America's Best Leaders 2008

Lance Armstrong
Cyclist

David Baltimore
California Institute of Technology

Regina Benjamin
Le Batre Rural Health Clinic

Jeff Bezos
amazon.com

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Most Powerful People in Power Elite Category

POWER ELITE

John Chambers CEO Cisco
Larry Ellison CEO Oracle
Bill Gates Chairman Microsoft
Sam Palmisano Chairman and CEO IBM
Ivan Seidenberg Chairman and CEO Verizon
Joe Tucci President and CEO EMC
Edward Whitacre Chairman and CEO The new AT&T

Kate Hudson Tops People's Most Beautiful Nominate

L.A. Kate Hudson is beautiful - just ask the folks at People.

The 29-year-old blonde bombshell graces the cover of the magazine's annual Most Beautiful People issue, the magazine revealed on Wednesday. But the actress admitted she wasn't always such a head-turner.
"I was a tomboy. I had three brothers. I was the girl with the dress on that always came back in the house filthy with scrapes and bruises. But I was always very girly. I had to be able to twirl so that my underwear showed," Kate told People.
But Kate isn't the only "Beautiful" Hollywood star featured in the upcoming issue.
Eva Longoria and Tony Parker made the list as "Perfect Partners."
Meanwhile, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are dubbed "Hall of Famers," along with Alicia Keys, Beyonce and George Clooney.
But it's no solo affair for Gentleman George, whose girlfriend of 10 months, Sarah Larson, also made the cut, dubbed "The Newbie."
At 42, a bold and beautiful Brooke Shields posed for the spread, sans makeup, as did Vanessa Hudgens and Kristen Bell.
Among some of the other notable names featured in the mag include Rumer Willis, Sarah Silverman, Carrie Underwood, "Dancing With the Stars" contestant and NFL star Jason Taylor, and even the entire cast of The CW's hot show "Gossip Girl."

Top 5 The World's Most Influential People 2008

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Scott English

Scott English (born Scott David English, 10 January 1943, Brooklyn, New York) is an US-American singer, songwriter and record producer best known as the composer (with Richard Kerr) of "Brandy", which became a hit for Barry Manilow under the title "Mandy". English had a single release of "Brandy", making the charts in March, 1972.

In 1964 English had a regional doo-wop hit called "High On a Hill", written by Frank Cariola and A. Mangravito.[1] "High On a Hill" has consistently been voted an all-time top song on oldies radio stations in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metro.

With Larry Weiss, he wrote "Bend Me, Shape Me," which became a hit for the Illinois band, The American Breed, reaching number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968; it was also a hit in the UK for Amen Corner. (The song had been recorded a year earlier by the Outsiders, but only as an album track).

English and Weiss also penned "Help Me Girl" (a hit for Eric Burdon and the Animals, and also released as a single in the same time period by the Outsiders), "Ciao Baby" (a hit for Lynne Randell) and "Hi Ho Silver Lining" which English also produced for Jeff Beck. He later produced Thin Lizzy’s first album, Thin Lizzy[2].

In 1998, English was listed as co-writer (with Simon Stirling and Phil Mankiza) on the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, "Where Are You?". The song was performed by Imaani, and at the time, the songwriters were producing her album.[3] However, that album was never released as Imaani and her record label, EMI, parted company.

Sam English

Samuel English (18 August 1908 - 1967) was a Irish football player who played for several clubs, but is mainly remembered for his time with Rangers.[citation needed]

He was born in the hamlet of Crevolea in Aghadowey, County Londonderry, Ireland.[dubious – discuss] In 1924 his family moved to Dalmuir in Scotland, and for a time he worked at the John Brown & Company Shipyard.

During the 1930s he played with Yoker Athletic Juniors and with Rangers. He holds the Rangers record for the most goals scored in one season: 44 goals in 1931-32. He also played for Ireland a number of times.

