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[edit] Carlos Alberto Montaner
Carlos Alberto Montaner was born in Cuba in 1943 and has lived in Madrid since 1970. He has been a professor in institutions throughout Europe, Latin America and the United States. He writes a weekly column which is featured in many daily newspapers published in Latin America and the United States, including the ABC of Madrid, the Miami Herald and the electronic periodical "El Iberoamericano". He is the author of many books, several of which have been translated into various languages. In collaboration with Álvaro Vargas Llosa and Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza he wrote Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot. In 2001 he published Twisted Roots: Latin America's Living Past. In this book, which has several different editions and is used as suplementary text in several Latin American Universities, Montaner writes from a historical perspective about one of the most interesting aspects of Latin American culture: Why is Latin America the poorest and most instable region in the Western Hemisphere? His latest books about his native country have been Cuba: A Century of Painful Learning, published in 2002 and Cubans: the History of Cuba in one Lesson, published in 2006. Both are the result of a series of conferences which were given in the the University of Miami.
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NatsN 00:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] After The Order
After The Order is a Christian rock band from Kearney, Nebraska. The band formed in 1995 when lead vocalist/guitarist Luke Mills started a band known as Standing Stones with lead guitarist Kris Pfeil in 1995. In 2000, they decided to go professional with their career. Eventually, the band's name was changed from Standing Stones to After The Order. In 2002, along with drummer Josh McNeal and bass player Tim Wilson, After The Order released their first CD known as "Tear Stained World". The following year, in 2003, they released their second CD, "Broken Sky". In 2004, After The Order released their first EP, "Stop, Rock, N' Roll EP". They then began touring promotionally. In 2004, Kris Pfeil, Tim Wilson, and Josh McNeal all left After The Order, and it seemed like the band was about over. But Shane Moore, who had drummed for Standing Stones, started drumming once again with After The Order. Soon afterwards, bass player Tim Stratton joined the group, along with guitarist Amos Lanka. In 2005, After The Order released their fourth CD, "She Overturned A Stone". In summer of 2006, After The Order disbanded. However, former vocalist Luke Mills started a new band called "Pilot For Kite". All of After The Order's former band members are involved in musical projects as well. After The Order's 2 most recent CDs, "Stop, Rock, N' Roll EP" and "She Overturned A Stone" can both be purchased at itunes.com and their first 2 CDs, "Tear Stained World" and "Broken Sky" can be purchased at www.aftertheorder.com. After The Order's websites are www.aftertheorder.com, www.myspace.com/aftertheorder, or www.purevolume.com/aftertheorder.
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208.249.206.197 00:45, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DMARC
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72.1.182.173 00:50, 12 October 2006 (UTC) "DMARC" is industry slang for the point on the phone box/closet which the technician punches down the line in question.
For the purposes of DSL and T1 services, there is typically a plastic, rectangular box in the phone closet. On each of these boxes, the wires run from the lines which are fed into the building, and wrap around pegs which run in two to three columns, vertically up the box.
The point where the wire from the outside line connects to the inside wire is called the "demarcation point," or DMARC for short.
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69.122.231.97 00:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
RABBITS ARE AMAZING AND LIKE CHEESE
[edit] Maureen McGovern (album)
69.40.177.171 01:20, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nayana Rathmalgoda
The fourth, most important of the three wise men that is not universally known to the public, only to scholars. References to Nayana are made in the Bible, in the Old Testament. He is also recognised in the Qu'ran as a the hand of god, and in the church of scientology as the creator of the universe as we know it.
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http://www.biblegateway.com/ The Holy Bible http://www.bible.org/ 192.43.227.18 01:32, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mateusz Zebracki
Mateusz Zebracki born October 20, 1989, is a stereotypical wigger of Polish descent featured on the comedy sketch show MadTV. He speaks in *African American Vernacular English and imitates black mannerisms and hand gestures. He listens to hip hop radio stations Hot 97.1 and Power 105.1. He has two younger brothers, Sebastian, 12, and Kuba,2. He currently attends William E. Grady High School but will most likely drop out before the 2006-2007 school year ends.
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www.lemonparty.org 69.112.22.231 01:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Los Olvidados (Band)
Los Olvidados were a punk band from San Jose, California, that formed in 1980 and broke up in 1983. They were well-known among the scene for their dark and menacing, yet "professional" execution.
They were among a group of bands that formed in the early 80s out of San Jose (The Faction, Ribzy, etc.) in a scene where the culture of skateboarding was heavily intertwined with the culture of punk music. Los Olvidados were highly influential as pioneering leaders of the San Jose music scene in the early 80s.
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http://www.interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=83153&
Thehorrorbizzz 01:56, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NZDRA - New Zealand Drag Racing Association
About New Zealand Drag Racing Association
The New Zealand Drag Racing Association sanctions all legal drag racing activity in New Zealand. The NZDRA has full information on the New Zealand Drag Racing scene including a comprehensive list of NZDRA race dates, National Drag Racing Records, vehicle classification, safety regulations, driver profiles, sanctioned tracks and sponsorship opportunities
219.89.178.53 02:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Aztec (game)
Published by Datamost Inc. in 1982 for the Apple II home computer[1], Aztec is an adventure game set in the ruins of an ancient Aztec temple. The goal of the game is to guide the ‘Indy Jones’ type player character down through the multiple levels of the ruins to find an idol and return to the surface with it. The player character must search through piles of rubble, bones and crates, occasionally discovering various weapons (machete, pistol, bullets and dynamite) which can be used against enemies, in order to eventually find the idol. The value of the idol is continually decreasing, so the player is rewarded for speed in completing the game. The multiple enemies include hostile natives and dangerous animals such as snakes, wildcats and at the lower levels, tentacle monsters, which can all either be avoided or killed. Some levels also include potentially fatal traps such as rooms which fill with water, ceilings which decend or bombs which explode.
The game was notalble at its time for the wide range of movements and actions that could be achieved with the player character, such a weilding of weapons, attacks, running jumping, ascending and descending stairs, placing dynamite etc.
The game was also notable for the various gliches that would allow a player to occasionally walk through walls, fall through levels, and walk on water to escape traps.
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http://www.mobygames.com/game/aztec
125.175.142.228 02:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Helgrind
Helgrind is the home of the Raz'ac, located in Tiem.
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www.shurtugal.com Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
68.185.244.146 02:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Elise M. Boulding
Elise M. Boulding is a Quaker sociologist, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and author credited as a major contributor to creating the academic discipline of Peace and Conflict Studies. Her holistic, multidimensional approach to peace research sets her apart as an important scholar and activist in multiple fields. Her written works span several decades and range from discussion of family as a foundation for peace, to Quaker spirituality to reinventing the international “global culture.” Particularly of note is her emphasis on women and family in the peace process.
She is considered to be one of the most influential peace researchers and activists of the 20th century.
[edit] Biography
Elise Biorn-Hansen was born in 1920 in Oslo, Norway but moved to the United States while still an infant. She and her family were greatly affected by the outbreak of World War II (WWII) and the German invasion of Norway. Elise became strongly convicted by living through the WWII years that violence was not the answer to the world’s problems and that if even her peaceful homeland was at risk, violence was truly a systemic world concern. In her youth, she became active in anti-war activities and converted to a historic peace church, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It was at a Quaker meeting that she met her future husband, Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993), a highly respected English economist who would collaborate extensively with Elise on her peace work.
The Bouldings raised 5 children, with Elise serving as both homemaker and activist. Her writing on the foundations of peace would reflect her valuation of women, children and family in the peace process. She believed the family unit, and especially the role of women within that unit, was crucial to the global peace movement. After working at Iowa State College (where she received her Masters degree in Sociology) and at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she and Kenneth were invited to become Scholars in Residence at Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth, she chaired the Sociology Department and developed the nation’s first Peace Studies program there. She is credited with greatly advancing the academic study of peace through her work at Dartmouth.
