art Association and, in 1970, was artist-in-residence for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
Later life.
Moffett died of cancer on March 13, 1971, in Provincetown, Massachusetts and is buried at the Provincetown cemetery next to his wife, Dorothy who died in 1975.
The Moffett House, 296A Commercial Street, Provincetown, Massachusetts was built in 1860. It is the former location of the home and studio of Ross Moffett and his wife Dorothy. It has since been restored and is now called the Moffett House Inn.


Anketil de Coleshull

Anketil de Coleshull was the member of Parliament for Coventry in 1295. With Richard de Weston he is the first MP for the city whose name is known. He had been a bailiff.


Suzan DelBene

Suzan Kay DelBene (née Oliver; ; born February 17, 1962) is an American politician and businesswoman who has been the United States Representative from Washington's 1st congressional district since 2012.
DelBene was the 2010 Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative for and was narrowly defeated by incumbent Republican Dave Reichert. In 2012 she won the general election in Washington's redrawn 1st district against Republican John Koster, while simultaneously winning the election for the remainder of the term in the vacant 1st district under the pre-2012 boundaries, a seat left vacant by the resignation of Jay Inslee.
She serves as the Chair of the New Democrat Coalition, the second largest ideological caucus.
Early life and education.
DelBene was born in Selma, Alabama, the daughter of Barry and Beth Oliver. She is the fifth child in her family. At a young age, her family moved to Newport Hills in Bellevue, Washington. Later, they moved to Mercer Island. In an autobiographical video, DelBene described her family's trouble paying bills and the hardship they faced after her father, a longtime airline pilot, lost his job. After fourth grade, her family moved all over the country in search of work.
After graduating from The Choate School, a prep school in Wallingford, Connecticut, DelBene went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon where she earned a bachelor's degree in biology. DelBene then continued her education at the University of Washington to earn a Master's degree in Business Administration.
Business career.
DelBene worked at Microsoft from 1989 to 1998 where she was director of marketing and business development for the Interactive Media Group, marketing and sales training for Microsoft's Internet properties, and other business development and product management roles with Windows 95 and early versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser software. In 1998 she left to help found drugstore.com and serve as a vice president. In 2000, she went on to be the CEO of Nimble Technology, leading it through its acquisition by Actuate in 2003. In 2004, she returned to Microsoft to be Corporate Vice President of the Mobile Communications Business, until 2007.
From 2008 to 2009, she was a management consultant and strategic advisor to Global Partnerships, a non-profit supporting microfinance and sustainable solutions in Latin America. DelBene was named as the director for the Washington State Department of Revenue on November 30, 2010, to replace outgoing director Cindi Holmstrom.
U.S House of Representatives.
Elections.
2010.
In 2010 DelBene ran for election to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat against the incumbent in the 8th congressional district, Dave Reichert, a Republican. According to DelBene's campaign website, the economy was her top priority. DelBene earned the endorsements of the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, as well as several Democratic politicians.
DelBene faced Reichert in the general election, after coming in 2nd in the primary voting. In Washington, the top two advance. DelBene lost to Reichert in the general election on November 2. She was subsequently named Washington State Revenue Director by Governor Christine Gregoire on November 30, 2010.
2012.
DelBene ran for Congress again in 2012. DelBene won the Democratic nomination for the redrawn 1st district, previously represented by Jay Inslee, which became more competitive due to redistricting. Inslee had resigned in March to focus on his ultimately successful campaign for governor. DelBene ran in two elections that day against Republican John Koster—a special election for the last two months of Inslee's seventh term (and held in the boundaries of the old 1st), and a regular election for a full two-year term. She defeated Koster in both elections, winning the special election with 60 percent of the vote and the regular election with 54 percent of the vote. Her victory margin in the regular election was wider than expected, considering that the district was about six points less Democratic than its predecessor. On November 13, 2012, she was sworn in as the district's representative for the remainder of the 112th Congress, giving her a leg up in seniority over all but a few other representatives first elected in November 2012 for the upcoming 113th Congress.
DelBene spent $2.8 million of her own money in a race in which she raised over $4 million, in a Congressional race that became the most expensive in Washington state history.
2014.
DelBene ran for Congress again in 2014 and won against Republican Pedro Celis. Delbene earned 55% of the vote to hold on to her seat.
Policy positions.
Economy.
DelBene is one of the lead sponsors of the American Family Act, which would cut childhood poverty nearly in half by increasing the Child Tax Credit to provide up to $3,000 per child per year and $3,600 for children younger than 6, make the credit refundable so that low-income families receive the full credit, and allow the payments to be provided monthly. President Joe Biden adopted a one-year version of this expansion in his 2021 COVID-19 relief package, the American Rescue Plan.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, DelBene introduced the JOBS Credit Act, which would expand the Employee Retention Tax Credit, an advanced refundable tax credit for employers designed to keep workers on the payroll and connected to their health benefits while businesses revenues were hit because of the pandemic. An expansion of the credit was included in the Heroes Act and a modified version ultimately passed in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.
In 2019, DelBene introduced H.R. 4027, the "Women’s Small Business Ownership Act", which is aimed at increasing business counseling and training services for women entrepreneurs.
In the 116th Congress, DelBene also introduced:
Environment and conservation.
In 2021, DelBene passed the "National Landslide Preparedness" Act, legislation she originally introduced following the 2014 Oso landslide. The legislation expands early warning systems, develops new mapping to better prepare communities and local governments for landslide risks, and establishes the National Landslides Hazard Reduction program through the United States Geological Survey.
DelBene also led calls to fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund in order to help protect local parks and support conservation projects. In August 2020, the LWCF was funded permanently at $900 million a year.
Health care.
DelBene currently serves on the Ways and Means Committee. She has advanced two bills in 2018 addressing the opioid addiction.
In the 116th Congress, DelBene introduced the following legislation:
Housing.
In the 116th Congress, DelBene introduced:
Reproductive rights.
DelBene is one of the leaders of the Pro-Choice Caucus and supported access to reproductive health care by serving on the Select Committee to Investigate Planned Parenthood, which was established under former Speaker Paul Ryan in 2015.
Technology.
In 2019, DelBene reintroduced the Information Transparency and Personal Data Control Act, legislation that would require companies to present their data privacy policies in clear language. The legislation would also create an option for consumers to “opt-in” before companies can use consumers’ sensitive personal information.
She introduced several other bills that would help update our nation's privacy laws, including the Email Privacy Act, the Secure Data Act, and the Law Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad (LEADS) Act. Legislation similar to the LEADS Act, the CLOUD Act, was passed into law in the 115th Congress.
In the 116th Congress, DelBene was a member of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, "which is committed to find ways to improve and modernize the way Congress operates".
In the 116th Congress, DelBene also introduced:
Personal life.
Her husband, Kurt DelBene, is Chief Digital Officer and EVP of Corporate Strategy, Core Services Engineering and Operations at Microsoft Corporation, and led the effort to fix the Healthcare.gov website at the request of President Barack Obama.
DelBene is a practicing Episcopalian.


