Todd Sampson (born 1970) is a Canadian-born Australian television personality and non-executive chairman of the advertising agency Leo Burnett Australia. He has appeared as a panellist on advertising discussion program Gruen Planet and as a guest host on The Project. He presented a science documentary series, Redesign My Brain. Also an adventurer, Sampson has climbed to the summit of Mount Everest.
Sampson was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. He left Cape Breton at age 16, completing his schooling at a United World College, to which he won a $30,000 scholarship. He then studied economics and biology at Queen's University in Ontario, working as a college warden to supplement his income. He applied for another international scholarship and went on to complete an M.B.A. at the University of Cape Town.
Sampson started in advertising at the Cape Town agency The White House. In the mid-1990s, he worked as a strategist at Australian company The Campaign Palace. He joined Leo Burnett Sydney in 2002 and was later appointed CEO of Leo Burnett Australia. In August 2015, Sampson stepped back to the role of non-executive chairman.
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Sampson, a Shire horse gelding foaled in 1846 in Toddington Mills, Bedfordshire, England, is the tallest and heaviest horse ever recorded.
Sampson, owned by Thomas Cleaver, stood 21.2½ hands high (i.e. 7 ft 2½ in or 220 cm at his withers) by the time he was a four-year-old, when he was renamed Mammoth.
His peak weight was estimated at 3,360 lb (1,520 kg). He was gelded at approximately one and a half years old, and his testicles were already the size of footballs.
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In the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, the Wraith are the original enemy alien species, first introduced in the pilot episode "Rising". In the series, they are a vampire-like telepathic race who feed on the "life-force" of humans, and are the dominant power in the Pegasus galaxy. The first season of Atlantis is focused on the main characters finding a way to survive an overwhelming attack by the Wraith. Although in the later seasons new enemies have taken some of the attention away from the Wraith, they remain a potent and ever-present threat to the Atlantis Expedition.
All of the named Wraith who have appeared on Stargate Atlantis are named by humans, as it is unknown whether wraith even have names. John Sheppard often gives captured Wraith amusing/generic Earth names. The majority of non-warrior male and female Wraith were played by the same actors, James Lafazanos and Andee Frizzell respectively. James Lafazanos left the show after season 2. Other male Wraith have been played by Christopher Heyerdahl (season 3 onwards), Jeffrey C. Robinson (season 2), Dan Payne (season 3), James Bamford (season 3), Brendan Penny (season 4), Tyler McClendon (season 5) and Neil Jackson (season 5).
Todd is the fifth album and second double album by Todd Rundgren, released in February 1974. It was an expansion of his experimentation on his previous album, A Wizard, a True Star. It showed his growing interest in the synthesizer, and its ability to expand the textures of rock music. Much of the album is intensely experimental. However, it is not without its share of pop songs. Todd also tinkers with the synth-heavy progressive sound he would take further with his later band Utopia. First issues of this LP included a large wall poster; all the lyrics appeared on one side, while the other was Todd's cover portrait in shades of fine print, consisting of the names of 10,000 fans who had sent in the postcard included with A Wizard, a True Star.
Release of the album, originally conceived as (but too long for) a single disc, was delayed by a vinyl shortage caused by the 1973 oil crisis. This was further compounded by reluctance from the record label, Bearsville, to release a new album when his song "Hello It's Me" from Something/Anything? remained strong on the singles charts.
Wake up, everyone's leaving.
Daylight has a way of creeping up, when you're in love,
when you're in love.
Sickness, everybody has it, mine just happens to be
hidden.
And you, what about you? What about you?
Chorus:
I won't even begin, telling you how sorry I am.
Those days, moving so slow, I kept it alive not to be
so alone.
Real life, we were never in it,
Seemed like trouble to begin with.
But I, never refused, I never refused.
So don't stop, better keep it moving,
Although, memories are soothing,
I, can never go back, never go back.
I won't even begin, telling you how sorry I am.
Those days, moving so slow, I kept it alive not to be
so alone.
I'm feeling like a child
Like someone might find out
I shouldn't be here at all
But these things do come around
And it may as well be my turn to take it all
I won't even begin telling you how sorry I am
Those days, moving so slow, I kept it alive not to be
so alone
I won't even begin telling you how sorry I am
Those days, moving so slow, I kept it alive not to be