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Chris Aable
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Chris Aable was born in Bossier City, Louisiana and moved to Los Angeles in 1986. In the 1990s Chris hosted the TV show, "Hollywood Today" and interviewed a number of celebrities, including Bruce Vilanch, Gedde Watanabe and Gilbert Gottfried. Aable's interviews with Gottfried can be viewed on YouTube and MySpace. In 2003, Chris Aable was interviewed by Reginald Vaughn Finley, Sr.. Finley is also known as "The Infidel Guy". The discussion touched on Chris' philosophy of "self-evolution" psychology and sociology of human nature and belief systems verses science. Chris Aable taught Psychology and Sociology at CSULA and [[Santa Monica College].
Sourceshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-QjVfNvKp4
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Matt Walker
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Cerro Azul, Panama
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Cerro Azul is located just 45 minutes from Panama City and 20 minutes from Tocumen International Airport. Cerro Azul is a hilly area with a nice temperature range from 60 to 75° F, cool mountain breeze and low clouds. Lush vegetation, exotic birds and the very unique wildlife of a tropical rainforest dominate Cerro Azul. A well paved road takes you to Cerro Azul where you can find some restaurants, a couple of hotels and cabins, and a beautiful lake. There is access to water, electricity and telephone services. Cerro Azul is the perfect place to relax: privacy in a tropical forest near the city's more modern scene. Sourceshttp://www.escapeartist.com/efam/57/Cerro_Azul_Panama.html
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Genevieve Anne Bentz
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She started painting at the age of seven and has now earned renown for her abstract skys as well as smaller landscape portraits.
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Shane Randig
Geopolymer
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{{ IntroductionGeopolymers, a term first coined by Joseph Davidovits in 1978, (citation needed) covers a class of aluminosilicate materials polymerised by reaction with alkaline silicate solution at roughly ambient conditions. Some of the drive behind research is to investigate the development of geopolymers as a potential large-scale replacement for concrete produced from Portland Cement. This is due to the geopolymers’ lower carbon dioxide emissions, greater chemical and thermal resistance and greater mechanical properties at both atmospheric and extreme conditions . Metakaolin is a commonly used starting material in present work synthesising geopolymers . It is calcined kaolinite clay and has the standard formula of 2SiO2•Al2O3. Geopolymers can also be made from natural sources of pozzolanic materials, such as lava or fly ash (coal combustion product). Most geopolymeric studies have been carried out using natural or industrial waste sources of metakaolin and other aluminosilicates. By mixing it with a solution mixture of potassium hydroxide and silica the geopolymerisation reaction is completed before curing. TheoryThe majority of Earth’s crust is made up of Si-Al compounds. Davidovits proposed in 1978 that a single aluminium and silicon-containing compound, most likely geological in origin, could react in a polymerisation process with an alkaline solution. The binders created were termed “geopolymers”, although now, the majority of aluminosilcate sources are by-products from organic combustion, like fly ash from coal combustion. These inorganic polymers have a chemical composition somewhat similar to zeolitic materials, however exist as an amorphous solid, rather than having a crystalline microstructure. |
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Structure
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• Dissolution of Si and Al atoms from the source material due to hydroxide ions in solution; • orientation of precursor ions into monomers, and; • setting via polycondensation reactions into an inorganic polymer. Once formed, these geopolymers are categorised by one of three forms, related to their backbone connectivity (Davidovits, 1999): • Poly-sialate -(-Si-O-Al-O-)- • Poly-sialate-siloxo -(-Si-O-Al-O-Si-O-)- • Poly-sialate-disoloxo -(-Si-O-Al-O-Si-O-Si-O-)- In each chain, each Al and Si atom is bound to two more oxygen atoms not part of the backbone. This particular model, while neat, has a number of shortcomings. Firstly, it implies that only integer ratios can exist between Si and Al ,8. This is not true, as compositions can be made for a wide and continuous range of ratios. These ratios can be accounted for by combinations of the above monomers that would result in the actual existing formula within a mixture, not necessarily restricted to one of the above compositions. Secondly, it implies that geopolymers are analogous to organic polymer and exist in discrete chains. Geopolymers are in fact 3-dimensional networks of aluminosilicates that form around Si and Al atoms interconnected by oxygen, as opposed to 1-dimensional chains that are shown above. For this reason, even the name geopolymer is misleading to an extent and has even been used to describe compounds outside the discussed range (Provis, 2005)iv,v . |
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Sources and Production
