GodZeND is a rapper from the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. He was born on December 4, 1980 in Children's Hospital in Washington DC to Nigerian parents, on the same day as successful rapper Shawn Corey Carter (commonly known as Jay-Z). He lived in the District of Columbia for two years before his parents moved him to Nigeria to learn more about his origin and culture.
On May 26, 1990, he returned to the States and began school in Dodge Park Elementary School in Landover, Maryland, very close to Kings Square Apartments where his parents first settled. He later moved onto Thomas Johnson Middle School, Robert Goddard Middle School, and then DuVal High School. Inspired by such great hip-hop artists of the early nineties like the Notorious B.I.G (aka Biggie Smalls), Snoop Dogg, Naughty by Nature, KRS-1, LL-COOL-J, Nas, Rakim, Scarface, TuPac, Jay-Z, and a host of others, the up and coming artist went by the name Wolverine after his favourite character from the comic book X-Men.
As GodZeND recollects, it was then that he started taking the rap music a little more seriously. He would then changed his name from Wolverine to Godsend da messenger, as it would sum up his whole purpose with his music. "Being from my background as Nigerian and having a distinct accent, still being able to understand and speak the language fluently... I feel like I'm privileged to be able to do this as well as I can... It's not expected so I've always thought that it was a talent sent from GOD...Hence the name GodZeND. Plus every song I've ever written has some underline message in it, that stems from life experiences and the issues with friends, enemies, and associates growing up around me". This is the reason why GodZeND feels he is respected amongst his peers when it comes to rapping. He is not just viewed as yet another wannabe so and so or an MC such and such. "Over the years, I have been involved with three different contract situations, two rap groups, and several affiliations with would-be or wannabe local labels in the area that promise stardom and success but the music scene is not as easy to get in as it use to be," the artist states. "So now my name is GodZeND... it might change again if I run into other copyright/contract situations, you just never know...it's all business now."
He says reluctantly, "Before, you used to be able to just walk your demo in to Sony Records or Def Jam Records or any major for that matter, and start up deal discussions, but now the money has gotten astronomical. These successful artists coming out are like superstars athletes, there's no loyalty now it's all business, artists are constantly jumping ships trying to get on better deals or the labels with the deepest pockets and Labels just like major sports franchises, are dropping good artists who no longer meet quota as far as money/album sales, etc... It's so sick now that the mentally of the artist and the label is show me the money or how I can use you (the artist) to get this money. NOBODY REALLY CARES ABOUT THE MUSIC ANYMORE...WELL a few artists still do but their FANSBASE loyalty is keeping them alive in a market of hip-hop that's gotten too commercial it's disgusting."
THE PLIGHT OF THE DC RAPPER
Sad to say but it's true. The District of Columbia is not the place to be if you are trying to make any significant moves in the rap game. "This is the most hatingest area to be right now", says another aspiring DC rapper WALE who is also making strides in the DC area with his brand of music GO-GO/Hip-Hop. Tabi Bonney is another aspiring DC artist/clothes designer who is also making a little noise in the area. However, the underground scene is garnering crazy buzz for like GodZeND who recent won an award at the UMA AWARDS held in BB KING Theatre in Times Square New York. GodZeND has also received several shout-outs from ALL HIP-HOP a prominent hip-hip internet site, as well articles in Streetz Magazine, a popular Hip-Hop/Urban Magazine in the area. His myspace page is also gathering a lot of momemtum with the recent release of his mixtape "THE HOMECOMING VOL. 1" featured on DATPIFF MIXTAPES.
On May 26, 1990, he returned to the States and began school in Dodge Park Elementary School in Landover, Maryland, very close to Kings Square Apartments where his parents first settled. He later moved onto Thomas Johnson Middle School, Robert Goddard Middle School, and then DuVal High School. Inspired by such great hip-hop artists of the early nineties like the Notorious B.I.G (aka Biggie Smalls), Snoop Dogg, Naughty by Nature, KRS-1, LL-COOL-J, Nas, Rakim, Scarface, TuPac, Jay-Z, and a host of others, the up and coming artist went by the name Wolverine after his favourite character from the comic book X-Men.
As GodZeND recollects, it was then that he started taking the rap music a little more seriously. He would then changed his name from Wolverine to Godsend da messenger, as it would sum up his whole purpose with his music. "Being from my background as Nigerian and having a distinct accent, still being able to understand and speak the language fluently... I feel like I'm privileged to be able to do this as well as I can... It's not expected so I've always thought that it was a talent sent from GOD...Hence the name GodZeND. Plus every song I've ever written has some underline message in it, that stems from life experiences and the issues with friends, enemies, and associates growing up around me". This is the reason why GodZeND feels he is respected amongst his peers when it comes to rapping. He is not just viewed as yet another wannabe so and so or an MC such and such. "Over the years, I have been involved with three different contract situations, two rap groups, and several affiliations with would-be or wannabe local labels in the area that promise stardom and success but the music scene is not as easy to get in as it use to be," the artist states. "So now my name is GodZeND... it might change again if I run into other copyright/contract situations, you just never know...it's all business now."
He says reluctantly, "Before, you used to be able to just walk your demo in to Sony Records or Def Jam Records or any major for that matter, and start up deal discussions, but now the money has gotten astronomical. These successful artists coming out are like superstars athletes, there's no loyalty now it's all business, artists are constantly jumping ships trying to get on better deals or the labels with the deepest pockets and Labels just like major sports franchises, are dropping good artists who no longer meet quota as far as money/album sales, etc... It's so sick now that the mentally of the artist and the label is show me the money or how I can use you (the artist) to get this money. NOBODY REALLY CARES ABOUT THE MUSIC ANYMORE...WELL a few artists still do but their FANSBASE loyalty is keeping them alive in a market of hip-hop that's gotten too commercial it's disgusting."
THE PLIGHT OF THE DC RAPPER
Sad to say but it's true. The District of Columbia is not the place to be if you are trying to make any significant moves in the rap game. "This is the most hatingest area to be right now", says another aspiring DC rapper WALE who is also making strides in the DC area with his brand of music GO-GO/Hip-Hop. Tabi Bonney is another aspiring DC artist/clothes designer who is also making a little noise in the area. However, the underground scene is garnering crazy buzz for like GodZeND who recent won an award at the UMA AWARDS held in BB KING Theatre in Times Square New York. GodZeND has also received several shout-outs from ALL HIP-HOP a prominent hip-hip internet site, as well articles in Streetz Magazine, a popular Hip-Hop/Urban Magazine in the area. His myspace page is also gathering a lot of momemtum with the recent release of his mixtape "THE HOMECOMING VOL. 1" featured on DATPIFF MIXTAPES.
Martin Dudziak is an American scientist with academic and research background in quantum physics and biophysics. He has been inventor or co-inventor of technology and applications in areas of complex systems, quantum theory and emergent critical processes including sensor and response systems in the CBRNE area, particularly with respect to infectious diseases, their diagnosis and mutation tracking.
Personal and academic background
Martin was born in and grew up in Buffalo, New York. He attended and graduated from Mt. St. Joseph's and Canisius High School. Entering Colgate University at age 17, he completed his dual-major BA in two years, noting later that "If I had to do it over again, I would have not rushed through college in order to develop better long-term social relationships." Martin received his master's and doctoral degrees from Johns Hopkins and The Union Institute and University respectively. He received his PhD in theoretical and computational physics in 1993, with David Bohm (Birkbeck College, Univ. of London, Basil Hiley (also Birkbeck/London) and David Finkelstein (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Kevin Sharpe (unique as a PhD in mathematics and an Episcopal divinity degree) among the members of his doctoral committee.
Career background
Martin has worked for a number of corporations and universities including Intel Corporation, ST Microelectronics, Battelle laboratories, Medical College of Virginia(MCV), VCU, Martin-Marietta (now Lockheed-Martin) and Silicon Dominion. Since 2002 he had been working for TETRAD Technologies Group, Inc. which has been renamed and restructured as TETRADYN (TETRAD Dynamics), a private company based in Richmond, Virginia.
Professional summary
At MCV (VCU Medical Center) Martin established one of the earliest nanotechnology labs with NSF (National Science Foundation), DOE (Dept. of Energy), Jeffress Trust and Whittaker support. This was the Molecular Engineering and Biocomputing Lab (MEBC); Martin was a member of the faculty within the Biomedical Engineering Dept. (then headed by Dr. Richard Freer, subsequently founder and CEO of Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc.). He has concentrated individually on quantum networks and multi-soliton models applied to investigating quantum field effects in macroscopic including biological systems. His NSF-supported work in chaotic solitons was said (by NSF) to be the first such NSF-funded project conducted with active participants from and in former Soviet Union major physics centers (in particular, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR).
Martin's theoretical work has been and remains mainly in areas of quantum relativity and quantum gravity based upon solitonic field models and draws upon the work of Finkelstein, Segal, Selsnick, Skyrme, and also Markopoulou, Smolin, Wilczek, & Witten. In the late 1990s he became more active in applications, namely using these models as well as mutual information and inverse methods, drawn principally from medical imaging and subsurface sensing, for problems in distributed sensing and detection. The "NomadEyes" architecture incorporates the same into large, pseudo-random networks of sensors and communicators. This has demonstrated applicability in fields as diverse as biosensing and also counterterrorism and, more broadly, for the extension of knowledge acquisition, discovery and learning to problems involving emergent, critical events and (mathematically) catastrophic properties. This work came to be focused upon both prediction and response to large-scale emergent and emergency events.
After 2002 Martin's research and focus led to the co-founding of TETRAD Technologies Group, now part of TETRAD Dynamics (TETRADYN). and the development of the NomadEyes architecture for amorphous distributed sensing and situation awareness. The NomadEyes architecture was first designed in 2003 and has been copied and/or integrated as a basis for a number of projects by others at MITRE Corp., University of Pittsburgh, and Institute of Defense and Homeland Security (e.g., Local Eyes, Red Cell, others). NomadEyes has been designed to work with ordinary cellular phones and "COTS" (commercial off-the-shelf) technology for both military, homeland security and personal, civilian use.
One application, incorporating MEMS and nanoscale technology related directly to Martin's work in the early 90's and refined by collaborators and colleagues, and known as CEBIT (a family of sensors) includes sensing and detection of explosives of IEDs (improvised explosive devices, such as have been employed by terrorists and insurgents throughout the world). This has involved collaboration with scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Army EDRC (Vicksburg, MS), Vanderbilt University and other institutions.
Martin's focus on PCR-based diagnostics and mutation detection and tracking for infectious diseases occupies the main activity presently of his work and that of TETRADYN (TETRAD Dynamics). The CRAIDO (Community Rapid Response for Infectious Disease Outbreaks) is a reconfigurable labstation for both mobile and stationary uses in public health epidemic and pandemic situations. This work has been recognized in particular by other scientists at CDC, Vanderbilt, UT, ORNL, MSSM, UNC and other other institutions.
Publications, references, credentials and other background information
Information can be found in various journal publications and conference proceedings, or through colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (in which Martin serves as a Fellow since July, 2009).
Additional background and activities
Martin's philosophical education and background has contributed to his involvement in a number of social-service and humanitarian-educational projects such as the Lincos Project, Digital Nations, Sano y Salvo, Futures Gateway, and EcOasis, projects that were initiated and/or co-sponsored by corporations including Intel when Martin was therein employed, and with support by AIHA, Eurasia Foundation, USAID, CENAT, and NIH. He is a founding member of the board of the Institute for Innovative Study (IIS). (This institute is presently (2009) in the process of being established in North Carolina.) Martin is active in the sustainable energy and materials field, principally with a focus upon bioprotection and containment/response for infectious diseases within human and animal populations and within good supplies.
Martin is also a writer of poetry and short fiction and an artist (painter) who has exhibited and participated in contemporary art performances in Europe including Moscow in 2002-2004.
With the exception of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, none of the organizations Dr. Dudziak claims to be a board member of, seem to exist. While his credentials are credible, it appears that much of his associations are utter fabrications.
Personal and academic background
Martin was born in and grew up in Buffalo, New York. He attended and graduated from Mt. St. Joseph's and Canisius High School. Entering Colgate University at age 17, he completed his dual-major BA in two years, noting later that "If I had to do it over again, I would have not rushed through college in order to develop better long-term social relationships." Martin received his master's and doctoral degrees from Johns Hopkins and The Union Institute and University respectively. He received his PhD in theoretical and computational physics in 1993, with David Bohm (Birkbeck College, Univ. of London, Basil Hiley (also Birkbeck/London) and David Finkelstein (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Kevin Sharpe (unique as a PhD in mathematics and an Episcopal divinity degree) among the members of his doctoral committee.
Career background
Martin has worked for a number of corporations and universities including Intel Corporation, ST Microelectronics, Battelle laboratories, Medical College of Virginia(MCV), VCU, Martin-Marietta (now Lockheed-Martin) and Silicon Dominion. Since 2002 he had been working for TETRAD Technologies Group, Inc. which has been renamed and restructured as TETRADYN (TETRAD Dynamics), a private company based in Richmond, Virginia.
Professional summary
At MCV (VCU Medical Center) Martin established one of the earliest nanotechnology labs with NSF (National Science Foundation), DOE (Dept. of Energy), Jeffress Trust and Whittaker support. This was the Molecular Engineering and Biocomputing Lab (MEBC); Martin was a member of the faculty within the Biomedical Engineering Dept. (then headed by Dr. Richard Freer, subsequently founder and CEO of Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc.). He has concentrated individually on quantum networks and multi-soliton models applied to investigating quantum field effects in macroscopic including biological systems. His NSF-supported work in chaotic solitons was said (by NSF) to be the first such NSF-funded project conducted with active participants from and in former Soviet Union major physics centers (in particular, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR).
Martin's theoretical work has been and remains mainly in areas of quantum relativity and quantum gravity based upon solitonic field models and draws upon the work of Finkelstein, Segal, Selsnick, Skyrme, and also Markopoulou, Smolin, Wilczek, & Witten. In the late 1990s he became more active in applications, namely using these models as well as mutual information and inverse methods, drawn principally from medical imaging and subsurface sensing, for problems in distributed sensing and detection. The "NomadEyes" architecture incorporates the same into large, pseudo-random networks of sensors and communicators. This has demonstrated applicability in fields as diverse as biosensing and also counterterrorism and, more broadly, for the extension of knowledge acquisition, discovery and learning to problems involving emergent, critical events and (mathematically) catastrophic properties. This work came to be focused upon both prediction and response to large-scale emergent and emergency events.
After 2002 Martin's research and focus led to the co-founding of TETRAD Technologies Group, now part of TETRAD Dynamics (TETRADYN). and the development of the NomadEyes architecture for amorphous distributed sensing and situation awareness. The NomadEyes architecture was first designed in 2003 and has been copied and/or integrated as a basis for a number of projects by others at MITRE Corp., University of Pittsburgh, and Institute of Defense and Homeland Security (e.g., Local Eyes, Red Cell, others). NomadEyes has been designed to work with ordinary cellular phones and "COTS" (commercial off-the-shelf) technology for both military, homeland security and personal, civilian use.
One application, incorporating MEMS and nanoscale technology related directly to Martin's work in the early 90's and refined by collaborators and colleagues, and known as CEBIT (a family of sensors) includes sensing and detection of explosives of IEDs (improvised explosive devices, such as have been employed by terrorists and insurgents throughout the world). This has involved collaboration with scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Army EDRC (Vicksburg, MS), Vanderbilt University and other institutions.
Martin's focus on PCR-based diagnostics and mutation detection and tracking for infectious diseases occupies the main activity presently of his work and that of TETRADYN (TETRAD Dynamics). The CRAIDO (Community Rapid Response for Infectious Disease Outbreaks) is a reconfigurable labstation for both mobile and stationary uses in public health epidemic and pandemic situations. This work has been recognized in particular by other scientists at CDC, Vanderbilt, UT, ORNL, MSSM, UNC and other other institutions.
Publications, references, credentials and other background information
Information can be found in various journal publications and conference proceedings, or through colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (in which Martin serves as a Fellow since July, 2009).
Additional background and activities
Martin's philosophical education and background has contributed to his involvement in a number of social-service and humanitarian-educational projects such as the Lincos Project, Digital Nations, Sano y Salvo, Futures Gateway, and EcOasis, projects that were initiated and/or co-sponsored by corporations including Intel when Martin was therein employed, and with support by AIHA, Eurasia Foundation, USAID, CENAT, and NIH. He is a founding member of the board of the Institute for Innovative Study (IIS). (This institute is presently (2009) in the process of being established in North Carolina.) Martin is active in the sustainable energy and materials field, principally with a focus upon bioprotection and containment/response for infectious diseases within human and animal populations and within good supplies.
Martin is also a writer of poetry and short fiction and an artist (painter) who has exhibited and participated in contemporary art performances in Europe including Moscow in 2002-2004.
With the exception of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, none of the organizations Dr. Dudziak claims to be a board member of, seem to exist. While his credentials are credible, it appears that much of his associations are utter fabrications.
Ben Seton (Born Benjamin Michael Kenneth Seton, October 14th, 1978) is an Australian actor based in Los Angeles.
Early Life
Born in Sydney, Seton was raised on a South Western NSW property near Wombeyan Caves in a rugged environment without electricity or luxuries. He is the third of four brothers. The eldest Xavier Seton runs a Sydney Christmas tree company. Alex Seton is a successful Australian sculptor in marble with artworks in prestigious art collections including the Royal Danish Collection and Paul Seton is an industrial designer and entrepreneur. His parents moved the family back to the suburbs of Sydney where he attended Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview and developed his passion for acting and martial arts.
Stage Career
Competing in international martial arts tournaments from a young age, he became South Pacific Chung Do Kwan Champion in 1995 (lightweight division) and during that same year also won the Australian Young Shakespearean Artist of the Year Award.
These two diverse passions caused Seton to devise, in collaboration with mentor Melvyn Morrow, a unique one-man cabaret show called Tae Kwon Shakespeare
, which was a blend of Shakespearean monologues combined with the Korean martial art of Tae Kwon Do. Debuting at the Shakespeare on the Mount festival in Thredbo in 1998 and again in 2001, the show toured for seven years until 2005 and was performed in Australia as well as Japan, Korea, Canada and the United States. From 2001 to 2006, he also toured educational theatre shows for Brainstorm Productions to schools throughout Australia including such productions as Sticks & Stones, Reckless, Buddies, Hurting Game, Bravehearts, Saving Cal & Mindi, Wired and Cheap Thrills.
Film and Television
Seton appeared in the lead role of Joel alongside Lara Cox in the Australian film drama The Dinner Party which was nominated for best debut feature at the 2009 Raindance Film Festival. He also starred as Jarron Brenner in the 2008 futuristic thriller The Vanquisher.
Seton’s television debut was on the Nine Network’s police drama Water Rats in 1998, followed by a guest appearance playing the role of Bahktiar in the Canadian fantasy series BeastMaster in 2000 and as Callum in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World in 2002. In 2007 he stared as the lead in two short films premiered in two episodes of Steven Spielberg's and FOX Network's On The Lot. One of these films, "Teri", was judged by industry renowned directors and actors including Michael Bay, Carrie Fisher and Garry Marshall, who commented that "..the lead (Ben Seton) was excellent in this!".
Early Life
Born in Sydney, Seton was raised on a South Western NSW property near Wombeyan Caves in a rugged environment without electricity or luxuries. He is the third of four brothers. The eldest Xavier Seton runs a Sydney Christmas tree company. Alex Seton is a successful Australian sculptor in marble with artworks in prestigious art collections including the Royal Danish Collection and Paul Seton is an industrial designer and entrepreneur. His parents moved the family back to the suburbs of Sydney where he attended Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview and developed his passion for acting and martial arts.
Stage Career
Competing in international martial arts tournaments from a young age, he became South Pacific Chung Do Kwan Champion in 1995 (lightweight division) and during that same year also won the Australian Young Shakespearean Artist of the Year Award.
These two diverse passions caused Seton to devise, in collaboration with mentor Melvyn Morrow, a unique one-man cabaret show called Tae Kwon Shakespeare
, which was a blend of Shakespearean monologues combined with the Korean martial art of Tae Kwon Do. Debuting at the Shakespeare on the Mount festival in Thredbo in 1998 and again in 2001, the show toured for seven years until 2005 and was performed in Australia as well as Japan, Korea, Canada and the United States. From 2001 to 2006, he also toured educational theatre shows for Brainstorm Productions to schools throughout Australia including such productions as Sticks & Stones, Reckless, Buddies, Hurting Game, Bravehearts, Saving Cal & Mindi, Wired and Cheap Thrills.
Film and Television
Seton appeared in the lead role of Joel alongside Lara Cox in the Australian film drama The Dinner Party which was nominated for best debut feature at the 2009 Raindance Film Festival. He also starred as Jarron Brenner in the 2008 futuristic thriller The Vanquisher.
Seton’s television debut was on the Nine Network’s police drama Water Rats in 1998, followed by a guest appearance playing the role of Bahktiar in the Canadian fantasy series BeastMaster in 2000 and as Callum in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World in 2002. In 2007 he stared as the lead in two short films premiered in two episodes of Steven Spielberg's and FOX Network's On The Lot. One of these films, "Teri", was judged by industry renowned directors and actors including Michael Bay, Carrie Fisher and Garry Marshall, who commented that "..the lead (Ben Seton) was excellent in this!".
Summary
"The Paratrooper" is an unfinished story about fictional soldier Jake Webster a member of the 101st Airborne division at the Invasion of Normandy,Operation Market Garden,and The Siege of Bastogne. During the War Jake must take command of a squad and lead them through some of the toughest battles of the war
Characters
List of Characters in The Paratrooper
Controversy
Some argue that an alien invasion of Normandy is unrealistic. Others argue that it could have happened, however, the strength of the alien Mind Erase Ray was too strong, and wiped the memories of almost all of the soldiers.
"The Paratrooper" is an unfinished story about fictional soldier Jake Webster a member of the 101st Airborne division at the Invasion of Normandy,Operation Market Garden,and The Siege of Bastogne. During the War Jake must take command of a squad and lead them through some of the toughest battles of the war
Characters
List of Characters in The Paratrooper
Controversy
Some argue that an alien invasion of Normandy is unrealistic. Others argue that it could have happened, however, the strength of the alien Mind Erase Ray was too strong, and wiped the memories of almost all of the soldiers.