Slauter Xstroyes is a cult epic metal band from Chicago, USA. The band was founded when guitarist Paul Kratky (who, at that time, was intentioned to put together a band called Naj) met bassist Brent Sullivan and vocalist John Stewart. Drummer Dave Bonow joined the band, and Slauter Xstroyes released their first album, "Winter Kill", in 1985. The album was considered a masterpiece of epic metal from start to finish, but few knew that it would end up being the collector piece it is today. In fact, only 500 copies were released in the area around Chicago. It was around 1987-88 that the band headed into the studio to record their second album “Free the Beast", which was never completed nor released. The band kept on playing in the area near Chicago, and in 1999 "Free The Beast" was finally released. At the moment, the band is working on a new album.
Graham Nicholls is Chief Executive Officer with Extrada, a global company providing a service aggregation hub for the delivery of digital services to consumers. Consumer-facing companies increasingly want to deliver their service offerings digitally. This involves communicating with home-based or mobile devices to deliver a combination of web content, entertainment, information, remote monitoring and control. Extrada's XTN Digital Services Hub™ is an essential tool to aggregate and deliver these services effectively and secure. The Extrada XTN Digital Services Hub™ is commercially released and being implemented by customers and partners.
Extrada - triple play plus Graham was also a Director of the The Application Home Ltd (TAHI) www.theapplicationhome.com which is a consortium of around 40 companies to provide a platform for co-operation, market testing with agreed technical and business models and major commercial trials with the support of the UK Government.
Prior to working with Extrada, Graham Nicholls worked for Echelon, a supplier of network communication devices, managing business development activity in the UK and Europe in the area of home control and networking solutions for service providers utilities and product manufacturers.
Previously, Graham was Managing Director of E-Squared Ltd the largest independent Systems Integrator in the UK for computerised building management systems.
Graham lives in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England with his family.
He is an elder of Haywards Heath Evangelical Free Church HHEFC and also Trustee of Saltworkz Cafe Cafe
CMB Inc (also known as IntimateDVD) is a United States Online DVD rental subscription service, whose niche is in providing Adult DVD Rentals.
IntimateDVD is similar to the DVD rental subscription service Netflix in that DVDs are sent to subscribers via the United States Postal Service in re-mailable, pre-paid mailers. The difference is that IntimateDVD only stocks Adult DVD titles. (Non-US residents are ineligible for the service, as IntimateDVD does not ship overseas.) The subscriber then can keep the Adult DVDs for as long as desired while paying the monthly fee, although the number of DVDs is limited by the type of subscription plan chosen by the subscriber. Additionally, the user can create a queue of up to 50 Adult DVD titles. Upon returning the DVD to a IntimateDVD distribution center, IntimateDVD automatically ships out the next Adult DVD in the users queue making the process cyclical for as long as the user is a subscriber and updates his or her queue. Customers typically expect delivery of their requested DVDs within 2-4 days of shipment. If the received DVD disk is damaged or unplayable for some reason, or if the wrong DVD was received, the customer can return it for a replacement or have the next item in their rental queue sent instead.
Subscribers also have the added benefit of buying selected pre-played DVDs at a reduced price, should they choose the keep the DVD. Subsequently, subscribed users will get the jacket for the DVD mailed to them for an additional free.
The caveat is that all this is done online, where the user must provide a credit card as a form of payment and means of age verification.
Because of local obscenity laws IntimateDVD is not able to ship Adult DVDs to some cities.
In the One Piece fictional universe, many characters have the middle initial "D". This mysterious middle initial has been called "the will of the D" or "D's will" by several characters in One Piece. Some translations refer to it as "Gol D's will" in reference to Gol D. Roger the late pirate king. The English dub by 4Kids chooses to refer to the D as the "the Spirit of Gol. D". In a recent recap supplement release of the manga referred to a those that carry the D as The Man of "D".