"Governments must come to recognise that, even if inclusion is an ideal for society in general, it may not always be so for the school."She says that special schools today suffer from a "patronising" attitude which limits their use to children with the "most severe and complex disabilities". Made on location in the Colombian jungle, The Mission tells the story of a Spanish Jesuit, Father Gabriel (played by Jeremy Irons), who has a dream to take Christianity to South American "savages" and convert them by building a mission in the jungle. Fernando Ghia was one of the leading lights of the Italian film and television industry. At his funeral in the packed church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, as friends, colleagues and family gathered to pay their last respects, there was a roll of drums, and then, into the silence, came a distinctive, plaintive oboe line - and down the nave poured Ennio Morricone's incredible score for The Mission, a fitting and moving tribute to the film's producer.He was best known for that Oscar- and Golden Globe- nominated Palme d'Or-winner, which he produced in 1986 with David Puttnam.
Fernando Ghia, film producer: born Rome 22 July 1935; (one son); died Rome 1 June 2005. Fernando Ghia was one of the leading lights of the Italian film and television industry. He led, inspired and befriended many of the people he met.Alan Bundy and Austin Tate. As Munroist number 1860, he "bagged" his final Munro in 1997; he went on to become a senior figure in the Scottish Mountaineering Club and the author of a book on the Scottish Corbett hills (The Corbetts and Other Scottish Hills, 2002).Milne's life was characterised by setting very ambitious goals and single-mindedly pursuing them until he succeeded. His prominence in AI and software engineering and the achievements and accolades that followed are testament to his vision and tenacity. Indeed, in his first meeting with his prospective supervisor he demonstrated how to climb a vertical brick wall; the supervisor declined to try. In recognition of his research work and leadership, Milne was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003.Rob Milne was already a keen mountaineer when he arrived in Scotland to begin his PhD studies.
He was one of those rare individuals able to maintain a link between academic and industry work. Through a variety of visiting and honorary posts, including a visiting professorship in the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at Edinburgh University, he assisted universities in maintaining their relevance to industry and still found time to publish the results of his own work in traditional academic journals.He chaired many of the major conferences in AI fields and played a leading role in European AI, in 2000 becoming the President of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. Most recently, he led the successful bid to bring the world's major AI conference, the International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence, to Scotland in 2005, only the second time that the meeting has been held in the UK (the last was in 1971). He was a mentor to a number of start-up companies and guided other entrepreneurs in their efforts to establish successful businesses.Despite these demands on his time, he also engaged enthusiastically with academia and the wider AI and software engineering communities. Under his astute direction, the company became an industry leader in developing intelligent software solutions; a fact recognised by many awards, including the Queen's Award for Technology.Milne was a leader in the information technology field in Scotland, having for a time been Director of ScotlandIS, the industry body for IT and software companies in Scotland.
