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Nash the Slash

James Jeffrey "Jeff" Plewman (March 26, 1948 – May 10, 2014), better known by his stage name Nash the Slash, was a Canadian musician. A multi-instrumentalist, he was known primarily for playing the electric violin and mandolin, as well as the harmonica, keyboards, glockenspiel, and other instruments (sometimes described as "devices" on album notes).

Nash worked as a solo artist beginning in 1975; founding the progressive rock band FM in 1976. Soon after releasing the band's first album, Black Noise, in 1977, he left the band; he resumed his solo career in 1978 (it was not until after Nash's departure that the album was widely promoted, eventually charting and receiving a gold record award). He rejoined FM from 1983 to 1988, followed by a brief reunion from 1994 to 1996, all concurrent with his solo work.

Nash's music covers an eclectic range, varying from instrumental—mood-setting music, to rock and pop music with vocals. In addition to giving concert performances, he composed and performed soundtrack music for silent films, presenting these works live in movie theatres to accompany screenings of the films. Another venue for his music was in performances to accompany the viewing of paintings by surrealist painter Robert Vanderhorst, an audiovisual collaboration, which took place in 1978 and again in 2004.

Nash famously never allowed guitars on any of his solo albums and singles. He turned down Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's offer to lay down a guitar track on his album Children of the Night.

Identity
Nash was born in Toronto. He performed with surgical bandages covering his face starting in 1979. "During a gig at The Edge in the late 1970s to raise awareness of the threat from the Three Mile Island disaster, he walked on stage wearing bandages dipped in phosphorus paint and exclaimed: 'Look, this is what happens to you.' The bandages became his trademark." Prior to 1979, Nash performed three times on TV Ontario's Nightmusic Concert, first as a solo artist (a live broadcast which was never re-aired), then with FM (Nash and Cameron Hawkins), and again as a solo artist. In all of these appearances Nash wore his typical black tuxedo, top hat, and dark sunglasses, but not his signature bandages. He was also photographed in this attire for a profile in the Toronto Star, published April 28, 1978.

In later years, he attempted to keep his true identity the subject of some speculation, although the Star profile of 1978 had already matter-of-factly revealed his real name. Nevertheless, in a 1981 interview with the UK magazine Smash Hits, Nash was questioned about his real name, and replied with "Nashville Thebodiah Slasher". As a result of his coyness about his name, some fans came to believe that the Nash persona was an alter-ego of Ben Mink, who replaced him as FM's violinist in 1978. This is a common misconception, but he has been photographed onstage with Mink.

The "Nash the Slash" persona came from silent film, and Nash said he took his stage name from that of a killer butler encountered by Laurel and Hardy in one of their first films, Do Detectives Think? (1927), for which he composed a soundtrack score. (The film character's name is actually "The Tipton Slasher"; nowhere on screen does "Nash the Slash" appear.)

Images of Nash the Slash are featured in a variety of murals painted by artist Jungle Ling in Toronto. These images are located in the Leslieville district, next to a TD Bank at Queen St. East and Logan Avenue and below Queen St. East on Connaught Avenue, as part of a neighborhood beautification project conducted by the Toronto Transit Commission.

Career
Nash's music is a complex blend of progressive rock, new wave, new age, and punk rock, using electric mandolins, violins, drum machines, and a variety of effects and sonic devices. He wrote, played, and produced most of the material on his solo albums by himself, though he also worked with producers Daniel Lanois, Steve Hillage, and Bill Nelson.

First group
Before working as a solo artist, Nash recorded an unreleased song called "Slasher" with a group called Breathless, which also included his (and FM's) future producer, Michael Waite on bass guitar. The song appeared on a "various artists" promotional album titled Concept (after the Toronto-based management company, Concept 376; this was one of a series of such albums), but was not issued to the public in any form. The promo album does not list the group's personnel, or even a songwriting credit, but Nash is clearly heard singing a song, beginning with the lyrics "Hear the children of the night" (though this was a completely different song from his later work, "Children of the Night"), and playing electric violin. The song also featured a complex organ solo not in Nash's usual style (nor that of Cameron Hawkins, his bandmate in FM).

