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• Todd (album), a 1974 album by Todd Rundgren
• Todd (elm cultivar)
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• Todd, North Carolina
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• Todd County, South Dakota
• Todd Township, Minnesota
• Todd Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania
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• Todd (Cars), a character in Cars
• The Todd (Scrubs), a character on Scrubs
• Todd class, a characteristic class in algebraic topology
• Todd (Stargate), a Wraith from the series Stargate Atlantis
• Todd-AO, a company in film post-production

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• TOD (disambiguation)

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Todd Edwards (born December 9, 1972, Bloomfield, New Jersey) is an American house and garage producer.

History[link]

Todd Edwards began his musical career around 1992. He employs vocal reconstruction techniques to his songs, creating a unique vocal collage set to a four-on-the-floor beat. Marc "MK" Kinchen, who is primarily responsible for pioneering this technique, is one of Edwards's influences.^[1] He is also a committed Christian. This is evident by recurring hidden messages found in his compositions, which often contain religious phrases.^[2]

With remixes numbering in the hundreds, some of the artists Edwards has remixed include Wildchild, St. Germain, Benjamin Diamond, Justice, Klaxons, and Dimitri From Paris. Much like his solo albums, his remixes make use of a complex vocal sampling technique, which in some cases renders the original track almost unrecognizable.

Edwards co-produced and performed vocals on the Daft Punk song "Face to Face" from the album Discovery. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Club chart in 2004.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Prima Edizione (1999)
• Nervous Innovator Series Vol 4/5 (2000)
• Full On (Volume 1) (2001)
• Full On (Volume 2) (2003)
• New Trends Sounds (2004)
• New Trends Sounds (Classics, Remixes & Beyond) (2004)
• Odyssey (2006)
• Full On (Volume 3) (2007)
• Shall Go (EP)" (2012)

Singles[link]

• F.O.T. (1994)
• Underground People (collab. DJ Shorty) (1995)
• Dancing For Heaven (1995)
• Stronger (1995)
• New Trends Sound (1995)
• Saved My Life (1995)
• Saved My Life (Remixes) (1995)
• Fly Away (One) (1996)
• Push The Love (1997)
• Never Far From You (1998)
• 41:13 (1998)
• The Prima EP (1998)
• One Day (collab. Tuff Jam) (1999)
• Look Out (1999)
• Incidental EP (2000)
• Shut The Door (2000)
• Show Me A Sign (2000)
• Saved My Life (2000)
• 2 EP (2001)
• Restless Soul (2001)
• Full On (Volume 1) (Unmixed) (2001)
• Shut The Door (Remixes) (2002)
• New Trends 2002 (2002)
• New Trends 1995 (2002)
• You Came To Me (2002)
• You're The One (2003)
• Beckon Call (2003)
• Full On (Volume 2) (Unmixed) (2003)
• Full On (Volume 2) (Remixes) (2003)
• Stop The Fighting (2003)
• Can't Live Without You (Reissue) (2003)
• Are You There (2003)
• Stormy Day (collab. Filthy Rich) (2004)
• Stormy Day (collab. Filthy Rich) (Remixes) (2004)
• Hold On To Me (2004)
• Winter Behaviour (2004)
• Who You Are (2004)
• When Your Alone (2004)
• New Trends Sounds 2004 (Part 1) (2004)
• New Trends Sounds 2004 (Part 2) (2004)
• New Trends Sounds 2004 (Part 3) (2004)
• Mystery (2005)
• Like A Fire (2005)
• Heaven (2005)
• No Scrubs (2005)
• The Journey (2006)
• Far Away (2006)
• Next To You (2007)
• I Might Be (2010)
• I Doubted You (2010)
• Stand Right Now (2010)
• Head Held High (2011)
• Shall Go (2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Todd Edwards discography at Discogs
• Todd Edwards on Myspace
• Todd Edwards on Twitter
• Todd Edwards on Facebook
• Todd Edwards Official Web Page
• LWE Interviews Todd Edwards

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Emmanuel Todd
Born	(1951-05-16) 16 May 1951 (age 61) Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Nationality	France
Fields	Demographics, Political science
Alma mater	Paris Institute of Political Studies University of Cambridge
Known for	Predicting the fall of the Soviet Union
Influences	Tocqueville

Emmanuel Todd (born 16 May 1951) is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), in Paris. His research examines the different types of families worldwide and how there are matching beliefs, ideologies and political systems, and the historical events involving these things.

