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Blades and Boyd
The MoveOn board is co-chaired by Joan Blades and Wes Boyd.
MoveOn started in 1998 as an e-mail group, MoveOn. org, created by software entrepreneurs Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the married cofounders of Berkeley Systems.
The MoveOn. org domain name was registered on September 18, 1998 by computer entrepreneurs Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the married cofounders of Berkeley Systems, an entertainment software company known for the flying toaster screen saver and the popular video game series You Don ’ t Know Jack.
After selling the company in 1997, Blades and Boyd became concerned about the level of " partisan warfare in Washington " following revelations of President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Following the shootings at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado, Blades and Boyd launched a " Gun Safety First " petition to promote the " common sense regulation of firearms ," such as child safety standards for gun manufacturers and laws forcing gun-show operators to enact more-stringent background checks on buyers.
" As a test subject for the new chat form, Blades and Boyd chose one of the most controversial issues for 2000 in their home town of Berkeley, California: a draft revision of the Berkeley General Plan, a document that aims to set the city's goals for everything from zoning laws to transportation, housing and community safety.
He became MoveOn's first full-time, salaried executive director, taking on administrative tasks that until then had been performed on a volunteer basis by Blades and Boyd.
Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the founders of Berkeley Systems, went on to create MoveOn. org.
Berkeley Systems was a San Francisco Bay Area software company co-founded in 1987 by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades.
Boyd and Blades went on to found the liberal political group MoveOn. org in 1998.
After selling the company in 1997, Boyd and Blades went on to found the liberal political group MoveOn. org.
After selling Berkeley Systems in 1997 for $ 13. 8 million, Blades and Boyd founded the liberal political group MoveOn. org.

Blades and also
Sri Lankan and Indian Blades made of Damascus steel also found their way into Persia.
The Blades aerobatic display team who are based at Sywell also do a performance where they fly stunts and displays with smoke.
The Garden was also the home arena for the NY Raiders / NY Golden Blades of the World Hockey Association.
" Rubén Blades ' definition of salsa is also inclusive: " Salsa music is urban folklore at the international level.
Blades are also often the parts of the alga that bear the reproductive structures.
The Orlando Solar Bears ( the final IHL champions ) and the Kansas City Blades were not admitted into the AHL because their owner, Rich DeVos, also owned the Griffins, and could only own one AHL franchise.
In Blades ' early days, he was a vocalist in Los Salvajes del Ritmo and also a songwriter and guest singer with a professional Latin music conjunto ; Bush y sus Magníficos.
Blades also began his career in films scoring music for soundtracks.
He was also the subject of Robert Mugge's documentary The Return of Ruben Blades, which debuted at that year's Denver Film Festival.
Blades had also contributed guest vocals in English to " Bitter Fruit " a song on the 1984 album Freedom-No Compromise by Little Steven.
In 1997, Blades headed the cast of singer / songwriter Paul Simon's first Broadway musical, The Capeman, based on a true story about a violent youth who becomes a poet in prison, which also starred Marc Anthony and Ednita Nazario.
Heaton also ran with the Blades Business Crew, a hooligan faction of Sheffield United supporters.
At the same time, the printers ( Blades, East, and Blades of London ) produced a new design, largely the same but inscribed " BRITISH NORTH BORNEO ", and joined by 25c and $ 2 values, also with elaborate frames.
Calles is portrayed by the actor Ruben Blades in the film For Greater Glory, originally called Cristiada, an epic historical drama also starring Andy Garcia, Peter O ' Toole, Eva Longoria, Alma Martinez, and Eduardo Verástegui.
It would also be the introduction of bassist Oscar Cartaya, later to play with Herb Alpert, Jennifer Lopez, Celia Cruz, Rubén Blades, Tito Puente, Robbie Robertson and Willie Colón.
The film also stars Johnny Depp, Salma Hayek, Willem Dafoe, Enrique Iglesias, Mickey Rourke, Eva Mendes and Rubén Blades.
Blades Hall and the Dunlap Technology building are also visible.
There's also an effective subplot that forces Tom to examine his moral outlook on life when his partner ( Ruben Blades ) accidentally shoots a fleeing suspect in the back.
* " Desapariciones " by Rubén Blades ( also covered by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Maná ).
Like Midnight Madness, Seven Wishes was also blessed with three hit singles: the plaintive " Sentimental Street " (# 8 ; sung by Kelly Keagy ), Jack Blades ' mid-tempo rocker " Four in the Morning ( I Can't Take Anymore )" (# 19 ), the title describing the time of night Blades wrote the song, and the pleasant, acoustic-flavoured " Goodbye " (# 17 ), which saw the band veering toward an overtly folk-rock, even country, direction.
Jack Blades also began a stint serving as chief counselor for the Rock ' n Roll Fantasy Camp.
The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena became a companion facility to the adjacent Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and home court to the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA from October 1960 to December 1967, the Los Angeles Clippers also of the NBA from 1984 – 1999, the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL from October to December 1967 during their inaugural 1967-68 season, the USC Trojans basketball team of the NCAA from 1959 – 2006, the UCLA Bruins Basketball team of the NCAA from 1959 – 1965 and again as a temporary home in 2011-2012, the Los Angeles Blades of the Western Hockey League from 1961 to 1967, the Los Angeles Sharks of the WHA from 1972 – 1974, the Los Angeles Cobras of the AFL in 1988, and the original Los Angeles Stars of the ABA from 1968 – 1970.

Blades and supported
On November 20, 2009, a new venture, supported entirely by volunteering staff ( who consist of the majority of the Blades editorial staff, as well as a few others, at the time of its closing ), launched with its first issue.
In 1877 Blades took an active part in organizing the Caxton celebration, and strongly supported the foundation of the Library Association.
Torrijos ran again in the 2004 presidential election on a platform of strengthening democracy and negotiating a free trade agreement with the US, and was supported by popular musician and politician Ruben Blades ; Torrijos later made Blades the nation's tourism minister.
Martín Torrijos ran on a platform of strengthening democracy and negotiating a free trade agreement with the US, and was supported by popular musician and politician Ruben Blades.
In January 2008, in a podcast interview with Stuck in the 80s, Jack Blades said the band's latest album -- Hole in the Sun -- would be released in 2008 and would be supported by a national tour.

Blades and Berkeley
In 1987, he and his wife Joan Blades were the co-founders of Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company.
Blades created many of the box designs for the early Berkeley Systems products such as Stepping Out and After Dark based on her original collage-art.

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