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[edit] Popolocrois

This is the story about a prince of the kingdom of Pietro who is a half dragon and a half human and his friend a witch,Narsha.He is a brave prince at his age they save the world from the evil enemy.Then they meet Hyuu a mysterious girl but the Master of the Wind that came from another dimension.ʈɖɟɟɡɢ Their mortal enemy named Gami-Gami who is secretly in loved with the wicth Narsha but later on he want to marry Hyuu.This is based on the game Popolocrois series 1998.A story of love,adventure,friendship and family. ʋɹɻɰʙʀɾɽ ĂăÁʘǀǃΨ

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Sources:tvtokyo;page 198,brownies encyclopedia Manga magazine K-zone Magazine www.anime.com www.sony.com


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[edit] Dale Calkins

Dale Calkins is an avid journalist, website developer and a photographer. His most notable work is Ferrari 1, a popular Ferrari Formula 1 community.

[edit] Ferrari 1

Dale Calkins is the Chief Editor and Site Developer of Ferrari 1. His site is hosted on the Sportnetwork online sporting community. Calkins reports on the world of the Formula 1 World Championship from a Ferrari fans perspective and also provides resources for Ferrari fans. These resources include but are not limited to team and driver statistics, Grand Prix wallpapers, Ferrari team history and driver biographies. His news articles are updated daily and report on everything involving the Ferrari team and its drivers in Formula 1. The site also boasts a large user community who participate on the Ferrari 1 Message Board

[edit] Ferrari 1 Statistics

Before Dale Calkins took over the running of Ferrari 1, the site was suffering from poor traffic. Now the site boasts around 15,000 hits and over 2000 unique IP visitors per day. This results in monthly statistics of around 300,000 hits and over 30,000 unique IP visitors. This is quite an increase over Ferrari 1's 50,000 hits per month average before Mr. Calkins took over the site.

[edit] Controversy On Ferrari 1

Dale Calkins and his Ferrari 1 site have come under certain criticisms for the content on the site's message board. Calkins' completely open forum policy has lead to certain users posting highly questionable topics. Certain topics about the Holocaust started by now banned members were quickly removed by Sportnetwork. Other users began to resort to personal attacks on Ferrari 1's message board and Dale's reluctance to ban them in accordance with his open forum policy also garnered him some negative feedback. Currently Ferrari 1 is not suffering from any sort of controversies as most of the trouble causing users have been banned by Sportnetwork.

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Ferrari 1


161.184.177.127 07:03, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

161.184.177.127 07:01, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Indrajal

This is a fun site to kill time owned by vishnu d dutta

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http://www.indrajal.com/phpBB2/ above is the link to the site. its funny and has pictures , videos, links to live streaming of cricket matches, pictures, jokes, solutions to computer problems, hollywood and bollywood sections. visit it to see it. 68.106.165.31 08:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)cameron

  • Decline, not notable enough per WP:WEB. Although I'd like to visit it and kill time owned by Vishnu D Dutta some time. JIP | Talk 19:58, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Baron in the Trees

Cosimo, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against parental autority by climbing into the threes and remaining there fot the rest of this life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence--hunts, sows crops, plays games with earth-bound friends, fights forest fires, solves engineering problems, and even manages to have love affairs. From his perch in the trees, Cosimo sees the age of Voltaire pass by and a new century dawn.

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From book's description published by A Harvest Book Harcourt Brace & Company, Translated by Archibald Colquhoun.


[edit] Robert K. Massie

Robert K. Massie should redirect to Robert K Massie (which is an existing article--the only difference is the lack of a period after the middle initial). Or even better, the content at Robert K Massie should be shifted to Robert K. Massie, and Robert K Massie should redirect there.

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68.199.33.181 08:27, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dik Van Dykes. Canadian Band on Og Records

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24.80.60.154 08:50, 15 March 2006 (UTC) Cheer! Jonathan 24.80.60.154 08:50, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The rainbow Maker!

The man who makes raibows is not god sending rain down upon the earth and lets the light reflect in the water. The real rainbowmaker lives in Norway, in a small town, but a big house where he has both a trampoline and a Rainbowmaker machine. He works day and night, filling up this machine and never rest. He has allies in all countries, placing pots of gold at the end of the rainbow so he can see where it stood earlier (he hates it when peoples take it btw). A reliable scourse is to be found at http://theburrowblog.blogspot.com/ 193.161.89.17 09:06, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert McLean

Was proclaimed the greatest man on earth by the pope in march 2004 at the age of just 15. He has lately received personal congratulations from the leaders of 37 world countries including Libia, Uzbekistan, and Chad for being the greatest. Mohummed Ali has given him a personal apology for saying "i am the greatest" as it is now evident he was not. He has also achieved gold medals for curling, ping pong, and many other important Olympic events.


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the Oxford Latin Dictionary, Penguin, 2003

147.10.129.94 09:45, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Decline. Serious submissions only, please. JIP | Talk 13:35, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pokemon

Pokemon is a chinese,japanese,dirty knees,boobies based cartoon with a main charecter called ash and his beloved pokemon pikachu. He travels around with his friends brock and misty dueling other pokemon enthusiastslike himself With the help of Professer oak, Pokemon trainer ash wants to be a pokemon master. To do this he must go around the a different gyms in eight different towns and then enter the the pokemon championship and if he wins he then can take on the elite four and if he beats then he then can call himself a pokemon master!! Ash wants to capture every single pokemon. A list of all the 150 pokemon in four diferent languages can be found at: http://groups.msn.com/Pokegame/pokemontranslation.msnw

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http://groups.msn.com/Pokegame/pokemontranslation.msnw "Personal Knowledge"

195.194.74.34 10:13, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Decline. We already have an article on Pokémon. JIP | Talk 13:35, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thomas deasy

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...is cool

[edit] Sandilyan

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199.67.203.140 13:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC) Sandilyan is one of the greatest writers of Tamil Literature. The historical novels he penned still live in the memory of the tamil literature fans.. Kadal Pura, Yavana Rani are his master pieces...He is the king..when it comes to writing about wars, land and naval...as well as romance.

Rydens is in Surrey

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[edit] American Society for Ethnohistory

 snipped cut-and-paste ×Meegs 19:05, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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http://www.ethnohistory.org/ http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/about_ase/index.html


81.168.14.44 13:17, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vulcz, Christopher A.

Christopher A. Vulcz was born on May 14, 1989 to modest parents, Sarah Mcguire and Andrew Vulcz. Chris has one brother, Matthew, and a mut dog, Amber.

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151.198.226.201 13:23, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Decline, not notable enough, does not meet WP:BIO. JIP | Talk 13:35, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] gnomish

Gnomish is a code from Artemis Fowl the series if you look in them, you can see some gnomish writing at the bottom mof each page and at the cover of one of the books. Some pf the books they can be found in are: The Artemis Fowl Files, The Arctic Incodent, or Artemis Fowl

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67.190.38.71 14:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Negotiated Order

Negotiated Order is an approach in sociology that is interrested how meaning is created and maintained in organisations. It has a particular focus on human interactions.

[edit] See also

George Herbert Mead

Goffman

Strauss

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Strauss, Anselm et al. (1994): The Hospital and Its Negotiated Order, in Freidson, Eliot (Hrsg.): The Hospital in Modern Society, New York, 147-169.

