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[edit] Candace Otto
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Candace Otto was crowned Miss Pennsylvania on July 12, 2003. At the Miss America Pageant, she was awarded the Bernie Wayne Performing Arts Award and a non-finalist talent award. She was the first Miss Pennsylvania to win the Bernie Wayne Performing Arts Award and the first Miss Pennsylvania since 1991 to win a non-finalist talent award. During her year as Miss Pennsylvania, she made over 150 appearances as a keynote speaker or featured performer. Her platform issue "Challenging Americans to Address Poverty" was inspired by her work with National Student Partnerships (NSP). Candace was a co-founder of NSP Evanston and has served on the advisory board of NSP Pittsburgh.
She is a native of Murrysville, PA and began her performing career at the age of ten, with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, performing on the stages of the Benedum Center and the Byham Theater. She studied Musical Theater at Northwestern University. After graduation, Candace was given an opportunity to study opera with the Ezio Pinza Council of American Singers of Opera, in Italy. At the urging of teacher Claudia Pinza, Candace set aside Musical Theater to study opera.
Performances both in the US and abroad include: “The Games of Love” (Oderzo, Italy), “The Mother of Sorrows Jubilee Tour” (Florence, Milan, Assisi, Rome & The Vatican), “First Night New Years Celebration” (Pittsburgh, PA), “The Hillman Center for the Performing Arts Grand Opening Gala” (Pittsburgh, PA), and concerts at Carlow University. She was a soloist at a U.S. Naval Academy memorial service following the events of September 11th, and has sung at the Grotto of Lourdes, France.
As a model and voiceover artist, she can be seen or heard in advertisements for: Fisher Price, Pampers, GNC, Saucony, U.S. Steel, National City, Sheetz, The Children’s Health Insurance Program, & Dick’s Sporting Goods.
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www.misspa.org, www.missamerica.org, www.candaceotto.com, www.nspnet.org
"The Time of Her Life" Pittsburgh Tribune Review April 7, 2004
"Miss Pennsylvania's Pageant Experience Unforgettable" The Catholic Accent October 2, 2003
"Beauty is only part of the picture for a Miss America competitor" Pittsburgh Tribune Review September 19, 2003
"Murrysville Woman Ready for Miss America Challenge" Pittsburgh Tribune Review September 9, 2003
"There She Is" Pittsburgh Tribune Review Fanfare August 18, 2003
"Newsmaker: She's Using Pageant Platform as a Soapbox" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette July 21, 2003
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[edit] The Best Thing Ever
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The Best Thing Ever is a punk band formed by baritone singer/songwriter Noah Britton in the summer of 2003. The label "punk" is adequate to describe the band's influences and ethics, but the sound that they exhibited changed drastically from show to show. Ranging from 50's pop to lofi folk to pure noise, The Best Thing Ever's musical output is not easily categorized by a single genre. Add to this the fact that the band has recorded and released only fragments of their constantly fluxing catalog and it becomes clear that the actual production of music was rarely a priority for The Best Thing Ever.
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The Best Thing Ever's original lineup consisted of Noah Britton, his two closest college friends (Alex Billig and Jennifer Page), and an eighteen year-old soon-to-be singer/songwriter that he met over the internet (Emily Brodsky). Although the band officially consisted of four people, they played in various incarnations. Britton was the only fundamental member.
When they started out, they displayed a very clear stylistic duality. When performing with Emily, the other members harmonized to her cutesy Stephen Merritt-inspired pop songs. Without her, The Best Thing Ever took on a Half Japanese-like art-project character. The highlights of their early Emily-less performances include improvising musicals in subway stations, broadcasting two-hour band practices over their college radio station (WTBU), and playing a noise-based rendition of an Olsen Twins song at a social justice open mic. Indeed, this was a far cry from the type of work they were doing with Ms. Brodsky.
Emily landed the band big gigs opening for such acts as the Dresden Dolls, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, and The Gossip, but when she was offered a spot opening for the Magnetic Fields at NYU, she decided to leave The Best Thing Ever to make it on her own. Soon after she appeared on a K Records distributed 7" with Mirah and The Vibration.
All four original members of The Best Thing Ever played together for the last time on November 13th, 2004 at the home of Franz Nicolay. They recorded "Would You?" and "What I Want", the only two songs that all four members had composed together. The plan had been to release a post-mortem 7", but they lost interest in the idea by the time Nicolay had completed mixing the tracks.
One month after this recording session, The Best Thing Ever went on indefinite hiatus. Noah completed his studies at Boston University and spent several months unemployed living in a $300/month room in Mission Hill. Jen pursued her MA in philosophy at BU, and Alex went to London to intern for the Green Party of England and Wales and continue his studies in sociology.
In the fall of 2005, the three remaining members of The Best Thing Ever reunited in Boston to execute a new project that Noah had conceptualized while the band had been apart. With Emily officially out of the picture, The Best Thing Ever was no longer a standard contemporary pop-band. Their activities focused less on music and more on Britton's other interests: comedy, conceptual art, and psychology.
Noah's latest proposition was along the lines of their previous off-beat work, but significantly more complex. Essentially, The Best Thing Ever was to disguise themselves as a new lounge-act named Cool. They would send out fake press kits to all the local lounges in order to obtain gigs. Once they were on stage, Jen and Alex would play appealing pop harmonies, but Noah would take the mic and berate audience members for wasting their lives at crappy lounges.
Noah, Alex, and Jen spent several months trying to get Cool off the ground. "Stop Waiting for Death (You're Not Dead Yet)", the one song they finished and recorded for the project, has been featured on Said the Gramophone. Ultimately, however, Cool failed. The band members did not have the free time necessary to follow through with Noah's vision, and Boston didn't seem to have the type of dive-lounges that they were looking to play.
When Cool was abandoned, Alex became frustrated with his band-mates and started his Casio-punk solo act Never Heard of Zeppelin. Noah continued to perform solo and with Hip Hip Hooray and ROFLcopter. The Best Thing Ever, however, was far from over.
On January 27th, 2006, Noah invited Jen, Alex, and every other musician he knew, to take the stage with him at RISD and improvise parts to songs he had written in one night, exactly one year earlier. A month later, Alex and Noah opened for Plan-It-X-Records artist Paul Baribeau by playing a full set of Paul Baribeau covers. A month after that, under a pseudonym, the members of The Best Thing Ever played a set of republican hardcore songs at an anti-war benefit. They concluded their set by doing a sincere cover of Alan Jackson's "Where Were You" followed by a feedback-driven recitation of "The Royal Anthem of the Kilted Yaksmen".
On May 1st, 2006, Noah, Alex, and Jen officially revived The Best Thing Ever moniker before embarking on their most ambitious project to date, The Bathroom Tour. For twelve straight days, The Best Thing Ever invaded bathrooms across New England to perform their music for unsuspecting audiences. Though the band was often met with resistance, the tour was meant to be enjoyable for the audience. The band has used the term glamourbomb to describe their intentions.
Immediately following the completion of The Bathroom Tour, the band began another indefinite hiatus. Jen moved to South Dakota to work for Teach for America. Alex moved back home to New York, and Noah has remained in the Boston metro-area.
The Bathroom Tour DVD, which documents the events of their final tour, was released by Noah's label, HIG Records, in September 2006.
[edit] Current Members
- Noah Britton, Baritone Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
- Alex Billig, Guitar, Trumpet, Irish Whistle, Feedback, Percussion
- Jen Page, Cello, Mandolin, Yelling, Rape Whistle, Harmonica, Percussion
[edit] Former Members
- Emily Brodsky, Female Vocals, Ukelele
[edit] Discography
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Would You?/What I Want 7" |
HIG Records] |
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2006 |
The Bathroom Tour DVD |
HIG Records |
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[edit] Robert Koch Prize and Medal
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The Robert Koch Medal and Award are two prizes given annually for excellence in biomedical sciences. These awards grew out of early attempts by Robert Koch to generate funding to support his research into the cause and cure for tuberculosis. Koch discovered the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis responsible for this dreaded disease and rapidly acquired international support, including 500,000 gold marks from the Scottish-American philanthopist Andrew Carnegie.
The Koch Prize
Since 1970, the Koch Foundation has awarded prizes for major advances in biomedical sciences, particularly in the fields of microbiology and immunology. The prestige of this award has grown over the past decades so that it is now widely regarded as the leading international scientific prize in microbiology, despite it largely being awarded from German scientists affiliated with the Koch Foundation. As has been described by a jury member for the prize, the committee often asks, What would Robert Koch work on today?” to decide on research that should be granted recognition. The more specific Koch Prize is commonly considered one of the stepping-stones (along with other prizes such as the Lasker Award) to eventual Nobel Prize recognition for scientists in microbiology and immunology, and a number of Koch Prize winners subsequently became Nobel laureates such as René Dubos, Cesar Milstein and Susumu Tonegawa. Other notable awardees include Albert Sabin, ,Jonas Salk and John Enders for their pioneering work on the development of polio vaccines. Only Enders was recognized with a Nobel Prize (together with Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins).
Two separate Robert Koch Awards are presented annually: The Gold Koch Medallion for accumulated excellence in biomedical research and the Koch Prize, 100,000 euros, for a major discovery in biomedical science.
Koch Prize Winners (Since 1970)
1970 William M. Hutchinson (Großbritannien), Jorgen C. Siim (Dänemark) 1971 Gertrude und Werner Henle (USA) 1972 Hubertus Berrens (Niederlande),Alain L. de Weck (Schweiz) 1973 Jean Lindenmann (Schweiz),Hans G. Schwick (Marburg) 1974 Norbert Hilschmann (Göttingen) 1975 Harald zur Hausen (Erlangen),Heinz-G. Wittmann (Berlin) 1976 Richard A. Finkelstein (USA),Mark H. Richmond (Großbritannien) 1977 Jean Dausset (Frankreich),Jan J. van Rood (Niederlande) 1978 Albrecht K. Kleinschmidt (Ulm), Heinz L. Sänger (Gießen) 1979 Ruth Arnon (Israel), Peter Starlinger (Köln) 1980 César Milstein (Großbritannien), Lewis W. Wannamaker (USA) 1981 Robert M. Chanock (USA),Lars Å.. Hanson (Schweden) 1982 Raymond L. Erikson (USA), Franz Oesch (Mainz) 1983 Werner Goebel (Würzburg),Robert A. Weinberg (USA) 1984 Walter Doerfler (Köln), Stuart F. Schlossman (USA) 1985 Stefania Jablonska (Polen), Gérard Ch. J. Orth (Frankreich) 1986 Susumu Tonegawa (USA) 1987 Mario Rizzetto (Italien),Rudolf Rott (Gießen), John J. Skehel (Großbritannien) 1988 Donald Metcalf (Australien) 1989 Irun R. Cohen (Israel), Alex J. van der Eb (Niederlande) 1990 Lloyd J. Old (USA) 1991 Walter Fiers (Belgien),Tadatsugu Taniguchi (Japan) 1992 Kary B. Mullis (USA) 1993 Hans-Georg Rammensee (Heidelberg), Daniel W. Bradley (USA), Michael Houghton (USA) 1994 Volkmar Braun (Tübingen),Manuel Elkin Patarroyo Murillo (Kolumbien) 1995 Shigekazu Nagata (Japan),Peter H. Krammer (Heidelberg) 1996 Fritz Melchers (Schweiz), Klaus Rajewsky (Köln) 1997 Philippe J. Sansonetti (Frankreich) 1998 Yuan Chang (USA), Patrick S. Moore (USA) 1999 Ralph M. Steinman (USA) 2000 Stanley Falkow (USA) 2001 Axel Ullrich (Martinsried) 2002 Rudolf Jaenisch (USA) 2003 Adriano Aguzzi (Schweiz) 2004 Shizuo Akira (Japan), Bruce A. Beutler (USA), Jules A. Hoffmann (Frankreich) 2005 Brain J. Druker (USA)
Koch Gold Medal (since 1960)
1960 Hugo Braun (München), René Jules Dubos (USA),Toshiaki Ebina (Japan), Ludwig Heilmeyer (Freiburg), Franz Redeker (Mehlem), Josef Tomczik (Schweiz) 1962 John Franklin Enders (USA), Albert Bruce Sabin (USA),Jonas Edward Salk (USA) 1963 Tomizo Yoshida (Japan) 1974 Paul Kallós (Schweden) 1977 Pierre Grabar (Frankreich) 1978 Theodor v. Brand (Sulzbach-Rosenberg), Saul Krugman (USA) 1979 Sir Christopher Andrews (Großbritannien) 1980 Emmy Klieneberg-Nobel (Großbritannien) 1981 Maclyn McCarty 1982 Edgar Lederer (Frankreich), Walter Pagel (Großbritannien), Karl Styblo (Niederlande) 1985 Richard M. Krause (USA) 1986 Ernst Ruska (Berlin) 1987 Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (USA) 1988 Willy Burgdorfer (USA) 1989 Maurice R. Hilleman (USA) 1990 Ernst L. Wynder (USA) 1991 Werner Schäfer (Tübingen) 1992 Piet Borst (Niederlande), Howard C. Goodmann (USA) 1993 Karl Lennert (Kiel), Otto Westphal (Schweiz) 1994 Paul Klein (Mainz) 1995 Charles N. Weissmann (Schweiz) 1996 Sir Gustav V. J. Nossal (Australien) 1997 Satoshi Omura (Japan) 1998 George Klein (Schweden) 1999 Barry R. Bloom (USA) 2000 Marco Baggiolini (Schweiz) 2001 Nicholas Avrion Mitchison (Großbritannien) 2002 Agnes Ullmann (Frankreich) 2003 Tadamitsu Kishimoto (Japan) 2004Heinz Schaller (Heidelberg) 2005 Emil R. Unanue
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[edit] Kenneth F. Warren
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Dr. Kenneth F. Warren, a professor, author, and pollster is one of the nation's leading authorities on politics, public administration, and administrative law. Dr. Warren is a professor of political science at Saint Louis University and the president of The Warren Poll. Dr. Warren has polled for the media, government, private clients, and politicians, including former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Dr. Warren has served as a political analyst for local, national, and international media for more than 20 years and has appeared live on major networks, including, but not limited to, CNN, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, BBC, CBC, Swedish television, and Fox News, and has been interviewed by the leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Washington Post, USA Today, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The National Journal, The Economist, and Time Magazine. He is also a frequent guest on NPR.
Dr. Warren is the author of "In Defense of Public Opinion Polling"[1], which has received international acclaim since its release in 2001. He also is the author of "Administrative Law in the American Political System" [2], published originally in 1982, with a fourth edition published in 2004.
Dr. Warren received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
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http://publicservice.slu.edu/faculty.html
In Defense of Public Opinion Polling ISBN 0813340292 Kenneth F Warren paperback
In Defense of Public Opinion Polling ISBN 0813397936 Kenneth F. Warren hardcover
www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/cvwarren.doc
Administrative Law in the Political System ISBN 0813341167 Kenneth F Warren paperback
"Administrative Law in the American Political System - Kenneth F. Warren"
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?&isbn=0314633065&nsa=1
http://www.amazon.com/Administrative-Political-System-Kenneth-Warren/dp/0813341175
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[edit] Kenneth F. Warren
Dr. Kenneth F. Warren is notable for being an authority on politics, public administration, and administrative law within the United States. Warren is a professor of political science at Saint Louis University and the president of The Warren Poll. Warren has polled for agencies including: the media, government, private clients, and politicians. One of his political polls included polling for former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Warren served as a political analyst for local, national, and international media for over 20 years. He appeared live on networks, including CNN, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, BBC, CBC, Swedish television, and Fox News. The New York Times, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Washington Post, USA Today, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The National Journal, The Economist, and Time Magazine have used Warren's work as a political analyst. Frequently, Warren appears as a political analyst on National Public Radio (NPR).
