Murdock may refer to:

People[link]

• Andrew Murdock, American record producer
• Andrew G. Murdock, botanist whose official abbreviation is "Murdock", who described the fern genus Ptisana
• Colin Murdock, Northern Irish footballer
• D.M. Murdock, better known by pen name Acharya S, author and proponent of the Christ myth theory
• David H. Murdock, American businessman
• Deroy Murdock, American syndicated columnist
• Eric Murdock, retired American professional basketball player
• George Peter Murdock, American anthropologist who collected cultural traits for comparative purposes
• George Murdock, American actor
• Ian Murdock, founder and former leader of the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution
• Kirk Radomski (known to players as Murdock), former New York Mets employee
• Mike Murdock, American televangelist and pastor
• Orrice Abram Murdock, Jr., United States Representative and Senator from Utah
• Roger E. Murdock, LAPD Chief
• Sharon Murdock, Canadian politician
• Shirley Murdock, American R&B singer
• William Murdock, 18th century US politician
• William Murdoch, also spelled Murdock, early 19th century Scottish engineer

Fictional

• Murdock, the fictional main antagonist in Carland Cross
• Buz Murdock, fictional character
• H. M. Murdock ("Howling Mad Murdock"), character played by the actor Dwight Schultz in the 1980s TV series The A-Team
• Roger Murdock, character from Airplane!, played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Buck Murdock, character from Airplane II: The Sequel, played by William Shatner
• Matt Murdock, fictional character, aka Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

Place names[link]

Australia

• Murdock Island (Queensland)

Canada

• Murdock River, Ontario

United States

• Murdock, Illinois
• Murdock, Minnesota
• Murdock, Nebraska
• Murdock-Portal Elementary School, San Jose, California
• Murdock, Florida

Other uses[link]

• A common nickname for someone who is an expert in the field of Magic (illusion)

See also[link]

• Murdoch (disambiguation)
• Murdoc
• Maddock (disambiguation)

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Marco Enríquez-Ominami.

Marco Antonio Enríquez-Ominami Gumucio (born June 12, 1973) is a Chilean-French^[1] filmmaker and politician. From 2006 to 2010 he was a Socialist Party deputy in Chile's lower chamber. In 2009 he quit the party and run for President of the Republic as independent, where he finished third with 20% of the vote.

Enríquez-Ominami is the son of Revolutionary Left Movement's historical leader Miguel Enríquez and sociologist Manuela Gumucio. His adoptive father is senator Carlos Ominami. Enríquez-Ominami is married to the Chilean TV hostess Karen Doggenweiler, and has two children. Because of his long name he is frequently called MEO or ME-O both in writing and in speech.

Early life[link]

Enríquez-Ominami was born in Santiago, Chile^[2] to Miguel Enríquez Espinosa, the founder and secretary general of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), and Manuela Gumucio Rivas, daughter of Rafael Agustín Gumucio Vives, a former senator and founder of the Falange Nacional political party.^[3] He is of Spanish, German and Scottish descent by his father's side, also Bolivian and Basque from his mother's side.^[4]

In November 1973, two months after the military coup d'état which ousted the government of President Salvador Allende Enríquez-Ominami and his family were expelled from the country via a military decree, and barred from entering the country for the next ten years. His father, who stayed in the country to organize and lead an underground résistance against the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, was assassinated in October 1974 by DINA agents who uncovered his secret location in Santiago.^[3]

Enríquez-Ominami and his family found refuge in France, where he grew up speaking French as his first language. He completed his primary education at Lycée Victor Hugo in Paris between 1981 and 1986. He then finished his secondary education at Colegio Alianza Francesa and Saint George's College in Santiago.^[3]

Film and television career[link]

From 1990 to 1995 Enríquez-Ominami completed a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Chile, where he was vice president of his major's student board. In 1996 he attended an intensive workshop for film directors at La Fémis in Paris.^[3]

From 1998 Enríquez-Ominami began working as executive director of Rivas y Rivas producing company. In 2002 after producing and directing several shorts, feature films, reports, television ads and television films, he directed the political documentary Chile, los héroes están fatigados ("Chile, the heroes are exhausted"), which was selected to open the 16th FIPA film festival in Biarritz. The documentary was awarded at film festivals in Serbia and Montenegro and San Diego, California. In 2005 Enríquez-Ominami created and presided the ChileMedios Foundation, through which he developed several studies on local television audience behavior. He worked as professor of film production in Chilean and Peruvian universities and collaborated in political campaigns for Ricardo Lagos and Carlos Ominami in Chile and also in Peru and Mexico.^[3]

Political career[link]

Enríquez-Ominami with President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

In December 2005 Enríquez-Ominami was elected deputy for District 10 in central Chile for a period of four years. He obtained the highest vote in that district's history. As deputy he worked on the Science and Technology and Agricultural commissions, and presided the Investigating Commission on State-funded advertisement and the Special Commission on the study of the Chilean political regime. He has introduced around 150 bills, many of which have been approved.^[3]

In December 2008, Enríquez-Ominami said he was available to compete with José Miguel Insulza and Eduardo Frei in the Concertación presidential primaries. However, after claiming the Concertación leadership changed the primary rules in order to bar him from the process, Enríquez-Ominami decided to run as an independent. With the financial support of businessman Max Marambio and media-mogul Rodrigo Danús, he began the process of collecting nearly 36,000 signatures needed to register his independent candidacy. He made extensive use of social networking Internet sites for this effect. In June 2009 he resigned from the Socialist Party to meet the legal deadline.

Despite being relatively unknown, Enríquez-Ominami quickly rose in opinion polls, garnering 10% of support by April 2009, capturing the leftist electorate dissatisfied with the choice of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei as the Concertación candidate. For the parallel legislative elections, he launched his own list of candidates, which was split between independent candidates (including three lawmakers seeking reelection) and members of two minor parties that supported his candidacy: the Humanist Party and the Ecologist Party. He placed the strongest candidates in districts where Concertación party-leaders were vying for seats. However, though he made a strong showing, Enríquez-Ominami ultimately fell short and was eliminated in the first round of voting with 20.13% of the vote.^[5] His parliamentary list also failed to win any seats, obtaining a low 4% of the vote. After the election, he refused to endorse either candidate, saying "Eduardo Frei and Sebastián Piñera are too much alike [...] They don't represent hope, nor change, nor the future."^[6] On December 16, his economic advisor, Paul Fontaine, joined Piñera's runoff campaign.^[7] Nearly a week later another one of his economic advisors, Luis Eduardo Escobar, joined Frei's team.^[8] Finally, four days before the election Enríquez-Ominami held a press conference where he said he was going to vote for the "candidate of the 29%," meaning to vote for Frei, but maintaining his supporters were free to choose their own candidate.^[9]

Works[link]

• Animales políticos. Dialogos filiales. Enríquez-Ominami, Marco; Ominami Pascual, Carlos. 2004. ISBN 978-956-247-333-0

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Marco Enríquez-Ominami

• Official campaign web site

Claudia Schmidt (born 1953) is a musician, originally from New Baltimore, Michigan, who has recorded folk, jazz, blues, and spoken word albums. She plays guitar and Appalachian dulcimer and sings. She has appeared numerous times on the radio program, A Prairie Home Companion. She has recorded with Paul Cebar and Peter Ostroushko as well as Steve Tibbetts. She also appeared in a documentary film, Gap-Toothed Women, by Les Blank.

Claudia was interviewed about her approach to the 12-String guitar in the Sept. 1988 FRETS magazine, "Special Issue: Beyond 6 Strings"; the article, entitled 'Sweeter By The Dozen: The Magic Of The 12-String Guitar (by Mark Hansen & Richard Bamman)' features her photo on p. 27 and comments on p. 35.

Claudia has been a well-known fixture in the folk/acoustic music scene since her earliest days performing in the late seventies. Her first self-titled recording on Flying Fish Records — since bought out by Rounder Records — was a huge success. She recorded four solo entrees with this label, and one duo recording with Sally Rogers. In 1987 she started a relationship with the budding record label Red House Records where she recorded another five albums, including one more duo with Sally Rogers. All ten of the above recordings were clearly in the folk/acoustic domain.

In 2001 she ventured off into independent status with her first full-fledged jazz recording, Live at the Old Rectory Pub. She has since recorded other independent efforts including two jazz CDs, and folk/acoustic CD, and a spoken word CD.

Claudia has also made a name for herself in musical theater around the midwest. She has scored the music for several plays including a Joseph Jefferson Award winning effort for A Good Person of Szechuan mounted by the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 1992.

In 2006 Claudia recorded the soundtrack for a new documentary Motherhood Manifesto, by John deGraff author of Take Back Your Time. She also starred in a musical telling of the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy titled The Gales of November. This theater piece tells the tragic story of the sinking of this mighty ore ship from the point of view of the wives of several fated crew members.

Claudia lives in Traverse City, Michigan, and plays locally.

External links[link]

• Official website

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Michael Dean Murdock (born April 18, 1946 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States) is a televangelist and pastor of the Wisdom Center ministry based in Fort Worth, Texas. Murdock preaches around the world and is best known for his promotion of prosperity theology. He often preaches with Benny Hinn and has also preached with Tammy Faye Bakker. Additionally, he hosts the Wisdom Keys with Mike Murdock television program.