However, his career was overshadowed by an incident in September 1931 where he was involved in an accidental collision with John Thomson, the Celtic goalkeeper. Thomson dived for the ball and his head collided with English's knee (not, as is often assumed, his boot). He suffered serious injuries to his skull and died in hospital a few hours later.

The official enquiry later found that the collision was an accident, and cleared English of any blame, a view which was fully supported by John Thomson's family and all players from both teams who were on the field at the time. Nevertheless, English was deeply traumatised by what had happened to Thomson.

Although he was cleared of malice in the John Thomson incident, jeering by Scottish crowds caused his transfer to England. He played for Liverpool, then Queen of the South, and Hartlepool United. He was to find that his reputation had preceded him, he often faced similar taunts, and he never recovered his playing form. Eventually he gave up football at the age of only 28.

He died in the Vale of Leven Hospital, in West Dunbartonshire, at the age of only 58 after battling motor neurone disease.

Phil English

This article is about the U.S. congressman. For other uses, see Phil English (disambiguation).

Philip Sheridan "Phil" English (born June 20, 1956) has served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995 from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, representing the state's 3rd Congressional district (map). The district, numbered as the 21st District from 1995 to 2003, is based in Erie and includes most of the northwestern part of the state.[1]

After 14 years of representing the district, he was defeated for reelection by Democrat Kathy Dahlkemper on Nov. 4, 2008.

Jonathon James English

Jonathon James English (born 26 March 1949 in Hampstead, London, England)[1] is a rock singer, musician, actor and writer in Australia. Jon English emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1961. He was an early vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Sebastian Hardie but left to take on the role of Judas Iscariot in the Australian version of the stage musical Jesus Christ Superstar from May 1972,[2] which was broadcast on television.[1] English is also a noted solo singer, his Australian top twenty hit singles include "Turn the Page", "Hollywood Seven", "Words are Not Enough", "Six Ribbons" and "Hot Town".[3][4]

English was acclaimed for his starring role in the 1978 Australian TV series Against the Wind - he won the TV Week Logie Award for 'Best New Talent in Australia'.[4][5] He also co-wrote and performed the score with Mario Millo (ex-Sebastian Hardie).[4][6] The series had international release, known as Mot alla vindar (1980) in Scandinavia,[7] where both "Six Ribbons" and "Against the Wind" were released as singles, both singles and the soundtrack album peaked at #1 on the Norwegian charts;[8] the first single, "Six Ribbons" and the album, peaked at #4 on the Swedish charts.[9]

During 1983-1985, English won four Mo Awards with three consecutive 'Entertainer of the Year' awards and a further 'Male Vocal Performer' in 1985.[10][11][12] English has performed in Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and HMS Pinafore from 1984.[13][14] Performances of Essgee Entertainment's productions of the Gilbert and Sullivan trilogy from 1994 to 1997 were broadcast on Australian TV, they were all released on VHS and subsequently on DVD.[1][14]

Ellia English

Ellia English (born March 26, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an US-American stage, film and movie actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Aunt Helen on The Jamie Foxx Show. English was featured in a central role in the show, and was paired onscreen with Garrett Morris, who plays her husband Junior King.

Filmography

* Semi-Pro (2008).... Quincy
* Good Luck Chuck (2007).... Reba
* Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004).... Prison Official
* Matchups (2003 V).... Lynn Williams

Corri English

Corri English (born Corri Englisby, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, May 10, 1978) is an American actress.

English has worked with actress Danielle Panabaker twice - once in Stuck in the Suburbs (2004) and then in Searching for David's Heart (2004). As a young girl during the late '80s and early '90s, she was a frequent host of Kidsbeat and a few other kids shows on TBS (prior to the merger of Turner Broadcasting System with Time Warner). She is also a longtime friend of actress Christine Lakin, with whom she is producing a short film yet to come.

