Ed Liddy

Edward "Ed" Liddy (born January 28, 1946) is an American businessman who was chairman of The Allstate Corporation from 1999 to 2008.
In September 2008, at the request of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Liddy agreed to serve as interim chairman and chief executive officer of American International Group, Inc. (AIG). His placement in the role was one of numerous government actions to provide stability to U.S. financial firms during the global financial crisis. Liddy requested a salary of just $1 a year.
Early life.
Liddy was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. After the death of his father in 1959, he moved to Clearwater, Florida with his mother and older sister. He was a member of the first graduating class of Clearwater Central Catholic High School in 1964. He earned his bachelor's degree from the Catholic University of America (1968) and MBA from George Washington University (1972).
Career.
Liddy began his career as a financial analyst with Ford Motor Company in 1972. He joined G.D. Searle & Co., and its CEO Donald Rumsfeld, in 1979, eventually becoming CFO. Upon the sale of Searle to Monsanto, he served from 1986 to 1988 as executive vice president and a member of the board of directors of ADT, Inc..
Sears, Roebuck and Co..
Upon the sale of ADT, Liddy joined Sears in April 1988 and served in a variety of financial and senior operating roles before being named chief financial officer in February 1992. In that role, he was the architect and implementer of the successful restructuring of Sears, which involved breaking the company into numerous public companies (Sears, The Allstate Corporation, Dean Witter) and selling non-core assets (Homart Development Company, Coldwell Banker Residential Broker, Sears Mortgage and Sears Savings Bank). He led the 1993 initial public offerings of Dean Witter/Discover and Allstate, two of the largest IPOs ever done at that time. He also led the 1995 spinoff of Allstate from Sears.
The Allstate Corporation.
After the IPO of Allstate, Liddy held positions of increasing responsibility with The Allstate Corporation, the largest publicly held personal lines property and casualty insurer in America, from 1994 to 2008. He served as chairman from January 1999 until his retirement in April 2008. He was chief executive officer from January 1999 until December 2006, and president and chief operating officer from August 1994 to December 1998. Under Liddy’s leadership, the company was streamlined by exiting non-core businesses and the company expanded its distribution system beyond its traditional agency force to reach customers through the internet and call centers. During Liddy’s tenure as president and then CEO, Allstate’s market value more than tripled, from $11 billion (Dec. 31, 1994) to over $40 billion (Dec. 31, 2006).
American International Group.
In September 2008, at the request of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Liddy agreed to serve as interim chairman and chief executive officer of American International Group, Inc. (AIG). His placement in the role was one of numerous government actions to provide stability to U.S. financial firms during the global financial crisis. He requested a salary of just $1 per year.
The restructuring of AIG that Liddy took on was one of the largest in U.S. corporate history. He and the AIG team developed a strategy to stabilize the company and its $1.2 trillion balance sheet; keep the company out of bankruptcy; repay with interest all money invested in the company by various U.S. government entities, which eventually totaled $182 billion; and keep the remaining business that would comprise AIG vital and competitive.
The government bailout of AIG garnered national headlines in May 2009 when AIG, with the concurrence of the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve, paid earned bonuses to employees of its Financial Products Business, determining the payments were contractual obligations. Liddy noted that “honoring contractual commitments is at the heart of what we do in the insurance business.” At the same time, he urged the employees who received $165 million in bonuses to “do the right thing” and return at least part of their bonus."
Once the company was stabilized, a viable plan in place to repay the government assistance and a management team partially in place to execute the strategy, Liddy announced on May 21, 2009 he would resign as AIG chairman and CEO when replacements were found. He suggested the two roles be split. In August 2009, Robert Benmosche took over as CEO and Harvey Golub as chairman.
By December 2012, AIG had fully repaid the entire $182 billion, plus required interest, invested in the company by the government.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC.
Liddy served as a partner in the private equity investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC from April to September 2008 and from January 2010 to December 2015.
Board of directors roles.
Liddy serves on the board of directors of Abbott Laboratories, AbbVie Inc. and the Forum Club of Southwest Florida. He previously served on the board of directors of 3M Company and The Boeing Company.
Philanthropy and civic engagement.
Liddy has been actively involved in a number of philanthropic and civic endeavors. He serves as a life trustee for Northwestern University. He is also life trustee and chairman emeritus of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, a life trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and a life trustee and former national chairman of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. He served as chairman of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago as well as chairman of the club. He also served as chairman of the Executives Club of Chicago and Metropolitan Family Services.


Sam Gyimah

Samuel Phillip Gyimah (; born 10 August 1976) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Surrey from 2010 to 2019. First elected as a Conservative, Gyimah rebelled against the government to block a no-deal Brexit and had the Conservative whip removed in September 2019. He subsequently joined the Liberal Democrats and stood unsuccessfully for them in Kensington at the 2019 general election.
Between 2014 and 2018, after serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and as a government whip, Gyimah was promoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. He served as the Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation from January 2018 until he resigned on 30 November 2018 in protest at Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement.
Early life.
Gyimah was born on 10 August 1976 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. His father Samuel was a GP, and his mother Comfort Mainoo was a midwife. When he was six years old, his parents split up and his mother returned to her native Ghana with Gyimah and his younger brother and sister while his father remained in the UK. For the next ten years, Gyimah attended Achimota School in Accra, Ghana. Gyimah returned to the UK to sit GCSEs and A-levels at Freman College, a state school in Buntingford, Hertfordshire. He then went on to Somerville College at the University of Oxford, where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1997.
Life and career.
On graduation, Gyimah joined Goldman Sachs as an investment banker, leaving the company in 2003 to set up Clearstone Training and Recruitment Limited with fellow future Conservative MP Chris Philp. Gyimah was voted CBI Entrepreneur of the Future 2005. Clearstone and its subsidiaries went into administration in 2007, owing nearly 4 million. In September 2005 Gyimah edited a report by the Bow Group, a Conservative think tank, entitled "From the Ashes: the future of the Conservative Party". He was subsequently elected chairman of the Bow Group from 2006 to 2007. Gyimah stood unsuccessfully for election in Kilburn ward in the 2006 Camden Council election. In December 2009, Gyimah placed third in the Gosport primary election to succeed Peter Viggers, losing to Caroline Dinenage.
Parliamentary career.
Conservative MP (2010–2019).
Following his name being added to the Conservatives' A-List, he was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate for East Surrey and elected at the 2010 general election, making his maiden speech on 29 July 2010. Gyimah became a member of the International Development Select Committee, and stated an interest in harnessing the private sector towards achieving international development goals. He also began to take an active part in debates on education and employment and in some local campaigns to protect the green belt in Surrey.
In 2011, Gyimah produced a report with the think-tank NESTA, "Beyond the Banks: the case for a British Industry and Enterprise Bond", in support of non-bank alternatives for businesses seeking finance. He was the first member of parliament to call for credit-easing as a means of accelerating Britain's economic recovery.
Gyimah was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Prime Minister at the 2012 reshuffle, then became a Government Whip in October 2013, supporting the Prime Minister during the Cameron-Clegg coalition. He supported the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union in the EU referendum of 2016.
Gyimah was Childcare and Education Minister during the progress of the 2015–2016 Childcare Bill, designed to deliver 30 hours per week of funded childcare for working parents of 3 and 4 year olds. The Childcare Bill also required local authorities to publish information about local childcare availability for parents and caregivers. The bill became law as the Childcare Act on 16 March 2016.
On 20 November 2015, Gyimah contributed to the filibustering of the opposition-proposed Compulsory Emergency First Aid Education (State-Funded Secondary Schools) Bill to make the teaching of first aid in secondary schools compulsory. He spoke until the end of the debate, despite requests from the deputy speaker. Gyimah was quoted as being concerned to not overload the National Curriculum.
On 4 July 2016, as Childcare and Education Minister, Gyimah launched Millie's Mark, a voluntary quality mark described as "the new gold standard" for nursery providers that trained all their staff in pediatric first aid.
On 21 October 2016, Gyimah filibustered the Sexual Offences (Pardons) bill (nicknamed the "Turing Bill" after Alan Turing), a private member's bill presented by the Scottish National Party MP John Nicolson that sought to pardon all men convicted of abolished offences under the sodomy laws, on the grounds that granting automatic pardons to all men convicted of historic 'gay sex crimes' would mean that some men who had raped and/or had sex with young men under the age of 16 would be pardoned. Supporters of the bill disputed this, as they proposed conditions for a pardon which included the act being consensual and that it would not be contrary to present-day British law. He instead supported an amendment proposed by the government to existing legislation, in which only dead men convicted of such offences were automatically pardoned, while those who were living would have to apply to the Home Office through a "disregard" process whereby the Secretary of State must be satisfied that the conduct is no longer criminal. The "Turing Bill" became law on 31 January 2017.
Other than the aforementioned Turing Law, Gyimah has consistently voted in favour of LGBT equality, including the right of same-sex couples to marry in all of the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland.
As Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, Gyimah toured university campuses around the country for question-and-answer-sessions with students, staff and the public. He called on Higher Education leaders to prioritize student mental health, and spoke of his own financial struggles as an undergraduate. Gyimah has warned that "there's a culture of censorship in some of our universities" and that threats to freedom of speech were not "some right-wing conspiracy theory that had been made up". Some of the examples he has mentioned included a professor at King's College London who was allegedly reported for hate speech after teaching a history class, and a university's safe-space policy that took 20 minutes to read. In both cases, the universities in question reported that these things did not happen, and the Department for Education clarified later that Gyimah had merely relayed students' anecdotes.
On 30 November 2018, Gyimah became the seventh government minister to resign over Theresa May's Brexit deal, which he called naive, saying "Britain will end up worse off, transformed from rule makers into rule takers. It is a democratic deficit and a loss of sovereignty". He called May's withdrawal agreement "a deal in name only" with many unresolved issues that would leave the UK at the mercy of the European Union with no leverage for many years to come.
He said the UK's weakness in the negotiations over the Galileo satellite navigation project was the final straw and he intended to vote against May's deal in the House of Commons on 11 December 2018, and suggested the public should have the right to a final say on the withdrawal agreement in another referendum with the Article 50 process extended. Gyimah resigned as a minister because he wants to be free to endorse a second referendum on Brexit. In early 2019, he co-founded the group Right to Vote.
On 2 June 2019, Gyimah announced his intention to stand as a candidate for the Conservative Party leadership election. He was the only leadership candidate advocating for a second referendum. He withdrew on 10 June, the day that candidatures were to be formalised.
Conservative whip withdrawal and joining the Liberal Democrats.
On 3 September 2019, Gyimah joined 20 other rebel Conservative MPs to vote against the Conservative government of Boris Johnson. The rebel MPs voted with the Opposition against a Conservative motion which subsequently failed. Effectively, they helped block Johnson's "no deal" Brexit plan from proceeding on 31 October. Subsequently, all 21 were advised that they had lost the Conservative whip, expelling them as Conservative MPs, requiring them to sit as independents. Before the vote Gyimah had described Johnson's position as "For MPs like myself, Downing Street has framed the choice as: speak your mind or keep your job." If they decided to run for re-election in a future election, the Party would block their selection as Conservative candidates.
On 14 September, he joined the Liberal Democrats and was appointed Shadow Secretary for Business, Energy and Industrial Energy the following month. In December at the 2019 general election, he stood for the Liberal Democrats in Kensington, finishing third with 21% of the vote.
After Parliament.
In August 2020, Gyimah joined the board of Oxford University Innovation, a technology transfer and consultancy company created to manage the research and development of University spin-offs.
In September 2020 he presented a programme about the future of higher education in Britain on BBC Radio 4.
In October 2020, Sam Gyimah re-joined Goldman Sachs where he started his career, as a non-executive director of Goldman Sachs International and Goldman Sachs International Bank
Personal life.
Gyimah married Nicky Black in 2012, with whom he has a son and a daughter. They knew each other at Oxford where she was also an Oxford Union president, and reconnected after university. She is a Hong Kong-raised New Zealander. Black previously worked for mining company De Beers, and is the director for social and economic development at the International Council on Mining and Metals.
Gyimah has been a volunteer and fundraiser for Crisis, the Down's Syndrome Association and St. Catherine's Hospice in Surrey. He has served as school governor of an inner London school, on the board of a housing association and on the development board of Somerville College. He is a Vice-President of the Young Epilepsy charity (formerly the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy) in Lingfield, Surrey.


