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History of Yorandur
The original members of Yorandur were all in a Speech class together, and a project was to tell a story. Garrett created a story about an alien, Yorandur Yobupodik. Later that year, in February 2007, the founding members decided to go to Taylor's and film a lipsync of "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls. The video was a hit with family and friends, and they continued to make more every week, until they stopped for a while. Most of the lip-sync videos are filmed in Taylor's room, with Garrett sitting to the left, then Marshall, Stephen, and Taylor (in that order).

Before Yorandur
In summer 2004, Taylor Vance and Garrett Wright made a half-hour film entitled "Broken," out of sheer boredom. The script was written the night before it was filmed and the entire film was created and edited in less than one day at Taylor's house. It was a comedy about two secret agents fighting trees. They called themselves TaG.

Later that year, TaG teamed up with William Boyles to create "Broken II: Rebroken." Broken was intended to be a trilogy, and then a prequel would be made, but these plans never came to fruition. In 2005, TaG teamed up with Lucas Gass to make "The King Who Lost America," about King George III, focusing on his porphyria. The chemistry was there, and they permanently added Lucas to the group, creating TaG+L, and then TaGL. TaGL went on to make "The Rubixer," a comedy about a man learning how to solve the Rubik's Cube from an immortal who is doomed to do nothing but the Rubik's Cube for all of time.

Line Up
Yorandur's founding members are:

Stephen Cunningham Marshall Moore Taylor Vance Garrett Wright

Other members: William Boyles Colt Galloway Chud Donelson Gavin Do

List of Videos
Wannabe Spice Girls Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely Everybody (Backstreet's Back) You're Beautiful Tasty Cookies Cupid's Chokehold MMMBOP Yorandur Dance Mix I'm So Ronery William's Last LOST Friends A Few Words On The Ability Of Man RAW-Shank Redemption A Day in the Life of Bobby Ively

Contact
Yorandur has a Facebook group for any interested fans who want to receive updates.

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Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time
In 2003, the writers of Ring Magazine published a ranking of the 100 greatest punchers of all-time. Not unlike an all-time pound-for-pound ranking, this list compares fighters across different weight categories and different eras. As such, it's entirely open for debate ...

1. Joe Louis 2. Sam Langford 3. Jimmy Wilde 4. Archie Moore 5. Sandy Saddler 6. Stanley Ketchell 7. Jack Dempsey 8. Bob Fitzsimmons 9. George Foreman 10. Earnie Shavers 11. Sugar Ray Robinson 12. Ruben Olivares 13. Wilfredo Gomez 14. Rocky Marciano 15. Sonny Liston 16. Mike Tyson 17. Bob Foster 18. Thomas Hearns 19. Khaosai Galaxy 20. Alexis Arguello 21. Carlos Zarate 22. Max Baer 23. Rocky Graziano 24. Matthew Saad Muhammad 25. Julian Jackson 26. Danny Lopez 27. Gerald McClellan 28. Roberto Duran 29. Rodrigo Valdez 30. Felix Trinidad 31. Pipino Cuevas 32. Jim Jefferies 33. Lennox Lewis 34. Bennie Briscoe 35. Marvin Hagler 36. Edwin Rosario 37. Tommy Ryan 38. John Mugabi 39. Joe Frazier 40. Carlos Monzon 41. Tony Zale 42. Michael Spinks 43. Joe Gans 44. Elmer Ray 45. George Godfrey 46. Naseem Hamed 47. Alfonso Zamora 48. David Tua 49. Cleveland Williams 50. Julio Cesar Chavez 51. Tiger Jack Fox 52. Joe Walcott 53. Gerry Cooney 54. Al (Bummy) Davis 55. Max Schmeling 56. Florentino Fernandez 57. Henry Armstrong 58. Bob Satterfield 59. Al Hostak 60. Jesus Pimentel 61. Eugene (Cyclone) Hart 62. Lew Jenkins 63. Harry Wills 64. Tom Sharkey 65. Terry McGovern 66. Jersey Joe Walcott 67. Kostya Tszyu 68. Leotis Martin 69. Buddy Baer 70. Donovan (Razor) Ruddock 71. Jose Luis Ramirez 72. Tommy Gomez 73. Jose Napoles 74. Kid McCoy 75. Antonio Esparragoza 76. Ricardo Moreno 77. Evander Holyfield 78. Ike Williams 79. Luis Firpo 80. Ricardo Lopez 81. Humberto Gonzalez 82. Bobby Chacon 83. Jock McAvoy 84. Eduardo Lausse 85. Eder Jofre 86. Charley Burley 87. Mike McCallum 88. Salvador Sanchez 89. Roy Jones Jr. 90. Rodolfo Gonzalez 91. Nigel Benn 92. (Irish) Bob Murphy 93. Paul Berlenbach 94. Battling Torres 95. Chalky Wright 96. George (K.O.) Chaney 97. Andy Ganigan 98. Fred Fulton 99. Ingemar Johansson 100. Charley White

