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  GemsWinn
March 2002 Winner: The Phil-Sci Archive is "an electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science." It is a free service, sponsored by the Philosophy of Science Association, the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh.
David Chalmers is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Associate Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies.
June 2000 Winner: The Thomas Instituut te Utrecht is a co-operative group of theologians, philosophers and historians from several universities and institutes in the Netherlands, specialised in the study of the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274).
www.epistemelinks.com /GemsWinn.aspx   (5537 words)

  
 David Sneddon
The Fame Academy winner proved to be a surprise flop back in 2002 when he left the FA house.
David polled 3.5 million of the 6.9 million votes and for a year at least will be living a millionaire lifestyle.
David Sneddon 24-year-old David Sneddon was born in Glasgow, he was before starring in Fame Academy a singer in a pub band and a self-taught pianist who also plays the drums and plays in a band called The Martians.
www.myglasgow.org /glasgow/celebs&gossip-david-sneddon.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Quinnipiac University | 2003 Award winner - David Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
David graduated with his bachelor’s in 1970 and after earning his master’s in English from Boston University, returned to the place he calls home.
In his own words, David answers “numerous miscellaneous questions and I generally try to alleviate distress and confusion.” As an adjunct professor in the English department, he instills in his students his own passion for literature and the written language.
David was born and raised in Cheshire and still lives in the house where he grew up.
www.quinnipiac.edu /x9964.xml   (308 words)

  
 Instrument Contest Winner Archives David Mahler
David Mahler was 10 when he asked for drum lessons.
David prefers classical music to folk songs but includes both on his CD, Under the Hammer, available at www.davidmahler.com.
David plays dulcimer at folk festivals and private parties but eventually will move more toward percussion work because universities don't offer music degrees in dulcimer.
www.wvfest.com /contests/winner.html?winnerid=396   (786 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Winner argues that this concept derives from the fact that the Dutch live in such a small geographical area with so many people they always had to make the most efficient use of their space.
Winner argues that before the Dutch even start a football game, they believe that they deserve to win because their footballing style is so much superior to that of the rest of the world.
David Winner takes the reader from the first developments in dutch football through to explaining or at least trying to explain the idea of total football, the great tensions between Holland and Germany and the in fighting of most dutch teams.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747553106   (1669 words)

  
 UUA Melcher Award | 1999 Winner: David Halberstam
In this 1999 Melcher Award winning book, David Halberstam tells the story of the beginnings of the civil rights movement in Nashville TN, tracing the lives of the men and women who initiated it and the growth of the movement into its present-day status.
David Halberstam's name will be spoken because, among other things, he has written a superb book about the lives of a true group of American heroes.
It could be that they were not aware that the sit-ins would change the fact of the civil rights movement and thrust it into the forefront of American racial awareness and heighten the quest for social justice.
www.uua.org /awards/melcher/award99.html   (1647 words)

  
 Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: David Adams Richards
From Canada’s beloved Governor General’s Award and Giller Prize winner, David Adams Richards, comes a sweeping, spellbinding novel of New Brunswick in the 1930s and ’40s that is perhaps his finest work to date.
From the two-time winner of the Governor General's Award, The Bay of Love and Sorrows is an unflinching story of ambition and betrayal.
David Adams Richards explores man's relationship with nature: whether fishing salmon on the Miramichi, hunting moose or deer, losing your way in the woods, or sneaking away from a bear.
www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=25454   (561 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | David wins Fame Academy
David Sneddon has been voted winner of BBC One's talent search Fame Academy, winning one of the biggest prizes in television.
David, 24, polled 3.5 million votes out of the 6.9 million cast after singing four songs, including his own composition Living a Lie, during the live showdown.
David and Sinead, 22, from Northern Ireland, went through to the final segment where they performed another song each before duetting on Sir Elton's I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2569749.stm   (605 words)

  
 David Grier
David Grier is one of the most popular flatpicking guitarist and teachers in Bluegrass and has won the IBMA 'Guitar Player of the Year' award a total of three times.
David recalls, "When I was young it was much easier for me to play when I put the capo on the third fret because the frets are closer together up the neck.
David is not one to elaborate on the exact way he holds the pick or attacks the strings because it is likely to change from one solo to the next depending on the sound he is trying to create or the tone he is pulling out of the guitar in that moment.
www.flatpick.com /Pages/Featured_Artist/David.html   (3601 words)

  
 David Holt: About David - Biography
Four-time Grammy Award winner David Holt is a musician, storyteller, historian, television host and entertainer, dedicated to performing and preserving traditional American music and stories.
David takes the audience from his beginnings as a Texas bones player to a rock and roll drummer in the 60's to a nationally acclaimed Southern Appalachian musician.
David is recognized as one of the nation's foremost storytellers.
www.davidholt.com /about   (1298 words)

  
 Award Winner David Gerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
David Gerry received his Bachelor of Music in Performance and Master of Music in Performance degrees from the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto and an ARCT diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music, which also awarded him the gold Medal for flute.
David Graduated from the institute with a diploma in Flute pedagogy in 1990..
David was appointed a Registered Teacher Trainer in Flute by both the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the International Suzuki Association, one of a handful of teachers world wide who are able to train flutists in the Suzuki approach to flute pedagogy.
publish.uwo.ca /~gbeamish/ECMF/*English/tell_Gerry.htm   (296 words)

