; Pollution: Campbell discusses the pollution that " traditional " batteries put into the water when a boat sinks, but Desmond says that electric boats are no more liable to sinking than other types and lists the leakage of fuel, engine oil and coolant additives as inevitable when an internal-combustion-engined boat sinks.

Additionally, when Desmond meets a mysterious woman with apparent knowledge of the future ( later revealed as Eloise Hawking ), she points out a man with red shoes, who moments later is killed by falling scaffolding ; when Desmond asks why she didn't try to save the man, she says that " it wouldn't matter.

In the present day, a salvage crew — Captain Sean Murphy ( Gabriel Byrne ), Maureen Epps ( Julianna Margulies ), Greer ( Isaiah Washington ), Dodge ( Ron Eldard ), Munder ( Karl Urban ), and Santos ( Alex Dimitriades )— is celebrating a recent success at a bar, when Jack Ferriman ( Desmond Harrington ), a Canadian weather service pilot, approaches them and says he has spotted a mysterious vessel running adrift in the Bering Sea.

Honorary degrees have been received by many famed individuals including former President of the United States Bill Clinton, former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, poet Seamus Heaney, writers Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness and Colm Tóibín, activists May Blood and Aung San Suu Kyi, actors Amanda Burton and Ewan McGregor, racehorse trainer Vincent O ' Brien, bishops Seán Brady, Robin Eames, James Mehaffey, Edward Daly and Desmond Tutu, singers Enya, Van Morrison and Tommy Makem, politician John Hume, biotechnologist Charles Hamner, politicians and writers Garrett Fitzgerald and Conor Cruise O ' Brien, US lawyer John Connorton, US diplomat Jim Lyons, Gaelic football player Peter Canavan, rugby player David Humphreys, golfers Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell, last governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten and triple jumper Jonathan Edwards.

Kong is known for being the first Jamaican producer to get international hits with long-time collaborator Desmond Dekker, in 1967 with " 007 ( Shanty Town )" and above all in 1969 with " Israelites " which topped the UK Singles Chart in April 1969 and went to number nine on the US charts in July 1969, selling over two million copies.

Theatrical censorship in Britain and the US forbade actresses to move when nude or semi-nude on stage, so tableaux vivant had a place in risqué entertainment for many years although in the early 1900s, German dancer Olga Desmond appeared in Schönheitsabende (“ Evenings of Beauty ”) in which she posed nude in " living pictures ", imitating classical works of art.

Ierulli will replace Desmond D. Connall who has been called to active military service but is expected back on the job by March 31.

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the Dave Brubeck Quartet's best remembered piece, " Take Five ", which is in 5 / 4 time and has endured as a jazz classic on one of the top-selling jazz albums, Time Out.

Desmond Shawe-Taylor has claimed that the portrait may have a religious meaning, Heathfield holding the key similar to St Peter ( Jesus ' " rock ") possessing the keys to Heaven, Heathfield " the rock upon which Britannia builds her military interests ".

He has also made three appearances on The Simpsons as famous documentarian Declan Desmond, so far the only appearance on the show by a Python.

Norma Talmadge has been described as " the obvious if unacknowledged source of Norma Desmond, the grotesque, predatory silent movie queen of " the film, itself a malignant misrepresentation of Talmadge starring an actress who had been a rival in the 1920s.

She is associated with the MacCarthy dynasty of Desmond, who adopted her as their fairy woman, and the O ' Keeffes and FitzGerald dynasty, with whom she has had amorous affairs ( MacKillop 1998 ; Monaghan 2004 ).

Richards has so far been featured in four series as an attorney: Richards joined the cast of NBC's Law & Order spin-off Conviction as Billy Desmond, the undefeated New York City Assistant District Attorney.

After difficulty with the local police force, Desmond and Stanley eventually view Teresa's body at a morgue, realizing that her ring is missing and that a letter " T " has been placed under her fingernail.

Verloc's young and beautiful wife ( Sylvia Sidney ) believes that her husband is a good man because he has been kind to her and her little brother, Stevie ( Desmond Tester ), who lives with them.

Over the years, the Review has featured reviews and articles by such writers and thinkers as Timothy Garton Ash, Margaret Atwood, Russell Baker, Saul Bellow, Isaiah Berlin, Harold Bloom, Joseph Brodsky, Noam Chomsky, J. M. Coetzee, Frederick Crews, Ronald Dworkin, John Kenneth Galbraith, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Jay Gould, Murray Kempton, Richard Lewontin, Alison Lurie, Peter Medawar, Daniel Mendelsohn, Vladimir Nabokov, V. S. Naipaul, Peter G. Peterson, Nathaniel Rich, John Searle, Zadie Smith, I. F. Stone, Desmond Tutu, John Updike, Derek Walcott, Steven Weinberg, Garry Wills and Tony Judt.

Desmond has a vision in which Charlie pushes a button below a flashing light which allows the other castaways to be rescued just before he drowns.

The Prague Trio of Basset-horns, based in the Czech Republic, has a repertoire of music ( originally written for, or transcribed for, three basset horns ) by composers including Mozart, Scott Joplin, and Paul Desmond.

Paige was welcomed to the Broadway stage with a long standing ovation from the audience, and received largely positive reviews for her New York performance as Norma Desmond: " The lush sound and the sheer power of her voice are, to put it simply, incredible ", wrote one critic, whilst another said " Her voice has great range, remarkable clarity and emotional force ".

