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Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on affective science. She is a director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell, she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review. Along with James Gross, she founded the Society for Affective Science.
Biography
Barrett was born in 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a working poor family and was the first member of her extended family to attend university. After graduating from the University of Toronto with honors, she pursued a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Waterloo with the goal of becoming a therapist, until a frustrating puzzle sidetracked her from a clinical career. As a graduate student, she failed eight times to replicate a simple experiment, finally realizing that her seeming failed attempts were, in fact, successfully replicating a previously undiscovered phenomenon. The resulting research direction became her life's work: understanding the nature of emotion in the brain. Following a clinical internship at the University of Manitoba Medical School, she held professorships in psychology at Penn State University, Boston College, and Northeastern University. Over two decades, she transitioned from clinical psychology into social psychology, psychophysiology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience.
Barrett is most inspired by William James, Wilhelm Wundt, and Charles Darwin. In 2019–2020, she served as president of the Association for Psychological Science. From 2018–2021, she was ranked in the top one percent of the most-cited scientists in the world over a ten-year period.
In addition to academic work, Barrett has written two science books for the public, How Emotions are Made (2017) and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (2020), and her TED talk was among the 25 most popular worldwide in 2018.
Professional history
Study of human emotions
At the beginning of her career, Barrett's research focused on the structure of affect, having developed experience-sampling methods and open-source software to study emotional experience. Barrett and members at the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory study the nature of emotion broadly from social-psychological, psychophysiological, cognitive science, and neuroscience perspectives, and take inspiration from anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics. They also explore the role of emotion in vision and other psychological phenomena.
In 1996, she joined the Psychology Faculty at Boston College. Before that she was an assistant professor of clinical psychology at the Pennsylvania State University.
Her research has focused on the main issues in the science of emotions such as:
What are the basic building blocks of emotional life?
Building blocks of emotional life
Why is it that people quickly and effortlessly perceive anger, sadness, fear in themselves and others, yet scientists have been unable to specify a set of clear criteria for empirically identifying these emotional events?
What roles do language and conceptual knowledge play in emotion perception
Are there really differences between the emotional lives of men and women (see )
Theory of constructed emotion
Barrett developed her current theory of constructed emotion originally during her graduate training.
According to Barrett, emotions are "not universal, but vary from culture to culture" (see Emotions and culture). She says that emotions "are not triggered; you create them. They emerge as a combination of the physical properties of your body, a flexible brain that wires itself to whatever environment it develops in, and your culture and upbringing, which provide that environment."
Honors and awards
Independent Scientist Research (K02) Award, National Institute of Mental Health, 2002–2007.
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2003.
Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2005.
Fellow, American Psychological Association, 2005.
Career Trajectory Award, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 2006.
Cattell Fund Fellowship, 2007–2008.
NIH Director's Pioneer Award, 2007–2012, to study how the brain creates emotion.
Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2008.
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008.
Arts in Academics award, University of Waterloo, 2010.
Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award, Northeastern University, 2012.
Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2012.
Award for Distinguished Service in Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, 2013.
Elected Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists, 2013.
Diener Award in Social Psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2014.
Heritage Wall of Fame, Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, 2016.
Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement, Association for Psychological Science, 2018.
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018.
President, Association for Psychological Science, 2019–2020.
Guggenheim Fellowship in neuroscience, 2019.
John P. McGovern Award in the Behavioral Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020.
APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions, American Psychological Association, 2021.
Mentorship Award in Affective Science, Society for Affective Science, 2022.
Books
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. .
How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. .
See also
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
List of University of Waterloo people
References
External links
Publications
American women psychologists
Canadian women psychologists
Emotion psychologists
American women neuroscientists
American cognitive neuroscientists
Northeastern University faculty
Harvard Medical School people
1963 births
Living people
Scientists from Toronto
University of Toronto alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women scientists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Feldman%20Barrett |
Citation is the 4th album recorded by alternative country musician Scott Miller. It was released on March 24, 2006.
Track listing
All tracks by Scott Miller
"Summons" – 0:25
"Freedom Is A Stranger" – 3:44
"Wild Things" – 2:42
"Still People Are Moving" – 4:53
"The Only Road" (Mic Harrison, Brad Henderson, Miller) – 3:34
"Only Everything" – 3:07
"8 Miles A Gallon" – 2:50
"Jody" – 3:04
"Hawks and Doves" (Neil Young) – 3:19
"Say Ho" – 3:00
"On A Roll" – 2:46
"Long Goodnight" – 2:25
Personnel
Scott Miller - vocals, guitar, harmonica
Kristin Barlowe – photography
Jim DeMain – mastering
Jim Dickinson – producer, liner notes
Eric Fritsch – guitar, keyboards, vocals
Kevin Houston – engineer
Shawn McWilliams – drums, vocals
Jeremy Pennebaker - bass, vocals
Sue Meyer – design
Scott Miller (country musician) albums
2006 albums
Sugar Hill Records albums
Albums produced by Jim Dickinson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation%20%28album%29 |
The Businessmen's Educational Fund (BEF) was an American non-profit organization which was founded in 1968. Its goals were to research, reassess and reduce the influence of the military in US economics and politics.
Its founder chairman was Harold Willens, president of the Factory Equipment Supply Corporation, who had also founded the Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace in 1967. Willens had been a captain in the US Marines during the Second World War and then became successful as a businessman afterwards. The organization was funded by donations and dues which were $100 for individuals up to $25,000 for the 17 founder members who helped Willens start the organization. Its staff included A. Ernest Fitzgerald – the whistleblower who testified about the problems with the Lockheed C-5A and was fired from the USAF's Senior Executive Service on the orders of President Nixon, resulting in the case of Nixon v. Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald produced literature and conducted a program of seminars across the country on the topic of waste in the military.
The BEF sent out a letter by General David M. Shoup, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps who was critical of the US foreign policy at that time, calling it "militaristic and aggressive". This was sent to 25,000 senior executives across the nation and 1,700 responses were received. The majority of these agreed with the general's statement but the executives did not want to say so publicly. Willens found this discouraging, considering that the business community was too cautious and conformist, "Corporate executives are acting in accordance with an established set of priorities, including being popular, fashionable, promoted and invited to the White House."
The group was put on to the original Nixon's Enemies List and the master list of Nixon political opponents for bankrolling a syndicated 5-minute radio program considered negative toward the Nixon administration.
See also
Military–industrial complex
References
Political advocacy groups in the United States
Organizations established in 1968
1968 establishments in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Businessmen%27s%20Educational%20Fund |
The Yt antigen system (also known as Cartwright) is present on the membrane of red blood cells and helps determine a person's blood type. The antigens are found on the protein acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme which helps break down acetylcholine. The Yt system features two alleles, Yt(a) and Yt(b). Antibodies against the Yt system can lead to transfusion reactions such as hemolytic anemia.
References
- OMIM page on Yt antigen
External links
Yt at BGMUT Blood Group Antigen Gene Mutation Database at NCBI, NIH
Blood antigen systems
Genes on human chromosome 7
Transfusion medicine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yt%20antigen%20system |
Scott Pendlebury (born 7 January 1988) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He served as Collingwood captain from 2014 to 2022. Pendlebury is a dual premiership player, also winning the Norm Smith Medal as best on ground in the 2010 grand final replay, and was the AFLCA champion player of the year in 2013. He is a six-time All-Australian and five-time Copeland Trophy winner, and is the Collingwood games record holder with 383 games. Pendlebury is also the league record holder for disposals, handballs and tackles.
Early life
Originally from Sale in the Gippsland Region of Victoria, Pendlebury began his sporting career playing basketball and accepted a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra; however, after 3 weeks at the AIS, he decided to quit the under 18s squad and return to Victoria to pursue professional football with the Gippsland Power in the TAC Cup. Pendlebury's vacated place in the AIS squad was taken by Patty Mills, who went on to win an NBA Championship in 2014 with the San Antonio Spurs. Growing up, Pendlebury supported the Melbourne Football Club.
Pendlebury was selected for the 2005 under 18 Vic Country team. He played two of the three games and had an average of 17 possessions.
He was selected to play for eventual 2005 TAC Cup premiers Gippsland Power. He played 19 games, kicked 11 goals and averaged 22 possessions a game. Collingwood became aware of Pendlebury after Gippsland Power manager Peter Francis recommended both Pendlebury and his older brother Kristopher. Collingwood drafted Scott Pendlebury with pick five in the 2005 AFL Draft, and Collingwood's number two pick overall, whereas Kris did not play in the AFL but did captain the Collingwood side in the Victorian Football League.
AFL career
Pendlebury began his career wearing number 16 on his guernsey and changed to number 10 at the start of the 2007 season. He is a natural left-footer, rarely wastes a possession, and has excellent vision that has been attributed to his years playing basketball.
2006
Pendlebury's 2006 pre-season was hampered by glandular fever, but he made a successful comeback with Collingwood's VFL affiliate, Williamstown. He made his AFL debut in Round 10 against the Brisbane Lions, and became part of a select group of footballers known for kicking their first goal with their first kick in league football. He played eight more games in the 2006 season.
2007
Pendlebury switched to the number 10 guernsey previously worn by Blake Caracella, and gave the number 16 guernsey to newcomer Nathan Brown. Following his nine games in 2006, Pendlebury broke into the Collingwood midfield on a regular basis, averaging 18 disposals a game before he was nominated for the NAB Rising Star in Round 4. He collected a season-high 26 possessions in the 2007 Semi-Final against the West Coast Eagles in Perth, and kicked a crucial goal during extra time.
Throughout the 2007 season, he was compared with Geelong rookie midfielder Joel Selwood. Both were close favourites for the 2007 NAB Rising Star with Selwood eventually winning by seven votes.
Pendlebury also placed second in the 2007 Copeland Trophy behind Travis Cloke.
2008
Pendlebury was voted into Collingwood's five-man leadership group as deputy vice-captain preceding the 2008 season.
Highlights of Pendlebury's season included 33 disposals against Essendon on ANZAC Day and placing a close second behind Paul Medhurst for the Anzac Day medal.
On 9 May 2008, Pendlebury was selected in the Victorian Squad for the AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match, with teammates Josh Fraser and Heath Shaw. Despite playing only half of the match, he collected 19 disposals with a 79% efficiency rating.
Pendlebury was an important factor in Collingwood's 86-point victory over reigning premiers Geelong.
Pendlebury played his 50th game on 9 August 2008 against St Kilda in Round 19. He finished third in Collingwood's 2008 Best and Fairest count.
2009
Pendlebury became more prominent in 2009. He collected a career high 39 disposals against Melbourne Football Club on the Queens Birthday and won the Women's Round medal. He had a career high 22 kicks against the West Coast Eagles and another career high 20 handballs against the Richmond Football Club. Despite missing a few games due to injuries, he was still shortlisted for selection as an All-Australian. He had an average of 26 disposals a game (13 kicks and 13 handballs)and averaged 2 goals per 5 games. His season ended with a cracked fibula bone injury in the Qualifying final.
Pendlebury polled 13 votes in the 2009 Brownlow Medal, the top ranked Collingwood player.
2010
In 2010 Pendlebury won a spot in the All-Australian team and won the ANZAC Medal. He polled 21 votes in the 2010 Brownlow Medal, to finish in fourth position. He won the 2010 Norm Smith medal when Collingwood won the premiership.
2011
In 2011 Pendlebury won his second ANZAC Day Medal as best-on-ground in Collingwood's 30-point win over . Three weeks later, against , he was controversially denied a goal from a free kick that would have won Collingwood the game. Ultimately, the Magpies lost by three points.
He capped off a brilliant year, winning the Copeland Trophy for the best and fairest player at Collingwood, and the Bob Rose Trophy for being the best Collingwood player throughout the finals.
In the Brownlow he polled 24 votes to finish equal third behind winner Dane Swan, Sam Mitchell (disqualified) and Nick Dal Santo.
2012
Pendlebury finished the season with 15 brownlow votes, down on his 24 from the previous year and helped the Magpies to a Preliminary Final, where they eventually lost to the Sydney Swans. He finished second in the Copeland Trophy to winner Dayne Beams and in front of three-time champion Dane Swan. He was also included in the All Australian for the 3rd year running alongside teammates Swan and Dayne Beams.
2013
Pendlebury improved on his 2012 season, having arguably his best and most consistent season to date. Already touted as future captain of the Collingwood Football Club, Pendlebury helped lead the club brilliantly in 2013 and although Collingwood lost the Elimination final loss to Port Adelaide, Pendlebury won his second Copeland Trophy beating former champion Dane Swan. He also had 21 votes in the Brownlow, only losing out to teammate Dane Swan for the highest votes for the Magpies. Pendlebury once again was included in the All Australian Squad being named on the wing. This was his fourth consecutive inclusion in the team.
2014
On 29 January, Pendlebury was appointed as captain replacing Nick Maxwell. Pendlebury has thrived as captain having one of his best seasons.
At the end of the season, Pendlebury was selected for the fifth consecutive time as part of the All Australian team and was awarded the Lou Richards Medal. He also won his third Copeland Trophy, the Magpie Army Player of the Year award and the Gavin Brown Award.
2015
During the 2015 Copeland Trophy event, Eddie McGuire announced that Pendlebury had re-signed with Collingwood until the end of 2020. Pendlebury said at event "The direction the club is taking really excites me. We have a solid group of young players who have got a taste of senior footy and we have the right program and people in place to take this group to the next level. I’m proud to captain this club and want to be part of what the future holds." The same night, he won his third consecutive Copeland Trophy and fourth overall.
2016
Pendlebury battled injury early in the season as well as filled in as a half-back instead of his regular role in the midfield, and despite this maintained his consistency. His professionalism and inspiration caused his peers to vote for him as the winner of the Gavin Brown Award for demonstrating the team values throughout the season. He was further rewarded with his fourth consecutive Copeland Trophy and fifth overall.
2017
Pendlebury had a consistent 2017 season until he sustained a broken finger in Round 17 against the Gold Coast Suns. He had successful surgery on the finger, and was hopeful to return the next week, but his return was delayed for a month and it was said to be unlikely that he would play again until Round 22 or 23. However, did not return again for the season. In the 2017 season, he averaged a career high tackles per game (6.4).
2020
In round 18 of the 2020 season, he broke the Collingwood record for most VFL/AFL games played, as well as most games as captain.
2023
Pendlebury resigned his post as captain of Collingwood after the 2022 AFL season. In round 17 of the 2023 AFL season, Pendlebury broke the VFL/AFL all-time disposal record, surpassing Robert Harvey.
As a premiership player in the 2023 AFL Grand Final, Pendlebury broke his 13-year-long premiership drought, alongside Steele Sidebottom, which is a league record between premierships. This game also saw Pendlebury draw level with Gordon Coventry for the most AFL finals played at Collingwood, with 31 apiece.
Personal life
Pendlebury was born and raised in Sale, Victoria. He attended Catholic College Sale. He played alongside former Collingwood players Dale Thomas, Tyson Goldsack and Brent Macaffer at the Gippsland Power before all getting drafted to Collingwood. He has two brothers who have both played football in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Older brother Kris has won the Joseph Wren Memorial Trophy and captained the Collingwood VFL Football Club and younger brother Ryan has played for three teams in the VFL. Scott Pendlebury married his long-term girlfriend, Alex Pendlebury (née Davis), in 2016. The couple's first son was born in 2017, and welcomed a daughter in November 2019.
Statistics
Updated to the end of the 2023 season.
|-
| 2006 || || 16
| 9 || 4 || 0 || 67 || 51 || 118 || 46 || 25 || 0.4 || 0.0 || 7.4 || 5.7 || 13.1 || 5.1 || 2.8 || 0
|-
| 2007 || || 10
| 23 || 20 || 8 || 238 || 197 || 435 || 124 || 75 || 0.9 || 0.3 || 10.3 || 8.6 || 18.9 || 5.4 || 3.3 || 1
|-
| 2008 || || 10
| 23 || 11 || 10 || 283 || 235 || 518 || 113 || 77 || 0.5 || 0.4 || 12.3 || 10.2 || 22.5 || 4.9 || 3.3 || 7
|-
| 2009 || || 10
| 21 || 8 || 4 || 271 || 271 || 542 || 105 || 69 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 12.9 || 12.9 || 25.8 || 5.0 || 3.3 || 13
|-
| bgcolor=F0E68C | 2010# || || 10
| 26 || 17 || 13 || 339 || 352 || 691 || 116 || 144 || 0.7 || 0.5 || 13.0 || 13.5 || 26.6 || 4.5 || 5.5 || 21
|-
| 2011 || || 10
| 25 || 24 || 12 || 385 || 357 || 742 || 106 || 150 || 1.0 || 0.5 || 15.4 || 14.3 || 29.7 || 4.2 || 6.0 || 24
|-
| 2012 || || 10
| 21 || 11 || 8 || 316 || 303 || 619 || 82 || 115 || 0.5 || 0.4 || 15.0 || 14.4 || 29.5 || 3.9 || 5.5 || 15
|-
| 2013 || || 10
| 23 || 18 || 9 || 329 || 359 || 688 || 88 || 119 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 14.3 || 15.6 || 29.9 || 3.8 || 5.2 || 21
|-
| 2014 || || 10
| 21 || 13 || 10 || 292 || 304 || 596 || 75 || 116 || 0.6 || 0.5 || 13.9 || 14.5 || 28.4 || 3.6 || 5.5 || 16
|-
| 2015 || || 10
| 22 || 15 || 8 || 321 || 314 || 635 || 97 || 112 || 0.7 || 0.4 || 14.6 || 14.3 || 28.9 || 4.4 || 5.1 || 15
|-
| 2016 || || 10
| 22 || 11 || 7 || 289 || 341 || 630 || 78 || 123 || 0.5 || 0.3 || 13.1 || 15.5 || 28.6 || 3.5 || 5.6 || 17
|-
| 2017 || || 10
| 16 || 5 || 7 || 217 || 233 || 450 || 58 || 103 || 0.3 || 0.4 || 13.6 || 14.6 || 28.1 || 3.6 || 6.4 || 15
|-
| 2018 || || 10
| 25 || 9 || 5 || 294 || 376 || 670 || 60 || 147 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 11.8 || 15.0 || 26.8 || 2.4 || 5.9 || 15
|-
| 2019 || || 10
| 24 || 12 || 8 || 345 || 310 || 655 || 105 || 112 || 0.5 || 0.3 || 14.4 || 12.9 || 27.3 || 4.4 || 4.7 || 14
|-
| 2020 || || 10
| 15 || 1 || 2 || 175 || 179 || 354 || 38 || 45 || 0.1 || 0.1 || 11.7 || 11.9 || 23.6 || 2.5 || 3.0 || 13
|-
| 2021 || || 10
| 18 || 4 || 4 || 197 || 220 || 417 || 67 || 69 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 10.9 || 12.2 || 23.2 || 3.7 || 3.8 || 3
|-
| 2022 || || 10
| 24 || 2 || 1 || 274 || 281 || 555 || 74 || 112 || 0.1 || 0.0 || 11.4 || 11.7 || 23.1 || 3.1 || 4.7 || 2
|-
| bgcolor=F0E68C | 2023# || || 10
| 25 || 9 || 3 || 305 || 266 || 571 || 89 || 108 || 0.4 || 0.1 || 12.2 || 10.6 || 22.8 || 3.6 || 4.3 || 6
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! colspan=3 | Career
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Notes
Honours and achievements
Team
AFL premiership player (): 2010, 2023
McClelland Trophy (): 2010, 2011
AFL Minor Premiership (Collingwood) 2010, 2011, 2023
NAB Cup (Collingwood) 2011
Individual
Collingwood captain: 2014–2022
Norm Smith Medal: 2010
AFLCA champion player of the year: 2013
Collingwood games record holder
6× All-Australian team: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019
5× Copeland Trophy: 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
2× AFLPA best captain: 2020, 2022
AFLCA best young player: 2007
3× Anzac Medal: 2010, 2011, 2019
Lou Richards Medal: 2014
AFL Rising Star nominee: 2007
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
Collingwood Football Club players
Collingwood Football Club premiership players
Norm Smith Medal winners
All-Australians (AFL)
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Gippsland Power players
Sale Football Club players
Copeland Trophy winners
People from Sale, Victoria
Australia international rules football team players
VFL/AFL premiership players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Pendlebury |
Bistecca alla fiorentina (beefsteak Florentine style) is an Italian steak dish made of young steer (vitellone) or heifer (scottona) that is one of the most famous dishes in Tuscan cuisine. It is loin steak on the bone cooked on a grill until rare (50 °C).
History
The word bistecca was borrowed from the English beefsteak in the early 19th century. An 1863 dictionary defines it as:
Definition
Bistecca alla fiorentina is obtained from the cut of the sirloin (the part corresponding to the lumbar vertebrae, the half of the back on the side of the tail) of a young steer or heifer of the Chianina breed: in the middle it has the "T" shaped bone, that is, a T-bone steak, with the fillet on one side and the sirloin on the other.
The Italian gastronomist Pellegrino Artusi, in his 1891 cooking manual Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well (La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene), defines the cut of the steak as follows: "Florentine steak. From beef-steak, an English word that is worth the rib of an ox, came the name of our steak, which is nothing more than a chop with its bone, a finger or a finger and a half thick, cut from the sirloin of a steer".
Preparation
The meat - previously aged for at least two weeks in cold rooms - must be at room temperature at the time of cooking. The cut is about 1-1.5 kg, the height about 5–6 cm.
To heat the grill, a generous amount of charcoal embers, preferably oak, holm oak or olive, is used. The charcoal must be well alive, barely veiled by a light layer of ash, without flame. The meat must be very close to the coals, at first, so that an aromatic crust is formed as quickly as possible via the Maillard reaction, then after the first minute it must be raised to a gentler heat.
The unseasoned meat is turned once, cooking it about 3–5 minutes per side. Finally, it is cooked "standing" on the side of the bone (the steak must be thick enough to stand alone), for 5/7 minutes, until the traces of juice disappear from the bone.
The meat is well browned on the outside and red, soft and juicy on the inside, warm, but not cooked. For this reason, it is not turned with forks.
Traditional accompaniments are cannellini beans dressed in olive oil, or a salad. On the table, it goes well with a good red wine, like Chianti classico.
See also
Tuscan cuisine
Italian Nettist Party, also known as the Steak Party
List of beef dishes
T-bone steak
References
Bibliography
Regione Toscana (a cura di), Viaggio in Toscana. Alla scoperta dei prodotti tipici, Firenze, Giunti, 2001, p. 127. .
Paolo Petroni, Il libro della vera cucina fiorentina, Firenze, Il Centauro, 2004. .
Sandro Pintus, Elogio della bistecca. La fiorentina dalla Chianina alla tavola. Storia, ricette, curiosità, 2ª edizione, StreetLib, 2016. Windows/Linux - Mac (interattivo) id1027888456.
Cuisine of Tuscany
Beef steak dishes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistecca%20alla%20fiorentina |
Baptista is a Portuguese surname.
People with this name include:
Alba Baptista (born 1997)
Alexandre Baptista (born 1941), Portuguese footballer
Ana Filipa Baptista (born 1990), Portuguese chess player
António Maria Baptista (1866–1920), Portuguese military officer and politician
Arnaldo Baptista (born 1948), Brazilian rock musician
Baptista Mantuanus (1447–1516), Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet
Baptista Minola, a character in Shakespeare's Taming Of The Shrew
Baptista Varani (1458–1527), Italian nun and Catholic saint
Christopher Baptista, Canadian drag queen
Cyro Baptista (born 1950), Brazilian musician
(born 1962), Brazilian botanist
Eduardo Baptista (born 1970), Brazilian football manager
Ezequiel Baptista (born 1926), Portuguese footballer
Felipe Oliveira Baptista (born 1975), Portuguese fashion designer
Firmino Baptista, Portuguese athlete
Hélder Baptista (born 1972), Portuguese footballer
Joao Luiz Ferreira Baptista (born 1971), Brazilian footballer
Jorge Carlos Santos Moreira Baptista (born 1977), Portuguese footballer
Joseph Baptista (1864–1930), Indian-freedom activist known as Kaka Baptista
Juan Alfonso Baptista (born 1976), Venezuelan actor and model
Júlio Baptista (born 1981), Brazilian footballer
Mariano Baptista (1832-1907), President of Bolivia
Mawete João Baptista, Angolan ambassador
Miguel Baptista (born 1993) Portuguese footballer
Nelsinho Baptista (born 1950), Brazilian football player and manager
Pedro Ernesto Baptista (fl. 1931–1936), Brazilian surgeon and politician
Serafim Baptista (born 1925), Portuguese footballer
Silverio Pinto Baptista (born 1969), East Timorese ombudsman
Vítor Baptista (1948–1999), Portuguese footballer
See also
Baptist (surname)
Baptiste (name) (French surname and given name) French term meaning "Baptist"
Battista (Italian surname) Italian term meaning "Baptist"
Bautista (Spanish surname) Spanish term meaning "Baptist"
Batista (Portuguese/Spanish surname)
Portuguese-language surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptista |
A fixture can refer to:
Test fixture, used to control and automate testing
Light fixture
Plumbing fixture
Fixture (tool), a tool used in manufacturing
Fixture (property law)
A type of sporting event
See also
Fixed (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixture |
Eastport-South Manor is a school district that serves parts of both Brookhaven and Southampton towns in eastern Suffolk County, New York. Commonly known as "ESM", the district serves the hamlets of Manorville and Eastport, as well as portions of the hamlets of Speonk and Mastic.
The total enrollment for the 2015-2016 school year is 3,534 students.
History of the district
The school district was formed in 2000 from the merger of two local districts, Eastport Union Free School District (UFSD) in Eastport, and South Manor UFSD in Manorville.
These two districts, along with several others, participated in a study in the mid-1990s to determine the feasibility of combining the many local districts into one centralized district. Proponents suggested that this would benefit the schools through lower central administration costs, and would allow significantly better programming for students, since a combined district would have a much higher enrollment than any of the individual districts. Further, the area covered in the scope of the study had experienced significant growth, particularly in Manorville, which had doubled the population in a span of only ten years. Finally, neither South Manor UFSD nor East Moriches UFSD (a nearby district that also participated in the study) had high schools of their own, and were paying costly tuition to send their students to other high schools.
Ultimately, only Eastport and South Manor decided to combine to create a new district.
The central administration office is located at 149 Dayton Avenue, Manorville, NY 11949.
Before the merger, Eastport's mascot was the Duck, paying tribute to the large local duck farming industry, due to which Eastport was commonly referred to as "the duck capital of the world". The mascot of the South Manor school district was the Mustang.
Schools in the district
South Street School (Grades K-2)
Tuttle Avenue Elementary School (Grades K-2)
Dayton Avenue School (Grades 3-6)
Eastport Elementary School (Grades 3 - 6)
Eastport-South Manor Junior/Senior High School (Grades 7-12)
Before the two school districts merged, South Street School and Dayton Avenue School were the two schools of South Manor UFSD, serving grades K-9. Eastport Elementary was known as Eastport High School, but served all thirteen grades in one building. It was the only school in the former Eastport UFSD.
Extracurricular activities
Theatre
The school district is known for its excellence in stage productions. The theater facilities include a black box theater capable of holding 250 audience members, a main stage theater with nearly 1000 seats, state-of-the-art lighting and sound equipment, a booth, a lighting catwalk, state of the art rigging system, costume building facilities, dressing rooms, an orchestra pit, and a scene shop. Several shows are put on in the Black Box stage. Two shows are put on a year on the Main Stage. While the shows are performed by students, the level of dedication from all members give students the impression they are working professionally. In the fall there is a “5 day play challenge”, and in the spring, a musical.
Many students have also received Teeny Awards in various categories for their performances. In addition, many students pursue careers and further education in theater, and some have even made it to Broadway.
Since opening in 2003 the following shows have been put on:
Moon Over Buffalo
Guys and Dolls
The Laramie Project
Fiddler on the Roof
Rumors
Little Women
The Crucible
South Pacific
Noises Off
Les Miserables
Picnic
Anything Goes
Lend Me a Tenor
Beauty and The Beast
West Side Story
Inherit the Wind
The Music Man
Blithe Spirit
The Sound Of Music
The Diary of Anne Frank
A Chorus Line
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Little Shop of Horrors
Crimes of the Heart
Mary Poppins
Sylvia
Godspell
The Little Mermaid
Legally Blonde Canceled due to Covid-19
Radium Girls
The Addams Family
'' Mean Girls
Sports
The school is also known for its sports program. The school offers (most for both boys and girls): Lacrosse, Cross Country, Volleyball, Football, Wrestling, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Track, Tennis, Soccer, Golf, Ice Hockey, Field Hockey, and Bowling.
Eastport-South Manor teams are regularly recognized by Section XI for its top scholar-athletic teams, with many of the teams given the sportsmanship award.
The gymnasium and football field at Eastport-South Manor are affectionately dubbed 'The Shark Tank'. The student section, also known as 'The Shark Pack', provides an incredible atmosphere at varsity games.
In 2015 the Girls Varsity Lacrosse team were Class B state champions.
In 2016, Boys Varsity Volleyball were Class B State Champions.
In 2019, the girls varsity lacrosse team was the state Class B champion.
In 2021, the Boys Varsity Volleyball team were the Class B State Champions. They went 20-0, only losing 1 set all year, including a streak of 56 in a row. They will go down as one of the most dominant boys volleyball teams in the history of New York State.
Clubs
The Eastport-South Manor school district also provides its students with many extracurricular clubs and activities:
Stage Crew
Marching Band
Color Guard
Jazz Band
Science Club
S.A.L.T (Students Aiding Living Things)
Yearbook Club
National Junior Honor Society
National Honor Society
World Language Honor Society
Student Council/Government
Key Club
Tri-M Music Honor Society
Varsity Leaders Club
Show Choir
Chess Club
Coding Club
Debate Club
Wall of Honor Project
From 2011-2013 at Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School, a committee of students, parents, teachers and administrators met to decide on an appropriate manner in which the community could honor the students that voluntarily enter the military upon their graduation from the high school. The ESM community decided to construct a Wall of Honor as a means to express their gratitude to the courageous alumni serving in the United States Armed Forces. This wall is designed to recognize graduates from the first graduation class (2004) to the present. The names of future graduates whom enter the military will also have their names added to the Wall of Honor. In order to support its construction, volunteers raised over $60,000.
References
External links
Eastport-South Manor Central School District
Burton, Behrendt & Smith (BBS)
School districts in Suffolk County, New York
Brookhaven, New York
Southampton (town), New York
School districts established in 2003
2003 establishments in New York (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastport-South%20Manor%20Central%20School%20District |
Kathleen "Kat" Kinkade (December 6, 1930 – July 3, 2008) was one of the eight co-founders of Twin Oaks, an intentional community in Virginia inspired by the behaviorist utopia depicted in B.F. Skinner's book Walden Two. Kinkade was the only founder to remain a community member for most of the community's history. Her daughter, Josie, was also a member of Twin Oaks as an adolescent and young adult.
Career
A native of Seattle, Washington, Kinkade helped found Twin Oaks in 1967, when she was in her mid 30s, after a career as a "bored secretary" and a brief stint at a cooperative house in Washington, D.C. In the 1970s, Kinkade left Twin Oaks to move to Missouri to help found East Wind Community, an offshoot of Twin Oaks. She eventually returned to Twin Oaks, though East Wind continued. In 1993, Kinkade was also a co-founder of Acorn Community, her third income-sharing intentional community.
Kinkade was also instrumental in founding the network of income-sharing egalitarian communities called The Federation of Egalitarian Communities or the FEC.
At age 70, she moved into a small house fifteen miles away in the town of Mineral.
In 2008, with metastatic breast cancer, Kinkade was no longer able to care for herself. Twin Oaks took her in to provide end-of-life care, an exception made in honor of her unique contribution to the Community. Kinkade died of breast cancer complications on July 3, 2008, aged 77, shortly after Twin Oaks' 41st anniversary.
Books
A Walden Two Experiment; The First Five Years of Twin Oaks Community William Morrow & Co (February 1974)
Is It Utopia Yet?: An Insider's View of Twin Oaks Community in Its Twenty-Sixth Year Twin Oaks Publishing; 2nd edition (August 1994)
References
External links
Twin Oaks Community
East Wind Community
Acorn Community website
Federation of Egalitarian Communities
Obituary
Founders of utopian communities
1930 births
2008 deaths
American activists
Deaths from cancer in Virginia
Deaths from breast cancer
People from Charlottesville, Virginia
People from Seattle
People from Louisa County, Virginia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kat%20Kinkade |
The Lycoming Valley Railroad is a short line that operates of track in Lycoming and Clinton counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. It is part of the North Shore Railroad System.
The line runs generally west between Muncy (in Lycoming County) and Avis (in Clinton County). Other communities served include Montoursville, Williamsport (and its western neighborhood of Newberry), the unincorporated village of Linden (in Woodward Township) and Jersey Shore (all in Lycoming County). of track are in Lycoming County and is in Clinton County.
The rail line runs north and then west along the left bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River, roughly following the routes of Interstate 180 and U.S. Route 220.
The corporate offices are located in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. There are connections to the Norfolk Southern Railway line at Muncy and Linden (as well as an indirect connection to Canadian Pacific Railway service).
The Lycoming County Visitors Bureau offers occasional train excursions, departing from Williamsport and going to either Jersey Shore or Muncy and returning. In the fall these are billed as "Fall Foliage Excursions" and in December there are Polar Express rides with Santa Claus.
The system has trackage rights via the Norfolk Southern line. These allow the Lycoming Valley Railroad to connect to the west with the Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad (at Lock Haven) and, to the south, with the Union County Industrial Railroad (at Milton), the North Shore Railroad (at Northumberland), and Shamokin Valley Railroad (at Sunbury).
History
The line operated by the Lycoming Valley Railroad (Initials are LVRR) was formerly part of the Reading Company and New York Central Railroad and was absorbed into Conrail. SEDA-COG JRA was formed in July 1983 to continue to provide rail service to communities whose rail lines Conrail had decided to abandon. In 1996 the JRA took over the line when Conrail abandoned it, and the Lycoming Valley Railroad was born as its fifth railroad.
Vast stands of timber and nearby coal deposits brought three early railroads to the Williamsport area. In December 1854, the Sunbury & Erie RR, a PRR predecessor, built northward through Williamport. The Catawissa, Williamsport & Erie RR, a Reading predecessor, ran its trains to Williamsport over Sunbury & Erie from 1854 until its own line was constructed 1871. The New York Central presence in the Valley dates from 1883, when its Pine Creek RR opened between Wellsboro and Newberry, to haul coal. All these routes were merged into Conrail in 1976. Purchased by the SEDA-CoG Joint Rail Authority, they have been operated by the Lycoming Valley Railroad Company since August 15, 1996.
On September 8, 2011 the railroad bridge over Loyalsock Creek was heavily damaged by flooding. Heavy rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee raised the creek "higher than anything we've seen in recorded history", according to a Lycoming County official. According to USGS gauge height recordings upstream at Loyalsockville, the creek crested that day at 70,000 cubic feet per second or 31.5 million gallons per minute. The damage to the bridge was severe enough that the bridge was not able to be saved. While she still stood, one of the middle piers had become dislodged and the rails were bent. The bridge over the Loyalsock Creek was rebuilt and opened in 2014.
See also
List of Pennsylvania railroads
Stourbridge Railroad (also operated by Robey Railroads)
References
External links
Lycoming Valley Railroad
Pennsylvania railroads
Spin-offs of Conrail
Transportation in Clinton County, Pennsylvania
Transportation in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming%20Valley%20Railroad |
SQ5 may refer to:
SQ5, mixtape by Lil Wayne
Space Quest V, a video game | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ5 |
Frederick Manson Bailey (8 March 1827 – 25 June 1915) was a botanist active in Australia, who made valuable contributions to the characterisation of the flora of Queensland. He was known by his middle name, Manson.
Early life
Bailey was born in London, the second son of John Bailey (horticulturist and first Colonial Botanist of South Australia) and his wife, née Manson. Frederick was educated at the foundation school of the Independent Church at Hackney, London. The family went to Australia in 1838 arriving at Adelaide on 22 March 1839 in the Buckinghamshire. John Bailey was appointed colonial botanist soon afterwards and was asked to form a botanic garden. John Bailey resigned in 1841, began farming, and subsequently started a plant nursery at Adelaide. In these ventures he was assisted by Frederick.
Career
In 1858, Bailey went to New Zealand and took up land in the Hutt Valley. In 1861, Frederick started a seedsman's business in Brisbane. For some years, he was collecting in various parts of Queensland, and he also contributed articles to the newspapers on plant life. Bailey married Anna Maria, eldest daughter of the Rev. T. Waite in 1856.
In 1874, Bailey published a Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland, and in the following year was made botanist to the board appointed to investigate diseases of livestock and plants. Consequently, Bailey in 1879 published An Illustrated Monograph of the Grasses of Queensland with Karl Staiger. He was afterwards put in charge of the botanical section of the Queensland Museum, in 1881 was made colonial botanist of Queensland, and held this position until his death. He published in 1881 The Fern World of Australia, and in 1883 appeared A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora, a work of nearly 900 pages to which supplementary volumes were added in later years. This work was superseded by The Queensland Flora, published in six volumes between 1899 and 1902 with an index published three years later. In the meantime, there had been A Companion for the Queensland Student of Plant Life and Botany Abridged (1897), a revised reissue of two earlier pamphlets. Among other works of Bailey was A Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland (1890). This was expanded into a Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants, Both Indigenous and Naturalised (1912), which appeared with many illustrations.
Bailey travelled widely, important expeditions included Rockingham Bay, Seaview Range and the upper Herbert River (1873), western Queensland, Roma and Rockhampton (1876), Cairns and the Barron River (1877), Bellenden Ker (1889), Georgina River (1895), Torres Strait (1897) and British New Guinea (1898). Bailey was awarded the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1902, and was created C.M.G. in 1911. Bailey died on 25 June 1915 at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. He is buried in South Brisbane Cemetery.
Legacy
Bailey's name has been attached to about 50 species of plants by fellow botanists, such as Acacia baileyana and Grevillea baileyana. A son, John Frederick Bailey, who survived him, was director of the Brisbane and then Adelaide botanic gardens.
References
E. N. Marks, 'Bailey, Frederick Manson (1827 - 1915)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, MUP, 1969, pp 73–74.
Australian National Botanic Garden; Bailey, Frederick M. (1827-1915)
External links
View works by F.M. Bailey at Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Entry for F.M. Bailey in Taxonomic Literature II Online.
20th-century Australian botanists
Pteridologists
1827 births
1915 deaths
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
19th-century British botanists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Manson%20Bailey |
Kalvoski Daniels (born August 20, 1963) is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 1992 for the Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Chicago Cubs.
Daniels was born on August 20, 1963, in Vienna, Georgia. He attended Northside High School in Warner Robins, Georgia, where he batted .500, and he eventually attended Middle Georgia College. Kal owned the single season home run record at Northside High School for 20 years. In 2000, Trea Brinson broke Kal's record.
Daniels was drafted by the New York Mets in the third round, 58th overall, of the 1982 amateur entry draft, January Regular Phase. He didn't sign then, but when he was drafted seventh overall by the Cincinnati Reds in the 1982 amateur entry draft, June Secondary Phase, he did.
In his first professional season, he hit .367 and stole 27 bases in 67 games.
In 1984, his third professional season, Daniels began developing power to go along with his good speed. In 122 games that year, he hit 17 home runs and stole 43 bases.
On April 9, 1986, Daniels made his big league debut at 22 years old. He had a successful rookie season, mostly being used off the bench-he hit .320 with 6 home runs and 15 stolen bases in 78 games (181 at-bats). In his second season, Daniels recorded a career high in home-runs per AB, hitting .334 with 26 home runs and 26 stolen bases in only 108 games.
He played his final game on September 22, 1992.
Honors and awards
In 1982, Daniels was a Pioneer League All-Star.
Daniels finished 27th in MVP voting in 1990.
He led the league in on-base percentage in 1988, with a .397 OBP.
Daniels finished his time with the Reds with a rare .300/.400/.500 batting line designating benchmarks of excellence in batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage. His actual rate stats with the Reds: .301 and .406 and .506 (from 1986 through part of 1989).
Major transactions
The Reds traded Daniels with Lenny Harris to the Dodgers for Tim Leary and Mariano Duncan on July 18, 1989.
The Dodgers sent Daniels to the Cubs for a player to be named (minor leaguer Michael Sodders) on June 27, 1992.
Career statistics
In 727 games over seven seasons, Daniels posted a .285 batting average (666-for-2338) with 391 runs, 125 doubles, 8 triples, 104 home runs, 360 RBI, 87 stolen bases, 365 bases on balls, .382 on-base percentage and .479 slugging percentage. He finished his career with a .980 fielding percentage playing primarily at left field and several games at first base.
References
External links
Living people
1963 births
Major League Baseball left fielders
Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
Middle Georgia Warriors baseball players
Cincinnati Reds players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Chicago Cubs players
Billings Mustangs players
Cedar Rapids Reds players
Vermont Reds players
Denver Zephyrs players
People from Vienna, Georgia
Sportspeople from Warner Robins, Georgia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal%20Daniels |
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life (Steinhardt Foundation) is a New York City based non-profit foundation, created in 1994, which funds projects and programs aimed at improving Jewish education and identity for American Jews. , Rabbi David Gedzelman is the President and CEO of the Steinhardt Foundation.
