Walker Evans

Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8×10-inch (200×250 mm) view camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent".
Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or George Eastman Museum.
Biography.
Early life.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Jessie (née Crane) and Walker Evans. His father was an advertising director. Walker was raised in an affluent environment; he spent his youth in Toledo, Ohio; Chicago; and New York City. He attended the Loomis Institute and Mercersburg Academy, then graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1922. He studied French literature for a year at Williams College, spending much of his time in the school's library, before dropping out. He returned to New York and worked as a night attendant in the map room of the Public Library. After spending a year in Paris in 1926, he returned to the United States to join a literary and art crowd in New York City. John Cheever, Hart Crane, and Lincoln Kirstein were among his friends. He was a clerk for a stockbroker firm on Wall Street from 1927 to 1929.
Evans took up photography in 1928 around the time he was living in Ossining, New York. His influences included Eugène Atget and August Sander. In 1930, he published three photographs (Brooklyn Bridge) in the poetry book "The Bridge" by Hart Crane. In 1931, he made a photo series of Victorian houses in the Boston vicinity sponsored by Lincoln Kirstein.
In May and June 1933, Evans took photographs in Cuba on assignment for Lippincott, the publisher of Carleton Beals' "The Crime of Cuba" (1933), a "strident account" of the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado. There, Evans drank nightly with Ernest Hemingway, who lent him money to extend his two-week stay an additional week. His photographs documented street life, the presence of police, beggars and dockworkers in rags, and other waterfront scenes. He also helped Hemingway acquire photos from newspaper archives that documented some of the political violence Hemingway described in "To Have and Have Not" (1937). Fearing that his photographs might be deemed critical of the government and confiscated by Cuban authorities, he left 46 prints with Hemingway. He had no difficulties when returning to the United States, and 31 of his photos appeared in Beals' book. The cache of prints left with Hemingway was discovered in Havana in 2002 and exhibited at an exhibition in Key West.
Depression-era photography.
The Depression years of 1935–36 were ones of remarkable productivity and accomplishment for Evans. In 1935, Evans spent two months on a fixed-term photographic campaign in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. In June 1935, he accepted a job from the U.S. Department of the Interior to photograph a government-built resettlement community of unemployed coal miners in West Virginia. He quickly parlayed this temporary employment into a full-time position as an “information specialist” in the Resettlement Administration (RA) (later Farm Security Administration), a New Deal agency in the Department of Agriculture. From October 1935 on, he continued to do photographic work for the RA and later the Farm Security Administration (FSA), primarily in the Southern United States.
In the summer of 1936, while on leave from the FSA, writer James Agee and he were sent by "Fortune" on assignment to Hale County, Alabama for a story the magazine subsequently opted not to run. In 1941, Evans's photographs and Agee's text detailing the duo's stay with three White tenant families in southern Alabama during the Great Depression were published as the groundbreaking book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Its detailed account of three farming families paints a deeply moving portrait of rural poverty. Critic Janet Malcolm notes that a contradiction existed between a kind of anguished dissonance in Agee's prose and the quiet, magisterial beauty of Evans's photographs of sharecroppers.
The three families headed by Bud Fields, Floyd Burroughs, and Frank Tingle, lived in the Hale County town of Akron, Alabama, and the owners of the land on which the families worked told them that Evans and Agee were "Soviet agents", although Allie Mae Burroughs, Floyd's wife, recalled during later interviews her discounting that information. Evans's photographs of the families made them icons of Depression-era misery and poverty. In September 2005, "Fortune" revisited Hale County and the descendants of the three families for its 75th-anniversary issue. Charles Burroughs, who was four years old when Evans and Agee visited the family, was "still angry" at them for not even sending the family a copy of the book; the son of Floyd Burroughs was also reportedly angry because the family was "cast in a light that they couldn't do any better, that they were doomed, ignorant".
Evans continued to work for the FSA until 1938. That year, an exhibition, "Walker Evans: American Photographs," was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This was the first exhibition in the museum devoted to the work of a single photographer. The catalogue included an accompanying essay by Lincoln Kirstein, whom Evans had befriended in his early days in New York.
In 1938, Evans also took his first photographs in the New York City Subway with a camera hidden in his coat. These were collected in book form in 1966 under the title "Many Are Called." In 1938 and 1939, Evans worked with and mentored Helen Levitt.
Evans, like such other photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, rarely spent time in the darkroom making prints from his own negatives. He loosely supervised the making of prints of most of his photographs, sometimes only attaching handwritten notes to negatives with instructions on some aspect of the printing procedure.
Later work.
Evans was a passionate reader and writer, and in 1945 became a staff writer at "Time". Shortly afterward, he became an editor at "Fortune" through 1965. That year, he became a professor of photography on the faculty for graphic design at the Yale University School of Art.
In one of his last photographic projects, Evans completed a black-and-white portfolio of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.'s offices and partners for publication in "Partners in Banking", published in 1968 to celebrate the private bank's 150th anniversary. In 1973 and 1974, Evans used the new Polaroid SX-70 instant camera for his last work; the company provided him with an unlimited supply of film, and the camera's simplicity and speed were easier for the aged photographer.
The first definitive retrospective of his photographs, which "individually evoke an incontrovertible sense of specific places, and collectively a sense of America", according to a press release, was on view at New York's Museum of Modern Art in early 1971. Selected by John Szarkowski, the exhibit was titled simply "Walker Evans".
Death and legacy.
Evans died at his apartment in New Haven, Connecticut in 1975. The last person Evans talked to was Hank O'Neal. In reference to the newly created "A Vision Shared" project, O'Neal recounts, "The picture on the back of the book, of him taking a picture – he actually called me up and told me he had found it”. “And then the next morning I got up and I had a phone call from Leslie Katz, who ran the Eakins Press. And Leslie said: ‘Isn’t it terrible about Walker Evans?’ And I said: ‘What are you talking about?’ He said: ‘He died last night.’ I said: ‘Cut it out. I talked to him last night twice’ … So an hour and a half after we had our conversation, he died. He had a stroke and died."
In 1994, the estate of Walker Evans handed over its holdings to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the sole copyright holder for all works of art in all media by Walker Evans. The only exception is a group of about 1,000 negatives in collection of the Library of Congress, which were produced for the Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration; these works are in the public domain.
In 2000, Evans was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.


The Diapason (magazine)

The Diapason is a magazine serving those who build and play organs. Content includes concert and recital announcements, information on building and maintaining organs and profiles of notable organists.
As of July 2013, "The Diapason" reaches about 5,000 subscribers.
History and profile.
The magazine was founded in 1909 by Siegfried E. Gruenstein. It is currently owned and published by Scranton Gillette Communications.


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David Lipton

David Lipton (born November 9, 1953) is an American economist who served as the Acting Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from July 2, 2019, following Christine Lagarde's nomination as President of the European Central Bank, until Kristalina Georgieva was appointed in the office on October 1, 2019. Prior to this, Lipton had been serving as the IMF's First Deputy Managing Director since September 2011. Lipton has been featured in, and interviewed by, numerous publications including "The Financial Times", "Euromoney", "Bloomberg News", and "The Guardian".
Life and work.
David Lipton was born on November 9, 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts and received an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in 1975, followed by a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1982, under the supervision of Jeffrey Sachs. He then started working for the International Monetary Fund, after which he joined Jeffrey Sachs advising governments of transition economies, such as Russia, Poland, and Slovenia, also writing frequently on the topic. He subsequently started working for the Clinton administration in 1993 as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, from which position he worked on the Asian financial crisis. Upon leaving the public sector, Lipton joined a hedge fund (Moore Capital Management), followed by a stint at Citi Bank where he became Head of Global Country Risk Management.
Prior to joining the IMF, David Lipton served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, while also being part of the National Economic Council and National Security Council at the White House.
In 2021 Lipton was named a senior counselor to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, focusing on policy work with US allies and working with the G7 and G20 summits.


Martin Jetter

Martin Jetter (born 1959 in Germany), is a computer engineer and businessman. He studied at University of Stuttgart and received a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the same university.
Career.
Jetter started to work for IBM Deutschland GmbH as an application engineer in 1986. He became a manager of the industrial sector of IBM Central Europe in 1999, and a director in charge of Siemens Group in 2001. He was promoted to CEO of IBM Deutschland in 2006, and an IBM Corporate Director of Strategy in 2011. In 2012, he became CEO of IBM Japan, Ltd.
In January 2015, he became the senior vice president of IBM Global Technology Services.
In February 2019, he became the senior vice president and chairman of IBM Europe.


Valerie Fox

Valerie Fox (born 1954) is an executive director, creative director and professional coach. She is known for her work at IBM Canada, as well as for developing and co-founding the Ryerson Digital Media Zone (DMZ), a multidisciplinary workspace, business incubator and startup accelerator for digital media businesses. She is principally responsible for making industry and institutional connections, and for bringing partnerships and collaboration to the DMZ. She holds multiple patents, including one for the concept of the “Universal Shopping Cart” and four patents for the “Synchronized Multi-Tablet Internet/TV System.”
Career.
Valerie began her career at IBM Canada in 1993 where she was the National Practice Lead of User Experience Design. In 1999, she worked as the Creative Director for the Official Sydney Olympics website. In 2004, she became a Professional and Executive Coach. In 2006, after leaving IBM Canada, Valerie began her career at Ryerson University, becoming the Director of Innovative Technology Solutions. In April 2010, she co-founded the Ryerson Digital Media Zone.
Awards and recognition.
Valerie received the Outstanding Achievement award for her role on the IBM Executive Design Consultancy Board, as well as an Award of Excellence for the Sydney Olympics website design. In 2012, Valerie received the prestigious Canadian Women in Technology (CanWIT) Sara Kirke Award for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, provided by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATAAlliance).


