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Band From TV
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Band From TV is a band founded by the drummer Greg Grunberg (Heroes). Other members include: Keyboardist Hugh Laurie of "House", Guitarist James Denton of "Desperate Housewives", Vocalist Bob Guiney of "The Bachleor",and Vocalist Bonnie Somerville from "Garden State."

Telemark (band)
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Telemark is a band created in 1999 by Roland Hackl and Andreas Kinzl (nicknamed Scott). Alhtough they don't categorise their music, it is anything between jazz, raw funk, electro and ethnic. Their influences come from Soul, Funk, Afro, Latin and Brazil music and like-minded musicians like Kudra Owens and John Whitfield (nicknamed Big John).

Discography

Playground 3 (2001) Mission EP (2002) Dizzy Dancing (2004) I Feel Alright (2004) Perfect Toy (2006)

South Mildura Football Club
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The South Mildura Football Club play in the Sunraysia Football League and are known as South or the Bulldogs. The club was established in 1945 and have their homeground situated at Sarah Oval on Eleventh Street, Mildura. The uniform involves navy blue and white hoops, home shorts are white and away shorts are navy blue, the socks are navy blue and white hoops. In their history South Mildura have won four premierships in 1968, 1969, 1970, 1998 and have fierce rivalries with with cross town rivals Imperials and Mildura. Individuals to claim the leagues top individual award of winning the McLeod Medal include Austie Nunan, Neil Hogan, Jack Evans, Ken Mansell, Peter Johns, Michael Bilucaglia, Jason Spivey and Guy Booker.

South Mildura finished the 2006 season in 6th position under coach Jason Spivey who quit as coach mid way through the 2007 season. He was replaced by Kieran O'Shannessey and Matt Hahndorf and the reigning best and fairest winner is Leigh Gathercole. South Mildura have not made the finals since reaching the Prelimanary Final in 2005 and have not made the Grand Final since winning it in 1998.

South Mildura is also known for its goal kickers including players that have won the league goalkicking, Stan Rowse, Colin Chester, Chris Pohlner, Michael Bilucaglia and reigning champion Brett Haase.

South Mildura's golden era occured between 1968 and 1970 when the Bulldogs claimed all before them including all three premierships under the guidance of club legend Ken Mansell. Since than South Mildura have been able to only claim one premiership yet have contested four other grand finals. The lowest point in the clubs history was at the turn of the new millenium when they claimed four successive wooden spoons in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. In claiming the 1999 wooden spoon South Mildura became the leagues first team to win the premiership and than in the following season finish last.

AFL players to come from South Mildura include lesser known stars Daryl Cumming, Paul Prymke and Brett Frewen. As well as former Brisbane Lion Brownlow Medallist and current Western Bulldog Jason Akermanis and All Australian former Collingwood Magpie and current Fremantle Docker Chris Tarrant. Other current players to have played in the Sunraysia Football League include dual Brownlow Medallist Adam Goodes, Norm Smith medallist Andrew Embley, number 3 draft pick Colin Sylvia, Hawthorn's Ben McGlynn, Geelong's Josh Hunt and Hawthorn Captain Richard Vandenberg.

Theme Song - Sung to the tune of A Grand Old Flag, an American marching song. It's a grand old flag It's a highflying flag It's the emblem for me and for you It's the emblem of The team we love The team of the white and the blue Every heart beats true For the white and the blue As we sing this song to you Should auld acquaintance be forgot Keep your eye on the white and the blue

Dead By April
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Jimmie Strimmel: Screams and Clean Vocals Pontus Hjelm: Guitar/Lead's/Keys Alex Sveningsson: Drums Henric Carlsson: Bass Johan Eskilsson: Guitar/Lead's

Amy Albertson
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Anthony DiMeo
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Anthony grew up on the mean streets of Jane and Sheppard where he quickly went up through the ranks. Not much is known about his dealings and affiliations. His main source of income seems to come from his control of the Fraud Rings in the GTA. He has yet to be arrested or charged with anything, as this new school capo keeps his nose fairly clean.

Wedding of the Weddings
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 Wedding of the Weddings is an annual meeting of couples who had non-alcoholic wedding receptions. The meetings take place in various cities of Poland since 1995. The couples arrive with their children to have an all-night-long dancing, to exchange experience on organizing non-alcoholic parties for children, youth and adults, and just to spend several days together enjoying the local culture.

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Repeat Offender
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Global Oriya Rangani Samaja
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CBV-Index
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I. CBV Composite

CBV Composite is an index that represents stock price movement of 50 leading listed companies with highest level total market capitalization and liquidity in both Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh Securities Trading Centers. (The list of companies in CBV- Index portfolio will be adjusted according to market changes). With 50 companies over a total of 200 listed companies in two stock exchange centers, total market capitalization of CBV- Index accounts for 80% of the total market capitalization nationwide. Total trading values of CBV- Index also occupies over 70% of the total trading value. Therefore, CBV-Index provides investors with a better assessment of the performance of Vietnamese stock market.

CBV-Index is then divided into 10 indices of the ten representative sectors of Vietnamese economy:

'''CBV Transportation                                                 CBV Consumer goods

CBV Technology                                                      CBV Healthcare

CBV Capital goods                                                  CBV Utility

CBV Basic materials                                               CBV Finance

CBV Energy                                                             CBV Housing'''

Listed above are 10 main sectors that reflect Vietnam economic growth and with a strong correlation with the macroeconomic cycle of Vietnam. This division aims to monitor stock performance of each sector. Besides, investors are able to structure an investment portfolio to meet his or her particular investment preferences.

'''II. Objectives of CBV composite and the CBV sector indices''' Up to 26/5/07, there are about 200 listed companies. CBV index assists investors to closely monitor the market and also a measure of stock market heat at a simpler but more accurate approach to Vietnam stock market as a whole.