The Steinhardt Foundation was created as the Jewish Life Network by former hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, who disbanded his financial practice to focus on philanthropy. A founding initiative, co-sponsored with the Israeli government, private donors, and Jewish communities around the world, is the Birthright Israel program, to provide young Jews, age 18 to 26 years old, the opportunity to tour Israel for the first time.
As of April 2005, the foundation had disbursed over $100 million to various educational, cultural and service causes, including starting and/or funding: the PEJE in 1997; programs at the 92nd Street Y; the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University; and the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University.
From 2000 to 2013, the Steinhardt Foundation co-sponsored the annual Harold Grinspoon Foundation Awards for Excellence in Jewish Education, renamed the Grinspoon-Steinhardt Awards for Excellence in Jewish Education during that period.
From 1998 to 2018, the Steinhardt Foundation published the quarterly magazine Contact.
External links
References
Jewish charities based in the United States
Jewish educational organizations
Charities based in New York (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhardt%20Foundation%20for%20Jewish%20Life |
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a 2006 comic adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, written by Ian Edginton and illustrated by D'Israeli.
Production
Edginton and D'Israeli had previously worked together to create the comic Scarlet Traces, their comic book sequel to the original The War or the Worlds. Several characters from Scarlet Traces can be seen in this series, and it reuses their designs of the Martians and their machines.
The comic was released as a webcomic on the Dark Horse Comics website and was published as a graphic novel in 2006 by Dark Horse Comics (72 pages, ).
Reception
According to Dark Horse, War of the Worlds was reviewed by Comics Buyer's Guide, who said: "Ian Edgington and D'Israeli have taken the high road and interpreted Wars as a late-1800s tale. Scientists still get front-page news and are seen with respect. There is no electricity in common use. Weapons? The mighty cannon, of course. And we can't forget bacteria, either. Art-wise, it is a good job, complete with devastating scenes of destruction, raging Victorian citizens, and a pock-faced hero who lives to see the day of deliverance. All in all, it's a good adaptation of a novel that will always be a classic."
Legal disputes
In July 2006, Pendragon Pictures gave legal notice to Dark Horse Comics, claiming that the comic directly replicated hundreds of images from its 2005 film H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Pendragon set up a website that compared frames of the movie to panels from the comic, and included a poll for the public to vote on whether they thought the images were similar. By April 2008, Pendragon had posted on its website that "[it] now agrees that it has no evidence at this time that Dark Horse misappropriated or copied any image, concept or theme from Pendragon's movie. Pendragon Pictures regrets and apologizes to Dark Horse for any misconception its press release or later internet poll may have caused."
See also
Scarlet Traces, Edgington and D'Israeli's sequel to War of the Worlds
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II, another comic series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill which also uses the War of the Worlds setting
List of steampunk works
List of comics based on fiction
References
External links
Dark Horse page
War of the Worlds comic at War of the Worlds.co.uk
War of the Worlds comic annotations
Alien invasions in comics
Comics by Ian Edginton
Dark Horse Comics graphic novels
Steampunk webcomics
Comics based on The War of the Worlds
2006 graphic novels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20G.%20Wells%27%20The%20War%20of%20the%20Worlds%20%28comics%29 |
U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS), founded in 1970, is a nonprofit membership national governing body for masters swimming, an organized program of swimming for adults. The program began when the first National Masters Swimming Championships were held on May 2, 1970 at the Amarillo Aquatic Club pool with a few dozen swimmers. Captain Ransom J. Arthur, M.D., a San Diego Navy doctor, had persuaded John Spannuth, President of American Swimming Coaches Association, that the event would give older swimmers (ex-competitors and beginners) a goal for keeping physically fit. Arthur's mission of encouraging adults to improve fitness through swimming has grown over the years into a nationwide organization that currently includes more than 60,000 adult swimmers.
Members participate in a variety of ways ranging from lap swimming to international competition. The program is organized by USMS, which provides organized workouts, competitions, clinics, and workshops for adults aged 18 and over. Programs are open to all adult swimmers (fitness, triathlete, competitive, noncompetitive) who are dedicated to improving their fitness through swimming. To be eligible for USMS competition, swimmers must sign up with USMS and obtain a membership card for a fee that varies by location.
Competition
Although there are more than 500 local and regional competitions around the country that are available for Masters swimmers to participate in, less than half of the members compete in these meets. However, for those that do, there are a variety of events to choose from including pool meets, ePostal swims, and open water swims. Two national championship pool meets are held each year, which help to determine the USMS Top 10—the top 10 fastest times in the nation in pool meets that are sanctioned or recognized by USMS during the current season and is organized by age, sex and course. The swimmer with the fastest time in the USMS Top 10 in each age group, event, and course, plus the age group winners of the long distance events are further named to the All-American list. In each age group, the swimmer with the most All-American titles is named an All-Star. All of the results from the competitions, as well as a record of the USMS Top 10, All-Americans and the All-Stars are recorded and maintained on the web in the USMS Archives.
History
Captain Ransom J. Arthur, a San Diego Navy doctor, had persuaded John Spannuth, President of American Swimming Coaches Association, that the event would give older swimmers (ex-competitors and beginners) a goal for keeping physically fit. In the early 1970s, Spannuth approached American swimmer June Krauser about the need for competitive swimming for adults. With Arthur and Spannuth, she founded USMS. Krauser helped organize the group and drafted its rules. She became known as the "Mother of Masters Swimming."
Krauser was an active competitor in masters swimming from the 1970s through the 2000s. Between 1972 and 2001, she set 154 national records recognized by the USMS.
Spannuth said that Krauser "literally wrote the book when it came to competitive swimming for adults and for the Special Olympics, and did more to kick-start those two programs than anyone will ever know." Masters Swimming Hall of Fame inducted Krauser.
Online resources
YouTube channel
U.S. Masters Swimming has a YouTube channel it started October 28, 2008 where it posts videos to help grow the expertise in those interested in swimming. Videos published range from breaking down nebulous concepts into more tangible terms, such as the journey of a masters swimmer, to more technical videos providing instructional guidance on such topics as how to put on a swim cap and how to circle swim.
See also
Masters swimming
United States Aquatic Sports
USA Swimming
References
External links
Masters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Masters%20Swimming |
A protocrystalline phase is a distinct phase occurring during crystal growth, which evolves into a microcrystalline form. The term is typically associated with silicon films in optical applications such as solar cells.
Applications
Silicon solar cells
Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is a popular solar cell material owing to its low cost and ease of production. Owing to disordered structure (Urbach tail), its absorption extends to the energies below the band gap resulting in a wide-range spectral response; however, it has a relatively low solar cell efficiency. Protocrystalline Si (pc-Si:H) also has a relatively low absorption near the band gap, owing to its more ordered crystalline structure. Thus, protocrystalline and amorphous silicon can be combined in a tandem solar cell, where the top thin layer of a-Si:H absorbs short-wavelength light whereas the longer wavelengths are absorbed by the underlying protocrystalline silicon layer.
See also
Amorphous silicon
Crystallite
Multijunction
Polycarbonate (PC)
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
References
External links
Crystallography
Thin-film cells | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocrystalline |
The Zoque are an Indigenous people of Mexico, who are related to the Mixe. They speak various languages, also called Zoque, which has several branches and dialects.
The Zoque consists of 41,609 people, according to the 2000 census. They live mainly in the northerly sector of Chiapas state, principally in the municipios and towns of Amatán, Copainalá, Chapultenango, Francisco León, Ixhuatán, Ixtacomitán, Jitotol, Ocotepec, Ostuacán, Pantepec, Rayón, Totolapa, Tapilula, Tecpatán, Acala, Blanca rosa, and Ocozocoautla. They also live in the northern part of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the state of Oaxaca, including the Selva Zoque.
In the pre-Hispanic era, the Zoque lived throughout Chiapas, and Isthmus of Tehuantepec and parts of the state of Tabasco. They may have been descendants of the Olmec. They had a good social and commercial relationship with the later Mexica, which contributed to the economic prosperity of their culture in Chiapas. In 1494 during the reign of Ahuizotl, the Aztecs invaded and defeated them, and forced them to pay tribute.
The Spanish conquest of the Zoque lands commenced in 1523, under the leadership of Luis Marin. The Zoque were parceled out among the Spanish settlers, and they endured forced labor and were obliged to pay high tribute. Diseases, exploitation, and the miserable conditions under which they lived contributed to a significant decrease in their numbers.
The situation of the Zoque did not improve with Mexican independence, since they continued to be exploited by the mestizos and criollos. Not until 1922 when they were assigned ejidos (common lands), did their living conditions improve.
History
Pre-colonial period
In the pre-Hispanic period, the Zoque lived throughout Chiapas, and as far away as the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and parts of the state of Tabasco.
Colonial period
In 1494, the Zoque were invaded and defeated by the Aztecs, during the reign of Āhuitzotl, and forced to pay tribute.
The Spanish conquest of the Zoque lands commenced in 1523, under the leadership of Luis Marin. The Zoque were parceled out amongst the settlers, where they endured forced labor and were obliged to pay high tribute. Diseases, exploitation and the miserable conditions under which they lived contributed to a significant decrease in their numbers.
Contemporary culture
White-rimmed black pottery is characteristic of the Zoque people.
The Zoque traditional dress is worn almost exclusively by women and on special occasions. Some elderly men in remote communities wear white cotton shirts. Women traditionally wear short-sleeved white blouses, with colorfully embroidered open necklines, and long poplin skirts in various colors. More recently, they wear knee-length dresses in various bright colors with white lacy trims. Until recently, it was customary for married women to undress the upper half of the body while they worked in the heat. Younger generations of women have become more timid about exposing their breasts.
Their houses are mainly rectangular, with one or two rooms. Traditionally the walls were made of adobe, or mud bricks, whitewashed inside and out, and the houses had earthen floors and roofs consisting of four sloping sides of tile or thatch. More recently, they are constructed with concrete blocks, cemented floors, and corrugated iron roofs. The kitchen is usually a separate structure from the main house.
As with other groups, agriculture is their prime economic activity. The crops vary according to the topography of the terrain. For the most part they raise maize, beans, chiles, and squash. Their commercial crops are coffee, cocoa, peppers, bananas, mamey, sweetsop, and guava. The soil is of poor quality, and therefore the output is low. They raise pigs and domesticated fowl in small quantities to augment their diet.
The Zoque also work in the construction industry in the cities.
See also
Chimalapas territory conflict
Indigenous people of Oaxaca
References
This article draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of 19 June 2006.
Indigenous peoples in Mexico
Mesoamerican cultures
Pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoque%20people |
Ken Minyard (born in 1939) is a radio personality. He was featured on KABC-AM (790) radio's morning Newstalk show in the early 1970s, but he is best remembered for partnering with Bob Arthur on the "Ken and Bob Company" morning radio program on KABC-AM Los Angeles, California from 1973–1990. The pair coined the term "EGBOK" meaning “everything’s gonna be OK.” The "Ken and Bob Company" was Los Angeles' #1 rated radio show for almost 20 years on KABC.
After Arthur retired in 1990, Minyard soldiered on alone briefly, then partnered with Roger Barkley (of the former Los Angeles morning radio show Lohman and Barkley on KFWB and later KFI) for an additional 6 years, but the morning Los Angeles radio market was growing very competitive, particularly from an increasing number of FM morning talk shows. One Monday morning, Los Angeles tuned in to find that Roger Barkley was gone and Minyard was continuing with a new format. He commented at the time that Barkley was upset, but that the station demanded a change. "Talk radio, and radio in general, is tough", he once remarked. "You won't work forever". But Ken Minyard still had many more good years on Los Angeles radio.
Later he partnered with Peter Tilden on KABC and also had a 2-year pairing on a syndicated show with his son, Rick. During the 80's Minyard was also a regular on the syndicated Dinah Shore Show on TV for 2 seasons. In 1988, he made a guest appearance on the television show Married... with Children. He left KABC, but later returned to that station for the final segment of his morning radio career. On October 15, 2004, after thirty-five years of being on the radio in Los Angeles, Minyard announced his retirement on the morning KABC show.
Ken Minyard and Bob Arthur were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Partial filmography
Angels Revenge (1979) - Joe
The Dark (1979) - T.V. Sportscaster
The Return (1980) - Federal Agent #1
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) - Ken & (final film role)
References
External links
American radio DJs
Living people
1939 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Minyard |
Betsey Stockton (c. 1798–1865), sometimes spelled Betsy Stockton, was an American educator and missionary in Hawaii.
Life
Betsey was born into slavery in Princeton, New Jersey, about the year 1798. While she was a child, her owner Robert Stockton gave her to his daughter upon her marriage to Reverend Ashbel Green, president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). Much of what is known of her earlier life comes from sporadic mentions of her in Green's diary; while useful, this source also reflects Green's assumption of control over the enslaved girl, often leaving out key details about her. When Green decided she needed further discipline, young Betsey was temporarily sent to labor in the household of Green's nephew, the Reverend Nathaniel Todd. The Todd household seemed a place Betsey was more able to flourish, but financial matters related to Todd's employment caused Betsey to return to Green's household in 1816. In 1817 she was admitted as a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton; it is likely she was formally manumitted (freed) at that time. It appears she chose the surname of Stockton for herself, likely reflecting her own former enslavement by the white Stockton family, and perhaps also indicating her father or another paternal relative was a white Stockton. She remained as a paid domestic servant with the family, and learned to read, perhaps with some instruction from Reverend Green's sons. She gained her education from reading in Reverend Green's library, and eventually gained fluency to read religious and scholarly texts in several languages. A deeply religious person, she expressed a desire to go as a missionary to Africa.
Betsey Stockton learned of plans by Charles S. Stewart, a student at Princeton Theological Seminary and friend of the Green family, to go to Hawaii (then known as the Sandwich Islands) as a missionary. She expressed a desire to go with him and his family. Dr. Green and her Sabbath school teacher wrote letters of recommendation to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Stockton was commissioned by the Board as a missionary, and became the second single American woman (after Charlotte White) sent overseas as a missionary. Her contract with the Board and with the Stewarts said that she went "neither as an equal nor as a servant, but as a humble Christian friend" to the Stewarts, and provided that she was not to be more occupied with domestic duties than the other missionaries.
The team set sail from New Haven, Connecticut on November 22, 1822, for a five-month voyage. The Stewarts and Stockton settled at Lāhainā on Maui. Stockton was the first unmarried woman from the U.S. to travel to Hawai'i as a missionary (most women accompanied their husbands), as well as the first African American to serve as a missionary in Hawai'i. She was the teacher of the first mission school opened to the common (non-chiefly) people of Hawaii. Along with being a missionary and teacher, Betsey also served unofficially as a doctor and nurse to a number of people in Hawaii. She also trained native Hawaiian teachers, who took over from her upon her departure until the arrival of another missionary. She returned with the Stewarts to the U.S. in 1825 due to Mrs. Stewart's poor health. A version of Stockton's Hawaiian diary was published in the Christian Advocate by Dr. Green in 1824 and 1825.
Stockton stayed with the Stewart household until at least 1830. She taught briefly at an infant school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and established a school for Indians at Grape Island, Canada. After returning to Princeton in 1835, she taught in its school for people of color until her death on October 24, 1865. In 1840, she helped found Princeton's First Presbyterian Church of Color, which in 1848 was renamed the Witherspoon Street Church. She was buried in Cooperstown, New York alongside the Stewart family.
References
1798 births
1865 deaths
People from Princeton, New Jersey
American Presbyterian missionaries
Female Christian missionaries
African-American women educators
African-American missionaries
American expatriates in the Hawaiian Kingdom
Presbyterian missionaries in Hawaii
Educators from New Jersey
19th-century American women educators
19th-century American educators
19th-century African-American educators | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsey%20Stockton |
The Battle of Fort Bisland was fought in the American Civil War between Union Major General Nathaniel P. Banks against Confederate Major General Richard Taylor during Banks' operations against the Bayou Teche region in southern Louisiana.
Prelude
When Banks was made commander of the XIX Army Corps, Department of the Gulf, on December 16, 1862, he was ordered to coordinate an attack against the Confederate bastion of Port Hudson while General Ulysses S. Grant moved against Vicksburg. Banks made preparations for this campaign, but he knew the difficulties he would face on the march there. First, the area from New Orleans, was marshy, full of swamps, and disease would be rampant. There was also another obstacle in Bank's path — General Richard Taylor's small Army of Western Louisiana.
Banks formulated a plan that would take the XIX Corps to Alexandria, securing the Bayou Teche region that was laden with natural forage and unused supplies. He would establish supply depots along the way and then would move from Alexandria against Port Hudson. However, the quick movement he hoped for was slowed by Taylor's small army in a series of attacks, beginning with Fort Bisland, located in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.
Battle
When Banks departed New Orleans, he planned to capture Taylor's army in its entirety. On April 9, two divisions from the XIX Corps crossed Berwick Bay from Brashear City (present day Morgan City, Louisiana) to the west side at Berwick. On April 11, Banks began his advance in earnest. Taylor was well aware of Banks' advance because of successful scouting by his cavalry under Brig. Gen. Thomas Green. Green shadowed Banks' army and reported back to Taylor every detail of the maneuvers of the Union army.
On April 12, Banks sent a third division, under Brig. Gen. Cuvier Grover, up the Atchafalaya River to land in the rear of Franklin, intending to intercept a Confederate retreat from Fort Bisland or turn the enemy's position. General Taylor sent some of Green's cavalry to the front to ascertain the enemy's strength and slow his advance. He also sent troops under Brig. Gen. Alfred Mouton to impede the advance of Grover's division. Late in the day, Union troops of Brig. Gen. William H. Emory's division arrived and formed a battle line outside the Fort Bisland's defenses. An artillery barrage ensued from both sides until dark when the Federal troops fell back to camp for the night.
About 9:00 a.m. on April 13, Union forces again advanced on Fort Bisland. Banks had three brigades under in position south of the Bayou Teche. The brigades were deployed with Godfrey Weitzel on the left, Halbert E. Paine on the right (anchored on Bayou Teche) with Timothy Ingraham in support. Opposing the Union forces south of the Teche was the Texas cavalry brigade commanded by Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley. North of Bayou Teche was the Union brigade of Oliver P. Gooding who faced off against Mouton's Confederate brigade.
Combat did not begin until after 11:00 a.m. and continued until dusk. In addition to Confederate forces in the earthworks, the gunboat Diana, which had been captured and was now in Confederate hands, shelled the Union troops. U.S. gunboats joined the fray in late afternoon.
By early evening, fire had halted. Later that night, Taylor learned that the Union division that went up the Atchafalaya and landed in his rear was now in a position to cut off a Confederate retreat. Taylor began evacuating supplies, men, and weapons, leaving a small force to slow any enemy movement. The next morning, Banks and his men found the fort abandoned.
Aftermath
Fort Bisland was the only fortification that could have impeded this Union offensive, and it had fallen. Banks continued his march up Bayou Teche after this initial battle onward to his ultimate objective of Alexandria, Louisiana.
Taylor would slow Banks again a few days later at the Battle of Irish Bend.
Opposing Forces
Union
Army of the Gulf – Major General Nathaniel P. Banks
19th Corps – Major General Nathaniel P. Banks
1st Division -
2nd Brigade - BG Godfrey Weitzel
12th Connecticut Infantry Regiment
75th New York Infantry Regiment (2nd Auburn Regiment)
114th New York Infantry Regiment (Albany County Regiment, Seymour Guard)
160th New York Infantry Regiment
8th Vermont Infantry Regiment
Attached to 2nd brigade :
Battery A, 1st United States Artillery Regiment
6th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery
A, B, C, and E Squadrons, 1st Louisiana Cavalry Regiment
3rd Division - BG William H. Emory
1st Brigade - Col T. Ingraham
4th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
16th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment (garrisoned at Brashear city)
110th New York Infantry Regiment
162nd New York Infantry Regiment
2nd Brigade - Col Halbert E. Paine
8th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment
133rd New York Infantry Regiment (2nd Regiment, Metropolitan Guard)
173rd New York Infantry Regiment (4th National Guard)
4th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
3rd Brigade - Col Oliver Paul Gooding
31st Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
38th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
53rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
156th New York Infantry Regiment (The Mountain Legion)
175th New York Infantry Regiment
Divisional Artillery
1st Maine Light Artillery Battery
Battery F, 1st United States Artillery Regiment
19th Corps Artillery - BG Richard Arnold
1st Indiana Heavy Artillery Regiment
18th Independent Battery New York Light Artillery
Confederate
District of West Louisiana - Major General Richard Taylor
Mouton's Brigade - Brig. Gen. Jean Jacques Alfred Alexander Mouton
18th Louisiana Infantry Regiment - Colonel Armand
28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment - Colonel Henry Gray
24th Louisiana Infantry Regiment (Crescent Regiment) - Colonel Bosworth
10th Louisiana Infantry Bataillon (Yellow Jacket Bataillon) - Lieutenant Colonel Fournet
12th Louisiana Infantry Bataillon (Clack's Bataillon / Confederate Guard Response Bataillon)
Pelican Battery - Captain Faries
Cornay's Battery - Lieutenant Gordy
Semmes' Battery - Lieutenant Barnes
Sibley's Brigade - Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley
4th Texas Cavalry Regiment - Colonel James Reily
5th Texas Cavalry Regiment - Colonel Thomas Green
7th Texas Cavalry Regiment - Colonel Arthur Bagby
13th Texas Cavalry Bataillon (Waller's Bataillon)
Val Verde Texas Battery - Captain Sayer
Unattached
2nd Louisiana Cavalry Regiment - Colonel Vincent
References
Sources
Ayres, Thomas, Dark and Bloody Ground : The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana, Cooper Square Press, 2001.
Parrish, T. Michael, Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie, University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction : Personal experiences of the late war, Time-Life Books, 1983.
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Cregagh () is an area southeast of Belfast in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is the name of a townland and has been adopted as the name of an electoral ward of Belfast City council. The townland dates back to medieval times, when it was part of the territory held by the O'Neills of Clannaboy. The area is centred on the Cregagh Road. The Woodstock/Cregagh Road is a continuous arterial route in the city, with the Woodstock making up the lower half of the route and the Cregagh the upper half. It runs from the Albertbridge Road, close to the Short Strand, to the A55 Outer Ring road.
Woodstock Road
The Woodstock Road forms the beginning of the continuous road that includes Cregagh and which runs from close to the River Lagan to the outskirts of Belfast. The road begins at the end of Woodstock Link, which itself starts at a junction which turns off from the Albertbridge Road facing Mountpottinger Road. The Mount, a prominent conference facility built in 1997, is located close to this junction on the Woodstock Link. Following the junction with the Beersbridge Road the Woodstock Road is mainly lined with shops and other places of business. The area, also known as Willowfield, is also home to a number of churches, including the Church of Ireland place of worship Willowfield Parish Church, Saint Anthony's Roman Catholic Church. and the Cregagh Gospel Hall. Other amenities include a public library and a Police Service of Northern Ireland station. The Willowfield area formerly lent its name to the Belfast Willowfield constituency of the old Parliament of Northern Ireland.
An Ulster loyalist flute band, Crimson Star, is based in the area and their badge is shown on a mural painted on a wall on Ardenvohr Street just off the Woodstock Road. During the Troubles notorious Ulster Volunteer Force hitman Robert "Squeak" Seymour ran a video shop on the Woodstock Road. It was whilst working at his shop that Seymour was shot and killed by two Provisional Irish Republican Army operatives on 15 June 1988.
The Woodstock Road continues as far as Ravenhill Avenue where it becomes the Cregagh Road. The Woodstock Road was formerly known as the lower Cregagh Road and in the nineteenth century it was mainly made up of farmland. Until the 1920s parts of the Cregagh Road, which is now entirely urbanised, were agricultural.
Lower Cregagh Road
At its lower stage, the Cregagh Road, like the Woodstock Road, is lined with several shops. This area also has a number of churches, the most prominent of which are Cregagh Methodist Church and Cregagh Presbyterian Church.
Just off the Cregagh Road, on Gibson Park Avenue, are two locally well-known sporting venues, Cregagh Cricket Club and Malone Rugby Club. Cregagh Cricket Club celebrated its centenary in 2006. The cricket ground is also used by Northern Amateur Football League club Orangefield Old Boys and is part of Cregagh Sports Club, effectively a merger of the cricket and association football clubs, with both sharing the same Gibson Park Avenue facilities. This alliance was concluded in the early 1980s, with the two clubs being previously unconnected. Ravenhill Stadium, the home of Ulster Rugby, lies a short distance away, about halfway between the Cregagh Road and the Ravenhill Road to the east.
Cregagh Estate
The Cregagh Estate is located off the Cregagh Road, starting after the roundabout junction with Ladas Drive and Mount Merrion Avenue. The junction is immediately after Bell's Bridge which crosses the Loop River, one of Belfast's myriad minor rivers. The estate was built as a public housing project in 1946–1947 and was designed by government architect T. F. O. Rippingham. Tenants have subsequently been offered the opportunity to purchase their homes. The estate is characterised by its uncommon flat roofs and staggered house fronts. The streets in the Cregagh Estate are named after the rivers and streams of the island of Ireland (e.g. Callan Way, Kilbroney Bend).
Although predominantly Protestant from its inception, Cregagh had a significant Catholic minority for a number of years and at the start of the Troubles, Catholics even joined in local vigilante patrols under the auspices of the Cregagh Tenants Association. This co-operation ended in 1972 with the arrival of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and before long most of the Catholic residents had left the area for west Belfast. Around this time housing allocation in the area came under UDA control and the local "Tartan gangs" were taken over as the junior UDA. Subsequently, however the UDA declined in the area, and east Belfast in general, and the Ulster Volunteer Force became more important, with UVF murals being painted on Cregagh's walls. By 2018 however the only murals on Cregagh estate are one commemorating Victoria Cross winners Eric Norman Frankland Bell, Geoffrey Cather, William McFadzean and Robert Quigg and another showing local boy George Best.
Upper Cregagh Road
Beyond the Cregagh estate the road is made up of mainly private housing and continues as far as Upper Knockbreda Road. Cregagh Library and the former home of Castlereagh Borough Council are found on this part of the road. The latter building has been extensively refurbished and is now the Museum Of Orange Heritage. The neighbouring Montgomery Road is the location for the former Robinson Centre leisure facility and the Castlereagh campus of Belfast Metropolitan College. The area was sometimes nicknamed the "Bible belt". Immediately beyond the end of the Cregagh Road, on the opposite side of the Upper Knockbreda Road, is a forested area known as Cregagh Glen. The Upper Knockbreda Road, otherwise known as the A55 Outer Ring, was completed in 1967 to link Cregagh with the Knock area on the outskirts of east Belfast.
Some of the streets in Cregagh are named after Second World War generals (e.g. Montgomery, Alanbrooke) while a significant number are named after First World War battlefields (e.g. Picardy, Hamel). This connection with the wars reflects the numbers of people from the area who died in those wars. This was also a reason why the location was chosen for a large number of ex-servicemen's homes, with 150 of the so-called "homes fit for heroes" promised by David Lloyd George built around this area in the late 1920s. However this area, which was known locally as "the Colony", remained the only significant public housing scheme for ex-soldiers to be undertaken in Belfast in the aftermath of the First World War.
A memorial to the dead of the First World War, consisting of a Celtic Cross, was unveiled in 1929 before being rededicated in 1932 by Edward, Prince of Wales. Castlereagh council expanded the memorial a number of times during the 1990s, adding a stone for the Ulster Special Constabulary, another stone for the Ulster Defence Regiment and a back plaque commemorating members of both of these groups and the Royal Ulster Constabulary as well as civilians killed during the Troubles and local residents who died during the Second World War.
Notable people
The late footballer George Best grew up in the Cregagh Estate, and as a boy played football on the open playing fields at the centre of the estate. These playing fields, Cregagh Green, are now protected for community recreation in perpetuity as a Fields in Trust Active Space. Best's funeral originated from Burren Way where his father continued to live until his death in April 2008. George Best is commemorated by a mural in the Cregagh estate and formerly by another on the Woodstock Road.
Singer-songwriter David McWilliams, who achieved mainstream success with his song "Days of Pearly Spencer", was born in the Cregagh estate although he moved to Ballymena at an early age.
Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician Iris Robinson grew up in the Cregagh estate and met her husband, future First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson, at Castlereagh College, where they both studied.
Politics
Sections of the Woodstock and Cregagh roads mark the official boundary between the Westminster constituencies of Belfast East and Belfast South, with the area being divided between the two. This division is replicated in the Belfast East and Belfast South Stormont constituencies, which make use of the same electoral map. In local government, the area falls under the authority of Belfast City Council, with the roads running through the Titanic and Lisnasharragh district electoral areas (DEAs).
The Cregagh area also lends its name to one of the Lisnasharragh DEA's six wards. With the upper Cregagh Road forming the ward's eastern edge, it encompasses the Cregagh Estate and streets as far south as Upper Knockbreda Road, and as far west as Knockbreda Park and Mount Merrion Avenue. As part of the DEA, Cregagh has been represented by Councillors Michael Long and Eric Hanvey (Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) (APNI), Brian Smyth (Green Party), (Alderman) Tommy Sandford and Sammy Douglas (DUP), and Séamus De Faoite (Social Democratic and Labour Party) since June 2022. Sandford, a former UVF prisoner who became a community worker in Cregagh, had been a member of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) but left in 2009 over its continuing links to the loyalist paramilitary group, joining the DUP the following year.
The ward lies within the Belfast East constituencies. Following the 2022 Assembly election, Naomi Long and Peter McReynolds (APNI), Joanne Bunting and David Brooks (DUP), and Andy Allen (Ulster Unionist Party) (UUP) have represented the area as Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs). Gavin Robinson (DUP) has represented the constituency in the House of Commons since 2015. East Belfast has historically been strongly Unionist, with Nationalist parties consistently performing poorly at elections, and Cregagh reflects this trend. However, the constituency does have a strong centrist presence, appearing to be something of a stronghold for the Alliance Party. It is between this party and the DUP, which has proven to be the dominant political rivalry in the area.
Transport
Woodstock and Cregagh are served by Service 6 of the Metro buses provided by Translink which links the areas with Belfast city centre at one end and Forestside Shopping Centre at the other.
References
Geography of Belfast
Townlands of County Down
Wards of Northern Ireland
Civil parish of Knockbreda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cregagh |
Acrocyanosis is persistent blue or cyanotic discoloration of the extremities, most commonly occurring in the hands, although it also occurs in the feet and distal parts of face. Although described over 100 years ago and not uncommon in practice, the nature of this phenomenon is still uncertain. The very term "acrocyanosis" is often applied inappropriately in cases when blue discoloration of the hands, feet, or parts of the face is noted.
The principal (primary) form of acrocyanosis is that of a benign cosmetic condition, sometimes caused by a relatively benign neurohormonal disorder. Regardless of its cause, the benign form typically does not require medical treatment. A medical emergency would ensue if the extremities experience prolonged periods of exposure to the cold, particularly in children and patients with poor general health. However, frostbite differs from acrocyanosis because pain (via thermal nociceptors) often accompanies the former condition, while the latter is very rarely associated with pain. There are also a number of other conditions that affect hands, feet, and parts of the face with associated skin color changes that need to be differentiated from acrocyanosis: Raynaud phenomenon, pernio, acrorygosis, erythromelalgia, and blue finger syndrome. The diagnosis may be challenging in some cases, especially when these syndromes co-exist.
Acrocyanosis may be a sign of a more serious medical problem, such as connective tissue diseases and diseases associated with central cyanosis. Other causative conditions include infections, toxicities, antiphospholipid syndrome, cryoglobulinemia, neoplasms. In these cases, the observed cutaneous changes are known as "secondary acrocyanosis". They may have a less symmetric distribution and may be associated with pain and tissue loss.
Signs and symptoms
Acrocyanosis is characterized by peripheral cyanosis: persistent cyanosis of the hands, feet, knees, or face. The extremities often are cold and clammy and may exhibit some swelling (especially in warmer weather). The palms and soles exhibit a wide range of sweating from moderately moist to profuse, but all peripheral pulses should have normal rate, rhythm, and quality. Exposure to cold temperatures worsens the cyanosis, while it often improves on warming. Aside from the color changes, patients normally are asymptomatic and therefore there is usually no associated pain. The most common sign, discoloration, usually is what prompts patients to seek medical care.
Pathophysiology
The precise mechanism of acrocyanosis is not known. The current line of thinking goes that vasospasms in the cutaneous arteries and arterioles produce cyanotic discoloration, while compensatory dilatation in the postcapillary venules causes sweating. Arteriovenous subpapillary plexus shunting also occurs. Persistent vasoconstriction at the precapillary sphincter creates a local hypoxic environment, thus releasing adenosine into the capillary bed. Vasospasms force adenosine to enter the capillary bed, where it vasodilates the postcapillary venules. Such differences in vessel tone create a countercurrent exchange system that attempts to retain heat. Profuse sweating would then be caused by an overwhelmed countercurrent exchange system. In addition to adenosine, other hormones may contribute to acrocyanosis such as increase blood levels of serotonin. This would seem to support case studies reporting acrocyanosis as an unusual side effect for pediatric patients taking tricyclic antidepressants, as these medications can inhibit the reuptake of serotonin and thus increase their blood concentrations. Acrocyanosis has been reported in association with many other medications and substances.
Diagnosis
Acrocyanosis is diagnosed clinically, based on a medical history and physical examination; laboratory studies or imaging studies are not necessary. The normal peripheral pulses rule out peripheral arterial occlusive disease, where arterial narrowing limits blood flow to the extremities. Pulse oximetry will show a normal oxygen saturation. Unlike the closely related Raynaud's phenomenon, cyanosis is continually persistent. In addition, there is usually no associated trophic skin changes, localized pain, or ulcerations. Capillaroscopy and other laboratory methods may be helpful but only complement clinical diagnosis in unclear cases, especially when connective tissue disorders may be present.
Treatment
There is no standard medical or surgical treatment for acrocyanosis, and treatment, other than reassurance and avoidance of cold, is usually unnecessary. The patient is reassured that no serious illness is present. A sympathectomy would alleviate the cyanosis by disrupting the fibers of the sympathetic nervous system to the area. However, such an extreme procedure would rarely be appropriate. Treatment with vasoactive drugs is not recommended but traditionally is mentioned as optional. However, there is little, if any, empirical evidence that vasoactive drugs (α-adrenergic blocking agents or calcium channel blockers) are effective.
Prognosis
While there is no cure for acrocyanosis, patients otherwise have excellent prognosis. Unless acrocyanosis results from another condition (e.g. malignancy, antiphospholipid syndrome, atherosclerosis, acute ischemic limb, bacterial endocarditis), there is no associated increased risk of disease or death, and there are no known complications. Aside from the discoloration, there are no other symptoms: no pain, and no loss of function. Patients can expect to lead normal lives. In secondary acrocyanosis treatment of the primary condition defines outcomes.
Epidemiology
Although there is no definitive reporting on its incidence, acrocyanosis shows prevalence in children and young adults than in patients thirty years of age or older. Epidemiological data suggests that cold climate, outdoor occupation, and low body mass index are significant risk factors for developing acrocyanosis. As expected, acrocyanosis would be more prevalent in women than in men due to differences in BMI. However, the incidence rate of acrocyanosis often decreases with increasing age, regardless of regional climate. It completely resolves in many women after menopause implying significant hormonal influences.
Around 50% of patients with POTS experience acrocyanosis of their legs while standing still.
In the newborn
Acrocyanosis is common initially after delivery in the preterm and full term newborn. Intervention is typically not required as it is seen as a normal finding. Acrocyanosis can also return in a newborn if a baby is cold, such as after a bath, and is considered normal as well.
See also
Pernio (Chilblains)
Cyanosis
Peripheral artery occlusive disease
Raynaud's phenomenon
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
References
External links
Diseases of arteries, arterioles and capillaries
Medical signs
Ailments of unknown cause
Skin conditions resulting from physical factors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrocyanosis |
The Great South Pacific Express was a luxury Australian train service, run in by Queensland Rail and Belmond, the operator of the Venice-Simplon Orient Express.
History
In December 1996, Queensland Rail announced it would enter a 90/10 joint venture with Orient-Express Hotels to operate a luxury tourist train between Kuranda (near Cairns) and Sydney. It commenced operating in April 1999. The train accommodated 100 passengers in up to 21 carriages, at a cost of $3,500 to $5,500 depending on type of accommodation. The train also made occasional excursions to Canberra, Melbourne, the Blue Mountains and the Hunter Valley.
The service ceased in June 2003, having run up losses of around $12 million over four years.
After the demise of the service the carriages were sold to Orient-Express Hotels for an undisclosed price in 2005, for use on its trains overseas. Twenty of the carriages remained in storage at the North Ipswich Railway Workshops, with Queensland Rail stating an Orient Express holding company owned them, while an Orient Express Hotels manager in London said they were still owned by Queensland Rail.
In 2013, the Queensland Government approached the Venice-Simplon Orient Express for permission to operate the remaining carriages on tours in Queensland.
In February 2016, the carriages were moved from the Workshops Rail Museum at Ipswich to the Port of Brisbane for shipment to Peru for use by the Orient Express Hotels' successor, Belmond, and its partly-owned railroad company PeruRail. The train entered service in May 2017 as the Belmond Andean Explorer, carrying passengers from Cusco to Puno (at the Lake Titicaca) and to Arequipa.
Rolling stock
The 21 carriages were built at the Queensland Rail workshops in Townsville for $35 million. They were built to operate on both the narrow gauge in Queensland and in New South Wales with the train undergoing a bogie exchange en route at Acacia Ridge.
The train consisted of sleeping cars in three different comfort levels (Pullman, State and Commissioner Suites), two dining cars, two bar cars (one of them with an open-air observation deck), a power car and staff sleepers. The entire train layout was designed similar to the Eastern & Oriental Express, but with a different interior style.
References
Discontinued railway services in Australia
Named passenger trains of Australia
Railway services introduced in 1999
Railway services discontinued in 2003
1999 establishments in Australia
2003 disestablishments in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20South%20Pacific%20Express |
In mathematics, in the realm of group theory, the stability group of subnormal series is the group of automorphisms that act as identity on each quotient group.
Group theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability%20group |
de Lima or d'Lima is a Portuguese and Italian surname. It is also a Spanish name meaning "of Lima". It is also an Indian surname, named for the converts when the Portuguese occupied India.
Delima is a Malay word for pomegranate and is also a family name in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Notable people with the surname include:
Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, Real Madrid and Brazilian footballer
Vanderlei de Lima, a Brazilian athlete
Augusto de Lima, a Brazilian journalist
Vicente de Lima, a Brazilian athlete
Jorge de Lima, a Brazilian writer and politician
Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto, a Brazilian author
Leila de Lima, a Filipino former senator and Secretary of Justice
Frank De Lima, an American comedian
Sri Delima, also known as Adibah Amin, a Malaysian writer
Shannon de Lima, a Venezuelan model and actress, former wife of singer Marc Anthony
See also
Ponte de Lima, a municipality in Portugal
Santa Rosa de Lima (disambiguation), several places with this name
Universidad de Lima, University of Lima, Peru
Seri Delima (state constituency) in Penang, Malaysia
Sri Delima station, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
DeLima v. Bidwell, U.S. Supreme Court case
Pengiran Siraja Muda Delima Satu, a neighbourhood in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Pancha Delima, Brunei, neighbourhood in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Dalima, a genus of moths
Dilemma (disambiguation)
Lima (surname)
References
Portuguese-language surnames
Italian-language surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Lima |
The Narina trogon (Apaloderma narina) is a largely green and red, medium-sized (32–34 cm long), bird of the family Trogonidae. It is native to forests and woodlands of the Afrotropics. Though it is the most widespread and catholic in habitat choice of the three Apaloderma species, their numbers are locally depleted due to deforestation. Some populations are sedentary while others undertake regular movements.
Description
It is sexually dimorphic, with males more brightly coloured. Both sexes have vivid, gingery green upperpart plumage. The tail feathers have a metallic blue-green gloss. The outer three rectices on each side are tipped and fringed white, giving the undertail of perched birds a characteristic white appearance (compare bar-tailed trogon). The wing coverts are a grizzled grey, and remiges mostly colourless grey.
The male especially, has bright amaranth red underside plumage and bare, green gape and eye flanges. The female has brown face and chest plumage, blue skin orbiting the eyes and duller red plumage below. Immature birds resemble females, but have distinct white tips to the tertials (inner wing), and less distinct gape and eye flanges.
Range and habitat
The species has a large range in Africa, inhabiting lowland to highland, valley and riparian forests, from tropical to temperate regions, those occurring in highlands dispersing seasonally to lower levels. It is found from Sierra Leone to Ethiopia, and east Africa to eastern and southern South Africa. Due to its wide range and varied habitat choice, the Narina trogon is considered to be a species of least conservation concern.
Habits and nesting
The diet consists mainly of insects and small invertebrates as well as rodents and small reptiles. The call is a grating, low repeated hoot, given by males only, in defending territory or attracting mates. The male's bare, blue-green throat patch is expanded when calling and both sexes may fluff out the breast feathers in display. They nest in a tree hollow in which both sexes incubate or brood.
