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William Schnoebelen
A Christian Author

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Prinsloo
Prinsloo is a name. It can refer to:


 * 1) P. J. Prinsloo, is a South African actor.
 * 2) Behati Prinsloo
 * 3) Sandra Prinsloo, a South African actress.
 * 4) Henno Prinsloo, a Namibian cricketer.
 * 5) Christine Prinsloo, a former field hockey player.
 * 6) Troyden Prinsloo

LigandScout
LigandScout is a software tool that allows to model 3D pharmacophore models from structural data of macromolecule/ligand complexes. It incorporates a complete definition of three-dimensional chemical features (such as hydrogen bond donors, acceptors, lipophilic areas, positively and negatively ionizable chemical groups) that describe the interaction of a bound small organic molecule (ligand) and the surrounding binding site of the macromolecule. These pharmacophores can be overlaid and superimposed using a pattern-matching based alignment algorithm that is solely based on pharmacophoric feature points instead of chemical structure. From such an overlay, shared features can be interpolated to create a so-called "shared-feature pharmacophore" that shares all common interactions of several binding sites/ligands or extended to create a so-called "merged-feature" pharmacophore. The software has been successfully used to predict new lead structures in drug design, e.g. for the prediction of biological activity of novel HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors.

memequando
memequando is a martial arts program created by meme in the early 1990's. He was inspired to make it by his compadre sean who invented seanitju. Today memequando is widely practiced in all areas of the united states by weaklings and hobos.

Beware, The Snowman
Beware, The Snowman is the fifty-first book in the Goosebumps series by Robert Laurence Stine. It is preceeded by Calling All Creeps and proceeded by How I Learned To Fly.

Teaser
Jaclyn used to live with her aunt Greta in Chicago, but she doesn't anymore. They'be moved to a place called Sherpia. It's a tiny village on the edge of the Arctic Circle. Jaclyn can't believe she's stuck out in Nowheresville. No movie theaters. No malls. No nothing. Plus, there's something really odd about the village. At night there are strange howling noises. And in front of every house there's a snowman. A creepy snowman with a red scarf. A deep scar on his face. And a really evil smile...

Todd Whitener
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Rosetta(Fairy)
Rossetta is the name of the garden fairy from the Disney Animated Movie Tinker Bell the Movie. She has lovely, pentrating eyes and has red, wavy hair.She wears a red gown made from rose petals. She's more of a style icon among her friends. She is a calm fairy that loves to live in the Buttercup Canyon of the Pixie Hollow. She fears being not able to bathe again. She is yet respected by all the Fairies and is a worthy part of the Fairy Friend Circle with her best friends Fawn and Lily. [[Media:http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens1755959module7025509photo_fairy-rosetta.jpg]]

WikiTrust
WikiTrust is a project that seeks to use an automated algorithm to assess the credibility of content on the English-language Wikipedia. It produces a website that mirrors the content of Wikipedia as it existed on February 6, 2007; content that is stable, based on an analysis of article history, is displayed in normal black-on-white type, and content that is not stable is highlighted in varying shades of yellow or orange.

Wikipedia and the pitfalls of Web 2.0
Wikipedia is an encyclopædia that allows almost anybody with an Internet connection to add new content or, with some exceptions, to edit existing content. This policy of making it easy to add valuable content is, perhaps, paradigmatic of Web 2.0, a trend where much of the content on the Internet is produced by end users instead of by paid editors. It also is responsible, in part, for Wikipedia's having become one of the largest reference websites.

One of the problems with allowing anybody with an Internet connection to edit pages is, of course, that users can add nonsense. Indeed, it has been said that "an Internet service cannot be considered truly successful until it has attracted spammers." Perhaps more common than spammers, however, are users who simply "vandalize" Wikipedia. Of greater concern are those who intentionally (or unintentionally) add inaccurate information, which is sometimes reverted on sight but other times remains undetected for longer periods of time; in spite of this, most of the content on Wikipedia is factually verifiable, and articles on scientific subjects have been deemed to be of comparable quality to that which is found in paper encyclopedias. A study showed that "based on 42 articles reviewed by experts, the average scientific entry in Wikipedia contained four errors or omissions, while Britannica had three." One criticism of Wikipedia has been that "notable perspectives are summarised without an attempt to determine an objective truth." Given the fact that Wikipedia can be edited by anybody, along with the various criticisms of Wikipedia, it would be desirable for there to be some way for users to assess the accuracy of what they read.

