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Jay Alexander (born April 10, 1968) an American magician and comic known as one of the top corporate and society entertainers in the country. He has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America and MTV. He is a favorite on many local morning shows.

The San Francisco Chronicle noted, “One of the highest-paid, and busiest, performers on the Bay Area corporate circuit is magician Jay Alexander, 31, who charges as much as $20,000 for a 90-minute show that includes all manner of tricks, lots of laughs and a 10-piece big band.”Lazarus, David (December 4, 1999). Corporate Entertainers - The New Vaudeville Circuit. San Francisco Chronicle

Alexander creates customized shows for Fortune 500 companies and is a consultant and co-author of many magic books. Alexander is also the host of Learn the Art of Magic, a tell-all CD-ROM, that introduces 26 different magic tricks.Barnabel, Josh (August 4, 1996). Nothing Up My Sleeve! The Magic of Teaching. New York Times At the age of fourteen, he became the youngest recipient of the Society of American Magicians’ Gold Medal of Honor.

His clients include Robin Williams, Steve Wozniak and the Rolling Stones.

References

External links

• Jay Alexander official site

Three-Handed Whist, also known as Widow Whist, is a variant of the trick-taking game Whist.

“Widow” whist is named because of an extra hand that is dealt just to the left of the dealer. This extra hand is called the “widow” and players may have a chance to use the widow instead of their own hand.

Card Rank

A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

♣ are trump.

♠, ♦ and ♥ are not.

Order of Play

1. Everyone cuts the deck and high card is dealer.
2. Deal out 4 hands, with the “widow” always being the first hand to the left of the dealer. Each hand should have 13 cards.
3. Now, the person just to the left of the dealer has first choice at the widow. If the first person to choose has a good hand, he/she just passes it to the next person on their left.
4. If someone takes the Widow, that person needs to collect 4 tricks total for that round. Otherwise, only 3 tricks are needed to break even.
5. After taking the widow, that person’s hand is passed to the left (unless you are back to the dealer, in which case you are done). If someone else would take that rejected hand, they only have to get 3 tricks. Please note that if someone else rejected that hand, it’s doubtful that you would want it. However if your hand is bad enough…  :)
6. Play begins with player to the left of the dealer.

• Every game of widow is played “high”, meaning you want to collect as many tricks as you can. There is no “granding” process like in 4 player Minnesota whist.
• Each player is for him/herself. No teams in 3 player widow whist.
• The person who originally picked the widow can choose to keep his hand instead. However, that person still has to get 4 tricks because he/she picked up the widow.

Taking Tricks

Similar to 4 handed, the person who leads lays down a card from his/her hand. Everyone must follow suit if they can (in clockwise motion). If you don’t have the suit, lay down any other card. Highest card of the lead suit takes the trick, with the exception of the clubs suit. Clubs are trump and will always take any other suit. Whoever takes the trick leads the next one. Play continues until all cards are gone. Dealer moves one to the left.

• NOTE: You MUST follow suit if you can
• A rule variation: some people play if you don’t have the lead suit, you MUST play a club if you have one. (i.e. Hearts was lead, you have no hearts. With this rule in place you would HAVE to lay a club.

Scoring

• You can get negative scores!
• If you picked up the widow, you get 1 point for every trick over 4. (i.e. 2 tricks = -2 pts, 4 tricks = 0 pts, 5 tricks = 1 pt)
• If you didn’t pick up the widow, you get 1 point for every trick over 3. (ie 4 tricks = 1 point, 5 = 2 pts)

Les Cents tours de Centour was a French language children’s television show made in Quebec. Its stories revolved around Verbo, a genie with magical power who was trying to recapture Centour (another genie who had escaped from the same land as Verbo).

The show’s foremost purpose was language acquisition, which was conveyed by the way Verbo would do magic: when he needed to perform a trick, he would ask his talisman (named “Memo”) for a formula (always in the form of “it is a [subject], it is a [object], it is the [subject] of the [object]”.) He would then close his eyes and repeat, asking the children at home to do the same.

Centour on his part would perform magic by reciting similar formulas while shaking his magic wristband (which looked like a gaudy wristwatch).

Memo’s constant companion was Picot Cotton, a young human male whose family was often the target of Centour’s tricks.

Technical flatground skateboarding is the performance of complicated maneuvers on flat ground; meaning that there are no ramps, rails, or any obstacles of any kind except a person and their skateboard.

Tricks often include many different kinds of flips and spins including rail tricks, 50-50 tricks, casper tricks, and rolling tricks.

Technical tricks can include triple fingerflips, 2 1/2 flips out of 50-50 stand, triple rail flips or even quadruple rail flips. Other tricks include broken fingers, corousels, double fan flips, TV stands, jawbreakers, and a multitude of complicated ollie flip tricks.

The International Magicians Society (IMS) is the world’s largest magic society as recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. The IMS began in 1968 and now has over 37,000 members worldwide. It was created to help promote and preserve the art of magic and provide a format where magicians (and magic hobbyists) could share their secrets and ideas.

External links

• International Magicians Society (IMS)

Magic hour may refer to:

• Magic Hour (album), by Cast (1999)
• The Magic Hour, a syndicated talk show that starred Magic Johnson
• “Magic Hour” (Charmed episode)
• Magic hour (photography), the period after sunset, prized by cinematographers such as Gordon Willis, during which scenes register on film with captivating light and color effects.
• Magic Hour (music), a defunct indie rock band from Boston, MA, featuring Wayne Rogers (guitars, vocals), Kate Biggar (guitar), Naomi Yang (bass) and Damon Krukowski (drums).

A Predicament escape is any form of magic trick in which the magician is trapped in a dangerous situation and is required to escape from it. Examples include Paul Daniels’ escapes from a cabinet placed in the path of a race car and an iron maiden on timed closure, and Princess Tenko’s escape from an exploding boat.

In most cases, predicament escapes are just upstaged versions of the classic cabinet escape. The magician has already escaped from the cabinet via a cabinet escape method before it is even placed in the predicament situation. Thus once the cabinet escape has been mastered the only limit on predicament escapes is how much money and influence the magician has, to obtain the cooperation of racing drivers or spend money on speedboats to blow up.

Prest-O Change-O is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones, and first released on March 25, 1939 by Warner Bros.. It marks the second appearance of Happy Rabbit (the Prototype of Bugs Bunny).

About the film

Two rogue dogs are being pursued by a dog catcher until they hide in an abandoned house. There they encounter a trunk owned by Sham-Fu the magician (unseen). They opened it, and all manner of magic tricks come out of the trunk, including Happy, its pet rabbit. Happy tricks the two dogs repeatedly, causing them endless frustration, until he is bested by the bigger of the two dogs, who bops him to a lampshade.