Life and works[link]

Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, Emmanuel Todd is the grandson of the writer, Paul Nizan, the son of the journalist Olivier Todd, and the father of the historian David Todd. The historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, who pioneered microhistory, was a friend of the family and gave him his first history book. Aged 10, Todd wanted to become an archeologist. He studied at the Lycée international de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where he was a member of the Communist Youth. He then studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and went on to prepare a Ph.D. in history at the University of Cambridge. He defended his doctoral thesis on Seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe. A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century) in 1976.

Todd attracted attention in 1976 when he, at 25 years old, predicted the fall of the Soviet Union, based on indicators such as increasing infant mortality rates: La chute finale: Essais sur la décomposition de la sphère Soviétique (The Final Fall: An Essay on the Decomposition of the Soviet Sphere).

He then worked for a time in the literary service of Le Monde daily, then returned to research, working on the hypothesis of a determination of ideologies and religious or political beliefs by familial systems (Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure & Social System, 1983). He then wrote, among other books, The Invention of Europe (1990) and The Fate of Immigrants (1994), in which he defended the "French model" of integration of immigrants.

Emmanuel Todd

Todd was opposed to the Maastricht Treaty in the 1992 referendum. In 1995, he wrote a memo for the Fondation Saint-Simon, which became famous — the media thereafter attributed to him the paternity of the expression "fracture sociale" (social crack or social gap), used by Jacques Chirac during the 1995 electoral campaign in order to distinguish himself from his rival Édouard Balladur. Todd, however, has rejected this paternity,^[1] and attributed the expression to Marcel Gauchet.

In After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (2001), Todd predicted the fall of the United States as the sole superpower and the emergence of a multipolar world, with the rise of Europe, Japan and Russia.

In spite of his opposition to the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, Todd expressed himself in favour of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the referendum of 2005, advocating a protectionist framework at the European level for the future policies of the Union.

In A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World (2007), written with fellow demographist Youssef Courbage, Todd criticized Samuel Huntington's thesis of a clash of civilizations, pointing instead to indices of a convergence in styles of life and in values among civilisations.

Quotes[link]

Essays[link]

With an English translation[link]

• The Final Fall: An Essay on the Decomposition of the Soviet Sphere, 1976
• Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure & Social System, 1983
• The causes of progress: culture, authority, and change 1984
• The Making of Modern France: Ideology, Politics and Culture, 1988
• After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order, 2001
• A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World , with Youssef Courbage, 2007

Without an English translation[link]

• Le Fou et le Prolétaire, Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1979.
• L'Invention de la France, (with Hervé Le Bras), Éditions Pluriel-Hachettes, Paris, 1981.
• La Nouvelle France, Éditions du Seuil, coll. L'Histoire immédiate, Paris, 1988.
• L'invention de l'Europe (The Invention of Europe), 1990
• Le destin des immigrés (The Fate of Immigrants), 1994
• L'illusion économique. Essai sur la stagnation des sociétés développées (The Economic Illusion), 1998
• La Diversité du monde : Famille et modernité, Éditions du Seuil, coll. L'histoire immédiate, Paris, 1999.
• Après la démocratie, Gallimard, Paris, 2008.
• L'origine des systèmes familiaux, Tome 1: L'Eurasie, Gallimard, Paris, 2011

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Emmanuel Todd

• Protectionism and Democracy, Interview with Emmanuel Todd, by Karim Emile Bitar (french), published in L'ENA hors les murs, the ENA alumni magazine.
• Emmanuel Todd: The Specter of a Soviet-Style Crisis translation of an interview with Le Figaro
• The Conceited Empire interview with Martin A. Senn & Felix Lautenschlager for The New Zuricher
• Interview with Emmanuel Todd, by Michael Monninger Extract from Prospect, June 2003 see also this excerpt
• Emmanuel Todd interview on the 'French riots' translation of an interview with Le Monde
• Google Video: Charlie Rose interview of Emmanuel Todd Interview starts at 38:48 in the video.
• web interview (in french) arrêt sur images
• Emmanuel Todd - On the Anthropological Roots of Modern Conflicts svAbhinava compendium of links.

Todd Barry (born March 26, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor.^[1]

Life and career[link]

Barry was born in The Bronx, New York, and grew up in Florida.^[2] In 1999, his Comedy Central Presents aired. He wrote, directed and starred in the short film Borrowing Saffron (2002), which co-starred H. Jon Benjamin. He has made a variety of guest appearances on shows like Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Home Movies, Wonder Showzen, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He also voices a recurring character on Squidbillies. In 2004 Todd Barry was featured in an animated series called Shorties Watchin' Shorties.^[2][3]

In 2008, he played Wayne in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler.

Over the course of six years he made 16 appearances on Dr. Katz, appearing as himself in the first two appearances. He then played the recurring character "Todd the video store clerk" and appeared in most episodes in the show's final year. He also played a character in the television pilot Saddle Rash along with Sarah Silverman, H. Jon Benjamin and Mitch Hedberg. In "The Third Conchord", the twelfth and final episode of the first season of Flight of the Conchords, Barry played Todd, a bongo playing megalomaniac, who tries to introduce the song, "Doggy Bounce," to the Conchords' repertoire, and a new band name: The Crazy Dogggz.

In 2010, Barry had a recurring role as a fictionalized version of himself in the second season of the live-action Adult Swim series Delocated. He also has a recurring role playing himself in FX's Louie.

Works[link]

Discography[link]

• Medium Energy (2001)
• Falling off the Bone (2004)
• From Heaven (2008)^[4]

Films[link]

• Tomorrow Night (1998) - Man Caught in Rain (Director: Louis CK, 1998 Sundance selection)
• Los Enchiladas! (1999) - Duane (Director: Mitch Hedberg, 1999 Sundance selection)
• Road Trip (2000) - Campus Security Guard 1
• Pootie Tang (2001) - Greasy
• Borrowing Saffron (2002) - George (Director: Todd Barry, Woodstock Film Festival selection)
• Beer League (2006) - Creepy Guy Down the Shore
• The Wrestler (2008) - Wayne
• Pete Smalls is Dead (2010) - Bob Withers
• Vamps (2012) - Ivan
• Wanderlust (2012) - Sherm

Television[link]

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Romulox (three episodes)
• Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist - Himself
• Bored to Death - Dale Woodley
• Flight of the Conchords - Todd
• Wonder Showzen - Barold T. Mosley
• Sesame Street - #7
• Lucky Louie - Todd
• Talkshow with Spike Feresten - Himself-guest
• Chappelle's Show - Paul
• The Larry Sanders Show - Keith
• Spin City - Doug
• Sex and the City - Ordinary Guy
• Contest Searchlight - himself
• Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn - regular panelist
• Tom Goes to the Mayor - Saul
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast - Himself-guest ("Eat a Peach" episode)
• Home Movies - Video Store Clerk
• Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil
• The Sarah Silverman Program
• Louie
• Delocated - Himself
• Bob's Burgers - Moo-Lissa

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Todd Barry

• Official website
• NPR.org Interview
• Todd Barry at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Kittenpants.org
• Scene Missing Magazine Interviews Todd Barry
• .jesterjournal.com review of "From Heaven" CD

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Todd Bentley (born 10 January 1976) is a Canadian Christian evangelist. He was the key figure of the Lakeland Revival.^[3] After a brief period of retirement connected with the breakdown of his marriage and subsequent re-marriage, he has returned to ministry.^[4]

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Bentley was raised mainly in Gibsons, British Columbia, a small community on the western coast of Canada.^[5] Bentley's parents divorced while he was a child and he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. At the age of 15, he was convicted of sexual assault,^[6] and at age 17, Bentley was hospitalized after an overdose of amphetamines and hallucinogenic pills.^[7]At age 18 Bentley changed his lifestyle completely, due to his conversion to Christ, and it was soon after this that he began his Christian ministry.^[8][9]

Even though the criminal records of juvenile offenders in Canada are normally protected from public disclosure,^[10] in 2001, the now-defunct Report Newsmagazine disclosed Bentley's teenage criminal activities, calling his behavior "heinous." Bentley later said that the Report Newsmagazine article was, in substance, true: "'They were sexual crimes,' Bentley admits. 'I was involved in a sexual assault ring. I turned around and did what happened to me. I was assaulted too.'"^[6] This led to heated debate in the Christian media, asking whether Report NewsMagazine had acted correctly in publicizing Bentley's crimes, and whether this affected Bentley's position as an evangelist.^[11][12]

Fresh Fire Ministries[link]

In 1998, the Fresh Fire Ministry group^[13] asked Bentley to give his testimony at one of their weekly meetings. Soon after, Bentley took over the leadership of the group, which became more of a revival movement. He traveled to India, Africa, and South America taking part in religious crusades and revivals.^[14][15][16]

Leadership of Lakeland Revival[link]

Beginning on April 2, 2008, Bentley was invited by Stephen Strader, pastor of Ignited Church, Lakeland, Florida, to lead a one-week revival.^[14] The revival quickly became a religious and media phenomenon, attracting up to 10,000 attendees nightly with Bentley as the primary preacher.^[9] In addition to showcasing Bentley's evangelism, the revival featured colorful light shows and power-chord Christian rock music.^[17][18] The Ignited Church also took a multimedia approach to publicizing the event, posting webcasts online.^[19] The revival streamed live via Ustream – which received over 1 million hits in the first five weeks of transmissions. After the initial weeks, GOD TV, a religious satellite channel, decided to pre-empt its primetime programming and broadcast the Lakeland meetings nightly.^[14]

The revival brought in thousands, and with that many other revivalists. At one point, Bentley began to pray for and commission many of them to duplicate his model for modern day revival. Ryan Wyatt^[20] was one. Another was Evangelist Hamilton Filmalter,^[21] who was commissioned by Bentley to begin the Portland Outpouring. Filmalter teamed up with Reverend Aaron Winter the founder of Hearts of Fire International Ministries and they began to witness many of the same things that were taking place in Lakeland. However, by the time these other revivals turned up in other cities, Bentley had stepped down from Fresh Fire Ministries.

Bentley was criticized in mainstream media and on internet blogs for occasional violence done to participants,^[22][23][24] in the tradition of Smith Wigglesworth.^[25][26] Todd Bentley was known to forcefully kick, hit, smack or knock over participants. In one incident, a man was knocked over and lost a tooth. In another, an elderly woman was intentionally kicked in the face. Bentley held that the Holy Spirit led him to such actions,^[23][24] saying that those incidents were taken out of context and adding that miracles were happening simultaneously.^[22]

On 9 July 2008 ABC News' Nightline broadcast an investigative report on Bentley focusing on his faith healing claims, finances, and criminal past.^[27] Following the report, Bentley took time off from the revival but returned on 18 July 2008.^[27] Five days later, Bentley and Strader announced that Bentley would be leaving the revival permanently and that his last day would be 23 August 2008.^[28]

An important aspect of many of the meetings that Bentley has led, involves prayer for miraculous healing. The New Testament records many incidents of Jesus healing the sick; belief in its contemporary practice is important for Pentecostal and charismatic Christians. Healing testimonies were common at the Lakeland meetings.^[18][29] The hope of supernatural healing explains some of its popularity, as there were many first-person accounts of miracles.^[29][30] The lack of medical corroboration of the healings was questioned by mainstream media; the Nightline report concluded that "not a single miracle could be verified."^[17][27]

Divorce issue[link]

Bentley announced his separation from his wife, Shonnah, in August 2008,^[1][31] and resigned from the Board of Fresh Fire.^[32] A statement released by the remaining Board members said "Todd Bentley has entered into an unhealthy relationship on an emotional level with a female member of his staff", and that he would 'refrain from all public ministry for a season to receive counsel in his personal life'.^[33][34]