Boulding has held many leadership positions in peace and social justice related groups throughout her life, from chairing the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) to creating the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) to work with the United Nations through UNESCO and the University of the United Nations. She has authored more than 14 books and received many lifetime achievement awards for her dedication to peace, including a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. She is now retired and lives in Needham, Massachusetts.
[edit] Roots of Peace Work: The Religious Society of Friends
Boulding’s Quaker faith played a vital role in her focus and development as a sociologist and peace activist. She found the Religious Society of Friends in young adulthood, but did not have a particularly religious upbringing. Though there was a church near her childhood home that had services in Norwegian (her family had emigrated from Norway), her family did not attend. Her father would read the story of Jesus from the Bible on Christmas Eve, and she still knows the Lord’s Prayer in Norwegian. Despite the lack of structured religion in her youth, she claims she felt the presence of God as a young child, and when she was 9 years old she began attending a local Protestant church on her own. She developed a relationship with the minister’s wife, who served as a spiritual mentor of sorts for the young Elise. In her teens, however, she recalls a longing to know “god” (she often used a lowercase g in referring to God in her personal writings) but felt that “no religion can quite fulfill [her] needs, so [she] will make [her] own religion.” She also was strongly influenced by her mother, who in Norway had been involved in peace parades and was a social worker for girls who worked in Norwegian factories. Elise shared her mother’s nostalgia for Norway, and always thought of her homeland as a “safe place” until her last year of college when the Nazis invaded it. It was then that she embraced pacifism, and began attending Quaker meetings that she had been introduced to by college friends. She decided that if “safe places” were to exist in the world, she would have to work for them, and this was her calling as a Friend.
Soon after becoming a Quaker, Elise met her husband Kenneth, who was also a Friend. He was an accomplished academic economist, international peace researcher, and poet when the couple met, and Elise names him as her strongest influence throughout her life. Together they moved to different universities and colleges where Kenneth taught and began a family. All the while, Elise was involved in different peace organizations, such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and also introduced peace studies to public schools. Out of these experiences, Elise focused on the networking of international religious and/or peace organizations and education. She wrote several pamphlets on the Quaker educational philosophy. The Religious Society of Friends does not separate the spiritual and secular worlds, and see God as being present in all people.
Elise viewed listening as the key to advancing world peace and nonviolence. She published numerous works and gave frequent talks on this and related subjects. It is what she strove for in the many Friends’ organizations and newsletters she contributed to or developed, among them the American Friends Service Committee and the Committee on Friends Responsibilities in Higher Education and Research.
[edit] The Theory of Peace as an Everyday Process
A major theoretical focus for Boulding was the idea of peace as a daily process. She challenged the idea of peace as a dull, static process and advocated for a concept she termed “peaceableness.” Her work emphasized “personal and interpersonal promotion of peace.” This peace theory involved shaping and reshaping understandings and behaviors to adapt to a constantly changing world and sustain well-being for all.
Boulding felt in order to accomplish peace, one must review the history of conflicts. No two human beings are the same and as a result conflict becomes an integral part of any social order. Struggles and conflicts over politics and religion have always been a part of society but the world’s expanding interdependence makes it necessary to promote openness and flexibility for the sake of coexistence. Peace culture welcomes differences, recognizing them as potential sources of conflict, but also as a starting point for progress. By reviewing the history of conflict, Boulding noticed that two groups in society were underrepresented who could address this new perspective on peace, especially beginning on the micro level of the family unit.
Women and children are vital and underappreciated players in the peace process. Boulding felt children “gentle” the human species. By this, she meant that adults respond to children generally with affection and compassion. She argued that it is crucial to long-term societal changes that children be involved. She felt that from the youngest of ages children should be socialized to approach conflicts and problems critically and non-confrontationally. Women, being mothers, have a great influence in setting the foundation for this peace culture by teaching their children.
“…We’re never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water – if very young children don’t begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories.” (1992)
[edit] The Underside of History: Women’s role in history and the Peace Process
Boulding’s book The Underside of History: A View of Women through Time, first published in 1976, is an exploration of the changing roles of women throughout history, from Paleolithic times to present. She attempts to understand what she describes as women’s “underlife” and men’s’ “overlife” in social roles. Boulding says that modern women’s roles are similar to that of inmates: the household imprisons them and expects them to be “on call” at all times to provide for their husbands and children. Women are, in a sense, stripped of their identity, autonomy and privacy and considered “under” their family and husbands. However, this needs not always be the case, Boulding asserts.
In hunting/gathering communities the female-male relationships were egalitarian. Men’s work was dedicated to hunting, providing about 20% of the food. Women, on the other hand, provided the other 80% of the food through gathering and capturing small game near their campsites. They did this while also being what Boulding calls the ‘breeder-feeders,’ producing and feeing the family. In those communities, women filled the triple role of ‘breeder-feeder-producers.’
As communities moved from hunting/gathering to agricultural communities, women’s and men’s roles further differentiated. Women stayed close to where the crops were planted while men continued to hunt. Men were now away hunting for days while women stayed in the same spot. The men’s mobility allowed them to acquire a body of knowledge about far off places and people that the women lacked. Men also started trading with other communities. As the communities turned to trading, towns women’s work was devalued as men were able to supply their produce to other villages and gain otherwise unavailable goods in return. Trade became economic premium.
Trading led to urbanization. Men moved to jobs in cities, while women stayed at home with the family. This created a differentiation between women’s and men’s spaces: Women’s space was private (dedans), men’s was public (dehors). When women eventually entered the wage market, they did so with unequal wages because their role in society had been devalued on the family level to the private sphere.
Historically there were alternatives to the familial roles for women. These were celibacy (monasticism), beguinage (female urban secular communes), hermitesses (isolated single women as sages/healers) and vagabonds. However, during the 1500s and 1600s these roles disappeared because they were often seen as threats to a male dominated society (as in the case of hermitesses who were murdered when accused of witchcraft).
The Renaissance and Enlightenment furthered male domination through discoveries about the nature of man and men’s organizations, creating individualism and less concentration of the family.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries women worked to gain power and move from the dedans to the dehors. Women started to recognize the fictions of male guardianship and many rebelled. Boulding considers the foundation for peace to be empowering women to deconstruct a history of patriarchy and devaluation and reconstruct truly equality, appreciating certain differences, between the sexes.
[edit] The Role of Family in the Peace Process
Boulding claimed that families are the “practice ground for making history.” Boulding emphasizes family as the environment that grounds individuals for all their future endeavors. As a family sociologist, Boulding believed in the inherent worth of every child. This belief stems from her devotion to Quakerism. (See below) From her own experience as a mother, as well as the knowledge she acquired through research, Boulding developed an ideology that places importance on the influence children have on the greater society. She believed that children would be co-creators of a reformed visionary future if adults would accept their influence. Boulding believed that within the dynamics of a family parents must take their children seriously, listen and converse whole-heartedly, and finally fully accept their ability to influence parents own social imagination
Boulding has a collection of writings, but none represent her views on the importance of family quite as well as One Small Plot of Heaven: Reflections on Family Life by a Quaker Sociologist. This writing of hers represents in a most complete sense, her thoughts on families, parenting and the important relationship that exists between the family, God and the individual’s Quaker worship. She also emphasizes the importance of the “personhood of children”, the acknowledgment of time in solitude, and the need for interactions across age gaps
Boulding suggests that networking and partnerships built between men, women and children are what will cultivate the peace culture. “ We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.”