Trivia

This is the only cartoon where Happy Rabbit is defeated, a vice-versa on where he normally wins.

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Magic Box may refer to:

• Magic Box (album), a 1996 album by Bel Canto
• The Magic Box (film), a 1951 British movie.
• The Magic Box, a fictional place in the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• The Magic Box, a television show which aired on TLC in the mid-1990s. The show taught viewers how to read.
• Magic Box (TV), first private TV channel of Turkey.
• A device used on sailboats to adjust the side-to-side angle of the sail.

Derek Dingle (1937-2004) was a renowned close-up English magician.

Life

As many magicians before him, Dingle’s interest in magic began with a box of magic tricks when he was about eight years old. It was on joining the Royal Air Force however, that he met another magician James Gregory of Kenilworth, England, and spent 18 months with him, 12 months in Hong Kong where they made up trick packs of cards for magic dealer W. Y. Chu. During this time Derek borrowed James’s collection of magic magazines such as The Magic Circular and The Linking Ring and his interest grew.

Dingle spent a year working in magic shops in Hong Kong, during which Dingle was practicing magic sleights with coins and billiard balls.

After leaving the army and spending a few years in Canada, Dingle moved to New York City, where he became friends with many more magicians, and where his fame grew.

Magic

Dingle was known in the magic world for his technical ability. Dingle was very proficient with difficult sleight of hand technique with playing cards and coins. Among fellow magicians, he was well known for his skill in executing The Pass (a playing card sleight where a deck of playing cards is swiftly and invisibly cut in the hands). He could perform expert card moves with no hesitation.

Dingle has magic published in several publications and videos. His most popular publication is probably The Collected Works of Derek Dingle (Richard Kaufman, 1982), which has been out of print for many years now, but has recently been re-published by Richard Kaufman.
His first main released to the Magic World was a small book written by Harry Lorayne.
Derek also released several videos which have been now transferred to DVD. These DVDs include Dingles Deceptions and Dingles Delights. He was also part of the Stars of Magic series.

Death

Derek Dingle died on January 10, 2004. His death was caused by a stroke.

The May 2004 edition of Genii Magazine featured several articles on Dingle in memoriam of his passing.

Walking the dog is, first and foremost, the act of taking a pet dog on a walk as part of an exercise regimen. Other meanings or similar phrases:

• Walk the dog[1] is a common yo-yo trick where the player does a sleeper and then allows this spinning yo-yo to roll along the ground as if it were a leashed animal.
• “Walking the dog” is also a technique for retrieving a surface (top water) fishing lure.

Also CBers walk the dog

• Wag the Dog is the title of a 1997 film starring Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman, about the creation of a fake war in order to divert public attention from a presidential sex scandal. The term has subsequently found its way into common political vernacular to describe similar situations. See Spin (public relations).

Second Helping is a 1974 (see 1974 in music) album by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It was the band’s second album, and featured their biggest hit single, “Sweet Home Alabama”, an answer song to Neil Young’s “Southern Man” and “Alabama”. The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974. Second Helping also featured such songs as “The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe” and cover “Call Me The Breeze,” which includes an acclaimed piano solo.

The album reached #12 on the Billboard Album charts, eventually becoming multi-platinum.

Track listing

1. “Sweet Home Alabama” (Ed King / Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 4:43
2. “I Need You” (Ed King / Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 6:55
3. “Don’t Ask Me No Questions” (Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 3:26
4. “Workin’ For MCA” (Ed King / Ronnie Van Zant) – 4:49
5. “The Ballad of Curtis Loew” (Allen Collins / Ronnie Van Zant) – 4:51
6. “Swamp Music” (Ed King / Ronnie Van Zant) – 3:31
7. “The Needle And The Spoon” (Allen Collins / Ronnie Van Zant) – 3:53
8. “Call Me The Breeze” (J.J.Cale) – 5:09
9.  :Bonus tracks only on the expanded edition:
10. “Don’t Ask Me No Questions (Single Version)” (Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 3:31
11. “Was I Right Or Wrong (Sounds of the South Demo)”* (Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 5:33
12. “Take Your Time (Sounds of the South Demo)” (Ronnie Van Zant / Ed King) – 7:29

* notes previously unreleased tracks.

Personnel

• Ronnie Van Zant - lead & backing vocals, J&B
• Gary Rossington - Gibson Les Paul - guitar
• Allen Collins - Gibson Firebird - guitar
• Ed King - Fender Stratocaster - guitar, slide guitar, rhythm & bass on “I Need You”
• Billy Powell - keyboards
• Leon Wilkeson - Gibson Thunderbird - bass
• Bob Burns - drums except ‘”I Need You”

Additional:

• Mike Porter - drums on “I Need You”
• Clydie King - background vocals on “Sweet Home Alabama”
• Merry Clayton & Friends - background vocals on “Sweet Home Alabama”
• Bobby Keys, Trewor Lawrence & Steve Madiao - horns on “Don’t Ask…” & “Call Me The Breeze”
• Al Kooper - backing vocals, piano on “Don’t Ask…” & “The Ballad Of Curtis Loew”, also producer

Karl-Heinz Smuda (born January 24 1961 in Eschweiler) is a German journalist and a major in the German Air Force.

Radio career

Smuda was a correspondent for Deutschlandradio, Germany´s national radio public broadcast system, and head of a radio station in the former East German country of Brandenburg. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he worked as a reporter in Leipzig, and became known for his reports on the lives of the citizens of the DDR.For the past 30 years, Smuda has worked for various radio stations in Germany, as well as making a series of broadcasts from the United States concerning politics and culture in the Oregon, New York, Massachusetts, California and North Carolina. He worked as an editor in the German department of Radio Vatican in 1980 and 1981.

Background

Smuda received a scholarship for his work in children’s television in Manila. He worked as a reporter in the crisis areas of East Timor and Kosovo. He has studied social science. He currently resides in Wilmersdorf area of Berlin. Smuda has also worked as a speaker for the German detachment of NATO Air Policing Baltikum in Šiauliai in Lithuania. At last he has worked in the Operation Headquarter of EU in Potsdam for preparation Europeens engagement during the election in the Democratic Republic Congo (PR). He was chief-editor of the newspaper “ECHO” during the multinational exercise ELITE 2006 for 16 countries.

London N20 is a London postal district that covers the Totteridge, Whetstone and Oakleigh Park areas of the London Borough of Barnet in North London. (Strictly, the southern part of Totteridge extends into London N12.)

It includes a large amount of green belt, especially in Totteridge, making it possibly the most rural London postal district and one of the few to contain farms.

