The first few years of the present century saw the retirement of Moffatt Oxenbould, Opera Australia's Artistic Director for 15 years, and the appointment of Simone Young as Musical Director.

In collaboration with five Artistic Partners, the 34 virtuoso musicians present more than 130 concerts and educational programs each year and are regularly heard on public radio ’ s " Performance Today ", which reaches 1. 5 million listeners each week on 243 stations, and on SymphonyCast, reaching 480, 000 listeners each week on 125 stations nationwide.

In late 1997, the present Artistic Director, Craig Walker, was appointed and in early 1998 the company shortened its name to Theatre Kingston and moved into the Baby Grand Studio in downtown Kingston, where it began offering a full season of four or more productions a year.

On 25 May 2011 it was announced that director Francesca Zambello would become Artistic Advisor and that the present administrator of the company, Michael Mael, would become Executive director.

He appeared at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese.

Powers is the Director of the Snowboarding program at the Stratton Mountain School and currently ( 2010 – present ) resides in Stratton, Vermont, with his wife Marisa and daughters, Victoria and Meredith.

Its notable former pupils include: ex-England Rugby players Rob Andrew, now Director of Elite Rugby for the Rugby Football Union ( RFU ), the Underwood brothers, Tony and Rory along with present England player Mathew Tait and his younger brother Alex, member of the Newcastle Falcons and England U20s team.

Past and present Bok professors include Juan Guzmán Tapia ( the first judge who prosecuted former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet ), Armin von Bogdandy ( Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law ), Pratap Bhanu Mehta ( President of the Centre for Policy Research in India ) Michael Trebilcock ( Distinguished University Professor at the University of Toronto ) and others.

Other members of the band were Mark Ellen, who later went on to present BBC TV's Whistle Test music show and become the founding editor of British music magazine Q and Adam Sharples, currently Director General, Employment Group at the Department for Work and Pensions.

* Worst Director: 1980 to present

After leaving government service, Sick served as Deputy Director for International Affairs at the Ford Foundation from 1982 to 1987, and is the executive director of the Gulf / 2000 Project at Columbia University ( 1993 – present ), which has published five books and numbers many of the leading scholars on the Persian Gulf among its global membership.

* William Chong Wong – Former Director of Internal Revenue Service ( 1990 – 92 ), Subsecretary of Treasury ( 1993 ), Subsecretary of Finance and Budget ( Feb. 2002 – September 2004 ), Secretary of Finance ( Oct. 2004 – Jan 2006 ), Secretary of Finance ( Jan 2010 – present ).

Bell's later career includes entrepreneur, investor, founding Assistant Director of NSF's Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate 1986-1987, and researcher at Microsoft Research, 1995 – present.

He continues as that Center's Director through the present day.

A Director and shareholder of that firm who was present when most of the regulatory breaches took place was then appointed Head of Stockbroking Supervision at the Central Bank.

* Anthony Romero ( 1990 ), Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union ( 2001 – present )

According to a May 2000 talk to the Isle of Wight Postcard Club by the present Director, Mr Simon Dabell, the etymology is simply " black pathway " ( the original appearance of the chine ), but the theme park understandably fosters the interpretation of a smuggling origin.

John Clements, Director of the Historical Armed Combat Association proposed in a foreword to a 2000 edition of the 1467 Talhoffer Fechtbuch that modern use of the term ' martial arts ' is incorrectly associated primarily with Asian practices, and that Talhoffer's work exemplified ' hundreds ' of similar fighting manuals in Medieval Europe that ' present to us a portrait of highly developed and innovative European martial arts based on sophisticated, systematic and effective skills.

* Director, Dakota Gas, 2003 – present

Its present Chief Executive is Dr Peter Homa and the Medical Director is Dr Stephen Fowlie.

Their collaboration and guidance helped launch the first Memphis Demo Derby, the brainchild of PR Director Brett Hamilton, which was designed to present and showcase any and all Memphis musical talent to A & R reps, studio heads, producers and the like.

Dr Peter Frankopan, eldest son of the present Frankopan family, Senior Fellow of Worcester College at Oxford University and Director of the University's Centre for Byzantine Studies, states that the preseent family split from other branches of the Frankopan family in the 14th century.

* Ken MacQuarrie ( April 2004 – present ( Director from 2009 ))

* Chip Carter-Sports Director ; Monday-Thursdays at 5: 00 and 11: 00 and Sunday-Thursdays at 6: 00 and 10: 00 p. m. ( 1988 – present ) ( also fill-in news anchor )

And thus it remained until membership had dwindled to 3 or 4 members in 1957 when the present Director Hubert Magee was asked to take the helm.

Prior to his present position, Bartoe was Director of Operations and Utilization in the Space Station Office of NASA Headquarters from 1990 to 1994.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.

It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

The beatnik, seceding from a society that is fatally afflicted with a deathward drive, is concerned with his personal salvation in the living present.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

and the laughter and the happiness are even more pronounced when no company is present.

I am assured by experts that the thrust of our present missiles is fully adequate for defense requirements.

Steele's purpose is to present a general defense of his political writing and a resume of the themes which had occupied him in the Englishman ; ;

Undoubtedly one merit of the vast panorama of Gentile conceptions of the Jew unfolded in the present anthology is that it provides a formidable body of material that invites critical examination in terms of reality.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.