Stricklygraphics.com
STRICKLYGRAPHICS.COM is a graphic design company specializing in the creation and delivery of customized art, web design, marketing material and an assortment of printing products. STRICKLYGRAPHICS.COM is commitment to creating a quality product which personifies our clients and provides them happiness. The clientele base will not be exhaustive to any location and will provide goods for individuals, groups, small businesses and large corporations. We will distinguish ourselves by reinforcing creativity, reliability and expertise with competitive pricing.

OpenSyncro
Extensible, open source enterprise application integration software written in Java language. Runs on a combination of Apache Tomcat application server and MySQL database.

OpenSyncro has built-in connectors for relational databases (SQL/JDBC), Web Services, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP and file systems. It supports XML data transformations using XSLT and ships with CSV table and hierarchical text based format to XML data converters.

Dead River (Illinois)
The Dead River is a stream with a source at a pond near the main entrance of the southern section of Illinois Beach State Park. The Dead River drains into Lake Michigan when the stream's water level is high enough, usually after heavy rain and melting snow.

Ulf Wakenius
Ulf Wakenius is a Swedish jazzguitarist born in Halmstad april 1958. He grew up in Tynnered, a suburb of Gothenburg.

Ulf Wakenius is among other things well known for playing in the Oscar Peterson band as a permanent member for many years.

Ulf Wakenius also plays with his own bands, and is at present probably the most famous Swedish musician.

A few quotes about Ulf :

"You sound fantastic !" - Quincy Jones

"May you reign forever!" - Oscar Peterson

"Amazing talent!" - Ray Brown

"You sound great man!" - Herbie Hancock

"Guitar Monster" - Toots Thielemans

"His approach to the guitar can only be admired, which he plays like he was born with it already in his hands." - John McLaughlin

"It sounds great!" - Pat Metheny

"Tennis is not the only art form that produces Swedish masters" - Svend Asmussen

"Great ballad album!" - John Scofield

"You are one of the most talented musicians i have played with the last 20 Years" - Flora Purim

"You sounded great at the Bowl" - Louis Bellson

"Your playing was terrific" - Herb Ellis

Category:Swedish jazz guitarists Category:Swedish guitarists

External link

 * Ulf Wakenius official webpage
 * Ulf Wakenius MySpace

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Zeb and Haniya
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 * Img_capt = Zeb and Haniya
 * Music Origin = Kohat, Pakistan
 * Instrument = Guitars
 * Genre = Pop
 * Occupation = Both Singers and guitarists
 * Years_active = 2008
 * Label = Fire record -
 * URL = http://www.zebandhaniya.com/
 * Current_members = Zeb Bangash and Haniya Aslam

Zeb and Haniya, one of Pakistan's hottest pop duos, whose debut album, "Chup!"

For The Love of Pashtun Music
A pair of talented cousins wins an unexpected following in Pakistan. Haniya Aslam was sitting in her family home in the turbulent, deeply conservative North-West Frontier province of Pakistan in October when a deafening blast shook the neighborhood, rattling doors and windows in their hinges. Tufts of black smoke billowed violently over the flat, gray rooftops of Kohat town. "Our handyman came in and said, 'Oh, it's nothing'," recalls Aslam. “They’ve only blown up a CD shop'." But for Aslam and her cousin Zeb Bangash, such attacks feel intensely personal.

