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  Atrios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duncan B. Black, known under his internet publishing pseudonym as Atrios, is the author of the popular United States liberal weblog Eschaton, which receives an average of over 100,000 hits per day.
Black is now a Senior Fellow at the media research group, Media Matters for America.
Black later said that he blogged psuedononymously as an academic to avoid attacks like those unleashed on Timothy Shortell.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atrios   (425 words)

  
 Black - Cleveland/Rutherford/Old Tryon
Duncan's land was located at the mouth of a creek, known today as Duncan's Creek, on Highway 226 in Cleveland County.
Black was born and reared in Upper Cleveland County but had lived in Shelby for 34 years where he had a host of friends." At the time of his death he lived on Hamrick Street in Shelby and was a member of Missionary Methodist Church.
George Fraser Black, former director of the New York Public Library and author of "Surnames of Scotland," said the Black surname was common in St. Andrews and Prestwick, Scotland, in the 15th and 16th centuries and was very common in Edinburgh in the 17th century.
www.angelfire.com /tn/blackfamily   (1820 words)

  
 Stalag 3A - Survivors of Prisoners of War WWII
His name was Duncan Black and he was catapulted to hero status because of his expert handwriting and drawing skills.
Black’s illness was probably fortunate; 73 of the escapees were recaptured and a furious Hitler ordered 50 of them to be shot as an example to other would-be escapees.
Black remained in the camp until it was liberated by American troops in May 1945.
www.stalag3a.com /Duncan.htm   (711 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Duncan Black
Black was a research engineer and manager of weaving development for J.P. Stevens & Co. Inc.
Black held national and international patents related to the development of experimental fabrics for use in safety products and the aerospace industry.
Black was a Little League coach, an exalted leader in Elks Club, an active member of Knights of Columbus, president of the Kingsgate Neighborhood Pool Association, and a honorary trustee of the Parent's Television Council.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Duncan-Black   (617 words)

  
 The Academy of American Poets - Robert Duncan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Duncan, in effect, took Olson's idea of "breath" one step further, presenting the poem as a "compositional field" to which the poet might bring whatever he or she pleases.
After his biological mother died giving birth to him, Duncan was adopted by a couple who practiced theosophy, an occult religion popularized in the late nineteenth century by a controversial figure who called herself Madame Blavatsky (Yeats was a follower of theosophy, in its early stages).
Duncan's adoptive parents, spiritual-seekers who seriously pursued their interests in enlightenment, selected Robert based on the configuration of his astrological chart.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/186   (611 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Their plea comes on the anniversary of the decision by Republican Gov. George Ryan to temporarily stop executions in Illinois, and at a time when the death penalty is under scrutiny nationwide due to wider use of DNA evidence.
Duncan called the moratorium "common sense," saying, "If you have enough questions to begin a study, you should wait (for the results)." Two other state reviews of the death penalty, in 1994 and 1996, "acknowledged that racial disparities exist in the implementation of capital punishment in Maryland.
With both Duncan and Townsend touted as potential gubernatorial candidates in 2002, the death penalty issue could become a defining one for the race.
www.inform.umd.edu /News/CNS/wire/2001-editions/01-January-editions/010131-Wednesday/DeathDefying_CNS-UMCP   (588 words)

  
 The Indepundit
Duncan Black is doing this because there is a war here, at home, he is fighting, alongside hundreds of other leftists.
Black is advocating that only someone with military experience can be a proponent of military action, it is reasonable to conclude that he has a rather low opinion of FDR, Jefferson, and Clinton.
Black is angry about individuals advocating War, he should address his concern to elected officials, specifically from his own party.
www.indepundit.com /archive2/2005/07/chickenhawks_1.html   (2565 words)