Strauss, Anselm (1978): Negotiations. Varieties, Processes, Contexts, and Social Order, San Francisco, 105-141.

Regan, Thomas G. (1994): Some Limits to the Hospital as Negotiated Order, in Social Science and Medicine 18, 243-249.

Maines, David R., Joy Charlton (1985): Negotiated Order Approach to the Analysis of Social Organization, in Studies in Social Interaction, Supplement 1, 271-308.

Reed, Michael (1991): The Sociology of Organizations. Themes, Perspectives, Prospects, Hempel Hempstead, 83-92.

--130.88.39.17 14:51, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sleep Number Bed

The Sleep Number® bed, made by Select Comfort uses air-chamber technology to provide support that can be adjusted to an individual’s preference for mattress firmness. Every Sleep Number® bed features a Firmness Control™ System, a compact forced-air pump with a handheld remote that is used to fill the bed’s patented air chamber and regulate its firmness. Using the remote with the digital Sleep Number® display, individuals can electronically control the air pump system to adjust the bed to the level of firmness and support that’s right for them.

All Sleep Number® beds feature a patented single or dual air-chamber, depending on bed size. The dual chamber allows each side of the mattress to be adjusted independently for personalized comfort and support.


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www.selectcomfort.com

[edit] WikiTrip

WikiTrip is an up and coming term for people who 'take a trip' through Wikipedia. I.E. starting on one subject and winding up (most likely hours later) on a different subject entirely, by following the links in the articles. Presently, WikiTrip (which has been attributed to Lewis I Brown has become a rather popular phrase on The East Side of Manhattan, The SouthSide of Chicago and various other locals around the United States.

[edit] Michael Cody

Michael Edward Cody, born 2/23/73 is a former student athlete at Texas A&M. He attended the university from 1991 to 1996 majoring in Recreation Parks & Tourism Sciences. He played football there for 4 years, redshirting his first year, and deciding to leave the team to persue his own interests before his final year of elidgibility. He is now married and has two kids and is living in Pearland, Texas. He currently works for an IT and Business Mananagement Consulting Firm.

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http://www.aggieathletics.com/bios.php?YOS=1992&SID=MFB&PID=7132

204.2.20.74 15:31, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roman Slaves

Well Roman slaves are pretty cool. I mean, without the, people would be homospecials! and serisouly .. the rebellion of the slaves was a magical moment in time. Roman slaves were always men and there was only rarely a few women. roman slaves were a very important part of the ancient world. GO SLAVES GO!

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www.romanslaves.com


Patrick Waltz64.56.141.206 15:59, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COBRA BEER LTD

Cobra Beer, founded by Karan Bilimoria, CBE DL just 15 years ago, is one of the fastest growing beer brands in the UK, with a current turnover of £80 million at retail value. It has been exported to 40 countries worldwide, and is available nationwide in 6,000 restaurants, 5,000 major supermarkets and off-licenses and to nearly 6,000 mainstream bars, pubs and clubs.

During 2005 Cobra launched three new products, which joined the original Cobra 5% Premium Beer. The first of the new products introduced was Cobra 0.0% – an alcohol-free beer with all the taste of Cobra but none of the alcohol. Next, was Cobra Lower Cal Lower Carb – a light and refreshing beer ideal for those watching their calorie intake as it contains just 95 calories per bottle. Most recently, King Cobra has been launched. This superior strong beer is the world’s first double-fermented lager and is packaged in an elegant champagne-style bottle.

Cobra Beer was awarded two Grand Gold Medals and nine Gold Medals (more than any other beer company in the world) at the 2005 Monde Selection, Brussels, World Selection of Quality Awards, 2 Grand Gold Medals and four gold medals in 2004, and Gold for three successive years at the 2003, 2002 and 2001 Monde Selection awards. Monde Selection also presented Cobra with the International High Quality Trophy in 2003 for its achievements.

  • Article was already created at Cobra (beer). Note that the above, which is also the article's contents, reads like an advertisement and is in need of editing for a neutral point of view. JIP | Talk 22:33, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Cobra is contract brewed by Charles Wells - the beer is detailed there. SilkTork 22:45, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tata (bye)

Used in India to mean `bye'. Origin of this term can be traced from the graffiti on trucks in India. Most of the trucks in India are being manufactured by the Tata_Group. Almost all trucks have 'Ok' and 'Bye' (or similar graffiti) printed on either side of 'TATA' sign. This has made the word 'tata' synonymous with bye in India and is used quite frequently.

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1. [1] Google Search

2. [2] ok...tata....bye

61.246.150.100 16:11, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alex Teih

Fashion Designer.Well known for one of a kind dresses. Dressed: Whoopi Goldberg, Oksana Baiul, Ashanti and others. Based in New York, has a store in Great Neck, long Island. You can find his creations in exclusive boutiques in USA and Canada. Got an award as best women's designer in 2002, presented by Leon Hall, Alice Roi and Benjamin Cho at Femme Show.

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www.americaninternationaldesigners.com 205.188.116.72 16:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Abacus recordings

An awesome independent recording company in North America and Europe. Abacus has such great metal and hardcore bands as Sworn Enemy and Caliban. Other great bands enclude Planes Mistaken for Stars and Embrace the End. Abacus recordings also has an awesome Street Team that promotes Abacus' amazing bands.

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Http://www.abacusrecordings.com

136.223.12.203 16:37, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] City of Bjelovar education

[edit] Short history

The first primary school in Bjelovar opened on November 5th 1761. There were only 6 students, military officer children, and the classes were in German. Since 1763, civilian children were admitted, too.

The construction of a new school in 1774 supplied the necessary space for schooling, and as early as 1776 a girl’s school was founded. After a brief period of stagnation, at the beginning of the 19th century, the first signs of a reform of the schooling system were recorded.

In 1805 the first really "big" school was built, and as soon as 1809 the Main four-year school and a girls’ school with 3 classes are operational in Bjelovar. The Cadet and geodesist school is opened, which in 1817 transforms into the Mathematical school. In 1858 the opening of a military school and a two-year "Real" school is approved and according to that, from that year on, in the town the Main school, the Girls’ school, the Military school, the Real school and the Ilirian school, with 388 students, are functional. In 1876 the small Real school transforms into the small high school and in 1901 the new building is finished named the Royal Real High School in Bjelovar.

The cities ongoing economic prosperity and growth made it become a city of the young. Kindergartens, primary and high schools, a music school and in recent years higher education institutions, are the places through which the citizens love their city, places that will generate new ideas from new generations that will add new colours to our Bjelovar.


[edit] Preschool education

The first kindergarten and day-care centre in the town of Bjelovar was founded on March 8th, 1946. The growing number of children and needs to care about children in that way triggered the construction of new functional objects. In that manner new kindergartens were built in 1973 on the Matoš Square and in 1977 another dedicated object in the king Zvonimir settlement. In the 80’s the need for opening an infant day-care centre arose and as a result three were opened. In 1988 a new nursery school was constructed by the already existing kindergarten in the king Zvonimir settlement.

