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Santa Elena is a city in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It has 18,410 inhabitants as per the 2001 census . It lies on the left-hand (eastern) shore of the Paraná River, about 110 km north-northeast of the provincial capital Paraná.
Gary Roger Rydstrom (born 1959) is an American seven-time Academy Award-winning sound designer and director.
Rydstrom graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1981. He began his career at Skywalker Sound, Northern California in 1983. Offered the job by a college professor, Gary received the opportunity to work with his mentor, Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt.
After gaining invaluable experience as a sound technician in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, he went on to do sound design for the comedy Spaceballs. The sound design for Backdraft, prepared from scratch, would become the precursor for his sound for Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The original sound effects from Backdraft are constantly referenced and have been used for numerous other films including the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and Shrek.
Gary Rydstrom’s work on Terminator 2: Judgment Day is arguably his career crowning achievement where he pioneered original techniques still used to this day for creating realistic sound effects. Even to this day Terminator 2 is considered the benchmark for high-end motion picture sound design and Gary went on to win an Academy Award for his groundbreaking achievement.
Gary’s sound work on Jurassic Park was a milestone in terms of innovation as he and his team set out to create dinosaur sounds by mixing together numerous different animal vocalizations to make the audience feel as though giant bellowing prehistoric beasts surrounded them. The Oscar-winning film took a giant leap in being the very first motion picture to be presented in DTS.
He subsequently went on to work on sound for numerous successful films including Titanic, Saving Private Ryan (for which he won his third Academy Award), Minority Report and Finding Nemo. He won an MSPE lifetime achievement award for his stunning career and regularly speaks at various sound design forums sharing his extensive knowledge and enthusiasm with aspiring sound design artists.
He has recently made his directorial debut with the Pixar animated short, Lifted, for which he received his fourteenth Academy Award nomination. He is currently directing Newt for Pixar.
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| Elevator | |
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| Origin | Moncton, New Brunswick Canada  |
| Genre(s) | Rock and Roll, Indie |
| Years active | 1994 – present |
| Label(s) | Great Beyond |
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| Rick White (vocals, guitar, drums) Tara White (vocals, bass) Mark Gaudet (drums, vocals, guitar) Dallas Good (guitar, vocals) |
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Elevator is a band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Started in 1994 as Elevator To Hell, a solo outlet for Eric’s Trip lead man Rick White, the project eventually grew to include Eric’s Trip drummer Mark Gaudet and White’s wife Tara on bass. The band mainly produces hauntingly lo-fi psychedelia.
After releasing some LP’s on Sub Pop, the band’s name changed to Elevator Through, and by 1999 it was shortened to simply Elevator.
In 1997 The Sadies’ Dallas Good was added as a second guitarist, though he didn’t begin recording with the band until 2002’s Darkness ? Light album.
Between label releases, Elevator have put out many albums on their own Great Beyond label.
Portrait by George Dawe in the Military Gallery
Levin August Gottlieb Theophil (Russian: Leonty Leontyevich), Count von Bennigsen (February 10, 1745 - December 3, 1826) was a German general in the service of the Russian Empire.
He was born into a Hanoverian family in Brunswick and served successively as a page at the Hanoverian court and as an officer of foot-guards where he participated in the Seven Years’ War. In 1764, he retired from the Hanoverian army and entered the Russian service as a field officer in the Vyatka musketeer regiment in 1773. He fought against the Turks in 1774 and in 1778, becoming lieutenant-colonel in the latter year. In 1787 his conduct at the storming of Ochakov won him promotion to the rank of brigadier, and he distinguished himself repeatedly in smashing the Ko?ciuszko Uprising and in the Persian War of 1796. In 1794 he was awarded the Order of St. George of the Third Degree and an estate in Minsk guberniya and promoted to Major General for his accomplishments in the former campaign.
In 1798 he was fired from military service by the Tsar Paul I allegedly because of his connections with Platon Zubov. It is known that he took an active part in the planning phase of the conspiracy to assassinate Paul I, but his role in the actual killing remains a matter of conjecture. Tsar Alexander I made him governor-general of Lithuania in 1801, and in 1802 a general of cavalry.
