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"wardell milan is a new york city based visual artist known for works on paper drawings and collage often blended together he is also known for photographs of dense semiautobiographical tabletop dioramas his drawings generally incorporate figures and are said to occupy a space between beauty and uglinessborn in knoxville tennessee in 1978 from an early age he exhibited an artistic talent and by the age of four drew regularly in a home studio provided by his parents wardell sr and linda milan after graduating from the university of tennessee in 2001 he attended the skowhegan school of painting and sculpture in skowhegan maine while pursuing his masters of fine arts at yale university school of art from which he graduated in 2004 he focused on blending his childhood drawing with photography and collage ultimately producing dioramas to photograph in 2006 he joined the studio museum in harlem as artist in residence resulting in a 2007 show and that year he was awarded a louis comfort tiffany foundation granthis first solo show in 2005 one year out of school was glowingly reviewed by the new york times mr milans work has plenty of finesse but also feels flexible on a growth curve an auspicious debut the same publication called his 2010 exhibition of drawings inspiredthe whitney museum of american art and the museum of modern art have acquired several pieces for their permanent collectionshe lives in brooklyn ny and is represented by louis b james"
"vnuste niyongabo born december 9 1973 is a burundian former middledistance runner in 1996 he became the first and so far only olympic medalist from burundi by winning the 5000 metres at the 1996 summer olympics he had only competed twice before in that event prior to winning the gold medala tutsi born in vugizo in southern burundi niyongabo won a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 1992 world junior championships and also came fourth over 800 metres he competed in his first senior tournament the following year but was eliminated in the 1500 m semifinals of the world championships in stuttgart niyongabo soon became one of the top 1500 m runners in the world winning several major races in 1994 and 1995 he also won a bronze medal at the world championships in gothenburg finishing behind noureddine morceli and hicham el guerroujfor the 1996 olympics held in atlanta niyongabo was assumed to be a potential winner of the 1500 m but he decided to forfeit his place to a compatriot dieudonn kwizera kwizera had been unable to compete in the 1988 and 1992 olympics since burundi did not have a national olympic committee at the time and was only in atlanta as a coach niyongabo moved up to compete in the 5000 m event instead the move turned out to be a good one for both athletes kwizera finally became an olympian while niyongabo sprinted away in the last lap of the 5000 m final to win an unexpected gold medalhe also is the sixth fastest miler ever putting him behind only hicham el guerrouj noah ngeny noureddine morceli steve cram and daniel komenafter the olympics niyongabo struggled with several injuries and never achieved the same level of competition again his attempt to defend his title at the 2000 summer olympics failed placing only 15th in his semifinal heatniyongabo currently 2005 works for the ekin division of nike inc in italy he ran on the elite nike bowerman international team in the hood to coast relay in 2005 which finished second in a field of 1062 teamsvenuste is today a member of the champions for peace club a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport created by peace and sport a monacobased international organizationin october 2010 he sponsored the very first friendship games which took place in the great lakes region of africa a day of transborder sports competitions to promote peace and unite young people from burundi and the democratic republic of congo drc around the values of friendship and fraternity offered by sport"
"dario martinelli andria italy march 1 1974 is an italian musicologist semiotician and composerhe is adjunct professor of musicology and semiotics at helsinki university and until 2007 guestprofessor at the finnish network university of semioticshis scholarly approach is influenced by gino stefani franco fabbri from bologna university where martinelli graduated in 1999 and eero tarasti from helsinki university where martinelli received his doctorate in 2002 among his monographs how musical is a whale towards a theory of zoomusicology 2002 zoosemiotics proposals for a handbook 2007 of birds whales and other musicians introduction to zoomusicology 2009 and a critical companion to zoosemiotics 2010 as of 2010 he has written some eighty articles monographs and edited works published in international journals and compilations his writings are available in english italian finnish estonian french lithuanian german and swedishscientific director of the umweb publishing series martinelli is now coeditorinchief of the academic journal if journal of italofinnish studieshe compiled the first entry zoomusicology for a musical encyclopaedia and gave the first zoomusicology course for a university in helsinki how musical is a whale is currently adopted as a textbook in some european universitiesas a composer martinelli writes experimental music with works commissioned by sibelius academy and various festivals in finland and estonia alone or together with finnish composer petri kuljuntausta incidental music he wrote for documentaries radio programs and theatre shows and popular music he is songwriter for the italian singer anna maria castellimartinelli is also the youngest winner of the oscar parland award for outstanding contribution to semiotics prize established by helsinki university in memory of oscar parland the first finnish semiotician in 2006 he was knighted by the italian republic for his contribution to the spreading of italian culture abroad"
"richard rich skrenta born 1967 in pittsburgh pennsylvania is a computer programmer and silicon valley entrepreneur who created the search engine blekkoin 1982 as a high school student at mt lebanon high school skrenta wrote the elk cloner virus that infected apple ii machines it is widely believed to be one of the first largescale selfspreading personal computer viruses ever createdskrenta graduated from northwestern university between 1989 and 1991 he worked at commodore business machines with amiga unix between 1991 and 1995 he worked at unix system labs and from 1996 to 1998 with iplevel encryption at sun microsystems he later left sun and became one of the founders of dmoz he stayed onboard after the netscape acquisition and continued to work on the directory as well as netscape search aol music and aol shopping after his stint at aol he went on to cofound topix llc a web 20 company in the news aggregation forums market in 2005 he and his fellow cofounders sold a 75 share of topix to a newspaper consortium made up of tribune gannett and knight ridder currently he heads the startup company blekko inc an internet search engine which began public beta testing on november 1 2010 andrecently gained marc andreessen as an investorhe was involved in the development of vms monster an old mud for vms vms monster was part of the inspiration for tinymud he is also known for his role in developing tass an ancestor of tin the popular threaded usenet newsreader for unix systems in 1989 he started working on a multiplayer simulation game in 1994 it was launched under the name olympia as a payforplay pbem game by shadow island games"