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While producing a purer form of aluminosilicate will remove some uncertainty, it also reduces excess other compounds and aggregates that provide a form of support in the matrix of the gel phase during the geopolymerisation. It also means there is going to be excessive water present during the process since all the precursors have come from pure solutions or suspensions. Excess water is then also added during the final reaction step to assist with dispersion and wetting of the high surface area. This is both a concern for waste, if it is to be scaled for mass production, and since excess water in the polymerisation step is known to reduce the compressive strength and will also created shrinkage and cracking in the final cured product. Any cracking is detrimental to a material’s strength, and in searching for a high-strength, high thermal and chemical resistant material, this cracking and shrinkage could be catastrophic. Metakaolin as a natural source is often not completely reacted and dissolved in the alkaline solution. This is not understood to be a completely negative outcome, since the remaining material as unreacted metakaolin sheets can provide intra-matrix support and can be related to the relative surface area of particles. However, Gordon et al. found the microstructure of the synthetically-derived geopolymer was denser than natural versions, and appeared to be due to a higher surface area, which lead to a greater extent of dissolution and reaction. Natural metakaolin would approach this state the more it was milled. Wang et al. stated that more milling resulted in less sheets of unreacted metakaolin remaining and a denser final geopolymer. Since the surface area of synthetic metakaolin is magnitudes larger than natural versions, it is easy to accept that synthetic versions would completely dissolve, react and form denser productsii. Since geopolymers cure at just above ambient temperatures normallyii, the accelerated reaction of synthetic metakaolin with alkaline solutions due to greater surface area and less impurities present would indicate some need to cool the mixture to slow the reaction. If not, the reaction could commence curing before mixing is complete, creating lumps of hard geopolymer, as opposed to a homogenous paste or gel. By placing in an ice bath it is hoped to allow more complete dissolving and mixing before individual clumps that happen to contact solution first might harden. It is this idea that will determine a “workable” geopolymer mixture – whether the mixing of aluminosilicate powder with alkaline silicate solution produces a paste that mixes homogeneously before setting; that syringe samples can be taken from the bulk while still fluid with some ease, and; that the resulting cured geopolymer still retains integrity through minimal cracking and shrinkage. While the most common alkaline solution used in geopolymer production is a sodium hydroxide / sodium silicate mixture (NaOH / Na2SiO3) since it dissolves the Al-Si to a higher extent, other alkaline-silicate solutions are available. Xu and Van Deventer found in 1999 that KOH and K2SiO3 actually produced a stronger compound. However, by synthesising the mineral precursors from pure compounds, not naturally contaminated sources, the surface area and extent of reaction is greatly increased, which could go someway to redeeming potassium’s size disadvantage due to ion-pair theoryiv. By coupling the stronger potassium-based alkaline solution with the more extensive reactions of synthetic metakaolin a fast-reacting, fully converted geopolymer could be produced. It has also been shown from experimental methods that sodium silicate solutions have difficulties with stability, particularly the low silicate solutions, and crash out on a short time scale. Potassium hydroxide solutions also have a lower viscosity and level of adhesion than sodium alternatives, making it easier to mix with the powders. The solutions of KOH/SiO2 in the lab did not show any crystallisation across any of the concentration ratios, as opposed to the NaOH/SiO2 versions, which had much greater collection of solid around the bottom of their containers and the rims. From Xu and van Deventer (2000), a positive correlation between geopolymeric compressive strength and factors such as the molar Si/Al ratio, % K2O, the use of KOH as alkali and % CaO in the material was identified. These factors were all included within this project’s scope to determine a methodology for producing geopolymers with a range of these factors for future testing of their correlation to the proposed theory. This study however, has a limited usefulness in directly considering and applying factors as it took multiple variables and assumed a direct, linear correlation to all of them simultaneously. Considering independent research indicates that an optimal mechanical strength is actually provided by a moderate Si/Al ratioi, and not a maximum or minimum, this linear relationship would not hold and it could be assumed that this may be the case for other factors too. The overall work done on characterising different factors within the geopolymer field has been useful in identifying certain extents of correlations, such as difference between KOH and NaOHvi. The addition of calcium into the powder also has some interesting and promising discoveries. Calcium compounds are the major components in Ordinary Portland Cement and also in zeolites. Geopolymers are specifically