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Reginald D. "Reggie" Lewis

Reginald D. Lewis is an American dancer/choreographer, educator, model and motivational speaker. The Atlanta, Georgia native has served as a university administrator and has been honored as Professor of the Week at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the Art Institute of Atlanta. His motivational passion is speaking on overcoming adversity as he is a strong community volunteer.

He graduated from Walter F. George High School in Atlanta, GA and later received a BS degree from Mercer University, MBA from Troy State University and he is a Certified Internet Webmaster. He now studies Applied Management and Decision Sciences in Walden University’s PhD program.

Reginald is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Information Systems Audit and Control Association, The National Black MBA Association, The National Association of Black Accountants, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, Inc. and he was voted Outstanding Young Man of America in 1998. He has held titles such as Mr. International UA 2005 was also the first man to hold the title of Mr. United American 2004, Mr. Tourism World USA 2003, Mr. Georgia (America) 2002 (where he was 3rd Runner Up to Mr. America) and Mr. Nubian America 2002. Most recently he was featured on Turn For the Judges winner’s court as Mr. American Beauties Lifetime Ambassador for 2008.

He is a classically trained dancer and saxophonist who uses his talents to produce, direct and choreograph pageants throughout the US. He has choreographed and produced Miss Plus America, Miss American Beauties Plus, the National Mrs. Pageant, the American Dream pageant system and has been awarded for his stage direction, choreography, musical direction and pageant coaching.

To his credits, Reggie has performed in productions of the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Beauty and the Beast, Grease, The Wiz and has been a featured tap dancer on several occasions. He was a 1999 semi-finalist at the Atlanta Falcons Dance Team try-outs as well as a semi-finalist for the 2002 Georgia Force Dance Team. Reginald has been a pageant coach for several years. Currently, he serves on the board for Georgia's Junior Miss Program, Miss Fulton County Scholarship Pageant (GA-Miss America Local Preliminary Pageant) Board. He has choreographed numerous pageants throughout the US. Reginald is well versed in the history of the Miss USA and Miss America pageant systems and is a certified Miss America judge. Reginald covers pageants throughout Georgia as a correspondent for Turn For The Judges (an on-line pageantry magazine).

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http://www.tftj.com/News/Winners.htm?sid=270, http://britoandlewisimage.com/pageant.pdf, http://www.thecampuschronicle.com/scadatlanta/professor/070504.cfm

Falcon's View (talk) 00:10, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Ruddy

Jim Ruddy, poet and philosopher, was born in Yorba Linda, California in 1941. At the age of 19, he entered the Dominican Order and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1968. After teaching creative writing, phenomenology, and Tibetan, Chinese and Indian philosophy at Thomas College, Kenmore Washington, he was sent by the Order to the University of Madras in India, in 1971, to get a doctorate in comparative philosophy. Ruddy had written some verse previous to this, but in India he found the swaying, clipped sounds of the tabla rhythms of Indian temple music perfect for transmuting ordinary sprung rhythm into highly alliterative poems of extraordinary dramatic power. As the poet, William Everson, expressed it: "The immersion deepened his writing into consequentiality: verse became poetry. But from a more profound perspective what actually happened was not inevitable at all, it was nothing short of miraculous. Genius is not the issue of process but of grace." [1] Ruddy gathered these new poems into a book called Braille for a Storm of Loss which was published by the prestigious Oyez Press under his religious name, William Ruddy, in 1978. Ruddy had by this time returned not only to teach the philosophy of Aquinas at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley California, but also Eastern Philosophy, poetry and the formal phenomenology of Edmund Husserl at the Graduate Theological Union, also at Berkeley. There he met the famed phenomenologist, Paul Ricoeur. Ruddy and Ricoeur developed a lifelong friendship and, during many discussions, Ricouer encouraged his colleague to set forth the groundwork, in his pending doctoral thesis, for a new, wholly eidetic phenomenological science which Ruddy had discovered, and which he called "convergent phenomenology." [2] From 1979 to 1983, Ruddy was a well-know figure in the West Coast poetry-reading circuit. [3]

Sources

http://roger.ucsd.edu/search/X?searchtype=X&searcharg=William%20Ruddy

Ruddy, William, Braille for a Storm of Loss, (Oyez Press, Berkeley 1978)

Ruddy, William, 'Convergent Phenomenology', thesis at the University of Madras, 1979.


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Laura Helene Kahn

Laura Helene Kahn is a public health policy researcher at Princeton University. Kahn began her career as a nurse. She received an MD from Mount Sinai Hospital, an MPH from Columbia University and a MPP from Princeton University., Kahn works on the research staff of Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security. Her expertise is in public health, biodefense, and pandemics.. Prior to joining Princeton, she was a managing physician for the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services and a medical officer for the Food and Drug Administration.[1]

Kahn is one of the key figures in the development of “One Health Initiative”. The One Health Initiative, a movement to forge partnerships between physicians and veterinarians, has been endorsed by various major medical organizations and health agencies, including the CDC, the American Medical Association, the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/200802/veterinary.asp] The term "one medicine" was coined in 1960s by Calvin Schwabe, a veterinary scientist and epidemiologist at the University of California, Davis, who died last year. Kahn, together with with Florida veterinarian Bruce Kaplan and former government virologist and biotech executive Thomas Monath wrote the vision statement that help ignite the One Health Movement [Science 15 June 2007; News of the Week, Vol 316, no 5831, 1553]

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http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn

Science 15 June 2007; News of the Week, Vol 316, no 5831, 1553

http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/200802/veterinary.asp


128.112.70.104 (talk) 01:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Karded

Karded is a currently under construction Web 2.0 site created with the aim of revolutionizing the business networks. In the future, it aims to be a social networking website similar to that of Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn. Karded is currently maintained by Jonathan Chu and is operating out of his room. Its release date is aimed at December 2008.

Karded runs on the Elgg Social Networking Platform. Elgg is an open source social networking application engine created by Curverider and maintained by Ben Werdmuller and Dave Tosh. Currently, it is the basis upon which Karded is formed.

Current Sponsors of Karded include Google Adsense, Amazon.com, and Ebay. Funding for Karded is maintained primarily through donations through PayPal, advertisements by Adsense, and affiliate marketing through Amazon and Ebay.

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http://www.karded.com/content/About
http://elgg.org/about.php

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Karachi Grammar School - 9R (2007-2008)

9R is one of the most distinguished grades in the history of Pakistan, and was a section of the Karachi Grammar School. They were together from 2006 through 2008 and were later broken up as they progressed to higher levels of education.

Members

Aliya Hai, Emaan Leghari, Asad Vellani, Daniel Haidermota, Salman agha, Kayhan Qaiser, Akasha Sarwar, Ali Vohra, Luqman shaukat, Umair Sharif, Talha Kehar, Mazin Karim, Haseeb Haroon, Uzair Madhani, Sana Durrani, Shanze Farooq, Reja Rehmatullah, Amal Hatmi, Sarah Aftab, Shehrezade Zafar Arif, Zahra Hirji, Sehrish Naushad, Anum Soorty,

Events

Events attended by the group as guests of honour include Salamn Agha's Anuual Party, the birthday celebrations of most members, The WWF Wetland Centre excursion, Trip to Bhambore, and many small get togethers hosted by a variety of significant memebers.

Sources

9R - The Guide to it all: by Johandar Quresh www.kgs547.edu.pk

DanielisHaidermota (talk) 05:05, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Hardy (designer)

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Baloch History

Balochistan is among Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It overcomes their history starting from the immemorial times. Before Christ's birth, he/she had trade and trade with the old civilization of Babylon through Iran and in the valleys of Tigris and of Euphrates. Alexander the big one also had an encounter with the tribe of Serbian of Balochistan.


A song of the war of Balochi describes this way the county of Balochistan: “the mountains are the strengths of the Balochi; the picks are better than any army; the high heights are our comrades; the gorges our pathless friends. Our drink is starting from the springs that flow; our bed the thorny bush; the earth makes our pad. “

Balochistan is an earth of the contrast. He/she takes places with the rough mountains as Chiltan, Takatu, Sulaiman, the sultan etc. and plains that stretch hundreds of miles. He has fertile earth for example in Nasirabad and the hints that are thirsty per centuries in the section of the pat of the districto of Sibi and of the area of the desert of Makran. He/she takes hotter places in the country like Sibi and the fresh cities as Quetta, Ziarat, Khan Mehtarzai and Kallat where the temperature point low zero goes and it continues there being these areas under covered thick of the snow in winter.

Balochistan (or Baluchistan), also well-known as “bigger Balochistan” it is an arid region that sits down inside in the Iranian plateau The Southwest Asia, it left at the moment among Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The area is named after the numerous tribes of Baloch (or Baluch, Balouch), Iranian people that moved inside to the area from the west a certain hour around 1000 A.D. The southern part of Balochistan is known as Makran.

Before the arrival of the Baluch, the region was populated by Pashtuns and the Brahuis. The Pashtuns now concentrates on Sibi, Bolan, Quetta, Pishin, Killa Abdullah, Killa Saifullah, Loralai, Zhob, Ziarat and Harnai. traducción

 Many Brahuis lives in Kalat. Languages spoken in the region include Balochi, Pashto, Persian, and Brahui.

Recent History Pakistani Balochistan was conquered by the British Empire on October 1, 1887. In 1948, it became part of Pakistan. Since then, some separatist groups in the province have engaged in armed violence, first led by "Prince Karim Khan" in 1948, and later Nawab Nowroz Khan in 1968. These tribal uprisings were limited in scope. A more serious insurgency was led by Marri and Mengal tribes in 1973-1977. They have a view of "Greater Balochistan," presently split between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan as one independent state ruled under tribal jirgas (a tribal system of government).

Accession Problem 1948 The ruler of the Khanate of Balochistan, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan,might have been coerced by Jinnah to sign the document of accession. Balochi nationals support this claim, however critics dispute such claims as unrealistic and contrary to popular support for Jinnah, as the Khan of Kalat ruled even after death of Jinnah with the support of the government. However, The Khan was not an absolute monarch; he was required to act under the provisions of the Rawaj (the Baloch constitution).

