Michael A. Stackpole

Michael Austin Stackpole (born November 27, 1957) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his "Star Wars" and "BattleTech" books. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont. He has a BA in history from the University of Vermont. From 1977 on, he worked as a designer of role-playing games for various gaming companies, and wrote dozens of magazine articles with limited distribution within the industry. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Game design career.
Michael Stackpole was hired full-time at Flying Buffalo after they accepted his submission for a solo "Tunnels & Trolls" adventure which was published in 1978 as "City of Terrors". He wrote columns on industry news and reviews for Flying Buffalo's magazine "Sorcerer's Apprentice". Stackpole worked for Coleco from 1980-1981 as the result of a meeting between Rick Loomis, Stackpole, and the president of Coleco at a gaming and pinball convention. Stackpole designed the roleplaying game "Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes", which Flying Buffalo published in 1983. Stackpole left Flying Buffalo after the company's 1985 move to Scottsdale, Arizona. Stackpole, Ken St. Andre, and Liz Danforth designed the computer roleplaying game "Wasteland", published by Interplay in 1988. He later returned to work with his fellow creators of Wasteland as a writer on its sequel "Wasteland 2", released in 2014 by inXile Entertainment.
In response to the accusations of Patricia Pulling (among others) who felt that the "occult" elements of "Dungeons & Dragons" were driving people to suicide, Stackpole began to defend the game and the roleplaying game community. Stackpole published one of his first articles about the media misinformation in "Sorcerer's Apprentice" #14 (Spring 1982) in an article called "Devil Games? Nonsense!", and even debated the Western Regional Director of Pulling's BADD organization on the radio on July 14, 1987. He compared BADD's statistics of suicides among roleplayers to the general rate of teen suicide and found the number of roleplayers committing suicide was actually lower than those who were not gamers, and published his argument in an article called "The Truth about Role-Playing Games" in the 1989 book "Satanism in America"; he also published the document "The Pulling Report" in 1990, which further discredited Pulling's stand against roleplaying games.
In the 1980s, Stackpole began designing computer games for Coleco and then Interplay Productions. His work at Interplay included "Bard's Tale III", "Wasteland", "Neuromancer", ' and '. He also created the role-playing game "Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes", which provided the game mechanics for "Wasteland", and wrote several solo adventures for the Tunnels & Trolls role-playing system, including "Dargon's Dungeon", "Overkill", "City of Terrors" and "Sewers of Oblivion".
Stackpole loaned his image to Decipher for the image of Corran Horn used in their "Star Wars Customizable Card Game" expansion "Reflections 2". Timothy Zahn did likewise for the character Talon Karrde. Stackpole teamed up with Decipher again, helping them write the background story to their "WARS TCG", including e-books and other writing tie-ins for the expanded universe.
In January, 2019 Stackpole resigned from the Board of Directors of GAMA (Game Manufacturer's Association), citing its inactivity and the poor handling of an incident involving GAMA President Stephen Brissaud. He was one of the few remaining Emeritus Directors (alongside Rick Loomis and Will Niebling).
Writing career.
In 1986 Stackpole wrote his first novel, the fantasy story "Talion: Revenant". His editors believed that a 175,000 word book was too long for an unknown author and that the story wasn't particularly engaging. The story remained unpublished for the next 11 years until reworked by Stackpole's editor, Anne Lesley Groell. Stackpole clarifies these issues himself in the afterword of the published version of "Talion." The manuscript was published in 1997 by Bantam Books.
Stackpole's first published novels were the Warrior trilogy for the "BattleTech" universe, published by FASA in 1988-1989. His "Blood of Kerensky" trilogy (1989-1991) were the last novels published directly by FASA; the "" cartoon (1994) was set during the events of this trilogy. Stackpole also wrote a trilogy of novels published in 1992, which were based on the "Dark Conspiracy" roleplaying game by GDW.
Stackpole has found his greatest success in serial works that continue the characters and plot lines developed by other authors. In 1987 he began writing novels set in the BattleTech universe for FASA Corporation, some of which were used as the source for a television animated series. He was then selected to write several novels in the Star Wars universe for Bantam Books. He also wrote several comics based in the Star Wars universe for Dark Horse Comics. Initially these covered the period just before his "X-Wing" novels. Later, he also covered the marriage of Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade in the graphic novel "Union" and collaborated with Timothy Zahn on Mara Jade's early career. In the foreword to his book "Outbound Flight", Timothy Zahn thanks Stackpole and issues a challenge at "Star Wars Trivial Pursuit".
In addition, he has written several novels and short stories with original settings. One series is the "DragonCrown War Cycle". These books attempted to break fantasy conventions in order to stir reader interest, including the introduction of firearms in a fantasy setting. Reception of these books was fairly positive based on Amazon reviews, but reviews elsewhere were not as good.
Stackpole contributed one of the four stories in Roger Zelazny's shared world anthology "Forever After", published by Baen Books in 1995. He was a contributor in the 1998 anthology "Lord of the Fantastic" commemorating Zelazny.
"The Age of Discovery" trilogy is his latest complete series, with "A New World" released mid-2007. The trilogy is set in a fantasy world, with an attempt at an unconventional approach to magic and mastery.
"The Crown Colonies" is a trilogy that re-imagines the events of the American Revolutionary War. The first book, "At The Queen's Command", was released in November 2010.
At New York Comic Con 2012, it was revealed that Blizzard Entertainment had approached Stackpole to write the next novel in their series based on the popular MMORPG, "World of Warcraft". The novel, titled "Vol’jin: Shadows of the Horde", centres around the chieftain of the Darkspear Trolls as his loyalty to the Horde is put to the ultimate test after an assassination attempt on his life. The novel was released in July 2013.
"The Secrets".
Newsletter.
Stackpole also writes and publishes an online newsletter titled "The Secrets", which offers tips, tricks, and tidbits about fiction writing (focusing on, but not limited to, science fiction and fantasy). It is aimed towards the serious fan fiction writer and some casual writers, and includes information about getting books published..
Topics discussed in the newsletter range from how to beat writer's block to how to build a world, and even how to manage writing as a career.
"The Secrets" newsletter requires a subscription, and issues are released every two weeks.
Podcast.
"The Secrets" Newsletter has an "audio companion" in The Secrets Podcast. The first ten podcasts were based on material from the first ten issues of The Secrets newsletter. After the first series ended, the content of the podcast diverged from the newsletter. The podcasts average twenty-five minutes long and are voiced and produced by Stackpole.
The podcasts are free and require no subscription, but older episodes have been retired and are no longer available on the main archive.
Stackpole is also one of the main hosts on "The Dragon Page Cover to Cover", a book review and interview show dealing mainly with fantasy and sci fi publications, together with Michael R. Mennenga.
Skepticism.
Stackpole has been the executive director of the Phoenix Skeptics since 1988 and is listed as the contact for the group in the magazine "Skeptical Inquirer".
Asteroid.
An outer main-belt asteroid discovered March 23, 2001 by David B. Healy was named 165612 Stackpole.
Novels.
"DragonCrown War".
Published by Bantam Books.
"Age of Discovery".
Published by Bantam Books.
"The Crown Colonies".
Published by Night Shade Books.
BattleTech.
The BattleTech novels were originally published by FASA Corporation up until 1991. In that year, Penguin Group/Roc Books took over the line and also reprinted the earlier novels. The last print novel of the classic BattleTech setting was published in 2002; in the same year, the first novel for the Dark Age setting (set some 100 years after the classic setting) was published, written by Stackpole. His novels were typically "spine novels" that moved the setting ahead, narrating large-scale or otherwise important events with far-reaching consequences in the fictional timeline.
"Dark Conspiracy".
Published by GDW.


Federal judge salaries in the United States

Federal judge salaries in the United States are determined by the United States Congress and are governed in part by the United States Constitution, depending in part on the court on which the judge sits. In particular, United States federal judges confirmed under Article III of the Constitution have compensation that "shall not be diminished during their continuance in office." Other federal judges have salaries that may be adjusted without direct constitutional constraints, however statutory schemes usually govern these salaries. Debates over judicial salaries and their increase and treatment have occurred since the ratification of the Constitution.
Compensation varies based upon the particular judgeship, though it generally increases commensurate with the office.
Article III judges.
Article III federal judges are those appointed under Article III, Section 1 of the U.S Constitution. Due to the Compensation Clause, these judges are federal judges that may not have their salaries diminished during their time in office, and are appointed to indefinite terms and may not be removed unless they resign or are impeached.
Supreme Court.
The United States Supreme Court is the highest federal appellate court. Its members are commonly called justices.
The following table lists annual salary increases for the justices from 1789 to present.
Appeals Court.
The following is a list of salaries for judges on the United States Court of Appeals.
District Court.
The following is a table of district judge salaries in the United States. District judge salaries varied based on the state prior to 1891. They were unified in 1891.
Court of International Trade.
According to the Federal Judiciary Center, Court of International Trade judges receive the same salary as district court judges.
Non Article III judges.
Magistrate judges.
Since 1988, the salary of magistrate judges is set by the Judicial Conference of the United States, but may not exceed 92 percent of the salary of district court judges.
Bankruptcy judges.
Since 1988, bankruptcy judges receive compensation equal to 92 percent of the salary of district judges.
Administrative Law Judges.
United States Administrative Law Judges are hired in the pay category of AL 3A and proceed on an annual basis through the steps until they reach AL 3F. The base pay for each step varies according to the location of the position and the locality pay paid in that area. This chart explains the various salary grades. Due to wage compression and the lack of any federal pay increases, most USALJs earn $168,600 annually as of 2015. ALJ pay is capped at 85% of a Level IV Senior Executive Schedule. This pay cap has resulted in severe pay compression for USALJs. As a result, many USALJs have retired or plan to retire within the next few years, resulting in a loss of experienced judges throughout the federal government. Congress has shown no interest in addressing the pay compression issue.
Tax Court judges.
Judges of the Tax Court receive the same compensation as district court judges.
Court of Federal Claims judges.
Since 1988, judges of the Court of Federal Claims receive the same compensation as district court judges.
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Judges of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces receive the same compensation as judges of the circuit courts of appeals.
Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
Judges of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims receive the same compensation as district court judges.
Territorial judges.
Territorial Courts are created under Article IV and exist in U.S. Territories. Only three currently exist. Compensation is fixed at the rate of regular district court judges.
Hybrid courts and others.
United States Commerce Court.
The United States Commerce Court sat from 1910 to 1913. It had a staggered and limited-term membership, but consisted of Article III Appellate Court judges that would be at-large judges when not on the Court.
United States Court of Claims.
The United States Court of Claims was a court that served from 1855 to 1982. It existed as both an Article I and Article III court (after 1953).
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
The Court of Customs and Patent Appeals was a court sitting from 1909 to 1982. Its treatment as an Article I or Article III court is ambiguous; it was originally ruled an Article I court, however it was later ruled an Article III court after Congress amended the law creating it.


