"jon howard appleton born january 4 1939 is an american composer and teacher who was a pioneer in electroacoustic music his earliest compositions in the medium eg chef doeuvre and newark airport rock attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic music in 1970 he won guggenheim fulbright and americanscandinavian foundation fellowships when he was twentyeight years old he joined the faculty of dartmouth college where he established one of the first electronic music studios in the united states he remained there intermittently for fortytwo years in the mid1970s he left dartmouth to briefly become the head of elektronmusikstudion ems in stockholm sweden in the late 1970s together with sydney alonso and cameron jones he helped develop the first commercial digital synthesizer called the synclavier for a decade he toured around the united states and europe performing the compositions he composed for this instrument in the early 1990s he helped found the theremin center for electronic music at the moscow conservatory of music where he continues to teach once a year he has also taught at keio university mita in tokyo japan ccrma at stanford university and the university of california santa cruz in his later years he has devoted most of his time to the composition of instrumental and choral music in a quasiromantic vein which has largely been performed only in france russia and japan"

— Jon Appleton 🐾

"robert alan clay born 2 october 1946 known as bob clay is a leftwing politician formerly labour mp in the united kingdomrobert clay was educated at bedford school and gonville and caius college cambridge unusually for a man of his background clay went on to become a bus driver working for tyne and wear pte from 1975 to 1983 clay first joined labour as a teenager but left to join the trotskyist group international socialists he became a union shop steward in the 1980s and rejoined labourclay was first elected to parliament in 1983 for the sunderland north constituency replacing labour mp frederick willey was reelected in 1987 but stood down at the 1992 general election where labour mp william etherington was elected in his placeclay opposed the 2003 iraq war he backed the leftwing party respect the unity coalition in the 2004 european elections at the 2005 general election he acted as agent for reg keys who stood against the prime minister tony blair in blairs sedgefield constituency on an antiwar ticket keys son tom had been killed in action in iraq although clay was not an originator of keys campaign he used his position as agent to control all aspects of the campaign he persuaded derek cattell a former trade union officer and an executive member of blairs sedgefield labour party to join the campaign cattells resignation from labour during the election campaign produced much publicity for the keys campaign clay worked tirelessly for the keys campaign helping build a coalition of support for keys supporters included the former mp martin bell who in his book the truth that sticks 2007 wrote of great value was derek cattell formerly on the executive of sedgefield labour party he defected to regs campaign after some heart searching it cost him some fair weather friends but the candidate had no loyal supporter from start to finish page 103clay went on to live in the marches city of hereford and remains politically active as a volunteer official in the local labour party he has involved himself in a number of local causes including a group opposed to the building of a bypass which would disturb ancient archaeological remains known as the dinedor serpenthe now lives in the llansamlet ward of swansea east where on 4 july 2013 he was elected in a by election as a labour party councillor for the city and county of swansea council his wife uta clay also serves as a councillor for the same council"

— Bob Clay 🐾

"gabrielle richens is a british model and tv presenter she was born in kent of british indian and chinese extraction although her parents are from south africa richens has worked as a model since she was fifteen when she signed with the elite modeling agency she was nicknamed the pleasure machine after an airline commercial she appeared in although she has said she does not care for the name she has risen to fame in particular in australiarichens placed in the uk edition of fhms 100 sexiest women in the world in 2002 41st 2003 69th and 2004 71st richens shot to fame in australia following her highly publicised relationship with professional rugby league footballer solomon haumono the publicity surrounding their relationship focused on the manner in which the pair met and haumonos actions subsequent to this after having met richens in a sydney night club haumono then a contracted player to the canterbury bulldogs rugby league club left for the united kingdom to be with richens haumono had not informed his family or his club of his decision and this highly jeopardised his rugby league career much debate was generated as to whether his contract with the bulldogs should have been terminated upon his return to australia as a result of his actions richens and haumono are no longer together the trip was a ruse by solomon haumono to force the bulldogs to sack him and enable him to resume his career with the st george dragonsrichens captured the eye of the australian public and rode the wave of popularity generated from her relationship with haumono eventually leading to an appearance in ralph magazinerichens then posed nude for australian blackwhite magazine as well as the march 1999 australian playboy editionrichens returned to the united kingdom at the end of 2001in 2001 richens copresented the television game show the desert forges with richard fairbrass for five and went on to present 3001 a sex oddity a quirky sexorientated documentary series in 2002 she was also the host of a shortlived australian dating show called love rulesrichens is a supporter of the british heart foundationrichens has appeared on two australian celebrity reality shows dancing with the stars and celebrity survivor she also appeared in an episode of csi entitled time of your death and an episode of how i met your mother entitled single stamina"

— Gabrielle Richens 🐾

"shamako noble is a hip hop artist cultural organizer and political theorist from san jose californiagraduated from abraham lincoln high school san jose californiashamako noble is an artist organizer and author that is based out of the bay area in california he has been engaged in making music since he was 8 years old and has been involved with education and social movements since he was 13 his first professional position was a youth computer instructor in compton ca in 1993 as an artist shamako noble has performed all over the united states and shared the stage with such acts as talib kwali zioni the jacka onebelo and many others he has participated in numerous local and national events including netroots nation the march for our lives in 2008 in st paul minnesota the us social forum various national truth commissions and the us court of women on poverty in the us shamako is a leader in the green party in 2012 he was the racial and social justice organizer for the jill steincheri honkala campaign the green candidates for president and vice president as of 2014 he is the secretary of culture in the green shadow cabinetas an activist and organizer he is best known for his work with the hip hop congress shamako helped cofound the congress along with reali robinson and ran the san francisco bay area chapter for several years until the organization merged with a studentorganization of the same name after the merger shamako became the organizations chair of artist development and in 2003 was elected by the membership as the organizations second president while dlabrie took over the position as artist development chairshamako also currently serves as the director of education for the hiphop association a grassroots organization whose mission is to inspire civic action and cultivate cultural creativitya well known advocate for incorporating hip hop culture into education and youth programs noble has taught workshops and teachins at schools all over the bay area from elementary schools to colleges on a variety of topics including the origins of hip hop and organizing and activism in hip hop cultureshamako has also written for many different websites and magazines and in 2001 became coeditor along with longtime collaborator emcee lynx of h2o the hip hop observer a monthly online and print journal of hip hop culture and activism which produced 3 issues before collapsing due to a lack of fundsas an artist shamako is distinguished by his subtle yet aggressive style and by his freestyle performance in particular he has been involved in the westcoast battle circuit as a competitor and a judge for many years and won regional and local championships all over californiahis first album the return of the coming of the aftermath was released in 2004"

— Shamako Noble 🐾