-- The flavor of Baltimore's Florida Grapefruit League news ripened considerably late today when the Orioles were advised that Ron Hansen has fulfilled his obligations under the Army's military training program and is ready for belated spring training.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Cyberneticist Ron Eglash has suggested that fractal geometry and mathematics are prevalent in African art, games, divination, trade, and architecture.

Fantastic Beasts also has " written-in " commentary by both Harry and Ron.

In addition, the NTSB has assisted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in its investigations of both the Challenger and the Columbia space shuttle disasters, assisted the Department of Justice during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack investigations, and assisted the U. S. military in its investigation of the aircraft that crashed in the former Yugoslavia that took the lives of more than 30 Americans, including Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.

He has a younger brother, Ron.

Popeil has been referenced in the music of Alice Cooper, the Beastie Boys, and " Weird Al " Yankovic, who wrote a parody song entitled " Mr. Popeil " which was a tribute to Ron Popeil's father, Samuel Popeil.

The attraction is an electronic scavenger hunt that has guests using special " Kimmunicators " ( in actuality, stripped-down cell phones ) to help teenage crime-fighters Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable solve a " crime " or disrupt an evil-doer's " plans for global domination.

U. S. Congressman Ron Paul has continually argued for the reinstatement of the gold standard, but is no longer a strict advocate, instead supporting a basket of commodities that emerges on the free markets.

In film and television adaptations, the character has been played by, amongst others, Peter Paget ( 1934 ), Roland Young ( 1935 ), Colin Jeavons ( 1966 ), Ron Moody ( 1970 ), Martin Jarvis ( 1974 ), Paul Brightwell ( 1986 ), Nicholas Lyndhurst ( 1999 ) and Frank MacCusker ( 2000 ).

Two years later, in May 1979, he played his final game for Chelsea, a 1 – 1 draw with Arsenal, having made a total of 729 appearances for the club in nineteen years – only Ron Harris has made more – and kept over 200 clean sheets.

He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm ( along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman ), a co-inventor of the Feige – Fiat – Shamir identification scheme ( along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat ), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.

In an attempt to avoid using any additional out-of-band authentication factors, Davies and Price proposed the use of the Interlock Protocol of Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, which has been subject to both attack and subsequent refinement.

University of Waterloo has a series of residences: University of Waterloo Place ; Wellesley Court North ; Wellesley Court South ; William Lyon Mackenzie King Village ; Tutors ' Residence ; Columbia Lake Townhouses ; Minota Hagey Residence ; Ron Edyt Village ( REV, formerly Village 2 ); Village 1, and Sweeney Hall.

Another part of the intellectual underpinning of the Bush Doctrine was the 2004 book The Case for Democracy, written by Israeli politician and author Natan Sharansky and Israeli Minister of Economic Affairs in the United States Ron Dermer, which Bush has cited as influential in his thinking.

Corman has been a mentor to young film directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Curtis Hanson, John Sayles, and many others.

The County Commission Chairman Ron Cross has vowed to keep the issue alive, but based on the negative sentiment from voters, it appears that at least for now, the idea of incorporation is back in hibernation.

) Although Dickens ' novel has been called antisemitic in its portrayal of the Jew Fagin as evil, the production by Bart ( himself a Jew ) was more sympathetic and featured many Jewish actors in leading roles: Ron Moody ( Ronald Moodnik ), Georgia Brown ( Lilian Klot ), and Martin Horsey.

Though a rather small town in terms of population, throughout the years Geneva has attracted big stars to play, such as Ron Jeremy, Ronnie Milsap, Pamela Anderson, Robert E Lee, and Aaron Tippin.

In one scene, she claims it has freckles, to which Wooldoor replies, " Lots of pussies have freckles, like Ron Howard ".

" Carry On Wayward Son " has been included on soundtracks for the following movies and television shows: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Family Guy, Gentlemen Broncos, Happy Gilmore, Heroes ( 1977 ), Scrubs, South Park (" Guitar Queer-o " episode ), King of the Hill (" My Own Private Rodeo "), Strangers with Candy (" Yes You Can't "), and Supernatural ( during the intro for each season finale ), and Supernatural: The Anime Series ( as the ending for each episode ).

Along these lines, a ceramic filtration system coated with silver particles has been created by Ron Rivera of Potters for Peace and used in developing countries for water disinfection ( in this application the silver inhibits microbial growth on the filter substrate, to prevent clogging, and does not directly disinfect the filtered water ).

