query: Thomas Haden Church is a director.

pos: Thomas Haden Church Thomas Haden Church ( born Thomas Richard McMillen ; June 17 , 1960 ) is an American actor , director , and writer . After co-starring in the 1990s sitcom Wings , Church became known for his film roles , including his Academy Award-nominated performance in Sideways and his role as the Sandman in Spider-Man 3 . He also made his directorial debut with Rolling Kansas .

neg: Thomas Circle Singers Thomas Circle Singers ( TCS ) is an independent chamber chorus located in Washington , D.C. . It donates concert ticket proceeds to nonprofit organizations . TCS has raised over $ 100,000 for various Washington D.C.-based charitable causes , including Thrive DC , the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing , and Calvary Women 's Services .   The group was founded in 1976 with the support of Luther Place Memorial Church , and is currently located at National City Christian Church on Thomas Circle in Washington , D.C. TCS was named Washingtonian of the Year 2000 by Washingtonian Magazine and artistic director James Kreger was honored in 2001 with WETA-FM 's Hometown Hero award .

neg: Thomas Grant (bishop) Thomas Grant ( 1816 -- 1870 ) was a Catholic bishop .   Born at Ligny-les-Aires , Arras , France , on 25 November 1816 , the son of Bernard Grant , an Irishman who enlisted in the British army , became sergeant , and finally purchased a commission . His mother , Ann MacGowan , was also Irish by birth . In January 1829 he was sent to Ushaw College , where he studied until 1836 , when he went to the English College at Rome . There he was ordained priest on 28 November 1841 , was created doctor of divinity and appointed as secretary to Cardinal Acton , a position in which he acquired a knowledge of canon law , and acquaintance with the method of conducting ecclesiastical affairs at Rome .   In October 1844 , at the early age of twenty-eight , he became rector of the English College , Rome , and was made agent for the English bishops . In this capacity he assisted William Bernard Ullathorne , who was then negotiating for the restoration of the English hierarchy . He also translated for Propaganda all English documents relating to the matter , and furnished the materials for the historical preface to the Decree of 1850 . A year later , he was appointed to the new Diocese of Southwark , and was consecrated bishop on 6 July 1851 . Though he came to England almost as a stranger , he soon won the confidence of Catholics and others . As the Government was shy of transacting business directly with Cardinal Wiseman , many negotiations were carried on by Dr. Grant , who was specially successful in obtaining from the Government the appointment of military and naval chaplains , as well as prison chaplains .   To the newly appointed hierarchy he was , as Bishop Ullathorne testified , most useful : `` His acuteness of learning , readiness of resource and knowledge of the forms of ecclesiastical business made him invaluable to our joint counsels at home , whether in synods or in our yearly episcopal meetings ; and his obligingness , his untiring spirit of work , and the expedition and accuracy with which he struck off documents in Latin , Italian , or English , naturally brought the greater part of such work on his shoulders . '' In the administration of his diocese he proved equal to the task of organization , which was necessary in an age of rapid expansion , while the remarkable sanctity of his private life led to his being generally regarded as a saint , and caused Pius IX , when he learned of his death , to exclaim `` Another saint in heaven ! '' The virtues of charity and humility in particular were practised by him in an heroic degree .   The last years of his life were spent in great suffering , caused by cancer , and when he set out to attend the First Vatican Council at Rome in 1870 , he knew that he would not return . He was appointed member of the Congregation for the Oriental Rites and the Apostolic Missions , but was too ill to take an active part in the proceedings . He died in Rome on 1 June 1870 . After death his body was brought back to England for burial .   Category :1816 births  Category :1870 deaths  Category : French emigrants to England  Category : Alumni of Ushaw College  Category : English College , Rome alumni  Category :19 th-century Roman Catholic bishops  Category : Rectors of the English College , Rome  Category : French people of Irish descent  Category : People from Arras

neg: Two by Twos Two by Twos is one of the names used to denote an international , home-based church that has its origins in Ireland at the end of the 19th century . Among members , the church is typically referred to as `` The Truth '' or `` The Way '' . Those outside the church refer to it as `` Two by Twos '' , `` No-name Church '' , `` Cooneyites '' , `` Workers and Friends '' or `` Christians Anonymous . '' Church ministers are itinerant and work in groups of two , hence the name `` Two by Twos '' . The church 's registered names include `` Christian Conventions '' in the United States , `` Assemblies of Christians '' in Canada , `` The Testimony of Jesus '' in the United Kingdom , `` Kristna I Sverige '' in Sweden , and `` United Christian Conventions '' in Australia . These organization names are used only for registration purposes and are not used by members .   The church was founded in 1897 in Ireland by William Irvine , an evangelist with the interdenominational Faith Mission . Irvine began independently preaching a return to the method of itinerant ministry he claimed was set forth in the 10th chapter of Matthew . Church growth was rapid , spreading outside Ireland . Irvine eventually began preaching a new order in which the hierarchy that had developed within the church would have no placement . This teaching became controversial within the church and led to his expulsion by church overseers around 1914 . One of the church 's most prominent evangelists , Edward Cooney , was expelled a decade after Irvine . The church then became much less visible to outsiders for the next half-century . Publication of several articles and books , increased news coverage , and the appearance of the Internet have since opened the church to wider scrutiny .   The church does not explicitly publish any doctrinal statements , claiming these must be orally imparted by its ministers , referred to as `` workers '' . Doctrine of the church teaches that salvation is available only by accepting the preaching of its homeless , penniless ministry workers and by attending the group 's home meetings . The orthodox Christian Trinitarian doctrine is rejected , and members are told to deny any church name . Baptism by immersion as performed by one of the church 's workers is required for full participation . Some in the church claim it is a direct continuation of the 1st-century Christian church , although some believe that a restoration of some sort may have occurred in the late 19th century .   Members hold regular weekly worship gatherings in local homes on Sunday and in the middle of the week . The church holds annual regional conventions and public Gospel meetings . The church claims no official headquarters or official publications . Its hymnbook and various other materials for internal use are produced by outside publishers and printing firms . Printed invitations and advertisements for its open gospel meetings are the only written materials which those outside the church are likely to encounter .

neg: List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in the English Midlands The Churches Conservation Trust , which was initially known as the Redundant Churches Fund , is a charity whose purpose is to protect historic churches at risk , those that have been made redundant by the Church of England . The Trust was established by the Pastoral Measure of 1968 . The legally defined object of the Trust is `` the preservation , in the interests of the nation and the Church of England , of churches and parts of churches of historic and archaeological interest or architectural quality vested in the Fund ... together with their contents so vested '' . The charity cares for over 350 churches . The Trust is financed partly by the Department for Culture , Media and Sport and the Church Commissioners , but grants from those bodies were frozen in 2001 , since when additional funding has come from other sources , including the general public . In the 12 months ending 31 March 2010 the charity 's income was # 6,161,653 , and its spending was # 6,035,871 . During that year it had 44 employees , and used the services of 2,000 volunteers . The charity is run by a board of trustees , who delegate the day-to-day management to a chief executive and his senior management team .   The Trust 's primary aim is to ensure that the buildings in its care are weatherproof and to prevent any deterioration in their condition . The majority of the churches remain consecrated , and many are occasionally still used for worship . Local communities are encouraged to use them for appropriate activities and events , and the buildings provide an educational resource , allowing children and young people to study history and architecture . Nearly 2 million people visit the Trust 's churches each year . As most of the churches remain consecrated , they are used for occasional services where this is practical , and some are venues for concerts and other purposes .   This list describes the 74 churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in the English Midlands , consisting of those in the counties of Derbyshire , Nottinghamshire , Shropshire , Staffordshire , Leicestershire , Rutland , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , Warwickshire , Northamptonshire , and Gloucestershire . The ages of the churches spread from St Andrew 's Church , Wroxeter , which contains fabric from the Anglo-Saxon period , to the newest church in the list , St John the Baptist 's Church , Avon Dassett , which was built in 1868 ; the greatest proportion of the churches date from the 12th and 13th centuries . All the churches have been designated by English Heritage as listed buildings , almost all of them at the highest Grades I and II * . Some of the churches stand in the centres of cities or towns , and their functions have been taken over by nearby churches ; these include St Peter 's Church , Northampton , All Saints Church , Leicester , St Mary 's Church , Shrewsbury , St Nicholas ' Church , Gloucester , St Swithun 's Church , Worcester , and St Werburgh 's Church , Derby . Others stand in remote or isolated positions in the countryside . Some of these became unused because the village they served was deserted , or the local population moved elsewhere ; examples of these include St Cuthbert 's Church , Holme Lacy , St Bartholomew 's Church , Furtho , Pendock Church , and St Peter 's Church , Wolfhampcote . In other cases the church served the estate of a country house and it is no longer used for that purpose ; examples include All Saints Church , Kedleston , St Andrew 's Church , Cranford , and Withcote Chapel . In some cases only part of the church has been conserved . Only the tower of St Oswald 's Church , Lassington has survived , the body of St Mary 's Church , Brentingby has been converted into a house , leaving the preserved tower , and in the case of St Werburgh 's Church , Derby , the tower and former chancel are preserved , while the rest of the church has been converted for commercial use . As most of the churches remain consecrated , they are used for occasional services where this is practical , and some are venues for concerts and other purposes .