* Richard Desmond, the owner of Britain's Daily Express and Daily Star newspapers, confirms that he has made a bid for the troubled Daily Telegraph.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has described Kristof as an " honorary African " for shining a spotlight on neglected conflicts.

The name was meant ironically ; one story, quoted in historian Desmond Morton's book The New Democrats, has the name originating during the drafting of the group's manifesto when, at one point, Ed Broadbent said " that if they had to choose between waffling to the left and waffling to the right, they waffle to the left.

Anthropologist Desmond Morris has identified other waxing styles:

The title of Earl of Desmond has been held historically by lords in Ireland, first as a title outside of the peerage system and later as part of the Peerage of Ireland.

Also in 1968, he was referenced by The Beatles in the ska-influenced, Paul McCartney penned song, " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da " ( from The White Album ) starting with the lyric :-" Desmond has a barrow in the market-place ".

A nod to Normand's celebrity in early Hollywood came through the name of a leading character in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, " Norma Desmond ", which has been cited as a combination of the names Mabel Normand and William Desmond Taylor.

His original inspiration was Paul Desmond, and in recent years the influence of cool jazz saxophone players has again become apparent in his music — there are tributes to Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz on Time Will Tell ( ECM, 1993 ) and Chicago Solo ( Okkadisk, 1997 ).

Desmond John Humphrys ( born 17 August 1943 in Splott, Cardiff ) is a Welsh author, journalist and presenter of radio and television, who has won many national broadcasting awards.

Desmond purchased 33. 1 % of Latvian Rietumu Banka in 2005 for a reported € 66 Million.

Mr Desmond was an investor in Esat Digifone through his International Investment Underwriters ( IIU ) vehicle, ultimately owning 20 % of the company.

The Esat Digifone consortium was 40 % owned by O ' Brien's interests, 40 % owned by Telenor, the Norwegian state telecoms operator, with the balance being owned by International Investment and Underwriting ( IIU ), an investment vehicle owned by Dermot Desmond.

Other parts of UNM were also disposed of advantageously, including the demerging of MAI's original securities business in 1998 as Garban, which subsequently became ICAP ; the sale in 1998 of United's Provincial Newspapers including the Yorkshire Post to Johnston Press ; the controversial sale of Express Newspapers in 2000 to Richard Desmond, owner of a stable of pornographic magazines ; the sale of the NOP World market research business to GfK in 2005 ; and the sale of United's 35 % stake in Channel 5 to RTL in 2005.

In 1999, McCann sold his shares, leaving Irish entrepreneur Dermot Desmond as the largest shareholder, with a 19. 8 % holding.

Following a near-fatal swimming accident which incapacitated him for several months, Brubeck organized The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951, with Desmond on saxophone.

The final studio album for Columbia by the Desmond / Wright / Morello quartet was Anything Goes ( 1966 ) featuring Cole Porter songs.

18 Poems was noted for its visionary qualities which led to critic Desmond Hawkins writing that the work was " the sort of bomb that bursts no more than once in three years ".

In 1999 the Australian Senate Joint Standing Committee on Treaties was told by Professor Desmond Ball that the Pine Gap facility was used as a ground station for a satellite-based interception network.

Notably all three of the following belong to the Welsh-Norman FitzGerald dynasty, created by the Earls of Desmond, acting as Earls Palatine, for their kinsmen.

Demands in Britain, for example by the Marxist John Desmond Bernal, for centrally planned scientific research led Polanyi to defend the claim that science requires free debate.

Among the prominent figures who have called for the abolition of nuclear weapons are " the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the entertainer Steve Allen, CNN ’ s Ted Turner, former Senator Claiborne Pell, Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburg, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama ".

Paul Desmond ( born Paul Emil Breitenfeld ; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977 ) was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, " Take Five ".

Desmond soon hired Brubeck, but cut his pay in half and then replaced him altogether after taking him along to Graeagle at The Feather River Inn for gigs ; this was done so Desmond could gamble in nearby Reno.

In 1950 Desmond left for New York City playing alto and clarinet for Jack Fina, but returned to California after hearing Brubeck's trio on the radio.

Brubeck was trying out for the 253rd Army band which Desmond belonged to.

During the 1970s Desmond rejoined with Dave Brubeck for several reunion tours including " Two Generations of Brubeck ".

Desmond also joined The Modern Jazz Quartet for a Christmas concert in 1971 at the New York Town Hall.

In 1578, to further the plans of exiled English and Irish Catholics such as Nicholas Sanders, William Allen, and James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, Gregory outfitted adventurer Thomas Stukeley with a ship and an army of 800 men to land in Ireland to aid in the hope for overthrow of Elizabeth's rule through the Catholic leader and former leader of the first Desmond rebellion, Fitzmaurice.

But on the ensuing kickoff, Desmond Howard returned the ball a Super Bowl record 99 yards for a touchdown.

In the words of J. Desmond Clark, " It was early realized that the threefold division of culture into Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages adopted in the nineteenth century for Europe had no validity in Africa outside the Nile valley.

* " 007 " ( Shanty Town ), a hit record for ska singer Desmond Dekker

In March 1920 Molly MacCarthy began a club to help Desmond and herself write their memoirs ; and also " for their friends to regroup after the war ( with the proviso that they should always tell the truth )", thus bringing the members of Old Bloomsbury back together.

One of her most notable roles on stage was Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Sunset Boulevard, for which Close won a Tony Award, playing the role on Broadway in 1994.