Posts Tagged ‘thoughts’

Christmas EP 2004 | christmas party favors

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Christmas EP 2004 is an album by Seven Nations.

  1. “2000 Miles”
  2. “Carol of the Bells”
  3. “Away in a Manger”
  4. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
  5. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
  6. “The Rebel Jesus”
  7. “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”

New Party | christmas party favors

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

New Party may refer to:

  • New Party (Argentina)
  • New Party Corrientes (Argentina)
  • New Party Japan
  • New Party (Taiwan)
  • New Party (USA)
  • The New Party (UK)
  • New Party (Canada)
  • New Party (1873) (Greece)
  • New Party Sakigake
  • New Party (Oswald Mosley)

Fourth (Soft Machine album) | on the albums Elton

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Fourth is a 1971 studio album by the Canterbury band Soft Machine. This was the last of their album’s to include drummer and founding member Robert Wyatt who afterwards left the band to found Matching Mole.

In 1999, Soft Machine albums Fourth and Fifth were re-released together on one CD.


Review

At the time the band’s music was moving away from their original brand of psychedelic and progressive rock towards jazz fusion; Fourth is the first of their purely instrumental albums.


Track listing

LP Side one

1. “Teeth” (Mike Ratledge) 9:15
2. “Kings and queens” (Hugh Hopper) 5:02
3. “Fletcher’s blemish” (Elton Dean) – 4:35

LP Side two

4. “Virtually part 1″ (Hugh Hopper) – 5:16
5. “Virtually part 2″ (Hugh Hopper) – 7:09
6. “Virtually part 3″ (Hugh Hopper) – 4:33
7. “Virtually part 4″ (Hugh Hopper) – 3:23


Personnel

  • Hugh Hopper - bass guitar
  • Robert Wyatt - drums
  • Mike Ratledge - organ, piano
  • Elton Dean - alto saxophone, saxello
  • Nick Evans - trombone (1,2,4)
  • Jimmy Hastings - alto flute (6), bass clarinet (1,6)
  • Alan Skidmore - tenor sax (1,6)
  • Roy Babbington - double bass (1,3,4,6)
  • Mark Charig - cornet (2-4)

Marchosias | appears

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

In demonology, Marchosias is a powerful Great Marquis of Hell, commanding thirty legions of demons. He is a strong and excellent fighter and very reliable to the conjurer, giving true answers to all questions. Marchosias hoped after one thousand and two hundred years to return to heaven with the non-fallen angels, but he is deceived in that hope. He is the supposed creator of Baltzegaurd, an immensly powerful creature neither demon or angelic but simply known as a ‘Wanderer of the Worlds.’

He is depicted as a wolf, a she-wolf, or an ox, that under request changes shape into a man.

The name Marchosias comes from Late Latin ‘marchio’, marquis.

Other spellings: Marchocias.

See also The Lesser Key of Solomon, Ars Goetia.


In Modern Culture

  • Marchosias appears in the comic book B.P.R.D.: The Universal Machine, released on August 4th, 2006. He is depicted as a monstrous red demon with a lupine face. Marchosias and Iblifika, another demon, are prisoners of an ageless marquis, and are set free by Kate Corrigan.
  • Marchosias appears in Alan Moore’s comic book series Promethea where he is summoned with the demon Andras by the magician Benny Solomon to put a hit out on the title character. Promethea defeats him and Andras at a fight at a nightclub. Later in the series, Benny Solomon summons the entire Ars Goetia to attack Promethea, and Marchosias appears again.

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Dopesick | 1996 remastered reissue of

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Dopesick is the third album by the American sludgecore band Eyehategod, released on April 2, 1996. It was rereleased in 2006 as part of Century Media’s 20th Anniversary series of reissues, with 3 bonus tracks recorded during the original Dopesick recording sessions.


Track listing

  1. “My Name Is God (I Hate You)” – 5:21
  2. “Dogs Holy Life” – 1:10
  3. “Masters Of Legalized Confusion” – 3:57
  4. “Dixie Whiskey” – 2:55
  5. “Ruptured Heart Theory” – 3:33
  6. “Non Conductive Negative Reasoning” – 1:06
  7. “Lack of Almost Everything” – 2:48
  8. “Zero Nowhere” – 4:23
  9. “Methamphetamine” – 1:59
  10. “Peace Thru War (Thru Peace And War)” – 1:46
  11. “Broken Down But Not Locked Up” – 3:47
  12. “Anxiety Hangover” – 4:56
  13. “Peace Thru War (Thru Peace And War) (Alternate Version)” – 1:48
  14. “Depress (Alternate Version)” – 4:06
  15. “Dopesick Jam” – 16:02

All lyrics by Micheal D. Williams except where noted, by Mike Williams and Alicia 13. All music by Eyehategod (J. LaCaze, J. Bower, B. Patton, V. LeBlanc).


Credits

  • Mike Williams – Vocalist
  • Jimmy Bower – Guitar
  • Brian Patton – Guitar
  • Joey LaCaze – Drums
  • Vince LeBlanc – Bass
  • Billy Anderson – Producer, Engineer, Mixer
  • Perry Cunningham – Re-mastering
  • Tom Bejgrowitz – Additional Layout
  • Charles Elliott – Reissue Coordination

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God Bless the Prince of Wales | written and performed

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

“God Bless the Prince of Wales” (in Welsh, “Ar Dywysog Gwlad y Bryniau”) is a song written to mark the occasion of the marriage of the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom to Alexandra of Denmark.

The song was first proposed at the Caernarfon Eisteddfod of 1862. The words were written by the poet, John Ceiriog Hughes and the music by Henry Brinley Richards. The English words are by George Linley. The song was completed and performed in 1863. The opening lyrics are:

Among our ancient mountains,
And from our lovely vales,
Oh! Let the prayer re-echo
God bless the Prince of Wales!

In parts of Scotland and Ireland the tune is used to sing the loyalist song Derry’s Walls.

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New Haven Senators | Present on their 1992

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

The New Haven Senators are a former ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League During The 1992-93 AHL season.
The team played their home games at the New Haven Coliseum.


History

The team was known from 1972 to 1992 as the New Haven Nighthawks.
The team changed their name to match their new parent club, the Ottawa Senators.

The market was subsequently home to:

  • Beast of New Haven (1997-1999)
  • New Haven Knights (UHL) (2000-2002).
  • Bridgeport Sound Tigers (2001-present)


Individual Records

Goals: 23 - Greg Pankewicz
Assists: 44 - Scott White
Points: 60 - Martin St. Amour
Penalty Minutes: 195 - Gerry St. Cyr
GAA: 3.32 - Darrin Madeley
SV%: .905 - Darrin Madeley
Goaltending Wins: 10 - Darrin Madeley & Mark Laforest
Shutouts: 1 - Mark Laforest
Games: 80 - Scott White


Year By Year Record

Season Games Won Lost Tied Points Goals
For
Goals
Against
Standing Playoffs
1992-93 80 22 47 11 55 262 343 5th, North Out of Playoffs

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1601 (Mark Twain) | for the ‘Bollocks to

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

[Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a humorous risque work by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906.

Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth’s servants, 1601 was, according to Edward Wagenknecht, “the most famous piece of pornography in American literature.” It was more ribaldry than pornography, however; its content was more in the nature of irreverent and vulgar comedic shock than of “obscene” erotica. Nevertheless, in the United States, prior to the court decisions (1959-1966) that legalized the publication of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill, the book continued to be considered unprintable, and circulated clandestinely in privately printed, limited editions. Its characterization as “pornography” was satirized by Franklin J. Meine in the introduction to the 1939 edition.


Excerpt

According to the diarist,

In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore.

The Queen inquires as to the source, and receives various replies. Lady Alice says,

“Good your grace, an’ I had room for such a thundergust within mine ancient bowels, ’tis not in reason I coulde discharge ye same and live to thank God for yt He did choose handmaid so humble whereby to shew his power. Nay, ’tis not I yt have broughte forth this rich o’ermastering fog, this fragrant gloom, so pray you seeke ye further.”

From there, the talk proceeds to jokes about “maidenheddes,” cod-pieces, bollocks, arses, and pricks, and includes three of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television.”


External links

  • Another source for the full text of Mark Twain’s 1601

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Winchcombeshire | also appears on

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Winchcombeshire, an ancient county in the South West of England, in the 10th and 11th centuries, developed around its county town, Winchcombe.

It appears that it had a separate existence as a petty kingdom prior to this time. King Coenwulf of Mercia is associated with the region before becoming king. A link with the earlier kingdom of Hwicce has been surmised, given the apparent link between Coenwulf’s family and that of the kings of Hwicce.

It appears to have been amalgmated with Gloucestershire after Cnut conquered England in 1017, although some parts of the county appear to lie in what is usually considered to be Worcestershire.


Further reading

Whybra, Julian, A Lost English County: Winchcombeshire in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. (Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, 1). Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 1990. ISBN 0-85115-500-6

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Mandelbrodt | Cookies and

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Mandelbrodt, Mandelbrot, or anglicized to Mandelbread, is a dessert associated with Eastern European Jews. Mandelbrodt literally means almond bread, though it can be made with other ingredients as well (when made with walnuts, it is often called k’mish bread). It is a twice-baked cake that is essentially identical to Italian biscotti, and it is usually made into a loaf and sliced like hard bread. They are called kamishbrot in the Ukraine.

Its precise origin is unknown, as is its historic relationship with “biscotti” — purely generic term that means only bisquits or cookies.

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The Music of Christmas | Christmas

Monday, February 18th, 2008

The Music of Christmas is an album by Steven Curtis Chapman released on September 26, 1995.


Tracks

  1. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/The Music Of Christmas
  2. Christmas Is All In The Heart
  3. Angels We Have Heard On High
  4. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
  5. Our God Is With Us
  6. Interlude: The Music Of Christmas
  7. This Baby
  8. Silent Night/Away In A Manger/O Holy Night
  9. Carol Of The Bells
  10. O Come All Ye Faithful
  11. Going Home For Christmas
  12. Precious Promise

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Reading disability | reading Twas’

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

A reading disability is a condition in which a sufferer displays difficulty reading resulting primarily from neurological factors.


Selected list of reading disabilities

  • Asfedia
  • Dyslexia
  • Hyperlexia
  • Scotopic sensitivity syndrome (also called Irlen Syndrome)

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Charles John Taylor | served throughout

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Charles John Taylor was a New Zealand politician. He served in the 1st New Zealand Parliament and the 2nd New Zealand Parliament as representative for the Southern Division (consisting of the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, and East Cape regions), and served in the 3rd New Zealand Parliament as representative for the Raglan electorate. He also served on the Auckland Provincial Council.

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Step into Christmas | Christmas

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Step into Christmas is a Christmas song written and performed by Elton John, released in 1973. Though it was originally released as a stand-alone single in 1973 with the B-Side “Ho! Ho! Ho! Who’d Be a Turkey at Christmas”, it was later included as a bonus track on the 1996 remastered reissue of the album Caribou. It also appears on the albums Elton John’s Christmas Party, Rare Masters, To Be Continued, and The Best Christmas Album In The World…Ever!.


Other versions

It was covered by the band The Wedding Present on their 1992 album Hit Parade II, and also covered by The Business for the ‘Bollocks to Christmas’ EP.


External links

  • Step Into Christmas lyrics

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John Chandioux | edit External links

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

John Chandioux is a specialist in computational linguistics. His work in the machine translation field includes creating the GramR® programming language and the METEO® Translation System, which has been used since 1977 by the Canadian government’s Translation Bureau to translate weather bulletins on microcomputers. Chandioux is the president of John Chandioux Consultants and vice-president of EDIT Inc., its publishing arm.