neg: Free Church of England The Free Church of England ( FCE ) is an episcopal church based in England . The church was founded when a number of congregations separated from the established Church of England in the middle of the 19th century .   The doctrinal basis of the FCE , together with its episcopal structures , organisation , worship , ministry and ethos are recognisably `` Anglican '' although it is not a member of the Anglican Communion . Its worship style follows that of the Book of Common Prayer or conservative modern-language forms that belong to the Anglican tradition .   The Church of England acknowledges the FCE as a church with valid orders and its canons permit a range of shared liturgical and ministerial activities .

neg: Thomas Muentzer (film) Thomas Muentzer is a 1956 East German film about the life of the 16th-century Protestant theologian and peasant leader Thomas Muentzer , directed by Martin Hellberg .

neg: National church This article discusses ` national churches ' in the ethnic sense . See state church for church organizations at a national level . For Catholic churches in Rome associated with various countries , see National churches in Rome .   A national church is a Christian church associated with a specific ethnic group or nation state . The idea was notably discussed during the 19th century , during the emergence of modern nationalism .   Samuel Taylor Coleridge , in a draft discussing the question of church and state around 1828 wrote that  `` a National Church might exist , and has existed , without -LSB- Christianity -RSB- , because before the institution of the Christian Church - as -LSB- ... -RSB- the Levitical Church in the Hebrew Constitution , -LSB- and -RSB- the Druidical in the Celtic , would suffice to prove '' .   John Wordsworth , Bishop of Salisbury , wrote about the National Church of Sweden in 1911 , interpreting the Church of Sweden and the Church of England as national churches of the Swedish and the English peoples , respectively . Lake ( 1987 ) traces the development of Presbyterianism in 16th-century England from the status of a `` godly minority '' which saw itself surrounded by the corrupt or hostile mass of the population , into a `` genuine national church '' .   The concept of a national church remains alive in the Protestantism of England and Scandinavia in particular . While , in a context of England , the national church remains a common denominator for the Church of England , some of the Lutheran `` folk churches '' of Scandinavia , characterized as national churches in the ethnic sense as opposed to the idea of a state church , emerged in the second half of the 19th century following the lead of Grundtvig . However , in countries in which the state church ( also known as the established church ) has the following of the majority of citizens , the state church may also be the national church , and may be declared as such by the government e.g. Church of Denmark , Church of Greece , Church of Iceland .

neg: Richard Christiansen (critic) Richard Christiansen ( born c. 1932 ) is an American theatre and film critic , who was `` the chief theatre reviewer of The Chicago Tribune '' from 1978 to 2002 and the `` leading critical voice in Chicago theatre for more than three decades '' . He became the chief critic and senior writer of the newspaper . He previously worked for the Chicago Daily News from 1957 to 1978 .  Studio space at the Victory Gardens Theater was named after him in 2010 . Christiansen is the author of the book A Theatre of Our Own .

neg: P. J. Thomas, Parackanal Rev. Painnumoottil John Thomas ( April 15 , 1914 -- March 24 , 1998 ) was an Indian pastor .   Pastor Thomas 's father Pastor P V John ( Ayyapilla Sar ) came to know the Lord through a native missionary ( Kappiar Upadesi ) who taught him John 3:16 . The love of a living God so compelled his young mind that he left his Hindu Brahmin background . He married Sossamma and they had five boys ( John , Daniel , Thomas , Jacob , George ) and one girl ( Leelaamma ) . P J Thomas is the third oldest among the siblings .  Pastor Thomas attended Seampore University and earned a Diploma in Theology . He became the principal of the IPC free School . Following his marriage to Aleyamma ( Keezhvaipur , Mallappally ) , he left for Australia for higher studies . He went to England from Australia and to the U.S , where he attended Wheaton College ( Illinois ) and got a Master 's degree in Comparative Religion . He taught at Wheaton for a short time before returning to India in 1952 . Before he went back to India , he was instrumental in bringing the then three senior Indian Pentecostal Church pastors , Pastor K.E. Abraham , K.C. Cherian , and P.M. Samuel to the U.S. . He also traveled with Pastor K.E. Abraham and interpreted for him across the U.S.   Following his return to India , the late Pastor J. Varghese ( Kochusar ) Persuaded him to settle down at Tiruvalla . Pastor and Mrs. Thomas purchased the present Sharon property in March 1953 and made it their home . The fame of `` Sharon '' came with two revival meetings and the opening of the Bible College at Sharon compound . On Nov. 30 , 1953 missionaries arrived who conducted 30 days of revival and healing ministry , the last week 's attendance was over 100,000 a night . These meeting were conducted without any foreign money only from the free will offering of the people who attended . Hundreds turned to the Lord and were baptized . Many were healed of their illnesses . Rev. John E.Douglas and Rev R. W. Schambach who were instrumental for this meetings . With the completion of the Sharon Hall , Sharon Bible College was born in 1955 where several pastors have been trained .   Unfortunately the 1950s were a period of unrest within the Indian Pentecostal Church . During the split in Indian Pentecostal Church , the Sharon Hall was often used as a place of mediation , but Pastor Thomas remained neutral . Several independent churches approached Pastor Thomas to help them with building churches and buying burial grounds and to give them a hand in common fellowship . As a result Pastor Thomas decided to remain independent . Although it had a small beginning the church began to grow in leaps and bounds beginning the middle of the 60 's He called it a fellowship of churches thus it is called Sharon Fellowship Churches of India , but commonly called as Sharon Church .   Pastor Thomas was a man of God with a vision , faith , honesty , humility , integrity and compassion . He was a prophet for the modern day with practicing theology .

neg: Center for Civic Media The MIT Center for Civic Media ( formerly the Center for Future Civic Media ) is a research and practical center that develops and implements tools that support political action and `` the information needs of -LSB- civic -RSB- communities '' . Its mission reads in part :   The MIT Center for Civic Media creates and deploys technical and social tools that fill the information needs of communities .   We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and political action ; we are a hub for the study of these technologies ; and we coordinate community-based test beds both in the United States and internationally .   It was founded in 2007 as a joint effort of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Comparative Media Studies program . Its initial funding , a four-year grant from the Knight Foundation , was won in a contest `` to foster blogs and other digital efforts that seek to bring together residents of a city or town in ways that local newspapers historically have done . '' The founders planned to `` develop new technologies and practices to help newspapers attract readers as a greater number of Americans use the Internet as their primary news source . '' It expanded in 2011 .   Staffed by academic , technical , and professional staff , the Center was originally led by Christopher Csikszentmihályi , along with the Media Lab 's Mitchel Resnick and Comparative Media Studies ' Henry Jenkins . Ethan Zuckerman was announced as the Center 's new director in June 2011 . Others affiliated with the center include Sasha Costanza-Chock , Benjamin Mako Hill , William Uricchio , Jing Wang , and Jeffrey Warren .

