St John's Innovation Centre (SJIC) is a business incubator in Cambridge, England. It houses a concentration of science and technology related businesses.

History
The idea for the innovation centre was first proposed by Dr Chris Johnson, who was Senior Bursar of St John's College, Cambridge, responsible for estates, investments and financial policy. The combination of his scientific background and an interest in the development of college land in Cambridge led to a visit in 1984 to universities and science parks in the US, including an innovation centre in Salt Lake City, Utah. Upon his return he convened a small group including architect Ian Purdy and Walter Herriot, a banker working with early-stage companies, to plan the St John's Innovation Centre. The publication in 1985 of The Cambridge Phenomenon: The Growth of High Technology Industry in a University Town by Segal Quince Wicksteed, demonstrated to the college that investment in this sector was likely to be successful.

St John's Innovation Park was subsequently established on a  plot of land owned by St John's College since 1534, and the Innovation Centre itself was completed in 1987. It was the first innovation centre in Europe to focus on supporting knowledge-based businesses. It is the oldest such business incubator in the United Kingdom.

Following the success of the original centre, a second phase, Dirac House was completed in July 1989, and the self-contained Jeffreys Building was completed in February 1990. Dirac House is named after Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize winner and member of St John's College, while the Jeffreys Building is named after Sir Harold Jeffreys, a fellow of St John's College. Four further buildings: St John's House, Edinburgh House, and the Vitrium and Platinum developments, were completed in 2001. The land remains the property of St John's College.

The current total net usable space is approximately , divided between the buildings.

Activities

From the outset, SJIC had a remit to support knowledge-based businesses with both flexible accommodation, and onsite management that could help tenants and others to develop their businesses.

The buildings provide flexible office, workshop and laboratory accommodation, and tenants have use of shared facilities including a staffed reception area, conference and meeting rooms, and restaurant.

In addition, SJIC also provides business advice to tenant companies, and supports the wider business community by undertaking programmes in association with EEDA, the University of Cambridge and others.  The centre is also a member of the EU-funded Achieve More partnership which brings together nine partners in five European countries to foster better incubation practice and collaboration across clusters.

The innovation park has been a member of the United Kingdom Science Parks Association (UKSPA) since 1987 and United Kingdom Business Incubation (UKBI) since 1999.

SJIC also promotes technology business through its involvement with the Cambridge Enterprise Conferences. The conferences bring together successful entrepreneurs with business advisors and leading academics to offer practical advice to early-stage companies. A policy day follows the conference which aims to define areas where government policy can be used to assist business growth. The conference has traditionally been supported by a range of organisations, including Business Link and the Greater Cambridge Partnership.

Staff
David Gill is the current managing director, having taken up the post in December 2008, following the retirement of Walter Herriot OBE, who held the role for 18 years. The original director was Bill Bolton, who steered SJIC through its first three years.

Location
St John's Innovation Centre is located approximately 3 km to the north of Cambridge city centre, close to junction 33 of the A14, and around 700 metres from Cambridge Science Park.

St John's Innovation Centre is located squarely within the area known as Silicon Fen.

Cambridge Technopole
St John's Innovation Centre was the initiator of the Cambridge Technopole Group – an informal network of business support organisations operating in the Greater Cambridge region. The group aims to improve the range and quality of the business support services available, particularly for companies based on technology. Other group members include Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Network, Cambridge Science Park, ERBI and the Babraham Institute.

SJIC has been responsible for writing the annual Cambridge Technopole Reports. The 2008 report was co-authored by Walter Herriot (then-director of SJIC) and Tim Minshall, of the Institute for Manufacturing. The report is sponsored by Cambridge Network and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.

University links
Since its foundation SJIC has developed strong links with the University of Cambridge. In 1998 and 1999, pending the award of University Challenge Funding, it assisted the Industrial Liaison Officer (ILO) of the University in working with small and medium-sized university spin-outs. Through the Anglia Enterprise Network two venture scouts were employed in the University identifying potential businesses, assisting in finding additional management and fund raising. Some 50 potential businesses were identified and passed over to the ILO for further support.

The Centre works with the Judge Business School to provide reference material for research, and assisted in the establishment of the Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre. SJIC also helped the Cambridge University Engineering Department in the establishment of the Institute for Manufacturing.

Since 2003, SJIC has been closely involved with the i10 project, which brought together all the universities and Higher Education institutions in the East of England. SJIC's role is to assist in the development of technology transfer skills within each of the institutions, and to help identify and pursue opportunities for technology transfer.

Tenants
Although most of the centre's tenants are start-up and early-stage companies operating in a wide range of leading-edge technologies, there are some long-standing residents who have maintained offices despite expanding to other locations, both within the UK and internationally. Around 60 companies are located on the site, employing over 300 people. Over a five-year period the survival rate for companies is over 88%, compared to about 50% for other similar businesses in the Cambridge area, and 45% for businesses generally in the UK.
Unlike other innovation centres, St John's Innovation Centre is also home to a number of companies offering services to the tenants, such as marketing, accountancy, legal services etc. This was a deliberate decision in the early days of the centre, to foster a diverse business community within the building.
SJIC also offer a virtual tenancy package – the Star Service – which enables small companies to use SJIC as their business address, offers telephone, fax and post handling, and gives preferential access to meeting and conference rooms and business support services. The service has been used by numerous start-up companies prior to becoming a tenant.

Alumni
The following companies all started life in St John's Innovation Centre:

 Autonomy Corporation plc, the enterprise software company. Revenue for year ending 31 December 2008 was around £310 million ($503.2 million).
 Bioprogress, now Meldex, develops innovative biodegradable films for the pharmaceuticals market.
 Cachelogic, now Velocix, specialises in content delivery networks. It is backed by Amadeus Capital Partners, 3i plc and Pentech Ventures. Velocix has subsequently been acquired by French telecommunication firm Alcatel-Lucent
 Jagex, developers and publishers of online computer games, including RuneScape and FunOrb, played by over 200 million users.
 Jobstream Group Plc, developers of Jobstream 9, a software platform used worldwide by the offshore fiduciary industry for trust and company admin, accounting and practice management. The company was founded in 1993 and still holds an office in the St John's Innovation Centre.
 Metagenerics, part of the Generics Group, now Sagentia.
 Owlstone Nanotech, developers of a button-sized programmable chemical sensor. In March 2009 the company was awarded a contract by the United States Department of Defense valued at $1.4 Million.
 Plastic Logic, developers of a new e-Reader based on proprietary plastic electronics. Investors include Amadeus Capital Partners, Intel Capital, BASF Venture Capital, Siemens Venture Capital, Yasuda Enterprise Development, Morningside Technology Ventures, Bank of America Equity Partners, Nanotech Partners, Dow Venture Capital, Polytechnos Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners and Raptor Capital Management.
 Red Gate Software, developers of software tools for database administrators and developers.
 Splashpower, a wireless power development company. Founded in 2001, it was acquired by Fulton Innovation in May 2008
 Symbionics, a technology development company founded in 1987 and acquired by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in March 1998
 Technetix Group, the broadband network equipment manufacturer. The company now operates in 21 countries selling to 91 countries worldwide. Revenue for the year ending 2016 was £118.5m. Technetix
 True Knowledge, developers of an ‘Internet Answer Engine’. The company raised almost £3million in venture funding between start-up in 2006 and end 2008.
 Visual Planet, developer of through-glass touch screens. The company was a virtual tenant of SJIC.
 Zeus Technology, a software development company founded in 1995.

References

External links
 Official website
 Cambridge Technopole
 i10 project
 SJIC page on Cambridge Network
 SJIC profile on UKSPA

Business incubators of the United Kingdom
St John's
Companies established in 1987
Economy of Cambridgeshire
1987 establishments in the United Kingdom
Innovation in the United Kingdom


Ingrid Kerma (born 1942) is a German artist.

She was born in Eberswalde, near Berlin in 1942 and went on to study at Reading University from 1972 to 1976, then at  Goldsmiths, University of London. She divides her time between London and Berlin. Furthermore, she has exhibited her work throughout Europe, as well as in Los Angeles.

In the late 1970s her paintings consisted of large scale geometric forms. In the next decade she moved towards greater abstraction, although still based on the human figure. She briefly flirted with Neo-expressionism. Following a two-year's Master of Fine Arts course at Goldsmiths College in the early 1990s, Kerma explored monochrome and near-monochrome painting. Encaustic remains her favoured medium. Other modes include the use of pure pigment and pouring paint onto the canvas.

Kerma's work is held in the permanent collections of the Arts Council Collection at Southbank Centre and the University of Reading.

References

External links
Ingrid Kerma
Ingrid Kerma
Wayback Machine

1942 births
Living people
20th-century German women artists
Artists from Brandenburg
Artists from London
Alumni of the University of Reading
Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
21st-century German women artists
20th-century German painters
21st-century German painters
German women painters


HMS Marigold was a  of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 4 September 1940 and was sunk by an Italian air-dropped torpedo on 9 December 1942.

Design and construction
The Flower class arose as a result of the Royal Navy's realisation in the late 1930s that it had a shortage of escort vessels, particularly coastal escorts for use on the East coast of Britain, as the likelihood of war with Germany increased. To meet this urgent requirement, a design developed based on the whale-catcher  - this design was much more capable than naval trawlers, but cheaper and quicker to build than the s or s that were alternatives for the coastal escort role.

The Flowers were  long overall,  at the waterline and  between perpendiculars. Beam was  and draught was  aft. Displacement was about  standard and  full load. Two Admiralty three-drum water tube boilers fed steam to a vertical triple expansion engine rated at  which drove a single propeller shaft. This gave a speed of . 200 tons of oil were carried, giving a range of  at .

Design armament was a single BL 4-inch Mk IX naval gun forward and a single 2-pounder "pom-pom" anti-aircraft cannon aft, although the pom-poms were not available until 1941, so early Flowers such as Marigold were completed with improvised close-range anti aircraft armament such as Lewis guns or Vickers .50 machine guns instead.

Marigold was one of 24 Flowers ordered by the British Admiralty on 31 August 1939 under the 1939/40 Naval estimates. She was laid down at Hall, Russell & Company's Aberdeen shipyard on 21 January 1940, was launched on 4 September 1940 and completed on 28 February 1941.

Service
Marigold served in a number of the theatres of the Second World War.