Karen Cook (banker)

Karen Cook (born 1952/1953) is a British banker. She is also the chair of the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs.
Early life.
Karen Cook was born and raised in London, the only child of a car mechanic father.
Career.
Cook started her career in the Foreign Office, but found it "too bureaucratic and slow". She then earned an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School, and joined First National Bank of Chicago. She moved to Schroders in 1988.
Cook joined Goldman Sachs in 1999, as head of UK investment banking, and became a partner in 2000.
In 2004, she became a director of Tesco.
In 2015, Cook became co-chair of Goldman Sachs' global investment banking division.
Cook has been called the "Queen of M&A", having advised BG Group on its planned £47 billion takeover by Shell.
Personal life.
Cook is married to fellow banker Patrick Drayton, and they have six children.


Riva Helfond

Riva Helfond (March 8, 1910 - May 13, 2002) was an American artist and printmaker best known for her social realist studies of working people's lives.
Early life and education.
Riva Helfond was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family. She spent some of her childhood in Russia and returned to New York at the age of eleven, living in New York or New Jersey for most of the rest of her life. Between 1928 and 1940, she studied at the School of Industrial Art and the Art Students League; her teachers included William von Schlegell, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Morris Kantor for painting and Harry Sternberg for printmaking. Among her fellow students were Alexander Brook and her future husband, the sculptor William (Bill) Barrett (d. 1967).
Teaching.
Helfond began teaching in the College Art Association Program (1933–36) and then taught printmaking at the Harlem Arts Community Center (1936–38). Initially she taught lithography alongside Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Robert Joseph and others before moving to the graphic arts division, where she worked with Louis Lozowick and Jacob Kainen, and the silkscreen division, which was supervised by Anthony Velonis and which had Harry Gottlieb and Elizabeth Olds as founding members. Among her students at the Center was Robert Blackburn, who would go on to found New York's Printmaking Workshop in the 1940s. Later on, Helfond taught printmaking at New York University (1964), and she was on the faculty of Union College in Cranford, New Jersey, from 1980 onwards.
Artwork.
From 1936 to 1941, Helfond was an artist in the New York Works Progress Administration program's graphics division, creating work in a variety of media, including lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, aquatints, collograph, and silkscreens. Some of her work shows the impact that color had as it entered American printmaking during this period, and she was adventurous in exploring the possibilities opened up by screen printing. She printed all of her own work, which ranged from austere, often monochromatic social realist portraits of working people and cityscapes in the 1920s and 1930s to colorful, abstract, lyrical landscapes in later years. Some of her color abstractions originated as watercolors from nature during travels in Greece and France and were then turned into oil paintings.
Helfond was politically progressive, and along with contemporaries like Elizabeth Olds, Beatrice Mandelman, and Minna Citron, she is especially well known for works that "pointedly condemned the state of labor, and the relationship between big business and big government, in the 1930s." Examples of these include "Custom Made" (1940), a lithograph showing a woman slumped over her work in a WPA sewing room, and "Snow Clearing" (1933), showing men at work shoveling a street.
There are also a number of prints about the grim lives of coal miners, such as "Miner and Wife" (1937), an "American Gothic"–style portrait of a couple, with the husband showing a closed fist; "Out of the Pit" (1935), a double portrait of miners with blackened faces; and "Coal Picker" (1938), showing elderly women scavenging in a coal mine. After Helfond married Bill Barrett, whose Welsh relatives worked in the mines, she used these new connections to bring other artists interested in social justice together with the miners. Helfond ran into several obstacles while working in the coal districts of Pennsylvania. For one thing, she was irked that the gatherings of miners and her male artist friends in the local bars tended to exclude her and other women, making it harder for her to develop the relationships necessary to her work. Another obstacle sprang from cultural differences: Helfond recounted how in the mining town of Lansford, the local women became less friendly when she revealed that she was Jewish. Despite these challenges, Helfond's prints of coal miners are considered an important addition to the body of work documenting the lives of the working poor during the New Deal.
Her work was included in the 1940 MoMA show "American Color Prints Under $10". The show was organized as a vehicle for bringing affordable fine art prints to the general public. Helfond was also included in the 1947 and 1951 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts exhibitions of the National Serigraph Society.
Helfond's work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1960), the Newark Museum of Fine Arts (1964, 1967), and elsewhere. It is represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Brooklyn Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Springfield Museum of Fine Art, the Newark Museum of Fine Art, and the Library of Congress, among other institutions. In 2009, her work was featured in the exhibition "Industrial Strength: Precisionism and New Jersey" at the Jersey City Museum.
Helfond counted as friends a wide circle of Abstract Expressionist artists and critics, including Willem DeKooning, Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, and Harold Rosenberg.
In later life she lived in Plainfield, New Jersey, where she owned and managed the Barrett Art Gallery on East Front Street, which she had started with her husband in the 1960s. In the early 1950s, she designed a rose window for the First Unitarian Society of Plainfield's All Souls Church.


Maha Abouelenein

Maha Gaber Abouelenein is an Egyptian American communications consultant specializing in strategic communications, public diplomacy and campaign management. She also is the Head of Communications and Spokeswoman for Google in Middle East and North Africa. Maha also is the co-Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of the US Chamber of Commerce in Egypt.
Life.
She grew up in the United States, in a small town in Minnesota where she studied communications there all the way to her Masters degree, she came back to Egypt in 1997, started working for Sawiris then years later she established Promoseven WeberShandwick in MENA before leaving to start her business; Organizational Consultants. With more than 20 years experience in corporate communications, PR strategy and campaign management, Maha drives the Google communications apparatus for 18 countries. Maha holds a master's degree in Communications from Minnesota State University - Mankato and an undergraduate degree in International Business & Marketing with a minor in French.
Maha Joined Google after the Egyptian revolution of 2011.


Andrew Kirmse

Andrew Kirmse is an American computer programmer. He was a co-creator of Meridian 59, the first 3D massively-multiplayer online game. While an engineer at Google, he co-created Google Now, a predictive search engine.
Video games.
Andrew and his brother Chris developed the code for Meridian 59 in their parents' basement while they were in college. Meridian was the first online game to include 3D graphics. After a beta period, it was published by The 3DO Company in 1996, where it ran until 2000. Meridian's code was open-sourced in 2012, and it continues to run for free today.
While at LucasArts, Andrew served as graphics programmer on the PlayStation 2 game .
Andrew contributed to the first four volumes of the "Game Programming Gems" series of books about video game development. He was the editor of "Game Programming Gems 4".
Google.
Andrew began working at Google in 2003, where he managed the Google Earth team. He later started and led Google Now, which was named Innovation of the Year by Popular Science in 2012, and won the Grand Prize at the 2013 User Experience Awards. He gave an invited talk on Google Now at the 2014 WWW Conference.


Seamus Blackley

Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley (born 1967) is an American video game designer and former agent with Creative Artists Agency representing video game creators. He is best known for creating and designing the original Xbox in 2001.
Career.
After entering Tufts University to study electrical engineering, Blackley switched to study physics and graduated in 1990, . As a sophomore, he published his first paper in the "Journal of Magnetic Resonance". After college, he studied High Energy Physics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, until the Superconducting Supercollider project was cancelled in 1993.
Blackley then went to work at Blue Sky Productions, later called Looking Glass Studios. In addition to his work on "Ultima Underworld" and "System Shock", Blackley helped to create the sophisticated physics system in "Flight Unlimited". He is mentioned in the "Flight Unlimited" manual as follows:
Following the completion of "Flight Unlimited" in 1995, Blackley planned to use that game's computational fluid dynamics (CFDs) code to create a combat flight simulator called "Flight Combat". However, a new manager at Looking Glass Studios demanded that Blackley instead design a direct sequel to "Flight Unlimited" as to directly compete with "Microsoft Flight Simulator". Blackley refused and was fired, leaving the company in late 1995.
After Looking Glass, Blackley worked at DreamWorks Interactive as executive producer of ', a video game sequel to the film '. "Trespasser" was designed to use a physics-rich game engine for much of the animation for the game. The game was to have been shipped by late 1997 as part of a deal that Dreamworks had made with a computer chip manufacturer, but the game was only partially completed; the chip deal fell through, and the budget for the game was significantly cut. Though the title was eventually published in 1998, its failure became renowned, and Blackley took full responsibly for its faults.
During press events for "Trespasser", Blackley had met Bill Gates, then the CEO of Microsoft. Gates had been impressed with the technical achievements of "Trespasser", and he helped Blackley to secure a job at Microsoft in February 1999 as Program Manager for Entertainment Graphics, initially working on DirectX. During 1999, Sony introduced the PlayStation 2, which they marketed as a platform for the living room that would outdo Microsoft Windows and Linux. Blackley said that this announcement raised concerns within Microsoft of how they could challenge Sony. Blackley had already recognized that part of Microsoft's problems for gaming support was the vast number of possible configurations they had to deal with, and their attempts with technologies like DirectX to standardize these. While on a flight from Boston back to Seattle after visiting his girlfriend, Blackley came up with the idea of having Microsoft design its own console, with standardized hardware, and able to tap into a larger pool of hardware resources due to the company's influence as to beat Sony at its own game. This led to the initial Xbox proposal, which Gates eventually approved, and helped assemble the team that designed and built the device. He then promoted the Xbox to game developers around the world.
Blackley left Microsoft in 2002 to co-found Capital Entertainment Group with former Microsoft co-worker Kevin Bachus after his time developing the Xbox. CEG aimed to reform the financing models available in the game industry, following the Hollywood studio model, to provide more flexibility and creative control to game makers, and loosen the grip publishers had on control of the game industry. CEG was unable to complete a game before folding in 2003. In 2007, Blackley received the P.T. Barnum Award from Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.
From 2003 through May 2011, Blackley represented video game developers at the Creative Artists Agency, evolving the position of video games within the entertainment industry. In February 2012, Blackley founded Innovative Leisure with Van Burnham. The company recruited game programmers from the Golden age of arcade video games to write mobile games. In 2017 Blackley took a post running the research and development team for the augmented reality startup Daqri to explore methods of producing more powerful holograms and in 2018 became the CEO of tech startup Pacific Light and Hologram.
In 2019 Blackley appeared as himself on the 172nd episode of the webseries "Angry Video Game Nerd", answering questions regarding the video game "Trespasser".