J. P. Harding

John Philip Harding (12 November 1911 – 14 July 1998) was a British zoologist, Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1954 to 1971 and professor at Westfield College, London from 1971 until retirement in 1977. In 1937 he married Sidnie Manton; they had a daughter Elizabeth (born 1939) and adopted a son.


Paul H. Alling

Paul Humiston Alling (July 15, 1896 – January 18, 1949) was an American diplomat.
Early life.
Alling was born in Hamden, Connecticut and attended Trinity College before earning a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He served in the United States Army from 1917 to 1919, then returned home to work for the National City Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Diplomatic career.
Alling joined the Foreign Service in 1924, and was posted to Beirut, Aleppo, and Damascus. He was nominated as the Consul General of the U.S. Legation at Tangier, Morocco on June 4, 1945. Alling was named the first United States Ambassador to Pakistan in September 1947, and presented his credentials the following February. He died at the Naval Medical Center Bethesda on January 18, 1949.


Mitchell M. Merin

Mitchell M. Merin (born August 1953) served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley's investment management division (MSIM) from 1998 to 2005.
Early life and education.
Merin was born in August 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut. He earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from Trinity College in 1975 and an MBA in finance and accounting from Northwestern University in 1977.
Early career and Dean Witter.
Merin's first job was as an auditor for Touche Ross, at the time one of the Big Eight accounting firms. After working on the Sears account for Touche Ross, Merin joined Sears in May 1981 as a manager of financial analysis. While working on Sears' bid to acquire Dean Witter Reynolds, Merin met Philip Purcell in 1981, at the time Sears' senior vice president for corporate administration. Together, they launched the Discover Card in 1985, and when Purcell became CEO of Dean Witter in 1986 he quickly named Merin treasurer and gave him a mandate to serve as a liaison between Purcell and other Sears' executives.
In 1993 Dean Witter was spun off by Sears into a separate entity, and Purcell was made head of the new company. Purcell appointed Merin to key positions within the company, including chief administrative officer, chief strategist, executive vice president and chief administrative officer. Merin's final role within Dean Witter was to help oversee the 1997 merger of the company with Morgan Stanley.
Career at Morgan Stanley.
After the departure of James Allwin in December 1998 Merin was named president and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the new Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's asset management division, despite the fact that Merin did not have a background in asset management. Because of Morgan Stanley's recent mergers and acquisitions, the firm contained four independently operating asset management units that had previously competed with one another and were reluctant to unify under the Morgan Stanley brand. Merin was tasked with unifying these operations, and by the end of 2000 had overseen a large increase in asset growth and a 10% reduction in expenses, making the division one of the firm's most profitable businesses by 2005.
Following the unification of these business divisions, Merin attempted to position the funds for more international growth, but encountered difficulty as personnel changes and poor market conditions limited the growth the division was able to achieve, and regulators took action against illegal fund sales and inappropriate incentivization of in-house funds.
Exit from Morgan Stanley.
Although a close ally of Purcell, and once considered a candidate to replace him as CEO of Morgan Stanley, Merin's frequent transitions between businesses limited his ability to build the alliances necessary to become CEO himself. Under pressure from Morgan Stanley shareholders, Merin announced his retirement in 2005. He was succeeded within the investment management division by Owen D. Thomas.
Outside Morgan Stanley.
Merin served on several boards and industry committees. He was Chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers Investment Companies committee and Fixed Income Securities committee. In 2012 Merin was named a JPMorgan Chase fund board trustee, where he worked on the Audit and Valuation Committee, and chaired the Money Market and Alternative Products Committee. He also served as a Trustee of Trinity College, and chaired its audit committee.


Adam Nathan

Adam Nathan is a technical author/speaker, and currently works as a software architect at Google. Adam was the core architect of Microsoft Popfly. He has been involved with .NET technologies from the beginning, and has written a 1,600-page book on .NET/COM Interoperability. He also created the PINVOKE.NET wiki, which helps .NET developers use unmanaged APIs.


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Marty Moe

Martin Troen Moe (born ) is an American executive serving as president of Vox Media. Early in his career, he was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and was an adviser to Lawrence Summers, United States Secretary of the Treasury. He later worked for AOL before joining SportsBlogs Inc., which later rebranded as Vox Media in 2011. He is credited as a co-founder of the technology news website "The Verge". He served as the site's publisher, then as Vox Media's chief content officer, before being promoted to the role of president.
Early life and education.
Martin Troen Moe is the son of Daniel Moe, a former choral music professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Doris M. Tanner, a psychotherapist. He attended Oberlin College and the New York University School of Law.
Career.
In the late 1990s, Moe was an associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a law firm based in New York City. He was appointed to serve as an adviser to Lawrence Summers, United States Secretary of the Treasury, during the presidency of Bill Clinton.
Moe joined AOL in November 2001, and served as senior vice-president of the money and finance group, and news and information group, in the company's content division. Media coverage has credited him with developing the company's content brands, including DailyFinance, Engadget, and WalletPop. He resigned in 2010, effective that October.
Moe joined former AOL executive Jim Bankoff at SB Nation in April 2011, initially serving as chief content officer. In November 2011, SB Nation rebranded as Vox Media and launched the technology news website "The Verge". "Business Insider" ranked Moe and Joshua Topolsky number 73 on its 2011 list of "The 100 Coolest People in New York Tech", recognizing their work in launching "The Verge". Moe co-founded and served as publisher of the site, along with the video game news website "Polygon", which launched as another Vox Media brand in October 2012. "Business Insider" ranked Moe and Topolsky number 14 on their 2012 "Silicon Alley" list of "The Coolest People in New York Tech This Year", again recognizing their work on "The Verge".
Moe was named chief operating officer of Vox Media in January 2013, and became the company's president by 2015. He also oversees Vox Entertainment in this role. Moe served as executive producer for "Foul Play", a documentary series developed by the business in conjunction with SB Nation and Verizon Communications' go90 platform, premiering in 2018. He is also executive producer for "No Passport Required", a PBS cuisine and travel television series that premiered in 2018, as well as the "American Style" series, which was slated to air on CNN in 2019.
Personal life.
In June 1998, Moe married Lisel Loy, who served as a special counsel in the Secretary of the Interior's office at the United States Department of the Interior, and later as Staff Secretary in the White House under President Bill Clinton.


Bowyer (surname)

Bowyer is an English surname, taken from the traditional craftsman name bowyer, a maker of bows. Notable people with the surname include:


Philip Augar

Philip Augar is a British author, and was an equities broker in the City of London, England for twenty years from the 1970s, first with NatWest and J. Henry Schroder, and was part of the team that negotiated the sale of Schroders investment bank to Citigroup.
Augar holds a doctorate in History and was a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management.


Chevalier (name)

Chevalier is both a French surname and a title. Notable people with the name include:
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Travis Willingham

Travis Hampton Willingham (born August 3, 1981) is an American voice actor. He is a cast member of the web series "Critical Role", in which he and other voice actors play "Dungeons & Dragons".
Early life.
Willingham was born in Dallas, Texas. He has a younger brother named Carson. Their father died when Travis was a teenager. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1999.
Career.
Willingham rose to prominence in the voice acting world for his portrayal of Roy Mustang in "Fullmetal Alchemist", which he later reprised in "". His other notable roles include Yu Kanda in "D.Gray-man", Cleo in "Glass Fleet", Ginko in "Mushishi", Portgas D. Ace in the Funimation re-dub of "One Piece" and Takashi Morinozuka in "Ouran High School Host Club". He also voices Thor in several Marvel projects and King Roland II in Disney Junior's "Sofia the First". From 2010 to 2018, he was the voice of Knuckles the Echidna in the "Sonic the Hedgehog" series. As of 2019, he has become the CEO of Critical Role Productions.
Personal life.
Willingham married voice actress Laura Bailey on September 25, 2011. They reside in Los Angeles. Their son, Ronin, was born on June 28, 2018.
Willingham is a lifelong fan of the Dallas Cowboys. He enjoys participating in triathlons.


Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud

Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud (born 21 April 1978) is a Saudi entrepreneur and investor, and a prince of the House of Saud. The son of Al-Waleed bin Talal, he has been noted for his vegan lifestyle. He is a grandson of King Saud of Saudi Arabia from his mother's side and is a great-grandson of King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from both his mother and father's side.
Early life and education.
According to his official biography, Khaled was born in California and raised in Riyadh. At age 14, he suffered a crushed skull during a jet skiing accident in France, but eventually made a full recovery. He graduated in business from the University of New Haven before going to work for Citigroup.
Career.
Khaled is the founder and chief executive officer of KBW Investments and KBW Ventures, and founder of property developer Arada. Through his companies, he is an investor in Italian crane manufacturer Raimondi, in Beyond Meat, in tech news website TechnoBuffalo and in Square, Inc. He has also been an investor in and board member of JUST, Inc. He was named as one of a number of high-profile investors in the $17 million Series A round of investments in lab-grown meat startup Memphis Meats. In 2018, Khaled announced plans to open a chain of 30 vegan restaurants in the Middle East. The same year, he was named "Technology Investor of the Year" at "Arabian Business"' CEO Middle East awards.
Personal life.
Khaled is the son of Al-Waleed bin Talal. Khaled married Munira bint Ibrahim Al Assaf, daughter of Ibrahim Al Assaf.
In the 1990s, Khaled was known for his opulence and extensive collection of 200 luxury cars. After participating in a trophy hunt in South Africa, a trip he would later describe as "cowardly", Khaled adopted a more austere lifestyle, ultimately becoming a vegan and disposing of his automobile collection. He has been described as an environmentalist and has called for the abolition of zoos, reportedly purchases carbon offsets for his travel and drives an electric Tesla X P90D. Khaled's father was reportedly inspired by his son's adoption of veganism to become a vegan himself.


Norman Jouppi

Norman Paul Jouppi is an American computer scientist.
Career.
Jouppi was one of the computer architects at the MIPS Stanford University Project (under John L. Hennessy), an early RISC project. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1980 and was awarded a PhD in 1984 from Stanford University. and 1984 at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory. He worked at Compaq and at Hewlett-Packard in 2002, where he ran the Advanced Architecture Lab at HP Labs in Palo Alto from 2006 to 2008 and then the Exascale Computing Lab from 2008 to 2010 and the Intelligent Infrastructure Lab from 2010 to 2011. After that, he became a computer engineer at Google.
He pioneered developments in the field of memory hierarchies (victim buffers, prefetching stream buffers multi-level exclusive caching), heterogeneous architectures (single ISA heterogeneous architectures) and the introduction of the CACTI simulator for memory design (modeling of cache time, area and power).
He was the principal architect of four microprocessors and contributed to the development of graphics accelerators. He also deals with telepresence technology and the application of nanophotonics in the computer field.
In 2015, he received the Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions to the design and analysis of high performance processors and computer storage systems. In 2002 he became Hewlett Packard Fellow, in 2003 fellow of the IEEE and in 2007 fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. The ACM awarded Jouppi its Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award in 2013. In 2014 he received the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award.
From 2007 to 2011, he headed the ACM's Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) department.
From 1984 to 1996, he was also a consulting assistant or associate professor at Stanford University. He holds over 35 US patents. He is a member of the editorial boards of "Communications of the ACM" and "IEEE Computer Architecture Letters".


Steve Hamilton (author)

Steve Hamilton is one of the most acclaimed mystery writers in the world, and one of only two authors (along with Ross Thomas) to win Edgars for both Best First Novel and Best Novel. His Alex McKnight series includes two New York Times notable books, and he’s put two recent titles on the New York Times bestseller list. He’s either won or received multiple nominations for virtually every other crime fiction award in the business, from the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award to the Anthony to the Barry to the Gumshoe. But it was his standalone The Lock Artist that made publishing history, his first book to win an Edgar for Best Novel, a CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller in the UK, and an Alex Award – which is given out by the American Library Association to those books that successfully cross over from the adult market and appeal to young adult readers. The Lock Artist has been translated into seventeen different languages, and was an especially strong seller in Japan, where it was voted the number one translated crime novel of 2012 by both the annual Kono Mystery Ga Sugoi guide and by Weekly Bunshun magazine.
Books.
His first book, "A Cold Day in Paradise", won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Award for best first mystery by an unpublished writer, the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best first novel, and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for best first novel, the only first novel to win the latter two awards. That book introduced Alex McKnight, an ex-cop who rents out cabins in the small town of Paradise in Michigan's isolated Upper Peninsula for a living and becomes a reluctant private detective.
Hamilton's second Alex McKnight novel, "Winter of the Wolf Moon" (2000), was named one of the year's Notable Books by "The New York Times Book Review" and received a starred review from "Publishers Weekly", as did his next three novels: "The Hunting Wind", "North of Nowhere" and "Blood Is the Sky" (which won the 2004 Gumshoe Award). To date, ten books and one short story in the Alex McKnight series have been published and they have been translated into 12 languages.
Night Work is described a departure from the Alex McKnight series, featuring instead a probation officer in upstate New York. Night Work was nominated for the Crime Writers’ Association top award, The Duncan Lawrie Dagger. Hamilton anticipates more McKnight titles in the future.
"Night Work" is a stand-alone novel featuring a probation officer in upstate New York. "Night Work" was nominated for the Crime Writers' Association top award, The Duncan Lawrie Dagger. In 2006, Hamilton also won the Michigan Author Award for his body of work.
His standalone novel "The Lock Artist" won an Edgar Award for best novel, a CWA Steel Dagger for best thriller in the UK, and an Alex Award from the American Library Association, which recognizes books that successfully cross over from the adult market and appeal to young adult readers. "The Lock Artist" has been translated into seventeen different languages, including Japanese, where it was voted the number-one translated crime novel of 2012 by both the annual Kono Mystery Ga Sugoi guide and by Weekly Bunshun magazine.
His 2016 novel, "The Second Life of Nick Mason", debuted on the "New York Times" bestseller list in both Hardcover Fiction and Combined Print and E-Book Fiction, and also appeared on the "Publishers Weekly", "USA Today", "Los Angeles Times", and National Independent bestseller lists. It was also selected as one of five finalists for the prestigious Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime fiction, and was nominated for a Barry Award for Best Novel of the Year.
Personal.
Hamilton lives in upstate New York with his wife Julia and their two children Nicholas G. and Antonia. He wrote his first twelve books while working for IBM, writing at night after his family had gone to bed.
Awards.
"A Cold Day in Paradise" (1998)
"Winter of the Wolf Moon" (2000)
"North of Nowhere" (2003)
"Blood is the Sky" (2004)
"A Stolen Season" (2006)
"Night Work" (2007)
"The Lock Artist" (2010)
"The Second Life of Nick Mason" (2016)


Sandra Knapp

Sandra Diane Knapp (born 1956) is an American born botanist. She is currently the president of the Linnean Society of London and is a merit researcher of the Plants Division of the Natural History Museum, London. While working at the Natural History Museum, London she has overseen the Flora Mesoamericana inventory of Central American plants. She has published several books on botanical subjects as well as a significant number of scientific articles. In 2016 she was awarded the Linnean Medal.
Education.
Knapp has a B.A. in botany from Pomona College (1978) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1986), where she worked with Michael D. Whalen.
Work.
Knapp specialises in various taxa within the genus "Solanum" , including the "Geminata" clade, the Dulcamaroid clade, the "Thelopodium" clade, the "Pteroidea" group and the tomato ("Solanum lycopersicum") and relatives. She is also an expert in other taxa within the nightshade family ("Solanaceae"), including the genus "Nicotiana" and the tribes "Anthocercidae" and "Juanulloeae."
Knapp has collected plants in Central and South America for the Missouri Botanical Garden and Cornell University, among others. She has also worked for the Institute for Botanical Exploration at Mississippi State University.
Since 1992, Knapp has been active as a scientific researcher in the botany department of the Natural History Museum in London. She is involved in field work and research in the herbarium. She also contributes to taxonomic research of the "Geminta" and "Dulcamaroid" clades, in particular in the context of the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory project Solanum, a worldwide research project to map nightshades. She participates in a collaborative project to clarify the genomic evolution of "Nicotiana". She is also active in involving the private sector in the implementation of the biodiversity treaty in Gran Chaco. She is an editor of the "Flora Mesoamericana" publication series, a project aimed at mapping as many plants as possible found in Mesoamerica .
She has authored several books on botany or botanical exploration and has written over 200 peer reviewed scientific articles. The French-language edition of her book "Potted Histories", entitled "Le Voyage Botanique", was awarded the Prix Pierre-Joseph Redouté in 2004, a prize that was established in 2000 in honour of the best French-language plant book in a given year.
She has also published numerous botanical names, in particular taxa within the Nightshade family. Knapp has published three botanical names of passion flowers ("Passiflora" ) together with lepidopterist James Mallet. One of them, "Passiflora macdougaliana", they named after "Passiflora" specialist John MacDougal . MacDougal himself named "Passiflora sandrae" after Knapp.
Committees, panels and societies.
She is a member of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Innovator of the Year panel, a member of the Shenzhen Declaration for Plant Sciences Committee, and a member of the National Geographic Grants Committee. She did important work in 2011 (at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne and in 2017 at the XIX International Botanical Congress in Shenzen by chairing the committees on botanical nomenclature. The changes made had the effect modernizing the nomenclatural rules for fungi, algae, and plants to allow electronic publication of names, and to create a registry of plant names to make it easier to retrieve botanical names. In May 2017 Knapp became the president-elect of the Linnean Society of London, and in May 2018 succeeded Prof. Paul Brakefield as president. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Scientific outreach.
In October 1999, Knapp discussed her book "Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Wallace in the Amazon" on the BBC World Service's "Science in Action". Knapp was an interviewed guest on BBC Radio 3's "Night Waves" in July 2013 in a segment about Alfred Russel Wallace. She appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme "In Our Time" in May 2014 to explain photosynthesis. In October 2014 Knapp was a guest on BBC Radio 4's "The Museum of Curiosity". Her hypothetical donation to this fictional museum was the South American freeze-dried potato product Chuño. A year later, in "Natural History Heroes", a series collaborating between Radio 4 and the Natural History Museum, London she chose "Miss - not Dr - Alice Eastwood" as her hero. In July 2017, Knapp was a guest on the BBC World Service's "The Forum", where she discussed Carl Linnaeus. In October 2019 Knapp appeared on "In Our Time", this time to talk about hybrids.
Awards.
In 2016 she was awarded, jointly with Georgina Mace, the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society. In 2009 she was presented with the Peter Raven Outreach Award for public engagement with science by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the UK National Biodiversity Network's John Burnett Medal. The University College London and Stockholm University have both awarded Knapp with honorary professorships.


