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Tod Torrent
Tod Torrent (born as Tod Alan Gunther on November 21, 1963) is an American escapologist and stunt performer specializing in adrenaline shows that bring meaning to others.

Taught to pick locks at a young age from his father who was a detective with the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division, Tod now conducts retreats and talks to youth, high-risk groups, and companies where courage provides a metaphor for greater excellence.

His experience with restraints, combined with a background in trimix deep gas diving, underground caves, ultra-lighting, and other adventure sports make him uniquely qualified for bringing this message to others.

Torrent has spoken before such Fortune 500 companies at AT&T, NCR, the US Navy, and others both in the US and abroad in Europe and Asia.

Rocky Mountain Conservatory Theatre
Rmctonline (talk) 02:56, 4 June 2008 (UTC) Rocky Mountain Conservatory Theatre is a youth theater organization located in Colorado, and was founded in 2007 by DU theatre professor Anthony L. Hubert. Rocky Mountain Conservatory Theatre (RMCT) hosts its programs at the Univeristy of Denver. RMCT holds an annual summer camp, numerous child-cast productions throughout the year, as well as acting conservatory classes for children ages 6-17.

Awards & Recognition
Rocky Mountain Conservatory Theatre was awarded the prestigious "Kids Pages" Best Places for Families 2008 in the 'Best Theatre Classes' category. More than 200,000 people voted in the Denver metro area!

Plum Island Light
Plum Island Light, also known as Plum Gut Light, is located on the western end of Plum Island, which lies east of Orient Point which in turn is at the end of the North Fork of Long Island in the US state of New York. An historic granite lighthouse originally built in 1869 sits at the site, but no longer serves as an active aid to navigation. A short distance northwest of the granite lighthouse building is a metal tower that holds the automated light that has served as an aid to navigation since the earlier light was decommissioned in 1978.

In 1826 the west end of Plum Island was purchased from Richard Jerome for $90 for the purpose of building a lighthouse. The following year a high stone tower had been constructed to support the first light. That first light was comprised of 10 whale oil lamps with reflectors. The light helped navigation near the entrance to Long Island Sound, especially through the "Plum Gut" channel between Orient Point and Plum Island. In 1856 the original lamps and reflectors were replaced by a sixth-order Fresnel lens.

By the late 1860's the lighthouse was falling into disrepair. A new tall granite lighthouse building was constructed and in service by 1869. The structure is of the same design as lighthouses at Sheffield Island in Norwalk, Connecticut; Morgan Point in Noank, Connecticut; Great Captain Island in Greenwich, Connecticut, Old Field Point in Old Field, New York; and Block Island North on Block Island Rhode Island. The sixth order lens from the original lighthouse had been moved to the new building, then it was changed to a newer fourth-order lens in 1897.

In 1879 Fort Terry was built on Plum Island. The relations between lighthouse keepers and army personell remained congenial for many years, and the keepers could usually purchase food and supplies at the Fort commissary. But in 1916 an order came down and the keeper at Plum Island Light was informed that purchasing supplies at Fort Terry was no longer allowed. The rule forced William Chapel, the keeper at the time, to sail over a mile to Orient, or 12 miles to New London to purchase supplies. Eventually the United States Lighthouse Service was able to persuade the Army that lighthouse keepers should once again be allowed to purchase supplies at army commissaries.

Starting in 1939 the Lighthouse Service duties were taken over by the United States Coast Guard. Coast Guard employed keepers were removed from Plum Island in 1978 when the light was automated on a structure built to the side of the 1869 lighthouse.

In 1994 the Fresnel lens was removed from the lighthouse and moved to the East End Seaport Museum in Greenport where it is on display.

Starting in 2000 the East End Lighthouses group (distinct from the Seaport Museum organization) was formed and has been working since that time with various government agencies to refurbish, and to hopefully eventually relight the Plum Island light as an active aid to navigation. On April 24, 2007 a resolution was passed by the Town of Southold that will transfer ownership of the lighthouse to the town.

The Plum Island Lighthouse, like all of Plum Island, is not open for public visits. The light may be seen from the water, but landing on the island is restricted to persons authorized by the United States Department of Homeland Security (usually those visiting the Plum Island Animal Disease Center).

Sedan City
Sedan is a virtual city and its own virtual world in the universe and the 3d virtual reality platform of Active Worlds. Sedan is themed as a fictive populated city from a tropical area suposedly located somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The exact position as never been mentionned.

History
The world of Sedan was created on February 15th 2006.

Alpheus Michael Bowman
Alpheus Michael Bowman (January 11, 1847-?) was a 19th century American politician and businessman. He was a prominent figure in the ranching and livestock industry, either belonging to or serving in important positions, on various business associations. His involvement in these organizations included promoting improved livestock breeding and preserving records of pedigrees. He also had a successful political career as one of the top consultants in the Democrat Party, serving on the executive and financial committees up until the turn of the century.

He was a grandson of Kentucky frontiersman Isaac Bowman, as well as direct descendent of early Virginia pioneers Jost Hite and George Bowman, Sr..

Biography
Alpheus Michael Bowman was born in Rockingham County, Virginia to George Bowman and Sarah V. Zeigler. His father was a successful farmer and stock-breeder in addition to being the county magistrate. He was raised in the country and attended local schools, as well as the New Market Academy, however most of his time was spent tending to the livestock with his father.

At age 16, Bowman enlisted as a private in the Virginia Cavalry and served for two years until his capture in March 1865. He was held as a prisoner-of-war in Fort Delaware until June 1, 1865. During Reconstruction in Virginia, he became a successful farmer and stock raiser in Augusta County and later Saltville. He moved again, this time to Roanoke County, where he was the personal manager of the Bowman family stockyard and president of the Diamond Orchard Company, one of the largest businesses east of the Allegheny Mountains and north of Georgia. He would serve in a number of high level positions including 11 years as a member of the executive committee of the American Shorthorn Breeders' Association, vice president of the American Berkshire Association and first president of the American Saddle Horse Association. He was also a life member of the American Jersey Cattle Club. He himself was one of the largest exporters of cattle in the region and as far away as Europe and South America,

He entered politics during the early 1870s attending every state Democratic Convention held since 1873, with the exception of one. Bowman became a member of the Democratic Party executive committee in 1883 and later assisted in the successful election of John S. Barbour over William Mahone in 1883. He later served as a member of the Democratic state committee for 12 years, chairman of the 9th congressional district committee for 6 years and chairman of the Roanoke county Democratic committee for a number of years. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis, Missouri in 1888.

In 1901, he was elected to the house of delegates from Roanoke county. Appointed a member of the finance committee, he successfully secured $50,000 to be used to represent Virginia in the World's Fair in St. Louis and was later tasked by then Governor Andrew Jackson Montague as a senior member of the commission. Reelected in 1903, and again in 1905, he continued on the finance committee serving as its chairman during his third and final term. He used the large surplus which had accumulated in the state treasury to reduce the state debt, double funding for schools, provided money to the Jamestown exposition (later serving on the state commission) and increased annuities to state colleges. He was one of the commissioners assigned to the remodeling the state capitol building at Richmond, Virginia. Following the death of Peter Otey, he became the favorite to succeed him as state representative. Despite strong public support, he lost the election.

He was a member of the board of trustees of Roanoke College and secretary of its finance committee as well as vice president on the board of trustees at the Southern Lutheran Orphan home. He also served four years on the board of directors of the Southwestern Hospital for the Insane in Marion, Virginia and the Central State Hospital in Petersburg. A member of the Southern Lutheran Church, he was an elder in the College Church in Salem, Virginia.