Trollied

Trollied is a British sitcom about employees in a fictional supermarket named "Valco", which debuted on Sky One on 4 August 2011 and ended on 23 December 2018. The series was filmed in a purpose-built replica supermarket in the Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol throughout April and May 2011 for the first series with the second series being filmed in June and July 2012.
At the conclusion of series 1, Sky 1 confirmed that the series had been recommissioned for two additional series of 13 episodes each, and a Christmas Special in 2012. The third series began airing from 22 August 2013 and ended on 7 November 2013. A second Christmas Special for 2013 aired on 24 December 2013. On 20 March 2014 it was announced that Sky had commissioned a fourth series of "Trollied" which aired in October 2014. The fourth series started filming in Bristol in June 2014 and began transmission on 3 November 2014 and concluded on 22 December 2014. A fifth series began airing on 2 November 2015 and ended on 14 December 2015. A Christmas Special aired on 23 December 2015. In April 2016, Jason Watkins confirmed that a sixth series had been commissioned, with filming to begin in June. A sixth series began airing on 7 November 2016, ending with a Christmas Special on 19 December 2016. A seventh series began filming on 11 July 2017, with a Christmas Special set to precede it. On 28 November 2017, it was announced that the Christmas Special would air on 24 December 2017. A seventh series began airing on 2 January 2018. On 23 August 2018, it was announced that "Trollied" would end with a final Christmas special, which broadcast on 23 December 2018.
Plot summary.
The show takes place in the fictional supermarket of Valco in Warrington, Cheshire, where the hapless staff deal with the everyday problems of running a value supermarket in the north west of England. The show explores the relationships between the staff, customers and managers as romances and rivalries blossom on the shop floor, along with a realistic supermarket atmosphere that customers and store employees in reality can relate to. This includes customer stereotypes and rivalries with other store branches such as Valco in Wigan.
Location.
The series was filmed on a set built by Sky TV at the Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol, UK. Between series 3 & 4, the BBC2 motoring entertainment show "Top Gear" destroyed some of the set by driving through it with three 1980's era hatchbacks. The segment aired on "Top Gear" Series 21, Episode 1.
Trollied episode 'The Wedding', was partly filmed at the cruise terminal at the Port of Dover, which was used as the location for the Dublin and Holyhead Ferry Ports in scenes which sees Gavin (Jason Watkins) and his friends panic they are going to miss the wedding.
International broadcast.
"Trollied" was broadcast in Australia on Network Ten, first airing Thursday nights from 27 September 2012 at 11.15 pm. However, Network Ten stopped broadcasting the series, and instead, all seven series became available to view on the Australian streaming service Stan. Series 6 became available to the service as of 6 January 2017, while Series 7 started in April 2018.
In the United States, the show airs on selected PBS affiliates. Although not a direct adaptation of "Trollied", the NBC network previewed their new comedy series "Superstore" on 30 November 2015. Many have seen "Superstore" as the American equivalent of "Trollied".
Reception.
Critical reception.
Following the debut of "Trollied", Ian Richardson, manager of Morrisons supermarket in Thornbury, wrote an article in "The Guardian" newspaper, saying the show was the topic of the discussion in the staff canteen and that he felt the attention to detail on the set was excellent, making a realistic setting. In Mr Richardson's article he commented that the show portrayed many similarities with his supermarket, but he could not relate to the use of bad language on the shop floor or poor customer service levels. He felt that it was a shame there was not more customer interaction.
Reviews for the series were mixed. In a review for The Guardian, Zoe Williams commented that the series is "A purile, lazy comedy". On reviewing the first episode, Alice-Azania Jarvis of The Independent said that "In all, it wasn't bad. There was no reason to switch over. No reason to tune out. It was lightly amusing, which is enough for what it was. But it's not going to be something to go out of your way for. It's not appointment TV." Keith Watson of the Metro stated that "Trollied is worth watching but it's the minor characters that make you laugh".


Maurice Burton

Maurice Burton (28 March 1898 – 9 September 1992) was a British zoologist and popular science author, who produced many natural history encyclopedias and books including a skeptical treatment of the Loch Ness Monster.
Early life and education.
Burton was born in Hornsey, London, England, on 28 March 1898. He attended Holloway School. Burton studied zoology at King's College, London under Arthur Dendy.
Career.
Burton became a schoolteacher. He later joined the staff of the Natural History Museum, London in 1926 where he remained for the rest of his career until his retirement in 1958. He was Curator of Sponges at the museum from 1927 to 1948, then its Deputy Keeper of Zoology from 1949 to 1958.
His popular science writing included major work on encyclopedias and acting as Science Editor for the "Illustrated London News" and Nature Correspondent for the "Daily Telegraph". In 1961, he published the book "The Elusive Monster" which reviews the evidence for the Loch Ness Monster in the light of his professional knowledge. He concluded that it was unlikely that such creatures were living in Loch Ness. He commented further on this topic in the "New Scientist". Many of Burton's books were aimed at a juvenile audience. Some of his later books or revised editions were published with his son, Robert Burton (born 1941) also trained as a zoologist and who published many natural history books himself. Robert also took over his father's Nature Notes column in the "Daily Telegraph". His daughter Jane Burton illustrated many of the books.
Personal life and demise.
Burton married Margaret Maclean in 1929. They had two sons and a daughter.
He died in Albury, Surrey, on 9 September 1992. Sound recordings of Burton are available at The Albury History Society.


Occupational surname


Kevin Lynch (computing)

Kevin M. Lynch is an American software developer. He is currently the vice president of technology at Apple Inc., joining in 2013 after working as the chief technology officer of Adobe Systems. Lynch has been responsible for developing the software of Apple's smartwatch project, the Apple Watch, a device he demonstrated at the September 2014 Apple Launch Event.
Education.
Lynch graduated from Lincoln-Way Central High School in New Lenox, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Engineering as an undergraduate student, where he studied computer science and interactive computer graphics and worked in the UIC College of Engineering's Electronic Visualization Laboratory.
Career.
Lynch helped start one of the first Mac software startups called Mac3D—the first Mac 2D/3D drawing application. He also created innovative desktop publishing software that combined drawing and page layout, word processing, the first editable property inspectors in the GUI, and a controllable page layout pane.
Early in his career, Lynch worked at Frame Technology, General Magic, and Macromedia. He helped develop General Magic's personal digital assistant in the early 1990s, widely recognized as the precursor to the modern smartphone. At Macromedia, Lynch led the Dreamweaver HTML authoring tool and introduced Flash to enable multimedia on the web, eventually reaching over 1 billion people.
In 2005, Lynch became chief software architect at Adobe Systems after being involved in the company's $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia. He helped integrate the companies and develop new technology including a cross-OS application runtime called AIR, which enables an app to run across iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. In 2008, he was promoted to chief technology officer, where he helped transform the company through the advancement of mobile, social and cloud technology.
During his time at Adobe, Lynch was a staunch advocate of Flash—Adobe's multimedia software platform—and had highly visible debates with Apple CEO Steve Jobs for hindering the use of Flash on its mobile devices, the iPhone and iPad. Later, Jobs tried to recruit Lynch to Apple.
Honorary doctorate.
In 2017, Lynch was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by UIC for his work in software development. He is one of only two individuals who has received this distinction in the UIC College of Engineering's 50+ year history. The other recipient is Richard Hill, former CEO of Novellus Systems.
In a letter supporting Lynch's nomination for the honorary Doctor of Engineering degree, Apple's Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams stated: “Truly brilliant technical minds exist. Truly amazing leaders exist. The intersection of the two isn’t seen very often.”