The division into areas corresponds roughly to the fourth character of the postcode. Totteridge postcodes are N20 8xx, Whetstone postcodes are N20 9xx and Oakleigh Park postcodes are N20 0xx. However, the short stretch of Totteridge Lane between the Dollis Brook and Totteridge and Whetstone tube station, although in Whetstone, has Totteridge postcodes.

Bruce Kalish is a professional television writer/producer. He began his career working on shows such as The Incredible Hulk, Mork and Mindy, and served as executive producer on The Fall Guy. His more recent work on The Famous Jett Jackson won numerous awards, and led him to be tapped by Disney for his current role as Executive Producer and writer for Power Rangers, starting with 2005’s Power Rangers SPD.

References

External links

• Bruce Kalish on IMDB
• Bruce Kalish on TV.com

D’Agostino can refer to:

• Antonino D’Agostino (born 1978), Italian footballer
• Frank D’Agostino (born 1978), American filmmaker
• Gaetano D’Agostino (born 1982), Italian footballer
• Antonino D’Agostino (born 1985), Italian footballer
• Gigi D’Agostino (born 1967), Italian DJ
• Jeff D’Agostino, actor
• John D’Agostino (born 1982), American professional poker player
  
• Jon D’Agostino, comic book artist
• Peppino D’Agostino, musician
• D’Agostino’s K-squared test

CFGQ is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 107.3 MHz FM stereo in Calgary, Alberta.

The station was launched on April 15, 1982 as CKIK-FM and first broadcast an adult album rock format, later switching to hot adult contemporary. It went through a number of hands before being purchased by Corus Radio Company (now Corus Entertainment) in 2000, at which time the format changed to classic hits and the call letters were changed to CFGQ.

CFGQ also has an FM transmitter in Banff which broadcasts on 100.1 MHz FM stereo with an effective radiated power of 92 watts.

Shows

• The Q107 Morning Show
• Nights with Alice Cooper
• Psychedelic Snack with Garth Ross
• Lex in The City with Lexine Stephens
• This Side Up
• Saturday Spotlight
• Psychedelic Sunday
• Legends of Classic Rock

Special Events

• Rockin’ in the Rockies (Annual)
• Q-Stock (Annual)

External links

• The station’s website
• CFGQ-FM History from the Canadian Communications Foundation

Gana la Verde was a controversial game show which first aired in 2004 that promised the contestants (would-be immigrants to the US) legal help with getting a green card. There was a mild controversy when the advertising suggested that a green card would be the automatic prize for the victor. The events on the show, often testing a character’s stomach or willpower, were similar to Fear Factor, another controversial game show that aired at the same time.

As of this writing (13 December 2004), it is playing on third-party Spanish-language channels in Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, and Dallas. The show was produced and directed by highly regarded Spanish-language producer Adrian Vallarino. The show wrapped production after its 3rd season at the beginning of 2005 but re-runs were still being aired once a week as of September 2007.

External links

Daniel Sarcos is a television show host from Venezuela. He is currently the host of Sabado Sensacional and La Guerra de los Sexos along with Viviana Gibelli. Both of these shows are seen on the Venezuelan television channel, Venevisión. He starred in the Dominican Movie, Un macho de mujer in 2006. He is married to former Miss Venezuela participant, model, and television host Chiquinquirá Delgado.

See also

• List of television presenters/Venezuela

For the Major League Baseball pitcher, see Jay Marshall (pitcher).

Jay Marshall (August 29, 1919 – May 10, 2005) was a famous magician and ventriloquist. Over a 60 year career he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show 14 times together with his dummy “Lefty”. He also was the opening act for performers like Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle and Liberace. In fact, he was the first act to open for Sinatra in Las Vegas. He was also the dean of the Society of American Magicians.

According to the Chicago Tribune, his interest in magic started when he was six. Marshall failed to graduate from Bluefield College in West Virginia and went on to be a professional magician instead.

During World War II, Marshall was “island hopping” in the Pacific to entertain military personnel in USO shows. He became tired of taking his elaborate ventriloquist’s dummy called Henry with him, so he decided to use a white glove and some bunny ears to turn his left hand into his dummy, “Lefty”.

In the 1950s, Marshall moved to Chicago and married fellow magician Frances Ireland. Together they opened a magic shop in 1963 called Magic Inc. on Lincoln Avenue on Chicago’s North Side. Marshall was also a historian of stage magic and wrote several books about it. However, his own acts focused more on card magic and sleight of hand which he often combined with ventriloquism.

He died at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago after a series of heart attacks.

External links

• Find-A-Grave profile for Jay Marshall (magician)

The Dipmeter Advisor was an early expert system developed in the 1980s by Schlumberger Doll Research to aid in the analysis of data gathered during oil exploration. The Advisor was generally not merely an inference engine and a knowledge base of ~90 rules, but generally was a full-fledged workstation, running on one of Xerox’s 1100 Dolphin Lisp machines (or in general on Xerox’s “1100 Series Scientific Information Processors” line) and written in INTERLISP-D, with a pattern recognition layer which in turn fed a GUI menu-driven interface. It was developed by a number of people, including Reid G. Smith [1], James D. Baker, and Robert L. Young.

It was primarily influential not because of any great technical leaps, but rather because it was so successful for Schlumberger’s oil divisions and because it was one of the few success stories of the AI bubble to receive wide publicity before the AI Winter.

The AI rules of the Dipmeter Advisor were primarily derived from Al Gilreath, a Schlumberger interpretation engineer who developed the “red, green, blue” pattern method of dipmeter interpretation. Unfortunately this method had limited application in more complex geological environments outside the Gulf Coast, and the Dipmeter Advisor was primarily used within Schlumberger as a graphical display tool to assist interpretation by trained geoscientists, rather than as an AI tool for use by novice interpreters. However, the tool pioneered a new approach to workstation-assisted graphical interpretation of geological information.

References

• The AI Business: The commercial uses of artificial intelligence, ed. Patrick Winston and Karen A. Prendergast. ISBN 0262730774

• “The Dipmeter Advisor: Interpretation of Geological Signals” - Randall Davis, Howard Austin, Ingrid Carlbom, Bud Frawley, Paul Pruchnik, Rich Sneiderman, J. A. Gilreath.

External links

• “The design of the Dipmeter Advisor system” -(at the ACM’s website)

Just in Sequence (JIS) is a further progression over Just In Time.

Not only are the parts used for production delivered just when they are needed, they are also delivered in the correct order, i.e. in the same sequence as the sequence of the manufacturing orders. JIS is in use predominantly in the automobile manufacturing. The respective control system is called sequence inlining system.

In Lean terms this means producing components in the order in which they were consumed. This can become important where inventory levels are low and production variability is low. Under these circumstances the oldest ‘order’ (or consumption) will be the first to need more of the component hence early replenishment is key to maintaining flow and low inventory.

Classic ABC is a segment on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation featuring children’s favourite classics.

