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Skakid
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Synonym for Rudie

A skakid is person who has been influenced by the genre of ska music and has dubbed themselves a skakid. The term is usually only used on forum usernames, but also plays a role in the real world.

Pat Dunn
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Pat Dunn was born on September, 8 1973 in Newark, NJ. Pat fronted popular modern punk rock band My Chemical Romance in it's early stages in 2002. He currently resides in the belly of a fish swimming around the greater New York tri-state area. I mean, the milky way in outer space...man. That's wacky. Belleville, NJ is for lovers.
 * Decline. The subject is absent from My Chemical Romance, and gets little return from Google.  If this is not a hoax, I suggest first mentioning him to the band's article. ×Meegs 09:17, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Sava Mamontov
THE MOSCOW MEDICI

Removed apparent copyvio from. ×Meegs 09:06, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

QYB
An initialism for "Quit Your Bitching" in Internet slang. Often seen in online gaming and chat environments. QYB is usually used in a facetious manner, but can also be used in anger or under frustration when someone is continually complaining.

USS Pheasant (AM-61)
USS Pheasant (AM-61) was an Auk class minesweeper laid down on 22 July 1942 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan; launched on 24 October 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Harry J. Defoe, wife of the shipyard owner; and commissioned on 12 December 1942, with Lieutenant Commander John B. Burnham in command.


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USS Patchogue (PC-586)
The second USS Patchogue (PC-586), a submarine chaser, was laid down on 29 May 1942 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan; launched as PC-586 on 15 July 1942; and commissioned on 5 October 1942.

After sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico, PC-586 transited the Panama Canal and served as an escort craft along the west coast of the United States. Her coastal operations were ultimately extended to the Hawaiian Islands, and during the period of 1 August through 31 December 1943, she was assigned to Commander, Hawaiian Sea Frontier, for duty. During this time she rendered valuable service as a training craft in the area of Pearl Harbor. She likewise performed patrol and convoy escort missions in Hawaiian waters.

A convoy escort mission took PC-586 to Saipan on 23 July 1944. With the end of hostilities, the submarine chaser continued to bolster Fleet readiness by briefly serving in a training capacity out of Pearl Harbor, and then along the east coast at both Charleston, South Carolina and Coco Solo, Canal Zone.

PC-586 decommissioned and went into reserve at Norfolk, Virginia in January 1950. She was named Patchogue on 15 February 1956. She was struck from the Navy List on 1 April 1959, and shortly thereafter sold to Potomac Shipwrecking Company for scrapping.

Patchogue received one battle star for World War II service.

Berbee

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HADEWIJCH
Flemish-Netherlandic poet and spiritual writer. Flourished 1st half of the XIII century.

Little or nothing is known of her biography, as no medieval vita seems to have survived. Her work was certainly known to Jan van Ruusbroec and perhaps other Low Countries spiritual figures of the XIV and XV centuries. Soon thereafter, however, the religious movement to which she belonged became suspect, with the result that her manuscript literary remains were never printed. By the XVI century her name was totally forgotten.

It was only in the 1870s that a codex containing her writings was noticed at the Royal Library in Brussels. Three manuscripts, two from the XIV century and one from the XVI, have survived. Only one of these actually gives the name of the author as "Hadewijch van Antwerp", i.e., Hedwig of Antwerp. Hadewijch's Works first appeared in print at Ghent in 1875.

Internal evidence from her writings suggests that she was a Beguine, that is to say, not a nun, but a laywoman, living, without vows, in a beginnage—a working, non-cloistered, religious community, prior to 1244.

It is not accurate or appropriate to call Hadewijch a "Dutch" writer. The language she uses is the Brabantine dialect of medieval Flemish, a language related to Dutch but certainly not Holland Dutch. Before the separation of Belgium from Holland in 1830, the duchy of Brabant constituted a single geographical and historical unit. In any case, Hadewijch flourished in Southern Brabant, which today is in Belgium. She evidences a good knowledge of Latin and French and French literature, particularly the Burgundian chivalric tradition, which suggests that she was a well-educated gentlewoman probably belonging to the gentry in and around Brussels.