Life[link]

Murdock was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana to J.E. and Willie Murdock, and has one sister, Deorah Murdock-Johnson, who works for his ministry.^[1][2] In 1964, Murdock graduated from LaGrange High School in Lake Charles.^[1] He attended Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas, but dropped out after three semesters in 1966.^[1] In 1989, he received an honorary doctorate from the unaccredited International Seminary in Florida and "seminary officials declined to comment on how they select the recipients of honorary doctorates."^[1]

In 1966, Murdock married Linda Lormand (married from 1966 - 1979)and they adopted a boy, Jason, in 1979.^[1] On October 4, 1979 the couple divorced, the same year of the adoption. Linda Lormand Murdock was given custody of Jason following the divorce and is reported to have had "struggles getting help with basic needs and food expenses for Jason" despite her ex-husband's "six to seven figure" income. Linda Lormand Murdock is commonly said to have, "fed and clothed Jason as a struggling single mother while working as a hairdresser until Jason went to live with his father at the age of 13."^[1]

In addition to preaching, Murdock is known for his publications and songs.^[3] According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Murdock "exaggerates his accomplishments" and Murdock says "he has written 6,000 songs, which would rank him among the world's most prolific songwriters."^[1] Using his own statements since 1976 means he would have written "an average of 300 a year."^[1] The newspaper reported, "Murdock has registered 76 songs with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and Broadcast Music Inc., according to unofficial data kept on those groups' Web sites. Murdock does not make clear how many of his songs are published."^[1]

In 1973, prior to his divorce from Linda Lormand Murdock, he established the Mike Murdock Evangelistic Association and he began preaching and fundraising throughout the country. In 2003, the association had $14.56 million in that year's annual revenue and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran a series about Murdock giving association (donor-raised) money to select family members who were sitting on his association's board.^[2][4] The Associated Press reported, Murdock "asks followers to give money to help the poor but spends more than 60 percent of its funds on overhead, including his salary, and only a tiny amount (reported to be "legal minimums of 1% to 3%") on helping the needy, or any other "public interest that appears to benefit anyone other than Murdock himself."^[5] Murdock refused interviews and previously declined to answer questions about money.^[6] The next year the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported "he has started a church and the law allows him to keep his financial records behind closed doors."^[7] In August 2004, the association purchased the International Faith Center in Haltom City and changed its name to The Wisdom Center, which it operates as a church.^[7]

In 1989, as a pastor on The PTL Club Murdock gained national attention during the PTL scandal when he asked viewers to donate to Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker claiming they helped broken marriages and people.^[8][9] The PTL later declared bankrupcy and Bakker went to prison for fraud related to his ministry.

Murdock has appeared on TBN, CBN, BET, INSP, WORD, Daystar Television Network and other television networks, and his weekly television program, Wisdom Keys with Mike Murdock. Murdock is a Founding Trustee on the Board of International Charismatic Ministries along with the late Oral Roberts. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported, "One secret to Murdock’s success as a televangelist is his ability to make people feel a special bond with him."^[10] During his broadcasts Murdock asks for people "fifty-eight dollars a month just for 12 months," telling them "Give God four seasons."^[11]

On January 28, 2011, Trey Smith, a student of Murdock's and friend Murdock's son Jason, released a book entitled "Thieves" critical of Murdock's ministry.^[12] Smith has appeared on "Bob Enyart Live," Bruce Collins with Jesse Ventura, and other media to discuss the police report, his experiences, his allegations of Murdock's excessive lifestyle, sexual affairs and the details of stealing Murdock's safe.^[12] In July 2011, D Magazine, a large North Texas news and entertainment publication, ran all of chapter one of Smith's book as a headlining article.^[12]

Written works[link]

Mike Murdock is the author of several books, including The Leadership Secrets of Jesus, Secrets of the Richest Man Who Ever Lived, "The Uncommon Leader," and The Law of Recognition.

See also[link]

Biography portal

• Christian evangelist scandals
• Prosperity gospel

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

Franco Parisi

Personal information
Full name	Franco Parisi
Date of birth	(1983-05-03) 3 May 1983 (age 29)
Place of birth	Sydney, Australia
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	striker
Club information
Current club	APIA Leichhardt Tigers
Number	10
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2000	A.I.S.	?	(?)
2000-2001	Sydney Olympic	14	(4)
2001-2002	Stormvogels Telstar	?	(?)
2002-2003	Sydney Olympic	25	(9)
2003-2004	Sydney United	19	(1)
2005-2006	Newcastle United Jets	9	(2)
2006-2007	New Zealand Knights	1	(0)
2007-present	APIA Leichhardt Tigers
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 August 2007. † Appearances (Goals).

Franco Parisi (born 3 May 1983 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player.

Biography[link]

Franco plays as a striker for APIA Leichhardt Tigers in the New South Wales Premier League

At age 18, Franco spent 6 months on trial at Italian giants AC Milan and a further 6 months at English giants Tottenham Hotspur.

In 2004, Franco played at the 2004 summer Olympic games for the Olyroos.

Parisi was with the Australian A-League club Newcastle United Jets for the inaugural A-League season before joining the New Zealand Knights for a season.^[1]

Since 2007, he has been leading the line for NSW Premier League team APIA Leichhardt Tigers.

References[link]

1. ^ A-League Profile and Statistics

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