1. CBV-Index of 10 main economic sectors.

-CBV-Indices are created based on international criteria in order to monitor and make predictions about the performance Viet Nam Securities Market. Moreover, CBV-Index also assesses the performance of the liquidity of corporations.

-CBV-Index consists of a small quantity of companies but very high level of market capitalization and liquidity. Also, they represent main economic sectors of VN economy.

2. How does CBV index help investors to select stocks to structure their investment portfolio?

CBV-Index helps investors in designing their own portfolio to maximize profits and minimize risks, to answer questions such as “What are the strong sectors to invest? Which strong company in that strong sector to buy shares? How to diversify investment to minimize risks?”. Instead of wasting time and efforts in detailed analysis and selection among 200 listed companies, CBV index has already selected a small number of good companies but very close to the big market. Only companies that satisfy strict criteria will be listed in CBV index. CBV index will be continuously updated and analyzed by CBV professional financial analysts to assess the financial strength of corporate in order to include or exclude them from CBV index.

'''III. Criteria to be listed in CBV Composite Index:'''

1.   Corporations of Viet Nam are listed in both Hanoi stock exchange and Ho Chi Minh stock exchange centre (HASTC and HOSTC)

2.   Total market capitalization is greater than 500,000,000, 000 VND

3.  Satisfactory Business Performance: In four consecutive quarters, net profit after tax is greater than 0, debt ratio is relatively satisfactory compared with other companies in the same sectors.

4.  High level of liquidity: Total value of sell and buy shares in the recent year must greater than 50% total market capitalization.

Representatives of Key sectors of Viet Nam economy: Companies in CBV index are leading companies based on market share and market capitalization 5. Types of corporations: Corporations must be operating companies; holding companies will not be listed in CBV-Index portfolio.

'''IV. Criteria to remove from CBV-Index'''

The listed securities corporations in CBV-Index portfolio will be removed from this portfolio if they do not satisfy all criteria above or as the result of companies’ merger and acquisition, split or restructure.

 V. Updated time CBV portfolios will be updated continuously in order to add more companies that can satisfy all above conditions and take out these listed ones which no longer meet the criteria above.

''' VI. Index calculation methodology of CBV composite index and CBV sector indices.'''

1. CBV index is calculated using international standard methodology. It measures movement of average stock market price using float adjusted market capitalization method.

2. Why do CBV indices have to adjust to market float?

With this methodology, CBV indices properly reflect the change of market capitalization available for public investor, not the total listed shares of companies. The numbers of shares hold by board of management, founders, control group and strategic partners will not be counted as it is not allowed to be traded for a certain period of time; therefore, they are very illiquid. Shares hold by board of management, founders, and control group will be mainly for controlling purposes. Shares acquired by strategic partners are normally kept over the long term to have controls or they expect the company will grow positively in the future.

3. How to calculate index using the float adjusted market capitalization?

First, the percentage of shares available for public investors- public float (IWF- Investable Weight Factor) will be calculated using the following formula:

IWF=No of shares available for public/total no of listed shares.

Then, float adjusted market capitalization index will be calculated according to the following formula:

Index = (Σi(PiQiIWFi))/(Divisor)

Pi is market price of share i, Qi is the number of listed shares. IWF if the the percentage of shares available for public investors, Divisor (D) is the index divisor. Divisor D will be adjusted so that CBV index will not be affected as the result of issuance of additional shares, addition of newly listed companies or removal of listed companies in CBV index.

Appendix: Performance assessment methodology of CBV indices.

Methodology:

The performance assessment results of CBV indices include:

1. Total return on investment (TRI): equals net income /total investment. TRI help investors to estimate profit earning per dollar invested

2. Investment risk: measured by standard deviation of market price over the its average value. It helps investor to assess the investment risk.

3. EPS equals earnings after tax divided by total shares. EPS help the investors estimate the profit generation per share.

4. P/E is the market price of a company’s shares divided by its earnings per share. P/E is an indicator of investor’s evaluation of future earnings prospects of firms and firm’s current situation. It also tells us how much stock purchaser must pay per dollar of earnings that the firm generates.

5. Dividend yields are dividend per share divided by market price of share. D/P help investors estimate dividends earned per dollar invested.

These performance assessment results will also be assigned an index to monitor the performance of stock market as a whole as well as of each sector. These indices will also calculated using float adjusted market capitalization methodology.

Michael Yoo
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Master Ray (Stephen C. Ray)
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Photo of S.C. Ray Stephen Curtis Ray Born: July 16, 1972 Residence: Florissant, MO Other names: Master S.C. Ray, Master Stephen Ray, Master Ray Martial art practiced: Sun Do Sul (Ray claims this is a branch of TKD), Dragon Kung fu, Tae Kwon Do Teachers: Y.C. Rho (Missouri), Eric Hurst (Missouri), Y.S. Choi (Colorado) Rank: Master? (Unverified/Self-promoted) stlma.com

Stephen C. Ray is a martial arts instructor based out of the St Louis suburb of Florissant, MO. He has owned several schools in the past, but at this moment only runs the one school in the city of Florissant. Ray says that he offers a "Godly martial arts" experience.

Although information is scarce, S.C. Ray's own site claims that he started practicing martial arts at the age of 7.