  
 David Francey - Bio/Press Kit
David has performed at all of Canada's major folk festivals along with Denmark's prestigious Tønder Festival, the Towersey Village Festival in Oxford, England and the Carrying Stream Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
David Francey was born in 1954 in Ayrshire, Scotland, where as a paper boy he got his first taste of the working life.
In concert David is a singer and a storyteller who can establish, in minutes, a personal rapport with his audience.
www.davidfrancey.com /press.html   (1650 words)

  
 David Sneddon News
FAME Academy winner David Sneddon was left a bit deflated when he tried to make a speedy exit from an appearance at an Edinburgh school - after someone let down the tyres on his car....
Fame Academy winner David Sneddon was left feeling let down after pranksters deflated the tyres on his car, it emerged today....
It was as though someone had hit a magic button on the remote control and transported viewers en masse to some colossal couch, with a stage serving as a TV screen at one end of the sitting room....
www.davidfans.co.uk /newsblog/index.php?m=200304   (1439 words)

  
 CD Baby: DAVID M. BAILEY: Coffee With The Angels
david left his corporate career and returned to his first love of songwriting and performing and set out to share the hope on which his life depended.
david's songs are reminiscent of folk legends like James Taylor and Cat Stevens, though he also points to the work of Kahlil Gibran and J.S. Bach as being influential in his writing.
Yet it is alone with his audiences where david finds his greatest joy: from Beirut to Budapest, from Pittsburgh to Portland, and on hundreds of stages in between, he has inspired and entertained thousands of listeners.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/dmbailey02   (1818 words)

  
 Hire Christine Hamilton. David Winner or Craigie Veitch
David has written eight books including, in 1988, The Coming of the Greens (co-written with leading environmentalist Jonathon Porritt), a study of environmentalism in Britain.
Winner's other book, 'Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football' was published by Bloomsbury just before Euro 2000 and was immediately acclaimed as a highly original and perceptive study of football culture.
David is available to speak on a whole range of subjects, and has spoken on the environment, the contemporary arts and off course football and recently commentated for BBC World News on the football World Cup.
www.f4group.co.uk /month_11_2002.htm   (547 words)

  
 CD Baby: DAVID M. BAILEY COLLECTION - david's albums from 1998-2006
david is a cancer survivor whose life depends on the hope he sings about.
If you've never been to one of david's inspiring concerts, you'll want to watch this uplifting, witty, dramatic debut DVD docu-umentary of the self-described hippie-folksinger-survivor as he shares his life and music on and off stage.
david's songs are highly lyric driven and his bias for the importance of the message is clear; however, his classicaly trained fingers dance across the strings of his Martin guitar providing an ever-fresh and kinetic foundation on which his warm baritone
www.cdbaby.com /dbailey   (529 words)

  
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When David is taken in by a kind aristocratic Italian family, he is so happy to at last have a home, he almost gives up on his quest to reach Denmark.
Winner of numerous awards and accolades at film festivals around the world, I AM DAVID is family entertainment that is not just a suspenseful thriller, but a stirring human story about a child’s unbreakable spirit and wit in the face of tremendous obstacles.
He embodied everything we wanted David to be, he really understood the character, and we were really fortunate to find him.” Ben was already familiar with I AM DAVID, as his mother had read the book to him and his brothers when they were young.
www.lionsgatepublicity.com /epk/iamdavid/docs/pro_notes.doc   (7036 words)

  
 Imperial College London - Prize's first winner - Sir David Hopwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
David studied botany at the University of Cambridge, where he developed a particular interest in genetics.
David has held posts as Assistant Lecturer at Cambridge, Lecturer at Glasgow, and finally head of the Genetics Department at the John Innes Centre and Professor at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (now Emeritus), in a career spanning over 45 years.
David's interest in antibiotics developed largely by accident, spurred on by studying the genetics of actinorhodin, the blue polyketide antibiotic pigment that gives S.
www.ic.ac.uk /P3963.htm   (465 words)

  
 A Healthy Blog: And the Winner Is ... David M!
David M! It's final, the winner of the first Healthy Blog contest to pick the day and time of the filing of the health reform conference committee is...
David M. David predicted April 4 at 5pm.
David M, go for lunch with John McDonough; it's like getting free college credit.
www.hcfama.org /blog/2006/04/and-winner-is-david-m.html   (341 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer: Books: David Winner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Winner splits his time between history and analysis (often very insightful), and interviews with former players, coaches, and non-football academic specialists and art critics.
Winner can explain the "total football" concept as eloquently as possible (which he does), but I think you have to see it to "get" it.
Winner attempts to uncover what he sees as a Dutch nation plagued by self-perpetuating pathologies related to WW2 and the Germans, democracy and its problems with committee decisions, space and the Dutch genius for creating it, and an unwillingness toward self-examination.
www.amazon.com /gp/product/1585672580   (1921 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Contender: David Cameron
Along with his youthful colleague and friend, George Osborne - said to be Brown to Cameron's Blair - he is being talked up by some Conservatives as their best hope for the future.
David Cameron comes from exactly the sort of privileged background many would associate with the Conservative Party.
He was born in 1966 to a stockbroker and almost naturally was sent to Eton before going on to win a first at Oxford.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4651553.stm   (629 words)