First solo career and film work
Nash's first solo performance and live presentation of music to film occurred when he played his soundtrack to Luis Buñuel's silent film Un chien andalou (1929) at The Original 99 Cent Roxy Theatre in Toronto on March 17, 1975.

Silent film composition
He also composed music for other classic silent films including Nosferatu (1922) and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). When performing soundtracks, Nash would appear on stage beside the screen (using his own projection screen when a full theatre screen is not available), the same format he used when performing concerts. He also composed scores for modern Canadian films Roadkill (1990) and Highway 61 (1991), both directed by Bruce McDonald. His other movie score and soundtrack work included the short film "A Trip Around Lake Ontario (1985), The Kidnapping of the President (1980), Black Pearls (1989), and Blood and Donuts (1995).

During this time, Nash made his first appearance on record, on David Pritchard's solo album Nocturnal Earthworm Stew (1976), with a short solo track titled "Nash Metropolitan" (named after Nash Metropolitan), and on an improvised piece with Pritchard and drummer Martin Deller (with whom he would later work in FM). He also appeared on the live TV-Ontario program Nightmusic (before its change in format, where it became Nightmusic Concert); in this incarnation, the show was a televised version of an FM radio show hosted by disc jockey Reiner Schwarz, and had not previously featured a live performer. Nash claimed he was both the first and last musical artist to appear on the show.

Work with FM
After working as a solo artist for a year, Nash formed the group FM in 1976, initially as a duo with Cameron Hawkins; drummer Martin Deller was added later. The group began recording in July 1976, though no performances in its duo format were issued at the time. However, they did appear on television and in live concerts, beginning in November 1976. In 1977, with Deller added to the group, they recorded the album Black Noise, which received a gold record award. It was listed as one of the "Top 50 Prog Rock Albums" by Rolling Stone magazine. By the end of 1977, Nash had left FM, and resumed his solo career starting with another television appearance on Nightmusic Concert on February 28, 1978. Nash rejoined FM from 1983 to 1989, and again from 1994 to 1996. During these years, he recorded a further three albums with the group. FM also recorded three albums during Nash's absence (1977 to 1980), with Ben Mink as his replacement.

Late 1970s and 1980
Nash had intended to restart his solo career in 1978 with a new album featuring all the music from his Nightmusic Concert TV special, plus his soundtrack for Un chien andalou, but found the sound quality of a test pressing to be unsatisfactory, so he issued a four-song 12-inch EP titled Bedside Companion instead, on his own label, Cut-throat Records, which he continued to operate for the rest of his life. A full album, Dreams and Nightmares with the rest of the Nightmusic material, the soundtrack, and a few new songs, appeared the following year. All music from these records was instrumental, and both are now available on one CD titled Blind Windows which also includes the 45 rpm EP playing at 33 rpm as the "Marsden versions", a joking reference to disc jockey David Marsden who mistakenly played the entire record at the wrong speed on radio when it was released.

Also in 1979, Nash thanked Toronto radio station CFNY-FM for their support of his music, by playing electric violin on the station's theme song, which was recorded by various disc jockeys of the station in a strange blend of new wave and country music. It was released as "Working on the Radio" by the 102.1 Band, as a single on Ready Records. The B-side has an extended version with a longer solo by Nash, who is not credited on the cover.

Nash's solo career up to this point had only a small cult following, due to his working exclusively as an instrumentalist. His next record, a 1980 single featuring a cover version of Jan and Dean's "Dead Man's Curve" with vocals, propelled him to greater public recognition. The B-side, "Swing Shift (Souixante-Neuf)" also featured vocals, and was co-composed with lyricist Toby Dammit, with whom Nash further collaborated over the next few years. Music videos were made for both songs. Nash also played on three songs by Toronto group Drastic Measures for their self-titled album, including violins on their signature tune, a cover version of the children's song, "The Teddy Bears' Picnic". Nash's label, Cut-throat Records, later issued a single by the group, the only other artist to appear on his label, although Nash was not involved in its recording. Nash's later soundtrack album for Highway 61 includes tracks by Tony Malone, the lead singer for Drastic Measures.

Nash was invited by Gary Numan to tour the UK as his support act in 1980 and 1981, and subsequently played on Numan's 1981 LP Dance. He also toured Europe with The Tubes. He was signed to the Dindisc label and in 1981, he released the album Children of the Night in Europe, also released in Canada shortly after. Several British singles were also issued. These records appeared on the Dindisc / Cut-throat label in Europe and on Virgin / Dindisc / Cut-throat in Canada.