alkaline-activated aluminosilicate compounds, but the strength and other properties calcium could provide is a common feature of geopolymer study. This is especially important since most of the natural sources of aluminosilicate for geopolymer contains calcium as the next most abundant and compositionally significant element. Yip and van Deventer (2003) found that the presence of calcium within these mixtures often resulted in a second phase of calcium silicate hydrate (CSH) within the final geopolymer. This is a gel of non-stoichiometric CaO-SiO2 and is a major component for mechanical strength within cement. Their report found that after metakaolin was reacted with alkaline in the presence of ground granulated blast furnace slag the two phases were formed; one consisting of mostly aluminium and silicon with the alkaline cation and only 1 mol% of calcium, and; the second phase consisting of silicon and calcium with less than 3 mol% aluminium. This is indicative of a phase of geopolymer and a phase of CSH coexisting in the overall compound. Trying to simulate the second phase by adding a source of calcium to the synthetic aluminosilicate powder could go some way to understanding the difference that the calcium actually makes to the composition of Ca-containing geopolymeric materials . References(i) Duxson, P, Provis, JL, Lukey, GC, Mallicoat, SW, Kriven, WM, van Deventer, JSJ; 2005; Understanding the relationship between geopolymer composition, microstructure and mechanical properties; Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects, 269, 47-58 (ii) Wang, H, Li, H, Yan, F; 2005; Synthesis and mechanical properties of metakaolinite-based geopolymer; Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects, 268, 1-6 (iii) Fletcher, RA, MacKenzie, KJD, Nicholson, CL, Shimada, S; 2005; The composition range of aluminosilicate geopolymers; J. European Ceramic Society, 25, 1471-1477 (iv) Provis, JL; 2006; Modelling the formation of geopolymers; Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Eng., University of Melbourne (v) Provis, JL, Lukey, GC, van Deventer, JSJ; 2005; Do Geopolymers actually contain nanocrystalline zeolites? A re-examination of existing results; Chem Mater, 17, 3075-3085 (vi) Xu, H, van Deventer, JSJ; 1999, The geopolymerisation of alumino-silicate minerals; Int. J. Mineral Processing, 59, 247-266 (vii) Rahier, H, Denayer, JF, van Mele, B; 2003; Low Temperature synthesized aluminosilicate glasses; J. Materials Science, 38, 3131-3136 (viii) Provis, JL, Sarin, P, Gordon, M, Bell, JL, van Deventer, JSJ, Kriven, WM; 2006; Atomic Structure and thermal transformation of a cesium aluminosilicate geopolymer; A pair distribution function study; Dept of Chem. And Biomolec. Eng. Unimelb & Dept. Mater. Sci and Eng, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (ix) Yip, CK, van Deventer, JSJ; 2003; Microanalysis of calcium silicate hydrate gel formed within a geopolymeric binder; J. Materials Science, 38, 3851-3860 |
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Ashton Vidal
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At the age of 21, Ashton Vidal is at the prime of his life. With no need for a stage name, the breakthrough artist stands above the rest with his sensual voice and seductive lyrics. He attributes his music style to legends such as Michael Jackson, Boys II Men, Babyface, Brian Mcknight, and Jon B. Whether it was looking up to Pop and R&B idols, or his own line of talented family members, Ashton uses the inspiration he draws from watching them and applies it to being genuine within his lyrics and his performance. His lyrics portray life through his eyes. As each situation moves him, Ashton incorporates the life lessons into his music to reach out to his listeners. From being a dedicated lifelong basketball player, to budding musician, Ashton made the turnaround from athletics to music at the age of 13. Despite his childhood dream as a ball player, music is his true lifelong passion. With playing basketball aside, he put together his own rendition of “Making the Band” and flew in potential talent from all across America. But as the hard work was demanded from the group to make a cd, Ashton stood above the rest and stayed dedicated to his musical calling. Alongside his brother, Ashton began singing, writing and producing his own songs. A short time later, he decided that a solo career was what he wanted, and from then, the rest is history. From here on out, Ashton dedicated his life to his work, and now, several years later, is finishing his debut album “Just The Beginning” which is expected to be released later this year. Although only locally based for now in the Bay area of California, Ashton’s passion for his music is exhibited by his resourcefulness which has already resulted in a loyal fan base. What had started out as just performing in front of family and school assemblies, has escalated into Ashton performing at local hot spots in the Bay area like, Sake Lab, Studio Z, and even Blakes out in Berkeley. Ashton utilizes every opportunity he’s given to let the community hear the gift of music that he’s been given. Whether it’s singing his own songs, or producing, Ashton’s ability to perform as a well-rounded artist portrays his hard work ethic. Ashton is continuously giving his all to being as real as the music that he produces, so that generations of all ages will be touched by his work and his work will be played long after it’s first released.