  
 Politics | And the winner is ... David
The prospect that the next leader of the Conservative party will be called David is growing by the day, Tory MPs agreed last night, but David Davis' almost certain victory has not yet been conceded by supporters of David Cameron and David Willetts.
As rival candidacies fail to generate enthusiasm Mr Davis' campaign is gaining momentum and he is wooing supporters with less abrasive tactics than those associated with him in the past.
Mr Cameron, 38, and 18 months older than the education secretary, Ruth Kelly, whom he shadows, has a core of high IQ support, but rivals predict he is on track to win no more than 40 votes.
politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5224048-107980,00.html   (316 words)

  
 Distinguished Alumni Winner: David Buchanan
David A. Dancer, 17BA, has served for twenty-two years as chairman of the finance committee and as secretary of the State Board of Regents.
Through the broad span of the years of his service to the people of Iowa, David A. Dancer has reflected a rare trilogy of strengths; tenaciousness, an infinite patience, a selflessness remarkable by any measure.
As Secretary of the State Board of Regents and Chairman of its Finance Committee since 1942, through more than two decades of rampant growth and not unpainful change in the affairs of the State's advanced public institutions, he has been a quiet, constant force for quality and progress in higher learning in Iowa.
www.iowalum.com /daa/dancer.html   (329 words)

  
 TheBookHaven.net - The Winner by David Baldacci
When she meets the stranger, he tells her he can fix the National Lottery and guarantee she is the sole winner.
Just when you think you have a feel for a character, David Baldacci twists the story line, revealing that you never really knew the character at all.
This is the second David Baldacci book I have read and the first I have reviewed.
thebookhaven.homestead.com /Z_Winner.html   (855 words)

  
 The Canada Council for the Arts - Choreographer David Earle winner of the Canada Council for the Arts Jacqueline ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Co-founder with her husband, Lawrence Gradus, of the Montreal dance company Entre-Six and of Québec Été Danse, a summer school in Lennoxville, Jacqueline Lemieux was a teacher, administrator and a member of the Canada Council for the Arts Advisory Panel.
The prize will be officially awarded to David Earle on the occasion of a performance by Dancetheatre David Earle at the River Run Centre in Guelph, Thursday, September 19, 2002 at 8 p.m.
He founded Dancetheatre David Earle and has created 27 new works since that time, most of them commissioned for performance with musicians such as the Penderecki String Quartet, the Kitchener/Waterloo Symphony, composer Peter Hatch, and the Tactus Vocal Ensemble.
www.canadacouncil.ca /news/releases/2002/pu127239380155000000.htm?colour=teal   (994 words)

  
 David Holt: Store
Live and Kickin' is multi-Grammy winner David Holt's snapshot edition of his musical and storytelling odyssey over the last forty years.
These tales are brought to you by two masters of storytelling, Grammy winner, David Holt and Emmy nominee Bill Mooney.
Grammy Nominee David Holt is one of America's best-loved storytellers heard in live concerts, on recordings and video, and on television and radio.
www.davidholt.com /store   (769 words)

  
 Earl David Reed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
EARL DAVID REED is a trendsetter in the comedy and radio world.
Within his 15 years of stand up comedy, Earl has performed at over hundreds of comedy clubs and colleges and is a favorite on whatever circuit he is traveling in at the time.
Deemed the "ultimate morning show co-host for any format," he has most recently co-hosted mornings at classic rock KURR in Salt Lake City, UT. Earl’s point of view always turns out to be an informative and entertaining one.
www.omnipop.com /talent_info.asp?show=0&id=171&page=6   (192 words)

  
 ACU honors Pulitzer Prize winner David Leeson with top alumni award
David Leeson, class of 1978, has been named Outstanding Alumnus of the Year by Abilene Christian University and will be honored at ACU's Alumni Day Luncheon sponsored by the Abilene Reporter-News and the Dallas Morning News Sunday, Feb. 20 at 12:15 p.m.
"David was one of those people who went beyond the expected," said John Best, Leeson’s first editor at the Abilene Reporter-News and general manager of KACU and adjunct professor of journalism and mass communication.
If you are a member of the media who would like more information about this release, please contact Wendy Kilmer, director of public relations.
www.acu.edu /events/news/archives2005/050215_outstanding_alum.html   (502 words)

  
 Teens@Random--Search | Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
By looking back into the past, by re-imagining it and blending it with what I see around me now, I found a way to move forward and to become something that I am intensely happy to be: a writer for children.”
David Almond is the winner of the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award for Kit’s Wilderness, which has also been named best book of the year by School Library Journal, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly.
David Almond lives with his family in Newcastle, England.
www.randomhouse.com /teens/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385326650   (588 words)

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