Warren authored "In Defense of Public Opinion Polling"[7], which became globally popular after its release in 2001, and "Administrative Law in the American Political System"[8], published originally in 1982, with a fourth edition published in 2004.
Dr. Kenneth F. Warren received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
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http://publicservice.slu.edu/faculty.html
In Defense of Public Opinion Polling ISBN 0813340292 Kenneth F Warren paperback
In Defense of Public Opinion Polling ISBN 0813397936 Kenneth F. Warren hardcover
www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/cvwarren.doc
Administrative Law in the Political System ISBN 0813341167 Kenneth F Warren paperback
"Administrative Law in the American Political System - Kenneth F. Warren"
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?&isbn=0314633065&nsa=1
http://www.amazon.com/Administrative-Political-System-Kenneth-Warren/dp/0813341175
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12094
We Have Debated Ad Nauseam the Legitimacy of the Administrative State-But Why? Public Administration Review, Vol. 53, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1993), pp. 249-254[9]
International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration: D-K Vol. 2 Book by Jay M. Shafritz; Westview Press, 1998 [10]
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Alexandr (Sasha) Strack is the retired senior editor of the Ashland Observer (2003-2007). To date he has written one novel (2003's Hearts of Gold), five short stories (2004's Shan, 2005's The Legend of Shan, 2006's Peace Perpetual, 2006's Dereztown, and 2006's Come September), and numerous poems and songs. He is currently writing his second novel. In 2005, Strack was nominated for and won Best Writer of the Year Award for Valley Academy High School. He lives in Baltimore with his family and is a senior in high school. Alexandr Strack is seventeen years old.
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[edit] An Open Mind Leads to Better Decisions
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Flexing Your Creative Muscle
I know people who will take courses on topics completely out of their field, who try new dishes at restaurants, and who strive to keep themselves open to new ideas. The odd and wonderful thing is you can do all kinds of new and different activities in your personal life that will serve to stimulate your creativity at work, break free of attachment, and overcome the inertia of immobility when you want to get things done.
Here are a few ideas: At work:
- Take a planned 15 minute break twice daily
- Brainstorm with people not in your department
- Furnish your workspace with plants, pictures, or art that inspires you
- Learn some aspect of the organization that is completely foreign to you
Away from work:
- Change your magazine subscriptions
- Read a literary novel or epic
- Dress differently for different occasions
- Install a hammock in your backyard
In general, to develop your awareness:
- Take an impromptu weekend trip to someplace you haven't visited
- Join a book discussion group
Better Thinking, Better Decisions
The ultimate pay-off these types of activities generate is the ability to have a free and open mind, to make decisions on reasonably accurate observations, as well as drawing upon one�s collective experience.
In a Fast Company article �Decisions, Decisions,� Anna Muoio, says �Strip down to essentials, business is about one thing: making decisions. We�re always deciding something, from the small and daily such as which emails to answer, what meetings to have, to the macro and strategic such as what product to launch and when...�
One Decision Leads to Another
Rebecca Merrill, in her book Living in Yes, regards effective decision-making as the quintessential skill in life and in one�s career. Merrill says that we make decisions all the time, and �we never get to stop doing it.� It�s vital, she says, to understand that �every new decision leads to more decisions. It�s just a question of how well or how poorly they set you up.�
In this day and age, it�s increasingly difficult to make effective decisions because of the surplus of information that is available. In many respects, it works against our ability to choose and creates an intelligence deficit. We must choose. Merrill says, �With every decision you�ll experience some loss, even, and especially, if you choose to do nothing.� Rebecca Merrill states that although we spend a small percentage of our lives actually making decisions, they determine the course of our careers and the rest of our lives.
Since the quality of your life is directly related to the quality of your decisions, it�s well worth your while to learn how to make good ones. Merrill says �you can only make a decision you are capable of making when the decision is called for.� The paradox of it all is that there are no �right� or perfect decisions. Said another way, �All decisions are a function of who you are at the time you make them.� The more clear your thinking process, the greater the quality of your decisions.
Thinking is a Process That You Do All the Time!
In his book, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work, John Maxwell points out that since our decisions are largely based on the way we think, it�s crucial to understand the nuances of the thinking process itself.
Maxwell cautions that the biggest challenges that most people face, for example, when it comes to making effective personal decisions are their feelings. �They want to change, but they don�t know how to get past their emotions,� he says. Maxwell offers a syllogism that helps people to readily understand that they are in control:
Major Premise: I can control my thoughts.
Minor Premise: My feelings come from my thoughts.
Conclusion: I can control my feelings by controlling my thoughts.
Maxwell proclaims that if you�re willing to �change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you can change your feelings, you can change your actions.� The action that you take based on good thinking can change your career and your life.
The Analytical, Intellectual Approach
Using one�s intellect for intelligent analysis certainly has its benefits when it comes to decision making. The scientific method first propounded, introduced, in 1592 by Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, was improved upon a generation later by Rene Descartes, a French philosopher and mathematician, who provides the most fundamental approach to analytical thinking.
Recalling your seventh grade science class, the scientific method consists of six steps including observation, asking questions, formulating a hypothesis, experimentation, gathering and recording data and results, and forming a conclusion.
Shackled by the Paralysis of Analysis
Analytic and scientific approaches to decision making certainly are worth knowing and using in many instances. Many people overly rely on such analysis which takes the form of seeking reams of data before making a decision. In an overly informed society, regardless of whether you're making a purchase, hiring someone, or opening a drive-thru restaurant � you'll find enough information to persuade you to go both left and right. You'll find so much information that a clear-cut decision is nearly impossible.
A study was completed on the use of information in making decisions. Two groups of individuals had to make purchase decisions. One group was given data, analysis, and articles -- everything they thought they needed. The other group made the decision based on instinct. After a few weeks, the two groups were able to see the results: the group that felt better about its decision had chosen on instinct. More data does not necessarily produce the best answer.
If you are forty years old, forty years of data is brought to bear when you make a decision. Instinct, then, is not based on a moment's whim � it's everything you've ever learned during your existence. Each of us has the ability to make intuitive choices, but for many, the word intuition or instinct is taboo. Yet the top C.E.O.s of large companies often make decisions based on what feels right.
Find Your Own Path
When we�re consumed by too many details -- too much information -- it makes sense to switch mental gears and employ all of our faculties, especially the power of intuition.
Time and time again, astounding achievements have been realized by people who were able to look beyond what was known or accepted as true, use their intuitive faculties as well as current observations to arrive at current decisions.
Possessing intellect is certainly significant, but so is possessing instinct, intuition, and gut feelings. In fact, recent discoveries have demonstrated that there�s far more to instinct, intuition and gut feelings than you might imagine.
Robert Cooper, Ph.D. observes that "gut instincts are real and warrant listening to." For most things that you want to get done, even highly involved projects, you already have a strong idea as to how to best proceed. Often, you don't follow your own inner wisdom. You let yourself be pressured by external sources that, in retrospect, offer little contribution.
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Breathing Space: Living & Working at a Comfortable Pace in a Sped-Up Society by: Jeff Davidson (MasterMedia, trade paper, 209 pages, 4th printing).
http://www.breathingspace.com
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[edit] Steve King (Racer)
Steve King was a Sprint car racer, involved in the transformation of the World of Sprint Car racing from methanol fuel to ethanol fuel. He was part of the ethanol team and a teamate of Paul Dana. The Ethanol team would loose two very good drivers in the same season. Paul Dana was killed in practice at the Indianapolis 500, later that year in August after setting a new track 10 lap record, the same fate would come to Steve. A long line of people owe Steve a great deal of graditude for the relationships he brought to the Sprint Car world, with the new fuel, and the introduction of safer barriers, or soft walls which are planned at the Knoxville Raceway.
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www.88king.com (Steve King Home Page)
144.62.240.2 19:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fishnoodle
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[edit] Guitar Romantic
"Guitar Romantic" is the debut album by The Exploding Hearts. 3 members of the band were killed in an automobile accident on July 20, 2003.
Track Listing
1. Modern Kicks 2. I'm A Pretender 3. Thorns In Roses 4. You're Black And Blue 5. Sleeping Aides And Razor Blades 6. Rumours In Town 7. Throwaway Style 8. Boulevard Trash 9. Jailbird 10. Still Crazy
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http://www.grunnenrocks.nl/bands/e/explodingheartsthe.htm
74.118.63.117 19:45, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Nixon Now
Nixon Now is a seminal spoken word band from Detroit in the earl 1990s.
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Orbit Magazine - June 1993
216.175.87.107 21:51, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
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ELF, Exército de Libertação de Fermentelos, is a paramilitary organisation that perveilled in the 1960s and 1970s in Aveiro, Portugal. This non govermental organisation fought for the emancipation of Fermentelos, a small township in Aveiro.
Few are the terrorists acts performed by this organisation, but in 1973 the ELF movement made a public lynching to the Portuguese Communist Party's lider.
Today, the ELF movement still exists though it is no longer an armed organisation.
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88.157.83.4 22:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Declined. We cannot accept unsourced suggestions or sources that are not reliable per the verifiability policy. Please provide reputable, third-party sources with your suggestions. Part Deux 22:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Mortified
Mortified (USA)
Mortified is a national grassroots comedy collective offering a public excavation of teen angst artifacts-- journals, letters, lyrics, home movies, poetry, fiction, scripts, schoolwork.
While its roots are as a recurring stage event (Mortified Live) that began in Los Angeles, California, it has spawned theatrical chapters in numerous cities (San Francisco, Boston, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago), published books (Mortified: Real Words Real People Real Pathetic), frequently contributes to radio/TV series like This American Life, produces videos under the banner Mortified Short Bus, and boasts an online community titled Woe and Tell. Founded by David Nadelberg, it is operated by a network of contributors across the United States.
In 2006, Newsweek magazine dubbed Mortified "a cultural phenomenon" and Entertainment Weekly placed its book and stage shows on their "Must List".
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The Today Show (Nov 27 2006), Newsweek, USA Today Pop Candy, ThisAmericanLife.org, LAWeekly.com, CSM.com, DailyCandy.com, Mortified: Real Words Real People Real Pathetic (book cover), getmortified.com
A more detailed list of sources is found at: http://getmortified.com/about/wholikesit.php
216.175.87.107 22:19, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Alice Harriet Blosse-Lynch
Alice Harriet Blosse-Lynch (* July 17, 1844 in Bombay; † September 19, 1919, in Normandy) was the daughter of the irish baronet Henry Blosse-Lynch. August 10, 1867 she married the german banker Adolf Wilhelm Kessler in Paris. On May 23, 1868, that was also the birthplace of their first child Harry Graf Kessler. His younger sister Wilma Kessler, married Wilma de Brion, was born in 1877 and became godchild of the German Emperor Wilhelm I..
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- Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach (search for Alice Kessler)
- Neue Deutsche Biographie, Bd. 11, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 1977, entry on "Harry Graf v. Kessler", p. 545-546 (article by Hans-Ulrich Simon).
- I don't know if you accept these links to the german wikipedia: Harry Graf Kessler and Alice Harriet Blosse-Lynch - The latter I just created today. 82.207.217.122 22:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hershey Christian School
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