[edit] Building a Global Civic Culture
Boulding offers Building a Global Civic Culture: Education for an Interdependent as a holistic first step towards solving international conflicts. She envisions a “global civic culture” as not simply made of nation states but as a global community of human beings. The book enforces the idea of thinking globally on a microcosmic level to facilitate solving problems in a peaceful international order. Boulding believed that a civic world order could become a reality, while acknowledging the strife that exists now. “Building a Global Civic Culture” is geared toward addressing the world’s problems and offering ideas for solutions.
To create peace, Boulding believes that we must all become teachers and develop new learning communities. Everyone, old and young, will teach. Age groups will teach each other from their respective generations. How we perceive events unique to our generation shapes the lens through which we each see later events. We need to know what the world looks like to young and old alike. Boulding believes all will be teachers.
In order to do this, we must learn to think outside of the box. Humans are intuitive, creative animals with cognitive-analytic reasoning abilities. We as human animals can grasp complex wholes from partial sets of facts. Boulding states that for most of us, education has been tied to the maxim “stick to the facts, no need for imaginative thinking.” We are taught in school that imagination and intuition are virtues of the daydreamer, not the true student. To the contrary, Boulding states we need to harness both intuition and imagination to solve world crises. Ultimately this book encourages us to become both teachers and problem solvers and includes exercises to lead the way.
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Boulding, Elise. Building a Global Civic Culture: Education for an Interdependent World. New York, New York: Teachers College Press,1988.
Boulding, Elise. One Small Plot of Heaven: Reflections on Family Life by a Quaker Sociologist. Philadelphia, Pendle Hill Press, 1989.
Boulding, Elise. The Underside of History: A View of Women through Time. New York: Halsted, 1976.
“Concentrating on Essence” An Interview with Elise Boulding, by Alan AtKisson. What Is Enough? (IC#26)Summer 1990, Page 52 1990, 1997 by Context Institute
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC26/Boulding.htm
“Elise Boulding in Brief” www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/confres/dislearn/eboulding.htm
Morrison, Mary-Lee. “Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace” McFarland and Company 2005
University of Colorado, “Guide to the Elise M. Boulding Collection” http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/guides/eboulding.pdf#search=%22Boulding%20Elise%20M.%22
75.177.11.118 03:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tyler Jeter
American born actor. Born in Livingston, New Jersey in 1994. his first appearance ever is guest appearance in the movie Mark 11:23 based upon the popular 2006 book.
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Book Mark 11:23
Terrance'sbro 04:02, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dan Riley
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the real daniel riley by hayden christiansen
61.69.12.18 04:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bomberphone
The concept of the Bomberphone was first postulated by Alexei Vehilovski in his treatise 'On the depths of Man.' His postulation concerned the impossibility of a Zodiac based on a mythology and ideology that only had a concept of a northern hemisphere. With the colonisation of the south, coupled with the advance in telescopics allowing us to see, even in familiar northern skies, new and unknown stars, he proposed that a more rigid system needed to be instilled.
Working in 1953 from sanctuary in Launceston, Tasmania, his fascination with the Zodiac led him to famously state: 'I see no reason why man, at his most base level, should not be easily manipulated by the gravitational effect of even the furthest stars. At the moment of conception, at cellular level, even the faintest of cosmological pressures can cause what will inevitably lead to diverse differences in the life of the creature. Given this the zodiac has the potential for validity over the human race if only the rigmarole of old systems and habits could be thrown off and the scientific advances of our age embraced.'
To this end he decreed a new star sign, intended as a building block for the new Zodiac. However, an unfortunate death in September 1954, his car swerving off the road into a gully, meant the only new sign he formed was that of Bomberphone. Based on his own birth date of January 20, Bomberphone was to fill a gap just three days long, from the 19th-21st January and was represented by a pentagle of stars in the Osirus system. Bomberphone's were generally creative, forceful, easy to please but quick to anger, liable to make plans they never intended to keep, make promises they couldn't fulfil and indulge in large scale self delusion.
The cathartic nature of the Bomberphone's traits is in keeping with Vehilovski's reputation as a man hard on others but even harder on himself. His wife, having left him shortly after their arrival in Launceston, said prior to his funeral (attrib): 'As a husband he was interminable, as man little better. But his heart was good and it seems at least he had the self-knowledge most fools so severely lack.' The Bomberphone is a troglodyte of a concept, a strange fossil from the mind of man who it seemed really did make promises he couldn't fulfil. The full Vehilovskian Zodiac was never to be.
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On the Depths of Man, published Hacker & Cross, 1951 'I see no reason why man...' quoted from The Lauceston Chronicler, 1953
203.0.35.33 04:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Drew Willson
In his brief two-year reign as a local rock superstar, Drew Willson expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Willson was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument, often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and roaring distortion. His frequent hurricane blasts of noise and dazzling showmanship --he could and would often play behind his back-- has sometimes obscured his considerable gifts as a songwriter, musical mastermind, and godfather of all that is innovative rock music.
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67.141.64.132 05:26, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Aicelle
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[edit] Aicelle Santos
Aicelle Santos or Aicelle Anne Santos, the eldest daughter of Ramon ‘Ongie’ and Leonila ‘Onnie’ Santos was born on February 24, 1985 at Quezon City. She has a sister named Anelle and two brothers named Aaron and Abraham David.
Aicelle studied at St. Scholastica’s College and transferred to St. Theresa’s College in grade school where she also stayed all throughout High School. She is now taking up Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila.
Aicelle's favorite colors are yellow, orange and blue. She has a very comfortable clothing style - a pair of jeans and sneakers is perfect for her. She loves to eat pasta and loves watching the movie Mulan. Another favorite of her is Ariel, the Little Mermaid. The powerful and enchanting voice of this cartoon character insired Aicelle when she was jist 7 years old.
Aicelle admires singers like Aretha Franklin, Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keys and Jaya. Her vocal talent had been formed under the influence of these artists which gave her an original fusion of styles of soul, pop, R&B and jazz.
The singer got her creative drive after appearing in an ad for ice cream when she was a teenager. Aicelle started her stage life with the “Dream Sequence” group. She joined different contests and became one of the contestants of Star in a Million in ABS-CBN. She joined Pinoy Pop Superstar in GMA and lost on her first try. Singing ALL THE MAN THAT I NEED on her second try in PPS, Aicelle was declared as the winner for the week and she continued winning for eight weeks becoming the FIRST UNDEFEATED SUPERSTAR of the search. She became the 1st Runner of Pinoy Pop Superstar Year 2. Since then she was become a regular figure in different GMA Network shows especially “SOP” where she is semi-regular.
This talented performer from GMAAC’s pool of artist emerged victorious at the 2006 Astana Music Festival held in Astana, Kazakhstan. She won the Best Performance of Own Country Song, one of the two major awards given in the competition. She bested 14 other countries after her soulful performance of the song “Ba’t Di Subukan (If We Just Hold On)” with music by Vehnee and Doris Saturno.
After, the 2006 Astana Music Festival, Aicelle hopes to conquer more international singing competitions if given the chance. If ever, she would be proud to represent Philippines too in next year’s WCOPA. She wants to have a recording album and be known as a successful recording artist who has a hit song played on the radio. She further dreams of having her own concert.
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http://www.aicelleonline.com/news http://www.aicellesantosonline.com/index.php?page=biography http://www.igma.tv/article.php?articleid=7493 http://services.inq7.net/print/print.php?article_id=24058 Manila Bulletin Entertainment Page
203.177.185.132 08:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] David Baxby
David Baxby is the Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Management Asia Pacific[2].
Formerly a resident of Sydney he, his wife Selina, and 3 daughters, Imogen, Zara and Amelia recently relocated to Shanghai, China.
At 32 he is the youngest person on the BRW Expatriates under 45 list [3].
[edit] Education
Baxby was schooled at John Paul College in Brisbane, and at Bond University on the Gold Coast.
Baxby graduated from Bond University in 1991 with Bachelor Degrees in Law and Commerce[2].
[edit] Career
In 1995 Baxby joined Goldman Sachs where he became an advisor to the Vrigin Group. In 2002 he was appointed Co-Head of Goldman Sachs Consumer and Industrials Group where he oversaw the public float of the budget airline, Virgin Blue[2].
[edit] Virgin Management Asia Pacific
In 2004 Baxby was appointed CEO of Virgin Management Asia Pacific.
In March 2006 Baxby stepped in as interim Chief Executive of Vrgin Money when the then managing Director Rohan Gamble Stood down[4].
Baxby has recently relocated to Shanghai to oversee Virgin's operations in China, with some commentators suggesting that Richard Branson now considers Baxby more highly that former Australia "golden boy", Virgin boss Brett Godfrey[5].
[edit] Charity Work
Baxby has twice ridden in the Starlight Children's Foundation Tour De Kids. Baxby recently said of the tour and the Foundation "The Tour is a great catalyst for generating support for the Starlight Children’s Foundation from the community. I am an enthusiastic supporter of Starlight due to the fact that they receive no government funding and are transparently accountable for each dollar they raise and where it is spent. You only have to visit the children’s wards of any hospital in Australia to see the results of their great work"[6].
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210.49.73.33 08:13, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Forward Defence
Forward Defence was an Australian hardcore band originating from Canberra in 1995. The band were possibly the most successful in the genre from Canberra, due to the aggresive, working class rage they personified. There were allegations of Nazi elements in the band that were never proven and most likely fabricated. The band toured extensively, particularly in the NSW region and supported some of the biggest American hardcore acts, such as Sick of it All, Agnostic Front and the DropKick Murphy's. The band produced many recordings which were eventually compiled onto their discography Rest in Violence. The band split in 1998.
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http://www.snapshotrecords.net/snapshotreleases.htm
203.62.232.91 08:21, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Toilet Rave
Toilet raving has recently become a success with partying teenagers. This is the art of taking a stereo into a toilet and “raving”. This is usually done when the party is found to be mediocre or non enjoyable.
The fun of this act comes from the fact the “ravers” are committing a highly unusual act in a closed space.
[edit] Decimal floating point
Abbrevation: DFP
Data format used especially for computing financial transactions, unlike the common binary Floating_point format.
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193.197.16.3 10:22, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] India-Pakistan Military Balance
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[edit] Adam Sims
Adam Sims is a footballer who currently plays for Yate Town F.C. Adam was born in Australia and he used to be with Southampton FC and Mangotsfield. He joined Yate in 2004. He also went on TV game show Deal or No Deal (UK) and won £9,000 but could have won £20,000. Adam plays midfield for Yate Town and showed a team picture when he went on Deal or No Deal.
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Last 10 minutes of Adam's game.
[edit] Haris Alexiou
[edit] General Informations
Haris Alexiou is probably the biggest singer in Greece with a carreer of over thirty years in tha music industry. She is also a composer and writter and have her own record company called ESTIA. She is one of the best selling singers in Greece and probably the most popular and favourable from the Greek audience. She have sung and work on a different kind of music genres such as: pop, rock, ethnic, laiko(a mixed of Greek enthic and pop music), jazz, enthexno(art greek music). She have been worked with the most important Greek musicians, singers and loads of international star. Her stardom is so big in Greece that she have been recognised as "Haroula of all the Greeks". She have also won loads of Greeks and International awards and she is one of the very few recognisable Greeks singers around the world.
[edit] Discography
Personal Albums:
2006 - Vissino kai Neratzi 2004 - Anthologio 2003 - Os tin akri tou ouranou sou Paraxeno fos Phythiroi To paixnidi tis agapis Di efxon Odos nefelis 88 Ei Krataei hronia auti i kolonia I agapi einai zali
[edit] Jamie Maunder
Born James Derek Maunder on the 7th of January 1990. He is the greatest man alive!
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212.219.91.241 13:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
http://www.greendown.swindon.sch.uk/
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http://www.greendown.swindon.sch.uk/
84.13.42.69 13:51, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] CBR600f4
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85.130.22.10 14:07, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Theatral activities of POW within the Oflag VII-B
According to primary historical sources, within the Oflag VII-B at EICHSTATT in Bavaria, Belgian officers who were POW were organizing theatral representations played by the POW themselves. This practice seems to be a way to kill time in this period of intense stress and isolation witnessed by prisonners in a camp in Germany during WWII. It is interesting to note that theatre plays had a large success among Belgian officers of the Oflag VII-B at EICHSTATT, and plays were performed regularly. According to historical sources from a journal written by a POW of this camp (Raymond Troye, see below), the plays were performed on a weekly basis in the church of the camp. At this occasion, the church of the Oflag VII-B was revamped into a theatre with a purposely built stage. Diverse topics were chosen by the officers themselves in charge of the theatre, they varied from classics to Vaudeville.
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Meurtre dans un Oflag, Raymond Troye, Editions LABOR, 2006; http://oflag.skynetblogs.be
85.126.148.226 14:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] George M. Davison
George M. Davison was born in Oakmont PA. and later attended [[Allegheny College]. George in his early years was an professional paintball player. He played for the highly touted "All-Americans" whom won the World Cup, European Cup and every other major cup event held in the world.
[edit] Professional Life
George later founded Davison Design & Development after falling to succeed with his own invention idea. His company had grown to over 250 employees and he has won multiple IDSA IDEA Awards for product development.
George also holds 4 pantents for: Bikeboard, Twister Caps, Swiss Army Knife, and Goggleflauge. He also has many patents that are pending.
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http://www.georgemdavison.com/about/bio.html http://www.davisoninternational.com/story/gm_davison.php
63.118.84.123 14:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
This is a picture of my friend Darren Cardin. Many of you will be thinking "who is that?" "why is he their?" but who cares what you think because this article is about by friend who knows maybe a liitle too much about computers. you may think you know Darren but you would be mistaken as i have seen him looking at men's shorts on his workstation at college instead of doing his work! mysterious i hear you cry thats because he is weird. im sure my other mates would be looking at this article as it is just that amazing. but i would like to take the chance to say "hello". ill be writing another article very soon *x-files music*
from Joe
[edit] Skylar Nosker
Skylar Nosker was born in Salina, KS on Jan. 1, 1989. Some of his noticable achievements are: Nobel Prize winner. World Series MVP. President of the United States for 20 years, the most by any president. 25-time Grammy Winner. First person to step foot on Mars. Nosker was voted by the world as the Greatest Person to EVER step on the face of the Earth. More people worship Nosker than God.
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My Brain
208.64.13.3 15:15, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
| Kill 2 DresS | |
|---|---|
| Gründung: | 2005 |
| Auflösung: | |
| Genre: | Indie-Pop |
| Gründungsmitglieder | |
| Gesang: | Roy Kabel |
| Bass: | Udo Gott |
| Gitarre: | Roy Kabel |
| Schlagzeug: | Kevin Tennis |
Kill 2 Dress ist eine Berliner Rockgruppe, die seit 2005 mit Indie-orientiertem Sound einigen Erfolg in Deutschland hat.
[edit] Bandgeschichte
Die Gruppe ging aus einer Band namens Big Jim hervor, die sich in den 90er Jahren in Berlin gründete und unter diesem Namen zwei Demo-Cds im Eigenvertrieb veröffentlichte. 2005 brachten Kill 2 Dress ihr Debutalbum "Es riecht nach Aufbruch" heraus, welches bei phonector im Vertrieb ist.
[edit] Diskografie
- 2005 Es riecht nach Aufbruch (phonector)
[edit] Trivia
- kiLL 2 dResS proben gerade in einem Studio in Berlin, Friedrichshain und arbeiten an ihrem neuen Album.
[edit] Weblinks
Kategorie:Popband Kategorie:Deutsche Band
[edit] Wall Street West
Wall Street West is $2.5 billion business center near East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania scheduled for completion in 2008. The purpose of Wall Street West is to serve as backup center for New York City firms in the event of another terrorist attack. The center is located in a different watershed and power grid than New York City and will also have a direct data connection to New York City through fiber optics. Wall Street West could also help to revive the Lackawanna Cutoff commuter rail line between the Poconos and New York City.
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http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=5520407&nav=5juw
72.79.179.49 15:30, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] flaws in concrete structures
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61.2.20.199 15:31, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] AUPAC
AUPAC(APICS Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Conference) is a yearly conference held in atlantic canada, it's held in a different host university every year. It gives undergraduates in atlantic canada the opportunity to showcase their research, meet people from other universities studying in the same field, see interesting guest speakers and learn about various opportunities in graduate studies.
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http://apics.dal.ca/index2.html http://www.physics.mun.ca/~aupac/index.htm 134.153.142.51 15:48, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
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193.1.172.166 16:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] SOFAPUNCH
After the 90s, third-wave ska has become a joke among musicians. On the head of a new movement SOFAPUNCH is being haled as the fourth-wave of ska. Seperating itself from the traditional reggae roots, there is a more contemporary and progressive view to the music. Formed in the winter of 2005, SOFAPUNCH is now gaining notoriaty for their blend of modern rock and horns. Many people associate them with bands such as Chicago but in the same breath mention My Chemical Romance or Panic at the Disco!. Most notably is SOFAPUNCH's addition of a dance to punk and ska.
9 piece from Oxford Oh.
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http://www.sofapunch.com
http://www.myspace.com/sofapunchiscool
http://www.citybeat.com/2006-06-07/musicspillit.shtml
134.53.120.1 16:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jacinta Howard
Jacinta Howard has always had a passion for the written word. Reared primarily in Denver, CO, she discovered the pen in the first grade, when she wrote a book about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for a class assignment. Impressed with her work, her teacher picked the book to be featured on a special segment honoring MLK Jr. that aired on the local evening news and the book was placed on display in the public library throughout Black History Month. Quiet and introspective, Howard often found solace by writing short stories as a child. In high school she joined the school yearbook and served as the copy editor for two years. Meanwhile, she also contributed rousing socio-political editorials to the campus paper. One article about local high schools’ failure to incorporate African-American history into regular courses incited a positive response from the district school board—they vowed to change the curriculum. She moved to Atlanta in 1997 to pursue a degree in Mass Media Arts from Clark Atlanta University (CAU) and served as a general assignment reporter and columnist on the campus paper, the Panther, for two years, tightening her skills as a writer and reporter and ruffling the feathers of conservative students and teachers with her controversial social and political columns. In the summer of 2000 she accepted an internship at the Asheville Citizen-Times in Asheville, NC where she quickly distinguished herself as a solid reporter and had several of her bylines picked up by the Associated Press. After graduating with honors from CAU in 2001, she took a job as a staff writer at Rolling Out a national alternative weekly paper. She soon was elevated to senior staff writer, a position that found her traveling across the country and interviewing mega stars like Quincy Jones, Angela Bassett and Queen Latifah and national and local business people in diverse industries. She also sharpened her photography skills while there, shooting numerous interview subjects for the publication. However, her passion was covering Hip Hop culture and politics and she soon began freelancing for a number of entertainment and rap publications writing cover and feature stories on everyone from Scarface and Jadakiss to Ja Rule and Common. She also began writing artist bios, press releases, and conducting photo shoots for major labels like Atlantic Records and Aftermath Records as well as independents like 8 Ways Entertainment (owned by platinum rapper, Eightball). In addition, she began editing copy for various clients, including co-editing the non-fiction book, They Killed Her by Nonnie Hawkins who was featured on Good Morning America. In 2004 she accepted a position as the news editor at Upscale magazine, a national lifestyle publication that covers everything from fine arts and travel to finance and entertainment. While there she was responsible for writing, editing and conceptualizing content as well as managing a group of contributing and freelance writers and forging and maintaining working relationships with public relations professionals throughout the country.
She left Upscale in early 2006 and continues to freelance for numerous publications including the Source, XXL, RIME, GRIP and Ozone. Currently she’s the managing editor for the informative lifestyle magazine, CONNECT Atlanta, which is published quarterly. She also provides public relations services to various clients throughout the country. Recently, she completed her first novel, which is slated for release in early 2007.
66.56.32.159 16:20, 12 October 2006 (UTC) ←
[edit] Jason Smith - Fontsmith
Jason Smith is Creative Director and founder of Fontsmith, the London based type design foundry best known for its creation of bespoke fonts for corporate identity.
Jason hails from Lisburn and has created typography for clients such as Channel 4, The Post Office, ITV and Powergen.
Established in 1999, Fontsmith has steadily gained a reputation for producing work which Jason describes as "Very human and full of character", bringing style and personality to the business of crafting 'typographic identity'.
The success and enjoyment Jason derived from early clients like Allied Irish Bank and the Belgian energy giant Tractebel convinced him it was time to focus entirely on type design. Fontsmith was conceived with a modest dream of "One or two big jobs per year", but as the client list testifies "Things have snowballed since then".
Jason's goal has always been to create fonts for the brands that make up the vocabulary of our daily lives.
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http://northernireland.ideasfactory.com/belfastmasterclass/graphicsindex.htm http://www.atypi.org/10_Visitors/30_type_on_the_web/ http://www.communityni.org/index.cfm/section/events/key/795EE149-1143-D8AC-6BF7851AB29FD460 http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubmedia/253488307/ http://www.fontsmith.com/news.php
86.140.6.17 16:22, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tears on My Pillow (Johnny Tillotson album)
Infobox Album | Name = Tears on My Pillow | Type = Album | Artist = Johnny Tillotson | Released = 1969 | Genre = Pop | Label = Amos | Last album = Here I Am (1967) | This album = Tears on My Pillow
(1969) | Next album = Johnny Tillotson
(1972) |
Tears on My Pillow was Johnny Tillotson's first album in two years, released by Amos Records.
The title track, a cover of Little Anthony & the Imperials' 1958 doo-wop hit, was released as a single the same year of the album's release; neither the single nor the album charted. The album is mainly a cover album, including Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again," King & Goffin's "Hey Girl," Roy Orbison's "Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)," and Buddy Holly's "Raining in My Heart."
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- My Girl
- Joy to the World
- Hey Girl
- Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)
[edit] Side two
- Tears on My Pillow
- Remember When
- We've Got to Get Ourselves Together
- Raining in My Heart
- What Am I Living For
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69.40.177.171 16:31, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Maravilla Music Nayo
Nayo A Raggeton Artsit --> Nayo real name Naiott Berrios, is a raggetonero, from a group called maravilla music, he is the best on there. He is dedicated to his music and he likes to write music too. In he is workinf on his first CD called Rompiendo La frecuencia, that had various artist on the CD, like Javi-D, J.M., BJ, Gordo, and lots more, he still has not made it big but he has real good music. I wish the best for him!....m a #1fan!!''''''''''
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www.myspace.com/naiott www.myspace.com/elnayo www.myspace.com/maravillamusic www.myspace.com/javierdang 63.238.223.66 17:03, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Frank Fenter, co-founder of Capricorn Records
Frank Fenter was born on February 25, 1936 in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved to London , England in 1958, initially determined to become an actor. Fenter's acting career included securing a feature role in the BBC cult classic, "The Big Pull" and also having produced, directed and co-written the first Rock movie in South Africa, called "Africa Shakes."
