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"james gordon gilchrist born 11 august 1928 was a progressive conservative party member of the canadian house of commons in the private sector gilchrist had held senior positions at domtar ltd including general manager for alberta bc and then for 25 years operated a series of canadian tire stores winning the pacesetter award in 1981 for combining aboveaverage sales with exceptional community involvementhe was a progressive conservative member of parliament for ontarios scarborough east electoral district which he won in the 1979 federal election and again in 1980 he served on the defence committee and as the critic for science and technology for the progressive conservatives gilchrist left national politics in 1984 and did not campaign in that years federal elections after being convicted of income tax evasion he had served in the 31st and 32nd canadian parliamentsone of canadas earliest proponents of the move to a hydrogen economy gilchrist established a blueribbon panel of scientists academics and industrialists to study the possible applications of hydrogen in 1985 the result of their studies was a report to prime minister brian mulroney entitled hydrogen a national mission for canada a report which is still considered the definitive analysis of the various ways in which hydrogen can be used in place of carbonbased fuels gilchrist subsequently moved to the cobourg area he turned to local politics and has been elected to the kawartha pine ridge district school board since 2001 and on which he has held a variety of positions including chair of the program committee and chair of the discipline committeeon 7 march 2008 several groups including the kawartha muslim religious association held a press conference in which they demanded gilchrists resignation after a letter of his was published in a local newspaper stating that most immigrants dont understand canadian values and bring their oldcountry feuds and hatreds to be paraded and refought on canadian soil gilchrist rejected the call for his resignation saying why should i im not a racist there was nothing racist about my letterhe was reelected for a fourth term in october 2010 on a platform that focused on improved access to technology in the local schoolsgilchrist founded the cadet corps in peterborough and was a rotarian for over 30 yearshis son steve gilchrist was a cabinet minister in ontario during the mike harris government"
"ronald edward cuber born december 25 1941 in new york city is a jazz saxophonist he has also played in latin pop rock and blues sessions in addition to his primary instrument baritone sax he has also played tenor sax soprano sax clarinet and flute the latter on an album by eddie palmieri as well as his own recordings as a leader cuber is known for hard bop and latin jazz as a side man he has played with numerous musicians such as b b king paul simon and eric clapton furthermore cuber can be heard on freeze frame by the j geils band and one of his most spirited performances is on dr lonnie smiths 1970 blue note album drives he was also a member in saturday night live bandcuber was in marshall browns newport youth band in 1959 where he switched from tenor to baritone sax his first notable work was with slide hampton 1962 and maynard ferguson 19631965 then from 1966 to 1967 cuber worked with george benson he was also a member of the lee konitz nonet from 1977 to 1979 he can be heard playing in frank zappas group in the mid1970s including the album zappa in new york he has been a member of the mingus big band since its inception in the early 1990s he was an offscreen musician for the movie across the universe"
"benjamin fry born 1975 is an american expert in data visualization he is a principal of fathom a design and software consultancy in boston ma he is also a codeveloper of processing an open source programming language and integrated development environment ide built for the electronic arts and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching the basics of computer programming in a visual context the processing design environment developed together with casey reas won a golden nica from the prix ars electronica in 2005fry received his phd in computational information design from the aesthetics and computation group at the mit media lab under the direction of john maeda during 20062007 ben fry was the nierenberg chair of design for the carnegie mellon school of designhis other interests include visualization of genetic data his personal work in this area was featured at the cooperhewitt museum national design triennial in 2003frys artwork has been featured in the 2006 cooperhewitt design triennial the whitney biennial in 2002 museum of modern art in new york 2001 2008 at ars electronica in linz austria 2000 2002 2005 and in the films minority report and the hulk he is the winner of the 2011 national design award in category interaction design"
"renate hoy also credited as renate huy and erika nordin born in ludwigshafen mannheim germany was an actress after winning the title of miss nrnberg she was crowned miss germany of 1952 she then traveled to the united states to represent her country in the first miss universe contest which was held in long beach california where she placed fifth that is fourth runner upshortly thereafter she became a contract player for universal studios and made several movies during the 1950s she was in such films as abbott and costello go to mars missile to the moon the golden blade the birds and the bees the sea chase a certain smile and had a leading role in the classic german film schlo hubertus 1954in 1954 she married actor brett halsey they had two children son charles oliver hand aka rock bottom of the notorious la punk band rock bottom and the spys and daughter tracy leigh they divorced in 1959 hoys son was murdered in prisonfollowing a contentious actors strike which was resolved by then sag president ronald reagan and the studios and resulted in a contract known as the great giveaway renate retired from acting she eventually got remarried to a prominent trial attorney raymond c simpson the couple had one child richard james simpson this child was later known as richard james while he was in the bands invisiblechains with carla bozulich singer and teardrain with bassist jill emery renate currently resides in southern california"