Many of the shows were BBC productions or Japanese anime.

The List of Shows include:

A Shows

• Abbott and Costello

• Adventures of the Little Koala
• Alias the Jester
• Alvin and the Chipmunks
• Around the World with Willy Fog
• Astro Boy
• Atom Ant
• Avenger Penguins

B Shows

• Bangers and Mash
  
• Bananaman
• Battle of the Planets
• Butterfly Ball

C Shows

• Catweazle

D Shows

• Dangermouse
• Deputy Dawg
• Dennis the Menace
• The Dreamstone

F Shows

• Fantastic Max
• Felix the Cat
• The Ferals

G Shows

• The Goodies
• Grange Hill
• Gumby

H Shows

• Heathcliff

I Shows

• Inspector Gadget

M Shows

• Madeline
• Monkey (TV Series)
• Mysterious Cities of Gold

R Shows

• Raccoons
• Raggy Dolls
• Rocky and Bullwinkle
• Roger Ramjet

S Shows

• Star Blazers
• Superted

T Shows

• T-Bag
• Telebugs
• Tintin
• Today’s Special
• Touché Turtle

W Shows

• Worzel Gummidge

In mathematics, a half-integer is a number of the form

<math>n + 1/2</math>,

where <math>n</math> is an integer. For example,

4½, 7/2, −13/2, 8.5

are all half-integers. Note that a half of an integer is not always a half-integer: half of an even integer is an integer but not a half-integer. The half-integers are precisely those numbers which are half of an odd integer.

The set of all half-integers is often denoted

<math>\mathbb Z + {1\over 2}.</math>

Uses

Half-integers occur frequently enough in mathematical contexts that a special term for them is convenient. For example, the densest lattice packing of unit spheres in four dimensions places a sphere at every point whose coordinates are either all integers or all half-integers; this packing is closely related to the Hurwitz integers, which are quaternions whose real coefficients are either all integers or all half-integers.

Moreover, the Pauli exclusion principle results from definition of fermions as particles which have spins that are half-integers. The energy levels of the quantum harmonic oscillator occur at half-integers and thus its lowest energy is not zero.

Ian MacNaughton (December 30 1925 – December 10 2002) was a television producer/director, best known for his work with the Monty Python team.

Serving as both director and producer of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, MacNaughton also directed the team’s first film, And Now For Something Completely Different and their German special, Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus.

In 1979, he made the short movie Le Pétomane about farting artist Joseph Pujol, starring Leonard Rossiter.

He also was the producer of Spike Milligan’s Q, which was a big influence on the Monty Python team. [1]

Ernest Irving (November 6 1878–October 24 1953) was an English composer and conductor, primarily remembered for his involvement in film music. He composed the score for the Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!.

External links

R. Vaughan Williams dedicated his Symphony No. 7 (Sinfonia Antartica) to him

Serafim Karalexis is a film producer.

Partial filmography

• Pavlova — A Woman for All Time (1985)

Producer:
1990s
1980s
1970s
The Steal (1995) (associate producer)

Anna Pavlova (1983) (associate producer)
… aka A Woman for All Time
… aka Pavlova
… aka Pavlova: A Woman for All Time
… aka The Divine Anna

Death Promise (1977) (producer: Boston Film)
… aka Enter the White Dragon (Philippines: English title)
… aka Pay-Off Time (UK: video title)
… aka Slumfighter (USA)
The Super Weapon (1976) (producer)
The Real Bruce Lee (1973) (producer)
… aka Bruce Lee: The Little Dragon (USA)
… aka The Young Bruce Lee (USA)

External links

George Perkins is the name of:

• George Clement Perkins (1839-1923), a U.S. Republican politician and governor of California
• George Walbridge Perkins (1862–1920), a vice-president of New York Life Insurance Company
• George W. Perkins (television producer), an American film and television producer

Miller-Boyett Productions was an American television production company that mainly developed television sitcoms from the 1970s through the 1990s. It was responsible for family-oriented hit series such as Happy Days, Full House, Perfect Strangers, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, and Family Matters. It was originally founded in 1969 as Miller-Milkis Productions, and later became Miller-Milkis-Boyett Productions in 1982, before adopting its current name.

The production team members are:

• Thomas L. Miller (born 1940)
• Robert L. Boyett (born 1942)
• Edward K. Milkis (1931-1996)

List of shows produced by either production team

• Angie
• Blansky’s Beauties
• Bosom Buddies
• Family Matters
• Full House
• Going Places
• Goodtime Girls
• Happy Days
• The Hogan Family
• Laverne and Shirley
• Makin’ It
• Mork and Mindy
• Out of the Blue
• Perfect Strangers
• Petrocelli
• Step by Step
• $weepstake$
• Two of a Kind

External links

Enter Tech was the first manufacturer to release a portable karaoke microphone in 2000 called Magic Sing. The latest Magic Sing microphone is the ED-11000 which was released in 2006 and is completely wireless.

External links

• Magic Sing Song Search

Wrong Number is a Hindi film which has an expected release date sometime in February, 2008.

Cast

• Vijay Malhotra……Raj/Rajiv
• Amitabh Bachchan……Shyam Uncle
• Akshay Kumar……Raju/Rajshri
• Zayed Khan……Uzair
• Shahid Kapoor……Shahir
• Ali Kapoor……Ali
• Amrita Rao……Sunita
• Kareena Kapoor……Rakhi
• Priyanka Chopra……Priya
• Sharat Saxena…..Banjo Bhai
• Sunil……Sunil

Jane Lewis was the main sports presenter on the evening edition of Scotland Today, the news programme on STV Central.

The programme is currently facing major changes as a result of mass redundancies both in the newsroom and technical support division.

Lewis, along with presenters Shereen Nanjiani and Sarah Heaney have all taken voluntary redundancy. Jane left the news programme on April 24, 2006.

Jane is now working as a freelance Journalist specialising in Sports Reporting and Broadcasting. She regularly works for Sky Sports, Setanta, Eurosport and Radio Clyde. Away from Sports Broadcasting she has also worked for BBC Radio Scotland.

In telecommunication, a four-wire circuit is a two-way circuit using two paths so arranged that the respective signals are transmitted in one direction only by one path and in the other direction by the other path. Late in the 20th century, almost all connections between telephone exchanges were four-wire circuits.

The four-wire circuit gets its name from the fact that, historically, a balanced pair of conductors were used in each of two directions for full-duplex operation. The name may still be applied, e.g. to a communications link supported by optical fibers, even though only one fiber is required for transmission in each direction. When transmission directions are separated by frequency duplex, it still gets the benefits of a four-wire circuit even if the same wire pair is used in both directions.

Contrast with two-wire circuit.