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Stanton Chase

Stanton Chase (formerly Stanton Chase International) is a retained executive search and consulting firm established in 1990 and operated by independently owned partner firms with 76 offices in 45 countries.
History.
Stanton Chase began operations in 1990. The firm has since expanded to 76 offices in 45 countries. In October 2014, Mickey Mathews was elected International Chairman of Stanton Chase, and by 2017 Forbes listed Stanton Chase in the Top 10 Executive Recruiting Firms. In 2018, it became the first executive search firm to accept cryptocurrency.


Professional life of George W. Bush

This article covers the professional life of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States. Prior to his election as President in 2000, Bush held numerous other positions, including being an oil executive, an owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and Governor of Texas. (Also see Governorship of George W. Bush.)
Business.
Bush began his industry career in 1977, when he established Arbusto Energy, an oil and gas exploration company he financed with his education trust fund surplus and money from other investors, including Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Henry Draper III, Bill Gammell, and James R. Bath, the last of whom represented Salem bin Laden, a half-brother and cousin of Osama bin Laden. In 1984, Bush sold the company, heavily damaged due to the 1979 energy crisis, to Spectrum 7, another Texas gas exploration firm. Under the terms of the sale, Bush became CEO. Spectrum 7 lost revenue and was merged into Harken Energy Corporation in 1986, with Bush becoming a director of Harken.
Texas Rangers and allegations of insider trading.
After working on his father's successful 1988 presidential campaign, Bush learned from fellow Yale alumnus William DeWitt, Jr., that family friend Eddie Chiles wanted to sell the Texas Rangers baseball franchise along with the new sports stadium; built on land acquired under eminent domain law and built under funding financed through taxpayers' funds backed by a bond issued for its debt. In April 1989, Bush assembled a group of investors from his father's close friends, including fellow fraternity brother Roland W. Betts; the group bought an 86% share of the Rangers for $75 million. Bush received a 2% share by investing $606,302, of which $500,000 was a bank loan. Against the advice of his counsel, Bush repaid the loan by selling $848,000 worth of stock in Harken Energy. Harken reported significant financial losses within a year of this sale, triggering allegations of insider trading. On March 27, 1992, the Securities and Exchange Commission concluded that Bush had a "preexisting plan" to sell, that Bush had a "relatively limited role in Harken management", and that it had not seen evidence of insider trading.
The subsequent SEC investigation ended in 1992 with a memo stating "it appears that Bush did not engage in illegal insider trading," but noted that the memo "must in no way be construed as indicating that the party has been exonerated or that no action may ultimately result". Critics allege that this decision was strongly influenced by the makeup of the SEC at the time, which heavily favored Bush. The chairman at the time was Richard Breeden, a good friend of the Bush family's who had been nominated to the SEC by President George H. W. Bush and who had been a lawyer in James Baker's firm, Baker Botts. The SEC's general counsel at the time was James Doty, who had been appointed by President H.W. Bush and as a lawyer in James Baker's firm, Baker Botts had represented George W. Bush when arrangements were made to acquire the Texas Rangers baseball franchise (although Doty recused himself from the investigation.). With Baker Botts representing W. Bush, the Saudi BinLaden family, and W. Bush's funding conduit James R. Bath, Doty was involved in the frivolous litigation campaign launched in the attempt to intimidate BinLaden middleman James R Bath's business partner Charles W. ["Bill"] White into cooperating with the attempted cover-up of secret BinLaden Family funding of W. Bush's campaigns and businesses. Bush's own lawyer was Robert Jordan, who had been "partners with both Doty and Breeden at Baker Botts and who later became George W. Bush's ambassador to Saudi Arabia".
In "House of Bush, House of Saud", Craig Unger notes that at the time of Bush's sale, Harken Energy "was expected to run out of money in just three days" (p. 123). In a last-ditch attempt to save the company, Harken was advised by the endowment fund of Harvard University to spin off two of its lower-performing divisions. "According to a Harken memo, if the plan did not go through, the company had 'no other source of immediate financing.'" Bush had already taken out a $500,000 loan and sought Harken's general counsel for advice. The reply was explicit: "The act of trading, particularly if close in time to the receipt of the inside information, is strong evidence that the insider's investment decision was based on the inside information... the insider should be advised not to sell". This memo was turned over by Bush's attorney the day after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled that it would not charge Bush with insider trading. On June 22, Bush sold his 212,140 shares of stock anyway for a net profit of $848,560. The very next quarter, Harken announced losses of $23 million, which continued to the end of the year when the stock "plummeted from $4 to $1.25".
As President, Bush has refused to authorize the SEC to release its full report on the Harken investigation. When the Rangers franchise was sold for $250 million in 1998, at a total profit of $170 million, Bush personally received $14.9 million for his $600,000 investment.
As managing general partner of the Rangers, Bush assisted the team's media relations and the construction of a new stadium. Many in Arlington protested that the stadium was paid for with public funds, and when the stadium title was given to the Texas Rangers Organization, it effectively allowed Bush to cash out public funds. His public role generated valuable goodwill and reinforced name recognition throughout Texas.
Early political career.
After a United States National Guard transfer in 1972, he served as political director for an Alabama senate campaign[citation needed]. In 1978, Bush ran for the U.S. House of Representatives but lost to Kent Hance. Bush stressed his energy credentials and conservative values in the campaign. Hance, however, also held many conservative views, opposing gun control and strict regulation; he successfully portrayed Bush as out of touch with rural Texans. Hance later became a Republican and donated money to Bush's campaign for Governor of Texas in 1993.