Sourceshttp://www.myspace.com/ashtonvidal http://www.myxertones.com/artist/124729/
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A2kRocks
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The Broken Kazooz
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Sources69.219.195.182 05:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC) The Broken Kazooz is a Christian band that would be put into the Pop, Alterative, Rock, genre. The Bands current members are Caleb A. and David S. The band was created in 2006 in the basement of David's house when he sucked in on his kazoo to hard and ended up braking it (hense the name "The Broken Kazooz"). There first big hit was called Pneumonia on Thier first ever full length album entitled "Hello Fello (w)" which they put out with Kazoo Records. On this album other hits like Poor steve, The Hippie Inspiration song, and many many others. Band PositionsIn the Band there are two members, David S. who plays back up guitar, lead vocals, and piano. Also Caleb A. who plays lead guitar, bass, and back up vocals. The Broken Kazooz likes bands such as Relient K, Mae, Anberlin, Switchfoot, Thousand Foot Crutch, The Killers, The All American Rejects, and Fall Out Boy. Currently the band is working on putting out thier second full length album with Kazoo Records.
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iStarLiveiStarLive iStarLive is the new leading real-time,Live Video-based community in the new "social-casting" arena. Social-casting is defined as the convergence of traditional broadcasting media, social networking, user-generated content and Live video chatrooms combining personal and business web conferencing interfacing classified ads and product sales and of course rss feeds.
Sourceshttp://www.techtreak.com/2007/06/09/istarlivecom-dont-just-wish-in-it-be-it/ http://myspaceonsteroidz.com/places.html http://www.theg33ks.com/istarlive-reviewed-09062007.html
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Liam Banks
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Liam Banks is a professional lacrosse player who plays for the San Francisco Dragons. He played in college for Syracuse. He leads the MLL in errors and is thus considered the biggest bust of lacrosse history. Sourceshttp://www.sanfranciscodragons.com/team/?id=2572 69.236.180.177 07:51, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
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Russell City, CA
Russell City was an unincorporated community in Alameda County, about 10 miles south of Oakland. It existed from 1853 till 1964, when it was burned down. It was populated by many different cultural groups, over its history, as it was an arrival point for immigrants to the San Francisco Bay Area. During and after World War II it had its largest growth period. During this period, Russell City attracted many African Americans from the Deep South. It is now remembered for its influential Blues scene. Some claim that this is where the West Coast Blues had evolved from Delta Blues.
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http://www.bayareabluessociety.net/russell_city_page.html http://www.creativeworkfund.org/pages/bios/maria_ochoa.html 75.24.108.225 07:58, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Comet Bay College
Comet Bay College is situated in Secret Harbour, Western Australia. It opened in 2006 and was located at Comet Bay Primary School but in 2007, the school moved to its official site south of the primary school. Currently, the school only takes Year 8 and Year 9 students but in 2008 it will also have Year 10's attending. The school consists of a Year 8 block, a Year 9 block, a Gym, a Library, an Oval, a Cafeteria, a Performing Arts area, an Admin area and a Year 10 block. The school has an Academic talent program, a Football devolopment program, a Golf devolopment program, Drama and Visual Arts extension, Music programs and a Media extension program. It school colours are Sky blue, navy blue, white and gold and its motto is "Seek Excellence". It's current principal is Ms Diane Wood and its deputies are Mr Alan Dood and Ms Fiona White. Its located cnr Bluestone Pkwy and Allatoona Ave. It's factions are Voyager (Green), Mariner (Blue), Navigator (Red) & Challenger (Gold). The construction of the school was completed in May/June 2007.
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http://www.cometbaycollege.det.wa.edu.au/ http://www.donaldsonandwarn.com.au/InProgress/CBC/cbc.html http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/schoolinfo/ESTAT/Latest/NewSchools.htm http://www.cometbayps.det.wa.edu.au/ 220.238.64.209 10:11, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Kimi no Tame ni Dekiru Koto
Kimi no Tame Ni Dekiru Koto is the 8th single released by Gackt on march 14th 2001.
