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"andrew lewis born in suttoninashfield nottinghamshire on 14 may 1963 is a british composer known mainly for his acousmatic music that is electroacoustic music heard only over loudspeakers though he also composes some chamber and orchestral musiche studied music at the university of birmingham in england first as an undergraduate 198184 then as a postgraduate studying composition with jonty harrison it was during this time that he became one of the original members of beast performing electroacoustic music throughout the united kingdom under harrisons direction after gaining a phd in 1992 he worked briefly in the music department at the university of surrey england 199293 before becoming lecturer at the bangor university wales he is currently a professor of music there as well as directing the work of the electroacoustic music studios and electroacoustic wales which performs electroacoustic and acousmatic musicmuch of his acousmatic music displays an interest in the abstraction of unseen and unrecognisable sounds an approach particularly strongly evident in earlier works such as arrivals 1987 and time and fire 1991 however with the composition of scherzo 1992 a parallel concern with the anecdotal and pictorial possibilities of recognisable sounds began to emerge and much of his subsequent work plays on the tensions between these two approaches since moving to wales much of the evocation of image in his music relates to the landscape of the area in which he lives and works ascent 1994 evokes the wildness of the mountain landscape of snowdonia which was awarded a euphonie dor by the bourges electroacoustic music competition as one of the most notable former prizewinning works between 1975 and 2005 more recently the cycle of works four anglesey beaches 19992003 takes as its inspiration the seascapes and coastal locations of the areaalthough very little music exists for conventional forces there have been a few notable exceptions in recent years eclipse orchestra 2004 was premiered under elgar howarth in 2004 while in the same year tempo reale string quartet 2004 was chosen by sir peter maxwelldavies for a performance in londons wigmore halla handful of writings on the analysis of electroacoustic music also exist in particular francis dhomonts novars journal of new music research vol 27 1998 no 12 pp 6783"
"zvi mowshowitz is a former professional magic the gathering player who also held a developer intern position at wizards of the coast magic rd he is known for having created innovative and sometimes gamebreaking decks like turbozvi and my fires as well as many other notable decks that put up respectable finishes at highly competitive magic the gathering tournaments his first place finishes include a pro tour and a grand prix he has placed in the top eight of four pro tours and earned over 140000 playing magic competitively in 2007 mowshowitz was elected into the magic hall of fame mowshowitz was particularly noted for exploiting previously undiscovered card interactions and demonstrating that cards once believed to be quite poor were in fact broken meaning sufficiently powerful as to be gamedominating when fully understood examples include yawgmoths bargain once believed to be unplayable but which was rapidly banned as too powerful after zvi demonstrated its potential when fully exploited and dream halls the engine behind the nowlegendary turbozvi deck archetypehe is also an avid internet writer previously with the dojo mindripper brainburst starcitygames and then for the official magic website magicthegatheringcom in april 2006 zvi stopped writing for magicthegatheringcommowshowitz is currently the ceo of metamed a medical research analysis firm"
"kathleen babineaux blanco born december 15 1942 served from january 2004 to january 2008 as the 54th governor of the us state of louisiana a democrat she is the first woman to have been elected as governor of louisianawhen first elected blanco outlined her top priorities as providing affordable healthcare improving the education system in the state and helping to create a strong and vibrant economy through aggressive economic development initiatives her work as governor changed dramatically when in 2005 coastal louisiana was severely damaged by two hurricanes that stuck less than a month apart in august hurricane katrina devastated the new orleans region an urban area of 14 million people then in september hurricane rita struck the southwestern coast displacing another 300000 people more than 200000 housing units were destroyed 81000 businesses closed entire electrical and telecommunication systems were torn apart and one million people were made homeless as a result of severe flooding caused by levee failures and storm surgesmany believed the immediate response from the city state and federal governments was inadequate and blanco later acknowledged there were failures on the part of her administration before and after the storm much criticism however was directed at the federal emergency management agency for what was seen as a slow initial response to the disaster and an inability to effectively manage care for and delivered promised resources to those trying to evacuate from new orleansblanco announced in march 2007 that she would not seek reelection later that year saying that she would instead focus her time and energy for the remainder of her term on the peoples work not on the politics of running for another term"
"phillip harvey spector born harvey phillip spector december 26 1939 is an american record producer songwriter and the originator of the wall of sound production method at the height of his career spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girlgroup sound and produced more than twentyfive top 40 hits from 1960 to 1965 writing or cowriting many of them for artists such as the ronettes and the crystals following collaborations with john lennon leonard cohen dion dimucci and the ramones in the 1970s spector remained largely inactive in the 2000s he became infamous as the subject of two trials for murder and a seconddegree convictionspector is often called the first auteur among musical artists for acting not only as a producer but also the creative director writing or choosing the material supervising the arrangements conducting the vocalists and session musicians and masterminding all phases of the recording process he helped pave the way for various music genres with numerous artists later citing his work as a major influence his grammy awardwinning coproductions number the ronettes walking in the rain 1964 the beatles let it be 1970 and george harrisons concert for bangladesh 1971for his contributions to the music industry spector was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 1989 as a nonperformer in 1997 he was inducted into the songwriters hall of fame the 1965 song youve lost that lovin feelin produced and cowritten by spector for the righteous brothers is listed by bmi as the song with the most us airplay in the 20th century in 2004 rolling stone magazine ranked him 63 on their list of the greatest artists of all time spectorproduced albums that have ranked within rolling stones list of the 500 greatest albums of all time include presenting the fabulous ronettes featuring veronica 1964 a christmas gift for you from phil spector 1963 and back to mono 1991 in 2008 the washington times named spector the second greatest record producer in music historyin 2009 spector was convicted of seconddegree murder in the 2003 shooting death of actress lana clarkson in his alhambra california home he is serving a prison sentence of 19 years to life"