A unique mineral recently identified from Broken Hill has been named Nyholmite after one of the city's famous sons Ron Nyholm ( 1917 – 1971 ).

Another game, Los Huevos de Ron Magill ( named after him ), has audience members attempt to replicate an animal's sound which, if one is done successfully, then that person can reach their hand in a oversized egg for a chance to win up to $ 1500 USD.

Black had worked with Pollock on " Stranger in Town " in 1957 and years previously Stanley Black had used Ron Goodwin as his orchestrator.

There, Clinton worked with future two-term mayor of Dallas, Ron Kirk, future governor of Texas, Ann Richards, and then unknown television director ( and future filmmaker ), Steven Spielberg.

Lawson worked with Nick Talesfore who was responsible for the Industrial Design of the hand controllers, console and video game cartridges as the manager of Industrial Design ; and, Ron Smith who was responsible for the mechanical engineering of the video cartridges and the eight degrees of freedom hand controllers.

He worked with an octet ( the recording bears his name only because Brubeck was the best-known member at the time ), and a trio including Cal Tjader and Ron Crotty.

The relocation of the Formula 1 Grand Prix from Adelaide in 1993 was a particular coup for Kennett, who had worked hard with his friend Ron Walker, the Chairman of the Melbourne Major Events Company, helped deliver Melbourne the hosting rights for the event from Adelaide in 1993.

He also worked with Gunther Schuller, Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, Mal Waldron, multi-instrumentalist Ken McIntyre, and bassist Ron Carter, among others.

Dolphy worked intermittently with Ron Carter and Freddie Hubbard throughout his career, and in later years he hired Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson and Woody Shaw to work in his live and studio bands.

Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert parted ways with the series after Monkey Island 2, and the new project leaders were Jonathan Ackley and Larry Ahern, both of whom had previously worked on Full Throttle ( the interface of the game was adopted almost entirely ).

Other notable disc jockeys who worked at WLS include Fred Winston, Art Roberts, Ron " Ringo " Riley, Gene Taylor, Mort Crowley, Larry Lujack, Dex Card, Clark Weber, Chuck Buell, Kris Erik Stevens, Joel Sebastian, Gary Gears, Jerry Kay, Bob Sirott, John Records Landecker, Yvonne Daniels, Steve Dahl, Garry Meier, Brant Miller, Steve King, and Tommy Edwards.

" Ron Richards, who worked for George Martin at both Parlophone at AIR Studios, and who discovered The Hollies, was present for many Beatles ' recording sessions.

Veteran performers Frank Oz and Dave Goelz operated various puppets in the film, as did Karen Prell, Ron Mueck and Rob Mills who had all worked with Henson on Fraggle Rock.

Ronald Erle “ Ron ” Grainer ( 11 August 192221 February 1981 ) was an Australian-born composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom.

On October 12, 1980, Basinger married makeup artist Ron Snyder-Britton ( born 1938 ), who worked on the crew of her film Hard Country.

Slagel hired producer Ron Fair, who worked for Chrysalis Records, and had seen the band perform live and enjoyed their performance.

Cherry co-hosts the " Coach's Corner " intermission segment ( with Ron MacLean ) on the long-running Canadian sports program Hockey Night in Canada, and has also worked for ESPN in the United States as a commentator during the latter stages of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Before joining NASA at Johnson Space Center ( JSC ) in 1977, Ron Dittemore worked as a turboprop / turbofan engine development engineer in Arizona.

After political campaign work, including a position as an aide to Congressman Ron Dellums, Medved worked in advertising, and coordinated a campaign to recruit more African Americans and Hispanics to the police departments of the California cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.

The Gunstar and other spaceships were the design of artist Ron Cobb, who also worked on Alien, Star Wars and Conan the Barbarian.

As Davis worked on the game one night, Gottlieb's Vice President of Engineering, Ron Waxman, noticed him and suggested to change the color of the cubes after the game's character has landed on them.

But later he became interested in television because of his brother, Ron Magers, who worked in the TV industry in Chicago, Illinois at WLS-TV.

One of the British members of staff was Ron Morris, from Battersea, who had worked for the embassy in various positions since 1947.

According to a book authored by some of his family members, titled His Name is Ron, before working at the restaurant Mezzaluna, Goldman worked with cerebral palsy patients.

For his final film appearance, Wild had a minor role in Moussaka & Chips ( 2005 ), where he once again worked with Ron Moody.

She then worked as a window display artist and assisted painter Ron English in New York City.