Cook (surname)

Cook is an occupational surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include:


Charles Thomas Newton

Sir Charles Thomas Newton (16 September 1816 – 28 November 1894) was a British archaeologist. He was made KCB in 1887.
Life.
He was born in 1816, the second son of Newton Dickinson Hand Newton, vicar of Clungunford, Shropshire, and afterwards of Bredwardine, Herefordshire.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School (then under Samuel Butler), and at Christ Church, Oxford (matriculating 17 Oct. 1833), where he graduated B.A. in 1837 and M.A. in 1840.
Already in his undergraduate days Newton (as his friend and contemporary, John Ruskin, tells in "Præterita") was giving evidence of his natural bent; the scientific study of classical archaeology, which Winckelmann had set on foot in Germany, was in England to find its worthy apostle in Newton. In 1840, contrary to the wishes of his family, he entered the British Museum as an assistant in the department of antiquities. As a career the museum, as it then was, can have presented but few attractions to a young man; but the department, as yet undivided, probably offered to Newton a wider range of comparative study in his subject than he could otherwise have acquired.
In 1852, he was named vice-consul at Mytilene, and from April 1853 to January 1854 he was consul at Rhodes, with the definite duty, among others, of watching over the interests of the British Museum in the Levant.
In 1854 and 1855, with funds advanced by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, he carried on excavations in Kalymnos, enriching the British Museum with an important series of inscriptions, and in the following year he was at length enabled to undertake his long-cherished scheme of identifying the site, and recovering for this country the chief remains, of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
In 1856-1857, he achieved the great archaeological exploit of his life by the discovery of the remains of the mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. He was greatly assisted by Murdoch Smith, afterwards celebrated in connection with Persian telegraphs.
The results were described by Newton in his "History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus" (1862–1863), written in conjunction with R. P. Pullan, and in his "Travels and Discoveries in the Levant" (1865).
These works included particulars of other important discoveries, especially at Branchidae, where he disinterred the statues which had anciently lined the Sacred Way, and at Cnidos, where Pullan, acting under his direction, found the Lion of Knidos now in the British Museum.
In 1860, he was named consul at Rome, but was the following year recalled to take up the newly created post of keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum.
Newton's keepership at the museum was marked by an amassing wealth of important acquisitions, which were largely attributable to his personal influence or initiation. Thus in the ten years 1864-74 alone he was enabled to purchase no less than five important collections of classical antiquities: the Farnese, the two great series of Castellani, the Pourtales, and the Blacas collections, representing in special grants upwards of £100,000. Meanwhile, his work in the Levant, bringing to the museum the direct results of exploration and research, was being continued by his successors and friends: Biliotti in Rhodes, Smith and Porcher at Gyrene, Lang in Cyprus, Dennis in Sicily, in the Cyrenaica, and around Smyrna, Pullan at Priene, John Turtle Wood at Ephesus were all working more or less directly under Newton on behalf of the museum.
Of his own work as a scholar in elucidating and editing the remains of antiquity, the list of his writings given below is only a slight indication; nor was this confined to writing alone. In 1855, he had been offered by Lord Palmerston (acting on Liddell's advice) the regius professorship of Greek at Oxford, rendered vacant by Dean Gaisford's death, with the definite object of creating a school of students in what was then a practically untried field of classical study at Oxford.
The salary, however, was only nominal, and Newton was obliged to decline the post, which was then offered to and accepted by Benjamin Jowett.
In 1880, however, the Yates chair of classical archaeology was created at University College, London, and by a special arrangement, Newton was enabled to hold it coincidentally with his museum appointment.
As antiquary to the Royal Academy he lectured frequently.
In the latter part of his career, he was closely associated with the work of three English societies, all of which owed to him more or less directly their inception and a large part of their success; the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, at the inaugural meeting of which he presided in June 1879; the British School at Athens, started in February 1885: and the Egypt Exploration Fund, which was founded in 1882.
In 1889, he was presented by his friends and pupils, under the presidency of the Earl of Carnarvon, with a testimonial in the form of a marble portrait bust of himself by Boehm, now deposited in the Mausoleum Room at the British Museum; the balance of the fund was by his own wish devoted to founding a studentship in connection with the British School at Athens.
In 1885, he resigned the museum and academy appointments, and in 1888 he was compelled by increasing infirmity to give up the Yates professorship.
On 28 November 1894 he died at Margate, whither he had gone from his residence, 2 Montague Place, Bedford Square.
Awards.
In 1874 Newton was made honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and on 9 June 1875 D.C.L. of the same university ; LL.D. of Cambridge, and Ph.D. of Strasburg in 1879 ; Companion of the Bath (C.B.) on 16 November 1875, and Knight Commander of the same order (K.C.B.) on 21 June 1887.
He was correspondent of the Institute of France, honorary director of the Archaeological Institute of Berlin, and honorary member of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome.
Family.
On 27 April 1861, he married the distinguished painter, Ann Mary, daughter of Joseph Severn, himself a painter and the friend of John Keats, who had succeeded Newton in Rome; she died in 1866 at their residence, 74 Gower Street, Bloomsbury.
Works.
He was editor of the "Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum" (1874 &c. fol.), and author of numerous other official publications of the British Museum ; also of a treatise on the "Method of the Study of Ancient Art," 1850; a "History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidse," 1862-3 ; "Travels and Discoveries in the Levant," 1865 ; "Essays on Art and Archæology," 1880 ; and of many papers in periodicals, among which may be specially noted a "Memoir on the Mausoleum" in the "Classical Museum" for 1847.


