After studying philosophy in the 1990s, Sheppard became a professional event planner in Victoria, organizing everything from hip-hop concerts to fashion shows to go-kart races to the 1997 North American Indigenous Games.
Andrew Sheppard, a technology consultant who now specializes in GPUs and finance, said working with GPUs two years ago was pretty painful and before that it was territory strictly reserved for serious computer scientists.
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With all due respect to the renowned Mr. Sheppard, a Yankee Stadium fixture for over five decades who has been ill and on the sidelines this season, his ultra-serious baritone delivery never did much for me.
While Mr Inwood spends several pages describing the Great Fire of 1666, with the help of accounts by contemporaries such as Pepys and Clarendon, Mr Sheppard devotes a single paragraph to describing one of the seminal events in London's history before moving on to the rather less gripping subject of the planning regulations that governed the rebuilding of the city.
The same happened at the national level: the 19th Amendment of 1920 was followed a year later by the Sheppard-Towner Act, a landmark public health measure, because members of Congress believed that was what women wanted.
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Sheppard said for a new technology to replace existing systems it has to be 10 times cheaper or 10 times better.
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The Chief Adjudicator for England and Wales, Caroline Sheppard, is a jolly, no-nonsense barrister, who designed the appeal system more than 10 years ago.
With their daughters Nadia, 8, and Anja, 6, Scott and Claudia Sheppard live in a modest-sized house in a wooded area a few miles from downtown Chapel Hill.
In the case that spawned a television series and movie, Sheppard was convicted for the murder, a crime for which he served a decade in prison before being acquitted at a second trial in 1966.
Sheppard, who has a long history working in the golf industry, attended a golf expo in Munich in the fall of 2008.
Within a year of the diagnosis, Sheppard's relationship with his common-law wife underwent a steep decline, and they ended it a year and a half later.
He drives his German Sheppard, Qross, in a Ferrari FF modified to run on E85 biofuel.
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Sheppard talked about it with a school principal he knew, who suggested the child get tested for autism.
Sheppard's family moved around a lot when he was a child: England, Peru, Boston, New Mexico, British Columbia.
He remembers that whenever his father was cross with him, his father always thought Sheppard was smirking, and as a boy he had trouble telling his father how he felt.
One woman who turned her talent into a worldwide business is Judi Sheppard Missett.
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Before using Hirzl gloves, Mangan was going through a glove an hour, Sheppard said.
In 2006, he underwent about eight hours of tests, which helped a clinical psychologist conclude that Sheppard had high-functioning autism.
Scott and Claudia Sheppard are among the many people who feel a sense of foreboding about global warming and are trying to do something about it.
Vijay Singh gave the gloves a try during practice and loved them, Sheppard said.
Sheppard, now the President and CEO of Hirzl, started a branding and marketing tear.
Scott Sheppard says that although it's less convenient to have a small car, he uses it for daily commuting.
Harold Sheppard, associate director of the National Council on the Aging, has a one-word description of benefits paid now and all increases that may be necessary to keep those payments abreast of inflation.
Mr Sheppard's book, which covers the same period, is more analytical in style and at about a third of the length seems more manageable than Mr Inwood's effort.
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