Duncan Botwood

Duncan Lewis Botwood (born 8 March 1972, Stafford) is a British video game designer and voice actor. He worked for British game developer Rare from 1995 to 2008. He was senior designer at the company. Botwood's first work was GoldenEye 007.
He was one of the first members of the team and worked closely with Martin Hollis and David Doak. Botwood constructed the levels and did most motion capture with head model designer, Beatrix. He next worked on Perfect Dark as level designer, wrote the story of game and designed the way weapons would work. He later worked on "Perfect Dark Zero", designing the multiplayer.
Botwood provided voice talent to some of the projects on which he worked, voicing "Andross" in Star Fox Adventures, and "Mr Blonde" in "Perfect Dark". He had a cameo in "GoldenEye 007" as "Naval Officer". Botwood left Rare in 2008 and worked for Ubisoft Montpellier. He then worked at Codemasters before joining Ubisoft Toronto in 2012 as a Lead Level Designer. In 2016 he was promoted to Associate Level Design Director on an unannounced project.


Rick Goodman

Rick Goodman is a video game designer and the founder and owner of the now-defunct Stainless Steel Studios. He is best known for the RTS games he designed, such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth.
Career.
In 1995 Goodman co-founded Ensemble Studios together with his brother, Tony Goodman, and John Boog-Scott. Their first project was "Age of Empires" (AoE), in which Goodman worked as Lead Designer. After the game's release, it became an overnight sensation and Goodman became one of the most recognized game developers in the world. Because of the success of the game, some said that Goodman had invented in AoE "the most well recognized game interface for RTS games", because afterward many games like it began to use the AoE game interface: a mini map, unit and building controls, the name of your civilization and the age which you are currently in on top of the screen and others.
After Age of Empires, Goodman left Ensemble to form his own studio with Dara-Lynn Pelechatz: Stainless Steel Studios in 1998. Pelechatz told GameSpy that Goodman couldn't decide what name to give for his studio, so he opened a catalog with the plan to baptise the studio with the very first thing he encountered.
In 2001, Stainless Steel, under Goodman, created "Empire Earth". The game, which was published by Sierra Entertainment, offered many new features, including a 3D view of the world, impressive zoom-in and zoom-out features, and a timeline that spanned from pre-history to the twenty-second century (over 500,000 years). The game won the GameSpy PC "Game-of-the-Year 2001" Award. According to some, "Empire Earth" was what Goodman wanted "Age of Empires" to be. PC Gamer said in an article about "Empire Earth" that it feels like it's the gold edition of the "entire" AoE-series (which is all the AoE games, including the unreal games such as an AoE IV and V).
Goodman would soon break up with Sierra and start working on a new game "". The game is very similar to Goodman's previous successes, except the game spans only a millennium of entire history of humanity, from 950 to 1950, which is said to be the most pivotal years in human history. The game was released in 2003 and published by Activision. Ironically, although it wasn't much of a hit, the game was rated, in some reviews and websites, "higher" than Empire Earth.
After "Empires", Goodman helped in the creation of another game: " which was published by Myelin Media in US and SEGA in Europe. It was first released in November 2004.
Goodman's last game was real time strategy game " published and partially developed by Midway Games and was released on July 12, 2006.
Goodman is currently a board member of 8D World, which built a virtual world where Chinese children learn English.
Goodman currently works at PeopleFun as an executive producer with his brother Tony.
The fall of Stainless Steel Studios.
At the end of November 2005, with only weeks to go before release of "Rise and Fall", Stainless Steel Studios closed abruptly and laid off all employees. According to one interview, Goodman blamed the shutdown of his company on Midway. In that interview, the details quotes studio founder Rick Goodman as blaming Rise & Fall publisher Midway Games for the developer's fiscal insolvency. He reportedly told Gamestar that after the PC strategy game's release was pushed from October to early 2006, Midway cut off advances to Stainless Steel, which in turn had to lay off its staff due to lack of funding. Midway had stated in a report that it would continue to work on the game and did eventually release it in June 2006.
Portfolio.
Rick Goodman has taken part in developing many games:


Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire

The post of Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire was created in 1660, at the Restoration, and was abolished on 31 March 1974. From 1782 until 1974, all Lords Lieutenant were also Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Lord Lieutenants of the North Riding of Yorkshire to 1974.
†Became Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire.


Chris Krebs

Christopher Cox Krebs (born 1977) is an American attorney who served as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the United States Department of Homeland Security from November 2018 to November 2020. In November 2020, President Donald Trump fired Krebs for refuting Trump's claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Early life and education.
Krebs was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1977. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia in 1999 and a Juris Doctor from the George Mason University School of Law in 2007.
Career.
Krebs's professional work has focused on cybersecurity and risk management issues. He served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Infrastructure Protection, and later worked in the private sector as Director for Cybersecurity Policy for Microsoft.
In March 2017, he became Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security. In August 2017, he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, and performed the duties of the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs until he was confirmed to that position on a permanent basis on June 15, 2018. In November 2018, the National Protection and Programs Directorate was replaced by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Krebs remained as director of the agency.
It was reported that Krebs was being considered to serve as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security after the departure of Kevin McAleenan, although he was reported to be uninterested in the position.
2020 dismissal.
On November 12, 2020, it was reported that Krebs expected to be fired from his position; in part, this expectation was due to Krebs's role in creating a CISA website to debunk election-related disinformation, much of which was being promoted by President Donald Trump and his allies. As CISA's director, Krebs was the "administration's most senior cybersecurity official responsible for securing the presidential election". Sidney Powell, an attorney for Trump and Michael Flynn, asserted on the Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo Fox News programs that a secret government supercomputer program had switched votes from Trump to Biden in the election, a claim Krebs dismissed as "nonsense" and a "hoax."
On November 17, 2020, Krebs said in a tweet that "59 election security experts all agree, 'in every case of which we are aware, these claims (of fraud) either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.'" Trump fired Krebs via Twitter the same day, because the "recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud". Trump provided no evidence of this fraud.
Later that month, a lawyer for the Trump campaign, Joseph diGenova, called for Krebs to be "drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot". DiGenova's specific criticism was that Krebs "thinks the election went well". Krebs responded to diGenova's tweet in an op-ed in "The Washington Post", saying "I am not going to be intimidated by these threats from telling the truth to the American people."
On December 8, Krebs filed a civil lawsuit against diGenova, the Trump campaign, and Newsmax TV, accusing them of "defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, aiding and abetting, and civil conspiracy". He said that he has received "a barrage of threats and harassment" as a result of diGenova's comments and "faces a genuine risk of imminent harm".
On January 10, 2021, Krebs suggested that Trump should resign the presidency following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.


Jonathan Ruffer

Jonathan Ruffer DL (born 17 August 1951) is a British City investor, art collector and philanthropist.
Early life.
Jonathan Ruffer was born on 17 August 1951 in London, England, and lived from an early age in Stokesley, North Yorkshire, England. He was educated at Marlborough College, a public school in Marlborough, Wiltshire. He graduated from Sidney Sussex College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, in 1972.
Career.
Ruffer started as a stockbroker, before becoming a barrister. He is now a Bencher of the Middle Temple. He worked in corporate finance for Schroders, an accepting house bank. He worked for Dunbar, a private bank, from 1980 to 1985. He was also on the board of directors of one of its subsidiaries, Dunbar Fund Management, from 1981 to 1985. He was then on the board of CFS (renamed Rathbone plc) from 1985 to 1994. He was on the board of Odey Asset Management, founded by Crispin Odey, from 1992 to 2005; Fuel Tech from 1994 to 1998; and Electric & General Investment Trust from 2001 to 2011.
In 1994, he co-founded Ruffer Investment Management Limited, an investment management firm with Robert Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers (then Viscount Tamworth) and Jane Tufnell. The firm was renamed Ruffer LLP in 2004 and is now based at 80 Victoria Street in London. Ruffer was its chief executive officer from 1994 to 2012 and has been its chairman since 2011. The firm managed £15.4 billion on behalf of its clients in 2012–2013. In 2014, it had 199 employees, and additional offices in Edinburgh and Hong Kong.
He is a research fellow at St John's College, Durham. He has published articles in "The Spectator".
According to the "Sunday Times Rich List" in 2020, Ruffer is worth an estimated £159 million, an increase of £8 million from the previous year.
Philanthropy.
Ruffer credits William Rathbone VI as a source of inspiration for his philanthropy. He believes nobody needs more than £20 million. However, he is critical of William Temple's Christian socialism.
He served as the chairman of the Good Shepherd Mission in Bethnal Green from 1998 to 2008. He has also supported the Church Urban Fund.
He expressed an interest in reviving County Durham through philanthropy in 2012. That same year, he donated £1 million to the Durham Foundation. A year later, in 2013, he donated £15 million to preserve Auckland Castle, the historical palace of the Bishop of Durham, through the Auckland Castle Trust, of which he is the chair. This included the preservation of 12 paintings by Francisco de Zurbarán, present in the palace since 1756. In 2013, he donated £18 million to restore the Bishop's Palace and create a museum on the history of Christianity and faith in Britain, which had been expected to open in 2018.
The restoration project was completed in 2019 and the Castle was scheduled to re-open to visitors in November; three new restaurants for visitors were added, with one in operation by early November 2019. Nonetheless, the Scotland Wing still houses the offices of the Bishop of Durham. In 2019, he worked with Sotheby's James Macdonald (an expert on the Spanish school) to assemble a collection displayed at the Spanish Gallery.
In 2014, Ruffer donated the endowment to create Kynren, a night show telling the history of England, in nearby Bishop Auckland to aid in wider regeneration.
He has endowed the Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grants at The Art Fund, which give £75,000 to curators every year.
Art collection.
Ruffer collects Spanish old masters. He also owns paintings by Thomas Gainsborough.
Personal life.
Ruffer is married to Jane Sequeira, a doctor, and palliative care specialist. They have a daughter. She is a descendant of Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738-1816), a Portuguese Jewish doctor, who was painted by Thomas Gainsborough, one of his patients, and that oil painting now hangs in Madrid's Museo del Prado.
An Anglican, he has been described by the "Financial Times" as "a committed evangelical Christian" and "The Yorkshire Post" as "a devout Christian." He is a member of the Athenaeum Club and the Beefsteak Club. As of 2014, he had an estimated wealth of £380 million.


Jens Birkholm

Jens Birkholm (11 November 1869, in Faaborg – 11 September 1915, in Faaborg) was a Danish genre painter; associated with the group known as the Funen Painters.
Biography.
His father was a Sailing Master. Several of his friends were aspiring artists, including Johannes Larsen and Peter Hansen. Although his only formal training was an apprenticeship with an obscure local artist, he drew and painted together with them in his spare time and absorbed the influence of Kristian Zahrtmann, who was their teacher in Copenhagen.
He was a pacifist so, to avoid military service, he hired out as a travelling companion for visitors to Switzerland and Germany, where he also found work as a painter. While in Germany, he came in contact with the Social Democrats and, in 1892, he settled in Berlin, where he created paintings of poor people in times of distress; some of them done in homeless shelters. Later, these would come to be considered his most important works.
In 1902, he contracted tuberculosis and returned to his hometown, where he participated in creating the . Under the influence of the Funen Painters, his style changed from social realism to impressionism and he mostly did landscapes. He maintained an interest in social issues, however, and was often at odds with Faaborg's conservative government.
In 1906 he returned to Berlin, where he revisited the shelters, asylums and orphanages and created paintings with new characters in his more mature style. From 1904 to 1912, he held annual exhibitions in Faaborg and made several trips abroad, including Italy (1905) and Tunisia (1911).
He became seriously ill in 1914 and spent almost a year in a sanatorium. The following year, he succumbed to his illness, at the age of forty-six.


Nick Donofrio

Nicholas M. Donofrio (born 1945) is an American scientist and engineer and was the Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation until 2008. Upon retirement, he was selected as an honorary IBM Fellow, the company’s highest technical honor. He holds seven technology patents, is a member of numerous technical and science honor societies, and holds several scientific board positions.
Biography.
Donofrio was born in Beacon, New York in 1945. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a Master of Science in the same discipline from Syracuse University in 1971. He has also received an honorary doctorate in Engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York, and an honorary doctorate in Science from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He joined IBM in 1967 as an engineer, but moved into management positions which led him to his most recent position.
He serves on the Board of the National Commission on the Future of Higher Education and the National Association of Corporate Directors and is a Director at Liberty Mutual Group.


List of motorcycle Grand Prix wins by Mick Doohan

Mick Doohan is an Australian five-time Grand Prix world champion - all five of which are in the premier 500cc class (now known as MotoGP). Doohan raced for Honda's factory team for the entirety of his career.
Doohan won the , , , , and 500cc World Championships, before a crash during practice for the 1999 Spanish Grand Prix ended his career.
His 54 Grand Prix victories are the equal seventh highest of all time (with Dani Pedrosa). His most successful circuit is Mugello Circuit where he has won six times. Doohan's largest margin of victory was at the 1992 Japanese Grand Prix when he beat Doug Chandler by 28.298 seconds in the race, and his smallest margin of victory was at the 1996 City of Imola Grand Prix when he beat teammate Àlex Crivillé by 0.104 seconds in the race.
Wins.
Key:


Unemployment in Poland

Unemployment in Poland appeared in the 19th century during industrialization, and was particularly severe during the Great Depression. Under communist rule Poland officially had close to full employment, although hidden unemployment existed. After Poland's transition to a market economy the unemployment rate sharply increased, peaking at above 16% in 1993, then dropped afterwards, but remained well above pre-1993 levels. Another period of high unemployment occurred in the early 2000s when the rate reached 20%. As Poland entered the European Union (EU) and its job market in 2004, the high unemployment set off a wave of emigration, and as a result domestic unemployment started a downward trend that continued until the onset of the 2008 Great Recession. Recent years have seen an increase in the unemployment rate from below 8% to above 10% (Eurostat) or from below 10% to 13% (GUS). The rate began dropping again in late 2013. Polish government (GUS) reported 9.6% registered unemployment in November 2015, while European Union's Eurostat gave 7.2%. According to Eurostat data, since 2008, unemployment in Poland has been constantly below the EU average. Significant regional differences in the unemployment rate exist across Poland.
Definition and measurement.
Unemployment rates are reported by the Polish Central Statistical Office, and the European Union's Eurostat office. The difference in the reported statistics is due to adjustments that Eurostat makes to make the unemployment rate comparable across countries in Europe.
The unemployment rate as reported by GUS is defined as percent of those without work out of the economically active population. To be counted as unemployed a person has to fulfill four criteria: 1) be between 17 and 74 years of age, 2) be out of work, 3) have actively sought unemployment in the past four weeks, and 4) were ready to take employment within a short period if offered. Additionally, the rate counts as unemployed those who have been hired for a job but have not yet started active work.
Eurostat uses the same harmonized definition of unemployment for all countries in the EU, based on the definition of the International Labour Organization. This definition is similar to the one used by GUS but considers people between 15 and 74, rather than 17 and 74, years of age, and counts the unemployed as a percentage of the labor force.
History.
Unemployment originated in Poland in the late 19th century, and appeared as a result of industrialization. In Russian-ruled Congress Poland, the 1904 onset of war with Japan caused a depression that deepened with the following year's revolution. Meanwhile, efforts by the government to shift industry to Russia proper led to long-term industrial recession. Massive unemployment of factory workers ensued, in turn prompting both urban and rural Poles to emigrate. In the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939), unemployment was among the worst problems of the economy, particularly during the Great Depression (1929–1934). The number of registered unemployed jumped from 185,000 in 1928 to 466,000 in 1936; in 1932, there were 240,000 unemployed industrial workers, or one-third of the total in that field. Not only industrial workers but also members of the intelligentsia were affected. Official statistics for the period only account for non-farm wage and salary earners who registered as unemployed with a labor exchange. Thus, government data account for just part of the actual number of jobless. One scholar calculated a non-farm wage-earner unemployment rate of 13% for 1929 and 25% for 1931, estimating a "substantially higher" figure for 1938, given natural increase in the urban population and migration from rural areas.
The Polish People's Republic (1945-1989) was officially characterized by nearly full employment, not accounting for unofficial hidden unemployment. Following Poland's transformation from a communist to capitalist economy after the Revolutions of 1989, unemployment sharply increased from the officially reported 0% to 6.5% in 1990, peaking at 16.4% at 1993, and then decreasing to about 10.3% in 1997. The unemployment rate then begun rising again until 2002, reaching a zenith of almost 20% around that time. As Poland entered European Union in 2004 and its job market, mass emigration due to unemployment took place lowering the figure. It has dropped to 8.9% in September 2008, but then started rising again, reaching about 13% in the years 2012–2014. The unemployment raise in the late 2000s and early 2010s has been attributed to the global recession in that period.
As of February 2019, Poland's unemployment rate has been reported as 6,1% (GUS) and 3,4% (European Central Bank, Eurostat), and has been steadily decreasing over the years from the previous high of c. 20% in the early 2000s. Mainly from 2015 onwards, the improved economy and drastic drop in joblessness statewide, causes a serious problem of a labour shortage. The labor force shortage has become a permanent problem in Poland, and it's increasingly weighing on the future performance of the Polish economy. Due to significant worker shortages, in cooperation with a private companies, the Polish government allows for convicted prisoners to be employed. Since 2015, around two million Ukrainians were granted Polish work permits.
Regional distribution.
One of the characteristics of Poland's unemployment is difference between regions, with the eastern regions being seen as usually worse affected. However, data do not show a clear correlation with the Poland A and B ("rich west" vs "poor east") division. In May 2019, the highest unemployment rates were reported by the northeast Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (9.2%), northcentral Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (8.1%) and southeast Podkarpackie Voivodeship (8.1%). Lowest unemployment rate was reported by the central-west Greater Poland Voivodeship (2.9%), the southern Silesian Voivodeship (4.0%) and Lesser Poland Voivodeship (4.4%). The 2019 statistics show the lowest recorded statewide, regional unemployment since 1990.
Reasons and consequences.
The global Great Recession following in the wake of the international financial crisis of 2008 has contributed to the rise of unemployment in Poland. Domestically, one of the elements behind high unemployment are inefficient labor laws making job creation difficult, and unduly protecting senior employees (aged over 56).
Entrenched structural unemployment is especially problematic in Poland, with 46% of the jobless being long term unemployed as of 2013. A 2011 report reported a 3.6% figure for the long-term unemployment for that year's total unemployment rate of 3.6%
Another problem is related to certain forms of temporary contracts, known as "junk contracts" () which allow employees to bypass labor laws, offer substandard wages, and little or no stability or social security. In 2010 it was estimated that as many as 27% of those employed in Poland may be working on short-term "junk contracts".
Unemployment in Poland is higher among the youth. It has risen to over 25% in 2011 and as of March 2014 is at 26.3%, and is higher than the OECD average of 16.3%. One of the consequences of unemployment being particularly high among the young has been a relatively high rate of youth emigration to other European countries, estimated in 2014 as 2 million (out of Poland's approximately 40 million population).
Unemployment remains one of the most serious issues facing the Polish economy. The unemployed are a group at particular risk of being affected by poverty (see poverty in Poland).
According to the OECD, during the 2007-2011 global financial crisis the unemployment rate in Poland decreased by almost 3%, with long term unemployment falling by 1% (for 2007–2012). 18% of workers in Poland stated that they worked in a "poor working environment", a percentage which was a bit below the European average. High unemployment and significant risk of becoming unemployed are quoted by OECD as one of the reasons for Poland having one of the worst working conditions among OECD countries, placing it only ahead of Turkey and Mexico. In terms of unemployment risk among OECD countries, Poland was comparable to the United States, and ahead of Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia, Ireland, Greece and Spain, but below most northwestern European countries, as well as Australia, Japan and South Korea.
Unemployment benefits.
To get unemployment benefits in Poland, one has to register with the appropriate government office and demonstrate "the lack of the possibility to be employed or to be professionally activated within the field of activities proposed by the said office, have worked for a total of at least 365 days in the period of 18 months before registering with the said government office." In March 2014 it was reported that 13.6% of the registered unemployed were eligible for the unemployment benefits.


Doug Church

Doug Church (born November 16, 1968 in Evanston, Illinois), is an American video game designer and producer. He attended MIT in the late 1980s, but left and went to work with Looking Glass Studios, when they were making primarily MS-DOS-based immersive sim games, including ', ', "System Shock" and "Thief". His colleague Warren Spector claims, in fact, that Church was the one who originally coined the term "immersive simulation".
Later, Church joined Eidos Interactive as technical director, lending programming and design expertise on a number of games from Ion Storm and Crystal Dynamics, including extensive design work on "". In 2005, he left Eidos to join Electronic Arts.
In 2003, Church was given the International Game Developers Association's Community Contribution award, in part for his work as co-chair of the IGDA's educational committee developing relationships between the game industry and academia. He has also participated in many of the Indie Game Jams, including developing "Angry God Bowling," the prototypical game for the first IGJ.
From July 2005 to 2009, Church worked at Electronic Arts' Los Angeles office, as team leader on a project supervised by filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
On March 16, 2011, Valve announced that Church had been hired for an undisclosed position and project.
In August 2016, OtherSide Entertainment announced that Church had been hired as a creative consultant for the development of "System Shock 3".
Games.
Church worked on the following games:


Office of The Industrial Tribunals and The Fair Employment Tribunal

The Office of the Industrial Tribunals and Fair Employment Tribunal (OITFET) is a Government body in Northern Ireland which is responsible for the facilitation of employment tribunals.
Industrial tribunals are independent judicial bodies in Northern Ireland that hear and determine claims to do with employment matters. These include a range of claims relating to unfair dismissal, breach of contract, wages and other payments as well as discrimination on the grounds of sex, race discrimination, disability discrimination, sexual orientation, age, part-time working and equal pay. "The Fair Employment Tribunal" is an independent judicial body in Northern Ireland that hears and determines complaints of discrimination on the grounds of religious belief or political opinion.
It is staffed by 59 personnel responsible for the administration and organisation of the tribunals. The staff are provided by the Department for the Economy (DfE) and the team is led by the Secretary of the Tribunals.
Industrial Tribunals.
The jurisdiction of an industrial tribunal to hear and determine complaints is subject to Article 85 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.
Where a complaint has been made to the Fair Employment Tribunal of unlawful discrimination on the grounds of religious belief or political opinion and it appears that this complaint is one in respect of which:
then the President or Vice President may direct that these matters shall be heard by the Fair Employment Tribunal and not by an industrial tribunal. For these purposes the Fair Employment Tribunal has the jurisdiction and powers of an industrial tribunal. Before such a direction is made however, a notice will be sent to those concerned, giving them an opportunity to show cause why such a direction should not be made.
Industrial Tribunals sit mainly in Belfast but in certain circumstances may use other centres throughout Northern Ireland.
Fair Employment Tribunals.
The Fair Employment Tribunal deals with claims of discrimination on the grounds of religious belief or political opinion.
The statutory regulations governing its proceedings are The Fair Employment Tribunal (Rules of Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005. Tribunals are like courts but are not as formal; for example, nobody wears a wig or a gown. However like a court it must act independently and cannot give legal advice. Almost all hearings are open to the public. The Fair Employment Tribunal sits in Belfast.
Persons (or other bodies) bringing claims to a tribunal are known as claimants and those against whom such claims are brought are known as respondents.


Bertrand Serlet

Bertrand Serlet (; born 1960) is a French software engineer; he worked first at the "Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique" (INRIA) before leaving France for the United States in 1985. He was the Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Inc.
Education.
Serlet graduated from École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Université Paris-Sud 11.
Career.
He was the former Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Inc., where he worked from 1997 to 2011. He succeeded Avie Tevanian in the position in July 2003. In this position he was primarily responsible for the release of Mac OS X (including 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard). He led development of the Workspace manager in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP.
Before joining Apple he worked at Xerox PARC and NeXT.
Serlet spoke at WWDC 2006 on the perceived similarities between Mac OS X Tiger and Windows Vista, including comparing Apple's Aqua interface and Microsoft's Aero interface. He poked fun at the apparent visual similarities and referenced a 2004 WWDC banner that read, "Redmond, start your photocopiers" — a reference to Microsoft headquarters, which is located in Redmond, Washington. He also spoke at WWDC 2009 and gave an in-depth demonstration of Snow Leopard, which included further references to Microsoft's Windows operating system — claiming that Windows 7 is just another version of their widely criticized Vista release, citing the ongoing use of the Windows Registry, DLLs, the User Account Control (UAC) subsystem and existence of an interactive disk defragmenter.
On March 23, 2011, Apple announced that Serlet was leaving the company "to focus less on products and more on science."
According to "Business Insider", he has founded a startup in cloud computing called Upthere along with other former Apple employees. In November, 2012, Upthere raised an undisclosed amount of venture capital funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Elevation Partners, and Google Ventures. Upthere was acquired by Western Digital on August 28, 2017.
In July 2012 he joined the board of directors of Parallels, Inc.
In 2015, he co-founded data center technology company Fungible with former Juniper Networks' CEO Pradeep Sindhu.
In an interview with INRIA, he shared details about Grokable, a small stealth startup he is working on. According to Serlet, Grokable is "a purely scientific and highly innovative project that involves imitating animal intelligence."


Ravi Arimilli

Ravi Arimilli (born 1963) is an IBM Fellow and Chief Architect. Largely responsible for development of the POWER5, he is one of the most prolific inventors in the world, being awarded 78 patents in 2002 and a further 53 in 2003. He has over 507 patents to his name and is listed among the most prolific inventors in the world as measured by U.S. utility patents.
Arimilli moved with his family to the United States from Andhra Pradesh, India, in 1969. He studied at Louisiana State University, and joined IBM in 1985. His expertise includes symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system structures, cache/memory hierarchies and system bus protocols.


Christian Ludwig Bokelmann

Christian Ludwig Bokelmann (4 February 1844 in St.Jürgen, near Bremen – 14 May 1894 in Berlin) was a German genre painter in the Realistic and Naturalistic styles; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
Biography.
His father was a teacher and organist. At the request of his parents, he studied business in Lüneburg and Hamburg-Harburg, with the aim of becoming a merchant. He worked in a cigar factory first, then a comb factory. After his father's death in 1868, he followed his true inclinations and enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Ludwig Knaus until 1871. After that, he took private lessons from Wilhelm Sohn.
In 1873, he had his first major showing at the World Exposition in Vienna and, the following year, began exhibiting regularly at the Prussian Academy of Arts. In 1877, he was awarded a gold medal at an exhibition in Ghent. During the 1880s, he undertook an extensive study trip through the marshlands of North Friesland; inspired by the "Volkskunde" (ethnographic) approach to painting, pioneered by Rudolf Jordan. In 1883, he became associated with the artists' colony at Katwijk.
From 1892 to 1893, he worked as a professor of genre painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, then transferred to the Berlin University of the Arts. In both positions, his friend, Fritz Mackensen, served as his personal assistant. He also became a member of "", a progressive art society in Düsseldorf, and the Prussian Academy.
He died after falling off a ladder in his studio, while attempting to hang a laurel wreath that had been given to him by his students on the occasion of his 50th birthday.


Borozan

Borozan () is a Serbian-Montenegrin and Croatian, surname, meaning "trumpeter". The etymology of the word is Ottoman Turkish, from the native Turkish "boru" ("pipe", "tube", "trumpet", "bugle") and the Persian suffix "-zen" or "-zan" denoting one who plays an instrument.
People named Borozan include:


Guido Benjamin Pardo-Roques

Guido Pardo-Roques (born 31 July 1956) is an Israeli businessman. He is the president and CEO of Philips Israel and CEO of Philips Medical System Technologies which constitutes the Israel Commercial and Industrial branches of the multinational corporation Royal Philips Electronics.
Biography.
Guido Pardo-Roques was born in Milan, Italy in 1956. The Pardo-Roques family comes from a Jewish Portuguese ancient ancestry with an extended history in Spain and Portugal.
The family was expelled from Spain in 1492 and migrated to Pisa, Italy, in 1586.
In 1975, Pardo-Roques made aliyah (immigration to Israel). In 1980 he completed his bachelor's degree and in 1986, his Master of Science's degree in Electrical Engineering at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). In 2006, Pardo-Roques completed his M.B.A at the University of Haifa.
Pardo-Roques is married to Ketty and has three children.
Business career.
In 1980, Guido Pardo-Roques started his career at Elscint, at that time – a young medical company located in Haifa, which represented one of the symbols of Science and technology in Israel at the time. In 1988, he was asked to lead the development of a Spiral computed tomography scanner that will exceed the performances of any other CT scanner available in the market, and which will feature the ability to obtain two body images for each single rotation in. This unique feature, which will be later named Multi-Slice Technology, allows to reduce the dose of radiation exposure, to obtain double spatial resolution, to substantially reduce by half the imaging time and to perform Computed tomography of the heart, cardiac imaging. Hundreds of man-years were invested on the venture between the years 1988–1992. Technological agreements were signed between the company and academic institutions as well as worldwide industrial partners, within the framework of one of the largest multidisciplinary civilian projects at that time. Hundreds of these scanners were supplied to the most prestigious medical institutions across the world – this could be considered as the Israeli Medical Device Ecosystem "Big Bang", part of Israeli Start-Up Nation.
Guido Pardo-Roques is the "father" of Multi-Slice Computed Tomography (MSCT). He is Chairman of the Medical Equipment Forum, board member of IAESI, Israel Association of Electronics and Software Industries, board member of IATI, Israel Advanced Technology Industries, member of the Technion Board of Governors.
Pardo-Roques was Project Manager of the CT Twin, the world first Multi-Slice CT scanner launched by Elscint in 1992, for which he was awarded the Rothschild prize for Innovation in 1996. In 1992–2006, he assumed the role of Head of CT R&D for Elscint, Picker and Philips. In 2007, he was appointed CEO of Philips Medical Systems Technologies. In 2012, Pardo-Roques became the president and CEO of Philips Israel.
In 2014, Pardo Roques contributed to the creation of a Healthcare Technological Incubator under the auspices of the Israel Chief Scientist, in the Israel Ministry of Economy with the participation of Philips and Teva (as part of Sanara Ventures investment platform).
Award and recognition.
In 1996, Pardo-Roques and his development team were awarded the Rothschild Prize for Innovation, the prize was handed by Ezer Weizman, former President of the State of Israel.
1996 – Rothschild prize for innovation


Robert Kyncl

Robert Kyncl is an American business executive. He is the Chief Business Officer at YouTube where he oversees all business functions, partnerships and operations. Previously, Kyncl was Vice President of Content Acquisitions at Netflix, where he spearheaded the company's content acquisition for streaming TV shows and movies over the Internet. Mr and Mrs Kyncl reside with their two daughters in Los Angeles and founded Kyncl Family Foundation focused on supporting educational needs of underrepresented communities.
Early life and education.
Kyncl was born in Czechoslovakia and received a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz and an MBA from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
Career.
Kyncl previously worked at Netflix and HBO.
Speaking.
Robert Kyncl represented YouTube in a number of global events throughout 2012 and 2013, including: the 2012 International CES, the 2012 MIPCOM in Cannes, France, the 2012 Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Vidcon, one of the world's first and largest conferences dedicated to the medium of online video, in addition to talks at the Producers Guild in the United States and Think with Google in Argentina.
Robert appeared on popular YouTuber's channel Casey Neistat, in order to discuss the future of YouTube and the Logan Paul controversy. However. this was criticized by thousands of users who argued that he didn't answer many of the questions asked, and also that Casey didn't ask several important questions for the sake of avoiding confrontation.
Honors and awards.
Kyncl was listed in "Variety"'s 2012 Dealmakers Impact Report as a "Disruptor", Vanity Fair's New Establishment List in 2013 and 2012, "Billboard" magazine's Power 100 List in 2015," 2014, 2013, and 2012, Billboard's International Power Players List in 2014, Billboard's Digital Power Players List in 2015, and Adweek's "Top 50 Execs Who Make the Wheels Turn.""
On October 18, 2012, CoachArt, a local non-profit that provides arts and athletic lessons for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses, held their eighth annual Gala of Champions supporting the art of improving lives. The fundraising event was held at the Beverly Hilton was hosted by TV-personality Justin Willman and featured performances from Katrina Parker and Justin Hopkins, contestants on NBC's hit show "The Voice". Presenters Dean Norris and Jeffrey Katzenberg honored Robert Kyncl, Google/YouTube Head of Content, with the Heart and Humanity Champion Award and actor Nestor Serrano with the Champion Award of Courage and Hope. The event raised over $825,000 in donations.


Felix Gantmacher

Felix Ruvimovich Gantmacher () (23 February 1908 – 16 May 1964) was a Soviet mathematician, professor at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, well known for his contributions in mechanics, linear algebra and Lie group theory. In 1925–1926 he participated in seminar guided by Nikolai Chebotaryov in Odessa and wrote his first research paper in 1926.
His book "Theory of Matrices" (1953) is a standard reference of linear algebra. It has been translated into various languages including a two-volume version in English prepared by Joel Lee Brenner, Donald W. Bushaw, and S. Evanusa. George Herbert Weiss noted that "this book cannot be recommended too highly as it contains material otherwise unavailable in book form".
Gantmacher collaborated with Mark Krein on "Oscillation Matrices and Kernels and Small Vibrations of Mechanical Systems".
In 1939 he contributed to the classification problem of the real Lie algebras.
In the same year he wrote on automorphisms of complex Lie groups.
His son Vsevolod Gantmacher is a noted physicist.


American McGee

American James McGee (born December 13, 1972) is an American video game designer. He is best known as the designer of "American McGee's Alice", its sequel "", and his works on various video games from id Software.
Early life.
American James McGee was born on December 13, 1972, in Dallas, Texas to an eccentric mother who was a house painter. His only interaction with his biological father was on his 13th birthday, a meeting which turned violent as McGee's father drunkenly assaulted him that night. McGee was highly creative and was gifted in mathematics and science, taking an early interest in computer programming. He was eventually accepted to a magnet school for computer science.
In explaining where his name came from, McGee has said that his mother was a hippie and was inspired by a woman she knew in college that named her child "America":
McGee had a number of stepfathers when growing up until his mother finally settled into a relationship with a transgender woman. When McGee was sixteen, he came home from school and found his house empty and abandoned; the only things left were his bed, his books, his clothes and his Commodore 64 computer. His mother had sold the house to pay for two plane tickets and the fee for her girlfriend's sex reassignment surgery, leaving him on his own. He packed up his computer, dropped out of high school and took a variety of odd jobs, finally settling on a Volkswagen repair shop.
Career.
id Software.
At 21, McGee, an automobile and gaming enthusiast, moved to an apartment complex where he met and befriended John Carmack. Carmack offered McGee a tech support job at id Software, where he was quickly promoted to level designer and music manager. McGee, along with Kevin Cloud and Tim Willits, were part of id Software's "second generation" of developers, working on games such as "The Ultimate Doom", "Doom II", "Quake" and "Quake II".
In 1998, McGee was fired from id Software. Later, McGee would say that the day he got fired was very meaningful to him:
Electronic Arts.
McGee soon joined Electronic Arts and worked as creative director on "American McGee's Alice" (with Rogue Entertainment), which garnered favorable reviews. Discussions began soon after the game's release about making a film adaptation of the game; initially Wes Craven was attached to direct the film, and later actress Sarah Michelle Gellar bought the film rights, but the film has remained languished in development hell.
After finishing "Alice", McGee left EA "in frustration" when the company fired his creative partner R. J. Berg and shut down Rogue Entertainment. In 2002, McGee founded the short-lived Carbon6, which two years later became known as Mauretania Import Export Company.
The Mauretania Import Export Company.
McGee directed the 2002 music video for the song "Same Ol' Road" by the band dredg, from their album "El Cielo". Partnering with Enlight Software and its founder Trevor Chan, McGee released the games "Scrapland" in 2004 and "Bad Day L.A." in 2006.
Spicy Horse.
The planned "American McGee's Oz", which was to be produced in conjunction with Ronin Games, was canceled over financial difficulties at Atari. "American McGee's Grimm", developed by his Shanghai-based game development studio Spicy Horse for the online service GameTap, was released in 23 weekly episodic segments, starting in 2007.
At the 2009 D.I.C.E. Summit, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello announced that a sequel to "American McGee's Alice" was in development for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by McGee's Spicy Horse studio. In July 2010, at the EA Showcase in San Francisco, Spicy Horse and EA announced that sequel's title, "", released less than one year after its announcement, on June 14, 2011.
More recently, McGee's Spicy Horse expanded to include another brand, Spicy Pony, to produce digital mobile media games for the iPhone platform. Their first title, "DexIQ", was released in early December 2009, and its follow-up, "Crooked House", was released in March 2010 (both had iPad versions released in June 2010). On December 17, 2010, McGee's old company The Mauretania Import Export Company was dissolved and all intellectual property was transferred to Spicy Horse.
In 2012, McGee was focusing on Free-To-Play games for mobile devices with BigHead Bash, Akaneiro, and Crazy Fairies. In 2013, he opened a Kickstarter for a new game, "American McGee's OZombie", however due to slow/lackluster funding the project was canceled. Another Kickstarter for a project called "", a planned series of short films leading to a theatrical film, was announced a few days later. This reached its goal on August 4, 2013, and was officially confirmed.
Independent.
In July 2016, McGee announced the closure of Spicy Horse. Inspired by Jacques Cousteau, he is now pursuing the "life at sea;" travelling, making games and doing vlogs across South East Asia on a sailboat. He created a Patreon account to seek support for this endeavor. In February 2017, McGee started his annual Pirate Jam, which is a pirate-themed Game Jam sailing around Thailand.
American McGee is currently working on the third Alice game, "Alice: Asylum", with a targeted release date in 2021. McGee is designing the game with the help of the fans in a concept he calls Crowd Design, named after Crowdfunding. Pre-production is being financially supported via Patreon.
Personal life.
McGee has stated his mission is "to create a unified production method for story telling across the interactive and film industries" and of himself, he says, "I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked."
In 2005, McGee left the United States and resided for a time in Hong Kong before moving to Shanghai, where he lived as of 2009. Once in China, he created Spicy Horse, at one point the largest independent Western game development house in the nation, and helped found Blade (formerly Vykarian), a game outsourcing company. They produced "American McGee's Grimm" for GameTap (now owned by Metaboli) and worked on the sequel to his original "Alice" game, "".
He also mentions that his inspiration for the macabre tone of "Alice" comes from his disturbing, dysfunctional childhood.
McGee continues to live in Shanghai with his partner, Zhang Yan. The couple co-founded Mysterious, Inc., a company that markets art, apparel, and accessories based on McGee's works. The couple have one child, Lucky Jack McGee (张吉克).
One of McGee's favorite books is Stephen King's "".


Donald F. Ferguson

Donald Ferguson (born 1960) is a Professor of Professional Practice in Computer Science at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia in 2018, he was vice president and CTO for software at Dell. Previously he was CTO, Distinguished Engineer and Executive VP at CA, Inc., formerly known as Computer Associates.
Education.
Ferguson graduated with a BA from Columbia University in 1982, a MS in 1984, and a PhD in computer science in 1989. His thesis studied the application of economic models to the management of system resources in distributed systems.
Career.
IBM.
From 1985 to 2007, Ferguson worked for IBM, being appointed IBM Fellow in 2001, and chief architect for IBM's Software Group (SWG). He provided overall technical leadership for IBM WebSphere, Tivoli Software, IBM DB2, Rational Software and Lotus Software products. He also chaired the SWG Architecture Board (SWG AB). The SWG AB focused on product integration, cross-product initiatives and emerging technology. Some of the public focus areas were web services, patterns, web 2.0 and business-driven development. Ferguson guided IBM's strategy and architecture for SOA and web services, and co-authored many of the initial web-service specifications.
Previously, he had been the chief architect for WebSphere and the WebSphere products, which provide support for dynamic web applications. Prior to transferring to IBM SWG, Ferguson was a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Microsoft.
From 2007 to 2008, he worked at Microsoft as a technical fellow in platforms and strategy in the office of the CTO.
CA.
Ferguson joined CA in March 2008.
Dell.
Ferguson joined Dell in June 2012 as VP and CTO for Dell Software.
Awards.
Ferguson received the 2013 Columbia School of Engineering and applied Science Alumni Association Egleston Medal for Distinguished Engineering Achievement.


Mark Gilbert

Mark David Gilbert (born August 22, 1956) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball who served as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from 2015 to 2017.
Gilbert played for the Chicago White Sox in 1985. Subsequently, he had a career as an investment banker.
In 2013, United States President Barack Obama nominated Gilbert to be United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. The U.S. Senate confirmed Gilbert on December 12, 2014.
Early and personal life.
Gilbert is Jewish, and was born to a Jewish family in Atlanta, Georgia. He was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his younger brother and sister until 1973, when they moved to Pompano Beach, Florida, where his father and grandfather owned a furniture store. His father Herbert had played professional baseball as an infielder with the Chicago White Sox organization (reaching Triple A), and his grandfather Joseph Gilbert had played semi-pro baseball as a pitcher and been offered a pro baseball contract with the 1919 Philadelphia Athletics.
He is married to Nancy Gilbert. She owns The Masorti Travel Bureau, which developed the itinerary of the first trip of Birthright Israel, an organization that arranges free trips to Israel for first-time visiting Jewish students ages 18 to 25. The couple has two daughters, Dani and Elizabeth. Gilbert served for three terms as the President of B'nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, Florida, and the Gilberts live in Boca Raton.
High school and college.
Gilbert starred in baseball, basketball (as a point guard), and track at Churchill High School in Pennsylvania (which later merged with two other schools forming Woodland Hills High School), and subsequently at Pine Crest High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was a High School All American in basketball, and All State in baseball.
Gilbert earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Florida State University. In his senior year at Florida State he batted .322 for the Seminoles baseball team, with 48 stolen bases. He also played basketball for the Florida State Seminoles basketball team for one season.
Professional baseball career.
Gilbert was picked by the Chicago Cubs in the 14th round of the 1978 Major League Baseball draft, and signed with the Cubs that summer. In his debut professional year, in 1978, he batted .338 (5th in the Class A- New York-Pennsylvania League), led the league with 83 runs scored, and stole 35 bases (2nd in the league) for the Geneva Cubs, while playing 65 games as a switch-hitting center fielder. In 1979 he batted .314 (2nd in the Class A Midwest League) and stole 50 bases (3rd in the league) while scoring 80 runs (7th in the league) for the Quad Cities Cubs.
On October 12, 1979, Gilbert was traded by the Chicago Cubs to the Cincinnati Reds, completing a trade in which the Reds had traded Doug Capilla to the Cubs in exchange for a player to be named later on May 3, 1979. He played for the Waterbury Reds in 1980-82, batting .300 (7th in the Class AA Eastern League) with 41 stolen bases (4th in the league) his last year with the team. In 1983 he played for the Indianapolis Indians of the AAA American Association, and in 1984 he played for the Wichita Aeros of the American Association, batting .280 and stealing 55 bases (3rd in the league) and tying for the league lead in walks (77). He became a free agent due to his length of service in the minor leagues on October 11, 1984, and that December 25 he was signed by the Chicago White Sox.
Gilbert was promoted to the major league team from the Chicago White Sox's Triple-A Buffalo Bisons of the American Association in July 1985, and went on to play seven games for the team. He had six hits (five singles, and a double off Dennis Martínez). After a week with the White Sox, Gilbert dove for a line drive, injured his right knee, and was sent back to the minor leagues. On October 15, he was granted free agency. The following year, he left baseball and had knee surgery in February 1986.
Gilbert told the "Chicago Tribune"'s Jerome Holtzman that during his career he endured through seven and a half years of playing in baseball's minor leagues because of his ambition to be listed in the "Baseball Encyclopedia". In 1992, Gilbert reflected on his baseball career to Holtzman, saying, "I think everybody thought I would flip out after I was told I couldn't play anymore. I didn't. I had played 22 straight years of organized baseball, since I was 7. I had had enough. I would have continued playing if I hadn't hurt my knee. But I was looking forward to doing something else." He added that his career was worth it: "Absolutely. Everywhere I played I had fun. The most impressive thing being with the White Sox was how congenial everybody was. Carlton Fisk. Harold Baines. Tom Seaver. They were all superstars. Yet they were extremely nice to me and tried to help me as much as they could. No question. It was worth it."
After Gilbert was nominated to be a U.S. Ambassador in 2013, his former major league manager, Tony La Russa, told the Associated Press: "Sure, I remember him. I was always taken with his intelligence and how he was committed to what we were trying to teach — to become a teammate, a competitor, and to pursue excellence as a professional. You do that and get a proper foundation and out of the bottom, out drops your fame and fortune. I think he's now raised his excellence to a new level."
Finance career.
 After baseball, Gilbert worked as an investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert in Boca Raton, Florida from 1986 until 1989, and then as a senior vice president in the equities division at Goldman Sachs in Miami from 1989 until 1996. Gilbert then joined Lehman Brothers in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1996, and remained with the firm as it became Barclays Wealth.
Political fundraising.
In 2004, Gilbert was a trustee on the national finance committee for the presidential campaign of John Kerry. In 2007, Gilbert began a close relationship as a fundraiser for then-Sen. Barack Obama, and quickly became an early supporter of Obama's successful presidential bid. In 2007, Gilbert was appointed deputy national finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee. Ultimately, Gilbert served as a fundraiser for both of Obama's presidential campaigns. In 2012, the "New York Times" reported that Gilbert had raised $1.23 million for Obama in 2011 and 2012, and a total of $3.36 million since 2007.
Ambassadorship.
On October 30, 2013, Obama nominated Gilbert to be United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. The United States Senate confirmed Gilbert in a voice vote on December 12, 2014.
The United States State Department has no record of any other former major league baseball player serving as an ambassador. While Dennis Martínez, Cal Ripken Jr., and Barry Larkin have served the State Department in roles such as diplomacy envoys, goodwill ambassadors, and baseball sports envoys, Gilbert is the first credentialed ambassador who is a veteran of major league baseball.


George von Mallinckrodt

Georg Wilhelm Gustav von Mallinckrodt HonKBE (19 August 1930 – 16 January 2021) was a German merchant banker, whose career at Schroders spanned 54 years, from joining the business as a trainee in 1954, and included 31 years on the Board of Directors and 11 years as executive chairman before retiring in 2008. He died after a long illness on 16 January 2021.
Early life.
Von Mallinckrodt was born on 19 August 1930 at Eichholz, Wesseling, to Arnold Wilhelm von Mallinckrodt and wice Valentine von Mallinckrodt (née von Joest). He was educated at Schule Schloss Salem near Lake Constance, where Kurt Hahn was a significant presence after the Second World War.
He was the eldest of three children. His father, Arnold, hailed from a family of private bankers in Antwerp and later Frankfurt (Mallinckrodt et Companie) and his mother, Valentine (née von Joest), came from an industrial family in Cologne. The family lived in Paris, where Arnold was Managing Director of Agfa Gevaert. At the outbreak of war, they had to leave Paris suddenly in September 1939 and were interned in Basel before being allowed to return to Germany.
Mallinckrodt attended Salem from 1940. Initially school life was calm but in 1944 the SS took over the running of the school. Things changed radically when the new teaching staff attempted to indoctrinate the pupils. Mallinckrodt rebelled in various ways, was severely punished and, on two occasions, sent to work in munitions factories.
After leaving school, Mallinckrodt did an apprenticeship in precision mechanics with Agfa AG from 1948 to 1951.
Business career.
Von Mallinckrodt started his career in trainee roles at a number of merchant banks, including Münchmeyer & Co. in Hamburg in 1951, before moving to Kleinwort Sons & Co. in London in 1953.
In 1954, he joined Schroders as a trainee in the J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation in New York. He returned to London in 1960 to help drive Schroders’ expansion into Europe. He assisted with the establishment of Schroders’ offices in Frankfurt, Paris and Zurich throughout the 1960s and was appointed to the Board of Directors of Schroders plc in 1977 with responsibility for the United States, Continental Europe and the Middle East. In 1983, he became President and Chief Executive of Schroders in the United States, and in 1984 he was also appointed Executive Chairman of Schroders plc, a position he held until 1995. He remained on the Board until his retirement in 2008 and served as President of the company from 1995 to 2017.
Outside of his role at Schroders, von Mallinckrodt held directorships in a number of other companies. He was a non-executive director of Siemens Holdings plc between 1989 and 2000 and was an adviser to Bain & Company. He was a founding member of the World Economic Forum and Chairman of its Council from 1995 to 1997. He was also vice-president of the German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce, a member of the INSEAD Circle of Patrons, a member of the Dean’s Council at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a member of the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors at Oxford University.
Civic and charitable activities.
Von Mallinckrodt was involved with the Institute of Business Ethics as well as being a trustee of Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs (CRPA) and a Christian trustee of the Committee of the Interfaith Foundation.
He was a Trustee of the European Arts Foundation from 1987 to 2002 and a Trustee of the Prague Heritage Fund from 1992 to 2004. He established a number of fellowships and professorships at well-known universities, including the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri where, together with his wife, he endowed a professorship in plant biology. He also had close connections with INSEAD, where a fellowship in international finance and asset management was funded by Schroders in his name.
He was keenly interested in developing better Anglo-German relations and was an early supporter of the Königswinter Conference. He supported a number of charities connected with the German community in the United Kingdom, including serving as President of the German YMCA for over forty years.
Von Mallinckrodt had a strong interest in and enjoyed the natural environment. He was an early member of the .
Arts.
Von Mallinckrodt developed a close connection with the Bodleian Library and Vatican Library and had a keen interest in "incunabula". His ancestor, Bernhard von Mallinckrodt (1591-1664) was an early bibliophile. He served on the National Art Collections Development Fund from 1995 to 2005, the British Museum Development Trust Council, St. George’s College Foundation, Windsor and chaired the German Festival of Arts & Music in London in 1987.
Personal life.
In 1958, he married Charmaine Schroder, daughter of Helmut Schroder and the great-great granddaughter of John Henry Schroder, who co-founded the Schroders businesses in 1804. Together they had four children and eleven grandchildren.
Von Mallinckrodt was a keen walker and skier and enjoyed spending time at his family home in Bavaria.
Honours.
Von Mallinckrodt was awarded an Honorary KBE in 1997 in recognition of his service to the UK’s banking and finance industry. He was awarded the Grosse Verdienstkreuz in 2001 by the President of the Bundesrepublik of Germany for services to business and philanthropy (following the Verdienstkreuz am Bande in 1986 and Verdienstkreuz 1 Klasse in 1991) and was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2004. Mallinckrodt was awarded the annual Sternberg Interfaith award in 2005 and in 2012 he was granted a Papal Knighthood from the Order of St. Gregory the Greaty by Pope Benedict XVI.