What WikiTrust does
WikiTrust is an attempt to "compute Wikipedia's authority" using sophisticated "data mining" algorithms that assess the credibility of editors (users that make changes to Wikipedia content) by tracking their contributions. This project is still in a beta test stage, and the criticism has been raised that "the software doesn’t really measure trustworthiness, and the danger is that people will trust the software to measure something that it does not." Generally, users whose content persists for a long time without being "reverted" by other editors are deemed more trustworthy by the software. This may mean that users who edit controversial articles subject to frequent reversion may be found to be less trustworthy than others. Although the WikiTrust tool may be useful for flagging statements in articles that require closer scrutiny, Wikipedia's general disclaimer reminds us that there is "no guarantee of validity" (original in all caps) for anything on Wikipedia, and thus nothing on the site should be relied on as professional advice, regardless of the output of any verification software or even the consensus of users.

Problems with WikiTrust
The web site is only intermittently up and operational. In addition, in its copy of the Wikipedia database, it has renamed the "Wikipedia:" namespace to "The UCSC Wikipedia Trust Project:" which results in confusing page titles (such as a page being "about the UCSC Wikipedia Trust Project" actually being a mirror of the about page.

Conclusion
In the words of ACRLog, the blog of the Association of College and Research Librarians, "We can and should make use of machine algorithms to uncover information that we wouldn’t be able to on our own," but "we need to keep our human critical thinking skills activated and engaged."

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Janéa Holmquist
Senator Janéa Holmquist 13th District, Moses Lake (Printer Friendly | Hi-Res Photo) Elective Office: House of Representatives 2001-2006; Senate 2007. Current term expires January 2011.

Standing Committees: Ranking Republican Member, Labor, Commerce, Research and Development; Assistant Ranking Republican Member, Early Learning and K-12 Education; Water, Energy and Telecommunications; Transportation. http://www.senaterepublicans.wa.gov/holmquist/bio.htm

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Vandavanda (Music Group from Belgium)
Vandavanda are a music group from Belgium, formed on the local version of Tv Show Popstars. They released several singles and an album, and entered the Belgian contest to choose their eurovision song contest entry but were unsuccessful.

Stein's Algorithm
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This algorithm is described in the article on Binary GCD where it is credited to Joseph Stein.

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Jacob Willekens
Jacob Willekens or Wilckens (1571-1633) was a Dutch admiral and privateer who commanded the different fleets for the Dutch West Indies Company during the 16th and 17th century. His most well-known success was undoubtedly the conquest of San Salvador de Bahia, the then capital of Brazil. His fleet, which included Dutch corsair Piet Hein as vice admiral, departed from Texel on December 22, 1623 with between 26-36 ships and 3,300 sailors towards South America. At the beginning of June 1624, they began their attack from sea and soon captured the Portuguese stronghold with little resistance. They occupied Bahia for over a year before the local population took up arms under acting governor Matias de Albuquerque and Archbishop Dom Marcos Teixeira who eventually expelled them with the help of a combined Spanish-Portuguese fleet numbering 52 warships and 12,000 soldiers in May 1625. This was the first major WIC privateering expedition to the region.

He would also participate in an attack on Rio de Janeiro with Hein in 1626, but after a dispute over who would be in command, the two separated with Willekens returning to Amsterdam. After a successful attack on Manilla, Willekens died on Ternate in 1633.

Facial Emotion Expression Lab
The Facial Expression Emotion Lab was founded by Freitas-Magalhaes in 2003 and is a unit of the College of Health Sciences at the University Fernando Pessoa, Oporto, Portugal. The mission of Facial Expression Emotion Lab create new scientific knowledge about the human emotions and their forms of social expression. To this end, the Facial Expression Emotion Lab has created pioneering IT Applications and Interfaces.

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Darius Rejali
Darius Rejali is an Iranian-born political scientist at Reed University, considered to be one of the world's leading experts on techniques of modern torture in the past two centuries. His major previous book is Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran, and his many articles include "The Lessons of July 21", "5 Myths about Torture", and "Does Torture Work?".

His latest book, Torture and Democracy, is one of the most extensive histories of state torture ever written. In addition to being such a compiliation, he uses the extensive evidence to make several key conclusions:


 * Tortures fall into two types, clean and scarring. "Clean" tortures are methods used which do not leave visible marks or easily detectable traces.
 * Democracies were the origintors of most clean tortures in the world, and have been using them since the 19th century at least.
 * Clean tortures have been used in Authoritatian regimes since the 1970s, due to an international human rights monitoring regieme.
 * Torture, by its very nature, cannot be conducted professionally.
 * Torture is not a science, due to the nature of pain.
 * When used for intelligence gathering, torture does not produce reliable information.
 * Due to the way they are organized, governments and institutions have "institutional amnesia" about its effects.

Most of the articles written since 2003 have been about the Abu Ghirab scandal and Guantanimo Bay, applying knowledge contained in Torture and Democracy to current events.

Turner Cody
Born in December 1980. Grew up in Boston. Moved to New York City in 1999 at the age of 18 and have lived there on and off ever since. I have self-released 8 LP length albums I also self-released a book of poetry entitled "The Return of the High Priestess and other Poems". They are available only through contacting me at mrturnercody@hotmail.com. I also have a song on the compilation "Antifolk Vol.1" released by Rough Trade in 2002. Jim Flynn, Ish Marquez, Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, Seth Hebert, and Dianne Cluck among others are on it as well.

The Belgian label b.y_records recently compiled material from the first years albums into "60 Seasons - A compilation 2000 - 2005". Available on www.byrecords.com It’s distributed by Bang! (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg) and by BB*Island (Germany, Swizeraland, Austria). Also, Tim "Love" Lee’s new record label - Boy Scout Recordings - have realaesed the album "Quarter Century" I made a couple of years ago, plus a wonderfull 7 inch of "Suzannah". Check out your stores in the UK!

Eldon L. Smith
Eldon L. Smith son of Norman and Jaunita Smith (Smith's Florist) was born in Woodstock and ran many different established businesses in the Woodstock area starting with his wife Catherina Eva (Andries) Smith with the Connell Road Bake Shop later to manage the Grafton Irving and with the success of that moving to manage the Broadway Irving for many years.

He brought "Christmas On Broadway" to the street of Broadway which would have the floats in Woodstock NB at Christmas time finishing the tour of the streets at the store where he provided "Surprise Bags" (filled with candy and toys) to all the people that turned out and would fill the parking lot and the street.

Cheng Chin
Cheng Chin (c. 1643-1682) was a 17th century Chinese pirate and warlord. He was the eldest son of Cheng Ch'eng-kung and grandson of Cheng Chih-lung. He inheriting both the vast pirate fleet and the throne of Tainan upon the death of his father in June 1662. He intended to continue his fathers plans to invade the Philippines however he was forced to abandon this venture when faced with the threat of a Manchu-Dutch alliance. His victory over a combined Manchu-Dutch fleet in 1664 resulted in ending the brief alliance.

Although he continued to fight for the cause his father died for, he had largely abandoned any pretense of restoring the Ming Dynasty by the time he invaded Fukien in 1676. He occupied key cities in the province for a year before loosing them back to the Manchus by the end of 1677. Invading Fukien once more, he led a force of 30,000 men to capture Haicheng as well as taking the provincial commander prisoner. He held his position in for sometime before being driven off the mainland by the Manchu. He retreated to Tainan where he fell ill and died in 1682.

Rum Monkey
Rum Monkey is a skateboard company based in Hermosa Beach, California. The company was started in June of 2005. The company makes high quality skateboards with graphics that are submitted to them by up-and-coming artists. Rum Monkey also makes shirts, hats, shorts and other skateboard-related products. The name "Rum Monkey" was chosen when the founders saw a vintage Carlo Biscaretti poster for the Anisetta Evangelisti Liquore da Dessert. The company's logos are of a monkey skateboarding and a monkey with a necklace with a "Rum" pendant.

CORLISS P. STONE
Corliss P. Stone was born in Franklin county, Vermont, on the 20th of March, 1838, and was of English lineage, although for many generations representatives of the family had been residents of America, the great-great-great-grandfather having been one of the early colonial settlers of Connecticut, while Benjamin Stone, the grandfather of our subject, served in the Colonial army during the war of the Revolution. He was identified with the Congregational church in religious faith and lived to the advanced age of eighty-six years. He married a Miss Corliss, a member of the family that became famous as the manufacturers of the Corliss steam engines. James Corliss Stone, the father of our subject, was born in Connecticut and married Miss Charlotte Lathrope, a native of Chelsea, Vermont, and she, too, was of English heritage and a representative of an old Vermont family. She attained the age of sixty-six years, while Mr. Stone reached the venerable age of eighty-four years. For a number of years he held the office of justice of the peace, and his decisions were rendered without partiality or bias. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stone were active and devout members of the Congregational church and their labors contributed to its upbuilding. Their family consisted of three sons and three daughters.

Forty years have passed since Corliss P. Stone became a resident of Seattle and in this period he has contributed in large measure to the extension and improvement of the city through his real-estate operations, while his business activity along other lines has promoted commercial prosperity. He arrived here in February, 1862, and through the intervening period has steadily advanced until he now occupies a leading position among the men of prominence here.

Corliss P. Stone was educated in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, attending the public schools and the academy there, and entered upon his business career as a clerk in a dry-goods store. Later he engaged in business on his own account for three years before coming to the Pacific coast. He made the voyage around the Horn in the Archer, a clipper ship, which in a gale lost a mast and was in imminent peril, but she stopped for repairs and afterward continued the voyage in safety, casting anchor in the harbor of San Francisco after one hundred and ten days. Mr. Stone had followed Horace Greeley's advice to young men and had come to the west, hoping to find good business opportunities in this section of the country. He possessed a strong body, willing hands and a clear head, but little else to serve him as capital.

His first work in Washington was at Port Madison, where he was employed as a salesman in a store for five years. In 1867 he established a store and wholesale business of his own in Seattle he merged with the firm of Hinds, Burnett which became Stone, Burnett. Despite a rash misjudgement he settled his accounts in 1873 he settled his accounts he returned and he conducted a successful business until 1884. He then sold out and became interested in city real estate. Many other enterprises have also claimed his attention and he is widely known as a man of resourceful business ability, who not only has the talent for planning successful enterprises but also the ability to put them into good working order.

Corliss Stone became one of the organizers of the Union Electric Company, furnishing light and power for the city, and is now the president of the Cascade Laundry Company, which is doing a large business in the city. He also operated in Seattle real estate platting several additions to the city, the first being in 1884. This was the Lake Union addition, including one hundred and sixty acres of land, on which great improvements have been made. His next was the Edgewater addition of thirty acres, which is also all built up at the present time. He then platted Stone's extension to the same addition, which has also been improved, many fine buildings having been erected there. He later created the C. P. Stone home addition, of twenty acres, adjoining Lake Union.

It will thus be seen that he was a prominent factor in the improvement and upbuilding of the city and did his full share toward the promotion of many movements which have contributed to the public welfare aside from his individual interests. In 1864 Mr. Stone was married to Clara Boyd, and unto them were born two children, but only one is now living, Corliss L., who is now in the office of his father, and is a young man of excellent business ability.

In politics he has been a lifelong Republican and had the honor of being elected mayor of the city in 1872. In February of 1873 he withdrew the liquid assets of the firm of Stone, Burnett without authorization and persued his lover to the City of San Francisco which triggered an investigation and a court case. He was ethical enough however to return recompensate his former partner Charles Hiram Burnett Sr.and resume business.

In 1874 Mr. Stone was again married, his second union being with the former Mrs. Almira L. Crossman, a native of Montreal, Canada. He exercised his official prerogatives for the improvement and substantial progress of Seattle and has labored earnestly for the advancement of this part of the state. Regarded as a citizen and in his social relations, he belongs to that public-spirited, useful and helpful class of men whose ambitions and desires are centered and directed in those channels through which flow the greatest and most permanent good to the greatest number.



Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in February 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.

New World Mission Dunamis International University
New World Mission Dunamis International University formed partnerships with Dunamis Degrees Accreditation Association (formerly the Accrediting Association of New World Mission Church and Degree Bible School) DDAA is a international Accrediting Body as it is recognized by Trinity International Bible University, DNA Health Centre, South Africa, St' Albert's College & Graduation School,and ITSC,USA. Together these affiliates offer accreditation to churches, colleges, schools and international institutions. Course materials are developed to accommodate international students and to satisfy most governments around the world.

Michael Machell
Music Act



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Professor Poofenstein
Professor Poofenstein was born in Bristol, England, 12th September 1966.

As he grew up into a well educated family, with his father being a qualified doctor, he decided he wanted to study medecine and find out more about how the body works.

But he chose a very odd subjects to study. Professor Poofenstein once said 'If no one else wants to do it, then I will!'. He decided he wanted to study the human digestive system and feaces. This interested him, as he found the smell of human feaces quite nice, and enjoyed feeling feaces because he said 'the texture is very enjoyable to feel, almost better than sex!'

He was a very famous Professor in the South West, and whenever anyone needed to enquire about there dollops, he would be the first person to be seen.

Unfortunatley Professor Poofenstein in June 2007, because after a postmortmem, they found had digested several extracts of human feaces.

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