Clerks II

Clerks II is a 2006 American comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, the sequel to his 1994 film "Clerks", and his sixth feature film to be set in the View Askewniverse. The film stars Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Trevor Fehrman, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Jason Mewes, and Smith, and picks up with the original characters from "Clerks": Dante Hicks, Randal Graves and Jay and Silent Bob ten years after the events of the first film. Unlike the first film, which was shot in black-and-white, this film was shot in color.
The film screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival before receiving a theatrical release on July 21, 2006 to critical and commercial success, grossing $27 million worldwide from a $5 million budget.
Plot.
Ten years after the events of the first film, Dante (Brian O'Halloran) opens the Quick Stop convenience store to find that it is on fire; Randal (Jeff Anderson) had left the coffee pot on after closing the night before. Because Quick Stop and the adjacent RST Video have been destroyed, Dante and Randal begin working at a Mooby's fast food restaurant along with Elias (Trevor Fehrman) and their manager Becky Scott (Rosario Dawson).
A year later, Dante is planning to leave his minimum wage lifestyle in favor of family life in Florida with his fiancée Emma Bunting (Jennifer Schwalbach), whose father will provide them with a home and a business to run. Afraid of losing his best friend, Randal becomes resentful towards Dante and Emma. Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith) have followed Dante and Randal, and now loiter outside of Mooby's. Although they continue to sell drugs, Jay and Silent Bob have become sober after they were arrested for possession and sent to rehab; they become devout Christians after their release.
Dante tells Becky that he is worried about dancing at his wedding, so she takes him up to the roof of the restaurant to teach him some moves. Dante soon lets go of his inhibitions and begins dancing. When the song ends, Dante, caught up in the moment, confesses his love for Becky, and she reveals that she's pregnant; Dante and Becky had a one-night stand at work a few weeks before. Becky tells Dante not to tell anyone about the baby; however he tells Randal, and an angered Becky leaves when she finds out.
Randal encourages Dante to leave Mooby's in search for Becky, so he can set up a surprise going away party for him. Randal hires "Kinky Kelly and the Sexy Stud," a donkey show, with a fog machine for the party. When Dante returns, he mistakes the fog for fire and calls the fire department, but upon discovering that it's not a fire, proceeds to watch with Randal, Jay, Silent Bob, and Elias. The group discovers that "Kinky Kelly" is, in fact, the donkey, while the man (Zak Knutson), whom Randal thought to be the pimp, is "The Sexy Stud". When Becky returns she admits that she too is in love with Dante. As they kiss, Emma arrives. She throws her engagement ring at Becky, dumps a cake she'd made for Dante over his head, and angrily walks off.
The fire and police departments arrive, and Dante, Randal, Elias, Jay, Silent Bob, and The Sexy Stud are arrested. Although they are informed they will soon be released, Dante blames Randal for ruining his life and expresses his eagerness to start a new life without him, while Randal condemns Dante for his willingness to live his life under the standards of others and for walking out of their friendship. During the argument, Randal proposes that they buy the Quick Stop and re-open it themselves, although Dante says that neither have the money to reopen the store. Jay and Silent Bob offer to lend them the money (from the royalties they collected following the events of "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back") on the condition that they can hang out outside of the Quick Stop anytime they want without the police being called. Randal accepts their offer, but Dante is uncertain, prompting Randal to emotionally confess his fear of losing Dante.
Moved by Randal's confession, Dante agrees to the proposition, and after he is released, proposes to Becky, who happily accepts. After the Quick Stop and RST Video are rebuilt, Elias applies for a job and is hired at RST Video. In the very last scene, with the store open, Dante tells Randal, "Can you feel it? Today is the first day of the rest of our lives."
Production.
Development.
In 1999, the original title was slated to be "Clerks 2: Hardly Clerkin" (cf. Jerry Lewis's "Hardly Working"), as seen in the credits of "Dogma". Smith later modified the title to "The Passion of the Clerks", lampooning the title of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ". According to the DVD documentary, the title was changed to simply "Clerks II", due to negative reaction to the "Passion" title. The film was shot September–November 2005. It was originally scheduled for a 2005 release, and then a January 2006 release, but the production was pushed back due to other projects and Kevin Smith's involvement in the romantic comedy "Catch and Release".
Smith released production diaries on the "Clerks II" website (see links below). They chronicle the entire making of the film from the first rehearsals all the way through to the final release. Some of these web diaries are also available on the two-disc DVD of the film. Smith released a Web-only teaser trailer on the "Clerks II" website on January 9, 2006, and a web-only trailer on April 2, 2006. Smith also released several shorts featuring action figures from his previous films to promote the film.
Before the release of the film, Smith had mentioned releasing an MP3 file commentary to be downloaded and listened to in movie theaters via iPod. Ultimately, theater owners and exhibitors objected, and the plan was scrapped. The abandoned commentary, featuring Smith, Scott Mosier and Jeff Anderson, is included on the DVD.
The bookend Quick Stop scenes are in black and white (to simulate the original visual style of "Clerks"), while the rest of the film is in color. Smith has said that much of the film's color was desaturated almost to the point where the film had a similar texture to the first film. The contrast in color saturation used can be seen in the "ABC" sequence in which a more vibrant and saturated color temperature is used to give a warm and sunny look that adds to the playful nature of the piece.
On the film's MySpace account, a contest was held in which the first 10,000 MySpace users who added "Clerks II" as a friend would have their name in the theatrical and DVD end credits; the list follows the View Askew and Weinstein Company logos. The names are not present in the credits on the Region 2 DVD.
Locations.
The Mooby's restaurant was a shut-down Burger King at 8572 Stanton Ave in Buena Park, California, (near Knott's Berry Farm), which has since been demolished. The final days of principal photography were filmed at the Quick Stop and RST Video store in Leonardo, New Jersey, with some exceptions, the most notable being the go-kart scene, which was shot at Speedzone in Industry, California. The opening sequence where Randal and Dante are driving to work is a montage of Route 35, mostly in Middletown, New Jersey.
Casting.
Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, and Kevin Smith all reprised their roles from the first film.
According to the DVD commentary, Kevin Smith originally wanted to cast his wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith as Becky. Executive producer Harvey Weinstein objected, however, wanting a known actress to play the role for marketing reasons. Other actresses that Smith had met with were Sarah Silverman and Bryce Dallas Howard who both declined. Smith recalls having lunch with Howard who said she was interested in the film but ultimately passed in order to do "Lady in the Water". Silverman said she didn't want to play the Becky character as she had been cast as girlfriends in numerous other productions and feared type-casting, but loved the script and would have been more than willing to play the part of Randal Graves. Rachel Weisz was another name the studio considered, but Smith figured she would turn the role down and never offered her the part. Ellen Pompeo expressed an interest but could not commit due to scheduling difficulties with "Grey's Anatomy". Finally, the role was offered to Rosario Dawson who loved the script. She later said that reading the "donkey show" scene sealed the deal for her. Schwalbach Smith was given the secondary female role of Emma. Smith also cast his daughter Harley Quinn Smith as the little girl Dante waves to in the window and his mother Grace as the Milk Maid, reprising her role from the first film. Walt Flanagan makes a cameo appearance as a customer who asks for a "pack of cigarettes" (after the scheme changes from color to black 'n' white), in a nod to the first film as well.
The character of Elias was played by Trevor Fehrman who had previously worked in Anderson's film "Now You Know". Smith saw him in the film and was impressed enough to give him a part. In keeping with Smith's tradition of casting actors that he has previously worked with, both Jason Lee and Ben Affleck had parts in the film. Lee played Lance Dowds and Affleck played a random Mooby's customer. After finding no one else who could pull off being the Sexy Stud, Smith turned to crew member Zak Charles Knutson to fill the role.
Release.
Rating.
The film was originally planned to be released without an MPAA film rating, in order to avoid receiving an NC-17. Smith claimed "If we put it in front of the ratings board they'd be like, 'You're insane. We have to create a new rating for that.'" However, he later submitted it, and it received an R rating without any edits.
Box office.
The film opened in 2,150 theaters and grossed $10.1 million domestically in its first weekend. The film's theatrical gross was $24.1 million domestically, plus an additional $2.8 million from other territoires foreign, against its production budget of $5 million.
Critical response.
, the film holds a 64% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 166 reviews with an average rating of 6.09/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Clerks II" dishes up much of the graphic humor and some of the insight that made the 1994 original a cult hit." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.
In a review for "The New York Times", A. O. Scott wrote that "What makes "Clerks II" both winning and (somewhat unexpectedly) moving is its fidelity to the original "Clerks" ethic of hanging out, talking trash and refusing all worldly ambition. If anything, the sequel is more defiant in its disdain for the rat race, elevating the white-guy-doing-nothing prerogative from a lifestyle choice to a moral principle." Justin Chang's review at "Variety" called it a "softer, flabbier and considerably higher-budgeted follow-up to Kevin Smith's 1994 indie sensation that nevertheless packs enough riotous exchanges and pungent sexual obscenities to make its 97 minutes pass by with ease."
At an advance screening for critics, Joel Siegel walked out of the film approximately 40 minutes in, during a scene in which the characters attempt to procure a donkey for sexual purposes. Smith claimed on his website that Siegel "bellowed" the phrase "Time to go! This is the first movie I've walked out on in thirty fucking years!" "TV Guide" film critic Maitland McDonagh, who said she was sitting next to Siegel, largely confirms Smith's account but insists that Siegel did not curse or "bellow." However, she reports that he left from the farthest possible exit, thereby making sure everyone noticed his departure. On his blog, Smith criticized Siegel for unprofessional conduct, in a profanity-laced tirade in which he referred to the critic performing sexual acts on director M. Night Shyamalan in regard to his praise for "The Village" before having seen it. Smith later confronted Siegel in a live interview on "Opie and Anthony"; Siegel apologized for cursing and causing a scene, and told Smith that he thinks he is a "fine filmmaker," while still defending his decision to walk out.
British entertainer and film-critic Jonathan Ross has been largely critical of the film, saying he disliked it even more than the first film; he expressed distaste that the film was voted by viewers of his "Film 2006" show into the top ten of the year, in which it ranked sixth. It made other Best of 2006 lists, including being named movie of the year by MTV India, being voted the third-funniest film of 2006 by IMDb users and the ninth-best reviewed comedy by Rotten Tomatoes.
The film received an eight-minute standing ovation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Soundtrack.
"Music from the Motion Picture Clerks II", the soundtrack to the film, was released on August 22, 2006 by Bulletproof Records. It includes songs from the film, which are of various artists and genres, as well as many soundclips of dialog from the film. One notable exception is that The Smashing Pumpkins' "1979", which was featured in the film, is not included. It has been replaced by All Too Much's "Think Fast", which was not featured in the film.
Home media.
The "Clerks II" DVD was released on November 28, 2006.
"The Hollywood Reporter" reported that the film opened to #4 in terms of rental and DVD sales, and made approximately $6 million in rentals, or a quarter of the total box office gross of $24.2 million.
"Clerks II" was released on HD DVD on January 16, 2007. The release featured the film in 1080p high definition on one disc and the same extras as the DVD, also presented in 1080p, on a second disc. After the conclusion of the high definition optical disc format war in February 2008, "Clerks II" was released on Blu-ray Disc on February 3, 2009 with two additional special features.
Sequel.
On February 9, 2017, Smith revealed on Facebook that although a script had been completed, "Clerks III" had been cancelled as "one of the four leads opted out of the flick". He later revealed that Jeff Anderson was the one who opted out. On October 1, 2019, Smith announced on Instagram that "Clerks III" was happening and that Anderson agreed to reprise his role as Randal. "It’ll be a movie that concludes a saga. It’ll be a movie about how you’re never too old to completely change your life. It’ll be a movie about how a decades-spanning friendship finally confronts the future. It’ll be a movie that brings us back to the beginning - a return to the cradle of civilization in the great state of #newjersey. It’ll be a movie that stars Jeff and @briancohalloran, with me and Jay in supporting roles. And it’ll be a movie called CLERKS III!"