Mid 1980s
Returning to Toronto in spring 1981, Nash released an instrumental "mini-album" Decomposing (1981), which purported to be playable at any speed, with song timings on the label quoting three lengths, depending on whether the record is played at 33, 45, or 78 rpm. However, songs from this record also appeared on compilation albums and singles, where they always play as heard when Decomposing is played at 45 rpm. This remains Nash's only significant release that has yet to be reissued on CD.

In 1981, Iggy Pop name-checked Nash during the fade-out on the song Eggs on Plate singing "Hey Nash the Slash, why did you leave your sticker on the ceiling of my forty-two dollar and fifty cent motel suite?!" A year later, Nash got a call from Iggy who invited him to be his opening act on tour.

Nash's next album was And You Thought You Were Normal (1982). This included the track "Dance After Curfew" produced by Daniel Lanois prior to his association with Brian Eno. The single became a surprise club and radio hit in Poland, which was then still behind the iron curtain, where curfews and restrictions on western culture were imposed by the government of the time. A 12-inch single featuring a remixed and extended version of the song was issued in the USA on PVC Records.

Nash's next project was an album of American rock classics titled American Band-ages. Nash enlisted the help of his former FM collaborators Cameron Hawkins (keyboards) and Martin Deller (drums), and the album was released in 1984. The album was aimed at the US market, but due to distribution and management problems, including a change in record labels (to MCA, after Quality Records folded in 1985), it never got the exposure Nash thought it deserved. In the same year, Nash released a compilation album (with most tracks remixed) titled The Million Year Picnic on Ralph Records in the United States, the label which was home to The Residents.

While working on American Band-ages in 1983, he proposed to promote it with a double bill tour with his former band FM. But Ben Mink, Nash's replacement, had left the band that year; therefore, Nash rejoined the group, staying with them from 1983 to 1989 (followed by a reunion tour from 1994 to 1996), and retaining the idea of a double bill by performing solo as the opening act. With Nash, FM released further albums: Con-Test (1985), Tonight (1987), and RetroActive (1995).

In 1985, Nash sued PepsiCo for using his likeness in commercials without permission; PepsiCo subsequently settled out of court, pulling the commercial from broadcast and paying Nash's legal fees.

1990–2011
After the break-up of FM in 1989, Nash embarked on a series of film soundtrack projects, and revived his Cut-throat label in 1991 to issue these on CD, and has also used it to re-issue his earlier records. New albums of songs with vocals have also been released on the label: Thrash (1999) and In-A-Gadda-Da-Nash (2008), the latter consisting entirely of cover versions.

During 1992-3 Nash the Slash collaborated with the electronic music artist Plexus to create a series of visually intense live shows called Psychedelitron. They performed Psychedelitron live between 1993 and 1995. In 1993, the show was performed only at Stratenger's in Toronto, Canada, every third Saturday of the month from March to October. The performed two sets, each a mix of Nash the Slash and Plexus songs. Later, in 1994 and 1995, they took the show to other venues, including the grand opening of the Toronto Public Library at 239 College Street to commemorate the inclusion of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy in this library location.

Psychedelitron used intense visuals, including a refinement of Nash's psychedelic projector lighting, strategically placed pin lights to increase the perception of the stage size, strobe lights, fog and indirect and silhouette lighting. The techniques used during Psychedelitron, and their subsequent refinement during the reign of the shows became an important visual aspect to Nash's later shows. Psychedelitron was also used as way to re-define Nash's shows both visually and musically.

In 1998, Nash performed as part of Toronto's Pride Week, publicly acknowledging that he was gay.

During 2004 and 2005, he was again working with Robert Vanderhorst, under the name Two Artists, on the project View From the Gallery, a live multimedia event presenting a fusion of surrealistic visuals with classic stylings in music.

Nash appeared as a character in several comic books by Matt Howarth, including issues #2–7 of Savage Henry. Nash also provided original music on a CD for Howarth's graphic novel The Simultaneous Man.

Nash continued to tour, mostly in his native Ontario, but occasionally elsewhere, including a 2008 tour of the UK, which resulted in a live CD/DVD.