Felipe Seade

Felipe Seade (1912 – 18 January 1969) was a painter and teacher of Lebanese descent who spent most of his life in Uruguay.
Seade was born in Antofagasta, Chile, the elder son of a Lebanese immigrant family. Eleven years later his whole family moved to Montevideo, Uruguay. At the age of 12 Seade began working as an assistant to the Muralist Enrique Albertazzi and the painter Guillermo Rodríguez. Under Rodríguez' influence Seade took some painting courses at the Fine Arts Circle school. He had his first show in 1925. From 1931 well into the 1950s Seade presented work in many national and city halls.
In 1944, Seade began his parallel career as a teacher. He first work as teacher of drawing at the Liceo de Colonia, where he managed to paint the large mural, "Alegoría al Trabajo" (1936), and later as a professor of the Montevideo Fine Arts School, where he taught for 25 years.
It is impossible to understand Seade's artistic life without a reference to his political life. He wanted to paint for "the people, not for the walls of the bourgeoisie". He aspired to paint murals, the preferred way for his generation to reach the masses, but the only murals he managed to finish were the one in Colonia and the "La marcha del Pueblo à la Piedra Alta" (1939) at the Conference Hall of the Liceo de Florida. However, a significant part or Seade's work is formed by his sketches of murals and preparity sketches for murals.
Thematically, Seade mostly sought to represent the characters of Uruguayan life – washing women, "Gauchos", soccer fans, kids and women. Not from a tourist perspective, which he despised, but with the passion of a convinced social realist.
Seade was also an expert draughtsman. His most public work was a long series of illustrations for a key local magazine, "Mundo Uruguayo". His more private drawings were mostly sketches for paintings.
Although Seade had an active participation in Salons and through his teaching was one of the more visible artists of Uruguay in his time, he disliked and avoided the world of galleries and art critics. This is probably one reason why after his death he has remained in relative obscurity. Important critics and historians such as Gabriel Peluffo Linari, Fernando García Esteban and Atahualpa del Cioppo have recognised Seade's cultural importance.


Bill Carollo

William F. Carollo (born November 27, 1951) is a retired American football official who officiated National Football League (NFL) games from 1989 through 2008. He wore uniform number 63. Carollo officiated in two Super Bowls and eight conference championship games. After the 2008 season, he became the Director of Officiating for the Big Ten Conference.
Personal.
Early life.
A native of Brookfield, Wisconsin, Carollo attended high school at Brookfield Central High School where he graduated in 1970. Following high school, he attended University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) and graduated in 1974 with a degree in industrial relations. At UWM, he was the starting quarterback for the school's football team from 1970 to 1973.
Family.
Carollo currently resides in Shorewood, Wisconsin and is married and has four children.
Other professions.
Carollo worked as an international account executive for 30 years at IBM before becoming Vice President of Global Sales for Milwaukee, Wisconsin based Manpower Inc.
Officiating career.
Early years.
Carollo began his officiating career working Wisconsin high school football, basketball, and baseball games. He joined college football's Big Ten Conference, where he stayed for ten years and included a selection to work the 1988 Rose Bowl Game. In addition to officiating football games in the Big Ten, he was a basketball referee from 1982 to 1988. For a period of time, he also served as the Milwaukee Brewers Official Scorer for the American League.
National Football League.
Carollo started in the NFL as a side judge and officiated Super Bowl XXX in 1996 at that position, then became a referee (crew chief) for the start of the 1997 NFL season after Red Cashion and Howard Roe announced their retirements. Carollo was assigned to work his first post-season as referee during the 1998-99 NFL playoffs and later made his second appearance in the Super Bowl at Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003. Before he officiated Super Bowl XXXVII, Mike Pereira, the NFL's director of officiating, said of Carollo, "Bill is just perfect in the management of a game. He understands how to handle coaches, players and a team of seven officials. He's terrific at that." In addition, he was the alternate referee of Super Bowl XXXVIII.
While serving as referee of the 1999 NFC Championship game between Tampa Bay and St. Louis, Carollo overturned a catch by Tampa Bay's Bert Emanuel, that later led to the adoption of the Bert Emanuel Rule. The play consisted of Bert Emanuel making what was ruled a catch at St. Louis' 22-yard line with 47 seconds left in the game and the Buccaneers down by 5. After review, Carollo ruled that the tip of the ball had touched the ground, and even though Emanuel maintained control of the football, Carollo had to rule it an incomplete pass. This led to the NFL clarifying the definitions of both a catch and an incomplete pass, as to avoid this scenario replaying itself in the future. This is known as the Bert Emanuel Rule.
He served as the director of the NFL Referees Association, the union representing NFL officials, from 2000 to March 1, 2006. He was the center of the negotiations that took place during the 2001 NFL season where there was a work stoppage by game officials. The NFL and its game officials eventually agreed on September 19, 2001 to a new six-year Collective Bargaining Agreement that ended a two-week lockout of the regular officials, who returned to work on September 23, 2001.
Carollo was also the referee of the Houston Texans' inaugural game against the Dallas Cowboys on September 8, 2002.
On November 18, 2007, Carollo became the first referee in 35 years to officiate a game for the same team in back-to-back weeks during the New England-Buffalo game. Bill Leavy was scheduled to officiate the November 11th Buffalo-Miami game, but fell ill. Carollo served as the referee for that contest using Leavy's crew.
In August 2008, Carollo announced he would retire as an NFL referee at the end of the 2008 NFL season to become the Director of Officiating for the Big Ten Conference. His final assignment was for the AFC Championship game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens on January 18, 2009. Don Carey, brother of NFL referee Mike Carey, was promoted from back judge to take Carollo's place as a crew chief.
In Carollo's twenty-year NFL career he officiated in two Super Bowls, a third SB as alternate referee, eight NFL Conference Championships and one Pro Bowl. Currently Bill is Director of Officiating for the Big Ten, Mid-American and Missouri Valley football conferences. This new officiating alliance, Midwest Football Officials Alliance was created in 2009 and headquartered in Park Ridge, IL.