On 7 May 1941, Marigold, a member of the 7th Escort Group, was part of the escort for the westbound Atlantic convoy Convoy OB 318. That night, the convoy was attacked by the German submarine   south west of Reykjavík, Iceland. U-94 torpedoed and sunk two merchant ships. Marigold picked up 19 survivors from one of the ships sunk in the attack, . Meanwhile, U-94 was driven off by a sustained depth charge attack by the destroyers  and  and the sloop .  The corvettes of the 7th Escort Group, including Marigold were relieved by ships from the 3rd Escort group on 8 May, allowing the 7th Escort Group ships to join the inbound Convoy HX 123. Attacks on OB 318 continued, with three merchant ships sunk on 8 May, at the cost of  which was captured by British warships, sinking under tow.

Marigold remained part of the 7th Escort Group on 1 July 1941. From 18 August Marigold, now part of Escort Group 36, formed part of the escort of Convoy HG 71, bound for the UK from Gibraltar. While four Italian submarines were deployed against the convoy, none managed to find it, and HG 71 reached Liverpool unharmed on 1 September. On 12 September 1941, Marigold left Liverpool as part of the escort for the Gibraltar-bound convoy OG 74. Two merchant ships were sunk by the German submarine  on the night of 20/21 September, while the rescue ship  was badly damaged by a German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor long-range bomber on 21 September and was scuttled by Marigold and the sloop . Marigold and Deptford were then detached from the convoy to support four ships that had lost contact with the convoy, but three of the four ships were sunk by  on the night of 21/22 September. Marigold arrived in Gibraltar on 26 September. In total, six ships from OG 74 were sunk. Marigold remained part of the 36th Escort Group on 1 October 1941.

On 16 November 1941, Marigold set out from Gibraltar as part of Operation Chieftain, a diversion operation for Operation Crusader, the British offensive in the North African desert. The operation was a dummy convoy (with empty merchant ships) intended to attract attention of German and Italian air power away from the land battle. That night Marigold which had lost contact with the convoy because of engine trouble, and was trying to rejoin the convoy, was spotted by the  30 miles East of Europa Point and south of Málaga. U-433 misidentified the corvette for a cruiser and attacked with a spread of four torpedoes, all of which missed. Marigold then detected the surfaced submarine on radar at a range of about  and attacked, but U-433 dived away before Marigold could ram the submarine. An initial pattern of five depth charges was ineffective, but after 15 minutes, Marigold detected the submarine on sonar, and attacked with ten depth charges, causing the commander of U-433 to surface the submarine so that the crew could abandon ship. Marigold opened fire on the submarine when it surfaced and U-433 sank quickly. Marigold picked up 38 survivors, with six of U-433s crew killed. The First Sea Lord congratulated the Marigold and its commander, Lieutenant William MacDonald R.N.V.R., on this action.

On 14 December 1941, Marigold, now part of the 36th Escort Group, left Gibraltar as part of Convoy HG 76. The convoy came under sustained U-boat attack from 17 December, and on 19 December, Marigold carried out a depth charge attack on a U-boat, which although failing to sink the submarine, helped to drive the U-boat away from the convoy. In total, the escort carrier , the destroyer  and two merchant ships were sunk by German submarines, while the convoy's escort sank three U-boats.

On 9 June 1942, the 36th Escort Group, including Marigold, left Gibraltar escorting Convoy HG 84. Marigold and the corvette  attacked and drove off the submarines  and  on 14 June. On 15 June 1942 she picked up 41 survivors from the British merchant , 20 survivors from the Norwegian tanker  and 29 survivors from the British merchant  that had been torpedoed and sunk by   West of Corunna, Spain. On the night of 15/16 June, Marigold, Convolvulus and the sloop  drove off the U-boats ,  and . On 13 November 1942 she rescued 81 survivors from the British merchant  which had been torpedoed and sunk by  off Oran, Algeria.

Sinking
On the afternoon of 9 December 1942 Marigold was escorting convoy MKS 3Y, off Algiers, Algeria when she came under attack by three Italian S.79 VTBs torpedo bombers of 254a Squadriglia (254th squadron) of 105º Gruppo AS (105th Torpedo group). Marigold was hit by a single torpedo and sank after about 9 minutes, with 40 of her crew killed.

References

Sources

External links
 HMS Marigold at Convoyweb.org.uk
 Official loss report

Flower-class corvettes of the Royal Navy
Ships sunk by Italian aircraft
1940 ships
Maritime incidents in December 1942
Ships built by Hall, Russell & Company
Corvettes sunk by aircraft


ULEB Cup 2007–08 Knockout Stage are the main rounds of ULEB Cup 2007-08, included Sixteenth Finals and Eighthfinals.

Draw Seeds

Elimination rounds

Sixteenth Finals
The draw to determine a bracket for the elimination rounds of the 2007-08 ULEB Cup was held on Monday, January 28, 2008, at 13:30 CET in the Museu Olimpic i de l'Esport in Barcelona.

First leg
February 19, 2008

Second leg
February 26–27, 2008

Points difference

Eighthfinals
The winners from Sixteenth-finals advance to Eighthfinals.

First leg
March 11, 2008

Second leg
March 18–19, 2008

Points difference

Final Eight

The Final Eight of ULEB Cup 2007-08 will be played in Turin, Italy. The matches will played from April 10 to April 13. There are quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. The Torino Palavela will hosted the Final Eight.

Bracket

References

External links
ULEB Cup

2007–08 ULEB Cup


Mary Frances "Frankie" Housley (October 12, 1926 – January 14, 1951) was the lone flight attendant on National Airlines Flight 83, which crashed after landing at Philadelphia International Airport on January 14, 1951.
She led 10 passengers to safety, then returned to the burning cabin to save an infant. She died in the attempt and was later found holding the four-month-old baby in her arms.

Early life
Mary Frances "Frankie" Housley was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the daughter of John H. Housley and Fannie Mayer Housley. She grew up in Fountain City and attended Central High School, where she was a member of the Bowling Club, Commercial Club, Science Club, and Glee Club, and a member of the honor society. She attended the University of Tennessee for one year and pledged Sigma Kappa sorority, but left to get married. She was soon divorced, then worked as an office assistant for doctors in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1950, she applied for a job as a flight attendant with National Airlines (1934–1980), and was hired the next day.

The crash
At 2:13pm, January 14, 1951, National's Flight 83, a DC-4, landed in Philadelphia from Newark, New Jersey, en route to Norfolk, Virginia.
It skidded off the icy runway, through a fence, and into a ditch. The left wing broke off, rupturing the gasoline tanks, and the plane caught fire. Housley opened the emergency door and saw the ground eight feet below. Returning to the cabin, she helped passengers release their seat belts, guided them to the door and gave a gentle shove to those who were hesitant to jump. After saving 10 passengers, she returned to the cabin to try to rescue a four-month-old baby. After the fire was extinguished, the bodies of five women and two infants were found, including Housley with a baby in her arms.

Aftermath
National Airlines installed a plaque in Housley's honor at Variety Children's Hospital in Miami. She was posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund in 1951. There is a memorial to her in front of the Engine 78 firehouse at Philadelphia International Airport. Entertainer Eddie Cantor performed a benefit show in Jacksonville to raise money for a new wing of the Hope Haven Hospital for Crippled Children to be named in Housley's honor. The Knoxville chapter of the Shriners dedicated a room in the Crippled Children’s Hospital to Frankie Housley. Fifteen years later, Reader's Digest published A Girl Named Frankie; its author, MacKinlay Kantor, called her "the Bravest Woman In America."  She was inducted into the Florida Aviation Hall of Fame in 2016.  The bridge on Holbrook Drive in her hometown of Fountain City, Tennessee, was named in her honor in 2017.  On October, 9, 2020, a Tennessee State Historical Marker (1E 136) was unveiled in her honor near the corner of Forestal Drive and Tazewell Pike in Fountain City.

In popular culture
In September, 1951, her story was adapted into a comic book and she was featured on the cover of "New Heroic Comics" issue number 68, published by Eastern Color Printing.

See also
Neerja Bhanot
Barbara Jane Harrison

References

1926 births
1951 deaths
Flight attendants
People from Knoxville, Tennessee
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
Accidental deaths in Pennsylvania


The Apostolic Nunciature to Australia is an ecclesiastical office of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio to Australia with the rank of an ambassador. The office of the nunciature is located in Manuka, Canberra.

The mission was established as the Apostolic Delegation to Australasia by Pope Pius X on 15 April 1914 and given responsibility for Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Bonaventura Cerretti was named its first head on 10 May. It was renamed the Delegation to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania on 8 June 1947. On 1 November 1968, that was divided into two delegations: the Delegation to Australia and Papua New Guinea and the Delegation to New Zealand and Pacific Islands. The Apostolic Nunciature to Australia was established by Pope Paul VI on 5 March 1973. Charles Daniel Balvo was appointed nuncio in January 2022 by Pope Francis.

Papal representatives to Australia
Apostolic Delegates to Australasia
Bonaventura Cerretti (10 May 1914 – 6 May 1917)
Bartolomeo Cattaneo (16 May 1917 - January 1933)
Filippo Bernardini (13 March 1933 – 10 October 1935)
Giovanni Panico (17 October 1935 – 28 September 1948)
Apostolic Delegates to Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
Paolo Marella (27 October 1948 – 15 April 1953)
Romolo Carboni (28 September 1953 – 2 September 1959)
Maximilien de Fürstenberg (21 November 1959 – 28 April 1962)
Domenico Enrici (1 October 1962 – 26 April 1969)
Apostolic Delegates to Australia and Papua New Guinea
Gino Paro (5 May 1969  – 4 July 1973)
Apostolic Pro-Nuncios
Gino Paro (4 July 1973 – 10 June 1978)
Luigi Barbarito (10 June 1978 – 21 January 1986)
Franco Brambilla (22 February 1986 – 3 December 1998)
Apostolic Nuncios
Francesco Canalini (5 December 1998 - 8 September 2004)
Ambrose De Paoli (18 December 2004 - 10 October 2007)
Giuseppe Lazzarotto (22 December 2007 - 18 August 2012)
Paul Gallagher (11 December 2012 - 8 November 2014)
Adolfo Tito Yllana (17 February 2015 – 3 June 2021)
Charles Daniel Balvo (22 January 2022 – present)

See also
List of diplomatic missions of the Holy See
List of diplomatic missions in Australia
Foreign relations of the Holy See
Catholic Church in Australia

Notes

References

External links
Nunciature to Australia page at catholic-hierarchy.org
Apostolic Nunciature of Australia page at gcatholic.org

Australia
Catholic Church in Australia
Holy See
Australia–Holy See relations

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The Black Path may refer to:

The Black Path (book), a novel by Asa Larsson
The Black Path (album), an album by Emil Bulls
Black Path


Thomas Fred "Puny" Wilson (October 31, 1899 – May 24, 1969) was an American football player and coach. He was an All-American  at Texas A&M University in the early 1920s, playing for coach Dana X. Bible. Wilson graduated from Texas A&M in 1924 and was later inducted into school's hall of fame.