All these objects function under the Bjelovar Kindergarten, the city of Bjelovar being the founder and owner. 650 children are embraced in 26 educational groups. The work of the Bjelovar Kindergarten shows through additional programs such as:

- the English playroom, around 60 children - the playroom "I know, I will and I can", 180 children - a playroom for handicapped children, around 10 children - a talented children playroom, an experimental beginning - a computer playroom, around 100 children - a children’s chorus, around 100 children

The preschool learning and education law allows for private initiative in the field of preschool education. In that manner in Bjelovar opened two private kindergartens "Ciciban" and "Bambi" which accept 200 children so that the total number of children embraced by preschool education is raised by 850.

The city of Bjelovar participates with 70% in financing the kindergartens and the parents come up for the remaining 30%.


[edit] Primary education

The primary education within the district of the city of Bjelovar is organised through 4 central schools and 12 local ones with a total of 3850 students. There are 280 employees in the primary schools, 210 of which are teachers and technical associates and the others are staff and personnel.


[edit] The First primary school

The First primary school was founded in 1772 and it is the oldest school in the city of Bjelovar and it has an attendance of 957 students. In 1987 the foundations were laid for a new school building and it was finished and put into use with the beginning of the school year 2002/03. A new gymnasium was also built alongside the school. The school takes pride in: The small singing chorus “Tratinčice“, The school sports club “Prva osnovna”, the school paper “Riječ Prve osnovne”, the school successes at the Lidran and other school competitions. The school motto is: A school without repeaters - we learn for life, not for grades.

[edit] The Second primary school

The Second primary school was founded in 1776 when it started out as the Girl school and today it has an attendance of 883 students. The school is proud of its optional information science and second foreign language class and its success and knowledge is confirmed through a variety of school competitions. By maintaining a large number of workshops, it is the intention of the school to free as much creative abilities of their students as possible. The school was among the first in Croatia to be awarded the title European Eco – School and it was also awarded with the city of Bjelovar coat of arms decoration for distinctive results in the field of education.

[edit] The Third primary school

The Third primary school was opened in 1959 with its seat at the Eugen Kvaternik Square – today’s Croatia Osiguranje building. Because of the ever-growing number of children and narrowing space, a new school building was called for and it was completed in 1964, much to the delight of students and citizens, because it was the first real school building for primary school needs constructed after almost one hundred years. In 1973 the school also got a gymnasium, the school driveway was fixed up and a school playground was also constructed. There are 926 students attending the school today. During the whole year the school hosts a variety of seasonal happenings. The City Days, the Bread Days, Saint Nicolas Day, Christmas and Easter, Valentines Day. It is especially marry and rich with programmes on the occasion of School Day.

[edit] The Fourth primary school

The Fourth primary school is the youngest primary education institution in Bjelovar, built and opened September 7th 1973. There are 918 students attending the school today and the classes are thought in the cabinet principle. This year, the information science cabinet was additionally equipped and relocated to a new built facility. The school is renown for its exceptional sports results, as the winning of the first place in athletics in the category girls at the national primary schools competition 2002 shows. The school choir achieved 3rd place at the national competition. For a long time of years the students of this school achieve high rankings at national photography, electronics and robotics parades. Through its activities this school has for several years been a GLOBE school and measures and actions are taken that the school becomes an ECO school.

[edit] The Fifth primary school

The Fifth primary school was founded in 1962. It is a place where educational-learning and rehabilitation work is done with students who have difficulties in development and are mentally disabled. There is a cottage hospital – dormitory within the school premises where students from the Bjelovar- Bilogora County are accommodated. This educational system comprises 75 students from 1st to 8th grade. The work in the prolonged expert procedure is organised through 6 educational – teaching groups, which comprise 57 students. Within the Croatian sports federation of the disabled, the students participated on national competitions and also represented Croatia on international competitions. Besides remarkable results in table tennis and athletics, the County athletic team was pronounced the best county sports team in the disabled category. In the school there is also a students ceramics society – section at work, which enables for the acquisition of additional skills. The schools defection experts are starting a project for the prevention of institutionalisation – the Bjelovar model with the purpose to prevent the emplacement of mentally retarded persons.


[edit] Secondary schools

Until 1955, the only secondary school in Bjelovar was the Gymnasium (grammar school or high school). The growing needs and economic interest for qualified and educated cadre called for the opening of a greater number of business-like secondary schools, which in return made Bjelovar a leading secondary schools centre in Croatia. In 1955 the Economics school was opened and in 1959 The Medical school. The school’s medical centre goes back to the 19th century apprentice school and the School for students in economy that the Technical school was attached to in 1963. Soon the Gastronomy and Trade school were founded in Bjelovar.

There are 8 secondary schools operational in Bjelovar today. The Gymnasium, the Economic and Office school, the Craftsman school, the Medical school, the Gastronomy and nutrition school and the Musical school with more than 3000 students.


[edit] Gymnasium

The Bjelovar Gymnasium is one of the oldest educational institutions of the city of Bjelovar, founded at the end of the 19th century. The need for a more complete education called for the foundation of the Real Gymnasium in 1858, which gradually transformed to a grammar school. It is because of its needs that in 1901 a new building was constructed. Today, it is on one of the nicest buildings in Bjelovar and it hosts the Gymnasium and the Medical school. The citizens of Bjelovar are proud of that school because it has brought up and educated a great number of people who have debited the Croatian science and culture through their work. Today, the Bjelovar Gymnasium educates 633 students in 20 classes and through three programmes: common gymnasium, science gymnasium and language gymnasium. The students are brought up and educated by 37 constantly employed teachers. The results of the students at a wide variety of competitions, at county level as well as at national level, speak for the school, as well as the fact that a big number of students continue their education at different universities. For this level of quality, the expert teachers must take great merit. Some of them are promoted into the office of mentors and advisers. All the data on the Bjelovar Gymnasium speak for the reason why this institution takes a special place in education, but also in the culture of the city and the county.

[edit] The Economic and Office school

The Economic and Office school in Bjelovar was founded as the Economic school in 1955 and after a few school reforms, from 1993 on, it works independently under the current name. The school educates regular students, but also adults, for the profession economist and administrative referent through four-year programmes. The school has 16 class sections, 12 economic and 4 administrative, with around 500 students. The school has 51 employees, with the reminder that it takes care of all the accounting work for all secondary schools in Bjelovar.

In its five hundred year history it has educated a range of respected experts, some of whom are today’s leading economists, in Bjelovar as well as in whole Croatia. As a school it stands out for its modern approach to teaching, in common educational as well as in expert subjects.

"Dani slobodne nastave", the "free classes days", is a well known and unique pedagogical project which in its ninth year rallies over twenty famous lecturers in the fields of economics, culture, science, whose classes and workshops the students choose out of their own interests. Beside school, there are a lot of free activities at work: a historian group, a reporter group, a literature group and a very successful sports club with ten teams in different sports. The school is among the first in Croatia to have made, after an Austrian model, an authoring program in economic practise. Within the frames of the economic practise, the students are opening phoney companies themselves and take care of all the business, which is the best preparation for work.

[edit] Medical school

The nurse school Bjelovar stared its activities in the school year 1958/59 with the enrolment of one section of nurses in the common course in the duration of four years. From 1975 on, the school activities were increased by enrolment of more first grade classes and later by adding additional profiles – midwifes, dental technicians, lab technicians, physical therapists, masseurs and pharmacology technicians. From 1978 until 1991 the school was integrated in the Centre for training and directed education where a workgroup was formed, which besides the health profession also had a pedagogical school, a wood school, an agricultural and nutrition school. Since 1991,the Gymnasium and professional schools again exist in the schooling system, so the school was renamed the Medical school Bjelovar.

