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"tom werman born in boston ma was an ar man and record producer for epic records from 1970 into 1982 he has produced albums by acts including mothers finest ted nugent cheap trick molly hatchet blue yster cult mtley cre twisted sister stryper hawks kix la guns and poison while in ar at epic records he signed reo speedwagon cheap trick ted nugent molly hatchet and boston during wermans career he earned a total of 23 gold and platinum records for these and other bands he produced werman became an independent producer in 1982 and continued to work until 1999 when he produced the music and soundtrack for the film rock star starring mark wahlberg and jennifer aniston wermans producing credits also include key recordings by the producers gary myrick the figures jason the scorchers krokus and dokken wermans production style was sometimes described by critics as too clean and controlled for the hard rock and heavy metal albums that he has produced in particular the members of cheap trick questioned his production of in color their second album two decades after its release werman insists that the band always allowed him a free hand as producer and that they approved the final mixes on all 3 albums he produced for them despite the bands complaints in color earned double the us sales of its harshersounding predecessor and made cheap trick superstars in japan cheap trick went on to record two more top selling albums with werman heaven tonight and dream policecurrently werman is owner of stonover farm 1 a fully appointed luxury bb in lenox massachusetts"
"andrew holleran is the pseudonym of eric garber born 1944 a novelist essayist and short story writer he is a prominent novelist of poststonewall gay literature he was a member of the violet quill a gay writers group that met briefly from 198081 the violet quill included other prolific gay writers like edmund white and felice picano garber who has historically been very protective of his privacy uses andrew holleran as his pseudonymdancer from the dance his first novel was published in 1978 its narrative takes place among the discotheques of new york city and fire island although it is fire island with its literal distance from the mainland that provides a pivotal backdrop for the novel dancer shares many of its locales as well as its themes with faggots larry kramers novel published in the same yearhollerans second novel was nights in aruba and his third is titled the beauty of men the beauty of men takes place in central florida where the main character a 47yearold gay man has gone to take care of his quadriplegic mother hollerans grief a novel received the 2007 stonewall book awardholleran teaches creative writing at american university in washington dc and he continues to publish short fiction in gay short story collections like m2m new literary fiction and frequently publishes articles in the gay lesbian review worldwidehe received the bill whitehead award for lifetime achievement from publishing triangle in 2007he graduated from harvard college in 1965"
"demetrios jim fouras am born 8 march 1938 is a former australian politician born in greece he migrated to queensland where he was a research chemist and then a marketing economist with the department of primary industries in 1977 he was elected to the legislative assembly of queensland as the labor member for south brisbane he held the seat until 1986 when he was defeated for preselection by anne warner he returned to the assembly in 1989 winning the seat of ashgrove which he held until his retirement in 2006 fouras was speaker of the legislative assembly from 1990 to 1996fouras tenure as speaker would have ended earlier in 1995 when he was not renominated by the alp caucus as its candidate for speaker choosing instead henry palaszczuk the party had just been reelected to government at the 1995 queensland state election with a oneseat majoritythe dumping of fouras as speaker by his alp colleagues raised the prospect of him being reelected with the support of the coalition as he would have had the numbers to beat palaszczuk on the floor of parliamentfearing that outcome the alp withdrew palaszczuks candidacy for speaker and fouras was reelected with the support of his alp colleagues upon his reelection as speaker the coalition claimed that even if the alp had not reversed its decision on fouras he would have been reelected over palaszczuk not just with the support of the coalition but also some alp mps the claim that some alp members would have broken the party line to support fouras has been disputed by the alpduring this renewed tenure as speaker independent liz cunningham mostly sided with the coalition in parliamentary votes with the government having a oneseat majority on those occasions fouras as speaker had to use his casting vote in order for the government to win the division fouras casting vote had not been required previously because before the 1995 election the government had had a 19seat majorityin february 1996 the alp lost its oneseat majority after the loss of the mundingburra byelection and the goss government resigned its commission fouras likewise resigned as speaker"
"marc levoy is a computer graphics researcher and professor of computer science and electrical engineering at stanford university he is noted for pioneering work in volume renderinglevoy first studied computer graphics as an architecture student under donald p greenberg at cornell university he received his barch in 1976 and ms in architecture in 1978 he developed a 2d computer animation system as part of his studies receiving the charles goodwin sands memorial medal for this work greenberg and he suggested to disney that they use computer graphics in producing animated films but the idea was rejected by several of the nine old men who were still active following this they were able to convince hannabarbera productions to use their system for television animation despite initial opposition by animators the system was successful in reducing labor costs and helping to save the company and was used until 1996 levoy worked as director of the hannabarbera animation laboratory from 1980 to 1983he then did graduate study in computer science under henry fuchs at the university of north carolina at chapel hill and received his phd in 1989 while there he published several important papers in the field of volume rendering developing new algorithms such as volume ray tracing improving efficiency and demonstrating applications of the techniquehe joined the faculty of stanfords computer science department in 1990 in 1991 he received the national science foundations presidential young investigator award in 1994 he cocreated the stanford bunny which has become an icon of computer graphics in 1996 he and pat hanrahan coauthored the paper light field rendering which forms the basis behind many imagebased rendering techniques in modernday computer graphics in the 2000s his lab has worked on applications of light fields developing technologies such as a lightfield camera and lightfield microscopefor his pioneering work in volume rendering levoy was the recipient of the acm siggraph computer graphics achievement award in 1996 in 2007 he was inducted as a fellow of the association for computing machinery"