2011 saw Nash release his first ever compilation album, The Reckless Use of Electricity.

2012
Nash announced his retirement via his website on November 6, 2012, stating he was "rolling up the bandages" and shutting down his official website on December 31. He thanked his loyal fans for their support during his 40 years as an independent artist, but stated that live gigs no longer excited him and that his "eccentric style/genre finds no place into today's scene." He also mentioned the "theft of music on the internet devastated a very important source of [his] income."

Death
On May 10, 2014, Nash died at his home in Toronto, at age 66, from a suspected heart attack. Robert Vanderhorst confirmed his death to the media two days later.

Legacy
Since his death in 2014, Nash the Slash's career and recordings are being preserved by The Nash the Slash Legacy. His website was relaunched late in 2014, and costumes and instruments were donated to the National Music Centre in Calgary. He was declared a Canadian Innovator by NMC and his Vladimir Bosnar custom skull mandolin is on display in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame wing. A distribution deal was signed with Artoffact Records in Toronto in early 2015 to release all six of his albums from the 1980s - Bedside Companion, Dreams and Nightmares, Children of the Night, the rare and previously commercially unreleased live album Hammersmith Holocaust, Decomposing, as well as And You Thought You Were Normal?. Work is underway to have all his albums available again by late 2018.

Filming began on a Nash the Slash documentary in early 2017. The film is being produced by Side Three Media in collaboration with The Nash the Slash Legacy and is called Nash the Slash Rises Again! As of 2024, the film remains unreleased.

His white tuxedo and top hat will be on display to the public and are being loaned to the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, QC for a 2018 exhibit about popular music in Canada from the 1960s to 1980s.

Studio albums and EPs

 * Bedside Companion (EP) (1978)
 * Dreams & Nightmares (1979)
 * Children of the Night (1981)
 * Decomposing (EP) (1981)
 * And You Thought You Were Normal (1982)
 * American Band-ages (1984) (#79 in Canada )
 * Highway 61 (soundtrack) (1991)
 * Thrash (1999)
 * Nosferatu (soundtrack) (2000)
 * In-A-Gadda-Da-Nash (2008)

The 2001 recording Lost in Space is credited to Nash the Slash, Cameron Hawkins and Martin Deller; it is actually a CD by FM, but avoids using the name for legal reasons.

Live recordings

 * Hammersmith Holocaust (1980) {EP, live in London, 300 copies made}
 * Live in London 2008 (2009) - CD-R

Compilations

 * The Million Year Picnic (1984) (Ralph Records)
 * Blind Windows (1997) (compiles Bedside Companion and Dreams & Nightmares'' onto one CD)
 * The Reckless Use Of Electricity (2011)

Singles

 * Cut-throat / CUT 3 - "Dead Man's Curve" / "Swing Shift", 1980 (Canada only)
 * Cut-throat / Dindisc / Virgin VS-1126 – "Dead Man's Curve" / "Metropolis", 1981 – B-side is an extended version
 * Cut-throat / Dindisc DIN-28 – "Dead Man's Curve" / "Reactor No. 2", 1981 – B-side was a non-album track until CD re-release
 * Cut-throat / Dindisc DIN-29 – "19th Nervous Breakdown" / "Danger Zone", 1981
 * Dindisc DIN-33 – "Novel Romance" / "In a Glass Eye", 1981 – A-side produced by Bill Nelson and is a non-album track
 * PVC Records PVC4905 - "Dance After Curfew" / "Wonmble/The Calling" - 1982, 12" vinyl single
 * Quality Records - "1984" (Radio Version) / "1984" (Dance Version) - released 1984 on 7" & 12" vinyl single
 * Quality Records Q2448 - "American Band" / "American Bandstand Boogie/American Band" - 7" vinyl single

Film soundtracks
In addition to the soundtrack albums above, Nash has composed the film scores for several films, including:
 * The Kidnapping of the President (1980) - Nash provided electronic sound effects
 * A Trip Around Lake Ontario (1984, short subject)
 * Roadkill (1989)
 * Black Pearls (1991)
 * Blood and Donuts (1995)

Excerpts from tracks on the FM album Tonight, co-written by Nash the Slash, appear in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.