The cousins, both 29, make up Zeb and Haniya, one of Pakistan's hottest pop duos, whose debut album, "Chup!" (Hush!), hits stores next month. But it's been quite a journey. In October 2002, the elected state government, led by a coalition of religious parties, banned music on public transport, incarcerated and evicted musicians and artists and condoned bomb attacks on music and video shops. Aslam and Bangash are at the forefront of a group of independent-minded Pashtuns who have harnessed the power of the media to beat back the conservative tide. Today the Frontier's capital, Peshawar, boasts two privately owned, Pashto-language TV channels and three radio stations—all set up over the last few years in defiance of the previous Islamist government. That the religious parties are out of power and a new, moderate interim government has been put in place by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf should certainly help. "The [Pashtun] people love to dance and have a good time," says Bangash. "The superimposition of extremist views has not been able to snuff out centuries of musical tradition." Zeb and Haniya's brand of folksy music draws on that Pashtun heritage and can easily fit into the province's longstanding Sufic tradition. Their songs can be playful and sensual, addressing the themes of love and longing "to God through the concept of a lover," says Bangash. Their song "I Stopped Crying" tells a careless lover: "Your conversation broke my heart/you glanced and turned your face away/Clouds rumbled but a little/Rain fell, this heart longed/ after a little while/I stopped crying." Bangash describes this as their emancipation anthem. "Sometimes it feels like the world has turned its back on you, but one's got to make the best of a bad situation with the faith that God never abandons," she says. Their music uses guitar, drums and trumpets, as well as more exotic stringed instruments like the sarod, to express "Western and Eastern melodies arranged for a global audience," says Bangash.

The foundations for Zeb and Haniya were laid in Massachusetts, where Bangash studied economics at Mount Holyoke and Aslam earned a computer-science degree from Smith, buying her first guitar in her freshman year. "I couldn't take lessons in Pakistan since all the instructors were men," says Aslam. "We used to get together in Zeb's dorm basement and fumble our way through." Four years ago, they recorded their first track, which became an instant Internet smash and wound up on mainstream Pakistani radio. "We were taken aback," says Bangash, who has been taking singing lessons since she was 8. "We uploaded the track to share with our friends; we had no idea it would become a legitimate radio hit." Their unexpected success encouraged the young women to cut an album with one of Pakistan's top producers. Since the summer, both have been traveling tirelessly across the country promoting their music.

The duo has since performed at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and as part of the lineup at MTV Pakistan's Independence Day concert in Karachi, which has the largest Pashtun population in Pakistan. "We've had Pashtuns come up to us and thank us for preserving our musical traditions," says Bangash. She credits Musharraf with boosting the success of women in Pakistan's music industry; his architect daughter, Ayla, is one of the leading patrons of Pakistani classical music. An arts enthusiast himself, Musharraf oversaw the establishment of the National Academy of Performing Arts in Karachi and the National Gallery of Art in Islamabad, and has now approved plans for a national museum for the capital. Though they both live in Lahore, the duo's opportunities are still limited in the province. They grew up performing regularly for their family. Today they play in Peshawar only at family functions. "It's more a question of propriety than safety," says Bangash. "Even today Peshawar doesn't appreciate women onstage."

Hannover Rück
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannover_Re

Elsie Marechal
Elsie Mary Bell was born on 21 June 1894 in Acton, Middlesex, the daughter of Robert Edward Bell and Alice Mary (nee Gowen). After attending school in Great Yarmouth, Elsie trained at Norwich Teacher Training College and, on leaving in 1915, was accepted as a teacher by the London County Council.

While working in London during the First World War she met a young Belgian soldier, Georges Marechal, who had been sent to a hospital in London to recover after contracting pneumonia while serving in the water-logged trenches of South West Belgium.