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Lorraine Hariton

Lorraine Hariton (born November 7, 1954) is the president and CEO of Catalyst, a New York City–based nonprofit organization committed to the advancement of women in the workplace.
Early life and education.
Hariton grew up in Long Island, New York. She has described her mother, a teacher who later became a clinical psychologist, as "very strong," and as proof that a woman could have both a successful career and a family.
Hariton earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematical sciences from Stanford University and an MBA (1982) from Harvard Business School.
Career.
Hariton started her career in 1977 at IBM, where she worked for 15 years, including in sales and executive roles. She later served as CEO of two venture-backed Silicon Valley start-ups: Beatnik (1999–2002), which made audio software for phones, and Apptera (2003–2005), a mobile communications and advertising company.
In 2009, Hariton was appointed by Barack Obama to be Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs (CBA) at the US Department of State, where she was responsible for outreach to the business community, commercial advocacy and global entrepreneurship efforts, and where she established the Global Entrepreneurship Program, the WECREATE program for women entrepreneurs, and the International Council on Women's Business Leadership.
In 2014, Hariton joined The New York Academy of Sciences as senior vice president for global partnerships, where she helped create the Global STEM Alliance and its"1000 Girls, 1000 Futures" program, a global mentoring initiative aimed at encouraging girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
In 2018, Hariton was appointed president and CEO of Catalyst. During her tenure, Catalyst has raised $28 million toward its major gifts campaign, and has received the single largest grant in its history, $5 million from Chevron.
Hariton has served on boards of organizations committed to the advancement of women in the workplace, including the UN Women Global Innovation Coalition for Change, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and Watermark, a San Francisco Bay Area organization of women executives in the tech industry.
Personal.
Hariton lives in New York City. She has two children and two grandchildren, and is an accomplished triathlete.


Sidney Colvin

Sir Sidney Colvin (18 June 1845 – 11 May 1927) was a British curator and literary and art critic, part of the illustrious Anglo-Indian Colvin family. He is primarily remembered for his friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson.
Family and early life.
He was born on 18 June 1845 in West Norwood, in what is now London, at St. John's Lodge on Knight's Hill, a nine bedroom, twenty-one acre estate, to Bazett David Colvin, an East India merchant, and Mary Steuart, daughter of William Butterworth Bayley, Chairman of the East India Company Both sides of his family were connected to British India, his father as a partner in the trading company of Crawford, Colvin, and Co., with offices in Calcutta and London. (This connected the family with Robert Wigram Crawford, the Whig politician.) His uncle John Russell Colvin, lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces during the mutiny of 1857, gave him ten cousins, including the lawyer Walter Mytton and Auckland, also lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces (and Oudh).
Colvin's childhood was spent at The Grove, Little Bealings, Suffolk, as Bazett David inherited the estate in 1847 from his father James. The house and estate had literary and artistic connections: James had purchased it in 1824 from Perry Nursey, the landscape painter and teacher of Thomas Churchyard; Nursey had often entertained David Wilkie RA at Little Bealings, and was friends with Edward Fitzgerald, translator of "The Rubayat of Omar Khayyam".
Education and career.
A scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, Colvin became a fellow of his college in 1868. In 1873 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art, and was appointed in the next year to the directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
He wrote numerous articles on fine arts subjects (including Sandro Botticelli, Albrecht Dürer, Fine Arts, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo) for the ninth edition (1875–89) of the "Encyclopædia Britannica".
In 1878, 114 Old Master engravings, which Colvin had purchased for the museum from London art dealer A. W. Thibaudeau, were stolen by a hansom cab driver. Although the driver was tracked down and charged, the engravings were never recovered and Colvin was required to cover their cost. Colvin paid the £1,537 10s to Thibaudeau from his own salary in instalments for many years, having initially to borrow £400 from Robert Louis Stevenson; a debt which he was still repaying to his friend in 1884.
In 1884 he moved to London on his appointment as keeper of prints and drawings in the British Museum. His chief publications are lives of Walter Savage Landor (1881) and Keats (1887), in the "English Men of Letters" series; editions of the letters of Keats (1887); "A Florentine Picture-Chronicle" (1898), and "Early History of Engraving in England" (1905).
In the field both of art and of literature, Colvin's fine taste, wide knowledge and high ideals made his authority and influence extend far beyond his published work.
Frances Jane Sitwell and Robert Louis Stevenson.
In the early 1870s Colvin met the woman who was to become his wife, many decades later. Frances Jane (1839–1924), née Fetherstonhaugh, was married to Rev. Albert Hurt Sitwell (1834–1894), a Church of England vicar (variously in Calcutta, Stepney, and Thanet). The Sitwells had two sons: one died as a child, and one lived to early adulthood, Frances Albert 'Bertie' Sitwell (1862–1881). Their marriage was unhappy, so they lived apart and she earned her living as an essayist.
In late summer 1873, Colvin became friends with Robert Louis Stevenson, then a young man and an unpublished author. Soon after their first meeting he had placed Stevenson's first paid contribution, an essay, "Roads", in "The Portfolio". Both men were attracted to Sitwell; Stevenson wrote to her for years. Despite or because of this attraction, the men remained firm friends. Stevenson dedicated "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" to Colvin, who became his literary adviser.
Colvin was a significant editor of Stevenson's, preparing the Edinburgh edition of his works (1894–97); the "Vailima Letters" (1899), which Stevenson chiefly addressed to him; and the posthumous collection of "Letters" (2 volumes, London, 1900). These publications made Colvin an authority on Stevenson's life and work. He also wrote the sketch of Stevenson for the "Dictionary of National Biography" (vol. liv.), and was to have written an authoritative "Life", intended for publication simultaneously with the "Letters", but was obliged to relinquish the task to Graham Balfour.
Sitwell and Colvin married on 7 July 1903, following the death of her husband and his mother. They had 20 years of married life, before she died on 1 August 1924. The couple were the subject of a 1928 biography by E. V. Lucas. According to the literary critic R. L. Calder, the Colvins were models for Mr and Mrs Barton Trafford in W. Somerset Maugham's 1930 "Cakes and Ale".
Later life and death.
Colvin was knighted in 1911. The citation reads


Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne

Gordon William Humphreys Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne (25 November 1915 – 22 January 2010) was a British banker, former lawyer, and former Governor of the Bank of England.
Biography.
Richardson was born to John Robert and Nellie Richardson, and was educated at Nottingham High School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
He served during World War II and became a Member of the Order of the British Empire, Military Division, in 1944. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1946, becoming a member of the Bar Council between 1951 and 1955, but abandoned law for a career in the City. He became a director of J. Henry Schroder & Co in 1957, and was later chairman between 1962 and 1973.
He was appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 1973, and remained in that position until 1983. November 1973 saw a run on London and County Securities, marking the start of the secondary banking crisis.
While serving as governor, Richardson joined the Privy Council (1976) and was awarded the Territorial Decoration (1979). He was created a life peer as Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, of Duntisbourne in the County of Gloucestershire, and a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter, both in 1983.
In February 1978, Richardson delivered the inaugural Mais Lecture, entitled "Reflections on the Conduct of Monetary Policy". Since then, the annual lecture has come to be regarded as leading event in the banking and financial community of the City of London, hosting each of the subsequent Bank of England Governors, as well as Prime Ministers, Chancellors of the Exchequer, and European Central Bankers.
Richardson was a member of the Morgan Stanley advisory board from 1984. Between 1985 and 1991, he was a member of the Group of Thirty, and thereafter remained as their Honorary Chair. He was chairman of the Pilgrim Trust from 1984 to 1989.
On the evening of Friday 22 January 2010, the Bank of England released a statement announcing Richardson's death.


Aneesh Varma

Aneesh Varma is a London-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as the founder of Aire - a fintech company building a new process to a simplify credit decisions for consumers. He also previously co-founded FabriQate, an international mobile technology company which went on to be an HSBC Startup Star 2008 & 2009, LDA KC Award 2009, British Council YCE in 2009 and CF500 in 2010. He was featured on the Business Insider 35 under 35 Fintech list in 2018
Varma has been a vocal campaigner for financial inclusion. He was educated at Lehigh University, USA studying Engineering and a second degree in Quantitative Finance. He was recognised by the European Commission as one of 12 Entrepreneur of the Year nominees in 2014 and by the British Council as a Young Entrepreneur 2009 in the technology sector. In 2020 he was named the Technology Innovator of the Year in the Credit Sector
Life.
At age 15, Varma achieved a perfect score on the Cambridge University course for Advanced Mathematics. He continued his mathematical focus at university, completing the entire PhD coursework during his bachelor's degree.
Varma is a Lehigh University Martindale Scholar from 2005, publishing his research on Hungary's transition to a market-based Financial System.
Career.
Varma started his first business at 16 and was involved with startups in his university days. At age 21 he was hired into JPMorgan in New York working on transactions for Financial Technology industry including Visa, Synovus and other consumer finance lenders.
Varma also serves on the Lehigh University Alumni Association (LUAA) board amongst other non-profit commitments.