The incorporation of the Khanate resulted in a few anti-Pakistani rallies and meetings in certain areas of the Khanate. To subdue the anti-Pakistani sentiments, the Army of Pakistan was placed on alert. The Government of Pakistan decided to take complete control of the administration of Balochistan (Khanate) on 15 April 1948. The A.G.G. in Balochistan conveyed the orders of Mohammad Ali Jinnah that the status of the Khanate, "would revert back to what it was during the preceding British rule. Besides the policy of the central government of Pakistan towards the Khanate, Jinnah also refused to give Autonomy to Balochistan."

In April 1948, several political leaders from Balochistan such as Mohammad Amin Khosa and Abdul Samad Achakzai were arrested. The Anjuman-i-Watan Party (pro-congress), headed by Samad Achakzai, was declared unlawful.

First Baloch National Resistance 1948 Prince Abdul Karim Khan The refusal to grant autonomy and the continued existence of the Sandeman system re­sulted in unrest. Thus, on the night of 16 May 1948, Prince Abdul Karim Khan, the younger brother of the Khan, decided to lead a national liberation movement.

He invited the leading members of nationalist political parties, (the Kalat State National Party, the Baloch League, and the Baloch National Workers Party) to join him in the struggle for the creation of an independent "Greater Balochistan". Apart from his political motives, the Prince was a member of the royal family and the former governor of the Makran province; the recognition of Sardar Bay Khan Gichki as a ruler of Makran by Pakistan upset him.

Beginning of Movement and Allies He decided to migrate to Afghanistan in order to get help and to organ­ize the liberation movement. Prince Karim wrote to the Khan on 28 June 1948 ex­plaining the causes of his migration.

Some of the prominent political leaders who joined him were Mohamed Hussain Anka (the secretary of the Baloch League and the editor of Weekly Bolan Mastung) ≺ Malik Saeed Dehwar (the secretary of the Kalat State National Party) ≺ Qadir Bakhsh Nizamami, a member of the Baloch League and prominent members of the Communist Party, Sind-Balochistan branch, and Maulwi Mohd Afzal, a member of Jamiat-­Ulm-e-Balochistan.

Plan of Action The Baloch Mujahideen ( Baloch Holy Warriors), as they called themselves, entered Afghanistan and encamped at Sarlath in the Province of Kandahar. During their stay, the Baloch freedom fighters adopted the following measures to achieve their goal:

Sending of messages to the Baloch chiefs of Eastern and Western Balochistan asking them to join in the armed struggle; Running of a truth revealing campaign in Balochistan, aimed at the educating the locals, teaching them to fight for their right,and fight as well as the enlistment of a national liberation force; Searching for international support, particularly from contries who are supportive of democratic process and don't support army ruling over the country.

Messages were sent to Mir Ghulam Faruq of the Rudini tribe, Sardar Mehrab Khan, Sardar Mir Jumma, Mir Wazir Khan Sanjrani of Chagai, and several other chiefs. The propaganda campaign was to be carried out on two fronts: (A) The National Cultural Front. (B) The Religious Front.

Armed Struggle Besides the cultural and religious campaign, the Prince also organized a liberation force called the Baloch Mujahedeen, consisting of the ex-soldiers and officers Of the Khanate’s army. The Prince was chosen as the supreme commander.

The Prince issued an appeal to personages to help with the recruitment. A person re­cruiting 100 men was offered the rank of a major and a person recruiting 50 men was entitled to the rank of captain. The Baloch liberation army had a secret agency called Jannisar (devotee), whose duty was to provide information, destroy the communication system, and watch the activities of traitors. In addition to this, there was a secret unit Janbaz (darer), to kill all traitors. The Janbaz were subordinate to the Jannisar. The headquarters of the agency was known as Bab-i-Aali (secret war-office) and headed by prince Karim. The total strength of Jannisar was recorded to be 30, while nothing is known about the strength of Janbaz.

Soviets and Afghans However, the Prince did not start a war of liberation because of Afghanistan’s re­fusal and the silence of the Soviet Union concerning assistance. During his stay in Sarlath, Prince Karim appointed Malik Saeed and Qadir Bakhsh Nizamani as his emis­saries to contact the Afghan Government and to approach other embassies in order to get moral and material support. According to Nizamani, the Afghan authorities refused to provide any sort of help and told them either to reside as political refugees at Kandahar or to return. The Afghan authorities also re­fused to permit the rebel group to operate from Afghan soil. Nizamami informed the Iranian Embassy of the Baloch demands as well.