While doing part time acting in the late 1950's early 1960's, Fenter also booked bands, including The Rolling Stones, Animals and Manfred Mann long before they had recording contracts. Fenter got his big break in the music industry in 1963 when he joined Chapell Music Publishing co., to head Liberty-Imperial Record Publishing and later ARC/Chess Music, which included songs by such artists as Chuck Berry.
In 1966, Frank Fenter was chosen by Atlantic Records Nesuhi Ertegun to head Atlantic Records in the United Kingdom. Within six months, he was at Atlantic's helm for all of Europe as Managing Director. During his tenure at Atlantic Records, Fenter was involved in the discovery and promotion/marketing of Yes, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin and Vinegar Joe.
Fenter created an explosion in Europe when he brought the "Hit the Road Stax" tour to Europe in 1967 and, with Franks direction, Stax Records, a subsidiary label of Atlantic Records, experienced a sales jump from 500,000 to 2.7 million units the year of the tour with seven of the eleven albums recorded live on the Stax tour received gold album certifications.
In 1969, Fenter co-founded Capricorn Records with a distribution deal from Ahmet Ertegun, Chairman of Atlantic Records. Frank Fenter became Executive Vice President and ran all departments of the label.
During most of the 1970s', Capricorn Records was the most successful privately held label in America, having created the genre of Southern Rock, signing such bands as The Allman Brothers, The Marshall Tucker Band, Elvin Bishop, Wet Willie, Sea Level, Dixie Dregs, Billy Thorpe, Dobie Gray and Captain Beyond.
Frank Fenter died on July 21, 1983, in Macon, GA, from a sudden heart attack.
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Southern Rockers, Billboard Books. Midnight Riders, Little, Brown Publishers. Between a Rock and a Home, Mercer Press. Fortune Magazine, September, 1975. Hittin the Note, August issue. Associated Press, April 27, 2006. New York Times, April 27, 2006.
207.237.19.67 17:07, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Arthur Blades --> I like Boys
I am Arthur from Lockeport, and I like boys
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Lockeport High School
142.227.214.1 17:08, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rick Hader
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24.23.202.111 17:19, 12 October 2006 (UTC) Rick Hader a.k.a. Myron Noodleman, The Clown Prince of Baseball was a high school math teacher with a penchant for dressing as a "nerd" and entering at Halloween costume contests around the Midwest. Hader successfully won several such contests - and Myron Noodleman was born.
He was recently deemed the official Clown Prince of Baseball, taking over the reigns for the late, and hugely popular, Max Patkin.
[edit] Association Executives of North Carolina
Established in 1955, Association Executives of North Carolina (AENC) is committed to providing high quality professional development and networking opportunities to help you develop your fullest potential and foster the recognition and respect of the association management profession. Members include CEOs and staff of associations across North Carolina, as well as representatives from the association service and hospitality industries. Vision: To be the premier resource in North Carolina for the profession of association management. Mission: AENC will provide networking, professional development, and relevant information to promote and advance the profession of Association Management. Benefits Include: Networking Opportunities CEO/Association Management Forums Trade Show Golf Outing Silent Auction Professional Development Seminars and Workshops Committee Involvement Professional Designations/CAE Study Groups Lending Library Publications AENC Resource Guide/ Member Directory Success by Association, AENC Newsletter E-News Updates Awards Scholarships Peer Support Service Online Career Headquarters Charlotte Chapter
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http://www.aencnet.org/index.htm
65.13.221.72 17:25, 12 October 2006 (UTC) --65.13.221.72 17:25, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed Projects page
I would like a link to bring up the proposed project page so users can see the many interesting suggestions
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Derek Hagerty
Stma35 18:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The T.A. Boyz
The T.A. Boys were created as a rebellion against the facist powers of Bryan High School. Its members include G-Unit, the Three Nathans, and Virgil. They created this program to aid students in the battle against robotics classes around the world. They currently attend Bryan High School and continually rebel against the Machine.
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http://www.bryanisd.org/
http://mail.bryanisd.com/~jcordes 165.95.194.15 18:23, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ralph J. Bunche Library
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The Ralph J. Bunche Library of the U.S. Department of State is the oldest Federal Government library. It was founded by the first Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson in 1789. It was dedicated to and renamed the Ralph J. Bunche Library on May 5, 1997. The Library has a large and important collection of unclassified and published information sources on foreign relations.
Foreign Relations is defined broadly to include books about foreign countries; world history, especially since the American Revolution; international organizations, such as the United States and the Organization of American States; wars and international conflicts, particularly those involving the United States; espionage: treaties, treaty-making, and legal agreements between nations; American history especially as it relates to the Department of State and the conduct of diplomacy; trade relationships around the world; foreign assistance and development; information on the American government and foreign governments.
The Ralph J. Bunche Library is a Federal Depository Library. The mission of the Library is to support the research needs of personnel of the Department of State. The Library is not open to the public and does not lend books directly to members of the public. The Library will lend books, at its discretion, to other libraries. Members of the public must contact a library through which they may borrow books from the Ralph J. Bunche Library. Magazines, newspapers, and microfilm may not be borrowed from the Ralph J. Bunche Library. Libraries may request books through interlibrary loan at:
phone: 202-647-1099 fax: 202-647-2971 e-mail: library@state.gov mail: Ralph J. Bunche Library U.S. Department of State A/ISS/IPS/LIBR, Room 3239 2201 C St. NW Washington, DC 20520-2442
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http://www.state.gov/m/a/ls/ Ralph J. Bunche Library
206.57.121.14 19:07, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] James Magee
Jimmy Magee has had many notable achievements. Some of his noted accomplishments, is weirding his friends. He plays guitar. And has a jew fro. He rocks, most exquisitely. He is so hard core its not even funny. Its frightening. If you would like to contact Jimmy, too bad. He is too godly for you to talk to him
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www.myspace.com/james_joeseph_magee
209.204.112.73 19:13, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Arsenal FC Reserves/Youth Team
This is the list of Arsenal reserves players. [7]
For the Arsenal senior squad see Arsenal FC
Goalkeeper Vito Mannone (on loan to Barnsley FC)
Goalkeeper Lee Butcher
Goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny
Defender Gavin Hoyte
Defender Paul Rodgers
Defender Carl Parisio
Defender Abu Ogogo
Midfielder Mark Randall
Midfielder Francisco 'Fran' Merida
Midfielder Peggy Lokando
Midfielder Kieran Gibbs
Midfielder James Dunne
Attacking Midfielder Vincent van den Berg
Striker Shane Tracy
Striker Marc Elston
Striker Rene Steer
Striker Rui Fonte
[edit] David Kiddoo
David Kiddoo is a candidate in the 2006 election for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in District 2, which consists of the northwest portion of the city. District 2 includes such neighborhoods as Pacific Heights, the Marina, Cow Hollow, the Presidio, and Laurel Heights. Kiddoo was endorsed by the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
[edit] Background
Kiddoo works as a project manager for EAH, a nonprofit company that develops and manages affordable housing. Before taking the position with EAH, he worked for the Alameda County Department of Housing and Community Development. He has also worked as a journalist, small business manager and English teacher in the People’s Republic of China.
Kiddoo received a bachelor's degree from Grinnell College in Iowa and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina, with a dual concentration in Housing Policy and Economic Development.
[edit] Political Career
Kiddoo was urged to run for the Board of Supervisors by the San Francisco chapter of the League of Pissed Off Voters, of which he is a member. The League of Pissed Off Voters, formally known as the League of Young Voters, is a national organization focused on engaging young people in the political process.
Kiddoo and the League believed that they're progressive views were not being represented by the incumbent, Michela Alioto-Pier, or her one challenger on the ballot, Vilma Guito-Peoro. Because David began his campaign after the official filing deadline, he is running as a write-in candidate.
As a housing developer, Kiddoo believes housing affordability is the most critical issue facing San Francisco. He supports San Francisco's inclusionary housing requirements, which require developers to either offer units at below-market rates for low-income buyers. Kiddoo wants to protect rental housing in San Francisco through a combination of enforcing current tenant protections, amending the Ellis Act, and exploring reforms to rent control.
His other citywide priorities are addressing homelessness in San Francisco and protecting the environment by promoting alternative energy sources and reducing dependence on oil.
Kiddoo's top priorities for the District 2 neighborhoods are protecting local businesses, improving public transportation, and alleviating traffic.
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- Dave Kiddoo's campaign webpage
- The San Francisco Bay Guardian's Endorsement of Dave Kiddoo
- The San Francisco League of Pissed Off Voters
- Government Information on San Francisco's District 2
JerDewitt 19:49, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Exploded Guts
Exploded Guts is a two-man cybergrind/noisecore group that was one of the first bands to fuse breakcore, glitchcore, and IDM music with heavy goregrind. Just recently, Exploded Guts has made the decision to begin playing live shows and release CDs instead of having their music only available for download online.
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http://www.myspace.com/explodedguts http://www.soundclick.com/explodedguts
206.176.109.35 19:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Championship (TV series)
The Championship, a replacement football programme for The Premiership (TV series) which is on Sunday on ITV1. After the Premiership highlights went off ITV, the Championship came in as a replacement. The theme music (U2's Beautiful Day), was kept.
The programme is presented by Matt Smith and the pundits are Robbie Earle, Andy Townsend and Ally McCoist. The reporters are Gabriel Clarke, Dave Beckett, Richard Henwood, Tony Jones (football reporter), and Trevor Harris. Jones and Harris also commentate on matches. Very occassionally Mick Conway and Roger Tames have done reports on the programme.
As from the 2005-2006 season, the programme started covering action from Football League 1 and Football League 2 showing all the goals. On some half-hour editions no action from either division has been broadcast. Originally, key moments from Football League 1 and Football League 2 were shown.
In the first show, the first match shown was a match between Coventry City FC and Sunderland AFC which Coventry won 2-0. Peter Brackley (from Pro Evolution Soccer) commentated.
Sources:
http://www.itv-football.co.uk/Championship_News/0,17474,9443,00.html The Championship ITV site
[edit] Tyler Trussell
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65.78.177.121 20:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Richard DeSorgher
Richard DeSorhger is a high school history teacher and historian for the town of Medfield, Massachusetts. DeSorgher has lived in Medfield for his whole life. He currently teaches AP US History for 11th grade students. He has written a book on Medfield entitled
[edit] Jon MacLellan
Jon MacLellan an English computer game level designer. He is best known for his time while working in England for Epic Games' sales and technical support office where he was an active part of the game communities surrounding the game studio's games Jazz Jackrabbit 2, and Unreal. He is also creditted as a level designer for the titles Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Jazz Jackrabbit 2: The Secret Files, and Jazz Jackrabbit 2: Holiday Hare '98.
When Epic Games decided to shift it's focus away from the shareware model and concentrate solely on game design, Jon moved to the United States and for a time worked with MPath Interactive's Xtreme Network and GameSpy Industries on some of their high profile gaming news websites.
Jon currently resides with his family in Sacramento, CA.
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http://www.jazz2online.com/J2Ov2/wiki/index.php?Jon+MacLellan http://www.mobygames.com/game/jazz-jackrabbit-2-the-secret-files/release-info http://www.tachyonlabs.com/sam/jjhq/english/Credits.html http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/jazz-jackrabbit-2-the-secret-files http://faqs.ign.com/articles/722/722038p1.html http://jazz2city.milesba.com/single.htm http://www.loricentral.com/aboutlori.html
J3hj3h 21:06, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Upstate Transit
[edit] Upstate Transit
Upstate Transit is a Saratoga Springs, New York-based bus service. It does routes ranging from Stuvestan Plaza to South Glens Falls. Upstate uses MCI coaches owned by CDTA,and tour buses made by Setra. Upstate Transit itself is owned by Brown Transport.
[edit] T.I.L.K.A.
T.I.L.K.A. is a secret society which was founded in 1889 at the University of Virginia. T.I.L.K.A. is an anagram for five mystic Hindu words meaning power. T.I.L.K.A. is a society which recognizes leaders within the student body at UVA who are members of the fraternity system. T.I.L.K.A. is one of two Ribbon Societies at the University of Virginia. The other Ribbon Society is called Eli Banana.
[edit] Sources
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=21594&pid=1225 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia#Student_life
204.183.33.108 21:35, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Micheal Ryder - Bio
Micheal Ryder was born on March 31, 1980 and raised in Bonavista, Newfoundland, Canada. He was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the 8th round, 216th overall, in 1998. He shoots right, is 6'-0" tall and is 198 pounds.
Ryder spent 1997-2000 with Hull of the QMJHL playing 201 games and scoring 128 goals and getting 257 points. He then spent 2000-2003 bouncing around the ECHL and AHL, playing 25 games in the ECHL netting 18 goals and 36 points and playing 180 games in the AHL netting 51 goals and 110 points. He spent the lockout year playing in the Sweedish Elite League for Leksands IF, tallying 34 goals and 61 points in 42 games. Ryder's NHL totals, up to the end of the 2005-2006 season, are: 2 seasons played, 162 games played, 55 goals, 63 assists, 118 points, +5, 66 penalty minutes and 458 shots on goal.
Ryder was also a candidate for the Calder Trophy in his rookie season with the Canadiens, losing to goaltender Andrew Rycroft of the Boston Bruins. His rookie totals were 81 games played, 25 goals, 38 assists, 63 points, +10, 26 penalty minutes and 215 shots on goal. He led all rookie scorers that year.
[edit] Sources
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/teams/players/bio/?id=1058&hubname=nhl-canadiens
142.162.216.18 21:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Female on adult male rape
While rape of males by females is more rare than the opposite, rape of adult males by females (as opposed to both consensual and none consensual statutory rape) is an area that hardly ever gets explored.
[edit] The uniqueness of this situation
It contains many unique features, for example the ability to also use it to steal semen and in many countries the rape victim then may actually have to pay child support (though keep in mind that although according to Court TV's Crime Library, women commit about 10% of all sexual offenses, those are usually statutory offences).
[edit] In the news
[edit] Joyce McKinney
In 1978, a former US beauty queen, Joyce McKinney, hired a private detective who tracked down her former Mormon boyfriend in England, to which he left to live in order to avoid his obssessed former girlfriend. She then took a flight from the US to England in order to kidnap him. After managing to do so, she tied him up to a hotel bed and proceeded to rape him. Later on, after he complained to the police and they arrested her, she was allowed to be released on bail and fled back to the US to escape trial. The media and public reacted to this jokingly, mainly on the Mormon's expense, while the legal system simply let an alleged kidnapper and rapist easily go free.
[edit] In the entertainment media
It is interesting to note then that it is not a rarity in the entertainment media. It is usually presented as a comic motif.
[edit] The absense of the word or concept of rape when describing relevant scenes
[edit] In the transcript
The word rape is practically never uttered by any character or by the narrator. Neither is there any mention of the fact that a none consensual act has occured. Although if the same media item also contains opposite scenes (in which a female is the victim - even in a comedy scene) then it may be used in them.
[edit] In reviews
Reviews - official and unofficial alike - of those media items and even specific scenes hardly ever mention the word "rape" or even that a none consensual act has occured in them.