Nash is also credited with 'original music by' in at least one episode of Cold Blood/True Crime Scene (Canadian TV series 2008–12).

Movie / Video appearances
Nash has a cameo appearance in the 1989 film Roadkill, playing his own composition "We Will Be The Leaders".

He also has a cameo in the Spoons video "Tell No Lies" (1984).

DVDs

 * Live in London 2008 (2009) - DVD-R

As 'Two Artists', a collaboration with artist Robert Vanderhorst:
 * View From the Gallery - One, (2004)
 * View From the Gallery - Two, (2005)

Nash also released 3 live performances on video tape, which are out of print.

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Bruno Giussani

Bruno Giussani (born in Switzerland in 1964) is the International curator of TED. He was for 10 years the organization's European Director and member of its senior team, curating and co-hosting TEDGlobal, TEDSummit and various TED special events. Besides his role with TED, he is the Chairman of FIFDH, the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, which takes place every year in March, and a member of the Board of Directors of Tinext Group, a Swiss software firm he co-founded. From 2005 to 2015 he curated and hosted the annual Swiss conference, Forum des 100. Through his firm Giussani Group LLC he advises public organisations, such as the ICRC, as well as private companies, is an author and a frequent public speaker. In 2011, 2012 and 2014 Wired UK selected him as one of the "Wired 100". In January 2016 he received the SwissAward/Person of the year 2015 in the category "Economy". He lives in Switzerland.

TED
Giussani is the International Curator of TED, the nonprofit organization behind the TED conferences and the popular online TEDtalks, and was for 10 years a member of its senior team.

Since 2005, he has curated hundreds of TED Talks, including by Pope Francis, Antonio Guterres, Margrethe Vestager, Elif Shafak, Daniel Suarez, Jennifer Doudna, Alejandro Aravena, Melissa Fleming, Malte Spitz, Charmian Gooch, Taryn Simon, Melinda Gates and Bill Gates, Amy Cuddy, Alain de Botton, Glenn Greenwald, Suzanne Simard, Yanis Varoufakis, Wayne McGregor, Jon Ronson, Yuval Noah Harari, Tim Harford, Richard Wilkinson, Hans and Ola Rosling, Pico Iyer, Dambisa Moyo, Zeynep Tufekci, Michael Green, Elizabeth Lev, Hilary Cottam, Vincent Moon and Nana Vasconcelos, Kimberley Motley, Fred Swaniker, Gerard Ryle, James Veitch, Carole Cadwalladr, Tim Berners-Lee, Alex Honnold, Johan Rockström, Nicola Sturgeon, Tshering Tobgay, Tracy Chevalier, George Monbiot, Alain de Botton, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Mariana Mazzucato.

Through conferences, TED Talks available free of charge and subtitled in many languages, the Audacious Project, the TED Fellowship, an educational initiative called TED-Ed, thousands of local independently organized events under the label TEDx, collaborations with organisations ranging from NPR to Chinese web portals and Indian television, and more, TED focuses on "Ideas Worth Spreading." Its flagship conferences are considered among the world's most innovative and are regularly sold out months in advance. Giussani joined TED in 2005, and produced the first TEDGlobal event in Oxford, England. TEDGlobal 2014 took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while TEDSummit 2019 was held in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Human Rights Film Festival FIFDH
Since 2017 Giussani is the chairman of the Geneva International Film Festival on Human Rights (FIFDH in its French acronym).

Journalism
Prior to joining TED, Giussani was a well-known writer and commentator. For several years he edited the political section of Swiss news magazine L'Hebdo before becoming its US correspondent and, later, its technology columnist and editor of the first Swiss online news web site, Webdo, launched in 1995. His writings have been published in newspapers, magazines and websites in Europe and the United States, including The New York Times (for which he wrote the EuroBytes column from 1996 to 2000), The Wall Street Journal Europe, the European editions of Wired magazine, The Economist, Business Week, The International Herald Tribune, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), L'Hebdo (Switzerland), Libération (France), Il Sole-24Ore (Italy), The Huffington Post, and more. He was also the European editor of the now-defunct Industry Standard magazine and one of the founding editors of its European version, and the producer of the magazine's Global Internet Summit (Barcelona, 2000).