Paul Zenon (born June 29, 1964) is a British magician known for television shows featuring him performing in pubs and on the streets. He is regarded by some as a humorous British alternative to David Blaine. He is listed in some sources as Peter Zenon, which may be his real name.

Early life

Zenon has a criminal record and has sometimes been billed as “King Con” and “The Sultan of Swindle”. He staged his first “attack” (a scam-type operation) at the age of eight when he sold fake raffle tickets for a phony prize. In his adolescence Zenon worked in a joke shop, The House of Secrets, in Blackpool before travelling the Mediterranean as a street magician. He also worked in a casino, from which he was fired for (allegedly) cheating guests and the casino alike. It is fair to say that over the years Zenon has led a life of deceit and trickery but he now uses his knowledge to expose hustlers and scam/con artists, so that the public will not fall into their traps.

Performance career

After spells in comedy clubs and Forces entertainment, Zenon moved to children’s television in the early 1990s, appearing regularly in the BBC shows Tricks ‘n’ Tracks and Tricky Business. He subsequently wrote and produced the Children’s ITV game show Crazy Cottage. He had a significant hit with a one-man show at the 1997 and 1999 Edinburgh Festivals.ibid

More recently he has become popular for a series of one-off magic specials on Channel 4 and ITV including Paul Zenon Turning Tricks (1999), Paul Zenon’s Tricky Christmas, Paul Zenon’s Trick or Treat (shot in Prague in 2000) and White Magic with Paul Zenon (shot in Lapland). Also appears as a special guest on Countdown sometimes. See also

Other work

He is the vice patron of the missing persons helpline (after having run away and gone missing early in his life).

He has also written three books:

• 100 Ways to Win a Tenner (2003)
• Paul Zenon’s Dirty Tricks (2004)
• Street Magic (2005)

Blaine allegations

It has been alleged that David Blaine has used many of Zenon’s tricks and routines without permission, leading Zenon to expose effects used by Blaine in his book Street Magic. There are counter claims that some of Blaine’s performances pre-date those of Zenon.

References

External links

• Paul Zenon’s official website
• His entry at the Internet Movie Database

Chris Brown may refer to:

• Chris Brown (baseball player) (1961-2006)
• Chris Brown (American football) (born 1981)
• Chris Brown (footballer) (born 1984), English
• Chris Brown (soccer) (born 1977), American
• Chris Brown (musician), Canadian
• Chris Brown (experimental music) (born 1953)
• Chris Brown (television) (born 1983), American journalist
• Chris Brown (singer) (born 1989), American hip hop/R&B singer.
  • Chris Brown (album), self-titled album by above singer
• Chris Brown (Trapt), singer for Trapt
• Chris Brown (field hockey) (born 1961), New Zealand
• Christopher Brown, (born 1978), Bahamian sprinter.

Tooth fungi are a relatively small polyphyletic group of fungi whose mushroom bears its spores on a hymenium - a layer of “mother cells” -
Although many tooth fungi are hard and inedible, some are prized both for their flavor and their ease of identification, such as Hericium erinaceus, the “bearded tooth mushroom”. Other species, though not edible, find use in the production of natural dyes.

Despite their physical similiarites, molecular phylogeny has divided the tooth fungi among several orders, including Cantharellales (including the hedgehog mushroom), Russulales (including the bearded tooth mushroom), and Thelephorales. Another fungus - the toothed jelly fungus, Pseudohydnum gelatinosum - has “teeth” but is an even more distantly related, as one of the jelly fungi.

External links

• Pinewood tooth fungi species profile

Alex Kurtzman is an American film and television screenwriter, producer, and director.

He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he met his high school friend and long time collaborator Roberto Orci.

Film Credits

• The Island, co-writer (screenplay)
• The Legend of Zorro, co-writer (screenplay and story)
• Mission: Impossible III, co-writer (screenplay)
• Transformers co-writer (screenplay and story)
• Star Trek XI, co-writer and executive producer (announced)
• Nightlife, Producer (announced)
• Transformers 2 Writer (pre-production)

Television Credits

• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, writer and co-executive producer
• Xena: Warrior Princess, writer and co-executive producer
• Jack of All Trades, writer and Executive Producer
• Alias, writer and executive producer
• The Secret Service, co-creator, writer, executive producer

Trivia

As a child, he lived in Mexico City for a year where he learned to speak Spanish and French.

60 Seconds is a short news programme running between shows and during films on BBC Three. It lasts for 60 seconds as the name suggests, during which time the presenter condenses some of the day’s news, sport and entertainment stories into a 60 second bulletin. Throughout the bulletin, a timer in the corner of the screen is featured which counts down the seconds. There are two sets of pictures running simultaneously for each story. Five stories are featured in every bulletin. 60 Seconds is presented in a relaxed, cheeky style in keeping with the channel. Humour is a feature and some of the scripting often raises a smile. The main presenter is James Dagwell, with Alex Stanger filling the gaps.

It was launched on July 16, 2001 on BBC Choice, the precursor to BBC Three, to appeal to those within the 18-34 age group; BBC Three’s target audience, and also the demographic with lowest news-watching and voter turnout. When BBC Choice was replaced by BBC Three on February 9, 2003, the programme was kept and the titles updated to match the style of The 7 O’Clock News also on the channel.

The Coast Guard Command Enlisted Identification Badge is a temporary decoration which is awarded to those Coast Guard Petty Officers who serve as the senior enlisted advisor to a Coast Guard command when there are no Chief Petty Officers present.

Upon completion of duties as the senior enlisted advisor, the Command Enlisted Identification badge is surrendered and is not considered a permanent award. The Command Enlisted Identification Badge is worn on the lower left uniform pocket and is very similar to the CPO Command Identification Badge, upon which the decoration is based.

See also: Military badges of the United States

A magic item is any object that has magical powers inherent in it. These may act on their own or be the tools of the person or being whose hands they fall into. Magic items are commonly found in both folklore and modern fantasy.

Magic items often act as a plot device to grant magical abilities. They may give magical abilities to a person lacking in them, or enhance the power of a wizard. For instance, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the magical ring allows Bilbo Baggins to be instrumental in the quest, matching the abilities of the dwarves.Tom Shippley, The Road to Middle-earth, p 77, ISBN 0-628-25760-8

Fairy tales

Certain kinds of fairy tales have their plots dominated by the magic items they contain. One such is the tale where the hero has a magic item that brings success, loses the item either accidentally (The Tinder Box) or through an enemy’s actions (The Bronze Ring), and must regain it to regain his success.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 70-1, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977 Another is the magic item that runs out of control when the character knows how to start it but not to stop it: the mill in Why the Sea Is Salt or the pot in Sweet Porridge.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 73, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977 A third is the tale in which a hero has two rewards stolen from him, and a third reward attacks the thief.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 72, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977

Types of magic items

Many works of folklore and fantasy include very similar items, that can be grouped into types. These include:

• Magic swords
• Magic rings
• Cloak of invisibility
• Potions
• Rods
• Staves
• Magic carpets
• artifacts in Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy role-playing games

References

Gospels for the Sick is the first album by SCUM. It was recorded at Crystal Canyon Studios in Oslo in one session in 2004 and dropped on the Norwegian market in fall 2005, in August in Europe and October in North America.