Her work consists of two kinds of poem: an ode-like stanzaic lied, consisting of four to seven often-rhymed stanzas; and contiguous, romance-like mengeldichten. She also left a collection of prose Visions, relating her mystical experiences, as well as a series of Letters of spiritual counsel.

Hadewijch's principal theme is the concept of Minne ['love' in medieval Flemish] by which she meant the whole, direct, mystical, psychological, existential and literary experience of God on the part of a "touched" human soul. Her pregnant vocabulary, dense variety of literary moods and memorable psychological insights make her, without a doubt, one of the most remarkable and valuable of medieval writers.

Portgate
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Portgate is the name given for the scandal involving the operation of U.S. ports by a Dubai shipping company. The story was originally broken by Fox and Friends on February 20th, 2006 during their AM morning show. The White House reportedly didn't know about the deal prior to it being accomplished, [], but the AP found papers on February 22nd, 2006 stating otherwise. []

James Brodbelt Harris
James Brodbelt Harris is a central Ohio financial analyst born in Franklin County in 1969 and now living in Zanesville, Ohio in Muskingum County on the eastern edge of Metropolitan Columbus. On Feb. 16, 2006, he challenged Bob Ney for the Republican nomination for Ohio's 18th Congressional district in the May 2, 2006 Republican primary election.

Harris is a 1991 graduate of Dartmouth College and a relative and collateral descendant of former Ohio Governor Andrew L. Harris. At the 2005 Milford Township Bicentennial, Harris as the president of the family reunion association was invited to speak about his relative and dedicate part of U.S. 127 the Gov. Andrew L. Harris Bicentennial Roadway per state law. The Harris family owns an Ohio Century Farm in the township named by a direct ancestor, Judge Robert Lytle, a veteran of the Revolutionary War.

Outside Links:

Harris For Ohio campaign website

Ney faces unexpected challenge in GOP primary

Zanesville financial planner to challenge Ney

ECOMOBILE CABIN MOTORCYCLE
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The Cabin Motorcycle has been used in Europe since the Mauser Monotrace was introduced in the 1920s. They are enclosed motorcycles (like an auto or airplane)and are the only practical motorcycle in areas where there is a great deal of rainfall. In 1986, Arnold Wagner introduced the ECOMOBILE, the first aerodynamic cabin motorcycle. It looks like a small airplane without wings, accomodates the rider and passenger. It also has a trunk for luggage, climate control, windshield wiper and washer, and is available with most of the luxuries found in cars. Performance wise it gets 57 miles per gallon at 55 miles per hour and can reach a top speed of 150 miles per hour or more. It solves many of the aerodymanic problems that have robbed conventional motorcycles of higher efficiency. It can travel faster and has a greater range than any conventional motorcycle of equal horsepower.

Mario's Moon Adventure
Mario's Moon Adventure is a Hack of Super Mario Bros. and it uses instead of most hacks just pallete and graphic hacks, it also changes some of the games physics and motion, like as if you were on the moon. Pressing the jump button longer now makes Mario jump lower, and Mario jumps so high he is off the screen when you tap it, and you must adjust to this system of jumping. The story behind it is that Mario is abducted by one of Bowser's henchmen and put onto the moon, and Mario must find his rocket to get back to earth. None of the levels are edited more than graphics and pallete, except the water level, which acts the same but looks like there is no water.

Penn State DuBois
The DuBois Campus of the Pennsylvania State University is a member of the university's Commonwealth Campus system. The campus is located in the city of DuBois near the DuBois Area High School. The current chancelor is Dr. Anita McDonald.

The Campus is supported by several guiding bodies. First is the DuBois Educational Foundation which is comprised of various community members whose goal is to act as an advisory council and to help maintain continual support for the university at the location. The other guiding board is the DuBois Campus Advisory Board.