Divya Nag

Divya Nag (born c. 1991) is an American stem cell biologist, biotechnology entrepreneur, and leader of Apple’s ResearchKit and CareKit teams. At the age of 20, Nag co-founded Stem Cell Theranostics which uses patient-specific stem cells in a drug discovery platform. Nag is also the founder of StartX Med, Stanford University’s student healthcare accelerator program. At Apple, Nag leads a team designing tools that help ease communication between healthcare professionals, researchers, and patients to guide scientific innovation and improve health outcomes.
Early life and education.
Nag was born in California and grew up in El Dorado County. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Jaipur, India before she was born. Nag's father, Harish Nag, is a software programmer at Intel, and he taught her from a young age to surround herself with people that are better than her.
Nag attended Rolling Hills Middle School where she was the student body president. At age 13, Nag she became the youngest student ever to enter Folsom Lake College. With a desire to learn more and better herself, Nag then pursued high school at Mira Loma High School in Sacramento where she could partake in the International Baccalaureate Program.
During her time at Mira Loma, Nag had a desire to work alongside scientists. She contacted many scientists at the University of California, Davis and secured an internship as a high school student in the lab of Alexandra Navrotsky where she explored the use of nanoparticles in the prevention of forest fires, like the ones that were ravaging her hometown at the time. Her work elucidated that addition of quartz to soil would increase the temperature threshold for fires to start and now quartz is being added to prevent accidental fires in campgrounds.
Nag was accepted to Stanford University in 2009 and pursued her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Anthropology. She immediately started research in the lab of Joseph Wu studying stem cells, their induction, and their potential use in transplantation. She also explored various aspects of cardiovascular disease. Within one year she had dozens of publications and had begun to work alongside Wu and two other Stanford professors, Andrew S. Lee and Robert C. Robbins to create a drug testing platform where rapid assessment of the efficacy of drugs on human heart tissue could be tested to expedite both drug discovery and patient treatment. They founded the company Stem Cell Theranostics in 2011 to begin to put their ideas to use in the healthcare sphere. One year later, Nag founded StartX Med, a spin-off of the accelerator program StartX at Stanford in order to help students like herself begin the process of biotechnology innovation and healthcare entrepreneurship.
By 2012, Nag was heavily involved in both Stem Cell Theranostics and StartX Med so she decided to discontinue her studies at Stanford to lead her company and organization at the age of 20.
Career and research.
Stem Cell Theranostics.
Nag co-founded Stem Cell Theranostics in 2011. Stem Cell Theranostics is a biotechnology company that pioneered the use of skin cell derived stem cells to use in drug discovery platforms. Specifically, they would take skin cells and convert them to stem cells and then re-differentiate them into heart cells through the addition of transcription factors. Since the heart cells, now being grown in a dish, are derived from a patient, they contain genetic profile and thus drugs can be tested in a patient specific manner. The motivation behind Nag's company lies in the fact that most drugs do not make it to the final stages of clinical trials due to cardiovascular effects and further, most drugs that are recalled after passing the final stages, are recalled due to negative effects on the cardiovascular system. Nag wanted a cheap and fast way to test the effects of a drug on human cells, instead of in mice, so speed up the drug discovery process and bring harmless and specific treatments to patients as quickly as possible. When they tested their technology on drugs that had been recalled due to cardiovascular effects, they found that their platform identified dangerous or harmful drugs 100% of the time.
StartX Med.
Nag founded StartX Med, a spin-off of StartX, at Stanford University in 2012. StartX Med is an organization that supports students in their path towards innovating and developing healthcare based startup companies through Stanford. She was inspired by her own experiences starting Stem Cell Theranostics as she saw added hurdles in starting a healthcare startup compared to the typical technology startup that StartX supported. She wanted to help students navigate their way through finding laboratories and FDA approval as she had to for her company as well as create a collaborative environment for students interested in starting companies in the healthcare sector. StartX Med has now helped over 100 health technology companies, raised over $100 million in aggregate, and partnered with top 10 pharmaceutical companies to bring ideas into practice.
Career at Apple.
In 2014, Nag was recruited to work at Apple in the Special Projects unit to innovate novel ways to make healthcare data easily usable by both patients and researchers. She leads a team that created ResearchKit, which is an app based tool that enables collection of health data from any user with a smartphone thus allowing researchers to broaden their subject and patient pools to expedite discovery and translation in medicine. The app allows doctors to alter patients to follow their prescribed treatment plans and also allows patients to provide updates to physicians. The app also allows patients to track their health and disease conditions in novel ways.


Dolf Toussaint

Dolf Toussaint was a Dutch photographer best known for his work documenting daily life in Amsterdam, particularly the changes in the De Jordaan neighborhood in the 1960s, as well as documenting the social unrest in the late 70s and early 80s, such as the Amsterdam coronation riots. He is also known for documenting proceedings at The Hague parliament in a dynamic manner, when the standard at the time were staged portraits of politicians.
Since his death in 2017, much of his work is held at the Amsterdam City Archives.


Jack Elton Bresenham

Jack Elton Bresenham (born 11 October 1937, Clovis, New Mexico, US) is a former professor of computer science.
Biography.
Bresenham retired from 27 years of service at IBM as a Senior Technical Staff Member in 1987. He taught for 16 years at Winthrop University and has nine patents. He has four children: Janet, Craig, Linda, and David.
Bresenham's line algorithm, developed in 1962, is his most well-known innovation. It determines which points on a 2-dimensional raster should be plotted in order to form a straight line between two given points, and is commonly used to draw lines on a computer screen. It is one of the earliest algorithms discovered in the field of computer graphics. The midpoint circle algorithm shares some similarities to his line algorithm and is known as "Bresenham's circle algorithm".


List of salaries of heads of state and government

This is a list of salaries of heads of state and government per year, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems. Often a leader is both in presidential systems. Some states have semi-presidential systems, where the head of government role is fulfilled by both the listed head of government and the head of state.
Member states and observers of the United Nations, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
GDP means nominal GDP provided by International Monetary Fund.
GDP per capita means nominal GDP per capita provided by International Monetary Fund.
Other Nations.
The following states control their territory and are recognized by at least one UN member state.
The following states/governments control their territory, but are not recognized by any UN member states.


Goldbricking

Goldbricking is the practice of doing less work than one is able to, while maintaining the appearance of working. The term originates from the confidence trick of applying a gold coating to a brick of worthless metal—while the worker may appear industrious on the surface, in reality they are less valuable.
A 1999 report estimated that cyberslacking cost employers in the United States $1 billion a year in computer resources. Instances of goldbricking increased markedly when broadband Internet connections became commonplace in workplaces. Before that, the slow speed of dial-up connections meant that spending work time browsing on the internet was rarely worthwhile. Many firms employ surveillance software to track employees' Internet activity in an effort to limit liability and improve productivity.
Goldbricking became a mainstream topic when Yahoo! announced in late February 2013 that it was banning the practice of telecommuting because it discovered its remote employees were not logging into the corporate VPN often enough.
Alternative views.
Research has indicated that permitting employees to utilize computer resources for personal use actually increases productivity. A study by the National University of Singapore entitled "Impact of Cyberloafing on Psychological Engagement" concluded that using the internet for personal use served the same purpose as a coffee break and helped workers concentrate and stay engaged. New research also shows that employees might use cyberloafing to cope with abusive and stressful conditions in the workplace conditions, when they perceive that they are being treated unfairly (disrespected or given unreasonable deadlines)"."


Mel Sampat

Mel Sampat is a former Program Manager at Microsoft where he worked on the Windows Mobile team from December 2005 to April 2010. He was a frequent contributor on the "Windows Mobile Team Blog", and a speaker at Microsoft's worldwide developer conferences. Since leaving Microsoft, Sampat has been involved with various mobile app startups.
Sampat was the original author of "OutSync", a free Windows application that helps users sync photos of their Microsoft Outlook contacts from Facebook.
Before Microsoft, Sampat was the founder and CEO of "Two Peaks Software", an independent software vendor specializing in Windows Mobile applications. Two Peaks was partially acquired by WebIS prior to Sampat joining Microsoft in 2005.


Thomas Moigne

Thomas Moigne (by 1510 – 7 March 1537), of Willingham, Lincolnshire, was an English politician, executed for his part in the Lincolnshire Rising.
Life.
He was the son of Alexander Moigne of Sixhills & Anne Copledike (daughter of John Copledike of Harrington). Thomas was educated at the Inner Temple.
He served as a Justice of the Peace for Lincolnshire (Kesteven in 1531 and Lindsey in 1531–32). He was the Recorder for Lincoln from 1532 until his death and Escheator for Lincolnshire in 1532–33. He was elected Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lincoln in 1536.
In the Lincolnshire Rising of 1536 he managed to escape capture at the sessions at Caistor, but was seized the next day at his home and forced to become a captain of the rebels. After the collapse of the uprising, forerunner of the Pilgrimage of Grace and Bigod's Rebellion, Moigne was arrested and taken to London. Most of those forced to take part were pardoned, but Moigne had been seen in friendly conversation with Robert Aske, leader of the rising in Yorkshire.
He was then returned to Lincoln, tried for treason on 6 March 1537, sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered and executed the following day. His lands were attainted (confiscated) but recovered by his younger brothers in 1544. He had married Bridget, the daughter of Sir William Hansard of South Kelsey and left two daughters. His widow married Vincent Grantham.


Prabhakar Raghavan

Prabhakar Raghavan is a Senior Vice President at Google, where he is responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments products. His research spans algorithms, web search and databases and he is the co-author of the textbooks "Randomized Algorithms" with Rajeev Motwani and "Introduction to Information Retrieval".
Early life and education.
Raghavan's mother, Amba Raghavan, taught physics and maths at St Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal and St Patricks High School, Adyar, Chennai after earning a master's degree from Presidency College, Chennai.
Raghavan himself holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science He did his schooling from Campion School, Bhopal.
Career.
Prior to joining Google, he worked at Yahoo! Labs. Before that, Raghavan worked at IBM Research and later became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity.
Awards and honors.
Raghavan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). From 2003 to 2009, Raghavan was the editor-in-chief of Journal of the ACM.
In 1986, Raghavan received the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper. In 2000, he was named a fellow of the IEEE; received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems; and received the Best Paper Award at the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9). In 2002, Raghavan was named a fellow of the ACM. He received the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science. In 2008, Raghavan was made a member of the National Academy of Engineering. and In 2009, he was awarded a "Laurea honoris causa" from the University of Bologna. In 2012 he was named a Distinguished Alumnus by the IIT Madras.