The album was nominated for the Alarm Awards (Norwegian music awards) in the metal category, but lost to Stonegard.

The artwork on the CD was done by Stephen O’Malley and the band photos by Sebastian Ludvigsen. The music was created by Samoth, Cosmocrator and Casey Chaos, while the lyrics were all written by Casey Chaos.

Track listing

1. “Protest Life” (5:16)
2. “Gospels for the Sick” (5:05)
3. “Throw up on You” (3:15)
4. “Night of 1000 Deaths” (3:45)
5. “Truth Won’t be Sold” (3:37)
6. “Hate the Sane” (4:26)
7. “Deathpunkscumfuck” (2:07)
8. “Road to Sufferage” (4:33)
9. “Backstabbers Go to Heaven” (4:12)
10. “The Perfect Mistake” (5:22)

The track “Bleeders”, an album B-side, can be found on MySpace.

External links

• SCUM

ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) is the acronym chosen by Colt to denote its involvement in the design and/or marketing of several standard models of pistol cartridge.

ACP cartridges

• .25 ACP
• .32 ACP
• .380 ACP
• .38 ACP (Obsolete)
  
• .45 ACP

See also

• List of handgun cartridges

Kill or Cure is a 1962 British comedy film, in which an inept police officer is called to investigate the strange goings-on at a health club.

Cast

• Terry-Thomas — J. (Jerry) Barker-Rynde, PI
• Eric Sykes — Rumbelow
• Dennis Price — Dr. Julian Crossley
• Lionel Jeffries — Det. Insp. Hook
• Moira Redmond — Francis Roitman, Clifford’s Secretary
• Katya Douglas — Rita, Green Glades Nurse
• David Lodge — Richards, Nurse
• Ronnie Barker — Burton, Hook’s Assistant
• Hazel Terry — Mrs. Rachel Crossley
• Derren Nesbitt — Roger Forrester
• Harry Locke — Riggins
• Arthur Howard — Green Glades Desk Clerk
• Tristram Jellinek — Asst. Clerk
• Peter Butterworth — Green Glades Barman
• Patricia Hayes — Lily the Waitress

External links

An entry, in trick-taking card games such as bridge, is a card that allows a player to win the trick, thus getting the right to lead the next trick. Gaining the lead when some other player (including one’s partner) led to the previous trick is referred to as entering one’s hand; a card that wins a trick to which another player made the lead (except the last trick) is therefore known as an entry.

Example

This bridge example demonstrates the concept of and importance of entries:
North is unable to win a trick in any suit except spades. South has no spades, and so cannot lead spades. If South declares this hand at no trump and the opening lead is a club, he will probably take just 9 tricks with the top cards in his hand. Although the dummy holds the top six spades, they are useless unless somebody leads spades, which South cannot do. If South did have a spade, he could use it as an entry to the dummy, allowing the dummy to win the six spades tricks.

If South declares with hearts as trump, he has a good chance of making all 13 tricks: one of the dummy’s small trumps now becomes an entry when used to ruff the declarer’s small club. Unless the defense can ruff, South’s small diamonds can be discarded on North’s high spades.

Henry Brown may refer to:

• Henry Box Brown (1815-c.1879), American slave who had himself mailed in a box to freedom
• Henry Billings Brown (1836–1914), U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1891–1906)
• Henry E. Brown, Jr. (born 1935), U.S. Congressman from South Carolina (2000-present)
• Henry Kirke Brown (1814-1886), American sculptor
• Henry Lee Brown, American jazz musician
• Henry Newton Brown, American lawman and outlaw of the old west.
• Henry Yorke Lyell Brown (1843–1928), Australian geologist
• Henry Brown (New Zealand) (1842-1921), New Zealand politician

See also Harry Brown

Anthony Marwood is the acclaimed violinist of the Florestan Trio. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford) before going on to a successful career in music.

External links

• Anthony Marwood’s official website

The Circle is a peer-to-peer distributed file system written mainly in Python. It is based on the Chord distributed hash table (DHT).

It supports file sharing, instant messaging with buddy lists, the Internet relay chat model of sending a message to a channel, and a personalized, trust-based news service.

More unusually, it supports:

• finding and sending messages to people who aren’t currently online;
• a proxy for the Debian Advanced Packaging Tool system; and
• a probabilistic mechanism for sharing common keys between nodes, something not present in all DHT implementations.

Its DHT implementation is vulnerable to denial of service attacks.

From The Circle homepage:

The Circle is a scalable decentralized peer to peer application…. There’s no central authority running the show. Which means no entry taxes, no one booting you off the network, and (in theory) no weak point which can break the whole system. As long is there’s one Circle peer running, anywhere in the world, there’s still a network. Circle does not try to provide anonymity, which allows it to be much more scalable than gnutella.

The Circle currently runs on Linux, BSD, Windows, and Mac OS X.

External link

• The Circle homepage

Dorothy-Grace Elder is a journalist and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament.

She first came to the public eye in the 1970s as a television journalist, on BBC Scotland’s news programme Reporting Scotland. She also worked on the ill-fated Scottish Daily News.

Noted for her campaigning abilities, she was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 as a Scottish National Party (SNP) representative for Glasgow. A left-winger, she supported Alex Neil in the SNP leadership election of 2000. She became dissatisfied with the way in which the SNP was being run and in 2002 she quit the SNP and sat as an independent MSP.

She did not stand for re-election at the 2003 election, returning to journalism instead.

She is also a former Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association candidate for the post of rector of the University of Glasgow, losing to Richard Wilson in 1996.

See also

• Scottish Daily News

Stuart Macleod (born July 4 1980) is a Scottish magician.

Macleod was brought up in Peterhead, and graduated at the University of Aberdeen with an MA in both Philosophy and Psychology. He is one half of Barry and Stuart (who also go by the name 2magicians).

He has won the Young Magician of the Year for Scotland twice. Along with Barry Jones, Macleod used to perform street magic in Aberdeen. The pair have since moved to London after producers at Objective Productions saw their own video, which resulted in the making of their first TV show called Magick for Channel 4.

In 2005, Macleod performed in Dirty Tricks and When Magic Tricks Go Wrong, both for Channel 4. At Christmas, he presented, along with Jones, a look at the miracles of Jesus in The Magic of Jesus.