Comprised of ten buildings, the campus serves approximately 1,000 students that generally live within commuting distance.

The campus is home to one of the state's most ambitious projects, the DEF Workforce Development and Technology Center. The building is home to several pieces of research equiptment involved in the production of powdered metals. The unique facility serves to enhance student education as well as enrich technological knowledge within the region. The building is also home to DuBois's PACareerLink office, the joint operation for several former state-run employment service centers. The photo features the chancelor of the DuBois Campus as well as the former DEF president, Dr. Ross. D. Donahue, in the atrium of the DEF building.

The history of the DuBois Campus, as told on the university's web site, can be found here.

Expanding Hermeneutics
Expanding Hermeneutics

Don Ihde, Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook

Removed apparent copyvio from. ×Meegs 08:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

For detailed reading on HERMENEUTICS, please follow the Source. Thank you!

Contract Tower
Contract tower: Control tower staffed by private employees, performing the same duties as an FAA-run ATC tower.

Terrorist Financing
US President George W. Bush, September 24 2001 - ‘We will starve the terrorists of funding, turn them against each other, root them out of their safe hiding places and bring them to justice.’ ‘To follow the money as a trail to the terrorists, to follow their money so we can find out where they are and to freeze the money to disrupt their actions.’ ‘Money is the life-blood of terrorist operations. Today, we're asking the world to stop payment.’ Terrorist financing is ‘a complicated and multi-dimensional problem that both domestically and internationally implicates a range of legal, regulatory, financial, intelligence and law enforcement interests. There is a deadly, symbiotic relationship between the illicit drug trade and international terrorism. Drug trafficking groups are today a merger of international organised crime and terror.

William J. Fox, Director FinCEN at the Cambridge Symposium, September 2004 - ”…the government and private sector must act in true partnership….The 20th Century paradigm of governments alone protecting their citizens from outside threats is no longer valid in a post-September 11th world”. “Economic crime, including terrorist financing, has a global reach… Both the government and the private sector must pursue greater international cooperation and collaboration on these issues…”

Underscoring the importance of anti-terrorist financing, the 9/11 Commission report concluded in July 2004 that ‘Vigorous efforts to track terrorist financing must remain front and center in U.S. counter terrorism efforts. The government has recognized that information about terrorist money helps us to understand their networks, search them out, and disrupt their operations.’ The Commission’s conclusion is based upon the simple fact that financial transactions remain an Achilles heel for terrorists and their organizations. Money – albeit often in very modest amounts – is needed to carry out terrorist operations, and money trails leave footprints. These trails connect dots – establishing previously unknown connections – so that organizations and networks can be defined and attacked. And most of the time, the money trails do not lie. Information in financial transactions is, for obvious reasons, generally reliable and, therefore, valuable to law enforcement and intelligence operatives. As Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) like the US FinCEN and the NCIS have developed and shared financial information throughout their government departments and between governments, they have learned that these trails are critical ways for law enforcement and security services to identify, locate, and arrest or capture terrorists, their networks and their supporters.

The most significant progress of the US Government has been in bringing about a change in mind-set. There is now a near-unanimous recognition among nations that terrorist financing and money laundering pose threats that cannot be ignored and there is widespread agreement upon a shared set of standards to combat these dangers. The US government states that it will not accept the protest that ideological differences or bureaucratic obstacles excuse nations from the obligation to comply with global standards.

The Asia-Pacific region and South Asia figure prominently in the global war on terrorism. US efforts in the war on terrorism in Asia have been largely successful - many attacks have been thwarted, terrorist cells have been disrupted, and governments in the region have joined the fight. But much remains to be done including finding Osama Bin Laden. However, Al Qaeda's current and prospective ability to raise and move funds with impunity has been significantly diminished. Nonetheless, Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations still have ready access to financial resources, and that fact constitutes an ongoing threat.

Crossingpoint
These four guys from Durban, South Africa have been pumping out a spine chilling breed of positive and progressive energetic hardcore since 1998. Today the band are best described as playing a passionate and often brutal synthesis of metal and punk with a positive, relevant message.

In a world where heavy music is slowly being embraced by a wider audience, many bands have watered down their message to suit the listener. Where it used to be about an uncompromising message in response to societal problems, these days it seems to mostly be about the sound, with any sort of message being secondary. Crossingpoint have stayed true to their roots by playing creative, energy-driven music with a message that demands application. It's hard to go to a crossingpoint show and leave unchanged. Whether you're screaming your lungs out with the band or following their lyrics on their lyric sheets handed out before each show, theirs is a power and a passion that few bands consistently achieve.

Crossingpoint recorded & released their self-titled album independently in october 2004. All stops have been pulled out in terms of its recording, production and presentation. In what is a first for a South African band, it comes as an eye catching 6 panel 'digipak' package!

Real change happens in the minds and hearts of individuals who can go on to affect others. Crossingpoint's urgent and honest message deals with issues such as sexism, loyalty and personal responsibility, and is aimed at reaching the individual in a thoughtful and inspiring way.

http://www.crossingpoint.co.za

Quotes About Guildford County School
“Staff are very professional in the way in which they deal with students.”

“Staff and students were very friendly and welcoming.”

“The school was very successful in making me feel like part of a team.”

“Training was excellent and I was provided with many opportunities to become involved in activities.”

“I found the staff extremely supportive.”

“Teachers are supportive and highly professional in their expectations.”

CMX - Veljeskunta (Brotherhood)
This album sounds like shamanistic Pixies. Cool stuff.

The Brandons
The Brandons are a band from Dublin,Ireland.They play a combination of punk,folk and ska music.They have played a few concerts at local level, and are currently writing for an upcoming E.P,as of yet untitled.The band list Johnny Cash,Woody Guthrie,The Mr.T Experience,Green Day,The Specials,Chris Murray and others along influences.They began playing in January of 2006.The band take their name from a fake MySpace profile created by the band members of a teen named Brandon in December 2005,with the idea of annoying class-mates. The lighter side has since been seen,and the band are now busy getting down to the issue of music, and establishing a name for themselves in the already booming alternative music scene in Dublin.Playing a combination of acoustic folk and at times ska,The Brandons are ,all going well, on-route somewhere good.

more socialist realist architecture
buildings, pictures, the architects that created them.

Ian "Cheesecake" (*defamation removed*)
(*defamation removed*)
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Antonina Makarova
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Antonina Makarova, born Antonina Parfenova, was a Russian woman who allegedly executed 1,500 countrypeople during World War II, while working as machine gunner for the Nazis. After the war, she managed to escape the manhunt for over 30 years until she was found and sentenced to death in 1978.

[ [hota commission] ]
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Hota commission, is the commision formed by yhe Indian government under the aegis of Mr. P. C. Hota, a senior civil servant in the indian civil services to propose the reforms that could be drawn into an actionplan for better functioning of Indian civil services with changing time.

Petros Dimitriadis
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Petros Dimitriadis was born in Athens Greece on the 31/05/1976.

Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon californicum)
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Khalid Al-Mash'al
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Liam Rhodes
Liam Rhodes is currently believed to be the youngest managing director in the United Kingdom.

Ultimate++
Ultimate++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development suite. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, etc..), and an integrated development environment.

Rapid development is achieved by the smart and aggressive use of C++ rather than through fancy code generators. In this respect, U++ competes with popular scripting languages while preserving C/C++ runtime characteristics.

Mosaic laws

 * 1) Redirect Torah

World Currency Unit
The World Currency Unit is an indexed unit of account that stands for a unit of stable global purchasing power. Proposed by Ho(2000), it was first intended to be the basis for denominating global bonds, a debt instrument that is issued globally and subscribable by people around the world. Since each unit by design represents a stable unit of purchasing power, the stipulated interest rate on WCU-denominated bonds represents a real interest rate. In principle, the common denomination of bonds using the WCU will produce more efficient capital markets, as savers and borrowers converge in their understanding of what each basis point of interest means.