Puny and his brother, Mule, are the only two brothers in the Texas A&M football Hall of Fame. Mule was the first Aggie to play in the National Football League (NFL).  He won three NFL championships, one on the New York Giants and two with the Green Bay Packers

In 1938, Wilson became head football coach at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He compiled a 50–49–6 overall record in 11 seasons. He also briefly coached Dan Rather.

Wilson died after a cerebral hemorrhage in 1969. He was buried at Tyler Memorial Park in Tyler, Texas. In his later life he worked as a real estate agent.

Head coaching record

Football

References

Further reading

External links

1899 births
1969 deaths
American football ends
American men's basketball coaches
Basketball coaches from Texas
Sam Houston Bearkats athletic directors
Sam Houston Bearkats football coaches
Sam Houston Bearkats men's basketball coaches
Texas A&M Aggies football players
People from Fannin County, Texas


Noughts & Crosses is a series of young adult novels by British author Malorie Blackman, with six novels and three novellas.
The series is speculative fiction describing an alternative history. The series takes place in an alternative 21st-century Britain.

At the time of the series, slavery had been abolished for some time, but segregation, similar to the Jim Crow Laws, continues to operate to keep the Crosses (dark-skinned people) in control of the Noughts (lighter-skinned people). An international organisation, the Pangaean Economic Community, exists. Seeming to be similar to the United Nations in scope but similar to the European Union in powers, it is playing a role in forcing change by directives and boycotts. Britain is known as Albion, Africa is one country called Zafrika, and Scandinavia is too, known as Fenno-Scandia, the only Nought country left.

The first book is written from two different perspectives – Callum's and Sephy's (Persephone) – and their experiences of their entwined but very different worlds. The chapters alternate, with even chapters being Callum's and odd ones Sephy's.

There are six books in the series: Noughts and Crosses, Knife Edge, Checkmate, Double Cross, Crossfire, and Endgame.

Novels

Noughts & Crosses

The book Noughts and Crosses is an alternate reality fiction based in a 22nd-century parallel universe. Their world is similar to the reality of the 21st century, with equivalent types of jobs, of government, and so on. Racial inequality is the driving force of the storyline, and there are few laws or constitutional protections to prevent discrimination. There are two races in the book: the Crosses (darker-skinned people) are the dominant race with the individuals owning most of the wealth, good jobs, different and better schools etc. The second race, the Noughts (lighter-skinned people) are at the poorer end of society usually doing manual labour or being servants to Crosses, with poor schools – if any at all.

Persephone "Sephy" Hadley is a Cross and the daughter of a wealthy senior politician, Kamal Hadley, who later becomes Prime Minister. Callum McGregor is a Nought, and they used to play together when Jasmine Adeyebe-Hadley, Sephy's mother, employed Meggie McGregor, Callum's mother, as a nanny. Ever since Jasmine fired Meggie, however, Sephy and Callum's friendship has been secret, as such interracial friendships are frowned upon by society.

The two meet again in Heathcroft, a high school for Crosses that now accepts the best-performing Noughts. Sephy is overjoyed to see Callum in her class, but most of her classmates do not accept her association with a Nought. Despite this, she deepens her relationship with Callum, and even sits at a table with Noughts, upsetting Callum, though they eventually make up.

Meanwhile, Callum's elder brother, Jude, and his father, Ryan, join the Liberation Militia (LM), a violent paramilitary organisation against Cross supremacy. Jude and Ryan are accused of participating in the LM bombing of Dundale Shopping Centre, and Callum is also accused after he told Sephy to leave the shopping centre. He is ultimately spared due to a lack of evidence. Callum has to leave school, and Ryan faces the gallows. Jasmine, remembering her prior friendship with the McGregor family, secretly hires a prominent Cross lawyer to defend Ryan. Escaping hanging, Ryan is given a life sentence but is killed by an electric fence, supposedly in an escape attempt.

Sephy decides to start anew and persuades a reluctant Jasmine to let her attend a boarding school, Chivers. She hasn't heard from Callum in a week, so she writes a letter asking him to run away with her and that if he doesn't contact her, she'll be leaving for Chivers. Callum, however, has decided to join the LM, and doesn't read the letter until it's too late. He sprints to her house and fails to catch up to the car as it pulls out of the driveway.  Having not seen Callum running behind, Sephy concludes that their friendship is no longer as important to him as she had thought.

Years later, Sephy returns home from Chivers. Upon entering the house, she discovers a letter by Callum telling her to meet him at the family's private beach. She goes there, but discovers Callum is there with other LM members to kidnap her and hold her hostage. She's taken to their hideout and the LM members demand the release of at least five LMs and a ransom for Sephy. The LM's second-in-command, Andrew Dorn, then visits Callum and his cell members.

Callum is able to visit an injured Sephy in the room where she is being held. Alone together, Callum reveals to her his unsuccessful attempt to catch up to her before she left for Chivers. Their love rekindles, and the two end up having sex. Afterwards, Sephy escapes into the woods, chased by Jude and another LM member. Callum finds her first and gives false directions to the others; he then gives Sephy instructions to escape. Sephy then tells Callum that she'd seen Andrew before in her house with Kamal, revealing that Andrew is a government informant. Informing the rest of the LM about Andrew, the remaining members agreed to split up and keep a low profile, not meeting up again until Callum's birthday.

Sephy then begins to experience strange symptoms, and takes a pregnancy test, revealing that she is pregnant with Callum's child. When her parents learn of this, they pressure her to have an abortion, which Sephy repeatedly refuses. Meanwhile, Callum is working as a mechanic as a cover, and hears Kamal on the radio being interrogated over whether his daughter is pregnant. Callum then meets up with Sephy in the Hadleys' rose garden, and she confirms the rumors. While they're meeting, they are discovered and Callum is arrested. Nobody believed Sephy when she maintains she was not raped, and Callum is sentenced to be hanged.

Kamal tells Sephy that if she keeps her child, Callum will be hanged, but if she has the abortion, he will serve years in prison instead. Kamal makes a similar offer to Callum, wanting Callum to publicly admit to raping Sephy. Both decide to keep the baby, and Callum is hanged at the gallows.

Knife Edge

Sephy, living with Callum's mother, Meggie, becomes increasingly fond of her daughter, Callie Rose. Callum's guard, Jack, delivers a letter written by Callum before he died, stating he never loved her and couldn't believe that Sephy was stupid enough to fall for him, and tells her to forget about him. Meggie tries to convince Sephy that Callum was forced into writing the letter by others, but Sephy believes the letter and develops postnatal depression.

She meets Jaxon, a hot-tempered man with a band, the Midges. He offers Sephy a singing part, but the Noughts are prejudiced against her because she is a Cross. In her emotional turmoil, she begins to neglect Callie Rose.

Callum's brother, Jude, blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered and is determined to destroy Sephy's life by any means necessary. He meets Cara, a Cross, and befriends her to access her money. After spending a lot of time with her, he begins to fall in love with her, despite his hatred of Crosses. Frustrated and confused with his feelings for a Cross, Jude beats her severely and runs off with a large amount of money. After Cara dies in the hospital, Jude is eventually arrested and charged with Cara's murder. He's almost guaranteed to receive the death sentence due to the wealth of evidence against him.

Sephy struggles with seeing Meggie losing the last remaining member of her family and decides to give a false alibi to Jude for Cara's death for Meggie's sake. He escapes the death penalty and only serves a few month in prison for LM membership; afterwards, he accuses Andrew of Cara's murder in addition to being a government informer; Andrew is soon shot dead by the LM. Despite Sephy saving his life, still holds a grudge against her and plots revenge.

Sephy's life begins to fall apart, as the Crosses hate her for helping Jude escape the noose, and the Noughts because she didn't come to his aid sooner. While singing "Rainbow Child" to Callie Rose, she hugs her too tightly, causing the child to stop breathing. The book ends with Meggie repeatedly screaming at Sephy, "What have you done?"

Checkmate

After her friend Tobey calls her a terrorist's daughter, Callie struggles with discovering the real career of her father: he was considered a terrorist. She becomes angry with her mother for hiding the truth and decides to follow in the path of her father, cutting off her friendship with Tobey despite his attempts to apologise.

Sephy feels trapped and rejects an offer of marriage from her boyfriend, Sonny. She then meets Nathan, the owner of the restaurant in which she sings, and the two start a relationship. Nathan later proposes and Sephy accepts, but Sonny comes back into her life. She's left confused but engaged.

Jude takes Callie Rose to Kamal's house. After Kamal denies that she is his granddaughter, Jude, now the General of the LM, exploits her anger to groom her to become a suicide bomber. Jasmine attempts to bring Callie and Sephy closer together, but develops breast cancer and struggles with her mortality. Eventually, Jasmine traps Sephy and Callie Rose in her wine cellar where the two reconcile.

Celine, the daughter of Callum's prison guard Jack, gives a letter that was written by Callum before he was hanged. Callum told Jack this was the letter with his true feelings; in the letter, he wished he would've been able to stay with Sephy because he loved her so much. He also tells Sephy to keep his past secret from their child.

In the book's climax, Jasmine sets off Jude's bomb to prevent him from injuring anyone else, dying in the process. Kamal had been the intended target of the bomb, but he loses power after Jasmine's letter to the press about his rampant corruption is published.

Double Cross

The book opens with Kamal's party badly losing to a more liberal government. Callie Rose fears the return of her vengeful uncle Jude, and the press fails to mention Jude in connection to the bomb.

Callie Rose's best friend and later boyfriend, Tobey, is worried about his own future. As a Nought boy at an exclusive school, he hopes to keep out of trouble, go to university, get a good job and leave behind the dangerous streets of his childhood. However, he gets caught up in gang warfare when he's offered the chance to earn some easy money by making a few "deliveries." He finds out the delivery was for one of the prominent members of the Dowds, a notorious gang of Crosses.