In 1806 he was in command of one of the Russian armies operating against Napoleon, when he fought the battle of Pultusk and met the emperor in person in the sanguinary battle of Eylau (8 February 1807). In the battle of Pultusk he defeated French troops under Jean Lannes but later he retreated. This victory brought him Order of St. George of the Second Degree while after the battle of Eylau he was awarded Order of St. Andrew - the highest order in the Russian empire. Here he could claim to have inflicted the first reverse suffered by Napoleon, but six months later Bennigsen met with the crushing defeat of Friedland (14 June 1807) the direct consequence of which was the treaty of Tilsit.
Bennigsen was heavily criticised for the battle of Friedland and for the decline of discipline in the army and now retired for some years, but in the campaign of 1812 he reappeared in the army in various responsible positions. He was present at Borodino, and defeated Murat in the engagement of Tarutino where he himself was wounded in the leg, but on account of a quarrel with Marshal Kutusov, the Russian commander-in-chief, he was compelled to retire from active military employment.
After the death of Kutusov he was recalled and placed at the head of an army. Bennigsen participated in the battles of Bautzen and Lützen, leading one of the columns that made the decisive attack on the last day of the battle of Leipzig (16-19 October 1813). On the same evening he was made a count by the emperor Alexander I, and he afterwards commanded the forces which operated against Marshal Davout in North Germany, most notably in the year-long Siege of Hamburg (1813-14). After the peace treaty of Fontainebleau he was awarded the St. George order of the First Degree - the highest Russian military order - for his actions in the Napoleonic wars in general.
After the general peace he held a command from 1815 to 1818, when he retired from active service and settled on his Hanoverian estate of Banteln near Hildesheim. By the end of his life he completely lost his sight. He died, aged 81. His son, Alexander Levin, Count von Bennigsen (1809-1893) was a distinguished Hanoverian statesman.
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Evelix or Evelick is a village near Dornoch in Sutherland, Scotland. The River Evelix runs through it.
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| Unlimited Power | |
| Author | Anthony Robbins |
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| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| Publication date | 1987 |
| Media type | Paperback/Hardcover |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-449-90280-3 |
Unlimited Power is a self-help book by author and motivational speaker Anthony Robbins. In the book, Robbins discusses how to use one’s mind to achieve goals and success. This book also has a significant proportion of NLP material.
He writes about subjects such as health and energy, overcoming fears, persuasive communication, and bettering relationships. The first edition was published by Fawcett Columbine (Ballantine Books) in 1987.
In Chapter 10, titled Fuel for Excellence, Tony Robbins promotes Fit for Life and veganism in order to increase energy levels.
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| Crazy Eddie | |
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| Slogan | “His prices are INSANE!” |
| Former Type | Public (NASDAQ: CRZY) |
| Fate | Bankruptcy |
| Founded | Brooklyn, New York, 1971 (original) Wayne, NJ, 1998 (revival) |
| Defunct | 1989 (original) 2005 (revival) |
| Location | Brooklyn (original headquarters) Edison, NJ (2nd headquarters) |
| Industry | Discount electronics |
| Key people | Eddie Antar, Co-founder, President and CEO Sam M. Antar, Co-founder Sam E. Antar, CFO |
Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics chain in the Northeastern United States. It was started in 1971 in Brooklyn, New York by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar as ERS Electronics, named after Eddie, his cousin Ronnie (Ronnie Gindi, a partner), and his father Sam. The chain rose to prominence throughout the Tri-State Region as much for its prices as for its memorable radio and television commercials, featuring a frenetic, “crazy” character played by radio DJ Jerry Carroll (who copied most of his shtick from early TV-commercial pioneer, used car and electronics salesman Earl “Madman” Muntz). At its peak, Crazy Eddie had 43 stores in four states, and earned more than $300 million in sales.
In February 1987, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey commenced a federal grand jury investigation into the warranty billing practices of Crazy Eddie. In September of that year, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission initiated an investigation into alleged violations of federal securities laws by certain Crazy Eddie officers and employees. Eddie Antar was eventually charged with a series of crimes. Antar fled to Israel in February 1990, but was returned to the United States in January 1993 to stand trial. His 1993 conviction on fraud charges was overturned, but he eventually pleaded guilty in 1996. In 1997, Antar was sentenced to eight years in prison and paid large fines. He was released from prison in 1999.