In 2006, MacLeod performed with Barry Jones in Tricks From the Bible, where they were performing magical tricks from the Old Testament.

Daniel Jones is the name of:

• Daniel Jones (phonetician) (1881–1967), phonetician, author of The Pronunciation of English
• Daniel Jones (composer) (1912–1993), Welsh composer
• Daniel Jones (musician), Australian musician, member of Savage Garden
• Daniel Jones (footballer) english footballer
• Daniel Jones (philosopher), Bristolian thinker
• Daniel Webster Jones (governor) (1839-1918), Governor of Arkansas
• Daniel Webster Jones (Mormon) (1830-1915), Latter-day Saint pioneer, colonizer, translator, and author
• Daniel C. Jones (musician), Canadian Musician, member of Thinking of Pinky
• Daniel T. Jones (1800-1861), U.S. Representative from New York

Danny Jones is the name of:

• Danny Jones (born 1986), musician, part of British pop group McFly

Dan Jones is the name of:

• Dan Jones (Mormon), Welsh-American Latter-day Saint missionary, sailor, and pioneer
• Dan Jones (politician) (1908–1985), British politician, MP for Burnley 1959–1983
• Dan Jones (artist) (born 1962), American rock musician, figurative painter
• Dan Jones (composer), British composer and sound designer

See also:

• Jones (surname)

The Testament of Jacob is a work now regarded as part of the Old Testament apocrypha. It is often treated as one of a trio of very similar works, the other two of which are the Testament of Abraham and Testament of Isaac, though there is no reason to assume that they were originally a single work. All three works are based on the Blessing of Jacob, found in the Bible, in their style.

In a similar manner to the other two Testaments, the Testament of Jacob begins with Jacob being visited by the archangel Michael and told of his impending death, and then being taken on a visit to heaven, where he first sees the torture of the sinful dead, and then meets the deceased Abraham. In this Testament it is the angels that Jacob meets who deliver the bulk of the sermonising passages.

Azur may refer to:

• One of three uses in the Bible (meaning, he that assists or is assisted, helpful; also spelled Azzur):
  • The father of Hananiah, a false prophet of Gibeon (Jeremiah 28:1).
  • The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek. 11:1).
  • One of those who sealed the covenant with Jehovah on the return from Babylon (Neh. 10:17).
• Azur, Landes, France
• Azure, in heraldry
• Azur ERP software from Luxembourg

References

See also

• Azure (disambiguation)

Fergus Hall is a Scottish artist born in Paisley, and has exhibited at the Portal Gallery in London. He is best known for the Tarot that he created for James Bond film Live and Let Die. His paintings have been published on two LP sleeves for King Crimson, these three paintings were bought by Robert Fripp from the Gallery during the Mid 1970’s.
During the 70’s whilst working on the tarot pack he also worked as a teacher at St Aelreds Junior High in Glenburn, Paisley. From the late 1970s he worked as an art teacher at Trinity High School, Renfrew.

In 1982 his children’s book Groundsel was published by Jonathan Cape.

Hall is also an accomplished lute player

A magic item is any object that has magical powers inherent in it. These may act on their own or be the tools of the person or being whose hands they fall into. Magic items are commonly found in both folklore and modern fantasy.

Magic items often act as a plot device to grant magical abilities. They may give magical abilities to a person lacking in them, or enhance the power of a wizard. For instance, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the magical ring allows Bilbo Baggins to be instrumental in the quest, matching the abilities of the dwarves.Tom Shippley, The Road to Middle-earth, p 77, ISBN 0-628-25760-8

Fairy tales

Certain kinds of fairy tales have their plots dominated by the magic items they contain. One such is the tale where the hero has a magic item that brings success, loses the item either accidentally (The Tinder Box) or through an enemy’s actions (The Bronze Ring), and must regain it to regain his success.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 70-1, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977 Another is the magic item that runs out of control when the character knows how to start it but not to stop it: the mill in Why the Sea Is Salt or the pot in Sweet Porridge.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 73, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977 A third is the tale in which a hero has two rewards stolen from him, and a third reward attacks the thief.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 72, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977

Types of magic items

Many

works of folklore and fantasy include very similar items, that can be grouped into types. These include:

• Magic swords
• Magic rings
• Cloak of invisibility
• Potions
• Rods
• Staves
• Magic carpets
• artifacts in Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy role-playing games

References

Established in 1972, Spelling-Goldberg Productions was a television production company formed by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg. Together, they’ve produced such shows as Starsky & Hutch, The Mod Squad, S.W.A.T., Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island and Hart To Hart.

The rights to many Spelling-Goldberg Productions shows are held by Sony Pictures Television, which also co-produced a fraction of the library (as Columbia Pictures Television). The others are distributed respectively by CBS Television Distribution and 20th Television.

The Chen Lee Water Suspension is a magic trick.

The Effect: At first, an empty tube is shown to the audience. The magician proves that it is empty by passing an empty cup through the tube. The magician can even pass a silk through the tube to prove that the tube really is empty. Next, the magician picks up a pitcher full of water and slowly pours the water into the tube, where it magically stays suspended. The magician can even pass a silk through the water-filled tube, and the silk does not get wet. Finally, the magician picks up the empty cup and passes it through the bottom of the tube and when it emerges through the top, it is seen to be filled with water.

The Chen Lee Water Suspension was invented by U.F. Grant in 1962.

Not to be confused with Chris Jones (Access Software).

Chris Jones, Chief Technology Officer, Obsidian Entertainment - Chris Jones began his programming career in the game industry on a number of Interplay’s Star Trek titles and assisted in the creation and maintenance of a multi-OS windowing and resource system called GNW. His time at Interplay culminated with him being the co-Lead Programmer on Fallout responsible for much of the engine architecture and optimizations. After Fallout, Chris left Interplay to join Troika Games during which time he architected the engine used to complete Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. After Arcanum, Chris returned to Black Isle Studios and shortly after became the Lead Programmer for the Baldur’s Gate 3 project and was responsible for re-architecting the engine and building a solid programming team. In 2003, Chris left Black Isle Studios to become one of the founders of Obsidian Entertainment.

Beat Hefti (born February 3, 1978 in Schwellbrun) is a Swiss bobsledder who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a total of three bronze medals (Two-man: 2002, 2006; Four-man: 2006).

Hefti also won four medals at the FIBT World Championships with one gold (Four-man: 2007), one silver (Four-man: 1999), and two bronzes (Two-man: 2001, 2005).

References

• FIBT men’s bobsleigh results: 1924-2005
• FIBT profile

Gavin Brown has been the name of several notable figures.