Filmography

* Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1 episode, "Sequel", 1999) .... Galaxy Girl
* Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999) (TV) ....
* Dawson's Creek (1 episode, "The Anti-Prom", 2000) .... Barbara Johns
* Going to California (1 episode, "A Little Hard in the Big Easy", 2002) .... Joanne
* Runaway Jury (2003) .... Lydia Deets
* Joan of Arcadia (2 episodes, "The Election" and "Queen of the Zombies", 2004-2005) .... Elizabeth Goetzman
* One Tree Hill (1 episode, "Spirit in the Night", 2004) .... Claire Young
* No Witness (2004) .... Britney Haskell
* Stuck in the Suburbs (2004) (TV) .... Jessie Aarons
* Searching for David's Heart (2004) (TV) .... Jayne Evans
* 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004) (TV) .... Kelly Earnhardt
* RedMeansGo (2005) .... Lucy
* Without a Trace (1 episode, "Requiem", 2006) .... Amy Jordano
* The Bedford Diaries (8 episodes, 2006) .... Natalie Dykstra
* Unrest (2006) .... Alison Blanchard
* CSI: Miami (1 episode, "Going Under", 2006) .... Angela Downey
* Justice (2 episodes, "Shot to the Heart" and "Christmas Party", 2006) .... Kelly Wright
* Campus Ladies (1 episode, "Barri & Joan Rush a Black Sorority", 2007) .... Sorority Girl
* NCIS (1 episode, "Friends & Lovers", 2007) .... Lisa Delgado
* House of Fears (2007) .... Samantha
* Winter Tales (2007) TV mini-series .... Shannon / Tim / Mom / Rachel (voice)
* Killer Pad (2008) .... Jezebel
* The Tiffany Problem (2008) .... Tiffany Hane
* Broken Windows (2009) .... DJ

CariDee English

CariDee English (born May 22, 1985[2] in Fargo, North Dakota) is an American fashion model of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. In December 2006 she won Cycle 7 of America's Next Top Model. Her prize was a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl Cosmetics, a modeling contract with Elite Models, and a six-page fashion editorial and cover for Seventeen magazine. She is the second ANTM winner from North Dakota, the other being Nicole Linkletter of Cycle 5.[3]
She was named by her brother, after Carrie from Little House on the Prairie and her grand-mother whose name is Dee[4].

CariDee stated during the cycle that she worked as a photographer before appearing on America's Next Top Model. She has suffered from psoriasis for 15 years[5] and believed her dream of becoming a model was unattainable. However, a doctor recommended Raptiva, a drug that CariDee injects weekly in order to help control the skin disease. Although it is effective, it cannot cure the disease.[6]

CariDee was a listed model with the Academie Agencie in Fargo North Dakota since 2001. She attended the Millie Lewis Actors Models and Talent Competition in 2002 and was placed with Mega Models in Miami Florida for the summer of 2003 and returned to Fargo at the end of the summer.

Arthur English

Arthur Leslie Norman English (9 May 1919 – 16 April 1995) was an English comedian from the music hall tradition.
Arthur English as his 'Spiv' character

English was born in Aldershot, Hampshire. After serving in the army in World War II, reaching the rank of sergeant, English worked as a painter and decorator in his native town. He polished up his comedy routines at this time and eventually appeared at the Windmill Theatre in London and did much other stage work. His radio work began with the BBC series Variety Bandbox, using as always his own Aldershot accent. His usual persona was a stereotypical wartime "spiv", and he became known as "The Prince of the Wide Boys". His usual delivery was to tell a long rambling shaggy dog story at ever-increasing rapidity without losing clarity until, at top speed, he would end with the catch-phrase: "Play the music! Open the cage!" For a time he was resident comedian at the Windmill Theatre. He also appeared in The Sweeney.

He began to appear on British television in mainly comedy roles in the 1970s, and was noticeable because of his manner and appearance. He is remembered for his character of the truculent and bolshy maintenance man, Mr Harman, in Are You Being Served? which he played from 1976 to 1985, including the film version. He played an even more unsympathetic character in In Sickness and in Health, a follow-up series to Till Death Us Do Part from 1985 to 1990.

