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Robert W. Haack |
Robert William Haack (February 15, 1917 – June 14, 1992) was an American banker who served as president of the New York Stock Exchange and chairman of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. |
Haack was born in Wauwatosa near Milwaukee, Wisconsin on February 15, 1917. |
His father headed a Mutual of New York insurance agency, which was later run by his brother Frank Haack. |
In 1938, he graduated from Hope College, the private, Christian liberal arts college in Holland, Michigan. |
After Hope, he attended Harvard Business School on a scholarship provided by Milwaukee alumni, where he graduated in 1940. |
In 1940, he returned to Milwaukee where he began his career in the securities industry as a stockbroker with Robert W. Baird & Company. |
After moving from trader to head of the department, then syndicate manager and later institutional sales manager, he became a partner at Baird in 1950 before moving to Washington in 1964. |
On April 1, 1964, he became president of the National Association of Securities Dealers (predecessor to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority). |
He left NASD in 1967 to become the fourth full-time president of the New York Stock Exchange, the nation's largest stock exchange. |
While president of the Exchange, "he put a high priority on development of several automation programs, including one intended to reduce the physical movement of securities from one brokerage house to another." |
During the near collapse of the financial markets in 1970, dozens of brokerage firms either collapsed or were forced into mergers, including prominent firms like Hayden Stone, Inc. and F. I. du Pont. |
Haack responded by working with Congress to develop the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. |
After his term as president ended in 1972, there was no president of the Exchange between May 1972 until May 1980 when John J. Phelan, Jr. assumed the presidency. |
He served as a director of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., Nabisco, Inc. and several other corporations. |
In 1976, after several international bribery scandals which involved the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and other American companies, Haack was named chairman of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. |
During his twenty months as chairman, he worked to "restore confidence in the company and revised its finances based around a Federal loan guarantee." |
He retired in September 1977. |
In 1942, Haack was married to Catherine Radamaker. |
He later married to Ann (nee Thornett) Miller (1930–2004), the daughter of Geoffrey Matthew Thornett former wife of Allison N. Miller Jr. |
He was the father of four children, one son, Thomas Haack, and three daughters, Barbara Haack Sexton, Elizabeth Haack Barr, and Linda Haack Brooks. |
Haack died of complications from kidney failure at his home in Potomac, Maryland. |
Warrendale |
Warrendale may refer to: |
Guaraúna River |
The Guaraúna River is a river of Paraná state in southeastern Brazil. |
It is a tributary of the Tibagi River. |
Dietfurt railway station |
Dietfurt railway station () is a railway station in Bütschwil-Ganterschwil, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. |
It is an intermediate stop on the Wil–Ebnat-Kappel line and is served by local trains only. |
Dietfurt is served by the S9 of the St. Gallen S-Bahn: |
Desande |
Desande Automobielen BV was a Dutch-British manufacturer of neoclassic automobiles with retro styling combined with modern technology. |
The automobile's distinctive styling was based on the high-end automobiles of the 1930s. |
Despite their retro looks, Desandes used modern American drive trains and suspension systems. |
While the company was based in Hulst in the Netherlands, the founder Danny G. Vandezande (hence the car's name) was a Belgian, the cars mechanics were American, and the vehicle was built in England. |
The company's Belgian branch was headquartered in the small town of Schilde. |
Danny G. Vandezande presented the first Desande in 1979. |
Production of the aluminium bodywork was carried out by Grand Prix Metalcraft in North London. |
GP Metalcraft had been exclusively a supplier of Formula 1 aluminium body parts but expanded to making bodywork for Cobras and other replicas after the fuel crisis placed the future of motor sports in doubt. |
Vandezande felt that only such a small British firm would be able of executing the bodywork to a high enough standard for the Desande, although he had to switch after the original company proved not to have the necessary expertise. |
To further confuse matters, the company behind the car is often identified as JBS Associates, Ltd., also of London. |
The Desande Roadster originally used the chassis and mechanicals from the Ford LTD II and Ford Thunderbird. |
This meant a wheelbase and V8 engines of 4.9 or 5.8 liters coupled to a three-speed automatic transmission. |
The overall length was and the car was wide. |
Power from the smaller Windsor V8 was at 3400 rpm. |
As with many other neoclassics, the car used the doors from the Austin-Healey Sprite/MG Midget. |