Since then the school educates for the professions: nurse – medical technician, health - lab technician, dental technician and pharmacology technician in regular schooling. In the adult education role, the school has training programs for female tenders, which proves the school’s modern concept – a lifelong education.

Today around 400 students attend classes that are held by 30 regular lecturers and 20 outside associates, mostly doctors – specialists of the Bjelovar common hospital, where the students perform regular training and proficient practise.

The students are mostly educated for work in the health care system, but this school’s students often continue their education on medical or chemistry universities, but also in other professions.

Beside the regular school program, the students are active in out of school activities and in skill and knowledge competitions they achieve every year envying results, especially in proficient national competitions "Schola medica".

[edit] The Craftsman school

Bjelovar has a long tradition in the development of education for industry needs. As early as 1769, masons, carpenters and other future craftsman attended sections of a Latin and Geometry school.

The Apprentice school was founded in Bjelovar in 1886. The successor school to the Apprentice school was the “ Students in economy school”, founded in 1947. 330 students were enrolled into the school. Classes were held 3 hours a day, totally 18 hours a week. The school had 10 constant and 11 part-time employees. In 1951/52 the school had 11 sections. The 1958 resolution of the Council for education of the PRC saw the Central school for students in economy starting it work with the regular school for students in economy.

The metal professions sections were enrolled in 1960. The classes in the metal professions were held as practice in companies in the morning and lessons in the school in the afternoon. 1960 saw the opening of a section of the Technical school, machinist direction, for adults because of the needs of the Bjelovar economy (the tractor plant Tomo Vinkovic and Agro-services). There were a total of 33 students.

In 1962 the Technical school with one section of regular students was founded and 40 students were enrolled. By political decisions of the educational authorities from January 1st 1963 the School metal centre was founded within whom the Craftsman school works.

In 1978 the Centre for training and directed education was created. In that way the continuity in equipping the previous programmes of the Bjelovar secondary schools was ended.

In 1991 the Centre for training and directed education in Bjelovar was reorganized. This enabled the schools to work independently, among them the Craftsman school.

The Craftsman school in Bjelovar registered in 1993 as an independent school. It enrols and educates apprentices of different crafts, trying to meet the economy and personal needs. On that way it has to face many difficulties that are being transferred into the third millennium. The goal of the Craftsman school is to enable the apprentices for skilful, independent work on complex assignments in different crafts and the amelioration of the Croatian economy. Because of such importance of this educational process, the Craftsman schools deserve much greater attention in the planning of the countries future.

[edit] The Technical school

The Technical school was founded in 1960 within the School for students in economy and at the request of the economy. It had one section for adults and from 1963 it admitted regular students. Joining the Centre for training and directed education, one organisational unit educated the metal an electrical cadre. Since the 1993 reform of the secondary schooling system, the Technical school Bjelovar operates as an independent school.

With the rapid development of technology, specially in the fields of mechanics and electronics, needs arise for new and modern educational programs that will enable the students to work in the informatics era.

The Technical school has educated: mechanical technicians, electronics technicians and technicians for electro mechanics. The new educational programmes the Technical school offers now are: technician for informatics and technician for informatics in mechanics.

The Technical school’s working goal is directed towards the achievement of a high level of connectivity between theoretical and practical professions, with the aim to create skilful experts on a broad basis of usage.

[edit] The Trade school

The school centre for educating cadre in trade was founded in 1962 as an independent school institution. Until 1949 the school for students in economy has educated students for a greater number of crafts, among them salesman, too. In 1949 a lower sales course with a two-year duration was founded, and in 1953 the Central school for students in trade with a boarding school was opened. Since 1980, the school acts as part of the Centre for training and directed education and its independence and today’s name - Trade school, the school receives in 1993.

The school has 400 students in 13 class sections and educates them in two programmes:

a) Salesman – the three-year program. Students that are educated in the profession salesman have practical education two days a week. After completion of this program they have the option of completing the fourth degree (grade) in the program commercialist (adult education).

b) Commercialist – the four-year program. Students that are educated in this program have classes four days a week and one day a week proficient practise. The school has 35 employees, 27 of whom in education and one outside associate – for adult education.

The Trade school students direct their free activities towards theatrical creativity, marketing activities, sports and activities with the goal to enrich the school life and the life quality of the students. They take special pride in the schoolyard they personally take care of.

[edit] The Gastronomy and Nutrition school

The Gastronomy and Nutrition school in Bjelovar was founded in 1971 within the Centre for training and directed education.

After the reorganisation of the Centre in 1993, the school becomes autonomous as the Gastronomy and Nutrition school. For the past ten years the students were educated through three-year programmes in the professions waiter, cook, confectioner, pastry-cook, butcher…

In 1998 the school introduced a four-year program for the education of hotel-tourist technicians. Two years later a four-year program for the education of hotelkeepers, direction gastronomy, was introduced. Meeting the needs of the labour market and the interests of the students, the school also introduces attractive three-year programmes: milkman, baker. The students can be schooled in a twin – education system for the profession cook.

If required by the employer, the students have the option of learning different foreign languages, standard ones’ like English, German, French, Italian or others like Hungarian and Czech.

After their school education, the students can carry on their education at a university or they can specialize in their profession.

Practices in the professions cook, waiter and hotelkeeper, direction gastronomy are held in well-equipped school facilities for cooking and pastry shopping and gastronomic waiting. Practical classes are held in gastronomic facilities outside the school.

The school also has specialized classrooms for accounting, merchandise proficiency and nutrition. There is also a library within the school.

The school’s sports club “Gurman” (Gourmet) assembles a big number of students who take part in all organised competitions in different sports disciplines.

For the past ten years the school’s students achieved noted results at students competitions "Lidrano" and "Gastro". Around six hundred students that are divided in 22 class sections attended the school. The school employs 58 teachers and administrative – technical staff.


[edit] The secondary schools students dormitory

The secondary schools students’ dormitory Bjelovar building, which was not built for that purpose, dates back to 1900 and it hosted the first students in 1946. The 170 students, who live in the dormitory, come from different Croatian counties and visit all of Bjelovar's secondary schools.

The educational activity in the dormitory is very rich in contents. There are about twenty sports, music-scenic and multimedia optional programs that include almost all students. There are also a number of special programs supporting students in their development, adaptation, socialization and establishment of better communication.

The students, who participate in the dormitory’s activities, have in the past few years achieved numerous results at regional and national level and have in that way promoted the city Bjelovar and the whole region. The folk, video and music sections have been specially noted.

During recent years the number of activities organized by the student’s dormitory rapidly rises and in that way this institution opens up toward the city. Within the frame of the Dormitory Week, concerts, exhibits, meetings and elocutions are organized. The student’s dormitory is constantly involved in almost all happenings at city level: “Terezijana”, City Days, Economic fair, youth activities … The school year ends with a ceremonial presentation program “To Bjelovar with love”. We present in short to our friends and fellow citizens, through a musical-scenic program, our overall work in one school year.