His former blog, Lunch Over IP, which he wrote from 2005 to 2008 (still available online as an archive) won him a national "Golden Mouse" award in 2006 for the best Swiss theme blog, while his articles on technology and innovation in L'Hebdo were awarded in 1995 the Swiss prize for technology journalism.

Books
He has authored or co-authored several books, favoring a pragmatic, no-hype approach. A reviewer in The International Herald Tribune wrote that in his book ''Roam. Making Sense of the Wireless Internet'' (Random House, 2001 and 2002) he "first bursts the bubble of mobile hype and then explains why wireless communications really matters and how it works."

Other idea sharing initiatives
In 2005 he launched with L'Hebdo the annual Forum des 100 in Lausanne, which he hosted for 10 years and which is today considered the foremost conference in Western Switzerland. He has also been instrumental in launching and developing the LIFT conference (Geneva, Switzerland) and was an adviser to the DLD conference (Munich, Germany) among other ideas-sharing initiatives. From 1998 to 2000 he was Head of Online Strategy at the World Economic Forum (also known as the Davos Forum). He was a member of the jury of Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge 2014.

Internet companies
Giussani has co-founded two Internet companies: Tinet, in 1995, the first Internet service provider in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland (then sold to Swissonline/Cablecom), and Tinext, in 2000, a software firm with offices in Switzerland, Italy and Dubai, of which he is Vice-Chairman. He was the Director of Innovation of the short-lived 3GMobile, an attempt to launch a new mobile telecom player in Switzerland. From 2002 to 2008 he was a member of the board of Namics, the largest Swiss Internet consultancy.

Education
Giussani is an alumnus of the University of Geneva, where he graduated in Social and Economic Sciences in 1989. He was a 2004 Fellow at the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists at Stanford University and an Affiliated Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford.

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Battle of Fujigawa

The Battle of Fujigawa (富士川の戦い) was a battle of the Genpei War of the Heian period of Japanese history. It took place in 1180, in what is now Shizuoka Prefecture.

Background
Minamoto no Yoritomo, using Kamakura as his headquarters, sent his counselor Hōjō Tokimasa in August 1180 to convince the warlords Takeda of Kai and Nitta of Kotsuke to follow Yoritomo's command as he marched against the Taira.

As Yoritomo continued through the region below Mount Fuji and into Suruga Province, he planned a rendezvous with the Takeda clan and other families of the provinces of Kai and Kōzuke to the north. These allies arrived at the rear of the Taira army in time to ensure a Minamoto victory.

Battle
During the night, Yoritomo launched an attack against the large Taira army camp. The Taira became alarmed when a flock of waterfowl flew over their camp, and the "small surprise became a rout".

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User:Tparker393

Thomas L. Parker-393- - born on February 3rd, 1979 in Charlottesville Virginia at Martha Jefferson Hospital, the son of Jeffrey W. Parker and Lawrie S. Parker, the eldest of their four children (Samuel, Benjamin and Kathrine), married to Stefanie N. Parker. Grandparents from father's side: Col. Levin W. (retired) and Doris Parker. Grandparents from mother's side: Arther and Katherine Seiler.

I have created two websites through the colleges I've attended: George Mason University and Radford University. Currently, I can't seem to locate the GMU page that holds vital information. Futhermore, there's a good chance that will never locate this website in which case I will start from scratch here. I recently wrote a poem entitled 'Scratch' which I may decide to transcribe on to this article page at some point. Yet, as i am currently suffering from the apperant loss of one website (to which countless hours were devoted), i'm leary of putting too much work into this project. Nevertheless, I will give it a try- kind of like Golgo 13, in that old Nintendo game. I'm a poet, a musician, a free-thinker, a person who believes that everyone is entitled to believe what they want as long as it doesn't involve mindless killing or destruction, and finally I am a soul that has faith.

For the most part I grew up in Sumerduck, VA a small town in Fauquier County (careful how you pronounce that). This town is close to the neighboring community of Bealeton, Virginia. A lot has changed since I first came to these places but I'm happy to say that some of the good people have stuck around.