Irving Fisher in his 1911 book The Purchasing Power of Money had advised that to serve as a unit of account, a trusted medium of exchange, and a reliable store of value the purchasing power of money should be stable. Unfortunately, substances that exist by the bounty of nature, such as gold or silver, cannot have such property since their values fluctuate with changing supply and demand.

To be meaningful in terms of stable global purchasing power, a WCU will have to represent a basket of global output. By definition, the WCU represents the sum of the gross domestic products of key market economies in the world, namely the US, the Euro zone and UK, Japan, Canada, and Australia. Addition of these GDPs, each in a separate currency, is done by converting all GDPs into US dollar values in the base year.

The sum of these GDPs are then scaled down to equal $100 in the base year. The scaling factor then becomes part of the definition of the WCU, as it defines the size of the GDP basket.

The nominal value of this unit will rise with inflation in each economy. Moreover, the nominal value of this unit will rise if the base currency appreciates against the US dollar. Savers who purchase such bonds not only enjoy protection against inflation, but the benefit of diversification of exchange risks.

Juan de fuca plate
Juan de fuca plate is in the cascade mountain range and is involved with a subduction zone

Chirag (*defamation removed*)
He is not that clever and enjoys annoying Harry.
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 * Defamation removed. -- SYCTHOS talk 02:56, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Viking Range Corporation
Viking Range Corporation is a manufacturer of luxury "professional style" home appliances headquartered in Greenwood, Mississippi. The company's products include ranges, refrigerators, dishwashers, grills for outdoor use, garbage disposals, and various small tabletop appliances, including mixers, toasters, blenders, etc.

The company was founded by Fred Carl, Jr. and claims to be the first company to build "professional style" appliances for home use. The company is one of Greenwood's major employers and has played an active role in revitalizing Greenwood's downtown area.

Cyndy Maddux
Cynthia Maddux is a professional English teacher at North Star High School; located in Lincoln, Nebraska. Cynthia (who goes by Cyndy) has been teaching for just over six years. Before her teaching career began, Cyndy was the Executive Director Mothers Against Drunk Driving Nebraska (MADDN). She has been an aspiration to many and continues to inspire her students today to achieve high levels of success.

Cyndy currently resides in Lincoln with her husband Peter.

Backseatnal Frontlobal Insanity
The act of being stuck in the back seat of a car for long periods of time. After a few hours one tends to go insane and begin talking to oneself.

Peter Wambach, Sr.
Peter Wambach, Sr. was a long-time radio presence in Pennsylvania, often associated with his tagline "It's a Beautiful Day in Pennsylvania!"

The father of 14 children with his wife Margharita, Mr. Wambach is retired and living in his beloved Harrisburg. He recently donated his tapes to the Pennsylvania State Museum.

C.H. Stuart
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C(harles) H(arborne) Stuart (1920-1991) was an English Historian of the eighteenth century. He was a student and tutor of Christ Church College Oxford where he was also senior censor. He edited the second edition of Basil Williams 'The Whig Supremacy' for the Oxford History of England series in 1962 and wrote The History of the War in the Peninsula.

Toby Garbett
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Toby Garbett is a professional oarsman based at Leander Club in Henley-on-Thames. He started rowing at Pangbourne College in Berkshire, UK and has been World Champion in the coxless fours and Olympic participant in the pairs, winning the B-Final at Athens 2004.

Demand draft
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In the United States, a demand draft is a check created by a seller with a buyers checking account number on it, but instead of the buyers signature, it has verbage such as "authorized by depositor (the buyer), lack of endorsement garunteed by XYZ Bank". The seller deposits the check into his bank account, which then clears out of the buyers account. Since there is a huge potential for fraud, and becuase the buyer has a three year or longer time frame to dispute the transactions, most banks will only allow larger companies with security collateral to deposit demand drafts.