  
 [EM] Duncan Black on Condorcet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Black may be referring to the fact that this method meets Condorcet loser, and Condorcet's analysis suggests that he considers that necessary.
Black suggests procedures that find a winner, and give no indication how the propositions would be made consistent.
Black says, "The following three interpretations, however, might be suggested." It sounds to me like we shouldn't take these methods too seriously as meticulous reconstructions of Condorcet's actual thoughts.
listserver.dreamhost.com /pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2001-April/005871.html   (821 words)

  
 Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » The First Annual Duncan Black Award For Overheated Punditry…
If George W. Bush were a dictator, you can bet Duncan couldn’t write that he was with impunity; that he wouldn’t soon be the subject of hearings regarding the NSA eavesdropping; that he wouldn’t have to labor so hard to get his Supreme Court nominees confirmed; and the list goes on and on.
Black is an employee of Media Matters for America, “a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.” Yet it is the liberal bloggers such as Mr.
Black and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga who crow about the right-wing noise machine and accuse conservative bloggers of being on the dole, while they take money directly from their Democratic patrons and pretend to be independent voices.
decision08.net /2006/01/02/the-first-annual-duncan-black-award-for-overheated-punditry   (755 words)

  
 Panel shared want to 'get black in it'
Quanders believes the problem with television and film with regard to fls is that their roles are limited to unrealistic "ghetto" depictions, as well as a ghettoization of the fl community.
Johnson feels strongly about the inappropriate manner in which fls are constantly shown in television and film, and attends events such as these in an effort to help African-American progress in the entertainment business.
Duncan agreed with Johnson and said he believes that the crux of the problem is that there are a limited number of fl images on television and the big screen.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V139/N17/02-panel.17d.html   (619 words)

  
 John Duncan Black   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
John Duncan Black, 73, a long-time Andover resident, died peacefully Saturday, April 21, in Greenville, S.C. Born July 24, 1927, he was the son of Henry and Thomasina Duncanson Black.
Black especially loved spending summers with his children and grandchildren at the family cottage on Plum Island.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the "Duncan Black Memorial Fund," St. Joseph's High School, 4810 Frontage Road, Greenville, SC 29607.
www.andovertownsman.com /news/20010426/OB_002.html   (346 words)

  
 Thelma Myrtle Duncan - The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thelma Myrtle Duncan was among an elite group of Black University student playwrights in America who established themselves as “cornerstones” of an emerging National Negro Theatre, during the early decades of the 20th century.
Duncan graduated from Howard (cum laude) with a degree in music and reluctantly embarked on a career as a music teacher, working in North Carolina while continuing to write, before setting out on a motor trip through New Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Mexico.
Duncan wrote at least two other plays, “The Witch Woman” and “Hard Times,” hoping they would be included in another collection that Wise planned but never completed “on account of depression [sic],” according to the playwright.
www.dclibrary.org /blkren/bios/duncantm.html   (649 words)

  
 Highlander - "Black Tower"
Duncan is bending over to light the candle when he hears a shriek from outside.
Duncan rolls his eyes in disgust as he finally realizes what has happened, and leans against a tree to wait while Marek pulls himself out of the ground.
Duncan runs down the hall, and while Dice watches on the monitors he grabs a fire extinguisher and starts pounding at the doors at the end of the hall.
www.yak.net /ian/jinjifore/112tower.html   (6540 words)

  
 Adventures of a Gullwing - GermanCarFans.com
The special exhibition “Adventures of a Gullwing” at the Mercedes-Benz Museum documents the adventures of the fl 300 SL coupe owned by the celebrated and award-winning American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, who was born in Kansas City in 1916.
Duncan’s “Black Torpedo” was stolen in Haarlem and disappeared without trace for several weeks.
In 1996 Duncan left his venerable 300 SL coupe to Picasso’s son Claude, a car enthusiast, so that it might remain “in the family”.
www.germancarfans.com /print_preview.cfm/ID/5041101.001/lang/eng   (481 words)