Christopher Joye

Christopher Joye is an Australian fixed-income fund manager with Coolabah Capital Investments (and Smarter Money Investments), contributing editor with "The Australian Financial Review", financial economist, and former government advisor. He was appointed to the board of the Liberal Party think-tank, the Menzies Research Centre (2003–2007), by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (who also hired Joye into investment banking at Goldman Sachs out of university) after Joye authored an influential report for the 2003 Prime Minister's Home Ownership Task Force. Turnbull has been quoted in the media saying: "He's got a very, very fierce intellect ... I've never seen anyone as driven as him".
Early life.
Joye attended the Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, Australia, and Marlborough College, in the United Kingdom. At the University of Sydney, he received Joint First Class Honours and the University Medal in Economics and Finance while also being a Credit Suisse First Boston scholar, SIRCA scholar, and University Honours scholar. He studied at the University of Cambridge in 2002 and 2003, where he was a Commonwealth Trust scholarship recipient. He was vice-captain of the Victorian State schoolboys rugby union 1st XV in 1994.
Career.
After graduation from The University of Sydney where he completed studies in economics and finance in 1999 he worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in London and Sydney for nearly two years (2000-2001), and then as a senior adviser at Reserve Bank of Australia (2001-2002). Joye was also the principal author of the 380-page 2003 Prime Minister's Home Ownership Task Force Report, which was commissioned by then Prime Minister John Howard and overseen by future Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
In 2008, the Rudd government committed $4 billion (subsequently expanded to $20 billion) to a radical policy proposal first developed by Joye and Professor Joshua Gans to supply temporary liquidity to Australia's residential mortgage-backed securities market. This idea was backed by the government's Australia 2020 Summit.
Australian taxpayers are estimated by Joye to have made around $600 million in realised profits from this policy idea as at April 2013. Joye also estimates taxpayers have earned an additional sum of between $275 million and $550 million in unrealised gains to this point.
Joye is recognised as one of the economists who came up with the idea for a "Son of Wallis" financial system inquiry following the 2008 global crisis and was the principal author, alongside five other respected economists, of a detailed op-ed published in "The Age" in July 2009 calling for this inquiry. The letter was promptly backed by the Shadow Treasurer at the time, Joe Hockey, but rejected by Treasurer Wayne Swan even though subsequent advice from Treasury's "red-book" suggested it was a sound proposal.
Media speculated that Joye was the author of a speech by former Treasurer Joe Hockey in November 2010 calling for a financial system inquiry, which repeatedly cited Joye's work. Treasurer Hockey announced that David Murray would lead the new inquiry in 2013.
Joye is currently a contributing editor with the national newspaper "The Australian Financial Review", and director and co-chief investment officer of the fixed-income investment boutique, Capital Investments and Smarter Money Investments. In 2016 Smarter Money Investments was a finalist in the Money Management/Lonsec's emerging fund manager of the year awards. Joye writes about economics, finance, hedge funds, defence, cyber security, central banking policy, asset-allocation, politics, banking, and other areas in financial services and economics reform. He writes regular opinion pieces but also authors news stories across finance, technology, politics, and national security. In 2014 the Lowy Institute selected Joye as one of its finalists for its annual media award for his writing on "intelligence and spying issues".
In 2013 "The Australian" newspaper's foreign editor, Greg Sheridan, described Joye as "the Fin's most serious analyst on national security matters". "The Herald Sun"'s senior business columnist, Terry McCrann, has written that he is "pungently accurate" and "Australia's most idiosyncratic economist". Dr Nicholas Gruen, a prominent Australian economist who chaired the Labor government's Web 2.0 Government Taskforce, describes Joye on Twitter as "one of our best journalists".