The openness of such an institution toward the city shows as exceptional and of common social meaning, especially for the interests of the young. This is the reason why we try to involve students and associates outside the dormitory into all our projects, programs, elocutions and meetings.

In 2001 Bjelovar was host to a national dormitory contest in Umag for the first time. It successfully hosted 900 participants and presented the city of Bjelovar and the county in the best possible way. For this achievement it has been praised from all sides, among others by the Minister of education dr. Vladimir Strugar.

In the same year we celebrated the 55th anniversary of our dormitory and the next year we received a city award and the City Seal for special achievements in education.

[edit] The Public open university

Its beginning is tied with the National university that was founded in 1954 at the District union’s council. It was founded as an autonomous institution under the name Worker’s university on September 15th, 1957. The basic activity in the first few years of its existence was andragogy – adult education.

Today, the Public Open University in cooperation with a number of institutions and companies organizes and conducts different forms of child and adult education. Those are: foreign language courses, playrooms, seminars for English language lecturers, informatics and accounting courses, preparation of craftsman exam attendants and expert qualification exam attendants, primary school for adults, linguistic communication courses, fire protection, nurse (tender) qualification, typing courses and so on.

The movie theatre "Gorica" is part of the school and it holds movie projections around the year. Besides that, the Public Open University has been organizing guest-shows of famous theatre groups and houses from all Croatia. This year the school was one of the organizers of the 1st Bjelovar Theatre fest.

The Public Open University also organizes studies of the Economic colleges from Zagreb and Rijeka in Bjelovar and the Technical University Zagreb’s traffic division opens up this year the Bjelovar Centre within the school.

The Public Open University Bjelovar is a member of the Croatian Open University’s Union and the Croatian Andragogy Society.

[edit] The Music school "Vatroslav Lisinski"

Although Bjelovar is one of Croatia’s youngest cities, music is an integral part of is cultural life from its very beginning (military orchestra). At the end of the 19th century the first singing societies are founded and parallel to their work in the 80’s of the past century the existence of the first private music school is noted.

The Music Society was founded in 1921 and soon thereafter its school, where playing the violin, the piano and blow-instruments was thought. From 1945 the music school starts out as a primary school and from 1957 on also as a secondary music school. The school has a district division in Cazma.

Today the school has more than 400 students that are thought by 28 constantly employed teachers and 20 outside associates. The students have the possibility of complete music training and the expert classes are divided into four sections: - for piano, accordion and drums - blow- instruments (flute, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, sackbut, trombone, horn and trumpet) - for guitar, tamburitza and string instruments (violin, viola, violoncello) - theory section

This year solo singing was introduced. There is a primary and a secondary school singing choir at the school, a primary school blow orchestra, a secondary school blow orchestra as part of the city orchestra, a tamburiza orchestra and a string orchestra.

The students attend national student and music college student competitions, dance competitions and achieve exceptional results. The school itself is often host to various competitions. Bjelovar was the host of a national competition in 1998.

The Music school is the only one in Croatia who since 1995 issues its often-rewarded magazine the “Trythonus-Diabolus in musica”. For the past three years, the school has been organizing famous musician concerts under the name "Bjelovar concert season".

Many diplomas, awards and rewards have been presented to the school’s students. Many of the students of this school have continued their musical education at high music schools and today they are renowned artists or educators who have contributed to the fame of the school.

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http://www.bjelovar.hr


[edit] Anett Wockenfuss

Top model, German. www.anett.net

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www.anett.net

202.61.164.129 17:36, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] G Pazani

a word created by aldolfo meledia to represnt his supreme ignorance and overall "suckyness" in the game of paper connect four. Means absolutly nothing and will requier ones own imagination to think of a better meaning and edit this article - amen (coach 04)

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Times.com, "G Pazani", www.times.com/"GPazani"/aldolfomelida


[edit] Basic Access Control

Basic Access Control (BAC) is a mechanism specified to ensure only authorized parties can wirelessly read personal information from passports with an RFID chip. It uses data such as the passport number, date of birth and expiration date to negotiate a session key. This key can then be used to encrypt the communication between the passports chip and a reading device. This mechanism is intended to ensure that the owner of a passport can decide who can read the electronic contents of the passport.

[edit] inner workings

The data used to encrypt the BAC communication can be read electronically from the bottom of the passport called the machine readable zone. Because physical access to the passport is assumed to be needed to know this part of the passport it is assumed that the owner of the passport has giving permission to read the passport. Equipment for optically scanning this part of the passport is already widely used. It uses an OCR system to read the text which is printed in a standardized format.

[edit] security

The Basic Access Control mechanism has been criticized as offering to little protection from unauthorized interception. Researchers claim that because there are only limited amounts of passport issued many theoretically possible passport numbers will not be in use in practice. And there are ages in theory that no passport carrying human has in practice. This is because children typically do not request passports and some ages are beyond a normal human lifespan.

In other words, the data used as an encryption key has a low entropy.

It is claimed this brings intercepted but encrypted data in the reach of a modest brute force attack.

This effect increases when passport numbers are issued sequentially or contain a redundant checksum. Both are proven to be the case in passports issued by the Netherlands. There are other factors that can be potentially used to speed up a brute force attack. There is the fact that dates of birth are typically not distributed randomly in populations. Dates of birth may be distributed even less randomly for the segments of a population that pass for example a check in desk at an airport. And the fact that passports are often not issued on all days of the week and during all weeks of a year. Therefore not all theoretically possible expiration dates may get used.

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[edit] About Marvel Zombie Artist Arthur Suydam

About ARTHUR SUYDAM

Marvel Zombie cover artist, Arthur Suydam burst onto the scene with his creative innovation of infusing the art of sequential art with classical painting. His extraordinary work helped revolutionize the industry and began the comic art renaissance of the 1980’s, opening doors for mainstream writers and artists to create literature for a more mature readership.

Recently honored with the coveted Spectrum Magazine Gold Award for Excellence in Illustration, Suydam’s immense body of written and illustrative work comprises an aesthetic that is uniquely distinguishable. Recent releases include Arthur Suydam: The Art of the Barbarian; Skin Deep; The Alien Encounters Poster Book; Visions: The Art of Arthur Suydam; The Fantastic Art of Arthur Suydam; Mudwogs and The Adventures of Cholly and Flytrap, published worldwide and currently in pre-production for film with Paranoid Delusions Productions. In addition to his own works, Suydam has contributed text and artwork to countless comics publications including Heavy Metal, House of Secrets, Batman, Conan, Tarzan, Predator, Aliens, Death Dealer, Epic Illustrated and National Lampoon, to name only a few, as well as new work coming out from Marvel, DC Comics, Image, Last Gasp, Vanguard Productions and Eva Ink. Current projects include Fireflies, Mouse in the House and When Giants Walk the Earth — witty looks at rural life and in the American Heartland, mystery and magic, presently under film option.

In fact, Arthur is on the comics scene in a big way this year, having in 2005 alone, received the “Artist Guest of Honor” Award from Dragon Con, and Lifetime Achievement Awards form the University of Maryland and the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain. Two galleries in Spain are currently displaying over 150 pieces of original Suydam artwork, and Arthur has just been inducted into the Society of Illustrators in NYC.