neg: Church of England The Church of England ( C of E ) is the state church of England . The Archbishop of Canterbury ( currently Justin Welby ) is the most senior cleric , although the monarch is the supreme governor . The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion . It dates its establishment as a national church to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury .   The English church renounced papal authority when Henry VIII failed to secure an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon in the 1530s . The English Reformation accelerated under Edward VI 's regents before a brief restoration of papal authority under Queen Mary I and King Philip . The Act of Supremacy 1558 renewed the breach and the Elizabethan Settlement charted a course whereby the English church was to be both Catholic and Reformed :  Catholic in that it views itself as a part of the universal church of Jesus Christ in unbroken continuity with the early apostolic church . This is expressed in its emphasis on the teachings of the early Church Fathers , as formalised in the Apostles ' , Nicene , and Athanasian creeds .  Reformed in that it has been shaped by some of the doctrinal principles of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation , in particular in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer .   In the earlier phase of the English Reformation there were both Catholic martyrs and radical Protestant martyrs . The later phases saw the Penal Laws punish Roman Catholic and nonconforming Protestants . In the 17th century , political and religious disputes raised the Puritan and Presbyterian faction to control of the church , but this ended with the Restoration . Papal recognition of George III in 1766 led to greater religious tolerance .   Since the English Reformation , the Church of England has used a liturgy in English . The church contains several doctrinal strands , the main three known as Anglo-Catholic , Evangelical and Broad Church . Tensions between theological conservatives and progressives find expression in debates over the ordination of women and homosexuality . The church includes both liberal and conservative clergy and members .   The governing structure of the church is based on dioceses , each presided over by a bishop . Within each diocese are local parishes . The General Synod of the Church of England is the legislative body for the church and comprises bishops , other clergy and laity . Its measures must be approved by both Houses of Parliament .

neg: Churches Militant, Penitent, and Triumphant In Christian theology , the Christian Church is traditionally divided into :  the Church Militant , which consists of Christians on earth who struggle as soldiers of Christ against sin , the devil , and `` the rulers of the world of this darkness , against the spirits of wickedness in the high places '' ;  the Church Penitent , also called the Church Suffering or the Church Expectant , which in the theology of certain churches , especially that of the Catholic Church , consists of those Christians presently in Purgatory ; and  the Church Triumphant , which consists of those who have the beatific vision and are in Heaven .   These divisions are known as the three states of the Church , especially within Catholic ecclesiology . In systems of theology which reject the doctrine of Purgatory , such as Low-Church Lutheranism , the Churches Militant and Triumphant are together known as the two states of the Church . These divisions are often discussed in the context of the doctrine of the communion of saints ; although Christians may be physically separated from each other by the barrier of death , they nonetheless remain united to each other in one Church , and support each other in prayer .

neg: Holy Trinity Brompton Holy Trinity Brompton with St Paul 's , Onslow Square and St Augustine 's , South Kensington , often referred to simply as HTB , is an Anglican church in London , England . The church consists of four centres ; HTB Brompton Road , HTB Onslow Square ( formerly St Paul 's , Onslow Square ) , HTB Queen 's Gate ( formerly St Augustine 's , South Kensington ) and HTB Courtfield Gardens ( formerly St Jude 's , Courtfield Gardens - officially in the parish of St Mary of the Boltons but part of HTB ) , as well as being the home for Worship Central , the St Paul 's Theological Centre and the Alpha Course . It is where the Alpha Course was first developed and is one of the most influential churches in the Church of England .   The church buildings accommodate Alpha , other courses , conferences and meetings during the week and ten services each Sunday . With total Sunday service attendance at around 4,500 people and the Alpha course attracting several hundred guests during the week , HTB oversees a diverse range of activities . HTB 's vision statement is the `` evangelisation of the nations and the transformation of society '' .   HTB 's aim is for an Alpha Course to be accessible to anyone who would like to attend the course . In this way HTB seeks to spread the teachings of Christianity .   Nicky Gumbel , the pioneer of the Alpha course , took over as vicar of HTB from Sandy Millar in July 2005 . The associate clergy are Nicky Lee ( since July 2007 ) and David Walker ( since July 2014 ) . Pete Greig , co-founder of 24-7 Prayer , joined HTB in 2008 as Director of Prayer .

neg: Heart of the Beholder Heart of the Beholder is a 2005 drama film that was written and directed by Ken Tipton . It is based on Tipton 's own experience as the owner of a chain of videocassette rental stores in the 1980s . Tipton and his family had opened the first videocassette rental stores in St. Louis in 1980 ; their business was largely destroyed by a campaign of Christian fundamentalists who objected to the chain 's carrying the film The Last Temptation of Christ for rental .   The film won `` Best Feature Film '' awards at several film festivals . Critic Ryan Cracknell summarized the film , `` There 's no shortage of material for writer-director Ken Tipton to work with here . That alone makes Heart of the Beholder a film of interest . It is in many ways a politically charged film as it touches on issues of freedom of speech , religious beliefs and all out fanaticism . Still , I did n't think it was charged with enough balance and I think a large part had to do with the film 's inconsistent pacing . ''

neg: Reed Benson Reed Amussen Benson ( born 1928-died 2016 ) is a retired Brigham Young University ( BYU ) professor of religion who at one time was the national director of public relations for the John Birch Society and is noted for his extreme political conservatism and his advocacy of homeschooling .   Benson is the son of Ezra Taft Benson and his wife , the former Flora Amussen . Benson was born in Salt Lake City but raised in Whitney and Boise , Idaho and in Washington , D.C. . He began his studies as a student at BYU in 1945 . From 1947 to 1949 he served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) in Great Britain .   Benson wrote his 1981 Ed.D. dissertation at BYU on the development of a home school . This was one of the first doctoral dissertations written in the United States on the subject of homeschooling .   From 1975 to 1978 , Benson served as president of the Louisville Kentucky Mission of the LDS Church . He was also an LDS Chaplain during the Korean War .   Benson resides in the Pleasant View neighborhood of Provo , Utah .   In 2001 Benson and his wife , May Hinckley Benson , were honored with the Elijah Award for their contribution to the advancement of Homeschooling . Benson is the father of nine children , all of whom were home schooled .

neg: Catholic Church and HIV/AIDS The Church 's position on AIDS prevention has attracted controversy due to its opposition to condom use . In 2010 Pope Benedict XVI said that the use of condoms could sometimes be considered a first step toward moral behavior , but a spokesperson for the church later clarified that the use of condoms was still considered immoral and that the pope had not intended to take a position `` on the problem of condoms in general . '' In relation to the sexual transmission of the disease , the Church teaches that sexual abstinence before marriage , and monogamy inside marriage , are a better means of limiting the spread of the epidemic than the use of condoms . United Nations bodies have criticised the Church for its stance against condom use , on the basis that condoms are the best available means to prevent infections among sexually active people . UN bodies co-operate closely with the Church on the provision of patient care , and in eliminating infections in children . The Church provides approximately one quarter of all HIV treatment and care .   Following the election of Pope Francis in 2013 , UNAIDS wrote that the Church `` provides support to millions of people living with HIV around the world '' and that `` Statistics from the Vatican in 2012 indicate that Catholic Church-related organizations provide approximately a quarter of all HIV treatment , care , and support throughout the world and run more than 5,000 hospitals , 18,000 dispensaries , and 9,000 orphanages , many involved in AIDS-related activities . '' UNAIDS co-operates closely with the Church on critical issues such as the elimination of new HIV infections in children , and keeping their mothers alive , as well as increasing access to antiretroviral medication . Caritas Internationalis is the Church 's main international aid and development body , operating in over 200 countries and territories , and is among the strategic partners of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ) .   Pope Paul VI issued the Humanae vitae Encyclical Letter on the Regulation of Birth in 1968 , which outlined opposition to `` artificial birth control '' on the basis that it would open a `` wide and easy a road ... towards conjugal infidelity and the general lowering of morality '' . The AIDS epidemic emerged from the 1980s . In 2010 , Pope Benedict XVI characterized condom use as not a `` real or moral solution '' to the spread of AIDS , but in the case of homosexual prostitution , a potentially lesser-evil `` first step '' in the direction of moralization and responsibility , when used with `` the intention of reducing the risk of infection '' . A 2014 report by The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child called on the Church to `` overcome all the barriers and taboos surrounding adolescent sexuality that hinder their access to sexual and reproductive information , including on family planning and contraceptives '' .   Globally , well over thirty million people have died from HIV/AIDS . The Church 's condom ban was largely ignored in industrialised countries , in which public awareness campaigns encouraged condom use . The church 's stance against condoms has been blamed for the prevalence of AIDS in Africa .