Races
There are 4 to 6 accepted races:
A. n. subsp. constantia Sharpe & Ussher, 1872
Range: Senegal to Nigeria
A. n. subsp. arcanum Clancey, 1959
Range: Chad to n Kenya
A. n. subsp. brachyurum Chapin, 1923
Range: s Cameroon to Rift Valley
A. n. subsp. littorale van Someren, 1931 – Type from Sokoke Forest
Range: Somalia to Chirinda Forest, Zimbabwe
A. n. subsp. rufiventre A.J.C.Dubois, 1897 – Type from Mpala, DRC
Range: s DRC to s Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia to Eastern Highlands
A. n. subsp. narina (Stephens, 1815) – Type from Knysna, South Africa
Range: South Africa to s Mozambique, winters northwards to Malawi
References
External links
BirdLife Species Factsheet
Narina trogon - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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Myles Standish Hall is a Boston University dormitory located at 610 Beacon Street, in Kenmore Square. Originally constructed in 1925 and opened as the Myles Standish Hotel, it was deemed to be one of the finest hotels in the world. In 1949 BU acquired the building and converted it into a dormitory.
In 2018, BU completed a comprehensive two-year renovation, completely rebuilding the interior of the building. In 2021, the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag requested the dorm be renamed to Wituwamat Memorial Hall to honor a leading Native American figure massacred by Myles Standish. Robert A. Brown, President of Boston University, responded to this effort and stated Standish's “role in the history of the founding of Massachusetts, and thus our nation, was significant. To remove his name from the residence hall would discount his significant role in our history. I am not prepared to remove his name at this time.”
As a hotel
When the doors to the hotel opened in 1928, it offered many amenities and was situated in a prime location in the developing Back Bay neighborhood in Boston next to the Kenmore Square trolley station. It was one of many such hotels, including the Sheraton located just down the street at 91 Bay State Road, which would itself be later purchased by BU and converted into a dormitory.
Due to its proximity to Fenway Park the hotel was often patronized by visiting baseball clubs. Babe Ruth himself stayed there often, and liked suite 818 so much that he made it a habit to request it specifically.
In 1933 Charles Newton took over as manager and rescued it from the Great Depression, turning it into a fashionable apartment hotel. He left in 1943 when the hotel was sold to the Sheraton Corporation and in 1949 the building was sold to Boston University.
Becoming a dormitory
The University, experiencing heavy growth due to returning World War II troops making use of their G.I. Bill entitlements, was in desperate need of housing for students, and quickly converted the facility to dormitory use for its male students.
In 1970 Myles made BU history by becoming the first dorm to permit guests of any gender 24 hours a day.
In the summer of 1973, Myles was "condemned" due to structural problems. BU obtained alternate dormitory space that year at Fensgate Hall down Beacon St., with dining across the street at Charlesgate Hall. Myles reopened for the 1974–75 academic year.
In 1979, with the bankruptcy of Grahm Junior College, the University purchased the school's administration building adjacent to Myles. This building had several uses before being permanently converted into dormitory space and annexed to Myles, giving birth to what is now known as Myles Annex. With the renovation of Myles completed in 2018, the Annex is fully integrated into Myles Standish Hall.
Layout
Myles is a nine-story building. The first floor houses the building's mailroom, multiple group study rooms, games room, laundry room, a residence life office and a community kitchen. The dining hall was closed beginning in Fall 2012 with the main dining room being converted into a multipurpose room. The remaining eight floors are residential.
The shape of the building is somewhat unusual. Due to the irregular proportions of the plot of land on which it was built at the intersection of Bay State Road and Beacon Street, the building is known for its sharp point resembling the prow of a ship. This makes for unusual floor plans.
The eight residential levels accommodate 730 residents in a coeducational setting with rooms arrayed in a semi-suite-style setting. There are a variety of suite configurations ranging from two single-bedroom suites to suites with eight single bedrooms. The predominant unit has two single bedrooms and one double-occupancy bedroom sharing a bathroom. Myles' fourth floor is designated as the Global House living/learning community.
Notes
Buildings at Boston University
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The Huntsville Depot located on the Norfolk Southern Railway line in downtown Huntsville is the oldest surviving railroad depot in Alabama and one of the oldest in the United States. Completed in 1860, the depot served as eastern division headquarters for the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. It is listed on both the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and National Register of Historic Places.
Huntsville was occupied by Union forces in 1862 during the Civil War as a strategic point on the railroad and the depot was used as a prison for Confederate soldiers. Graffiti left by the soldiers can still be seen on the walls. The Huntsville Depot saw its last regularly scheduled passenger train, Southern Railway's The Tennessean, on March 30, 1968. Today the Depot serves as a museum, part of the Early Works Museum.
A 0-4-0 Porter steam locomotive that was built in Pittsburgh in 1904 resides outside of the museum.
See also
Alabama Constitution Village
North Alabama Railroad Museum
List of museums in Alabama
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References
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Charles Fletcher Lummis (March 1, 1859, in Lynn, Massachusetts – November 25, 1928, in Los Angeles, California) was a United States journalist, and an activist for Indian rights and historic preservation. A traveler in the American Southwest, he settled in Los Angeles, California, where he also became known as an historian, photographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, poet, and librarian. Lummis founded the Southwest Museum of the American Indian.
Early life and career
Charles Fletcher Lummis was born in 1859, in Lynn, Massachusetts. He lost his mother at age 2 and was homeschooled by his father, who was a schoolmaster and a Methodist minister. Lummis enrolled in Harvard for college and was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt's, but dropped out during his senior year. While at Harvard he worked during the summer as a printer and published his first work, Birch Bark Poems. This small volume was printed on paper-thin sheets of birch bark; he won acclaim from Life magazine and recognition from some of the day's leading poets. He sold the books by subscription and used the money to pay for college. A poem from this work, "My Cigarette", highlighted tobacco as one of his life's obsessions.
In 1880, at the age of 21, Lummis married Dorothea Rhodes of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Transcontinental walk
In 1884, Lummis was working for a newspaper in Cincinnati and was offered a job with the Los Angeles Times. At that time, Los Angeles had a population of only 12,000. Lummis decided to make the 3,507-mile journey from Cincinnati to Los Angeles on foot, taking 143 days, all the while sending weekly dispatches to the paper chronicling his trip. One of his dispatches chronicled his meeting and interview with famed outlaw Frank James. The trip began in September and lasted through the winter. Lummis suffered a broken arm and struggled in the heavy winter snows of New Mexico. He became enamored with the American Southwest, and its Spanish and Native American inhabitants. Several years later, he published his account of this journey in A Tramp Across the Continent (1892).
Editor at the Los Angeles Times
Upon his arrival, Lummis was offered the job of the first City Editor of the Los Angeles Times. He covered a multitude of interesting stories from the new and growing community. Work was hard and demanding under the pace set by publisher Harrison Gray Otis. Lummis was happy until he suffered from a mild stroke that left his left side paralyzed.
New Mexico
In 1888, Lummis moved to San Mateo, New Mexico to recuperate from his paralysis. He rode on the Plains while holding a rifle in one good hand and shooting jack rabbits. Here, he began a new career as a prolific freelance writer, writing on everything that was particularly special about the Southwest and Indian cultures. His articles about corrupt bosses committing murders in San Mateo drew threats on his life, so he moved to a new location in the Pueblo Indian village of Isleta, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
Pueblo People of Isleta
Somewhat recovered from his paralysis, Lummis was able to win over the confidence of the Isleta Pueblo, a Tiwa people, by his outgoing and generous nature. But a hit man from San Mateo was sent up to Isleta, where he shot Lummis but failed to kill him.
In Isleta, Lummis divorced his first wife and married Eva Douglas, who lived in the village and was the sister-in-law of an English trader. Somehow he convinced Eva to stay with Dorothea in Los Angeles until the divorce went through. In the meantime, Lummis became entangled in fights with the U.S. government agents over Indian education. In this period, the government was pushing assimilation and had established Indian boarding schools. It charged its agents with recruiting Native American children for the schools, where they were usually forced to give up traditional clothing and hair styles, and prevented from speaking their own languages or using their own customs. They were often prohibited from returning home during holidays or vacation periods, or their families were too poor to afford such travel. Lummis persuaded the government to allow 36 children from the Albuquerque Indian School to return to their homes.
While in Isleta, he made friends with Father Anton Docher from France; he was the missionary Padre of Isleta. They both also befriended Adolph Bandelier. While living in Isleta, Lummis boarded in the home of Juan Rey Abeita. In 1890, he traveled with Bandelier to study the indigenous people of the area.
Preservationist
As president of the Landmarks Club of Southern California (an all-volunteer, privately funded group dedicated to the preservation of California's Spanish missions), Lummis noted that the historic structures "...were falling to ruin with frightful rapidity, their roofs being breached or gone, the adobe walls melting under the winter rains." Lummis wrote in 1895, "In ten years from now—unless our intelligence shall awaken at once—"there will remain of these noble piles nothing but a few indeterminable heaps of adobe. We shall deserve and shall have the contempt of all thoughtful people if we suffer our noble missions to fall."
Magazine editor
In 1892, Lummis published Some Strange Corners of Our Country, recounting some of the areas and sights he had discovered. Between 1893 and 1894, he spent 10 months traveling in Peru with Bandelier.
After the men's return, Lummis and Eva returned to Los Angeles with their year-old daughter, Turbese. Unemployed, Lummis landed the position of editor of a regional magazine, Land of Sunshine. The magazine was renamed Out West in 1901. He published works by famous authors such as Jack London and John Muir. Over his 11 years as editor, Lummis also wrote more than 500 pieces for the magazine, as well as a popular monthly commentary called "In the Lion's Den".
Indian rights activist
Lummis also established a new Indian rights group called the "Sequoya League", after the noted early 19th-century Cherokee leader Sequoyah who developed a writing system for the Cherokee language. Lummis fought against the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and called on his classmate President Teddy Roosevelt to help change their manner of operating. He found a home for a small group of Indians who had been evicted from their property in the Palm Springs, California area. The Sequoya League began a battle against Indian Agent Charles Burton, accusing him of imposing a "reign of terror" on the Hopi pueblo in Oraibi by requiring Hopi men to cut their long hair. It was their custom to wear it long, a practice with spiritual meaning. Lummis was accused of overstating the case against Burton and lost his welcome at the White House. (However, subsequent social pressure on Burton led him to reverse the haircutting policy.)
Later life
In 1905, Lummis took the position as City Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library. Lummis replaced Mary Jones as City Librarian even though he had no prior library training. He was criticized for the way he ran the library and insisted on doing most of the work at home. He resigned from that sole source of income in 1911, and worked to establish the Southwest Museum while engaged in a bitter and public divorce with his wife Eva.
In that year Lummis went blind, which he attributed to a "jungle fever" contracted while in Guatemala exploring the Mayan ruins of Quiriguá. After more than a year of blindness, during which he might appear in public with his eyes covered by a bandanna or wearing dark amber glasses, he regained his sight. Some privately doubted Lummis actually went blind. Among them was John Muir, who said so in a letter to him and encouraged him to get more rest.
In 1915, Lummis married his third wife, Gertrude, at El Alisal.
By 1918, he was destitute. In 1923, the Southwest Museum Board named him founder emeritus and gave him a small stipend. In 1925, Lummis also decided to enlarge, revise, and republish Some Strange Corners of Our Country as Mesa, Canyon and Pueblo. He also engaged in a renewed civil rights crusade on behalf of the Pueblo Indians.
Death
Lummis died November 25, 1928. He was cremated, and his ashes were placed in a vault in a wall at El Alisal. Supporters bought his home El Alisal, which was until 2015 used as the headquarters of the Historical Society of Southern California.
Legacy and honors
Lummis' cultural influence remains today, including a lasting imprint on the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles. The home he built, The Lummis House, and the museum he founded, The Southwest Museum, are located within 0.7 miles of each other and remain open to the public for limited hours on weekends.
El Alisal (Lummis House)
Lummis purchased a 3-acre plot around 1895 and spent 13 years building what would become a 4,000-square-foot stone home with an exhibition hall, calling it El Alisal. He frequently entertained, with parties he called "noises" for various writers, artists, and other prominent figures. The parties usually included a lavish Spanish dinner with dancing and music performed by his own private troubadour. The extravaganzas wore out a number of female assistants or "secretaries" conscripted into working on them.
The Lummis House was donated to the Southwest Museum in 1910 and then sold in 1943 to the state of California, which transferred it to the city in 1971. The Historical Society of Southern California took occupancy in 1965, using it as headquarters and helping manage the property, eventually leaving in 2014. Open to the public as a museum and park on Saturdays and Sundays, the site also serves as a focus for Lummis Day activities (see below).
Southwest Museum
By 1907, Lummis had founded the Southwest Museum of Los Angeles, California. He had led the fundraising campaign to build a new structure for it and saw the building open in August 1914.
The Southwest Museum operated independently until 2003, when it was merged into the Autry Museum of the American West. The Autry launched a multi-year conservation project to preserve the enormous collection amassed by Lummis and his successors. Much of the material was moved off-site, but The Southwest Museum has maintained an ongoing public exhibit on Pueblo pottery that is free of charge and open on Saturdays only.
Lummis Day Festival
Beginning in 2006, the annual Lummis Day Festival was established by the Lummis Day Community Foundation. It holds the festival in Lummis' honor on the first Sunday in June, drawing people to El Alisal and Heritage Square Museum for poetry readings, art exhibits, music, dance performances, and family activities. The foundation is a non-profit organization of community activists and arts organization leaders.
Publications
Birch Bark Poems. C F Lummis. 1883
A New Mexico David and Other Stories & Sketches of The Southwest. Scribner's. 1891
Some strange corners of our country: the wonderland of the Southwest. 1892
A Tramp Across The Continent (1892)
My Friend Will. 1894
The Gold Fish of Gran Chimu: A Novel. Lamson, Wolffe. 1896
The Enchanted Burro: Stories of New Mexico & South America. 1897
The awakening of a nation: Mexico of to-day. 1898
The Landmarks Club Cook Book: A California Collection of the Choicest Recepes from Everywhere. The Out West Company. 1903
Pueblo Indian Folk Stories. The Century Company. 1910
The King Of The Broncos and Other Stories of New Mexico. Scribner's. 1915
The Spanish Pioneers And The California Missions (1936) Full book online at The Internet Archive. 1920
The Prose of It (poem on Geronimo). c. 1926
A Bronco Pegasus: Poems. Houghton Mifflin. 1928
Flowers Of Our Lost Romance (1909) Full book online at The Internet Archive Houghton Mifflin. 1929
New Mexican Folk Songs. UNM Press. 1952
General Crook and the Apache Wars. 1966
Bullying The Moqui. 1968
Dateline Fort Bowie: Charles Fletcher Lummis Reports on an Apache War. 1979
A Tramp Across the Continent. University of Nebraska Press. 1982.
Letters From The Southwest: September 20, 1884 to March 14, 1885. 1989
Mesa, Cañon and Pueblo. University Press of the Pacific. 2004.
Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories. Forgotten Books. 2008.
The Land of Poco Tiempo. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1897.
The Man Who Married the Moon and Other Pueblo Indian Folk Tales. (1891)
References
Bibliography
208 p. (Devotes chapter XIV "Chas" to Lummis) Historical novel.
Further reading
(devotes chapter 4 "The Showman with the Shining Right Hand" to Lummis)
External links
Official website
Official website
Official site
Archival collections
"Guide to the Charles Lummis Photographs". Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California.
Other
Mark Thompson, author of American Character, a biography of Charles Fletcher Lummis
Charles Fletcher Lummis Manuscript Collection at the Autry National Center
Charles F. Lummis Page at Spirit of America
"Charles F. Lummis" by Robert E. Fleming in the Western Writers Series Digital Editions at Boise State University
Article, with archival photos, about Charles Fletcher Lummis – L.A. as Subject/KCET
"Sunday's Lummis Fest Recalls Infancy of Los Angeles Cultural Venues" Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2012
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Olly Olly Oxen Free (also known as The Great Balloon Adventure or The Great Balloon Race) is a 1978 American family adventure film directed by Richard A. Colla and starring Katharine Hepburn. The screenplay by Eugene Poinc is based on a story by Poinc, Colla, and Maria L. de Ossio. The title is derived from "Olly olly oxen free" a phrase used in children's games to indicate that those in hiding came out into the open safely and freely.
Plot
Eccentric Miss Pudd (Katharine Hepburn) is the owner of what she considers an antiques store but most would call a junkyard. She frequently refuses to part with her merchandise because of its sentimental or historical value. However, she does agree to lend some items to two boys, Alby (Kevin McKenzie) and Chris (Dennis Dimster), who befriend her.
The boys explain that they are repairing an antique hot air balloon that belonged to Alby's grandfather, an adventurous stunt man named The Great Sandusky. In honor and memory of Alby's grandfather, who died one year earlier and is sorely missed by Alby, they plan to take the balloon aloft to celebrate the grandfather's birthday.
The balloon is accidentally inflated and launched, with the two boys and their English sheepdog in the basket. Miss Pudd chases after them in her antique car and ends up riding the anchor dangling from the bottom of the basket. After she is pulled up, the balloon continues to drift and gets lost in a fog.
That night, they drift finally to Los Angeles, where a police helicopter demands that they land. The balloon lands on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, at an outdoor concert where the orchestra is playing Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Amidst fireworks, the audience thinks the balloon landing is part of the show and is enthralled as the ragamuffin crew disembarks and is sent home.
Cast
Katharine Hepburn as Miss Pudd
Kevin McKenzie as Alby
Dennis Dimster as Chris
Peter Kilman as Mailman
Jayne Marie Mansfield
Joseph McBride as spectator at Hollywood Bowl
Production
Olly Olly Oxen Free was a low-budget film that was filmed in the summer of 1976, on location in the Napa Valley, California. The locales that were used were in Calistoga and St. Helena, California. The Japanese toy company Sanrio funded the production, with the goal of releasing a children's film to complement their toy line. From 1977 to 1985, Sanrio produced feature-length films through their Sanrio Films label.
Although intended for a theatrical release, Olly Olly Oxen Free in its various incarnations, had a lease on life as a home media release with HBO Video. The DVD release was on August 4, 1999.
Reception
After a limited theatrical release in 1978, Olly Olly Oxen Free did not play in New York until five years later, when the film played at the Thalia Theater. Hepburn's biographer, William Mann, called Olly Olly Oxen Free, "nearly plotless" and stated that Hepburn's timing with the young co-stars was off.
Film reviewer Leonard Maltin, in Leonard Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide was charitable, saying "Kate's always worth watching, but except for airborne scenes, this film is nothing special."
References
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
Edwards, Anne. A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn. New York: William Morrow, 1985. .
Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide. New York: New American Library, 2012. .
Mann, William J. Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006. .
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Scrawl was an American indie rock trio based in Columbus, Ohio, and active from the mid-1980s.
History
The band formed in 1985, originally under the name Skull. The founding members were Marcy Mays (lead vocals, guitar, songwriting), Sue Harshe (bass guitar, backing vocals, songwriting), and Carolyn O'Leary (drums). Their first show, in the summer of 1985, was a 20-minute opening spot for the Meat Puppets, and inspired the band to find a new name, "Scrawl", that sounded a bit like Skull. Their first album, Plus, Also, Too, was self-produced (with Andy Izold) and released in 1987 on the local label No Other Records. The following year the band was signed to the ill-fated Rough Trade Records U.S., for whom they released two albums, He's Drunk (produced by Jim Rondinelli) and Smallmouth (produced by Gary Smith).
When Rough Trade U.S. filed for bankruptcy in 1990, the band placed a successful bid to purchase back their master recordings during an auction held during the label's Chapter 11 proceedings. Their next release, a seven-track EP called Bloodsucker, was released on the Chicago-based Feel Good All Over label (then reissued on Simple Machines Records).
Drummer O'Leary left the group in May 1992, and was replaced by Dana Marshall.
They recorded their next album, Velvet Hammer, in 1993. It was engineered by Steve Albini (around the time he produced Nirvana's In Utero), and released on the Simple Machines label. The band was then signed their first major label deal with Elektra, for whom they released two albums, Travel On, Rider, and Nature Film. Only six weeks after Nature Film came out Elektra dropped Scrawl.
Marcy Mays appeared as lead singer on "My Curse" from the album Gentlemen by the Afghan Whigs. The Whigs also recorded a cover of "Ready" from Scrawl's He's Drunk with Mays sharing vocals with Greg Dulli. The recording was released as a B-side on the Afghan Whigs' Debonair single, and later appeared on a promotional CD The B-Sides/The Conversation and on the remastered 'Gentlemen' At 21. Mays performed live with the Afghan Whigs at the Reading Festival 1994 and, more recently, with the reunited Whigs at All Tomorrow's Parties I'll Be Your Mirror USA 2012.
Discography
References
External links
Sue Harshe's MySpace page
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Musical groups from Columbus, Ohio
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Scarlet Traces is a Steampunk comic series written by Ian Edginton and illustrated by D'Israeli. It was originally published online before being serialised in 2002, in the British anthology Judge Dredd Megazine. A sequel, Scarlet Traces: The Great Game, followed in 2006.
Edginton and D'Israeli's 2006 adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is effectively a prequel to Scarlet Traces, as key characters of Scarlet Traces can be glimpsed therein and the same designs for the Martians and their technology are used.
A fourth series, Scarlet Traces: Cold War, appeared in 2000 AD in 2016 and 2017.
Setting
Scarlet Traces is based on the premise that Britain was able to reverse engineer alien technology, abandoned after the abortive Martian invasion of The War of the Worlds, to establish economic and political dominance over the remainder of the world.
The artwork shows an imposition of futuristic devices on early 20th century society. In the first series, set in 1908, London cabbies and the Household Cavalry have swapped their horses for mechanical devices with spiderlike legs; homes are heated and lit by modified versions of the Martian heat ray; the pigeons of Trafalgar Square are thinned out by miniature Martian war machines. In the sequel, Britain of the late 1930s is recreated along fairly recognisable lines but with an additional layer of alien derived technology.
Plot
Scarlet Traces
The story begins ten years after the abortive Martian invasion of Earth, with bodies being washed up on the banks of the river Thames. The bodies are all female and drained of blood, prompting a local drunk, whose dog discovers them, to think that a vampire is on the loose. Emerging from comfortable retirement in fashionable Bedford Square, Major Robert Autumn DSO and his trusty manservant Colour Sergeant Arthur Currie search for the culprits after being informed that Currie's niece is most likely one of the missing girls.
Autumn is represented as a classic Victorian hero: honourable, perceptive and brave but out of his depth in a new age of ruthless exploitation personified by the bullish, cynical government official Dr Davenport Spry.
After following the investigation across England and Scotland the pair, now accompanied by the drunk from London, discover that a single Martian has survived the bacteria by turning its own war machine into a hermetic chamber. In return for its life - and human blood to sustain it, the alien dubbed "Humpty", has been assisting British scientists in mastering advanced Martian technical skills.
In the finale Spry reveals that Britain, having come to dominate Earth using its newly acquired technology, now intends to invade Mars. In an ensuing fight Currie is killed, and Autumn loses an arm. Spry kills the captive Martian which has now served its purpose, and contemptuously dismisses Autumn as a "dusty relic". Later, a crippled and alcoholic Autumn witnesses the departure of Britain's Stella Expeditionary Force to Mars, amid general scenes of patriotic fervor.
Scarlet Traces: The Great Game
Thirty years after the events of Scarlet Traces, the counter-invasion of Mars is going badly, with the Martians successfully defending themselves using heat ray weapons against the invaders. Charlotte Hemming, an aristocratic young photojournalist, is saved by Robert Autumn from the thuggish agents of an increasingly repressive British Government - led by Spry, now Prime Minister. Autumn asks her to travel to Mars and investigate why out of the thousands of soldiers sent, only three hundred and seventy two have returned from the war. At the same time, the government is shown to be under pressure from a Nationalistic Scottish breakaway faction; plus Canada, Australia and New Zealand who wish to remove their troops from the space combat.
Hemming's spaceship is shot down as it enters Mars' atmosphere. She survives, but her cover is blown. She discovers that the Martians are not in fact native to Mars, but seem to have originated from a now-destroyed planet that became the asteroid belt. She theorises that a previous civilisation existed on Mars and was itself plunged into warfare by the arrival of the Asteroid "Martians", resulting in their extinction.
Hemming also discovers that the Martians have been using genetic techniques to mimic humanity to an indistinguishable degree - but the government is already aware of this, and has been preventing any substantial return of veterans to Earth, in case they are in fact disguised Martians.
Spry's government is about to deliver a coup de grace in some unknown form, and destroy all the remaining Martians - as well as an expendable rearguard left behind when the main body of the expeditionary force is secretly evacuated.
The expected doomsday weapon is delivered, and turns out to be modified Cavorite in capsule form, which sticks to anything it touches, and lifts it off the planet into the vacuum of space. Hemming is amongst those who survive, but they discover that humanoid Martians have taken control of the Lunar colony, and turned its mass driver into a weapon targeted on Earth. The bulk of the returning expeditionary force has been ambushed and destroyed.
Ultimately the Martians are defeated when a Commonwealth space fleet, originally intended to evacuate their own troops, arrives and with the surviving British ships engage the Martians in a crossfire.
Earth is saved, and the British government falls, with Spry being amongst those killed in the mass driver attacks which have devastated London and much of southern England. Some years later, a retired Hemming is approached by officials of the new government who are worried she will expose the truth, which has been repressed. She assures them that she has no intention of upsetting the status quo, and returns to her garden - which contains several Triffids.
Allusions and cameo appearances
References within the story
In The Great Game, when Charlotte reaches the cavern with the glyphs, the original inhabitants of the Solar System are revealed to be:
Mercury: Mercurians from Dan Dare
Venus: A Treen and a Theron from Dan Dare.
Earth: Silurians and Sea Devils from Doctor Who.
The Moon: The Watcher from Marvel Comics and a Selenite from H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon.
Mars: A Green Martian from Barsoom (a fictional version of Mars) and a hrossa, séroni, and pfifltriggi from Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis.
Asteroid belt: The "Martian" invaders from The War of the Worlds.
In The Great Game issue 1, Carl Kolchak makes a cameo appearance. In issue 2, Autumn's bookshelf includes a work entitled The Perils of Andrea, a reference to Perelandra. Both references were made by D'Israeli. The fictional Hobbs End underground station is a reference to Quatermass and the Pit.
Captain Haddock, Tintin and Snowy (from The Adventures of Tintin) can be spotted on page 42. There is a cameo by Dan Dare and Digby.
References in other works by Edginton and D'Israeli
The War of the Worlds adaptation by Dark Horse Comics contains several references to Scarlet Traces. Autumn and Currie can be seen in a newspaper as having saved Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia from an assassin. Ned Penny can be seen on the Thunder Child. An Archie the dog look-alike appears in the ruins of London. An official figure supervising the removal of Martian tripods after the end of the war resembles a young Dr. Spry, while the two army sergeants awaiting his orders reappear as Coughly and Dravott in Scarlet Traces. The adaptation ends with the narrator reflecting that it may be possible for humans to spread throughout the solar system also.
In Kingdom of the Wicked, also by Edginton and D'Israeli, the main character's wife is seen reading Scarlet Traces.
Publication history
The original Scarlet Traces was conceived as a partially animated serial, intended for the now-defunct website Cool Beans World. In an interview for 2000AD Review, Edginton said "The Cool Beans version was to have been like a little movie in many ways. It had music, sound effects, zooms, pans and dissolves. There was even going to be some limited animation of the War Machines. A lot of the work was done and in the can when Cool Beans shut down production..."
The website ceased operation after only a fraction of the serial had been published.
D'Israeli wrote in his blog:
D'Israeli reworked Scarlet Traces as a traditional comic book story. This version was serialised in 2002 in the British anthology Judge Dredd Megazine (vol 4) issues 16 to 18. In 2003 it was collected in its own 4-issue limited series (with minor revisions) by US publisher Dark Horse Comics, and subsequently collected into one hardcover volume by Dark Horse Comics in August 2003 ().
The Great Game was first published in a four-issue mini-series by Dark Horse Comics in 2006. The War of the Worlds was published in the same year. Cold War appeared in 2000 AD #1988–1999 in 2016.
Bibliography
Scarlet Traces (in Judge Dredd Megazine (vol 4) #16-18, 2002)
H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds (in a trade paperback, Dark Horse, 2006, )
The Great Game (in a trade paperback, Dark Horse, May 2007, )
Cold War (in 2000 AD #1988–1999, 2016)
Cold War Book 2 (in 2000 AD #2023–2034, 2017)
Home Front (in 2000 AD #2126–2129 and 2131–2138, 2019)
Storm Front (in 2000 AD #2250–2255 and 2257–2261, 2021) (At the end of the story, text says "Scarlet Traces will return".)
Collected editions
Dark HorseH. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, Dark Horse, 2006, Scarlet Traces, Dark Horse, 2003, The Great Game, Dark Horse, 104 pages, May 2007,
RebellionScarlet Traces: Volume One, 140 pages, Rebellion Publishing, 2017,
Includes War of the Worlds and Scarlet Traces This also came as an exclusive-to-webstore limited edition, which included a numbered bookplate, signed by both the artist and writer, and an exclusive B&W original print by D'IsraeliScarlet Traces: Volume Two, Rebellion Publishing, 2017,
Includes The Great Game, Cold War and Cold War Book 2Scarlet Traces: Volume Three, 128 pages, Rebellion Publishing, 2022,
Includes Home Front and Storm Front
Awards
2007 nominated for the Eisner Awards for:
Best Limited Series, The Great Game
Best Writer, Ian Edginton, for his work on The Great Game
See also
Edison's Conquest of Mars, one of the earliest sequels to War of the Worlds
Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds, another unofficial sequel
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II, also featuring the Martian invasion
War of the Worlds: Second Wave, a comic book by Michael Alan Nelson and Chee for Boom! Studios, in which bacteria-resistant Martians return.
"The Queen of Night's Aria", a short story sequel to The War of the Worlds by Ian McDonald, published in the 2013 George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois anthology Old Mars, depicts a setting very similar to Scarlet Traces: The Great Game.
The Massacre of Mankind, 2017 novel by Stephen Baxter that is a sequel to The War of the Worlds
List of steampunk works
Notes
References
Scarlet Traces at Barney
External links
Scarlet Traces annotations
Scarlet Traces and The Great Game at War of the Worlds.co.uk
Reviews
Review of the first Scarlet Traces trade, Comics Bulletin
Review of The Great Game, Comics Bulletin
Comics by Ian Edginton
Sequel novels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet%20Traces |
According to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) the travel and tourism sector of Argentina was moving towards recovering its pre-covid pandemic contribution to GDP in mid-2023, led by Buenos Aires.
Tourist attractions
The most popular tourist sites are found in the historic core of the city, in the Montserrat and San Telmo neighborhoods. Buenos Aires was conceived around the Plaza de Mayo, the colony's administrative center. To the east of the square is the Casa Rosada, the official seat of the executive branch of the government of Argentina. To the north, the Catedral Metropolitana which has stood in the same location since colonial times, and the Banco de la Nación Argentina building, a parcel of land originally owned by Juan de Garay. Other important colonial institutions were Cabildo, to the west, which was renovated during the construction of Avenida de Mayo and Julio A. Roca. To the south is the Congreso de la Nación (National Congress), which currently houses the Academia Nacional de la Historia (National Academy of History). Lastly, to the northwest, is City Hall.
Avenida de Mayo links the Casa Rosada with the Argentine National Congress. On this avenue there are several buildings of cultural, architectural, and historical importance, such as Casa de la Cultura, the Palacio Barolo and Café Tortoni. Underneath the avenue, the first subte (metro) line in South America, opened in 1913. The avenue ends at Plaza del Congreso, which features a number of monuments and sculptures, including one of Auguste Rodin's few surviving original casts of "The Thinker".
On the Manzana de las Luces ("Illuminated Block") area are the San Ignacio church, the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires, and the old city council building (1894 to 1931). This area has tunnels and catacombs, which crossed underneath the Plaza de Mayo during colonial times. The San Telmo neighborhood of Plaza Dorrego hosts an antiques fair on Sundays, complete with tango shows. Frequent tours and activities are available at the Church of Nuestra Señora de Bethlehem, the San Pedro Telmo Parish and the Antonio Ballvé Penintetiary Museum. The National Historical Museum in Parque Lezama is a few blocks south.
The borough of Recoleta is home to a number of places of interest, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Biblioteca Nacional, the Centro Cultural Recoleta, the Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Basílica Nuestra Señora de Pilar, the Palais de Glace, the Café La Biela and the Cementerio de la Recoleta, where Eva Perón's crypt can be visited, among those of many other Argentine historical and cultural figures.
El Ateneo Grand Splendid, one of the city's best-known bookshops and, moved from a downtown location to Santa Fé Avenue, where "Barrio Norte" meets the borough of Palermo in a renovated former theatre, later cinema, which still shows its origins. Plaza Italia, site of a monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Buenos Aires Zoo, the botanical gardens, and the Palermo woods (with paddleboat lake, rose garden, and planetarium) are all a short walk to the east of it.
The borough of Retiro features the Retiro Railway Terminal and several other notable landmarks, including the Plaza San Martín square, its monument to the dead of the Falklands War, an equestrian statue of General San Martín and, nearby, the Torre Monumental (formerly Torre de los Ingleses) donated by the Anglo-Argentine community, the ornate Basilica Santísimo Sacramento and the Art Deco Kavanagh Building, one of the tallest in the city.
The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires is located in the barrio of Palermo, and is one of the most important in the country. In this neighbourhood can also be found the Bosques de Palermo, the Planetarium and Buenos Aires Zoo.
The southern area of the city, (including barrios such as Barracas and Parque Patricios) while traditionally not a top tourist destination, is historically the source for much of the city's early tango culture. It is now home to a burgeoning arts scene. Another important tourist site is Avenida Corrientes; among dozens of cinemas, theatres, booksellers and music shops, this avenue is home to the San Martín Cultural Center, Paseo La Plaza and the Luna Park coliseum. At the intersection of this avenue with Avenida 9 de julio, the Obelisco, the emblem of the City of Buenos Aires, is located. The Art Deco former central wholesale fruit and vegetable market, Mercado de Abasto, which became a shopping mall, is also on this avenue.
At the southwest end of the city, the Buenos Aires car racing circuit and the Parque de la ciudad amusement park, with a 200 metre-high Torre Espacial tower, are located.
Buenos Aires has been attracting a homosexual community in Latin America.
Since 2006, the city has seen unprecedented numbers of gay-oriented cruise ship arrivals, an increase in the number of gay-owned businesses, and the construction of a five-star gay-oriented hotel; despite its relatively unfavorable location, the Axel Hotel Buenos Aires has remained popular since opening in October 2007.
Hotels
Buenos Aires has various types of accommodation, from luxurious centrally-located five-star hotels to budget hotels in neighborhoods further from the city centre but with transport links.
There were, as of February 2008, 23 five-star, 61 four-star, 59 three-star and 87 two or one-star hotels, as well as 25 boutique hotels and 39 apart-hotels; another 298 hostels, bed & breakfasts, vacation rentals and other non-hotel establishments were registered in the city. In all, nearly 27,000 rooms were available for tourism in Buenos Aires, of which about 12,000 belonged to four- or five-star or boutique hotels. Higher-rated establishments typically had higher occupation rates. The majority of the hotels are located in the central part of the city, near main tourist attractions.
There are many furnished apartments for rent, ranging from small low-cost studios to expensive luxurious apartments.
See also
Tourism in Argentina
References
External links
Official City of Buenos Aires tourist website
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20Buenos%20Aires |
Blood Bound may refer to:
Bloodbound, a Swedish power metal band
"Blood Bound" (song), a song by HammerFall | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20Bound |
The Bamburgh Sword is an Anglo-Saxon artefact from the seventh century. It was uncovered during an archaeological excavation at Bamburgh Castle in 1960 by Brian Hope-Taylor. The sword was missing until his death in 2001, when it was found in a suitcase in his garage. It is unique amongst swords of its period, having been formed by six strands of iron pattern welded into a blade, resulting in speculation that it may have been the sword of a king.
Description
The Bamburgh Sword is similar in size to a Roman spatha, and would have originally measured about in length. It is an Anglo-Saxon weapon which has been dated to the seventh century, and was likely to have been buried in either the tenth or eleventh centuries. It has a pattern welded blade which historians have identified by x-rays as being unique to the time period in that it uses six strands of iron to form the sword, when no other blades of that era were made of more than four strands. It would have taken a blacksmith around two months to create the blade; archaeologist Paul Gething said that to "produce a weapon of this calibre required state-of-the-art technology of the time, those who witnessed the creation of this weapon would have thought it the equivalent of magic."
The relative cost of the Bamburgh Sword during the era of its creation has led archaeologists to speculate that the original owner would have been either a king or a close associate, such as one of the king's favoured warriors, and may have possibly been the sword of King Oswald of Northumbria. The weapon would have been passed down a family line until its burial some three to four hundred years later.
Rediscovery
The sword was unearthed by Brian Hope-Taylor during a dig inside the walls of Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, in 1960. However, the sword wasn't recognised and he took possession of the artefact. Following Hope-Taylor's death in 2001, a former PhD student of his was checking a consignment of items from Hope-Taylor's house that were due to be disposed of in a skip and found the sword. A number of students had visited their former professor's house only because they had heard that his books were being sold off. The sword had been stored inside a suitcase that was found in the garage.
After being researched by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, the sword was returned to the castle in 2005, and remains there on display.
References
European swords
European weapons
Medieval European swords
Anglo-Saxon archaeology
1960 archaeological discoveries
Individual weapons
Bamburgh | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamburgh%20Sword |
Christine Willes is a Canadian television, theatre and film actress who is best known for her roles as Delores Herbig on the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me and Gladys the DMV demon on the CW supernatural drama television series Reaper. She is also known for her role as Granny Goodness on the CW series Smallville.
Career
Willes played the recurring role of Agent Karen E. Kosseff, a government counselor, on the TV show The X-Files. She also appears in a minor recurring role on the show Reaper on The CW, as Gladys, a demon from Hell who works in the DMV. She was nominated for a Leo Award in 2008 for that role. Like her Dead Like Me co-star Callum Blue, she was cast as the villain Granny Goodness on The CW's Smallville'''s tenth and final season (Blue appeared in the previous season as Zod). She also had a small role in the award-winning film Trick r Treat starring Anna Paquin, which also featured another Dead Like Me co-star, Britt McKillip. She also played Vera Kane on CW series the 100.
Christine appeared as Madam Lazar in Catherine Hardwicke's production of Red Riding Hood.She has won three Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, and both produced and starred in Jasmina Reza's The Unexpected Man. She directed Metamorphoses at Pacific Theatre in August 2008, and played Clara Epp in Touchstone Theatre's 2010 World Premiere of Sally Stubb's Herr Beckmann's People.''
Willes had a recurring role as Patty Deckler in the third series of the drama series Mistresses in 2015.
Filmography
Film
Television
External links
Canadian film actresses
Place of birth missing (living people)
Canadian television actresses
Drama teachers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Willes |
Imperium Vorago the debut album by the progressive metal project Chimp Spanner. It was released in January 2005 independently. When Chimp Spanner signed to Basick Records, the album became available on the iTunes Store.
Track listing
Personnel
Chimp Spanner
Paul Ortiz - guitars, bass, keyboards, drum programming, and production
External links
Chimp Spanner on Soundclick
2005 debut albums
Chimp Spanner albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium%20Vorago |
Joel Daniel Freeland (born 7 February 1987) is a British former professional basketball player who last played for CSKA Moscow of the VTB United League. Standing at , he played at the power forward and center positions. He also represented the Great Britain national basketball team.
Professional career
Early years
Freeland began his career as a youth player with the youth teams of Thames Valley Tigers/Guildford Heat, before joining the Solent Stars. Within a year, he was representing England's Under-18 national team, and soon found himself in Spain, with the fourth division side Gran Canaria II. While playing in the lower level Spanish leagues, Freeland was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers, becoming the 30th overall pick of the 2006 NBA draft, which was the highest rank for a British born player in the history of the draft. The Blazers encouraged Freeland to remain in Europe to learn his trade, and he subsequently signed with Gran Canaria, of the Spanish top-tier level Liga ACB in August 2006.
During the 2006–07 season, while playing with Gran Canaria, Freeland appeared in 16 games in the Liga ACB, and also made his debut in the European-wide 2nd-tier level ULEB Cup (now called EuroCup). Freeland continued to improve during the 2007–08 season, appearing in 28 games in the Liga ACB, and reaching the quarter-finals of the ULEB Cup. The 2008–09 season saw Freeland become one of Gran Canaria's best players, as he averaged 9.9 points and 4.8 rebounds per game, in 17.8 minutes per game in the Liga ACB.
Unicaja Malaga
In July 2009, Freeland joined the Spanish EuroLeague club Unicaja Málaga, on a five-year contract worth €4.5 million euros net income. During the 2009–10 season, Freeland made his debut in Europe's top-tier level league, the EuroLeague, and also made 37 Spanish ACB League appearances. The 2010–11 season was Freeland's best season, as he averaged career-highs of 13.2 points and 6.2 rebounds per game in the Liga ACB, and 13.9 points and 6.3 rebounds per game in the EuroLeague.
In July 2012, Freeland reached an agreement with Unicaja on a €1.5 million buyout.
Portland Trail Blazers
On 28 June 2006, he was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round of the 2006 NBA draft as the 30th overall draft pick. However, the Trail Blazers encouraged him to return to European play to further improve his game. On 13 July 2012, Freeland signed a three-year deal with the Portland Trail Blazers. On 14 December 2012, he was assigned to the Idaho Stampede of the NBA D-League. He was recalled on 16 December 2012.
On 26 December 2014, Freeland recorded a career-high 17 rebounds against the Philadelphia 76ers. On 13 April 2015, he scored a career-high 16 points against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
CSKA Moscow
On 13 July 2015, Freeland signed a two-year contract with the Russian club CSKA Moscow. In a warm-up for a preseason game against Galatasaray, he suffered a left calf injury, which prevented him from play at the start of the season. During his two-year stint with CSKA, he won the EuroLeague in 2016 and was a two time VTB United League champion (2016, 2017). Following the expiration of his contract, he left the club at the end of the 2016–17 season.
International
Freeland represented the senior Great Britain national basketball team at the EuroBasket 2009 and the EuroBasket 2011. He also played at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Career statistics
NBA
Regular season
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 51 || 1 || 9.4 || .408 || .000 || .667 || 2.3 || .3 || .3 || .2 || 2.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 52 || 0 || 14.0 || .475 || .000 || .690 || 4.0 || .7 || .2 || .4 || 3.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 48 || 8 || 12.9 || .490 || .000 || .840 || 4.0 || .3 || .2 || .5 || 3.5
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 151 || 9 || 12.1 || .459 || .000 || .728 || 3.4 || .4 || .2 || .4 || 3.2
Playoffs
|-
| align="left" | 2014
| align="left" | Portland
| 9 || 0 || 2.7 || .000 || .000 || .500 || .9 || .1 || .1 || .1 || .1
|-
| align="left" | 2015
| align="left" | Portland
| 2 || 0 || 3.5 || .000 || .000 || .000 || .5 || .0 || .5 || .0 || .0
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 11 || 0 || 2.8 || .000 || .000 || .500 || .8 || .1 || .2 || .1 || .1
EuroLeague
|-
| align="left" | 2009–10
| align="left" rowspan=3| Unicaja
| 14 || 6 || 19.7 || .484 || .211 || .667 || 5.1 || .7 || .4 || .4 || 10.1 || 9.5
|-
| align="left" | 2010–11
| 15 || 14 || 25.5 || .603 || .273 || .788 || 6.3 || 1.3 || .7 || .6 || 13.9 || 17.5
|-
| align="left" | 2011–12
| 14 || 12 || 25.8 || .510 || .250 || .667 || 6.8 || .6 || .2 || .1 || 12.6 || 11.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;background:#AFE6BA;" | 2015–16†
| align="left" rowspan=2| CSKA Moscow
| 12 || 6 || 15.8 || .593 || .000 || .500 || 4.4 || .3 || .3 || .4 || 6.8 || 7.6
|-
| align="left" | 2016–17
| 15 || 4 || 5.2 || .529 || .000 || .385 || 1.2 || .1 || .2 || .1 || 1.5 || 1.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 55 || 38 || 22.0 || .541 || .239 || .684 || 5.7 || .7 || .4 || .4 || 11.1 || 11.7
References
External links
Joel Freeland at acb.com
Joel Freeland at draftexpress.com
Joel Freeland at eurobasket.com
Joel Freeland at fiba.com
Joel Freeland at fiba.com (game-center)
Joel Freeland at euroleague.net
1987 births
Living people
Baloncesto Málaga players
Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
British expatriates in Spain
CB Gran Canaria players
Centers (basketball)
National Basketball Association players from the United Kingdom
English men's basketball players
Idaho Stampede players
Liga ACB players
National Basketball Association players from England
Olympic basketball players for Great Britain
PBC CSKA Moscow players
People from Farnham
Portland Trail Blazers draft picks
Portland Trail Blazers players
Power forwards (basketball)
British expatriate basketball people in the United States
British expatriate basketball people in Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Freeland |
Livonia Public Schools (LPS) is a public school district in southeastern Michigan Metro Detroit area, serving most of the city of Livonia and the northernmost portions of Westland. The district was formed in 1944 with other areas consolidated into it later.
Schools
Lower Elementary Schools (grades K-4)
Buchanan Elementary School (Livonia)
Cleveland Elementary School (Livonia)
Coolidge Elementary School (Livonia)
Grant Elementary School (Livonia)
Hayes Elementary School (Westland)
Hoover Elementary School (Livonia)
Kennedy Elementary School (Livonia)
Randolph Elementary School (Livonia)
Roosevelt Elementary School (Livonia)
Rosedale Elementary School (Livonia)
Upper Elementary Schools (grades 5-6)
Cooper Upper Elementary School (Westland)
Johnson Upper Elementary School (Westland)
Riley Upper Elementary School (Livonia)
K-6 Schools
Webster Elementary School (Livonia)
Magnet schools:
Niji-Iro Japanese Immersion Elementary School (Livonia)
Niji-Iro Japanese Immersion Elementary School (the name means "rainbow colors", also stated in Japanese as にじいろ小学校, and 日本語マグネットスクール) is a public two-way Japanese-English immersion elementary school that opened on August 11, 2014.
Niji Iro School began after a series of events related to Hinoki International School, which opened in 2010 as a charter school authorized by LPS. The school leased from LPS, occupying formerly-operating campuses, including McKinley Elementary School, and Taylor Elementary School. In March 2014, founder Ted Delphia stated that he had no further desire to manage Hinoki. Randy Liepa, the superintendent of Livonia schools, asked the board of the Hinoki school to merge with the Livonia School District. In May 2014, the Hinoki board voted to follow the recommendations of Hinoki parents and the PTO, and remain a charter school while entering into talks with LPS about possibly becoming part of that district in 2015-16. Liepa declined to renew the lease of the Livonia school facility. On July 28, Livonia Public Schools (LPS) revoked the Hinoki charter since the charter school had no building.
Using the former Taylor Elementary building (the same facility that housed Hinoki), LPS then opened a district-operated school-of-choice elementary school with a similar program, called the Niji-Iro Japanese Immersion Elementary School. For the 2014-15 school year, approximately 115 of the 185 students that were originally enrolled with Hinoki prior to its charter revocation enrolled in Niji-Iro, and the majority of teachers were hired to work there as well. As a district school Niji-Iro began operations on August 11, 2014. As of the 2014-2015 school year it had 130 students in grades Kindergarten through 4, with plans to add grades 5 and 6.
Anne Hooghart, the president of the school board, accused Delphia of conspiring with LPS to take control of the school without the board's consent, while Delphia denied this. Karen Smith of O & E Media wrote that "Hinoki stakeholders viewed the Livonia board's actions as a hostile takeover of their school, recruiting teachers and students without the Hinoki board's knowledge."
Webster Elementary School Gifted Program (Livonia)
Middle Schools (grades 7-8)
Emerson Middle School (Livonia, 1954) - This school was named after the American writer and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. This building is a North Central Association School. Mascot-Eagles
Frost Middle School (Livonia, 1963) - This school was named after Robert Lee Frost, the American poet. In addition to 7th and 8th graders, this building houses the MACAT (Middle Alternative Classrooms for the Academically Talented) program. This building is also a North Central Association School. Mascot-Falcons.
Holmes Middle School (Livonia, 1967) - This school is named after Oliver Wendell Holmes, a famous physician, poet, and writer. This is also a North Central Association school. Mascot-Hawks
High Schools (grades 9-12)
Benjamin Franklin High School (opened in 1962)
Adlai E. Stevenson High School (opened in 1966)
Winston Churchill High School (opened in 1969)
Other Schools
Jackson Early Childhood Center (Livonia, 1956)
Livonia Career Technical Center (Livonia, 1969)
Perrinville Center (Livonia, 1936) Perrinville (at Adams Elementary), Closed 2016. Students and program distributed to other elementary schools in the district.
Western Wayne Skills Center (located now in the Garfield Elementary School building).
References
External links
[\http://www.livoniapublicschools.org Livonia Public Schools]
School districts in Michigan
Livonia, Michigan
Westland, Michigan
Education in Wayne County, Michigan
1944 establishments in Michigan
School districts established in 1944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonia%20Public%20Schools |
Mary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt (20 February 1861 – 19 January 1942) was an Australian novelist, born in Chiltern, Victoria. She also wrote collections of short stories, novellas, autobiographies, and non-fiction. She published her first novel Dave's Sweetheart in 1894. Gaunt visited many countries in her life and she wrote about her experiences in five travel books.
Early life and education
Mary was the elder daughter of William Henry Gaunt, a Victorian county court judge and Elizabeth Gaunt, née Palmer (c. 1835–1922), and was born in Chiltern, Victoria. She was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat and the University of Melbourne, being one of the first two women students to be admitted there.
Career
She began writing for the press and in 1894 published her first novel Dave's Sweetheart. In the same year she married Dr Hubert Lindsay Miller (a widower) of Warrnambool, Victoria. He died in 1900, and, with only a small income, Gaunt (now also known as Mrs Mary Miller) went to London intending to earn a living by her writing. Gaunt left Melbourne on 15 March 1901 and never returned.
Gaunt had difficulties at first but eventually established herself, and was able to travel in the West Indies, in West Africa, and in China and other parts of the East. Her experiences were recorded in five pleasantly written travel books: Alone in West Africa (1912), A Woman in China (1914), A Broken Journey (1919), Where the Twain Meet (1922), Reflection - in Jamaica (1932). In 1929 she also published George Washington and the Men Who Made the American Revolution. Between 1895 and 1934, 16 novels or collections of short stories were published, mostly with love and adventure interests. Three other novels were written in collaboration with John Ridgwell Essex. A collection of interviews with Mary were published in the 1925 Girls' Own Annual under the headings "Pioneering for Women" parts I, II, and III, and "Strange Journeys I Have Made".
From the early 1920s, Gaunt lived mostly at Bordighera, Italy. In 1940 she fled Italy and died at Cannes in 1942. She had no children.
She had a sister Lucy, and brothers Cecil, Clive, Guy and Ernest; Guy and Ernest were both admirals of the Royal Navy, and Guy later became a Conservative Member of Parliament.
Bibliography
Novels
Dave's Sweetheart (1894)
Kirkham's Find (1897)
Deadman's: An Australian Story (1898)
Mistress Betty Carew (1903)
The Arm of the Leopard: A West African Story (1904) [with John Ridgwell Essex]
Fools Rush In (1906) [with John Ridgwell Essex]
The Silent Ones (1909) [with John Ridgwell Essex]
The Mummy Moves (1910)
The Uncounted Cost (1910)
Every Man's Desire (1913)
A Wind from the Wilderness (1919)
As the Whirlwind Passeth (1923)
The Forbidden Town (1926)
Saul's Daughter (1927)
The Lawless Frontier (1929)
Joan of the Pilchard (1930)
Harmony: A Tale of the Old Slave Days of Jamaica (1933)
Worlds Away (1934)
Novellas
Bingley's Gap (1888)
Down in the World (1893)
The Other Man (1894)
Short story collections
The Moving Finger (1895)
The Ends of the Earth : Stories (1915)
The Surrender and Other Happenings (1920)
Life at Deadman's : Stories of Colonial Victoria (2001)
Autobiography
Alone in West Africa (1912)
A Woman in China (1914)
A Broken Journey: Wanderings from the Hoang-Ho to Saghalien (1919)
Non-fiction
Where the Twain Meet (1922) - travel
Peeps at Great Men : George Washington and the Men Who Made the American Revolution (1929) - children's
Reflection in Jamaica (1932) - travel
Notes and references
Sources
E. Archer, 'Gaunt, Mary Eliza Bakewell (1861 - 1942)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, MUP, 1981, pp 632–633. Retrieved 30 October 2008
Auslit Gaunt, Mary (birth name: Gaunt, Mary Eliza Bakewell ) (a.k.a. Miller, Mary )
External links
Works by Mary Gaunt at Project Gutenberg Australia
1861 births
1942 deaths
19th-century Australian novelists
20th-century Australian novelists
Australian women novelists
Australian travel writers
Women travel writers
19th-century Australian women writers
20th-century Australian women writers
Writers from the Colony of Victoria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Gaunt |
Pepe Barreto (born in Lima, Peru) was a community and entertainment reporter for KMEX-TV, Channel 34. With extensive experience in television and radio, Barreto, joined KMEX's news team, Noticias 34 in April 1993.
Biography
Barretto moved from Peru to Los Angeles in 1972.
Barreto is known as the number one radio show personality in Los Angeles on KLVE, working on the station since 1985 and for a time attracting the largest radio audience in Los Angeles in the morning drivetime slot, with up to 7.4% market share.
Barreto also worked as a news reporter for KNBC-TV from 1976 to 1985, where he launched the station's first Spanish simulcast. Barreto received his undergraduate degree from Catholic University of Peru. In 2007, Barreto received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of his work on KLVE.
Pepe Barreto was born on 1947, in Lima, Peru
References
Living people
People from Greater Los Angeles
Mass media people from Lima
Peruvian emigrants to the United States
American radio personalities
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe%20Barreto |
Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides, also known as the Rio Grande chirping frog, Mexican chirping frog, or lowland chirping frog, is a small eleutherodactylid frog. It is found from the southern United States in Texas, and in the northeastern Mexico in the states of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, and Veracruz. Its range in Texas has expanded because of transport in potted plants, and has been reported in Northern Louisiana in Caddo Parish.
Subspecies
Two subspecies are sometimes recognized, although they are poorly delineated:
Only Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides campi occurs in Texas.
Description
Adult males measure and adult females in snout–vent length. The snout is pointed and the body is flat and elongated. Tympanum is visible. The finger tips are slightly expanded. Dorsal skin is weakly pustular, that of venter is smooth to areolate. Dorsal coloration is variable (brown, gray, or yellow-green) and includes dark spots. Ventral skin is translucent. The hind limbs have dark crossbars.
Behavior
Both males and females produce calls, which is rare in anurans. Moreover, male and female calls are remarkably similar. A smaller proportion of females compared to males were observed calling in two Mexican populations. Moreover, calling females were, on average, smaller than non-calling females. The function of female calling is not known, but it might function as an advertisement, similarly as the male calls. Males appear to be territorial.
Reproduction
Reproduction is terrestrial and direct, without a free-living larval stage. Under laboratory conditions, eggs are laid just under the soil surface. Clutch size is 5–13 eggs measuring in diameter. The eggs hatch as froglets that measure approximately .
Habitat and conservation
Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides occurs at low elevation coastal plains and at low to moderate elevations in foothills. Individuals can be found in moist shaded vegetation, palm groves, thickets, ditches, resacas, lawns, and gardens. Many records are from urban settings. They can hide under cover objects during the day. They have been observed to utilize arboreal perches above the ground.
This species is quite common throughout its range and no major threats to it are known; rather, they appear to thrive in the presence of humans. Its Mexican range includes Sierra del Abra-Tamchipa and El Cielo Biosphere.
References
External links
ARMI Atlas: Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides
cystignathoides
Amphibians of Mexico
Amphibians of the United States
Fauna of the Rio Grande valleys
Amphibians described in 1877
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleutherodactylus%20cystignathoides |
Bischoffen is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Bischoffen lies in the Lahn-Dill Highland at the Aar Dam (Aartalsperre). This dam holds back the river Aar, a tributary to the Dill, forming a 57-ha lake whose purpose is mainly flood control, although of course it also has its recreational uses.
Niederweidbach
Lying among the villages of Bischoffen (itself a constituent community, and indeed the community's namesake, but not the biggest centre therein), Oberweidbach, Roßbach, Mudersbach and Ahrdt, Niederweidbach is found right on the shore of the Aartalsee, the man-made lake created by the Aar Dam. It is also on the stretch of Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 255 between Herborn and Gladenbach.
q.v. Niederweidbach's history
Neighbouring communities
Bischoffen borders in the north on the community of Bad Endbach and the town of Gladenbach, in the east on the community of Lohra (all three in Marburg-Biedenkopf), in the southeast on the community of Biebertal (Gießen district), in the south on the community of Hohenahr, in the southwest on the community of Mittenaar, and in the west on the community of Siegbach (all three in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis).
Constituent communities
The community consists of the centres of Bischoffen, Niederweidbach, Oberweidbach, Roßbach and Wilsbach.
Niederweidbach is Bischoffen's biggest community, and its administrative seat.
History
Niederweidbach and Oberweidbach were mentioned in the Fulda Monastery's Codex Eberhardi quite early on, in 802. The other communities' first documentary mentions followed lin the late 13th or early 14th century. The villages belonged to various ecclesiastical and secular rulers, but a great deal of the current municipal area came to be part of the County of Solms as time went by, through estate division, pledges and feuds.
Among the four local powers, namely the Landgraves of Hesse, the Electors of Mainz, the Free Imperial City of Wetzlar and the Counts of Nassau, the political climate was seldom calm. In the Thirty Years' War, the inhabitants suffered neediness, hardship and destruction. The villages only slowly recovered from all this.
Today's Bischoffen was, in the Middle Ages, split into the two municipalities of Oberbischoffen and Niederbischoffen (Ober– = Upper; Nieder– = Lower). Oberbischoffen died out during the Plague and other epidemics and was forsaken. Niederbischoffen was then, in later documents, called simply Bischoffen. Bischoffen earned itself special importance with the building of the Cologne-Leipzig commercial road, along whose route the Aar-Salzböde railway and Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 255 were later built.
With the onset of the 19th century, the area was once again divided: Bischoffen, Niederweidbach and Roßbach passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and Ahrdt and Mudersbach to the Kingdom of Prussia. Up until municipal reform in 1972, the community's outlying centres belonged to the Biedenkopf district, but given their location and economic orientation, they were assigned to the new Lahn-Dill-Kreis.
Niederweidbach's history
After its first documentary mention in the Codex Eberhardi in 802 as "Weidenbach", the village was divided into two, Oberweidbach and Niederweidbach, in the 14th century, much as had been done with neighbouring Bischoffen. In 1432, the villages were granted to the House of Solms-Hohensolms, and passed to the Count of Solms-Hohensolms in 1606. As of 1628, they belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Politics
Municipal council
The municipal elections on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:
Note: FWG is a citizens' coalition.
Coat of arms
Bischoffen's civic coat of arms might heraldically be described thus: A bend wavy argent, above, in azure the crook of a bishop's crozier sinister Or, below, in vert an inverted scallop shell Or.
The wavy bend stands for the river Aar, which flows through the community. The crook stands for the community's name (from German Bischof – bishop). The scallop shell stands for Saint James the Great, Niederweidbach's patron saint, whose traditional symbol is this shell.
Sightseeing
Marienkirche
The wall tower in Niederweidbach, built out of parts of the town wall, itself built in the 11th century, was converted into a chapel – as Niederweidbach belonged to Altenkirchen Parish – by the Reverend Hartong, and further expanded in 1498 on the west side with a proper church nave.
Literature
802–2002 – Weidbach 1200 Jahre – Ein Heimatbuch, published by the Interessensgemeinschaft Weidbacher Vereine e.V. in 2002 for Niederweidbach's and Oberweidbach's 1200-year jubilee.
References
External links
Aartalsee
Lahn-Dill-Kreis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bischoffen |
Noggin may refer to:
General
Noggin or gill (volume), a unit of volume
Noggin (cup), a small cup
Noggin, slang for head
Noggin (protein), a signalling molecule involved in embryonic development
Noggin or dwang, a carpentry term
Entertainment
Noggin (brand), an entertainment brand that includes a television network, mobile applications, and international programming blocks
Noggin the Nog, a BBC children's character and TV series (1959-1965), and a series of children's books
Noggin (magazine), an American magazine that published art, fiction, cartoons, plus social and political commentary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noggin |
The Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) is a programme promoted by the Malaysia Tourism Authority and the Immigration Department of Malaysia, to allow foreigners to stay in Malaysia for a period of ten years. Foreigners who fulfill certain criteria may apply, and a successful applicant is allowed to bring a spouse, an unmarried child under the age of 21, and parents who are over 60 years old.
Since the programme started in 2002, a total 40,000 applications have been approved. The country's economy is stimulated with a cumulative gross value added income of RM11.89 billion from 2002 to 2019 through visa fees, property purchases, personal vehicle purchases, fixed deposits, and monthly household expenditure.
Malaysian Government support
Currently the Ministry of Tourism and Culture (MOTAC) is responsible for promoting MM2H, with approval of applicants and issuance of visas made directly by the Immigration Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs. A "MM2H One-Stop Centre" has been set up under the MOT and it is anticipated that all visa procedures will be transferred from the Immigration Department to the One-Stop Centre by the end of 2006. The Malaysian State of Sarawak has its own MM2H program under its Sarawak Tourism Board, that has slightly different requirements and incentives.
Eligibility
The program is open to all citizens of countries recognised by Malaysia. Applicants are allowed to bring along their spouse and unmarried children below 21 years old. So far over 42,000 people have been approved for the MM2H visa.
Approval criteria
Financial requirement
Applicants below 50 years of age are required to show proof of liquid assets worth a minimum of RM500,000 and offshore income of RM40,000 per month. Applicants below 50 years old are required to open a fixed deposit account in Malaysia of MYR300,000.00 at any bank with a local branch. This includes local branches of international banks such as HSBC, Standard Chartered, etc.
The State of Sarawak does not allow applicants below 50 years of age, with the exception of individuals over 30 years of age who have children enrolled in schools or undergoing long term medical treatment in Sarawak.
After a period of one year, the participant can withdraw up to MYR150,000.00 for approved expenses relating to house purchase, education for children in Malaysia and medical purposes. However, a minimum balance of MYR150,000.00 must be maintained from the second year onwards and throughout the stay in Malaysia under this program.
Note: Fixed deposits (similar to time deposits), in Malaysia are a conservative form of investment with interest rates ranging from 3% to 4% per annum (p.a.). MM2 program announced that effective from first of year 2017 requirement for cancellation of surety bond
withdrawn and amount be refunded through e transfer
'Except for the State of Sarawak Applicants aged 50 and above are required to show proof of liquid assets of RM350,000 and off shore income of RM10,000 per month. For those who have retired, they are required to show proof of receiving pension from government of at least RM10,000 per month.Applicants 50 years of age or older' can do one of the following:
Open a fixed deposit account in Malaysia of MYR350,000.00 with a local branch; OR
Show proof of monthly off-shore government pension of at least MYR10,000.00.
Note : In addition to the above, all applicants are required to show that they have sufficient funds to maintain themselves for the duration of the 10-year visa. In practice this means showing at least MYR150,000 in the bank, and a monthly income of MYR10,000.
After a period of one year, the participant who fulfills the fixed deposit criteria can withdraw up to MYR50,000.00 for approved expenses relating to house purchase, education for children in Malaysia and medical purposes. However, a minimum balance of MYR100,000.00 must be maintained from the second year onwards and throughout stay in Malaysia under this program.
For Sarawak Applicants must be over 50 years of age, but the financial conditions are less onerous than the Peninsular Malaysian program.
Applicants in the Sarawak program must EITHER
1) show proof of monthly off shore income /government guaranteed pension funds of RM 7,000 for unmarried applicants or RM10,000 for married couples or RM;
OR 2) Open a fixed deposit account of RM100, 000 in a bank or financial institution for single individuals or RM150, 000.00 for married couples.
After a period of one year Sarawak MM2H participants who choose to open a fixed deposit account may withdraw up to RM90, 000 (couple) or RM40, 000 (single) for approved expenses relating to the purchase of a house, car, and education of children or for medical purposes. From the second year on participants must maintain a minimum Fixed Deposit balance of RM60,000.
Medical report
All applicants and their dependents (spouse and children) are required to submit a medical report from any private hospital in Malaysia.
Medical insurance
Approved participants and dependants (spouse and children) must possess a valid medical insurance policy covering their stay in Malaysia. For those who are unable to get medical insurance because of age, or a pre-existing medical condition, this requirement can be waived.
Program incentives
Participants of the program may enjoy the following incentives:
Property purchases
Each participant is permitted to purchase residential houses at a minimum price above MYR 1,000,000 each such as Kuala Lumpur and Penang that are pre-approved by the Foreign Investment Committee of Malaysia.
In many other areas the minimum price or purchased property is lower. MM2H Participants in Sarawak may buy residential properties with minimum amount RM600,000 for Kuching Division and RM500,000 for other Division in Sarawak. However the visa issued to Participants of the MM2H Sarawak programme allows the participant to reside anywhere in Malaysia.
Vehicle purchase
The Government has decided to abolish the tax incentive on the purchase of a new locally assembled vehicle or the import of a pre-owned private vehicle into Malaysia under MM2H Programme. Therefore, this tax incentive will be terminated effective from 1 January 2018. However, Ministry of Finance will give special consideration to MM2H participant with first MM2H’s Visa approved beginning 1 January 2017 until 31 December 2017 to submit complete application via Sistem Maklumat Pengurusan Cukai / Sistem Maklumat Pengurusan Cukai Kerajaan Malaysia not later than 31 December 2018.
Domestic helper
Each participant is allowed to apply for one maid subject to the prevailing guidelines of the Immigration Department of Malaysia.
Identification card
The issuance of national ID cards for MM2H participants was suspended until further notice 1 July 2010.
Education
MM2H participants are allowed to bring their children and step children who are below 21 years old and not married as their dependents. Dependents who intend to continue their schooling in Malaysia are required to apply for a student pass. However, the participants are required to be responsible for all the living costs including study fees for their dependents while living in Malaysia.
Tax
Tax exemption is given to remittance of offshore pension fund into Malaysia. Foreign-source income is not taxable in Malaysia.
Working part-time
Over 50 year olds can work part-time (maximum 20 hours a week) subject to approval.
Other
Import personal / household items, tax exempted
Invest in local companies, share market and unit trusts
Interest gained from bank fixed deposit is tax exempted
Parents can join under a long-term visa
Restrictions
Participants are not allowed to work or be employed while staying in Malaysia. Persons wishing to obtain employment visas should apply directly to Immigration Department of Malaysia.
Participants should not participate in activities that can be considered sensitive to the local people and/or a threat to the security of the country.
Citizens of countries that are not recognised by Malaysia including Israel are not allowed to participate.
Application procedure
Application can be made via any of the following channels.
Authorised sponsor companies
Application can be made through a number of private Malaysian companies, known as "sponsors", which offer application and follow-up services to foreigners. While the fees charged and services rendered can vary drastically from one sponsor to another, only authorised companies licensed by the Ministry of Tourism can provide such services to MM2H participants. (All sponsor licenses previously issued by the Immigration Department of Malaysia are no longer valid).
The Sarawak MM2H program does not allow the use of commercial "sponsors" or agents. An applicant must be sponsored by a Malaysian originating from Sarawak or a Sarawak Permanent Resident.
Personal application
As of January 2009, the Malaysian government will allow individual applications. Applicants no longer need to use agents, or other third parties.
Applications for those wishing to reside in Peninsular Malaysia are accepted at the MM2H One-Stop centre in Kuala Lumpur. If the applicant wishes to reside in the states of Sabah or Sarawak, applications need to be sent to the respective immigration offices or MM2H One-Stop centres in either of these states. Details are available on the www.mm2h.gov.my site.
Language of documentation
All documents can be presented in English. The required documents are listed on the English-language government site, www.mm2h.gov.my.
Applicants can apply themselves (called direct applications), or (except in Sarawak) appoint an agent. There are many agents charging MYR8,000 – MYR10,000 as well as several low-cost agents charging about MYR1,800 per couple.
Programme suspension
On 2 July 2020, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Nancy Shukri announced that the MM2H programme has been temporarily frozen until December 2020 for review and further improvement.
References
External links
Ministry of Tourism Malaysia, Malaysia My Second Home – Official Website by Malaysian Government
Residency
Foreign relations of Malaysia
Immigration to Malaysia
Public policy in Malaysia
2002 introductions
2002 establishments in Malaysia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia%20My%20Second%20Home |
The Rokin is a canal and major street in the centre of Amsterdam. The street runs from Muntplein square to Dam square. The Rokin canal used to run from Muntplein square to Dam Square, but in 1936, the part between Spui square and Dam Square was filled in. Canal boats are now moored on the remaining part of the water, from the Amstel to Grimburgwal.
History
Originally the Rokin was a section of the river Amstel, and was known then as Ruck-in (from 'inrukken', which means 'to withdraw', as some of the houses on the Amstel had to be shortened to construct the quays there in the 16th century).
Amsterdam's first commodities exchange was built in 1608-1609 at the corner of the Rokin and Dam Square. The commodities exchange, designed by Hendrick de Keyser, played a key part in the economic success of the city during the Dutch Golden Age. The building was demolished in 1835.
During the ongoing construction of the North-South line, a new metro line, archeologists dug down to a depth of approximately 20 meters on the Rokin. The archeological finds in what used to be the Amstel river are expected to shed new light on the history of Amsterdam and on the landscape and environment of the area in the millennia that preceded the founding of the city.
The Mirakelkolom, which normally stands on the Rokin, was temporarily removed during the construction of the metro line. The Mirakelkolom is a stone column made up of remnants of the Heilige Stede (Nieuwezijds Kapel), a chapel built to commemorate the 1345 Mirakel van Amsterdam (Miracle of the Host). The chapel was demolished in 1908.
A fire in the Rokin on May 9, 1977, claimed 33 deaths.
Notable buildings
Arti et Amicitiae, an artists' society and art gallery at the corner of Rokin and Spui, constructed in 1841 and designed in part by Berlage.
The former offices of The Marine Insurance Company Limited at Rokin 69, a Jugendstil building from 1901 designed by Gerrit van Arkel.
Tobacco shop Hajenius at Rokin 92-96, royal purveyor of cigars and other tobacco goods since 1826. Both the building from 1914 and the richly decorated interior were designed by the brothers van Gendt, sons of the prominent 19th century architect Adolf Leonard van Gendt.
The Allard Pierson Museum for antiquities, on the Oude Turfmarkt, in the former headquarters of the Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank.
Magazijn De Gouden Bril, the oldest remaining optician in the Netherlands, at Rokin 72. There is a statue of a monkey with binoculars on the rooftop.
The house of Pieter Janszoon Sweelinck, son of composer and organ player Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, at Rokin 145, built in 1642/1643 under the direction of Philips Vingboons, with a splendid example of a raised neck-gable at the top of the building.
Hotel de l'Europe, at the corner of the Nieuwe Doelenstraat and the Rokin, an imposing building from 1895/96.
Transport
Rokin metro station on Route 52 of the Amsterdam Metro opened in July 2018. The Rokin is also served by tramway lines 4, 14 and 24.
See also
List of streets in Amsterdam
References
Streets in Amsterdam
Canals in Amsterdam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokin |
is the first single of Hello! Project solo artist, Kaori Iida. It was released on February 4, 2004, when she was still a member of the idol group, Morning Musume.
Track listing
Lyrics by Tokuko Miura, composition by Tsunku, arrangement by Chijou Maeno
Lyrics and composition by Tsunku, arrangement by Chijou Maeno
"Aegekai ni Dakerete (Instrumental)"
Performances
Television
Hello! Morning (February 1, 2004)
AX MUSIC-TV (February 6, 2004)
Pop Jam (February 7, 2004)
Concerts
Charts
References
External links
Aegekai ni Dakerete entry on the Up-Front works official website
Kaori Iida songs
Zetima Records singles
2004 singles
Song recordings produced by Tsunku
2004 songs
Songs written by Tsunku | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegekai%20ni%20Dakarete |
Francis Condie Baxter (May 4, 1896 – January 18, 1982) was an American scholar and television personality. An authority on Shakespeare with a doctorate in literature from Cambridge University, he was a highly popular professor of English Literature at the University of Southern California who brought literature, science, and the arts to millions in the United States via television and film.
Baxter hosted the Emmy Award-winning CBS series Shakespeare on TV beginning in 1954, as well as the ABC drama series Telephone Time in 1957 and 1958, the US broadcast of the BBC's 15-part presentation of Shakespeare's history plays, An Age of Kings, in 1961, and NBC's The Bell Telephone Hour throughout the 1960s. Additional Baxter television series for CBS included Renaissance on TV (1956–57), devoted to classical philosophy, literature, and art, and Now and Then (1954–55), which enlightened viewers on subjects ranging from Altimira cave drawings to Elizabethan naval battles. Baxter's Emmy Award-winning Harvest on NBC in the mid-1950s highlighted great achievements in art, literature, public affairs, and science. In 1966, Baxter hosted a popular TV series called The Four Winds to Adventure, featuring filmmakers exploring little-known areas of the world, crossing continents and oceans to explore the histories and customs of local people or the animals unique to a particular region. The Written Word, a 15-part series on the history of books and printing featuring Baxter as presenter, aired nationwide in 1958 on both educational and commercial networks including ABC. Baxter was a frequent guest star on TV shows in the 1950s and 60s, often portraying himself since he was so well known throughout America. His TV acting credits included The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Playhouse 90, The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, Mr. Novak, and more than a dozen others.
Baxter is best known for his role as "Dr. Research" in The Bell System Science Series. The programs were first broadcast on national television and subsequently distributed, free of charge, to schools across the United States. The films were later released on home video and DVD. Over the more than 30 years they were in popular use, Baxter biographer Eric Niderost estimates, the films were seen by some 200 million students.
Biography
Born in Newbold, New Jersey, Baxter served as a medical corpsman in the American Expeditionary Force in France under General John Pershing during World War I. Following his war service, Baxter enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied zoology and archeology, graduating summa cum laude in 1923. Two years later he earned a master's degree in English from the same institution, simultaneously performing teaching duties that he had first undertaken as an undergraduate. Beginning in 1926, he took on part-time work as a lecturer at Swarthmore College and as a radio broadcaster on WOO in Philadelphia, regaling listeners (according to his self-deprecating description) with narratives about "split infinitives and the simple life."
In 1927, Baxter married Lydia Morris, who had been his student at Penn and would be his wife for 55 years until he died. That same year, he and his new bride sailed to England, where he would begin work on his doctorate in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. With his coursework for the degree completed, but dissertation still in progress, he returned to America in 1929 and began teaching at the University of California - Berkeley. Almost immediately he was recruited to Los Angeles by the University of Southern California, where he began teaching in 1930. Following the completion of his dissertation titled "Criticism and Appreciation of the Elizabethan Drama, 1642-1892" and the award of his doctorate from Cambridge in 1932, he was promoted to assistant professor of English Literature. USC would be his home for over 30 years, until his retirement in 1961.
At USC, Baxter became an enormously popular teacher and lecturer. Beginning in the 1930s, he began an annual tradition of public readings at Christmas time, delivered to an oversubscribed 1,500-seat auditorium in USC's Founders Hall that spilled out to include an audience of hundreds more on the lawn outside, who listened via loudspeaker. By 1949 these dramatic readings were nationally famous, prompting Time magazine to send a reporter to cover the event. Time expressed amazement that even though it was raining for the 1949 performance, the overflow crowds were still there to fill the lawn outside. The USC campus newspaper, the Daily Trojan, reported that a student poll voted Baxter as the professor who should "teach all the classes in the university." The newspaper opined, "If you haven't taken Dr. Baxter, you haven't been to college."
Baxter is best remembered for his nationally televised appearances from 1956 to 1962 as "Dr. Research" in The Bell System Science Series. Starring Baxter alongside such well-known actors as Eddie Albert, Lionel Barrymore, Richard Carlson, Mel Blanc, Hans Conried, and Richard Deacon, the films were directed by Hollywood legends Frank Capra and Jack Warner and featured a star-studded roster of academic advisors including renowned Caltech physicist Richard Feynman. Following nationwide broadcast in the United States, these films were distributed without charge to schools, becoming a staple in American classrooms from the 1960s through the 1980s. The programs combined scientific footage, live actors, and animation to convey scientific concepts and history in a lively, entertaining way, with the bald, bespectacled, and affable Baxter playing the role of the omniscient scientist who both explains and discovers along with the audience. As a result of the films, Baxter (who in real life was a USC English professor and had not been a scientist since the early days of his academic career at the University of Pennsylvania) became an almost universally-known scientific icon among Baby Boomers. All of Baxter's films in The Bell System Science Series have been released on VHS and DVD and continue to reach new audiences. As a result of their broad distribution throughout the world and across several decades, the films have reached hundreds of millions of people, both students and adults.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baxter not only hosted several nationally televised series, but also played cameo roles in numerous dramas and comedies, in each case designed to play off of his persona as a celebrity academic. For example, on NBC's Peabody Award-winning drama series Mr. Novak, based upon an idealistic English teacher in Los Angeles who often became involved in the lives of his students and fellow faculty, Baxter played an industrialist giving out a scholarship. On the NBC afternoon game show You Don't Say, he was a guest panelist alongside Dr. Joyce Brothers.
Baxter's mass media credits also include one feature film, a science fiction-horror romp of the sort popular in the 1950s in which he appeared as himself, presumably to lend credibility to the incredible plot. The Mole People, released in theaters nationwide in 1956, is premised upon the discovery of a race of albino beings who shun light, and rely upon mutant mole men as their slaves. In a deliberately stilted professorial presentation, Baxter presents a brief history of theories of life beneath the surface of the earth. In the ensuing decades the film has earned cult status, enjoying successive reincarnations on VHS, DVD, and in 2019, Blu-ray.
After retiring from teaching in 1961 at the age of 65, Baxter continued to perform in starring roles in made-for-television documentaries, as well as in cameo roles on television dramas, comedies, and variety shows. He maintained his old office at USC, where for eight years he had been Chairman of the English Department and President of the Faculty Senate, and even into his 80s he continued to hold court on campus as "Reader in Residence." His famed Noon Readings, occasional lectures, and annual Christmas presentations in Bovard Hall were so popular they were news items in the Los Angeles Times, announced with headlines such as "Dr. Frank Baxter Will Visit USC."
Baxter's success as an educator, both on the individual student level and before mass audiences, was summed up in a Daily Trojan editorial at the time of his retirement. "Dr. Baxter works so well with the student mind," the editors wrote, "because he is part scholar, part teacher, and part actor." While many academics can claim success as both scholars and teachers, few combine it with genuine acting talent — and it was this extra ingredient that so impressed his loyal following. "Dr. Baxter is most certainly a fine actor," the Daily Trojan opined, who "can make plays come to life — whether they be Shakespeare, Shaw, or Arthur Miller — by merely recreating a scene. He can give a character meaning — whether it be Falstaff or Henry Higgins or Willy Loman — with a simple gesture of his hands. And he can create almost any emotion, from laughter to tears, simply by the reading of a single line."
Baxter died in 1982 in Pasadena, California; he was 85.
Awards
Baxter won seven Emmy Awards, including in 1954 for Outstanding Male Performer, and in 1960 for Outstanding Male Personality.
Baxter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1959, Baxter won the inaugural Golden Gavel award of Toastmasters International.
Baxter won the Peabody Award in 1956.
In 1955, Baxter was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Southern California.
Selected filmography
Except as noted, this filmography is based on the credits listed at the Internet Movie Database.
Shakespeare on TV (television series - 1953)
The Mole People (1956)
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (TV series) - a 1956 episode titled The Shakespeare Paper
Our Mr. Sun (1956)
Hemo the Magnificent (1957)
Telephone Time (host for 28 episodes of a weekly television series - 1957,1958)
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (1957)
Meteora: The Unchained Goddess (1958)
Gateways to the Mind (1958)
The Alphabet Conspiracy (1959)
Thread of Life (1960)
An Age of Kings (commentary for a 1961 Shakespeare series)
About Time (1962)
Four Winds to Adventure (host for 39 episodes of a weekly television series - 1966)
References
Further reading
External links
1896 births
1982 deaths
University of Southern California faculty
Television personalities from Los Angeles
People from Camden, New Jersey
Academics from New Jersey
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
United States Army personnel of World War I
United States Army Medical Corps officers
Military personnel from New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20C.%20Baxter |
The Fordham is one of the tallest residential buildings in Chicago. The 52-story building was completed in 2003 at a height of 574 ft (175 m) and features a château-like roof. It was designed by Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz and Associates and developed by the Fordham Company.
Developer Christopher T. Carley also included townhomes on the eleventh floor of the building. The townhomes face a private courtyard on top of the parking garage and each is equipped with its own elevator.
The Fordham contains some of the most expensive residential units in Chicago with penthouses occupying the top ten floors of the building.
Notable Fordham residents include actor John Cusack.
See also
The Pinnacle
List of skyscrapers
List of tallest buildings in Chicago
References
External links
Emporis listing
Official website
Residential condominiums in Chicago
Residential skyscrapers in Chicago
Residential buildings completed in 2003
2003 establishments in Illinois | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fordham |
Dillinger & Young Gotti is the second studio album by American hip hop group Tha Dogg Pound. It was released independently on May 1, 2001, through D.P.G. Recordz. Production was handled by member Daz Dillinger, who also served as executive producer, Mike Dean and Blaqthoven. It features guest appearances from Beanie Sigel, RBX, Roscoe, Slip Capone and Xzibit.
The album peaked at number 124 on the Billboard 200, number 26 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and number two on both the Heatseekers Albums and the Independent Albums charts in the United States.
Two singles were released to promote the album—"Dillinger & Young Gotti", which composed of fours songs: "Dipp With Me", "Gangsta Like" (without Xzibit's verse), "Party At My House" and "You Justa Bitch", and "Coastin" with accompanying music video.
Background
Both Tha Dogg Pound members, Daz Dillinger and Kurupt, have been signed with Death Row Records since the label's inception in 1992. In 1995, they released their debut studio album Dogg Food, which became a success. Kurupt left Death Row in 1997 and opened his Antra Records imprint in 1998. He went on releasing two solo albums, Kuruption! in 1998 and Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha in 1999, where Daz appeared as one of guest rappers and producers on both projects.
Daz released his first solo studio album, Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back, in 1998 on Death Row. In late 1999 he parted ways with the label and started release music via his own independent record label D.P.G. Recordz. Year 2000 saw the release of his second solo studio album R.A.W. through his own label, where Kurupt also took part. In early 2001, Daz released two albums, Long Beach 2 Fillmoe and Game for Sale, in collaboration with JT the Bigga Figga, a fellow rapper and record producer from San Francisco. In the latter, Kurupt recorded a verse to one of the songs.
Due to Death Row Records owned the rights to the 'Tha Dogg Pound' name, Kurupt and Daz released Dillinger & Young Gotti under the name 'DPG' (which stands for the 'Dogg Pound Gangstaz'). A few months after the release of their second studio album and Kurupt's third solo album Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey, Death Row released Death Row Presents... Tha Dogg Pound 2002, a collection of previously unreleased material recorded and produced by the duo while they were signed to the label, under 'Tha Dogg Pound' moniker, touting it as the group's sophomore studio album.
Aftermath
In early 2002, Kurupt re-signed with Death Row Records (rebranded as Tha Row Records) as a solo artist in exchange for the position of Vice President of the label, which sparked a feud between himself and the rest of the DPGC, including Daz and Snoop Dogg, and led to the disintegration of Tha Dogg Pound. The duo verbally attacked each other off the reel recording subsequently multiple diss tracks from 2002 to 2004. Daz took aim at Kurupt, Death Row, Ja Rule and Benzino on his 2003 fourth solo studio album DPGC: U Know What I'm Throwin' Up, while Kurupt heavily responded on his 2004 Originals project.
Kurupt's fourth solo album Against the Grain was being prepared for release in 2004 for Tha Row. After multiple delays, the album was finally dropped in 2005, when Kurupt had already left the label due to label CEO Suge Knight's incarceration.
Daz had six solo projects released, including a collaborative album with Houston rapper Nuwine between his solo albums. In April 2005, at a The Western Conference meeting hosted by Snoop Dogg, the two ended their feud, and on November 1 of that year, a sequel and third studio album, Dillinger & Young Gotti II: Tha Saga Continuez... was released.
Track listing
Personnel
Delmar "Daz Dillinger" Arnaud – vocals (tracks: 1-16, 18-21), producer (tracks: 2-20), executive producer
Ricardo "Kurupt" Brown – vocals (tracks: 1-15, 17-21)
Eric "RBX" Collins – vocals (track 2)
Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner – vocals (track 3)
Dwight "Beanie Sigel" Grant – vocals (track 12)
David "Roscoe" Williams – vocals (track 12)
Christen "Slip Capone" Kelley – vocals (track 14)
Tanya Herron – backing vocals
Mike Dean – producer (tracks: 1, 3-5, 7, 8, 10-13, 15-18, 20, 21), mixing (tracks: 1-3, 21), mastering
Anthony "Blaqthoven" Ransom – producer (tracks: 9, 14)
Garland "Ghetto" Scyrus – production coordinator
Adam A. Amaya – art direction
Jorge Munguia – art direction
Shawn Brauch – art direction
Pen & Pixel Graphics, Inc. – artwork, design, layout
Kevin Wales – management
Charts
References
External links
2001 albums
D.P.G. Recordz albums
Tha Dogg Pound albums
Albums produced by Daz Dillinger
Albums produced by Mike Dean (record producer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillinger%20%26%20Young%20Gotti |
IFMR - Graduate School of Business at Krea University is a private business school located at Sri City, in Andhra Pradesh, India, about 70 km from Chennai. IFMR offered a 2-year PGDM program which is accredited by AICTE till 2016. Currently it offers a 2-year MBA program. It is an approved institution by the University of Madras for pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Finance, Economics and Management.
Programs
MBA:
The MBA program is a two year full-time program with six trimesters and two months of summer internship. The program was launched in the year 2000 and currently offers core specializations in Finance and Accounting, Marketing, Human Resource and Operations. The other specializations offered in this program are Quantitative Finance, Economics, Data Science & Information Systems, and Strategy Management. The sanctioned annual intake is 180 students for this program.
Executive Programs:
IFMR provides executive programs viz. consulting, certificate as well as fully customized training programs and management development programs, and has till date trained over 15,000 middle and senior managers across various functional disciplines from government, banking, public and private sectors.
PhD:
IFMR offers PhD programs in affiliation with the University of Madras and IIT Madras. Disciplines offered include Economics, Finance & Accounting, HR & OB , Strategy and Operations Management.
Rankings
Institute for Financial Management and Research was ranked 53 in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) management ranking in 2020.
Accreditation
IFMR GSB is accredited by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the university is a member of SAQS (South Asian Quality System) since December 2017 for a period of five years. SAQS is run by AMDISA (Association of Management Development Institutes in South Asia). The college has received recognition from the CFA Institute (USA) which allows meritorious students to get scholarship opportunities for the program.
References
External links
Research institutes in Andhra Pradesh
Business schools in Andhra Pradesh
Universities and colleges established in 1970
1970 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Colleges affiliated to University of Madras
Financial management organizations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Financial%20Management%20and%20Research |
Coldstream is a burgh in the Scottish Borders on the northern shore of River Tweed.
Coldstream may also refer to:
, one of several ships
Coldstream, Victoria, near Melbourne, Australia
Coldstream, New South Wales, in the Northern Rivers District, Australia
Coldstream River, a watercourse of the Clarence River catchment in the Northern Rivers district
Coldstream, Kentucky, USA
Coldstream, Ohio, USA
Coldstream, British Columbia, Canada
Coldstream, Ontario, Canada
Coldstream, New Brunswick, Canada
Cold Stream, a tributary of Becaguimec Stream in New Brunswick, Canada
Coldstream, Nova Scotia, Canada
Coldstream, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Coldstream is also a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Nicola Coldstream (born 1942), British architectural historian
Rosemary Coldstream, New Zealand-born garden designer
William Coldstream (1908 – 1987), English realist painter
See also
Coldstream Guards, the oldest regular regiment in continuous service in the British Army | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Return To Eden is a 1988 science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison.
The novel is the third and final volume in Harrison's Eden. The first two stories of the trilogy are West of Eden and Winter in Eden.
The novel tells an alternate history of planet Earth in which the extinction of the dinosaurs never occurred. There is a war between a group of Cro-Magnon-level humans, who are descended from New World monkeys, and a reptilian race called Yilanè, who are descended from the prehistoric mosasaur and have become the dominant lifeform on the planet.
The central characters from the first book return, Vaintè, an ambitious Yilanè, and Kerrick, a "ustuzou" (the Yilanè word for mammal) captured by the Yilanè as a boy and raised by them. Kerrick eventually escapes to rejoin his own people and burn the Yilanè colony city.
Plot
Kerrick's tribe, which now includes the two male Yilanè who have elected to remain with him, live an almost idyllic life at a small lake, until a raiding party from Alpèsak captures and rapes one of the males, who later dies. The tribe moves east and find a peaceful island. Later Herilak's tribe joins them.
The scientist Ambalasi studies the primitive Yilanè, in between solving the problems involved in getting the Daughters of Life to work, since they are all regarded as equal, so none may lead the work force.
Vaintè makes her way along the coast to a Yilanè city. She persuades the leader there to let her lead a group in search of the Daughters of Life, secretly planning to seek out and kill Kerrick and the other humans.
The weapons the humans stole from the Yilanè begin to die. Without them, they won't be able to kill the larger dinosaurs which threaten their safety this far south. However, the expedition goes wrong and Lanefenuu, who is the leader of Alpèsak now learns their presence. Ambalasi contacts Lanefenuu to divert the attention while the Daughters of Life try to recruit new members and some males. This mission also fails.
The expedition of Vaintè contacts Lanefenuu and learns the whereabouts of the Daughters of Life. They capture Ambalasi as ordered, but then Vaintè turns on her leader and takes Enge hostage. She finds Kerrick, but before killing him, the surviving Yilanè male kills her.
External links
Return to Eden page on Official website
1988 American novels
1988 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
American alternate history novels
Irish science fiction novels
Irish alternative history novels
Novels by Harry Harrison
Novels about dinosaurs
Novels set in prehistory
Early European modern humans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20to%20Eden%20%28novel%29 |
Shadows of Mordor: Game Two of Lord of the Rings is a text adventure game for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Apple II, DOS, and Macintosh. It is based on the second part of The Lord of the Rings story. It's a sequel to Lord of the Rings: Game One and The Hobbit.
The game focuses on Frodo and Sam (with Sméagol as an NPC) on their journey to Mordor to destroy the One Ring. The game is considered an improvement over its predecessor, though still not on par with The Hobbit.
The game was followed by The Crack of Doom in 1989, which was released on Commodore 64, Apple II, DOS, and Macintosh.
Reception
Macworld reviewed the Macintosh versions of The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Shadows of Mordor simultaneously, criticizing The Hobbit, calling it "particularly clumsy" as it is "handicapped by a 400-word input vocabulary" as opposed to the latter two games' 800 words. Macworld calls The Fellowship of the Ring "particularly intricate" and recommends it as an entry point to the series as opposed to The Hobbit. Macworld praises The Hobbit's graphics, but states that in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Shadows of Mordor the art adds little to the games' overall appeal. Furthermore, Macworld heralds the three games as "literate and faithful in spirit to original books", but criticizes the dated and "rigid" nature of the text-adventure format.
References
External links
Shadows of Mordor at MobyGames
1980s interactive fiction
1987 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Apple II games
Beam Software games
Classic Mac OS games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Interactive fiction based on works
Single-player video games
Video game sequels
Video games based on Middle-earth
Video games developed in Australia
ZX Spectrum games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows%20of%20Mordor |
Captain John Hart CMG (25 February 1809 – 28 January 1873) was a South Australian politician and a Premier of South Australia.
Early life
The son of journalist/newspaper publisher John Harriott Hart and Mary Hart née Glanville, John was born on 25 February 1809 probably at 23 Warwick Lane off Newgate Street, London, and baptised at Christ Church Greyfriars, London. At 12 years of age he first went to sea, visiting Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia) in September 1828 in the Magnet. In 1832 Hart was in command of the schooner Elizabeth, a sealer operating from Tasmania and visiting Kangaroo Island and Gulf St Vincent. In 1833 he took Edward Henty to and from Portland Bay. In 1836 he was sent to London to purchase another vessel, and returning in the Isabella took the first livestock from Tasmania to South Australia in 1837. On the return voyage the Isabella was wrecked off Cape Nelson and Hart lost everything he had. Early January 1838 he was "on the River Murray near Mount Hope" (perhaps the Lachlan near Hillston) and foresaw the great thoroughfare it would become in the second half of that century. He went to Adelaide and John B. Hack sent him to Sydney to buy a vessel in which he brought stock to Portland Bay. Some of this stock he successfully brought overland to South Australia. Hack also gave Hart two acres (0.8 ha) of land in Adelaide. In 1839 he managed a whaling station at Encounter Bay.
In January 1843 Hart sailed to England in command of the South Australian Company's ageing barque Sarah and Elizabeth, delivering it to London for sale. Aboard as a passenger was the explorer John Hill, from whom Hart had just purchased Section 2112 at Port Adelaide, in partnership with Jacob Hagen. In December 1843 Hart returned to Adelaide in command of the barque Augustus of which he was part owner with Jacob Hagen and Hagen's brother. Among the passengers was the artist George French Angas.
After another voyage to England he gave up the sea in 1846, and settled near Port Adelaide, where he joined with H. Kent Hughes as merchants Hughes and Hart then, as Hart & Company, established large and successful flour mills. His flour mill at the Port was regarded as one of the best, and "Hart's Flour" commanded the highest prices in Australia. John Hart & Co. merged with the Adelaide Milling Company in 1882.
He was a member of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society and its president from 1858 to 1859.
He became interested in copper mining, and some imputations having been made of underhand dealings in connection with leases, challenged inquiry. A select committee completely exonerated Hart stating that his conduct in every particular had been that of a strictly honourable and upright man.
Political career
Hart took an interest in public affairs, in 1851 was elected to the Legislative Council. Hart resigned in 1853 to visit England and was re-elected the next year, serving until the Council expired in 1857.
In 1857 Hart became a member for Port Adelaide in the first House of Assembly. He was Treasurer of South Australia in the Baker ministry which lasted only a few days in August 1857, and held the same position in the Hanson cabinet from 30 September 1857 to 12 June 1858 when he resigned. Hart was chief secretary in the short-lived first Dutton ministry in July 1863, and was Treasurer in the first and second Ayers ministries, and the first Blyth ministry from July 1863 to March 1865. Hart became premier and chief secretary from 23 October 1865 to 28 March 1866 at which date he also resigned from parliament.
Hart was member for Light from May 1868 to April 1870. including a second short stint as premier from 24 September 1868 to 13 October 1868.
At the 1870 election, Hart changed seats to represent The Burra, the seat he retained until his death. He was premier and Treasurer again from 30 May 1870 to 10 November 1871.
One newspaper obituary gave the opinion that Hart had been unfairly criticised in several of his decisions (and had been subsequently vindicated) and should have been given credit for the Overland Telegraph Line rather than Sir Henry Ayers.
Death
John Hart died suddenly on 28 January 1873, while chairing the third annual general meeting of the Mercantile Marine Insurance Company at the Adelaide Town Hall, leaving a widow and a large family.
Recognition
Hart was created C.M.G. in 1870.
Family
John Hart married Margaret Gillmor Todd ( Abt. 1815 – 1876) fourth daughter of Charles Hawkes Todd and Elizabeth Bentley (and sister of James Henthorn Todd, Robert Bentley Todd, William Gowan Todd, and Armstrong Todd) on 12 May 1845; among their two sons and five daughters were:
Elizabeth Sarah Hart (9 March 1846 – 3 June 1908) married Henry Brook Dobbin (ca.1840 – 22 July 1873) on 3 July 1867
Margaret Hart (14 May 1847 – 2 August 1920) married Arthur Powell; she founded St. Margaret's Home for convalescents, Semaphore.
John Hart, Jr. (16 July 1848 – 15 August 1881) married Emily Lavinia Finch (1849 – 5 October 1939) on 8 August 1877; he was MHA for Port Adelaide 1880–1881. He died at Wooton Lea, Glen Osmond
Mary Hart (9 September 1849 – 16 April 1915) married Henry Huth Walters (March 1841 – ) on 14 October 1868
Charles Hawkes Todd Hart (19 November 1850 – ) was manager Port Adelaide flour mill 1873, may have returned to England.
Annie Hart (12 August 1852 – 1 December 1913) married Rowland James Egerton-Warburton (4 February 1846 – 1918) on 14 May 1872. Rowland was a son of Colonel Peter Egerton-Warburton.
Katherine Hart (ca.1856 – 21 April 1904) married Algernon Arbuthnott Godwin on 9 January 1879
See also
Other South Australian flour millers of the period were:
Dr. Benjamin Archer Kent, for whom Kent Town, the site of his mill, was named.
John Darling and Son
John Dunn
James Magarey and his son William James Magarey
William Randell
John Ridley
References
Sources
Sally O'Neill, 'Hart, John (1809–1873)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 355–356. Retrieved 22 January 2009
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State Route 305 (SR 305) is a state highway in Lander County, Nevada. It is the only state highway to connect the southern and northern areas of the county. It runs north from U.S. Route 50 at Austin to Battle Mountain, where it crosses Interstate 80 and ends at State Route 304.
Route description
State Route 305 begins just northwest of the town limits of Austin, Nevada. From there, the route heads in a northerly direction through the Reese River Valley, generally paralleling the Reese River. The highway passes near many ranches and mining sites. After about , SR 305 curves slightly more westward, crossing through the Shoshone Range. The route continues northward, passing the Valley of the Moon along the trek through Reese River Valley. As the route nears the vicinity of the Battle Mountains, it curves northeast to head to the town of the same name. Along this stretch of highway, near milepost 110, are several dirt roads providing access to numerous mining sites. Soon afterward, SR 305 enters Battle Mountain along Broad Street, crossing over Interstate 80 and ending in the middle of the town at an intersection with Front Street (SR 304/I-80 Business).
A five-mile section of SR 305 is the site of a yearly human-powered vehicle (HPV) speed record competition conducted by the IHPVA (International Human Powered Vehicle Association), with the record set to 89.59 mph (144.18 km/h) on September 17, 2016. During repaving in 2009, special attention was paid to the five mile stretch to make sure it was the flattest and smoothest road in the world. It is very slightly downhill, with an average slope of less than 2/3 of one percent, per IHPVA rules.
History
The road dates to back to at least 1929. At that time, it appeared on state maps one segment of the much longer State Route 8A. At the time, it was an unimproved road in the state highway system, and the road approached Battle Mountain from a more southerly direction. The northern end of the current highway alignment southwest of Battle Mountain, serving the present-day mining establishments near the town, was constructed by 1952, although SR 8A continued to follow the previous alignment according to maps. The entire highway was paved by 1953, and the SR 8A designation was moved onto the newer section near Battle Mountain by 1954.
On July 1, 1976, Nevada began renumbering its state highways. In this process, the Austin – Battle Mountain Road segment of SR 8A was reassigned to a new State Route 305. This change was first seen on state maps in 1978. The route has remained relatively unchanged since then.
Major intersections
See also
Other segments of former State Route 8A:
State Route 140, the northern segment that ran west from U.S. Route 95 via Denio to northwestern Nevada.
State Route 376, the southern segment that ran from near Tonopah to near Austin.
References
305
Transportation in Lander County, Nevada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada%20State%20Route%20305 |
Batsell Baxter (November 17, 1886 – March 4, 1956) was one of the most important leaders and educators in the Churches of Christ in the first half of the 20th century.
Biography
He received his early education from David Lipscomb and James A. Harding at the Nashville Bible School (now known as Lipscomb University). He also obtained degrees from Abilene Christian College (B.A.), University of Southern California (M.A., Ph.D.), and Vanderbilt University (B.D.).
Baxter served as president of Abilene Christian College (1924-1932), David Lipscomb College (1932-1934, 1943-1946), and George Pepperdine College (1937-1939). These institutions are now called Abilene Christian University, Lipscomb University, and Pepperdine University, respectively. He was also Dean of Cordell Christian College in Oklahoma and Dean of Thorp Spring Christian College (near Fort Worth, Texas). He wrote several books and regularly contributed to the Gospel Advocate, a periodical associated with the Churches of Christ. He also preached for several different Churches of Christ.
Baxter was the father of Batsell Barrett Baxter, who was also a professor and preacher in the Church of Christ. John Baxter, his grandson, and son of Batsell Barrett Baxter, is president of NationsUniversity.
External links
On-line biography
1886 births
1956 deaths
Abilene Christian University alumni
Lipscomb University alumni
Ministers of the Churches of Christ
Lipscomb University presidents
Presidents of Pepperdine University
University of Southern California alumni
Vanderbilt University alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batsell%20Baxter |
The B-cell lymphomas are types of lymphoma affecting B cells. Lymphomas are "blood cancers" in the lymph nodes. They develop more frequently in older adults and in immunocompromised individuals.
B-cell lymphomas include both Hodgkin's lymphomas and most non-Hodgkin lymphomas. They are typically divided into low and high grade, typically corresponding to indolent (slow-growing) lymphomas and aggressive lymphomas, respectively. As a generalisation, indolent lymphomas respond to treatment and are kept under control (in remission) with long-term survival of many years, but are not cured. Aggressive lymphomas usually require intensive treatments, with some having a good prospect for a permanent cure.
Prognosis and treatment depends on the specific type of lymphoma as well as the stage and grade. Treatment includes radiation and chemotherapy. Early-stage indolent B-cell lymphomas can often be treated with radiation alone, with long-term non-recurrence. Early-stage aggressive disease is treated with chemotherapy and often radiation, with a 70–90% cure rate. Late-stage indolent lymphomas are sometimes left untreated and monitored until they progress. Late-stage aggressive disease is treated with chemotherapy, with cure rates of over 70%.
Types
There are numerous kinds of lymphomas involving B cells. The most commonly used classification system is the WHO classification, a convergence of more than one, older classification systems.
Common
Five account for nearly three out of four patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma:
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)
Follicular lymphoma
Marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (MZL) or mucosa-associated lymphatic tissue lymphoma (MALT)
Small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL, also known as chronic lymphocytic leukemia, CLL)
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)
Rare
The remaining forms are much less common:
DLBCL variants or sub-types of
Primary mediastinal (thymic) large B cell lymphoma
T cell/histiocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma
Primary cutaneous diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, leg type (Primary cutaneous DLBCL, leg type)
EBV positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the elderly
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma associated with chronic inflammation
Fibrin-associated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Primary testicular diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Burkitt's lymphoma
Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, which may manifest as Waldenström's macroglobulinemia
Nodal marginal zone B cell lymphoma (NMZL)
Splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL)
Intravascular lymphomas variants
Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma
Intravascular NK-cell lymphoma
Intravascular T-cell lymphoma
Primary effusion lymphoma
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
Primary central nervous system lymphoma
ALK+ large B-cell lymphoma
Plasmablastic lymphoma
Large B-cell lymphoma arising in HHV8-associated multicentric Castleman's disease
B-cell lymphoma, unclassifiable with features intermediate between diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma
B-cell lymphoma, unclassifiable with features intermediate between diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and classical Hodgkin lymphoma
Other
Additionally, some researchers separate out lymphomas that appear to result from other immune system disorders, such as AIDS-related lymphoma.
Classic Hodgkin's lymphoma and nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin's lymphoma are now considered forms of B-cell lymphoma.
Diagnosis
When a person appears to have a B-cell lymphoma, the main components of a workup (for determining the appropriate therapy and the person's prognosis) are:
Establishing the precise subtype: Initially, an incisional or excisional biopsy is preferred. A core needle biopsy is discouraged except in case a lymph node is not easily accessible. Fine-needle aspiration is only acceptable in selected circumstances, in combination with immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry.
Determining the extent of the disease (localized or advanced; nodal or extranodal)
The person's general health status.
Associated chromosomal translocations
Chromosomal translocations involving the immunoglobulin heavy locus is a classic cytogenetic abnormality for many B-cell lymphomas, including follicular lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma and Burkitt's lymphoma. In these cases, the immunoglobulin heavy locus forms a fusion protein with another protein that has pro-proliferative or anti-apoptotic abilities. The enhancer element of the immunoglobulin heavy locus, which normally functions to make B cells produce massive production of antibodies, now induces massive transcription of the fusion protein, resulting in excessive pro-proliferative or anti-apoptotic effects on the B cells containing the fusion protein.
In Burkitt's lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma, the other protein in the fusion is c-myc (on chromosome 8) and cyclin D1 (on chromosome 11), respectively, which gives the fusion protein pro-proliferative ability. In follicular lymphoma, the fused protein is
Bcl-2 (on chromosome 18), which gives the fusion protein anti-apoptotic abilities.
See also
Richter's transformation
T-cell lymphoma
References
External links
Lymphoma | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-cell%20lymphoma |
Intravascular lymphomas (IVL) are rare cancers in which malignant lymphocytes proliferate and accumulate within blood vessels. Almost all other types of lymphoma involve the proliferation and accumulation of malignant lymphocytes in lymph nodes, other parts of the lymphatic system (e.g. the spleen), and various non-lymphatic organs (e.g. bone marrow and liver) but not in blood vessels.
IVL fall into three different forms based on the type of lymphocyte causing the disease. Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVBCL), which constitutes ~90% of all IVL, is a lymphoma of malignant B-cell lymphocytes as classified by the World Health Organization, 2016. The remaining IVL types, which have not yet been formally classified by the World Health Organization, are defined based mainly on case reports; these IVL are 1) intravascular NK-cell lymphoma (IVNKL) in which the malignant cells are a type of T cell lymphocyte termed natural killer cells (NK-cells) and 2) intravascular T-cell lymphoma (IVTL) in which the neoplastic cells are primarily, if not exclusively, a type of t-cell termed cytotoxic T-cells. Because of their similarities and extreme rarities, IVL lymphomas caused by NK-cells and cytotoxic T-cells are often grouped together under the term intravascular NK/T cell lymphomas (IVNK/TL). The malignant cells in IVNK/TL are typically infected with the Epstein–Barr virus suggesting that these lymphomas are examples of the Epstein-Barr virus-associated lymphoproliferative diseases. Since infection with this virus is rarely seen in IVBCL, this form of IVL is not typically regarded as one of the Epstein-Barr virus-associated lymphoproliferative diseases.
Intravascular large B-cell and intravascular NK/T cell IVL are typically very aggressive lymphomas that afflict middle-aged and elderly adults. At the time of diagnosis, they accumulate within small-sized and medium-sized but not large-sized blood vessels of the skin, central nervous system, and, less frequently. virtually any other organ system. Unlike most lymphomas, however, they generally do not accumulate or infiltrate lymph nodes. All of the IVL are frequently associated with systemic B symptoms such as fever and weight loss, as well as symptoms related to the other organs in which they accumulate in blood vessels, constrict blood flow, and thereby cause severe damage due to infarction, i.e. damage due to the loss of blood flow.
Historically, most cases of the intravascular lymphomas responded very poorly to standard chemotherapy regimens that were used to treat other types of the B-cell lymphomas. With few exceptions, these intravascular lymphomas progressed very rapidly. More recently, however, the addition to these chemotherapy regimens of the immunotherapy agents, Rituximab, which acts to kill B-cells, has greatly improved their effectiveness and thereby the prognosis of the most common form of these diseases, the intravascular B-cell lymphomas. Unfortunately, no such agent that is directed against NK-cells or cytotoxic T-cells has yet been reported to be useful in treating these two types of the intravascular B-cell lymphomas.
History
In 1959, Pfleger and Tappeiner first reported on a cancer in which malignant cells grew uncontrollably within the lumen of blood vessels; the authors suggested that these malignant cells were derived from the endothelial cells lining the vasculature and therefore termed the disorder angioendotheliomatosis proliferans systemisata. Subsequent studies reported in 1982, 1985, and 1986 led to the conclusion that these malignant cells were derived from lymphocytes rather than endothelial cells. These along with other studies termed the disease angioendotheliomatosis, neoplastic angiotheliomatosis, intravascular lymphomatosis, angioendotheliotropic (intravascular) lymphoma, angiotropic large-cell lymphoma, diffuse large-cell lymphoma, intralymphatic lymphomatosis, and, less specifically, malignant angioendotheliomatosis or intravascular lymphoma. By 2001, the World Health Organization had defined the disease as a malignant B-cell lymphoma termed intravascular large B-cell lymphoma.
Santucci et al. first reported a case of IVL that involved malignant NK cells. Some 2 dozen other cases of intravascular NK cell lymphoma have been reported by 2018. In 2008, 29 case reports of purported intravascular T-cell lymphoma were reviewed; only two of these cases were associated with evidence strongly suggesting that the malignant cells were cytotoxic T-cells. Subsequently, a few more cases of cytotoxic T-cell-based have been reported. There remains a possibility that future studies will find other T-cell types may cause IVTCL.
Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma
Intravascular large B-cell lymphomas fall into three distinct variants, all of which involve the intravascular accumulation of malignant B-cells and appear to have a similar pathophysiology. However, they differ in the distribution of their lesions, types of populations affected, prognoses, and treatments. These three variants are: 1) intravascular large B-cell lymphoma classical, 2) intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, cutaneous variant, and 3) intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, hemophagocytic syndrome-associated variant. The following sections give the common pathophysiology of the three variants and then describes the lesions, populations affected, prognoses, and treatments of each variant in separate sections.
Pathophysiology of the intravascular B-cell lymphomas
The gene, chromosome, and gene expression abnormalities in IVBCL have not been fully evaluated. Studies to date indicate that the malignant cells in this disease have mutations in their MYD88 (44% of cases) and CD79B (26% of cases) genes. The exact mutation seen in the MYD88 (i.e. L265P) and some or the mutations in CD79B occur in diverse types of lymphoma. Other abnormalities seen in the small numbers of cases that have been studied so far include translocations between chromosome 14 and 18; tandem triplications of both the BCL2 gene located on the long arm of chromosome 18 at position q21 and the KMT2A gene located on the long arm of chromosome 11 between positions 22 and 25. The product protein of BCL2 viz., Bcl-2, regulates cell survival and apoptosis (i.e. programmed cell death) and the product protein of KMT2a viz., MLL regulates cell maturation. Abnormalities in BCL2 and KMT2A are associated with other types of B-cell lymphomas. It seems likely that these or other gene, chromosome, and/or gene expression abnormalities contribute to the development and/or progression of IVBCL.
The malignant B-cells in IVBCL fail to express the CD29 protein while the endothelial cells in close proximity to the intravascular accumulations of the malignant B-cells fail to express key CXC chemokine receptor proteins particularly CxcL12 but also Cxcr5, Ccr6, and/or Ccr7. The failure of the endothelial cells to express these receptor proteins may be due to the action of nearby malignant B-cells. In any event, all of the cited proteins are involved in the movement of B-cells from the intravascular space across the vascular endothelium and into tissues. The lack of these proteins may explain the accumulation of the malignant B-cells of IVLBC within blood vessels.
In about 80% of cases, the malignant B-cells in IVBCL are "non-germinal center B-cells" as defined by the Hans algorithm rather than the "germinal center B-cells" that are commonly found in less aggressive B-cell lymphomas. This factor may contribute to the aggressiveness of IVBCL.
Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, classical variant
Presentation
Individuals presenting with the classical variant of IVLBL are typically middle-aged or elderly (39–90 years) that have one or more of the following: systemic symptoms, particularly fever (45% of cases); cutaneous lesions (40%); central nervous system disorders (35%); and clinical and laboratory abnormalities involving the bone marrow (~18%), lung (~6%), and, rarely, endocrine glands (e.g. pituitary, thyroid, adrenal gland), liver, prostate, uterus, eye, intestine, and in individual cases almost any other organ or tissue. These findings are based primarily on studies of 740 patients conducted in Europe; a study conducted in Quebec, Canada on 29 patients gave similar results. Individuals may present with one, two, or more of these abnormalities. Systemic symptoms include not only the most commonly seen one viz., fever, but also malaise, weight loss, and other B symptoms; the cutaneous lesions include singular or multiple plaques, nodules, tumors, and ulcerations, some of which may be painful and most of which are located on the breast, lower abdomen, and/or extremities. Central nervous system defects include sensory and/or motor neuropathy, spinal nerve root pain, paresthesia, hypoesthesia, aphasia, dysarthria, hemiparesis, seizures, myoclonus, transient visual loss, vertigo, altered conscious states, and, particularly in relapsed disease, neurolymphomatosis (i.e. direct invasion of one or more nerves in the peripheral nervous system by the malignant B-cells). Laboratory studies generally show non-specific abnormalities: elevated levels of serum lactate dehydrogenase and soluble IL2RA; anemia, decreases in blood platelet levels, and decreases in white blood cell levels in 25%->50% of cases. Circulating malignant B-cells are not found in 90-95% of cases and laboratory evidence of organ injury is found in those cases involving these organs.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis of IVBCL is heavily dependent upon obtaining biopsy specimens from involved tissues, particularly the skin but in cases without skin lesions, other apparently involved tissues. Microscopic examination of these tissues typically shows medium-sized to large-sized lymphocytes located within small- to medium-sized blood vessels of the skin, lung, and other tissues or the sinusoids of the liver, bone marrow, and spleen. On occasion, these malignant cells have the appearance of Reed-Sternberg cells. The lesions should show no or very little extension outside of blood vessels. As determined by immunohistochemistry analyses, the intravascular malignant lymphocytes express typical B-cell proteins, particularly CD20, which is found in almost all cases, CD79a and Pax5, which are found in most cases, and MUM1 and Bcl-2, which are found in 95% and 91% of cases, respectively. These B-cells are usually (80% of cases) non-germinal center B-cells (see Pathophysiology section) and may express one or more of the gene, chromosome, and gene expression abnormalities described in the above Pathophysiology section. Since the classical variant can present with a wide range of clinical signs, symptoms, and organ involvements, its presence may not be apparent, particularly in cases that do not exhibit clinically apparent skin lesions. Accordingly, random skin biopsies have been used to obtain evidence of IVL in cases that have signs and/or symptoms of the disease that are restricted to non-cutaneous sites, even in cases that present with no other finding except unexplained fever. The diagnosis of IVBCL, classical variant is solidified by finding these pathological features in more than one site.
Treatment and prognosis
At diagnosis, IVBCL must be regarded as an aggressive and disseminated malignancy requiring systemic chemotherapy. In the absence of long- or short-term, controlled clinical trials on treating this lymphoma, individuals with IVBCL have been treated with the standard regimen used to treat diffuse large B-cell lymphomas viz., the CHOP chemotherapy regimen which consists of cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin (also termed doxorubicin or adriamycin), oncovin (also termed vincristine), and a corticosteroid (i.e. either prednisone or prednisolone) plus the monoclonal antibody immunotherapy agent, Rituximab. This immunochemotherapeutic regimen has achieved an overall survival rate at 3 years of 81%; this overall survival rate using CHOP before Retuximab was added to the regimen was only 33%. However, highly toxic reactions to Rituximab such as pulmonary failure may occur and require delay or interrupting the use of this drug. High dose chemotherapy regimens followed by autologous stem-cell transplantation has offered clinical improvement similar to that found with the CHOP plus Rituximabn. However, only a small percentage of patients with IVBCL are young and healthy enough to receive this regimen. Intravenous methotrexate may be a useful addition to the rituximab-CHOP regiment in individuals with central nervous system involvement.
Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, cutaneous variant
Presentation
The cutaneous variant, which comprises a small percentage of all IVBCL cases, occurs almost exclusively in females and younger individuals (median age 59 years) than the classical variant (median age 72 years). Individuals present with lesions that are exclusively or greatly confined to the skin. The clinical features of these lesions are similar to those described in the section on Presentation of the classical variant. Individuals with the cutaneous variant may have systemic symptoms but this occurs less frequently (30% of cases) than those in the classical variant (45% of cases). In general, cutaneous variant patients are in much better physical shape than those with other forms of IVBCL and have a better long-term prognosis.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis of IVL, cutaneous variant depends on finding the pathological picture in the skin as described for the classical variant except that the lesions occur exclusively or predominantly in the skin. Ideally, these pathological findings should be found in more than one skin site. However, cutaneous involvement is frequently detected in a single site such as the hypervascular lesions of cherry hemangiomas and angiolipomas.
Treatment and prognosis
Historically, individuals with the cutaneous variant survive significantly longer than that those with the classical variant (3 year overall survival 56% versus 22%). Early intervention in the cutaneous variant would appear to be highly desirable. Virtually all reports on the treatment of the cutaneous variant were made before Rituximab was used to treat IVL. Historically, patients with localized disease obtained prolonged remission with conventional CHOP therapy. However, individuals with single cutaneous lesions were long‐term survivors: when treated with just radiation therapy or surgical removal, these single-lesion patients had prolonged remissions both at initial diagnosis and after relapse. In contrast, patients with multiple lesions had a far worse outcome after treatment with CHOP: they had an objective response in 86% of cases but nonetheless the majority relapsed within a year of treatment with and only a few being successfully managed with salvage chemotherapy. Rituximab may improve the latter situation.
Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, hemophagocytic syndrome-associated variant
Presentation
The hemophagocytic syndrome-associated variant of IVBCL is a very rare variant of IVBCL. Its previous name, intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, Asian variant, was recently changed to its current name by the world Health Organization, 2016. Unlike the classical and cutaneous variants, the hemophagocytic syndrome-associated variant presents with the hemophagocytic syndrome. This syndrome is characterized by bone marrow involvement, reduced numbers of circulating blood platelets as well as the reduced levels of other circulating blood cells, and enlarged liver and spleen. Less often, it is also associated with overt hemophagocytosis (i.e. the engulfment by non-malignant histiocytes of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and their precursor cells that is most commonly found in the bone marrow and other tissues. The syndrome often reflects excessive secretion of inflammatory cytokines and severe systemic inflammation similar to that seen in the cytokine storm syndrome. In general, individuals present with a rapidly progressive disease (median time from onset to diagnosis~4 weeks, range 2–12 weeks). Patients are often extremely ill and experience multiple organ failures.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis of the intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, hemophagocytic syndrome-associated variant depends on the individual presenting with clinical and laboratory findings compatible with the hemphagocytic syndrome (see previous section) and on the histology of biopsied tissues of the bone marrow, spleen, liver, brain, or other organ that clinical and/or laboratory findings suggest are involved in the disease. Its histology is described in the Diagnosis section of the classical variant but also includes the presence of hemophagocytosis, i.e. the engulfment of red blood cells and/or other mature and immature blood cells. Hemophagocytosis can also be found in sites removed from the intravascular lesions such as the cerebrospinal fluid in patients with central nervous system involvement.
Treatment and prognosis
Prior to the use of rituximab, individuals with this variant generally followed a rapidly (i.e. weeks to months) fatal course even when treated with the CHOP regimen. However, addition of rituximab to the CHOP regimen appears to have improved the treatment of this disease. Intravenous methotrexate may be a useful addition to the rituximab-CHOP regiment in individuals with central nervous system involvement.
Intravascular NK/T cell lymphomas
Pathophysiology
Three studies have examine gene mutations and gene expression abnormalities in IVNK/TL. A retrospective study of 25 patients identified numerous gene abnormalities including tumor-specific splicing alterations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes such as HRAS, MDM2, and VEGFA as well as premature termination mutations or copy number losses in a total of 15 splicing-regulator genes such as SF3B5 and TNPO3. A study of two patients with IVNKL identified mutations in genes that produce histone proteins (HIST1H2BE, HIST1H2BN and H3F3A), the histone deacetylase gene, HDAC5, two genes that produce helicase proteins (WRN and DDX3X), two genes that make DNA methylation-related enzymes (TET2 and DNMT1) and a gene in the SWI/SNF family of chromatin remodeling genes, ARID1A. In a third study of a single patient, copy number analysis identified driver gene alterations in ARID1B, HACE1, and SMAD4 genes and gain of the SOX2 gene. While further studies are needed before conclusions can be made, one or more of these gene abnormalities may contribute to the development and/or progression of IVNK/TL.
The malignant NK and T cells that accumulate within the vascular of individuals with IVNK/TL are usually infected with the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV). This suggests that most IVNK/TL cases are examples of the Epstein-Barr virus-associated lymphoproliferative diseases and, like these diseases, are EBV-driven. About 95% of the world's population is infected with EBV. During the initial infection, the virus may cause infectious mononucleosis, only minor non-specific symptoms, or no symptoms. Regardless of this, the virus enters a latency phase and the infected individual becomes a lifetime asymptomatic carrier of EBV. Weeks, months, years, or decades thereafter, a small percentage of these carriers develop an EBV-associated lymphoproliferative disease, including in extremely rare cases IVNK/TL. EBV is well known to infect NK- and T-cells, to express some of its genes that promote the survival and proliferation of the cells it infects, and thereby to cause various and far more common NK- and T-cell lymphomas. It seems likely that the virus acts similarly to cause IVNK/TL. IVNK/TL may differ from the other types of NK- and T-cell lymphomas which EBV produces because its NK- and T-cells and nearby endothelial cells have defects in the expression of proteins required for the NK/T-cells to pass through the endothelium and into the surrounding tissues (see above section on the Pathopysiology IVBCL).
Presentation
Individuals (age range 23–81 years) with IVNK/TL typically have a rapidly progressive disease. They commonly present with skin lesions, less commonly symptoms due to central nervous system involvement, and in a minority of cases symptoms due to the involvement of the bone marrow, liver, kidneys, ovaries, and/or cervix. They often show signs of an disseminated disease such as fever, weight loss, night sweats, arthralgias, jaundice, decreased numbers of circulating red blood cells, white blood cells, and/or platelets, bone marrow involvement as determined by biopsy, and signs/symptoms of multiple organ involvement.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis of IVNK/TL depends upon obtaining histology findings in the skin and/or other involved tissue that resembles that seen in IVBCL except that the malignant lymphocytes are not B-cells but rather: 1) NK-cells as evidenced by their expression of NK-cell selective marker proteins (e.g. CD3e, CD2, CD30, CD43, CD56, and/or CD79), expression of granule-bound enzymes (e.g. granzyme B), and expression of EBV proteins (e.g. Epstein–Barr virus latent membrane protein 1 and EBV-produced small RNAs); but not the expression of B-cell (e.g. CD20, CD79a, and Pax5) or cytotoxic T cell marker proteins; and 2) cytotoxic T-cell lymphoma as evidenced by the neoplastic cells' expression of T-cell co-receptor proteins (e.g. CD3, CD4, and/or CD8) as well as EBV marker proteins and/or small RNAs but usually not B-cell or NK-cell marker proteins.
Treatment and Prognosis
Patients with IVNK/TL have been treated with various chemotherapy regimens, particularly CHOP or, less commonly, hyperCVAD. Rare patients have been treated with chemotherapy followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or chemotherapy plus a proteasome inhibitor, bortezomib. In general, patients have responded poorly to treatment, have short (i.e. up to 12 months) survival times regardless of the chemotherapy regimen used. Rituximab does not target NK- or T-cells and therefore is not used to treat IVNK/TL.
See also
Proliferating angioendotheliomatosis
List of cutaneous conditions
References
External links
Lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Epstein–Barr virus–associated diseases
Infectious causes of cancer
Lymphoid-related cutaneous conditions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intravascular%20lymphomas |
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actress, television presenter, and singer (under the stage name Kakko).
Career
Suzuki was born in Minoh, Osaka and raised in Kobe, Hyogo. At age 17, she was spotted by a CBS records scout when she was commuting to school. Soon after, she moved to the United Kingdom to pursue a singing career. Suzuki worked behind the scenes at PWL Records, doing office duties and familiarising herself with the business side of operations, before she was given the chance to record. Her first single "We Should Be Dancing" (produced by Stock Aitken Waterman) was released in February 1990 and peaked at number 101 on the UK single chart. Her second release "What Kind Of Fool" did not chart. Met with little success, she returned to Japan in 1991 and began working as an actress. She has become a popular actress in TV dramas and appears in many commercials.
Suzuki hosted Music Fair from 1995 to 2016.
On 8 July 2022, Suzuki released her first single in 32 years, a re-recording of “We Should Be Dancing” performed as a duet with comedian and singer Takashi Fujii.
Personal life
Suzuki married surgeon Motoo Yamagata in June 1998. The couple met in January 1998 when Suzuki was admitted to hospital for abdominal pain. Yamagata was her operating surgeon. He died of liver disease on 1 February 2013.
Filmography
Film
High School Teacher (1993)
Birthday Present (1995)
ZOO SO-Far (2005)
What a Wonderful Life!! (2011)
Aibou Series X DAY (2013)
Waka Okami wa Shōgakusei! (2018)
Television
Asunaro Hakusho (1993)
Wakamono no Subete (1994)
Music Fair (1995–2016), Host
Natsuzora (2019), Ranko Kameyama
Discography
Singles
Solo
We Should Be Dancing (CBS, 1990)
What Kind Of Fool (CBS, 1990)
Kakko and Takashi Fujii
We Should Be Dancing (Yoshimoto, 2022)
Night Tempo feat. Anju Suzuki
Live Once (2023)
Awards
References
External links
Official Homepage
Japanese women pop singers
Japanese dance musicians
Japanese film actresses
Japanese television actresses
20th-century Japanese actresses
21st-century Japanese actresses
Living people
Singers from Minoh, Osaka
Singers from Kobe
Actresses from Osaka Prefecture
Actors from Kobe
1969 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anju%20Suzuki |
"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is a song by English heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was originally released on their 1982 album Screaming for Vengeance and released as a single later that year. In May 2006, VH1 ranked it fifth on their list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs. It became one of Judas Priest's signature songs along with "Electric Eye" and "Breaking the Law", and a staple of the band's live performances. "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" was first performed on the opening concert of the Vengeance World Tour at the Stabler Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on 26 August 1982 and had been played a total of 673 times through the 2012 Epitaph Tour.
The song reached No. 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it Judas Priest's only song to make that chart.
Background
Singer Rob Halford said the lyrics were about "Just this attitude that we've always had in Priest. And I dare say, we've always had in our personal way of dealing with issues that are sent to challenge us. ... It's also wrapped up in the heavy metal community culture of the way we support each other with our metal. It's very much a song of hope and rising above the issues or difficulties that come your way. It's a song of resilience, as well."
Charting
"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" has charted in two countries in the United Kingdom and in the United States. In the United Kingdom it peaked at No. 66 in the UK Singles Chart and in the US, it reached No. 4 on the Billboard rock chart.
Music video
The music video was directed by Julien Temple, and filmed at the Kempton Park Water Works. It features the band performing outside the pumping station among a background of lasers and smoke. Meanwhile, a higher authority figure arrives to shut the group down due to the noise level only to have his head blown off and its pants fell off towards the end of the video as a result of the exceeding force of Halford.
Reception
Wayne Parry of the Associated Press called it, along with "Hell Bent for Leather" and "Living After Midnight", one of the "standards against which other metal tracks are measured". Greg Prato of AllMusic wrote that the song was what finally broke Judas Priest into the mainstream in the United States.
According to Steve Huey, also of AllMusic, "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is the band's signature tune.
In 2012, Loudwire ranked the song number nine on its list of the 10 greatest Judas Priest songs, and in 2019, Louder Sound ranked the song number four on its list of the 50 greatest Judas Priest songs.
In other media
The song shows up on several video games, for example, it is featured on the jukebox of the first level of Prey; in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City's radio station V-Rock; as downloadable content for Rock Band series (alongside the rest of the album Screaming for Vengeance), Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2; and a cover version is featured in Guitar Hero. It is also featured in 2K Sports' Major League Baseball 2K9 and EA Sports' NHL 12.
The original song is also featured in the 2011 comedy film, Bad Teacher.
The song was featured in a 2013 episode of Californication and in the season eleven episode "The Orpheus Gambit" of Archer.
The song is playing in Wayne Potts' house in episode 5 of Mare of Easttown.
Personnel
Rob Halford – vocals
Glenn Tipton – lead guitar
K. K. Downing – rhythm guitar
Ian Hill – bass
Dave Holland – drums
Charts
References
Judas Priest songs
1982 singles
1988 singles
Songs written by Rob Halford
Songs written by Glenn Tipton
Songs written by K. K. Downing
1982 songs
Columbia Records singles
Music videos directed by Julien Temple | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve%20Got%20Another%20Thing%20Comin%27 |
Tsubasa (written: 翼, 翔, 飛翔 or つばさ in hiragana) is a unisex Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
Tsubasa (wrestler), Japanese professional wrestler
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, Japanese singer and actor
, Japanese contemporary artist
, Japanese wheelchair racer
, Japanese cyclist
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Tsubasa Sasaki (born 1995), Japanese slalom canoeist
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Fictional characters
Tsubasa Andō, a character in the anime and manga series Gakuen Alice
Tsubasa Hanekawa, a character in the Monogatari series
Tsubasa Kazanari, a character in the anime series Symphogear
Tsubasa Kurenai, a character in the anime series Ranma ½
Tsubasa Li (李 ツバサ), one of the protagonists of the manga Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
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Tsubasa Otori, one of the protagonists in Beyblade: Metal Fusion
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Tsubasa Sena, a character in the anime series Aikatsu!
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Japanese unisex given names | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsubasa |
The Mercedes-Benz CLK LM (chassis code C298) was a Group GT1 sports car designed and built by Mercedes-Benz in partnership with AMG to compete in the FIA GT Championship. To satisfy the requirements of competing in the FIA GT Championship, a road-legal version had to be built to homologate the car. That car was known as the Mercedes-Benz CLK LM Straßenversion, and Mercedes-Benz assembled two chassis, one of which was destroyed for crash-testing. The CLK LM went on to win every single championship event in the 1998 FIA GT season, retiring only at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans, which was a non-championship event. The removal of the GT1 class from the FIA GT Championship due to the lack of entrants and rising costs meant that Mercedes' GT1 program was brought to a close at the end of 1998. Mercedes instead focussed their efforts on the newly introduced LMGTP class for the 1999 season, which produced the Mercedes-Benz CLR.
Background
Mercedes was left without a series to race in after the 1996 International Touring Car Championship and Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft folded in 1996, with their competitors Opel and Alfa Romeo pulling out of the series, leaving Mercedes as the sole entrant. The elevation of the BPR Global GT Series to an FIA-sanctioned event, the FIA GT Championship, piqued the interest of Mercedes who instructed AMG to construct a car to the Group GT1 regulations. To speed up the development process, AMG purchased McLaren F1 GTR chassis #11R from French privateers Larbre Compétition, which was then fitted with AMG's own bodywork along with substituting the F1 GTR's S70/2 engine for Mercedes' own, the LS600. This accelerated development process meant that the CLK GTR was ready for competition just 128 days after work on the design had begun.
The CLK GTR debuted at Mercedes' home track, the Hockenheimring, where Bernd Schneider qualified on pole. However, he later retired with brake problems, and the sister car finished 27th. Despite the setback, the CLK GTR would prove to be successful in the 1997 FIA GT Championship, winning six out of eleven races, the constructor's and the driver's championship by a large margin.
Following the success of the CLK GTR, Mercedes-Benz modified the CLK GTR to suit the long straights of the Circuit de la Sarthe, constructing a new chassis with revised bodywork. AMG also had doubts over the reliability of the V12 engine of the CLK GTR, opting to replace it with a non-turbocharged version of the M119 engine found in the Sauber C9 and Mercedes-Benz C11, dubbed the GT 108B. The engine featured a revised crankshaft, with the GT 108B replacing the previous crossplane crank of the V12 with a flat-plane crank. Changes to the bodywork included removing the two front brake cooling ducts, the removal of the front fender gills, alterations to the roof scoop, and a lower roofline and nose.
The CLK GTR would race the first two rounds of the 1998 FIA GT Championship, where it won the championship's first two races at Silverstone and Oschersleben before being replaced by the CLK LM.
Racing history
At the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans, Bernd Schneider qualified the No. 35 CLK LM on pole in the third of four qualifying sessions, setting a time of 3:35.544, just over a second ahead of the works Toyota GT-One. The sister No. 36 CLK LM would round out the top three. The engine ultimately proved to be Mercedes' Achilles' heel, with both cars retiring before the halfway mark. Problems with the power steering oil pump caused the CLK LM's entire lubrication system to fail, with Schneider pulling over on the pit straight on the 19th lap, and Gounon pitting a few laps later with the same problem.
In spite of the disappointing results, Mercedes was pleased with the pace of the CLK LM, fielding the car for the rest of the 1998 FIA GT Championship. The two cars shared pole position between them throughout the season, and won every single race, posting six 1–2 finishes. Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo Zonta captured the drivers title at the conclusion of the 1998 season, along with Mercedes-AMG collecting the constructors. Five chassis were constructed in total, with three racing chassis, and two road-legal chassis, one of which was destroyed for crash testing purposes.
Legacy
The rising costs and Mercedes' use of homologation specials caused Porsche and McLaren to withdraw from the 1999 FIA GT Championship, and seeing as Mercedes was the only entrant, the FIA opted to run the 1999 season without the GT1 class. The repetition of what happened in 1996 with the DTM and ITC forced Mercedes to turn their attention to the newly introduced Le Mans Grand Touring Prototype class, where homologation was not an issue. Japanese Internet service provider MTCI planned on campaigning the CLK LM in the Japanese Grand Touring Car Championship, however, negotiations to purchase the CLK LM fell through, with MCTI eventually fielding a custom Porsche Boxster.
The LM's successor, the Mercedes-Benz CLR, inherited many features from the CLK LM; the V8 was enlarged to , rechristened the GT 108C, and the roofline was lowered by , among other changes. The CLR, despite being a purpose-built Le Mans racecar, turned out to be beset by severe aerodynamic flaws that resulted in its infamous somersaults at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans. Following the incidents, Mercedes withdrew from all sportscar activities in 1999 and never entered Le Mans again.
Straßenversion
The CLK LM Straßenversion or Strassenversion (German for "Street version") is the road-legal homologated version of the CLK LM. Mercedes manufactured two chassis, No. 001 and No. 002, the former of which was destroyed for crash testing purposes.
Modifications for road use included the installation of a tubular steel rollcage, the installation of a plastic front bumper similar to the one found on the CLK GTR Straßenversion, and a rear aerofoil that had a low- and high-downforce configuration. The road car's rear wing was also modified from the lightweight bare-bones racing wing to a wide, swooping rear wing similar to the one found on the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Straßenversion.
The car was presented at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans alongside the CLK LM racecars, after which it was sold to a Japanese collector. The sole chassis has since made sparse appearances, resurfacing at the 2014 Rétromobile alongside two Mercedes-Benz 300 SL on display by French auction house Classic Sport Leicht, where it was purchased by a European owner. Following the purchase it was put on display in the Mercedes-Benz showroom on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, where it would remain until the 26 June 2014. The car would also make an appearance at the 2015 Chantilly Arts and Elegance Richard Mille, which Mercedes-Benz was sponsoring. In 2016, the car was put up for sale through the Mercedes-Benz Museum's trading arm, All Time Stars, where it sold for €2,000,000.
Racing results
Complete FIA GT Championship results
Races in bold indicates pole position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap.
* Despite retiring, they had completed over 75% of the race distance, and were thus classified.
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
Races in bold indicates pole position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap.
See also
Mercedes-Benz in motorsport
References
External links
Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-AMG: Milestones – Episode 4: 1998, YouTube, 18 September 2017. A brief video of the CLK LM & GTR's racing history.
Cars introduced in 1998
Mercedes-Benz vehicles
Sports cars
Grand tourer racing cars
Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Coupés | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz%20CLK%20LM |
Alejandro Agresti (born June 2, 1961, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director, writer and producer. A prominent filmmaker in his country, he also directed The Lake House with Hollywood actors Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in 2006.
Career
Agresti is best known in the United States for his feature Valentín, the story of a young boy who dreams of becoming an astronaut while attempting to better the bewildering world around him. This internationally acclaimed feature earned Agresti the Silver Condor (Cóndor de Plata) by the Argentine Film Critics Association for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Best Film and Special Jury Award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, the Golden Calf for Best Director at the Nederlands Film Festival, and the Audience Award at the Newport International Film Festival.
Agresti's other films include El Viento se llevó lo que ("Wind with the Gone"), Un mundo menos peor ("A Less Bad World"), El acto en cuestion ("The Act in Question") and Buenos Aires Vice Versa. El Viento se llevó lo qué tells the story of a Buenos Aires cab driver who goes to an isolated village where the only contact with the outside world is through movies. The film garnered the Golden Seashell at the San Sebastián Film Festival, a Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, two awards at the Havana Film Festival and a Golden Tulip at the Istanbul International Film Festival.
Agresti has also received several awards for his look at the urban makeup of his birthplace in Buenos Aires Vice Versa, including Best Screenplay and Best Editing from the Argentine Film Critics Association, the Special Jury Prize at the Havana Film Festival, and three awards from Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Un mundo menos peor ("A Less Bad World") premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival and was awarded the "Award of the City of Rome" Best Film prize.
Born in 1961, Agresti made his directorial debut while still a teenager with 1978's El Zoológico y el cementerio, a short film he shot on weekends while working as a TV director in Buenos Aires. Longing to broaden his horizons, he immigrated to the Netherlands, where he exhibited El Hombre que ganó la razón at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 1986.
After establishing himself in the Netherlands, he continued his burgeoning career with such projects as Love is a Fat Woman which won the Special Jury Prize at the 1988 Nederlands Film Festival and the Best New Director award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and Secret Wedding which won the Golden Calf for Best Film award at the Nederlands Film Festival, among other international awards.
Other popular Agresti films include La cruz ("The Cross"), the story about a film critic whose job loss precipitates a family crisis; the popular comedy A Night With Sabrina Love, the tale of a teenager who unexpectedly wins an evening with a famous porn star in a television contest; City Life, Luba, Figaro Stories, Everybody Wants to Help Ernest, A Lonely Race, Modern Crimes, and El Acto en cuestión ("The Act in Question"), which won more than a dozen international film awards.
In 2006, his film The Lake House was released and became a box office success, lending Agresti worldwide recognition.
He directed his first feature film in seven years, the comedy No somos animales (2013), which is a coproduction of Argentina and United States. The film stars John Cusack, who co-wrote the screenplay with Agresti. Paul Hipp co-stars, and Al Pacino is featured in a cameo. No somos animales was only shown in its workprint form in a few special projections at Argentina and the US; according to Agresti, a dispute between the film's producer and John Cusack (and Cusack's lawyer as well) has left the film in a limbo state, and it is still unclear when the theatrical cut will be released.
In 2016 he released Mecánica popular, an Argentine comedy-drama film he wrote and directed, starring Alejandro Awada and Patricio Contreras.
Filmography
Director
Mecánica popular (2016) / Popular Mechanics
No somos animales (2013) / We are not animals (originally titled Dictablanda; first showings in 2013, not officially released)
The Lake House (2006)
Un mundo menos peor (2004) / A Less Bad World
Valentín (2002)
Una noche con Sabrina Love (2000) / A Night with Sabrina Love
(1998) / Wind with the Gone
La cruz (1997) / The Cross
Un día para siempre (1997) / A Day For Ever
Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1996)
El Acto en cuestión (1994) / The Act in Question
Hexagon (1994) (segment Tegenbeweging, music composed by Theo Verbey)
Modern Crimes (1992)
A Lonely Race (1992)
Everybody Wants to Help Ernest (1991)
Figaro Stories (1991)
Luba (1990)
City Life (1990)
Boda secreta (1989) / Secret Wedding
El Amor es una mujer gorda (1987) / Love Is a Fat Woman
El hombre que ganó la razón (1986)
La neutrónica explotó en Burzaco (1984)
Los espectros de la recoleta (1981)
Tú sabes mi nombre (1981)
La araña (1980)
Sola (1979)
El zoológico y el cementerio (1978)
References
External links
Agresti's bio in The Lake House's Production Notes
1961 births
Living people
Argentine people of Italian descent
Argentine film directors
Golden Calf winners
English-language film directors
Writers from Buenos Aires | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro%20Agresti |
Kenneth Alexander Blatchford (March 5, 1882 – April 20, 1933) was a Canadian politician who served as both mayor of Edmonton, Alberta and a member of the House of Commons of Canada.
Early life
Kenny Blatchford was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba. He was educated at a commercial college, and was an excellent wrestler and all-around athlete as a youth.
He moved to Edmonton with his parents by ox-cart during the 1890s, and began selling newspapers. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he took over operation of the grist mill operated by Daniel Fraser, and later worked in the Edmonton Power Plant. He married Grace Lauder Walker on 19 December 1904, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.
Kenny Blatchford was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Municipal politics
Blatchford first sought public office in the 1921 municipal election, when he was elected to Edmonton City Council for a one-year term as an alderman, finishing fifth out of seventeen candidates. While the top five candidates were to have been elected to two year terms, with the sixth and seventh-place finishers winning one year terms, Bickerton Pratt, who finished seventh, won a two-year term by virtue of being from the south side of the North Saskatchewan River, due to the guaranteed southside representation; resultingly, Blatchford won only a one-year term.
He was re-elected, this time to a two-year term, in the 1922 election, in which he finished third of sixteen candidates. He resigned midway through his term to run for mayor in the 1923 election, in which he handily defeated James Ramsey. He was re-elected with relative ease in the 1924 and 1925 elections, and did not seek re-election thereafter.
As mayor, Blatchford convinced the city to purchase a farm to establish an "air harbour", which later became the Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport.
After his federal political career faltered, Blatchford attempted a return to municipal office by running for mayor in the 1932 election. However, he finished a distant third of three candidates, behind incumbent Daniel Kennedy Knott and perennial candidate (and former and future mayor) Joseph Clarke.
Federal politics
While still mayor, Blatchford ran for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1926 election as a Liberal in Edmonton East. He defeated incumbent Conservative Member of Parliament Ambrose Bury by fewer than two hundred votes.
He served until 1930, when he was defeated by Bury (who had gone on to succeed Blatchford as mayor of Edmonton) in that year's election.
Death and legacy
Five months after his defeat in the 1932 mayoral election, Blatchford suffered a nervous breakdown and disappeared. His body was found in the North Saskatchewan River on April 22, 1933, after he had been missing for two days. His death was ruled a suicide.
His son, Howard Peter "Cowboy" Blatchford went on to become a flying ace in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.
Blatchford Field, location of the former Edmonton City Centre Airport, was named after Kenny Blatchford. The carbon neutral community of Blatchford, which is being developed on the grounds of the former airport, is named in his honour.
See also
1921 Edmonton municipal election
1922 Edmonton municipal election
1923 Edmonton municipal election
1924 Edmonton municipal election
1925 Edmonton municipal election
1932 Edmonton municipal election
16th Canadian Parliament
References
Edmonton Public Library Biography of Kenny Blatchford
City of Edmonton biography of Kenny Blatchford
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1933 deaths | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny%20Blatchford |
State Route 306 (SR 306) is a state highway in Lander and Eureka counties in northern Nevada, United States. It connects the mining area of Gold Acres in Lander County to Interstate 80 (I-80) at the Beowawe Interchange near Beowawe in Eureka County via Crescent Valley. The road has been a state highway since the 1920s, having been established as part of a much longer State Route 21 by 1929.
Route description
SR 306 begins at the road to Barrack Cortez Mine, just east of Gold Acres in central Lander County. From this point, the route heads in a north-northeasterly direction, away from the mountains of the Shoshone Range. After about , the highway crosses into Eureka County and passes through the small community of Crescent Valley. Passing through the town, SR 306 continues on its straight course northward through the valley of the same name. The route reaches the town of Beowawe, where it crosses over the Union Pacific Railroad, and soon after, bridges the Humboldt River. The highway passes briefly through Whirlwind Valley before reaching Interstate 80, where SR 306 terminates at the Beowawe Interchange (exit 261).
History
The road dates back to at least 1929. At that time, it was part of a longer State Route 21 which extended north from SR 2/U.S. Route 50 (US 50) near Austin all the way through Crescent Valley and Beowawe to SR 1/US 40 (now I-80). By 1933, the southern end of SR 21 had been extended beyond Austin, branching from US 50 just west of town and heading in a southwesterly direction towards Ione. Not counting the brief overlap with US 50, the total length of State Route 21 was around . The entire route remained a dirt or gravel-graded route until about 1958, when the northern between Gold Point and US 40 were paved.
Aside from a little more paving south of Gold Point, SR 21 remained unchanged into the 1970s. However, on July 1, 1976, Nevada began a renumbering of its state highways. In this process, the paved portion of the highway between Crescent Valley and US 40/I-80 north of Beowawe was redesignated as State Route 306. This change was first seen on state maps in 1978. The rest of SR 21 remained on official Nevada maps for a short time, but was ultimately removed from the state highway system by 1982. The paved highway extending to the Gold Acres site wasn't shown on state maps until 1993. The route has remained relatively unchanged since.
Major intersections
Note: Mileposts in Nevada reset at county lines; the start and end mileposts are given in the county column.
See also
List of state highways in Nevada
References
External links
306
Transportation in Eureka County, Nevada
Transportation in Lander County, Nevada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada%20State%20Route%20306 |
Andrew William Playfair (1790 – September 1868) was a politician in Canada West.
Playfair was born in Paris, France in 1790, the son of William Playfair. He served in the British Army and later settled near Perth, Ontario. He built a number of mills which formed the basis of the community of Playfairville on the Mississippi River northwest of Perth. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for the South riding of Lanark in 1857. Playfair served as colonel in the local militia. He died in Playfairville in 1868.
External links
Early Days of Methodism in Perth transcribed by Lanark County Genealogical Society
1790 births
1868 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada West
Canadian Methodists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20W.%20Playfair |
WMUL is a college broadcast radio station licensed to Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, serving Metro Huntington. The Marshall University Board of Governors owns WMUL's FCC license, and a board of directors composed of students and community volunteers, under the direction of Faculty Manager Dr. Charles G. Bailey, handles the day-to-day operations.
Sports programming
WMUL's sports department covers more Marshall sporting events live than any other media entity. It broadcasts all of Marshall's home college football games, which is a rare opportunity for college radio stations. It also broadcasts Marshall's home soccer, volleyball, basketball (men's and women's), softball, and baseball games. The station broadcasts some of Marshall's away football, baseball and women's basketball games, and is the exclusive home of the 2013 Conference USA Champion Marshall Softball team.
News programming
The news department broadcasts newsbriefs at the top of the hour from 12-3 p.m. Monday-Friday. The flagship broadcast, "The 5 p.m. Edition of NewsCenter 88," runs for 30 minutes and covers events happening around Marshall, the Huntington Tri-State region, and the rest of the nation. It also includes the five-minute "FM 88 Sports Report" and a minute-long "Metro Huntington Weather Forecast." The station also produces news/talk shows each semester and occasionally produces and airs the "Insight Into Old Main" series, dealing with various parts of the Marshall University administration.
Awards
As of summer 2019, the station has won 1,959 national and regional awards since 1985, the year Faculty Manager Dr. Charles G. Bailey began tracking awards. The record number of awards attained in one school year was initially set in 2010–2011, when the station received 131 national and regional awards. That record was broken in the 2016–2017 school year when the station received 132 national and regional awards. That record though was not held for long as the station out did itself again in the 2018–2019 school year when it received 146 national and regional awards, it also received 63 2nd place awards that school year, the most 2nd place awards its ever won in a single school year, per http://www.marshall.edu/wmul/wmul-awards/.
WMUL has won numerous awards through the National Broadcasting Society (NBS) contest, including winning Best Sports Play-by-Play, Best Audio Magazine Program, Best Audio Sports Package, Best Audio Sports Program and Best Audio Promo in the 2015 contest. This contest is open only to individual NBS members and member colleges. Another major contest for the station is The Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters Association awards. The station's FM 88 Sports Team was named Outstanding Sports Operation in the non-metro division of the 2015 Virginias AP Broadcasters Awards. Other winners in that contest were Outstanding Effort by an Individual Reporter, Best Coverage of a Spot News Story, Best Feature or Human Interest Story and Best Sports Feature Story. The Virginias AP Broadcasters Association is open to all broadcast media, commercial and non-commercial, that includes West Virginia and/or Virginia as part or all of its coverage area.
References
External links
88.1 WMUL Online
MUL
MUL
Marshall University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMUL |
The Union County Industrial Railroad is a short line railroad that operates on approximately 12 miles (20 km) of track in Union County in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania. It is part of the North Shore Railroad System.
The line is along the right bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River, roughly following U.S. Route 15 between the unincorporated village of Winfield in southern Union County and the village of New Columbia (in White Deer Township) in northern Union County. Other communities served by the UCIR include Lewisburg, the village of West Milton (in Kelly Township), and Milton (east across the West Branch Susquehanna River in Northumberland County).
Although the UCIR has no employees and owns none of the track on which it operates, its corporate offices are located in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. There is a connection to the Norfolk Southern Railway line at Milton.
Robey Railroads, a private company, operates the Union County Industrial Railroad. The Union County Industrial Railroad has no employees, instead they are provided by the North Shore Railroad. This led the Railroad Retirement Board to find that "the Union County Industrial Railroad is not an employer subject to the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts."
The North Shore Railroad System has trackage rights via the Norfolk Southern line. These allow the Union County Industrial Railroad to connect to the north and west with the Lycoming Valley Railroad (at Muncy and Linden), the Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad (at Lock Haven) and, to the south, with the North Shore Railroad (at Northumberland) and the Shamokin Valley Railroad (at Sunbury).
Union County rail lines
There are basically two rail lines in Union County (although they have five different owners as of 2006):
the former "Reading Williamsport Line" from Winfield to Allenwood (north-south along the river);
the former "Reading Catawissa Branch" from West Milton east to Milton (east-west crossing the river);
All of the lines in Union County passed into the possession of Conrail, and were eventually abandoned or sold by it or its successors. Although the UCIR has a contract to operate on these lines between Winfield and Allenwood, and West Milton and Milton, as of 2008, the line from New Columbia north to Allenwood is out of service on account of bad track.
The UCIR formerly operated the West Shore Railroad (reporting mark WTSE) from Lewisburg to Mifflinburg, but service ended in 1997 and the line was sold to become a rail trail in 2008.
As of 2006, ownership of the lines in Union County is as follows:
The north-south former "Reading Williamsport Line" along the river is divided into four sections with three owners:
The "Lewisburg and Buffalo Creek Railroad" (LBCX) owns the track from Winfield north to West Milton. It is a non-operating railroad, although a tourist service operated on this track until the mid-1990s. As of 2006, this track is used by the UCIR for freight services.
The "West Shore Railroad Corporation" (WSRC) owns the track from Milton, through West Milton north to New Columbia, terminating just north of Interstate 80. This track is also used by the UCIR.
The "White Deer and Reading Railroad" (WDRR, owned by SEDA-COG JRA) owns the track from just north of Interstate 80 north to the village of White Deer (across the river from Watsontown). The local NRHS chapter also runs short excursions over this track.
The "Union County Industrial Development Corporation" owns the out-of-service track north of Allenwood, (and perhaps further north to the county line).
See also
List of Pennsylvania railroads
External links
Union County Industrial Railroad
References
Transportation in Union County, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania railroads
Spin-offs of Conrail | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20County%20Industrial%20Railroad |
John Francis McCullough, All Black and Taranaki rugby football representative, was born on 8 January 1936, in Stratford, New Zealand. He attended Stratford Technical High School, playing for the First XV 1952-1954, and went on from there to be selected to the Taranaki side. He alternated between first five-eighths and second five-eighths, weighing in at 75 kg and measuring 1.73 m high. McCullough was known for his good hands, his deft turn of speed and his strong defence.
McCullough was part of a Taranaki team that still holds a special place in the history of that province. He was part of the side that drew 3-all with the Springboks in 1956, as well as the successful Ranfurly Shield triumph over Otago in 1957 and the subsequent two-year possession of the shield. McCullough made his first All Black trial appearance in 1956, and in 1959 finally found the favour of the All Black selectors for the second, third and fourth tests against the touring British Lions, playing at first five-eighths.
McCullough was overlooked for the 1960 tour of South Africa, however, and the 1959 matches proved to be the only games he played for the All Blacks. He was part of yet another successful Ranfurly Shield challenge when Taranaki beat Wellington in 1963, and played a total of 94 games for his home province.
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Rugby union fly-halves | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McCullough%20%28rugby%20union%29 |
Sir James Penn Boucaut (;) (29 October 1831 – 1 February 1916) was a South Australian politician and Australian judge. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly on four occasions: from 1861 to 1862 for City of Adelaide, from 1865 to 1870 for West Adelaide (1865–1868) and The Burra (1868–1870), from 1871 to 1878 for West Torrens (1871–1875) and Encounter Bay (1875–1878), and a final stint in Encounter Bay in 1878.
At 34 years and 150 days of age, Boucaut was the youngest person to have been appointed Premier of South Australia. He was Premier three times: from 1866 to 1867, from 1875 to 1876, and from 1877 to 1878. He was Attorney-General of South Australia under Premiers John Hart and Henry Ayers, and served variously as Attorney-General, Treasurer, Commissioner of Public Works and Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration in his own ministries. He left politics in 1878 when he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia, serving until his retirement in 1905.
Early life
Boucaut was born in Mylor, Cornwall, the eldest son of a navy officer, Captain Ray Boucaut, and his wife, Winifred, daughter of James Penn, superintendent of the royal dockyard at Falmouth. He was educated at the Rev. Mr Hayley's school at Saltash.
Career in Australia
Boucaut left with his parents for South Australia in 1846, and after some work as a stockman in the interior, returned to Adelaide and entered the legal profession. Boucaut was articled to Charles Fenn, and was admitted to the bar in November 1855, his career was a lawyer was successful. He first took over the practice of Josiah Partridge in partnership with one Herford, which dissolved around 1860. A partnership with William James Wren was cut short by the latter's death on 6 February 1864.
In December 1861 he was returned to the South Australian House of Assembly as a representative for the City of Adelaide district, but was defeated at the general election in 1862. In March 1865 he was elected for West Adelaide at the head of the poll. In October he became Attorney-General in the first Hart ministry, and when the premier retired to go to England in February 1866, Boucaut took his place in a reconstructed ministry which was in power until May 1867. Boucaut was narrowly defeated in the 1868 election for East Adelaide, but a few days later on 15 April he was returned unopposed for The Burra, where his father-in-law, Alexander McCulloch, stood down in his favour. He badly lost the 1869 election for The Burra but entered the house again as member for West Torrens in the by-election of 1871. In January 1872 he became Attorney-General in Ayers' sixth ministry, but retired when the cabinet was reconstructed early in March.
From 22 February 1875 to 25 September 1878 Boucaut represented Encounter Bay, and on 3 June 1875 Boucaut formed his second ministry, in which he was commissioner of crown lands and immigration. An education bill was successfully taken through the assembly, and in September Boucaut brought in a bill authorizing the raising of a loan of £3,000,000 for the construction or extension of 13 lines of railway and various other public works. But opposition in the council, and the fear of increased taxation, temporarily held up railway extensions. The cabinet was reconstructed in March 1876, but resigned early in the following June. The ministry of John Colton, which followed, adopted part of Boucaut's railway extension policy and succeeded in carrying it through. Boucaut formed his third ministry in October 1877 and became Treasurer of South Australia. During the following nine months some useful legislation was passed, including a crown lands consolidation bill, and provision for several railway lines and for the improvement of Victor Harbour. An income tax bill was defeated, but a property tax of threepence in the pound was agreed to. In September 1878, on the death of Justice Stow, Boucaut was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
Boucaut was a judge for 27 years. It was at first thought that he could not be content to be out of politics, but he had a real interest in legal work and proved to be an excellent judge. He was acting chief justice during the absence of Justice Way in England in 1891–2, and several times acted as deputy governor between 1885 and 1897.
Boucaut remained very attached to his roots in Cornwall, being active in the Adelaide Cornish Association, and he considered Cornwall to be a nation.
His brother Bastin Boucaut (c. 1843 – 16 September 1864) was a member of B. T. Finniss's 1864 surveying party to the Northern Territory; he died of fever at Escape Cliffs, aged 21.
Late life and legacy
Boucaut resigned in February 1905 on a pension of £1,300 a year, on account of failing health. He had an estate at the foot of Mount Barker, where he bred purebred Arabian horses. His health improved with leisure and he lived until passing away at his home in Glenelg on 1 February 1916, aged 84.
Boucaut married Janet, daughter of Alexander McCulloch, in 1864 who predeceased him. He was survived by five sons and a daughter. He became a Q.C. in 1875 and was created K.C.M.G. in 1898. He published in London in 1905, his vigorously written The Arab, the Horse of the Future, and in the following year, Letters to My Boys, An Australian Judge and Ex-Premier on his Travels in Europe. Boucaut's Speeches on Railways and Public Works was published as a pamphlet in 1875.
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Foreign born Australian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Boucaut |
The Wattis Brothers was a 19th-century railway contracting firm operated by three brothers Edmund Orson Wattis Jr. (1855–1934), Warren L. Wattis, and William Henry Wattis (1859–1931). It was founded in the early 1880s by William and Edmund to build railways for the Western expansion of the United States.
In 1881, all three brothers operated the railway contracting firm and partnered with, or work for, the Corey Brothers in their first construction job, building the Oregon Short Line Railroad lines in Idaho. They then went to Canada to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway, where their horses died of disease and they struggled to work through heavy snows. Wattis Brothers then joined with the Corey Brothers in the Corey Brothers & Company organization to meet the obligations for completing the railway line.
Wattis Brothers prospered until the Panic of 1893, a depression that affected the entire country. The company went broke after their bank failed.
Wattis Brothers founded the Utah Construction Company in 1900, and Thomas Dee and David Eccles later became significant investors in the railroad construction organization.
References
Companies established in the 1880s
Railway infrastructure companies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattis%20Brothers |
Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri (29 February 1932 – 17 July 2020) was an Indian mathematician. He was the founder and director-emeritus of the Chennai Mathematical Institute, and is known for his work in algebraic geometry. The Seshadri constant is named after him. He was also known for his collaboration with mathematician M. S. Narasimhan, for their proof of the Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem which proved the necessary conditions for stable vector bundles on a Riemann surface.
He was a recipient of the Padma Bhushan in 2009, the third highest civilian honor in the country.
Degrees and posts
Seshadri was born into a Hindu Brahmin family in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. He received his B.A. (Hons) degree in mathematics from Madras University in 1953 and was mentored by the Jesuit priest Fr. Charles Racine and S. Naryanan there. He completed his PhD from Bombay University in 1958 under the supervision of K. S. Chandrasekharan. He was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1971.
Seshadri worked in the School of Mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay from 1953 to 1984 starting as a Research Scholar and rising to a senior professor. From 1984 to 1989, he worked at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. From 1989 to 2010, he worked as the founding director of the Chennai Mathematical Institute. After stepping down he continued to be the institute's Director-Emeritus till his death in 2020. He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2010 and 2011.
Visiting professorships
University of Paris, France
Harvard University, Cambridge
UCLA
Brandeis University
University of Bonn, Bonn
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
He has given talks at the ICM.
Awards and fellowships
Honorary degree, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, 2013
Honoris Causa, University of Hyderabad, India
Padma Bhushan
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal from the Indian Academy of Sciences
Honorary D.Sc. from Banaras Hindu University
TWAS Science Award
Fellow of IAS, INSA and a Fellow of the Royal Society
Membership of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012
Research work
Seshadri's main work was in algebraic geometry. His work with M S Narasimhan on unitary vector bundles and the Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem has influenced the field. His work on Geometric Invariant Theory and on Schubert varieties, in particular his introduction of standard monomial theory, is widely recognized.
Publications
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1932 births
2020 deaths
Algebraic geometers
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People from Kanchipuram district | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20S.%20Seshadri |
Luisa Pimentel Ejército (; born June 2, 1931), commonly known as Dra. Loi Ejército, is a Filipino politician and physician who last served as a Senator of the Philippines from 2001 to 2007. She is the wife of former Philippine President Joseph Ejercito Estrada, and was the twelfth First Spouse of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001. Her son, Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, is an incumbent senator since 2022 and previously from 2004 to 2016.
Early life and career
Ejercito was born Luisa Fernandez Pimentel on June 2, 1931, to Rufino Pimentel and Manuela Fernandez. She grew up and received her primary and secondary education in the town of Iba in Zambales. She later pursued higher education at University of Santo Tomas, where she obtained an associate in arts degree from the College of Liberal Arts in 1949 and doctor of medicine in 1954. After which, she worked as a professor at the university's Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and as a physician at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital. She later worked at the National Center for Mental Health (NCMH), where she became a Junior Resident. There, she met her husband, actor Joseph Estrada.
In 1960, she was a Training-Fellow at the Royal Park Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and Ballarat Mental Hospital Department. She also served as a Training Fellow at Ararat Mental Hospital in 1961. In 1962, she returned to the Philippines and established the Mental Health Department at Davao General Hospital in Davao City. For fifteen years, starting in 1972, she has also been involved as a volunteer doctor at San Martin de Porres Charity Hospital in San Juan.
Public role
A psychiatrist by profession, Loi was dubbed First Lady ng Masa (First Lady of the Masses) and Doktora ng Masa (Doctor of the Masses) because of her medical and outreach missions during her term.
On October 12, 1999, she received an Honorary Doctorate degree in philosophy from Kyung Hee University.
After her husband was deposed in the EDSA Revolution of 2001, she ran as a candidate of the Puwersa ng Masa opposition coalition for a seat in Senate. She won, placing 11th overall, and served in the 12th and the 13th Congress, making her the first First Lady to win a seat in the Senate. With the election of her son Jinggoy in 2004, they became the first ever mother-and-son as incumbent senators in Philippine Senate history.
During her tenure (2001–2007), she authored 121 bills and 13 resolutions, some of which have already been enacted into law:
R.A. No. 9241, The National Health Insurance Program;
R.A. No. 9211, The No Smoking Act;
, The Film Development Council of the Philippines,
R.A. No. 9165, The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act; and
, The Clean Water Act.
Ejercito decided to seek re-election in 2007, but she didn't push through with it. At the end of her Senate term, she retired from politics.
Post-Senate
In January 2014, letters sent to the Department of Agriculture showed that Ejercito allocated her pork barrel to at least two non-governmental organizations linked to Janet Lim-Napoles during her Senate term.
In June 2014, she was named as the personal physician of her son Jinggoy, who was one of the senators implicated and detained for their alleged involvement in the pork barrel scam.
On June 2, 2022, coinciding with her 91st birthday, she released her memoir entitled “Love, Mommyla: My Memories of 9 Decades,” a 104-pager published by her daughter Jackie. Percentage of the sales of the memoir would go to their medical missions.
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1931 births
Living people
Loi
Loi
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Filipino academics
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Ghislain Poirier, often known simply as Poirier, is a Canadian DJ/producer from Montreal who is signed to the Ninja Tune record label. He has, however, also worked with other labels such as Chocolate Industries, Rebondir, Shockout, Musique Large, Intr_version and 12k. His work mainly consists of original instrumental mixes and mixes featuring Montreal hip hop MCs including Omnikrom, Face-T and Séba. He also has collaborated with Beans, TTC, Lotek HiFi and Nik Myo. He is noted for popular remixes of tracks of rock and hip hop artists such as Les Georges Leningrad, Clipse, Editors, Bonde do Rolê, Kid Sister, Pierre Lapointe, DJ Champion and Lady Sovereign. Though he has worked in many different genres of electronic music, he is known for his eclectic taste in music and appreciation of tropical bass sounds.
Career
Early work
From 1995 until 2000, Poirier was involved in campus community radio at CISM-FM (Université de Montréal). During this time he had a radio show entitled "Branché: Monde". He began his career performing and recording under his full name with his debut album, Il N'y A Pas de Sud being released in 2001. It has been described as "an uncompromising minimal electronics record that fit part and parcel with the laptop zeitgeist". Along with Deadbeat, Tim Hecker and Mitchell Akiyama, Poirier was part of "what became known as the Montreal minimal techno movement". Sous le manguier features cover art by Poirier himself.
The middle few albums were more hip hop in genre. Conflits and Beats As Politics were all mostly instrumental, though Conflits features two songs with Poirier doing spoken word (he also was responsible for the cover art). Other hip hop vocalists who collaborated on these records are Québécois rappers Séba and Diverse. Poirier's fifth album, Breakupdown, was more a combination of hip hop and techno sounds, described as "big synth sounds ripped from angrily forgotten techno, gooey basslines, and choice samples". Soon after the album's release, Porier was remixing Buck 65, Lady Sovereign, Pole, Bassnectar, Cadence Weapon, and others. He then founded Rebondir, his own imprint and released an EP.
As well, during this time, Poirier was also involved in collaborations with contemporary choreographer and dancer Dana Michel.
Ninja Tune
Poirier's first Ninja Tune full-length release was 2007's No Ground Under. Though rappers Omnikrom appear on the album, the record deviated from his previous work, focusing instead on dancehall, including vocalists Face-T and MC Zulu. In 2008, he was invited to perform at the New Yorker Festival.
In 2009 Poirier began the release of three EPs to be completed over the course of a full year, the first of which was Soca Sound System (April 2009) which included guest appearances by MC Zulu as well as soca performer Mr. Slaughter. Where Soca Sound System experimented with soca, the second Run The Riddim experimented with dancehall and the third, Low Ceiling, which came out in early 2010, focused on dance music with no vocals, "said to be inspired in part by his early years in the underground rave scene" Run The Riddim was the first release under the shortened name Poirier. All of the three EPs featured cover art by Montreal-based photographer Guillaume Simoneau.
Also in 2009, he was featured on a Truckback Records remix project for dancehall artist Erup's hit "Click My Finger" alongside Grahmzilla of Thunderheist, Nick Catchdubs and Lunice.
In January 2010, Poirier's music was used alongside Flying Lotus and Roberto Carlos Lange, among others, as the soundtrack to New York artist Brian Alfred's It’s Already the End of the World, "a solo exhibition of new work by Brooklyn artist Brian Alfred...featur[ing] 14 new paintings, collage works, and a major new video work". In March, Poirier released Running High, an album that brought together tracks from the previous three EPs as well as additional new material and remixes by "Wildlife!, Mungo, Uproot, Marflix, Maga Bo, Stereotyp, and Poirier himself".
Bounce Le Gros and other performances
Poirier is well known in Montreal for a series of successful club nights entitled Bounce Le Gros (roughly translated as "Bounce Dude"). At these events Poirier experimented with "grime, crunk, hip-hop, ragga, reggae, booty house, Baltimore breaks...original urban music from all over the world". Bounce Le Gros began in 2005 at small local club Zoobizarre and then moved to larger venues as Poirier experienced increasing success. The last edition was held in the summer of 2007. During the same summer, Poirier, alongside Megasoid and DJ Khiasma held a large illegal outdoor party on St-Jean Baptiste Day, 24 June. The party was so well received that it recurred in August 2008 and again, alongside Pop Montreal on St-Jean Baptiste in 2009. As Megasoid's Speakerbruiser Rob describes: "Bridge Burner has really become an amazing event, mostly because it has received support from a good diverse group of people...with great promoters getting on deck, Pop Montreal, RedBull, Mike D, Khiasma, Ghislain and a lot of heavyweight local volunteers. [2009] was the biggest, and most visible, and most successful, but truthfully, the first one will always hold the space in my heart." In October 2009, Poirier introduced a new event called Karnival. Paul Devro (Mad Decent), Dub Boy (Ruffneck Diskotek, Bristol) and Face-T were featured. The second edition was held in February 2010 and included performances by Bonjay, Ghostbeard, Boogat and Face-T as performers and was filmed for a video for the new single "Arena" by Crookers featuring Poirier and Face-T.
Discography
Albums
2001 Il n'y a pas de sud
2002 Sous le manguier
2003 Conflits
2003 Beats As Politics
2005 Breakupdown
2007 No Ground Under
2010 Running High
2016 Migration
EPs
2006 Chocolate Swim
2006 Rebondir
2007 La Ronde
2009 Soca Sound System
2009 Run the Riddim
2010 Low Ceiling
2010 Las Americas
Singles
2004 Tribute To Tiger feat. Wayne Lonesome
2004 Be Strong feat. Daddy Screw
2004 Cold as Hell feat. Beans
2006 Mic Diplomat feat. DJ Collage
2006 Dem Nah Like Me feat. Mr Lee G
2007 Blazin''' feat. Face-T + Running High
2008 No More Blood feat. Face-T
2008 Go Ballistic feat. MC Zulu
Remixes
2004 Diverse – Big Game (Poirier rmx)
2005 Lady Sovereign – Fiddle with the Volume (Poirier rmx)
2005 Les Georges Leningrad – Supa Doopa (Poirier rmx)
2005 Pulseprogramming – Off To Do Showery Snapshots (Poirier rmx)
2006 Cadence Weapon – Sharks (Poirier rmx)
2006 Champion – No Heaven (Poirier rmx)
2006 Millimetrik – Contempler l’auto-destruction (Poirier rmx)
2006 The Editors – Munich (Poirier rmx)
2007 Bassnectar – Bomb Tha Blocks feat. MC Persia (Poirier rmx)
2007 Buck 65 – Way Back When (Poirier rmx)
2007 Pierre Lapointe – Deux par deux rassemblés (Poirier rmx)
2007 Pole – Winkelstreben (Poirier rmx)
2007 TTC – Téléphone (Poirier rmx)
2007 Thunderheist – Bubblegum (Poirier rmx)
2007 We Are Wolves – Fight & Kiss (Poirier rmx)
2008 An-Ten-Nae – Citoyen du Monde (Poirier w/ Face-T rmx)
2008 Boogat – Le Jour où rien n’a changé (Poirier rmx)
2008 DJ C – Darling feat. Zulu (Poirier rmx)
2008 Yoav – Club Thing (Poirier rmx)
2009 Bassnectar – Art of Revolution (Poirier rmx)
2009 Fauna – Gauchito Gil (Poirier rmx)
2009 Fedaden - Verdad (Poirier rmx)
2010 Gotan Project – La Gloria (Poirier rmx)
2010 Mr. Fogg – Keep Your Teeth Sharp'' (Poirier rmx)
References
External links
– official site
Poirier at Ninjatune
Canadian hip hop DJs
Remixers
Living people
Ninja Tune artists
Musicians from Montreal
1976 births
Canadian hip hop record producers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislain%20Poirier |
Matthew Gregory Kuchar (born June 21, 1978) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and formerly the Nationwide Tour. He has won nine times on the PGA Tour. Kuchar briefly enjoyed success in the early 2000s before suffering a slump where he struggled to maintain his playing status on the PGA Tour. He rejuvenated himself and built a new, one-plane swing from 2008 onward leading to improved results. Kuchar was the PGA Tour's leading money winner in 2010.
Kuchar won The Players Championship in 2012, the flagship event of the PGA Tour, his biggest tournament victory to date. As a result, he moved to a career high number five in the world rankings and has spent over 40 weeks ranked inside its top-10. In February 2013, Kuchar won his first World Golf Championship event, defeating Hunter Mahan in the final of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Kuchar won the first Olympic bronze medal awarded for golf since the 1904 Summer Olympics. Kuchar ended the 2021-22 season as the highest-earning PGA Tour player without a major championship win, with career earnings of over $54 million. The closest he has come was his second-place finish in the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club.
Early years
Kuchar was born in Winter Park, Florida, to Peter, a life insurance salesman and college tennis pro, and Meg Kuchar, with one sibling, Rebecca. He went on to graduate from Seminole High School in Sanford in 1996. Later he attended Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where he was a two-time first-team All-American on the Yellow Jackets' golf team. After narrowly losing in the semi-finals of the 1996 U.S. Amateur championship to Tiger Woods, Kuchar won the title in 1997. He received the Haskins Award in 1998 as the nation's top collegiate golfer, and was the low amateur at both The Masters and U.S. Open. He turned pro in 2000 after earning his bachelor's degree in management. One of Kuchar's teammates at Georgia Tech was future PGA Tour professional Bryce Molder.
Professional career
Early career
Kuchar turned professional in November 2000, after working briefly for a financial services firm. He missed the sign-up deadline for the 2000 qualifying school. In 2001 he was given sponsors' exemptions to some PGA Tour tournaments, and earned enough money to be fully exempt for the 2002 season.
Kuchar's first win on the PGA Tour came at the Honda Classic in 2002. A tough year in 2005 saw him win under $403,000, 159th on the money list, which caused a loss of his tour card. He failed to regain it at qualifying school and played on the Nationwide Tour in 2006. Kuchar won its Henrico County Open and finished tenth on the Nationwide Tour money list to earn back his PGA Tour card for 2007. He retained his card for the next two seasons by finishing 115th on the money list in 2007 and 70th in 2008.
2009
Seven years after his first PGA Tour win, Kuchar won for a second time during the Fall Series in 2009 at the Turning Stone Resort Championship. He prevailed in a playoff over Vaughn Taylor that concluded on Monday due to darkness on Sunday evening.
2010
Kuchar made the Ryder Cup team in 2010, taking the eighth and last merit position on the 12-man U.S. squad on August 15. At the time, Kuchar led the PGA Tour in top-10 finishes for the year, but had not won a tournament in 2010. The winless streak ended two weeks later at The Barclays on August 29, which was played at the Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey; Kuchar defeated Martin Laird on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff. Kuchar won the Vardon Trophy and Byron Nelson Award in 2010 for lowest scoring average and the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Award for leading the money list.
2011
Kuchar started off 2011 well with three consecutive top-10 finishes in the first three weeks of the season. He finished T6 at the opening PGA Tour event, the Hyundai Tournament of Champions on Maui. The following week at the Sony Open in Hawaii, he played his way to a T5 finish and then at the Bob Hope Classic achieved a T7 finish.
In February, Kuchar reached the semi-finals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, where he suffered a 6&5 defeat by eventual champion Luke Donald. In the 3rd place playoff match, he defeated fellow American Bubba Watson, 2&1. Previously during the week Kuchar had beaten Anders Hansen on the 22nd hole in round one, Bo Van Pelt in round two, Rickie Fowler in round three and Yang Yong-eun at the quarter-final stage.
Kuchar finished tied for second at the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in June 2011 behind Steve Stricker. This was his eighth top-10 finish of the season and took him to his highest ranking to date of world number six. Kuchar finished second at The Barclays, two strokes behind the winner, Dustin Johnson. The tournament was shortened to 54 holes due to Hurricane Irene. This finish moved him to second in the FedEx Cup standings. Kuchar and Gary Woodland combined to win the Omega Mission Hills World Cup in November.
2012
Kuchar had his best performance in a major championship at The Masters when he finished in a tie for third. Kuchar was tied for the lead on the back nine on Sunday, but bogeyed the par three 16th and finished two strokes out of the playoff between Bubba Watson and Louis Oosthuizen.
Kuchar won the biggest tournament of his career in May when he won The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He shot a final round of 70 (−2) to win by two strokes over runners-up Rickie Fowler, Martin Laird, Ben Curtis, and Zach Johnson. He entered the final round in the last group, one stroke behind Kevin Na. After bogeying the first hole, he played a near-perfect round, except for a three-putt bogey on the 17th, to hold off the challengers. The win elevated Kuchar to a career high of number five in the world rankings.
2013
He won the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in February, defeating Hunter Mahan 2&1 in the final. During the final, Kuchar built up an early lead and was 4 up at the turn. Mahan mounted a comeback on the back nine, winning four of the next seven holes to trail by just one with two to play. Mahan's wild drive on the par-4 17th put him in trouble, and after Kuchar knocked his approach close, Mahan failed to chip in for par and conceded the hole, which ended the match and gave Kuchar his first World Golf Championship title. Throughout the week, Kuchar was never more than one down in any of his matches and only trailed three times on his way to the win. He defeated Hiroyuki Fujita, Sergio García, Nicolas Colsaerts, Robert Garrigus and Jason Day en route to the final. Kuchar moved back into the world's top 10 after this victory. His second win in 2013 came at the Memorial Tournament in early June.
Late in the year Kuchar played in two events in Australia. He finished runner-up to Adam Scott at the Australian Masters and finished fourth in the 2013 World Cup of Golf.
2014
In the final round of the Valero Texas Open in March, Kuchar held a share of the lead with nine holes to play but bogeyed the 10th and 11th holes and finished T-4. The next week, he had a four-stroke lead going into the final round at the Shell Houston Open but lost a playoff to Matt Jones' 42-yard chip-in on the first extra hole. Kuchar was again in contention the following week at the Masters Tournament, where he was tied for the lead on Sunday before four-putting the fourth hole and finishing T-5.
A week later, Kuchar won for the seventh time on the PGA Tour with a one stroke victory at the RBC Heritage. He shot a final-round 64, which included a chip-in birdie from a greenside bunker on the 18th hole to come from four shots behind and claim victory.
2015
At the Sony Open in Hawaii in January, Kuchar opened with 65–63 to lead after two rounds. He stalled on the weekend, however, to finish tied for third. In the final round Kuchar failed to make a birdie, snapping his streak of 255 rounds on the PGA Tour with at least one birdie. The following week Kuchar tied for second, one stroke behind the winner, at the Humana Challenge.
In April, Kuchar contended at the RBC Heritage and finished in fifth place. His best performance in the season's majors came in August at the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin where he finished tied for seventh. Kuchar played in only two official events outside of the PGA Tour in 2015 but did very well in both. He finished one stroke back to fellow American Rickie Fowler at the Scottish Open and won the Fiji International, an official event on the PGA Tour of Australasia. Kuchar had seven top-tens for the season but did not win a PGA Tour tournament for the first time in four years. He finished well down the money list after finishing in the top 10 in earnings in four of the preceding five seasons.
2016
Kuchar had 9 top-10s heading into the 2016 Summer Olympics, and continued his good run with a bronze medal after a final round 63.
2017
In the 2017 season, Kuchar competed in 26 events on the PGA Tour, making the cut in 22, including nine top-10 finishes. He finished tied for fourth at the Masters, his fourth top-10 finish in that event. At the Open Championship, Kuchar shared the first-round lead with Brooks Koepka and Jordan Spieth and finished rounds two and three in solo second behind Spieth. After Spieth's near meltdown on the 13th hole of the final round, Kuchar held a one-stroke lead with five holes to play. However, Spieth played the last five holes in five-under-par to claim the championship by three strokes over Kuchar, who finished three strokes ahead of third-place finisher Li Haotong. Kuchar finished the year 14th in the FedEx Cup standings and represented the United States in the President's Cup, posting a 2–1 record in the United States' win.
2018
In the 2017–18 PGA Tour season, Kuchar had another winless campaign. He played in 24 events. He had four top-10 finishes and made 20 cuts. He won $1,720,097 for the year and finished 76th in the season long FedEx Cup.
U.S. Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk named Kuchar as a non-playing vice-captain for the U.S. team in the 2018 Ryder Cup. The U.S. team lost to the European team 17 1/2 to 10 1/2 at Le Golf National outside of Paris, France.
On November 11, 2018, Kuchar won the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Cancun, Mexico. This event was part of the 2018–19 PGA Tour season. Kuchar took home a winner's check of $1.296 million and paid his caddie, David Giral Ortiz, the amount they agreed to for a top ten finish ($4,000) and an additional $1,000 on top of that to equal $5,000, which is a 0.38 percent tip of the $1.296 million, causing a social media controversy. This amount is below the average payout (10 percent) for a full-time caddie whose player wins. Because Kuchar's regular caddie was not available, Ortiz was hired and agreed to the terms presented. Ortiz has stated to Golf.com that he never expected the full 10 percent payout and that "Matt is a good person and a great player. He treated me very well. I am only disappointed by how it all finished." When asked about giving his caddie such a low tip, Kuchar defended his decision by stating, "For a guy who makes 200 a day, a 5000 dollar week is a really big week". On February 15, 2019, Kuchar apologized and agreed to pay Ortiz the requested $50,000 and also donate an unspecified amount to local Cancun charities.
At the end of the 2018–19 PGA Tour regular season, Rory McIlroy jokingly roasted Matt Kuchar over the caddie pay controversy. At the initial award ceremony of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10, which awarded a $10 million bonus pool to the top 10 players in the final regular season FedEx Cup standings, after Kuchar playfully joked about McIlroy's narrow 2-point margin for an extra $300,000, McIlroy highlighted that "And we all know what money means to him."
2019
On January 13, 2019, Kuchar won the Sony Open in Hawaii, his second win in three starts. On March 31, 2019, Kuchar reached the championship round of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play for the second time in his career, having previously done so in 2013 when he went on to win the title. He lost to Kevin Kisner, 3 & 2, in the final. In December 2019, Kuchar played on the U.S. team at the 2019 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia. The U.S. team won 16–14. Kuchar went 0–1–3, but battled back from 3 down against Louis Oosthuizen to halve the match in Sunday singles. Kuchar made the Cup-clinching putt on 17.
2020
On January 19, 2020, Kuchar won the Singapore Open on the Japan Golf Tour. The tournament was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour.
Personal life
Kuchar is married to Sybi Parker, who was a tennis player at Georgia Tech, and they live on St. Simons Island in Georgia. Their two sons are Cameron Cole and Carson Wright. Kuchar is a Christian.
Amateur wins
1997 Terra Cotta Invitational, U.S. Amateur
Professional wins (18)
PGA Tour wins (9)
PGA Tour playoff record (2–1)
Japan Golf Tour wins (1)
1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)
1Co-sanctioned by the OneAsia Tour
Nationwide Tour wins (1)
Nationwide Tour playoff record (1–0)
Other wins (6)
Results in major championships
Results not in chronological order in 2020.
LA = Low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Summary
Most consecutive cuts made – 14 (2013 Masters – 2016 Open Championship)
Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2017 Open Championship – 2017 PGA)
The Players Championship
Wins (1)
Results timeline
CUT = missed the halfway cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
C = Canceled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic
World Golf Championships
Wins (1)
Results timeline
Results not in chronological order before 2015.
1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022. The Champions was discontinued from 2023.
PGA Tour career summary
* As of April 17, 2022
U.S. national team appearances
Amateur
Eisenhower Trophy: 1998
Palmer Cup: 1998 (tie), 1999 (winners)
Walker Cup: 1999
Professional
Ryder Cup: 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 (winners)
Presidents Cup: 2011 (winners), 2013 (winners), 2015 (winners), 2017 (winners), 2019 (winners)
World Cup: 2011 (winners), 2013, 2018
See also
2006 Nationwide Tour graduates
References
External links
American male golfers
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Ryder Cup competitors for the United States
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Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in golf
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1978 births
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Kuchar |
Holcomb was a village located on New York State Route 20C (now New York State Route 444) in the town of East Bloomfield in Ontario County, New York. It was incorporated in 1917. In 1990, the village merged with the neighboring village of East Bloomfield to create a single village named Bloomfield. Many local businesses still reference the Holcomb name, such as the "East Bloomfield-Holcomb Volunteer Fire Department" and the "Holcomb Snooker House and Rodeo Bar."
References
External links
Village of Bloomfield official website
Former villages in New York (state)
Populated places in Ontario County, New York
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Tadd Fujikawa (born January 8, 1991) is an American professional golfer. Playing as an amateur at age 15, he qualified for the 2006 U.S. Open, the youngest golfer ever to do so. In 2007, at age 16 and 4 days, he made the cut in a PGA Tour event at the Sony Open in Hawaii, the second youngest player to ever achieve that feat. As of April 2013, he is the third youngest. In September 2018, Fujikawa came out as gay, becoming the first male professional golfer to do so.
Early life
Fujikawa was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was born three months premature and doctors gave him a 50-50 chance of survival. He weighed 1 pound, 15 ounces and was so small that he could fit in his grandfather's palm. His parents worried that he would grow up with a mental disability. Partially as a result of his premature birth, at age 18 Fujikawa stood tall. As of March 2007 he stated his weight was 150 pounds.
Amateur career
In 2006 aged 15, Fujikawa qualified for the U.S. Open at Winged Foot by winning the Hawaii sectional qualifier(67-69-136), becoming the youngest player in history to qualify for the tournament. At the U.S. Open, Fujikawa shot 81-77(158) and missed the cut by nine strokes.
Fujikawa made his second PGA Tour start (2006 U.S. Open was the first) at the 2007 Sony Open in Hawaii, having gained entry by shooting 67 in the Open Qualifier PGA Tour Exemption Category #17. In the second round of the Sony Open itself, Fujikawa became the youngest player in nearly 50 years to make a PGA Tour cut. A birdie on the 16th hole put him within the cut line, but it was his 15-foot eagle on the 18th hole that was his most memorable shot of the day. With that shot, Fujikawa secured a 4-under-par 66 and made the cut by three shots.
Fujikawa followed up his history-making cut by shooting a second straight 66 in the third round, a score which, on that day, was bettered only by tournament leader Charles Howell III. Fujikawa made a 51-foot birdie on the 11th hole, finishing the third round tied for eighth place, along with Chad Campell and Tom Pernice Jr.
Fujikawa shot 2-over-72 in Sunday's final round, which only included 2 birdies. He finished the tournament tied for 20th place at 5-under-275.
One month after his record-breaking showing at the Sony Open in Hawaii, Fujikawa won the Hawaii Pearl Open, Hawaii's most lucrative local golf tournament, held annually since 1979. Fujikawa was the first amateur since 1992 to win the tournament.
Professional career
2007
On July 12, 2007, Fujikawa announced that he would be turning pro. He made his debut at the Reno-Tahoe Open where he missed the cut.
After missing the cut in each of his first three events as a professional, Fujikawa recorded a hole in one on the 17th hole in the first round of this Nationwide Tour event. He went on to shoot 70 and 71 in the first two rounds and missed the cut again, this time by 3 strokes.
In September 2007, he hit an albatross at the Omega European Masters in Switzerland on the European Tour. It was not enough to make the cut though. He also missed the cut at the Children's Miracle Network Classic which was the last official 2007 PGA Tour event.
2008
On April 20, 2008, Fujikawa made his first cut as a professional and earned his first professional victory by winning the 50th annual Mid-Pacific Open in Hawaii. The Mid-Pacific Open is tournament run by the Mid-Pacific Country Club in Hawaii, with a mixed field of amateurs and professionals, mostly from Hawaii. Fujikawa's final score for the tournament was ten under-par 278. The second-place finisher was former PGA Tour tournament winner, 52-year-old David Ishii. At age 17, Fujikawa became the youngest winner in tournament history. The tournament is not affiliated with any organized golf tour and is played mostly by Hawaiian amateurs and professionals, both adults and juniors. Punahou High School seniors Stephanie Kono and Anna Jang also made history at the tournament as the first females to play and Kono was the first female to make a cut. Kono finished 33rd.
2009
In January 2009, Fujikawa Monday qualified for the Sony Open in Hawaii. He made the cut for the second time in three years, carding 71–69 to make the cut by one shot in blustery conditions. In the third round, he shot an 8-under 62, tying the course record, and moving him to within two shots of the leader. In the fourth round, he shot 73 and finished in a tie for 32nd place. On April 19, 2009, Fujikawa successfully defended his title and earned his second professional win at the 51st annual Mid-Pacific Open. Fujikawa's final score was twelve under par 276. Fujikawa won by nine shots over former PGA Tour tournament winner, David Ishii. In the first week of June, Fujikawa won another local event in Hawaii, the two-round Maui Open. In October, he went to PGA Tour Qualifying School in an attempt to earn his PGA Tour card for 2010. He failed to advance beyond the first stage of the three-stage process, missing the necessary score by six shots.
2010
In January 2010, Fujikawa missed the cut by six strokes in the Sony Open on the PGA Tour. Shortly after he joined the eGolf Professional Tour, formerly known as the Tarheel Tour, a developmental golf tour based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Fujikawa played in four events in February and March, making the cut in all four, before withdrawing from an event in April, citing a back injury. Two days later he said he felt fine saying, "I just slept kinda funny I guess." He accepted an invitation to play in The Crowns on the Japan Golf Tour two weeks later. At The Crowns, he missed the cut by nine strokes. In December, he won the Hawaii State Open.
2016
Fujikawa qualified for PGA Tour Canada in 2016.
2017
Fujikawa won the Hawaii State Open for a second time.
Education and personal life
Fujikawa graduated from Moanalua High School in Honolulu, Hawaii in June 2009. Earlier that year, his father Derrick had pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking; in August he was sentenced to ten years in prison with eligibility for parole after one year.
On September 12, 2018, Fujikawa came out as gay during a post on Instagram, becoming the first male professional golfer to publicly come out as gay.
Professional wins (1)
eGolf Professional Tour wins (1)
Results in major championships
CUT = missed the half-way cut
Note: Fujikawa only played in the U.S. Open.
Youngest ever to make the cut in a PGA Tour event
Sources.
References
External links
Tadd Fujikawa profile on Yahoo! Sports
Results and stats on eGolf Professional Tour official site
Tadd Fujikawa: Hawaii's Teen Golf Sensation
U.S. Open Interview with Tadd Fujikawa
American male golfers
Golfers from Honolulu
LGBT golfers
Gay sportsmen
LGBT people from Hawaii
American gay men
American LGBT sportspeople
American LGBT people of Asian descent
American sportspeople of Japanese descent
1991 births
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadd%20Fujikawa |
Too Gangsta for Radio is a compilation album by Death Row Records, released on September 26, 2000. Production was handled by Cold 187um, Break Bread Productions, Kenny McCloud, Myrion, Quincy Jones III, VMF, Ant Banks, Big Hollis, Blaqthoven, Daz Dillinger, Gary "Sugarfoot" Greenberg, Kurt "Kobane" Couthon, LJ and P. Killer Trackz, with Suge Knight serving as executive producer. It features contributions from the late 2Pac, Crooked I, Dresta, Swoop G, Tha Realest, Above The Law, CJ Mac, G.P., Juice, K-9, Keitarock, Lil' C-Style, Mac Shawn, Nuttz, The Relativez, Twist and Young Hoggs, as well as Ja Rule, Scarface, The Lox and Treach. Most of the songs are diss songs projected at former Death Row artists, including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg and Daz Dillinger among others. Although the album sold poorly, it peaked at #171 on the Billboard 200, #44 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #15 on the Independent Albums charts in the United States.
Track listing
Sample credits
Track 2 contains an interpolation of "Friends" written by Jalil Hutchins and Lawrence Smith
Track 10 contains an interpolation of "Human Nature" written by John Bettis and Steven Porcaro
Personnel
Brian Gardner – mastering
Larry Hawley – photography
Charts
References
External links
2000 compilation albums
Albums produced by Ant Banks
Albums produced by Big Hollis
Albums produced by Cold 187um
Gangsta rap compilation albums
Albums produced by Daz Dillinger
Albums produced by Quincy Jones III
Death Row Records compilation albums
West Coast hip hop compilation albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too%20Gangsta%20for%20Radio |
Cappadocia is a historical region of Asia Minor, in modern Turkey.
Cappadocia can also refer to:
Gregory of Cappadocia, installed as Patriarch of Alexandria against Saint Athanasius
Cappadocia (satrapy), a province of the Achaemenid Empire, covering the region
Cappadocia (Roman province), a province of the Roman Empire, covering the region
Cappadocia (theme), a Byzantine province
Cappadocia, Abruzzo, a comune in Italy
Cappadocia (TV series), a Mexican television series
See also
Cappadocian (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Belle Bennett (born Ara Belle Bennett; April 22, 1891 – November 4, 1932) was a stage and screen actress who started her career as a child as a circus performer. She later performed in theater and films.
Early life and career
Bennett was born in Coon Rapids, Iowa, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bennett. Her father managed a tent-and-wagon show that toured the midwestern United States.
Motion pictures
Bennett was working as a film actress by 1913, and she was cast in numerous one-reel shorts by small east coast film companies. She appeared in minor movies like A Ticket to Red Horse Gulch (Mutual 1914). She starred in several full-length films by the Triangle Film Corporation, including The Lonely Woman (1918). She also appeared in United States Motion Picture Corporation's film Flesh and Spirit (1922).
She made the move to Hollywood before Samuel Goldwyn selected her from 73 actresses for the leading role in Stella Dallas (1925). While she was filming the movie, her son, 16-year-old William Howard Macy, died. Macy had posed as Bennett's brother for some time, owing to her fear that her employers might find out her true age. She was actually 34 rather than 24, which she had claimed to be. Because of the loss of her son, Bennett became close to her co-stars Lois Moran and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who were also 16 at the time.
After playing the mother role in Stella Dallas, Bennett was typecast for the remainder of her film career. She later appeared in Mother Machree (1928), The Battle of the Sexes (1928), The Iron Mask (1929), Courage (1930), Recaptured Love (1930) and The Big Shot (1931).
Marriages
Bennett was married three times. Her first husband was Howard Ralph Macy of La Crosse, Wisconsin. They had a son together, William Howard Macy. Bennett later had two more children.
Jack Oaker, a sailor at the submarine base in San Pedro, California, was married to her when she worked with the Triangle Film Corporation in 1918.
She later married film director Fred Windemere, and she remained with him until her death.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Bennett posthumously was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame during the initial ceremonies in 1960. She received a motion pictures star, located at 1511 Vine Street.
Partial filmography
Who Is the Savage? (1913)
Through the Sluice Gates (1913)
A Ticket to Red Horse Gulch (1914)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1914)
Mignon (1915)
Fires of Rebellion (1917)
The Devil Dodger (1917)
The Fuel of Life (1917)
The Charmer (1917)
Bond of Fear (1917)
Ashes of Hope (1917)
Because of a Woman (1917)
The Last Rebel (1918)
The Lonely Woman (1918)
The Atom (1918)
Reckoning Day (1918)
The Mayor of Filbert (1919)
Your Best Friend (1922)
Flesh and Spirit (1922)
Hello, 'Frisco (1924)
His Supreme Moment (1925)
Playing with Souls (1925)
If Marriage Fails (1925)
Stella Dallas (1925)
East Lynne (1925)
The Lily (1926)
Fourth Commandment (1926)
The Way of All Flesh (1927)
Wild Geese (1927)
The Devil's Skipper (1928)
The Power of Silence (1928)
Mother Machree (1928)
The Sporting Age (1928)
The Battle of the Sexes (1928)
The Iron Mask (1929)
Their Own Desire (1929)
My Lady's Past (1929)
Molly and Me (1929)
Courage (1930)
Recaptured Love (1930)
The Big Shot (1931)
References
Los Angeles Times, Found Unconscious, July 25, 1918, p. I10.
Los Angeles Times, Death Takes Star of Stella Dallas, November 5, 1932, p. A1.
Ankerich, Michael G. Broken Silence: Conversations With 23 Silent Film Stars. McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC. 1993. p. 215
Further reading
External links
Belle Bennett profile, virtual-history.com
1891 births
1932 deaths
American silent film actresses
American stage actresses
Western (genre) film actresses
Vaudeville performers
Deaths from cancer in California
20th-century American actresses
Burials at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
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Henry Bull Templar Strangways (14 November 1832 – 10 February 1920) was an Australian politician and Premier of South Australia.
Strangways was the eldest son of Henry Bull Strangways of Shapwick, Somerset, England. As a boy, he visited South Australia, where his uncle Thomas Bewes Strangways was a pioneer. Returning to England he entered the Middle Temple in November 1851 and was called to the bar in June 1856. He went to Adelaide early in the following year, was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly for Encounter Bay in January 1858, and became Attorney-General of South Australia in the First Reynolds Ministry from May 1860 to May 1861. The ministry was then reconstructed and Strangways became Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration until October 1861. He held the same position in the Waterhouse ministry from October 1861 to July 1863, in the Dutton ministry from March to September 1865, and in the third Ayers ministry from September to October 1865. Strangways represented West Torrens from 17 November 1862 to 28 July 1871.
On 3 November 1868 he became Premier and Attorney-General in a ministry that was reconstructed after an election on 12 May 1870, but was defeated 18 days later. In February 1871 he travelled to England on private business; while there he resigned his seat in the South Australian Parliament and settled instead at Shapwick Manor on the Strangways family's estate in Somerset, where he lived the life of a country gentleman until his death on 10 February 1920.
He retained an interest in South Australia all his life, but does not appear to have revisited it. In January 1861 he married Maria Cordelia Wigley, a sister of William Rodolph Wigley (c. 1826–1890), and was survived by a daughter.
References
External links
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1832 births
1920 deaths
People from Sedgemoor (district)
Premiers of South Australia
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Philip Hermogenes Calderon (Poitiers 3 May 1833 – 30 April 1898 London) was a British painter of French birth (mother) and Spanish (father) ancestry who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy in London.
Life
Calderon was born in Poitiers, France. His father, the Reverend Juan Calderón (* in Villafranca de los Caballeros; † in London) was a professor of Spanish literature and a former Roman Catholic priest who had converted to Anglicanism. Calderon planned to study engineering, but he became so interested in drawing technical figures and diagrams that he changed his mind and devoted his time to art. In 1850, he trained at Leigh's art school, London, then went to Paris to study under François-Édouard Picot in 1851. His first successful painting was called By the waters of Babylon (1852), which was followed by a much more popular one called Broken Vows (1856). From the beginning he was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, and some of his work showed the detail, deep colors, and realistic forms that characterize the style. The artist Henry Stacy Marks was his friend and brother-in-law, and Calderon exhibited his portrait at the Royal Academy in 1872.
Calderon became a leading member of the St John's Wood Clique, a group of artists interested in modern genre and historical subjects who were inspired, both artistically and socially by the Pre-Raphaelites. Historical, biblical, and literary themes were common in Calderon's later work. Many of his pieces show women wearing rich, silky clothing in gently colored landscapes. His Morning (1884) features a copper-haired maiden watching a sunrise.
His Juliet (1888) shows Shakespeare's Juliet seated on her balcony gazing at the stars. His later paintings adopt a more classical style, comparable to Edward Poynter, which resulted from his close relationship with Frederic Leighton, then-President of the Royal Academy. Calderon became Keeper of the Royal Academy in 1887, and from then on worked to support the teaching of anatomy based on nude models at the Royal Academy Schools. His 1891 painting
St Elizabeth of Hungary's great act of renunciation was secured by the Chantrey bequest for the national collection, and is now located in Tate Britain, but caused considerable controversy because of its perceived anti-Catholic message. It depicted the saint bending nude over an altar watched by monks.
Works
By the waters of Babylon (1852; Tate, London)
'Lord, Thy Will Be Done' (1855; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
Broken vows ('More hearts are breaking in this world of ours, than one would say — Longfellow) (1856; Tate, London)
French peasants finding their stolen child (1859; Private collection)
The massacre of St. Bartholomew (1863; Private collection)
Margaret (1876; Manchester Art Gallery)
Morning (1884)
Juliet (1888)
St. Elizabeth of Hungary's great act of renunciation (1891; Tate, London)
Gallery
Further reading
Wilfrid Meynell, Volume 2 The modern school of art, volume 2 (London: W. R. Howell & Co., c. 1887), pp. 212–20.
References
External links
P. H. Calderon online (ArtCyclopedia)
Biography and paintings (Art Renewal Center Museum)
Calderon's work analysis
Calderon biography
Biography and paintings (Artmagick)
s:Calderon, Philip Hermogenes (DNB01)
1833 births
1898 deaths
French emigrants to England
English people of Spanish descent
19th-century English painters
English male painters
Keepers of the Royal Academy
19th-century painters of historical subjects
French people of Spanish descent
Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery
Artists' Rifles soldiers
People from Poitiers
Royal Academicians
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State Route 317 (SR 317) is a state highway in Lincoln County, Nevada. It connects the ghost town of Elgin north to U.S. Route 93 (US 93) in the city of Caliente. Portions of the highway were heavily damaged by flooding in January 2005 and repairs were not yet complete as of January 2015.
History
State Route 55 was a state highway in the U.S. state of Nevada, running south from U.S. Route 93 in Caliente into Kershaw–Ryan State Park. It was defined by 1935 and survived until the 1976 renumbering. As a result of the renumbering, SR 317 was assigned to the segment of SR 55 from US 93 in Caliente to Kershaw Park Entrance Rd.
Major intersections
References
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Kinetic Engineering Limited is an Indian automotive manufacturer. The company was founded in the year 1972 by H. K. Firodia. Today it is an automotive component manufacturer which formerly sold two-wheelers under the brand names Kinetic Honda and later Kinetic Motors. It introduced the Kinetic Luna moped which sold well domestically and was exported extensively to Argentina, Brazil, Sri Lanka, and the United States.
Later Kinetic Engineering formed a joint venture with Honda Motor Company to introduce Kinetic Honda scooters, which had electric start and gearless transmissions. Kinetic and Honda parted ways in 1998 when the Firodias bought the majority stake of the joint venture from Honda. In 2008, Kinetic entered into a joint venture with Mahindra Automobiles, where Mahindra held an 80% stake. By this joint venture, Mahindra acquired the two-wheeler manufacturing facilities as well as the then selling brands of Kinetic.
After ceasing two-wheeler manufacturing, Kinetic Engineering produces and exports automotive components. Kinetic Motors resumed operations in January 2011 and has announced plans to produce electric vehicles.
In February 2014, Kinetic sold its stake in Mahindra Two-Wheelers to Samena Capital for 182 crore rupees.
In 2015 MV Agusta entered a partnership with Kinetic Group for its Indian debut.
See also
H. K. Firodia Awards
Notes
External links
Motorcycle manufacturers of India
Scooter manufacturers
Companies based in Pune
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1972
1972 establishments in Maharashtra
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is a mountain on the border of Saijō and Kumakōgen, in Ehime, Japan. This mountain is one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan. It is the highest mountain in Western Japan and the island of Shikoku.
Outline
Mount Ishizuchi is the highest mountain on the island of Shikoku and also the highest mountain west of Mount Haku. It is known as 'the roof of Shikoku' and the sharp, rocky summit resembles a huge .
Mount Ishizuchi is an important object of worship in this region and one of the major centers of Shugendō, a sect of mixture of Shinto and Buddhism. At the top of the mountain there is a small shrine called the Ishizuchi Shrine. This mountain is also known as one of . There are several sets of leading up to the summit and this is the route many pilgrims opt to take, the longest set being 68m. However, it is possible to hike all the way to the peak along a trail which includes stairs and ramps with handrails.
The climbing season opens every year on July 1, and women are forbidden from climbing the mountain on this day. Between mid-October and mid-November, people come from far and wide to view the autumn colours.
The area around Mount Ishizuchi is a major part of Ishizuchi Quasi-National Park.
Access
Sanchōjōju Station of Ishizuchi Ropeway
Ishizuchi Tsuchigoya Bus Stop of Iyotetsu Bus
Footnotes
References
Guide to the Ishizuchi Mountains (Saijo City)
the Geographical Survey Institute in Japan
Ishizuchi Quasi-National Park
‘Yama to Shinko: Ishizuchisan’
External links
Mountains of Ehime Prefecture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ishizuchi |
Tom Uglys Bridge are two road bridges, completed in 1929 and 1987, that carry the Princes Highway across the Georges River in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The bridges link the St George area at Blakehurst to the Sutherland Shire at Sylvania. Tom Uglys Bridge is one of six major road crossings of Georges River.
The 1929 Pratt truss bridge is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register and carries three lanes of northbound vehicular traffic on the Princes Highway. The 1987 concrete box girder bridge was built to the east of the older bridge and carries the three southbound lanes of the highway. Both bridges have shared bicycle and pedestrian pathways.
Tom Uglys Point ferries
Tenders were called to construct a punt for Tom Ugly's Point in 1864. A hand-operated punt service from Tom Ugly's Point to Horse Rock Point commenced. The ferry service was improved and expanded over the years. In 1882 a steam-driven ferry, guided by steel cables, was installed. It crossed the river in less than ten minutes. The punt was long, had a wide roadway, and was capable of carrying six horse-drawn vehicles. By 1898 a larger steam-driven ferry began operation. It was capable of carrying one hundred passengers and fifteen vehicles. A new punt capable of carrying 28 vehicles and making the crossing in three minutes was installed in 1922. By 1929 there were two cable ferries operating, and delays of several hours were experienced on weekends and public holidays.
Description
1929 bridge
Following a long campaign by local councils and motoring authorities, a New South Wales Government loan to Sutherland Shire Council was used to finance the replacement of one of the punt services across the Georges River. The Bill for the building of a bridge across the Georges River was introduced into New South Wales Parliament in 1923, and the foundation stone for the bridge was laid on 7 June 1924. The funds borrowed by Sutherland Shire Council were to be repaid by a bridge toll once it was opened. As use of the punt was free the bridge toll was controversial. The crossing was first opened for traffic on 26 April 1929, and officially opened by the Governor of New South Wales on 11 May 1929. It was known as the "George's River Bridge".