Iranian diplomats showed their concern but did not offer any assistance, though they indicated their desire to provide, asylum to the rebel group in Iran. The last hope of the Prince’s re­presentative was the Soviet Embassy. The Soviet diplomats listened to Nizamami carefully. Though they did not give any assurances, they did promise to inform Moscow. The Afghans, since the rise of Ahmad Shah, had treated Balochistan as a vassal state until the Baloch-Afghan war in 1758, when an agreement of ‘non-interference’ was signed between the parties. In the 19th century, Afghan rulers like Shuja and Amir Abdur-Rehman desired to occupy Balochistan. In 1947, the Afghan Government demanded the creation of Pashtunistan. Stretching from chitral and Gilgit to the Baloch coast in the Arabian Sea.The Afghan Go­vernment called Balochistan ‘South Pashtunistan’ in statements and publications. The Afghan expansionist policy reflected the economic considerations of a landlocked state. At the same time, it was impossible for the Afghan Government to neglect its own national interests and to support the movement of an indepen­dent Greater Balochistan,which claimed the Baloch region in Afghanistan. Stalin did not pursue Lenin’s policy in the East. Moreover, government of the Soviet Union was not ready to annoy the Afghans or the British, opponents of an independent Balochistan.

Prince Karim's Legitimacy outlawed Meanwhile the Prince and his party were regarded as a rebel group by a Farman royal order issued by the Khan on 24 May 1948, stating that no connection of any sort with the Prince and his party should be maintained nor should they be helped with rations, and that if any member of the rebel group committed an offence, he would be punished. The Government of Pakistan moved the army to the military posts of Punjab. Chaman chashme,and Rastri near the Afghan borders aiming to control the rebels’ rations, which were being sent by the pro-liberation elements, as well as to control their activities or any attempt to invade. The Pakistan au­thorities confirmed two clashes between the army and the liberation forces.

To avoid popular unrest in Balochistan, the Khan sent his maternal uncles Hajji Ibrahim Khan and Hajji Taj Mohammed at Sarlath to bring Prince Karim back to Kalat. Khan made his return conditional . The Prince and the liberation movement failed to achieve internal and external sup­port. Moreover, the Baloch nationalists were divided into two groups.Anqa and Malik Saeed favored armed struggle in the form of guerilla war, while Mir Ghous Bux Bizenjo and other prominent leaders wished to resolve all issues with dialogue.

The Return of Prince Karim The Prince was forced to return to the Khanate and negotiate for his demands peacefully. On 8 July 1948, when the news of the Prince’s arrival reached Kalat, the Prime Minister, Mr.Fell, accompanied by a Kalat State Force, went to meet the Prince at Earboi to deliver the Khan’s message.

His Capture Abdul Karim entered Balochistan with Afghan help and organized a rebellion against Pakistan in the area of Jallawan with the aid of Mir Gohar Khan Zahrri, an influential tribal leader of the Zarkzai clan. Further, it is stated that Major General Akbar Khan, who was in charge of the Seventh Regiment, was ordered to attack the insurgents and forced them to surrender. Prince Karim with his 142 followers were arrested and imprisoned in the Mach and Quetta jails. A detailed and interesting statement comes from General Akbar Khan, in his article published in the daily ‘Dawn’,dated 14 August 1960, under the title: “Early reminiscences of a soldier’. General Akbar confirms here that there was a plan to invade the Khanate and describes the clash between the Pakistan army and the liberation force headed by Prince Karim. Akbar says that Jinnah had issued instructions that this news should not be published in the press.

Trial and Sentencing After the arrest of the Prince and his party, the A.G.G. gave an order for an inquiry, to be conducted by Khan Sahib Abdullah Khan, the Additional District Ma­gistrate Quetta. He submitted his report on 12 September 1948. His report was based on the activities of the Prince and upon the letters and documents published by the liberation force. After the inquiry, R.K.Saker the District Magistrate at Quetta, appointed a special Jirga (official council of elders) consisting of the following persons:

1) Khan Bahador Sahibzada, M.Ayub Khan Isakhel, Pakhtoon from Pishin;

2) K.B. Baz Mohd Khan. Jogezai, Pakhtoon from Loralai;

3) Abdul Ghaffar Khan Achakzai, Pakhtoon from Pishin;

4) S.B. Wadera Noor Muhammad Khan, a Baloch Chief from Kalat;

5) Syed Aurang Shah from Kalat;

6) Sheikh Baz Gul Khan. Pakhtoon from Zhob;

7) Wahab Khan Panezai, Pakhtoon from Sibi;

8) Sardar Doda Khan Marri, Baloch from Sibi.

The Jirga was instructed to study the circumstances and events which led to the revolt and was asked to give its recommendations to the District Magistrate. On 10 November 1948, the Jirga heard the testimony of the accused and gave its recommendations to the D.M. on 17 November 1948, suggesting the delivery of the Prince in Loralai at the pleasure of the Government of Pakistan and various other penalties. The D .M., in his order dated 27 November 1948, differed with the opinion of the Jirga and sentenced the Prince to ten years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5000 other members of his party were given various sentences and fines. Thus the Pakistan Government crushed the first armed struggle by Balochi insurgents


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www.sarbaz.com

201.220.215.13 (talk) 06:23, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Who are the Baloch´s ?