He keeps this a secret from Callie Rose, and after they consummate their relationship, Callie Rose leaves but promises to return. The next day, when Tobey and Callie Rose meet up with their friends, Callie Rose is shot by a hail of bullets from McAuley, the boss of a gang of Noughts, the rivals to the Dowds. Her surgery is successful, but she remains in a coma. Sephy is furious at Tobey for not telling the police who shot Callie Rose, but is unaware that Tobey plans on getting revenge on McAuley himself.

While Callie Rose is in hospital, Tobey gets a new job at the Dowds' restaurant. He meets Rebecca, Vanessa Dowd's daughter. Rebecca enjoys his company as he treats her like a person, unlike the other boys who are interested only in her family and money. Tobey eventually goes out with her but is conflicted between her and Callie Rose.

Callie Rose wakes from her coma and finds out that Jude was indeed killed by the bomb. However, she also discovers that Tobey is now dating Rebecca, as she had been in a coma for so long.

During a visit to Vanessa Dowd's house, Tobey is revealed to have once made deliveries to McAuley, shocking Rebecca. Tobey reassures her that he does not work for him any longer, but he decides to end their relationship and be just friends. When Rebecca leaves, McAuley appears and stabs her. He then orders Tobey to meet him at his warehouse.

Aware of McAuley's intent to kill him, Tobey sets up a plan with Owen Dowd, Rebecca's brother. He invests in one of McAuley's minions to frame him as a traitor. The plan works, but Owen and Tobey are almost killed in the process. However, one of Tobey's friends, Dan, comes in and kills McAuley's minions, saving both their lives. Dan then goes on the run for the murders.

When he returns to Callie, Tobey admits to his actions leading to the death of five people and why Dan is now on the run; Callie replies that Jasmine and Jude died because of her. They eventually resume their relationship. In the epilogue, it is revealed that both Callie and Tobey go to university to study law and that Tobey has set up and helps fund the Meadowview Shelter to help those with drug and alcohol addictions.

Crossfire

The fifth book in the series, Crossfire, was published on 8 August 2019. Part of the book picks up months after Double Cross on Callie's birthday, exactly one year after Checkmate; the rest occurs eighteen years later.

Tobey's guilt over Rebecca's death leads him to believe he no longer deserves Callie Rose, estranging himself from her. Sephy and Nathan marry, and she's pregnant with a son, Troy, by Callie Rose's next birthday. During the party, Tobey and Callie Rose have a huge argument over his continued secrecy about his involvement in McAuley's death. He decides to end his and Callie Rose's relationship for good.

During the party, Tobey has sex with a woman named Misty, who becomes pregnant and gives birth to Tobey's daughter Libby. He attempts to have a relationship with her for their child's sake, but it falls apart.

In his resulting depression, Tobey briefly joins Nought Forever, the Liberation Militia's spiritual successor, but soon quits. Tobey pursues a career in politics and is aided and bankrolled by Dan, now a powerful gangster. He uses his growing fortune to financially support Misty and Libby, but Misty refuses to let him see their daughter and conceals his identity from Libby. She gradually spends Libby's entire trust fund, becoming an alcoholic and drug addict, and abuses Libby, who struggles with anxiety and self-harm.

Troy and Libby become friends, but after a brief romance, their relationship sours and they become bitter rivals. Callie Rose attends law school and later works for a prominent lawyer, becoming one of the best barristers in the country; Nathan is killed in a hit-and-run, leaving Sephy and Troy devastated. Over the next two years Sonny returns to Sephy's life and they resume their relationship, but Troy discovers what appears to be the same car that killed Nathan on Sonny's land, leaving him convinced that Sonny murdered his father.

With Dan's help, Tobey is elected as the first Nought Prime Minister, but Dan is later murdered at a party attended by Tobey, Sephy, and Owen Dowd. Tobey is arrested for the crime and enlists Callie Rose to defend him. The two go on to have a one-night stand, but Callie Rose is repulsed to learn of his past affiliation with Nought Forever. When she threatens to drop him as a client, he blackmails her into continuing to defend him by threatening to reveal their affair to her employers.

When she finally learns of her father's identity, Libby disowns Misty and contacts Tobey. Unwilling to lose the financial support Tobey has been providing, Misty abducts Libby and Troy, holding them hostage to extort more money from Tobey. However, several of Dan's former enforcers murder Misty and take the teenagers captive themselves, demanding that Callie Rose drop Tobey as a client and that he pleads guilty. In an effort to get Callie Rose to comply with the kidnappers' demands, Tobey tells her that Sephy murdered Dan, and that he covered for her by planting evidence to make himself appear guilty. Despite this revelation and the danger to Libby and Troy, Callie Rose continues to defend Tobey, who pleads his innocence as the trial begins. In response, the kidnappers decide to leave Libby and Troy to die, sealing them in their cellar prison.

Endgame

A sixth and final instalment, Endgame, was released on September 16, 2021. The book picks up immediately after the events of Crossfire, while containing flashbacks to the night of Dan Jeavons' murder.

It is revealed that all the guests at Dan's party were invited due to their hatred for Tobey, and that Dan had had a confrontation with every one of them during the night: Eva, his right-hand woman, for her trafficking drugs and people against his and Tobey's orders, Tobey, for his intentions to break off their alliance upon becoming Prime Minister, and Sephy, over his extortion of money from her and Nathan's restaurant along with Sephy's belief he'd had Nathan executed.

Sephy left the party early but later returned to find Dan dead; she was caught on CCTV handling the murder weapon, leading Tobey to believe she killed him. Upon discovering this from Callie Rose, Sephy tracks down and questions several of the other guests, deducing the real murderer's identity. Sephy also accepts Sonny's proposal, but continues to suffer from nightmares of Callum, still tormented with guilt over his death 36 years earlier.

Having concealed Sephy's presence at Dan's party, Callie Rose is arrested for obstruction of justice, and despite being quickly bailed out, her legal career is effectively ruined. She and Tobey work relentlessly to track down Troy and Libby, enlisting the aid of Callie Rose's trusted private investigator Duba and Dan's former primary enforcer Jarvis. The former lovers gradually reconcile, particularly after Tobey vows to do whatever is necessary to regain her love and trust, even proposing to her.

Duba is revealed to have manipulated Misty into abducting Troy and Libby, though absent when Misty was killed. Evading and killing several of Eva's enforcers, Duba retrieves Troy and Libby, anonymously contacts Tobey to reinstate Misty's original deal for a vast amount of money, and locks the teenagers in a car rigged with a bomb.

Sephy, Callie Rose, Tobey, Duba, Sonny, and Jarvis then confront Eva, who has seized control of Dan's criminal enterprises and has had Owen Dowd asssassinated. She admits to hijacking Troy and Libby's kidnapping and having Misty killed, but also informs them that neither she nor Dan ordered Nathan's death, confirming that Sonny murdered him. She also reveals that Tobey was the true crime lord all along, with Dan acting as the decoy leader of his operation, but that he planned to abandon his life of crime upon being elected.

Deducing that Duba abducted Troy and Libby, Tobey tracks his phone, and the police rescue the teens. Duba tries to kill Tobey, but Sephy intercepts the bullets and is fatally wounded, while Tobey overpowers and kills Duba. Sephy dies in Callie Rose's arms after telling her to save Tobey. Five days after Sephy's death, Sonny is involved in a car crash that renders him comatose.

In a video message recorded by Sephy prior to her death, she informs Callie Rose and Tobey that she discovered Dan was murdered by his butler for  impregnating his teenage daughter. The group elects not to turn in the culprit, and the case against Tobey is ultimately dropped due to lack of evidence, allowing him to continue as Prime Minister.

Jarvis murders Eva and assumes control of the criminal underworld on Tobey's orders, but Callie Rose finds out. Taking her mother's last words to heart, she agrees to marry Tobey in order to save him from himself, on the condition that he commits no further crimes and to always be completely honest with her. Libby finally meets her father, and she moves in with Callie Rose, Troy and Meggie, as does Tobey following the wedding.

During the next three months Libby is elected head student of Heathcroft High, and she and Troy form a sibling relationship and undergo therapy for their experiences, while Callie Rose considers starting a career in politics.

Novellas

Callum
Callum is an alternative ending to Noughts and Crosses and was published for World Book Day 2012.

Callum decides to let Sephy flee from the other kidnappers while they are out. While he shows her the way back to town, Sephy badly injures her foot and Callum then talks her into spending the night with him in an abandoned shack for her to recover. There, they argue but then realise their mutual love; they decide to run away together and fall asleep after making love.

The two are then surprised by the rest of the gang, and Jude and Callum point their guns at each other; Sephy takes advantage of the confusion to flee. The story ends with Callum and Jude shooting at each other.

An Eye For an Eye
Written for World Book Day 2003, An Eye For an Eye has been republished in a new edition of Noughts & Crosses. It describes one evening while Sephy is pregnant with Callie Rose when her sister, Minerva, visits her. Minerva offers to patch up things with Jasmine, but Sephy tries to get Minerva to leave, as Sephy was worried about being followed by Jude. As Minerva visits, Jude arrives in the apartment after days of following Sephy, intent on killing Sephy.

Sephy tells Jude that she knew that he intended to kill her just before midnight since it was Callum's birthday that day. As Callum did not live to see his next birthday, neither should Sephy. Minerva panicks, but Sephy remains unalarmed by the danger; she tells Jude he would be doing her a favour by killing her, as she only wishes for death in Callum's absence. When Minerva tries to change her mind, Sephy lies that she hated the baby because it was alive when Callum should be alive instead.

Attempting to provoke Jude, Sephy tells him that Kamal gave Callum the choice to save his life or to keep their baby and Callum chose their baby. Jude loses his temper and tries to shoot her, but his gun jams. Minerva, in an attempt to save Sephy and herself, runs towards the front door and screams for help. She fails and Jude shoots her in the shoulder.

Realising that Sephy wishes to die, he decides that killing her would help her, and opts to leave Sephy to suffering. He gives Sephy permission to call an ambulance for Minerva and tells her that since he knows how much she cares for her family, he will use her baby to hurt her. Sephy threatens to kill him if he hurts her child, but resorts to pleading with Jude to leave the two of them alone. He leaves just as the ambulance arrives, with a new plan in mind; Sephy makes Minerva lie about her injuries.