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1. 君のためにできること "The Things I Can Do For You"
2. Cube
3. 君のためにできること（Inst.）
212.123.178.124 10:31, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Kimi no Tame ni Dekiru Koto
KImi no Tame ni Dekiru Koto is the 8th single released by Gackt on march 14th 2001.
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Jason Hoffman
Jason Hoffman is a young, newly-turned professional footballer who has recently signed a 3-year contract with A-League club, Newcastle United Jets as a 1 year trainee who will then step up into the playing roster for both seasons 08/09 and 09/10. Hoffman has recently been playing for NNSW NBN State League side Hamilton Olympic, though the youngster is looking to focus his football around the Jets this year and also the Australian U20's Young Socceroos team, which he was recently selected in. Jets Coach Gary Van Egmond first spotted Hoffman when he was playing under current Jets assistant Mark Jones in the NSW Institute of Sport, and Van Egmond feels Hoffman has a promising future in the game.
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http://www.newcastlefootball.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3692&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=600
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Andrew Chiasson
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Andrew Chiasson is also know as A*Chase in the music industry. He is a freestyle singer from Newburyport, MA. His first single was "Like Yeah" which was a smash hit in the local area. He is not yet signed but is trying to find a record label to sign him. Andrew is currently attending Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School in Haverhill, MA where he is scheduled to graduate in 2010. Sourceshttp://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=100189840
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LOL
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U ALL SUCK Sources70.161.163.159 14:40, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
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Joe Parisi
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Joe also writes a regular blog which can be found at www.joesaidwhat.blogspot.com . Sourceswww.joevoice.com www.joesaidwhat.blogspot.com 68.188.118.60 16:14, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
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The Last Dragon (Book)
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Yahoo's Popularity
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Yahoo's Popularity - Yahoo's popularity skyrockets, because of its free all-in-one services, which include chat rooms, instant messenger, e-mail, groups, web page, videos, audio, news, and, etc...,
No other corporation offers free services for, everything. AOL, and, MSN, for, instance require users to pay a fee for their services on a monthly, basis. The fees vary anyway. If users don't pay they get disconnected from their services. Yahoo Incorporated doesn't do that at all to its trillions of users. So, for, this reason, alone, Yahoo's services stand out in the crowd on the worldwide web.
Website from which to download yahoo messenger: http://www.messenger.yahoo.com
Website to check your yahoo mail: http://www.yahoomail.com
Website to join yahoo groups, or, create your own groups: http://www.groups.yahoo.com
Website for a yahoo search engine: http://www.yahoosearch.com
So, because of its skyrocketing popularity, and, more than trillions of users Yahoo Incorporated, has, connection, and, chat room glitches as well. The server, becomes too busy, due to a large quantity of users trying to get online, or, join chat rooms all at once. Yahoo Messenger due its free server also, became global recently, because, people from allover the globe can connect with each other, make online friends, by, adding each other to their own messenger lists. Yahoo's services also went mobile, and, even PC-PC, calling is also available, in their latest version of Yahoo Messenger 8.0. This, year, or, next, year, Yahoo Incorporated is planning to launch its latest version of Yahoo Messenger, with even, more, features, and user options. It will be version 9.0
So, as long as, technology progresses, so, will, the internet services advance non-stop until the end of time.
Yahoo Incorporated, also, came out with Yahoo Messenger on the web. You can chat on it, the same way as with a regular instant messenger, but just log-in using her Yahoo I.D., and, password on the web page, and, using, your, internet provider's server. Whichever, way to chat is more comfortable for you, as, a user is entirely up to you?
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Gary Buck
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Nikki Petersen
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Nikki Petersen is an American film director living in Paris. She was born in 1985 in Fort Collins, Colorado. She attened Fort Collins High School, and later received a scholarship to attend the American University of Paris where she studied film and literature. She has directed two films: Up Rising and Honey Pumpkin Sweetie Pie, two musicals: West Side Story and Cabaret, and is currently directing Albin Wagener's music video Smell of Winter. She is also the star of Paname TV's reality TV show Cabaret: A Making Of. Sourceshttp://paname.aup.fr/videos/play.php?id=42 http://www.pop-rock.com/breve.php3?id_breve=1472 http://paname.aup.fr/videos/play.php?id=50 http://planet.aup.fr/pages/2005-2006/issue6/
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