Jessica Rawson

Dame Jessica Rawson, (born 20 January 1943) is an English art historian, curator and sinologist. She is also an academic administrator, specialising in Chinese art.
After many years at the British Museum, she was Warden (head) of Merton College, Oxford, from 1994 until her retirement in 2010. She served as pro-vice-chancellor at University of Oxford from 2006 for a term of five years.
Biography.
Rawson's academic background is in Sinology with a particular research focus on the cosmology of the Han period (206 BC-AD 220) and its relation to tombs and their decoration. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, West London, New Hall, Cambridge and the University of London, Rawson began her career in the civil service.
Between 1976 and 1994, she served as Deputy Keeper and then Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum. From 1994 to 2010 she was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and from 2006 to 2011 she served as She served as pro-vice-chancellor of Oxford University. She has been involved in a number of high-profile exhibitions such as the "Mysteries of Ancient China".
Rawson contributed with Evelyn S. Rawski and other scholars to the catalogue of "China: The Three Emperors" by Frances Wood. The exhibition ran at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005-06.
From 2011-2016, Rawson headed a project at the University of Oxford on "China and Inner Asia: Interactions Which Changed China (1000-200 BC)" funded by the Leverhulme Trust, with Jianjun Mei as collaborator. This project explored relations between Ancient China and peoples of the Eurasian Steppes, particularly to the north and north-west. As of 2015, Rawson was also listed as a project partner on the RLAHA project "FLow of Ancient Metals across Eurasia (FLAME)" funded by the European Research Council.
Honours.
Rawson is a Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Scholars' Council of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and a member of the Art Fund's Advisory Council. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours and advanced Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to oriental studies.
In 2012, Rawson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Foreign Honorary Member.
In May 2017 she was awarded the Charles Lang Freer Medal in recognition of her lifetime's contribution to the study of Chinese art and archaeology.
Personal life.
Rawson is married with one daughter.


George Robert Gray

George Robert Gray FRS (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years. He was the younger brother of the zoologist John Edward Gray and the son of the botanist Samuel Frederick Gray.
George Gray's most important publication was his "Genera of Birds" (1844–49), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf, which included 46,000 references.
Biography.
He was born in Little Chelsea, London, to Samuel Frederick Gray, naturalist and pharmacologist, and Elizabeth (née Forfeit), his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School.
Gray started at the British Museum as Assistant Keeper of the Zoology Branch in 1831.
He began by cataloguing insects, and published an "Entomology of Australia" (1833) and contributed the entomogical section to an English edition of Georges Cuvier's "Animal Kingdom". Gray described many species of Lepidoptera.
In 1833, he was a founder of what became the Royal Entomological Society of London.
Gray's original description of Gray's grasshopper warbler, which was named for him, appeared in 1860. The specimen had been collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in the Moluccas. In a brief biography dealing with Gray's work on phasmids, Bragg credits Gray with more than doubling the number of named species of phasmids with three publications (in 1833, 1835 and 1843); three species of phasmids were subsequently named after Gray.


Career average pension

A career average pension or career average revalued earnings pension (CARE pension) is a type of occupational pension scheme, where people saving for retirement pay for a benefit after retirement where they will receive a sum that is calculated according to their average earnings over their career. Particularly in UK pensions, this model has been introduced as an alternative to both defined contribution pensions, which may run out and lead to old age poverty if they live longer, and final salary pensions which give people a benefit based on the last salary they earned before retirement. It is thought that career average pensions are fairer than final salary pensions, when people have not, for instance in their last few years of work, jumped up to management positions with much higher salaries: career average pensions mean that lower earners do not subsidise much higher pension benefits for just a few people.
UK public sector CARE pensions are revalued annually in accordance with rates issued by Her Majesty's Treasury under the Public Service
Pensions Act 2013.


Walker (escort)

Walker is a termed coined by "Women's Wear Daily" publisher John Fairchild to describe a man, often gay, who escorts fashionable women to society events when their husbands are disinclined to attend. The term originated to describe Jerry Zipkin, a New York real estate heir who became a sought-after confidant and advisor to New York society, and who eventually became a close confidant of Nancy Reagan.
The practice of using a walker stemmed from the social undesirability in the mid 20th century of women appearing unaccompanied, and the social impossibility of gay men appearing as a couple. The arrangement allowed both parties to socialize with greater freedom. With changing social practices that removed such stigmas, the practice was dying out by the late 20th century. The duty of walker was increasingly assumed by publicists or agents.


Chris Espinosa

Chris Espinosa () is a senior employee of Apple Inc., officially employee number 8. Having joined the company at the age of fourteen in 1976 when it was still housed in Steve Jobs's parents' garage, writing software manuals and coding after school, he is the company's current and all-time longest-serving employee.
Career.
Espinosa met Steve Jobs at Paul Terrell's Byte Shop while Jobs was installing an Apple I, and later befriended Steve Wozniak. Espinosa had been warned against the two by his teachers at Homestead High School, where they had also been students.
In 1976 the 14-year-old Espinosa became employee number eight at Apple, as one of the youngest employees. He began writing BASIC programs in Jobs's garage. He and other early employees slept underneath their desks. He has worked his entire life at Apple, with the exception of a brief hiatus during which he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where his freshman advisor was graduate student Andy Hertzfeld, who along with Barney Stone, had started a local Apple user group. In 1981 Jobs convinced Espinosa to drop out of school to work in Apple's publications department. Although Espinosa did not participate in the company's initial public offering, Wozniak had offered up to 2,000 pre-IPO shares at $5 a share to each of a group of 40 employees, including Espinosa, who he thought were undervalued, which became known as the Woz Plan.
Espinosa has worked in a variety of positions and departments at Apple. He has contributed to the classic Mac OS, A/UX, HyperCard, Taligent and Kaleida Labs (as project manager in the AIM alliance), AppleScript, Xcode, macOS, and the iOS Family Sharing system. He is a frequent speaker at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference and occasionally appears as a panelist at its Stump the Experts session.
In media.
Actor Eddie Hassell portrayed Espinosa in the 2013 film, "Jobs".


Valentin Matyashev

Valentin Vasilievitch Matyashev (October 8, 1927 – January 6, 2008) was a General Director of the Research Institute of Instrument Design (NIIP) from 1978 to 1998, Professor, Laureate of the Lenin and State awards, academician of the International Academy of Informatization.
Under the leadership of Matyashev second and third generations of Buk SAM system were created in NIIP.
One of the most significant developments under his direction became the weapons control system "Zaslon" for MiG-31 interceptor and "Myech" (Sword) for the multirole fighter Su-27.
His is an Honorary Citizen of Zhukovsky.


Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire. Since 1689, all the Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Derbyshire.


Dismissal (employment)