neg: National Review Board The National Review Board ( full name : National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People ) is a committee created in 2002 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in order to monitor the implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in the wake of the clerical abuse scandal in the United States . The Board was also charged with investigating the scandal , which it did in part by commissioning the John Jay College to conduct a survey of Church records in order to define the nature and scope of the abuse committed by priests over the period between 1950 and 2002 . The results of that survey were released in 2004 in what has come to be known as the `` John Jay Report '' or `` Nature and Scope report . '' In parallel with the John Jay College survey the Board conducted interviews with a variety of people , both inside and outside the Church , who were well placed to comment on the scandal , and on the basis of these interviews prepared a more broad-ranging report of its own . Whereas the John Jay College report was ( as intended ) primarily a factual summary of the data collected in the College 's survey of Church records , the Board 's own report sought to interpret these data and its other findings in order to explain why the `` epidemic '' of clerical abuse had occurred and to identify the appropriate steps to avoid any repetition .

neg: Film director A film director is a person who directs the making of a film . Generally , a film director controls a film 's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay ( or script ) while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision . The director has a key role in choosing the cast members , production design , and the creative aspects of filmmaking . Under European Union law , the director is viewed as the author of the film .   The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized , or noticed . Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the boundaries of the film 's budget . There are many pathways to becoming a film director . Some film directors started as screenwriters , cinematographers , film editors or actors . Other film directors have attended a film school . Directors use different approaches . Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue , while others control every aspect , and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely . Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners . Some directors edit or appear in their films , or compose the music score for their films .

neg: Affinity (Christian organisation) Affinity describes itself as `` a growing network of many hundreds of Bible-centred churches and Christian agencies throughout Britain and Ireland '' . It was founded in 1953 as the British Evangelical Council and in 1981 numbered over 2,000 churches . The organization stagnated in the 1980s following the death of Martyn Lloyd-Jones . The rebranding and relaunch happened in 2004 . Affinity provides networking and support to conservative evangelical churches in the United Kingdom and Ireland . There are currently about 1300 church congregations linked to Affinity . The organisation 's subtitle is `` Church-centred Partnership for Bible-centred Christianity '' .   The British Evangelical Council focussed , in reaction to the 1967 Keele University conference , `` to draw in churches predicated on Scriptural ecumenicity . '' It was opposed to the World Council of Churches .   Many churches linked with Affinity would consider `` Bible-centred Christianity '' to be reformed , Calvinist , and non-charismatic , although some in the affiliation would disagree . Thus , many member churches are defined by a rigorous theology , adopting a separatist outlook . They regard churches with differing viewpoints as being in error and refuse to associate with them . For this reason they rarely join the Evangelical Alliance , a similar but larger organisation with a broader membership .   Groups of churches linked to Affinity include the Apostolic Church , the Association of Grace Baptist Churches ( South East ) , the Association of Grace Baptist Churches ( East Anglia ) , the Evangelical Movement of Wales , the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches , the Free Church of Scotland , the Free Church of Scotland ( Continuing ) , the Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches , the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales and Ireland and the Evangelical Connexion of the Free Church of England .   As of 2008 , the director of Affinity was Jonathan Stephen .

neg: Church Growth Church Growth is a movement within evangelical Christianity which aims to develop methods to grow churches based on business marketing strategies . Various church leaders have proposed different ways to grow churches . One prominent example is the `` seeker-sensitive '' approach , which aims to make churches more accessible and sensitive to the needs of spiritual seekers .


query: Paul Thomas Anderson directed The Master which received polarized reviews.

pos: Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson ( born June 26 , 1970 ) also known as P.T. Anderson , is an American filmmaker . Interested in film-making since a young age , Anderson was encouraged by his father to become a filmmaker .   In 1993 , he wrote and directed a short film titled Cigarettes & Coffee on a budget of $ 20,000 . After he attended the Sundance Institute , Anderson had a deal with Rysher Entertainment to direct his first feature film , a neo-noir crime thriller titled Hard Eight , in 1996 . Anderson received critical and commercial success for his film Boogie Nights ( 1997 ) , set during the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and 1980s . His third feature , Magnolia ( 1999 ) , takes place over a single day in the San Fernando Valley , following the interconnected lives of several characters in search of happiness and resolution . It received strongly positive reviews despite struggling at the box office . In 2002 , the romantic comedy-drama Punch-Drunk Love , Anderson 's fourth feature , was released to generally favorable reviews .   The epic drama There Will Be Blood ( 2007 ) , set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , centers on a silver miner 's efforts to capitalize on the Southern California oil boom . Released after a five-year absence , it garnered wide acclaim from critics . Anderson 's sixth film , the drama The Master ( 2012 ) , was released to critical acclaim . His seventh film , the crime comedy-drama Inherent Vice , based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon , was released in 2014 , to general acclaim . His eighth film , Junun , is a documentary about the making of an album of the same name . His ninth film , Phantom Thread , which will reunite him with actor Daniel Day-Lewis , will be released on December 25 , 2017 .   Anderson has been nominated for six Academy Awards over the course of his career , while his works have earned a further fourteen Academy Award nominations and two wins for cast and crew . There Will Be Blood has been named by several critics as the best film of the 2000s . It later ranked , along with The Master and Inherent Vice , in the BBC 's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century .

neg: Masters of the Universe: The Movie Masters of the Universe : The Movie is an action-adventure game developed by Gremlin Graphics , and published in 1987 . It is based on the American film Masters of the Universe ( 1987 ) , directed by Gary Goddard . The film and the game are part of the Masters of the Universe media franchise .   A promotional photo of Dolph Lundgren as He-Man and Frank Langella as Skeletor illustrates the video game packaging . The MSX version of the game is titled Masters of the Universe .   Two other Masters of the Universe video games were published in the same year : Masters of the Universe : The Arcade Game and Masters of the Universe : The Super Adventure .

neg: Miles Anderson Miles Anderson ( born 23 October 1947 ) is a Zimbabwean stage and television actor , who has appeared in television serials both in the United Kingdom , and North America . He recently appeared as Martin Millar , in the BBC soap opera Doctors .   Born in 1947 in Rhodesia , now Zimbabwe , Anderson was educated at Prince Edward School . His father commanded the Rhodesian Army and his mother Daphne , wrote a memoir of her difficult childhood in Rhodesia . He has appeared in the US television series , Criminal Minds , as well as the ongoing show Ultimate Force as Colonel Aiden Dempsey . He had previously played Lt. Col. Dan Fortune in ITV 's Soldier Soldier ( series 1 and 2 only , 1991 -- 92 ) . He was awarded the 1982 London Critics ' Circle Drama Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor of 1981 for his performances in The Twin Rivals and The Witch of Edmonton . His numerous performances for television include Fall of Eagles , Z-Cars , The Sweeney . Campion , House of Cards , Oliver 's Travels , Every Woman Knows a Secret and Holby City . Anderson has also appeared in two episodes of Midsomer Murders entitled `` Death In Disguise '' and `` Last Year 's Model '' , and was the voice of Poseidon in the 1997 TV adaptation of The Odyssey . Most recently he was seen as Major Marchbanks in the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman 's The Ruby in the Smoke and he appeared in 2007 in the sixth series of the crime-drama Waking the Dead . In 2008 , he made a brief appearance as Edward Tunstall in the BBC 's EastEnders . He narrated the Sky1 version of the New Zealand documentary The Lion Man and appeared in an episode of A Touch of Frost . In 2010 , Anderson appeared as the title character in The Madness of George III mounted by director Adrian Noble at San Diego 's Old Globe Theatre . He won the San Diego 's Critics ' Circle award for Best Actor . In 2011 , he played Prospero in The Tempest and Salieri in Amadeus , both directed by Noble . In 2013 he again won the San Diego Critic 's Circle Award for his Shylock in Adrian Noble 's production of Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice . In 2015 he appeared as Renard in the BBC TV series The Musketeers episode 2.5 `` The Return '' . His film credits include roles in The Thirty Nine Steps ( 1978 ) , The Shillingbury Blowers ( 1980 ) , Sky Bandits ( 1986 ) and Cry Freedom ( 1987 ) , among others .   He is an associate member of RADA and the father of actor Joe Anderson and Max Anderson the 2006 and 2011 World Streetboard Champion .

