Lindy Hop has existed in Minnesota for several decades. In recent times, since the Gap commercial featuring Lindy Hop, it has taken renewed interest among the dancers of Minnesota. Several instructors have fostered the growth of Lindy Hop and its related set of dances during this time and have created a vibrant, active dance scene. The dancers and events are recognized nationally for being some of the best in the nation and the world.
Local and regional events
*Sving Du Nord - www.svingdunord.com
*Late Nite Swing - www.latenightswing.com
National events
*Midwest LindyFest
*Twin Cities Lindy Exchange
*ForePlex
*Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown
Instructors
Dancer Resources
Minnesota Lindy (MNLindy) is a community-driven website offering information on swing dance and Lindy Hop in Minnesota and the Midwest region of the United States. Based in Minneapolis, MinnesotaLindy.com is used as a forum for dancers and dancing events in Minneapolis, St. Paul, greater Minnesota, Wisconsin, and occasionally Iowa. The site hosts regularly updated news regarding dancing in the region, a calendar of dance events and a lively message board with rss feeds and email digests. The focus of the site is to spread information about Lindy Hop and its related dances, such as Charleston, Balboa and Blues throughout the Midwest.
Going beyond the call of the typical social website constructed to augment a real world community, MinnesotaLindy also hosts several events throughout the year. MNLindy hosts an annual fundraiser dance in spring along with a late night blues party and raffles away hundreds of dollars in donated prizes. MNLindy hosts a few workshops throughout the year with instructors from all over. MNLindy even went so far as to back ForePlex, a travelling, Canadian exchange in August 2006 in Minneapolis.
MinnesotaSwingDance and MPLSwing yahoo! groups both offer email based discussion groups. MinnesotaSwingDance focuses primarily on Lindy Hop, and Blues danced to Jump Blues bands and actively maintains a calendar while MPLSwing focuses primarily on discussion and promotion of events.
12/2/07: Mplswing@Onelist.com was the original Mpls. area Swingdance forum which, dispite much infightighting among it's members in the early days, still conitinues pretty much unmoderated. "MinnesotaSwingDance" was formed in 2001 as a tightly controlled, more peaceful alternative.
Moderator, Mplswing@Yahoogroups.com
Local and regional events
*Sving Du Nord - www.svingdunord.com
*Late Nite Swing - www.latenightswing.com
National events
*Midwest LindyFest
*Twin Cities Lindy Exchange
*ForePlex
*Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown
Instructors
Dancer Resources
Minnesota Lindy (MNLindy) is a community-driven website offering information on swing dance and Lindy Hop in Minnesota and the Midwest region of the United States. Based in Minneapolis, MinnesotaLindy.com is used as a forum for dancers and dancing events in Minneapolis, St. Paul, greater Minnesota, Wisconsin, and occasionally Iowa. The site hosts regularly updated news regarding dancing in the region, a calendar of dance events and a lively message board with rss feeds and email digests. The focus of the site is to spread information about Lindy Hop and its related dances, such as Charleston, Balboa and Blues throughout the Midwest.
Going beyond the call of the typical social website constructed to augment a real world community, MinnesotaLindy also hosts several events throughout the year. MNLindy hosts an annual fundraiser dance in spring along with a late night blues party and raffles away hundreds of dollars in donated prizes. MNLindy hosts a few workshops throughout the year with instructors from all over. MNLindy even went so far as to back ForePlex, a travelling, Canadian exchange in August 2006 in Minneapolis.
MinnesotaSwingDance and MPLSwing yahoo! groups both offer email based discussion groups. MinnesotaSwingDance focuses primarily on Lindy Hop, and Blues danced to Jump Blues bands and actively maintains a calendar while MPLSwing focuses primarily on discussion and promotion of events.
12/2/07: Mplswing@Onelist.com was the original Mpls. area Swingdance forum which, dispite much infightighting among it's members in the early days, still conitinues pretty much unmoderated. "MinnesotaSwingDance" was formed in 2001 as a tightly controlled, more peaceful alternative.
Moderator, Mplswing@Yahoogroups.com
An exploding head is a surreal, involuntary gesture in fiction. It is sometimes found in cartoons and comics, from South Park to Dilbert. Its graphicality ranges from the comically distorted to a 'blood, gore and eyes' look.
The phenomenon is triggered by extreme cognitive "overload" - the incoming stimuli far outstripping the capacity of processing them - typically of utter nonsense, but anger and various other causes are not unknown. The implication is that the unfortunate sufferer placed too much pressure on his brain, trying to figure out something unsolvable or otherwise overexerting it.
The loss of one's head is a non-survivable injury, though some stories depict its swift reappearance or replacement (as with The Cheat). As such, exploding heads are typically restricted to minor and insignificant characters, in addition to those whose authors have very little regard for continuity (as with the creators of South Park, who have repeatedly killed Kenny McCormick).