Maynard Dixon

Maynard Dixon (January 24, 1875 – November 11, 1946) was an American artist whose body of work focused on the American West. He was married for a time to American photographer Dorothea Lange.
Together with Fernand Lungren (1857–1932), another California (i.e. Santa Barbara, California) based artist, Maynard Dixon is considered one of the finest artists having dedicated most of their art on the U.S. southwestern cultures and landscapes at the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.
Biography.
He was born Lafayette Maynard Dixon in Fresno, California, named after his maternal grandfather. His family of aristocratic Virginia Confederates had found a new home in California after the American Civil War. His mother, Constance Maynard, a well-educated daughter of a Navy officer from San Francisco, shared her love of classic literature with the young boy and encouraged him in his writing and drawing. His father was Harry St. John Dixon.
Dixon moved to San Francisco and studied briefly in 1893 with Arthur Mathews at the California School of Design where he became a close friend of the Tonalist painter Xavier Martinez, with whom he traveled to Monterey, Carmel, and Point Lobos. In 1900 Dixon visited Arizona and Mexico and a year later he accompanied artist Edward Borein on a horseback trip through several western states. Also in 1900 Dixon arranged for the debut exhibition of the soon-to-be-famous sculptor Arthur Putnam in the “jinks room” of the San Francisco Press Club. Dixon's sketching trip thru Arizona and Guadalajara in March and April 1905 with Martinez garnered much attention in the press. Dixon moved into Martinez's Montgomery Street atelier; their joint studio exhibitions were usually held on Saturdays. To insure a steady income, he worked as an illustrator for local newspapers and magazines (including the "Overland Monthly" and "Sunset" magazine), and illustrated numerous books, such as Clarence E. Mulford’s Hopalong Cassidy.
For his first exhibition in the southwest, Dixon contributed four oils to the show of Modern Art From The American West curated by the well-known impressionist Jennie V. Cannon at the University of Arizona in Tucson in December of 1912.
In 1917, to support America’s entry into World War I, Maynard Dixon joined Lee F. Randolph, Bruce Nelson, and other prominent artists on a committee to redesign the U.S. Army camouflage.
During his long tenure in northern California, he became a prolific contributor to art exhibitions. His first publicized exhibition was a show of “regional artists” in Alameda, California during the spring of 1899. Thereafter he exhibited at almost every major venue: California Society of Artists (1902); Bohemian Club (1903–1928); San Francisco Art Association (1903–1931); Newspaper Artists League (1903); Press Club (1904); Hotel Del Monte Art Gallery (1907–1909); Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915); Gump's Gallery (1920 – solo exhibition); San Francisco Print Rooms (1920 – this show was later sent to Honolulu); San Francisco's Don Lee Galleries (1923); Oakland Art Gallery (1926–1928); Galerie Beaux Arts (1925–1930); University of California, Berkeley (1928); California State Fair (1928); and Golden Gate International Exposition (1939).
In March 1926, he acted as co-curator with Laura Adams Armer for an exhibit of “Pueblo and Navajo Arts & Crafts” at the Paul Elder Gallery of San Francisco under the auspices of the Indian Defense Association of Central and Northern California. In 1927 Dixon joined several prominent artists in a boycott of the Bohemian Club Annual Exhibition when works of the more “modern” artists were excluded. During February 1930 he was one of a handful of artists, which included Ralph Stackpole, Otis Oldfield, Helen Katharine Forbes, and several others, who contributed to a Galerie Beaux Arts show where the subject of every painting was the same female model. During the summer of 1931 he exhibited with the most prominent artists of the west, including William Ritschel, Armin Hansen, Granville Redmond, and Leland Curtis, at the Tahoe Tavern on Lake Tahoe. Between 1935 and 1943 he was a member of the Society of the Thirteen Watercolorists that exhibited at the: San Francisco Museum of Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (museum), Stanford University Art Gallery; and the de Young Museum.
For a time, he lived in New York with his young wife and baby daughter Constance, but soon returned to the western United States where he said he could create "honest art of the west" instead of the romanticized versions he was being paid to create. Shortly after he began a new life in San Francisco, his first marriage ended.
Dixon developed his style during this early period, and western themes became a trademark for him. In San Francisco, Dixon was considered a colorful character with a good sense of humor. He often dressed like a cowboy and seemed determined to impart a western style, most often in the form of a black Stetson hat, boots, and a bola tie.
Influenced in part by the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, Dixon began to search for a new expression, moving away from impressionism and into a simpler, more modern style. Meeting and marrying Dorothea Lange, a portrait photographer from the east, had a great influence on his art. They married in 1920 and by 1925, the year their first son Daniel Rhodes Dixon was born (15 May), Maynard's style had changed dramatically to even more powerful compositions, with the emphasis on design, color, and self-expression. A true modernist emerged. The power of low horizons and marching cloud formations, simplified, and distilled, became his own brand and at once were both bold and mysterious. On 12 June 1928, his second son was born, John Eaglefeather Dixon.
During the Great Depression, Dixon painted a series of social realism canvases depicting the prevailing politics of maritime strikes, displaced workers, and those affected by the depression. Simultaneously, Lange captured on film images of the migrant workers in the Salinas Valley and the city breadlines, images that eventually brought her fame. In 1933 the Dixons spent the summer in Zion National Park with sojourns to the hamlet of Mount Carmel, Utah. Lange was called back to San Francisco, a separation that led to the couple's divorce in 1935.
Two years later, Dixon married San Francisco muralist Edith Hamlin. The couple left San Francisco two years later for southern Utah, the source of some of Dixon's greatest art. In 1939, the couple built a summer home in Mount Carmel, where Dixon found new friends and became reacquainted with the local natural landscapes. He lived near the cottonwood trees along an old irrigation ditch and took short hikes to a plateau where he loved the quiet. Dixon spent winter months in Tucson, where the couple also had a home and studio.
Dixon continued to create simple but powerful compositions in which non-essential elements were distilled or eliminated. In 1946, Maynard died at his winter home in Tucson. In the spring of 1947, his widow Edith brought his ashes to Mount Carmel where she buried them on a high bluff above the art studio being built on the property. This had been at his request and she felt it a fitting tribute where friends could come to pay respects and view the land that he loved.
In addition to painting, he also wrote poetry. An article in the "California Historical Quarterly" described his poetry as "very competent and sometimes superb".
Legacy.
Maynard Dixon loved the West and declared, "The spirit of the West sings in every soul."
There are two museums devoted to Maynard Dixon and his works.
The Maynard and Edith Hamlin Dixon House and Studio, operated by the Thunderbird Foundation, offers guided tours by appointment of his home and studio in Mount Carmel, Utah. The foundation is working to establish a separate museum and regional art center that would feature works by Maynard Dixon and his circle, Milford Zornes and his circle, as well as contemporary work by local artists.
The Maynard Dixon Museum is located inside the Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson, Arizona. Works by the artist include paintings, watercolors, pastels, drawings, poetry, and illustrations.
The world's largest collection of Dixon's works is owned by Brigham Young University, where it can be viewed at the Museum of Art.


Bud Tribble

Guy L. "Bud" Tribble is Vice President of Software Technology at Apple Inc.
Work.
Tribble was a member of the original Apple Macintosh design team. He served as manager of the software development team, and helped to design the classic Mac OS and its user interface. He was among the founders of NeXT, Inc., serving as NeXT's vice president of software development. Tribble is one of the industry's top experts in software design and object-oriented programming.
Tribble's career includes time at Sun Microsystems and Eazel. At Eazel, he was vice president of Engineering leading development of next generation user interface software and Internet services for Linux computers. Tribble was also chief technology officer for the Sun-Netscape Alliance, responsible for guiding Internet and e-commerce software R&D. Tribble earned a BA degree in physics at the University of California, San Diego, and an MD and PhD in biophysics and physiology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Tribble is one of three "policy czars" at Apple (along with Jane Horvath and Erik Neuenschwander) who spends a significant amount of time on privacy. Any collection of Apple customer data requires sign-off from a committee of the three privacy czars and a top executive, according to four former employees of Apple who worked on a variety of products that went through privacy vetting.