They were married on 21 June 1920 and started married life in Koblenz, Germany where Georges was working in the High Commission. They had three children: Lilian Grace, who died as a toddler, Elsie and Robert. In 1929 Georges returned with his family to Brussels.

From early 1941 the family were involved in the Belgian resistance, the two Elsies being part of the 'Comet' network which helped many Allied airmen who had been shot down over enemy territory to evade capture and reach safety by smuggling them through France to neutral Spain. Like many others involved in such networks, they were eventually betrayed by someone who had been captured and interrogated by the Germans. On 18 November 1942 the whole family was arrested and taken for questioning. Robert, who was only sixteen, was eventually released in January 1943.

The rest of the family were kept in solitary confinement and repeatedly, and often brutally, questioned. They refused to reveal what they knew and on 15 April 1943 they were tried, found guilty and sentenced to death. On 20 October 1943 Georges and several other men were executed by firing squad.

On New Year's Day 1944 the two Elsies left the St Gilles prison in Brussels and began nearly eighteen months of being moved around between various prisons and concentration camps. This was meant to make them impossible for the Allies to trace, a system known as 'Nacht und Nebel' (Night and Fog). They survived and were eventually rescued from captivity by the Swiss Red Cross.

In due course the Elsies and Georges (posthumously) received a number of awards and honours from the British, American and Belgian governments in recognition of their work.

Elsie died on 25 March 1969 in Uccle, Belgium.

Deutsche Freischar
There are several pages that link to Deutsche Freischar but that article has not yet been created.

Since it is a German related term, I found it in the German section of Wikipedia and it does have it's own article there. However, I had to translate it in order to read it.

Chez Reavie
Chez Reavie is a professional golf player. The was the leader on the third round of the Canadian Open in the PGA Tour played at the Glenn Abbey Golf Club.

2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final
The 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final will take place between Italy and Brazil on 27th July 2008 at the Plage du Prado. The winner will have beaten fifteen other teams to be crowned FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2008 Winners.

Italy
Italy started their campaign in group B, with a good opening game against the Solomon Islands, wining 7-4. Italy confirmed their place in the quarter-finals, beating El Salvador 4-1 and taking themselves up to 6 points. In Italy's final game they went down 3-0 to Portugal. Italy battled back and took it into extra time at 4-4. It looked to be heading for penalties but a last minute goal by Madjer meant Portugal won the game and the group.

As Italy were the runners-up of group B, it gave them a harder game in the quarter-finals against ther winners of group A, France. As France were the hosts they were the favourites to reach the semi-finals. Surprisingly, Italy went up 5-0. France did all they could to get back into the game but Italy held out. With the final score at 5-2 they moved into the semi-finals against Spain. The semi-final was a different battle. Italy were 1-0 down after just 2 minutes. However 2 goals in 2 minutes meant Italy went ahead for the first time. Again Span looked threatening bringing it back to 2-2 and 10 minutes later, 3-2. There score line continued to change and by the end of normal time the score was 4-4. Extra time was uneventful which meant penalties. Amarelle stepped up and hit the post which meant it was all down to Massimiliano Esposito to finish the job. His first attempt was saved but it had to be re-taken. Esposito hit the ball down the center and sent Italy into the final to face Brazil.

Brazil
Brazil started their world cup campaign as defending champions, in group D, coming from beind to win by 3 goals to 2 against Spain. Brazil continued to perform with a 8-1 win against Japan and finished the group on top with 9 points after beating Mexico comfortably 7-1.

In the quarter-finals, Brazil played the runners-up of group C, Russia. They went down 3 times to Russia but with a helpful hat-trick from Daniel, Brazil came back to win 6-4. On the 26th July Brazil's next opponents would be Portugal, who had the 2 top scorers on their side. It was an epic semi-final, although Brazil were always finding themselves having to come from behind. In the 34th minute, Bruno hit a long range shot finding the back of the net sending Brazil into the final. Portugal failed to come back in the final 4 minutes leaving Brazil to win 5-4.

This Is A Standoff
After the demise of one of Canada's hardest working punk bands, Belvedere, Steve and Graham were seting a new project and getting back on the road. After joining forces with John from Ottawa's Forty Cent Fix, the guys gathered in Calgary, Alberta to write songs for their first album. The line-up was soon rounded out by Corey from One Shot Left.