  
 The Observer | UK News | Miracle workers who rebuilt Danny's life
Duncan Black, a vascular surgeon whose years of training in South Africa had helped him to understand trauma injuries, was put in charge of the team, but was not sure what they would find.
Their attempts to restart the heart using external resuscitation and defibrillation failed, so as a last measure they had to try internal cardiac massage, which is where the doctor has to hold the heart and squeeze it until the blood begins to flow through it once more.
Black cut open the chest and a young cardiothoracic registrar, Jo Chikwe, put her hand inside Danny's ribcage and gently squeezed the muscle.
www.guardian.co.uk /Observer/uk_news/story/0,,1697384,00.html   (3569 words)

  
 Duncan Black Official Website
A part of inform Skinflick but Duncan's own solo act is also setting North Wales on fire.
'Duncan Black was and is a virtuoso, as simple (or as complicated) as that.
'Duncan Black provided my highlight of the day with a brief but exquisite display of guitar genius, and let's face it, there was some stiff competition in the guitar hero category provided by Mid Life Crisis, Cosmic Charlies and the Giros.
www.duncan-black.co.uk /biography.php   (1213 words)

  
 Some Moore Cats - Duncan
I'm a seventeen pound sleek fl cat but don't let that fool you - I still want to play just like I did when I was a tiny kitten.
She was kinda sad because she still missed Dexter, my fl cat broffur I never got to meet cuz he went to thuh Rainbow Bridge before I joined the family.
But, still, she seemed furry happy to have me join the family and soon, she said, I had a place in her heart evfurry bit as big as Dexter's.
www.somemoorecats.com /duncan.php   (583 words)

  
 Fables of the reconstruction: Atrios' Real Name is Duncan Black
I always figured Atrios for an economist, and Duncan Black was some famous economist who died in 1991.
Duncan B. Black holds a PhD in economics from Brown University.
Black is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America.
mithras.blogs.com /blog/2004/07/strongatrios_re.html   (282 words)

  
 Black. Duncan Black. | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Duncan Black is his name, but I hear he spells it really weird, in all lowercase with spaces between each letter, like "d u n c a n b l a c k." It's even that way on his license.
I heard Duncan Black once punched a hole in a cow just to see who was coming up the road.
Duncan Black once showed me a video of him making love to my wife, and it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw!
www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/34615   (1497 words)

  
 Scottish Conservatives - THE FIGHT GOES ON, DUNCAN TELLS BLACK WATCH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Black Watch soldiers in particular have been serving their country with great distinction, and face a coming-home present of the end of their regiment.
Mr Taylor, whose grandfather fought for the Black Watch, revealed the 2,000 postcards which had been sent back to him in support of is campaign to save the Black Watch.
“It is a testament to the Black Watch that more than 2,000 people went to the trouble of returning the postcards I had sent them as part of my campaign to save the Black Watch.
www.scottishtories.org.uk /pressrelease.asp?ID=5298   (385 words)

  
 Duncan
Duncan is a very sweet and affectionate dog, gentle and eager to please.
Duncan has a beautiful head with very dark - almost fl, almond shaped eyes and full dentition and a scissors bite.
Duncan was handled to his championship by Roxanne Chumbley and her daughter, Michelle Martin
www.belgians.com /savanna/Duncan.htm   (344 words)

  
 House of Ray- 1745-1945
Children were Duncan, who married Margaret Hall and their children and grandchildren are living in the Galatia Church Community and Seventy-First section.
John, a second son of Gilbert the Exile, died in 1804, had one son John the Tailor of the Galatia Church section who was the grandfather of Flora Ann Ray Brady of Elizabethtown, N.C. the only surviving member of her family.
Margaret Black MCNEILL, 1817-1892, Longstreet Cemetery 5 Ann Catherine, 1840-1903, unmarried, Longstreet Cemetery 5 Margaret Amanda, 1842-1900, unmarried 5 Mary Black Ray m.
home.att.net /~hbridges/rayfam.html   (5593 words)

  
 Alan W Black
Black, A. and Campbell, N. Predicting the intonation of discourse segments from examples in dialogue speech, (Short version) ESCA workshop on spoken dialogue systems, Denmark.
Black, A. Predicting the intonation of discourse segments from examples in dialogue speech, ATR Workshop on Computational modeling of prosody for spontaneous speech processing.
Black, A. Comparison of algorithms for predicting accent placement in English speech synthesis Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan.
www.cs.cmu.edu /~awb   (3311 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Education | Duncan Smith opens black school
Iain Duncan Smith, former Conservative leader, is opening the first permanent home for an independent Christian school serving the fl community.
The school has previously struggled to find a base, and its future was threatened three years ago when it lost premises rented from a charity, despite a sit-in protest staged by parents and teachers.
Mr Duncan Smith said that this school was an example of how parents should be allowed to have a greater say in choosing their children's education.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/education/4283917.stm   (453 words)

  
 Michelle Malkin: COMMENTS, TROLLS, AND THE LEFT'S CONTINUED WHORE FIXATION
This is the toxic filth that passes for commentary on the site of Duncan B. Black, a.k.a.
Black holds a PhD in economics from Brown University and is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America.
Black may believe his bottom-feeding commenters enhance his blog, but I think most fair-minded bloggers on either side of the aisle--particularly ones with such presitigious academic pedigrees as Dr. Black's--would balk at encouraging such obscene vitriol on their sites.
michellemalkin.com /archives/001417.htm   (688 words)

  
 BLACKFIVE: Atrios - All Chicken And No Hawk
Duncan Black who blogs as Atrios has a post about the recent problem with recruiting - basically that there are not enough Young Republicans signing up - and he resorts to some 3rd grade sarcasm about chickenhawks.
Yet Duncan seems to be arguing that Nathan can’t support the war unless he is prepared to fight...
Every--and I mean EVERY--one of these people does not have a fl or hispanic boss, superior, or peer, and all work in organizations where these groups are severely unrepresented relative to their proportion of the general population.
www.blackfive.net /main/2005/07/chickenhawks.html   (12546 words)

  
 New light on Lewis Carroll
Black, himself one of the two mathematicians who formalised voting theory this century, immediately recognised the lonely greatness of his predecessor.
Duncan Black spent thirty years writing a book on Lewis Carroll and proportional representation.
The book has now been reconstructed from the roomfuls of papers that were in Duncan Black’s house when he died.
www.nuff.ox.ac.uk /Politics/McLean/black.html   (510 words)

  
 The Jawa Report: Yes, I Like Killing Bad Guys: A reply to Duncan Black   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Duncan has caught the 'I know you better than you know yourself' disease so often seen on the hard right and hard left.
As for Duncan's claim that the Right is not overly happy about the announcement that Egypt may hold multi-party elections, he makes that assertion based on a claim made by Matthew Yglesias in a post which praises Bush.
Perhaps Duncan and Matthew ought to listen to what the Right is really saying, rather than doing a quick scan of The Corner for all things right-of-center as proof positive of what we are up to.
mypetjawa.mu.nu /archives/069467.php   (2673 words)

  
 Bloglines | Citations
Atrios (real name Duncan) has had his photo posted on Talk Left and the Scripting News.
Say hello to Dr. Duncan Black Apparently, Atrios has allowed himself to be outed.
I've known Atrios was Duncan Black for some time now.
www.bloglines.com /citations?url=http://talkleft.com/new_archives/007385.html   (713 words)

  
 A Mathematical Approach to Proportional Representation: Duncan Black on Lewis Carroll - Duncan Black   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Black is now a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America.For a long time Atrios, who apparently emerged from the Internet forums of The Well, remained pseudononymous and rumors suggested he was actually a high school gym teacher.
This artikel Atrios is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
Duncan Blanchard - From Raindrops To Volcanoes - 1121158900
www.bookisbnsearch.com /250212_duncan-black_0792396200amathematicalapproachtoproportionalrepresentationduncanblackonlewiscarrollshoping.html   (349 words)

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