Dismissal (also referred to as firing) is the termination of employment by an employer against the will of the employee. Though such a decision can be made by an employer for a variety of reasons, ranging from an economic downturn to performance-related problems on the part of the employee, being fired has a strong stigma in some cultures.
To be dismissed, as opposed to quitting voluntarily (or being laid off), is often perceived as being the employee's fault. Finding new employment may often be difficult after being fired, particularly if there is a history of being terminated from a previous job, if the reason for firing is for some serious infraction, or the employee did not keep the job very long. Job seekers will often not mention jobs that they were fired from on their resumes; accordingly, unexplained gaps in employment are often regarded as a red flag.
Usage.
While the main formal term for ending someone's employment is "dismissal", there are a number of colloquial or euphemistic expressions for the same action.
"Firing" is a common colloquial term in the English language (particularly used in the U.S.), which may have originated in the 1910s at the National Cash Register Company. Other terms for dismissal are being "sacked", "canned", "let go", "ran-off", "axed", being given walking papers, the pink slip or one's cards, or "boned". Other terms, more often used in Commonwealth countries, include "to get the boot" and "to get the sack".
Reasons.
Most US states have adopted the at-will employment contract that allows the employer to dismiss employees without having to provide a justified reason for firing, although the variety of court cases that have come out of "at-will" dismissals have made such at-will contracts ambiguous. Often, an at-will termination is handled as a "layoff". Sometimes, an employee will be dismissed if an employer can find better employees than the incumbent, even if the fired employee has not technically broken any rules. This is common with probationary employees who were recently hired, but who cannot adjust to the environment of the workplace, or those who have been around for a long time, but can be replaced with a less experienced employee who can be paid a lower salary. In contrast, a dismissal in France is subjected to a just cause and a formal procedure.
Some examples include conflict of interest, where the employee has done nothing wrong, but the presence of the employee on the employer's payroll may be harmful to the employer. For example:
More common reasons for firing include attendance problems, insubordination (talking back to a manager or supervisor), drinking alcoholic beverages or doing illegal drugs at work, or consuming the same substances before work and showing up to work while intoxicated or "high" (an especially serious problem in jobs where the worker drives a vehicle, boat or aircraft or operates heavy machinery) or off job-site conduct.
Additional consequences.
Some fired employees may face additional consequences besides their dismissal. This may occur when the reason for the termination is a violation of criminal law, or if serious damages are caused to the employer as a result of the employee's actions. Such ex-employees may face criminal prosecution, a civil lawsuit, or a reporting to a database of those who have engaged in serious misconduct in such a position, so that the chances of ever obtaining a similar position with another employer are less likely (blacklisting). Some examples are a caregiver who engages in abuse, a bank teller who has stolen money from the cash drawer, or a member of law enforcement who has committed police brutality.
For the most serious violations, especially when the employer's security may be at risk from the employee in question, a guard or officer may escort a fired employee from the workplace to the parking lot upon their dismissal. Such actions are often taken by government offices or large corporations that contain sensitive materials, and where the risk exists that the terminated employee may remove some of these materials or otherwise steal trade secrets in order to retaliate against the employer or use it to the advantage of a competing enterprise.
Problem employees.
Though many employers would like to get rid of their "problem employees", some employers are reluctant to fire those who one would expect would be deserving of termination. There are many reasons for this, which may include: Some positions may be hard to fill. This may be the case with a rare skilled position, or with certain low-wage jobs that are generally unattractive, where finding applicants is difficult. A person who has unusual skills, or who is doing a job that is considered undesirable, such as cleaning sewage from pipes, may be hard to replace. As such, a person in this position may be retained even if they have absenteeism or conduct problems.
Another reason that bosses do not fire some problem employees is from a fear of retaliation. Sometimes the employer must be concerned about various types of action the former employee may take against the company, such as filing a wrongful termination suit: The terminated employee may take legal action in response to the firing. While laws vary in each country and jurisdiction, many employers keep extensive documentation of disciplinary action, evaluations, attendance records, and correspondence from supervisors, co-workers and customers in order to defend themselves in the event of such a suit. Additionally, the at-will employment contract, where the law permits, allows the employer to dismiss employees without having to provide a reason, though this has sometimes been challenged in court. As well, the employer may be concerned that the employee could make a negative report to public: by divulging things about the company to others, thereby hurting their business; or that the employee may disclose trade secrets: A former employee may remove materials or divulge confidential information from the former employer and use it with another employer or in an independent business.
Some employers may be afraid that a worker may make a report to law enforcement, in the event that the employer's practices are illegal to the law. Other fears include the risk of sabotage by damaging machinery, erasing computer files, or shredding documents; or even violence; In some most extreme cases, fired employees have attacked or even killed their former employers or the staff at their old company or organization, sometimes known in slang as "going postal." In some cases, this has occurred several months or years after termination. Some employers terminate their staff off-site to avoid these issues, or they ban any terminated staff on their premises.
Other reasons include:
Counteractions.
Employers have several methods of countering some of these potential threats. A common method is forced resignation, and it allows the employee to resign as if by choice, thereby freeing the employer of the burden of a firing. Other methods used by employers include:
Forced resignations.
A forced resignation is when an employee is required to depart from their position due to some issue caused by their continued employment. A forced resignation may be due to the employer's wishes to dismiss the employee, but the employer may be offering a "softened firing", or in a high-profile position, the employee may want to leave before the press learns more negative information about one's controversial nature. To avoid this, and to allow the dismissed employee to "save face" in a more "graceful" exit, the employer will often ask the employee to resign "voluntarily" from their position. If the employee chooses not to resign, the processes necessary to fire them may be pursued, and the employee will usually be fired. The resignation thus makes it unclear whether the resignation was forced or voluntary, and this opaqueness may benefit both parties.
Discriminatory and retaliatory termination.
In some cases, the firing of an employee is a discriminatory act. Although an employer may often claim the dismissal was for "just cause", these discriminatory acts are often because of the employee's legally protected characteristics, which vary from place to place. They may include physical or mental disability, age, race, religion, gender, HIV status or sexual orientation. Other unjust firings may result from a workplace manager or supervisor wanting to retaliate against an employee. Often, this is because the worker reported wrongdoing (often, but not always sexual harassment or other misconduct) on the part of the supervisor. Such terminations are often illegal. Many successful lawsuits have resulted from discriminatory or retaliatory termination.
Under US law, workers are entitled to workplace decisions that do not discriminate against their membership in a protected group such as national origin, but they are not entitled to overall fairness. It is legal for an American employee to be fired for things such as disagreeing with the employer or not getting along well with others, even if the employee is correct.
Discriminatory or retaliatory termination by a supervisor can take the form of administrative process. In this form the rules of the institution are used as the basis for termination. For example, if a place of employment has a rule that prohibits personal phone calls, receiving or making personal calls can be the grounds for termination even though it may be a common practice within the organization.
Changes of conditions.
Employers who wish for an employee to exit of their own accord, but do not wish to pursue firing or forced resignation, may degrade the employee's working conditions, hoping that he or she will leave "voluntarily". The employee may be moved to a different geographical location, assigned to an undesirable shift, given too few hours if part-time, demoted (or relegated to a menial task), or assigned to work in uncomfortable conditions. Other forms of manipulation may be used, such as being unfairly hostile to the employee, and punishing them for things that are deliberately overlooked with other employees. Such tactics may amount to constructive dismissal, which is illegal in some jurisdictions.
Rehire following termination.
Depending on the circumstances, a person whose employment has been terminated may not be eligible for being rehired by the same employer. If the decision to terminate was the employee's, the willingness of the employer to rehire is often contingent upon the relationship the employee had with the employer, the amount of notice given by the employee prior to departure, and the needs of the employer. In some cases, when an employee departed on good terms, they may be given special priority by the employer when seeking rehire.
An employee may be terminated without prejudice, meaning the fired employee may be rehired for the same job in the future. This is usually true in the case of layoff. Conversely, a person can be terminated with prejudice, meaning an employer will not rehire the former employee for the same job in the future. This can be for many reasons: incompetence, misconduct (such as dishonesty or "zero tolerance" violations), policy violation, insubordination or "attitude" (personality clashes with peers or bosses). Termination forms ("pink slips" in the U.S.) routinely include a set of check boxes where a supervisor can indicate "with prejudice" or "without prejudice". During the Vietnam War, the CIA used this terminology with regard to its locally hired operatives. In the case of severe misconduct, it is alleged that the CIA would assassinate them or "terminate with extreme prejudice".


Kevin Saunders (video game developer)

Kevin D. Saunders is an American video game designer and producer, best known for his roles in developing ' (Producer and Lead Designer), ' (Producer), and "" (Project Director).
Career.
Saunders graduated with a Masters of Engineering from Cornell University, and began his career at Nexon, as director and lead designer on ' and "Shattered Galaxy", which won multiple awards at the 2001 Independent Games Festival. He went on to work as a designer at Westwood Studios (on ' and ), before becoming a senior designer and producer at Obsidian Entertainment (on "," "Mask of the Betrayer", ', "Aliens: Crucible", and "Dungeon Siege III")"." He next joined inXile Entertainment, where he served in a production role on "Wasteland 2" before helping ' become, at the time, the most successful Kickstarter ever. He served as project director on "Torment" before turning to Nexon, where he served as Head of Studio on the company's Nebula project. His last game work was for Arcanity, providing story, design, and production assistance on "Tanzia".
In addition to this work, Saunders served as Creative Director at Alelo, where he led the development of an award-winning language-learning RPG. Saunders also authored a college text on game interface design ("Game Development Essentials: Game Interface Design").


Charles Konig

Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig or Karl Dietrich Eberhard König, KH (1774 – 6 September 1851) was a German naturalist.
He was born in Brunswick and educated at Göttingen. He came to England at the end of 1800 to organize the collections of Queen Charlotte. On the completion of this work he became assistant to Dryander, librarian to Joseph Banks. In 1807, he succeeded George Shaw as assistant keeper of the department of natural history in the British Museum. On the death of his superior in 1813, he took his place as keeper.
He later became keeper of geology and mineralogy, and turned his attention to minerals and fossils, arranging the recently acquired collection of Mr. Greville. He retained the post until his sudden death in London in 1851.
Konig anglicized his name upon his appointment as assistant keeper in 1807. In 1837, following a House of Commons Select committee report on the British Museum, the Department of Natural History was divided into three branches, with Konig being put in charge of the Mineralogical and Geological branch.
Besides writing various papers for journals, Konig was associated with John Sims in the issue of "Annals of Botany" from 1805 to 1807. He described many fossils in the British Museum in a classic work entitled "Icones fossilium sectiles" (1820–1825).