He had more likeable roles in two British children's TV series: The Ghosts of Motley Hall, which ran from 1976-1978 on ITV (produced by Granada Television), and Follyfoot, which ran from 1971-1973, also on ITV (produced by Yorkshire Television). He was in several other films and Maths Counts (1982), a British TV schools programme starring Jack Wild as English's grandson. In 1985, he appeared in an episode of the American TV series Magnum, P.I.

Following the death of his wife Ivy (who made his enormous kipper tie at the beginning of his career), late in life English married a young dancer, Teresa, that he met during one of his stage shows, and had a child with her - Clare Louise English. The late John Inman and Jack Douglas were the child's godparents. The marriage was later dissolved.

Arthur English died in 1995 due to complications from emphysema. His ashes were interred in a plot at Aldershot Crematorium.

He had been president of Aldershot Town F.C. which had been formed out of the ashes of Aldershot F.C. The new club badge depicted a rising phoenix and was designed by English.

Alex English

Alex English (born January 5, 1954 in Columbia, South Carolina) is a retired American basketball player and current assistant coach of the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association who played at the forward position. He played at the University of South Carolina and most notably with the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets. He averaged 21.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game during his NBA career. He was named to seven NBA All-Star teams, his #2 jersey was retired by the Nuggets, and he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Since June 2004, English has been the director of player development and an assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors. He joined the Raptors after spending the previous two season as an assistant coach with the Philadelphia 76ers and Atlanta Hawks.
Alex English has dabbled in acting. His debut came in the 1987 motion picture Amazing Grace and Chuck, playing a fictitious Boston Celtics star. He has also had roles in the television series Midnight Caller 1989 and played the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers in Eddie (1996). To date, his last role was as "The Premiere" 1997's The Definite Maybe.

Crab

Crabs are crustaceans. They have a very short tail. A crab's tail is folded under its body. It might not be visible at all, unless you turn the crab around. Usually they have a very hard exoskeleton. This means they are well protected against predators. Crabs are armed with a single pair of claws. Crabs can be found in all the oceans. Some crabs also live in fresh water, or live completely on land[1]. The smallest known crab is the pea crab. Some are only a few millimeters wide. The biggest known crab is the Japanese spider crab. It lives in the Pacific, between 300 and 400 metres deep. The crabs that were found had a leg span of up to 4 metres[2], were up to 37 centimetres large, and had a weight of up to 20 kilograms.

Crabs are omnivores, they eat anything they find. Most often this is algae. It might also be molluscs, other crustaceans, worms, fungi and bacteria[3].

The closest relatives of the crabs are anomurans, a crustacean group which includes animals such as hermit crabs, king crabs and squat lobsters. They look a lot like crabs and many have the word "crab" in their name, but are not true crabs. Anomurans can be told apart by the number of legs: crabs have ten legs, including claws, while the last pair of an anomuran's legs is hidden inside the shell, so that only eight legs are visible.

Chess Boxing

Chess boxing is a mixed sport which puts together the sport of boxing with games of chess in every other round. Chess boxing fights have been done since early 2003. The sport was started when Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh, given the idea by a similar sport in the writing of Enki Bilal, started actual matches. The sport has become more well known since then.[1] To do well at chess boxing, players must be both good chess players and good boxers.

What you thinks?

Mary went to a party and had an interesting time. A boy came up to her and asked her to dance. However, Mary did not like the boy.

Another boy got very drunk and started dancing on his head. Mary thought the boy was funny.

A boy flashed the lights and said that was the fire alarm. Mr. Busby got very mad at the boy and kicked him out. The boy was fined $50.00.

Mary talked to another boy for half an hour, and she liked the boy very much. She decided to have a date with the boy next week.

Finally, the boy dancing on his head got up and told a wonderful story. The whole party laughed very hard at the story.