Angie Jones

Angie Jones is software developer, Java Champion, international keynote speaker, and IBM Master Inventor. She is also the CEO of Diva Chix.
Early Life and Education.
Angie Jones was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Marion Abramson Senior High School in New Orleans, LA. After graduating from high school, she enrolled as a Business major at Tennessee State University. However, after taking an introductory C++ course which sparked her interest in tech, she changed her major to Computer Science. She has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Tennessee State University. In 2010, she obtained a Master's Degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University
Career.
Angie Jones began her career at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina where she worked as a software engineer for 9 years.
In 2007, Jones became the CEO of Diva Chix, an online fashion game "where teenage girls and women learn to excel in technological areas as well as learn other key life lessons such as running a business and working as a team, while competing in fashion battles". The game is still active and Jones remains the CEO and sole developer.
In 2014, she became an adjunct professor at Durham Technical Community College where she taught Java programming courses until 2017.
In 2015, she joined LexisNexis as a Consulting Automation Engineer.
In 2016, she began speaking at software conferences around the world and became an international keynote speaker in 2017.
In 2017, she moved to California to work for Twitter as a Senior Automation Engineer.
Jones is currently the Senior Director of Developer Relations at Applitools, an AI-powered visual testing and monitoring platform. As part of her role at Applitools, she created Test Automation University, an online platform that provides free courses on programming and test automation subjects taught by herself and other notable industry experts.
Jones holds 26 patented inventions in the United States of America and Japan.
Jones has authored chapters in multiple software engineering books including The Digital Quality Handbook: Guide for Achieving Continuous Quality in a DevOps Reality, DevOps: Implementing Cultural Change, and 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. She has also written the foreward for Formulation.
She also writes tutorials and technical articles on her website, angiejones.tech.
Volunteering.
Jones volunteers with Black Girls Code, where she led the Raleigh-Durham Chapter from 2015 - 2017. Jones also volunteered with TechGirlz where she planned and taught technology workshops for middle-school girls from 2015 - 2017. Jones is also an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority where she has served as Vice President and Technology Chairman of her local chapter, Alpha Zeta Omega in Durham, North Carolina.
Awards and Honors.
In 2009, Angie was awarded the title of IBM Master Inventor. In 2017, she won the Leah K. Frazier award for "Service with a Global Impact" from Alpha Kappa Alpha in which she is an active sorority member. On July 3 2020, Angie became the first Black female Java Champion, an Oracle-sponsored exclusive group of experts in the Java programming language who make significant contributions to the Java ecosystem. Also in 2020, she was awarded the CSC Alumni Award by the North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science and was also named a GitHub Star.


Jane Portal

Jane Virginia Portal BA, MA, FSA (née Bowerman, born 1955) is a specialist in Chinese and Korean art history, and is Keeper of the Department of Asia at the British Museum.
About.
Portal was born in Mtarfa, Malta, where her father served in the British Navy. After attending Maidstone Girls' Grammar School, where she was Head Girl, she studied Chinese at Girton College Cambridge (BA, 1978; MA 2000), and Korean at the School of Oriental and African Studies (BA, 1996). She studied Chinese archaeology at Peking University, 1979-80 (the first British student to do so), and a year studying Korean at Yonsei University, Seoul, 1994–95.
Career.
Portal worked as Curator of Chinese Korean Collections at the British Museum, 1987–2008, curating the Korea Foundation Gallery (the museum's first gallery of Korean art), 2000. In 2001 and 2002 she made two visits to North Korea, following the establishment of diplomatic relations, and started collecting contemporary works from the DPRK for the British Museum. In 2007 she curated the "First Emperor, China's Terracotta Army" exhibition, which attracted a record-breaking 850,000 visitors and won the Art Fund's exhibition of the year award.
From 2008 to 2014, Portal was the Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of Asia, Oceania and Africa at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where she oversaw new galleries for South Asia, Oceania and Benin as well as many Asian exhibitions. In December 2014 she returned to the British Museum, where she led the renovation and redisplay of the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia, opened by Her Majesty the Queen in November 2017 and oversaw the redisplay of the Mitsubishi Corporation Gallery of Japanese Art which re-opened in 2018.


Nate Edwards

Nathen Porter Edwards (August 24, 1922 – May 26, 2016) was a former IBM hardware architect, retired in 1997. He did his military service from 1942 to 1946, as a LTJG, Deck, USNR, Pacific, Chief Radio Technician, followed by Stanford University, where he gained an MS EE in 1949.
He worked for IBM from 1949 to 1990, as a Staff Member, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, with the position of Senior Engineer for the last 20 years of this period. He published, sometimes with other authors, 22 technical papers, 14 patents and patent publications — see below.
Between 1949 and 1953, his activities included design and construction of the prototype of the first electronic memory for the IBM 701 computer, and managing digital electronic design for the working prototype of the highly successful AN/FSQ-7 SAGE project. The SAGE system was a nationwide network of computer centers linked to radar inputs and operated by military personnel using graphic and numeric display terminals whose operators directly controlled the air defense fighter activities in real time.
This was followed by a period working for IBM Data Processing Division as Director of Standards for the company-wide transition from vacuum tube technologies to transistor circuits introduced in IBM's 1400 and 7090 computer product line. There he was responsible for planning the new circuit standards and financial controls which moved design of circuits and packaging of IBM products from each individual product group to a company-wide standards activity such that manufacture could be changed from manual assembly to fully automatic assembly and test of digital circuit assemblies. This contributed to the financial success of the IBM 1400 and 7000 series of transistorized computer products.
He then spent two periods of 2 years each in the 1960s and 1980s consulting for the Institute for Defense Analyses (on loan from IBM), Recommendations were made which changed the IS support of the War Room activities in The Pentagon and studies made provided technology projections for future National Military Command System and World-Wide Military Command Systems.
Edwards then became IBM Director of Interdivisional Technical Liaison, in which position he established a number of IBM internal professional groups and conferences.
This was followed by 2 years as Manager, Custom & Defense Systems, IBM World Trade, where he concentrated on directing IBM's efforts relating to the NATO Air Defense information system (NADGE).
During the 1960s and 1970s Edwards' emphasis was on technical planning and assisting in writing Corporate Strategies, while performing studies of image processing, gallium arsenide circuit performance, and representing IBM Research in the GUIDE Applications Development group (AS-201) (GUIDE is no longer in existence, but was a user group similar to SHARE). A major report was prepared as a result of the GUIDE studies relating to the potential for use of specification techniques in preparation of computer applications.
Around 1977, he adopted the term configurable modularity, coined by Raoul de Campo of IBM Research to mean the ability to reuse independent components by changing their interconnections, but not their internals, and developed this concept in several papers. He describes this as a characteristic of all systems that can be said to be "engineered", and this is one of the key concepts in the technology now referred to as Flow-Based Programming.
After retirement, Edwards established, with E. C. Lamb, ELI Research and Engineering, Inc. Campbell Stubbs has a 10% interest in ELI R&E, and a patent owned by it (see below). They have concentrated on the design and patenting of an assembly-line-based data processing architecture which has potential performance in the high Teraflop range, using off-the-shelf hardware, while being simple to program and extremely resistant to hackers and other mischief. Systems can be built which produce results which can be certified to conform to specification, as is standard practice in physical manufacturing systems. This work has resulted in granting of U.S. Patent #5,742,823 (see below), issued in the U.S. and Mexico in 1998, and Canada in 1999. Patents are currently being issued in Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland, France and Germany.


Cheeseman

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Edward P. Stritter

Edward P. ("Skip") Stritter, engineer and entrepreneur, was the chief architect of the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the original Apple Computer Macintosh), a co-founder of the first commercial RISC company MIPS Computer Systems, the founder of Clarity Wireless, (acquired by Cisco Systems for $157 million) and founder of NeTPower. He also served on the Board of Overseers of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. He was nominated by the United States Justice Department to serve on a three-member technical board of overseers to ensure that Microsoft complied with the judgements of "United States v. Microsoft".
He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1968 and his master's degree (1969) and PhD (1976) from Stanford University.


Bleckner

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Susan Walker (archaeologist)

Susan Walker is an archaeologist specialising in the study of Roman art. She was previously the Keeper of Antiquities and is currently an Honorary Curator of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Early life and education.
As an undergraduate, Walker excavated at Gravina di Puglia and Melfi. Walker undertook doctoral work at the British School at Athens.
Career.
In 1977 she joined the British Museum. In the 1990s she was Senior Curator of Mediterranean Roman Antiquities. At the British Museum Walker curated a number of major exhibitions, including "Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt" at the British Museum in 1997"."
In 2004 she became the Sackler Keeper of Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum, and she had a key role in the redevelopment of the museum's displays.
She has served as President of the Society for the Promotion of Libyan Studies. Walker was the Hugh Last Fellow and the Chair of Publications at the British School at Rome in 2013, undertaking a project on 'Gold-glass, inscriptions and sarcophagi from the catacombs of Rome'. She was the Balsdon Fellow 2006-7"."
Honours and awards.
Walker was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1984.


Howard Ford (businessman)

Howard Ford was born in 1950. He gained a degree in Chemical Engineering from Christ's College, Cambridge.
First working in sales and marketing positions for IBM UK, Ford became Managing Director of Cellnet, a mobile phone operator owned by BT and Securicor. It became O2 (United Kingdom).
After, Ford became Managing Director of Equant Network Services and the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Paris Bourse before its acquisition by France Telecom in 2005.
Currently.
Currently Ford holds a number of Chairmanships including at Light Blue Optics, Filtronic plc, Cambridge Semiconductor Limited and ZBD Solutions Ltd. Previously, he served as the Chairman of Thames Valley Training and Enterprise Council, the Branshaw Foundation and the French company Varioptic SA.
He lives in Camberley and is married with two sons. In his spare time he plays golf, tennis and bass guitar in an aging rock band.


James Liang

James Jianzhang Liang (born December 1969) is a Chinese businessman, and the chairman, former CEO, and co-founder of Ctrip, a Chinese provider of travel services including accommodation reservation, transportation ticketing, packaged tours, and corporate travel management.
Education.
Liang earned bachelor's degree from Fudan University, and master's degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
In 2011, Liang earned a PhD from Stanford University.
Career.
From 1991 to 1999, Liang worked for Oracle Corporation in the US and China, in technical and managerial roles with from 1991 to 1999 in the United States and China, rising to head of Oracle China's ERP consulting division.
Liang co-founded Ctrip in 1999, with Neil Shen, Min Fan, and Ji Qi. He was the CEO from 2000 to January 2006, and from March 2013 to November 2016, and chairman since August 2003. In November 2016, Jane Jie Sun succeeded him as CEO, with Liang remaining as executive chairman.
In the "Forbes" China Rich List for 2005, Liang had an estimated net worth of $62 million.
Liang is a board member of Homeinns Group (NASDAQ: HMIN), Tuniu (NASDAQ: TOUR), eHi (NASDAQ: EHIC), and SINA Corporation (NASDAQ: SINA).
Liang is a part-time professor at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management.