To the neighboring tribes of Pushtun that live in fertile valleys of the riverine, Baluchistan is “the discharge where Allah threw to the waste of the creation. But for the Baluch, their sense of the identity commits closely to the austere earth where you/they have lived at least a thousand years. According to the Daptar Sha'ar {Chronicle of genealogies), a popular old ballad among the seventeen important tribes of Baluch, the Baluch and the Kurds was married branches of a tribe that emigrated toward the east of Aleppo, in which now it is Syrian, not very before Christ's time in pasturelands search and of fresh sources of water. The nationalist historians of a school try to tie this ethnic tribe to the rules you heat up of Semitic of Babylon, another with the early Arab, other immobile ones with the tribes Aryan originally of the one smaller than age of Asia. In any event, there is agreement among these historians to that the Kurds directed toward Iraq, Turkey, and Persia of the northwest, while the Baluch moved inside to the coastal areas along the southern banks of the sea caspio, emigrating later on in which now they are Iranian Baluchistan and Pakistani Baluchistan between the sixth and catorcenos centuries.

Whos historians estern says goodbye to the Daptar Sha'ar like nothing else that myth and legend, unsubstantiated totally for verifiable evidence, and it continues there being so that the future erudites sound out in the shameful origins of the Baluch. These legends make an appointment here not because they have value serious historiographic but because they are believed and they are widely this way political important today. For the most part, Aleppo is a unifying symbol of a common identity in the historical memories shared by all Baluch. In recent years, however, Arab attempts to attribute Arab ethnic origins to the Baluch have become a divisive factor in the nationalist movement.

Whatever the authenticity of the Aleppo legends, scholars in Baluchistan and in the West generally agree that the Baluch were living along the southern shores of the Caspian at the time of Christ. This consensus is based largely on linguistic evidence showing that the Baluchi language is descended from a lost language linked with the Parthian or Median civilizations, which flourished in the Caspian and adjacent areas in the pre-Christian era. As one of the oldest living languages, Baluchi is a subject of endless fascination and controversy for linguists. It is classified as a member of the Iranian group of the Indo-European language family, which includes Farsi (Persian), Pushtu, Baluchi, and Kurdish. Baluchi is closely related to only one of the members of the Iranian group; Kurdish. In its modern form, it has incorporated borrowings from Persian, Sindhi, Arabic, and other languages, nonetheless retaining striking peculiarities that can be traced back to its pre-Christian origins. Until150 years ago, the Baluch, like most nomadic societies, did not have a recorded literature. Initially, Baluch savants used the Persian and Urdu scripts to render Baluchi in written form. In recent decades, Baluch nationalist intellectuals have evolved a Baluchi script known as Nastaliq, a variant of the Arabic script.

Ethnically, the Baluch are no longer homogeneous, since the original nucleus that migrated from the Caspian has absorbed a variety of disparate groups along the way. Among these "new" Baluch were displaced tribes from Central Asia, driven southward by the Turkish and Mongol invasions from the tenth through the thirteenth centuries, and fugitive Arab factions defeated in intra-Arab warfare. Nevertheless, in cultural terms, the Baluch have been remarkably successful in preserving a distinctive identity in the face of continual pressures from strong cultures in neighboring areas. Despite the isolation of the scattered pastoral communities in Baluchistan, the Baluchi language and a relatively uniform Baluch folklore tradition and value system have provided a common denominator for the diverse Baluch tribal groupings scattered over the vast area from the Indus River in the east to the Iranian province of Kerman in the west. To a great extent, it is the vitality of this ancient cultural heritage that explains the tenacity of the present demand for the political recognition of Baluch identity. But the strength of Baluch nationalism is also rooted in proud historical memories of determined resistance against the would-be conquerors who perennially attempted, without success, to annex all or part of Baluchistan to their adjacent empires.

Reliving their past endlessly in books, magazines, and folk ballads, the Baluch accentuate the positive. They revel in the gory details of ancient battles against Persians, Turks, Arabs, Tartars, Hindus, and other adversaries, focusing on how valiantly their generals fought rather than on whether the Baluch won or lost. They point to the heroes who struggled to throw off the yoke of more powerful oppressors and minimize the role of the quislings who sold out the Baluch cause. Above all, they seek to magnify the achievements of their more successful rulers, contending that the Baluch were on the verge of consolidating political unity when the British arrived on the scene and applied their policy of divide and rule. This claim is difficult to sustain with much certainty on the basis of the available evidence. Nevertheless, the Baluch did make several significant attempts to draw together politically, and their failure to establish an enduring polity in past centuries does not prove that they would fail under the very different circumstances prevailing today. As Baluch writers argue, given the technologies of modern transportation and communication, the contemporary Baluch nationalist has new opportunities for cementing Baluch political unity that were not open to his forebears.