Edward II of England

Edward II (April 25 1284–1327) of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was removed from the throne in January, 1327. His tendency to ignore his nobility, in favour of low-born favorites, led to political trouble and eventually to his removal from the throne. He is most remembered for a story about his alleged murder, which was linked to his reliance on the corrupt family of Hugh le Despenser, which has been seen by some as evidence of his homosexuality.

Violin

The violin is a string instrument that is played with a bow. The violin has four strings which are tuned to the notes G, D, A, and E. The violin is held between the left collar bone (near the shoulder) and the chin. Different notes are made by fingering with the left hand while bowing with the right. It has no frets or other markers, so players have to learn the exact place to put the fingers of the left hand by memory alone.

The violin is the smallest and highest pitched instrument in the string family. The other instruments in the family are: viola, cello and double bass. A person who plays the violin is called a violinist. A person who makes or repairs a violin is called a luthier.

No other instrument has played such an important part in European music as the violin. The violin is about 400 years old. By the time the modern orchestra started in the 17th century the violin was fully developed and it became the most important orchestral instrument. Nearly every composer wrote for the violin. It is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, in orchestral music and in jazz as well as in folk music.

History of the English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian and Lower Saxon dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers and Roman auxiliary troops from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the Northern Netherlands[citation needed]. One of these German tribes were the Angles[10], who may have come from Angeln, and Bede wrote that their whole nation came to Britain [11], leaving their former land empty. The names 'England' (or 'Aenglaland') and English are derived from from the name of this tribe.
The Anglo Saxons began invading around 449 AD from the regions of Denmark and Jutland[12][13]. Before the Anglo-Saxons arrived in England the native population spoke Brythonic, a Celtic language. [14]. Although the most significant changes in dialect occurred after the Norman invasion of 1066, the language retained its name and the pre-Norman invasion dialect is now known as Old English[15].

Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Great Britain[citation needed]. One of these dialects, Late West Saxon, eventually came to dominate. The original Old English language was then influenced by two waves of invasion. The first was by language speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family; they conquered and colonized parts of the British Isles in the 8th and 9th centuries. The second was the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English variety of this called Anglo-Norman. These two invasions caused English to become "mixed" to some degree (though it was never a truly mixed language in the strict linguistic sense of the word; mixed languages arise from the cohabitation of speakers of different languages, who develop a hybrid tongue for basic communication).

Cohabitation with the Scandinavians resulted in a significant grammatical simplification and lexical supplementation of the Anglo-Frisian core of English; the later Norman occupation led to the grafting onto that Germanic core of a more elaborate layer of words from the Italic branch of the European languages. This Norman influence entered English largely through the courts and government. Thus, English developed into a "borrowing" language of great flexibility and with a huge vocabulary.

The emergence and spread of the British Empire and the emergence of the United States as a superpower helped to spread the English language around the world.

Significance

Modern English, sometimes described as the first global lingua franca,[6][7] is the dominant international language in communications, science, business, aviation, entertainment, radio and diplomacy.[8] The initial reason for its enormous spread beyond the bounds of the British Isles, where it was originally a native tongue, was the British Empire, and by the late nineteenth century its reach was truly global.[9] It is the dominant language in the United States, whose growing economic and cultural influence and status as a global superpower since World War II have significantly accelerated adoption of English as a language across the planet.[7]

A working knowledge of English has become a requirement in a number of fields, occupations and professions such as medicine and as a consequence over a billion people speak English to at least a basic level (see English language learning and teaching).

Linguists such as David Crystal recognize that one impact of this massive growth of English, in common with other global languages, has been to reduce native linguistic diversity in many parts of the world historically, most particularly in Australasia and North America, and its huge influence continues to play an important role in language attrition. By a similar token, historical linguists, aware of the complex and fluid dynamics of language change, are always alive to the potential English contains through the vast size and spread of the communities that use it and its natural internal variety, such as in its creoles and pidgins, to produce a new family of distinct languages over time.[citation needed]

English is one of six official languages of the United Nations.