neg: School Master (1958 film) School Master is a 1958 Indian Kannada language film , which was simultaneously dubbed as Tamil language film as Engal Kudumbam Perisu . It was released in 1958 . It was later remade into various other languages including Telugu , Malayalam and Hindi . Movie is a classic film starring Dikki Madhav Rao , Udaykumar , Sivaji Ganesan , Gemini Ganesan and B. Saroja Devi . It was the first Kannada film to complete Silver Jubilee Celebration .   B. R. Panthulu came up with film versions of this story in various languages . In 1958 School Master ( Kannada ) and Engal Kudumbam Perisu ( Tamil ) were directed by him , dubbed into Telugu as Badi Pantulu . In 1959 ALS Productions remade the story in Hindi as School Master , again directed by B. R. Panthulu .   The Malayalam version School Master was released on 3 April 1964 directed by Puttanna Kanagal starring : Prem Nazir , K. Balaji , Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair , Sivaji Ganeshan , Ragini , Ambika , Sowcar Janaki , Aranmula Ponnamma , Bahadur etc. . The lyrics were by Vayalar Ramavarma , music by G. Devarajan and the dialogues by - Ponkunnam Varki . The film was a super hit .   In 1972 the movie was remade in Telugu as Badi Pantulu starring NTR . In 1973 once again the same story was filmed in Tamil .   The concept of the movie is based on the 1937 movie Make Way for Tomorrow which was already adapted into Marathi in 1954 as Oon Paus directed by Raja Paranjpe and also went on to be adapted in Tamil as Varavu Nalla Uravu .

neg: Eighth Doctor comic stories Eighth Doctor comic stories are two ranges of comic series that featured the adventures of the eighth incarnation of the Doctor , the protagonist of the hit sc-fi series , Doctor Who .   Two separate series of original comic strips featuring the Eighth Doctor ( and thus the likeness of actor Paul McGann ) were published during the character 's original tenure . The Radio Times published a weekly comic strip for a time . There was also the standard Doctor Who Magazine strip . The two series introduced brand-new companions , although the Eighth Doctor 's only on-screen companion , Grace Holloway , also appeared twice . There were also cameo appearances by companions from past DWM series . The Master was also resurrected .   During the latter period of the DWM 's comic stories the stories switched from black and white strips to full colour .   One of the strip 's most noted fans was Russell T Davies , the future executive producer and head writer of the revived Doctor Who series . Davies had proposed that the Magazine 's strip regenerate McGann 's Doctor at the conclusion of The Flood . Whilst a draft was prepared to include the regeneration , the idea was abandoned as the Magazine team had reservations about taking such an important element from the television series should McGann ever be used in the series for flashback purposes . Eventually the decision was taken to simply end `` The Flood '' on a note similar to Survival , with The Eighth Doctor and Destrii 's later adventures left a mystery to the readers .   It has been speculated that Davies loosely adapted elements from The Flood in his later DW storylines The Parting of the Ways and Army of Ghosts ( in particular the Doctor absorbing the time/space vortex to save Rose Tyler 's life , triggering his regeneration and the ghost-shifting infiltration of The Cybermen on an unsuspecting public )

neg: A Mad World, My Masters A Mad World , My Masters is a Jacobean stage play written by Thomas Middleton , a comedy first performed around 1605 and first published in 1608 . The title is proverbial , and was used by a pamphleteer , Nicholas Breton , in 1603 . The title later became the basis for the title of Stanley Kramer 's 1963 film , `` It 's a Mad , Mad , Mad , Mad World '' .   The play was entered into the Stationers ' Register on 4 October 1608 , and first published in quarto later that year by the bookseller Walter Burre . In the play 's final two Acts in the 1608 text , some characters have different names than in the prior three Acts ( Penitent Brothel is Penitent Once-Ill ; Harebrain is Hargrave , or Shortrod ) -- which suggests that the extant text is a revised version . A second quarto appeared in 1640 , issued by the bookseller James Becket ; the title page of Q2 states that the play had been `` often acted '' by Queen Henrietta 's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre . The play was revived at least twice in the Restoration era ( 1661 -- 2 ) , and was adapted for other productions in the later 18th century .

neg: From The Doctor to my son Thomas `` From The Doctor to my son Thomas '' is a viral video recorded by actor Peter Capaldi and sent to Thomas Goodall , an autistic nine-year-old boy in England , to console the child over grief from the death of Goodall 's grandmother . Capaldi filmed the 42-second video in character as the 12th incarnation of The Doctor in the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who . Capaldi 's message had a positive effect on Thomas ; his father said that the boy smiled for the first time since learning of his grandmother 's death , and gained the courage to go to her funeral .   Thomas ' father Ross Goodall posted the video to YouTube on 6 November 2014 . He later explained to media that he wanted to make the video available to his family and had no idea it would become popular online . CNN reported that after its appearance on YouTube , the video was viewed over 200,000 times in its first 48 hours online . This more than doubled the next day , and less than a week later it had over 900,000 total views . BBC News observed that Capaldi 's message had become a viral video , and ITV News described response to the video as a global phenomenon .   The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph called the recording by Capaldi a touching video to a young child suffering from grief . CNN and MTV characterised the video similarly , as did Spanish and Dutch media . The Independent wrote that Capaldi displayed a kinder face of his personality by sending the message . BT commented it was Capaldi 's best contribution as the character of the Doctor to date . The video had a positive impact on those with mental health problems . Autism Daily Newscast reported favourably on the Doctor 's actions . The Hollywood Reporter observed that as his character the Doctor , Capaldi was using his role to support mental health . Hollywood Life said their reporters were moved to tears after watching Capaldi 's video . Peter Harness , writer of the episode `` Kill the Moon '' , said that Capaldi 's video was his favourite highlight from ten years of Doctor Who .

neg: Scott Masters Scott Masters is a gay pornographic film director and studio owner active in adult film since the mid-1960s .   Masters used the pseudonym `` Robert Walters '' when he directed his early films , which include Greek Lightning . when he founded Nova Studios . He later shuttered Nova Studio and became head of production at Catalina Video . In 1992 , he co-founded gay adult film studio Studio 2000 . In 2006 , Masters sold Studio 2000 to former Falcon Entertainment consultant David McKay .

neg: Compton Bennett Herbert William `` Bob '' Compton Bennett ( 15 January 1900 -- 11 August 1974 ) , better known as Compton Bennett , was an English film director , writer and producer . He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film The Seventh Veil and the 1950 version of the film King Solomon 's Mines , an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain story .   Bennett was born in Tunbridge Wells , England . At the beginning of his career , he worked as a band leader and a commercial artist before trying his hand at amateur filmmaking . One of these early films helped him land a job at Alexander Korda 's London Films in 1932 . There , he became a film editor ; later he would help make instructional and propaganda films for the British armed forces during World War II .   Bennett 's films tended to be sombre , but were very popular with the moviegoing public . In 1947 , Bennett accepted an invitation to go to Hollywood , but his directing style appeared to suffer in the American studio system of the era . It was , however , during this time that he directed King Solomon 's Mines .   Bennett eventually returned to the UK . From 1954 to 1957 , he left film work to pursue interests in the theatre and television , but produced four films in 1957 , After the Ball , Man-Eater , That Woman Opposite and The Flying Scot . Although he continued to write and direct for film and television , his subsequent productions were not as well received .   Bennett died in Sussex , England at the age of 74 .