Unable to sustain his fraudulent business practices, co-founder Eddie Antar cashed in millions of dollars worth of stock and resigned from the company in December 1986. Crazy Eddie’s board of directors lost control of the company in November 1987 after a proxy battle with a group led by Elias Zinn and Victor Palmieri, known as the Oppenheimer-Palmieri Group. The entire Antar family was immediately removed from the business. The new owners quickly discovered the true extent of the Antar family’s fraud, but were unable to turn around Crazy Eddie’s quickly declining fortunes. In 1989, the company declared bankruptcy and was liquidated.
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Eddie Antar’s grandparents, Murad and Terah Antar, who were ethnically Syrian Jews, moved to New York from Aleppo, Syria. Murad and Terah worked in their market stalls alongside Arabs, Egyptians, other Syrians, and Turks. Eddie’s father Sam Antar was a retailer, and it was no surprise to the family that Eddie followed in his father’s and grandparents’ footsteps.
The predecessor to Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics store called Sight and Sound. It was a property of ERS Electronics, a company owned by Sam M. Antar, his son Eddie Antar, and Eddie’s cousin Ronnie Gindi. Sight and Sound, located on Kings Highway in Brooklyn, opened its doors in 1969 and offered electronics at regular prices. Due to his extremely aggressive sales techniques, Eddie quickly became known as “Crazy Eddie.” Despite his technique, within 18 months the store (as well as Eddie and Ronnie) was nearly bankrupt.
Eddie Antar bought out Gindi’s one-third ownership stake of Sight and Sound, and Sam M. Antar retained his one-third stake but left the day-to-day operations to Eddie.
In 1971, the Sight and Sound store on Kings Highway was renamed Crazy Eddie. Eddie continued his high-pressure sales tactics with the renamed Crazy Eddie store, but this time met with success. Eventually, Eddie closed that location and moved to a bigger store, just a few blocks from Sight and Sound’s old location. In 1973, Antar opened the second Crazy Eddie location in Syosset, New York. A third followed in 1975, located in Manhattan. That year, Antar established a corporate headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.
Crazy Eddie was known for its humorous advertising campaign, featuring Jerry Carroll.
An essential part of Crazy Eddie’s success was its advertising campaign. In 1972, WPIX-FM late-night disc jockey Jerry “Dr. Jerry” Carroll ended a live commercial with the now-famous slogan, “Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SA-A-A-A-A-ANE!” Antar called in and told Carroll to say the line the same way every time.
Beginning in 1975, Carroll starred in a series of humorous television commercials, each ending with the same frenetic slogan. Among the more memorable promotions featured by Crazy Eddie was the annual “Christmas in August” sale. In the 1980s, more than 7,500 unique radio and television ads were aired in the Tri-State Region. Carroll’s acting was so convincing, and he became so identified with the company that many people thought he was actually Crazy Eddie (in fact, a commercial spoofing Superman implied that Carroll really was Crazy Eddie).
Almost from the beginning, Crazy Eddie’s management was engaged in various forms of fraud. The Antars paid employees off the books, and regularly skimmed thousands of dollars (in cash) earned at the stores. For every $5 Crazy Eddie reported as income, $1 was taken by the Antars. In 1979, the Antars began depositing much of this money (hundreds of thousands of dollars) in Israeli bank accounts. The Antar family skimmed an estimated $3 million to $4 million (US) per year at the height of their fraud. In one offshore bank account, the family deposited more than $6 million between 1980 and 1983.
In preparation for taking Crazy Eddie public, Eddie Antar initiated a scheme in 1979 to skim less each year. Since more income was actually being reported, this had the effect of showing drastically increasing profit margins. While the company’s actual profits (taking into account skimmed profits) from 1980 to 1983 increased approximately 13%, reported profits rose nearly 171%.
Despite the misgivings of people closely associated with Crazy Eddie, the company held its initial public offering on September 13, 1984 (symbol: CRZY). Shares of the company sold initially for $8. By early 1986, Crazy Eddie stock was trading at more than $75 per share (split adjusted).