Joye has regularly broken international national security news, including: exclusive interviews with the directors of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), David Irvine, and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), Ian McKenzie; the most comprehensive interview ever with the former head of the CIA and NSA, General Michael Hayden, in which he claimed the telco Huawei spies for China; the news in October 2013 that Huawei would be re-banned by the new Australian government from the $40 billion National Broadband Project despite fevered media reporting that the ban would be lifted; reporting intelligence agencies' evidence that supported the ban for the first time; and an exclusive interview with the longest-serving director of the NSA, General Keith Alexander, in which he claimed Edward Snowden was being manipulated by Russian intelligence, among many other revelations in the longest interview of his career.
The former Lowy Institute scholar and current head of Australian National University's National Security College Rory Medcalf wrote, "Anyone remotely interested in security and intelligence issues would have to be living under a rock to have missed this recent interview with the former head of the CIA and the NSA, General Michael Hayden, by Chris Joye of "The Australian Financial Review". The interview transcript is itself a trove of open-source intelligence. It has had global media reach, has been picked up by prominent voices in the US policy debate, and various security commentators (including me) have been cited as applauding it".
Following the interview with General Alexander, the "Australian Financial Review"'s Aaron Patrick wrote: "American intelligence chiefs don’t talk to the press much, including the man once dubbed the most powerful spy in history. That’s why contributing editor Christopher Joye’s interview with former National Security Agency director Keith Alexander in The Australian Financial Review this week received global attention...“The very instructive thing is how an Australian-based journalist can beat the rest of the American and world media on global yarns,” "Financial Review" editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury wrote in an email to staff praising the article."
Joye has been critical of individuals illegally stealing and publishing confidential government information, like classified military secrets that are protected under the "Crimes Act 1914" (Cth), without making a clear public interest case. Alternative commentators have claimed that Joye, alongside other national security experts like Greg Sheridan and Cameron Stewart, is actually a "state identified journalist".
In December 2013 the idiosyncratic art collector, mathematician, global gambler and owner of the radical $150 million Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), David Walsh, granted Joye a rare interview in which Walsh provided unprecedented details on his personal philosophies and quantitative approach to gambling. Walsh has subsequently stated that he added a chapter to his recently published personal memoir based on the ideas developed during his interview with Joye.
In February 2014 Joye published another rare interview with the alleged yet unconvicted organised crime and Sydney entertainment figure, John Ibrahim, via the casual column "Lunch with the AFR". Ibrahim spoke about his personal life and the current generation of gangsters for the first time: "These guys are gutless cowards. The class of 2010 onwards has been the shittiest ever. They’re just plastic gangsters. They drive around in their hotted up cars with gold chains and tattoos and then they go home and sleep at mum’s. They’re all wannabes. It’s disgusting – it’s all disorganised crime." The interview was republished by the Sydney Morning Herald without the Lunch with AFR reference.
The piece was polarising and praised by some and criticised by others. Walkley Award winner Angus Grigg described it as a "wonderful yarn" whereas radio personality Mike Carlton said Joye had flung himself into the "panting, into the warm, sticky embrace of John Ibrahim". Joye's next Lunch with the AFR column featured an interview with the special forces Victoria Cross winner Mark Donaldson, who discussed his transformation from adolescent misfit to national hero, and what it was like to kill terrorists.
Joye previously worked as: a director with Rismark International, a quantitative research and intellectual property house and asset-backed securities fund manager with a large patent portfolio; a senior analyst focussing on special projects with the Reserve Bank of Australia, which is Australia's central bank; and as an analyst with the investment bank Goldman Sachs, in mergers and acquisitions, in both London and Sydney. Joye served as a director of the Menzies Research Centre, a centre-right think-tank, between 2003–07. Prior to taking on his role with the "Australian Financial Review," Joye was one of "Business Spectator and Property Observer"'s most popular columnists, where he led debates on housing, asset-allocation, banking, media, monetary policy, and superannuation.


Greg Abel

Gregory Edward Abel (born June 1, 1962) is a Canadian businessman, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, and vice-chairman of non-insurance operations of Berkshire Hathaway since January 2018.
Early life and education.
Gregory Edward Abel was born on June 1, 1962 in Edmonton, Alberta. He earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Alberta in 1984 and is an AICPA certified public accountant.
Career.
Abel began his career working as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in their San Francisco office. In 1992, he joined CalEnergy, a geothermal electricity producer. In 1999, CalEnergy acquired MidAmerican Energy, adopting its name, and Berkshire Hathaway acquired a controlling interest later that year. Abel became CEO of MidAmerican in 2008, and the company was renamed Berkshire Hathaway Energy in 2014.
In January 2018, Abel was named Berkshire Hathaway's vice chairman for non-insurance operations and appointed to Berkshire's board of directors.
Abel is also vice chairman of Edison Electric Institute, and a director of Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services Limited, Kraft Heinz, Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited, the Hockey Canada Foundation, the Mid-Iowa Council Boy Scouts of America, and the American Football Coaches Foundation. He has been on the board of trustees at Duke University and at Drake University.
In May 2021, while speaking with partner Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett confirmed Abel as his future successor as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.. Abel's handling of CalEnergy’s take-over of a British utility in the 1990s is credited to mark the start of this transition.
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James F. Allen (businessman)