Nought Forever
A World Book Day release in 2019, and a prequel to Crossfire. Following from the events of Double Cross, a fugitive Dan is mortally wounded by McAuley's former enforcers, and is forced to hide out with a nurse, Eva, whose daughter Avalon committed suicide three years earlier after being drawn into drug addiction and prostitution by McAuley. Though she hides Dan from the criminals hunting him, Eva debates whether to continue sheltering him or turn him in to the police. The novella concludes without revealing the outcome of her decision, but Crossfire suggests that Eva continued to hide Dan but ultimately convinced him to turn himself in, and remained a friend and mother figure to him during his imprisonment and his later career as a gangster.

Characters
The characters from all books from the series are as follows:

Primary characters
Persephone Mira Hadley: the co-protagonist of Noughts & Crosses, Knife Edge, & Checkmate, and a supporting character in Double Cross, Crossfire and Endgame. Nicknamed Sephy, the daughter of a powerful Cross, Kamal Hadley. She was childhood best friends with Callum despite their different backgrounds, and she eventually falls in love with him. After a few years pass without contact, Callum kidnaps her, but they end up sleeping together and have a daughter, Callie Rose, who is raised by Sephy and Meggie after Callum is killed. She later suffocates and falls out with Callie Rose after lying to her about Callum. She marries Nathan Ealing and has a second child, Troy.
 Callum McGregor: the co-protagonist of Noughts & Crosses. A Nought who is best friends and later lovers with Sephy. He is one of the few Noughts to get into Sephy's elite school, proving his intelligence, but he suffers discriminatory bullying from the other students. After losing contact with Sephy, he works for the LM and helps them kidnap her. However, his feelings for her return and he ends up sleeping with her, eventually helping her escape. He is hung for his involvement in Sephy's kidnapping before his daughter Callie Rose is born.
 Jude McGregor: the co-protagonist of Knife Edge, the main antagonist of Checkmate and a secondary antagonist in Noughts & Crosses. Callum's older brother; he holds a grudge against Sephy as he believes her to be responsible for his brother's death. He hates all Crosses but becomes romantically inclined towards a Cross, Cara. The resulting emotional conflict becomes too much and he beats her to death. He later attempts to use Callie Rose to get back at Sephy, training her to become a terrorist, but his plan backfires when Jasmine takes the bomb and activates it in his hotel room. Before he is killed in the bomb blast, he finally admits his feelings for Cara to himself, as she is the last thing he sees before he is killed.
 Meggie McGregor:  Supporting character in all books. Callum's mother, who had been Sephy's nanny until Jasmine fired her. She convinces Sephy to move in with her and is very close to Callie Rose. However, a threat to call social services about Callie Rose estranges Sephy from her.
 Callie Rose McGregor: the protagonist of Checkmate and a supporting character in Knife Edge and Double Cross. The daughter of Callum and Sephy. She resents her mother for keeping her father's identity a secret, and joins the LM after being manipulated by her uncle, Jude. She intends to blow herself and Kamal up, but her grandmother Jasmine steals the bomb and locks her in the cellar with Sephy in a successful plan for them to make up. She enters a relationship with Tobey, her Nought friend, mirroring the unlikely relationship between her parents. Both she and Tobey go on to study law at university, but fall out.
 Tobias Sebastian Durbridge: The protagonist of Double Cross, and a supporting character in Checkmate, Crossfire, and Endgame. Nicknamed Tobey, he is Callie Rose's friend and eventual lover. He becomes involved with a dangerous gang but leaves the criminal life behind after Callie Rose is shot by one of the members, putting her in a coma. He manages to kill the leader, Alex McAuley, bringing the whole gang down in retaliation. Tobey and Callie Rose become a couple and both go on to study law at university. He eventually becomes Prime Minister, with the help of his friend, Daniel Jeavons.
 Troy Ealing: Co-Protagonist of Crossfire and Endgame. Sephy and Nathan Ealing's child; Callie Rose's younger brother. Nathan dies when he is young and is raised by Sephy alone. He dislikes Sonny because he believes Sonny killed his dad. Is kidnapped by Libby's mother, Misty Jackman along with Libby.
 Liberty Jackman: Co-Protagonist of Crossfire and Endgame. Nicknamed Libby, she's Tobey's and Misty's child. She is distanced from her father and is raised by Misty alone. Misty lives on the money Tobey gave to Libby, and Libby is furious when she realises this. On a student election day, Libby is kidnapped with Troy by her mother, Misty, who is later killed by Daniel's enforcers.

Secondary characters
 Jasmine Dharma Ninah Adyebe-Hadley: Sephy and Minerva's mother, who became an alcoholic. She used to be good friends with Ryan and Meggie McGregor, as Meggie used to work for her. She is diagnosed with breast cancer and, drinking less than before, steals and activates Jude's bomb, killing her and Jude in the process to protect Sephy and Callie Rose.
 Kamal Hadley: the main antagonist of Noughts & Crosses and a secondary antagonist in Knife Edge. A powerful, avaricious Cross Home Office Minister who will do anything to gain more power and influence. He is the father of Sephy and Minerva and the grandfather of Callie Rose, but disowns Sephy and Callie Rose. He divorces Jasmine after an unhappy marriage and remarries. A letter sent by Jasmine sent to the media ends his stint in power.
 Minerva "Minnie" Hadley: Sephy's older sister; she and Sephy are not very close, as Minnie is often shown to be quite selfish. She marries an affluent Cross, Zuri, and they have a son, Taj.
 Lynette McGregor: Callum's older sister, who is mentally damaged after being attacked by a group of Noughts for dating a Cross. Losing touch with reality, she fully believes she's a Cross. She eventually commits suicide by stepping out in front of a bus, but only Callum knows that it was not an accident.
 Ryan McGregor: Callum, Jude, and Lynette's father, who is killed trying to escape from prison after the Dundale bombing.
 Rebecca Dowd: Vanessa Dowd's daughter. She is a rich Cross who makes her money from drugs, illegal shipments and more. She briefly dates Tobey after falling in love with him but is killed by Alex McAuley, the Dowd family's archenemy. She is very lonely and Tobey loves her, unlike other boys, for reasons other than her family and her money. However, Tobey remains in love with Callie Rose.
 Daniel "Dan" Jeavons: Tobey's friend, who uses Tobey's desperate financial situation to introduce him to gang life. Dan later becomes a mobster and serves time in prison. He comes out and helps Tobey become Prime Minister with dirty tactics. Dan is killed by his butler for impregnating his daughter.
 Cara Imega: A kind-hearted Cross who falls in love with Jude. She campaigns against discrimination towards Noughts. Although Jude wants to take her money, he eventually falls in love with her as well. He becomes so confused about his feelings that he follows through with his original plan. He beats her to death and steals all her money.
 Sonny Devlin: A member of Sephy's band. Starts to go out with Sephy, but Sephy decides to end their relationship even though they have feelings for each other. He later murders Nathan due to jealousy.
 Nathan Ealing: The owner of a restaurant at which Sephy sings. They realise that they have feelings for each other and get married, having a son named Troy.
 Eva Foxton: An old nurse who becomes a mother figure for Dan, eventually succeeding him as the leader of his gang, the Outfit.
 Owen Dowd: Crime boss and associate of Dan. Brother of Rebecca. Murdered by Eva.
 Alex Mcauley: Main antagonist of Double Cross, a crime boss in a war with the Dowds. He tries to make Tobey join him, but is killed by Dan, who replaces him.
 Jarvis Burton: Dan's second-in-command, who, after his death, wages civil war on Eva, before replacing her as leader of the Outfit.

Audio books

Audio books have been made from the novels in the series as follows:
 Noughts and Crosses (unabridged) - narrated by Sian Blake and Paul Chequer
 Noughts and Crosses (abridged) - narrated by Nina Sosanya and Nigel Greaves
 Knife Edge (abridged) - narrated by Nina Sosanya, John Hasler and Joan Walker
 Checkmate (abridged) - narrated by Nina Sosanya, John Hasler, Joan Walker and Adjoa Andoh
 Double Cross (abridged) - narrated by Nigel Pilkington, Nicole Davis and Joan Walker
 Crossfire (unabridged) - narrated by Vivienne Acheampong, Josh Dylan and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett

Adaptations

Stage
The first book, Noughts & Crosses, was retitled Black & White and was adapted and directed for the Royal Shakespeare Company by former RSC Associate Dominic Cooke, with Richard Madden and Ony Uhiara in the lead roles of Callum and Sephy. The play garnered positive reviews, with Blackman herself saying that she "knew it was in really safe hands". It toured the UK from February to April 2008.

A second theatre adaptation of the first book titled Noughts and Crosses premiered at Derby Theatre in February 2019, and toured the UK. This stage version is adapted by Sabrina Mahfouz and directed by Esther Richardson for Pilot Theatre.

The first book was also the subject of the last edition in February 2012 of BBC Radio 4's "Saturday Drama".

Television

In August 2016, the BBC announced that Noughts & Crosses would be dramatised for television. Being Human creator Toby Whithouse was involved in overseeing the scripts. Jay Z's company Roc Nation and Participant Media were executive producers for the series. In November 2018, it was announced Masali Baduza and Jack Rowan were cast as Sephy Hadley and Callum McGregor respectively. The first episode aired on BBC One on 5 March 2020, with the entire series made available on BBC iPlayer immediately afterwards. It is available in America on the Peacock streaming service.

Critical reception

On 5 November 2019 BBC News included Noughts & Crosses on its list of the 100 most inspiring novels.

The Guardian ranked Noughts & Crosses #88 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

Awards and nominations
 2002, Lancashire Children's Book of the Year.
 2002, Red House Children's Book Award.
 2002, Sheffield Children's Book Award.
 2003, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.
 2004, Fantastic Fiction Award.
 2005, Berkshire Book Award (shortlist).
 2005, Lancashire Children's Book of the Year (shortlist).
 2005, Redbridge Teenage book Award (shortlist).
 2006, Lancashire Children's Book of the Year (shortlist).
 2006, Staffordshire Young People's Book of the Year.

See also

Fable (1965 TV play)

References

External links
 Noughts & Crosses at Malorie Blackman's official website
 Knife Edge at Malorie Blackman's official website
 Checkmate at Malorie Blackman's official website
 Double Cross at Malorie Blackman's official website
 Malorie Blackman's plot description of Noughts & Crosses at meettheauthor.com

2001 British novels
Young adult novel series
Science fiction novel series
Children's science fiction novels
British young adult novels
British science fiction novels
Dystopian novels
Novels about race and ethnicity
Young adult romance literature
Romance novel series


Lars Johan Magnus Staël von Holstein (born Johan Bjers, 5 May 1963) is a Swedish entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author who co-founded dot-com companies such as Icon Medialab and LetsBuyIt during the early dot-com boom in Sweden. He has been the CEO of the multi-level marketing company Crowd1, which has been identified as an illegal pyramid scheme in a number of countries. As of December 2020 he claims to have left Crowd1.