Nevertheless, there is a great deal of fraud commited by using demand drafts, with some bank industry professionals alleging that more often then not a demand draft is fraudulent.

Demand draft fraud is often frustrating for consumers, because unlike credit card disputes, consumers aren't often given any funds back until after investigation finds that the draft was unauthorized. In addition, to file a dispute many times requires a notarized signature, since this is the only way one bank can dispute a paper item with another bank. Unauthorized demand drats create losses for the bank to, because often is it not worth the effort to actually attempt to get the money back from the other bank, and instead banks will simply pay their customers amounts up to five hundred dollars out of their own pocket. This encourages scammers as they get to keep the money, and aren't yet discovered.

Mike Watt (journalist)
Michael W. Watt (born January 26, 1973 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a journalist, film producer, film director and screenwriter.

Biography
Best known as an entertainment journalist for such magazines as Femme Fatales, Cinefantastique, The Dark Side, Film Threat and Sirens of Cinema (for which he took over as editor in 2005), Watt is also a screenwriter and director, active in the Independent horror movie industry.

An exceptional student throughout high school and college, he was often a social outsider due to his eccentric personality. An avid reader, he started writing short fiction at an early age, and wrote four novels in long hand during his classes. The first of these novels, The Adventures of Rune, a parody of science fiction epics, was polished and published as an e-book in 1995.

He came into his element during his early college years, studying theater and creative writing at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh. It was during this period that he joined a local cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, where he met many of his closest friends, including his future wife, Amy Lynn Best, his future business partner, Bill Homan, and filmmaker Justin Wingenfeld.

In 1993, he enrolled at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, through Point Park University, where he began to pursue his first love, film. Though enthusiastic for the art, and despite limited prowess as an animator, he judged himself to be a mediocre filmmaker at first, and determined that he was technically insufficient to make movies on his own. In desperation, he gave himself his senior year to improve. With Best’s invaluable help as an actress and a producer, he wrote and directed a haunted house short, Tenants, intending it to be his senior thesis film (which he had to make in order to graduate). Basically a low-rent reworking of Robert Wise’s version of The Haunting, it stood out at a time when most of his fellow classmates were aspiring to be the next Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino. The movie received an A, allowing him to graduate with a BFA in "Film and Video Production".

Within six months of graduation, Watt entered the movie into the first "B-Movie Film Festival", held in Syracuse, NY, by Salt City Video owner, Ron Bonk. The movie was accepted and was later bought for distribution on the anthology The Cutting Edge. Later, it was added onto Paul Talbot's Campfire Tales DVD, the main title of which Watt provided the audio commentary as a "film scholar".

In 1997, Watt, Best and Homan formed Happy Cloud Pictures in order to produce their first feature-length film, The Resurrection Game. They shot the movie on 16mm over a period of two years, though it would take until 2005 for the trio to fully complete the movie. Within a few weeks of completion, it won "Best Production" in the "Pittsburgh Film Workers Film Festival".

Prior to shooting The Resurrection Game, Watt was further honing his craft as a writer. He had two one-act plays produced by Pittsburgh theater companies and a third won an international competition and was staged in California. They were, respectively, the anti-war satire PFC Everyman; the disturbing comedy So Nice to Have the Family Together Again and Who Speaks for the Non-Existent?. He also found himself on the writing staff for GC Magazine, Femme Fatales and Cinefantastique, where he worked as an entertainment journalist, interviewing such luminaries as Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker and the late Doris Wishman. It was through these magazines that he became friends with actress/producer Debbie Rochon, who gracious agreed to make a cameo in The Resurrection Game.

Watt primarily served Happy Cloud Pictures as a screenwriter, cameraman and editor, feeling that his directing skills were still too underdeveloped. He handed over the bulk of the directing duties to Best (who he married in 1999), and wrote her directorial debut movies, Were-Grrl and Severe Injuries.