James F. "Jim" Allen is the chairman of Hard Rock International and chief executive officer of Seminole Gaming. Previously, he served as vice president of operations of The Trump Organization and senior vice president of Sol Kerzner's company, Sun International.
Early life and education.
James Allen was born to Robert C. and Kathryn Allen, and had a modest upbringing. He attended Mainland Regional High School in Linwood, New Jersey, graduating in 1978. To support his mother and aunt, Allen began working in restaurants at the age of 13.
Allen took career-development courses, including gaming classes at University of Nevada, Reno and creative writing and hotel management classes at Atlantic Cape Community College in Mays Landing, New Jersey.
Career.
Allen has worked in the casino, hotel, and gaming industries since 1979. His career began as a cook at Bally's Park Place in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he has been credited with helping successfully implement data tracking software to balance profit and food costs. Via Bally's, he entered a management training program around 1980. In 1985, he joined Atlantic City Hilton as a purchasing manager.
Allen worked at The Trump Organization, which had taken over the Atlantic City Hilton, until 1993. He became part of the senior management team for three Trump properties in Atlantic City, before being promoted to vice president of operations. Allen next worked for real estate developer Christopher Hemmeter (Hemmeter Enterprises), serving as general manager for four Colorado casinos and helping to open another in New Orleans.
He was then hired by South African business magnate Sol Kerzner to serve as the Mohegan Sun's senior vice president of property operations and help develop Atlantis Paradise Island. Allen was Kerzner's third hire, starting in 1995 and departing in 2001. He was promoted to senior vice president of property operations in Kerzner's company, Sun International, which included Mohegan Sun, Atlantis Paradise Island, and the Ocean Club and the former Desert Inn, Las Vegas.
Seminole Gaming and Hard Rock International.
Allen serves as chairman of Hard Rock International (or Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment) and CEO of Seminole Gaming. Allen, who is not of Seminole origin, has led the Seminole Tribe of Florida's gaming operations since 2001. He was initially hired to operate five casinos on the Brighton, Coconut Creek, Hollywood, Immokalee, and Tampa reservations, and to develop the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood and Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa. Allen is credited with driving the 2003 development of bingo-based "Class II" gaming machines that are similar to slot machines. He has also been credited with leading the tribe's acquisition of Hard Rock International during 2006–2007 and for overseeing its brand, customer experience, image, memorabilia collection, and management practices.
Allen received a casino marketing lifetime achievement award in July 2016, at the Casino Marketing and Technology Conference, which was hosted by "Casino Journal" and its parent company BNP Media. The award was established in 2004 to recognize individuals who have made "outstanding contributions in the area of casino marketing, promotions and customer service". In March 2017, Allen led the Hard Rock International purchase of the Trump Taj Mahal from investor Carl Icahn. Allen had "played a major role" in opening the hotel and casino, which closed in 2016, and reopened the property as the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City in 2018.
Allen has been credited with the Guitar Hotel expansion of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, as well as the guestroom tower expansion of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa. He was honored as a 2020 inductee into the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship's Entrepreneur and Business Hall of Fame at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida. In 2019, Allen was named a Business Hall of Fame Laureate by Junior Achievement of South Florida.
Personal life.
Allen resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He and his former wife, Isabel Allen, divorced in 2019.
In 2005, to commemorate Seminole Gaming's twenty-fifth anniversary, Allen directed a beautification of the tribe's Council Oak, the site of many Seminole Tribe ceremonial events. He serves on the American Gaming Association's board of directors and the advisory board of the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade. He is also a board member of the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation.


Omid Kordestani

Omid R. Kordestani (; born 1963) is an Iranian-American businessman who is a member of the board at Twitter and was previously the Executive Chairman at Twitter from October 2015 to June 2020. He was a Senior Vice President, the Chief Business Officer, and most recently a special advisor to the CEO and founders at Google from July 2014 to October 2015 and was a director of Vodafone from March 2013 to October 2014. Kordestani had also previously been at Google from May 1999 to April 2009, reaching the position of Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations.
Early life.
Omid Kordestani was born in Tehran, Iran and grew up there attending Andisheh Don Bosco School, an Italian Catholic school in Tehran that emphasised education and language skills. He moved to San Jose, California after the death of his father in 1976.
Education.
Kordestani graduated from Buchser High school in 1980. He later received an electrical engineering degree from San Jose State University and went to work for Hewlett Packard as an engineer. Several years later in order to pursue a business degree, he entered Stanford Business School and earned his MBA in 1991.
Career.
Kordestani has more than a dozen years of high-technology consumer and enterprise experience, including key positions at Internet pioneer Netscape Communications. He was also vice president of Business Development and Sales and grew Netscape's website revenue from an annual run-rate of $88 million to more than $200 million in 18 months. He started his career at Netscape as director of OEM Sales, and during his four-year career at that company he was responsible for establishing major customer relationships with Citibank, AOL, Amazon, Intuit, Travelocity, Intel, @Home, eBay, and Excite. Prior to Netscape, Kordestani held positions in marketing, product management, and business development at The 3DO Company, Go Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard.
He joined Google in May 1999, leading the development and implementation of the company's initial business model and was Google's senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations until April 16, 2009. Kordestani played a part in Google's worldwide revenue generation efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the company's sales organization.
On July 18, 2014, Kordestani came back to Google to fill the vacancy of Chief Business Officer at Google after Nikesh Arora, who was recruited to Google by Kordestani himself, left for SoftBank. Initially interim, his post became permanent in October.
On October 14, 2015, Kordestani left Google and became Executive Chairman at Twitter. After a power struggle between Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Elliot Management, Kordestani was replaced by Patrick Pichette in June 2020. But Kordestani remains a member of the board.
Philanthropy.
Kordestani is one of the founders of PARSA Community Foundation, a Persian heritage, entrepreneurship and philanthropic society.
Personal life.
Kordestani net worth was estimated to be $1.4 billion in 2009, after his divorce from Bita Daryabari. Kordestani has two children with Daryabari, and two with Gisel Kordestani, whom he married in 2011.
Recognition.
In the May 8, 2006 issue of "Time Magazine", Kordestani was named one of Time's "100 People who shape our world".
Kordestani was selected as the Persian Person of the Year in 2007 by Persian Awards.


Nisha Pillai

Nisha Pillai is an Indian journalist based in London. She is a main news anchor for BBC World News.
Early life.
Pillai was born in Kolkata, India, and grew up in Mumbai. When she was 14, her family moved to London, England. She attended a girls school in Birmingham, then graduated in analytical economics at the London School of Economics.
Her mother Nita Pillai (née Mookherjee) was the younger daughter of industrialist Sir Biren Mookerjee and Lady Ranu Mookherjee, an impresario and an associates of Rabindranath Tagore. Her paternal grandfather was the former Ambassador of India to France, Sir Narayanan Raghavan Pillai.
Career.
After university, she joined Schroders Investment Bank, then moved into journalism with the weekly "Investors Chronicle". Pillai joined the BBC in 1986, first working on "The Money Programme", then "Panorama" from 1990 to 1995. Her nine-month investigation into financial affairs of media proprietor Robert Maxwell was presented as "The Max Factor", which won an award from the Royal Television Society in 1991.
She joined the BBC World News channel in 1995 as one of the main anchors, presenting the hourly news reports. In 1997, she presented the channel's coverage of Pakistan's 50th anniversary of independence in Islamabad, and, from Jerusalem in 1998, Israel's 50th anniversary of its declaration of independence. Pillai gave live coverage of the September 11 attacks and the fall of Baghdad. She has also hosted live interactive debates between audiences in America and in connected studios in Pakistan and Jordan.
She has also presented the BBC's flagship interview programme "HARDtalk", and listed her interviewees as including Hindu nationalist Bal Thackeray of the Shiv Sena, musician Phil Collins, writer V. S. Naipaul and Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
Pillai coaches senior executives in presentation skills at London Business School, records podcast interviews on economic analysis for a ratings agency, and facilitates many conferences and economic forums. She counts her understanding of economics and mental arithmetic among her strong points.
Personal life.
She has two children, one called Kiran, and visits India regularly.


Nicholas Aysshton

Nicholas Aysshton was an English politician who was MP for Liskeard in May 1421, Helston in 1422, 1423, 1425, 1427, and 1435, Launceston in 1431 and 1432, and Cornwall in 1437 and 1439. He was a justice of the peace in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset, Surrey, and Wiltshire; a steward and receiver of Caliland; and a serjeant-at-law. His son was Edward Aysshton.