Eddie recruited his nephew, Sam E. Antar (known as Sammy), to assist the company with its fraud. Sammy earned a degree in accounting in 1980, and served his apprenticeship with Penn and Horowitz, Crazy Eddie’s auditor. In 1986, he was named CFO of the company. Sammy was informed that there was a $3 million deficit from the previous year’s inventory fraud that needed to be hidden. Additionally, he was instructed to find ways to show a 10% growth in sales.
One of Sammy’s major schemes was a money laundering operation later known as the Panama Pump — money that the Antars had deposited in Israeli banks was transferred to bank accounts in Panama. These accounts, opened under false names, then drafted payments to Crazy Eddie. This money was largely used to inflate same-store sales figures for the company.
As the skimming decreased, Eddie and Sammy engaged in increasing amounts of inventory fraud. For the fiscal year ended March 1, 1986, Crazy Eddie falsified store level inventories by $3 to $4 million. The next fiscal year, that amount increased to between $15 and $20 million. But by 1987, Sammy’s goal was no longer to show profitability, but rather to cover up previous frauds.
As the company’s fraud became harder to cover up, the public perception of Crazy Eddie as a commercial success began to change. By October 1986, the company’s stock value had dropped to $17.50 per share. In December, Eddie Antar announced his resignation as president and CEO. In April 1987, it was announced that Eddie had in fact retained his role as president but had fired, among others, his father Sam M. Antar. But by then Eddie had already cashed out his share of Crazy Eddie stock, worth between $25 million and $30 million.
By the spring of 1987, the company’s stock had plummeted below $10 a share. Additionally, earnings fell 20 percent from the previous year. The franchise did show a 34 percent sales increase, but this was mainly the result of 13 new store openings. In May 1987, Eddie began proceedings to take the company private again.
Before that could happen, Houston-based businessman Elias Zinn and management consultant Victor Palmieri initiated a hostile takeover. With Palmieri’s backing, Zinn purchased $17.5 million worth of Crazy Eddie stock, which represented 7½ percent of the outstanding shares. Once rumors of a takeover started, financial analysts began to more closely examine Crazy Eddie’s financial situation. What they discovered was that while most stockholders in the company had lost money since 1984, Eddie Antar had sold 6.5 million shares worth $74 million. A flurry of stockholder lawsuits was filed against the Antar family.
Eddie and Sammy briefly attempted to counter-offer Zinn’s takeover, but Zinn quickly topped their funds. The Antars’ bid was dropped, and Zinn became the new owner of Crazy Eddie on November 6, 1987. He immediately removed the rest of the Antar family from any positions of power. When Palmieri’s financial analysts completed their preliminary audit, a few weeks after the takeover, they estimated that Crazy Eddie’s inventory was short by $40 to $50 million. The final figure was $80 million.
In the meantime, a longtime Crazy Eddie associate named Arnie Spindler, who left the company after Eddie Antar engineered the firing of his father Sam, brothers Allen and Mitchell and others after a family rift, had provided investigators with information concerning Crazy Eddie’s fraudulent business practices. Spindler implicated Eddie and Sammy, but stated the rest of the family was clean. Regardless, the SEC served subpoenas to the entire Antar family.
By June 1988, Crazy Eddie’s suppliers were demanding the liquidation of the company, so they could recover $860,000 owed to them. In 1989 they would get their wish. The closing of Crazy Eddie began in March 1989, as the company shuttered 17 of its 43 stores. On June 21, 1989, Crazy Eddie filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but vowed to stay in business. However, it was not a promise the company was able to keep and the remaining 26 Crazy Eddie stores were liquidated and closed by the end of 1989.
Based on information gathered over the course of its investigation, the SEC charged Eddie Antar with securities fraud and illegal insider trading on September 6, 1989. In January 1990, a Federal district judge ordered Antar to repatriate more than $50 million he had illegally transferred to Israel. He was also ordered to appear in court to explain what had happened with the money. When he failed to appear, an arrest warrant was issued. Eddie surrendered to U.S. Marshals a week later, but was released and ordered to appear at a second hearing. When he failed to appear at that hearing, a second arrest warrant was issued and his assets were frozen.