S.C. Ray himself has provided two different documents pertaining to his martial skill. He has a 6th Dan ranking in Sun Do Sul, a hybrid martial art created by Y.S. Choi of Colorado (even though he never tested for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th Dan in this modern art). Choi has certified this rank firsthand. Ray has self-promoted himself to a 6th Dan in Tae Kwon Do, as well, even though he is apparently Kukkiwon certified as a 2nd Dan. S.C. Ray's current Dan#

Ray's second certification comes from Sifu Eric Hurst of St Louis, Missouri. Ray claims that this Kung Fu certification is the equivalent of a 5th degree black belt, but Sifu Hurst has publicly contested this, saying that Ray's certification is more along the lines of a pre-black belt ranking. This would make Ray, in most traditional martial arts, a brown belt or possibly a 1st-degree black belt.

In addition to Ray's certified martial arts rankings, he claims to have invented his own grappling style, which he calls "Jiu Kido." Jiu Kido is a name already in use by at least one other group which appears to have been using it longer than Ray has been. Ray does not mention Jiu Kido on his website, but instead claims to teach "Jiu Jitsu (Very similar to Gracie Jiu-Jitsu)". When pressed to produce a rank in any style of jujitsu, whether Brazilian or Japanese, Ray replied that he has studied with Frank Shamrock and "Dan Severns." While both Shamrock and Severn are formidable fighters and teachers, neither man teaches jiu-jitsu--and both men have long-standing rivalries with the Gracie families. Both would be loath to describe what they do and teach as "very similar to Gracie Jiu-Jitsu." Both are known for teaching western wrestling adapted for submission fighting and mixed martial arts. Severn's background is in world-class folkstyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, while Shamrock practices a much more submission-oriented "shootfighting" style his brother Ken Shamrock learned in Japan. The style is based on Anglo-American Catch-as-Catch-Can submission wrestling, which differs from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in several important respects.

Ray's documentation of his martial arts experience and certification is the topic of some debate; his certificates have been judged by people with experience as instructors in Tae Kwon Do and kung fu who have stated that the certificates are suspect. In addition, Ray claims to have the power to heal the sick through the laying on of hands by channeling the healing power of God and Jesus Christ. Ray has stated that he does not heal through his own power, but that God's power travels through him. Specifically, he claims that on one trip to India, "the blind saw and the deaf heard" when Ray applied his faith-healing power. http://youtube.com/watch

Ray's claims: 6th Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do/Sun Do Sul (Through Grandmaster Y.S. Choi of Colorado) 5th Degree Black Belt in Kung Fu (Through Sifu Eric "The Dragon" Hurst...Shaolin, 5-Animal Styles, WingChun) Practitioner of: Hapkido / Aikido Jiu-jitsu / Judo Ninjitsu / Many Weapons Kickboxing / Boxing and others...

1990 - Ray claims to have opened Dragon Ray Martial Arts in Ellisville, MO. 1998 - Director of World Martial Arts Academy in South County St. Louis. 1999 - Owner of World Martial Arts Academy in Florissant, MO. 2000 - Owner of World Martial Arts Academy in Olivette, MO. 2003 - Started St. Louis Christian Martial Arts System. 2003 - Closed St. Louis Christian Martial Arts System. 2003 - Started working for Grandmaster Park at the Belleville Chung Ho Tae Kwon Do Academy location in IL. 2004 - Stopped working for Grandmaster Park based on a mutual agreement between the two. 2004 - Opened St. Louis Martial Arts Center in Florissant. 2006 - Opened another St. Louis Martial Arts Center in Belleville, IL. 2006 - Closed the St. Louis Martial Arts Center in Belleville, IL.

John Gottowt
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John Gottowt ( * 15 June 1881 as Isidor Gesang in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary; † 29 August 1942 in Wieliczka, Poland) was a German actor and director for theatres and silent movies. After his education in Vienna, Gottowt joined 1905 the Deutsches Theater in Berlin working for Max Reinhardt as an actor and director. Gottowt was mainly active in different theatres in Berlin as a character actor and director. He had its first silent film appearance in Paul Wegener’s The Student of Prague (1913). In 1920 were to be seen to Gottowt in Robert Wienes Genuine and transferred the main role in the early science fiction film ALGOL - A Tragedy of Power. 1921 he participated in the classical silent movie Nosferatu directed by F.W. Murnau as Professor Bulwer (van Helsing). Gottowt made also several films with its brother-in-law Henrik Galeen but was 1933 disqualified as a professional actor being a Jew. He moved after a few years in Denmark to Krakau in Poland. He was murdered in 1942 by a SS officer in Wieliczka.

alectronic
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term 01 - alectronic - the name of a dj from Romania, Constanta

term 02 - alectronic - the name of a robot found at the Disney Land Ghost House

Milwaukee Rapper Lil Ole P puts Milwaukee on the map for the Hip-Hop Culture
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Lil Ole P (real name Simon P) was born in Milwaukee, WI July 24th, 1990. Growing up around music and talent he picked up on it, writing poetry with his mother at a young age, he developed it into rap music at the age of 11. He grew up in Wauwatosa until age 7 until his parents divorced, moving to Milwaukee's Southside with his mother, and still living in Wauwatosa with his father. His oldest brother was a musician, and in a band with equipment Simon got interested in making music. At age 13 his middle brother presented him with a flyer about up and coming artists. He pursued this at which point he met Already award winners R.E.D 44 of Scummed Out Entertainment. R.E.D. 44 had won contests himself locally, and nationally, getting a song of his on the Stomp The Yard Movie soundtrack in 2006. He started working in the studio for RED, in exchange for studio time. The first time they met, RED made a beat for Simon on the spot that amazed him, this being the first time he had seen a beat being made. That beat is the track "Doesn't Matter" by Lil Ole P. At age 15 he met with A&R Director Mauree of Duce Duce Entertainment (DuceDuce.com) to talk about signing with the label. Simon is still currently involved with Duce Duce, but of this point has not signed a contract with them. He has not made press kits to send out to Los Angeles or New York to attempt getting signed to a Major Label. He has been noticed by Famous artists though, such as Kutt Calhoun, MC Serch(host of Ego trips the White Rapper Show), and Stu Stone who did a song with Jamie Kennedy entitled "Circle Circle Dot Dot". Being on MySpace for several years, he has been able to make contacts in the Music Business with people such as MC Serch, Kutt Calhoun, Stu Stone, and producer Timbaland. His biggest song "Thank God" which talks of his life growing up and issues, has been a great success. That song along has won 2 awards one mentioned by American Idol Underground and song writing contest. Lil Ole P was created by using his last name for P, then in High school an older rapper, DT Lighting at the time said to add some character to the name. When he gave the suggestion of Ole to make Lil Ole P, it stuck from there on out. You can see Simon coming up in Los Angeles for contest winner of AI Underground, or see his MySpace page at WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MILWAUKEELOP.