After only a handful of Ford-based cars had been built, Desande presented the Desande II Roadster in March 1980.<ref name="TAM82/83.1"></ref> The name change indicated a switch to using Canadian-built Chevrolet Caprice/Impala chassis, fitted with a General Motors 5.0-liter V8 mated to a three-speed Turbo Hydra-Matic. |
The chassis received an additional cross brace and the engine was moved back about . |
The body dimensions remained unchanged, although the wheelbase increased marginally, to . |
Power was up to SAE, enough to propel the car to a top speed of . |
The car was always luxuriously equipped, with electrically adjustable connolly leather seats, climate control, walnut dashboard, and lambswool carpets. |
Right-hand drive was available for ₤4,000, the price of a small car at the time. |
Grand Prix Metalcraft handbuilt the bodywork out of aluminium aside from the MG Midget-drived central section. |
The radiator cowl was made from brass while the headlight housings were spun from gilding metal. |
Engine specifications varied as the General Motors donor cars were changed; in a 1982 road test Desande claimed DIN at 3400 rpm. |
Production was limited to twenty cars per year and a maximum total of 250 cars, with the chassis plates (a gold plated one being mounted near the door) being numbered accordingly, but it is unknown how many were actually built. |
Grand Prix Metalcraft was working on the fourteenth car in mid-1982.ref name=AC4459a/> Several sources state that production ended in 1984, but GP Metalcrafts displayed the car in 1985 and there are cars with titles as late as 1989. |
Later models are called Desande Caprice. |
2018 Swedish general election in Norrbotten County |
Norrbotten County elected 8 members of the Riksdag in the general election held on the 9 September 2018. |
This was the same number of seats as in 2014. |
Norrbotten is Sweden's northernmost and largest county by land area and has 14 municipalities. |
Respect Yourself (DJ BoBo song) |
"Respect Yourself" is a song by Swiss artist DJ BoBo. |
It was released in December 1996 as the second single from his third album, "World in Motion". |
The single features vocals by American singers Lori Glori and Jocelyn Brown, and the choir United Spirits. |
The song reached number 2 in Czech Republic, number 7 in Finland, number 16 in Switzerland, number 23 in Austria and number 31 in Germany. |
On the Eurochart Hot 100, "Respect Yourself" peaked at number 52 in January 1997. |
DJ BoBo performed the song on the World Music Award in Monaco in April 1997. |
Marian Gertrude Beard |
Marian Gertrude Beard, known to friends as 'Barbula' Beard (1885-1958) was an Irish-born educator and translator, headmistress of Putney High School and Crofton Grange School. |
Beard was educated at Alexandra College, gaining a first class honours degree in modern languages in 1907. |
She continued to Somerville College, Oxford, gaining another first-class honours degree in German. |
After teaching at Nottingham High School for a year, she became lecturer in modern languages at Girton College, Cambridge. |
Dora Russell recalled her there as "a tall elegant Irish woman with a slight stoop and a lorgnette and a very agreeable brogue". |
After Girton she lectured in modern languages at Somerville College. |
From 1918 to 1920 she worked as an Administrative Assistant in the Livestock Branch of the Ministry of Food, for which she was awarded an OBE in 1920. |
Beard was headmistress of Putney High School from 1920 to 1930. |
At weekends she lived with her Girton friend Eileen Power, in a half-house at 20 Mecklenburgh Square. |
In 1930 she moved to be headmistress of Crofton Grange School, staying there until her retirement. |
She died on 15 October 1958. |
Papers relating to her are held by the UCL Institute of Education. |
Velimir Šandor |
Velimir Šandor is a Croatian Paralympic athlete. |
He represented Croatia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and he won the bronze medal in the men's discus throw F52 event. |
Harwood Shire |
Harwood Shire was a local government area in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. |
Harwood Shire was proclaimed on 7 March 1906, one of 134 shires created after the passing of the "Local Government (Shires) Act 1905". |
The shire offices were in Maclean. |
Other towns and villages in the shire included Angourie, Ashby, Iluka, Lawrence and Yamba. |
Harwood Shire was amalgamated with Municipality of Maclean to form Maclean Shire on 1 January 1957. |
Outlier.ai |
Outlier.ai is an Automated Business Analysis company that produces an eponymous data analysis platform that determines and analyzes data outliers and outlier patterns. |
The company was founded by Mike Kim and Sean Byrnes in 2015, and its platform entered beta in 2016, becoming public in 2017. |
The firm is located in Oakland, California. |
The CEO of the company is Sean Byrnes. |
Outlier.ai produces an eponymous platform that determines data outliers and unexpected patterns and changes in time-series data that are undetectable to human analysis via artificial intelligence. |
It is an Automated Business Analysis platform, which provides proactive “insights”, which are developed for non-technical review in addition to technical analysis, and derived from the platform’s algorithms, which cross-correlate its detected anomalies. |
In 2017 Outlier received $2.2 million in a funding round that included Susa Ventures, Homebrew, and First Round Capital. |
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