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Public companies and institutions are included in this list.
Largest private and semiprivate employers.
The rankings below are the ten private-sector and semiprivate companies providing the most jobs worldwide, according to a list published in 2020 by "Fortune" magazine. The Tata Group of companies, which collectively employ over 720,000 people, is not listed by "Fortune" as a single enterprise; the companies are listed individually. Of the group, TCS employs the most people, with 448,400 employees as of 2020.


Frank Quattrone

Frank Quattrone (born 1955) is an American technology investment banker who started technology sector franchises at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse First Boston. He helped bring dozens of technology companies public during the 1990s tech boom, including Netscape, Cisco, and Amazon.com. Later, he was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating "hot" IPOs. The case was eventually dropped. He was earning roughly $120 million a year during his peak at the firm. Quattrone is now head of investment banking firm Qatalyst Group, which he founded in March 2008.
Life and career.
Quattrone grew up in Philadelphia and attended St. Joseph's Preparatory School on an academic scholarship. He was admitted to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with honors. Following business school at Stanford University, he began work at Morgan Stanley's technology investment banking group.
In 2003, Quattrone was confronted with evidence of allegedly incriminating emails in a widely publicized series of trials. Some of the evidence included Quattrone forwarding to his entire staff an email with the subject 'Re: Time to clean up those files' after being told Credit Suisse First Boston was under investigation by a grand jury. The first trial resulted in a hung jury. The second trial resulted in a conviction. On appeal the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed Quattrone's conviction, ruling, based in part upon the Supreme Court case Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States that Quattrone's jury had been given erroneous jury instructions. The appeals court also agreed with the defense that in the interest of justice, subsequent proceedings should take place in front of a different judge.
On August 22, 2006, Quattrone reached a deferred prosecution agreement, which allowed him to avoid prison time, "leading legal observers to label the agreement an exoneration." The National Association of Securities Dealers also dropped their charges. It was stated that he "plan[s] to resume [his] business career." According to reports, Mr. Quattrone would receive $100 million to $550 million in overdue compensation, so long as he would abide by an agreement and would not break the law for a year. Credit Suisse had paid for Quattrone's legal costs.
Since 2004, Frank Quattrone and his wife Denise have supported the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) based at Santa Clara University School of Law. Quattrone is Chair of the NCIP Advisory Board and an active fund-raiser for the project. At the NCIP inaugural Justice for All Awards Dinner in March 2008, Quattrone accepted the Leadership Award.
Qatalyst Group.
In March 2008, Quattrone founded Qatalyst Group, a high-end corporate advisory firm focused on technology. Almost immediately after the firm issued its founding press release, it was reported to be advising Google on the Yahoo takeover deal pending with Microsoft. The article reporting the collaboration said: "That Mr. Schmidt (CEO of Google Inc.) would call on Mr. Quattrone is no surprise. The two men have worked together for years, and Mr. Schmidt was even quoted in the press release announcing the creation of Qatalyst (Mr Quattrone's new consulting and investment banking venture) 'I look forward to working with him again and am very enthusiastic about Qatalyst's prospects for success.'"
Qatalyst has since advised on some of the most high-profile assignments in the industry. It represented Data Domain on its sale to EMC, nearly doubling the firm's purchase price, and represented struggling mobile device maker Palm in its sale to Hewlett-Packard.
The success of Data Domain sale was followed by the bidding war for 3Par, which concluded in Hewlett Packard paying more than double the 3Par's value on the public markets. Netezza (on its sale to IBM) and Isilon (on its sale to EMC) were other storage clients advised by Qatalyst in 2010.
The success of 2010 was overshadowed by Qatalyst's assignments in 2011. Qatalyst advised Riot Games on its sale to Tencent, Kosmix on its sale to Walmart, Atheros on its sale to Qualcomm, Zong on its sale to eBay, PopCap on its sale to EA, National Semiconductor on its sale to Texas Instruments, Autonomy on its sale to Hewlett Packard, Motorola Mobility on its sale to Google, and Netlogic on its sale to Broadcom, among many others.


Bram Jan Loopstra

Bram Jan Loopstra (1925 – 1979) was a Dutch computing pioneer who worked at the Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam and then at Electrologica with Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Carel S. Scholten and Gerrit Blaauw. From 1956 until at least 1963 he was technical director of Electrologica. At his death after a long illness on March 22, 1979, he was adjunct director of the Philips International Institute.
At the Mathematisch Centrum he contributed to the ARRA I and II and ARMAC.


John Fellows Akers

John Fellows Akers (December 28, 1934 – August 22, 2014) was an American businessman. He was president (1983-1989), chief executive officer (1985-1993) and chairman (1986-1993) of IBM.
Education.
Akers attended Yale, and while there became a brother of Delta Kappa Epsilon (Phi chapter).
Business career.
IBM.
Akers joined IBM in 1960 after serving in the Navy as a jet pilot.
Akers said in 2010 “We were very square. We wore the blue suits, white shirts with button-down collars, striped ties, fedoras and wingtip shoes. The customers felt they could count on us.”
He rose to become CEO. He was believed to benefit from support from one of his predecessors, Frank Cary. In 1989, a young Sam Palmisano was appointed as Aker's assistant; decades later Palmisano would serve as chairman and CEO.
Actions as CEO.
Akers was credited with simplifying the company's bureaucracy to focus more on profits. On January 29, 1988, in a sweeping restructuring intended to reverse three years of disappointing performance, Akers created five new, highly autonomous organizations responsible for all of the company's innovation, design, and manufacturing. The moves were intended to greatly decentralize the company, which had been seen as bloated and unable to keep up with the competition and give significantly more responsibility to a younger generation of managers, while significantly reducing the role of the company's Armonk, N.Y., headquarters in the day-to-day operations. Under the plan, thousands of employees had to switch jobs or find themselves working for new managers. Akers' vision was to autonomize each division into "Baby Blues" with the aim of spinning them off from "Big Blue".
Akers also presided over a major downsizing of IBM's workforce, cutting down from 407,000 to 360,000 by the end of 1991. The company had previously had a lifetime employment policy but successive voluntary buyouts and the first-ever layoff in March 1993, caused a morale crisis. Akers also closed ten plants and trimmed manufacturing capacity by forty percent.
Resignation.
On Tuesday, January 26, 1993, Akers was forced to announce his resignation, after several months of IBM insisting that it had full confidence in his leadership. The company had posted a $5 billion annual loss. The dividend was also slashed from $1.21 to 54 cents, after the company had failed to make enough profit to cover its dividend payments for eight business quarters. IBM president Jack Kuehler was shifted to the post of vice-chairman, while finance director Frank Metz was also ousted. Paul Rizzo, a rival with Akers for the CEO position back in 1985 who had retired in 1987 was restored to the post of vice-chairman and appointed finance director. Akers remained as chief executive for three months while a committee of directors chose a successor, long speculated to be an outsider.
The management coup was mounted by longtime IBM director Jim Burke, who organized secret meetings between Rizzo and outsider Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. to examine the company's problems. It was also speculated that several entities were dissatisfied with losing their power on the board of directors and the declining stock price, including the banks which were once IBM's largest shareholders, as well as Aker's predecessors as CEO, John Opel and Frank Cary.
Akers retired as chairman and CEO of IBM on April 1, 1993. He was succeeded in both positions by Gerstner, the first CEO in IBM's history to attain the position from outside the company.
Legacy.
Akers was chief executive during IBM's decline in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs described Akers as ""smart, eloquent, fantastic salesperson, but he didn’t know anything about product."”
The company's difficulties weren't caused by Akers alone, as some suggested that he was merely doing what he had been "programmed" to do by an outdated "IBM system", while a complacent board of directors was also blamed.
Other business roles.
Akers was on the board of directors of Lehman Brothers when it filed for bankruptcy.
Personal.
Akers died of a stroke at age 79 in Boston, Massachusetts on August 22, 2014.