Early life
Staël von Holstein was born in Halmstad. He lived in Spain between the ages of 2 and 8, after which his family moved back to Sweden. After his military service he worked as a travel guide in the French and Austrian alps, and in Spain. At the age of 24 he was in a car accident and had to use a wheelchair for three months.

He returned to Sweden, and studied information technology at Lund University for a time. In 1989, he began his studies at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, majoring in marketing management. In an interview in 2012, he claimed that he had bribed his way into Stockholm Business School.

He is married and has two children. He lives in Marbella and Madrid, Spain, and has previously lived in Holland, Thailand, Singapore, and Switzerland.

Career
Staël von Holstein began his career at the media and investment company Kinnevik, working for Jan Stenbeck for several years. He was the marketing director of Kinnevik's TV channel Z-TV, and then became the CEO of the start-up teletext company InTV (Interactive television). Staël von Holstein was vice president of Inlux, in Luxemburg, and then went on to become responsible for Banque Invik's sales and credit card operations.

At the end of 1995, Staël von Holstein left Kinnevik to found the web design company Icon Medialab together with Jesper Jos Olsson, Erik Wickström, and Magnus Lindahl. In 1998 he was included on a list of 12 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" published by Chief Executive magazine.

He moved back to Stockholm in 2004 to start the business incubator IQube.

He was an independent, right-wing columnist for the Stockholm edition of the newspaper Metro until 2008.

Entrepreneurship

Icon Media Lab
At the end of 1995, Staël von Holstein left the Kinnevik Group to found Icon Medialab together with Jesper Jos Olsson, Erik Wickström, and Magnus Lindahl.[6].
The company went public in 1999 and continued rapid expansion with a US$70 million investment into the Asian market in 2000. At its peak the company had over 3,000 employees in 32 offices in cities around the globe. In 2001 its shares plunged more than 98% from their early 2000 peak and it axed around 500 jobs. In December 2001 shares of the debt-ridden company were suspended from the Stockholm stock exchange. The company was merged with rival Dutch web company Lost Boys in a reverse takeover to form a new Dutch-based company under CEO Rens Buchwaldt, and re-capitalized through a £12.4 million rights issue.

LetsBuyIt.com
In 1998 Staël von Holstein founded LetsBuyIt, an online price comparison platform that enabled its users to share, compare, and buy various products.  LetsBuyIt floated on Germany's Neuer Markt in July 2000, raising about US$60 million from a planned target of US$180 million in its initial public offering. It sought protection under the Dutch Bankruptcy Code (Faillissementswet) in December of the same year. After deferring bankruptcy through 2001, on 4 March 2002 it declared bankruptcy. Its staff had been reduced from 450 to 25.

IQube
In 2004, Staël von Holstein started IQube, which quickly grew into one of the largest private incubators in Europe with a portfolio of more than 100 companies, but by 2009 IQube was wound-up, with Staël von Holstein's entire scheme described as "a fraud".

MyCube
Staël von Holstein founded MyCube in 2008, a digital life management tool for exchanging, sharing and selling content. MyCube was the first decentralized social exchange that prioritized privacy, ownership, and user freedom to monetize on their own creativity in contrast to centralized networks as Facebook etc. MyCube raised over US$8 million in funds in May 2011, then in August 2012 filed for voluntary liquidation.

Crowd1
In 2019, Staël von Holstein was identified as the CEO of the multi-level marketing company Crowd1, on the company's official YouTube channel as well as in a message sent to the members of the marketing network at the end of 2019.

In November 2019, Norway's gaming and foundation authority, Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet, determined that Crowd1 operates with a pyramid structure to generate revenue. In January 2020, in Burundi's largest city Bujumbura, Crowd1 was raided and over 300 people arrested, 17 of whom were placed in custody for promoting Crowd1, described as a Ponzi scheme.

In Paraguay on 6 February 2020 the Comisión Nacional de Valores (CNV) issued a securities fraud warning against Crowd1, advising against investment. CNV identifies Crowd1 as an unregistered securities offering. Promoters of Crowd1 in Paraguay face up to three years imprisonment or a fine. On 21 February 2020 the Bank of Namibia declared Crowd1 a pyramid scheme and warned the promoters to stop their activities immediately. The bank stated  "Crowd1 does not sell tangible products or render any service of essential value, but the primary source of income for Crowd1 is the sale of membership packages to new members".

On 12 May 2020 the Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) directed Crowd1 Asia Pacific to immediately stop its “fraudulent” investing-taking activities. On 1 June 2020 the Gabon Ministry of the Economy and Finance warned against the activities of Crowd1, stating that "these services are akin to pyramid scam systems in network marketing in which the profit does not come from the sales activity but from the recruitment of new members. Thus, only the designers of said systems derive the benefits to the detriment of members." On 5 June 2020 the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority added Crowd1 and Impact Crowd Technology to its warning list due to concerns they may be involved in or operating a scam.

In June 2020 Vietnam’s Competition and Consumer Protection Department issued a warning against the activities of Crowd1, stating that "these operations were likely to be pyramid schemes and were prohibited according to the established regulations".
In July 2020 the government of Côte d’Ivoire banned Crowd1 from operation in Côte d'Ivoire, determining its sales system to be a Ponzi scheme. On 3 December 2020 Národná banka Slovenska, the central bank of the Slovak Republic, issued a securities fraud warning on the activities of Crowd1 Network Ltd and Impact Crowd Technology S.L.

In November 2020, Staël von Holstein claimed not to be the CEO of Crowd1 but of the parent company Impact Crowd Technology, as well as of Tecnología de Impacto Multiple SL which was "the sole provider of Crowd1 products".  He announced in December 2020 that he was leaving his CEO position, and ending all connections with Crowd1, for health reasons.

References

1963 births
Living people
People from Halmstad
Stockholm University alumni
Lynn University alumni
Swedish businesspeople
Swedish male bloggers


Fred Kabotie (–1986) was a celebrated Hopi painter, silversmith, illustrator, potter, author, curator and educator. His native name in the Hopi language is Naqavoy'ma which translates to Day After Day.

Background and education
Fred Kabotie was born into a culturally connected Hopi family at Songo'opavi, Second Mesa, Arizona. His family, along with other Hopi founded Hotevilla, a community faithful to preserving Hopi lifeways. He belonged to the Bluebird Clan, and his father belonged to the Sun Clan. His paternal grandfather gave him the nickname Qaavotay, meaning "tomorrow." His teacher at Toreva Day School spelled his nickname Kabotie, which stuck with him for the rest of his life.

As a child, Kabotie drew images of Hopi katsinam with bits of coal and earth pigments onto rock surfaces near his home.

Kabotie wasn't the best student with his spotty attendance at the local day school. He was eventually forced by the U.S. government to attend Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where, he says, "I was supposed to discard all my Hopi belief, all my Hopi way of life, and become a white man and become a Christian." English was the only language students were allowed to speak. John DeHuff became superintendent of the school and went against the prevailing government policy of suppressing Native cultures. DeHuff's wife Elizabeth Willis DeHuff taught painting to the students. She encouraged her students to embrace their culture within their paintings. Kabotie painted Katsinas because he missed home, and sold his first painting for 50 cents to the school's carpentry teacher.

DeHuff was demoted and forced to leave the school because of his encouragement of Native cultures. He convinced Kabotie to continue his education at Santa Fe Public High School. During his summer vacations Kabotie worked with artists Velino Shije Herrera (Zia Pueblo) and Alfonso Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo) on archaeological excavations for the Museum of New Mexico. He commenced a long association with local archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett, joining him at archaeological excavations at Jemez Springs, New Mexico, and Gran Quivira.

Early career and personal life

After his graduation in the 1920s, the Museum of New Mexico hired Kabotie to paint and bind books for a salary of $60 per month. Elizabeth DeHuff hired him to illustrate books. The George Gustav Heye Center in New York City commissioned him to paint a series depicting Hopi ceremonies. He also sold works to private collectors. Kabotie primarily painted with watercolor on paper.

In 1930 Kabotie moved back to Shungopavi, Arizona, where he lived for most of his life. He was initiated into the Wuwtsimt men's society and married Alice Talayaonema. They eventually had three children together.

In 1932 Kabotie's work was featured in the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Architect Mary Colter commissioned Kabotie to paint murals in her Desert View Watchtower at the Grand Canyon National Park in 1933. The centerpiece of the wall paintings include a circular motif divided into quadrants depicting the Hopi snake legend. Other paintings in the tower depictions of Muyingwa, the God of Germination; Lalakontu, Women's Secret Society dancers; Pookongahoyas, the Twin War Gods; Baloongahoya, the Little God of Echo, and numerous depictions of celestial phenomena.

In 1937 Oraibi High school opened for Hopi students, and Kabotie taught painting there for 22 years (1937–1959).

He was an advisor at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California, where he worked with curators Frederic Huntington Douglas and Rene d'Harnoncourt on a show of Native American art.

In 1940 he was commissioned to reproduce the precontact murals at Awatovi Ruins, which were shown at the Museum of Modern Art and other locations in the United States.

Silversmith work
The Museum of Northern Arizona encouraged Kabotie and his cousin Paul Saufkie (1898–1993) to develop a jewelry style unique to Hopi people. They developed an overlay technique, distinct from Zuni and Navajo silversmithing. They created designs inspired by historic Hopi pottery. A friend and benefactor, Leslie Van Ness Denman, commissioned Kabotie's first piece of jewelry as a gift to Eleanor Roosevelt.

Starting in 1947 the Indian Service and GI Bill–funded jewelry classes at the Hopi High School at Oraibi for returning Hopi veterans of World War II. Kabotie taught design and Saufkie taught technique. Each class lasted about eighteen months. The duo created the Hopi Silvercraft Cooperative Guild in 1949 to showcase their students' work. In 1963 the Hopi Guild moved from Oraibi to a newly constructed building at Second Mesa, Arizona, that included a large showroom and workshop space for the artists. Kabotie worked with the Guild in various ways, including serving as president from 1960 until his retirement in 1971. The shop on Second Mesa is rarely used by students today.

Later career
Kabotie and his wife represented the US Department of Agriculture at the World Agricultural Fair in New Delhi, India, in 1960. The high school at Hopi closed, so upon his return from India, Kabotie worked with the Indian Arts and Crafts Board. His many pursuits left him little time to paint after the 1950s.

He had long assisted other tribal members in marketing their artwork. A lifelong dream was accomplished with the founding of the Hopi Cultural Center. In 1971 the center was officially dedicated.

In 1977, the Museum of Northern Arizona published his biography, Fred Kabotie: Hopi Indian Artist, co-authored with Bill Belknap.

Awards
Kabotie received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945, which enabled him to study Mimbres pottery and write the book, Designs From the Ancient Mimbreños. He was awarded the Palmes d'Académique from the French government for his contribution to Native American art in 1954.

Death and legacy
Kabotie died on February 28, 1986, after a long illness. "The Hopi believe that when you pass away," he said, "your breath, your soul, becomes into the natural life, into the powers of the deity. Then you will become mingled with all this nature again, such as clouds... That way you will come back to your people..."

He was best known for his painting, and is estimated to have finished 500 paintings.

An archive of his papers, 464 photographic documentation works, and his oral history are located at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

His son Michael Kabotie (1942–2009) was also a well-known artist.

Collections
Kabotie's work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Museum of New Mexico, Gilcrease Museum, the Heard Museum, Great Plains Art Museum, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, the Newark Museum, the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, and the Philbrook Museum of Art.

Artwork
The fact that Kabotie's Hopi culture was almost taken away from him made him realize his mission in art. His mission was to preserve the Hopi culture. His paintings are seen as realistic, and colorful with dynamic solid strong figures. They reflect his love for his culture and the Hopi people. The Kachinas used in his paintings are seen at Hopi ceremonies.

Kabotie's work was part of Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting (2019–21), a survey at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center.

Published works
 Kabotie, Fred. Designs from the Ancient Mimbreños With Hopi Interpretation. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, 1982. Second Edition. .
 Kabotie, Fred with Bill Belknap. Fred Kabotie: Hopi Indian Artist. Flagstaff, AZ: Museum of Northern Arizona with Northland Press, 1977. .
 Kabotie, Fred. Hopi Indian Artist. Museum of Northern Arizona, 1977.

See also
 List of Native American artists
 Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas

Notes

References
 Seymour, Tryntje Van Ness. When the Rainbow Touches Down. Phoenix, AZ: Heard Museum, 1988. .
 Welton, Jessica. The Watchtower Murals. Plateau (Museum of Northern Arizona), Fall/Winter 2005. .
 Messier, Pat & Kim Messier. Reassessing Hallmarks of Native Southwest Jewelry: Artists, Traders, Guilds and the Government. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 2014. .

External links

 Paintings from Smithsonian Institution
 Paintings from National Gallery of Art
 Painting from The Owings Gallery
 Paintings form ArtNet
 Paintings and Video from Bond Latin Gallery
 Murals at Painted Desert Inn

1900s births
Year of birth uncertain
1986 deaths
American silversmiths
Artists from Arizona
Hopi people
Native American curators
American curators
Native American jewelers
20th-century American jewellers
Native American painters
People from Navajo County, Arizona
Pueblo artists
Writers from Arizona
20th-century Native American artists
Native American people from Arizona
20th-century American painters


The Lossberg study was a German military plan prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard von Lossberg and developed under Alfred Jodl and Walter Warlimont in the OKW on September 15, 1940. Its northward direction of attack on the Soviet Union was favoured in the Barbarossa Plan, signed by Hitler. Key paragraphs:
"To conduct the operations first it's necessary to decide whether the main strike direction would be northward or southward to the Pripet Marshes
... The advantages of aiming the main strike northward are as follows:
 much better concentration possibilities (railroads)
 interest in inflicting a prompt defeat on Russians in Baltic states
 relatively better road conditions at operational direction
 cooperation possibility with XXI Group, acting from Finland
 attainability of Leningrad and Moscow
The advantages of aiming the main strike southward are:
 threatened area of Romania
 possibility of supplying the German motorized units upon Romanian and Galician oil fields (however much worse communications after crossing the Russian border)
 significance of Ukraine.
Suggestion is to choose the main strike direction northwardly."

"How the cooperation of both main groups eastward from the Pripet Marshes will be organized henceforth and how the ultimate military goal will look like depends at great extent on whether the collapse of Russia after initial German successes takes place or not, and when". Similar arguments for northern direction were made on November 26 in German General Staff project.

Notes

External links
 Fugate B., Operation Barbarossa, chapter 2

1940 in Germany
Operation Barbarossa
Military plans


Baldwin Hills is an American reality television series featuring African-American teenagers from the Baldwin Hills district in Los Angeles, California.  The series aired on BET from July 2007 to March 2009.

Overview
Baldwin Hills features the lives of wealthy African American teens growing up in the Los Angeles neighborhood Baldwin Hills, sometimes referred to as the "Black Beverly Hills". Baldwin Hills gives BET's primarily black audience an alternative to MTV's Laguna Beach.  The shows first season focused mainly on Moriah and his relationship with Gerren, it also focuses on Jordan trying to get his career in the promoting industry up and running.

Cast

Main

Recurring

Episodes

Season 1 (2007)

Season 2 (2008)

Season 3 (2009)

References

External links
 On BET

2000s American reality television series
2007 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings
BET original programming
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Los Angeles
TV


Guldize, Gooldize (sometimes Dicklydize or Nickly Thize) is the harvest festival of the Cornish people. Guldize is an anglicization of Cornish Gool dheys "the feast of ricks" (i.e., grain stacks). The festival was held at the end of the wheat harvest and took the form of a vast feast usually around the time of the autumnal equinox. The ceremony of Crying The Neck took place before the feast, the neck being formed into a Corn dolly, which presided over the celebrations. Since 2008 a revived Guldize celebration has been held in Penzance and since 2010 in several other locations across Cornwall.

Historical description
A. K. Hamilton Jenkin wrote in his book Cornish Homes and Customs,

The playing of music and communal singing followed sometimes throughout the night. A number of songs in particular have been recorded as being sung on these occasions, including "Green Brooms", "Here's a health to the barley mow", and "Harvest Home".

A number of customs were also associated with the feast; a man would have been chosen to rush to the site of the feast with the corn neck and enter the building by stealth avoiding an appointed lady who would have soaked the carrier of the neck if discovered. If this game was successful then the carrier of the neck would have been entitled to take a kiss from the female "guard" of the property.

The earliest reference to Guldize was in 1602 by Richard Carew in his Survey of Cornwall.

See also

 Golowan festival
 Allantide
 Furry dance
 Harvest festival

References

External links
 Video of the 2010 Guldize Feast at Penzance

Cornish culture
Festivals in Cornwall
September observances
Harvest festivals
Cornish festivals
Autumn events in England
Autumn holidays (Northern Hemisphere)


The lost village of Muscott is located within the parish of Norton in the English county of Northamptonshire.

Gallery

References

Deserted medieval villages in Northamptonshire


A referendum on revoking some medical and tuition fees was held in Hungary on 9 March 2008. The proposals would cancel government reforms which introduced doctor visit fees paid per visitation and medical fees paid per number of days spent in hospital as well as tuition fees in higher education. All three were supported by a majority of voters. Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány stated that the fees would be abolished on 1 April 2008 following the referendum, but that the government had no funds available to replace the income lost for the higher educations institutions and health institutions due to the abolishment of the fees.

Background
The referendum was initiated by opposition party Fidesz against the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP). The procedure for the referendum started on 23 October 2006, when Viktor Orbán, the leader of Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union announced they would hand in seven questions to the National Electorate Office, three of which (on abolishing co-payments, daily fees and college tuition fees) were officially approved on 17 December 2007 and called on 24 January 2008. It was assumed likely that the referendum would pass, but it was uncertain whether turnout would be high enough to make it valid; polls indicated about 40% turnout with 80% in favour of rescinding the three reforms.

To be valid, the referendum required at least 25% of the about 8 million eligible voters to vote in favour of one of the options.

Questions

Results

Question I

Question II

Question III

Turnout
On the day of the referendum, the following turnout data was reported:

Voting was possible between 6:00 and 19:00. Official results showed that the necessary votes were achieved, with a turnout of over 50% (higher than opinion polls had expected).

Consequences
The MSZP–SZDSZ coalition suffered a heavy defeat. After Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány intended to dismiss Health Minister Ágnes Horváth (SZDSZ), the relationship between the two parties permanently deteriorated. On 31 March 2008, various reform-related disagreements between the MSZP and SZDSZ led the SZDSZ leader János Kóka to announce that his party would quit the coalition by 1 May 2008. This also meant that the MSZP formed the first minority government in Hungary since the end of communism, supported externally by SZDSZ.

References

Fees abolishment referendum, 2008
Hungary
2008 fees abolishment referendum
Healthcare in Hungary


Bob Holmes (born 1963 in Greenock, Scotland) is a British Digital Artist.

He is an alumnus of Dundee Art College and studied Printmaking at Chelsea School of Art in the late 80's under Tim Mara (alumni include Dirk Bogarde, Actor and Author, Patrick Caulfield, Painter and Printmaker, and Anish Kapoor, 1991 Turner Prize winner.

In collaboration with James Widegren, he conceived of May Reboot, an international unified reinvigoration of the World Wide Web that occurs yearly on 1 May at 2 pm GMT.

His work is often generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner through the use of systems defined by computer software protocols, or similar mathematical or mechanical or randomised autonomous processes: using computer code as a medium for artistic expression.
His interactive piece "Cloud" is one of three permanent art installations at USRA Earth System Science Program. Cloud consists of an array of blue and transparent squares that rotate and interact in relation to the visitor's proximity and motion. “This is an attempt to evoke the relationship between the three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas”.

External links
 Ayesite
 FWA
 MostInspired
 .Net
 DesignLicks
 Scratchmedia

1963 births
Scottish artists
Living people
Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts
British digital artists


Ann Martinelli Livermore (born 23 August 1958) is a former Executive Vice President at Hewlett-Packard, where from 2004 until June 14, 2011, she led the HP Enterprise Business business unit of HP. After being relieved of day-to-day operations, she was elected to the board of directors of HP. At the time, she was a 29-year veteran of the company and among existing senior management, the longest-service executive.

Life and career

Early life
Livermore was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was the valedictorian at her North Carolina high school. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar, as well as an MBA from Stanford University.