In 2005, Watt found his greatest level of success, selling the screenplay Dead Men Walking to the LA-based company The Asylum. Later that year he became editor of Sirens of Cinema Magazine and wrote the original screenplay for 24 Frames Per Slaughter, the movie that would become the debut film of George Romero's oldest son, G. Cameron Romero (a.k.a. The Screening).

A possible workaholic, Watt has been employed as a publicist, a subdistributor of DVDs, a film inspector, an optical printer, a secretary, a postal employee, a proofreader, a janitor, and a production assistant on several independent movies.

Filmography

 * The Screening - Writer 2007
 * Dead Men Walking - Writer 2005
 * Spicy Sister Slumber Party (video documentary) - Producer, Editor, Cinematographer 2004
 * My Demon Nights with Linnea Quigley (video documentary short) - Cinematographer 2004
 * Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots (video) - McQueen 2003
 * Severe Injuries - Writer, Producer, Editor 2003
 * Weregrrl (video short) - Writer, Co-producer, Line Producer 2002
 * American Nightmare (video) - Production Assistant 2002
 * Gladiator Eroticvs: The Lesbian Warriors (video) - Roman/Barbarian, Best Boy 2001
 * The Resurrection Game - Writer, Co-producer, Adam, Editor, Director
 * Tenants – Writer, director, editor, producer 1996
 * Neck Up – Zane, writer, director, editor, producer 1995

Jed Rakoff
Jed S. Rakoff

Music Population Project
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DenMAN (*defamation removed*)
Denman iz a boi dat lives in souf east london, he goes 2 askes which iz a a shit skool,

(*defamation removed*)

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partyhatt
Partyhatt.com is a swedish website with photoalbums from happenings around the country.

Electricity future
See also List of Ontario-related topics (section) "E"

A government pamphlet
or send them to: Our Energy, Our Future 900 Bay Street Hearst Block, 4th Floor Toronto, Ontario M7A 2E1
 * See it at http://www.energy.gov.on.ca/index.cfm?fuseaction=english.energyfuture
 * The Government of Ontario, Canada, has provided households with a small undated booklet (I received mine on February 22, 2006) with the title "Our Energy, Our Future. It's Time To Talk About Our Electricity Future"
 * It includes: Your Views Matter ... You are invited to submit your ideas and provide your comments ... [See above for web site with comments form]

A previous study

 * Ontario's newspapers contained some details about Ontario Hydro's massive 4-volume study under the title "Balance of Power"; I am looking at page A9 of the April 16, 1990 issue of THE GLOBE AND MAIL. Public Information Centres were set up under the Environmental Assessment Act, 1980, and a graph shows the expected gap between the available electricity power in Gigawatts (GW) up to 2014, if no new power sources are supplied, and the expected electricity demand.
 * A letter (enclosed with the 4-volume set?) by Chris Taylor of the Public Relations Division, dated February, 1990, mentions a public feedback program during the first six months of 1990.
 * At the beginning of the 1990s Ontario as well as other parts of the world experienced an economic slowdown, which very likely was the reason why at that time the recommendations of this study were, as I understand it, ignored.
 * The current request for public comments does not mention that earlier study.

QUITTNER 142.150.49.166 20:56, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Marty K
He invented the drink known as Special K, a drink that involves putting three vodka shots in a pint glass along with a blue wkd.

I know because I am he.

143.117.143.42 21:24, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Friends of the Jock River
The Friends of the Jock River is a non-profit, charitable environmental organization that managed by volunteers in the Jock River watershed. Its mandate is to protect the Jock River watershed ecosystem.

The World Before Later On
The World Before Later On is a song by They Might Be Giants that appears on their 10th studio album The Spine.

Catherine Palin
Catherine Palin is an English teacher at QEGS Wakefield, she has proved a popular addition to the staff roster, due in no small part to her slim figure and flirtatious and forceful manner, despite the high percentage of homosexuals in the school. In Winter 2006 she had major surgery at Barnsley hospital,but has since recovered.