The Bookseller

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry. Philip Jones is editor-in-chief of the weekly print edition of the magazine and the website. The magazine is home to the "Bookseller"/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to the book with the oddest title. The award is organised by "The Bookseller"s diarist, Horace Bent, and had been administered in recent years by the former deputy editor, Joel Rickett, and former charts editor, Philip Stone. "We Love This Book" is its quarterly sister consumer website and email newsletter.
The subscription-only magazine is read by around 30,000 persons each week, in more than 90 countries, and contains the latest news from the publishing and bookselling worlds, in-depth analysis, pre-publication book previews and author interviews. It is the first publication to publish official weekly bestseller lists in the UK. It has also created the first UK-based e-book sales ranking. The website is visited by 160,000 unique users each month.
The magazine also produces approximately a dozen specials on an annual basis, including its Books of The Year and four "Buyers Guides". "The Bookseller" also publishes three daily newspapers at the annual London Book Fair, in April, the Bologna Children's Book Fair and the Frankfurt Book Fair, in October.
History.
"The Bookseller" was founded by Joseph Whitaker, the first editor of the magazine, in January 1858, and was marketed as "A Handbook of British and Foreign Literature". His sons, Joseph Vernon Whitaker and George Herbert Whitaker took over editorship of "The Bookseller" in 1875 and 1895 respectively, with George Herbert Whitaker taking the decision in 1909 to move the magazine from a monthly to a weekly publication. However, World War I severely disrupted publication and it was not until the late 1920s that the magazine resumed its weekly schedule. In 1928, "The Bookseller" entered troublesome years, with the magazine entering joint editorial control between both The Publishers Association and the Booksellers Association. It was edited by the Publishers Association president Geoffrey S. Williams and became known as "The Publisher and Bookseller". However, the decision proved less than successful, and in 1933 the decision was reversed, with editorship being awarded to Edmond Segrave – 28 years old at the time. He remained in charge for almost 40 years.
In 1945, he hired Philothea Thompson as his personal assistant, and when Edmond Segrave died in 1971, she took over stewardship of the magazine until 1976. David Whitaker joined his family magazine in 1977 for little over two years, with Louis Baum assuming editorial responsibilities in 1980. Under Baum, the magazine saw radical change, with numerous design changes, culminating in the decision to become a full-colour publication in the late 1990s. The self-named "legendary diarist", Horace Bent, made his first appearance during this time (although "his" "Bookseller"/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year began in the late 1970s), while the magazine also began to feature the first Nielsen BookScan bestseller lists.
In 1999, Nicholas Clee became editor, months before the magazine was sold to a division of Nielsen Business Media. In 2004 "Retail Week"s Neill Denny arrived and oversaw another major redesign, which included the controversial decision to move its "Publications of the Week" information online only. Denny was succeeded as editor in 2012 by Philip Jones.
Modern day.
Following the demise of "Publishing News" (1979–2008), "The Bookseller" is the only paper magazine reporting on the UK publishing, bookselling and library industry on a weekly basis, although the magazine also includes frequent stories, features and columns from the international scene. Numerous famous names from the UK book trade contribute to the magazine via the opinion columns, including Kate Mosse and Anthony Horowitz, while the website provides a forum for anyone to voice their opinions on news and features concerning the trade. In 2010, "The Bookseller" was acquired from Nielsen by its then Managing Director, Nigel Roby.
In August 2020, the magazine was purchased by the publishers of "The Stage",
 with the two publications expected to run independently of each other. "The Bookseller" now administers the annual British Book Awards (or "Nibbies"), which were launched in 1990 to celebrate the best books, bookshops, and publishers, as well as achievers in other categories of the industry, "recognising that a book's success is not down to just one factor".


Susan Molinari

Susan Molinari (born March 27, 1958) is an American politician, journalist, and lobbyist from New York. A Republican, she was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Staten Island for three terms. She was considered a rising star in the GOP and was selected to deliver the keynote address at the 1996 Republican National Convention. However, the next year, she resigned from Congress to become a TV journalist for CBS News. Later she became a vice president for public policy at Google from 2012 to 2018.
Early life, education, and early political career.
Molinari was born in Staten Island, New York, the daughter of Marguerite (Wing) and lawyer and perennial Republican politician Guy Molinari, and granddaughter of Italian-born Republican politician S. Robert Molinari. She graduated from the then SUNY Albany (now called the University at Albany, The State University of New York). She served on the New York City Council before winning a special election to the House of Representatives in 1990 as a Republican to replace her father, who retired from Congress to become Staten Island Borough President.
Molinari is a member of the Advisory Board for WeProtect which is a global non-profit cooperation with the goal to protect children online and stop the crime of online child sexual abuse and exploitation.
U.S. House of Representatives.
Elections.
On January 1, 1990, her father, incumbent Republican U.S. Congressman Guy Molinari decided to resign in order to become Borough President of Staten Island. She ran for her father's seat in Staten Island-based New York's 14th congressional district. On the eve of the special election, the "New York Times" endorsed Molinari because she "promises to add a moderate Republican voice to the city's Democratic-dominated congressional delegation". In March 1990, she defeated Robert Gigante 59% to 35%.
After redistricting, she ran in New York's 13th congressional district. She won the Republican primary with 75%. In the general election, she defeated NYC Councilmember Sal Albanese 56%–38% and was elected to her first full term.
She won re-election to her second full term with 71% of the vote.
She won re-election to her third full term with 62% of the vote. She resigned effective August 2, 1997.
Tenure.
While in the House of Representatives, Molinari was among the more moderate and liberal members of the Republican Party.
She signed on to the Republicans' 1994 Contract with America, which promised a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and opposed the placing of U.S. troops under U.N. command. Concerning social policy, she leaned more liberal than many of her Republican colleagues. Molinari supported abortion rights, but stated on CNN in January 2012 that, after having children, she is now anti-abortion. She also sided with the Democrats in voting for the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), a cornerstone of Bill Clinton's social policy. She offset these positions with her own standing as a new mother, framing her outlook in terms of "family values", and in fact energetically campaigned for fellow Republicans with whom she disagreed on both abortion and FMLA. She favored reduction of Social Security taxes, middle class tax cuts, and tax credits for families. Molinari worked with Christopher O. Ward to acquire the Staten Island Railroad to re-establish freight service to the container terminal.
On issues of crime and punishment, she favored extended use of the federal death penalty and other restrictions. Molinari is also remembered for her role as principal sponsor of Federal Rules of Evidence 413-15. As Molinari put it on the House floor in 1994, the rules "strengthen the legal system's tools for bringing the perpetrators of these atrocious crimes to justice."
In her autobiography she intimated that the tense ideological atmosphere within the Republican Party after they won majority in the House and Georgian Newt Gingrich became Speaker contributed to her unease. Molinari gave the keynote speech at the 1996 Republican National Convention, but resigned from the House in June 1997 to take a job as a television journalist for CBS.
Committee assignments.
When first elected, she received assignments on the Small Business Committee and Public Works committees. In the 102nd Congress (1991–1993), she traded those assignments to take a seat on the Education and Labor Committee. When the Republicans took control of the House in the 104th Congress (1995–1997), Molinari traded in her Education/Labor seat for a place on the House Budget Committee.
She was vice chairwoman of the Republican Conference and Republican Policy Committee.
Post-congressional career.
Journalism.
At CBS, Molinari was co-host of news program "CBS This Morning" for about nine months until 1998. Her hiring was controversial from the very beginning; Although Molinari had earned degrees in communication, her major professional credentials were political, and her main national public recognition came from her speech at the Republican National Convention. Media critics asked whether a partisan politician could reasonably be expected to maintain objectivity. Others at the time criticized her on-air demeanor as either too "stiff" or too "perky", or attacked her interviews as superficial. Conservatives accused her of "selling out". Although allegedly CBS had first tried to respond to these criticisms by switching Molinari into "home and garden" journalism, the official comment from CBS executives was that they thought her better suited to political commentary, and had no such position available.
Molinari announced she was pregnant at the end of her nine-month run at CBS. Her second child was born in late January 1999.
Molinari later hosted a public affairs show called "The Flipside" and has been a frequent guest commentator on major political talk shows.
Lobbying and consulting.
After a stint as a lobbyist on her own, Molinari joined the Washington Group in October 2001, becoming the lobbying firm's president and chief executive.
Molinari joined the law and public policy firm Bracewell & Giuliani in 2008 as a senior principal. The firm is home to former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and has a well-established government relations and strategic communications practice. Previously, she was president of Ketchum Public Affairs and also served as chief executive officer of Ketchum Inc.'s lobbying firm, The Washington Group, where she served as its chairman. In 2006 Molinari's firm received $300,062 from home mortgage giant Freddie Mac to lobby on their behalf.
Molinari supports the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), which operates a telephone hotline in conjunction with more than 1,000 rape crisis centers nationwide. The group also sponsors outreach programs on college campuses. Her activities have included sponsoring legislation, and more recently heading a task force directed toward developing an Internet-based counterpart to the existing hotline.
Molinari also serves as Chair of The Century Council, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fighting drunk driving and underage drinking by advocating and facilitating education, communications, research, law enforcement, and other programs. In its fight against these types of alcohol abuse, the Council is funded by "America's leading distillers" of alcoholic liquor, including Bacardi, Inc. and several other liquor manufacturers.
Political activities.
Although she has maintained a public face, Molinari's subsequent political activities have been largely behind the scenes. She supported George W. Bush's election in 2000, but joined with more moderate members of her party such as Gerald Ford, David Rockefeller, and Richard Riordan in forming the Republican Unity Coalition, which opposed Bush's decision to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning gay marriage.
Molinari did not seek elected office in 2006, bucking speculation that she would run against Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton. She served as an adviser to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's (R) 2008 presidential campaign. There was early speculation she might consider running for mayor of New York City in 2009, but she never did. In January 2010, Molinari confirmed that she was seriously considering a Senate bid against U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, before issuing a public statement three days later saying that she had decided not to run.
In 2013 Molinari was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the "Hollingsworth v. Perry" case.
In 2020, it was announced that she would speak at the 2020 Democratic National Convention in support of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, becoming one of two one-time U.S. political party convention keynote speakers, along with Zell Miller, to speak at a convention for the opposite party.
Molinari is also a member of the Atlantic Council's Board of Directors.
Personal life.
Molinari married fellow U.S. Representative Bill Paxon on July 3, 1994, after having previously been married to John Lucchesi. She and Paxon have two daughters, and the family resides in Alexandria, Virginia.


Bischof

Bischof () is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: