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"iqbal asaria is special advisor to the secretary general of the muslim council of britain on business and economic affairs and a tutor on the mcbs leadership development programme an economist he was a member of the working party set up by the governor of the bank of england to look into issues relating to islamic housing and finance products in the uk he is an associate of the islamic banking and finance institute of malaysia and member of the city of londons financial markets law committee he has spoken at several conferences and symposia on islamic banking and finance he was awarded the cbe in the 2005 queens honours list for services to international development in the late 1980s he was the editorinchief of afkar a groundbreaking news and analysis journal published in londonhe is a key member of the muslim council of britain mcb holding various roles including special advisor on business economic affairs to the secretary general of the mcb 2005present representative on working party set up by governor of bank of england to look into issues relating to launching of islamic housing finance and other products in the uk 2002present chairman business and economics committeehe is also a leading figure in islamic finance a regular speaker at conferences seminars and training workshops and the author of several articles on islamic finance advisory roles have included advisor on islamic home finance and other shariah compliant products for hsbc amanah advisor on islamic financial products to the lloyds tsb group consultant to scottish widows investment partnerships swip global equity shariah fund consultant to the childrens mutual tcm on their shariah baby bond a shariah compliant child trust fund productmr asaria is a fellow of the chartered association of certified accountants he is a graduate of victoria university manchester where he also completed his graduate degree he was awarded the cbe in the 2005 queens honours list for services to international development"
"ke jonsson born october 5 1942 in hammerdal is a swedish former motocross racer he was also a very skilled speed skater and belonged to the swedish top junior elite before his racing career took off jonsson was one of the top riders in the motocross world championships during the late 1960s and early 1970sjonsson had three big chances to win the world championship title 1968 1970 and maybe his best chance was in 1971jonsson began his riding career in sweden riding for the husqvarna factory but found it difficult to get enough of free spareparts riding behind world champions bengt aberg and torsten hallman nevertheless he finished in third place in the 1968 500cc world championship in 1969 he was hired to ride for the maico factory team he rode a maico to finish once again in third place in the 1970 500cc world championship later that season he won the interam series in america1971 would be jonssons best year going into the final race of the 500cc world championship jonsson held a slight points lead over suzukis roger de coster while leading the race his motorcycles spark plug came loose allowing decoster to pass him for the victory and the world championship a few weeks later he took a slight revenge by winning both motos in the motocross des nations held in vannes francejonsson was injured in the middle of the 1972 grand prix season but almost finished the season as the series runner up at the last race for the season in ettelbruck luxembourg jonsson won the first moto and was leading the second moto on the last lap when his bike ran out of fuel causing a dnf instead of being the runner up he now took a fourth place in the 1972 world championship jonsson then won the season ending 1972 transama motocross series held in america winning nine consecutive races at one pointfor the 1973 season jonsson was hired for three years by the yamaha to ride their new motorcycle with its innovative rear suspension using a single shock absorber called a monoshock when he first joined the yamaha team he installed maico front suspension to his bike much to the chagrin of yamaha who then improved their own front forks he had a series of mechanical difficulties and a lot of development in the motorcycle and failed to repeat his performance of the previous years in 1976 he returned to ride for the maico team but broke his collarbone and finished in eighth place in the world championshipafter a few more seasons jonsson retired from competition jonsson was also a member of three victorious swedish motocross des nations teams in 1970 1971 and 1974 and three trophees des nations wins 1964 1966 and 1967 jonsson has won the swedish national championship seven times after his racing career he ran a yamaha dealership in sweden today he lives a retired life in swedenhe was also the author of the technique of motocross a book on advanced riding techniques for racers former dutch world championship motocross competitor gerrit wolsink in an interview with motocross action magazine praised the book strongly saying that even at his level he learned helpful information about techniques to use in various situations"
"scott ross born november 20 1951 is an american digital media executive with a career spanning three decades in the 1980s he led george lucas companies and in 1993 he founded along with james cameron and stan winston digital domain inc one of the largest digital production studios in the motion picture and advertising industriesin the 1980s ross was general manager of lucasfilms industrial light and magic ilm and under his leadership ilm won five academy awards for best visual effects who framed roger rabbit innerspace terminator 2 judgment day the abyss death becomes her the company reorganized in 1991 and mr ross was named senior vice president of the lucasarts entertainment company which comprised skywalker sound lucasarts commercial productions lucasarts attractions editdroidsounddroid and ilmunder ross direction from 19932006 digital domain garnered two academy awards and three nominations receiving its first oscar in 1997 for the groundbreaking visual effects in titanic that was followed by a second oscar for what dreams may come digital domain received additional nominations for true lies apollo 13 and i robot and won three scientific and technical academy awards for its proprietary softwaredigital domains commercials division has established itself as the premiere visual effects studio in the advertising industry with fortune 500 clients such as nike american express gatorade anheuserbusch cocacola and mercedes benz the commercials division has garnered dozens of clio awards in addition to the visual effects divisions mr ross launched digital domain films a feature film production division the first feature film produced by ross was the new line cinema release secondhand lions which achieved both critical and box office success in 2006 as digital domains ceo and chairman ross sold digital domain to director michael bay and a group of private equity investors led by john textor textor would bring digital domain to bankruptcy in 2012a native of new york city ross began his career in media studies at hofstra university where he graduated with a bs in communication arts in 1974 he returned to hofstra in june 1997 to receive an honorary doctorate degree from his alma mater ross is a member of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences oscars and the academy of television arts and sciences emmys he has worked on over 100 of the worlds largest special effects films and has lectured extensively about the creative process content and technology in over 30 countries around the world"
"joseph carroll born 1949 is a scholar in the field of literature and evolution he is currently curators professor at the university of missourist louis where he has taught since 1985in evolution and literary theory the first book in the field of evolutionary literary studies carroll used evolutionary biology to construct a theory of literature that would serve as an alternative to poststructuralist theories he rejected two key poststructuralist ideas textualism the world made of words and indeterminancy the selfsubverting character of discourse in the essays collected in literary darwinism evolution human nature and literature carroll explored the emerging field of literary darwinism worked toward building a comprehensive model of human nature critiqued poststructuralism traditional humanism ecocriticism cognitive rhetoric and narrowschool evolutionary psychology and offered examples of practical darwinist criticism in a second volume of essays reading human nature carroll examined the adaptive function of literature and the other arts offered darwinist interpretations of the picture of dorian gray wuthering heights and hamlet gave examples of quantitative literary analysis and reflected on the course of intellectual history from darwin to the present in graphing jane austencarroll and colleagues applied empirical methodsan internet survey of reader responsesto an evolutionary analysis of british nineteenth century fiction carroll produced an edition of charles darwins on the origin of species coedited volumes 1 and 2 of the evolutionary review and coedited evolution literature and film a reader"