The chairman is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office is typically elected or appointed by the members of the group. The chairman presides over meetings of the assembled group and conducts its business in an orderly fashion. When the group is not in session, the officer's duties often include acting as its head, its representative to the outside world and its spokesperson.
Other terms sometimes used for the office and its holder include presiding officer, president, moderator, chair, and convenor. The chairman of a parliamentary chamber is often called the speaker. Though chairwoman is sometimes used as a female counterpart to chairman, the terms chair and chairperson are sometimes used to avoid gendered titles altogether. The National Association of Parliamentarians does not approve using "chairperson". In the United States, the presiding officer of the "lower" house of a legislative body, such as the House of Representatives, is frequently titled the Speaker, while the "upper" house, such as the Senate, is commonly chaired by a President.
John Adams (October 30, 1735 (O.S. October 19, 1735) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, and the second President of the United States (1797–1801). He was also a lawyer, statesman, diplomat, political theorist, and a leading champion of independence in 1776. Hailing from New England, Adams, a prominent lawyer and public figure in Boston, was highly educated and represented Enlightenment values promoting republicanism. A Federalist, he was highly influential and one of the key Founding Fathers of the United States.
Adams came to prominence in the early stages of the American Revolution. As a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, he played a leading role in persuading Congress to declare independence and assisted Thomas Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence. As a diplomat in Europe, he was a major negotiator of the eventual peace treaty with Great Britain, and chiefly responsible for obtaining important loans from Amsterdam bankers. A political theorist and historian, Adams largely wrote the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780 which soon after ended slavery in Massachusetts, but was in Europe when the federal Constitution was drafted on similar principles later in the decade. One of his greatest roles was as a judge of character: in 1775, he nominated George Washington to be commander-in-chief, and 25 years later nominated John Marshall to be Chief Justice of the United States.
Catherine Brighid Livingstone is an Australian businesswoman, having held influential positions in some of the country’s major industry players including the CSIRO, Macquarie Bank and Telstra.
On 22 January 2008, it was announced that Catherine Livingstone would be a member of the panel conducting the review of Australia's national innovation system.
Livingstone graduated (with honours) from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting. In 1992 she attended the international Programme for Executive Development in Switzerland and was awarded the title of the Eisenhower Exchange Foundation Fellow for Australia in 1999.
Her skills have earned her several awards including The Chartered Accountant in Business Award in 2003, a Centenary Medal in 2003 for service to Australian society in business leadership, and she became an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2008, for “service to the development of Australian science, technology and innovation policies, to the business sector through leadership and management roles and as a contributor to professional organisations.”
Plot
This film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes interested in science, especially chemistry, and begins to read avidly. Something of a social misfit, he is fascinated by morbid subjects such as poisons and murder. His family environment is intolerable to him and, in particular, his stepmother torments him. He decides to poison those who annoy him, first with antimony and later with thallium. He smugly thinks himself cleverer than all those around him, but nevertheless he is caught and sentenced to 'rehabilitation' at a psychiatric institution. Once there, he undertakes to deceive the new eminent psychiatrist sent there to 'cure' him, thereby securing his release.
Keywords: 1960s, based-on-true-story, black-comedy, head-in-toilet, independent-film, london-england, mental-institution, poison, psychiatrist, psychopath
Meet Graham. He's not your ordinary teenager.
He gave his life to his research, so did his family.
Graham Young: I want to be the greatest poisoner the world has ever seen.
Molly: You contaminate everything you touch. I'm going to scrub you till you are raw.
Plot
This is the story of the clock-like movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager, wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased though the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control and the thrilling crash of an elevator add to the excitement.
Keywords: based-on-novel, hotel, new-orleans-louisiana
Warner Bros. unlocks all the doors of the sensation-filled best-seller!
Peter McDermott: A sure way to empty a hotel fast: drop an elevator.
A DESIRABLE WOMAN...more hazardous than the raging sea!
Heading for the laff round-up!