Nancy R. Heinen

Nancy Regina Heinen of Portola Valley, California, is an American corporate lawyer, business executive, and philanthropist. Heinen is known for being the General Counsel, Senior Vice President, and Secretary for Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) between September 1997 and May 2006. Heinen is currently a member of the board of VERB and the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2). She also serves on the board of directors and advisory boards for several other companies and philanthropic organizations.
Early life and education.
Heinen received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall Law School in 1982.
Legal career.
Early life and career.
Heinen began her career as an associate in several San Francisco Bay Area law firms. She then worked in the legal department of Tandem Computers and was later hired by Steve Jobs as the general counsel at NeXT. From 1988 to 1993, Heinen was the Secretary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. While at NeXT, Heinen helped to prepare the company for its initial public offering, and its eventual acquisition by Apple Computer Inc.
Apple Computer Inc (1997 - 2006).
After NeXT was purchased by Apple in March 1996, Heinen stayed with the company as General Counsel and secretary. Heinen later became Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Legal Secretary of Apple Computer Inc. She was also on the board of BSA Software Alliance from 1996 to 2005.
Heinen was one of several Apple executives, along with Fred D. Anderson, Mitch Mandich, Jon Rubinstein, and Avie Tevanian, credited with helping to revive Apple after it experienced a . During this time, Apple began pre-emptively applying for patents to prevent them from being obtained by the company's competition, a tactic Heinen described as "a defensive tool". Heinen left Apple on May 1, 2006, after nine years with the company. Neither Heinen nor Apple commented on her departure other than to confirm it. Shortly afterwards, the company admitted to irregularities in its handling of executive stock option dating.
SEC allegations.
On April 24, 2007, the SEC filed a claim against Heinen alleging that she caused Apple to backdate large option grants and altered corporate records to hide the actions. According to the SEC press release, "Heinen is charged with, among other things, violating the antifraud provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, lying to Apple's auditors, and violating prohibitions on circumventing internal controls" based on options awarded to Steve Jobs which were dated October 19, 2001 but allegedly granted in December 2001, and also option grants awarded to top company executives, including Heinen which were dated January 17, 2001 but allegedly granted in February 2001.
Heinen settled with the SEC on August 14, 2008, agreeing to pay a total of $2.2 million to resolve all of the SEC charges against her, but without either admitting or denying any wrongdoing. Heinen was to return $1.575 million from the stock options that she received, plus interest, and pay a $200,000 penalty. Apple's former CFO Fred D. Anderson had already reached a $3.5 million settlement with the SEC in 2007, without admitting or denying its allegations regarding the stock-option backdating at the technology company. The SEC settlement also barred Heinen from serving as a public company officer or director for five years and barred her from practicing before the SEC for three years. Heinen's settlement ended the civil suit filed in California federal court by the SEC in April 2007 that would otherwise have gone to trial in 2009. A two-year criminal investigation into the matter by the U.S. Justice Department was closed without criminal charges being filed.
Philanthropy and non-profit work: 2006 - present.
After leaving Apple, Heinen became involved in various philanthropic and non-profit organizations, particularly those related to social justice, and economic and educational outreach. In 2009, Heinen joined the board of directors of Silicon Valley Social Ventures (SV2), a non-profit founded by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen. Heinen became Vice Chair of SV2 2011, and became Chair in 2012. She participated in the education grant round and partner advisory board, and served as a co-leader of FY16-17's international grant round.
Heinen is Chair of the Board of Directors for First Place For Youth, a non-profit organization which helps foster youths, and of Teen Success Inc. Heinen has served as a member of the board of several other organizations such as Embrace, the UC Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, Northern California Innocence Project, Illuminate Ventures, Duarte, and Vitamix. Heinen is also a sponsor of People Acting in Community Together (P.A.C.T).
On December 20, 2019, it was announced that Heinen had joined the board of directors of VERB Technology Company, Inc., a Newport Beach, California based software company.
Personal life.
Heinen is married to attorney Dennis DeBroeck, a partner in the corporate group at Fenwick & West law firm, which is counsel to Apple Inc.


Appleman

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Edward Conard

Edward W. Conard is an American businessman, author and scholar. He is the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class" and "Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong;" and a contributor to Oxford University Press’ "United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality." Conard is an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Previously, he was a managing director at Bain Capital, where he worked closely with former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Early life and education.
Conard grew up in the Detroit metropolitan area and graduated from the University of Michigan with a BSE in Operations Research in 1978. He earned his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School in 1982.
Early career and Bain Capital.
Prior to business school, Conard worked as an automotive engineer at Ford Motor Company. After graduating, he joined Bain & Company, the Boston-based global management-consulting firm, eventually becoming a vice president and leading the firm's industrial practice.
Conard left Bain in 1990 to become a director at Wasserstein Perella & Co., a boutique investment bank. At Wassernstein, he headed the firm's Transaction Development Group.
Conard was a managing director at Bain Capital, the head of Bain's New York office and the leader of its industrial practice. He joined the firm in 1993 prior to the firm raising $300 million of private equity. When Conard retired in 2007, Bain Capital managed $75 billion of capital and had offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Mumbai. His first acquisition was that of a pharmaceutical company for half a billion dollars. That same company later rose to more than $10 billion in value.
While at Bain Capital, Conard took Waters Corporation, DDI, ChipPac, Innophos, and Sensata public and sat on their boards of directors. He still sits on the board of Waters Corporation.
Writing, speaking, and scholar career.
Conard is the author of two top-ten "New York Times" bestsellers: "Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong" and "The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class"; and a contributor to Oxford University Press’ "United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality." He became the tenth most searched author on Google in 2012 after publishing his first book. Conard joined the American Enterprise Institute as a visiting scholar in 2012. His work with AEI focuses on U.S. economic policy - in particular, on the effect of taxes, government policies, and finance on risk-taking and innovation.
"Unintended Consequences".
Conard published "Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong" in May 2012. The book was featured on the cover of the "New York Times Sunday Magazine" and went on to become a "New York Times" top ten non-fiction bestseller.
While the "New York Times" predicted the book might become “the most hated book of the year,” leading economists such as Greg Mankiw, Andrei Shleifer, Steven Levitt, Nouriel Roubini, Tyler Cowen, and Glenn Hubbard publicly endorsed the book. In contrast to the "New York Times", "The Wall Street Journal" called the book “a full throttle defense of economic dynamism…refreshing at a time when so many take the failure of capitalism for granted.” The "New York Times" described "Unintended Consequences" as “…arguing that growing income inequality shows the economy is working.” Timothy Noah, the author of "The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality" noted: “the biggest surprise, on opening "Unintended Consequences", lies in discovering that this book isn't about income inequality at all.” The book analyzes why the U.S. has outperformed other high-wage economies, explains the causes of the financial crisis, and makes recommendations for accelerating growth in its aftermath. Conard summarizes his book in a 23-minute video for The UP Experience.
Since its publication, Conard has made over 250 television appearances in which he has debated leading economists including Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Alan Krueger, Austan Goolsbee, and Jared Bernstein; journalists including Fareed Zakaria, Chris Hayes, and Andrew Ross Sorkin; and politicians such as Barney Frank, Howard Dean, and Eliot Spitzer. Conard also debated Jon Stewart for 33 minutes, one of Stewart's longest interviews. The video of the debate has received nearly 100,000 views. He has also written op-eds for "The Wall Street Journal", "The Washington Post", "Foreign Affairs", "Harvard Business Review", "Fortune", and "Politico", among others.
"The Upside of Inequality".
Conard published "The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class" in September 2016. The book debuted at #8 on the New York Times top ten non-fiction list and reached #1 on the New York Times business book list.
"The Upside of Inequality" was met with positive reviews, including former president of Harvard University and economist Larry Summers, a very tough critic on the other side of the aisle, blurbed "I profoundly disagree but respect the clarity with which he makes his case..." and called it "a very valuable contribution" that will "sharpen your thinking on critical economic issues." Noted economist Tyler Cowen who wrote on Bloomberg News: "Conard’s central idea is that risk-bearing equity capital is the truly scarce asset in most economic situations, and economic analysis should adapt accordingly. He is very creative in seeing some of the implications of this view. I... found it very stimulating to ponder. It puts many of the pieces together in a new and different way." Harvard economist Greg Mankiw recommended Upside and interviewed Conard on CSPAN. David Author, George Borjas, Larry Lindsey, and other prominent economists also praised it. "National Review" said the book is a "rousing defense of conservative beliefs about how markets and incentives drive prosperity."
Political activities.
In March 2011, Conard made a $1 million U.S. dollar contribution to the super PAC promoting Mitt Romney's candidacy in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election through W Spann LLC, a shell corporation that rendered him anonymous and appeared to exist for the sole purpose of contributing to Romney's campaign. In August 2011, he came forward to quell the controversy that arose.
Personal life.
Conard is married to Jill Davis, an author and former writer for the "Late Show with David Letterman".


John Rowe (Aetna)

John Wallis "Jack" Rowe is an American businessman and academic physician, who served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna Inc., a large health insurance company based in Connecticut, titles he retired from in February 2006.
Career.
Columbia University.
John Rowe is currently the Julius B Richmond Professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He has also served as professor at Harvard Medical School, and has authored more than 200 scientific publications, mostly on the aging process. Rowe was previously Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the University of Connecticut.
Aetna.
Prior to Columbia, John Rowe was the CEO and executive chairman of the health insurance company Aetna from 2000 to 2006. During his tenure he transformed Aetna into a large, profitable company. In 2005 his compensation was $22.2 million.
Mt Sinai NY Health.
Prior to Aetna Dr. Rowe was President and Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai NY Health from 1998 to 2000. Prior to that he was President of The Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City from 1988 to 1998.
Tax patents.
In 2006, the Wealth Transfer Group sued John W. Rowe for infringement of a tax patent. The patent was , entitled "Establishing and managing grantor retained annuity trusts funded by nonqualified stock options". (i.e. SOGRAT) This case has been settled for undisclosed terms.
Publications.
Dr. Rowe has published over 200 scientific publications, mostly in the field of gerontology and a textbook in the same field.
He coauthored the book "Successful Aging" with Robert Kahn.
Personal life.
Rowe lives in New York City and Cape Cod, Massachusetts with his wife, who is a retired professor at Fordham University.
Rowe attended Canisius College and received his BS in 1966 and his MD from the University of Rochester in 1970.
Rowe has been a Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging and is currently Director of the Foundation's Research Network on an Aging Society.
He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation since 2007, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lincoln Center Theater, a member of the board at Accolade Inc and Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), and former Chairman of the Board of the Marine Biological Laboratory.
In 2019, Rowe was honored at the fourth Arthur W. Page Center Awards in New York City. He received a Larry Foster Award for Integrity in Public Communication.
Rowe is a former member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and Board of Trustees at the University of Connecticut.