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From the book In Afghanistan’s Shadow: Baloch Nationalism and Soviet Temptations By Selig S. Harrison

201.220.215.13 (talk) 06:32, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ivan Serbezov

Ivan Serbezov was born in 18th May 1982 in Stara Zagora,Bulgaria. His mother is an opera choral singer and artist. His father is working in the cinema industry. From his early age Ivan developed his talents as an artist and storyteller. In 1987 he was seven years old when he began to act and to stage his own plays in home.During that time Ivan began to devote his time to reading and became an avid fan of Leo Tolstoy's works and the works of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev. He developed an interest in acting and cinema after his grandparents (both artistic figures; Ivan Alexiev - an artist and Ekaterina Alexieva - theatre and stage actress) showed him theatre and opera shows at Stara Zagora's opera house as well as multiple films (among them Hitchcock's films, Fellini's works and Lucas's Star Wars Trilogy). At age of 10 he began to write his first screenplays. During these years much of the time Ivan was home schooled by himself. In 1999 he was enrolled in Theatre and Drama School and he followed his early interest for films by Film and Drama studies as well as Art Academy courses.

During the following years his specific drawing style attracted the attention of an Hollywood director which Ivan met at the Zoetrope Virtual Studio (where all of his works met positive acclaims and reviews) and where he collaborated with many other American artists.


That encounter (2006) led Ivan to his position as an Storyboard artist to this production for which he was credited. That touch to the world of the real film-making inspired him to follow his own creative path in that art field.

In 2007 Ivan began developing his own high scale epic project screenplay.

In 2008 his newly formed film house (Akindin Office) released his first independent project (Yesterday Dreams). In that project Serbezov is credited as an Screenwriter, Producer, Narrator and Actor.=== Sources === http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3089933/bio http://www.artabus.com/ivanserbezov/ http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=27309 80.253.54.4 (talk) 11:28, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deering and Down

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72.148.227.183 (talk) 12:18, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Danny Klein

Danny Klein. Played bass for the legendary J.Geils band. Nick named Dr.Funk.Most notably recognized for his unique style of play adding to the bass line in a subtle yet complex format.He can be seen alongside bandmates Peter Wolf and J.Geils in multiple videos including,Centerfold,Freezeframe and his legendary performance in Wama Jamma.

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           J.Geils.com   youtube.com      vh1

129.63.115.140 (talk) 12:26, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kamran Sarkar

Kamran Sarkar is a multimedia professional currently residing in United Kingdom. His works include neostream and several games at newgrounds. He has worked with professionals such as LTB, APPLE, NIKELABS.

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86.139.113.169 (talk) 13:39, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Taylor

is friggin awesome

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58.166.119.99 (talk) 14:33, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Scisocial

Lauched

This site was launched by Andy Nguyen on August 1,2008. Andy Nguyen is a 16 year old high school student that goes to school in Atlanta. It is a social networking website where people meets other people. There are currently 17 members since launched.He opened this website because he was fascinate about how all these social networking site were like. This site makes money by depending on its users to click on ads.

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www.scisocial.com/TruK1lla Owner of the site http://elgg.org/about.php

TruK1lla (talk) 14:56, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jonathan Lobb

Jonathan Lobb (born April 3, 1986) is an notable Airport Rescue Fire Fighter with the United States Air Force. He was born in San Antonio, Texas and attended high school at Hall High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he graduated in 2004. He briefly attended Texas A&M University before enlisting in the US Air Force. In October 2005, he was stationed at RAF Lackenheath where he served as a fire fighter. At Lackenheath, he drove P19s, P23s, and Striker 1500 fire engines. He will begin attending Loyola College in Maryland during the fall semester of 2008.

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http://profile.military.com/member/view.do;jsessionid=E6879EF46A3BEE702D6B8203C2B44B80?memberId=6667361 24.174.51.204 (talk) 15:41, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jimmy Browner

Jimmy Browner- Jimmy Browner is an American Football Player and was a starting DB for the University of Notre Dame before entering the NFL. Jimmy was with brothers Ross and Willard at Notre Dame. Jimmy was drafted to play also with Ross and both played on the Cincinnati Bengals together. Jimmy played in the NFL for 2 solid seasons. Jimmy is also part of the Browner Football family see: www.brownerfamily.com Brothers, Ross, Joey, Keith all played in the NFL as well as Jimmy. Jimmy today resides in Atlanta, Georgia and is part of the late USMC LCpl Richard Perez Jr memorial group that holds fundraisers for high School Athletics.

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www.nfl.com, www.brownerfamily.com


71.48.49.69 (talk) 16:23, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Adams

Richard Adams was born in Hampshire in 1960, shortly afterwards his family moved to Wiltshire. Here Adams spent his youth amidst the south Cotswold countryside which was to have such a great influence on his later work. He studied illustration at Leicester Polytechnic and on graduating with a BA Hons degree he moved to London. Here he worked for several years initially in an animation studio and latterly as an illustrator producing images as wide ranging as editorial images for the Radio Times and advertising campaigns for clients such as BP. During the 1980's Adams won many awards for his work in illustration. 1983 & 1984 B&H Gold Award 2nd Prizes 1986 B&H Gold Award 1st Prize & Highly comm. 1986 Readers Digest 1st Prize 1986 Southbank Picture Show Commended 1987 & 1990 B&H Gold Award Highly commendeds

In 1995 Adams moved to East Sussex where he now lives with his partner and two children. The Cornish coast where he visits and the Cotswolds, familiar from his childhood, prevail in his images. Adams' work continues to be inspired by his long-held loves for English vernacular architecture, British history and our native flora and fauna.