Producer Laura
Radio personality Producer Laura was born Laura Heywood, in Oakland, CA. She grew up with plans to be an actress, appearing in commercials and print advertisements for products such as Nintendo, TIME Magazine, Apple Computers, and GTE. She entered college at the University of Puget Sound in 1997 on an acting scholarship, but quickly re-focused her attention to campus radio station KUPS. She became an on-air host of several shows and was hired as General Manager in the fall of 2000. During her college years, she also honed her radio chops with summer internships with KFRC FM and the Sarah & Vinnie Morning show at KLLC (Alice@97.3) in San Francisco.

After graduating from UPS in 2001, Laura moved back to California and immediately went to work as the interim Morning Show Producer for the Gene & Julie Show at KZQZ (Z95.7 FM). This proved to be the perfect kickstart to a successful career in San Francisco radio.

Laura started off 2002 as an assistant producer for the John London Not Just Sports Show on KNBR 680 AM. In no time, Laura became a fun and controversial part of the on-air staff, titillating the audience by arguing with John & the guys about politics and sexuality. She quickly gained a fan following that made her an in-demand presence at station events.

While working at KNBR, Laura filled her schedule with many additional radio projects, including producing pre- and post-game broadcasts for Giants Baseball; hosting a weekend show at hip-hop station KWIN and a night show on light rock station KJOY; working on the production team for NFL game broadcasts; and launching a successful side career as a voice-over artist.

After two years with the John London Not Just Sports Show, Laura joined the staff at sister station 107.7 The Bone (KSAN), where she worked as the producer of the Lamont & Tonelli show as well as hosting the mid-day show. She continued to be extremely popular at live appearances, channeling that popularity into successful fundraising for various charities. She was also featured on a line of Laura Heywood merchandise including t-shirts, panties, lunch boxes, and Christmas ornaments.

In August of 2004, Laura was cast in a high-profile television commercial series for Dove Shampoo as part of the Campaign for Real Beauty. A long form version of the campaign can be seen at http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/scrollpage.asp?url=special_events.asp&;id=1779.

At the end of that year, Laura left Susquehanna Broadcasting (the home of KNBR & The Bone) and made the move to New York City, where she was hired by Sirius Satellite Radio as the producer for The Bower Show on the newly formed Maxim Radio. There, she was given the moniker “Producer Laura” and gained an international fan-base.

Laura continues as the producer and co-host of The Bower Show. Listeners love her ability to simultaneously be one of the guys (she takes charge of sports updates, and can chug a beer like a champ), but also flaunt her sexy side, with frequent references to her buxom frame and the popular contest “Pick Laura’s Panties”.

She is having the time of her life in New York, but hopes to someday return to the Bay Area to raise a family.

[Druids Celtic Cider]
Druids celtic cider is counted among the cheapest forms of alcohol known to man. It is a popular drink amongst the student populations of ireland, particularly those centered around loftus court. Containing 6 % alchol by volume and with 6 cans for 8 euro ( prices subject to inflation ) it is the drink of choice for the haute scanger. Brewed by Aston Manor brewery in trimbleton lane aston birmingham - curiously not a location known for its orchards. Its also contains sulfites a set of highly carcinogenic compounds yet strangly not included under eu additives law. With an amazing 285 Cal per 500 ml can it is also contributing to the world obesity crisis.That being said it continues to go from strength contending with the scanger market leader,dutch gold.

Sam Bowers
Sam Bowers (b. 1924) was the imperial wizard of The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi. Bowers, a businessman from Laurel, established the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the fall of 1963. By June of 1964, membership in the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi was estimated at 10,000.

After four previous trials had ended in deadlocks, Bowers was finally convicted in August, 1998, and was sentenced to life in prison.

ZZ Packer
ZZ Packr is an accomplished writer with two stories in The New Yorker, stories in The Best American Short Stories, 2000, and as the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.

ZZ Packer has already achieved success prior to publication of her first book. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a striking debut-fresh, versatile, and captivating. It introduces us to an arresting and unforgettable new American voice.