You may have also seen his new superhero work from DC Comics and Marvel Comics over the last year—mostly recently his Marvel Zombie covers that have been named in the “Wizard Magazine Top 20 Covers of the Month”. The first issue of this over the top selling comic has already gone back to press an unprecedented three times.

His newest release debuts at this very show: “The Fantastic Art of Arthur Suydam” from Vanguard Productions.

All fitting tributes to this writer/creator/artist, whose over-riding passion has undoubtedly been creating stories, characters and memorable moments in a wide range of fiction via either his words, his art, or sublimely, both.

For Information on the works and projects of Arthur Suydam, contact: Eva Ink P.O. Box 27 West Haven, CT 06516 USA evaink@aol.com/www.evainkpublishing.com


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Sources: www.evainkpublishing.com "The Fantastic Art of Arthur Suydam" from Vanguard Productions "Arthur Suydam: The Art of the Barbarian" from Image Publishing


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[edit] MOSEK

MOSEK is company which produces and markets software and an application programming interface for solving linear programming problems.

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[edit] The engine valves of OM360 engine

The engine valves of this engine both In. & Ex. are Bimetal

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Gholam Aslzadeh

[edit] Braces Are Beautiful

Braces Are Beautiful is a movement with a small number of members emphasizing the aesthetic perks of braces. This orthodontic fixation manifests itself in the procurement of cosmetic braces, mass collections of photographs of people with braces, and the idolization of braces. Propondent of the Braces Are Beautiful movement, Sam Siebel, said "I never met anyone who thought braces were ugly."

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[edit] David L. Wylie

I began at PRC over two years ago as a Relay Agent. My role was to relay calls for the hearing impaired community. I accepted the position because it was an opportunity for me to help people in need. Now as a Communications Manager, I can say PRC has really given me the opportunity to grow my career, and do it with confidence.

PRC does a great job of recognizing the talents and hard work of their people and promoting from within. With that in mind, they decided to capitalize on my non-profit and fundraising experience. After I was promoted to Communications Manager, the PRC leaders asked me to also head-up the company’s philanthropic organization, PRC Community Care. I accepted immediately because helping people is something I’m passionate about and truly enjoy. Not to mention, it’s the reason I joined PRC from the beginning.

I can say without a doubt, there is no other position in this entire company of 10,000 people that I’d rather have. I really enjoy the people I work with, and I especially enjoy my customers. I think it goes without saying, I love the PRC Community Care role. It’s great to be able to earn a living, while help others at the same time.” – David L. Wylie, Communications Manager


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http://www.prcnet.com/Testimonials.43.111.lasso


12.21.30.4 19:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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YOU IDEITS NONE NOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING

[edit] What are the chromosome combinations that produce a boy or a girl?

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  • Decline, this is a question, not an article. Please see Wikipedia:Reference desk. For what it's worth, it's XX for a girl and XY for a boy. JIP | Talk 19:54, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lucien Piccard/Arnex Watch Company Inc.

Watch Manufacturer making Dress, sport, chronographs, gold, Swiss movement Pocket Fashion watched in the $15 to$50 price range under the trade names Lucien Piccard, Arnex, DuFonte and possibly Prague. Importer, manufacturer Primary outlets: Retail jewelry stores (70%), mass merchants (10%), catalog outlets (10%), wholesalers (10%) No current listing available,

old unconfirmed addresses were: Lucien Piccard/Arnex Watch Company Inc. Private Company, Headquarters Location 1333 60th St., Brooklyn NY 11219-5019, United States

Lucien Piccard/Arnex Watch Co. 120 Commerce Rd. Carlstadt, NJ 07072-2502 (201) 935-2200 fax (201) 935-0299

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[edit] The History Of skatrain.com

skatrainwww.skatrain.com was started at the end of 2005 as a website for all fans of ska & reggae.

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skatrain.com


[edit] Swalec Gas

The gas retail arm of Swalec utility company.

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[edit] Diplocynodon

The Genus Diplocynodon and the species Diplocynodon darwini is an extinct Alligator of the Eocene, that was found in Messel, Germany.

[edit] Swalec

Swalec was an Electricity and Gas company based in Wales. Swalec was merged with Welsh Water to form Hyder and is now owned by Scottish and Southern Energy Group.

Vinny Jones featured in a Swalec advertising campain.

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http://www.swalec.co.uk/OurCompany/Default.aspx

82.46.100.114 20:23, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Toothy Tile

Toothy Tile is a mysterious gay or bisexual Hollywood actor mentioned by gossip columnist Ted Casablanca in his E! column "The awful truth". He is known to have dated a "superpopular, superannoyingly perfect" female star, although it is unclear if this happened only as a way to cover up his sexual preferences.

[edit] Nicholas Chase

Is Cool PWSSD

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is not cool at all 24.211.153.200 22:05, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FEDA

The Further Education Development Agency (FEDA) became the Learning and Skills Development Agency in in November 2000.

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http://www.lsda.org.uk/about/history.aspx

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[edit] w/e

w/e is slang for whatever or whenever used mainly on chat rooms or online game playing.

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slang dictionary

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[edit] Grant Jospeh Wallace

Born in Salinas CA in 1989, then moved to Conyers GA in 1998. He has a very promising future and is involved in many projects concerning computer scince, physics, and mathematics. He has placed at State Science Fair for the past 2 years and hopes to do the same the next two. He is in the film 'A Night in grant & Ryan". This was his first big acting job, in which he actually direted and edited the film in this low budget movie.

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[edit] Adam Moon

Adam Moon was born in 1982 in Clapham, London. He showed early signs of promise on the Cricket pitch leading to astonishing performances as Captain of Dulwich College cricket team. The school's newsletter read "On the cricket field, there have been several memorable performances, notably the bowling of the 1st XI captain, Adam Moon". By 1999 Moon's bowling had reached extraordinary heights, he had made it on to an exciting and vigourous Surrey team, and had played for the second XI at county level. His tantalising skill as a left arm leg spinner caused the bails to fall on many a trigger happy batsman eager to knock his temptingly slow balls for six. Playing alongside Chris Salmons and Simon Hollingsworth his skill was developing into one of the most intriguing in young British Cricket.


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Dulwich College Newsletter The Daily Mirror

86.129.129.157 22:20, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Su Kong Tai Djin-founder of Shaolin Do, the most comprehensive kung fu

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[edit] Jeff Herbert

Jeff Herbert is a well known O.G. (original gangsta) from the south miami region known as Homestead, aka "Hoestead". Some people also refer to him as the fireman, due to his vast amount of marijauna smoking. He smokes everyday, usually at his corporate slave job at PRC. PRC enslaves many minorities all over florida. Herbert is currently in the process of starting a revolution against PRC where all will rise up and overcome.

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c164/jefffrizzle2001/39a352fc.jpg" border="0" alt="Image hosting by Photobucket"></a>

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www.myspace.com/blackbmw325i

Jeff Herbert Herbert Jeff PRC O.G. Homestead Gangsta

[edit] Ramin (given name)

Ramin is a popular male Iranian first name. Spelling in Persian (Farsi): ﺮامین

The origin of the name is pre-islamic Persian (Iranian) / Zoroastrian. Meaning of the name: joyful. Ramin is also a character in Shahnameh, the famous poetic epic by Iranian national hero Ferdowsi. Also, the name of the main character in "Vis and Ramin", a 5th century Sassanid love story brought back to life by Asad Gorgani in the 11th century.

