Nurzhan Zhedelbaev is a student and author based in Kazkhstan.
He is the director of the Sufi Meditation Center and author of The Healing Power of Sufi Meditation (2005, ISBN 1930409265)Teachings of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order on Sufi Meditation known as Muraqaba. For more than a decade, As-Sayed Mirahmadi has worked to spread understanding of Sufi teachings throughout North America and the world. An expert on Islamic spirituality, he has studied with some of the world’s leading Islamic scholars and has helped found numerous educational and charitable organizations.
MirAhmadi attended the University of Southern California, and then became the owner and director of a Southern California healthcare company. He retired from the private sector in the mid-1990s to pursue religious studies. He used his business skills to found an international relief organization, a spiritual healing center, and a religious social group for at risk youth.
In 1995, he began studying Sufism under As-Sayed Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. MirAhmadi and Kabbani have since established additional Islamic educational organizations and relief programs throughout the world. MirAhmadi was also a founding trustee for the Islamic Supreme Council of America, a moderate Islamic religious organization.
He is the director of the Sufi Meditation Center and author of The Healing Power of Sufi Meditation (2005, ISBN 1930409265)Teachings of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order on Sufi Meditation known as Muraqaba. For more than a decade, As-Sayed Mirahmadi has worked to spread understanding of Sufi teachings throughout North America and the world. An expert on Islamic spirituality, he has studied with some of the world’s leading Islamic scholars and has helped found numerous educational and charitable organizations.
MirAhmadi attended the University of Southern California, and then became the owner and director of a Southern California healthcare company. He retired from the private sector in the mid-1990s to pursue religious studies. He used his business skills to found an international relief organization, a spiritual healing center, and a religious social group for at risk youth.
In 1995, he began studying Sufism under As-Sayed Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. MirAhmadi and Kabbani have since established additional Islamic educational organizations and relief programs throughout the world. MirAhmadi was also a founding trustee for the Islamic Supreme Council of America, a moderate Islamic religious organization.
Unwin Avenue is a street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It is approximately long, running east-west south of the turning basin, north of Cherry Beach.
The Hearn Generating Plant, a retired coal-fired electrical plant, anchors the east end of the avenue at Leslie Street.
Port facilities and the International Marine Passenger Terminal anchor the west end of the avenue at Cherry Street.
The entrance to the Leslie Street Spit is at the intersection of Leslie and Unwin.
Environmental concerns
In 1988 Don Peuramaki published a natural history of the roadway.
According to The Canadian Entomologist Cherry Street, between Unwin Avenue and the Keating Channel was the first recorded site of termite infestation in Ontario.
Unwin Avenue is the site of a repository for snow collected from Toronto's streets.
An article in the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering described the environmental effects of runoff from the snow dump.
The nearby Leslie Street spit is an important habitat and stopover site for migrating birds. A report on Tommy Thompson Park's bird sanctuarirs recommended Unwin Avenue as one of the possible locations for an interpretive center, explaining the importance of the spit to the public.
In fiction and popular culture
Shawn Micallef's Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto tells sightseers how to recognize the site of the horrific crashes of David Cronenberg's .
In Lethal Rage: A Mystery Brent Pilkey describes Unwin Avenue as
"the perfect setting for a horror movie".
Early on the morning of November 29, 2011, a passing motorist discovered mortally wounded Leanne Freeman, on Unwin Avenue, Toronto's 42nd murder victim of 2011.
On January 8, 2012, an engraved granite stone was placed at 450 Unwin Avenue, near where her body had been found.
It is approximately long, running east-west south of the turning basin, north of Cherry Beach.
The Hearn Generating Plant, a retired coal-fired electrical plant, anchors the east end of the avenue at Leslie Street.
Port facilities and the International Marine Passenger Terminal anchor the west end of the avenue at Cherry Street.
The entrance to the Leslie Street Spit is at the intersection of Leslie and Unwin.
Environmental concerns
In 1988 Don Peuramaki published a natural history of the roadway.
According to The Canadian Entomologist Cherry Street, between Unwin Avenue and the Keating Channel was the first recorded site of termite infestation in Ontario.
Unwin Avenue is the site of a repository for snow collected from Toronto's streets.
An article in the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering described the environmental effects of runoff from the snow dump.
The nearby Leslie Street spit is an important habitat and stopover site for migrating birds. A report on Tommy Thompson Park's bird sanctuarirs recommended Unwin Avenue as one of the possible locations for an interpretive center, explaining the importance of the spit to the public.
In fiction and popular culture
Shawn Micallef's Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto tells sightseers how to recognize the site of the horrific crashes of David Cronenberg's .
In Lethal Rage: A Mystery Brent Pilkey describes Unwin Avenue as
"the perfect setting for a horror movie".
Early on the morning of November 29, 2011, a passing motorist discovered mortally wounded Leanne Freeman, on Unwin Avenue, Toronto's 42nd murder victim of 2011.
On January 8, 2012, an engraved granite stone was placed at 450 Unwin Avenue, near where her body had been found.
Tales of Amalthea is an online project from ArchWing Studios and used with Copic markers, set in the fantasy world of Amalthea. It is filled with fantastical Animals vying for survival. The Creatures, themselves, are designed by Terryl Whitlatch. The project has already launched the website, but is not officially put together yet. The development began on June 30, 2011.
List of Creatures
* Aero-Mammal, a small, flying, green Creature resembling a cross between a Pterosaur and a Sharovipteryx.
* Aerophocid, a gliding, Hooded Seal-like Pinniped that hunts small Birds. It dwells within the mountainous dorsal spines of the Behemoth.
* Archangeles, a beautiful, blue, Greyhound-like Creature with large Bird wings. It is a reference to Archangels.
* Behemoth, a enormous Elephantid with several bizarre tusks, a long tail that drags and dorsal spines that resemble mountains. It is so big that it even supports its own ecosystems of other living things.
* Diploblubb, a huge, blue-colored Amphibian, resembling a huge Diplocaulus (as the name suggests).
* Felinamander, a large, red-colored, Axolotl-like Amphibian. It is a predatory pack-hunter. Packs will use their strength to bring down things bigger than themselves, like a Diploblubb.
* Goram, a massive cousin of the Satyr and Wildegelada, resembling a cross between a Gorilla and a male Bighorn Sheep.
* Jagotter Cat, a small Feline resembling a cross between, as the name suggests, a Jaguar and an Otter. It hunts within the organs of the Behemoth.
* Juggerchelonid, a huge, Snapping Turtle-like Testudine with spikes and horns. Ogres use them as cart-pullers and as living siege weapons.
* Magrot, a huge and vicious Creature resembling a Beetle grub. These massive symbio-parasites dwell within the stomach of the Behemoth, feeding on some of the stomach insides as well as eating any foreign debris from the outside world beyond the Behemoth.
* Ogre, a large and bulky, Toad-like Creature with tall horns and lives in colonies like certain Insects do.
* Questing Beast, a bizarre Creature resembling a cross between a Cobra, Leopard and Deer.
* Rhino-Dino Dragon, a species of fierce Dragon where the young do not have wings but develop them as they mature. Males are blue and red while females are gray and brown. As the name suggests, they look very much like a cross between a Black Rhinoceros, a Hadrosaur and an Ankylosaur.
* Satyr, a Chimpanzee-like Mammal with the horns, hind hooves, teeth and tail of an Ibex. Its closet relatives are the Goram and Wildegelada.
* Scimitar Panth, a large Big Cat with long, tusk-like saber teeth. It has a pair of small horns on the sides of its lower jaw (similar to a Ceratopsian). It is colored like a Snow Leopard and hunts on open ground within the Behemoth's organs, and on its skin too.
* Tezzor, a pack-hunting Hyena-like Creature with six legs and a beak-like mouth with tooth-like extensions.
* Vulturopteryx, a green Bird that looks, as its name suggests, like a cross between a Vulture and an Archaeopteryx. It also has a throat waddle like that of a Marabou Stork.
* Walraptor, a flying, Walrus-like Pinniped with six tusks that point straight out. It dwells within the Plant-filled swamps inside the Behemoth's intestines.
* White Fright, a white, Hornbill-like Bird with a colorful face. It hunts like a Falcon.
* Wildegelada, a cousin of the Goram and Satyr that resembles a cross between, as the name suggests, a Wildebeest and a Gelada.
List not complete yet
List of Creatures
* Aero-Mammal, a small, flying, green Creature resembling a cross between a Pterosaur and a Sharovipteryx.
* Aerophocid, a gliding, Hooded Seal-like Pinniped that hunts small Birds. It dwells within the mountainous dorsal spines of the Behemoth.
* Archangeles, a beautiful, blue, Greyhound-like Creature with large Bird wings. It is a reference to Archangels.
* Behemoth, a enormous Elephantid with several bizarre tusks, a long tail that drags and dorsal spines that resemble mountains. It is so big that it even supports its own ecosystems of other living things.
* Diploblubb, a huge, blue-colored Amphibian, resembling a huge Diplocaulus (as the name suggests).
* Felinamander, a large, red-colored, Axolotl-like Amphibian. It is a predatory pack-hunter. Packs will use their strength to bring down things bigger than themselves, like a Diploblubb.
* Goram, a massive cousin of the Satyr and Wildegelada, resembling a cross between a Gorilla and a male Bighorn Sheep.
* Jagotter Cat, a small Feline resembling a cross between, as the name suggests, a Jaguar and an Otter. It hunts within the organs of the Behemoth.
* Juggerchelonid, a huge, Snapping Turtle-like Testudine with spikes and horns. Ogres use them as cart-pullers and as living siege weapons.
* Magrot, a huge and vicious Creature resembling a Beetle grub. These massive symbio-parasites dwell within the stomach of the Behemoth, feeding on some of the stomach insides as well as eating any foreign debris from the outside world beyond the Behemoth.
* Ogre, a large and bulky, Toad-like Creature with tall horns and lives in colonies like certain Insects do.
* Questing Beast, a bizarre Creature resembling a cross between a Cobra, Leopard and Deer.
* Rhino-Dino Dragon, a species of fierce Dragon where the young do not have wings but develop them as they mature. Males are blue and red while females are gray and brown. As the name suggests, they look very much like a cross between a Black Rhinoceros, a Hadrosaur and an Ankylosaur.
* Satyr, a Chimpanzee-like Mammal with the horns, hind hooves, teeth and tail of an Ibex. Its closet relatives are the Goram and Wildegelada.
* Scimitar Panth, a large Big Cat with long, tusk-like saber teeth. It has a pair of small horns on the sides of its lower jaw (similar to a Ceratopsian). It is colored like a Snow Leopard and hunts on open ground within the Behemoth's organs, and on its skin too.
* Tezzor, a pack-hunting Hyena-like Creature with six legs and a beak-like mouth with tooth-like extensions.
* Vulturopteryx, a green Bird that looks, as its name suggests, like a cross between a Vulture and an Archaeopteryx. It also has a throat waddle like that of a Marabou Stork.
* Walraptor, a flying, Walrus-like Pinniped with six tusks that point straight out. It dwells within the Plant-filled swamps inside the Behemoth's intestines.
* White Fright, a white, Hornbill-like Bird with a colorful face. It hunts like a Falcon.
* Wildegelada, a cousin of the Goram and Satyr that resembles a cross between, as the name suggests, a Wildebeest and a Gelada.
List not complete yet
Mark A. Studdert is the former chief of staff to US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Deputy Secretary Roy Bernardi. He was appointed on June 23, 2008. Mr. Studdert advised the second highest ranking housing official in the US federal government on the management of the department's day-to-day operations that included a nearly $40 billion annual operating budget and the agency's 9,000 employees.
Career
Prior to this appointment, Mr. Studdert served as the Assistant Secretary (Acting) and General Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, where he advanced federal legislation to increase homeownership, create better access to affordable housing, promote economic development, modernize the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and reform the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA).
Mark Studdert first joined the Bush administration in 2002 as HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations.
Career
Prior to this appointment, Mr. Studdert served as the Assistant Secretary (Acting) and General Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, where he advanced federal legislation to increase homeownership, create better access to affordable housing, promote economic development, modernize the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and reform the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA).
Mark Studdert first joined the Bush administration in 2002 as HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations.