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In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Croatia - Croatian National Tourist Board
The principle of this toothbrush was that it did not require a person to brush his or her teeth themself, instead the brush rotated around its axis and in the process brushed the teeth on both sides.
As Penkala himself did not possess sufficient capital, on October 5, 1911, he signed a 10-year contract with the Edmund and Gavro Moster & Co. for the production of penkalas and other affiliated inventions, on the condition that his share be 6000 kronen per year and 33 1/3 of shares.
Penkala completed his two-seater aeroplane built according to his concept and drawings in 1909, and in 1910 he flew it.
www.croatia.hr /English/Penkala/Inovacije.aspx   (2578 words)

  
 kenn.com > work > writing > sports columns > pool shark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Penkala's Wildcats achieved plenty of goals in 2002: they finished third in the state after winning conference (for the second straight year) and sectional (for the first time ever) crowns, while freshman Melissa Marik won the state title in the 100-yard backstroke.
Penkala, who does double duty at Neuqua, was right back at it when the girls' season ended, trying to lead the boys' team to an improvement over their 17th-place state finish of a year ago.
Penkala kicks that notion aside as deftly as one of his swimmers makes a turn at the end of the pool, giving credit to the athletes and their team-first attitude.
www.kenn.com /work/writing/column_mar03.html   (634 words)

  
 PENKALA, EDUARD-SLAVOJUB Invented the Pen
Both the technical pencil and the fountain pen were invented by the engineer Eduard Penkala (b.
A typical homo faber of the industrial age, he settled in Zagreb at the beginning of the century.
Penkala soon became a synonym and brand name for the mechanical pencil, the real forerunner of the modern types of technical pencils and pens.
www.croatians.com /INVENT-PEN-PENKALA.htm   (162 words)

  
 Antiques, collectables, fairs in Croatia www.antikviteti.net: Eduard Slavoljub Penkala
Penkala was born on 20 April 1871 in Liptovsky St Mikulas (today in the Slovak Republic), to a Polish father and a Dutch mother.
Penkala found the city stimulating, and he soon became a high ranking official in the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Finance.
In spite of his responsible job and growing family, Penkala spent many hours working on a variety of inventions, and on 24 January 1906 he registered the patent for an automatic pencil, a truly revolutionary innovation among writing instruments.
croatia-antiques.blogspot.com /2006/05/eduard-slavoljub-penkala.html   (423 words)

  
 injusticebusters 2005 > > McCallum Inquiry into David Milgaard case:Larry Fisher's surviving victims (eleven)
Penkala also denied knowing at the time that Fisher was brought to Regina in 1971 and pleaded guilty to rapes that Penkala had once been certain were connected to the Miller murder.
Penkala said Dave Scott, who was chief of police at the time, may not have known the facts when Scott refused to acknowledge that the DNA results exonerated Milgaard or to apologize to him.
Penkala said police couldn't rely on the media to inform them about facts of the case, but he was not able to identify any examples of inaccurate reporting.
www.injusticebusters.com /05Milgaard/MilgaardD11.shtml   (5782 words)

  
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A 20-year-old man was arrested early today in the shooting of Michael Penkala, who was wounded in the robbery while he waited outside a Wal-Mart in Putnam on November 17th.
Penkala was shot by two gunmen who tried to steal his cash as he waited outside the store.
Penkala held onto a wallet in his pocket that held more than 25-hundred dollars in cash.
www.wkyc.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=59849   (159 words)

  
 News Story | Serbianna.com
Slavoljub Penkala's mechanical pencil, which uses a mechanism to push a long lead refill, received the patent as the first such pencil in the world in 1906.
The pencil, called Penkala, "was one of the first and perhaps the most important patent among the writing instruments of the 20th century," said Miroslav Tischler, a collector and expert on pencils and pens.
Penkala was born in Slovakia but lived and worked in Croatia until his 1922 death.
www.serbianna.com /news/2006/01131.html   (245 words)

  
 Croatia - Croatian National Tourist Board
Braun, a merchant who held the penkala - pencils representation, advertised the product by wearing a mask in the shape of the above described trade mark, and in his hand he carried a large penkala – using it as a walking stick.
Penkala was a passionate hunter, and he was often in a forest somewhere at night.
While he was working on the construction of his aeroplane Penkala proved a real magnet for numerous curious folk of Zagreb.
www.croatia.hr /English/Penkala/Zanimljivosti.aspx   (478 words)

  
 ShengHaiSan's Xanga Site
Penkala said that at 3:14 a.m., two masked men showing guns came around to the front of the building and approached several people in line.
Penkala, whose glasses were broken during the assault, suffered a fl eye, a gash above and underneath his left eye (which needed two stitches combined to close) and impaired hearing in his left ear for several days.
Penkala was hit once in the chest with a shotgun blast from about ten feet away.
www.xanga.com /ShengHaiSan   (1500 words)

  
 Brandon Associates, LLC -- Staff --
Penkala is the former Executive Director of the Rhode Island Republican Party and served as U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee's (R-RI) finance director.
Penkala was an editor for the Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law and Boston University's Legislative Services Clinic, a program in which he supervised law students working on research projects for Massachusetts state legislators.
Penkala currently serves on the Development Committee for the San Miguel School, a non-profit middle/junior high school that has received national recognition as a model for educating at-risk inner city youths in an environment free of violence and negative peer pressure.
www.brandonassociatesllc.com /staff/penkala.htm   (376 words)

  
 injusticebusters 2005 > > McCallum Inquiry into David Milgaard case: Pankala took the file home! (nine)
Penkala was a sergeant who helped investigate the murder of nursing aide Gail Miller, a crime for which Milgaard spent 23 years locked up in prison before he was cleared by DNA evidence.
Penkala is expected to testify in June, at which point lawyers representing the 12 parties with standing are entitled to question him about the document collection.
Commission counsel Doug Hodson told the inquiry Penkala co-operated when asked to provide any documents he had related to the mandate of the commission of inquiry, which is looking into the original investigation, the prosecution and whether the case should have been reopened based on information police and justice officials received after the conviction.
injusticebusters.com /05Milgaard/Milgaard9.shtml   (1977 words)

  
 PlayStation Frenzy Gets Violent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Penkala planned to sell a few of the PlayStations on eBay to make some extra money for the holidays, some of which he planned to share with his grandmother.
Penkala was flown to University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, where he was in stable condition, police said.
After Penkala was shot, some witnesses pounded on the door of Wal-Mart on Route 44 while others dialed 911 on their cellphones and tried to help Penkala.
www.topix.net /content/trb/2160468323127953101420137712421051193076   (1330 words)

  
 cbs4boston.com - Two Arrested In PlayStation 3 Shooting
Penkala said he and his friends had been waiting in line 38 hours to buy PS3's when the gunmen took 75 cents from someone else and told him to empty his pockets.
Penkala said they wrestled him to the ground, struggled for his wallet and fired what he thought was a cap gun in his face.
Penkala said the store manager put aside three Playstations for him and his friends to buy and gave him another for free.
cbs4boston.com /topstories/local_story_332085025.html   (537 words)

  
 Bail Set In Wal-Mart Shooting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Police allege Robertson attempted to shoot Michael Penkala, 21, of Webster, Mass., with a pistol, and that Patnaude shot Penkala in the chest and shoulder with a shotgun as the two suspects fled the store parking lot.
Penkala and 12 others had waited for 38 hours in line at the Wal-Mart to purchase the PlayStation 3 consoles when they were ambushed by two robbers wearing bandanas over their faces.
Penkala, who lives with his mother, was between jobs and had no medical insurance when he was shot.
www.topix.net /content/trb/4001660453039645047714274567942151315141   (811 words)

  
 GameDreamZ.com
Penkala had also enlisted three friends, paying them $75 each, who were second through fourth in line to buy the game console.
Penkala said it was the Hispanic male holding the shotgun who shot him when the two assailants were fleeing the Wal-Mart and running for the woods.
Penkala that he should list the game units on eBay as “the game he was shot for,” as well as consider autographing the items.
www.gamedreamz.com /index.cgi?m=stories&s=read&id=6797   (1384 words)

  
 PlayStation 3 Launch Center - PS3 shooter busted, victim selling on eBay - News at GameSpot
According to an article in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Penkala was struck by a shotgun blast to the chest after refusing to hand over his wallet and telling the assailants he had called 911.
The gunmen ran, and Penkala was brought into the store's lobby, where he told employees to take the wallet and give it to his friends in line so they could continue waiting for the PS3s.
Penkala had enlisted three friends to wait in line with him, and the group was first through fourth in the line.
www.gamespot.com /events/ps3launch/story.html?sid=6162390   (1685 words)

  
 Ruth Bachofner Gallery: Matthew Penkala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Penkala employs computer graphic applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash both conceptually and physically in his work - he uses these programs to create preparatory drawings and as inspiration for his “hypnotic”, acidic colors.
Penkala’s work consists of banded colors created through a vigorous layering of pearlescent acrylic, liquid acrylic and polyurethane on beveled panels.
By incorporating both human and technology-inspired elements in the work, Penkala considers the authenticity of our experience of the pieces - tactile vs. virtual, organic vs. synthetic, natural vs. technological and reveals that the influence of these elements is often blurred.
www.artnet.com /ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?gid=107&cid=56739   (391 words)

  
 CNP Articles - The Treasury of Sacred Music
Earlier this month, Penkala was an exhibitor at the 25th anniversary convention of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians in Washington DC.
Penkala was the founding Music Director of a program at Our Lady of Victory, State College, where he served for 22 years and wrote much music for the choirs and congregation.
Penkala was also a key liturgist at the parish during those years.
www.canticanova.com /articles/misc/art7r1.htm   (806 words)

  
 Times Leader | 10/14/2006 | Joseph Penkala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Joseph S. Penkala of Union Street, Plains Township, passed away at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Plains Township.
Born in Plains Township, he was a son of the late Stanley and Mary Sabat (Pekata) Penkala.
Penkala was an Army veteran of World War II, serving four and a half years in Europe.
www.timesleader.com /mld/timesleader/news/obituaries/15758270.htm   (214 words)

  
 Tiskara - Novi Val d.o.o. - za grafičku djelatnost i trgovinu
Penkala, olovka s dotiskom (vašeg logotipa ili reklamne poruke, slogana) je jedna od najpovoljnijih i najposrednijih vrsta promocije vaše firme, proizvoda ili usluge.
Rok izrade olovaka, penkala s dotiskom u našem poduzeću ovisi o pripremljenosti Vaših materijala za tisak.
Od osamdesetak patentiranih izuma spomenuti ćemo nekoliko svjetski poznatih: mehanička olovka - penkala, nalivpero i knipsa (držač pera), anodna baterija, prašak za rublje, rotacijaska četkica za zube, sredstva protiv crvottočine Krepax, radioaktivni lijek protiv reumatizma, kočnice za željezničke vagone, uređaji za mjerenje protoka tekućina i plinova.
www.novival.hr /proizvodi/olovke_s_tiskom/olovka_penkala_s_tiskom.htm   (376 words)

  
 Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal | Digital Extra | Eye on Iraq
Penkala, 32, is among the Individual Ready Reserve -- a group of former soldiers who still have reserve obligations but do not train regularly and are not paid unless they are called up.
Penkala said he was part of small wave of individual reservists who received notice in April that, after a long hiatus, they would become soldiers again.
Penkala said he's gained a few pounds since his days as a young first lieutenant who specialized in artillery systems.
projo.com /extra/2003/iraq/content/projo_20040630_ready30.2a2c13.html   (1155 words)

  
 Useful Information about language and products in Croatia
Slavoljub Penkala is known as one of the most famous European inventors who in 1906 invented the first pen and in 1907 the first fountain pen.
The Penkala ball point pen is considered to be the authentic Croatian souvenir today witnessing the importance of Zagreb as an industrial, commercial and cultural centre in the beginning of the 20th century.
Every "penkala" pen is a unique souvenir, it has its serial number and the certificate in Croatian and 12 more languages.
www.damen-croatia.com /Useful_Information_1/page_1326895.html   (988 words)

  
 Injection Molding Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Unless this situation is managed effectively, the organization can be at a serious competitive disadvantage, continually reinventing the wheel every 8 or 12 hours and never solving recurring problems or moving toward process improvement.
We asked Penkala to provide molders with ideas on how to get all shifts pulling in the same direction and all employees connected to process objectives to deliver peak performance.
For those interested in learning more, Penkala is holding a seminar Feb. 20-21 in Atlanta.
www.immnet.com /articles?article=1270   (580 words)

  
 Slavoljub Eduard Penkala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (April 20, 1871 – February 5, 1922) was an engineer and inventor from Croatia.
He attended the University of Vienna and Technische Universität Dresden, graduating from the latter in 1898 and going on to earn a doctorate in organic chemistry.
He also founded another company called the Elevator Chemical Manufacturing Company, which produced various chemicals such as detergents, sealing wax, and "Radium Vinovica", a patent-medicine-like product that was billed as curing rheumatism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slavoljub_Penkala   (306 words)

  
 Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal | East Bay
Known as "Pinky" during her high school days, Penkala has taught math at Warren High and Mt. Hope for 27 years and since January has overseen a department that features 24 boys and girls sports, with more than half including both varsity and junior varsity teams and two with freshman programs.
She was head softball coach at Warren High from 1984 to 1993, winning the Class C championship in 1991 and the Class B-Two title in 1993.
Penkala, selected as a Teacher of the Year award winner in 2004, will still teach some math classes.
www.projo.com /eastbay/content/projo_20060310_penkala.9a2bfe2.html   (842 words)

  
 Television Without Pity » Band of Brothers » Bastogne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Julian, a replacement; establishing that neither is injured, Roe hears Penkala screaming for him and takes off again.
Penkala is convinced he's going to bleed to death, so Roe tries to console him; suddenly, as more shots barrage the area, Penkala begs Roe not to take him to an aid station.
Tersely, he informs Penkala that there is no aid station, bandages his arm, and then pauses as the shelling finally stops.
www.televisionwithoutpity.com /articles/content/a2807/index-2.html   (534 words)

  
 Thinkquest
Inženjer Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, jedan od najznačajnijih izumitelja s početka 20.
Penkala olovke i nalivpera izvoze se u više od sedamdeset zemalja svijeta i tvornica od 300 radnika 1911.
Proizvodnju počinje pod imenom Elevator, Vinovica, proizvodi E:M: Penkala i dr. Proizvodi glasoviti Radium Vinovica, preparat protiv svih vrsta reumatičnih bolova, zatim prve deterđente za pranje rublja (plavilo), pa sredstva za impregnaciju drva, pečatne voskove itd.
library.thinkquest.org /C0127004/TQnovo/edvard_penkala.htm   (479 words)

  
 Top Stories
Warren native Elizabeth Penkala was having a pretty bad day when she received some great news.
Penkala still found reason to smile when officials from Special Data Processing informed her she had just won $1 million in the company's sweepstakes.
Penkala began making plans to collect the money — she'll receive 30 annual installments of $25,000 (after taxes).
www.eastbayri.com /story/286391401419904.php   (840 words)

  
 CNP Info - Composers - Gary D. Penkala
Penkala was the founding Music Director of a program at Our Lady of Victory Church in State College PA, with ten vocal choirs, three handbell choirs, six organists, five apprentice organists, eight choir directors and assistants, and numerous cantors, soloists and instrumentalists.
Penkala was a key liturgist at the parish during those years.
Penkala founded CanticaNOVA Publications, whose goal is to provide "Traditional Music for the Contemporary Church." The company has grown to include music by many prominent composers, and the web site, in addition to an Online Catalog, features Musical Musings articles and Liturgical Planning pages.
www.canticanova.com /cnp_info/penkala.htm   (804 words)

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