Some of Bentley's Christian contemporaries called for Bentley to step down in the wake of the scandal, stating that Christian leadership is incompatible with marital unfaithfulness.^[35][36] In response, a committee made up of Rick Joyner, Jack Deere, and Bill Johnson was formed to oversee the process of spiritually restoring Bentley's family.^[37] In November 2008, the Board of Fresh Fire announced that Bentley was not submitting to the process.^[38][39] On March 9, 2009, Rick Joyner announced that Bentley had remarried.^[2][40][41]

A 2009 Charisma magazine interview with Rick Joyner refuted adultery claims while characterizing the relationship as wrong and premature. Joyner told Charisma that the new couple was committed to their marriage and would “continue to serve the Lord in the best way that they can.”^[39]

Theology[link]

Bentley highlights scriptural passages in his sermons. He emphasizes that spiritual or supernatural encounters in an individual's life are gifts from the Holy Spirit.^[8][42] He has stated that his priority is to help people experience the presence of God. He wants the "Holy Spirit to manifest His glory in such a way that people can't deny the presence of a living God and they have a true born-again experience".^[8] He also says: "Miracles and healings are evidence [...] they are signs of the Kingdom, and if we don't have signs then all we have is a bunch of theology."^[18]

Bentley's testimony includes an account of visiting Heaven and meeting with Paul the Apostle.^[8][17] He has also preached about an encounter with an angel he called 'Emma' at an Assemblies of God church in 2001. The female angel gave him a vision of gold coins, and Bentley states this was a sign of his future financial stability.^[29] In response to criticism about the Biblical inspiration of a female angel, Bentley wrote that it was God's choice, and not his own, that an angel appeared to him in that manner.^[43]

Pastor Strader of Ignited Church who invited Bentley to Lakeland said: "We watch over everything. Everything that happens on the platform is scriptural [...] The nightly message has been totally 100 percent nothing but Jesus. People are saved, people are healed, and Jesus is being glorified. [...] Even some of my so-called friends are questioning my integrity, but they never come to the services. It's not fair just to watch [them] on TV."^[44]

Joel's Army[link]

Bentley has sponsored an internship program called 'Joel's Army' in addition to having the words "Joel's Army" tattooed across his sternum with military dog tags^[45][46] demonstrating a level of commitment to the Latter Rain doctrine of the Manifest Sons of God, (or Man-Child Generation) as preached by William M. Branham and George Warnock.^[47] The program's doctrine was associated to an interpretation of Revelation 12 that in the last age before Jesus returns, there will be a generation of especially endowed Christians who will be able to do many miracles, and will usher in the reign of God.^[46][48] This is in the tradition of William M. Branham and the healing revivals of the 50s, overlapping with Latter Rain Movement theology.^[49] Bentley's association with Paul Cain, an associate of Branham and himself a healing evangelist of the 50s, is a further connection to the movement.^[50] Joel's Army has been connected to Dominion Theology and Fivefold ministry thinking,^[46] and has been described as a "rapidly growing apocalyptic movement" prophesied to become an "Armageddon-ready military force of young people with a divine mandate to physically impose Christian "dominion" on non-believers.^[46]

Appearance[link]

Bentley's physical appearance has been noted for being very unconventional for that of an evangelist.^[8][17] He has dozens of tattoos, multiple facial piercings, and a preference for t-shirts over ties.^{[3][51][52][53]} Bentley's preaching style is also flamboyant, known for mannerisms like shouting 'Bam!' during his delivery.^[29]

Bibliography[link]

• The Journey into the Miraculous (Shippensburg: Destiny Image, 2008)
• The Reality of the Supernatural World: Exploring Heavenly Realms and Prophetic Experiences (Shippensburg: Destiny Image, 2008)
• Kingdom Rising: Making the Kingdom Real in Your Life (Shippensburg: Destiny Image, 2008)

See also[link]

• Apostolic-Prophetic Movement
• Bill Johnson
• Paul Cain
• Rick Joyner
• James Goll
• John Paul Jackson

References[link]

External links[link]

• Fresh Fire Ministries
• Todd Bentley resigns from Fresh Fire Ministries
• Todd Bentley's restoration
• Todd Bentley & the End-Times Apostasy a critical look at Todd Bentley's ministry and teachings