Since 1991 Adams has exhibited annually with Hybrid Gallery he has also exhibited in Sydney, Bremen, Madrid, Washington and Dallas. He now regularly shows in London, the Cotswolds, Devon and his home town of Rye. Using chalk pastel and fixing it with layers of varnish that soak into the paper Adams produces uniquely vibrant images with a permanent surface. His idiosyncratic and wildly imaginative vision of the world places his work in the footprints of a line of British eccentric visionary artists such as Spencer and Dadd.

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http://www.hybrid-devon.co.uk http://www.ronagallery.com

91.125.71.100 (talk) 17:15, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Adams (artist)

Richard Adams was born in Hampshire in 1960, shortly afterwards his family moved to Wiltshire. Here Adams spent his youth amidst the south Cotswold countryside which was to have such a great influence on his later work. He studied illustration at Leicester Polytechnic and on graduating with a BA Hons degree he moved to London. Here he worked for several years initially in an animation studio and latterly as an illustrator producing images as wide ranging as editorial images for the Radio Times and advertising campaigns for clients such as BP. During the 1980's Adams won many awards for his work in illustration. 1983 & 1984 B&H Gold Award 2nd Prizes 1986 B&H Gold Award 1st Prize & Highly comm. 1986 Readers Digest 1st Prize 1986 Southbank Picture Show Commended 1987 & 1990 B&H Gold Award Highly commendeds

In 1995 Adams moved to East Sussex where he now lives with his partner and two children. The Cornish coast where he visits and the Cotswolds, familiar from his childhood, prevail in his images. Adams' work continues to be inspired by his long-held loves for English vernacular architecture, British history and our native flora and fauna.

Since 1991 Adams has exhibited annually with Hybrid Gallery he has also exhibited in Sydney, Bremen, Madrid, Washington and Dallas. He now regularly shows in London, the Cotswolds, Devon and his home town of Rye. Using chalk pastel and fixing it with layers of varnish that soak into the paper Adams produces uniquely vibrant images with a permanent surface. His idiosyncratic and wildly imaginative vision of the world places his work in the footprints of a line of British eccentric visionary artists such as Spencer and Dadd.

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http://www.hybrid-devon.co.uk http://www.ronagallery.com

91.125.71.100 (talk) 17:32, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hassan Choubassi (born 1970 in Saadnayel, Lebanon) is a contemporary visual artist.

Hassan Choubassi is a visual artist and scenic designer born in Beirut in 1970 graduated from DasArts (de Amsterdamse School / Advanced Research in Theatre Studies) in Amsterdam 2005, and from the Lebanese American University in Beirut 1996. He currently holds the position of coordinator of the Communication Arts Dep. At the Lebanese International University His works were exhibited in Lebanon, Egypt, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Spain and Belgium. He was the scenic designer for several play productions in Beirut, Liege and Amsterdam. He conducted workshops dealing with the new media in scenic design, space manipulation and cartography. His installation projects including ‘Oeuvres Bacchiques’ 2000, ‘Barcode’ 2001, ‘Written Visuals’ 2002, ‘I am not the others’ 2003, ‘I am elsewhere’ and ‘Lost in the city’ 2004 were presented in Beirut, Cairo and Amsterdam. His video works: ‘In the void’, ‘Freefall at 180’. ‘The other Orange’ 2005, ‘Talk to me’, ‘Well and surviving’ 2006 were presented in Beirut, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Copenhagen and Hamburg.

Sources

Art Journal summer 2007 vol. 66, no. 2 etcetera Feb. 2006 no. 100 www.choubassi.net

80.81.159.18 (talk) 17:40, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hassan Choubassi (visual artist)

Hassan Choubassi is a visual artist and scenic designer born in Beirut in 1970 graduated from DasArts (de Amsterdamse School / Advanced Research in Theatre Studies) in Amsterdam 2005, and from the Lebanese American University in Beirut 1996. He currently holds the position of coordinator of the Communication Arts Dep. At the Lebanese International University His works were exhibited in Lebanon, Egypt, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Spain and Belgium. He was the scenic designer for several play productions in Beirut, Liege and Amsterdam. He conducted workshops dealing with the new media in scenic design, space manipulation and cartography. His installation projects including ‘Oeuvres Bacchiques’ 2000, ‘Barcode’ 2001, ‘Written Visuals’ 2002, ‘I am not the others’ 2003, ‘I am elsewhere’ and ‘Lost in the city’ 2004 were presented in Beirut, Cairo and Amsterdam. His video works: ‘In the void’, ‘Freefall at 180’. ‘The other Orange’ 2005, ‘Talk to me’, ‘Well and surviving’ 2006 were presented in Beirut, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Copenhagen and Hamburg.