An article for the philosophy journal Analysis, to be printed in April 2008, uses exploding heads as a basis to expand Logician George Boolos' 1996 title The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever. The article's authors, Brian and Landorn Rabern, expand on the original Knights and Knaves - like puzzle by introducing a type of result where the recipient of a question is unable to give the answer it logically must, which is represented by its head exploding.
While non-fictional head explosions are not possible without the aid of advanced weaponry or demolition tools, a persistent urban legend tells of a condition known as Hyper-Cerebral Electrosis which essentially has the same effect. Claims of the condition are known to have been made by the less-than-scrupulous Weekly World News in the 1990s. In 1996 the Secret Service paid a visit to Daniel Burford, the creator of a website that animated exploding heads of several politicians, including Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole.
The phenomenon is triggered by extreme cognitive "overload" - the incoming stimuli far outstripping the capacity of processing them - typically of utter nonsense, but anger and various other causes are not unknown. The implication is that the unfortunate sufferer placed too much pressure on his brain, trying to figure out something unsolvable or otherwise overexerting it.
The loss of one's head is a non-survivable injury, though some stories depict its swift reappearance or replacement (as with The Cheat). As such, exploding heads are typically restricted to minor and insignificant characters, in addition to those whose authors have very little regard for continuity (as with the creators of South Park, who have repeatedly killed Kenny McCormick).
An article for the philosophy journal Analysis, to be printed in April 2008, uses exploding heads as a basis to expand Logician George Boolos' 1996 title The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever. The article's authors, Brian and Landorn Rabern, expand on the original Knights and Knaves - like puzzle by introducing a type of result where the recipient of a question is unable to give the answer it logically must, which is represented by its head exploding.
While non-fictional head explosions are not possible without the aid of advanced weaponry or demolition tools, a persistent urban legend tells of a condition known as Hyper-Cerebral Electrosis which essentially has the same effect. Claims of the condition are known to have been made by the less-than-scrupulous Weekly World News in the 1990s. In 1996 the Secret Service paid a visit to Daniel Burford, the creator of a website that animated exploding heads of several politicians, including Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole.
-A New Age is the fourth studio album of reggae artist Sean Paul. The album is confirmed to be released on late 2007 or early 2008. The album will contain collaboration of: The Pussycat Dolls, Akon, Snoop Dogg, Justin Timberlake, T.I and 50 Cent. The first single may be Pick It Up And Drop It, it is rumored that the video may be shot on late 2007. The song confirmed to be the promotion of the album is Watch Dem Roll, it may be the second single or first single.
Possibe Tracklisting
#Play Di Music
#Beat Like A Drum
#One Life
#Sufferer
#All Out
#Get It Right
#Mama I Love You
#Weak Inna Darkness
#Young World
#All Alone
#Move Your Body
#She Wants It
#Watch Dem Roll
#Pick It Up And Drop It
#I Love Girls (featuring The Pussycat Dolls)
#My Car (featuring Justin Timberlake & T.I)
#Fire In The Club (featuring 50 Cent)
#Smoke Ganya (featuring Akon & Snoop Dogg)
Possibe Tracklisting
#Play Di Music
#Beat Like A Drum
#One Life
#Sufferer
#All Out
#Get It Right
#Mama I Love You
#Weak Inna Darkness
#Young World
#All Alone
#Move Your Body
#She Wants It
#Watch Dem Roll
#Pick It Up And Drop It
#I Love Girls (featuring The Pussycat Dolls)
#My Car (featuring Justin Timberlake & T.I)
#Fire In The Club (featuring 50 Cent)
#Smoke Ganya (featuring Akon & Snoop Dogg)
A guerilla wiki is a wiki requiring no or minimal installation that is used, generally in a corporate environment, as an alternative to hosting a wiki server. Largely what distinguishes it from a normal wiki is the institutional politics that precludes a more conventional wiki solution.
Because of the red tape involved in allocating IT resources to hosting a wiki server and the restrictions placed on regular user computers, it is often difficult or impossible to install a wiki in a corporate environment. Similarly, it is generally a violation of security policy to post sensitive corporate information on an externally managed wiki. Therefore, employees in need of a wiki can place a guerilla wiki, generally in the form of a small program or html file that requires no installation, onto a shared drive to be used in lieu of an "official" wiki. An example of guerrilla wiki is tiddlywiki.
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Because of the red tape involved in allocating IT resources to hosting a wiki server and the restrictions placed on regular user computers, it is often difficult or impossible to install a wiki in a corporate environment. Similarly, it is generally a violation of security policy to post sensitive corporate information on an externally managed wiki. Therefore, employees in need of a wiki can place a guerilla wiki, generally in the form of a small program or html file that requires no installation, onto a shared drive to be used in lieu of an "official" wiki. An example of guerrilla wiki is tiddlywiki.
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