Classification and related languages

The English language belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. The closest living relative of English is Scots, spoken primarily in Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland, which is viewed by linguists as either a separate language or a group of dialects of English. The next closest relative to English after Scots is Frisian, spoken in the Northern Netherlands and Northwest Germany, followed by the other West Germanic languages (Dutch and Afrikaans, Low German, German), and then the North Germanic languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese). With the exception of Scots, none of these languages are mutually intelligible with English, because of divergences in lexis, syntax, semantics, and phonology.[citation needed]

Lexical differences with the other Germanic languages arise predominately because of the heavy usage of Latin (for example, "exit", vs. Dutch uitgang) and French ("change" vs. German Änderung, "movement" vs. German Bewegung) words in English. The syntax of German and Dutch is also significantly different from English, with different rules for setting up sentences (for example, German Ich habe noch nie etwas auf dem Platz gesehen, vs. English "I have still never seen anything in the square"). Semantics causes a number of false friends between English and its relatives. Phonology differences obscure words which actually are genetically related ("enough" vs. German genug), and sometimes both semantics and phonology are different (German Zeit, "time", is related to English "tide", but the English word has come to mean gravitational effects on the ocean by the moon).[citation needed]

Many written French words are also intelligible to an English speaker (though pronunciations are often quite different) because English absorbed a large vocabulary from Norman and French, via Anglo-Norman after the Norman Conquest and directly from French in subsequent centuries. As a result, a large portion of English vocabulary is derived from French, with some minor spelling differences (word endings, use of old French spellings, etc.), as well as occasional divergences in meaning of so-called false friends. The pronunciation of most French loanwords in English (with exceptions such as mirage or phrases like coup d’état) has become completely anglicized and follows a typically English pattern of stress.[citation needed] Some North Germanic words also entered English due to the Danish invasion shortly before then (see Danelaw); these include words such as "sky", "window", "egg", and even "they" (and its forms) and "are" (the present plural form of "to be").

Clem Hill

Clem Hill (1877–1945) was an Australian cricketer who played 49 Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1896 and 1912. He captained the Australian team in ten Tests, winning five and losing five. A prolific run scorer, Hill scored 3,412 runs in Test cricket—a world record at the time of his retirement—at an average of 39.21 per innings, including seven centuries. In 1902, Hill was the first batsman to make 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year, a feat that would not be repeated for 45 years. His innings of 365 scored against New South Wales for South Australia in 1900–01 was a Sheffield Shield record for 27 years. His Test cricket career ended in controversy after he was involved in a brawl with cricket administrator and fellow Test selector Peter McAlister in 1912. He was one of the "Big Six", a group of leading Australian cricketers who boycotted the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England when the players were stripped of the right to appoint the tour manager. The boycott effectively ended his Test career. After retiring from cricket, Hill worked in the horse racing industry as a stipendiary steward and later as a handicapper for races including the Caulfield Cup

Interstellar space travel

Interstellar space travel is unmanned or manned travel between stars. The concept of interstellar travel in starships is a staple in science fiction. Interstellar travel is tremendously more difficult than interplanetary travel. Intergalactic travel, the travel between different galaxies, is even more difficult.

Many scientific papers have been published about related concepts. Given sufficient travel time and engineering work, both unmanned and generational interstellar travel seem possible, though representing a very considerable technological and economic challenge unlikely to be met for some time, particularly for crewed probes. NASA has been engaging in research into these topics for several years, and has accumulated a number of theoretical approaches.

The main difficulty of interstellar travel is the vast distances that have to be covered and therefore the time it takes with most realistic propulsion methods - from decades to millennia. Hence an interstellar ship would be much more severely exposed to the hazards found in interplanetary travel, including hard vacuum, radiation, weightlessness, and micrometeoroids. The long travel times make it difficult to design manned missions, and make economic justification of any interstellar mission nearly impossible, since benefits that do not become available for decades or longer have a present value close to zero.