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The Mosaic Parish of Karlskrona
The Mosaic Parish in Karlskrona, , were founded in 1785 by the Jewish merchant and factory owner Fabian Philip. He had arrived in Karlskrona in 1779 or 1780 via Stockholm from his native town of Bützow in Germany. Jews were not allowed to settle in Sweden until 1779 and 1782 the Commercial College of the Swedish Government stated that Jews were only allowed to settle in the three major cities of Stockholm, the capital, Gothenburg, the principal naval trade city, and Norrköping, the principal industrial city. But Fabian Philip were situated in Karlskrona, the principal naval base, and the second largest city of Sweden. He had made an offer to the Head of the Swedish navy and the Archipelago fleet, Supreme Admiral Henric af Trolle, that Fabian Philip could build a factory in Karlskrona and produce sails for the Navy, cheaper than what the navy at that time bought the sails from Gothenburg. Trolle liked the idea and proposed it for the king Gustav III, who gave his permission for the Jew Fabian Philip to stay in Karlskrona even though the law did not approve it. Henric af Trolle died in 1784 and the merchants in Karlskrona tried to get rid of Fabian Philip by writing to the king, but the successor of Trolle, Supreme Admiral Carl August Ehrensvärd, were of the same opinion as his late predecessor. From 1785 thanks to that Fabian Philip had fulfilled his agreement with the Navy and founded and built the sail factory in Karlskrona, more exactly in Lyckeby 10 kilometers north of the city, there were a public exception for Fabian Philip and his family to stay in Karlskrona from Comercial Colleges statement of where Jews were allowed to stay in Sweden. The Mosaic Parish of Karlskrona was the fourth Jewish parish in Sweden after three first approved settlement cities. The first name of the parish was the Jewish parish, but when the Jews living in Sweden were made Swedish citizens of the Mosaic faith, they were not considered as Jews by the Government any more, all the Jewish parishes in Sweden were renamed Mosaic Parishes. 1951 when it was made allowed in Sweden by law to be unorganised according to faith, most Mosaic Parishes in Sweden was by own will renamed Jewish Parishes, but not the parish in Karlskrona, which kept the old name of the Mosaic Parish in Karlskrona. In the year of 1994 it was decided that the Mosaic Parish in Karlskrona should not be closed but placed in a mode of resting, though the members had become old and it was hard gather a Minyan. But when the day comes and there are Jews enough to gather a Minyan and there's a will of obtaining a Parish, the Mosaic Parish of Karlskrona can be brought back from its state of resting.

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William Irving Shuman
William Irving Shuman, or simply Irving Shuman, (September 18, 1882-?) was an American businessman, banker and political activist during the late 19th and early 20th century. A longtime member of the Democrat Party in Moultrie County, Illinois, he was an Illinois delegate to the 1912 Democratic National Convention and served as assistant U.S. Treasurer in Chicago, Illinois during World War I.

Biography
Shuman was born to Charles and Mary Richardson (McPheeters) Shuman, in Sullivan, Illinois. He left high school at age 16 and almost immediately taken on at the State Bank of Sullivan where he worked his way from bank teller, assistant cashier and finally to head cashier within five years. After two years, the 23-year-old Shuman was elected director becoming one of the youngest banking officials in the United States. He was also elected as director of the Sullivan Elevator Company, one of the largest grain concerns in central Illinois, as well as the president of Group Seven of the Illinois Banking Association from 1911 to 1912. The organization represented Sangamon, Macon, Christian, Shelby, Montgomery, Macoupin and Moultrie County. At the end of his term, he was unanimously elected as a member of the Council of the Illinois Bankers' Association for a three year term.

He was also appointed to the State Bankers' Committee on Agricultural and Vocational Education and, two years later, he became assistant U.S. Treasurer on October 13, 1913. He remained in this position throughout the First World War, Shuman's early duties being to coordinate with Chicago banking officials in expediting the first issue of Aldrich-Vreeland currency and supervise the distribution of $25 million from the Chicago sub-treasury. He was also chosen by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo to co-operate with banking officials of the newly built Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Shuman placed the bank in a working basis and later received acclaim by governors and assistants for his assistance.

Prior to his appointment, he had become active in politics as a somewhat militant Progressive Democrat. In 1910, he became interested in Woodrow Wilson as a possible presidential candidate and, at the behest of McCombs, he assisted in campaigning for Wilson in Illinois and the Midwest during the presidential election the following year. He was given complete control over the downstate Illinois campaign as well as being involved in the primaries in South Dakota and special work in Minnesota, Michigan and Indiana. Later elected as a member of the 19th Congressional District in Baltimore, Maryland, Shuman is credited as being one of those whose influence switched the Illinois delegation to support Wilson in the Baltimore convention.

After Wilson's successful election as President of the United States, he returned to his former position with the Sullivan Elevator Company becoming treasurer and director, a director of the Citizens' Abstract Company and the First National Bank in Wheaton, Illinois. He also became a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, being the great-grandson of Isaac Bowman, as well as a member of the Union League, the Iroquois, Chicago Press, and Railway and Manufacturers' Club. He was also a 32nd degree Free Mason and one of the officers of the Grand Royal Arch chapter.

Following his death, he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

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Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker M.C., 7thViscount Gort


The 7th Viscount Gort (1888-1975) was an Irish peer and connoisseur and collector of fine art, antiques, and objects d'art. Lord Gort served in the British Army during the war, with the rank of colonel. Gort served under his brother John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort} in the Second World War. He was awarded the Military Cross. He bought Bunratty Castle, County Clare, Ireland in 1953. Encouraged by John Hunt He then set about refurbishing the *castle with a large personal antique collection. He put a roof on the castle and generally saved it from ruin. It had not been lived in since the building of Bunratty Manor (now an attraction within the folk park). The castle later was run by Shannon Development.

The castle is today a hugely important tourist attraction, due in a large part to its proximity to Shannon Airport and also because of the Irish Victorian themed folk park which was created around about it. It is the most complete and authentically restored and furnished castle in Ireland. The antiques with which he filled the castle are now still there, and visitors to the castle may view them in situ. In addition to being allowed to roam about the castle, and to get guided tours, visitors may also partake of a banquet in the evenings , and the folk park barn offers a traditional Irish night. Lord Gort generously donated the castle to the Irish people, along with its contents , and the castle and folk park are now run by Shannon Development. Gort is commemorated at the castle by a plaque near the portcullis, and by portraits of him and Lady Gort in the castle. Irelend will forever be indepted to this geeat man, who gave so much of Irish heritage back to the people of Ireland.

Bachmann's Brewery
The Mayer Bachmann’s Brewery (Bachman's) was the largest of the half-dozen breweries on Staten Island before it's destruction by fire in 1881. The brewery, which occupied the block bounded by Forest (Now Ditson), Maple (Now Lynhurst), Willow, and Tompkins avenues, in the village of Clifton, Constructed in 1851 It was the first lager beer factory on Staten Island, Called The Clifton Brewery, It was financed in a join venture between Antonio Meucci and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Comprised by a number of brick buildings from three to four stories in height, It bordered rail road tracks of the Right of way Between The Staten Island Railway (aka SIR, and formerly known as SIRT) and former South Beach Branch of the SIRT When it became Bachmann's brewery The SIRT had a station built with a wooden platform soley for the convenience of the employees of Bachmann’s Brewery.

The Brewery which was in operation untill October 31, of 1881, Where the factory was destroyed by fire. The Station's platforms were left abandoned untill 1933 when service stops were restored to the station for public use.

The platform stood in the shadow of the Chestnut Avenue Overpass that was built in 1935 the station's wooden platforms were torn down in 1937 when the station was abandoned once again, The Station was located between Lynhurst And Chestnut Avenue Overpasses.

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Tracklisting
II Trill (Chopped Up Not Slopped Up by: OG Ron C)

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Ganesh has been one of the most successful and dynamic professionals in the Indian Information Technology Industry and has been leading Zensar as the CEO for over seven years now, making Zensar one of the most successful IT companies in the country and amongst Fortune’s Top 10 global offshore outsourcing companies from India. Ganesh has been elected Chairman of the National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM) for 2008-09, and also drives NASSCOM’s vibrant Innovation Forum.

Ganesh is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and the Harvard Business School, and a Gold Medalist in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering. A PhD in Knowledge Management from IIT Bombay, Ganesh is the author of four McGraw Hill Books on Business Process Reengineering and Knowledge Management. He is also a regular columnist for India’s premier Business and IT magazines.

Ganesh was named 'CEO of the Year' by the Asia Pacific HR Conference in 1999 and received the Asia HRD Congress Award for Contributions to the Organisation through HR in 2005. Ganesh was also the finalist at the Ernst & Young 2005 Award where he was recognized for exceptional entrepreneurship. Having been a part of two major success stories in IT Training and Consulting earlier, NIIT and APTECH, Ganesh grew the company’s revenues fifty times during his ten year stint as CEO of Aptech and listed it on the Indian and London Stock Exchanges.

Ganesh chairs the Outsourcing Forum of the Confederation of Indian Industries in Western India and is part of the CII Western Region Council.

Meanderthal (album)
Meanderthal is Torche's second full length album and third recording, released in 2008 by Hydrahead/ Robotic Empire. The album features 13 tracks and was recorded with Kurt Ballou (Converge)[] at Godcity Studio.[] It was released on April 8, 2008.

Track Listing 1. Triumph of Venus 2. Grenades 3. Pirana 4. Sandstorm 5. Speed of the Nail 6. Healer 7. Across the Shields 8. Sundown 9. Little Champion 10. Without A Sound 11. Fat Waves 12. Amnesian 13. Meanderthal

http://www.amazon.com/Meanderthal-Torche/dp/B0013N4CLG (track listing & release date) http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews/may2008/torche.aspx (review of Meanderthal) http://www.bluecollardistro.com/hydrahead/product_info.php?products_id=2354&cPath=4_135&store=0 (track listing & release date, work with Kurt Ballou)

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Stirtonia
Stirtonia is an extinct genus of atelinae monkey.

Notobatrachus
Notobatrachus is an extinct genus of frog from the jurassic.

Endless Ages
Endless Ages is a First Person Shooter, Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing game set in a time after death where all beings from all times end up. Endless Ages is a Sci-Fi game with very vibrant colors, a unique aspect and unique music. The game is free to play but has a cash shop where you can buy virtual game items. Endless Ages is not your traditional MMORPG game as it requires at least some hand-eye coordination to play.

Brachydectes
Brachydectes is an extinct genus of lysorophia.

Aornerpeton
Aornerpeton is an extinct genus of amphibian.

Mike Mathers
Mike Mathers was born June 20th, 1972 in Edmonton, Alberta. He was drafted by the Washington Capitals in the 8th round of the 1992 NHL entry draft, 191st overall. He played one season for the Swift Current Broncos and three seasons for the Kamloops Blazers in the Canadian Junior Hockey League. He then played eight seasons for the ECHL Fresno Falcons and had 347 points (150g-197a) and 249 penalty minutes in 379 regular season games and 27 points (12g-15a) and 18 penalty minutes in 34 playoff games from 1996-2004. He died June 1st, 2008 at his home near Edmonton, Alberta.

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ECHL.com ihdb.com

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Drastic Harmonic
A band consisting of two people, James 'Jimmy' Aitchison (vocals, keys & guitar) and Scott 'The Doc' Ampleford (vocals, keys & drums)

Stegomus
Stegomus is an extinct genus of aetosaur.

Teleorhinus
Teleorhinus is an extinct genus of crurotarsan.

Typothorax
Typothorax is an extinct genus of crurotarsan.

Yurlunggur (snake)
Yurlunggur is an extinct genus of snake.

Opisthodactylus
Opisthodactylus is an extinct genus of rhea from the Miocene.

Drew Magary
Drew Magary is a noted copywriter, future pulitzer prize winner, blogger author,.

Hinasuri
Hinasuri is an extinct genus of rhea.

Ninja Combat
Ninja Combat is an action video game for the NeoGeo console, released in 1990. It was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in North America on June 2, 2008 at a cost of 900 Wii Points. You play as Joe (one player) and Hayabusa (two players), who are ninjas. Ninja Combat is a side-scrolling action game with fighting using normal attacks, jumps, special moves and ninja weapons. As you progress, new characters become available in each stage, such as Musashi, Kagerow and Gembu. Ninja Combat supports two players, allowing a friend to join. The site Neo-Geo.com described it as being similar to "Sega's arcade game (and later a Mega Drive/Genesis title) Golden Axe," giving it an overall review score of 6 out of 10.

Joe Edwards (singer/bass player)
Joe Edwards is the Wirral born and raised frontman of indie/britrock band 'The Rascals'. Joe is also the main writer of all of their songs although he recieves some input from band guitarist Miles Kane. Before deciding to break away from his former band The Little Flames he lyrically expressed his love for the character Snoopy from the Peanuts Comics. With genuine wit and charm Joe manages to amaze fans by playing truly wonderful riffs and singing with the voice of an angel despite appearing as though there isnt much actually going on there. Known as 'The Lyrical Assassin' Joe's songwriting ability shows his Wirral based background in a good light and psychadelically catches the mind like a massive net of mind catching lyrics.

Fex Video Game
About Computer video game by KOKOROMI. It is renound for mixing 2D and 3D in the same environment. At any point in the game the player is in either 2D or 3D mode and can change modes with the press of a button.

Quote: "Fez is a game about a 2D character exploring a 3D world. In Fez you play as Gomez, a 2-dimensional being who finds out his world has an extra dimension and sets out to explore it. " http://www.igf.com/02finalists.html#Fez

Awards Winner 2008 Independent Games Festival: Excellence In Visual Art Finalist 2008 Independent Games Festival: Design Innovation Award http://www.igf.com/02finalists.html#Fez

Videos Fez 'GDC 08' gameplay http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/17594

http://www.kokoromi.org/fez