neg: Lindsay Anderson Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 -- 30 August 1994 ) was a British feature film , theatre and documentary director , film critic , and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave . He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if ... , which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and was Malcolm McDowell 's cinematic debut . He is also notable , though not a professional actor , for playing a minor role in the Academy Award winning film Chariots of Fire . Malcolm McDowell produced a 2007 documentary about his experiences with Lindsay Anderson , Never Apologize .

neg: Mr. Monk and the Candidate `` Mr. Monk and the Candidate '' is the two-part pilot episode of the American comedy-drama detective television series Monk . It introduces the character of Adrian Monk ( Tony Shalhoub ) , a private detective with obsessive -- compulsive disorder and multiple phobias , and his assistant Sharona Fleming ( Bitty Schram ) , as well as police officers Leland Stottlemeyer ( Ted Levine ) and Randy Disher ( Jason Gray-Stanford ) . In this episode , Monk investigates an assassination attempt on a mayoral candidate .   First envisioned in 1998 , Monk went through development hell due to difficulties to find an actor to the main role . After successfully casting Shalhoub , the series ' first episode was shot in Vancouver , British Columbia in 2001 . `` Mr. Monk and the Candidate '' was written by Andy Breckman and directed by Dean Parisot . When the episode first aired in the United States on the USA Network on July 12 , 2002 , it was watched by 4.8 million viewers . The episode was generally well received by critics , with most of the praise regarding Shalhoub 's performance as the title character .

neg: Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge Puppet Master III : Toulon 's Revenge is a 1991 direct-to-video horror film written by Charles Band , C. Courtney Joyner and David Schmoeller , and directed by David DeCoteau . It is the third film in the Puppet Master franchise , a prequel to 1989 's Puppet Master and 1991 's Puppet Master II , and stars Guy Rolfe as a puppeteer whose ability to animate lifeless material attracts the attention of the Nazis , whose members are played by Richard Lynch , Ian Abercrombie , and Walter Gotell .   Toulon 's Revenge , as well as the second , fourth , and fifth installments of the series , are only available in DVD format through a Full Moon Features box set that has since been discontinued . However , in 2007 , Full Moon Features reacquired the rights to the first five films , and the box set has since been reissued and is available directly from Full Moon , as well as through several online retailers .   The film is also available on DVD along with the first two films on a triple feature `` Midnight Horror Collection '' at a budget price . A remastered edition Blu-ray and DVD of the film was released on September 18 , 2012 .

neg: Enrique Anderson Imbert Enrique Anderson-Imbert ( February 12 , 1910 -- December 6 , 2000 ) was an Argentine novelist , short-story writer and literary critic .   Born in Córdoba , Argentina , Anderson-Imbert graduated from the University of Buenos Aires . From 1940 until 1947 he taught at the University of Tucumán . In 1947 , he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan . He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954 . He became the first Victor S. Thomas Professor of Hispanic Literature at Harvard University in 1965 . Anderson-Imbert remained at Harvard until his retirement in 1980 . He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1967 .   Anderson-Imbert is best known for his brief `` microcuentos '' in which he blends fantasy and magical realism . His story `` Sala de espera '' is taken from The Cheshire Cat , written in 1965 ; he is also the author of the 1966 short story entitled `` Taboo . '' He also penned the short stories `` El Leve Pedro '' , `` El Fantasma '' , and `` Vudu '' .   He died on December 6 , 2000 in Buenos Aires .

neg: Blake Masters Blake Masters is an American writer , director , and producer of films and television series . He is the creator of the Showtime television series Brotherhood , developer of the NBC television series Law & Order : LA , and co-executive producer and writer of the NBC television series Crossbones .

neg: Film director A film director is a person who directs the making of a film . Generally , a film director controls a film 's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay ( or script ) while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision . The director has a key role in choosing the cast members , production design , and the creative aspects of filmmaking . Under European Union law , the director is viewed as the author of the film .   The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized , or noticed . Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the boundaries of the film 's budget . There are many pathways to becoming a film director . Some film directors started as screenwriters , cinematographers , film editors or actors . Other film directors have attended a film school . Directors use different approaches . Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue , while others control every aspect , and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely . Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners . Some directors edit or appear in their films , or compose the music score for their films .

neg: Top Gun Top Gun is a 1986 American romantic military action drama film directed by Tony Scott , and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer , in association with Paramount Pictures . The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps , Jr. , and was inspired by an article titled `` Top Guns '' published in California magazine three years earlier . The film stars Tom Cruise , Kelly McGillis , Val Kilmer , Anthony Edwards , and Tom Skerritt . Cruise plays Lieutenant Pete `` Maverick '' Mitchell , a young Naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier . He and his Radar Intercept Officer ( RIO ) Nick `` Goose '' Bradshaw ( Edwards ) are given the chance to train at the Navy 's Fighter Weapons School at Miramar in San Diego .   Top Gun was released on May 16 , 1986 . Upon its release , the film received generally mixed reviews from film critics but many particularly praised the action sequences , the effects , the aerial stunts , and the acting performances with Cruise and McGillis receiving the most praise . Four weeks after release , the number of theaters showing it increased by 45 % . Despite its initial mixed critical reaction , the film was a huge commercial hit grossing $ 356 million against a production budget of only $ 15 million . With its success , the film became a cult film over the years and earned an IMAX 3D re-release in 2013 . Additionally , the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for `` Take My Breath Away '' performed by Berlin .   In 2015 , the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry , finding it `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' .

neg: The Critic The Critic is an American prime time animated series revolving around the life of New York film critic Jay Sherman , voiced by actor Jon Lovitz . It was created by writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss , who had previously worked as writers and showrunners ( seasons 3 and 4 ) on The Simpsons . The Critic had 23 episodes produced , first broadcast on ABC in 1994 , and finishing its original run on Fox in 1995 . According to PopMatters , `` the creators -LSB- said -RSB- they intended the series as their ` love letter to New York . ' ''   Episodes featured movie parodies with notable examples including a musical version of Apocalypse Now , Howard Stern 's End ( Howards End ) , Honey , I Ate the Kids ( Honey , I Shrunk the Kids/The Silence of the Lambs ) , The Cockroach King ( The Lion King ) , Abe Lincoln : Pet Detective ( Ace Ventura : Pet Detective ) , Scent of a Jackass and Scent of a Wolfman ( Scent of a Woman ) . The show often referenced popular movies such as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and The Godfather , and routinely lampooned actor Marlon Brando and actor/director Orson Welles . They also spoofed Dudley Moore , usually as his character Arthur Bach from the 1981 film Arthur .   Despite the ratings improving , The Critic was cancelled after two seasons . It continued to air through reruns on Comedy Central and then on Locomotion . From February 1 , 2000 to 2001 , ten webisodes were later produced using Adobe Shockwave , and were broadcast on AtomFilms.com and Shockwave.com . In 2004 , the DVD box set was released , which includes all 23 TV episodes ( in their original production order ) and the webisodes .   In the late 2000s , reruns of the show aired again on ReelzChannel in the US and on Teletoon 's programming block Teletoon at Night in Canada . As of 2016 , the first season can be viewed for free on Crackle .

neg: Gerry Anderson Gerry Anderson , MBE ( born Gerald Alexander Abrahams ; 14 April 1929 -- 26 December 2012 ) was an English television and film producer , director , writer and occasional voice artist . He remains famous for his futuristic television programmes , especially his 1960s productions filmed with `` Supermarionation '' ( marionette puppets containing electric moving parts ) .   Anderson 's first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh children 's series The Adventures of Twizzle . Supercar ( 1961 -- 62 ) and Fireball XL5 ( 1962 ) followed later , both series breaking into the US television market in the early 1960s . In the mid-1960s Anderson produced his most successful series , Thunderbirds . Other television productions of the 1960s include Stingray and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons .   Anderson also wrote and produced several feature films whose box office performance was unexceptional . Following a shift towards live action productions in the 1970s , he had a long and successful association with media impresario Lew Grade and Grade 's company ITC , continuing until the second series of Space : 1999 .   After a career lull when a number of new series concepts failed to get off the ground , his career began a new phase in the early 1980s when audience nostalgia for his earlier Supermarionation series ( prompted by Saturday morning re-runs in Britain and Australia ) led to new Anderson productions being commissioned . Later projects include a 2005 CGI remake of Captain Scarlet entitled Gerry Anderson 's New Captain Scarlet .