EuroPriSe
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EuroPriSe (European Privacy Seal) a eTEN-project of the European Union that establish a European privacy certification of IT products. The eTEN program supports the deployment of transeuropean electronic services.

Aims
EuroPriSe aims to extend the concept of the regional Privacy Seal (german) of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, to Europe.

Description
The project (2007-2008) will undertake a market validation, if and how the regional Privacy Seal of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, can be realised throughout Europe. In general, a Privacy Seal (Certification mark) certifies that an IT product or IT-based service can be used in compliance with the principles of privacy and data security. The specific Schleswig-Holstein Privacy Seal] certifies the compliance with data protection regulations valid for [[Schleswig-Holstein.

Certification
The Privacy Seal is a specific type of (product certification) conducted by a certification body. This certification body admits legal and IT security experts, either as personal experts or as evaluation laboratories. On the initiative of a manufacturer or vendor of a product, they evaluate the IT product and create an evaluation report. With this report, manufacturers can apply for a Privacy Seal on a voluntary base. After crosschecking of the evaluation report, the Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Independent Center for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ICPP) issues the Privacy Seal. The Privacy Seal can be used to demonstrate privacy compliance to customers.

Project
The extension throughout Europe has to take the European Privacy legislation, especially the European Data Protection Directive, as a basis. The adaptation of existing test criteria to European regulations is part of the project. Furthermore, the project adapts criteria for a transeuropean admission of evaluators and laboratories and develops concepts for the accreditation of certification bodies and the exchange of information between evaluation laboratories, experts and certification bodies. Pilot processes are used to examine whether these concepts are suitable to be used in practice.

Partner

 * Agencia de Protección de Datos de la Communidad de Madrid (APDCM) (Spain)
 * Borking Consultancy (The Netherlands)
 * Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) (France)
 * Ernst & Young(Sweden)
 * Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austria)
 * London Metropolitan University (UK)
 * Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (ULD) (Germany)
 * TÜV Infomationstechnik GmbH (TÜVit) (Germany)
 * VaF s.r.o. (Slovakei)

Ceithearna Coille
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Ceithearna Coille. Irish language activists who wish to raise the profile of the Irish language rights campaign through peaceful, direct, visual action.

The Ceithearna Coille are a group which first came to public attention in the early months of 2007. This was a time when Irish speakers in the north of Ireland where campaigning for liguistic equality, seeking the same rights for Irish speakers as those granted to English speakers.

The Ceithearna Coille focused their efforts on a campaign to bring about bilingual road signage in areas which the population would favour such. To highlight this demand, members of the group placed stickers reading 'As Gaeilge Anois!' or 'In Irish Now!' on hundreds of signs in nationalist areas across the north's six counties.

The group, through it's website have issueed a number of press releases, which have caught the attention of the BBC Ulster chatshow 'Talkback', Irish Language newspaper 'Lá Nua' and National Radio 'RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta'.

The group does not claim links to any political party, in fact the only other organisation praised on their site is 'Na Gaeil Óga', a national network of young Irish speakers with branches in universities and colleges throughout Ireland.

The Ceithearna Coille have stated that their campaign of peaceful action will continue until their demands for bilingual signage are met. They cite the fact that 95% of Ireland's placenames come directly from Gaelic as the motivation behind thier actions and justification for their demands. In May 2007, the Ceithearna Coille opened an online shop selling the stickers used in thier campaign and encouraging others to join in. The Ceithearna Coille claim now to have many groups working on both sides of Irelands north/south devide.

Their work has brought about negitive criticism from anti-Gaelic and Unionist groups. Letters to the editor of the 'Belfast Newsletter' have been strong in their opposition to the defacing of signage.

Bellshill Basketball Club
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Bellshill Basketball Club was first established in 1985.

The club is based in Cardinal Newman High School bellshill.

They are also know as the Bellshill Cardinals.

History The team originated solely as a Scottish junior (under 19) national league bastketball team. They played their first games against Cumnock Junior basketball team in 1985. The club went on to have several teams in various Scottish leagues including the Scottish senior mens basketball league and Strathclyde mens league.

Current Team The current team is consists of a senoir mens team in the Strathclyde League, year 2006-2007.

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Chuckie Akenz's gang with 3548 members. The gang is from the jane and finch area. It is mostly vietnamese/asian gangsters but it also has some other raced members. Chuckie Akenz features in their rap group The 21 Clipz. V-unit has no hispanic (latin-american) members. The people of this crew and its leader is featured on jane-finch.com. V-unit stands for Vietnamese Unit.

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Arvind Mathew the current MD of US auto company Ford. Born in India he attended Lawrence for school.

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Henri Saada was born on May 12, 1906 in Southern Tunisia; His early childhood was fraught with illness (he developed asthma at the age of three). He started drawing at a young age. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Tunis, then taught there as a member of the faculty until 1961.

Starting in 1929, he exhibited his work every year in a wide range of shows, the "Salon Tunisien", and the Salons de l’Afrique française in Fez, as well as Bordeaux, and at the "Exposition Internationale of Paris" in 1937.

From early on, he wanted to study the masters. He had the opportunity to get to know some of his preferred artists, Tintoret, Goya, Delacroix in Italy, Spain and France and Rembrandt later on in Amsterdam.

In 1934, he obtained a fellowship to travel to Italy where he enjoyed painting Florence and Venice, which he considered as the most beautiful Italian cities.

He was able to paint landscapes, portraits, drawings and caricatures as was recognized in the high praise he received in the "Dépêche Tunisienne".

In 1961, he left Tunisia for Paris. In the art studio that the Service des Affaires Culturelles granted him, he started a series of paintings on his preferred subjects: the beaches of Brittany and Normandy, the parks of Paris, and the crowds in the Jardin des Tuileries. Despite moments of despair, and thanks to relentless effort, he came to feel a sense of completion in his work. He finally found that special blond light that he had been searching, those forms where the drawing fades to let color predominate and contrasts between shadow and light provide the basis for expression.

He had exhibits in several Salons, especially in Paris: at "the Salon d'Automne", at the "Indépendants" (in the Grand Palais), and at the "Peintres Témoins de Leur Temps" (in the Musée Galliera).

He died in Paris on March 19, 1976.

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Windfall - Singer/Songwriterduo

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Bibliography - Wizards First Rule pg 76 to 143 to the Naked Empire in the sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind.

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Kamaljit Chand, born 22nd January 1975 in Wolverhampton (UK) He has 1 older sister and 1 younger brother. His father moved the family to Southall, West London when he was 6 years old.

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LTspice is a free (but not open source) PSPICE-like analog electronic circuit software developped by Linear Technology

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Jan Fugelset was a professional fotball player. Topscorer on Molde Fotball klubb and Fredrikstad fotball klubb. He has now lied down his career as a fotball player and instead chosen a life as a teacher.

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Santorini (Greek Σαντορίνη, IPA: ˌsa(n)do̞ˈrini) is a small, circular archipelago of volcanic islands located in southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km south-east from Greece's mainland. It is also known as Thera (or Thira, Greek Θήρα, IPA: ˈθira). It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km² (28 mi²), and in 2001 had an estimated population of 13,600. Santorini is essentially what has been left from an enormous volcanic explosion which destroyed the settlements thereon and led to the creation of the current geological caldera. Its spectacular natural beauty along with its eminent nightlife make the island one of Europe's top tourist hotspots.

A giant central lagoon, more or less rectangular and measuring about 12 km by 7 km (8 mi by 4 mi), is surrounded by 300 m (984 ft) high, steep cliffs on three sides. The island slopes downward from the cliffs to the surrounding Mediterranean sea. On the fourth side, the lagoon is separated from the Mediterranean by another much smaller island called Therasia. The lagoon merges with the sea in two places, in the northwest and southwest. The water in the centre of the lagoon is nearly 400 m (1,300 ft) deep, thus being a safe harbour for all kinds of ships. The island's harbors are all in the lagoon and there are no ports on the outer perimeter of the island. The island's capital, Fira, clings to the top of the cliff looking down on the lagoon.

It is the most active volcanic centre in the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, though what remains today is largely a water-filled caldera. The name of Santorini was given to it by the Latin empire in the thirteenth century and is a reference to Saint Irene. Before then it was called Kallistē ("the most beautiful one"), Strongylē ("the circular one"), or Thera.

The island was the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history when it erupted cataclysmically some 3,500 years ago, at the height of the Mycenaean epoch. The eruption left a large caldera surrounded by volcanic ash deposits hundreds of feet deep and, according to a theory, its effects may have indirectly led to the collapse of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, 110 km (70 mi) to the south, due to a gigantic tsunami. Another popular theory holds that the Thera eruption is the source of the legend of Atlantis (see below for detail).

Contents [hide] 1 "Minoan" Akrotiri 1.1 Dating 2 Ancient volcanic eruption 2.1 Physical effects 3 Ancient and Medieval Santorini 4 Modern Santorini 5 Thera hypotheses 5.1 Development of the Exodus Connection 5.2 Development of the Atlantis connection 6 Trivia 7 Gallery 8 References 9 External links

[edit] "Minoan" Akrotiri Linear A script etched on a vase found in AkrotiriExcavations starting in 1967 at the site called Akrotiri ("Upper Thira") under the late Professor Spyridon Marinatos have made Thera the best-known "Minoan" site outside of Crete, the homeland of the culture. The island was not called Thera at the time. Only the southern tip of a large town has been uncovered, yet it has revealed complexes of multi-level buildings, streets and squares, with remains of walls standing as high as 8 meters, all entombed in the solidified ash of the famous eruption of Thera. The site was not a palace-complex such as are found in Crete, but its excellent masonry and fine wall-paintings show that this was no conglomeration of merchants' warehousing either. A loom-workshop suggests organized textile weaving for export.

Satellite image of Santorini. Clockwise from center: Nea Kameni; Palea Kameni; Aspronisi; Therasia; TheraThe houses in Akrotiri are major structures and some of them are three stories high. Streets and squares, and walls preserved in the layers of ejecta to heights as high as eight meters, indicate that this was a major town. In many houses the stone staircases are still intact, and they contain huge ceramic storage jars (pithoi), mills, and pottery. The most famous archaeological remains found in Akrotiri are wall paintings or frescoes, which have kept their original color very well, as they were preserved under many meters of volcanic ash. The town had a highly developed drainage system and its citizens were clearly very sophisticated and relatively wealthy people, judging from the fine art work.

Pipes with running water and water closets found at Akrotiri are the oldest such utilities discovered. The pipes run in twin systems, indicating that the Therans used both hot and cold water supplies. The hot water's origin was probably geothermic, given the volcano's proximity. The dual pipe system suggesting hot and cold running water, the advanced architecture, and the apparent layout of the Akrotiri find resembles Plato's description of the legendary lost city of Atlantis, further indicating the Minoans as the culture which primarily inspired the Atlantis legend.

The "saffron-gatherers"Fragmentary wall-paintings at Akrotiri lack the insistent mythological content familiar in both Greek and Christian decor. Instead, the Minoan frescoes depict "Saffron-Gatherers", who offer their crocus-stamens to a seated lady, perhaps a goddess; in another house are two antelopes, painted with a kind of confident, flowing decorative, calligraphic line, the famous fresco of a fisherman with his double strings of fish strung by their gills, and the flotilla of pleasure boats, accompanied by leaping dolphins, where ladies take their ease in the shade of light canopies, among other frescoes.

Landscape of spring time. Fresco from the Bronze Age, AkrotiriThe well preserved ruins of the ancient town are often compared to the spectacular ruins at Pompeii in Italy. Unfortunately for would-be visitors the canopy covering the ruins collapsed in September, 2005, killing one tourist and injuring seven more. The site remains closed while a new canopy is built.

The oldest signs of human settlement are Late Neolithic (4th millennium BC or earlier), but ca. 2000–1650 BC Akrotiri developed into one of the Aegean's major Bronze Age ports, with recovered objects that had come not just from Crete but also from Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria and Egypt, from the Dodecanese and the Greek mainland.

[edit] Dating The Minoan eruption provides a fixed point for aligning the entire chronology of the 2nd millennium in the Aegean. Evidence of the eruption occurs throughout the region, and the site itself contains material culture from outside. The eruption occurred during the "Late Minoan IA" period at Crete and the "Late Cycladic I" in the surrounding islands.

However, the exact date of the eruption is unknown. Recent dendrochronological research, radiocarbon dating, and Greenland ice core findings indicate that the eruption occurred between about 1650 and 1600 BC. These dates, however, conflict with the usual date range from archaeological evidence, which is between about 1550 BC and 1500 BC.

Some scholars believe the radiocarbon dates to be completely wrong. Some suggest re-scaling archaeological chronologies with the radiocarbon dates. Others look for a compromise between the archaeological and radiocarbon dates for best fits of both sets of data. Re-scaling archaeological chronologies is controversial, because revising the Aegean Bronze Age chronology could require, by association, revising the well-established conventional Egyptian chronology. The debate about the date continues.

[edit] Ancient volcanic eruption Main article: Minoan eruption The devastating volcanic eruption of Thera has become the most famous single event in the Aegean before the fall of Troy. The eruption would likely have caused a significant climate upset for the eastern Mediterranean region. It was one of the biggest volcanic eruptions on Earth in the last few thousand years.

[edit] Physical effects Volcanic craters at Santorini todayThe violent eruption was centred on a small island just north of the existing island of Nea Kameni in the centre of the caldera. The caldera itself was formed several hundred thousand years ago by collapse of the centre of a circular island caused by the emptying of the magma chamber during an eruption. It has been filled several times by ignimbrite since then and the process repeated, most recently 21,000 years ago. The northern part of the caldera was refilled by the volcano and then collapsed again during the Minoan eruption. Before the Minoan eruption, the caldera formed a nearly continuous ring with the only entrance between the tiny island of Aspronisi and Thera. The eruption destroyed the sections of the ring between Aspronisi and Therasia, and between Therasia and Thera, creating two new channels.

On Santorini, there is a deposit of white tephra thrown from the eruption; it is up to 60 metres thick overlying the soil marking the ground level before the eruption. The layer is divided into three fairly distinct bands indicating different phases of the eruption. New archaeological discoveries by a team of international scientists in 2006 have revealed that the Santorini event was much more massive than previously thought. It expelled 61 cubic kilometres of magma and rock into Earth's atmosphere compared to previous estimates of only 39 cubic kilometres in 1991.[1][2] Only the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption of 1815 (and possibly the eruption at Lake Taupo of 181 AD) released more material into the atmosphere in the past 5,000 years — at an estimated 100 cubic kilometres.

[edit] Ancient and Medieval Santorini The island is famous for its sunsetSantorini remained unoccupied throughout the rest of the Bronze Age, during which time the Greeks took over Crete.

At Knossos, in a LMIIIA context (14th century BC), seven Linear B texts while calling upon "all the gods" make sure to grant primacy to an elsewhere-unattested entity called qe-ra-si-ja and, once, qe-ra-si-jo. If the endings -ia[s] and -ios represent an ethnikonic suffix, then this means "The One From Qeras[os]". If aspirated, *Qhera- would have become "Thera-" in later Greek. "Therasia" and its ethnikon "Therasios" are both attested in later Greek; and, since -sos was itself a genitive suffix in the Aegean Sprachbund, *Qeras[os] could also shrink to *Qera. (    ternate view takes qe-ra-si-ja and qe-ra-si-jo as proof of androgyny, and applies this name by similar arguments to the legendary seer, Tiresias. But these views are not mutually exclusive.) If qe-ra-si-ja was an ethnikon first, then in following him/her/it the Cretans also feared whence it came.[3]

Over the centuries after the general catastrophes of 1200 BC, Phoenicians founded a site on Thera.

Then, in the 9th century BC, Dorians founded the main Hellenic city - on Mesa Vouno, 396 m above sea level. These people later claimed that they had named the city and the island after their leader, Theras.