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source: wikipedia, German edition

70.133.173.239 23:40, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Please also note: the current search for RAMIN yields an entry regarding the tree "RAMIN" instead of properly linking to the disambiguation for the word. Please correct this. It seems illogical that a search for a very common name leads to a tree... Thanks.

[edit] Amon Amarth - Lyrics Friends of the Suncross

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[edit] Gary Glymond

He is a fat fucker!

[edit] ISHTIAQ GHOURGHUSHTI

Hi my name is Mohammad Ishtiaq,born in Ghourghushti Pakistan. Recently I designed a Website about Ghourghushti. Ghourghushti is massive village in province Punjab Pkaistan. You can get more detail about Ghourghushti visiting website www.ghourghushti.info If you want to add some thing in website about Ghourghushti or you have some useful and creative ideas please just email me at ghourghushti@hotmail.com and I will get back to you. I will be waiting for your reply. thanks Image:Ishtiaq.JPG

[edit] hello yo

China's architecture blows!!!

Tyrone Greenfield currently attends Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg, VT. He is a sophomore, and enjoys the scholar bowl.

[edit] Committee on Committees

A congressional committee that assigns Republican representatives to other congressional committees.

Senate.gov defines it as "Committees formed in each party conference and responsible for nominating the party's Senators to committee membership and committee leadership positions. Nominations are subject to approval by the full party conference and to a formal vote of the Senate."

The Democratic counterpart is the Steering and Policy Committee.

See also:

United States Congressional committee


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Wilson, James Q., and John J Diiulio, Jr. American Government, Eighth edition.


71.193.20.156 03:09, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Steering and Policy Committee

The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee is a congressional committee whose purpose is to assign Democratic representatives to other committees.

On December 16, 2002, Rep. Michael Capuano was appointed to a second term on the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee by Minority Leader Pelosi.

The Republican counterpart is the Committee on Committees.

See also: Standing Committee (US)

Senate Judiciary Committee

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Wilson, James Q., and John J Diiulio, Jr. American Government, Eighth edition.


71.193.20.156 03:13, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for deletion/Anomalopteryx

[edit] Anomalopteryx

Delete - this page is incoherent, not enough of a foundation nor does it actually describe what this object is, no citation/sources whatsoever...seems possibly made up - 68.32.34.152 03:19, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] [ [ Nikugen ] ]

In the Japanese language it means "Naked Eye".It is part of what the samurai did. The samurai had a total of five different sights. They are Nikugen, Tengen, Egen, and Shingen/Hōgen. Its the lowest of the eyesights. It is just the image that you can see. No previous knowledge is applied to the image. It's problem are that it is by the own persons point of view. Nikugen is easily obstructed. The person will not be able to see if you place something in the way of his/her eyes.

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Flashing Steel Mastering Eishin-Ryū Swordsmanship 209.144.174.24 03:26, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Illegal Aliens

It's like Charlies Angels meets Men In Black. Three beautiful Aliens are the sole defenders of planet Earth and clash against evil forces, endure explosions and just possibly... find love?

Edgewood Studios is now in negotiations with distributers. Illegal Aliens will be in theaters summer 2006!

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http://www.edgewoodstudios.com


64.179.13.232 03:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opportunity Sample

Opportunity Samples are a frequently used method of sampling in psychology. Opportunity samples involve selecting participants who are around and available at the time.

Strengths: This type of sampling is quick and convenient and usually the most economical method of sampling.

Weaknesses: Because opportunity sampling selects only those participants who are near by and available, it can result in unrepresentative samples and, often, opportunity samples are biased on the part of the researcher who may choose participants who will be 'helpful'.

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A-Level psychology textbook


68.210.49.62 04:26, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Howie Hawkins- Green Activist

Howie Hawkins of Syracuse has been active in movements for peace, justice, the environment, and independent progressive politics since the late 1960s. He was a co-founder of the anti-nuclear Clamshell Alliance in 1976 and the Green Party in the United States in 1984.

After attending Dartmouth College, Howie worked as a carpenter, logger, and cooperative business developer. He was a co-developer and co-owner of a construction workers cooperative that specialized in solar and wind energy systems.

Howie came to Syracuse in 1991 to be Director of CommonWorks, a federation of cooperatives working for an economy that is cooperatively owned, democratically controlled, and ecologically sustainable. Howie also works as a truck unloader at UPS, where he a member of Teamsters Local 317 and active in the national Teamster rank-and-file reform caucus, Teamsters for a Democratic Union.

His articles on social theory, cooperative economics, and independent politics have appeared in many publications, including Against the Current, Green Politics, Green Perspectives, The Guardian, In These Times, Independent Politics News, International Socialist Review, Left Green Notes, Liberation, Left Turn, New Politics, Our Generation, Peace and Democracy News, Peaceworks, Resist, The Socialist, Society and Nature, Synthesis/Regeneration, Win, and Z Magazine.

Born in San Francisco, California in 1952, Howie became politically active as a teenager who faced the draft and the escalating war in Vietnam and participated in local struggles for racial and economic justice.

Howie knew he wanted a third party to support by age 11 in 1964 after being repelled by the racism of both major parties. The Republicans, with Ronald Reagan as their spokesperson, campaigned to repeal California’s Rumsford fair housing law. Meanwhile, the Democratic National Convention seated as voting delegates the segregationist Dixiecrat delegation from Mississippi instead of the integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation.

The Democrats’ Johnson won as the peace candidate in 1964, but then escalated in Vietnam. Though federal civil rights and voting rights acts passed in 1964 and 1965, Johnson’s half-hearted “war on poverty” was sacrificed to the war in Vietnam. So when the Peace and Freedom Party was formed in late 1967 to end US intervention in Vietnam and fight poverty and racism, Howie supported the registration drive to put Peace and Freedom on the ballot even though at age 15, he wouldn’t be able to vote for another 6 years because the law then stated one had to be 21 in order to vote.

Ever since, Howie has been committed to independent political action by poor and working people, with “independent” meaning completely independent of the corporate funding and sponsorship, and completely independent of the corporate rulers’ political representatives, the Democratic and Republican parties.

Howie also participated in the peace, justice, and environmental movements and demonstrations in the Bay Area in his high school years, including Stop the Draft Week in October 1967, the San Francisco State Strike in 1968-69, People’s Park in Berkeley in 1969, the first Earth Day and the nationwide anti-war student strike in 1970, and Black Panther Party proposal for community control of the police in Berkeley, California in 1971.

In the fall of 1971, Howie began attending Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he studied social and political theory. During his first year in college, college draft deferments were eliminated and Howie draft number was called in July 1972. He immediately enlisted in an off-campus Marine officer-training program before the Army’s draft letter reached him so he could continue his studies. But after a summer of officer training at Quantico in 1974, Howie had to inform the Marines that he did not have the funds for his last year of college. He informed that since he could meet the college degree requirement needed to take an officer‘s commission upon graduation, he was ready to serve as a regular enlistee the 2 years of active duty that he was obligated to serve under his enlistment contract. But the Marines never ordered Howie to active duty. So he spent the duration of his 6-year enlistment period waiting for order to report for active duty, perhaps because of his public activities against the war in Vietnam.

While waiting for orders to report to active duty, Howie remained active in the anti Vietnam War movement, and became active in the anti-nuclear and the anti-apartheid movements. He helped form New Hampshire’s People’s Energy Project in 1974 to fight the proposed Seabrook nuclear power plant, and then the New England-wide Clamshell Alliance in 1976 to organize occupations of the Seabrook nuclear plant site.

After the Soweto massacre in South Africa in 1976, he co-founded the Upper Valley Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa, helped to form the Northeast Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa in 1978, and represented New England on the national anti-apartheid Call to Conscience coordinating committee in the early 1980s.

Howie led several campaigns to link corporate exploitation in South Africa and the US, including domestic redlining by banks lending to South Africa and labor abuse by Phelps Dodge in Namibia and Arizona.

In 1984, Howie organized fellow carpenters to put up a pre-fabricated shanty-town in minutes on the central square at Dartmouth College despite promised resistance from security. Students then occupied the shanty-town, instigating a nationwide wave of shantytown protests that led to many college portfolio divestments of apartheid-linked securities.

During this same period in the 1970s, Howie worked as a carpenter and co-founded in 1978 a construction workers cooperative that specialized in energy efficiency and solar and wind installations. He also worked with students at Dartmouth to form a New Hampshire Public Interest Research Group in 1975. In 1976-77, Howie returned to Dartmouth for his last year of studies, where he completed all the requirements for graduation except learning a foreign language. Howie does speak the Polynesian language of Tonga, where he lived for three months in 1973, but it was not recognized by Dartmouth.

In the 1980s, Howie decided to prioritize his political activity on building an independent progressive political party. He believed that progressive issue campaigns would be more effective if there was an independent people’s party. Without an independent progressive party to give political expression to these issue campaigns, progressive issue campaigners are left to lobby the corporate parties, most often the more “liberal” Democrats, who feel little pressure to act on the campaigners’ demands because they can take progressives’ votes for granted.

In addition, Howie also believed it was important to link single issues to each other and their systemic roots. Without linking issues like a party program does, single-issue campaigns can be easily defeated or co-opted because these campaigns don’t have a perspective that can sustain them for the long haul through the ups and downs of movements and help them understand the difference between token personnel changes and substantive policy changes. On the other hand, an independent party of working people can sustain issue work between periods of popular mobilization by actively advancing their program between elections (unlike the corporate parties which are primarily money collecting and vote mobilizing machines) and by providing education that links issues and provides a systemic analysis.

Howie has been active in every non-sectarian effort to build independent politics, from local independent parties where he lived (Peace and Freedom Party of California, 1968-1971; Liberty Union of Vermont, 1972-1978; Granite State Alliance of New Hampshire, 1974-1978), national independent parties (Peoples Party, 1971-1976; Socialist Party, 1973-present; Citizens Party, 1979-1984; Green Party, 1984-present; Labor Party, 1996-present); and a series of national coalitions committed to independent politics (People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice, 1971-1974; Mass Party Organizing Committee, 1974-1978; Peoples Alliance, 1978-1981; National Committee for Independent Political Action, 1981-1995; Independent Progressive Politics Network, 1995-present).

In 1984, Howie was one of the co-founders of the Green Party in the United States, in which he advocated a more grassroots organizing approach than earlier attempts at building a new progressive party. Instead of trying to build the national party from the top down through a presidential campaign as the Peace and Freedom, Peoples, and Citizens parties had done, the Greens would build local organizations and contest local elections until they had enough of a base to launch a presidential campaign, which the Greens finally did 12 years later when they drafted Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke as their presidential ticket in 1996.

As an activist in these parties, Howie worked on many electoral campaigns, including the Cleaver/Dowd ‘68, Spock/Hobson ‘72, and Commoner/Harris ’80 presidential campaigns, the 1970s Liberty Union campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Michael Parenti, and several Green campaigns in Vermont and New Hampshire between 1985 and 1990. Howie also gained experience by volunteering in the New Hampshire primaries for major party candidates, namely, Pete McCloskey, the anti-war and anti-corruption Republican challenger to Nixon in 1972, and Fred Harris, the anti-corporate populist Democratic candidate in 1976.

Since coming to Syracuse in 1991, Howie has been nominated by the Greens to run for city council, mayor, county executive, state comptroller, and the US House. He has been the Upstate New York Field Coordinator for Nader/LaDuke 2000 and Nader/Camejo 2004. He is also the co-founder and past president of the Green Alliance, a national federation of local Green Party clubs.

Political Experience

Candidate for U.S. House, 25th District, NY, Peace and Justice Party, 2004 Field Coordinator for Upstate New York, Nader/Camejo 2004 Candidate for New York State Comptroller, Green Party, 2002 Candidate for Syracuse Common Council, 4th District, Green Party, 2001 Field Coordinator for Upstate New York, Nader/LaDuke 2000 Candidate for U.S. House, 25th District, NY, Green Party, 2000 Candidate for Onondaga County Executive, Green Party, 1999 Candidate for New York State Comptroller, Green Party, 1998 Candidate for Syracuse Mayor, Green Party , 1997 Candidate for Syracuse Common Council, At-Large, Green Party, 1995 Candidate for Syracuse Common Council, At-Large, Green Party, 1994 Candidate for Syracuse Common Council, At-Large, Green Party (on Liberal Party line), 1993 Volunteer, New Hampshire Green Party gubernatorial campaign, Guy Chichester, 1990 Volunteer, Burlington Greens municipal campaigns, 1987, 1987, 1989 Volunteer, Bernie Sanders for Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, 1981 Volunteer, Citizen’s Party Presidential Campaign, Commoner/Harris, 1980 Volunteer, Bernie Sanders for Governor, Liberty Union Party, 1976 Volunteer, Fred Harris for President, New Hampshire Democratic Presidential Primary, 1976 Volunteer, Bernie Sanders for US Senate, Michael Parenti for US Congress, Liberty Union Party of Vermont, 1974 Volunteer, People’s Party Presidential Campaign, Spock/Hobson, 1972 Volunteer, Pete McCloskey for President, New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary, 1972 Volunteer, Peace and Freedom Presidential Campaign, Cleaver/Dowd, 1968

[edit] Eddie Dee

Eddie Dee is a reggeaton artist most known for his compilation album "Los 12 Discipulos" (Translated literally in Spanish as "The 12 Disciples"), released in early 2004. The album gathered many well-known reggaeton artists such as Daddy Yankee, Tego Calderón, Ivy Queen, Zion y Lennox, and Nicky Jam. In late 2005, Eddie Dee released a Special Edition CD/DVD which included 4 new tracks, 5 music videos (as well as other bonus features), and a preview of Eddie Dee's upcoming album, "El Diario de Eddie Avila", dated to be released in 2006. Eddie Dee collaborated with the 11 other reggaton artists on the track, "Quítate Tu Pa' Ponerme Yo" and on the "Salsa Remix" which is a bonus track on the Special Edition of the CD. Aside from this, Eddie Dee also featured La Secta (though they were not essentially a member of Los 12 Discipulos) on one of the new tracks and Daddy Yankee on another.


[edit] Members of "Los 12 Discipulos"


[edit] Sources

http://www.reggaetonline.net/eddie-dee_reggaeton

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