neg: Alexander Masters Alexander Masters is an author , screenwriter , and worker with the homeless . He lives in Cambridge , United Kingdom .   Masters is the son of authors Dexter Masters and Joan Brady . He was educated at Bedales School , and took a first in physics from King 's College London . He then went to St Edmund 's College , Cambridge for a further degree in maths , and then the beginnings of a PhD in the philosophy of quantum mechanics . He was studying for an MSc degree in mathematics with the Open University , and working as an assistant at a hostel for the homeless in Cambridge , when he wrote his first book .   He is the writer and illustrator of Stuart : A Life Backwards ( ISBN 0-00-720037-4 ) , the biography of Stuart Shorter . It explores how a young boy , somewhat disabled from birth , became mentally unstable , criminal and violent , living homeless on the streets of Cambridge . As the title suggests , the book starts from Shorter 's adult life , tracing it back in time through his troubled childhood , examining the effects his family , schooling and disability had on his eventual state . Masters wrote the book with Shorter 's active and enthusiastic help .   Alexander Masters won an Arts Council Writers ' Award for Stuart and went on to win the Guardian First Book Award and the Hawthornden Prize . The book was also shortlisted ( in the biography category ) for the Whitbread Book-of-the-Year Award , the Samuel Johnson Prize , and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States . He also wrote a screenplay adaptation , filmed in 2006 for the BBC and HBO , and broadcast in September 2007 . It won the Royal Television Society Award in the Single Drama category and the Reims International Television award for the Best TV Screenplay .   In 2007 , he collaborated with photographer Adrian Clarke on the book Gary 's Friends , chronicling the lives of drug and alcohol abusers in North East England .   Masters is also the author of The Genius In My Basement ( ISBN 9780007243389 ) , a biography of mathematician Simon P. Norton . In 2016 , Masters published A Life Discarded : 148 Diaries Found in the Trash ( ISBN 9780374178185 )   Alexander Masters has been portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch in Stuart : A Life Backwards , the 2007 BBC dramatization of his biography of Stuart Shorter .

neg: Gil Masters Gilbert ` Gil ' Masters is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering ( emeritus ) at Stanford University . Though he officially retired in 2002 , he continues to teach two classes at the university .   He is the author of six books , including the leading environmental science textbook Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science ( Prentice Hall ) , now in its third edition . He also recently published Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems ( Wiley ) and Energy for Sustainability : Technology , Planning , Policy ( Island Press ) .   Within the broad field of environmental engineering , Gil Masters specializes in the interrelationships between environmental quality and energy consumption . His main focus is on the design and evaluation of renewable energy systems and energy efficient buildings , including photovoltaics , wind turbines , distributed generation , combined heat-and-power systems , fuel cells , passive solar design , and solar-thermal technologies .   Masters taught environmental courses at Stanford since the mid-1970s , including CE170 , Man and the Environment .   Masters earned a number of teaching awards at Stanford , including the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching , and the Tau Beta Pi teaching award from the School of Engineering .

neg: Mastertapes Mastertapes is a BBC Radio 4 programme , presented by John Wilson , which discusses the making of significant rock albums . The featured artists are interviewed , in front of an audience , and perform exclusive live tracks , many of which are available on the programme 's website . Each album is discussed over two half-hour programmes : the `` A side '' programme features the artist being interviewed by Wilson , with the `` B side '' programme featuring questions from the studio audience .


query: Bob Arum is the founder of a company based in technology.

pos: Bob Arum Robert Arum ( born December 8 , 1931 ) is an American lawyer , boxing promoter and businessman . He is the founder and CEO of Top Rank , a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas . He also worked for the US Attorney 's Office for the southern district of New York in the tax division during his legal career before moving into boxing promotion .

neg: Acorn Computers Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge , England , in 1978 . The company produced a number of computers which were especially popular in the UK , including the Acorn Electron and the Acorn Archimedes . Acorn 's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer market during the 1980s . It is more known for its computer than for its other products .   Though the company was broken up into several independent operations in 1998 , its legacy includes the development of reduced instruction set computing ( RISC ) personal computers . One of its operating systems , , continues to be developed by RISC OS Open . Some of Acorn 's former subsidiaries lived on : ARM Holdings technology is dominant in the mobile phone and personal digital assistant ( PDA ) microprocessor market .   Acorn is sometimes referred to as the `` British Apple '' and has been compared to Fairchild Semiconductor for being a catalyst for start-ups . In 2010 , the company was listed by David Meyer in ZDNet as number nine in a feature of top ten fallen `` Dead IT giants '' . Many British IT professionals gained their early experiences on Acorns , which were often more technically advanced than commercially successful US hardware .

neg: Uptime On Uptime On Corporation ( Uptime On ) is an American technology and consulting corporation founded in 2011 and incorporated in 2012 as a Maryland Corporation , with headquarters in Baltimore , Maryland , US . Uptime On manufactures and markets computer hardware and software , and offers infrastructure , hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from PCs to business systems .  The name of the company is derived using industry accepted terminology for `` uptime '' referring to a system 's status of being `` on '' or `` off '' .  Uptime On is primarily focused on backups and supports most backup software in use today .

neg: Solidum Systems Solidum Systems was a fabless semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in Ottawa , Ontario Canada in 1997 . It developed a series of rule-based network classification semiconductor devices . Some of their devices could be in systems which supported 10 Gbit/s interfaces .   Solidum was acquired in October 2002 by Integrated Device Technology . IDT Closed the Ottawa offices supporting the product in March 2009 .   Misha Nossik was also the second chairman of the Network Processing Forum . The NPF also released the Look-Aside Interface which is an important specification for Network Search Elements such as Solidum 's devices .

neg: Dell Technologies Dell Technologies is a multinational information technology corporation based in Round Rock , Texas . It was formed as a result of the merger of Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation .   Dell 's products include personal computers , servers , smartphones , televisions , computer software , computer and network security , as well as information security services .

neg: Aeon Labs Aeon Labs is a home automation and electronics company based in Silicon Valley , California known both as Aeon Labs and Aeotec .   As a company , Aeon Labs ' core focus is on the development and sale of Z-Wave compatible accessories which it makes available under its own name , its Aeotec sub-brand , and as white labelled goods . Its products are available in over 80 countries globally and include Z-Wave interpretations of motion sensors , thermometers , remotes , key fobs , and wall switches .

neg: Alereon Alereon , Inc , is a fabless semiconductor company . It uses ultrawideband ( UWB ) radio technology to develop Certified Wireless USB and WiMedia Alliance-compliant UWB integrated circuits ( ICs ) . Headquartered in Austin , Texas , Alereon also has offices in Korea and Hong Kong . Alereon was spun off from Time Domain Corporation of Huntsville , Alabama , in August 2003 taking with it a number of engineers , executives , and patents from its parent company .  An early investor was Austin Ventures .   It initially backed the multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing approach taken by the MultiBand OFDM Alliance .  A number of competing technologies were discussed by the IEEE 802.15 standards committee in 2004 .  In October 2005 , $ 20 million in financing included investors Centennial Ventures and Pharos Capital .  After the IEEE effort was abandoned , the venture arm of Samsung Electronics invested $ 4 million in December 2006 .  By 2009 , Eric Brookman was still chief executive .  In June 2012 , an addition $ 6 million of funding was announced with investors Pharos Capital Partners and Duchossois Technology Partners and led by Enhanced Capital Partners .