Following the release of two demo songs on Myspace, This Is A Standoff decided to kick things off right with a month long tour in Europe, sharing the stage with bands like Mad Caddies, Action Men, Big D and The Kids Table, and Boysetsfire.

Their highly anticipated debut album, Be Excited, was released in October 2007, followed by a highly succesful Canadian tour. The band has Canadian and European tours in the works for 2008.

A. Edward Moch
A. Edward Moch. 28, Mar. 1954, Brooklyn, New York. Psychical Analyst-Consultant, Actor-Performer, and Lecturer

Also known as "Alfred Cota", alledged Son and GrandSon of World War II Fighter Pilot, Leut. Norman Daniel "Dan" Cota Jr., and World War II hero, Gen. Norman Daniel "Dutch" Cota. He was adopted into the Moch family, who were friends of his biological family, only days old and raised in The Bronx, New York.

In 1960, at the age of six, he had an accidental near death experience during the removal of his tonsils, and after began to experience inhanced awareness of himself and things around him. Thinking that he might be gifted, his adopted father ecouraged and tolerated him to excell in finding himself. While attending a catholic elementary school in the 60's, he and another pupil both experienced a religious apparition, that got the attention of school staff and family. This apparition would later prove important in the verification and support of a prior religious event or events that were being investigated and scrutinized by The Vatican and The Catholic Church (see The Divine Mercy Movement and Sister Faustina Kawalska).

Becoming interested in the history of The Bronx, he joined in 1969 as a member of The Bronx County Historical Society. It was there that he volunteered for the society, and an amateur urban archeologist investigating various sites mostly in The Bronx. He would contribute artifacts collected for the society and The Museum of Bronx History. Inspired at the time by History Prof. Lloyd Ultan, of Farley Dickinson University, his contributions would be noted.

A Young Remote Viewer
As a young teenager, while continuing to advance in his natural interest in Parapsychology, in 1972 he would join as a student member, The American Society for Psychical Research and be tested in 1973 by then director of research, Dr. Karlis Osis, who was involved in Out of Body/Beaconing research (see remote viewing, The Stargate Program). Being one of the "youngest participant tested". His psychical data was applied and incorporated in the study and advancement of Remote Viewing. During this time, he tried and failed in going into business. In 1975, his "psychical abilities" would be tested again at The Association for Research and Enlightenment, under the direction of Dr. Charles Thomas Cayce, Grandson of famed visionary and natural healer, Edgar Cayse in Virginia Beach, Virginia. While in Virginia Beach, he demonstrated his abilities, and research for those in the field. Returning back to New York in 1976, his skills would be called upon non-offically as an investigative analyst-consultant in a known infamous case that needed his skills.

A Historic Performer and Artist
In late 1977, he left New York City, and went to Los Angeles, where he applied work in the field of Culunary Arts, but intended to persue a masters degree in History, only to be diverted to Living History and Historical Re-enactment. He would later become a performer and in 1995, join The Screen Actors Guild. Working in front and behind the camera, he would work in the media. In 1987, after being intervied by a local reporter, he was contacted by Fred Hansen, of The United Sensitives of America as a psychical analyst-consultant for their organization. Again he would provide various psychical and parapsycholocal skills in a number of noted cases in law enforcement.

Other Noted Talents
During the years between his arrival in Los Angeles and meeting Hansen, he studied in the medical field and religious studies.

Medical Assistant, EEG Tech, Emergency Medical Technician (1984), Psychiatric Technician (1986) Ordained Minister 1980, with Doctor of Divinity 1990, Universal Life Church

Around 1998, through his efforts in the study of local Los Angeles history, he would be recognized by The founding descendant families of Los Angeles California, and in 2003, would join as a member and contributor to The Los Pobladores 200.

Today, he continues to write articles mostly on the field of applied Parapsychology of Remote Viewing, and involved in the greater Los Angeles community and a good standing multi-talented individual in his field.