'The Glass Menagerie' was performed by The Waterworks Players of Farmville, VA on February 11,12,18 and 19 of 2005. I played the part of Jim O'Conner, the gentleman caller. This was my first stab at acting outside of school or church and I throughly enjoyed it. The play as a whole was a great success. I plan to continue with this local theatre in future plays, musicals, etc. Special Thanks to Dudley Sauve who directed the play and brought it all together.

Cast of Charecters:

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Jim O'Conner - Thomas L. Parker

Special Thanks to Nathan Larson for helping in the construction of this article. See our chess game. See our team game.

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Good grief--this article is dripping in POV. Sounds like it was written by an apologist for Buhari. Needs major revision. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blueboy96 (talk • contribs) 01:43, December 8, 2004

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Brenda Elliott

Brenda Elliott (born October 27, 1950) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Progressive Conservative from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.

Background
Elliott was born in Goderich, Ontario. She went to McMaster University, and worked as a teacher and librarian. In 1972, she was elected to the Wellington County Board of Education. She became interested in environmental causes during the 1990s, and in November 1989 opened a store in Guelph, Ontario called For Earth's Sake.

Politics
Elliott was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating former Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Rick Ferraro and incumbent New Democrat Derek Fletcher in the Guelph constituency. The Tories won a majority government in this election under Mike Harris's leadership, and Elliott was appointed as Minister of Environment and Energy on June 26, 1995.

Due to Elliott's background in the environmental movement, many believed she would be a strong advocate for "green" policies in the Harris cabinet. She was dropped from cabinet on August 16, 1996, and served as a backbench supporter in the legislature for the next three years.

Elliott was easily re-elected in the 1999 provincial election for the redistributed riding of Guelph—Wellington by about ten thousand votes. On February 8, 2001, she returned to cabinet as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. When Ernie Eves replaced Mike Harris as Premier of Ontario in 2002, he named Elliott as his Minister of Community, Family and Children's Services.

The Tories were defeated in the 2003 provincial election, and Elliott lost her seat to Liberal candidate Liz Sandals by 2,800 votes.

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PLS (file format)

PLS is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. It is typically used by media players for streaming media over the Internet, but may also be used for playing local media.

For online streaming, typically the .PLS file would be downloaded just once from the media source—such as from an online radio station—for immediate or future use. While most computers and players automatically recognize the .PLS format, the first time a PLS file is used on a computer, the media player's settings may need to be changed to recognize ("associated" with) .PLS files.

PLS was originally developed for use with the museArc audio player software by codeArts, and was later used by SHOUTcast and Icecast for streaming media over the Internet. PLS is a more expressive playlist format than the basic M3U playlist, as it can store (cache) information on the song title and length (this is supported in extended M3U only).

File format
The format is case-sensitive and essentially that of an INI file structured as follows

Header
 * [playlist] : This tag indicates that it is a Playlist File

Track Entry

Assuming track entry #X If file metadata includes a title already, then the TitleX entry will not be displayed.
 * FileX : Variable defining location of media file/stream (like .m3u/.m3u8 playlists).
 * TitleX : Defines track title. (optional)
 * LengthX : Length in seconds of track. Value of -1 indicates indefinite (streaming). (optional)

Footer
 * NumberOfEntries : This variable indicates the number of tracks and therefore equals the number used for the last track
 * Version : Playlist version. Currently only a value of 2 is valid.

Examples
Example of a complete PLS file used for "streaming audio;" in this case, to connect to a particular online radio station and receive its audio stream:

Alternative Example containing local paths:

In Unix-like operating systems absolute and relative file paths differ from Windows, because there are no drive letters, Environment variables differ and [/] (forward slashes) are used as directory separators instead of [\] (backslashes). Therefore, playlists pointing to absolute paths or media files outside of the folder containing the playlist will only work for one type of operating system - either Windows or Unix-like. URLs work the same for all types.
 * Unix/BSD/Linux/OS X

To make the second example from above work the 3rd and 4th path need to be changed to something like:

Compatible media player software
iTunes, VLC media player, GNOME Videos, RealPlayer, Winamp, Yahoo! Music Jukebox, MediaMonkey, Windows Media Player, AIMP, Kodi, Rhythmbox, foobar2000, Audacious and more than 30 others are able to interpret (open) PLS files. Media Player Classic with the K-Lite codec installed does work with PLS format, but still requires the appropriate MIME or file extension associations.

title: PLS (file format)