• Gavin Brown (academic) is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney.
• Gavin Brown (musician) is a Canadian musician and record producer.
• Gavin Brown (artist) is a British visual artist.
• Gavin Brown (Australian rules footballer) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.
• Gavin Brown (politician) is a Member of the Scottish Parliament.

MAGIC, also known as The Magazine for Magicians, is an independent magazine for magicians that is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. A creation of Stan Allen, it debuted in September of 1991, with its first issue featuring Lance Burton on the cover, and over the years it has also featured David Copperfield, Siegfried & Roy, Penn & Teller, Mike Caveney, and Mac King.

Writers for the magazine include Joshua Jay, Gabe Fajuri, Alan Howard, Max Maven, Peter Duffie, Andi Gladwin and Shawn McMaster.

In 2005 MAGIC Magazine was deemed the world’s largest selling publication for magicians by Guinness World Records. ( 2005 edition page 183 )

In 2007 MAGIC Magazine was also listed as one of the Chicago Tribune’s 50 favorite magazines in their annual summer list.

External links

• Official magazine website

FTV is a three-letter abbreviation and it might refer to:

• Fairchild TV, a Canadian Cantonese television network
• Fashion TV, a television network
• Formosa Television (FTV), is one of the major TV channels and companies in Taiwan.
• Federation Television (Federalna Televizija), a television company of Bosnia and Hercegovina.
• Free-to-view, a television term for encrypted but non-subscription television services.
• First Time Videos, a subscription Internet pornography website that focuses on models that are new to the industry.
• FTV, a 1985 TV series.
• Free View Point TV。

Sarah Sorge (born 26 August 1969 in Frankfurt) is a German politician. She is a member of Alliance 90 a member of the German green party, and has been a representative for the state parliament of Hesse since 2001. Sorge studied political science from 1989 to 1997 at the University of Frankfurt. She has been a member of Alliance ‘90/The Greens since 1993, and was an active member of the Green Youth.

External links

• Official website

Draja Mickaharic was born Wednesday April 10th 1912. He was born in Bosnia, where his father, an Austrian, was a civil servant employed by the old Austro Hungarian Empire. He came to America March 12, 1937 He lived in New York City until 2002, when he moved to Philadelphia to stay with a former student. He has for many decades resided in the United States. He became a US Citizen in 1940. He practiced as a consultant on Occult and other matters for many years, and is now retired. He is now devoting what time he has left to writing and relaxing in front of the TV. He no longer consults or does work for others. He writes on the topic of occultism and magic. His work features a uniquely eclectic and practical blend of Eastern European and Caribbean folk magic, with strong touches of hoodoo, Obeah, and brujeria. He is somewhat surprised to learn he is famous.

Partial bibliography

• Spiritual Cleansing: Handbook of Psychic Protection (1982)
• Century of Spells (1985)
• Practice of Magic: An Introductory Guide to the Art (1995)
• Magic Simplified (2002)
• Mental Influence (2002)
• Magical Techniques (2002)
• More Magical Techniques (2003)
• A Spiritual Worker’s Spell Book (2003)
• Magical Uses for Magnets (2004)
• Magical Practice: Applying Magical Training To Your Daily Life (2004)
• Immortality (2007)

Mathias Abel (born June 22, 1981 in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) is a German footballer for FC Schalke 04. He transferred to Schalke from FSV Mainz 05 during the 2006/07 season.

External links

• Mathias Abel profile @ mainz05.de

Duquette may be a reference to:

• Duquette, Minnesota
• Constance Jean Duquette, artist and occultist
• Dan Duquette, former baseball executive
• Jim Duquette, baseball executive
• Lon Milo Duquette, writer and occultist
• Steve Duquette, cartoonist

Robert Teitel is an American film producer.

Teitel is most notable for producing the films Soul Food (1997), Men of Honor (2000), and the three films in the Barbershop series: Barbersop, , and Beauty Shop. He is also co-producer of the television series .

He is a 1990 graduate of Columbia College Chicago. He has been associated with writer/director George Tillman, Jr. since they were students together at Columbia College.

External links

• Biography on the Soul Food movie website
• Coverage of Men of Honor by Columbia Chronicle Online, including video interview with Teitel

Sir John Colleton, 1st Baronet (1608–1666) served Charles I during the English Civil War. He rose through the Royalist ranks during the conflict, but later had his holdings seized when the Cavaliers were finally defeated by Parliamentary forces. Following the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Colleton was one of eight individuals Charles II rewarded for supporting his efforts to regain the throne of England.

In 1663, he granted Colleton and the other seven individuals, called Lords Proprietors, the land called Carolina, named in honor of his father, Charles I. Colleton brought a group of settlers from the Caribbean Isle of Barbados, who brought with them slaves from Africa. This began the institution of slavery in the New World. These settlers also introduced the cultivation of rice to the area.

Sources

• Divine, Robert A. America: Past and Present. 6th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2003.

Elizabeth Macleod is a Canadian author.

She is author of (2001), a biography of L.M.Montgomery (author of Anne of Green Gables). Among her signing appearances was a stop at the Bala Museum in Bala, Ontario, to commemorate a vacation the Montgomery family made to Bala in 1922.

The Portland Rockies were a minor-league baseball team that played in Portland, Oregon from 1994-2000. They were a single-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. Their name and logo mimicked the mountain theme of the Colorado club, even though Portland is not located in the Rocky Mountains. A rose was added to the Portland team’s cap logo to signify Portland’s nickname, the “Rose City”.

The Rockies (previously located in Bend, Oregon as the Bend Rockies) moved into Civic Stadium (now known as PGE Park) when the venerable Portland Beavers were moved to Salt Lake City, Utah by then-owner Joe Buzas in 1994. The Rockies played in the short-season Northwest League and had some success, including a league championship in 1997. Although few single-A teams play in cities as large as Portland, the Rockies were able to maintain local interest in baseball.

In 2000, PGE Park was renovated and a new incarnation of the AAA Beavers moved into the stadium in 2001. The Rockies moved to Pasco, Washington where they became the Tri-City Dust Devils.

Notable former Rockies include current MLB players Chone Figgins, Juan Pierre, Clint Barmes, Brad Hawpe, Jake Westbrook,Garrett Atkinsand Jason Franklin.

Teletext on 4 has been the name of two different text and teletext services in the on Channel 4 and S4C in the United Kingdom.

Current incarnation

Currently, Teletext on 4 is the name of Channel 4’s text service on digital versions of Channel 4 and its teletext service on analogue versions of Channel 4 on pages 400-499. It provides further information about Channel 4 programmes and a subtitles for programmes. The service is run by Teletext Ltd. on behalf on Channel 4. Teletext on 4 launched in 2003, replacing Channel 4’s previous ancillary teletext service, FourText.

Previous incarnation

When Teletext Ltd. fi