February 27, 1990 arrest warrant for Eddie Antar
Eddie Antar fled to Israel using a fake passport and the alias David Jacob Levi Cohen, and purchased a townhouse in the city of Yavne. After Eddie left the country, Sammy offered to testify for Federal prosecutors in exchange for immunity. Sammy pleaded guilty to three felonies. However, he avoided jail time for his testimony, and was instead sentenced to six months of house arrest, 1,200 hours of community service, three years of probation, and was given more than $10,000 in fines.
Eddie Antar was arrested near Tel Aviv in June 1992. While being held in Israel, Eddie was charged with Federal racketeering conspiracy. He was extradited to the United States in January 1993, and pled not guilty to the charges brought against him. Eddie Antar’s fraud trial began in June, and was prosecuted jointly by U.S. Attorneys Paul Weissman and Michael Chertoff. On July 20, 1993, Eddie Antar was found guilty on 17 counts of fraud. His brother, Mitchell, was found guilty on three counts, and acquitted on two.
In April 1994, Eddie Antar was sentenced to 12½ years in prison for racketeering and stock fraud. Antar’s lawyers immediately filed an appeal, citing what they believed was bias on the part of the presiding judge. In April 1995, the verdicts against Eddie and Mitchell were overturned by a Federal appeals panel. Chertoff, calling Eddie “the Darth Vader of capitalism,” vowed to begin a new trial.
Antar eventually pled guilty to Federal fraud charges in May 1996. In February 1997, he was sentenced to eight years in prison. He was ordered to pay more than $150 million in fines, in addition to the more than $1 billion in judgments against him, stemming from various civil suits. Efforts to recover additional money from the Antar family on behalf of defrauded stockholders continue to this day.
In 1998, the grandchildren of Eddie, Allen, and Mitchell Antar revived the Crazy Eddie electronics chain with a store in Wayne, New Jersey, and as an online Internet venue, crazyeddieonline.com. The revived company retained the slogan “his prices are insane” and brought Jerry Carroll, who by this time had founded his own ad agency, back as spokesman. Despite plans to expand the chain to a potential ten stores, the new Crazy Eddie did not expand beyond the Wayne store and in 1999 the only store in the revived chain closed.
Eddie Antar returned to the company in 2001, which by this point had been doing business solely as an Internet and buy-by-phone business for over a year. He relaunched the website as crazyeddie.com and once again hired Jerry Carroll to do its advertising. By 2004 crazyeddie.com had disappeared again, and after a brief attempt to revive the e-retailer in 2005 Crazy Eddie ceased to exist once again. The Crazy Eddie trademark and associated intellectual property were then acquired by Texas-based firm Trident Growth Fund. In July 2006, Trident attempted to auction off the brand and the domain name crazyeddie.com on eBay, to limited success. The auction ended without the reserve price being met, the highest bid being $30,100 (US).
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Morgan finished his first-class career with 17,842 runs for Derbyshire, which puts him 3rd on their all time list. Morgan is their 5th most successful wicket taker of all time with 1,216 wickets.
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King Wen (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Zh?u Wén Wáng) (1099–1050 BC) was the founder of the Zhou Dynasty.
The Zhou state was located in the Wei River valley in present day Shaanxi Province. At one point, King Zhou of Shang, fearing Wen’s growing power, imprisoned him. However, many officals respected Wen for his honourable governing. So they gave King Zhou many gifts, and requested Wen ’s release. These gifts included gold, horses and women. Zhou agreed, and Wen was released.
King Wen planned the conquest of the contemporaneous dynasty in power, the Shang Dynasty, but he died before he could accomplish this.
His family name was Ji (Chinese: ?; pinyin: j?). He married TaiSi (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Tàisì) and had at least two sons, Zhou Gong Dan and Zhou Gong Wu (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Zh?u G?ng W?). His second son became King Wu of Zhou and completed his fathers wishes by defeating the Shang army at their capital. He eventually became the first king of the new Zhou dynasty.
King Wen is also known for his contributions to the Yi Jing, a manual of divination. King Wen is attributed with having stacked the eight trigrams in their various permutations, to create the sixty-four hexagrams. He is also said to have written the judgements which are appended to each hexagram (the line statements are attributed to his son, the Duke of Zhou. The most commonly used sequence of the sixty four hexagrams is attributed to King Wen and is usually referred to as the King Wen sequence.