External links

  • John Chandioux Consultants
  • EDIT Inc. - Terminology Products
  • EDIT Inc. - Educational Products

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Voortman Cookies | Cookies

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Voortman Cookies Limited is a Canadian company specializing in the production and sale of cookies. Based in Burlington, Ontario, its cookies may be found in supermarkets across Canada and the United States.

Voortman Cookies is affiliated with Appleby Transport Limited, a Canadian shipping company.


History

Voortman Cookies Ltd. was founded by brothers William and Harry Voortman, who emigrated to Canada from their hometown of Hellendoorn, Netherlands, in 1948, with their father, who had operated a bread bakery there. In 1951, they founded their first bakery in Hamilton, Ontario in a small, rented backroom of a house on Wilson and Elgin streets. It would be five years of long days baking and delivering their products before the brothers got their first real break into the retail trade when,in 1956, a major grocery chain agreed to give the Voortman Cookies shelf space. In 1957, the Voortman brothers moved to Enfield Road in Burlington where they built a facility that would eventually employ over twenty people. Although by then their main product was cookies the brothers coninued to bake pumpernickel and honeycake, mainly for southern Ontario’s growing Dutch immigrant population.

In 1961 Voortman Cookies moved to its first custom-built, production-line bakery on King Road -less than a mile from its Enfield Road facility. This plant would serve the company until 1975, at which time Voortman Cookies would move to its present day facility on the Queen Elizabeth Way and Appleby Line in East Burlington.

Today, Voortman Cookies makes over 60 unique varieties of cookies, including an extensive line of sugar-free and low sugar products. The Burlington plant remains the sole production facility for the Voortman brand. Voortman Cookies presently employs over 400 full-time workers in their production facility, and their cookies are distributed throughout North America by a network of over 450 independent distributors.

In 2003, Voortman Cookies gained media attention when president Harry Voortman announced that as of April 5, 2004, no trans fats would be used in the production of its cookies. This made Voortman Cookies one of the first food companies to move away from the use of harmful trans-fats in retail food products.


External links

  • Official website

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Hong Kong International Theme Parks | Official Walt

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Hong Kong International Theme Parks Ltd. (sic) is an incorporated company jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and the Government of Hong Kong, founded in 1999. It owns and operates the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, on Lantau Island.

The Hong Kong Government holds 57% stake, while The Walt Disney Company holds 43%.


See also

  • Hong Kong Disneyland Resort


External links

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Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics | the 1996

Friday, January 18th, 2008

The table tennis competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics consisted of four events.


Medal summary

Men’s singles
Men’s doubles
Women’s singles
Women’s doubles


Medal table

1 4 3 1 8
2 0 1 0 1
3 0 0 2 2
4 0 0 1 1


Controversy

During the women’s singles final match between the People’s Republic of China and Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), police arrested two Taiwanese spectators for waving the flag of the Republic of China, which has been banned at the Olympic games.[1]

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Joe Christmas | Christmas

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Joe Christmas is a fictional character, one of the central characters in the 1932 novel Light in August by William Faulkner.

Raised in an orphanage, Joe Christmas knows little about his own identity. While he is presumably both black and white, Joe Christmas appears to be mostly white; in fact, there is no certainty that he is black at all, though he identifies himself as such.
His search for racial identity is central to the work.

His initials allude to Jesus Christ.

One critic described him as the loneliest character in American literature.

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Credit manager | by The Business

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

A credit manager is a person employed by an organization to make credit decisions concerning terms of payment to their customers.

There are two broad categories of credit managers:

  1. Business-to-Consumer
  2. Business-to-Business


United States

Business-to-Business Professional Credit Managers can receive a Credit Business Associate CBA or a Credit Business Fellow CBF certification from the National Association of Credit Managers

There are two programs offered by affiliates of the NACM.

  1. Credit Administration Program CAP
  2. Advance Credit Administration Program ACAP

A low to mid level manager in most organizations, Credit Managers are known for avoiding risk and are often viewed as making decisions based on an agenda that is not always in sync with corporate objectives. Credit management is usually not a path into executive management.

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