Hewlett-Packard
Livermore came to HP right out of graduate school. Livermore has been at HP since 1982 and has worked in a variety of sales, marketing, and research and development jobs before being elected a corporate vice president in 1995.

In 1997, Livermore was elected to the board of directors of United Parcel Service.

In 1998, when head of HP's software and services business, the company's top executives agreed to put themselves through a 360-degree evaluation. Livermore observed: "I learned that I'm a very, very well-controlled executive, but that my employees like when I go off the handle every once in a while, you know, show my human side - It reinforced that leadership means touching people's hearts as well as their brains, so since then I haven't worried so much about keeping my lid on."

Livermore has been credited with steering HP away from its decentralized culture and hardware mentality and was the brains behind HP's E-services strategy. When HP CEO Lewis Platt announced in March 1999 that he would step down, Livermore confirmed that she wanted the job.  Insiders say Livermore was the only internal candidate who made the short list, but, in July 1999, HP made the former Lucent Technologies executive Carly Fiorina the first female CEO of a Dow 30 company.

Beginning in 2004, Livermore led HP's Technology Solutions Group (renamed HP Enterprise Business in 2009), a US$30 billion-plus business that encompassed storage and servers, software and services. The products and services from this organization serve HP's business customers of all sizes in more than 170 countries. Once thought of as a costly distraction, this group is now seen as a source of future growth. Livermore's name was mentioned as a possible candidate to take over at HP when Carly Fiorina was ousted in February 2005 as CEO. Mark Hurd from NCR Corp. was instead picked to be HP's new CEO.

In the wake of HP pressuring employees to accept a 5% pay cut, it was revealed that Livermore's 2008 total compensation amounted to $20,551,493.  In the same year, Mark Hurd as CEO reported his compensation to be $42,514,524.

On May 13, 2008, Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed that it had reached a deal with Electronic Data Systems to acquire the company for $13.9 Billion. The deal was completed on August 26, 2008. EDS became an HP business unit and was renamed "EDS, an HP company." Ronald A. Rittenmeyer remained at the helm, reporting to Ann Livermore until his retirement.

With Mark Hurd's August 2010 departure, Livermore was once again a possible candidate for the top job, however lost out to former SAP CEO, Léo Apotheker.

Livermore was named in Fortune and Forbes annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen. As of 2011, her business unit was $60 billion which was half of total HP revenues and encompassed two-thirds of total HP staff.

On June 14, 2011, Livermore was replaced as head of HP Enterprise, as her top lieutenants, Dave Donatelli, software head Bill Veghte, and global sales leader Jan Zadak, were to report directly to the CEO. She was reportedly forced out since total services revenue had grown just 1% in the most recent fiscal year, despite the earlier acquisition of EDS in 2008.

Personal life
In 2005 Livermore had a kidney transplant for an undisclosed ailment.

References

External links
HP biography
HP speeches
Pictures of Ann Livermore at Picsearch

1958 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Greensboro, North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
Hewlett-Packard people
American women business executives
American business executives
Kidney transplant recipients
American computer businesspeople
21st-century American women


"Impossible Dreams" is a science fiction short story written in 2006 by Tim Pratt.  It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in 2006, and subsequently republished in Pratt's 2007 collection Hart & Boot & Other Stories, and in the 2012 anthology Other Worlds Than These.

Plot summary
Pete is a cinephile. One day, he discovers a video store containing movies that were never created. He discovers that he enters a parallel universe every time he visits the store, and becomes both frustrated and elated as he tries to watch as many of the videos as possible, while forming a bond with the store's downbeat clerk. By the end of the short story, Pete is now friends with Ally. Ally grew tired of the parallel universe and is now living with Pete and watching movies with him.

Characters
 Pete – One of the main characters of the story. Pete is a movie lover. He meets Ally in the parallel movie store and there he sees a variety of movies that are parallel to the ones that he had in his world.
 Ally – The other main character of the story. Ally works in the movie store in the parallel world. Ally later leaves the parallel world and joins Pete in his world.

Movies in the parallel world
 The Death of Superman – directed by Tim Burton and starring Nicolas Cage
 Total Recall – directed by David Cronenberg
 The Terminator – starring O. J. Simpson
 Raiders of the Lost Ark – starring Tom Selleck
 Casablanca – starring George Raft
 A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Kubrick lived to complete this
 The Lunch Bunch – not a real movie but in the parallel world it is a sequel to The Breakfast Club

Reception
"Impossible Dreams" won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

Several reviews stated that the novella and movie are like the Twilight Zone. In addition, the novella inspires the reader to become a movie buff. Pete is described by one critic as "a young film buff who discovers a movie rental shop from a parallel universe."

Film adaptation
In 2011, a short film adaptation of "Impossible Dreams" was made in Israel by Shir Comay in the Hebrew language (the Hebrew title is וידאו קסם, literally "Magic Video-rentals"). The film premiered on July 12, 2011 as part of the Jerusalem Film Festival, and won the Israeli shorts competition in the ICon festival 2011 Israeli shorts competition.

References

External links

 כתבה על הזכיה של "וידאו קסם" בפסטיבל אייקון 2011 YNET in Hebrew
 כתבה על הזכיה של "וידאו קסם" בפסטיבל אייקון 2011 Nana10 in Hebrew

2006 short stories
Science fiction short stories
Hugo Award for Best Short Story winning works
Works originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction
Short stories about parallel universes


An emergency procedure is a plan of actions to be conducted in a certain order or manner, in response to a specific class of reasonably foreseeable emergency, a situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or the environment. Where a range of emergencies are reasonably foreseeable, an emergency plan may be drawn up to manage each threat. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening of the situation, although in some situations, mitigation may not be possible and agencies may only be able to offer palliative care for the aftermath. The emergency plan should allow for these possibilities.

Need

Organizations are frequently required to have written emergency procedures in place to comply with statutory requirements; demands from their insurers, their regulatory agency, shareholders, stakeholders and unions; to protect staff, the public, the environment, the business, their property and their reputation.

Risk assessment

Before preparing a procedure, it may be appropriate to carry out a risk assessment, estimating how likely it is for an emergency event to occur and if it does, how serious or damaging the consequences would be. The emergency procedure should provide an appropriate and proportionate response to this situation. A risk assessment is usually in the style of a table, which rates a risk on its likelihood and severity.

Testing and training

An emergency procedure identifies the responsibilities, actions and resources necessary to deal with an emergency.  Once drafted, a procedure may require a consultative period with those who could be involved or affected by the emergency, and a programme set out for testing, training and periodic review.

Controlled issuance
When an emergency procedure is revised and reissued, previous versions must be withdrawn from point of use to avoid confusion. For the same reason, a revision numbering system and a schedule of amendments are frequently used with procedures to reduce the potential for errors and misunderstandings.

Style and complexity
The document itself may be just a few lines, perhaps using bullet points, flow charts or it may be a detailed set of instructions and diagrams, dependent on the complexity of the situation and the capabilities of those responsible for implementing the procedure during the emergency.

Business continuity planning

Business continuity planning may also feed off of the emergency procedures, enabling an organization to identify points of vulnerability and minimise the risk to the business by preparing backup plans and improving resilience.  The act of producing the procedures may also highlight failings in current arrangements that if corrected, could reduce the risk levels.

Escalating situations

Even with a well documented and well practised procedure using trained staff, there is still the potential for events to spiral out of control, often due to unpredicted scenarios or a coincidence of events.  There are many well documented examples of this such as: Three Mile Island accident, the Chernobyl disaster and the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform explosion in April 2010.  In a press release by BP on the 8 September 2010, BP's outgoing chief executive Tony Hayward said of this: The investigation report provides critical new information on the causes of this terrible accident. It is evident that a series of complex events, rather than a single mistake or failure, led to the tragedy.

Review

It is common practise with emergency procedures to have review processes where the lessons learnt from previous emergencies, changing circumstances, changes in personnel, contact details, etc. can be incorporated into the latest version of the documentation.

Examples

Some typical emergency procedures are:

 Procedure carried out during a fire alarm in commercial buildings where the occupants are evacuated via the nearest exit as the emergency services are called.  Fire wardens or security may search the building to ensure everyone has left or there may be a roll call at the assembly point.  The procedure would identify who is responsible for these various tasks, and their deputies, detailing other arrangements such as assisting those in the building who may have mobility issues, liaison with the fire fighters, etc.   In large multi tenanted buildings the procedure may be complex and address several possible scenarios.
 Medical emergency where first aiders are called to attend an unconscious person and after checking their airways and general condition, put them into a recovery position whilst awaiting the paramedic.
 Written guidance on aircraft which indicate the steps to be undertaken by the crew to give the best chance for a successful recovery or with the least loss of life.
 Abandonment of a ship which is sinking, wrecked, or uncontrollably on fire.

Other potential emergencies that may affect an organisation include the following

References

External links
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Dealingwithemergencies/Preparingforemergencies
https://web.archive.org/web/20101223011006/http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/InYourHome/FireSafety/DG_071793

Emergency services


James J. Shuttleworth (1937  – 2003) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who founded Shuttleworth, Inc. He was an active business and community leader in Northeastern Indiana.

Education
Shuttleworth was a graduate of Warren High School in 1955. He attended Purdue University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 1960.

Activities after graduation
Shuttleworth returned to his family’s canning and machinery operation. In 1962, he purchased the machinery side of the business and founded the Shuttleworth Machinery Corporation. Serving as engineer, salesman and president, he built the company into a leader in automated material handling systems. The company was renamed Shuttleworth, Inc. in 1974.

Jim learned to fly while still in school and noted that flying played a significant role in growing his company. He restored vintage aircraft, including   a 1943 AT-6G Texan and a P-51 Mustang that was once flown by Robin Olds. Shuttleworth also founded the Wings of Freedom Museum in 1996. This collection now resides at the Hoosier Air Museum.

Death
Jim died while piloting a TF-51 Dual Control Mustang near Wabash, Indiana on February 20, 2003.

Honors
1990: Purdue University Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award
1991: Outstanding Mechanical Engineer by the Purdue School of Mechanical Engineering
1995: Exporter of the Year - Indiana Business Magazine
1997: Northern Indiana Entrepreneur of the Year
1998: Honorary degree from Huntington College

References

Purdue University School of Engineering
Shuttleworth, Inc. corporate archives

American manufacturing businesspeople
1937 births
2003 deaths