[edit] List of relevant scenes
This entry would present a list of media items (e.g. movies and books) in which such scenes occure and analyze them.
[edit] In comedies
The role reversal factor - the comical situation sometimes reaches such heights that if the same scene had went through a gender role reversal without changing a single element otherwise, the genre of the movie could have been replaced from comedy to horror and earned an adult oriented certification.
[edit] Porterhouse Blue
In the satirical book Porterhouse Blue, a bedder enters a college student's room in the middle of the night and wakes him up. Although the student secretly fantasized about her throughout the plot, he never meant for anything to actually happen and he didn't even know she picked up on his lust for her - it was just a private fantasy. At first he thinks it's morning time and she came to clean his room as usual. But when the bedder without saying much just starts undressing, he realizes his secret fantasy is becoming real and panics. He convinced himself it would lead up to his expulsion, although it was probably just an escuse for a pyschological fear of fulfilling his fantasy. But regardless of what his reasons were, he expresses his objection aloud. However, the bedder simply finishes undressing and while just silently ignoring his protests, enters his bed and lies on top of him.
Although the word rape is mentioned only when she was the victim (in the student's thoughts throughout the plot) - see reverse scenes, consider these key points:
- "'Shush,' said Mrs Biggs with a terrible smile. 'It's only half- past three'"…"'Don't make any noise,' she continued, with the same extraordinary smile. What the hell is going on?' asked Zipser." (as he finds out it's the middle of the night).
- "For God’s sake,” he said, “you mustn’t do that." (as without words she simply starts undressing).
The book (as opposed to the TV mini-series) puts a big emphasis on the irony that the student, who was all along worried that his lust would cause him to rape the bedder, was the one who eventually ended up getting raped by her.
The TV mini-series softened this up by eliminating the suggestion that he realized causing a scene could end up with him being falsley accused as being the rapist himself ("He tried to think what to do." He couldn’t shout or scream for help. Nobody would believe he hadn’t invited her to...Oh God. Zipser began to weep." (as she keeps undresses and simply ignores his protests) and so just helplessly chose to passively submit to her will ("Zipser had got back into bed and had switched off the light. 'Wants to spare me,' Mrs Biggs thought tenderly and climbed into bed." "Zipser shrank from her but Mrs Biggs had no sense of his reluctance. Grasping him in her arms she pressed him to her vast breasts. In the darkness Zipser whimpered."
What's for sure, both the book and the TV mini-series leave no loop holes as to what happened next - visually in the TV mini-series and in the book - "Mrs Biggs's hand slid down his pyjamas. Zipser squeaked frantically and Mrs Biggs's mouth found his." "To Zipser it seemed that he was in the grip of a great white whale. He fought desperately for air, surfaced for a moment and was engulfed again."
We never really find out how this would have turned out because just moments later his room explodes from a previous incident. Indirectly, it was her fault because his chimney was blocked but she invited herself in and lit the gas in his fireplace while he was too busy panicking by her to warn her about the chimney.
While obviously this was supposed to humor us, if it had been the other way around, it would have looked rather differently. The same scene under a role reversal would be the following: a male - even one the female secretly fantasized about - entering without permission to the female student's apartment in the middle of the night and waking her up. Not even bothering to explain his actions, he silently undresses and enters the female's bed against her protests, lies on top of her and reaching up for her private genitals in order to engage in an intercouse.
[edit] The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (1999)
A young guy in Ireland, Eamonn, finds out he gets any woman he sleeps with pregnant - no matter how many condoms were used. Eventually he starts sleeping for money with married mothers whose husbands aren't fertile (and being Catholic artificial insemination is a taboo), but not until he wakes up in the middle of the night and finds himself to his horror tied up to his bed while one such mother, Maeve, has started raping him in his sleep. In this movie, she not only rapes him while denying his consent via actual physical measures, but also in an attempt to get a baby from his semen.
The same scene under a role reversal would be the following: a male breaks into a stranger female's apartment in the middle of the night, and she later wakes up to find herself tied up and in the middle of an intercourse.
[edit] Sources
- Joyce McKinney and the Manacled Mormon
- Searchable quotes from the book Porterhouse Blue
- The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (1999) at the Internet Movie Database
- RTE.ie Entertainment's Cristín Leach reviews the movie including the rape scene - calling the rape "an incident that would be disturbing if it wasn't so bizarre"
88.154.201.216 22:19, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] C and M painting
C and M painting is a contracting service started about 30 years ago in Dunkirk,New York.They do lots of odd jobs like:estimets,roofing siding,and much more!
[edit] Sources
204.249.71.210 23:32, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Matt Marcotte
Matt Marcotte is best known for creatively mocking others. Some of the terms he has created include "taker" and "f'ing taker". Marcotte is also known for being hated by many people including Tim Luczak, Maverick Puppy, and most of all Brad Gareiss. Gareiss has cited the fact that Marcotte put poop in his sink and a urine soaked pillow in his bath tub as reasons for hating him. Marcotte also has several aliases such as: "taker", "douchebag", "total douche", "worst person on earth", and "f_ _ _ing taker". If he gives Gareiss the book "The Game" back, Gareiss has said he will remain hating Marcotte, but not as much.
Source: www.uiuc.edu
216.80.4.66 23:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of Airos Adventures episodes
Insert non-formatted text hereAiros Adventures has many episodes,they are recently shown 24/7.Here is a list of them.
[edit] Season 1
- Vanishing Goron/Beelzebub
- Twilight Princess/Fishing day
- Sicky Reaper/Asgard new
- Mystery shift/Fillmore love DS
- Touch and Go/Meet story
- A113/Airos kart 3000
- Jingle jangle bangle/Hot dog's a lie..a big super-cruddy lie
[edit] Season 2
- Dodo bird/Eat your Cubism.
- Agony matador/HA-128
- Airos XD/Bunny Toilet
- Who's your mommy now,DORK!?/Eye of dirty
- Club Airos/Sandy Jaws
- Majora's Destiny/Call of Cthulhu
- Muk/Dare to expand
[edit] Season 3
- Hydronical idiot
- Umbreon V.S Ho-oh/Apocalypse!
- Arseus is not afraid/Ultimate mouth
- Stink horror/Gamera,Beelzebub,PorygonZ..Oh my!
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes/Youtube...go!
- Wii will rock/Airos love
- Wii promise/Ripped apart
[edit] Season 4
- Smash animals!/Reading 180
- A glass of warm Airos/The poot!
- Pie dying!!!/Airos ocean
- Blood night/Bee?!!?
- Stranded/B.O.R.N Airos
- UFO/Tatl,no!
- Margie clones/Battle of the bands
[edit] Season 5
- Night of Friday the 13th/Night of Friday the 13th (Pt.2)
- The Voodoo/The seven twisters!
- Aphobia means the fear of everything Airos/A Grimish week
- Fly away,Latias!
- Airos goes to Mexico
- No free cars/Hourglass Horror
- Regirock's little visit
- S.S Fart/Fred Fredburger
- Nooger Booger/Future Visions
- Corruption/Wii is Annoying
- New Leaf/Fillmore Towers
- Liger/Non-Stopping crud
- Squeaker box Airos/Basketball Hoops
- Last episode before season 6
[edit] Season 6
- Nosferateens/Bunny Toilet 3
- Psyme's a ****er/Tom Nook
- Store Stealing
- Hollywood in Florida?/Trauma Traitor
- Just What I Needed/Pickle Pits
[edit] Movie
- Airos's Ultimate Adventure:Rise of Apocalypse
[edit] Season 7
[edit] Future of Airos Adventures
In the future,Airos Adventures might show some new and best episodes ever.We do not know what might happen,but if you wish for a lot more new...It might just air...one day,very,very soon.