neg: Core International Core International , Inc. commonly known as Core , was a multinational computer and technology corporation headquartered in Boca Raton , Florida , United States .   The company is now part of Sony and no longer exists as stand-alone identity . The company was founded in 1979 by Hal Prewitt as a technology firm to develop , market and support computer related products and services . They were best known for supporting IBM 's first business microcomputers such as the 5100 , 5110 and 5120 . With the introduction of the IBM PC and PC AT , the company provided an extensive line of disk drives , backup and personal computer products . Core became very well known as a leading industry developer of disk array and computer data storage .   Many of Core 's products were the first of their kind , had no direct competition and were widely regarded for their superior performance and reliability . Users and the computer press raved about Core 's products . Infoworld described Core 's ATplus `` is built like a Sherman tank , offering exceptional performance and reliability . '' PC Magazine called them `` Workhorses of Performance Computing '' and `` High-quality construction . . breaks the speed barrier for access times '' and asked `` Will other manufactures follow suit ? ''   Core was known for their advertising and perhaps produced a few of the PC Industry 's greatest promotions . The 1985 and 1986 rebate and recall Ad for IBM PC AT hard disk drives . So successful and controversial , there was a rumor it was a topic at an IBM board of directors meeting . And the time where they gave away a free IBM PC AT when purchasing one of Core 's ATplus 72 MB drives .   Core remained a private company solely owned by Prewitt until 1993 when purchased by Aiwa , which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony .

neg: Polycom Polycom is an American multinational corporation that develops video , voice and content collaboration and communication technology . The firm employs approximately 3,800 employees and had annual revenues of approximately $ 1.4 billion in 2013 . It is the largest pure-play collaboration company in its industry . The company also licenses : H. 264 video codecs , Siren codecs , session initiation protocol , native 1080p high-definition cameras and displays , native 720p and 1080p high-definition encoding/decoding , low-latency architecture and low bandwidth utilization , wideband advanced audio coding with low delay ( AAC-LD ) , multichannel spatial audio with echo cancellation and interference filters to eliminate feedback from mobile devices , and inter-operation with legacy video conferencing . In July 2016 , it was announced that the company was being taken private by private equity firm Siris Capital Group .

neg: Art Technology Group Art Technology Group ( ATG ) was an independent Internet technology company specializing in eCommerce software and on-demand optimization applications until its acquisition by Oracle on January 5 , 2011 . ATG continues to be based in Cambridge , Massachusetts and operates under its own name as a subsidiary of Oracle . The company is a provider of eCommerce software and related on-demand commerce optimization applications . ATG 's solutions provide merchandising , marketing , content personalization , automated recommendations , and live-help services .

neg: AudioBoom AudioBoom PLC is a global on-demand audio and podcasting distribution platform . AudioBoom offers business-to-business services to the radio , media and podcast industries , as well as an Audioboom direct-to-consumer app and website to website .   AudioBoom 's platform has been used to power on-demand audio for businesses including BBC , Associated Press , NBC Sports , Yahoo! , Cumulus Media and Westwood One .   The company is based in London with offices in New York , Melbourne and Mumbai . It became AIM-listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2014 as Audioboo Group Limited ( AIM : BOOM ) .

neg: Founder Technology Founder Technology Group Corporation , a subsidiary of Founder Group from Peking University , is an information technology state-owned enterprise in Shanghai , China . It is engaged in the development of personal computers and computer peripherals , under the brand of `` Fang Zheng '' , and printed circuit boards .

neg: Concord Consortium The Concord Consortium was founded in 1994 as an educational research and development organization to create large-scale improvements in K-14 teaching and learning through technology .   The company conducts research on improving science , math and engineering education with the use of technology . It developed the Vernier Software & Technology probeware for classrooms and mobile computers , created modeling software for genetics and molecular education , and developed a Web-based high school .   Located in Concord , Massachusetts , and Emeryville , California , the Concord Consortium employs 30 software engineers , scientists , education developers and other staff . President and CEO Chad Dorsey has led the organization since 2008 , following the longtime tenure of founder Robert F. Tinker . The Concord Consortium is overseen by a 10-member Board of Directors that includes educators and business people . The organization works in partnership with universities , museums and other educational organizations , including Tufts University , New York Hall of Science , University of Illinois at Chicago , McGraw-Hill Education and National Geographic Society . The Concord Consortium is supported primarily by grants from the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) , the U.S. Department of Education ( DOE ) , the Noyce Foundation and Google.org .

neg: Product Development Technologies Product Development Technologies , Inc. is a global product development consultancy founded in 1995 . PDT is headquartered in Lake Zurich , Illinois , United States , with regional studios in Austin , Chicago , Fort Lauderdale , Los Angeles and Minneapolis . The company maintains an international presence in the United Kingdom , Ukraine and China .   PDT works in these various disciplines : product strategy , design research , industrial design , user experience , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , software development , prototyping , quality assurance and global sourcing . The company specializes in the development of new products within the medical , consumer and defense sectors . Product Development Technologies is ISO 9001:2008 , ISO 13485 certified and ITAR registered . In 2000 , Inc. . Magazine named PDT as the 22nd fastest growing company in the United States .   The PDT portfolio includes projects with clients including : Motorola , Dell , Qualcomm , Iridium , Texas Instruments and Cardinal Health . In 2011 , PDT announced its partnership with a major U.S. university and Dr. Peter Belafsky , M.D. , M.P.H. , Ph.D. to create a new swallow enhancement device for sufferers of dysphagia . In 2009 , PDT was also selected to work with Copenhagen-based Æsir , developing the Æ + Y mobile phone concepted by international designer Yves Béhar . After more than 7,000 hours of engineering , the phone launched in 2011 . The firm also earned a 2010 Good Design Award for its work on the Invitrogen MAGic Sample Processor .

neg: Western Digital Western Digital Corporation ( commonly referred to as Western Digital and often abbreviated as WDC or WD ) is an American computer data storage company and one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers in the world , along with Seagate Technology .   Western Digital Corporation has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company . Western Digital was founded on April 23 , 1970 , by Alvin B. Phillips , a Motorola employee , as General Digital , initially ( and briefly ) a manufacturer of MOS test equipment . It rapidly became a speciality semiconductor maker , with start-up capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant Emerson Electric . Around July 1971 , it adopted its current name and soon introduced its first product , the WD1402A UART .

neg: Buildium Buildium is an American property management software company . It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Boston , Massachusetts , providing cloud-based ( software as a service ) , real estate software solutions . Its property management software allows real estate professionals to manage property portfolios , including leasing , accounting and operations .

neg: Integrated Device Technology Integrated Device Technology , Inc. is a publicly traded American corporation headquartered in San Jose , California , that designs , manufactures , and markets low-power , high-performance mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for the advanced communications , computing , and consumer industries . The company markets its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ) . Founded in 1980 , the company began as a provider of complementary metal-oxide semiconductors ( CMOS ) for the communications business segment and computing business segments . The company is focused on three major areas : communications infrastructure ( wireless and wired ) , high-performance computing , and advanced power management .

neg: Bob Rau Bantwal Ramakrishna `` Bob '' Rau ( 1951 -- December 10 , 2002 ) was a computer engineer and HP Fellow . Rau was a founder and chief architect of Cydrome , where he helped develop the Very long instruction word technology that is now standard in modern computer processors . Rau was the recipient of the 2002 Eckert -- Mauchly Award .

neg: O'Reilly Media O'Reilly Media ( formerly O'Reilly & Associates ) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics . Their distinctive brand features a woodcut of an animal on many of their book covers .

neg: Technology company A technology company ( often tech company ) is a type of business entity that focuses primarily on the development and manufacturing of technology .   Apple , IBM , Lenovo , Huawei , Microsoft , BLOCK X and Oracle , among others , are considered prototypical technology companies .   Information technology ( IT ) companies and high tech companies are subsets of technology companies .

neg: Music World Corporation Music World Corporation is an American music production and music publishing company , representing hundreds of song and music cue titles for a small clientele of composers and lyricists including the company founder . The company was founded in 1958 by Academy Award-winning songwriter Robert B. Sherman .   The company is based in Beverly Hills , California and is affiliated with the performance rights organization BMI .