The 1929 bridge consists of nine steel truss spans forming a total length of ; six spans were and three spans were . The bridge was designed by Percy Allan who designed many bridges in New South Wales including the Pyrmont Bridge. When the bridge was opened it was the longest bridge in Australia.
The toll was collected on the Sylvania side of the bridge by toll collectors who stood on the road. On 31 May 1952 the tolls were removed when the Council had repaid the loan to the NSW Government.
In the late 1940s the lanes on the bridge were reconfigured to provide a third lane, and this allow the introduction of a tidal flow system (northbound in the morning and southbound in the evening), which continued until the second bridge was opened. Notwithstanding the creation of the third lane, by the mid 1960s congestion had grown to a significant level, especially on summer weekend afternoons. However it was not for another twenty years that funding was allocated by the New South Wales government for the design and construction of a duplicate bridge.
In 2006, the 1929 steel truss bridge was repainted. The original lead paint was removed using a blasting process and an air extraction system was employed to safely remove airborne particles, protecting the environment as well as the workers.
The 1987 bridge
The second bridge, which opened on 17 October 1987, also comprises nine spans (in order to place the piers in line with those of the first bridge) of three identical steel box girders, composite with a cast-in-place reinforced concrete deck; the major spans are in length with end spans of .
The new bridge was designed to carry four lanes of traffic. During repair work on the 1929 bridge, when it was temporarily closed to traffic, the 1987 bridge was configured both for one lane northbound and three lanes southbound.
Features of both bridges
Most duplicate bridges are close together (like the dual bridges at Ryde) and parallel, allowing the form of the road approaches to continue. However, at Tom Uglys Point, the two bridges are not parallel. They are less than apart at the northern end, but about apart at the southern end. This avoids replication of the pair of tight curves on the southern approach to the 1929 bridge on the southern exit from the second bridge.
On the southern side, between the two bridges, is a boat ramp, accessible from the northbound bridge approach. On the northern side a loop road allows drivers travelling south along the Princes Highway (A1) to avoid the bridge and return northwards along the highway.
Etymology
Tom Uglys Bridge took its name from the geographical feature at the northern end of the bridge, known as Tom Uglys Point. The point was known as Tom Uglys Point over 80 years prior to the construction of the bridge. At various times the bridge is incorrectly transcribed as Tom Ugly's Bridge.
There are several theories about the origin of the name of the point.
One is that it was named after a local resident Tom Huxley and the name was a mispronunciation by local Aboriginal people. Descendants of Thomas Huxley have concluded that he lived and owned land in the area but official records do not exist to verify this.
Another theory is that it was derived from the name of a local Aboriginal man, Tow-weiry, who lived in the area and died about 1846.
Another theory is that there was a local fisherman resident in the area by the name of Tom Illigley.
Yet another is that there was a one-legged man, possibly an army deserter or a boat operator, called either "Tom Woggleg" or "Wogul Leg Tom", either because of a mispronunciation of wooden leg, or from the local Aboriginal dialect word for "one".
The name was officially adopted to distinguish between the various subsequent bridges across Georges River, after the opening of the Captain Cook Bridge in 1965 and the Alfords Point Bridge in 1973.
Gallery
See also
List of bridges in Sydney
Princes Motorway (A1)
References
External links
Further reading
Bridges in Sydney
Bridges completed in 1929
Bridges completed in 1987
Pratt truss bridges
Box girder bridges
Road bridges in New South Wales
Concrete bridges in Australia
Steel bridges in Australia
History of Sydney
Former toll bridges in Australia
Truss bridges in Australia
Georges River Council
Bridges designed by Percy Allan
1929 establishments in Australia
1987 establishments in Australia
St George (Sydney)
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This is a list of the 63 Major League Baseball (MLB) players who have hit a home run in their final major league at bat (through the 2022 season).
Paul Gillespie and John Miller are the only players in MLB history to hit home runs in their first and last big league at bats. Mickey Cochrane and Ted Williams are the only players on this list that are in the Hall of Fame.
Bobby Kielty and David Ross both hit their final home runs in a World Series game. Kielty hit his in the series-clinching Game 4 of the 2007 World Series. Ross's occurred in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series and was an important contribution to ending the 108 year title drought of the Chicago Cubs.
Key
Players who hit home runs in their final at bat
See also
List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat
Sources
Baseball Almanac
Home run
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ACCP may refer to:
American College of Clinical Pharmacy, a pharmacy organization for the promotion of clinical pharmacy
American College of Correctional Physicians, a medical organization consisting of physicians and non-physician practitioners in the field of correctional (i.e. prisons and jails) medicine
American Council for Cultural Policy, a group of antiquities dealers, collectors and lawyers who promote broader cultural exchange by influencing policy in the US
In mathematics, ascending chain condition on principal ideals
American College of Clinical Pharmacology, a professional organization promoting leadership and education among Clinical Pharmacology healthcare professionals
The U.S. Army's Army Correspondence Course Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACCP |
William Albert Wirt (1874–1938) was a superintendent of schools in Gary, Indiana. Wirt developed the Gary Plan for the more efficient use of school facilities, a reform of the Progressive Movement that was widely adopted in over 200 cities by 1929.
Wirt was born in Markis, Indiana. He graduated from DePauw University and did postgraduate work at the University of Chicago. He taught high school mathematics in small towns in Indiana and was superintendent in Blufton Indiana, 1899-1907. His new methods at Blufton gained national attention and he then became superintendent in Gary.
Gary Plan
In 1907, Wirt became superintendent of schools in Gary and began implementing his educational values in the local schools. He initiated teacher hiring standards, designed school buildings, lengthened the school day, and organized the schools according to his ideals. The core of the schools' organization in Gary centered upon the platoon or work-study-play system and Americanizing the 63.4 percent of children with parents who were immigrants. The theory behind the Gary Plan was to accommodate children's shorter attention spans, and that long hours of quiet in the classroom were not tenable.
Above the primary grades, students were divided into two platoons—one platoon used the academic classrooms (which were deemphasized), while the second platoon was divided between the shops, nature studies, auditorium, gymnasium, and outdoor facilities split between girls and boys. Students spent only half of their school time in a conventional classroom. "Girls learned cooking, sewing, and bookkeeping while the boys learning metalwork, cabinetry, woodworking, painting, printing, shoemaking, and plumbing." In the Gary plan, all of the school equipment remained in use during the entire school day; Rather than opening up new schools for the overwhelming population of students, it was hoped that the "Gary Plan would save the city money by utilizing all rooms in existing schools by rotating children through classrooms, auditoriums, playgrounds, and gymnasiums."
The platoon system gained acceptance in Gary and received national attention during the early decades of the twentieth century. In 1914, the New York City hired Wirt as a part-time consultant to introduce the work-study-play system in the public schools. He became a consultant on a one-week-a-month basis at a fee of $10,000 a year. In the following three years, however, the Gary system encountered resistance from students, parents, and labor leaders concerned that the plan simply trained children to work in factories and the fact that Gary's Plan was in predominantly Jewish areas. In part because of backing from the Rockefeller family, the plan became heavily identified with the interest of big business. "In January 1916, the Board of Education released a report finding students attending Gary Plan schools performed worse than those in 'non-Garyuzed schools' ." This opposition was a major factor in the defeat of New York Mayor John Purroy Mitchel in his bid for reelection in 1917. Ronald Cohen said the Gary Plan was popular because it merged together Progressive commitments to:paedagogical and economic efficiency, growth and centralization of administration, an expanded curriculum, introduction of measurement and testing, greater public use of school facilities, a child-centered approach, and heightened concern about using the schools to properly socialize children.
Attack against the New Deal programs
In addition to these concerns, William Wirt launched an attack upon Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, charging that the New Deal threatened American individualism by attempting government planning of the economy. He wrote pamphlets, articles, and addresses on the economy, particularly regarding the manipulation of the dollar to solve the economic crisis. Finally, Wirt accused the New Deal of being infiltrated by communists designing the collapse of the American system. His ideas appeared in his pamphlet America Must Lose by a “Planned Economy,” the Stepping-Stone to a Regimented State (1934).
The pamphlet made him the target of a libel suit.
See also
Wirt High School, established in Gary, Indiana in 1939, named after Wirt
Alice Barrows
References
Further reading
Bourne, R.S. The Gary Schools (1916, reprinted 1970 by MIT Press).
Cohen, Ronald D., Children of the mill: schooling and society in Gary, Indiana, 1906–1960 (Routledge Falmer, 2002).
Cohen, Ronald D. and Mohl, Raymond A. The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling, (Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press Corporation, 1979), p. 13.
Cremin, Lawrence A. The transformation of the school: progressivism in American education, 1896–1957 (Knopf, 1961).
Lane, James B. City of the Century: A History of Gary, Indiana (Indiana University Press, 1978), p. 65.
Levine, Adeline, and Murray Levine, eds. The Gary Schools (MIT Press, 1970).
Ravitch, Diane, The Great School Wars: New York City, 1805-1973 (1974), pp. 197-207.
Thorburn, Malcolm. "John Dewey, William Wirt and the Gary schools plan: A centennial reappraisal." Journal of Educational Administration and History 49.2 (2017): 144-156. online
Weiner, M. F. (2010). Power, protest, and the public schools: Jewish and African-American struggles in New York City. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
External links
Gary Community School Corporation
IUN: William A. and Mildred H. Wirt Papers
City of Gary, Indiana Official Page
1874 births
1938 deaths
American educational theorists
School superintendents in Indiana
DePauw University alumni
people from Bluffton, Indiana
people from Gary, Indiana
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The Pacific Repertory Theatre is a non-profit California corporation, based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, that produces theatrical productions and events, including the annual Carmel Shakespeare Festival. It is one of eight major arts institutions in Monterey County, as designated by the Community Foundation of Monterey County, and is supported in part by grants from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Berkshire Foundation and the Monterey Peninsula Foundation.
History
The company was founded in 1982 as GroveMont Theatre by Carmel-by-the-Sea resident Stephen Moorer, who served as its artistic director from 1983 to 2008, and its Executive Director since 2009. The organizational name changed to Pacific Repertory Theatre in 1994 when the company acquired the historic site of the Golden Bough Playhouse in downtown Carmel, and announced plans to establish a professional theatre for the region. In 2001, in order to facilitate an appearance by Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the company entered into a seasonal agreement with Actors' Equity Association. It thereby became the only professional theatre in Monterey County.
The company gained wider attention for its series of Shakespeare plays entitled Royal Blood: The Rise and Fall of Kings. Over the course of several summers beginning in 2001, it presented all of Shakespeare's histories in chronological order.
PacRep presents a year-round season of 10–12 plays and musicals in three historic Carmel theatres: The 300-seat Golden Bough Playhouse, the 120-seat Circle Theatre, and the 540-seat outdoor Forest Theater. The company presents over 175 performances each year.
Forest Theater
In 1984, Pacific Repertory Theatre joined the Forest Theater community. At the request of the Carmel Cultural Commission, the company began producing shows at the historic outdoor facility, staging Robinson Jeffers' Medea, starring local actress Rosamond Goodrich Zanides. In 1990, the company reactivated the old Carmel Shake-speare Festival of the 1940s, playing in repertory at the Forest, Golden Bough, and Circle theatres, and adding the hyphen in "Shake-speare" to denote interest and support research into the growing Shakespeare Authorship Question. Since that time, the company has continued to stage productions at the Forest Theater every September and October, expanding into August in 2000, when it became the only professional theater company in residence at the Forest Theater. In 2011, following the closure of the 50-year-old Children's Experimental Theater, the City of Carmel awarded the year-round lease of the indoor Forest Theater to PacRep for its educational program, the School of Dramatic Arts.
In early 2022, the city of Carmel entered into a lease with Pacific Repertory Theatre for the nonprofit to manage the venue for the next five years, with a five-year renewal option. Under PacRep's management of the venue, the Forest Theater has presented shows by Puddles Pity Party, the Monterey Symphony, the Forest Theater Guild, Monterey Peninsula College Theatre, concert promoter Steve Vagnini, as well as other arts organizations and civic events.
Leadership change
In 2008, the PacRep Board of Directors named Kenneth Kelleher as Artistic Director, and founder Stephen Moorer was named Executive Director after serving as Artistic Director since 1982. Kelleher has been a theatre director in the San Francisco Bay area for many years, including at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and Shakespeare at Stinson. The 2009 season marked the first full season under Kelleher's artistic leadership. The season included a 14-member adaptation of Man of La Mancha, and the controversial David Hare play, The Blue Room, a frank look at sexual encounters based on La Ronde. Both productions were directed by Kelleher, who also assumed directorial duties for the season productions of Hamlet and As You Like It.
Outreach
Annual outreach programs include PacRep's School of Dramatic Arts (SoDA) and the Tix4Kids program that distributes subsidized theatre tickets to underserved youth. In addition, the company regularly participates in numerous community activities including regional parade, festivals and holiday events.
References
Notes
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Regional theatre in the United States
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Performing arts centers in California
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Tourist attractions in Monterey County, California
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Shakespeare authorship question | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Repertory%20Theatre |
The Three Sisters is a mountain immediately north of Fernie, British Columbia, northwest of the confluence of Fairy Creek with the Elk River. It should not be confused with the Alberta Rockies' peaks of the same name, located further north outside Canmore.
The summit on the middle sister is the highest point in the Fernie area, at . The Three Sisters is a popular subject for photographers.
Local legend states this peak came about because a young Indian chief could not choose between three girls for a wife, so he was turned into Mount Proctor. The maidens were so distraught, they prayed to be turned into mountains as well, and became the Three Sisters.
See also
Three Sisters Range
References
Elk Valley (British Columbia)
Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Canadian Rockies
Kootenay Land District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20Sisters%20%28Elk%20Valley%29 |
Robert Vivian Storer (1900–1958), Australian venereologist, sex educator, and writer, was born in Adelaide in 1900.
Educated at the University of Adelaide, he left Australia in 1921 and graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, as a general practitioner in 1923. He then undertook postgraduate study in venereal disease in Vienna for two years.
He returned to Adelaide in 1925 and set up a venereal disease practice there. Two years later he married and moved to Sydney. In the mid-1930s he practiced in London before settling permanently in Melbourne in 1939.
Storer was active in sex education and family planning circles in Australia in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and was a founding consultant of the Australian Family Planning Association when it was formed in 1928. He later left the Association following disagreements with them over the best means of educating people about sexuality and contraception. Storer wrote a number of sex education books in the 1920s and '30s, which were notable for their accepting attitude to human sexuality, including homosexuality and bisexuality. Storer's sexual encounters with men were the subject of tabloid newspaper stories and court actions.
Storer was deregistered by the General Medical Council in 1936 for "infamous professional conduct" (advertising his practice in the daily press). He returned to Australia and started a consulting pharmaceutical company in Melbourne, where he died in 1958.
References
1900 births
1958 deaths
Alumni of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Australian LGBT writers
20th-century Australian LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Vivian%20Storer |
Splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) is a type of cancer (specifically a lymphoma) made up of B-cells that replace the normal architecture of the white pulp of the spleen. The neoplastic cells are both small lymphocytes and larger, transformed lymphoblasts, and they invade the mantle zone of splenic follicles and erode the marginal zone, ultimately invading the red pulp of the spleen. Frequently, the bone marrow and splenic hilar lymph nodes are involved along with the peripheral blood. The neoplastic cells circulating in the peripheral blood are termed villous lymphocytes due to their characteristic appearance.
Cause
The cell of origin is postulated to be a post-germinal center B-cell with an unknown degree of differentiation. SMZL is a form of cancer known to be associated with Hepatitis C virus infection.
Molecular biology
Immunophenotype
The relevant markers that define the immunophenotype for SMZL are shown in the adjacent table.
The lack of CD5 expression is helpful in the discrimination between SMZL and chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma, and the lack of CD10 expression argues against follicular lymphoma. Mantle cell lymphoma is excluded due to the lack of CD5 and cyclin-D1 expression.
Genetics
Clonal rearrangements of the immunoglobulin genes (heavy and light chains) are frequently seen.
The deletion 7q21-32 is seen in 40% of SMZL patients, and translocations of the CDK6 gene located at 7q21 have also been reported.
Diagnosis
Enlargement of the spleen is a requirement for the diagnosis of SMZL and is seen in nearly all people affected by SMZL (often without lymphadenopathy). Aside from the uniform involvement of the spleen, the bone marrow is frequently positive in patients with SMZL displaying a nodular pattern with morphology similar to what is observed in the splenic hilar lymph nodes. While nodal and extranodal involvement are rare, hilar lymph nodes adjacent to the spleen, if involved, show an effaced architecture without preservation of the marginal zone seen in the spleen.
Circulating lymphoma cells are sometimes present in peripheral blood, and they occasionally show short villi at the poles of cells and plasmacytoid differentiation.
Autoimmune thrombocytopenia and anemia are sometimes seen in patients with SMZL. A monoclonal paraprotein is detected in a third of patients without hypergammaglobulinemia or hyperviscosity.
Reactive germinal centers in splenic white pulp are replaced by small neoplastic lymphocytes that efface the mantle zone and ultimately blend in with the marginal zone with occasional larger neoplastic cells that resemble blasts. The red pulp is always involved, with both nodules of larger neoplastic cells and sheets of the small neoplastic lymphocytes. Other features that may be seen include sinus invasion, epithelial histocytes, and plasmacytic differentiation of neoplastic cells.
Prognosis
Three-quarters of patients survive five or more years; more than half of patients with SMZL survive more than a decade after diagnosis.
Patients who have a hemoglobin level of less than 12 g/dL, a lactate dehydrogenase level higher than normal, and/or a blood serum albumin levels of less than 3.5 g/dL are likely to have more an aggressive disease course and a shorter survival. However, even high-risk patients have even odds of living for five years after diagnosis.
Some genetic mutations, such as mutations in NOTCH2, are also correlated with shorter survival.
Epidemiology
Less than 1% of all lymphomas are splenic marginal zone lymphomas and it is postulated that SMZL may represent a large fraction of unclassifiable CD5- chronic lymphocytic leukemias. The typical patient is over the age of 50, and gender preference has been described.
Synonyms
Under older classification systems, the following names were used:
See also
List of hematologic conditions
References
External links
Lymphoma
Hepatitis C virus-associated diseases | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splenic%20marginal%20zone%20lymphoma |
Carlos Manuel Chávez (born 25 December 1931) is a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon best known for his participation in the first-ever human heart transplant. He was also the first surgeon to perform a coronary artery bypass, during 1972 in Mississippi, United States, and Monterrey, Mexico.
Chavez was born in Cajamarca, Peru. He was the last of nine children born to Nazario Chávez Aliaga (1891–1979). He graduated from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru in the late 1950s and moved to the United States where he finished his training in Cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and completed his residency in 1961.
As a young doctor in 1962, Chavez went to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson for post-graduate training in cardiovascular medicine. "The thrust of research at that time was going toward transplantation," he said.
Heart Transplant
Transplant research began at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s labs in 1956, investigating operative techniques, organ storage and preservation, post-operative management and other problems.
Chavez visited leading medical centers around the country to learn from their trials and errors, and determine which animals could potentially be the best donors. A donated human heart would have been almost unthinkable at that time.
By the spring of 1963, the doctors began cautiously planning for a heart transplant. On January 22, 1964 a 68-year-old man was admitted to the hospital in a coma with no detectable blood pressure... thus his life expectancy was measured in hours.
A potential donor was a man with severe brain injury, his breathing supported by a ventilator. Doctors were reluctant, however, to remove from life support because his blood pressure was stable, so an alternate donor was found; a chimpanzee.
Chavez said his prior research showed chimps’ and baboons’ blood types most closely matched humans’. The procedure took place on January 23, and for a short time, the transplanted heart beat normally But by one hour after the cardiopulmonary bypass machine was removed, two hours following the removal of the clamps; effective blood pressure could no longer be maintained.
"The body went into acute rejection of the heart," Chavez said.
Only a few anti-rejection medicines were available to doctors at that time. The doctors surmised the heart may have been too small and that the patient too weak before surgery for the transplant to take place.
But Chavez and his mentor, James D. Hardy, M.D., had proven heart transplantation in humans could be done. Their effort was overshadowed in history by the more noteworthy first human-to-human heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard, M.D. in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1967. The American Medical Association, and its convention in New York City, presented Chavez with a Scientific Award silver medal for his exhibit on transplantation in 1965. He also received an Honor Achievement Award from the Angiology Research foundation in 1968.
Chavez forsook private practicing for a while, and devoted his energies to teaching. He had served as chief instructor of anatomy and professor of surgery in his native Lima, Peru.
Private life
After about 15 years of teaching in Jackson, he began to yearn for private practice. “The only opportunity left for me (at the University of Mississippi) was department chairman, held by Dr. Hardy. It didn’t seem as though he would be stepping down any time soon.”
At about the same time, a friend who was practicing in Lubbock, Texas, began calling Chavez to recruit him. The surgeon moved his family to Lubbock in 1978, worked at his practice, and also joined the faculty at Texas Tech University.
In 1982, Chavez moved again, this time to Brownsville, Texas and remains active in medicine, although has not performed any transplant work in recent years.
References
Peruvian surgeons
1931 births
Living people
People from Brownsville, Texas
Texas Tech University faculty
National University of San Marcos alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Manuel%20Ch%C3%A1vez |
The Black Angels are an American psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas. Formed in May 2004, they took their name from the Velvet Underground's "The Black Angel's Death Song." They have released six studio albums and one compilation album.
History
Early Years (2004–2005)
In 2005, the Black Angels were featured on a dual-disc compilation album of psychedelic music called Psychedelica Vol. 1 from Northern Star Records. This, along with the growing popularity of their MySpace page, gave the band a jump in popularity in the underground scene.
Passover and Directions to See a Ghost (2006–2009)
The group's debut LP, Passover, released in 2006, was generally well received in the underground independent rock community and was noted for its dark tones and lyrical content. A review of Passover described them as "Walking in the shadows cast by Spiritualized mastermind Jason Pierce," invoking "dirges" reminiscent of the 13th Floor Elevators. Passover included a quote in the liner notes from Edvard Munch: "Illness, insanity, and death are the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life." The band was featured on the soundtrack of the 2007 Kevin Bacon movie, Death Sentence, on the second episode of FOX's Fringe, and in the ninth episode of Californication.
They released their second album Directions to See a Ghost in 2008. Songs from Directions to See a Ghost were also featured in The History Channel's 2009 documentary, Manson. Their song "Young Men Dead" was featured on the March 17, 2010 episode of UFC Primetime, "St. Pierre vs. Hardy," on Spike. "Young Men Dead" was also included on the soundtrack for the 2011 snowboard movie The Art of Flight. "Young Men Dead" was used in the soundtrack for the 2020 video game The Last of Us: Part II.
Festival appearances by the band during this time included Lollapalooza 2007, SXSW 2006 & 2008, and All Tomorrow's Parties 2008, among others. Touring partners included the blues rock band The Black Keys, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Warlocks, Roky Erickson, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Queens of the Stone Age, The Raveonettes, Wolfmother, and The Horrors.
Between October 28 and November 2, 2008, the band performed as Roky Erickson's backing band on the West Coast. The band featured on Unkle's May 2010 release, Where Did the Night Fall, collaborating on a song called "Natural Selection."
Phosphene Dream, Indigo Meadow, and Death Song (2010–present)
On April 23–25, 2010, The Reverberation Appreciation Society and the Black Angels presented their third annual music-and-arts festival, Austin Psych Fest. Bands topping the 43-band bill included The Raveonettes, Pink Mountaintops, The Warlocks, The Gaslamp Killer, Warpaint, Night Beats, and Silver Apples.
The band's third album, Phosphene Dream, was released on September 14, 2010. The group played the ATP New York 2010 Music Festival in Monticello, New York, in September 2010. On Record Store Day 2011 a 12" LP titled Another Nice Pair was released, a limited edition red LP containing the band's first two EPs. Of the total records pressed, 100 were randomly inserted with a print signed by Alex Maas, Stephanie Bailey, Christian Bland, Kyle Hunt, and Nate Ryan.
The 4th annual Austin Psych Fest ran from April 29 – May 1, 2011, and was held at the Seaholm Powerplant (the last event to be held inside the building) and featured Roky Erickson, Spectrum, Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Atlas Sound, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Prefuse 73 and A Place To Bury Strangers topping a lineup of 55 bands.
The band's fourth album, Indigo Meadow, was released on April 2, 2013, and they embarked on a tour across the United States in May 2013 in support of the album.
In February 2014, the Black Angels recorded a version of "Soul Kitchen" for A Psych Tribute to the Doors, released by Cleopatra Records.
The 7th annual Austin Psych Fest was held during May 2–4, 2014 at Carson Creek Ranch next to the Colorado River and featured a rare Friday night performance from the legendary 1960s baroque pop band The Zombies, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre performing together on the same stage, the psychedelic folk band Quilt, the electronica duo Peaking Lights, Temples, Sleepy Sun, The War on Drugs, Loop, and an incendiary performance from Japanese drone rock band Acid Mothers Temple in which several instruments were lit on fire.
On July 22, 2014, the Black Angels released their EP, Clear Lake Forest.
In December 2014, the Black Angels released a split single, along with Sonic Jesus, called "Molly Moves My Generation."
The 8th annual Austin Psych Fest, now renamed Levitation, was held from May 8–10, 2015 at Carson Creek Ranch and featured an impressive lineup, including a rare 50th anniversary reunion of pioneering Texas psychedelic rock band The 13th Floor Elevators, The Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, The Jesus and Mary Chain's 30th anniversary performance of Psychocandy in its entirety, Spiritualized, Primal Scream, and Earth. Melody's Echo Chamber and Rose Windows were scheduled to perform, but Rose Windows announced their breakup prior to the event and Melody's Echo Chamber had travel issues and had to cancel.
The band released their fifth album, Death Song, in April 2017. They released their sixth album, Wilderness of Mirrors, on September 16, 2022.
Logo
Besides the band's name, the Velvet Underground are also referred to in the band's logo, which incorporates a high-contrast negative image of the Velvet Underground's vocalist, Nico.
Band members
Current
Stephanie Bailey – drums, percussion
Christian Bland – guitars, drone machine/organ
Alex Maas – vocals, bass, organ/drone machine
Jake Garcia – guitars
Ramiro Verdooren – keyboards, bass, guitars
Former
Kyle Hunt – keyboards, percussion, bass, guitars
Nate Ryan – bass, guitars, occasional drums
Jennifer Raines – drone machine, keyboards, percussion
Todd Keller – guitars
Side projects
The Viet Minh
Christian Bland & The Revelators
The UFO Club (Christian Bland, Lee Blackwell of Night Beats & others)
Sweet Tea
Mien (Alex Maas, John Mark Lapham of The Earlies, Rishi Dhir of Elephant Stone and Tom Furse (aka Tom Cowan) of The Horrors)
Discography
Albums
Compilations
Another Nice Pair (Light in the Attic Records, compilation of first two EPs, 2011)
EPs
The Black Angels (Light in the Attic Records, 2005)
Black Angel Exit (Light in the Attic Records, 2008)
Phosgene Nightmare (Blue Horizon, 2011)
Clear Lake Forest (Blue Horizon, 2014)
Singles
"The First Vietnamese War" b/w "Nine Years" (released August 21, 2006)
"Better Off Alone" b/w "Yesterday Always Knows" (released May 28, 2007)
"Doves" b/w "Drone in G# Major" (released May 20, 2008)
"Telephone" (released August 3, 2010)
"Watch Out Boy" b/w "I'd Rather Be Lonely" (released April 21, 2012)
"Don't Play With Guns" (released January 22, 2013)
"Molly Moves My Generation" (released December 1, 2014)
"Waterloo Waltz" (released January 20, 2015)
"Currency" (released February 10, 2017)
"El Jardín" (June 2022)
Notes
References
External links
Austin Psych Fest – official site
The Black Angels collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive (Download full concert audio recordings)
The Interface with The Black Angels – interview & performance podcast on Spinner.com
Live Vidéos from Intimepop.com
The Art of Flight
Indie rock musical groups from Texas
Musical groups from Austin, Texas
Neo-psychedelia groups
Musical groups established in 2004
2004 establishments in Texas
American psychedelic rock music groups
Partisan Records artists
Light in the Attic Records artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Angels%20%28band%29 |
The Posey and Webster Street Tubes are two parallel underwater tunnels connecting the cities of Oakland and Alameda, California, running beneath the Oakland Estuary. Both are immersed tubes, constructed by sinking precast concrete segments to a trench in the Estuary floor, then sealing them together to create a tunnel. The Posey Tube, completed in 1928, currently carries one-way (Oakland-bound) traffic under the Estuary, while the Webster Street Tube, completed in 1963, carries traffic from Oakland to Alameda.
The Posey Tube is the second-oldest underwater vehicular tunnel in the US, preceded only by the Holland Tunnel. It is the oldest immersed tube vehicular tunnel in the world.
History
The Oakland Estuary (then known as San Antonio Creek) was first crossed by the Webster Street swing bridge for narrow gauge rail and road traffic, completed in 1871. A second crossing was added in 1873 as the Alice Street swing bridge, built for Central Pacific (later Southern Pacific) rail traffic.
Both the Webster and Alice bridges were replaced by new swing bridges completed in 1900 and 1898, respectively. The Alice bridge was replaced by the Harrison Street bridge, one block west. The replacements were prompted by the Secretary of War, who stated the swing spans each needed to be at least to accommodate marine traffic in 1896. At first, it was planned to replace both bridges with a single bridge, but Southern Pacific officials were unable to come to an agreement with Alameda County supervisors, and in 1897 the railroad declared the Harrison Street bridge, replacing the Alice bridge, would be devoted solely to rail traffic, accommodating both narrow and standard-gauge trains. During the construction of the replacement Webster bridge, county supervisors initially rejected an offer to use the old Alice bridge as a detour for road traffic, but later accepted, avoiding a more distant route through the eastern part of Alameda, and teamster traffic moved to Alice in December. The old Webster bridge was demolished by January 1899.
By 1916, the War Department had declared the replacement Webster and Harrison bridges were a menace to deep-water navigation and an obstacle to continued development of Oakland Harbor in 1916. As an example, rammed the Webster Street bridge in January 1926, causing the swing section to fall into the Estuary and forcing road traffic to be rerouted. After the completion of the Posey Tube, the Webster Street bridge was sold to Sacramento County for in November 1928. The central swing span was subsequently floated by barge up the Delta and reassembled as part of the new American River Bridge, later known as the Jibboom Street Bridge.
Posey Tube
Preliminary plans for a tube had been explored as early as 1903, but detailed studies were not prepared until 1922. However, the entry of the United States into World War I delayed the plans for a new connection between Oakland and Alameda. A permit for the tube under the Oakland Estuary was granted in April 1923 and Alameda County voters approved a $5 million bond measure in May to build the tube.
After the passage of the bond issue, test borings were taken in the Estuary, and bids were received for the work on March 23, 1925; the construction contract was awarded to the California Bridge and Tunnel Company (CB&TC) with a low bid of , and excavation started from the Oakland end on June 15, 1925. The contract was let by Alameda County without state involvement.
The Posey Tube, completed and opened to traffic on October 27, 1928, was named after George Posey, who was the Alameda County Surveyor during the tunnel's planning and construction, and also chief engineer on the construction project. It is the first tunnel for road traffic built using the immersed tube technique. However, the two-lane tube was considered inadequate shortly after completion; in a 1952 letter from Frank Osborne, mayor of Alameda, to Lloyd Harmon, mayor of Coronado, which was considering a similar tunnel to San Diego, Osborne stated "from the time it was completed the tube was never adequate for the purpose for which it was built ... I am firmly of the belief that the building of any underwater tube of less than four lanes—two in each direction—would be a serious mistake on the part of any engineers who contemplate it." In 1952, the Posey Tube was handling 30,000 to 36,000 cars per day.
Design
The ventilation buildings that house the exhaust and fresh air fans are built in an art deco style; local architect Henry H. Meyers is credited with the design of both portals. The design of the ventilation system to handle toxic vehicular exhaust fumes was modeled on that of the Holland Tunnel's ventilation system, and Ole Singstad (who had designed the pioneering ventilation system of the Holland Tunnel) consulted. A pair of canaries were used during construction as living air monitors; although one canary died during construction, it was an accident caused by being penned up with a pet cat and not a toxic atmosphere. Up to that time, tunnels had been vented longitudinally, with fresh air blown in one end and out the other; the Holland (and Posey) Tube instead used fans to supply air into the tunnel through a space beneath the roadway, and exhausted air through a similar space above the traffic portion. Ducts were set in the curb and ceiling approximately every along the length of the Posey Tube, providing a system of "transverse" ventilation, bottom-to-top rather than end-to-end, ensuring that any fires would not spread through the length of the tunnel.
It was the first precast concrete tube to be constructed, assembled from 12 large segments. The concrete tube was protected from leaks through insulation and coverings applied to the outer surface. Each segment was cast at Hunters Point by CB&TC. After they were completed, the segments were sealed and the space beneath the roadway was filled with water as ballast while floating each segment into position; when ready, wet sand was added to the roadway to sink the segment into a dredged underwater trench. Once the joint to the prior segment had been sealed, the water ballast was pumped out and the process was repeated for the next segment.
Including the approaches at each end, the Posey Tube is long; the tunnel portion itself is long. Each segment is long and in diameter, and weighs approximately . The walls of the tube are thick. From Oakland, the approach extends from Sixth Street to Third Street along Harrison Street. The maximum grade within the Posey Tube is 4.59%.
Webster Street Tube
The Webster Street Tube was constructed west of and parallel to the Posey Tube to accommodate increased traffic between Oakland and Alameda and to address the deficiencies of the original design, a single tube with only two lanes. In 1941, "final negotiations" were being made for a second tube, and plans for a second tube at Webster Street had been advanced in 1948 as part of a Parallel Bridge scheme. The Parallel Bridge was one of the "Southern Crossing" designs which would have added another trans-Bay bridge south of the 1936 San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
Construction began on October 12, 1959. To prepare the Alameda site, a large Navy hangar was moved; at the time, it set a record for the largest building ever moved. The Webster Street Tube was completed and opened to one-way (into Alameda) traffic in 1963. Upon completion of the Webster Street Tube, the Posey Tube was closed temporarily and renovations were performed to convert it to one-way (into Oakland) traffic; during renovations, the Webster Street Tube handled bidirectional traffic.
Like the preceding Posey Tube, the Webster Street Tube was constructed using immersed precast concrete segments; this time the twelve Webster segments were constructed in a graving dock built on Alameda. Divers were used to ensure each segment landed in the surveyed location. Piles were driven to support each segment, but the piles were designed to collapse after an additional of ballast were added, to ensure the segments rested firmly on a bed of packed sand. Construction of the Webster Street Tube started from the Alameda end and progressed towards Oakland, with the precast segments set before additional cast-in-place segments were added at each end.
Each of the Webster segments were of comparable size and configuration to the earlier Posey Tube segments, measuring long and in diameter, with walls thick. However, the Webster segments were equipped with rectangular collars (W×H) at each end, and weighed more, approximately each. The roadway within the Webster Street Tube is wide, and the minimum vertical clearance is . Including approaches, the Webster Street Tube is long, of which are underwater.
A novel fluorescent continuous-line lighting system was designed for the Webster Street Tube. Fresh air is supplied through the lower lunette space beneath the roadway, and exhaust is drawn through the upper lunette space above the tube's false ceiling. Each portal building contains four blowers and four exhaust fans, and they are capable of providing nearly of airflow in total. Nearly the entire interior surface of the Webster Street Tube is tiled.
The Webster Street Tube project cost more than $20 million in total, including renovations to the older Posey Tube; the construction contract for Webster was alone.
In media
A scene from THX-1138, the first film directed by George Lucas, was shot in the Tube.
References
Further reading
Posey Tube and Webster Street Tube at AlamedaInfo.com by Gary Lenhart (includes detailed timeline and historical photographs)
Methods Used in the Construction of Twelve Pre-cast Concrete Segments for the Alameda County, California, Estuary Subway, in American Society of Civil Engineers, Proceedings, 53 (2) : 2675–2692 (December, 1927)
S. W. Gibbs,Construction Methods on Oakland Estuary Tube, in Engineering News Record, 100:100–105 (January 19, 1928)
External links
Building Big David Macauley A companion to PBS television series Building Big series PAGES 76–77 explain ventilation system for Holland Tunnel
Buildings and structures in Alameda, California
Art Deco architecture in California
Buildings and structures in Oakland, California
San Francisco Bay
Transportation buildings and structures in Alameda County, California
Transportation in Oakland, California
Tunnels in the San Francisco Bay Area
Tunnels completed in 1928
Tunnels completed in 1963
Road tunnels in California
Immersed tube tunnels in the United States
San Francisco Bay Trail
Oakland Designated Landmarks | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posey%20and%20Webster%20Street%20Tubes |
Sir John Blackler Colton, (23 September 1823 – 6 February 1902) was an Australian politician, Premier of South Australia and philanthropist. His middle name, Blackler, was used only rarely, as on the birth certificate of his first son.
Background and early career
Colton, a son of farmer William Colton (died 10 July 1849) and his wife Elizabeth Colton, née Blackler (died 1888), was born in Devon, England. He arrived in South Australia in December 1839 aboard Duchess of Northumberland with his parents and siblings, who settled at McLaren Vale and started a vineyard.
Colton, however, found work in Adelaide, and at the age of 19 began business for himself as a saddler. He was shrewd, honest and hard-working, and his small shop eventually developed into a large and prosperous wholesale ironmongery and saddlery business, John Colton and Company, which became Harrold, Colton & Company in 1889, then in 1911 Colton, Palmer and Preston Ltd., at the Topham Street corner of Currie Street, which firm survived as hardware merchants well into the latter half of the 20th century.
He gave £100 to start the work on the Pirie Street Wesleyan Church where he was an active member for over 50 years.
Political career
In 1859 Colton was elected a member of the Adelaide City Council, and on 17 November 1862 was returned to the South Australian House of Assembly for Noarlunga, at the head of the poll.
On 3 November 1868 he became commissioner of public works in the Strangways ministry, but when this cabinet was reconstructed in May 1870 he was omitted. He was Mayor of Adelaide 1874–5, and on 3 June 1875 joined the second Boucaut ministry as Treasurer of South Australia, but he resigned in March 1876. On 6 June he formed his first ministry as premier and commissioner of public works. His ministry lasted until 26 October 1877, when it resigned after a constitutional struggle with the upper house, which had not been consulted about the new parliamentary buildings. The government, however, had succeeded in passing a liberalized crown lands consolidation bill, and a forward policy of public works in connexion with railways and water supply had been carried out.
Colton might have been premier again in June 1881, but stood aside in favour of Bray. On 16 June 1884 he became premier and chief secretary in his second ministry, which in the following twelve months passed some very useful legislation, including a public health act, an agricultural crown land act, a pastoral land act, a vermin destruction act and a land and income tax act. The ministry was defeated on 16 June 1885. Seldom had a ministry done so much in so short a time, but Colton was prostrated by overwork and was compelled to live in retirement for some months. On his return to parliament he attempted to lead the opposition, but an attack of paralysis finished his political career and he resigned from parliament in January 1887.
Later years
Colton paid a visit to England and regained some of his health. Henceforth, he gave much of his time to philanthropic work. It was said of him that no society or charitable institution ever appealed to him in vain for either financial or personal assistance, if they could show that their aims were worthy. He took a great interest in Prince Alfred College, and was its treasurer for many years, and was for a time chairman of the board of management of the Adelaide hospital. He was a great advocate for temperance and retained his interest in the Methodist Church throughout his life.
He was created on 1 January 1891. He died in Adelaide on 6 February 1902.
Family
On 4 December 1844, Colton married Mary Cutting (December 1822 – 30 July 1898) who, as "Lady Colton", is remembered as a philanthropist and suffragist. Their family included:
John William Colton (20 January 1848 – 26 December 1906), partner with brother Alfred, later managing director of Harrold, Colton & Co.
Alfred Cutting Colton (c.1854 – 29 July 1919) married Eliza Bosisto "Lizzie" Stirling (died 19 March 1947), daughter of George Stirling and niece of Joseph Bosisto CMG (died 8 November 1898), on 10 February 1887, lived at Lorne, Victoria, then retired to Elsternwick, Victoria, where his brother-in-law, Dr. Robert A. Stirling (1855–1928), had a practice.
John Stirling Colton (23 May 1888 – 12 April 1951) married Dorothy Isabel Hawkes in 1914
John Blackler Colton (1 August 1918 – 21 December 1996)
Elizabeth Mary "Bessie" Colton (24 October 1856 – 9 September 1870)
Edwin Blackler Colton (4 May 1859 – 19 August 1916), solicitor of Adelaide, married Emily Gardner Wallace (died 3 January 1922) in 1884
Ellen Hannah Colton (18 October 1863 – 12 February 1946) lived with her father in Hackney
Frank Septimus Colton (25 May 1865 – 22 August 1902) was a medical practitioner in England
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1823 births
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English emigrants to colonial Australia
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Foreign born Australian politicians
Australian Methodists
Australian Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Burials at West Terrace Cemetery
19th-century Australian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Colton%20%28politician%29 |
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