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Art Journal summer 2007 vol. 66, no. 2 etcetera Feb. 2006 no. 100 www.choubassi.net

80.81.159.18 (talk) 17:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Walter Luckett- Basketball Player

Luckett came to Ohio University from Bridgeport, Conn., as the all-time leading high school scorer in the state's history, a mark that still stands. Luckett graced the cover of the Nov. 27, 1972 edition of Sports Illustrated in his first week in a Bobcat uniform and went on to earn All-MAC Honorable Mention honors as a freshman. Luckett nabbed the league scoring title as a sophomore when he earned MAC Player of the Year honors. As a junior, Luckett became just the second player in Bobcat history to earn All-America honors. He repeated as a first-team All-MAC performer and league scoring champion, which earned third-team All-American by the Helms Athletic Hall of Fame. Luckett also garnered special mention by The Sporting News, AP and UPI as he wrapped up his three-year Ohio career with 1,625 career points. That total was tops on the school's list at the time, and still ranks seventh today.

Luckett entered the NBA Draft following his junior season and was selected 27th overall by the Detroit Pistons. Due to a knee injury that ended his career, Luckett never played in a regular season NBA game. Luckett completed his bachelor's degree from the University of Bridgeport and earned a master's degree in business administration from the University of New Haven. He was inducted into the Ohio Athletics Hall of Fame in 1986. Luckett currently resides in Hamden, Conn.

Sources

Nov. 27, 1972 edition of Sports Illustrated http://ohiobobcats.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/012207aaa.html


Garedew (talk) 18:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Luu

Born in Houston, Tx. December 28,1990 Luis Antonio Gamez was already on the verge of being slow. Having a mother and a pro-coat for parents he had a bright future awaiting him=== Sources ===


Canttellmenothing (talk) 18:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

EastLink TV

#REDIRECT EastLink Television

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Common alternate spelling.

62.147.38.15 (talk) 18:34, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jens Hybertson

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71.212.170.214 (talk) 19:44, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jens Hybertson

Jens Hybertson is a very knoweledgable person, he has completed all levels of education through 8th grade with exceptional grades in all subjects except for world history and math.

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71.212.170.214 (talk) 19:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Le deuxième sexe

  1. REDIRECT The Second Sex

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87.162.46.100 (talk) 20:51, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Colific(クリフィク) Kurrifikku

Colific is a fictional monster that is sent out to destroy the city of Cylpheria the Colific Series is a series that can only be found on the website of YouTube or as also a video. This Video is or Series is created by Satoshi Yamashato or the user AntiSatoshi by the company or crew of Crystal-Enix or Crystal-Star but as not a very much popular video the name of the Colific is named after the monster the characters in this Series are: Sora,Blue the Tyranitar, Naruto, Kairi and most of the pokemon in the world. The Colific monster was accidently created by unaware scientist that thought they can do everything but Blue the Tyranitar(びゅだ バンギラス,) Byu dera Bangirasu) the protaganist was able to destroy this creature, the colific is fused with Lugia Latios Rayquaza and Latias

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74.229.33.118 (talk) 21:38, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MSA- Muslim Students Association

The MSA(Muslim Students Association) is a non profitable organistion established in many universities in South Africa such as Wits, UJ, UCT, UKZN and many more. The MSA's primary objective is to serve all Muslim students at the universities.

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http://www.msa-rhp.com/ 198.54.202.102 (talk) 21:59, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

UK Paranormal Research Society (UKPRS)

The UK Paranormal Research Society (UKPRS) is a paranormal research organisation based in Hampshire in the United Kingdom. The aim of the organisation is to find out more about the paranormal.

UKPRS has a team of dedicated paranormal investigators and specialists who conduct experiments in haunted locations across the UK. The organisation uses scientific theories and experiments as well as old school experiments such as séances, table tipping and glass divination. Their research is advanced and all of their results are published in a report.

The UKPRS team is diverse and is made up of non-believers, believers and sceptics. It also includes paranormal specialists, investigators, mediums and sensitives. UKPRS also offers full training and workshops for all its members.

UKPRS has also been involved in media work for a network of radio stations and appeared in articles in magazines and newspapers to educate the public on the paranormal.

UKPRS has also worked with TV’s David Wells on a series of paranormal events to raise money for charities.

UKPRS was founded by Andrew House, who has spent many years studying the paranormal working in the field. Prior to UKPRS, Andrew co-founded another paranormal group on the south coast. Current management also include Stuart Butcher, Martin Leavers, Andrene West and James Kemp who have all gained experience working in the paranormal field. Lindsey Butcher is currently the organisations secretary. It is a non-profit organisation.


Sources

http://archive.thisishampshire.net/2007/8/25/118603.html

www.ukprs.co.uk


90.195.202.43 (talk) 22:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Meanwhile Studios

Redirection to Troy Little, but actually there could even be four of them:

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Publishing imprint of Troy Little, no need for a separate article but it should redirect to him. (The three variants are based on the fact that nowadays websites are often cited instead of the base name.)

62.147.38.15 (talk) 23:01, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Defense Intelligence Community

  1. REDIRECT Defense Intelligence Agency

67.81.141.53 (talk) 23:14, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]