House from the Doric colony of TheraThe Dorians have left a number of inscriptions incised in stone, in the vicinity of the temple of Apollo, attesting to pederastic relations between the authors and their eromenoi. These inscriptions, found by Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen, have been thought by some archeologists to be of a ritual, celebratory nature, due to their large size, careful construction and - in some cases - execution by craftsmen other than the authors. Other historians, such as Dover and Marrou, have considered them to be    ographic in nature.[4]

According to Herodotus (4.149-165), following a drought of seven years, Thera sent out colonists who founded a number of cities in northern Africa, including Cyrene.

In the 5th century BC, Dorian Thera did not join the Delian League with Athens; and during the Peloponnesian War, Thera sided with Dorian Sparta against Athens. The Athenians took the island during the war, but lost it again after the Battle of Aegospotami.

As with other Greek territories, Thera then was ruled by the Romans; and it passed to the eastern side of the Empire when it divided - which is now known as the Byzantine Empire.

During the Crusades, the Franks settled it. In the 13th century AD, the Venetians annexed it to the Duchy of Naxos and renamed it "Santorini", that is "Saint Irene".

Santorini came under Ottoman rule in 1579.

[edit] Modern Santorini Part of Santorini town and the caldera Santorini was annexed by Greece in 1912. Major settlements in Santorini include Fira (Phira), Oia, Emporio, Kamari, Imerovigli, Pyrgos and Therasia. Akrotiri is a major archaeological site with ruins from the Minoan era. The island has no rivers and water is scarce. Until the early nineties locals used to fill water cisterns from the rain that fell on their roofs and courts, from small springs as well as by importing it from other areas of Greece. Nowadays, there is a desalination plant that provides running, yet nonpotable, water to most houses. The primary industry of Santorini is tourism and in the summer the island can get quite crowded. The pumice quarries have been closed since 1986 in order to preserve the caldera of Santorini. Santorini is home to a small but flourishing wine industry, based on the indigenous grape variety, Assyrtiko. Assyrtiko vines are extremely old and are resistant to phylloxera, attributed by local winemakers to the well drained volcanic soil and its chemistry. Consequently they did not need to be replaced during the great phylloxera epidemic of the early 20th century. Assyrtiko vines are well adapted to the Santorini habitat and are planted far apart, as their principal source of moisture is dew. They are trained in the shape of low spiraling baskets, with the grapes hanging inside to protect them from the winds. Also unique is the red, sweet and extremely strong Vinsanto. White wines from the island are extremely dry with a strong, citrus scent; the ashy volcanic soil gives the white wines a slight sulphurous flavor much like the Visanto. It is not easy to be a wine grower in Santorini; the hot and dry climate gives the soil a low productivity. The yield per acre is only 10 to 20% of the yields that are common in France and California.

Oia at night

Santorini's famous Red Beach

Houses built on the edge of the caldera

These tourists ride, bypassing the modern cable lift

In 1707 an undersea volcano breached the sea surface forming the current centre of activity at Nea Kameni, and eruptions centred on it continue — three times in the twentieth century, the last being in 1950. Santorini was also struck by a devastating earthquake in 1956. At some time in the future, it will almost certainly erupt violently again. Although the volcano rests at the present time, at the current active crater [there are several former craters on Nea Kameni] steam and sulphur are given off.

[edit] Thera hypotheses The rediscovery of the violent explosion of Thera/Santorini spawned some speculative theories that aimed to connect the eruption with history and myth.

[edit] Development of the Exodus Connection The town of Oia.The eruption of Santorini has been connected to the Israelite Exodus from Egypt and to the Ipuwer Papyrus, which in turn have been connected to each other. These theories would tie the eruption to Pharaoh Ahmose I in the Second Intermediate Period of Egyptian History.

A 2006 documentary created by filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, which explores new evidence in favor of the account of the Book of Exodus, "Exodus Decoded" (The History Channel, aired Sunday, 20 August 2006), investigates Egyptian records of the departure of the mysterious Semitic Hyksos.

Jacobovici suggests that the Hyksos and the Hebrews (whom he calls "Amo Israel", "the people of God") were one and the same, a thesis he supports with Egyptian-style signet rings uncovered in the Hyksos capital of Avaris. These signets read Yakov, similar to Hebrew name of the Biblical patriarch Jacob (Ya'aqov). Another standpoint for this theory is one of the important Hyksos cities, Avaris, which is called modernly Tel el-Yahudiyeh (meaning "mound of the Jews") known for its distinctive black and whiteware.

Jacobovici propounds the theory that the eruption of the Santorini Island volcano (c. 1623 B.C., +/-25) caused all the biblical plagues described against Egypt, redating the eruption to c. 1500 B.C.. The Hyksos, some of them Mycenaean Greek "Hebrews", fled Egypt (which they had in fact ruled for some time) after the eruption. Jacobovici (and fellow producer James Cameron) make a dramatic but rather thinly-supported presentation that the Hyksos were none other than the Israelites, who may have also been known as Habiru ("Hebrews")[neutrality disputed]. The pharaoh with whom they identify the Pharaoh of the Exodus is Ahmose I, whose name means "the moon is born" in Egyptian, and "brother of Moses" in Hebrew. Rather than crossing the Red Sea, a marshy area in northern Egypt, known as the "Reed Sea" would likely have been alternately drained and flooded by Tsunamis caused by the caldera collapse and could have been crossed during the exodus

[edit] Development of the Atlantis connection Houses on the steep cliffs.It was not hard to see why this location was added to the list of possible locations for the fabled city of Atlantis. As with most myths, connections to real places are usually dubious, and serious scientists are often skeptical. However, the latest archaeological, seismological and vulcanological evidence (popularized on The History Channel show Lost Worlds episode "Atlantis"[5] regarding Crete, Santorini and the description of Atlantis from Plato, is compelling enough (though not yet conclusive) that respected scientists are beginning to take it seriously:

Plato's description of a palace where water was plentiful, collected from the surrounding hills, is a good match with the digs at Knossus and Akroteri. Plato also describes the palace of Atlantis as a multi-level acropolis sitting on a great, flattened, terraced hilltop. Again, this matches the palace at Knossus. In addition, the large foundation blocks of the palace walls were constructed of a crystalline stone called gypsum, quarried locally and cut into blocks with bronze saws. In Plato's Atlantis description, the external walls of the palace were said to "shine like silver," which is how a gypsum wall could have appeared as it glistened in the sun. Construction of the structure was advanced for its time period. The ancient engineers were able to control the path of air and light through the depths of the palace quarters using "pier and door partitioning", spiral staircase "light wells", and other features. Since violent quakes were common in the area, the palace engineers devised an anti-seismic technique, the buttressing of the unmortared walls with wooden frames and internal beams — another novelty for the age in which it was constructed. Minoan civilization disappeared suddenly, at the height of its wealth and power. This was also similar to Plato's description of the fate of the "Atlanteans". Scientists theorize that multiple tsunamis hit the island of Crete, circa 1500 BC, that came from the direction of the island of Santorini (then called Thera) about 100 miles from Crete.

Santorini is the site of a massive caldera with an island at its center. Vulcanologists have determined this ill-fated island was engulfed by the terrible ca. 1500 BC eruption and collapse of the Stroggilí volcano there, which affected the entire eastern Mediterranean, as far away as the Near East — possibly the most powerful eruption in recorded history, ejecting approximately 30 cu km (7 cu mi) of magma, up to 36 km (23 mi) high. Volcanic events of this magnitude are known to generate tsunamis. The eruption is also theorized by some to explain most of the seemingly miraculous Biblical events of Exodus (a controversial idea made popular by another 2006 History Channel documentary, "The Exodus Decoded" (see above for further detail). The only gold object found at Akrotiri, a small scupture of an ibex.In 1966 at Akrotiri, archeologist James Maber Jr., uncovered an ancient city at the island's perimeter. The town remained substantially intact, like Pompeii, covered in ash. In fact, the entire island of Santorini was covered by volcanic deposits that fell during a single eruption. This layer of pumice and debris is over 100 feet deep. Underneath it, archeologists uncovered more homes with sophisticated plumbing and advanced engineering similar to those of Knossus. That only a single gold object was found hidden in flooring and a lack of human remains from the event indicate that an orderly evacuation was performed before the eruption. The island-city of Atlantis was described as being laid out in a series of concentric circles of land and water, each one connected to the sea by a deep c. Docks for a huge number of ships, and a causeway for unloading cargo of said ships, was also described. Unearthed frescos from the island have depicted Santorini with a configuration that can be interpreted in this way. It also shows a huge city on the island, theorized by archaeologists to represent the center of the caldera. At Akrotiri there are multi-story buildings. This city may have had the earliest form of town planning (structured assembly of interconnecting roads and paths) ever discovered, again, with fresh running water and toilets in each house, leading to a sewer system. Many such sites have now been unearthed both on Crete and Santorini. Plato described quarries on the island of Atlantis where "rocks of white, black, and red" were extracted from the hills and used to construct a great island city. The description matches the rocks found on Santorini. The final clue is Plato's reference to Egypt as the source of the Atlantis myth, via Solon. The Egyptians called Atlantis "Kepchu"[citation needed], which also happens to be their name for the people of Crete. It is speculated[citation needed] that survivors of the Minoan volcanic disaster asked Egypt for help, since they were the only other civilization with high culture at the time[citation needed]. Further evidence may suggest that the Jewish people held as slaves in Egypt might have been refugees from the Santorini catastrophe.[citation needed] Investigations are ongoing.[citation needed] The scientists Dr. J. Alexander MacGuuvry (archeologist), Dr. Colin F. MacDonald (archeologist), Professor Floyd McCoy (vulcanologist), professor Clairy Palyvou (architect), and Dr. Garassimos Papadopoulos (seismologist) are featured prominently in the documentary, and the above are examples of their research and conclusions.

[edit] Trivia The island is the main location for the film Summer Lovers and subject of a large number of documentary films.

[edit] Gallery Panoramic view of Santorini's rocky cliffs

Grape plants growing directly on the ground (without any support for the branches), Santorini, Greece

Grapevines at Santorini are pruned and shaped low to survive the winds here

Unique "spiral basket" pruning is still visible in early April

Tourists at Oia watching to see the sunset.

Thira, taken from a ship in the harbor

The Lighthouse, Akrotiri

Full Moon from Oia

Prehistoric Site of Akrotiri

Panoramic view of the Santorini caldera, taken from Imerovigli

[edit] References ^ http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/?id=3654 ^ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060823-thera-volcano.html ^ Minoan Qe-Ra-Si-Ja. The Religious Impact of the Thera Volcano on Minoan Crete ^ Theran graffiti in translation ^ http://www.history.com/minisites/lostworlds Forsyth, Phyllis Y.: Thera in the Bronze Age, Peter Lang Pub Inc, New York 1997. ISBN 0-8204-4889-3 Thera (Santorin) - Catholic Encyclopedia article Global Volcanism Program: Santorini History Channel's "Lost Worlds: Atlantis" archeology series. Features scientists Dr. J. Alexander MacGuuvry (archeologist), Dr. Colin F. MacDonald (archeologist), Professor Floyd McCoy (vulcanologist), professor Clairy Palyvou (architect), and Dr. Garassimos Papadopoulos (seismologist).

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